.'^t'-r i.^'V-ImA* ;.������> SJ,aA**2������U-:������������ M Si������^.������I������X������S3^-r������^������l^=Kt^.M^^ -*-������Ms:.siw*W3SW "���������"��������� ���������e-y:iIirj"-r*: ./rrs ������v, .... ~ . J.���������--.' -.- = V ' - -----r--- // ts A a y ' i .' .,' ,-"' V_- i' EVEL //-/ ALD _A_3STID RAILWAY NiKN'S JOURNAL. Vol V. No" 163 REVELSTOKE B. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1902 $2 OO a Year in Advance. This List is Worth Considering We will not waste your time nor our space in telling you where we found the goods referred to, nor how we can afford to sell them at the prices quoted. What you are more anxious to know is are they cheap or are they not. We say they are cheap, and you will say so, too, if you examine them. Five Dozen Mens Regatta Shirts Made by .W..G.V&: R., perfect"fitting'goods'and up-to-date in every respect. Made to sell at $1.56. 321 ������fSlTV -Will be sold out-this week for ..- .r.\ . M>l������vU, '*-��������� I't i't *'. -s I ':- ;. -��������� \ li* Twenty-Five Dozen Gents' Twenty-five Dozen Gent's Four-in-Hand,' Derby, flowing ends.and Bow-Ties���������the,very nicest patterns and splendid Equality, while they-last ������t .. " " ' .���������"-��������� ��������� ���������"T '*> ' ��������� .>??"'.���������'���������'��������� %-.���������.-_ ,/.fi.">>'-".,K^-,'*-'"'^'^-,.'; iy ��������� ��������� \y-7 - _'.; " V: 25c 35c 40b 50c 60c 75o $1.00 Meii's Wool Sweaters ���������"In plain colors, arid Fancy Stripes, regular $1.50 kinds. Your choice for. All $1.25 Twenty-Five Dozen Ladies' Cashmere Hose .Twenty-Five, Dozen Ladies', Cashmere, Hose, ..generous ������������������,��������������������������� 7;~"v ^ "������������������~ - - - ��������� " " Length and size, nicely fashioned. Never sold less than 45c. per pair. Our Price until sold out will be He I'll J'X Hn. LV 35c per pair 3 pairs for $1 ���������>3 Corsets at Moderate Prices Most'Ladies know all about W. B. Corsets. ' That is all you can know by reading, but now you can get them.here and know all about the wear and fit. We ask only ordinary prices for these High Class Goods. QUALITY is always foremost in our minds���������not how cheap, but how good is our motto. For CHRISTMAS Trade we have been very careful in the selection of everything in Our Grocery, Department. All we ask is a comparison of our goods and-prices "and we know the result. Goods' delivered to all parts of the City. Telephone No. 81 THE YUKON MURDERERS Labelle and Fournier Under Sentence of Death.���������Will Be Hanged at Dawson in January. D.vwsox, Y. T., Due. 1.���������Awaiting the (pillows, Peter Fournier and Edward l.a Hello, condemned murderers, wlio for years were friends, now regard each other in their Dawson prison cells as enemies, and each complains of lhe other as an annoyance. Between them thpy^ killed thiee men Beaudoin, Kouthilette. and Constantino, June 23rd,' 100 miles above Dawson, on the Yukon. The law has convicted each of murdering a man and with this the pursuit of justice rests. T'ournior maintained to the last that T.a iielle killed all three of the vie linis, and La Belle maintained that Fournier d:d the murderous work. This was the attitude of each liefore the trial, and tlie testimony of each on the witness stand. Fournier claims in addition that La Belle killed Giliault, a fourth man,, below Eagle on the American side of the- line, but as the men are under sentence of death for two specific findings of murder (igainst them, the case of the fourth victim will not he sifted. In'their prison life, La Belle and Fournier have no interest in common. Although iu early years they crossed the Chilcat mountains, struggling side liy side -and came into-'the Yukon basin to seek wealth, "and in vicissitudes'continued together until they wore condemned as murderers, they now are estranged in their prison cells and are singularly different in-their behaviour. , _ Fournier asks for" cno ^ spiritual consolation." La Belle does, Fournier lias .sworu"'und "liluspheiiied ' boisterously', but'he has'subsided ' to "some degree of late. La' Belle ha.s heen more-and more quiet, as though stunned by the condemnation,'upon him. . * - __ Fournier was on trial for seven hours. Three minutes after the jury went out it returned and rendered a verdict of guilty. The work of tha court and the jurv Hiis seldom been so swift, so conclusive and so positive in connection with a case of circumstantial evidence in the modern history of criminality. La Belle was on trial five days and was on the stand a day and a half himself, Fournier was on trial only one day,' with a total of seven hours before the bench, and in the witness stand not more than an hour. The story of the various witnesses against~Fournier^vas"-of-little-moie value in the case than^to prove that the man had been with the three victims on the way down the river; that he afterwards was in Dawson with La Belle and had some of the goods and money of the victims here, Even .this the defendant admitted himself. Fournier, when lie took the stand, talked freely but without effect. He reviewed the trip up the Yukon, the meeting with the three victims, ��������� and the trip to the island where the murders were committed, Then he continued: '* Landing on the island, we had supper ur-d went to bed. Bouthilettc was at our feet. La Belle was next to the door of the tent. Between 4 and 5 o'clock La Belle awakened me , with a stick of wood and went away. " In fifteen minutes Constantine got up and went out. I heard a shot. La Belle came back and said Constantine had shot a rabbit. He stood at the door. Beaudoin went out and another . shot was heard. Soon Bouthilette put his head out and La Belle shot hiin. " La Belle then called me out. Constantine was lying on his stomach near the boat. XVe searched the body and took $100 and h's gold watch, and shoved the body ir. ihe river. " We got $25 from Beaudoin and then threw his body in the river From Bouthilette's body we got $3( and his watch, and threw him in the river. '��������� La Belle then proposed that we burn the clothes. He did, and then threw a valise in with them. We kept the blankets and brought them to Dawson. " Some blood remained on the boat, and at La Belle's suggestion I washed off with a rag. |, Fournier admitted that he knew he murders were to be committed. He knew he said, that when Ln Belle struck him with Ibe wood it was the signal for the murders. "Perhaps never again shall any of us listen to such a Inlo as has been related lo us by this man," said the ihm and dignified judge Craig, as he sentenced Fournier immediately after the trial. ''It is impossible that, any human being made in the iinuge of God could be guilly.-of such a crime." S'lid his loi'd&hip'when he instructed tbe jury. "Fourtier helped to rob and do away wilh bodies. This he admits. He also admits he knew ihe murders were to be committed, yet he did not warn the victims; he remained in the tent, and, he claims, was silent while tliemiirders were piogressing. But the surgeons testify the men weie not, all muidered wilh the'siime weapons." The judge pointed out that he who aids a muider is us guilty as the perpetrator. The judge advised'the jury its, verdict of guilty bad"been just; lhat no other could have been rendered. Fournier came to his feet wilh a click of the heels to leceive sentence. He did not snow a tremor. He heard the sentence in'firm silence, nnd &aid: ."What's right is l ight. I'lliiink ynu very much, judge, tor what you have given me., ;-I have always been a little man, and will lake my medicine like a little innn'i " Fournier spoke in strange boldness lhe same way in the jail next day. He is rational, hut some feel perhaps a degree of peculiar insanity _ has made lhe man a'.heartless fiend. La Belle is to hang January 10th and Fournier January 20lh. .- ��������� - THE FISH RIVER MINES LIMITED Livingston-McDonald. An important event took place last evening at .the' residence of "A. .Hobson, when the Rev. W. C.' Calder united in marriage H. K. Livingston, merchant of Arrowhead and Aliss Janet C. McDonald of the same place. The happy young couple loft by, the south train for their, home in Arrowhead this morning.1 The contracting'parties are weH'and5faj.;orably. known, in .the district,"andiwtlhvtheii' iiiany ifriends the -Herat.13 joins in'wishing them a happy married life.- . > - ' Mclnnes Gets the Job. ���������\V. W. B. Mclnnes was sworn in as Provincial Secretary and Minister of Education iu the "Prior -Cabinet on Monday last. Wandering Willie will be opposed by a lahor candidate. " - ���������Get your toys early and have them put aside for you. there are thousands now opened up at the Canada Drug k Book Co. To be Incorporated with the Object of the Development of the Famous Silver Dollar and Other Properties of the Camp. An important mining deal was coir summaled Tue&day when Kevelstoke people took over the famous. Silver Dollar.group, consisting; of three full sized claims and two frac-tions.nninely. Iron Dolliir, Carbonate Hill,- Little Johnny, Carbonate Hill Ftactinn and Giltnan Fraction, in all .about 200 acres of rich mineral lauds, from the owner Joseph Best. The Hrst payment, a substantial one, was made, and lhe bond calls for payment in full for lhe properly in eighteen months. The bond holders will transfer their holdings to the Fish River Mines Limited, a new company now being organized herewith a.capitalizition of $500,000 in 500,000 shares of the par value of $1 each. The Silver Dollar Group is situated on Mohawk creek, a tributary of Pool creek.in the Fish River mining district. Mr. Best, who staked this propel ty in 1S97, has put in a great deal of work in developing it,' and has completed over $5,000 worth'- ofjwork. There are on the property two tunnels, one in 107 feet and the other 56-feet, besides open cuts on the ore veins. "��������� At the end of the 107 foot tunnel there is now a showing of about 11 inches of ship" ping ore, lhat,will average 175ounces in silver to the ton, besides the'~gold and lead values. Running parallel and in -addition to the silvei-Isad ledges, are two well defined gold leads, which are exposed right over the hill onto the famous Benti ice Mines, 1500 feet distant ,frora the Silver Dollar group. The gold ore ledges are 12 and 25 feet wide 'respectively, on the surface, and, it is only .within" the past, yt������aiC.thuta-iiriy .-���������attention' was -'paid to them.VOf Hve average samples .'taken the lowest assay obtained-in gold was' $4.30, while the highest was $232 to the ton. There is an abundance of timber and water on the property for all mining purposes. - '���������* . The Fish River and Lardeau district in which are situated the famous Triune, Beatrice, .-Goldfinch, Silver Dollar. Nettie L, Silver.������.Cup, Ethel, Eva, Del Ray and 'Western Star groups, besides others of merit, has come to the front very rapidly as a high grade silver and gold camp, ^and it is'not too much to say that there is no dMi'irt in the west that has merited it moie than this same district. The immense bodies of high grade silver lead and free milling gold- fire has stamped il as the leading gold-silver camp of British Columbia, Theie i������ no camp in the west today that is receiving so much attention from American investors as thisdistrict district, .-.nd the Hbiiald is fully convinced that the shrewd American knows his ground thoroughly when be takes hold, In the Silver Dollar group the Fish River Mines, Limited, have a splendid properly. In the spring a programme of systematic development will be undertaken by the company that will place this property in the front rank as a gold producer in Fish River and Lardeau districts. The first block of 100,000 shales in the new company will be oifered to the buying public in the course of a couple of weeks -and already enquiries from Eastern points are being made in regard to the property. LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH The City Schools. Report of standing of pupils of city schools for November. The Hrst three are given in order of merit: division i. . High School-F. Palmer, M. Hyatt, G. Somes. Sr. Fourth, A.���������M. , Edwards, J. Howson, J. Morgan and N. McN.ib (equal), H. Hobbs. Sr. Fourth B.���������-G. Gordon, L Rjtrgit, Josie Ainslie. ' ' , " DIVISION 11. ' Jr. Fourth A.���������-Nellie Bain,' Blanche Davis, Edith Cooke. Jr. Fourth B Jean Hyatt, Mabel Hay, Violet Robinson. DIVISION III. | Thiid Class���������Harry McNab, Tannis Patrick, Edna Brute. Second Class���������Emma Morgan, Ethel Mclntyre, Doris Bennett, i DIVISION VI. Class A.���������Bertha. Hobbs, Oscar Han: son, Muriel Porter. - Cb'.'Js B.���������James- Hay, Essel Ainslie, Harry Ttirn������":oss.' --.-��������� -���������-_ ."'���������_'. ..^, ' 'Class'-C,���������'Harry' Solloway,' Arthur Buck',;Lilly-Pettipiece.'V' '��������� - - "-" ���������" " Class D.���������Gladys O'Brien, Peail Robinson, Arthur Simmons. Average attendance for month, 230.' Boys ih attendance. 125. Girls in attendance, 137. Total registered in November, 262. Situation Wanted. -" Experienced cook wants job for the wintercooking in lumber camp. Apply a t once to. W. F. Walsh, Regina. AN EXTRAORDINARY SALE OF SEASONABLE DRESS GOODS JACKETS haps for Next Saturday A Mantle Sale Well Timed Now is the time .when'Customers can appreciate Good -Winter Coats at Bargain prices���������Not before the Winter' is half over before saying READY���������and on Saturday we give the word GO ! and they will go at the following prices until they are all sold. Remember, no odd coats; all new this season. Ladies' Coats���������Sale Price $5 Ladies'-Semi-Fitting Lined Jackets, Fawns and Cloth. Saturday's Sale Price $5. Ladies' Jackets���������Sale Price $8.85 Blacks, made of Wool Boucle Lad ies'Jackets in the various lengths. Semi-Fitting. Lined with good Farmers* Satin, in Black and Fawns. Regular Price $10.30 and $11.50. . Saturday���������$8.85. Ladies' Jackets���������Sale Price $10.50 Ladies' Jackets, extra quality. Kersey Covert Cloth, in Fawns, well lined, in three-quarter lengths. Regular $13.00. Sale Price $10.50. Children's Jackets. Sale Price $4.00 .Eighteen Chileren's.Jackets, Size I to 12 years. Regulir prices $1 and 87.50 each-now Si. Nbt=> a Jacket in the lot that did not cost more money wholesale. We have cheaper jackets but this is a hue of high class goods. : Flannelette Waists Thirty Six Only. Flannelette Waists, colors red and black, blue and white, full assortment of , Sizes, and made in the newest styles, Saturday���������85c. Dress Goods Department Commencing S iturday Dec, Oth an.l continuing for Six Days. We will offer yon some wonderful bargains in Dress Goods. Tne whole of our splendid stock goes on sale at about half its value. The goods are all new this season bought direct from the best manufacturers. Every - piece will be included in this Sale, Here are a few hints just for a starter. Black Dress Goods A magnificent collection in Worsteds and Serres, navy and black, 50 inches wide, all the finest goods. Regular Price���������$1.50���������Sale Price���������$1.00. Colored Dress Goods 54 Pieces in All Wool Imported Melrose Cloth; colors red, grey, fawns and green mixtures. Regular Price $1.25 and $1.50. Sale Price 75c. This is a Genuine ClearingS.de of Dress Goods and will last only for six days, first choice. Come early and secure Drygoods Merchants Reid & Young, Mail Orders Promptly Attended to. Mackenzie Avenue. The News ofthe World in Briel As Received Over the Wire*. From Every Corner of tht^ , Globe. New York,-Dec. 4.���������The reciprocity treaty between the United States and. Cuba will'be signed tomorrow, Yarmouth, N. S., Dec. 4.���������The by^ election'here yesterday resulted in th������ x-eturn of Law, Liberal, over' Corning, Conservative. - . ��������� " "���������' Argentecil, Que., Dec. 4.���������The bye��������� election here yesterday resulted in tb������ election of Christie, Liberal,' orec Perley, Conservative. Washington, D. C. Dec. 4.���������Thm House at Washington has passed a bill to appropriate $50,000 to defray expenses ol the Anthracite Co������J Commission. " * Russkll, Dec. 4.���������Mt-a. Hartook and four children, Galicians, were burned to death in their home, near here yesterday. Foul play is suspected and an investigation .will be held. London,.i Eng., Dec. 4. ��������� Great Bzitain and Germany have commenced primitive measures against Venezuela German war vessels are.already on the scene and Great Britain will hav* a squadron there tomorrow. Capetown, Dec. 4.���������Premier Sprigg met with a very hostile reception from his constituents at East London an " Tuesday." His speech wos constantly interrupted hy hisses and cries of "Judas."' Disapproval of the -Premier's attitude was so marked that no vote of confidence in his policy was proposed. : - ' 1 i '/! Rich Placer in the Bend, jt E. A.' Bradley,- manager^'of-f'tbe ' Duquesne Mining Co.," who came down from the Big Bend last week, brought with him some splendid satnpka of coarse gold. A couple of tbe apeci. mens weighed '-' something 'over in . ounce each. Tbis is another evidance of the richness of the"placer ground of - the Big Bend and it is only a' matter of a few months more when it will Uke its place again in the front rank. of the gold producing districts of tbis wonderfully rich province. ' Ther* i������. bound to bo big excitement in ths north district next year. It ha* si maly got to come.- '��������� Dealers in , FIRST-GLASS Groceries Hoar, Feed . '. McCtoy's Famous Stoves Tinware, draoiteware Heavy and StieK Hardware Stores at Revelstoke Nakusp New Denver. Poverty of Spirit. WILT.TAM EVERETT JOHN- SOX, Hector of tbe Church of tho Redeemer. No. 153 West 136th Street, Now York. BlDsscl arc tlio poor In spirit, for theirs I? tho klus-loin tit heayen.���������St. Mutt., v., 3. Even those who deny the personal claims of Christ almost 'universally praise and accept tha Sermon on thc Mount as a most perfect precept for human life. 1 very much question thc -depth of this acceptance. The moral teacher of our day does not begin hy bio-sing, nnd, if he did, ���������would begin with some more sturdy vir- tne than poverty of spirit. it is a ma.!'!: of the divine nature ot the Son of -Man that He does begin so Iir away from all purtly human teachers, and so truly ln accord with all llh created woik?. It is a mark of His nil- embracing mission that lio begins with ���������-.m blessing on a virtue go simple that *ny may possess it.. What is poverty ! Not merely to ' lack, but to feel the lack of things. The Indian on this island four hundred years ago was not poor because he had no bank account; without It we are. Ask yourself, with this understanding .and in reply to Christ's words, "Have I poverty of spirit V Your answer to * that question i3 the measure of yo.-" - undemanding of tho Sermon on thc Mount. - Christ began with conscious lack in accordance with His fundamental law o: ell created liie. Development or evolution of liie proceeds from the sense ol poverty. The material wealth of this great city ���������was c-r.-.t.'J hy tht sense ot poverty o.i .-lhc jut of those within it vshich the ..Indian never knew. Mer. became cnn- jecious of a lark in facility of eomrn'ini- I .ration. nr.J in their laboratories 1 hry* .worked and vrayitl (for in its dr -roc ���������It was pr.rcr) and the answer cam ��������� in t^opho-p .-r.ii t?l"graph. which in '.iuii j.-test ii<". clopir.e:;t seem almost a di- . "\ .ae jiov'vr. So it ': = n.~. Etrrn~o truth that f'hrhl i:'ter.= v.-'-.vr. lie .declare. Cut "Bi.-s-cd :��������� -e thr ;>-or ir, s; irit; they that in..urn, "the nii'.k, :..:id thoy thai} hunger and thirst a.'trr righteousness," nnd that , those or.iy He folluws with mercy, purity and j..-.iee. To be poor in ������pirit is to be conscious .of r.c-.d i:i the h'ehest t-lcn.cnt of cur ���������Tiaiartc. We :;>::id perhnp^ ten hours r. day to avoid l!:at wliiclj ench in his ���������dr^n-ce calls povcity, aad nli.it to avoid itiis pcv.rty of our very "Highest na- "tture! . - How many of ���������.���������-��������� in this are tramps, liv- ���������"^np by bciii'iiifr fr.n.1 those whose sense oi ���������,-poverty has called forth tiif'.r utiuo.-l el- "forts"? Alas! too many are content to accept the moral or iniiaoral Manila rdvbe- iore tiicm, with r.o work or prayer in -laboratory scrsh'S nesv means of eom- -jMiiieation with '.hc-ir ielloss-s and their 'ted. . - Go back to that time when ihe Preacher of the Sermon. 03 the Mmint first . placed a. living creature on the then dc- _T.olate world- A tiny, shapeless mass, "Xithout foot cr eye, nay. not a single icrga.n; in utter poverty a; w feel to 24 feet a day, tho progress varying according to the hardness of the rock encountered. The drill, three inches in diameter, slowly rotates, the hydraulic pressure being 1,500 pounds* to the inch, or of ten tons on the cutting point of thc drill. Water is discharged along the axis of the tool right up to the culling edge, tho temperature of the steel being thus kept -cool, and the debris washed out of the hole. Three drills are kept working, nnd four holes, one above the other, are cut by each drill before the dynamite cartridges are inserted. Tho tunnel as cut by these hydraulic drills is comparatively small, the enlargement to the Tequired size being entirely completed by hand hammers, iron pins and dynamite. The hydraulic drilled tunnel being framed in svith pine upright and cross- pieces, ohimneys are cut upwards at intervals, and an upper tunnel cut above the iirst. The layer of rock left bctsveen thc two is in its turn cut away, and then the first frame. Finally, tlie whole tunnel is reframed and supp'orted with piles and laths, preparatory to ils ���������being faced with iron girders and cement blocks. Not one minute, day or night, is lost, and only on one day in the year 13 work stopped���������the Miners' Saint's Day. The illustration showing hydraulic drills at svork in the tunnel is from The London Daily Graphic. Cape of the Horse. The care of horses seems to be least taken thought of by our farmers and horse owners. In the first place, we should provide clean and comfortable elables, thoso that will he comfortable on the coldest days of winter, and horses should always be kepi clean. Tlih can only be done by giving plenty ot bedding, which can nearly always procured easily and at a low 1)0 eo.-.t. the sick roe-tn and assist as much as' medicine iu bringing back the normal -condition of health and spirits. .xtozik from The nas-- loot or e>i. A Chlcu^o I'ollcenmii. "Big Steve" ltosvan, a Chicago policeman, about whom many amusing stories nro lold, ia the hero of au anecdote iu Lippincott's Magazine. On one occa=ion ne found a. -weary individual sitting on thc curbstone. "G'ss'an home!" ordered Kosvan. "Can't," replied the weary one, and when he tried to get on hi? feet it wns evident that he spoke the truth. He wns too unsteady for the purposes of successful navigation. "lla-ave yc th' monsy f'r a cab'-' asked Kowan. 