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 Ir  i  ii-i  -'  -h V'^! /af/i/t,' /;a-4  ���>'<-'��� ��� ��� '*5',?,  v1   vv  *^T   .      '.* ! A,    J-"L       ^  ,~^~'V       y,  '    "*^1~  J " ,r i,  *   *i,  'f7Yl  VOL.  10.  ATLIN,   B.C.,   SATURDAY.     MAV     28.   11^04.  NC 354.  NEWS.  Pans paper savb thai General Kite  opatki.i has cut communication between the armies of Oencr.il',, Km;  olci and Oku *   ���  May 2isr;  A despatch fiom Kobe to the St.  I urn**'*, Gazette, London, after con-  iiiumig rt pen ted stranding of the  Ki.'sian cruiser, llogatji, on jocks  at ihc cnLunce to VLidivostock,  adds 'hit she wis subsequently  blown up to pi event her falling into  the hands ol Japanese, She was a  fine modern cmiber of 6,750?,tons  ��jntl .1 ��nei.d of 23 knots, with 580  Oi  X CICrt*,' >  Acini ral Togo raports \a success! si lecomioine ,by Japanese  gunboat 'aud toiptdoboa't destroyers al boil Aithur yesterday, with  little d'tpfage, m .spile of a hot cross  lis a from Russian torts. 'Theie  were no Japanese losses,.  - Eleven military trains^-baye arrived at I,Uo Yang during the past  twenty-four hours. * ~Y  .A Tokio despatch says that the  ibsee whu-h landed  at-Taku Shan,  , Tnbihtla- Surrounded and routed a  Ku*t.sl.in cavalry iorce on Friday;  seven raiks "no. th. Russians Jost  many, ,kilkd *or..vvouiuled.    Japa-?  ."nese had' [.ojosfesv-^EhemainJjpdy  0/-Japanese lorces,- which* are esti-  'inated at*80,000' men, remain-south  of Russian troopb who are covering  Liao Yang.  A despatch fiom New Chwang  savs the Japanese plan ot campaign  is puzzling the Russian authorities.  Japanese appear, then vanish.  The rjcent movement!) of Japanese in the direction of Liao Yang  aud Hai Cheng.^ere for^ the pui-  ���pose of causing Russians to move  northwaid, thus, giving Japanese  the opportunity to ,complete "their  preparations for the capture of Port  Arthur-  May 23RD.  - According to reports "-reaching  Russian headqunrleis at Liao Yang  fiom a Chinese source, Japanese  have made a laud attack on Port  Arthur, but have been repulsed  with heavy loss. These^ reports  are doubled in St. Petersburg.  ' St. Petersburg confirms Saturday's report tlut the Russian battleship, Bogatyr, which went ashore  near Vladivostock, has, been destroyed by Russians to prevent the  vessel passing iuto the enemy's  hands.  Russian papas do not like the  suggestion of the French ambassador at rekiii, that a Congress of  Pov.cs be held for ihe purpose of  effecting the coi.clusion of the war.-  Foui Jjp.in*.*,e ��pies have been  ariestecl al Uonstadt in connection  with ihe recent attempts to destroy  some vtssels of the BaLic fleet.  The spies seem to have escaped detection while at work by wearing  tne uniforms of naval cadets.  May 25T11.  A St. Petersbuig despatch to a  St. Fetcrsbmg says that tele-  giapluc rommiu.iica.iyu with JN'ni  Chwaug i -. nilci 1 uptcd  Genii al Kuiopatkiu is said to be  piepniing to make a very important move against the enemy.  It is believed iu St. 'Petersburg  that Geueial Kuroki's army is in  difficulties.  Mukden says the Japanese have  resumed their forward movement.  There are persistent reports at  Mukden of a bloody"battle between  the Japanese army advancing along  the railroad and the Russians near  Kin Chow, resulting in the defeat  of Japanese with gi eat, loss.   *  Small paities of Japanese scouts  have been seen to the north-east of  Mukden. ,    ��� '       "<  A Chefoo despatch says, that''a  portion of Jhe Japanese fleet bombarded Pott Arthur* yesterday  morning.       -      rl> -   v      -   'a'1,  * A message from Tokio s'avs that  283'uou-commissioued��� officers and  ,Russians had madt elab^iate pie-  parations here to check the Japa-  nesV-movement south.  This'probjbly marks the opening of the investment oj towi. and  I'oitihcations.  St. Petersburg cannot conuim  Tokio despatches owing to communication with Port'Arthur being  interrupted, but Russians are of  opinion that, if coriect, there has  resulted a very heavj loss of life,  because of the strength of the Russian positions.  London, 9 45 'p. m.:���A Cential  News despatch from Harbin states  that the'Japanese had 12,000 men  killed in the capture oi Kin Chou.  IL A. D. CO.  Dredge Now Operating Without a Hitch.  SAD ACCIDENT.  Indian' Boy Crushed His Skull - ���  .,by Falling on Logs.,'     ,   >  Last   Monday -afternoon,   while  playing with a number of children  near the sawmill,* an . India'n   boy, ''  from'Teslin  Lake', fell ou,aboora.  of logs. ' His head >got jammed be- -  tweeu the timbers, crushing iu his  skull.    Death  tiiuit have been instantaneous.    He was  buried last  Wednesday. -,     _  Bull Creek.  Q-ood   -Prospect. Ahead" for, .the  Enterprising' Promoters���Boul-'  r\!;,derslHandled with Extraordl-  me'n were drowned by the "sinking  of the ciMiser, Yoshiao/*'       ^-j*.' j  ^rAY 26th.        ���*��� . -  A cable received in London this  evening'fromTokio says that the  Japanese attacked Nan Quan Shing  on the .narrowest part of" Kwan  Tung peninsula yesterdav and  drove back the Russians by-main  force.    An   attack   on '-Kin   Chen  t  was begun at dawn today and by  noon the city was in the bauds of  the Japanese, who occupied the  castle. Fighting continued during  the afternoon and was of the most  desperate character. It is believed  thecasualties w,ere heavy.  Viceroy AlexiefF reports to St.  Petersburg that there is a rumor  current that the Japanese have  bombarded Port Arthur, Tuesday ;  but there is no official confirmation  regarding it.  The Cossacks who are operating  on General-Kuroki's line otYcom-  munication aie said to have made  an important capture of some of the  enemy's guns.  Chinese at Chefoo say the Japanese are now within ten miles of  Port Arthur.  MAV   2/TH.  A Tokio despatch to the Japanese legation iu London says that  Kin Chcu and all strategic heights  in the vicinity have been taken by  the Japanese troops, who are pushing the Russians back towards  Port Arthur.  Another Tokio despatch says the  Japanese army swept the Russians  from Kin Chou last night, and in  0 desperate night attack stormed  what were thought by Russians to  b�� almost impxegaable position**  nary Facility.  The-24th of May was' right royally celebrated by the B. A. D. Co.>  ���at noon the power was transmitted to the monster dredge and the  first revolution of its immense  buckets was made. Mr. Woods,  the dredgeman,- i�� a�� interview,  remarked that he had started a  great number of dredges, but in all  his experience he had never known  one to staitwith less difficulty in  regard .to its machinery. - Itran.for  the first time four hours without  ever warming its bearings ; a stop  was then made ,to turn the dredge  rourd and attach the tail scoW  after which work was again resumed and everything moves  smoothly up to the present. Considering the great, depth of frost  still iu the ground, this achievement speaks volumes for ihe future  of the Switz-Canna.  Notwithstanding adverse opinions as to the capability of the  dredge to handle boulders, today  the machine has pioved that it can  and does handle them, satisfying  the most sceptical, a number of  whom have paid a visit to the  dtedo-e, to witness to their own  satisfaction the extr^or linaiy power  developed by the machinery and  have seen the large boulders going  through with as much ease as the  ordinary gravel  Our editor will pay a visit to the  dredge next week and will be able  to give some data as to the quantity of gravel that is being handled  aud further particulars as to the  prospects. We thought it wise to  let the dredge operate at lrast a  week before goii.g into a desxnp-  I tion of its full capabilities.  The  Bull  Creek Hydraulic and  Dredging Syndicate of Atlin, B. CY,-  are" prospecting,   by   means of a   ���  small hydraulic plant, the extensive benches of auriferous gravelou  the  headwaters  of the, O'Donnell.-  River. ' Operations are in charge of '  Mr. A. Carmichael, and he tells ns  that most encouraging results have  been  obtained" already.:1 The'gold  in that district is of the flax seed  variety and very evenly distributed  -  through the gravels.    Large  boul��-'  dersYare "scarce, .the .wash .being.  small uand ��� generally ��loose.Y -The -*���  opening up of such extensive areas  of auriferous gravel  to the  south- r  east of the Pine Creek'  watershed,  indicates that the producing area of  the district is not limited to the one  j'valley. . -  Spruce Creek.  Winter   Dumps  Sluicing   Up   Wall.  The dumps on Spruce Creek are  nearly all cleaned up and the results -are perfectly satisfactory to  the operators, amongst whom are  Messrs. Clifford and Mclnnes,  Southward and McEweu, and Mc  Mullin, on 81 below, who did eveu  better than they expected.  Messrs. Lambert and T. Kearns,  on 7S and 79 above, have now completed 700 feet of flume and will  soon be shovelling dirt. As the  ground is known to be rich, they  should do well this season.  * Broe and Smaill have bought out  the Bulette property and are working a big gang of men.  Mr. Queen has stoped work on  his property for the season as he  had 110 way of disposing of his  tailings. As soon as the creek is  worked out he will resume work.  Mr. Queen has some of the mo3t  valuable ground on Spruce.  The Spruce Creek Power Co. are  going ahead and should soon be  taking out a goldeu harvest.  If you want a good meal go to the  Quick Lunch Room, Mrs Heuuing  proprietress.  -    l    ���*���   "-i'j'l  , *.   : * <-z: il  .'Ml  1 :r   _  -*-V"il  ������js7aTf23 J��Vl&&>W^^tt<witf.i>ft��.t.M*��^.l^^  ^/^ZJtfVMJtt&^^gX&uJHt^  I Sylvia's ��� ��� -   f  Pet Burglar  ili-aw  up  a  confession  selling     forth   Sylvia's father, and wc then hastened mmjl    '"P A |WTl\f]i|CJ     (I'D'     TTlTTlT A  *u���   f��H    +Wo+      ��,��   ���,.,��   mnnrnnl. "      1   in   Dn.nrinll's linnco       Tfnnrlnll   Was      a     ���** ****-U       1 ilUIXllJJU       Ul        JLJ.1 JJJ..Q  4  ^.x..:.<..:..:..>.:��x..:.<..:��>^<��*:��:��>*w  i.  "JLiisten to me," said Sylvia. "You  know 1 can never be more than a sis-  tcr to you. I have a great regard  lor you, Percy, and Have at times almost loved you. But you arc so indolent, so lacking in spirit, that 1 can  never be your wife. Our temperaments are so dillerent. Let, us remain friends, thou, and never recur to  this topic again. If you do, 1 shall  excuse myself when you call. Now,  what 1 wished to sec you about is  one of our new neighbors."  1 had known Sylvia from boyhood.  In    the suburbs,   where we lived, life  was as quiet as in a country village.  , Living alone with an old housekeeper,  my books and collections, I depended  entirely upon Sylvia for woman's society. '  But I  had  failed to  win  her  love.    Her people thought a great d'eal  of  me���7)11     fact,  had   always  treated  ' me as a son, and J was positive that  my  cntrance,.into  the  family     would  have   been   hailed    with     satisfaction;  Hut I was  a booky,   indolent     young  man,-with no desires for a strenuous  life, and" Sylvia was very strenuous. I  believed even as I sat there disconsolate in their little drawing-room that  'should T join,a fire brigade, put     up  for Parliament,     or be arrested     for  scorching in my motor-car,  the coals  of lovo .would burst into  flame.  .But  I simply  could  not  do  those things,  and   so  Sylvia remained  a, sister   to  me.  One point was in my favor.  I had  the  entree  to  Sylvia's home    at    all  times,  and thus far no rival hod  prc-  , scnted himself.     My only hope     was  to  tire     her  out.       Although  placed  above  the     need  of  earning my own  living,  1   was not  weak,  merely     loo  indolent to make an ellort.  "Your  neighbor''"  I   prompted.  "Yes, -our  new  neighbor.       He's    a  burglar,   you     know,"   she   explained,  wjlh   much   animation.  ,   "Don't you find that inconvenient?"  I  suggested,     trying  to   conceal    my  amazement. .   '  "Oh] no! What's more, he is going  to call on  us,"  she replied.  "Do you tell me this.to make me  jealous?     I demanded.  "Don't be a goose, Percy! ' I want  you to, know him and have him call  on you. I told his wife that ] would  get your consent to have . him call  Rome- night when j<ou were out, when  it wouldn't annoy you," she continued.  "To commit burglary in my house?"  T gasped.  she nodded  her  sweet  the fact that we are innocent," ,1  cautioned, for I did not-like the idea  of Sylvia' mixing up in such schemes.  "It's purely a family affair," she  said. "Besides, he hardly ever takes  anything of value."  I ventured to doubt a little; but  this offended, her, and I hastened to  beg her pardbn. Somehow I was always begging her pardon. Then I  went home, and secreted' several rare'  vases,.and retired with the side door  unlocked. He did not visit me that  night, however. He went to Randall's, and carried off somo of the  coal, and' took Penderby's milk: I  heard Penderby swearing softly as he  caught the Citv train the next morning. "     "  .  II.  Personally, there was nothing in  Mr. Timbs, our burglar, to excite antipathy. He Was a short, fat, placid-faced old gentleman, with a fringe  of silver hair and the most innocent  blue'eyes imaginable. On two'different mornings 1 saw his wife cheerfully returning the fruits of ljis night's  work, and learned later that she had  insisted on paying for the coal and  milk. Then he came to me. I was  awakened by a loud,noise dowastairs,  and gained the first floor just in time  to see liim tugging away at a saddlebag chair.  "Let me carry your basket and  lantern and give you a lift," 1 offered  politely.  ;IIe  smiled     cheerily,   and   patiently  waited till I slipped on some clothes.,  "Won't you come back?'.' 1 invited,  when we had got the chair over     to  his house. '  "T can't' to-night," he said sorrowfully. "I've got to go to Randall's  and get a bicycle, and I've haii-prom-  ised to''Call for Penderby's baby tonight. So, you see, 1 have my hands  full."- Then he added lretfully: "So  much to do, and so'little time to do  it in. I ought "to havo an assistant.  If my wife wasn't"so economical T'd  have one. Busiest time of the year  for me, and no one to aid me."  I left him, after expressing my regrets, but took care to go after the  chair in the morning. Mrs. Timbs  thanked me for my forethought.' She  had just carried over a small sack  of coal to Sylvia's home.  "But he's getting better fast, she  declared enthusiastically. "I can remember when I had to carry things  back on the sly, or it would break  his heart." ' .  "If it would soothe him at all     to  keep the chair ", I began."  "Oh, no! In the morning he  doesn't remember anything about ,it.  Ho would knoW it wasn't his -property,  and  would  worry as to     how  to Randall's house. Randall was a  jeweller. His losses he estimated at  about ��1,000. Pondcrby was minus  a gold watch and ��100 in money.  "I should say he wan cured," grinned Randall sardonically, after he had  rushed to the, police.  J found Sylvia in tears, but could  not stop" to comfort her, for her father and I had determined to try to  find clues. A milkman told us that  he had met a silver-haired couple  driving a foaming horse towards Row-  berry, an adjoining town., We got a  horse and trap and gave chase. Just  two miles this side of Bowberry we  sighted our quarry. Timbs was in  the middle of the road, frantically  tugging at the harness. As we drove  up lie sprang into his carriage and  whipped up the horse. But the harness broke,again, and before he could  repair it we wero upon him, I grappled with him, and found to my surprise that he had muscles hard as  steel. Back ,and forth wc swayed,"  while Sylvia's father held Mrs. Timbs.  I really believe my man would have  beaten mo if ;he had not tried to  reach his side-pocket. When' ho did  that he loosened his grip on my  throat, and I threw him. After some  farm laborers Had come to our assistance we discovered that his pocket contained an ugly-looking revolver.  