..*t--7 **y s- The EVELSTOKE HERALt) J /y)/' ^.ZEsTD RAILWAY MBN'S JOURNA Vol XIV; NO. 19 REVELSTOKE B. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1903 $2 00 a Year in Advance MODERN Retailing The art of Modem Retailing is studied at this Store. Where we find a line of goods too large for the demand or for any reason not selling fast, we make the price for your benefit. BUDGET OF PRICES * ��������� *��������� for friday and Saturday Dish Toweling���������Good Soft Cotton Toweling. Regular Price Sc. Friday and Saturday's Price��������� FOUR YARDS FOR 25c. Boys' Heavy School Boots, sizes 11 to 2 and 2 to 5. Regular $2 Boot. Friday and Saturday's Price��������� Reduced to $1.40 Black Satin Skirts, well made. Some have Accordion Plaited Frills. Regular $2.00 Skirt. Friday and Saturday's Price��������� Reduced to $1.25 We have a few Children's Coats that we will make a substantial reduction on. MILLINERY AND DRESSMAKING PARLORS _' ON SECOND FLOOR. . . "' * ��������� s ��������� - _��������� ' DIVIDENDS FOR LARDEAU MINES The Triune and Silver Cup Have Done a Large Amount of Work this Season���������Shipments to be made soon. (Special to The Herald ) Ferguson, Oct. 20���������While not much is reaching the outside regarding the mines in this vicinity all'the important *=-propertiesarebeingsteadily-devclopetl.: The Triune has been working all slimmer, and the operators, the Metropolitan Gold Mining Company, are so pleased with the outlook tbat they will, for the first time, continue working all winter. Several hundred feet of tunneling have been contracted for and the new stoping- ground provided will enable very large shipments to bo made next season. Progress has boon made with the tramway ,and the management expect to have it in good working order ^so as to handle the output as soon as spring opens up. A lot of flne ore is oh the dump and it is very probable some shipments will be made over the snow. The Silver Cup Mines, Ltd., has done extensive -work on its well known property this*'season and shipments will shortly be made over the new trams to the compressor at Five-mile. A very large amount of machinery has ibeen installed during the past summer and money' has been spent ' wherever it could be used profitably to improve the mine and equipment. When tbe compressor gets to work it is confidently expected that large profits will be derived. The management has taken the wise course of thoroughly developing the mine befoi e commencing to earn dividends and its success is now assured. PROGRESS AT POPLAR CREEK The annual meeting of the Talent Society of St. Peter's Church was hold at the rectory on Thursday. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Mrs. Spurling, president; Mrs. Paget, vice-president, and Mrs. Burridge, secretary-treasurer. Mines Showing up Splendidly as Developed���������Building Operations Active���������Streets Graded and Stumped. (Special to The Herald.) , Poplar, Oct. 20.���������As work proceeds oh the various rich'showings, here the owners are becoming moie satisfied as to the permanence of-the gold-deposits." On the Lucky Jack the tunnel is now in some 160 feet and every foot made adds to the value of the mine. The same with the Swede Group, the Gold Park, Ophir, Telluride and others. Alex. Lucas, mining recorder at Kaslo, who was here temporarily has returned home, his place being taken by John Simpson, who hns been appointed deputy mining recorder and provincial constable. As for the town, it is progressing rapidly. Contractor Spiers has completed the stumping and grading of the streets. There is a movement on foot for immediate incorporation and acquisition by the citizens of electric light and water works facilities. Property owners have decided not to be at the mercy of any company for these utilities. . Visitors are much surprised at the building already done. There is ample accommodation for travellers as there are six hotels having from 14 to 20 rooms in connection.- Several residences are in course of construction, those for J. Y. Cole, Magnusson Bros., J. J. Casey and O. Schultz having been completed. Nearly a dozen provision men are open for business and there are, in addition, the usual mining brokers, an assay ofllce, livery stable and hardware store. Taken altogether Poplar is doiug very well. Next spring will see a big boom here with enormous froe gold exposures to warrant it. CONSOLATION PROVES RICH The Conservatives of Yale-Carllroo hold a convention this evening to nominate a candidate in the forthcoming Dominion elections. Well Known Blue Auriferous Clay Located on French Creek���������To be Operated all Winter The result of operations during the summer' on the old Consolation claim, French creek, has been more than satisfactory. This leasehold, which is held by Mv. E. A. Bradley, is a drifting proposition and hns been opened up in a most systematic manner. A shaft was sunk Hint, at a depth of 82 feet, reached bed rock where drifting was commenced. A tunnel wns then run a distance of 00 feet when the rim of the old channel wns located. After sinking on the chair nei a shortdistance a vein of blue auriferous clay was struck, carrying gold to the value of Sji'i-5 to $50 per square yard. This deposit has been carefully compared with the blue clay of Williams nnd Lightning creeks and found to be perfectly identical. It is also similar in clurracter to the famous blue lend of California. The rich dirt is carried from the face by bucket ears to the shaft where they are attached to a water power hoist and, upon reaching the surface, dumped into the dump box. The water from the power wheel is then utilized and the pay dirt taken from the dump box and sluiced in the usual manner. All th" preliminary work has been done and the past week was devoted to building a new camp for winter operations. This consists of sleeping houses, mess house, store room mid office, and has just heen completed. <* lt is Mi-. Bradley's intentiou to keep a force of 14 men at work all winter and for that purpose 8 tons of supplies are now on the ground. The property is in good shape and'can-easily be worked all. the year round. This is where the Big Bend has its great advantage over Cariboo, in which district, even at the best of times,* operations can only be carried on for six or seven months annually. There is also no shortage of water such as handicapped the older district for the last 2 or 3 years. It may be mentioned that Mr. Frank H. Guffey, the well, known attorney and mining man of Pittsburg, Pa., visited the property recently on his way home from Nome and expressed himself as more than surprised with the good showings. The statement that the pay dirt runs from $35 to $50 in gold may appear exaggerated but it must be remembered that until the old channel is reached the deposit is practically barren. The gold is coarse and well washed thus proving that it is an ancient river bed. This makes the probability of rich returns more certain than would be the case, had the auriferous deposit been angular in character. The success that has met these operations^shows cojiclusjyely that RETALLACK in question. The proper timo to in-1 n������|f G������ M ft C d 11 vestigatc this matter and act on it ft t V EaNutalUL was in 1002, not after a geneinl election and with another Government in power. As to the vacancies, however-, I still adhere to the prediction that, if seats are not found for Messrs. Mc- Phillipis and Goodeve, Hon. Charles Wilson will become Attorney-General, Taylor or Ellison, Provincial Secretary and Gilford or Pooley, Speaker. The statement that tho Canadian Bank of Commerce has stopped supplies is also false. Cheques are issued in the usual manner and promptly paid on presentation. Those in the know laugh at the asserted stringency especially as the Goveinmentreceived, only recently, over $280,000 from the Dominion as our proportion of the Chinese entry tax. The Premier has quite recovered from his recent indisposition and has been at his office for thc pnst four days. Col. Wolfendcn, the King's Printer, completed . his *10th year of service in that capacity on Monday nnd the employees' of the Printing Department presented him with an address and a splendid watch to mark tire occasion. The petition against tho return of Mi'. C. E. Pooley for Esquinialt was filed in the Supreme Court yesterday. It is made by A. E: Wale. The usual charges are laid. Ontario Bye Elections Toronto, Oct. 27.���������To-day's bye elections for the Ontario Legislature, leave the parties in just the same position as before. ' ' Sault Ste. Marie, formerly Canser- vntive, has returned Mr. Smith, Liberal, by about 100 majority, with the Michipicoten poll to hear from. Muskoka, formerly Liberal, will probably elect Mr. Mahaffy, Conservative, by a small majority; be has 78 lead now, with 18 polls to hear from. EVA POUNDING OUT BULLION Causes the Discharge of Ferguson's Postmaster Owing to Election of Hon R F Green ���������Miners Indignant. (Special to The Herald.) Ferguson, B. C, Oct. 25.���������As soon as the result of the election became known Geo. B. Batho, who has been postmaster here since the office was opened in 1808, wa.s informed by Inspector Dorman that his services were no longer required. No reason was given for his dismissal and the only known cause is an alleged statement by J. E. Betallack, tho defeated Liberal candidate, that if he was beaten | Batho would have to go. This action has caused great indignation*'not only here but in all the surrounding camps. Mr. Batho has proved himself a competent official and is well liked and respected. Not a single complaint has been made against his conduct of the office. Thc postmastership was tendered to J. L. McKinnon, a staunch Liberal, but refused owing to the treatment given Mr. Batno. 4* ^t lat iTi ITI BTI 1*1*1 1*1*1 l*Tl 1*1*1 l*t*l rTl 1*1*1 t**** ****-* ***** .****. .*T***. '-fr* .-*���������"* ***** **i-* ***** *"*"l 1*1*1 111 r 1 t, ,��������� I,"*,! .^",1 1^,1 !,",��������� l^l l^l l^l If I I ���������I l������ I |������I If I 111 |i| If I lil I ������| 111 111 lil 111 |U| I ���������! l^l Ij.r BUY THE BEST.! t* We carry a full line of McCLARY'S STOVES���������for Wood or Coal. These are the best and most durable stoves made in Canada. There are some in constant use in town that we sold 15 years ago and still in good condition. rich deep placers exist in the Big Bend and the similarity in character of the old river bed deposit to; the well known blue auriferous clay of Cariboo and California leads inevitably to the conclusion that other locations will, when exploited, prove very productive. Victoria Budget (From Onr Own Correspondent.) Victoria, B. C, Oct. 28.���������-You may take it for granted that it is unlikely anything will be done towards filling the vacancies in the Cabinet for some time yet. The statement that John Houston was recommended for a portfolio and refused by the Lieutenant- Governor is correct. The reason for this unusual course is an incident that occurred in the Legislature during the session of 1902. The Government was, by the absence of one or two members, in a decided minority and Houston acted as a stop gap from four till six o'clock. He defied the Speaker, defied the House, and, in addition used insulting language to the chair. The matter was taken up by motion a day or so after, the Opposition moving a resolution that it was advisable to protect the Speaker. The motion was voted down and the matter was supposed to be dead. However, tbe TLieu- tenant*-Governor, who retained the Dunsmuir Government that was responsible for this insult to the chair, has at last repented, aiid now refuses to accept as a member of the Cabinet the man who, acting under instructions from a former Government that had his confidence, caused the scene' Stamp Mill Now Working and . Estimated October. Clean Up $20.000���������Oyster-Criterion will Start up Soon. (Special to thc Herald.) Camborne, B. C, Oct. 27.���������Lexington mountain promises to be the scene of much mining activity the coming winter by many claim owners who have been closely watching the progress of the Evil and Oyster-Criterion. The Eva mill has now been running over 10 days and it is certainly piling up bullion. From tbe daily run it is conservative to estimate that the clean-up for the month will not he far from .$20,000. The 10 stamps are pounding out an average of 32vtons per day. At the Great Northern's property��������� the Oyster-Criterion��������� everything is *being*puti=in^readiness=for-=;aniactive winter season's work at the mine. The 10-stamp mill has long been completed but the management has bee'n forced to await the receipt of a car of .water-piping that has tied operations up at the mill for the past six weeks. Meanwhile at the mine a new crosscut tunnel, to bo known as the Terminal tunnel, has been started, just above the terminal of the aerial tramway. Superintendent Lade figures that it will be 400 feet before the quartz is reached. This will give a depth of approximately 400 feet on the vein. The upper workings are all in good shape to start stoping and the ore in the bin and on the several dumps will be sufficient to last the mill'many weeks. When the lower tunnel is completed raises will be made to connect with the upper workings. The Camborne .Water Works Co. is laying the mains for a water-works service. Most of the trenches have been dug and -the 'work should be completed before the snow flies. This Morning's Despatches Liverpool, Oct. 28.��������� Mr. Chamber- Iain was the guest at the Lord Mayors luncheon today and was afterwards presented with an address by the AVorkinemcn Conssrvative Association. Speaking at the luncheon he declared that as the United States had failed to meet Great Britain regarding the tariff, the latter will be forced to retaliate by placing, duty on their goods. London, Oct. 28.���������Speaking at Dover tonight. Mr. "Wyndham, Chief Secre-' tary ��������� for Ireland, said that unless England was prepared to lose -her prestige she could. not afford to see Canada dominated by American capital. Canada must be linked with the Empire whether it was done by Chamberlain's method or by some other. Rome, Oct. 2S.���������The Italian finances show a surplus of $13,000,000. Washington, Oct. 27.���������U. S. Ambassador Clayton, at Mexico City, has wired his government that the reported attempt to assassinate President Diaz, was without foundation. L. O. L. Entertainment. On Thursday, November Sth, the members of L. O. L. No. 1058 and L. T. B., No. 174, will give a supper and concert in Selkirk Hall. A Boston baked- bean supper will be served by the ladies from 0 to 8 p.m. after which the concert programme will be rendered, The best local talent has been seemed for the latter and all those attending will have a good time. Tne Htchat.d is rnqiipsl-wl ���������to -nbi.ri*- 1.1mt after tho concert the Royal Arch division of the JL. O.' L. will hold a meeting in the lodge room. LEGISLATORS CLOSE SHOP Wedding Bells. On Tuesday morning at the Roman Catholic church the wedding was solemnized of Louis J. Ball, manager of the Vernon "News" and Miss Mary Happey, late of Toronto. After the ceremony a recherche breakfast was given at the Hotel Revelstoke, among the invited guests being Mr. and Mrs. JD. McCarthy and Miss Darragh. The Herald extends hearty felicitations to Bro. and Mrs. Ball and hopes for them a long and happy married life. Dominion Parliament Prorogued on Saturday���������Cabinet Recon- struction���������Minto to be Appointed Viceroy of India. (From Our Own CorreapnrKlent.) Ottawa, Oct. 24.���������The House was prorogued at 11 a.m. today when the Governor-General delivered the usual speech from the Throne. There was nothing particular mentioned in it and most of the legislators had left. Yesterday R. G. Macpherson delivered a spread eagle speech about the Alaskan award and a government railway to the Yukon but it only had a political significance. The Dominion cabinet will be reorganized at once. From what I can hear H. R. Emmerson, M.P., lately Premier of New Brunswick, will get the Marine and Fisheries portfolio, Hon. J. R. Prefontaine going to the Public Works and Hon. James Sutherland taking Fielding's late department, that of Railways and Canals. It is reported that, at the conclusion of his term in Canada, JLord Minto will succeed Lord Curzon as Viceroy of India. Granite and White Enamelled Ware- Mill and Builders' Hardware. Mining, For Choice Groceries in large or small Quantities <���������+���������*. ty ty ty ty Write, Wire, 'Phone or Call on f BOURNE BROS. '. ."j*. .***"*������ iTa .-j-j .-***. .****. ������*t*. .-I*. .***. .***. .*****. ������*t*. .****. .���������****. .**K *���������**������������������ ."fr. -���������***������. T ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty Iff Iff ��������� Mackenzie Avenue . . $ MAIL ORDERS SUBJECT TO THIS DISCOUNT. $25,ooo $25,ooo MAMMOTH SLAUGHTER it 0 0 *# Vic t. $25,000 $25,000 Drygoods, Clothing-, Men's Furnishings, Boots and Shoes t ��������� ��������� ��������� t ��������� 20 . PER CENT. DISCOUNT 20 [ ��������� ��������� ��������� ��������� ON THE FOLLOWING LINES: DRESS GOODS, LADIES' MANTLES, GOLF CAPES, DRESS SKIRTS, in both Womens' and Misses', FURS AND MILLINERY. 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT 10 ! ON ALL OTHER GOODS THROUGHOUT OUR ENTIRE STOCK. New Blouses in Flannel, New Vestings and Silk. Flannels, Flannelettes, Wrapperettes, Bleached and Unbleached Cotton Sheeting, Prints, Ginghams, Blankets, Flannelette Sheets, Comforters, Table Linen and Napkins, Ready-Made Clothing, Hosiery and Underwear, Boots and Shoes, Eto. Thrifty Buyers Here's an Opportunity For you to make a dollar go further than ever before. You can't afford to miss this mammoth slaughter Sale. It means a great-saving to your pocket book. T I Don't ask why we are reasons. doing this. We have our ii i REID & YOUNG LEADING DRYGOODS MERCHANTS. MAIL ORDERS SUBJECT TO THIS DISCOUNT. *>*>*>*>*>*> *> i <*��������� o <��������� o Uf .REJOICING IN THE TRUTH. Rer. Henry 01n.***,-.-id, Church of the Holy Apootlc, New York. Char Cor.. : rojoiccth . 6. ���������n thu truth.- .-.re fact e 1. con ���������.���������il*;-.--." nbioc;. i*:c:ie:i proot:*.' :c(.-!:::;aT5. JJut ���������a':*.���������:! wc arc : ������������������luilen i>r in T A {fiend c... jc:u!y bi*-.*.*i!**j S ���������!*������������������*.-.vr.t.i. ll. -���������*:*'��������� wil) :* hour .'-K'-i '..riling lo her . li**.- ant! l*-i>!-'. a mother's i>. he dead," she . it." Hut at ! bodv of her lit -.���������ed of the trutlr of is the form of some ove it; but the con- ��������� no effect upon onr ure .nre trullis which, ���������"iircd of theni, cither Hi hnppy, *��������������� to a mother* and *.��������� news tlr.it lier* child ��������� I she cannot believe . believe it. Only an ir Tittle one was nc-i- *-ii, full of the joy of in the happiness o: 'Aly child cami'-.t es*, "I will not believe i, when she sees lire -��������� one borne in to her would make sricri ���������-���������l, *. ..olioj.r. I bring you glad tidi*i*,*s ui great joy." But many of us believe, and ye: ;���������:������������������ do not rejoice. Oh, my people, why i; it? Can we truly believe in all Gil'*-, blessings, in the groat truths which affect our eternal welfare, and not rejoice? There can be no cold, unfeeling belief in God's great truths. They arc too vital, too essential, and if they do not make us happy, then our faith is r.s nothing. Relieve in the truth. Yes, but hclicving, we must rejoice with joy unspeakable. Proscribed Races. the dreadful truth is realized, and iho pent-up agony *,-ives way to a flood of tears. Here '������������������'���������' ���������.������������������-���������d we have truth that may not be r< Juiced over. But, on the other hand, the news of a certain fact may bring with it a world of joy. The lost may be found. . The son who had wandered away from his home and loving family, and who had spent his youth in riotous living, returns at last. His father runs to meet him, he recognizes him, and his .heart goes cut to the son who was e'ead and is .dive again, and was lost end is for,;:;. What a happy moment was that in the- life of the aged patriarch Jacob when his sons returned from Egypt with the news, "Joseph is yet alive." At first he could not believe, but when they had told him all lheir tale, and showed him the waggons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of. Jacob, their father, revived, aud Israel said: "It is enough; Joseph, my son, is yet alive. I will go and see him before I die." .Yes, it i** indeed joy to be convinced of truth like this. All these events, whicli afreet more or less our human life, are of .-little consequence, however, compared with the greater truths concerning the uni- .ve'rse and God himself. Under (he former head we" may consider sci"*u- tific truths���������truths which men have discovered and proved by profound study and research. They are the revelations of things which God meant its to know. JN\*iv facts are being discovered every day in the world pl science, and in regard to .these things Took a Long Time. When George Ade went from Ilie literary field of Lafayette. Indiana, says The Reader, lo trend thc primrose path of dalliance wilh all s.i-is of things on the staff of Tho Chicago Record, he met a native lady writer of that town of l'icrian Springs and Olympian heights. Sh..*. wasn't ks young ns-slic used to he, hut she wa* quite as pretty as she had ever heen, and her devotion to .Mr. Ade as a present help in every lime of trouble-- her troubles���������was pathetic. lie wis a good thing at first, voluntarily, he- cause he wanted to help struggling genius, but the lady was so persistent that she became a nuisance, and .Mr. Ade, in his cft'orts lo break away, at times became actually rude. One day he went cheerfully to liis desk, for he had not seen her in a long long time, and the hope that she had gone to a better world above made him resigned, if not really and truly happy. But it was not to be. He found her waiting for liim. She greeted him effusively, and he didn't reciprocate, but he had to be polite, and ask her where she had been all this time. "Why, don't you know?" she said. "I had a fever for three weeks, and it has taken mc six weeks to get on my feet." "Sire weeks!" exclaimed Mr. Ade in surprise. "Yes, indeed; six whole weeks." "Well," he responded, as if thoroughly convinced. "I have always heard that Chicago women had large feet. but I didn't suppose they were quite so large as that." Theodore YVatts-Dunton, In an article In Tho London Star dealing with the "Proscribed Races." says :���������Some few mon seem to be drawn instinctively toward tlio proscribed races of the world. I confess lo bolng one of tlrem myself. This ls why I havo always folt tho strongest admiration for tho greatest of all the proscribed races���������tho Jews���������and number arnoiu-** lhem Roime of my most inllrnate irlerui*-. 1 hnvo lately been writing on Hint wonderful Jew, Shylock, In relation to his race, a raco to which I i should bo very proud to bclon****, for an ; Anioil.au edition nf Shakespeare. With ivg-urd to the itypslos, wlrnt I say is Hint It any race wore placed In tho position ol* n proscribed raee, the masler instinct of seir-presi'i'vatloii worUlnwr through iten- ei-iitlons would show Itself In qualities liko those which nro commonly associated with tlio irypslos���������especially what ls supposed to he Itiirn.-iny duplicity. It Is obsi-rv.-iblo In tlio ('ii***ots ; wo see it In Iho pi-oserlhcd races ol' Asia. 1 am at this very moment wrllln**- upon Hie subject In ri cyclopaedia, and hnve mentioned tho fact Hint a ttypsy womnn onco said to mo and n. Romany Rye* friend of mine, "There's somelliln' In the wind off C.iir- 1/,'s Hint shuts the Romany's mouth and opens bis eyes and oars." From tlris state of rhlii'vs, whnt can como bur. jrypsy duplicity Y I have, In tbo cyclopaedia article just mentioned, alluded to llio way In which nature seems to lrave divided, not only mankind, but tiro entire animal world, Into threo families���������those whom she lias fitted to oppress, thoso whom sho lias fitted to resist oppression, and those whom she has lilted to lly nway from It. Whore the oppressed race has to save itself by craft, natural selection gives rise, and must glvo rise, to tlioso crafty characteristics which are their only means of defence. For the Farmer. it is our duty to receive them when we ��������� 'ire convinced of tlieir truth. Eut belief is one thing, and rejoicing in what we believe is altogether another. A: scientist, a bacteriologist, a .student1 of disease germs, is studying some painful and contagious disease. He thinks to himself, "Now, this disease must b*. propagated by some kind -of germ.. Let nre try to discover the presence of such." With great pains -���������-*.<; analyses ci-.���������ry'tliing which may be the lurking place ui such germs as he :supposes exist. At last he is rewarded by finding the cause of the trouble, nnd perhaps also discovers some way i-\ extermir.-.ting the bacteria. He has "'.Tiscovered .!;-��������� truth. He has convinced c'.hers of hi.* profession that his conclusions are true, and he is very happy. Others who have been laboring io heal people oi this disease, without success, read ���������*;' his experiments, re- _-ET;ze how gre.t is the discovery, and - rejoice with him. Science tli...'.; only with the world End man's pT-ysical liter-' There is a .-. still greater fr-uj of truth which it cannot touch���������il.t great facts about God and heaver, arid man's spiritual being . and prospects. These we may call divine truths. We shall see that they 2re of the g.-catcst interest, not to a few people ���������>''!>���������, but to every child of man. Ve=. they should interest him ar.-i rr.ike b::n rejoice. It is tot v;*.**.L;h that I believe in the rryp.-i���������a*.-.*i-it: j.:" -:!(a-i*irtg-Ot'-flClr-I i-.riVz life-. It is r...t enough to say, I know, I heTJeve. Lu:. O B-y St-ui. : glad, for the O man, -aTiji fore, in li.c M'hich 1 cr:-).. make me slats bad man. .We^-iy th.-' New 'I c*.ta::!c God. We -y. truth, but do. had been we fully belie but what is t Ai well read Etract treatise rather, "Praise the Lord, e,'o:ce and be excee.'iug L.rd hath showed thee, is true. Rejoice, there- truth." I; the.*"*.* thingi .*. ..le in my belief do not , then I must indeed be ���������ve believe thc Old and .its to be the Word of know this fountain oi s it make U3 glad? Du we take up tl.e Bible, rea.. it carelessly, and put it down again with a 6;gh ui ,-ciiv.i, *(*> if a disagreeable duty .