}/ .r-M ��� \ ir VOL. 9. ATTAIN, B C, SATURDAY,'' JULY ' 4, 1903. NO. 207. , 1�� �� ��� �� DOJWMION.DAY.. Bad Floods and Wash-outs in New Mexico. ��� King Peter Near Belgrade. " t Dominion Govornmont Guarantees Grand Trunk Bonds. ��� Big Pipe in ' < t r ** Seattle. ��� Fraser River Fishermen out on --Strike,���- Election of Officers of the Typographical Union. > \ - "Will Build Railway to Yukon. The Gieat Northern Railway Co. make application for- right of wa}' of branch line thiough streets. The ijpieskleni states positively that line will be extended lo the Yukon. King Peter. Vienna, June 29.���King Peter of Servia, passed , through Vienna ' and io nearing Belgrade. George Gehschich, minister of^ 'Conimer-ce,- says that the late King Alexander had planned'killing 150 piominent" men which lucenccd' his pursuers in the palace and led -to the massacre. .In view of' the pardon granted by the Servian national assembly it will be difficult to punish the assassins. Bonds Guaranteed. The Dominion - Government guarantee bonds on .Grand. Trunk Pacific lines acceptable to Company. Big Fire in Seattle. Seattle, June- 29.���An entire block was wiped out by fire early last week, - an explosion at Rohlfs & Schoder's - moulding mill starts damage amounting to over $100,000. Fishermen Strike. More Floods. a ,- El Paso Tex.���All settlements near Serra Blanca have been swepvt away. Great loss of life ' is feared. -The Rio Grande river at Benno N. M*. is' now srx miles 'wide. Santa Fe route washed out. "Found Guilty. Vancouver, July 2 ���A verdict ot wilful,(murder' was returned'iu killing store-keeper Bailey', Royal Navy, by James Frith, shoreman, last Saturday. - v Insanity at Juneau. Four insane patients are in ���the hospital at Juneau, it would appear that an epidemic of insanity is prevalent among the laborers, as the" TJ. S. Marshall is only just back from Salem, Ore. where1 he had- \ v. takenseveral lunatics to the asylum. The fishermen of Fraser River went out on strike at midnihgt Sunday night. Typographical Union. Harry Cowan, late of TUE CLAIM was elected president of the Typographical Union, vice President Wm. McKay was appointed oigan- izer for the Typographical Union. S. King was elected delegate to the Trades and Labor Council. Drowned in Copper River. Burt Ford, of S. Dakota was drowned ' last _ month in Copper river, he was oh his way toValdez with two more men. Kyak Oil Fields. Prosperity seems _ to reign "at Kyak and an English syndicate is now taking out oil in * paying quantitres^ the production, so far has been most gratifying. People are flocking into Kyak",' Catella and adjoining regions and indications go I o show that taht part ol Alaska will prove a great oil producing centre. Playing Cards for Drinks, The city council of Valdez has passed a gambling ordinance. It provides that playing cards for drinks shall not be construed as gambling. _ < Salmon in Porcelain Jars. The experiment in packing salmon made last season, that of using porcelain jars instead of tin, has met with sucb! favor that the packers will put up a quarter of a million jars this season. The jar used is somewhat larger than tht regular Salmon tin and has a porcelain cover, the fish is first packed and sealed in the jar, which is then packed .in a tin can, thus giving the contents double protection. , A Gala Day at. Discovery City. < ' An Excellent Programme - Carried <v ' OiU Without a Hitch Good and'Clean Sports. * * - The celcbialion' of Dominion Day was^honorcd '-to the fullest extent at Discovery last Wednesday and the committee "deserves much praise for the able,manner in which they car lied out the programe. . A very. ..large crowd witnessed the sports which were fast aud ���up 1o date invevery particular. The appended^ programme, and the winners of the various contests aie as follows - �� 1 ��� , "\ ' OFFICERS OF THE -DAY. 1 ���, President Mi. D. Ross. ' , 1st. Vice-Piesidont : D. G. Stewart" , ' 2nd. ���- ,, Fred. JIilloi Judges. Messrs J. A. Fraser, R. A. Lambeit, ,��� and W. G. Pa*cton. Clerics of Course: Jlessis Frank Biaekett, "- and L. B. TJaMes, J 'Starter: W. H Heal. "'Time Keeper J Fiank Breeze." Committee-Messrs. ,T.*Wolters, E. Sands, 1". Mobley and II. *W. Heal. Secj.-Tieas. II. E. Broi\u. T PROGRAMME OF * SPORTS. v ,V ��� s r^^ . i^c. 10am. Oration- Rev/F *L. Stephenson in fi out of JFine Treo Hotel." 10 30. P.iittntjj 161b Shot- lst.Pri.*e S- 30 2nd. S2 50. Pine Tien Hotel. H. McMaster'ist, J.- McLennan 2nd. 10.45 Putting 5611) Shot- 57.50; &2.50, Pine Tree Hotel. F. H, Brackett ist, H. McMaster 2nd. 11. Tossing Caber ?7 lO, S2.50, Pine Tice Hotel. - H."W. Heal4'ist,J J. McLennan snd. " s 11.13. lOOjards, Open, Pino Tiee to B. C. Hotel.$12 BO, &7.20 R. Lichty ist, F. H. Mobley 2nd 11.S0. 100 yards, Miners; same couiso, ��7.50; SB 00 . C..R. Bourne ist, ��� R. Lichty 2nd. 1145. Standing Broad Jump;'Neai Nugget Hotel 57.50 5-2.50. R. Lichty ist, F., H. , Mobley 2nd. \ 12. Hop, Step, and J ttn.p, Same place 'j.lO. $5,00 ; W. Sailor aud R. Dichty tied. 1215. Running Broad Jump; Samo place, S10,,?5. i W. Sailor ist, F. H. Mobley, 2nd. 12.30. Running High Jump; Sumo placo; ��10.; $5. F. I-I. Mobley ist, N. W. Rant 5-icl. Tiap Shooting 51.00 Entianco Fee; $20; &10. F. H. Muirhead ist, G. E. Hayes 2nd; after tie. 2. n,m. Panning Contest: in front of llulmo ral Hotel, S5 No contest.. 2.16. Pick-a-back Race; 50 yards, chango and return. -Finish, Gold House: $10. N. W.F. Rant aiid C. R. Bourne. 2,80. Wheel Barrow Knee; 50 yds., cliahgo and return. Finish, Gold House. $10. N. W. F. Rant aud C. R. Bourne. 2 15 'Uojs'Race; Fiiti*,li at Ualinoml; *r>o, * K. Pearley ist, J. Anderson 2nd. Same race boys under-twelve.' K. Pearley ist, H.'Mobley 2nd. 3 p m 1 tulles' Race 50 jjds.' Finish at Gold House; >7 50, ��2 50 'Mis., Mobley ist, Miss Stewart and Mis. Taku-Jack 2nd. ' 3.15 Ladies' Slow Bicj clo Ra'co, 50 j ds. Fiu- lali utRojal Hotel, S7 50; $2 50, Mis. Mobley/ ist, Mrs. Hayes,,, '2nd. ' , - j ' i * ' 3 ,10. Ladies' Bicycle Baoe 250 jds.disinomit -' and ictuiu, Finish atRojal; S7,5Q, >2.50- Miss Stewart i si/Mrs. Hayes 2nd. ^. i 3 15. "Quaitci mile Race, Rojal to PuieTiee M2J>0; '5,7,50. , C. -R. Bourne is't, L. P.- Muir- head 2nd. ���- " * \ 4. Hmdle Race, 120 o aids. 3 huidles,'1 -Start at B C. Hotel, &10, ��5. ^ ,N. W. F. Rant. vist. I,.Jennings 2nd. - ' ��� ' * "��� ' / ;* 4,15. Sack Race, Staitat Nugget, $7.50. ?2 50 , ' 'C I-I. Muirhead ist, L. Jennings 2nd. , - ������,' i 4"30 Pole Vault, Balmoral; ?r0 ; 5,1. .*��� J. Smith ist, W. Owen 2nd. * 4 45. 'Team Pulling Contest*Handicap, Gold t , .. House, S50. , 1. [ . J. W. Brooks' tearru 5. Pot Breaking*' Contest' for Ladies- ' *_' Royal, S7.30.; &2.50/ Miss Stewart. , ' 5,30. Horse Race. 2 out of 3 heats: Finish at, - Rojal,*,50 ,, " Kerr.S* ^-*'b Sleepy Dick. j-15 ' ^ J, StartjiiEpjal-SlO; ?5. J-- ��� 'jwdson. , ( ry"r K*. $., Football Mtitch-Atltirv Discovo/y: S8T, ��� ,X^Di-rcOT:e1fV^^tlin^;r���^,: \v\> - y.y ' - * ' "��� ' -��� ^ The day wound- up by a dance at-the Nugget' Hall Which was filled to overflowing and all who attended pronounced it a complete success. Although the town was crowded/ ' good humor aud ' order " reigned supreme and Atliu still maintains its record asa^model mining earn p. V\ '-{ t * , "t Shut Down Men too Scarce For Engineer Mine.- v Work ou the Engineer mine" has. ceased for a time. It will be resumed again as soon os there is an opportunity to get men with any degree of certainty that "they will remain at the mine. W. B. King, president of the Engineer -company, returned from the property' yesterday. He says, that the attractions at Atlin are so great that it is impossible \o keep men at the mine. The men that have been working there iwere quitting so fast that it would uot pay to attempt lo keep the work up for the present. Frank Nelson, who went in with Mr'. King, remained behind to care for the property. ' Mr. King says the Atliu country- is booming. He says the- town .���� Atlin is very busy.���Shaggy Alaskan,' '* y j <~ t f * 1 < r" J ">. ��� . * J C ���J5 N��- ... ��� h r. 4 *��� S *���' h A\ k"��.l f- 1 - .^wft��Uj,t.JWBlill HWllMlllllHHMWaWiW.IJIMlltl.iilN.^ ",f ',*!��� .,1 23SSS5��SSSH3S!^KSSSS itb-tv-.'-wi. ^^^'.j-|u * i*_ titi_A*_ ~*J1Z��Z��.��3ZXZZ: L iLrt.jUliJtt^'l.-t/liU i! rtr +^xr^Ztt~^z^*T*ZZi^xrz3Tjzrjzixz: 5 * i I iii i LO-VE AID DUTY, William 'F. Manning, Vicar St. Agones' Chapel, New York. fen��MMM��M>��MMVWMIM Tho grace of our Lord Jesus Christ bo -with you all.���Philippines, lv., 23. We are all very familiar with these words. Perhaps some of us are too familiar with them. We hear them so often that they have lost the keen edge of their meanig. 'For some of us tlicy may have come > to be little more than a convenient for- , mula with which to end our prayers; a sort of stereotyped expression for ���uitably closing our devotions, public or private. And yet they arc words that Saint. Paul especially loved. It seems that ��� he could hardly write a letter without *--sing them. You will find them used over and over again at the close or frear the close of his epistles, and there are no words in the pages of the New Testament that hold a more beautiful meaning or titter a sweeter prayer. JThey ask that the grace, or favor, or good-will of Christ may be with us and rest upon us. , , That is their first and most obvious meaning. But that is not all that they mean. There is another and an equally beautiful sense which these words bear. The lexicon says that grace is "that .which affords joy, pleasure, delight, Sweetness, charm, loveliness." And I think it is the Apostle's prayer that in this sense also the grace of Christ may be with us; that our lives as Christians Biay have about them something of the charm and the loveliness and (lie wonderful grace of our Lord and Master Jesus. 1 ' Let us think what the "grace of ��� Jesus" means in this sense. Grace, we lay, is that which affords joy, pleasure, delight; it is sweetness, charm, loveliness. Grace does things, not from p cold sense of duty, but,for the pure joy and happiness of doing them. When We .speak uof the "grace of God" wc ..mean that which God docs.for us, not 'Vecause He owes it to us. but-as the free gift of His unspeakable love, f When we speak of a gracious man oi ;*��oman we mean one in whom we sec thoughtfulness and courtesy and kind. Hness, one who shows not only willingness to serve others, but pleasure Bnd gladness'in doing so. And I think we can imagine how "the grace of our Lord Jesus"���the giacious spirit that .was in Htm���expressed itself in look ind word and manner. I think we can picture that grace in -Him as He took the little children up in His arms; as lie sat down by the *rell to talk to that bad- tempered 5iuna*;it?'i woman ami ion '" her in spite of herself; as He took the hand of the poor widow .who had lost her only son, and said, "Weep not"; as'He went into the room Where Jairus' daughter was lying, and ���aid, "Talitha cumi���Little maid, I say Unto thee, arise." Yes, we can picture the "grace of our Lord Jesus and, what is even more important, we can reflect it and reproduce it. In the simple, homely round of daily living. l man should benave well to his wile snd family from a sense of duty than jhat he should neglect them. But the wife wants something more rom her husband than this, and the Father who is in Heaven wants some- ihing more< from His child than mere .duty service." Duty is a great word, but it is not ,treat enough lo fulfil all the relations ii life. Love is the only word that is great enough. There is no relation to which love is not equal, and there is no task for which it is not lufficient. _ Duty can make" life just and uptight and strong, but in addition to all these love makes it holy and beautiful and most divinely attractive. And lo I think that the Apostle's words Have a twofold meaning. I think they wk not only that Christ may show His grace and favor to us, but also that tve Christians may show something of His grace and loveliness to others. They ask that, "the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" may sorrow itself in "our daily lives, in the c*oing of all our work, in our very bearing and manners that there may be more con- siderateness and tenderness in our nomes, more joy and pleasure in our religion, more gladness and delight in our "giving," more of kindliness and "ottrtesy and thoughtfulness and broth- srliness in all our dealings one with mother. ��� - To" Come to Canada. This from The Canadian Gazette Is certainly worthy of attention :���We hope the Canadian Government may have a few straight words to say, on tho subject of the action of the Recorder at the Old Bailey In Dotting free a, burglar, the .other day on condition of "his "emigration ;to Canada. This may seem amusing In viuw of tho strong agitation to exclude criminal Immigrants from England, - but, happily, steamship companies Khow that if they carry undesirables to Canada tnoy may be .compelled to bring them back again at their,own expense. Canada has no lntenUon of becoming a dumping ground fbr criminals, British or otherwise. J , v i_, ,____ _>' L__^.> ' ''''I'"1,' ' , ' > , ,' SICK STOMACH IS in home and store and workship and ���nice, we are, if we are Christians, to ���how something of that grace ourselves. It will show itself first oi all ta our manners, in a beautiful courtesy and considerateness toward all. We sometimes-think of courtesy as �� little thing, a matter of outward Searing, one of the "extras" of Christ- fan character, so to speak, an ornament tratheT than an essential part But courtesy is not a little thing-, and it is not a mere matter of outward bearing; it is the outward exp/ession of the inner life and spirit. (Dne of the commands that the Apostle is most careful to lay upon his converts is "Be courteous." If there were more of the "grace of ��ur Lord Jesus' Christ" in our manners I believe that it would greatly help rrhat we call the "servant question"; that it would make things easier to ad- Just between capital and labor; that those who are called to support themselves by honorable work in stores and ' A Big Army. During the period extending from the first of May until September over 450,000 men will be under military training at the various camps in Britain. Tho present drill season is the first of consequence since 1S98. Prior to the grand maneouvres on Salisbury -Plain In September this year, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Regular Army Corps will be exercised independently at Aldershot, Salisbury Plain, and the Curragh in very important .work. In which Marconigrams and motors will figure. Sandwiched in with the training of the- regulars the militia and volunteers will occupy the great southern ,camping grounds between Shorncliffe and Salisbury wltb. nearly 100,000 men. ���~" "'* .j.'Z':i ;-''. - A Sporty King. Among the King, of Portugal's varied tastes is an English passion for sport of all kinds, and it is known that once even, when1 Duke of Braganza, he entered .the ring to face a bull "with points unbated," that-is to say not padded, as is generally the case In Portugal as distinguished from Spain. One of the ladies of the court had dared the Duke to face a bull with his horns unguarded, and so he entered the arena in the Spanish manner- Incognito, though every one knew who the bold bandenllo was. Unfortunately the Duke slipped and fell, but starting up, before the bull could charge again, he ran for the barricade, and cleared it In a bound, just a moment or two before the infuriated animal splintered the woodwork with, his horns. A Peculiar Bequest. In a review of the people he has met "as counsel and Magistrate," Mr. Cecil Chapman, one of the metropolitan Magistrates, points out in M.A.P. that a fact not generally known is that a year or two. ago the police courts of London received a windfall of some twenty thousand pounds, to he invested for the poor-box funds, from' a man who for many years used to frequent the Marlborough street court as an onlooker. "His appearance, adds the Magistrate, "was that of a man who had nothing at all." Inquiry reveals a chain of not unromantic circumstances connected with this bequest. Some two and a half years ago a little old man, dressed in a blue suit of a. naval cut, entered the Marlborough 'Street Police Court, and, assuming a businesslike air. pushed his way through the crowd o* waiting witnesses towards the bench. "What do you want ?" asked Mr. F. J. Elliott, tho assistant Magistrate's clerk. "My name is Evan "Llewllyn," said the old man, brushing the whitened locks from Ms brow, "and"���-he approached nearer and lowered his voice to a whisper���������"I want to watch you; I want to see how you deal