*.#?. *���#�� f THE DESPATCH Vol. 11. No. 22. MORRISSEY MINES, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1904. Whole No. 48 r THE... INERS' ...HOTEL n THE MINER'S H��ME . . . . . . WHEN DOWN TCWN p*****? FINEST WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. Table Unsurpassed. P. H. WILLSON Morrissey Mines, - - B. C. Wre Have Just Opened Up a fine assortment of Turkish, Brussels and Tapestry Rugs. All sizes. Lace and Chinelle Curtains, Carpets and Linoleums. Spring is here, and house furnishings is the order of the day. We can supply your wants. H Snap���F ine Rugs, 3x5 feet, only 50c. each. Trites-Wood Co., Limited W- J. BLUNDELL, Mgr. Morrissey Mines. CIGARS TOBflee�� and SOFT DRINKS At the F. S. CIGAR STORE, Two doors South of Post Office. P. Sliger, Prop. Qhoe Repairs neatly and promptly executed. Urgent work done on short notice. Down town footwear will receive our attention if left at F. Sliger's cigar .store. No. 42. A. BOWDEN Two blocks above tho post- office, Tonkin. BAKERY In thanking the Miners and Public of Tonkin for their liberal patronage, J beg to inform them that FRESH BREAI) can always be had at 5 cents per loaf at The Trites-Wood Co., the Big Store ; at the Crow's Nest Trading Co.; or at Mon- euso's Italian Store. Orders promptly attended to. Liberal discount made on all orders to hotels and boarding'houses. PH'GL JEKSEN Have Closed Down. The mines here, as iilso at tho other collieries, Coal Creek and Michel are practically closed down ut present. The reason why the Groat Northern are not taking any more eoaj is not made public, but it is surmised that there is something going on beneath the surface, perhaps the use of pressure to accomplish a purpose. It is well known njw that the coal at Morrissey is excellont and just what Hill wants. Is he after the ownorship or control of this colliery ? How long the shut-Jown will continue is not known, but indications point to some woeks of it. Work on the company's cottages and coke ovens continues, however, and it is shown in a number of ways that this camp will bo going ahead as expected this summer, in fact there is reason to believe the company intend building fifty more cottages here, which, if true, is an evidence that they expect a great many men here. We aro assured of the excellent quality of coke turned out here, and have been informed that the ovens here, of different build to Michel and Coal Creek, aro superior and most satisfactory. A thorough test of tho ovens at each colliery is to be made at once, and, as the c.instruction work on those at Michel is stopped, the result of this test may be depended upon to decide whether the work of that build will continue or not. Something definite in regard to the recent surprise will doubtless be learned soon. Change or Rifle Range site. The danger to parties Hshing or hunting along the crock in having the rifle range located where the committee pur- Rosed, a short timejngo; it .should be, has been brought to the notice of the club, quite a kick being'rovi.-tered, with the result that the raiige 'wilfhave a new location. The now site will be north of town across the Oi.lt. track, about ton minutes' walk from down town, and is said to be fh several ways preferable to tho one first decided upon. Tlie Co. have been asked for permission to build the range there, asi; is on their property, and wo loam that such permission has been granted. The work of constructing.butts and targotswill be commenced at once. Hit Enterprising Successful Daily. Tho Winnipeg Pr.ee Press is now having a new press installed, the one put in three years ago, having a capacity of 20,000eight-page papers per hour, being inadequate to handle the rapidly growing and metropolitan circulation. The new machine is a Hoo latest improved quadruple newspaper perfecting press with color attachment, capablo of printing 48,000 eight-page or 12,000 thirty two page papers per hour, simultaneously printing, folding, pasting and counting the papors in lots of fifty. The special feature of the new press is the color attachment, which will enable tho Froo Press, should it so desire, to print certain pages in as many as four different colors and produce color sup plements similar to the large American journals, a press In this particular superior to any other in Canada. The Free Press is a credit to the west and to Canada, being one of the largest newspapers in tho Dominion, with not less than sixteen pages every day and thirty two on Saturday, and can be proud of the fact that it has a larger advertising patronage than any other newspaper in Canada, Social at Rlko. On Tuesday evening next, Mar. 3, a social will be held under the auspices of the Church ol England at Elko. An interesting program lias been arranged and an enjoyable titno is expected. All arc invited, Admission free. Baskots auctioned. Burrows Out In the Ninth. Tho glove contest botween Jack Cur- ley and Jim Burrows, in Fornio on Saturday evening last, resulted in a victory for Curley in the ninth round. The contest was speedy from tho start, Curley having tho best of it from the third round. Both men took considerable punishment, nnd each sustained a cut over the eye. Quite a lot of money changed hands over the result, tho miners backing Burrows heavily, and the amount won and lost is conservatively estimated at 88,000. Freight Engine Derailed. An oast-bound freight train ran into a slide just as it was coming down, about a mile and a half east of the Junction, Tuesday morning, causing tho engine to be thrown off tho track and burying the railway for a distance of a hundred feet. The slide occurred about 8:30 a.m., and an eyewitness states that he saw the bank beginning to go, first some lcose stones and earth with a shivering of the trees and shrubs high up the slope, as he got there walking on his way from the Junction to Fernie. He judged that he would have, time to get across safely and did, hearing an approaching train and intending to stop it as the slide was imminent, but, on account of the curve, he could nut see the train, which proved to be coming from behind. The engine of the freight was struck by the nish of mud and rock which came down just then and it was shovel off the track being turned sideuu;. B, about a hundred I feet of the track ahead being covered | from 10 to 20 feet deep with mud, rock and small trees. The Morrissey section sang and yardmen from Pernio came down at once, about thirty in all, and they worked all day, the track being clear at 11 o'clock that night. Spina Shattered by Bullet. A sad shooting accident occurred in Fornie on Saturday evening last when John McLeod, a boy ef 16 years, was shot in tho back with a 22 rifle, Tho victim of tho accident, who was employed in the oflice of Herchmer A Herchmer, in company with another >.��� lad, Chapman by name, employed by P. Burns & Co., were out in tho latter firm's stable behind the store and, ac. cording to Chapman's story, were play ing with the rifle which had been left out there, when in some way it exploded, McLood being shot in the back. Chapman went for help and the doctor soon arrived, who had the injured boy tukeu to the hospital, where the lower part of tho body was found to be paralized from the wound down, the bullet bavin; entered from behind and shattered tho spinal cord. Little hope is entertained for the boy's recovery, and he is expect to die at any time. The boys do not tell the same slory of the gun discharging, McLeod itating that he was looking out of the back win dow and knew nothing about the rifllo being out there. Tho unfortunate boy's father, John McLeod, was killed in the explosion two years ago, and this incident is male all the more sad on that account. rost��ofiice Closing Earlier. The post-office will close at i o'clock in the afternoon instead of 4:30 after the 1st of May, to allow time to make the mail ready and convey it to the Junction under the new system. Tonkin post- ollicc will close at '.)M. Important Sale of Coal Lands. An important sale of coal lands was concluded in Nelson on Thursday, when the Alberta Coal & Coke company sold outright all their coal lands at Cowley, Alberta, to Emmanuel Restor, of Loudon, England, and John 11. Thornburn, of Edinburgh, Scotland. James Rutherford, of Kaslo, who is now on his way out from the old country, engineered the deal, which was finally concluded and all the documents signed in the office of P. E. Willson yosterday, says the Nelson Tribune. The sale is an absolute ono nnd the purchase price is said to be 1100,000 and full payment of all sums duo by the company to the dominion government on account of the lands in question. The sum of $12,500 cash was paid over yesterday and this is to lie applied on moneys due the government. The second payment, one of 125,000 is payable on June 15th next. The lands sold consist of (MOO acres at Cowley, on the line of the C.P.R. just east of Prank. They were acquired from the dominion government with the right to purchase two yours ago, and lie to tho north of the railway track. Breckenridge & Lund's coal land is on the other side of the track. A English company has been floated to develop the coal lands, with a capital ol 8750,000, of which$150,000 hasnlreadj been underwritten. An English engineer will come out in Juno and development will bo at once sturted and vigorously proceeded with. The dim l, rs of tin- Alberta (lotil ami Coke company, tho vendors, are : ,'.. O. Applequist, Donald McLeod, II. Mc Lcod, II. 1'. Irvine, Harry Wright, M . P., and P. E. Wilson. These goutli I practical!) control the stock of the >-. CL..1. HDDiTlONaL LOeaLS. A number of business men are fencing in their back yards, and getting rid of loose evidence of recent building o; or ntions. The suspension foot-bridge across the Elk at the Junction lias been raised about five feet this week and is now safe from the danger of highwuter. It is reported that arrangements have been made this week by an official of tho Great Northern to pass horses and construction implements through the customs at Gateway. The machinery for the new sawmill of Grady, Owmon and Carlson about a mile from the Junction town is now on the site, and the foundation of the mill has been built. They have excellent timber un the property, and purpose manufacturing shinglei, inn will do no cutting until their right to the pre perty is assured. An explosion about midnight Wedne - day was heard down town a- well as i-i Tonkin and many wakened sleepers wondered why. Italians���spree���dynamite���same old cant. It shook tho town, broke seventeen windows in tho Co.'s cottages near by, and threw stones and gravel over houses a hundred yards away. James Cameron returned from tho Flathead by way of Jennings on Wednesday. The party went iu from liel- ton, Mont., taking pack horses from thore up to tho objective point, over sixty miles. There was four feet of snow on the summit tbey crossed, and the route was not as favorable, we un deretand, in the matter of distane.e or ease of travel, as from Morrissey down. They staked some forty claims for Cranbrook peop'o, without regard to whether there were previous stakings or not. John Young, of Tonkin, has recently been given judgment in a ease for damages, involving unlawful imprisonment and arm broken by policeman, against the City of Kalispell and Flathead county, for $10,000, The plaintiff was arrested and detained in jail unlawfully for lour months ending i December, 1902, and treated by the doctor there for in- jurie to his arm w bile being arrested. Tho case was transferred from Montana to Idaho and then Washington, with accumulating costs, until at thi settlement Mr, Young, having paid his lawyers'fees ami cost.., I,a --'.' to tl:J II,- is pleased thai i - over) : .,-.. . i'. W�� W \ SOLDIER AND WRITER. C��U Tonnnliuiband, Krltlsh ComiiilH-l' ner t�� Thlbot���Omncl Lama I ��io 1 ������ nml fraii-Ki Against 4.000 Sold lorn. The English military expedition into Thibet escorting Colonel Francis E. Younghusband, liriiisli Comniia- Bionor, will probably meet no opposition from the grand lama beyond tha formal protest plrcad;. made. The expedition consists of 4,000 soldiers, with inounlnin gens and Maxims, and thousands of carriers and transport animals. Colonel J. J,. B. Macdonald, wh i is tin- militai-y commander ol tho mission, has had much experience in lighting the bill tribes of India nod served as director of railways on tho staff of the ft GREAT DiSTURBEF, COL. V. K. YOlINUHllSllAKD. China expedition of 1900-01. The British troops are equipped with Canadian fur coats und colored glasses to protect their eyes from tho glare of the snow. The difficulties of the campaign will he very groat. Thibet is really a part of tho Himalaya mountains, and tho British soldiers must. pass through terrific ravines and along narrow mountain paths. One of the dangers to be guarded against is tho rock avalanches with which the Thibetans from time immemorial have been wont to repel their foes. The rocks are gathered at tho top of a mountain and arranged on a platform that is held up by a beun tied with ropes. When the enemy is at a spot just under the trap the Thibetans cut the ropes and let the stones fall down on the Part below. Colonel P. E. Younghusband, British Commissioner and chief in command of tho expedition, not only has an enviable reputation as a soldier and traveler, but also as a writer. Tlie French Deputy's Perquisite*. A French deputy receives n salary of 0,000 francs. He also receives free railway transportation and free luncheons at the bar of the Palais Bourbon, where many a lawmaker spends more time than he does in the Halle des Sennces. Sonit are accused of taking all their meals at the free lunch counter. A depnly even gets at reduced rates n special brand of cigar which Is called "cignt'c de deputes." Willi those cigars he treuts bis influential constituents. In spile of nil these privileges there have been many complaints that unless he bus a large personal income a deputy cannot live decently. Therefore many members of parliament when tliey arc not well to do have to make up for the insufficiency of their pay by contributing to newspapers or pleading iu tho courts.