tsUJUju AND INER. SECOND YEAR. NO. 102 (JHAND FOKKS, 15. ('., SATURDAY, AI'UIL 2J$, 1898; PRICE FIVi: CENTS. £_ Timely Topics. ^ ^iUiiUUiUiUiUiiliUU.iftiui It ls Impossible Io borrow trouble without paying usurious Interest. The Buffalo Express says: "Anybody wbo caD ride a bicycle can go to war." Fall In, girls! A scientific exchange snys: "The number of rows on an ear of corn ls always even." That's odd. The Denver Times snys: "An Indian chief will sell anything but his blanket." He ls completely wrapped up In It. Apart from other circumstances, thnt four and n half per cent loan shows the degree of Interest England takes in China. Speaking of the "wnr spirit," It mny as well be admitted thnt the Kentucky moonshiners are still turning out a good deal of It. It Is said that a French officer has Invented a noiseless cannon which ls very destructive. Why not Introduce It for use ou the Fourth of July? It should be unnecessnry to state that the use of the wheel by Chinese women Implies more or less of a revolution In that conservative country. Reformer Charlotte Smith "demands that the Secretary of War shall enlist 80,000 unmarried women at once to fight Spain." Why so many? It has been discovered that forty-four different muscles are called Into piny whenever a man snys "I'll take the snine." It's the snme wheu he smiles. The United States has no use for the Philippine Islands and no Intention of annexing them; but then they might prove a very acceptable present to Japan. When the surprising figure of over 900,000 is announced as the number of telephones In this country, It's a very plegmntlc nature that Isn't Inclined to exclaim, Hello! That New Jersey man who has made seven unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide should not despair. Warm weather will soon be here and then he can easily walk out of the State. An Ohio mau lias written to the navy department to advise that all American men-of-war be armed with rubber instead of steel. He probably thinks such a cruiser would win In the stretch. People cry out, "This Is an unherolc age!" and while they are yet speaking some act of splendlng daring, like that of the Boston firemen who lately died ln the defense of property, puts them to silence. It hns been discovered that the recent fatal flre In Pittsburg, which claimed a half-dozen victims, was caused by an explosion of whisky. What sort of stuff do those ntrtsburg- ers drink, anyway? Americans abroad carry,their patriotism wllh them. Those In London huve raised a considerable fund for the survivors of the Maine explosion, and those In Mexico City have started a subscription for a monument to those who were lost. It Is disheartening to read of the conviction for fraud of a youthful scion of a noble Knglish house, whose ancient motto, "-Ne vile veils," may be rendered, "Choose nothing base." Gentle birth has Its obligations, as the old French proverb reminds us, and one of them certainly must be to keep unstained a name made honorable by generations of worthy ancestors. One duty of ministers ls to say, "Come." "Don't come," is the message of a missionary at Dawson City, and It ls given to warn away the multitude dreaming that there Is wealth for tiiem lu the Yukon district. He Is thus proachlug physical salvation, for "the couutry ls already overcrowded, and the supply of labor Is greater than the demand." Do not forget those two words, "Don't come!" Occasions like the present fill the crank with unutterable Joy. He finds himself translated Into his element- that of conceiving fantastic schemes and projects and of startling the country with the novelty of his Inventions. He has Implicit faith ln them, and sees nothing Incongruous ln their acceptance. A most sanguine Individual, he entertains not the slightest misgiving aa to the practicability of his suggestions, and he cannot be Induced to concede the possibility of failure. Besides the Income tax, there Is In Trnssla, though not lu the rest of Germany, a tnx on capital, as upon land and household property. All fortunes under £:«)0 are exempt from taxation. The minister of finance has just published the results of this "capital tax" for 1897, and these reflect a picture of the financial condition of the well-to-do population of Prussia, exclusive of small capitalists. The aggregate wealth of those liable to taxation amounted to £3,800,000,000, an Increase upon 1890 of more than £827,000,000. Of this sum £2,- 000,000,000 goes to the credit of tbe towns, the other £1,300,000,000 to that of the country. Only 5,4*40 taxpayers possess a fortune of £50,000, and of these only 1,891 have more than £100,- 000. Floating capital totaled £1,100,- 000,000, and landed properly, £1,200,- 0011,0110. Of those who possess over £50,- 000 1,100 reside In Berlin. It Is all of a piece with the tyrannical French Government Unit Zola's friends should be punished for their share, however slight, In his recent trial. One would thluk France bad returned to the dnys when any objectionable person could be clapped into the Bnstile, fulfills beautiful third republic goes the monarchy one better, and out-Herods Herod by punishing a man's defenders. It Is hoped that Col. Plcqiiiirt Is not cast down by being placed on the half- pay of lieutenant; nud not being permitted to wear n military uniform. Ills turn will come yet, and though there nre no more Bastlles to be destroyed, what now stands for that prison must lu time be also overthrown. It is known that states nnd nations die like everything else lu nature, that fashions pnss and are reborn once lu so many decades, and it may be that the fashion of tyranny Is to return by wny of Paris. At all events, the spirit that fostered the Commune ls rife. • 1 at * 01 * * -w days ago an artist entered the farm quarters while painting autumn landscapes, and ll is to this man's In- genully that Farmer Myers Is nt Inst well rid of the nuisance. One night of ihe uproar was enough lo arouse the clever boarder to action. With phosphorescent paint he sketched the likeness of a ferocious bulldog on each side ot lhe house, and confidently promised the farmer lhat there would be no more disturbance. When darkness fell again ihe figures of tlie 'logs stood out in luminous relief, appearing like the ghosts of real animals awaiting their prey. Not a cat ventured within the fence, nor lias one shown himself since upon the premises. The artist Is considered by the Myers family n slur boarder.—, Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Theatrical Manager—"This play •Lend Me Five Shillings' Isn't up-to- date enough tor me." Assistant— "What shall we do?" Manager— "Americanize It, bring il down to modern times and call it 'Lend Me a Dol- lar."—Philadelphia North American, . Notwithstanding the hard times, sealskins nre worn the year round—by llie seals. It Isn't always the most economical girl who has the smallest waist. Warships should never be built with money taken from the sinking fund. Some bare-faced lies are old enougii '■to wear a full beard. . . ssss :*--.- -X^, -,-,,- .-af THE MINER. IHE MlNi'i: in prim. ! ou Saturoayt, and will ba mailed to any address lu Canada or the United Stctos lor one > enroll receipt ol two dollars. Single copies live cents. CONTBACTADYEBTI3KMENT3 Inserted at the rate of Y per column in.-li m-r month. TRANSIENT ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted rrt tbe rate oi 16 cent, per nonpareil Hue lint Insertion, Advertisement, runnii ahorl rr period than three molillisnreelassed trauslcat. COHRESPONBENI I! Irom every pari ' 11 Val,- District and coinmuiilcatlpns'uiioii lit-ii r ,i . , a ir... - accepl ible. ■-. nd ir: your :, ivldle il i- fresh, and wc will do the rest. Jul) PRINTING lurnodout i" lira'-elasa ttyl ,it ri.: ihortcst notice. A I rcss r ii. Mr CARTER £ SON, III: .Nl. I ..-'ll-. B. '* THE WAR IS ON. War between the United States and Spain has been declared. Although formal notification of the fact has not yet bsen becn given the world, thc niptuie of diplomatic negotiations at Madrid, and the movement of United States war vessels on Cuba is looked upon as a virtu il declaration of War. It is so regarded by Loth the L". i. and Spain and there can be r.o Aistake ubout its significance to othtis poi'/ers,' The rcfosal of Sp. in to longer continue in communication with the U. i:ed States mini=.ter at Madrii is considered io indicat I deprive whole classes of workmen of j • the protection tbey most need. Victoria, I). C Fl-llagan. April 13th, 1898. Stockholder's Meeting. MINING RECORDS. Grand Forks Mining Division. April 12-1 London, Pathfinder Hill, Alex. Onion. Hilly, Fisherman croek, Wm. sfache. Sovereign, Scuttle camp, A. C. Sutton. April 18-: Rob Pen*, Carters'camp, Milton White. April 11-: llurii.inl. Goat Mountain, II. Hoffln.n. Sprlnsllold, Cbrlstlna Like, Qranville. Mor- aegies nr. SATURDAY. APRIL:.-,. Carson Lodge I. I. O. O. F. 0. 0.1- No. *:::i- rs .,■ • nl lts.il tCamin. I -l cor feuded toall - ri Ins brethren. p. 1: \i:i* in. N.U VV 1 M. Cl 1 II. •■ 37- BA I CUD.I n- 'lock in Hi. ul Invitntlou .- Where or when lhe first blow will (all it is impossible at presei.t to tell. In an* other week one will be better able 10 more clearly S'z2 up the plan of action rrl bo.b si lesi the indications at prcseni are that the U,sited Sta'cs has no small u. dertaking on i:s hands, It mus* r.i e an immense army, keep back thr Sp inish ll ret from is shores and tbo< of Cuiy.i, rnd dr ve the Spanish troop Ir. 111 Cuba. tbat Spain is the ! nan el al. Broken Hill No. 2, Christina Lake Iliilliu-itttc, Christina l.ukt-,1*. R. I-'or.le. April 16-: Uooil Friday, Cl.rl.tiim Lake, c. II. Thomas. April ;*, —: Cuba, Brown's camp, C. U. t*. Rogers, April in-: Nellie Gray, Limo Creek, VV, 11. Fisher, Lime n: OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THF. yearly meeting "I tn,* (ID VHII FfiRVS TOWNSITKCMPANY.^Zf,.™ Will be hold nt tlio unite of tlie Secretary of the Company, at Grand Forks, 15. C, Monday, liie 23rd day of May, 1898, at the hour of two o'clock p. in., for the follow- iug&purpoics: (a) To ratify mi option recently given for the sale of tbe unsold city lots belonglngtothe company, (b) To elect oflicera for thc coming year. (c) To act; on such other bushicbs as may come before the meeting. OHAS. CUMINGS, Bec'y. NOTICE. A slltiir-- of the County Couit of Yale u111 bs Iroiileli lit Orand Forks on flonday, 9th Day of May, 1898. al 11 o'clock in the forenoon. By command s. R. ALMOND, Government Office, Grand Forka, 1 D. R. c. c. |B, 0, March IS. 1898. I COURT OF REVISION. NOTICE. . 11. liners. from cor- ,* sys- : one DEFEAT OF THK CHARTER. There hai n-.-ver been, smce Canada nila |. .r:i 11.:-i.t, a ui-ir • unjust and Birupt'vote given by Canadian representatives lhan tbat which killed Cor- bin'a appMc itii 1 I b! week 1:1 the coin- n . r* 1 Itta va. 'J'h r.- is no' ..rol'K-r instance the Atlantic tJ the Pacilic where nectiou wilh th i America 1 rain* 1 tern had been deniol, r.rl i.n v I'l ii-.i on f.-o.Ti e'the: axhiiuess i.r a ip'iona! stand point why it thould have been done in this case, Certainly i. ihe 'peop'e of the dominion east ar.d wist: were to be cut ill from diiect oonnec- noil with Amtricon railway systems and tu be tied down hand ar.d foot to a single line of read, and that the C. 1'. K which has yet to prove itself iibyrai rn dealing tvi.h co.n.-i u itics eniirel) dependant upon It, theie would not be comotion only, but open rebellion be- iore tbey would submit to an i' jasiice So transparent and flagrant, There is li.lie doubt but what the d r- (cut of -die cha te- was accomplished liy a snap vote. M.ury cl the iiiemb ra 1101 having letmned Irom their Kister toli- ii i) 0,'but that fact does not alter the circumstances in tbo least, and (he consequences is the parliament of Canada stands today as the discredited instiu- 'ment 1 f a li^ railway cemj uny, i. stead ri llie trusted representatives and guardians of a free people. h is true ol*course that thc bi'i defeated by lhe.iniiuence ol cii.- man and his faithful foil -wing fiom Quebec, ■where his name has b;en. connected witli i.ll the political coirupti.n an.l1 bondlinj; operation? tbat have sp dis- ;;..