������������������plishcd? We siy that .������ what we have read, i.s value of such belief? ���������.-���������me profound and abort mathematics, which we know to l.c true, but which interests us not at :.!!. Far better it would fee, it seems tc me, to read even sceptically, expcctiirg to disbeleive, than to read careic-jsly. Better an honest doubter than une who can read the glorious pages of God's work and not rejoice. Then we say that we believe all the articles of the Christian faith as contained in the creeds of thc Church. JBut if our T.ciief doe3 riot make us happy, our b.-iief is in vain. I believe ���������in the Fatherhood of God, and if 1 "believe as a Christian should, I shall be indeed hapay in God's family. God tries to make His children happy. They .know their LTessings, but they refuse to repay Hir.i with one grateful prayer, with one sniiic ol trusting love. "We believe that God sent His Son Into the worTd to redeem mankind, hut does the thought of the Incarnation ���������at Christmas have as much to do with ������ar happiness as the family reunion. ���������Hie good dinner or the many gifts? The angel who came from the throne ���������of God, from the delight*: of hcaven- Sistine Chapel in Danger. Thc news that the roof of the Sis- tine Chapel is in darrger suggests the possibility of a-disaster compared with which the fall of the Campanile was trivial, says The Speaker. Here the Titan of the Renaissance spent thirteen years of his life, wrestling in its cooped spaces with the mechanical difficulties that impeded the execution of his gigantic imaginings. It is the monument of Michael Angelo's genius, and of the whole lavish spirit of his age. Here Pope Julius squandered the sin-offerings ."of Venetian conquerors and Florentine tyrants, and with the great brush that hc had the wisdom to hire painted his way to the gratitude of the human race, while the obscure monk in Germany undermined his careless rcigu. It is the centre of a faith which had at last grown'* weak enough, in thc splendid glow of tasteful indulgence, to make a real mythology. Here in the dome are present the very authentic records of the world, as though in Rome had been deposited the archives of the universe. The prophets and the sibyls in tlte dome seem thc buttresses of an authority that is here indisputable. The Creation and the Judgment expose the origins and explain the destinies of the regime that is -centred in the Vatican. It was all a great world-empire which knew its begin- The first donation to the proposed art gallery will require a lot of inspection if the British Museum authorities' information is' correct. ��������� London Chronicle, The Servian Assassinations. "Tbo English local paper The Levant Herald of Constantinople has been allowed by the censor to publish details of and free comments on the Servian assassinations, while the other organs are still condemned to silence," says The London Standard's Constantinople correspondent. "Tlris is the Hist time for mujjy years that such a subject has beerr permitted to be mentioned locally. The reason is, 1 am credibly Informed, tire Sultan's great satisfaction with the strongly condemnatory position taken up by England, and at tbe same time his resentment at the series of false telegrams emanating from a supposed Russian source, concerning an imaginary military riot at Vlldiz, which wero taken as a text for predicting a similar fate for Iris Majesty to tliat which befell King *' exander." Thousandi of tons of grass (and even weeds) go to waste annually along the roadside which might be easily nt ilized. A farmer lately made a few movable hurdles, in which he placed sheep, and pastured them along the road, the farm fence forming one side of the hurdle. The hurdles were moved forward daily, ami the result was that the roadside was cleaned oif wherever the sheep were hurdled, while quite an amount of mutton was secured at a trilling cost. It is worth practising by others. Apples vs. Strawberries in England. The folly of keeping Canadian apples until late in the spring with the hope of selling them for export at an increased profit is shown by a recent rep rt to the Fruit Division, Ottawa, by Mr. A. \V. Gritrdlcy, one of the agents of the Department of Agriculture in Great Jiritain. -Mr. Grind- \ ley says :���������"I'rof. Waugh or' the .Massachusetts Agricultural Kxperinrent Station and myself were looking at some States apples in barrels, arrived aolh of June in cold storage. They were soft when discharged, and did not bring much, as they will go off very quickly, besides, who wants poor apples when the market is swamped with English strawberries at their best r" Some Irish Wit Al- Stole a Steamship. This is from The London Chronicler- It is the fashion when a famous Judge or detective retires to give a list of his more remarkable cases. Sir Hartley Williams, tho retiring senior Judge of Victoria, hus been subject to such a retrospect. One of tbe tirst cases Ire had to try was a very rare offence indeed- stealing- a steamship. A couple of audacious scoundrels named Henderson and AVallace stole a steamer from the Clyde, disguised her very skilfully, and went on a pleasure cruise around the world. At Melbourne, where thoy posed as scions of English nobility, and received much social attention, the fraud was detected. They were arrested, convicted, and sentenced to long terms of Imprisonment. Stealing a ship Is like stealing an elephant, a very unprovable form or crime. The risks are enormous, and it i.s so difficult to get rid of the stolen property or convert it Into cash. Aerial Navigation. Readers of that class of prophet,** fiction which deals with the doings of aerial fleets and their probable inlluonce on the warfare of the future will find something to interest them at the Alexandra Pal- aco during to-day and for some time to come, says The London Chronicle of July IS. Here, in a huge shed** by tlie side of the lake, Dr. Barton, working for the "War Office and Mr. Brodrlck, and assisted by Mr. Watel (who made the airship in which the Count von Jiepperlin made his famous voyage over the Lake of Constance), is busily engaged In constructing what will bo the biggest vessel yet built Intended to float through space In any direction which the captain may desire. At present only the hull of tho ship Morgan Got at Them. Mr. Pierpont Morgan's offer to present his entire art collection, valued at j The Value of Barnyard Manure. The subject of manures is perhaps the most touchy one in the whole category of the good old-fashioned farmer's principles and practices. Here he feels master of the argument. He is standing up for an old friend, a faithful servr.iit of the family���������something that has done good work in his day, and in the days of his father and grandfather. It is the hardest worker on the farm; its work is not done, says he, in one year; you can see it the next year, and the next. The farmer does not attempt to explain this apparently permanent benefit, nor to understand it in so far as it is so. Nor does he discriminate much between manures and manures, good, bad or poor; nor does he calculate the money value of this manure, unless he have need to buy it, and then he often calculates long and earnestly, and fails to buy. Nor docs he oiten think it worth while to give attention to this faithful servant until he;is ready to plow it into the ground. It may lie in his barnyard and leach away, or burn; a passing brook may flood it and wash tlie life out of it; still, it is his old faithful and true standby. If it fails to stand by him, something else receives the blame. The season or the soil is at fault, but barnyard manure is infallible. Now, if thc good old-fashioned farmer knew the full and true value of this friend���������barnyard manure���������ha would guard it as tne apple of his eye, and use it as carefully as gold dust. He would build a wall around it and a roof over it, would preserve it from flood and fire, and in the end old barnyard manure would do itself more than old-time credit in the work for which it was created. Now, let us consider a few things in regard to these barnyard manures. First, there is quite a range in their chemical (food) composition and value. Manures of highly-fed animals are different in value from those of low-fed animals���������those of fattening from those oi milking animals. Manures composted with leaves, cornstalks, tobacco stems, etc., have the added value of the composting material, while those the sun and rain keep first Mr. McDonnell Bodkin, K.C, tells somo flne stories of the Irish judiciary In his recent book on the "Dlvarslons" of tho Irish law court. Of nn omlnent Judge he says :���������Ho was an Irishman nnd a Comiuught man to Ills (liiger-llps���������with n western brogue which, lo use his own expression, you could "hung your leu on." There Is a story current that on one occasion he was present at a wedding with tho Irish Sydney Smith, the famous Father Healy of Uray, to whom ho complained ho had "no slipper to throw after the bride." "Throw your bn>*.:u.*. my Lord," retorted Father Healy, promptly. Fortunately for tho fun or Hie world, the advlee was not taken. Tho broad brogue was part ot tin* man's self. It wns relished as keenly at llio most aristocratic dinner table'- Iu London ns In tho Clnddngh, In Ci-ilivny. Our Jn.lce, though a strong Irishman, wns n strong Unionist. It ls told Hint lie sat at u brilliant dtmrnr beside Lord Aberdeen when he lirst came as homo rule* Viceroy to Ireland, "1 assume, my Lord." snid tho unso- phlsllcatcd Viceroy, glancing round at tlio brilliant gathering, "1 assume wo nro all home ruleis here." "Fnllli, your Kxcelleney," was the blunt nnd unexpected retort, "there isn't a home ruler ln the room except yourself��������� and ihe wallers'" I havo oflon heard hlrn r-miiiitly Justify Ills political creed. "Here wo are." ho said, "ii iiulck-witted. poor nation, in partnership with a dull-witted, rich nation, with our full share of the till, and yet nothing will please ns but to go oft and sot up a miserable littlo shebeen of our own." That tho'humor of tho Bench and Bar ls still alive, let one or two stories of living personages prove. An eminent living leader of tho Bar. as eloquent and powerful an advocate as ever addressed a jury, has a perplexing habit of confusing the Christian names of the parties to n case. Ho got mixed irp badly ln his speech for the plain tin* In a recent case of "Brown v. Robinson." The Judge bore it for some time with exemplary patience. At last he interru: ted :��������� "Mr. Attorney," he said, "will you pardon me for one moment? So long ns you persistently ana consistently called tho plaintiff Brown by the nnmo of the defendant Robinson, nnd defendant Robinson by the name of the plaintiff Brown, the court could contrive to follow your speech; but when you Introduce a third party���������by the name of Jones���������without explaining whether you Intend him to represent Ihe plaintiff Brown or the detend- Ant Robinson, some difiiculty arises." Just an illustration or two of modern Irish Judicial politeness, and I have done. Two criminals were recently convicted of an atrocious offfc,._o. Tho Judge proceeded to pass sentence. "Tho prisoner Moriarity," he said, "is the more guilty of the two. "'Which of these two men Is Morlarity?" "I'm Moriarity," me Lord, cried an Insinuating voice from tbo dock. "Thank you, Moriarity." replied the courteous Judge, "twenty years' penal servitude, Moriarity." Anothei* old offender was moro fortunate in a recent case. Tho jury acriuilted him In the teeth of Ihe plainest evidence. They sat abashed when the Judge hnd rend aloud a yard long list of previous convictions for similar' offences. "13ut," iris Lordship concluded, gravely, "the jury have In tl.eir wisdom acquitted you of the crime for whicli you were here tried. In the eye of the law you are wholly Innocent of that crime, and you accordingly leave the dock without any���������additional- stain on your character."���������From TM. A. V. (A CAPE COD STORY., Aqlg--.ll Wast With the TldoS-lwt Ones to v . Her Surr-cw.: ~*' Not all the residouts of Capo C:d are eccentric, as those who are not .familiar with the region might infer liom the many storios -which are told of queer characters thero. But lt 13 jio doubt a fact that many Capo Uoit "people have strongly accentuated ilid- ���������oo-artlouu in one way or another. In Cotuit, many years ago, a meat ���������legend runs. Captain Unru-ibas % and his wife, Abigail, who wore bot'.t queer attar their way, lived at pi-.*.*.���������'������ fur a good nuiriy years, irr spite uf tiro fact that Abigail was htiid to he the "'contrarlesl woman orr (Jap*! Cnti." "Whatever was eald or proposed su? ���������jvas almost sure to go against it. But Captain Barnabas was as pn- tlcnt as his wife was contrary, and by dint of always allowing for his wife's disposition, and usually proposing llio exact opposite of what bo wished her lo do, he got along vr-ry comfortably! {or urarry years. But at last on one evil dny, when Mrs. Abigail p was down at tho harbor visiting a relative on boar*', a schooner theu in port, -she fell over- hoard and sank in tho water. Captain Barnabas was ncr.r by and was called in haste. He reached tho spot and Immediately want out In a boat to search for his wifo. "Lock here!" souoe one called out, frantically, seeing him push off. "You're going thc wrong way of tho tide. You're looking up tho tide, not down the tide." i..*.. .* I The captain kept on. "JMebbe," said ���������he, calmly, "you ���������warn't acquainted with Abigail. if 'twae anybody else they'd gone with the tide but bein' as it's Abigail, I reckon if she hain't gone ag'iust tho tide it warn't her that fell in." This time Barnabas'3 philosophy ���������was wrong. His wife's body was found next! day down the harbor. For- once she had gone with the tide.���������Ex. WHEN YOU'RE RUN DOWN Just build up your system with the crcAt South American Nervine,* the hoalth builder, blood maker and norva food, tluiUu quiet- out and most thorough in it������ action. Will put every or enn In the body la good worklhgr order speedily and permanently, through truing th'om a. new nervous ���������noitv, and all** the ���������yatorn with health, vigoi* and rich, red blood. new ship with its narrow' net-guarded, deck can be seen. The length of this will j housed fiom ��������� be ISO fe.et, with a height of :5 feet, and a ' ...i,,.���������,..*.,. vai��������������� **hev first noisessed I width of SO feet. It Is composed of an ar- : Ji"?tel'er Ya'ue tne*\ n, PO"*-**---'* rangement of thick bamboo poles select- ! This housing cannot always be done ed specially for the purpose, and lashed j by the average farmer, in which case together by experienced men with ropes I i. j,,- ,,..n tliinirs tn he careful to and wire after Dr. Barton's own design. ; liC "fs Uv.������ tilings to De. careiui to This framework will hang below the bal- . guard against���������healing and washing, loon, and will carry in addirion to the Heating may be avoided cither by S6,000,000, to the proposed national art j crew of Ave men. three fifty horsepower.' corearjjnrr the manure or bv adding* to JJ-.ii���������.. :_ vi-..i.:.._-:_ :n ���������>- ��������� I -Octroi -motors, which are to work sers of , rf *������. _ ,_ t , ��������� ..��������� .,- ������������������,.���������������������������;., gallery in Washington* will create a smile among British Museum officials, who entertain very settled convictions fans ori each side these having sere Ions working at 1.C-00 revolution** a mi ,, . ���������;..*, ���������: I-;,- . ute- Tl1- aeroplanes on each s!d������ ear. 'no as to the genuineness ot much ot ms * deflected at the win of the "ser-inaut. and the steering will be done bv a i-u^tler some 12 feet long. The balloon will b-cvo a capacity of Vfitfti feet, and i= <*.-tl*-uT*-it- ed to life sev^n ron=*. The co���������r.Tetio-n of the new airship will rake some time, but It is expected that an experimental ascent will be made some time in August- collection. Some weeks ago, when the ���������Satitapharnes tiara scandal was raging, i one of the heads of the Museum said, in . an interview, that there were not -.naiij I costly art forgeries in the market, as' Mr. Pierpont Morgan had absorbed all j that had been offered of late ! When ; their patron Was possessed of number-j less millions oi dollars art agents in'. Paris, where JMr. Morgan had scatter- i .e^Jiis_j:o_snni_issipns,.. grew__reckless ';1 i bu s-hip. each of it something to take up the ammonia blades ?onie 12 feet ��������� as it is formed by decomposition. Land plaster rr lime sulphate will do this, and both add lime to the manure and * form the valuable fertilizing compound of ammonium sulphate���������an ingredient of all high-grade commercial i fertilizers. So the addition of leaves j straw, tobacco stems, etc., add to the I manures the mineral elements of those jc-materials. The value of barnyard nra- ! nurse is twofold. First, it adds ccr- or" tain chemical plant foods to the soil, living: Hoping to unToatroii 7^n������-T.J:7irrT~wa-rmc"-m-cervar,Te rn our c-mrg- .:,. ������ . " a , . ., ��������� m ; erty-loving race. L.-'lcr c*-im TUhonarrcs who knew everytni.13 ��������� t|0n3 a! the few canes which m about finance, but nothing about art. nings and ioresaw its doom; Mi*-i*acl Angelo painted its annals when K*sme was still the awful centre oi the earth and the earth the'proof of Creat: .n- There is in the superb pride of his superhuman figures thc conscious authority, the imperial instinct or a painter who worked for God's vic;:- regent. It seems intolerable that these tremendous monuments of the great days before Galileo should ever turn 10 crumbling plaster and pitiable fragments. A Courtship Under Difficulties. This is The New York Sun's picture of how a devoted couple conducted a courtship in a Jersey mosquito-infested resort. There are, of course, no summer resorts in Canada where love's , . r ,, young dream would be dreamt under ly worihip, to bring the news to fallen such depres������inK circumstances. ���������"- thought well that his ntws _ Collier's Weekly on Lynchings. *When our soldiers were accused of I ture In the j-hiUppirK.s many of us took, just as "the" commercial fertilizer doesj J r.idc-d crueltyT_j_butlusually_in_.a-nitich_sniall*5r_.degree, in proportion to cost. Twenty loads" oi barnyard manure at a value of $30 would furnish somewhat less food, but produce about tire same yield of corn as 650 pounds of plant iood, costing $12, in a high-grade commercial fertilizer; the same with clover hay. B- rnyard manure has, however, an additional value���������one which at times becomes quite as important as its food value. To a sandy soil it gives body, moisture-holding power, and a slow and steadily available food supply���������orre that will not wash out easily. To a clay soil, particularly if it has had land piaster added, it gives circulation of air and moisture���������two essentials to plant growth. For these last reasons it is a valuable helpmeet for the commercial fertilizer in all but very r! ;h, loamy soils and 'those rich in decaying vegetable matter. It- benefit extends over into years succccing its application,for these two rcasor.;���������first, its improvement of lhe texture of the soil is more or less permanent; second, it decays slowly, aird slowly yields up its food con.stittrenls. The whole $30 worth is not available, and is therefore not. used the first year, although it was (lecessary to place this much within the reach of the plant, j A word ��������� to a disadvantage of I barnyard m.. -tire. All decaying vegetable and a' nal matter is favorable to insect life; hence crops upon which barnyard nvmurc is used are more liable to insect pests than those nourished with commercial fertilizers. This may be in part avoided by spreading the manure late in the fall, and leaving it exposed to the winter frosts. Barnyard manure is especially valuable for crops which have a long period of growth, like corn and potatoes and clover hay, though it must not be forgotten that there are also slow- acting commercial fertili. ers which serve the purpose as well.���������W. W. Fowler, In The Country Gentleman. the Blmple* ground that d titW^llT'M me expiana- H(->.*med undoubted. Tronic heat made men cruzy. The foe's barbarity ]nf.*r-i.-d our ***0l(.Ii**-*r3. Wo accepted these tbln/.v. .'ind clung 10 our belief ln human nature ami-American decency. What Is going 0:1 throughout our country now is a bard*:.*r rest of fiilUi. Please Heaven, we shall continue to believe, but it will be a tusk. We hnve no palliation to make It easier. Chlvalrlo feeling for woman Is no long**r the excuse. Sectional Aspects tire disripp-'-'cring. Even r.ice hatred, which Is u genuine explanation of the milder ftur/.iiin cruelty, promises soon to be lost here in the ono tru* cause���������the love of bpsri.i! excitement. Burning a man Is so much more thrilling thnn boyish sport like sionlng a dog or r.i.lltn**; legs nn-1 ���������.v!********-* -*r*-*.*Yi nn lrt*.-*."t that if the supply of blacks nrrr.i out wo f.*ar lt will be necessary to use the whites. One of the most, bed 11 Ii fui tragedies in all literature !s rendered in pirts shocking and unreadable .Tec-mse of the gouging of an old man's eyes. When lhe civilized allies made war on China we shuddered and turned nway from tho newspaper, seeing what Russian..German and French .soldiers did lo Chinese men and women: and we rejoiced that the British and American troops were guiltless. There Is another story, now, about Trench soldiers escaping from a wreck by beating the passengers from the hoars -beating women and little children. How long before .--.nob a story will corne to bring to lis also the hot flush of shame? What aro nil these crimes compnr?.i to burning a human being at" the stake, in order to have a thrilling party, to see him writhe and hear bim scream? If wo indulge In such plc-isiires, shall de not tread the downward oath which we seo In the history of Spain ? Indeed, it may bo doubted If Spain had any cruelty rpilto so iinoxciised nnd gross. Interference by our Federal Government would be stupid tampering with Justice. Tho responsibility Is with e.-ich community. If tho wild beast in man is to be chained and kent from turning our progress back to sickening inhumanity, the saving work must bo dono by local courage and nobility.��������� Collier's Weekly. "Hortens-e," murmured the fond youth, "would you give me a penny for my thoughts?" "Wilmot,"' site replied with an arch look, "I fear smell a proceeding would be contrary to thc law. You know it is held illdsral to control the entire output of any 111- "���������Judge. A Kigh-specd Railway. There is about to be constructed between TManchcstei' and Liverpool, says The London Spliure. an electric express mono-rail track which will be the pioneer high-speed railway.in the world. When tlie bill was brought before Parliament cautious persons prophesied rail- ure, but after the committee had heard evidence of prominent engineers, who expressed their opinion that travel at 110 times an hour was quite possible arid safe on tho mono-rails. Parliament authorized the construction ot the line, which will probably be tbo forerunner of a host of subsequent mono-rails on which wo shall travel nt high speed in perfect comfort and with rro reasonable chance of accident. Tho engineers are Mr. Jr. B. Behr and Mr. R. Elliott-Cooper, who propose to run single cars on the single-rail track at a speed of 110 miles an hour, the cars running everv ten minutes. The length of thc line will be about thirty-four and one-half miles, and the cars will take twenty minutes instead of the forty to forty-live minutes taken by the present fastest express trains*run by three railway companies. The patentees of this high-speed mono-rail is. Mr. F. B. Behr, who has devoted himself to this form of travel for many years past. Some little while ago, in connection with the Brussels' exposition, Mr. Behr built an experimental mono-rail on which very high speeds wore attained. The commissioners appointed to report on the lino by various Governments expressed their opinion that speeds of 100 miles an hour and ovor would be quite feasible on such a track, rhat cars could run round sharp curves with no possibility of derailment, and that the passengers would feel no ill-effects from such rapid travel. The earlier mono-rails built by Mr. Behr were steam lines, and many of those exist in various parts of the world and give every satisfaction. Mr. Behr's Idea in building the Manchester and Liverpool mono-rail is to convince the railway companies of the advisability of laying down special mono-rail tracks solely for the express passenger traffic*, thus leaving the present ground tracks for slow passenger and goods traffic. Bn- pincers are agreed that average speeds of over seventy miles an hour aro Impossible on the cUrves found Jon existing -railways.**1���������The^construcfroh^of rar"i*perei(ir- mono-rall track would enable very high speeds to be re died with perfect safely, and would do ii*������-ny with 1 hat ���������'mixture of speeds" whh renders the problem ot dealing with express, slow and goods trafilc ono of -������������������cr-increaslng difiiculty io tho railway ���������ompanlcs. The mono-rail tracks would be laid alongside tho existing two-rail ground tracks, or Iho cars could be run overhead if so desired. The mono-rail electric cars, which .-���������:*b expected to move nt the rale of KXI miles an hour, will l.o slung very low down ..11 tho trestle rnll, the iiropul"!. 11 belli;: . b- talncd on the top rail by imrlght wheels. Side rails will bo employ.*.! to sle.-wiy ilia car and render derail.nent linjius.jbio. The line of route from Manchester to Liverpool will run throii-'.l* part nt Kc- ci.-s, W'irrringtorr and i;: i:A: .1, I ut It Is not intended to have stali..!.*** at these points. There will be two lines of rail��������� an up nnd 11 down line���������on which express cars will run. Tlio Solemn Man him! I llu l'ac:i|CB(IJtloliO. The man with the paper laughed up. -foarlously. ���������; "What's the matter?" tusked the soL emu man. "Why, here's a story of a horse that (jot into a hammock." "I don't see .'