On returning home we met some of  the police.  ;'Calls himself Timbs���eh? Why,  this is Tommy Rogers! There's a reward of ��50 for his capture. Better  call and get it."      *  "And his wife?" sobbed Sylvia.  vSho is worse than he is, impossible,"   declared  the  officer.  "Sylvia," 1 suggested meekly, onco  wo wore alone .and I had satisfied her  that I was uninjured, "don't you  think I've been strenuous eno.ugh to  win you?" , 1  "Yes, dear," she whispered.���London  Answers. ,  4-  THCEY WILL ' ALWAYS  DEPEND  UPON THE  MONSOON.  Efforts     Made to Anticipate ' and  Mitigate  the   Sufferings  of  the  Stricken.  THE w/��*" tt-t-ey DO IT."    <.  How Pat Japs Become  Slim.  Thin Ones Put on Plesh.  But-I thank you for  "Yes." And  head eagerly.  "Sylvia," T  wouldn't mind  your  dear  sake  said   sorrowfully,-    "I  being   vaccinated    for  You   know,   darling,  how I've always loved "  "No more of that. Percy," she interrupted sternly, "or 1 shall leave  the room. T had supposed myself safe  in promising a friend your hearty cooperation in anything I desired. If  T have made a mistake we'll say no  more about it."  I was crushed.  "T apologize, my dear Beg pardon; don't go. Of course, Sylvia, if  you have given your word, and are  set on being burglarized, why, let  your friend come. T presume lie is a  stranger here, and has had bad luck"  in business. If I can help him I  shall be pleased to do so. ' Is he  young?"  "Oh, no!" And she laughed gleefully at my obvious jealousy. "Lot  mc explain. His wife is the dearest,  sweetest little old lady in the world.  They have always lived happily together, but he is now sulfering in his  old age with a mild mental ailliction.  Ho is perfectly rational except at  night, when lie is seized with an ir-  ristible desire to commit burglary.  Barring that, he is a perfect dear of a  man."  "Oh, he is not a self-made burglar,  eh?     Not   a  professional   yet?     Well,  who eiso is he to practise upon?"    T  , inquired, relieved to know he was not  a dashing Claude  Duv.ul.  "Well,"   said   Sylvia,   checking     off  on  her     pink  lingers,   "he   is  coming  hero���to your place "  "Thank you!" 1 murmured.  "To Randall's," she, . continued  frowning, "and to Penderby's. There  arc four good places booked already."  "Th ho fussy?" T asked. "Does he  insist on calling at a dilieront house  every night in the week?"  "Not at all. .Somo nights he  won't oven go out. The doctors say  he will be cured within six months.  Why, ho used (o use a dark-lantern  and take the most, valuable things in  the house. Now he goes out with a  common lantern, with a big market  basket on his arm, Just like any honest man, and taken anything he comes  across."  "Hut I will not havo to sit up for  him, will I?" I inquired, feeling-.that  the old man would prove to bo a  bore. ���'"'  "That's the best part  of it!"     she  cried.     '-'Just leave the side door unlocked,   and   don't  pay, any  attention  to his coming and going.    Then    on  tho  next  morning  his  wife .will     return everything he lias taken."  "Stolen,"  I corrected.  "No,  taken,"-.she insisted,  j".Jimt  as you say,  Sylvia.        But,  remember,   if  anyone makes  a     com  plaint yoii and I will go to gaol   to  it   came    here."  your kind offer." _  In the afternoon I called on Sylvia  and found her admiring somo lace. --*  "See!!' she cried. "lie toook this,  and must have rumpled it dreadfully,  for he had a loj; of potatoes in the  same bnskct. But dear Mrs. Timbs  washed and ironed  it all out."  "T-Tow do. you arrange for his visits?" T asked.  "Oh, wo lot*- him have the lower  floor, and lock the doors at the head  of the stairs. He is so used to our  house that ho seldom disturbs us  now. I had an awful time prevailing  on papa ,to let liim come in. But you  know papa always does as I want  him to."  "But doesn't it displease him to  find doors locked?" I asked.  "No; he may feel grieved, and rap  on the doors ancl ask for tho keys.  Then wo tell him wo can't lind them  in the dark. ��� Oh, it's such fun! You  see, wo novcr know when we get up  what wo will find missing. The other morning ho cleared out the kitchen  and pantry, and papa had to get his  breakfast in town. And, would you  believe it, Mrs. Timbs wanted to pay  for the breakfast?"  "She certainly is a generous woman, and has a great* deal to worry  her," I assured hor. But after this  conversation I kept tho upper part of  the House locked.  Then passed .a lucky week with no  visits. Il, was a great relief, as it  spared mc from calling on Mrs:  Timbs every morning to cart back"  my belongings. Trcr husband had  stolon the saddle-bag chair on four  consecutive nights, and on each' occasion T was forced to help him carry it homo. 1 told Sylvia that I  could not stand it much longer: that  she could not now acusc mo of being  indolent.  "Don't begrudge a good deed,'  sa i d.  "T   don't."     T  replied.     "Only  niiylit take something less heavy."  "I remember it was on a Friday  morning when I was arour.ed from a  deep sleep by someone hammering on  my front door. I looked out of the  window, and, to my great astonishment, behold Sylvia's father.  "No ono ill, is there?" I cried.  "T am," he said hoarsely. "I am  sick at heart for being an idiot. Sylvia's burglar took off ��3,000 in  banknotes .from my library safe last,  night. ��� I've bebn"ovcr to his houso,  and there's no one at honk���at least,  I can'.f arouse anyone." '     ,  ..I*Hustled  into" my clothes and joined him.  "Hut I thought Timbs was almost  cured?" I expostulated.  "Cure bo hanged! Looks more as  if his wife had the same ailment. Did  he visit vou last night?"  I hurried into the houso, and on  beholding the saddle-bag chair was  about .to answer in the negative, when  I thought of my collections. On open  she  he  . One of the ' chief features of the  Japanese method of putting on flesh  is to sleep outdoors with as little  clothing as possible. The advocates  of this doctrine believe that the loss  covering the body 'has the more it  will seek to protect itself by the  growing of fat.  In Japan there is a saying that'  any fat man can become lean, and  any. lean man fat, if ho really wants  such a change of figure  . Besides * sleeping 'as lightly garmented as possible, the Japanese  searcher for llesh sleeps a great deal.  Ten, twelve and even,fourteen hours  are none too much for him. In his  waking hours he is to be kept amused. Anxieties and thoughts of a  serious nature are to be banished by  the lively use of repartee and banter. For example, when he sits  down to breakfast he should . never  take up the morning paper to digest  along with his meal. - Instead, his  wife should relate the latest joke she  has heard, and* in the. place of* asking him for money to buy some  yards of this or ' that fabric, she  should explain how she has hecn  able to run the house under her allowance.  When the lean exploiter for fatness  takes exercise, ho* should practice a  discreet moderation. Jlo should  not exert himself too strenuously.  Should he go walking, he should not  run across stiects nnd.dodgo cars  and express waggons. If the crossing, is too congested, he should bide  his time and try a more unruffled  fording  place.  When . the   fat man wants to    become   lean     according    to  Japanese  principles,     he    should not   entirely  reverse  the  plan  of  getting  fat,  for  he.     too,     should  sleep   as much as  possible     on   top    of ' his blankets.  Even in rigorous weather, he should  try     to   make himself     think  ho  is  warm,     though    it   might test    the  faith of a Christian   scientist to  do  so.      Cold is believed to quicken the  circulation,   and   thus  carry  off    tho  waste  more  readily.,   -But  the , fat  man should  sleep  as little as possible.        If    ho can   cut    his hours of  sleep from eight to six, or even five,  ho  should make such  a curtailment.  When    ho exercises he should     exert  all  tho vigor he possesses.     'Should  his wife  desire to  help him     shrink,  she  should  present   him with'    bills,  or   announce   occasionally  that     sho  expected    a   visit    from her mother.  The  fat man  should  noUfnst.      The  stomach     should   be  kept at > work,  also,  but   with u  slowly diminishing  amount      of   food     each day.      Oily  foods  should   be  abandoned   by    the  fat  mini   wanting to  shrink, just   11s  (hey     should be eaten  in abundance  by the man  who wants more nvo'r-  dupoi.".  It follows, therefore, according -to  these methods, oitl.or in Japan or  America, ihc lean man trying to get  fnt has a decided advantage over his  fat rival who wants to get loan'. If  the methods they adop.t prove successful, the loan man has certainly  the easier victory. > He has been  taking life calmly;, enjoying his bed  and board, and laughing at the  jokes of his friends. , The fat. man,  on- the, contrary, has boon toiling  away as ho never toiled beforo, has  fretted over new anxieties, has been  routed out of bed'when his slumber  was deepest and most blissful, '��� and  has hurried along the street as if  running to a fire, when' his destination might have lieon the.tax office.  On tho other' hand, if such methods  fail, the fat. -man has had all his  "111 rr.V'and-worry- and   loss of    sleep  . Famine  is chronic in India.  It has  occurred     at  intervals     for  centuries  past,  as long as man remembers,  as  long as records have been kept,   and  undoubtedly will    recur  for  centuries  to     come, 1 although  the  authorities  who arc responsible for the well-being  of the empire are gradually organizing .to  counteract  the* forces  of     nature which they cannot control���by increasing the food supply and providing  for   its  distribution. . But    there  must be     hunger and  starvation     in  India'so  long as the population    re-"  mains as dense as it is.    The reason  is not because  the-earth  refuses     to  support so many people, writes,a correspondent. '   There is yet .a vast area  of fertile land untitled, and the fields  already cultivated would furnish food  enough for 'a larger population -when  normal   conditions  prevail.     There  is  always enough    somewhere in     India  for everybody in times of sorest-distress,  but  it is     not  distributed  equally, .and     thoso who arc short h'uvc  no money to buy from those who have  a' surplus.    The export of gram , and  oilier products    from  India' continues  regularly  in the lean  as well'as     tho  fat years,��� but tho country is so large,  the  distances aro so great,  so inadequate  that  ono province  may',be    ox-  porting  food   to   Rurope  because      it  has to  spare,  while another province  may' be  receiving ships  loaded     with  charity  ��� from'     America because     its  crops have failed and , r  ITS PEOl'LE AR 10-HUNGRY.  The health and'happiness of 300,-  000,000 human souls in India and  that of their cattle, their oxen, their  sheep, their donkeys, their camels,  and their elephants arc dependent np-  and on certain' natural phenomena over  which neither rajah nor maharaja, nor  viceroy, nor emperor, nor council of  state has control, and beforo which  oven the great mogul on his bejewelled throne stood powerless. It is  possible to ameliorate tljc , consequences, lmt it is not possible to prevent  them.   ,  Whether  the crops shall 1 be fat'   or  loan, whether the people and the cattle  shall  be well  fed  or hungry,    depends upon tho "monsoons,"  as they  arc called,-   the alternation  of    wind  currents, which bring rain in its season.-    All  animal  and vegetable     life  is dependent upon them.. In the early  summer    tho broad    plains are baked  by the "sun  to  a temperature   higher  than that of. the water of the   great  seas which surround them.     In parts  of northern  India,  around  Delhi and.  Agra,  the, temperature  in  May     and  June is higher than in any other part  of the empire, and is probably exceeded in no other part of the world. This  phenomenon remains unexplained. The  elevation  is about  2.100 feet     above  the sea, tho atmosphere is dry and the  soil is sandy.     But  for some  reason  tho rays of the sun are intensely hot  and are fatal to thoso who  are    ox-  posed to them without sufficient protection.    But this extreme heat is the  salvation     of    the   country,  and   by-  its own action brines the relief without  which all    animal  and \egolable  life would perish.    It draws from the  ocean  a current of wind laden     with  moisture     which  blows  steadily     for  two months toward the northwest and  causes what is called  TIIR RAJ NY SEASON. '  The quantity of lain that falls depends upon the configuration of the  land. Any cause which cools tho  winds from the sea and leads to the  condensation of the vapor .they carry; any obstacle which blocks their  course causes precipitation. Through  all the northern part of India there  is a heavy rainfall during Ai-ril, May  and June, the earth is refreshed and  quantities" of water are drained into  reservoirs called "tanks," from which  the'fields are irrigated later in the  summer. '  Over 80 per cent of tiie population  are engaged    in farming.     They   live  from hand to mouth.     They havo no  reserve whatever,  and if the monsoon  fails them,     nothing will growY  and  they havo  no money to  import   food  for themselves and their cattle    from  more  fortuoato sections.     As  a rule,  the monsoons    arc vuvy reliable, but  every few years they fail, and a famine  results.     The government, has     a  meteorologicnl  department,   with    observers stationed at several points in  Africa and Arabia, and in the islands  of the sen, to record  ancl report   the  actions of nature.     Thus it has been  able of late years, to  anticipate    the  fat and lean  harvests.     It is possible  to   know    almost    precisely     several  months in advance whether there will  bo a failure of crops,   and  a permanent famine commission has been     organized  to prepare measures of relief  before    they     ore  needed.       In  other  words, Lord.Onry.on and his subordinates arc reducing famine relief to     a  system   which promotes economy     as  well  ns efficiency.  ���THE WORST FAMINE        A-  bury them. The ��� empire has been  stricken almost as hard during , the  last ten years. The development of  civilization 'seems to make a little  difference, for the famine of 1900-  1901 was-perhaps second in severity  to that of 3 770. ��� This, however, was  largely due to the fact that the population had not had time to recover  from the famine,, of 1896-97, 'which  was almost 'as severe. And although  everything'possible was done'to,1 relieve distress and prevent''the , spread  of plagues and'pestilence that , are  the natural and unavoidable consequences' of , insufficient nourishment,  even now people are -dying by thousands every week.  Tho loss of    human.life by starvation in    British India alono     during1  the famine of 3900-1901 is estimated  at 1,230,855, and this is declared to  be  the minimum.     In  a country     of  the area of India, inhabited by a superstitious,      secretive    and    ignorant  population,   it  is  impossible  to-com--  pel  the  natives *   to  report  accidents  and deaths,   particularly among     the'  Brahmins,  who  burn instead of. bury  their  dead.     Those  who  know     best  assert that  at least 15 per cent!    of  the deaths are not reported in   times  of  --FAMINES AND EJPIDEMTCS.'  