9 0 r) NUMBHR 26. NELSON, B, C, CANADA. PRICE: 10 CENTS OCTOBER 19015 *��� ������������*'��� ���������.-���'������ii-i-i��������� ���' - ������" ���""" ������" ""��� Lowhrv's Claim is published monthly and sent to any part of tbc world, ]H)s|paid, for $1 a year. Address all letters to R. T. LOAN ERY, Canada. NELSON, B.C. The t^esuppection Lowery's Claim hns risen ftom the dead, and for tin* -crond time Fpreads its wliite* wings ovor tin- earth. Refreshed, after a sleep of 23 months, it hopped over tin* journalistic boneyaiel fence* like a Grit politician chasinr a fat oflice, and, ensconseed inthe- flower-laden ozone* of Canada's earthly paradise, thc City of Nelson, it will proceed to toast the evils of church, state and society in the flainc*s of satire, sarcasm and ridicule. It will prospect for humor in every legitimate field, and endeavor to prove that nearly all hell is a home-made article. It will demand that justice* be done all men, from the hungry hobo to the* < hap who conies a diamond headlight in his shirt front and hires a man to write his che*emes. It will not war with the real metal in churches, but the pyrites of religion will be Benningtonizecl wherever found. It does not seek job printing from knife-bladed creed boosters in return for literary taffy about bughouse sermons that would give a mind of reason an attack of mental appendicitis. It tips its hat to no man merely because he wears a white cravat, hammers a pulpit with rhythmic precision, and bellows to Jesus like a Missourian calling the hired help to supper. It respects all thoroughly honest parsons, even though they be insane, but has nothing but Sreen paint for those self-important eaveu brokers who are in the business for the long green and chicken me, and who exist upon the fears apd superstitions of the human family, instead of mocking for their ham and eggs. It is a safe bet that such theological parasites have no use for this journal and tlieir hammers will soon bo pounding from ocean to ocean. The Claim believes that an lion- e��st lawyer should sit beside tlte man who always pays the printer. Both of them are among the noblest works < 1* creation, although one of them is about as rare as sweet perfume in Gehenna. It also believes that the medical profession in some ways is one of tin* grandest iu existence, but heavy with moss-grown ideas, and the cobw el.s of custom and superstition. It believes, as a whole, the human race would live longer ancl better if they depended more on common sense and rational methods of living and less upon, mysterious prescriptions in Latin, handed them, as a rule, by Galenic pupils who cannot see further into the human body than a gu 111 boot miner can into a granite formatiouafter dark. As there are too many farmers in the legal profession, too many muckers in the pulpit, an excess of snobs in the army, an overplus of blacksihiths in print shops, so there are too many butchers looking wise behind medical diplomas anel a big sack of many-sided glittering steel instruments. This journal knows that labor and capital are alike greedy and necessary. Both become tyrannical when they hold a handful of trumps, and liable to scalp the under dog to a red finish. Under our present system of living both are necessary to the welfare of the universe, and should live in harmony. Every worker should be well paid for his laSor, and every capitalist should draw dividends, especially if his heart is not encircled with iron bands. The Claim wiil come to the front every month, and nail on the wall of publicity scalps torn from fakes, frauds and humbugs. At the same time it will paint in colors equal to a Slocan sunset all that is noble, glorious and meritorious in the acts of men aud women iu every clime. If you care to follow the career of the most independent journal on earth do not fumble the dollar in your jeans until its outer edge is worn thin, but let it quickly come a-smiling to an editor who has never been raided by the sheriff, snowslided by heart failure, or put on the hike by pitching pennies into a dogmatical slot machine. With these few remarks the Claim blows its reincarnated whistle, and warns all devils tei make for the green timber, and requests all angels to carry the news to Jesus. No parson who follows a creed can be sincere and broad-minded. The constant boosting for one line to heaven gives a man mental myoj ia, ami raises disgust in the minds of those* who kuow that religion is largely a matter of anything that is pounded into your head when your upper stope is young ami full of matter resembling diluted plaster paris. London, England, is an expensive place for the stranger. He can hardly spit in that burg without dropping a penny in the slot. About the only thing you can drop in that great city without being taxed is your H's. Society people will not have to break their necks away out in India any more every time they pass Lord Curzon at a social assembly. The dude lost his throne, probably from a lack of common sense in his upper stope. They arrest you in Frank, Alberta, feir fishing on Sunday. Tourists do not need a mountain to fall on them in order to keep away from a western town so cursed with the back wash of Puritanism. Some men think they can run an empire successfully, wheu tbey are incapable of conducting their owu shoestring business without running foul of blue papers. LOWERY'S CLAIM Honor Thy Children rm Elbertus In Philistine. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ��> Much advice is given to children. Advice is a thing we have small use for ourselves, so we give it to poor relatives, colored people and children. We are very free with it. This is one of the drawbacks of being a child���the advice. "Children, obey your parents," is quite superfluous, provided parents would first barken to this: "Parents, love* your children.'' Children obey the person who loves them without injunction, anel no one can love when ordered to do so. I was a child once and have not forgotten it���my desire was to obey. And I obeyed because I loved. The persons 1 disobeyed I did not love, and that is the reason I disobeyed them. Not loving them, I hail no respect for their opinions and ael- vice. To love a person is to believe in him. If vou love a man. you admire his art, his actions, his piano-playing, his poems. Cease to love him and his work becomes commonplace, and if you hate him. everything he says and does is ridiculous, prcpostertms antl absurd. I once knew a woman who loved a violinist, and of course she loved his violin playing, and adored a Sua iivatins anel a Guamerins. Liter she hated this same violinist: and forever aftei' the violin stood to her for trickery, untruth, perfidy and hypocrisy. She ceased going to concerts because the screech and Scratch of horsehair on catgut brought to her mind the thought of baseness anel pretence. It is an extreme case of course, lot of mismanagement to separate* a child from its parents. The mother who loved her babe into being, whose blood nourished this second life, whose milk for months was its only food, can never be spiritually sepnrateel I from her child, unless she herself severs the mystic cord. That is to say, unless she herself ceases to | love. The pe*rson we love, if we love enough, stands to us for the Deity ���an embodiment of all that is just, beautiful, strong anel excellent. The child has no other gods la-fore* his parents. There is just where* love benefits and blesse��s-~~it supplies an idea). Anel as long as the* parent hives, all that this parent does and has done is justified iu thv9 mind e��f the child. The child that grows tip anel curse*s its parents is one that has be*en left on somebody else s doorstep, actually or practically. The abandoned person hates��� ye*s, l>y all tlie gods at once!���he hates. Hut lovaltv and stead fastness are only other terms for love. Perfect fear casteth out love. Indeed, a very little fear casteth out love*. Antl the* mother who care*s more for society's wish than Bhe does feir her babe, mav have hi- riiiv's smile*, but Bhe wilt never *���> have* the* lavish, complete love of her child. The mother of Schopenhauer lost her son when she placed hitn, at the tender age of eight, in au but the truth is this: when we love English boarding-school. Later a person, his actions are to us gra- sbe got into competition with him, cious; his speech as music: his i sought to suppress hiin, and laugh- words authority. We love, and our led in contempt at his attempt at desire is to obey. Children born self-expression. Bhe ceased to love in love follow the love instincts��� him; he grew to bate her. She had they obey. the chiehester-propensity. She* sep- ''Honor thy father and thy arated her child from he*r, aud for mother"���we elo, just so long as the last twenty-five years of her they honor us, anel no longer. Parents, honor thy children, not that thy days may be long, but because you owe it to them and to yourselves. When Grant Allen in 'The Woman Who Did" has the child discard the honest mother, he does not ring true. It takes an awful life she never saw him. Her writings, like her gowns, have lieen thrust into the rag-barre*l of time, anel she is remembere*d only because she gave birth to a genius. Schopenhauer's scathing comments on women are the jungle- tales of his childhood��� mental little journeys in company with the mother who dowered him with lur heritage of hate. When Byron's mother used him as a target for dishes anel her lame wit, and called him "lhat lame brat," she was digging a gulf between them that time could never bridge. "Your mother is a fool." said a boy to the limping George Gordon. "I know it," answered the boy, and burst into te*ars. Hut eveu if a mother is a fool and she- still has sense anel Instinct enough to love, her child will never know she is a fe�� .1, but for him hor every act ami word will be regal, graceful, beautiful. Love gilds everything with its owu nold. We used to hear about the man who saiel to the erring child: "Never darken that door again!'1 We now believe that the parent who said that darkenencd tin- door of his own he��art, ami let into his soul the chill of night. \nl the pec*uliar thing is that the itcople who said this were always Kernel people���those who loved their enemies. A genuine rogue with tie) Standing In society would not lie troubled aliout the wrong acta of his children. Rather would we say with Rolreri Ingersoll: "My child, ^���� where you will, commit what crime you m iv, but remember thai thi?* is your home and in me you always have one friend left." And yet I believe that the parent who discarded his child <>o account of something the child did, or <!i��l not do, was more* actuated 1>\ fear of society than !