'A. /rr^ //^^^7 —— C^p VOL. 2. NEW MICHEL, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, OCT. % 1909, NO. 3 r~:. Toilet Lotions mI Gold Creams Superior preparation? for the care of chapped hands, all roughness and redness pf the skin, tan, sunburn etc. Non-rijreag^ and Readily Afc>$QrJ>ed Allays the effects of Pa\\ Winds KENNELS DRUG AND POOK STORE NEW MICHEL Imperial Bank of Cswada Head Office : TORbNTQ ; ' ! ' fapital Authorized qq.bob.OOQ ' Capital Paid Up $6,000,000. '*-* ' Reserve.Fund $6,000,000 SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT Interest allowed on Deposits from Date of Deposit Drafts, Money Orders and Letters of Credit Issued, available in ; Any part of tiie World ' -r^— '" ■■' Branches at Mlehal and Naw Michal. T, B. BAKER, Manager ^t tjie Pig: Store Special Showing ot Women's Misses and Children's Fall aqd Winter Mijlinery Exqhisive Novelties frpm Fashion's Centres, including Patteri) Ilats from Lprt'dpii;' NeV York and Parjtj. In Children's HeadtPear vfp ai*e showing a ivkiii range of Sil^'Embrpidefed, Corded1 Silk, Velvets'anil Bearskin jn whiteaiid colore". Drdp iri and see1 the new styles. < Latest Novelties in Women'g Knitted Coat Sweaters, all cqlojrs and newest styles. ■,J '! ■• ■'.•:' '7 , ■; . . ■;. ■jg.Wfo$4.00. Silk shawls, scarfs, facinators, squares, motor scarfs, silk- embroidered gauze ceiitres, d'oylies and cushion tops. We have just opened up a large asisortrnent in these silk novelties, and invite J°ur inspection of theBe special "Values. ' ' , '7 ' ': ■■'• , '. Misses and phildrpn's* pal) and Winter Coat?. Best values and lowek prices combined,' with latest styles and serviceable materials,' make these the best value in c'aats ever shown in Miphel.' . ~7$2.6"0 to $10.00 Women's skirts, coats and suits.in a wide range pf latest styles and fab ric8. ' :'i -'.•-/ *'■;'*"'' ■'■;■ . ".'' ' ' '. * "j ■''" '". 41 Meat marke| yj| AA High-class Butchers New Michel ,• All meat fre^h killed---Prime Beef, Pork, and Mutton Dairy Butter. Mild-cured Hams and Bacon™-Fish in Season The Store. Where They Send Whiat You Order 2 Deliveries Daily 2 HQTEL. KOOTENAY New (Michel, B. C. pouglas & Stedman .*?'•*! ; proprietors RATES $2,00 A DAY x Evqrything First-Class and Comfortable Nothing but white Jabqr ejnployed 'BUS MEETS ALI, TRAINS Th$ frite$*Wpocl Qo, Ltd. Michel WE SELL §TANF(ELDfS FAMOUS UNDERWEAR This brand in so well known, that it needs np recommend- atipn from US. , ' ■ , ' ," , 7' Lpt uf bo yom* Furnishers. Specialists iii Mens' Wear, Get tbe Habit. \Go to BOYD & fiHUIR, Gt. Northern Hotel pipek, New Michel Suits Cleaned andPressed. s " ' 1 "'" . ''..' I'.', ' '■ ' I , ■. THE SPECIAL EDITION The Reporter Will Issue An, Illus- tratep! Industrial Number As this town has been growing rapidly and her industrial development certain to attain an envied-place, the Reporter will, on (jctober 16, issue on fine, half tone paper, an exhaustive review of the two towns and their progress. While suitable illustrations will lighten up the pages of this number, special attention will be giveii to.the history of tbe town, its industries and natural resources. Everyone who is Interested in the promising future of the two towns shoujd join with thg Reporter in making this number a decided success. GRPAT NORTHERN HOTEL NEW MJPHEL jn?L EVERYTHING FIRST-CLASS' US Cuisine Unsurpassed, Bar Stocked With' this"Finest Attendance Unexcelled' , McCOOL & MOORE, Proprietors '«Elk Valley Beer,f »*> KING'S KANPY KITCHEN For a}l kinds pf Fruit, Candy, Cjgars, Nuts and Ice-Cream, NEW MICHEL, Reward Offered We Offer you a Saving of = 10 per cent. ===== ORDER (EARLY As we are only printing a limited number of the Special Editjohj we would advise all desirous of sending copies to their friends, \o Order at once. Sixteen pages for ten cents, i Station Required at Once The recent trip of C. P. R. pffipials through here and the palpable evidenpe of the need of better railway facilities ahd accommodation along the line, may probably result in much good accruing to the poople of New Michel. From the business outlook, that must have been apparent to the railway people, we cannot see how they can much longer delay giv> ing New Michel wbat she is justly entitled to in the way of station and surrounding advantages.- We Jook with a good deal of confidence to the outcome, aud when it does arrive, we feel assured it will be in no half hearted manner, .for when the president of the C. P. R. does things, he does them on a scale commensurate with the importance of his great transcontinental line. Pure and Pleasing. Manufactured from Canadian Malt, Bohemian HopB and the now Famous Crystal Spring Water, Elk Valley Brewing Co., Limited SLICK UP Get Your Hirsute. Appendage Clipped apd Your Whiskers Pushed in at the Great Northern Tonspr- ial Parlors—You're next, '■ P. M. MacLandere, Prop The Model Bakery NOW OPEN! Bread, Cakes, Pies, Buns, Etc. Fresh Every Day Driver will call for orders and deliver The Model Bakery New Michel On your Meat Bill, and the largest and choicest assortment of Fresh, Cooked, Smoked and Cured meats in the Pass Fivo speoial brands of Creamery and Dairy Butter WATCH OUR CARS COME AND GO P. Burns &, Co. Ltd. NEW MICHEL, B. C. Livery, Dray and Transfer Bus leaves 7.40 a, m., 1.40 p. ni.; and 6.40 p. m, Returns on arrival of trains OEO. FISHER, Proprietor LUMBER YARD wholesale and retail All Kinds of Lam her, Mouldings, etc—Psnoy Windows, Door.- tmd Verandah Potts in!,8tock and to Ordor. Fernie Lumber Co., Ltd. .-. New mi-he. NEW AGREEMENT SIGNED On Monday Oct. 4, the employees of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company at Michol, voted on the proposed Doctors agreement between Dr. T, A. Wilson and tbe employees as represented by Michel Local Union No. 2334, U. M. W. of A., and the doctor's agreement was ratified by a majority of 207 votes. The doctor's agreement gives ample medical and hospital attendance and tho reporting of all accidents to the Secretary of Michel Local Union so as to do away with the difficulty of collecting compensation for injured members from the Coal Company, both from Old and New Michel, and the niineworkers the right to build a hospital of their own. It's about time tho niineworkers of Michel owned a hospital of their own, and then they would not have to depend upon the good- will of a coal corporation for hospital accommodation and in the long run it would only mean their paying about half what they have to pay at the present time, the same as they have tout Coleman where the! niineworkers own their own hospital. Dr, T. A. Wilson is1 now making arrangements with Dr. H. S. McSorley to lake) over his hospital equipment and hospital so that he can got down to business. Chas. Gabneh, t-Vcretury Michel Uonl Union, .Michel, B. 0.' Patronize Home industry Smoke Crow's Nest Special and Miner's Favorite Cigars Mmiufactured by tho Crow's Nest Cigar Factory, Fernie. Tlic Hotels all through tho Pass handle these goods .•ind Union men should nsk for Union Label Goods. E. V. Holding Co., Builders and Contractors Repairs and alterations promptly attended to, Estimates cheerfully given New Michel Have you renewed your Subscription to The Reporter ? It's only $1.00 now. THE REPORTER, NEW MICHEL, BRITISH COLUMBIA. LOVE'SJNTUITION. A Girl Who Was Able to Read Beneath the Surface. By MARY WOOD. Above tli£ shrill wlilr of the crickets rose the hum nf feminine voices. Under the green apple boughs the hammock convention wns In full swing. Miss Maybrlck culled It a hornets' nest nnd preferred the doubtful coolness of the piazza. Hut, then, she was a college professor, too superior to appreciate the joys of the younger set. Jane Carew. however, sometimes agreed with her. This afternoon she litd her 'ace behind a hook, while girlish fancies carried her fnr above the swaying leaves up Into the perfect blue of the July sky. How lovely n»- tnre was this summer, how full life of new delights! Miss Moybrlck's name brought her back to earth ngnlu-MlsB Maybrlck, the one cloud In her sky. "Oh. yes, she approves of him," sancy Madge was saying. "She can put up witb his sunburned face, roughened hands nnd the general boorlshness of a farmer. Rut I suppose at her age any man is acceptable. To tell the truth. I have almost reached that condition myself In this man forsaken spot." And she shook her head Id mock despair. "Jane agrees with her," some one nilded a little maliciously. "She never seems to mind sharing bis attentions •with her." A book went dowu wltb a crash and angry spots of scarlet glowed ln Jane'a cheeks us she said defiantly: "John Staunton Is not a boor. He Is a gen- tloman. Just becnuse he scorns to talk the twaddle that men usually think good enough for us girls you vote htm a boor. He often makes mo ashamed of the little I know, and the books he lends me have opened up a new world, a world bigger nnd better tban all the flirting and shams and heartaches thnt go to make up society. No wonder he likes to talk to | Miss Maybrlck. She's worth the whole lot of us when It comes to knowing the things that are worth while!" The girl stopped short with 11 gasp as sbe realized the, horrified hush wblch bad fallen on the circle. "Oh, wbat hnve I said?" she cried and burled her face In ber cushions. But Madge's gay voice was tender as she stroked tbe brown head. "You've read us a lecture, Janie, denr," she Bald gently, "but 1 fancy we-needed it a bit It's horrid to talk about one of your friends the way we talk about Stauntou, nnd we ought to ask yonr pardon. As for Miss Maybrlck, she's a stuck up old tblng. aud you're ever no tnucb ulcer than she iu spite of all she knows. Just watt till Cousin Alex comes next week and see tbe. new world that he opens to you. He Is really literal*}' and writes things for otber people to rend." Jane's face wns still hidden. Sbe was battling to overcome ber tears and even harder' to drive out of ber heart the unreasonable jealousy of the older woman thnt somehow had crept Into It. Tbe time had been wben she ■would hnve scorned her as a rival, but love bad made her bumble. Youth and beauty seemed of smnll weight to cast Into the scales ngalnst years of scholastic training and study. Cousin Alex came. He was a slim, dapper young man, with an Important manner rather nt variance wltb hla size. But tie had a way of retailing old jokes thnt mnde them seem new and a stock of compliments suited to every age ami was therefore greatly In favor among the guests at the sleepy old farmhouse. As befitting his pretensions as a journalist be rattled on unceasingly about books and literature. He knew this man uud tbat book, and, above all. he was one whose name abould some day stand foremost In tbe world of letters. The date was not yet set, but he spoke of "bis novel" .mysteriously, even reverently, and bis feminine audience was accordingly Impressed. More or less unwillingly Jane wns complelleil to listen to many of these predictions, for "Cousin Alex" at once developed a fondness for her society. Perhaps certain glances that Staunton cast lu tils direction added zest to the chase. Perhaps It was tbe elusive fashion In which Ihe girl received bis advances. Certain It Is thnt a week's time hnd earned him the very fitting name of "Jane's shadow." Yet to Jane herself ench day seemed to bring more unhapplness. Staunton enme as often ns ever, but nt sight of I Alex by ber side he left the laughing group to chat with Miss Maybrlck In Intimate aloofness. And as tbe girl saw the door to the beautiful new world closing becnuse the band of him Who held It open was withdrawn the pain and wenrlnesR of her old frivolous life seemed nlmost pnst bearing. Her eyes were more wli ifnl than she knew oue evening ns she snw a tall, muscular figure swing up the walk with the easy, confident stride of the man who wns master of bis fate. Staunton's fnce softened as be met them. nnd. though Cousin Mei Ham- lilln was on hand, ns usual, he settleil himself on the top step with the ntr of a mnn who had come to stay. The brown eyes were downcast now, but a shy blush of pleasure stilt flushed ber checks. There wns always n visible air of constraint between the two men, but Hnmblln rose manfully to the occasion. Here wns n most longed for op- mortnnlty to prove to Miss Jane that IStnunton wns but n boor of a farmer, ■after all, and no match for a man ot Itbe world like himself. If the older man detected bis halt* veiled tone of patronage, he only imllcd quizzically. ItWIeed. his position noon/grew more untenable than tbat if his adversary. As the conversation ranged from books to men and hack to books again Jane saw, witb a thrill it pride, that Staunton more than beld ul8 own. Wbnt Is more, he held his temper, a precaution neglected by the itberi At last the talk fell upon one of tbe recent novels, a book of unusual strength and breadtb of view. Jane hnd rend It several times, for It had seemed tn point ber to the new life she longed to live. Staunton was silent, as though <n unspoken condemnation. Thereupon Hnmblln became nn enthusiastic defender nnd openly scoffed at his lack of appreciation. A shadow crossed the moonlit porch, but the three did uot see Miss Maybrlck till her voice broke in on the controversy. "You would not expect Mr. Staunton to criticise his own book, would you?" sbe said calmly. Then, ns her ear raught Jane's low exclamation of wonder, she added tn a tone of surprise: "Had you not guessed thnt he was an author, Miss Carew") 1 heard that you defended him very eloquently one afternoon In the orchard and said a good word for me too. Kor that 1 want to tbnnk you." ,. Staunton's fnce was turned toward the blushing girl, and In full moonlight Miss Maybrlck could read his secret .'.f It sounded the denthknell to some hope ln her Own heart, gratitude to her companion made her lead the bewildered Alex for a walk down the lane nnd a gradual restoration of bis self confidence. "And 1 have to thnnk you, too, Jane," Staunton said tenderly. But he took her down to the orchard and told her In his own way. "How did yon guess that 1 was not the farmer I pretended to be?" with a hint of wonder under his gladness. Jnne raised a face radiant with the realization that the new world was opened forever. "Just because you are you," she said Joyously. "Love la not always blind." A Story That Varies. There la a story more or less diffused of n young bride on her wedding day playing the game of hide and seek end concealing herself In one of those ancient carved chests of large size. After she had got In tbe lid closed, nnd sbe found herself unable to raise It again, for It fastened with a spring. and Bhe was shut In. Search was made for her In every quarter but the right one, and great perplexity and dismay were caused by her disappearance. It was not till years after, wben chance led to the opening of the chest that the body of the young bride was discovered and the mystery of her disappearance solved. The story Is found ln so many places that it may he questioned whether It Is true of any one of them. Rogers tells It of a palace In Modenn. Tbe chest In which tbe poor bride was found Is shown at Brnmshill.ln Hampshire, tbe residence of Sir John Cope. Another similar cbest wltb precisely the same story attached to It was long shown at Marwell Old Hall, between Winchester and Bishop's Waltbam. The folk tale of Catsklu or Peau d'Ane represents the girl flying wltb her bridal dresses from a marriage tbat Is repugnant to ber. and as this tale Is found all over Europe It may have metamorphosed Itself Into thnt of the bride who got Into a chest and died tbere.-Cornhlll Magazine. Detecting a Thief. Some of the stories In the "Folklore of tbe Holy Land" seem to be at least founded on fact. And, Indeed, when we come down to quite recent times we find undoubtedly; genuine stories that m.'iht have been told of the days of the caliphs. Here Is one of Ibrahim Pasha: A goldsmith of Jaffa complained that his bouse had been robbed and remarked that the Egyptian occupation hnd not brought security. The pasha promised redress. The next day be came to the man's shop and In the presence of a great crowd ordered the executioner, to give the door a hundred lashes. Then be stooped as If to listen. "The door tells nonsense." he cried; "another hundred!" He stooped again. "The same title; the door persists thnt the thief Is somewhere In this crowd of honest people and that he has some of the dust and cobwebs from the shop on his tarboosh." He hud his eye on the crowd and saw a mnn hastily raise bis band to brush bis fez. . Tbe mnn was arrested and confessed his guilt. A Chromatic Love Affair. "Marooned!" muttered tbe villain, turning white nnd striking his forehead. ' Violet pearl of women, had refused blm again. ) He lapsed Into n brown study, wondering If he were too green lo win any woman's love. Perhaps she objected to bis prematurely gray bair, or could It be thnt tbe cardinal virtues of bis rival outweighed his old gold? The hero entering, black as a thunder cloud, readily solved the mystery. '•There's a yellow streak In you!" he cried. "In the hope of winning my betrothed, Violet, you have Jilted Alice, and It lias mnde Alice blue!" The villain rose, madder than a hornet, purpling with rage beneath bis tan. But before be could speak the hero had pinked hlm with his sword. Violet screamed. Terror caught-'er. But her lover soothed her. "Red of hlm at last." he murmured, folding her ln his arms and kissing uer cherry lips as the crimson ran Mink tn the west, partially obscured by the London smoke. Epilogue. Onus* blossomi. - Lot Aniele* Time*. , UAMhS AND DAUUHItK-s. The Duchess of Roxburghe has a liny watch set In a gold aline buckle. Mrs. Emily Treat of Hiinrllml. Mo., Is wild to be the flrst woman tu be employed as au official court reporter ln this country. Mrs. Mlllleent Garrett r'awcott Is the only womnn who bus ever been asked to nddreiis the University Debating society nt Oxford. At the request of the students she took woman suffrage as her subject Miss Alice Taylor of Edinburgh Is now lady chess champion of Scotland, having defeuted Miss Smith.Cunning- ha me lu their series to decide the tie for the first place ln the recent Scottish Ladles' Chess association tournament. , Mrs. Edwnrts C. Dodd of Laredo. Tex., has earned distinction us a farmer. She hits made a profit this season of a little uiore than SMU.OOO off of 135 acres of land. Bermuda onions were her sales, crop. She Is the largest womnn Bermuda onion fanner iu tbe world. ' .Mrs Taft hns traveled more thnn, the wife of nny other president. Sbe haa almost ns great a globe .trotting record ns tiie president Sbe has crossed the I'mllic half a dozeu times and bus traveled In Japan. Manchuria, Siberia, China nnd other far eastern countries. She went to Cuba with her husband, and to Panama, au.( she bus visited every corner of Europe with hlm. Willing to Help "But darling," murmured the lovelorn youth "every night for two weeks I have been on my bended knees before you. Have you no pity?" "I certainly have, Horace," spoke up the pretty flirt, as she reached for her hand bag, "here is a whole quarter. Go have your trousers pressed. After so much bending they muBt be baggy at the knees." When troubled with sunburn, blisters, insect stings, sore feet, or heat rashes, apply Zam-Buk! Surprising how quickly U eases the smarting and (tinging! Cares sores on young banes due to chafing. Zam-BJc Is made from para herbal essences. No animal fats- no mineral poUons. Finest heater I Druggists and Stores everywhere. "You never read the weather predictions?" , "Ncpe," answered Parmer Corntos- ' sel. "I skip 'em for two renaons. One is that there's no use o' worryin' about what you can't help, an' the other is thnt you never can relv on a prophecy till after it's come true, an' then it's too late to make any difference."— Washington Star., Things Theatrical. Christine Blessing has been engaged for "On tbe me." Miss Kitty Cheatham bas made a big bit lu London. Dnzle, tbe noted American dancer. Is to appear In J. M. Barrle's playlet. "Pantaloon." Tbere Is plenty of opportunity fnr dancing lu this pantomimic piece. Laura Nelson Hall bus been engaged by Comstock & (lest as leading lady of their stock company In Cleveland. Charles VV'nldrou. Tully Marshall and Leslie Bingham are otber members of this company. . , There will be four companies the coming season to present "The Oil max," by Edward Locke, whlcb the critics have pi "iiu-cil a little dra- liiatli' gem. The piny Is to be under the direction of Joseph Weber. Science Sittings. The earth's atmosphere becomes at only a few miles from the earth's surface too tbln to support any form of animal life. The "fixed" stars are changing tbelr positions at an appreciable rate, according to astronomers, wbo say that even the most familiar constellations have changed tbelr forms since tbe time of the ancients who named them. Many astronomers nre of opinion thut the famous star Sixty-one Cygni, which is a double siar. Is a binary system—that Is, that the two stars composing It revolve round their common center of gravity and move through space together. Hard on His Hearers "Did you ever find yourself embarrassed while in Europe by your lack of acquaintance with the French language?" ■ "No," answered Mr. Cumrox. "I think I suffered less embarrassment than the other folks. I couldn't tell half the time what they were brushing about."—Washington Star. , The Best Liver Pill—The action of the liver is easily disarranged. A sudden chill, undue exposure to the elements, over-indulgence in * some favorite food, excess in drinking, nre a few of the causes. But whatever may be the cause, Parmelee's Vegetable Pills can bo relied upon as the best corrective that can be taken. They are the leading liver pills and they have no superiors among such preparations, Smith slapped Jones on the bnck. "Hello, old chap!" he gurgled familiarly! "I'll wager $54 you don't recall me!" JoneB gave him an icy stare. "You win!" he said, passing on.