mm&as mmwpnw ���^vr^T^^wtstemmtm ,,���,.���, -iwWn����H^>^.*^7l.i��' -j e. --Q. , ��.^o.m _^ /t^x>j^^ ��� Amvyif%*> I ��f .1 , ..���^--.-^^^->-^^y/^T^^^-^^;^^/^^..QiC��� dd^^^^^^^^^B^i^^^^^ pJ \ A T^f 'VOL. 8. ATLIN, B. Of, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, ,igo3> NO. 1&9. PREPARATIONS. Symptom's of the Coming , . Season's Activity. The Pine Creek Power Co.'s tfeavy Shipment���Drills to Aid Pro- spect Work���A New Company The Pirre Creek' Power Co., it is .said, will spend #50,000 in a new plant and equipment.' Tlie first of this was shipped from' Vancouver on the last sailing of the -City of Seattle. ��� The shipment was'supei- iutended by Mr. L. H. Griffith, .who, we understand, is. now Gene- xal-Manager of the Company. The machinery was - purchased through Messrs. v E" ' G. Prior & Co.', and the lumber, from the B. C. Mills. y The Company shipped .four horses, with complete' harness and sleds, with which to haul the 50,- 000 feet of lumber and other material. Mr. A. McKee of. Vancouver came tip in charge of the teams. Mr. Griffith' will leave Seattle'^tonight for Atlin, iu order to supervise the work "of reconstruction of the supply flume and other matters." ? Mr. H: W. E- Canavau is cx- pected* to arrive in Atliu next week. He is bringing in two pio: spectiug drills for use ou the property of the British American Dredging Company, aud it is sup: posed that these drills will be used to prospect other ground also. By their use au immense amount of money will be - saved,- in prospect work. The purchasers o-f the Ware hydraulic property, on McKee creek, the McKee Creek Consolidated Hydraulic Co., Ltd., will commence active operations next month. Mr. F. T. Hamshaw, General Manager, accompanied by'Mr. J. P. Kiuyon, one of the largest stockholders of the "Company, leave New York next week for Atlin. They will bring several men with them to begin preliminary development work. Lights Will Shine. The U. S. Government has at last awakened to the necessity of better protection to shipping-interests oil- the Alaskan coast, and the erection of a chain of lighthouses will be begun by the constiuction of a $60,000 lighthouse ou Mary's island. The lights in this contemplated chain begin at Cape Fox, coming north to Mary island, then Guard island, 8 miles north of Ketchikan. The new light at Lincoln rock, iu Clarence strait, is now under construction, while one will be placed ou Eldredge rock, near Seward. When these are all placed hi position, one prominent element of danger on the northern coast will be reduced to a minimum. The ** Claim " Appreciated'. The following letter speaks for itself: Gkntli'mrn :���Appreciating the high standard of your publication, we have taken the liberty of placing it upon our Exchange list for the Daily arid Sunday Tribune. ,Jt would give us great pleasure lo receive a similar courtesy at,y,our hands.���Yours very truly, Tiik Dih'Roi'r.TRiiJUNic. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 12, 1903. Parliament to Assemble. An Extra of the P.. C. Gazette, issued on the 13th inst, contains a Proclamation,- " calling upon 'the members of the Provincial Legislature to assemble for the despatch of business, at the Parliament 'Buildings, Victoria, on Thursday, 12th day of March next. 'Signed, Sealed* and Delivered. The Alaskan Boundary .Treaty was ratified by the Senate on the nth inst, when the President appointed the following able and well known jurist's to represent the United Slatesiat the Commission to be held in L'o'ndon "shortly :, Elihu Root, Secretary 'of War, Henry Cabot Lodge)11 ,Senalof, from- Mas-; sachusetts and George Turner, Senator from Washington., The name of' J0I111AV. Foster, former Secretary of State, is suggested, to act in'the capacity of U. S. Agent, under the terms of the treaty. .. ._ f Up to latest advice from the outside, the Commissioners to Represent Canada, ��� have not been 'appointed, nor, whether this country' will be allowed two or not, but it is i,i'.i . , > the > belief in % official '.circles, .that theSHon. Edward- Blake, ;M.P., will be invited to act for Canada.", AN HISTORIC DAT. A Typical Miner's Birthday ', - Party v < In Arid Out of Cam|>. ' * ' - ' \ ,- i.W��- j ~ k .,/4," ITEMS OF INTEREST iBOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS The West Yale" Election���Work ' Soon to 'Start on the -- ���' , * ."--' ,' British American Dredging Company's t X: ���' .-,--'-- .'-'���* - , "Undertakings. . j. ��� ~ i- * -J4;r^r"-J j- The Prior Government has sustained a defeat in the bye-election in West Yale, which' took place yesterday. Mr. C. A, Semlin, ex- Premier, according to reports last evening, secured a majority of 77 over the Government candidate, Dr. Sansoin. The election throughout the 'district, which is a large and scattered one, was very lively and a heavy vote was polled. The heavy timbers for the dredge to be built for the British American Dredging Co., arrived in Skagway on the Amui, and will be shipped at once to Atliu. S. S." Amur on her return to Victoria from her last trip this month will be laid up for a thorough overhauling. She will be replaced by the Princess May, the most deservedly popular steamer on the Lynn Canal route. The sailing dates will be found vin the C. P. N. Co/s add. in another column. Eugeue(Piets has associated himself with Chas Kent on Gold Run. Fresh stock of Imported and Domestic Cigars at C. R. Bourne's. Cameron & Co., of Gold Run, are doing good work on their property and have sent a "rush" order to Vancouver for more machinery. Chas Muirhead and his partner, Chris Nissen, of Sptnce, are putting in the winter ou a hunting expedition. They are camped in the Dixie valley and have foxes galore in sight. Good luck to them. "Misfortunes," 'tis said, "never come singly." Mr. Smith, late of the Metropolc, who had just,got over-��a bad burn from gasolene, gave himself a very severe gash on "the foot with an axe, on Thursday last. One of the bones was cut and it required eight stitches to bring the wound together. - He will be confined-to the house for a few weeks. Pat Callaghan, of Spruce, is consolidating his holdings on that creek into alease. We are pleased to see Mrs. J.'A. Fraser able to be around again, after over six weeks' illness. r Famous Moosehead Brand, Oil tan Shoe Packs, just arrived at Blackett & Co.'s. A big shipment of fresh goods have just arrived at Fraser & Co's. Most profitable results are reported from the winter diggings on Pine creek, just above what is locally known as the Sabin Pit of the Pine Creek Power Co. Three dollar pans are common, consequently the miners in that section look forward to good bank accounts when sluicing is finished this season. A dance will be given ou Wednesday evening next in the Koot- enay Hall, in aid of the Fire Department. Everybody come. The Fire Department will give a Smoker in about two weeks, Due announcement will be made as to place and date later on. Subscribe for the Claim, and get your friends to subscribe. How February Twenty-Second'Was , Celebrated By "The, Boys',' ." rori'. Spruce Creek!' "x " '.'P" "* That Atlin City doe's not possess "all" the.talent of the district may be readily inferred by a perusal of the following," from the'pen of one of our Special Correspondents on Spruce creek: , *'',"<> ." M. L.-Beets' "birthday'" Yell 'ou February 22nd "and was" celebrated in a glorious manner.' - v' To say nothing of the wonderful flag'decorations throughout Ihe-TJ. S., fthat portion of Spruce creek where^Mi. Beets resides was fully" alive toTthe��� occasion. Those w'ho" assisted in the entertainment w'tre Messrs.'Garrison & Co., with their .Victor'.-Talking -Machine, .with some fifty up-to-date songs,"etc; j ; Mr. "KThomas;4 Hanna, Rainier Grand, (Seattle, played "- numerous pieces on his.Viol,-and 'sung a new, one (to us,-;at least),'"In,the Good Old Summer-Time.,:, MrVHauiia's .capacity, as "an* enlei tamer-������-*''.t;i be- equalled, but; not excelled; only in one other direction. ' , ' > .Mr: Archie Christie, of Pine, did such execution with his viol that the strings had to be renewed before morning.^ Jack Caitmell,'of Pine, with his guitar, lent grace aud dignity to the entertainment, and sang several songs, some of them highly edifying. Mr. Chas. Hickman played the piccolo, aud sang, and sang again. His songs were full of spirit, delightful and catching; so much so, that, at times, everybody assisted with the choiuses. Mr. Preston gave a Fourth of July oration and told of "foreign born citizens of, native birth," and bis song of "Sourkraut" was highly appreciated. ' Mr. Henry Pieman's song of war time was so realistic that one could almost feel the shock at the time of the artillery discharge. Mr. Charles Brodeiick's singing and dancing was up to date and executed with vim. Messrs. A. M. Anderson, James McKechney, Hickman, Broderick and Beets were the dancers, and several new " break-downs " and waltzes were introduced. The music and dancing were materially assisted by a gunny sack full of bottled refresh ments; and the time passed so lively that a hall was not called until time to clean up for breakfast. There were twenty-five persons present and they all unite in declaring that it was the most enjoyable entertainment ever given on Spruce creek and wish Mr. Beets very many happy returns of the occasion. It is said that he will have another birthday on the 26th of next month. - Stag. '''*$.*' l : ., i;��\ j !''���!, '- r ?.i , , :'i"> .-,* "' - \''M f i i**. ( i 1 .- r ,���-*,...*, .,.,�� ' 'rt\~M m ' ,' - .-- " /??i ~ \t.> "' '..-I-- - , 4- ) r'-��< 1'JA' *-- ���*������� 4:., , ,.- '>-,H tst ' - " - - *-1^'*l --r- - '^ -, .7 irf- .L./' ."'-%-- -rr< 4'-'j'l 1 i->1j ,'"���!',' 4.rf^ , ". ' -fP]i ���14 . r- -if ^ I '*.; Xr ''" .', s; \ 7 �� '"���p*'s''I ~ .- ������"-fors-1! Iff .,.- - ;t ' if r. * ������ '- .4 l - t. ^ '?���-. w. ���,.,, * * <���') 4*-l 0 "*J -::$:hl 1 - 1. ", J t .' ' * 1 v - I -< . > * - vr .-"- ��� t ' --������ }-'* I 1>4- .i,~'~ 1 III Wr i-J w ���.���y*yrwi.rw,�� ���_., m i ^ Seed and H ARVEST. Duncan J. McMillan, Pastor Ne^York Presbyterian Ohurch. "Be not deceived; God is not mocked;1 for (Whatsoever a man soweth that shall be also reap."���Galatians, vi., 7. "Be not deceived." This is the pro-. position. It conveys the lesson which the apostle desires to teach.' The' rest of tho passage only illustrates an en- Horcos the injunction.' Our text strikes at a common, everyi ' ley sin. The -weakness uhnt lies at tlie) bottom of every sin is self-deception, Al jo��n could never get his own consent to 4a if he did not (irst deceive himself) wr allow himself to be deceived. And to Paul is striking at the tap root of tho .whole business of sin. The principle that underlies it is tire indissoluble connection between present con-. duct and future experience; 'between tho ��� thought which wo indulge arrd the state and habit of mind which resultjbetween A 4 v tho principle wo cherish and the permanent character which will be evolved. !As mirely as the nature of the seed ia- bercs in the plant that grows out of itj ���o surely will the nature of the though b *nd action which we indulge determine the character which they prod'uee. Na- 1 tore U pitiless and inexorable. (, This few which we are considering is as rigid ���a the law of gravitation. God has eternally fixed those laws by which righteousness brings its own re-> ward and sin its appropriate pun s' ment. Paul says do not deceive yourself by- supposing for one- moment that this l.iw will somehow not operate in your 'case, or that God will cut thc connection be�� fcween cause and eflect for your special benefit. Against suoh a delusion Paul hurls the staitling words, "God la not mocked." It - is a law of nature that the reaping Ing shall correspond to the sowing. It le impossible for men to 'break the di- ,Yine order*' established in the very nature of things, lie th.it sows cockle shall reap cockle. He that sows thistles snust not expect to reap wheat. We understand all that as it applies .to vegetable life. ,We may also see it plainly working in 'human alfairs. Commercial industry tends to commercial wealth. "Seest thou a man diligent ia - business T He shall stand before Kings." The law applies also to the intellect-, nal tffe! It is only to thc-difigcnt student that culture comes. And it is only; to him .who exercises the virtue o'f truo. affection-that loyal friendship is returns ad.k It would be vain to expect that money would buy learning or refinement. And it would ibe equally vain to luppose that "learning and refinement would lead to wealth, for there is no necessary connection between them as cause and effect.' Each pursuit has its consequences accordrng to its own nature. Thrrs we see in^the hoy the prophecy of the man; in the epcndlhrirt the prophecy of coming penury and ���want; in the budding genius the promise of future glory, and in a career of careless living and disregard of God's la-ws the inevitable consequence of disaster. One who habitually breaks the Babhath cannot expect the fruits of Salb- feaths well spent. I So the law applies to spiritual sowing -and reaping. God rules the two worlds of matter and spirit upon the same, principles. Like prodrrces like. Na-, tural laws rule in the spiritual world. The future depends upon the past and the present. Our conduct is shaping our destiny. ( If these things affected only the body, Chen the pampered -body might perish with transitory things and so come to. an end. But they nfleet the soul also, Iot soul" nnd bodv are intimately connected. What affecti one afreets the other. How disappointment in business, prostrates a man I J low the failure of our plans in social and domestic allaiis* as well ns in business, depressor, flic Spirit ' So the soul is nH'rcted. de-i pressed or dated, hv "-v-cms or fiiiluio. And, moreover, it becomes refined nnd purrMcd by holy exercises or coriuptcd by evil habits or thought", according lo the same laws of causaf'nn. ll�� rievi- tles may become dissipated and d'v.iyod. Bo that, sowini; to tlio flf--.li nlli-ots not only thc flesh, but tlio mind and lh& Bonl also, and produces nior.il rottenness and spiritual death. In spiritual affairs, as in material,, iro one need expect or hope to sow ono thing and reap another. Those who recklessly sow to the flesh must reap thciri harvest of hlrghtcd forlrrnc, shattered health, disappointed hopes, soured temper, infamy and shame. ���God leaves us free to sow whatever! BOTt of seed wc will, and no one can blame the Almighty if, having chosen the kind we prefer to sow, we reip our own harvest. It would not be lika God to thwart us by giving any other kind of harvest than that for which we have chosen to sow seed. i Do not expect consequences which the law of flowing and reaping does not Justify. Do not bu surprised if bad men who are industrious are prospered in business. That is just what they have been sowing peed for. If they arc dili- igent and faithful about their flowing* 'of course they will reap-the appropriate, harvest. That is all right and according to the la-w. :, And do not be dis appointed or think it strange if good men who do not sow wisely nor work* diligently arc unfortunate in their) business affairs, lhat is also in accordance with tli" same raw. Jiaclr re-ipa as he sows. "15c not decerved," you need not expect a material harvest from spiritual seed-sowing, "lie not deceived," you will never ir.ip a spiritual harvest'from .solliMi and, niaierial eeed- eowing. Nov.- determine the kind "of, harvest you want, Llien sow that kind) of seed and you will reap in due season if you faint not. Mainly Abvur. jreopie. EHzabcth Cady Slant"on was orrce gtv> fng a piece of advice to a roomful of |roung men in a little village on the subject of matrimony. "When you marry," lire said, "choose a woman with a spine a.nd a sound set of teeth." "Good grii- siousf Airs. Stanton," remarked one of her listeners, in alarm, "do they ever tomo without spines?" Professor Powers of Cornell's political economy department was discussing tho changed attitude that people have assumed (and in his opinion rightly assumed) toward the conveniences and the luxuries of life. "At a Methodist church convention," he said, "thc delegates wero talking on that subject, when an old graybcard arose and exclaimed angrily to the presiding bishop: 'I suppose you came here in a private car?' 'Yes,' the bishop answered; 'do you know any w.iy more comfortable?'" When Labouchere was an attache of the British Ambassador to the United States a Briton of thc consequential species descended on the ministry oM Washington demanding to see his country's representative. '"He's not in," said Lab- by. "Then I'll wait,", said tho Briton pompously, seating himself. At tho end of half an hour came the query, "When ���er���do you���er���expect Lord Lyons back?" "Oh, in six months or so," said the ever-obliging attache. "lie left for Europe this morning.,But you'baid you'd wait, you know." ,, A manufacturer not oire hundred miles from the city tells a, jood joke on himself. He id credited'with being extremely disagreeablo to his employees. A man just arrived in this country called on him one day to ask for woik./'IIavc you a recommendation "of character?" he psked the stranger. "No." he replied, "but 1 have friends in the village who. will give me one." Pulling his" L.i.idle on the floor, he left. In tiro couric of half-an hour he returned, look rip his bundle and was leaving tlio office without a ���word., "Did you get your character ?" asked the manufacturer. The man, without halting a moment or raising his eyes, said: "No, mister, but I got yours.