And the enormous estimate 1 havo  given does , not include any of the  native-states, which have one-third of  the area and one-fourth of the population of tlie> empire. In some of  thorn sanitary regulations arc observed, and statistics aro accurately  reported. . In others no attempt is  made to keep a registry of deaths,  and- there are no means of ascertaining > the mortality,,' particularly in'-*,  times of excitement. ' In these little  principalities tho peasants havo, comparatively speaking, no,medical 'attendance; they are dependent, upon ignorant medicine men and sourccrcrs,  and they d'ie oil like flics, without even leaving a record of their disappearance. Thoroloro, the only way  of ascertaining the,mortality of.lhose  sections isto make deductions from  the returns' of the census, which is  taken with more or less accuracy every, ten years.  "TUe"famine of 1900-1901." says  Lord Curzon, speaking on the subject, "struck" many who had never  beforo known what' calamity was  and who wero crushed by the sud- .  dcmiess and directness of the blow.,  It attacked native states wlrich had  previously never known the obligation  of famine relief. It laid, its hand  upon the primitive inhabitants of the ���  hills unused'to discipline or restraint,  impulsive, improvident, lazy, living in  an almost barbarous state, in l wild  and,inaccessible jungles. 'It-sharpened the lurking nomadic instincts o��  wandering tribes and sent them drifting about the country, a ti.rror to  tho relief_ officers For a year it never left hold of its victims, and six  months had not elapsed bcrorc famine  had brought its familiar attendant  furies in its tram, and cholera. .dy-��  sentry and fever fell upon an already  exhausted and enfeebled ;>onulation. A,  famine such as we have lately experienced cannot be met with a sigh nor  dismissed with a shudder. It is an  abiding landmark in the history < of  tlio Indian  people."  INOCULATED POOR PATIENT.  German  Doctor  Found  it   Cheaper  Than Buying Animals.  Prof. Dr. Noissor, who has charge  of a hospital for diseases of the  skin 'attached to the Broslau University, has been compelled to bow  before a public protest against his  practice of inoculating poor hospital  patients without their knowledge  with various forms of vims for the  purpose of watching the effects on  the human  system. .*'  For several months- past, however,  he has, according to I lie "Schlcis-  schc Zeitung," been experimenting  with anthropoid apes by inoculating  them with1 particular  diseases,.  lie now finds that this comes more  expensive   than   experimenting     with  human   subjects,   for   the  apes     cost *  him from ,<200   to  ��.'375 each.  Moreover, they are very son sit i veto climatic influences, and in spite  of the utmost care and attention,  most of the 20 which he has procured  hnvc died.  The ajies succumb, the professor  announces, not to the poison which  he injects but (o inflammation of  the lunos  and   intestinal  disorders,  in view of these circumstances,  Prof. NV'isHcr appealed to I ho Clov-  ernment for a grant to enable him  to prosecute his experiments, which,  however, according (o the authority  quoted above, lias been ivfused without any reason being assigned,  over-known in India occurred in 1770,  when .-'Mr'.' Warren Hastings, tho (lov-  ernor-Goneral,. reported ' that /one-  third of, the inhabitants of "Bengal  licrishod from hunger���ten millions out  of thirty millfon.sY The streets of  Calcutta and other towns were actually; blocked up; with tho bodies of  tho dead; which were thrown but   o'  LITTLE  Forgiveness  --��   TirOUC'lFi  rc-  fchan a  WJ "jij���   I 11111 1 ,v <   ��i in 1   -��v w* 1 ,y      1 win     ������i7    w��        ���.-���^^.|-       --    -      . --      .._-_     _....���....    ,,,,,,      w,  ing    the cabinet   .1 saw    thalA.IMOO   for nothing, while the lean man has   doors     and     windows,  because  there  worth  of pearls was missing.     I  told 'been living in peace and comfort.       I were no    means    or opportunity    to  is     the   sweetest  vengc.  A truthful enemy  is  better  lying friend.  Dilliculties are meant to rou.se, not  discourage.  .'���Most.'of. the   things   that seem  too  good; to bo friiu are  not.  If wishes were horses, we fihould  wish  they  were motor-cars.  Many a man is unhappy only because he believes himself to be so.  AVheu the worst comes (o tho  worst, it is best to inaki,1 the best  of  it.-  A man   is never benten  (ill he   hns  said  in his heart :   "I am beaten."  'A Virtue may be its own reward, but  some   people make 11   Irade-murk    of  it;  Next to acquiring good friendr- tho  host acquaintance is thut of good  books.  -nI  I  foil  I  If  ij  i  1  ''��  Hi eM9wmrt*an-M��sr  1/ ' '    . .  li' i ���  r$, :  |- What shrunk your woolens ?  $ Why did holes wear so soon ?  You   used _ common    soap.  REDUCES  ESPENiSS  Ask for (be Octagon Bar.  I *"i.iM*.*m*.umvi..  w<*y ������ . p,wiuj^ N.  i. U.t^.w^fl  rawsB^nanf  ���H TITE CHITIC.  J?'It is easy to sit in the sunshine  iSj '   And talk to the man in tho shade;  Ijj' It is easy to float in a well-trimmed  I? boat  I*5'     And point out the places to  wade.  It is easy to sit in youi"carriage  An.d counsel the man on foot;  But;get down  and  walk,   and?you'll  change your talk  ,,.     As you feel the nail in your boot.  '(���'jit' is easy  to  tell  the  toiler  j'l   Hbw best ho can carry his pack;  ,'But   no    ono    can    rate   a burden's  weight  Unlit it has been on his back.  Di  The upcurlod tmoutli of pleasure-  Can prcnch of sorrow's worth;  Hut givo it a sip, and a wryor lip  Was never mado on earth.        :  <.  "Thero arc two things," remarked  Fogg, in a contemplative mood,  "that I don't understand. 'One >of  these is, how the world got along  before I came into it; and the other,  how it is*"going to get along.-after  I havo left it." . ,  ii Mrs. Henry Peck (whoso mother  has been visiting them for over four  months) : "1 don't know what ..to  buy mothor for u birthday present;  do you ?" Mr. Henry l'cck :���"Yes,  buy her a ti availing bag."  NS 10 LOIftffi 1.   '.  DEATH SfflTHCE  BRIGHT'S        DISEASE      AGAIN  CURED BY DODD'S  KIDNEY PILLS.  'Miss  Johann Mayor,  Given, up by  Two Doctors,  is Again a" Strong  ��    Healthy   Girl.     '  Lochiel, Glengarry Co., Ont., May  !2���(Special).���That Bright's 'Disease  has come within the reach of Medical  Science and is no longer on tho list  of incurable diseases is again proved  in the case ��f Miss Johann Mayor, of  'this place. In an interview Miss  iMayor says:  "I had Bright's Disease in'its worst  stages and had to give up a piofit-  ablc position with a corset firm.'Two'  doctors whom I consulted gave, me  up, tolling me I had let the disease  go.too far. I spent' a fortune with  doctors besides going to Caledonia  Springs each summer, bu\ no good  resulted and , I began,,'to think _ I  could not endure life much longer. "  "It was then I started to . use  Dodd's Ivicfnoy Pills and it is owing  to them entirely that I am at .work  t**.-day.  a strong healthy '"'girl It  took eight boxes in all, to complete  the cure, but I did"not take the first  two boxes regularly as I had no faith  in them. You may be sure in future  I will never be 'without -Dodd's Kidney Pills "  Dodd's Kidney Pills always "cure  Bright's Disease How sure it is thev  iwill cine all tho earlier ,stages > of  (Kidnev Disease. * * "    -   '    '*-*'-'���   e   DO   YOU  THINK  RIGHTLY ?  Effects   of Thought  on Mind     and  Body Alike.  i Wrong thinking is indicative' ' of  weakness. ItMs, indoedj a species of  Insanity, for a wrong thinker is'con--  tinually tearing down and wrecking  \ his own mental and physical struc-  turc. The right thinker Ys the* only  sano^thinker, and he is the happiest  as well as tlwr'most successful man.  He knows better than to-keep constantly tripping himself up with" .the  , adverso thwught vyhich jjroduccs^ .de^'  ytructive conditions.""'"''  A   Worry  is" one  of    the greatest enemies of the human race.     It carves<  its  deep  furrow  wherever  it goes;, it  carries gloom and  unhappincss ' with  it;  it delays or prevents the processes of digostion and assimilation un-  ,'til  tho starved brain'arid nerve'cells  "���utter  their protest  in  various  kinds  Df disease.  Wrong thinking, whatever its nature, leaves indoliblc scars on. mind.  and body alike. It alTccts character and material prospbets equally..  Every time you grumble or iincL  fault; every time you lose ,yoijr tern--  per; every time' you fdtf "d fuean'.Jcorj-;  , tcmpliblu thing you 'suffer a loss  ' which cannot be fopairod. You lose  a'certain amount of power, of self-  respect, and-of, an uplifting and upbuilding character-force. You are  conscious of your loss,��� .too, J which,  tends to weaken you still "further.'  : A man who wants to do his best  must keep himsolf in good mental  trim. ' If he would achiovc tho highest success ho must bo ,,a correct  thinker. Ho cannot think" discord,'  and bring harmonious conditions in-  (to business, His: wrong thought  will honeycomb and undermine' his  'prospects in life.  '    ���      t ���   - * * i>-.  "Bought my Life for 35  cents."���This vas-one-man1!.'way of  putting it when he had been pronounced  incurable from chronic dyspepsia'' " It was  a living death to me until I. tried Dr. Von  Stan's Pineapple Tablets. Thanks to them  to day I am well, and I tell my friends I  bought my lifts for 35 cents." Oo in a  boi:.���80  . j-  "Ro tnis is your du'l season, eh?"  observed tho visitor. t ."When is tho  busiest period in your factory.?"  "When the whistle blows,for^tho men  to Icavo work," answered4, the manufacturer. ������ -   ' y   ^���"*"     1  Mloard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgic,  NEW  YORK'S   TUNNELS.  First  of Them Nearly'Completed���  Great Feat.  Tho "* first* of a*-great scries of underground-tunnels, .which is to solve  tho congested traffic problem of  Greater New York,-" has * now ,bcen  opened. It.is a tube running under  tho North liver from Jersey City  to", tho-foot of Morton' street, ��� New  Yoik, and it has a length of 5,600  leet. being 18 feet in diameter.  A party of-guests walked through  tho tunnel,-and ca'me"noa"ribeirig involved in a serious accident, as the  ventilating arrangements aie .not yet  finished, and , the party w was I obliged  to subsist on compressed* air. \Thcy  were in acute distress for a l short  time, but'* finally .emerged, on the  Jeisey sidecnot much the worse for  their  experience.  The tunnel^ is one of two owned {by  the Ne'w York'and Now Jersey Railway Company, the second not being yet finished. Tracks for electric tram cars are to^be laid'in-"thc  tubes, and passengcrs^will be^, transported from end to 'end in five nun-'  utcs.       ;   .' .-.',,   -��� ���,*   ,-  i" The ncwYtubo is one of the; great-H  est engineering feats''ever attempted  in New ."York. r Tho .work was begun  twenty years,, ago, 'fit owing to  difficulties encountered in digging  through the ^treacherous bed of the"  river,'1 it was twice abandoned. The  tunnel      lias    now    been    completed  WORLD'S     FAIR, ,ST.   LOUIS,  MO.  From April 25th to Dec. 1st, inclusive, "tho* Wabash Railroad will  sell round ��rip tickets to the Great  World's .Fair, St. Loins, at tho lowest one-way first-class faro, good for  fifteen days, faro and a third, good  for thnty days, good cither via Wabash direct line or via Chicago, with  stop over. privileges. .Canadians going (co this, tho greatest of all Expositions, should lemomber the great  Wabash line is the shoitcst, quickest  and best route , The, only lino . that  owns, and controls its'own tails direct to tho World's Fair gates. For  time-tables and descriptive World's  Fair folder, address 5any ticket agent,  or J. A. Richardson, . District Passenger Agent, Noith-east corner King  and Yongo Streets. Toronto.*  Customer���"That, watch you' sold  inn Ihe oth<n* dny> does not keop^good  time.".. Dealer���"It'isn't the fault of  tho watch. ; Haven't" you ���'heard "people- sav that tho < times, are . very bad  just now'"      , c  Potatoes, Poultry, Eggs, Butter, Apples  Let us havo your consignment of   any of those articles and we wili  got you   good prices.  THE   DAWSON   COMMISSION   OO,'Limited  Cor. Wont Market and Colborno Stn, TORONTO.  n't  Bswaro of Ointments for Calarrh  that Contain Mercury.  as mercury will* surely, destroy tho sense,  of Mnell and completely derango tho  whole system *.whcn 'ontciuifr it through  tho mucous suiiaces Such article1)  should/ never 1 bo usrsd except on iprescriptions from loputablo physicians, as  the damage they.,*,will do is ten '.fold  to tho good jou" can possibly derivo  fiom them. 'Hall's Catarih'Cure, man-,  ufacturod by r J. Cheney & Co . Toledo, O , contains j no mercury, and ������ is  taken , internally, acting duectly upon  the blood aud*jtiucous^surfncoi of ''he  system. In "buying Hall's Catarih Cure  bo sure you get,'the genuine . It is taken internally 'and mado in Toledo,  Ohio.< by F. ^.T'- Cheney &>Co .Testimonials free     ' ' '  Sold   by   Druggists. - .Price, > Voc^   per  bottle. '        ' "  Tako   Hall's   Family   Tills   for,  constipation. , "  Money makes the"mare~go until a  man gets enough ,of ,it; to 'buy * an-  automobile.    ......  j, Even'a-,swindle-proof man can sometimes be taken in. by .inviting h'im. to  drink.- r <��� ;-; * >  ��� -  :nt*  Lxifxci\eofvs  *    t.  Summer living-���it'3  year to live  near the  kitchen rangfe?   Libby's  Veal  Loaf,   Potted   Turkey. Deviled  :Ham, Ox Tohgye. 6*c.=  ' quickly made ready to serve.  Seni to-d.iy for the little booklet, "How to Make Good Thing's to Eat," full of ideas on quick,  delicious lunch serving.   lobby's Atlas of the World mailed free for 5 two-cent stamps.  JLibby. McNeill & Libby. Chicago  WORD   gViAKINQ.  , ' i  $10 in one prize for tha greafast number of words.  <  $10 in two five dollar prizes for tha next longest lists.  $10 In five two dollar prize3 for the smaller lists.  ��� *   "    ' J" We will pay these prizes-for thebest lists of  "-    -\ . "-Eng-Iish words made out of the three words :   ^  "MASSEY- HARRIS   WHEELS."  1, -,     *   * -1 ���*        ,  Letters to bemused in answers only as many times as they appear in tho  above words.    Competition closes May'30th."   bend in your list to-day.  '-.*-     NOTE.  The Maaisy-Harrls Is fitted  wish tho oushlon fram* and  Morrow ocastar brake���  tha two Improvoments that  havo mads bloyollnff es  famously popular.  I was Cured of "a bad'cane-bf'Grip'  bv MUSTARD'S,- LINIMENT.-   '    ,   '  1-Sydricy, C. B. )t     C. I. LAG UK.    s  J-I was' Cured   'of - loss     of"   voice   - _                  ���    bv  JUTNARD'S  LINIMENT.      -1   -  through 'the'"eCforts "of  Sir Woetman      Yarmouth. CKtAS ILUMER.  ''. "Brown iswealc fitiaacialiy, isn't  he'l" "Ho hasn't much money,  'but lie gives employment to a great  many men." "Who aro they?"  l/'Othor   poople'B  bill-collectors."��� '  J/llnard's Linimnnt fsf safe everywheri  Pearson,     who  designed the   .system  of; construction.   -"*"     ,^ , ,,.  The kPennsylvania Railway' Company is engaged on the building of  another great tunnel,"which will "run.  from New Jersey under, tho North-  river, to New York, then below the  city.' to ���the Easti river, and .under  the East 1 lver to Brooklyn. This  "tunnel which wiU'cdst ��50.000,000,'  will be nearly three miles long, s and  w'ill'be'widc enough for *four .tracks,*'  j- -j     *. 1.^-ls��� ��_.,;���i���* ��� ��� ;  .    HAS A SAY.  The School Principal Talks About  "Food.   *   *-"**   *-'     *  Tho Trincipal of a High School in  a flourishing California city says :  , "For.-23 "years J,,worked 'in the  school-with .only short summer vacations. I formed the habit of eating rapidly, masticated poorly which'  coupled with my sedentary work led  to - indigestion, liver .trouble,, lame  back" and rheumatism.  ^���"Upon. consulting.physicians ,..some  doped mo,,Wsith*.drugs,i,wh'ile  ���,,, ,..T ��� -��,-.      .others  pfcseribed":,d'ietihg"and sbmctiiiics' I'  got temporary relief, qthcr times  .nqt. ji". For ...