LOWERY'S CLAIM AA NUMBER 27. NELSON, B, C, CANADA. PRICE: 10 CENTS NOVEHBER 1905 Lowkrv's Claim is published monthly and sent to any part of the world, postpaid, for ft a year. Address all letters to R. T. LuWERY, Canada. NELSON, B C. The editor who dares to run an honest paper must be prepared to receive plenty of abuse from the selfish and ignorant. A woman in one of the coal towns on the Crow called ns an infalid the other day. This is a new ono, but we suppose she meant infidel. The ignorant do not understand the meaning of the word infidel. It means an unbeliever and can be truthfully ap- plied to every one on earth. We would have to believe everything in order* to escape the supposed odium of being called an infidel. All reformers and advanced thinkers havo always been called infi- elelH by the brainless, or by tho-ie who profit by living upon them. Without the so-called infidels the world would still be where it was when creation first began. Their blows at the evils cf church, state and society have given the people all the freed nn ami liberties they now enjoy, and the work is not vet finished. When it is, this world will be to rent, anel all the tenants will have solved the pioblem over whieh so ranch blood, tears and treasure has bv-en spattered. J. H. Lowry, who runs a paper down iu Texas, writes us that Lowkuy's Claim is a hummer, but thinks that we could do a bigger business if wo moved into the States. We believe that would be a fact, but unfortunately we cannot breakaway from British Columbia, although rather than publish this journal in the cent belt of Canada we would jumpiuto the hottest gnu town in Texas, for that is a state* iu which the truth is appreciated, and liars cannot slander neighbors without running a great risk of increasing the lead business, The six-shooter formation has a wonderful way of making people keep their hands above the table and a roughlock on their tongues. However, unlike John Houston, we win not just yet slip away south ancl desert the beautiful mountains of Kootenay, and the glorious climate of British Columbia. We have wondered at the affection between British Columbia judges and Scotch whiskey. It is truly pathetic to watch some of them kiss the glass as though it were the red lips of a summer girl. Whiskey is largely the mainstay of some courts, and perhaps the judicial gentlemen merely show their appreciation of such a valuable ally. In our opinion judges and parsons should be in the same class. Neither should use stimulants, anel thereby set an example to the people who look up to them. Judges whei become booze fiends should be relegated to the back seats. No man with a whiskey soaked upper stope is fit to even deal out justice over a dog fight let alone cases that involve liberty, or large sums of money. Frank is probably the only town in Qauada upon which a mountain ever fell. Even that distinctive and terrible calamity has failed to make the people good for they still arrest those who fish on Sundav. ��� The execution of this ''blue law" would ne.t be SO bad if only those were arrested who go fish ing on Sundav and elei not catch anything, except a skate, and conn* home with bait spilled all over their clothes. Such chaps are liable to breed bribery and corruption in a community by buying a string from others and palming them off as their own piscatorial triumph. The bible does not men tiou anv i a* forgiveness for a sin of this kind. Blainnore escaped a boom last month. A freight train butted into a car of dynamite that was standing still on a siding in that town, but the explosive failed to respond to the bump. If it had Blairmore would have looked like 30 cents with a hole in it, and fringed in death. The local paper remarks that if the calamity had happened the jury would likely have brought in a verdict censuring the people for stopping in town when the dynamite was there. Probably, upon such occasions, they should go to Frank and listen to the wind as it whistles through their facial hirsute appendages. The trek of the Donkholtors in Western Canada is a terrible example of the effect of religion upon weak minds. When a band of these people suffer untold privations wandering almost naked over the gn.��at prairies with the ictea that they can find Jesus in Winnipeg it is about time to put them in schools until their ignorance vanishes. Fourteen years ago Major Reed stood with liis back against the Nelson House iu this city, and said that in a few months tJ*e mountain sheep would be scratching their, backs against the buildings along Baker street. The major was off as a prophet, although since that time some lambs have como te> town, and a few wolves in stiff hats. A few years ago nothing was raised in thc Slocan except lead, silver, cold decks and hell. Now grass is growing in S melon, potatoes at Three Forks, while at Rose- bury a zinc plant has hutted in amid the .strawberries. At antl. around thc other Slocan Like towns fruit is becoming mighty and will soon prevail. Vaccination is one of the supers', it ions of the medical world. Remember the Claim when you want job printing. A life job develops the tyrant in some judges. ��� LOWERY'S CLAIM The flitting of John To the White Sands of Nevada. Worry is more destructive than work, and should be shunned with as much energy as if it were a mad dog. Tho effect of worry is plainly seen in the career of Johu Houston. While mayor of this city, editor of a daily paper and member of thc local legislature, all at the same time, he became despondent with the cares of life, his stomach went on the strike, and throwing everything to the winds in a fit of pique and disgust be hit the pike for Nevada and writes back that he will not return, at least for a long time. Worry was the cause of this sudden flight, and we trust- that in future John will keep the demon in subjection, Nelson does not seem the same without Houston. For fifteen years he labored for thc good of the city, and we believe tbat he was one of the most honest men that British Columbia ever had in public life. The majority of politicians are seldom broke or in debt when they put their cue back in the political rack. For nearly a generation Houston has been a.i energetic, prominent and erratic figure in the shifting scenes of Western life from Texas to British Columbia. Men of his type and temperament are seen at their best in the new and stirring camps of the frontier. When pianos, canary birds, pink teas, tenderfeet ancl cent belters get too numerous in a camp it is time for pioneers to 'move on lest they die of worry, ennui, disgust or inaction. The law of compensation equalizes all things, so John has moved on to Nevada where his many B. C. friends wish him luck, and trust that he discovers the secret of keeping money. He is sure to make it. Talking aliout John puts us in mind of Senator Bill Stewart, who has returned to Nevada to make another fort une. At the age of seventy-eight, after having seen two generations He and pass away; a former governor of Nevada, a mine owner of great wealth, a Uuited States senator for eighteen years, William M. Stewart for long known as the * 'Santa Claus" of the Senate, is starting ���*> ��$-> ey-j eS^f life anew amid the gold fields of Nevada. With the virility of youth this robust a:d hearty old-timer has, with his young bride, started in to make anotluu* million. When you see him laughing, boisterous and boyish, taking the keenest pleasure in all his poor possessions, and seemingly never giving a thought to those* ho had lost in his old age. you have to rub your eyes and say to yourself : "Can this really lie Senator William M. Stewart who has had tho world at his feet time and again, the man who, as leading counsel for the Fair-Flood Mackay syndicate on the famous Comstock Lode, received in one fee $250,000, then tbo largest sum ever received by nny lawyer in the world in a single fee; the | man who was in his prime when ' President Lincoln was assaslnated, and who is the only living person that saw the oath administered to Andrew Johnson in the Kirk wood House; the man who will always be remembered in New York cafes as "thegayest old Santa Claus that ever lived; the man whose political career has had more crooks and turns than a Boston street; the mau who controlled the state of Nevada absolutely: the man who has not even great piety or overscrupulous integrity to cheer him in misfortune and enable hiin to look back over a pathway of good d��?eds and noble endeavors ���can it b<* that this happy vigorous, hopeful septuagenuarian is actually Senator Stewart. The Mining Leeches. The mining industry eif British Columbia has suiTere*el severely fiom the overcapitalization of many companies, anel the extravagance antl incompetence of mine management. Too many leeches will ruin anything with blood in it. Too many skin games have been played on the stock investing public, anel too many good preij erties havo been saddled with expenses for oflice and mine management that are simply absurd in the eye��s of practical business men. It is elifli- cult to cut the dead weight from our mining industry because for lack of mouey few newspipers can run the risk of libel suits pushed upon them by dishonest men with plenty of money and wolfish lawyers to back them up. Dishonest and crooked people are nearly always the class who bring libel suits against newspapers. Sir Henry Irving has passed over to the land where no actor walks the ties. Irving was a clever but not a great actor. He lacked tho soul, the personified ether as it were, that links an artist to his audience. Ho was a genius in stago setting, and in everything that appeals to tho brain, but when it came to touching hearts with waves of emotion Irving had to sit down iu comparison with others of his own time. As a machine actor he was probably the greatest that ever live 1. Otherwise, just so so. M. McDonald, of tho firm of McDonald-Simpson Co., Calgary, is one of the greatest hustlers in Al- Serta. He is best known as Little Mac, and has a nature simply divine. He has a smile and a kind word for all kinds of people. Wo wish that we had a million friends like Mac. Ho certainly is a sun that never crosses the line. The appointment of Pete Wilson to a judgeship in East Kootenay lias one regrettable feature. Ho has to leave Nelson. Pete will make a just judge, and will not require* to seek inspiration by drinking Scotch at his meals. Jealousy is a weed that thrives upon a diseased imagination. People with deeply selfish, greedv ancl passionate natures are the victims of this form of insanity, and it is seldom cured except by death) starvation or the grace of Cod. People cry about hard times in the Slocan, and yet the Lucky Jim has paiel 180,000 profit within one year. The Slocan needs more work and less belliakc. If you believe in this journal push it along by getting your friends to subscribe, ami retain '25 per emit of tho monoy obtained for your trouble, LOWERY'S CLAIM Death uf Allan. As a rule the pioneers, packers, prospectors and trail blazers in a now country are more real than dudish, more gonuiue than sanctimonious. They depend moro upon action thau they do upon prayer, believing that