���Century. An Kxpllinntinn. "Mil, what's a romance In real life?" "You listen to your pa when he complains of having a terrible headache the next time I ask him to go to church. That 'II be one."���Chicago Record-Herald. \eeillesN Fears, Dinah Ebony���Aunty, de papers say mebby de black plague will come to dis country. Aunt Ebony���Don't you worry 'bout dnt. honey. It won't show on us.���New York Weekly. If your blood is thin and impure, you are miserable all the time. It is pure, rich blood that invigorates, strengthens, refreshes. You certainly know Sarsapari the medicine that brings good health to the home, the only medicine tested and tried for 60years. Adoctor'smedicine, ��� " I owe my llf(\ without dmilit, to Ayer's FarKRpnrillii. It Is tlui most wonderful iu.m1I- cine in the world for nervousness. My cure Is pennanent, end I cannot thank yon enough." Mas. HL1.IA .MuU i-i.i., Newark, N. J. J. 0. ATKR CO., I ,-.w]|, Masn. AB3E M. MOVEUX, 03SERVATOitY OF BOURGES, ON THE SUN. ;, llrl.urn Of SUIl SpitU ill ReC0tlt ElOl'tt'l* eal Disturbances Again show iiini Supreme���Earth lloiinil t,. lis life���llt-- ffUterluff Instruments Now Hitrlt A.l Ilia Varied I'hnsra "I HI" Uxialein"'. The Interesting communication of M. l'luinicurion on tlie rotent electrical disturbances presumably connected With s,.n spots has shoe, n the Interest which attaches to studies oi tho sun. Not only is the sou tho grand promoter oi terrestrial accidents', but it. is he who rules tile life of planets und each of the tributaries of this giant '.vorld has its eoun- ler stroke on our tiny frlobe, in gravitation at a distance of thirty-seven milliards of leagues. We are then bound lo his life and our rejrisior- ing instruments mark all the phases of his existence. Many spots show themselves on the disk, of the greatest of which we give a picture taken in the Observatory of Bourses, measuring no l.ss than 40,000 kilometres. It is a very beautiful formation, quite regular in form. It broke up some few days after photograph was taken. From all parts clouds of fire seem to try to encroach upon them, but tho fiery furnace, where above all masses of hydrogen and of unknown gases are burning, resists every threatened invasion. Everywhere distorted tongues oj lire, with ejections sparkling like gold infusion, dart their drops of gas, which are immediately consumed in contact with the mass. On the 13th December it passed to the central meridian. That was the day on which one could expect some telegraphic troubles. Tho telephones alone implied a weak perturbation, but tho magnetic needle, shaken anew as on October 12 and 31, showed oscillations measured in the observatory of the Val-Joyeux at more than one degree. In the article of M. Flammarion, Laxative doses of Ayer's Pills ouch sVtfit greatly aid the Sarsnparllla.: TYPE Or CLOUDS OF FIKRY KAIN INVADING THE SUN'S rOLAK HKfilONS AND G1VIMJ ItlSK TO MAGNETIC STORMS OS THE EARTH, mentioned above, the eminent astronomer asked whence proceeded thisi manifestations, and he concluded that neither the spots nor the rings gavo un exact coincidence. Our sun is a variable star of the same class as the stars of this kind observed in the heavens. Before arriving at a definite condensation, at its final incrustation, each star seems to oscillate by emitting all kinds of rays, by successive strokes, so to speak. In the heavens are found examples of all periods from a few hours up to years. A star in the southern Flv has a period of scarcely a day. while Mlra t'eli shows a period of nearly a year. As the stars grow older these vital pulsations seem to become weaker, as in en organic, body, und Ihe puliation:! diminish while increasing their duration. Evoryhody .knows of the excellent apparatus, due to M. Marey, which registers the pulsations of Ihe waves of blood. Well, the pulsations of the stars, considered proportionately, are of the same hind. Prom time to time our pulsations increase, tho heart beats (aster, the lompornturo Increases in otr organs: ii is the same way with the suns. Our sun is :i variable slur of lonu period. The pulsations Increase in amplitude about evory eleven years, en.I ihe ciii'vis nriv bo iompat'od. At ��� he le e , ,-l:. of i. .a ���: I mil ni .-e t h Ity a : i ddi ti favor s >|zot, upon our ccnl ral s! i". anil we have shown in the ": i 1,1 e fTolaire" that I he tern- rpri uro un 1 ,'i oi the n uno increase. I h ��� labors oi Sir '-ni:. nn I .nckyi r h - c tablitl'b i these iV.-i.. ��� . thin Mil h an abl :.-' mi e <,i -. i-ry e, n- i ng proofs. - lo ie::: be.I:. . tho ' Un in il ��� re: 'i ::] State bi'Calj lljl ill high t'-:.:- . 11 ires nnd give lo ' ho spi ctrum :��� ri ii 'W i'a; ��� of stib*>l ances un- l,nn' n on ' he en I 'J l ��� dal ���- oi i h - lo il maxims of c tivity are 1848.1, 1800.1, 1870.0, l 3f I an i L893, and Ihe next maximum will occur in 1005. Hi- minima have b.-cn 1800, 1807. 1881) and 1001.5, end the next minimum will occur about 1912. Tho increases, as in cardiac pulsations, arc more abrupt lhan the decreases, Bill a point Ihnl. is very curious and toward which attention should bo directed is Ilia; the sun is attacked every thirty-throe or thirty-five years by a. veritable fever of erup- t ions. We know thai together with the sen spots are noted phenomena unite as interesting and much more general. 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II you have not used the Dills yourself, ask your neighbors_.an,d they will tell you these statements are solemn truth. Mr. Charles Saulnier, ��orbor- rlo, N. S., says : "I was very much run down and so weak I could hardly work. It seemed as though my blood was littlo better than water. I tried several medicines, but I got nothing to help me until I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. It was simply astonishing how quickly these pills began to help me and how much new life and vigor they put into me. I am a cook by profession, and the fact that I was able to cook for fifteen men last winter is tho best proof that the pills have made ma as sound as ever I was." There Is no mystery about the power of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to put new life and strength into you. They actually make new blood, and that is why they cure all blood diseases, like anaemia, indigestion, liver and kidney troubles, headaches and backaches and the special ailments of women. Through the blood Dr. Williams' Pink Pills feed and steady the nerves, strike at the root of norvous- ness, cure St. Vitus' dance, fit?, neuralgia, sciatica and partial paralysis. All these diseases spring from bad blood and disordered nerves, end they have all been cured positively and permanently by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Sold by all modicine dealers at 50 cents a box or fix boxes for S.'..so. or by mail from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockvillo The .Taps are so confoundedly polite, too, even while they art- landing on your solar plexus. It is so hard to get news from the east that if the news agencies are not careful, the school histories will fcv "scooping" them on this war. Although China is to he neutral territory, wise citizens of I'ekin are burying anything that could possibly be construed as loot. Admirals Togo and Tto do not. need an extra transport for their names, which may account for the mobility ol the Japanese fleet. Russia probably will do something when it. gels its second wind, if in the meantime unconfirmed cutuors do not scare it to death. I kind 01" eruption probably of electric origin. All of a sudden burning jets ere projected from the solar surface, reaching in a few minutes almost incredible heights. Protuberances have been observed 220,000 kilometres in height, and Young was successful in measuring a protuberance of 800,800 kilometres, having a velocity estimated at 2G7 kilometres a second. Raspiglii has declared that he proved tin. fact that some velocities were ns high ns 600, Tim nnd rven 800 kilometres a second. In general these great velocities were found in Iflo equatorial region ot the sun. where the spots are most, abundant. They accompanv nearly always the greater spots and undergo marked I recrudescence during the period of eleven years. At these moments of continual effervescenco each point of the solar surface in the lower latitudes emits vapors analogous to those which arise from terrestrial volcanoes. These are the strange and inexplicable eruptions in which prevail largely hydrogen, helium, calcium, Iron, barium and other elements, all reduced to a state of incandescent va- ror. Littlo by little they cover a larger part of the sun, and sometimes Ihev are observed in the direction of the poles of the solar body. They form then immense aigrettes, quite analogous to those - which discharge themselves from the negative poles of electric machines. During these intervals the condensation of the sun continues by successive degrees of impetus, and the three pulsations, so to speak, of phenomena of another kind appear in the polar regions. To these phenomena the name of quiescent protuberances has been given, but they are really immense masses of clouds from which there descend upon the solar surface veritable whirlwinds and torrents of molten metal. These phenomena, following the intermediary periods, attain vast proportions every successive thirty- three or thirty-live years. The last phase of this character occurred in 1870, and it is expected that its recurrence will mark the vear 1905. It is further a remarkable fact that these magnetic disturbances are all grouped together In the years which occur about one year before the maxima of sun spots. These disturbances throughout the periods of thirty-three or thirty-Aye years are interrupted each successive period of three years or more. Thus thero will probably be magnetic displays during 1904. 190o and probably 1906. Then the solar fever will decrease and greater atmospheric calm will probably prevail on our globe. Our meteorology itself proves this, and it is certain that tho seasons will progress more in accordance with a normal standard. The pulse of tho sun finally will assume a more regular beat, and natural order will be restored���for some years.���Abbe M. Moroux, Observatory of Dourges, France. I.mlr Dnrtld of Anci.nl Lineage. Lady Durand, wife of tho new British Ambassador at Wasshington, 1). C, is not only a most charming hostess socially, but, like her distinguished husband, she is very clever with her pen. She belongs to ono of England's oldest and most aristocratic families, SCEPTICS TURN BELIEVERS AND ARE CURED Or- Agnew's Catarrhal Powder ��� Great Blessing. "When 1 read that Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder could relieve Catarrh in 10 iiiinmes I was far from being convinced. I tried it���a single pull through the blower aflorded instant relief, stopped pain over the eyea and cleansed tin* nasal passages. To-day I am free from Catarrh." B. L. 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An ideal medicine for young children is Baby's Own Tablets, which cure all the minor ills of childhood, and the mother has the guarantee of on,- oi Ihe foremost, analysts of Canada that this medicine contains no opiate .Milton 1,. Horsey, M. A. He, demonstrator in Chemistry, McGlll University, says:���"I hereby certify thai 1 have made a careful analysis of Baby:s Own Tablets which 1 personally purchased in ,a drug storo iu Montreal, and said analysis has failed to detect the presence of any opiate or narcotic in them." Analysis is proof, therefore mothers Vnow that in giving their little ones Baby's Own Tablets they are giving them nn absolutely safe medicine. Sold by all druggists or mailed nt 25c a box by writing the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. While China means to bo neutral, inhabitants keep right on taking boxing lessons. A Sour Stomach and a Sour Temper travel hand-in-hand sad are the precursors of mental and physical wreck. 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It you have there's dropsical tendency and you shouldn't loss an hour in putting yourself under the great South American Kidney Curs.���86 Corea must be tempted to move in the spring if it can find another llat. Russia will not mbke nn exhibit at St. Louis, having decided that it will hake enough work on its hands to make a satisfactory exhibit in Manchuria. It may be that Ttudyard Kipling is waiting to give Poet Laureate Austin the lirst poetical whack at the war. Russia by this time has got over the notion that it can smack Japan with one hand tied behind its back. Russia feels that it could use an unlimited amount of summer in its business. Have You a Skin Disease?