o V v "V.^i i " i Fresh Groceries. We are the largest buyers of GROCERIES in the North Kootenay, and are therefore able to offer the very best goods produced in the world at the very lowest prices. Although times have been hard during the past year, our business has been"the largest we ever had in Revelstoke, which is very encouraging to us. This year we have made, arrangements which will enable us to-give our customers > better prices than ever before. W. G. & Shirts- These _Shirts are recog- nized to be - superior- to any made in "Canada for- Style- and ..Durability. We have them "in all the Latest Patterns". The celebrated Currie Tie '^���������The Spring'"Patterns, ih these Goods have just - been received, and .for Beauty and Taste, excel anything yet produced by this ."Renowned Firm of Tie Makers. Hats! Caps! The -war ld-r e n o~\v ned Christie and Fedora Hats, A consignment in ,the Latest Styles has just been opened up. Underwear For Spring and Summer. A well selected consign- - ment of Imported Scotch and English fine, woolen1' Balbriggan' and Fleece- Lined Underwear'just'to hand. Hosiery Ladies' and Gent's Hosr iery in Silk, Cashmere,' and Wool. A complete ** i . r stock of the'Latest Pat- i, terns and Best Quality. Second Annual Meeting of the Hospital Society���������Report of Work Done During Past Year ���������Election of Directors. Tlie annual goner il meeting of Uio Kovelstoko Hospital Society was held un Mono,iy evening, a largo numbir of shareholder-, boiug piesent. A ���������.'.ireful pi-Tii-.il of tin** lepoi t������, wliii'li are here published in full, will give tliu public some jde.i of the i-noi-moiis .���������iniount of work \vliic*h wn. entailed, in the building of the* lnispil.il, unil tlie ailiiiiralile way in wliich it wn*-. carried out by lliuse who had tho limn.igcijieiit tlieiTOt. The erection "and furnishing of the hospital involved tliu expendi ture of a sum" in tlio neighhnihoud of $12,000, and it is pleasing Ui iioL'e that when the outstanding subscriptions are collected with tin* additional $M0O which is pnictic.'Uly certain will be contiiliutefl by the government Uio building will stand lieu uf duht Ton nitich praise cannot lie - gi ven Ihe Ladies Auxiliary who r.iNed In-;tliuii- untiring elVorts the liiimlsonnS sum of 91170. Tho woik now hclota tlie Board of Directors is the inaiiiii.ii.'ini-o of tlie hospital in an efficient manner. A fitting acknowledgment ofllie able management of the _ietii ing diieetors was shown in their un.'immnus 10 election by tlie shareholders for tlie ensuing year. ' . ' Tn the absence of the president and, the vice president G. S. - AIuCarLei* wa= votevl totlie chair.' Hon.' See v.'13. it. Atkins then ic.id._Lhc directors' lepoit. and financial s*tateme"nt for tlie vear as follows': " ( ( DIRECTORS' ANNUAL REPORT.. ' The Directors p. the Revelstoke Hospital Society,.have much pleasure in presenting herewith a brief .repoit of the work of this society I'or the pa.it j ear, the first of its existence. -��������� , _ prei aci:.- _ ���������* - was inooipoiated under Hardware A carload of Assorted Hardware just opening up. C.B. Hume &Co. This society the laws of this piovince on the 4th, of Match, 1901, and its alTaiis first placed in the hands ofi provisional' directors named in its ai tides. ' Thev,. hold oflice to 5th August, 1901. ., On_,that dato the Iirsi annual meeting was held, when the present Board of Directoi s wei e elected and the, appended live-laws, adopted. - The work .of tlie(provisional boaid was so well e.scculed that it had only to be followed'to bring- matters, to the present satisfactory stage of advancement., its building plans were only enlarged, gi\ ing larger, claini in proportion upon ' Government aid, and ils negotiations, with the Victonan Order of* Nurses, which .subscribed Si500, con dilional upon naming the building. "The Queen Victoria Hospital" 'and having the appointment of .muses and their supervision in its own chaige solely, "< were endorsed as thoioughly satisfactory, ft*; building lund- subscription" lists were, well pationised thioughout the city and district and have been a substantial support to this Board, who expects their complete payment with entire confidence a.s only a matter of time and attention. The hospital site was also a mailer remaining to this Board to _ close and thc Society now possess title to all ol Block 57, with exception of its nortli east corner exchanged with the city ��������� CJi-pora'. oi by deed I'or rights of possession to the alley through the entiie properly. This Board gavo dilligent attention to all plans and contracts submitted and drawn and protected their execution by substantial local bonds. -Its���������committees-did���������faithful���������work~a.id-it- desires to express a generous approval of its architect and various contractors. In what it ha"s underlaken this Board has had hearty and general/upport and takes this opponunity of expressing .its ..warm thanks to-'the Provincial Government, Victorian Order of Nurses," Lord Slralli- cona, and to, the people'of this city and district for their generous financial assistance and'moral support. It also conveys to the Ladies Auxiliary Society ils hearty appreciation of tlie invaluable services and aid rendered and calls attention to the report herewith submitted as'one of much merit and a splendid precedent. Thanks are tendered Her Excellency, Lady Minto, Patron, and Miss Macleod, Superintendent of the Victorian Order of Nuises, for their kind work and interest on beliali of this society; to the City Council for aid to Corner Stone Celebration and free meeting room; to the C. 1\* R, for special favors received ; to the local ,press for kind notices; aud lo the donors of services and gifts to the Society. The Board .also wishes to express its thanks lo the orders and organizations who have volunteered to furnish private and public wards and.to I James W. Cross, Esq., M.D., for offer of a modern operating table.' ; f WORK AND POLICY. Thc work and policy of this Board of Directors lias been" almost entirely constructive and it hopes its,, efforts and plans will be found satisfactory and well laid. It has .completed a most, substantial and well designed building capable of accommodating twenty patients well equipped with hot water, heating/isolated plumbing, septic tank, sewage connection, and other necessary modern improvements.'' In erecting .and equipping such a large structure Ihe Board carefully weighed the question of ultimate cost and taking profit by example avoided expensive additions and patch-work improvements by having at once a building capable ol meeting all demands upon its space should even the city and district continue to grow in lire hopeful manner of which they are giving present signs. In the matter of lurnishimr, however, the Board has adopteJ another and diflerent line ot conduct, thinking- il wise to meet the conditions as they occurred, it being possible to procure ordinary articles required, at home, upon short notice. What cannot be had at home has been ordered abroad for a laigor use lhan is al first expected and the Boaid lakes pleasure in announcing thai the Queen Victoria Hospital is sufficiently furnished lo be icady for immediate if limited use. ������������������ HIS I Kit. I SfRs,r.s. 'I'lie J'toaul took steps 10 introduce its woiklo llu* public however before completion ol the hospital building, aiul having seemed a Provincial Government grant for niaiiiU'ii.'tnc*'. il obtained a distiiet nuise froin the Victorian Order of Nurses, wluvsince February, has tended 32 eases, paid 295 visits to patients and given 46 continuous days and nights-attendance. Tin*, work liaj been so much appreciated that the Boaid considers the arrangement ni.-ule with the Victoiian Order of Nuises 10 be of h.'nefii 10 the Society and'advantage 10 lhe general public. ���������VISITORS. The Luildiii!* was visited at ils inception by Fler I'weilencv, Lady Minto, whose kindness 111 laving the corner-.stone has been the means of giving it notice tlnough- oul Canada and in Gieal Britain. When ccin.ileied it was inspected by Miss Mac- le-d, Suiiciiniendent ot the Victorian Older ol Nuises; Dr. F.igan, Provincial Health Ollicer; and Hon. XV. C. Wells, Chief Commissioner ol Lands and Works. All expressed their pleasuie al ils completeness and arrangemeni and lheir appreciation of the public-spiiiiedness of tlu* people in undei takim* il. I IN V.NCI VI. SIATI.VirM. Uefoic concluding this report attention is asked for a moment to the attached finar..-ial statement, which shows a bank advance ot $2000. The Provincial Government airangemcnt with the Provisional Board was "dollar for dollar" that laised bv the soc.ely. The scheme having sjio-.vnin scope however and the Societv having laised i^s sh.ue application has been made I'or a further giant covering th.* bank loan. As the building has been inspected and approved by a prominent member ol the Government the Board has hopes that the application will be favorably considered. A kind finger is also pointed lo lhe local subscriptions remaining unpaid believing that to point to it is enough as the'liabilities are'only to be met ihereby'if debt is 10 be avoided. ��������� 1-LRT!1I:'r IMPROM.MI.Nrs7.- - 5 'Though much - has been done there is mucli still to be' done." Considerable' impiovements arc necessary to lhe giounds to give finish and* utility lo the pioperty but waiting-shade trees, awnings should be supplied to windows. - The,drug and suigieal,instrument dcpaitmenis. Sivun.vuv. I-'INANCIAL STATEMENT. nrci:ii'is. Subs. & Donations��������� To Prov. Govt.... $^ooo 00 " Vic. O. Nuises. ��������� ' 500 00 " Ladies'Auxili.irv . 1172 G-i " Piov. Dir, List . . S.*6 75 " Loid Stialhcona ��������� =5������ 00 " Ping Pong Tour =.S 60 " Coionation Spoil s 4 2S '* Gentiv Bros. 5 OO $7781 23 Maintenance��������� , To Piov. Govt ... . .$ 1000 OO '* Disl. Nurse dig*. Si- "?S $ioSi 2S Impeiial Bank Lo.ui 2000 00 Exm:^Diri:Ri:s. Property Account ��������� Blojk 57 '.. $1000 00 Cleaiing same . . . 1 lospital Building... Healing systems . Lumber for plat loi in, elc. $I2S. 17, less sold to cily $71.28 56 89 $10865 4s 33 Or- 72.-58 Si 'SI* 05 Furnishing Account��������� Linen, ainbul'cej.eic. Maintenance Acct.��������� . Dist. Nuisc's salarv , board, ete Ambulance trips. 22 79 2 00 Expense -Account��������� Coiner Stone Gel'b'n $236.70 less -.City ' grant Stool. . Insurance ........ Bank discounts.. Stationery, postage, telpgrams . ....- . r - "^ ��������� . - Cash on hand ...:... $9870 6s 318 08 !? 324 79 136 70 66 85 16 -.5 226 45 *. v ; -r-SYSTEM OI" M.VINTCNANCE. ' Of course, much of the expense of equipment in modern instruments depends upon the system of 'maintenance adopted but this, though the present Boaid has taken steps towards establishing a"iemun- erative and satisfactory ��������� system, is moie properly fi subject "to *be "passed upon by the incoming Boaid as one which it would probably wish to control. It is much the same with the matter of interior economy, only sufficient steps having been taken to a'lovv the future management to use "its own discretion. ��������� Attention is directed to s $1086, VPPROX1MA1E LIABILITIES. Imperial Bank loan $2000 00 Hospital furnishing and supplies, $1,056 less* furnishing offers for beds and bcddi:ig^$200. .....-��������� Improvements���������Septic tank, elee- . trie fixtures, painting, elc Balance due architect Sundry accls., adv.lg., .int., etc.. 48 856 00 380 00 178 60 45 00 "- T^-cti- -.ir-Ji'iZ " 'i-~-'^ ���������!**3439 6������ *'- At?,"?��������� ASSETS. - ,������' -'> By cash on hand .. .- -....$ 125 51 i" unpaid subscriptions 1 170 00 ' " ���������" -charges of Dist. Nurse 106 50 Balance required to meet deficit. 2057 59 R S3459 6o spectfully submitted, B.'R. ATKINS, Hon. Treasurer, auditor's report. I have examined the accounts of the Revelstoke Hospital Society lor the year ending 31st July,, 1902, and I hereby certify the statement above of Receipts and Expenditures to be absolutely correct, the statement ot Liabilities appended to be appioxiinately correct. I have checked all cash icceipts from original entries and lind all disbursements duly authorized by Board of Directors. J. M. DOVLE, Al'llIIOR. It. was moved liy II. A. Drown, seconded liy A. K. Hupps, thai t lit* fi-poi'ls lie adopted as read.���������Curried. Tlie chairman stated that the Hoard had the assurance of twn nieinhei's of the Ciovornmonl that they would use every effort towards procuring the additional giant of $2000 inenlioiieil in the directors' report. The secretary reported lion. "\V. (J. Wells as having stated, after a minute inspection, Unit the hospital was tlio finest in the'interior. The report of the Ladies Auxiliary was then read as follows : LADIES' AUXILIARY REPORT. The ollieers and membeis ofthe Ladies Auxiliary take pleasure in presenting herewith a biief 1 eport of the woik done by the Society during.the past year. At the suggestion of the Boaid of Directors of the Revelsloke Hospital Society, Iwo representatives from each of the churches in tlie city met at the residence of Mrs. F. McCarty on the 17th of July, 1901, to oiganize a Ladies Auxiliary in connection willi the Hospital. The following ofiiceis were elected : Hon. President, B. R. Atkins, Esq. President, Mrs. Can ut hers. Vice President, Mrs. Wilkes. Secretary, Mrs. B. A. Lawson. Treasurer, Mis. A. Smith, succeeded on her removal from town by Mrs. How son. The city was canvassed for subscriptions and there was a cheerful response, $222.50 being collected. At the fust annual meeting ofthe Board ol Directors the Society was duly constituted to hold oflice I'or one year. At the first regular meeting of the Auxiliary, it was decided that a delegation visit the Lardeau district, to collect funds lor the Hospital, and the Ladies of the Society tlike this opportunity of express ing lheir thanks to Mr. Pool for his liberality in defraying all' the expenses ol" the delegation. ' - - " The amounts subscribed were as follows: At Trout Lake City.. .. ,$133 75 At Ferguson 405 50 . . At Thomson's Landing.. 41 50 Al Comaplix" 110 50 At An ovvhead 13 00 $704 25 The subscriptions collected in casli amounted to $436.75. By a unanimous vote of the Auxiliary il was decided to present thc Countess of Minto with a bracelet, to be. made of gold nuggets from the mines of British,Colum- bia, as"a slight' token of.;the appreciation "felt by the Society for"the."great interest and sympathy always shown by .Her Excellency? in the work and welfare of the Hospital, and especially for her success in obtaining foi it the valuable grant of $1500 from the Victorian Order of Nurses. The first annual ball in aid of tlie Hospital funds was held January 24th, 1902. It proved a great success, the net proceeds amounting to $276.20. ' The Society heartily thank all those who so willingly assisted them in making the ball the success it was. On February 4II1, 1902, all moneys collected by the Auxiliary ,were handed (Continued on Page 8 ) EDUCTION SALE HIGH CLASS DRY GOODS. V. E START OUR MIDSUMMER SALE ON SATURDAY MORNING ancl continue it for the balance of this month. A sale fof great interest���������one that should jam this Store all day long with eagerly buying shoppers. We have gone .through our extensive stocks and selected many of our leading and best selling lines, a few of which we quote below :��������� EXCURSION The S. S. Revelstoke will make an Excursion Trip to Halcyon ��������� and St. Leon on Saturday.��������� Band will be in Attendance. Tlie Itevclstoke Navigation Co. are advertising a grand Coronation Day excursion liy the s.s. Ue .