*i.,l; that province in lhe past. The Ilm. Lracl Tarte, minister of public works, added hut another to iho long ii jt of public infamies with which bU hame bas been connected, whan he voted his solid Q rybec^pblanaix against the best interests of lhe people of thy Uuur. iary country, ' It wjuld have been amusing, had it not beer so thoroughly contemptible, to heir this political abortior, one time Tory, again Grit, Independent or Annexationist, all by turns, j istifymg his new departure by declaring tliat Canada should be kept for Canadian'. No one who has followed tbe course qf'this ISiil at Ottawa can doubt (or a moment that there exis'n an individual, puicbasible political commodity, in ihe house of commons at Ottawa, or that the C. P. R. know just how to use their money to the greatest advantage to secure a victory, by "fair or foul;' means principally, which'It seems certain has VAN HORN, THE OMNIPOTENT The following dom tlie Reservatior Record, published at Nelson, Wash. will be appreciated by the residents o; the llf.und.iry country on this side of .hi line: A1.1. Hail, Van Horn! lie 1. Canada. lie ir lhe great I'oo Bah of the Noill American continent. Bow thk kskk! Fur Vrn Hor ,Sir Wilhelm Van lio-n, lides *r mnphant up-n the bare back 0' the Canadian public, and tae bosom cl his p irts is lined with railroad spikes. He i*. tr e Premier. lie 1. Governor General. , His ancestors fought in 1776 to throw tff ii- I'.mish Yoke. Ar d .1 w lie is Ear ada. Pennsylvania i-r I is home, but 'hi Unlt6d States i-n't b:g enough for Van Horn, so he crtt*s d ihe line and became galv iinzerl. And r.ow he is the House of Commons. He is also the Senate, He is the whole Canadian Parliament and otl.er things to n mercus to roen- lirm. You bet he is a good Dutch Canadian Hy rite D. C. Coibin for breakfast, with 1 verv resident of the lioundary country on ihe side. K rltlo River was dry whi n he had finished drink ng. Sir Wilhelm V.m Horn, th- Hudson Ply Company anil Great Britain own ihe earth. Van likes company, ar.d si '.he oiber two are pernutttd to hve. He could own the Hudson Bay Com*: :,*.ny and Great Britain if he wanted . them. lie might have by.o.i fi-st cousin to l-l nperor Wilhelm But he woull rather be president 0' was I the Canadian Pacilic and own North America. He is North Ameno, all THE TRUCK ACT. To lhe ICtlltor of thoOiiANu Fouks Mines. l)y ir Si : -I wish tn summon ihe tentlon of all wo kingmen, and of haters of oppression and wrong, to tbe bill called the "Truck Ac:, 189S," introduced b) Mr. Kellie, It is based word for word, for the most part, on the old Imperial Track Act of 183r, (in force in this province, but seldom enforced, more is the sh 1 ne), amalgamated with the still more stringent provisions of the Imperial Amending Act of 1SS7. It is aimed at the shameful tyranny and plunder done to workmen by mine- owners, contractors, foremen ant others, who compel th:ir workmen to deal at their shops, aid board at their boarding housrrs. To such an extent is this shameful abuse grown, that it is said to be actually di 1ftcult round Rossland for a married man to get work; the mine- owners insist on the men boarding at their Bhacks, for the scurvy profit of running them. But the mere loss and robbeiy of 1I12 woikman is the least ol the evil, the wo: kuun is wholly in the boss's bands; and especially where a married man, a coal miner, say, once runs in dubt at the boss's store, then, with his whole living from day to day and from month to mouth entirely dependent, both wages and credit, on th- grace of the boss, and nq other employment perhaps within hundreds ot miles, you have real slavery. The treatment of their woikmen by I the contractors for the Victoria City water works is well known. Eighty men were crowded on bunks three and I four deep in a stinking little shack full 1 of holes all round, with their working That the Boundary Country from ' overalls, reeking with the foul lake mud, Midway east, Bhould be included in the '■ hanging by the bunk side; tbey were new Rossland electoral division is a j charged S5 a week, whether thero the matter of regret, not only to this section ; full week or not, even when they went hut to the Trail division likewise.' home from Saturday to Monday; and There is no r|uestion but that both Ross- compelled to submit on pain of dismis- iand and Boundary Creek, in being de-1 sal. Many a man brought home on pied the better representation they I Saturday but S2 or tSi .2.0 for his family, were premised, have been uiob'. unjustly \ all that the boss's extortion had left lor deal with, and thc government need not 1 a week's toil. been followed in this j.aiticular instance. ' Mr. Corbiu'o efforts to have the bill reih'stafed may be successful, we hope Shall be, but undoubtedly* he will h^ve pouch difliyulty 11, the accomplishment of this purpose. We may be wrong,! bat it is our impression thit if Mr. Cor- | bin had given his bill the attention he j should have, personally, instead of trusting to tlie promise; of olhets, lhat 1 he would bave his charter in his pocket today. Trenton, Ultrlctiuu I.nk Dalloir, Clirlslliui Lake. M.S. Summers, r-rtritc nl Maine, Clni.-tiiiii Lake, c. Dixon, Iprll-iO -: Spring Chicken, Josh creek, 1!, E. Bun, Primrose,ChrlBflua i.nLe,<*. Wrtllflreon. vpiilil-r Oliver Twl.t,Clark'.camp, J. II. McDonalJ. l8laadcr,Stiuttlecamp, VV. I.. McKay. Muylloircr, Seattle camp, John limner. iirmiHi .in: ur 'v.uiK. April l*y-■: Cracker Jack, Poualdson et nl. 01,1 Jim. it. Clark, lprlll8- ■ Ulveralilc, II. K. Uenlle... Ipill '-I-r; Ulslm-Hurr, I'. >!. ToM.lson. ciiir, 11. iioiTin.iii. Uoalto.S. li. Walker, A in I 16-: CniKiv, J. T. Hurry ct 11!. Mlimale, J. J. Mr-Mull .11. April Iii-: Guillen Queen, Chris. Ward. Rjiby, Joseph Ward. April 18—: DonoUleilnnoro, it ll. Mn l-.eii. Sitvorloii, I. A. liiiiainiire. ■ Margarrottoaua Winkol Kiel Leo. Nell*. Heairiee, :*>. 3. Schular. epieeu of llie Luke, 1'*. lloyer it nl. King, J. Peitllier- et rrl. Montreal, .Lie Boycr et nl. Hunter and Itiivenswond, McHuick et rrl. Snow Urllt, T. Mnyiie Daly. April 19-1 Wonileiiill, A. II. WillViiset ul. Hudson Uny, .1. Young ei al., T1IAN8FB11S. April m-j Jos. Huron et nl to Alex. Onion, Ilnrclil-i Klizti, Three Jully lioy.s, Champion aud Kid VIi glula, Ll interest In each.' K. P., nil Interest, L. Merson to Lea. Newby. -May nnd Hester. .'., Interest lu each, Carl Bonder in W. .1. Francis. Lillie .\l-ij-, 0-21 Interest, Hester, 1-2-1 interest, I', i'. WooA.toW. J. Fr.ole. London, all interest, Alex*. Omen ioT. Tmvn- einl. Ilylenn, Champion, Cracker Juek, copper Moriiitnin, Victoria, Minnie Hull Fraction and Kvciiingijtar, 2-0 interest In each, John Uaiiiel- son J. W. O'Brien. Helena, Champion. Cracker Jnek, Copper Mountnin, Victoria, Miniila linll Fraction, 211 interest in oach, ond Red Jnek, Y interest, .1.1). Sullivan i„ J w. O'Brien April 111-: London, Portland ond Astoria Fractions, J.-; Interest, Martin to A. II. Harrison, Lovlathan.Mammoth, jlr y,, I ninl Utile Clladya, Y Interest, J. A. Bitters n, J.'s. Ittitler. April Hi—: Triumph, ull interest, Joliu ilogcra to Deiizen Amonday. April 18—1 Lexington, 1-10 interest. J Fieliliiuui. uturcat, J. P. NOTICK IS HEREBY HIVEN that llie court : of revisii.n for the prrrp.^e ,,f lieariilr,' nil j complaiutB againsl tire luaossment fur tire year J 1898 a. made by tlio assessor of tin- City of! (fraud Folks, li. ('.. will l.r- held nl llie couucii j Inn,Out ill tiie city oi Grand Forks uu Tuesday, the 31 of May, A. D, at two o'clock p m. 1'iiKi. \V,,Li.Ar-T,,N, city Clerk. City e.'ler,i-« oHlcc, Orand Pork., April IS, 1898. A sitting of the Cririuly Court ol Yale will he lu,Men nl Midway, on Saturday, the 7th Day of May, 1898, nt Wo'elnelc it, tlie forenoon. live,,111111,111,1 W. II M, MYN'N, Covefnmerit olliee, Midway, II. C.I D. K. 0. C 1898 j Mnivh Iff- Uj98 I REAL ESTATE. FRANK SEARS & CO., Brokers, jJ^tOlflce—Next Door West of Postoffcejt^t | ORAND FORKS, B. C. MINES. ffwsssrmi INSURANCE. Before you purchase he sure to aye onr list 01 Cily Lola, Acre Tracts aii-i Mining ClnimB partially developed. If you have anylhlng to sell come in and have It listed with us. Kenta and other collections promptly attended to. INVESTMENT. J Ky-^*^'*^*x->'-x-*'-*'-^--^*-^*.^.<.<'y77-x5!y5Rjft AS AS AS Now that Corbin Has Got His Chartere Every, ne Wants A New Suit of Clothes. 1 B. B. STANLEY SMITH, M.D. CM.. (M.riili Univ.) SJOTICE IS 1' ilnyH nil NOTICE. IlKliKl.Y (1IVEN I HAI MM*,* r ,lnii- I Intend to apply lu the Chief i',,iirin!*-i irofl-ond a Work, for per* nni-sion lu nuiehiue ill'- lull..wine de.-erfl.e.l Lnnl r-llunle'J in lire Osoynoa l.lvlsluu oi Yale piitriei Iii lho Province of hrlllali ColOliihlo, Commenclnfi ut ,1 |>0.t marked H. M currier nl lliesnil'll nest i-nrneruf L.,1 717 North Fork uf Kottle Kiver- Ih.-uee nest lurty ellttllis. tlienee nurtli forty ohalns, thence '-irst forty chuliiv, thence souih forty ehatua lo pointof commence* nieiit eiinlnliiiriie iirn iii-res inure nr less. Ki.i.a Ci.Ai-.li. Qrand Fork., n. C. Jon. I71h, ihiw. Hut,, ul first publleolinn, Fohruary 12th, 1838, Dntoof lost publication, April lltli, 1898. ' PlIYSIi'lAN.KltllllEoN AMI.' Ooronor i,,r Grand Forks M ,,[ Yule llialrtel. CCOITIIEl It. Iiilug Division OFFIOEi- Jubilee Hospital, Orand l-'urks. u.e pORBBS M. KKRIIY, Provincial Land Surveyor. And Civil Engineer. „ omen:, Miu'rfAV, b. r We are Oifeiing ihis week a fine line of !^CLOTHING S At Extremely Low Prices. % Underwaret Dress Shirts, Overshirts, iVOTICJC IS I S tl(l\'H Ulii' I1EHEBY CilVEN THAT [XTY «!,iie J Intend to npply tn tho Cliiui Oommisfioiier nf fjindi aud Works fnr ponnliBloii tn ptirchase tha following d Bcrfbed land hiiuuif in tliu district of Yale and lying liuiwcen the Kottlo rivor where it skirts iho south boundary of Lot 719 nnd the interim timiiil Boundary Line and ninn: partlculurh' desorlbod ns.~uomineiixing nt n pdii markun "0. K, Mllboumo'fl N. B. corner ami Initial | mmm post" niul niiiiiin^ thontio BOUlh 10 cIhiIiib thmice wost80chains, thence North to Kettle rivur, thence east following Kuttlo rivt-r to ini tinl post, coutalulng800acres more or Icsb. CHAIU.G8 K. MlJ.I.ol'KM*:. Dated at Orand Forks, If, U. March 8l8t, IHW8. Date of Urst publication, Aprll2. 1808, JJjitu of Just piiljlioiilioii, June 4lh, 1808. ioolate Member ('HtindlHti ••of civil Rngiueeri. TT S. OAYLEY, BARRISTER AT LAW, Solicitor, Etc., pniee, Main Street, - QRAKP FOEK8, Ii. n. AS AS AS 9 AS | Fine Shoes and Miners' Shoes. CERTIFICATES OF IMPROVEMENT. GARNET MINERAL CLAIM. BigOhiof,] M. Tuylor to P. I.anliam to Lou. Situate In the Grand Forks Mining Division of Yolo District. Where Located—In Paris Creek Camp. TAKI-: NOTICE that I. H. 0. Brown, Free Manor's Certificate No. 80A, intend, sixty . days from toe date hereof, to apply to the Mining Reoor^er (or certificate of improvements, for the 'purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that notion, under Bection 87, must bo commenced beforo lhe issuance of Btioh cor tin cat o of Improvoments, Dated thia 12th day of .Mureli, 19B8, Date of lirst publication, March 10,!!», 1898. Date of last publication, May 21,1808. KING BEE MINERAL CLAIM. Situated in the Grand Forks Mining Divison of Yale District, Where located—In PassCroek camp. TAKK NOTICK that I. IT. G, Brown, Free Millet's certificate NO. 60A; Intend, sixty davs from tlie date hereof, to apply to tho Mfnlng Recorder for u cortlllcato of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crowji Grantof the nbove elaim. And further take nbtlcp'iliai action, unnerFec- tion 87, must he coinihenced before lho Issu ance of Buch certificate of Improvenieiits. Dated this I2th day Of March, 1807. inariy-iiiay^I, 1S0H. p WOLLASTON, Provincial Land Surveyor. Civil Engineer, Etc QRAND FORKS, B. C. /"iRAND FORKS HOTEL, Barber Shop. Centrally I.oontorl. KilBt-l till PETER A. Z* FARE, All Work fiau rati teed to bo «In every Respect, - PROPRIETOR. M. A. SHEADS, , ASSAYER- GRANC FORKS, B. C. SAMPLESCIVEN PROMPT ANDCAREFUITTENTION UJ E. BTAOHB, Bath Rooms, AND TONSOPiAL PARLORS. UIVEltSIDE. - - - GRAND F0BK9 A L. MoDONALD, MINERAL ACT i8r/>. CEKTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS, Interest, C. It. Raymond 1., J. April 111-: dydops, Bill, Cyetopa, % Interest, J. F. HUI. Kctlk River Mining Division. ijll'il !) - J. it. Ki Monte n , 1, Province camp, John R. Stiisse. y, fructii.ri, t'i'ovinue camp, J. II. Mo- THE REDISTRIBUTION BILL. be "surprised if the injustice is n.ost emphatically rts-rnted. It would seem from tie action of the £ovcn'iient during the present session that the Boundary country was laid out for manipulation by the rniniiyterc anj their friends in the coast cities in a wny best suited to the,r own selfish interests, and hence thc action