*' Kitchener's scathing sarcasm is well illustrated by thc reply he is said to have sent to the leader of-,a not over- successful column. This oflicer had several slight engagements' with tlie enemy, mainly, consisting of flinging a few shells at them at long -range. After each engagement he wired to the commander- in-chief substantially: "During action- several Boers seen to drop from their sacftllcfl." ''.The thing was-becoming tiresome, for- Lord Kitchener's rule was that only those actually "gathered" should be counted. He soon thought of a remedy, and sent back to the. officer this polite telegram: "I hope when they fell they did not hurt themselves." The Scotch of Glengarry are largely, probably mainly, of "the old faith," and this story told by Senator MofMillan, touches upon that fact, and also introduces one of the old-time giants ol that county. This particular giant was Big Alex "McDonnell, uncle of the bishop of the same name. "Big Alex/' the senator began, "was probably the only man who went over the Chaudiere Falls and lived. Shortly after his escape he visited his uncle, then a simple priest, and iiis marvelous escape, wrth the incident of hanging desperately to a floating crib while being tosse'd about in the turbulent waters, 'formed the subject of con- lersalion. 'It must have been a great comfort to you to know that the saints were witih yon in your peril,' remarked the priest. 'Oh, yes,' responded Alex, but it was also a comfort to know I was a ttimn good swimmer.' " The following incident occurred at an fntertainmerrt in a large provincial town in England. On the piogi-ammo a certain vocalist was down' to sing "Tho Miner's Dremu of Home." and to add special eflect to the song he, having a fiiend a fireman at the file station, about three minutes' walk fiom the hall, ran out and borrowed his topboots. His turn on the piogramme came around, lie appeared on the singe in all tho glory of :i blouse, -jloueh hat, white breeches and (the fireman's.) topboots. His rendering of tlie --ong was a groat .surce-3 up to the nriddlu of tho second verse, when a commotion wir-, he.ird at the entrance of tlio hall. Then a hoi and eager frionun forced his way through the audience up to tho footlights and bawled out at tho top of his voice: "Hill, you've got to come out of t/iiom 'ere hoots if you value your life. I'm called lo a fire!" Her First Night at the Theater. A lady who Tesides at Streatham Hill, according to an English exchange, has a girl in her service fioh from some region far removed from the theater. Thinking to give the girl a treat, and knowing that she had never been to a theater, tire lady purchased a ticket for a play at Balham Theater. The girl went.and returned before nine o'clock. "What is the matter? Did you not like it?" asked Ure mistress. "Oh, I liked it, mum, it was fine." "But," enquired her mistress, "why have you returned so soon? Surely you didn't see it all." "Yes, mum, I did. t went in, sat down and looked at the large pictcr hanging up in front. People kept ��� a-comrn' in, and protty soon there was quite a crowd all looking at the picter. Then' they, took it away and some men and women bo- gun a-talkin' up there about somethin' that didn't concern mc, so I got up and come away. But I enjoyed the) picter." How Lillian Russell Keeps, Young;. Lillian Russell ' is described by G'craldins Bonner, who recently saw her' at Weber & Field's Theater in New York, aa "just the same old Lillian, , exactly ���as good-looking, in the same perfectly regular way, aa she -ever was. Theatergoers have always wondered how this popular actress contrived to retain her- beauty, despite tlio flight of time, and' so they will read with interest her article on "The Secret of. How to Keep Young," which appears m'.i recent number of "Collier's Weekly." Mr,4 Russell declares that it is a comparatively simple thing for. any person 'to keep fresh and youthful-looking without the aid of cosmetics,, enamel, dyes and other i-mineral or vegetable substances which may serve the purpose for a time, but in the end leave the user all the,worse for the application. She adds: "There is nothing liko exercise and" diet to promote thc good health which is a necessary accompaniment of���in fact, tho vital principle that scrvcB to preserve��� youth and beauty. The average woman of to-day is apt to sacrifice all thingsJto her comfort. Exercise is a bore; dieting is troub'panme and almost painful; because pfletts are not at once apparent, she di-penses with any little reform in the ni'i'de of living which, in a contrite spu.t, she may have taken irp. ,1 have known women who made firm resolves to undergo a systematic course of exercise and followed it up' religiously for a f#w days, meanwhile scanning their glads eagerly,to note results. None devclonlrig at once,' they have voted the whole thirig <a fraud, and gone back to the old routine of pleasure and indolence. Tho woman who ia really in earnest about reserving her beauty and youth will find, in a short time; that, the ������ few simple rules to follow soon i become n source of genuine pleasure. I say rules, but that is not to.be taken literally. . There are no set rules, to be followed; one must be guided by common sense, and entci thoroughly into the spirit of the thirig for mind has aa much to do with accomplishing results'as'the actual training. Tho woman'who assigns to herself the task and then goes about it in a desultory fashion, with half-hearted hopes of achieving ends, -would better not- make the attempt at all." The system of exercise which Miss Russell follows may,- to -some, seem almost heroic; to her it has now become a sort of second nature. "In the first place," she says, "when I awaken in the morning I drink at least two cupfuls of hot water. Then a plunge into a warm bath i* followed hy a thorough massage, and I take a few minutes of rest before eating breakfast. This meal consists of a piece of dry "toast and,.perhaps, a cup of weak tea. If it, is summer-time, a came of tennis or practice with the medicineman is "next. All-the muscles are brought into play,' and at the expiration of fifteen minutes I am in a profuse perspiration. But the game is enjoyable, and I continue until thoroughly weary.. Then into the bath-tub again and another rub-down, and* I'am ready fovbreak- fast No. 2, which consists of'a lean-chop and toast���but nothing of a liquid-nature- If the day is fine, 'a snin on mj bicycle is next in order, i'or this 1 wear a medium-weight sweater over my .ovular costume, and the ride i3 never less than ten miles and at a pretty good pace: Reaching home, and after another mb-down, I don some loose costume antl road or otherwise pass the time until lunch. This meal is also very simple, all starchy or fattening foods being rehg iously excluded. Allowing a little time for digestion, some other game is indulged in���such as tether-ball, or perhaps "olf. A short carriage diive follows, with a bath and massage at-the finish. That lakes'me up to dinner-time, when usually I eat what my fancy dictates. That is the one meal of the day in which I do not stint myself, although I avord, so far as possible, any foods which have a fattening tendency. The evenrngs, too, are spent "in quiet relaxation, as I consider I have done enough for the- day. ����� ."The following morning," concludes Miss Russell, "the same plan is followed, and I take genuine pleasure in carrying out the schedule laid out. There is nothing haid or disagreeable in what I do. In the winter, when bicycle-riding is out of the question, I play prng-pong, or row A few miles in an indoor boat. The punching-bag, I find, is a grand form of exeicise, and I am becoming an expert at that. The care of the skm rs, ot course, an important factor. The srrn- plest forms ofremollients, used in connection with facial massage. I find arc the best. But they are of little use without the exercise which brings the natural o-low of health to lhe chocks. The hair- should he carefully looked after, as nothing so much tends lo make a woman look voulhful or pretty as hor 'crowning glory.' Frequent shampoos, combined with persistent brushing, will do all that is necessary in that line." Up to Date. Great Publisher���Mr. Quill, your novel is n mi v good one. jrr. Quill���Then you tire going lo publish il.V . .,, , Client Publisher���\os, if you wrll only make a few slight changes. Just change flic in image of your heroine lo her death on the eve of the bridal; kill your hcio iu a railroad accident; and close lhe book with tiro funny man standing between two graves in the twilight, and it's a go. t r The Use of Logic. A great deal is said in these daya about thc value or valuclessness of logic In thc main, indeed, logic is not a productive tool so much as a weapon of defence. A man building up an intellectual system has to build like Neheniio-h, with the sword in one hand and tho trowel in the other., The imagination, < the constructive quality, is the trowMj and argument is the sword. A wide, experience of actual intellectual nflairs will lead most people to the conclusion thai logle ia mainly valuable a.s a weapon wherewith to cxtcrmhrate logicians. IP^T Tt���t V *'*JTfJ3KgfiVetVWmmmMm;'<"��� Authors at,Work. Mr. Anthony Hope, who is very much , in the public eye again through the-* success of his clever novel "The Intrusions of Peggy," has evidently no desire to make a secret of his literary methods. Here is h.s record of a day's woik. "Lot us suppose,"- h< says, "tha,t I am bidden to write a shoit story. I arrive at my working-den at 9.45, and read my letters. The rest of the day is much" as follows: 10. Put on wriling-coat; find a hole in the elbow. . 10 03. Light pipe, and sit down in laigc aim-chair by the fire. 10.15. Who the deuce can write a story ��� on a beastly day like this? (It was quito nice weather, really���that's the arlrstrr lornperamenl.) . 10.45. I iii list 4-think about that con- ' founded story. Besides, I don't believe she meant a*iything, after all. 11.15. I wish'the���these���people hadn't nsked me to write for thcii���paper! '11.45. Hullo! Will that do? . 12. Hung it, that's no use I r ,12.30. I suppose if 1 happened'to have a head instead of a turnip I could write ihat storv. 12.40. Ves! No! By Jove, yes! Where's that pen? Oh; where thc^���? All right, here it, is! Now then. (Scribble.) 1. Lunch 1 - Good, I believe it's going. 1.30. Now I'll just knock it oil'. (Scrib blc.) ' - ,, . 2.15. Well, I don't quite see my waj to��� Oh yes, I do I Good I That's noL so bad. ��� H - 3. One, two, three ��� three hurrdre'' words, a page. Well, I've put Unit in in good time .inyhowl ' Where's that pipo- . 3.15. I think I'll fetch 'cm. Pitched ir pussion, by Jo vol - , '.. 3.40. Oh, I oay, look herel' I've'only got about 1,200 words, and I want 2,000 'Whwt the deuce shall I do? 3.GO. I must pud it, you know. Slu mustn't^ take him ycl, that's all. 4: She 'can't trike moro Limn a pug. ���cc\it.ing the fool, though'; iL's absurd you know. 4.1.").' Oh, confound it! 4.45. Now -let's see���two, four, sin -even. Good, I'm in the-straight now! 5. Thank Heaven,'that's done!, Now U'pposo 1 must read the thing over, know it's awful rot: Well, that's the! ookout, they've bought it. 5.03. It's not so bad, though, after all 5.11. I rather like that. I don't know but it seems rather original. , 5.13. H'mI 'I've read worse storio' than this. 5.20. No, I'm hanged if I touch a word of it I It's not half bad. 5.25. Pretty smart ending! , 5.30. Well, if there are a "dozen men i>- Eng'land who, can write a better' stor;_ than that, I should like to see 'em, that' all! ' 5.35. Puff, puff, puff, puff! Well, ��� -.ha'n't touch a pen- again to-day. < , "There it is���-'How a Story is Vvritter By One Who Has Done It.' . . . Tha .emark about the 'dozcru men ,in England' represents a momentary phase o feeling, not a .reasoned opinion." - , . In answer to a'request to tell his rear" ts how he worked.- Mr. J. M. Barn. -\hose new book, "The Little Whiti Ilird," has just been published, wrote tin '"ollowing on a crumpled piece of pape jlrat l.ad evidently oiicc contained to jacco: Journalism. ". pipes 1 hour '. hours .- 1 idea I idea 3 pai s '? pars ._. 1 lcadc Fiction. S pipes 1 ounce 7 ounces 1 week 2 weeks' 1 chap 20 chaps ' 1 nib 2 nibs 1 novel Craft." *��� A writer in "Chambers' Journal" de scribes ho.v a crime was traced to the criminals by an exceedingly cunning ex pedient: "The Mr. Elliott I have mentioned in' herited no small amount of his father's courage and energy. On one occasion armed with nothing- but a horse-pistol he faced an infuriated Madras crowd. He also, with great cleverness, detected tho perpetrators of a daring robbery. All the plate of a leading hotel had been carried away, and as lire loss was seri oris, the polico were eager to apprehend the thieves. For some time they were quite baffled} but at last suspicion wat concentrated on an eating-house neai the shore, chiefly frequented by sailois liaving made his arrangements, Mr. Elliott entered this house one day in.the costume of a naval oflicer, and oiderod a dish of curry and rice. The food was soon placed before him, but accompanied by nothing beUer than a pewic-r spoon This was piccisely what had been expected. Handling the spoon with a con tempi nous air, he asked if they expected one of her Majesty's officers to cat. with such nil nrlicle us that. Searching looks were llu-n directed to him; but lie sue-( (���ceded in nuiiiilainiiig .'ii rippcin.ince ol ingi'p.riuiiiiiess and .simplicity. Then, lifter .i -���ml. delay, u sil\cr spoon w.i" bioi'';!-! healing the ni.nk of tho (ilini- der "U lintel. A* tew quick steps took the niatridli.ilc���for sum lie was���to the liooi, nid n low whistle brought the wailing MilioKlinale-,, then Lhe landlord, landlady i-i'd ocmiiito wvre seized, and the whole of the pl.ilo scornered." Our Language. Yet another hunioious ^>tory uncut the idiosyncrasies of the English language is current. A Frenchman came to England with the object of making himself master ot the tongue, and this following sentence was given 'him: "The rough cough and hiccough plough me through." Thc teacher told him the first word was pronounced "rufl." He thereupon said this: "Tho ruff cuff and hiceuff, pluff me UirutT." y "No, no���the second word is pronounced 'kolT'l" '���:;:; ��� "Then," paid the Frenchman, "it must be the roff coff and hiccoff ploff me throff." The third, fourth and fifth words wer��. Bjcplaincd with the same result, whiea) the reader m��.y repeat for himself. It makes a man ridicu-r lous, it makes him an o-fTen?ive nuisance and it makes him dangerously sick. Catarrh] is' not ,a luxury or a necessity. - It is pretty sure to bring on consumption, pneumonia, or at least, bronchitis^ You cannot afford either. . -r You can afford the'cure for it. A cheap cure that has never failed. It is Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder. It' relieves a cold or catarrh, or cures a headache in ten minutes, it entirely heals up the catarrh-wasted surfaces.' - No other remedy can count noses with us���cured noses. - C. E. Zimmerman, of the slaffof the Roanoke VVoild, slates :��� "I*r. Agnew's Catarrh Cure is the only remedy that has ever given me any permanent relief,, uler suffering more than fifteen years fro:nCat.��rh." . ,, . , Dr. Agnew's Heart Cure first looks to the owin spring of life nnd health, sets up the heart in new strength, feeds the nerves and fills every other organ with life. Cured thousands ; will cure you. 2T Didn't Lose Much. At one of the annual fairs 'which m�� held ai a email town in Russia a, gentleman ohserved a gypsy-and a Polojuog- gling over the -sale of a hoTse. - Full of curiosity when the two separated, and. anxious to know how two,suoh, shrewd , characters hod bargained, tho gentleman, called the gypsy to him-and ea-. quired how much he had got for his animal. Thevgypsy opened his hand-and showed a ten-rouble note (valued aboat a guinea). " "But isn't that very cheap?" "No," said the gypsy, Ahe is dead- lame." ' The gentleman then sought out U����- Pole and said: ��� " < ��� "So you have given ten roubles for a lame horse?". Thcv Pole, however, 'with a knowing- look, said: , ' "Lame! He's as sound as you are. I" saw he was badly shod, and only limped in consequence." - ��� The enquirer j-c-turned to the gypsy and 'repotted what-the other aaid. The- former gave a tremendous and most sig- , nificint wink and whispeied: 4 "He's as lame a3 a two-legged stool. I". hlad him badly shod on puipose to make- people believe that-that was the causet- of his limping." * ' When this was communicated to-tfh��-- Pole 'he seemed for the moment taken.-' aback, and hung his head; then, with a- little sigh and1 a shrug of his shoulders, he said, quietly: ' "Ah, well, it's all right; it was a bad- ten-rouble note!" A Savage Pun. i William Penn was ohviously - nervous- while signing his tieaty with the Indians. "I am afraid that redskin over there- may make a snap fahot of the. occasion," he explained. "No fear," rejoined a friend; "he has- already done his worst. lie just remarked the Penn was mightier than tha sword." _ , Moved +o wrath, the great Quaker werrt forth and founded Philadelphia, thus making many innocent people suffer for the not of " -mwitting savage.��� New York "Tribune.'' . 4, -iii "Colonel," asked the Northern undertaker, ''do you people of tlie South believe in cremation?" ".Sometimes, sub," replied the colonel, "when we think plaia lynehrn' wouldn't begin to fit the crime, Buh."���''Catholic Standaid and Times." QUE SPOONFUL "Will build for you good health* through good nerves, by using South American Nervine Almost all disease rs the result of poor nerve action. Without good i 1 nerves neither brain, nor stomach, / [nor liver, nor heart, nor kidneys,! Jean work well. Nerve food must! 1 bo such that it will bo absorbed by' the nerve ends. Such a food ia South American Nervine, the greatest tonic known, a cure for dyspepsia and all stomach ailments. Adolph Le Bodie, K. C. L., Montrp- , al's well known barrister, writes 1 "I was suffering from insomnia and nervous debility, prostration and exhaustion. I took Ave bottles of South Amer��- lean Nervine, and am wholly recovered. ' Tho arent South American Rheumatic Cure U the only one that lias not a singl�� case of failure in its record. Curs sure within three days; relief instantly. S , ,,��U,J,^j|^.W ��� 4- I' i ��� --���������*.