hard work brings hotter results than wearing out their pants begging the Lord to send them bacon and bannocks. All hough rough these men are generally the Real Goods. They are? princes without titles, and kings whose only throne is a seat on the top deck of a bucking cayuse, or amid the peaks of the grand old mountains. The history of mines, prospects and mountains is one of blood, exposure and hardship, and they who weave tho his- tory^iiito the nation's life are not men of the sissy tribe?, nor yet the class who grow baldheaded listening to tho blowing of hot air through cold storage sermons. Because they do not ante to any appreciable extent for the gospel mill, and occasionally spill the rye when it is yellow they are often condemned by parsons, especially the tender- foeit ones, and held up as horrible examples to an array of prudes, hypocrites and empty benches. Allan McKinnon recently died in Kaslo. For many years he had packed and freighted in and out of that camp, and no mule was ever cinched by a better packer. Allan's heart was white with the memory of many a kind deed, even if a brown taste did occasionally creep into his masticating tunnel. He was beloved by all who knew him. Allan practiced the religion of Re*lf- forgetfulness. His toil, his money, his grub and cabin were ever ready to assist the needy. Even when called upon for help to build the* Presbyterian church ho handed out more than ho was asked for. He might havo been a rich nun but for the generous impulses that prompted him to give his material wealth to mako others happy. Notwithstanding Allan's good deeds and the fact that he had cashed in, the Rov. Mr. Green burnt his memory in words the tho other Sunday while preaching in Kaslo. Wo do not approve of such sermons. At the best oreedy .religion is watery gruol, but eliminate from it love, charity antl respect for the feelings of friends and you have a mess that would sicken a saint and give his soul the horrors. Parsons should never introduce local personalities into their sermons. The mountain of evil is big enough to dynamite without attacking the deeds of any man. The divinity in Allan McKinnon far outshone any trace of the devil in his formation, and his many friends, especially the old trail blazers of the Slocan, will agree with us that now he is sleeping beneath the pansies, no parson should malign his name in a frantic effort to drive the devil out of Kaslo. The Kootenay saloon at Sandon still has two doors, and is on the corner of two streets, a most remarkable fact in a citv like Sandon. at These advantages have not raised the prico of drinks in this thirst quenching palace, and a glass of water is given away with every drink of booze. Lowery's Claim and the Toronto Weekly Mail-Empire wili be sent to any address iu America or Great Britain from now to the 1st of January, 1007, for $1.50. Address all letters to R. T. Lowery, Nelson, B. C. There is no living with or without a true worn in. With her you will elie* of too much love, and without her you will die for the lack of it. Watch for the December issue of this Journal. It will ba a hummer as the editor has recently discovered a sure cure/or laziness. Over in Alberta it is said that Bob Edwards has no show to be! elected to the legislature because| he has quit di inking. We have mt*t a lot of dead beats in this country, and we will publish their names when the list is completed. Modest merit often feeds the pangs of hunger while brazen mediocrity stuffs itself with wine and bird. Eliminate greed from the West Kootenay P. e& L. Co. and Nelson could build its power plant in peace. *��? Nelson should be a great resort for tourists. We have the goods but no t dvertisiug agent. People who intend to swear off something at New Year's should begin training this month. Send a copy of this journal to a friend, and advertise the country you live in. The way to New York is paved with life insurance policies. Hell hath no fury like a fiend who cannot reach his hypo. We miss a good mau when he is dead or leaves towu. You cannot build a great town with small people. TrTheylaW, M. E. NELSON, B. C PROVINCIAL LAND SURVEYOR. CROWN GRANTS OBTAINED. 15 year's experience in coal mines of B. C. Reports furnished ou coal properties. P. BURNS & COT MEAT MERCHANTS. Shops in all leading towns. Contracts solicited to supply armies and railroads. HEAD OFFICE: CALGARY, ALBERTA. The pernie Ledger FERNIE, B. C. Is the best newspaper in the Crow's Nest Ptiss coal region. Two dollars per annum. D. V. MOTT, Editor. LOWERY'S CLAIM The Nysterv Bevond No Man Has Solved, r> A great many people are so oon- ce*rned about the life hereafter, about which no man knows anything or ever did know anything, that they forget tfi do the Square Thing while in the flesh, and trust to parsons and prayer to land them on the graud stand after they havc parted from their Last Moments. Man to a certain extent is like the balance of animated Nature. Lions, tigers, wolves, horses, foxes, etc., have some reasoning powers, and for ages have* produced their own kind without improving much upon the original pair. Man has advanced in art and science, ospe*eially a lour the lines of making implements to destroy his own kind, but in spite of: his white collar and store clothes th.* savage brushes against bis shirt bosom. Under tbe kalsomine of civilization lurks just as much envy, hate, greed, tyranny and jealousy, or more, than the race possessed when the mules made tl��e*tr short pants out of leaves, and the females filled their hair with feathers and gooso grease lu lieu of millinery. When it comes to a showdown, and there is anything worth while in the pQt, might is still right with uearly all men aud nations. From tho first day of the early days man has worshiped something. He has bowed down and said his prayer! to suns, stars, sticks, stones, snakes, myths, rivers, seas, hills trees, cows, monkeys popes, priests, parsons and many other things and persons, in dueling the big dollar. Man is largely of the ape formation anel ho will mimic and run after anything that savors of glitter, pomp anel power, much tho same as a boy chases a circus procession. The average mind cannot rise above a precedent, and be who breaks away will be scolded by old Mother Grundy, and damn- eel by all the fo-sihzeel chaps in the community. All the doctrines of the world since Paganism was in power, are the* productions of earthly -harpers aud fanatics who made a line living (as a rule) by proclaiming themselves brokers for God, aud establishing laws, rules and dogmas for fools aud cowards to follow. The eS~> -5-"* ���T> (5~*S (ST"* eg~> 6"*. jackass still carriers the pack whilo wise men inhabit palaces and cathedrals mainly built for them by fools. No man who ever lived knows anything about a futuro state, ancl all religion has been created out of fear, greed, poetry, imagination, ignorance aud chicanery. Religion is a mild form of insanity when kept in bounds by other forces, but given full scope it rapidly becomes a full blooded demon, crushing all who cross its path and often killing its own kind. History shows that in every age anel clime religious sects have put the knife into those who held different beliefs when they had the power, and all for the glory of God. In the past millions have lieen squashed to eleath under the juggernaut of religion, and even today tho demon is making red spots in Turkey. The missionaries of religion have been the cause of more war ancl trouble than all other classes of mankinel. and while forcing their creeds upon the so-called heathen they have been but the skirmish line for armies that rob, burn and murder for the benefit of czars, popes, priests, kings, queens and emperors���human egotists who arrogate to themselves the divine right to plunder and destroy mankind. If you keep your eye on Japan and China you will ere long seo the effect of meddlesome missionaries in thoso lands. The blood is on the sky at this moment. Southern Hospitality. A group of drummers were trading yarns on the subject of hospitality, when one. a little Virginia with a humorous eye and a delightful drawl, took up his parable thus: "I was down in Louisina last month travelin' 'cross country with J. J. Carey (the same being Stonewall Jackson C, at your service) when wo kinder got lost in a mighty lonesome sort o' road just about dark. Wei rode along a right good pace after sundown, and when wo saw a light ahead it looked first rate. Wo drove up to the light, findin' 'twas a house, and when I hollered like a lost calf tbe man I came out and we asked him to take us in for tho night. He looked at us mighty hard; then said, *Wal, I reckon 1 kin stand it if you kin.' So wo unhitched, went in, and found 'twas only atwo room shanty ancl just swarmin' with children. He had six, from 4 to 11 years old, and as there didn't seem to be but one lied, mo an' Stony was wein- derin' what in thunder would be- : come of us. "They gave us supper, good hog and hominy, the best they had, and , then the olei woman put the two youngest kids to bed. They went straight to sleep. Then she took those out, laid them over in the corner, put the noxt two to lied���antl so on. After all the chilelreii were asleep on the floor the old folks went in the other room ancl told us we could go to bed if we wanted to, and, bein1 powerful tired, we did. ' '.Veil, sir, the the next morning ' when wo wtike up wo we��ro lying over in the corner with the kids, and the old man and the old woman had the lied." Warm Poetry. Tho following, quoted from tho ! **Poems of Passion," by Ella | Wlmeler Wilcox, is probably the warmest thing of ita kind extant: If I wore a rain drop and you wero a leaf, I would burst from the clouds above you And lie on your breast iu a rapture of rest, And love you, love you, love you. This is short but brilliant, like tbe tail of a mallard duck, and Ella has the sympathy of every man in town in her sufferings. In their behalf, a response is necessary: If I wero cannibal chieftain bold, Ancl should I chance to meet you, I'd carrv vou far from tho haunts of man, And���eat you, eat you, eat you. ���Yukon World. fi Valuable Diseovet*y. A professor has discovered among some ancient ruins what is supposed to bo the eleventh commandment. Tho text is as follows: "Emas rof yltpmorp teeyap noht sslenn repap swen a claer ton tlahs noht." The commandment is easily translate*.' by beginning at tho end of the sentence and reading backward.���Ex, LOWERY'S CLAIM Hules of Health. A famous New York physician, now halo and handsome at 75, sums np his half century of medical practice ancl observation in these simple rules of health: 1. Be temperate in all things, in matters of amusement or study as well as in regard to foods and drinks. To be temperate in all things, however, does not imply that one must be a prohibitionist about anything. 2. Don't be afraid to go to sleep, for sleep is the best restorer of wasted energies. Sleep a certain number of hours every night, and then remember that a short nap during the day is a safer rejuvena- tor than a cocktail. 