of the legislature first passint; a resolution oppo.inff the Corbin road, and then deliberately Jerryraandcriiir; the district by uniting it with a portion of West Kootenay, from which natural barrics divide it, and render the combination an evil lilikc to both Rossland and Boundary; showing plainly enough that not the best interests of the country, but party expediency is tlie aim and ruling motive in the production of f.ircial redistribution measure. It bas always been the aim of tbis jjurnal to deal fairly with the action ot ibe government, knoivjng that they had difficulties to contend with that were not eisily surmounted, bu; the Corbin i-esolu.icns and the present gerrymander or whatever the/ m;y intend It for, are both of such an unfair and entirely tiontemptable character, and withal so uncalled for, tbat* their now lemains lit- (le doubt but what anew policy ot political corruption has been inaugurated ihat will be resented by every honest, {h-rV.ing elector in thf country. t-lvti :■■■■■ ■ J The bill, following {he Imperial Act, direot;, in effect, that every workman shrill be paid his wages in cash and in full, no matter what he owes his employer. T'.icre arc a number of carefully limited exceptions, things for which a master, if the workman agrees In writing, may de'net from wages, but the price must be fair. Of course, the employer is .iways quite free to run a store or boarding house if be likes, and the workman to deal there il he pleases; but he cannot bo compelled to do so, nor dismissed if he do not. As regards board and lodging, the employer can, if the workman agrees in writing, deduct from wages a lair price for victuals consumed, if thc works are over two miles from any in corporatcd city or town, otherwise not. lie can no where conipel his workman to board with him. In case local justices nhould be ii.Ilunced, the workman may take out a summons before the local county court judge or any supreme court judge in the same way as before the local J. P's. The public and especially the work- man of liritish Columbia should closely follow the progress cl the bill. Its adversaries are not likely to defeat it di rect, on account of lhe elections, but they will arrange to have it talked out, or to maul it in committee; and a very small change of its wording might easily April II-: Norfork No. 2, Central camp, F.airk Clongh. J. M. W , l'ractioli, Lou-,' Luke oalnp, A. Hansen. A. 1)., Province cinnp, E. Archer and Dufutir. (MnriFICATE OF WOltK. April 3--: Emma ICci-n, E A. Roll*. -Nellie U, John It Suisse. nine Jay, Sydney M, Johnson. Utg lr.ni, V. Fraction1 Silver i'lumc niul Re* maiii'ler, Walter Stirling, April 12-1 Grauite, M. II. Kane et nl. -luANr-rii .;.•;. April 12-: Ilrucc, (ii-iilinm'8 camp, la interest, J. C. Unas to Sydney M. Johnson. Colorado, all inteiest, Virginias, Y interest, Long Luke camp, A. G. Eilwurds to Bruee L, Garrison. CASCADE CITY AND VICINITY. There is some talk of another hotel being erected. A. K. Stuurt of Cueenwood is visiting fiier.ds in tbe city. The townsite people are cleaning out nd grading another street through thc city Mr. Siaples who has becn working alh winter on his property on JUcRae creek is reported to have made a very rich stiike. Mr. Forrester made a trip to Grand Forks Tuesday on his wheel. He made the round trip in something less than three hours, The C. P, R. surveyors have loaded a lino through the center of town. But lailioads like the dominion parliament, are uncertain ("Vanities, Mr. Ooodeveand wife of Grand Forks, were in lown Wednesday enjoying the scenery of thc Cascades. They were accompanied by Mr. Bert Mitchell. Mr. 11. F. Vancleve has seemed tbe contract for furnishing the poles for thc proposed telephone line fiom tbis city to Grand Forks. The contract provides that the poles shall be delivered before tbe ioih of May. The defeat of tho Corbin charter sweep down on the community like a Kansas cyclone. Tbe general impression seems to prevail that the line will be built as far as the Boundary line this summer anyway, and that another attempt will be made tor a charter next year. A JO-drill Compressor. The Old Ironsides company have closed a contract with F. R. Menden- hall, agent of the Jencke's Machine company, at Rossland, B. C , for a 10- drill compressor, to be placed on the company's property at once. The Ironsides is looking well and the owners have great faith in the property being one of lhe big shippers of the district. NOTICE. Coin Minyy-ti Clat-m, situate lu the (iruiul Forks Miuirrp lliviai.rrr of Yale District, Where located:—On the south side of N'e.vhv creek ubout one milo west of tlie North Turk of Kettle river. ■; AKI-: NOTICK Hint I Fred Wollaston, aotliig I ns ilKCllt for lhe Gold Inill Mlrrill-reiirrlpruiy, Limited nubilities free miner,s certificate No. :l:!IIA. Intend, sixty dnys froni tlie ditto hereof, to npply to the Mining Reeor- 'H'rfnr a certilir-ilte of iiiiproveiiienls. fnr tile purpose of obtaining a Oro iv n llrnnl ol tho above claim. And further Hike notice thnl action, under section 87, must he commenecrl bel'oie tlie issuance of such certllleate of linprovpm'ents. Dated this Unl dav of February, 189T, Date rn* 1st publication, Feb. 12th, IS'Jt; dute of last publication, April 10th, Uilh. 1SU3. MINERAL ACT 1897. CERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS. NOTICE. Ontario mineral claim, situate in llie Grand Forks Mining Division of Yule District, Wliei-e located: Summit cum p. TAKE NOTICE Unit I William Shaw, Freo 1 Miner's Certificate No. 87,520, intend, sixty dri'H form the 'late hereof, toapply 10 the Mill inn Ker-order for a Cerfflicute of Improvements, lor llie purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. Ami iurlher take notice thnl action, iiiirlcr section .'!7, nuiBt be commenced belore lhe issuance of such Certilicate of Improvements. Dated this Uilh dny of December, 1S87. * MINERiL ACT 1896. CERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS NOTICE. C." mineral olaim. situate tire Grand Forks mining Divison of Yalo district. Where located:—ln Summit-camp. TAKE NOTICE I Isaac H Uallot, as agent lor ■Alhei*t*I>eo.igli free miner's ecitillctite No. .SiUii.y. Intend, Rixty days Irom lhe dute hereof, td npply to llie Mining Recorder for 11 certificate of Improvements, for the purport- of obtaining a Crown grant of tbc above claim. And further tnke notice thnt acliori, under section :i7, muHt be commenced before the issuance uf such certilicate of improvements. 1. II. lUi.LKrr. Dated this 7th day of January, isns, T, G. COOPER, Manufaettirer of Brick and Lime, Contnu'ior of nil kinds of Mason Work. K^ti mated on work cheerfully Riven, ZOE McCARTER, DEALER IN ALL KINDS Plain and Fancy Stationery MINER OFFICE, RIVERSIDE AVE, GRAND FROKS Contractor and Builder- GRAND FOKKS, B. O. Plan and specifications drnivn, ostlm-ltos fur nlshcil -111 all kludsof building. Won.; strictly illSt-ChlSa. J. W. JONES, Manulnctiirer of Spring Beds, Mattresses LOUNGES, ETC. DEALER IH HOUSEHOLD GOODS OF ALL KINDS. GRAND FORKS, I). C. /p*gr-Suw* Filing and all Kinds of Repairing. Grand Forks Sash aud Doorr PETER HANNAN, Carpenter and Builder, MAIN STREET, GRAND FORKS, B. C. Estimates furnished on Application, Store Fronts nnd I-'ixurcs a Specialty. Eureka Via McElroy's Stage Line* Daily stage betwtn Grand Forks. Leaves Grand Forks 7:30 a. m., reaching Eureka same day. Rettirning*, arrives in Grand Forks at 4 p. m. Spokane Falls & Northern, Nelson & Ft. Sheppard, Red Mountain Railways. The Only All-rail Route,without change of cars, between Spokane, Rcsi- land and Nelson. nMl.Y BXCE11T BONiJAY. Going North, lyrly' a. 111 MAHCl'S.. Going South 2:2«p. m Close Connections nt Nelson with Steamboats for Kaslo 111111 nil Kootenay Lnke Points. Passengers for Kcltle River and noundiiry Creek connect nt Mnrcus with slniro drill)*. Blue Vitrol. Wis llOVOJUSC received a large quantity nf Mine Vfiiol Don't overlook Mile (net when you ljuy Jeff. Davis & Co. 1/ Garden Seeds, w It you ,n-iiiit' to raise V good Keeping Onions, they keep the I'elelirnt- ed Funno Onion Seed Ior Sale. Also onion Setts and Seedsof kinds. ^ The Up-to-Date Merchants l- — - v •^■■??*^-^-'^-*iroh ling I can save you money. Foil Line of Flsblii-t Tuckle inst Received. J—.UUW HOUSED "WRTH FORK. Choice Wines Liquors and Cigars, This hotel is loca'ed sbout 12 miles from Grand Forks up the North Fork. Good Fishing ard Hunting in the vicinity. Meals served at all hours, and the best ol sir cping accommodations. H. P. TORONTO. Proprietor. BROWN'S CAMP, UP THE NORTH FORK. m%* ^KETTLE RIVERA IDrB88Bd BbbF Provision Go.. LtU- Wiioltii>nle and K-jtfi.il Dealers In |Fresh and Salt Meatsj Hams, Bacon, Lard, Etc. (GRAND FORKS, GREENWOOD AND MIDWAY. *^ sfTHE MIDWAY HQTELat MIDWAY, KETTLE RIVER. First-Class Accommodations, Goqd Stab'ing, Termius of Stage Line From Marcus, Washingtpp. McAuley & Keightley, Proprietors, COSMOS HOTEL >/vGrand Forks, B. C.vx- Everything New and Best Furnished House, and is in everyway prepare*! to welcome Guests and provide Good Accommodation XX XX EZRA INgODY, Headquarters for Milling Men. Rjs of Wines. Uauors apd Cigars. Special attention paid to Transcient trade. proprietor, KETTLE Stage RIVER Q. W. WILLIAHS, Manager. Daily from Marcus to Grand Fork§ Greenwood Gty> Anaconda, Boundary Falls, Midway and All Points on Colville Indian Resevation. Stage Leaves Marcus on lhe Arrival of the Northbound Train, arriving at;Granc( Forks at S:45 p. m. Leaves trie Forks at 4:00 a. m., arriving at Marcus in time ta connect with northbound Train. Passengers from Kootenay IM "lake conn?**!- tion at Bossburg going nnd com ng. £ "* .*'" I ! ' ' •' - '•«•*■• i'y m .'..* ',, :■ is", '. I >l>t'a i jj[ij j1 U J'i "^p*^—■ '"-> IT 18 ft GO!! •tyand Forks to Have Another Ejection. THE SAME OLD FIGHT A Ust of the Probable Candidates Who Will Stand for flunk." pal Honors. N.9W that it is definitely settled that Orand Forks is soon to bave another election it behooves the electors and rate-payers to commence casting around /pr suitable material from wbich to form a municipal government to conduct the business of he r.ity for fhe remainder of the current > ear. According to the provision of the act passed by (tjic legislature this week, in order jo jemovp any doubt as to tbe legality of the election held on the 13th of January last, it is declared null and void and provides that a special election be held as soon as possible after the coming into effect of this act, upon a date to be fixed by proclamation of the lieutenant governor, of a mayor and aide;.men who shall hold office until the ne !?Jylfl8 *ff lhe non-registration of titles it is doubtful If there ure a sufficient number of persons duly qualified under thc "Municipal Clauses Act" to 1111 the positions of Mayor aud Council of Grand Forks: AmJ whereas it is expedient to romove any doubts as to the validity of any nets of the Council elected on the eighth day of Mny, A. D. 181*7, up lo tlie date of the coining into fo'reg of this Act, caused by personal dis-qual ideation of any of thc members of the Council, and to provide for a new election at Grand Forks under provisions suitable to the circumstances of thc eald City: Therefore, Hcr Majesty, hy and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly or tho Province of British Oolumbia, enacts as follow*:— l 1. Tills Act may be cited as thc "Grand Forks City Act, 1888." 2. Notwithstanding any defect Iu the mini nur of election, or in thc iiualfflcalioii of nny member ofthe Municipal council of the city of Grand Forks elected on the 8th day of May, 1897,110 by-law, contract or other proceeding pUf-ied, entered Into qt'tdketf hy the said Council prior to the passage of this Act, bhall, if Otherwise within thc Jurisdiction and powers of sueli Council, be invalidated or In any manner attacked by reason ouly of any sucli defect*. 3. 'The election ol a Mayor and Aldermen for thc said City held on the thirteenth dny of Jan* uary, A.D'.\'l6», is he'repy declared to havo beeu no election. 4. There shall bea bpcclal election, held as soou as possible after the coming into effect of this Act, upou a date to bo fixed by Froeluia- H011 of the Lieutenant-Governor, of a Mayor and Aldermen for such City, who shall hold oflice until the next minimi election in thc mduth bf January, 1899, and until his successor, or 11 mnjorltiy of their successors- have hee'n sworn in,' unless he or they shall die, or resign or become disqualified. 