1C /^����uj��.*iWCTJrufr.*.TK-ttiwa^^ i��Miw.mauT^wj��rf?*wi^>i-Miw-.a^^ ummmmmmm /--'������.Vf��� Hi -*rp!?'- "���' u^&^jaSBaia&B&u,. ���.< < 19��"ia <? V. TW -stjgi. /���ft i 7^/ VOL. io. ATLIN. B. C, SATURDAY. MAKCK 26, igo.j. N! WAH . NEWS Port Arthur, March 19:-- Lost night mid today passer! quietly. According to information received from the'Russians al .Shanghai, in in the fighting ai Port Arthur 00 February rolli. and nth., the' Japanese battler-hip ','iUikasa" was struck by ten projectiles and was seriously damaged. The 'Japanese battleship aud two cruisers are decked for repairs at Nagasaki. At S.iseho two thousand wo'urdcd Japanese are said to be in the hos- , pitals. Berlin, March 19:���A correspondent of the "Lokal Anzeiger" at Seoul confirms the report that the Russian Horse Artillery has withdrawn to the North bank of the Yalu River and says that part of the cavalry lias also withdrawn. ��� St.Petersburg, March 19:��� The Gazette expresses the hope t'-at the Anglo-French understanding will result in a more friendly attitude ot Great Britain towards Russia. Cheefoo, 21 st.���A private despatch from Mukden states that a battle has been fought on the Yalu River, in which the Russians claim to have captured i.Soo Japanese prisoners. u' All indications now point to the Yalu as the probable scene of a bloody battle in'- a few- days. To reach Mukden or any point otKthe railroad, to cut off the supplies from Port Arthur, the Japanese must overcome the opposing force of Russians numbering ovar. 200,000 troops, all concentrated where they can be made available at any crossing of the Yalu, in a day or two. The battle reported is of a skirmish nature, and more news of the same character is hourly expected. St. Petersburg, 21st.���Russian troops continue to pour into North Korea in excellent condition. It is said here that typhus fever is rag- ' ihg among the Japanese forces. Greiistardt, at.��� The comma rider in-chief and Admiral Birileff hav* inspected the battleships Alexander wi, Naravin Sissoi, and Yilky, the .cruiser Svietland and the torpedo boats which are here preparing for foreign cruise. The chief constructor promises to have allthe warships now building on the Neva ready by June to proceed to the Far East, if the authoiirie* decide to send them there. Tokio, 21.��� The British minister here refuses to endorse the application of Hales, the correspondent of the London Daily News, to accompany the Japanese army, giving as his reasons that the reports Hales sent of the Transvaal Boer war were slanderous to the Boer army. The Japanese government requires all correspondents lo ba.'e the endorsement of the reutdout raiuister of thecouutry they represent; Hales is therefore excluded from all connection with the army movements. Wei Hai'Wei 22iid:~-A Russian diplomat here declares that neither RusMa, Japan nor any other country can guarantee life or property at New .Chwang or any other point on the Vain- river. He declare.* the entire territory of the boundary between Korea aud Manchuria is soon to be made the scene of the bloodiest conflict in history. St. Petersburg, March 22: ��� The "Novoe Vremya" publishes prominently a Paris despatch declaring it to be believed there that a triple alliance of China, Japan'and Korea has been formed.. This was the real object of the Marquis Ito's visit to Seoul, just completed. Said a Military Attache of the Naval Office, "If all then itionsof the earth were as familiar with the Mongol and his ways as is Russia, the triple alliance of the yellow peoples reported from Paris would excite dire alarm. It i>- for the protection of the peoples of- the earth as well as for herself that Russia takes the position now that she cannot and will not be defeated. Once Russia withdraws her strong- arm from the East, the yellow peril. would be upon the-nations of the earth in earnest". .Yin Kow, March 22:��� The German Consul, here has . notified all German .subjects who have remained at New Chwang that they do so at their own risk. Chefoo, 22:���The Chinese Pin,g \ang squadron of four cruisers has just arrived here.- It is understood it will proceed to New Chwang just as soon as the ice has cleared away. St.Petersburg, 22;��� Beyond tiie movement of troops to the Far East, which is progressing satisfactorily in accordance with the Russian plans, the advices indicate little change in the situation. No official information announcing collisions of opposing- forces were received up to noon. This Government has no information to substantiate the reported capture of r 800 Ja. -paniie at Yalu River, Saturday. Seoul, J2nd:���The Japanese have stopped Brigadier General- Henry IV A lien, formerly chief of tbe Philippine constabulary and row U, S. military observer of the Japauese army at Ping Yang, requesting him not to proceed nearer their outposts. St.Petersburg, 23:���The authorities here are skeptical in regard to the report of the Japanese squadron Mil-gsighted offthe port of New Chwang. St.Petersburg, 23---The "Russ" in an editorial today ou Russia's new prote.it against the violation of the Hague Convention in bombarding the Quarantine Hospitals of the Shan Taio Islands opposite Port Dalny, declare that Japan cannot meet the charge by pleading {gu��r- ' mice of the character of the buildings on tbe island ��s the bombard- men! of unfo- lified towns arid buildings is forbidden by that same Convei lion. The .'Russ''' sdci.s Ihat Japan's art is'���; flaunting of all die powers signatory thereto. Tokio. 23:-~~'rhc Japanese Government denies Ihe Paris report that Franco is acting in behalf of Russia a; d has protected ou account of the bombardment of the Quarantine Station on the Shan Taio .Islands on Marcli 10th. Irkutsk, 23: - General Kuropatkiii, commanding all the Russian troops in" the Far East, arrived here last night and left again for Lake Baikal this morning. Tokio, March'24;��� A .despatch from Maji sa\ s the Japanese fleet made another' attack on Port At- thuron March 18th. tud bombarded early and late at the defenses. The Japanese fought a' furious engagement with the Russian 'fleet outside the harbor, destroying one Russian battleship. , Seven Japanese casualties are reported. No information is at hand concerning the condition of the Japanese fleet. The Navy Department is not advised-further as to this engagement, but evidently expects pleasant, news. . . --v. -;- ' Tien Tsin, 25.���Viceroy Yusfc has prohibited the Chinese purchasing Chins.ee newspapers at Chi* ppao, on the ground that tbt-yiiad published an untrue article* referring to the bad conduct of th-: imperial troops on the border, which- tended to incite the people. ' Moscow, 25.���Th-.: 'municipality is cutting down the city budget ia order to provide the $500,000 voted for war purposes. Instead ofu-eu* ty new schools, only five wj!l be opened. T - - St. Petersburg, 25.--.Thc w#j cf- ' flee is the recipient of-persistent xt- , ports that the Japanese ar* prepar*- ing.to land troops on Guinea* territory on the west coast of the Gulf of Liao Tung, either at Tien Kisu. Cheng, Kiu Chau Bay, or at She*- Hai Kwan. , . London, 25.��� It is officially de~' nied ��� that the Russian arjuoure/j* cruiser Buy an was blown tip by r.' floating torpedo at - Port Arthur, March 16th. When the Japanese fleet arived off th<i harbor, the Russian fleet filed out and was-in battle array before the first shot was fired. Four Russian Cruisers gave chase to a fleet of t.en Japa-.ese^ torpedo boats when they arrived' .within three miles. The longer Russian 'range caused them to retreat but brought the Russian warships within range of the Japanese guns. What damage was inflicted is not known, but a Russian battleship coming up and having a much louger range was made the focus of the assault. She steamed away, evidently in a sinking condition, the cruisers following up the crew. .London, '4th:--A correspondent of the Times at Tokio cables that it is rumored the Japanese ships suj. ceeded in blockading the entrance to Port Arthur. New Chwang, 25.���Prince Alat- sin; sovereign of Mongolia, euro-ate to his capital, has arrived at Kin Chow from Pekin and Japan. In accordance with the declaration of Chinese neutrality, the Prince has commanded a strict observance of the neutral ity of Mongolia, thus rendering:, illegal the ' large' pony and beef traffic upon which the Russians depei.ded. The maintenance of this neutrality by the Chinese off the region between tho Great Wall and the Liao River1 is said" to be complete; thus contrasting with Russian violation of neutrality by the maintenance oi'armed patrols and guard* half way to Shan Hai Kwan. OUR CAMP. Atlin. which has been rapidly coming to the" fore, will be more .prosperous in 1904. than in any z.-J.h~ er year of it* existence. This" "is ' the opinion of Mr. J. H. Brownlce, who for five years has been one of the largest operators in that Caimi, and is, besides, #nc of th* best known rmuirg'rnen in the Provlaca. ��� Some important amalgamations of interests have take:: place, and thssa will result iu work of a larger extent,-without the friction which -r-vs often-militated agaius! succvs&ful' operations. The consolidation cf- the hydraulic .interests on Spruca " Creek has been consummated,������-'and the Spruce Creek Power Coaju*:<��?-,, ' Limited is the name under which ���'���' new concern will develop the valuable properties on this Creek'. The interests on McKee Creak have.been brought together, tbe At- liu Wining'Company, Limiu-d, .sell- -.. ing rut to the Hamshaws-nnrl ".hc'ir" associates. The claims on McEec Creek have been successfully worked for the past five years. The Decks and SteAendyb* interests on Pine Creek have alsabeeo consolidated under one management This is the Creek on which placer gjld was dis.-overed in Atlin, sod, strange enough, tbe first hole wsa sunk in gravel, than which there has.been noue richer fouurl in tbe District. Although Atlin's fame h pnSy since1899.it was prospected , long'" '. before.. Mining meu Irora tWt '"��� District tell of finding cabins which are at least fifty years old, and-- which indicate that the roame'r after the phantom yellow had. bsnv there, long before. (NewB-Adrertirei.^ ���*., f .: I A ' IV ' IP wn pi m k 'i\t MM JiMil -H 1 I ml I! 1.1.* ha '|Z fl !' il %e'��*^*B��e��**�� -+����tji��iji9<5**��>*��*�� t �� By IZOLA L. FORRESTER * Copyright, 1KB, by T. C. McClure * ' w W �� *J��t��4*�� ���$��� o <>��<����*���{��� o^.e*J��o��J* a *S* a �������������> The mod?] at Vlvon's had fainted. ! It was In the middle of tlio morning Bitting,, tho very apex of intensity in the Jasson. Little Vivon moved lightly and restlessly here aud there from ono easel fo anotbor, his small, black eyed mere high lights'of sparkling: <?ag"i'- noss under their heavy brows. TIo " smoked bis short, thick pipe nnd plans- ed from the charcoal studies to the silra .white figure on the platform. The sunlight poured full into the long, bare atelier. Suddenly the model swayed ever bo slightly aud Bank to the floor. ��� Some of. the girls gave quick, fright-, ' ened cries, and Jean Laurier glanced np with a' smothered exclamation of angry dismay over his unfinished sketch. 1'rom the first easel to the right of ��� the platform the American student Ha! Crane, sprang to the platform and raised her head on his arm"." It was Buch a young head. The loose, warm tinted hair lay softly against bis Shoulder, and he noticed'for the first ' (time 'how thin the small, piquant fuco ��� was. ' " .Vivon hopped excitedly the length of the room and waved his small plump bands for order. - !'It is nothing," he said. "She ia fatigued, It is so warm. Can you carry 1 her, M. Crane?" Crane smiled ��� ���' Could he carry her? ���grimly as be raised the slender figure in bis^arms. Why, his little sister Bess, back In Crawfordsville, Mo.;-was heavier than this. lie followed Vivon from tha atelier awny from the battery of amused, curious eyes to.the. artist's private den. "Ma foi." laughed petite Yvette, her1 eyps narrowing critically, "that was not bad, that last. ' I think I shall faint, too, nnd let le gros Crane waltz me off in his arms." Laurier leaned lazily over her shoulder and , scran-led a rough caricature ���an tho corner of her paper. ,' _ "Like that?" ��� She boxed his ears soundly and ���reached'a greedy little band after the b'ox of bonbons Elsie Ticot was pass- '-tl��fl. The model was forgotten.' ��� "Lay nor there." , Vivon nodded to a S#rnor divan in the Inner studio'heaped lUffh with pillows, sketches and" costumes. Crane ruthlessly pushed the Jotter off with his foot to make room ���for his burden. He laid her down gently and held to her lips the glass of Water Vivon brought. ' "It is just fainlness, yes?" asked VI- yon anxiously. Crane stared thoughtfully at the ' yrhlls race among the pillows. He had fceon hungry once back in the first days ot the battle. The little homo in Craw- fordsville had sent him out to the great clty'of his dreams, and only long after- Ward had tbe tight been his own. He thought he recognized tho look that come* to those who are tracked by the araii. ���Wl think that she's just about starved,'' he said bluntly. "Get some wine or brandy or something." Vivon obeyed. The Americans had B way that made men obey. "Who is she?" asked Crane when he $ad managed to get a few drops of (brandy between the pale lips. .V'One of Ribaut's models," Vivon an- gwtfred nervously. The sounds from , jfho atelier were not conducive to peace of mind. les, she was a new one. Ui- feaut had sent her to him yesterday, and he had engaged her for the poise, ��� Ithc grace, the turn of the head, that line from the tip of the ear to the slope St tho shoulder. Sho did not pose for the life classes, merely for drapery and" 'the poise effective. And the name���it 'Svas in bis notebook. He took it out and read from the latest entries: "Virginia Wade." "American?" asked Crane, using 'more brandy as he saw a flutter of the ayellds. "But, yes." Vivon shrugged his shoul- Jflcrs. "When they come over and are poo^r they i'uiist do something. Some are so proud llioy Hide away ami starve, IU& some put up the grand right." "^"Where does she live?" -, : Crane glanced up. The little artist had gone back to the atelier as a fresh crash sounded, with Yvctte's peal of, ���laughter ringing above it. , ^ When the girl's eyelids opened so Bmiled down at her in a friendly fashion. "Feel better T' ��� , "I guess so." She hesitated and added with a scared look in her dark blue eyes, "Did I faint in there?" '"Oh yes; that was nothing. Lota fio" Laurier had said the American bad reduced cheerful lying to an.art "It's so hot there In the mornings, you There was a quiver of hopel-ss disappointment around the curves of her Louth, and ho knew what troubled ber. There was a Ave franc piece a bio pocket He laid it uublushingly on the tabouret beside her. "Vivon said that was yours. He couldn't wait, but he said to come to morrow, and this is for the two sittings." Her eyes brightened with surprise, and ho knew his surmise had been right. "I must go home," she said, trying to rise from the cushions. "Wait while I get a carriage." Crane started for the door decidedly. "I'll send one of'the girls 10 help you." cllie thanked htm with a smile that made him whistle rk he went down tv*o flights three steps nt n 1kne. \Vh">n lie returned he carried he:- do-.v;i to file carriage Willi a masterfulness That fasked no nennlKHion, and she did nol demur when he took the seat beside her. " , It was not hard to find fir-r "sky parlor," as Crane called' it mentally, off the Rue des Sceurs Claires. He called there the next evening, and she met him at the head of tho dusty landing with a shy dignity and led the way Into her attic apartment as if it had been a Louis Qulnze reception room in pink nnd gold. A young girl, younger even than herself, sat in an easy chair by the window and smiled up at him. ������This i�� If^'nie. ray sister." Virginia said simply. Crane's quick eyes noticed the slim pair of crutches leaning beside the chair. He knew why she had-posed at Ribaut's and Vlvon's, why she had not hidden her poverty and starved in silent pride. The next time he came he brought flowers for Lucille,' and a new grateful friendliness flashed in the other's blue eyes. It became a regular thing, that walk home from Vivonls to the Rue' dea Sceurs Claires. She showed him soino of her sketches, and Crane promptly took a bunch under his arm and hawked them around the art stores .with a devout persistency his own bad never known. Before a month had passed she had picked up odd work coloring pen and ink proofs for one of the weeklies, and at last there came* a day when she left Vivon's for good, and the future was full of hope. '. "And.we shall see. la-la-In; w�� shall ,6e"e Uovr." laughed Yvette. "He is in earnest. 