- Totter, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Ringworm, Eczema, Itch, Harbors' Itch, Ulcers, Blotches, Chronic Erysipulas, Liver Spots, Prurigo, Psoriasis, or other eruptions of the skin���what Dr. Agnew's Ointment has done for others it can do for you���cure you. 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Los Angeles Cal., March 6.���In this sermon the preacher discusses the phychological phenomena of mind influencing mind and shows how tho soul may be elevated and energized by divine influence. The text is Acts x., 11, "And he saw heaven opened and a certain vessel descending." Theory is often little more than the fine art of guessing. ft is some- timcL' the way of concealing lite fact that you do not know a thing, by using scicntilic language. What is speciiic gravity? "That is the physical law," you answer, "which Isaac Newton discovered. Sitting one day under an overarching tree branch in his orchard, he felt a put! of wind upon his cheek. The overhanging branch swayed, and a fall pippin, like a lump of gold, dropped into his lap. Then the English sage began to wonder why that apple came down to earth instead of flying away, as though it had the wings of a bird, toward the stars. As a result of these ponderings Newton generalized all the causes of cohesion and gravitation which bind this earth into a compact mass and called them "speciiic gravity." But, my friend, with your learned answer you have not explained to me anything. In reference to the laws of physical cohesion you have only given to me two big words to express what I did not know before and what I do not know now. As in the material world, so in the mental and spiritual world there are facts and phenomena which we know to be certainly true, though we cannot tell tho "whys" and the "wherefores" nor tho causes which produced these results. For instance, we are nearly all ready to grunt tho power of human telepathy, or the influence of one human mind upon another human mind even at a distance. Sitting in a public meeting some night you exercise the power of will upon a person, and soon he will turn round and look at you, although that person could give no rational reason why lie turned and looked. Indeed, so powerful sometimes is this influence of one human mind over another that many students of criminology have come to the belief that some murderers who wield the dagger or aim the pistol may be merely the helpless and pliant instruments of unknown criminals who have impelled them to commit, their murderous deeds. Mesmerism, hypnotism, bewitchery, enchantment, aro merely long names defining this mysterious power, which almost everywhere ill the Intellectual world is beginning to bo recognized, and men are asking whether it may not sometimes dethrone the supremacy of the individual will. As one human mind has an influence over another human mind, we also know that there Is a spiritual telepathy, a subtle, mysterious influence which the other world exerts upon our own. Visional messages as direct and unmistakable as that which came to Peter upon the housetop of Simon's house in Joppa may also come to us. Wo may bo unable to explain how the divine manifestations come to the human mind. Cod will speak to us now If we will only let him, ns surely as he spoke in many cases to his servants of old. If we look to Cod continually for guidanco, to us, too. shall she promise be fulfilled, "Thine ears shall hear n word behind I bee saying, This is the way; Walk ye iii it." The purpose of this sermon is not to analyze Ihe causes of divine telepathy Bo much us to suggest ways in which Cod may he speaking to hill children in these days. Gospel telepathy, in the first place, comes lo Cod's children as if did to Peter upon Simon's house-top, in broad daylight. By I hat I do not mean that it necessarily comes to us as it did to Peter at I lie sixth hour or when the sun is highest, in the meridian, hut I do menu this : When Clod speaks to man he speaks to him when he is rational, when he is wide awake, when his senses aro on the alert, not when he is cooped up in some dark, deceitful retreat of n spiritualistic medium or when he is tossing about on his couch at midnight in uneasy slumber as tho result of his digestive organs having been overloaded. There is a vision of the spirit and a vision of the flesh. There is a vision which comes from God and one that is, like tlie nightmare, Ih'i product of our own brain under Ihe disturbance of physical or mental conditions. There must ho careful discrimination lest we accept foolish fancies and mlschovous impulses n.s the voice of Cod. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, nnd that which is born of the spirit is spirit. carry the gospel to all the world, whether .Tew or Gentile, so by a divine vision we may know that God wants us to go forth lo save this or that man and do this or that work. V>'c know it. hist the same as we know what our earthly employer wants us to do when lie gives us a bundle of checks and tells us to go and deposit them in tlie bunk. By divine telepathy we knew what Cod ations and not by the vision ol Cod. | wauls us to do. Cod is bidding you What right lies any man to apply to himself the Ninety-first psalm of David, as did a man some time ago in one of our eastern cities? lie pondered over these verses day in and day out! "For he shall give his ua- gels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." Then, in order to demonstrate his belief in this saying, that man jumped from the top of a four storey building and broke nearly every bone in his body. Do you suppose a vision like that came from Cod or from the devil? What right has a man when in doubt about any matter to go to a fortune teller or to a sorcerer or a professor of divination and to regard the voice of a professional charlatan as the voice of God? There is a vision sent by Cod. There is also a Satanic telepathy. Christ, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, was tempted by the vis- . ions of sin as well as we. In the | fourth chapter of Luke we read that Satan took Jesus up lo a high mountain and in vision showed unto I him all the kingdoms of the world ' and said: "All this power will I give thee and the glory of them, for that i is delivered unto me, nnd to whomsoever 1 will, I will give it. If thou. I therefore, will worship nie all shall be thine." Then Satan took Jesus to the pinnacle of the temple and asked him to cast himself down from thence, to prove that he was the Son I of God. But Jesus, instead of obeying the Satanic vision, turned unto ' the devil and answered, "It is written, thou shalt not tempt the Lord, thy God." If being so pure and holy as our Lord Was approached by temptation and assailed l,y a ternpl- er who based his wicked suggestions on passages of Scripturo, how careful should we be when a vision conies to ns, as it came to Peter on the house-top, to make sure that the vision is heaven sent lor our guld- I ance and not a temptation from the onemy sent to our own destruction. | How to explain this manifestation I know not. I would give you the simple facts and let you judge for yourself. We were en route from Beirut to Athens by way of Smyrna. , It was about II o'clock in tho morning. I was awakened by my companion sobbing in his berth. "What is the matter, TrotibV" 1 asked. "Oh," he answered, "teinierliiiig has happened at my sister's home. I had a strange vision about It. I was not asleep, but this vision has come upon' me as nn overwhelming realily." ''.Vonsens', man!" I answered. "You are not a Fanatic, are you? You were asleep and bad a bad j dream; that is all." I did not be- . liovo in God's visions then as I do | now. My friend said nothing, but : that vision made such an impression j upon him that, lie took note of the ' time and the latitude and the longitude we were then in. From Athens we went directly home. So overpowering was his conviction of the realily of that vision that instead of going at once to his Philadelphia home he stopped first nt a friend's residence not. fur from where he lived. "How are Ihe folks'.''' said he. Tho friend answered: "What! Did you not receive any message "lately? j ho well for us lo dwell upon o go forth to spiritually sine this man and that man, to do this gospel work nnd that gospel work. Within you to-day you may hear the call. With your wide open eyes in broad daylight you may see the divine vision. This ^gospel call for practical work is the more impressive aud Immanent because God's visions are never haphazard; they are never purposeless or meaningless dreams. They always have a Very practical interpretation. When Teter looked olf f'.-om Simon's house top he saw a great sheet let down from the heavens, filled with "nil manner of four footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air." That vision was a symbol of the fact that Jesus died to save the Gentile us well tts the Jew, the despised barbarian as well as the Jewish high priest, the un- circutnclscd as well us tlie circumcised. Hardly had the vision ended wheti Peter heard a loud rapping at the lower gate. "Who is there? Who is there?" was asked. "I am a messenger from Cornelius," is the answer. "1 am not a Jew. but a Gentile, sent by a holy angel to j thee. Wilt thou come and tell him about Jesus .Christ?" The vision and the knock at the door were one summons. Then if was that Peter knew his vision was divine and that he was called to a duty which he , might have shrunk from if he had I not seen the preparatory vision. No , longer was the offer of salvation to be made to the Jews only; no longer were the messengers of Christ to regard the Gentiles as common or unclean. So much ihe vision had ' taught him, and so I'eter went with the men and preached Christ to the ' Gentile centurion, and he found that the gospel was the power of God ' unto sa.lvation to the Gentile as well 1 as to the" Jew. God's visions are never haphazard incongruities. When Ihe good Ananias one day iu tho city of Damascus had the command in a vision that ho should place the hands of holy ordination upon the bitterest enemy of the Christian disciples he at first doubted, the divine authenticity of the vision. Ananias looked up at lirst into the heavens and in surprise suid: "Lord, 1 have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to the tjiilnts nt Jerusalem. Not hill)! Not Snul! I cannot ordain Saul of Tarsus." But hardly had the good Ananias Centered the house to which Cod had directed him when they brought him a staggering, stumbling blind man. It was Saul! It was the arch enemy Saul! Then Ananias knew that his vision was divine. So, O man and woman, the divine vision conies lo you for practical gospel work. You feel it. You know il. Why? Because while I speak there arises before your mind some one man. sonio one woman, some one child, you can save. You arc like Peter standing upon the house top. You are listening lo the messenger of Cornelius calling you lo carry the news of salvation lo some waiting soul. But there is Mill another fact about Cod's visions which it would Tho Why, your sister lost both her twin boys in one day. They both died of diphtheria within an hour of each other." My friend asked the time. They died about, the sume time Ihe wonderful vision came to him in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, I ask you mrt to give a human interpretation of that manifestation. You cannot.. I cannot. From a human standpoint was not that vision very strange? Can you Interpret it from any supernatural causal ion? Hut why be surprised nl Ihe incident I have related? You have heard of many similar occurrences. You had a divine vision in your own life when the undertaker rudely broke into your home. When I lie doctor said she was dead, nl lirst you were almost broken hear tod. You were like a madman, You paced up and down the room saying: "Oh, God, how can I get along without her? Oh. my Cod. my Cod! What shall 1 do?" Hardly bad you Uttered that agonizing prayer when a strange pence came into your soul. She seemed to come buck to you. She seemed to put her arms about your neck and to say with her old terms of endearment: "Husband, palm, sweet heart. sun. I am all right. Christ bus merely taken me away for a little while. I cannot come to you, hut you shall come to me." Was it a dronm? Was that message merely a Satanic mockery or was it a divine vision coming lo you as one came to Peter on Simon's housetop? When you saw her joy and happiness was it not the same kind of a div'ine vision ns that which came to St. John when he cried out in Apocalypse: "Who aro these which are arrayed in while robes, and whence came they? These are'they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of tho Lamb." The divine telepathy often conies ,ns a direct command for practical gospel work. As I'eter on Simon's house top by his vision knew that Christ was sending bjm forth to divine telepathy comes to the despised man's home as frequently us it does to the ruler's palace. Who was Fetor's host at the house where he had litis divine vision? He was Simon