- j -*.' "Hj'*"*Jr&-kM4 �� Curious Bits of News. Electric lamps are to be substituted In the place of gas jets In Westminster Abbey. It is averred that gas has proved injuiious to the great church by setting up chemical change in the limestone of which Its walls, arches, vaults and carvings are composed, thus hastening the disintegration of the building. Captain K. A. Jansen~bf Chicago has won the distinction of being the first mariner to guide a steamship from Lake Michigan to San Francisco by way of tho Straits of Magellan. The eraft in which he made tha voyage In ninety-eight days Is the steamer "Tarn- plco," which was built at Toledo, In 1900 for the Great Lakes carrying trado. j According to "Engineering," the net / result in respect of speed In navigation Is that while ten years ago the ' highest sustained ocean speed was 20.7 knots, It Is now 23.51'knots; the highest speed for large warships was 22 knots, and Is now 23 knots on a trial of Rouble the duration of those of ton years ago; the maximum speed attained by any craft was 25 knots, as compared with 8G.581 knots now; while' the number of ships of over 20 iknots was eight In 1891, and is fifty-eight now. When the King was Prince of Wales ho refused to attend public banquets If the press were not seated among the .guests. On one occasion the reporters we're to dine by themselves Ir. another loom. 'They refused, and brought the matter under tho notice of tho Prince peisonally. lie sent"for the mayor of the town and made a- few , pointed remarks." When the banquet commenced the repoiters were accommodated with seals fiom which they could have shaken hands with Ills Royal Highness. , During the past four years the United States Fish Commission has made im-. portant experiments, at the station in Duluth. They have resulted in the successful planting nnd acclimatization in Lake Supei lor of tha famous bteelhead salmon of the Pacific, a salt-water fi3h exclusively heretofoie It was believed that this fish would thrive in the cold, fresh waters of Lake Supeilor, where eo many other salmonidae giow. Sev- 'eral thousand fry were planted on the north shore of the lake, near Port Ai- thur, and at Silver Islet, both points on the Canadian side. The following year a larger number was planted ofC Isle Royale, and since then the planting has been kept up.v Now, from time to time, the catch of'an occasional steel- head Is reported, and-fiom the size of those found it is evident that they are growing about a pound a year in these fresh wateis It is also evident, fiom certain modifications of some of those specimens caught, that they have bean propagating and increasing naturally. Language in a Dog's Tail. ^ Lailshfccr.Cure For Drunken- In the case, of all hunting dogs, such as foxhounds or wolves, which pack together, the tail is can led aloft, and is very free in movement. , It is also frequently rendered more conspicuous by the tip being white, and this Is almost invariably the case when the hounds are of mixed color. When ranging the long grass of the prairie or(1 Jungle, the raised tips of the tails' would, often be all 'that an individual member of the band would see *of its fellows. There is no doubt that hounds habitually watch the tails of those in front of them when drawing a covert. If a faint drag Is detected suggestive of the presence of a fox:, but scarcely sufficient to be sworn to vocally, the tall of the finder is at once set In motion, and the warmer the scent the quicker does It wag. Others, seeing the signal, quickly join the first, and there is an assemblage of waving tails before even the least whimper Is heard. Should the drag prove a doubtful ono, the hounds separate again, and the waving ceases; but, if It grows stronger when followed up, the wagging becomes more and more emphatic, until Jine after another the hounds begin to Whine and give tongue, and stream off In Indian file along the line ot scent. When the pack Is In full cry upon a strong'scent, the tails cease to wave, but are carried aloft In full view. The moment when the dog most enjoys life Is the moment when he sights game. That moment Is tho time when he wags his tall mo.st vigorously In order to announce hls"dli(.overy to his fellow-dogs. In this way, by the habit of association, he got ,to wagging his ,tall whenever ho was pleased; and the more pleased he is the more'vigorously he wags his tall, so that the wagging of a,dog's tall under pleasurable emotion can be tiaced directly to the time when the dog used his tail as a signal of, the discovery of his piey. Ungenerous Winners and Bad Losers. Gentle leader���as the old-school editorial used to address you���have you ever played checkeis with an opponent ���who, when he had gained a slight advantage over you in the numbei of pieces, traded one for one, meicilessly, until he had brought your ratio of strength to a point wheie yom defeat wa3 rnc\ itable Ilia pl.ty was strictly accoiding" to-llojlo. You could not frame a iron-demu'iiahle cum- plarnt against him. And yet you laged inwardly against his policy and called it unsportsmanlike Well, theie are people who play thc game of lrfc in that same way. Many of them are very respectable people, too, go to chinch every Sunday, heat therr fani- lhes kindly and obey the law. They arc \ery companionable, jolly follows, often, but beware of them in any little gaino of business or politics. Don't let them crowd you into a coiner oi get the better of you by one piece or obtain a chance through your negligence to slip a king into the sqrraie between two of your pieces. Don't endoise any little notes for them oi go on their bonds or make oral eontiacls with them or woik with them or for them without having had a deSrrife urideistanding, provable by witnesses and wntmgs, conecinrng your sliaie of the piolits or spoils. They will not cheat you any more than old Shyloek would have cheated Antonio, put they will have the full amount of their bond, though it cost your heart's blood. They will stay within the limits of the law and will give you justice, but if you cry to them for mei ey you will waste your breath. They will take advantage of technicalities, and they'will laugh at appeals to their gcneiobrty. "Business is riiMiiesB,'' they will say. "There is the ietter of the bond." There can be no withdrawing a move once made when thev are in the game. This policy is very exasperating to thd krsing player, whether the game be checkers, business, politics, high finance, diplomacy or anything else, but, after all, it ia perfectly fan. It is nature's own way of playing the game of existence. Headers of Huxley r.rcollect his famous illustration of the struggle of existence as that of a man playing chess against an automaton which never makes a misplay and never overlooks one committed by its opponent. If wo j look without prejudice we dee that Shy- lock was in the right. Whatever generous impulses ne may have, we have no tight to grumble because another l-olds- ' rs fast to the teitns of our contract or I the ruies of the game. Meaner than the chcckci-player who tiades one for one when he has moro pieces than his opponent is the man who always asks odds, who whines for mercy, who will not take his medicine like a Mme. Eames's Diplomacy. 'Many think that musical artists should present their services for concerts given for charitable objects, says the1 Philadelphia "Post." Mjne. Eames is also of this opinion, but she recently, In London, put the matter In a new light to those who .invited her to appear gratuitously. Mine. Eames was one afternoon at Loid Charles Beies- ford's, and the next day received a letter from Lady BeiesLoid sayrng that two ladres present hud wanted to ask a favor, but in her piesence had lost courage. "But I am not afraid of you," wrote Lady Beresioid, and "proceeded to say that the ladies in question, who happened to be extiemely wealthy, wished her to sing for nothing "for a certain chanty. Mme Eames immediately sat do\yn and wiote a.reply. It was her duty, she said, to save hei self as much as possible for- her opeiatic performances at Covent Gaxden, which were stipulated by contract to be two days'apait so that she might give her fieshest and best to the public. She felt, however, greatly attracted towaid the charity named, and would make only one condition" regai ding the donating of her services. . She had received 800 guineas (about $1,500) for singing at Mr. W. W. Astor's and about the same amount at other private concerts. She would gladly sing for nothing at the charity concert if each one of the ladles Interested, who had so kindly asked her, would donate 300 guineas to the object for which the concert was to be given. As yet no replies from "the ladles Interested" have been received. But Lady Beresford,' not being one of the "Interested ladies," appreciates mora fully the hi:��-r.<.-' < \ tlm sil.ic-.fioa. . Capturing a Girl Graduate. "Yes," said the young man, as ha threw himself at the feet of the sweet girl graduate, "I love you, and would ga to the woild's end foi you." "You could not go to the end of tha world for me, James. The world, as it is called, is round like a. ball, slightly flattened at tire poles One of the flist lessons in the elementary geogiaphy is devoted to-the shape of the globe. You must have studied it when you wero a hoy." ' Of course I did, but-; " "And it is no longci'a theory. Circumnavigators have ' established th< fact." "I know; but what I meant was thai I would do anything to please you. Ahl Minerva, if you only knew the aching vord " "There is no such tiling as a void, James. Nature abhors a vacuum. But, admitting that 'there could be such a thing, how could the void you speak oi be a void if there whs an acta in it?" "I meant to say that my lifo will b�� lonely without yeti, tliat you aro my daily thought and my nightly dream. I would go anywhere to be Willi you. II you woio m Australia or at too North Polo I would fly to you. I " "FlyI Men won't ily yet, d��ar boyy Even whon the laws of gravity are suo> I ccssfully overcome, there will still re- I main, says a late scientific authority, the difficulty of maintaining a bal�� 14, -* I arce- "Well, at all events," exclaimed t&�� I youth, "I'\e got a pretty fair balance; I at ray banker's, and t want you to ba I my wife. There!" "Woll, James, sirne > on put it in thai light I " Let thc curtain full. , ness. ��� i In a recent lectino at Chicago Uiri- trisity, Professor' William NT Guth- ia declared that laughter and comedy made be made lo play an impoitant pait a-, curative and remedial agents, even to thc point of protecting humanity lion the liquor habit. Says the Chicago "News" (July 7), iu a report of,the lecture: - "Drunkenness, of course, is duo only In, part to discouragement oridespera- tion. But for the considerable number who drink because they feel dejected and seek a quick and'easy way of throwing off their depression, there is a much laiger number who drink either because ' they have nothing else to do 'or because they crave some excitement to relievo the monotony of their lives. Drinking is a gr cat time-consuming habit, and tho man who would shake it off usually finds that the reform leaves him with au undue amount of leisure. One chief trouble with the efforts to suppress the evil, perhaps, is that while the drinker and- Id's fiicnds make brave efforts to stop the bad habit, they do little or nothing towaid'putting a new and who'^somc hnbrt in its place. It is in this atnge iliiit his bored feeling nnd his depression lccui witlr greatest effect. Professor Gutluie's addies3 contains a hint.for the despondent poison. Let him surround himself with the influences which make for comedy and laughter.' Let him seek cheery companionship or attend amusing entertainments. The chances are that ho will find tho time slipping by,' so" pleasantly, that he has foi gotten his de pression and ..much of his craving for ar- A Gloomy View. 'A special despatch from London to' The New (York Sun says Mr. Fredeii; Harrison, in an address to the Positrvist Committee, of which he is President, said that tho Monroe doctrine would eventually descend to the simple formula of "No European monarchy shall hold ground oh transatlantic continents." Mr. Harrison affirmed that JSngUnd was hastening such a development by 1 er The Smith Family. fw*/ Mr. Glazebrook, author of "Th"--1' Heraldry of Smith," -declared 'it t^- be absolutely true that a lifetime and the fortune of air American billion. aire would not suffice for, an exhaustiv( history of all the Smiths in all four quart tors of the globe. ��� , ' Mr. Compton Reade does not attempt, anything so supremely heroic in his last'/ book, "The Smith Family," just published by Elliot Stock. He professes, to % use his own words, "to review the great Fabrician family/'^vhether crisped into ��� Harrison t��kea a gloomy view of poll cal institutions as they were affscted ly the events of'the year 1002. He saps: "The cardinal fact of our time is the exhaustion of the Parliamentary system of government. Parliaments everywhere are passing into a stage of -iecxdcice, disci edrt and servility. In Germany a Parliamentary coup d'etat has reduced the" Chamber to .an office in which decisions of State which are decreed by the Sovereign and a Minister arc registered with a formula which has been seen and approved. The same pro.'c-iS is being applied in England to the motile i 'of lice Parliaments, somewhat less openly but quite as efficiently. W'lis which might indirectly have brought us into collision or dispute with the two great',nations in the world were begun behind the back of Parliament almost without any explanation of their cause or object. Treaties were made with foreign powers such as might "indi- ..���������.��� ^ ������������,������. AW1 ���A rectly have shaken our whole commer- tYficraf'exlcTtcincnt. ~Goodlun 'arriTgo'od cial flscal system .t0 its "foundation with- foolish combination with Germany. Mr., Smith, "smoothed into Smyth, or smidged itt cookeiy���the one to occupy the de pressed man's mind and the other to steady his nerves���might he made to do a gieat deal toward 7 suppiessing the liquor evil." j That Professor Guthrie is a valuable press agent for the comic opera and vaudeville companies is asseited by the Chicago "llccord-Herald;" but after following out this light vein for some time it becomes more serious and says- "There really is a scientific or, physio logical basis for Professor Guthrie's "cuie for alcoholism. The geneial assumptron is that men resort to alcoholic stimula tion to make them feel,'happier than their normal condrtion would justify They diink to drive away -the 'blues' and to induce a feeling of ( temporary mental elation. If this feeling of mini a1 buoyancy and cheeifulncss can be m ' dueed by some other means than alco holic stimulants, it is cleai that the de .sire for intoxicants will be lessened. "This is, the aigument of Professor Gulhrrc, and it seems sound and logical. The 'horse plap' of John Slavin or Montgomery and.Stone may not feitilrze tho mind as does 'The Second Mr 3 Tanque- ray,' but it is more certain to Keelcyrzo the desire for strong drink." - J He'd Never Thought of It. ,= The camera fiend was getting leady to go into the .woous, his piescnt fad bemg the "photographing of young buds in their nests, tor the pin pose, as he' explained, of illustrating the "life history" of the featheied songsters. "My fiiend," said one of the group on the poitieo, "I know you to be_a man of humane rnstinets, arrd that you would hesrtate a long time before you would kill an innocent thing lrke a wood thrush, a young robin or any other harmless bird. Nor would you cause them pain, much less a lingering death, if you knew it. Now, the fact is, you nie almost certairr to do all these things in your pursuit of the photographs of very young birds." "I don't see how," was the incredulous rejoinder. "Then I'll take the liberty of explaining. In almost every instance you find it necessary, in order to get the pioper light upon a nest, to cut away some of the limbs that suriound it. In doing this yon are almost certain to frighten tho mother biid, sometimes lo so gieat an extent that she leaves the nest rrevei to return, which means death by the torturing piocess of staivatiorr to hei little biood. Even if this docs not oc' cur, the removal of the twigs and the leaves upon them deprrves tho growrng youngsters of their natural piotcctroru from the burning "sunbeams or the cold driving ruins, and death comes to them in that way. Or, cscaprng this danger, they fall victims to hawks, owls or other- birds of piey; your handiwoik, by rcn- deiing the nest more conspicuous, having contributed, to this result." "By jove, I never thought of that," eaid the man with tho lad, "but now 1 see that it is true. I'll do no moie of it." And he kept his woid. out any explanation to Parliament,~and even while Parliament was offered, a false explanation and wrong translation of an important document the House of Commons was called upon to waive its most cherished ,privileges,, including tho, keystone of .the .,British constitution��� the absolute control of taxation. AH 'this," Mr. Harrison concluded, "is a sui e sign the Parliamentary government in England is felt to be superannuated and is being superseded by iiregular, plebiscites, when these were ratified or approved by a House of Lords and House of Bishops. 'A huge, umeal majority, elected under popular effervescence, whieh was equivalent to a revolutionary storm, demoralized the Government and its opponents alike. The Ministeis grew as icckless of justice, and even of public opinion, as any autocrat, and the Opposition, feteling themselves silenced by a mechanical guillotine, lost all cohesion, and withdrew in despair. What is certain is that the khaki.reaction of, 1000 has made inioads on the constitutional 'rights of the House of Commons such as was never attempted by Pitt, Wellington,'Peel, Palmerston or Gladstone. into Smijth." iir. Reade'says that so . numerous are the' Smiths, he marvel* ' ��� England has nots been transmuted into ' "Smithland." An Ameiican authority is -, quoted to th'e effect that' "the history of England is th'e hrstory of families," and ' then Mr. Compton Keade affirms that so far as the Smiths represent a type, Eng- land"without them' would have been very; small indeed. , - .' -r It is curious, Mr. P.ea'dc observes, how ,, the little letter "y" ha9 proved a huge '-. 