1<? gros Crane. .The wedding bell3 will go ding-a-ling, and the little white faced Virginia will have roses in her cheeks." ' ,r "It's all your cfcuag," Virginia told him that night whe.a they parted at her door. "1 was worn out and heart sick that day when I fainted, and you cheered me, and.���and"���-.She faltered and held out her hand to. him. There' was* a five .franc piece in it "Please take it back," she sa5d. "Vivon told me, and I think It was just' splendid of you." Crane flushed hotly, but he took it. He knew her pride and that to her it wa3 a debt of honor. ' "And after today, what?" he asked. "I shall miss the'walk home,-and you will" forget Vivou'S and me." She bent her he.ad low over the bunch of pink roses'he had given her, for Lucille, and something in her sk lence gave him courage. "Virginia, .if you would only give me the right to sweep you aud Lucille away from- th!3, ttaa sky parlor and the struggle that never ends! I'm strong and have gained a footing, and you could study then"��� he rumbled on with boyish helplessness. "I've loved yc-u ever since that day at ��� Vivon'a when your head lay on thy shoulder, and X wanted to lift you lip and carry yoi? away from it all���Laurier and Yvette- and old Vivon- and all of them, you seemed bo different and little and alone." She was ailc-nt sliO. and .he' waited. Out over the city soiu*- bells were- ringing slow, sweet chimes, arid the sparrows were flwttcring- sloppily around tho oaveu of the sky parlor over their heads. One of the roses fell', at ber feet, and' he raised Jt tenderly. "Do you thini 1- had. "better go?" Tho dark blue eyes looked ap at him at taut,, and he bent toward' tier eagerly. "Virginia, sweetheart?" She held the- roses close- t�� her EpS and smiled at him over them. "Won't you come np and tell JjU- cille?" she Raid softly, and he- followed her up the loiaj, dusty ataijrs 'to the eky parlor. SHBINE OF APOLLO. MOH FIND* DUO UP FROM RUINED TEMPLE'iOF DELPHI. tTtro Tears* BxtK-ratlom Jmt Terminated JaSBeveal th* Hlttory of Groeee fer fit- teen Centuriei���The Vatican of Ancient World, From Which Her Prle��t�� Mx- eroWcd Tory Groat roliuoiil Pevror Ip Bj-ffOMo Timoe. '��� Tha French Archaeological School at! Athens has finished its ten years' excavations upon tho tiito of Delphi, tho great sanctuary of Apollo, a-nd has turned over tho site to the Greek Government. Tho work accomplished has been of almost inestimable value to scienco. Tho inscriptions, rnonu-- ments and sculptures brought, to light comprise offerings to'tho Delphic oracle from all parts of the an-' ciont world. Magnificent buildings, statues, columns and altars erected by great princes and states havo been found sldo by side with thousands of rude votive images from tho poorest und humblest. ��� The Delphian shrine, as it now lies exposed, consists of a lnrgo ir-. regular quadranglo upon tho hillsiila below Mount Parnassus, with gntcfl at intarvals in its walls,'- the main cntranco being; at tjic southeast corner opposite tho . Castilian spring. From this gate tlio Sacred Way, pavod and lined on cither sldo ' with votive buildings, etc., lends up .In Grinding curves to tho great temple of Apollo, of which only the substructure remains, revealing tho chamber where (lib oracles were' delivered. Beforo this temple /stood tho altar of tho Chinns, dedicated in the fifth century B. O., but tho excavations hn.VG proved tlint it had hecn a place of sacrih'co from n. remote agii. Abovo the temple stood tho theatre, ono of the best preserved buildings ia Greece, nnd tho Tjcschc, a' buildinff mentioned by Pausanias as .conLain- killing his mothor. Constantine th�� Great carrlad off some of its treasures, and tho bronze pedestals of th�� Plataeoa trophy is to be seen in Constantinople to-day. From the earliest mythical times down to the timu of Julian the Apostate tho whole civilized world sought enlightenment from the lips of tho /JPythian prophetess of Apollo, and J/luritiflj all that long poriod her comma 'b were .obevud., nnd her priests , exc -iced a political .power equal t�� thai wielded b.v tha Church of Kouia over Catholic Europe la the middle HtfOS.,. THE LATE MRS. HOPPER. . . ' -V An Oahairu L,udy Who 1.1 vod ta the Grant JiC�� of Four Tears Over a'Centnrr. Mrs. Richard Hopper, who died in' Oshawa on Nov. 21, at the ago ��� of 10M years and eight' months, wus probably tho oldest resident of Canada. She retainad hor reason, hear-. ing and sight up to tho time of her death and exorcised her sonsas with a koennesa and intelligence that' were po(,hi����; short of, remarkable. lira.. Hopper* was born on March 2Stha- 1800, is Devonshire, Bntrltuid, i anil whon sho wai six years of age all Uiigiland celubratod tho great victory of L,ord Nelson at Trafalgar. Shp re- fciombered, and never tired 'of telling, how tho bluffs nil filong tho "I.'ritish Channel op&rklect with' the bonfires In honor of tho occasion. She was ��� HUtoSa Nagar peaks of tho Himalaya as on the northwest frontier of In** dm. For four years past Mr. and Mrs. Bullock Workman have been car- : Tying on climbing operations in thosa ' parts with tho aid of Swiss guides. A short time ago Dr. 'Workman ajid two guides climbed an unnamed peak near tho Chogo Loongma glacier to a height of 23,394 feet. They did not quite reach tho top, but this is higher than ,the previous world's record, which is tho summit of Aconcagua in " tho Andes, 23,083 feet. Mount Everest, however, the highest peak in tho world, still remains unconquered. On the same day Mrs. Workman reached a height of 22,568 feet, which broaks'. the previous record for women���held j by \erself���by l.GGS feet. Mrs. Workman is m'ld-looking and middle-aged,- with gray hair and a by no means athletic fipu'ro. ��� ���"' ' , '��� - -, ._ -. ~~"7~: : " ������ " " '..* ���;.- "f. Te�� In TncJIft. Tho half million acres cultivated la tea in India pro'duce ,190,000,000, pounds, tho investment being, about flOO aa- aero. Tho labor required fa thirteen person:* to tho acre. One pound of India tea. will produce hc.v- en anil one-l..,,lf gallons of, tea of a. given strength, whilo the tea of .China will product)' but live gallons, J i ��� Hnib ai Medicine.. From the days of Saul and Dcvic? music has lie. doubt been the- means of alleviating, If not of actually curing, ' tnany serioras casea of mental disease.. Modern experience has-proved this conclusively, and many instances may be quoted from undent history. Pytbagaras commended music "io tho treatment of the* inses&e, and Thalcs, when a pestilence r/avaged Sparta, found in musk his most powerful means of combating it. Henocrates soothed maniacs by 'ft, nnd'Theophras- tus hftld that even the bites' of venomous reptiles were rendered less fatal by subjecting the. victims to the- Influence of melody. .When Philip of Spain was in a morbid and desponding condition, Farluelll, the vocalist, was sent for by tbe queen, with a party of musicians, to sing and play in the adjoining rooiu. The effect was a speedy and rapid cure. Both Buckmun aud Hafelnnd relate instances in which music has cured cases of St. Vitus' dance, nnd Becker 'and Schneider demonstrated practically its Influence in cUKereat cases of hysteria. AJOILO AHD TRKASTJKT OV ATHEXIASB. fng two celebrated series of painting* by Polygnotus. The most important oi the buildings from tho point of view of the- artist &ro tho treasuries, small, temples in which the various cities -' deposited their offerings. Theso are all- in ' ruins, but so many of tbe fragments have been recovered that- it has been decided to re-build one of , them, th�� treasury of Athens, a. trophy of the battle of Marathon. ���This stand* on the Sacred Way, and just beyond it are the Hock of tha Sibyl and the famous Stoa of the- Athenians. Tho bas-reliefs, sculptures and iK- scriptions now in the museum arc ot so varied character ,and so great number that it is impossible to- enumerate them. The richly carved Omphalos, the stone which was supposed to mark the centre of the earth, and a bronze statue of a charioteer of tho greatest artistic beauty, dedicated about 4,72 B.. 0. by l'oly- eclos, brother ol tho tyrant of Syra^ cuse, would alone have justified tho exponso of tho excavations. Tradition connects.the name DoJpUl with the legend of Apollo transformed' into a dolphin accompanying and guiding the ships which brought the first Cretan sattlord to this '��horo.. Homer called it'Pytho, which . name connects with a still earlier "timo,' whon Apollo dispossessed the original deities of the placo and slew th* python which guarded it. From the ninth century before Christ tho fame of the Oracle- of Del- I��hio Apollo was fully established and continued until its abolition by Theo- dosius, about 885 A. D. Its rich troasuros exposed Delphi to attacks of tho enemy, and in 480 B. C. Xorxos attempted to take it. In 279 B. C. Brcnnus and his Gauls made an attack on the sacred city, but were unsuccessful. In tho si:xth century tha templo was dostroyed b.v an earthquake, but was rebuilt. It was again destroyed and rebuilt in the fourth century B. C. It was plundered sovoral times by the Phocians in 356 ��. 0. and by Sulla in 86 B. 0. and ���.gain by Nero in a fit of rage bo- eauso thfl oracio disapproved of his LATE MRS. HOPPUIe. true British subject and her faco would light up' when she told' of the srojoioing that followed the news of the defeat of the French at Waterloo, and tho sullan retreat, of., tho formidable French Emperor. ���This remarkablo woman lived dun- ing tho reign of five British. sovereigns, and in throe centuries. Born in the cigjjteenth century, she outlived the nineteenth, ' and enjoyed health and happinuss for nearly three years-of-tho twentieth century...a; Mrs. Hopper was married^ in Devonshire, EJnglond, at. lhc ago of twenty, and with her husband emigrated ��� to Canada in 1S53, locating at Whitby, Ontario. She resided there about two years, then came' to Ofhawa, where , fiho made her home with hor daughter, Mrs. Petrie. In 1803 she went to livo with her son, Mr. Thos. Hopper, Oshawa, and remained with him up to tha time 'of her death. A great many years ago sho was presented to tho' late Queen Victoria, Who gave hor a rare coin, which is still in tho possession of her family. At the age of ninety-eight she composed a' series of v.erscs. Her husband died In 1885, at the age of eighty- Ovo. Four of hor nino children are still living. Thoy are: Mrs. John Col- well of Tjoankdale, aged eighty-four years; Mrs. Matthew ITodson, f-Icsps- ler; R. Hopper, Grand Bapids, Mich., arid ThoB.' Hopper, Oshawa. Tho .accompanying cut was made from a, photo of Mrs. Kopper taken at the ag�� of one hundred 'and one years. A'CANADIAN STAR. HIlB Karirarct Anclln, .Daughter mi Termor Conmoai Speaker. ' Miss Anglin is a daughter . of tho late Hon. T. W. Anelin, Speaker of the House of Commons, nnd was educated at Lorctto Abbey in Toronto. Her theatrical career has been almost phenomenal and she is to-day easily The Conscientious Cltlicrll. "This conscience doth make cowards'' of us all," said the thoughtful and . sanctimonious citizen as ho stepped off a Druid Hill car. "Yes?" said hiH friend. ��� ' , "Now, if there's one thing I'm conscientious about it's about extravagance" "1'es, I noticed that," murmured the friend. "This morning I started downtown in plenty of time to have walked to the office. A car came b.v me, and,' largely through force of habit, but more through man's natural laziness, I bopped it." "Yes?" snld the friend. "I hadn't any more than ot on that car than my conscience began to upbraid me for the unnecessary extravagance, in little things.. It kept worrying me so much that I was just im-' polled to atone for the reckle. step by ; beating the conductor and thus- saving mf nickel after all. since whic'.i tlma my coascie'nee has bean parfeotly, 'ftleaif.'^���Baltimore American. ��� Rag Carpets. There are old garments, sheets and pillow cases in almost every house that might be utilized in making a' rag carpet, and there is no floor covering that in point of usefulness or economy can compare with it. When a garment that cannot be worn comes from the wash, cut off the buttons and bands, and tt-ar it into strips . from one-half to three-fourths of an inch wide ; the finer they are the prettier the carpet will be. Put them in a bag or box with a closely-fitting cover, so they will be protected from the <Iust. The work of sewing them is neither tedious nor difficult. When you have enough ��� for a carpet, mix them thoroughly so that the colors will be. evenly distributed. Take them to the sewing machine, lap the ends of two strips and sew across the lap ancl back again ; then without raising the mach-T ine, first prepare the next strip and sew it. Continue until you have about a pound sewed! 'then clip the threads and wind into a ball. Rich dark colors hit or miss ancl woven with dark chain produce a good effect and are very pretty for bedrooms, but is too dark for a room that is in constant use, for a dark carpet shows dirt more than a light one. J-Iit or miss'carpcts usually have several colors in the warp arranged in stripes. If you wish to make a striped carpet, save the dark rags for the hit or miss .part, ancl color the' light rags yellow, red, blue ancl green with diamond dye for cotton. They make the carpet bright, ancl will be pretty as long as It lasts. Black ancl white warp woven iu brick work is pretty for striped carpets, or al! brown or black may be used, and will look better than bright colors. Get the best warp, for it is always the warp that wears out first, and have the weaver put five hundred ' threads in a carpet one yard wide. One pound of warp will be required for three yards, and orle and one-fourth pounds of rags will weave a yard of carpet.���Elsie Gray, in Country Gentleman. A Doubtful I��ro��pcct. "Dat wuz mighty poor comfort dey give Btfer Thomas on his sick bed," tald Brother Dickey. "What dey tell him?" "Preacher tol' him dey wuz a bright prospect ahead of him." . "En what he say ter dat?" "Tor 'em dut what wuz a-worryln' cr him���it wuz so bright it wuz blaziu'!"