.anything funny iu that," remarked the: solemn man. "Nothing luuiiy in it!" : exclaimaa the man with the paper. "Why, just think of it! . A man who has bean eujoying a quiet snooze l'ovaes his hammock to go into dinner, and when ho comes out hc finds a horee ha3 usurped his place." Ho tried to get tha horse out, but can't tlo it. Horse is all tangl'ed in the netting, you know, and they frnallyhtive lo eut tho ham- inock down to get the horse out." The solemn man continued to 6moK^ tolennly. "What's so tarnation funny about It?" he aeked at length. "It might bn worth talking about if tho horse had usurped the hammock's place, and it had been necessary to cut' the man down, or If the hammock had usurped the man's place and It had been nec"������ "es&ary to cut the horse down, but at* I understand it the' horse merely usurped the man's'place and it was necessary to cut the haemmock down, which was the reasonable and proper thing to do." The man with tho paper looked at the solemn man and gradually edged. away. ,"I -suppose his keeper is in the vicinity," he muttered to himself, "hut I don't like to take any chances."-^ Kansas City Journal. J. "\V. TOInwoortie, of C-ainpbolfford, Ont.. stated : "For years 1 w������b iron' -.ul with nervous!.>*i-.3 ond impnlrud liver nnd kidneys. I wns trented by several doctors; tried 1 cry niodiolno. Last rail I procured a butUo of S.OUTH AMERICAN NERVINE. I took but n very tow dosed and the norvnns depression left my entire nys- tom. I will nover be without it." DR. VON STAN'S PINEAPPLE^ TABLETS n ii <.*���������! ll ij allow tlio RuiTercr from indigestion to eat heartily and heavily of any- tbiae he likes while curing- him, for tho Plnefipplo actually dlgeiU the fo.od, lotting tho stomaoh real actually dlgeiU ,.... __. Jio stomaoh real and got sound whilnt you eajioy .lUe.-Prioe, SS oanta. 8 Will J. Lnmnten the poet, is tellingf a sweetly poetic -.ory these days, and he insists that it is perfectly true. Once upon a day he was making a driving: tour through the country near Harper's Ferry, and stopped at a little wayside inn for refreshment. A sign- in the window announced that oysters, in all styles w;*i*a to be had, and Mr.. Lampton ordered a fry. "Don't_ you want a stew?" asked the man in charge. "No," said Mr. Lambtoh, "I want a fry." "Raw wouldn't do, would it?" quer-. ied the man. who seemed to entertain a prejudice against unnecessary exertion. "No," repeated the poet, "I want a fry.' '������������������ The man walked over to the* stove and, sought the; frying pan. It was lying on the floor. "Here!" said the man, "get out oi that pan, Jim; the gentleman wants a. fry" ���������������������������.".��������� Jimi was a harmless, necessairy cat ���������Washington Post. fa Tristan d'Acunha. ������ A Blue Book has just been Issued, containing ���������'l-'urlhei- correspondence relating to the Island of Tristan d'Acunha." Tho present publication compleies the series formerly brought .ir.wri 10 '���������"obrunry. IMI7. It contains a number of notes nrrd reports on the Island, compiled by Iho captains of passing vessels, tlie latest Of which, by Llculen.int. Wiitts-.tones, comma riding M,.\I.S. Tliruriii, bears (Into Jnnunry. lWfl. The f-uestlorr of removing I ho cornriitinlly from Tristan d'Acunha to L'npo Colony, and of abandoning tlie island, bos been iiniler tlie consideration of thc Colonial Ofllce for some liinc. From soma points of view the existence ot a population in tills lone spot has Ils advantages, as wrecks are not Infrequent, and the Islanders invariably render every aid In their power to shipwrecked sailors. But. on the other ha nil, the responsibility of KiifcBiiardlng rhe future of the peoplo Is considerable, and lt may not always be possible Irr future to tell off a man-of-war for the purpose of visiting tho Island annually. Tbe subject of removal was broached to the people themselves, and the great majority expressed their willingness to go. only one mnn and two elderly women demurring. Tbe Islanders stipulated, however, that they should receive compensation for their cattle and sheep���������a matter of a few hundreds of pounds altogether. The island. Indeed, seems to be quite an Arcadia, and as there ls no cable and no postoffice lt might easily be regarded as an idsal holiday resort. tVhy tlio Olllon Cnt la L'ndcir thn Hafc. "No, that young man isn't working ���������here any more!" snapped Dodson. "What did I discharge him for? For inattention to business. Do o*ou suppose that I want any one around lir-ro wasting his time writing letters to 'Darling Tootsle' and 'Precious Car* Jlng?' "When my wife went away for her ���������t/acalion I promised her faithfully to write every day under penalty of buy- ��������� ing her a now gown if 1 skipped a day. j Well, I did for three days,' and then 1 ; commenced dictating tlrem to my private secretary, who wrote them for vlth him and told him to keep it up. "After a few days I had so much confidence in his-letter-writing abilities that I got lu the habit of signing lhem and sending them to Mrs. Dod- ������011 without taklug the trouble ta retvi* tbem. There was where I made a mis. take, but it wouldn't have hnppmicd if that young fool had been atit*.*.l;ng to hit. business. The Infernal idiot has a "Darling Tootsle' to whom ho writes every day, and he made a mis-- take and handed me the wrong letter, which I promptly signed and sant to my wife. "That explains why she 3tuld*?:i!y cut her vacation short arid returned to town. It also explains wiry that young man no longer works here, and' why the office cat lias been under th3 Bate for three clays and still ToriiaO* to come out."���������Detroit Free Press. You Pay��������� You Ciioose. There is no case of Rheumatism that the Great South American Rheumatic' Cure will -uot conquer in a few days ���������acute* or chronic, muscular or nervous. It gives almost instant relief and at once begins to drive out the disease, root and branch, curing* in one to three days. - , - : George England, a. ship builder of Chatham, writes: " I wns laid up for six months with rheumatism. I procui ed u bottle of SOUTH AMERICAN RHEUMATIC CURE. In twonty.four hours I was well and havo not been troubled with rhen- tnatism since." ; *-_. _ South American Kidney Cure speedily and thoroughly relieves and - cures the wo-rat*. Kidney and Bladder diseases. Relief in a few hours. 7. 1*he Xja-agnage of Katnve* ' St young:^ lady at ^a Boston dlnn������ 1tabl������"up6h_remarklng~tHa'tT"We^ bad * very torrid month" recelred th*; response from a perspiring young manon -Bhe other side of the table, "Tes, and a durned.hotone, too." Human nature is much tempted to-speak, ta (the point of high temperatures,���������Bo* ton Globe. ,". />. Wily Aim Willi One.Kyi*. Joskins���������I say, old boy, this is my first day at shootin*. You might, 'tell me in confidence what people shut o.ro eye for when they're eightin' anything? Ho-skins���������Oh! that's perfectly simple, my dear fellow. You see, if tney were to shut both eyes they wouldu'l be able to see anything. StrlkhiECIilldrcM. ���������Ton are one of those humanitarians who believe in brlngingup chils* dren ���������without corporal punishment aren't you?" "Yes; as true as I'm standing hern. I've never struck one of my cilldrsu except ln self-defente." UTTERLlf FAtt To cur* Itchtnjr and disfiguring skin diseases*- But DR. AGNEW'S OINTMENT ��������� CURES no matter what other or fe&w -many other applications have failed. Madam used it and got welt, and' she keeps it for her friends and-her children, having* learned it is a neverfail in the treatment of pil-es- Mid in tetter, salt rheum, ringworin, eczema, barber's itch, aad all akin eruptions. Prion, 35c. The Sisters at St. Joseph's Jn- fcmt Home, South Troy, N;Y-, statej-i "Many children come to-our home covered with eczema. \Ve would like to buy your ointment by the pound." Or. Agnaw's Liver PUfo ue the most effective pi|i���������������white milder in action, more quickly Mt- tiog free tho digestive canaL 40 iosma, IQC _ _ . _ ��������� 1 A ,*)d \%. M ri ROLFF HOUSE By G. Ii. BENEDICT. A Thrilling Story of Love and Adventure. w ���������Matters went on in this way for two or three weeks. Rolff House was en- Joying a reputation It had never before Kully borne as an abode of mlschovouu spirits, whon tho gossip and interest ���������n the matter were suddenly}- greatly Increased by tho flight of old Margaret trom the house to the abode of a niece, a. married woman of middle age, living In Uie village, where she arrived smlt- tten with moral terror, and at once took jto-bed with serious illness in couse- jquence of the nervous excitement sho bad undergone. From her confused statements. It Ft/as gathered that Rhe had at flrst imt j*ao faith ln the reality of the ghostly IBia-tifestatlons, attributing them solely to the wicked pranks of Leb. Sackett; but, as day after day passed by. und. each night brought new and more mysterious occurrences, her courage had gradually given way, till-at last an ���������vent had occurred that had completely terrified her and caused hereto flee tlie bouse. What this terrifying occurrence (was she oould not be induced: to, state, (but lt had evidently left a most serious Impression upon her mind and partially Shattered her well-worn faculties, i It was noticed, too, by.those'most in- terested, that t.eb. Sackett no longer ������������������ore his usual jaunty air, but seemed Unusually grave and pre-occupied in lall his actions. Yet he did not leave Ithe house. He asserted that there were not ghosts enough in Christendom to ���������care him, and that he-would stay in the old house a3 long as he was wanted there. One evening, however, he did not put In an appearance at Ronk's tavern. (Another evening passed, and he wns etill absent. Still a third and a fourth found him missing from his accustomed place, and public excitement began to j be aroused in regard to his safety. It "' ������vas believed that he had come to some harm at the hands of the evil spirits that bewitched the old house. None . (were so bold as to go and investigate the matter, however. And so the mysterious disappearance of Leb. Sackett added to the excitement in regard to tha ghostly doings at KolfiT House. K_ '���������" * CHAPTER XVI. Ralph Saybrook was not a young ���������nan to. take * leave of his characteristic ���������shrewdness even in such a* delicate matter as love-making. Having resolved to win Rosa Bruyn,, he knew the bests ���������plan to lead to ultimate success was to' ���������boldly and persistently lay seige to her "heart.. He : was well aware , that' he ���������would-be rebuffed at first, and that* it ���������would require great address and persistency for him to achieve ultimate; -Sot in time become more agreeable to you." "It ls needless, hr>Hev<* me, Mr. Saybrook," she replied. ���������'Ho not wrong yourself with such a hope." "Ah, but, Rosa, I cannot help lt. Tho thought of love may be new to you; but, my dear girl, you are now of an age to. excite admiration and attract suitors, and why should I not seek tb be among the number of your faithful .worshippers? I could not expect to be ���������without rivals, but, knowing my own heart, I oan well indulge, the hope of being able to surpass all in faithfulness and devotion." Tears sprang to the eyes of the young girl. The situation was becoming very embarrassing for her, and she determined to cut lt short by a candid explanation. "Let me be frank with you, Mr. Saybrook," she said. "My faith is already pledged to another, and I cannot break it" "Unwelcome as the news is to mo,"* replied Ralph, showing no sign of discomfiture, "I do not see how it entirely shuts me out from hope. I had reason, perhaps, to suspect such a fact, but I also had reason, to believe that lt was not an objection that would prove in any way Insuperable. Indeed. I did not know but that your relations in* that direction' had been broken off. Ot course, you allude to Claude Rolff. Much an I respect and admire him as a friend, I cannot believe but that he has lacked the sincerity and earnestness of a true manly character in his attentions to you. In fact without breaking confidence, I think I may say, that he himself looked upon his departure abroad as a practical sundering of all ties that bound him to his native land, and that he confessed as much, and I have', also reason to. believe that he has since formed new ties In the not consider that his claims should shut out mine. - Let me assure you, Rosa, kindly but earnestly, that all others save only yourself, perhaps, have regarded his attentions to you as lacking in real sincerity. I know that such is your, father's opinion. I did not pre., sume to indulge a hope of becoming your suitor without first declaring my, Intentions to him, and learning that ho did not regard my character "and.'hopes unfavorably; and I,.was given,to* understand by him that not' only -was your hand free:so.far as he knew, but that, even if an engagement did exist, with Mr. Rolff, It could never receive .-success, and all his plans were laid I his consent. He. regards, as I "assure . :.s Sen's CoiDj ta the War, Nevoi la Itelarn. Thirty-eight years azo young Augr-3--- tus Bliss, of Warwi.5*. q U cu:uifir brush on his father's farm, huug Via fccythe on a pine tree and went out -,o; war. The soldier boy nc-ver came bac.:,������ and the scytha has nuv.r bem tak-.as down from the tree win-re he hung:ii..i but has become Imbeddc-.l in the grav-* ing pine until it is a fix ure. This p !->*��������� ihjtic reminder of the great civ.I-* struggle is a familiar sight io membzri*; of the Sheomet Club o; tnls city, as Uu* tree stauds near the club's conifortab;j������ quarters in Bllssville, a hamlet jB.-i - across the North Oransa line ia..!*.* Warwick. When young Augus'us Bliss lofts home and parents, to ficht his eoun*=*. try's battles, Bllssville was a busy*-* centre of small indust: ies, traces-rut* which remain to tell tho story ot ISrev* shifting of the sc������ne of manufacturings : from the small country 1 amlet to laiT******- centres. The tree bus witnessei lit* these changes, has seen .he mill sianat*-* Ing near slowly falling InTo decay, the population changing, hut still the. scythe hangs there, summer and wins ter, a mute testimonial to the devotion.* to duty that animated young Bliss. His' father, Milton Bliss, win engaged -ii*t- buildlng the dam stand'ng hy, amfc sent his son to out sor/o briers thaAr were in the way of store that wens: needed. After the brie:s were err h-.-- scythe was hung on a small pino tr*.**-*- near, probably without a thou; h ot*2r how long it would rem.-.in there In a day or two Augustus B.i-r w-ni*~- to the front, having enlisted for---a*f three years' term of s: rvice in tluts.- army some time previous. The ;**n-i*tss soldier never camo bacTt. He wast bfisr eighteen years old wh������n he en*'s eiKsT- August 4. 1862, in Coir.rr.-y F. '! . '.������ sixth Massachusetts Rrsr -ret. " iii* with his regiment in tl e S :uth. !��������� *va-*sR overtaken by a*fatal dise'se .im* di?*-*:" In an army hospital at MiltlV*?. "is-'TSt The circumstancea of hi* con r ��������� r T-r* disease wero very s\ad- ."��������� T^. ���������; -r.es- to get water for his comro.les, and hiaf company had orders to mrrch whTIe het was gone. He tried to ov. rtakc "hem?--;: and the over-exertion was more ih?.nr~ he could stand, and lnc-s :ak*n IIC- with fever before he h:d i*een in bat=^t. tie. He was not brought home for!*" burial, but his name is on tho rr-ll-'off-ii'** honor on the soldiers" monumeatiatEr Orange. In all these years r.o on? his r*mJ��������� - died with the scythe. It-has hrrn-r -- tbere a symbol and visible re-triae-t- tp his father of his s?r> \'s iTevo'.ion-'o>* duty. As the tree grew Ut" scythe ham become embedded in thj wood, nntiKit" is a part of the tree. T':e -na h ���������.-.-hit-lr has been forced oft the scythe .byJtfc"***-' growing tree, is suppor'ed in its ori5*?> inal position by a sir*all fraroewoite.- . The woodwork of the thol**-s has yield?��������� - ed to the action of th" e'emen'F* andSs fallen* away. Around he tree, whic*a:*r - is probably a little oicr a foot in bVt*** -< atneter at its base, has been crccteil���������*- a railing.���������Springfield Republican, - The Mnri Who flori \*ot Itni-ry. Many evils in this life come from nt*--* due haste in the morning. A T'omaiv gentleman of excellent family and. large income killed :hitns'If bp-nae, as he left word, he was "tired of 'Wo-?**- the same things." T'nnk of the ludfe-^ ous monotony of morning life. T03" stretch yourself In bed and yawnr*"**^ sense of duty drags you ouf, just.;a*s:-s in earlier years a chape! b"*Il --ummoneiE- you at school to early and shiverfB-j*.' prayers. Yoii poke your feat intui* slippers. Bath, the ope-viticn of sbe.*"-"-* ing, a quick deolslon.ps to the neeea��������� sity oX a change in underclolhea. - op linen, then a rush i'-'o clo'hcs, arr-_. though you'were a fr*/man in acflve service. You gobble breakfast and*;a,- newspaper, there is a wild scrambli*. foti- ��������� a street car, there is suspension fronri a strap, and you are at the office with-* a dash at shaving sorp close io an-** ear and biscuit crumbs on your .���������gu*^ Utiit. And for ���������want? ~ ~7~\ The body is too fine a thing >o-Wr������' ncarlv all seem fo have square, heavy! trelted '������ h*f\ ,^'e know ti" man; jaws. "I suppose that's the result of th* cxerrjiseT tliey get through calling one another by -name."���������Chicago Record- Heraid. . ���������. Early���������Are you sure this salmon is quite fresh ? Salesman���������Fresh? Lor' bless yer, mum, I've just had to cut it up te keep it from jumpin' at the flies!"��������� ���������The Joker. "The uro of visiting-cards dates back to quite an antiquity," explains Mrs. Van Koert Schuyler, in the Ladies' Homo Journal. "Formerly the porter at the lodge or door of great houses' kept a visitors* hook, in which ho scrawled his Idea of the names of those who culled upon the master and his family, and to whose inspection it tv.is submitted from time to time. One line gentleman, a scion of ho nobility [rom the Fauborg St. Germain, was shockfd to find that his poiter kept so poor a register ot tho names of those svho had called upon him. The names, badly written with spluttering pen and pale or muddy ink, suggested to him the Idea of writing his own name upon slips of paper or bits of card-: board in advance of calling upon his neighbors lest his name should fare as' badly at the hands of their porters. rhis ciiBtom soon became generally Jtabliebe-l." - ^ , Robinson���������It is, awful lylate.. Brown. What will you say to your wife? Brown (in a whisper)���������Oh, I shan't say much, you know. "Good morning, dear," or something of that sort She'll say the rest.���������London Comic . He���������You say that automobile accident was caused by a misphced switch ? She���������Yes ; the dear girl tried to fix it and steer her auto at thc same time. ���������Judge. , ��������� ��������� One way to keep a woman's love is to return it.���������Chicago News. 9 The maid, as by the papers doth appear, ������������������ - ��������� J Whom fifty thousand dollars made go doar, ���������To test Lothario't passion, simply said : "Forego the weed before wc go to wed. For smoke take flame ;��������� I'll be that flame's bright fanner ; To have your Anna, give up your Havana." But he, when thus she brought him to thc scratch, Lit his cigar and :hrcw away his match. ���������The Humbler Poets. ��������� "My dear," said a frightened husband in the middle of the night, shaking hia wife, "where did you put that bottle of strychnine ?" "On thc shelf next to the peppermint." "Oh !" he groaned. "I've swallowed it!" "Well, for goodness sake," whispered his wife, "keep quiet or you'll wake the baby."���������Philadelphia Ledger. Lever's Y-Z(WiseHea<3)D(sinfccUnt S" Powder ia a boon to any home. It ������������������������- fecta and cleans at the B-ime time. we think ot him erence,, who snaps fingers at conventional duty. He Bnoo' es after he-btuc- had eight or nine hours of sleep. Af*^ ter he has made ready his bath Tbe- lies down again to tp o' :��������� f cr. il** exertion. He then pit s a Sc-'ch can*. on hU head-^associat! on of Wens, for he drank Scotch the riir'T--" he'o ���������������-ret* into the tub, where hc;o*i!<*3 for flfee-i or twenty minutes, and r-nds 3 novel- Then ln bath-robe he Ori:-!:-; two or three glasses of water and ea'a tu ^dilieed^Qrange^Jic^h^e^hirriRe'it as> carefully and slowly 0 ��������� though lf<"~wer*9 nbout to be hanged. H" then rxsminea- his stook of shirts, v,*I:!*.*:i leads him to a study of the me:lod-> pursued in r������~ modern "American hsv-.l Sundry." Ho c.-cose*: a cravat to r* t- the sky and- the tcrr.perature of th? day. Abo-it an. hour and a halt af or h������ parted from sl������i>p he consumes a run of coffee and a roll Finally he fr-u:: ors toward th-������ street corner, and thero he waits until lie sees a car wih er'.p'y -cats. Do you call him lazy? He has -ill otcrnlty before him. And we dulni that this msn is he tor preprri-d 10 meet the problems of the day thnn you, who aro ;omplimen:cd when * orvo one describes: yon as a hustler. It Is nre that if tho I deliberate one ls wonting for other* ' ihty may not apprecia e his dellbera*- tion; they may discharge him. But this ls a mere detail. Others wai' gladly hire him at a princely salary. Unprft|>(ii*c< I "(***���������** A courier presses tov.ard the commanding general, his ateed foamins' conventionally. . "The enemy is In mo'ion," he cries, "but it is impossible to decide whether he advances or retreats!"* Again the sickening ttnpreparednesa of the war office, which should have provided charts of the Boer trouser, enabling the strategists at the front to> determine at a glance in which direction any person wearing this garment ��������� wa3 proceeding. . . ���������- ���������<���������������*���������*��������� -IVIint thi Gentlemen Bald *B "~ . Mrs. Crimsonbeak���������Did you auy that Miss Decolleta was tho best dressed woman at tho opera?" * Mr. Crimsonbe������k���������No. I didn't toy exactly that What I did say WM Vm*%\ she outstripped all the oth������r*i. , ' Revelstoke Herald and Railway Men's Journal. TnfKSD.iv. Oct. 20, 1!)<)3. Don't forget the Court of Revision sits on Monday. If you are not orr the Voters" List, get on. Everything points to a Dominion election before the next Court in May. TO PARENT'S. The crowing hoy.-** of Rt-vclstoUc st;ry oul too late at rrifrlrt. "While we do not j.o-c.is wishing undue lestiuinl. to l.c exercised. -*till there is ;i ir.-ipjiy medium irr all tiling.-*. I'lr.-it iiieditini is certainlv pnssuil when hoys of ten arc i>eiinilted to run round tire .streets horns after they should be in lied. If n healthy growing hoy is not ready for-a good night's .sleep nl ten o'clock there must lie something wrong. Ye! we all know thai midnight often iinds many hoys in this city careering round as if there wa.s no attiiietioii at home capable of making (lrerrr recognize it as the tine place I'm- evening amusements and proper recreation. We think this i.s the keystone of the .situation. Too little home life is wlrat Kevelstoke. and practically all the west, sutlers from. The .small boy is not giverr a chance. He i.s contemp-1 tuously clubbeil "the kid'' by Iris elder-' brother', and treated by him a.s an inferior. The day of the older' sori.s taking an intelligent interest irr the youngster's tasks arid airitrseinerrts .seems to have gone by arrd nowadays there is an abrupt break of real home life when a youth reaches aboirt the age of seventeen. True be lives at home but his amusements do not, as tbey should, centre round the fireside. The habit of a whole family, joining together in harmless amusements, in round games and other lireside pleasures has. in the west, become practically obsolete. The question naturally arises, why is tins?. 'We think the answer is plain. There are' too few inducements extended by tlie parerrls to keep the boys at home. Tire sinters have their pianos, tlieir- music, and their friends'to entertain but nothing of .1 similar' nature is provided for tire lx>ys. Jenny invites hev girl ehuins home to spend tlio. evening' with Ireland receives invitations in return, but, what aborrt Johnny? Oh, the boys nre too rough, tlrey make too much dirt says the average mother���������arrd ,*��������� lets it go at that. JBrrt is it not better to have a little extra washing and cleaning, to bear with rumpled tidies nnd maybe a broken vase now and again than to have your boys running round the streets? Boys are gregarious animals arid would irr itch sooner congregate in ii pleasant home than in front of an hotel. .Let the boys know their friends are your friends. Receive them well, take pains to entertain them, enter with vigour into the accounts of youthful prowess and you will find the'boys* eyes turn towards home as the flower turns its face to the sun. Give juvenile stag parties, bound only by the law "thou shalt not wilfully destroy.*' Greet the --yoiirt^rers^frieirdg^ivitb 31INING COURTS. Irr every othei' mining country in tire British Empire but this, easy and inexpensive means are provided for the settlement"* of mining disputes. The course generally pursued is to form a .Mining ("(iiti-tL in each distriet and the Warden, an olYicial sonrewlrat. orr a par wilh ourtJold Commissioners, is appointed its judge. Until British (.'olrinibia joirred tbe Dominion a similar plan was in force, here and woi ked extremely well. The "Gold Ordinance. 1S(I7." provided for- these courts and any ordinary mining litigation was sumiii'irily disposed of without the trouble or expense of leaving tbe district, in which the dispute arose. Of course provision was made for appeals in eases wheie matters were adjudicated upon irr which the interests were too complicated l.o permit tbe Mining Court properly, heing that of last resort. This procedure was attempted to be revived irr tho "Mineral Act, 18SS," .by which Mining Courts were vc-eon- slilutod and large judicial powers given to the Gold Commissioner. It was nob long, however, until tlie legality of the rrrirrirrg courts was attacked and they were disposed of irr the iirsl. ease. Tho sectiorrs constituting tbem had lo be repealed and it is almost impossible for this Province to use this most satisfactory method of dealing with mining disputes. The case, to whiee we refer is Bttrk v. Turnstall, irr which judgment was given on June 21, 11)00. By this judgment it was held that; '��������� It is competent for the Province to create Mining Courts, and to iix tlieir jurisdiction, but not. fo appoint arry officers, thereof with other than ministerial powers." The question naturally arises, why is the Province not competent? And here again our old bugbear, the B.N. A. -Vet, steps in and says "No.'