* 12 ��s years I struggled  along' with this handicap to my  work; * seldom laid up ��� but -. ��� often a  burden .to myself with lameness and  rheumatic "pa'ns-  b'"Two 'years Aago. I,'mot-an old-  friend, u physician who noticed at  once my out-of-health condition and  who* proscribed* fortnio un exclusive  diet   of  Grape-Nuts,   milk  and   fruit.  "I followed his instructions and*  in two months, I felt like a now man  witlu. ino *, moro headaches, rhcuma.7  tisi'n or'liver 'trouble and from ��� that  timo to this Grape-Nuts has been  my main food for morning and evening, meals, am stronger and healthier than J have been lor years' without a 'trace of tho old' troubles.  ."Judging from the present vigorous phyfjicnl and mental stato T tell  iny'fpooplo"ArothUsclnM may yet \hayo  to take second place among the old  men, for I feel like I will live a  great many moro years. .   ',,.,.  "To all thig remarkable chango  in licalth, I,nm .indebted to my wiso  friend -and, drape-Nuts 'and.I'hopo  tho Postuni Co. will continue to  manufacture this lifo and health giving food for .several centuries yet,  until I movo to a world whero' indigestion ia unknown."- Name given  by I'ostum Co.,  Battlo Crocks Mich.  'Ask any physician what ho knows  about Grape Nuts. Thoso who have  tried it know things.  "There's  11  reason."  Look  in -each  pkg.   for  tho famous  littlo  vlllo.'  I was  Cured   of  Sciatica  Rheumatism bv MINAR'D'S LINIMENT.      '  Burin, Nfld. LEWIS S. BUTLER.,  , Mr., Loqkcihcad���'t'J>ul vmy_ ,daughter  give "you any encom jgement, sir'"  Mr. Ponotlung���"\Vhv, yes. s*he says  'that your business is increasing, so  that you can soon support U3 in tho  style wo both would like."'  Bought Yesterday���Cured To-'  day.���Mrs. O. C Bur.t, of 26 Broadway,  New York, says : " I am surprised and^de-  litfhted at the change for tha better in my  caso in one day from the use of.Dr. Agnew's  Catarrhal Powder.' It worked like magic���  there's no excuse for a person suffering pain  ,wilh this remedy within teach. 50 cents.  -8s  Minnie���"Did he kiss you when he  proposed?" -' May���"Certainly; , I  wouldn't consider any but Sealed proposals."' ���" " , -  ���-  Minaril's Liniment Cures Dandruff. ���  TATOOEb' TJGS.  Two $126 prizes for a new pigment for tattooing black-c'iU'cd'pigs  are offered by > the-German Economical Society. The tatooing of white-  eared pigs is well known and successful, but ti'dnrk color is useless  for dark ears. 'An additional ��0  is given-'for every year the tattoo  last beyond the first year,  A man who wished to take proceedings against a creditor in n distant  town sent a letter addressed:        "To  any respectable lawyer in.A ." Th'o  Post Office returned the letter marked, "Not kiiown."  The Pall of Rheumatic Pains.  '���When a sufferer find*, purmancnt relief in  such a meritorious niT'dicliis ai Soulh Ameri-  can Rheumatic Curs, hew glad he is to tell it.  C.W.Mayhew,o{T!iamev.'ill*J Ont.,couJdn t  walk or feed himsolf lor months���four years  aeo three bottles of this fiient remedy cured  him���not a pain. sincc-isn't that encouragement for rheumatic Buflorers ?���8a  Teacher promenading with his pupil  in tiie fiold. . ' "Nature's works are  marvelloun," exclaims the purill.  "Yes indeed," tho teacher replied,  "when vou thi.fk, for example,    that  '-*,".   Write for our new "Silver Ribbon" Booklet.  * ADDRESS, ^DEPARTMENT   "A" ��  CAKADA CYCLE & MOTOR GO.,-Limited, Toronto Junotion.  With- the advent of universal peace  there will be nothing left iav the military man but marriage.  inGifs Liniment Cures Burns, "etc  Mistress���"Bid you manage to  tho basket of eggs that was on  floor, Kate'?" Servant���"Oh,  mum���aisily..   Oi stitepped in it.'  find  the  yis,  r For Over Sixty Years  Miu��. Winii ow's Sootiiino Brrup haa he=o mijbj  millions ot mothers for thoir children whilo loothmf  Itsoothoa tho child, softens th ���aunw. allsyipaui. outm  Hind colic regulates tlioatomich and bowels, and is tho  best romody for.Diarrhooa - Twonty-flve conta a botita  bold br druggists throughout the world. Uu aura aud  ask for " Mita. Winslow sSootuinq Bvitirr.     2*-0t  Chairwoman" of the .Board .(reading)  "We havo received a proposal " All  the Feminine" " Weiubers -��� U'ising) ���  "Which" of us?"     ���   ���  A girl hasn't much use for a young  man who attempts to kiss her and  then quits. 4,  -*1 -i  ��  t    *���*  Q?S~^S��8i<S��5D??  .,  *ffl^^^y!gjKQr  w  W^*^3^^  *  1MT@N  ��^^i  TSf  H  MmSrSt *^v  fl  ��Pjj��.l\  .,[9  M#i  jSr'KgA  \WSl'P  jryyfci &. wiMifi  %flil  '         v  Wash greasy dishes, pots or pan9  with Lever's Dry Soap a powder.* It  will romovo the grease with the  greatest  case. k  Maud���"George'told me last night1  that he was madly in love with me."  Ethel���'Toor." fellow, perhaps ho is.  I've heard that insanity runs' in his  family."      '  Sceptics turn Believers  "AND   ARE  CURED. ,,  Dr.; Agnew's     Catarrhal Powder a  Great Blessing.  "When r road that Dr. Agnavr'i Catarrhal Powder could relievo Oaturrli In  10 nuiiutcB I was far from bomjr convinced. I tried It���a hinjdo pull  through tho blower afforded instant relief, -stopped pain over tho oyes and'  cloaiibod the nasal passages. To-day I  nm free from Catarrh." H. Ij. lOgun'ii  (!3as,ton, Va..) experience luis boon that  of thousands of others und may bo  yours, . 27  Vr. Agnew's Heart Cure aavco life.  Relieves In 30 minutes.  Ad  admirable ITood  the  Finest quality and Aavour.  book,    "The    Kond   (0  Wall-  the  humblest ' ^cl  has   its    Latin  name.  Nutritious and Economical.  4&���21  OHEWILLE   OURTMN3  end all Idnda of house Uunjlcgs, also  LAOS CURTAINS  DVELD,Kan S.MBD  Writs to us about yonrj.  CCITISM AMtHIOAH BVBINO 00.,C3*C 133,Moiltc:��l I  Ming  ������'   -"AUTOMOBILE  ���"    UNDERWRITERS  The Winton Touring Car ia appreciated by the best informed because  ���built on correct mechanical princi-  * pies, of highest grnde materials. As  a prospective automobile purchaser  you dare not, in full justice to yourself, lake chances on an inferior  car. By prcienting a car of such  imperial merit as is the 1901  Winton, we become " automobile  underwriters"���insuring you against  risk or losi. Have you seen our  new cat.ilog ?  The Winton Motor Ccrrli**je Co  Cleveland. O., U. S. A. *  Itepresontod In ilia Dominion  ot Conadu by  THE AUTOMOBILE &. SUPPLY CO  79 KtniS St., E.. Toronto. OjI.  Sub Adoncles In Chief  Dominion Cities  ISSUE NO. 18���04.  imn f.L  ��1\1F,    BA C,    S^TIIKHAX-    M.AY   2S, \y^  i ���  -~*n-*\t*mr* f  Ite Attii'Ckim  PnhUshed   every   Snttmlit*.   n.uiruiiR   ijv  T'lE ATL1S Claim  Pcblmiuno Co.  A, O.    lUlKClHrmiJ), B.D1TOK,    Huui'LICTOB.  USIoa ott>ubltOKtlan Pearl Sr., Atlin. II. O.  Advertising Bate*;   S1.00   per Inch, n��t-a  insertion*.   B**dlbg ustlaas, 16 ' cent* a tin*.  Spavlal Centrae* Bat��i on tapplloatlou.  The oobeoiiptloa prlae la Sfi a yaar payable in futrariv*. No piper will be delivered  nnte** this condition is complied with.  .fir  'A  U. W.  Aixric IivjCirance-,���Good Local  Lodge.   '  SATVRDAV,,  May 23th, 1904.  rIn our last issue we drew attention to the 'dangrr from  the  in.iny  dogs roimiug loose  around   Atlin  aud  also  remarked   that at   least  some ot\ thetn should  be muzzled,  - but so'far'no notice seems to* have  been taken of the  suggestion, njr  have   the   authorities   taken   any  steps to.abate the nuisance.  Since our last issue, a dog at-  tacked and bit owe of the picnickers on  the  24th of May' while he  t?as enjoying the outing given by  the Presbyterian"Church; the dog  was immediately shot, and rightly  so, by one of the party.    Again,  Thursday evening, on First Street,! from :b��fog in'aiiy financial "diffi"  ���a little'girl was chased by a dog cul{v<    That it'is in"* better - condi  and bitten  on the leg; the dog  tion than'ever before  escaped, but  we understand that  the police will shoot it on sight.   ',  Is it not time'that something was  d.one,<or^wilP the community wait  ��� till something worse- than an drdi-  '' nary bite occurrs?    ' *���'  The following letter is a reply to  in item that appeared in the Montreal Chronicle, in which the statement was made that the A.' O. U.  W.' was in financial difficulties:  ���  -    Meadville, Pa., April29, 1904.  E. M. N. Woods, Rdr., Atlin, B. C.  Dear   Sir   and   Brother:���Your  Iciud'favdr of the   17th  inst. came  duly to hand, as'also did the pa^er  which-you sent me.    I' have read,  the article, and notice.the fact that  it isx an Old ��� Line Life Insurance  publication andtherefore not friendly to the A. O. U. W. or any other  fraternal association.    The'article  which' they'publishes only a rehash  of what has been going the rounds  in the different Old Line Insurance  publications since   the change'in  our plan  was adopted.' It would  be well to note to- this journal, in  answer to the article, the following:  1.    That the A.O. U. W. is far  ; <*_r >  And Ail iCinds of jc��wci>eiy Ai-nh. aun-i. Oi cLb i-u  J$fi?~ Why send ou. when you t<.n *^i l,oou .- v.- ct'.p 1 viz:  Waia-frcs From $U ��=.?.-.   FSn& Line <c>f 3i&*:'."&*itf ffrccw.'Sr  JILB- E6GEKT & SON, TfccSv,iss Waiclift^is.  ���G+<XO+GW^+to+0+<t+Qt+&^*<^+&*Q*0*  THE    KOOTENAY   HOTEL  o-  ?  *  %  ���>  'i  &  o  *  .Cor,  A, R. McDonald, Proprietor.  FlKFT   AND   TltAINOK   S'J'KlvliTE.  Tlii* Kirkt Cluss llote' lius Ih>c*ii roiiioiif'fil uml ' i-liii'"i��li<*d i!i''i>ii,;lii.nt  'andblfnrt, tti<* lien no imn lalion to 'I . .-isisji-uil oi !'��� i muiiein  , Gue��t��. - AniAriin'i nml I Hi uji'-ini i��' n  Flne��t Wines,, LitteiorA ��txiti V.-'y-rr-Z'  Billiards   .and'  Pool.  ,  n  4*  I  O*O*S*O*��O^O*O*K>***0^��Ci'��O*OO*O#*O*��*O*��O*��O*O��C*<:  a  I  t  p  c  g  ft  "���'    The 24th of May. -���-,  Victoria Day was very fittingly remembered by Atlinites, and  from early mom till late'at night,  one might have imagined that we  were transferred to Port Arthur.  The frolic of indiscriminately setting off fireworks ^inside of build:  ings should be.frowned down as a  most dangerous .practice, and it is  quite remarkable that no accidents,  occurred.  An Old-Timer Injured:      j  One Tuesday last, Mr.- Pierre  Boudreau, while engaged in taking  down an old building near the  sawmill .at Discovery, was rather  badly hurt, by the1' falling of some  logs ou him. While no bones  were broken, Mr. Boudreau was  rather badly crushed in the back.  According to latest accounts, the  sufferer was doing as well as could  be expected, although in a rather  precarious condition.  The Rise and Fall."  The lowest and highest temperatures recorded for the week ending  27th inst, are as follows :  May  21  52 abov  e   51  22  27  47  33 V  26  54  24  28  53  25  ��� 2S  52  26  39  47  37  26  53  above  2. That a liability of deficit of  $300,000 would not, even if it ex-  isted, in the accounts of (903, cut a  figure in an organization that collects and disburses over a million  dollars each and every month of  itieYear.- .*>���: :   -a, - f..-.~ '  , 3* Further than ��� this, ��� if-this  journal will -take the trouble ^ojrefer to any of the insurance departments to which the A. O. U. W.  make report, it will find'that on the  first day of January, 1904,* the assets over liabilities in the A. O. U.  W. were in excess of $200,000,000,  therefore, the deficit of. $300,000 is  somewhat mythical.  In conclusion, Brother ;Woods,  kindly assure all of your members  that they have more reason now,  than ever before, to place Veliauce  in the futtije of the A'. O. U..W.,  jand every publication such as that  to which you make note, only tends  to show how much less reliability  you should place ic the Old Line  Companies.    -     ,    -.���.-.  With kind   regards,"'1!   remain,  yours in C. H. and P.,  M. W. Sackett,  Supreme Recorder.  It may not be out of place here to  say that "Atlin Lodge" is in an  excellent position as regards membership and finance. It owns today, free of all encumbrances, the  fine building and lot ou- Third St.  IU sphere of usefulness , is being  continually evidenced through the  gradual and persistent increase ot  its membership, which augers well  for the permanency of its existence.  gold   ho u sib;  DISCOVERY,  B: C.  STRICTLY  -FIRST, CX.ASS.  JOHN   WOLTERS,   Proprle<oe  ���TAOK    4.     UVIKY    IN    UONKJiH. TICK  ���P  0  K  0  u  0  ft  i  B  y  K  Russell   Hotel,  DIXON. BRO"  "H ERS,-- Proprietors ���  -*���* -r ;  ^   "     Pool* ,&    Billiards,   Free.  Freighting ��� and Teaming  U  Hotses'and i'ciF.Hr ta.- : hv.  J.   H.   RIGHiVRDSON,  ATLIN   A  .DISCOVERY.  <w�� '  A-  {���\lG.  Full Line of Clothing Just I roisi  ..  THE "LATEST STYLES. .  Complete Stock of Dry Goods  THE    LATEST   IN    HATS,    BOOTS    AND     SHOES,  ^��0F   ������      GOLD   SEAL   GUM  'iJOOTS'      .      ' r' -  Our Goods are the Best and Our Prices "tiie Lowest.  .East  The Canadian Bank of Commerce*  CAPITAL   PAID   UP   $8,700,000.  RtSKttVK,' $3,000,000.  Branches of ihe Bank ke icatue,  San Francisco,  Portland.  -   - Skajrway, etc.  Exomango mold on nil Points.  Gold Dust Purchased���Assay Office in Connection.-   -  '. .;...      .   ,. D. *KOSS, Manager.  Till: RO��AL  TEL  .   V. TROTMAN,. Manager.  Corner Pearl and First Streets, Atlin, B. C.  ���Dog Muzzles can be-had at J. D.  IJprie'fo T-T��rdware'Store.  Atlin Lodge, No. 15,  A. O. U. W.,  meets second and fourth Wednesday** of each month, at 8 p. m., at  the A. O. U. W Block, Third Street.  Visiting Brothers are-cordially  invited to attend.  F. W. Dowling, -  Master Workman.  K. M. N. Woods, Recorder, j  FIRST   CLASS   RESTAURANT   IN   CONNECTION.  GieicesT wees, lmkims and cigars���casc goods a spkiauy.  Hyclraulio   Mining  �� '���" M-achinery.  HYDRAULIC   GIANTS,    WATER   GATES,  ANGLE   STEEL   RIFFLES    &  HYDRAULIC    RIVETED    PIPK  Pumping &   Hoisting  Machinery.^  Estimated furnished on application  The yttab&tiir Eflgiaeerlag Works,  -, ��� Vamgovvjw, B. C.  r]  - it  ���A  vT  Ml  I  M  i  JUMiU^tU** S#fTmr+&,  ^t!^J!!^*w^'^*''^4*,^h'w*'wtr^*^',^^^ m  ?f  h  '<*��>:>>.{  &  r"*1  I *I  Iff  J'1*  1,4.  fcv  .".I J. I   *.       Jj    '._   ,    ,-i.U��'[.L.'.l  ���3f-\r -is,  T-fJO��  ��-������'������*�� ��M(BSi  *    a  i  A Hi.  ATLIN  TliAJjiNG    COMPANY,   LIMITED.  Big   Clearance   Sale - of  Winter Dry   Goods i ~~~  Men's all wool Grey Sock's  Ladies' Natural wool Undeiwear  $0:50  $3:00  As ourvBuyer is going Halt to ixirch.ise a large btock of Dry Goods  we have decided to sacrifice the *>to(.L on !i,ind, to make- 100m ior'NEW'  Good's to airive in the Sptii'jj*     B.-low aie a few of the many cut pi ices.  Men's*all wool Toques..._^ Jo./5   &. $1 00    Reduced    to    $0:50,       ,    ,    Vv'e   al��.o  carry   a   huge  assoiimeiit  of F,ioor"and;,Table Oilcloth.  Men's Mackinaw Coats       iSj.50 ,     ,,        -        $E-(>o        . Wall'l'apci. ��� Men's   Leather  Gloves  and -Mitts.���German   Socka,  Ladies' Combination Stockings & Rubbeis  3 for $1:00  $2:56 suit.  -'$r*75  Meti's all wool Canadian Tweed Pauls $3.50  Men's all wool Halifax       .,, ,,     #4;<>o  $3:00 -  K'.aikel*.. ��� Wool Mitts, and Gloves. ��� Cretous &'Flannelette*   etc.  A.  S.  CROSS,, President.        N.   C.  Whavllng, Secretary.  Fire Warden,  \' 1 ;) :blic meeting held at the  *.'">iri .'louse on the <23id, Mr.  Ch ii !<.'**. R. Bourne was unaiiitn-iu*-  iy" /Itoti'd lo fill Ihe vacancy rauiru  uy r.iie resignation of Mr IC. K.os-  selh We congratulate the citizen*-,  on their very wise choice* Mr.  Bourne is also chief of our local  Fire Department. "    '''   ���?  , Aditice will be given' by the  young men of Allini Monday evening, 30th May, at 9 o'clock, in the  Kootenay Hall. - Free, and all  ,v<Mcn:ne.  voii ;���>('. 50 foi t hi owing ���.our sample* out of the back door at.d wiit-  ing a certificate.  '"A mining* engineer���One who  iii;��l:e-s tunny fjgiues on blazed  ���itiimps and ctiargts a big price.  