3. Don't worry���ottuer about the past or tho future, To waste a single hour in regret for the past is as senseless as tei send good money after that which has been irrecoverably lost. To fret one's self about what the future may have in store is aliout as foolish as to attempt to brush back tiie tide of the oceau with a broom. Worry of whatever kind, banishes contentment, and contentment is a necessity eif youth. *tf ���/ 4. Keep the mind youthful; Live in the present with all the other young people. Don t get to be reminiscent Let the old people talk aliout the past, for the more act of thinking about old things re ��� minds the mind of its years. Rein- iniscenees are dangerous-���whether they be Boothiug or sweet or sael- for they characterize old age, and must be sedulously avoided by those who would be ever young. 5. Keep np with the times. Don't fall behind the procession. To accomplish this, learn ono new fact every day. Tho mind that is satisfied to live Opon the lessons it learned iu its youth soon grows old and musty. To keep young it must bo fresh anel active- that is, abreast with the times. The olel methods of thought and the olel facts may have lieen correct enough once upon a time, but that timo has passed. Today they aro obsolete anel only amusing relics of antiquity. Te remain young, therefore, one must keep the storehouse of the memory clear of all such rubbish. Throw away one of the mildewed relics every day and replace it with some newer, fresher aud more up-to-date fact. Here, then, is this New York physician's secret of perennial youth in a nutshell: great west. We knew him during the summer of the boom in Rossland, and well remember how he Be temperatel Don't be afraid! offered us his purse when a bus to go to sleep! Don't worry! Keep! picion entered his upper stope that the mind youthful 1 And--keepj we wore shy a few thousands. F��ir up with tlte times! j some timo past he has been police It is not a difficult rule of life to! magistrate in Butte, Montana, and follow. It is ever so much easier; nearly every day establishes a pre- than wandering about strange lands; cedent in the administration of jus- in search of hidden springs. It is tice. The other day two women somewhat pleasanter than stewing appeared in his Court who hail been ovor ill-smelling crucibles. More- mixed up in a backyard hair-pullover, it has the advantage of being ing contest. Each of them claimed thoroughly practicable, which that the other female started the makes it worth trying. light, and finally one ex claimed: 43s ; "Judge Warren, if you dii not pun ish this low, common woman, (jod Pearls of Thought. will." "That's the easiest way Weak people are either good or eut'ol^this tangle^ Let God punish hcr. The case is referred to Him," said the general, lie WOuld not coinpeu* against sueh a high court. <��> Sorroui of It. "More, trouble," sighed Mc- Nutty, putting ou Ids coat. "It it crafty. Only strength is frank. A lie is a disease ofthe will, and hyprpcisy is a symptom Only the strong man is honest��� only the healthy tell the truth. The only wife who has her own way, is the one who gives her husband his. No woman can talk as charming as she can look. Fame is delightful, but as collateral it does not rank high. The greatest doubter of the day O *��� is an orthodox preacher. Ile doubts the divinity of humanity. The scientist is the man of faith. No j y can be complete* apart fiom a love that loves the whole* woi .Ts }o\ better than any seper- i!e j .*. t.i any single soul. The onlv man who can really en- joy an outing is the man who does not need it. Habit writes itself on the face, anel the body isan autmatic recording machine. To have a beautiful old age you must live a beautiful youth, for we ourselves are posterity, ancl every man is his own ancestor. Great men are delightful���but only in books, They are too clever, too assertive, too dogmatic, too small to really live with. As a steady diet they are worse than second cousins. tine. aint one thing its another. ''What's the matter now?" queried his good wife. "attoro labor troubles," answered McNutty. "Not another loekout, I lmpe," said the partner of his troubles. "No, it's worse than that," answered the alleged head of the house; "The boss has yielded and I've g>t to go to work again."���t Chicago News. Boost or knock this journal. Either will suit its editor. The Hotel Slocan THREE FORKS, B. C. the leading hotel of the city. Mountain trout and game elin- ners a specialty. ��� Kooms reserved by telegraph. From the Philis- <S> A precedent Maker. General Charles 8. Warren is one of the most famous, picturesque, original and generous men in the HUGH NIVEN, Proprietor. Cam Tli AMI* of llilti-.li Colombia yOl VKW> S-UK9KBT see- Wadds Bros, Nelson, B. C. Or^an^nteB. T^es FOR FALL PLANTING. Garden, iiu-ltl ami flower seed*, cut tlowera ami greenhouse plants. Henry*i Greenhouse*, anel Kuriiertei Vancouver, 11 C. tOWERY'S CLAIM Thc Cora uest of Fernie ���F"** ���$"*. <F> $-* ��"*. 6~*S eF*> *$-* By the Great Cinch. Nothing much lias been on fire I elected them. Jn addition to their lately in Fernie, except the coke Judasite tendencies thoir bungling ovens, although the populace are legislation this year has made them still agitated over the water question. Although the majority of fires in aud around that city of energy and calamity for the last 18 months bave evidently been the fruit of incendiarism the best an investigation could do was to arrest a woman. When brought beforo tho Court sho was discharged without even having to call a witness in her defence. This**was a sad blow at the efficiency of the investigating committee, but about on a par with other public affairs in Fernie. Tho city should hire a detective to ferret out the evil doing in the burg, ancl cease its persecution of innocent women. The Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company, and its subsidary companies which we have dubbed The Groat Liuch, for the sake of brevity, has a set of officers who, individually and apart from the grasping cor- paratiou they represent, are as pleasant a group of gentlemen as ever wore cuffs. They are affable, smiling aud full of geniality when off duty, but when rustlingfeed for The (J.cat Cinch they become as stern and unrelenting as a band of redskins chasing a wagon train of long-haired emigrants, With a Shylockian exactitude they reach out for all the monetary flesh in the community, in the hopeless task of appeasing the greed of the the company that supplies them with bread, butter, birds and cold bottles. Iu doing so they blast the peace of Fernie, blister the souls of its inhabitants with the curse of fear and slavery, and cause the City Council to look to the outside world like a pack of curs barking for soup bones. The persistent attempts of tbe Fernie Council to play the Judas and deliver thc city into the mau of The Great Cinch is a disgrace to the municipal history of the west, and an indignant people should long ago have tapped the hydrocephalus in their abortive legislators aud relegated them to the oblivion of private life. They cannot serve another master and be true to the qest interests of the ratepayers who the josh of the country, except to those who pay taxes in Fernie. A band of Piutea would have displayed as much wisdom, if not inore, in the conduct of civic affairs. When the corner stone was laid for the new offices of The Great Cinch last summer no less than three parsons prayed and invoked the blot-sing of God upon the edifice and it* occupants. While such ceremonies look silly to the scientific they also appear blasphemous to the ti uiy religious. Why should God be rung up over the Methodist, Presbyterian or any other line and asked to bless a company that by its actious is breeding hatred, fear, bribery aud corruption in a people wbo might under different treatment have less of the devil, and more of the grace of God in their hearts. The Great Cinch, unless it gets a change of heart, will never reach the orthodeix heaven, ancl parsons should spend their ozone praying that all thc by-laws bo defeated next Monday." Here is an excellent chance to prove the efficiency of prayer and assist the people to throw off the chains of oppression put upon them by a grasping company, and a traitorous City Council. Vote against all the bylaws, and show the world that you are uot slaves. ��S: e torummep Was CXlrong, There wero but few of us in the passenger coach as the train left Indianapolis, and opposite me sat a woman about 40 years of age. From her severe expression I set her down as a temperance fanatic and a person who would scorn the slightest favor at the hands of a fellow traveler. Great was my surprise, therefore, at the end of a couple of hours, when she leaned forward and queried: "Young man might I ask if you have any peppermint essence in your grip?" I replied that I was sorry that I hadn't, and she resumed her bolt upright position and nothing further was said for a quarter of an hour. Then she kindly asked: "Young mau, do you carry the ineaus to make a glass of lemonade when you travel?" I didn't. I was sorry for her sake that I didn't, but as a matter of fact I didn't care for lemonade. She said it was j ist as well, and another fifteeu minutes passed. Then she sweetly said: "Young mau, do you carry a bottle of milk or cold tea?" "No, ma'am.'* "You do not carry any sort of bottle?" "Well���er���yon know " "Young man," she continued as she looked me straight in the eye, "is it wine or whiskey?" "Wine, ma'am." "And I've sat here nearly three hours and you haven't offer��Hl me auy! Come over and let's have a nip!" "As I sat down beside hor sho said I might call her Aunt Polly, and that her revere expression was the result of a soft corn; and during the afternoon she beat mo twelve games of euchre, and said she'd adopt me if I hadn't three boys already, and all older than I was.���Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Paul Morton, when asked for his philosophy of life, replied: "Did you ever here the Western advice, 'so live your life each day that you can at any timo look any damn man in the eyes ancl tell him to go to hell?' That's my philosophy of life."���Ex. Judging by Morton's acts of late, ho should have added to the Western maxim: "You'll find mc there waiting for you, ���� Blue I'ri/,-. Henry Vane, Colnuihun anel Havana Ark Cigar* nr.