-elstoke to the Halcyon and St. Leon Hot Springs. The fate for the lound trip for adults is .s;2 and for childien under 12 years $1. The hunt will leave the Colunibin bridge Salniday morning at 7_ o'clock sharp and will return to town about 0 o'clock in the evening. The trip down Ihe river and lakes will be a most enjoyable one anil theie is no iloubt but there will lie .1 largo number of people who will avail themselves of the opportunity of eujoying asplendid trip. It is the intention of tlie Com* ���������pany to furnish meals on the boat. Tickets are on sale at the Canada Drug k Hook Co.'s stoie and excursionists are udvUed co purchase their tickets ii< advance. The Independent Band will accompany tho excursionists and render dm ing the day a programme of music. Sad Drowning Accident. .The community was staitied "last Tuesday afternoon by the announce ment that Elsie, second daughter of Mr. ancl Mrs. H. Cook, had been drowned in the Columbia river. It appears that a number of children were playing down at the old steam boat landing when suddenly Elsie slipped and fell into the water. Jean Hyatt, one of her playmates, made a plucky attempt to rescue Elsie and in doing so she lost her balance and also fell into the river. Elsie was caught in an eddy and duiwn right under water almost immediately, but Jean was more fortunate, being swept towards the bank where she succeeded in catching some brush. John Sa'mson who was working near by, saw the accident and hastened to the spot in time to rescue Jean. Every effort was made to recover the body of the unfortunate child but without success. Elsie was about 9 years of .ige, a loving child and a favorite among all her playmates. The Herald and the community at large extend deepest sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Cook in their sad1 bereavement. - * - Rifle Association Notes.' Sixteen members turned 'out to practice last _Saturday and ^great improvement was noted iu some of the scoring. Following were the highest points'obtained: TWO HUNDRED "SARDS.. ' H. A. Brown : R. G01 don Capt. Foislund '. Dr. Carruthers B. Lawson ' FIVE HUNDRED.YARDS. A.McRae , H. A. Brown R. Gordon O.ipt. Forslund| T. B. Baker 21 Dress Goods . Five Pairs All-Wool colored Cashmere, in navy blue, In-own and drabs. Regular selling price ��������� ������������������ Ladies' Blouses In colored Scotch Zepliyis, sizes .somewhat broken ���������Regular $i and $1.25. Sale price 7Bc " Three pairs all-wool Serges in cardinals, dark A few ends of Plaids and Fancy. Work. Regular Ladies' Cotton Vests A large assortment in these gcods. Regular Wash Goods Fancy Dress Muslins in all colorings. Regular ��������� lines al 15c. Sale price IOC Scotch Zephyrs in stripes and fancy,nice patterns. Selling price 15c. and iSc. Sale price 12^C Fancy White Muslins, in stripes and cheeks. Regular price 15c. and 18c. Sale price 12^C Hats and .Bonnets . Children's Muslin Hats. Regular 50c. and 60c. Sale price lo clear al 35c Children's Muslin Bonnets. Regular price 25c. Sale price ., .*IO<$ Big Reductions in Men's and Bpys' Summer Hats. It will pay you lo look" over tlieni. Prices, on these goods cut right in two, 1 Ladies' Sailor Hats All this Season's Goods and new shapes. Regular price Si and Si.25. Sale price 75c_ Ladies' Sailors, New Shape. Fine Braid. Regular Bargains in Everything IN THIS STORE. Come expecting to get the biggest bargains you ever got and we can assure you that you will not be disappointed. Ladies' Black Sailor Hats. Regular 75c. Sale REID & YOUNG, DRY GOODS MERCHANTS, MACKENZIE AVENUE. Arbor Day. . At the hospital meeting Monday night Rev, C. Ladner made several good 3tiggi'stions legarding the future work of the directors, chief among which was the beautifying of the grounds around-tbe hospital-bv-plant- ing shade trees. He suggested that an appeal be made to the city council to assist in the work and that each citizen give three days' labor towards clearing up hospital grounds and planting shade trees. This should be done befoie the month of October. Mr. Ladner was of the opinion that nil the tiees required conld be had from the Government farm at Agassiz. The teverend gentleman explained to the meeting that he was a crank on the subject of tree planting on the streets. He pointed to Kamloops and told how a number of years ago lit1 bad induced some of th'e citizens there to go in for it nnd the result wai. that the streets in that city had been beautified. He would like to see the the same idea carried ont here, and suggested the inauguration of Arbor Day for this purpose. The ideas of Mr. Ladner are certainly worthy of consideration and tree planting on streets would do much towards beautifying our city and the Uickald hopes to.see these suggestions acted upon. TRACY TAIES HIS OWN LIFE Surrounded By a Hundred Men In a Clump of Trees With No Hope of Escape, He Commits Suicide. Skattle, Aug. 7.���������Harry Tracy. ex.convict, desperado and many times a murderer, has been captured���������by death. Ue died early this morning by his own hand. Cornered in a swamp near Harrington, in Eastern Washington. Tracy was found by Sheriff Cudihee's posse. He was shot in tlie leg. between- the knee and hip. This wound, taken in conjunction with his other wound*, made it impossible for him to continue bis flight. When he saw that he must certainly be captured.or shot dawn, he turned bis pistol on himself. - His dead body was found a. few minutes later, when -his pursuers dared to approach the place where he was last seen. , The City Council. The regular meeting" of the eity. council was held last Friday evening, all the members being present. _ The principal business of-the meeting was" the passing the monthly accounts. Applications were received from *W. E. McLauchlin and O. J. Aman for the city clerkship when vacant.* The city clerk reported that the crown grant of the school grounds' had. been received. An amendment was made to Trades License Bylaw "No. 2,-increasing the license - to -travelling shews exhibiting in tents from $5 to $20 per day. The city solicitor was instructed to draft a boarding house bylaw, regulating the number of 'occupants to the. amount of air space. * City treasurer asked that the books be audited up to Aug. 1st." , Railway Notes,' ' ' , C. H.-Snyder the heavy weight brAkeman'who left here last year is now running a train at Cardenas, Old. Mexico. -. ��������� ; The C. P. R.(is-'p'attingJ,'in"c36-n'ew locomoti.Yes'jn tjme ..for'/.thei wbaat*,' shipments from , Manitoba; jtiitl-.. tb������" Not th west this fall. "*.' .." '_ ,��������� j_ ' J. H. Neweth engineer ' on'rthi Bie Hill has had. to take an enforced holiday on account of injury to'his finger. _ - , ' ' " L. A. Fretz leaves ,tonight' for Enderby in connection with comment**- ing of bis contract for' the erection of section houses for the C.P.R. - * Wm. Whyte, assistant to President: Shaughnessy of the C.P.R. came up from the soiith last night-and left for the east on No. 2 this morning. Harry Rembroke," brakeman on' a work train at Ross Peak- received a severe injury to his shoulder blade ' Tuesday by a log falling upon' him. The C. P. R. have under construction on this division thirteen new section houses. L. A. Fretz has the contract for the erection of six of these, three east and three west of the city. ' * A Big Catch. ~ -Edr~Corning-and���������Hf^Af-Brown re^ turned last week from a fishing trip" to Fish Lake, 20 miles, south of Kamloops. In flve days they caught 8001 bs. of fish, which'included silver, salmon and speckled trout. They state that this is the greatest lake for flsh in British Columbia." in 'fact the . greatest on the continent', and recommend lovers of the rod who are looking for good sport to go there.-" '��������� ���������- ."-vs. r 1 ���������*���������* ,.The Eva Bonded. Thr Tiiipprial Syndicate who own that famous Eva group on Lexington mountain at Goldfields. have given a 30 day option to an eastern syndicate for y 150.000 cash. Reid & Young's New Store. Messrs. Reid & Young have given a con ti act to J. Kernaghan for extensive improvements to their store premises on McKenzie Ave. The improvement), consist of an extension of 30 feet at the rear end making the main store 100 feet through. The new addition will be used as a millinery store in which an up-to-date stock of millinery and fancy goods will be kept. Work on the new extension commences todav. "Walter Scott, the government agent at Nakusp, wired Dr. Cross, (coroner), on Tuesday to come to Nakusp and hold au inquest on the body of Dan Campbell who is supposed to have been accidentally drowned in Arrow Lake on Tuesday tuorning. Dr. Cross left yesterday morning for Nakusp and will return tonight. School Notice. The schools will reopen on Monday Aug. II. It will be a great help to the * teachers if parents will have their children in attendance ori the opening day, also that they be properly supplied with pens, pencils etc. The School Board supplies ink. A high school class will be formed, but a large part of the work will have to be done outside of regular* hours, at recesses aod after school. * Parents are earnestly requested not to send their children away from town for. High School work. Every effort will be made.to meet the wishes of all, and, if, any young people of the town are contemplating any special Work a private cmll on the Principal will probably, result in the attainment of their desires. .. We are here to work and want the S:ople of the town to make use of us. o not hesitate te make your wants known as now is the time to do your work. Remember that education is a positive necessity for success' in :life under present conditions. .1 E. Wosos, Principal* Alex. Fethereton, who was employed by a Seattle syndicate in the develop* ment of a property, the I.X.L., on Fish River, is a fugitive from justice. He is accuspd of forgery and th* embezzlement of the funds of his employers. Const. Summer, of Gun* aphx and Const. Upper of this city are after Fetherston to effect his capture. Col. Prior, minister of mines, -who visited Fernie last" week, assisted in the settlement cif the strike of miner* in the Crow's Nest Coal Co's. mines. The men are now returning to work and the smelters will again be able to smelt. ���������*. ��������� T*M^-wo*o������*������*rsi^������vi������������������������r,~ 7-sti** A DOLL'S DRESS. ~"*f ANE is a good girl, but she ha? I no sense. She is always telling fT\\ people that I am "out" when 1 A A ttm "in," and "in" when 1 have ^"^ told her that I am "out." That V was what made the trouble about the bazar. 1 was reckoning up the butcher's book when she came bustling into tho room. I have to be careful about the books, because father does not get so much money for his tales as they are worth. lie Is Mr. Marchant, the great author. My name Is Molly, ana I have kept house tor him and the boys ever since I was a child. Now I am tour- teen. "What have you come bothering hbout 'now,' Jane'.'" I asked. The bill was flve shillings more than the month before, so I'was rather cross. "Mrs. Cattley to see you, miss." "Of course you told her I was out?" Jane jerked her thumb In the direction of the door, and. I heard a rustle outside. Mrs. Cattley Is the sort of woman that always wears crackling eklrts. "No," she called, in a loud voice. "Jane told ma that you were in." I gave Jane such a look! Then I slipped the butcher's book under something, and got up with my best smile. "Jane generally does the wrong thing," I explained. "I was so afraid that she had sent you away. Do sit down." ' "Umph!" she said. Of course J knew that she did not believe me, and she knew that I knew. "Bring some tea, please," I told Jane. She walked out, grinning all over hei face, and I made up my mind to speak to* her wlienllrs. Cattley was gone. "Put your cap straight before you come In again." She shut-the 'door;with a "bang. "You've no idea what a trial servants are." "I was keeping house before you were born." She shut her mouth with a snap. "Long before," I agreed. She turned red, and I looked innocent. "So, ol course, you know exactly how to manage them." She can never get a servant to stop. "Things were very different when T was a girl." I hoped that she was different in those days; but I did not tell her so. I have a good deal of tact, father says. "You never had any trouble with servants,;! suppose?" (I have heard that they did'not keep any.) "None whatever." She put up her eyeglasses and stared at me as ifshe wanted to; be contradicted. Fortunately, Jane knocked at the door.' "Come in," I called; but she only opened it a little way and beckoned. "We ain't got no loaf sugar," she whispered. Her'whisper is rather loud. "Hush!" I-"shut the door hastily. "You must go to Scales' for a pound." She shuffled from one' foot to the : other. She always does that when she is uneasy in her mind. " 'E said as "e wouldn't let us 'ave nothink more till we settled for wot we'd 'ad." It was only a few little things; but he is a surly man. "Then go to the new shop round the corner. He doesn't know us, but " " 'E'il let us 'ave it," said Jane, promptly; and off she went. . "I beg your pardon for leaving you," I apologized, when I returned^ "Jane requires so much telling." "I should not keep her a month." ; "I am sure you would not," 1 agreed. , Airs. Cattley pursed her lips and looked at me very hard. ' Then she sighed, as if she thought me too bad for words. ���������"X came to see you about the bazar," Bhe^afd; "but perhaps I had better _ speak to your father." "Oh, no!" I said, hastily. "You can tell me." Anybody can persuade father into anything. "The rector insisted upon my being on the committee." She seemed yery proud about it. "They have unanimously elected me collector." "Oh!" 1 made up my mind not to Biv-a anything. "I have come to see what you will subscribe." "I wiii ask father," I promised. Of course'I did not mean to do anything of~tfte"3brt!Ji~~ "Why don't you make something yourself," she said, unpleasantly, "instead of troubling poor Mr. Marchant? He must, have expenses enough already." "If yoa .think ;..���������. that," I suggested, "there is no need to trouble him." "I do not ask my husband for money when���������er " "I am sure you don't." I am afraid I smiled a little. Everyone knows that be has to ask her! She looked as if she were going to fly at me; but she changed her mind and pretended not to understand. "I suppose you: can make fancy things? Whep I was your age " "I hute making fancy things," I Interrupted. [ like making them really; but they cost such a lot for material. "I presume you can sew?" she en- Quired sarcastically. "I never do sewing." I do nearly all :the mending of the house really; but It wasn't likely I, was going to tell her. "I am afraid that the wish is lacking." she ������ild severely. "Of course, if you choose to be the only persons who do not give anything, you must please yourselves. At the same time I think It my duty to warn you that people wilt talk." "It doesn't matter." "Perhaps not"���������3he sniffed���������"to you. If I were In your place I should study my poor father." I should have said something rude if I had answered her, so I held my tongue.) I don't suppose -I manage very well, but I do study father. I promised mother that I would, the last thing of all. "There are people enough already," ���������he went on, "who speak disparagingly of hirn. because he is an author." ��������� I laughed. It is called Ironical, I believe, the vvay that I did It. "Your friends are jealous, because they have not the brains to write," 1 said. Father has often told me that this is the reason that people run down authors. "My friends are not people who are In the habit of���������er " " 'Ere's the tea. miss," said Jane, coming in suddenly. "An' the loaf sugar. An" the grocer says will yer be eure an' " "That will do. Jane. Put ��������� It here, please. How many lumps will you have, Mrs. Cattley?" Jane was beginning again, but I frowned at her so that she went. "Jane Is always forgetting to tell me what things have got low." * "Ah!" said Mrs. Cattley. "You can't expect a girl to think of everything!" Of course she meant that' we were always running short; but I pretended not to understand. "Father has been very successful with his tales lately," I said in a confidential way. "He looks for the postman to come eve.ry evenlcjf regularly." He says he only goes Into the drawing- room to pull down the Winds. "To bring a cheque, you know." Unfortunately, It doesn't often come. "They don't pay very well, I sup. pose?" 