i with all these people���not as a spectator in the gallery, but as one of yoursolves, as one in * touch with the distressed and the 'misguided and the criminal. My object ? That you will see in good time." Mr. Elliott, regarding him as a 'specimen of the harmless eccentric common to all police courts, humored him in the fulfilment ofiwhat he called his "mission.. He gave him a seat near his desk and allowed him to sit in his office and hear the applications. iThls went on daily for over twelve months. The mysterious visitor scarcely ever spoke. He sat with his head between his hands gazing intently at witness or prisoner. Later on the truth came out. "Mr. Elliott," said the visitor, "I am an old man. I have a premonition 'that the end is very near. I want to leavo alt my money, amounting to ��20,000, to the The Telephone In Chinatown. One of the unique features of the far- famed Chinatown of San Francisco is the ,01iinese "hello girl." The' Oriental folk, quick .to adopt tihe ways of. the American,' have long recognized the convenience of tihe telephone* For several years most of the rich China. men have used telephones, -but- pidgin English talked over, the wire to centra) had its disadvantages.,"Youcatcheehim, led-fi seblen���you sabe���fi scfolcn-led, led fi���oh, you heap sassy now���you sabe him���fi, et cetera," with four others on the ten party line trying to get a number, not only created trouble with central, hut also encouraged profanity alonp the line. However, to business-like "John" time is just'as valuable as it is to the American financier, so he decided to waste no more time with the "Meli* can" central. An appeal was made to the telephone company. The result was the establishing of a-branch office situated in the heart of Chinatown and the employing c-f Chinese ^operators. That was two years" ago. Since that time over five hundred 'phones have been placed in the', Oriental quarter, nearlj every business house of 'importance being a subscriber. The office is fitted up hi luxurious style, with polished floors, ebony furniture, and elaborate .carvings so dear to the Chinaman. At,tihe switch- hoard five girls and 'as many boys, all native sons and daughters, are employed The girls, with their elaborate coiffures, their jewels, and pretty flowing gowns of gay colors, present a charming picture voices of clear falsetto ring over the 'glume with metallic precision. There* i�� no fussing, no flirting, each little maid being as demure as a nun. There is no trouble about wrong switches, for one ol the characteristics of the Chinese is tlhat, when a duty is once mastered, it is always performed with mechanical accuracy. The. 9fficer��. gf th�� company say that a mistake in'The SookV of a Onmest- bookkeeper is a very rare oecurrence, and that a complaint of central is absolutely unknown. On the side of the room oppo ��te the switch-board a joss is installed, and from the incense-burnera tiny columns of perfumed smoke curl up, pervading and purifying every corner wherein *n evil spirit might lurk in contemplation of mischief. neen her money; but so long as I didn't ft was yours, and I- spent it for your children and, your house. Now I want*("hi money that mother sent." ^ The,poor man brought homo another forty dollars, and considered the incident closed. But in the course of nnotlier week the wife remarked, "You' have fifteen dollars left of-mother's money, and I believe I'll take it now." "But I gave it all'to you!" he protested. "You gave me forty dollars," sho replied) "and I spent twenty-five dollars of it for a skirt. That was mother's money, but tho other fifteen dollars went for the children and the house, so that wasn'l mother's. There's just enough left for a jacket." "I'll meet you to-morrow," he said, "and we'll go together and get that jack- et. I don't believe I care to take any aiore chances with that money." r Jt A Splendid Train Appreciated. "1 would rather travel on the Grand Trunk's International Limited than any other train in America," said a prominent ���nisincss man yesterday, * he stepped from the train that had just brought him from Montreal, a distance of 333 miles, :n 7 hours and 40 minutes. Many sueh remarks are to be heard daily, from, p.isseiigers as ,tho "Flyer" stands in ths" Union Station in readiness to continue the i un to Detroit and Chicago, leaving Toronto at 4.C0 p.m., and arriving De- *sroit D.30 p.m. and Chicago 7.20 avm. The service excels in every particular��� 'oomfortable, high-back coaches, handsome and splendidly appointed cafe parlor car, and luxurious Pullman sleeper, in reality a palace on wheels, where one can sleep, dine, emoke or read with at much comfort and "ease oa in the finest of hotels. For a long distance train thr "International Limited" has a splendid record for regularity and promptness to schedule time; passengers almost invariably arrive at destination ."ON TIME." City office ��� north-west corner King and Yongo streets. ���' ��� ' + 1* ��� ��� .���- ���. ��� f One of those women who have antipathy for tobacco entered a street car the other day," and inquired of the man" sitting near her,* "Do you chew tobacco, sir?" "No, madam, I-do not," was the .reply, "but I can get you a chew if you want one."���Lippincott's Magazine. SICK OWNER IS IDLE If you will ejlvo your digestion a , coat, it will got along*. You can do this by moans of ' . DR. VON STAN'S PINEAPPLE TABLETS which", digest your stomach, cure. your food, and rest You want relief and'1' Pineapple relieves at once and cures quickly. No stomach can be cured except it.can rest while dig-es-- tiong-oes on safely. The patient eats heartily while taking- his cure. It strengthens the weakest'stomach. ^ ( ' Pineapple is nature's simplest and- quickest cure���Price, 35c. > In five minutes after using Dp. Ag-new's Catarrhal, Powder the' healing has begun, and it continues ��� till the1 work is quickly complete. New health, comfort in breathing, new vigor, and removal of danger of consumption, or pulmonary trouble. * ���������-,��� a A Feminine Financier. Other places and whose business it is to poor-box o'f Marlborough Street Police wait on others would find their labor! Court. I had that idea in my head when vaii. uu "" v"" . , . . . i fiftgt came here, but I wanted to see how lightened and life greatly helped and ^{[^^l the p00r and tho fallen. I am frightened, and that it would save much satisfied. The money Is yours." more than half of the friction in home I There was a suspicion that Mr..Llewllyn life, the differences between husband and wife and between friend and friend. And then, also, the "grace of our Lord Jesus" will show itself in a cer- bin spirit which does its work in tins tjorM, whatever it be, for love and not fcr mere duty. Duty is good, but love is so much better. , , . , There are very good people to whom religion is a matter of duty, and char- ky J* a matter of duty, and all the best things in life are matters of duty: And these people have learned some* jhing���they are on the right road���but (hey will not have learned enough until all these things become matters of 5try and pleasure and delight. You will ���ometimes hear a man say that he goes ��o church from a sense of duty. It is better that he should do so than that U should stay away. It is better tltft k���* ,���o.��� i���..k,���j I was sufEerinK from hallucinations, but between husband , when he file(- a few --.eeks later It was found that he had -idually bequeathed by will to the poor-box the amount stipulated. Thf* only otlmr bequest was 6s a week for life to a man who had helped him in business. This man appeared at Marlborough street to explain his conr nertion with Llewllyn, and from his statement It was evident that he, although very poor, had actually been mainly Instrumental in making the testator's fortune. Under these circumstances the Magistrate increased the allowance to 10s a week. The poor-boxes of four or Ave ot the London police courts receive altogether about six hundred pounds a year from the invested capital. Where he Belongs. Editor���You haven't mentioned! the bridegroom's name in this wedding story of yours. Reporter���Oh, yes, I have. I've got him down "among those pxes Wat." The people who rashly allege that women have "no head for "business" will find it hard to maintain their argument In the face of a tale told by*the Chicago ���Post." Tho atory began with the wife. "George," ahe said, "mother has sent me a cheque for forty dollars to get a new gown. "Very thoughtful and kind of her," he commented. "It's to be spent for nothing else, she says." "Quiteright" ' "I wish you'd put It in with your bank account. 111 ask you for it when I want it. I can't do my shopping just now." That was the first chapter of this financial tale. Now we come to the second. "George," she said, about �� week later, "I wish you'd bring me home that money to-night. I'm going down town to-morrow." He brought the money home and gave it to her, and that ended the second ohapter. The third contained a surprise "George," she said, toward the close of another week, "I wish you'd bring me home that forty dollars that mother sent." "Why, I gavo you that last weekl" he protested. "Oh, you gave me forty dollars, of course," she admitted, "but you remember mother said her money was to be used for a gown and nothing else." "Yes." "Well, I didn't use that for a gown, so the money wasn't hers. I got some things for the children and the house with it, and now I want her money for the gown.* "O- no I" he exclaimed. "So you misappropriated funds." "I did nothing of the kind!" sho asserted. "She gave * ou the money for a. certain purpose and you expended it for something else," he argued. "That's a clear case of misappropriation." "Not at all," she insisted. "If I had spent, lt^ for the gown it would hav�� Curious Persons���Why, you have no bass horn. ��� "Why is that? Leader (of. little German band)��� De beeple don't like to hear it, ma'am, ven de vedder is coldt. De notes is all pelow zero.���Chicago Tribune. * , v ����� "Tell me what people read and I will tell you what they, are," said the self-confessed philosopher. - ' "Well, there's "'my wife," , rejoined the dyspeptic ' party. "She's forever reading cook "books. Now, what,is she?" ' , , * . ' - ' ' "Why, a cook, "of course," replied the philosophy dispenser. "That's ,where the spokes rattle in your wheels," said the other: "She only thinks - she is."���Chicago Daily) News. �� Mr. Spinner���What is your opinion of the new "problem play," Miss Beck- with? Stupidly heavy, isn't it? Miss Beckwith (stiffly)���I am not aware that my opinion is stupidly heavy on any subject, Mr. Spinner. Mr. Spinner���Oh, good heavens, nol I didn't meant that. Your opinions are never heavy in the least. On* the contrary, they are extremely light and airy. Miss Beckwith (icily)���Then, if my opinions are so wholly, without weight, Mr. Spinner, it would be a waste -of time to express them.���Kansas City; Journal . �� "I am angry with you," said the society leader to the reporter of The Daily Whoopee, who had written sn account of her theatre party. "Angry with me! For what reason?" he begged. "Reason enough 1 Just look how you described my new French theatre gown. You gave it a scant ten lines &f comment.. Why , you seemed really to be at a loss for something to say about it.' " It wasn't my fault," protested the reporter. "There wasn't enough of that dress to fill more than ten lines." ���Judge. A prominent physician of Philad-1- %hia was standing in front of one If the-monkey cages in the monkey house in Fairmount Park a short time ago. Looking about, he saw an old negro watching the curious antics of the animals. Th physician, hoping to gain some information on the Darwinian theory, said, "Uncle, they seem almost human, don't they?" The old negro,- with a most disgusted look on his face, replied: "Human? Dey ain't no moah human dan I is I"���Harper's Magazine. Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota was talking one day to an actor about another actor who had got an engagement in London. ' "A fine fellow he is," said Mr. Nel- "Yes, very fine," said the .other; "only since he has gone abroad he hasn't sent a penny to his #wife. He writes her the most affectionate letters; euery day of flj-o a pleasant letter comes from him, but not a cent has he forwarded in two months ho has been away." "He writes every day or twor said Senator Nelson. "What kindness I" "Kindness!" exclaimed the actor. "Kindness! When he sends no money?" , ,, "Yes," said Mr. Nelson; "unremitting kindness."���New York Tribune. . "Well, I suppose you and your wife are now scrapping over the name oE your new heir." ,-',"' *, "Not on your life. What gave yo�� that idea ?" "W.ell, I thought it was usual." "Not when there's only . one ricfc bachelor uncle in the family."���New; York Times. ��� mmnnmess** se^ ��?��� NOWTS.THE TIME i v ' To use Dr. A-'iew's Catarrhal Powder. It is.... antiseptic, healing dressing, applied directly to the diseased"'s u r f a c e by the J patient "himself, who blows the powder'through a tube into.his nostrils. The cure dates froi | the first puff.' , ' You needn't snuffle from colds' or hay fever if you have the catarrhal powder in the house.' Cures a headache in ten minutes. Rev. J. L. MURDOCK writes "I have I used. Dr. Agnew'a Catarrhal Powder ] for the last two mouths and am now completely cured of Catarrh of five years' standing. It is certainly magical in its effect. The first application benefited me within five minutes." Dp. Agnew's Pills costing 10 cents for forty doses, two-fifths the price of other'flrst- class pills, first cleanse and thorn cure the bowels and liver for- ever. -1 say, is a - Willie (at his lessons)- what's a fortification? < Pa���A fortification, my son, large fort. Willie���Then a ratification is a large- rat���The Lyre. ��� "It is a great mistake, Mabel, to trifle with the affections of a man who loves you by encouraging some one else." . "Well, he's a little slow, Auntie. 1 think he needs a pacemaker."���Puck. JUST LIKE BUYING RHEUMATISM. We put the bills in your pocket and take away the malady. Isn't that just tibe- buying it ? There's the bunch of money you'H pas* out to get rid of the rheumatism if you buy prescriptions with it. It's a cure ycu Want, not prescriptions. SOUTH AMERICAN RHEUMATIC CURE pull tbe rheumatism out by the roots. No> more doctoring, no more medicine, m��aey saved { health saved, life saved. CURES IN I TO 3 DAYS. Mas. E. EiSNER,va trained nurse, of HaSfiw, Bvitig at 92 Cornwallis St., writes: "I have tape. a sufferer for six years from rheumatism, afityiy doctors treated me, but relief was only temporary. I tried South American Rheumatic Cuts, and after four days' use of the remedy, was c��- lirely free from the disease." SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY CURE rich in healing powers, relieves bladder and Md- trny troubles in six hours, and in the worst aoses- ��iU speedily restore perfect health. �� : m ���h*>h&bQ�� : ����$��-������*�� tparwiaaamat Set Her Free & By Florencb Wardem Eh Author of "The House in the Marsh," "A Prince of Darkness,", -!���� etc*etc* , "I had too much to forgive,'' said Ast- icy shortly. "I am writing to my law- ,ng ner neaa despairingly. "She wouldn't oome.' And when I tried lo bring her yers, and they will go on with the rdi- downstairs by force, she tore ^ herself vorce proceedings at once." 'away and ran ->���..������' Hie luu-se." v"That won't .be of much use," said the doctor's wife with assurance, "since Em mehne or I was with her''all'the time you were away, besides her own mother. You will "have too many witnesses , against you to prove anything." For the firsr, time it flashed through Astley's mind that there was a danger he had not thought of to bo consideied. Enimeline^I-nieli was not a- bad sort of woman; ho thought he could take hor word. Hut both Airs. Wharles and her smother, Mrs. Midaomcr, were intrigucis ��� of tho most unblushing type, ready to awear to anything, and no doubt both " prepared with an elaborately thought- out scheme for confounding him and his ���wn witnesses.