'differentia. For, whereas the "Smiths" ' - as a rule have been money-making, the "(Smyths" have shown themselves chival- *, t rous,and aiistocratic. Whrle the. Smiths- ' were Roundhead, the Smyths suffered for Tory or Jacobite principles. ' < > Apropos of these vair.rlions in'-t)he; *' spelling of thc , great 'patronymic, Mr.' /; Compton lleade propounds a theory ^ which should prove Jof, comfort to both' ��� branches of the family. He hotly com- - - bats tho notion 'that the Smyths,';., Smythes tand Smyths nave assumed 'a-'"/'-' variation of spelling to lend an aristo- ,*V cratic flavor to a homely name. ,"Noth- ��:-[ ing," h"e declares,, "can he further from'"~ the truth. 'The oiiginal foirn was Smytlv ,; ' just as the modern 'cider' is a corruption - ''J of the ancient 'cydei.' ,So far from the - '_ Smyths having Smythed themselves,' I ��� \ '' can discover barely one notable instance v^' of the change from 'i' to 'y,' but Ifcan ���,-,' trace numberless instances of Elizabeth* t, l?an Smyths havings become Victorian ' X Smiths. The roco spelling of the word . - ���Smijth is apparently due to . the - ingen- '������ lousness of some mediaeval clerk who irj-, ������ writing Smyth took upon himself fo dot ���" , both points of tho 'y/fthus producing ';' 'Smijth.'" " '��� - v". ' But what is the origin of this great., \. ' famrly? Thc following couplet furnishes "! tho answer: ' Whence cometh Smith, be he^ knight or be he (Sqnuc, j But from thc Smith lhati forgcth at the \ fire? . .., Not that this is any disgrace. The name is old enough; at any iate, Piojesooi Ma- hally has discoveicd that a rrian named Smith lived in thc days ol Ptolemy ill. 3.G. 227; and the occupation fiom which ' lire name is dciived was oiiginally ono qt-.' gieat honoi. David was aimouier to King Saul. Vulcan wasi a peison of distinction in Olympus. In the days of (i Tlior, when none but the migliticot could- wreld the'harrrmci, he wa^ a e^nosuie; .���- ni^the heroic days of gallant little Wales ~n he*sat upon the ngnt hand of the King. " \ ���-m��rt But from hrs high e��lalc 'he feU, tofbe- '^. come a meic mechanic in Xoimarr times,^ ' only, houevei, to blossom into tlie'gold^"- -stourrg goldsmith ot Queen Anne's days^ l" ~- Horn winch trade sprang the groat nrdus-" try of bankrng. ,- .. " " s,' Witii the assistance of pedigrees and v\ other matter Mr. licade sets' to work to K", 4 A Philanthropic Miscarriage. ii A- man died lecently in Amciica^and left half a million dollaiscto establish a home for���indigent women, he is "alleged to have meant, but he ,wide/1 instead, '"indignant" women Now the lawyei-3 aie vigoiously fighting the. will on tho ground that its essential piovrsron cannot be earned out legally. But why? Surely they cannot piovc that there are no indignant women to advantage by pro\e the doctrine of heieditary charic-v- the bequest. Noi will any sane "and tcristics: "l?or the tanks or these de- honest.man contend that it would not. scendants of piimitive rron-woikeis^ he be a good thiag to provide a home where such might foiegather, as occasion aiose, tq^ give vent to their indignation. Now that the lawyers have hold of the estate, it is useless, of couise, to ponder its eventual disposition; but the probabilities aie lhat thc devisor had in mind, and really intended, as a boon to his fellow-men, a retreat for indignant ladies. If he had meant" "indigent" he might have said so. -x Do Tobacco and Cheese Cause Cancer ? Of all the ills that flesh is heir to there is none more justly di ended than cancer, a painful and lingeiing disease for which no adequate remedy has yet been found. It will be loineriibefcd that in arr address befoie a medical congiess a year or so ago, King Edwaid of England expicssed thc hope Unit a diligent cfloit would be made to discover some rneaii3 ot checking this dreadful malady. Recent investigations point to the conclusion that one of the causes of cancer rs improper food and drink. That cancel s of the lips and mouth aie caused by e.\cesoi\o smol: Thirty Years' Service, j Mi=s M. C. Smith, who is the first woman to leceive his Majesty's Older of the lmpeiial Service, says The Golden Penny, has been in the Savings Bank Depaitment of the Postoffice for thirty yeais. The experiment ' of employing womta in thac department proved sosue^ cessful that it 'opened the way, through Mr. Fawcetl'B influence, to their employment in the Postolhce. Mi^s'Smith, who began as one ol the twenty female cleiks, has now over 900 women under her contiol. As the pioneer of her sex in that bi anch of woi k, she w ell deserves the honor she has just lecerved. The Golden Penny also has the following : Mrs. Elizabeth Alsop, of Godsor Common, Guildfoid, has lecently celebrated, with great rejoicings, her 102nd birthday. She was in her young days a children's nurse, and when sho was 25 Sears old she went into service at Lady .udrcy Risdale's. Lady Audrey was tho wife of the Rev. R. Risdale, of Tilling- ton, and daughter of the then Marquis of Townshend. Mrs. Alsop remained with the Risdales for the lecord period of female service of 74 yeais. Thc late Duchess of Teck offered a prize for the female servant who in the Biitish Isles could prove the longest period of service continuously in ono family, and after due competrtion this was unanimously awarded to Mrs. Elizabeth Alsop by the Duchess and her la- s.iys, include scaieely a poet or an rdeal-. isl, whrle in rnatteis practical Uey stand pic-eininenl. Whatever we are, we were, And whatever we wcie, we are, ' And whatever we aie, and whatever we wei c, ' ���; That same shall we always be. Certainly Mr. Reade's pedigiecs' and the list of celebirtrea winch he gives at the end of hrs book contarn the names ot many well-known men of affairs, not to mention lawyeis, sailois and solJicis. Charrtable Srrrrlhs without number have proved the old pioveib, " There rs that soatteieth but yet rncieaseth." Perhaps, tho most cccenliic and yet practical-be-* quest was that of Henry Smith in 1717 to St. Scpulchie's "to help poor maids for husbands!" Clearly when Geoige I. was king a spouse must have been a, purchasable commodity, and at a modeiate prwe. Why should there not be a day set apait eveiy year to celebrate tire greatness of the Smrths, after tho manner of the Smith banquet which look placo in tho eighteenth centuiy? At thi3 ban- * quet the guests weio Smiths to a man, and tho president was one Captain Smith, Governor of Virginia, The cooks1' were Smiths, the waiters also, and a j Smith said grace. The feast was graced by a poet Smith, whose sole claims to immortality rest upon the ode he com- [ posed for the occasion, tho publisher of | which was James Smith. ��"���-, your husband a bibliomaniac?" naked Mrs. Oldcastle, as she was boing permitted to view tho treasures in tho man, who is willing enough lo play, but library of the new neighbors. "Mercy weak-heaitcd when the gaino goes lakes, no," replied Mis. Packenham, "he agair.st him. We like to see a man gen- lover bibbles a bit. Oh, of course, I don't! erous in victory, but we admire fnrrrrc.ro lay that he wouldn't take a little at his the man who is gam* and patient in de- > ��eali if the rest were doin' it, but that's ���'eal. Men despise an exacting, hoggish u far ai 1m over goou ia thin kind of winner, but a wWraporUg loser disgusts things.* ^ic^U^^i^^iem^S��l^s&Mi them. ing is rrow a fuel esliblished by the case i of Geneial Grant arrd others, and it has | dies' committee,"with "many fehcitationa been intimated that cancel miciobes j upon hor unique record have been found in certain vile-smelling j Mrs. Alsop's eyosight'and hearing are foicign cheeses for which some fashion- not so good as they once were, it is true, able people pio'ess to have a f.oat l.U- but. she is extremely active, does a lot of knitting, and takes a very deep and intelligent interest in things that go on round her neighborhood. She oan tell many interesting stories of our Queen's girlhood, of historical events that now seem far back in th* past, and she Bcerrrs likely to live many years yet. -�� ��� ����� ) The Idea of a domestic remaining hi "I saw Johnson going; boms with my c��� IbxdHj for 74 years io almost mora new book under his arm." than the mind of the average household- "Yes. Just built him a houso and his ��r &*& gTJWj?. Viatj anyon*���but wteatfjj wife wanted some brlc n-brao ia rod and *���*��� *���*��� * geld to scattor around." Theory and Practice. "Papa," sard the sweet girl graduate, "wasn't my commencement gown a, whooperino? I had the othergirls skinned, alive!" "-"And this is the girl," said! papa, sadly, "whose graduating essay- was 'An Appeal for Higher Standards of] Thought and Expression!'" people pr ing. So far us the malady K traceable to causes like tlie-c III" lcinedy lo be applied is Hiinple and easy, mz , to smoke niodtlately, if at all, and to let all mouldy and decayed ai titled of food alone, no uiattci if gouimcts pretend to lrke them. Quite a Catalogue of Virtues. ���~~~ i This alphabetical nd'-er tisoment appeared in the London "Times" in 1812: "To widowers and single gentlemen��� Wanted by a lady, a situation to superintend the household and pi-eslde at table. She is Agreeable, Becoming, Careful, Desirable, English, Facetious. Generous, Honest, Industrious, Judicious, Keen, Lively, Mor r y, Natty, Obedient, Philosophic, Quiet, Regular, Sociable, Tasteful, Useful, Vivacious/Womanish, Xantlppish, Youthful. Zealous, etc. Address X. T. Z., Simmonda.* Library, Edgwarexoad." ' #' M. .���MUtfOTMinK ��� ssi~~~ :-���::..- ATLIN, K. C. UTKDAY, FJvTJRUARY aS. k'.o.S- S'i! ���'I," ^ 1^ -jj f*v�� &''S PI I I r - the Atlin Claim. Published every Sutnrdily moviiiiii? bv T'.rri Ati.in Claim PunuisuiNO Co. A. C. lliiisciiiixra), Fnoi'iiiKTOii. li Todd l.r-.i-.s, Manauiso Kuixon Ollico of publication Pearl St., Atlin, 11. C. Advertising Rates,: $1.00 pel' inch, each insertion. Heading notices, 25 cents a line. Special Contract fUulos on application. , Tho subscription price, is $5 a year payable in iidvnncc. No p ipoi- will bo delivered unless this condition is complied with. ' -Saturday, February 2ST11, 1903. Some weeks ago we announced to our subscribers and' the public that we intended to enlarge the Claim lo eight pages, with the view of meeting the wishes of man of - our readers' for more " general reading 'matter, ' stories, etc." cAVe have fulfilled our promise. How well, it is for our patrons to say, but, judging from *, those whom we have seen, the se'r-' vice"is far better than they looked for. Our one regret is that our present facilities will not permit us , to make the whole paper uniform, but, with generous support, this will be accomplished in due season. . ' From the manner in which new , subscribers'-have beeuocoming in this week, 'we feel assured that our efforts have beerr appreciated, but the additional expense is heavy and we therefore look to our present subscribers to interest thein- - selves on our behalf, aud not to . miss an opportunity of saj'ing a' good-word for us, whenever and wherever it arises. , > ' NEWCASTLE. Enormous Coal Mining Deal in Nicola, B. C. The Standard Oil Company Become ��� Purchasers of Extensive Coal ' Fields in Nicola Valley. The general feeling of prosperity which is everywhere . noticeable throughout this district, and' ��� which has done so much to pull us through a pretty cold winter, has undoubtedly had a great deal to do with the growing importance of Atlin on the. "outside.'' At the same time, the profitable developments which ��� have been steadily carried ou throughout the district during the winter, and the eyideut assurance that the country's richness is being proved beyond all doubt, amply justifies the good things that have been said and thought about Atlin. There is reason to 'believe��� and good reason, too���that the coming summer will be one of much activity, such -as the district has not hitherto experienced. All the different phases of mining will be pushed with greater energy, while a method, new to Atlin diggings, ���that of dredging���will be introduced this season. A Philadelphia company is bringing in, for use in the district, two prospecting drills, look for startling developments. The companies, which have aland from these we may reasonably ready been operating, intend to greatly increase their several operations, and in this alone large sums will be expended. The local lumber mills will be taxed to their utmost to supply the local demand, aud every branch of business will have its share. Amongst the welcome importations will be a great deal of new "capital"���one of the district's greatest needs. Atliu will also nave some summer visitors, whom it will be our duty to royally entertain. A forcible evidence of thc growing importance and prosperity of British Columbia is the latest reported introduction of foreigir capital, this time only $2,'500,000, into the Similkameen' valley. The Seattle P.-I., in a recent issue, stales : .... One of the largest coal deals that has been effected in the West irr years, it is saidf is now being consummated across the line in British Columbia. The prospecrive purchaser is the Standard Oil Company and the property is owned'by the Nicola Valley Coal' & Iron Com- 'pauy, fifty miles north of the boundary line,1-on the -survey of the-Si- milkameen-Nicola branch of the C. P. R., and close to the surveyed line of the Coast-Kootenay road, to be built by the , Great Northern Railway. ' Tne property contains 2660 acres of coal lands aud the quality of the coal mined is said to be even better than the famous Crow's Nest Pass product.' The consideration is said to be $2,500,000 and tlie negotiations on the part of the' Standard Oil Company are- being .conducted by-M.'KL. Rogers; the company's representative in Vancouver, B.C. When the mines are developed, a large -share of the product will come to the American Pacific coast. It will be able to enter ifito competition not only with the Washington mines, but also with the product of the Vancouver Island mines, aud it might have the effect of lessening the price of Canadian coal in these markets. The quality of the Nicola valley coal is better than that of the Vancouver island mines and therefore for steam and domestic purposes there is no better to be found in the West.' Nugget and Grape Rings And All Kinds of' Jewellery Manufactured on the Premises. Why send out when 3'ou can get goods as cheap here ?. 1 * < ' 1 r -Watches Front $5 up* Fine line of Souvenir Spoons*; JULES WWL & SON, The S^iss Watchmakers. �� THE KOOTENAI HOTEL. Cor George E. Hayes, Proprietor Fiiifn' and Trainor" Streets. This First Class lintel hus been remodeled and rcf iirnlchod thiwiijhciit, - and offers the hofct ucoommodntiou lo Transient or Pei'immo.ut . Guests.���American mid liiii'opcan plan. ,, Finest Wines, Litiuors and Gigars* Billiards a n d'' P o o 1.r' ao��*��*>a^(����*a*a*a*��*K(*aja*a*^(*��*a*a*w*tt*��a��>a*��*a��WK(*w�� THE GOLD HOUSE, DISCOVERY, !b. C. Comfortably Furnislted Rooms���By tho Day, Week or Month. - The Best of Liquors and CigarsfaVways'iir'Stock. ��� Firre stable in ooua '< - ' ' ��� ncctiou with the House. ', ��� < ��� -, ' . 'AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN "PLAN. J. P. Rosr:, Munniror.�� ' THE WHITE PASS' 61 YUKON ROUTE. \- '���- ���'..'��� Passenger andExpiess'Service, "Daily .(except Sunday), between~ Skagwa3r, Log Cabin. Bennett,* Caribou, White Horse .and Intermediate points, making close connections .witti our own steamers at White Horse for Dawson and Yukon points, and at Caribou for Atliu every Tuesday/ and Friday- Returning, leave Atlin evcay Monday and Thursday. Telegraph Service to Skagway. Express matter will- be received for shipment to and from all points in Canada and the United States.' . For information relative to Passenger, Freight, Telegraph or Express ' ," , Rates-apply; to any Agent of the Com pan 3'-or to ' , ��� , "~J/ F. Lee, Traffic Manager, Skagway, Pine tmfiotd '. v DISCOVERY, B. C. -.' Finest of liquors. Good stabling. G. E.H.ITBS. ' J. G. C0KNEW4. Kd. Sands, Proprietor. O.K. BATHS BARBER SHOP G. H. FORB Prop. Now occupy their new quarters next to tho Bank of B. N. A., First Street. The bath rooms are equally as good ns found in cities. Private Entrance for ladies. Rugget fiord Discovery. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION. Headquarters ��sr Brock's staso. The Canadian Bank of Commerce. Canada's Increasing Trade. According to latest reports, there is a very material increase in the shipment of Canadian products to the North as against American goods. The following figures are interesting as demonstrating the change of patronage from American to Canadian products by the people of the North : Goods Imported Canadian. American. 1898 10 p. c. 90 p. c. 1899 15 , 8.5 , 1900 25 , 75 , 1901 67 , 33 . - 1902 70 , 30 , CAPITAL PAID UP $8,000,00a. ' - Reserve, $2,500,00a Branches of the Bank at Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, -- Skagway, -ete. Exchange sold on all Points* G01.D Dust Purchased���Assay Office in Connection. D. ROSS, Manager. THE ROYAL HOTEL 9 "B-C E. ROSSELLI, Proprietor. Corner Pearl and First Streets, Atlin,, ��.{>�� FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION. Boundary Troubles. CHOICEST WINES, UQUORS AND CIGARS CASE GOODS A SPECIAXTY. Hydraulic Mining mery., Jack Dalton is pressing a claim for damages against the Canadian Government for the practical confiscation of the Dalton trail, which extends from Pyramid harbor, on Lynn canal, to Fort Selkirk, on the Yukon. HYDRAULIC GIANTS, WATER GATES, ANGLE STEEL RIFFLES .'& HYDRAULIC RIVETED Hoisting Machinery^ Estimates furnished on application The Vancouver Engineering Works, Vancouver, SSrhfaium, ��� >" <1~ . ^rtr4...