'Mt depends upon the quality. Father gets a very high rate, of course." "Then no doubt he will be pleased lo subscribe handsomely, If I ask him." She looked very determined. I did not know what to do. Fathci cannot bear people to think we are poor; and when he Is asked to give he never.-refuses; I felt sure he would subscribe a sovereign; and the tradesmen were worrying me so about the books. "You need not'trouble," I told her. "3 will get something, or make it." 1 meant to make something���������an excuse! "Thank you, dear." She was quite polite. "Any little thing will do." "Will it?" I thought at once of some small scarves In Tape and Drape's. They were one and eleven-throe. "So long as it is suitable to your father's position, of course. People naturally expect that everyone will give according to his means.;.I mention these things because you are so young, my dear." She got up. "It is very .thoughtful of you. Thank you so much.: Must you really go?" She said she must. So we embraced one another, and she Went. When ] embrace Mrs. Cattley, vve put our cheeks alongside and a little way off, and kiss the air. It is the proper way ���������with her! "I won't give her a thing," I said to myself, as soon as .she had gone. "The horrible, spiteful old creature!" I said the same thing to Mrs. Serplls, the new curate's wife, when she called next day. They are no better off than we are;'but she is a dear. "I shall say I forgot," I told her; but she shook her head. "You don't know the artfulness of that woman, Molly." "What has she done?" "She is telling everybody that, according to your account, your father is 'getting over his difficulties.' That is how she puts it. She doesn't believe it, she says; / but they'll see what - sort of a present he gives to the-bazar." "The hateful woman!" I cried. "She is " "She was talking about it In Joynt's, the butcher's, when I passed this morning. Of course I did not listen���������" "Of course not," I agreed. "But I could not help hearing what she said. Old Mrs. Wilkins heard her say the same thing In Staize's, the costumier's; .and Mr. Cattley asked Charlie about it, and said he did so hope it was true." "I don't think he is to blame," I said. "My dear, he is to be pitied���������poor fellow! But anyhow you j see " she shrugged her shoulders and held up her hands. "You mean they'll say nasty things if father doesn't give something expensive?" "That's what I'm afraid of, dear." 1 drew a long breath. "They shan't. T will give something good somehow. 1 don't know how I'm going to,do it." J felt like crying, but Mrs. Serplis stroked my shoulder. "Couldn't you get:some fancy-.materials? I'd soon run you up something." "They cost such a lot." "I know they do," she sympathized. "Iwish we had something to���������lend you. But there's the doctor's bill���������where we came from; he's been waiting such a time���������and the rates just come in." Sne sighed. "I hardly know what we shall do ourselves, Molly." I sighed, too, : and we did not say 'anything :for��������� a few minutes;' then she found it was time to go, and we said good-bye. When she says good-bye, I put my arms right round, her. It is the proper way*���������for her! After I had thought .the matter over,. _L_iriade_up._mv mind to save tiie.,nioney_ out of had given handsome presents." In the list I found: "Mr. and Miss Marchant." I really did not know what to do, so I consulted Jane. Jane is not much use to consult, but Mrs. Serplls was not well, and I felt I must talk to somebody. "Yer carn't give nothink, w'eh yei ain't got nothink to give," Jane said, when she had nearly bitten the end ofi her apron. "You always put things so clearly!" I told her. Jt was meant to be sarcastic, but she took it for a compliment. "An' if yer ain't got nothink to give, yer carn't git nothink." "That Is exactly my difficulty." "The question is, ain't yer got no- think?" She looked at .me meaningly. "What?" I asked. She fidgeted about. "I've got three-an'-six." "I wouldn't dream of such a thing." "I don't see " "I couldn't, Jane. Really, I couldn't; though It Is very very kind of you." if really was. "Besides, It Is not nearly enough." "No," she agreed. "I don't suppose It, ain't. Well, yer'll 'ave to do It out of the 'ousekeepln'." I shook my head, "Wot does them boys want with treacle, an' suet puddln's. an' " "Oh, Jane! They must have something, poor little fellows." "Greedy little pigs,7.1.call 'em!" Jane does not get on with the boys, because they say her hair Is red. It Is not red really, but carroty. "If you cannot speak properly of them', Jane," T said, "you had better hold your tongue." "Alwus goin' without things tor 'em," she grumbled, "you an] the master; stuff an'- rubbidge, I call it. .Wot I don't 'old with, an'���������" "Last Saturday," I pointed out, "when I had no pennies for sweets, you made them some toffee; and " - "More fool me!" She bit her apron savagely. '" 'Owsomever, that -.ain't neither 'ere noi-; there." "No; but you said there was something; I could give." "I didn't say nosich thing-" "Well, yon looked it." "Wot if I did?" Jane can be very obstinate. I am not obstinate;; but I am firm. "What did you mean?'.' I insisted. She fidgeted about more than* ever. "For goodness' sake, stand still!" "I was. thinkin' of���������the doll's dress." I sank down on a chair. "The, doll's dress! ' Oh,: Jane!"' "In course, I didn't suppose as 'cw yer would, but��������� Don't look like that, Miss Molly.; Don't, there's ai dear!" "I���������I shall be all right in a minute, ft���������it isn't that I' mind, only���������oh. Jane!" I laid my head down* on my arms, and Jane put her hand' on my shoulder. It may not be a soft hand, but It ia a very kind one. "I know, dear," she said���������and I think she was crying���������"I know ars yer mother made it, an' no one couldn't 'ave done It lovelier; but " "What"would she think, if���������if " Jane wiped her eyes fiercely. "She'd rather yer done: it a thousand times than she'd 'ave people look down on the master." I got up .from my chair quickly. "You are quite right, Jane. I shall send It to-morrow; and���������thank you." Then I ran upstairs and locked myself in my bedroom. I bathed nvy eyes before *l: came .down, so that no*..*, one should notice. Jane was very: nice, and did not grumble, even when I gave the boys a penny each to spend. I thought It would please mother if she knew. The next morn Ins I took out 'the doll's dress, and did it up very quickly, and sent Jane round with it., -II was a very beautiful dress���������white satin" worked all'over, with tiny, little silk flowers and leaves. It must have taken mother a long, long time; and I know that she would never have done it if.she had not been very.fond of me. Even Mrs. Cattley could not, find: any fault with it, and she wrote to say thai ihe should be surprised if It did not fetch at least a couple of pounds. People could not say, things of father after that; so I was glad. At least, I tried to be glad; but I did not seem very bright somehow.. Father asked several times if anything -.vas the matter._ He always--,notices., I, told him "Nothing;" but I was afraid that he did not believe me. .So I tried my hardest to be. cheerful, because he is so sat beside me. '"What is wrong?" he asked, "dear little girl?" "Nothing, daddy," I said. He walked up and down the room two or three times. Then ho came back and put his arm round me. "Tell me, llttle������-nother?" he begged. So I told him. He blew his nose very hard several times; but he did not speak till I had done. "I am glad you have told me, dear/1 he said at last, "but I knew." "You knew?"I cried.. "Who? When?'*1 "It was Cattley. He���������he is a good fellow." I nodded. "He came to me this morning and told me about lt. He wanted his wife to let him buy lt and send lt back ta you, but she would not. That woman 1" lie kicked the footstool suddenly, "I can't say things about a woman, but " "I can." I sat up on the sofa. "She is " Father hold up his hand. "We should pity her, -Molly," he said, "for being��������� what she Is! Anyhow, Cattley begged me to accept a couple of sovereigns and buy lt for you. He dared not buy It himself, ho said, nnd he was set on your having It. He is a good man." "A very, very good man," I said. "Luckily I had no need to borrow. The 'Whirlwind' sent me a cheque for three tales this morning. So I went to the bazar this afternoon, and I brought back your doll's dress." "Daddy!" I cried. "Daddy!" He lit his pipe, but let Jt out again! directly. "When your mother ;was finishing .that dress, one night"���������he seemed to be talking to: himself���������"I remember teasing her about spending- so much time and money on a plaything for a little girl. "She smiled up at me���������you remember how she used to smile-'���������" He turned, away and pretended to light the pipe again. " 'Isn't she worth It, dear?"/she said. 'She alwayST^-she' . . ." He stopped suddenly, and I jumped up and put my arms round his neck. "She thought: there was no one; like you,": I whispered; "and there; Isn't, daddy dear." He sighed, and smiled, too. "Yon are: just like her, my-child," Ue said; "Just Iiko her!" 'I know: myself'.,8hat I am not good, like mother was; but I .want him to think so!' MISPAH, __^_ .*11 * ���������. Q3o thou thy way, and t go mine)" Apart, yet not afar; should have some nice cakes. Mr;.. Serplls helped me to make them one afternoon, so they came rather cheap You see, she was one of a large family. I saved one-and-three out of thr- four shillings. That made five-and-six altogether. I expected to make It up to nearlj* half a sovereign the next week; but father was Worried because he had, not quite enough for the gas bill. It will run up, though I am ever so careful. So I gave him part of my housekeeping money toward it, and tried to put oft some of the bills; but the tradespeople were not very nice. "Seein" as ev'ryone sez as 'ow yer father's doin' better," the butcher told me, "I was expectin' as 'e'd pay orf some of the back owin's. I'm a man wot's got to live, I am." I suppose he has; but he need not do it so disagreeably. Then there were the hoys' boots. Bob's were right out at the toes, and they'd been capped twice and soled half a dozen times. Tommy's were nearly dropping off his feet. He came home crying because the boys at school teased him about them. Boys do not mean to be unkind, but they never think. The shoemaker was very pleasant, and said if I paid for one pair I might owe for the other. I could not jxpect more than that, because he has n. large family, and they aro very poor. Jf we had a lot of money I should like to help them. A few days' before the bazar Mrs. Cattley sent a printed circular. It was addressed : to father, but I opened it. There was a list in it of "Donors who quick at guessing anything,' and-! d!3~ not want him to be worried about the dress. I played with the boys more than usual; and Airs. Serplis helped me to make them some soldiers' clothes. They were very: pleased with them; . and when they caught me moping, I said It ,was only toothache, and they must not tell father, because I did not want to ���������go to the dentist and have it. pulled out. .So they did not say anything. They are good little fellows, If they are tiresome sometimes, like all boys are. When the day of the bazar came, however, I was right down miserable. Of course I would not go to it; and In the afternoon I went to sleep. When I woke up;. Jane-told me that father had been home, and dressed himself, and gone out again. "Rare an' smart >. looked," she said. "I 'ope as.'e ain't got one In 'is eye, wot Wouldn't never do for'im wot you done." I waa so cross that I stamped my foot at her. "You are a bad. Impudent, foolish girl, Jane; and you can take a month's notice." She stared at me. "No fear, I don't do no slch thing.:I know when yer well off, If yer don't yerself." ...-i' . "It is not your business whether I am well off or not," i told her. "Please leave the room." She stared at me again. "Lie down on.the sofa. Miss Molly," she suggested, "an' let me bring yer some tea. It'll do yer 'ead good. Yer know I didn't mean nothink, an'���������there! there!" If Jane does silly things sometimes, she never means ���������any harm. That Is why I like her, arid will not' let the boys tease her about her hair. After I, had had some tea, I** went'to sleep again upon the sofa. At least 3 should have gone to sleep, only .the ���������boys came In fromschool and jumped on me. They were playing that'I was an elephant, when father came In. Then they* made believe that he was a tram-car, and climbed up on his shoulders. He said they might have tea with us, if th������!y were extra good. After tea he read two '' chapters ot Robinson Crusoe aloud. Then he gave them some chocolates that he had bought, and. Jane took them up t*.. be ;. When they had gone he came anil -." '.'Men,, are dreadfully brusque: some-: ;-. times,''.; sighed':. Belinda;':? "The;',-; other:, "night, my .brother-iand/I/rwent.to' the . house .of a friend to a: reception. 5 -It was .a/hot nigh V; and the house was ..'crowded,::, and:, there wasn't ^anything: :to .do .'butrto "stand around and7:talk :to" 'the 'people- one' could reach, /while 'the , Vpebple one: really.'wanted Ito^talk. with 7 /could only be:seen, at.fa,.distance.and; 'over:a -sea. of - intervening/heads-,:; ;In^ '.addition';the";croquettes vverercdld'and th������>ice'-cjeam*/warm, so jWheriyvyeV finally7 got %wary .both.''.my' 'brother : and 'I* ':saia: 'Thank Heaven^' quite fervently,; arid.'went-to a.hotel:and:bad-supper.,.*:.:; ���������;7 /"The7// next'; day 7; all / of r my;.-; friends.: whom fl;-met-asked: i-'Didri't'you: have, a lovelytime* at;the Blanks;.last''.niglit?', and:.:,l:invariably'* replied,.; .'Delightful..': Therilwe ;*weht.oiv:*our,: neparatet.ways.! :^v"heIv2 they Vaske'd ^'.myy brother J .the same/question he'^answered^iwitli a frankness.".. that/, appal led.; and semliar*. passed; me.';.'No^'-I7did riot., ���������-I'had. the stupidest 'time" of :. my.'life; -and;*7 say-,; they'd .'Better/get- another chef;the-, next -time they,en.tertaih,:fof/the'supper;was : awf uU",. L ':.:':/ ..-yLyLL. y:yi.'-.;.:: A',, ./"Here;"/..said/ Belinda;//"I/ trace./;.a strong /point'/of: ..difference/:; between men -and -women./:. .The -average. g;irl ���������������������������lias".too- much/pride, to let/.it .be knovvi.. that she has gone to ah entertainment- and has./stiH: failed;to/be:.entertaine*d. I saw./one*/'pretty^//g;uileiess/;looking creature1/sit ;alone/one/;. night...: at yy 'a" dance for;, nine straight .'dances, /then I had -'compassion.; on.: *herand. sent ray escort and. a/'couple , of,, other men. tq ask .her for -the remaining twosteps ahd ''waltzes.: She .danced f our; times in 'all^, yet the 'next/time she saw/me she said./she'd., had.,a/real. -delirious time .at/that ball,:;a delightful, never- to-be-forgotten time; and, , she /added modestly, that she'.;:had-..been, quite a belle./: A maniuhderithe "same/ circum- starices,7; though tliey had been of his, -Owj.Lanaking.:_asked-LifJ-he_had^en joyed A hlmself;.