A knocker -Oue who runs down  the'country so a>> to keep others  outmntil'he can get what piojierty  lie wants.���Valdcz Prospector.  ���  NOTICE.  Mining Definitions.  The following definitions 'were  compiled and handed in by an old  miner for the infot nut tion of tb��  oublic:  A pros;*ector���A man who has a  ���Kile in the giound and is''the biggest liar"in town.    ..      *--*.-<.  A oro xissMon man ���One who.  wears laced boots- and' corduroy  clothes and never pavs bis'board  vbili: -        A mining expert���A*tman who  can talk about formations," ramifications, stratifications, dykes, zones,  dips, spurs, angles, telegites, oox-  ites, sedomite'and all the ites and  tites ; can see" a: mile *irit��vrnother  earth and invariably condemns the  Cf>untry.  ^ Au ex'>ert"miner���A fellow who  loafs aiou'id, town looking for a job  a^uuei iiuer.dent of a property, but  would be foreman if he can't be  ���snivjTitc sdeni; one who worked  111 tho Treadwell in '90 and has  Wtw idle ever since.  - A '"gSer"���A man who came  to Alaska in the fall of '97 or spring  of'98 and knows where there are  d*gg��"gs that will pay fifty cents to  the pan and is going back there  just as soon at soring comes.  A mining reporter���A man who  wants you to subscribe for .the pa-;  per, wants to write up your property, and wa��.t* you to take him  up to the Tillicum club, "smokes  your best cigars and borrows $5.  A raining protnotor���A man who  has unlimited capital behind him,  but none in front of him ; bis watch  is in soak.  A tenderfoot���A "Willie boy"  just from the States. Carries a  small arsenal with him, goes out  prospecting with a fishing rod and  a shotgun, buys a salted claim and  gets munev fiom mother to eome  home in the fall.  An amalg imjtor���A" man who  wears Jong finger nails, draws $5 a  shift and deposit1 $10 in the bank  every day; if the ore is a low  grade, the more in proportion.  An aasayer���A man who charges  APPLICATION   FOR . TRANSFER OF LIQUOR LICENCE.  T KRANCIS-THO.MAS TROUGHTON. of  *���> ' the Town of Atliu, British Columbia,  lieieb}- apply lo the,.J3oard of Licence Commissioner* for u tr.iu.for of the hotel licence naVheld''br'B"B. Komelli, to mil in-  taxlaatiiiK liquors under the provisions of  the Statute* in that behalf. In the premises  known and described as the Royal Hotel,  Atlin aitnata on Lot 7, Block 15, of the Town-  vito of Atlm, to commence on' the first-  dny of Jntj,19?4.' \  Mj- pout office address Is .-���Atlin, B. C.  The name and address of the owner of the  premises proposed to be-licensed are:���  Vrnncla Thomas TrAughton. Atlin. B. C. v -'-  Dated this 6tli e'er of May, 1904.- -    -   .  i       t F. T.,T��ouOHTOW.  Signature of the holder of the licence:���' ��  -   '    " -     <���     " ��,   K.-ROSflMLLI.  E   S. Wilkinson'. P.L.S. ' Wm. Brown,'C.C.  WILKINSON   & ; BROWN  * r *��� K f* * ���** *  ���  Provincial Land   Surveyor*  A ��� Olvil  Engineer*.  ll>Uri.<ille   Mine  Engineering   ��   Specialty, OOoe, Pearl  St., near Third St,, A'itlN, U.C  4 THE GRAND HOTEL #  .. i* *        -, - ���     -''*,'.*,'  FINEST EQUIPPED HOTEL IN THE.'NORTH.  -' -EVERYTHING CONDUCTED IN  FIRST-CLASS MANNER.  -    Up'to-Date  Rcmtmurmnt In  Bonneotionm  t David Hastib,  Propribtor.  '  '   CORNER  FIRST AVENUS  AND  DISCOVERY STREET,   ATIL.   N        '  -FOR  NOTICE.  /  APPLICATI0N"'=F0R   TRANSFER OF LIQUOR LICENCE.'  T ALBIANUER.R. McDONALD, of tho  ���*��� *) Town of Atlin". British Columbia, hereby arive notice that I shall apply to the  Board ef Licence Commissioners for a transfer of the hotel lioenco at present held by  Creoi co R Hnyrs, to sell Intoxicating liquors  i.mler tiip psovUloi t'of the Stnuitts intlint  hft'inlf, in tli(* iiroi.lifet 'mow n mid (losoribpd  a*f fhn Kootonav Hot��l, situata on Ifii-st 'md  Trainor 5*tre> ts^-Atiiu, Dritieii Columbia, to  romtuoiicp oi< ttio ill ut dat of Jul*,, J9'J4.   .  \ij post olfue nildic, is :���Atlin, IJ. C. ,c  Tho t,,tm<j Slid ,iddre���� of the owner of tho  premise*, proposed to bo licensed are :���Mrs.  Sarah McDonald, Atlin, B. C. '*  Patod this 6th day of May, 1201. _  "  A. R. McDowald.  Slgrnature of the present holder of the  license:��� *  -   *      >- -   Geo. K. Hayka,  by his attorney in fact, J. G. Cobnbh,.  *  or     ....  ��� .   V  f   "        i"    "j.' *     >  Atliii   and," Alaska,  Atlin  Claim Block.  Films and plates developed and  pritited at reasonable rates ��t "The  Atliu Studio ". Bularging, and  Copying also done.  ALASKA   ROUTE  SAIUNG8���  The following Sailings are announced for the month of  May, leaving Skagway at 6  p.m., or on arrival of the train:  "Prince*s May"���May 14th, 24th  and June 3rd.  "A��ur"���May 19th and'29th.  For farther information, apply or  write to   H. B. Dunn, Agent,  Skagway, Alaska.  Office Stationery  ~\   Call and get prices at.  "3 >.  .. -  1   * ���  "0<iiMi" Offl��.  XHfi WHITE PASS & YUKON ROUTE.  v ' " f ^    ~ \ -       -  l>   A  NoJN.   B.* "  lud olajba.  I. SO p. m.  10.80   ���  It. �� ���'.IB5.1' ~  �������    ,'S'  Paelllo  and   Aretie   BaHway  and NaTicatisa I'easpaay,  _ British Columbia, Tukain   Railway Compearr  ;'   . . British Tukoa   Railway Companr,  TIME TABLE.   IN BFFBCT  JANUAKT T IfM,     '  Daily exeept Suada^.  . $9".  t.S. B*a��d  No.l' N. B.  1st class.  t. N a. m.  LT.  SKAGCAT .  10. Ul    ���  11. 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Proprietor  / \  1  "��� < *��� I  /  ' * r,  MiMiaiaaaMiuMMi^^ OR,   THE   niSSINQ  WILL  but I  of  Wood   blood.  Jes-  CllAPTER  XII  o  Tu a moment Claude was kneeling  by her side, half-sui rounding her  with his iu in, scaicely knowing what  ho did, foi he was one of those men  who are wax to a woman's, tears  ���'Jessio, Jessie' Aie iou hurt?  (.leavens ' JDJcl the beast bile you''"  lie added, talcing and examining her  ungloved hands, and ipmcmbcrlng  I hat they hud grasped the viper's  head.  "Yeni face '" she sobbed "Jt  almost '  "But it didn't, thanks to you'  I Tow you tteniblo Look up, dear  Jessie,   look  up���J am all  right."  Jessie    continued      to        tremble,  though    she     iccoveroi   heisclf sufficiently   to  withdiuw  her  hands irom  the kisses pressed  upon  t hem���kisses  she uas too agitated to heed���kisses  m,��'��   dangerous   than  adders'   bites  Afterwards    she    was  vaguely    conscious that her hands had 'been kissed,   but  she never lemembcred    what  actually passed.  "Come, Jessie, look up, what is"  theie to cry about ���>"��� he said, releasing hei hands, "the beast is  stone  dead " i  "It���was  so���slippery/'   she     said,  childishly,"   "I���1 , was   so  frighten-  "I was thinking T n.ght wheel her  out in the sun, pet haps, this bright  day," he replied lcadily'" "And-' he  passed the long af let noon by the  side ol the fietlul- little cripple, who  rewarded her brothei 's patience by  'pouts and reproaihps, hut would  not let him go  ,."! really wonder," Lady Gertrude said, "that Claude beais with  Ethel as he does The tmth is, ho  spoils her. She    is   more peevish  than    c\er    after    he has been with  only what anybody's u-,ed to,  did     think     bctlet  that I did "  "I bog your  pardon,  cousin  M'o said,  meekly  "And you may he thanlJul if you  don t live to beg jour* bread, miss,  brought up as you was I suppose,  Plummer, if i wah to ask you to  sharpen tho knives on mv bonded  knees,�� you* ���wouldn't do" it;" she  added,  mournfully  "Well, theie, my dear, I don't  know but I might sharpen thorn better on youi tongue," he icpliod,  goaded foi once to n ictoit  >. "Somo-.th.inks it f>nc to jeer at  marued wives," Sj.[d Mis Plummet,  but her-words were' di owned in the  brisk obligato Mr ' Plummet executed Willi knife and step I  - !    '   .  "Ilo, ho, ho   her nose doth show,  TTovv  pU  lo  the  cuplioai d  dollt Mar-  gety go,"  to  r  SjyjjflRBew  "Claude feels foi the child, he is  certainly kind," , Sir��� Artlu.ii;, returned. "J3ut it would be hard indeed  if a sitong man, who novel had an  ache in .his life, lost his. patience  with a sick girl "      ' >        't     s  "My clcii uncle, it is piocisely  thosoi strong, men knowing nothing  of pain who ate most impatient of  other people's suffering," Clara" interposed,    "Hugh-   would  never     de  ed  Sho possessed tho rare art of crying gracefully, her flushed faco only  looked sweeter through tears, her  features kept their dainty curves,'  hei eyes were all the brighter, like  for-get-me-nols m the dew;'her eyelids did not ledden, the quiver of  her lips went straight to people's  hearts Some of her golden    hair  1 had  fallen about her neck  and  glittered in the sunshine: he could    not  ,holp  touching iL lightly,  caiessinglv,  unseen.  "Did     you     think    it    would     kill  me?     he asked   with  quiet gravity,  as    they    each recovered  from their  ( dissimilar     agitation "Then     it  might have killed you ? and you  don t like slippery things," he added  wUh  a tender smile. *    * ���   : *.  "I don't like snakes.      They make  me ill.      A. snake,"  sho added,''now"  calm and ashamed of her agitation  is the symbol of sin       Even to - be  near  a  sm is like  touching a     cold  snake " '      ' s  ITo turned away, a heavy ft own  disguising the beauty of his face. -  Jessie now began to expioss some  ponder at Miss Lonsdale's delay,  and looking at her watch, found to  her intense surpiise that the morning was gone, it was time to  home  to dinner.  \'Bv, t'1e W��V. I quite forgot the  note, Captain Modway said forgetting also that he had been surprised to meet Jessie, and handing  hci a littlo cocked-hat of Clara's inditing,    which     briefly  told  hor  that  go  Jim says, ho wouldn't so much  mind amusing hor il she would bo  amused, bul sho is so ungrateful."1  "Poor child '-^poor dear child !"  moaned her father, thinking 'how  different a lot he t had _ expected for.  his only daughter"in licr spring-tide  of womanhood.   \ ,    _ ' ���>  "And Claudo knows what it is to  suffer, Aunt Gertrude," added Clara;  "think of the Balaclava wound,, and  the winter cold, "and starvation'"Re-  lnombci tho story of the goose ho  and young Randal stole togethei in  the Crimea " ��  "To be suie ' the goose !" -laughed Sii Arthui;; "Claude, ancl?\Randal,  stole tho gooso and hid it,-.and another man asked them to "dine upon  it, his servant having seen and  snatched it The villain .made a  merit of feasting them on, their own  goose."  Jessio sped bieathlossly homeward,  shocked at the.lateness,of-the\hour;  but*; when s she' -reached;' Redwoods,  where,a pungent; fragrance of ^wood-  smoke and bacon-made all Jhealthily  hungry people still more hungry__by-  anticipatioh-/ -. 'was relieved "to^find"  that her delay, was unnoticed, dinner not being��yct on the,table'  One glance loiind the" loom was'  sufficient to show . to her practised  eye tha"t_ tempest 'was lowering upon  tho domestic horizon." ��� Cousin Mane  was laying-"the cloth-with her own  hands, a wholly, ^unnecessary, .thing  pointing to stormfon  the Redwoods  lie sang with icckless joviality,  the accompaniment ol the steel on  the knives, casting a hull desperate,  hall dopieenting wink towaid Jessio  at, I he, sumo time Cousin Jane  sank in n chair' and put her hands  Io, her, cars. "There's no knowing  when I may drop " bhe said, when  tho steel "music died away, "oui  family.always goes oil  sudden."  ���'You can't drop fut In that chair,  mother," rctorlcd Mi. Plummer,  dryly. ,,    ���   *��. ,   > ,  "Not , but , what   I'd   as.soon  bo  took off as not," she continued, not  heeding      this-- inter i uption, '   which'  alarmed   Jessie,   accustomed  as    she  was,to,a masterly passivity in domestic :,br;oils ?,on    the    part of    Mr.*  Plummer;  ,"I never was one to    run  up,a doctor^.bill if 1,could help it*.  And1- as for*- a  funcinl,  I shouldn't  Wish     to     put     pooplc*  out,   walking'  would   'do   'for    me      It      wouldn't  bo hardly, woith while to hev mourning' coaches   inst   foi   Plummer  ,Toger-       They could walk.     T  say their feelings  would be equal to  it   ,��� There's  isn't  anybody else     to  follow,   without     rts's Eliza's'   husband-'And1"! "shouldn't  like  toJ*put  him to the expense and trouble with  tho hay season coming on and Eliza  going upstairs.      1 suppose you can  eat    cold    pie, .Jcssrev,>"  she added,  talcing the<'head,of'tha,now .covered  tablo  with , melancholy  resignation,'  "taffcty  as" you've  been  bted,     for  what we're going to icccivc may'the  Lord/">mako     us       truly      thankful  'Twould   'havo ' been    hotted 'up   'ir  tl'd had a husband a ,rcspcctable woman might look to, her with money  of her ow'rf and a family; looked   up  SOIL MANAGEMENT.  The problem of soil management is  a complicated one for a variety of  reasons, among which may bo' mentioned. ] We possess little fundamental knowledge concerning the soil,  there has not been a time in 50  years when wo knew so littlo as at  present 2. The character of our  soils vanes -.gicatly. and soil types  have not been sufficiently , coi rein led  to make it possible to pi edict that  results obtained m one place will  apply to another When the soils  havo been surveyed, mapped and classified into .say (en main tvpes. it  will then lie possible to carry on held  experiments on each of the 'ten typos  and state with some degree of defi-  ruteness the conditions best .stilled to  each, writes Tlios   1'"   Hunt.  fcioil Is only a rmvins to nn end  The fawner doos not want Lo produce soil-4. Ho Uvishcs to pioduco  plants and annuals , Soil is only  ono of tho menus or essential conditions to tho successful pioduction of  plants Speaking broadly, successful  plant production .depends upon * tho  plant itseli, that Is. its mhonlcd qualities, and upon Its environment. lis  environment  rs  tho  soil,   its prepara  tion, rainfall, temperature, tho 'lime  and method of seeding or pjantrng,  insect or other injuries, and pla.it diseases  TOO  LITTLE ATTENTION  is pard generally to the inherited qualities of the plant, that is, to improved scad, and too little to adapting the plant to tho soil or the soil |  to the plant, and to giving, it thoso  methods of culture best adapted to  its fullest development.  These facts    admitted, what piacti-,  cal methods   aro  open  to   the  fai mer |  and otheis,- not merely for the     improvement of his soil, since that is a|  means to  an end,  but for  the econo-i  larger     crops?'  always went to Jpsnio'.s heart, it recalled her mother,  whose buttoi  and  cheeso,making she had so ollon watched  and  admired        She  liked     tho  absolute cleanliness and dainty scrupulosity necessary - to  dairy    work  Why had she not been brought up to  .....    thoso--things?      She sighed,  as     tho  and   thick  yellow  cieaiti   wrinkled" up     in  darc|rrch     leathery     lolds  over   her skimmer;, aad   her/mother, really  destined her for Philip "and for that rcas-  to  b*rometer.      "To  be 'sure,'   anybody  OlC^OUt."   she   wns.   sot.-.  She  that mormng. Jessie did not won-  dci at the lady's choice of a messenger, hei simplicity was too , absolute, and ho did not think it necessary to explain that he had intercepted the note on its way to her by  the hands of a servant. She wished  him good-moining, and taking her  easel  ancl  painting  things  can hut bo worc'out," she was saying mournfully, when Jessio came in  with tho soft freshness of a spung  breeze,, "and the sooner tho'bettet  in a world like this. I don't know  as there's anybody to caic'when I'm  was not able  to  keep  her tryst   eone���without 'ts     the    funeial  ponses," she added, showering the  knives and forks with a 'clatter upon the'table , , "   ,'  Jessio k'new better than lo make  .and remark- 6i ^ offer to help, sho  looked inquningly at Mr., Plummcr,  who stood ��� m the English householder s commanding position on  ��� a._, -vanished   the heai thrug,  trying to'- appear    at  in   the depths of the wood.      