—Lippin- cott's Magazine. Corns cause much suffering, but Holloway's Corn Cure offers a speedy, sure, and satisfactory relief. Helpmates "Let tne see—didn't you tell me to remind you to get something when we got to town?" "1 believe I did." "What was it?" Gunner—"And now comes a nrofes- sor who declares that fruit is just as healthy with the skin on as it is peeled." Guyer—"H'.tn. I'd like to see somebody start him on a diet of pineapples."—Chicago NewB. SUflLliHT i— SOAP — Pen and Brush. John S. Sargent hns acquired a com-: mission to paint a three-qunner i lb portrait of Mrs. Wht.elaw Held. Mark Twain Is reported to hare written a comic openi based upon his story. "A Yankee In King Arthur's Court." . < Edwin Abbey was painting in London for ten years before be had a picture bung In the academy and began his work as a newspaper Illustrator. Tbe lives of tbe six great Victorian poets extended originally over Just a century, from the blrlb of Tennyson. I he feldest of them, lu 180M, to the death of Swinburne, tbe youngest, thlj year. Law Points. One lacking testamentary capacity Is held iu re (ioldstlcker. 11)2 N. V„ 35,' 84 N. E.. nil; IR L. It. A. IN. S.I. 1)0. not to be competent by menus of an attempted testamentary act to revoke a prior will. The collateral Inheritance tax Is held III re Lninb ilowai. 117 X. W„ 1118: 18 L. It. 4. (N. S.I. 2*JII. not to apply to property conveyed In possession aud enjoyment lu the owner's lifetime to another lu consideration of support to be furnished during tbe remainder of the owner's life. Tales of Cities. I The city nf Hamburg was orMnslly a ensile built by Charlemagne for de fense against tbe Norsemen. Philadelphia has opened under the auspices of the Women's Pennsylvania Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals twenty-three water stations for horses. New York city, says the New York Herald, now contains a larger population than wns In tbe United States when the constitution was adopted. The estimate of the health department Is 4.422.085. Train and Track. One man In every twelve In the United States Is on the payroll of a railroad. . Belgium's complete system of nor-; row gauge steam railways connecting nil the towns and villages wltb tbe main centers Is being electrified. A Denver syndicate has bought the Argentine Central railroad In Colorado and will extend the line to the top of Cray's peak, 342 feet higher than tht' point reached by the Pike's peak cog road. 1 "Did she accompany him on the piano?" "She tried to. But he soon distanced her."—Louisville Courier-Journal. • Careless He—"There was nearly a bad fire at the theatre." She—"How was that?" He—"The villian lit a cigarette and tossed the match into the snow."— St. Louis Tiinea. In the window of a little book store in Eighth avenue, New York, was recently heaped a great pile of BibleB, marked very low—never before were Bibles offered at such a bargain; and above them all, in big letters, was the inscription: "Sntan trembles when he sees Bibles sold as cheap as these," —Woman's Home Companion. The boat was three days out when one of the passengers wnB able to go on deck. There he met an old friend. "Helloa, old chap," he exclaimed, "are you going over?" "Yes," replied his friends. "Are- youP'^Young's Magazine. "Why, that's a regular little printing press, .isn't it," remarked the visitor. "Yes," replied Mrs. Pbphjy. "Willie's uncle gave it to him on his birthday." "Whnt a complete little thing! It's a self-inlter, isn't it?" "I don't know, but Willie ia." "Would you like some fresh air?" she asked, starting in the direction of the window. "Yes; do you know any?" he replied, thinking she was going to the piano.—Yonkers Statesman. ■ "Women, it is said, are returning to small waists." "Urn." "And some of them are going to have trouble in getting back."—Washington Herald. Much In a Name "What became of that paper you were going to start in the interest of uplifting the poor tramp?" asked the interviewer. "Ah, it fell through," confessed the great reformer, with much agitation, "and all on account of the blooming carelessness of the printer." "Did he make a grave error?" "I should say so. You know the paper was to be named the "Bar of Hope"—Well that idiot of a printer changed it to the "Bar of Soap," and ns soon ns my constituents heard the name they started running and' are running yet." Hungry Hiegihs—A woman gimme a handout dis momih', den Had de nerve t' ask me t' beat a carpet fer her. Dusty Doolittle—-"Wot did vous say? Hungry Higgins—I tole her dat I wuz orful sorrv, but I wns nil tired out from beatin' a railroad—Chicago News. "Mr. Gudtheng; you Bald you'd gimme a quarter for a lock of sis's hair." "Yes, Chester." "Well, here's the whole switch. ,Tu»t cut off what you want."—Kamas City Times. W. N. U., No; 76J* No Terrors for Him "There was-a time when they put men in jail for debt," said the bill collector, severely. "Well," answered the .fretted citizen, "I don't know but u good, stout jail, where your creditors couldn't send in cards or call you up on the telephone, would be a great deal of a comfort." 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If ihe goee to boarding school or college, ehe muit be supplied for every emergenoy before leaving home, which mean!, along with other needs, that a dainty little "visitor'! day" or donee frock Is quite at much wanted as the clasa dress, and "gym" suit , A storm coat te eipeclally required by day school maids, under which one of the iweaters, which now ■o. excellently luggeet coats, would very, likely be worn ln freoslng weather. All of these things, and unnumbered othere, will be required lo loon that Auguit leeim the proper month for their accumulation. Materials for Autumn use are -shown ln abundance new, and luch made-up things ai have appeared are' far cheaper than they will he later on. In point of itylei— notwlthitandlng prediction! of tremendous, ohangei—It ll observed that the prettiest of the Bummer model!, have been carried over tor fall uie, and thli ll eipeclally the caie with mlssee' and children!* effect!. Sklrti are itlll narrow and. limn, .though reaching out here and there'tb trimmed panel! that faintly luggeit drapery, ooati it'll hold their becoming looienen and •mall .ileeyeit..and„there ii no sign that ihlrtwalita mean to drop the ,wW- enlng shoulder pleati for »ome time to come. The week's Illustrations show aome. pretty and useful modeli which are being copied for ichool uie. They-are lultable for. girl! from .fourteen, to eighteen, and made ln proper material! the itylea would do admirably for all winter. Figure A.—Here li a model, charmingly tutted to the vlilfbr'i "day" frock-, the dreiiy Utle costume which replace! the more lombre clan dreii for .one gay-afternoon a week. Ai lUuitrated, the gown le made of mercerized dotted mUilln—white with a email blue ipot—and fancy lace; and It li worn brer a blue lawn slip, in thli ihape the droit tt pottlblt for all winter wear Indoors, for Fashion hai long since ait, the leal of her approval on luch dainty flummerlei for winter home ale. But If lomethlng more substantial. la wished, any of the thin veiling!, loft, delalnei and cash: mere! may be uted, with velvet or illk ribbons Initead ot the lace. The gulmpe vest, which extendi under the three rowl of trimming, might be of a matching illk. or of white Bilk, or net or lace; but If the gown le tor very ■mart uie,.a dlaphanoui effect, iuoh ai tucked net or a email-figured lace would give, would be far prettier. The thin white Summer itlki, barred or itrlped with color, would effect charming evening gowna ln thli design, eipeclally If the neck of the thin gulmpe were out out slightly, and the ileevet made three-quarter length. For an eighteen-year-old girl of medium figure there will be required fourteen yardt .of material 14 Inche! wide, twenty-one yard! Of banding, 3H yard! of edging. Figure B.—A long coat euch aa thli makei one of tha most satisfactory garment! that a high lahool girl could own, for If made of the. right material It would itrve for' both rain and warmth. Rainproof cravenette la the mott common material teen tn euoh coati when they do duty for double ■ervlce, a wadded "vett, iweater or ■hetland wool ipencer going underneath on the colder dayi. For all round uie no better material could be advised, though a rough tweed would be aimoit at tervtceable and perhapi smarter. A ihade of all but Invlilble green Is admtrod for cravenette, .with the collars and cuff! of the ooat itltohed or treated to a matching or black silk. The tweed and tergo coatt employ both braid and leather trimming!, itout bone bottom going on theie, or' else - the popular wooden moldi, covered with the coat trimming. But whether of. cravenette or wool, a coat that mutt do for nveral ■eatoni la preferably plain, for one toon tlrei of a let garniture, and a niarked change In itylet may make It leem very antiquated. . For the1 full length cut ahd medium figure 7% yard! 27 lnohei wide will be heeded. The three-quarter cut, which the line of black show*-on tho small drawing, oalli for 6H yardt In ihe tame Width. The pretty hat Is of dark green felt braid,, trimmed with black velvet ribbon and a bunch of red-currant! with green leaver Figure 0.—The "middy ihlrt" has bad luch a vogue thli Summer, and lo eo universally becoming, that It Is vain to tuppoie tt will be banlihed merely becauie the leaion will change. The looie tailor blouie and the pleated iklrt ' which generally , goes with It, give Juit the ease that a girl from twelve to fourteen need!; and alternating with fitted frbcki, inch a get-up it quite permlnlble In clan. But above all thlngt, the combination It admirable for gymnaalum games,' for there are ahy glrli who balk emphatically at the bloomer eulti more commonly worn. Serge, and flannel,.trimmed as llluitrated, are preferred material! for the middy dreii, whole primary requirement li tor lomethlng thai will itand wear ahd tear. With flannel 44Jnohei wide only s*» yard! are required for the average fourteen-year-old girl. The banding on collar and cuff■ demand 2*A yardi of braid or bill trimming. Figure D.—Thli design sets forth a new cut for a gymnasium stilt, and it will certainly prove acceptable to glrli who want a really good time with their enrolling "stunti." The knlcker portion of the model would alto terve for the pantalooni of warm wool that io many ichool glrli now wear on bitter winter day! under their walking ■kirti. If thli suggestion leemi un- pleaaant to the ultra modeit let me auure ihem that In iriiart New Tork schools, it well at In Europe, knlcker- booker! are much more worn on freezing winter , day! than pettlcoata A •oft light-weight flannel In the gown color may ihape the' Walking' pantalooni, but for the "gym" tult entire, a dark blue flannel or nrge. with the ichool color uted .'for belt, collar and oufft, la more oommoniy employed. For a girl ot ilxteen (medium figure) there will be required 1*4 yarde of material 27 Inchea wide, or 4 of double width good!. Theie meaiuremente are tor the entire gymnaalum suit. SriLuUftU, T*~A*X/ Com. aid Tomato ialejt—Thi, li practically the lame combination al the above, but li oultable for Warmer weather. Select tomatoet like thoie for the baked dlth, out off the item ends, and acoop out a good ilted reoeee In eaoh tomato. Boll young and tender oorn, cool It, and cut from the eart, being ture to get all the meaty little yellow hearta, and not Juit the outilde of the kernel!. Mix the corn with a French dreealng made of three parti of oil to ont of vinegar, ialt and cayenne pepper. Have the tomatoee and oorn both chilled When lirvlng time cornea. Place the tomatoei on orlip lettuce leavei, fill them with the corn, and ierve with ulted waferi, buttered and loaned. . SCHCOLDAY BLUNDERS, Anaweta That Got Few Markt For , Their Ingenious Framers. The inability of the mind of growing children to retain more than a fragment of their tutor's instructions is evidenced in the little blunders we all have made when called upon to answer questions,' Facts, their answers show, have been retained, but , they have not been properly class!' tied in the mind, and therefore, when the student seeks to use them, he finds them somewhat disassociated and his answers become a trifle mix. ed. Especially is this true of the young student of the Bible. There are too many characters, and the facts concerning them are' entirely too numerous (or his undeveloped mind to classify. Therefore we are not surprised to learn from one youngster that Moses wae an Egypt, ian who lived in an ark of bull- rushes, kept a golden calf, and worshipped, braien snakes', and "ate nothing but kwales and manna .for forty years," or 'thai he was caught by the hair of his head while riding under a bough of a free, and Wan killed by his son AHsolom as he war hanging from the bough. To the question "Who was Jonah?" one lad replied: "He was the father of Lot and had two wives. One was celled Ishmael and the other Hagher; he kept one at home and he turned the other loose in the desert, and she became a pillow of salt' in the day time ana a pillow ol Are at night/' . "What did Moses do with the tabernacle?": was asked by another Sunday School teacher, to which one boy replied that he chucked it out of the camp, the teacher, in surprise,' ask. ed Him. where he obtained this in- formation, aiid the hoy promptly quoted the first sentence a\ the seventh verse of the thirty-third chap- ter of Exodus: "And Moses took tht tabernacle and pitched it without the camp." Another lad informed his teacher that Elijah waB/such a good man that ' he went to heaven without dying, nnd that while he was going up he threw his coat down for Queen Elisa- .beth to step on. ""Esau," he said, "was a man wht wrote fables ahd sold the copyright lo a publisher for a bottle of potash." The blunders, of youth are not, however, confined to socred history, as these answers, vouched for by the ' several teachers who have saved them to posterity, will testify: "Tobacco was introduced Into England by Sir Walter Raleigh, nnd as !!£..aat ""oking a pipe he shouted: This day, Moster Ridley, we hava lighted such a fire as shall never be put out.'" "The reign of Queen Ann was the time in which the 8panish Armada took place. She married Philip ot\. Spain, who was a very ei*uel man. .;, The Spanish and English fought bravely against each other. The English wanted to conquer Spain. After" several battles were fought, in which hundreds of English and Spanish were defeated, they lost some very large ships ond wore at a great loss on both sides." . Little Facial Artifices To Promote Beauty ©BAtITT la not'all outline and coloring. It ll exprenlon at well,—that subtle eisenoe which imay make a plain woman far more faeolaatlng than her fairer alitor. Iii roots He ln the heart, and mind, and tometlmet—ah. now, I am reaching the thing obtainable to all,—It may be very auoeeaifully Imitated by a little man. agement of the eyea aqd mouth. Then may need a touch of the palnter'a art ai well; but there It no great tin In that, for woman'! firtt duty Ib to make herielf a> pleating at possible. Ut me begin with the eyet, thon tell-tale wlndowt through whon uncurtained panel all of tht iouI'i thought! may be to plainly read. The worried eye. the ley eye, the round, •taring, foolish eye have never been aung by the poet Thli feature, above all others ln a woman'! face, needa to be. loft lympathetlc, deep, ai It Were, and with the reatfulnen of quiet waters, Thon Who look long Into the right tort of eyei go away feeling that they have been rooked In maternal arma These are the e'yet that little children understand, and that soldier! who go away to die on the battle field remember to the last. They are the eyea that all mother!, iweethearte and wives should have, and If Nature haa denied them they should be artificially cultivated; The eye lacking In exprenlon, which •eemi to look upon all the world with chill unaympathy, ihould be treated lint to a few HEART dropi,—one or 'two kind thought! a day—and then It muit learn how to hold the llda In a drooping aentlmental fashion with the 'eyebrow! ln a iharter ilant Thi trick, which a number of my ttago frlendi call the "Diiae eye," It 'aooompllthed In thli way: Smooth the ',«aoe firtt with a placid look, with the mouth set ln a gentle bow. Then lift the forehead slightly—not enough to wrinkle It—and drop the lldt over the eyet. and look at everybody and everything with theie half veiled orbs. 'The result ll eminently humanizing, and the artifice It tutted to all hard and too email eyet, though 1 mutt cpnfen that a little duttlng of the upper lid with dirk coimetlo. goee with It. Thle, however, It only tor pale or too red eyelids, and It li required to give the ball a look of fullness. When the tide art exceptionally pale, a taint dust of rouge may be put on before the brown, or blue or black penciling that the natural coloring needt; and If the ball It washed three times a day with salt and water, or a solution of boraclo acid, It will take on a new wholeaomeneas. Too much vivacity In the use of the eyes li almost as enplaning as the •tolid look, and constant winking «on- veyi an Impression of fllghtlneia. lack ot latereat anil »v«n disease. - ^« eye muit listen at wtll at the ear, but It muit do It quietly—with that calm and uniympathetlo attention which., a speaker demand!, and which, In Itself, It a charm Ineffable. In the . mere movement of the eyelids, al they rise and fall, there may be a tremendout loveliness. When they fold upward In one imooth, deep, oval flexion, the plalneat fan li glorified, and thli movement may be quite aucoenfully practiced with the gymnastic! for tha Dun eye. At the same time, a toft and beautiful line la cultivated for the eyebrow, for the Dun trick holds It at the right angle, Inner endt up, outer onet down, the oval out luggnted by thli changing softening and deepening the eye In every way. Browt In a narrow line, growing straight acrost, are always beautiful, and since deeply arched brpwi are put on the shelf of antiquated beauties, the owners of them ihould be very caroful hot to use them too much, for to tee then expressive details go up Into a startling bow with every "Oh" and "Ah" It foolish In the extreme, and it wmi a manmrlim which can and •hould be checked. Such browt art much Improved by bruthlng them straight across. Initead ot doing It In a way to follow the entire arch. If the double bowa are ridiculously long, the ■ervlcti of a beauty expert may be called ln to remove the lower points. which tllght and Improving operation It netlher painful nor Imponlble. A tonlo tor meagre eyebrows and eyelashei. eipeclally thole, that fall from sickness or have, become ragged from neglect, is at follows: Lavender vinegar 2*4 ounoet Glycerine IK ounces Fluid extract of Jaborandl...) drachma Vaiellne alto encouragea the growth of the browa and lathn, and upon the former a narrow brush, kept solely for this purpose, ihould be und every day. The beauty ot the mouth depend! Immensely upon human nature, Thought and emotion are the sculptors of the mouth, so that If the heart and mind Incline too much toward the unlovely of life, the secret can never be hidden. Emeraon—that molt spiritual of wrlten—telle ue that the mouth through ennobling thought, of course) Is capable of the greatest beauty. With the wrong emotions, emphasizing qualities appear In the cheeks and chin, so that a happy and pure mouth, or a bitter and coarse one. may change tht very tormatlon of the entire countenance. The habl' of grimacing ii greatly to be deolored, for. evep a beautiful woman can spoil ■ her face by some habitual contortion of the mouth, while for a genuinely ugly woman to do thli seems an actual pretumtion. 