- ' He turned for a moment to the window, coimidnring the matter with a floamy, mind. Mrs. Wharles went on, i a satisfied tone: "Poor Lottie isn't quite without -friends in tlie world, and tbev will see that she has j'lRtice.done her.' ��� "She is, likely to have a little more than justice, luti-ot-gh she gives less than justice to otiifii," said Astley bitterly. .Mrs. Wharlis Matched' him narrowly. "Well, well, Sir Astley," said she in a snore eonciliatoty tone, "you know she was always rather flighty, and apt to act on impulse." "Surely "ou're not going to try to excuse her ctnductl" cried he impatiently. "No, ot wo. Nobody has spoken to ther mora strongly than I, except Emme- line." Aat lev turned upon her sharply. "Why didn't Mrs. Finch interfere to preveJ t this trick- being played upon /me: Why didn't ahe write to me? Its - siot lik* her to benave so. I always looked upon her as a straightforward woman." ��� "She was away from home, and dida t ' come back until it was all over," explained Mrs. Wharles. "Then it was too Tate to say anything, and she had to "stand by her sister." Astley still looked puzzled. "Somebodv must have died," said he. , "Somebody "must have been buried. I shall get an order from the Home Secretary to have the body exhumed." - - "Certainly you had better do that, if you think tlieie's any doubt about it,' ��aid the doctor's wife with cold indifference. "But I should think that a still simpler plan would be for you to take a * ��eat and w��a ^uiatty for five minutes, until Emmelme iiaa iiersuadfd. Lottie to come in and see yo.i. ,Or do you think thd.t you will fail U * ("cognize your own wife when you sev her'" "Wife!" At'At-f wiilhed at the word. " "She is no wire of nio.s!" Mrs. Wharie-. otiragged her shoulders. "The law says she is," she said languidly; "hut as the poor child is quite ready to eflaco herself, and to go away and never trouble you again, I^don't know what more you would have." Astley moved with an impatient frown. "What nonsense! Either she is alive, and is my wife, and m'.wt be tieated as if ahe were, or���she is not. There's no question of compromise in such things. Bo I regret that I am not able to Uke advantage 'of your easy morality. Tho doctor's wife drew herself up haughtily. . "Sir Astley, you surpnse me! said *he. "If Dr. Wharles wero at home he would insist upon your tipolog.zing for -daring to use such,an insulting expres ���ion to me." i The lady glared at him in righteous indignation. " " But Astley took her outburst very �����asily. "If Dr. Wharles were at home," .snarled he, holding on by the back of a chair and leaning forward, witn his face -convulsed with passion, "I should not ���wait to list*,-: to his remarks upon that er upou any s-tr-er subject, but I should ,give him tha thrashing he thoroughly deserves." Mrs. Wharles grew suddenly white. For the first time she noticed that Astley was carrying a hunting-whip, the .strong stock of vhich was a formidable weapon Her tone changed immediately. "Suiely, Sir Astley," faltered she, with .pale lips, "you ���wouldn't care to expose 'this anair aud make it it common scan* ���dall" "I intemd to expose your husbrtnd," retorted Astley firmly. "Whatever the truth of this"ma.tter may be, 1 know very well that he has had a hand in a very ugly ploc���" "WhatI" cried Mrs. Wharlea indig- iBantly. "Do- you mean that you accuse ,kim of inciting Lvjt.le to deceive youi" "I mean that. I tool myself and���and someone eije to be the victims of a par- eel of ru.iwc.lly iwi-rguers, and I mean that I will have justice upon them, who- ' over they are." Aa his voice rose upon these last words the door *���;' the. twin was opened timidly, and Aire. Flni-h, looking at Astley with aa alamed expression, re-entered the-room. "Well���won't she wmu��." cried Mrs. ���Wharles eagerly, rierinj irom her chair And speaking vita tr.^r^ir excitement. Mrs. Finch shook her ae*d. 'Tell her she must, she must I" cried the doctor's wife, stamping hor foot and raiau.-g her voice. "Pll go myself and bring her. She has got to come and justify me in the eyea ot this man. Let me pass." "It's of_n�� use," said Mrs. Finch, shak- away "Out of the ����-v^i 'rtJiy-tl-.en she'll bo seen, after i ii our care!" cried Mr3. Wharles. ' But Astley interrupted her with a harsh laugh. - ' "Oh, don't distress y cm selves," snid he. "I don't btippose she's gone any fuithcr than you wished her lo go!" And, with* a profound U>\v to both of them, he went to the dooi. "You don't mean to say���" - r> "Whatever I mean to say shall bo said to Dr. Wharles," lie cut m slioiLly. "Thu is a matter which can be better dismissed between man and man, lli.in between a win anil���ladies." 'JTliey. both began lo speak at once, the ono aiigiily, the other apologetically. But he would not wait to hear them. lie dashed out of the house as quickly as his luuencss would allow, got into tho dogwrt, and told the man to'dnve him to tho telegraph office. There he despatched the following message to the office of his London solicitor, dnecting to the puttier who knew the most of his aUaiis: < r ' "Come down to see me at once if you can. Most important Wne,n*ply." Thru lis r drove back lowaidi home, flushed, restless, excited and miserable, lie did not know what to believe. The one conviction that stood out prominently m his mind was that the instigator of the plot which had been so successfully formed' for the ruin of his happiness, was his bete noire, the handsome Dr. Wharles. ������ Wha'ever of truth there might be in the contradictory stories which had been told him, something, which was rather instinct than leason, told Astley, as he drove back 'home from his interview with Mrs. Wharles, that the doctor was at the bottom of a plot to relieve his own necessities by blackmailing him. , It was^oaejof tiose bught winter morning* After' ihe turn of the year, when there seems to be a trmch of spring in the -warmth, of uii�� sun, and'eveu the black smoke cloud which usually hung over Blackdale shoved sign* of dispersing. The graas-ci the wide lawns which surrounded The Haigh looked, green and fresh in the "strong light, and showed up in high relief a little .group of people who were slowly strolling about the grounds. Foremost^among the group were the figures of Lady Myfanwy Scorton, a tall, handsome, well-developed blonde/ who looked remarkably picturesque in her riding habit, and 'Norma with her slender form, pa/le face, and big plaintive black eyes. In her black dress, with the dark lines made by distress and anxiety under her eyes, she looked a pathetic figure; and there was much more of grief in, her face and manner than in those of Lady Myfanwy, who had so recently .lost her. fiance. , Behind these two were the companions whom Lord Wyersdale's daughter had brought with her, on her very early visit to enquire ajbout the invalid Astley. The one was her young brother, a round-^ faced 'boy of eighteen or so, who wore his" arm in a sling, and a fragile-looking girl, exquisitely dressed in a pale gray tailor- made costume, with gray* furs to mateh and a black velvet hat, who proclaimed"- her nationality by a slight but not un- pleasing American accent. Miss Brown, for that was her name, was causing a little flutter of consternation among her companions by her outspokenness. "Yes, it's all very sad, and we've been thinking and talking of nothing else, Lady Darwen, I assure you," she said, when Lady Myfanwy had made a mournful allusion to the death of Sir Hugh. 'What with poor Sir Hugh's accident, and then his dying, and then finding out that Sir Astley was married���" "Sadie! What are you saying!" interrupted Lady Myfanwy quickly. "It's timeiyou gave up that habit-of thinking aloud, you know!" murmured Lady Myfanwy's* brother mischievously, in the ear of the indiscreet Sadie. Jack Scorton, who was called "Jack" because his name was Reginald and he didn't like it, was in his first year at Oxford, and was "bubbling over with high spirits and the enjoyment of life. He had taken a great fancy, to Lady Astley, whose mournful beauty was the greatest possible contrast to his own robust rosi- ness, and to his sister's dashing, florid style of good looks; and he was much annoyed at being put in the background as a mere hoy. "What was it that your husband had the matter with him, Lady Darwen?" asked he, thrusting himself forward between his sister and the pale lady in mourning. Norma hesitated, and her face clouded. "It was lever, a slight return of the fever 'he had out in Africa, I think," said she, knowing well while she spoke that diabreso of mind had been the chief factor in his illness. "Did the doctor say that?" said Lady Myfanwy, who was possessed by a strong curiosity concerning Astley's relapse. There had been rumors about the neighborhood already that all was not right at "The Haigh," and Lord Wyersdale's family, who had always been intimate with the Darwens, felt an interest, which the young ones, at any rate, were unable to repress, in the affairs 'of tch-eir old friends. "Oh, oh, I think so," said Norma rath er incoherently. ' For a sight -had just met her eyes Which 'filled her with uneasiness. And unluckily, ti-y as she would to look in another direction, the sight in question riveted her attention and theiefore soon attracted that of her companions. They were all on tlie gieat lawn which stretched between llio poiticoed front of Darwen Haigh'' and the high road into the town. Nothing but a bioad border, in which the spring floweis would appear by and by, and a. stiaggling belt of tall, firs and still leafless shrubs, separated tho bare stretch of g,asa from the fence beyond. Norma could see over the fence and through the tice trunks and the leafless twigs. And this was what she saw: Astley was, "being driven home in his dogcart when, just befoie lie reached the lodge gates and turned into the avenue, ho met the doetoi's gig coming in the opposite direction. Dr. Wharles, who saw the scowl on his lato patient's face, and knew what had brought it there, was quite wise enough to wish to pass with only a cheery s-Uu- taition and a quicke'iing of lus hoise's pace. But Artley wis in no moodifor self-restiaint. The indignation against "vliarlc3, which had -L"cn seething within >mi all the morning, now bubbled up un- contiollably, made li"> face deadly white, his voice ihoaise, his movements spasmodic and sudden. "Stop!" thundered lie, ns he spiang up in the dogcait, and -nude a sign "to the groom to cheek the hoisc. "Stopl I want a word with' you!" Tho fr(-ali.*l."*��'iaoiiic face of the doctor ertw a little" pale, too. - -Mel" he cued in cheerful sin prise, as ho stopped his horse, which he was driving himself, and tiled to smile in the baronet's face. , > - The aittempt was a failure, however. Before he could compose his face, Astley had leapt down into the road and come up to him. "Yes, you, you plotting kiave and un- icrupulous rascal!" stamrmcrcd the baronet, -getting out the syllables in jerks, as he tightened his grasp of his hunting- whip. - , " - "Sir Astley! You forget myourself," said Dr. jWharles, stammering in his turn. "If you want any explanation���" "I don't!" cried Astley, as he leapt on <to the step of the dogcait, "I want satis-' faction. And I take it���like this." /.nd with that he cut the doctor a smart blow across his cheek, causing the flesh to swell and the blood to come, and ' Ve doctor himself to shrink back, quiv- ���*ring." s ' - The doctor uttered no word, no cry. But out of his half-closed eyea he shot It the baronet a deadly look. CHAPTER XTV. Although Norma and her visitors were doo far from the spot where the encounter took place between Astley and Dr. Wharles for them to hear clearly 'the words which passed between the two men/ yet the actions of both had .been unmistakable. The stop, the springing down of Astley, his attack on t'he doctor, and .the dogged attitude of "the other: 'all were to be seen too plainly foT anybody to makei more than a faint attempt not to notice what was going on. And if such an attempt was made on the part of the visitors it was thrown away on po-er'Norma, who was too completely absorbed,��� the unhappy occurrence to pay any attention to tlie effect it might have upon her companions. It was not until Astley had got down into the road, and the doctor had suffered his coachman^to take the reins and to drive him off at a smart pace, that the group on the' lawn got their breath, and the ladies tried to behavo aa if they had noticed nothing remarkable. - "What lovely lawns they always hava at The.Haigh! You must have a very good head gardener!" murmured <Lady Myfanwy, frowning at her brother to try to divert his gaze from the dogcart, which could he seen -between the tree trunks coming slowly up the avenue. "Yes, oh yes," stammered poor Norma, without the least idea to wnat proposition she was assenting. "So veiy smooth���and green," added Jaok demurely, with a boy's sense o"f mischief, though also with a kind-hearted wish to help on the slightly flagging conversation. "Yes," again said Norma, her large eyes haggard, and her lips trembling. "I Her voice shook. She was on the point of-breaking down. The impulsive American-girl sprang forward to put one arm round her. / " ' "Don't worry her," said she. "Let's go away. Don't you see that she must want to get rid of us all?" One more faint effort Norma made to beep on the conventional level. * "Not at all," she began. But Sadie lauglttd gently and gave her a sort of hug. "I'm going, anyway," she said, as with a nod of farewell she began to ~\'.'t away across the grass to when* ' -i Myfanwy'-s horse was waiting, with tilie phaeton which had brought the other ���two. Lord Wyersdale's daughter took a more conventional leave, but Jack lin- utctm gered a little, and said heartily, as he j made uoor ior a little "while in the- hope tha he might heardicr and tell her to com in, She went sono\\full> away to he own room. ; , It was still very einly, wanting ai hour or tirioic to luncheon tune. Shi spent her time aimlessly enough, in wan dering up and down the big house, wluci seemed so -cold and empty now that sh was quite alone, when she was infoimcc to her consternation that Mis. Whaile wished to see her. Theie was nothing fiat Norma dcsiiec less than another interview with tvhit lady, especially after' the scene she had witnessed between hoi husband and'Ast ley an hour hefore. She did not like tc' refuse, however,' so she'went down to the moinmg-ioom, into which the visitoi had been shown. The doetoi's wife was in no fighting mood. ,S'io wan nervous, humble, almost hyslciical, and the fust ivoids she ut- tei ed ^wei e an apology. "I must beg you to excuse this in- tiusion, Lady Dai wen," she said, "but I daie say you know what's happened���between Sir Astley and my husband, I mean, and���I've come to tell you how wiong Sir Astley is, how entiiely wiong! He thinks he hasn't "been told the truth about"���her voice sank���"about Lottie, and he blames my husband. He doesn't believe Lottie's,alive at all, because she was too frightened to come in and see him when he buist in upon us this morning." "Really, Mrs." Wharles, it was not worth While to come here to tell me this! Sir Astley wrote to his solicitors last night, and they will see into this matter���" "Exactly, exactly," inteinipted Mrs. Wharles eagerly. "And what I want you to understand is that Lottie is quite ready to see them, and to answer any questions. At least, she will be ready in a day or two, when she's got over her experiences of to-day." ,When my, poor husband came home just now, with his face so swollen'and cut that we hardly knew him, and she felt it was all her fault, She fainted away, and was so ill when she came to herself that we thought it best to send her back at once to Leamington." ' ' ' Norma looked at .Mrs. Wha'rles suspiciously. . ' * ,' < -Sent her away because she was ill?" ���he echoed rather drily. * > - "Not alone of course. My sister, Mr*. Finch, went with her. But she was in such a state of nervous agitation, lest Sir Astley should burst in upon us again, now that he's taken to personal violence, that I thought it better that she should get away at once, before she broke down altogether. But as I knew what Sir Astley would 'say, when he heard ahe was gone, I thought it best that? you should know,'once for all, that if the lawyers or the police, or anybody Sir Astley likes to Bend, will go and see her, she will be ready to meet them as she will be ready to meet him. There, I won't trouble you any further. Good morning." ' t "Good-by," said Nonna very coldly, with her whole'heart up in arms against the doctor and his wife and family, who had irritated Astley to the extent of provoking him to the morning's attack. She thought this woman's new humility in the .face of such an outrage very suspicious, and began to fpel her hopes rising that the lawyers would find out something which would free Astley and herself from their present miserable" position. At luncheon time she met Astley,"who was looking so worn, so much distressed, that her heart ached for him, and it was with great difficulty that she maintained that reserved air which they had now both tacitly agreed to hold towards each other. - He gave her but a brief account of the oecurffences of the