-.yould have/replied: emphatic^7"' ally and vulgarly, 'No, I didn't. ,1 had a' fierce'time. "Why, I know of one lord of creation .who told some/ friends' that-''' his honeymoon had been very tiresome, and-of aiyither who In bidding his host good-by after a yachting trip remarked that he had had a pleasant: time,:, .all things considered, but that, all water journeys were more or less of bores. Imagine a woman doing anything so tactless. Why, if it had been' a girl instead of a man in the latter case, though she had been seasick for the entire two wo������k.*������, though ��������� the sail water and air had ruined her prettiest gowns, taken the curl out of her hair and 'th������ rose from her complexion, she would have staggered off the yacht declaring faintly that she'd had the tlmec of her life, and that she'd like to go again to-morrow. That'* the feminine ld������a of true politeness.' ���������"Waverley Magazine." Philosophy. A dull saw won't do much cuttin', but It makes more noise than a sharp un. Ti we's one consolation a poor man'* got���������when he dies nobody'I! fight over his money. Kothin* great was: 'ever done thet there wasn't somebody a-flghtlng again it. Ye kin stretch a "robber Jest no fai an' then It'll bust. *������������������ ���������Some ' p'sojile'a' faith's like a leakln bucket. It's mighty" hard sometimes to tall Just where exaggeration ends an' lyin;* begins. It's a mighty common thing fer n man to make mistakes, but a mighty uncommon un fL**!* him to own up to 'em. Ye can't read a feller's thoughts, but his actions speak fer 'cmselves. I know tiv ii fe>.r thai wns bit by a rattlesnake twenty years ago an' Is still ii-drinkin'. whiskey to cure it. Good resolutions Is easy to keep; they gen'rally kin be found on the fop shelf under a half-Inch o' dust. Oiltin* mad'.i sometimes like throwla' a stone In a hornet's nest. $tt&$-$<&&S&������<&������G>-'i>3,<2>G>G>������<$&������>$>QiG>������������&fy&'$i<&$r$r������<&'W She turned her head very slightly, so that,the man behind her- caught; .-��������� tho narrowing:of ber eyes with sudden anger, and tlie tilting of her rounded chin. "Clumsy!" she said in a voice ringing with scorn. She caught up her skirt, Just raising it froni:the ground, and hastened on. But she threw'a few more or less acceptable home thrusts over her shoulder as;she went.on. "I can't think what you have been doing with yourself lately. Not improving, anyway. And you won't get on in the direction you are taking, I can assure you. It makes me very doubtful as to the'; truth of all your yarns of conquesP-they.are just what I took them for���������fairy tales, every cne! For no girl would be tame enough to be trampled on, If, that is your habit. Vou could not be so blind as that." She gave the offending skirt, with flie loop of braid dangling uncomfortably, a further hitch. She had the daintiest ankles���������the word expressed Iier altogether���������and/the man following her made no objection. It was. Indeed, his continued silenco She seized-on next���������to misconstrue. "At least," she said, with sisterly; straightforwardness, "you might apolo* gize." x They had reached the landing staga flrhere the boat was moored. The girl proceeded to take her place in it with the calmness and ease which only; come to her sex through practice* and long- suffering. She was seated with the ropes in her hands before she really looked up. at the man who had followed her���������into the boat by this time. "Now let, me see the stroke which Cakes captive your best girls," she was Baying, and then her eyes met his. , .Though it would have seemed more. Appropriate that he should be the one' to blush, it was to her cheeks the color mounted. She actually hesitated beforo she spoke. So he was given the opportunity or speaking, and by this time he availed) . himselfi willingly. , "I do apoiogize,"he said, "very hum. 61y." His manner and the laughter in his eyes did not, however, accord Wholly with such an attitude. * "Well���������really!" she began, but he interrupted her. "i will so further���������you will grant It ts a 3c:-ig way further���������I will explain." "Tliere seems room for it." He wa3 quite a genius at seizing hia chances. He took her words as a concession and dipped his sculls into tho water at the same time. "I shall be able to talk so much better, when wu are moving," he said art-' fully. "I fa-iicy my stroke may prove as worthy oi comment as your brotn- er's," he added. He was still smiling:, and he noted, with growing satisfaction, thatso was she.' "Weil, oj all tho"- .. "And you. do not even know who t "amnCl/cekT'Ob'T-don't-be-hardr1���������Luclt��������� ���������-if you like. T am proverbially,lucky. I am r.ot to blame for that, am 1? Your brother told you he, was expecting his colhisja chum;' Charles Dean? I .was Just eoitlns along���������^neither of you ���������sawme. Iin-mrd you send him back for your capo," he paused, with suddeo compunction. "You are not cold?" he questioned, anxiously- "i .'ergot; and have nothing in tba way of a wrap'.to otter you." "No, I ana not cold." she said, aa etiffly as sfc> <:t>vergrowr with we"ds. and perhaps vill son- . .day be _-*'ird ,to discover.��������� New Zealand "Times." / $*/ ���������!, \k A Girl of /th.e People B'litiiirJilu'hiv'taimiiiki'MNiuii'iirtMHtninDlutiitianninig ��������������� = B. Mrs. C, N. Williamson : \ 1 ���������I IMBBfTllWimi'TTT" *"*���������*"**"" , -in rnji.mi 14Jtuiiun4 !>iiiit-iiiiaiiilJiiltilnuijnJird; she did not care that in all probability'a larger au- aiehce was by this time collecting at* the front door. But I cared; I could *not shriek my answers, like a fishwife, trying to scream her down: i "Tom/'as now thrown me over!" she panted. "That's wot I mean. And it's j oecause of you. - 'E's 'eard things about ��������� irou���������things *e wouldn't tell me. But e won't 'ave nothln' more to do with me so long as you're in'this 'ouse, mak- in' the whole ny'b-ur'ood ring, with Do you know what you're about, girl? "1*311," ���������___ met me at the fact'ry, and we D^Vo*u_know what you've just; done? "The only thing-I could-do,. *I~an ewerel But I was almost frightened at the look in her. haggard eyes. "You've deceived me," ehe went on, fiercely..*"You've jtist the same as-Med. You came here and pretended you d been driven away from your old home. It wasn't true. You left because you - were a fool. And now, as If Juck was never tired of following some people that don't deserve it, you ye got the cWnce again. You ^Vhv" there ���������you sha'n't. Such a man! "Why, there . .^n't *e hardly his like ln England He might be a prince. And you ve got nothin',. nothln' but your. face. -He s ' eot everything; all he wants is for you -1 to takeUt and him with it. But you * - won'-t ** " ' " f l "I can't," I said���������quietly, though my .voice was shaking.- "You don't understand."*.' " ���������*��������� * '*u* ������V. -ho "I,-understand that you ought to be ��������� in Bedlam. Why, a queen's daughter " might snap at him; and you-but Ive .,������0 patience; I can't talk about it. 1 ^can just tell you this, my house Is no, place for fools." " "Very well," I said, faintly, "since you think-me that, since you dont .want* me here, I���������I'll go.' "Oh, I don't mean that.-Jenny!" she " cried, her tone changing quickly. I ve , Sit a temper, as you might know by ' -this time. You oughtn't to ^SSr^nte - -it-lxist for nothin'." She came to me and laid both thin, work-worn hands -on my shoulders, tears bursting suddenly from her eyes. - "My girl!" she sobbed. "My girl, do this-for me.' For us all. Think what ��������� - it means. Think .what it. would *befor Fan and Totsey. I don't say for my- ' self. It don't matter much any more. * - "But they're young. They've had a hard . .life, and they;ve no better.bef������re them ���������*^ml^ss-you-do-thisr--I-vvas--talUn^with - him-Sir Roger Cope, I mean He d ��������� do anything for the girls if he .was ad lt out. Then I r.mes 'ome, and I ear the chance you'**e thrown away��������� the chance fur the lot _of us.' You might, o'_ myde .the world a sort o.' 'eaveri for us all, o-*d I'd of snapp? ' my fingers at Tom. Rut Instld of thd ���������"���������aiii-*1U ->*"***a la;; bu*idleaas3. ��������� eatin.','. m-" bread. I -won't .flt-and it, I won't. I never liked, you. -Now the sight of you find your "airs mykes me sick! Out you go; this night." She pushed me from her, and I staggered backwards, halt falling on the bed. "I will go," I gasped. "After this���������I could not;'stay." I got up again, feeling strangely dazed, my arms bruised, and sparks dancing before my eyes from .the rough treatment I had "received. ,.'��������� * . "You're too hard on her, Fan," I ���������heard my mother plead. "She has paid her .way up" to now, and well, too.*- I'd never have charged her so much board if you hadn't made such a fuss. "We ve bin better off with her than without her; and though she's an aggravation there's nothing against her character. I don't care .what Tom Stephens says. He's a beast .to set one sister against another, anyhow. And mebbe, she'll come round and see things different from what she does now." "She goes out 6' this 'ouse to-night, or I do, that's-all," pronounced Fan. I had been almost too giddy to_ stand at first," but" now I groped to the wall, where I had hung up my hat and coat, after I had come in, hours ago. "I���������I want to go," I stammered. "Don't worry, mother. I shall be all right. I won't stoop to defend, myself. And I���������know people who will take me in.; -This, must have, pome sooner or later, I see now. I'n'w-rlte" to you, and ���������and by and by I'll send you money, 1 hope.,''Good-bye. -You have meant to be'klnd." ���������* " ; ' ' ���������sU'iBut "imy^motherihadjibegun ^to falter, when Fan cut her short. ' '��������� Don't you begin with no 'buts! your husband. He said so straight *| she cried.' "I won't 'ave 'em. I'm the out. I was so happy, I could have screamed. I never tnought for an in- stant'you'd say 'No' to him, and ruin all "our lives." "With that worn; face and those be-, "seeching eyes so near " mine, I was' dumb. My heart smote me. 'How, selfish I had beem never even tothlnk ot ..what I could do for these poor.soul- etarved,creatures, who,had.my blood in theirvelns!" How selfish, how cruel I .was even now, because my mother's appeal left me cold, and the voice of my spirit whispere.d: "You cannot do . this thing that Is asked of you, for them or anyone else .������n earth." I could bear.no more. "Oh; mother, mother, you are killing me!" I cried, and flung myself f 1 ee from*her clasp- ' Ing hands���������not because the contact ��������� was, hateful, but because I was desperate, scarcely, knowing what I did. /'I'll work for you all���������I'll get money -somehow, but���������I'd rather die than marry Roger Cope. I told "him ' I didn't ���������love him, but It's worse than'that, ���������'. I hate him. He's a hypocrite���������a snake." ';.' I waited for no more���������I; could not* endure to hear her answer, and have to retort upon that again. Turning, -1- .flew out of.the room, and, running to my own, dared to bolt myself ln. Time passed on, and nobody came to call me. I knew' that the dinner hour must be long past, and I was faint with hunger, for T had breakfasted* on a slice of bread; but I wished to think -* out some definite, plan,for the .future- betore I saw my mother again. ���������? wdshedl to do this, y������t I could not; for the preliminary pangs' of starvation . had begun their work. My head swam; I could not concentrate my thoughts. " At last evening was falling. I had stayed for at least five -hours In the ���������little -back; room. . It was time for Fan , to come home from the factory. I ���������wondered greatly what had been happening outside, and why I had been left oo.long undisturbed'. The silence seemed ominous, but at last lt was suddenly broken by a great clamor In the next room. Some heavy object fell with ..a loud thud; accompanied by the crash of braaldne .dishes.- Above the: noise rose breadwinner, I am. I've got the right to sye who stops or goes." - Her great'black eyes dqmlnatedmy mother. The girl vaia like "some.'savage'young'-aiiSmal at'bay.^tI-'dld not wonder that "the two who knew her moods; best .cowered betore -her -now.. There was a look:on-her face, with the twitching J lips', apart;.; showing strong white teeth, which "said that she might do me a ;mlschief If I defied her. _- I took my mother's shaking hands and pressed them. Perhaps I ought to have kissed her,7 but somehow I, could not.-.. I murmured something confused about seeing her again,' and then; when I had given the sobbing Totsey a. fleeting embrace, I pushed blindly past1 the group of. curious ones who had gathered In the passage, and .went out into the open air. I had toid my mother that t*I '.had friends who* would take me ,in if 'I asked,; and' I had not :deliberately; uttered a falsehood. I had only said the first thing that occurred to me, with the desperate impulse to escape. Indeed, there were doubtless people in the old set from which I had vanished^ who would receive me ifl threw myself "upon their kindness, but I had no in- 2ten.tlon.0f .doi.ng.that. , Dusk was falling early, for a storm .threatened.' There were fa'.-t grumblings of "thunder," which I wa.//scarcely conscious qf healing. Great purple cloud-banks boiled "up from the wesi" and, overspread,the iky. As I ran out into tlie street, a big drop or" two oi rain splashed down:upon my upturned face. The man Weu*ome, just coming home from: his: unknown /"business." caught sight of me as.I.left, the house, and I saw: by his eye that It. was in his mind to follow. I quickened my pace, and hurried round the corner. Then;' 1 :began to' run",' flying through street after street until I knew that he must have lost scent. At last I stopped, bewildered and coriipk i ely lost. CHAPTKR XII. "Waterloo Hrldge. It seemed to mo that I had "come to the end of the won*;���������my world.' No������ body w'anted me. Nobody cared. Ti would be better If I were dead. Rain began to pour down ln sheets, and I was soon wet to the skin. The streets were emptyi-c., for people had hurried Into shelter from the storm, and only here and tliere could be seen an "umbrella, black ns. a..scurrying bat over the pavement, that shone with' rain beneath the gu--lamps. It occurred to me lhat I might stand under the protection of some doorway until the worst of the storm should be over; but in my dull despair it seemed hardly worth while to care for the wretched body vvhicn had ceased to be of Importance to me or anyone else. So I went through.th:* .lownpojr, stolidly; and at Ian. when I had walked for a very long lime and n was really dark, I camo to a great bridge over Uie Thames. " It was in my way. going strright on, . to come to it; nr.a i proceeded at flrst steeped In the stiiui������������������������ apathy that was part of my. conditl.ni. But my eyes fell upon the black'water flowing underneath, and 1 stumped'suddenly, fascinated. It was do If someone had spoken in my ear, saying: "There's no place lor you in the world. Perhaps there mny be son', ���������v.-here else���������somewhere beyond. You could find out here." The thunderstorm'was long ago over, but rain still fell he-'vily and .steadily. Except when ;;;i i'i '"ilbus rumbled by, there was '''scarcely, anyone on the bridge,: and nobody who passed paid any attention to me, as I'covvered close to the stone wall* In one of the embrasures. In my bin ck dress and hat. my slim little figure inusf.have melted into the shadows of night. Two forces jn my. nature began war.