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 14 o( the "Municipal Clauses Aot," the persons qiniliflcd to bc nominated 'for and elected Mayor of ntiuh City at suoh special election shull bo such persons as arc male British sub- j outfl of tho full age of twenty-one years and arc uot disqualified under any law, and '* (»•) Appct-r on tlie last revised municipal 11 Bcssment roll of such city as the owners of land or real property in the City of the assessed value of one thousand dolluia or more over and 11 hove any registered encumbrance or charge, and who arc other- Wise qualified under this Act as municipal voters at suet) election; or (b..| Who have been for three mouths next l; preceding the day of nomination the s lc li'iimits iii possession of laud uf real property in the City of the assessed value of two thousand dollars under Je;ise In writing for 1101 iess thai) one year, mid are not disqualified under tt.uy law, and 0. Notwihst, inViig the provisions of eald suction u of thesuid "Municipal ciu;ses Act," the persons qualified to be nominated for and elected us Aldermen of such City at such special election sliall be sueh persons as are mole British subjects of thc lull aye of tweuty-one years, and are not disqualified under any law, and (a.) Appear on the last revised municipal assessment roll of tiie City ns the owners of land or real property in the city of tho assessed value of five hundred dollars over and above uny registered encumbrances, und arc otherwise qualified under this Aot lo vo'o at such election; or (Ij.) Wbo have been for three months ncxl preceding ihe day of nomination the bjIc tenants in posesslon of laud or real property in the City of the value of one thousand d illars under lease In writing for not IcBff thun run; year, uud are other* wise qualified under* this Act to vote at such election. 7. Tbe voters' list of lhe City shall be closed two weeks from the pUBgngJ of this Act, and corrected and revised, and certified us correct by Hie Mayor, within tlu-ee weeks froni the passage of this Act. h. Tbe Returning Officer for such electfojj shall be tho City Clerk of such City for tbo time Itelllg. 9. No provision of the "Municipal Elections Act," or of the "Municipal '.'Inuses Act," which shall be found inconsistent Willi the provisions of Ibis Act shall apply to sueh election, nor sliall the cle'tlon of a Mayor or Aldermen under this Aet be declared Invalid by reason of a lion-compliance wllh the rules itintaiiiud lu this Actor the "Municipal Elections Act," or by reason of any irregularity, If it appears to the tribunal having COguimiiOC of the question that thc eleotion was conducted In accordance with thc intent.of this Act, and tlmt sueh 11011- mpliance, or mistake or Irregularity did uoj materially aflect the result, of suoh eleotion. THE SUNSET CLAIM. Rossland Capital Looking Alter This Property. Mr. R, A. Brown returned ibis week from the Sniilikameen where he has been on a prospecting tour anil looking after his interests in that section. Mr. Brown is the locator and one of the principal ownors of the Sunset mineral claim, situated ou Copper mouniain and brought homo wiih him about 200 pounds of specimens cf fine peacock ore tnken from tbis property. Mr Brown and his associates hnve done considerable work on this claim, which is pronounced by eveiyone who has visited it as being one of the 'argest gold copper propositions in ihr; district. At present there is a 45 foot shaft en the property, the ore in the bottom of which averages 25 per cent copper and assays made run from 9 to 82 per cent copper. Duiiog Mr. Brown's absence he located 2,120 acres of coal land, two townsitcs and qne mineral claim- a'i on Copper mountain. Mr. Cronyn an expert from Ro-sland accompanied Mr. Brown on tbe trip for the p trpose of making an examination of the Sunset property with a view of binding i', and he expressed himself aj being highly pleased with the appearance o( the showing already made, and fee's very confident that he will be able to make the deal go through. Mr. Brown is very much elated over the discovery of his coal laud, ard is now.in negotiations with Rossland capital to organ'za a stock company for the purpose of developing the property. THE JIG 18 UP Kettle River Valley Railway Charter Defeated. TOM TWOBELLIES TALKS Corbin's Road Is Condemned at a Red Hot Heeling of tlie Rubber Neck's Association. TO HONOR THE QUEEN. Tie Association of Associa'cd Charities Wil! Celebrate. The ladies of tho Associated Charities are making arrangements for a Grand Bali to be given on the evening 01 May 24th, the Q ueen's birthday. The best music wil be provided and no pains will be spared to make the event in every way a success. It has been suggested that a basket picnic be given in the afternoon, and an invitation bs extended to the surrounding country to participate in this. The suggestion seems to be meeting with favor, and will doubtless be ca.ried out and a regular old-fashioned "blow out" had. Tbis ball is one to be given in p'ace of the caiiero ball announced to take place on Easter Monday, but which was postponed iu oider that it might not conflict with the opening of Laurior hall, in Upper G and Forks. Enter a Protest. Tbe citizens of (Ireenwood held a meeting last Tuesday evening, in Ren- dell & Co.'s hall for the purpose of considering the redistribution bill recently handed down by lho government and strong resolutions were parked pledging themselves to oppose ihp Turner government and any government candidate unless a fair and eqitable redistribution bill is substituted for the one now before the legislature. Similar meetings are being held all ovcr the districts. The Bill Was DeleaUd The Braden Alien bill came up for consideration in the legislature on Wednesday and was disposed of on the ground that to forbid the miner's license to aliens would affect the revenue, with which on'y the government may deal. Ttic bill e/clude 1 aliens fro. 11 thc p-iv- ilege of holding minora! property in British Cjltimbi 1. Cleared the Title. A. C. Sutton returned last Tuesday evening from Nelson, B.C., where he went as council for Robert Clark in the Boys claim case which was before the county court at tbat pi ice. Mr, Suiton, we are informed, succeeded in clearing Mrs. Clarks title to this claim, which it will be remembered was jumped some months ago by one Creaimah Wright Heard Fiom. Peter T. McCallum i, in receipt cf a letter fiom Mr. J, G. Wright, f.-jmirly 0' thii pi.ice. Mr. Wright is at present at Dyea, and says it is a hot town, over 1,000 peop'o a day are going in Eggs For Sale $1 50 Per Selling. From full-blood Plymoih Rock chick ens. Premium stock. OeO. W. iNORAlfUI. Dr. Avciill went toRepub ic this v euk on professional business, He expects to be absent ahout ten days. April i.*i, 1898, will be a day long re- . membered in the annals of the Boundary ■country, for on that glorious day the great and patriotic pailtamtnt of the Dominion of C, P. K. -sometimes mis- t.kenly called the Dominion of Canada —made one last determined stand and knocked in the hta 1 one ol the most barefaced and outinujeous attempts to benefit a section of their couutty ever perpetrated in bistorv. On that date, whicli will from now on bea gaiaday throughout this district, the aforesaid great and patriu'ic, C. P. R. 'parliament met in cxccui(ive) session and rai-ing to hcuven the cry of "Cai.a- j da for the C. P.-or-.he Cana Hans'1 swept I the charter for the proposed Kettle River Valley railway frcm the face of the J earth, by a vote 64 to 44, and 1 ffcclually prevented that ravenous old billy-goat, D. C. Corbin, fiom nibbling ihe coat tails of the poor, Canadian Pacific Railway. When D. C. Corbin announced his intention of buildi ig a real sure enough railway into the lioundary country, and backed up his thi eat by making application (or a charter for the Kettle River Valley Ratlivay, a near trouble camo to every resident of the section proposed to be touched. For years they had been touched by the government, touched by DoGrey, touched by mining sharks, touched by real estate speculators arid now to be touched by a lai'i; waj.' It was too much! Frcm all paits of the district petitions poured into the parliament. Evrn thc great cities of Victoria ar.d Vancouver, ihe gateways of the Klondike, heard our cry cf distress, took pity on us and sent in a plea to save us fiom destruction. We didn't think they'd 00 it- but they did. We aro saved—for tho C. P. R. Corbin, the audacious has been given to understand that hi: is not wanted and no Americans need apply. The people of this district didn't know what they wanted, We thought we did, but it was something else we wanted. The local legiilat ire, the boards of trades of Vancouver, yrctorii, New Westminister* Winnipeg and all other C. P. R. towns and Parliament knew. It wa,n't Corbin. It was the C. P. R. We didn't want a railway th's year— we only though we d:d. Corbin couldn't benefit this district anyway. He would haul our oie out or the country and thus tobusof our prcsen riches, and cu! down the dividends of the C. P. R. We aie not res.riyfora railway yet, anyway. It is better for us te wait eight or ten years tor the C. P. R. Ti eu ive will all be dial and won't need ti.e. O o e In Qrand Forks ihe newswai received with jay and glad acclaim -nit! Strong men wept and dogs howled for the moon and got a stcic. Manager Cumings of tbe townsite company washed bis feet, the editor of thu Miner go'shaved and changed hissbirt. Hank Henderson kicked "Roxies" dog out doors. The Grand Forks Mercantile company ordored their ad out and Manager McQueen commenced to pack his giip, Fred Wollaston ordered 200 feet of lumber to board up the win Iowa of the city clerks office. The rubber-neck association met, Also the council. When the meeting of the rubber-nfecks was called to older Lucian Wilson, the presiden', took the chair; but Harry Sheads saw him and took it away again. Thc society then jjined in singing '•We Didn't Think They'd do it, but They Did," Alter which the chairman announced that tee evening would betaken up by a debate on the question! "Resolved—That the granting of a charter 10 D. C Corbin for ihe Kettle j River Vail ry Railway would huve heen a direct blow to ihe infant industries of 1 Canada." Then drawing himself up to his full j height and adjusting his diamond stud • so it sparkled like a Grand F'oiks elec- I trie li;;ht he piocecried lo open the debate, for live white chips. He said lhat r personally that he was glad that Corbin was shutou'. The Corbin outfit was too grasping lo suit his ideal. Why, the ouly kind of a pass he bad ever been able to get ovor the S F. & N. was n 1 tie-pass and. tlie ties sere tooljclose together for one step and too far apart to take two at a step. He sat down amid great applause and several pf thc other gentlemen present corroborated the chairman's testimony. Hon. Thomas Two-Beliies, the well- known office cat, who lor some unaccountable reason happened to be present, was ther. called upon and replied by saying that he dit'n't believe that it made much differ ence whether Corbin got his charter or not. Qf course, if Coibin was shut out it would not hurt it much beyond the fact we were liable lo lose, as a resideut of t're city, the Hon John A. M.iiiiy, tlie father, grandfathoi ' and all the rest of the family of Grand i Forks. Thonms then proceeded ti, tell how much he had done for this country .and ended by informing his auditors in stijct confidence of couise, that at that very moment he hau a loo-ton I smeller In his h p pocket. I At this juncture a riot was utmost pre- 1 cipitated py a tender-foot, who had ar- . jBHBHggg*eg-*gg " ■ ' .. 1 lived on thc stagy; on his way to Republic and had strayed into the meet- I ing, requesting that the smelter be produced. Tom, however, after going care- i fully tbiough his pcckels and being unable to produce the aforesaid smelter, j happened to recollect that he bad sent J it down to O.tawa to be used before the j raiiro.id comm'ttce. The Reservation Kid, who is in the j city studying political economy under the tuition of Tom-Two Bellies, the 11 demanded the lloor, which he proceeded ■ to take. Striking an attitude which he felt sure ' would not tit bark, he proceeded to say hat he didn't baveanythi.-g much tosav about this question, except that he was in favor of Jeff. D..vis for mayor, Hear! Ilea.! Warming up to lhe subject ho said that he thought Corbin ought to bc thin out of Canada on llie grounds of insanity. He went on to st ite that Corbin had 1 ff-rod to build into tli is country ■.