'Xo," angered tho man. "Ye can't stliay h������re," asserted ltosvan. "Can't 50 anywhore else," said the man. For x moment it looked as it thc polic?man would have to spoil hi* record by making an arrest, but he was equal to the | emergency. "G������t up." he said. 'ft'll i help ye." The m-in zot on his foet. and j th" policeman held him up. "Come on scro?t th' r-road," was tne next order, and the svefiry one was as'iried to t!'-^ other side. of.the street, where ltov,-,ir. zentr? put him"o������5w"n^ofrrnT":chTb=5imifn- ind 'left him. " "l'i= berthor ������-i," he said. "Ho-> on Ca=ey'? heat nosv, an' Casev's that ambitiou? he likes to ye French N'nviil Manoeuvre*. The comic sido of the French naval manoeuvres recently carried out on both sides of the Mediterranean is well illustrated by the following disclosures, nosv going thc rounds of tho Parisian press: During M. Camille Velletan's cruise in Corsican waters, a mimic engagement on the linos of torpedo versus battleship look place outside Calvi. The battleships Cassard, and Jaureguiberry, with the aid of their powerful searchlights, discovered most of-the torpedo flotilla, but one of the little vessels by successful manoeuvring got within two yards of the .Jaurcguiberrv and claimed a victory. Thc commander of the battleship, however, flew into a temper and declared that the. Lorpc'.o-boat had committed a grave error in coining so near and risking a collision, and refused to admit that, according to the lnss'3 of warfare,' he had been torpedoed. M. Camille I'clletaii. on being informed of the incident, sided svith the commander of the battleship, but the ollicer in charge of the .toruedo-boat defended his tactics, btnting that ho- had never lost control of his vessel, and 'that he had .got within tsvo yards of the dauroauibcrry because he ss-ished to. Thc Minister,'however, got the last word, and dismissed the unfortunate ollicer with the words: "Jt was very imprudent all the same, and tec that it does not occur again." A favorite trick of the submarines was to stresv the sea with bottles, svhich only showed their mouths above water. Seen from a ��������� distance tho bottles so closely resembled the periscopes of the submarines that the battleships frequently mistook them, and fired away furioii'ly in an attempt to put them out of action. Don't, when you can all'ord to do better, let yonr horse go all winter svitii- out any bedding, and let, him lie on the manure and ground. Kven for look3 (and this is only a small point), don't do it. Don't do without bedding for horses so that you will have a load of straw or cheap lmy lo sell. Many are the peoplo who are doing this very thing, thinking lhey nre gaining, but they are only losing in the end. Along this line, a word or tsvo concerning thc use of lhe currycomb and brush may lie helpful, as this is another point in svhich most farmers aro lucking, especially in this part of the country. Very few farmers ever reuli/.o ���������svhat the currycomb and brush wero made for. Most fanners when approached on the subject say, "1 have no time to bother with them; tlie comb and brush arc nil right for those men who have nothing else to do, and svunt their horses to look fancy; all the good there is in it is that it just makes your horses look a little better, and hosv can us farmers alTord to spend time, on that?" It is a great pity that these farmers cannot understand that the "looks" are only the smallest point. The use of thc currycomb and brush rightly and daily is sure to 'return good results; it keeps the horse belter in flesh nnd in looks, and he feels bettor, and consequently he. can do more svork. But let us suppose for a moment that "looks" is all of it. Wouldn't it be better to spend a fesv moments everyday and have your horse look well than to'have him rough and dirty, and havo some one to remark, "Tliere is a horso that hns not seen a currycomb in six months?" Afler you have made careful consideration, decide for yourself, Mr. Fanner. Next, I svunt to advise a little more care in feeding and watering. Don't ���������water a horse ns soon as you unhitch him, if ho is very warm. Wait a fesv minutes, but water before feeding, and do not water immediately after feeding. Try to feed the right kind of feed. Timothy with a little clover is the best kind of hay; and don't feed corn and sell oats if you have both. Oats are much nelter for a horse, than corn. The trouble i3, farmers are trying to raise loo much corn; it seems tliey arc making this their only point. Ar.d not until ss'c stop feeding corn to horses and growing animals can wo have pcrfceL suece-Js; although when svo svunt lo fallen animals '.ve must hrfve corn or some other fattening substance. Another thing is to try to feed horses for the best results.. Do not throw the corn in the trough ..ic moment you^come from the Held und nllosv tiie liorse lo eat this, and then fill.up svith hay; feed the hay- lirst and then the graiin Tlio better way is lo mix the ground grain wilh chopped hay. This gives a moro equal distribution of the strengtu of grain, although most farmers are not iixed to do this. And now, Mr. Farmer, hero is a point for a great many of you: "Don't overwork- your horses in lhe. kast; don't fry to do more than your neighbor does; for which is the belter, to plough a ten-acre field in tsvo days and injure your ..cum to the amount of $50, or to plough" on thc same field lour days? Do well what you can, und do not try to do any more."���������K. J. Waterstripe, Clarence," Mo., in N. Y. Tribune. Th������ Principal Witness. Mr. Douglas Grand, svho ss'tts the prln; sipal witness for the Crown at the remount trial at linnii, Ireland, which rc- lulted in the committal for trial of .Major Studdert nnd others, tells the fol- losving story regarding the examination of one of lhe wilnc-sos :��������� "Did you sell .Major Stutldeit a liorse 1" asked counsel. "Ho, sorr," replied witness. "Did your father sell Major Studdert a horse ?" "No, sorr." "Well, then, did your grandfather soil him a horse?" "No, sorr." "Did any member of yonr family sell Major Studdert anything V" "\'o������. sorr." "Who did, then?" "1 did," replied witnosn. "And what did you sell Major Studdert?" "l'sold him m mnrc." replied witness, to the. clingrin of counsel and the delight of thc court. ScllliiK CrlvUct IlntH. The London Dnily Express recently received rrom a number of famous cricketers the bats which they had used in various contests, and sold them for the benefit of the Cricketers' Benevolent Fund. The bidding wns decidedly brisk, and some extraordinary prices, no doubt the highest ever .recorded tor cr,ieket bats, were paid. A but given by Dr. \V. G. Grace, the Grand Old Man of cricket, brought ������50, one presented by V. Xrum- pcr, the best of the Australian team which hns bcenjtouring Jfingland, and by many held to be the 'finest batsman in the world, ������42, and one from the Indian, Uunjilsinliji, .CIS 1.1s.' A common price was ,C5, and the sale realized several hundreds of pounds. Tlie Way <������> Itnn. "What chances would u man have if that building were to fall?" asked one man of another, looking up at the Park Row building (one of the largest in New York City), the other day from the postoflice entrance. "He'd have to run for it," was the ill-considered reply. "Run from il! Where would.be go? If it fell this way it would reach to Purl,' place; if il fell losvavds tho bridge it would go to Spruce'street; if il fell tosvards the Kast River il would stop shoit of Ihe middle, of the block-"between Nassau and William streets, and if il fell down Broadway it would cross Fulton street. Run from it? My dear sir, whero could a man "go in niore'tlnin twice the time it would take for the svholc thing to be in ruins?"- ' "In the opposite direction to ils full." Baid the other' fellosv, nnd the more excited of tlie pair stared a minute at tlio other, swallowed an iniagiunvy lump in his throat, and slowly walked ass'ay. T.Itcrnry AriecrtoteN. Two curious literary anecdotes may '; be found in Lord Neteon's pages. One i tells ub that Kellie's famous wedding hymn, " The Voice That Breathed o'er i Eden," was written as a protest against 1 ine''divorce" actTiT:ife~fTrrrc"r-5ratrj3-fciiist i the "ancrel faces" of Newman's fainou* nymn rtter NeceHsnry RoiiiiitrfMiients. A despatch from Wilkcsbarre says:��������� "Mrs. Dora Sullon, who left hor husband because she said he ill-treated hor, wns in court one day this week, and part.of the evidence given was a list of twelve requirements she desired him to sign before the would live wilh. him. Hne dress- them up and letl a spaco at the end of each. 'Sign here, yes or no,' "s'lfe- hial~wf ir.tr'nr^-'P-hey���������were���������these: ���������_ First���������Get np iit 5 o'clock without, my -Provide material s-roatiiro Is i������:nin without 1 v.'. r.'.nscious of its poverty, It idc-Tot, ar.d potentially the city ol God his boi'iti:. "Dlessed nre t!ioje con- tcious 0: t'.eir ; f.s c-rty in :-pirit. for the iinpdo^i 0' iie.iv- a lies in that cor.=e:.oi;3- *es.p'..-.'i; i m.:--.*. TV'r Ti ixz* am u.*i;j.lly ������tr-jiig and uct.vc iyt '��������� )irth. Their n~e->h 4" of high ������{imlity, ! md t.l������*>y min be fattened at any time t.' th.ro j j^tpj.j.^fo,. pie, eMn v.-cek. Pourtli������������������ is a tradition that Newman tn hi* old 'Twenty-live cents' worth of b*ef Tues- age svss a������!ved what lie liad meant by ! days and Saturdays, i'ifth���������Clothes for tho lines in question, and explained tint you that will mak" you look attractive no doubt he had meant something par- ' nnd oiean. , Sixth���������You will not tifiiliir, but tha' svhat it sTa������>. Vvtien a similar cj ssas put to lirowning be is nAid 10 hire day school at Wyoming and not make referred tho inquirer to the Hrosvning ; Aljilily -it, rtcml Clini-ueter. "Nosv, I rather pride myself on my ability to rend character," said the man who ss'as given to buying detective tales " and yet, why. should I ? II is really a very simple "thing���������requires nothing but close observation. J'^or instance, it is easy to tell a man's occupation. His facial expression, his aelion.% even his dross, am slumped by his daily svork. You see thai man sitting opposite us ? Well, J am just as sure us though ho had lold me that he is a barber." "Vou are mistaken," replied his friend. "That man is a butcher." "impossible !" exclaimed the amateur dclcclivc "You never susv a butcher with slim, white hands like his." "Perhaps not," admitted the other, "hut ho is a butcher, just the same." "Uosv do you knosv he is !" "llosv do I knosv ? Why, the scoundrel shaved mc once."���������Household Guest. Humop of the Hour. "I see some, learned professor saya that some parts of the earth move faster than others." "Guess he is right. 1 believe lhah South America moves faster than North America." "Why so?" ��������� 'Mrc thero not more revolutions down there 1"���������Philadelphia Record. --���������"t-*��������� "Squeeze along a little, will you ?'' said the slreet ear conductor. "Don't you sec I'm riglit up against OS1- ���������big, fat man V" "That's svfiy I nsked you to squeeze along. lie can bo compressed nearly a loot more. Squeeze along."���������Chicago , Tribune. ���������������������������������������������--��������������������������� Meat's high, yc gods; but what's the odds? ... We'll have to brook it. If it wero cheap, why bless your soul! We'd have tn burn some precious coal Will������ which to cook it. ���������Philadelphia Press. One swallow doesn't make a summer, Nor one lone house a town, 1 But a word of cheer may make it cleaa ���������- When the clouds have settled down. One fountain doesn't make a. Tivcr, i Nor do three and one make six, ' But a girl may shake her curls and raako ���������' A' dozen lunatics. ���������Chicago Record-Herald. at lie" had quite furgotten I vulgar or profane language at nil. Sc- VVben 11 similar ciiiu.ilion j venth���������-You will go to church and Sun- Society, who could ttll him all about it. Home Gotliagfjn students who had a keen admiration Tor Klopttock���������tha "German Miiton"���������found one of his elanzj-.n naintillijible, and begged m'/.r.\n its exact r;if*ning to theiH. ; ),.,< I i*-jd the ������.t.i7izi���������then 1.11c ;o any reaaoa^biu wri-dit d'nir.-.-!. Tne Vour train-mils thu Ytluulilo ']'m!iI:im of ! thn breed lo hi* progi-ny wh'.ii n.������.i ���������> t a ; crocs. Crossed with Poland Chimw tli.'y ��������� ���������nako miwt exe.������l!������at feeding h"gi. TV-re Is scarffly a medi.un or ijrge breed up- ', bii which they can'jot b������ crossed to ������.i- raiiL-igc. Tliey arc black, with whitf on fi-f.',, : fflcE, tip of tail I'.n'l an '>" .i-!:.o"..il -oi.-.-sh sf syhilo in tii-; arm. Thi (nen is .->h<>rt, ���������veil -li.-hi'tl and bro:"! between f'nr- n.y-%-i; neck ."hort and thick; broad, .-tirii;>tk lack: Son;/, well 'i.i'ur-g ribs; h.u;-,-> thl-Mf, rciiud anil iUcp; lf-p short nml fir.-. J. A. Brown "f" Illinois ono if.id a lot of I'.-;r!.-sbi,"i\. t>'x<2- nip", month-" old ' 1.,' ��������� -.,.-. fully riixtJil it���������'.hf-u r-:*'i it again. Wi.ilo all looWid os with b*rnd brfritb. At la*t ��������������� sp-Ae:���������"1 Muinot recollect what I maiat wh-a 1 wrofr* it. but I do re- mi������s->t things 1 ever vtrotr, and you cannot 'Jo better thtn divot- your l!v>;������ to the di������- eo\ ������r������ of itj meaain*;." Thin wn pr tty "i.tri l'...r a icod.-.r, :'iin. but tliis iina-it I rVj/:U< 0!' '-!.-. kind iiilvd ', to" old J*������ob K'.*bio������. tli������ -!;.->"maker ! my life a burdoii lo get you there in tilne. Kighth���������ll-movo all mother's things and her cow; I cannot tend her. Xinth���������Huv ona fpinrt of milk a day. Tenth���������W1'U"t*\i trkc n bath all over h'm i ones ������ -wetk"? Eleventh���������Kuth must not peddlf*. buy or carry thing*. Twelfth���������Wip.i ymir feet clean svhen yon com* Ui the hou-*. Byron Sutton. fiowaver. would not agrfa to any of i thcif. tbiatf*. and in court to-dny plead- ( ed th������t h������ ittould not ho mada lo ������up- j port a viie wko lefi hit������. Tbo .ludgo . ngrri-d Tf'ith aim trd Sutton was du- ! charged." Tho . Hrst rulo would bi enough te make >������t lean balk. So man who Iii4 anv 'pint ������t all *ill foretro hi* right to ��������� Origin of ������ Name. ,' ��������� One Wonders, on reading in The Omaha 13ec the follosving item, how the Kansan ���������McKenzie came by-the "Great Rebel's" name :���������" One of thc most intelligent .men of the svest is William l.y on McKenzie of Piper, Kan. lie'is iu his 7Slh -yeui--iiiid-liis=rari\->i-ni37.-be-expressed-in- four' words���������soldier, farmer, capitalist, philanthropist. rU'is President of the Uut'te Creek Land, Live Stock and Lumber Company of Oregon, controlling a range of 30.!o(X) acres.- " Mr. McKenzie has a hickory grove on his farm-of 510 ncres at Piper, ten miles out from Kansas City, from which he supplies canes to the United States Presidents, and has dona so for a number of years. Jlo first voted for l'ranklin Pierce. He has attended 2C county conventions." T'l % h ;'> ���������V.',] 1 - 1 ,\' ! f'V.' : "Well, you say the,defendant turned, and whistled to the dog. What follosif- ed ?" "The dog."-���������Judge. ��������� " - "You have built line residences In various parts of tho country," snid tho aiislcre friend; "you have caused sparkling fountains to play, and beautiful gardens to bloom. 15ul can you. honestly say- that the world is nny '��������� better for your having lived in it ?" "Well," answered thoYmillibnaire, humbly, "I don't knosv" that' it actually ii any better; bul ,1-think I can claim it looks a little belter."���������Washington Star. ���������v-r-'r- A little, boy wns drawing a picture ot a'locomotive ou hi* slate. IH3 father, 'becoming in I crested, asked what Uie object svus. Tlio boy-replied that it was a, locomotive. ��������� Then'the father said: "Why don't.you dra'sv the cars, loo ?" The boy hesitated and' slowly" replied ;i "Papa," the locdnitis;c draws .the cars." ���������Philadelphia Times. ���������' ~f-'+'-r-r- ���������' Mrs. Slangay���������-Surely, John, you. haven't 'brought -any one homo to dinner 1 . ���������' ' . Mr. Slangay���������Sure, I have I Haven't you got any grub, for .'0111 1 ... ' < Mrs. Slangay���������Of course not. Yonvs - told me you'd bring home 11 couple oil lobsters for. dinner.- .".���������-*-- ��������� Mr. Slangay���������Well, that's them in Iho ��������� parlor.���������Philadelphia Press. ; During one of Di'shop Poller's .parochial visits there happened to.be a number of young deacons in .the vestry room bcfoio service. Ono of them, who was " rather talkative, remarked, "See, Bishop,' -in the benedictc there' is mention, of ��������� you," pointing lo the words,. "0, nil ye - priesls of thc Lovd," bless ye the Lord,"' ���������etc., "but there is nothing said about us deacons ; I don't think it is quite fair 1" , " ' - ��������� - "Oh, yes, thoro is," quietly replied the Bishop... "Hero-it-is.; 'O, all..ye ���������green things upon tho earth, bless yc tho ' Lord !"���������New, York Times. "After all," said Mrs. Gailcigh, "It isn't so bad to have 11 husband svho" sleeps in" church. ..Mine "dreamed all tlirough the sermon. lust Sunday, and I "can't help' feeling glad" every, time I think about it." . . ��������� . "Why, who _ ever 'dieard "of such a thing," her friend exclaimed. ��������� " "You sec,.our minister preached a hor- .. rid,- impertinent. sermon..,agaiust women paying so much' for the clothes thoy, wear, and 1 jusl know'that if 'Jonathan^, had been awake he'd never get,through quoting it to .."mc."���������Chicago '; Uecord* Herald.- ' ' * -rM-t��������� A soldier from far-oIT 'Jamaica : Remarked to his friend:-' "What you. trijra?^_ svii--:-o aseragr weight w:i3 ;'. J.!. C, in farm iuid Hot ooxuxili.��������� : aad mrrttc. '-������r,a-f. ..:..Ci;-U* ciiiie o , nnd u> ,,,,, 5. ifll,r a Uri������y r���������po.i,8 nxn.x r.ri-hw do'THUd. ii'.^.-lilg ..ir.i ..6 , (rj ,,.��������� fl|r, b((r (.,,|h ,,��������� ������������������,,, ,liln,cif . w^uad .v..'!.."'.:. ;.:* --?������ of -r.cal :ia- ��������� u!ti.1? llf hrnakfa^. al an hour much , {;;'^',"���������",1 ,n, .."." p;rf"i"? i* .,s.a���������C'Vf:: <-W th;-* tt.*t whirr., with the sincer- t^������,M.nT.''^^iTirl ;���������T!V.,U I ������t ������f I-t������fl������������. b. h-d -teciaed upon "> I --'.tr ti.K 1 n..-i.riWo������! il- m-..-r;g, ' ������n -*������ previous -"ii---- ao'l f". v'l.-t liii f,-I'lifccienfc God di!. j ' ��������� ' Ile H-1.-7 -':!', rt...,r.\>r.r it. menain'.;, out i le". :.,-.���������_.' !.Tt."'--!,on.-if,.i 1 hr .nicl.;. ne Toronto apple nnyer-j ������!iy that tho erf.;, throughout lht Province h turning ^nt much b^M.f'r '. h.- uie* j a .fpi'Ciflly dcsdjrn'rt imtrumenn, which i prf.d.-* tli������' ������l������r.pi������r ftt different. Mtagc-i oi i hi^ aleep. and a rcfuril ')* kept of tlio ' n=(i;or th������> difTiciilty of rousing li'mi. ���������fvt fcrii-'-l '"iih'|Wf> p*a* of lurk'yH, i.������ii!L- f'"l on trio ii tit, ration*, but 1-1 iiiv.ng pulveri/"d rharfonl mit- liiit. I hf quality of the frint h;n improv- i rd vn'.i f-������ ir to-.d Hr-d ������ii abiindiint -"ip- ed. the fungiA noticrnblr: in tlio curly j ply of !..-.-'s-������n eli cbareo*l avrraged 1 1-2 pin.r.d*. apiece heavier tlnsn the other*, nr.fi t)i"ir mf it sva* alio superior tiavor and tondcrnaso. A D'-lgimn family, all ruorpliia-in'-ini- nf. have applici! to the P.iri=s police for T'-li-f. Thoy svam so bc^ctt';.-! by thr- habit that, they lo*i. all incliiintioii to ssort:, and, not having money to buy tin- narcotic, were in incut distress. in Tn jr-'Tifral the same qunliti's that miikf n r'ood Christian nl* innke a good b.i?ino,,s man. Curved' hrii'i ������ho\������ lh>. relativo depth af th������ ulr-.eo in different subjects, and in the name puhject nt differflnt times. Tiiri' experiments rhow that tharc arc certain perioda when tho sloeperl'is more easily vfakenrd. nnd it is nug^ctcd that a prsoticnl application of lliU Zi'sult maybe mad������ in sdjunting tima to a- natural period of minimum 12 tlw iepth ������f the ������1 ?*.������. Bfl������r������ <������������������*! Attrr. Here is a merry jingle that' is going the rounds of th* wwlrrn United StPtcs pros.-. It deseribi-o !b>> live'stock ->ituu- liou svith c.-iiiimendaliic accuracy :��������� "A short lima much tha steer svub tad, )i������ ricarec eeuld rai->ii his head, be- aiid. His lioufs w������re nore, his tail was limp, his niaaa ������nd bang* had iost their itrimp. Ah* vrfcila he truilged from. graiA to drink, with scarcely, strength piunii'h to >vink, th* osvner, too, looked blue nil jjlum, and cimed the cuttle busineit some. But sinei tha r.i.a.-. tha ;>ni.������.*. is tall, the stepr cao r:ii������is bis iiead ������nd basyl ; lii< hide is, slet'k, no Bones protrude, he "pranciM like a city. ���������Judc. li'.-t tail i������. ������l;ck, his eyes are . Urigiit, h������ snorts and dareu liis crowd to light. Ilia osrtnr. too, diga up the ;hinlc, a������d ���������������*!:* th* boys to. have a drink. " God bleu Ihra rsin, it niukes a fellosv your.-; a^������in ; h". fuels like" throwing up liis hut ar.d howling like x Democrat." And his friend winked His eye, . As he ventured reply:' "1 believe I will'taica Jamaica I" .���������Baltimore'-Nesva. Mrs. Gabble���������-Mrs.'.Kraft has 'been, married ten years, I'm sur������. ' I wonder, hosv old she was when she married. Mrs. Bizzy���������I tried- to fmd thai' out the other day. ." Mrs. Gabbi���������������What did she say?. Mrs. Bizay���������I nsked"her at-what age she was married, and she said: "At-tlio parsonage."���������Philadelphia Press! The orop is nr������tt.y well distributed. SatirtfA*itory report* are to be had Irom alm������������t eviry stelioa. and the dealers say that it now leokji hi it three times ns'inany *ppl������s -will b������ )������n.l:i'd thii year is were'barrelled la������t yc.ir. The price, nasvever, is nst fo higb, ranging .irom 50 eents V������ n dollar * i>������rrel to the fur- .iicr. neaording t������ quality and kind. The ie.tlers who bought by the orchard hava 30 reason te eompiaiB, aa the crop ci- :eeds tie early fbtiraate. On the other hand, thow wba *rc buying by the onrrel have no eaU* to handle and bo r(?k to rn from iieavy wimdi. Judge���������Have yon anything,to say before bcntence is pa������������ed J Prinoiicr���������-so, your honor, except to ooll your attcution to lhe fact that that fool lavfTcr what defended mt was appointed by yourself.