-, ring together as I looked down at the dark, flowing water,with a thought In my mind that never in :my life had harbored there belce. ' "You- are young," one voice said. . I'Only eighteen. It Is pitiful, that you, who have been petu-d and loved, and told that you were beautiful, should die like this. "Who knows, what tin' years; may yet hold for; you if you stay and see?" But the: other voice answered: "It'a no use., What can: a girl like you do against the world? You haven't a penny. You can't buy even a piece of bread to eat, and you can't ask fox charity,7 You're only a little grain of dust, not of any importance at all. Thousands o������ girls as young as you must have died in this way. ,It saved them from worse tnings, and it will save you. You told Roger Cope that you; would rather die than marry him. Well, now you can die. And when he kno'vs, ^perhaps he will be sorry that lie hounded you to such: an end; for he "will really be "more, to; blame than vou." "That's, a coward's argument!" the first voice: cried.; "It would be brave to.,flght'���������: the battle out, weak to throw down your arms at the firs? attack." ' * '.'No, it's brave to ,Cie. lt takes courage to throw your.-'jlf over into the ;old, deep river,, ar.J not struggle or - ���������cream for help at t'-e last; to breathe :he water-Into yoi*** lungs and be ihoked by It till yea-drown. If you don't do; this .thing���������low, when you are belpless, without money or friends who would not tlilnk lt a" great burden to help you���������lt Is because you are afraid of the suffering, the horror." "It is a wicked thing, an unforgivable crime, to destroy your own-life," appealed'the first voice." " " -- "No. for God is merciful, and pardons all sins." said the other. -"He will understand. Do It���������now, ^whlle you hava the cmi'ra&e!" .,','." A whirlwind seemed to* snatch my soul inya resistless" grasp. Quick as lightning I tsprang up on the .stone seat.' Blind and deaf save to the tempest of my. own spirit, I put life be-i hind me���������stretched out my arms ' to death. .1* thought I was falling, that I had thrown myself over. It was as if my body were lifted by the force of my own passionate self-abandonment. - For an Instant I knew nothing. Then a man's voice spoke close to my ear. "Poor child! For heaven's sake ivliat has brought you to this?" - I had not fallen. The river was not to have me after all. Thi^-man's hands had dragged me,back, snatching, me from the stone bench and' holding 'me fearfully,'to'his7 side. I did not answer ���������'his question. I don't think that he expected it. 1 did not even struggle to free myself, for .the conviction o������ his strength robbed me of all mine, as he half-carriedi half- led me off the bridge. I had not seen. his face, knowing only that he was tall and very, very strong; but sudden- Jyajlght dazzled my eyes, and, scarcely reallilng^whafl-'didrl- looked������up-at_ him. * At the same instant his eyes were on my face, and by the exclamation of astonishment he gave, I guessed that it was for the first time, to-night. ."Great heavens!" he ejaculated. As he recognized me, so did I know him again. It was the man who had looked-up from the pit to our box at the Lyceum Theater on the night of "The Bells;" the man who had followed .me in a;cab when I drove away;, the ; man who had saved.me' andmy money from the hands of a thief. ' - % ' -"You!'l.I whispered, halfjjeneath my breath. The word must,have told him that I had not forgotten, but I was unconscious of its meaning. And suddenly I began to cry. My hands went up to my face, wet with "cold rath; and the burning tears which gushej from tha eyes.that* I hid lest he should see them. I did* not know why the sight, of this man had broken down all nay.self-control; but I sobbed heavy, tearing sobs that seemed well-nigh to wrench body and soul asunder. "That It should be'you ot all Women on earth," he said. "I thankedheaven that I was in time to save a life; but that' It should have been your life! Now I/thank heaven a hundred/times ;oyer." "I wish you'd let me die!" I sobbed. "You won't wish that���������to-morrow." - "There are no to-morrows for me," I answered. "I've come to the end of everything. "And now���������you've brought me back, to go through! lt all, all over again. Let-me go! You had no right -r^you:shall let.me go." "I shall not," he said, holding Me tightly, as for the first time X began to struggle In his grasp. "I have the right, nbt,!to ask questions, but to keep you from doing a thing you would never have dreamt of. doing If some trouble hadn't driven you half-mad for, a moment. I had the right to do that, and because I have saved you I have another right as well. Forget me tomorrow if, you",: like, but now you will have to obey me. Tell me the address of some relative! or friend whom you love, and I will drive with you there In'a Cab. -I refuse to leave you until I know that you are In safe hands." "Tou said that you had not the right ���������l up at the pave- n-il me beside it. . 1 shall do It y������u firm, you even stern, will let .me zo. Do'you think ���������nu would do If I to ask questions;'''' I exclaimed. ���������) "Not to ask questions about yourself. I or the trouble which has driven you o'ut'Of yourjsensess-i'But. there are others which, for your own sake, I must and will ask. Tell'me that address." "There is no such address," I snid. bitterly, still fighting* with my tears, "i have no relatives or friends to whom I fan go." "Then I will take you to mine." As he spoke h'e.rai..ed his hand to the driver of a cab, who saw the geslme from a distance, and whipped up his horse. "I can't���������I will not������������������" I had begun, vhen he stopped n . "Why? Because *��������� u're afraid of mo? 13ecause you don't know me, and so can't trust me?" "No���������o; it isn't thnt." ��������� "Then come. You must." . "I will not." The cab had din uicnt find he h i.i "Do yi.ii know vvl ll'tllSP?" His voice was rei'v "No. Kxcept th. no." "I will'not lot yon I don't, know what left you alone as 'ym. wish? I do know And rather than'-V 11 should have the chance I will give yiiu In charge to the police for���������attempt, n to kill your.*elf. I would cut off-my hand rather than do such a l'..i:ig; nevertheless, I will lt you force ine to it." I uttered a little broken cry of shame and horror. "You are cruel," 1 said. ��������� "Only to be kind. If you would let me take you to a" tr'ind of your own- but you s*y there '���������= no one. You say you trust ine. Prove it, I: beg of you." "Ah. you begged f."ngs on that other , night,", I .exclaimed in bitterness. "To-night, because I;am the:most miserable creature In nil this miserable ivorld, you have '.''commanded." "You think that the reason? You think that makes the difference? "Well, what/does your opln'-m of me m^tterl All that signifies is tHat you should be saved and then ^protected. - "Will you tet into this cab; now? "If you are afraid of me, I'will tell the/man where to' drive and/let*you go alone. But 1 Warn you; that T'.will follow and watch that you take -noiuafair advantage of such liberty," I hesitated. "You���������surely do- not nean what you said about the police?" "I swear that I do mean it," "Very well." * I got Into the cab. Leaning out 1 was on the point .of saying/reckless of :onsequences, ;, that I, would go to an ���������iotel--where/'I-'Was: known,/ when' sud- ienly, everything reeled and turned alack, and then���������then the.world ceased :o exist for me for a little, while. After a> time���������I do. not know how ong���������I; began/ dimly, dreamily to remembers that there was an/I. But I .���������emembered/nothing else, nothing at all ������f >whathad"liappenvd^; I thought that I had been, asleep, and I felt' an' ex- ���������reme d* Inclination to .wake. up.'.. * "Oh, 'see, sir, her eyelids are trem- Hlng!" said a woman. ��������� "���������"Jee the sal'Volatile again," directed ���������;������ man's voice, which I seemed to know. It was this whioh convinced me that X must rouse'myself. '"With an effort I- opened my eyes, - to look straight ,up Into a face that brought-back a whirling rush of recollections. Once more I was In the Lyceum Theater glanolng carelessly about, my gaze concentrating at last on the features of a-man ���������which appeared strangely dependable. Once more the thought wa3 la my mind: "He would be a good man to ask if you needed help." Why, he had helped, me twice! It was curious that I could remember occasions, but not the .ways. Then everything,flashed back to me. I was in a plain room, not large, .but stately, compared;to;those;I had known ���������of late ln Basel'street. The walls were lined with books: ihi dark bindings, that absorbed the light,which came from a .tall,' green-shaded student lamp standing on an open desk. Near this desk I 'was lying .In a deck-chair extended to ,its full length, while above me bent the face I knew and another face that was strange. The latter wore round spectacles that gave the eyes a surprised look, and it had a quaint little' nose which -turned up ln such, a comical manner that I found myself smiling". - ��������� ���������* t! "How did I come here?"' I asked. In a low, tired voice. It was the man who answered. " _ "In.the cab. Just as I was waiting for your decision to know; whether I was to go with'you" or to follow, you settled the question-by fainting. So'I. sbrought-youjiere.^becaiise^l knew that Mrs. Jennett would- tako goo"d~car"e~oii you. And when I am sure that you are quite well I will go away.". Somehow my" heart sank at the last words. "I did not'want him to go away ���������though I took myself Instantly to task for the feeling'..' - , i. "You're as pale as a_llttle ghost," miss;'.', said Mrs.''Jennett of theiturned- up nose. "Drink this, won't you? I've been making It hot." She held a cup to' my lips, and I drank some chocolate, which tasted better than anything I had ever tabled before. I could feel the blood begin to flow more warmly through my chilled velns.- "And your clothing la soaked through and ..thrpjigh," miss," .went on Mrs. Jennett. ������������������'Would you be offended It 1 should offer you some things ot mine till your own can-be dried?" ' "Of course not," I protested. "You are very kind:v But-1 can't stay here . to trouble you. I must be going soon." "We'll talk about that again.to-morrow," said she. " "If you're strong enough to come to my room, I'll make ���������you comfortable.inside ten minutes." ���������She slipped an arm behind myishoul- ders, and lifted me,up. But, as I tried to get on my feet, I discovered that I was not half as :*strong as I had hoped. Sparks fell in a shower before my eyes; I turned giddy, and would have sunk back again���������for Mrs. Jennett was a little woman and could not give much help���������had not.the man caught me In his arms as if I had been a baby. "Open the door," he said. Mrs. Jen-' nett ran to,obey, and before'I could speak I found myself being carried upstairs. Another door was opened, and I was deposited in an easy-chair, near a clean, white bed. ' "Lucky this was my day for changing the linen,'.' I. heard the little Woman exclaiming. * "Now everything's all ready for her Just as It Is." "How do you feel?" asked the man. looking, at me.. In saving,me from a fall and catching me In his arms to carry me here from the room below* his coat-sleeve had been: pushed back. As he. spoke he pulled the white cuff and dark; brown sleeve Into place, his left arm still bared from above the .wrist My eyes fell upon it, and I gave a loud, -���������artled cry. iTo be Continued.) Japan's Army arid Navy. The Anglo-.Iapaneso alliance and the guarded cdmincnts...i:pon it from tlie official spokesmen of tlie 'l<,i*uni*o*llussiun alliance have si!t people scanning the military forces of onr new ally. One of thri beist authorities upon Japan's naval strength is Jlr. II. XV. Wilson, author of the Standard work "Ironclads in / Action." In the "March number. of Tlio Navy League .Journal ho says:��������� "The Japanese.-licet consists of tlio following vessels which may be said to have military value, and in** addition to them there, arc! a'number of old ivou- Hurnor of the Hour. "You are not sick. Job," said ono oi the 'friends. "You only think you are." '"Only think I um, oil?" "Yes. It is ���������merely a delusion." "Well, then, all I've got to say is, I'd rather be sick Hum have this delusion." And tlicn poor old Job went exploring for d new 'boil that had just made it3 debut on tlie back of liis neck.���������San Wancisco Bulletin. T IflELU-MAKSIlAL YAMAGATA. elads," sloops and gunboats, whicli are o������ littlo.fighting value:��������� "Six first-class battleships, all _ built in England, and similar in design ,to the" Majesties and the Koyal Sovereigns, each armed with four 12-in(h and ��������� ten *������o fourteen 6-inch guns, steaming eighteen' knots, and carrying a good supply ' of "coal. - "Six so-called "armored cruisers, all new, which are virtually small battleships, ,' They steam 20 to 23 knots, and carry four 8-inch and twelve to fourteen Ginch guns apiece. Four of the six were built in England. "Four'^protected cruisers of twenty- two to twenty-four, knots, all heavily armed and " exceptionally powerful ships. "Thirteen older or smaller protected cruisers, six of which fought at the Yalu. ' - ��������� - .- , _ ��������� "Sixteen destroyers. "About fifty ,effec 've torpedo boats. , ��������� "It will be seen that these ships'in the hands of line sse-inen, such as the Japanese- unquestionibly are, make a very formidable squadron, quite capable at the present time of holding its own against the combined fleets of all, the continental pow.ers in-the far east." "Mr. Wilson goes on to point out that the personnel of the Japanese navy ia rather over 9,000, .that the navy is.well supplied with bases, dockyards and arsenals and that Japan controls a number of all-important- strategic points*. "Her naval bases," lie remarks, "supple- -ment in a singular* 13 grce, those, of England, and link' up in one continuous chain Hong Kong with the Gulf of Pe * Chili."- Tlie Japanese army on a war footing will be able.to place about 730,000 men in the field, when tlie reorganization now in progress is comple ... rj.'he field army is organized in div*'-*ons anil is about 250,000 men strong, with 1,01)8 guns.The officers and men aro excellent, and in the opinion of many thc Japanese weie the best of all the troops who.took.part in' tlie advance to' P -km. - - - i jyiiile__upon tills subject, another quot- ', ���������* ation' from Tlie Navy' IJeagu*e~~Journal-p A gentleman wishing some bushes removed from liis garden told liis gardener to pull them up by the loots. Some time after he went into the garden and found the gardener digging trenches' round the bushes. "Why, George," he said, "you need not dig round lho*=e small bushes in that, way. I mu sure you are strong enough tn pull tlieni up by the roots." "Oh, yes, "ir," replied the gardener, "I am strong'.enough, but I must dig a littlo before I cnn cateh hold of the roots. If you had told me to pull them up by the. biiniolies I could have removed tiicm."���������London Answers. ���������f4+- At a luncheon given to William Archer, when tlint English dramatic eridic was in New York, there were some informal speeches, and in the course of one of tliem somebody told a story at which everyone present, except iir. Archer, roared. Mr. Archer remained as impassive ase a s-tatue and looked as dejected as a mute. "Well," remaiked his neighbor, "I , knew most Englishmen couldn't sec the point of a joke, but I really thought you -would be an exception." "It's not that," said Mr. 'Archer, "I'm a modest man, and don't believe in self- applause. I started that joke1 myself ten years ago.���������New York Times. ���������������������������+-������������������ "Who ib the responsible man in this firm?" asked the brusque visitor. "I don't know who tlie responsible party is," answered the sad, cynical office boy. "But I am the one who is always 1 to'blanie."���������Washington Star. First Lawyer���������The lawyers had a hard struggle over thc Moneybags estate. Second Lawyer���������Did tliey? tFlrst Lawyer���������Yes. Tliey had all they could do to "keep the heirs from coming to an agreement.