10 cro- tesquely and cruelly plain will ahe appear. The mouth of a well bred peraop Is sealed with the very spirit of repoie when It li not called upon to perform any of the dutlea inherent to the flesh. and ihote who ignore thli widespread opinion are likely to bo classed at last among the "vulgar herd." Though generally Indicative of a nature that la anything but spiritual, lax, flabby lips—the "loose" mouth that the novelist loves to plant upon tome unfortunate creature of hit brain—are tometlmet the result of sheer carelessness. Women who are conscious of this defect ihould learn to hold lips more flrmly, and they may further Improve them with some astringent or other, suoh as alum or camphor or tannin. This species of mouth should also be taught reetraint In every way—tbat It must never hold Itself open or Indulge In any volubility that tends to emphasise Its falling!. It must be given to understand that It occupies a minor plaoe ln the world and that It must assume a modesty though It have It not . , , Very thick lips may be held In a way so that a part of them ll oon- cealed In the fold of the mouth, while a little attention to a mouth unduly wide will prevent lti owner from spreading It too much with speech, and teach her how to keep It at all times within reaaonable boundi. The perfect mouth—that delicate bow neither too wide nor too narrow, whose curvet are all tweet and tender,— whin aooompanled by perfect teeth, Is one of the loveliest of creations. Yet even a perfect mouth may be Improved tomtlmn by a touch of rouge, for beauty of line does not alwayt mean beauty of tint It li aln made more charming by a iweetly wholesome brnth, and for thli purifying .purpose pray let me recommend chewing Canadian anakeroot, though thli will have little iffect If the teeth are neglected and the mouth left without the antl- teptlo wathei needed dally. A few dropi of carbolic acid In a tumbler of warm water makes a magnificent wath| for the mouth, but care muit be taken. to keep tht deadly poison where little' hand! will never reach It Etiquette Dos and Don'ts For the College Girl Grape Juice Sherbet—Sherbet la mort -sully digested than ice-cream, and grape Juice unreal with moat children. Add one quart of water to one pint of (rape Juice and one cup of, lugar, and freeze, Serve with iquarei of rlnger-bread or wince-take. XT li easy enough, after the first few daye or weeks, for the girl away from home for the firtt time at school or college to adjust herself to her new surroundings. She keeps her eyes and ears open, her mouth shut, takes the advice of the upper classmen, and soon comes to think that at last ahe has found the world to which she was bom, and for which-she has been vainly looking all her life. But, strangely and by some contrary fate, It Is generally a hard thing for this same girl later on to readjust herielf to her home and to the world-that- haen't-been-to-college In general. We all know the kind of girl who cornea home after her flrst year at boarding school, or her freshman year at college, filled with enthusiasm and new ideas, and absolutely out of sympathy with the quiet little town, or the quiet part of tha noisy big town In which she lives, and which uaed to satisfy all her social and Intellectual cravings. She ti'Ita, desperately and In the wrong way, to straighten things out and to ■bring people around to her way of thinking. Then she settles down to deep despair and tragic disappointment with everyone and everything, .until, by soma lucky chance, she either falls In love and gets married, decides to go to work, or else flti herielf to the place that won't tit Itself to her. I There are a few don'ts, and more Idos. that ought to help the girl who finds herself at home after a year, or four years, away at school or college. (and ln a little difficulty about adjusting herself to her old life. The flrst don't Is a big one, and Its observance will avoid much trouble, 'Boat act superior. If you do, you art ■ure to have a' hard tlm« There la a pleasant little pension ln Paris run by a oharming French woman. Htr ■house la usually filled with American guests, and ehe Is always willing to chaperon such young women as want her to. Ont summer tvtnlng thtrt wen at this pension several new arrivals at dinner, and after Madame, who •at at tht htad of the table.to dispense Itht wine, had Introduced them, one of Itht young girls whom Madame waa chaperoning began te talk to the newcomers. Bhe addressed •bsrtttf to tht man at htr tide. — "I don't suppose yon-re seen tht Salnta Ghapelle? NoT Of coune not; [you've only Just come. Perhaps you've [never even heard of it, but of count I've been to college and wt studied architecture. It's one of tht most charming things here—pure Gothic. [You know, the true identification of Gothic architecture—-but I don't tup- jpose you do, and it's too difficult for ia layman to understand, sol shan't ;iry to explain. Some people' stupidly suppose anything with a pointed arch Is real Gothic. It must be to funny to go about and look at all those wonderful buildings, and not really under- Hand what you're looking at!" She rattled on at a great rate, hinting at the wonders of phlloiophy, psychology, zoology and Sanskrit, and everyone listened to her with courteous attention. And ahe didn't even know enough to be ashamed of herielf when ahe found that the man to whom ihe had talk-? I about the Salnte Chappelle was a well known New York architect, In Paris for the very purpose of studying Gothic architecture! Of count, she Is an unusual specimen,- for which let us be thankful,— but sho Is a real girl and a good example of what not to be. It la much better for„tht college girl to keep her learning In'the background until there Is srfme demand for It to be ahown In the proper way and at the proper time, than to parade It continually and have It and herself at leant secretly laughed at Tht ntxt don't Is for the direct opposite of this girl. i»»n'e foolishly refuse to talk about your life and work at college or school If somebody wanta to hear about I'.. If somtont who knowa you have been to college aiks you to tell him ahout It, don't any, "Oh, pleaso let's not talk about that! It's such a boral And I'vt really forgotten about It." This la a very rude attitude to take towards anyone who haa troubled hlmsolf to talk about what you ought to be Interested In. Another don't concerns Itself with clothes. Don't go about bareheaded In a sedate little town In winter Just be- cause you used to do so on tht college campus. Don't wear In the city streets tht numerals on your sweater which tht attainment of a much coveted place on the college gym team gave you. Don't think you must woar evening clothes for the simple lupptr which Is the rule In tht town whtre you live. Just became you used to dress for dinner at boarding school. Don't ride horseback In tht city parka without a hat and with your hair streaming at the mercy of tht wind, because on the country roads about tht college town you used to rldt that way. Although a girl who dots any of these things Is not being unladylike, she Is, nevertheless, surely breaking the laws of strictly good taste, because ihe la trying to force her own opinions where they are not wanted. * Also, don't spread oollegt cusnwnn, bannors and trophies over tht entire house, hut confine them to your own bed-room and den. whtrt they are In perfect taste. Don't ask the Ladles' Missionary Society of your church to conduct Its meetings according to the rules laid down In Hubert's "Utiles in Order:" don't Insist on talking about the amphloxus or Spinosa's "De Intel- lectus emandatione" when the real of the girls want to talk about tht mtn at tht danct last night or what kind of sleeves art going to be worn next season. Now for the Dos, They art as hard to observe as the don'ti, but carefully observed, they are sure to bring happiness and popularity. ' In the flrst place, decide that you art going to make a place for yourself with your old friends. Begin by doing whatever they do. and doing It aa naturally as possible, tt le absurd for a girl to say that after n year or two or even four years, away from homo, she cannot tnke up the old threads, of friendship. If her old friends find her companionable and agreeable they wtll f welcome her an a new and or'Noua addition to their circle 1% Before thle girl knows It. tier friends will be looking to htr for suggestions \ and advice, Rhe must always be ready with plans for entertainment; she must have stories of college fun and pranks at her tontine's end. to deltvtr nn it- queen; she must be ready to sing college songs, and to teach thtm, and to ttuich the pretty folk-dances, that she teamed In her gymnaalum work. Sho must be willing tn lend her hooks, htr pictures ond her golf nnd tennis things, and to kIvc her fudge recipe to anyone who wants It. She mutt bt ready to help organize reading clubs or musical societies and to get up and manage—If she's asked to do so- amateur theatrics, and she must alwaya be ready to lend a helping hand to her younger friends who are still at school, or trying to get ready for their college entrance exama. If tho college or hoarding-school gtrl away from college or school takes account of these dos and don'ts in htr dally life she'll find herself—not that saddest of all sad spectacles, a girl who thinks she isn't appreciated—but fairly the center nnd lite of any circle she enters And at the same time sht can take proper pride In the fact that she understnnds thoroughly and practices delightfully the rules of etiquette that society has Inld down to govern • the conduct of the away-from-homr pdurated girl. w Blackberry Cordial. To two (.uirts of blackborriim udd one and a hnlf pounds of sugar, a half ounce of cinnamon, a half ounce af nutmeg, a quarter of an ounce, each, of cloves and allspice, [toll all together fur a short time, and wliua Id udd a pint jf good brandy. THE REPORTER. NEW MTCHEL. BRITISH COLUMBIA. Satan Sanderson By BALLIE ERMlfUE RIVES. Author ol "Burls Covtieow." Sic Copyright 1908. the Bobbo-UerrlU Company. (Continued.) He shoved the candle nearer on tbe table. "There's a queer look In your face, Hugh!" he said, with a clumsy attempt at kindness. "That rock they threw muBt have hurt you. Feel sort of dizzy, eh? Never mind, I'll show you a sight for sore eyes. You went off without your share of the lust swag. bat I've saved It for you. Prendergast wouldn't cheat a pair From a cranny ln the clay chinked wall be took a chamois skin bag. It/ contained a quantity of gold dust and small nuggets, which he poured Into a miner's scales on the table and proceeded to divide ln two portions. This accomplished, he emptied one of the portions on to a paper and pushed It out "That's yours." he said. Harry's eyes were on his with a piercing Intensity now, aa though they looked through blm to a vast distance beyond. He was staring through a .■gray midst at something far off, but significant, that eluded his direct vision. Tbe board table, the yellow gold, the flickering candlelight, recalled something horrifying, in some other world, in some other life, millions of ages ago. He lurched to his feet, overturning the table. The gold dust rattled to the floor. "Your dealt" he said. Then, with a vague laugh, be fell sldewlse upon the bunk. August Prendergast stared at him with a look of amazement on his yellow face. "He's crazy as a chicken I" he said. He eat watching htm awhile, then rose and kindled a Are on the unswept hearth. From a litter of cans and dented utensils ln a corner be proceeded to cook himself supper, after whlcb he carefully brushed up the scattered gold dust and returned It all to Ita hiding place. Lastly he rummaged on a shelf and found a vial. This proved to be empty, however, and he set It on the table. "I guess yon'll do well enough without any pain killer," he said to himself. "Doctors are expensive. Anyway, I'll be back by midnight." He threw more wood on the fire, blew out the candle nnd, closing the door behind him, set off down the trail to tbe town, where a faro bank soon acquired tbe bill Jessica had given hlm. Chapter 15 € |T was pitch dark when Jessica reached the sanitarium, though sbe went like a whirlwind, the chill damp smell of the dewy balsams In ber nostrils, the dust rising ghostlike behind the rapid hoofs. She found David Stlres anxious and peevish over ber late coming. She felt a relief when the old man grew tired and was wheeled to his bedroom. Left alone, her reflections returned. Bhe began to be tortured. Sbe tried to read. Tbe printed characters swam beyond ber comprehension. At length ahe drew a hood over her bead and atole out on to the wide porch. - It was ouly tl o'clock, and along tbe gravel paths that wound among the shrubbery a few dim farms were strolling. She caught tbe scent of a cigar and the sound of a woman's Inugb. The air was crisp and bracing, with n promise of frost und painted leaves. She gazed down ncrosB Ihe dark gulches toward tbe town, a straggling design pricked In blinding yellow points. Halfway between, folded In the darkness, lay tho green sbelf and the cabin to wbleb her thought recurred with a kind of compulsion- There waa no moon, hut tbe stars were glowing like tiny green gilt coals. and the yellow road lay plain and clear. With a sadden determination ■he drew her light cloak closely about her. Btepped down, sped across the grass to a footpath and so to the road. As she ran on down the curving stretch under the trees the crackling slip of bank paper thnt lay In ber bosom •coined to burn her flesh. Bhe was (teallug awny to gaze upon tbe outcast wbo bad shamed and bumbled her—going, she knew not why, wltb burning cheek nnd hammering heart She slipped through the side trail tn the cabin with a choking Kensntlon. She stole to the window nud peered tn. In the firelight she could see the form on the bunk, tossing and mutter ing. Otherwise the place was empty. She lifted tbe latch softly and entered. The strained anxiety of Jessica's look relaxed as she gazed nbout her. Bhe saw tbe vial on the tnble. The doctor hnd been there, then. If he ware In serious case, Prendergast would be, with him. Sbe threw back ber hood, drew one of tbe chairs to tbr side of tbe bnnk nnd snt down, ber eyet fixed on bis face. The weakness and helplessness or bis posture struck through and tbrongh her. Two sides of ber were struggling ln a chaotic combat for mastery. "I hate you! I bate your she said under her breath, clinching her cola band. "I must hate you! You stole my love and put It under your feetl You have disgraced my present and ruined my future! What If you have forgotten the past—your crime? Does that make you the less guilty or me the less wretched?" But withal a silent voice within her gave the He to her vehemence. Some element of her character that bad been rigid and Intact was crumbling down. An old sweet something that a dreadful mill had ground and crushed and annihilated was rising whole and undented, superior to any petty distinction, regardless of all that lifted combative ln her Inheritance, not to be gainsaid or denied. She leaned' closer, listening to the Incoherent words and broken phrases borne on the turbid channels of fever. But she could not link them together into meaning. Only one name he spoke clearly over and over again—the name Hugh Stlres—repeated with the dreary monotony of a child conning a lesson. She noted tbe mark across his brow. Before her. marriage, ln her blindness, she had used to wonder what it was like. It was not in tbe least disfiguring.. It gave a touch of the extraordinary. It was so small she did not wonder that in that ecstatic moment of ber bride's kiss bhe had not seen It. Slowly, half fearfully, she stretched out her hand and laid It on his. As if at the touch the mutterings ceased. She bent and touched her lips to Ms forehead. The eyes opened, and a confused, troubled look crept to them. Then they closed again, and the look faded out Into a peace that remained. A thrill ran through her, the sense ot moral power of the weak over tbe strong, of the feminine over the masculine. A rising flush stained ber cheeks. With a sudden Impulse and wltb a guilty backward glance sbe bent and touched her lips to his forehead. She drew back quickly, ber face flooded with color, caught her breath, then, drawing ber hood over ber head, went swiftly to the door and was lost in tbe darkness. • ■ • • • • • • WheJu toward 'midnight the fever ebbed. Sanderson bad fallen Into a deep sleep of exhaustion, from which he opened bis eyes next morning upon the figure of Prendergast sitting, pipe iu month. In the sunny doorway. He lifted blmself on his elbow. Thnt crafty race bad been Inexplicably woven with the delirious fantasies of his fever. Where and when hud he known It? Then In a great tide welled,'brer blm tbe memory of bis last conscious hours—tbe scene In the saloon, the fight, tbe music, the sudden appalling discovery of his name and repute. Be remembered the sickening wave of self disgust, the fierce agony of resentment that had beat In his every vein as be walked up the darkening street He remembered the thrown quartz. No doubt another missile had struck home or he had been set upon, kicked and pommeled Into Insensibility. This old man—a miner probably, for there were picks and shovels In the, corner—had succored him. He bad been ill, there was lassitude In every limb, and shadowy recollections tantalized hlm. He retained a dim consciousness of a woman's face—the face be had seen on the balcony—leaning near him, bringing Into a painful disorder a sense of grateful coolness, of fragVance and of rest As be stared again at the seated figure, the grim fact reared like a grisly specter, deriding, thrusting Its haggard presence upon ^"TV^-v filblm. In this f l'\\ Vjjl little cbmmunl- . > \ ty, which apparently be bad for- s a k e n and to which he had by chance returned, be stood a rogue and a scoundrel, a thing to point tbe finger nt and to avoid. The . ,, question thnt had \i^jK. burned bis brain V A.X t0 flre atttaei UD ' a> \v / ••Kl•1,,• Thetown V-yj III'* despised blm. What had been his career? How had he become a parish? And hy what miracle had he been so altered as to look upon himself wltb loathing? He lifted blmself upright dropping his feet to the floor. At the movement the mnn on the doorstep rose quickly and enme forward. "You're better, Hngh," he ssld. "Take It enR,v though. Don't get up Jut yet- I'm going to cook you some breakfast" "I'm going lo cook I/on some break- flWl." He turned to tbe hearth, kicked tha smoldering log ends together and aet a sancepan on tbem. "Yon'll be stronger wben you've got something between your ribs." be added. "How long have 1 been lying henr* ! asked Harry. "Only since last night You've bad a| fever." "Where la my dog?" "Dog?" said the other. "I never knew you had one." Harry's lips set bitterly. It had fared more hardly, then, than he. It had been a ready object for the crowd to wreak their hatred upon, because It belonged to blm—because It was Hugh Stlres' dog! "Is this your cabin, my friend?" The figure bending over tbe hearth straightened Itself with a jerk, and the blinking yellow eyes looked hard at blm. Prendergast came close to the bunk. "That's the game yon played ln the town," he said, with a surly sneer. "It's all right for those that take It In, but you needn't try to bamboozle me, pretending you don't know yonr own claim and cabin! I'm no such fool!" A dull flush came to Harry's brow. Here was a page from that Iniquitous past that faced him. His own cabin! And his own claim! Well, why not? "You are mistaken," he said calmly. "I am not pretending. I cannot remember you." Prendergast laughed ln an ugly, derisive way. "I suppose you've forgotten the half year we've lived here together and the gold dost we've gathered ln now and again—slipped It all, have you?" Harry stood up. The motion brought a temporary dizziness, but it passed. He walked to the door and gazed out on the pleasant green of the hillside. On a tree near by was nailed a rough, weather beaten board on' which was scrawled, "The Little Paymaster Claim," He saw the grass grown gravel trenches, evidence of abandon, ed work. He had been a miner. That In Itself was honest'toll. "The claim is good, then," he snid over bis shoulder. "We found the pay?" Prendergast contemplated him a moment In grim silence, with a scowl. "You're either really fuddled, Hugh," he said then, "or else you're a star play actor and up to something deep. Well, have It your own way—It's all the same to me. But you can't pull the wool over my eyes long!" There were mockery and threat In bis tone; but, more than both, the evil Intimacy ln his words gave Harry a qualm of disgust This man had been his. associate.. That one hour In the town had shown blm wbat his own life there bad been. What should he. do? Forsake forever the neighborhood where he had made his blistering mark? Fling all aside and start again somewhere and leave behind this disgraceful present with that face that had looked Into his from above the dusty street? If fate Intended that, why had It turned him back? If such was the bed he had made, he wonld He In It He would drink the gall and vluegur without whimpering. Whatever Iny behind be would live It down. This man at least hnd befriended him. He turned Into the room. - "Perhaps I shall remember after awhile." He took the saucepan from Prendergast's hand. "I'll cook tbe breakfast" lie said. Prendergast filled his pipe and watched him. "I guess there are bats in your belfry, sure enough, Hugh," he said at length. "You never offered to do your stint before." DI,ID«, What a Chance Meeting After Many Years Revealed. (To be Continued.) just the Color, Jokcsmlth-That's a sarcastic editor on tbnt comic paper. 1 submitted some Jokes written on gray paper. Poet—Did be make sny comment? Jokesnilth— Yes. He eold tbey; were so"old they were turntog gray.—Houston Post Terrible Candor. "Whnt part of my bock did you most enjoy?" asked the authorette as sho brushed her hair over bvr ears. And nfter a moment's reflection Miss Cayenne answered: "The cover design." — Washington Star. In Boytand. ^sysnevT"2e\ "Wns Jlmtnle'e hornet run n real long one?" "flee. 1 sbould sny! It must 'n' went a hundred feet!"-Kansns City Times. Those Missing Armi. Venus wns telling ber friends about ber missing nrtns. "I lost them In s revolving door while trying lo attend a sale uf peach basket bats," she wblspered.