���������Ntw York Wtek- Cuivnot sonic wise ono tell us, 1 ' To caso our wondering mind, , ��������� Who is it loses all the fault ��������� That otbar people-find t I '.A jrroup of Representatives .were in thc cloakroom yesterday telling sloric3 of their experience iu court, when, Delegate Smith contributed this ineiuenfc from,Arizona, says a-Washington uesvs- paper:��������� .���������" r- ' Out in 1 one 'cf the border towns a case was in progress, one of the lawyers being an eastern man, who yte.1 nesv to tho country. '��������� ' "Will you eharge the jury, your Honor!" he asked wbeu the evidence bad been submitted. "Oh, no,. I guess not," replied the Judge.' "I never charge them anything. Thoy don't knosv much,- anyhow, nnd I let 'em have all they can"make." . - ������������������������������������Mr- "You say your lather is becoming interested in social entertainment?" said one young woman.'-. ��������� ���������-.-.- "Yes," answered the "other; "he saya be will be glad to entertain all out- friends two or three evenings a mouth this -winter. The other, evenings wc can let the fires go out and go to somebody else's house to. keep: warm. Ths plan seems a very economical one for all eoneeraed.���������Washington Star. i. v, ^���f-x.n.^t ���^���^>RU'0.-l'^"tw^'<-,���**u'J*���'-*,***^*, ,w.ji. tv,"WWitil-T��- J��UW^ /? ^ THe Moorvstorve- ��� Sphirvx= By Mrs. C. N. Wliliamssn, Author ol " A Girl ol the People," Etc. iy dowagers at the Duko ot Clnren. .- wre had '"du<-<;d Mr. Anderson to make a only acquaintances,, not friend-. She ! mystery of her going, before' tbe as- told herself bitterly that she uni her .mother had no friends.- . CHAPTER XI. ��� - '-" The Letters. ' Tt waa half-past six svhen the last .rustle of* tbe last smart, gosvn was 1 heard In.. Ehe drasvlng-room of the <3rays" little flat. Winifred murmured: ' Thank Heaven," when ahe had smiled ' her last smile, and could fly back from .t-��-i the door,'to which she had escorted a ' ",*''gossiping "old lady. ���J "Mother, dear, what Is this dreadful >v bugbear that somebody's been fright- Y, ���ening you with?" she had begun, when i .the stillness of the small figure reclln- f; 'ing with closed eyes"on rhe sofa struck . -at her heart. She left her question un- ,"��� .finished and moved ssv.Iftly, breathless- '.Ay, .from the door to the lounge. The j?.vhy they came���In., suoh, .droves, 1 knosv. .To���spy, out,tlie- nakedness of , Uie land." "Everybody .had*read what?"-echoed {���Vlnlfred. ��� '"Don't you know, dear? Has"no oftl- , clous .person done you the same klnd- '-ess Aliss DuplessLs did me and showii 'you a copy of the 'Evening Impreasion- -JSf.VA ��� <--���-- _z_^a_-' ----- -^ '���InvoluwtarUy Winifred's hand-tlglrt- '���ned on her mother's.; It was known In I j'heatrlcal as. well as ' In journalistic Jiilroles that ^Lionel '.Macalre had lately iyought thaV extremely sensational pa- I^sr, the "Evening Impressionist." |' "1 haven't'����en.any.'paperV.to-day," hhe a.nssvered.'-'wlthdry' lips.. "I've been I'i���too busy. What.did^the .���Impression- list' say? ' Something' about���me?" "It's here.-in'Uiis-ro.orri, jJa.rll��g.->Per- ���aps you .had' -better .read.it'.for:your sembled company, Instead of keeping the volunteered promise - that illness should account for It. He had written, or caused to be written, certain anonymous letters, Increasing the difficulty ot finding a nesv engagement, and sowing the seed of strange ideas,regard- Ing'her in the minds, of agents���per-' haps also ,6t managers. -He had fol- -losved up these by Inspiring an artlole In his paper stealthily-reflecting upon her character without actually saying in so many words that Winifred Gray vra3 the "young actress who had. attempted an elopement." The article made a denial Impossible, lest the 'world should say, "If the cap did not fit, why did the girl allow herself to.wear lt?" >' Having struck so devastating a blow tn twenty-four hours, lt was hardly reasonable - to suppose that the hand of re-venge would thereafter be held. Winifred was no longer afraid; anger dominated her too completely for fear to" find room In ,mlnd ?or heart; but- Mrs. Gray looked forward svith shivering apprehensions to her daughter'3 future. What if she should by and by be left alone, without even the poor protection of her mother's weak arms?. "Somebody must be told this story," the elder wom.in_.sald'at last, "?oaie-�� body, who Is strong, "and liiriue'niLil, and can stem the tide of scandal. Some mall Vs'llO Will" ha able and svillirig to denounce' this svicked wretch for tug villain he is." . "What ,mando_ we knosv who-would* be able and svlllTiig?" askod'Wiftlfred. "Can you" think of one among those we call our friends?" "You -don't realize, . dear, what a posver Mr.' Macalre" is In London," Winifred said, , when . her mother remained "silent.,. ."I.'don't'believe there are many svho really like him, but he is .yery lavish with his ..money, and people don't sec why they shouldn't have the benefit of it. HeJ gives the most ��� gorgeous entertainments, they say,, which' have ever been seen In England. He thinks of the most won- jlerful^_surpi-l9es^fori=_his-_guests==that- seem like . things out of fairy stories, and his houses are palaces, I've heard. That's the reason thoy've.,ntck-na.med him' 'Nero the Second'���because svhat- ever he does or has Is'so extravagantly splendid, almost barbaric. ..Don't you remember I svas 'Invited, .to' his' house ait Richmond last-June 'With" Mr. An- derson'arid^Mrs.'^Peter, CarUonl.-but;, 1 wouldn't go'bec-ause-Mrs. Peter'didn't, like me'-very much, and I thought I shouldn't "enjoy It? Hosv thankful I ������Within the next few daya Winifred bad seen, or. tried to see, all the London managers. One or two were thinking of putting on new productions; but none of them'had a part to offer her. The girl, who had met several of these Important personages ln the brief heyday of her success, and found thorn most agreeable men, fancied that their mariner had changed. She_ felt that they looked ��� at her differently, and there was a hollosv ring in' their regrets that she had not been able to come to them a fesv weeks earlier. Almost with one accord everybody said that.. After she had mot svith disappointment on all skies, Winifred troubled herself by the fear that .'"he had seemed to expect too much, nnd wished that sho had clearly specified that she svas ready to accept a small part���a very, veiy suval! part. After the position Bhe had held at tlie Duke of Clarence's nnd In public estimation, lt svould be a humiliation to appe-ir as a mere "svalk- Ing lady"���a humiliation ss'bich only an actor or actress cau thoroughly appreciate���but tiio poor girl svas ready to do anything honest for the sake of ' the money needed by her "mother. That need was not mentioned again nosv by tho tsvo women. Mis. Gray would havo given much If she .had 'Duke \X' Clarence's Theater,- tliaA a 'scandal', % threatened, follosving a'-young and' ["> -pular actress's " elopement svith a s'^in of high'.position. ��� And then, after 'iv,iled suggestions, to-save Itself, no -ubt, from being sued for libel, it ' fed that (Miss Winifred Gray's conation with Mr. Anderson's company j [Id been suddenly ^severed," Miss Hen- f-Ht'a Cotter taking her place as Lady (j'.tty ln The'Green Sunborinet/. and % playing Cella In- the "forthcoming- -���fioducuion of 'As You" Like It.' '.Those !!2re the words as nearly as I can re- J'f-mlber them, and, i>f course, my-dea-r- '���*'��� -\ I don't need to toll you that I know f(!Q first pant is .the most wicked fabrl- .';ilon; litit the. last���'Miss Duplessis V'd the'room that you ,were not at re- .arsal, that' your understudy"" re- l-arsed your'part, and that Mr. An-" .son said -" .-' '-' ." .-. Ifc'Whot did Mr. Anderson say?" broke g> Winifred, passionately. "What did ,dare to say?" \ " '��� ������ < '; /, ���'Merely-that he '.--'gretted your con-"' P?tion with his coi"pany had come to Ivmd.' Everyone was astonished and t^N'ed, Miss Duplessis' took pains' to f.'orm us, and somehow tho mast niys- ���ious and- romantlo rumors were ���rted, nobtody exactly know how. She piembored that this was.our 'day,' [ determined.lo cornel up. And on ���way, apparently, she bought this' Md paper, - which seemed.'only to. e whetted her ghoulish ' curiosity. I thought I should have to faint fore them all, in the midst of the i ttpr about 'how you would be colors that seemed to run through the glass. And at dinner the ladles had diamond bracelets In their bouquets. Well, when me.n entertain like that, and .have all sorts of pleasures to give their friends, and can tell them hosv to place their money on the Stock Exchange or ln a horse race, or find positions for their sons and brothers on newspapers, they can do whatever they like, without being afraid. Nobody wants to speak against them; .nobody wants to have them for enemies. What . would. people think tf I went .about telling them that'Mr. Macalre "had made love to me, - and because 1 svouldn't listen he was trying to ruin my career?" "I should think anyone who had ever seen him might' believe anything of him!" exclaimed the little woman,- who had always been the "most charitable soul on earth, speaking evil of none,-"' defending sinners for the one spark' of good .which-she supposed-still to be lurking in tihelr hearts. "If they did believe it they would say they didn't. They would "probably "think Instead that I had angled for his attention," and, finding "that he didn't notice me, I had maligned him out of sheer-spite.' Oh, Mr. Macaire's quite safe'from anything you and I can do, ���'mother; sve might aa ss-ell make up our minds to that." "If only Dick were older, and���different!" sighed Mrs. Gray. "He Isn't, darling. I don't despalr,- Ihough. I won't despair. We'll fight ��� Lionel Macaire and his- wickedness, and In the end I believe that we shall win.".. -But the silent battle had only Just K<***ain. ��� CHAPTER XII. ' Winifred's Luck. One morning Mrs. Gray, aching in heart and soul at the thought of her osvn helplessness and the -sight of Winifred's face growing whiter every day,-impulsively reproached Dick for only trying to get the sort of work he _in^ed^^q^sjtrI^Utg^for_wh a t^. he^m Igh L reully obtain, no matter if It were Irk- "some. Tiie burden thrown upon Winnie was too great; he must 6hou!der his part of it. . Without a word Dick took up the smart silk hat he had been playing with, and walked out of the room with such a look on his beautifully chiseled ^face���svonderfully like , his handsome, 'Improvident father's��� that the.mother's theart1 smote her". ''��� That afternoon, while .Winifred" was .out wearily lntervlesving the agents who had always the same answer, a noto , ln Dick's handwriting - was brought to Mrs. Gray by a messenger. ��� "Dear Mother���1 have done what you wished, and shouldered my half the ��� burden," It curtly ran. "As you truly said, I ought not to mind whether It Is ��� Irksome ortnot, and as there seemed'to be only one door open to me, I've gone In by it. I suppose you won't 6corn my father's profession for me, es-en though I begin at the bottom. This means that I've taken the King's shilling���or would, if they'd bothered giving It me. And I'm now Private Richard Gray. First Battalion-Northamptonshire Regiment, but still your son, who���I hope you'll think���has done the best he could." "P.S.���(Dick had not been able to resist this last reproachful little stab.), "As I thought, it. would be better not ' to shame you and Win by calling on you In the uniform'of a private soldier,- I have enlisted In a regiment' quartered at a distance. This, to save you pain; and so good-bye." - A week later followed a letter imploring his mother, for Heaven's sake, . to get money somehow, no matter how, and buy him out. The life was awful. A gentleman couldn't stand it. It "he weren't saved from it he would not anssver for himself. He would be tempted to commit suicide, for existence as a "ranker" was wo��se than. death. Supposing he did take his own life? the mother and daughter asked eactt other. He was rash enough to do anything, and his present mood seemed a desperate one. Yet they could not help. It was while 3Irs. Gray still held Dick's passionate appeal In her hand, just read, that the bell rang sharpiy. "Winifred herself svent to the door, as Jameson and the cook had both been oald and sent away. A district me.uttorfly life, with the plaudits of en- bubiustlc millions ringing In his ears, trod out with all this rapturous ap- jroval, and svith Just strength enough' 0 gather In the colossal mound of ���hekels that have been sliosveied at iini���the actor goes to his "summer lome" to live ror three dreamy, svist- ul, ssveetly Inactive months, until the mngry public calls him back again. They arc all most anxious for us to tnosv hosv lhey summer. If there svere 1 comninmlment saying, "Thou shalt iot covet thy actor's -summer," I ihould break It hopelessly. 1 always 'egret my fate when these beautiful, ���osy leports come In. Why should the ictors alone posses-s the magician'" .yand that tr.insforms a three-room lat in Harlem to a "mansion overlook- ng tlio Hudson," or a six-dollar-a- .veek boarding-house in Asbury Park io a "summer home by the Atlantic?", Why should the fairy gift of metamor- jhosing a Dloomsbury furnished room .nto a palatial hotel 'be exclusively ���lonflnod to the actor? '��� Somo of the profession are much bet- .er actors during their summer than .hey are during.their thirty weeks ot abor." Hosv often has my riotous soul >ozed in a frenzy of covetous dlscon- ���ent os I have watched the stalwart eadlng man on Broadsvay, halo, : jronzed and picturesquely attired ln .ennis clothes, who has just rushed in ,!or'a day to see his banker! The marie wand and a little brown grease >alnt have, perhaps, done it all. He las walked dosvn from East One Hun- Ired and Seventy-fifth street, where lis wife and seven children are spend- ng the summer and the winter. But I lon't knosv lt, at the time, and in the ictor's' column headed "In Summer Places'' I.have iead that he was woo- ng inertia arid recuperating after an trdent season. .They.all act these press agent parts 10 efficiently. They summer only be- :ause it Is absolutely necessary for :helr health. They are always on the rergs of .nervous prostration, owing .0 the strain of ','one-night stands." If .hey have been' ln New York all sea- ion, lt Is owing to the strain of New Cork. Managers, are after them to )lay all summer. No company on ;arth has ever been known to close for iny other- reason than weariness. The ictors summer because they can't ivork any* longer. It Is because! the ictors summer.that the public goes to :he seaside and the mountains. If the ictors did not get so asvfully tired the season would go right on. revolving, Jvlthout beginning- or end, like a circle, it Is In desperation because the actors fvon't -let us go to the theaters any ���nore that we say, "The season Is over.. Let us go out' of town until Romeo ind Juliet have recuperated." Hosv different lt Is in other walks,of lfe! "We snatch a scanty two weeks 'rom the .interminable-.fifty-two���and, .ve are never missed. Nobody cares a lang whether sve come back or svheth- ;r we dp not. Our goose is never a isvan." Lucky actoH Thrice fortunate mmmerer! "He 'ne\-er discovers���as, lias! sve do���that the beautiful retreat, is-lth fruit and shade trees, is a hide- Jus barn with the shade furnished by ranging out clothes; that the aabrable larmhouse with fresh ni'Ik and un- KlUHlIed eggs (s a fraud, arid that the ��uly glimpse- of the fresh milk and .mequnlled ogijs Is caught aw they are 'ent to the city; that the exquisite mmmer hotel J? ugly with the cack- Ing, tiresonie. SOSBlpiU'S et adjacent t:osvns. Lucky actor! Thrice fortunate mmmerer! I envy you. *j ��� '.'..ii^jj^.. The First Firecracker. there lived In China, years ago, An odd old mandarin, iVhose temper was so peppery' They called him Sin-ah-sln. ie wandered through the crowded street* In search of dall^. bread. _ - .- - -\nd~wore a-garmerit long and straight. Which once was brightest red. ��� But -worn ln all the dust and rain, In dampness and ln dew, !t stiffened slowly with the grime, And turned a dingy hue; i> \nd like a cylinder became. So long, and straight,' nnd round,' it wrairped Ah-sln from head to heels, And in lt he seemed bound, -f Knil out upon the collar high Ills yellow queue bung down, Clll nothing of that mandarin Was seen, but just his crown. flits robe so heavy did become. That he could scarcely svalk, , *nd o'er tho top of lt ho tried .In vain, alas! to talk. The boys they chaffed, and taunted him, And missiles at him east. 4.nil called him shnbliy Sin-ah-sln, As ho went dragging past. ��� - riiouRli Ah-sln'g blood did often boil At cruel jest and Jeer,' Die while he wore that rigid coat , The lads had ne'er a fear. Snd so, one pleasant Julv day. The Humbii round Ah-sln laid, "-Let us has'e a little fun With this old mandarin." 1 : ��� " 1 Uid stepping up applied a. torch ( To Ah-sln's precious queue, IV'hen Hashing forth a brilliant light. They heard a notse, and whow!��� Clicy saw Ah-sln, from out their sight Go up ln liame and smoke, ��� fVhlle o'er their heads. In tiny bits, . new pieces of his cloak. Vlth'pent-up wrath lie did explode, ' That poor old mandarin, Snd far from-coats, and cares, and boys, . Went grimy Sln-ah-sIn. -H. M. Greenlcaf in ������ Youth's - Companion." 'HARRIET HUBBARD AYER odvUoi s. Mother* to Tench �� lillilren ti�� Ilreathe Tliroajli th*. -Vo.lrli��. HILBRBN ' ehould be taugb- early in life to breathe through, the nose. This is important for healtb's sake, and also for children's looks, for nothing givss a more foolish and unattractive: appearance to a face than the habit fi! _ going about with the lips apart. Th{��. .-, gaping mouth' is not only ugly but exasperating to those obliged to loor.r '��� at It. Every mother should watch her little ones closely and see te it that they. -' V-jep their mouths c!o = 3d svhen asleep, and at all times when not necessarily ope'n for the purpose o�� rating, drinking or talking. " ��� Teachers of physicla culture always '. begin by" insisting that the pnpi.s breathe through the nostrils and every athlete, if noticed, will be teen to keep bis mouth closed while heis performing his feats as wcli as all other ' . times ' when his features are k( -. repose. : Dcsides the disfigurement to a child".; ' - features from tbe continued evil pra"- tice of breathing through the mouth, it is a positive injury to the health. In the first place, the invisible dust ��� which continually floats through tne'- air is drawn directly into the lungrf, ��� .; Injuring thereby the delicate membranes of the entire breathing appa-. ratus. As a result catarrhal troubles----', and even more ��erious ailments ea- - _ pue. ' '. ' ' The nostrils act as a kind of sievo ������ and permit pure air, tempered.by its- passage, alone to 'reach the lungi . through them, whareas ibe mouth will admit not only sudden blasts of icj- air, sufficient alone sometimes to-produce pneumonia, but foreign sub-^ stances so destructive and irritating"" to the throat and bronchia.' v The habit of deep breathing is e'as-- Hy acquired and is permanent. "Breathe throush the nose," if it ;- could be made a household slogan and were honored by strict obesrvance. would practically demonstrate the fact, tbat most colds are the result of not.', knowing how to breathe. Deep breathing will cure a cold in," the head in a tew hours and prevent Its attacking the lungs. Let tbe skeptical - try taking one> hundred deep breaths daily and I ana.- . content to await the verdict. Remember, take the breath in. -���. through the nostrils and expel it in, . tEe same way.���Harriet HubbarrJ. Ayer. ���:% :%-i\ "Brethren" and slsteren," concluded he Rev.' Washington Johnson, "I hab lemonstrated abstrusely dat de Lord lates a thief���dat he Is not to be pro- ilgated by no offering, thefo' I beg de ���usson or pussons who stole yo' pas- or's hog to make no contribution at le circulation of de offertory platter." Note���The collection beat all previous eeords.���Prlnceton "Tiger." Jrrs. Sharpe (severely)���Norah, I can .nd only seven of these plates. Where re the other flve? Cook (In surprise) -Sure, >Ium, don't yer. make no allosv- mcop for ordinary wear an* tear?��� Puck." Origin of the 11 omen. According to a Hindoo legend, uns. Is the proper - origin of ��� womanij. Twashtri, the god Vulcan of the Hiu.-- ., doo mythology, created the world. But on his commencing to create wo- ��� "'_��� man he discovered tbat with man'bo-.- had exhausted all his creative mater- ., .. ials, and tbat not one solid element- had been left. This, of course, great���'- -.- ly perplexed Twashtri and , caused!., f. �� him to fall in a profound meditation.. When he arose from it he proceeded-" 'n~ as follows. He took The roundness of tbe moon, The undulating curves of the Ber*��'-- pent," ' *' ...fr: The graceful twist of the creeping,;. r >-. , plant, - The light shivering of tbe-grass.' ' blade and the slendcrness of the wil-_ \j - low. . ... The velvety softness of the flowers*;-,"' The lightness of tbe feather, ��� .- ; . The gentle gaze of the doe, , .: * *-> Tbe frollcsomeneas of tbe dancing sunbeam, ��� " '-^. ���, "._""' ���The tears of the cloud. "Vj,^���- '". The inconstancy of the wind, .' -^ . The timidness of the bare, ,' '. ,,., The vanity of the peacock, """PTy��i>.. ��� The hardness of the diamond; -.--���-.' " . ' The 6w'Cr!aees ��l honey. The cruelty of tic tJ5?ri The heat of the fire, The chill'of the snow, ~* ���;.._. The cackling of the'parrot, '-��� ^_TJie_ccoing_of^.the^turtlpidove, All these he mixed togethes. mai&h formed woman. ' - - Then he presented ber to the man. -|7 For Once She Imeir Wlicro John IVafc.' A party of young men were takinc* dinner a few nights ago at a fashion-.- ��� able cafe, when one of them, who lit- somewhat of a jester, called the'waitej--, and said: "... ,.-.. "John, go and call Main . tt ��.' woman answers it will be my wife. Telfc her that I instructed you to say that Z am In tbe police station for a few hours*, and will not be at home for dinner*.. Say to her that tbe possibilities are> that I shall not be al home toaigluV ' Understand me, air?" John winked a couple oi times fn a, knowing way, bowed deferentially. an#r suggested: "Supposin' " "Supposing nothing, sir. If sbe aoftK who is talking tell her it io tho tarn��� ���- key at tbe central staion, and she'D never know svho told her tbe lie." - - Tbe waiter shambled away and was- presently seen to be having a good deal -of fun with himself. The jester Inferred that it might have something to do witb bis case and called hlmarav ���> ','What's amusing you, John?" , - "Wouldn't like to tell you, 6ir��-**Sr, least, right here." ' "I gutss these fellows underBtaatf������-��� let 'er go." "" . "Missus says to tell her husband sh�� fs glad be is' so nicely located for th^ > night���she knows where he Is toa? once."