���������Puck. -4-M- " --\nd vet," observed the information editor, .'Stone can't be called a hard name���������to remember." "Still" retorted the exchange editor, "those bandits seemed lo.think it-neces- sarv to keep a lot of rocks to remember her'hy when they let her go. ' "The band," said the other, scowling, ."will-now play a band ditty."���������Chicago Tribune. | My' heart' goes out in pity to The ones who like to go,it About their own achievements���������who *-Are bores and never know it. ���������Chicago Record-Herald. Tess���������She* doesn't seem to like Mr. Creetick. , - , , , . ��������� Jess���������No; she heard him speak oi her as ."an artless creature." - -I'ess���������I should think that rather complimentary. r jcss_Ah ! but she poses as a landscape painter.���������Philadelphia Press. . . ; ������>��������� ��������� The teacher���������When the logs get caught in the fast-moving stream, what would you call that ? ��������� The boy���������Why, I'd call that a current jam.���������Yonkers Statesman. Irate Father���������1 thought you said you were worth ten thousand a year. Would-be Suitor���������Yes, sir; but I only get six hundred. ' 6 ' - ���������New York Sun. ' "Do your children take after you f "Sometimes." "Sometimes I , What do you mean by that ?" . ., "Well, when they'-e naughty my wi������e says they do, but n thing seems^ to be said about it at any other time. ���������Chicago jPost. ���������t-H��������� . - ��������� , Now here's a thing that puzzles me; ��������� A grave mistake" it seems to be; Why do we say our years are spent,. 1 When part of every year is Lent ? 1 ���������Smart Set. _ Lost in the Desert . HE helplessness that a.man feola when he Is lost is one of the most terrible parts of his experience. Perhaps this Is at Its worst when it Is not ha but tho guide who is at fault. The late G. W. Steevens, the war corre-' spondent, had a terrible experience ot the kind in the Egyptian desert. "We had been journeying ail day, hoping to reach the monastery a night. I began to feel sleepy and t< droop in the back. I swung my lei over the pornmel, and settled myself t. ride astraddle. Then I decided to sltii' side-saddle on the off-side for an hour.j then change and ease the strain again.) So I rode, looking steadily at the ereao yellow blotch ahead of me. "But now the sun was,dipping dowikj igaln under our hat-brims: It was past! tour. It would ^ie dark at half-pastl Ave; If we had not sighted; our monas-l lery then, we were helpless.' "The eagerness with which-the guide raced up each new eminence,. th& strained hopefulness of his stare, the1 slow disappointment you could read in4 the relaxed limbs, the fresh hope re-**[ hewed, but each time ' fainter, 'witbV which he dashed for the next prospect ���������he was at fault. To my eye one ridge,* one dip, one hill was exactly like every; other. We had been riding ten hours' and must have come: fifty miles; our monastery was only.forty-flve. "We had missed it and it was all but dark. "A night in the cuttlnij wind of th������f desert, a nlghtwithouttent, water, t\ra or fodder was the very best we had to look forward to'.- The worst���������but7 justt then up panted Said. " 'Have you seen, Said?' " 'Eftendim, I have seen; I saw fron* the hill back; yonder.7 Come/and see fon yourselves." "And he led us back to the 'brow oft tha bluff, and there, surely, yes, thera gleamed something-white." The monastery .hurrah! "It can't'Tjeilour. miles off* We -will walk; the camels'.'can -follow. So up got the patient camels and oft w* strode, five miles an hour, over sand arf hard and crispi as the' early - mornlna snow. The blazing crimson and orange ol! the sunset blinded our eyes to the whiter blob of the moriastery. But faster an<������ faster we walked. Now crimson andl orange blazed no more; It was really* dark now; we had come flye miles ami' had not arrived. ' 1 " 'Are you sure you saw. Said? QuItW sureT '. "* 'Effendim,' replied Said, 'I thought! I saw something white.*., ,*��������� - j "Nothing In sight white now. Thai guide was thrown out utterly; " andv there we .were, _ fifty-five miles front home,, camels done up, and foodlessfc camel boys, starving; thirsty and'wa*������* terless ourselves; .with possil- N two days' food and certainly not two daysn water; lost, clean lost in the Libyan Desert." . ��������� ., *��������� That night their sleep was,broken 1> fears. At early dawn they were up an. searching.- Mr. Steevens,continues. "Then the sun comes up,- and thi desert is yellow again;" and now' wbali sound is that? Tes, a yell from SaldJ. Surely he has seen. On to the c&mtldj and briskly westward. * *- 7 " 'Have you seen. Said?." " 'No, but behold���������a camel track, an1 I'know this place." " ' 1 The Inventor. JI may be adduced. " Commenting upon the recent decision to remove tlie ,old Agamemnon from Oie - effective list of the Royal Navy, the journal narrates a singular instance of cool judgment, of self-restraint com' ined with a grasp of the actual silunMon. "In the Russian ��������� Bcare"' of .1883," 'says the journal, "she was sent lo Ui'.-;f&r east to 'shadow' the VladimirMT*i*i'<:'ii.icli. On reaching Yokosuka", ignorant' whether war had been dcelnrcd while he was at sea, hor then captain, Long, .***w that the Vladimir was-so anchored that it was necessary for the Agume -mon to pass .close to her, and that Um Russian li.ul Iier heavy giuiK trained n tlie water-line ot the IJritihh ship, wl te her light pieces were directed nt the Agamemnon s deck and bridge. Loni*. wisely, made no counter-clemoiistrati'-?, feeling -Unit if she fired on liim he Ll,ould at .once send her to the bottom w"li liis'ram. So Uie Agamemnon pn<._scd without incident after a minute or two ol extreme tension, in wliich peace and war hung upon a thread." .. ,-* .. ���������f+'��������� Mis. Styles���������As t at Miss Fussaniea- ther camo down the street just now she spitefully tossed her head to one side. Mrs. Gyles���������Oh, well, shell hardly, miss it.���������Yonkers Statesman. ;.: A Toiiiij? M-in-lH .Home. , -A curious and very, practical line of philanthropic work Is about to'be tried in London, for the benelit of young men wlio arc living in London on small means. Tho scheme for providing a central residential club, wliich has been under the' consideration of a special committee of the y.M.U.A. at iOxeter llall for some timo, is nr>w practically settled, lt is proposed to. provide a superior-kind of Rowton House, with about 400 separate bedrooms, and let them at the rate of three shilling.-., or 75 cents, a week. This will give the resident thc free run of the institution, including library, ree- ition room, baths and gymnasium, tog- ther with the use of storage accommodation for* bicycles. Meals will be supplvd in a somlortable and commodious dining-room ata more fraction above cost price, and even the laundry-will be economically run. It; is likely that this hotel for studious youth mav cost ������25,000, and will soon pay for itself. Jack���������"I wonder why time is said to flyf* Maud���������"Probably it is because so many" people are trying to kill it."���������Harlem Life. . Our neighbors 1 well they're hard to beat, I bate to make complaint, Rut half the people u our St. ^ Would aggravate St. ���������l.iladelphia Press. ���������*-' i��������� Michael J. Flui-'ng, a prominent lawyer of Pottsville and formerly principal of the Donald*--n High School, related the following a-'ccilote : ' "One day at school I gave a very blight boy a sum i'i algebra, and, although tlie problem was comparatively easy, he couldn't do it. I remarked : " 'You should be r hamed of yourself. At your age George Washington wa= a surveyor.' . "The boy looked me straight in thc eyes .ind replied : " 'Yes, sir, and af your age he was President of the Uni :d States.'" ���������I'.iiladelphia Times. Tliey were young and romantic, and although thc minute hand was pointing to 12 o'clock, they s'iod upon thc porch gazing at the stars. "That's Jupiter, dear, isn't it V fho murmured. "Yes, p t; and that is Sinus," he replied, pointing to ar* ther star. "Arc you serious?" she cooed. He kissed her. Then, pointing upward, he st>id:_r��������� ���������That's Mars,' iov." "And that's p.i'."." -he whispered, as a footstep sounded in-iJe. And if the young man hadn't "scooted", he would havetcen more stars than he ever drcamcti of.���������London Spare Moments. :" ������������������ u SMALL man wlth\ -blear eyed and shaking hands took thd seat opposite me. -' I * was no������ surprised to - hear .him call fon absinthe. _ . ' . "You are sitting at*the'table with am unrecognized genius,".\he said, jWith*** out looking at me. '*..''' i 1 "So are you,"._I retorted. I; ���������wajjj. then a struggling art student.in\PariS2 "You laugh," he said," "but it is trues! Your 'voice is sympathetic, and"I wlllj tell you." . r .... -'_-, .,,���������;,.. 1 "Thanks." I said. , . * \ "You are an aTtist, andl have, un*������ doubtedly, remarked the j natural affln* Ity of colors. "White, for'instance, tsi. supposed -to contain." all colors." - j He had .hit on my^ favorite subjec1*- for discussion, and I leaned 'back pre pared to listen. ' .--' -������-'i .,!'*. "Have you observed," he, asked ear nestly, "that people 'with." blue -eye have yellow hair?" '"><-. i- ;. 'The Irish," I answered, "have blaclfj hair and blue eyes. '- It's 'a* beautiful* -combination." ' ��������� ' ������*,'������;' -A . "Yes; that's my-print. ,1 can chang^J the color of the eyes." -, '",',' ��������� ^"What!" . ��������� ,<;.j .., "You-mlx^pai nts i-^-f^Youf-get-ssTeerjJ from yellow, and blue! -You'mate au color darker or lighter! ������ _ You, make-j black w'lth red arid purple! I do' tha same with eyes'. " A year'ago 1 dis-tj covered *an injection for the .retina ot the eye that would change its .color* Suppose, you'have light'gray eyes. Inject such a colored fluid aa will make! them black, blue���������any.color!'/ I looked at his eyes. They were *q| cattish green. _',_.* \A'V 1 "My own eyes," he continued, "m\ tried to chanj,-- 10 green as'an adver tisement. It v.���������- before I. had per fected my invention, and���������I, lost mjj sight. Tell me, are my eyes', green I became conscious that he had beei������ gazing directly past me and' had not' looked at me once. ' "Youi.are blind?" I said. "Entirely," he answered indifferently*) "Eut what matters It? ' 1 'have per fected my Invention. Had I a. paltrji;! five-franc piece 1 c-uld .make all th������| women in the world Veautiful.* "Women! are the power." of . the*- world. Ah^j France, ma chere patrie, .then'shonlijsij thou rule the nation.".-of th'e > earthjf again!" *- .... , .* , . _j I handed, him a five-franc piece. I "Your story is worth it;" I remarked^.] "whether it be true or not."; He slipped, the money",' into hia pocket and turned to 'go."-'' ���������' - "It's a loan," he said, over his shoulder; "you shall hear from me." That evening I lounged in the Aril Students' Club in -a haze of* smoke, i oad found friends. "Tobacco makea man confidential, and 'I, told them ms) 5tory while they pured on their pipea tn silence. Then each spoke In turn. "I gave him five francs when I first | arrived," said Band. " ' "Sacre! I save him-t-en," said iMonfaj joie. "Donnerwetter! . and " 1 gave htEft Dfty," cried Becker. , *. , "But Is he really Mind 1" 1 asked. "Xo," said Band; "you were thi_������ blind one." , , B. SI. M!. in the "Metropolitan.''' i iii y:m "STtAgm x \yif,:-. L-iri *?������11 "What Is worse th������n a giraffe witta m sore throat?" "A c-utipede with ohlW blaine."���������Boston "Christian Herald/' J Published Bv The Revelstoke Herald Publishing Co. Limited Liability. A. JOHNSON, Editor anil Manager. ADVKI'.IISI.SO KATES. Dlsplav ad**., Ji.50 per ineh; single eolumn, ti wr inch when inserted on title page L-.'**al ad<*.. 10 cent** per ineh (nonpfiricl) line :oi"c.r**i insertion; o cents for each additional ln-*-rtion. I.ocul notice*. 10 cents pur line eaeli l.-iic. Birth, Marriage and Death Notices trtri. Sl'BSCP.IITION P.ATES. Bvasllor carrier ti per annum; $1.23 for ti.t months', strictly in advanc*. OCK JOB DEPARTMENT. f I one of the best equipped printing offices in '.be West and prepared to execute nil-kinds of Minline fn tirstclass style at honest prices Oue price to all ill .. Xo job too large���������none ttio .niK.ll���������for us. Mail orders promptly attended to. Give us a trial on your next order. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We invite correspondence! on any subject c' interest io the iiencral public. In all cases the bona fide name of the writer must accoin- panv manuscript, but not necessarily for publication. Address all communications to the Manager" they should preserve all the best characteristics of their race and hope that they will shake hands with us, thus securing the prosperity in South Africa under the flag which protects different races and different religions." That sentiment was the key-note qf his speech. Dealing with the much discussed labor question, Mr. Chmberlain said that he believed that every inducement to laborshouldbe held out to the blacks but he said that no scheme of compulsory labor would receive the slightest Government support. There was no intention of packing the country with Britishers, but so much Transvaal laud was lying idle that the Colonies could only be made a great corn-producing factor, bv bringing in British settlers." LEGAL NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 1.���������All correspondence must he legibly written on one side of the paper only. a.���������Correspoailent'C containing personal matter must be signed with lhe proper name o'the wriler. -TllCKHDAY. ACCSUST 0, 1002. Electric Trams For Lardeau. HAS A NEW FIRE PROCESS - E MA.STRK vt SCOTT. Barristers, Solicitors, Ktc. Revelstoke, B. C. J. M.Scott,H.A., LL.B.' W.de IMellaistre, M.A H AKVEY, M'CARTER & PINKHAM Barristers, Solicitors, Bte. Solicitors for Imperial Bank of Canada. Companv funds lo loan ut8 per cent. First Street, Itevclstoke B. C. SOCIETIES. pay you Red Rose Deuree meets second and fourth Tuesdays of each \ month j White Rose Deere* meets third Tuesday of eaeh quarter, in Oddfellow������ Hull. Visitine brethren welcome G. E. GROGAN. HY. EDWARDS, President. Hon. Secretary. Electric trains on the Duncan river is the latest scheme for affording the mines on the Duncan river side of the Lardeau country an outlet for their ores. James Carson Murray, formerly of Rossland, writes from Trout Lake to state that a syndicate of Mew York and Minneapolis capitalists are maturing a scheme to lake up all the timber on the Duncan river that they can secure, and. that they propose constructing an electric tramway on llie liver, vtitli aerial trains up the creeks limning into thu main Duncan. Tliis further solves the problem of vtrans- portation for the Lardeau, as the new brunch of the Canadian Pacific does not afford facilities for shipping oi'p from the Duncan side of the divide. The Amarican capitalists have an engineer named Gray in the Lardeau at the present time, inspecting the country generally and reporting on he tinibea.and iniueral prospects. Mr. Murray states that there is considerable excitement over recent strikes in the Old Gold camp.' On the Guinea Gold property a lead was discovered showing up ore that runs 1200 - to ID-JO ounces of silver per ton, while on the Pedro, which is being operated by the recently organized Marie Marilla company, a lead has beeu opened up in which the ore carries leaf and wire native silver. The assays of these^samplei containing native silver give enormous values. As a director of the Cariboo Creek Development Syndicate of Hossland. . Mr. Murray has recently visited the syndicate's claims on Cariboo Creek and is much pleased with the prospects for the property. He states lhat when he went in the claims were somewhat """"difficult '���������5f'acce8s_6wihR"''to'"the"laie"ne������s- of the season, and that it had been determined not to prosecute work actively until it wai possible to get in supplies and tools under the most favorable circumstances. J. W. Westfall, manager of the ���������syndicate at Lardeau. writes to state that he has gone over the Kflie nnd Colonial claiuis.owued by the company "on Cariboo Creek, and that he finds the properties all that have been s^id of tbem. The ledge on the Kflie i������ strong aud well maintained, carrying a quantity of clean ore, though essentially a concentrating proposition of mora than ordinary merit. The Colonial, which adjoins, looks equally well. In addition to the claims mentioned the syndicate owns .1 group in lhe immediate vicinity of tbe Guinea Gold property.on which bonanza silver ore was discovered a few days since, and the value of these holdings is substantially enhanced by the strikes in the vicinity.