the tanner. He was in all probability the most despised man in all the coast capital at, that lime. Among the Jews the denier in cured hides of animals was looked upon as a social outcast. The harlot, tlie murderer, the Insurrectionist, were more respected than he. The condemned criminal might be pardoned of his crimes even though he was the thief who waylaid Iho poor man on tlie road to Jericho, but Hie tanner's calling was never forgiven. As men shrank from contact wilb the leper, whose touch might eouiiiiuni- cate his loathsome disease to tho healthy person, so the Jew shrank from contact with the tanner, whoso presence in a home brought ceremonial contamination. The door of hospitality was always slummed shut in the lace of I hi' tanner. lly ihe old Jewish law, if a husband died without any children, his brother was compelled to marry the widow. Hut a widow was not compelled to marry that, brother if he was n tanner. Not even the Jewish law would compel a woman to suffer such an ignominy. Ifa man married a vvoinsn without telling her he was a tanner, she could have th" matrimonial bonds instantly annulled, as soon as the deception was found out. Of course, there had to be tanners among (he Jews, as there must be hangmen for this present generation; yet. so bitterly were the tanners despised in ancient times that by the eastern law no tanner was allowed l.o build his tannery nearer lo the outskirts of a tovvu than fifty cubits. It was to this despised homo that the heavenly vision came, opening the gate of the Christian church to the Gentile nations. Your home, 0 man, () woman, may be humble; it may be located in what the aristocratic people call tho slums; it may even have been as sociated with the vicious pollution oi society; but even there the voice from tlie heavenly mansions may bo heard. "I came not,'' said the compassionate Saviour, "to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance." You may be a social outcast, ns much shunned as Simon the tanner, but in your house, too, you ma.', le-ar a voice saying, "Come, now. and let us reason together; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall he white as snow; though they bo red like crimson, they shall be as wool." One more thought is suggested by Peter's experience. This vision of the sheet coming down from tho heavens filled with all manner of four footed beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air came to I'eter when he was comparatively a young man. It came to him not only as a message of salvat ion, but also as a command, especially for young men and women, to go to work. He was then a young man in the thirties. My young friends, note the importance of this fact. It means that God is appealing to the young and the physically stalwart to consecrate our energy und vigor to his service. "I never hear my pastor preach," said a young girl, "but 1 am always filled with the desire to say, 'Lord, what wilt thou lave me to do?' " So I never read an account of tho Joppa vision, but I always feel this a message especially for mo and for the young people to whom I speak to do something. Oh, young men and young women, will you not be roused, as I'eter was aroused, with the thought that, you may become gospel messengers to a sinful world? Will you not catch an inspiration for glorious Christian work by standing upon the house top of Simon the tanner? Kcnrlngr tlie Limit. Miss Tabby���How Is your husband getting along, Mrs. Thomas? Mrs. Thomas Cat���Not very well, ne lost his seventh life yesterday, and ! am getting worried about him.���New York Times. A SlioTTilo-wn. Three yniing men attired in faultless manner, escorting two charming and well dressed young Indies, boarded a Main street car the other evening, evidently bound for tho theater. The young fellows ���were full of life and could not contain themselves with the degree of complacency with which their fair companions carried themselves. One of the gallants, who was apparently doing Ihe honors of the occasion, produced live tickets as the conductor approached and, arranging them like a hand at cards, remarked "A full hand." "Yes." replied Ihe knight of the bell rope. "Three jacks and a pair of queens."���Columbus Dispatch. l.i the noolbMtore. "Jones' new book won't set the river on fire." "No; but a dozen of 'em in the grate will keep the room warm!"���Atlanta Constitution. lIONton I.ndlea. Gertrude���How do you know Mrs. Dowday makes ber own clothes? Has she a sewing ���woman's forefinger? Millieent���I don't know anything about that. I was thinking of the horrid way her gowns lit her.���Boston Transcript Those Girll, "Maud says she had her flngen crossed when she accepted Chollyboy." "But she uncrossed them when he showed her Ihe big solitaire he had brought."���Cincinnati Times-Star. Kranon For Jt. "I don't, sco why you girls aro nil so orazy after that tell young fellow," snld the girl who Intel just, arrived at the (seashore. "Me stutters," "But just notice how long his arms ���re. '���' "What of it;:" "Why, they make a girl think her waist Is three sizes smaller than it, is."���Chicago Posi. it, !>e I. i aii the ThounJitleas. Hettie���I think it's awful mean to make me practice two whole hours every day. Papa���But what do you think of your mother and me, who are chief sulTer- Cl'S?���Boston Transcript. To the last tiny she lives a woman can never understand how a man can Worry about money matters when the children are doiug so well at school.��� New York I'ress. In l'oor Slorht. Noll���Mamie is going to marry nn optieinn. Belle���Is he wealthy? Nell���I don't know. She says there's a lot of money iu sight for him.��� The Lion That Frightened Little Gladys. LITTLE Gladys had n tremendous imagination, nnd she both amused and alarmed the family by her oig stories. One day she rushed in 'rom the garden and told her mother a breathless tale about a lion who laid taken possession of her summer bouse. "Are you sure it's a lion. Gladys';" OSkCd her mot ber. "Oh, yes, mamma, He's a great big fellow." "Well, we'll go right out and see him," said her mother. Little Gladys acted as if somewhat confused, but she followed her mother out into tlie yard. As they neared the summer house she said: "1 guess it wasn't a lion, mother. I guess it was a tiger." "Well, we'll see If we can drive him off, then," said her mother bravely and continued on her way. As they came still nearer the summer house Gladys pulled her mother back by the dress. "I guess it wasn't a tiger. I guess it was a monkey. Yes. it was a monkey anyway." But this did not Influence Gladys' mother, for she at once expressed a desire to see the monkey and marched directly to the summer house. There on the steps sat a big gray cut. Gladys' mother turned around and eyed her little daughter reproachfully. The little girl brushed a rosy red. and then, pulling herself together, she said, "I know it's only a cat. mamma, but it has such big whiskers it looks just like papa."��� New York Times. A Hard CllHC. "Don't cry, my boy. I'll take you borne." "Thanks. Mr. Cop. And would you mind ptittin' handcuffs on me, so's folks 'II think I'm truly arrested?"��� San Francisco Examiner. I' Served un ii Revivor. She Wut ciad tired. She had been shopping all the morning, and her feet ached. So did her head. She wits too tired to eat, too tired to sit still. She was too tired to ascend the stairs and lie down. Then the telephone bell rang. Sha crawled to the receiver. "Yes, this is���oh, is this you. Laura? What's that? Hid you? Where did you gel it? Mercy! As cheap ns that? Why, I paid ii dollar more only last week! Where did you say? How lucky! And have they any more left? How much? Oh. only a remnant! About four yards! Yes, I will. I'll go right down. It's so kind of you to call mo up. How's George? That's nice! Yes. I'll start right away. Goodby!" Then this poor, tired woman put on her hat and wrap and hustled down street again.���Cleveland Plain Dealer. Jr.,-!. I'roHt'M Tours. Not long since Johnny stood at the window trying to see through the frost- Work that was slowly molting, when he took out his handkerchief and as each drop of water started down the Window thoughtfully wiped It away. When his mother asked him what he was doing be replied: "Oh, I'm just wiping nway .Tack Frost's tears."���Philadelphia Ledger. A llosfoil lllislllllltl. Ntis. Caudle���I think there's u man downstairs. Mr. Candle���I thought I heard some one. Suppose you go down and ask him what he wants. F.ven a burglar wouldn't strike a woman, you know.��� Boston Transcript On-tioaltes. Miss McQueery���You and Mr. Sophtly correspond, do you not? Miss Giddny-Oh. gracious, no! He's real dark complexion, while I'm quite a decided blond, of course.���Philadelphia Press. A 1'hiloNophor. Teacher���And why should wo endeavor to rise by our own efforts? Boy���'Cause {here's no telling when the alarm clock goes wrong.���Yonkers Herald. SlMllr rrnetlenl. "Don't yon sometimes envy the oltt time giants of statesmanship their gifts for rhetoric and oratory V" "Sometimes," answered Senator Sor* ghimi. "Tho only difficulty is that these gifts aro liable to lead a man to think up speeches Instead of schemes for making lnoiioy.'V-Washiiigton Star. 7 v. flT1 l:V Morrissey Despatch MORRISSEY MINKS, B.C. E. J. Eachett, - - Publishor. 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I.ifpior License and Mineral Claim Notices, Etc., $5.00. Changes for advertisements will not be received tor publication after 6 p. m. Tuesday. FRIDAY, APRIL. 29, 1904 Had we a jail wo could have many Improvements on our streets mnde by the government hard-labor employees that would require much whistling to get in any other way. * * * On account of the shutdown a great many men have gone to Fernie to draw their pay, and that means more losses to merchants here from credit bills, to say nothing of the trade given to another town that would be left hero wero the pay system for portion of month proper. How long ! how long ! * * * A conversation with the citizens of Elko reveals tho fact that they, along with the Fernieites, arc laboring under the delusion that they are going to have tho Flathead traffic. There is too much in favor of the Morrissey route to allow any other route to be taken for the government road if the interests of the public are safeguarded. * ��� * By the time the road commissioner, gets his reply with appropriation from Victoria the people here will be quite on their mettle about this road to the Junction. Why not have spent the $50 at once, and done something to relievo the emergency, instead of waiting till tho road is dry because a work of greater cost requires an appropriation T * * * We are not collecting antique specimens nor preserving relics for their historical associations but can boast that the Despatch, unlike the Winnipeg Free Press, is printed on a yery ancient, cylinderless, draw - from - the - shoulder Washington press, with detached inking device, and altogether of tho most primitive type. It would be very foolish for us to part with this antique press and have the latest improved quadruple perfecting press installed. * * * We lenrn that the Coal Co. are about to grade tho streets and lay cinder from station down town, work of putting down the sidewalk also starting very soon. These improvements aro certainly much needed and will bo heartily welcomed. It is hoped that the grading will do away with the lay of witter from leaks in the water main on Third street, as parts that should bo well dried-up are wet and muddy yet on this account. The leaks are said to be due to improper laying of tho pipe, there being crooks up and down, with faulty joints, and the effect of this careless work is deplorable from the standpoint of weak water power as well as the flooded street. Tho mutter requires remedy and it is advisable to do it at once. * Si * It is useless to attempt making butter by shaking an empty churn, hence we havo been rather quiet in regard to the erection of jail and school buildings l^ere and the bridge across the Elk at the Junction. However, the reported ^jgrting of the foundation for the new jail at Fernie a few weeks ago has been food for much comment, and the pressing need of a jail here has made many, with good reason, wonder why our building was not started first. The fact that there are a number of men on the chain gang at Ferhie who could be employed in the digging of the foundation and other work, without expense to the government, undoubtedly aecountB for the action of tho authorities. Our jail, school and bridge are coming, and we expect to hear somothing drop soon. ��N THE wnR SITUHTICN. The following on the probable abdication of Port Arthur by tho Russians is contributed lo Tho Despatch by one who has been studying the war closely:��� It seems to be now generally conceded among those who are making an unbiased study of affairs in the Far East that it would be wise for the Russians to abandon Port Arthur and to withdraw to the shores of Lake Baikal for reorganization. This is reputed to be General Kouropatkin's latest advice to the Czar. Tho loss of Port Arthur would be little less than a loss of prestige, but this would be preferable to the cost of retaining a much bombarded fortress. By abandoning this position the Russians would have time to colloct the vast stores of men and material that are necessary to carry on the campaign in Manchuria. Too much importance seomingly has been placed upon the long line of railway with the fortress at tho extreme point, which has taken a tremendous amount of men and money to maintain. A slow rotiremont on the part of Russia into tho interior would gain for her the time which is essential to her salvation, and would allow her to concentrato her forces for a steady and united advance later. This, it is anticipated, will be the next move of the Russians, and it will doubtless be done before Port Arthur falls into the hands of the Japanese. The rush is ��n ... 