-* ��� i \t!unta Constitution., ������ VIBS MAROAKKT ANOLIK.', In the first rank,of actresses. Miss,' Anglin's co-star this season, Mr. Henry Miller, is also a Canadian and made his firjit venture into tho dramatic field from Toronto. Thoy have been playing a Canadian engagement in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto. Menntalnuarlni: liticurd*. Mountaineering records have recent*. ly beon broken in two respects in the Ettujr. In the temporary absence of tho beauty editor this question was hand�� ed by mistake to tho sporting editor: "How shall one get rid of superfluous hairs on the upper Up?" "That's easy." he wrote in reply. "Push the youug man away."���Chlca* go Tribune. "���J That Waa All. * Mr. McCorkle���This statue yon speak; of wns an equestrian one, was it? , Mrs. McCorkle���No; it' was just a ) man on horseback.���Detroit Free Presa, ATS.ta, ft. C\ _agr.*r-fc*K1>Al. Ai-ARC'H j6. s.904 r j* -\ .,- -1 ;r -1 i il li* zlTUN TRADING COMPANY,' ..LIMITED. .Big Clearance Sale of Winter Dry Goods As our Buyer is going East to purchase a large stock of Dry Goods; Men's all wool Grey Socks we have decided fo sacrifice the stock ou hand,1 to make: room lor NKWi Ladies' Natural wool Uudeiwcar Co ,ds to arrive in the Spring. Below are a few'of the many cut prices .'vie:!1-, all wool Toques $0:75 & $1:00 Reduced to $0:50 .vieu's MacUii-aw Coats $5:50 ��� ~ " n $4:00 Men'.* all wool,Canadian Tweed Pants $3:50 ,, ' - $2:50 ��� Men's all wool Halifax ,. ,, $4;oo ., - ��� $3:00 $0:50 $3:00 , - 3 for $1 :oo ,' - $2:50 suit. Ladies' Combination Stockings & Rubbcis ,, - $1:75 Wc also carry a huge assortment of Floor aud Tabic Oilcloth, Wall Paper. ��� Men's Leather Gloves and Mitts.���German Socks, Blankets. ��� Wool Mitt*, and Gloves. ��� Creto'ns & Flannelette*, etc. ' A. S. CROSS, President. N. C. Wheeling, Secretary. LATEST WIRES. Bosiou, Mass., 22nd: ��� Report? from viiiious parts of New linglaiid indicate that this morning's earthquake was felt neaily all over the New England Slates and Maritime Provinces of Canada. ��� The extent a d severity was the most remarkable in thirty years. Windows rattled and furniture was thrown down in several instances. No other damage was reported. -, Few York, 22;.d:���Former mayor Win. R. Grace, iu his 72nd year, just died of pneumonia. Dublin, 23rd:���The Nationalist., of the,,St. Stephens Green Division ��� of Dublin, have elected Lawrence Waldron to fill the vacancy in the House of Commons made by the death of James McCanu. The majority is 620 over his opponent, Mr. Matheson. _ Mr. Waldron is a wealthy Stock Broker. Ottawa, 23rd:-��� The ratification of the Grand Trunk Pacific agreement will be moved by the Premier Laurier on Thursday. Lima, Peru, 23:���^Advices from La Paz, Bolivia, announce that the traditional, treasure ot the Incas has been discovered at Challacatta. It amounts to $iS 000.000.00. The discoviers are of various nationalities and are now quarrelling over the treasure, although a legal contract exists between them as to the division. Ott3wa, 23:��� The Militia Act has been amended, exempting from duty all persons whose religious cou- victions are antagonistic to war. A new clause provides that all youths from 12 to 18 are liable to cadet drill audmilitary training, "Stanford. University, Cal.���Norma u Doyle, the Stanford track athlete, broke the world's amateur record today for the pole vault, crossing the bar at 12 feet aud ->^ inches which is 1 and $ inches above the best previous record. Vancouver, 24th?���-The B. C. government will strenuously oppose any Imperial move towards removing the restriction* on Chinese immigration. Premier- McBride, in an interview today, said, a'* an imperialist he very much regretted the introduction of Chinese labor in South Africa. The stand he ir taking in the matter excites extended comment from the London papers. Ottawa. 24th:���Parliament will adjourn on Wednesday, over E?ster. Premier Laurier has announced that all b nines* the government pro,io<��es to submit for the consideration of Parliament is now before the House,, which insures a short session and an early dissolution. OomMunn* i*n Eighth, Ptvtfa. NOTICE. Thirty <Jny�� from date I intend to upply to Tim Cliltff ("oi"nil����i<iiiBi-<if U-iinlnntul Works for u Li-hm* of the fullowiiii*; ilv*t<*rll>c<l trust tif InniUodiiiiiii.Micini; ut tlm .South liut.1. rnr- 'iiui- Post situated mi tlic North .vide of Discovery Avenue, AtHiiTownnlto about twenty foot Went from South \\'<**ii oornrr of Lot 7 Mock 1 in Mid Townsito. tlioneu Wmt 300 font, thtrnoa Nortli 400 feot. tlionoe liiist :00 fort to Wiit boundary of Hlock 1. Atlin Tow unite, thonut* Souti'i bluntf utile of West- urn boundur}'of Block 1, to tlio South West cornor of l.otO therein, thot.ee Unfit tOQ foot thence South to point of commencement, excepting thereout all uroper Stroot allow- nncon, mid the propnrty at the II. G. Power und Manufacturing Company, LimltetT. Containing two acres more ar loss Hated at, Atlin, I*. C. thin third Jay of Mnrv:h 1��04. K. T. Trenchlfn. E. S. Wilkinson, P.L.S. , Wm. Brown. C..E, .." ��� WILKINSON & BROWN Provincial' Land Surveyors f & Civil Engineers* "y��iruii:!c~Mlne frtuioeering a Specially Office, Pearl St., near Third 8t,. ATM*, R.O NOTICE. Sixty day�� from date we n-ill apply to the Chief CommHsloner of Lands and WerUs for perniififion \p purchase the followins described Lands, Iu the Atlin District. Commencing at a Pout toarhed If. A. D. Co's South West Corner, nhot.t (500) Ore* hundred ieet Northeasterly from the South Wcit corner o�� the Flora hydraulic Kenoh lease ou Nortli itida of Pine Greek, thence East [20] twenty ohains. Thence North (10] ten chains thence West (SO) twenty chain*, thenre South [10] ohaiufi more or lots to point of commencement. Coutuluinic (JO) twenty acres more or lew. s Hritish JOB PRINTING AT THE "CLAIM" =a THE GRAND HOTEL FINKST EQUIPPED-HOTEL IN THE NORTH. EVERYTHING CONDUCTED IN FIRST-CLASS MANNSR. Fronoh Restaurant in. Oomtaoiimt** David Hastih, Profkistor. Corner of First and Discovery Street*, eara ^aT^^Sr THE WHITE PASS & YUKON ROUTE, Dated, Atlin. H. C. March 11th. 1SW4. NOTICE. JUOTICB ia hereby (Wen that Sixty days nhtr date I intend to - apply t�� the Chief; Commissioner of Lauds and Work* for permission to purohaM the followinc described land situated on Taku Aria, at tha mouth of Utter Rl-rer.���vli; Commencing at a post marked J. A. P.Corner Port placed on tbe Lake Shore, thvno* in a Wcat- terlx direction a qnartsr ol a rail*,, theuee in a.Southerly direction one mile, thenee in an Easterly direction one mile, thenee following- the lake shore in a Northerly direction to pluoe of eommeooement, ���ontainingr in nil 190 acre* more or lout. Dated at Atlin, B, 0. this tth. day of January 1904. 1. X. Porkinson. THE Jltlitt Studio. PHOTOGRAPHS OF Atlin and, Alaska, Atlin Claim Block. Films and plates developed and printed at reasonable rates at "The Atlin Studio ". Enlarging, and Copying also done. Pacific and A rot I e Railway and Ha-rieatiao l'.��ajpaa>?, . -Brltiih Columbia Yukon Kail way Conww. Britiah Tukoa' Railway Coaaauy, TIME TABLE. IN BFFKCT JANUARY 7 ISO. . Daily exeept Suaday. No.SN." H. No.l N. B. S'id olats. lst'-tlan. -C 8. SO p. iu. 0. SO a. m. LT. SEAOUAT 10.�� ��� 10.55/ ., 11. 00 i WHITE PASS 11. 40 ��j*q. 11.45 ��� *1 LOG CABIN ��-M 12.15 ( 13. SS 1 p.si ft 15BNNKTT a. 41 ,. 1.10 ,. ���1 CARIBOU e.40 ��� 4.30 .�� Alt WHITE HORS No. AR. a, ft.- B��o��wt Ir*. 4 S. Bw>u4*i 1st eluco. litd eiaaa. i. 30 p. es. AR 4. it a. sk h ??��� J. li . &..00 1.10 fcSI 51.80 a. so . gkJK LV Llti> la. IB Ji*. Paiaoneers must be at depots in time to har,e Haarsnee iutpe'etaJ 4��^1 okoaowd. speotion isatoppod 10 mlniitec before leavint; time of trajn. 150 pounds of baeeaco will Ixt cheeked free with ����ol�� full fare ti*3oet ��a4 78 pi with each half fare ticket. i. O. Cornell,. Uttgget tymi Discovery. OPEN DAY AND'NIGHT. FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION. Headquarters tor Brook's stuff*. s=; TRY J. D. JS FOR ne cree *9 -ALASKA ROUTE SA��LINGS- TUe following Sailings are announced for the tncnth of March leaving Skagway at 6 p.m., or on arrival of the train : Princess May, March 5th., 15th. and 35th. For further information, apply or \rrite to H. B��� Down, Ageaft, DISCOVERY, B. C. NEW DINING ROOM NOWOPEW, Furnishing The BEST MEALS IN CAMP. Finest of liquors. Good stabling. UPHOLSTERY MATTRESSES FURNITUT HARDV PAINTr Atlin e c Discovery; The Life. lujal Victoria Insurance Co.. OF CANADA 'Ccu-tif^i., $i,ooo,oro>a. A.'��. Hu-nhfeM* A��P��t. Bd. Sands, Proprleter. \Jm li.. BATHS BARBER SHC F. Shiulds & Eddy Dui? >P Now sooupy their new qnarte to the flank of B. K. A.-. Flret.' ����>oKt .The bnfch reamnare xiuall/as a abreet. 'in citltji. Prrra*? Riitramf ,M>dos found ^vA3*flx0A> ���*, 'Prices for. the. Season; 1��K>S�� R<6Vgh, up 6q�� S i-nches, ^35. ��|<t. do, 1*0 ,, 40, An djO. . 12 ., 45. Matched Lumber, $45. Jssf.rf*cij��5f,^*P^. f��f wfw..fe.; *AVx-. U'/*. I IIS f ?# ��� i i "i m .!-! ija1 W^SSmWSSSSBSSiissssssssms^Bsita .l^i^M^.^^, )t>0��OoO��0��0''OOoO��0��0��OeO*0 '��� o e O o O e O ZER- ANNIVERSARY By LAWRENCE PERRY i Copyright, 1903, by T. C. McClure Q ����0��0<��0��OeO"OOoOeOoO��>OoO<��0 Never had there been such a winter In South Dusenbury. What with mu- Bicales, lectures, ��� socials und the like the liLtle village usually managed to fill In the dark, cheerless gap between harvest and sowing nicely. But this winter the felicities of village life had been augmented by nn amazing and tnparnlleled number of wedding anniversaries. Wooden .weddings, tin wed- Kngs, crystal weddings, had followed ���ne another In rapid succession until those who were blessed in the giving Were hardly less numerous than those blessed in the receiving. Now, South Dusenbury contained its ���hare of spinsters, village parlance Which, being interpreted, signified that tbe woman to whom the term was applied had'lived twenty-eight years or ���. Bore���generally more���and was still - unmarried. To their eternal credit be It said that they rejoiced open hearted- \ ly In the marital anniversaries of .their Fellow citizens and had contributed not > m. little to the general atmosphere of - bappineaa which attended these functions. ��� No, not quite all. One exception��� fene distinguished exception���must bo ' noted, Keziah Bottleby. Miss Bottleby . Was a strong minded, tall, angular woman, an ardent church worker arid ready to turn her helpful hand to anything when the needs of the neighborhood required. But these wedding anniversaries began to pall upon her, and . l>y the time Deacon Thompson ,aiid Mra. Thompson had celebrated their silver wedding she was thoroughly dis- trusted. She lost no opportunity In letting that fact be known. Hers was a trench-tut tongue. Some were amused; more were made .uncomfortable. But there was no^ other result. Tho anniversaries continual Just the same. Of course this fact did not silence Miss Bottleby. "I tell ya," she said one afternoon nt a meeting of the King's Daughters, "it'a perfectly scandalous. Sech graspin' tendencies as has been exhibited in this [Village this winter is downright hea-, thenish. Why, look at old John Newell and Sophy Newell. They ain't done nothin' but spat these mortal twenty- '' five years, accordin' to all accounts, - - and, laws me, there they stood up together at their silver weddin', she in a new gingham dress and all perked up and slmperin' abbut with one eye and eountin'.the presents with the other. It tnado rue sick. And I guess I showed |est how I felt too!" As usual. Miss Bottleby was listened , to in the most respectful silence, and When she ceased speaking no one ventured a remark. Mis3 Bottleby gave a - eontemptuous sniff and applied herself to her needle. While she sewed on, the glimmer of an Idea shot through her talnd, and as she pondered and enlarged upon it the stern lines of her face relaxed into a broad sm: *. Yes, She would do it. i There was no reason wlr- she should not and many'reasons why she should. If so many persons congratulated themselves and asked athers to Join them simply because they had been married a score or so of pears why should she not be congratu-" lated In remaining single a similar beriod? Surely it was more difficult to remain unmarried than to find a husband. Yea, she would do it In a day or two the villagers received the following invitation: "Miss Kealah Bottleby, having existed In single blessedness for forty-five rears, requests your presence at her tome on Thursday, May 12, at 3 o'clock In the. afternoon, the occasion being an aid maid's variety. Tea and doughnuts will be served, and presents may '���ha stored In the parlor." Ihey were the talk of the village, these Invitations, and every one said Bow like Miss Bottleby It was. They all meant to go, too, for they felt that Ihe did deserve something for her long rears of abnegation. The general tendency was to defeat her purpose by ignoring the obvious sarcasm' and pro- lending that they took her seriously. Hiram Spinks had received an invitation, and It had struck a responsive (hard in his heart, for he, too, bad en- Joyed a life of celibacy. He met Miss Bottleby several days before the "variety" party, and she untied so warmly that Hiram lifted ols hat clear from his head instead of giving the customary little flip of his hand. "How be ye, Hiram?" said Miss Bot- Ueby. "Fine warm day?" "Why, how de do-0-0, Keziah?" said Eiram. "Yes, urn; yes, it's tolerable ��rarm." That was all. Keziah swept by, but Hiram suddenly gave a start and turn- id to look at her retreating figure. "A fine, smart woman," he muttered; "a real woman." He was thinking. He thought all the way to his lonely home and finally slapped his hand on his thigh. "By gum!" he ejaculated. "I'll do It 13 sure as shootin'!" The next few days were spent in painting, and his married sister came >ver and helped him put tiit* nuii*��* 111 jnwonted order. But she felt that be had suddenly lost his mind. She whs jonfldent of this fact when a day or so niter Hiram came home with a new inltof clothing and a new,hat. But nil that he would vouchsafe was that be tad.bonght them for tlio party. Hiram irus ready, and the more he mused ou hi a new resolution (he more absent minded he became. The day of ihe "variety" came, and the viilafe-rra <v*"1id themselves in their irene:'osltY.,._.:iiiey..reckoned to bilenrc. Miss I^ottloby's tongue on' tho subject of wedding nnni --rsarlcs forever. The littie parlor was piled with presents of all kinds, and all, including MIbs Bot- tlehj', were radiant. Every one had a regular good time, and .when the guests began to leave thoy assured ber they were ready for the next "variety" any time she chose to give It. Finally the door closal on the last 'guest, and Miss Bottleby returned to the parlor. She did not look at her presents. She was thinking cf how kind they all had been and was making all sorts of resolutions concerning her future relations with her neighbors. Then she looked out of the window. "I wonder whatever became of Hiram Spinks," she said. - As in answer the bell rang and upon opening the door'there stood Illriim, sli.