*....T.. yas^iwafcWsssrissssiftSSiM ;32llIIlZL*2i^^ jTjjr.r'rl m,. ites^^a^^agaaaaaagaia; ATLIN, 5. C S.VITRDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1903 We can gi7Te You ^Pood Value,,for your cash as Groceries- Provisions, etc�� TT ^* any House in Town.. ' ' ' J" .' �� 7>y ws wi/fi ## 'and see. , Giant Powder on 'hand. DON'T A Few Hints for Mining ' Investors. Some Timely Suggestions Upon How- to Buy, Manage and Operate a Mine, 'The following Vdon'ts," as applicable to the miuiiig investor, make a suitable parallel to the "don'ts" of the miner, which were written* for the Claim two years ago. They'are from the pen, of Jilr. Percy Williams, of Prescott, - Arizona, in his correspondence to the Engineering and Mining Jour-' isal on the subject of " Causes of] Failure iu Mining." STARTING WRONG. Don't" invest money on the strength of a prospectus' -or the advice of an "interested friend'-' without preliminary investigation b}' a reliable engineer. Don't "take a flyer" in mining,; but invest your, money with the, ���same care and discretion you would use iu buying bank stocks, real es- fcateor a silk factory. Don't trust altogether to luck." , Use' a little sound business sense. Don't invest iu a mining company that guarantees dividends. Dame Nature has something to say about that. Don't invest in a mining company that is selling treasury stock and paying dividends' at the same time. If the mine is earning dividends the company owning it seldom has a legitimate interest in selling more stock. INVESTIGATION AND MANAGEMENT' Unless you have had sufficient experience as a mining engineer ���and metallurgist, aud the amount of your contemplated investment is' inconsiderable, employ a reliable; experienced engineer to report ou the property. Don't do this yourself unless you are irorn eternally' lucky. Every man to his trade. j Once you liave invested in a' mining enterprise, insist on frequent and complete reports covering operations at the mine. Employ a competent superintendent. Don't take your sou or your' nephew or your clerk out of your store or business house and send him to Arizona or Colorado to "run things" for you at the mine. Sell out first. Once yon are assured of their .qualifications put every confidence in your manager and superintendent. Give them a fair show to, make a dividend payer of yourj mining investment If you are a director in a mining; ���company do not force the manager or superintendent to find a job for all of your unsuccessful friends and, relatives. Let him hire his own men. Don't convert yonr mining property into an asylum for "ne'er- ido-wells." OPERATION OF MINKS. Don't spend all your capital on top of the ground. Do some digging.' Don't buy too much territory. Mining claims are cheap. Concentrate your operations aird your capital at the ' points where your ore bodies'have been found. Additional surface tanilory means nothing unless it contains oie. , Don't expect your ore to^gjrow lichcr with depth.' Il may gain in quantity, but seldom hi quality., .- Don't build a mill or a smelter or reduction works until you'aie'cer- tain you hive enough oie.available to keep the mill "in steady opeia- tion, until at least its initial cost is recovered. This advice is ancient amd worn from constant iepetition, yet there are innumerable mills and smelteis dotting our,western lands- scapes today which hardly turned awheel because the supply of ore was insufficient or unsuitable. Dou' t build your reduction works until you have assured yourself beyond all doubt as to what kind of-a process your ore requires to yield up its values. ' You can adapt thei mill to the requirements of the ore,1 but you cannot manufacture an ore to run through any particular mill or smelter. Spend time aud money in finding out first what process is pecularly adapted to your ore, then you will leave behind you no silent enduring monument to folly. Employ aJ competent, experienced metallurgist to practically test your ores before building -a mill. ' Most, any process works all right ou most any ore in a chemical laboratory, but in actual work on a commercial scale there are other conditions to] contend with. It is well to find1 out what these conditions are before spending money on reduction! works. ' cultural point of view. Each of these men 'will be provided with transportation from and to their Th��mcs, lo such place or places to which they may be sent,- and' theii services, besides, will be well paid for. , It is confidently expected that the immigration to Canada will double that of last year, which was 5000 in excess of 1901. The succession of " cliy" seasons infAustralia is forcing marry of the colonists of the Arrtipodes to look to British Columbia nnd the Northwest1 upon which to " squat." NOTICE. NOTICE. A Big Dam. Some idea of the stupenduous undertakings sometimes necessitated in hydraalic operations may be seen from the following extract/ taken from one of our exchanges : At the foot of Quesuel lake, iii the Cariboo district, is a monster^ dam, which cost nearly half a million dollars, and which fhas lately, been leased by the Cariboo Con-( solidated Hydraulic Ge. The dam' enlarges the laike from sixty to one hundred-miles iu length, and is, at the present time, one of the largest of its kind in the Province. ���^TOTICE is hereby given that application will bo .inudo.to tlie'Penliameiit of Canada, at its next Session, for an Act to incorporate a Com pan} with'power to build, construct, ecjuip, operate and maintain a line of laihvay of standard guage from Daw so.,, in the Northwest Territories, by the most direct and feasible, route to a point at or near the northern bouuda.iy.of the Prevmcefof HrLtUh Columbia ^to con- noct w-rth the Paoitio Nerthern <S; Ominoea Railway ; with authoiity also-to construct, opcrr.-to'and" maintain branches from an} points on the proposed line or-lines, not exceeding 111 any one case thirty miles in length and w ith pow or to construct, operate and maintain all necessary bridges, roads, ways and ferries , and te construct and ac- quire, own aud maintain wharves and docks in oonr.eciis'i therewith and to construct, own, acquire, equip and maintain all necessary bridges, roads, w .1} s and ferries ; and to construct, own, equip and maintain steam und,other boats and ���vcssdls and -operate the same on ai.} naiigable vaters; and to eonstiuct, operate -and maintain tolegifaph and telephone-lines along the routes of tho said railw uy und its "branches or in connection therewith, and to transmit messages for commercial purposes., and to collect tolls thorefor, and to acquire and receive fiom _auy Government, Corporation er persons grants of land, -r-ights -of way. money bonuses, privileges or other assis-, tance 111 aid of the construction o'f the Com- panj's uudei'taking,, and to connect with and to enter into traffic or other urra>nge- incnts wi*h railway, steamboat or other companies,and ior all lights and powers and privileged necessary, usual or incidental to all or arry 'of the aforesaid purposes. OOatedrthis ai d day of December, A. D-, 1902, MaFliillips, Woottou <fc .Barnard, de27-8t Solicitors for the Applicants. ATOTICl! Is hereby givi��n that Sixty dayi after datu I intond to apply to tha Chief Commissioner of JLiinds aud Woilu for permission to purcluiso lhe follow inn described parcel 01 tract of lan.l foi ugi 1- uultuial purpose: Commcnc-intr at a post planted ou the custshoie of Atllnto Ilivpr; theiic('2() chains 111 it uoithcrly duoctlo* along the shoie of Tiihu Arm; thence 2C chains in 1111 easterly direction; *tlioiico 21- chains in a southerly direction; thence 1M ��� chains in'a w'cHtctl.v direction,.to tho point, of oomnioncenior.t, containing 40 acres 11101�� or lass. , T. Hinchcliilu. ' Tukii City, H. C , December 15th, 11)0.2. do27-8t - -, NOTICE. Nc OTCCE it herdby si-ven th-at application Will bo made to ,tho Legislative Assembly of the Province of llritish Columbia at its-next Session, by the Pacific Noithei'i. and Omineea Kaiiw ay Company for an Ad to Amend its Act of Xncoiporation, being 0?. Victoria, Chapter 50, of the Statutes of the said Province, as amended by thn " Pacilic Northern and Omiueea UailwiVi- Act, 11102'," ibeing 2 Edward VII , Chapter 77,'by extending tho time'for tho 4jomi��enceriient-of th*- eonstructioii of tho Company's line of railway and .for the expenditure of 10 per cent of the capital, and 'Tor the completion nS tho* s.iid railway as ^limited by Sub-secfior itoo (5) of -Section 44 oftho "British Colum- .bia Railway Act, and by increasing tho capital of the said Compmiy. >D,ited.��3ie 20th day-of November, 1A02. , Coknwalij A RoGEitg, Solicitors ior tlio Applicants de-27v6t ' ' <? ���NOTICE ���NJOTICE is hereby gUenrthat npplicafioc wiil be iimde-to the Parliament of Canada, at its next sittings, for lenin to incorporate a Company-to bo called "Tlio Coast- Yukon Rail", ay Company.,",,to , oousti net,, equip and operate ai-ailw 05 rf��ou.i.a,poii��t>jo<: .or near Eitimat Inlet, Douglas ?CIiaiuie', Butish Columbia-; thence -to AfcHn Lake;, .thence ito the Yukon Kiver ; thence to thc ��� International Beundary lute between AIus.mi and Yukon Territory, via tha City of Daw- boil With powor to construct *ind own beats mid whales telegraph and.telophaao lines, to generate olec-tucal po<vor.,^iMii?tc colJect4tolls aud-ull pow co:s iucideiltd;! 'to a railway. Dated at Vancouver, CC, "this12th day <�� November, A,D., 1-902 D. G. ilAoaoNB^rj, no-29-Ot Solioitor for Applicants Pio��w Balc^ry m Restaurant iSPECIAL'rflES 3CN FANCY CAKES & PASTRY. Fresh Bread, Rye .Bread, etc* ^CHAS. M��br, Proprietor. Good -Rooms-to Keirt-^By .the -Day, Weelc or Mon.-th*t-neasonaWeiratos. Extending Its Arms. The Canadian Immigration Department evidently intends to leave no Stone unturned to advertise the manifold opportunities of Canada to desirable emigrants all over the world. The latest scheme, into which it has been joined by the C. P. R., is to send successful farmers, from the western Provinces, to England, Europe and the States to advertise the resources of .the Canadian Northwest from-an agri- Wholesalre and Retail' Butcher FIRST STREET, ATLIN, B. C a DOELKER, , . . FRESH MEATS ALWAYS ON HAND Fish, Game in season and home made -Sausage. First Street, Atlin. FINEST EQUIPPED H'QTrEC TN 'THE NORTH. 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It is Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder, It relieves a cold or catarrh, or ' cures a headache in ten minutes, it entirely heals up tlie catarrh-wasted surfaces. No other remedy can count noses with us���cured noses. C. E. Zimmerman, of the slaflfof the Roanoke W'oild, stales :��� "T>r. Agnew's Catarrh. Curo is the onlj remedy lhat has ever given mc any permanent relief, afrer suffering more ihan fifteen years Irom CaUirh." Dr. /gnew's Heart Cure first looks to the main spring of life and health, sets up thc heart in new strength, feeds thc nerves and fills every o-.hcr organ with life. Cured thousands ; will cure you. ' 22 I ..jr.. K!i -lit IT V] M 1 Norel Prison Discipline. i, ��� I. They have a novel method of main-. Gaining discipline In'the state prison .at Folsom, .California, , and it has proven to_ be a great success. They have' no dungeons, or dark cells in the prison, corporeal punlshment'is unheard , of, tying up by the thumbs is never per- '���mitted, none of the old modes of punishment are recognized in this institution. The system in vogue Is this :, When a new prisoner is received, he is Aiformed that they have three different bills of fare in the pr ison, and that it is optional with each man as to how well he lives. If he is industrious, orderly, well-behaved, "and in all things conforming strictly to the rules of the prison, he Is served with excellent food, nicely cooked. He can have chops, steaks, eggs, lea, and coffee, nylk, and white bread; If he is, only fairly well-behaved, and does, not do his allotted task properly, is inclined'to growl and grumble at the regulations of the institution, he is given ordinary .prison fare���mush and molasses, soup, and cormbreads; and if he is ugly and - insubordinate, he is permitted to feast on- unlimited quantities of cold water and'a rather small allowance of bread. "There is said to be an intense rivalry 'among tlie convicts to" enter tlio first class.'and once there, it is very seldom that one of them has to be sent back to a lower class. A Loquacious Cockatoo. The most loquacious cockatoo In the world used to be owned by a civil servant In a Itlvorina township, Australia, and as this is, perhaps, the only bird that ever shut up a political "wind- Jammer" the Melbourne "Punch" deems Its escapade worthy lo be put on record. A general election was on,'an'd ono of tho candidates for the district had engaged a hall wherein to address the electors. There was a great attendance, and, the candidate went from scratch with a. rush, but at the 'end of five minutes was interrupted by a thin, croaking voice, like that of a little devil suffering from whooping-cough, which called from one of the rafters : "Oh, I'm full of this I" The crowd, suddenly discovering tho cockatoo on hla perch aloft, laughed uproariously A long string of Insults at the crowd came from tho rafters. The candidate tried to got going again. "The man's an ass I" was the cockatoo's comment, and he jerked It in after every solemn exprosslon of the candidate's opinion. At last the candidate's patlonce gave way, nnd, seizing the water-bottle, he hurled It furiously at tho Intemperate bird. It broke a window, and excited the bird to further efforts. Picking out the candidate, he heaped reproaches and Insults upon him. The bird won; finding nothing left to throw, and unable to make any Impression on tho roaring audience, tho politician flung himself from the hall, and the evil bird gave the last touch by calling pleasantly: "So'long.'ao-ionV!" The meeting forthwith carried resolution to the effect,that the cockatoo was a fit and proper party to represent that district in Parliament. , ' i Fame. ��� < I; She lived and wrote 'mid simple joys and fears, And never word she wrote had power to stir The hearts of men to laughter or to tears Until that one great sorrow came to her. And then she wrote, and woke to- praise and fame, Now all-ur.longed for as but idle breath: [What matters it that they should vaunt her name. His lips now silent 'neath the kiss of Death? ���Eileen Benson. St. Catharines. A widow's weeds are orien the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual rejoicing. Stirderrt (to servant)���I thought you had finished sweeping my room. College-bred Servant Girl���Beg pardon, sir, but I was just decomposing. Student���What? College-bred Servant Girl���I was returning to dust; J' Palmistry, Triumphant.' (Fragment from a Town Romance.) The' enquirer was a little anxious as .he placed his open hand before the earnest gaze of the soothsayer. ��� ' "You are a man of the utmost ability" The enquirer seemed satisfied. "You have the organizing power of , Kitchener and the dash of a Baden- Powell." , -Again the enquirer smiled. "You have the tact of a Talleyrand, the courage of a Buonaparte, the poetry of a Shakespeare, and tho sense of color of a Rubens, a Vandyke and a Gainsborough." "Quite true," murmured the enquirer. "You could, had you wished it, have taken a Double Firsft at Oxford or become 'a Senior Wrangler at Cambridge.'" c. . The enquirer bowed acquiescence. ."I can see from your garb you are not the Archbishop of Canterbury, arid from my knowledge of the lineaments of the distinguished personages I am about to mention I am, sure you are neither the Premier, the "Lord Chancellor, nor the Commander-in-Chief." "You are right," replied the enquirer. "You occupy a position of greater Importance, if I am not mistaken, than either of the situations I have specified." . . 4 ��� "Again you are correct," returned the enquirer, "I have the honor to fill the post of Senior Superintendent of the Imperial Universal General Dry ' Goods and Provision Stores, Limited." And with mutual expressions of respect and admiration, the soothsayer and enquirer separated.���"Punch." B1 !' t M ��.' } \ J* ' V- ��� i ��� ir. V ti S: OWE SPOOWFUI ^Will build for you good health,1 through good nerves, by using South American Nervine Almost all disease is the result of poor nerve action. Without good J nerves neither brain, nor stomach, j jnor liver, nor heart, nor kidneys,! Jean work well. Nerve food must I r bo such that it will be absorbed by *the nerve ends. Such a food is South American Nervine, the greatest tonic known, a cure for dyspepsia and all stomach ailments. Adolph Le Boors, B. C. L , Moatro- nl's well known barrister, writes: "I was auffennff from insomnia and nervous debility, prostration nnd exhaustion. I took five bottles of South An*OT�� lean NervhJO, and am wholly recovered. Th* Oroat South American Rheiunotta Cur. Ik the only ono that has not a slush) case ol tollnro in Its record. Cmt�� surf within tbras days; rollef instantly. S A MINOR IN THE GABOL fDaere's a minor Ir. the carol, there's ka lcneJI in every Ghime, Eloa-tJiaig1 through Ihe misty daylight tvhis returnirtf Christmas tlmej PRhere'si ,a cJoud up->n the mountain, there's a so.rjrn.w on the sea, i Tjhose who once mode Christmas brrlgiutor bow will come 'no moro to> me, ; ; Holly berries, pale your redness, O be dull, -swop', mistletoe, lln ,the yule-log's failing embers, Jot us see the lent ago, Stay the .dancers.' feet, a moment, "hush, awhile the merry tuxie; SoTrow turns hor du.rk��neidJ pages- roads again eaok tear-marked rone. ������ (TThey fwere beau.tilr.-il and noble, they were tender, they wero gay��� iLarigJrod with us and bore wur burden, (turned our darkest night to nay; I Put wh&n Christmas comes raoall- r'.ng, there's a catching of the breath. And its vibrant joy is muffled by the chilly hand of death. , Yet shall Memory wavo h'or nceptre '���show ilrcm once more as they (wore, Love recall oaoh form a^d "feature; fill each sad and' vacant chair, While wo hear tho joy-bells ringing, sing the ca'rol glad and free; Join onco more tho feast, well ordered, fjoyous as it used to bo. And, tf Memory thus-bo regnant, sJiall not Faith's strong angel- hand, (Yet (dispel the don'.