>v hate. "What * * will the folks in our church saw and therein lu*s the BO-caliecl disgrace. Toe disgrace is ;������>. in the act ���it is in what tue people �����)'��� Nobody was ever shocked i-\ what any one else timy have- done; we are all shocked -because we fear some one e��lse�� will be ihockecl. II is not God we fear, but the Goddess Grimily. Surely it cannot lie that an extreme love for moraiit) prompts the* parent to say Never darken that door again," because the sin of casting off a child, to a normal person, is really a more unchristian ami Inhuman thing than anything the child can do. So we are led to believe that fear i�� �� worse sin than hate. And ol all the virtues none* are finer than love anel loyalty- the love that snfferetn long and is kind. .. As a general proposition. I wouii my that the obligations ol tw - : L6WERY>S CLAIM 0SSmMmwmSMWUmaaaat> parents are greater than those of the child. Who asked to come here anyway? The child loves instinctively, and at first he has only one love���he has no other God before his parents. But the parent can go off after strange gods and devote his time* and strength iu this or that fad, folly or foible. The best proof that thc loyalty of the child is greater than that of the parent lies in the fact that for the* man who has never known a mother���whose mother died in giving him birth���motherhood is forever a sacred theme. Mothers who live sometimes undeceive their children. If Byron had never known his mother he would have said prayers to her and lavished love on her memory to the end of his days. Just as Meipsonier, whose mother died when lie was a child, wrote this in his journal: "It is the twentieth of February ���the morning of my seventieth birthday. What a lemg time to look back upon! This morning, at the hour when my mother gave me birth, I wished my first thoughts to be of hcr. Dear Mother, how often have the tears risen to mv ea e*yes at the thought of you! It was your abseiice���the longing I had for you- that made vou so dear to *' 9/ inc. This love of my heart goes out to you! Do you hear mi*. Mother, e'alling and crying for you? How sweet it must be to have a mother!" It Has Variety. Tli ��� Bible is a sectarian book, as there are different versions. But if any one version should tic decided to be the standard, it would still lie sectarian. When it is read in the public schools, certain chapters are selected. A Methodist can read a chapter that will teach Me'thodism. A Presbyterian can read a verse that teaches predestination. I propose to select a few passages that I think will convince you that a good many doctrines can be taught from the Bible by just reading certain selections. Here are some that we don't wish to have taught to our children: "Thy wisdom anci thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee."���Isa., xlvii.10. "In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."���Eec, 1:18. 4'Thou shalt be��tow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, * * * for wine, or for strong drink."���Deut. xiv:2b\ My next selection I shouldn't think you would like to have read to your ediildren even without comment: "That which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts; as the one dieth, so dieth the other. All go unto one place, all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again."���Eccl. iii:ll), 20. "The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward. Neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun. There is no work���nor knowletlge ���in the grave, whither thou goest." ��� Eccl. ix:5, ti, 10. "As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, sei he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more."���Frank Morse to the* Ministers, in Higher Science. War's Cost. Six.hundred thousand men have been killed and wounded in the Russian-Japanese war. Here are a few figures to help us realize what this means. Six hundred thousand casualties equals: Nine hundred Iroquois Theatre disasters. Seven hundred and fifty Slocum disasters. Two hundred and forty Johnstown floods. Ninety Galveston floods. Twenty Martinique catastrophes. The total p -pulation -Men, women and childteu���of Baltimore. 'Three time- the population eif the States of Idaho and Nevada combined. 'Three times the population��� men, women and children���of the Boer republic, which resisted the whole power of the British Empire for over two years.���Baltimore Herald. Small Difference. Dr. Jowett of Oxford was a formidable* wit. At a gathering at which he was present the talk ran upon the comparative gifts of two Balliol men who had been made respectively a judge and a bishop. Prof. Henry Smith, famous in his day for his brilliancy, pronounced the bishop to be the greater man of the two, for this reason: "A judge, at the most, can only say, 'You be hanged,' whereas a bishop can say, 'You be dam ned.\ " *l Yes, said Dr. Jowett, ''but il the judge says, 'You be hanged,' jou are hauged."���Chicago Daily News. It is a pity one had not twenty minds and forty hands; double pity one did not faithfully employ the mind and hands one has. The sweat of the brow is not a curse, but the wholesomest blessing in life.���Carlyle. Philosophy, in the final analysis, seems to consist of convincing one's self that it is easier, on tJ,e whole, not to want things than it is to get them.���Puck. . <S> Reason must be our last guide ancl judge in everything.���John Locke. If evil thoughts were crimes, what penitentiaries would we need. Why preach eternal happiness and deck ourselves with crepe? Luck is a constant visitor at the home of perseverance. The Granbrook Herald prints all the news of Southeast Kootenay, ancl costs ��2 a year. It is one of the largest papers in Canada. F. E SIMapS0N, CRANBR00K, B. C. R. smott KASLO, B. C. Sells Furniture, Coffins, Billiard and Pool Tables, Wall Paper, Mirrors and Bar Fixtures. Write for Anything You Want. Dr. A. Milloy, Dentist Aberdeen Block, Baker St., Nelson, B. C. ���w LOWERY'S CLAIM Life is a Humbug. Life is a Humbug only because I tramp and divide my handouts we make it so. We are frauds be-! with one more hungry: I'd rather cause we are fools. This is a beau- be a mangy yellow dog without a tiful, a glen ions weirld, fit habita- master and keep the oemipany of tion for sons of the Most High God. j my kind, than to Ik* a multi-million- It is a fruitful mother at whose aire, with the blooei of a snake, the fair breast all her children may he heart of a be*ast, and carry my soul, ea* a. * filled. There Bhould be never a like Pedro Garcia, in my purse. Humbug nor a hypocrite, uever a. When I think of the three thons- miilionaire nor a mendicant on the and children in the single citv of gtvat round globe. Labor should I Chicago without rags to shield be but healthful exercise to develop their nakedness from the keen the physical man���to furnish forth north wind, of the ten thousand in- a fitting easket for the goldlike ' nocents such as Christ blessed, who mind, appropriate setting for the1 die in New York every year of the immortal soul. The curse of life ; world for lack of food; of the mil- arises from a misconception of its [ lions in every country whose cry significance. We delve in the goes up, night anel day to God's mine for paltry gems, explore old great throne���not for salvation. ocean's deeps for pearls: we toil but for soup; not for the robe of and strive for gold until the hand righteousness, but for a Becond- is worn and the heart is cold: we I hand pair of pants���and then con- attire ourselves in Tyrean purples j template those beside whose hoard- and silks of India and strut forth {ed wealth the riches of Lydia's in our gilded frippery on the nar-jancient kings were but a beggar's row bridge of time between the- patrimony, praying to Him who n two eternities: we despoil the thin purses oi the poor to erect brazen altars and priceless fanes, when the whole earths a sacred shrine, j the universe a temple through which rings the voice of God and rolls the eternal melody of the spheres. Perhaps it is unnecessary to state that I'm not posing as a saint. I iniy eventually become an angel���of some sort- hut I'll never wear wings. We are accus- tomed to think of seraphs flying from heaven to earth, flitting ftom star to star���irrespective of tin- fact that feathers are useless where there's no atmosphere. An angel working his wings to propel himself through a vacuum were as ridiculous as a disembodied spirit riding a bike down a rain how. I do not expect to reform all Humbugs, to bauish all Fakes, to exterminate all Folly. If the world should get too good I might have to hunt another home. I can understand every crime in the calendar but the crime of greeel. every lust of the flesh but the lust for gain, every sin that ever damned a soul but the sin of selfishness. By all the sacred bugs and beasts of ancient Egypt, I'd rather bi a witch's cat���or even a politician, and howl in sympathy with my tribe; I'd rather bc a a x i ty Veil cc ver>eel the law of nature tei feed the* poor, 1 long for the power to coin sentences that sear like BUlphtir- llanies. come hot fr< m hell, an:: weave eif words a whip of scorpions to lash the rascals naked through the world. ��� W. C. Brann. Passion for Purity. Instead of a move* toward and license, the de-sire foi .1 may spring and often does from a passion for purity I am well aware, to tin* average theolog, is quite preposterous. 'To Im* honest, to him, is to be absurd. He cares more for the world's approval than f< ������ an upright life, free from quarrel, quibble, bickering, and misunderstandings that dwarf, stunt, and finally destroy all that is holiest, purest, anel best in man's nature; anel never for a moment will he admit that the relationship of the incompatible is the one essential immoral thing in the world.��� Elbert Hubbard. They Don't Uiant Them According to olel deeds, the whole tract of land adjace*nt to the town hall at Watertown, Conn., is saddled with a condition that "no Episcopalians or other sectarians" shall be allowed to build a resi- dence upon it fe>r themselves.- - Exchange*. That's nothing. There is a town up in the lioundary, Volcanic City, owned by R. A. Brown, who has the deeds made out that no church people or saloon men shall lie allowed to build on the* lots. - Golden Star. The Friday Hoodoo. "Ami you really liclievethat Friday is an nii 1 tic k\ eln\?" er * ��� "Humph! l know it is." "Washington was horn on Friday, and so were Napoleon and Tennyson and Gladstone." "Yes. and every mother's son of them is dead." The chief Of the Dowie church in [Zion City may have formed a sen-ret m 9 alliance with Teddy Roosevelt. j lie has issued orders to his follow- ers that all married couples must j produce a child for Istptistn at least once a year. Elijah evidently knows tin* value of a full cradle when it comes to running an autocratic g-��spe-l mill, although il-i- part of the Deiwie creed will work a ureat hardslrip U)K)tl the Rg**d- 'The recent war between .la part land Russia will have-a di*slrueiive e ffect ujion tin* -Christian religion. If Pagans, from our way of thinking, can excel in war and the making of peace the average man will not lie long in thinking we should Iw importing missionaries from .1 �����- pan. iii-te-ml of exporting them lo that country. The In own heathens of Japan have e'-alt a terrible blow to egotistical Christianity. For allowing solon and chloride bacvilli t<> g��i in the ciiy water tin- civic officials eil Loudon, in the cent licit, have been accused of criminal negligence*. They should move* to Fertile where such little matters cut leas ice than a bald-headed bachelor at a baby show. Some* nie*ti would rather lu* boss than make money. I know a miner at Goal Greek who quit making $5 a elav digging coal in order to accept at $.'l per diem a position at which he could boss Other