5" S The business known as the Fernie Drug Store, one of the oldest in the town, changed hands this week when Messrs. E. Hazlewood and N. E. Sudda by purchased it from the wholesale firm of Martin, Bole and Wynne, of Winnipeg. The business in future will be managed by Mr. Hazlewood, who will give his personal attention to it. Mr. Suddaby will continue his work on the road. W. J. Mitchell, the former manager of this store, left on Monday evon- ing for McGrath, Alta., where he has been offered a good position.���Fernio Free Press. H W. Herchmer Sherwood HebcHmek Herchmer & Herchmer, BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS, ETC. Offices over Burns & Go's Butcher Shop Victoria Ave. Fornie, B. C. Leave Your Orders for Job Printing AT The Despatch Office They are going into the,Flathead Coal and Oil fields. The Flathead country in the not distant future will-rival the great Pennsylvania Coal and Oil region. . . . The coming spring will see thousands of people going into the new Eldorado. Morrissey Mines is the nearest point to start from. It is the outfitting point. THE ALEXflNORft H0TEL, Morrissey Mines. STEPHENS BROS. & CO., Proprietors. Union Barber Shop. For a good clean shave, an artistic hair cut or a shampoo, patronize the Union Barber Shop. E. flACE, - Proprietor. MORRISSEY MINES. Just to Hand New Clothing Hats & Caps Color'd Shirts and The Genuine Slatef Shoe Gillis and Richardson THE GENT'S FURNISHERS W. R. Ross F. C. Lawe J. S. T. Alexander Ross, Alexander &. Lawe BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, EtC. Morrissey Mines - - - B- C. Choy Block L.W.PATMORE MORRISSEY MINES. Notary Public. Insurance. The Clark House 4th ave., orrassey Manes. D. CLARK, UNION-MADE QjDTHING Gent's Furnishings, Shoes, etc. J. J. MURPHY Morrissey Mines, - - B.C. DOES YOUR WATCH KEEP GOOD TIME? If not, allow us to fix and guarantee it. STRATHEARN, THE JEWELLER, Opposite Western Hotel. * ��� ��� M \J t\ ��� ��� m Fine Candies. Nuts, Tobacco, Cigars and Fruit Go to . . . SHAW'S If You Have any Draying to do, any freight to haul from the Junction, wood or coal required, remember A. BURNEY PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY. THE . .. M0RRISSEY ...BREWERY Beer and Porter is unexcelled. It is m e from the purest of malt and hops. The Beer that will make Morrissey famous. Have you tried it ? We are turning out the proper article. . . The Crow's Nest Brewing Co., Ltd. MORRISSEY, B.C. .�� . ' ���*'��' < aiSsws��� ^zzz:. OF LOCAL INTEREST. F, J. Watson, of Fernie, was down on Monday. R Wiikie moved his family to Coal Creek this week. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Trites spent a day at Tonkin Uiis week. Messrs. Roaf, Mitchell and Hoffmar spent. Sunday in Fernie. Mr. and A3 rs. C. Sinister spent Saturday and Sunday at Oowley. Mr. and Mrs. H. Oldland were in Fernie a tew days this weak. Gus. Bloomquist,engineer at the tipple, left Tuesday for San Francisco on a vacation. J. H. Bricker, o! the Crow's Nest Trading Co., was down from Fernie on Wednesday. Church of England service at the Alexandra, Sunday, 3 o'clock ; Gourlay House, 7 p.m. T. Ilalpin and family left on Saturday tor Prince Albert, where he has accepted a position as book-keeper. F. C. Lawe went to Fernie Tuesday to attend court for a few days, having a number of cases to dispose of. A carload of timber has arrived for the Windsor hotel sidewalks around the hotel and along third street from fourth to third avenue. Miss Jessie Leitch, Miss Ella Grant, Archie and Geoige Leitch spent Sunday ait .Morrissey, tbeguest of Mrs. J. Gillis. ���Cranbrook Herald. A. Mutz, of tho Fort Steele Brewery, came down from Fernie on Monday and succeeded in rounding up considerable of his rolling stock in the foreign quarters here. The Presbyterians purpose holding service regularly down town beginning Sunday, May 1st Services will be held at 11 a.m. in the Eagle Cafe. The public are cordially invited. The Shipman Comedian show in Fernie on Saturday evening last was well patronized, but the expectations of many were not realized, as the troupe work was not so meritorious as reported The Eagle Cafe building and lot has changed ownership, Mrs. Agnes Paquin having disposed ot it to A. Burney for the consideration of $000. He intends putting another storey an the building. Sirs. Paquin has gone to Nelson. J. F. Armstrong, road commissioner, was up on Friday to inspect the road to tlie Junction. He sent a report to Vic toria, asking an appropriation, as he is authorized to do no work costing over tifty dollars without a special grant. Two lacrosse leagues were organized at the meeting in Frank recently. One is known as the Crow's Nest League, comprising Cranbrook, Fernie, Frank, and Lethbridge. The other the Union League, including Medicine Hat with the four of the Crow's Nest league. D. Clark has been making improvements near his hotel building by the extension of sidewalk and grading down of the road in front Business men of his stamp realize that to do a thing is to have it done, and that governments, as well as townsite companies, are usually negligent and tardy, making a wait a period of uncertainty. It is nice to see things being done. Tho meeting of those interested in baseball or football which was called for Friday evening last was not well attended, and not representative, as there are many players in the upper town and the meeting being held down here about a half dozen Tonkin people turned out. The meeting served as a starter, however. It was decided that, having more and better material for a tirst-class football team than baseball, we would play the college game, man-making, lung expanding, association football. There are a number of excellent players here, and there is every assurance that we can get up a team which will be an honor and credit to this town. A meeting to organize the club will be held in the Gourlay House this (Friday) evening, and it is expected that practice will be on at the recreation grounds in a week's time at least. Kev. Stoney held Church of England service at Michel on Sunday and also at Elko Monday evening, returning on Tuesday. H. L. Staebler, of Fernie, was down on Wednesday for his music class engagement here. The number of pupils is increasing, he having a class of eight at present. A few local sports bagged a half-dozen duck on the Elk tho other day. The duck are quite hard to get at, they say. A number of flocks of geese have been seen flying up the valley high above town. M. Miller, laundryman, has had the appearance of his building and store greatly improved by paint The clean and nobby set-off of many buildings here due to paint is making our town a wholesome, pretty sight The Ka-No-Ta Medicine Concert Co., showing at the Alexandra this week, is meeting with fair success. The work of the troupe is appreciated by thoso who have attended, the clog dancing being exceptionally good, it is said. Wednesday night some thief or thieves broke into the station houso here and stole two quarter-kegs of beer, forcing out a long steel staple, thus throwing the lock of the door. There were more kegs there undisturbed, but probably they got plenty for a good drunk. Our local constable has not succeeded in locating his game yet. Many of our readers have been anxious to find The Lost Wife and are making inquires. Wo were aware of the disappearance but did not desire to make an explanation until we heard what the ready-print men had to say in the matter, and, as surmised, they have made an error in omitting the serial from thu last batch of four consecutive issues sent us, the story being found absent first in The Despatch of April 8th. This serial, by Mrs. H Lovett Cameron, is, we believe, of unusual interest, and we are pleased to state that it will be con tinued from where it left off in the issue of May 13. The conduct of certain boys of the upper town during a recent marriage ceremony is. to say the least, deplorable. To serenade a young couple on their return from a wedding trip is ono thing, but to make a great noise and uproar, with shouts of " hurry up ; sign your name and dig up " and similar stuff that was audable in the room where the matrimonial relationship was being sealed by a religious ceremony, disturbing and embarassing those present and making fun of what is a sacred service, is quite another thing. And a more deplorable feature of the thing is that women���married women and mothers were goading the boys on. The boys knew no better, and it is obvious, to their shame, those few women did not. Names are known to us but withheld from publication, the boys, as is natural, letting out the personate of their instigators. The Canadian Bank of Commerce, HEAD OFFICE TORONTO. Buy Your Drugs and Stationery ��� ��� at ��� ��� E. C. WILLSON Drug Store Paid-up Capital, $8,700,000. Reserve Fund $3,000,000. HON. GEO. A. COX, Pres. B. E. WALKER, General Mgr. Savings Department Deposits of $1,00 nnd upwards received and interest allowed at current rates. Depositors are subject to no delay when depositing or withdrawing funds. FERNIE BRANCH, E. H. BIRD, Manager. MINERS, Lumbermen, and working-men of all classes get the greatest value by buying at THE PIONEER STORE Jos. Aiello, prop. Tony (Jaravetta Successor to F. Moncuso. A full line of ...Groceries Next door to the Western Hotel. To any part of the district. Baggage transferred from the Junction. All orders for draying promptly filled if left with " Bill " the Drayman. MORRISSEY M1NKH. Meat Market. MORRISSEY MINES. Fresh and Cured Meats, Fish, Game and Poultry. Your Trade Solicited. R. W. Rogers. The fuel saved in one season by a Strathcona Hot Blast Heater will more frhan pay for the stove. It gives these results because it burns the gas half of the coal. For sale at Patmore's Everything in Fishing ...Tackle can be supplied by us. Letter Orders filled per RETURN MAIL or EXPRESS. Sheppard k Elliott HARDWARE FERNIE, B.C. . . The . . Western Hotel MORRISSEY MINES SPECIAL RATES TO BOARDERS Our Liquors and Cigars are The Best. Try Them. T. Rader & Co., Props. i?& We are Here with the Goods. That is why our trade is rapidly increasing in Fernie and this locality. Our stock of Poultry, Fresh and Cured Meats is complete, and everything is clean and up- to-date. Orders by mail receive our prompt attention. Fernie Branch Calgary Cattle Co. Have You Heard Hbout It ? The up-to-date line of Genral Dry Goods, Cent's Furnishings, Boots & Shoes,, Fancy Goods, Notions and Smallware, Jewellery and Watches, etc. We can " fix you up " in short order, if your wants are within the above named list. Kfoury Bros., Opposite the Alexandra Hotel . 'k I* h <> liOn the Way to | Bellegarde By TRYNTJE DU BOIS Copyright, WW, by T. 0. McClure In going from Macon to Geneva there are two routes, the one by Nan- tua and the olhcr by Bellegarde. Both are eo charming and so picturesque that the choice between them is sometimes nearly heartrending. It was on a cold, bright, late autumn day in November that a pretty girl, apparently an American, started to get Into the Bellegnrde train. Waiting as if to enter the same compartment stood a man well loaded with valises. Perhaps it was because he also was an American that when he saw her helplessly struggling on the steep, ladder-like steps he immediately put forth a strong band and raised her gently to the level above. Perhaps it was because she was not positive as to what he was that, barely bending her head in acknowledgment of the courtesy, she stepped swiftly over the bouillotes, seated herself in the farther corner and turned a steadfast gaze far and away. He seized the strap and swung himself upward after her, then banged the door and jerked up Ihe window. The "IS MX HAT ON STRAIGHT ?" SHE ASXED. latter was stubborn, nnd ere it was firmly fastened the train hud left the station and was speeding fast. As ho seated himself he threw a quick glance at his companion. She was a pretty girl with blue eyes, a lovable nose, a kissable mouth and an Irreproachable traveling outfit. A look of nimisement crossed his face as he noted the frigidity of her bearing, for he knew enough of human nature to be quite positive that she was thinking of him. Her rigid interest in the scenery on her own side assured him of that fact. He unhooked the indieateur and studied it carefully, nnd when he stood up to throw it on to the bundle rack he felt that her eyes had been turned his way, so he sat down again, folded his arms nnd waited for time to pass a little. The possibilities of French trains are great. Those without tempers gain them; those with tempers lose them���in both eases one speaks. She appeared unalterably fixed in her determination, but nevertheless be waited