-H.rjg spectres 'that around us grimly stand��� Teach us how to '��i-asp tha (Future, as we hold tho precious Pust; And believe that Somewhere, Some Day, iva shall clasp our own at laatJ <�� ���iBeraard PfflcBrey. What to do With the Jews. r. , ���i Almost as tenacious arid inexplicable ns tlio racial peculiarities and general characteristics of the Jewish peoplo themselves are , the prejudices and antagonisms 'with respect to them cherished and often nrarrilested by other people in various parts of the civilized world. One might 'think that in orrr day of tolerant and 'enlightened thought, when I lie contributions which* tlio Jews have made and are making to Ecience, literature i'ird art, to industrial wealth arrd financial progress, are coming to be recognized at their full value, that* at thi3 time the blind and unreasonable hatred of the race which formerly" obtained worrld lessen and vanish away. And so it has,' irr a great _mca- nrrie, in most enlightened communities j irr others, it seems to remain in full force. Just now a new anti-Jewish movement peerirs to lie sweeping over parts of Europe, more especially in tire East. Fifty thousand Jews have, it is stated, been ordered to quit the mining province of Russia, nnd to reside within thc 'pale after sacrificing fheir occupations and their property. In llournanin, also, (hey are being forced to emigrate by a series of laws which practically deprive thorn of all means of subsistence. They have absolutely no rights, and llvo at the mercy of a population which hates them to such a tiugrce that their Parliament has (lectin ud all Jews to be foreigners, although they have been resident for centuries. Neither Germany nor Aus- fiia will do anything for them, "and it aecms. impossible for ,Western Europe, which is more tolerant, either to protect them or to find 'them a new habitat. The problem, then, what to do with the Jews, appears, from a European point of view at least, to be almost as insoluble as tho problem of the colored: race in America. One thing seems clear, that it is not to be solved by wholesale emigration or colonization, such as the Zionists propose,, any more tlran the negro difliculty can be cleared-away by a" like process. Tlie only rational solution now presenting itself irr eiflicr case, thinks "LorflieV Weekly," is, that lying through education of T the ��� right kind, through development to a higher, broader, more tolerant and humane plane* of life and thought for" all classes concerned; a slow process, it is true; but apparently the orrly one that holds out any promise of success. Golf and Stained Glass. Customer���You said this suit woma wear liko iron. Clothier��� Well, didn't it ? Customer���Too much so. It's getting rusty already.���Judge. a " Smith���Charley is troubled with tho big head. Jones���Oh, I don't think it troubles ���Charley any. It is other people who-do tha suffering.���Boston Traascript. The aesthetic portrait painter and the enthusiastic golfer sat before a blaring wood fire in the loung- ing-roorn of thc country club. Having nothing in common they had tried in vain to entertain one another, and^wero now at a conversational standstill. A burst of sunlight streaming in through the stained glass window bathed the men and all "about them in a flood of red,'white, blue and yellow, causing both to look up, and giving the artist" an-in- sprratron. " - -,' ' "Did you ever follow, up the evolution of tire stained glass" window?" he asked. "No. -1 can't say tliat 1 ever did," replied his. companion, bored but resigned. "Well,' the art in its inception dates back to the reign of Caligula, A.D. 37, but up to the beginning of the nineteenth century tlie colors were lard on with paints .for the most pait. Since the discovery of the art of staining glass by the use of chemicals while in its molten state, and of other modern pioecsses used in connection with it. the making of stained glass has taken ticmendous strides, opening irp an entirely new field for the exercise of artistic genrrrs which' is being generally taken advantage of. For instance " "No. I never thought of lhat," interrupted the golfer, "but. you know, the- game of golf dates hack to " " "Oh, golf be hangedf" exclaimed tho artist, impatiently. "You don't seem to think of anything else." And he went out to admire the beautiful October landscape, while the other man started to find someone who would play nine holes witlr him, muttering as he walked along: "Golf is a dain sight better fun lha-u stained glass, anyway." Cut the "Leaves of Books. Why in the nape of all that is modern and swift, asks The London Globe, do not publishers cut the leaves of the books they publish? It is assumed that in these days a man ha3 not time to walk upstairs; it is perfectly understood that telegrams must be accelerated, and that boy messengers must be cherished; and yet publishers will persist iu attaching a sentence of slow servitude to nearly every book tlie}' issue. Take the "Dictionary of National Biography." It is a serious tiling to brry it, but it Is a more serious thing to get it cut. Who is to do it? Not every man has relays of daughters or arr urrder-gardener whom he can arm with a paper knife. Monarchs and millionaires must have ways of dealing with this problem. It is not to be supposed that at Windsor Castle the reader cuts the leaves. Whitaker may be silent on the point, but it seems certain that a Groom of the Paper Knife or a Book Barber in Ordinary exists and draws an enviable salary. The "Dictionary " is a fat and flagrant case. It is morally and actuarially certain that many eager purchasers of this great work have not lived to cut its leaves. Which is sad. But the evil is at least proportionally great in even a tiny volume. The present writer had occasion this week to cut (with a paper knife two feet long) a copy of Matthew Arnold's "Note Books." The booklet was tightly bound, the leaves were stiff, and slippery; and though his orre desire was to get at tho Innermost mind of Arnold, he had all the sensation of vivisecting a guinea pig. Which is absurd. i :| i '.i i II MI i Vn i II I i LI Hardships of the Educated. ��� ,' Expatiating upon the hardships of tlie educated youtlr, a con temporary in lima tes that this is a b2d time for the college mini who goes out into tho world to find something to do. Taking iirto consideration tho fact that this is what is pomr- larly known as tho "silly season,"'it ia not surprising to find intimations ot this nature in ordinarily sane quarter--.. Viewed, however, as a proposition rworthy of serious consideration, it is not difficult to substantiate a claim fo the contrary effect, arrd to say positively that for the man who is reirliy educated there has never been a timo i roller in opportunities tlran this. Of course ' if a man spends four years irr (���ullage storing his mind with ns"lf< Knowledge it is not at all likely that his B.A. will help him much'in gottin;' himself established in life, and the chances are that without' material assistance from his parents ho worrld slinrd an excellent chance ' to be ^reckoned among the idlers. But the other man, the 'man who knows what ho wants to do and fits himself for it, and i3 persistent and conscientious, in his work, need have no fear that the world will be lacking in rewards for him when thc harvest time cornea. Tiro melancholy fact that our colleges are turning out sciolists by tiro dozcrrB, men who half know a lot of things that have no _ practical value in tlie pursuit of.'fame nnd fortune, docs not niter tho other fact that the well-trained .strident who has gone at his work seriously,. arrd with a particular object in view, finds ��� always a ready market for his energies.' Tlio wlrino ��� that wo got from the so- called "educated" mnn is.not from cdu- .ciilcd men at all, but from those who confound tiro possession of a degree with ���"education; who think that.because they have fulfilled the academic requirements of lhe college they are therefore, cdrr- 'eated. These men may possess a vast amount of information, but they are no" more educated', necessarily' than a man who possesses n complete fool-clicst is by virtue of that~ possesion -a good cir- "penter. To have the finest set of tools irr tire world is a hollow mockery to the mnn -who docs not know how to' use them; and these wailing youngsters who plunge'into the whirl,and eddy of life with a store of information' that they do not ..know how to avail .themselves of are in an equally sad case. But tiro farrlt is not with their times: it is with themselves���or perhaps , with their parents, _ who have failed at 'the proper time to observe their bent, and to direct their energies in tiro channels most fit for their fullest development. Midsummer Maxims. Old married folks never sit -.fn the hammock together. A drug store iu the neighborhood is always productive of thirst. It usually gets too cold for mamma and papa about 9 o'clock. The ( young lady^who Is always objecting to her brother's smoking tells her young man that she likes the odor of a good cigar���with the'.accent .on the good��� and the young man smiles complacently. The neighbor's piano ought really to be tuned. The man who can restrain his natural Impulse to,sprinkle the lawn with the hose always jollies his next door neighbor, ,who can't. A woman can sit with nothing in her hands and rock, but a man,has to have a paper or a cigar or both. When the Did Man and' his neighbor get their Ceet on' the railing side by side the young man, who' Is calling on the Old ', Man's daughter irsually proposes a stroll, for he knows they are planted until bedtime.���lift, '..... ... j Rockefeller's New Hair. ', An Athletic Fallacy. Commenting on j the recent ��� defeat of' Walter j J.-'Travis, the - golf champion,, by "Lours Napoleon -James, the New- York "Evening Post" says: '"With alPfriendly feeling for Mr. Tiavrs. .most golfers!will rejoice in his defeat. It is only human nature to wish to. see a tradition of invincibility broken, and for three years past Mr. Travis has been invincible, lie' was and is the finest example of what are called tire older players���that is, those who had reached full maturity before handling the driver or the iron. It was felt, and justly, that tlie younger players, who had learned their" lull swings during tlie flexible period of boyhood, must very Lsoon assert their superiority. This has been'done by Mi. James, a Western player. But Mr. Travis has not fallen before demonstrating the hollowness of several athletic fallacies. It is often said that, athletically, it is all up with a man beyond thirty who has not previously been an athlete. Proverbs to this effect abound. It is said, for example, that a man may ride beyond thirty, but never acquires "a seat," and in general the man of thirty as a beginner in shorts has about thc consideration that Dr. Johnson''gave to the preaching woman. Mr. Travis, by learning a very difficult game, beyond the fatal year, and by carrying off for three years running the-'championship honors against all corners, lias done much to commend himself to "his contemporaries ���even to those who by no means covet distinction on the links. It is a comfort to have those wretched proverbs about the thirtieth year disproved." Isish Politics. Tlie tragic times in Ireland, when peasant was at open, war with landlord and all were at war with English rule, are relieved by many good stories. As Mr. M" '.iel MacD-)ii.i;.'h says in his book, "Irish Life and Character," the rrrer-crrriu 1 Celt is whimsical even in tiirre of trouble. When Mr. A. J. Balfour, tire present Premier, was Chief .Secretary i n- 'ire- land,, ho met Father Ileuly at j dinner in Dublin. t- "Tcll me, Fi'lber TTe.ily," said Mr. Balfour, "i.s it true the people of Ireland halo mo us mir-jh .-s the Nationalist newspapers represent?" "Hale you!" repned the priest. "It thev li ii'.l evil as they hate you, Mr. Bnlfoin*. my occupation would bo gone." Yet it was Mr. Balfour who a few years later hint .ic'"MiipIished much toward the pacification of Ireland. Hi--- name became amusingly prominent in Irish families. A gentleman driving into lire town of Westport, Corrrrty Mayo, was stopped by a pig which ran in front ot his hoise. An old peasant shouted across thc ditch to a boy who was watching the pig stupidly: "Arrah, Mick, will ye stir ycrself? Don't yo see Arthur James runrrirr* away?" Struck by the name, the gentleman asked the old man about it, and found that in gratitude 'to Mr. Balfour, who had been the means of getting them the pig, the peasant had given the animal his name. The Chicago " Kecord-Ireittld " declares-that, ar irew growth i of, hair adorns John T). Itockefcller's head. A few months ago, the 'inulli-nrillionniro lost every hair on his head, lost his eyebrows, hrs moustache., became as bald us the mirrors in his drawing-room. He was extremely sensitive aborrt his remarkable lack,of hair. To wear a wig- would have been to reduce infinitely tho' .chance of growing new, true'hair of hi4.\ own. -He sull'crcd from what the derma-,- otologists cull "allopecia areata." Tho dermatologists call the soft, downy hair' that'now decorates his head , "lanugo," from the Latin lima- (wool): Usually when this much-desired "lanugo'! appears, it is white. So when thc bald spots in . which it springs, are. small it gives tho patient's head a strangely .mottled or piebald -uppouriirrce, as contrasted with his natural hair, which may bo blaclc',or < brown or red. ".But Mr. Rockefeller's' ��� head is not piebald; it is'covered with, silky, white hair. Soorr, if it thrives and* grows, it may become pigmented. Tha only discouragement about tlie growth of the silky hair is that in persons, over fifty years of age there is, no certainty - that it will flourish. , Many cases have been known-of "allopecia" areata," where! the hair has revived and has become pigmented' with thc old-time colors. But these cases have been, in nearly every instance, in persons under fifty, and gcn%" orally trnder twenty years of age. There have been a few rare cases in people more than a half century old where the delicate hair has "- become stout and healthy,'and grew until death. A Summer' Idyl. ; "It-was 'one of'the hottest*nights last season," he said. "The missus and children were at the seashore, and I-"was alone in. the house. . To gain1- a little . coolness I opened the doois through all the "rooms on .the second story and dragged up my bed to the front window. Just as 1 was feeling .the relief, and was dropping off into a most delicious slumber-, a prolonged and melancholy yowl awoke me. Again and again/ it was repealed. I recognized''thc sound only too well���it was a dog serenading- the inoon, which was at its full, and �� know by experience that such concerts usually las* ed hours.. Rising on my elbow, 1 could see across'the street, and there in a patch of silvery light on a balcony sat. a small white fox terrier, with nose uplifted, enjoying a very ecstasy of woe. 'Floral' called a coaxing, voice from the window. 'Come here.' Flora paid no attention, whereupon a 'white form appeared, aird, leaning out, r.iade a grab at the small offender, who tctreated to the other end of the balcony out of reach and renewed her music, unheeding the dulcet endearments of her mistress, who tried to induce her tore-enter the house. A second window was'opposite Flora, and the white foim , reappeared at that ' and cautiously reached out an arm to seize the dog, who, however, gained the other point of vantage arrd continued to-bay to the moon. This puss in thc corner business was continued several, minutes, Flora scampering from end lo end of the bal- - cony, evidently enjoying her t\triumph, while still continuing her music. By this time heads appeared at thc windows of several other houses, arrd tho situation became desperate. 'Dear Flora! Pretty Flora! Hero's a nice biscuit for Flora!* called the soft voice, but Flora woirld not be cajoled. Finally, to the relief of everyone, Nemesis appeared. When Flora made her last skip from her mistress a tall figure in pink pajamas appeared at the other window, stretched out a long masculine arm and seized tiro wicked Flora by tho scruff of her neck. 'Ki-yr!' yelped the little animal; but tho master of the house, incensed at being aroused from his slumber to catch a pet dog, had no compassion. That a well deserved punishment was.inflicted we all. heard with satisfaction. Then quiet reigned and we returned to our corrclres and interrupted repose."���N. Y. "Tribune." Regarded in Different Ways. That one can obtain more favors by "jollying" than by being brusque is just, as true as "one can eatclr more flics with molasses than with vinegar." The New York "Tribune" cites a case in point: ' Two young men employed by the New York Life Insurance Company have lived in a boarding-house irr West Twenty- third street for some time, and one has the reputation of being a "jollier," while the other is quick spoken and of a bearish disposition. The young men are friends and-usually breakfast together. Their respective standings in the estr- mation of the dining-room maid may be- judged from the way in which that damsel shouted their orders���both had requested steaks���down the dumb-waiter sliaft rtcently: "A nice beefsteak, a trifle rare, for Mr* SVwd. Some meat for Baldwin^ . , ���.,+>, **������������>'*�� I Unvarnished Truth. Under the caption of "Tire Unvarnished Truth," The New York Evening Post says;���Ex-Gov. Boutwell's speech at Faneuil hall on New Year's ,Day was n notable appeal to tho beclouded spirit of liberty in the United ' States. Although addressed pilmarlly to the colored population, it is equally well adapted to all Americans. Mr. Boutwell spoke to tho negroes in behalf of the Filipino's, because the negroes haverbeen emancipated, while the Filipmos have been lately subjugated���both by the United States Government. He tells the unvarnished truth when ho says that "the Republican party has become the enemy of universal liberty." The Inquisition had nothing worse to show than the torture arrd death of Father Augustine at tho hands of Ameiican oflicers���a crimo which is now said to bo under investigation after useless attempts at concealment. And this ir only one of a series of similar acts perpetrated in order to suppress tho liberty of n distant people who nover did us any harm until wo carried flro and sword into 'their country and their homes. Wo gavo to this invasion of a free arrd friendly people the names of civilization, 'Christianity, law and order. Wo-said that it was all for their good. Wcr linve pro- ' claimed that our oltlccrs irr the Philip* pine Islands were performing their duties satisfactorily and successfully, whereas the islands arc in a condition of famine, pestilence and general misery moro pitiable than under any period ot Spanish rule that can now' be recalled. Ol eourso, we lose sight fof thoso thing*: easily, becnuso they are so far away and so little newM that is unfavorable leaks out. So it is all the more necev sary that tho voice of some Prophet Elijah should cry aloud und spare not Such a voice ,is that of (inv. Boutwell, and ncvor was it pitched upon a nobler key than on New Year's Day in Finreuil Mall. . . Humor of the Hour. Pat���You say if I^use one <xf fcheao patent dampers I save half me coal ? Agent���Exactly, sir; exactly. Pat���Be gobs, I'll take two.