���Cleveland Leader. whatf�� His Other Nauit. New " Teacher���Next boy, 7our name? - Boy���"William, ma'am. "What Is your other name?" " Scrappy Bill.' " t- Philadelphia- Record. "I suppose that when you are facJn% the audience across the footlights yoa- forget everything except your art." ���".Veil," answered Mr. Stormingtoa Rames, "I used to talk that way abouc it. i.ut I once bad a treasurer who tried to take advantage of my forget- fumess. to I endeavor to express 107; r.rti2tic enthusiasm, as it were, a'littla mere conservatively."���WaaWnj-ton, partial, H XW1X -'-������ J.LJ t. 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(Jrcenless Brothers, of Ariryleshlre, eoiikldered the greatest whisky eiperts ln the world, have spent their life's experience In tliu Hootch whisky business, in'', the result is the world's (Jreateat "Scotch, King- Edward VII. 8cotoh Whisky Distilled on the Fatate of the Duko of Argyle, Scotland. Revelstoke Wine & Spirit Company, Limited. Agents KitEK BDB MEETS ALL, TRAIN8. FII18T CLASS ACCOMMODATION. HEATED BY HOT AIR BBASONABLE BATB8. For Sale TWO Residences on McKenzie Avenue, with modern Improvements, $"5C* each on easy terms. TWO Residences on Third Street, east, very convenient Ior railway men,$1800 each, easy terms. ONK Residence oa Tlrst Street, east, easb required $60V. .Subject to roortKis;e. Apply to, HAR\ KV, HcCATRKR* PK*XHAM. THE an EXPRESS E. W. B. Paget, Prop. Hotel Victoria - Prompt delivery of parcels, bandage, etc. to any partof the city Any Kind of Transferring Undertaken All orders left at R. M. Smy.he'a Tobaeca store, or by Telephone No.7 will receive prompt attention. Carpenters Wanted. Fifty carpenters wanted at oner, i x months work. Apply to J. Ker* naghan, Kevelstoks or Laggan. Brown & Guerin, Props. ELECTRIC BELLS AND LIGHT IN EVERY ROOM. HOUKLT STREET CAB / BAH. WELL SUPPLIED BY THE CHOICSBT MKKT8 ALL TRAINS. ': . WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS '....'.. P. BURNS & COY Wholesale and Retail Dealers PRIME BEEF. PORK. Ml) i TON. SAUSAGE. FISH AND GAME IN SEASON. ^^���������CAvr^^'it+HAt'iafijxr&fHJttLizury -J ' IZCTZitt/Z^i -_.tt=_���������a-=.rj- at\ ../-TV, tx:;.;l;_ '3 .* -if ������' ?'���������.. 4 ij . < **; it. r������ J ��������� A ���������a ���������I ,'J. "J*. 1^ it. ''.)' i-.y I'> i I)- AT THE ARM Liberal Patronage System Now Exposed���������The Star Chamber Methods of the Salmon Arm Liberal Association. Unfortunately for the Province, we havo had before to report n gross breach of honesty in public-matters by our Liberal representatives. Again the unwelcome -task iu ours, says the Kamloops Standard. Last spring an appropriation of $2,000 was made for the purpose of clearing the Salmon River, at Salmon Ann, and Mr. Donald Sinclair, an excellent man for the post, wus placed in charge. He engaged whom he thought were the best men in the public interest, irrespective of religion or politics, and did his work to the satisfaction of the depaitment. Again, in the full another appropriation wus made of $2,500, and on September 10th a letter was sent to Mr. Sinclair as follows : Dept. of Public Work, Canada. Resident Engineer's Office,' New Westminster, B.C., 10th September, 190*2. Sir,���������I am in receipt of yours of lath inst. In reply I may state tbat there is a sum of $2,500 in the estimates this year for further improvement of the Salmon River. You are liberty.there- fore, to organize and begin work whenever the stage of water is most favorable, letting me know, and bearing in mind that the amount of the appropriation must not, under anv circumstances, be exceeded. Yours faithfully, .'. G. A. Keeper, . Resident Engineer. Mr. D. Sinclair, Salmon Arm, B. C. ,- U ' Acting on these instructions he went to work as before, when on Sept. 29th he received the following letter: D.,Sinclair; Esq., Salmon Arm, B.,C. Dear Sir,���������I am in receipt of a communication' from G. A. Keefer, Resident Engineer, in reference to river work, in which he states emphatically that .he did not give you orders to commence wort, *&nd^ that',V������U-were instructed to "take your -'orders from the Secretary of the Liberal Associa-' tiun when you did start. In reference to this I might state what the Executive decided at the last meeting. It was decided that you should furnish a Hist of names now employed, and that of those present employed vou should immediately dismiss James - Evans, Herman Krebs, Daniel Stewart. You will also send your team home and give team work for the present to C. D. Harris. - I have been requested on behalf of the Department to O. K. all bills and if those names appear on 'pay sheet I declina" to "have them O. Ked. You will also be requested to give a state- ���������ment - of���������all-accounts transacted and your reasons for transacting same. Unless you follow _ these instructions out to the letter I shall be obliged to request you to shut down this work, placing F. A. McLeod in charge till the Department can be heard from. . "Yours t'rtily,- i. ��������� - . S.'M. McGuire, .'Secy, of Liberal Association. Salmon Arm, "'. ,. Sept. 29th. 1002. ' - ' P. 8.���������You will have to make room tor at least three men from Glenemmu, li.C. This Mr. Sinclair took no notice of i as he bad not received any instructions from bis chief other than those contained in - the " letter of the 10th September.' Mr. Muguite then, seeing that he was not making anything out of it, communicated with Mr. Galliher, wilh the result that a few days later Galliher sent a telegram to Mr. Sinclair telling bim he was writing Mr. Currie,0 President of the Liberal Association, on the subject, and tbat he was to take his instructions from him. This Mr. Sinclair, with a high sense of duty refused to do till he received the following letter froni his chief.* Dept. Public Works, Canada,. Resident Engineer's Oflice, New Westminster, October 3, 1002. Sir,���������I regret that, at the request of Mr, W. A. Galliher. M. P., I have to request that you band over the charge of the work of Improvement of Sal' roan River to Mr. G. McLeod. "I do not know what the trouble ia but my instructions from Ottawa are to defer to tho wishes of tha local member in lhe appointment of men on the gov- ei'iimeut work in their respective districts:, mid in Hie purchase of supplies. As far iits J a in await- your ���������vovkjof l.i-.t veai wa.s well done, mi it i.- nm on I'm.- scm-p nf incompetente that you nre "-npei'ceded. Ynu r*> tni lh fully. G. A. K*-I5FEIl. Resident Enirineer. Mf D Sinclair,' S ilintin Ai in, 3. C. XVe i.ffer nr, c-mitiii->iit. Let f.-t'r- ��������� ������������������indeil men think for Llieiuselves and as; Air. Gallihei- to explain iii*i conduct. RANCH FOR SALE. The administrator*,'of the estate of John D. Boyd deceased, offer for wile by lender the property in the Big Hend District, known as "Boj'd's Runc'i," also the chattel properly thereon, a list of which may be*-seen at the ofliei* of the undersigned. Tenders will be received up to Feb. isl, 1903. The .-idminlsiialui-s willjnot he hound to accept the hie,hest or any tender. HARVEY, MeCARTKR & 1MNICIIAM, Solicitors 1'ui* Administrators. Revelstoke, B. C, Nov. 37th", 1902. Notice to Creditors In thk county court ok **- Kootenay holden al Revelstoke. lu the matter of the estate of Charles G. Donnelly, late of Albert Canyon, B. C, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN lhat all persons having claims against the estate of the said Charles G. Donnelly, who died on or about the 21st day of September, A. D., 1902,' are required to send by post prepaid or to deliver to Harvey, MeCarter and I'inkham, solicitors for the administrators, on or before the 27th day of December, 1902, their names, addresses and descriptions and a full statement of particulars of their claims and the nature of lhe security (if any) held by them duly certified, and that after the said day the administrators will proceed to distribute the assets oi the deceased among the 'parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims of which they shall then Iiave.noticc. Dated this 27th day of November, 1902. Harvey, McCaktkk & Pinkham, Solicitors for George A. Donnelly, and Geo. S. MeCarter, Administrators of the said estate. TIME TABLE S.S. ARCHER OR S.S. LARDEAU . Running" between Arrowhead, .Thomson's Landing and''omaplix,' commencing October 14th, 1901, will sail aa lollows, weather permit- ���������>nl*: ' ' ' ., . .. ' -. Leaving Arrowhead for Thomson's* Landing and Comaplix twice dally���������10k. and lok. Loavinc; Comaplix and lliomson's Landing for Arrowhead-.-.twice dally���������7:13k and 12:'.">k Making close connections with all 0. F. R. Steamers and Trains. . - , , -".. The owners reserve the right to change times of sailings without notice. Tho Fred Robinson Lumber Co., Limited 1 ������^--UNION-'-^afir' (������b..-'Cigar Factory Your Winter Supply Of Vegetables ... . . ,. Should be your first con- sidet-nt.ion at this time or . ��������� the year. ' I have a liirite stock, -all home grown, ~���������������������������^- inch-dins���������-'- - * - ���������=-���������-'- --��������� ��������� Potatoes,. Cabbage, Carrots, Eto., Eto. -Also a larp-e 'quantity of first class ,. Timothy and Clover Hay. , Write for'prices and par- ,'. . y ��������� . ticiilni'R to S. Crowle, Revelstoke, B. C. GO TO THE, REVELSTOKE DAIRY FOR re C. H. Lawrence PROPRIETOR. Write for our interesting books "Invent*" or's Help" an1 " How you are swindled." Bend us a rough sketch or model of jourin-. '-vention or improvement nnd we will tell you. fre������our opinion ns to whether it improbably- 'patentable. Rejected applications have of ten been successfully prosecuted by us. We conduct fully equipped offices in Montreal and Washington ; thisquoHfies u������ to prompt-* ly dispatch work and quick lv secure Patents as brosd as the invention. Highest references, furnished. { Patents procured through Marion & Ma * rion receive special notice without charge iu? over 100 newspapers distributed throughout<- the Dominion. * . 1 Spaclaltv:���������Patent business of Mauufac- c turers anaKngineers. J> MARION & MARION ������ Patent Export-, and Solicitors ( ������������-_. X New York Ute B'!dV,nontr*������-< ���������"*���������������������������*���������"*"* '*������ A������'m.**s> ft*.** *!/....-.*"���������. - ��������� - * NOTICE. Notice is herehy given that thirty days after date I intend' to apply to tlie Honorable the Chief Commishioner of Lands and Works for permission to cut and carry away t mber froni the following described lands: Commencing- at a post on the East bank of the Columbia River, about two miles above the mouth of Wood River and marked ��������� "J. Rinjjer's soulh west corner post," thence east 160 chains, thence north 40 (.Hains, thence west 160 chains, thence south 40 chains to the point of commencement. J. RINGER. Dated this 20th day of September, 1902. 2STOTIOE5 NOTICE is hereby given that thirty days after date I intend to apply to the Honorable the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a special-license to cut aiul carry away timber from tlie following described lands situated in Nortli East Kootenay district :��������� Commencing at a post planted alongside tlie Wood River trail aboul 60 chains nortli ofthe head of navigation landing on the Columbia river and about 2 '������ miles southwest of the upper trail crossing of Wood river and marked " R. M. Hume's southwest corner post," thence north 80 Chains, thence east 80 chains, thence south So chains, thence west 80 chains to the point of commencement. Dated this 25th dav of September, 1902. - ' R. M. HUME. NOTICE is heieby given that thirty thus after dale I intend to apply to the J lonorable the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, for a special license to cut and carry away timber from the fol- Jowing described lands, situated in Norlh East Kootenay district:��������� - ���������'- Commencing at a post planted on vtlie east side ot the Big Marsh about 30 chains south east of. Wood river and at a point about one mile south of the upper trail crossing of Wood river and marked " C. U. Hume's northwest corner post," tlienee east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; tlicnce west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains to the point of commencement. 'Dated this 24th day of September, 1902. C. B. HUME. NOTICE. ' NOTICE is hereby given that thirty days after date !��������� intend lo apply to the Honorable the Chief Commissioner of Lands and .Works for a, special license to cut and carry away, tiinber from the lol- lowing described lands,situated in .North East Kootenay district:������������������'" - . ' ' " Commencing at.'a post-planted on the east side of the! Big Marsh, about 30 chains south east of Wood river, and at a point about one mile south 61 the upper trail crossing of Wood river, and marked "C. B. Hume's-south-west corner post," thence east 80 chains; thence north" 80 chains; st hence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains to the point of commencement^ _,-.,���������--'. _ .Dated this 24th day of September, 1902. '- _ C B. HUME. J5TOTIO-E3 NOTICE is hereby given that thirty days after'date I intend to apply to the Honorable - the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a special license to cut and carry away timber'from-the following described lands:��������� Commencing'at a post planted on the north bank of the. Columbia river, just above' the mouth of Canoe river, and marked "R. M. Hume's north "west corner post," thence south 160 chains'; thence east 40 chains; thence north 160 chains; thence west 40 chains to the point of commencement. - Dated this 22nd day of September, 1902. R. M. HUME. NOTICE NOTICE i.s hereby given that thirty days after date I intend to apply to the Honorable the Chief Commissioner of Lands aiid Works for a special license to cntr-Riid ���������"-carry--"- away��������� timber���������from���������the followiug described lands :��������� Commencing at a POst planted on -the north bank of ,the Columbia river, just above tlie mouth of Canoe river, and marked *R. Davis' southwest corner post," thence north 180 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to the point of commencement. 1 Dated this 22nd dav of September, 1902 R. DAVIS. NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that 30 days after date I will apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a special license to cut and carry away timber from the following described lands in West Kootenay:���������Commencing at I'eter Agren's south west corner post near Boyd's ranch about half a mile from thc Columbia river, thence east 80 chains, thence north 80 chains, thence west do chains, thence south 80 cliains to the point of commencement. Dated the 23rd day of October, 1902. PETER AGREN. NOTICE. Nolle Is hereby given that 30 days after date I Intend to apply to the Cliipf .'ommlssioncr ol Lands aad Worts for permission to cat and carry away timber from, the followlngdescrlbed lands: , Commencing; at a Tost marked "R Stelss south m est corner post," thence north 80 chains, thence east SO chains, thence south 80 chains, thence west 60 chains to tne poinl of commencement. Dated this 25th day of November, 1902. *��������� = E.8TEISS. Certificate of Improvements. NOTICE. Halifax and Gibraltar No 2mineral claims situate in the Arrow Lake mining division ol VVebt Kootenay District. Wliere located���������Two miles Irom the head of Canyon Creek. Take notice that I. A. R. Ileland, agent for J. R. Jamieson, F. M 0. DGSOIR; T. .Mathews, l M (! B631I1; .IB Hall, B45992; J L Farwig, B";>922; intend sixty days from the date hereof to apply to the "lining Recorder for a cerilicate ol improvements for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claims. And further take notice that action under section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certilicate of improvements. Dated this 3rd day of Sept, 1U02, a. 1). A. It. Hevland. NOTICE. Notice Is hereby given tbat 30 days after date I intend to apply to tbe Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works f.ir permission to cut and carrv away timber from the following described land's: Commencing at a post marked, A. Y. Ander son's south west roraer post," thence north 120 chain*, thence east to the west bank of F sh river, thence south following the bank 01 Flsn mer to the point of commencement. Dated this 25th day of November, 1902. A. Y. A>DERflOt*. Certificate of Improvements. . - *r>roTiCE3. Londonderry, Golden Rod No. 2, Hailstorm mineral clnims, situate In the Arrow Lake Mining Division ol West Kootenay District. Where located���������On Canyon Creek, joining the Londondery, M. C. TAKE NOTICE that I, A. R. Hcyland, Agent forT. Mathuu's, F.M.C, 1)03111, J. tt. Jamieson. li OSOlii, intend sixty dais Irom the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder ior a Certificate of Improvements for the purpose*, ot obtaining a Crown tirnntof thc above claim. And further that notice that action under section 37 must he eommeiiced before the Issuance ol such certificate of improvements. Dated this 3rd day of Sept., 1902, A. D. A. R. HEYLAND. NOTICE. NOTICE in hereby given that thirty days after date I ii:������end to apply to the Honorable the Chiefs Commissioner of Lands and Works for av, special license to cut and carry away timber from the foi-" lowing described lands in Norlh West Kootenay district:��������� Conimencinc*- at a post planted on the cast bank of the Columbia river at a point about six miles northerly from Big Mouth creek and adjoining the northern boundary of the lands owned b} the American Syndicate, and marked "J. P. Hume's,south west corner post ;' thence east 80 chains; thence north So chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains to the point of commencement. Dated this 4th day of October, 1902. J. P. HUME. NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that thirty days alter date I intend to apply to the Honorable the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a special license to cut and carry away- timber from the following described lands in Nortii West Kootenay District:���������- Commencing at a- post planted on the west bank-of the Columbia river about five miles, below the mouth of Gold Stream and marked "George Knapp's south east corner post," thence west 80 chains; thence norlh 80 chains; thence easl 80 chains; thence south' So chains to the^ point of commencement. Dated this 9th day of October, 1902.5 ��������� ' "'GEORGE-KNAPP. *,' NOTICE. ��������� 3 NOTICE is hereby, given that thirty days after date I intend to apply to the Honorable the Chief - Commissioner of Lands and,Works .for,,a special license to cut and carry away timber from- the fol-- loyving described lands in North West Kootenay district:��������� .., , , Commencing' at a post planted at the south east corner ol Lot 8o, G. i., according to the official plan ofthe survey, of the American Syndicate' "lands' in the Big Bend district, and at a point about 4% chains' east of the- Columbia river about two and a half miles below'the mouth of GoldStream and marked ' "J. P. Hume s north east corner post," thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence cast 80 chains; thence north 80 chains to the point of commencement. Dated this 8th day of October, 1902. " J. P. HUME. JCsTO-TIOE NOTICE is hereby, given that 30 days after "date I will apply 'to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a special license to cut^and carry away timber from the following described lands in West Kootenay :���������Commencing at W. le Maistre's. north west corner post near~Boyd's ranch about half a mile from th-i Columbia river, thence ..cast 80 chains, tlicnce south 80 chains, thence west 80 chains, thence north 80 chains to point of commencement. Dated the 23rd day of October, 1902. W. le MAISTRE. IsTOTIO-EJ NOTICE is hereby given that 30 days after dale I will apply lo the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a special license lo cut and carry away timber from the following described lands in Wekt Kootenay :���������Commencing at I. A. Kirk's north west corner post thence easl 40 chains, llience south 160 chains, thence west 40 chains, thence nortli 160 chains to point of commencement. Dated the 23rd day of October, 1902. J. A. KIRK. DSTOTIC-E. NOTICE is hereby given that 30 days after date I will apply to the Chief Com missioner of Lands and Works for a special license to cut' and carry away timber from thc following described lands in ��������� West Kootenay :���������Commencing at Peter Agren's soulh west corner post near Boyd's I, ranch on the Columbia river, thence north 160 chains, thence cast 40 chains, thence south 160 chains, thence west 40 chains to thc point of commencement. Dated the 23rd day of October, 1902. PETER AGREN. /ll xlxxmrn 1 THE TOWNSITE OP CITY, IS NOW ON THE MARKET. 2oo ���������Lots on Sal e -2oo BUY BEFORE YOU SLEEP. CIRCLE CITY is the Terminus of the proposed Railway already surveyed via the Lardeau Creek with fork to that point. CIRCLE CITY is beautifully situated at the base of the Lardeau Pass, Galena and Surprise Creeks. CiRCLE CITY is absolutely surrounded by Mining Properties now under Development. .... . , . . Splendid Water Power Which will be utilized next Season by Concentrating- Plants/ SEND FOR PARTICULARS AT ONCE TO THE GENERAL AGENT, G. B. BATHO, Ferguson, B. G. ���������"vSI >������.������.������.������>j������.������j������.������.'*'.������j^^ -������������������i . -������ The Smelting Centre of the'Similkameen Valley. Backed by the payrolls .of two gigantic coal companies and the Copper and Kennedy Mountain Mines. " " '" Surrounded by the following resources: -Coal,, gold, copper, silver and a fine agri-* cultural country. Large herds of cattle, fruit" in abundance, with" a climate" almost southern and all that-could be asked. - ,. -.