-ivi-n. beard and hair trimmed- mid new clothing. Keziah gasped. "Why, Hiram, ye air late, ain't yo7 Conic in." "Yes, yes." murmured Hiram.. "I'm a-comin'," following Miss Keziah into the parlor. "But I can't stop long. I Jest came in to bring ye my" present." Miss Bottleby looked surprised, for Hiram was quite empty handed. ' "So ye'vo brung me a present, eh7 Well, ye needn't hcv done that, Hiranv What is it? Let me see it." Hiram stepped closer. "The.present,", he said slowly. "Why, Keziah, ye can see the present. It's right-before ye. I've come and brung myself fur a present. Do ye want mo, Keziah?" "Why, I-Tlrara!" Hiram moved closer, and then suddenly Miss Keziah���but lot us draw tlio curtain ovr-r what followed, those precious momi-uts of first lovo in South Dusenbury. oh It are numerous barges which transport farm and garden produce from the market gardens to the city. Flat bottomed boats, propelled by a pole, convey passengers to tho floating gardens". The gardens are located upon marsh land quite similar to the tule lands of California. The soil is composed of decayed reed and grass roots, being entirely of vegetable mold and quite fertile. Bitches at frequent intervals drain the gardens and furnish means of communicationrby canoes nnd small boats to the larger canal and thus to the city. Here are tho groat market gardens where vegetables are grown, for Mexico's consumption; her'.', ton, are grown the magnificent flowi-rs which form one of ihe principal altrac-. tlons of the City of Mexico, the flower market being a wonder in the quantity nnd exquisile beauty both of the individual tropic flowers and the magnificent floral forms, which are made with great taste and Rkill. Street cam' als�� connect tha city with the'villages upon the Vlga canal, and they are well patronized/���Arboriculture. If at First you Don't Succeed. "Wiirt Can Ee Dons* Wffb Halt. Sal: cleanses the palate and furred' tongue, and a gargle of salt and water is often efficacious. A. pinch of salt on the tongue, followed ten minutes afterward by' a drink of c-old water,' of-' ten cures a sick headache. Salt hardens gums, makes teeth white and sweetens the breath. Cut flowers may be kept fresh by adding salt to tbe water. Weak ankles should- be rubbed with a solution of salt water and alcohol. Rose colds,' hay fever and kindred affections may bo much relieved by using tine dry r.nlt like snuff. Dyspepsia, heartburn and indigestion are relieved by a cup of hot water in which a small spoonful of salt has been melted. Salt and -water will sometimes revive an unconscious person when hurt If brandy or other remedies are not at hand. Hemorrhage from tooth pulling is stopped by filling the mouth with salt and water. Weak and tired eyes are refreshed b.v bathing with warm water and salt. Public speakers and many noted singers use n wash of salt and water before and after using the voice, as it strengthens the organs of tho throat Salt rubbed into the scalp or occasionally added to the water in washing prevents the hair falling out Feathers uncurled by damp weather are quickly dried by shaking over a fire in which salt has been thrown. Salt always should be eaten, with nuts, and a dessert fruit salt should be specially made,���Table Talk, "Fred took uie .0 tlic opera last night," said the lirst clear girl. "We had a box." " Yes," ...rejoined dear girl No. 2, "I saw you eating candy in the gallery, but I wasn't quite sure whether'you had a box or a paper bag." ��� Chicago Daily News. ��� , "Don't you . sometimes wish you could write your name in the scroll of fame ?" ��� ' "I'm not worrying about that," answered Senator Sorghum. "The scroll of fame isn't the book that the bank cashier turns to when you want a check certified."���Washington Star.' �� , A Cinch for the Wife.���The union man's overcoat-hung behind the door. As he took it down preparatory to starting to an indignation meeting lie noted that tiie top button was. still missing. Turning cto his wife, he exclaimed: . "That button is s<:il off. It's a pity I can't have my clothes looked after when they need repairing." "Do you not know," replied his wife, �� 'A man went into a hotel and left his umbrella in the stand, with a card bearing this inscription attached to it: "This umbrella belongs to.,.^a man .���who can deal a blow of 250'' pounds weight. I will be back in ten minutes." On returning to seek his property he found in its place a card thus inscribed : "This card was 'eft by> a man who can run twelve mil-s an hour. I shall not return."���Philadelphia Ledger. Maclyn ArbucM'e, once a great favorite'here'with the Frawley company, recently received a mysterious package- at his hotel in Chicago. It was about a pint of yellowish, scented dust���evidently a toilet preparation, and for a week Mr. Arbuckle used it after shaving with a great sense .of relief. He had about exhausted-the supply when he received a letter from the proprietor calling attention to the box, and saying : "Now that you have had a chance to try it thoroughly, will you favor us with a testimonial for our Great Imperial Breakfast Food���sample box ,scnt you a week ago r"���The Argonaut. The CblncNi- Matchmaker. In China the matchmaker, or "go between," is a very important factor in domestic life. He it is who casts his ^watchful eye around.that he may find eultable husbands for the daughters of ' his acquaintances and then approaches the parents .with due .circumspection as well as a good deal of tact and diplomacy. To the family of the youns man ho narrates the good qualities, beauty and amiability of a certain young girl; then he in.-ikcs a visit to her father and dwells upon the riches, learning and wisdom of a youth he knows. ' If be finds both sides willing to consider the question he plies-back and forth between thorn with all the eagerness of a man anxious to'drive-a good bargain. He knows that if he succeeds he will get a nice little fee from enclt famny, and r,o ho paint*, the many cbaniiii of the young couple in glowing terms. He la not always truthful, and oft- times tho bridegroom, who is not allowed to see his future wife before tho ceremony, finds that after the red cloth and veil are removed he is married to nn ugly old crone. These instances of bad faith on the part of the "go between" are fortunately rare, and usually he exhibits much discretion In his niatings. The late Edwin Lord Weeks, painter and illustrator, had always a grcnt dislike for dogs. It was ar. usiii^, his friends say, to hear him .harangue against dogs, and innumerable were the stories reflecting upon canines "in an unfavorable light which Mr. We.:ks had on the tip of his tongue. "I dined last night," he said one day, "with Blank. After dinn*,*r Blank and I went into the library to look over some John Leech ,prints. Blank was talking learnedly about Leech, when he heard his wife in the next room say : "'Where is my guardian angel!' "'Here I am, dear,' Blank called. "But his wife retorted : '"Oh, I don't mean you. I mean 'Fido.' "���Boston Post. Flontlnj? Gardens In Mexico, While the City of Mexico is 8,000'foot higher than sea level, there are hi the vicinity several lakes and marshy tracts which require extensive drainage operations. The Viga canal Is one of these great drainage systems, and up- "Pve just learned a new charm to tell whether or hot a man loves you." says . the girl with the bulging,pompadour. "What is it ?" asks the girl with the new diamond ring. "Why, you lake four or five apple seeds and name each of them of a particular man, and place them���the apple seeds, 1 tncan���on the stove, and the first one that pops is the one that loves you." "Humph !" mused the girl with the new diamond ring, absent-mindedly twisting that piece of jewellery about her finger. "I know a surer way than that." "You do?" - - "Yes, indeedy. You take one particular nian and place him on the. sofa in the parlor, and sit close to him, with the light a little low, and look up to him very attentively, and if fye doesn't pop you know it's time to put another man on the sofa."���* Judge. "���Don't you think, dear, that it would be nice to spend our. Christmas in Florida?" Mr. and Mrs. Whiltler were sitting in their cosy back parlor. As she spoke, Mrs. Whittler turned to her husband with an anxious look of interrogation. "Never," exclaimed Whittler. "Why, we couldn't afford it. What an idea I �� wouldn't dream of such a thing. PIim-'- iaI I should say not!" "I merely mentioned the matter," said Mrs. Whittler, seeing her error. "II is of no special consequence." . At tho same lime she eyed sadly ,a package of time-table9 and steamboat tirculars that for the past week she had been surreptitiously collecting. , To go to Florida had been the dream .of months. And now it was ruthlessly lhattcretL Still, Mrs. Whittler did not despair. ' "Well, if we don't do that," she said ��.t last, "we must have a nice Christmas dinner, mustn't wc?" The thought of a dinner brought- Whittler to himself instantly. "You bet!" ho said, rubbing his hands. "We'll have tho best the country am afford." "I sometimes wish," said Aire. Whittler, after a moment, "that we had a houseful of children. Jt seems a pity to tit down to a Christmas dinner all nlone." "Well, why should we?" said Whittler. "Can't we ask someone in?"r Mrs.. Whittler .looked off into space, with hor eyebrows closely knit, as if tho problem wero too great for her to master ou the instant. At lust she said elowly: "How would it do ^for you, to tusk your Aunt Juno? She's getlingalong in years, and it may be our last chance to pay her any attention." 1 .Whittler thought a moment. "I guess you're right," he said at last.. "I was looking forward to a Christmas dinner by ourselves. Still, Aunb Jane ia a good 'old soul, and 1 guess we'd better ask her. ZBut there's Cousin Hfimily, I suppose she'll have to come, too." "Yes," responded ZUns: Whittler. "We rthall, of course, have to ask'Emily. We couldn't ask one without the other." There was a pause. Finally AVhiltler spoke again. , "I suppose," he said, "if we ask Aunt Jane and Emily, that Uncle Henry and Grcorgiana will feel it." "I had thought of that," replied Mrs. ".Whittler. "They've both been kind'to us,' and it would never do to offend them. Then, of course, the children���-"_ ."Oh, of course the children" interposed Whittler; "they'll have to come with their parents. Well, we'll have to do it, that all. 1 guess we can stand it for once." There was another pause. Mrs. Whittler at last looked meekly up. "There's another thing, dear," she said, "that has occurred' to me." -"What's that?" "Well, you know there's my Aunt Sally. Aunt Sally is so sensitive. If she bears that your side of the family is coming she'll feel it." Whittler sighed. But tho justice of the argument appealed to him. "Yes," ho said at last. "I suppose that's so. It's nothing more than fair, if my people come, that yours should, too. But you have a Cousin Rufus and in Uncle William, haven't you?" It was Mrs. Whit tier's turn to sigh. "More than that," she said. "Don't you remember Aunt and Uncle Kuby.ton and their children?" Whittler got up nervously and paced the floor. "Good heavens!'' he' exclaimed at last. "What are we going to do? It's awful to dwell on. We simply have got to ask them aJL Why, it will cost a mint to jntertam all this crowd." lie grew more excited, "it's a fearful thing," ]io said, "to have relatives. We're in for it, I guess. We can't lop any, of 'em off. Well!" ho cried, turning to Mrs. Whittler,- "have von nothing to suggest? You got iis Into it. Can't you get us out?" Mrs. Whittler waited a moment before she replied. . **We might go to Florida," she 'said Anally. ��� ��� Whittler slapped his hand on his knee. "Just the thing!" he cried. "Why in (the world didn't you say so before?"��� Tam Masson. ' You Pay��� , You Choose. Thore 1b no case of ��� Rheumatism ' that the Cireat' South American Rheumatic Cure will not conquer in a few days ���acai"! 01 chronic, muscular ��� or nervous. It gives al-, most instant relief and at once begins to drive out the disease, rout and branch, curing in one to three days. George England, a ship builder of Chatham, writes: "I was laid up for six montliB with rheumatism. I procured u bottle of SOUTH AMERICAN RHEUMATIC CURE. ' Jn tw��nty-four hours I wilt well nnd have not been troubled with rheu- , mutism Blni-o." . South Americau Kidney Core , speedily and thoroughly relieves and cures tho worst Kidney and Bladder diseases. Relief in-a few hours. ' 7. His Problem. "Yes, sir," said Mr. Gillingberry; "I guess I've got one of the intclloetimlest families in these parts���always Lakin' up wiLh something that calls for tho exercise of the mental powers to their utmost." "Is that so?" politely murmured the other man. "You net. . Now, there's mother. .She's upstairs this 'moniin' with a set o' newspaper puzzle-pictures, an' if she solves 'em an' writes a good serial story- to go along with 'em she gets at least. a dollar; an' my daughter "Lizzie is e'ov- erin' the dinin'-room floor with sheets- o' paper that she's been flgurin' on try- in' to-find out how old-Ann is; an' Homy, lie's determined to work tho pigs-in-clover puzzle with three shakes an' a wiggle of his hand; an' Jim���that's- Jim over by the fence���he's studyin' up a new way to work the fifteen puzzle. He's worked on that for ten years an'' thinks he's pretty near got it.", "But you���what problem are von devoted to?" "Who���me? My problem? Oh, L work out the puzzle of keepin' the family together."���"Judge." Sapphires. As a fashionable stone, sapphire at. ���the present moment is as popular a", nny jewel. Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll has some very fine specimens, and sir.wtlie- big bazar at Windsor wore a mair-iili- cent single stono brooch' of this iuvi-ly blue gem. The Princess of Wales also possesses some fine .sapphires, and the Duchess of Portland has 11 sapphire and diamond tiara among her jewels. ' Mrs. Astor, the- well-known American, has a whole pur- ure of these lovely stones, and JLivdy Dudley also owns a beautiful parure of sapphirea and pearls. Sapphires are the favorite gifts of the- King and Queen when giving welding- presents, and Mrs. Hencage���Lady Sa- vile's daughter���was presented with a. diamond and sapphire brooch by his Ma- iestv on ,the occasion of her wedding in 1892. At the wedding of the young Duchess, of Marlborough, tho, Duke presented, bis. seven ushers with sapphire pins. About Tibet ���' Pure soap I" You've heard ���J it) words. In i Sunlight ���j o a p you have the fact. SPY. Wow that Tibet is likely to figure prominently in our Empiro history, readers will'liko to have their attention directed to the extraordinary adventure among that exclusive people of a Japanese priest. The account of his journey and eighteen months' residence there has been translated by the lloiig Kong "Telegraph" from the original'articles contributed to -Japanese newspapers. The priest got .safely to Sera/'where he intended to graduate at the native univer- ���ity; but- Kis nationality .being discovered after a stay of a year and a half, he had to flee for his life.. He was enabled to preserve his disguise so long because,of his knowledge of Chinese and the religion of Buddha. It is a wonderful country and a strange people that he describes. Think of a tract of land where hot.springs abound round which the deposits are of such rainbow tints jls blue, purple, green, red and yellow. It Is easy to imagine that the landscape effects of such coloring aro wondrous. She social customs of the people- are jparcely less astounding. Polygamy is ebrriinon whero the men aro rich enough,, for wives seem to bo a question of wealth. When poverty compels them several men will havo one wife in common. Brothers usually enter into those ���trange partners!)ips. The people rarely wash, finding it warmer to bo dirty. Tho men anoint their faces with butter, while the women stain their counten- itnceg mahogany color with wood chips and lacquer the bridges.of their noses Jet black; Cleanliness is an uncstcemed practice; and altogether one feels in R.EU17CES I reading the account that the Japaneso 1 priest must havo been thankful to have Birdn in Italy. The wholesale slaughter of birds for food in Italy has one a-dvantn^e. Xt includes tho sparrow, which in tfcat country is consequently a- rori�� *vta. ri���� ��i Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder you feel tfje At once the new vitality tha& comes from proper breathing is felt' The cure is begun. This is not a cheap remedy, bull an inexpensive cure. Remedies ar^ but remedies. If a CURE is wha$ you desire, it is waiting for you. You just drop the tube into tho Powder, blow it into the nostrils, and begin to get well at ONCE. W. Ernest Lewis, of West Flamboro, Quebec, states :��� "I have been troubled with Catarrh for several years. It impaired the hear- ing of my right cur. X' used Dr. Agnow'O Catarrhal Powder nnd in a week found o marked improvement. 