morning, but she had seen and heard enough to understand pretty well what had taken place. And he told her that Mr./ Geoffrey Capper of the firm of Johnson & Capper, would arrive that evening. - 'i J ' Astley said he should spend the afternoon alone in the library, and only one look passed between these two unhappy beings before they separated until tun-, aer-time. , Xi- , By that time Mr. Capper had arrived, and the presence of this third person was a welcome relief to them" both, lessening the acute tension at which they had paased the day. Mr. Capper was a tall, gaunt, aaiddle- agVsd man, with a little ginger-colored kafr still left round his head, but witih v-=#,f wrung her hand: "Don't look so wretched, Lady Darwen. It'll all dry straight, whatevcr's wrong: it always does, you know! And," he bent forward to whisper, with boyish glee: ""I was glad -to see that Wharles get a thrashing. He's an awful bounder. Good-by." With which farcwdl he ran after the others, leaving Norma half inclined to cry, indeed, but half inclined to laugh, too. As they disappeared down the drive, with nods and smiles and waving hands, kindly meant to keep up her spirits in the portentous circumstances, Nonna, rather comforted in spite of herself by these demonstrations of kindness on the part of her new acquaintances,, went quickly mto the house in search of Aat- She did not And him: she was told that he had shut-himself into the libiary, and. after pacing up and down outside the Bone ��n the top, a long, shrewd <- face and a pleasant, courteous manner.' He heard all that had to be told, and declined to pass any opinion upon th�� case as it stood. He, however, had previous knowledge of Lottie's conduct while her husband wa�� away, and although he saw the danger of a scheme being laid by her family to Shelter her from the consequences of her levity by wholesale perjury, he would not say that he had no hope of being able to circumvent them. "There is one person," said he, "who must bo found. And the most suspicious feature of the cose is that he seems to have disappeared altogether." "Who is that?" asked Astley. Mr. Capper glanced at Norma as if reluctant to go on before her; but she an entreating gesture. say, would undoubtedly be a strong,wit- , ness, and probably we could get his evidence suppoited. In'fact, I,fcel sure oi that. On the other hand, tho family know this also, and there is no doubt at 'all that they are keeping him out of the way."' i / "Well, I'm glad of it," said Astley, quickly. , , ��� # , "Oh no, you cannot be glad of a circumstance which probably makes' a'l the^ dillerence between happiness and misery' not only to you, but also," and he glanced at Norma,' "to Lady Darwen." "It's horrible," put in Norma in a low voice, "to be persecuting a woman, isn't it? Hunting her down?" And she shuddered. " ' >,, "If she or her family had shown the , least compunction in their dealings with you -both," said Mr. Capper deliberately, '���I should say there was some sense in what you urge.' ,But, as it stands, * I think your sympathy is misplaced." "Perhaps, if he's such a loose fish," suggested Astley, "he would be a worthless witness to anybody" < ' "If his testimony were unsupported, yes, but that would not be the cose," ?aid Mr. Capper. "Jndeed, so important ' do I consider his evidence, that I have taken cure to get an exact description of , Lhe man's appearance, and I have set an enquiry agent at work to find him out, if 'he can., I only hope he may not have left the country." () ��� Astley began to look gloomy. He had been comfoitmg himself, since the morning's visit to the doctor's house, by the, hope that it'might be possible to'prove that Lottie was not alive atoll: but if (these people took suoh pains to hide the evidence of her wrong doing, it must be '\r$ ? '{ -because, they knew her to be'alive, and 'H "y'5| weie determined to establish her claim * >, I lor the title"1 of "Lady Darwen,',' and the '"> y? income he would in that' case be bound t to pay her. i , ' "And what is the fellow like?" 'he asked in a sullen voice. ' *", i "He is described as tall, well set up/VVft: and* soldierly,,with blue eyes, colorless ~" light hair, a particularly long and rather > sandy moustache; and lie has a sear over "* the right eyebrow, apparently the result j of a sabre-out." ' -" ('- ' * K . "Not very difficult to identify then,y;if , he should be in England still." .* --.,',' "No. That's one point in our favor. However, up to now all efforts to trace" him have been a dead failure, I'm sorry - to say. But we won't give up hope. In the meantime you and I had better start lor Leamington as soon a3 possible; to-* morrow morning, I suggest." * ,, , "Yes," said Astley, with a wistful glance at Norma, as she'rose to leave them together over their wine. c * On the following day, therefore, almost \ immediately after breakfast, Astley, who still looked very ill* and weak, and the lawyer, started together for the home of Lottie's imother; and poor Norma was v��f-- alone with her anxietv. *���' ' "' , " (To be Continued.) / , _J Poultney Bigelow attempted,, on Kons. occasion to interview "Oom'Paul" Kru�� ger,afld met with about the same fato ��� that many interviewers have had with^ 1 the former President of the Boers. Hs found' the��� old man in a very bad'hu. ^.��� mor, and could get only^monosyllables la, - -C ";j reply to his questions. He employed el*** 'J'X'z] ery art of the interviewer, but to" no ' avail. 'Finally, despairing of getting aus information of use to him by straight questioning, he determined to be diplo> tf-vi ' T*i ! "Let me know all I may," she pleaded. "Do you think I'm not interested too?" Mr. Capper went on: "It is a certain Tom Rogerson, whom she was fond of when she was an unmarried girl, with whom she also carried on a flirtation af; terwards, when you, Sir Astley, were away. This Rogerson appears to be a ne'er-do-weel, and a man undeserving of We slightest respect, a man who would useful to us, as he would have no Honorable scruples about telling the truth, whioh a better sort of man would never do in the circumstances." Aatley frowned. "I'd rather not make use of such a man," objected he. While Norma's quick movement of assent showed that she sympathized thoroughly with his feeling, Mr. Capper shrugged his shoulders slightly. "We must use such tools as are to hand," said he drily. "This fellow, as I matic and approach Mr. Kruger from hia family side. So he ftske.dj vei-y-nonchalantly:: "Is jour wife entertaining thifl gen son." Short and sharp cams tha ?"ruff answer**: "Not very?' And the ia��' erview closed there. ^ The autobiography of Sir HenlJ Layard, which has just appeared in Engt land, has this story about Disraeli t "My aunt was wont to relate that on one occasion, when hotly engaged in ��� political argument, he said, with.great warmth, "When. I am Prime Minister I shall do so and so,' at which there watt a general laugh. , He was walking excitedly up and. down the room,"and, ad* vandrig" to -*5ier chimney piece, stimw-Ljl violently with his fist, exclaiming atth�� same time, "Laugk as you may, I ahaJO be-Prime. Minister.J" Layard adds. *l have no doubt of the truth of the sforfj .as I heard it frequently from my auM .long before the possibility of his rislaj" jto that lofty position was contest-* plated.- TJ The late J. E. Boehm, the sculptor once met Gladstone at a country hous^ and was immensely impressed by the es tent and diversity of the statesman's knowledge, as revealed in his conversation. Boehm was still full of the subject when the morning arrived for Oai�� lyle's sitting'for'a bust, and to the philo�� sojpher the sculptor poure'd forth his adV miration for Gladstone's intimate acquaintance with subjects so far apart a* i gardening and Greek. Carlyle listened for a time in scornful silence. Then ha said: "And what did he say ahoutyoul work?" "Oh, nothing," said Boehmf "he doesn't know anything about sculp ture.* "Of course," growled-Carlyle, "ol course, and he showed his knowledge: about things that you didn't understand) No doubt if you asked'Blackie 'he'd sat that Gladstone knew nothing aboul Greek and the gardener would tell yog that he knew nothing whatever of gss> dening."- , " Pure soap!" You've heard the words. In Sunlight Soap you have the fact. REDUCES E-KPENS�� -'yy Asfs Sat tbo OctssonBav *>i- ,^t-V y u.*>.t.M'**��.��.' ��� �� -. t ���. C. . 1 *> I. ATLIN,,'U C, S,-TI;kJJAY, JULY 4, i��*o .f i *�����" V*" ''TU & lie Atlin Claim. Puljhsliril i-ii-iv hiitmclnv nioiiuiif- 1>\ \ T'n \ ir.iN Ci,\i.m l'uiiijibiiiisn Co A.C. tlti.-ifnrni ii.I.di row, , Pnoi-i.nrroii. Oflii-i- of iiiihliL-utioii Vc.u I SS, Atlin, li. C. * Advi*i tisin���' li.ites : jl.CO pei incli, cncli iiisi'i lion. Kt-.idnif" nntiiis, -'- tents a line. Speei.il (Jmiti.id I'ntus on -ippliiiition. Thu siiljaciiption pi ice- is "V, ,i joi-r piij- itlilo in (ul'.uuo. So|n|ii-i w*fn hu ilcli\oii>il mill'**, tins ������ontldin i is complied with Saturday, JfM<Y ��"T-I- I9��3- f ��������� ��� ' The volume ol business done by "the iUlin Post Oflicc lias during the last yeai so increased that 'it has , been found necessaiy to make the Olfice a daily accounting one, plac- ��� rngthc Atlin department on piacti- callj-Ahe same footing as that governing laige cities. As this change of system necessitates a large amount ot additional *a or k which at present is imposed on Mr. Williams, our popular and painstaking Post- uiaslci, we arc ol the opinion' that .the "Department should immediately, allow him additional assistance iu the office. There is 11101 e woik to do than can be performed by one man',* unless he is so constituted as to enable him to put fourteen days' 'work into each week, and even tlien the small salaiy does notoffei sufficient inducement foi a -man to shorten his life to accommodate any official Department of the public ^service. carry the expense; of, keeping the fire appaiatus in-good condition for one year, each subscriberguaiari'lee-' liigaceitani amount monthly* foi twelve months. Mr. 10. Rossclli, whose past services to the Fiie Depaitment also were much praised, was declared elected Chief by acclamation; Mr. C._R. Bourne was elected Sub. Chief and many 'piesent voluntceied to act as fiicnien With such officer!*, and the good plant now heie, the citizens of Atliu feel sure that theii pioperty is well safe-guarded from the lavages of fire. Nugaseti' and. &'r/��&pp Rings ', ��� And Ail Kinds of Jewellery Manufactured on the Premises. 02iF~ t Why send oru when } ou can get goods as cheap heie3 - - ' ., - ' Watches From $5, w/j�� Fino Line of Souvenir* Spools* S mm &: SON, The'S \ raft huiakei <M:'<&ft*:'^):i0O-v>O0<:'<>aoj:'-c-'O'S-0^^ M THE KOOTENAif HOTEL. 1 George F. Hayes, Proprietor i Cor. First and Trainor Streets. - " / . <' ��� . - Tins I'i ist C'luss llolul lms liecu lew-odolrd .uicl t r-fm mslieil (hioiiKlioiit und oil cts tho belt (icifyiniiiorlnlioii to '1 nuiMunt 01 l'l-miani-iit. Gnosis.���Aiiieric.ui .iml I'jIii opoiui plan. " ,' ,FibpcsC V/issos^Lci^aors an'd Gigaa's* , B'fliiards and Pool. ctoc'*o^ao*:'c.:f*$woE^ * "Canada will take part in the , Louisiana Purchase -Exposition as a .Nation; such was the answer given-by Sir Wilfred Laurier, from liisiseat in the House of Commons., jSow is the time for Atlinites to advertise this great aud wonderful district. Samples of oie may be irniiled free to Ottawa up to four pounds in weight, heavier parcels can be sent by C. P. 11. freight addiesscd to the "Secietary, Exhibition Branch, Department oi Agriculture, Ottawa." All letters to the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa can be mailed free and it is advisable to notify the Secrelaiy should boxes be forwarded. Samples- should be accompanied by: Name, of claim, owners, locality, approximate assay values, general and statistical information. Properly attended - to by those interested in *the development of this district, the exhibit of Atliu ores and minerals should be one to be pro.ud of and we hope that the proposition will be seriously taken up,'especially by our quaitz miners. The Biitisji Arueiicau Diedging Co. mc haul at 'woik making roads and,digging a dam foi-the big dredge The plant is being hauled as fast as it comes in. , The scow built on pin pose to handle the large timbeis and heavy machinciy bicught over its fust load last Wednesday. Mi. Ii. M 'N.' Wood*. S. M.' is hack from Bull vCieclc wheie he^ has a half inteiest in Discovery; rumour sa^s the creek is rich and that Mi. Woods brought down'a few ounces of gold. ' Ou Otter Creek work progresses has been THE ' Q.ObD, "MO'U8e9 *��� - ��� ' ' DISCOVERY, B.C. ��� " - ' Comfortably Furnished Roonis--By the Day, Wook or Month.- Tlie BesOof Liquors and Cigars a'ways in 'Stock.* ��� Fine stable in con -'' ' v - ncHioii with the House. .. . __ s ' ��, AMERICAN AND - EUROPEAN PLAN. ' ' ' , .1. P. Ito&r,, MniuiKor. >v v THE WHITE' PASS ' ."ROUTE: 8c YUKON ATLIN FIRE DEPARTMENT. Suecos3ful Re-organization of One of the Ho3t Important Institutions in Atlin. Tuesday evening's meeting- was well attended and most satisfactory and resulted in a strong organization of th'c Atlin Fiie Department. The citizens voiced their appre: ciatiou of the late chief Kirkland's indefatigable attention to the Department and expressed their regict at his foiced retirement. favorably and piping going on for some time. McKee Cicek is 'doing well, a very hea\y poke of gold came iu this-ueek-fiom the 'Atlin Mining Co.; they should do well- this season. On Pine Mr. JDeeks is doing good work and will doubtless make a big clean rip. The North Columbia Mining Co. are working ou Steveirdykc and great results are likely to be realized. The Columbia Hydraulic Co. on Spruce Creek have beeu hard at work aud will soon begin a piping. ��� On Birch Creek work is being pushed and good' results are "anticipated. Prospecting, work * is actively being carried out on Ruby creek. The McKee Consolidated Co. will doubtless make a good showing this season. On Gold Run the individual miners are doing better' than ever; the ground although deep is exceptionally'rich. There is plerit}- of good ground open for the prospector on nearly all the creeks owing to the cancellation of ' over ioo leases. Miners are scarce and ' there is room lor many more at good wages, the camp never had a brighter aspect and even the "kickers" have ceased to kick. The Societe Minierc are going along in their usual way and plenty of gold in sight, the clean-up is expected to be unusually large. Tim Rayl just above the hydraulic company is still keeping up his aveiage, and all otheis on Boulder aie doing well. Mr. Whcelock has had ditch line surveyed and right away cut and is grading for flume on Glad- Passenger and rixpiess Service, Daily (except Sunday), between Skagway, Log Cabin] Bennett, Caribou, "White Horse and Intermediate points, making-close connections with our own stcameis at While Horse for Dawson and Yukon points, aud at Caiib'ou.for Atlin cveiy Tuesday and Fiida}-; Returning, lea\e Atlin e\er<3* Monday and Thursdaj-. Telegraph Sci vice 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' Rales apply to any Agent of the Comparnor to. ' '- > * ' Traffic Department, SKAGWAY". - ATLIN u & '-"C ^3, DISCOVERY. l->oV m o: Otflll S Itili. Froi as' THE LATEST STYLES. Complete Stock "of Dry Goods " THE LATEST 'IN'- HATS, BOOTS AM8 SHOES. $iSr-' GOLD SEAL ' GUM BOOTS Our Goods are the Best and Our Prices the Lowest. laaian CAPITAL PAID-UP $S, 700,000. '* Reserve, $3,000,000. , s Branches of the Bank at ..Seattle," ' s San franeiseo, Portland, �� ' Skagway, etc'. EjcG/kasnge sold on aFJ Points. Gold Dust Purchased- -Assay Office iist Connection.. D. ROSS; Manager. 1 E. ROSSELLI, Proprietor. Corner Pearl and First Streets, Atlin, B. C. *���� v FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION. tllOlCCST WINES, LlQliOUS AND CIGARS -tASf. GOODS A SPLUALTY. ra.uli& in ins: $zn> ���355 A subscription list was ther, -opened and funds were assured to I stone group on Spruce Greek artery, HYDRAULIC GIANTS, WATER GATES, ANGLE. STEEL RIFFLES & HYDRAULIC . RIVETED m PIPE. Pumping <& Hoisting Machinery. Estimates furnished on application aflcouver % jeering Vancouver, B. C. . * A. C. Hirschfeld, Agent, Atlin* B. C. -, r ^^^M^^^^^MW^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^M- F-:i,^^V^ws:i ffllSIill ri'lr���yaii'd!pleiit\||j i^^.lijP|y ll*W��f bee nTol^hteyy^yare; I^Ncar lyS|| Q^Kfjj^^ ^^|^^i|ie ii* ^eGovci^^ :^:w.^'^>:':hv;vj ?yy:-y:^:y^^^^/.t^-v: ^>^i;i^y.^Ei^y^^^ I.,J_.,,,;.,,,,f,,l|��^^ liiitiilf��^ '<';-ii!-icr:'qf~uii|aei^ yi.j;y:S;iyTli'o yi.lri ttskOol ii'rn iriiiyPy^'iX'yy%?;&&;: ff|��-|��:^ 'jMfii'ySiS^etfc ii}A^&pe,cinI.Meeting. ;'6f.it.ieiB^ iOpmni'iasioners^wil ilieyljQ i&ffit^yRoijo^Ofi ifiy^Mseovery^ r!liSl"ytr,.'r.'f.n;V.'r,r.