- . . - ' . t ASHNOLA is owned and backed by the payrollof the Similkameen Valley Coal Company, Ltd., which is a guarantee in itself of its success. The equipment and development of their coal mines, installing " of water, electric light and power plants are already arranged for. - The development of the Ashnola Coal Company's mine by "the Eastern Capitalists who have established their payroll at ASHNOLA, makes it tbe *S coming city of the interior of British Columbia. " ' " * City of Wonder Progress and Great Prosperity Lots in Ashnola are safe investments, ' In Blocks 1 to ������ and 13 to 20 the price will Ste- advanced 25C-J per month until May 1st, 1002, and to ten.per cent, in the remaining blocks. The present price is from $50 to ��������� $225 Twenty-five per cent, cash, three, six and-niue months without interest. Arrangements are already completed for'Eight buildings, including cottages for the Employees of thecompany at Ashnola; This work will be under full headway by May.'lst. -- ��������� Four years ago the Crow's Nest Shares could be bought and were sold at 11 cents. .Today they are quote-1 at $80.00. With the advent of transportation, Similkameen Valley Coal can be delivered at any point in West Kootenay or Yale a=s cheaply as by any other Company in Canada. -. . . ��������� ----*-'5| '��������� - ���������:.'���������' FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS APPLY TO- SIsVULKAIVIEEN VALLEY COAL CO., LIMITED. ---NELSON, B. C. ���������?.* >>ft������**>i,ft,**������j������j������>j������jt>#^ - ***** ������*fr. ***** ������***���������. ****. ***** **". ***** .*. .** .*t*. .*f. .T. .TT. .***. ****. .*"������ .*r. .***. .*"*. .*"*. .***. . I. Ti X "fr J*, .i'i iTrnTi if- .Ti %T -T- .I- -r Ti* I. T. .1"^ X X .p m. Do You Want to Make Your Business Pay? It Pays to Buy An Advertising r8pace in We Can Show The Road to Suooeea . 4 **. 4? The Revelstoke Herald and Railwaymen's Journal *��������� IT HAS A LARGE CIRCULATION IT COVERS THE FIELD IT GIVES ENTIRE SATISFACTION. NOTICE. - - c NOTICE Is hereby glveu that thirty days after date I Intend to apply to the Honorable the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a special license to ������ut and carry away timber fron the follOArlug.described lands, situated in North East Kootenay District:��������� Commencing at a post planted on the north bank of the Columbia Kiver at tbe outlet of Inbasket Lake and- marked "B. A. Lawson's south east corner post." tbence north 80 chains: thence west80 chains: thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains to the point of commencement. Dated t*4 Z*tadayof Septem ber 1902. B. A. LAWSON. SUBSCRIPTION RATES : $2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Our Job Printing Department Is equipped with the Latest Faces of Type, the Best of Presses and'Inks, and - we guarantee Clean,-Neat and Attractive Work. No Job too Large or too Small. We Print .... We Print ... Dodgers, Posters, Envelopes Circulars Streamers, Dates Note Heads Pamphlets Bill Heads Letter Heads Books. -Visiting Cards Business Cards. S.#^f*-**s** Stationery of all kinds. *.t Revelstoke Herald Job Room i't ��������� i't i't <> ���������o <��������� ���������o o o o o ���������o i> -iit i> it <��������� ���������o o i> i>- i> i> i't i> $ #~ O '��������������� i't- <>. o o '!*' '���������I ii i y' ���������?���������> '-I T-%- ,.i* "'' -iii First Street. ��������� :**$i *$..���������������$'���������$������ eft **$������*fot$>*$$^ -a I-i? F 'I -1 sf h I - 3 :' 1 I XL mmamL iliii III ii Manel BS $ &������������������ r MAUDE AND THE JUDGE. The ex-judge sat in Sis "rustic chair Dreaming of WB when P1'03-"2*-19 ���������were fair; When he wsu a clerk in a grocery store, Beading iaw at night for an hour oy moro. -"���������hen politics gave him a playful nudge. And set him up on the bench as a judge. ���������While, on .Ms ��������� vacation one summer's day Ho met Maude Muller. at work in tho hay. "Now, Maude was as shy as a Uirtlo dove. So the judge fell heels over head in love. ���������'Maude, dear." said ho. "for pity's stake Come. he. my: bride, and give up tha> ral'.e!" Eut Maudie answered and snid, "Oh, So; The chap for me Is the man with tha hoe." Pulling off- his coat, the judge baid "See. For your sake. Maude, I'll a farmer be." So-the lovesick judge gave up his job And became a granger���������alas! poor slob! They married and bought a farm on time And settled down to a life sublime. "for- eighteen hours they toiled each day. Trying the mortgage on the farm to 1 pay: {This happened same forty-odd years ago. But still the ex-judge wields the hoe He is getting stiff in elbow and knee, -For he isn't as young as he used to be ���������But he often dreams of what might have been. For the mortgage is bigger now than then. ���������Chicago News. 'Mi's'Uncle Jerry. 1 ���������As the junior partner of the old- established 'firm of solicitors, Gale, Tempest & Hopkinson, of Lincoln's Inn Fields. I was brought up in closest touch with the office staff. One old clerk, who had started as office boy to the firm named, was called _S. Nevil. but his baptismal patronymic was generally, shortened by his confreres into Snivel, a name ���������Which described his . temperament, to a fine point How he had been kept on so long was a mystery to many, but At: was mainly through ray. instrumon- ialty. The fact, is that Nevil fell ill ���������Kith influenza, and.during his,absence "ais daughter called for some- vvagc-3 due him. I saw and was greatly ini- -pr.essed by her. Her manners were those of a woman of gentle birth and breeding, but her face,which was more than beautiful, had those'lines of' patient suffering which plainly .told her "Story; There was no need to ask her it, for it .was: plainly: enough written. I really guessed -that by- domestic tyranny;, he found an outlet for his petty nature which his own sex would cot allow 'him':, to exercise on them. " After seeing his daughter I resolved that-iSevil's place in our office was to be permanent so long as I could use my influence in his behalf, and at Christmas I���������but that is outside th������ story. _ . %"' ��������� One morning as Nevil came into my ���������jffic'-' with some letters tor signature 1 was struck with his woful appear- ' ance,'and. as I have foreshadowed my interest in his faD:;ly affairs, it.'was natural that I should ask what Was the matter with h'.ni. "A-dreadful and shameful 'oaks has been played on me, Mr. 'Upklason, sir." he said. Nevilwas always erratic -with his li's when "put out." "Sit down, my man. and toll me all ubout it," I said, for. much as I disliked the num. I could not help feeling 6orrj'"for him, so 'distressed did ho eeern. 'Tou know." In continued, "that 1 fcavo always looked forward to' Uncle ���������'. Jerry leaving some of his wealth to us when the end came." "Well, Nevil," I interrupted, "hns be died?" "No. elr: wo.-'-e than that. lam afraid I would not be so cut up about that, but he has played a dirty trick oo me and mine that I am as much : disgusted as disappointed." As I saw he was bursting to tell me his sorrow I told him to proceed with the story of his wrongs. "You must know that Uncle .Terry last Christmas, as was his usual custom, Invited all his poor relations t������ dine -"ith him. "The night parsed smoothly, except- . ine that two cousins got excited in a political argument. These evenings wound up with a speech from our hoM. and then, after singing 'Auld Lang Syne.' we would separate. The speech last Christmas was a memorahle one. and I remember each word burnt itself Into my memory as it fell from Uucl������ Jerry's lips. " "My dear relatives,' he commenced, "you will be .sorry to '������aru.as I am to announce It, that this gathering, which it has been my pleasure as well as my duty to hold at this soaaou of good- 3 .will toward all men, is to be the last. " "Yes, the last. I grieve to repeat. You are all. I think, aware of the sudden collapse of the company which promised to be one of the greatest and most successful undertakings of modern time. I will be brief, as the subject is to me a painful one. In that mpany I Ire's loonen enough to m- rest my money, not so much.for my -elf at. for the benefits I could bestow upon my kith and kin. That dream . nas ended ns dreams do���������suddenly. ��������� My riches have taken to themselves wings. I remember with pleasure the xiany professions of affection from you all���������yes. all���������without a single ex- excepton. Those presents which you see on the sieboard'������������������-hero every one mentaly totted up what his own contribution had cost. " 'Those presents arc, as you know souvenirs ot your affectionate regard and remembrances on my birthdays. I will treasure them as tliey deserve to he treasured. 1 am about to try tho experiment, a painful one at my age. of existing on .C70 per annum, instead ol ne'u'r'i.v us many hundreds. Hut I feel confident that such alfection as you have always s-liowu me, and such ���������olieitmlc fori my health, was not prompted by mercenary motives. My declining days" will be solaced, even under my grievously altered circumstances, by my relatives, wlio will, I am sure, entertain ine, instead cf their being entertained.' "The assembled relations gasped' with astonishment at the first few, sentences, but before Uncle .Terry concluded his speech, and he was ��������� in no hurry, I assure you lhey had recovered themselves suflieietly to applaud mj the right places and to utter platitudes at the end. "As to myself," continued Nevil, "I" was as mad as any of them, but as inyl daughter and I were walking along our street I was suddenly struck with' the notion that it might bo a 'plant.'- You see, sir, I am a great reader, and; in novels and those short stories whicli one reads;in the evening papers rich old' uncles have a habit of springing these surprises on thoir poor relations at such festive gatherings in order to' test the genuineness cf their pro-1 fesscd affection." "Well, sir, I stopped and danced on te pavement until my daughter caught hold of my arm and said: /You'll have " a crowd 'round lis in a minute," father.) "Next morning 1 called to see Bab. Mecombe of the Northern Shire.i Bank, wheie Uncle Jerry has his ac* count, and told: him my suspicions Babblccombe is under an obligation td me.'whichl need not specify, and, although this made him inclined to ans wer my questions, the fear of the bank1 act prevented his going into details At last, after a lot or consideration, ho said: 'Nevil, you place me in an awk ward predicament; you know as well as I do that your questions are irreg - ular. But as I wisn: to do you a turn I will tell you that I think ther is every probability of your being rigbj In your surmises.' "I could not get anything mor' definite from him than that, although I tried hard enough. The upshot wa' that I farmed Uncle Jerry for all:I. wa? worth, and more. For 1 had to borrow money to cover increased expenditures- I first had him to stay with us at Brix ton, and then took him as part of the" family to Margate, when we went fo? our holiday, paying all his expense*' and keeping him supplied with tobacco, and he smokes no small amount "Under .proper circumstances; thai Is, according to novelists and story writers, 1 should have been reward .tl with a handsome check, and. ultimately been his sole heir when he died, but nr such: luck for me, "Suddenly, one morning, about a, month ago, Uncle Jerry said he was going to town , ,where he intended to take cheap lodgings and -look out foi; some work. From that day to this "' ; have ever seen him, much as I hav/ 'tried. "To-day the final blow has bee-- dealtto me. I read in this mosnlng-j paperof the... marria.en nf Jeremiah Joskins to Susan Hobbs. No cards. X j cake.' No presents. Susan Hobbs i; a buxom wench about twenty-five of, thirty, and is certain to have a squatf of children." " " -=-Eoor_Ne.vIl!i_Lco.uid_no.uhp!nJangh^ Irig at him, for all-he looked such a' picture of misery. 1 proposed to the beautiful daughter the next day. COST OF A BOY* Ch* City Uay Will Com Vivo Tin ninnil I>\'-," he held out his bands and r'osiid ;.'..' :ves, as if waiting for tho "Pence tj������ -.{ passeth all understanding" to rc&l <.'*��������� his devoted head. At tha'. trying timi the li'.pi't-r,- wen ���������roused from thi-ir l:<: most afflicted with nervou-i tricks. ' A man will twist and turn hia moustache for hours, or if he has a b-ard will stroke Ir if engagr-d In any work requiring < thought, ^lunning the fing.;rs through tho Tiair is generally a faliiiii* ot literary people, :-:o Is tii-"' habit cf walking up and down the room whilo speaking or thinking. -The moat Irrltatt**-- nf all are tho tricks of biting the nails and tapping tire foot on the lloor. Nothing makes ns feel mor������ uncomfortable than to hear the clicking noise of the nails anil tcHh comin-; 'n contact.with one '.another. Even schoolboys have their tricka of curling up the leaves.of their books and so causing what is technically called-a dog-car on th'; page. Jtithy'R Innrcii o in \Vf*"fjlit. The increase In weight depends iip- irn lhc ago of the baby, also the food. An infant under six m.'inf.hs should gain from four to eight ounces a week; from six to twelve months, not finite-so'much.. Children fed on prepared foods gain more rapidly in flesh but are not as vigorous in other ways. After three month* a,baby may bo c.nns'1df*r.".fl ready for <-.iort clothe?. It the weather should be a little cool, kefsp tho ,. feet and legs warmly clothed, and do not make the skirts too short; make tViem jus.t long enough to reach the foot. Every healthy chSld needs" to havo .free iifir- uf its arm?, an.l Ir:*", and 'hf-sa rnembe!-.' won'd be strong"!' ar.;i .'nvt-lop mor'- iiipidly if liabics ivm lint so hampered v'illi long an.j ii'-a.'j" .'.kirts. TO-DAY'S POSSIBILITIES i may not, when the sun goes down. Have added to'my store Df worldly goods, or gained renown Through gallantry or lore. I may not, while I strlvo to-day. Move onward to the goal��������� The gleaning goal so far away��������� On which *ve set my soul. Gut I can show a kindness to Some one who sands without, And 1 can praise some toiler who" Is toiling on in doubt. And when the sun goes down,.I still May be a bettor man��������� No matter what the Fatps may will-* Than when I first began. ���������S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Times Her*- old. i i ; <* ������"*>^<* <&&'^'&44>&&.i-G'$>'i> ' <*>,-;$.������$*<-><������;$>$>:S>-'J'<-n-?;S>-> $'$������ <$���������'$> >' Along a deserted country road ono dark night in May a solitary wayfarer was leading a disabled bicycle. He came to a place where two roada crossed, and paused undecided. Ho glanced about in the gloom and found1 that he was near a house. "I'll ask there," he said, and walking up to the door knocked boldly. '������������������:��������� Hardly had _his knuckles left the panel, when the door burst open and ti young person in a dark sit.rt aud light'waist.'hurled1, herself, upon him. The force of the blow caused him to stagger backward. Involuntarily he clasped her close in,her arms while he regained his equilibrium, then he released her. "Oh, oh, oh!" sho gasped. "I thought It was a May-basket." Then, as suddenly as she had ccme, sho darted into; the house and the door .went to with a bang behind her. , '���������; The man picked up his bicycle from the ground where ho had laid it and went back to the corners. Here ho stood meditating. He looked in all four directions, .then glanced' at : tho house and shook his head. "I guess I'll take my chances on the road," ho said, ; and started down the southern one. As he went along, .the clinking,, of fhe chain as it passed over the sprocket teeth sounding plainly in the stillness, he cogitated thus: "I have just made a most interesting discovery. How by accident we sometimes stumble on these scientific facts. Now, if I had not punctured my tire just as dark was coming on, and then lost my way, I never should have known that during the month of May the houses in country places are so many catapulas. You have merely to knock on the door and a beautiful young lady will be shot into your arms, instead of into a net, as they do it at the circus." Mrs. Jameson's was considered a very pleasant place to board, and vacancies were awaited-for eagerly by those who knew of the quiet ' and homelikeness. of ��������� her peaceful dwelling. She never would have more ���������than four boarders at a time,- so it did not seem like a regular boarding h.0USe. . ' "H -j, v-!- :���������������������������.-: ������������������;--��������� - "I can't' take care of more than that number," she often said. "If I had more I'd be obliged to keep a girl and that won't do. I get along very well with what help Jamie can give me about dishes and on wash days." This habit of calling her husband "Jamie" led to the boarders calling her "Mrs. Jamie." . ���������It was; a day, in September, and the newest boarder sat looking across Mrs. Jamie's table at the oldest boarder. Shy" was the new school teacher���������her predecessor in both school and boarding house had been married the previous summer���������and he was a young bachelor whose work was in a down town law office. She -thought���������that-he--haci_a-goodiface,-and he thought there was something strangely familiar about her voice, though at the same time he was sure that he had never heard thosi* wnee before. As the weeks and months wentby, a friendly liking grew between these two. Each felt free to call on the other for any littio help that was needed, and,many and long were tho discussions indulged in by them. During the short Christmas and epring vacations the' oldest boarder missed the newest one. and when . r,i hcol dayb began again there was a 1 noticeable rise in his' spirits. 1 One evening in May these two nnd .'.Irs. Jamie were in the sitting room, Mrs. Jamie sewing patchwork, Mr. Hayward looking at the evening paper and Mil's Stewart rcstlngjn a big chair, her hands lying Idly on its armrf. . Tliere camo a ring at tho door-hell and Mrs. Jamie went to ant=wer it. fn an instant she appeared again carrying something'In her hand. ."It's a May basket for you, Miss Stewart," ���������he cried excitedly. Say-ward sprang to his feet.and rushed from the room, Miss Stewart following alter. It" was a very dark night and the children , who :had hung the basket really did not wish l.o be caught, so after a vain search and a fruitless chase the two came back unsuccessful. "What ix beautiful basket!" cried Miss Stewart, and Mrs, Jam Irs brought a vase of water for the flowers and a -jlns-' dish for iho fruit and candies. Quiet was at length restored, and Mr. Sayward returned to his: paper, Mrs. Jamie to her patchwork and'Miss Stewart to her restful a'titude. Slid" denly she laughed softly. "I was thinking of something that happened several years ar;o," she explained, as Mrs. Jamie looked at her Inquiringly. "It wau when I was in my teens and before 1 went to Normal school. I "sed to have ever so many May bankets and 1 took t'reat pride in :i-ver letting any ono who hung them :.he last time 1 was there." "The last time?" '- "Yes. Don't you remember?���������ono night in May, and you said, 'Oh, oh, oh, 1 thought it was a May-basket. ' She looked at him with .wide eyes. "Was that yoii?" she cried joyously. "Im so glad it wasn't any one else.' ���������Susan Brown Robbins in Portlam? Transcript. Curious Bits of News. A Chinese writer says that "among the 400,000,000 of Chinese there are fewer murders and robberies ln a year than there are in New York State." Half a century ago a thin stream of Niagara Falls was first led aside to turn a grist-mill. To-day a ��������� larger stream, which diminishes seriously the amount of water that passes over the fall, furnishes almost half a million horse-power. Doctor Voges, the director of the Buenos Ayres National ..Board;.', of Health, reports that.during a recent trip to Paraguay he���������'accidentally discovered that naphthalene is an excellent remedy for mosquito bites. It neutralizes the poison, he says, even when the bite has caused considerable ln- lliiiiimntlon, .'tnd if a fresh bite bo rubbed with naptbalcne no swelling follows. One of the great packing-houses o( Chicago has prohibited profanity upon Its premise".' The primary purpose ot the order .was to protect employees against abuse by swearing foremen or overseers. In commenting on the order the Chicago "Post" sttys: "It is one ��������� I! the better signs of the times .that In these days the men at the head of affairs are presumed to be, if not Christians, at any rate gentlemen. They lind ways enough of making their wishes intelligible and effective without resort to bluster or swagger or the indecencies of blasphemy." Comparisons between the cost of government In France to-day: and during the last year of the empire are being aiade, to the disadvantage of tho republic. In 1S69 the total cost amounted to "(385,000,000. In the year ending March 31, 1901, the expenditures amounted to $090,000,000. -Meantime tho population has remained almost stationary, and the per'capita cost of government for tho Hist liscal year ���������amounted to $1S. The increase ln cost Is due largely to the ruinous French policy of refunding debts and annual .deficits andYto the cost 'of'.'maintaining . unproductive colonies. In Tonkin; Tndo-China, there is a timber-mine in good working order. In a sand formation, 'at a depth of from Eourteen, to twenty feet, a deposit of trunks of trees has been found," arid from this deposit the people -dig timber. It Is procured in-good condltion, ���������ind is used for making oofllns and troughs and for carving. The trunks are many of them three feet In diameter and forty-live feet long, being apparently the remains of fir-trees which were buried thousands-of years ago by an earthquake. There is an extensive forest in this sand formation; and the timber, although It has tieen burled so long, is not In the form of coal. This somewhat strange fact is accounted for by the peculiarly resinous character of the wood and the sandiness of the soil. Access to the mi������es is obtained by gangways. This Wonderful Case Borders on the Miraculous How Romance Had Vanished. , Advertisements Oucoi-and J'ccullnr. "From a collection of queer advertiee- ments made by a Washington man these are selected: By a colored couple in Georgia: "Your presents is required to a swell wedding at the home of the bride. Come one, come all. Gentlemen, 25 cents; ladies, 15 cents." By a St. Louis man: "Wanted���������A respectable- gentleman, widower preferred to marry the housekeeper cf an aged gentleman, who has been an invalid for years, and who respects her as a good and true servant, whom he would like to see in the happy state of matrimony .before he dies. She has had three husbands, but is willing fof a fourth." By a-North Dakota Justice of tho Peace: "I am reliably informed^ that some of our local clergy are -cutting prices and thereby demoralizing business. I will not reduce priceis to perform the marriage ceremony/'butwill give time if necessary, or wilT take meats, potatoes, grain, and will agree not to kiss the bride unless perfectly satisfactory." By an English "country'.."gentleman: "Wanted���������For a sober family, a man 3fJjghtjVje2ght,jwho^^s^.J.he_I-.ord and :an drive a pair of horsos. He~*nTIst"oc^ casionally wait at table, join the household prayer, look after the horses and read a chapter in the Bible. He must. God willing, arise at 7 o'clock in the morning, and obey his. master and mistress in all lawful commands. If ho can dress hair, sing psalms and play at cribbage, the more agreeable," By a West Virginia merchant: ,, "Bibles, blackbords, butter, Testament, Tar, Treacle, Godly books and Gimlets, For Sale Hero." By a dog fancier: "*f5 Reward��������� otrayed from the premises of the subscriber, in Centervlllo, on the 1st of October, a small dog near the color of nn opofi'tim, with yellow legs and head p.nd tail cut off." By a Philadelphia, girl: "Wanted��������� A young unmarried woman: without children wants, a position as cook or housekeeper." By a presiding elder: "Advent Meetings��������� Elder D. M. Cautrlght, ot Boston, and Elder D. M. Farnesworth, President of the Iowa Conference, will preach in thc Baptlht Church from Fii- dayevenlng, April 5, till Monday even.. Ing." By the Common .Council,;. Jackson, Mich.: "Resolved, That the pound- mastcr be Instructed not to receive into the public pound any cows that any person may drive tocthe same pound anderlhe age of twenty-one years." "1 S romance deaid?" sighed the tall ' Beef-And "Girl, as she. wiped from the marble-topped table the bits of sinkers and combination coffee which - a two- aundred - und - fifty - pound traveling salesman had left. "I fear me that such is indeed* the case. When first I :ame to this place and .found .myself surrounded on every side .by the kindling masculine eye, how thrilled I was in every fibre! Every putty-faced ribbon clerk I regarded as a potential admirer, every nickel I found Tjeneath :he butter-plate I received almost as x caress. How bitterly was I deceived!' Cn all too short a time I learned that :he languishing glances cast on mer ind all the apparent favors of those who came to 'No. 17' every noon, were butdeceiving wiles to ensnare me into Jiving three slices of bread instead of two with a ten-cent order, or two portions of syrup instead of one with the auckwheats! '-' "Thus, with the knowledge that the oeings whom 1 serveo had thoughts no ���������nore ethereal than the sinkers they levoured, died: iwy poetry within: me. Xh i ceased to feel any fervor for those lround me,; so"I began to loseiinterest n myself. My voice, which was dulcet -.'hen flrst I called, 'Draw one���������with- _iut!',-.has_now_been,=hardened_to_sordld_ larmony with the clattering knives vnd falling plates, and with the utmost indifference ��������� I enunciate,. 