* British Columbia can organize and maintain courts of all kinds, but the judges ��������� mist he appoint ed by the Dominion, which it is fair to say pays tlieir salaries. This i.s another matter in which the B. N. A. Act should be amended. The Province can and does organize, appoint magistrates of and run police coin-Is having jurisdiction liver the liberties of our citizens, but cannot' provide a great, convenience for the prospector when minor- mining disputes arise. This and many other things prove that the time is ripe for' a general overhauling of the 13. N. A. Act. But " MINER " MISTAKES. Very many newspapers in the Province show a lamentable ignorance of all'airs when attempting to discuss local politics. The Camborne "Miner' is one of these. Irr its last issue there i.s an article, purporting to give an account of the coril emplaied reductions irr lire civil service, in which the following occurs : "Among those let out aro two men from the laird registry oflice, but unfortunately W. S. Gore, Deputy Conimissioner'. is .not one of them. Xow that the ministers have stalled bouse cleaning, they should pay particular attention to tbe land registry ollice and remove the cobwebs and dust from the documents so that in future applications for crown grants, etc., may be aeknowledg-td and attended to at least within a year from their dates." What makes this so .amusing is the fact that \V. ,S. Gore was never in the Band Registry ollice and has nothing whatever to do with it, the regulation of all registry offices being under the control of the Attorney-General. Again, the office in question lias nothing to do with the issuance of Crown grants, and anyone applying there for tbem would receivo a polite intimation to try again at the proper department. Does nob the *'Miner" know tbat Mr. Gore is Deputy Conimissioner of Lands and "Works? XVe thought everyone did. As for removing thc head of tlie Land Registry office in Victoria, tbe matter has not been thought of and will not be. Mi: S. Y. Wootton, the registrar, .is one of tire most capable officials in thc public service and fills the marry dirties, such J as those of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, allotted to hirrr inapronipt 'and efficient manner. ' There ought to be a. journalistic kindergarten where newspaper men, such as the editor of tho " Miner," could receive a, training in the first requisite of journalism���������a knowledge of the facts. Mny vo recommend tb our coir temporary Lincoln's.' well krrown motto���������:" Be sure you're rigiit, then go ahead." But, be sumi you're right.: ''���������''������������������', LEGM. *(r*9*DO*>oo(������9OGoaott0eooo(iooo(E' l_li MA. ST RE .fc SCOTT. Barristers, Solicitor**, Kte. Uevel.srukt*, IS. (J. J. M.Scott, U.A..L1..I;. \V.ilo i*. le Maistre, M.A J-TAKVKY, M'CAM'K* .fc 1'IXKIIAM Rarristors, .Soli(*itors, Kta. Solicitors for Imperial Hank of CTiniftrtii. Coln*>iuiv finuis to loan at.S percent. First Street, Itevulsruku IS. C. SOCIETIES. ffe> Red Rose Iloprec meet:*: set-owl i.ncl fourth Tuesdays of each mouth; White llose lieiirre meets third Tuesday ofeaeli quarter, in Oddfellows Hall. Visiting hretliron welcome T. 11. DAICKIt, II. COOKK, 1'resident. Secretary. LOYAL ORANGE LODGE No. 1.558. -Kcpular meetings nre held irr thc Oddfellow's Ilnll'on the Third Friday of each month, at S p.m. sharp, Visiting hrnthren ������orcft������vll*v- invited "i5*Ol)AlK, W. Jt IV. JOilNStUiV, llec.-Sce. Cold Range Lodge, K. of P.j No. 26, Revelstoke, B. C, MEETS EVEItY WEDNESDAY 'l'i in Oddfellows' Hall nt S o'clock. Visiting Knights are *** cordially invited. P.. LOYST,. C. C. II. COO ICE, K. ot R. A-.S. lt. A. BROW.-i, Muster of Finance. JOMgS 8,*������ ������if &t->ici**j������2, TOU MAICINlt TAE BEST BREAD IU THE CITY CAKES, COX KECTIOX ER Y PIES, COOKIES, KTC. * A. E. BEWMSSOra, ��������� Mackenzie Avenue. o c������ooo������o������e&*������������oec>oeeo9������ceoo** mW������W&BBW)BB!&BB<& II m m m ft ���������i i t$s=������ union -^jr ������ C.^ar Factory REVEI-STOKI"*, H.C. H. A. BROWN, Prop. Brands: OUR SPECIAL and "HiE UNION -l-I**l**l"l-H"l"t-i������l*-������-l*4*'i������l"l*-l"l"M������l-t4*.I- SVIOSCROP BROS. Plumbing-, Steam and Hot Water Heating, Electric Wiring & Bell Works. Pipes. Valves and Fitting's. Second St., REVELSTOKE, B.C. H. PERRY-LEAKE, Mining: Engineer and Metallurgist. Sr-KCiAMIES : Examination and reports on'Mining- Properties. * . . .Sp2(-ili**afciori anil Construction o Mining Machinery. \ *..*'*������������������ . ..*: .Mill Tests of Ores, and Conccn* ��������� ��������� ���������:: tratcs. ' " ���������'*" ltedford McXeill Code:] COWAN* lil.oCK, K-jvolstoke, U. C. NEW GOODS ��������� Sire Wilson's nuwly imported stool*: of Wools for tliu Fall Trade. The best assor merit ever* landed in Revels! o e. Look for the UNION LABEL on all g'armeiils.made by us. M. A. WILSON, Ciratlual'U of Mitchell's School nf Garment (Jutting, -Now -York. KstabHsIiitiL-nt���������Next Taylor Ulock. SIBBALD.& FIELD, AGSJTtrTS JF-OJTR, u-s a 1-��������� q 0 Far- ���������** i'. it. townsite. fr-Si-""^ B E"*Ca>"'-1!i*fc*,*S3 l'Z&~ MAItA TO\V*\'S*lTl*'. i-.2Q3s.UB ������Lfeiie;il8*.*Tj ext~ i.Ei'itA.-i- toivnsitk. ������*-?- 1'A.MIIOItNK 'I OWN SITE, rtv A Til*'"'-*' 4 I 1 C'nna.lii Permanent .1: Western r!liAiHJiAL-i l:������������������'!������ M..rr.;*i������c* Cor-mr-ilion. ��������� ****���������'���������*���������**'������������������ '*-'���������*'***���������- f i:.,i���������ni,il luveslmeiil and l.onii t'ompany. (-.Sun I'iro. Caledonian fire. Atlas Fire. ������������������I!) rjj pa par;. ?���������������>.'���������*** ^rjj -. *,i.:i.iiiin i*'iro. M.'ir.uilil,* i-ire. Norilicrn Kirc*. ���������j'S*?P.*H*l (ffiiSB������i"'v.*. i. -.KM-iliiiii I'ire. Jlani'lleslel* Fire, ((real West Life. \i*i'i.icut aud liuarautee. CoiiK'.leniti'.ri I.i fo veci.lenl AsMirauce Co. (.'onuei'lieut Kiro .HOUSRS FOR. SALE AND JtKNT. CON ANlTlNO. TUAL FOR SALI'T, CON ANlTtrNO. CHAS. M. FIKLD. W J. D. StlS'JALO, Not.irv l-tit-ri-. K.'iVI'I.STOK'':. H.C. *OOQC( t> ��������� O(90ocoo-������**>e*>ooooo������(->*eo<>a������o������������������o9eao*e(ioe'>**a*** YQUR CREDST IS GOOD FOR ��������� CARPETS, LINOLEUM, FLOOR OIL, WALL PAPER, BLINDS, ETC. *���������*��������� Firner o ������������-*������������������������ HOWSON-& CO. PICTURE FRAMING A SPECIALTY. ".J ;il Directors & Kmbnlniers, Gr.uluale Massaelruselts Einbalmins: School. ��������� .o(PH>eo������ooocoooeo������s-KD������*������ooo������o������ooo������o������������ caa ������������������a*oe������o������ m P PRIME BEEF. r--V'l'-T-T"I"I"5'*Tf-I-I-*I-*fe*l-J"I^'T*I-*T-'l-T'*J'l'*5 ���������?i*Tl^'Bai*it**^**^'*frr*^T**rr^T*^^ NOTE AND COMMENT. The "Colonist" mini in -Vancouver must-.'.bo working over- time. He advertiser! in tire '* Ledger*' for a bright boy to apply "atll p.irr. to-day." TTsTrir 1(7T~ I-ct tlrt-rn know that Johnny'*** chnirr-j are .t������ welcorrre as Jerrrry's arrd you will find a groat change. Get hold of good stirring itatidard lit (.���������ratine. Kc-ad them the life-like l������,itt!.-s of Alan Qiiarterrirain and take pain- to try and read them well. .Make tlremaci|iiaiiit- e.l with Jlonj-t-ycasy and Treasure i Island anil, like Oliver* Twi.-l. you'll find them n.-li for more If they wnnt Ixixirrg glove- arid single slicks, lei them have them, 'twill l>e money well Sjieii*.. Ix't Johnny sina-li hi.** linger- now and again with a hairirner if he must butcher wood, but for goodness sake see that he has the hammer. Give tire boys a chance. Thc youngsters of today will be the Kiripirc of tomorrow. There's no rrc-ed of curfew laws. The boys can be kept out of mischief and drawn towards good by the invisible threads of pleasure at home and a thorough welcome to their friends. If only a few of tire parents of Kevelstoke would start this method of meeting a grave source of danger in a few months lite boys would be oil' the streets. ID. C. Fraser, JTM. P., for Guysboro, commonly known a.s " Foghorn " Fraser. on account of his far-reachim voice, is to be appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. pending that necessary step, carr nothing be done to do away with anomaly:-' We think there is a course open, and a simple one. Tlie power of appointment of judges of Mining Courts lying with the Dominion 'authorities -tlie difficulty could Vie removed in the following way. The Govertioi'-General-in-Couiieil should be asked to make an Order, that upon the appointment of a Gold Commissioner in British Columbia, he shrill, ipso facto, become judge of the Mining Court irr Iris district without any salary from the Dominion. 1*1 is remuneration as Gold Corriiiiissinricr* would cover hi.s services as* such judge, j Why doesn't Joe .Martin go to We present this idea for the careful | Fngland arrd buck Joe Chamberlain, consideration of the Government. In j )������������������( th,... *,herc\s no money in polities thc event of its being acted upon we | r |1(...**.. do not anticipate any iliflleiilty with | Corporation of the City of Revelstoke. aad .ENGINES."- Saw'R/iii! Machirsery Wood Warkirsg- Machinery MacJiinory'for alS Purposes ������' All of very best nia.it.es. tt Wl-itc ��������� .*. |;.J..L."K������!LSDMV&;c*?.i:^ % 602 Main St., Winnipeg. I g*intrT? IUi',ilW-'gJHTarSS*l3 PORK. WD i TON. SAUSAGE. FISH AND GAME IN SEASON. ifea*. NOTICE. Notice, is hereby given that all clriin- neys must he cleaned not later than .Vovember '15th,' 1903, in accordance with By-Law No. 11 of the City of Revelstoke. By Order-. T. XV. Bain, Fire Inspector. il. A. JMucdonald. the newly elected Liberal leader is unfortunate in his name. He'll have to rustle to reach the standard of Sir John A. The old lndy made a funny break when she said that the trees this month look ('trite automatic. Don't kick against the lawyers. We've all of us been called to the bar'. Woo d for side including Dry Cedar, Fir and Hemiock. All orders loft Rt W >t. Lan-rorrce's will receive prompt attention. W. FLEMING. M.A.S-^ITH���������;.':���������& CO.,! . Sta'ceWsor.s to A. NV-Smith. | jl have, a large arrd well assorted stock of the very best movements. YtsuiTAS,' VangUAttp, New Railway, all 23, jewelled. -.-'������������������' Cases to sriib all pockets.. * l.-'irlly guar'airtocd: watches fromv ,$5.00 Up.". '" " i'^.-'iii }i:'i-*, -J;'j; ".:*; ..V..IvM'-'lIei-iiniiJl)j)tici([n,;- McKenzie Ave. , HAYS VOJtl EVES TESTEOT*AND FlTTEtajWI TH CLASSE8 BAKERS AND CONFECTIONERS .Fresh and Complete Line of OroeerieH. NOTICE. 4?i!!>!i������=T!otiee^!-;^g.U--ii:*uthat=the^B!'g* The spectacle of J. A. Macdonald leading Joe .Martin and JMclnnes is is like driving piles with a tack hammer. lire powers thai he at* Ottawa. If the necosary Dominion Orrler-iri-Coiincil is obtained, or assurances giverr thai, Gold Commissioners will be appointed .Mining Court Judges on the reipiesl, of the I'ruviiicial executive, thu rcsl, i.s easv. At the coining session of the Legislature these sections could be re-enacted and in a very short, time Courts for the trial of mining disputes established at every Gold Commissioner's nllice in tin* Province. ��������� Thai, such would be a boon in outlying disti icl.s like Cariboo, Omincca, Cassiar and Atlin is self apparent, while even here, in Koolenay all the law's delays so vexations to litigants would, a.s far a.s mining is concerned, be removed. We mention Ibis ma tier because recently in some parts of the Province, particularly the Atlin district,, arr agitation lias been going on for the formation of Courts of this kind by those who do not take the trouble to investigate before agilating. The first woman said Cain raised a club. Nowadays the women say clubs raise Cain. The name and services of I he Hi rat h- eonn Horse are to be perpetuated by a permanent force of about 100 mounted men, similar to I lc N. W. M. P. ,to he s'.atiorred at Calgary, A half million dollars hns been ap-i propriated for surveys in connection j with the Government section of the j Grand Trunk Pacific. J Bend Lumber Company Limited have adopted the below mentioned limber marks for logs belonging to them arrd all pel-sons arc w.ir/reri against dealing with or keeping in possession arry logs bearing any of said marks: ������ B. B. L. Oo. Dated at Arrowhead. Aug. T2K. 1003. THE BIC BEND LUMBER CO. LTD. THEO. LUDCATE, President. Jas. I. Woodrow TRUTaHEK i; r/a We have received the Fifth Annual Report of the Central Farmers' Institute and thc Fourth l.cpor-t, of the .Superintendent from tbo Department of Agriculture, Both are of *;re.it interest to farmers and should have a wide circulation. The "Colonist" made an amusing break on .Sunday when stating that (.lie people of Cranbrook were rejoicing over the run of the Kva stamp mill. The man who doesn't, know Crriii brook from Camborne, should be laughl, provincial geography. Get your name on the Voters' List. iiON HOTEL FIRST CLASS $2 PER DAY HOUSE Choice Brands of Winoo, Liquors and Cigars. , KetaiJ Dealer in��������� Beet, Pork, Mutton, Etc, "Fish and Came in Season.... All orders promptly tilled. f: "���������TrnX&i. KBYBJErS-fOKB, B.8 I &i&^si^(^i ������**:(.r*.**.'( i.rorni.tly ntlcrirliMl to. <***3 <;(/n*c*t|iond(:iif?o xollcllwl. J. LAUCHT0N, Prop. Kirnf. .Street.. QD:ERN LOQUINCE ' Ex-Speaker Thomas R. Reed's Splendid Library of the Rest After-Dinner Speeches, Classic and Popular Lectures, I'amous Addresses, Reminiscence, Repartee', Anecdote, Illustration, and Story','in ten handsome volumes, illustrated by fne photogravures and color plates. A FEW OF THE MANY CONTRIBUTORS: Theodore Roosevelt Sir Henry Irvln-j Champ Clark Joseph Chamberlain MarfciTwain Ch-irk-s Dudley Warner John Tyiidall Russell H.Conwell fnlin Morley William \L. Gladstone Charles Francis Adams John M. Allen John B. Gordon lienry Wr.nl Hcctlier Chauiiccy M. Depew Otiver Wendell Holmes Andrew Laiitf Joseph li. Choate Wendell Phillips Henry W, Grady Jonathan V. IJolliver Robert J. Hurdettu Wu Tine Fane Canon Farr.tr Gcor-re WUHmri Curtis Hamilton Wri������ht Mablc Williarn Cullen Dryant , John I���������. Sp.ildinii Joseph Jefferson Arthur J. Balfour Lyman Abbott Iidward H^'nlcstoii Robert G. Ihkl-isoU Lord Ik-aconsfield Horace I'orter John Ruskln John B. Gou-jli Josh IJUHnci Willlntn M. livarts Art emus Ward Henry M.Stanley Sctli Low Charles A. Dana Newell DwIcM Hillis John May Crovcr Cleveland ElOT^ce*^^GlidrtcrSa^& :> VANCUUVEIt, B. C. 0 'ie& In Lav/, there are Evarts and Phelps, both the Choates, Coudert, and David Dudley Field. In Journalism, Dana, Ifalstead, "Watterson, McClure, McKelway, and Whitelaw Reid. k In Politics, Cleveland and Harrison, Ulaine and Conkling, Sumner /*> and Seward ; wc listen to the eloquence of Gladstone, then to that of his fJ1 great rival, Disraeli. /o In Literature, we have the best thoughts of Dickens and Thack- //. /tviooi erny, in contrast with the more modern humor of Howells and Mark /*��������� Twain; or Carlyle, I'roude, arid Morley speak to us from across the f^?/ **��������� f"-*- sea, for comparison with our own Emerson and Curtis. /a?/ PORTFOLIO /ff HAILED fREE * ' To John D. Mrnrli and Company 1201 Clie-lout stmt l'hl*a.l,.lrr.l������ ' GBNTLRHEN: Kercrrlnnrto your advertisement of lion. Thomas B. Reed's Library of "Modbkh EloqubnCb" In ltevelstoke 1 I should t*c pleased to receive port* folio of sample pages, photogravures. S1 .' ���������i y\mong the heroes of War are Grant and Sherman, Sampson ana.Schley, Miles, Wheeler, and Lew Wallace, Among great Educators are Eliot, Oilman, and ITadley. /.I Among great Scientists, Ifuxlcy and Tyndall, Her- /o bcrt Spencer arrd Agassi)!. Among successful men of Business are Carnegie and Depew, l'JT. \V. I'ok and Cyrus W, Field. President Eliot's address on the " Uses of Education for Business," and Gladstone's " Modern Training for .,. Life," are guides for the beginner to learn by /<������ heart; and Hok's lecture on "The Keys to /.*' Success'' is of the greatest practical value to every young man ambitious to succeed. ���������) /-?. ' 0/ Name., *-* / Occupation Street City and Slate John D. Morris and Company Publishers Philadelphia anrt chromatic plates; also full partlcu- ars nrgartHnc bindings, prices, terras-etc. "I yf manifesto. Text of the Broadsheets now Flooding Great Britain to Further Chamberlain's Tariff Reform Campaign. XVe bave iri.-uIc'aiT*nigomi'irt.s for the receipt, of rill literatrrre issued irr support of JRt. Hon. Joseph Charrrher-lnirr's campaign Ior intei-1 nrpcrui 1 preference. As tire matter is one of extr euro interest to all Canadians two or llrrve of tlrem will be published in each issue of the HivKAi.l). Today we reprint the first two iind would rid vise subscribers to preserve these intereslinj. .souvenirs of tbe most important puli ticnl campaign the world has ever No, I.���������The Scope of the Enquiry. The following questions were ptrt bv Mr. Chamberlain in tho course of his speech at the Constitutional Club, June 26th, 1903: What is the alternative to Preferential Tarill's as a system by which tiro Empire can be held together? AVill opponents say by whnt process they hope to secure the closer union of the Colonies with the Mother Country? Is it a fact that, the experts of our manufactured goods to our own Colonies already exceed the total exports of our manufactured goods to all the protected states in Europe and the United States of America? Is it a fact, that our exports to these protected countries ure decreasing in quantity, and deteriorating in their profitable character? Would it irot be better to cultivate trade with "our own kinsmen and fellow-subjects, who take from us at the present, time more than ������100,000,000 in manufactured goods? Shall we lose this opportunity for the sake of air 'attempt to conciliate 300,000,000, of foreigners,' who take froni us only a few shillings a bead? Is it true that the existing policy of free imports is necessary to our prosperity? Is it the fact, as we are told on the authority of Sir Henry Canrpliell- Bannerman. that 12,000,000 of our people���������more than orre-fo.rrth of the whole population���������are always on the verge of starvation? Is that a proof of the blessings of free imports? Is it. true of many once profitable industries that, the whole of the capital invested irr them has been lost? Is it true that the workpeople employed in them have gone to join Sir Henry Campbell-JBariiierinan's 12,000,000, or have been forced to emigrate, where ihey are finding employment in competition with their comrades at home? Is it, or is it not, the fact that our greatest and oldest industries���������especially the iron trade and . the textile industries ��������� are threatened as they never were before? Is it true that these indiistriesinight at any time be overwhelmed by a great importation of goods, manufactured abroad arrd sold here below cost price���������the produce of protected states? Has the .progress of these protected states been in 'much greater proportion than the progress of Great Britain under free trade? [It is important that opponents of Mr. Chamberlain's policy should not he allowed to evade any of these questions.] No. z.���������Three Years' Trading and Its Lessons. ���������-The folio wing-summary-of~the trade of the United Kingdom (1) with foreign countries and (2) witli our own colonies and dependencies is taken from the returns. of the Board of Trade. 1.���������Imports Irom Foreign Countries: 1000 . . 4Mlt,000,000 1901 " . ' . .110,000,000 NX.2 0 . . 422,000,000 Observe that the imports are continually rising. Exports to Foreign Countries: |JVote.���������Column A gives the value of all exports, including products of other countries, foreign and colonial, that pass through the United Kingdom; column B gives the value of British ..productions exported only.] In other words, the more we buy of foreign nations, the' k-srf they are buying of us-. On tbe other hand, the Colonies are year by year buying more of us, even though we buy less from theni*. Every item tli.it*goes to make up the export return (It) moans employment and wages for British industry. I'Tx- port-i are what we sell; imports what we buy. The interest of lhe wage-earner' is, therefore, irr the export return"." It is til ways misleading to add together exports arrd imports���������as though a man should add together his income and his- expenditure? Tun ."\lon.\r..���������(live speeinl encouragement to Colonial Ir-ade. When the Colonics oll'er rrs preferential trading, reciprocate their good-will. Federate the Kmpiro by means of a fiscal arrd commercial union. Union i.s strength. This is Mr. (.'baiiiberlriin's policy. Is it not worth fair and favourable discussion? NOTICK. Notice is herel**.* ijriveii tliat tliirty (layanfrer date I intend to ni.ike upplic.-lliou to tliu Chief Comml.**;- -sioner of l.nn.I.s and Work**, for a special licence to cut nnd c.'ii'i'V away timlier from the following described lamls situate in Kootenay district: 1. C'oniinenciit** al a post inarUud "J. Agnew's south west corner post," on the north hank of t.'anoe river, ahout nine luilesnhove Cllacivrcreek, rilliiiintr north SOchaius. thence cost SO clirUns, thence soutli SOchaius, theneo west SO chains to point of commencement. ���������2. (.'oiniueticiujr at a post marked "J. Agnew's nortli east corner post," planted on the north hauk of canoe river, ahout nine miles ahove Glacier creek, ruiluinj** .sourh SO chains, thence west SO chains, thence north so chains, thence east SO chains to point of commencement. Dated tills Sept. ISth, 1011.1.* , * ... .i. Atixrcw. NOTICK. Notice is hereby given that thirty days after date 1 intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lauds aud Works for a special licence tocut and carry away timber from the -following described lands situate in West Kootemiy district: 1. Commencing a post planted SO chains soutli of the south l.ankuf Columbia river, about 4 miles ahove the mouth of Caime river and marked "A. .Mad.h.ck's north west corner post," thence south SOchaius, rhenee east SO chains, thence north SO chains, thence west so chains to the point of commencement. '2. Commencing at a post planted SO chains south of the south bank of Columbia river, 4 miles ab..ve III.' mouth of Canoe river aiul marked "A. .Ma.Moek's north east corner post," thence south SO chains.thence west So elialus, thence north SH chain-;, thence east so chains to the point of com- uieiicenlent. Hated Sept. 17tli, 1003. A. MAD1100K. NOTICK. Notice is hereby given that thirty daysafter date 1 intend to apply to the Cliief Commissioner of Lands aud Works fora special licence to cut anil carry away timber from lhe following described lands situale in Wet Kootenay dislrict: I. Commencing at a post planted SO chains south of the soutli baukot Ilie Columbia river, about -2 luiles above the month of Canoe river and marked ".I. Cables' north west corner post." thence souih so chains, thence east so eliains. thenee north su chains, tlience west Su chains to point of commencement. ���������2. Commencing at a post, planted SO eliains south of the south liank of the Columbia river nhiiu! -2 miles above the mouth of Canoe river and marked ".I. (.'allies' norrh ea.st corner posr," thence soutli 80 chains, thence west SO chains, thence I north So chains, thence east so chains to tile point of commencement. Dated Sept. 17tll, 1908. .1. GAHI.l*. NOTICK. '���������"-'Public notice is hereby given tluit the undersign. intend to apply under the provisions of the way Company Incorporation Act" and ed NOTICE. Notice is .hereby given that thirty tluyn nftui* date I intemi to innke amOR-nt-ion to tne Cliief fnimntesiouer tit* Lamls and Works for :i special licence to cut anil carry away timlier from the fullowing described lands situate in Kootenay district:' 1. Commenehu-catn post marked "K. McLean's north west corner pnst," planted about seven mile-* above -Glacier ereek on the north bank of Canoe river, riinninjr south SO chains, thence east SO chaius, thence north SO chains, theuce west SO chains to poiut of commencement. 2. Commencing at a post marked "l-V McLean's south west corner post," planted about seven miles ahove Ci lacier ereek ou the north bunk of ( anoe river, running north SO chains, thence east SO chaius, thence south SO chains, tlience west SO chains to point of coimnencement. _ Dated this 17th Sept., 1*003. . *\ McLKAN. aniendinn acts.for the incorporation of a company with power to build, equip ami operate a tramway ami to con-iti'iict and equip ami operate telephone or telegraph lines in connection therewith, between a point ,on the north east arm of Upper Arrow Lake, at or near tiie townsite of Heaton ami a point on l'ish Itiver, West Kootenay, 10 miles northerly from the town of Camborne. The general route of said proposed tramway ami telephone or telegraph lines shall be along or near the easterly shore of the mirth east arm of Upper Arrow Lake and thence northerly along or near the banks of I-'tsli river. Dated this 10th ilay of .Inly, 11)09. A. Johnson, .1. A. Darragh, G. S. McCarter, Applicants. NOTICE. - Notice is liereby given that thirty days after dato ��������� I intend to make application to the Chief Commissioner of I,nmis andt Works for a special licence to cut aud cany away timber from the following described lands situate hi Kootenay district: -���������'.-*- 1. Commencing at a post marked "T. L. Ilaig's north west corner, post,'' planted about live miles above Glacier ereek; on-the north bank of Canoe river, running south SO chains, theneo cast SO chaius,: thence north SO chains, theuce west SO chains to point of commencement. ������������������._���������/��������� ; 2. Commencing at a postmarked i''f. L. Ilaig's south west corner post," planted about live miles above Glacier creek on the uorth bank of Canoe river, -'running north SO'-chains,'- theuce eastSO chains, theuce south SO chains, tlience, west SO chains to point of commencement. ^,; Dated this Sept. ioth; 1003. .- ;" '-,-���������.': ���������..������-. :"."V"V*'S;.;- *y.-^ v'-"' ->":"���������:.���������:���������'- T-^. HAI-G. - ISOTICE. Notice is hereby given that sixty dnys after date we intend tn make nppik-ation to thc Chief C'������inniissioner of Lands and Works for permission to lturclin.-G the following described in mis, situated on the east side of Adamslake. at the mouth of tbe Mo-Mi eh river, Lillooet distriet IJ. C. Commencing at a post planted on thc east shore of Adams lake ubout twenty (20) chains nori-li west of tlie mouth of the Mo-Mich river, and marked ������������������Harbor Lumber Co's. uorth west corner post," thence ea.st 40 chains, thence soutii (>u chalii-i, thence west 40-chains, thence north 00 chains, to point of commencement. Containing 210 aeres more or less. Dated this 2-lth day of September. 