���������Rossland Miner. The Speech Wins Approval. Which Will Effect Great Saving in Reduction of Ore���������Gets Rid of the Waste Leaving the Mine. Few people realize what a number there are of appliances to simplify and increase the efficiency of concentrating milling and by various devices lead to tlie cheaper treatment of gold and silver ores. Only a few of these ever reach the mining field of the west, but in looking over the scientific journals one is almost amazed at the countless numbers of such things put upon the market. Slathers of them don't get very far from.the workshops of the producers. Rarely does one come up to the requirements of the mines; .But inventive minds continue to experiment. Oue of these days there will prance out of the multitude a man with a machine anda system that will make, a'stir among the operators of the present day. It may he that Emil A. F. Schidtze, whose names implies German extraction, a resident of Baltimore, has struck just the thing wanted. He has spent the last five years in completing LOYAL ORANGE LODGE No. 1658. Regular meetings are held in the Oddfellow's Hall on the Third Friday of each month, at 8 p.m. sharp. Visiting brethren cordially invited A. J .-HNSON, W.M. W. G.' BIRNEY, Rce.-Sec. Sold Ranee Lodge, K. of P., . No. 26, Revelstoke, B. C, ���������EETS EVERY WEDNESDAY in Oddfellows* Hall at 8 o'clock. Visiting Knights are cordially invited. H. A.BROWN, C. C. W. WINSOR, K. of R. A: S. CHURCHES METHODIST CHURCH, HF.VKI.STOKK. Preaching bervlces at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. in Class meeting at the close of tlie morning service. Sabbath School and Bible Class at 3:30 Weekly Prayer Meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:30. The public are cordially Invited. Seats free. " Rev. C. Ladner, Pastor. ST. PETERS CHURCH, ANGLICAN. Eight a.m., Holy Eueharlst; 11 a.m.," ma'ins, liitany and sermon (Holy Eucharist tirac'Sunday in the.month); 2:3o Sunday school, or children's service; 7:30 Evensong (choral) and sermon. Holy Days���������The Holy Eucharist is celebrated at 7 a.m. or 8 a.m., as announced. Holv Baptism after Sunday School atS:15. ' c. a. rROCUNiEit, Rector. THE PAYROLL TOWN FOR THE BIG FREE MILLING GOLD ORE PROPERTIES IN FISH RIVER DISTRICT. A TEN STAMP MILL AND SAWMILL NOW IN COURSE OF ERECTION ON THE TOWN- SITE OF GOLDFIELDS. WATCH THIS SPACE vi LEWIS BROS., . Agents, Revelstoke. ... R. F. PERRY, Resident Manager. ************************** . PRESBYTERIAN CHOUGH. Service everv Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. to which all aire welcome. - Prayer meeting at 8p.m. every Wednesday. - Rev. W.C. Calder, Pastor. * * ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass at 10:30 a. m., on Ilrst, second and fourth Sundays in the month. REV. FATHER THAYER. . SALVATION ARMY. Meeting every night in their Hall on Front Street. Mr. Chamberlains appearance in the House of Commons on Tuesday wa.s marked by a speech which won the spplause even of such opponents as Mr. Labouchere. Mr. Chamberlain dealt comperhensively with the past and future of South Africa. "W������ are not goingto allow the result of the war to be undermined," said Mr. Chamb2rlain, "by intrigues carried on by nominally constitutional means. ������������������We bave no intention," he declared, ������������������ that the Boers should break with their old traditions. We desire that a new system for the reduction of gold and silver ores. His patent covers the reducing of ores of a complex composition to lower or simpler combination, thus allowing a larger yield by ��������� subsequent treatment of friction and separation. Here is the outfit he proposes to use: The apparatus consists of a furnace sub-divided into an upper, or ore, and a lower, or fuel, chamber with suitable contrivance to introduce atmospheric oxygen and hydrogen. By the use of tlie two lattar all sulphurated ores are first converted into sulphates and then "deprived of their sulphur and eonverted- into hydrogen and leaves the ores in a metallic state. The charge will assume the consistency of a spongy^ mass in which the minute carticles of gold and silver are exposed and can be thorough- ly extracted by any of the present methods of handling. It will be seen that il does uot extend to the recovery of the metals., but simply prepares the ores for easy extraction. Mr. Schultze stute.i that the advantage of this process of chemical trituration is in the absence of ������xpensive ciushing and rousting machines. The apparatus is portable and can be transferred from mine to mine. The crude ore i.������ broken up in the line of cleavage, exposing the suinllext particles of precious metals. Charcoal can be used where coke and fii������l arc not available. The cost of construction, wear and tear, labor and find, is reduced to a minimum. It seems to resolve itself into a cheap mode of concentration, cleaning eut the waste and leaving the metals in .small bulk to be managed bv any nifthod adapted to getting out the gold and silver. By the description the apparatus can b������ packed or carried in a wagon to different mines in a district pnt to work on dump of sorted ores and in a short time will prepare,, them for easy manipulation. Like most improvements brought out, it i* designed to cover only a small part of the mining necessities. Again, it may work very well by laboratory test in Baltimore, but when confronted by the needs of the big mining field out here, it may fall down altogether.��������� Nelson News. A. N. 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EASTBOUND 8:10 WESTBOUND 17:15 SOUTHBOUND 8:40 IMPERIAL LIMITED EASTBOUND. , Sundays���������Wednesdays��������� Fridays��������� 4:20 o'elock. WESTBOUND. Mondays��������� Wednesdays��������� Saturdays 21 o'clock. FHKE BOB MEETS ALT. TRAINS. FIRST CLASS ACCOMMODATION". HEATED BY HOT AIR. REASONABLE RATES. Brown &.'Guerin, Props...'. ���������'..'.>.;''.., ';,' -." ELECTRIC BELLS AND LTGHT IN EYERY ROOM.;' ~ HOURLY STREET CAB BAR WELL SUPPLIED BY THE CHOICEST MEETS ALL TRAINS. ,*'',' WINES, LIQUORS AND'CIGARS ..'.'.. . .' Fastest time k Supprior Equipment 82-HOURS TO MONTREAL-82 STEAMSHIPS. FROM VANCOUVER P. BURNS & COY TO- TO- -CHINA, -AUSTRALIA JAPAN, ALASKA Lowest Rates and Best Service to and"froin. airpointsT ~ For full information, printed matter, etc., call on or address, FOR SALE. A FARM FOR SALE, good buildings. Apply to Mrs W.Willis Kkvxmtokz, B, ii. TIME TABLE S. S. Revelstoke During High "Water. Leave Eight-Mile Landing��������� Every TiieFday and Friday at 6 ������. m. Leave La Porte��������� Every Tuesday and Friday at 2 p. it. Special Trip** between regular ailing.. will be made In any >a.se where busi- offered .warrants same. The Company reserve the right to change time ol sailings without notice. THE CITY EXPRESS E. W. B. Paget, Prop. Prompt delivery ot parcels, bag-jage, ete. 10 any part ol the city Any Kind of Transferring Undertaken All orders left nt E. Jf. 8mythe'. Toharci tore, or byTelephoae>"o.7 will receive prompt ttention. " T. W. Bradshaw, Agent Bevelstoke. E, J. Coyle. Assist. Gen. Passenger Agent Vancouver. WOOD For Sale. The undersigned having contracted for the whole of McMahon Bros, wood is prepared to ��������� upply Mill wood at $2 Per Load Cedar Cordwood���������$3.00 delivered. Hardwood at equally low rates. ..Thos. Lewis.. Orders left at C. B. Hume & Co., Morrfa & Sleed'K, or at mill will have prompt attention. FORSLUND, Master. R. W. TROUP, Mate and Purser. TIME TABLE S. S. ARCHER OR S. S. LARDEAU Running between Arrowhead, Thomson's Landing and Comaplix, commencing October 14th, 1901, will sail as lollows, weather permitting: Leaving Arrowhead for Thomson's Landing and Comaplix twicedally���������10k. and 15k. Leaving Comaplix and I homson's Landing for Arrowhead twiec dally���������7:15k and !2:4Sk Making close connections with all C. P. K. Steamers and Tralnn.' The owners reserve the right to change times of sailings without notice.. TIM fr������a Robinson Lumbar Co., Limited |������XS@������8*S������*e������SQ^ LIVE, AND LET LIVE!!" Please don't try and nm us out of town hy sending your orders east. We must have your work in order to live. We depend on yon for our work I Eastern Iioubpm do not! Do nob allow yourself to be.roped in by their peddlers. We also guarantee to give you better satisfaction for your money. IR. S. -WIOLSOIET, Next the McCarty Block. Laces and Braids A large range of Point Lace, Duuhesa anil Battenburg Braids, Stamped Deslgni*, Stamped Linens, Kmbtoldery Needles, Hooks, Ac. t Tierlin and Zephyr Wools, all shades. Slipper Soles, Valen- clencesLace, Insertion. Call at the mi MADISON -PARLORS. Misses Sheppard & Bell McKenzie Avenue oc2������ me Revelstoke Wine and Spirit Co. Limited Liability. Carry a lull and complete line of Scotch and Rye Whiskies,,Boandies, Rums, ' ��������� Holland, Old Tom, London Dry and Plymouth Gins, Ports, Sheries, Clarets, Ohampagne, Liquors Imported and Domestic Clears. THE 8UPPLY HOUSE FOR NORTH KOOTENAY. F URN IT U RE Just unloading Two Large Cars of Furniture. "We now cai-ry a larger and better stock tnan any House between Winnipeg and Vancouver. Oome and look round -whether you want to buy or not. We are stacked full from Floor to Roof REVELSTOKE FURNITURE CO'Y. / tr OA f OF B. G. Its Early History���������Becomes a / Part of Dominion of Canada in 1871���������Its Population, Cities, Premiers and Governors. / About the middle of the last century British Columbia was, created a crown colony and Richard Blanshard was aunt out from England iu 1830 as the flint Koveinor. He, however, resigned very soon utter his arrival in tho colony and was succeeded by the Cli'efFactor of thu Hudson's Bay Co., ��������� James Douglas, in ISol. In 1850 the flrst Legislative Assembly was elected for Vancouver Island and met in Victoria. In this first Assembly Victoria was represented hy 3. S3. Pomberton, .lames Yatos and .1. W. McKay; Nanaimo, by John F. Kennedy; Esquimau, by Thomas Skinner and J. S. Helmcken: Sooke by John Mu if. ln the year 1SJS gold was discovered on the Fraser and the mainland wa? organized into a * separate colony and after a time New Westminster was chosen the capital of the new colony, the late Queen Victoria having the privilege of naming the new capital. The members of the first Assembly were: Arthu r Birch, Henry P. Crease, Wyinond O. Hamley forming ������������������ thc executive, and Messrs. O'Reilly, Ball, Saunders, Nind, Brew, Homer, Smith, Holhrook, Orr, Black. In I860, the two colonies were united with Victoria as the capital, and "in 1871 B. C. became part of the gieat Dominion of Canada. One of the principal conditions upon which B. C. became a province of Canada was that a railway be built to connect with the Atlantic seaboard. _Greatv has been the progress since this * province became a part of the Dominion, but our wonderful natural . resources have scarcely commenced to be developed.*.- The* future of this province carnot be anticipated by the " most sanguine. * In regard to area we stand first of all the provinces foi-niingthe Dominion having an area of 400,000 square miles. The province is rich in minerals, timber and fish. Its agricultural capabilities are considerable and'will one day support a large population. Only those who have seen the great shoals of flsh that riin by the millions in our rivers can'form any adequate idea of wealth this province possesses in fish , alone. Then we have the great coal ��������� - * areaa'pf Vancouvei Island and around Fernie, who can'estimate .their valui? Anecdotal. When the I3ng.llsh barrister, P.ichard Eve, desired lo "lake silk"���������or, in other words, to ber*ome a Queen's Counsel��������� he sent the usual note to the senior members on tliu circuit to see whether anyone objected, according: to custom. Mr. Adam Walker, ofte of the senior members, replied as follows:���������" My dear Eve,���������You may take silk or a fig- leaf. I don't care.���������Adam." Shortly after Sir Lawrence Alma- Tadema, R.A., was knlffhted, he and Lady Alma-Taclema save an At Home at St. John's Wood. Everybody present was congratulating them, and one lady was very profuse. " Oh, dear Sir Lawrence," she said, " I am awfully glad to hear of the honor you have received. I suppose now that you are knighted you -will give-up .painting and live like a gentleman." In an Ohio town last fall, the African Methodist-Episcopal Church of that district held a conference, and for a week the town was filled with colored pulpit orators. A few days after the conference closed' its sessions, one of the leading colored women ot the town drove out to Pea ltidge to purchase chickens of an old mammy who had supplied the family for years. Aunt Hanna, coming to the gate, said: " I'm sorry, Miss Allie. I ain't got a chicken left. Dey all done enter de ministry. A story is going- the rounds about a prominent Nova Scotia lawyer who is noted -for his carelessness in dress, whieh fact annoys the members of the Ear exceedingly. Entering the court- iroom. one day minus a cravat, the judge reproved him, saying the law required him to wear one. " Oh, yes, your honor. I know It," lie answered; "but it does not say where he shall wear It," and as he spoke he pulled it out of his trousers pocket. The matter then dropped. General William T. Sherman was fond of relating the following story: " When I was with tihe army in Georgia, a slave-owner aljout Christmas time missed a fine fat turkey. He suspected a good-looking mulatto, and ordered the man brought before him. ' Tou have stolen my turkey and eaten it,' said the irate planter. ' l'se not gwine to say I didn't, when you says I <3id, massa.' 