•kh- iut a bonus and that anyone who wou'd do anything without a bonus or a tl.'A In It was certainly i i.-ane Loud, cues ofheai! Hear! completely drowned the vo ce of tbe sp-. aker. \Vhe"li order was restored, the Kid, foi* lowing up his argument, proceeded to roast tiie S F. il N r.u way for not b r* Ing further away fiom (irand porks, declaring that if the toad had been further away tha' the boiler und the machinery for the water and electric light plant would have been long enough on the way so tbat Contractor Davey couid have gotten another estimate through the cuiineil before the r . Just then a stranger, who had been sm oziug away in a corner awoke with a start exclaiming, "lake one with me, everybody, I've gin jjjo in my hip pocket," and tbc meeting broke up in a tiot. 0 0 0 It is woundeiful how Borne people's head swell because they are able to oat three "squares" a day, 13 8 O There is a cer'yuii prominent individual looking for truu1 Ie. We never saw anyone yet who was looking for trouble but what hs got it in time. FAVO..AeiLI*: IO HJl^LTH. AthR*tie* tliiorti* Indulged In to n Ken. sonablc Extent. Many of the athletic sports, if pursued for sport 01- us ti recreation, arc valuable remedial helps nnd aid to- wiu*d physical improvement, says the North Aiiierlcan Review. lTiit'o*.*1itiiiite- le, tbo ::;-.i:-it of emulation in athletics, which in some communities has grown j into intense rivalry, i.s likely to lead to \ oxc-ccee*.1! in training and p:.'ietii*c for 1 contests, whicli unless checked and 1 brought down to 11 rational basis may do more harm thun good. Many young men seem to think thnt because the practice of athletics is favorable to health the more they ean get of this Iprnetice the better. Thin Is nn erroneous impression, for it ia ns possible to overwork in athletics ns it is In business nnd a ^roat itiany young people do theiu.se*!ees injury by'tjaeii- excessive zeal in the practice of competitive exercise. Jn this line of physical nativity, nr; in nuy other, there io n limit to human capability nud it. is possible lo develop {the muscular nnd nervous ..--.-rtenis to the detriment of thc heart, nud lungs or of the digestive syiitpm. Bid thecou- dition.s under ..videh athletics nee usually prapijeed t-.ro so favorable to the tnnintomiiicc of health and vigor thnt few persons who were sound nt the time of commencing their ntliletlc efl'ortii hnve injured themselves by the practice of these vigorous exercises, It i ii-ire' that ;*. certain number of young men who were distinguished for their "tupremacT i.:i certain atlllclio event-: i heve died young. But the number of ! young men whs,, ar-} jriow practicing athletic exercises in fin's country unrl appearing In public contests is very l.-irgc, us r.ittny as 600 or 700 entries being recorded in some of the great city meetings. ESSAY OF AN INDIAN COY. Orltvlne.l ',',.'on Advanced liy nn Intelligent Suvosre or T'-i.iii-i- Vfiirs. There is nothing more original than llie early composition of an Indian boy. The following examjilo is .--(.ill preserved as tin in-stance in v hich its stiuigHS author epitomized In unoon- oeious parable nud with excellent, humor thc relations of the red ninn and his white l.,i*oU,er, says the Kew York [ Mall and Express. It ls entitled: "Store 1,1' Cootl Bird and Bad Cat." The ' easily follows: "One day, bright day, a little bird happy rr.eri stood on a log and sang all ri.ry long. That bird docfln't know anything ubout oat. She think.-*, nobody is near lo her. But behih.-l the near j log old -sly cat is watching. She want I to eat fur ir:i;.per, und she thicks aboul .stealing nil the time. Thc ok! eat came lory sin-.*, ly, and by aud by she go alter I lhe little bird, but she di.es 1.1.1 see hil.l lend sung loud rig*iiin. She sang loud t like this: M um always try lo do what 1 hi right.; wen I ever die I go to Heaven.' lhat, bird said these nil vines, and I j c.hall nol forget the llttlo bird wlml it jsnicl, and these all words it snld anil I nfter two or '. hree minutes go died, tho cat jumped nnrl e.itoh und kill, ent. nil up except lillly things from i ifd, livings, legs or ylrin, ami thai bird is ■ glad lire, because idle iy very good bird, j The llttlo bird litis last time snug and iiery happy waa the little bird lifter tliat. 1 think- tho o!3 eat. hnve good ■ dinner and happy just Ihe same us thc bid-d way; at first, time.!! An'icti 1.... .iiu,-h. "Is it true that your engagement is broken?" f*.;l giil liicliui d hcr head retell us if she considered ; :n I;i--.tui .'..* j .::* ,'..1 cue. havo none r-oroething- tor- The bent slightly nn thesuL-jcel "He I'r.u.' rible," persisted the teet friend. "I never knew of anyone more devoted than you." "We could have been happy if it were not for liis intolerant spirit," answered the beautiful girl. "I guv,- in to him rm every point thatl could';.;-.,! :t:ll retain my Independence, but when ho lusistetf thnt I should give up my bicycle nnd ride the mnke he favored it. was too much."—Ohiengo Post. —The total value ol gold in the world at the peresent time, i^uboui,$3,000,000,- 100. • ;' * -.»C»ft(*>(»(o.'.(*«C«C»'«*'»(»C»r«<3(a(.c*i'<;f*>(«C*.(»»j I LOCAL NOTES. 1 a ^ Still the ru h to Republic continue*. The "wild-catters'1 arc- scouring the hiils for D'ospecis. Cha«. Simpson is slowly itcovciing fiom ids recent illness. Police Magistrate Johnson will soon hold a sitting cf tne-smalidebrs court. Mr Joseph Wiseman is improving rapid.y and will soon bc able to be about again. VV, S Fletcher, tlie Greenwood drug- g's', v.-;.s in t'ur city on Wednesday en route to Toronto. W. II. Civ ri left at this office last week a parsnip, raised on his far.ie, lhat weighed 4Y pounds. John A Manly, president of thc Grand Forks Mercantile company (hunted), wi-s in Rossland this week. ^Te.in Two Bellies ar.d thc Reser.va'ion K d are p.*, paring a isport on the water work-* and electic light plant. Mr A. Siu.-irt came in from Greenwood Mond.iyafternoon and lelt Tins drv morning for Cascade City anu i l.rist rr.-. lake. A I i .-i t, in "■ ur.i'iirtl i.lgc received h's ■.,■,•■■: . ■ ■ in. , . Mi t b; bas gone north i r tin-purpose i.f trying bis luck in tl t K lu yk r. | i ni. Mr*. S S S I u . r ii It ihis week for Sprla ■.- wbere rh- 11 es to vi=it hcr d.ugr.i... .Mr*. Ho dm. She expects O be al si 1,1 a!-, u. two weeks. Mr. E. E. Ellsworth, ol Spokane, passed through town YVediietduy on his way home fiom Eureka camp, where he is interested in miring properly. City Trcasuier Addison seems to lmve struck it rich in his T. tied 11. claim. Sm.pies recently taken fiom this claim contain a large per ceniage of co.per. j Thomas Hicken and Fiank Fi.rtit-rl left Wednesday of ibis week trr Hyrd- mounlain to do seme : ss ssment woik on son.c- pr pe.'iy tn-.y own in that viciu- iiy. Remcmb *r the literary tr.tertainnunt and ice cream social to be givr n Thursday May ij-.h, by the ladies ol the associated chat'ties. It is going io be a "hot number," with plenty of ice cream, Sam Roe returned Satuiday night f". in Kansas, where he w, nt to 1 ok after his interests in that country. Mr Rose is better pleased with B itrsh Columbia, and says this countiy is good cnou* li lor him, A sidewa.k is being built on the north side of Bridge street Riverside avti.ue and Fist street. What has become oi that sidewalk on the eitst side ot River- tiie avenue recently orleied by the council to be laid by the board of public worlt*.? J E. Boss was in the city this week on his way to Marcus to look alter tl-c machinery tocentiy purchased for the Enterprise antl Brooklyn claims in Greenwood camp. Mr. Biss says the thu neces.ary money wis in his po*. es sion to put these claims on a shipping ba-is. Thc O'Conner boys are doing the assessment work on the Lucky B y, A portion of this grnrm.l was recently located by C, .ly Shaw, as the Humming Bird fraction, claimed to have been found vacant in a reeuit survey made by that gentle.nan. The man.igr-inent r.f the G-ar.d Forks noted changed again this week, Mr. T, F. Cuiian, of Minneapolis, Mm., havin5 lease! it frori Mr. Van Ness. Mr. Curtail is having the house c impletely overhauled, and expects to make it the lending bo.ol of tbe place. Reddy Lightfoot earn- d,wn from the Garnet claim, on the Norib Fork, where be has been working for the prist three months. "Red" says that their blacksmith shop was burn-d on Tuesday eveping. *.nd remarkable as it may seem, the anvil und five bars of steel were saved, Mr. Chas. V.m Ness left this morning for a tour of the Boundary country between here and Pentieton. 'ihe obj.-ct of his visit is for the purchasing cf real estate in all the towns along tlie proposed 1 ne of the C. P. R., A. G. Fraier an.l ;the Indian doctor accompanied Van on lhe trip. Mr, McAtee, of the firm of Ciough S; McAtee, tuti.ing b.okers Spokane, Wash., passed through the cily on h:s wav'homc from Republic, where he has been tor sometime looking after I is mining interests In that camp. Mr, McAtee was suffering from a severe ease of blood-poisoning, and was on his way home for treatment. Dm can Mcintosh, in charge cf tY development work at. the Winnipeg mine, in Wellington cump, was in town Wednesday* and reports everything running smoothly at ihe nine, a .d the quality of ore improving as work pro- gtesses, He expressed much di-ip- pointment at the tailurc of Corbin io get bis chart rr, but he has great hopes that tbe C. P. R. will commence work at once upon their line. Thomas Parkinson, president of the Pathfinder Mining, Redu tion and Investment company, returned last eec- ing from Bossiand where he has been for sometime on busines; c nneccd with the r.-.kirg up of tbe bond held on the Pathfinder mineral claim by the Mcintosh syndicate, the first, payment o! which was due on the c/b of tins month. At the las moment some misunderstanding arose r..nl all negotiations have been declared off for the present. Mr. Chas. Cumings made a hurried tiip to Ross] tnd and r- turn d thi * w^r !■ going over on buriness connoted wilh lire townsite company. He s tys tha the Knglis, syndicate \\iu: has th option on the tqvnsite mnde anothei payment on VVeanesdav, and he t-e .-■ confident that the optiui, winch expires on May 15th, will be taken up. The people ol Ross and ire very inlgna.it ovir thc failure of Mr. Corbin to get 'ns cba tei, and nie agitating the calling o1 an indignation meeting through noh Boundary and Kootenays for me pur- pose of cond Dining he action of 'he prnvinci ii jegislatio.n and ihe *cs for thc part ihey played In 3 ;o m m »t&&^^"e^t?i^^^**-^!^-S4^^S^Sr>*i35.iSi-S.;^^«^rS, k f^'^-^-^-2y-^^~^-7^-^'-^^--pr.itA.^-^.--^.^^-27^,^rA\ I he !%,! 1 J. otei, S a new House, with new Furniture jnd everything comfortable for the traveling public, and has accommo- tions for a large number of people. The Dining Room is provided v/iih everything in the market. The bar is repieted with the best Wines, Liquors and Cigars. TRAUNWEISER & FRASEB, f V (irand For!:?, B. C. •f* i V.'.-' ■:-■■ ^XX fflkXX WkXX& feKK « i The C. P. R. 8 Sfc very Si Feed STABLE, Bridg-c St., Grand Forks, B. C. Saddle and Pack Horses a Specialty, Open Day a;sd Night. Plenty of StaURoom PsMong 111I11111I1 son,il.le 1'riees is Ir'ken ton)! Points in lliallsli 1 mnl on tin- Iti-servnttoiiatltcii- Qlvo me n pull noil -.-et my RICHARD DEFREECE. J/? 2*« 5 ? *•*> •*.% V * * 3S1 sir ^0^0 *vfe W iv 0\0Mi tb » txfflkxxmk ^•>r*^.*^^^.S-i^-a.**^^^?.^.^e..^^^.*^.-^-v.-^.'yi..-^ Jp^^^35^^@;##-lt-lt*s§P###pp3l|| f CHAS. CUMINGS, H -L/iilv coat-t r the cor Turned Loose. Acting on a dispatch from deput attorney general cf this province, 1 Magistrate Johnson yesterday dismissed Theo. Faust from custody, as thc American authorities had not as yet proceeded under the] exiriditton act iu secure Faust. The deputy attorney general sustains the action of Police Magistrate Johnson in the matter, upon thc release of Faust. Yesterday he was re-, r.est.