1903. HARBOR LUMBER CO. ;_���������:-;���������-';������������������*:��������� ���������*,. ��������� ./���������*;: notice. . ��������� /V. ;*. Notice is hereby given that, thirty days after date I.intend .ti. .make application lo tfic Chief Commissioner-.of Lands and "Works for a special licence to cut and carry away timber from the following described lands situate in -Kootenav district: *;. ...;.'.-��������� ..:,".".'. .,.". .... ��������� 1. ��������� Commencing at: apost marked "L. Miller's north cast corner post,'* about seven iniles above Glacier creek on the north bank of Canoe.river, running south ������0 chains, thenee west SO chains, thence north SO . chains, thence east SO chaius to 'point of commencement. .2 Commencing at a post marked "L. Miller's aouth east corner post," about seven miles above ���������Glacier crock on the north bank of Canoe river, running north SO chains, thenee west SO chains, thenee south SO chains, theuce east SO chains to point of commencement,- Dated this 17th dayof September, 1003. V; L. MILL Kit. . MEN !!! GIVE THE Vacuum Developer A. trial and be ccuvinccd that it will give results sure ami lasting..' Cures weakness "and undeveloped organs, stricture anil varicocele. Send .stamp for book sent sealed in plain envelope. TIIK STKKNVA UKALTIi APcLTANCK CO. .7Hi Cordova Street, West, Vauouver, B.C. WANTED. GOOD CARPENTERS Experie'ncecl Ctu-pcntcrs and Framei'S for Alill Work' nt Arrowhead; Address \V. J, LUDGATE, Arrowhead. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that thirty days after date I intend to make application to the thief Commissioner of .Lands aud Works for aspecial licence to cut and carry away timber from the following described lauds situate iu Kootenay district: 1. Commeneiug at a post marked ."K. Miller's north east corner post," planted about live miles above Glacier creek on the north hank of Canoe river, running soutli SO chains,, theuce west SO chains, thence north SO chains, thence cast SO eliains to point of commencement. 2. Commencing at a post marked ,lK. Miller's north west corner pest," planted on the north hank of Canoe viver about nine miles above Glacier creek.', running south SO chaius, thence east 80 chains, theuce north SO chaius, thence west SO chains to place of commencement. Dated this 19th -September, ]90:t. Kr-MTLLKn.��������� Oriental Hotel Ably furnished with the Choicest the Market affords, BEST WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS Large, Light bedrooms. Rates $i a day. Monthly Rale. J. Albert Stone Prop NOTICK. Notice is hereby given that thirty days after date I intend to apply to the Chief Commission.t-r of Lands and Works for a special licence to cut and carry away timher from the following described lands situate in Kootenay district: 1. Commencing at a post marked "M. Agnew's south east corner post," planted on the north bank of Canoe river, aliout three miles above -Glacier creek running north 80 chains, thence west SO chains, thence south SO chains, theuce east SO chains io place of commencement. 2. Cotnuwncing at a post marked "M. Agnew's north ea>t corner post," planted on the north bank of Canoe river nbout three miles above Glacier creek, running south SO chains, thence west SO chnins, thence north SO chains, tlience ea.st SO chains to place of commencement. Dated the 10th day of Sept., 1003. M. AOXKW. NOTICE. IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES in the Commercial world by.hiking a complete course in Isaac Pitman's Shorthand. Shorthand cannot be successfully taught by mail. I offer you personal and practical instruction at my Kvening Classes which commence on" November 2nd .Studkxts Pj.k- i'aked J?OR tub Civil Ski-vice. For fiii-thei- particulars apply to_ .__ WALTER MUNRO, Revelstoke, B. C ���������������197,000,000 175,000,000 174,000,000 1900 ������252,000,000 1901 235,000,000 1902 231,000,000 Observe that during the throe years we find imports rising and exports simultaneously fulling. Now let us take the corresponding figures for our trade with British '.Colonies and'Dependencies, and notice the striking icon trust. 2.���������Imports from British possessions: 1000 . . " ������110,000,000 1001." . . J 00,000,000 1002 . *... .'���������' 107,000,000 . JExports to J3ritish possessions: A II 1000 ������102,000,000 ������ 01,000.000 1001 ] 13,000,000 105.000,000 1002 118,000,000 100,000,000 Hero we Iind exports constantly rising, in spite of ;i slight fall of imports. Notice It* hereby giverr tiiat thirty days aftef ilritu J intemi tn make apiilicatimi to tire Chief Coinrni'isioiier of Lands and Work.s foraspecial licence to cut arid carry away timber from the following described lands situate in Kootenay district: 1 Commencing at a'post marked ".I. Miller's south east corner post," planted about five miles alxive Glacier creelc on the north bank of Canoe river, running rrorth SO chains, thence west SO eliains, thence soutii SO chains, thence east SO chains to poiiit of commencement.'' 2. Commercing at a post marked "J. Miller's north west corner post." planted about three- (|unrter\s of a mile above lloulder ereek on thc north bank of Canoe river, running soutii ������0 eliains, theuce east SO cii-iins, thence north SO charns, theuce west SO chains to point of commencement. Dated this ISth day of Sept., lfio.-). ,1. MIIJ.KH. NOTrOIC. Notice is liereby given that thirty dnvs after dale I Intemi to runke iipi.li.'.iti.in ro th'e Chief Coin tnissf oner of Lands and Works for a ypeeial licence to outiind carry nwny timber from thc following described lnnds situute In Kooteuay district: . C'ourinenclng ata* post marked "J. Mcl-cari's norlli westcorner post," planted about l^ of a mllu below lloulder creek, orr tho north' un rr*k of Canoe river,riiiinlngsoulhs eliains, thenee cast 80 011(11118, thence norrh Si) chains, theuce west SU chains to pointof commencement. Dacd this Sept. 18th, -"JOS. K 3. HcI* AX . -Write for our interesting books ** Invent* lor'5 Help*' and -' How you are swindled."' (Send us a rough sketch cr model of ;Oiir in-, Ireution oriinprovemerit and weivilltellyoui Ifreeour opinion as to whether it i������* probabl���������*** luateiiteb'e. Rejected cppllcatlons have often Ibeen successfully prosecuted by u������. \v*e [conduct fully equipped offices in Montreal. land Washington; thisc|iialifics ustoproinpt'i Iiy dispatch work and quickly secure Patents fas broid as the invention. Highest references, mirnished. # I Patents procured through Marion & Ma * Irion receive special notice without charge iv.) \ over ico newspapers distributed throughout f Ithe Dominion. . Specialty:���������Patent business of Manufac*, Iturers and Engineers. * C MARION & MARION S . Patent Experts and Solicitors i (Offices: ���������[ ���������^c*v Y?r*c..M-e..*?'-'!'!-.. rtontreal'i; Atlantic lildg.WafihrnRton treat? D.C.e? Yankee WINTER RESORT Pine Clad Sand Hills of North Carolina; Pine JBluir. A Two-Cent Stamp for Booklet. F. C. ALLEN, SKCBKTAHV BOAUDOK TUADK. PER ANNUM IN ADVACE 2.00 THE ERALD OURNAL The Revelstoke Herald and Railwaymen's Journal is the oldest established newspaper under one management in the Interior. It numbers among" its subscribers residents of all parts of the Province and the Western States. It is the most valuable advertising medium in North Kootenay, being read by everybody. THE HERALD'S news of the mines, logging and lumber industries is reliable and up-to-date. Its special correspondents are in touch with Dominion and Provincial authorities and give exclusive news in advance of important political events. THE HERALD deals with local matters in an impartial manner and for the past seven years has been an important factor in building up the City of Revelstoke. THE HERALD is the 'Working Man's paper. It speaks fearlessly for the right no matter whose interests are affected. THE HERALD will give, during the next session of the Provincial Legislature, a crisp and unbiassed account of all the proceedings and generally inform its readers regarding what will be the most important deliberations of that body since its inception. ������fob Prlntiii OUR JOB DEPARTMENT has every facility for turning out First-Class Work at right prices and our customers all return. Try Us and you will know the reason why. The Revelstoke Herald and Railwaymen's Journal. $2.00 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE $2.00 IN TOY SHOP. He walked into the toy shop with c"n= uncertain air bred by unfainiliar- liy. He was not old ��������� ptrhnps Hl'ty; he tnay. Indeed, have been younger. Tho lines about rhe mouth and lire crow's- feet about the eyes told or a life that had been none too easy, arrd yet ihere ���������p. as that subtle air of prosperity about hTni, too. that in turn told its tale. Outside in the street the sun beat flown on the while sidewalk with a ttl.ire tbat reflected even into the carefully shaded shop. Behind tho count- ���������ers the young women stood or- sat iu little groups. They look cool and pretty in their lish- summer frocks. On the counters were toys. Heaps piled on heaps, it seemed to the man. al- | though the arrangement was orderly j enough. For a moment he stood in the door* J ���������t* ay. After lhe glare of the street thc j t.rop seemed almost in darkness. Grad- j ruaJIy the forms of the young women j rwere outlined io his sight, and then lie I caw dimly the things on the counters. An officious and obs-u'riious young I ���������man came forward rubbing his hands, j hvithln a minute the man was in j ���������charge of a cool-looking young woman, j ���������with a pretty smile and a gracious enanner. Almost before he knew it the -man was talking with Irer and explaining things that needed no explanation. "1 want to get a er-er-er, a toy, you "know," he said. "Yes, sir," said the young woman. "���������Here is a very pretty doll. How would that do?" and she brought out a won* ,-derful creation with eyes that opened jand shut, and long blond curls. It was ���������dressed in a pale blue silk gown. "How do you like that?" asked the ffoung woman, holding the doll up for (inspection. Then she pressed a hidden spring. ".Mamma, mamma, papa, papa!" said ���������the doll. "Great Scott! what's that," almost ���������shouted the man. "I was making the doll talk?" replied the girl. "Do they make dolls that talk?" ���������asked the* man. "Why," said the girl, with a pitying emile, "they did that ten years ago."' "Did ihey?" said the man; "well, yon Gee it's a good many years since I've ���������seen any toys." "Shall I send it home?" asked tho young -woman. "Xo," said the man; "I don't think that would do at all. I suppose you 6hiak I'm a pretty old man to be buy- ting boys," he continued, irrelevantly', "but, you see, I've been so busy trying So get rich that I never had time to ���������think about getting marrie'd till about stwo years ago. Been out West all Ure ���������time," ho continued, half sadly, "and ������������������somehow. I didn't see many things like 'ihat out there." "Here is something else that yon ���������cnight like, sir. interposed the young ���������woman, as she brought out a wonder* ttul locomotive and train of cars, ���������pressed a spring, and the engine bell IN PEW WORDS, Ii is proposed to change the name oi tho Congressional Library to the Na* ���������tioria! Library. Tiro first factory for tho manufacture, j ot cotton sewing thread was located at '��������� "Pawtucket in 170}. ! The size of each thread, as spun by the silkworn, is ono two-hundreds* part of an inchln diameter. j The only woman's face thnt hns ovoi BITS OF FUfV "One day," said Mr. Depew, "1 met a seidier who had boon wounded in the face. lie was a Union man, and 1 asked him in wheh battle he ha<7 been injured." "In the last battle of Bull Run, air,'* he replied. "But how could you get hit ln tho face at Bull Run?" I asked. ��������� __ . "Well, sir," said the man, half adorned United States paper money is j apologetically, "fater I had run a mile that of Martha Washington. The word "bonk" is derived from tht ���������word "beech," the back ot which tree our teutonic forefathers used for writing on before paper wns invented. According to I tie astronomical, gea- l.iglcal and anthropological evidence, man first pppcarcd upon the earth six hundred and llfty lhr.u*aird ye.irs ago. A journal dovoted to tho pen, in It, nnd paper trade says thnt tho world now uses three million five hundred thousand steel pons every day in th< week. There about two thousands persons In France who aro set down as anarchists, and are under tho constant watch of tho police of the various European countries. ' Tho California Board of Health funds | that In San .lose the average duration ! of life is about forty-three yours, which Js longer thnn that of any other city ill : the United States. I The tallest trees are to be found In ! the state forest of.Victoria, Australia.: They belong to tho eucalyptus family, j and range from three hundred and fifty | tc five hundred feet in height. o,i Piercing the flesh witli even the finest j needle hurts, because the nerves are so ! thickly matted just under the skin that | not even the finest point can be iutro- j drrccd without wounding one or more. | Boston firms under contracts with j the Nicaraguan government now con- ' trol nearly the whole of the vast ma- j hogany forests of that country, which j is the supply of tho world for this cost* j ly wood. I or two, I got careless and ���������hack.���������Youth's Companion. looked* Clara���������Whon George and I are married. I am to havo my own way ir* everything. Dora���������Uucss you won't. Clara���������Indeed I will. That's tho bargain. Don't you remember I told you he proposed to me In a rowboat. and asked if I'd float through llf������ >vlth him just that way? Dora���������Yes. Clara���������Woll he was rowing, but ( ���������was steering.���������New York Weekly. "This," said the drug clerk, "Is a most wonderful hair renewcr. It's our own preparation." "Well, give me a bottle," said tho "bald-headed man. "But, say, come to think of lt, why dorr't you uso it? You're pretty bald yourself." "I can't use. You see, I'm the 'Before Using' clerk. The 'After Using' clerk is out at lunch. You should seo him."*���������Philadelphia Press. FKOM GRAVE TO GAT. picture of the dove, bearing the pod many of his plays on the stage ch of olive, painted on the side. ,b,ut Ic-?a * *-**-���������' "-at I quite understand ^^ - ^ I llton-i?" TY-������ vcm i*i*nflof**lnnH (-hoTr*-*.' rang, the Whistle-blew, and oft the traic etarted on the circular track. "Is that what tbey call a toy?" ask* ed the man. "That is certainly a toy," replied the girl, with a laugh. "I -wish I could remem-ier some of the things I had to play with when I -ftras a* boy," .mused.'the man. I don't suppose you could get me a Noah's Art could you?" he contained db'ubuiiiiv. "I'll see, sir." said the young wo- ���������man, "but they're awfully old-fashion- c!." The young vvoman walked to the rear <-���������'. the shop and soon returned with the, ���������toy in question. Yea,-there it was. The Noah's Ark' St hadn't changed a bit in all the years that had fled. The same old gabled troof. one side of which opened like the 3iu of a box. The same. BQUare walls, with the little green windows; the same ���������narrow ledge around lhe bottom, and ���������the Sranca ��������� Slowly the man opened the box and "began to take out the little figures. His fcsnds_3Ct������3jly.trembled with delight. 'S'ueVonaerflif made green'trets, standing on the little brown bits of wood that axe meant to represent mother earth. The quaint figures of men and iKoinen; the soldiers, with their little "woo-den staffs. And then the animals. "Where has tbeir like ever been seen bc- toret He spread them out bsfore hia and looked at and beyond them, and the rahop, and the giare of the sidewalk ���������without vanished from hrs vision^ Green fields stretched before hioi, and 1^(deep="ln"their*-!iOHows-^nestied-tbi-=llitlo* ���������white house with the bright grc-wo blinds and the red chimney. In front of the house was a narrow little walk bordered on each side with eweet p-sas in bloom. How they smell! THe could even smell them here in the shop. Then be looked up. The girl twat wearing a bunch of those wonderful blossoms at her belt. He had not noticed them before, and he had almost forgotten how sweet those blossoms can smell. There iu a small lad running up tho narrow walk toward the house; One arm. broken by a fall from a tree, hang.1 limp by his side. A ���������tweet-faced woman comes rushing out to meet him, and with a cry of lender love gathers him into her arms. He lies In her arms, sobbing, whilo they rush for a doctor. And as he lies there, bearing the pain as best he can, the Jittle sister comes toddling up with ���������something in her hand for him. "Take dis. Tommy; oo hurt," and she /rands bim the choicest treasure of all her treasures, tho little blue camel trom the Noah's Ark. And here, almost half a century later, he stands with something warm and sticky held tight in his hand. He opens St, and lying in his palm is the little fclue camel from the Noah's Ark. In all these years that hc has forgotten them the little blue camel and its companions have not changed. They are the same now as then. '��������� ������ ��������� ��������� ���������'��������� ��������� . At borne his wife laughed when Hhe r.i5r the toy. "Baby Is too young for a Noah'3 y..rV." she snid. "Why did you buy it?" "There was a little blue carnal iu it,"( The replied vaguely. \ The wife laughed as she kissed h������ husband. "I fancy you brought that for another baby," she said tenderly and with perfect understanding.���������-Mali pad Express. ��������� ���������-- - --- --��������� ��������� It is said that the Greenland whale sometimes attains to the age of four hundred years. A French way of complimenting the old lady: "Ah, madam, you grow every day to look more liko your daughter." Mrs. Partington declares that sho :does not wish to vote, as sire fears sho could not stand thc electrical franchise. Love and friendship are synonymous (terms to all except those, who have! .ceased to bo lovers, and who havo therefore ceased to feel friendship. The London Times, in Its latest crop report, estimates the wheat crop of Great Britian for tho current year at '20,00,000 bushels above that of 1S95. Jimmie had been told that his father went to town every day to make bread Sjlie"} for the family. One day he was allowed to go to his father's office with hi in. "Now, poppie, he said, as soon as they arrived, "bring out iho dough." A recent ad. was put in a Canadian paper about a new nursing bottle. Tho direction were as follows: "When the baby Is done drinking, it must be unscrewed and laid in a cool place under* a tap. If tho baby does no1* thrivo on fresh milk, it should bo boiled." Mrs. Munniworth���������What is the price of this fur garment? Salesmen���������We can let you have that for forty dollars. "Forty dollars? Mercy. I couldn't think of taking it at that price." "Oh, of course, wo shall make a difference , in your case. It* you take it, wo shall ' let you have it for eighty-five.". "M'm ���������well���������yes. you may send it up. I think it will suit nre perfectly, como to look at it again." Blumenthal, the great theatre manager of Berlin, was talking with Tolstoi about Ibsen and said: "I have put a It is related that the lookout on a steamer in the far China Sea once saw a sailing craft flying a-big flag of ds- tress. Lowering a boat and boarding the ship, the officer ln command found the captain and crew���������all from Boston���������lying about the deck in various stages of starvation and distress. "What is Hie matter?" he asked. "We ���������have been out of beans tor seven days," was the feeble reply.���������New ���������York worm. A certain German professor of music to be met with in English drawing- rooms, le an entertaining old gentleman. To him, recently, a lady said, When one of his compositions had just been rendered by one of. the guests: "How do yon liko tha rendering of your song, professor?" "Vos dot my song?" replied the pro. fessor. "I did not know him."���������Tit' ���������sits. your Landlord���������I'm goiirg to raise rent, Mr. White. White���������Whit's gaun wrang; hiv tho rents gaun up? Landlord���������No; but I see you havo painted the house and made a fow im. provements in it. That, of course, ought to make it bring more rent.���������> /Tit-Bits. Tommy���������Say, paw. Jlr. Figg��������� Well, . "What kind of a man -Is called 8 ���������.trimmer'?" ���������������������������-������������������. ���������..*��������������������������� "Er���������well, he's one of those fellows that hasn't the nerve to be a shirtwaist man, but goes around lugging This coat on his arm."���������Indianapolis* Vress. "Pa, why do they formally notify a. man that he is nominated for president?" "Well, mainly, I think, so that ho* can't get up after he fails to be elected and vow he wasn't in politics at all."���������Indianapolis Journal. Clerical Tourist���������Do many peoplo worship at your little church? Villager���������Mighty few. Most of tho men fall asleep an" the women spends their time lookin" at each other's clothes.���������Brooklyn Life. LO AND HIS BUFFALO HORNS. How tho lied ".Inn l!tlli/<-.i n Product of tin Sl-tug-Iiler Iiouko, The Montana Indian ia something of a schemer himself. He comes to town and sometimes walks all over the place without saying a word to any one. Sometimes ho brings in a few sets of polished mounted cow's horns, which he sells for a dollar or two a cet. He never frequents saloons. He looks Into clothing store windows, but never bucks the slot machines in cigar storeB. He frowns as he passes a restaurant, but smiles while walking through the swectscented alleys back of cheap boarding houses. In a horse trade he takes the prize, if there's one to be taken, for he was* never known to get iho worst of such a bargain. The reason of this, ho-.**-- ever, may lie In the fact that ho begins the negotiations with nothing to lose aud everything to win. However, hc has the reputation of a schemer. Where his schemes shine brightest is in the scale of polished "buffalo" horns. He lives out near one of the slaughter houses on the sonth side, and there he secures his "buffalo" hornis, all sizes, curves and consistencies. Hc picks out a sot of ox horns of symmetrical proportions, scrapes the scales off and bolls the horns ln a solution of glycerine, wood ashes and water. This treatment softens the'horns, so hat a case-knife will easily remove all the exterior acciimulation. Then fine sandpaper is used to give the first polish, followed by a thorough rubbing with a flannel cloth slightly saturated with oil. A varnish or shellac is then applied, and the horns are in condition for mounting. Then the work Is turned over to the squaw, who does the really artistic work. Red flannel and braid, beads sometimes, and a strio here and there of buckskin, a few brass-headed tacks and the mounted "���������buffalo" horns are ready for the market. Mr. Buck comes to town and the tenderfoot asks him where he "ketch- em buffalo horns." "In Yallowstone Park," grunts the big buck. "How much?" asks the intending purchaser. "Two dolls." j-*.**- "Too muchee." "No, no; cheap; thine dolls, ugh." The tenderfoot inspects the work and satisfies himself that they are really the horns of an almost extinct species of the majestic Western animal, and he hands over tho coin and walks away proudly with his prize. The Indian moves off down the street, turns." the''.first corner and dis*- appears up an alley. them?" Do you understand them?' Tolstoi replied: "Ibsen doesn't understand them himself. He just writes them, and then sits down and waits. After a while his expounders and explainers came -and tell him what ho ���������meant," ODDS AND ENDS. A vacuum cure���������A dinner. A domestic bird���������A duck of a wife. The prohibitionist is not the only ^ian who objects to money being tight. In France there ls a law compeiring **" Th������ .Stuttering Sailor. There Is one marked peculiarity about most.'-.���������en who stutter. When thev uecome excited the only thing they can do to recover their lost speech is to sing, and when in anger their most fluent mode of communication is through profanity. Not long tout TITis Scalp Jfourty-four Years Ago. "There is an old fellow living near Grenada, in my State," said a Memphis man at one of the hotels, "who was scalped by the Indians back in '56. I saw him recently when I was down In his neighborhood looking after the title of some farm property, and was greatly interested in his story. He is now about 70, tough and gnarled as a tree, and the mark of his horrifying a'dventure consists of a curiously ridged and Indented scar, about four inches across on the top of his head. "He says he was one of a party o'f. emigrants who had taken what was then known as the 'Fremont overland- trail,' for California, and while passing through southern Kansas he and two otner young men left the main party to ride after some antelopes. They were intercepted by Indians and his two companions killed. He himself was shot in the back and fell off his horse senseless. The firing was heard by the other emigrants, and a rescue party drove the savages away. But), meanwhile, they had scalped this young man, and when picked up he was at first suppopod to be dead.