'I ought to have you flogged. What have you to say why I should not punish you?' '.Well, massa, you hain't lost anything particular. You see,- you has a little less turkey and a good deal more nigger.' And.the master was compelled to acknowledge the philosophy of the slave, and let h'im go unwJiipped." As a young man Paul Kruger. was regarded as an authority on.ipsaUm singing, and the farmers used to conie to .him to learn_the keynote .for starting the psalms at the nexlt Sunday's service. Kruger, even in tlhose days, was no tiellevei'-in tlie policy of giving anything away���������not even'a note of music��������� so he had a uniform charge of a double, handful of dried peaches -for liis instruction. Even the fact that the work was in the-service of religion did "hot deter him from resorting to strategy, for 'he made a point of giving each ap-- plicant a different note. The result when the pious ��������� Doppers' attempted to- raise their voices in (-.acred .harmony* next Sunday may be imagined. The result was that each man concluded he I had lost the key, and had to return for' a further lesson..'"I neaifly^banlcrupted' them of their' drle'd*p'e'ache"s,"''sald[ the- ���������presldent.' ��������� -'-.'" Ford'Madox Brown, the artist, once had "to be'smuggled into his own exhibition. The occasion was a private view in Bond street af the Manchester fresco, ."John Kay." The artist being unwell at the time was accomp'anied.'ln his carriage to the gallery by his doc-- tor and old friend, Willliam Gill. The' time passed pleasantly enough en route in conversation, when suddenly Madox Brown's talk came to an abrupt full stop; .he started as though struck by, some very disquieting j thought, and wildly plunged round In his various; pockets; Wank'dismay depicted on his countenance the while. "Good heavens, Gilll!" he ex-clalmed, "I have torgotten my card of admission! What am I to, do?" "Your card of admission!" replied his amazed friend, "surely you can get in without that?" "No, no," answered Madox Brown' in despair, "they will never let me in���������they don't know me!" Fortunately, however, Mr. Gill was provided. with the necessary passport, and he .thus played the dls- _ttnctly_orIglnal_ro]e_.of_getting_an_artist_. admission Into his own show. The Full Court Lets Itself Down Light by -Accepting an Apology from William7 McAdams. Mr. William McAdnms. editor of the Sandon Paystreak, has been released from the Provincial Gaol. lie was brought bul on- thc Full Court at Victoiia Fr'd.-iy morning, when his apology wns read thus: '���������The only motive present to my mind in writing the article objected to .vas what I conceived to be the interest of the public, and I wiote it on the impulse of the moment, and in -loins so I us-ed language referring to the coin L in term*, which were intemperate,' improper and void of the rpspect due to Their Lordships' .persons ind ollice. Tlie expressions were not deliheintely inl ended to bring discredit, on the bench, but were the outcome of my strong feelings. 1 deeply regret the publii-alion of the article, and the incxcu-;.Uili' and insulting language in which I referred to the. Judges of the Supreme Coiut, and herewith withdraw and apologize for the same."' Chief Justice Hunter then adininis- reied a severe lecture/and an under* .landing was given that the apology -hould appear in the Sandon Paystreak in which paper the offending article ippe.ued. McAdams was then released. BELGIAN HARES The quickest breeder-, and greatest I money makers in llio small stock j line of" tbe present day. Imi'1 bred I stock of FASHODAS. Price���������$6 and Sic pi'r pair, according lo age. THOS. SKINNER,���������Kevelstoke. B. C. lenders for Kew Bulling REVELSTOKE SCHOOL BOARD The Board of Trustees ofllie Revelstoke Public School aie desirous ol receiving lenders I'or the erection of tlie proposed new buildini* on Cily Hlock 53. Plans, specifications and conditions of contract mav be seen in one ofllie school class rooms (Second Street), daily, (Sun- davs excepted), i'roni 10 a.m. till 12, noon, and from 6 p.m. till 7 P*������.*i oa, and Irom Monday, July 28th, to Saturdav, August 9th, inclusive. Tenders will be received for the whole or separate parts oftiie work as shown on specifications. The lowest or any lender not necessarily accepted. The .specified conditions of contract must be strictly adheieel 10. TENOERS 1m1sl.br sealed, endorsed on the outside '��������� Tender for School Building" and .MMl.r.n lo the undersigned ; and will close at 6 p. 111. on Tuesday, August 12, 1902. Any further information nia\ be obtained from'Mr. J. B. , Hendeison,, Architect, Grand Forks, B. C, or either of the School Trustees. HENRY FLOYD, Secretary, Revelstoke School Board.' Revelstoke, July 24, 1902. No Breach of Discipline.' THE colonel was entertaining "some . of his friends ' with stories of army life, and the talk turned to * the inflexibility of orders. That reminded the -colonel of iTlra Murphy's case. . '. ' ��������� Murpliy had enlisted in the cavalry service, although he had'never been on a horse -in,his' life. He 'was taken aut for drill with other raw recruits under command ,.o������ a- sergeant, and, as luck would have it, secured one of the. worst tiuckers in the whole troop. '"Now, my men," sala the sergeant in. addressing them, "no one he allowed to������ dismount without orders from a super- lor officer. Remember that." ' Tim was no sooner in the saddle than he was hurled head over heels through, the air, and came down so hard that the breath was almost knocked out o������ him." . "Murphy,",'"shouted ' theu, sergeant, when he'discovered the man spread out an the ground,-"you'dismounted!" - "I did.'" '"Did you have orders?" ' - "I did." "From headquarters, I suppose?" with a sneer. ' ' ��������� "'., .' *��������� ' ��������� "No, from hindquarters."* ' " ' "Take him to the guard-house!" ordered the . sergean-.��������� Detroit "Fret ��������� Press." NOTICE. TAKE NOTICK that 00 days nfter date I intend to applv to the Cliief Commissioner of Lands and Works for peimn-iioii to cut and carry.away timbcr-iiom the following described lands: '. Commencing at a post marked Alice 1errys southeast corner post, situated about 200 leet from Scott|Creek, thence ������ est40 chains; thence north 160 chains.; thence east 40cliains; tlienee south 1C0 chains, to the place of commence- mem; containing 040acres:^^ p]jRRY_ Goldfields, 15 C , July 21th, lOO'.V ��������� NOTICE. NOTICK ' IS HEREBY GIVEN that 110 days after date 1 intend to make application to thc Hon. thc Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works Ior a-special license to ent anil curry an ay timber from thc following described land's: *. * ' ; .. NUMBER ONE. I . Commencing at a. post marked "A M. Sorth-W est Corner-Tost," and planted on the northwest bank of Half Way Creek, near St. Leon Hot Springs and about two miles from Arrow Lakes." Tlienee.,cist 40 chains; thence north 100. chains; thence west.411 .���������hains: thence south 100. chains to place of commencement. *,- ��������� ��������� ' * * .- - , . -' 'NUMBER TWO. - ' Commencing at a post planted on South Bank Deep Creek, Galena Bay, about three miles south - from,- Arrow Lakes; about Jo chains east from" a post marked '��������� 1. II. D. south-west corner: Tlicnce south-100 chains; thenee cast 40 chains; thence north IGttchains; thence Mtst 40 chains to plaoo of comnience- "le,U" - . ��������� ANGUS ifcLKOD. ' Arrowhead Mills, 4* , '. '. PerJ.T. Arrowhead, July 2lth, 3902 The greater part of the timber of the province haa never been touched. The present population of the province is about 200,000, and it is probable that within a very short ' time our population will be doubled. " Of the twelve cities, Victoria is the . capital; Nanaimo and Cumberland are the centres of the coal trade "in Vancouver Island; Vancouver is the terminus of the C. P. R. and the point from which sail the Australian and Chinese steamers; New Westminster * the" centre of fishing on the Fraser tiver; Kamloops a railway town on the Thompson river; Vernon the centre of Okanagan Valley which produces wheat; Revelstoke on the Columbia river, a divisional point on the C. P. R."; Rossland, Grand Forks, Nelson and Kaslo, all important mining centres. The Re-distribution Bill passed at the last session of the legislature gives us 42 representatives. The successive Governors ��������� of B. C. since 1871, the date of the union with Canada"were: Trutch, Norton, Richards, Cornwall. Nelson, Dewdney, Jfclnnte ivnd Joly de lotblnlere. The Premiers during the same period bave been MoCroIght, De Cosmos, Walkem. Elliott, Beavon. Smithe, Davie. Robson, Davie, Turner, Semlin, Martin and Dunsmuir. The speakers since entering Confederation were. Helnieken, Triable. Williams, Mara, Pooley, Hlggins, Forester. Booth, and Pooley.���������Chilli- wack Progress. _ There Was One. For Sale TWO Residences on McKenzie Avenue, with - modern improvements, 5JS00 each on easy terms. *. two Residences on Third Street, east, very convenient for railway men, $1600 each, casy terins. ' Residence on First Street, east, cash ubject to mortgage. Apply to, I cCATRER & PIN V HAM. ONt required '.500. HARVEY Certificate of improvements; 35TOTIOE Notice is hereby given that sixty days from date -hereof 1 intend to- apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works at Victoria, B. C to purchase 320-acres of land on Downie Creek in the Bin Bend, commencing at a post planted about nine miles from the Columbia kiver on the nortii east side of Boulder Creek and marked A. W. Mcintosh's initial post, No. 1, and running north forty chains to northwest corner post, No. 2, thence eighty chains cast to post No. 3, thence forty chains south to post No. 4, thence eighty,chains west to point of commencement. ' ' ' Dated the SOth day of June, 1902. a. w. Mcintosh. 'ZETOTiaiE "Is there a man in all this audience," fiercely exclaimed a female lecturer, "that has ever "done anything to lighten the burden resting- on his -wife's shoul-, ders? What' do you know ot woman's worle?" ' "Is there a man .here," she continued, folding her arms nnd looking over her audience with superb scorn, "that has ever-got up ln the morning, leaving his tired, worn-out wife to enjoy her slumbers, gone quietly downstairs, made the flre, cooked his own breakfast, sewed the missing buttons on the children's clothes, darned the family stockings, scoured the pots and kettles, cleaned and filled the lamps*, swept the kitchen, and done all this, If necessary, day after day, uncomplainingly? If there Js such a man ln this audience, let him rise up! I should like to seetilm!" And ln the rear of the hall a mild- looking man in spectacles, In obedience to the summons, timidly arose. He was the husband of the eloquent speaker. It was the first time he had ever had a chance to assert himself. NOTICE. Golden Hill Mineral Claim. Situate in the Revelstoke "Mining; Division of West Kootenay District. Where located:���������In Ground Hog Basin, on McCulloujfh Creek. TAKE NOTICE that I, C. B. Hume. Free Miner's Certificate No. B67188, intend, sixty davs from the date hereof, to applv to the Mining; Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining; a Crown Grant of the above claim. * And further - lake notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvement*?. " Dated this 16th day of June, A.D,, 1902. C. B. HUME. ~Nolice"is hercBj���������(riven"that sixty-days from date hereof I intend tipplylui; to the Chief Commissioner o Lands and Works at Victoria, B.C., to purchase throe hundred and twenty acres of land on Downie Creek ill the Bir Bend, commencing at a' post planted about ciclit miles from the Columbi 1 River and near the north east- side of Boulder Creek and marked J. C. Montgomery's.initial post, No. 1, 1 hence forty chains north to north-west corner post No. 2, thence eighty chains east lo north east corner post No.-3,~theiice fortv chains south to south east corner-post No. 4, thence eichtv chains west to noint of commencement. Bated at Revelstoke the 30th day oi June 1902. - , J.C.MONTGOMERY. THE TOWNSITE OF ' LE CITY IS NOW ON THE MARKET. BUY BEFORE YOU SLEEP. CIRCLE CITY is the Terminus of thc proposed via the Lardeau Creek with fork to is beautifully situated at the base of the Lardeau and Surprise Creeks. CiRCLE CITY" is absolutely surrounded by Mining Properties Development. . . ' ��������� CIRCLE CITY Railway already sur%-eyed that point. Pass, Galena now under Splendid Water Power Which"will be utilized next Season by Concentrating Plants. ! ��������� -.r-il SEND FOR PARTICULARS AT ONCE TO THE GENERAL AGENT, Gr������ -B. Ferguson, B. C. Pt*J*9-J*J***i ^9^������+]&**3&*������9������9������i?y������'������������**������*******i yr^*9^)>**+&*'f*-**'*'*'������4t*'*'**f**������y^',*������ I-������ Warren y! Sope'r.'of Elicarn - Gencral Manager Grand Trunk Limited. UNION -CI gar���������Facto ry- Hon. 8. (.. ^"O'Vd^soverelKii Bank of Canada, President Montreal Light II S.' Holt, President Sovereign Bank < ,''���������"*" " 'neat ������t Power Co., Montreal , Montreal. Chc'sto?!?Massey, President Massev-lIarrKCo.. Toronto. Charles McGill, General Manager, flic Ontario Bank. Oood Agents Wanted���������Address, J.W.W.STEWART, Provincial Man., Vancouver. ���������t-l *i-l-M-M-l* M ill 11111 lift b > * PELLEW-HARVEY, BRYANT & CiLMAN Mining Engineers and Assayers, VANCOUVER, B.C. Established 1890 Shamrock. J.amraoth, Fairview, Maplo Leaf, Arabian, Belcher, anil Victor a IV mineral elaims. situate in the Revelstoke Mining Division of West Kootenay. ,.,__, Where located ;-Ttic Shamrock and Mammoth mineral clnlms, at the head of Carap Creek, In oronnil Hog Basin. Big Bend, The Falrview anil Maple Leaf mineral claims, at head of the West Fork of McCullougb Creek, known as Barrett Creek; the Arabian, Belcher and Victoria IV mineral claims on Graham Creek, at the head waters of tho West Fe*k 0 . French Creufe, . _. ��������� _ . TAKE UOTICB that J, Florenca McCa,rty. Free Miners' Cv-rtificato No. B, 67,241. intend! sixty davs from tiio dale, hereof to apply to the Mining Hoc-order for certificates o\ improvements for the purpose of obtaining Crown G/anlA of tbe abo\ c claims. AND FURTHER TA E NOTICi that action ���������under Section a< must be commenced before the issuance of snch Certificates of Improvements. Dated this first day of July, A. D., 1902. FLORENCE Met' ARTY. Oriental Hotel Ably furnished with the Choicest the Market 'affords. BEST WIMES, LIQUORS, CIGARS "Utfge, Light hedrooms. Rates $1 a day- Monthly Rate. J. Albert Stone - Prop. IM1NTS PROMPTLY 5ECUREPr A88AY WORK OF ALL DE8CRIPTI8H UNDERTAKEN. Tents made up to 2,000 lbs. A specialty made of checking; 8melter Pulps. Samples from thc Interior by mail or express promptly attended to. correspondence solicited.. VANCOUVER, B. C. WWW'TI TI TI MITIt T'UHfll \frrite for onr interesting books ������������������ Invent-. jr'3 Help" ancl *��������� How vou are arwindled."* Senilis a rough sketch or model of .our in-, vention orimprovement and wewilltellyou. Iree our opinion as to -whether it is probably; patentable. Rejected applications ha-re often, been successfully pro Alanua machrce, thc sweet sight o������ thee, a. leap of the heart lt glvuth to uie! Down the srecn lane she is coming. Manila, Willi smiling so sweet; The daisies, deep reel. Leap up from their bed. To fondle her white little feet; t> Alanua niuchree, the sweet sight of thou a. leap of the heart It glvctli to me! ���������Jennie E. T. Dmre In Century,. ��������� / THE LITTLE MEDIATOR. coin of It never conscious possible the uni- *"t itself, and God Himself would be n I'.vc.im or a myth. There is but onr principle that holds last iii whatever waters you cast your anchor, namely, thn; lie can never be driven to shipwreck of soul who knows ������rhat he ought to do and dares to do -it, though it costs him so much that iis heart breaks. A man's character is all he has, it is hi.- one great posse3- wion. und if he los. that he loses all, -absolutely ��������� all. Vi'i'.h self-respect the consciousness that smsuilied, you can lock with undii.i-.i Ithrone of the eternal star poverty is kin - your integrity is -.ire all worlds and .ed vision on tlio Neither wealth in hea\fen or -���������regarded, but whni you are in the fibre of your being, what you are in the moral timber oi which you have Tnade yourself, w lm t you have "done tbat is worth recoi* 'ig:in a world filled with pitying any . these alone havo ���������weight and bring ci lit. We may not all lie rich, 'tis true, -and perhaps 'tis i y that 'tis true. Jton may have di mfort and strug- ^riBle.-'-poisibiy-moi'e-:���������-nu-than-sunsliine,- .& weary road to i vei through these narrow years, bin j-nre as you are of li.ut an honest man worlh more th ���������deeds which ating v of a wat-n, is to I. -which death cannui ���������vntl lift you out .. -villi the blf.-sinj; of , Iti;.hi ii. Lhe nori.i i. diin'.es health wro; < i- iiutl ln*.i. . ttils ili-iiih. You ( > "' tiii: ���������_��������� . ,.i,d still ..,- j