men. The 20 cent piece* should lie suppressed. H has a tendency to create dishonesty In any com- muiiity. LOWERY'S CLAIM The Mother's Poem. At one time Mrs. Kate Cleary 9/ was one of the most talented writers in Chicago. She became the slave of drugs and liquor, and fell dead one day this summer just a- her husband was taking away from her their two children, one of whom was the dearest thing to her life. A few days before her death she wrote a poem that breathes a mother's deathless love, ancl contains some of the sweetest lines ever woven into verse. Here is the poem : I love the world with all its brave endeavor, I love its winds aud floods, antl suns and sand-1, But, o'i, I love���most deeply and f ��re ver��� The clinging touch of timid little hands. I love the* dawn all pearl and primrose glowing, (Ir that which covert comes���all wet and gray; Or the blue gleam through frosty windows showing, 'That ushers in the day. Aud love of mm���the love that's worth the winning. (Not always worth the keeping, sael to say)-- Because of all the sorrows aud the sinning. Like this who did betray! But, oh, above all love for man or story, Above all friendship for the human race, Above all nature's passionate groat glory, Give me the sunlight of a little ftce! Give me t'*e head again-t my shoulder lying. The feel of one soft b idy close to mine, The strength to face the world for him���defying All power���the rest be thine! But ever still afar the laddie lingers, And ever still alone do I repine, While longing for the touch of trusting fingers, And a little loving hand in mine! <S> ���� "One Mo' Ghance. Frederic Morgan Davenport, pro- fe*ssor in Sociology at Hamilton College (Clinton, Onedia county, N. Y,) has written a study in mental and social eveilution entitled "Primitative Traits in Religious Revivals." The author treats revivalism as a sort of religious intoxication and discovers that the manifestations supposed to be caused by the operation of the holy spirit are akin to those exhibited in the ghost dances of the Indians anel the emotional orgies of other primitive people. He reckons hypnotic suggestion and imitativeness among the causes of so-called "conversions," and eliminates altogether the supernatural element. He finds no relation to exist between religious emotionalism and morality. To show how much there is of hypnotism and how little of the "true spiritual element" in the process of bringing sinners to re- pentence he relate-* the following: In a little town between Cleveland. Tenn., ami Chattanooga, it was the purpose to give a donation to the colored minister. One of the brethern in the church volunteered to make a collection of the offerings from the various homes of the members, and an oltl colored woman, somewhat well-to-do, loaned her wirt anel a pair of steers to this brother to facilitate the gathering of the elonation goods. After he! had been throughout the neighbor- j hood anel s��'c*urt��d a reasonable load ! of groceries, provisions, antl cloth- ing, he tlrove eiff to Chattanooga anel sold everything, including tin* cart and the steers, pocketed the procee*ds, and dapartecj for Atlanta on a visit to his relatives. Oonster- uation and then indignation reigned supreme iu the home community when it became known that ho had gone. After some time the culprit drifted baok, in deep contrition, lint having spent all. Indignation once more arose to a white heat, and it was determined tei give him a church trial without waiting for any legal formality. The day was set, the meeting was crowded; the preacher presided, and after a statement of the charges announced that the accused won hi be given a chance to be hearel. He went forward and took the place of the preacher on the platform. "I ain't got n utfin to say fo' myse'f," he began in a penitent voice; 'T'se a po' mis'able sinner. But bredren, so is we all mis'able sinners. An' de good book says we must fergib. How many times, bredren? Till seven times? No, till seventy times seventy. An' I ain't sinned no seventy times seven, an' I'm jest go' to suggest that we turn this into a forgibness meetin', an' ebery- body in dis great comp'ny dat is willin' to fergib me, come up now, while we sing one of our deah oie hymns, an' shake ma hand." And he started one of the powerful revival tunes, and they began to come, first those who hadn't given anything to the donation and were not much interested in the matter anyway, then those who hadn't lost much, and then the others. Finally they had all passed before him except one, and she stuck to her seat. And he said, "Dar'sone po' mis'able sinner still lef dat won't forgib, she won't forgib." (She was the old lady who had lost the steers.) "Now, I sugges' that we hab a sea on ob prayer, an' gib dis po' oie sinner one mo' chance." And after they had prayed and sung a hymn, the old lady came up too! St. Peter in a Charitable Mood. Two women in Heaven claimed one man ncwlv arrived. "I was his wife," said erne. "I his sweetheart," said the other. St. Peter said to the man: "(Jo flown tei the Other Place���you have suffered enough. ' <^ 'The perversity of man is peculiar, IJe invariably gets dry when be lands in a prohibition town, or hits a oamp on Sunday where all the bartenders teach Sabbath school, aud the gin mills are closed tight* r than gum to a schoolmaruYs jaw. No political party is immaculate. They will all steal until a disgusted people turns them out to let another band of grafters at the hay. During the Nelson fair peeiple fiom Kossland, Fernio and other places should be warned not to blow out the gas. FfUrt* Sr^adg and POH FALL I'LANTINCl. Garden. (Held ami flower seeds, c-ut dowers and kiti'hIi .us-* plants. Henry's Oreenhouaes anel Niii-aeriea Vancouver, B C. \ 6 LOWERY'S CLAIM The Cent Belt Deposed Bv ci Novo Scoilan. ^^^<^^^<s>^ There are six millions of people ity is the conforming from clay to in Canada, anel some of them are day to the usages and customs of Canadians. As a rule, in the years civilized life: obeying the law, pay- gone by, the best, the brightest and ing one's debts, and assisting to brainiest sons of Canada have emi- secure peace anel ordor in the corn- grated to the United States soon munity. All these are good ami after their whiskers began to sprout, essential. But is there not an- because in that great country they either, a higher and an ideal moral- found more freedom of action, ity to be sought after, to lie grasp- broader ideas and a bigger price ed, to be attained? The ideal mor- for brains. In the cent belt the ality is that to be derived from the average typical Canadian travels overshadowing principle* of love or in a groove so deep and narrow self-forgetfulness. A morality which that in order to see bim you have derives its force by prompting each to go clown a ladder He voters individual to se��ek not the interest and prays as his father did, and of the individual but the interest imagine** that he knows it all. For of others, the interest of the* world six days he chases the cent with at large. And such a morality in unswerving velocity and gloats Canada we have not, and what is with pride as his pile of coppers worse, the tendency of the general grows higher and higher. Upon thoughts, views and impulses of Sunday he washes up, goes to some the people is not only not to re*eog- gospel mill and erases a 11 his wicked mze such a morality but to regard deeds by whooping it for Jesus, the man who ventures to illustrate* and dropping a white chip in the it as a hopeless aud unspeakableI contains good advice.' church rake-eff. However, there lunatic. "My mistress,' re*pliee are signs of improvement in eastern \n public life Canada is not a Canada, for in the Canadian Maga-: nation of moral heroes. It is a zine we find a fearless article by nation of opportunists. That man the Hon. J. W. Longley upon' g(,ts to the front easiest and best "Moral Heroism." To read such NVilo conceals his opinion on all an article in a Toronto publication dangerous topics, anel confine< his is like butting into an old friend observations em public life to the k in a foreign country. Longley says: tame and judicious platitimVsof the! l cherished beliefs and sacred dogmas. The scientific men of Canada have never yet, so far as I am aware, challenged the thunders of the pulpit by a straight blow at auy orthodox error.'' Too Hiqh a Prtee. A farm laborer who was getting married foil ml that he had not enough money with which to pay the minister's fe*es. He promised, however, to pay him in potatoes when then' were ready for digging up. The minister waited for some time, but no potatoe*s were forth- coining; so he* called upon the* man ami inquired the reason. ������Well, to tell you the truth. Gnvner," was the reply, "Id like to give* you the potatoes, but she ain't worth it. -Harpers Weekly. Needless. 'The* Good Fairy called ber assis- of taut and Bhowed her a golden box. "Take this Itox," she said, "and lock it careful!V in the safe. It 1 the* assistant, "why should we lock up good aelvice? No one will ever take it.' ��� Puck. <S*? Why do the newspapers of this province* persist in calling tin* well- known firm of Fobs & McDonel, ,-oss & McDonalel? "The ordinary man will say, moment, surely Canada is a moral country, This moral attenuation is not as moral at all events as any other confined to the political field in country on the globe; and as for re- Canada. It permeates all import- ligion, are we not a religions people? ant functions and all callings. It Does not a church stand in every is found conspicuous in the pulpit, hamlet: aud are not churches mul- Each Sunday morning's essay isj tiplied in every village, town and adjusted to suit the tastes of the city in this wide Dominion? Cer- regnant element in the pews���and tainly, all these things are true, anel thoughts of self-advancement are yet I am going to venture, at the rarely absent from the minds of risk of unpopularity to suggest, those* who are preaching the gospel that the moral fibre of Canada is of-elf-forgetful ness. Professors in not up to the ideal standard aud universities rarely endanger their that the religion of the Canadian professional positions by expositions people, in common with the religion which run directly opposite* to the* of the rest of the English-spe*aking prevalent views aud interests of the world, is to a very large e*xtent the governing body. In Great Britain, outgrowth of a perfunctory system, in France, in Geruriiiy, prof��*ssors which, while it utters the formulas, of science have gone* beyond tin* is in a large measure destitute of process of fumbling stones and dis- the vital principles of a religion covering new forms of fauna and which recognizes God, eternity and fossil; the*y bave applied the fresh immortality as the great supreme light obtained by scientific investi-> consideration of human beings. gation to the great problems which; Let us deal for a little with mor- relate to human life anel destiny,' als. The usual definition of moral- even though it tenels to strike down When Dave Carlev got a look at Bordeau he went home and lock- eel up his safe. T. G. PROCTER KELSON, & C R��af Estate and ^irn^ns Zy0^r Has good mining properties te�� bond or sell. Also choice* fruit lamls. improved and unimproved, on Kootenay Lake*. Nelson Real Estate a Specialty. T. G. PROCTER. NELSON LOWERY'S CLAIM The Claim Office. The ofiice of Lowery's Claim is in a pleasant locality, one where the sun shines, the birds siug, and the cows do not break in and steal. It is within a few yards of a bank, church, saloon, ceiffee mill, coffin emporium, and the office of a dynamite factory. It is bounded on the east by a potato patch, on the west by a sidewalk, on the north by a brass band college, while to the south the Board of Trade building silently stands guard, like a strand- eel ship in still water. There is hop before the door but none inside, and the hay em the lawu has just recently departed this life through the medium of a dull sie*kle in the hanels of a tall chunk of the Yellow Peril- There is DO water barrel or bulldog around the* premises, ami peaee- ful citizens can come in with ads aud flowers for the editor without taking any chances of being drowned or masticated by a clog. Warlike fire-eaters who call at the eifiice for the expre*ss purpose of making the editor change his mind must leave their guns, tomahawks and bottles at the saloon on the corner. 