quietly, hopefully. Each looked out of Hieir own window. The Jura mountains were massing themselves one against another In a reckless desire lo become Alps as soon as possible, and the Albarine was running from one side of tho track to the other as if in all its previous course of existence It had never seen a railway train before. Suddenly they were swallowed up In a tunnel, and the girl gave a quick, startled cry. "It's very short." he said politely. She did not answer. They came out into the light again and stopped nt Art more. He let down the window nnd leaned out. that being the favorite recreation of the continental traveler. The village was overflowing with soldiers, cockades, bands and wine. "It's the day of the lot drawing for the army," he said ns he drew in his head and raised the sash again. His tone was disinterested In the extreme. "And that's Mont Cotombier on your side." he added. She looked at Mont Colombler and said with a chill haughtiness, "Thank you." The valley of the Albarine was beginning to merge into the grander valley of the Rhone, the hitter fiver sweeping broadly beside Ihe railway, while the Alps, Increasing with each nearer view, loomed heavily above. "The liner view is on this side," ho remarked kindly. She did not turn her hend. "I'll sit on that side If I ever return this way," she murmured. The train stopped at Culoz. nnd he left the car anil smoked a cigarette on the platform of the garo. When he climbed in again she glanced at him about halfway to bis knees, and he felt he had made some progress. "The next is Seyssel." he announced cheerfully; "the half on the opposite bank is in Savoy." She looked across nt the Savoy bnlf of Seyssel. and be contemplated her full face fur two seconds. "How Interesting!" she commented coolly nnd turned to the French half. Un nulled lilo runotncbP. and the color In his eyes deepened with an undisguised mixture of amusement and interest. Another tunnel. "Our lamps seem to have been forgotten." (His voice.) "Evidently." (Her voice.) He knew from Uie sound that she had turned toward him to speak. Then they came into the daylight once more and rolled swiftly above the Vezeronee. "We really ought to have a lamp," he said anxiously. "The tunnels are many between here and Bellegarde." She looked at him furtively, and he caught her eye nnd smiled openly. "Don't be frightened, though," he said, with ready reassurance. "I am a mairied man." Some curving linos crept between her eyes and lips. "I'm married, too," she responded. They exchanged glances. With a roar the train plunged Into darkness again. When it flew forth a chance passing cinder would have perceived that he laid changed his seat to one by her side; also that her face was flushing. "Do you know," he said, "when I got in I was fairly frightened at your lofty bearing." "Were you?" she said. "How nice! I wanted to frighten you. I've rend that is the proper feeling for ladie3 to try to inspire when they find themselves alone with a man." "Are you often successful V" he queried. She bit her lip. Then: "No," she answered frankly. He took her hand in his. "Tell me," he said earnestly, "were you ever successful?" She hesitated, and her hesitation was suddenly swallowed in another roar of engulfing blackness. "Go on," he whispered. (Whispers rush in where angels fear to tread.) "Well," she replied slowly, "once before today���only once, mind you���I vrent through a tunnel with a man"��� She stopped. "Oh, the unfeeling brute!" he cried impetuously. The train came forth to the sunlight once more. "Is my hat on straight?" she asked demurely. "Yes, It's straight," ho said, "but it's meant to go a little tippy, isn't it?" "Hand me Ihe mirror out of your valise," she said. "I think I'd better see for myself." He stood up and proceeded to seek the article demanded. "I suppose I may as well haul them down. We get off at Bellegarde, you know." "Yes," she replied. "And I do hope, dear, that I never in all my life shall be so mad again as I was at you when I got on to this train." He kissed her, laughing. "You were mad," he said. "You were Just awfully mad. I wondered if you'd ever speak to me again." "I don't care," she said, smiling and pouting at once. "I wanted to go by Nantua, and you knew it." Ulalne and Conkllnsr.. The first speech I heard Mr. Blaine make after I entered the senate was at the called session of 18711. when he replied to Senator Hill of Georgia on the amendments proposed by the Democrats to the army appropriation bill Which prohibited the appointment of supervisors and United States marshals to be present at the polls. He was not an orator, but a strong. Incisive nnd attractive speaker, who prepared himself thoroughly and was quick to see the most vulnerable point of attack in the enemy's lines. The seat of Itoscoe Conkling, Blaine's most inveterate enemy, was on the Republican side of the aisle In the senate chamber, while Blaine occupied a seat on the same row. but some distance east of that occupied by Conkling. The debate hud become very warm, and as Blaine, In his excitement, advanced toward Conkling and the Democratic side of the chamber, shaking tils fist defiantly nt his opponents nnd burling invectives at the Confederate brigadiers, ns he culled them, Conkling. forgetting for the moment Blaine's turkey gobbler speech in the Thirty-ninth congress, when they were both members of the house of representatives, suggested another point to his old enemy, which Blaine accepted witli alacrity, and this was the only time In fifteen years when tho two had spoken to each other.-George G. Vest in Saturday Evening Post. M)VE IS &LIND B By Martha McCulIoch-Williami Ctipjricht, 1MB, by T. C. McClure John Haley came down the back , steps, the model and pattern of angry dejection. At sight of him Mrs. Cor- son frowned. She did not need to be | told ber daughter Helen had refused Johnny's band for the eleventh time. I Mrs. Corson wanted Johnny in the family. He was such an all round good fellow and well to do, to say | nothing of how beautifully his farm | dovetailed with the Corson acres. When he came abreast of ber she could not help saying, "Well, of all idiots in the world you and Helen are certainly the I most Idiotic." i "I have been a fool," Johnny ad- | mitted savagely, "letting a girl keep me dangling after her five years. Helen wasn't fifteen"��� "She has less than the sense of fifteen now, and so have you," Mrs. Corson interrupted impatiently. "You If K Iltimn'l Swamp It. Bubblestock���Do you think we'll be able to float all of the new issue? Old Soundshare���You ought to, therr is no lack of water.���Brooklyn Life. SOBBING OUT BER LOVE AND PENITENCE. have stuffed her head so full of novels and poetry she's clean beyond plain, everyday common sense." "How can I help it?" Johnny said in a voice of deep injury. "I didn't know. I wanted only to show her I was liberal." "Oh, you are imbecile!" Mrs. Corson broke in. "As If that would go with a high strung girl. Of course Helen wants her own way���and gets it most of tho time. But she thinks she wants to make great nnd solemn sacrifices for the man she loves. If she can't do that she can't love him. If you were to have smallpox or lose your farm or break your back���anything, indeed, but break your neck��� she'd want to many you out of hand." "Think so?" Johnny asked, grinning faintly. "I don't think���I know!" Mrs. Corson retorted confidently. "I reckon I am stupid; seems like I ain't had my right senses except in horse trading never since I've been courting Helen," Johnny said, the grin deepening. "Oh, go along home!" Mrs. Corson retorted. Johnny stood for a minute like one lost in thought, then squared his shoulders, brought his heels well together, said In a loud, strnlued voice: "Ooodby, ma'am. I'll write. You're mighty near all the mother I've ever known. I'll never forget your goodness whether I fetch up In South Africa or iho Klondike. No, I shan't come over again. The sooner I'm off the better." Then In a quick, husky whisper, ns he bent to kiss her cheek, "You listen out for accidents about day after tomorrow." Perhaps Johnny did not know the ob- d.irate Miss Helen was standing at the Window, well screened by the Venetian blinds. He mounted his horse and rode n-.T furiously. As the noise of hoofs ,']>d away Mrs. Corson sighed deeply, saying OS though to herself: "Poor boy! It hurts mo to think of him wandering all over the face of the earth." "Don't worry, ma," Helen said, fling Ing open the blinds. "Johnny is not the stuff that makes heroes or martyrs or even travelers. Toor Johnny! If only lie was not so hopelessly commonplace I'd marry him���to please you and pa." "You've thrown away the chance nnd a mighty good chance," Mrs. Corson said, sighing nnd slinking her head. Helen laughed merrily. "Why, I can marry him when I please." She spoke with the conscious power of youth and beauty. Judge then her state of astonishment nnd despair a week later when she found herself beseeching Johnny to make her his wife and meeting with refusals ns steadfast as they were quiet. There had been a serious nccldent. Johnny was home again, in a darkened room, with his eyes bandaged and the doctor coming every day. As to what had happened, Johnny would not say n word. The doctor looked grave and hinted obscurely at damage to the optic nerve that might mean total blindness. But plenty of other folk were ready to swear the accident had been no accident, but rather a deed of daring on Johnny's part. lie had come upon two rough fellows ron- binit an lnoffenslvp peddler nnd had put the robbers to rout, but not before one of them bad fired directly across bis eyes. He was powder burned on cheeks and forehead���so much was certain. Johnny, suppliant or angry, to be twisted around her little finger, was one person; Johnny, stem and resolved, putting ber away In spite of pleading, very much another. All at once Helen awoke to the knowledge that she loved him. She had rushed to blm at the first word of trouble, meaning only to sympathize and console. It was his voice, pathetically brave, still more pathetically full of renunciation, which had shown her what was in her own heart. "No; I can't let you stay, Helen," he had said, letting her band fall. "I know you too well. You are so sorry for me you might come to love me. Why, I've seen you often and over get fond of a lame dog. Ever since this"���a sort of gulp at the word��� "happened I have been so glad you didn't care for me, because I love you so well I won't let you ruin your future. I'm a common, crossroad* sort- nothing like your fine gentlemen, but at least I can play you fair." Then Helen, by turns hot and cold, bad knelt and laid ber bead on his shoulder, sobbing out her love and penitence. She could feel Johnny swallowing hard. But he held obstinately by what he had said. It was the same the next day, the next and the next. At the end of a week Papa Corson took a hand. "You are trying hard to tie a millstone around your neck," he said unfeelingly. "I might not object to that so very much if only the millstone was willing. Johnny Haley has got enough to keep two people out of the poorhouse. But I've a mighty strong notion he don't want you. Unless you want to make yourself a laughingstock you'll keep out of bis way." Helen had not been spoiled all her twenty years for nothing. She listened, growing angrier and angrier all the time. But she turned away without a word and ten minutes later had bundled her mother into the phaeton and was driving lite mad toward the country town. The business that took her there was soon transacted, and then the horses found their heads turned toward tho Haley farm. There Helen burst in upon Johnny, locked her hand in his and said tremulously over her shoulder to a man who followed in her wake with Mrs. Corson on his nrm: "We are ready, Dr. Lansing. Please marry us quickly, no matter what Johnny says. He���he may not be quite right in his mind." Johnny almost sprang up. Helen's hand shook so he knew she needed support. His eyes were still bandaged, but the curls on top of his head seemed to wink at the minister, who stood twiddling the license uncertainly. "Let her go, parson!" Johnny called out joyously, drawing Helen a little closer. He made the responses in a suspiciously strong voice and nt the end tossed bis blinders to the other side of the room. "Helen! Sweetheart! Wife!" he cried. "I'd have to see you right now, even if It cost me my eyes. But I'm not blind nor going to be, even though that cannon cracker did singe my eyebrows"��� "It Is I who have been blind all these years," Helen Interrupted. Then catching the twinkle In her mother's eyes: "I understand now. You two conspired to make me see." The Kaffirs Thought It a Joke. I once took some Kaffirs from their desolate homes in the more desolate gorges beyond the mountain ranges to the more civilized south. Like most savages, they looked with stupid Indifference at the marvels about them, and once only were they excited by an incident which opened their eyes to what they considered a most extraordinary nnd unnatural state of things. They were descending a road when one of them chanced to remark that he was hungry, and the English "sahib" bought him some food at a wayside shop. The Kaffir saw the money change hands. "How Is this?" he Inquired In surprise. "Do you have to pay for food in this country?" "Certainly." "What a country!" cried the man In amazement. Then, after pondering awhile, he continued doubtfully: "Suppose a man had no money In this country. He might starve." "It Is quite possible." The Kaffir Bhook with uncontrollable laughter. It was the best joke he had ever heard. He then explained the ridiculous system to his companions, nnd they roared in chorus.