*c;Irlo-,..f.l��i.--FAII>^iV,.i."rti rt'V'^-.l '.~ni'-X^Z.h ydj^ti^i^tieii^^ yt|gy;air|^ipnyytli^i^?20^ yeai^rlyj^ireotipu^ 'iiftnftk:oh^!ufiiife6:^ *���!.."���:.'.^:i. .^...t... y&v ."^���...-^^v*,^-.-rr--.*:...".^,--.*'.:.v.*t^i^j,i.'-:S*.-^' i..iu: lfiMS.?fe v^^ ^i �� S P ^Hi!*? C S-*4> ��flift> *i'-^Ll^AV^rg^ ���^"'^���^tyS-i*^ ^g|e?ljM?tliey^ w,yyfe:ys-;yyWwyy?2;'7-;sia-^iyy;Siy^^ :yt^-:^s.^'yK;-^ ip-^iiyw^-aii-yl^y^ ;yy;Ki^26'y^fesS'wS^ SS:W2/45:.yf;Ma^ ^-5*i^'4;';sO'v^,'.^^'??A-B;^ '" ' SS@^?��S^ ���' ^Si^S^p^wS^G^'-s^ ;SK��yyg: yy:y y. llllil||ifiiP|ii^if i��G^!lliiYCOTRl SI$^^ :yKyyy?yy;yyy*,yy,A*f'yf<i^^ ^oj'yyyytyyyyyy'syyywysyy^ ._ yyj.y. . ylleailiiiinrtors for IJrbolc's sthffe. .*;; '} iyy^yyytyyy&yy' 'y.yyyi ^ -yy: Vo-^y'y^^'y ^. ^"^-.y" ^iTf."^^'.^^ ?������ yf|WgVML ;^MiSl y:::^y3yiyyy:DISCOVERY,'ByvGyy''y;y ���Finestypfyliquors.yy: Good stabling. ;;y:yyyyy yyyy.yyEp.; sands;:Proprietor;yyy J^OTICE isyljere^yygiveiiyytlmit"Sixty"days >: X. ^WP'-yf*:^**.-; * -i'^e*1-' ytoy. apply 'to's tlio' ^hV��f:: Coll"V^iP,,e*'--'��^ :fo?".���.RPr'niissiqir/ytb "pui-cliase: the foilowih^ ���lesci-ibed; tract Pflatid'.'ln:t'iio Atlin district fory5ns.4oultiii'ar:::i>tirpbsosi': XJorrinionoiiiff ������.t-nn.iiiltliil^post/plantea-'aboutydjio-mile iiprtli-enstof!Atiii. yTowniite;-thenbo: rlin- nins: casty-10 clinins;:thence south 20 chains tlieiK-c^'cst 40 clininsytlionco noVtli 20,cliains to the poliitof conimoiicenieiitycontainiiiff SO acres liioi'o pi-'less.y.'-.;!;?-?���;'-���*;' .X-y. -1 ;���;.';���; .'���'������.:-"'' .������":'':^':'..i.- ������'���'��� ��� : vy';r.:;.'yW*illiam McNeni Dnted at Atlin, R. C., this 22inl:aay:of Jurie '. -???���:������'���'..���,v>:y-;,-:.;: :yyyo;yy'.y.:-'vy'jnoy27coayf: liiiipli��Wsilii^iiap ;S;|^a||pck||s|>||p yswteV' ..^^-v:;ri.V'*u:y:vwj??,:J ,^-^-v';-'^i'-5t-^'��/<,---*J'-.\'5 xBAXHSxyyyyyx^^ joy;;BAEB^R;:sH6p;;:'.y; ���: ������'���:-; ^s^&^j?-^^ ' ��� V y 'Now bcetniy tliolrynewyqiiiirters iiexi y ���ft to tlipUaiik of B.N.A.VRirat Street. ', y Tho bath rooms dye.bciliallj-^^ Ksffooil ns foiincl 'in cities, y Privii'to Enti-anou for ladies/ .V ���"'���;;���'.. jVJOTIOl! is hereby ffiven tliat rift'or-00 days .;--,,.��� yfrom date,:.ywo intend.!:.to^applyyyto'tlib Chipfy- Cpmniissipiipr of' tnnUs nnilyiyyWorks for.pprinissioii' to ; Piirehuso'onettiuartor of P"y aero of; land fora ��to|for yii* power plat*t hi tlio:AtIin .nisirleti'situn ted lis follows :' '~X V Cotimienciriffyiityn post *ranrkedyvThe Uritisir.Colii'iiihiu Power:&VManiifacturinir r-��.' r -..l ...'��� e -D ...' "_.���'���" ii- �����'-'*���- i ���. t - i. ��� . .t* llllil|j||l'l| Commeiiciii^ iMbrrday^pnlyyioth^ -rn^y^ j y. y:Goods and yiiit,end;to dispose of them at;Cost: 'x'y ,*-Tli'is'*is:^ :Hritisi.;Coiiii,iWaippwor: aVManufactui-iiSl^^S^^^ '^V^.3M^-[ S" Goodsimust be disposed of.by;.,-rui*> x^xxyy:y ^������-^^���'sS-E^co-^o'NVy Planted atya^palntj; :onJJiscoyei:y.streetV:in-*ho'yT^^^ yxyy.y.y'x:y.,x:Arx-x'.xXysxyy.������-x--- .;���������'���'���.''������:-��� ',-������-��� ���'.������"������:'.���"������.' -fx:- ';���;������������ ���*'��� '^���'���xxyy.-y.���xyxr.^yxyxy.. yy;.Jtu.^x;jQpi��m )Mi uzicjm. y'y.yx-ti: ���iMM. s ;::���''������':-���'/. Wm ���miuiiHuuami��� ..^���.^Vt���*r.':^*-^rt^.fr*.-..��^^ He Kept a Diary. The advantage of keeping a diary was evidenced at the Clei ken well Ses'slons of tho County of London rcently. An omnibus conductor, William Henry Grim- shaw, by producing- a diary in which he had made notes of the movements of Frederick Davis, a pickpocket, was instiu- mental in procuring Davis' conviction. On the morning of March 16 a Mrs. Osborne was riding in an omnibus along High Hol- born. Soon after she ontered Davis got in and sat closo to her. The conductor "kept him under obseivation, and saw him put his hand Into the piosecutrix's pocket and icmove-tho contents, ono article at a time. These, consisting of spectacles and some letteis, ho deposited on tiie seat. "Grimsliaw sUed lilm-and handed him over to a police constable. The conductor caused gieat amusement, when, on being called into the box, ho -*ild thatithe prisonor nnd anothor man had travelled many times on his 'bus, and complaints always followed their patronage In February they "como It so thick"���(laughter)���that iio determined to keep a record of their ���visits to his vehicle. As a result he compiled a diary with tho following entries:��� "February 5���Got on Tottenham Court road, and left at'Chancery bane. Followed an old lady, but -she did him by slt- ' ting up in the cprner, so that hor pocket could not bo reached. ' February G���Came on Cheanslde. Saw there was no chance, as-the ladies held thoir purses In their hands, and dodged out without paying his fare. (Laughter). Febiuarv 9���Chancery Lane to Royal Music Hall. As he commenced operations .���tho lady said. "Stop: I want to got out," -and he was done (Laughter). March 5���Rode from Bank lo Cheapside. - The"lady ,got out before he could set to twoi'k, so he was foiled again. > , March -16���Cauuht red-handed. ' , Davis (cross-examining the conductor): JYou say I travelled often In your 'bus? The Conductor: You did before I "rum- 'lblc*d" you. (Laughter). _/ Davis: Why didn't you charge me? The' Conductor: It dot-s not lie in my -power. Tho company won't allow me to prosecute unless I take it on my own responsibility. They receive hundieds of letters from lady passencers -saying tlr*y have left their nurses in the 'bus. and the conductors get the.blame for taking them AH the time It's these thieves that get "the purses. . The Judge commeni.<*d the conductor, , and said that It was for the oorai-uiy to * reward him. Davis was sentenced to 21 ������months' hard labor. *' f , Premiums to Workmen. 'A most interesting address on��the working of the premium system' which has -been introduced in the payment of wages >in various engineering establishments ,-was recently deliveied at the Institution ��� of Mechanical .Engineers by Sir. James .Rowan, a 'member of the eminent Glas-��� gow iirm of Rowan & Co., mi^nne engineers, says The London Commeicial intelligence. By the prehilum wages system each man is paid a regular hourly Tate of wages. When a job is given out a certain time is allowed tor it. >lf the Job is completed in less time than that allowed the workman becomes 'entitled *to a. *remium, varying in amount with the tJfce saved. If the job takes longer 'than the time allowed, the workman gets paid his regular hourly rate of wages, so -that, no matter how short a time may "be allowed for a job, the hourly rate of -wages, at least, will be paid while en- ,gaged on that job. In outlining the .scope and advantages ofrthe system, Mr. Rowan laid stiess on the importance of * - careful investigation and inquiry ln-fore the scheme was adopted, as assiduous attention and steady perseverance were, , lie said, necessary'to success. Experience 'In Messrs. Rowan's works had shown that'as the workman gained confidence that his 'time allowance would not be ���reduced, no matter how short a time he took to -a Ijob, he gradually reduced his 'time. The premium system was started In the' works in February, 1898, and since its introduction the times taken by all ���the machine men had, on an average. hoen reduced during the four succeeding years by 20, 23. 31 and 37 per cent, respectively. The earnings of the men had consequently Increased by these percentages. The firm had given every assistance in accomplishing this reduction or vtime by general improvements in many -directions. Mr. Rowan said he had con- Serred at various times with many of the men, and they frankly admitted that they were thoroughly satisfied with the premium system, and would not care to go back to the old time system. As a matter of fact, there were now fewer changes amongst tho workmen than be- , jfore the premium system was started. Li Hampered by Lack of Time. The suburbanite was hurrying to his * train, when a rough-looking man who -was lounging in'front of a saloon thrust out his foot and tripped him, -says a New York Exchange. Quickly gathering himself up, the suburbanite grabbed him by the collar and .resumed his run, dragging the fellow .along. . , ,. , "I haven t time to stop and polish you' off as it ought to be done," he said, administering a stilt punch on the * other's nose with his disengaged fist, without losing a step, "but I think - <biff) I'can make it interesting for you (biff) just the same���here, now, don t ���try to hang back (biff) you lazy hound! ���C��ne along (biff) with you I You re <fiS��ying the procession. Some day (biff) when rI have a little more time <biff) I'll finish the job, but this (biff) will do for a beginning." _ . , With a final punch on the jaw, given .with as much force as could be expected from a man making a running fight and "obliged to do all the fighting, he released the half-dazed fellow, and continued on his way, boarding his train just in time, somewhat blown, but otherwise not particularly ruined. The Change Too Much. "He was a wealthy city man. He had aust got down to his country home ��*hen he was seized with strange symp- ,toms, and he at once telegraphed to his city physician. The man of medicines hurriedly obeyed the summons, and, after a half-hour's investigation, "It is the sudden and "awful change. "You miss the thumping and the banging of the roads; you hear no factory whistles; you get no smell of. factory smoke; no milk waggons pound along at 3 o'clock in the morning; there are vo gangs of boys playing football in ftont of your house; the shouts and shrieks and screams of street peddlers no longer reach your ears. "You go to bed to sleep, and your sleep is not broken by a piano across the road, a dance next door or a row between loafers at your gate. .There .are no coal bi/ls or gas bills during the day-���no cans Irom grocers, butchers and bakers. You have lost the sound of tramcars and fire engines, and there are no German bands or haijd org-ans. It is too good a thing, it is too se>ft and gentle and peaceful. "I will send you an anvil with four ���men to pound on it, six tin horns with boys to toot 'em, a barrel of fireworks with three nippers to explode them, and if you provide yourself with a brass drum, a fog horn and a fiddle this lonesome feeling will gradually disappear, and' you will, find the country air doing you a heap of good.����� London Tit-Bits. NOVEL FIRE nSHTlNG -n��mea Exilnj-nl-liod With BaM OKI Win* **,.*"/ '**��� Calltovula. ._��,_"* 'A great fire woe put out with, wine in Southern California recently. It?hap- pened that the water had given out, but there was plenty of the fluid usually held in higher esteem. Strange to Bay, the wine proved a very effective- fire extinguisher. l This Incident is described and illustrated in an interesting article In tht" Scientific American. The fire recently occurred near tho town of "Wrights, in the Santa Onus mountains, south' of San t Francisco. Here the fire was started, as in many other instances; by an irresponsible rancher who -was burning brush. The wind sprang up suddenly, swept tho flames into the forest, and In a very 6hort time a fierce' wall of flame waa rushing up the west elopes of tho Coast Range, carrying destruction before it. The mountains here were covered w-lth a fine growth of old oaks, mazaults and .mandrones���-landmarks In the country���which fell like straw before the-destroyer. -The walla of flame swept to the summit and descended into the canyons, following these rivers of verdure in and out, rushing on in an ever-increasing vol' ume. In the'pathway of the Are were tho ranoh and Mare Vista -winery of E. H. Meyer; one of the largest wine-making establishment�� and vineyards in Santa Clara county. To protect it and the homes in the vicinity /the people of tha surrounding country assembled en masse,' organized themselves into an efficient body of fire fighters, and began a campaign in which striking acta of.valor were performed. It was impossible ,to stay the flames, and as they went rushing down the canyon toward the -winery, destruction of the valuable property seemed inevitable. "Trees in advance were cut down, ditches ot earth dug, and every expedient known to fire fighting of today was tried; but so fierce were the flames that they seemed to leap hundreds of feet' into the air, bounding in lurid sheets over the breaks, and in an incredibly short time swept down to the winery, and Burrounded it Under ordinary circumstances it would have seemed impossible to save the building, but tha "band of workers rallied under the intelligent lead of the Meyers, and men were posted on the roof who poured streams of water upon every portion. Young Mr., Meyer was held by ropes from a window while he used the hose upon the flames wthich were licking up the timbers at the base of the building, the heat being so intense that a stream had to.be played upon his body.. It was believed that the winery could be saved, -when, without warning, the water gave out. Some largo trees, which were dropping in every direction, had fallen upon the supply pipes, crushing them In and clogging the reservoir. This was an unexpected catastrophe,^ but the. resources of tho fire lighters were by no means exhausted, though a desperate expedient waa resorted to. The owner of the winery gave the order to attach the hose to the great vara of Zinfandel wine, which wera etored in the cellar, and man the wine pumps. This was promptly done. Four thousand, gallons of this win�� waa thrown upon the flames in this way before "the building was safe, probably one of the most remarkabla and successful methods of fighting fir* known. The method was somewhat expensive, aa the wine retailed at 50 cents per quart when bottled, anfl $8,000 in -wine was used, yet it saved buildings and machinery worth many thousand dollars, and demonstrated that a winery has a protective against fire in its vats if the owner has the -jourage to use it. A Progressive Conundrum. * They were asking conundrums in the commercial room the other evening when a previously silent young man put in hia spoke. "I've got one," he said. ' "What is it?" asked the crowd. "Why is 'heaven like a baby?" They wrestled with it for ten minutes and gave it up. "Because heaven is home, home la where tho heart is, where the heart is 1b the chest, a chest is a box, a box is a small tree, a small tree ia'a bush, a bush is a growing plant, a growing plant ia ft beautiful thing, a beautiful thing is the primrose, the primrose is a pronounced yeller, and a pronounced yeller is a ���baby." After which he once more relapsed Into allnnnn. ,���' The Development of American Opera. -* - - In advocating the encouragement ol American operatic composers, writes Joseph , Sohn, 'in "Forum," I do not by any means wish to.'imply that subjects taken from American life are to be chosen, or that a new style, essenti- yally. American, is to be evolved. As before stated, the development of art does not lie in the direction of ..nationalism. Even in Russia, where it is the logical policy of the Government, to promote a i distinctively national art which shall ! draw its material from Muscovite his- ! tory, and where, for several other rea- 60ns also, such encouragement finds a I certain justification, the composers are , by no means confining 'themselves, to these subjects���as demonstrated, foi example, by Napravnik in his successful opera, "Francest-a da Rimini." The chief fact to be borne in mind is that nativi compos"-s have an opportunity to oh' tain a [i iaring for their works; and with tSi,. establishment of a peinianeiit*' well-oi-gcnized operatic company in New York, ^Afinerican musicians, also may bo i come mi -e liopeful. It may well be I her I that. "Vvagnci's prophecy lo the efTc-cl ' that his successor would come fiom Am erica will be fulfilled, and that we shal , some day have a pioduct not inernlj i cosmopolitan, but universal, and funda , mentally human in the Wagneiinn sense Those who are either forever "looking backward," or merely contemplating ari in the light 'of present political and so cial conditions, confidently declare thai the Anglo-Saxon race is incapable ol producing a musical genius of the fusl order���a statement1 frequently neceptec 1 as self-evident, although it is but a mis chievqus half truth. The1 fuel, is thai the signification of the teun "musical' has undergone considerable modification' The relation between music and poetij has during the last tlnee generation! become closer and- closer. Even in tin so-called "romanticists,".Schumann, Clio pin and Mendelssohn, the poetic elemen is far more pronounced than is general ly supposed. ��� In the "Drama of the Fn ture," finally, we have^a complete unioi of the arts. True, in Wagner the eroo tional or musical element was the pri mal impulse; but it by no means followi that those capable of infusing new lifi into the fabric .created by him shall bi similarly constituted. On the othei -band, it should not be forgotten !tha- the term "American" is 'very broad ii its application. It does not include tin Anglo-Saxon alone, 'but; several million of the descendants of those nations whi, contributed to the development of musi- when {fiat art existed purely and- sim ply foer its own sake. , There is conse quentfe" no reason whatever why wt ' should I, lot be rich in artistic materia .capable of development. .The troubleji I that ttlis development has been wrong, .and no influence more potent to'effeo i a revolution in this regard can be sug 'gestedthan van'_operatic stage ^upoi^ which "masterpieces may be; adequately performed so that their - essential dra imatic content may be fully grasped I not only by the public at large, but bi ,'the ambitious student desirous of ob taining light. Why should we not maki ��� a beginning in this city ?'