1 took three bottles and could hear as well an ever." ^' I *il\ \l\ Dr. Agnew's Heart Cure .. _. Feeds the nerves and the Mood. ItisLIFEIa ��.wnB*��7i*!itr been discovered and forced to quit a life medicinal form. It transforms the wealc ��ntS E.XlrEJNiS.2!.* which is'better to read about than to ��ickly Into the well and heal'thy. It tone* afittb* i.fnr._wv��._��� .^rfL��� HBMBMWHIKIMWJJJLJUP B BY LAURA JEAN LIBBEY £ Author of "The Crime of Hallow-E'en," "The Flirtac ons | a Beauty," "Willful Gaynell," "Little Leafy j _ " Only a Mechanic's Daughter," etc. *,i$$^$<$^$^<^**$<»^<8^5<§-$^5>3 at the »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦.«♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ «♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ By ALLAN P. AMES • irxiat was a funeral never to be forgotten. It .was a pitiful sight to see the,same group of sorrowful maid- ■ens that had held white* roses at hor iwedding, pluoo snowy fiowors on hor tomb. Sho wns so beautiful even in death, bo fair, so young to die. •Young girls looked upon hor smiling, marble face, with tear- stained :oyos, while moihors, with a shudder, '^olaspod their own darlings closer to fhhoir breasts. , (For many a long year after tilioy ,told of tho beautiful, goldon- haired iiyoung wifo, who waai a<J young and fair to die. frhiey told, too, of the'broken-hearted hiuslband who followed thn sad pro- oession to ttho gravo ono bright May mo_i;ning, and 'of tto white- haired, itjouio inothor who had lost hor aii, .wihoso bitterest sorrow had fallen, upon h'Or in l^er old* age; and thoy told of a dark- oyiod H'trangor who wiped away ulnat mother's tears and comforted blor, lmiw sho held her \i\ .iMjr arms when the iworld grew dark around hor, drew tho weary, whito •head upon hor strong, young breast, •and comforted ber with hopeful, loving 'Words that brought tears to every, eye. ' \ , (Even strangers cried: "God bless hot- for tho comfort sho has brought this grief- stricken mother." : It was all over. . i. ' "lzetta," Ulmont said, sadly, "I am going awa.V —going abroad for the present. Ulvesford Mansion haunts 'trie. Will you stay hero with our .child until I return ?" . Ho turned away abruptly. ' "Sond at ojicc for- Abel Moore and Ihiis good wife, ihat yo'u; may not live here alone, now that Loraine's mother has returned to Lorrimer iiall. Do ndt teach my child to think unkindly of me, Izctln,-' .he added, holding out bis hands; "always let him think of me at my bast." Silently Ixctia placed her hands in -hiis —'ihe husb-ind who had b?on separated from Iter by such strange ■ (webs of cruel fa-tc.' Ulmon't hald them for a moment only, dropped tihem suddenly^ and was gone. ■ ' TihiO same day that fair, golden-hai-"*- .ed Loralno wns laid to rest under the drooping willows Ulmont TJIvesfo-d left America, to he ijonu long years ^peYKi'ps" roi'cver. , wiiuoui. you: n-vi1, I.-.-.-'Ui, the worm would be a blank ro in,*; forget the past; we will li\";'wil.v in tho future, in which T shall havif but one great aim, 'the hopo of winning my wife's love.' .Sec! 1 luavo litllo Ulmont's already. Will you try to love mo, too, dear, for little Ulmont's sake." Izotla glanced .sl.'.yly up into the one no-blo fa<\i in all ; Iki wide world sho had loved so truly and so well, as sho w'biispuifxl : . ( , "You have not to try' to win my lovo. Ulrnuiit, my liai.sliuud; that you hrivo already, jii>I. for liltlo Ulmont's sake, but for your own I" 'That night there was a quiet wod- 'ding at Ulvesford 'Mansion lo appcuso tihio curiosity of the outside world, who never diiMuu'd of Uio strange drama Unit had bwjn nnactud by tbosi*. two lives so rul'h'Icssly torn .usundor by tlho hand of fate. ^ Somo'-'fivo years l^t'ir thn dancing summer sunslnino foil across a pathway, powdered on oithe.r sido with jessamine and sweet mignonette, up which a lady and grmileman walked. Two children gawhrilfd ou before, and dropped white- roses, which they carried, on a mossy grave,- "Ulmont,'1 called the mother, gently, "lake tho roses 'from little Loraine's hands and place them with your own." ' "Let mie put my own,1 roses on the pretty lady's grave," cried golden- haired Loraine. • (lbs children knelt beside a grassy mound, whale the father- and mother, wlci. their arms about each other, reverentially botwed their heads. JBoneath' a drooping willow, where tine whispering summer winds lovo to linger, and the birds trill forth their sweetest notes, stands a tall, wihite marble shaft pointing heavenward, and as the golden sunshina falls lovingly athwart it they read .the inscription which it bears : BA/OWElD! To the Memory of ' ' LOK(A(JiN7E,t Beloved Wife/ of ULMOJSTL' UI/WESfc'-ORD, • ' Aged 18 Yjears. \ "ilhou Knowcst." ' '„ :' CTEf;A(P.T,Grt Xjr;, ' «'i.ly Wife and My Child." fflwo years later, one beautiful morning in midsummer, Jzctta liuss— as sho was still called, —stood at one of the lace-draped windows of Ulvesford Mansion,' gazing uu<i into ihu brilliant sunshine. :"Ulmont, my husband I Ah, Ulmont Ulvesford, where art thou now?" ihe r murmured, half aloud. "Did 'oo call, mamma?" chirped a little voice, sweet as a robin's;, .and a wee, dainty-dimpled little darling, in- white lace and soft, pink ribbuns,' bounded into her arms. "No, Ulmon't, my darling," she answered, clasping him so closely in her arms that the roses sho woro on her breast fell in a shower on fhe'child's rosy cheek; "mamma did not call you; ■ go and play "kith tho butterflies and 'the fiowors; mamma will watch you . from uha window." ' ' "•Es, oo' did call me," persisted tho child, tossing his little curly head and pouting hiis sweet, red mouth thut was only mado for kisses, and' open- | ing wido a pair of dark, volvoty eyes; ' '"oo said: 'Ulmont, Uly, where is 'oo . nowS" - , , I lzetta blusbs-d rosy red. j ' "I meant your papa, sweet," • sho , said. ' I '"He papa in 'co pic-ccr in 'oe uzzer | room?" lisped the child, "'at makes! 'oo cry so when 'oo, sees it ?" "Yes, dear,'' said lzetta, hesitating- I .ly; "you must loc'k at that picture • every day, Ulmont, and you must ■learn to love him vory much." "Does 'oo love him, mamma 1" '■' "Yes," sho answered, "very much." •* "Does 'oo .wish he would 'turn •home, mamma?" .-.-■.') "Oh^ yes, vory much, my pot," answered Ize'tta, caressing the boautiful ifjaoe raised to hor own.; j i A ahadoivv fell between lzetta and Zltlhio brilliant sunshine; She wondered l^vthy her heart was thrilling with such .eos'tatio delight. ; ' | • "Izotta —my wifo I Ulmont, -r my baby!" cried a deep, thrilling voice iwibh the happiest pry that ever was heard. \ ' ,- :•' (The beautiful, queenly girl turnod her head, the child still clasped in her arms. ..'-.' ' A tall manly form stood before hor; .she glanced into the oloquont, pleading faco; she heard tho low, tremulous voice cry : "I havo co-nue to claim my wife and my child 1" , fTha strong arms were outstretched In anpthiBi- instant, and lzetta and her child were (folded to Ulmont Ulves- ford's breast. ' BCo drew his wifo to a sofa, seating, 'iniimself besido hor, his arms still encircling her slender waist, while little lOOTmoait, chirping like a robin on his 'breast, was stealing half of mamma'a kisses, "lzetta," whispered Ulmont, raising • tlbo blushing faoo of his lovely girl- ,wifo to his own, and gazing down in- .to her dark eyes, "I must whisper a secret to you, darling, I am madly, passionately in love —for tlio first i • iiiae — with my own lovely] wife, j |5To ono but those two standing there, and God, save the feeble, -white haired mother, who spent many a lonely, hour with her face pressod close against the cold, whito marblo, and her arms twined around it, not even she who slept beneath the daisies ikuew of t'hc great tragedy that had spread its dark wings'ovor her bright young life. ;Tha careless, curious world never know. . \ line secret of that "fatal wooing," iwas buried with her,. "Fair Loraine," murmurs lzetta,her gentle tears falling on tho daisies, and the soft, green grass. "I-feaven knows I loved her who slumbers here with a lovo that might •have been my 'doom,"' murmurs Ulmont; "but after all, lzetta, when God called her lie knew, best; now all the love of my manhood is centered in my second lovo. and purified by sufferings, a love that will last through eternity !" Izotta's head droops upon Ulmont's 'breast; their little children, Ulmont and golden-haired Loraine, flit close to their mother's side. Tho smiling hcavems bend over them, the ripple of tho brooklet and tho song thle birds sing to the flowers aro of their wondrous lcv.e. iNo sound breaks upon the harmony of, those reunited lives, whispering "of what might have happened through tho youthful folly of that "fatal wooing." , . 3h«* fiud. ISgSffiji&i!, ONE SPOONFUL "Will build for you good health' through good nerves, by using South American Nervfrie Almost all disease is the result of poor nerve action. Without good j I nerves neither brain, nor stomach, / jnor liver, nor heart, nor kidneys,/ Jean work well. Nerve food must j | be such that it will be adsorbed by' the nerve ends ' Such a food is' South American Nervine, the greatest tonic known, a cure for dyspepsia and all stomach ailments. ZADOI.PH LE Bodie, B. C. L„ Montreal a wen known biirridter, writes* "I 7«1f«"rfi&m?K frora ■n*,.°i.*"*la and ner- voua debility, prostration and oxbaus- ii2» wa.t0iok five bottles of So.iith Ameiw lenn Nervine, nnd am wholly recovered r.X5l.MefltS?u1^ A,,ncr!e''-n Rheumatic £,)?££7i?"ur?-ln <u record- Cure sure within three days; relief instantly. 6 Copyright* MS, bu T. C. McClurt (►♦♦^>*»4>^«'^<S>«^«<>'?^<S>W*<E>*<J>*; "In this matter," said Easton, "there are three opinions to consider." . "One is enough for me," said tho girl. "Your own, I suppose." " "Of course. I presume one of the others is yours. Whose is the third?" Easton gave a long, sweeping stroke that sent the canoe darting far through the waters and laid the dripping paddle across the gunwale. "The third," be replied, "Is what the world says." "And who cares for that?" spoke ths girl lazily from her cushions near tbe bow. [ ■ "Public opinion is something none of us can afford to ignore," said the youth gravely. "But this is not a public matter. The extent of my liking for you is something just between ourselves." "Our world tonight, Anne, Is not the world of last winter.' It's smiiller—Just the little colony at this end of the lake. In fact. That's the way we men foe!, at any rate. We come here to i*;et away from tbe world of work, and we want to keep wholly rwithin this little pleasant sphere of our own. Now. you can't say that nobody about here has noticed my devotion. If yon should inquire I'll bet you'd find that most of'your friends can enumerate Ihe times that I've proposed in the-past month.,, Oh, they know all about us. and they're intensely concerned. You can't have forgotten what an active interest you and I took in your sister's affair." ' "We were only rude children then." "Summer days like those make children of us all. I've been growing younger ever since I know you. Now, I have a childlike faith in tho world's good judgment. Can't you let it settle this question for us?" "Do1 you value its opinion above mine?" asked the girl, with a smile he might have seen had tho moon been larger. "Oh, no; only, you see, your opinion In a measure is neutralized by'mine. Hero's a disinterested third party. Why not submit the question to liim? I am convinced that you should marry me. You say you shouldn't. The rest of mankind are comparatively unimportant, but let's leave it to them. Isn't that fair?" "Would you,. have them vote it at next election?" . "No, no. I am in earnest, Anne. If all our friends thought as I do, wouldn't it make any difference to you?" "But I don't know what they think. I've never asked them. Have you ?" "Gbrtainly not," answered Easton indignantly. "But I know a way of learning—to a certain extent" "What's that?" "Listening." "At keyholes and open windows, I suppose." : "No, I don't feel quite young enough for that. Besides, It isn't necessary. See here." Easton left his perch on the stern, worked his way to (he center of the ennoe and picked up a small megaphone. "Put the little end to your car," he said, handing it to his companion. "Here's another just like it for me." "Why, Joseph Easton! I'm ashamed of you! Do you often do things like this?" "Never did itbefore. This is a very exceptional case." "You're sure to hear something about yourself you won't like." "No danger," he replied cheerfully as he raised the funnel to his ear. "Don't they say all the world loves a fellow in my condition?" Then, while the girl sat watching him, with her own megapb'ono untouched in her lap. he listened first in one quarter, then in another. Sound travels surprisingly far at night on a. calm body of water. To the unaided ear nothing was audible but the chirping of Insects upon the shore and tha lapping of ripples along the keel. Nevertheless nt the fourth trial Easton'a attitude betokened that his megaphone had Intercepted some sounds'more intelligible. "Pity you're missing this," he chuckled presently. "Better follow me." "Can you really hear somebody talking about us?" asked Anne, interested In spite of herself. "Seems to be a couple of girls discussing you," said Easton. "And very nicely too. Excellent sense those people have. Hush— "Now they've switched off on me," he added, after a pause. Anne could restrain herself no longer. "It isn't so wrong for me to listen when they are speaking of you," she said finally. Tbe next moment two megaphones were leveled into the darkness. This Is what came through them: J "Boving fancy, did you say? Indeed he had. I never saw a man change as he has since Inst summer. He showed a preference for Anne then, but he wns willing to glance at the rest of us occasionally. But now—well, It's a case, all right." Easton turned triumphantly to see what elfect this had upon his companion. To all nppcarances she was listening shamelessly, intent to catch every word., When he returned,'to his megaphone another feminine voice was speaking: "Least doubt;about it. But I shall always have one exquisite joke on Anne and Joe if they marry, as everybody thinks they will. As long as ho remains truthful I'M' poor fellow never can tell her that she's the fiist girl h« •v'ot kissed." *.