He ic-jhls     ease.        Beauty, <was   not .Mr  "Thank ye, Jane, I don't care'if  I do havo a cut of thdt ham,'/ said  Ur. -Phimmcrpas if "in rcspo'nso "' to-  an invitation- after handing Jessie*  her plate of pic. '*���*��� - ' *  ','You .< wajn'l haVc-the chance  long-"-* she sighed;- bogrnning to  carve, "for, I will say this, there  ain't a many can match,, my hams.  Not that I was over one "to boast.  Tho many hams I've cured and no  thanks.      It's  in  Wood blood."  "Thero ain't a many can match  your tongue," added Mr. riummer  hastily, bending Ins, jovial face 'over  his foam-topped mug-of ale, and receiving * a hearty kick under tho  table  from    Roger,,   who     had  just  Philip had always boon considered a  born gentleman, she did not know  why; sho, had heard of his pioposed  adoptio'n by'the Medwrays Was ho  connected with that family ���> If so,  why. was tho connection ignored?'  How could she "ever marry Philrp,  the brother Ippie'of childhood? No  wonder'Captain Med way was startled at heaiing^t Then she. paused,  having' emptied the skimmer" daintily  into the * wrodden b'owl' she held in  her left' hand, and fell' into a train  of reverie, her cheeks flushing and  hor heart throbbing, as the . morning's histoiy repeated itself and she  thought "of 'looks; and , tones 'that"  could ^'heyer-" be "forgotten. Oh ���  that Miss! Lons'dale'had never known  her"! that she had never seen anyone at Marwell Court '/And yet���  and yet .' Sho .turned to' the " milk-  pans again, di awing her fore-finger  darntly round tho .inside Tof the pan  she had just skimmed so as to remove tho ring of cream adhering to  it, remembering her mother's instructions on the subject. Thriftless dairy-maids loft the ring oi^the  pan, caieless ones forgot to wash  and ,cool tho forefrnger, untidy ones  used the whole hand and so ���messed  tho  cream    over the1 handle  of     tho  mic    production     of  Speaking    geneially    and lecogni-zir.^  manv   indt\ idual    exceptions duo     to  special   conditions,   the   basis   for   im-  ptwement     lies  along  two   linos,     a  more systematic and shorter rotation  of crops where tho land it. capable of  tillage,  and the keeping of moie livo  stock.     It  can  easily  bo  proven  statistically  that  tho fanner  is not  living up  to-his opportunity in    either  of  these  directions     This  doos<    not  necessarily     menu     that     moie   land  should  be  plowed  annually  than     at  present-  Probably a good deal  of land  that  Is now plowed occasionally would   bo  better off     if not plowed  at all.   but  kept   in     permanent  paniuro,   or    allowed ' to grow   up  to  Umber.        It  moans that thoso lands that nie adapted   to, cultivation ,ana, are  part     of  tho  logulnr   tlllago  operations  should  be plowed and uhangod from one crop  to another sufficiently often to    (jivo  the crops ,  TOIR^njERTPjNVIROrs-Jkl KNT.  The purpose of this lotation of crops  is'(1)'to-givo opportunity for modifying tho physical to*ctuio ol the soil  by tillage, by which its water-holding  capacity is changed, tho en dilation  of air,,hastonedi and4'the ease'with  which tho roots penetrate increased;  (2)   to  add* ' organic    matter to   the  r^  on   wished her     to   Irve  diffciently ?   S011* 1>V wlucirplant-food is ada'od and  the  physical,   propoi ties, of  tho  '.-)  soil  pounded into  the loom,, all   blowsed   skimmer,   a     whole     code    of ethics  and iudd.1   fiom the  thorough scrub- [ seemed   to   be  involved   in  skimming  milk.      And she had    no mother    to  inained leaning agaamst a "'tied with |-PIumm��-'r'H  folded arms, gazing at the spot Ielt  vacant by her* '  .,'iSIlQ us to�� ff����d !" he reflected.  "This is no mere milk and water innocence, half ignorance, half want  of temptation, no light, slight village beauty. It is sterling. A new  type of woman And I am not to  be shut of her heaven ! But she is  a woman, after all���*ind women are  ���women���My cousin Clara���-Inn' I  have her authority. My Motherwell I my mother ought to know,  but she does not think highly ol the  so*. Everybody, man or woman,  especially woman, has his puce, according to Lady Gertrude That  Balaclava business ! by Jove?,who  wouldn't have bra aged ?���Tho \iper!  --sweel chrld I She could face death',  but cued at the slipponness ' Ln-  gagod, and to Philip ?���is-Philip  mad, or what?���" He untoldcd his  aims and took a turn bonoath the  dappled shadows. "I wish I had  ncvci seen her I" hc sighed, "J wish  to Heaven I had never seen her !"  ho  repeated.  Luncheon was in full progicss  when ho r cachet! the Couit, cheorful  and good-lcmpoicd as  usual.  "Ueoii     scotching      this  ,,. ,, n        morning,  Llniu'J     ho  asked  his cousin.    "No?!011  Is the picture finished,  then?" Clara I <-�� ����� solemn  wink,  it was too'TroH  did  not reply,  she was angry    with I".!a slight  titter escaped her  strong v'point, his complexion, with tho sun and-storm/the  frost and fog of sixty jeais,'. 'together with the heaity meals "and  festive glasses incidental to tho  ploughing and reaping and uding  and. shooting of that long period,  was of a. deep rich plum color,'his  mce .was. angular-and beardless, his  mouth a straight lino^at right angles  to his nose. IIi.s small, gray-blue  eyes weie rather> dedp-sot and over  hung by tufted sandy oyebiows; they  reminded Jessie or bnRht little leaded cottage, windows  beneath  thatch-  S?r..au��f?JJ,ls.- fi'lndy ll,UI"' PorfoctJy  sti aight',. parted on" one side, brushed smooth oh the top and brushed  out at the ends, was slnkinglj hko  a thatched to'of, the whole face,  homely ,m featuie, genial and' kindly  m expression, hncl exactly the physiognomy-.-of a-cosy thatched red  buck cottage. Tins faco surmounting .a burly lonn' and wearing -an  air of ill-leigncd indifference covering dccidod perturbation, w,ui the  '���tiaight line of his mouth screwed  into an, incipient. Whisllo, �����., f)10n  though to Jessie's mind; bill when  AH. J'lummci, wishing still (��� ���,,.  I'oat at his case and jet to comey  to Jessie a hint of what was going  tried (o twist ono eve slowly m-  lnm lo   not miiking himsolf acquain-    ,   Seeing  anybody's  own fins,,    and  ted  with  her movements earlier,     in   blood .wore out innv* be ti  winch case ho could  have driven    to  bing that always preceded his dinner. "You was always good at  tongue," ho added, csidontly reckless  of consequences and altogether de-  hioiali/od  and  defiant'  r"But'  what,"r     continued     Cousin  Jane,    foi tunatel.v'  missing     tho innuendo and    mollified by  the    compliment,     "ib 'the  best-cured  tongue  in a world  like -this 'V'  I-;Another contraction of Mr   Plum-"  'mer's  featuics  heie  neaily  pioduccd  another,-tittci ' ;fiom Jessie,     whom  these amenities  sometimes  mado hysterical;  but  Cousin   Jane  went     on  with placid    plaintrvenoss,     "Roger,  my  dear,  do    try some    more    pie  Keep youi self up,  for you  may'need  it,  there's no knowing when   trouble  may come.        Wc* maj   all  be   ,gono  by this trmc to-morrow " '  Roger manfully responded to this  appeal by finishing' the beefsteak  pie in his most heioic fashion, en-  treating his mother between whilcs-  to "pick a bit" herself, which she  steadily declined  to  do. -   .  "Only last night J dicamt of brido  cake," she sighed, "and the feelings  I havo ui my inside nobody-knows.  But I ain't one to complain "  "Jessio," said Mr. Itlummer, when  Cousin Jane had left tho room  wafted, by her own sighs, 'Vlon't  you e\er give Philip the tongiie-pie  for dinner, my dear," and she crimsoned with incvplicablc pain nt this  indirect allusion lo hci eiigngi'incnt  "The Lord only knows," he'continued, "how J c.imc to lot get to say  fd asked lout oi live to drop into  tea and supper to-night (ill tins  morning, entirely forget "��� ; ,,  "Well, Cousin Pluiiiinei, you. deserved a scolding," Jessio ' replied,  laughing. .   "I don't know    what    I  teach her'the ethics'of moio lrnpoi-  tant things '' "'Oh 1 mother, come  back, come back, to your child. For  ono little hour '"  The skimmer and bowl had to be  set down more thnti once because of  the tears, but all the pans- woio  skimmed at last, the milk poured  'from them, and ftesh, well-scrubbed  ones'set in thorr places icady for  tho afternoon's milk; that Abraham  brought in'm foaming pails suspend-  cd fiom a yoke on his shoufdcis  "It do seem natural to zee Miss in  dairy !" hc said, when he clattered  in over 'tho wet flags, and Jessie's  mind and lijlai t weio in a much  calmer and healthier condition when  all was done,-the ,waiting and watching Scbasfopol regaled with a  saucerof milk, and she went out to  the oichurd with a plate of curds  aud new, chccse-paringsi to give the  young chickens, chopping and fluttering there a bast their imprisoned  anxious molhe'ts, each in her coop  with her head tin list between . the  bars If Mis PJumincr would but  lot her  do  these  things  regularly '  "To bo sure Jessie's ariinmontiil if  sho ain't useful when there's company," Mis. I'lumim-r conlidod that  evening to one ol hoi guests "Goodness knows hci lather hev spent  money enough on learning her music  and she's a finiish  singer."   ..  Jessio was at tho piano singing m  a licsh and ai tless' \ oite,  Cleoyo with her Being Sir* Arthui s waid, and having from early  childhood passed half the year with  him, Clara had fallen into fiat-  ernal relations with her cousin. This  was all very well in one's teens, but  a woman ot four-and-tweuty, possessing largo property, expects more  deference. So Miss Lonshale told  her cousin later, when explaining  the cause of her anger to him. But  Claudo knew the true cause far too  well. , . .  "if you have nothing to do tli is  aflernoon, Claude," Sir .'Arthur  Baid, "do Uy -tta amuse poor!' little  Ethic; she is fngbfully low to-day."  - amusing   to  some," continued Cousin Jane severely, "but 't isn't what J expected  of poor'Martha's own child"  "I    was    thinking     of    something  runny,     Jessie hastily explained.  Aum sure,! wondoi at you, Jessie, Mrs. Plummer lamented, plac-  J'ig the mustaid on the table with  an an ot resignation, "and I won-,  dci-your poor mo.thor don't turn  m her grave to hoar you. I don't  expect much from them that isn't  Woods. And to bo sure, Wood as  you arc, poor Matthew roared you  up as I always said he'd live to repent. Men folks may laugh and  whistle   while   their  married  shouldn't do to you il I were Cousin  Jane." '   *  "She'll be all riglit," hc averred,  cheenully, "now she'v giv out wc  may all bo gone by. this time, tomorrow." Thon���.,Jessio wont ,to  offer her services, In the complicated  pioparations that "she knew must bo  mado , for tho 'rcceptipn of guests,  services 'that arter many gibes at  her fine brooding and general incompetence, wore finally grumbling accepted.'    .      -   ;.;'���.      A  She was glad to escape her own  thoughts in this household bustle  and pat on an apron and tucked up  her sloovca, and found lier shaken  nerves and feverish heart-beats calmed and quieted, especially when she  wives |wo.tit    into   the    clean,     cool,    fresh  "Swoel   is tine love though* given in  '   vain, in a nm,  And sweet is dealh that-puis an end  to pain."  aro  again modified as just   indicated,  (3)   to  eradicate   noxious   weeds,    insect- enemies, and "plant* diseases;   (-1)  to get a new start.        I  ;  Tho basis tof .all'soil culture is first  to select the plants or seeds of plants  having   tho  charactenstics. most     desired,     and 'then     furnish  them    tho  most cpngenral^.   home possible by removing all  possible  obstructions     to  their fullest  development       A judicious rotation of crops is generally tho1'  most economic way of'furnishing tho'  environment.       Ono of the important-  purposes of a, rotation,is to get a now  start    J This" is  an  important4 consideration    to 'the  farmer,  who   has     a  large portion ��� of his arable  land     in  meadows        The rulff is two  to  four  good crops are pro'due'ed and then tho  yields begin  to-.fade-away.   The  reasons for-this  arc many,  but  ono  important  factor, is     that  tho   timothy  plant  is , not   strictly perennial,    its  length    of   life     depending   somewhat.  upon     the  favorableness  of  its     surroundings.     * '  ���   - -  It has,been pointe'd- out that when  it was customary to cut timothy that  had seed in" it, the'nicadows 'tasted  longei than-,at present....>Doubtless by  the continued __  APPLICATION OP SEKI)  to meadows, especially if accompanied with the application ol stable iminute,, meadows may be successfully  maintained for many years, but it  wrll generally be round better prao-  ticc to plow and take off one ' or  more cultivated crops, and thus get a  fresh stait. If 1 weie to suggest a  general form, of rotation, it would bo  as follows * An ltitei cultural ciop,  vi/ . coin, potatoes .lor beans, one  year, a��� bioadcast crop wheat, rye,  oats oi hai ley, ono jesu, meadow not  to ex-ceed fout 'years  Confining  out-  rematks  strictly     to  tho pioduction  of general  farm crops  oue  may  ortcn   wisely  stimulate    tho  growth of crops  by  the* use  of commercial-fei tili/cis t    Jt  is  eminently  desirable, however, tofeod at least a  portion  of  tl\is   increased  pioduct  to  Irve stock and return the manure   to  the    soil        By  this means, the crop  producing  power  of  tho soil  may bo  maintained, , or- .-af  already  reduced,  may be  increased.      Tf,-on  the  other  hand.'coimncicinrfertilizers alone are  used,  and i the; increased product  sold  from tho farm, just the opposite may  result     The farmer'cannot afford    to  nogleet any agency for .increasing tlio  productivity  of  ��� his     soil,   and     Ins  most potent agonoy is'a well piesorv-  ed manure pile.- '    J  A  "So it's to bo a match," sho  heard ono lady say, when hor song  was over and the accompaniment  was lingering iiself out beneath her  lingers. * _       ',  "Well .' to be' surcthoy {vp been ofl  and on again lhm>t wp/yoars past;  the captain he likes his pleasure, as  is natural to i\ young man, but he'll  hev ,to settle down and many some-  when, and Miss Lonsdale isn't so  young as  she  was       Their  property  PROM .STABLP, TO TARTURM.  In the *|>nng many turn oul their  cows on the pastures' before they can  gel a lull bite of glass 'Ihe cows  lolish the ten'dor glass, but practice  proves-it  is  not  good  lor thorn  They paittallyv lose their appetite  for dry foragjo J.iul the watery grass  that takes it"doos not contain the  nourishment that was supplied bv tho  hay. The conscrjuciicc is that thoy  fall oil m-"then imlk and they hardly  regain it aeain ,nll- that .season. Tho  pnstuio is, injured, yielding loss leed  for tho season, while ihc' giound ii  soft'and they poach it'up and cut  the sod. ,,  IVhcn tho cows aie kept  in  the \ard  and   fed   their   usual   amount   of    for-  j  .loins too, the Suffolk property that \aS�� and grain thoy will give a steady  is. And so they say they're'engag- n��w of'milk.. The grass will 'grow  ed  at last." ' without 'interruption,'and when ready  n,-r.  ,!..���.. ,        '     ���������<���.��� nt-fi     wivosvve.ru,    inio   ino    clean,     coo),    rresu  arc move    into    their ginves,     it's jdany  lo skim the milk.   Dairy-work |  Tho color rushed into Jessie's face  and she, hoard a hoarse murmur liko  the sea in her cars. All the evening a voice seemed to be saving over  anil, over again, "Kngaged I engaged I"  (To bo Continued.)  