1 am now living iu a plastered palace, ancl will take no chances of having the wall anel furniture leaeled by any Yahoo in search of a panacea for ennui at my expense. I do not mind my Columns being occasionally leade*d, but that is the limit. 1 cannot afford to give the landlord any exetuse for raising the rent by allowing parsons or anyone else to come in and shoot up the place. In addition to this I have a big gun on top of the safe, but its ability is reserved especially as a line of argument against collectors for the heathen, and mining experts who do not use the proper shade of yellow upon their h'ggings. Old friends of mine are welcome when they stampede to this paradise to tether their cayuses on tin* lawn, but t!u*y must stretch no bearskins on the rose bushes, nor fry any porcupine ste*aks upon my editorials. The bushes are full of tenderfeet, ami their feelings must not be sii tit tercel. No rough rider or mule skinner will be allowed to ride his broncho full tilt into my print shop, pitch his sombrero at the piano, nor poke cigar butts into the canary bird's cage. Hard rock miners are re quested not to drill any holes in our marble counter, but the gum- boot chaps from the sluice country can always leave their dust with the cashier. Visitors, while in the office are not permitted to deal stud poker, sine psalm*, say their prayers, drink out of a pocket magazine or spit tobacco juice on the Brussels. Nelson's leading excitement intends to paint the name of this great country around the world, ancl the editor expects the public to keep him well supplie*d with colors. Ads, subs and job work in abuntlance make the finest tints. Come in with your paint. Things Not Done. The tariff commission met in Nelson last week and failed to do anything with the following important matters: No tariff was put on Jonn Houston. No way was pointed out to operate the Slocan mines without money. No duty was put on mining experts. Nei expre*ss company was censur ed for its high rates. Ne> Tory was prohibited from leaving the country. No prize was put up for the baby show. No bounty was granted for editors. No prayers were said, or psalms sung at the meetings. No remedy was fou :d for the greed of the Manitoba fanner. Not a cent of duty was put on imported jugs or smelter smoke. No duty was put on Yankee par- sems or foreign missionaries. No scheme was provided whereby the consumer escapes the greed of the protected. Nothing was nun inured about the Liberals being free traders. The duty upon paper, type, presses antl printer's ink did not even raise a whisper. A seat in the New York Stock Exchange sold last week for $S4,- 000. I could have bought the same seat in 1882 for $35,000, anel by not doing so hnve lost another ��49,- 000. By-the-way, a seat seems to be a misnomer, for there is noplace to sit down in the Exchange. It contains just a bare floor, over which the "bulls" and "bears" prance and tear like cowboys at a Calgary round-np. A scout from Zion City has been talking to the people of Nelson lately in spite of the fact that one of the local parsons has been sejuirt- ing cold water over him. There are many good points in Dowie's creed, although many of the older churches do not like to see bim butting in after the preserves. Mulock makes strange laws. If a boxholdcr takes a letter out of the postoffice that does not belong to him he is liable to a fine of 8200, but no provision is made for punishing the clerk who puts a letter in the wrong box. Perhaps through the lowness of his salary he is immune. Kootenay should get millions every year from tourists, but for lack of advertising we only get a few thousands. Tt does not pay to keep your light under a barrel. Put it in Lowery's Claim, and the world will clap its hands with joy. Japan is behind Canada in one respe*ct. It suspends newspapers for bucking the government. J. BARBER, L. D.S.DD.S. DENTIST FERNI , B. O. The McDonald- Simpson Co. Limited-liability. Wholesale Commission Merchants & Manufacturers' Agents. REPRESENTING The Lutnsden Roller Mills The Wapella Roller Mills Lever Brothers "Sunlight Soap" Dalton Brothers ' Dish-towel" Soap The Vogel Packing Co. The Baltimore Lime M'fg Co. The Manitoba Canning Co. The W. & R. Jacob Co., Ltd., Biscuit * amil'acturers The Guelph Foundry Co , Ltd. The "Armur" Co., Ltd. The Movie Mill & Lumber Co. The Hygiene Kola Wine Co. Fruit and Produce of all kinds Correspondence Solicited. P. 0. Box 363. Calgary, Alta. m 8 LOWERY'S CLAIM Fuming. Frenzied Fernie The Nearest Place to Hades In Canada. ^ <s> <s> ^s> Fernie is a coal town high up in the Rockies of British Columbia, and about 200 miles east of Nelson. It is estimated that the coal in the mountains around it is worth 36 billions of dollars on a basis of 82 a ton. As a subsidy for building a four or five million dollar railroad miners in these towns stand so much in awe of the Great Cinch that for fear of losing their jobs they are afraid to openly buy in ���heir own names goods from stores in Fernie. Surely fear is a great conqueror. The Great Cinch seeks the con- the government gave this vast j trol of all municipal utilities in wealth away. As a steal from the i Fernie with a minimum cost to people it certainly backs everything! itself. It allowed the mud-brained against the granite that the world j City Council to pay thousands of has ever known. This vast wealth | dollars last winter for legal ex- is now being exploited by the Crow's j expenses in the telephone fight N*��st Pass Coal Company, one of j without shedding a tear. By ob- the most tricky, greedy and auto ��� tain ing control of the telephone cratic corporations that ever fast- j business it bas greatly weakene*d ened its hook into any common-; Fernie's prospects for obtaining long ity. With its subsidiary companies distance telephonic connection, and it seeks to make all the people! works the screws on new customers within its territory crawl ahing the j by charging $12.50 for installing a Brussels and kiss its pedal extrein-j telephone, as against lfi iu the ities. Miners, merchants, parsons, | high-priced city of Nelson. It** innkeepers, and even the beelrag- j light for control of the city water gled courtesau are alike expected I system this summer has driven to bow in submission to its lust for! many of the citizens to the apex of gain and power. It muzzles tbe insanity, anel when fire cremated press with patronage, and turns much of their property for lack of the City Council by bluffs ancl promises into a band of grovelling idiotic toadies, unfit to govern the destinies of a hog ranch, let alone the public affairs of a young western city. The present City Council of Fernie is the rankest failure that ever disgraced the municipal annals of Cauada, and if the ratepayers were less imbued with fear of the Coal Company they would a proper water supply and lin fighting system it is a wonder that the infuriated populace did not take the bluffing bully who acts as mayor ami rub his swelled head into the allies of tlieir burned buildings, together with some of the slavish minions whei act as aldermen and fight women with their jaws. But the people of Fernie seem, with a few exceptions, to be devoid of long ago have pushed their pseodo I that Bpirit which demands liberty legislative abortions into tbe obliv- or death. The Coal Company spits on them aud then rubs it in. It charges $2.50 a tap for water that ion of private mediation. The Qreat Cinch, as the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company and its j at times would make even an Arabian hobo gag to drink it. Last winter the Great ('inch turned on the water from the dam in the creek below C����al Creek, and furnished the meek and lowly citizens of Fernie with a fluid polluted with ammonia from horse stable*s. the pumpings from ceial tunnels the draining* of wash-houses, anel the choice effluvium of cesspools. Por such a damnable act the Great Cinch should have been arrested for an attempt to murder and rob its slaves at the same time, it merely advertised the fae*t with a few feelers might fitly be called, is a menace to the individuality and independence of all those whom dwell within the shadow of its patronage. Its Czaric methods breed slavery, toadyism, corruption and rebellion. Its greed has no limit, and aims to ���jevour everything reachable. Its gold-lined stomach never vomits, and its appetite requires no quassia chips. It sucks everything in like a hog making a night attack upon a swill barrel. It has given the Trites, Wood Company the exclusive right to keep stores in the colliery towns of Michel, Coal Creek dodgers recommending the boiling and Carlionado, and many of the* of the water, and the awe-stricken Fernieites swallowed the horrible beverage like a drunken Blackfoot guzzling red ink. In addition to supporting such a high-priced typhoid promoter the city of Fernie has lost over half a million elollars in lt> months for lack eif an efficient supply eif water fe��r fire fighting purposes, and still scores of people in that burg of calamity bend in worship to The Great Cinch as though it was GOD, and all else the mere dross of nothingness. This proves that some of the human rare are like clogs. The more you castigate them the more will they sink in the dust ancl lick the dust from your boots. I ran a newspaper for u months in Fernie, anel gained an experience that is valuable. It was like spending a few months in the 16th century. The effect of a one-company town is plainly seen upon the inhabitants. Only a few of the in- habitants own their souls, the* Coal Company and the* church holding the* principal mortgages. Many of the people are deeply religious and will kiss a priest's banc} on the street. Fear, ignorance, supers! i- tiein, envy, jealousy, greed, and hat reel are foti ml in abundance. Snobbery is rampant, ami even in what is ealh-d the upper ten the odor of the iodide potassium is rather strong. The liest society is largely flavored with codfish, although, like violets in Gehenna or auge-ls in Sodom, a few noble men ami women live in brave resignation amid such a desert of gross materialism. Before I reached the Canadian hades the knockers were out