* Union cigar*, made by W. P. Kllbourne fr Co , Winning, and ttold o.i the road by George Horton. The Granbrook Herald prints all the news ol Southeast Kootenay, and costs $2 a year. It is one of the largest papers in Canada. F. E SIMPSON, CRANBR0OK, B. C. tOWERY'8 CLAlli j * ���* i ��� .. ������ Notes Fr��om Calqairy. Speaking of buying shares in companies, let us tell the Calgary people something that will perhaps wake them up. In tho course Of a chat with the representative of the Montreal Star, who was visiting Calgary last week, the subject of Muuroe & Munroe's wireless hot air company came up. This gentleman told us that in Winnipeg the dupes of this outfit aro up in arms, Munroe & Munroe having maelo a tremendous killing there, anel that there is very strong likelihood of these ingenious gen- tlemen lieing brought back to Winnipeg to answer certain ejnestions. The Star man said that this in probably tho most stupendous swindle that has ever been perpetrated on the people of Western Canada. The fact that the Canadian Bank ��� of Commerce is advertising in Glasgow, Scotland, for 50 junior clerks for their Canadian branches at the princely salary of ��50 a year, is but another sign of our growing time. We aro pleased to note that our Canadian young men are evidently above and beyond the $250 a year mark, established by this well known financial institution. It might be of interest to our trades and labor councils to encjuire why this great and wealthy Institution can have the nerve to expect intelligent, educated young nvm, of ir reproachable character, t. work f*-i a miserly figure that a pick at *'. shovel Russian or Dago would scorn to consider. What would we think e>r one of our merchants or manufacturers who would advertise in the olel country for clerks or mechanics at one third of the regular price*? What a howl of indignation would go up, especially from the labor unions, and justly-, too. What is se��ab conduct in one employer of labor, is just the same in another. In one of the Southern States last week a Methodist preacher antl his two sons wero sentenced to be hanged for murdering another preacher and his whole family, whilo his third son was sentenced to state's pnson for life. They nacl a hard time saving his daughter from going to the pen also. Wo mention this absolutely true fact in order to offset some nasty remarks which were made about the Eye Opener last week by a religious paper in town. There has not been a single editor sentenced to be hanged for over a month. In the presence of a large congregation, Rev. Kirby delivered a sermon last Sunday night so full of coarse suggestions,- and of such a spectacular character, as to provoke much adverse comment among those present, not to say downright astonishment. Here is a typical extract from his sermon, produced verbatim: "The community was shocked the other day by the arrest of some forty-live women from Harlot's avenue in our city. Do you know what the presence of these women means to the coining generation? Every child has a right to be well bom. Some men take mo e care of their pedigreed steick than they do of their families. There are men in our streets afflicted with diseases thai will peiison the stream of our national life and bring children into the world handicapped for life. If such eliseases were to break out among the cattle in our ranges the government would order them shot and buried so deeply that neither the coyote*s nor the crows could get at their reeking carcases. Is a healthy man of not more value than a dumb brute*?"���Eye Opener Wise and Othetuxiise, Some husbands never know how in.i h they are beloved until their wives want a new hat. 'I iu* man who saitl the \>en was mightier than the sword must have witnessed a French duel. Look after the pennies���your wife will see that the dollars don't get away from you. Some women are born bargain hunters, others contract the* habit at the age of three or four. The man who is always giving pointers on how to manage a wife can usually bo found in the wool- shed after supper smoking his evening cigar. When a man's hat won't iit him in the morning it is not always a sign that he's been out with the beiys the night before. He may have got the best of an argument with his wife.���Columbus Dispatch. Merit Everywhere. Frederick Law Olmsted, who holds the chair of landscape archi tecture at Harvard, visited Philadelphia recently to make an address on the subject of citv parks. During his visit Mr. Olmsted dined at a Walnut street club, and ho citcel during dinner a certain elevated tract on the Baltimore estate, of which ho is landscape gardener. "This tract," he said, "would be beautiful for some purposes, hideous for othei-s. Everything is like that���good for some things, bad for some others. Thus, if we use our minds, we can utilize nearly everything���can put nearly everything to some good uso. "All kind has thoir merits," as an old Georgia colored man onco said. "Some one hui asked this colored man what breed of chickens was the lest. "All kinds has the*ir merits," he replied, "de white* ones is de easiest found and do dahk ones is de easiest hid after you gits 'em." Dan Mann's Choice. There is a rumor that among the next batch of honors his majesty King Edward distributes on his birthday in November, William Mackenzie, of Kirkfioid, railway builder, will be created a knight. His partner, Dan Mann, is equally well entitled to recognition, but Dan would a mighty sight rather have a night of the old times at 1 limit River than all the sir knight ���iiliesthat Laurier could pull for him from now till tloomsday.��� llobcaygeon Independent. FRUIT LANDS IN io AND 20 ACRE BLOCKS. ON KOOTENAY LAKE For sale on easy terms. J. E. ANNABLE, Nelson, B. C. RH. HAWKINS ASSAYER SANDON, B-C, Sharpe & Irvine rilNINQ BROKERS. Real Estate and Insurance Agents KELSON, B. C. 8 LOWEEY'S CLAIM Sure Cure for thc Evils Of Booze and Betting. Much time, money and energy has been expended during the past hundred years by prohibition people in a vain effort to stamp out the booze habit. Laws have been passed almost without number, the land has been filled with oratory against looking at the rye when it- was yellow in the glass, and Carrie Nation has tried to kill it with an axe, but in spite of all these things topers, still prospect, the snake country, and the fizz of the Collins sings in the early morning hours, while the demon rum stalks through the formation blowing holes in many a happy home, mingling tears with blood, and causing thousands of feminine hearts to quiver with agojy as they watch their loved ones slowly sink into the hell beneath the shrine of Bacchus. It- is terrible, even when you calmly contemplate the awful results of an unchaiincd thrst. Damned alive, and tortured by the unsleeping red imps from Satan's summer home must always be the man who cannot take a drink and then let it alone. His fitful life is full of fever, a little heaven at night ancl a big hell in the morning. However, tie remedy for all evil is freedom, the booze habit included. Make whiskey free, and in less than a decade there would not boa drunkard in all this beauteous -S~> eF"> 6r* eS-j 6-j ,5-j cF^s cr"*? ball keeps on whirling. There is little harm in gambling until it is carried to excess, and then the devotee finds he is on the downhill grade with the brakes shot to pieces, ancl the auto groaning with velocity. When a man becomes so imbued with tho gambling mania that he will sit up all night pushing beans across any colored cloth, dreaming when he sleeps about holding five aces or turning a blackjack every time he deals, his wife might as well pack up and go back to mother. She has little chance of ever getting another hat, especially in Kootenay where millinery is so high, until her hubby rids himself of the delusion that thc way to get rich is to look wise behind a short-haired flush and bet his monev like a er chappie buying wine at a mining camp "opening." The way of the gambler is harel aud the wage* arc usually broken nerves, holey pockets, a reputation covered with soot, IOU's, and perhaps a few white chips as sou* venirs. When a man breaks away from tho hypnotism of the check rack ho is almost sure to believe in his own. And all this while mothers pace the floor seeking aur- crease freim sorrow by praying to a God who since tbe world began has never once changed the immovable laws of nature to please those whose hearts were breaking. All this while sweet wives, perhaps in rooms that are cold, count the leaden though youthful hours of the new day and tremble with awful fear that some night their idol will lie brought homo shot full of red holes for reaching into a refrigerator anel springing a deck that is frozen. The agony of waiting, for the woman who loves, is misery denuded of all foreign matter. The gambling mania cannot lie em red by praying, preaching or legislation. It can only bo cured by absolute freedom, and *an enel- less supply of money*, and the sooner this is recognised the sooner will its evil side pass away. Put gambling implements in every houso in the land, give every ineli- vidal a bank account that has no end, and in four days there would not be a gambler in all this earthly sphere of animated nature. For the sake of humanity we would wf like to see the experiment trieel. Any person can easily see that it won hi put the Goddess of Chance in a hearse, the tin horn in heaven, dry the tears upon millions of that celebrated remark Solomon\pretty faces, and make joy sweep made about thc girls. Gambling destroys joy. p.*ace, goodwill, health, morals and bank accounts, when taken iu too large closes. Then it makes asla\e of land, and freaks like Carrie Nation the amateur, and a social outcast would be tramping the road with of the professional gambler. So, Othello. To bring about this great j young chap, beware of the poker alcoholic reform it will be necessary game when it looks geioei to yem, to havc largo reservoirs of w.dskey for in the end it will put you on the in overy town, and a system of hike, and shnlllo the gray through pipes to carry it into every houso, your curly or straight hair, with plenty of fountains on the For centuries parsons, reformers streets so that anyone at any time ancl writers have hurled light and could drink all he wanted. The heavy missiles at the Goddess of introduction of such a system into j Chance with results that assay only our modern civilization would in- a trace of progression. The shifty crease funerals for a few clays, but old humbug still sits upon her it would not lie long before its efli- j green throne while all around cacy in killing the drink evil would j slaves can be seen going through be plainly seen. For the benefit of their devotions by shooting craps, future generations it is worth try-; peeping at the hole cards, buying iug. wheat 0:1 margin, calling the turn, The love of chance is inherent in drawing to bobtails, tossing the the human family, and there are few who do not gamble in somo cubes, drawing to 16, bucking the wheel, playing Swede bank or -ome way, from shaking the dice at a of the other myriad ways in which church fair to shoving a stack of j man prays that he may cop the blues on the red while the little I other chap's dough without losing through tho land like a baud eif angels at a country editor's funeral. A few other evils might lie cured along similar line's but we refrain from clipping any further into the subject. A Stfinqent Cure. A Memphis man has discovered a new way to get rid of mosquitoes. He says to rub alum on your face ancl hands. When the mosquito takes a bite it puckers his buzzer so it cant sting. It sits down in a damp place, tries to dig tho pucker loose catches its death ol cold anel die*s of pneumonia. ��� Ex. If you are troubled with flies twenty drops of carbolic aciel evaporated from a hot shovel will banish them quicker than all the sticky fly paper manufactured. A small piece of camphor gum held over a lamp will do the work equally well. A millinery opening must have been a terror to Solomon. tOWERY'S CLAIM ** f^oast