-Vblcago By 8USAN H. MORLEY. [Copyright, 190U, by Associated Literary Press.! "There's not another auch stretch on the wbole sound," Lisa was saying gayly. "For miles It's this same way- so level that at low tide we could. If we chose, pass dry shod, like the cull- | dren of Israel, to tbe other side, which menus to yon Island. In fact, If8 our fiivnrlte'l- A whirring black cloud, startling tbe horses, rose suddenly from the edge of the water as tbey turned a sharp point and Beth Kekles, wbo was no horcman, hnd all he could do to keep his seal. i ••Stormy petrels." laughed Lisa. "Tha bench takes Its name from them, they bnunt It ln such numbers,' you know. If you could stay anotber month, Beth, we'd make a rider ot you. It's a better sport any time, 1 warrant, than those new glossed games you talk so much nbout." EekleB, who was comfortably settled In his saddle again, listened to the pounding of the hoofs on the hard, wet "DO IOU ENOW TOU HA VENT SPOKEN FOll TBE LONGEST WHILE? " Baud, his eyes on Lisa, wbose small gray form seemed to blend and become a part of the lithe gray sbe wus riding. He admired ber Immensely, this stepdaughter of bis nunt, and suddenly ID seemed to htm thut mortal man could ask for notblng better than Lisa for a wife, and life tn this out ot tbe way but aristocratic aud exclusive, self satisfied old town. And Lisa was pretty. Not a girl he bad ever known could compare with her In beauty, not to mention a certain rare grace of manner and au unusual, dainty wit. She bud money and lineage, too, back of ber, and Setb Eckics was old enough nnd wise enough to know tbe value of sucb things. "If silence Is golden," she Interrupted quizzically, "then your burden must Indeed be heavy. Do you know you haven't spoken lor tbe longest whileV" "1 was—thinking." he stammered guiltily, ashamed thnt anything so sordid ns family nud money could for an Instant have associated themselves ln bis mind with the girl herself. It was Lisa that be wanted. "How late!" Lisa exclaimed with the booming ot tbe sunset gun on tbe old fort across tbe channel. "It you but knew It, Setb. we're live miles from home. Then there's dinner and dressing, nnd 1 can't under any circumstances allow n guest to disgrace hlm- self by arriving tardily at a function In his honor. We've got to run for It." She wheeled and led off. Setb following and beeping up lis best lie could, but tiiiilnuiiteil by the distance between them. Was there not the dunce ut the clubhouse yet before tils train at midnight? At any rate, It wns a chance. And Seth mnde the' best of It. The long galleries were bowers of palms and remote from the ballroom, nnd tbere, with the tide pumiueiliig at tbe pier and tossing up sheets of spray, Seth told his story. He was young and handsome and adept, and be pleaded his case well- so well that he and ,.lsn In the white radiance of a big moon nnd wltb the shimmer of wnter about them exchanged vows, iconvluced that ench wns Intended for the other. That wns tbe way life looked that night, but. of course. It would be the seme a yenr hence when I.lsn should be eighteen and the engagement mnde public. Then Seth. fresh from a Inw school, estnbllshed himself In New York. There was no tiresome, weary watting fnr clients. From the very first luck field hln hand, nnd business troubles, growling like hyenas nt the doors of even older men, from blm stood aloof. Besides, he hnd full menstiro of amusements nnd plenstire. Friends he mnde everywhere. His henrty lough snd genial disposition kept him tn demand. Life was so sntlsfnctory nnd success so easy thnt he was nlrendy well spoiled before he met Laura Norton, who was Llsn's exact opposite. Before he knew It lie hnd forgotten his pledge to Lisa and was formally engaged to Laura, the engagement being speedily followed by mn rrlnge. For awhile there were hours pf gloom wben he stood truly aghast at What be had done. In every conceivable light and with all honesty he argued the matter, convincing himself! finally that he had notblng to regret Lisa was young and susceptible. Probably sbe wns already consoled. In any case ii man's maturer judgment wns to he respected, no matter nt what cost And. too, he greatly ad. mired his wife, ber easy adaptability, her cleverness, her accomplishments. Besides, tbey were congenial. Her ambitions fully equaled his, and het penchant for politics was a factor ln his career, pushing him Into places he knew he could not have reached alone, For a time honors seemed absolutely heaped upon him. He could scarcely keep step with fortune's pace, so fast and furiously did Bhe mount But, once started on- the ladder, be continued to climb, even long after his wife's, death aud wben bis hair had grayed and Lisa was but a misty dream. And luck still beld bis hand. He was ln the running for governor, making, the press said, a phenomenal campaign. Men spoke of htm as tbe brilliant light, tbe strong man ot hla time. Everywhere he was made much df, and it was at a reception for him tn the old clubhouse at the end of the pier that a sleeping memory awoke. Could It be possible tbat he was awake? Only an hour ago It might have been tbat be last saw the cool green of the ballroom, tbe long bowers of palms with lights twinkling among the black green foliage, the surf beating at tbe pier and the white foam dashing high. There was music, too, just as on that other night, but Lisa, shimmering In pale green, with the string of pearls close to ber wblte throat and nestling In ber yellow hair -Lisn- "I claim the privilege of an old friend." A musical voice spoke close to his enr ns be leaned on the railing, and some one touched bis arm. It wns Lisa. He knew It before he turned to see her tn pale, shimmering green, with pearls at ber throat and In the satne fair balr. Sbe smiled at blm, too. in the old wny. with little dimples about ber mouth and her sensitive lips moving ever en slightly, though ber fnce wns lu repose. How pretty Rhe wns! Incomparably prettier than that otber nlgbt and witli a sweet, womanly dignity whlcb puzzled hlm. What bad come to ber to so beautify beauty, to so Intensify loveliness? He forgot the yen rs and deeds that lay between that fnroff night and this, like leaves.between the covers pf a book, remembering only as It were the preface tbat once sbe had loved blm. tbat be still loved, her, the crown of any man's life. "Lisa!" be cried, his face aglow, his bands extended, "Lisa!" "Dreaming!" she laughed. Then tbe little band pulled at bis sleeve as tbe otber reached toward two men In the shadows. One of tbem was strong and fine and one was young and handsome. "I want you, Seth," she said, "to know my son and my husband." Not Entirely Undisputed. The case before the court was one Involving the ownership of a tract of land, aud tbe attorney for one of the parties to tbe suit was cross examining a witness. "Now, Mr. Urlmstaaw," he said, "the property on wbleb you live was originally a part of tbe twenty acres in dispute, was It not?" "Yes, sir." "And your title Is based on tbe original title to that land, I presume?' "Yes, sir." "How long have you resided there?' "Over twenty-oue years." "Have you- hod—now. mark me— have you hud twenty-one years' undisputed possession of tbnt property?" Tbe witness hesitated a moment. "Remember. Mr. Urlmshaw," said the lawyer, ralslug his voice, "that you ure under oath. Have you bad twenty- one yenrs' undisputed possession ot tbnt property?" "It bas been disputed once, and only once." answered the witness. "I found n nest of bumblebees In my back yard one day last summer." In tbe general laugh thnt followed this answer the lawyer subsided.— Youth's Companion. Freaks of Figures. Some person of a mathematical turn of mind bus discovered tbat tbe multiplication of B87(I54*121 (which, you will observe, nre simply the figures 1 to 0, Inclusive, reversed! by 45 gives 44,444,444,445. Reversing the order of tbe digits and multiplying 123450781) by 45 we get a result equally curious -viz. 5.555,555,505. If we take 12345- 0781) as the multiplicand and. Interchanging the figures lu 45 so as to make them read 54, use the last number as a multiplier the result will he (■.(■mi.tlim.itnil. Returning to tbe multiplicand D87H54.1LM and taking 54 as the multiplier again, the result will be 611,- m.i:i:i.."S.".4. all threes except the first and Inst figures, which'.ogether rend 54. the multiplier. Taking the some multiplicand and 117. the half of 54. as the multiplier, the product Is 2il.tMtl.0lli*.- 11117, all Ts except the first nnd last figures, which together rend 27, tile multiplier. Now. Interchanging the order nf the figures 27 nnd using 72 In- stent! us a multiplier and 1)87)154:121 as ttie multiplicand we get ns a product 71.111.111.112. ail ones except the first and Inst figures, wblch together read 72, the multiplier. An Infliction. "Your tickets were complimentary, were they not?" "Well," replied the man who bad seen a painfully amateur entertainment. "I thought they were until I saw the show."—London 'i'lt-Hlts. THE FIRST EXCURSION. Thomas Cook* Ran the Pioneer Event* In 1841. , Forty-eight years ago Thomas Cook organized andi advertised the . first- railway excursion in England. Cook wa3 then a turner by trade and a temperance organizer as a side line. One hot summer day in the June of 1841, young Cook Bet out on a walk which was to mark the turning-point; in hie career. It was to Leicester, where he was to be one ol the speakers at a great temperance demonstration. The distance was but fifteen.1' miles—a mere nothing to such a pedestrian as he was; but, as he strode nlong, he read something which' set him tanking deeply. It wos the- newspapei report of the opening of that portion of what was then known as the Midland Counties Railway, which conriected Leicester with Loughborough. ' "•,'. j "i. Now, it had been arranged to. hoi* another demonstration shortly at' Loughborough, and all at once it flashed into his mind, whnt a wonderful success it might be made it the people could go by rail instead of having to walk; hundreds then might go, where dozens would hot otherwise. Full ol the idea, he explained it to his audience that night. All were struck; but, said some, "What obou*! the cost? How many workingmen.- could afford it?" "Lenve that to me," exclaimed Cook. "All of you who- would like to go hold un your hands. So large was the response that, early the next morning, he betook himsell to the office ol John Fox Bell, the secretary of the railway company, and unfolded his plain. Mr. Bell at once fell in with the idea, and himself gove a contribution towards the- preliminary expenses. Within a few hours the arrangements were set forth in print, thus making it the very earliest publicly advertised excursion train. On the 5th ol July, the excursion duly started, numbering five hundred and seventy passengers, amidst great popular enthusiasm, a band ol musio- accompanying them to the station, whilst all Loughborough turned out- to welcome them. A CANADIAN'S SUCCESS. Clarksburg Boy Gets Degree of Ph.D. / > From Chicago. Mr. E. 8. Moore of Clarksburg, whs- graduated at the University of Toronto in 1904, Ib the first Canadian to receive the degree of Ph.D. from the*- geological department of Chicago Uni DR. E. S MOOBE. versity. It was conferred upon hint' a short time ago, with the additional1 distinction of "Magna Cum Lsude." He hos also been appointed senior professor of geology in the State University of Pennsylvania, duties to- commence in September next. Dr. Moore is at present in charge of » geological survey party in New Ontario, where he has held a siniilar position for the poet five years: An Old Time English Election*. A curiouB incident occurred at Patton at an election for Parliament.. Sir Mark Wood, who had been one of its members for several years, Hnd ns his colleugue in the Parliament of 1812 Sir William Cohgreve, the inventor of* the famous "Congreve Rocket." The latter resigned in 1810, and the baronet wished hia own son to fill the vacancy. There were only three voters-in the constituency, Sir Mark, his son and his butler, named Jennings, but o» the son was awny and the butler hnd quarreled with his moster an opportunity was afforded for a singular revenge. Jennings refused to second Sir Mark's nomination of his son and* proposed himself, and a deadlock wns averted only by Sir Mark coming tt> terms with the refractory butler, whose nominn'ioni he seconded in order to induce him to act us a seconder to his son. Mutters being thus put formally iri' train, Sk Mark arranged with Jennings tnot the former's vote should be- alone given, and the final state of the poll at Gnttnn's only known contest stood thus; Wood (Tory), 1; Jennings* (Whig), 0.—Westminster Gazette. Venerable Trees. Over fifty of the "venerable trees"" which Dr. Johnson nnd Boswell gaze* upon in the vicinity of Cawdor Castle, Nairn, ore, it is Baid, still flourishing. One of the beeches hos a girth of W feet and a spread ot branches of over 100 ieet. One beautiful gean-tree, which has been blossoming for over 300 years, has this season again presented a sight of splendor, while several fine nsh trees, planted in 1670,. ure still holding seasonable rivalry with aged oaks, The antiquity of Cawdor Wood is surpassed, of course, by the patch ol Codzow Forest, at Hamilton, where oaks thot budded when Bruce was king ure still giving evidences of life; but Cawdor has a Bplondor which is not possible amid) the smoke-tinged atmosphere of Ced- r.ow.—Glasgow News. Madrid Is Highest. Madrid has the highest altitude ol any city in Europe. THE REPORTER, NEW MICHEL, BRITISH COLUMBIA. WORLD'S FINEST GEM STORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE CULLINAN DIAMOND. EX-SHAH NOT WELCOME. Man Who Found It Thought at First That He Was Dreaming or That Someone Had Played a Joke on Him—Insured For Huge Sums While In Transit—Four Detectlvei Watched Cutting at Amsterdam. The late acquisition of the two magnificent flawless diamonds of the purest blue white color, cut from the great Cullinan crystal, establishes the supremacy of the diamond collection among the crown jewels of Great Britain as the largest and most valuable in the world. The history of this wonderful diamond is one of romance from the evening of June 25, 1905, it waB flrst seen glittering upon the side of the deep excavation in the primier mine in the Transvaal, down to its instalment in a new and living form among the crown jewels on public view in the Tower of London, Mr. George Frederick Kuntz, in the June Century magazine has dealt exhaustively with the Excelsior odd Cullinan diamonds, but as the Excelsior has been, broken up into ten splendid smaller jewels it has lost its identity; and ns the Cullinan has furnished the two largest diamonds in existence weighing respectively 6161-2 and 300 3-16 carats, besides a drop diamond of 9.2 carats, a square brilliant of 6.2 carats, flve.other smaller stones, and 96 still smaller brilliants and 0 unpolished "ends," it claims our special attention. When Mr. Frederick Wells first cnught sight oi the gleam in the earth he climbed up after it, and- had a good deal of difficulty in extricating it. When I took a good look at the stone stuck there in the side of the pit it suddenly flashed across my mind thnt I hnd gone insane—that the whole thing was imaginary. I knew it could not be a diamond. Some practical joker had planted this huge chunk of glass there for me to find." Mr. Wells soon, however, convinced himself of the genuineness of the stone which when it was cleaned weighed 3.024 .'"-4 carats, and wos three times the size of any" other diamond that hod ever been discovered, ln the course, of n few hours the news wns telegraphed to oil ports of the world that the greatest diamond of this or any other age hod been brought to light. The company rewarded Mr. Wells with $10,000, ond the founder of the company gave the diamond his own name, Cullinan. It is supposed to lie a fragment, probably less than baby, of o crystal, the other portions of which nre still to be discovered; and gigantic as it is. It represents in weight less thnn half the daily output of the De Heers mines, which average about 7.000 carats. The owners, realizing the snf»ty ol the British mail, sent the stone to London as an ordinary registered parcel, but insured it from risk in transit for $1,250,000, On arrival it was placed in the vaults of the Standard Bank of South Africa. The King desired to see it, so when It was taken to Buckingham Palace for an hour or two, a special policy was made out for $2,500,000 at n cost of $725. "This is a great curiosity," said the King, "but I should have knocked it aside as a lump of glass if I hod seen it in the rood." After several suggestions as to the disposal of it, the Transvaal Legislature decided to purchase it, and present it to King Edward VII. on his sixty-six birthday as a testimonial of the gratitude of the Transvnal for the grant of automony accorded by the English Government. $750,000 is said to be the price agreed upon (hut it is not definitely known), $300,000 ol which was paid in ensh, snd the remainder was covered by the three- fifths of the proceeds of the diamond mines that is turned over to the colonial Government. On November 9, 1907, it was delivered to the King, who the same dny communicated to the Government his acceptance for himself and his successors, and added that "this great and unique diamond shall be kept and preserved among the historic jewels which form the heirlooms ol the crown." Four detectives accompanied the treasure to Amsterdam, January 23, 1908, where it took months to cut and polish it. The cutting is expensive, $40,000 was paid for the recuttiug of the Kohinoor diamond ip 1852. The expense of cutting the Cullinan stone was met by the sale of some of the minor (jems. The greatest and most interesting precautions were tnl'e*> ' its safety in Amsterdam. The two large stones have "" named "The King Edwurd Diunio',. , and "The Queen Alexandra Diamond," and a court jeweler has been setting some of the other larger diamonds so that on state occasions they may be worn on the crown by Hie Majesty, but at less formal events they may be detached and worn by the Queen as a necklace. Romeo's Predicament. During bis stage career, Forbes Robertson, like most other actors, has been the victim of a number of awk. ward misadventures. On one occasion he was playing "Romeo ond Ju liet" with Modanie Modjeska. He was seated on the steps of the tomb and had commenced to apostrophize bis lost love when he found to his borrot that the steps, which were on castors, were moving toward the footlights "Vat is de matter?" nskod Modjeska. "The steps nre moving nway," said Mr. Robertson. "Then you will hove to jump,' was the comforting response. He jumped. Didn't Like Papers. Alexander William Kiuglake, author of "Eothen" and "History of the Wat In the Cr men," was no admirer of the daily press, even in early days. Once looking at old Mr. Villiers, then lath er of the Commons, he remarked, with his meditative drawl, "A clever man, before he softened his brain by studying the newspapers I" Persia's Deposed Ruler Cannot Live In England. The Marquese de Fonteroy tells the following: For tbe first time in many years King Edward has found it necessary to deny the hospitality of English territory to a foreign sovereign, to discover a precedent for whicli it is necessary to go buca to 1815, when the great Napoleon, after the battle of Waterloo, begged to be allowed to take up his residence in England, sought refuge on un English warship with that object iu view, was not allowed to land anu was shipped off to St. Helena. The foreign monarch who has now requested permission to establish his home in England is the dethroned Shah of Persia, und I hear that both Edward VII. and his ministerial advisers, have taken the ground that aside from the inconveniences of permitting u full-fledged oriental establishment, hureiu anu oil, within the borders of the United Kingdom, the otter oi hospitality to the ex-shah Would be misconstrued not alone in Persia, but also in India, and, indeed, throughout the Orient. Were the ex- shah to live in England the Persian people would always remain under the impression thut at some future period he would be brought bock to Teheran and restored to power by the British Government, and they would in consequence thereof be disinclined to accord their confidence to the present regime in Persia or to believe in its stability. Of other deposed sovereigns who have sought refuge in England and who have mode their homes there while iu exile, one may mention Napoleon III. and his empress, who still lives at Farnborough, hear Aldershot; King Louis Philippe and Queen Marie Anielie, King Charles X. and -Louis XVIII., all pf France; the late King Francis of Naples and his consort; ex-King Milan ol Servia ond Queen Natalie;, the consort of ex-King Miguel of Portugal, who is now lady abbess of the Benedictine Convent ot Ryde, on the Isle of Wight; ex-King Joseph Bonaparte of Spain, ex-Khedive Ismuii ol Egypt, the ex-King ol the Punjab, the late Dhuleen Singh, and Alfonso XII. of Spain prior to his restoration in the early 70's. Indeed, Alfonso XII., went through a course of military training at the Royal Staff College at Sandhurst in England. Strange Hindu Beliefs. In India the traditions of folklore nre numerous- and strange. ■- Among those pertaining to the tiger the following ore the most peculiar: The uneducated Hindu (and he is in the great majority) believes that the ghost of a man killed by n tiger rides on the head of the benst that slew him to worn him oi danger and to guide him to new victims. It is declared that God provides for the tiger's daily wants to the amount of one rupee a day; that *s to say, if the tiger kills a calf worth six rupees he will not be allowed another victim for five days. Eating the flesh of a tiger iB supposed to give one great courage and alertness, but the whiskers flrst must be signed off the the beast, or his spirit will haunt the man who fed off him and he is likely to be turned into a tiger in the next world. The following incident reolly occurred in a small Indian village in the interior: One of the villagers, was, unfortunately, killed by a tiger. The police investigated the accidental death and rendered this verdict: "Pandu died of a tiger eating him; there was no cause of death. Nothing was left of him save his bones and some fingers, which probably belonged to either the right or left hand." New Cabinet Minister's Story. The new Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Mr. Herbert Samuel, is a member of a well-known Jewish family of bankers, and was born in Liverpool. After a brilliant career at Oxford, Mr. Samuel devoted himself to politics, and twice contested South Oxfordshire unsuccessfully. He is a forcible speaker, avoiding the style of oratory that marks the average election campaign, and of which he tells un amusing story. "One night, us 1 arrived late to address a meeting, 1 sow a working man whom I knew lounging at the doorway of the hull, while from within came a continuous and earnest bellowing. 'Do you know who'B speaking?' I asked my friend. 'Or haven't you been in?' 'Oh, yes, I've been in,' said he. 'Mr. A is speaking.' 'What about?' 1 inquired. My friend sighed and shook his head. 