-d on a warrant from Greenwood charging him with larceny in lhat town where he was taken yesterdny afternoon by t Hi ccr Lawder. Judge Lacey and Soli, itor Cayley acted for ths prisoner in this case. mp this Week. arid AS AS AS AS AS th AS Will Double Even/ 60 Davs. m . - M Watch ihis Space Fer Sn.ips Every M week. V. or ||, yoll Inn,iv Unit new is tlie time lo WORKS, ro This Summer is ovor will bare 01 oiul uud Probably two ami Proper m AS AS (iS ^\ t3 m A line Lot on Kiverside n Uood Lot on Wimtlpeprav Five room houso nndSu-ft Liirgu Store on Bridgestn line, s COO 00 ni'- it'ii 00 [Iut 1,000 t>0 t 2.S00 OJ i ; ■ ... <-.md Lot and store iu Upper Grand Forks Price. f ::n i 00 200 00 li',11 (Kl 1-fiOQ CO 550 ni Hundred others. II you hnveani thine to si-ll Li*-t it < charge ui.lt BsSnlc Is niadu mil io Buy anything com mud sou me and I will pure Address CHAS. CUMINGS, 'Secretary Qrand Forks Tpwr, '-.-,-'-' •/■**■■• .--T'- s^- ■*■"• j**' 0*r-,£?■ sp->**" V >*■ -lie **»%• --lu*^* 'cv V.* *5J "'.. "Co. M ^**- £A *C- .<-^.S*f.'--.' jr. .<■". ,&■■ 0- °A^ REFUSES TO ACT. Mr. S. R. Almond Declines the Receivership. J-ir'ge F nio, of tho county court, residing at Nelson, B. C, has appointed Mining Recorder S. R. Aln ond receiver for the Grand Forks brewery. It has beer: kno.m for some time thai Messrs. Hewitt ard Towr.c-nd, propiie- tors of the brewery, were not dA-elh:,*; in that harmony necessary for tbe -.licet fir-fel operation of ar.y business. As a las*, te-r.rt, Mil in icsponre to an pppii c ii n ton Mr. Ti w icnd, the cout made the appoinlmt nt, Mr. Almond en bei;i£ interviewed on tlie subject, stated that it would be impossible for him to accept the appoint cent as ihe duties of the office absorbed all his time It ts understood that Mr. Townend's solicitor wilt petition that some o.hr. r suitable peri,a he appointed u take charge of ihe business. Send Your Children lo School I. A. Dinsmore, secretary of the school ho.rd, iccelved a letter from Mr. S, S. I'ep.*, superintendent of education, grating that provi.ions -lave been made i:* Hie estimates (or thv Grand Forks school district for tlte ne\". school year] (or Iwo (cachet*, n d ;■ • additional tchool room. Also, thai authority will nol be granted lor these two teach rs i Al^rH^SSI.'r^'i'sSiJ'MMMM, 3? * I ROUQrl I " DRESSED I LUMBER, 1 House Finish, Sash Factory, -Store Fronts a Specially, Furniture Made to Order, I -Saloon and Store Fixtures, All oiders will loceive Prompt attention, a) i Et Spraggett, Grand Forks, B. C. «*^*e«e«-Be*i!ee-8«e«e*ee«e««r i 1 i (i> * t» ninl a i.;i*yi tiro s r,s i si hool i ■ -. e I A* pre r* e ! her, ■ ..I lo distii t, ■*, • mt Cl o.il ba bin g ,' laity 11 end * e* tjrirr al.,,*.-. •; i. : lh. hi cl ry I s I rr- I ■ s ell ..( the hbnr- >. be '. iu rx^iS. average daily attendance \*-*as only 35. The srhool direc os earne tlv request that parents m iks a sp *< i rl Ef;tt to si c that their children attend school, in Older that the atrendance »i'l icach thc number necessiry to secure the additional leachc-f and building, oALi Famous two of real hen hful onjoy- Runt one nf our *£ Brantford All New and Up-To-Dste-Wheols. JOHN DONALDSON, MAIN ST. For Sale. One of ihe best farms on Grand Prairie; tearig orchard and small fruit. Foi further parti 'nlr?, ."ddress W. H. C'OYEiiT, Caiscn, 11. C, QUEENS' HOTEL. UPPER GRAKD FOLKS, B. C. DUFORD & CUSSON, • - PROPS. ' Fir-i-clnt-s in every rospect The bar win al. j wuy« he ii iindeuppllcd ivith(hecholcest\Y-llluj ' and ii<|tiois. *v*--* A LETTER TO WOMEN. A" few words from Mrs. Smith, oi (Philadelphia, will certainly corroborate the clam that Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is woman's ever reliable friend. "I cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound too highly. "For nine f *ia weeks I was in -ts^.v bed suffering1 with inflammation and congestion of tlie ovaries. I had a dis- charge all tlie time. When lying down all the time, 1 v felt quite comfort1 aide; hut as soon ; feet on the Hour, come back. '• Every one thought if waa Impossible for me togel well. I was paj Ing SI per day for doctor's visits and 78 cente a day for medicine. I made up my mind to try Airs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, It has effected n complete cure for me, ami I have all the faith in the world in it. What a blessing' to woman it is!"—Mrs, .Iknmi'; 1.. Smith,No, 3U4 Kauflman St., Philadelphia, Pa. ENJOYMENT OF QUIET LIVES THE SACK OF PORT-AU-PRINCE. PECULIAR AND PERTINENT. THE POINT OF VIEW, In the Ah tr ono ml en I Observatory There l» AIwuvh Pence. I suppose nobody can be so detached from mundane troubles as the man whose calling it is to Investigate the other earths ■nt' the universe, says Julian Hawthorne In Collier's Weekly. In the aHln-ninnii-.il observatory there is always peace, In our churches we offer up prayers fur the political welfare of tliu country, and listen to sermons advocating or deprecating war, Sitting at home, amid wife and children, ln the security ot our firesides, we read the newspapers and discuss the chances of battle and the horrors of famine. But ln the observatory there Is no mention or thought of these things. The nearest the astronomer gets to this planet Is 240,000 miles — the distance that separates the moon from us. He does nut, however, linger there long;; it is .'■-> near; he is like the old frontiersman who began to gasp for breath when any one came whhln live and twenty miles of him. Our astronomer i.s not satisfied with miles; he wants diameters of the solar system; the speed of light vibrations Is his yardstick. Mars is •tho nearest spot where he can sit down a bit and feel at home. He begins to smile and open his shoulders at Jupiter or Saturn; lie is striding along at a round pace by the time he passes Neptune; and then, with a sigh of relief, he bestraddles the awful gulf that yawns between us and the nearest fixed star, and disappears cheerfully from view In the mists of the Milky Wny. What, is the use of talking tu sueh a person about tliu war in Cuba? "Uow ■soon do you think It will be settled?" you inquire. He replies that it will require su many billion ages for Alpha Centaurl to alter its present position. "But think of those starving folks In Matanzas!" you continue. He refers you to the fact that a thousand million years hence the sua will have cooled down, and all tho Inhabitants of this solar family will have frozen into icieles. "Have you pictured to yourself the terror of the moment when the Maine was blown up in Havana harbor?" you want to know. At this he smiles a fearful smile, and saying something about a recent collision of two planets adjoining a nebula, of Orion, Is off toward the north, probably on a hunting expedition after the Great Hear. Sometimes 1 feel Inclined to go home. Ves, it. is healthy onee in a while to remind ourselves of the relations of things In this creation, to breathe infinite space, to cool our little fevers In ils absolute zero, to set our watches hy the Precession .it the Equinoxes, and to seek a quiet corner for meditation somewhere behind the back stars. Hitch one end of your hammock lo SlriUS, and the other to ArcLurus, and compose yourself for a nap of a few stellar periods; when you wake up, the matters that so concerned you here will have adjusted themselves, RIVETED LETTERS. Riveted letters are a decided novelty, and are the outcome of n desire lo lmve an absolutely safe envelope, says the Philadelphia Record. Those envelopes, which enn bo secured by rivets, are perforated in one or more places, and before closing the letter the stem of the rivet, which possesses n flat head, is pushed through the small holes from the inside of the envelope and the Hap then struck down. Over that stem a small net with a conical hole is placed. This hole is wider at the top part whore the stem protrudes. All the pails arc made of lead or some other equally soft metal. In order to secure the rivet a head has to bc hammered out of the prolrudlng stem. For this purpose a steel mold or shield i> placed over it and driven home with the aid of a hammer or witli Hie Hat of the baud. Tlm stem then nils up the conical hole in the nut with which it forms one solid piece showing the clear impression of thc shield or seal. WHY. Why isn't courting an heiress a cliei lc suit? Why aren't stenographers' notes figures of speech? Why is it thnt we seldom see an auburn hatred old maid? Why Isn't a graveyard the last measure n man resorts to? Why doesn't a man lead a double life when he is beside himself? Why Is it that all the rogues manage to get into the other political party? Why does a man usually show his wife more courtesies abroad than at home?— Chicago News. "Now, papa, dear, when Mr. Timmons calls on you, don't be hasty." "Hasty? I guess not Pre been thinking what I'd do to bim for more than a month,"— Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Stebbins's wife Is going io make him go in for geology." "What's thai for?" "She can't make bim keep himself tidy, and she thinks if he is Bclentiftc, it won't be Dotlced."—Cbleago ttoeord. She Here is such a pretty little story in the paper about bow Kdiaon eame to marry, tie l wish sunn- of these bright young journalists would explain how I came to marry.—Indianapolis Journal, "Here, my dear," said the far sighted husbaud, "put this mouej in the stuck lug for a rainy day." So she bought a pair, and tbey really looked lovely on Obestuut street yesterday.—Philadelphia Record, "is it superstition that makes you burn the feu thera after cleaning a chicken, uncle? 1 lmve noticed you doing so on several occasions." "No superstition, sab; Jes* wisdom."—Indianapolis Journal. Friend—Poetry is a drug on the market, Isn't It? Poet—I should say not! Friend—Then, I am misinformed, Poet —Your Informant probably never Hied to sell poetry or buy drugs,—Buffalo Commercial. "I'm troubled about that draft from the West," said tbe head of the firm. The otliee boy hurriedly closed tbe transom and then looked as if he expected nn Immediate advance iu salary.—Detroit Free Press. "Bridget, you've broken ns much china this morning as your wages amount to. Now, how ean we prevent tbis occurring again?" "01 don't know, mum, unless yez raises me wages."— Pearson's Weekly. "Mr. Showman," said au Inquiring Individual at the menagerie, "can tbe leopard change his spots?" "Yes, sir," replied the Individual who stirs up the wild beast; "when he Is tired of one spot lie goes to another."—Tit liils. Stranger—1 notice thai when you announce your text your congregation all make a note of the verse anil chapter, Parson—Tnis; dey lakes down do number of do verse and chapter lo make policy combinations out ob.—Puck. Employer—Y'ou were late ihis morning, Henry. Office Boy—Yes, sir. Employer—Did you forget to mention it to me? Office Hoy-No, sir. Bul I didn't waut to deprive you of the pleasure of being the first to speak of it.—Boston Transcript. "I'm proud of you," said the head of the linn; "I have letters from all over Kansas saying tlmt Ihey have seen our samples.'•(low in the world did you manage it ?" and he palled the traveling man on the back. "Cyclone."- Detroit Five Press. Wife What's tlie matter, dear? Husband— 1 had a chance to bet teu dollars on n "sure thing" this afternoon. Wife —And you didn't do It? Well, no mat- tor. Getting money by betting isn't— Husband You don't understand. 1 did. —Chicago News. A Georgia man who went to Alaska to dig gold writes borne from Dawson City: "Y'ou mny expect me In Georgia as soon as my clothes thaw enough for me to get my hands in my pockets and reach the money to pay for my ticket." —Atlanta Constitution. Mrs. de Temper—I nm not happy With my husband. Shall 1 drive him away? Lawyer—Ills life is insured In your favor, isn't It? Mrs. ilu Temper- Yes; I made him do tlmt before we married. Lawyer Well, don't drive him off. He'll die quicker where he is. "You will marry a tall, dark gentleman," said the fortune teller, examining the lines in the fair baud, "That doesn't help me any," despairingly replied the lovely blonde who had called to consult her; "all six of them are tall, dark gentlemen!"—Chicago Tribune. In the Kl..mlike: First Citizen—That lady journalist who Just eame In from tbe Slalcs seems to tie an authority on economy. Second Citizen—How is thai? First Citizen- She has an article in the Chilkoot Courier on "How to Live ou Twelve Hundred n Week."-Puck. "I s'pose you got a Bible you'll let a guy look Into," said one of tlie two tough young men who bad called on I the minister. "With pleasure, my young friend. I f I can be of any assistance to you—" "Nail, 1 got lo see fer ■ nieself; dis Is to decide a bet." Indiati- I apolUl .lournal. j Miss Mugg I don't see UOW It Is your sister failed to Hnd me al lhe slatlon. . You said you would describe ine to her. Infatuated Lover (who sees a good deal more In Miss Mugg than others nun— Yes, I told her to look for a beautiful girl, with the face of a Madonna and tlio form of a sylph. It's queer she missed you.