'Brown :he'fhashV^seventeen,';; 'Corn-beef-an'��������� Mew Yorks,' and tho other phrases In ny melancholy vocabulary. No more lo I view with tense Interest the ple- :utter in'hope that his wedge-shaped lie will slip and .a fraction more of i.ocoanut or cornstarch than the regu- atlon allows be bes:owed on a new '.ustomer with a* blonde .moustache.; No nore do I tip Into his dish an extra ipoonfui; of apple-tajiioca, .'.'norjl.smile 'agucly when he asks me if I know inyone who'd like to take a little blow lnwn to Coney some ".vanrn evening. Coo often have I been deceived.. "Naught Is left for nie but pessimism nncl ennui. Lobsters nnd cham- "agne? Bah! Food 'I see too much ol md too often. Diamonds and silk pet- icoats? What good are clothes to me? ! must wear my black and white und eather belt and number 'seventeen,' ind that la, all. Romance? Ah���������'tis lead! And as���������for, life, I say, as does ���������he egg man when he has "boiled 'two medium:' 'Take It away! Take 11 iway!' "���������New York "Evening Sun." Hothlng i ike it Has Ever been heard ; of���������in Newfoundland, where the Story comes from it has Created a Profound Sensation. Cottel'a Cove, New Bay, Newfoundland, Oct. o.���������(Special).���������This part of thc island has been thoroughly aroused by the.most miraculous euro of a man named'Joseph Boon. For eight years this man had been ailing and for seven years of this time he was unable; to work. 14c, had Back Ache and Kidney.. Complaint, in fact he was all pains and aches.. He had been treated from time to time by several doctors ami although ,hc always carefully altciuled to their several prescriptions exactly as ordered by them, he got no relief, but was slowly growing worse' Finally he went to the Hospital where he, remained for seven months, only to he sent home as an incurable case. He has tried every remedy he could hear of, electric belts; liniments, oils and other medicines but all of.no avail. No one ever thought he could ever be well again. However, one day he picked up a newspaper containing an account of how Mr. Richard Quirk, of Fortune Harbor, had- been cured of Lumbago* hy Dodd's Kidney Pills. Alter reading this Mr. Boon made up his. mind to try this remedy and at once , began, a treatment. He used altogether twenty-one boxes before he was able to walk again, but now he is able to attend to his daily duties as strong and vigorous as any man along the coast. - Mr. Boon is a Hsherman and is^ at present engaged at lobster fishing with no-thought whatever of his old time Back Ache and other pains. -A red-faced and by no means soft- voiced woman came into our grocer's ���������hop the other morning and by tho gleam in hor eye one could aee that sh? had a bone to pick with the grocer. "Why don't you send me what I send nfter?" ulie demanded. "Hero I Hont my. hoy over here for five pounds ot -pudu and you scut -back word you didn't keep them." "We don't." said the clerk. "You do. too," contradicted the irate lady. ���������: "What's .'them'.if they ain't, spuds?" "Potatoes," said the clerk, mildly. 'Did you want potatoes?" "Of course. T did." snorted the laC.-*i "Didn't T send for spuds? Law- me. sin't you ever heard potatoes called by their right name before? Spuds, I s*������i"l, and anybody but a born idiot knov.a what spuds Is!"���������Washington. Post. A Fortunate Delay. In "Life and Sport- on the Pacific -oast",Mr. Horace A. Vachell relates me of his narrow escapes from a 'rlend's bullet: "My cousin and I had been camping ind hunting for several days In a sort if Paradise valley. ' One day, during t long ride on horseback,'we had seen i great many rattlesnakes, and hilled a ew���������an exceptional experience. That light my cousin woke up and saw, by .he light of the moon, a big rattler, srawling across my chest. He. lay'for i moment fascinated, horror-struck, vatching the sinuous curves of the rep- ile. Then he quietly reached for hls ilx-shooter. But he could, not see the ���������eptlle's head, and he moved nearer, lolselessly yet quickly, dreading some Tlovoment on my part that should pre- ilpitate the very thing he dreaded. \nd then he saw that;,it was not a make at all���������only the black and yellow =trlpe of my blanket that gently rose ind fell as I breathed. Had he flred��������� .veil, it might have been bad for, me, Tor he confessed that his hand shool"." Interesting- Items. -" ��������� ��������� ��������� : I .. An Ulinoio weekly paper has begun tlu, publication'of the entire Bible as a m*> lal. It will take_ about fifty year* to' complete the publication. The Chesley. (Ont.) "Enterprise? sayt" that a woman who was driving near tht railway'trnck atUdcngrove, lost control- of the horse, which made straight for the crossing. Tlie'animal's nose was just1 over the Hrst rail when the train whizzed, ��������� past", "taking- the' horse's head off aa clean as a. whistle.". 'No other injury was done. - The manufacture of paper milk-bottlca will soon be begun by the North Adami Paper Box Company. The process was invented by a Burlington, Vt., man, and the bottles' will he made exclusively in . North Adams, Mass. The bottles',arc,- water-proof and air-tight, and can be, made so cheap lhat, they can be,thrown away after using once. ,;.,-,. *i- As a sequel to the tragic death ol_. Baron George'von Bleicluoeder, the well* " Known banker, through an - automohil* accident the other day near Cologne, Em, 'pcror William has'informed the burgo master of Weisbadun -lliat he consider! the automobile a serious menace to pub" lie ' safety., and that ��������� lie 'favors most stringent control of-that .method of lo* tomotion. Tlie Umperor is said to .hava , udded that men have no riglit Id "endanger human or.aninial life in'the name ol sport. Tlie Kaiser owna several motors, but rarely uses them, although lie has approved their adoption by the tirniy. " The famous Humbert safe passed along the boulevards of Paris*-recently, and ^attraclcd_eonsidcrable_attentioii.^_Jt-was^ removed, from the Hotel Drouot on. a - dray drawn by three. horses, adorned with flowers, ribbons and, bell*-, and was conveyed to the residence ot its purchaser. A large band of calico stretched over the'vehicle bore ��������� tlie ' inscription; "This is tlieone-liundrcd-iniilion-franc safe." The men in charge did not ap; pear to be in a great lutiry, and made " frequent halts nt taverns, while an admiring crowd surrounded Ilia dray. Perhaps tliey had been instructed 'to make the besl possible use of llie opportunity otTered for cheap advertisement. u "BEST AND CHEAPEST" Never was a greater truth than when said of Dr. Agnew's Liver Pi.ls. IOc. a vial. Little priced, little doses, but little terrors to drive out impurities and leave you a clear brain and a bright eye. > Do you suffer from Constipation or ��������� other disorder arising from this cause? Dr. Agnew's' Liver Pills are a safe and pleasant cure. Largo , size, as cents for ioo pills. S3 Two alleged gambling resorts were raided in Toronto, an'd about twenty young men will ba summoned to appear in the Police Court. -"*.", "���������"���������riii FOUL BREATH, CATARRH, HEADACHE Are Banished by Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder. It relieves , in 10 minutes. F. A. Bottom,' druggist, Cookshirc, Que.. says: "Forio yeais 1 suffered from Catarrh.. My breath was very offensive even to myself. 1 tried everything which promised mc a cure. In almost all instances I had :to-proclaim, them no f-ocdatalL I was induced to try Dr. Agnew'i Catarrhal Powder. I got 'relief Tii>stantly aftc* first application. It cured me aad I am free from all effects of it," 49 ns.j.j-jifrtti *������'*'���.* M'ZXkUW*W*^?*V3-vr��'*+'��� "t ���*��*��**1 ����l ** ��. i.V��UI��*u>�� l*��*I^%��',"**����1i-T.-��*�� *v*)*-fs*l.>f nt c-* ���. ��i-r��� -n^rVi ~--- -At\ ./X :;::x...:l:::j: I 'IK / ���4/ fl I-:- 1 ���i' v; ui. - *. \ ** A Form of Herc-Worsblp. Hero-worship ol ,i certain variety is no doubt responsible for the fact that the prize-fight holds its place in popular iuvor, despite all the teasons why a civilized and refined people should object to it. Sonic popular sports touch human nature so near to Its innermost impulses that laws"cannot prevail against them���and the combat of man to man with fists, the trial of strenglli, skill, and endurance between two splendid specimens of the physical animal, appears to be one of these with the people of our race. In the victor in such a ti inl the people whose tastes incline that way simply see a hero; and this perception, that has enduicd in the popular mind of our race or other races for several thousand yeais, will not out because of something printed on paper and called a law. Law has its limit in the modification of thc lives and sports oi the-people; and if pri/o-iighting is ever looked upon by the people with disapproval it will not be because of statutory fulminations against it, but because there has come over the nature" of thc people, themselves some profound change. Ought wo really to desire such n. change! asks an exchange. While it might be pleasant enough to know that all our countrymen nre so fni refined as" to considor thia combat a disngieeablc and brutal spectacle, would not^ that state of mind imply other changes In the nature of tho people (���..together Undesirable in a nation that has probably before it a history-that maycall for nil the fighting instinct any people can po3- scaaT - Specials From Oyster Bay. ��� Kermit stubbed his toe this moi ning. Mis.- Kooaevelt turned pale and tottered," but bravely recovered hei equanimity. Secretary Cortelyou was summoned by the President and rubbed the injured member until the circulation was restored. Archie ate six waffles at breakfast this * morning. '"Ethel," who is "really the life and soul of the Presidential party, humorously observed:.. "If you don't look ""out, Archie, you'll become a waffle yourself." Unrestrained hilarity, of couise, succeeded, and Ethel was congratulated on all sides on her bon mot. Teddy .having successfully attained - the summit of the Oyster Bay Chuich, proceeded to stand"on'his head upon tlie weather-vane. Secretary Cortelyou was instantly despatched to fetch him down, tearing his trousers���liis'Sunday ones��� in so doing. The Board of Intimates has voted him a new pan if the old ones cannot be patched. Pork foi lunch at Sagamore IIill. Sirs, llooscvolt gathered a "posy of daisies this morning, a token of pastoial innocence^ ti illy, symbolical, and piowng that simple. tastes are not -wholly con- - .fined loathe lowly. -The Piesideiit ate pickled onions for afternoon tea with an evident iclish. This morning Kernut's pet rattlesnake " died, ne was .convulsed, with woe, and ' pleaded giief as an excise *ov not ne- ,_. compiiiiymg liis family on one "of their fifteen daily baths oV twenty-six day- bieak gallops over the Sagamore 11 ills The Secietary of State has^promiscd him a baby white elephant to console liiui for his loss. " ' " *. . - j Secietaiy.Root anived at Oyster Day this evening. "Query by. Kthel at tea , time: "I say. "Mr. Secietary, are you the loot of all "evil?" Mr. Cortelyou immediately cabled this tiuly "wondciful child's wheeze to the foteign courts Ethel's, fuLuie is asaiucd or should be. The following is the lonline planned foi the_ Roosevelt menage during "the summer': Breakfast, lunch, dinner, bed: truly a sensible one, which doubtless 'caused '-.the President and lii3 wife much tiouble to draw up.���"Town Topics." Interesting Items. It ia a mistake to suppose that tho land boom in tho West applies only to Canada.. More than four million acres of land in the AVcstcm States havo been sold by the Northern Pacific Railway Company dm ing the past year, mo3t of it to actual settlers. 'Fanning does not seem to bo lolling its popularity. The .allurement of Uio baigain-countcr woiks itg spell not upon the well-to-do shopper alone. In a Salvation Anny lummage stoie in >Tow Ynik a. certain sign loads: "Shoes with ho e in sole, fivo cents; shoes without holci, ten cents. Wiappeu, moth-eaten, ten cents; uot moth eaten, fifteen cents. Stocking* without holes, two pairs for five cents; with holes, throe pairs for five cents." Mosquitoes ure now charged with communicating erysipelas as well as mfl-- lariu and yellow fever. -A New York physician has issued a death ccrtifie.tte in the case of a fourteen months old babe in which lie saya: "Death was caused by erysipelas due to the bite of a mosquito." It is only fair to the mosquito to recoid that'the Board of Health offlcci-B refused to accept the .certificate until a. coroner's physician had investigated and concluded that there was no other iipparont cause for the death than the mosijuito bite, M. do Blovvitz, in tho Paris "Matin," tells how a subscriber to the "Encyclopaedia Britannic,-." used that .work, lie was a professional writer of begging letters, and in them he lePie-ientod himself to bo now one sott of a person, and then another, "getting up" from tho pages of hia aucyclopacdia tlie neccssniy historical knowledge to give his letters plausibility. Thus, he explained, that having written a letter in which he was a. potter who had been chemically poisoned nnd unfitted for work, "he used thc encyclopaedia for details of liis pottery trade, of which he himself waa entirely ignor" ant. The one word, 'kaolin,',, which he used-in his letters, and tlie explanation of the use of the material, made everyone believe in the genuineness of, his appeal, and brought him a perfect harvest of banknotes and postal money-oiders." There has been very little agitation of the sh.iit-w.iist problem this year, partly, pi obably, because the .heal haa not been intense enough to 'make coats unbearable, and pai tiy, l0o, because both as to advocacy and opposition, the novelty lias _passed away. 1'ostmpn in several cities lune this year been permitted lo don the shiit-waist without any public outciy whale*.er, but it has remained for the Kev.-Albeit liiton Pilch of Cleveland 0.. to extend the luml ol =lm l-waist pos sibilities'.t distance not lutlieilo "content plated. He ptesidc-, over Iho spiiiiu.il wclf.uo._of ti Cuiigicg.iiional chinch, and '"lecently he preached ui ,i shiic-wai-,1. lie says that'lie will continue'lo 'do this a: long js Iho vvealhpr is ".o .warm. ���.jlehcv ing in personal comfoi I for himself, he be lieves in it also foi his congiegation, a��c" lias-invited the women "o'f hi*--chinch tc lemovo-lheir .hills timing .worship, and tho" nien'to remove lheir coals." Anecdotes of Barnum. It may be said oft P. T. Barnum that he ~ was the* Major Bomo' or Lord of Laughter and Pun, the protean Dispen- ''scrof Amusement. How well" he "be- " came known through this function ono curious incident certifies. .Sonic years ~ before lie" died, an" obscure pel sou in some remote part of Asia wrote a._let- ��� -ter,. which he-dropped in'thc'post-office near him, directed to "Mr. Barnum, America." -The letter reached "its" dosti- . nation without an." hour's delay, The great showman unaffectedly enjoyed being known from the very beginning of his celebrity; and when ho found his z colebiity was a, tremendous factor in'* his success, he did.'ey,erythingi.that ho' -. could thiuk of to extend the exploitation of his name. This was riot'to, nourish vain imaginings or /oecauso he felt exalted; it .was to "promote -busi iies3 J_f ( *. v LY ^ -. ���*.* i li Aroiuicfhis successive home.-, at Bifdge- port, Conn., he was foud of putting something that suggested a show.' Queerly marked cattle, the sacred cow, ^ or an elephant, were frequently among the stock to be noticed in his fields. On one occasion he had an elephant engaged in plowing on the~ sloping hill where it oould plainly be seen by tho passeugers on the Kew Haven-and Hartford Kail- ' road, an ag: iculturul innovation that he knew would get notice of some sort in "every newspaper in the country.. .It was ev'en-Baid. that ho received lotters. from Ipxmera far "and wide asking.how.mueb. hay one elephant ate, and if it wns moio profitable to plow.with nu elephant than with hoises or osen. His re-plies* weie invariably frank, and wero of this purport: If you havo a large museum in .New Yoik, and a gie.it nvilroad sends trains full of passengers within eyeshot of the pcifoinutnees, it will pny,,_and pay well; hut if you havo no such institution, then horses or oxen will piovo more economical.���Joel Benton iu the "Century." .' -������" * ���*���--' " Scotsmen to "the Front. ���You,know thc chaiacter wliich'Scotsmen havc,acqu.ied, beyond almost any other people, tor the jit of pushing thci'i fortunes abioad. It was never, perhaps more singularly illustrated than by the 'following-anecdote, which is related on the authonly of an almost eminent sei- entitic b.iionct. . '" ": The Russians aiid Turks in their v.ai of the eighteenth- century having .diverted themselves* long enough in the contest,'agieed to treat' for peace: The commissioners 'foV this were Marshal. General Keith, on-the part of the ltus sians, and the Gland "Vuicr on the pan of the Tuiks. ' These two pcisoiiagos ���met and cairiod on their negotiations by means of intciprcteis. "When all was concluded nnd-they lose to scpaiaAe, the 'Maishal made his bow with his hat in his hand, and the Vizier Ins salaain with his turban on his head. But when these .eeiciiionics of taking leave Were over the" Vi/jor turned" suddenly, and, coming up to Maiohal Keith, took, him coidutlly by,the~hand,- and, in the bioadost Scottish accent, declared wannly that iUniade him-."vorra happy to meet a eouutiyman m. his exalted sta-' tion." Keith sta'icd Willi astonishment, eager for "an explanation of this mystery, when the "vizier, added: " ' .rVDinna. he surprised, man; I'm o' 'the same*counhy wi'-yoiuaol'. I mind weel .Bcoin.' you and y.our.Juolhcr, when laddies, pas'sin' by the school at Kiike.ildy. '-My.father, .sir, 'was .bellman o' lCirk- caldy.". -.-^ ���-..-' ' . - . .. A Nev7v. Lincoln Letter. ���*.' ��� When Lincoln was In Springfield practising law, he had a pass on the Chicago and Alton Railroad)! perhaps because he was attorney for'the company. "Thc follow mgloiter I'sking for a lcncwal of his pnib���ot "chalked h.it," the old slang word that Lincoln uses���was found seen years aftei il was written in a box of old p.ipcis belc.-.girsg lo the rnili- Wfts recently published for thojiisl timo in the ''Century Magazine": Springfield, Pcbuury 13, 1S3G. - R. P. Morgan, Esq. " Dear Sir: "Says Tom to John, "lieie's your old ioM.cn whcelb.iiiow. -Pvc biokp ' it, usin' on it. I wi-,h you would vic-nd it, case I want* to bonow it this ailar- noon." Acting on this as a precedent, I say, "Here's your old 'chalked hat.' I wish ��� you would tako it and send me a new one, case I shall v. ant lo use il the first of Maich." Yours trulv, A. LINCOLN. - Cynicism of Girls of To-day. ""I have been unpleasantly impressed .lately, by the'cynical bitterness of up-to- datejyoung women," remarked a woman of experience.'' "With oldei peoplo who have been soured by frequent disap'point- nients-^who have,had their hopes fr'us- ���trated,'and who have been crowded to th�� wall more or less by fortune's favoi- ,ites, it does not seem altogether juiiim- "tural that tliey should become caustic -and critical, and .question their acquaintances' motives uud ripuiigo of action; but .there is something veiy had to nm to hear the young, who surely should b,-> unsuspicious nud have faith in Immunity, discuss the frailties of their .friends with thc satirical nciinivn of women of tho world. Tho good old, fashion of kei*p- ing_ the fruit of the trou of knowlud.'*�� of good and t*\il away fiom young giil-, seems to be obsolete. 