-^, ..n' 'x^ascAi. What flg'fie Tho . "'IJeila!"" rffll'mckPd! have you to say that?" "The best "right in the world, first girl he ever kissed'Is me"— "Splashl went Anne's megaphone into the water. The youth whirled about to find himself *.- ifrontcd by a pair Of quivering shoulders nnd the back of a head that -was a whole encyclopedia oft outraged feeling. The megaphone bobbed against the side unnoticed. • "Anne, dear," he cried, "don't mint? those busyboclies. It's only BclIa.Main- erd., You can't cure what she says." "Oh. I don't; I don't."' came back ir* smothered lone:*,. Then—"Spiteful thing! She waniod you herself. I always knew sho did:" "Wanted mo?" echoed the youth. "Wanted!"—slowly realizing the import of the past tense. At tho imminent risk of capsizing the frail craft, he crawled forward, plnced a hand', on each shoulder 'and gently tnrned her face toward him. "Anne," he said, "you do care!" For answer the face was hidden against the front of his coat. "If you had only listened longer," observed Eaton, when conversation again became an adequate modi* of expression, "you might Imvo heard the Main- nrd girl tell when it was I kissed her." "I dou't want to know," said Anne. "Your past is your own. Your orcsont ia mine." , , "And my future."• he added fervently. "Ent I don't mind in tho lon.^c telling yon how thin hyppeimd. It was at a children's parly. I was six and sho was nine, I .hink." 'J"sa» OripfinRj of 3121J or V<:ii«1ciin2«. Miss Horace Smith onco told me a stnry. It wns long and complicated, but she assured me she had told it to my father, the late W. M. Thackeray, just before he wrote 'Tendnnnis," ancl that it had partly suggested the opening chapters. It concerned a family living in Brighton, somewhere near Kemp Town. There was a somewhat autocratic father and a romantic young son who had'lost his heart to the housemaid and determined to marry her. The father made the young man givo his word of honor that he would not marry clandestinely and then, having dismissed him, rang for the butler. To the butler this Major rendennis said, "Morgan," or whatever his name was, "I wish you to retire from my service, but I will give you f200 in bank noted if you will marry tbe housemaid before 12 o'clock tomorrow." The butler said, "Certainly, sir," and the young man next morning was told of the event which had occurred. As far as I remember, a melancholy and sensational event immediately followed, for tho poor young fellow was so overwhelmed that he rushed out nnd distractedly blew his brains out on the downs behind the house, and the butler meanwhile, having changed his £200, sent it message to say that he had omitted to mention that he had a wife already, and that this would doubtless invalidate the ceremony he bad just gone through with the housemaid.—Mrs. Richmond Ritchie in Cornhill Magazine. Beatlnfr the EiprMumxn, They haggled for ten minutes ovec the cost of moving. The woman claimed that the job was worth only $2. including a tip. The expressman insisted upv/n getting $2.2.j. At last the woman AVOIl OUt. "All right," said the man, "if you won't pay any more you won't." So be piled the trunks, the books and the bookcases into the wagon and drovu away. Tho woman was jubilant She told everybody in the house she was leaving about how she had at last got th» best of that autocrat, the New I'orK expressman, and when she got to tho home of tne friend with whom sho was going to live boasts of her achievement still trembled on her tongue. "What do you think?" she began triumphantly. "Excuse me a minute,'* said hee friend. "Before you go on I want to tell you about that expr»s»man. Ha got your things here without a scratch. He was so very nice and wreful that ( gave him a quarter, ne tatted for it. He said you expected me to. jjive it fo him; that you would have given it yourself only you were short of chnhge and couldn't spare it. I hope it was all right Now, go ahead and tell your story." • "I don't think I have one to tell* said the woman weakly. "You bsva spoiled the point."—New York Press. An Up-to-l>ato Account of Wicked King John. John was not a succcwful king. The /ir<tf. tiling (.lint lie did on coming to the tliroiH* win to have a go at the bishops. If we had been iviug of Kngland at tlisub period we should 'have hastened to toe the lin-r* with our glorious ancestry and (^ invite the bLsht-j.'S .„o step into tho ring nml put 'em \\]j. When people, iiowcvcr, look back along the dim vista of time, and think harsh and bitter things of John, there comes a moment when their .strong voices break with emotion, aud the unbidden tear begins to well up in their flashing eyes. For then they are thinking with moist gratitude of the Magna Charln, which gave to our great country its blessed title of freedom, and permitted common, ordinary people like you and ourselves to live. "0 " , The !Magna Cliarta wa3 signed in the year 1215 on Easter Monday. As there wns a cheap excursion frrwn Waterloo on that day, John said he would meet the barons at Ttunnymede where they could talk'the business over in between the sculling races, Tlic barons did not quite approve of John's oll'-hand way of talking of their lovely Cliarta. and when they met him at the. station they crowded round him quite rudely. John thought at first that it was only his barons' enthusiastic desire to give him a cordial welcome, until he found that his watch and chain and his diamond scarf-pin had'got mislaid in the scuffle. John tided several ways of escaping ' the signing of the Charter. At first he said lie had hit his thumb with the hammer while hanging up framed texts ia the bedroom at home, and therefore couldn't hold a pen. When he found that didn't go down he tried to stand on his dignity. In order to convince tho barons that he didn't care tuppence for the lot of them he' put his hands in his pockets and kicked his dog in the stomach just to show his independence. Neither of .these brilliant 'schemes \ worked, however. One of the barons utiuhed John from behind, while Fitz- Waller, the Pride of Bermondsoy, * bumped quite rudely into the King, aiut then apologized by saying that he had tripped up over himself accidentally. - After a lot of hard words, had passed on both sides, the barons gave John to understand definitely that if- he didn'c sign the thing there would be a rather ■ untidy scene. Seeing that he was cornered, John said a naughty' word, ami , signed on, and thus gave us the price- . less liberties which our forefathers bled to maintain. * - ■ As soon as John returned to Tvondon, his first business was to try and get,a bit of his own back, as the poet has so beautifully expressed it. Agents -were sent to the Continent to hire tnerccnar- (. iea, who were offered an engagement for two months certain, with the usual cxj> tro for matinees. Tn ' this way John collected quite an army, and he chased his b.iTons up to Scotland, and on Uie way there he burnt all the villages and haystacks he came accoss. Some of the inhabitants as they were being suspended by the Iiecl3 over slow fires, were quite surprised to learn that all this red trouble was the first result of the Qreat Charter for securing to- the people of England their priceless liberty. Many of them said at the time that they would rather be without the Charter, and scoop in what liberty they > could for them'- selves with a pitchfork o.r a pole-axe as they used to in the old days. While John was rushing about tho • kingdom, it happened that he had to cross the Wash, in Lincolnshire. During the crossing the tide reared up oa ■ its hind legi and went for the transport ships and upset everything. John and his second wife escaped by 'wading ashore, but all their trunks and brown- paper parcels containing the crown jew- ela nnd the week's housekeeping money were swept away into the cold anil soughing sea. This loss upset John so much that he turned into the nearest convent and cried like a child. A few days after that he got feverish and died, and the historians are not quite sure whether he passed away in consequence oi grief or whether somebody poisoned him. Still, it is well known that grief seldom kills, whorea.s poison gets there every time when it is administered by an expert. And somebody may have hit upon the idea that it was about time this burning and hilling was brought up with a jerk. Hcn.'c the rather abrupt end of—John.—"l'ick-Mc-Up." ENGLISH, SPAVIN LINIMENT ItiiB'ps. and blemishes from horses, blood spavin, eurb.s, splints, ringbone, sweoney, stifles, sprains, sor« and swollen throat, coughs, etc. Savo 5>5t) toy the use ol one bottle. Wm ranted the most wondesful Blonds-1 cure jivar known. Spollcil hy Sncccxr*. Jnllus Chambers related In the Road* er how In 1SS7, while he wns editing' a paper in Paris, he conceived the Idea of putting on his editorial staff an old beggar woman who had two wooden legs and who wns a well known slghO on the boulevard. So he paid her a rtigular salary and bad brilliant interviews written with leading men and women of Paris, which be published! over the signature "The Little Old Woman on Two Sticks." He says: "It soon became a matter of pride among English and Americans to know tha wretched creature who had become so famous. Money was Khowered upon her by American and English visitors who bad not fathomed the humor of! the, situation nnd veritably accepted- tho inference that the beggar was onr1 Speaking acquaintance with til tha notables of Paris. The episode finally., developed Into a farce because the old woman's vanity was roused by the nt**! tention notoriety brought her. She could not read ICnglish, knew nothing about the contents of the articles and actually flattered herself Into the belief that she possessed physical attrao, tion for the generous hearted men who' gave hor alms or putted her tenderly, on the shoulder. Liki* many nnothetf ,useful member of society, she wai Bpolled by success and one day struck gor I'.igltfx y%'w" - if! ill ' JHt i ! .j ill IK i: I ',. M-. i. ���a .-V'JCU.^. ZB.. ��^,. ��iAUf��*UpA.\. MARttQ. 56, ^4 ���The Atlin Claim. Pulriti&wi evorx Saturday monilnff br 7'.iji Att.is Claim Pcwlhhiso Co. A, C iiltFidOKVItLS.lSntT.lll, PiiOrXIKTOH. , OrStdir of piihlWitau Ptwii-l 5*., Atlin. it. C. A��<*rt*<ilnj*; Rattr : Sl.W per inch, ?ne���� t��*tr<iui>- Kr��-iiii(c tiotli-ef, 2' mita n Hue. iSprmkl Contract IJut��*o on iipplicnrt.-m. ��tio m*S*��',orl|.*ti<iii lM'ire ivi $5 n your imy- kW�� Iu *ilvnaof>. No ptper will bo (lelMarisl oaliM thxi ceuiAttioii in complied with. Satstkday, March 26th., 1904. wtfaHFFrawMwu '���' mn>piiF����wwriwy tmjt.1���u .��wi Now tliat winter operations have become a regular feature of this Camp and that drifting and much other work of a kindred nature arc being carried on to the extent that nt present exists, attention might be called to the provisions of the "Inspection of,Metalliferous Mines Act." This Act, having reference to all mining operations, except those relating to Coal' Mining, calls for the appointment by His Honor the lieutenant-Governor in Council of "Inspectors of Min*s. , The duty of these inspector?,' who must be men of at least seven years' practical experience in mining, is, on the instructions of the Minister of Mines, to inspect nnd report on all underground operations, especially in regard to the conditions of machinery and hoisting appliances of all kinds, state ol boilers, engines, etc. and the general manner iu which underground operations are carried "on. On a report by an inspector that any pari of the machinery or othtr apparatus used in the operations or . the method applied in ihe carrying on of the work, is defective or likely in any way to endanger the safety of those employed, the mine owner may tfe enjoined from carrying ou an}' work, till such conditions are remedied. Seeing that a great number of men are now employed on the various creeks iu underground' work, we think the time has arrived when application may be made to the Lieutenant-Governor for the appointment of an Inspector for this District with fair expectations that the request will be acceded to. Doubtless a large proportion of those employed, especially on 'Winter Diggings, "consists of men of experience, but there must necessarily be a considerable number, who are comparatively inexperienced in such work, and for the safety of all concerned, we cannot too strongly urge that a request be at once made or the appointment of a competent man to act as inspector for this District. . ��� A ..''-.' This t�� a matter that might well betaken up jointly by the local branch of the Provincial Mining Association and by the Atlin District Board of Trade, not to mention by individual miners. In such a matter, involving the safety and.well-being of so many in the Comp, it is well to remember tliat "Union is Strength." Rich Strike. Some rock taken at t, depth of 12 ft. from' the White Star claim on Boulder Mt , gives assays of 13 oz. 14 dwt. of gold uud 87 oz. of silver 10 the ton. The ledge is 8 ft. wide composed of %vhite quartz carrying gau-ua and visible gold. Ihe pio- perty consists of three claims, known us'ihe White Star Group. The discoverers and owners aie Messrs. Hailiorn and Symmons, who have been prospecting ou iioul- der Mt. during the Kumiiier mouth's since 1899. Atlin, Nugget awd Sirape' Rmgs ��� And AH Kinds of Jewellery Manufactured on the Premises. ^SF~ Why send oik when you can get goods as cheap here? Watches From $5 up. ' Feeso Line of Sosivesttr Spcoise. ��� JULES EGGERI & SON, The Swiss Watchmakers/ "THE KOOTHNAV HOTKL. * The 'Beavis' Mine. The contract for sinking 50 ft. iu the shaft on this property has just been completed. The owners1 are thoroughly satisfied with' the work aud the showings at all stages are so good, that further work, in the way of sinking, will be continued and vigorously carried on; drifting and cross-cutting will be started at once in order to reach the.pay streak which was encountered in the old workings now abandoned.. Cor A, R. MoDonnld, Proprietor. Film' AND TUAINOR ��3TR1{KTS. O ] Tills First Cliun flotol Ims li^ru rrnuHlnleil anil i'��fiirnisli��cl tlirowrliuui �� and ofl'om the lient uuaonimoilntioii to Triiimieiit or 1'erniu.inmt ^ Guoati.���Aiiiri-icun mid Dtii-upc-uu plan. �� , ��� . Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars. . 2 Billiards' and Pool. 5*��o*K"��H>*0'��0*<i*o*o*o*<:'ecFO*a*#D*.>^ M- ' ' 1 1 ... , , . The Spruce Creek Assault . Case. Pat Callaghau, who was arrested last week ou a charge of "wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm" on James Jenkins, was on Wednesday committed by Mr. IS.- M. N. Woods for trial at the next Court of competent jurisdiction. The evidence of the injured man had to be taken in the hospital, as he had not recovered sufficiently to be able to attend court. Chief Constable Oweu acted for the prosecuiion, while Mr. W. G Paxton watched the case on behalf of the, accused, who reserved his defence. e < b t u *! 'A 'A < K D B GOLD HOUSE, DISCOVERY, B. C. STRICTLY FIRST CLASS. JOHN WOLTERS, Proprietor. y D 0 E 0 >. 0 a *r o STAC. IK tc LIVEHY Mf CONNBCTION. RosseBi Hotel, DIXC*V BROTHERS, Fropri��ters Free. Pool &. Billiards, Freighting and Teaming j* Horses and Sieighs for Hire. Curling. The second of the scries of matches for the President's Cup was brought to a conclusion this week. In the finals, A. D. Lewi* beat James Stables, who in turn defeated W. S. Taylor. Lewis was thereupon declared winner of this, the last of thi* Winter's competitions for the Cup. It was intended lo have had a match this afternoon between teams reprcsentirg "Scotland" and "The Rest of the Universe', but it is feared that the game will have to be postponed on account, of the soft condition of the ice, caused by the genial warmth of the last few days. 