. ������^������ " ��� The History of the Canary. ' ��*���-. i ��� About three hundred and fifty yean .ago a ship returning from the islands ir I the Atlantic which people then called I the "Fortunate Isles," but which wen I undoubtedly the Canaries, went oshoft I on the coast of Italy, near Leghorn. I A cage of beautiful birds captured ii f1 those islands was broken and the bird- were liberated. Through some scapric. they did not - take refuge on-' the main Hand, but went to the island of Elba i where in due time they nested and bred ,and increased in numbers. ' The Italians' discovered that they wen (admirable singers, and began to capture ,'them and sell them in cages. - This gav. .rise to a traffic which soon completely 'cleared the island of Elba of "canarj birds," so that not one was left there ii a wild state.' From that time the history of the can ary has been a record of perpetual imprisonment and transformation of his ap pearance and character. In their natural state, as they still es* ist in the Canary and Madeira and othei Atlant !o islands, the birds are of a gray* ish g8 en or greenish brown color, and are n�� ; remarkable for beauty, but they "have! ien known to buTst the membrast ef tbXJhr .throats -in .pouring forth theli aong. An Enterprising Rural Editor. ���The editor of a rural newspaper wat in Philadelphia during the week follow* ing the'shooting of President McKinley and noted with surprise the promptness of the newspapers to bulletin-board the hourly reports of the President's condition. He determined to adopt the idea on all important events when he Should return home. Soon afterward he waa told one morning by the local physician that Deacon Jones was seriously ilL The deacon was a person of' some distinction in the community, so the editoi posted a series of bulletins as follows: "10 a.m.���Deacon Jones no better. "11 ft.m.���Deacon Jones has relapse. "iaAH> P-���.���Deacon Jones weaker, Pulse railing. "1 ffzm.���Deacon Jones has slight rally. "2.i�� p.m.���Deacon Jones's family has been summoned. "3.10 p.m.���Deacon Jones has died and gone to heaven." Later in the afternoon a traveling salesman happened by, stopped to read the bulletins, and, going to the 'bulletin* boaid, made another report concerning the deceased. It was: "4.10 p.m.���Great excitement in heaven! Deacon Jones has not yet arrived.^ Interesting- Items. '* * ' ' - ' A Detroit publishing firm is to issue "The Smiths," a monthly magazine for people named Smith. This is something new in the line 'of magazine. It opens a new and promising field. Of course the Browns must have their periodical. Likewise must the tribes of Jones, Williams, White,' Johnson and many others. Joseph H. Perkins of, Syracuse, N.Y., will soon publish a work containing the biographies of nearly 60,000 centenarians. If he can show any means of living so as to reach the 100-year mark, his book' ought to -have a wide circulation. Mr. Perkins will produce statistics to'show that there are'4,000 people now living'in the United States who are 100'years old' it more. 1 , i France has a special association for discovering a remedy for seasickness. In; September, 1001, it held an exhibition at' Ustend. The investigations .have since been continued, partly with the aid-of a Bteamer lent by the Belgian Government: The results are now made public in a book written by Dr. Madeuf of Paris. It contains various rules ��s to diet, clothing, etc., but points out no sure remedy.1 ; No freight except livestock and perishable goods is to be moved on Sun'day, according to the new mle of the Chicago and Northwestern Raihoad.' An exception, in favor of coal is made during the continuation of'the shortage; but aside from - that, thousands of railroad men, will -have their' Sundays at home for tlio first time since they entered tho service. ,It ,is worth noting that the management of the road expresses the belief that the rest will enable the men to move n-jimich freight In six days as they have been moving in seven. * ��� ' , Notwithstanding'all denials from ho- tel'mi lagers on the Continent,*rcgauling complaints iniule by tourists of systonia-\ tic signaling by means of -marks on luggage passed -between servants from hotel to hotel as to tho value of tips, the charge holds good, for a Nice correspondent writes to Ilenry Lahouchere of London "Truth" that he finds upon enquir- iesthat there is no doubt such a "system is in existence. But a method more favored than that of affixing luggage; labels in positions, the significance of' which is understood by servants in hotels all along the Riviera, is to convey the same information by means of chalk- marks. "The moral of which is," says Labouchere, "that if you have not been over-generous to the servants, wipe off the chalk-marks,you may see on your luggage after leaving any hotel." IW Tells of the Great Work Done ��� by Dodd's-Kidney Pills, A High-Priced Dinner. The _ Paris newspapers have .lately printed the account of a strange lawsuit which the "Green Bag" of Boston' translates.* for its readers. The complainant; in thetease testified that he was dining on the terrace in front" of a restaurant, enjoying the air as well as the food. He 'had-just-begun "to eat his soup, which he found ^ too* hot for his palate. While waiting for the soup to cool, he took from his pocket a roll of bills which he had received in payment of a bill. In counting the money he accidentally dropped a hundred-franc bank-note into his soup. He took it out of his plate with a fork, and sent the soUp away. The bank-note was saturated with the greasy liquid, and he laid it down on the tablecloth to dry. He was partaking of the second course, when a sudden gust of wind blew the note i the table. He ran after it, but a doj,, which, although it wore a collar, and therefore in all probability had a home, yet showed every sign of hunger, seized it. v The taste of the soup on the paper made it palatable, and the dog swallowed the note in an instant. The complainant used all. his persuasive power in an effort to get the dog to comr near him. "Good doggy I Come here!" he coaxed. ' The animal, pleased with the taste of the soup, was finally toled near enough for the complainant to reaJd the name engraved <m the collar. When he had made a note of the name and address of the owner of the dog, he dismissed him with a Scotch blessing. Then he sought his lawyer, and brought ���nit against the owner of the dog for the restitu m of the hundred francs. The court decided that the owner of the dog must pay, holding that since the dog was property, the owner must be held responsible for any act committed by the animal Lives of fishermen remind us We may strive for prizes grand, ��.nd, departing, leave behind us , Tales of fish we failed to land. ��� '**" ���Washington Pot* ' Aa Imaginative Accompaniment Massenet, the French composer, has the intuition of genius.' He can interpret to others what he does not himself fully understand. One evening Mrs. Fanny Reed, the singer, was reading aloud to a friend Mrs. Greenough's beautiful poem, "Mary Magdalene." , Both the women were so absorbed that they did not notice the presence of a third person until suddenly the sound of soft music stole through the room. Someone was at the piano, accompanying the reader's voice in a manner harmonizing with the rhythm and spirit of the poetry. It was the music of Massenet's oratorio. The player was Massenet himself, who had entered unannounced, and caught the idea of the words where tha Magdalene, seeking her Lord by night* Duds herself beneath the windows of the room where the disciples are gathered for the Last Supper. When the reading was over, Massenet rose from the piano and came {orward. He had no knowledge of English} yet had he understood every word he could not have accompanied the poem mos* exquisitely. "How did you know what I was reo4-j ing?" asked Mrs. Reed. Y<How could I fail to know?" he a*- ���wered. - I Doubtless he had caught the one wor4 "Magdalene." and intuition had supplied the rest. Thos. L. Hubbstells how his Kidney Strain Vanished when he used the great Kidney Remedy Kenlis,*N.W.T., May 11.���(Special)- " ���In this new country- where' medical attendance is often hard to get the , action of special preparations is care-, fully watched and the results as carefully noted.- Consequently, conclu- sions are-arrived at that are of value to the public. And the almost unanimous conclusion is that' as a family medicine'there is nothing to compare with Dodd's Kidney Pills. As, a tonic it has made a name for - itself, while its cures of all stages oi Kidney Disease from Bright'-- Disease to Backache '< might be. considered ' miraculous if their fiequcucy did not make them almost common. The' following story told--by Thos-.,, L. Hubbs, a farmer in Indian Head municipality, is one of the many that have, given Dodd's Kidney Pills their reputation. ���> ��� ' "About one year ago,"( says Mr. Hubbs, "I was thrown Vrom a wag7 gon,'causing some'strarn on my Kidneys, I tried several medicines but could.get no relief will I was induced lo try Dodd's Kidney Pills. "Dodd's Kidney Pills relieved me almost from Ihe start and by the- time I had finished one box my pains - were gone. They have not come back ' either." Brutalities in the Congo*, Mr. Frank H. Vlzetelly of New Yoi�� writes to The Globe In part as follow* t��� The Congo Basin, once a fruitful antl^ well-appointed roglon, has, under the a��> minUtfation of the Congo Free State*, been-, converted into a vast field j>i blood. Under Its "beneficent" Influence the land haa been devastated' and tha people subjected to atrocities without pa**�� allel even in the bloody annals of tha "Terrible" TurK. "The fiendish cruelty towards the natives w.hich has at- tlmea been exercised by some of those employed by the Congo State," says Sir Charlea, Dllke, "is ^not now denied even- by tha administrators of the State' itself, and hasbeen officially recognized by the Brit-' lsh' Government." He continues : "Our ^ responsibility Is such that if, knowing' what we do, we fail to denounce the crime, we become participators in it.' Such are the words of a British statesman on the conditions that Captain Guy Burrows, late in the Congo State service, , aimed ta expose In his recently suppressed book, "The Curse of Central Africa." Just as Wilberforce and Garrison went to the help of the enslaved negro, DUko has ehampibneU the cause of tha Congolese natives in, Parliament and' on. the platform, , hoping to awaken In tha English-speaking people a more than passive Interest in the fate of millions of black men whom they have left to tha tender mercies and civilization of the Belgians, and to whom they, in common with the peoples of other lands, send missionaries to preachvtho brotherhood) ol man and the Gospel and doctrines ot Jesus Christ. That, outside of the' platform and the floor of the House of Commons, the agitation has received only indifferent support is due probably to the tactics that ���have J been, adopted towara Capt. Burrows' book, which, througn threats of libel, has been withdrawn from publication. ' , There are, he says, other books, however, and he continues :���"The truth ot the incidents, on record is vouched' tot by persons who have let ttie ray3 of ligM shine on the foul darkness of Congolese civilization. Since the days of Baker, who exposed the atrocities perpetrated by the Egyptians when on ruga-ruga for Ivory or slaves, through the days when Henry Stanley condemned the devilish deeds tha* had devastated tho land, much has been published calling attention to the awful condition of that modern Aceldama���tha Congo Free State. Therefore, the story of the brutality which Capt. Burrows haa tried to tell is new only for its abomln- i able horrors. Mr. Vlzetelly "relates incidents of war on women; of- flogging young girls witn "chicottes," or whips of raw hippopotamus hide, until their flesh hangs in strips on their bones; the smearing of their wounds with honoy, and the heartless manner In which they are afterwards oae- posed to the terrible tropical heat and left to be tortured by myriads of flies, and the crucifying of women and children on village palisades. He quotes from tho 'reports of Americans and missionaries or other nationalities In'regard to these and other charges, and concludes :���The Congo State has created a poisonous growtn of spurious civilization, which contaminates and threatens Incalculable harm to its neighbors. It has created a condition which, unless redressed, will provii Its Nemesis, and the signatories of tho great powers who participated in tha congress that placed the Congo Basm In the hands of the Belgian Government aro eaually culpable with them, and if they fail to compel King I eop.old and his Government to redress the wroncs, the existence of which has already been admitted, they must accept as ugly a legacy as has ever beon Inherited throughout the history of the civilized world. How Shaving impressed Him. George C. Thomas, the head of tha banking house of Drexel & Co., is fond ot children. He conducts a Sunday school in Philadelphia that has eighteen hundred, pupils, and he gets his teacher to collcctt and repeat to him all the odd child sayings -that -they come upon. A recent addition to Mr. Thomas's col* lection was the remark of a. little boy who saw for the first timo in hia life a. man shaving. "Why," said the boy to the ' nian- "Why do you wash your faco witlh a little broom, and then wipe it dry with a knife?" The Snakes - of Arizona. - J ' The Smithsonian Institution authorities say that more varieties of poisonous fcoakesare found in Arizona than in any (other part of the United States. The best authority on Arizona snakes is believed to be Graham Peck, who has been studying them for years. „ "No other region in'the United States is so much of'a natural breeding-ground for the rattlesnake as is Southern Arizona," 'says Mr.' Peck. "The rocks of the mountains and foothills are of a heavy yellow and gray color and the soil is so like the hues of a rattler that a snake can move slowly along and hardly be perceived by a person fifty c feet away. The hot, dry air and the warm, Bandy earth and the immense- quantity of small birds and ground squirrels in the mountain canyons and brush all combine to make life for rattlesnakes in this * region one of rare ease and comfort. There are literally tens of thousands of ' rattlers in the sage biusli and chaparral along the edge of Southern Arizona wastes. They glow to enormous size, and it is common to read of the capture of, rattlesnakes five and six feet long, with fourteen and fifteen rattles. "Hog-noao snakes are quite plentiful In the mountainous parts of 'Arizona. After all the talk about serpents hissing, j this is the'only specimen of the ophidian family Which I have ever heard utter a ■ aound. " > i , "Many writers on reptiles in America r say that thunder snakes aie common in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. They ' are really uncommon in the territories. They are a prairie reptile and ore often encountered by pTairio travelers, especially before and after thunderstorms. Flashes of lightning and claps" of thunder, which are terrifying to bipeds and quadrupeds, seem to have a charm for -these members of the ophidian family. 