���Harvard Lampoon. / Jaggles���Which country has the largest standing army in thc world ? Waggles���This one,'if you count tho people who ride in,the New York street cars.���New York Sun. * 9 "Are you fond of birds?" she asked innocently, as she stood at the piano tumbling the music.' "I dearly rove them;" Ire replied, with never a shadow of suspicion. Then she ran.her slender fingers over tho keys and began to sing, "Oh, Would I Wero a Bird."���^Chicago Ncwj-*. Nerwcomc���They toll nro hens never lay eggs at night. HJid you'know that ? tiubbubs���Oir I yes. Ncwcome���Strange, isn't it T Subbubs���Not at all. ' 'All^tho liens are roosters at night, you know. to What the Patient Did. - , ' "Many stories are being told of the lato Rev. Dr. Temple, Primate of England, among them the following:���He had a habit of emphasizing his' words by gestures. When he received his,first episcopal promotion from Exeter to London he left behind him, to his sorrow, a faithful dependent in Devon County Asylum. Visiting Exeter soon afterwards, out of the kindness of his heart ho called to see this patient. 'Returning to" town, Dr. Temple was met at Pad- dington by an old friend, and drove off with him to Fulham in an open vie- torra. . . Presently the Bishop began to tell his friend of his visit to the asylum. "I was hoping," he said, "poor Y-���'��� might soon be discharged, when, just as I was leaving, he" put his thumb to "his nose, and went���just so���at me." As Dr. Temple said this ha graphically illustrated the contemptuous gesture. The "same moment the carriage turned Solrool���The boy was going away school, full of high hope. "1 shall make I lie lootboll team arrd color two pipes tho first your I" he said bravely. '_* His mother kissed, him and wept. His father wrung his luiuHii silence. _ ���' They were too full lo speak then. But when ho was gone, and thoy were calmor, thoy talked together of him, and prayed tliat his ambition might not carry him beyond his strength.���'Life. Thoy had looked soulfully into each other's eyes for some time, but somehow he didn't scorn lo come to tho 'point. Then1 suddenly ho made a discovery., ->,. ', ' c * "You havo your mother's beautiful eyes, dear," ho said. Sho felt that tire time had come to play her trump card. "i. havo also," she sard, "my father's lovely cheek book." " Within 30 minutes the engagement! was announced.���Tit-Bits.' 'Autocars For Hallways.' The Northeastern Brrlvvny of Engl.rn.l o "nt the present moment burlding at ila York work*, two autocars to liin'orr i -> r.'hviy, each of which will cany a co: .pi j to npptritus for generating j"lt�� own motive power. It is calculated ihafc a speed of 30 miles an .hour can >>u gut up in as marry, seconds, v\ Inch a very much quicker acceleration than is possible with an ordinary train. it is not proposed to use Lhe3o autocars it Hist for-'the longer distance tiallic of tho Noi theasterrr* Railway, but to employ'them rather for accelerating tho service on those sections of the system wheie an ordinary train can only mako a alow rate 'of speed owing to tho number of stopping places. The' two cars now under, constr uctiorr are destined fo run .between Ilai Llcpool and West Hartlepool stations, where thero is keen competition with a tramway service. If th'e experiment be successful, other sections of tho company's system are to be similarly .equipped with automobile trains, * �� A-farmcr who had arrived m town on business dropped m at the cat show to see puss at her best. ' �� < "It's rather ridiculous for a farmer to buy a cat, beearrse 1 know there's a. dozen round the ' farm, but that's a beauty, and 1 believe I'll get it for my little girl. Do you suppose it's for sate, porter, and what is the prrce ?" "A hundred and twenty pounds." "Great turnips," he gasped, "that's more than l'give for a whole ^waggon- load of pigs 1" .'"'/* At a twenty-first birthday party tho other day, says "London Answers,", a mother was praising" tlie talents of her son, and, being anxious to make him appear at his best before the company present, asked him to show the company the prizes he had won. One of the guests, picking up the best, article, said: "And what did he win this prize with ?" " -u "Oh, that was for running," said tha proud mother. "And who presented it' to him 1" ask- into Fulham High stieet, and the horror ^^ ^^ of the" spectators can be imagrned at ^ th(j -^j.1- seeing the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop ���We &d �� ^ the mother. of London, whom they were just begri- ��How waa that ?��� agked fche t> ning to know by srght, fit��� ty?*- sucl1 a "Why, you see," said the proud mo- vulgar act in broad daylight. ��� ther> ��he>d have WCJli but he ^^ hear the pistol go off." Precedence at State "Functions. The question of precedence at' State eeremonies has been agitating British as well as Canadian church chcles,* and (The Dundee Advertiser thus facetiously "Ah," said the Count, "zr3 ees not zo lady I would have for my wife. She ees what you call plain." ~ "But her father owns a coal mine," replied the General Manager of the Inter- eomments upon a recent decision of the national Tide and Trust Syndicate. |��in". The Moderator of the General . "1^ care not for zrs gold mrne. I Assembly of the Chuich of Scotland is b. pioud man to-day. For some unexplained reason his Majesty the King has been pondering the problem of the Moderators precedence, and the result is now announced. During his term pf office the Moderator is to take precedence in Scotland next after the Lord Chancellor of Great Biitain. Thus is tho horn of Presbyterianism exalted. To estimate the dizzy attitude to which "Not gold mine. 1 sard coal mine- hard coal." "Ah, my dear friend ! How beautiful zis lady ees I My heart ho what you call leap wis love 1"���Chicago Record- Herald. The keeper in attendance on a guest at a Norfolk snooting party recently looked on wrvh drsgust at the gentleman's erratic marLsmanshrp. He was the Moderator is raised, we must sup- banging away here, there and every- pose the King to hold his court at_Holy- where, but no birds fell. rood, and picture the long procession of "Arm 'igher, sir," advised the keeper. personages who will rank below the very Still the birds flew untouched. reverend figure in the Geneva gown. "It ain't the gun, sir, and it ain't the The entire peerage will take their places cartridges," remarked tho Norfolk man. after him, together with all the Bishops "Try shuttin' your right eye instead ot of the Anglrcan church. As for the numerous Bishops who have assunred Scottish titles, they are, of course, mere dissenters, with, no place on the precedence table at all, arrd rf the matter were probed wo are not sure but that Jacob, Primmer would came before tho Bishop of Edinburgh. Wo hope that the effect j swers upon that humble Chnstian, the minister of Morrsvvald, may not be the production of anything of the nature of "teto nronte." Ills Majesty has also, it appears, settled thc question of precedence, which for some years past has been disturbing the peace of Belfast. He has pronounced the Modeiator of the Presbyterian Church to stand on air equality witlr the Archbishops of the Catholic and Episcopal churches, and as Llicre is no State church in Ireland, the decision the left, sir." But not a pheasant fell. Thc keeper scratched his head. "The bnds is very strong on the wing thi3 year," he remarked, "but there's one more chance. If I was you, sir, I should 'ave' a pop with both eyes shut."���An- "You know there's a belief that when a man is delirious from fever he tells his most cherished eeciets." "Yes, but it isn't so. 1 could show yorr " "Well, it certainly isn't truo in the case of old Polhigg.mrus. When ho was raving in his deliinrm the other night the watchcis supposed ho would let out a few facts about his wealth and what he's got it invested in. He not only is unehallengablc upon any grounds save didn't do that, brrt L'm blest if he drdrr't those of "pielatic pride," taint traces tell more lies about rt than if he had of which may -sometimes be detected, been talking to the assessor."���Chicago Many will acclaim the judiciousness of Tribune. . these decisions of the King1, running , - strongly, as they do, irr the face of Afc the annual meeting of the Krnanti- pretensrons loudly enough expressed E1 Sisterhood the Rev. Dr. Leon Ham- just now in England and not unheard 80n to^ this story :��� in Scotland itself. | ��x invited my teacher and venerable I friend Di. Gottheil to be present at a *~~ synagogue one day when I was to dehv- Collego Nightcaps���Father (e\aminrng , er a selmon, He came and heard me, hij son's expense account at college)��� ��� and x was naturally anxrous to know Voting man, what do you mean by j ll0W my eflort had pleased hrm. So at charging up halt a dozen bjttles of wh.s kev to "wealing apparel during tlie last term" ? Son���Oh, that's all right. 1 used triat atuff for nightcaps.���Town and Coun- the first opportunity I asked how ho liked the sermon. "'The text was good and admirably chosen,' he responded quietly."���New York Times. Foods For Egg Production.' > The subject'of egg. production rs ono upon'which tho farmer is always ready for infonmn,tion, and, although thero is not very much to bo said on tho matter that'is original, still it may perhaps be of use to some of the readers of this journal if 1 give a few detail*, as to the composition of the dlilleient foods which Farmers give to their poultry, with tire idea of pointing out which of them are most likely to lesult in making the hens lay well. It needs no very high degree oi intelligence to understand 'that-if a hen is to lay well, she must be fed well��� aud not only fed well, but fed with particular kinds of food which are requrred tor tho composition of egg substance; and so blio best way to entei upon our present subject is to inquire first of all what an egg rs composed oi, and then we tan soon determine what kinds of food contain most oi the piincipal ingredients which are to be lound in an egg. Tnero are three parts to an egg���the shell, the albumen or white, and the yolk. Without entering into analytical details "(which would confuse many leaders), it may be pointed out that as so large a proportion of the egg is made up of albumen, the food given must be largely of 'an albuminord nature. The_ value of an egg as an artrele of diet is due principally to the mtiogenou3 matter it contains, and unless a mm is provided with food which is lich in nitrogenous matter���that is to say, food in which nitiogenous constituents ate not over- done.by^the caibonaceous or .starchy constituents���that lien will not make a good .layer.'. The point for us to consider, then, is what aie the foods which are richest in ltiogenous matter?���or, rather, what aie the foods'ia which nitrogenous matter is in the ascendant t First of all, with regard to the dilfeient kinds of grain, analysis shows that "the leguminous seeds are, on the whole'( richest in albtnmen, and therefore, in mixing a meal for laying poultry, it will be well to use a percentage either of bean meal or of pea meal. A mixture of equal ��arts of pea meal, barley meal, oatmeal, and pollards will make as good a diet for laying poultry as anything1. It; will contain plenty of albumen and a, sufficiency of fat-forming matter, which is also necessary in moderation for egg production. This can be varied in wrn- ter time by the addition of a little Indian meal," which, being of a more starchy nature, will assist in keeping up the temperature of the fowls' bodres���a very necessary thing in cold weather. 'Now, in regard to grain, oats are without doubt tho best corn for poultry,, be. cause they are rich in nitrogenous and also in fatty matter; conrpared with maize, they are richer in both respects, wlrrlsl at the same time they have nothing like the amount of starch which maize possesses. Next to oats, English wheat rs to be recommended; but that is rather deficient in fat3. Afler that come barley and buckwheat, both of which make excellent variety in food. Passing from grain to othei substances, it will bo well to point out that orre nf the best foods for poultry is milk; and wherever "skim" milk is available, rt should always be used instead of water for mixing up with the poultry rneiil. Many fanners' wives owe their success in poultry-keeping to the use of meal both for the laying hens and also for rearing the chickens. Insects such as beetles are largely composed of nitrogen, and that is one of the reasons why chickens whroh are reared irr woods, and coppices generally thrive so well���they get plenty of insects. Thc same thing applies to lading poultry���no hens lay bettor than those which are allowed to ramble thiough a small wood or coppice. Next to in->ect life, lean meat is, of course, rich rn nitrogen. Lean, meat can norther bo given in the fresh state nor in the drred state���m the dry slate, of course, a smaller quantity need-, in be given, because of the absence ol moisture, which in fiesh meat has not beon taken avvav. On an average, one portion of dr\ lean meat should go as far a3 five "poitkins of tiesli lean meat, beearrse lean meat contains irom On to 70 per cent, of watei. Granulated Luiie is anotiicr food rich in e^g-forrnrrrg <-ri- stitucrrts, and the additron of about o per cent, of cr uslrcd bone or of His dried fibrine mea,t just referred to will very much improve the egg-produung quality of any food. If people who are so fond of using Tndiau meal for thri** j.oukry would increase the proportion ef nitrogen jt contains by adding crushed bone or else meat, they -would attain battc-r results. A mixture of equal parts of oatmeal and Indian meal, with the addition of aibout 5 per cant. of each, meat and bone, i3 as likely a food as any to tiring poultry oir to lay at this -time of thc year, when t hu weather is cold and unsettled.���..Mid- lander, in "Farmer arrd Stockbreeder," Liondon, England. Preserving tho^Dead. There has just arrived In London from Queensland a scierrtrst who, irr the mysterious interior of Australia, has made jcitain discovciics which, says Tho E\> picss, if accepted by tho medical faculty in England; will prove of extraordinary value to the whole human race. One of his discoveries���the weirdest, if not the most important- arrests all change in the appearance of tho human form after death. J <. Tho maker of this astounding 'discovery is Mr. A. R- Taylor. -Particular interest has been aroused in the case of an old man of eighty-one, who 'died last year, nnd wlrosc body was bunded over to Jul. Tu>lor b>, the authontics of Sydney for the pnrpcp of expeiimcnt. Mr. Taylor shows this' surbjeet, which is irr a perfect stntc ot preservation, as a triumphant proof of the value of his discovery. ,"Hc will remain as he"is," sard Mr. Taylor, "to the' end of all time." Mr. Taylor went on to explain how he made his discovery. "Foi many yeais," he said, ''ni' lather cauied on 'an elaborate system of leseiuch witlr this ono object iii view. After his death I carried on his work.' By it stroke of good fortune I eamo across biinio manuscripts of the early Egyptians. From them I found what my father mid I had been searching for during many long years. I found how a solution, part vegetable and part mineral, could he made vvhn.li, so far as outward appearance went, would stay forever the handiwork of death. There was do need to use the swathings employed by the Egyptians.; By injecting the solution under the skin the body would be petrified." ��� ���������������-^ ., Chinese -Bankers. In an interesting article dealing with the Chinese residents of Seattle, The Poat-Intellrgenoer of that city says :��� And "speaking of banks recalls another curious phase of the Chinese character that soon becomes apparent to ono who-has a passing knowledge of life in "Chinatown." A Chinaman 'has no manner of use ���for banks, legrtimato banks, the custodians of lhei wealth of" the nation. ��� He never vrsil3 one except on thoso (Occasions when he wishes to Bend the money he has earned in 'America to" his lelatives in China. In all other things he acts as his own. banker." Now a Clurrbse bank is about as peculiar,an institution as ono can find in o five-minute vvalk^ from the City Hall. The methods of the small merchant who has money to put away foi-safe k��ep- ing are as peculiar as weie those of Bret Harte's "Heathen Ohrnee." The banking system is buetly this: Five or six small meicharrls or tradesmen will join in the purchase of a'safe ���American built "and of tire' latest pattern. It may be that as* many as ten men will thus become the joint owneis of a lire and burglar pi oof strong-box.' Having acqurred the sale the" services of an expei t locksmith are called for. By him the safe ,door is fitted with ten complicated locks, each one different from tho other. When his woik is complete the safe door cannot be opened unless each of. the ten locks has first been unlocked. Each of the ten owners is" given a key to a lock and the-bank- ing arrangement is coinpl&tc. The safe then becomes i-he joint repository - of the funds of the several partners, each having a separate compartment inside the muoh-locked outer door. Behold now the workmg of the scheme : Ah Fat, being one of the owners, wrshos to make a deposit or to withdraw all or a portion of his funds. He first finds and notifies each of the other nine key holders that he wishes to open the safe. If all of the bankers can bo rounded up they repair to the safe and each one opens the" lock that is tho badge of his 'ownership and tho safeguard of his wealth. This being done, the safe door is opened and ' nine interested bankers remain m close attendance while Ah Fat fi'igeis the coin that is his and hrs alone. Tlie safe is then closed arid each of the ten bankers solemnly turns- the key in his individual^ lock and returns to the pursuit of his own occupation. Maialv About People. Eera'a �� fcite stoiy anerrt Christian S��i'>i e>��. A Bobton mother said to her little daaightei: "If you had my faith, darling, you would have no toothache. Tiro child icplrcd: "Well, inoLiicr, rf you had my toothache, yorr wouldn't have any farth," When M.ijor-Gener.il Samuel B. M. Young, o United State.s army odicer, waa presented to tiro Kaiser during a recent ���visit to Geininny, Emperor William a iked him if he had ever visited that country before. "Not this parr," General Young is said to have replied. Tho Emperor Ulrcn errqiiiicd what purls he had visited, whereupon General Young slid: "I have visited St. Lours, Cincinnati and Milwaukee." Tho Einpeioi roired with laughter, arrd took Uonei U Young to the Empress, to whom he repeated iho vvitti- cibiii. ��- With a face of thc utmost gravity, amounting almost to sternness, but with a twinkle in hrs eye, the great merchant called the otlreo boy to his "Henry," he said, "have 1 ever grven you anything ?" * "No, sir," replied the boy, wondering what was to come next. "How long have you been workmg for us J" "Six months, srr." "Then you have been here long enough to know better than to leave that door open, if you do it agarn 1 shall have to give you a permanent vacation. That is all, Henry."