with their hammers sounding the alarm. Gordon, who was dealing the Presbyterian game in the city at that time, devoted a Her mon to me in which he stated that my coming was a great evil to Fernie. Great Scott! I held just the reverse opinion. It was rather unkind of Gordon to hammer a man he* did not know, but then, a parson brought up on infant damnation is liable to be severe anel sincere* at the same* time*. As the* founele*r e>f Gtrdon's church burned a rival at the stake for holeling a different opinion I do mil, feel sore because he merely burned my name in worels enienating from a liver made rotten by wrong living. I have never been wicked enough to believe in infant damnation, ancl consider that the Power great enough to guide this planet is not fiendish LOWERY'S CLAIM 9 enough to eternally roast innocent children in the tlames of hell simply because some creed ceremony was not peforrned over them ere the spark of earthly life had fled forever. All parsons, even Presbyterians, are not alike. While 1 lived in New Deuver, Mr. MeColl presided over the Presbyterian flock in the beautiful Lucerne of North America. Mac always had a cheery word for everybody, anel I often wondered how he became a Presbyterian. He was the first man to come to my office with a bag of nickels for the sufferers by the great explosion in Fernie years ago, and it was then that I saw that his soul was white. I never was in his church, yet when he was leaving New Denver he came ami bade me good-bye, saying that although we differed in some view points we were both working for the benefit of humanity. Sine*e then I have thought that when I get past St. Peter I will be sure of shaking hands with at least one* Presbyterian iu the plaza before the great white throne. In spiu* of Gordon's torrid prediction altoul the evil 1 would Ih* to Fernie such eliel imt prove* tei be the* case. It is true that I set the bulldog upon the City Council and bought Tom Whelan three gin fizzes, but no sane individual w mid condemn ine for these strenuous deeds. It is also true that I never entered a church, looked at a deuce in the hole or chased a high ball in the dry moments of tlie morning, Such a record was never before made iu a western mining town, During my exile in Fernie I was often amused at tho antics of Freddy Stork. lie is mayor of the city, and Ir* a well-defined ledgo of pork run*. : through his ego. In appearance Freddy looks something like a chunk of lard pressed into the appearance of a man. His fnc*e is rather pleasing, although it resembles an overgrown pancake*, while the sag in his ears indicate the spirit that fights so bravely when protected by petticoats. His walk .eminels one forcibly of a Bowery tough at a picnic, while his mental actions closely resemble those of a Sy pha x. Freddy- was extremely rude to mo at times, anel would not allow any troupe to play in what he called his opera house if they advertised in my paper. Like all slaves it hurt his feelings to have a free man in thc* | camp, and in true jasax fashion he hoisted the flag of the fool���the boycott. Freddy is fond of soldier clothes, and cannot refrain from occasionally wearing them on the Sawbath. The miners around Fernie are under the impression that the local militia is kept alive feir the purpose of cowing them in the case of a strike, and their aversion to the organization is so strong that it injures the trade of every business man in Fernie. My friend Freddy no doubt dreams of the day when ho can boldly charge upon a bunch of unarmed miners and have his name stuck in th* tin hero annals. Unless he owns an extra pair of pantaloons I would advise Iii in never to lead a charge against anything that is loaded. I have no animosity against Freddy. Prof. Ilaeckcl tells us that the highest civilization is only 22 stages from the monad, and if Freddy is several laps belli nel he must not be blamed any more than we blame a monkey for stealing peanut*. After Fernie's blundering inayor has been reincarnated a few times he will become a splendid fellow ancl see all men through a different pair of eyes. At present his vision is dimmed by the barbaric mud and muck that clings to hu upper stope like a swarm of flies to a spill of molasses. W. 0. Robins, better known as ''Fatty," is another relic of the paleozoic age that we met in Fernie. Fatty is a squabby looking individual made up something like a bologna sausage filled with wind in the middle. He is evidently a lineal descendant of Judas and Ananias. Fatty is oue of the smoothest liws that ever sold junk to a tenderfoot or took the name of noble women iu vain. He is a despicable coward, one of those slimy human reptiles that crawl in the grass and strike you in the back. He went from steire to store in Fernie boycotting me and imploring the merchants to withdraw their patronage from my paper. The poor fool! The harpoon of just criticism must have sunk deep into his lying soul. Steve Wallace is another one of the aldermen whose mind cau not rise above the fleshpots Steve has a handsome poker face, and knows tho value of every hand from a kilter to a royal flush. His knowledge of finesse should make him a great alderman, but this advantage- is overshadowed by his extreme selfishness, It is Steve first, with the city or the world a poorsecoud. This ia enough about Fernie for one issue, and leaves plenty ot material for future pen pictures of the other mislegislatorsand local celebrities. The Boy's Predicament Oue of our readers, whose veracity is above question, tells the following: The terrible news comes from the western part of the Cherokee nation that a boy climbed a cornstalk to see how the corn was getting along, and now the stalk is growing up faster than the boy can climb down. The boy is clear out of sight. Three men have undei- taken to cut the stalk down and save the boy from starvation, but it grows so fast that they can't hack twice in the same place. The boy is living on nothing but raw corn, and already has thrown deiwn four bushels of cobs.���Checotah (I. T.) Times. Plunkett's Toast. Col. Dick Plunkett, the brawny western plainsman anel ex-United States marshal, now living in this city, is called upon at every assemblage for a toast,, roast or epigram, in whieh he wittily abounds. At the Hotel Breslin recently in response to repeated calls, Colemel Dick arose and lifting his glass said: "Here's to the happiest hours of my life. Spent in the arms of another inau's wife��� My mother, God rest her." The Fernie Ledger FERNIE, B. C. Is the best newspaper in the Crow's Pass coal region, dollars per annum. Nest Pass coal region. Two D. V. MOTT, Editor. 10 LOWERY'S CLAIM Tbe Capture of Sunday By me Lor<l\s ixiv /Alliance. The Lord's Day Alliance is an organization composed of men who believe, sincerely or otherwise, that Sunday is not a day for lalior or pleasure. Thoroughly imbued with that idea they are doing all in their power to enact legislation for the purpose of closi.ig everything on Sunday except the churches, and the works of nature. To their credit it must be said that, much as they revere Sunday, they are making no attempt to have the sun quit- shining on that day, the crops stop growing, the birds cease singing or the ocean let upon its rolling. They claim that God instituted Sunday as a day of rest, but such is not the case. Man has made it to suit his own convenience, for every day is Sunday in some part ofthe world. Just a matter of law and custom in each country, and Constantino, a pagan ruler of Rome, passed the first legislation prohibiting the doing of certain things on that particular day. This was in the year 325 A. D., and since that time cranks of many kind? have had a whack at the business through a variety of motives and pretexts. The ple��a set forth by the drummers of the movement iu Canada is that the legislation sought is for the good of the toiler by assuring him one day's rest in seven. I understand that Moore and Shearer, the principal boosters and traveling agitators for the movement, get from $2,000 to $3,000 a year for their services, and in their eagerness to earn this big bunch cf money they often work upon the very day that they claim nemo others should labor. This is what the rude call gall. Liberty and freedom are two of the greatest blessings that man can posses-, and in order to obtain th cm a heap of fighting against church and kings has been done in the past. It is better that we all elie from booze than have one man quit by compulsion, and so it is better that we ull die* from over- work rathe*r than have even one little boy thrown into prison for selling a newspaper on Sunday. Freedom has had to swim many a river of blond to reach the shores of liberty, and I hate to see the lasso <S> <��> <s* <S* <S> <��* of slavery thrown at it by any lianel of |iaid agitators. Legislation against the (low of natural forces is a curse to any country, and must end in failure. The lash may cow tiie brute, but it cannot whip a free soul into subjection. Few are opposed to the cessation of labor on Sunday, but the many dislike any compulsion in the matter. The majority like to pass the day according to their own tastes, and not according to the dictation of any class of day worshipers. The Lord's Day Alliance is a good deal like a cow that fills a pail with milk, and then kicks it over. Given its own sweet way and the "blue laws" would soon be reincarnated, double their original size. Give tyrants plenty of rope antl the end is death to themselves or the people. Both cannot exist ve \ long in the same air. In Canada the L I). A. claims that its light is win diy on account of love for the* toile*r, but such is not the truth. It is simply a scheme* of dying orthodoxy to shut out all opposition upon one day in oreler to give the parsons an easier anel better chance to blow the hot air of fear and superstition through every community. Their aim is plain as day to all unbiased thinkers. Regular habits and moderation in all things will make every toiler a happy ancl prosperous man. The lack or excess of work are alike injurious. Work should be but exercise executeel with enthusiasm. Too much of it seiou makes us a Dead Thing, even with Sunday off. It is like drinking aged rye. One big drink will rush you into heaven, but twenty-live will lower you below thc ice box in hell. We should work every dav thatwee.it, and ma too much upon anv day. If the L. D. A. will use its time* ami money by splitting up Sunday and spreading it out lhe other six days the world of labor will sing with joy. It is better to have; se*ven, merry, joyful days than six groaning with wage slavery, and the* seventh tied to a church door like crepe to the house where someone i.s dead. This is a red lemonade? we*ek for the people* of Nelson. The annual Fair is rousing exclamations of joy and admiration, while Lowery'b Claim has just fluttered down from among the angels, like a white flower from heaven, loaded with honey for the good, ami thorns for the wicked. In America eight hours has been hung on the* hook, and the* printers are making a rush to reach it. The law of compensation makes all things equal, so the liosses are already marking up the price of job printing. At the Labor Day celebration in Craubrook the Miners' Union eif Movie refused to March in the