on Iiauison. While roasting August Heinze Frenzied Finance Lawson touched up P. A. O Farrell by dubbing him "a journalistic outcast living on his wits." CFarrell is Irish and he gets even with Lawson by printing tho following in the Spokane Outburst: "Fakir and mountebank are the two epithets that best become Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston. He has been a tin-horn gambler and a tout for some of the most ex- jiert swindlers of the age, and since Lawson began manipulating atock markets Hs ono end and aim has been to too) investors and specula* tors ancl separate them from their monev. The enmity of such a man is something to bo proud of. The Standard Oil people hired Lawson to slander and abuse ancl flim-flam Heinze*, of Montana, and they le*el him to believe that millions would be his if he succeeded in blasting I Hninxo's name antl filching his property. For seven years he stooped to the lowest depths of infamy in his war on Heinze and his associate's, and his utter failure has driven him insane. The Standard Oil got disgusted with Lawson for his failure, and the now disappointed fakir exhibits his sores and wounds to all the world, aud spews his falsehood and vemon against the very men whoso genius has en- abled him t ��� inflict terrible defeat ou the* gamblers of Wall Street and Boston. Heinze needs no defense from Lawson's slanders in the great Northwest, His name is one to conjure with out bore. Indeed, Lawson, till he has made the name of Lawson stink in the nostrils of honest men. deaden the brain, place the affections in abeyance and bring the beast to the surface. Hence Lawson's fiendish hatred j it 800n ^^ plea8nre__a and insane abuse of C. W. Barron.Uatisfaction, and serves Abridge ��! *"�� f rV/n m^Clf Per8��r! over a moment of nervousness or ally, I need say little. No journal- embarrassment. ist who is faithful to his trust, and Lawson s outpouring of calumny the fiend about it and he will smile against Heinze rings the death knell of his faking in the great mining regions cf the west. In Boston ami New York Lawson is known. There aro fearless ancl able journalists in both cities who have torn the mask of cant and hypocracy olT Lawson's brazen brow, and have held him up to the contempt of honest men. Foremost among theso great journalists stands C. W Barron, of Boston, a man whom all the power and wealth of Standard Oil could not brow-beat or wheedle. While many of the great daily newspapers of New York and Boston were silenced by enormous advertising from Lawson, C. W. Barron kept exposing swindle after swindle by who at all times puts the mirror up to Nature and paints men ancl things just as they are can hope to escape cal muny from such as Law- son. Still I must admit that be has a picturesque side, mountebank ancl fakir though he be. A confessed swindler, fraud and liar, and yet he thinks the great American pubiie* aro so gullable that it will make a hero of the most monumental financial mountebank the world has ever seen. The moro I analyze Lawson, anel the more I study his record ancl records, the more thoroughly I am convinced that his mental balance is completely overthrown, and that the margin is extremely slight that separates him from the jibber- ings of a raving maniac. The Cigarette Fiend. Elbert Hubbard has assayed the cigarette fiend, and we print a few extracts from his article upon the subject: If you want a man who will train on, llee the cigaretist as you would a pestilence*. Never advance the pay of a cigarette smoker ���never promote him��� never depend on him to carry a roll to Gomez, unless you are willing to J^g /V\cDOfialcl lose the roll. ' For the cigarette habit, no argument can possibly be made. Ask Next, it becomes a necessity of life, a fixed habit. The fiend dreams over his work, dawdles indefinitely, picks things up and lays them down. He invariably discovers that cleverness, trickery, astuteness ancl untruth are good substitutes for frankness, sympathy and plain, common honesty. The difference between mine and thine is s very hazy line to the cigarettest���meum and tuum are not in his lexicon���larceny ancl lying are sprouts that grow from the same soil. The man who quits the cigarette vice must discover his owu folly. Tbe trouble is iu his brain, and there is no salvation outside of himself. The choice between cigarettes anel daily doses of cocaine, morphine or bromide is very slight���all and each lead downward to the grave. Place no confidence in the cigarette fieud. Love him if you can, pity him if you will, but give him no chance to clutch you with his nicotine fingers, and drag you beneath the wave. Simpson Co. a silly, supercilious smile out of his gamboge face and feel for his cigarette box. Cigarette smoking is not periodic ���it is continuous���a slow, insidious, sure poison. Cigarette smoking begins with an effort to be smart. For the young man who has grown so calloused that lie smokes cigarettes in the presence of his mother, sister or sweetheart, there is little hope. Hope is only for the youth who is ashamed of his lapses. The cigarette smoker is not a degenerate because he smokes cigarettes. Quite often he is a cigarette smoker be^cause he is a degenerate. Cigarettes stupify the conscience, Limited-Liability. Wholesale Commission Merchants & Manufacturers' Agents. REPRESENTING The Lumsden Roller Mills The Wapella Roller Mills Lever Brothers "Sunlight Soap" Dal ton Brothers 'Dish-towel," Soap The Vogel Packing Co. The Baltimore Lime M'f'g Co. The Manitoba Canning Co. The W. & R. Jacob Co., Ltd., Biscuit. Manufacturers The Guelph Foundry Co., Ltd. The "Armur" Co., Ltd. The Moyie Mill & Lumber Co. The Hygiene Kola Wine Co. Fruit ancl Produce of all kinds Correspondence Solicited. P. 0. Box 363. Calgary, Alta. io LOWERY'S CtAlM The Citu Maelstrom I5v J. P. Aimstrong. Stroll through any ordinary thoroughfare of any of the large American cities and if you posses observing eyes you cannot help to perceive the unending processiou of human wrecks. Not alcohol-crazed, but nerve- wrenched anel bloodless automatons, whose capacities for physical and intellectual en joy meu t have lieen atrophied by the tread-mills of modern industrial and commercial Btrentiosity. Each municipal malestrom is being constantly fed by the inn timer- able iron-clad arteries from the hay-making districts, with new victims, yet no words of warning are shouted by the lookou a on the towers of Israel. (Divorce is too absorbing a topic just now.) In thc midst of the general pandemonium of screeching and thundering street cars, crashing, banging of steam railroad stock and deafening tooting of locomotive whistles a young farmer is hustled into this whirlpool out of which he expects to come to the surface with a coffer I openings for young eS"*s -5"** -ff"^ eg"** ���$"> S^s cF^ cg^ their sires, but mount spring seats behind spirited horses and tako pleasant jaunts afield listening to the warbling love notes of the feathered tribes. Tho sky overhead is no longer brazen, for a fine overshadowing canvas canopy preserves the driver from sunburn. Ah, but the distant dilirium, echoing from the soot curtaini*el metropolis, has tempted the rustic to invade its stifling envoirnment to get a job ancl imitate the chappies who swing canes and talk sporty. He continues to look woefully at his pocket book and finds it growing more anel moro emaciated*, wrinkled and hungry. One day ho looked at his last quart* r of a dollar ancl a tear washed the face of the Goddess of Liberty, the first ablution in many years. He still remembered his gold watch and blessed the pawn shop. "Work everywhere! What a shame to grumble at the glorious But men!' filled with gold and diamond**, but invariably he finds himself groping through the blinding bacterium- whirl with pockets empty and hands outstretched for charily. The myiiad wind i ved r ��o ning house opens its portals to is -. miasmatic little dens, tn Hii- hrave young man, who leaves the farm many of tliese are made by the pick and shovel by men who can thrive on garlic, black bread and wine vine'gar. Thc young farmer tries bis hand at dish washing, street cleaning, peddling, canvassing, ami unconsciously drops into politics, but one evening ho discovers to his utmost horror ho had unthinkingly parted to taste thc intoxication of disease saturated elust, pjice endless stone, with his self-respect. walks, stare at frowning sky-scrap-1 From "politics" to "swamping" ers and listen to thc rattlcy-batig is only one step and he took it, ior of a thousand distracting sounds.' financial stringency humbles the* The countless restaurants with proudest spirit, their hissing, fizzing and smoking ! "Damn it, young fellow, your ranges invite the newcomer to chal-j whining aliout being 'hard-up' lenge his appetite with new fangled i makes ine tired! I've cleaned up messes, warranted to make a man twenty thousand dollars this sum or chronic dyspeptic within ten days. Days pass without material benefit and from time the young indus nier, said a real estate sharp, whose oflice was placarded with scriptural quotations such as "Love thy neighbor as thy self." "If trial feels the weight of his pocket! thine enemy hunger, feed him. book and finds it growing rapidly lighter. He decides to eat less aud rustle harder. On the up-to-date farm machinery has softened the horny hand of the toiler. The rising generations no longer twist their spine cradling, sickling and reaping like Fear dwelleth in the bosom of fools." "Words fitly spoken aro like apples of gold in pictures of silver." (This last ono, his unfailing source of revenue.) "Go to it, be blooded, stick out your shingle ancl gather in the ���rhino'! Be smooth, cunning aud persistent, put lots of bait on your hook and tho Bnckers will fight each other to get a snap at it." But the young man was too honest to listen to this mellifluous advice and he continued to "swamp" out tho droppings of a "licensed vitualler's rendezvous." In a brief time he learned to liko a dizzy brain and ouo clay a largo throng of uiiniiuisterini looking gentlemen came to blows. They were the city's horde of solemn faced undertakers, fighting for the possession of the remains of the young farmer, because thc* city pays twenty dollars tei the man who buries its wreckage in the potter's field. Should Have Sat Gloser In these days of many divorces a man should bo careful about whom he mairies���at least careful enough to seo that he doesn't remarry a woman from whom he has been divorced. That happened to a man in Montana recently He fell in love, proposed anel was accepted by a woman from whom he had been divorced twenty-three years before, but eliel not kuow it until after the wedding.���Los Angeles Times. Thought She Had Twins Just Outside of Berlin a crowd of Somerset young foiks on their way to Whitehorse was attracted by the bawling of a cow whose evil f ha tl got down over an embank ment. The calf was returned tei its mother's sielo and one of the young men was telling his girl how the cow actually lickcel his hand in gratitude when she told him that it wasn't gratitude at all; tho cow only thought she had twins.