'See and judge for yourseUes' is Llie axiom of the new dispensation, "uud Iho rp,'ilt eeitainly doe., not improve theii tiust in human nature. Bittc.neji in old or young generally argues distl'poi'itment; those v/ha nre succr's-ifiil are art to lie 1:1010 kindly disposed'.to their_ fellows; they have no tiinu in their plea.sm.ible lives lo notice the frailties.of their acquaintance^. People who'ari'sel'-eoritoicd, too, nie rarely eensoiious; their own r ati'aii3 occupy them too much,,and they do not think enough, of othera-to judge lliem; but , '{ that'au unkindly, ciitic.il spirit is rife o i., .inu-* c,nong tjie young gills in upper tendom no'ona who listeng'to ,their chatter nowadays can doubt." y BHss Carman's View of the Function of the Poet. "What do you uiideistaiid by n poet? What is his office and bu->ine->3 in life? What part does lie pl.iy in the woild?" Mr. BIKs Caiman propounds these questions in the liiei.iiy supplement of the Chicago '"'liil'iino," nnd endeavois to answer them, Uo wnles: '���Fiist, and s*'eal..ng most roughly, the poet Ja a peisou wlio ha", something impoilant lo say about life, and has the apcci.il gift ot sajingit supremely well. He musi; be one (I think we will all ad- mil) who has thought profoundly about exialence. And yet that i3 not enough lo ni. !ce him u. poet, for that is thc accomplishment of a philosopher or a scientist. He must also feel deeply and strongly about life. And yet that is not enough lo make him a poet, either, for many of us feci much more deeply and sincerely than w*e can say. Xo, he must "ot only be able to speak fiom n great fund of thought and knowledge nnd fiom a great fund of sympathy and emotion; he must be able to speak witli the wonderful power of cluum ��-. woll. "Tho poet must delight om senses with thp inevitable hen uly of hia cadences his diction, hia rhj'lhiiis���with what is oflcn called Iceluiiquc; he must enlist our symjmiiiy through his own strong and generous emotional nature; ho must convince our minds by his own reasonableness. Ile .ippeuls to om sense of bcaulv. but Hot to that scii-,e alone; he appeals to our sense of goodness, but not to that sense alone; lie appeals lo our sense of truth, hut not to lhat sense alone. His appeal is lo all.thice, and to all three equally.". Fuithcrmoie, the poet "ought to be and must be a nomul man���not an aveiage man, but a noimnl man, with .ill the best poweis and capacities of manhood in him." lie must be "'capable of thought, capable of passion, capable of manual labor." He must have "ahaiod our common life iu the world." Says Mr. Carman: "How can I talk to you with any hope o[ a common undoiat.niding, when I only know the facts at second-hand, while J ou have actually cxpeiipneed them, and when I have no- caring about them one way or the other, while lo yoa they aie ma tiers of life and death? The idea that . a poet can c\er be a mere bjstar.dur, an onlooker al life, seems to me too p.*.pi- bly impossible lo need lofut.ilinn. Aim I cannot behove that any g.c.tl pioph't or poet ever trod thccaiUi wlio did not know the pinch of life al (list h.i.u1. r.. actual bleak liecc-'ilv. ;ts toij.l'lc pal'io- and tiemendous joy, it, wondoiful "j cl elusive sic'iiilicanLe *S"t.i "do I bel.'.n- thai ono "foi wiioin all the "ir-p���.iti'. and conifiiits ni*d l'.i\i'"c. of lifj .��u piovided, "mm the c.'d';. ..o tho .,ia\"e, evoi con kn"'.' '. ':-c iii'Pg-. "If a man has iu vei "i':",vcn p nii! in lus life, nor 1 n.lt a fu ', imi tiii::e."i n tin row, nor pi-.Mil *.i bi*.,iel of ijjpie-. nor fetched home the coirs, noi pullcJ an oai, nor id-fed a sail, nor saddled a hni'se. iioi c.mieu home a bag of apples from town hy MX-ii'leon, noi wocded thc gulden, nor been lost in llio woods, noi mused a fiiend, nor- b.uked his shin, noi heen thankful for a fiee-lirich, do you think it is likely he will have any thing ��� lo siv lo jou and nie that \.ili be worth listening to?"- , ' Iirtlic last i"esort, continues the writer, xho whole rjuestion of poetic feeling and of ai't rests on social conditions: '"The flue aits aie neaily lel.itcd to the industii.il aits. And at present we can have no widospiead national i'ltcioat in the fine aits, bec.ni*1>;.we have no national iiidusliiil arts.' Tlie mdusuial aits oi a people, dike the fine arts,, can only be caiued on hy 'men .who tire free and honest -and intelligent, and thcre- foie happy. Tor it is quite true, as Wil* 'liiim'Monis said, that art' is the expression of man's pleastuo in his work. Hut the men who engage in our industiics today cannot he happy. For onr industrial aits���or, rathoi, our industries and manufactures whieh ought- to .be industrial arts���arc cairicd on by two classes 'of people", the woikmon. and the capitalists. Now, all workmen, under modern industrial conditions, are thc slaves of their employers; while capitalists, however generous their impulses, nre of necessity partakers of dishonest gain." But while it is true that ait and poe try can only conic lo their full development under social conditions that en- comage" their production, it is also tine that great ait has'been ciealeil even undei the most hostile environment. Ai t, declines Mr."Caiman, "is not, an idle amusement;.it is a natuial phenomenon, as Significant as war. as bcaiilif*il a^ihe "STni-thern-lights, and as useful a-r?*?t- tiicity."" Ho'says further: ' - "Of nil forms'of human activity ilri-- the most,.exacting, as-it is pciha'ps the ���mo:"de!.ghtful._lAnd-the-de">ia"!d--*.\ h'ie-i ��� cieative "output makes on all thc eucr- tries is just as great and'just as exhausting as that mado by any other worthy occupation worthily followed. If poctiy w're a purely-artiiici.il pastime, fit only lo ongage the minds of college youths and schoolgirl5, certainly it would not br- woi lh. our. serious discussion. But if it ia what -histoiy declares it to be. tho Voica of revelation, the finest utterance of human wisdom, the basis of 10- ligion,- and the rOlace of son owing mortals, -if- if traehcs us how to live,* how'" to*" be happy, .how lo love lhe fight and .'tj.jj.friitc the !'.��� iti- tiful'und jic-icph'h the (i'he, if it*illii:iiiii.'i tb�� "dark prol'li'iiif* * of exL-tenco and heart-ins us lij.o'i thu diilicult path to pi'ife'ctioii. then surely we ma""f well considor1 how bent to encourage it and pro- servo it, and make it- influence prevail iu the ��omr.io'.iwea!th." Theory of an Old Angler. Nine out of ten iislieimen believe that when trout will not *bilo thoy are already goige'd with food; hut this is not the case.' liven dining tlio otf days of thc trout, one will be caught now and then, but always on bait, and if the angler could see ilie fish when it takes the bait he would notice that it does it in a veiy poifunctory manner. The tiout does not moi o out of its way in doing it, but mechanically takes tlio hail m much after tlie fashion of the sucker. Then, if the liout fishciman who makes a catch at such a timo will open thc tiout and examine its stomach ho will be suiprised to lind that instead ol the fish being goiged with food, and hence indiflcicnt to more, its stomach has not a trace of food in it. This will be found to be the case invariably, and disposes of the belief'that when trout refuse to bite it i3 because they arc already full of food. It would naturally bo supposed that tho best time to catch trout would be when they are hungry, but it will he found that when they nre rising best to the fly, or are taking bail with tho most avidity, there is plenty of food in their stomachs, frequently so much, in fact, that it would seem impossible that any more could be taken in. Why this should be no one can tell. It is a fact, nevertheless, whicli any fisherman may easily verify by investigation. CHERRY'S BAD HEART Pu.t him " down and out" ad "Far as woi-kln**** was concerned, Hut Dr. Ajj-new's Cure for tho Heart made a man o'f him again. Heart weakness and fainting spells were so acute that Wm. Cherry, of Owen Sound, Ont, had to quit work. His sufferings were very great. One day n. druggist "slid : "Cherry, try Dr. Agnew's Cure foi the Heart; it must he a good thing for it his a large sale." He did so, and took live hottlcs. To-day he takes his place beside the olher workmen, and does as big a day's work as any of them, thanks to this great r��mcdy. _ Sl The Bishop and the Drummer. The Riglit Rev. Thomas Underwood Dudley ot Kentucky, one of the eminent bishops in thc Episcopal Chuich, enjoys a good sloiy as well as if he did not we.u* the cloth. lie tells this one on himself*. A number of yeais ago he vv.13 going by tinin to one of lhe smaller towns ot his. diocese lo hold services, lie was en- joyiiij; .i eij--.ii in thc smoker, -nd upon the seat facing him was a- veiy laige valise, containing his r-leiie.tl vestments. A drummer silLing back of him, uolioing his jaunty liaveling cap, leaned fdiwaul and enquired: '"Tr.u el ing man,'eh?" .- "Yes," nnswcied the bishop. "TVh.il houso d'ye lepiesent':" "Tho biggest house in tho woi'd.'' "Shillito'st" (the hngcst house in Cincinnati) iiokcd the diummer. "Bigger than that.", '���il.irsh.iU Keid!" ' "Bigger than lliat." "A. 1*. Stew art's?" - "Bigger yet." "Well, what house'is it? Those are, thc host I know."- r ' "I jepie.sent, sir,"'said the bishop, im- prr-ssi*. ely, "the house of God." The salesman gave a gasp, then glancing at the mammoth valise, exclaimed: "Woll, all I've got lo say is, you cairy a pretty full line of.samplea.**- *'..* " '"**' , -ff2SHS�� - LOST FORTUNE Of health throuf-h believing what . sho road���tostocl tho claim���proved the truth. South American Kidney Cure cured a. violent type of Kidney Dlsoaso.y Mrs. Norman Cooke, of Delhi, Ont., doctored for 'Kidney disease u.Uil she was tired���tried plasters and a do-en lenieclica before she tried South American Kidney Cuic. When she had used one bottle she lm! deiived great benefit. Alter takincr si*- bottles she was cured. She was so great a sufferer at tunes that she couldn't he do.vn���was totally irifit for household dimes. South American Kidney Cure gives relief m six hours. , 54 A Western farmer in tho flood district watching his lnortgflgcd-hoiiso'and Iwin fall over and float down thoi river," 10- ai.nkcd: "Tliat" repie-i'iits my1 Hoatiug aidebtedneas."���Now Yoik "Tiibune." Kitty ��� D'ye r'aly lovo nie, Diuny?i Dennis���-Po bi love yo? Faith, Kitty,' Oi'd do anny thing to live wid to llio rist av me loifc, nven if Oi knowed 'twould kill me this minute.���lliiUdelyuia, Ticjb." i'_ . : ^ The Future Foretold. A visitor to K'ehmouJ overheard the following co'i.fi���Jiiosi between his host- C2i and the cook. '���I'ie-��ae, 3li��' ("jivdou. may I git off nex' Sundt-y to 2o to thc fun'ra! of a friend.of ������imeV' ���'Ue-ct Sunday? XVby, Kliza, this is j snly Mon day���ill ty -.voulda't put a fun- ciai off for a-week;" "Y'as'in"���iespeetfuUv���"but dey hi... to. 'c-AUE'e he am'Udea'd yit." '"i-Tot dead! I am' positively ashamed of jou! Ilovr-c.in yt-u be io heartless as to ^arrange to attend ihe funeral of a. man' who is still litiug? Why, he may noVdU'vt all!" ������yas'm,-.but ha Will; dey , ain't .no hope." " . "It is impossible to say that. Eliza; tho beat'doctors are often inist.'l.rn. But, even if they do know a ease to be hopeless, they cannot pi edict, thc exact time a! a man's death with such a cji- tninty that the fune.al can be arrange I ->o long beforehand." "Yas'm'"���with calti kESiirnnce���-"but ho will be Vu?icd nex* Sunday for nil i!at, uusc *#.'����� rwiu' \o be 'Uins; on 1'ri- Jay'" D. G. Longwoilh of the Cairo "SphlnV declares lhat tho famous I'gypliai Sphinx is rapidly decay.-.ig. Tliis is sa,i lo be the result of Lhe altering climat' of l;gypt,.due to the irrigation of lcceni ycai=. lleietofore, an hour's dowiifnj of,rain.once a year was a novclly ii Egypt. _Thc natives regarded it. *.- 'nilv "due.message of lepfoach fiom the gods The irrigation and the many trees aboul llie Delta, however, have changed Ihi-, Fiitcen to eighteen days' heavy lain fall- now every year on the head of tin Sphinx. The seveie ''khamseen" 'sand stoim follows and cuts into' tho sod deued limestone of the ancient monu mout, whittling it away all over the sui face. Frank Reilly was the victim of a cm i 0U3 accident at Port Coata, Cal., it. cently. lie was standing near a sivile! U> a siding on whieh freight trains geii uially wait for the pas-enger trains tt pass. Ue saw a young lady walking oi tho, siding, and, believing her to be ii dimger, s-c-tieuhited vehemently to' eaust her to bit'".' fiom between the i"ail3. She in her lum, seeing the oncoming fieiglil train, motioned back to him that ho w��- in danger. As the train came ncniei both bceamo tho moio earnest in tlii:'- bhoutiug and gesticulating, while noilh or thought of sle-.piiig oil' the trac'-. Keilly pioved lo bo in the Wiong. Tht fieight, instead of taking iho .sidiug went sliaight thiough. Whilo ho vvv" hlill tiving to cause'lhe young lady tc get out or the way of'supjioscd dantrc! the tiain stiuck him fiom behind, hurl ing him fiom the track nnd breaking hi- right arm in two'places, badly piittint. his head and biuismg his side/ JIo wil' reeo-v cr. Mainly About People. John W. Mackay, the Irish-Ameiican multi-millionaiic, who died lecently in London, hnd a fine tiibule paid to him once hy a friend, "ifnekay," said ho, "is one of (lie few rich men I should like lo know it he weie pooi." A painter agipcd io paint the ire- brevvs crn-snig Llie lied Pea foi u moan uch ni.in who heal hiin down in hio [iiiec. The painting -.how ed nothing but tho sea, and tho p.nntci explained to his ttngiy pntion that the llebievvs had all passed over, and the Egyptians weie all di owned. John XV. Mackay o.icc invited Robert G. lngcisoll to visit llie ComsLoek Mines. As. the cage descended to tho fuiiiaco heat ill tlie bottom ot Ihe shaft of one of (lio mines, Mr. lngcisoll said, g.ioping for nil: "Privately, I always believed theio was a hell -.omewheu*, but f ncvei di earned il could be so hot." A short time ago n Miiikokn man list his wife, and in two week-' after he had laid her bones to lest he got ma,rricd again. A chniiviiri parly a��seiiiblcd and coininoncod operations, when ho went oul ami tiicd to hush up thc ciowd by lolling them that lhey o'.'glit to l.e nsliuiucil to make such a noi.su around a house "iihcic a funeral occiincd ao icccnlly. In the Supreme Court of California it is not uncommon to see a learned justice's shoes on the desk while couit is in session. It is one of the tiite anecdote-, of the California bar that Justice Mcl*'ar- land, silting with his feet on a level willi his head one day, fell over b-ickward; whereupon Chief Justice Ucatty remarked aloud that his learned brother had eeitainly reversed himself in a most astounding manner. In his "Story of the Cowboy" Emerson Dough gives tho following iiuarlerly report of a foreman to an Eastern i-.ineh- ovvuer, which constituted his most serious labor of the year: "Deer Sur, wc have brand 800 caves this loundup we have made sum hay potatoes is a faie crop. That Inglisliman yu lef in chaige at the other camp got to fresh an' wc had to kill him. 'Nothing much has hap- ened sence yu lef. Yurs truly, Jim." One day at a reheat sal, XV. S. Gilbeit obseived a girl crying, and asked her lhc cause of it. Between her sobs she declared she had been insulted by one of the costumeis, who had said to her: "You are no better than you ought to be." Gilbert immediately looked icry sympathetic, and said: "Well, you aie not, aio you, my dcai?" To winch she leplied piompllv: "'Wliv, of coui*,c not. Mr. Gilbeit." "Ah, Unit's all light," he said, and she wont away pcifcctly comforted. In the midst of a bailie", a former Mai- quis of Townsend saw a (hummer killed by a cannon ball, which se.uteied Ins hiains in every diipction. ills eyes w eio at once fixed on tiie ghastly object whicli seemed to engios, his thoughts A" supeiior ofllcer, obs'i-iving lum, supposed he was intimidated ".it the sight, and addiessed him in a manner to chcei his spiiits. "Oh," said Ll'o young m.ur'Ui-. with calmness, "I am not flightened. 1 am puzzled' lo make out how any man vv ith such a rfuanlilv of brain-* ever camo lo be here!" * " " Of a cerlain bishop, famous as about the plainest man in England, the Liverpool "Post" tells tliis-pleasing tale: One day, as thi3 homely paison sat in an omnibus, ho was amazed by the persistent staring of a fellow-passenger, who piesently unburdened himself as follows: "You're a parson, ain't you?" "Well, yes; that is "so'." ".Look 'ere, parson, would you mind conlin' 'ome with mo to oco my wife?" Imagining the wife was sick and needing assistance, the clergyman, at great incon-' venience to himself, went with thc man. On arrhing at the house the man shouted to his wife to'come dovvnstaiis, and. pointing to the astonished parson, said, with a giin of delight: "Look 'e 'eie, S.iiriy. Yer said this moinin' as I wur llio hugliest chap in England. Now, just yer look at-this bloke!" The Chicago "Inlcr-Ocean" prints this true sloiy oi'the way a baby in Chicago telephoned his New Yoik lplalives when ho was only ten minutes old. Tho telephone bell rang in the homo of ii New Yoik man, who, whether he is al home or abroad, keeps hio linger on the pulse of the markets of the woi Id. Half awake, and dimly conscious lh.it it was ALIVE COAL TRICK. Clio Exilol'Inient Tc-nclicn an Importati* iMlttll-ltl 1.11 W. Gff O one would suppose that it i" i\ possible to hold a glovviu--- coal ��! on a piece of- linen or cctton without bin nine; tho cloth, but that such can be done is easy for anyone to prove, and at tho bame time the experiment teaches an Important natural law. Every child knows that the telephone and telegraph wires arc made of copper because that metal conducts-sound well. It is also a good conductor of heat and electricity which is only another form of hnat. If a poker Is heated in the fire ou pick up a cloth to hold the outer ond, although It has not been in the lire, because experience has taught you that the heat, is conducted through the metal froni"-Us Sra to the outer end." This experiment with the naming coal Is Dased upon (The Linen is ia no Way Injured by * /7 w the Glowing Coal. thte principle, and the additional ona that linen and cotton are poor conductors of heat. Talte a globe of copper and draw a piece ot cloth tightly over it, so that there is not a wrinkle at the top. If the linen or cotton is closely woven the trick is all the more certain. Then, holding the cloth tightly ia-place, you can safely put a glowing eoal on top of the cloth, and .while it burns fiercely, the cloth will not even be scorched. The reason Is that the great conductivity of the copper draws the heat of the coal before it can burn the cloth. Do not try this experiment; with a good handkerchief al lirst, for if the cloth is not lightly drawn it ���may burn; but take some worthless piece of linen or muslin, aud after you are certain of. your experiment you can astonish your friends who do not know the seciec. long past midnight, lie st.iggeiod to the 'phone. "UpIIo!" he said. Over the wire came thc plaintive waiL ot a new-born babe, ."llimah!" he ciied. "It'�� Jack's long-disLanco telephone! The baby has" come! S.'y, moLliei, mother, get up quick! You are a giandma!" "How do you know?" ciied a. woman's'voice, ex- eifedlyr ''Why; tlie baby himself U telephoning fiom Chicago!" ''Well, fathci," said another \oice thiough the telephone, "what do you Hunk of your fir-,t grandson? Just ton minute*, old, and announcing his arrival lo hia Xcvv Yoik gianilpaienls! He is lying on a pillow, and whenever he sei cams I put the 'phone to his mouth." "HELPLESS WITH MS" "South American Rheumatic Cure, Mr. Barker says.v-orkcci a tri'-'acle In his case, and he expr-ossas hi3 gratitude in no uncertain sound. Mr. S. Barker, of 9 Suffollc Place, Toronto, writes:���"It is only fair to my sufienng neighbors to publicly express niy,,grcat gratitude for thc almost miraculous cure from Rheumatisi 1 effected in mc by thc u-e of South American Rheumatic Cure. For three months I was next door to helplessness, and my sufferings'were intense, bul two bottles of this great remedy cured me. It, relieves in eis lours. . 52 The Wrong* Station. It had taken considerable persuasion lo induce Lhe old lady lo take a scat in 1111 automobile, but linally she hnd consented to do so because she was anxious lo touch {ho bedside 01 her sick grandchild in n village "some twenty miles away, the last trniu for whieli lunl left some ten minutes hefoie'she -mired at the station. The big automobile was lo pass thiough Hampton, the village wheie lhc sick giaiuleiiild lived. Kvcry I lung v\cnl lovely until iho almost llying vehicle, in attempting to pisv u wagon loaded with hay which occupied the entile center of the road, went ll'*.- uxpi-ciciily i'lto the ditch, and rather violently dcpo-iitcd its occupant-> in an adjoining held. liecoveiing fiom the shock, though soi'iic'Miat cfiufiisc'il fiom i lie ial her unusual method of,alighting fiom n. \chicle, tlie old l.uly ��� .Hiked of thc chagiiucd chaiilleui: "Is this ir.impton?" "Xo, ma'am," he managed to gasp, ''th*s is an aceide'ni." - "Oh, denr!'" said the ox-occupant jet" the -.chicle, "then I hadn't ouglitcr hav.o .got out here, had 1?"���"Autoniolylo" Slngazinc." Small Hoy���I'.i, what i�� dohoinii-r? Father���Why, it's.cutting the horns oil ���attle. 3loy "(after lcfic'clfng)���l'a, what s detailing? l-'ather (growing uritat-jd) ���What in the world aie*you asking io nany questions for? Boy���Well, I saw n the paper, thc other day, where Gen* .���rah Chalfcc detail*-*! a whole squad,"of lis men.���Detroit "Free Press." ��� , lhe Sonjj of Llio Tup. Spilling! "'- ' Spining! Spining! - _ Round and round I go., Twirling, tripping, dipping, Ghdclitig lo and fro; Cutting grace- full circles, Then, with t-udden start Right and left go bounding ��� Wall I know my art! Life to me is maMonl Britbe as bird on wing With each revolution, bark the song I sing! Humming, humming, humming round and round I go! Ob, I* , lead a gay life, g-lid- - * _ - ��� ing to . ' 'fro ��� 1 Maggie Wheeler Ross in Little Folks, 'i^hoso I"uun*. C.iilflrou. ^ "Say, mamma," said four-year-bid Tommy, "let's play I'm an awful- looking old tramp. I'll come around, to the back door and ask for a piece of pie and yo*a get scared and give if to me." * . -.. Mary and ' Martha, the three-year- old twins, were busy with their paint boxes! "Why, you've painted your doll's face blue all over!" exclaimed Mary.' "Yes," rejoined Martha, "I'm pietending she's got; the blues." a> * * "Teacher says that rubber trees grow wild iu Floridi." said a seven- year-old school girl. "Well, s'pose they do," rejoined her brother, aged _five. "Nobody ever has any_use_for TTihbors'"tilI it rains and then it's too wet to go out in the woods and Gather them." * �� a Mabel, aged five, while visiting her 'aunt in a low, marshy part of tha countiy, contracted malaria, and wai qulte ill on reaching home. Not long afterward her mother had a chili. "I can't understand why you should Tbavo symptoms of malaria, living on such high ground," said the doctor. "Oh," spoke up Mabel, "1 guess mamma must have inherited It from ���me!" MOTHER DOE AND HER FAWft I'Icture of Aiilnml "-!"