procession with the militia from Fernie*. They must have got a glimpse of Freddy Stork in his soldier 9/ clothes. Another reason why tourists should come* to British Columbia. We have yellow metal, ami many yellow people*, but no yellow fever. Foci cannot e.vst in the gleirious climate of British Columbia. LowKuv's Claim is capable of advertising Nelson, Kootenay and British Columbia more than anything else within the confines of this great and glorious province. Butt in with something. Big Bill has returned to Nelson safe and round, but Big dim is still [at Spence's Bridge. Bill is thoroughly westerii and this journal nominates him for Dominion minister of mines. Last week Nelson was full of Grit editors and politicians, but nothing was stolen in this city except a few hours eif sleep. The citizens of Nelson are great newspaper readers. It is easier for a Jap to go through St. Petersburg than it is for a delinquent subscriber to enter heaven. The juggernaut of machine* poli- tics had no fender when it struck A. C. Gaieh-. <S> The* man who intends to ray generally drives a close bargain. A dead beat won hi pay as quickly by any other name. LOWERY'S CLAIM 11 Gamblers in Pettieoats However much good people may- deplore the gambling craze* Vhat exists among many women in Spokane, Vancouver, 'Frisco aud Other towns and cities in the west, it can be urged in their favor that they do not go the pace at such a rate1 as was the custom among feminine* card shufflers of the upper ten in Kngland a century or two ngo. In London, a century ago or less, many ladies moving in the highest circle's of society were* frequently fined for running games in their own bouses. They were a gay set of girls in those days, and often when morning broke the floor of their drawing rooms would be lit- tered with cards, a la Reco street during the boom days of Sandon. Nearly all the top notchers in the* social world ran her own faro bank, and it was often a strenuous affair to stay in the social swim, and keep cases on your bank account The* pink teas of modern days are not in it. Thousand- of pounds were lost or won in a night, and even the prince and princesses often coppered the king and played the ace* open. During the days of George the Second ladies of the highest rank opened gambling houses and ran everything wide open in defiance of the law, until the House of Lords stepped in and turned the Imix over. Then the high rollers put their chips back in tin* rack, anel Bought other mad ways of wasting time aud money. Tit-Bits says: "A typical story of tbe* time which illustrates the hold gambling had on some women is that of the 1 uiy, eif whom Goldsmith tells us, who insisted on playing a game of cribbage with the clergyman who had come to soothe* her dying hours. She won every penny her spiritual adviser bad with him, anel was dealing for a final game, in which the parson's stake was her own funeral expenses, when she expired. And whatever age and almost whatever country we choose we lind the same* tale eif female gambling. Thus a diarist in Charles IPs reign writes: *T was told tonight that my Lady Castleinaine is sei great a gamester as to have won ��15,000 in one night and hist ��25,- 000 in another night at play, and has played ��1000 and ��1500 at a cast." Cardinal Mazarin's niece, ; we learn, won at basset of Nell Gwyn 1400 guineas in one night, and of the* duchess of Portsmouth above ��8000, "in doing which she exerted her utmost cunning, and , had the greatest satisfaction, lie- | cause they were her rivals in the I royal favor." Anne Boleyn was an inveterate ew' * gambler, as the privy purse expenses of her royal husband abundantly te*stify; anel indeed Catherine* a* **-*, T of Aragon was the only one of Henry's half dozen wives who had * not a passion for the card table. > "Your noble wife." Erasmus once said to Henry, "spends that time in reading the* sacred volume which either princesses occupy in cards and dice." Queen Mary carried her infatuation for cards to tbe extent of wagering her personal attire on them: Mary II was so wedded to the pastime that she would play continuously from Saturday to Monday: while her sister. Queen Anne, in spite of her persistent, ill- luck, frequently sat up the whole of the night playing basset for heavy money." The Title Burden. Those* who wear crowns or sit in high plae-es have much that is tiresome to contend with in the administration of public affairs. For instance, the governor general of Canada has to listen to the follow ing flow of titles when an address is read to his excellency: "To His Excellency, the Right Honorable Sir Albeit Henry George, Karl Grey, Viscount How- ich, Baron Grey, Howick in tbe County of Northumberland, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, Grand Cross of the most distinguished Order t>f Saint Michael and St. George, etc., etc. To be compelled to listen to the above every little while would drive almost any man into a frenzy, unless he is inured to hardship, and I often wonder how IIis Excellency stands the strain. Surely he must prefer to be addressed in as fe*w words as possible, and not have his entire pedigree read out every time some little group of his beloved subjects get him on a platform and hand out tho orntorua1 honey. In changing the passenger into a niixel train, between Nelson and Northport, the officials of the S. F. & N. have* deeply wounded the dignity of this city. The wisdom >f such economy is doubted by those familiar with the advantages of the long haul. ��� In the past the C. P. R. has treated Lowery's Claim as contraband goods, and prohibited its news agents from selling it on the trains. Just when the semaphore will be turned no one knows. The tariff commission met in Nelson last week, and it is a safe bet that everyone who appealed to it had a selfish motive tugging at his heart. The peace between Japan and Russia has its dark side. It gives the Czar another chance to tighten the collars upon his millions of down-trodden people. (Willi Tin* greatest baby show ever held this far west will be on in Nelson this week, and the judges have not called out the militia. iinim A rare jewel is the man wbo never breaks his word or bond in business affairs, innni D. V. Mott is rapidly becoming the Horace Greeley of East Kootenay. mum Pork, tobacco and booze are barred out of Zion city. Tor Uiew$ <��f llri.---.li -Colombia SCKNKHY s��'��- Wadds Bros, Nelson, B. C Sharpe & Irvine niNINCi BROKERS. Real Rstate aiul Insurance Agents NELSON. B. C. The Hotel Slocan THREE FORKS, B. C. Is the leading hotel-of the city. Mountain trout and game dinners a specialty. Rooms reserved by telegraph. HUGH NIVEN, Proprietor. 12 LOWERY'S OLATM An Unlrlmmcd Genius One Pecft Bigger Thun Some Bushels. <s> ts> <s> <s> IVck McSwain has drifted into Golden with a new' suit of clothes, and hitched his genius to a Star. Peck is a humorist, not machine- made, but one from whom his own brand of humor gushes like juice from a gashed watermelon. Humor to lie genuine must spring from the soul spontaneously, like mushrooms in a meadow, and cannot be foi creel like a pump jerking lieer. It ebbs anel flows according to environment, inspiration,and the condition of the producer's internal anatomy and upper stope. IVck has all the marks of a poet and humorist. There are days when he* dare not eat lest coarse materialism bespatter mud upon the angelic thoughts that embryonic illy iie-stle in his gray matter. There are clays when he elan* not drink for fear that the energetic high ball will liit the* curtain ami display !����� fore his imaginative vision all the shifting scenes of a panoramic uianagerie. There are either days when IVck elan* not look upon water for fear that it inaketb him gag, and cry aloud for mercy. Peck is more generous than a -Carnegie-, for time and time again he has given away his entire* f����r tune to ke��ep some brother print from dying of thirst, or suffering from prolapsus of the stomach that po* essarl.V camps upou the* trail of an aching vacuum. In his fondness for dumb animals ho greatly resent bh*s George* Angela of the cu I Hired, beany and blno-socked city of Bemton, Yea is ago Peek was working on the Sandon Pay streak when the sheriff hit the camp witb a blue paper and Tuck the editor to j iii for having passed soim* remarks iu a gn*en paint shade am*nt tin* judiciary of thi** glorious province of fi-h, fruit, flowers aud flossy politic!'ins. At this crisis in the history of ^melon's famous "blue print" I assisted Peek to get out the* paper. '*,\\i\ keep the other sheriff from touching the lever th it. w;*s moving the silver eity al lhat time, and -.ion discovered that Peck was feeding all the stray cats, elogs and other hobo animal* that wanilere'd through the gulch. At certain intervals in thc day the print shop presented a strange and ani mala ted appearance. Under the rotary t\\<* or three attenuated kittens would be taking a condensed milk course out of the lye-pot, while in tin corner the parson's dog wre-thel with some of the goods that have* math* Pat Burns famous. Out on the lawn a bear cub won hi be chewing roller composition with a couple of mountain goats butting in, while a little dear from the hotel up the road ran to aud fro with a can of beer for a tourist who was slowly dying iti the back room from hydraemia. On the table a crow WOUld be* citing paste, while over in the* **li��*l|-Im>x'' a brood of chickens wore lilling upon "pi." Such sights I may never again see. j and amid it all IVck was happ\ until the parson's dog died from! appendicitis, and his Dutch land- lo>d presented him with a bill of| -Si 1 < 10(1 for extra grub. Peek paid1 lhe bill, and left thc city never to! return. A Small Boy's Diary. There is a certain nine-yeir-old kid iu this city who i^ keeping a! diary. rhe book was given him; la.-t Christ-mas by a relative, ami: bis fit her had forgotten all about1 it until In* accidentally found the ���* volume the other day. Curious tei see- what bis small sol) had written in it. he opened the book and found that the diary had been faithfully kept. Here arc a few of tho entiles: "I am 9 years old today. Looked in the glass, but whi>kai'S ain't sprout in' yet. ' 'Sisscela boy. Got lickt.'' '���Pop horrid ten cents for car fan-, thai makes$1.15 he owes me. Wonder if III ev**i get ie.' ''Jimmy stole my ball. I lickt him for it." "Ast Pop for some - f my Money and he giv ine a ni. kil. I want that dolor.'1 14 Wc fcloea got up n boehall club today. line pieher. If I had that doler 15 I could get a uniform." 'Pop got paid today and giv me my money." "Mamma horrid a doller. Dam these people anyway. A feloecant save notion'." "Ast Pop about banks. I want to put my money ware car fair ain't so skarsc." "Got lickt again." There was more of this, but "Pop" had read enough. As a result there was a conference, and now the arrangement is to pav 5 per cent a week interest and sett'e every payday. The kiel got his "uniform." ��� Philadelphia Telegraph. The Only Way. Mamma���Tommy, dear, you 9/ f e�� must n't be so naughty. When mamma tells you not to touch the inn, you should obey her. What W 9T7 9 .vould you do if your imnnma should be taken away from you? Tommy Die? Mam ma ---Yes, dear. Tommy���I'd eat that jam then, Vou bet! The Kootcn i\ . iu Sandon, is one of the most famous hotels iu the* silvery Slocan Its door has not been locked for ton years, ami in 9 all that time none of the nerve bracers have carried much water in their formation. Colonel Henry Watterson denies 9* the imputation that he grows mint back ot his printing olliee in Louisi villi*. The colonel liven 111 Ken- tuck v and swallows his whiskey ip its virgin purity. We all have our troubles. Lnly Min to cannot WW her furs in India, and tho editor of Kelson's leading excitement cannot buy coal this winter for 18,50 a ton. Billy Hearst Ims no intention of ������tirting a dally |apr hi Nelson. iit ho: gh he occ tsionally drop** �� line- or two to the fish around this earthly paradise. Tin* red eiirtains have been torn do vn iti Calgary, and the Byc- op.