���Me��yers- dale (Pa.) Commercial. F. F. Ll riKiVCrlANT TAILOK SANDON, B. O. mxxxixxxxxxxzxxxxxxxxxxxxm {j perfume the ozone by �� smoking a Mainland Cigar ixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: ������ LOWERY'S claim ii /���-���������- UGiiBil Remarks by Guy Heed. Curtains have saved more than one reputation. Equal opportunities make a hero of one mau and an ass of another. If mem were serpents the woods would be full of snake charmers. Heathen are peoplo who waste no time fighting over religion. Liquor sometimes gets the best of a fellow even after he gets it down. When it comes to making a long story short thc editor's blue pencil is a peach. The marriageable age of women is anywhere between 10 and death. Were fools silent they might pass for wise. Thousands have fought ovcr religion wdio never practiced it. Corrupt legislation is sometimes a true index eif corrupt public opinion. Human nature always shows to better advantage at a dog fight than at a prayer meeting. "Say," enquired a smart Alec of an urchin on the street corner the other day, "can you tell me who made you, Johnnie?" *'Now, just cut that out," rc- torte��eljthoyoungster, "that question has caused hell enough at home al- reael*,!" Cnouuded Out. A Baptist and a Methodist minister wore by accident dining at the same house. As they took their seats there was an embarrassing pause*, the hostess not kneiwing how tei ask one minister to say mt grace without offending the other. The small son quickly grasped the situation, and, half rising in his chair, moved his finger rapidly around the table, reciting, "Euy mene miny mo, catch a nigger by the toe." Hi ended by pointing his finger at the Baptist minister and shouting4* You're it!"-��� Ladies' Home Journal. Ambiguous. "This custom of having two telephones in the oflice has its disadvantages, too," said the business man. 4<We've got a new oflice boy, ancl one of his duties is to answer the telephone. The other day he heard the bell ring, and, coming to me, said: 'You're wanted at the 'phone by a lady.' " "Which one?" I enquired, thinking of the 'phones, of course. ��� 'Please sir, '��� stammered the boy, "I- I���I think it's your wife."��� Portland Express. fl Ptroof of Wisdom. The following anecdote is being told of Miss Helen Gould, who recently entertained at luncheon a party of young girls. Afterwards Miss Gould showed the children about her house, pointing out somo of its interesting contents. "This," she said, stopping before a bronze iu tho hall, "is a statute of Minerva." "Was she married?'' ask- teacher: "Do you think I can ever do anything with my voice?" The professor very cautiously replied: "Well, it may come in handy in case of fire."���New York Tribune. Just Liike Ftfank. Port Oxford evidently is a very windy place. A gentleman just from there reports that last week the wind blew a sheep up against a barn 20 feet from the ground, and held it there four days until it starved to death. ���Drain, (Ore.,) Nonpareil. Much the Same. 4 'Did you ever visit a race track?'' ...... . . ..... , " asked the inquisitive person. ��l a l.ttleg..K 'Hh.no u,y dear," ,.N ��� ^M ^ ^ rolled M.** Gould. "Ton know t ',,b���t �� oncc metafoc Minerva was Goddess of Wisdom." : f.. ........i. ^n u��� ^�� ,i ~ ���Harper's Weekly. So fllueh Uike Nelson. "But you aro always bothered with poor light, are you?" inquired the complaint clerk at thc electric j less journalistic prostitute. It has light station. ! not the courage to say in its own "Oh, no, not always," replied !columns who owns or edits it. It the quiet citizen. is just a blotched rag flapping as "Ah! I thought so; it's only at the Coal Co. pulls the rope, and is faced footpad in a dark alley who relieved mo of my hard-earned coin.���Chicago News. <��> The Fernie Free Press seems to have become a blurred and nerve- certain times that you notice it, eh?" "Yes; only after dark."���Philadelphia Ledger. fiOnMjnion Hours. "Why did that walking-delegate resign his church membership?" 44He lost faith in his creator." "How was that?" "Well, he heard the preacher say that tho Lord made the world in six days. And he asked if they wero eight hour clays and the preacher said no he didn't think so. So he got mad and loft."���Ex. LUhy He is Healthy. Lord Roberts attributes his unvaried good health to a habit of early rising. Every morning, summer and winter, he is up punctually at ten minutes to 6. However late he may retire he always gets up at that hour. The veteran soldier does not smoke, ancl touches wine but seldom. She Was Put Out. A Sedalia, Mo., girl, who is taking singing lessons, asked hor a disgrace to independent journalism. Its influence is nil as slaves cannot utter an unbiased opinion. Thev must bow as their master crooks their necks. S. J. MIGHTON, CRANBROOK, B. C. has tho largest Stock of Pipes, To- haceoes, Cigars and Smeikers' Sundries in the interior of B. C. Mail Or 'era Receive Prompt Attention J. BARBER, L. D. S. D. D. S. DENTIST FERNIE, B. O. The Hotel Dallas LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, Is thc home for commercial tourists in that city. The appointments of this hotel are eciualleei hy few in the great west. It is heated hy steam, the dining sprvloe is exc -Hent and every guest receives courteous treatment. C. J. ECKSTOKM & CO., PROPRIETORS. 12 LOWERY'S CLAIM To the Old Bachelors liv C A. Winclle. ^ r> ��^ eS^J -6"^ August 16th tho Central Illinois Bachelors' Association gave a picnic at Nokomis. Thero were about 15,000 people in attendance. C. A. Windle was invited to deliver the principal address. Below is a verbatum report of his speech: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: Mr. Todd, ex-president of this association, who preceded me, took exception to the term "bachelor girl," and challenged any one to state the difference between an old maid and a bachelor girl. He says there is no distinction. He is mistaken. A bachelor girl is an unmarried lady, old or young. An old maid���well, an old maid is an unmarried woman that has been made a loug time. This is the first picnic of the kind I ever attended. Methuselah dodged death and the tax collector 960 years and never attended a picnic like this. In this whirling, dazzling age, with so much to interest and entertain, one cau afford to live the brief span allotted to man as an old bachelor. In the days of Methuslah it was different. Nine hundred and sixty years would have been a long time to trot in single harness. Marriage was about the only source of haj- piness the ancients had. As a rub one woman was not euougb. Like R ��c��sevelt they wore all oppoml to race suicide. Marriage was not a failure. It was a picnic to raise large families. Their women were not like the Irish lady Teddy met on hi-* trip to the Northwest. Bhe brought her whole family to see the President. There were nineteen in the herd, and they reminded one of stair steps beginning with the babe in her arms and running up to a strapping young man who was about as big as Jim Jeffries. Roosevelt greeted Mrs. Hooligan with one of hiB patent smiles which exposed his whole ivory front, and said: "Delighted! I am de-lighted to see you. Are these all your children, or is this a picnic?" Looking the President squarely in the eye she replied: "I'll give yese to understaud, Mr. President, that they are all my childer and its no picnic aither*" You could never convince her that marriage was a failure any more tban you could the Jew who, when asked if marriage was a failure, replied: "If you get a rich vife it ish almost as good as a failure." They are going to hang a man in Chicago for proving that marriage was not a failure. He shared tbe fortunes of forty widows. Hock tried to make Brigham Young look like 30 cents, and had the law let him alone he intended to eclipse the record of Solomon aud many of the patriarchs of old. Ar. Irishman who had read the Bible tried to describe one of the heroes whose history it records, but forgetting his name referred to the worthy as the "Gin- tleinin who had twenty wives and forty porcupines." Tho Lord had the right idea. He said that it was not good for man to be alone, but had he made more than one wife for Adam there would have been hell "in the shade of the old apple tree," long before the devil got in his graft. A good many Bible characters remind me of the roan who was arraigned before a justice of the peace on a chat go of bigamy. The judge looked in his law book and found that a bigamist was a man who had ! wo wives. According to the evidence in the case the prisoner at liar had seven wives. Tho State's Attorney was congratulating himself on the prospect of conviction, when the Judge dismissed tho defendant, and turning to the prosecutor, said: "This man is not guilty of bigamy, though he is guilty of pleurisy." This disease is not uncommon in this country, but only the genuine Mormon has the courage to acknowledge more than one mother- in-law. I have often thought many old bachelors were frightened from Hymen's altar by the horrible things one hears about the mother-in-law. I heard of a mother-in-law once who bit her tongue off in a rag chewing match with her daughter's husband. They hurried the piece with military honors in the back yard. Ten years later, while spading around the fellow dug it up and it called him a liar. I heard of another mother-in-law who, when engaged in a rag chew ing match was in the habit of calling a spade a spade, when she didn't call it "a damned old shovel." One day she took sick and they called the doctor. I think it was the wife who sent for the medicine man. The son-in-law was a two hundred pounder. The sick woman was a weak, weazened, dried up soul about tho size of a cracklin, with a voice like a buzz saw and a temper like aquafortis. The doctor examined her pulse*, took a peek at her tongue, and, turning to the son-in-law, said: "Thia poor woman is very sick. I am afraid vou will havo to send her to a warmer climate." Bursting iuto tears he lied from the house, but returned almost immediately with a meat axe, and handing it to the doctor said, with a voice trembling with emotion: 44Doc, you hit her, I can't " Now don't lot such stories discourage you. Nine times emt of ten if you get a good wife you will have a good mother-in-law. When 1 heard that you had or- ganizoj an old bachelors' association in this community, and re- eeived vour invitation to deliver an address on this occasion, many strange and curious thoughts passed through my mind. When I arrived on the grounds today I expected to greet a vast multitude of my bachelor friends and a lot of ancient paintings, interspersed with a few self-made women. Some women, you know, aro fearfully and wonderfully made. I imagined that only in a community where this type of woman prevailed would bachelors havo the nerve to organize a union. I see at a glance that I was mistaken. I find here* before me the largest company of the best-looking women that 1 ever saw anywhere in my life. Likewise and also a splendid aggregation of bachelors to match. While I am here on tho invitation of the Central Illinois Bachelors' Association, for tho Hie of me 1 can seo no earthly excuse for its existence. 