'Whenever a thunderstorm comes up these i anakes come crawling out of holes, from behind rocks and rotten stumps and enjoy the fun while it lasts - "The coach-whip is remarkable for its tremendous 'length and surprising speed. It is cream or clay -colored, very much like the hard-baked prairie over which it glides, is very long and its scales are arranged in such a manner that they 1 alosely resemble the plaited leather of a whip. Not endowed with poison, it haa tremendous power of constriction. It forms its body into coils which are capable of crushing sheep, dogs-and coyotes. When I was -in Lower California in 1890 I was told by a Mexican peon that he had a ten-year-old 'boy squeezed to death by a coach-whip a few years before. The man said that on another occasion his wife'was attacked by a coach-whip which threw its coils about her quicker than 1 sho could see. She,was too frightened ' to do more than'scream and fall-to the ground', when her daughter came running up and quickly leleased , her by merely unwrapping *ihe, snake's tail. Strange as this may seem, it is a very easy way to release a victim in the coach-whip snake's grasp, for while the reptile's constricting powers aie abnormal, a child may unwiap the coils bya beginning at the tail." * "Do you believe that snakes have the power to charm animals?" "Yes, there is a ceitain power to fas- ' cinate in a snake's eyes and movements. I saw only the other 'day a typical illus- *, tration of the power of a snake to fascinate. Over in,the pine woods I saw a .ground squirrel fascinated by a black gopher snake. The forked tongue darted out of the snake's mouth almost as regularly and rapidly as the needle of a sewing machine rises and falls. The squirrel seemed to watch it spellbound. Tha snake crept slowly nearer. When the gopher snake was within two or three inches from the squirrel it gave a leap and threw three coils about the squirrel. Instantly the spell waa gone. The fascination or charm there had bee* over the little animal iwas no doubt broken the very moment the serpent's coils •were about the squirrel, for the animal gave three convulsive, terrified chirps and .realized that its death moment had come. "I believe implicitly that all snakes iave a certain degree of power to fascinate their victims to death. Black snakes, gapher snakes and racers have the power tea-large degree. Rattlesnakes ihave the most fascinating power among all, the -poisonous serpents in the 'south-west. ffihe indications of charming among poisonous snakes are deceiving sometimes. Poisonous snakes fang their prey once only. The poison does not kill at once. Tho victim flutters to a branch, it may be, or runs a short distance and stops.' The snake watches it. The poison does its deadly work, and the bird falls. Anyone who eomes up, not having seen the Attack, might be readily deceived into Imagining that it was tin- glance of the onake and not the poison that caused the victim to falL" It Was All Right "I have a great idea." As he spoke it was more than evident ■Jhat the young playwright, whose name even now was a household word in two continents, was, more than ever before in bis career, carried away by the tide of a true inspiration. "Can it be possible," said the manager, "that your play has already matured 1 Why, when we parted company last evening you could think of nothing, and now -" "Now," burst forth the enthusiastic artist, "it is finished—it is complete 1 Listen while I tell you." The face of the manager showed «* trace of disappointment. He movod -uneasily in his seat. "Don't be too sure," ho muttered. "Your enthusiasm may have mislsd you. But go on." "Listen, then. The plot T Bah I It ia nothing. I stole it from the French. And then I fixed it up to suit myself. Pirst, then, we have an opening chorus. The girls will come out in some brand- new color sehem'e which your designer can put his mind, on immediately. Then- some vaudeville specialties will be in»' 4roducedi The scene, will_ be.laid—wet^ Say ou liioudtvuy an numngut, or ' ou some uninhabited island—that' < doesn't matter. And here's a new topical song, entitled 'But I cannot swallow that!' "In the last act Chippie Bandoline, the star, is just saved fiom—oh, well, some one, and every girl in the chorus appears in pea-gieen tights." The manager grasped the great man by the hand. ' '""Grand I" he cried. "Simply grand I Do you know, "when you fir.*>t spoke I waa afiaid you 0weie goin^ lo tnopose something entiiely too good for the public." —<i£jjn.-- _ . _ s . l "' Mainly About People. An Episcopal clergyman of Cincinnati was being shaved by a barber who was iddicted to occasional spices. The razor manipulator cut he parson's face quite Donsiderahly. "You see, Jackson, that tomes from 'taking too much drink," laid the man of God. "Yes, sah," .replied Jackson; "it makes de skin very Wdah, sah. It do for a fack." A certain* parson of the old school, who had preached a sermon of th,- finest, old-fashioned flavor, after deploring the new-fangled doctrines of some of his younger brethren—especially the ideas of tho heaven and, other historic places ivluch they inculcated in their discourses —wound up his own discourse by saying: "As for me, bieUiren, the hell of oui fathers is good enough for mc." ; At <i'biiliquet of the American Irish 'Historical Society in New Yuik not loner ago the ehaiiiiinii told a -»loiy iipiopo*. of the customs officials of the port ol New York. ""-When he was (liming down 'the gangplank on his i etui m fiom Europe -he had a hnndkei chief o\i>i Ins rye An' Irish customs ofllcei asked: "Wh\ have you your ' eye under covert" "There's a bit of coal in it." "Ah, bring Ing in coall You'll have to pay duty^on that!" A Scotch laird had an Englishman as- his guest during the fishing season. ,,Thc Englishman was a novice at thd sport. One day he hooked a fine salmon, and iv his excitement'slipped and fell into the river. The keeper, seeing that he < was, no swimmer, hooked him with the gafl and started to drag him ashore. Thi laird called out:7-"What-are ye aboot Donal'J Get haud o' the lod and look tae the fush.' Ma hiend can bide a wee0 but the fush winna." , An aspiring Southern politician used to 'quote grandiloquently the familial saying, "The office should seek the man not the man the office." On one occa nion he was observed electioneering foi himself in the old-fashioned style, with whiskey, cigars, etc. Being reminded of his recent lofty utterances, he answeied "I still maintain my position. The office should seek the man; but, by.g.vdksah the man should be around when the* of fice is looking foi him." • , ' A wind is a wind.'from whatever quai- ter it may blow. So thought the hotel- keeper* in the Scottish Highlands, of whom a tourist asked: "Is this a good place, do you think, for a pei son with „weak lungs?" "Nane better, sir, nane better," was the encouiaging reply. "1 have been advised to settle in a place where there is a. south wind.- Does it blow much here?" "Oh, aye," was the answer. "It's aye the south wind that blaws here." "But it's Wowing from the north nowl" "Oh, aye, sir, it's a* one. It's the south wind a* the same, sir, on its road back agin." Students of Edinburgh University who oould not spell fell oa evil days*when Professor Traill, editor of a former .edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britanniea," was an examiner. According to Professor Knight's "Recollections," Professor Traill one day objected to a candidate for graduation, who was a native of Oey m?kon,thc S""111*! of false spelling. Why, he actually spelled exceed with °ueJK} .sa,d he- "Well," instantly replied Professor Henderson, who filled the chair of pathology invthe university, you should remember that he comes from the land of the SingaJ-eae." ' The latest story relative to the methods of President James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railroad cornea from a Western city in which his line has car yards and many side-tracks. A prominent citizen of the place desired to have a subway built to his properly- Its construction involved tunneling under th« tracks of the Great Northern. It seem* that he had experienced some delay in getting the corporation's consent, and so when President Hill passed tb-ough the city recently the citizen bearded the magnate in this car. "I want this subway bad," Mr. Hill's visitor explained. "I have petitioned your company, but without getting satisfaction. So I have oome to you for advice." Tlie railway builder smiled. "I have found," he said, "that the best plan in such cases is to go ahead and get permission afterward." The subway is now in course of construction, and no protest has been filed by the Great Nortfliern. Joseph Jefferson, the veteran actor, once struck a progressive Western town, where he was to give a two nights' performance of "Kip Van Winkle." After the performance on the first night, Jefferson went back to his hotel, and there he found waiting the most prominent merchant of the town, a wholesale manufacturer of bedsprings. After a few preliminary expressions of his approval of the performance, the merchant declared that he was prepared to furnish bed- aprings to Jefferson's entire family free of charge, provided the actor would'make one little change iu the 1 ies of his role. His proposition foi the change was extremely simple. All he asked was that after the line where Rip exclaims "Oh, how my bones do ache," Jefferson should add, "But, ah,'not thus would they have ached hod I slept on B'a bedsprings." It was only a little change, and the merchant-was surprised and indignant when bis proposition was rejected. The Proudest Darkles. .When Rebecca Douglass Lowe was made president of the Federation of -Women's Clubs of America, writes Van iVlatoh in the -"Argonaut," the negro servants of the Lowe homestead in At-, lanta wero justly the proudest darldes on the continent. The position to which their mistress had been elevated was the highest in the gift of American wo- mankindj and "Mis' Beck" was "suttenly IT as she was bawn to." L On the death of Queen "Victoria, Mrs. Lowe cabled tlie condolences of the women of America to the Prince "of Wales, now King Edward "VII. In due time an official acknowledgment found its way back to Atlanta by post, and was delivered to Robeit, the factotum of the- Lowe household, by carrier, together with the customary bulky bundle of official and'private mail. The big seal attracted the attention of Robert, and excited his interest. Saiaili was not good enough to "tote the mail up lo Mis Beck that mawnin'; no *• ill!, itob'rt muss done do it hisself/that iiiuwniu'," and'so he did.' The mist 1 ess received the weighty correspondence with accustomed dignity and nonchalance,''and did ,not even' "start" or turn pule at the gu-at letter which hnd impiesscd llobeit ui mi!>htily. Sho began opening the "-li-l tors in the'usual nuuiMfi, not at all lo the satisfaction ol Robert, and lie took'tho hbeity accorded to old servants in the South of "inteipos- in\" , , "Mis' Beck," said 'he, " 'pears"like you had a veiy important letter in yo' mail thi3 mawnin'J" "Yes, Robert." , " 'Pears,* Mi3' Beck, as if it was from royalty ?" "Yes, Robert, it is from the King of England." Robert waited for nothing more, but hastened down to the servants' quarters to herald the great news. Mrs. Lowe thought no more about tihe matter ol the'servant's curiosity until she was out riding with her daughter,' Mrs. English, in the afternoon, and sat waiting in the carriage while her daughter did some shopping. Andrew was on the box, and took advantage of the opportunity to find out more about the royal letter than Robert had been able to tell them.' Using the before-mentioned privilege of old family servants in the Soutih, he turned to hia mistress and asked: "Mis' Beck, Robert was tellin' us this mawnin' that you had a letter from the King er England this mawnin'?" " . "Yes, Andrew; Robert spoke true." "Robert said it was a \er' impawtanrt letter, Mis' Beck." "Yes, Andrew, a very important let* ter." \ y , - This closed the enquiry for some min- Jutes, ,but the negro curiosity had not been entirely satibtied. Turning again to his mistress Andrew enquned in an un dertone suggestive' of a wheedling bid for confidence: "Mis' Beck,11 s'pose tho King of England is asl?m' us to come over and Bpend the summah with him?" Manners For Musical' , At Homes. ; Gkdys-OW eajr Edith's father won't allow Jerrold the houso. Harold—Whatl (baa ho asked for it already:—"Judge." Don't blunder about among the music stands—things admirably contiived for tripping up the unwaTy. Should you get entangled with one, however, and in such a way as to bring youi self and it crashing down into the peifoimer's -violoncello, leave all vituperative display to the owner of the instrument. $, Don't, when singing, if you are standing behind the accompanist, keep hold oi his ears all the time, and 'seek to indicate your wishes bjr tugs and jerks. It distracts his attention from the copy. J Don't, during a lullaby or plaintive ballad,' get up a fierce battle between Fido and the eat, and never seek to divert the company by firing paper pellets into the singer's mouth. > Don't, if your emotions are appealed to by some, pathetic little trifle, bellow or give way to violent grief. If you cannot stifle your sobs by Burying your face in the rug, leave the room until you have recovered self-control. '. Don't be grumpy and sit brooding in a corner all the evening because youi .hostess aoes not ask you for a 'song. Her omission may not arise from the thought that you cannot sing, but from the knowledge that you do. ' Don't, if you know a good anecdo&e, put it forth during a piano solo—the pianist may like to hear it, too. Wait patiently until peace reigns over the assembly. If your anecdote is a poor one, continue waiting. l Don't be outlandish in your musical tastes. A good plan when invited out, if you favor the accordion, pandean pipes, or double bassoon, is to leave your instrument at home. A long list, in fact, could be compiled of instruments which should nearly always be left at home. My final "don'ts" are levelled at late comers and early leavers. To the former I would say, don't, while a song is being executed, burst noisily into the room and insist then and there upon shaking hands with your hostess. In cases where she herself is the soloist, you will put her off her stroke, and even if sho has the presence of mind to sing her words of greeting, it is twenty to one if they make rhyme or reason with the context of the poem. To early leavers I would offer similar advice and say, don't -flounder away in the middle of a musical item. Where you have failed to escape before its commencement, exercise a giant control until the final chords bring release. To seek escape by the window is cowardly, save where the music-room is not on the ground floor—then it is foolhardy. —"Punch," Curious Bits of News. Magistrate—Why did you steal that bam, Uncle Rastus? Uncle Rastus—Be- kase -mah pooh fambly was starvin', yo* honner. "Family starving, eh? But they tell me you own five dogs." "Dat's er fack, yor honner; but Ah reckon yo'-al] wudn't 'spect mah fambly ter eat dem flawga."—Chicago "Daily News." On account of the thieving propensi-, tics of the "paleface" the Western Indians have abandoned their old burial custom of depositing valuables belonging to the deceased wilh the corpse. The "Breeze" of Blisa, Indian Territory, is authority for the statement that the Indians now place money ini th" bank and put the certificate of deposit in'lhe coffin ' lor the dead Indian to t.tke along to the Happy Hunting Grounds, as they have found this to be a much safer .method. Peihaps the most extensively traveled lady in the world is Mrs. Crossley of Indianapolis. She is now preparing to make her twenty-lust voyage round the world. She has ciossed the Atlantic no fewer than'seventy times, has made twelve journeys to the,, top of the Pyramids, and has visited every town of note in Em ope, Asia, Afnc* and America. All this amount of traveling, too, she has crowded into eighteen yeais, and she pos^csaps n wonderful collection of curi- oailics from e\eiy quarter of the globe. The fact that the bnth of Marconi has ,been found icgislered in Bologna has cut shoit the claim of other Italian towns to this distinction. Florence, however, has discovered that the inventor went to school theie between his sixth nnd tenlli yeais. Theie has also been disco, eied nn .iged lady, Signora Luisa CflvalUio, who taught - young Maiconi how to read, and she says that sne was ■obliged to punish him many times be- 'cause he was very naughty, and since he has become a great man her conscience has severely reproachedv her. "Fancy punishing a genius!" she exclaimed. "At the same time," she -added in, extenuation, "he was never able to learn anything by heart. That was impossible with him." Perhaps the most interesting gift to the Pope on his Pontifical jubilee was an ancient clock, in the form of a planisphere, dating from 1726.