-ner is sore* at the moral reformers who imagine that lopping ,,ff biauches kills the root. It is no disgrace to saw wood, pile bricks or edit an newspaper. The disgrace comes when any work is not well done*. LOWERY'S CLAIM 13 They Do Not Mix. Bishop Potter's "Subway Tavern" in New York has gone out of business after running a year proving that mixing gin with .Ie*sus is not a social or ce��innie��rcial success, iu that great city. Potter opened tnis gospel boote mill with prayer hut even that was powe muni. of Buffering himself to be wrencbec, I must have* met John Daly or sat on out of manhood into slavehood, j thc tatty bower with Jim C whereafter he conforms no longer tei tin* high, true, free laws of I is soul, but moulds his being to his <S> false state and to tl ie coi inpell Ml will of abusers.��� M. I. Swift. rie'sstokeep Passing Away. i tin* theologic tavern from tottering '\\ away Iwek and.tumbling into tin- the* childhood of I One would think that the saloons in Vancouver could not make a living. The people of that great city are seldom i\\\. A despatch from Fernie states cemetery of exploded fuels and fan c-ie-s. New York is not vet civil- ized enough, e��r else too much so to sip cocktails while the bartender sin^s, "Jesus Pays It AIL' Tin opening of this experimental wet ���_;iore-.\ must have been a chic affair Just imagine a fat bishop down em hi- knee-* in the full blaze of the h-rkee-p's diamonds besceeching his God to Step in for a few minutes Mini take tlte broken hearts out of the rum l*ottlc*s. It was slightly infra elig although some egotistical bishop* probably imagine that God will do anything thev say. Just imagine a few ��� | r* hours later a band of night hawk.- clinking ^hisses to the tune ol ' Neaur My Qod To Thee' while, pcrhajiH at the back door Bom* ragged waif is sadly smn^. "De*ai Daddy, Come Home With Me Now.' Oh ! No. von cannot mix pn with Jesus *��ven if Christ d il change* water into wine during tin early davs, and it is net likel) lhat many mme saloons in Aino.ic will lie opened with prayer, nl- though at stated intervals tin churches will still i se- a little red wine. Just Like Fernieit.es. ie ag��* of miracles belongs to that peace with Japan ha< not yet tuuianity. just a* lowered tie* price of coke iu tliat the stories of fairies, Santa Clans part of Russia, and of a Cinderella belong to thei *S* childho.'d ol the individual. The A revolution could easily be ageiu which it is possible for men started in England. Just take the to believe in miracles is lifting its marmalade firm the breakfast lingering shadows from all chili/ ���<' lable. lands, and will soon be ancient ^3> history to all men. The age of Lord Minto should do well in priests and kings is the age of brute India. lie has had -ne steamboat force and ignorauoo; an age in led aftei hitn in British Coluin- world history in which the pride bia. and selfishness of the few make *S* I chattels and devotc��es ��*f the rest of In thos cay-of veneered society mankind. B. E. Austiu. i- it ehivalric fir a poker player to ^ r.i se his hand :i mist a woman? Beinq Rapidly *��* c i- e-orc In England, not inar-y years ago, txtirpatea. .( vva8 (.()-i8'lm.mi i,:l,i mrui to c;.t Johnny: Pa, what is hell? I ground oats for breakfast. I'.i: The vi���rmiioi tn appendix of _ ihiolnm Many doctors remove il , .... Wl ' *-������ ��� The fact see*ms to be still appai- entircly, _^ on( |ha| A(|an| al|(, Kvr (li(| llo1 ..(_ tend chuich regularly. Quite Orthodox. ^ Chailes: Your uncle is a very An overindulgence in Scotch and religious mnu, I understand. soda has often brought coinpany to 1!,,)1N: t) yes. indiiMl! HcpevM. |nany a lotielv 8c>ul. livih hates everyliodv wl o helm gs ^ \,} ;,u\ otlu r church than his own. * r ;,, The Slocan will zinc or swim Ilo.atoii 1 nil sci ipt. after the goveii.nie'nt experts get ' . . ... tarough it. ���\1 irri:tg��*." ^;nd Smith, "is like .^ apairof sh ars, sojoi ed thatthey ^ ^^ ^^ mnny parfJ0UR poor tbem. A slave's one duty is to win free- cannot be separated, niovi g in np- ^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^m U) ft dom at any cost. And this fury to! posite directions, yet I>��'��'8 J^g ish> ��h^ free is the highest and first qual- everything tint comes between ^ ity both for animals and man. Por there is absolutely no other soil iu which true virtues can grow. The virtues that bud iu any formed servitude arc spurious. Nor is chance and fortunate freedom that priceless soil of virtue; it is the Will and furious courage to preserve freedom at any cost and in face of all invasions whieh is its BU re and only soil. Every virtue , i, ?!.�� near- m grown in servility contains thein- them ask mc tne \ . y ji perfume THE OZONE by gredienta of servility. A servile est f���*^���* Z parsou I smoking A thing is not a man, but only tho ! m false mimicry of one He ean do nothing anel be nothing as a real man would. He has committed the irretrievable character of fault ,.������,���������;, ���er ,-The Hotel Dallas Teddy llooscvelt has never tackled LETHBRIDGE, Alberta. the tiger in Sandon, 01' took a shot ^ ^ ^^ ^ commercial tourists in that t t\?a white eleuliantS around ,.uv The appointment* of thia bote]. nr at the wane e. t equalled by tew m the great w��8t. Itia Three Forks. lllCSe JOJ'S at t yi heated by.steam, }he dminK s^rvloej to come. ar�� <S* is exo llont and every ru-st received couvU-otis treat ment. with of I U.J.ECK8T0RM & CO,, PBOPRIBTORS. l��� :;o years experience printers 1 have never had one ol |mXXxXXxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXI| lived. ^ ma p \ O'Farrell would like to kehis home in Movie. He r Mainland Cigar | SxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXMSE 14 LOWERY'S CLAIM Light From Wisconsin Bv Dudlev .s. Crahdoll. <s> <s> <s> <��> <s> <s> <s> T well remember the time when to j penditure of money. And yet thev be so much as suspected of infidel- \ keep right on taking the* coppers ity was to be regarded as outside I from little children and robbing the pale of decent society, while j their toy savings banks under the today to be an "infidel" is really (pretext that they are engage j in an* honorable distinction, ami there are many like myself who come right out into the open and de*- nounce the whole priestly business trying to make the "heathen Chinee*' as good, virtuous ancl pious as themselves. It would be highly interesting to know just as a scurvy fraud for which those what those alleged heat hem think engaged in it should be sent to the! of these* alleged christians when rock-pile just like any other gold- they compare* their professions with brick swindlers. One of these days [tlieir practice. Recently John A. all of us will regard this matter' (lowland, iu the Chicago Tribune, just as I do, for men are doing a] declared that the entire business great deal of thinking for the*m- world of that city is honey-combed selves now-a-days. As for those'with lies; that you can not believe who continue to make a pretense I a word of anything said by a man of affiliating with the church, many j where his own interests are con- of them do 80 merely ihrough the cerned. Thirty years ago, while I force of habit ancl because they im- < wa** in Chicago, I one day remark - agine that in order to be "religious'' ed to a brother who was running a they must at least profess to be- job printing oflice there that "a lieve something, although that man cau not do business in this city something is monstrously incred- j unless he is a liar," ami my brother ible*. Once in a while a minister ; admitted that it was true. Audit forgets himself and tells the truth : is the same in every city anel town about church-goers. Not long ago lin this broad land. Lying and the Kev. Dr. J. if. Buckley said: j fraud permeate the entire commer- "Persona come to church, somejcial world. There is hardly an because it is the house* of < .od: j article on the market that is not others because* they were hre night j ad u Iterated, even to the drugs and up to do so. Some think it respee-1 medicines. A dispatch in the table to be there, and not respectable Milwaukee Journal from Madison not to be tin re. In every audience. ! says that "Laabs Brothers of Wan- in my opinion, at least 10 per cent : p ica were fined ��f>0 for sidling two of tin* men are skeptic*. * * * brands of lemon extracts containing Talk about converts. Yon ought I wood alcohol. Commissioner Erato call them'inanifestors.' They ery is trying to reach the whole- give a show of hands, or they signfsalers who supply dealers with cards. Then they go out and for- these goods." A few weeks ago get all about it." two men in the western part eif this It was this same Dr. Buckley state died from drinking some of who remarked: **If Quo Vadis ha*' this same lemon extract, and either not the pretense of religion it would deaths have resulted from the same be seized by/ Anthony Comstock. '; cause in this region. In the city Millions of dollars have been | of New Veirk meire than three spent in sending missionaries to (hundred deaths have taken place China, yet it is admitted by clergy- j during the past year from drinking men themselves that after all their expense and trouble that they havc not yet secured even one true convert to Christianity in the yellow- empire. They have made some "rice christians"���that is, converts who are kept in line with daily rations of rice, but who backslide as soon as tlieir food supply is j damages being laid at $200,000, by stopped; but this is the most they persons who had been made blind have accomplisheel after all these by using a ginger extract prepared years of labor and their vast ex- with wood alcohol. There is uo whiskey adulterated with wood al cohol, while others have been made stone blind by the same stuff, it being one of the peculiarities e��f this alcohol to cause blindness where it does not kill outright. A few years ago one of the big wholesale el.aig tax on this infernal stuff, which sells at 50 cents a gallon, and so there are soulless scoundrels all over the land who are quite willing to increase their profits by its us:*, the little matter of causing death or blindness being not worth taking into consideration. And yet it is quite safe to assert that some, if not all of these dealers, are church members in good standing���including Sunday School teachers, and that they contribute toward the maintenance of missionaries in China anel other "heathen" lands. Oh, dear! what a nice gang of pharise*es and hypocrites we are, to be sure! Anel how proud Cod