*'Ho wa*? i&i-riba back and the next day turned over to some eastbound travelers, who took him to St. Louis. He' told me it was over a year before the wound began to heal, but, of course, his memory may be at fault as to particulars. The wonderful part of it is that he recovered at all in those days, when skin grafting was practically unknown. He used to hide the scar with ago a boat which sailed from this \ a toupee, or patch wig, but at present port had on board a sailor who stuttered under all circumstances. Ho ���������was excitable in the extreme, and at j he is tntirely bald and wears a tight- fitting cap. "I dare say he fs the only man in the eritical times it was almost impossi- i world who ever survived such an or- tile for him to eay a word. Tbe mate j deal. His forehead, by the way. Is of the vessel was a tall, muscular j curiously wrinkled In vertical lines, fellow by the name of Barnabas. His J and his eyebrows are raised out of the peculiarity was that he always kept j natural position. Tbat was what first himself busy, and that when he had ! attracted my attention to him. He --physicians--to-writo-tb-Hr-prescrtpuoas^^^Q^ in the language of the country. i vork ot the saliors. One day he waa I the wound." More than four times as many barrels j iusy* along the rail, and the stutter- of apples have been exported so far this season as in the same period last year. The line of sectionalism Is fading out. An Alabama correspondent of a Georgia paper asks for a receipt for j New England pumpkin pio. It ls said that New York has more well-equipped first-class hotels in por- portion to its population and area tha������ any other city in the world. The largest room In the world Is said to be the ball of the Imperial palace in St. Petersburg. It is one hundred and sixty feet long by one hundred aat) fifty feet wide. "The principal value of an education," wrote a little negro boy, recent** ly, ln reply to the question, "Is so you can read the sign-boards at the crossroads, to tell you which road to go." It is asserted by Lyell, tho geologist, that at a period comparatively recent all that portion of the United States south of the Black Hills wan under five hundred to nine hundred feet or waier. It ls said by philoliglsts that thore are thirteen original languages���������tho Greek, Latin, German, Slavonic, Welsh, Biscayan, Irish, Ilbanian, Tartarian. Illyrian, Jazyglan, Chaucln and Finnic. A story is told ot a child witness in an Irish court who was asked by tire judge: "If you took a false oath, whal would happen to you?" Ho hesit;tio.iK*n(������vet.*|r. The Master Mind now gave to the .world the fruit of his laborious calculations. As the shrewd reader will doubtless lave conjectured, it was an extremely impressive moment. "ff you a.dd the first two figures ot /901," announced the Master Mind modestly, yet dignifiedly, "you get tho same result as if you transpose the last two figures." Of his attendants some wrung out .���������Wet cloths to apply to his head, whilo others telephoned for reporters.���������Detroit Journal. ^* "������������������ ' An Kxcnploti. "Thero's ono thing about this glor'.*. (Diis country���������every man in It has a chance to be President." "Not every man." ( -"Yes, sir." ', "No, sir. There's Bryan."���������Life. > most nervous person and relax the rnorit overwrought nerves. Onions contain a form of opium. Thi? giv.n them soporific qualitres. Th-i smell after a iltie while ceases to oe obnoxious, i'iiopic who are exceedingly sensitive to ordor will feel not irnpi'easant effects. It will no*. Indue.-; headaches or nausea as might be supposed. A gentle lethargy stealr? over the person heroic enough to try- this means of wooing slumber. The senses become dull, the nerves weak- sned and restful sleep follows. The medical properties of onions are well known. One eaten raw every night Just before retiring for a month in the spring is recommended to produce a clear, fresh complexion. An onion plaster will relieve hoarso- nfiss and Inflamation. Rav/ onions mashed and applied as a .wrltice to the throat will relieve sore throat. The snme poultice on tho chest Is effective in cases of bronchitis) and where there Is soreness In the lungs. At. ���������/������������������a'-it onions enthusiasts claim that all these things are true. ��������� >*ii)iit.((((. Originally, a town ot a warship fire."** off its guns on the approach of friendly strangers, to show that they had such faith In the vlsi'ors' peaceful Intentions they didn't think it necessary to keep their guns loaded CANNIBALISM IN VOGUE An American Iiidtnii in .lull for iu'.lins a Woman. An Indian cannibal has heen sent to jail in Vancouver. His crime was part of an ancient rite. He was an initiate of the Ha-mattsa, an Tndian secret fraternity which demands of its members that they acquire a taste for human flesh. The Canadian government is greatly exercised over this outbreak of a barbaric custom that had been thought well nigh stamped out. One of the prisoners was a well- known half-breed named George Hunt. He had charge of a hand of Indians, exhibited at the World's Fair, nnd he acted as interpreter for Dr. Franz Boas, of the Museum of Natural History, New York, when tho latter was in Vancouver collecting data for his important work on Indian customs, now tiled at the Smithsonian Institution. There was InsuITlclcnt cvidonro for lire conviction of Hunt, and the same is trrre of all the defendnn'a save ono. He wa.s convicted of having devoured a portion of the body of a squaw. It Is -only among n few of tlte far northern nnd inland tribes, rcnui'e from civilization and stubborn In their resistance to missionary effort, that tho horrible rites of tho Ha-maltsa, or flesh-caters, survive. Every spring the ffa-inattsa holds its initiation ceremonies for new candidates, accompanied by feasting and dancing and other wild orgies. The chief purpose of tho initiation ls to create in the aspirant the tasto for human flesh. In the case in question the body of a young squaw who had mys'.eriously died but a few days before was rc'- moved from the burying ground and taken to the Initiation room, where It was lashed naked to one of the posas. A band of the Ha-mattsas, marched round It, inflamed by wild mrrsic and frenzied yells of the old Ha-mattsas, and proceeded to bite off mouthfu'ls of flesh from the arms, sides and legs of the squaw's body. The Northwest "Mounted Police were* Informed of the hideous rHe and succeeded in^captur.'ng the ringleader. Many, curious facts about, the cannibal fraternity came to light during the trial. It was developed that for initiation into tho Ha-muttsas tho novice must go and live four or five weeks in the forest seeing no one and eating no food. At the *fcnd of his banishment Iris '"spirit" "appears in tho shape oil some animal, which ho at once kills nnd devours raw, whereby he is supposed to imbibe its courage and strength, which thereafter dwell in him. He returns from the forest adorned with a headdress of cedar bark, dyed red' wh ich is ope of the emblems of the flesh-eating fraternity, and is worn by him during the progress of the initiation. He is metby a band of the secret brotherhood, who escort him to the village with much ceremony. * - They are joined hy an attendant bearing in his arms a dead body, which must be that of a young squaw. -In ancient times she was sacrificed for the occasion. Walking behind'thfs body, the candidate is led into the dancing-house, which; has been cleared for the ceremony. ��������� The; body is tied to a post and ITke* unspeakable rite begins. There were witnesses : at'.'the trial who swore that Hunt, the half-breed, had cut the body to pieces for distribution among the old members and tho novice, and that all joined in devouring the flesh. Certain it is that the man from the woods, naked and half- starved after his vigil, played his part- In the rite, whilo his...jv������cciates spurred him or'T^itl: "ance and song. ���������Ana if they did not actually join him ln the gruesome feast, they stimulated his zeal by making concerted, wolf-like rushes at the mangled body and pretending to,fight over the flesh. Nor did the candidate for Ha-mattsa honors escape with one night of horrors. Four times, as darkness fell, he was led Into the dance-house and compelled to undergo the trial prescribed by Indian tradition. On the fourth night the corpse had been all devoured. Then came another stage of the ceremony���������the eating of living-flesh. In this the uninitiated spectators were allowed to play a passive part. The Ha- mattsa ran hither and thither among them, biting with the ferocity of a wildcat and eating their flesh. It was a point of pride With the victims to endure the onslaught with stoicism. Besides, the customs of the or- -der^prjeserlbeigiftri*^ themselves to be bitten. The first prize on this occasion was awarded to a boy who allowed a large mouthful to be detached from his forearm. Having gaithfr'rlly performed all that was required of him. the candidate was pronounced by the elders a full-fledged Ha-mattsa. It then devolved upon his proud family to give a great feast ln his honor. Human flewh was not included In the* repast, but thc new Ha-mattsa exhibited his zeal by occasionally taking a bite out of his nearest neighbor's arm or shoulder, and these attentions were submitted to with great good humor. Most important of all was the distribution by the young Ha-mattsa of blankets and other gifts tb all tho persons whom he had honored by biting. A HANDY ELEPHANT Ue Would Itock ltnl-ie.* Aalucp Willi III: Trnnlc Stretched on tho floor of an annex of the Crystal Palace is all llrat now remains of Charlie, the performing elephant���������a great dusky skin and huge frame, says the London Chronicle, Everything else has been buried, and soon the hide and skeleton, mounted after the most approved taxidermlc methods, will be added to the natural history section of the palace. Although' he had two human lives against his record, Charlie was not without friends, and there are at least three men who mourn his inglorious end. Ono is a black attendant, who declares: "Charlie all right, poor old follow;" and another Mr. Edgar Shrub- sale, who Is renovating tho "specimens" at the palace, and speaks) nd;- mlringly of tho dead elephant ns the* host proportioned animal ot Its kind he has ever seen. But perhaps Chur- lio's moBt sincere mourner Is Mr. Sanger, with whose circus the creature traveled for close upon forty years. "Ho was tho most docile, affectionate nnd intelligent animal nnd the finest performer I have ever known," said Mr. Sanger recently to one of our representatives. "Hc hns been up and down tho country with me for thirty- eight years, and has never Interfered .with tho public. Why, he has nursed all my children and my grandchildren, and what better evidence can there bo of his docility than that? It sounds "surprising, but what I mean is that he took them in his trunk and swune them gently until they fell asleep- Money will not replace him. I don't know where I could get an elephant of his size and quality as a performer." Before the final tragedy of Charlie's life took place Mr. Sanger bade him. an affectionate farewell in his stall. CUBED LONG AGO I! I* Took ofrr ni������ Arm' WIIIioiil. Toiichliinr IO. A brief telegram the other day recited that ono James McMullon had lost an arm in/a wringing machine In a laundry at Hutchinson. Here is ihe remarkable story, related about the accident by the ���������Hutchinson News: "McMullen stopped at the wringer and held his hands over'it to dry! them. Ilr- g0������ one hand too low so that tho air suction caught, it, and his arm from the elbow down was taken off as by a miracle. The wringer is a large circular iron affair, with u .sir.nll- er bowl inside it in which the do hr.a arc' placed. Tho smaller apar men.1, is perforated with holes upon the sides, and the whole thing revolves at. 'he' rate of several thoiisiind-revolutions n minute. The effect is that tho air currents within tho^wrln'gor are as terrific in their power as the centre section of a Kansas . cyclone. When a cyclone strikes a brick building and hurls it to atoms the force seems appalling and1 incomprehensible. The accident to Mr. McMullen* was equally mystifying. : The Instant his arm came into contact with the current of air it was parted at the elbow. One part lay on- the clothes that were in the machine and the other dangled from his shoulder. There was nothing about the machine to give him even a scratch. "The nerve exhibited by McMullen was wonderful. ' 'It never touched me,' was the first thing ho said. The girls in tho room were screaming and McMullen calmly informed them that it, was not his head that was tal!<*in off and told them to be still. Ho was taken to a hospital and his arm was amputated close to the shoulder." *N������*e(l of 1-nro Air. In order that sleep may perform Its legitimate work of restoration it demands ihat Ils condl lor.s and environment shall offer no obstacle to In accomplishment. SIocp demands a purer atmosphere than the waking hours of life. Awake and at work wo arc sorhowhat on tho defensive, but wo yield ourselves'Into the arms of slumber and arc at tbo mercy of iinrn-en foes lurking In secrot hiding platen, about, our rooms, close beside our beds and beneath our very pillows*. KNGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT Removes all hard, soft or callaoused lumps and blemishes from horses, blood spavin, curbs, splints, ringbone, sweency, stifles, sprains, s������-*e and swollen threat, coughs, etc. Save $5(1 hy the use of one bottle.. Warranted the most wen-ierfu! Blemish cure ever known. .(Confeiisioi* of Crlmo Uy Hypnnti-mi. Public interest has been aroused recently on this , question by the exor- tion of a confession from a thief bv means of hypnotism. A confession of crime obtained in this way may -or may not be a vali'dl one. It ls not necessarily infallible, any more than a voluntary confession would be. It would have to bo verified by other evidence before it could) be seriously considered. Hypnotism will not make a liar instantaneously veracious. It is a very common opinion that a hypnotist can completely capture the mind of his patient without his consent, and discover all the secrets of his past life. Hypnotism only gives us a means whereby we can the more readily, get at the divine man within.* It is not so much.* key to the door of a man/si mind'as a more effectual way of ringing the door-bell and conversing with the occupant. Generally speaking, a strong-willed man may still keep his criminal secret in spite of all influences, hypnotic or otherwise. As a rule criminals are ^very--hard=to^hypnotize,=because=they-. set their whole nature against the hvp- notist, and when a man is under the influence of liquor it is impossible to- do anything with him, There is no doubt that hypnotism*, can and will be used to detect crime.. But we aro only on the threshold of knowledge in this direction, and no one can set limits to the future of hypnotism in overcoming the obstinacy, of criminals. The time may come when the old, Ineffectual methods of regenerating tne moral nature will be su-, perseded by hypnotic treatment. 'The astonishing results already attained prove this beyond question. By hypnotism we can reach people who are moral Imbecile:!, and by no- other power known to man can you do this. We can discover the sense of right and wrong where none seemed to'exist. We can overcome evil habits and awaken the higher self which never completely dies in any man or woman. Where every other influence has failed to restore a man to moral san*< ity, hypnotism has succeeded. So I would say that if It fails to extract a confession from a criminal no other means can be used with mrccess. There is such a thing as compulsory hypnotism, which can be' applied to any person without his consent. It 1% possible to shatter a human will as you might break a china vase against a rock. But this Is a new and almost undeveloped field, about which little can be said at present. "Wire") Need Rent. :. Telegraph wires are better conductors on Monday than on Saturday, on account of their Sunday rest; and rs rest of three weeks adds 10 per cent, to the ^kf I allowed myself to bo calf joled and befooled by a ���������A. pretty woman," said tha chaplain. " Nevertheless, against the impression my story pro. duces -upon your mind I will sot my long and critical experience of humanity. I mn a connoisseur in crime, villany, roguery and hypocrisy, and I prefaco this ���������tory with tho emphatic pronouncement that I am persuaded of the genuineness of Sirs. Kulhnm's delusion." With that he pushed iiis chair a little back from the fire, set his pipe in hia lap, and with his feet resting upon the fender told mo the following extraordinary story: Eliza Fulham was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment on a charge o) .forgery. Her maiden name was Chambers, and she was tlte daughter of a Canadian rancher. At the age of eighteen she married a man named l-'ulham ;Who came from the States, and aftei somo five years of life in Canada she went with him to .England, where thej' settled down to a humble, humdrum ex- jistence in the suburbs of London. There were no children of lire marriage. The man, Thomas Fulham, was several years older than Iris wife, and her very counterpart. Whereas she was small. fair, gentle and infirm of will, he was '���������huge, black, stern, and n man of iron determination. His full, dark eyes were expressive of the most profound melancholy, and the character of his mouth iwas severe, and at times eyeii cruel. Hc Was frequently thrown into fits of gloomy depression, which lasted several days. He waa glunr, taciturn, secretive. !His wife, at tire time of her marriage and for several years after, knew nothing of his antecedents. He came suddenly into her somewhat lonely life���������a striking looking man of magnificent physique, a fj-reat hunter, a bold rider, a lover of solitude���������and sp; powerful was the en- fchantment ho cast over the girl's mind '"that for many months, thinking lie did ���������iurt care for her, she suffered severely [both in mind and body. Her love for 'aim was of thc blind and unreasoning order���������o girl's love for a hero of romance; the sort of love that is common .enough in young and unsophisticated communities, however rare it miry be in 'modern Europe. She loved blindly, arid when one day he rode up to her father's ranch, tied 'his- horse up to the rails, .entered tho house, and without preface jof any kind told her that she must mar- ;ry him, the girl was wild with happi- jness. Her father appeared content with Fui- jham's assurance that he had private ���������means, and no bar was raised to their .engagement. They were married, and at Iher father's death, five years later, they 'left the country. j My story begins after their arrival in JEugland. But I must tell you first that isoon after the marriage,-although she "continued to adore her husband, Eliza ;Fulhajn was distressed by his deepening 'melancholy and by the unliiting shadow ifchttt overhung his thoughts. She real- 'ized that she was married to a confirmed .hypochrondriae, and niter vain attempts !to dispel the mists of his melancholy she jsettled down to a gray colored life, con- jtent if- she avoided giving him offence, land enchanted if he, ever bestowed upon |her any mark of tenderness or affection. jSuch a.life, as you may well imagine, ;had a; numbing effect upon her intelli- igence. The vigor of the strongest mind lwould decay and atrophy in an atnios- iphere cf this kind; and as the poor girl ���������was 'of a weak and clinging nature her 'environment was peculiarly adapted to jthe destruction of her so-nity. j One day, she told me���������it was some jeigJht years after her marriage���������Thomas jFulham returned to his villa after a |VJ*sitto London, canje.into the kitchen [where sho was helping a libtle maid of sail - work to . prepare' tlio evening meal, 'rand, taking her hand, led her without a Word into, tho sitting-room. Hero he Said both hands upon her shoulder, and for several moments looked deeply into ���������her eyes. Then he. drew her nearer to ihim, kissed her gently between the eyes, and spoke as follows: ; "My dear'JMnry,"* said he, "it has been dawning'upon me sloivly for several days thai I have not shown you the kindness and the attention which your great affection deserves, and which my love for you is most ready to display. I have had thoughts to worry me, business lo (occupy my mind, and conscientious difficulties* in Ure ��������� matter of* religion. But, 'by the mercy of heaven, I have now - shaken- these =_troubles_f mm _ my _hrain, and from this time forth we will be all the world to each other." , She was so enraptured by this confession that she did not concern herself to tell him he had addressed her by a wrong name. She threw herself upon his breast* told him that hc had always been good fto her, and professed the most complete And consuming adoration for her one friend in the world. Ho seemed pleased by her artless love,' ' fondled her with quiet affection, and studied'her countenance with lingering Interest, "you arc not looking at all well," he said presently. "You stay too much indoors. I must take you about." She said she was perfectly content with her life. "You.: deceive yourself," he answered. "You are not well. You have grown much thinner, and I notice that in order to obscure this effect upon your face you have taken to-wearing your hair in a different fashion." She laughed, and said that he was qui to mistaken. "Do not distress me by contradictions," he answered, a little impatiently. '"I remember perfectly well that you always wore your (hair parted in the center, and caught away from the' brows, which gave your face a. more. open, and simple expression. I hope you will return to that fashion. T I liked it, and it suited you." ".''.. To Inrtnor (him she said that she would dress her hair in future like a Madonna. J'At that he shuddered. "Like the Madonna!" he said, almost under his breath. "Yes, yes, like the Madonna. All women should emulate ���������ttflH-lt holy purity; certainly, cortainly." -And then ho added, thoughtfully, "I desire my Mary to he liko tho Mary of Scripture.-* ���������"Why. A> jou call mo Mary?" she asked, smiling np into his eyes. He looked at her in surprise. "Why T {Became your name ia Mary." "Ko," she answered; "H is an uglier name, a much uglier name." i.3Mr 'It-tie wife in ill." he eald. gently. "Come, I have neglected you too long." "No, dear, I am not ill," she answered, "and I know that my name is Eliza." He frowned angrily. "Your name is Mary," he said. "If you call me Mary, Mary I will be," Bhe answered. "Your name 13 Mary," he rejoined. That evening, when they had finished their meal, he drew from his coat an old leather pocketbook, which he had kept iri his possession ever since their marriage. "I was looking to-day at one of your old photographs," ho said; "it was tlris that made mo realize how much thinner you have becomo since your arrival iu tlris country." He looked for a minute nt a photograph in Iris hand, arrd then passed it to his wife. "Tlrnt was tihe old Mary," he said, tenderly. She looked with amazement nt lire picture of another woman, lt was tiro picture of a girl some twenty years of age, with large, quiet eyes, arrd a beautifully gentle mouth. The hair was worn as hc had described, and thero was rip likeness between herself and this woman. '"This is not 1," she said, looking up. lie smiled sorrowfully. "Is it possible that you have forgotten yourself?" he suid. "But, really, this is someone, else." "My dear JTUary, you aro ill. Wlrat enn possibly have occurred to make you doubtful of your own identity? Look at the back of the photograph; you have written your own name there." She turned tho picture over and there on the back, written across the photographer's usual advertisement, was the name of Mary Townserrd. She looked up; her husband was regarding her with a smile of quiet triumph. "Well?" he asked. "This is nil wrong" she said. "There is some mistake. My father's name was Chambers. My own name is Eliza." Without answering, but continuing to smile tolerantly, ho drew from his pocketbook a folded document, ,nnd passed Jit to his wife. She opened it and saw that it was a certificate of marriage. Her heart began to beat nervously, and tears rusher! to her eyes. .The document witnessed to a���������'!marriage 'between' Thomas' Fulham of Cedar City, Nevada,:aiul Mary Jefferson Townsend, of Salem, Ore.���������-four years before her Own. "What.does it mean?" sho 'cried,.*with a sob. "It should convince you," he said, tenderly, "tliart your nanre is Mary; thai this picture is your photograph, and that the signature at Hie back is your own.'' "No, nol" sire cried, starting up. '"'It i.-* a lie! I say it is a lie!" At that moment, she told me, the poor thing felt the full horror of her loneliness. AVilhoul a relative in the world alone in a strange country, she found herself in the grip of a* man who persisted in attaching to her an identity not her own, who forced upon her a personality that was not hers; and this man was her one guardian and protector, in the world! lier brain was possessed with horror, and she could do nothing but, cry out, "It is a lie���������a lie!" He looked n't her calmly as she said this; then he look tire paper from the floor where"she had dropped it, and with quiet precision folded it* up and replaced it with the photograph in his pocket- book. She stood there, mesmerized, while he slowly closed the 'book and pulled the clastfc strap about its covers. The room was growing dark, and she remembered that the streot lamp outside their window was suddenly lighted as hn placed the book in iris pocketbook and looked up at .her. She could see hia black eyes shining upon her as ho stood thero on the other side of the fireplace- huge and tyrannic���������the flame of the street lamp dancing against the window of the room. ��������� He came to her, rested his. fingers upon her shoulders, and regarded 'her with fixed intensity, his face close to her own. It was for many minutes, or so it seemed to her, that he stood there in tho gloom fixing her with this long-arid searching gaze; then, very gently, and very slowly, he put his arms about her, gathered her up to his breast, and, as if she liad been a sick child, carried her from tiro little parlor up to their Jbedroom on the floor above. She was completely under the 6pell of his gaze, and could say nothing, and could make no protest against his action. . "You are ill, dearest," he said, when they reached the J bedroom. "You must go to bed, and rest there until you are quite restored." He bent down and took the shoes fromThor feet. "I am not ill," she answered. "I am, indeed, quite well. Only���������only why do you say I am somebody, else?" :i^He^kissed-her,_and^-slre-toUi jne-ihat never before had he been so deliriously tender to her. His very voice was a caress. "Beloved," he said, "you are ill, though you do not know it���������very ill. I will watch over you and.nurse you Ull you arc restored to me again, for I could not support life if you were taken fronr me." He assisted her to undress, and put her to bed. Then Ire drew a chair to her side, and, sitting there, holding her hand, spoke as follows: "I once had a terrible dream, dearest; I dreamed that you were dead; that people came and bore you away from me, locked up in a coffin so tlrnt I could not see your beautiful eyes, iror fondle your dear hands, .which tlrey had folded upon your breast. It was a dream from hell, und when I woke up mid found you still alive I could scarce believe that it was true, so strong was the hold of that bad dream upon my mind. And now. tliat you are ill I am full of terrible fear that my dream may come true. You inu-it live, Mary���������yoi' mirst live to comfort me, for without jou the devils will goad me to madness iind self-destruction.