* It was constructed at Plaisance by the mathematician Barnardo Facini, who presented il to "the wife of Philip'II. of Spain. The planisphere gives the hours and the minutes, according to the Italian and Spanish'style, the length of days and nights, according to the seasons, the daily position of the sun according to the signs of the zodiac, solar and lunar eclipses, the real seasons and the seasons according to astronomy. Notwithstanding the enormous progress made in mechanics since its construction, the movement of the wheels is absolutely unknown. When once it broke down no one was found able to repair it. ' On the Sands of Life—A Fable. There were 'once two Children—a Boy and a^ Gill—playing ( together on the Sands of Life. For many days they were happy and content, but-finally the Boy grew weary of their simple games and looked longingly farther up 'the beach to a spot where both had been forbidden to go—to'a Quicksand called Passion. At first the Girl diew back, refusing to leave their old playgiound; but when the "Boy pouted and deelaied he would find a new playmate, she reluctantly took his hand and -went with him. Across this Quicksand stretched a very slender Plank, that led safelyy to the other side, and on this they" ventured. Just as they reached the middle, the Girl .became frightened,-lost her balance and fell. With one horror-stricken look, the jBoy turned and fled safely to the Other Bide. The Girl's piercing .screams brought all the other Children-who were playing along the beach. But instead of trying to help her, they stood just far enough away to be 'safe, and laughed. Some of them even threw sand at her with their little shovels, while the Boy shut his eyes that he might not see the appeal in the dear eyes he had loved, and resolutely walked away. Suddenly one Boy, bigger and braver than the rest, pushed bis way through the crowd and hastened to the middle of the frail Plank. > Stooping over the half-unconscious Girl, he bade her clasp her arms, about his neck. Then slowly and gently he drew her up beside him and Jed her carefully to firm ground, while all the other Children stopped gibing and stared. When the poor stunned Child realized that ahe was once more safe, she raised her eyes to his face with a passionate devotion that was never to fade, and a great white light enveloped them both, purifying her soiled white gown till she was once more as fair as a lily.—The Modern Aesop. ,,..11..'..,,. o_. * L...~ ,.iv.,.l o. .. ,.»--vll* -asked to disrobe, and on doing so under protest and profanity and evident confusion, a big porous plaster was discovered between his shoulders, and was ordered removed, wihen Hie iewels were found lodged behind the plaster. They corresponded exactly in number and description, to the list sent o*.cr by the1 European detectives, and, weie confiscated. Refusal to make any.declaration, however, absolved the smugglei fiom criminal pro* , secution, and he was let go. 5 5* A Smuggling Yarn. Recently the detective department of the United States customs at Boston received information from the other.Bid* that a man of certain description had sailed on one of the Cunarders for Boston; -that he had a steamer trunk and a grip of unusual construction for luggage. The trunk was reported to be innocent and ordinary, but "keep your eye*on the grip and on the man," were the special instructions. In due season the Cunarder arrived with the man and the luggage as described. Asked to declare his belongings, he refused, falling back, on the favorite excuse that he didn't know what he had that was dutiable, or the value of the things he had, and hence would not moke a sworn declaration of value; the officers were at liberty to search his boxes and make their own conclusions. The steamer trunk contained nothing dutiable; neither did the curiously constructed valise. It had a false bottom and a hollow handle, and, in addition, the brass buttons that are placed at the corners of the bottom of traveling bags to stand them on were screwed in and covered shallow holes in which jewelt might easily be placed and concealed But in these handy hiding places nothing could be found, and the officers were becoming desperate and chagrined. Finally, came the last resort in customs ex- J-.. - "Got a talking machine at home?" "Yes." "What did vou' pay for, it?" -•-NT/,+r*;-*<T -Maj-xiiid ,f>—":rit,ajo»", .' _ - .,r- , * - , Mkinly About People. ' When Lore Randolph Churchill visited the diamond fields of( South Africa, while looking at a huge parcel of diamonds he remarked: "All'for the»vanity of wo- ' man." A lady, who heard the remark, > ^ added, "And the depr_>ity of man." It is related that a prisoner, arrested,..'' for murder, bribed an Irishman on the , „ jury with one hundred'dollars to1 hang y out for a verdict of manslaughter. The ,'<• , jury weie out a long time,,and finallyi/ came in with a verdict of manslaughter.1 ;,? The man rushed up to the Irish juror,, * and said: "I'm obliged to j'ou, my friend.,'' Did you have a hard time?" "Yes,"; said / the Irishman; "an awful time. Theoth- \. er eleven wanted to acquit yer." xJ r i*,-><,,* , , So many quick retorts are ascribed toyi the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" </ ' that it sometimes seems as"if tKe> witty ;< - poet could scarcely have taken time to ,_ f, eat or sleep. The last 'reply is quoted1 ' by a man to'whom it was made'only'* few months* ! cfoie the "death" ofrDrl Holmes. The talk between the two men had fallen on the subject of * age." "You're five years imy junior,"** said ^ 'Dr. Hohnes/"but I believe I don't envy you." "I can't see.why you should," said hia friend. "You carry your years muchi-J-t,* more lightly than^'I do mine." „ "Thai's^ >' natural," said the autocrat. „ "I've had y, i five years' more practice." 7 * (t ' v ',* A< clergyman passing through ,a village ', street saw a number of'boys surround-;y ing a dog, says > the Buffalo "Courier.", 41 Thinking thatisome'cruel deed was in., * progress, the clergyman hastened toward .y the boys and asked what they were do- *f; ing. _One of the lads replied'that they/'y were1 telling lies, and the boy who" told [r *' the biggest lie would get the dog. • -The j ■ clergyman was shocked at such deprav-;'1' ity,' and began to lecture, them on,the < sin of lying, and'concluded his remarks'* by saying: "Why,1 when I ..was a little-" boy I naver told lies." ' Tlio boys 'were^ ". silent for a second, when'-one of theim"*. said sadly: "Hand him the dog." * v ,„""*,.-. An Irishman, who, much to his 'wife'sp''"- sorrow, had got/into the companys-of '< men who managed' cock-fights, 'deter-j.'1 mined to raise , some g.ime-roosterst'for <'\ himself. So he got some prize eggs and,- put them under the old hen in the back-^ "V yaid. In order to teach him a -lesson . and discourage his gi owing vice, his wife", removed the prize eggs from under the "«, unsuspecting hen, and put in their place - ' some ducks' eggs. Some weeks later the . wife heard a commotion in the wood- ^-> shed. She rushed out,'and there stood ■ Pat, watching with delight the first, ef- - - forts of a newly-hatched duck to waddle! -' "Bridget, Bridget, will ye luk at the fut" \ on him? Sure, a birrd twice his size I, couldn't thrip him!" " * -i . , , One evening last year, while Mark ',"' Twain was spending some time at his summer home, he piepared to take » drive, expecting to remain out-until late. - He therefore told his hostler that he, : need not wait for him, instructing him , when he had finished his work to look < , the stable and place the key under a > stone, the location of which Mr. Clemens described with much exactness.-. When • Mr. Clemens reached home after his drive" he was surprised to find that the key ( was not in its place. When his patience -, had been exhausted be awoke the hostler and received this explanation: "Mr. '--, Clemens, I'found a'better place." '- „ /. A real estate dealer, who had chargo of considerable real estate belonging to ..' Archbishop Ireland, says the New York "." "Times," tells this story about the distinguished divine, which illustrates the' quick wit of the gentleman in turning a "... corner when in a tight place. The real estate agent was caught short on-some investments of his own and his client'^, , and it was decided that he and the Arch- " bishop must hasten at- once to "New . York, where they had moneyed friends .' who they expected would help them out. The reverend gentleman suggested tha* ' they go the next day, which was Son- *„ day. The real, estate man was somewhfi.4 * shocked at this suggestion coming from the source it did, and said that he stevea1 traveled on the Sabbath, as it was contrary to the Scriptures. The Bishop saiw the point,- and, rubbing his hands together, replied that he, too, hod a text that! might apply: '"If thy ass fall into the ditch on the Sabbath day you must! straightway take him out,' and as there > are two asses in this case we had better bo lively." l> -. V Tourist—My friend Jenkins died here some months ago, you say. What oft Alkali Ike—Waal, I reckon ye might call it heart trouble. Tourist—Heart trouble T Alkali Ike—Yes, it was a royal flush o* hearts that he showed down against Bad Bill's four aces.—Philadelphia "Press." Girgl (in the depot)—I have drunk six glasses of beer waiting for my wife, an<$ now the train is an hour late. I'll have to order three more. Oh, dear, what an srpense a wife is!—"Ulk." Widow (tearfully)—Yes, my daughteri are now my only resources. -Friend— Take my advice and husband your re. -*i—Princeton "Tiaex-i'. Lever's Y-Z(Wise Head)Disinfectant Soam Powder is a boon to any home. It diim facts and cleans at tbe same time. -& L*k 3g&»S �� (.''''.v.* ATLTN , B. C, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1501 1 1 i *t" II rMCKED'UP HERE AND THERE. i Cliiirch "I Kngliind: St. Murtin\ Cluiiuli, .-or. Third mul Ti'ain- tii- aticiits. Sim-laj sc-viccs, M.itiiia at II n. 111., Ilv^nsuiii; 7:M.p. in. Olc-bi-.-tiou of llolv Communion, 1st Sunday In c.icli month tinil 011 Sptcinl oic-uMoii-,. Siitirl.ij- Suhool, Sunday :lt y D. in. Cloiiiinittco .Moetinys, 1st 'j'liui siluj in uauli muiilli. Ki-*. \?.li. !5t(;i>lic-iisou, Rector. 1 St. Andrew's Pifsbvlei-ian Church hold nc-niee-, in tlio Church on Second Street. MonniiK si*r\jru ntlt o\ciiin;j sei\ieo 7:30 Stiiid.o St-liool at Ou* close of tlio moriiliiir ��ei-\ici'. j.pv. 1j. TiirUiiijfloii, .Minister, l?i-co Itt-adiii-iKooni, lo wliiuli all aro woluoi'ic. Otto Ludwig and five men musTi- cd, in from the Nakinaw River wherc tkey hnd been piospccling without success 'Justarrived: A large consign-' ment of first class Groceties. , If you want an outfit try Stables and Lumsden. Harry Pi ice is at tbe Police Hospital at White Horse; it is expected that he will be out in a few days.' We shall be glad to see liini back well and cheery asheretofore. , Bicycles for rent���bicycle repairing���Pillman S�� Co. ' Mr. Charleston, late Sup. of Construction of Dominion Telegraph, now inspection officqr accompanied by Mr. Rochester, auditor and Mr. Clegg District Superintendent arrived on Wednesday's boat. Large shipment of Alarm, Mantle, Kitchen and Office Clocks just arrived at Jules Egge'rt's.' ~ ' Mrs. I. S. Stewart, of San Francisco, arrived this week, she is visiting her sister, Mrs. McDonald. McDonald's Grocery makes a specially of fresh eggs and butter. ^ I SUikcy's new hoist arrived this week and will be put on their property at once. ' / Fresh fruit and vegetables at , N. C. Wheeling & Co's. The Keystone /Driller steamed out of Atliu last Thursday. Linoleums aud Oilcloths just ar- 1 rived at N. C. Wheeling & Co.'s Mr. ' aud Mrs. Paul Eggert' and child arrived in town this week. ' , Fishing Tackle of all kinds at C. R. Bourne's.- -��� N. C. Wheeling & Co., the successors lo ' Messrs J. A. Fraser & Co. are to be found at the old stand where they carry one of the most up lo date stocks in the camp. The new firm will continue lo conduct and carry on the business as''heretofore. W. G. Paxton, Notary Public, intends being in Discovery .every evening. ��� Office at Palmer's, opposite Nugget Hall. Mrs. Rorke left Vancouver ou the 2nd for Atlin on the Princess May. Fresh Lowney's Chocolates at C. R. Bourne's. Mrs. Hirschfeld and baby are expected ou Tuesday's boat. Go to Ford's O. K. Barber Shop for a bath; 25 cents, Bring your cash to Joe Palmer's store, iu Discovery ��� Hats, shoes, shirts, etc., etc., can be had there at any price; above, below or at cost, just as you wish. Linoleums and Oilcloths, just arrived at N. C. Wheeling & Co.'s If .you Avanc good table buttei call at the iron stork. We regret to announce the death of Mr/Guy Macgowan,'eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. B. Macgowan of Vancouver.. He was well known here ,and was for some time .in charge of the general agency of the "White Pass Ry. Co. Vancouver and Seattle. B-iPi imPOBWANT NOTICE. VVV*iv*jrVV^*V**^^^ DO NOT' FORGET YOUR DUTY. ���'REGISTER YOUR VOTE' AT ONCE. '.,ATLIN BOOM. Having decided to retire from busiuc-sb, the undersigned olTcis for* sale his business establishments, at Atlin and Discovery, consisting 'of Store, Duelling Out-houses, and Stock of General Merchandise, to-, gether with Goocl-will-of Business., ' This is a rare chdnce' to procure a Good Business in '"'- Tin-; Most Prosperous Camp" in'B. C. ' Terms liberal. ' ,��*' M. Folev, Stables and Lumsden having "taken- ' ��� ' - - ' .',/' over tlie business of, Messrs. ,'T. ,Sf.' Clair- ���Blackett & Co., a're prepared to furnish'the ' ��� ' ' 1 ��� 1 - *��� Camp' with the best line'of Groceries at the lowest prices. By strict - attention' to ' ��� ' ' '.'-'.' business we hope to merit a 'share of your ' ! *l ��� " 1 patronage. ' -' ' -;,, , ' - . ' ----- VLUMS ^***��t �� -�� Clothing, Dry Goods, .Groceries,- Boots, " Shoes, Miners'- Hardware, Drugs/Etc.: - ���"_ ��� Furs hsusght at; highest 'Market Prices- NOTICE. We beg to announce that we have this day sold out * our business in Atlin to Messrs. Stables & Lumsden. While thanking our many friends and patrons^ for- past favors we would bespeak, on behalf of the ne\v firm the same 'generous consideration; they are,so well and favorably known throughout the district as to require 'no praise from us other than we are prepared to guarantee fair and' honorable dealing to all who may give them patronage. ��� ,A11 debts due.the'lirm of ( Blackett & Co. will be collected by Mr. Blackett. ' " * * - J. St. Clair Blackett & Co. Atlin, B. C. ist. July 1903. "\A7E give special attention to Mail and Telegraphic Orders: AGENTS FOR ' . " * ' ' " '"'��� " - ' , , Standard Oil Co. ( 7.- ��� Rose ofsEllensbury Butter. - "'>'.", '- The Cudariy- Packing! Co. . . ��� , . ' - Chase'&.^Sanborn's Coffee... .-, ^ ' Groceries, Bruit &' Vegetables���Crockery, , The Rise and Fall. The lowest and highest temperatures recorded for the week ending 26th inst, are as follows : June 27 .��� 37." 58 , 28 ' ��� 38 * 57 �� 29 . ��� 39 48 . 30 ��� 44 61 July. 1 ' 40 62 , 2 ��� 44 63 1 '3 4i 65 c. p ..JN. > r*W/0��9 ���ALASKA ROUTE SAILINGS��� The following Sailings are announced for the month of June, leaving Skagway at 6 p.iu., or on arrival of the train : Princess May, June 6, 16 & 26 Amur ,, 2, 12 & 22' For further information, apply or write to I-I. B. Dunn, Agent, Skagway, Alaska.- 10' >�� Skagway; Alaska. First Street, Atliu'.' I KEEP NONE BUT PRIME STOCK���LOWEST MARKET PRICES. J6- <* J* DIXON BROTHERS, Proprietors ' 1-*��M " 'k ' - . Pool % 8c Billiards, Free. ��� 7 - Freighting and Teaming. jfi -. Horses and Sleighs for Hire. Wholesale and "Retail' Butcher FIRST STREET; ATLIN, B. G A Large Consignment of: Dry Goods Wall Paper Oilcloth Window Shades Potatoes Oranges Lemons Carpets Groceries Fresh Vegetables All at the Lowest Market Prices, FOR SALE ��� Three hundred feet of hydraulic canvas hose and brass nozzles���Apply this Office. Store to Rent ��� Apply at The Clmm Office. Northern Lumber Co. Prices for the Season 1903. Rough, up to 8 inches, $35. do do 10 ,, 40. do do 12 ,, '45. Matched Lumber, $45. Surfacing, $5.00 per 1000 feet. THIS HOTEL IS STOCKED WITH THE BEST OF GOODS Sam* Johnstone, Prop* ��� i
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Title | The Atlin Claim |
Publisher | Atlin, B.C. : Atlin Claim Publishing Co. |
Date Issued | 1903-07-04 |
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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Notes | Print Run: 1899-1908 Frequency: Weekly |
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Date Available | 2011-09-07 |
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