—New York Weekly, in tin- April St. Nicholas Mr. Frank it. Stockton continues his series of narrative sketches of "The Buccaneers of Our Coast." Mr. Stockton thus describes the capture uf the Cuban eity, I'ort au Prince, by Morgan and his buccaneers: When ihe fleet arrived at ihe nearest harbor Morgan landed his men and mail led toward the town, hut he did not succeed in making a secret attack, as he had hoped. A Spanish prisoner had let himself drop overboard, and swimming ashore, had warned the governor uf the attack. Thus prepared, this able «om- mander marched a body of soldiers along the road by which the pirates must come, and when he found a suitable spot he built a formidable barricade. Behind this his soldiers were posted witli their inusk- ets ami their cannon. Hut when Morgan eame within sight of this barricade, he considered that It would be entirely unnecessary to attempt to disturb this admirable defense, so lie marched his men into lhe woods, led them entirely around lie- barricade, ami came out upon a wide plain before the town. Here la' found that he WOUld have to fighl Ids way into the eity, and probably much lo his surprise ids men were presently charged by a body of cavalry. The pirates routed the horsemen, ami. nfter a light of about four hours, took possession of the town. Here they captured a great many prisoners, whom ihey shut up In ihe churches, ami then sent detachments out into the country to look fur those who had run away. Then these utteny debased and cruel men took their usual course after capturing a town; they pillaged, f* as(ed, and routed. Even when the poor citizens seemed lo have given up everything thoy owned, they were told that if tiny did not pay two heavy rnn- soms they would be carried away Into slav.-ry. and lhat their tuwn WOUld be burned. For two weeks the pirates Welted for the unfortunate people to go out into the country ami find some of their fellow- rltizens who had escaped with a portion uf their treasure. In those days people did unt keep their wealth in banks as they do now, but every man was the custodian of most of ills possessions, ami When they fled from the visitation uf an enemy they took with them everything of value ttiat they could carry. Before the citizens returned Morgan made a discovery; a negro was taken who was ear- lying letters from the governor of Santiago, a neighboring city, to some of the citizens of Port-au-Prince, telling them not to be in too great a hurry to pay tiie ransom, because lie was coming witli a strong force to their assistance. When Morgan road these letters he changed his mind and thought It would be a wise thing not to stay in fliat region any longer lhan could be helped. So he decided not to wait for the unfortunate citizens to collect the heavy ransom he demanded. but told thorn that if they would furnish him with BOO head of cattle and nlso supply salt and help prepare the moat lor shipment, he would make no further demands upon them. This, of course, the citizens were glad enough to do, and the buccaneers sailed away. , The average speed of a currier pigeon ( ' in calm weather is 121U yards a minute. ■ ; With a strong wind in the direction of flight, some pigeons have covered 19S0 yards a minute. | ' | The recent cold weather has done great : damage to fruits aud vegetables throughout Georgia. Kapid work is going on to transform lhe vessels at ihe Brooklyn navy yard into auxiliary cruisers. At Commercial, Ky., the 3-year-old-son of Nat Corbin, while playing about a the in the yard, was burned to death. The Cncoiupahgre and I 'to Indians are said to be ugly over the dilatory tactics uf the laud allotment commissioners Diphtheria at W'averly, Mo., has put a slop to all church nnd social gatherings. Kveiylhing is being done to cheek thc contagion. The total output of coal in Hie United siatc, in Is!i7 approximated 198,250,000 short t"tis, with an aggregate value of 1(1108,100,000. Postal Clerk Hart, arrested in Chicago on a charge of theft, gave ns an excuse for the crime that he could not live uu $12 a week. \ i in: \r tiik it. To manufacture a cheap kalsomlne stuck "ti the wall with glue, claiming it to be the "same tiling" or "just as good" as the durable Alabastlno, or to buy and sell sueh goods on sueli representations would seem a cheap trick. Some resort to It, To he safe, buy Alabastlne only In packages and properly labeled. It is only in accord with tlte eternal fitness of thing- Dial miss, kiss and bliss rhyme together. AN OPEN LtTTEtt YQ MOTHERS. We nre asserting iii the courts out right tothe exclusive use ofthe wurd "CASTORIA," and ! "I'l I'cilKK'SCASTORIA," us ourTrade Mark. I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyatt nis, Massachusetts, ; was the originator uf " I'lTCHKK'SCASroKIA," the same that lias burne and does now bear the I facsimile signature of CHAS, H. KI.KTCIIKK on i every wrapper. This is the original" PITCHER'S ; CASTORIA" which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that it is (he kind yon have alivays bought, and has the signature of CHAS. H. FkETCIIKR on the : Wrapper. No one has authority from me to use '.ty name except The Centnur Company of which ;iius. It. Fletcher is President. March 8, .-897- SAMUEL PITCHER, M.D. And the boy, did you say, has gone wrong— Won the badges of disgrace and should wear them? It appears that dishonor and trouble will throng, When tbe heart is less able to bear them. You call him a criminal—but I Can't forget all his baby completeness; You say mercy should pass, like the Le- vite, on by— I remember his infantile sweetness. I tell you a truth that will live: The adult may be bad as you've thought him— But the heart that loved the child will forgive The man for the joy baby brought him. —Cincinnati Enquirer. KEEPING HIS PROMISE A musician that can play all kinds of instruments beats the band. RARE GEMS. Among the colored diamonds there is one of a green tint, now in Dresden, and formerly owned by Augustus the Strong. The grand duke of Tuscany possessed a blue une. and the famous Hope diamond was also blue and remarkably beautiful. No account of diamonds could, omit mention nf the great, liragauza .the Portuguese crown jewel, which is said to weigh 18S0 carats, and is valued by the jewelers of Brazil, where it was found, al $1,305,000,0001 Ihit it has been suggested that this diamond is a while topaz—in which case the millions vanish. The Portuguese government refuses to allow the stone to be examined. The crown diamonds of the. Brazilian empire were valued at more than $18,- 000,000. Oue of the principal stones was set in lhe handle of the cane of John VII. Slill more remarkable, the doublet of ceremony of Joseph I of Portugal had for buttons 20 diamonds, aggregating the neat, sum of $405,000, llra/il. which produced the diamond handled cane nmi the Braganza, where diamonds are found in the crops of fowls and adhering to the roots of cabbages, and were formerly used by the gold hunters for counters in card playing—Brazil must be allowed to be a country of marvels. Though modern scientists, denying that diamonds huve souls or power to euro toothache, agree, that they may be smelt and tasted, it has remained for the officers of tho Brazilian .Junta Diamanl- ina to assert that they produce music. Uy rubbing the diamonds together close to the ear these experts declare that they can distinguish Ihe true from the false. #1(10 REWARD, sino, The readers of thin paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease thai science hns been able to cure In all ita stages and that is Catarrh. Hah's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cute now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treat* ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces <>C the system, thereby destroying the foundation or the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature Jn doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any rase that It fails to cure. Head for list of Testimonials. Address; l-\ J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 7.rie. Hall's Family l'llls nre the best. The longest lived people have, generally been those who made breakfast the principal meal of tlie day. The stomach has more vigor in the morning than at any time. SHARK INTO VUUK SIIOB9 Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen smarting feet and instantly takes tbe sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-htting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for chilblains, sweating, damp, callous and hot, tired aching feet. We have over 10,000 testimonials of cures. Try it today. Bold by all druggists and shot stores. By mall for 25c. in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. But few inventions that were expected to revolutionize tlie world ever did it. riT« Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousnes "I Id after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Ureal Nerve Ki'-.tm-er. Send for KKKK SU.00 trial bottle and treatise. DR. It. 11. KlilNB, Ltd., KXJ Arch street, Philadelphia, l'a. Popular airs may be catching ,but it takes a good lire to hold them. A Her being swindled by all others, Bend un stamp (brparticulars of King Solomon's Treasure, the ONLY renewer of manly strength. MASON CHEMICAL CO., P. O. Box 717. Philadelphia, Pa. Scorching is apt to singe the p ipularity of cycling. Platonic love is a sort of prologue to tlie real thing. The woman who fails to say "because" has some other excuse. Tramps have one redeeming quality; you never hear of them getting mixed up in labor riots. The baby iu the cradle evidently thinks this is a pretty rocky i Id world. Piso's Cure for Consumption has been a God-send to mo.—Wm. B. McClellan, Chester, Florida, Sept. 17, 1895. Tlte pulling of a sound tooth "Tries tlie iioeoiisties of the dental chamber, In the spring cleanse your system by using Dr. Plunder's Oregon Blood Purifier. A horso never gels to the front in a race if he lias been badly reared. lie Cannot EBiicape Her. "Henpsek Isn't nnarly as enthusiastic about Joining lhe army as be whs." "No. be has given It Up. His wife snys thnt if he enlints she will go along as a nurse." I - Detroit Free Press. Use only one heaping teaspoonful of Schilling s Best Baking Powder to a quart of flour. %u mmu use Iwt Uaspoon/uli of other baking powcUf. ALA ALAIIASTINB IS WHAT? Alabastlne Is a durable and natural coating for walls and ceilings entirely different from nil kalsomlne preparations, made ready for use in white or twelve ■beutuiful tints by the simple addition of water (latest make being adapted to mix with cold water), put up ln dry powder form. In 5-pound packages, with full in- etructlons on every jmckage. TINE Whiting, etc., tire Btuck on the wall Willi decaying animal Klue. Alabastlne la a cement, which Koi-s Uirouifli a process of sfttin*,'. hardens with nge, can be re-coated and re-decornted from time to time without having to wash and scrape off its old coals before renewing. WHAT AUK Iv AI.NOlllMOSf Kalsomlnes are cheap temporary preparations manufu.lured from chalks, clays. MMU SII'1-.M.