���"Where Three Empires Meet." CAUSES OF COLDS. One <>f Hit- Mont Common ol Them la K.llil.l.v Too .Villi:. The invariable cause of colds comes from within, not without. No one takes cold when in a vigorous stale of health, with pure blood coursing through the body, and there is no good reason why any one in ordinary health should have a cold. It may come from Insufficient exercise, breathing of foul air, want of Wholesome food, excess of food, lack of bathing, etc., but always from some violation of the plain laws of health. There can be no more prolific cause of colds than highly seasoned foods ns well ns frequent eating. These give no time for the digestive organs to rest and Incite nn increased flow of the digestive secretions. Thus larger quantities of nourishment are absorbed than can be properly utilized, and the result Is an obstruction, commonly called a "cold," which is simply an effort of the system to expel the useless material. Properly speaking, it is self poisoning, due to nn incapability of the organism to regulate and compensate for the disturbance. A deficient supply of pure air to the lungs Is not only a strong predisposing cause of colds, but a prolific source of much graver conditions. Pure air aud exercise are necessary to prepare the system for the assimilation of nutriment, for without them there can be no vigorous health. The oxygen of the air we breathe regulates the appetite as well as the nutriment that is built up in the system. The safest and best way to avoid colds is to sleep in a room with the windows wide open nnd to remain out of doors every day, no matter what may be the weather, for at least two hours, preferably with some kind of exercise, if no more than walking. One should not sit down to rest while the feet nre wet or the clothing damp. A persou may go with the clothing wet through to Ihe skin nil day if he but keeps moving. Exercise keeps up the circulation and prevents taking cold. The physiologic care of colds 13 the prevention of the occurrence. The person who does not carry around an over- supply of alimentation in his system and furthermore secures a purified circulation by strict, sanitary cleanliness, thus placing himself in a positive condition, is immune to colds. A starving man cunnot take cold. A careful diet would exclude the use of all narcotics and nil food that Is not thoroughly appropriated. An overfed person Is worse off than one who is underfed, because the overfed body is taxed to dispose of what cannot be appropriated and, when not properly disposed of, remains only to be an element of danger.���Science of Health. Polaonous and llnrmleaa Snakra. There is a certain physiological difference between the poisonous and harmless snakes which exists very plainly in their manner of dentition. All snakes are objects of aversion and dread to mankind, so much so that to bo bitten by a snake has at times been so fearful to the victim as to have produced death although the snake was harmless. Such is the instinctive dread with which these reptiles are thought of that it may be desirable to have some easy mode of distinguishing the one kind from the other. This distinguishing characteristic is afforded by the teeth. In all poisonous snakes there are only two rows of teeth, the fang or tangs being arranged either Within the two rows or outside of them. The harmless snakes have four distinct rows of teelh, and when the bite shows this kind of wound and not any single deeper or larger puueture there need be no apprehension. Wlllklllff For Malaria. Obslinnte cases of malaria that have withstood tho ocean voyages, mountain heights nnd quinine dosing are said lo have been conquered by systematic and continued walking. What tho malarial patient wauls most to do is to sit indoors, nurse his aches and pains or to lie down nnd doze. Advocates of the walking cure maintain that fresh air is an antidote not only to tho malaria itself, but to the blues, which usually accompanies it. Their advice to Ihe sufferer in to dress up warmly if the weather is damp or rainy and go out lo walk. Wcnr llannel next to the skin, stout shoes and simple hat. If it is warm, dress lightly, but carry a wrap to throw ai'OUUd tlie shoulders against drafts and loo rapid cooling off. When one comes to think of it, there are few maladies on earth that fresli nil" and moderate exercise are not good for. TVlint She Thought. A class of little ghis at school was ni.ked the meaning of the word "philosopher.'' Most of Ihe hands were extended, but one child seemed specially anxious to tell. "Well, Annie, what Is a philosopher?" asked the teacher. "A man tltat rides n philosopedo," was the little girl's nnswcr.-Christian Advocate. A Suerseatlon Approved. "Why don't you do something to impress yourself as one of the notable men of your time?" "That's n good Idea," answered Senator Sorghum. "I'll write to some manufacturer this afternoon and find out what It will cost to have a brand of cigars mimed after me."���Washington Star. ������- the: despatch MORRISSEY, B. C. At the Cheshire Cheese. United States Ambassador Choate created a littlo flutter of excitement in Fleet street, London, tlin other day by invading tho precincts sacred to the memory of other times accompanied by Miss ('boat'", her guest, Miss Saunders, and Mr. Phil- U, S. AMBASSADOIi J. H. CnOATE. lips, his secretary. The Ambassador, in a silk hat and (rock coat, alighted with his party at Wino Office court and proceeded to the Cheshire Cheese, whore his arrival startled the only other diner at the place. The Ambassadorial party ate of the historic pudding and drank ale from largo brown mugs coeval with the Cheese, obligingly set their names in tha visitors' book and departed. Pnylntt For It. "Before I was married." said the confirmed pessimist. "I spent my money on candy, and as the result I now have to spend it on my wife's dentist bills." Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube Is Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when It is entirely closed, Deafness Is the result, and unless tho Inflammation can bo taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. P. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists, Wc. Hall's Family Fills are the best. Money doesn't always bring' happiness, but the average man is willing to take chances along with the money. BILIOUSNESS BURDENS LIFE .-The bilious man is never a Lorapuuioiiable man because his ailment renders hint morose and gloomy. The complaint is not so dangerous as it is disagreoa'ile. Yet no one need sillier from it who inn procure I>nrmcloe:s Vegetable Pills. By regulating the livrr and obviating tlie effects of bile in the stomach they restore men to cheerfulness und full vi^or of action. Ellen Terry has a passion for cottages. She owns three, ono at Small Hythe. Kent, being ono of tho finest exaninhs of homely Tudor architecture in England. Russian Desiffna on Norway. It becomes more and more evident that (he award of the Nobel prize for literature to the Norwegian poet Ujornsljcrnc Bjornson was a political not by which it was intended to bring about a reconciliation in political matters between the poet and King Oscar. The two men have overcome their mutual unfriendliness on the subject of the separation of the northeastern part of Norway, which in now generally regarded as lost to the crown of Sweden. Strange as it may appear, the Russian secret agitation has made great headway among tho fishing population of that region. Bnlarlea of riicf*. A skillful cool; comuiitnds a higliei salary in New York than the average cleigymun or college professor. At present French cooking is most in demand. The professional cooks are dl- vld'.'d Into two classes���chefs and seconds. The chefs receive salaries vary- in- ri'Oin $8,000 to $12,000 a year. The seconds receive from $1,000 to S1.D0O. The Tlir Sen!. The fur seal was once a land animal. , The baby seals are actually afraid of ! the water, they would drown if thrown i into it and have to learn to swim by ' repeated efforts. When once they have . been taught lo swim, however, they . soon forgot to walk. Ee i:;:\'o his wife n check in blank, All in :i Hummer liny, Aivl when lie next heard from tho bank Tliero woe the blank to pay! ���Cincinnati Enquirer. HE'S WELL KNOWN IN PORT HOPE Mr. Chas. Gilchrist Declares Dodd's Kidney Pills Cured His Diabetes Be Suffered For Ten Vears and Could Ga No Belief Till He Tried the Urea Canadian Kidney Ueinedy. Tort Hope, Ont., Mar. 14���(Special) ���It has long been admitted that what will cure Piatotos will core any form of Kidney Disease, and Uodd'a Kidney Pills have cured tho longstanding Diabetes of Charles Gilchrist of this place. Mr. Gilchrist is easily ono of ?b�� best known men in Port Hope. For fifteen years ho was Chief of Folio* and for twenty-two years Fishery Overseer of the Dominion Government. When asked regarding his cure, ho had no hesitation in saying it was caused by Dodd's Kidney PUIS and nothing else. "I had Diabetes and Kidney Disorder for ten years,': he said.. "My urine was like brickdust and I had a terrible backache. I tried doctors, tried everything, but could get no help till I was advised to try Dodd's Kidney Pills. I commenced taking them, soon began to get bettor and am quite well now. "If I had not used Dodd's Kidney Fills I am sure I would have been la my grave.:' Sound Kidneys tako all impuritlM out of the blood. Dodd's Kidney Pills make sound Kidneys. They ara th* greatest tonic of the age. It's an easy matter to gauge a person's wisdom. Draw him into a discussion, and if he agrees with you he is sensible. Thos. Sabin. of Kglinton, say.'J : "1 have removed ten corns from :-iy feet with Hollowuy's Corn Cure." Render, go thou and do likewise. Shakespeare was handicapped because there were no automobiles in his day to blow up and kill the villains in his plays. A LINIMENT FOR THE LOCCKIt ��� Losgei'9 lead a life which exposes tlem to many perils. Wounds, cuts and bruises cannot be altogether avoided in preparole: timber for the drive nnd in river work.where wet and ccld com .Ined ore of daily experience, coughs and colds nnd muscular nains cunrot tut ensue. Dr. Thomos' Eclectric Oil. when applied to the injured or administered to t/ie ailing, works wonders. Dr. Uhlo. of the anthropological department of the university of California^ has irono to Peru to study the origin and early customs of the inhabitants of tho Pacific coast! TO PREVENT IS BETTER THAN TO REPENT.���A little medicine in the shape of the wonderful pellets which uro known as Pariuelee's Vegetable Pills, administered at the proper time and with the directions adhered to often prevent a serious attack of sickness and save monad irregularities of the digestive organs they are an invaluable corrective and by cleansing the blood they clear the skin of imperfections. A set of silver-mounted dueling pistols once owned by George Washington was purchased by a New Vork dealer the other dnv n| ��.o auction. Hotel Glnaa Pnntrlea. The glass pantries of hotels are in charge of women for tlie simple reason experience has shown that men smash delicate glassware when they try to cleanse it. The Monkey. Its hand and its wonderful intelligence give the monkey advantage over all other lower animals. It cannot well endure cold anil temperate climates, and this fact, it is suggested, has prevented the close association with man that would have made tlie monkey the most useful of domestic animals. 