1 am afraid in selecting me to deliver tho speech here today your committee made a horrible mistake. I have the will and if I had the capital I would like to start a match factory on this ground, and make your secretary, Jesse Grilliu, general manager. While President Roosevelt and I do not agree politi��-ally, we both believeiu "infantindustry." This, LOWERY'S CLAIM 13 gentlemen, is one industry in which no trust has been formed, and nobody, thank God, has a monopoly of the business. There seems to be a strong resemblance between a trust and a baby. Nearly everybody damns them until they get one of their own. Speaking of trusts reminds me that this is the age of trusts. These hydra-headed monsters of pillage aiid plunder, grab aud graft are trying to ruu the government, monopolize commerce, dictate laws, anel dominate tho courts. In the face of this condition of things there is little encouragement for any man to get married and raise a family. It is wrong for us to permit a few men to monopolize progress, prosperity and opportunity, thus making it possible for nine-tenths of the children born into this world to become industrial slaves. Unless checked these monopolies will coin their heart's blood into gold, and the futuro citizen of this country will be compelled to exchange his proud badge of sovereign citizenship for the brass tag of a soulless trust. I rejoice when I see a man liko William Randolph Hearst bring tho arrogant coal trust to its knees. I threw up my hat when I saw Roosvelt dehorn the beef trust, by having its head odicials indited like common criminals. I was delighted when Tom Lawson, the reformed pirate, turned State's evidence against his former pals, as venal a crew of buccaneers as ever scuttled a rival commercial ship, or slit the throat of decent government. To one and all, I say, in the language of tbe immortal Billy Shakspeare, "Lay ou, McDuff, and damned belie who lirst cries hold, enough!" While trusts by extortion make living expensive, thero is no economy in bachelorhood. From an economic point of view, it is far easier to get along with a wife than without one. An old bachelor who can prosper in this monopoly ruled age, is a bird, whether ho cau show any pin feathers or not. It is the most difficult thing in the world, I am told, to make a mash ancl escape for less than the price of an Easter bonnet. Do you remember what that "bird and cold bottle" cost the last time you were in Chicago? Maybe* it was in St. Louis or New York! So much the worse for you. Tho money wo squauder ou the side as bachelors would keep in luxury the most extravagant woman in the country. Some people marry 'because it is contagious. Others because they cannot work in single harness. But most of us get married because we accidentally fell in love and couldn't fall out. When you fall out marriage becomes a failure. Darwin in the country. The intelligent man marries to get a life partner, one that will share his joys and sorrows, and there is no man who cannot be made better by the life companionship of a good woman. But in that partnership no man expects his wife to be the boss. He wants to There are only two classes of I lie the general manager. He likes �� * ��� ���*��� * . a^ma i - *���> - - men who shouldn't marry. Those hopelessly afflicted with some incurable malady, and the dude specie, to which belong what is known a$ "sissy men." One of these weak sisters entered a room at a prominent Chicago hotel the other night in his night gown, and asked some gentlemen engaged in a poker game for a wine glass of water. Ho returned aud had it filled six different times, when one ��f the men invited him to join in the game. Our little sister declined. He thanked them antl said: "I would liko very much to join you, and it is awfuily sweet of you to ask me, but I haven't got time, the lace curtains in my room are on fire." Another member of this simpering, cane-sucking tribe entered a saloon on Clark street the other day, and approaching the bar like a peacock walking a barbed wire fence, said: "Please concoct a lemonade for me ancl havo it sweet." He drank seven, heaving a sigh after each concoction, rolling his eyes like a dying calf. Finally the bartender said: "What's the matter with you, are you in trouble?" 4T was in a heap of trouble this noon, but I got even with him, so I did." "Even with who," said the bartender; "tell us about if" "Well," replied the sissy, "when I went homo today I caught a man kissing my wife. But I fixed him." He paused and the man behind the bar thinking that murder had been done, with much suppressed excitement asked feir further particulars. After gasping liko a sick kiten the other continued: "When I saw that horrible creature kissing my dear wife, I seized his umbrella, broke it over my knee and said, 'Now there, 1 hope it rains.' " Breeding such cattle is a crime. Tlieir highest ambition is to attend piuk teas, and officiate at dog dinners and monkey banquets. Their presence is living proof of the Darwinian theory. If it were not for such cattle there would be very few deciples of the head of tho table. He does not hanker for a job all over the house. He expects to stand in the fore front of battle. When he returns each night from the war he expects to be received as a hero, not as a holio. He wants to see the queen of his heart and home neat and clean, wearing a smile, like Sunny Jim, that won't come off. Ho likes to to tell her the story of his struggle with fate. The monstrous deals he is about to put through; how ho will make his opponent at the election or his competitor in business look like 30 cents. If she be wise, she will sit like Desdemona listening to the Moor, ancl admit that that he is a hell of a feller. When it comes her turn to talk she will have little to say of the horrible condition of married women, but will wax eloquent over the wretched condition of old maids, ancl punctuate every sentence with a hug ancl a kiss. The next day that man will go to his work, whatever it may be, with the spirit of an Alexander, resolve I for her sake to conquor or die. There is in this world many wonderful things. Crystal rivers, mountains wearing eternal coronets of snow, tha oceans and continents, the sun ridiug in majesty through its pathway of stars, his resplendent robes trailing like burnished gold over land and seas. The age itself in which we live is one of miracle, but of all the wonderful creatures of man and his creator, thero is nothing grander, more valuable, or more wonderful than the true woman. Her price is far above rubies. Once man loses faith in womau, ho will never marry. Woman, wife, mother! These three degrees complete the magic circle in which she lives, moves and has her being and glory. When it comes to getting married, be sure you get the right womau, or the right man. The right woman is a delight, an oasis in the dessert, a shady place on a sultry afternoon, a cooling brook in a 14 LOWERY'S CLAIM parched land, a tonic in debilitating lassitude, a balm in trouble, an ecstacy of joy in health, a garden of roses and a joy forever. If you should be so unfortunate as to marry the wrong woman, may the Lord have mercy on your soul. You will find her calamity on tho installment plan, a string of cow bells, a caliope cut loose, a cat fight on wheels, a pestilence and famine combined, a boiler factory in full bloom, chilblains, sore eyes, and double-distilled damnation, all in one package. Tho same woman, if married to her affinity���to tho right man���would be an angel, and vice versa. Be sure you have the right one, and then go ahead. I bave one word of advice toa'h girls, boys, old maids, and old bachelors: Never marry until you are certain single life is a failure, and under no circumstances marry until you find somebody that will have you. Then be sure that you are acquainted with each other before you send for the preecher. Don't be content with seeing your intended in his, or her, best togs. Get up a few surprise parties. Make a few calls on wash day. Girls, manage to be in an adjoining room the day the mother of your intended requests him to put up the stove. Then you can tell for certain whether vou want *M> to sew rips for him, crawl under the bureau to get his collar button, or mend the narrative of his nightie. Bo?s, remember that a girl rigged out- in ribbons, paint and feathers may look good enough to cat. That smile, however, may Ik; made to order, and come off with her best clothes. At other times she may wear a scowl that would make a gorilla climb a tree. Don't wear a mask. Be honest. Sheiw what you are. When two peoplo get what ailed Romeo aud Juliet, overy day togs won t matter, and nothing but death can keep them apart. When they reach that stage advice is useless. They will marry, as the story liooks say, ancl "live happily ever after ward." In this country, overy man rightly mated, is married to a queen. Every woman united to the man she loves, has a prince for a husband. This is what each should think, whether they be as rich as Croesus or poor as Lazarus. Last week the Honey Grove 9f Signal stated that the MetLodists were engaged in a protracted meeting, and in the same issue announced that frylng-sized chickens were selling for $1.75 each! Conditions have reached an acute stage in our neighbor town; there can be no enthusiasm in a Methodist meeting when the ungodly are bulling the chicken market to unheard of prices.���Ladonia News. A Villain. A number of professional men gathered at the Art Club of Philadelphia recently were exchanging reminiscenses of Edwiu Forrest the greatest tragedian. One of them, says Harper's Weekly, told a story of Forrest's experience in the West, which was uot only of interest in itself but also a tribute to thc art of the actor: The play was "Virginius" and Forrest was at his best. In the scene where he slays his daughter the audience was almost striken with awe, and not- a sound was heard until the scene was concluded, after which the artist was greeted with overpowering applause. In the following act Virginius comes on the stag-*. Poking worn and distracted. The reaction has set in, ho is frenzied ove*r the loss of his daughter and he walks up and down crying: "Virginia! Virginia! Whero is my child?" An old miner who occupied a front row in the orchestra ancl who had lieen terribly wrought up over the murder scene, could stand this no longer, and, rising in his placo, sbottted out in loud tones, frightened with intense indignation: "Why, you old villain, you killed her in the market-house in the last act! You know it well enough. You area hypocrite as well as a villain!" The laughter and applause that greeted this unexpected turn in the performance made it necessary to ring down the curtain. Awkward Generosity. A man from Dunedin onco visited (the town of) Wellington. An Irish friend insisted upon the visitor staying at his houso insteael of at an hotel, anel kept him thero for a month, playing the host in detail, paying all the cab lares, and the rest. When the visitor was returning to Dunedin the Irisman saw him t-3 the steamer, and they went into a saloon to have a parting drink. "What'll you have? ' asked the host, continuing his hospitality to the very last. "Now look here," sai J the man from Dunedin, "I'll has nao mair o this. Here ye've been keeping ine at yer house for a month, au' pay in' for a' the theatres an' cabs an' drinks. 