'J'i H. RICHARDSON, atlin &. discovery. ���" ������ Full tine of Clothing Just From the East THE LATEST STYLES. Complete Stock of Dry Goods THE LATEST IN HATS, BOOTS AND SHOES. $mr GOLD SEAL GUM BOOTS- Our Goods arc the Ecst and Our Prices the Lowest. The Canadian Bank of Commerce. CAPITAL PAID UP $8,700,000. RxSEKVE, $3,000,000. Brunches of the Bank at oeatfae, San francisco, Portland, Skagway, etc Exchanges sold on all Points. Gold Dust Purchased���Assay Office in Connection. D. ROSS, Manager. As will be seen by reference to another column Mr. J. H. Brown- lee has not lost faith in the richness ������of this camp or its permanency. A Banquet will be tendered to Dr. H. E. Young M. L. A. on April 9th. by the Atlin District Liberal-Conservative Association. Ail Conservatives can secure tickets from the following committee:���-H. Cancellor, F. Breeze, G. A. Kerr, F. Dockrill, T. Fleming, Jules Eg- gert, O. Coniey, W. H. T. Olive, David Hastie, Capt. Hathoni and W. S. Tavlor. TIIE ROYAL HOTEL, ��.. ROSSELLI, Proprietor. Corner Pearl and First Streets, Atlin, E. C. FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION. CKoictai wmts, lkhjors and cicars���-case goods a spicmity. Hydraulic- Mining @ Machinery. HYDRAULIC GIANTS, WATER GATES, ANGLE STEEL RIFFLES & HYDRAULIC RIVETED PIPE 'ng & Estimates furnished 'on application ,- The Vancouver Engineering Works, VAVt'ovvitR, ' TS. C s\ mmm mm lufljfE'c-'Klra-'ii ���.... ���** ���:-'��� ^ffi&ward 'Whymper, whose namo re*- Calls tho greatest feats in mountain- ��limbingthe world has ever witness- isd*���he being the first to scale the Mattarhorn���and whoso ascents of tho 'Alps and tho Andes place him in tha forefront of daring mountaineers,- recently returned from his third trip ���over tho Canadian Kockies, says Thq ��� 4-lontreal Star. Honors sit lightly on . Mr. Whympcr, and he always declines to talk of those successes which ordinary individuals would be proud to discuss. Having c'onquorcd.. the greatest of the Old World's mountain peaks, & couple of, years ago, Mr. Iwhympor sought now fields to exploit on this side of tho Atlantic, and his contributions to tha twentieth century knowledge of'thomoun- (tains of Canada is most valuable to .everybody in general, and particularly to that increasing brotherhood , of mankind, who, urged on by tho (spirit of adventure, delight in climbing upon tho roof of the world. WltjrMipar, tta* llountsta Cllaabar. Mr. Whympcr will tell you, wljcn you ask his ago, that ho is in his 7G0th month, and while you aro tig-' uring out that ho is in his 64th year, you will'wonder that time has dealt bo gently- with him: Tho avicrago man would say that ho waa In his ''���'fifties,"i and Mr.' Whympcr would rejoin tliat years' "do not mako ago," and that, his "seemingly perennial youth- is owing to the.,oare ho tokos of himself,' and tho bodily' ox-' ercis*s he daily undergoes. To him,' ������exerciso'is pleasure and health, and ���all that makes a man happy and contented. So, after his victories amongst the 'Old World's peaks,' ho invaded the Canadian Kockies, and '.this year ho saw a great deal of ���what there is in tho Canadian mountains. Ho walked across tho Hires -panges which lie between tho prairies ' of Western Cunada and tho "Pacific Const, to see for himself the'hidden beauties of that piclurusquo region." Laughi at Hardships. Halo-and hearty yet, as strong oZnd lusty us a youth in his twenties, Mr. Whymper laughs at what thoso who ���whilo away tho time at five o'clock teas would call hardships. A tramp of 500 miles is not 'an easy one, ��� oven in an old settled country; to walk that distance through tha , mountains of British Columbia is a. task from" which- many would shrink., "And yet," he says,_ "it was merely/ a pleasuro excursion. 1 hava gono from London to Aberdeen, from JParis to Lyons,, and from Paris .to Marseilles, and, .while .Great .Britain and .France' are beautiful countries, -they cannot compaij with the magnificence of these- Canadian mountains. 1 started from east of Kana- ooskis Falls on August 6th, reaching ' ���Yale, tho head of navigation on tha ITrascr, on Septcmbi i' 9th, and averaged twenty-five miles a day when -the weather was fa\orable. I did .not keep to tho railway track all the time, but when I thought there ;was eomothing out of the ordinary ito see off the line, 1 made d"tpurs, and was amply recompensed .or my. trouble. There are many s'po i worth seeing���and this leads me to say - -that pcoplo should not rush through tho mountain? in railway trains, for thoy miss a great deal they other-, ���wiso would see; they should atop ���ovor at ceveral places to thoroughly Worship tho grandeur of nature. Which places are they? Well, too many places to give in detail, but for 600'milos, as 1 havo said, the lov- .ar of naturo has a world to admire.'' Points Ecpscially Notlco.iblo. ���Tho upper valley of tho Bow," ho eaid, "is not inferior to tho best .parts of tho Upper Thames, yet along tho entity) distance from Banff to Laggan, there is not a single setr- tlor." Putting aside such fon-turns of tho country as are now well known and places on the railway that are .frequently visited, Mr. Why in per indicated a few points, in tho vicinity of tho line, which ho considered wero especially noticeable. Thoy wore: Tho country around JJonald, which Is extromoly fino, and almost entirely unexplored; the grand forest ttves- and tho neighborhood round about Albert Canyon; ".Eagle Kiver," connecting Griflin Lake and the Great IShuswnp Lake, which latter combin<s the charms of Windermere and Lugan; Griffin Lake, almost as at-. tractive as the famous Lakes ol Thun and Brionz, but has not' yc*t cot a setl '; the stream from tho J reat to-tho Little Sliuswup l.al'e," called oti the spot "The Little Hirer," with boaittiful banks mirrored in Itfl tranquil waters; the western ur.A of tho Little Sliuswup Lake, with its covos, and folingo overhanging hundred yards wide, with w����*/�� t���� clear as the Mediterranean.- A Collection of KowtwoKx*. Spread on his bed were seven pairs of foot-gear���from sandals and slippers and moccasins to heavy-solcd hobnailed mountaineering boots��� which Mr. Whympcr uao.i in his travels. At night ho luxuriates in slip- poi'fl, When the hard work of tho day .bojli)^, he dons hi<J heavy- boots or ma sandals, accoiding to circumstances and plods along. Tr-e sandals, h& says, r by tho way, with stockings, ate an abomination There aro jr.oaqttitoce, and if you have no stockings on they <jro not so bad> but when you put on this (ootweiu, tho bills of tho ni��j!>quitoss fn.*5 a firm hold In tho h��(w, dnsl then looi�� ou$ for trotitilc. "(flic*- moccasin, is the7 Vjost footdX'*;!(2' u.iuiec certain, circumstances, {\flC. ���Wv* tthxjrf^incti.nowB uoitqr tl^cyi tlju*. ci^L^rc-i' *rfiiis> , in��.n how to Ueo Uv.vav * Civ-... .ffl��"ioi!<?*'C9' not_tca��h us ail. Uui^a tb^t are. useful; 5iia In some fii&fierS our brother in rod could give ua pointers. It was a grand trip Mr. Whympcr mado through tho Kockies, almost unaccompanied except by hin own personality.. Ho had < an assistant with four tents, who went ahead to prepare camping places which Mr. Whymper occupied, and No. 1 tent of to-day became No. 5 of to-morrow.. Grub���food we sometimes call it?. Well, he* took a small hamper with him, and' contrived with the ingenuity of a trained mountaineer, to nov- er'find himsolf hungry without opportunities for gratifying his wanls. "Ono .thing was noticeablo," he Baid, "I never saw a ferocious animal in all my walks. Porcupines thoro wevc, and squirrels, ��� but no "boars 'nor I'mountnin lions." This evidently wae a disappointment to him. i A S*��*cnine������nt Hoantaln. The Crow's Nest Teak is a magnificent mountain, ho snys, but littlo is known of it. Tho Cave, tho source of, tho'Old Man Stiver, which flows from a largo mountain, is also nn interesting point, and tho Crow's Nest- Lakes havo a beauty of their own.'. There is an abandoned part'of thd. railway near the .Loop, and between". tho Loop west of that and the Arrow Lakes aro many places which would provo very attractive to tour-' ists, and especially to those who car. rled a camera. Through this country, in-the valleys, wero fine fields for settlement, but as yet they, hava vory few inhabitants. In his, ophv ion", it will not always b.o thus, for thq fertility of the land appeals to ' tho agriculturist. On t-ho subject of the relative antiquity of'" tho higher parts' ot No'rth America, Mr. Whymper said: "I am traveling to learn, and to learn about matters which-arc not found in books. The fact that a littlo to the east of .Winnipeg, and thenceforward to tho Rast all tho way -through to Halifax,' the exposed rocks havo been obviously ico ground,- and have not only, boon ice ground, out havo been ground by ice for centuries, is a matter of considerable in- terost. In going westward towards tho Rockies. I expected to sec 'still Biore emphatic signs of ice'C action, but I have not found anything of the kind. There avo a number of largo glaciers in the immediate neighborhood of tho Canndian Pacific Railway, but so far as I have been able to observe, they do not present any indications that they have ever been materially larger than- they aro ' at present." Asked in regard to comparison of Canadian scenery v. 1th other places which he had visited, Mr. Whymper said: "I do not 'know any other part of tho world of which it can bo said that thero is not a dull milo in ovor BOO miles. My walk across tho Canadian Kockies was undertaken because I folt that it was impossible to sce^adoquatoly the beauties of this wonderful region. They cannot be seen'in traveling by railway -alone, oven if ono wont over it twenty times." Superstitious 'Brides. " There "will be proof of the survival of two oJxi-time superstitions at the marriage of Miss Harvey to Sir 1'a.triok Playfadir. One of the "bricLesmiiids, following a West Country custom, will, says the "Onlooker," wear green stockings ."far luck," wliile ���ihe old' rhyme, "Sometihing old and something new. Something ' borrowed and something bluo," will also be remembered, tho last-named ' necessity, being arrange*.! foT by tiho choosing of blue hats and fwttlhcrs for ibhe six bridesmaids. "Brides arc jiwt as supeirstitioi.'s as ever they were," said Lite clerk of one of London's mo.st fashionable churches yesterday. "There nra-y not bo so many fiiiporsl.itions as Uic.ro u*3wl to be, but what few are rcfL arc as much considered \s ever. "They will not oluingc the day, for instance, if thoy can help it. 'Dhey will do iimiyllinig rather than postpone the ceremony. "Then .they will not marry on n Friday. Tlm.t is supposed to be very un- ilueky. So is the, 13th of tlic month. "I remember one lady of titta who arranged to be married on a Frid/ty. Which was the 10th of the month. Then somcoino told her how s.wful lilir. consequences wou'ld bp, wo she said. 'Well, 'nave it a,rninged for the Monday sifter.' That was tihe 13L.h, so tihtiy' timtle her 'difuigo it again. Whether it was because sho changed the day or not I do not'know, but sihe figured in a divorce case not many yours after. "Many 'people' who are m.xrried hore insist on wlhite 'heather being used in the decorations. That is supposed to bring luck. It has to be specially bleached, of course."���"Daily Mail." Newcastle-���Was there any romanco conneotcd with your engagement? In- gerficld���Romance? I proposed to her at 8.45 and she accepted me precisely at S.15.���Detroit "Free Press." A CANADIAN AUTHORESS. ���"&r * $tiSftt flormil Jeanatte Osatii Efonnrad by Ou��4lB*> ������olatT of ArtUtR. 3a Saturday evening, 6th Dec, tho Canadian Society of Authors tendered a -reception to Mrs. Sara Jean- ���ctte (Duncan) Cotes, the taleated Canadian authoress, who is at present spending a short visit in Toron-' to. Hor homo is ,in Simla, India. . Mrs. Cotes, who has now attained an. .assured position among English writing novelists, is tho eldest daughter of Chas. Duncan of Brantford, in' which city sho was born in 1862. Educated at tho .Collegiate Instituto thero, sho commenced hor career as a Contributor of Tho Toronto Globo, joining, lator, tho cditoilal stafl of The Washington Post. On'her return to Canada flho became tho Parlia- mentary correspondent at Ottawa ol MM. IABAS JXANETTB (DUNCAN) COATBS, Tha Montreal Star, and wrote a do**" lightful scries of essays each week^ called "Saunterings." * In company wifKi Miss Lily Lewis she made a tour round the . world, .embodying her impressions in a vol- ^se called "A Social. Departure," which was ^ followed by another book, "A Daughter of To-day," and still another, "The American Girl in London." In l{39t sho married Bver- nrd Charles- Cotes, M.' A., of tho Indian Civil Service, who later becam*a the editor ,of a Calcutta .newspaper. Among her subsequent works ���' havo been: -"-The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib," "Vernon's Aunt," "Tho Story of Sonny Sahib," "His Honor and a Lady," "A,-Voyage of Consolation,'.' "Tho Path of a Star," "On tho Other Side of tho Latch," "Thoso Delightful .Americans,',' "The Crow's Nest," and "The Little Widows of a Dynasty." , ' Her latest storv, "Tho Imperialist,"'is a stronsrly written story of present-dny ' Ontario life. According to Mrs. Donaldson In The Bookman, ''the humorous .voin and crisp tono of her varied litorarv work'has won her a special nicho. among the wo* men writers of tho day." Oorman Stntlatloi. The statistics recently published by, tho well known" statistician, Professor Paul Langhaus, announces that thoro aro 89,500,000 of Germans in tho wholo'world, an increaso of 4,- 750,000 since 1900. Thero aro 77,- ?50,000i living m Europe; 11,000,-* 000 in America,' and 500,000 in Africa. In fifty-six cities thoro aro to bo found mora than 100,000 Gorman inhabitants. Of these thirty-three cities aro In Germany) and nine, in th�� United States. g, Discredited Natives. Ih the fjovc-.-nm.ent of their. East Indian possessions the Dutch have a law which provides that tho testimony of one white man shall be. *.<1H,1Li2��� that of seven, natives.. . . _' What "Dixie" Did. Brigadier-General "Jack" Hayes wai an aide on the stafT of General Kilpa.t> rick during tho Civil War. , . When a hand-organ began playing "Dixie" tho other night he left bis seai in front of a local hotel and went bile the house. "Why don't you like 'Dixie?'" asked * friend. * "On our march to the sea," said General ITayes, "wo were tearing up a rail' road, building bonfires of the ties and laying the rails across them until heated red-hot and then twisting them about trees and telegraph-poles. A bunch of Confederates, attacked us../..General Kil*. pat'rick ordered me to take out three bands and .begin playing, hoping to delay the main attack, until we had destroyed railroad communication. "I deployed the bands, and they gave the Robs the finest lino of music .they over heard. Finally all of them stojpped. '"Play more, patriotic airs/ I ordered. , . '"Wo don't know any more/ said mt three bandmasters in concert. '"Well, give 'cm "Dixie,"' I said. "Tho bands played 'Dixie/ and those Confederates let out tho rebel yell and started for us and gave us the worst licking we got on the march to the sea. That's why I don't seem to like 'Dixie.'* ^-San Francisco "Bulletin." Lifebuoy Soap���disinfectant���ia strongly recommended by tho medical profession as a. safeguard against infectious diseases. 