5DMLIGHT REDUCES DR. CORSON. "Greatest I.lvlac Authority on Brtirn. inje" I'ays a Visit to Cnnaila. A most picturesque figure and one of great importance in the world of literature has recently been before tho Toronto public. Hiram Corson, processor of English Uteraturo at Cor- nell University since 1870, tho. au- thor of a score of volumes, said by Dr. Qoldwln Smith lo bo tho greatest living authority on Browning, has concluded a course of lectures for the Conservatory School of Expression with intorprotativo readings from the greatest English poets. During this course, his talk wero such as one reads about, ami hears oueo or twice in a life-time. When ho DK. HIRAM CORSON. reads, there is a subtle, thrilling quality in his firm resonant voice, which at once soothes and stirs, and tho difficult repetition of "Let the King Reign," in tha "Song of tho Knights," as the close ol each stanza was lifted from monotony into an echoing affirmation of the soul's devotion. Dr. Corson is 76 years of age, and resembles the artist G. F, Watts in features. As he sits with long grey beurd and skull-cap. Merlin himself is suggested, even to the quaintly jeweled forefinger, A dry and pleasant humor frequently drew smiles and laughter from the nudienres. Our portrait is from the painting by J. Colin Forbes, lately of Toronto. Color Dllndncin. Congenital color-blindness is duo to an unknown condition of tha retina, or the nerve contries, or both. Instead of three primary sensations of color being perceived, as in normal, one is absent, and people thus constituted are cither red-blind or green-blind. The seven colors of the spectrum, as seen in tho rainbow, aro violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. To a red-blind person the appearance of the spectrum is short at the red end, therefore tho general impression is green, and blue for the other three; between these is a neutral band, which is white. To a green-Wind person the spectrum is not shortened, but it appears yellow at one end, and blue, as before, with a neutral band. .So certain colors, as it were, drown the rest. Professor Delboetif, a Belgian, who suffered from this, and has -written lucidly upon it, actually corrected his vision by Inventing a wedge-shaped glass, with graduated scale, which be tilled with purple fuchsine, or chloride of nickel, to tone down tho excessive colors. He tells with, what joy ho saw for the lirst time tlie true colors of shrubs, flowers, nnd tho landscape. EXPENSE $5,000 Esiyard^Vroihe^' Limited, Toronto, to any person who , can prove that this soap contains any form of adulteration whatsoever, I or contains any injurious chemicals. ' Aslt for tho Octagon Car. ��i5 i CEDAR FENCE POSTS r."i lh,-��. In fir* Incite, .mull Dnll, Il I*��n, miltmsi, MlanHoU, r. S. ��� lon'l IsU-AddMM c. Bo. nrnKun ICfi'ro.itery. "Aren't you ashamed to be an object of pity and derision?" "Oh, I don't know," answered Meandering Hike. "Dcro ain't nobody put- tin' cartoons about me In de paper or makin' jokes because I want to give away libraries an' colleges."���Washington Star. ejp �� Poor man! He can't help it. He gets bilious. He needs a good liver pill���Ayer's Pills. They act directly on the liver, cure biliousness. feS^E*-0"" Lowell, Maitv" Want your moustache or beard J n beautiful brown or ricii black ? Use BUCKINGHAM'S DYE ? rim OTn. n. r. luu* pp.. Washita. ��. n. I Uaeful Piece of Furniture. "They are going to have a bureau of Information at the corner drug store during the convention," said Mrs. Perkins. "Wonder if we couldn't get it after the convention is over," mused her husband. "Get it! Get what?" "The bureau of information. We need one in the house. I could keep my handkerchiefs in it. Nobody ever knows where they are now."--Judge. Sloei> X.-or Insomnia, Patient���Can you give me something for insomnia? Physician���I can recommend something, which amounts to the same thing. Patient���For heaven's sake, tell me nt once. Physician- There is. in fact, only one sovereign remedy for sleeplessness, and that is sleep. Three dollars, please. Wnileil Too Lonfir. Old Employee���I've been getting the same salary here for fifteen years, and��� Employer���Yes. Well? Old Employee���Well, it's pretty hard lo live on so small a salary. Employer���But you've proved that it's just as difficult to die on it.���Catholic Standard and Times. A* thf. Zoo. The Monkey���What makes Ihe giraffe look so smiling this morning? The Kangaroo���Oh, some one just gave him a chocolate drop, nnd It taslrs good all the way down.���Philadelphia Bulletin. Easily Achieved. "How did Wiggins manage to get a reputation for being so wise?" "By confining himself to two words. no waits till one of his superiors expresses an opinion and then says, 'That's so.'"���Washington Star. ; A Short Cut to Health If you want to enjoy vigorous health take PI EX They are a verita.ble short cut to lasting 8k.nd perfect health. Prepared only bx Ihe Proprietor, THOMAS BEE* HAM. St. Oelenn, England. Sold Everywhere In Canada and U. S. America. In boxoi, 25 cent*. I5THC PRtrtRlTiNTIALlO'CiGAR Yoiill Enjoy Every Bit Of It, made by 3.W.F0RTIER Ltd.. Montreal Try OQILVIE'S 'ROYAL HOUSEHOLD' A Perfect FLOUR For "jf �� ��| BREAD and PASTRY, Sold��� in original packages only��� by all dealers. OGHVIE'S- Millers to fl. R. B. The Prince of Wales. Do You Want EOME ONE TO HANDLE YOUR SHIPMENTS O 10 CONSIGN YOUR CHAIN TO A RELIABLE FIRM / "SOMPT SERVICE ANO CAREFUL ATTENTION ��� It ��o, the nndersia;��tMl -.vent.: your bunlnexM tmrtwlll endeavor tu ��lre rtatleiactlon. Cash udvapcen .11 consi^umaau. Uel'oreuue: t-nion Hank ol Canada. Ta�� oldest esfaMishrd ftrain Commission Marobant in Winnipeg. Grain Exchange. Winnipeg. nenmark In Short of SnrnnmeH. Denmark suffers from n Quite me- dlteval paucity of surnames, and so Inconvenient is this fact becoming that the government has nmiounceil Hs intention of presenting a I>i 11 to the legislature sanctioning and encouraging the adoption of new surnames. Such names as Hansen, Petersen and Sveren- seu are overwhelmingly frequent, It is even said that there are towns of 80,000 inhabitants among whom there will not be found more than twenty different surnames, ns ninny ns a thousand different people having Ihe same surname. In these days of records and various registrations, to say nothing of business relations, tho comedies of error arising from Buch a state o�� things must be numerous. ��� London Globe. ' Of the sixteen children born to tilt 'hue Professor Moromsen ic<\ir are dead, ono Is a physician, and another sits in the Reichstag for Daiitzig*. Severe colds are easily cured by tho use of Dickie's Anti-Consumptive Syrup, a medicine of extraordinary P'.'iie- trating and heuliim properties It is ncknowlfdeecl by those who have used it as beine* the best medicine sold for ouelis, colds, inflammation of tha limes, and all affections of ihe throat and chest, lis acrceablamias m tho tnsto makes it a favorite with ladies and children. llelle Applegnte, nn American singer, mire employed at tho Dresden opnrn will go to the royal (lie.are ni Weinmr. Lifebuoy Soap���dlsinfectnnt���is strongly recommended by the medical oreli-ssion us 11 safeguard acainst inie.e [oua <1N eases. :.'2 iinraBBmsaaasfB MMnanrcgB a* i (. n 9 W Im n divinity essay written by an '��� ��� ish schoolboy appeared the following passage : "And I fe seel unto Ye ; - 1 'ome forth; bul he come !jfl h, and lost tho job. Morral, Oil tirly." .LOMtTHfPjf A POPULAR CORSET FOR 1904 STYLE NO BRASS EYELETS MANUFACTURED ONLY HY Brush & Qo., TORONTO. - ONT. if your children moan nnd rare restless during Bleep, coupled when mvtiko with a { oss of nppetite, pale countenance, pirk~ j inc of the i vou m 'y depend 1 unon It I hat thi iry c use of the j 1 rou] ' - is h 1 '������������ A' '' r G raves' Worm ] ��� ��� ��� ��� nator ���:,'������ removes 1 hese r��esi . ���:��� tho little suffer- Riii "n newspapers insist that one war will no1 end it, Possibly Jnpa.n will '", willing to ntioto them rates on hnlf-dozon lots if they must have, more. A (Wrl is always proud of her new hat until she meets another girl with one that's more freakish, YrV IM U No -Ct-72 W ft If"1 * 99 per c -Li 4* T of the people who buy ��heap are dissatisfied. Leave Your Order with Us and get f THE at honest living prices, f A. The Crow's Nest Trading Co. McBEAN, Manager. Morrissey nines, * tt4.*j; 4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4*4.^ s HOW QRN WE D�� IT ? OFFER NO. I.���$3.00 for $1.45. Despatch, 6 months, and Success, one year, - both $1.45. OFFER NO. a.���$3.00 for $2.15. Despatch 6 months, Success and either Everybody's or Leslie's Monthly one year, 3 for $2.15. OFFER NO. 3.���$4.00 for $2.95. Despatch 6 months, Success, and Everybody's, and Leslie's Monthly, one year, 4 for $2.95. SPECIAL HRRHNGEMENT. H Word About These (Blub Rates. \ A/K desire to increase our circulation by 100 new subscribers during the ne\t six weeks. Can wo du it ? We are not losing money by giving these remarkable rates; no. We get a discount . ,��� . ., ., fym | ,4 ��S -r> s$ That is wliy it Through tin' influence of President Pulniti, Sir Williiitn���Vuflisttorn*,-.u��, lu�� . . JH.k Sih-iv Siliits. Canadian Pacific railway, is about to close a deal for tho purchase of the old Viebac i ilentiary, locate.I oppn-ito Morrow t untie, at tlie entrance of Savanna harbor, for the election of n hotel i | I will cos' .-���], 100,000. It will be the aiosl snimptuou and modern hotel structure in the world, and will be equipped especially for winter tourists. ant, three more terrible fires are to come chis year, and one of them will be in Winnipeg. " Kit," in the Mail and Empire, published the clairvoyant's prediction. A party of about 50 Chinese arrived here last Friday from the coast and were taken on a special train to Raymond, where they will take up small irrigation farms for sugar-beet cultivation. Their baggage was placed in a b$x car and when a few inilos from Lett bridge was found to be on tire, and totally consumed.���Lethbridge News. ||londay was Slavonic Day in Fernie. In the afternoon Victoria Ave. prosented u 'crowded appearance, rivalling the biggest celebrations ever given . in tho town. Three Slav, societies took part. They were : The Firsi National Slavonic Society, The Pennsylvania Slavonic Soon t} and the Roman Catholic Slavonic .Society.���Free Press. A numbor of snowslides have occurred on tlio mountain slopes around here in the last week or so. A number of our residents beheld the one that was hoard by almost every person in town on Saturday afternoon last. It happened at about 3:30, the roar being much liae u train on the C.a'.K. line near by, and ... whil hoard . i:. :" : lid ������ ��� ' Xf:q The Dntr l.uBKlird. The proprietor of n Third menus store owns a little black klttrn that cultivates a habit of squatting no its haunches, like n bear or a kangaroo, and then sparring with Its fore paws, us If It had taken lessons from �� pugilist. A gentleman took In to the more the other evening nil enormous black dog, hnlf Newfoundland, half collie, fat, pood natnred and Intelligent The tiny black kitten, Ins end of Ixilfing at unco for shelter, retreated a few paces, sat erect on Its hind legs and "put its fists" In nn attitude of defiance. The- contrast In size between tlie two was Intensely amusing. It reminded cue of Jack the Gland Killer preparing to demolish a giant. Slowly and without b sign of excitability the huge dog walked as far as hfs chain woold allow him and seized Intently at the kitten nnd its odd posture. Then, as the comicality of the situation struck him, he turned his head and shoulders around to the spectators, and if animal ever laughed in the world that dog assuredly did' so> then and there. He neither barked nor growled, but Indulged In a low chuckle, while eyes and mouth beamed with merriment.���New York Telegraph. For Little Girls. Some one has suggested a few things that every girl can learn before she Is twelve. Not every one can lejirn to play or sing or paint well enough to give pleasure to her friends, bot tha following "accomplishments" are within everybody's reach: Shut the door, and shut it softly. Keep your own room in tasteful order. Have an hour for rising, and rise. Never let a button stay off twenty- four hours. Always know where your thlngB are. Never let a day pass without doing something to muke somebody comfortable. Learn to make bread as well as cakei Never go about with your shoes unbuttoned. Punlfilimcnt of Tantftlna. Put an ordinary chair, front downward, on the ground. Now nsk some one to kneel on the lower back bar ami to recover with his mouth a piece of candy or Bmnll article placed on the back of the uppermost purt of the chair. It seems very simple at first, but If the person attempting the experiment is not very careful to crouch In such a way that the center of gravity falls back of the chair seat the chair will give him an unpleasant tumble. A Dinh of Qnpplncam. Take one large spoonful of usefulness, one enp of love f>ir mother, another cup of love for your little brothers and sisters, n pound of wishes to make others happy, a saltspnonful of wishing to be happy yourself, mix well together and see If it doesn't make the nicest kind of un ufternoon for anybody. Others, possibly not so attentively preoccupied, looked about when they heard it, surmising the source as the noiso seemed louder and somewhat different, to the train. They saw the slide coming down the mountain side across the val- (o the west of town about a milo and a distant, a cloud of snow particles and dust rising and rolling on downward as the mass of snow, rock and dirt descended, with increasing size and deepened roar. The slide came down three narrow ravines, starting near the summit of the mountain in one and the vibration of the slope causing the slide in the two othor ailjacent ravines almost simultaneously. Though on the same mountain side and not more than a mile from the big slide which caused such a blockade on the Great, Northern some weeks ago, this did not descend so far. having spent its force where slope was more graduul some distance from the bottom. Additional Locals. A ball as a farewell to departing ladies is to be given in Fernie tonight. Dan. MoKinnon, corpenter, one of the old timers, left on Tuesday for Haul!', where lie has secured a good position. It. Evans, who has been president of the local union as well as checkweigh- uiiin, left this week. L .Marx was ap pointed to take the place of Mr. Evans, place as president of the union and also his position at the scules. Weekly School! Report. III.Reader NinaBatt, Agnes Gourlay. 11.'leader���Luther Clare, Marg't. Miller. II, Primer James B.itr, E! i ������ Clare, i Pvinier - Mary ''' ebnlk, \ nlentirio