^ Promise rne that you will try to live." The yearning in the last sentence filled tire hrystifie.'.' girl-wife, and she kissed the hands fondling her own, promising that sire would get well, and that she would never leave lrinr. Then he sat 'there and talked* of a past in which she had.never shared. He recalled anecdotes of lier homo, her father, and her old uncle the ironmaster, and she knew that he was talking of the home of this Mary Townsend whom he hud married four years, before he married her. It was a horrible situation; to all Iris appeals, '"Do you remember this?" and "Don't you recollect that day wo rode to this place or that?",she hud to rrod her head and express recollection of a past she knew nothing about. Well, for the ifrst day of this treatment ehe listened eagerly, curiosity naturally urging her to learn all she could of this man's first wife. And he never Mt her till to fetch food and Irfnk, tending her with extraordinary iact and tenderness. But at the end of the second day her brain grew weary, jnd it was then that delusion first be- Jan its assault upon her consciousness. Now, you know how .frequently we think during a conversaUon, "I have heard that before," or, on visiting a Icene, it suddenly strikes us that we have seen it on former occasions. You know all that? Well, there is a scientific explanation. When tbe intelligence Is alert the sound of words is conveyed Instantaneously to the consciousness; the lobes of the brain grasp the meaning of words at tho very moment their sound strikes upon the drum of the ear. ind weary, the attention flagging, rind there is delay���������albeit infinitesimal, tliat. delay, that fraction of a second's interruption in the normal working of the. mind is sullieierrt to produce these wandering delusions. "1 have heard that before!" we exclaim, believing it to be years and years ago; and quite truly, wc have heard it before���������the thousandth part of a second ago. This explanation I apply to the case of Eliza Fullrain. She told nre tlrnt on the second day as lie sat by the bedside talking to her of tlris past, it suddenly struck her that she was familiar with it, familiar with tire very words ho was addressing to her, and tlint somewhere irr the mysterious past she had threaded the ways of which he spoke. She roused herself to see if she were not dreaming. Then she checked her thoughts and brushed the theory aside. She was herself, Kliza Chambers, daughter of a Canadian farmer, and now the second wife of Thomas Fulham, the man who had lived beside her dead father in the far-off Canadian days. It was a 'battle between memory and the present. On the one side was recollection of her past, on the other the live and active present which told her she was Mary Townsend. You may imagine the conflict. Days went by, many days, and still he kept her a prisoner in bed, nursing her with engaging gentleness, and waiting upon her smallest whim with -the alacrity of a lover. They were in a measure .the best days she had known, for the pretty little creature had long been sick lor love, and now the hero of her romance was showering upon her a thousand tendernesses. But they were days of struggle���������the conflict of memory and present���������and every day found her memory weakening in the strife: She could not tell me definitely When she abandoned her personality:'. The transition must have been so gradual, she thought, that no actual date could be assigned to it; but when sire rose from her bed it was with the full and complete conviction that she had been Mary Townsend. that she had lived in* Oregon, and that it Was in the old town.of Salem she married Thomas . FuUiam. Eliza Chambers Was forgotten. i She was weak in health, and her weakness increased. Tlie greater part of her day was passed on the sofa, her husband in the closest attendance. In brief, she had become a complete invalid. - . -.Three years after tlris, when she had almost forgotten her belief in the existence of Eliza Chambers, her husband came to her room one morning, in a state of great excitement, with a letter in his Jhand. "Mary," he cried, "I have bad news for you, and good news, too. You Te- member your uncle, Zachary Townsend. ;the ironmaster? "He is dead, and he has ���������left you a. fortune���������a big fortune." ; JHe came to the bedside, put the fluttering sheet in her hands,, and as she read it he placed his arms tenderly about ���������her and kissed her. hair, j -.Well, when she had received that for- Itune she believed herself, to be the dead ���������wife.'..' That is her statement���������-that i������ my iunswerving conviction. You can guess .the sequel. After some months of great Wealth, other heirs in the States heard Ithat Mary Townsend had died, proofs of rher death : were T forthcoming; evidence, ���������too, of Fulham's second marriage with ���������Eliza Chambers was speedily produced��������� ;and then the newspapers here got hold of it, and rumors of "a gigantic swindle" .were in the air. * * Reading the account of the story vin one of the papers, the conviction returned to Eliza Fulham that she was not ���������Mary, the daughter of Auheron Town- Js'end. "Bewildered and all confused���������for her ;mind,Tl fully believe, was affected-r-she jhurried to her husband. "Read this!" she implored. "It is all iabout us, about ypu and me. O,'something is wrong, something is wrong! Tell me what it means." He drew her upor. his knee, held her .gently against his breast, and read tho. iarticle. But as he read a great shudder _shook-him,--Jie-drow-his-brcath-in-sharp- ly, and she felt his arms tighten about her. And then���������nil in a minute���������ho sprang up, flinging her from him, and 'cried out, in a loud voice: "Mary*in heaven, forgive mel I havo1 ���������forgotten you���������I have been false to you!" He was looking up, one arm raised above his head, the fist tightly clenched: His wife went to him. "What does it all mean?" she whimpered. He turned upon her a glance of the most horrible ferocity, shrinking back from her. His brows were black with rage, hia parted lips were curled into nn expression of loathing and contempt. ,. Be a hand, resting it gently upon her head. While she trembled and gasped before him, however, his face suddenly softened, a look of the most tender compassion dawned in his eyes, and he stretched out a hand, resting it gently upon her head. "Against two women have I sinned," he said, slowly and brokenly; "the ivife whom I forgot in death, nnd the woman whom I must forget in life" And he left her���������without another word he went out of the room and out of the house. She never saw him again. Shortly after this she .was brought to her trial; she confessed everything as though she had impersonated the dead wife for pur-' poses of fraud, and the doctors finding, nothing wrong with her mind she was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. I attended her every day, struck-by her fragile 'beauty and the extraordinary; dreaminess of her expression, which gave tiie lie to her confession of premeditated guilt. But it waa only toward the end, when she waa dying in Uie hospital, that sha' told her story, dhar-zing me to seek out her huahend and tell him that she fo**- gave him everything. And tbat (tory. of hern I beHe-re implioiUy. "And the husband?" I asked. ��������� "He baa never been diocOTered.' Curious Bits of News, An cgg-layirrg contest will be tha next international event.- Twenty-one of tho best hens in the United States havo sailed from San Francisco to compete for a year with an equal number of Australian hens. Tire Australian Government paid the traveling expenses of the Yankee poultry, and nt the end of the year will buy six of the hens ut twenty-five dollars apiece. The others will be disposed of by public auction. A saleswoman in a Paris dressmaker's establishment, whose salary was twenty- Jive hundred dollars a year, accepted an offer of three thousand dollars from a rival firm, nnd promised to forfeit two thousand dollars if she broke the new contract. Thereupon her employer advanced her salary to thirty-seven hundred dollars, nnd agreed to pay the forfeit provided she would rrrake no change. These figures have recently been brought out in u French court of law. TMiich interest has lately been aroused in London by two surgical operations which have resulted in a marked change of character in the patients. One was that of a hoy of good family who had developed strangely brutal instincts. A clever surgeon"examined lrinr with care, located what he considered the sent of tire trouble, removed a piece of the skull, and thus relieved the deforming .pressure. Tiro Ind was restored to his parents a normal and lovable child. The other ease was that of a soldier who, after an injury in a skirmish, developed a'propensity "for theft. An operation on the brain cured him. Lord Weniyss has the unique dJslinc- tion of being the only man who ever struck the present King of England. It happened during a debate in lhe House of Lords,-when the King, then Prince of Wales, occupied a seat in front of Lord Womyss, who" was speaking with a great deal of animation. While emphasizing a point he brought his fist down on top of the Prince's silk hat with such force that the hat was smashed in and pushed down over-the eyes of the royal listener. Apologies followed. Thc Prince remarked that he appreciated the force of Lord Wemyss's remarks, and then moved but (if range of the lord's energetic arm. Marie, Corelli is out on the warpath again, the object of her wrath this time heing Andrew Carnegie. She tried to see the multimillionaire in London, the other day, to protest iijrainst his alleged vandalism of'.*'demolishing' two ancient houses in Henley -street, Stratford-on- Avon, to erect a Carnegie free library. But; the steel king declined to see thc liery little novelist, who lias recently written some slighting things aboul liim for the press. JMr. Carnegie explains h'.s position thus: "When I gave tlio money at the request of; thc .local:.'authorities for a free library my responsibility ceased. I have no right and do not wish to interfere with the action of the local authorities in selecting n site. I am quite, sure they" nre as anxious ns Miss Corelli to destroy no relic of Shakespeare." Studies in Natural History. The Shopper. This expensive animal, which appears to have been designed by Providence to keep man poor and humble is found in both Europe and America. Much controversy has arisen over the classification of tlris interesting creature, owing to the circumstance that only married men havo etudied the species at close range, and they write of it with* a manifest prejudice and venom that robs their observations of all weight. Some of the scientists go so far as to declare that tiro Shopper i3 the original vampire, that bleeds a man's pocket- book to thc lust drop that is in it. Others affirm that it delights in torturing its victim by pulling its leg, but tho truth of the matter seems to be that it merely belongs to the class of animals that have no grip, and let thirds grjt away from them (genus fomnibus li'-irk- ruptus). In appearance thc Shopper is inconspicuous, being clrielly noticeable for currying a* bug stuffed full of samples and newspaper- advertisements. These, however, lender it. so formidable that peoplo give it the right of way, and men, especially, lice ut its approach. it has been found impossible to obtain any iiecura.te information ns to tiro habits of the Shopper. According to the most reliable data that have been furnished ou tiro subject, it is, at times, a most docile, intelligent nnd affectionate domestic animal, performing its tasks with willingness and ability, when suddenly it will be attacked with a wild mania, and, breaking every restraint, will rush off to the bargain counter. These fits, which are similar to those which seize animals in the Wild Wes* after eating the loco plant, seem to be occasioned by reading the advertisements of the department stores in the Sunday newspap-er, for which reason many eminent elenrymen advocate the abolition of the Sunday paper. Arrived at the shop, the Shopper rushes wildly up one aisle and down another with no apparent purpose, but will lock horns and fight with another Shopper over the possession of something that neither one of them wants. The Anecdotal. THE DANGER OF BEAUTY H. G. Wells' Criticism of."Americans." "Fortnightly Review." For example, the theory that every man is as good ns his neighbor, and possibly a little better, has 110' check for fools, and instead of the respectful silences of England there seems���������to the ordinary English mind���������an extraordinary quantity of crude and unsound judgments in America. One gets an impression that the sort of mind that is pas* sivcly stupid in England is often actively silly in * America, and, as a consequence, American newspapers, American discussions, American social affairs utc pervaded by a din that in England we do. not hear and do hot want to hear. TBic real and steady development of American scientific men is masked to the European observer, and it must be greatly hampered by the copious silliness of the amateur discoverer, nnd the American crop bf new religions and new eirSJ-rusiasms is a horror and a warning to llre'ya-yimon British intelligence. Many people 'wli-tye judgments are not absolutely despicable hold a theory that unhampered personal freedom for a hundred years has made out of the British type a type less do- liberate and thorough in execution and more noisy and pushful in conduct, restless rather than indefatigable, and smart rather than wise. If ninety-nine people out of the hundred in our race are vulgar and unwise, it does seem to ho a fact that while the 'English fool Is generally a shy and negative fool, anxious to hide the fact, the American fool is a loud and positive fool, who swamps much of the greatness of his country to many a casual observer from Europe altogether. American Jbooks, _Ameriean_papers, American manners and customs seem all for the ninety and nine. species move about in herds, charging in a body on any counter that seems to be ....������������������ _- popular, but they are easily stampeded, ' editor's patience hud evidently been al and the sight of a pile of junk marked ' most exhausted, and as he wrote on "For this day only for 3s ll*,id" wiil send , steadily he would give an occasional the whole bunch at it, and cause them : kick toward the caller, who every now to eat it up. In these mad rushes the ,- and then put in a word. Finally, turn- old and feeble and the very young are i ing round, Greeley said: "Tell me what trodden down, and have their clolhes and ' you want. Tell me quick, and in one hats torn off of them, but when the buy- ' sentence." ing fever i3 on tlrem the intrepid crea- " ' tures never stop as long as Uiey have a A minister who was called in ���������0 comfort the wife of an old Scotch caddie as- Tlio *Orondfal Sufftriiij;, Physically and sured her that while John was very Mentally I'xperienceri by Women. weak he was evidently ready for a bet- Bearrty-when applied, at anv rate ter world. Unexpectedly, however, Joan ^ ons b h * the noveUst ralbcd, and said to his wife:) "Jenny* my the dramaU"st Ja the his^ori'n- woman, I'll maybe be qjared to yeyet." | Eeemg be dangerous hold'ln-f "Na, na John ������ was the reply; -je ra , and inst bringing in its trend prepared, and I'm resigned Dee noo!" ; -v.. ...-..-T ,������������������,. , ', f, f .V ������,, I . ., ��������� , . x, T . . Inat superb joy voiced by the dictum. Assistant Secretary of the Interior ] <*. carries with It a burden which is in- Kyarr, at orre tune a sheriff in his nativo j deed a verv hard lot to hear Stale, relates how he was at one time. Hel- j nova! a, raRt,onl ��������� }. ordered to arrest nn Indian who_ ������ad | w���������, read th3t the onW e;:!Jted been selling whiskey to hrs red friends; creatlire in ,t to ,ak , . d on the .cservatron Alter the sheriff the beautiful young heroj-ip. It is her had captured "Poor Lo he gave him a be,m vh,ch , at(ra-(ni, lho vi!,a, sound lecture on the depravity ot his lik-������j ,ho b h ��������� *������ conduct. Uie indian listened -stolidly to Ino;, and the reprrrrrarrd and finally asked: v.o ncr> ....... i>������ way Injun "it outer this?" "Xo ona ,/������������������,,.��������� ,_ , , , , . , . carr help vou now but God." wa, the re- *"��������������� ,a ������������?^ ���������������"'>��������� n-cpreied. ply. Srldfy the prisoner shook his head. S*n������- Tt ^ ^^"^ "'.'P"*' -^ Then he muttered: ������������������God haep like Uru-'.o .^."V, V- ,1, ^7 / '",:ltlly, P������',SOrl Sam; Injun never see Him'" ! "Ml" !".as *'*-al iiS -h<> ���������":!-**S of a viper A brother actor famous for his pomposity and his inordinate ambition was regaling Sir Homy Irving with a forecast of his plans for the future. **I shall begin the season," lie announced, "with sueh and such a part; and after that I shall appear as Hamlet." "Urn!" drawled Irving. "As���������ch���������Hamlet, did you say?" Tiie other, incensed by the tone of the query, bridled up at once. "Bo you think, Sir Henry,"'he demanded, indignantly, "that you are the only man who can play Hamlet?" "Oh no," rejoined Irving, blandly; "but I am quite sure that you are the only man who can't." The late Paul du Clraillu w:as on one occasion asked why he had never married. "Well, once upon a time," he _ answered, without a smile, "an old African king who was very fond of me offered me my choice of eight hundred and fifty- three women as a wife." 'Your majesty,' I replied, 'if I should marry one of these beauties of yours there would be eight hundred and fifty-two jealous women here.' 'Well,' replied the king, 'that is easily settled. Take them all.' That was a little too; strong for me, however, and as I have never had such a field to choose from since, I am still a bachelor." Chnuncey JM. JDepew 'has told of finding a visitor in Horace Greeley's editorial room when he made a call on him. The Pretty Fair for a Start First matron���������And what sort of peo;*)o are tlrey as 'ave come next door to you now, Mrs. Figgin? Sr.tin Inclined to be friendly like? ScconI matron���������Oir, yes, very, I think. They only come in Toose* day, nnd by Sattcrdny they'd borrowed two flat-irons, a niidJin'-lMsin, a lrmf o' bread, a box o' tin-iacits, a meat chopper, and my biggest saucepan. penny left. A peculiarity of the Shopper is its utter indifference to hunger and fatigue while on one of its raids. It will sustain itself by nibbling at a cream puH, and although ordinarily so fragilo and weak it cannot walk the length of thc street or sweep a room, it will lead a rush on 'a counter of marked-down blouses with a vigor that would make a football player look sick. Another' interesting characteristic is that the Shopper's sole idea seems to be to get rid of money, and it will buy anything. *It may go out with a list of a special sale of tin pans for the kitchen, and come Home with forty yards of off- .color chiffon in place of them. This peculiarity in an apparently intelligent creature can only be accounted for on the theory that Uie Shopper suffers at times from'being bluffed. JMcn, as may be supposed, stand in great fear and dread of the Shopper; but, unfortunately, there are no outward marks by which it can be distinguished from tho ordinary female domestic animal, and so many a man who thinks ho ia getting a thrifty, economical wife finds out, when he has got it home, that ho has acquired a Shopper instead; and as it is impossible to trade ono off, or even give it away, his plight is a sad one. A Shopper is the most expensive pot in the world to.keep. A small and insignificant looking one, with an appetite no bigger than a bird's, costs more to maintain than a herd of elephants or a menagerie of carnivorous beasts. This is owing to tlieir unfortunate habit of going off on buying raids. Whether science will ever be able to find a virus that will inoculate Shoppers against the bargain rabies, as dogs are inoculated against hydrophobia, it is impossible to say. You can always tell when a man owns a Shopper hy the way his trousers bag tit tbe knees and his shoulders hump over. ���������** ,,_ Tht Soulful Lady. and which \>criv.i:.:es the body and' ������0������* ot the average h*:roi:re of the modern novel. It brings no joy except at the end of the boo!;. The penalty for being beautiful would seem to be more exactlns and more disagreeable, than the disappointments experienced by the ugly- It is because the modern heroine of books, or of the stage, is descriL-ed as a sort of daughter of the gods in form ami build and looks that you take Interest in her and follow her doings, her sufferings, through every page of a novel or through every scene and act of a play. Leave fiction for fact. Scour the village of the United States from Maine to California and you will find, with' very few exceptions, that nearly all can tell the sory of how once upon s flme there liVefl in the village a beautiful girl who fell a slave to the -madl delirium of love and after many years came back a wreck. There is recorded in the unwritten archives of inearly every village such a story as that told in one form or another. But this ls not the story of a village" merely; it is tSe history of the world- It was this evil fate of beauty that wrecked Cleopatra, who in turn wrecked Marc Antony, broke the heart of Octavia and brought ihe Ttiorrors of - civil -war upon imperial Rome. Tho great Julius fell a victim to her exquisite charms at a single interview. Cleopatra was a beatuiful and -magnificent creature, and her charms never failed to captivate and conquer those who passed before her. She w,-������ not only all this, but her pers^nsi beauty seemed to have influenced her mind intellectually in a marked degreo| for she was a woman of verj- high at<, talnments. She was as intelligent ag, she was beautiful. She was a capital musician, skilled in several languages, a good singer and a brilliant conversationalist. Ko woman Jjas surpassed^ herjn cunning. How she died is a mystery. Thei story of the asp biting her to death is a myth, but authorities agree that she died a violent death by her.own hand ���������a hard price for such great beauty as hers. t ..--,-. There is the pltful story, of J-uHIa Donna, who, in her maiden days a* poor, humble girl was; on account ot her great personal charms, raised from a common sphere to the highest that T._ ,, ., . . , , Imperial Rome could offer. She be-f Y^l1 Sf..���������., _n?^" .J? ���������i! I .*tame tbe w.ife ot Severus, and * thua| In Chicago*; She���������I'm afraid I can't marry you. He ���������Oh, just this once! r';lW>'-:/.jhtfrA ' ifiii A gentleman with Auburn hair.���������New York "Ulo." ���������On.one-of-tho-walls-of-thc-Allrarrrbra- thero used to bo a pencil autograph of Wri!>liington Irving���������at least so the guide-books say. As the room has been whitewashed several times, thu autograph no longer exists. One day, writes a traveler who is touring Southern Europe, I heard a soulful lndy importuning a guide to show her this autograph; he would cheerfully have accommodated her, but there had been no autograph there since ho was born. Still she .was so soulful, and yearned so for the autograph, that I wrote one.myself for her in pencil near whero she was searching. When tho soulful lady found it she burst into truch a torrent of emotional rhapsody that I felt more than repaid. These littlo acts of kindness as we go tlirough tbo world are far loo rare. This same soulful lndy subsequently pointed out to her companion a blank white wall down irr Granada, whicli was covered with round black spots. "Lookl" she cried, enthusiastically, "look at those apertures! * Evidently they are shot-holes-���������probably made by ;unnon-bull3 fired in tire wars waged by tho Moorish kings with Ferdinand and Jq-ibclla. 13 it not quite too interesting?" It struck mo us being so, particularly as the shot-holes wore so clear and. sharply defined. Tliey seemed a little recent. So I asked our guide Juanito what the black spots were. "Those round blac-k spots, senor?" said he. "Oh, thnt is a hat factory, and those are new sombreros hanging up in the sun to dry." The man "said: '"I want a subscription, Mr. Greeley, for a cause which will prevent a thousand of our Icl- low-heings from going to hell." Greeley shouted: "I will not give you a cent. There don't half enough go there now." As Greeley wns a Universalist, this reply was not so severe as it sounded. A certain Yankee woman.the wife of ;a former (representative in Congress and minister abroad, who now aims at soei-U leadership in the mo3t exclusive and toplofty circles of Washington, D.C.; is noted for her love of display and her penchant for wearing about all the jewels she can bear up under." One recent night she gave a dinner. Several members of the diplomatic set were present. Madame was in high feather, and she also wore a diamond tiara and several strings of pearls around her neck. (-During the evening she complained of feeling a bit chilly and told one of the servants to call her maid. said to have shivered a "trifle, and es claimed: "Susotte, I am sojcold; please get me another string of pearls." An amusing illustration of the linguistic caparbiSty of the educated Chinaman comes from' Berlin. When the Kaiser complimented the new Chinese JJilin* ister on his excellent German, the man from thc Orient replied: *'I can do .better ���������I can speak the Berlin dialect. One day, during the occupation of Pekin, I encountered a number of your Majesty's soldiers, one of whom, thinking that I would not understand him, took tihe lib-, erty to address nre as follows: 'Wait,' you Chinese baggage; if ever I catch you in tlie dark I will twist your queue for you!' 