93 T EDWARD BLAND, ATTORNEY ��� and Counsellor-at-Law, 501 Wayne County Savings Bank Building, 34 Congress street west, Detroit Mich Canadian business solicited. IS WELL KNOW DINTS FALLS There are Numerous Witnesses of ' Mrs. Adams' Sickness ��� ' ��� and Cure. ALf&QiLl She Surely Had Bright's .Disease ��� in iis Very Worst Stages. ��� And Just as Surely was Completely Cured by Dodd's Kidney ' r Pills. ' , . Burk's Falls, Out., Feb. 1.���(Special)���Mrs. Thomas.Adams, of Collingwood, whose almost miraculous recovery from Bright's Disease in its worst stages has caused a sensation, in the medical world, is well known in-Burk's Falls. She resided -here for years before removing to Collingwood, 'and it was while living here tliat she was stricken with the terrible disease that sweeps so many into fche grave. Mrs. Adams has many friends still living in Burk's Falls, and they well remember the helpless, suffering invalid, who in March, 1900, looked as if her only relief lay in death itself. They can recall how when the "dread words "Bright's Disease" fell from the. doctor's lips,- the report went around that .Mrs. Adams' doom was sealed, that' she would never rise from -her bed of suffering, on .which she lay. They can recall'how their sympathy went out to the little' chil-, dren who would soon.be motherless. ' WHAT CAUSED THE CURE. j Then while they waited ancl watched for the end a gradual improvement came over the sufferer. It was hardly noticeable at first, but as she grew stronger and was at length able to leave her bed and give to her children' a mother's care, they wonder- ingly- asked the cause. And then the truth came out. Mrs. 'Adams: had on the advice of a friend placed her trust in the old. reliable Kidney, remedy, Dodd's Kidney Pills. '��� ' Slowly but surely Mrs. Adams' strength came back till she was going about as if Bright's Disease had never held her in its clutches. Still the skeptics refused to believe. "It's only one of the vagaries of the disease," they said. "It will come back with the winter." But winter came and went. Another summer-and another winter passed, and to-day Mrs. Adams is able to say: "I have had no return of the trouble since Dodd's Kidney Pills brought me back . from the brink of the grave." . . And now all Burk's Falls, all those who knew Mrs. Adams in sickness ancl health, are forcod to admit Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her Bright's Disease, ancl cured it to stay cured. Neither has the lesson taught by Mrs. Adams' case, been lost. People recognize the fact that' if she had cured her pain in -the back with Dodd's Kidney Pills, she would never have had Bright's Disease. ^Orljjim ot a. Holiday. The second week in August, if not one of great historical importance in old Apasterdam, is certainly one of martyrflom for the nervous and. sensitive. An ancient custom prevails ac*r cording to which the juveniles of. tht town are allowed to beat their drums for several hours during a whole 'weell while parading the exchange. The story goes that about 200 yearn ago a plot was formed to blow un the exchange, but a smjill boy, ha] ..ening ttf let his ball roll under the vaulted foundation of the building, discovered th�� barrels of,powder which wero to do the wrecking. Se it was decided to reward tho lad, a I'd, on his being asked what he would like, the urchin said that ha. wished to be allowed to play at soldiers with his companions round the building, till being armed with drums, and to make as much noise as thej liked during several hours of the clnj for one week every year. This custom is kept up, and. as nil msinnnr of Instruments arc call-tl upon to represent a d'-um. tin kettli-'. nnd saucepan-lid* noi.excepted..tho din Is something to bi .remembered... ��� ��� iSttMC* ��B*��t la ma Old X.��ndm Btraafci*' ' W��rt��i Off by th* T.Uwm���Hat , Xo Lio��na��. 1 London's only lady shoeblack, who; did a littl* business in front of St.' Pancraa Church in tho Euslon road? bas, 16 appears, been warned by the* ���' polico. "The laiiy shoeblack took up) what ia really a strange business for! a'woman in order to help her hus-'- -band. Sho put a gloss on thobooto of'a few pedestrians requiring a| "shine," while ho performed odd Jobs , in the nelghbo lood. Tho shoeblack-' ing stand is o.i-;o a kind of employ-' ment bureau for master plumbers^'l any'of whom requiring a matt'- Citfi' k BTBA.KGK SIGHT IJf A LOXDOX ST��KIT./: at onco be ��upplied there with tha names and addresses of jobbing! plumbers out of work. After a picturo of tho; lady shoe* black had appeared in Lloyd's special*' edition, an evening paper interviewed' her. Sho then said: I musta't clean; 'em (/boots) on the box in the street*. any more���a police-inspector camo round yesterday (he'd seen what waa in the paper) and told mo I mustn't* Because I haven't got a license! "I didn't think 1 waa doing, an^' harm," Mrs. Birchmore, tho lady ia . question, went on artlessly. "It waa earning a few 'apencc instead of letting 'em go. And"would tho polica let mo have n. license?" said Mrg, Birchmore, doubtfully, dimly conr soious that the sex is under soma peculiar disabilities. Time, will toll* ���Lloyd's Weekly, Newspaper. . - The Usual Thing. Jones (who hfs w-iikud out of a second trtory window i*; hi* stoop)���Oh, dearl I hope niy nufomobile isn't hurt! Haffo and Hla Dliictpl*. A young man, un admirer of tfc��J great poet, attended one of Victor Hti�� jULy go's receptions, became engaged in ar�� \*\% gument and lost his temper. Hugo sol- jj|*| emnly rebuked'him. and he subsided., f^gl Presently the guests retired. One ofi In . them, however, had forgotten his urn- if a brella and returned to get it Looking; through an open door from the vestl-' bule, he perceived the young man on 4j< his knees bafoce the poet, sobbing out l}1* his ap&Iogies for his disrespect whiln |.' ' Victor Huf1'), v, ith almost regal digni* ty, extended his hand to'him and bad* him Fise. ��� Solid Virtue. Youth bae !ts o "n criteria by whlcM to judge things which Its elders assess by other standards. Henry had JuaJ come into his mother's kitchen, whert she was rolling pie crust. "Making pies, mother?" "Yes, dear." "Say, mother, your pies taste aU right," but why don't you make soma like Mrs. Thompson gives me and B1V ly? You can take a piece In your hant) and walk all round the yard eating 1% and it won't break." .--:������.'.- Rcclxnclnnt. Joseph was,an excellent cook, but h< was not what nilpht be called an accomplished literary man. At the sanif time ho conceived the Idea that n-cobk- ery book from his pen would fill a lonj? folt want He set to work; but, feel*- lag that perhaps he bad made.some, mistakes In composition, he submitted the work to a prominent literary critic, who promised to go through the work and correct It where necessary. After ft day or two bo brought It baclt. "Yea," he said; "It's a I! right so fni as I can see, but I rather fancy yoii'va been a little superfluous in your reclpa for lemon pudding." "Hart. I? How's that?" "Well, yon see, vyou say here, 'Thea alt on a hot stove and stir constantly.' Now, I really do not see how any on�� is going to sit ou a hot stove .without Stirring constantly, so I think you can do without that'Sfiilenco, don't- you know." Bridal Canto inn In Spain. In Spain a bride has no girl attenoV ants to stand at the altar with her, btrt Instead a "madrina.V or godmother' neither does she have a wedding cake or any festive going away after tha ceremony. The wedding pair depart quietly to their new home, where they remain until the following day, wIh-d 'J** they start on their honeymoon. Bel'oro i '' departing they pay a formal visit ta |"j their respective relatives. \ j HIk Trouble. "Have any buxxiug in your <��arsr" asked the doctor, who was trying to diagiiase thocase. "No," replied Mr. Flenpeclc, ��� ��� W 'not e��.?4 cept when I'have to stay In the housa." ���Chicago Record-Herald.. ,. Family Dijilomaioy. "I turn nil ��ny hills over to my ���rife." "Does she have the* money?" "No. the nerve."���Cincinnati Ooraicer- dill 'i'rlbunz. , .' Worry -wont cure a cough. When you find a cough holding on��� when everything else has failed��� try - "' 's Tho Lung Tonic It is guaranteed to cure. If it doesn't, we'll refund your money. Prices: S. CWeixs & Co. 301 ZSc.SOo. $1. LeRoy.N.Y.,Toronto,Can. S'if ."i-Ti"n-*':ut:r wr ATUN, B. Gi,- SATURDAY, MARCS.. a6, -1904. *<*i i ���maaaLMBia.'ff.fl 'J1.1, ii.'.im.'v.r: PICKED UP HERE AND THEKE* McDonald'f Grocery make* a specialty of fresh eggs and butter. Mr. Hays Hazlitt, with a gang of ten men, who came up on the "Humboldt'', arrived yesterday afternoon. The men will woik on the propeity 'cm Spruce crcrk, owned by the Spruce Creek Power Co., I,td., and preliminary 'operations, under Mr. HazHtt's superintendence, will be commenced at once. Freih Egi?s just arrived at E. I,. FiUman & Go's. Mr", J. Rox borough, of Surprise take Hotel, srrived on Wednesday from Skagway, accomparied by Mt$ Rdfcborough .and their two sons; along with them were also a brother-in-law of Mr. Roxborough. The entire party came straight through' from their old home in Belfast. Ireland. Fresh Garden and Flower. Seeds at C. R. Bourus's . Dr. Scharschmidt,' who has been here on business for the last week leaves,.this morning for White Horse; he is accompanied by Mr. G.' D. Sinclair, who is going; out to the uew strike at Alsek. Latcet . Magazines, Periodicals .and Circulating Library at E. I,. Pillinan & Co: E. A. and .W. E. Bulette arrived this week from the outside;. they will-immediately resume work on the "Bulette" group on Spru-e creek. Stevens Single Barrel, 12 bore Shot Gun. Apply Claim Office. The Atlin Musical and Dramatic Society will hold rehearsals every Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in their rooms nt the Grand Hotel. A full attendance is requested on Thursday evening next. Well assorted Stock of Domestic and Imported Cigarss at Bourne's. Our genial musical friend, Mr. J. T. Pilling, on Monday evening entertained some of his lady friends at dinner at his residence on Third Street. The repast must have been a ��� sumptuous en*, as three of the lady gnestn had shortly afterwards to go to the Hospital. No serious effects are expected. (Communicated.) Mr. J. H. Richardson is making extensive alterations to his store preparatory to the arrival of his new stock of Spring Goods. . If you want a good meal go to the Quick Lunch Room, Mrs Heuning proprietress. W. G. Paxton, Notary Public, has taken offices in the Claim Block. LATEST WIRES. , Continued from Page Four. Paris. 23m:���Prime minister Combes has denied that he is to immediately retire from the premiership ca a result of recent cabinet reverses. Liege, Belgium, 23rd:���Another anarchist outrage was .attempted this morning by an infernal machine, placed on th.e window sill of the residence of police corumission- <*r Binet. Mr. Binet discovered the machine in time to prevent damage. Ottawa, 24th:���China.has appealed to Great Britain to nullify the Canadian $200 head tax on all Chinese entering Canada. Since the inauguration of the tax not one Chinese emigrant has entered Rri- tish Columbia, where before thou- Nauds came every year. It is not believed that Britain will disallow tiie act. Montreal, ���William Whyte, for many years Western Manager of the C. P. R., with headquarters .at Winnipeg, and recently appointed Vice-President.of the C. P. R.," a position that had remained vacant for years after elevation of Sir Thomas Shaughnessy to the Presidency of the road, has been offered the management of the Russian Trans- Siberian Railway at a fabulous salary. He would not consider tbr offer. Victoria,���The missing "steamer Queen City ,has beeu located at Quatsino, where she is laid ' up with a broken tail" shaft. A tug has been sent to bring her1 home. Baltimore,-���Geo. E. Yewell,' one of the last survivors of the Greely relief expedition, is dead of consumption at this place. Vancouver, ''34���-W. H.'D6rman,v post office inspectoi here, died last night of erisipelas. Ottawa, 25.��� The late B. T. A. Bell-, Treadgold concession commissioner, was insured against accident for $15,000 and held straight life insurance to amount of $20,000 or $25,000. i.i-WJgtL.i,^ajALjuegaLoi��*ro^ STABLES & LUMSi We are still doing business at the Old Stand , 1 THE IRON STORE. And are to the front with Fresh Eggs and the best brands of Butter, backed up by a full line of Groceries, best brands on the Market. CUR MOTTO." Fair trsatmont to all OUR AIM- One* �� Customtr, ��lwiyi b Customer. THE BRITISH COLUMBIA POWER AND MANUFACTURING. Co., Limited. ELECTRIC LIGHT RATES: ��� Installation, $3:50 per light. 16 Gar.dio Power Incandescent $3:GQ'per month per light. ���c >4 It IB .. $1tSO ��� *r Chbapbr, Butticr, Safer, Cleanlier, & Healthier Than Oil. Mobbbx Steam I.aokbkt ik Commboioh Wash Bundles Collected &��� Dslivxbxd. Better Work and Cheaper Rates than any Possible'by Hand Labor. J. T. REGAN. ATLIN &, DISCOYERY. Shslf and Heavy, Hardware? Giant Powdor fuse and Gaps. Tin and Granite Ware���Miner's ft Blacksmith's Supplies.---Doors and Windows. One Price to AIL The Rise and Fall. The lowest and highest temperatures recorded for the week ending 25th. inst, are as follows: DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP Men. 19 8 below i8 above ae 10 12 21 ���*�� H 22 5 21 23 34 0 3 above �����4 ���' 33 35 3 29 LOUIS SCHULZ, Wholesale and Retail Butcher FIRST STREET, ATLIF, B. C. ROYAL HOTEL. DISCOVERY, ���. O - B. C. CHOICEST WINES LIQUORS & CIGARS. ALEXANDER BLAIN, Proprietor. FOR WANTED Special Ber>re��ontatlvo In thii and adjoining territorial, to represent and advertise an old established buiinem houi.n of solid flnaneial ttatiJluz. 3u.ln.ry, (21 weekly, with expaniex, advanced ouch Monday by oheok direct from headquarter*.. Expermee advanced; position permanent. Wo furuUli everything. Addreso. The Col umbia, ISO Motion Bide., Chicago, III. Call and get prices at 7 KOYrCSIo hereby given that tbo partner- nfilp hitherto existing; between Gcorjro Lee Garden and David Llvingritono Hall has been ���Jietolved, and all aaseU, and lialiilitiei contracted by said Garden and Hall have been 1 taltBD over and aunuraed by David Livingstone Hall. Dated at- Atlin, U.' C. Feb. 90th. 1904. . Q, Lo�� Garden, 9. h. Hail THE MEAT MARKET THIS HOTEL IS STOCKED WITH THE 0EST OF GOODS Fihst Strkkt, Atlin. I, KEEP NONE BUT PRIME STOCK���LOWEST MARKET PRICES. ALL nU St-wJc f*��ttm��x? tn h- fkhuh-.. A PI 1-1 H*l M WS-SflWAlWll*
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Title | The Atlin Claim |
Publisher | Atlin, B.C. : Atlin Claim Publishing Co. |
Date Issued | 1904-03-26 |
Description | The Atlin Claim was published in Atlin, a remote community located in northwestern British Columbia, close to the Yukon border. The Claim was published by the Atlin Claim Publishing Company, and ran from April 1899 to April 1908. Although a number of different editors worked on the Claim, the two longest-serving editors were Alfred C. Hirschfield and William Pollard Grant. |
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Language | English |
Notes | Print Run: 1899-1908 Frequency: Weekly |
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Date Available | 2011-09-07 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
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DOI | 10.14288/1.0169706 |
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