'He didn't Bay,' he answered." Mr. 8aniuel is only in his thirty-lourth year, and so can claim to have made a rapid success in the political arena. Aviator Is Confident. If Mr. W. Gibson of Victoria, B.C.. realizes his expectations witli respect to the aeroplane he has invented, then the Pacific Coast will be able to claim the honor of having done something very practical towards the solution of the problem ol aerial navigation. Mr. Gibson's flying machine is less thon a third the weight of the Wright machine and develops 40 more horse-power. The inventor offers to bet that in a year he will fly from Seattle to Vancouver in his machine. Its weight is only 222 pounds, ond the motor. develops 65 horse-power. The feature of the Gibson aeroplane is that it flies straight forward instead of sideways. While other aeroplanes present their widest side to the front, it presents the narrowest. A FAMOUS BELLE. Countess of Cardigan Is Still Alert and Fascinating, > If one of the famous ladies of the Regency or of the Empire had Stepped out of tbe past to greet me I could hardly hare been more impressed tban when the Countess of Cardigan received me in her drawing-room and told me some of her memories of the past, about which she bad written a book that will shortly be published. And indeed Bhe was a belle and a famous one, in the time of the Second Empire, and she was born only just after the days of the Regency. Nobody would believe it if they saw her to-day. Her figure is slim and upright, her face is scarcely lined, her eyes are those of a young woman, and see, you may be sure, aa much of the amusing side of life as they have ever done. And when you hear her talk of the scenes and the figures of the post, her talk is so alert that it is difficult to believe that she is speaking of the time before Queen Victoria came to the throne. She wore a dress of rose- colored silk trimmed with old lace, and round her neck some strings of great pearls, and her dress became her. You felt that the sombre clothes of an old woman would not have suited her at all. One of her earliest recollections is of a children's ball at St. James' Palace which William IV! gave in honor of the Princess Victoria, who was then about thirteen. Ludy Cardigan— Bhe was then Miss Adelaide de Horsey —was only five and during the course of the entertainment Bhe was missed, but discovered eventually curled up in the King's chair fast asleep. She remembers, too, the preparations foi the great Eglinton Tournament, which wus to be a revival oi mediaeval glories but was unfortunately spoilt by rain. Duvernay taught her to dance—the famous Duveruay who afterwards became Mrs. Lyne Stephens, succeeded to the vast fortune of her husband, und died a very old woman not so many years ago. Early portraits of Lady Cardigan show her as a very beautiful girl with an expression of great vivacity. One ol them was pointed about the time she was engaged to the Count de Montemolin, son of the first Don Car- ) los, claimant to the Spanish throne and uncle of Don Carlos who died the other day. "1 remember him ub an infant," she told me, "with very black eyes." The Count de Montemolin was on a visit with his brother to the Duke und Duchess of Nemours at Orleans House, Twickenham, and fell violently in love with the young English beauty. She still keeps his love letters, and some of them are to be reproduced in the book she is j preparing. The Incompleat Anglers. Mr. A. E. W. Mason, M.P. for Coventry, England, novelist, playwright, and one-time actor, has made good use of hiB electoral experience in his new play, "Colonel Smith." This literary Parliamentarian confesses that he writes very deliberately, usually taking two years to the writing of one book. There is, however, nothing of the recluse about Mr. Mason, for he spends all his spare time in the open air, und is an enthusiastic yachtsman and mountaineer. In the sailing expeditions which he often makes on the West Coast of Scotland, he is sometimes accompanied by Mr. Andrew Lang, who is no less devoted to out-door sport. A friend of both writers tells how he once called at a little inn and asked the landlady what kind of people usually came there. "Oh, often literary people," she declared with pride. "Sometimes Mr. Andrew Lung und Mr. Mason. They come for the fishing." "And do they catch much?" inquired the interested friend. "Well, no sir," admitted the landlady, "they never catches anything; but, there sir, they fishes beautifully." Quaint Injunction In Will. The quaint testamentary injunction of ah eighteenth century gardener and botanist was observed for the one hundred und eightieth successive year ot Shoreditch parish church, says The London Stundurd, when what is known us the '-'vegetable lecture," was Rev, E. K. FATE OF PERPETUAL CLOCK. James Cox's Ingenious Machine May Now Be In China. In the eighteenth century an ingenious jeweler named James Cox, of Shoe Lane, London, constructed a clock which was rendered perpetuAl by a cleverly contrived attachment which utilized the rise and full of tile barometer to supply the necessary energy. The movement of the mercury actuated a cog wheel in such a mannel that whether the mercury rose or fell the wheel alwoys revolved in the some direction and kept the weights that supplied the movement of the clock always wound up. The barometer bulb dipped into, a mercury cis- tern. The cistern hung attached to the extremities ot two rockers, to the left end of one and the right end of the other. The bulb was similarly attached to the other extremities of the rockers, which are thus moved every time there is a change in tbe amount of mercury in bulb and cistern, respectively. The rockers actuated a vertical ratchet, and the teeth were so arranged that the wheel they controlled could only move in one direction, whether the ratchet ascended and descended. The clock itself, was an ordinary one, but of very strdng and superior workmanship, and wss jeweled with diamonds at every bearing, the whole being enclosed in a glass case which, while it excluded dust, displayed the entire mechanism. The.fate ol Cox's clock was brought to light in o work called "Travels in China," published in 1804 and written by John Barrow. , , . , In this book it is stated that in the list of presents carried by "the late Dutch Ambassador" were "two grand pieces of machinery that were part of the curious musesu of Cox." One of these apparently was the perpetual clock, ahd it was taken by the Dutch Ambassador to China, where in the journey from Canton to Pekin both the instruments suffered some slight, damage. Efforts were made to repair at Pekin, but on leaving the capital it discovered that the Chinese Curate's Substitute. The newly-appointed Arcli bishop of Sydney was formerly Archdeacon Wright of Manchester, who is to be warmly congratulated on his new honors, for the Archbishopric of Sydney is the highest position, outside England, to be obtained in the Anglican Church, and its income is $16,000 a year. The archbishop once went to hear a sermon Irom u newly-ordained young curate, who nervously rose, fumbled with the papers on his desk, blushed, and then said: "My friends —I, 1 am sorry to say that I hnve lost the notes for my sermon, and I therefore cannot deliver it. I will have to do the next best thing, therefore, and read a tew chapters from the Bible I" Prime Minister, Ho-tchang-tong, had substituted two other clocks of very inferior workmanship and hud reserved Cox's mechanism for himself. Trader's First Deal. The chiei characteristic, as a child, of Mr. A. W. Gamage, who presided at the general meeting of the well- known firm bearing his name, wus a well-developed instinct for making money, ana before he was seven years of age he had corried through two business "deals." There was a considerable difference between these transactions, the first being of a pastoral, the second of a money-lending nature. At the time the boy's great desire was to obtain a certain watch he admired in a Hereford jeweler's window, and, having saved some fifteen shillings out of pocket money, he persuaded his father to sell him a lamb for the amount, his intentions, of course, being to purchuse the watch out of the profit he expected to realize on the lamb when it became a sheep. Alas; a dog entered the fold, und the ewe lamb, greatly frightened, strangled itself between the bars of a hurdle. The future merchant prince wos now reduced to four shillings, snd the watch seemed further off than ever, but hio father came to the rescue and sold, or rather gave, his son another lamb for four shillings. This one safely reached maturity, and brought to its owner thirty shillings. The youthful speculator did not, however, buy the watch then as he could not bring himself to port with the gold, and, in the second place, he shortly afterwards found another use for it. The Wrong Lord Charles. Like his brother, Lord Kerry; now member for mid-Derbyshire, Lord Charles Fitzmaurice, who has been appointed equerry-in-ordinary to the Prince of Wales, adopted a military career at an early date, and is st the present time a captain in the 1st (Royal) Dragoons. During his enrly days in India, an amusing incident occurred. Having a lew weeks' leave he wired to book rooms at a certain hill station. On his arrival he wo? surprised to see the officer command. WANTS TALK TO STOP. Lord Charles Beresford Would End Party Controversy. Lord Charles Beresford has been the guest of tile London Chamber of Commerce at a complimentary dinner at the Hotel Cecil. Mr. Stanley Mo- chin, chairman of the Council of the I Chamber, presided, and among those present were Lord Brassey, Admiral Sir E. Frenmntle, Sir Cyprian Bridge, Rear-Admiral Field, Lieutenant Carlton Bellairs, Sir F. Flonnery, Lieutenant-General Sir J. W. Laurie. Lord Charles Beresford, who was enthusiastically received, Baid his suggestions at the meeting which he addressed a fortnight ago had received a great deal of criticism, much of it quite fair, some of it most unfair. He wished it to be understood that he would have nothing whatever to do with party politics with regard to the navy. His statement as to the deficiency of the 'fleet, as organized for war, he submitted to the Prime Minister. It was not a party manoeuvre; he wished to help the man at the helm to steer the ship of State, and not to throwvlifflculties in his way. The Prime Minister thought the statement so serious that he ordered an inquiry. He (Lord Charles) never asked for the inquiry; it was not his husiness to do so. Throughout the whole period his line had been Imperial and national, and that line he intended to take in the future. He adhered to every word he said at the meeting in the city on June 30, and he intended to make no excuse for that speech. The four contingent battleships should be laid down this year, because we should be in arrear in our shipbuilding vote, snd if we did ; not lay them down we should be in Ihe position, in the event of a great triple alliance, of not being able to make u new program, as the yards would be full of ships of the old program. The next important point won to get their plant ready. We could hot turn out more than seven ships'with gun-mountings yearly, whereas Germany was able to turn out ten. This waa a serious point, and we ought to begin to increase our plant next week, so as to he ready for any demand and to make ourselves absolutely secure. If the competition in armaments continued, we should have to begin a new program altogether in 1913. The arrears Of shipbuilding and false economy from which we were now suffer- ing meant thut for every $500 saved we should have to pay $2,500 or more to get things back tb where they were, and in case of a panic something like $5,000. '.-'■' He wished all party controversy on the navy would cease, and that all would take a broad und Imperial view of the situation, devoting their attention to the common end of making the naval defence of this country adequate and strong. (Loud cheers.) WHERE SIMCOE LIVED GOVERNOR'S HOME AT HONITOrl IN DEVONSHIRE. preached by the vicar, Ford. In 1729 Thomas Fuirchild died , wrw ■-.— •■■-, v. . «, ., at the age of sixty-three years, and trig the «»»™,h't7 ""d s bequeathed $125 to the church war- ' platform to meet the train,.and « bequeathed $125 to dens ot Shoreditch, stipulating that the interest should be paid each Whit Tuesday tor the delivery by a selected preacher ol un address on "The wonderful works of God in creation, or the certuinty of the resurrection of the dead by certain changes of the creution.*' Fuirchild hud extensive grounds in the duyB when "the Hox- ton hamlet" was noted (or its productions, and he introduced many varieties of foreign fruits und flowers. In the borough council's small public garden in Hackney rood, close to tiie church, there is u tombstone recording the injunction as to the lecture. Set to Muiic. "If you have a freckle make the most of it," is the motto of the present day, and Mr, Cove-Brown-Cuve, of Montreal, shows his wisdom in being proud of a name that many a weaker man would sink under. Mont- reulers are telling what they claim to be a true story at his expense. The other day Mr. H. S. Holme, also of Montreal, addressed Mr. Cave- Brown-Cave as "Mr. Cave." At this the owner of the three-fold appellation stiffened up and remarked: "My name is Cavc-Brown-Cove, Mr. Holme." "Oh, is it?" Baid Mr. Holme. "Well, mine is Holme-Swcet-Home," A Water Wijard. It was while the well-known engineer, Mr. G. F. Deacon, whose lamented death recently occurred, wos in charge of Liverpool's waterworks system that he invented the differentiating waste-water meter. He projected the Vyrnwj scheme in 1870, nnd subsequently completed, as engineer-in- ehief, the first Instalment of the scheme, which cost two and a half millions sterling. Mr. Deacon wns the author of many clever papers on engi. neering matters read before tachnuta) end scientific societies. Peer as Porter. Lord Howard de Walden. who is one of the few millionaire sportsmen who are also interested In classical literature, haB just written another poetic play. Lord Howard is said to be the finest swordsman in Britain, und takes daily exercise with the foils. Another of his interests is the revival of the ancient sport of falconry, and at Audley End, his delightful seat in Sussex, are collections of trained hawks, falcons, und goshawks. The greater part of Lord Howard's large income is derived from ground rents in the Marylebone district. Marine motoring is also a hobby of this sporting peer, and he was indulging m it at Hyde last spring when an incident occurred which still occasions him amusement, tinged with regret. His motor-boat had sustained some damage, and, clod in dirty overalls, he wus tinkering at it close to the pier when an old lady, struggling under the weight of a large portmanteau, approached and said: "Young man, will you please carry my bug on board thut bout yonder? I want to cross to Portsmouth." Without a moment's hesitation his lordship relieved the old lady of her luggage, and, steering his way towards the boat she had pointed out, saw her salely aboard with her possessions Long after the boot had suited, Lotd Howard was relating the in. cident to a friend, who told him thut thnt pnrticulnr boot was not going to Portsmouth at all, but to the French coast. guard of honor drawn up. Accosting an officer with whom lie was slightly acquainted, he inquired the meaning of the array. "Oh. Lord Charles Beresford is cominit," was the reply. His lordship looked puzzled nnd snid, "Don't talk nonsense, 1 urn the only white mart on the train." After sonic discussion it eventually transpired that by some error the telegraphist hnd sent the messnge thnt "Lord Chnrles Beresford" wns coming, instead of "Lord Charles Fitzmaurice." Tho feelings of the - officer commanding may be imagined. Hero of a Siege. Sir F. M. Hodgson. Governor ol British Guiana, is ut present in England on leave ol absence. Ten years ago, while Sir Frederic was governor of the Gold Const, ho, with Lady Hodgson, wns besieged in Coomnssie by the Ashnnti people. They were for some weeks in hourly danger of logins their lives, und had no food other than dog-biscuits and tinned meats. Sir Frederic is the son of a South Country rector, and earlier in his career held a position in the General Postofllce. Once, nt n dinner given in his honor, n spenkcr referred to this tact. "Our honored guest," he said, "began life as u clerk in the savings bunk." Sir Frederic, rising to reply, Biniled drily. "I am afraid someone has been fooling the last speaker," he sulci; "I began life as an infant." White Horse of Kilbum. Tho biggest artificial. horse In the world is the famous white hors'e of Kilhurn, Englnnd, whicli was formed fifty years ago by a nntivo of Kilbum, who cut oway the turf in the correct form and covered it with limestone. The whole occupies nbout two acres of ground ond may be seen twenty miles awny. It is said that twenty persons can sit ou the "eye" of the horse. Veterans Thinning Out. The survivors of the Indian Mutiny are gradually diminishing in number, the-latest to full out of the ranks be. ing Mrs. Thompson, who died recently at Delhi ot cholera. As Miss Alone, this lady did invaluable service during the siege ol Lucknow in 1857. On more than one occasion she risked her life crossing from the ladies' quarters to the hospital amid a show- er of bullets to take such nourishment as wus uvuilebh' to the unfortunate soldiers who were wounded. The "lassie w-i' the red hair," ns she was described by u Scottish inmate of the hospital, was looked upon as 4 mill- istering angel. Soldiers' Children Burn. A shocking accident occurred re cently ut the Buenu Vista Barracks in Gibraltar. Three children belonging to Sergts. Parker and Rover, ol the llcuforusiiire Regiment, were playing ut housekeeping iu a large paCiHi, casa containing straw at the back of the officers mess. The struw ignited, und the Humes set lire to the children's clothes. A passing policeman rescued them, throwing his coat round one after the other, and himself being badly burned. Two ol the children, Lily Purker and Evu Rover, botli aged three, died subsequently in the military hospital. Another little girl, Adu Parker, was severely injured. A Carpenter's Son. Sir Hubert von Herkomer, the famous artist, is the son of a carpenter who possessed such all-round 'skill thnt he built the house in which the puintcr was born. When Sir Hubert von Herkomer wus n baby his fstner once took him in liis arms und said, "This boy shall one duy be my best friend, nnd he shnll be nn artist." The distinguished Academician's mo ther, who wos a tulented violinist and pianist, helped lo support the home by giving music lessons. Founder of Upper Canada After < Hard Struggle In the Wilderncssei of North America Went Home to Rest and Built Wolford Lodge- Many Relics of the Pioneer Still Exist In the Historic Old Manor. High among the hills surrounding Honiton, the little country town which is famed far and wide aa the Centre of the lace-making industry of Devon, stands Wolford Lodge, the pleasant English home where Gen. Simcoe, the founder of Upper Canada, apenl' the last few years of his eventful life. Weakened by the wounds and hardships endured in the disheartening campaigns of the American revolutionary war, and worn with his anxious toil for the benefit of the new ttriusu province wliich it haa bien given to him to organize in the wilderness, he went back to England in IVMi to seek well-earned repose. But rest was not for him. Almost immediately he was Bent back, across the Atlantic to put down an insurrection in the West Indies. Returning again to his native land, he began, about the year 1800, to build himself a spacious mansion on a green slope deep amongst the gently-rounded, well-cultivated hills of lovely Devon. Surely na toil-worn warrior ever found a more restful spot in which to spend the evening of his days, for still, despite vastly increased population, despite railways and motor-cars, the whole land speaks ol peace. The lodge was built in solid fashion by the general round an old farmhouse," which was1 on the estate when he bought it. Except for the addition of some large bow-windows, the house has been little altered from tin original design, nnd much of the old furniture remains, in its spacious rooms. So large are they that an ancient four-post bedstead appears a comparatively small piece of furniture, and the general's own bedroom is larger than many a village church. In the different rooms numerous relics connected with him have been carefully preserved, ' On either side of the staircase window, in the square entrance hall; are two venerable flags, the colors of the "Queen's Rangers," a provincial .corps of Loyalists, which 'waB raised by Simcoe and did gallant service during the revolutionary war. This corps was as notable for strict discipline as for dash and courage, which, unfortunately, is more th "ii can be said for some other Loyalist troops, and doubtless Simcoe's successful organization of the "Rangers" was the reason for his btdng asked to undertake the more difficult and important task of organizing a new government. He threw himself into the work with an energy and self-abnegation whicli has won for him a place amongst the heroes of our \history, and has sent many a Canadian on pilgrimage to his home in Devon, that beautiful county which has so long a roll of "worthies" connected with the exploration of the western world. By birth, however, Gen. Simcoe was not ii Devonian. He was born st Cot- teratock in Northamptonshire, but on the death of his father (one of Wolfe's gallant officers who died in Canada during the campaign against Quebaci, he and his only brother, who was soon afterwards drowned in the Exo, were brought by their mother to Exe- ter to begin their education at thi free grammar school of that ancient cathedral city. In the hell ai Wolford, opposite thi colors of the "Rangers," is a portrait of Simcoe as a youne man, standing with two friends b-si-'c the massive tombstone of a dMi'irted ccmrnde;' nnd in the drawing-room hangs the miniature of the general token in lot- er life, reproductions of which have made familiar to Canadians the features ol tho first governor of Upper Canada. There is a companion