'Shut up, you Berlin weiss beer- pot,' I replied in his own vermicular, 'or I will knock all your teeth into your bread-basket.' Your Majesty ought to have seen the soldiers' faces," concluded the minister. "If you yourself had addressed them at that moment without warning, tihey couldn't have - been more astonished and frightened." A new application of the rule of proportion between labor and wages is illustrated in a little story told bv a representative of the house of Witwark. -The.leader-of-a certain-band,-who**was re-^ hearsing one of their publications, stopped the music abruptly and frowned at a stout little fellow wh'o was putting j I Empress of Rome. Her beaufy iwas he****! evil fate. She lent herself to the flat- \ tery or courtiers, permitted all and sundry to approach her with their sentiments; finally, she fell back into th������ position she came from, but not before she bad been stabbed in tbe arm by a son, who intended the blow, however, for his brother. ���������-. Disappointed df all hope of ever becoming again the power she once was fa Rome, deserted by those who brought her to her misery, forsaken by her friends, she ended her days In starvation. There was yet another beautiful Roman Julia, who, through her extreme beauty, was introduced to and became the wife of a famous Senator when she> was only sixteen. Between that tender age and four-and-twenty she 'lived ur to the traditions of the times, fell a* victim to the conceit of ber: owof. charms, became the prey of flatterers,] conspired against her husband, and Was finally put to a violent death. ; The story of the captivating Helen of. Troy is interesting, and Is on a pari with that of the beautiful women Just aHudcd^to.=*He!en=of-Troy-was-tled-t(*f��������� a tree and strangled���������a condign pun1^ fshment for the errors she fell into on account of her beauty. She was re������ wlfo of Napoleon 1., was said by her husband a lovely woman, refined, affable, charming; a goddess ot the toilet, kind and humane," yet because no son was born to thorn Napoleon divorced her���������an overwhelming sorrow. She died an absolutely, crushed and saddened woman. "How do you suppose she manages to make her husband still love her?" "Why, ������he won't let him draw on her principal; Uid that, of course, keeps up the inter- Wt* yv* hart to lose one's trelaJtive-*," Tommy (myaUriously)���������I shall have SSwuS" VVI^\i ���������^������������**������ws������y-. I������U'-Of kie this summer, all for my. ���������Hardt" growled the millionaire. "Why,- j������if. Mother-Oli! Has aunty promised it', almost impossible." you m>-me. Tommy (wJth' ^ithering He���������If I stole a kiss, would lit be petty scorn)���������No. I've planted a seed-cake in iaxoe-o-f-t Che���������I think it wouldJtre.grand, the (ardent all the other musicians out. "Say", He-er" j sponsible for the many years' seigo ot man," ho demanded, "what do you mean JTroy, her husband, Menelaus, being by playing a lot of half notes where j determined to revenge himself on there should be whole notes?" Hcerman j Parte. It serves as an object lesson lowered his instrument. "Veil," he said, < for those women Who repine because "I make explanations by you. You cut j they are not beautiful. ��������� down my voges to haf briee, don't you?" jcscphlne, the unfortunate The leader stared in amazement. He had | Napoleon 1 was done so, but��������� "Und I gontinue to make j t0 jje moct truly der nodes wit my instrumend, but dey ' vill be haf nodes until der vages is put ���������back to whole bricc. Vat ist fair ist fair, aind't id!" Tlie extent to which the agricultural portions of the Middle West are now supplied with modern conveniences may be irrferrcd from the story which follows: There came a ring at the telephone in a farmhouse in Northern Indiana one day lost summer, and the farmer himseli 1 responded. "Hello!" he said. "Hello!" snid the voice at thc other end of thc wire. "Can you furnish rne a bass singer for to-morrow night?" "A bu3s singer? Why, yes, I reckon so,*' answered tire fanner, laughing. "What do you want orre for?" "Because the one we've had up to now is'sick. What would be your terms?" "Well, I usually furnish 'em by the dozen. 1 won't charge you anything for one. How do you ���������.varit him sent?" "Whnt are you talking atrout?" "Who do you think"you're talk- in' to?" "Isn't this the Indianapolis Opera House?" "Xo. This is the Kara- taria frog farm." Age. Gray hairs do not a patriarch make, Nor wrinkled brows a sage: In subtler ways we deftly take The flnjjer marks of age! Ceasing to love.' forgetting friends! When the warm heart turns cold. Then the recording angel bends Aaa writes, "He's growing* old I" W*lir Tlicrn arc ll������*rol������ Jim**. "Why is it," the girl asked, "that thm} brave boys who are not appreciated ai' .ionic���������woo are regarded as black sheep oy the rest of tne family, and go to wa������l where they fall while carrying tho be-/ loved flag of our country up the rocky, slopes���������why Is It that these noble teU tows are always named Jim? I havo read a hundred poems about them during the last year or two and every one of them was Jim. Is it merely a coincidence, or can there be somehlng in a name, after all?" "It is not a coincidence," the cynio beside her answered. "I'g the name that makes them heroic. Juliet said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but Jim by any other nam* could not have poems written about bim. Just think of the pcmsibllltiej| presented by Blim, trim, vim, hfu, brim grim, dim, whim, glim, rim, limb, nol to mention cherubim, seraphim and a lot more long words that could be usm ln a pinch.' Jim ls one ot the boys tnat have glory thrust upon them."���������-Chi* -rrago Times-Herald. ��������� "What precisely are hia proepectaP "Tfwo maiden aunts, and one oi the worst climates in England.1* More steel is used in the manufacture of pens than in all tbe sword and *un factories in the world. am-a-.a*.*****************-.**-.*.* Souvenir Post Cards Giving three views of Revelstoke. Jusl llio thing for sending away ro yonr lrioruU. Three for 25c. 35c. a Dozen. Canada Drug & Book Company. ���������m^'-a^^a-a'-a'a^'-a^-a'-a'-a^a-a'-a-a^'-a'-mfaa^ MARRIED JH.U.i.-Haim-ey��������� At Hi'vclstdkc. 11. t!.. liv Rev. FrUllur llov, of Vernon, (in Oct. 27th, 1901, l.ouis .1. Hall, of Vermin. t������ Miss .Mary Huppity, of Toronto. Harold Nelson is coming. ���������Iron Boils, Iron Beds, Springs and Mattrasses nt lt. Howson Si Co'*.. T. Hatfield's store at Calgary wns .Icstroyed bv ii ico orr Moiulnv. Loss $12,000, half insured. ���������.Second hand Raymond sewing machine, for sale at R. Howson & Co. Horace Manning i.s now located in Iris new store next, to (Juy Biu-ber's. He has lixeil it up very tastefully. l-'r.-iiik II. OirlVey, of l'ittsliru-g. Pa.. who visited Ilie I'Yericli creek pincers Insl. week, left for home on .Sjiturilriy. ���������1{. Howson A: Co. are opening up n most, beautiful line of Parlor furniture. Mr. (ieo. Atwood, consulting engineer for the Nettie I., uml .Silver1 Cup left on Monday for I'Tnglnud. The night, before "Put" Knsley left for Cnlgury lie was tendered n farewell srn.pi-i.se party by JMr*. .-mil Mrs. P. Hoolev. SATISFACTORY CONSUMMATION LOCALISMS Harold Nelson is coming. it Bews' Drug Mrs. XV. Ci week from been paying sister. . Sutherland returned last Victoria- where she hnd tin extended visit to lier ���������Fresh Satins to hand Store, assorted Havois. John Laugh ton is paying a business vi������it to Ferguson this week. ���������AV. J. Curry,''resident dentist. P;ir- or-s over Bews' drug store. Saturday night is Hallowe'en. Look out for gates and pot hats. ���������Leave your cutlers for coal with H. N. Coursier. anthracite Thos. Taylor borne yesterday went down morning. to Cam- Hospital Brill, Friday Nov. 20tlr. Tickets, Gentlemen $2: Ladies .$1. left for Brandon this night robes, etc. AV. Fowler morning. ���������Ladies flannelette C. B. Hume & Co. Hospital Ball, Friday Nov. 20th. Tickets,'Gentlemen ������2; Ladies $1. ���������A new line of Sparkling Crystal glassware, C. B. Hume & Co's. A Hallowe'en'party will be given by Mrs. John Palmer on Saturday evening. Alf. Penzer attended the Anglican Synod in New Westminster last week. D. JMcCarthy is erecting a building at Arrowhead for Mr.'Pitbludo. Reid and Young's big \JSee ndvt. on front ���������Kernel uber discount sale page. Ernest Adair went south to Arrowhead yesterday to erect a building for Messi-s. Reid & Young. ���������Chamois Vests for the protection of Chest and Lungs, sold nt Bews' 'Drug. Store; .... .., ' ' Tlie Quadrille club holds its opening dance at. the Opera House tomorrow evening. ���������Baby's Own Cough Ciire.an excellent ivuredy for children, sold at Bews' Drug Store. Today is the thirty-fourth anniversary of the commencement of the first Itiel rebellion. The usual symposium of the Eagles ���������will be held in upper Selkirk Hull tonight. ���������John Houston, M.P.P.. of Nelson, passed through the J city on Saturday en route home. Al. Vye, of Field, spent a few days in the city last week renewing old acquaintances. Ernest Cashel was sentenced to death for the murder of Unfits Belt at Calgary on Tuesday. Engine 010 was off the track, near the junction of tbe smelter spur, for several hours on Sunday. Don't forget to put your name on the Voters' List before Monday if you have not already registered. R. K. Fioeter, a prominent investor in Fish river, returned to his home nt =iIiiniarOhio,-on=-Moiiday*=====-=====-=- J. A. Darragh returned fo Fish Hvet- on Tuesday after a couple of days" visit to Revelstoke on business. J. Dailey was, on Saturday evening, fined So0. or two months, for flourishing a loaded revolver on the streets. Rev. C. Ladiier, on Sunday evening last, preached a most impressive sur* mon. *- -���������(:---> > * -' Son. -���������Boom Wanted���������with or without board, bv young gentleman, ns near .C.P.R. offices .is possible. A(l(lre.-s Box 2S2. City. Eighteen uiembeis joined tbe Philharmonic Society at the meeting held in tbe City Hall List Thursday evening. At the regular meeting of the Epworth Ix-'iigue on Monday evening Miss Pettipiece read an interesting paper on "Missions." E. A. Haggen has given notice of application for Crown grants to several mineral claims owned by the Certainty Mining Co. Ltd. T. AV. Melville, tbe well known machinist and prominent in musical circles, left yesterday morning on a holiday trip to bis old home in the east. Tbe Conservatives in Vancouver hold a big celebration tomorrow evening tbe occasion being tbe anniversary of the institution of the Conservative Club. ���������Too often the child's lnrrsicril abilities are allowed to decline by tire parent's inability to purclin.se n good piano. This drawback is now removed arid any person'of responsibility can have a high-grade "Newconrbe" Piano���������the best���������placed in their homes on easy terms. Call at our office and investi- gite our original proposition���������Lewis; ros., First Street. ���������There's no butter that's just as good as Government Creamery, we have it in 1 lb., 1*1 lbs. and 28 lbs. boxes. C. B. Hume &* Co. Alex. Robinson, provincial Superintendent of Education, passed through on Friday en route to Victoria after spending a two months' holiday in the east. ���������Just* opened up, a large shipment of folding book cases, music racks, clock brackets, photo shelves, fire screens, etc. Call and see tbem, John E. Wood. R. A. Upper left for Six-mile on Tuesday morning. As he was accompanied by two dogs, two guris and a game bag he was presumably on Nim- I'odic work intent. The shareholders of the Revelstoke Rink Co., Ltd., will meet in le Maistre aird Scott's oflice tomorrow afternoon at 3. Tlie loan on the company's property will be considered. ���������Don't forget that we have n large stock of winter vegetables, Aschroft potatoes, California unions, beets, parsnips. Turnips, carrots and cabbage. C.B. Hume & Co. Tlie Altar Guild of St. Peter's Church on Thursday elected Mrs. Coursier, president and Miss F. Paget, secretary- treasurer. An entertainment will be arranged in the near future. According to the Vancouver "News- Advertiser" the marriage of Jack Purvis., the well known engineer, and Miss Helen Dunn, lately of ltevelstoke, will take place in the Terminal citv on Nov. 4th. A man named JeffriesJ was committed for trial orr Monday on a charge of forgery. Uirwittinglybe told histale of woe to Gold Commissioner'Fraser in tbe presence of the man whose name, was signed to the cheque. He afterwards confessed. Of the Most Extensive Timber Deal ever put Through Here ���������Forty-six Miles Disposed of at a Good Figure The largest lumber- deal ever put through in this city was concluded late last week when Messrs. AV. de V. le Maisliv, W. Cowan and E. L. Kinman, all of Revelstoke, disposed of Hi miles of timber limits to Messrs. ,1. P. Mc- Goldrick and G. A. Laminers, prominent millmcn of Minneapolis. The property in question is situated on the Duncan river and is considered one of the most valuable stretches of timber in the Kooteiniys. The owners received a most satisfactory cash figure for their holdings and nre to be congratulated on bringing a large amount of Eastern capital into ltevelstoke. Messrs.McGoldrick and Laminers intend erecting a very large mill in the vicinity of Nelson to cut the timber from the limits. Shakespearian Society c Twenty five members gathered at St. Peter's rectory on Tuesday evening, when Mr. J. Theo. AVilson read a paper on the play of "Julius Caesar." An animated discussion followed participated in by all present. The criticisms, both of the paper and tragedy, showed the members are taking a deep interest in the society's work. Next Tuesday tire first act of "Much ado about nothing" will be taken up. Mr. E. A. Haggen has been requested to act as critic for this play. The reading cast has been arranged by the executive committee as follows: . Miss Fraser Mrs. Sibbald . Mrs. Coursier Mrs, AVilkes . 31 is. Bews Mr. McDonald . Mr. Williamson . . Mr. Wilson . Mr. Miller .* Mr. Coursier . JMr.' Lumb Mr. Aman Rev. Mr'. Procunier' . Mr. Humphreys . Mr. Aman . Mr. "Williamson Rev. Mr. Procunier Mr. Humphreys. until he discovered that "cross-eyo" was the farmer's reading of the Roman numerals. During his engagement in this city the plays performed will probably be '���������Quo Vadis" and '���������Much ado about Nothing." Rev. W. E. Christmas. This well known divine healei* will conduct eight days revival services in the Opera House, commencing on .Sunday next. Nov. 1st. Services will be conducted each day at H and 8 p.m. and Mr. Chrismas carr be seen at S. McMahon's house arry morning during bis-stay, between 10 and 12. Referring to his recent visit to Woodstock. Out., the "Times" of that city publishes the following: "Rev. W. E. Chrismas, the healer, leaves Woodstock to-morrow morning for Vancouver, H.C. Yesterday being bis last Sunday in town, he held his meetings in the Opera House, and in the semi-light the picture of the longhaired exhorter and the stage full of enthusiastic follower's, wa.s not an uninteresting one. It J reminded you forcibly of the "Passion Play,' or some of those other plays of Biblical lore and many of the spectators staid through the service more to look on than anything else. "The people who believe Christmas is really gifted, took advantage of his hist appearance to get annointed, and there must liave been fifty 'treated' at the various services yesteriuy. "In tlie afternoon Chrismas asked all who had received a benefit from the services to rise and a good percentage of the audience rose up." Are You Contemplating Goirg South or Investing Money- There ? AVe advise any of our readers who contemplate going south for the winter and want to rent a furnished cottage orsei.ure board in hotel, boarding house or private family, or are desirous of investing money down there, to ilist write Mr. John T. Patrick. Piueblutl', N. C. Mr. Patrick has made a specialty of furnishing information lo Northern people who want to Mud winter hollies or to those who desire to lomi money down there on iiiortagages. He is a man that can lie relied upon I ogive honesl information arid to protect the interests ol" those who trust their money to his erne. Recently one of our readers asked Jlr. Patrick to give reference as to his character and business ubili'y, and lie furnished the names of the Chiel* Justice of his slate, .Tu AV dgealter Clark, Raleigh. N. C., and the Editor of the leading daily in the slate, the News & Observer, Mr. Joseph-is Daniels, Raleigh, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Boston Transcript, Jlr. E. 11. Clement, and these men said in reply that whatever Mr. Patrick said could be relied upon. 'Therefore it will pay you to write Mr. Patrick before, you locate, and if you have money to loan, secure his assistance to get tbe highest rate of interest on good first-cla*s mortgages' down South where the people pay more interest than is paid up here. The Leading Store THE STORE IHAT NEVER DISAPPOINTS Winter days will come again and you, will need something for '-.reei ami Houscwear. You will find the latest styles here, and we have the very latest materials in the stoic, so put thc two together and you will be ready fer New York or Paris. NOTICE Hero . Beatrice Margaret . Ursula . Balthazar. Don Pedro Dorr John Cliiudio . Berredick . Loonato . Antonio Borachio Conrade . -Dogberry Verges Septon . Friar. . Boy . Tbe Ladies "'Hospital. Guild met at the hospital on Tuesday afternoon and decided to hold the Annual Hosjiital Ball in the Opera House on Nov. 20th. As this is the big event of the season there will be doubtless a big rush for tickets which will bo available in a few days. ���������Another evidence of the stability and progress of Revelstoke is noted by tbe establishment of an agency of tbe. Leading Fire Insurance Company of America, the "Aetna" of Hartford. Tlris company with it's assets of over $15,000,000 isYnted as one of the best arrd strongest on the Continent. The local agency is in charge of Jlessrs. Lewis Bros. Red Cross Drug Store. the subject lieing --'J he Prodigal Conservative Concerts. The Junior Conservative Club held another of its enjoyable smoking concerts on Friday evening at Selkirk Hall when a very pleasant time was spent. Jlr. Theo. J. Wad man, vice- president, occupied the chair and songs were given by Jlessrs. Humphreys, Melville, Aitken, Johnson and others and recitations by Messrs. Burk and Wilson. Messrs. Kooley ��������� '���������Mr. .1. A.'Buckham, who recently acquired this popular business from if. A. Jliller '���������& Co., comes well recommended and has made many friends during the short time be has been in the city. As. will be seen by his advertisement on this page lie will maintain the standard of this well known store, and if possible increase its scope. He carries a full line of drugs, toilet articles, proprietary preparations and stationery and prescriptions will be compounded correctly at moderate prices. At present, lie is showing a large stock of bulbs for spring flowering and those wishing to obtain a supply should call on him while there is a large variety to select from. Massage. Massage.is to the skin what cultivation is to the earth. Thore is no necessity for. anyone nowadays to wander round with his brow bearing tlie furrows of care. No woman need fear the coming of old age's signal, crow's feet, for they can be painlessly removed iind the tikin regain its pristine freshness. In this city there is a masseur who obtained liis knowledge of the art in the large centres of theeast. Jlr. J. O'Connor, at'Joseph Morgan's barber's shop, is prepared to' treat gentlemen iu the bath rooms and Indies there or, by appointment, at their own homes. Jlr. O'Connor can give expert advice as to skin foods and all those other beautifiers which enable twentieth century society women to defy the inarch of years. Hollows can be filled up and fleshiness removed in a short time and both: ladies and gentlemen are talcing advantagevof Jlr. O'Connor's presence in the city, Rkvelstoice, B.C., Oct. 20th. 1903. A meeting ot" the Shareholders of the Revelstoke Rink Company, Ltd., will be held at the ollice of leMaistre &��������� Scott on Friday, the. HUlli day of October, lOO'l, at the hour of three- o'clock in tbe afternoon, for the purpose of taking stops in connection witb the loan on the Company's property. J.* Jl. Scott, ��������� Secretary. t NORTHERN PINES, Moore Co., N. C; The most delightful climate for a Home or Winter Resort. Only sixteen ho.urs from New York. Write to Board of Trade of Southern Pines for booklet. NOTICE. Re tire Estate of Richard Ramsay. Deceased. Take notleo Unit nil persons having nny ((���������aim against the Kstnte ot the late Richard Ramsay m list send in their claims duly verf- iied to the undersigned on or before the 28th day of November, A.D., 19011, and any person owing any debt to the said Estate must pay the same to the undersigned on or before the above date. Dated this 28th day ofO;tobor, A.D., 1903. ' ��������� ..LE MAISTRE & SCOTT, ���������"��������� .' Solicitors for the Executors; Address���������First Street. Kevelstoke, B.C. DRESS GOODS. Are conspicuous hy their variety this year. If you wish the latest London or Paris Novelty take one of our Snow Hake Zebclines, or, if you wish to buy a more dressy gown, buy a German Broadcloth and have it made with Medallions and Pendant Trimmings. DRESS MAKING. "We Fear Nae Foe." MISS LEE, who has charge of Our Dressmaking Department, will be delighted to talk over the latest fashions with you arid give you the proper style in dress if you entrust her with your orders. NEW IDEA PATTERNS. NO PATERN OVER TEN CENTS, ���������guarantee them to be the best in the market. We will W. J. GEORGE, I MACKENZIE AVENUE . . Call and Sec Our New Goods. :: o o o o <> <> o o o o o o If 'o II <��������� o o o o <*������������������ ���������ft- <��������� <��������� <��������� <��������� <���������> o <> <��������� o o' o <> o. ���������<*��������� 'O :: t I REVELSTOKE BUSINESS COLLEGE Will open in tho Library Building on Monday, Nov.2nili at9:30a.m. ITaetiealinslruetion will bo given In Book- keeping.Comnicrcial .i.rithnietie,Pemnanshi|i, ( orresporideriee. Shorthand and Typewriting, and special classes can be arranged in other subjects, sueh ns Drawing and French. EVENING CLASSES will be. held from "rlii to 9:15. Monday lo Friday Inclusive, and to these particular attention will be paid. Here is a chance for business men to learn to keep tilt-frown hooks and for all young men and women to get knowledge that can at any time be turned to account. Come at the commencement nnd gel the whole season's work. Parents, givn your boy or girl a commercial education this -winter; next wii-ter you will hnve a High School. For terms and further information apply to Iho Principal, M. LENNOX, B.A. HOTEL VICTORIA W. M. BROWN, Prop. One of the best and commodious hotels in the City. Free Bus meets all trains. . Hourly Street Car���������Fare ioc. and McKenzie contributed enjoyable* piano selections. Tiros. Taylor. M.P.P.-ylr'ct, rnailr* a .short .speech thanking the club for its services during the recent election and also urging the coiitiriirnnce of its organization. lie was loudly cheered on rising and at the conclusion of his remarks. BETTER CURE THAT COUGH NOW It is a well known fact that ;t Coiij^'i contracted irr thc '���������"all i.s much harder to geA rid of than one corrlractccl al. another lime. Senega Cough Cure is lhe remedy you want. Il will relieve Hoarseness immediately arrd crrre your Coujflr. 25o. and 60o. a Bottle. recent pw- -**������. W. BEWS, Phm. B. Next Hume Block. ��������� +*>*>++*y*>*> ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Harold Nelson. This talented Canadian actor, u-ith a strong company and magnificent scenery, will appear in the Oper-a House on Nov. Hi and 11. Kveryone in the city will of course go to hear him. This i.s what the Brandon Sun had ta say regarding his formance of "Quo Vadis'* : "In the characWr of JMareus Vini- cr'irs.tlie. ryinrnntie- her-o of- tlreplav. Jlr. Nelson is most aptly suited. The impulsive, reckless voung man, the daring soldier, the unrest of the pagan seeker after truth found only in the light of the new faith, w(*rr* so vividly portrayed it was evident to the audience tliat Mr. Nelson to Iris new role had brought all the resources of careful, historic and histrionic study with that same enthusiasm which characterized his portrayal of Hamlet arrd Richelieu, In lhe earlier scenes of the play the part, is less conspicuous in the usual stellar i*|utilities, but in the developmentof the climactic arrd more intricate r nomen tsi be clia racier1 stands out with rugged boldness and clear relief; nnd here Mr. Nelson was at his best. One of the most difficult and interesting scenes of the play is where Vinicius in a. long speech describes the dill'erence between pagan Rome and Christianity. I'Vir fully five minutes the large audience listened with breathless attention to n masterly description whicli only one thoroughly (pialifled irr voice arrd elocution could have made attractive; and at the closo a. round of applause such as is rarely heard from n. .Brandon audience, denoted the hearty appreciation elicited." ft will be a, pleasure to our renders also to know that several of the old company art* with hirrr including Clilfor'd Lane Bruce, I'Ycd Roland, Win. Blake and Miss Helene Scott. Mr. Nelson's repertoire for this season consists of Quo Vndis, Hamlet, Much ado about Nothing, Romeo and .fuliel, 01 hello, Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar, Merchant of Venice, David On rrick, Louis X.I mid Richelieu. A funny incident happened the last time Mr. Nelson played "Louis XI." It was at a small farming town in lhe West and an old hayseed came up to congratulate him saying, "Say, yew air all right rus Lewis cross eye." Mr. Ne(son was non-plussed for a minute Red Cross Drugstore | c*. rn |f - - rex j. a. Buckham :: i ������������������mi III l-UI ���������������?������������������ ������������������������������������������������������������������������������*������-���������-������������������< ��������� ��������� ��������� ��������� ��������� ��������� ��������� ��������� *���������* ��������� ��������� ��������� ! J. A. Buckham (Successor to .1.. A. Miller & Co.) DRUGGIST, CHEMIST, STATIONER, TOILET ARTICLES, PERFUMERY, ETC., ETC. REVELSTOKE, B. C. Mail Orders Promptly Attended To. GET YOUR EYES TESTED FREE OF CHARGE. EIGHT-DAY CLOCKS $3.00 J. GUY BARBER, - Jeweller, Optician ���������������*������������������������������������-���������*���������'������������������������������������������������������������������-������*$��������������������������� HIGH CLASS tt.tj> % it/ ������ %><$<$$> -fr (fr -I* *t' <$>