to turn the cows on it will give a  full bile that will keep up through  the season. ;;  Those who have had to feed their  cattle in the -jwds , until the grass  has got a good start are well satisfied with . their' methods.  I  m&mmmimmmimmmRi V(-9   It T  YOUNG  FOLKS  t  i  %     ,   WILLIE'S  DILEMMA.  ifjaw is steepin' boneset tea���  >j Hate 'at stuff like evcr'fing I -  ;��ut she says it's good fer mc  \\\ An' my systum in th' spring.  ]t;.ot th'  sage an' cal'mus out,  \ Per spring fever's gittin'- here,  fin'  they're good to have, about.  piWhen m'laria is near.  i-hilphur 'n'  'lasses is all mixed;  ffHev to take it twice a day.  .Tiaw is gittin' things all fixed  ���'ij If th' fever comes "our way 1  KJ I make a single moan,  I^Er if maw she thinks I acts  Jopey-hkc er mako a groan,  jJ'fShc snys,   "Take this sassafrax!"  j!(,f I give a single snooze,  It j Maw  she snys,   "Fer massy  sakcB!  Rjieyou kotchin' some'd'see/.,   ,  [lEr th* fever 'n' th' shakes?"  E^en she gits th' boneset' tea���  Iji'llate 'at stuff like ever'fing I  |}/cn she ups an' doses mc  I'ics' Ins'  Sunday night I coughed;  IfjfMaw got out th' oil an' lint,  /en she ruiuicd up in th'  loft  !l'"or a bunch o' poppoimint.  en sho sod   to  gran'nia,   "Now        .  ,, Do you  s'po'so it's  fuvor.   maw ?"  jran'ma she jes' smooved my brow,  ��� Felt my pulse an' tol' hor"Pshaw"  fl  I't I'm feelin'  kind o' sick,  IllNcn maw says,  "I tol' you  Ijit th'  sulphur  II v.-  match and lighted it. He come  over* where she was. She .partly  closed her eyes but not enough but  that she could see that the man was  her father. He picked her up in  his arms * and carried her home to,  her mother.  Sho never heard one word of reproach' from her father or mother  and she sometimes thinks she was  too naughty to have ever come  home again. ' ^  he ups an  begins  n-worrying.  so!  n'  'lasses,  quick I  J^iat boy's in for it, I know I" "  I.dnnks some boneset tea���  IfHato 'at stuff' hke ever'fing ! '  [At's  th'  way maw doctors me���  ��Wish't it never wasn't spring 1      ,<  THF. REVENGE OP MARCIA.  > "Oh dear I" sighed Marcia, "Can't  1 go, mamma ?" v  1} "Why, my dear child," said mam-  'ja, "I said no .' Now,- can't you be  bntcnt ?"  Ij It seemed that Marcia wanted to  'o to a schoolmate's home to spend  ho night and her mother did ' not  jish her to go as the schoolmate  'as not the kind she wished Marcia  o associate with. Marcia fretted  'nd stewed ,and tried to think how  ho could'get revenge. She thought  .vhile, and decided to i un away.  ?If her mother had looked'out' of  jne west window a little .while later  he would have seen a little girl go-  >ig'down the'road toward the Cor-  |ers. ' Marcia walked 'along quite a  ing way until she came to a cave  Inhere, she .used ��� to play with her  ousins when they came to visit her  from the city. She stopped here  nd looked in. There were tho  ails and broken plates they had  een playing with. She went in  nd said to herself, "I guess I'll  tay' here until. 1 get to be a big  'Oman, -then I will go home and I  an go anywhere I want to, so  hero I"  She took  off her  hat,  shawl     and  ���loves     and   laid  them    on a  little  able which her cousin Adolphus had  ade her.      She then picked up her  tundle of, quilts, ��� pillows and  provi-  ions she"had brought with her,  for  he had thought ,. that perhaps J she  vould need them. ,   She made.a bed  p in one corner of the cave and put  ,he provisions in a little crevice   in  ,he wall.   *  It  was     getting     daik     and     she  [thought  she   had better eat supper.  She put the  sandwiches and a piece  f cake on the tabic,  then went out  o a spring back in the pasture   to  et some water 'in a tin  cup.      She  amo back and ate her supper, wash-  id up the dishes and went to bed.  She    went   to sleep   directly    and  [slept well  until  she  awoke  with     a  fdtart.     There was a large form coiling into  the cave.      She kept  .very  ,.    ARTIFICIAL  NESTS. ,  Now Is the time for those lovers  of birds who possess gardens suit-,  able to devise'means for attracting  many species into them for nesting.  Those who will take the trouble to  do so will be amply repaid later on  by the pleasure of watching the  domestic arrangements*of our feathered friends. The bird most easily  to bo attracted into our garden and  shrubberies is the lively titmouse, all  the varieties of'which, with two exceptions���the longtail arrd crested���  will gladly avail themselves of an  artificial nesting-place.  Boxes should bo constructed about  twelve inches in length and four  inches broad, with a lid that ma*  bo oasily lifted. At ono end a  small hole must be cut for tho in-  gross and egress of the tenant. It  is as well not to cut the hole too  largo if your object be to induce tho'  tits to take tip their abode in Hicsa  boxes rathoi',' than tho ubiquitous  sparrow. Tho boxes should bo  nailed against'a' tree or wall bc-  tweo five feot<and eight feet from tho  ground, and sh'ould not be tilled  with any- nesting material, for you  may bo sure ,. that if a bird selects  tho' sight for'i tin home it' will'first  of all turn -out everything that it  co'ntains and start afresh on . its  nest. , Boxes of the ,si?e given willc  probably bo tenanted during rthe  coming spring by one or other of the  following birds : great tit, blue, tit,  cole tit, marsh tit, redstart; perhaps  a 'shy nuthatch, who will take *' the  precaution, to seal down the lid with  clay and contract the entrance with  the 'same material; or it may be a'  wryneck, who is quite capable of  evicting.a tenant, and who, after  turning out the nest and its contents, will lay the eggs upon the  bare wood and- rear its family in  seeming discomfort. Old watering-  cans are very -attractive to robins,  and even to the dainty tffagtail -if  the can be hung "against a wall���one  such' last year served for the successful rearing of two broods.  AbOUt the  ....House  LONC-FORGOTTEN  PICTURE, -  "John Billus, I found' this'photo-'  graph in the inside 'popkot of n.n, old.  vest of yours 'hanging up .in the.  closet. ,I'd like an " explanation.  Whose is it?"      ; r      \  "Can't you see it's an old picture,  Maria? * What's "th(V; use of stinng  up memories that������"     ��� -  "I want to know whose picture  that is." : ,   .     '  "Rather a pleasant-faced girl, isn t  she ?"  "I want to know, her name.  "Nd jealous fury ,in that countenance,'is there ?" J1  "Whose is it ?"  "It's a portrait of a girl I used to  think a great deal of, and ���"  "Her name, sir ">"  "Well, you sat for it yourself,  Maria, about nineteen years ago;  but to tell the truth I always did  think the pleasing expression was a  little overdone. Put on your spectacles and look at it again,\and  then compare it with the reflection  in that mirrbr over.there, and^sce���  what are you getting mad "about ?"   ^ ���    '   '"  Bronco Pete���"What kind of a  ;tcath would you prefer to die, Twn'"  Tornado Tom���"Oh, I kinder think  I'd sooner die in a feather bed, with  kindly female faces clustered round,  and a few weeping children, and " a  minister." Bronco Pete���"Oh, but I  mean    suthin'  within    the range    of  still.     As soon as the man, for   as   probability-would    you    sooner    bo  \ie came nearer Marcia saw that   it j lynched,  shot, stabbed, or hit on the  J.vas a man,  came nearer he took   a J head with an axe?" .     .  (Nervous System Was Exhausted and Paln3 Were Almost Unbearable���Health Restored by  so s  As a convalescent food there is no-  Ithing to bo compared to Dr. Chase's  iNcrve Food. Gradually and ccrtain-  |]y this treatment enriches the weak,  [watery blood, restores vitality to the  'wasted nervous system and builds up  the body generally.  If you  are pale,'weak,  nervous,  ir-  ritablo    and   unable to sleep or MAt  there is health and strength awaiting  lvoi. in the,use of Dr.  Chase's Nerve  AFood.  "Mrs. J. Hatcher, 224 Shcrbrooko  )��tr��et, Petcrboro', Out., and whoso  ^husband is a moulder at the Ha'mil-  [torj.Foundry, states: "I had an at-  [tack of inflammatory rheumatism,  [which left me in a very run-down  fetato of health, and,,in fact my whole  [narrous system scorned exhausted and  ! won* cut.    I couid not sleep, pnd at  times the pains in my head were almost unbearable. As a result of  these symptoms I was unable to attend to my housework, and felt miserable most of tho time.  On the advice of a friend, I began  using Dr. "Chase's Nerve Food, and  can say that it has proved of very  great benefit to me. I am able to  do my own work now, and feel  stronger and healthier than 1 have  for years. I can truthfully state  that this is due to the use of 'Dr.  Chase's Nerve Food, which I consider  a great health builder.''  Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, 50 cents  a box, six boxes for $2.50, at all  dealers, or'Edmanson, Dates & Co.,  Toronto. To protect you against1  imitations, the portrait and signature  of Dr. A. W. Chase, tho famous receipt book author, ��re on every bo-c.  tMwg-n����g��������e**-����^qai  HOME MADE RUGS.  Mrs. Candace Wheeler, well known  as a promoter, of women's industries  and for her articles "on and designs  for home decoration, has; written . a  book on "How "to Mak'e Rugs" in  which she "suggests that the weaving  of rag rugs might solve the problem of how to earn an independent  income for some women in farm  homes.  Just .at present, rag rugs are  quite "the proper thing" for tho  floors, of country/and seaside cottages  for piazzas, for bedrooms, and bathrooms, and for general use. They have  been found to be durable, suitablo  and economical for such purposes, and  havo been seen on sale at the ware-  rooms of one of the largest decorating firms in this city. The rugs arc  woven out of new rags, in two-yard  lengths, with bonier and fringo at  each end, and aro not only useful but  salable.  Rag carpets have been made for  many yonrs antf almost every coiin-  try neighborhood has even got its  "weaver"���who ,is usually overcrowded with work, and has no - timcf  for rug-weaving. It would be pos-  srble to sot up a now- industry without infringing upon tho established  one.' 'Few old looms still exist, un-  fortunately, the cr.a or cheat) jute and  ingrain carpets brought most of them  to the wood-pile, and the''secret of  the only .difficult part of weaving, the  warping, or placing the warp in tho  loom,, died with the women who years  ago, wrought' upon thcm;f There arc  still looms to ' bo purchased, however j and' where an old loom still  stands the secret of warping "may be  learned from the nearest weaver <     t*  ��    THE FIRST NECESSITY,  after the loom,  is , the carpet warp,'  which can ,,bo bought at any country  store���a met whrch shows the   prevalence of    homo    weaving.   trrhe warp,  can be bought in white'or colors, tho  latter* being not always reliable.  One  of the chief recommendations of these  rugs is that they are washable, therefore the'colors must be fast and    not  fade or "run."  Mrs.'Wheeler, recommends the coloring -,of ,worp,.ond rags at home,-. :by  the old-fashioned 'process, which produced' fast* colors. , Sonic, of the -aniline dyes''fade," "and. rugs that 7 rade  wouItt-TSoon "bring- (llscreai & ,Qfl_i_tho entire tindustry. ,��;* A1-*faded'warp(-is, .especially dctrimcntalito the good looks  of"a. rug." A01 good indigo blue will  neither runVnor..fade,-and' a numbe^  of shades can'be produced with ind'-;  go. cMrs". Wheeler ;f.says that 'orange  and a very deep rod' are the only two  colors in warp that she' has* found  reasonably' fast, and the orange  "runs" *so badly that it must . be  steeped in warm water before using;  and she adds' that she has used the  water in which it has been'steeped to  dye cotton rags, which tako a good  lemon yellow ,from it. Orange - red,  and the crimson rod known as cardinal, she excepts from the usual commercial dyes. By dipping ' orange  warp in indigo blue a fas��,, bright  green.can be secured, and this " with  the colors mentioned, give a choice of  five colors���green, blue, orange, red  and white.  Ruga intended for-salcmust be made  of new rags, vand" here the qjiestion  of economy must-be considered. The  waste from cotton -mills canJ be  bought for from ten to twelve cents  per pound, and consists for the. most  part of piece ends,���the imperfect -beginnings and cncimgs that must be  torn off when tho piece is made up  This makes ail ideal  MATERIAL FOR WEAVING.  Cotton bought by the yard-is more  expensive, and it would bo necessary  to figuie out the cost and see whether  rugs.could be made-at a profit by  using it. To many it would seem, a  crime to buy now goods to tear up  into carpet rags. Bought by the  piece, the goods would come cheaper.  The old fashioned way of sowing  carpet rags will not answer in this  new departure. .The filling must be  smooth, without lumps or ends. If  tho pieces arc large enough the edges  may* be lapped and sewed on the machine; tho lap should be from a quarter to half an inch, and be sewed  twice. The cloth can then be torn  the seams being cut with the scissors; tho woik is'expeditiously done,  and a smooth finish secured. Tho rags  should bo torn instead of cut, wherever possible, as uniform width is  thus secured. In ordinary cotton  cloth an inch is recommended as the  most suitable width. A pound and  a half of cotton rags will make a  yard of yard-wide weaving.  The simplest weaving, says Mrs.  Wheeler, is "warp of indigo blue and  white filling. There must be an allowance of five inches of warp for  fringe beforo the weaving is begun,  and ten inches between the first and  second rugs, to make the fringe for  each The rug should measure three  feet by six, without the fringe. The  latter is to bo knotted, six threads  to a knot. Such a rug can be as  easily washed as a counterpane, or  may bo thrown on the grass during, a  heavy shower and be thus washed.  Variations on this are easily made.  One way is to.use half a pound ^of  blue rags to tho two and a half required to make up the three pounds,  of /miu" required for a six foot rug.  This blue material must be distributed  through the rug evenly, and a good  way is to divide each color into three  portions so there is an equal share  of tho blue in each third of the rug.  A BORDER AT EACH END.  may' be made by weaving in from  eight to. ten or even more threads of  blue or any desired color, and scattering the rest "haphazard" in short  lengths through the body of the rug.  Dark and light blue rugs' on a' white  warp make an effective <rug, and where  much blue denim is worn the^materi-  al is easily secured. In any except a  blue rug a. stripe of red in the border is effective. A red warp with a  white filling will mako o pink rug;  if begun and finished with a half inch  weaving of the red, used for Warp,  with the red fringe a pretty border is  provided for. The rule is a light  warp with dark filling, and dark warp  with light or white filling.  Larger'rugs can be maae by sewing  breadths together and addrng a border. " Mrs. Wheeler advocates the  buying of cheap, coarse muslins and  calicoes which can be bought at from  four to five cents a yard. From eight  to ten yards, according to fineness,  will make a yard of weaving. Very  cheap unbleached cotton, that1 approaching the riuality called cheesecloth, dyes wolf and makes a light,  strong, clastic rug. i  A well mado rag rug will sell fo'f  $2; 1/ prettily made in colors, from  *2.50 to $3.50. - Some on which' extra work'' is expended and which are  artistfc'in color, will bring $<t to $6.'  The average to be reckoned is-about  Mrs Wheeler^ says- that her most  successful rag rug is a cardinal red  woven on white warp. ,' It' was made  of white rags treated with cardinal  red diamond dye, and was purposely  made' v uneven���that is, pains were  taken "to let the rags shade in color  from dark to light. The border consists of two four-inch stripes of "hit  er miss" green, white and red rags,  placed four inches from"'eithcr end,  with an inch stripe of red between,"  the ends finished with'a white knotted  fringe.   -       '        '  CHOICE  RECIPES. ,    ^  Ginger Snaps���Mix one-half pound  of butter, with one and one-half cups  sugar,- add one" and a half teaspoon-  fuls-- of baking, soda dissolved in hot  water, three eggs, season with ground  ginger, and add one cuji of flour. Roll  thin, cut as desired, and bake in.^ a  quick oven. . ' -< . . ,,r  . Cup Pudding���Take two^eggs, -one  ciip 'of melted butter, one cup' < of  sweet milk and. one cup raisins seeded  and^chopped, two-cups of flour, two  teaspoons baking powder., mixed .with for" Japanese  flour and. a little salt^ JIa4f^lJ^i--tie<^-rfe��r^  cups and steam four minutes. Serve  with sauce?" ���,~ ' '--*  '' Chocolate Filing���Heat' one cup .of  milk-and' two tablespoonfuls of grated  chocolated together",'��� then add *'" three-  fourths "of a cup of sugar and yolks  of three eggs beaten to a cream. Flavor with vanilla and bake with under  rrust, with _a menngcof the whites  spread over the top."  A tempting pick-me-up for an invalid can bo prepared by beating up 'the  white of a new-laid egg, add the yolk,  together with a spoonful of wine or  brandy, a little castor sugar, nutmeg, and vanilla essence to taste,  boat well, and serve in a breakfast  cup with  a few wafer biscuits.  Tea Biscuit���Tako one-half cup sugar, a piece of butter tho size of an  gg (melted), one egg not beaten, then  add one cup of mill?, a little nutmeg,^  mix them together and stic into three  cupfuls sifted, flour,'into which* you.  have put two and one-half tcaspoon-  fuls of baking powder.  A- simple, and most beneficial remedy for. catarrh or cold in tho head is  to mix about 15 drops of eucalyptus  oil in a teaspoonful of vaseline -- and  rub a little inside.the nostrils at  night before retiring to bed." Iii this  way the fumes of the oil arc inhaled  nil night,while the patient is asleep.  Imperial Soup���Cook a sliced onion  and carrot in one teaspoonful of  butter three minutes, then add one  quart stoc]<. Cook fifteen minutes,  strain, and add one pint of milk, one  tablespoonful each of flour and butter  blond "-"noor and salt,"then add four  lablospoonfuls grated cheese. Cook  ten minutes.  HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.  To remove the white spots from  zinc-lined sinks, or from stove yincs,  rub with a cloth wet with kerosene,  says a correspondent of tho Practical  Farmer.  A cooking school teacher cautions  her pupils against stirring oatmeal  while it is cooking, as doing so  makes it pasty. Oatmeal, to bo at  best estate, ought to be cooked slow-  Jy, three or four hours.  The always at hand sulphur match  is the most convenient thing for removing ink stains from the fingers.  Moisten the sulphur end with cold  water and rub the stain until it disappears.  Bake apples for breakfast. Bake  them the day before, if you haven't  time to do it before the meal, and  if the family prefer them warm, just  set them in the warmer.. Serve with  nice sweet cream and you have a  healthful, appetizing dish, which tends  to reduce the quantity of meat eaten.  After one is 30, the tendency of the  average individual is to eat more  meat than is good for him. The  baked apples supply the" digestive  tract with fruit acids, which aid digestion and supply mineral salts also.  Not always baked apples, but fried  apples and apple saucc^���apple sauce  cooked, slowly for somo time till rich  and jelly-like.  A CRISIS IN WOMAN'S'LIFE.  There are Backaches. and Head  aches and Days When Life Seemr  Scarcely Worth Living.  Thero comes a time in the life ol  all women " when they are face, t��  face with a grave crisis; wlien then  are "distressing backaches, head  aches, dizziness; when even somi  women are threatened with the losi  of their reason; when they suffer be  cause they are women.- The happi  ness of women for the rest of then  lives .depends upon being safely tid  ed over - this crisis. Dr. Williami  Pink Pills have proved, a blessmj  to women at all ages, and are particularly valuable at two 'critical  periods���when girlhood is merging  into womanhood and when womer  are approaching the turn of lile  Theso pills make tho rich, red bloo<  that stimulates ill the orwnns , oi  the body, expels ^disease and makes  the weary sufferer bright, active and  strong. Mrs.    A.  Jones,  Cypress  River, Man., says :���"Out of gratefulness 1 feel that I must let you  know the good ���Dr. Williams Pink  Pills havo done~ me.r , For years 1  suffered from inflammation of thu  womb and kindred troubles. - Only  those who have been similarly af- ,  flicted can tell how, much X suffered,  or how dreary life' ,seemed. I tried^  many' ' medicines-out none, of _ them'  helped me. _jThen I, .was advised to  try Dr. Williams" Pink. Pills.-I am  grateful* now for that "advice^ ,'for  after" using, about a 'dozen boxes  every symptom' of tho trouble disappeared and'A life again -seemed,  worth...living. It is now( several  years "since I took the "pills, and as  there has been mo sign of the/trouble  since, I feel safe in saying the cure  is permanent."  What   theso   -pills have  done     for'  Mrs.      Jones .they   will do 'for,   all _  suffering women if given^a fair trial.r'  But you must  get the genuine with  the full,   name     "Dr.  Williams Pink  Pills for Pale People"  on the wrapper-around every box.      Sold by all  medicine ' dealers ' or sent _ by    mail  post.paid, at 50 cents, a box or six  boxes for $2.50 by writing The   Dr.  Williams - Medicine. Co.; Brockville,  Ont.''   " ' . . *   \  .       A ;        '     "     ,'"  -.     _1 ��    "*���    '    ,  *:   c  JAPAN'SMARY JANE.,,.'" r ;  / Politeness '" distinguishes 'the rcla--  tions  between" mistresses" and maids *���  in 'Japan."     Even  tho  ceremony     of  "giving   notice"   is turned mto_    an  occasion  for    compliments.      A' servant    will  never   tell   her   mistress  that sho'is dissatisfied,  that   would  bo unpardonably rude..    Instead, she  asks  for  a . few < days'   lea\o of     ab-,  sence.-w, .This' is   willingly  granted,  ,,  servants have no set-  f.  t .'���  the end-of-thc-given -time_the:_.mistress will begin to wonder" what has  becomo of,tho girl. A letter arrives,  couchcdsinr.tho'most''polite''arid hum- ,  ble terms,^ and 'giving-any excuse bul'  tho real one. Sometimes it will ba  that sno has found herself too weal  for service, or that illness at homi  detains her. Whatever it nu; be,  tho plea is never contested, but ac  cepted, a�� final, and a new servant  engaged. Then, after some weeki  have passed, the old servant will  tuin'up one day, express her thanks  for past kindnesses, will take ber arrears of wages and her bundles, and  disappear for ever. So the ntattcr  ends, .with the semblance of laindest  feeling on both sides. '     ,  ,  -$��� ������  . Cholly (examining first print from  tho negative) :���"Isn't there som<  way to make my moustache show  a littlo plainer ?" Photographer:���  "Why, ' yes; you might wait a few  years and then-come again."  "-^ssrl  , EXPERIENCED  MOTHERS..  Experienced' ' mothers know that  most of the troubles that afflict  young children "are due to some derangement of the stomach or bowels,  and that if the cause is removed the  .little one will be plump, rosy and  happy. -For such troubles as indigestion, colic, constipation, diarrhoea, simple fevers and teething  troubles thcic is no medicine in tho  woMd can equal Baby's Own Tablets. The action of the Tablets is  speedy, -and above all things safe,  as they contain not one particle of  opiate or harmful drug. Ask anj  mother who has used the Tablets  and she will say that they are the  best medicine in the world. Mrs.  John Gill, Cranberry, Que., says :���  "After having thoroughly tested  Baby's Own Tablets 1 can say they  are the best remedy for the ailments of little ones I have eve."  used. No mother should bo without them in the house." You can  get tho Tablets from any druggist  or they will be sent by mail at 25  cents a box by writing Tho Pr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville,  Ont.  i"'l  LESSENING THE SENTENCE.  A Judge in Vienna recently had before him.a prisoner ngarnst whom  there were over 400 charges of  theft. Hc was convicted of all of  them, and if he had been sentenced'  for the full term of punishment he  would be doomed to 2,500 years'.  imprisonment; but tho judge's heart  melted, and, in passing sentence, ho  took off 1,000 years.  DH. A. W.CHASE'S  CATARRH ORE...  ��� U cant direct to tho dbfiascd  parts by tha Improved Blower.  . JloeJ* the uloera, cl����r�� the ��\lr  passages, stops dropplnrs In \'ia  throat and ponnniamiy .  Catarrh and Ha  onnmamly ciirei  [ay l��l!Ter.' Blower    Al! dealer., or Dr. A. W. Chaie  Medicine Co., Toronto* aa<< Buffalo.  *M  i.*'i  it  3��? *TrZ tftllKMOTW  ffigssfflaasa  asss AO&Ef,    B. C„    3-VlXKL)AVT.     M.AY    $8,   '1904.,
WCKED UP HERE AND THERE.
CUurch al England: "
St. Martin's Church, oor. Third nud Trainor ctreou. Sunday services, Matins at 11 a.
m., Evensong 7:S0 p. in. Celebration of Holy
Corurnuiiiun, lit Suntlny In otioli month and
an Special occasions. Sunday School. Sun-
tluy ut 3 p. in. Committee Meeting*, 1st
Tbursduy In each month. '
iie\. F. U. Stenlipiikon. Keotor.
St. Andrew's Prestoteiinn Clinroli hold
■orvlcos hi   tho Church on   Second Street.
MerriiitK sArvicc at ll,n»i*niiisr M*rvicn 7:*50.
Sunday School at tho closo of tho morning
Borvlce. RjV. 1». Turkintftuii, .tliimaci'. 1'reo
Reading; Room, to srliiuli nil nrr *.», I'lcoine.
(rW. 'G. Paxton, Notary rublic.
has this week moved' into his new
office on .Third Street, opposite the
Government Building.
Stevens Single Barrel, 12 bore
Shot Gun.    Apply Claim 'Office.
McDonald's    Grocery
Pneli, U«tku'm and Cfiulki.ig Coi-
tea. Oar-Locks, Paints and Oils, foi
sale at J. D. Dukiu's. .0
LOST:—,On Sunday last, between
"'The Claim" office and the Grand
Hotel, a small Nugget Pin- finder
kindly leave same at " The Claim''
office.
FOUND :-'-bn the trail between
the Beavis mine and Atlin,'Set of
Teeth,c gold bridge, Owner can
have same by applying at "Claim
Office."
TO' SELL OR RENT — Residence of five rooms in desirable locality hilly furnished, Kitchen
Range, Heateis, etc.
Mrs. W. J. Smith.
'.LCS   & ".LUMSDEN
Closing  out   Dry Goods,   Boots
and Shoes,"etc., at the Atliu Cheap
makes a '; Cash Store .  ■
specialty of fresh eggs ,aad butter.   Gold Seal Hip Rubbei- Bootp,     \
Louis Schulz is  erecting a new      *     " ■ $9-°° per pair,
slaughter-house on, the Discovery   Gold Seal Packs',      $3-50 '"    "
' Road.   'He has a big band of cattle #4-°° Hats. y°*-r choice,        $3.00,
ordered.    ' '  ' |$2.00 Shirts, "        "  ' $1.00.
A.prese„c writi„s. AUin  L*! ^l"' 0"" ^i'S'"
shows every appearance of an early j
dissolution,   and  those  of us who I . BF<DS   AND   ROOMS—Clean,
We   are  still doing   business at the
Old Stand \ ;
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.  THE  IRON   STORE. .      --
And are to the front- w ith Fiv- h T^fp
and the best brands of  Butter,   backed  u\,
by a full line of Groceries,/fet brat-da ontlu-/
Market. , t      ."    .
OUR   MOTTO:   Fair treatment to all
OUR   AI (VI;   Once a Customer, always a Customer. ' -
have been living on a canned diet! °-'jiet   a"£   Reserved. — At
are eagerly awaiting the sound of Mhtkopomj, Atlin.
the "Scotia's" whistle.
Thu
' W. J. Smith, Prop,
NOTICE.
NOTICE.
Fresh Garden and Flower   Seeds
at C. R:.- Bourne's. •
MaiUCarrier Kirkland arrived on     Sixty <jajrs from date r ,wiii apply to the
TiT' "•" — li ■' -ii     .,  ' -i       r ' Chjef Comraj&uoner of Lands and Works for
Wednesday ;v«tfr-4*^-B^^
hard trip'overland via Tagish' and ! cribed i«bU», in the Atliu District.. Com-
....       *     ,       '        , " , - i nieneiiiK at a Poit marked A..C-1I„ N. W.
the telegraph route. - , -    ^ J corner, udjoinlnir C. R, Meyers'S. w: corner
MM      r\" zr~   rt     u      n,i        r      tt '   j 3>ost and planted >ut o point on theT3a»tern
ilieU. K.   KarberShop  for  Hot , boundary uf Atlin Townsite.thence Easterly
Or Cold BatllS at all hours, 50'ceutS.-' 40 c*'*"114- thence  South 27. chains, to the
Northejui boundary of'the,Anaconda >miii-
Dr. TrOUO'lltOn is* moving his ernljeldUn, thence Westerli 40 vhnint,thence
. . " ,.       . Ntw.thetPly 27 ahains to point of cammenee-
residence to a splendid site near the mout, ContuiuinB 10s acres, more or ic«.
Lake front. •     " a.c.Himci«ih,d.
Dated., Atlin, B. C, May 10th, HKJ4.
Well assorted Stock of Domestic
and Imported Cigars at Bourne's.
The building committee of the
Atlin Club 'held a meeting Thursday night and decided to complete
and furnish the new club house.
Work will be started immediately.
DR. C. H. ©ATEWOOD; of the
well known firm of Gatewood &
Spencer, Dentists, of Vancouver,
is expected in on the first trip .of
the steamer. Anybody needing
the services of a thoroughly up-to-
date and competent Dentist will do
well to consult him upon his arrival.
Sports will be held in Discovery
on Dominion Day.. The athletes of
the district should bear this' in
mind and get into training for th*
various events. The Discovery
football players have already begun practicing and are prepared to
meet all-comers on the First.
New stock of Stationery, Letter
Heads, Bill Hea-ls, Dodgers, Posters, Cards, Programmes, Invitations, Envelopes, etc., etc.
Atlin Claim Office.
W. G. Paxton, Notary Public,
will attend iu Discorery ou Wednesdays and,Saturdays until further
notice.
THE  BRITISH COLUMBIA POWER
AND , -   '
MANUFACTURING. Co., Umitvd., •
On a;jd afterMay'ist. and until further notice,   the 'following   will
be the rates for lights;    Accounts collectible weekly.
ELECTRIC    LIGHT    RATES! — InmalbtU'ii.  $3:50 pci lighu
16 Gar tile Power Incandesce ni $G:5G per week r*cr t.%l:tt
8        »» n 0» $G:25* - „
The Company will furnish all lamps free of chj-rge ai.d Kj-lncc-  eld
lamps with new ones when burned'out. / *  " '""
Cheaper, Better, Safer/Cleanlier, & .Healthier Than Oil.
" i
Modkbn Steam Laundry iw Conkkctios Wash Rukdlvb Collkcied  A* Dklivxkxd.
4Hfc-l>tJIHE»-:
ATLIN   &. DISCOVERY,
V"",=:"Jif<Cr.-*'
-TT*
TVTOTJCK is hereby eixen that Sl*ty d»ys
afterdate I intoiid to.apply to the
ClileJT Coinmiasioner of Lknds and Works
for permission to pnrohase the fcsllowinc
described laudsituated in the Atlin District,
\iz.:— Commencing at a post marked D. R.,
N. W. corner, planted about one mile North-
East of Atliii Townsite, thenas Easterly 40
chains.' thence Southerly 40 chains, thence
Weetorly 40 chains, thoiice-Northerly 401
chains to point of commeneoment, contain- 1
ing 100 acres more or less.
D. Ron.
Dated, Atlin, B. C, May 11th, 1904.
Shelf and  Heavy   fera'ivsre,
Tkrand Granite Ware—Miner's ft Blacksmith's Supplies.—Doors and Windows. "
FURNITURE  AND   MA f TRESS
UOUIS   SCHULZ,
Wholesale   and    Retail     Butcher
FIRST    STREET,    ATLIN,   B.   C.
nouses
ROYAL     HOTEL
•
PI3COV-RY,   B.
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C.
CHOICEST WINES "LIQUORS & CIGARS.    .
ALEXANDER   BlAIN,   Proprietor.
Apply at
IMtrtt Brewing €otnp$ttv» Ol
ATLIN, B. C.
BREWERS  OE  LAGER BEER.
SMALL    AND   LARGE   ORDERS    PROMPTLY    FILLED.
MINERS' LICENCES.
DO NOT forget that Free Miners' Certificates expire ou Tuesday,
31st inst.
BROWNLEE & TAYLOR,
I>rtOVIKCIArJ    AND    DQUIKtON
r^ANt>   BimwYona.
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Consulting, Civil und Hydraulic Engineer*,
Atlin,  British Columbia
HOTEL VANCOUVER.
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First Strekt,   Atlin.
I KEEP NONE BUT PRIME STOCK—LOWEST MARKET PRICES.
THIS HOTEL IS STOCKED WITH
THE   BEST  OF  GOODS
Sam. Johnatoae,   Prop.
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HAS   REOPENED
Fresh Bread, Pies and Cakes,
Rooms to Reut.—Board by the Week.    —   C. R. Myprs, Proprietor,
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