miniature of his wife as a young and pretty woman, wearing a variety of tho quaint Welsh head-dress of closely- plait'd cup, siirmoqnt"d by a hat; but in this case the hat is blue in- stead of black, and the crown is lower than thot ordinarily associated with the women of the principality. Mrs. Simcoe was the daughter and heiress of a gentleman of Hereford, who wos descended from the ancient Kings of Wales, und family traditions describe her i'.s a woman of high character and rather severe temper, After her husband's death she reigned at Wolford Lodg1 for four und forty years. She hnd nine children, of whom seven were girls; and the story goes that to tile last she would never allow her daughters to sit down in her presence without special permission. Nowadays a set of bookshelves across the end fnr'host from the large triple-windowed hay fives o hint of its original purpose. Above the bookcase lumps a long piece of carved teak- wood from the luckless "Royal George." whicli. whil» being repaired, went down, with Keiupenfnldt and "his twice four hundred men,'' at Spithead 111 1782. Ben-ulh this relic stands a buBt of Gen. Wolfe, and here und there i bout the room are snow- shoes, Indian biskeh; and hirchbark cunoi'S, that evinc the interest taken in all things Cnnudian by Mrs. Simcoe, the present kind and gracious ehateHne 'if Wolford Lodge. One of the child ornaments of Ihe iibrary is "a trophy" consisting of a sword snd wnlkiiie stick us"d by the general, the midshipman's dirk and the sword nf his grandson (Mrs. Simcoe's htfsband, who was a naval officer), and other arms connected not only with tho family history, but incidentally with many stirring events in the development of the Empire. Mrs. Simcoe. by the way, lias in her possession n ! unique collection of medals won by ] her father nnd her two grandfathers, j all three of whom distinguished themselves at Waterloo. The Jewish Race. There are about eleven million Jewa in the world. THE REPORTER, NEW MICHEL, BRITISH COLUMBIA. T}IE 11 MIRANDAS. A Story cf a Going Away and a Joyous Return Trip. " By CLINTON DANGERFIELD. When Herbert Muxoti climbed out of the wagon In front of the liihiiliduse pale he looked forward whb nil u city toy's delight lo a whole xactfa In tin- country. Thai he had never seen Ills mint or uncle before did not trouble mm lu ibe least. He hud been hmtlght up lu a wholesome belief III the kindness of human nature In general and showed ll so fi'utikly. luut people lururiably turned their best side toward this sunny faced lad of len. His uncle came hurrying down the box trimmed path to inept hlm. "I'm glnd to see ye. real glad," he declared warmly. "I'd 'a' come myself 'sieud nf sendln' Lucas, but I've hud the rheiimuilz considerable lately." The boy paused a second at the doorstep to remark on the beauty of two full lenved and fruited apple trees which grew nlmost at the threshold, one at each side. Rut to his surprise ibb Lay uuivsiima anu sighing at thb FBKT OP HIKANDA 8WKKT. tola uncle scowled slightly and hurried blm Into tbe house. Only tbe cheery voice of the Are welcomed blm. Herbert turned que*- tlonlngly to his uncle: "Aunt—Is she welll" Jonas Alwyn showed a momentary -. confusion before the boy's blear (lance; Tben be sold hastily: "Well? Oh, yes. But she ain't to home Jest now—won't be fer several •Jajri." ) Time sped swiftly, there was bo much to see and to do. True, his uncle's disposition varied from extreme cheerluess to fits of moody.abstraction. He proved to be so skillful a cook tbat be filled his nephew with wonder. "I'll bet aunt's pancakes don't beat yours." be remarked one morning, his month full of light cakes and sirup, making the compliment a trifle Indistinct ' Jonaa started, tben pushed away his coffee as though something had affected his appetite. "They*re a sight better," he arid so gloomily that Herbert laughed outright. "I didn't think you'd be sensitive on tbe subject, uncle. Wben Bhe comes I'll tell her what you said. Hnve yuu beard from ber lately?" rNot ter say lately." "Mother thought she was bere wben fou wrote," went on Herbert His uncle rose excitedly. ••Ye don't mean It." be declared vehemently. "No: ye don't mean It, 'cause ye don't know nnwthin' nbout It. But she ain't set foot In this bouse fer eight yenrs come next Nwfiiber." Herbert toff, fnilc lo nls turn. "I'm sorry." he faltered. "I never kaew-motlier dtnic': know-thut anything hud-gone wrong." "Everything'* gone wrong." said his unci" miserably. Suddenly he clutched, bis neppw and hurried hlm tiff the door, then down In the pathway, where he faced hlm nbout before the two fruit trees. •This one." snid his uncle, waving his right bond lnnch^w If he were Introducing ii duchess. "Is Miranda (tweet." nnd thin mie. "a wave to Ihe left aud a frown. "Is Miranda Pour." Herbert smothered a desire to laugh. "Ob! Named lifter my nuntr "Jest bo! Them two are Rpcdhn's. an' I planted 'em tile spring nl«r went away. It's mighty queer that tbe.v. come true ter the names I give 'em! As ter ber golii'-thiif w'ust a misnnder- n.mdln'. She's gut prop'ty of Mr own. r.lKiut er. much ex I own., nn' she's llvln' on it ten miles awny. I nln'r"- . he choked n llttli--"l ain't seen her fence thnt spring mnrnln' wben she an' me hnd It out In the kitchen. I watched her hiinult go found the turn, an'-an' I uln'l heard n word of he •cept whnt the neighbors let drup'* "Since kIip's oniy len miles nway," said Herbert, with nil the strnlghtfor- ward contldenre uf youth. "1 should go to ber nnd tell her it was Just a misunderstanding." "That's Jest what I can't do." returned his uncle, with extr.'i**» moodiness. "Every time I stnr'. an' I've started mnre'n onct, suthiii ,iulls me bock. I do b'lleve It's Mh.in.jii Sour." "Miranda Sour?" "Wh"»nshe wentawoy I nuMedthem two swdlln's fer her—Mir;.'tx,,. Sweet." his vnlco faltered, "ter'mtal me of how party she looked tbe day she nn' me flood ip before the preucli.'i' She wn» the pink cheekedest an' softest eyed kit- lu me hull village then. "I named that tree Miranda Sour,"' the old nniu went ou doggedly, "ter 'mind me how set on' contrary your aunt kin be wheu .she's a inclination that u-way! That tree has got all of Miranda's uggruvatinest wuys—the very way them leaves dirt at ye is jest peractlv like the fling Miranda could give tbyjMi skirts of hern wheu she was swishln' pasl ye au 'wouldn't listen ter reason." Herbert hit Miranda Sour a sharp blow witb a stick. "1 wish a worm would gnaw you. wish a hurricane would blow you down." "Nn slch hick." suld Jonas In tones which expressed a certain mournful pride In his forecast lug. "No sich luck. She'll keep on n-growiu'. an' Miranda au' me will keep on glttin' furder an' furder apart." Herbert looked round furtively, tben sidled up to his uncle. "Cut her flown'..'' Jie whispered, one eye on Miranda Sour to see If she overheard. "Cut her down!" exclaimed Jonas angrily. "Cut down tin apple tree er, cost me all that trouble! By gtiui, I'll do nnwthin' of the kind! It's nil yer aunt's fault that them trees Is there, on' there they kin stay fer me." Preoccupied himself. Jonas never detected tbe purpose throbbing In Herbert's whole being nor oven observed the guilty glance thnt his nephew stole at him when the boy asked with assumed calm if be might go fishing Instead nf uccompunylug Jonas tu mill. "Jest as ye like." sold his uncle, somewhat surprised. "Ain't no good flshln' round here, but I s'pose throw- In' the Hue In the wnter '11 satisfy ye." Herbert waited until his uncle had been gone a full half hour; Then he flew around to the wood pile and seized the ax. his heart throbbing to suffocation. He hurried bnck tn the front yard, glancing right and left. There was no one lu sight. He looked nt Miranda Sour, the representative of "the ungodly." Yes. it was no foncy- her leaves rustled an Insolent Challenge. He sprang to her side and sunk his ax deeply In her new smooth hurk. After that the blows fell fast and furiously, ln less tban fifteen minutes-she lay quivering and sighing at the foot of Miranda Sweet. With desperate strength be dragged the fallen one around to the boek yard. Hometlmes in cold terror over his deed, sometimes ttMpb the same exultation that Achilles felt In driving around the walls of Troy, The funeral pyre of Miranda Sour was no easy work, for the day was hot and the limbs full of sap, hilt at last, nothing was left of ber save a few blackened pieces not to be distinguished as parts of an apple tree. Then a tired but determined boy put old Dobbin In the ancient buggy and drove up the rood nt a rate that threatened an Immediate smnshtip. It was It o'clock when Jonns returned. He wns dusty, tired nnd hungry. Then as he opened tbe gate he rubbed bis eyes—it could only be n vision! But certainly the vision bnd warm arms. Tbey clasped blm around tbe neck, and a face still good to look on was upturned to his own, and the old. beloved voice cried out: "Kiss me, Jonas-right here.' right now!" "Miranda!" he gasped, ond then brokenly, "Thank God, ob, tbuul.- God!" "Yes. thank hlm." faltered Miranda, tears failing now. "An' hla Instrument won that blessed boy! Oh. Jonas, he told me how you misspd me nn' how you kept that beautiful apple tree In front of the door to remember me by!" Hot shame and fear flooded Jonas He glanced at the house and felt like rubbing Ids eyes again, for of Miranda Sour not even a stump was left, wblle In sweet and placid humility, comforted wltb mnny apples and tremulous with bints of years nf happiness. Miranda Sweet shaded the doorway lovingly. Tha familiar Combination, A Boston young tunn hud married o Chicago girl, uud they hnd started nn their wedding tour. Despite, or perhaps because of, tbelr studied efforts to appear like "old married folks", their fellow passengers nn thp railway train bad no difficulty In classing ihem as bride and groom und manifested their knowledge by winks, nods and grins. An unfortunate accident to the dining "or compelled the conductor to leave It an the side track at a small station, and It wns several hours before the train slopped for refreshments nt a town wbere there wns a restaurant nenr the panspnger station. It wns by no mentis a first class restaurant, but the travelers had n first clnss appetite, and tbey Rwarmed Into it. With som» difficulty the brldP and gioom found seuts, and' presently a waitress en me to take tliplr ordpr. "Where's ymif bill of fnre?" asked the young mau. "We haven't nny today, Rlr," she answered. "Nor any other dny, perhaps?" "No. sir." "'.Yr'!. wb.it nnvp yon thnt you can m-omnipnd ns being good to pnt'*" "Wp have some nlcp pork lind hpnnR." "Alfred." whispered I tip brldP. *'pv* erybody rpphir to know thnt wp hnve )URt been mnrrled, hut how do-ynn slip, pose this girl hnR found nut tbnt I inn fr-Jm Ohlrngn nnd thnt ynu are froui Boston '/"-Youth's ('ompn iiiun. VOTING BY MAIL Placing the Order, "Wot'R yourn?" naked the waiter of 1 quick lunch pntrnn. "KouchnutB nnd black coffee." wns the reply. And the wnltpr rpiiI In fhp order to th" conk hy wireless, "line In thp dark an' two rubber tires." - Chicago Newi New Provision In, Australia That Helps Out the Women. Many women of reflnemerit admit that their greatest objection to the franchiae—if they hnve any objection —lies in the fuct thut to record t,!\p,ir. votes they have to share the pulilkity of ii possibly boisterous electoral booth, .and run the gauntlet of mixing with the noisy rabble of an election- day crowd. "If the electoral franchise could be ridden of all the objec. tionuble feutures which suggest mas- culinity (und the public booth necessarily .entails some of these features), we would advocate the rights of women much more heurtily." Thus a woman writes recently on the subject. ln certain parts of Australia,, where adult franchise hns been in force fot some years, and where woman has an equal shnre with mun in th? election of representatives to attend the Legislature, they have overcome this grent difficulty, namely, the manner of recording tho ballot. They have provided that women mny vote by me.il from their own homes or at a Government office before the regular election days. Thi? provision originally was made in the electoral law of Queensland, the northernmost state of Australia—when woman suffrage first wus grunted by the state—as a means of enabling women who lived at great distances from polling stations to record their votes; also to be tnken advantage of bv wnrncn who were ill nnd could not travel. • In Australia, the country of ftreot distonces, there are isolated forms and ranches (known us "runs,") for the convenience of which it,would be impossible to establish separate polling booths,- with presiding officers and the rest, and so, in order not to exclude women living in such plncss from the privileges of the franchise, this emergency provision wns insert- ■d in !'-.•> nl-ytori! lnw of Q'-eenslnnd. The provision worked so well thnt the state of Queensland later decided to make the clause apply to women generally throughout the. country, and now, .instead of having to dress and go out. rain or Rhine, and mix with the excited crowds oh election day, the women of the cities, as well its those of the rural places, mny record their votes in privacy. The system has been found to-work so well that it pf*bob!v will be Hooted by the Federal Government throughout Australia. At present it op-rates only in connection with sone state elections, but th«re is a promi'i- int agitation to have the same system adopted for the federal elections. Tn fact, the federal Prime Minister bus agreed tn insert the necessary provision in the electoral act to be amended at the next session of Parliament. Fifty Out ef 10,000 Girls. Nine thousand nine hundred end nfty girls out of every ten thousand are sacrificed to our method of education, according to Katharine Eggles- ton in Woman's Home Companion for July. Out of eveiy ten thousand girls who enter our primary schools only fifty go to college, yet every one of the ten thousand is prepared for college. The nine thousand nine hundred nnd fifty who will be wage-earners and home-makers are entirely neglected. For example, says Miss Eggleston; "Helen's school has not made work popular, so to-dny Helen has several ideas firmly implanted in her brain. First, education offers o sure escape from domestic work, which is of nil work the most mental. Second, the woman who has on income of her own is more, independent thon the woman who makes a home for a man who pro- vides the income, therefore she is to be emulated. Third, the simplest method of acquiring one's own income is to seek work in the commercial or industrial world. * Sun Cooking. . Sun cooking —roasting ond boiling by sunlight instead of coal or gas- has been going on for 300 years. There are sun stoves that roast a sirloin or boil a soup to perfection. They are only used, however, by scientists. A sun stove consists mainly ol a mirror, a spherical mirror, on a joint. There is also a reflector. The pluce for pot or plate is so situated that the mirror's rays can be focused on it accurately. A German, Boron Tchernhnnsen, wos the first sun cook. He began in 1697 to boil water, and in 1699 he had very good succesB in boiling eggs. Sir John Herschel nnd Buffon nre other famous names associated with sun- cooking. In California various sun cooks hnve boiled a gallon of water in twenty minutes, roneted meat in two hours, and poached eggR in fifteen minutes— quite as good time aa the ordinary fire makes, ( Butter and Bacon. The Bennett boys enjoyed camping. Their people were glad to have them outdoors, but were sadly puzzled to know how three boys managed to eat such amazing quantities of butter —much more, indeed, than the entire Bennett family consumed at home. At the first opportunity puzzled Mrs. Bennett inquired into the mutter. "Boy's" asked she, "how in the world did you manage to use six pounds of butter on only four loaves oi breadP" "It's the cooking," explained Frank. "It takes such u heap of butter to fry the bacon." Possible Complication. "Pawl" "Well, Tommy." "Do you believe there's people living on Mars?" "t see no reason to doubt it." "Well, wouldn't it be a good joke on 'em if they should find out after we get to talking to 'em thnt they don't know that's the name of their planet?'' Abientminried. The master of o large factory met three of his men walking along the yard and asked whither they were going. First Mnn—Plense, sir, we're taking" this 'ere plunk to the sawmill. Muster—Whut plunk? First Man—Why, bless me, Bill, il we ain't been und lorcot the plunk!" BITTERSWEET iff 6 A. M. HEN tho sun li early; comln' And the mnrnln* glories peep Ana 'the* mud wusp starts to hum mln', Then a kid 'd llko to sleep— Likes to Kick the sheets in billows When he rolls ni-ound the bed, Bia-rowln' beneath the pillows When tne Hies buzz round bis head. But It's always aagrttvatln', For there comes a gentle tap: "George! Get up. George! Come to breakfast, George!" just breaks up that mornln' napt f Then you holler "YesBUml" quickly. "I am comln' right away!" But the sleep webs gather thickly, And In bed, you're sure to stay. And the next thing you are dreamln' | uf the woodlands green and cool; - Where the silver trout are gleamln' In the deepest medder pool. Then It's always aggravatln', Kor there sounds a mighty rap: "George! Breakfast is gettln' cold.Georgel Come down! Do come down, George!" Just breaks up your mornln' napt "Tessum! Yessum! I'm a-comln'l" And ynu tumble round in bed. - Still that mud wasp keeps a-bummln' In bis mud house1 overhead, And the sun mans red face, peepln' Through the cracked and [tapered glass, Laughs to find you still a-sleepln' As the mlnuu*, ev 'tlly pans. And It's awful aggravatln' When you hear-no gentle tap— i "George, come down tills minute! Don't let hie tell you again! Do'you h-e-a-r?"■ Just breaks up your mornln' nap! —Victor A. Hermann In New fork Sun. Would Not Stand For It. "No. Bir; I would-not stop another minute to talk to dem folks. Dey passed me nut a short an' ugly word." "What was It?" "Work." -Browning's Magazine. But Times Had Changed. The weary hunters returned to tha village In deep chagrin. "You told us about the benrs on tbe hills," blurted one of tbe Nlinrods angrily. "I surely did, bub," drawled the oldest inhabitant of the settlement "See any?" "Not a one." "Bobcats?" "Not a trace of them." , The old man lit his pipe. "Waal, that do beat everything," he remarked dryly. "Thar was plenty of them thai* sixty-nine years ago, wheu I was a boy. 1'erbaps"— But the disappointed hunters wpre making strides for tbe station.-Chl- cago News. Lack of. Judgment. "So Coytise Charley met bis fate at the bands of a posse?" "Yep." auswered Three Fingered Sam. "What was the trouble?" "His immejlt difficulty was a lack of judgment as to speed. He helped himself td a horse, but didn't pick one that was fast enough to keep ahead of tbe party as went after blm."—Washington Star. The Sequel. Tourist—Whut's going on around bere? Chief Umbrella—Umph! Poor Lo have big meeting. After meeting havo dog f eiiBt. Tourist—Ob, 1 see. After the powwow conies the bowwow.—Detroit Free Press. Since the Auto Craia. Stubb—Some years ago you used to read of rich society women giving up their jewels for the benefit of the heathen. You don't bear of It now. Penn-No. They nre too busy giving tbem up to get their chauffeurs out of the police stutlou.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He Was Tired ef It All. "And did sbe succeed In refusing him?" '•She accepts credit for it. But, you see, sbe was wise enough not to marry him until he hnd goue the pace to the very Hmlt."-Clevi,lnnd Plain Dealer. Familiar Taste. Farmer Ryetop-You seem to enjoy those fresh vegetables. Summer Boarder-Yes. It Is nn acquired taste. You "et them from tin same Btore up In town that we do.