���Chicago Tribune. -French and .German Duels. ' ;- .*���' ' t ' , ."^j *^J, ST Is announced from Berlin tliat On L***', the lnvltallon of "Prince Loevven- - '! ".���stein one hundred and forty re-p presentatlve.s of the German no-% j4 , blllty, lor the most part tho heads oi . - ( old Roman Catholic families, have ' sljrned a declaration'against duellnft. ' The declaration sets forth that tho , usage, although It receives a passive '"' encouragement, purely aa a means'-of , (, maintaining the milltaiy spirit, from,!, the heads of the army,' Is clearly con- , , trary to intelligence; religion, culture, J .��� and law, and to social and state order. , ',, The slgnatoiles bind themselves to ' , work for its abolition, stating that it. .��., ' Is false 'and unjust to qualify a man as a cowaid ,who refuses to fight, ancJ ^ ,. they regard any man as woithy of all J respect who, by conscientious sciuples. L ignores a challenge. In consideration ^ of the present state of aftaits, they re- "~ j servo the,right-to demand satisfaction , ��� according' to the old usage if honor, is ,��� at'stake.'but at the same time ask that, -" y tribunals of honor be created, which ' would give a much more real salisfac- *"-i, lion than that obtained on the so-called ' ^ field of honor. Two recent French. duels, by the way, over which Paris- has been laughing, concern two pro- " mlslng young sons of noble fathers. L,eon Daudet was sligh'tly wounded th�� other day In a duel with swords with M. Gerault Richard, a ���writer , on the. "Petite Republlciue," as a result of a newspaper article which he vviote. This Is not young Daudet's fust duel. One of his most famous encounters was with M. Jean Charcot, son of the great physician of the Salpetriere. i That arose out of M. Daudet's "L.es Mortl- coles," a novel intended torsatirlze the - medical profession in much the same' way that his brilliant father, Alphonse, had made game of the Academy. In the other recent duel, M. Sarcey flls4 and Laurent Tallhade, a noted literary4 critic and book-reviewer, were,the actors. M: Tailhade delivered himself of' some very severe remarks on the In- ' ' fluence of the,late M. Sarcey on t the contemporary stage. Young Sarcey, to avenge his father's memory, called out the critic, and the gray-headed writer rand the hot-headed young man faced" each other's pistols on one of the lawns of the Bols de Boulogne. M. Sarcey flred first and missed, his adversary. M. Tailliade fired up in the trees,,,then taking "his hat in his hand he went up to. his young opponent. ", I could not .refuse you the satisfaction you de-, manded," he said, "for I esteemed too highly the sentiments which made you act as you did. But a duel ,with me" is no duel; I am, one-eyed, one-aimed.1 Now that I have .stood your, fire let me say how gieatly I i egret having wounded your filial feelings." And with this graceful speech M. Tailhade extended his hand and the quarrel was ended. . . , . - r----oTJ.".-i5-~-i n V'- **:]' Holiday, Reading1. *-*\ Fioude, in his "Sea Studies,".had a word to say on th'e subject of books for 'holiday leading. While fioely'granting. that the solitary side of our nature" demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on whrch the dash and whirl",,, of daily business forbid the intellect to * fasten itself, he yet insisted that the mind cannot steady itself by Its-,single' strength. -So: "We require com- J panlons���but companions which , intrude upon us only 'when we invite them; we require books, and the choice is a serious one. . . . As we grow old, the class of novels which we can i read with interest rapidly diminishes.. The love agonies ol the Fiedencks and , Dorotheas cease to be absorbing. . . * The taste for romance is the fust to disappear. The taste for caiicature lasts longer, but eventually -follows. - Truth alone permanently pleases." Therefore, maintained Froude, "the best company at sea are the immortals. - those on whom the endurance oil their works has set the seal of excellence; which are read from age towage, from era to era, and prove, by the tenacity of their hold, their correspondence with the humanity-under whrch all changes remain the same." * . A Child's Logic. _*; " 1' ^ He was very young. To be precise,- he was five years and seven months. As long as he could remember he had ha'd to set aside a part ofi the moneys he reoeived to educate the little children of China. He didn't love them as much as he should, or he would not have asked: "Mother, they're killing all the Chinese children, aren't they?" "Yes, isn't it dreadful? Are you not glad you are not a little Chinese boy?" "Yes. But when they get them all killed, I won't have to send them any more of my money, will I?" 1*1* _Jt-J,siV It"': ass?"' A Man Who Knew It All. The late Flavins .Tosephus Cook wan long on faith and short on lo\e. That is to say, he lacked sweetness, generosity, sincerity���the qualities that win men's lasting confidence in a preacher. He carried an audience of non-thinkers by storm, but the scholars distrusted him, and when the people began to see through his "gallery plays," his hold upon the public loosened. For ten years he was the successful Boanerges of the " Monday Pop" lecture platform. The thundering champion of orthodoxy, he lode down science and discussed dogmatically, in "preludes," ail things in heaven and earth, once a week, with advantage to his pocket and fame. As Barrett Wendell put It; " He said things with a bang." That was a lrfelong characteristic- Walking'through the college yard with the present writer one day, Cook suddenly stopped, seized his astonished companion by the arm, glared at him and ciied : " Do you see that blade of grass? It is a miiacle." 3"*?-> j-S"**' skS^,�����k ("���^fte'' i ttl v- tli. 'iHtii'-U Ji,wi>i> i t.r-1 t. *^~*ii+~i*,* j !<*.** v'tili fCi.it jJjtrfcii^r��v/>��^i.*Ja.*M*JTMU^-wi*��i,wU'^Uiyji'-j, 4 a** -ur.iw^ .ajj.jam-w-'.**-'.^. 1*1 4.1' ) *'' ATTJX II. C, ' SATURDAY, FKBRITARY ��2R, icjoi V f. . . 'I PICKED UP HERE AND THERE. , ' WANTED���-Correspondents in every secUcn el the district. 'Enquire-at the Clai.ii for particulars. A recercl trip was made from Log Cabin bj1- Perkinson, with the mail, Coutts and other freighters. . The actual travelling lime was 9, hrs. 15 . ruin. They left the Cabin at 2.30 p.m..., Monday, and were here be- ' ��pm 5 Tuesday. Belliveau & Co. have been compelled to temporarily shut down on Gold Run, ow.ing to their inability to cope with the excess of water on their, ground. 1 There is 'more solid comfort in a cup of Blue Ribbon Tea than in a 1 gallon, of most beverages* , Chas Howard,, late tjg GoM Ruufi returned'fronn an extended hunting , triptbi>.w,3ek.. He says the prospects a-ne. good, for a profitable sea-, sou's.work. He has-been doing a little prospecting on the -side in the- Hootalinqua valley, and may have something to report later oh. . The first of the season's crop of oranges at E., I*. "PiHman & Co.'s. The renderings of the Trial by Jiirry in Discovery, by the Atlin Musical and Dramatic Society, was not, it is reported, up to the standard of previous performances,, (though it will net about $5,0.to the. B, C. Miners'" Association., Latest Novels afc C. R. Bourse's Circulating Library. 1 *���' ' ' Dell 'Lewis, of the N'orthern Lumber Co., returned, from a trip to Skagway last Sunday. He brought with him a very line team Cif horses for the company's use this-season. . McDonald's' Grocery, keeps an excellent stock of staple and fancy groceries. The-y have their own teams and deliver goods ou the creeks at the most reasonable rates . Alec Smith, returned ��n Sunday,, after a. thcee months' vacation,, spent in. M'cwitana. ThatrState, he says, is now svery dull,, and 'hun-- directe of miners are seeking other fields. Alec is glad to be back;, he-found no- place he liked better, than Atlin. D, H. McDonald will arrive on- Monday with a shipment of Fresh Ranch Eggs, Potatoes,. Lemons,. Oranges, Appl'es. etc., etc. It is.whispered that Mr. and Mrs. Wccsug, of the Nugget Restaurant,, put up a banquet, fit for a king, for- tbe-Opera Troup last Tuesday evening, which has yet to be excelled iu the camp. Blue Ribbon Coffee is absolutely pure.���It is sold in, all the stores in Atlin.. Mr. Csiravair, who is now on bis ���way back to Atlin, has been visit- mg his partner, Mr. Switzer, in Philadelphia, and has also been getting pointers from the dredging operations ou tlie Feather river, in California. For a good sqi*are meal g,o t�� the Pioneer Bakery and Restaurant. Mrs. H. P. Pearse and son, of Munro mountain,, are spending a few days in Atlin. This is Mrs. Pearse-^ first' visit to. Atlin for nearly two-years. Th.e Ris.e. and Fill. The. lowest: temperature recorded for the- week ending 20.tb'insL, is as follows :��� , Feb. 21 24 above ,22 . 24 , '.23 . 34 , , -24 ��� 31' - ,, , .25. '., 21 ' , ' . . 26 . 6 , . , 27 > . 2 below A Ladies' Aid, ' At a meeting iu, Sb... Andrews Presbyterian Chnmh, A11 mi, on Wednesday evening last, a Ladies' Aid Society was formed. The.of- ���ficer.s elected were : Mrs. "Ware, l President; Mrs. Williams, Vice- President"; and Miss Smith,1 Secy.- Treasurer. ( ' The membership 'fee has beerr placed at $1. The Society will meet on Thursdays of each week at the homes of the'members. The objects of the Society are the same as those ' of similar so-- cieties throughout Canada, viz. :��� to assist the various schemes of the church by united eflort^'fljiatftci.ally and morally. 'IMPORTANT ' >* . -, , ' We'beg,to quote the,following Cash Prices tmtfl Further' Notice ; ... ' Ogilvie Flour, per sack ��� . $3-25 D G .Sugar, per lb , . .IOC Patent, do do 3'25 A gen Butter, i-lb tins - .50 c. Cream, I-Io'tel si/.e, per do? .. ���475 1 Rex Hams, per lb - .23.C. do Family size do '2,50 'Corn-meal, iolb sack ' ��� SSc, 'Milk, Reindeer " do 2,25 ! Rolled, Oats, B & K ,65'c. Clams, per doz . . > . 2-75 Blue Ribbon Tea, per lb .50 c, Canned Corn, per doz . 2.40 T & B Cut Tobacco, do.-' $ t.oo , Peas "do . 2.25 do Chewing do - ���75c. Beans do . . . 2.25 Ovo, per tin - ���75 <\ j Tomatoes do . . ��� . 3-75 Salmon, per doz" ��� - 2.25 'C it B Jams; "c-lb tins, per doz 3.50' < ' g0T ALL , OTHER . GROCERIES 'REDUCED *., Big Bargains still left in JO ry Goods and Men's Furnishings. Fine All-Wool Silver ,Gray Blankets, JO, 12 and 14 pounds,.' for 55 cents a pound.' , '-' BLACKETT&CO. Rassell Hotel, DIXON BROTHERS, �������� Proprietors Will Britjg a New- Partner. The Vancouver- Ledger-' of the 113th "inst^contains the. following announcement, of interest to Atlin soci'ety : <. ''<-'. '' A quiet wedding was celebrated last evening at the residence o'f Mr. T. Leith, Principal of Lord Roberts' school. The' contracting parties were Miss M. Bennett;',sister of Mrs. Leith,. aud Mr. John Nichol a contractor, well known 'in this, city a*ad in Atlin. Rev. R.. G. Mc-- Beth performed the ceremony, which was witnessed b}r only a few friends oftb-e young coaple. After the ceremony, the newly wedded pair-were escorted, to.the Mainland der, by which steamer they took passage for;Seattle. 'The honey-- mo'on will be spent iii" the Sound cities."' Mr. and Mrs, ISishol- will leave Vancouver, early next month for Atlin, where they will make their home. ' Pool & - Billiards, Free. ��� ' . Freighting and Teaming. ��s* . Horses and Sleighs for Hire, Uancotivcr General Store, Dealers in .Provisions*' Dry Goods, Etc., A. S* Cross & Co. M����*"���ww*^WMWW^"*^"^<WWrfMBW>P��WW��>w��"^7^w**^i*^i��i ' ������in t^^^m*-m^^r^^^^*^**wm*^**^m^^.^^m*m��'^^^^^*^^n. ��� DRINK THE BEST ��� ��*-JN A B'O B T EA." In Lead' Packets ol J^-lo aud i-lb each. For Sale by all First Class Grocers. KEI-.LV. DOUGLAS & Co.. Wholesale Grocers, Vancouver, B.C The Miners'" Association.. To the Editor: Dear Sir :���It will-, perhaps interest you to learn, that the movement to organise a Provincial Mining Association has met with very great success, and that local organization has been effected in the following places to date : Revelstoke, Nicola Lake, Lillooet, Clinton, Horsefly, Keithley, Fort Steele,, Texada, Ashcroft, Lac la Plache,. Bullion, Qnesnel, Harper's Camp,, Aspen Grove, Camp. McKinney,, Cowichau, t 50-Mile,, Quesnel Forks, Saanieb.. Other places are organizing,, but in one or two the effort has! been criticized 011 the grounds that the objects and aims of the Association are selfish. This criticism is the result entirely of ignorance for, as a matter of fact, the objects of the Association have not yet been stated, and it will remain with the Convention to outline a policy and determine upon the steps to be taken to endeavor to bring about an improvement in conditions and promote the welfare of the mining industry of the Province. In fact; all that the present' Provisional Executive Committee ,is. attempting to do is to bring together a representative body of 'men,, chiefly practical miners, to discuss among themselves the requirements of the mining industry. Yours faithfully, H. Mortimer Lamb, Secretary. Victoria, B. C, Feb. 11, 1903. We are glad to hear. tbatiC&as.. Martin, of Gold Run,, is steadily recovering the use of bis broken leg, and' that he is able to.be round again. and that any person or persons found so doing will be summarily dealt with under Section gt Chap. .83, of the "Villages Fire Protection ���Act." ' By order of the Fire Wardens,, ' John Kirkxand, Chairman. Atlin, B.C., Feb. 27, 1903. NOTICE. ' Notice* A LL persons are hereby warned against raising a false alarm of Fire by shouting fire, sounding gongs or bells or in any other way, at any hour of the day or night, TSJOTICE is hereby given that Sixty days after date I intend to apply to the Chief Commisiioiien of Lands and Works, for permission to purchase, the following described tract) of. land, for- afrrieultui'nl purposes.: That parcel or tract of land situated i*i tbo Atlin Lake Mining Division, comatonoing- "at a post planted at tho N.W. ^corner of Atlin Tovvnsitc, thence East 40 cllulns, theneo north 25 chains,, thence west 40 chains, thoneo south 25 chains to point of commencement, containing 100 acres, moro or loss. - li.P. Quuen. Dated at Atlin. B.C.. this 20tli day of Poll- riiury, 1008. 28fo-8t O.. F>. IN- Oo. -ALASK/V. SAILINGS��� The following Sailings are announced for the month ef March,, leaving Skagway at 6 p.m., or on, arriyal of the train : Princess May, Mar. 7, 18 and 28. For further information, apply or write to H. B. Dunn, Agent, Skagway. Alaska, a K^siisaMmismsimaesBsxiEmssxfsi^^S^
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Title | The Atlin Claim |
Publisher | Atlin, B.C. : Atlin Claim Publishing Co. |
Date Issued | 1903-02-28 |
Description | The Atlin Claim was published in Atlin, a remote community located in northwestern British Columbia, close to the Yukon border. The Claim was published by the Atlin Claim Publishing Company, and ran from April 1899 to April 1908. Although a number of different editors worked on the Claim, the two longest-serving editors were Alfred C. Hirschfield and William Pollard Grant. |
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Language | English |
Notes | Print Run: 1899-1908 Frequency: Weekly |
Identifier | Atlin_Claim_1903_02_28 |
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Source | Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives. |
Date Available | 2011-09-07 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
Rights | Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/ |
AIPUUID | 53a3b585-bf1d-4bb7-871e-8eb141d35b6a |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0169519 |
Latitude | 59.566667 |
Longitude | -133.7 |
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