1 tell ye I'll stan' na mair o' it! We'll just hae a toss for this one!"- Scotsman. Play en Words. The story is told of Helen Hunt, the famous author of "Ramona" that one morning after service she found a purse full of money aud told her pastor about it. "Very well," he said, "you keep it, and at the evening service I will announce it," which he did in this wise: "This morning there was found iu this church a purse filled with money. If the owner is present he or she can go to Helen Hunt for it.�� * And the minister wondered why tbe congregation tittered. AS* Approximate. In speaking of the New England "spinsler problem," Mrs. Mary W ilk ins Freeman told a rather pathetic little story to an aged maiden lady who onco said that she had never received an actual propo-al of marriage, *4but," ancl hero she blush,id faintly, "a gentleman onco asked me to walk with him in the garden by moonlight, and we al) know what that means, my dear." ���Harper's Weekly. Gncvi^bnook Hotel.... Is convenient to all depots, telegraph offices and hanks in thc city. Special attention paid to tourists, commercial and otherwise. The cuisine is excellent, and all guests receive courteous attention. Touch the wire when you want rooms reserved. fiotjgartl) * Rollins, Proprietor! LOWERY'S CLAIM 15 A Wandering Poem. Curiously little is known about the exquisite lyric herewith printed-. It occurs, wo believe, iin no anthology���at least, it is not included among the thirty thousand poems indexed by Miss Granger. The man who is supposed to have written it���now a journalist in New York���is believed never to have written any other poem. We do not even know where it first appeared. The copy from which wo print this is probably imperfect. It was given by, [Bliss Carman��� with whom it is "a favo:ite poem" ���to a friend, and reaches us after having been several times copied. We know of another manuscript copy that consists of three stanzas only, and differs from this text in many other particulars, indicating a long sequence of verbal transmissions. It would be interesting to learn where and when the poem was first printed, and in what, respects, if any, this text differs from tlie original. The lyric is remarkable for its expression in the most simple and even commonplace language of very poignant and deep emotion. It is a poem in a thousand : 4'Heart of my heirt, my life, my light! If you were lost what should I do? I dare not trust you from my sight Lest death should fall iu love with you. "Such countless perils lie in wait! The gods know well how fair you are! What if they left me desolate And took and set you for a star! ''Then hold mo close, the gods are strong, Anel happiness so rare a flower No man may hope to keep it long��� Ancl 1 may lose you any hour. "Then kiss me cleise, my star, my flower! Sti shall tin* futuro grant us this: That there was not a single hour We might, havo kissed, and did not kiss!" ���Mitchell Kcnnerley. Statistics of Neui York. 18,000 men are employed on the street roi I ways; there are 92 places of amusement in the city; 225 freight lines; a\400 elevator apartment houses; 300 asylums antl homes; 212 miles of surface electric lines; 37 ferries; 1,100 banks and banking houses; 99 miles of horse car service; 400 public schools; 15,800 lawyers; 3,800 physicians; 1,260 dentists; 205 steamship lines; 1,700 newspapers: 2,600 restaurants; (not including hotels); 165,000 telephones: 500 hotels; 546 miles of streets���swept and cleaned every day; 35,000 people travel daily in the subway; 1,000,000 travel daily on the elevated; about200,000 men are employed in digging, blasting and building; one milk company alone has 2,000 waggons delivering milk in the city, each wagon averaging 300 quarts a day. The city's population consists of |cS00,000 Jews; 800,000 Irish: 500,- 000 Italians; 250.000 born Americans. The English, French and I "poor Scotch' are thrown in���they are not counted. Circumstances Govern Modesty. The other day I passed a house where the lady had on her working clothes and the top button of her dress was undone, showing about an inch of her pinkness below the regulation collar line. She was so modest that she held her dross together while I talked to her a moment. That same evening I saw her on the Btreet wearing a garment which revealed about three or four inches of her pinkness more than did her house dress, ami ahunelred men gazed at her lack of modesty. All of which reminds me of the woman that took he*r lady visitor out to the pond on a wading ex- peditioil, and after venturing out a few feet she observed a man. Frustrated, she cried out to her companion, "What shall I do?" The eool headed companion rc- plctl, "Just lift your dress a little higher ami imagine you are in a bathing suit.���Ex. A Western Definition. (Jossip is a humming bird with eagle wings and a voice like a foghorn. It can be heard from Dan to Becrsheba, and has caused more trouble than all the ticks, fleas, mosquitoes, coyotes, grasshoppers, chinch bugs, rattlesnakes, sharks, sore toes, e*yclones, earthquakes. blizzards, smallpox, yellow fever, gout, ancl indigestion that this great United States have knowu or will know when the universe shuts up shop and begins the final invoice. In other words, it has got war and hell both backed up in the corner yelling for ice water.���Guernsey (Wyo.) Gazette. Setting Gn. Bishop Potter Of New York told the following story about a clergyman who lived and preached in a small New England town. The clergyman had taught an old man in his parish to read, and had found him an apt pupil. Calling at the house some little time after, he found only the wife at home. "How's John?" asked he. "He is well, thank you," said the wife. "How does he get on with his reading?" "Nicely, sir." Ah, I suppose he enn read his Bible e;om- fortably now?" "Bible, sir! Bless you, ho was out of the Bible and into the newspapers long ago." starkecj & eo. XKLSOS, ij. c. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PRODUCE and PROVISIONS J. D. ANDERva���.., Civil EngineePand Provincial Land Surveyor. TRAIL, - - - B. 0. r. smott KASi.O, B. C. Sells Furniture, Collins, Billiard and Pool Tables, Wall Paper, Mirrors and Bar Fixtures. Write for Anything You Want. Dr. h. Milloy, Dentist Aberdeen Block, Baker St., Nelson, B. C. John Hutchison & Co. HEAD QUARTERS FOR East Kootenay Timber, Farming and Coal Lands. c=,,,UM omMMOK- B- c- 16 LOWERY'S OLAIM FAUSSE ROUTE. We walked along the placid ways Of sweet content and simple things, And far before us stretched the days, Quiet as birds with folded wings! Ah! give me back that time before, Ere love drove friendship from the door. iFor as we walked we turned aside Into a narrow, tortuous lane Where baffling paths the roads divide And jealous brambles prick to pain: Then first I saw, with quick surprise, The strange new look in friendship's eyes. And now, in one stupendous dream, We wander through the purple glades, Which love has tinted through the gleam Of wonderful, enchanting shades: But I���would give it all away For those dear hours of friendship's day. ���Eleanor Ester. Full of Adventure. A mother eent her small boy into the country and after a week of anxiety received this report: "J got here all right, but forgot to write before. A feller and I went out in a boat, and the boat tipped over and a man got me out. I was so full of water that I didn't know anything for a long time. The other boy has to bc buried after they find him. His mother came and cried all the time. A horse kicked me over, and I've got to have Noim-; money for fix in' my head. We aro going to set a barn on fire tonight, and I should laugh if wc don't have some fun. I shall bring home u tame ferret if I can get him in my trunk.���Ex. The Meanest Cflan. A gentle reader from Hood river declares that there is a man in his town even meaner than the one who runs an apiary and crosses hia bees with lightning bugs to make them work all night, as noted in this column a few days ago. Tin* Hood river man, according to our reader, hangs around a maple sugar making plant in fly time and catcher flies to get the sugar off their legs.���Portland Oregonian. Coreligionists- The thief who robbed Admiral Bowies' house, aud afterwards restore. 1 the booty out of admiration of the admiral, reminds the Boston Transcript of tho bandit who held u\t Bishop Whipple. "Sir," said the bishop, "1 am the bishop ofthe Protestant Episcopal diocese of Minnesota!" "Thc devil you arc!" said the robber. "Why that's my church too {"���Cleveland Plain Dealer. If you wish to read this journal regularly send in your dollar without delay. ����> A 2 J horse power gasoline engine for sale. Apply at this oflice. Kooiemy Railway & Navigation Company, Ltd. OPERATING Knnlw ��V Slocan Hallway Cu. Ieiteriuitie��i.-tl Nav. A Trading Co., I.tei. E. W. WIDDOWSON assay KK Hiiei CHEMIST (Late- its-tiy-'t- Kelson -um-ltcr) Otelet. Silver or I .���:iil. e-:.e-l. M oo Cornier *���! .V> Uolel Silver ��� l.,yi Charge* for other metal? ->n appllcati >n. BAKER ST.. NELSON P.O. Drawer 11*���* Tel phone Aei7 In:. Navigation & Trad. Co. K A SLO-XEI -SON Rt >UTK s-.em a. m. l*avt- Katdo arrive?iS0 p. in. !��:���������� Ainsworth H:3�� ll::to a. m. arrive Neteon leave l<��* p.m. Caltinff rc-nl.uiy at Ain*wc>rth and Pilot Bay ami all way I ��� ii-ilim-a on siirual. HOTELS OUT WEST *OOX^OX*��S30CCCiOOOC5CCC^ ' ttXttQOOOOCC Kaslo & Slocan Railway. H:iK>a. m. leave K.i-I-- arrive 3:15 p. m. 1��j::'."�� p. m. arrive.. s.-ind >n leave l* >> tt. in Oce-an fftt-am.ship ticket* ami raf<���-. via nil li'ie--* will he lunii-*i-.-;l on applte-a ion. Kor further particular* call on or aehlro-w P. H. WAL8H. II. K. DOTJOIiAS, Snpt . Ka��lo. B. C. Agent. Kaslo. II C. The Kaslo Hotel tSARS* in the cily. OQCKLB A PAPWORTll Tt*a Ptlkorf ���" Sandon, R C . In h i le.-��-- llie r llUtJI I n���t h.me tor all travel! r��. HKXXKTTA BRlltER. McLeod Hotel, Sg'i-^-V.'.dl in the city Sttmple toomv riNLAY Mrl.KoO. IHeiA PovflA+f U th'l.��->t *1 a <luv ln.te-l ine X>dl tiett i��� f&ksau Only white llV'ip ' J!!|*l< )��� I GEO. W. I1ARTI.KTT. Tremont House. &*��BA&&E and Kur��|M*an plan. N-*thlne ywllo.v ahout hoOMexcept tlutgolcl In the-aft) IfALOXl A THEOII.LL'H. Newmarket Hotel Stfe^S millionaire!, visiting Xt-w l>eiiver II. ��5. 1IKXRV STIX.K mSm^^9mS*Sa1*at**a*t*mm*tS**^9w**t*^ df Pl-mA i* the Lading Imtel io TKAIL, OX. ��iimO ii.ij. J���� tMWefott. Prop . �� The Strathcona <=*-�� Hotel ��*a Is situated on a slight eminence, jnst a block from the busy scenes on Baker street, and is within easy touch of everything in the city. From its balconiescan lie seen nearly aU the grand scenery that surrounds the beautiful city of Nelson. Few hotels in the great west equal the Strathcona, and tourists from every land will find within its portals all the essentials that create pleasant memories within tho mind of those who travel. B. TOI1K1NS, manager NELSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA.
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