— Chicago News. The Uncertain Craft "When du you leave towuV" "Today." "Which way do you go?" "I don't kuow. I'm nn aeronaut"- Punch. . It's Swimming Time. When the sklei are blue and tender. And the little bird! are building. And the buttercups and sunbeams Far and wide the fields are gilding. And the hollows every morning With a pearly mist are bidmmlng, Then 1 feel a constant yearning To go swimming. When the tree toadl pipe their musts) I'n the green and marshy places, Ard the bumblebees are booming, And the spiders spread their 'aces, Ard the boys their willow whlsuls After school are busy trimming. Then the water calls and culls me To go swimming. Shelving beaches strewn with pebbles, Rlppied reaches bright and sunny, Amber pools and crystal currents, Deep and clear and smooth ai honey, Bubbles on the shallows dancing. Silver loam tha eddies rimming, brook and river then Invite you Te an »«-i--"iHsr, -Alums Irving. In Leslie's Waeklf. BARGAINS OF LIFE!. So Long as We Live We Will Never Stop Trading. Four children are huddled in a tiny room in a tenement. An aged woman painfully climbs the stairs and enters. Her tired face lights with a smile ss she places a bundle of groceries on a table. She has toiled all night at j cleaning the floors of an office building, "Grandma," the children call her. Her duys of toil had, seemingly, ended years before. , She settled down, then, to end her life in rest ond peace. But her son died; then her daughter- in-law died. And to keep the children together she got work. We thoughtlessly call this a sacrifice. We think it is giving "something for nothing. Oh, no, the old lady is smiling. She iuude a bargain. She'toiled to, win the deep peace that is shown by the smile. Here is a musty old man, a professor sunk in his books. What a lot he has missed in .life, some of us say| Missed nothing! He hasn't sacrificed a thing. On the contrary he got just what he most wanted—knowledge and scholarly contemplation. He might have had fame, wealth, a beautiful home. But he traded them all off for what he wanted most. See this millionaire. Worry beBets him; he does not sleep well; he distrusts etery man. He traded peace and quiet and contentment for millions. Money was whut he wanted. And this is life—bargains. We barter this for that; trade what we Want less for what we want more. Look at yourself at any moment in your life— now, for instance. Everything you have got by this bartering; everything you hove not, you have traded away. "I'm a poor man," perhaps you say. Ves, but, you're something more than that. Maybe you're lazy; maybe you drink; maybe you hote to save; maybe self-control is unpleasant to you; maybe you wanted a little home and children; maybe you saw that you could buy happiness for yourself by giving your money to others—there are 10,000 moybes. But you may TO sure that you got what you wanted. You made your bargain. You didn't sacrifice anything. You can see, then, when the big thing, the right things, in this world is wanting, ideals should be set high. You will get what you really want. You can't help it. You're paying out something all the time. Be sure you will be getting something back. You can't stop trading in this market for life. Don't be cheated. Choose and Pay. , Bloodhoundi on the Trail. , Major Richardson, of' bloodhound- keeping fame, relates that during a recent visit to Germany Bome wonderful tales of the tracking powers of the Brunswick dogs were told to him. In the case of a girl murdered in a farmhouse the dog was taken to the room where the crime took piece. After it had scented about the bloodstained floor the farm.hands were paraded. The dog rushed at one of them, growling savagely. The man was arrested, and on being examined hia clothes were found to be stained witli a spot of blood. He then confessed. "Another case I. found to be true," continues the major, "was the innocence of a man being proved by a ed suspicious.a man was arrested, and as certain circumstances appeared suspicious, a man was arrested, The dog, on-being taken to the girl's room, took up her trail and showed where she had walked down to the river. Her footsteps were single all the way, and this was taken as conclusive that it waB a caBe of suicide, not murder. No other incriminating evidence having arUen, the man was released, and afterwords a letter Was found written by the girl announcing her intention to commit suicide." WROTE"; » j DEATH OF "SURFACEMAN" I GREAT LOSS. IS A A Non-Committal "Character." A contractor took, to oblige a friend, recently a sort of "odd man" into his employ, about os shiftless snd worthless a so-called laborer. Bays he, as ever he oame across. In due course the employer, his patience exhausted, called the newcomer into his office and told him to look for another job. "Will you give me a recommendation?" asked the man, piteoUBly. Although he felt that he could not conscientiously comply with this request, his heart was touched by the appeal. So he sot down to his desk to write a non-committal letter of character for the fellow. His effort resulted as follows: "The bearer of this has worked for me one week, and 1 am satisfied." It did not help the shiftless one much. Ibsen's Table Companions. Upon Ibsen's writing table a visitor saw a small tray containing a number of groteBque figures — a wooden bear, a tiny devil, two or three cats (one of them plajmg a fiddle) and Bome rabbits. Ibsen said: "I never write a single line of any of my dramas without having that tray and its occupanVs before me on my table. 1 could not write without them. But why I use them is my own Becret." Why He Was Big. A very tall and muscular man went through the office and out. "Fine physique," remarked a visitor. "Pritsefighter, is he?" "No," was the answer. "That's the art editor. No. We-don't select them becouse they' know anything about art. We get them good and strong, so 'they con lick the engrover and make him do things over when he hasn't done them to our liking." Her Valuation. Little Moiy looked at the penny which had been given to her for the collection plate with evident satisfaction and then, hcptling close to her aunt, whispered, "How much are you going to give?" Her aunt, opening her hand, displayed a quarter of a dollar. "Oh," excluimed Mory excitedly, "don't do it! It isn't worth it!" To Use Henry Vll.'s Chair. A choir used by Henry VII. nt Ath- erstonp on the eve of the bottle of Bosworth Field, in 1485, is to be used hy King Edward VII ot the next levee before it is presented at Atherstone Parish Church. The Late Alexander Anderson Was One of the Sweetest of the Humble Bards for Whom Scotland Is Famous—Was Born In Kirkconnel In Galloway and Was a-Rhymer From His Earliest Years. Scottish literature is sensibly the poorer by the death of Alexander Anderson, tne poet, better known as "Surfaceman." In Canada, as in other parts of the world, there are Scotsmen, aye, and Scotswomen, too, who will hear ot his passing with a sense of domestic loss, iior muny's the home that has been cheered and softened' snd uplifted by tlio recital or memory of "Cuddle Doon," which has been well described us one of the finest gems of the Scottish muse. There is u simplicity and tenderness in ita lines, a humor und pathos, an expression of solicitude almost maternal in its fondness thut have made the poem a household classic. And yet the author of this wonderful interpretation of the joys and - pangs that accompany the putting of'the "bairnies" to the bad was a bachelor, all his days! LATH ALEXANDER ANDERSON. "Cuddle Doon" is in itself sufficient to preserve the tnemory of "Surfaceman," though the two or three volumes that came from his pen contain much worthy of a place in any Scottish anthology. Like most Scottish pn-'ts, •*■ nder^nn '"ns p. true son of the soil. Bom in the picturesque little village of Kirkconnel, in Galloway, a filoce shrined in ballad lore, he be' onged to a race which hos produced many poets and litterateurs. At school he developed en aptitude for sketching in colors that made him somewhat of a hero among his fellows, but, whatever may have been his possibilities as an artist, it was to poetry that his juvenile fancy turned. He "lisped in numbers, for the numbers came," although, as he confessed in later years, there was neither inspiration nor profit in those early effusions. His first effort to emulate Burns, he used to say, had for its theme the ludicrouB incident of a man being hit by a snowball, and then followed an accumulation of doggerel that in days of discretion furnished material for a respectable bonfire. It was not until he had reached manhood that his gift found anything like true expression, and it was grief over the death of a brother that touched his lyre and caused him to seek comfort in on ode, "To One in Eternity." Employed os a quarryman, he found leisure to study, and with a mind attuned to higher things he set about cultivating a knowledge of languages so that he might the better appreciate the joys of literature. First it was French that he mastered with the aid of a cheap grammar; then German, then Italian, ahd it was not long before this working quarryman was able, os he him- Belf expressed it, "to appreciate in my own way, in their own tongue, the mighty voices of Goethe, Schiller nnd Dante." The publication in The People's Friend," a miscellany thot has done much to stimulate a love of healthy literature among the masses in Scotland, of a poem on John Keats attracted sufficient attention to induce Anderson to become a regular contributor, and the appearance of his first volume in 1873, with the title "A Song of Labor and Other Poems," set the seal upon his already growing reputation. In the interval between his brother's death and the publication of his poems Anderson had left the quarry and become a surfaceman or track-layer on the railway, hence his adoption oi o nom-dc-plume which he never discarded. The muse had found lodgment amid many unromantic surroundings in Scotland,- but this wns the first time that it had been known to find inspiration in the prosaic, mechanical life of n railway, ond consequently "A Song of Labor and Other Poeihs" iwas hailed with no ordinary interest. While "A 8ong bf Labor ond Other Poems" won for "Surfaceman" a prominent plnce among the bards of his native land, his second volume, containing "Cuddle Doon," "Jenny Wi' the Aim Teeth," and "Jamie's Wee Chair," brought him more e--- tended fame. The homely humor of Scottish domestic life appealed to him, but blended with it wus the tenderness of a heart which wns keenly sensitive- to thp sorrows and hnrdshins of the cottage homes. Perhaps it wo* this combination of humor ond natho's thnt gave to his verse its chief charm. Coventry. Coventry iB one of the oldest cities In England, hut a more interesting claim to fame lies in the foot that she is literally the central town. The city of the three spires is about equally distant from London, Liverpool, Hull and Bristol. Two Parliaments at least have been held within her gates—the Parliament indoctorum and the Pui- liameut diobolicum, THE REPORTER, NEW MICHEL, BRITISH COLUMBIA. 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He—"So you've rend my new novel. How did you like it?" She—"I laid down the volume with immense pleasure."—Boston TranB- eript. Wilson's Fly Pads are sold hy all Druggists, Grocers and General Stores. Visiting 8tranger—It's curious whot a strong hold this sport of baseball has on the Fan—It isn't sport! It's a long drawn out agony.—Chicago Tribune. Requisite on the Farm.—Every farmer and stock-raiser should keep a supply of Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil on hand, not only as a ready remedy for ills in the family, but because it is a horse and cattle medicine of great potency. As a substitute for sweet oil for horses and cattle affected hy colic it far surpasses anything that cap bo administered. Spectator—"Why don't they begin •the duel?" "They nre waiting for the photographer."—Meggendorfer Blatter. Minard's Liniment for sale everywhere "I can't see where Jinlrs is clever, yet he makes people think so." "Well, I consider that clever all right."—Kansas City Journal. "Young man," said the successful old guy, " I started as a clerk on 11 n week and today I own my own business." "I know," answered the Young Chap, "but they have cash registers in all the stores now."—Cleveland leader. ■ Queer English Verses In Honor of the Late Lamented. . At Elgin-Cathedral may be seen on a tombstone tbe following quaint epitaph. The date on.the'stone Is September 28. 1687. WILLIAM OLMER. The world is u Citie full of Streets, And Death is tbe Merchant that all men meets; If lyte were a thing that Monie could buy, The Poor could not live and the Rich would not die. On a tombstone in the "Burrying Ground" at St. Peter's, Isle of Thanet, mt.y be read this epitaph: ruicmiun Hero, famed for strength, At lust lies here, his breadth and length,. See how t|k Mighty Man hath fall'n; To Death the Strong and Weak are all oue. And tne same Judgment doth befall Goliath Great as David Small. In another "burrying ground" in an Englisii hamlet may be seen the following inscription on the headstone of a watchmaker: Here lies one who Strove to equal time; A lask too hard, Eucn power too sublime. Time stopped his motion, Overthrew his balance wheel, Wore olf his pivots, though Mode ol hardened steel; Broke all his springs, The verge of life decoyed, ' And now he is as though He'd never been made; NotMor the want of oiling. That he tried; If that had done for him Why, then he ne'er had died. In a Devonshire churchyard may be seen the following on a very aged aud weather-beaten headstone: The horse bit the Parson; How came it to pass? The horse heard the Parson say "All flesh is grass." In a Woolwich churchyard may be seen on a gravestone: As 1 am now, so you will be; Therefore, prepare to follow me. And some busybody, with a sharp knife-blade, added the following humorous couplet: To lollow you I'm not content Dmess 1 know which way you went. The following humorous epitaph may be read in a quaint village churchyard ol Devonshire: ANN MANN. Here lies ye bodie of Ann Mann Vvho lived an old maid And uied au old Maim. Ceylon the Gorgeous. Despite the fact that the enterprise and persistence oi the planters of Ceylon, iu advertising the virtues of one of its products, tea, hove familiarized people with the name of the island, iu the praise of which, from time immemorial, the poets of the Orient— and, iu later duys, those of the Occident—have exhausted the superlatives to be lound in any tongue in extravagant laudutiou of its marvelous beauty, its gorgeous color, its soft ciime, its wondrous gems, and, in short, its possession of all the features snd characteristics of a puruaise on earth, how uiuuy oi us know anything uf it, und of its history? Most probable the average person has a hazy notion thut, like liorneo, Formosa und other islands ol "the dim and mysterious east," it's u place inhabited by barbarians, ot semi-barbarians, overrun with dense and tangled tropical growths, in which lurk all sorts of dangerous wild animals and deadly reptiles, its savage state only partly redeemed by the presence of a few adventurous exponents of western civilization, who are risking health, and even life itself, to snatch hardly guin- ed riches from a virgin soil. Poacher Corrects Duke. Entering the army as far back as 1837, the Duke of Grafton, who recently attained his eighty-eighth year, bus seen a good deal of hard fighting. In the Crimea, serving with the Cold- streams, he wus badly wounded nt Inkermun, when a bullet entered his jaw and passed out through his neck. While acting as o county magistrate the duke hod an amusing experience some years ago. A particularly daring poacher, who had been caught witli no fewer than one hundred rabbits iu his possession, wus brought before him. "You are fined five guineas and sixteen shillings costs." said the duke in his severest tones. "You'll pur- don me," replied the culprit, "but I'm not. You enn't make me pay more than five pounds all told. You see, 1 know what"" I'm talking ahout. I've been up before." The poacher was found to be right, and he pnid the money with the uir of n mun who hud scored u point. ******** ********** * \ * * BABY'S GREAT DANGER * * DURING HOT WEATHER * * . * * More children die during the * * hot weather than at any other * * time' of the year. Diarrhoea, dy- * * sentery, cholera infantum, and * * stomach troubles come without * * warning, and when a medicine * * is not at hand to give prompt * * relief, the delay may prove * * fatal to the child. Baby's Own * * Tablets should be kept in every * * home where there are children * * during the hot weather months. *. * An occasional dose of the Tab- * * lets will prevent deadly sum- * * mer complaints, or cure them * * if they come unexpectedly. Mrs. * * 0. Moreau, St. Tite, Que., says: * * "My baby suffered from a se- * * vere attack of cholera infan- * * turn, but after giving him "•* * Baby's Own Tablets the trouble * * disappeared, and he regained * * health splendidly." Sold by * * medicine dealers or by moil at * * 25 cents a box from the Dr. * * Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- * * ville, Ont. * * * ******** ** ******** STONEMASON PREMIER Enlightenment Mrs. Boggs—Henry, did you hear about Mr. Jones? Mrs. Smith was telling me this afternoon how Mr, Boggs—That's just like you women, gossiping about things that don't concern,you, and I suppose you have the story all mixed up, anyway Now.I got the whole thing Btraight at the cigar store and barber shop and tiie facts in the case were like this: It seems that, etc. Attacks of cholera and dysentery come quickly, there seldom being any warning of the visit. Remedial action must be taken just ns quickly if the patient, is( to ho spared great suffering nnd permanent injury to the lining membranes of the bowels. • The readiest preparation for tho purnose is Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Dysentery Cordial. It can be got at amall cost at any drug store or general dealer's, and it will afford relief before a doctor can be- called. Nothing is so universally imitated as success. If allowed to room over your house those few innocent-looking house flies i*iny cause a real tragedy any day, as they are known to be the principal agents for the spread of those deadly diseases, typhoid fever, diphtheria and smallpox. "I m?de a big hit with that woman all right." "What did you say to her?" "Nothing. I just kept still and listened."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. .Dear Sirs,—I had a Bleeding Tumor on my face for a long time and tried a number of remedies without any good results. I was advised to try ! MINARD'S LINIMENT, and after using several bottles it made a complete cure, and it healed all up and disappeared altogether. DAVID HENDERSON. Belleisle Station, King's Co., N. B., Sept. 17,1904. Only the fool will strive for success hy the skyrocket route. A pleasant medicine for children is Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator, and there iB nothing bcttet for driving worms from the system. The Waiter—Beg pardon, sir, but— ahem!—the gents usually remember my services. The Guest (pocketing all the change)—Do they? They ought to be more charitable and forget them.— Tit-Bits. Minard's Liniment Cures Burns, Etc. She (nfter the tiff)—Yon will admit you were, wrong? He (a young lawyer)—No, hut T'll admit that nn unintentional error might have unknowingly crept into my assertion.—Christian Endeavor World. fttmarkable Story of Mr. Tom Price of South Australia. One of the most remarkable careers <)f modern times closed with the death of Mr. Tom Price, Premier of South Australia. Many years ago, in the humble position of stonemason, he helped to build the Parliament House; afterwards he sat in that very House as Prime Minister. He was a Welshman, born at Brymbo, in Denbighshire. His father was a working builder, and he himself was taught the stonemason's trade in Liverpool. When only twelve years of age he Baved 6d. a week,in order to buy a second-hand coat at a pawnbroker's shop, so that he could attend the Sunday school. When he did attend other hoys made fun of him because the sleeves were too long. He dealt with them summarily. "The boys," he related, "produced a bigger boy to flatten me out. I finished him." He attended the same Sunday school for many years, and eventually became superintendent. Then he married "the prettiest girl in that school," and with her emigrated in 1881, on account of alarming symptoms of lung trouble, to Sydney, moving to Adelaide a few years later. At Adelaide Tom Price helped, as a mason, to build the Parliament House, in which he sat since 1905 as Prime Minister. His success in life was due entirely to his gifts of self- reliance and perseverance. "After I arrived in Adelaide," he said, "I immediately got work with the leading contractor there, I was with him seven years. Soon after I left him' I became Clerk of Works for the Government, which wss at that time erecting some big works at u place called Islington, close to Adelaide. I was asked by the Labor party to become a candidate for one of the biggest electoral districts of the State. I was returned (this was in 1893), beating the old member for the district by one vote. Four years after that 1 became leader of the Parlia-, memory Labor party. When the States of Australia federated I stood for a seat in the House of Representatives, but was beaten by just a few votes after polling 28,000. In the yenr 1905 I challenged the Govern- ment-as leade/ of the Opposition- carried a non-confidence motion, was sent for by the governor to form a ministry, and succeeded in doing so." There was no pride in him. "I was Tom Price," he said, "when I went to school. I was Tom Price as superintendent. I was Tom Price as stonemason, and I am Tom Price as Premier to-day." As in the past, bo for many generations in the future, the achievements of Tom Price, the Welsh stonemason, will be rightly held up as u great example of what sterling merit may attain. But if the moral be truly pointed, it must be remembered that in Tom Price'B case the reward was not great riches or sell- aggrandizement, but rather great opportunities for public service. "I am as poor as Job, he told a friend. "I have to-day nothing in the shape of wealth, but I have written my name on Acts of Parliaments of my country, which age itself cannot wipe away. And I hove the best wife and the best sons and daughters in the world." Mlnard's Liniment Cures Dandruff. While some men practice what they preach, the majority would ho ashamed to preach half thoy practice. Heredity Versus Environment. A garden, purty wns given recently at St.'Dunston's Lodge, Regent's Park, London, by the Countess of Londes- borough, when o short meeting wns held on behnll of the Church of England Home for Waifs and Strays. The countess tells oi o little boy, who wos staying at his grandfather's farm, but he hat: been so continuously and persistently naughty, that his aunt, who hnd charge of him in his mother's absence, did not know what to do with him. In despair she said, weakly: "If you do not behave, 1 shall put you in one of grandpapa's lien- coops." "Well," snid Henry, sturdily, "before you put me in, I wont to tell you that 1 if ill not lay any eggs." Tampering With Cables. Three Ci.lcultn telegraph messengers have been unnoted on charges of having for many months intercepted London market cablegrams prescribing the rates for silver, wheat, jute, ond other articles. The mensen- fers are said to hove telephoned to oeul firms the changes in prices before the addressees received the mes- •ages. After making a most enreful study of the mntter, IJ. S. Government scientists state definitely that the common house fly is the principal means of distributing typhoid fever, diphtheria and smallpox. Wilson's Ply I'ads kill the dies and tho disease germs, too. No other (ly killer compares witli Wilson's Ply Pads. A Royal Fish Storey. You know that kings and queens