must be to have such laborers working in his vineyard 1 Recently a neighbor gave me a copy of the Liberal Review, published in Chicago. There are some good things in it, one of these lading "The Papacy," by Judge Parish B. Ladd, in beginning which he says: ��� "The Catholic church, in bold defiance of the* facts, rests its claim on a continuous line of popes, from Peter down to the present time. Peter is placed at the head of Pope- elom, as the one having received his credentials direct from ( hrist. This claim finds Peter a contemporary eif the alleged founder of Christianity. When we* come tothe evidence, the very existence of Peter is thrown in doubt. Nothing better than oral tradition, and tliat from Catholic sources alone, is all we have as to the existence of such a man; even that tradition contradicts itself as tothe man's nativity. his labors, or when or where* his death. By the application of the most liberal rules of evidence we fail tei find that such a man ever existed. The epistles ascribed to him have*, by the Higher Criticism, been found to be spurious. Tbey belong to the long line of Catholic forgeries. This myth was not made by the church until the time* of Innocent I, (402-417,) who was in fact the first pope. The church, in founding this line or destiny, created Peter out of nothing and threw bis time back more than four hundred years. This was clone to give^ age anel credibility to the popish claims of apostolic heredity. This system of creating myths and throwing time back for centuries has ever been the common practice of the Catholic church. Like all else from Rome, Peter's early his- LOWERY'S CLAIM 15 . - is obscure���resting on vague j runs his store. The past and pres- 1 tradition. The whole systemj ent system of government in Can- ��ftt.oui-b chrisiiaiiity was of slow| ada makes governments dishonest, �� wth -most of maele to fit the* aud creates a pap thirst in the peo- ^,ON Io fact the forgeries of the pie that is never satisfied. At !Vatholic church mark its pathway ; present the Gritfl have got the ii iioiiir the line of Its history, barrel upended, and are usiugeven ( .�� its birth to the present time, straws to get the last drop out of V LV-arlv history Paganism OD- it, while around can be seen lean ..mlThe life of the church and \ lories sighing while the water Iv lotted out what little bis- �����,/,*s through their lips. After a ro&TK*. tor not a single wWto the barrel will be empty, and \ ��f writiiu! of tlie first cen- then the myopic voters will fill it' :;;;; , J��5? <*****��** it, i Bp and give the Tories a chance to i:;;^,:.;:1;:; ibe'cburck n*; h^i history. ^:r^{iz tjown t4�� our time; all which purport* to flume from tbe first century i . a. I'lt.'i ii-ite< thrown back 1 |4co wm ���--���-��� a. !!;: ";::.;..":���;:;;' R1SN5 5 ii- > * i ...t f.,riM-ne��-. and cal biliousm so. the most Impudent rorgeru ������, .,... ^ ��� ox.n itlleired "tradttionh ll$$r/f$itX.-: ������''������ upon ����J*8 .I'^^^^^pt^.;./,.. I ,ike t08ui, looking at the morn- Air is one of the best and cheapest things on earth. Manitoba this ,year must be as good as wheat. The soul never ripens tint has not suffered. The wheels in sonic heads have missing cogs. Humor lo -ks foolish to those who no savey. Jealousy is the thorn in the llow- 1 " " - ��� .. , er of love. come rampant, and then party poll- �� tics will become- hut an ugly dream I pft^ people should not eat in the "'���������*��� i��fl..*��"efl was;(>Vi>ning> a few mon- years, wisdom will be- Mown througiraie ����^ ����v an 111 lc��scly ignorant, sup .-mums and Krtvage people, not one ill mam iittllimut of whom knew how (.tread or write, Wid who were ready te accept au\ sort of a statemen which promised tbem a longer es i.ie-nce than the) were given 01 ,.anll. Thev did not want to think Ihvy were like the nUt ul Witmil cro;tioii. Ihey wanted soinebod. u, tell tbem tlmt the) had 'iuimoi ial souls" which went to "heaven when the body perished ami bvee there forever, and tint the) wen going to loaf around aitti then hands in their pockets through ai eternity. And as there isalwaysi supply whenever there is a deuia.u it naturally followed thai the.. sprang up a sect nf confidence-llie who assured them that ihere was. paradise awaiting those who cam- to church regularly, bringing wtM Vou must-ive ireedom in order to have it. One speck of ore does not make a mine. Send your folks a copy or this i PaPer' 55= The smile is mightier than the in, BUn Freddy Stork and Steve Wallace, ol Femie. broke into society the other day b) standing on lUV sann- platform at Coleman frown. m *M1�� v loa! omoT nTl,.^ i Long life i'lnl exercise are brctb- HldiwtoBariOwyandhwum .|\ �� g ��� hi* official capacity our beloved, ers. _ '.ut -i��� ^enuH g;;^;1 mects strange company. ihoc^ ^.1, dipnoi say anything about Krecbly's soldier clothes, or what Kind of a caul Steve handed Hi Excellence* . Probably a king. THinti-il or tinted money goes ��J i,i' ,,!���,, The editor doe* no. ���.,,,,, in vwtine ""���'',",,,-,���,,: i, ihe mute ami ilen uu uwner upon tin mm , . ��� u .- i Int li tsSCS llliougn ,,^k ,|oliai mat y naiids. j^. deserve to A kind deed is prayer solidified. Learn to laugh. John Hutchison & Co. > HEAH QUARTERS FOR lOtenay Timber, and Coal Lauds. 82* M'RANttROOK.lU'- ,. ,. Ea8, Kootenay Timl-er. Farming tit the i l"lRl ' - .'- . r ...i . KXlires8 companies i ........ *.< romp" . . e io cnurcii nr^uiwi.ji ���*"-"��?-"���� , i ���. vUt|, the greatest rol) e them their little ��.nenU-���-*��� -���'��� ;" u *" theeupportofrteepri-wwwhowc*- th. ��!*,��*��� m | able to .-hulk their hat* for �� *-'." ���,������,������ is a thorough ex- Mat in front Ol ���*��� ���V"* *h* i1 "theartoOulvertUiug. tbrono," Bolden crown, andlwrp. pe.t.ntn. ^ nnd hymn-hoolw being nuppl'-*! h> ,(, ,,H.k. Few the tuhera without extra charge. Gcn;ua w "��' 8 , Grent to Humbug, nnd the priestjk -1* when thQ is bis prophet! STARKEy NJSL80S, B. C. WHOLESALE DI PRODUCE and PROV A.LERS IN ISIONS a3> Wes. Kootenay probably has the The Curse of Canada. I best climate in tto wor c. Party politics are s detriment to fche leveT tiult individual merit, and ���������������" <Vd^ fl8^iness world. the permanent prosperity of any ,noves tut country. All governments slioun .-^- be run on businOBt principles, jus I ^ 1()ge faith in humanity. the same as a successful merchant; S. J. M1GHT0N, CHAN BROOK, B. C. has the largest Stock of Pipes, To baccoes, Cigars and Smokers' Sundries in the interior of B. C. Mail Oidcis Receive Prompt Attention ' 'ft io A HERETICAL CREED. 9> Whoever was begotten by pure love, And came desired and welcomed into life, Is of immaculate conception. He Whose heart is full of tenderness aud truth, Who loves mankind more than he loves himself, And cannot find room in his heart for hate, May be another Christ. We all may lie The saviors ofthe world if we believe In the divinity which dwells in us And worship it, and nail our grosser selves, Our tempers, greeds ancl our unworthy- aims Upon the cross. Who giveth love to all, Pays kindness for uukindness, smiles for frowns, And lends new courage to each fainting heart, And strengthens hope and scatters joy abroad, He, too, is a Redeemer, Son of God. ���Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Beb's Sible. Everything that is true, every good thought, every beautiful thing, every self-denying action: all these make my Bible. Every bubble, every star, is a passage in my Bibles A constellation i.s a chapter. Every shining world is a part of it. Vou cannot interpolate it; you cannot change it. It is all the same forever. My Bible is all that speaks to man. Every violet, every blade of grass, every irce, every mountain crowned with snow, every star that shines, every throb eif love, every honest act, all that is good antl true combined make my bible*, ami upon that book I stand. --Ingertoll. ppenzied Housekeeping Lot's wife had just turned te salt. "She always would make hei own preserves," he explained. That, however, was an extreme example of the dangers of frenzied housekeeping.���Sun. Next month (P. P.) Lowery's Claim will have a cover, ami probably some other improvements. Those who wish to advertise should; remember that the space for that purpose is limited, ami that procrastination often makes a larceny of time. Boost or knock this journal. Either will suit its editor. <��> A 2\ horse power gasoline engine for sale. Apply at this office. LOWERY'S CtAhf Job never did any job printing, but we do. That's the difference between Job and Lowkuy's Claim. It is easy to preach abstinence to others when your tank is full of food and drink. If you wish to read this journal regularly send in your dollar without delay. <2Fevi;> brook Hotel.... CM-Tbi-ooIc, B. C�� Is convenient to all detpotB, telegraph offices and lianks in the city. Sjiecial attention j>aid to tourists, commercial and otherwise. The cuisine is excellent, and all guests receive courteous attention. Touch the wire when you want rooms reserved. E. W. WIDDOWSON ASSAYER unci Cf I KM 1ST (Lite asMty. r Nelson smelter ) Gold, Silver or Le ail, each ��] iki Copper *1.5<i tiold-Hilvcr |] 5<�� Charge-* for other metals on application. BAKER ST., NELSON P. 0, Drawer lira Tel, phone A��;7 ��� I " '" """���*���"���'' ��� I ���-������-��� ���' *|-I*ll JI -TII I--*!** I* llllll ��� Ill J Mil i , ��� i ltm Blue Prise, Henry Vane, Columbutt and Havana Ark Cigars are Union cigar*, made hy W. P. Kilhonrne ct Go , Winnipeg, and sol.I on the road hy Oeorge Horton. HOTELS OUT WEST The Kaslo Hotel }: ,KAAli fYia TCilKciv.f '" Sandon, 11. 0 . in a plei Hie X HUtJI l ���*-*,������ hOI)U, for H|j travel", i loai ���,n... .... nn i ll\\ til' r��. BKNNKTT & BHDDEB. fioflflarrb g Rollins, Proprietors McLeOu Hotel, onTy^W^la��* hotel in the eity. Sample room*. FINLAY Mc-LKOD. lUV Udrilt3UL in pfc|���on only white help employed. OEO. W. HARTLKTT Tremont House. 2*8; BA&S2S and Kuro|>ean plan. Nothing yellow ahout house except the gold in thei-afe MALONK & TKEGILI.L'S. Newmarket Hotel &&J^iS millionaire* visiting New Denver. H. V, HKNKY STEOK. T*e? Strath Hotel I.s situated on a slight eminence*, junt a block from the busy scenes on Baker Street, ancl is within easy touch of everything in the city. From ita balconies can be seen nearly al] the grand scenery that surrounds the beautiful city of Nelson. Few hotels in the great west eejual the Strathernia, and tourists from every land will find within its portals all the essentials that create pleasant memories within the mind of those who travel. B. TONKINS, Jianatger NELSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA.
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Title | Lowery's Claim |
Publisher | New Denver, B.C. : R.T. Lowery |
Date Issued | 1905-10-01 |
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New Denver (B.C.) New Denver |
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Language | English |
Identifier | Lowerys_Claim_1905-10 |
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Source | Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives. |
Date Available | 2015-11-26 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
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DOI | 10.14288/1.0082372 |
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