-..H. Particularly throat and lung diftlcuitles, wrongly attributed to other causeH, is tlie result of unsanitary conditions of walls and ceilings. Think of having bedrooms covered with layers of molding flour paste to feed vermin, with paper to hide tbem and to absorb the moisture of respiration, and an animal glue culture ground on Its fnce for disease germs; this having strong colors added, like a colored shirt, 'to hide tbe dirt; then think of "the nasty practice" of repeating this papering, without moving the old, and a number of times at that, as many do. Then think of a room co-"ted with pure, porous, permanent Alabastlne, which is retlnted with but tittle trouble or expense, and is purifying and sweet-smelling and fills cracks. Wall paper free would be dearer than Alabastlne if cost of removing* paper Is considered. Alabastlne is sold by paint dealers everywhere. Ask your dealer for card of tints. to ni'Ai.r.u.H. Do not buy a law suit or an Injunction with cheap kalsomlnes, imitations of Alabasllne. Dealers assume the risk of a suit for damages by selling an Infringement. Alnbastine Company own the right, covered by letters patent, to make and sell wall coaling adapted to be mixed with cold water. Alabastlne Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. It. MOPSLBIGH was an aspirins man. Ills motto was "Upward and Onward." And, to a certain extent, he had lived up to t; for, begluulng life with no greater capital than a ragged coat, a iboeblock, and a box of blacking, lie had succeeded iii amautng ii fortune <>t' something over $10(1,(1110. He had never married, because be bad been too busy In bis younger days, anil uow that bis means would admit of sueh a luxury, his hopes uud aspirations were all centered iu his only nephew, a line young fellow, Just 111 years of age. "You're all 1 hnve iu the world, Dick," said he. "And yoll shall be my heir, If ouly you marry to please me." Mm Mammon and Cupid nre almost Invariably ranged In opposition to one another In this world—and In full viewer the uiipiiriilleli.il Idiocy of sucli a proceeding, Dick Avenel fell In love with a prelly girl who hadn't a penny to bless herself with, and one day be sought his Uncle Mopslelgh. "Uncle," snld Dick, "I'm in love." "The deuce you are!" said the old gentleman. "Willi lhe sweetest girl Inthe world!" averred Did;. "And who, pray, may she be?" de- iiiiiuiled Mr. Mopslelgh. "Her nn me Is Clara Cleveland. She's nursery governess In Mrs. Van Vorsi's family." "Then," snld Uncle MopSlelgli, "you'd better get out of love with her as quick as you can. 1 want no beggarly governess lu my family! Besides, I've already picked out a wife for you." "Uli?" said Dick. "Miss Clementina Etherege, lhe heiress! Just eome to visit ber aunt, Mrs. Major Doddlngton, Worth a quarter of a million iu lier own right! And they tell me she Is as pretty as a pink! That's the sort of n wife for you, my boy.'" "1 beg yoiir pardon, sir," said Mr. Avenel. with dignity. "Were she as rich as Croesus, and beautiful as Venus, she would be perfectly Indifferent to me!" "Dou't be an ass!" said Mr. Mopslelgh. "Sir!" said Dick. "Come with me at once, nnd call on Mrs. Major IKiddiugtou. See for yourself." "Of course, I will do as you please about this," snld Dick, mentally steel- lug himself for a stiff combat. And, inwardly more determined than ever, he got his hat nud acicompnnlcd itlie old gentleman. Mrs. Major Doddlngton lived ln n pretty mansard roofed villa Joust out of town. There was a fountain ln front of the veranda, aud a perspective view of blue-silk furnished drawing-rooms through the open French i-ascmicniis. "Mrs. Major Dodulngton Is not nt home," said the little maid in a white apron and pink-ribboned cap, w!ho came to the door. "Would the gcmtlemen walk In and see Miss Etherege. But Mr. Mopsellgli declined Ms. He didn't quite like to face the heiress without the advantage of Mrs; Dod- dlngton's presence. He handed out his card, on which he hurriedly penciled beneath his own name that of his nephew, nnd snld that be would "call again." Hut ns they passed the corner of the house, themselves hidden by a niina- ture thicket of rhododendrons, they had a line view of one of the blue-silk rooms, where n slender, pretty young lady, nlso iu blue, Bat writing at a desk—a youug lady with long eyelashes, an oval face, and a rose twisted In the colls of her blue-black hair. "That's she, sir," snld Mr. Mopslelgh, grasping bis neqihew's arm nnd gesticulating toward tlie unconscious note- writer with the forefinger of his disengaged hlm. "That's the bell-ess! I.ook *>'*. her! Isn't she a beauly V" "She Is, Indeed, sir," snid Dick, who stood transfixed ln the middle of the rhododendrons. "But are you sure " "Of course I'm sure," brusquely Interrupted Mr. Mopscllgh. "Who else can It be? Dick, loo.: here! You shall marry that filii!" "I will, sir!" averred Dick, with equal sincerity, Mr. Mopslelgh's face brightened up. "You're n trump, Dick," said be. "I knew you'd conic back to your senses after a while. Marry hor, Dick, and I'll settle my fortune on you." "All right, sir," snid Dick. Hardly had the footsteps of tbe departing guests died nwny on the lawn than nnother young lady came In from au adjoining room and bent her pretty head over the fair letter-writer. "Are you almost through, Clara?" "Quite through uowf dear!" "Well, then, Clara, look here!" And Miss Etherege—the real Miss Etherege—sat herself down' with a resolute nlr. "I've made up my mind to one thing, Clara," snld she. "You shan't be a governess any longer. You shall live with me. You shall be my companion and I'll pay you twice as much " "But, Clementine " "Say yes, darling—do sny yes!" And when Richard Avenel called tlmt evening, In obedience to a little pencil note from Clara, he found that she bad decided to change ber situation. "So you are the heiress?" said Richard, bluntly, when Clara Introduced him to Miss Etherege. "Exactly," snld Clementina. "And you are the nephew of the rich Mr. Mopslelgh, I suppose?" Dick nodded. "Yes," sold he. "And my uncle wants me to marry you/' "Much obliged to him, I'm sure," said Miss Etherege, laughing. "And I am determined to marry Clara Cleveland, and no oue else," added Dick. "1 admire your taste," said Miss, Etherege. And Dick went on nnd told the whole story of how they had called there tliat morning, aud bow his uncle had mistaken Miss Etherege's visitor for Miss Etherege herself. "He told me to marry you," said Dick, taking both Clara's buttering little hands In bis, "and I mean to do It!" Now It so chanced that Mr. Mopslelgh was telegraphed to come to Chicago tlie next morning, to be occupied there for an indefinite length of time, but lie left a message that Dick must nol forget to prosecute his suit. "No, I won't," said Dick, smiling to himself. Mr. Mopslelgh bad not been gone two weeks when Dick wrote to hlm. "You will be glad lo learn, uncle." said he, "tliat I am engaged to the lady you pointed out as my future wife. We are to lie inni-rlcd at once." In answer to which Mr. Mopslelgh sent ou his blessing by telegraph. And ln less than u mouth he found himself enabled to hurry bnck lo New York. And with him he brought a superb set of diamonds for his new niece. The first place lo whicli he haslened was ihe residence of Mrs. Major Doddlngton, wbere, he hnd understood, the young couple were making a temporary sojourn after tbeir trip, Mrs, Doddlngton received hlm beamingly. "So kind of you," said she. "Walk this wny. 'They nre In the morning- room." Mr. Mopslelgh wrung his nephew's hand, and kissed Hie blushing bride affectionately. "Here's my wedding gift," snid lie. banging Hie diamond necklace around Clara's neck and laying ihe rings and brooch on the table. "Welcome, my love, Inlo lhe Mopslelgh family!" .lust then a tall, blue-eyed girl entered, and Mrs. Doddlngton made baste to introduce lier to the elderly visitor. "Mr. Mopsleigb, my niece, Miss Etherege." "Miss—Etherege!" bawled the old gentleman, wheeling around toward the bride. "Then who Is this Blood Is Life Pure Blood Is Health. Without blood circulating through your veins you could nut live. Without pure j blood you ean not be well. The healthy ; action of every organ depends upon the purity and richness of the blood by which lit h nourished nnd sustained. If you [have salt rheum, scrofula sores, pimples, ! boils or any kind of humor, your blood te not pure. If you take Hood's Sarsaparilla iit will moke your blood pure and-prompt- ly relievo nil those troubles. I "My daughter was afllictod with liver trouble and hail a sallow complexion. She has takeu Hood's Sarsaparilla and ber complexion is clear. Another daughter i had eruptions on her hands, but after tak- | ing Hood's Sarsaparilla tho eruptions are i all gone. We believe Hood's Sarsapaiilla jto be nn excellent medicine." MRS. M. K. HILL, Hrookfleld, Wash. Sarsaparilla Is America's Greatest Medicine. Sold by ■ all druggisls, $1; six for $5. (let only , Hood's. Hfw4'« Pills,m' tllfl n,l,'V Pn,s tn UlU ,nooa s riuo uitll Hood's Sarsaparilla. A GENERAL SURPRISE. Hood's old woman who luul snt down to a rest on the steps of a residence i take 1 near Nineteenth and Master streets yes- ' lertlny afternoon, was surprised by being shaken by the* policeman on tho bent. j "What's the matter hero?" he asked, grujy. She gave no answer, and, after j a sharp look at her, he inn quickly to the corner and rang up the patrol, which citinc dashing up u little Inter nt breakneck speed. The unwilling passenger wns ] summarily bundled in and the driver ! raced to the German hospital nnd one of the physicians wns hastily summoned. I "What's the matter?" he asked of the supposed patient, "Matter'.*'she said. "Y'es, '■ what ails you?" "Ale?" was the reply. ' "Well, I'm a little tired, an' I'd be obliged if you'd let me sit here till the gentlemen get. ready to take me back. I wits sittin' on the steps wnilin' for my daughter to — . jome out of thc store on the corner when Formerly Clara Cleveland, at your | thoy drove mc off so quick. I wondered ervlee "Not I he •lirli. aid Dick iverni bowing low. yelled Mr. Mops "Yes, lhe governess," said Dick. "She was here nu a visit io Miss Etherege thai dny you saw her. You lold me lo marry her, and I snid I would. And I have obeyed you!" "Don't bc angry, sir," cooed Miss Etherege. "I'lnrn Is the sweetset girl In nil the world." "Forgive us, sir," pleaded Clara, In the prettiest of implicating altitudes, with Iter soft eyes brimming over with I ears. "Well," said Mr. Mopslelgh, arter a momentary pause, "1 suppose I shall have to! Kiss me again, my dear. You nre pretty! And, Dick " "Yes, sir." "I'll have the bine nnd silver rooms fitted up for you at once. For, of course, you'll come and live with me?" And so the old gentleman acquiesced, as philosophically as he might, In the Irresistible tide of circumstances, aud Dick and Clara were happy. "Aud, after all," snys Dick, "1 did obey my uncle."—New York News. whnt they were about, but I guess they know," The physician turned to the po- i licemen to mnke some inquiries, but those I officials were looking very ill, indeed, so nothing was snid.—Philadelphia ltecord. The ninn who is domiciled iu n village boarding house hns no use for a local newspaper, Established 1780. ^?>?p$?'C»*5>£$M1??*2>iD>C1C1C15-*? & & & & & & & Baker's Chocolate, LOST SPRINGS AND MINES. How the Indians Fooled their Spanish Conquerors. There Is a tradition In New Mexico thnt many mines once freely worked have been lost. There Is another tradition thnt mnny springs have also been lost, and II ia understood that the losses of both mines nnd springs were brought about by the Indians. New Mexico Is supposed once to have been much more nttratclve than It is now. The Pueblo Indians arose In revolt on the first full moon of August, 1(18(1. When they bad driven the Spaniards down Into old Mexico they set to work to change the condition so that there should be little temptation to reconquer New Mexico. This Idefl Inspired the filling of miues which hnd beeu opened and worked during the former Spanish occupation. The Indians, with great care, destroyed all traces of many mines. It Is snld. This Is not so surprising ns what they did to the springs. It Is tradition, and the statement ls commonly accepted as historical truth, that In their labors to render the country uninviting as i>os«l- b!e these Indians suppressed numerous springs. Such results were accomplished In an Ingenious manner. The Indians dug down and cleared nway dirt until they found the crevices of lhe rock through which the water came. They took the fibrous bark of n species of fir tree and tumped It Inlo the crevices. As the material became water-soaked It swelled until II plugged. Nothing remained but to throw buck the dirt nnd to give to the surface the general arid appearance of the surrounding country. This wns not a temporary expedient. II resulted, according to the present theory, In the permanent destruction of ninny sources of water. To this day the appearance of slight moisture often stimulates a search for one of tbe missing springs. Occasionally these searches are successful. The earth is removed, the crevices are found, the bark Is picked out. nnd the water, nfler more than Iwo centuries of being turned bnck, resumed Its natural flow. celebrated for more jg than a century as a ^ delicious, nutritious, W and flesh-forming S beverage, has our x$ well-known yf Yellow Label <3 on the front of every ^ package, and ' our S, trade-mark,"La Belle oy Chocolatiere,"on the *3| back. NONE OTHER QENUINB. <3 a MADE ONLY BY ^ I WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd., | g Dorchester, Mass. 9 ^3snai4i4iaiSi8«5ii5i4taia«