have prerogatives of English rulers in olden times related to royal fish. Boyul fish are sturgeon .and whale, which are considered the finest of deep-sea fish. For this reason, "on account of their superior excellence," whenever one of these fish was thrown ashore or caught near the coast of England it became the property ol the King. This seems very unjust to those who might secure the whale or sturgeon, for they were compelled to give it up without receiving any pay. However, the King had some ground for claiming these royal fish as his property, because it was he who guurded and protected the seas Irom pirates und robbers, and in those days there were very many of them. The most peculiar feature of the custom of royal fish was thut, while the whole of the sturgeon belonged to tbe King, only hulf of the whale did. For it was a prerogative, as it wus called, of the Queen that the tail of every whale caught in the way described was her property, while the head only was the King's. The reason for this division, us given by the old records, wus to furnish the Queen's wardrobe with the whalebone and thio reason is more amusing than the custom is peculiar, Ior the whalebone lies entirely in the head of the whola. But there are many more as strange ond amusing customs recorded- in England's early lawB. Friend—Whnt was tile title of your poem? Poet—"Oh, Give Me Back My Dreams." Friend—And what did the editor write you? Poet—"Take 'em!" — Cleveland Lendct. - DODD'S ' KIDNEY '/, PILLS J W. N. U., No. 761 ' Mr Winston Churchill's Mother. "Is there so much difference between politicians and actors? Both are equally eager for popular applause, both equally doubtful whether they will got it." Thus Mrs. Corn- wnllis-VV'est, in "His Borrowed Plumei-," the production of which play aroused so much interest at the Hicks Theatre, London, a few days ngo. One wonder,s what Mr, Winston Churchill, who watched the first per- formanc! from a box. thought of this, his mother's sarcastic reference to tiie stage and politics. "His Borrowed Plumes" is Mrs. Cornwallis-West's first play, and was written in a single week in the country. It scintillates with brilliant epigrams; for the former Lady Randolph Churchill is a woman who can both write and speak brilliantly. Wife Sold by Auction. A strange story nf n man selling his wife to another, comes from England. A convivial outing took plnce ai Cradley Heath recently, and one of the men present, a chuinmaker, offered to dispose of liis wife to the first bidder, A sum of $100 was speedily forthcoming, the money being paid by cheque. The lady, who wai of prepossessing appeurHiice, expressed no objection to the sale, going off with her purchaser. Muit Have License, No private person may instal or work wireless telegraph apparatus without special license from the Postmaster-General, AN ENGLISH POw.PEIL City ot Verulamium Contains Some Remarkable Antiquities. English newspapers note that the Earl ot V'erulam, who owns the sand upon which was built the ancient Unman city of Verulamium, has given permission to the Society ol Antiquaries to undertake excavations, which will shortly be commenced. The site of Verulamium lies a mile or bo from the centre of St. Albans, just at the entrance of the beautiful Gorhunibury Park. , Verulamium was one of the most important cities in England ut the time of the Romaa occupation. With Eboracum (York) it enjoyed the dignity of being a municipium, which meant that all w)io were born within its walls could claim Roman citizenship. It was situated in Watling street, and the British insurrection under Boadicea culminated here in the massacre of 70,000 Romans. In "103, or perhaps earlier, St. Albiin, the first English martyr, was beheaded on the site of the present St. Alban's Abbey. Not long after the ancient town was lorsaken, and the hew one —St. Albans—grew up on the hill which had shadowed it. In the centre of the Bite of the old city is the Church of St. Michael, the vicarage of which stands in the middle of what was the forum. A lew old walls and other fragments are to be seen here and there, but the Roman city lies for. the most pkrt buried under a considerable depth of soil. In the course of centuries earth hue been washed down from the hillside, and earthworms have been busy, and where once lay the proud and splendid city is now the quiet, flower-filled garden of the vicarage, the fields of the glebe, and other pastures and plough lands. The stones and Roman bricks of Verulamium were, of course, much used for latet buildings elsewhere. St. Alban's Abbey is very largely built from them. But a great deal still remains under the soil. About sixty years ago, and again in 1869, the theatre was partly and temporarily uncovered, and some fine frescoes, pavements, and marbles were found. It is the only Roman theatre in Britain, and its dimension are almost exactly the same aa those of the theatre at Pompeii. in fact the whole town of Verulamium singularly resembles Pompeii as regards shape—an irregular oval—dimensions and arrangement and post-, tion of streets and buildings. It is slightly laiger, its walls enclosing an area of 190 acres. Its excavation ought to provide extraordinary interest. If it is done thoroughly, as no doubt it will be, we shall have within o few miles of London on object-lesson of surpassing educational and antiquarian value as to how the Romans lived in Britain two thousand years ago. A Model Love-Letter. Australia iB a greet country for competitions. The Victorian mining city of Ballarat which returns Alfred Den- kin to the Federal Parliament, has had a love-letter competition, which proved so attractive us to draw competitors from all over the Empire. .It closed a few days ago, with the interesting result that the first prize was awarded to an English lady, Miss Gertrude Leighton of Block End, .Cornwall. The letter judged to be the best ran thus: "To An Imaginary Correspondent: You BBk me to forgive you. Whot eon you ever do, sweetheart, which for one moment could make me tor- get what you are to me, or thot love which has made earth heaven, and my life a joy? Have I to forgive 'lie sun for lurking behind the clouds when he has shone on my days a!id made them golden; or shall I welcome him the less when he comes forth to warm me again? Beloved, if I hare a'lgh' to forgive it is that you, I hole1, have asked the question. I have w> desire to know anything, except thai you have loved me and love me still. My faith is unquestioning, for have I not crowned you king, nnd the king can do no wrong? These eyes of mine, which have closed beneath your kisses, are sightless until your lips unseal them. My ears are deaf except to the magic call of the voice of my beloved, and my heart has ceased to beat until it can throb on yours. I am sleeping, and shall awaken but ot the sound of your footsteps." Painting In the Dark. Considerable interest will doubtless be aroused at the forthcoming exhibition of the English Salon ot the Albert Hall, by the work of Mr. H. K. Raine, a young artist who paints portraits in a light so subdued as to seem, to the new-comer's eyes almost total darkness. He has invented a portable shutter for regulating the light of a room, and is thus able to paint liis sitters in their own homes. One result of his.method is that he paints with extraordinary speed. Sittings of about half on hour before and after luncheon for one week are all that he demands. Mr. Raine makes his own oil, canvas, and colors by a secret process, und anyone may see thp distinct similarity between his color's and those of the old Dutch colorists. Married to a Doll. India iB a land of many strange superstitions, but a recent case report'"! from a town called Badaon is curious almost beyond belief. An inhabitant lost two wives In quick succession, and was about to contract a third marriage, when he received the following mandate from the relations of the bride: We are told that when a man has nlrendy lost two wives hia third also dies very soon. In order to satisfy the Angel of Death, you are requested to marry a doll, and thereafter come and marry our daughter, who should be your fourth wife and not your third. The man did as ho was told. He married the doll, then gave out that she was dead, buried her with great pomp, und proceeded to marry his fourth wife, n "SALAM TEA Is Delicious Always of High and Uniform Quality Lead Packets Only. At all Grocers. 40c, SOc, and 60c per lb'. The Eddystone Light. The first two Kddyitone lighthouses were constructed of wood. One waa washed uwa>, the other buiut. Why the Tears Came She offered an expxlanation of her tearful mood. j "I've been to a wedding," she said. "I always cry more at a wedding than I do at a funeral. It's so much more uncertain." A WINDSOR LADY'S APPEAL To All Women: I will send free, with full instructions, my home treatment which positively cures Leucor- rhoea, Ulceration, Displacements, Falling of the Womb, Painful or Irregular Periods, Uterine and Ovarian Tumors or Growths, also Hot Flushes, Nervousness, Melancholy, Pains in the Head, Back or Bowels, Kidney and Bladder Troubles, where caused hy weakness peculiar to our aez. You can continue treatment .at home at a cost of only about 12 cents ■ week. My book, "Woman's Own Medical Adviser," also sent free on request. Write to-day. Address, Mrs. M. Summers, Box H. 77, Windsor, Ont. "John, this Arm is advertising dresses 75 per cent. off; what does that mean?" "Bathing suits."—Houston PobL ' He demand for ttft-mran-rtu-w. 1 Far em font tton run Mm, torts, ipeotii, tic., bevtne tats Btmt bin thoi nt taproot IM ef Hat. Mm Mis, elite, wsllen. Iff,, Wt (fusees' - MII-IIOINir1IT.ee*. •old sr uam BIUIM "SUhtflats ttieuWtevf WINNIPEG BUSINESS COLLEGE. 28th Year. Individual Instruction. Good Positions Await our Graduates. Write for Illustrated Catalogue. Address, The Secretary, Winnipeg Business College, Corner Portage Ave. and Fort St., Winnipeg, Man. CROSS-EYES sad ell ere dlaestf*. Cstsieets end M-um* over th* alidit can be cured without the Knife, !» Dr. Carter's Absorption method. Write for book Franklin O.Cartir.M.D. IKSIeteBt.. Ohloiso. III. "Poultry Peace Will rid birds and buildings of lice, mites and other vermin. If applied to the bird with a sponge it will not discolor the feathers or injure the bird. Retailed by The Steele Brlggs Seed Co., Winnipeg, and reliable storekeepers everywhere. Manufactured by Carbon Oil WorKs, Limited, WINNIPEG, CANADA. Manufacturers of "COWL BRAND" Oil Specialties. Poor Digestion? This is one of the fi rst signs of stomach weakness. Distress after eating, sour eructations, sick headache, bilious conditions are all indicative that it is the stomach that needs assistance. Help it to regain health and strength by taking BEECHAM'S PILLS for they are a stomach remedy that never disappoints. They act quickly and gently upon the digestive organs, sweeten the contents of the stomach, carry of! the disturbing elements, and establish healthy conditions of the liver and bile. The wonderful tonic and strengthening effects from Beecham's Pills, make them a safe remedy—they Help Weak Stomachs Sit Everywhere. la Belli s»csaU. THE REPORTER, NEW MICHEL, BRITISH COLUMBIA. THE MICHEL REPORTER NEW MICHEL, B. C. 0EOR0K Q. MKIKLE, - MANAGmQ-lDITOR Issued every Saturday, from office of Publication, Northern Ave, New Michel. SUBSCRIPTION ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE ADVERTISING RATES OK APPLICATION In and Around Town W. Ward of P. Burns & Co., Fer hie, was here on Wednesday, Peter B. Neleon of the Rex Tailoring Co.. Toronto, was doing bus' iness through here this week, A grand masquerade ball will be held in Crahan's hall on Thursday evening,-October 28. Bills will be out early in the week. There was no meeting of tbe board of trade on Tuesday evening, owing to the absence from town of both the president and secretary i W. Hawthorne, the well-known brush artist from Fernie, was here this week, adding the finishing touches in the shape of signs to Weber's new store; Mr. and Mrs, T. B. Brandon arrived in town this week, Mr Brandon, Who is the editor of the Pass newspaper syndicate is assisting the editor publish the Illustrated Edition. At the drawinfc at the Great Northern hotel on Saturday night, for a house and lot, ticket No, 205 held by C. Saveseli, house 51, Mi- ehel, won, The property is worth about $800.00. On Wednesday, at Fernie, before Judge Wilson, Jesse Mansfield ! of Elk Prairie, was fined $75 for setting out fires, and V, Vlasak was fined $50 for allowing agents to set out fires north of Michel,. For Thanksgiving Day, October '25th.' the Canadian Pacific Kail- way Company announce a. rate of fare and one third for the rqiind trip. Tickets will be on sale October 22nd, tp October 25th. inclusive, final return limit, October 27, There is a public telephope booth -here, and it is public,, so public that any one wishing to talk (iri-, .vately, is heard all over the premises. It is tip to the telephone com- puny tp put in a proper booth immediately, Thos. Q. Harris wishes to express hiB thanks to those people who bo kindly assisted him in his troubles and sympathized with him in the Joss of his little baby, and more especially to Mrs. Evans who had the infant in charge. ,, A change of ad from the Trites- Wood Co. reached the. Reporter too late for insertion as the, frqnt page was run; They, wish,to call attention.to the 20 Cenfury clothing, in "suits and overcoats, also tp their hats, underwear and gent's furnishings in the latest styles. • We had the pleasure..of shaking hands this week with $pb, Walms- Jey, an old.fri^d,,.formerly,a pas: Os*" m HEWSON PORE WOOL UNDERWEAR -Bob is in the .real estate business now at Nelson', and doing well. The Gold Standard Demonstra-- tion, conducted by Mrs. J.Jlirkbank and R, F. Mcintosh, in the Trites- Wood Co's store at New Michel, was a pleasant surprise to the many •visitors.. The popularity of the ' Gold Standard goods has been considerably enhanced by this demonstration and the quality will retain the customer. H. H. Depetv of Depew. McDonald and McLean.of Fernie, wasliere this week on important business. This firm wishes to secure from the Michel Watertight &. Power Co., the franchise held,by that company for lighting purposes, and if they succeed, will immediately install an electric light plant- A meeting of the company will be held to-night, "whoii tho whole proposition will be threshed out. Our old friend W. j. McKeown, the popular real estate man from .Vancouver, was here this week, lie has grown a muBtasche since he was here before and when Bob • Moore saw it, he. twisted up his, ■and planted himself in the barber's •hair. "Take it off, Mr. l.arbek*, itake it off," said he. -'vtrhen Mac grows a mustacho, mine comes <>ff,' i^udoff ite*vma am! now iioli looks • dike Kelly docs with tbo (lucent on the"!." Look for the Oval Brand. Guaranteed Unshrinkable. Hewson Underwear is as good as Hewson Tweeds, Uku Weber, New Michel The fecial Illustrated Bdition of the Reporter to be( dut next will dbiitaiii a large number 6t naif-tone1 » , Engravirigs of local Scenery Business Houses and Portraits of leading Citizens Leave your Orders at Kennedy's Drug itotk or at this office. 10 Cents a Copy. One Cent a Word AdverUaementa inch u For Salt, To Let, Lost Foaro Wanted etc., inierted at the uniform rate or One Cent a Word Each Insertion LOST AND FOUND WANTED-MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE OR TO RENT AN tJP-TO-DATB BILLIARD AND POOL /x Room for n-.li' on easy terms or to rem to responsible party. Apply to J. Seigle, New Michel FARM FOR SALE WITH HOU8B, BARNS, STABLES, SHEDS' V' farming tools, ;i wagons, 4 horse.**, harness. _00 chifckens, -10 turkeys, 8 Wna tiarrots, ■'• tons of turnips, uuautity of caL.-j.ifro and everything around my plant). Now ia the time to buy. For terms enquire of A, Vlasak, New Michel. SUNDAY SEJiVQipS METHODIST CHURCH MICHlSL AND NEW MIOllEL SERVICES EVERY SUNDAY NEW MICHELj 10.46 a. ra„ In room over Somerton Bro's store. MICHEL, Sunday School, 2.30 p. m. Evening ServitB, »t 7.30. Band of Hope every Monday at 7130 p. m. Rev. Si T. ChBnoweth, Pastor. The" pastor and officials extend a cordial invitation td you to attend these services. Tom Hnber left for tlio coast yesterday. ' O. N. Woods is oft for ft Week to Trout Lake. Fred. Pomaha'c, has bought two lotB in Block 10, from H. <>. Whit nay, and ia excavating for a furniture and undertaking establishment ST. PAUL'S CHURCH^; MICHEL, B. C. ServK'es—Sra Sunday in .tne iHonUi, Holy Communion, 11 a. m, Evensong, 8.30 p. in. Sunday School, 2.00 p. m. A. Briant N. Crowther, M. A., Vicar. RdMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | MtCHEt, b! b.'.',-. Sunday: toil' Mass, 8 a. tp.; High Mass," 10.30 a. in.; Sunday!; Scliool, ,3 • p. m.l Vespers, 4 p'. m.j^^ Monduyi Mass, 8 a, m.. -v.-r-•-• Rev. Fr. Meisnner, Pastor L. P. Eckstein . t). E. McTaooabt ECKSTEIN "& McTAGGAET; Barristers, Solicitors Etc. ''. ECKSTEIN _UILtii.NG, FER^lEjvB.C SlCRETAR.ES Ir there is no Un)on Printing Office in your town, send your work to the Reporter Office, New Michel, and have it done by the man who Unionized the First Printing Office in the Pass, and have your jobs decorated with that Iadge of honBr -TH_- ISO YEARS' . Maum DCflSNI COPVKKIHTS ctO. qnleklr sscwtiiln our oplnloi ftee wjislbslsa fiiTenrton le protsblr PMeiUjW". ComraonlJ* tlon*«lrloll»conBUoiit'al. HANDBOOK on Pswnli __ .et]rcone .sent free. Oliteii wsnorforlomrlnipst* Pstsnts tiksn: tbronfh Muiin * Co. n An**eneliOTdlngaskste?Md''ie*oVl'ptianuit . ,_,-- .... rfnu o— A ' I'etents Ukon through Wuim * C sseeul notice, wltteoat nm In the Scientific American. A handMrnaiy UUiitniod wttkl*. U_i»*i_ rtf- SUt ton of any •-.•Qtlflo Journal. _'_rmi fot DfttU, »X7fi » jwt, puiUtfo pruptld. Bold bf to nmuuen. 'Ay Union Bakery G. SOVRANO, Proprietor OLD TOWN, - - - MICHEL Fresh Bread Delivered Daily Notlns of Application for Ranewal, of Liquor Lioonso XTOTIC'Elslinmliy Klvi'ii. Hint I. Alc.tamler J- ■■* McCool. W No'v Mli-lu'l. II. ('.. IhtoliU 10 np Ply to the SuiiorlMondonl ol I'mriiiclal 1'olioo, al tliei'Xlilmtionoti'ni' liioulli Iron, the dulo liereol.,fiir a rcn'.'wnl of my rclnil liquor llcoime, lor llio prcinlai's known ns Uie liront Northeni Hotel, sltimtol nl New MIMinl. II. 0, ALEXANIIEK .1. McCOOL. Dated nt Nn\y Michel, Hi C l iii. ll, moS. ,-Jl'- Rflnl .nutate in New Michel is,. still ailvanclng, and wa are pleased-.^ to set Mint several local capitalists ate noting Ibis fact. It is rumored that Dr. Curly Martin linn secured options, on several. Iiu^ness blocks, and may open out in i>'*nnts etc. is Mark! It's the Trade Mark and the plain price mark sewn on the breast pocket of every genuine Semi-ready Coat, So many dealers try to deceive —that we Want those who seek us to find us—and that Trade Mark is our sign, W* cart finish you a suit in ail hour — fit it to your exact size) — tiitor it to your individualism—to your ideas, impressions and your expression— Ud the suit will save you and gain you money and satisfaction. •SPECIAL ORDERS made la brder In Perhaps -Are) may not have fdtirdayt Just the fabrics in the particular or distinctive style yotl like—it would take" a half million to stock ill our lines—so We" show 300 fabrics! from which we can make you any si'.'.e; style" br design iii Wilt days—to special brder. See these, pleases iwtti-r^ ItCWW^tSB-W-Jy New Michel .. . .,,.->T..^.,. .:W,,.,ro.„ , v. .-. r. :,.-,- - Business Bringei",;, Ret.Ine Notices Inserted under thin, He«dlnc ■t thi ritt of,Ten Cents • Line, each insertion. No adt Inserted amongst Locals. SMOKE Crow'* Nest Special and Extra. Unioi* ° Made liuars. •JHII'HINtl TftKS, printed trt onler, good toutrl ° itoult, al tlio K-apoi'ter ofllce. "PNVF,LOPES. Any quantity, nood stock, wel u printed, at tho Reporter office. QTATEMENT8, Priiited and pnddrd as ym ° want thorn, at tbe Rcportqfr oHlee,.._ .;■■ f ETTltB Heads. Plain'or 'Pnncy: '.Any coin u ink. Printed ns you like them at the Bepoi DUSINESH Cards. Finest work in the Pns** ,J Any size and any color Ink y_u.do.ire. Prilled at the Reporter omcO. DRIKTINO Ink. We cart decorate your prtntim 1 job. with any color or shade df the finest Ink in the world. .For fine color work send you* order io tl^.RoportcJv.,, .,.„._, .^ ,„. . -. ■i fn stock aiid hiad'e to order Fred. Pomahac, NEW MJCHEL I J. B'COTT, GlSNEKALSBLiCKSMlTH, Horscshoeins; a Pp'scislty. NEW MIOHEL J. B. Tufney of Fernie, was in town on Friday. T. B. Baker returned faom liis holiday trip ou Wednesday- Mrs. Taylor of Moyie, is visitiiig her sisters the jtiBses Dudley. Snow fell ntCorbin to the depth of four, inches, yesterday. Miss atewatt of ■ tho Trites-Wood" stiitt'i is visiting friends on the coast Dr. Wilson takes over Dr. McSor- ley'sp-actis'^o-day. Dr. McSorley purppso, remaining for a few Weeks longer., , Grand- Chancellor Townley bf the K, l"s. rnndehis annual visit to Michel on Wednesday evening, accompanied by D. 1?; CI. C. Biivvnoss of Cranbtook and Chancellor Kdgecomb of Fernie, Grand Master. Wallace- 1,'aW of Vnncotlver was here last, night visit- ingthe 1. O. O, F. He delivered an-able address, and a very enjoyable social .time was indulged in, in eluding a banquet Blairmore Lbtsforsaieaii over Bla: Townsite, Tnu/ncifp bver Blairmore I OWnSlie. Tbwnsite, : by the only Real Estate man in' Blair more, If Interested, write for particular* Of flee en Main Strs>« Ai McLeod, Blairmort Souvenir China Consisting of Plates; Cups and Saueersy Five o' clock Tea Sets, Vases Etc., Co taining: Views of Michel. These goods are direct from the manufacturers and the mid dlemans profit is cut out. SOMERTON BRO'S Jewellers, Opticians, Photographers NEW MICHfet „ YOUR3 AND MftERS FOR Firt^ Art Printing To We Reporter Off l
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Title | Michel Reporter |
Publisher | New Michel, B.C. : George G. Meikle |
Date Issued | 1909-10-09 |
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