������ In *���><> Woodi-�� Imrlir-i Hor Little Onril. Hark! What's tia'.? Looking intently toward the point, I see two tiny spotted toddlers wading out from the bushes, say�� a writer in Forest and Stream. Not mere tban four or flve feet, but there they are as plain as life can make them. They are certainly not over two or three weeks old, spotted like two leopards, ears so large ���* and awkward looking, their knees haidly seem able to support) their ung-unly little bodies, but happy as the children of the forest only know how "o be when no danger la ���nigh and big mamma is present to .warn and watch over them. But where is mamma? Ah! here. eomes the stately old dame. Fist sho puts only her nose out of rae bushes, looks up and down the stream, sniffs the air, and, seemingly satisfied that all Is well, she slowly and majestlcal- *y walks out In midstream and takes a drink. The little ones by this timd are cavorting like two kittens, splashing the water and making a great deal of noise. Momma is afraid evidently, there is too much noise, for she backs out of the water, and tbe little ones obey her instructions and reluctantly follow. Fortunately there is quite a clearing along the left bank, and slowly and stealthily, backing about ten feet up the hill, I gain a position where I can plainly see mamma and the ba�� bies without being seen or heard. The old lady is quietly feeding, nipping the tenTJer branches with much* relish. The little ones thTnk it is timo for their breakfatt, and to watch them as they pull at their eourco oC nourishment reminds me or a full- ���blooded Jersey cow with a calf. I wonder, If long years ago, there ���was any relationship existing between tho two? The doe is a big female. She weighs ��00 pounds. She wears her spring and summer garment���her red petticoat. The duties of maternity evidently ^gree wilh her, for sbe Is sleelt and fat. Now- marraia compels tlio toddlers to stop eating, and even gives the largest of tne fawns a slight tap on the head to prevent his rtisbes for moro sustenance. This furry tliing_ promises to be a. buck, for lie is determined to get what he wants, but his mother is too quick for him. Sho lears from one side to tbe,other with, the agility that only a deer poss.ec.ses, and now bolh little ones.euUr'iig into the spirit cf the play, run and jump in imitation of their mother. Now the dame runs twenty rods up the hill and the little ones follow. New they all come back pell mell. No sooner have the litle ones reached the water's edge than they repeat llie performance again and again. How proud mamma looks! . Wero there ever two such lovely fawns? Not to her way of thinking. After having run about ten times, they evidently- tire and come up to partake ot the maternal font. I3ut ii.-stmct teaches thai it is not good to eat when so heated from violent exercise, so the mother leads them to water, lets them drink, and .then again tempts them to repeat their, performance of running and ' romping. It strikes me the mother h3s an object in *?iew. ��� Can it be to teach her young to gain strength and -surefooi.- edness?- I think so. Now the two urchins come tumbling down the hillside with an impetuosity that is undeniable. The smaller one of the two is enabled to stop just at the water's edge, but" the baby buck is coming so quick and he has so little control of himself, he tumbles from the embankment and fails with a resounding pplash Into the water, and then begins to bleat exactly like a calf, a;* much as to say: Mamma, mamma, sister pushed mo in the water. Come help me, I am hurt." And now I make my mistake. . Tho entire affair is so .udicrous, I laugh, and that very loud, and then you should see th edoe. One quick look in my direction, one. quicker jump into obscurity, a call for her offirpring, and that settles it. n*-U"jL!"s.I.ettcr.- .Iliirkn .if tlin '11110 Lady. No lady should turn and look bo- lilnd her In the street; the girl who does so directly courts unplea-,ant attention*: from men who are pasMug Unless fhe Is a hn-te---, or ac member of the family a lady need not rise when a gentleman is introduced to 'her. When vlf-itlng confoim to the rules of the hounC in v.'hicu you are staying. A visitor should always bear this 13 an ind. When shoppinp; Jo not order assistants about; a lady never forgc-tsito b-< thoughttul for tho--c who serve hef. "A mau Is known by the company tie keeps." This applies equally to a ~irt*nian.���Woman's Life. *S(i VV ftlut,'! M,P V.V ���lll[.-l*Ml 'How long does the train -:-d here?" the littlo girl 3sked the brake- man. ����� "Stop here?" asked the functionary; "four minutes. From two-two to two-two." "J wonder," mused the little girl, "if that man thinks he is the whi->t'n?'1 ���Boston Herald. Some people are so busy criticising .the faults of their ric>Y.or.-> that _hey. liave no tfcue to correct their own. "I have a cat that cau read," declared a lady, according to the Buffalo Enquirer. "At any rate she knows (when a letter cores for her." "A letter!" exclaimed her friend, ln astonishment. "Yes, a letter. If you don't believe* It. I will prove it to you. Just wait a moment while I direct one." She left the room and presently re�� turned with a sealed envelope addressed "Miss Pussy, No. Blank etreet, City." This letter was duly, posted. Thc next morning tho postmaa came and soon aftei ward the servant entered with a bundle of letteia. among which was that for Miss Pussy. Placing them near her feline bighnessj on the lloor. Pussy's mlstrcsss said: "Now, Pussy, pick out your letter."* Sui prising enoiig'n. Pussy at" onco showed an interest, and In a moment- had ptialitd aside with her paws tho envelope addic-Ssed to her. "Walt a moment.'\said the mistress "and rfic'll open it." Scarcely had ihe said thi<3 when Miss Pussy (ore open the envelopo, and in a moment was literally devouring the content0���catnip. To irmli the I'lili*** Montli. A teaspoonful of bicarbonate of so* da (common baking soda) in a cup oS boiler] water, used as a mouth-wasbj. four or five times a day, keeps tha baby's mouth clean and sweet. Wash**'. ing night and morning with water i**t wh.ch a small bit ot borax Is placed} is aiso good. It"j--]i*. Scl-ool Teacher���What little boy cao feli me "where is the home of the swallow? Bobby���I kin, please. School Teacher���Well, Bobby? Eobby���The home of the swallow ia the stummick.���Tid-Bils. ' '1 -j ' 'i -J 1 /- Tf.-. ' II HI ��� - *l I ' -J A. :=-e-^.**"*i-s*"'""-'*-*"*^ . ���.���'-w*.. HIIIMlMlflll a.sAn-,-ar-j*.i*....^*.^**."--:j.l-j5r-^JI: mm ���������?;W.--*T~HT- 7i ri- v; BEAUTIFUL 'Xmas _- Cards -,. ..CALENDARS BOOKLETS j-���������-.... ���������,-Something- Kntirely New POI.D OSLY J)Y .C-uiddd Drug 8c Book Co .'...* . . 'a* im >*"���������-' b.~. <*-.,.' *i!A mil '.'1 r.-s ���������-ma'rried: ���������' I'll' .... * ���������-i-Mn-,tr,at't.li,i.;tesiili,.nc('"('.r:-V. QoIkoii r. vj������.:. ;'")fcK'en"-le"J\'vi'..'.' l)V.Liie R'tlv.-W'. C. "���������'���������"- *''1t*dWr."''Il.i������oUl K.' l.ivliiV-i'ton, of - fl- "il* 'Toi-i)ntn:'"'t'o'Jiinet:0:l'vlcn6lilil'(l, of l:iU '.i "'Wi till i peg*. *���������'-" ! ' v "'" '���������''���������' 'N0TES"0Kr'lviEWS ���������ir'*!"'. *i 'itiiin i\ ,i.,:lt v: **"���������':' '. "i . ������������������ Lito~CSta.le\iiine. line's Jor 'Xmasiiiile.senls j.'; ut*13en,'/idi'Ugi't'aiJ(!.v!''i.,'i.'>.*-. '--'���������?��������� , l j-'j:.'.'". if.i'.iM i, ai������s I .'-:-,i on: .}'.) ; ,. --a -.d. .sel.������������������i.-Ht!*?'s.i\'ei34-?'0.l?k*JLlf> *y.V,,.Ui>Pll!i .lV."?-tti1***l*rX.'i-< srriod j'io.il.'.v *������������������,.���������" | -**���������= ^tVilendn-S1Ka(^c3fi'&lsW&-.vfSri. ixhi- (. ������������������J.r, .*l.'l"V y.io.imu t-'ii'i'ij u"; -*!'���������'������������������ ! '������������������"���������mat Bews. ���������Some very pretty view Xmas curds nnd cnleiHl'ir-Jriii show at the Cmiiidii Ding& 13'icik Co. A blazing chimney in the Imperial Bunk building caused a little excitement on Siitui'diiy evening. ���������Cups und Saucers, veiy dainty nnd newest pattei ns always to be seen on shelves of llio Ciuiiidu Ding k Book Co. Mrs. Grant, of Winnipeg, arrived from tlio const on Friday lust on a visit, to her daughter Mrs, \V. M. Lawrence. Nels Kckland, C.P.K. truck foreman hits retnt'iii'd to town. Mr. Kckland has had charge of a crew in the west nil summer. '���������"iiginuer J. Ncclon, Mrs. Neelon unil family aio moving to Ci olden where tliey will in futui-e reside. Mr. Neelon will run an engine on the big hill. An At Home will he held nt the Methodist Pursori'ige on Tuesday livening Dec. Orh. Everybody welcome idmission 25 cents. If yonr nre looking for something new and up to date and ul.-o to lie able lo send through the mail look over the tM.-k'rYfyhe Canada Drug k Book Co. -*���������'"'������������������ i great variety this "-i'i ������;..,li 91" 'I* .lib ���������3-y.r.yf FVknii Moi*rKoii;-"'(7llor ������������������ih'Jll-7������*0nni- *" **B������ffieTiyilr.e,iftt%ttdi%!a-.f^v^f-/lowii. y,esterday. - - ��������� ' -"��������� ��������� 1 ���������si.v; '.S3 fi'-, and they'Vfrill'-hrt.ve ���������-T-r.-ik.fr yemv^jj-ii V. ���������''��������� l.'ifli. i)9*)OOilf -^66k'Stovelfo't'hixl&*-JFi)'i''''pi'icf& ���������'pa'rtic-olirrs'-:n'ppl*^,!-a't'-'' tli6:c h'Si-Sald . office.. , , , '.-~i" -A: : ���������-������������������*��������� o.i*- -ji..-.'-^ v.A s ti -'0-' "' ��������� J ��������� ", .'-Chas. A.' t-jemlin, --ex-pii-triie'c' .ol, British Coluiiibia, will lid tliooppo'siUoii candidate for West'.YiilL'j ,.', ,'/ :. ���������At Bew's Drugstore ynu'-can buy, n. cup and saucer-' bearing -a, view of Revelstoke. ' "'' '" ' Owing to the prevalence of^diph- thei'in at Ladner, 'B. C, the public sohools in that town aie closed. . ��������� ���������Man* "iVasted. who can thoroughly clean brick chimney and stove pipes, apply at this oflice. . Kobt. Gordon, superintendent of the cily waterworks and lighting plant, is about again aftf-i- a week's illness. ��������� Superior quality and style distinguish the ladies silk shirt vvais>ts shewn by C. B. Hume & Co. J. C. Hutchison, who has been ill al" his home for the past two weeks, has" sufficiently recovered to again atlend to business. R. A. Upper, chief license inspector for the Revelstoke Riding was in Gold- fields lust weok iiibpaclii.g -the new " Hotel Jsoithwestern. v ' , - i It is reported that the stuff, of u ��������� dozen men" engaged - about ten-days ago to' work on the Ev'a, have all but three been discharged.' * '' * * '��������� ��������� - . .. . .- ���������-���������..'" Devv Yoik. Mt. Bradley expect-* to return liefore Christinas; i ���������('. B. Hume k Co's. China Department is .filled to ovei (lowing with ' Christmas novelties in fancy Japanese ���������cliitia. .Nothing makes a prettier ��������� or ., more pleasinggifi for Christmas. *' J. A. Ringer returned on Saturday r la*t from Kamloops, htingini- with . -Aiiin a fine deer and a bni* of grou->e - which lie and C. It. Skee.te, shot - during a short trip up the North Thompson last week. Fred Manning left on Friday List for "Ciiinbrobk to attend a ineetin(- of lhe -.-Mountain Lumbering Association, "now being held in that town. .Mr. Mannijig���������iepresented the lievelstoke Lumbering- Co. -of Revelstoke. and returned ktst.evening. .' 5 J. S. Willisou, for the past ten years '-editor-in-chief of the Toi onto Globe. "bii-. lesighed from the editorial charge ^jof the paper and with W. J. Flavelle ".will start an independent Conservative paper in Toronto. The first issue will rtpiiear"in"January. .The.unforturiate man, Chas. Buckle, Conjuring Creek,- who shot bis neighbor. Headcll in a iit of violent insamtv, has been confined TO, the Foi t for tfie la'st'two weeks*:- Latterly;!his 'riodily'rmwer's began to fail'him aridjie, lay on his bed'quitc lielpless until on Wednesday evening deal h ended all bis troubles.���������Edmonton Post. . Aid. Tayloi', went down to Vancouver���������oil���������Saturday evening and retui'ii'sd'jjyestefday accompanied by Mrs.(Taylor,..wlio has been visiting .���������i*v;ijtiiXi'icp,'is|iiJ;X'>ncouver f������r tne Pilst lvvo,-months,. .Miss Christie of Van- co'Uv'et'.'acconipatiiedqMi'S' Tavlor, and 5vvili:b"e' lier-g"ne'st;for%'b"nie time. ,'. I F.l Colitl'i ~0 U-Jllli 9ll .���������)ll[iwouldi..,,.)e. interesljing to know "ivhat'the"cditorLofi!the,Mail s opinion is'bf.'-Mr. Denis-uMiirphy'-now. Last issue' the Mairi'ai'i']y"took"a:fit over Mr. 'Murphy, lion.;' Mt'.':'.\tf elis'.;1 an'd the oilier smaller tiy.in ,the Prior gcivein. ment. Ferhnps the Mail will say that to Wandering "Willie Mclnnes is dyie the prosperity of the Canadian West. Just wait and see. ��������� '. . A woman, whose name is said, lo be Ediin IJow.ud, a passenger-on Friday morning's No. 2, met with what narrowly escaped being n fatal accident," falling through the open trapdoor of a veotibuk'd car while the train was going at a lively rate. That she got otf with only ii broken wrist and several cuts about the head is little short of iniiaculous. The accident .happened about six miles east." of Salmon. Arm. but "she was not inifsed uutiHbe train approached Siciitnous, and -ii-section crew wns sent in search of 'her, finally locating iiei in'a'fa'rni house'iibout two miles lidirTthe "scene".61.' tlie accident.' Sh e wns moved lo. Salmon Arm ar.d later in.lhe day was taken by n freight to the Revelstoke hospital.���������Kmnloops Sentinel. * . ',{, ' ' ,'' Isn't iit a Gem ? the' The following appeared in Kootenay Mail's'lustv issue :'-n-' ' ^*- T,' "The-provincehas nerefhad a belter Chief-i(joinuiisxioner-of1 Lands and Worksithan Hon. XV.- C. Wells. To bis administration j Kevelstoke "Owes, its,,prosperity toil' y and what he hns 'done for Kevelstoke-he has-done or will do for other parts of.the province." According to the editor, of .. the Kootenay Mail "the business men and citizens of this town have sat down and '��������� allowed the Hon. Mr. Wells to conic' in and "to his administration Revelsloke owes its prosperity today." On what grounds does the Mail make this sweeping assertion ? What has the Hon. Wilmer done tor this riding? cHat.'*tJ his administration we owe- our prosperity today." Did His Worship the Mayor, the City.Counciland the,citizens generally not help to some little extent towards the prosperity of the town. Of course not.- the people have only awakened, to the fac,t that we\hav-e'prosperity in Revelstoke, and tho Hon. W. C. SyellBj.was, the .cause' of it/all. . It is .ajjoodojob that.the Mail haa annonuceil.the'fact.���������' When any of*.'cur' citizens ;are asked by a stritit)"er I'or information" a* ' to "the cause 'of all' this ' prosperity, lie can answer in a few* words���������THE HONORABLE WILMER CLEVELAND U'EUlS. . St. Andrew's Nicht. A representative gathering of local Scotchmen and 'heir friends assembled in th" Union hotel on Tuesday evening to celebrate the sixth anniversary in R.'velstoko of Scotland's patron saint ���������St. Andrew. The supper, provided by J. C. Litughton, proprietor of the Union hotel, was a most sumptuous one and contained a number of Scotch delicacies, foremost amongst which was "Haggis," declared by a number of conuossieui"* present lo be equal to anything they had ever tasted.in lhat line before. The tables had been tastefully set under the direction of Mrs. II. A, Brown mid were much admired, while the supper was served in a most eillcient and up to-date manner which left nothing to be desired. Afler full justice had been done to the most excellent supper, W. E. Mc Laiighlin, president of St. AiidrewV Society, who] occupied the chair, after a few opening remarks appropriate to th* occasion, proposed the toast ot "The King," which was hearl-ly responded to by the entire company singing "God Save the King." The following greetings which had been received from and sent to sister societies were then read : Iroin Uojsland���������"Guid luck tac oor Brlther Scots on the main line. Tlie roarln game is on." St. Andrew's Society. From Vancouver���������"The Scots o" the Terminal City, send kind greetings tie the lads o' the heather ainaug the Heelauds o' the Wild West." C. H Alaclauly. Preildent St. Andrew's Society. From Nelson���������Au invitation to the President and mombers of the Revelstoke St. Andrew'*. Socle > to attend St. Andrew's anniversary in Nel-jOn. To Kamloops��������� "A bleiamg on the choorie gang Wha dearly like a drain or sang." To Nelson��������� "Ireedoin an' v/husky gang thegilher, Tak nit your dram" To Ross] and��������� '���������WI' farlso' cake an' stoups o' nappy. We hope your weel an' uiiuahappy." "Nan curling yet, but we'll meet >e later." To Winnipeg��������� "Hoo easy can the barley bree, Cement a quarrel. It's aye the cheapest lawyer's lee, t.yne taste the barrel." To Vancouver��������� "Lang may we lire, lang may we love, An' lang may -we be happy, " Au' may we aever want a glass, Weel charged wi' generous nappy." To Sandon��������� "May graveli roun' his blather wrench. An' go'itB torment him inch by inch, Wha twistt his gruntle wi' aglunch , O' sour disdain, Oot on a glass o' vvhusky punch, Wi' honest men." -.Toasts .were.then drunk to "Bonnie Scotland." "The Press." "The Leaned ���������Professions.'' '.'The- Ladies," and "Our Host," interspersed by songs from 'Messrs., Lawrence, Barber, LeMaistre, Murphy, Dr. Cross and-Dr. Carruthers. Song and story . then^ followed each other 'in rapid "s'licces-'ibtv everyone present contributing' in" one way or another to .the evening't-enterlttinment .which was keptnip till--the wee' sma' hours".'and appropriately brought to a close with the singing, ot ."Auld Lang Syne" and "God Save the King." ,' OUR MOTTO :���������Smalt Trodts and Quick Return-!. CRESSMAN'S Are You Ready for Winter 9 ? "<&!* How About Those Rubbers and Overshoes If you want them, do you know where to get them ? Do you want anything in the DRYGOODS, MEN'S FURNISHINGS, HOUSE FURNISHINGS Or BOOTS AND SHOES Linos You certainly want . Good Groceries Come to Taylor Bros. & George Limited WHY? Because not only is their Merchandise ofthe very best,- but their prices are by far themost. reasonable. If you doubt it, come and convince yourself. TAYLOR BROS. & dEORdE Limited. Word was received last week of ��������� the death in Engftind of W. G. Mitchell- Innes, who was well known in mining circles in North East Kootenay. ~ ��������� Lidieg Dress Skirts perfectly tailor made in every respect and of excellent quality in black and (?rey. We have been told again and again that their equal is not shewn in the city, C, B. Hume k Co. Robert ..Belshaw.. was, killed, at Michel B. C. on Tuesday, in one of the rooms in the Frank coal mines, by coal falling on him. He laaves a wife and a large family. ���������C. B. Hume k Co. ire showing and giving values in new umbrellas for ladies' and gents', in their Christmas stock of umbrellas, the values are wondprfiil. Cull and see how reasonably yon can buy them, ��������� nr. of. 44 Far Reaching* Influence. > eLD-FASHIONED Indian stories, the dime novels of yearn back which were within the reach of all the boya, were an Important,.factor ln build- In* up the great West," said a typical "Weiterner. ''The.M" novel-* used to circulate in a neie-hhorhood till they had been read by every boy and had fallen to pieces through handlln-f. They flred the ambition of the young-stern, set them to practising shootln-c and riding, and sent many of them to the West In search of adventures. Some soon ���������returned to rhelr homes, oth������rs became bad m*-n and tverr; killed In time, "but the g*r������at mass of them, too proud ta return home, created the 'vljrorous, wideawake population of our Western States. I have talk#4 to hundreds of our Western plonflers aToout the causes wdiJch broujrht them, "-rent, and a majority of them admit tbat -dime i ovela 'had-more to do wltk It than anythlnjr else." Good For B-jjbi, " .'Tourist '(after' his first 'drink',������tt "Bloody Oulch whisky)���������Thunder, an& lightning!''--'-Gimme' a- chaier.'i'.a'ulcltl Bartender" (disdainfully)���������Wot d' ymt want���������water? Tourist���������No; l'tweed oU!. ���������"Puck." We Are ..Settled In Our New Stand on Mac kenzie Avenue, next to the Hume Block. McCullough Creek Placers. J. T>. Sibbald, of .Revelstoke, who is in the cily on .mining business, states t hat the prospects of the Big Bend country for the -next .year are good. Not only is the lumbering industry booming but there is a marked revival of placer mining,and besides the companies already operating several new concerns will be going in next spring. Mr. Sibbald is secretary treasurer of the Revelstokejand McCullough Creek Hydraulic Mining company, which was incorporated this fall with a capital stock of $125,000. This company, which is composed of Bevelstoke business men, intend working the Ophir placer iease, w ilch they hold, on McCullough creek. Owing to litigation, the Ophir, which holds by leasejtll the water rights on ���������McCulldugh=cfeek7was-idle-from-188a till 1898, when it was sold by the supreme court to an English gentleman \\ ho never attempted any practical mining. ������������������' ��������� '' ' All that tlie'present company have done so far has been to put on two men prospecting at a point, immediate* ly above thc old workings.'in two days lhey txik'otit 8126 in coarse gold, and this gold Mr. Sibbald' luis' with him, forming,a most interesting,, exhibit. After prospecting thc ground-covered by llie lease as thoroughly as possible tbe compnny were satisfied thnt they hnd got hold of a good thing, nnd me now making preparations lo work the property on an extensive scale by hy- d ran I icing the banks as well as turning up the gravel of the creek bed. The gold runs ������18,70 to the ounce. The pmchase price paid by - the company was gfK.C'JO, of which $.~)8,3.*3 was, in fully paid up shares.���������Nelson News. Land Registry Act. ���������Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, in Block 48, in Town of Revelstoke, B.C., Map 636 B. ... A CERTIFICATE ol indefeasible Title to the Rbovc property will be issued to Frank Bernard Lewis on the Bit'i day ol February, .v. D., 1903, unles-j in the meantime a vai id. objection thereto be made to me in writing by a person claiming an estate or interest, therein or in any purt thereof. " H. F. MACLEOD, - District Registrar. Land Registry Office, Nelson, B. C. 17th Novembor, 1902. CITY RESTAURANT Under the management of Mbs. and Miss Cowie ... WE HAVE OPENED UP A large and yaried_5tock of Ch ristmas Cards, and Calendars, Limoges, China and Doric Ware, including Souvenir Cups and Saucers (bearing i*iew of Revelstoke) * Five O'CIock Tea Sets, etc. Fountain P.ens from $1.50 to $7 each* .Perfumes in pretty Cut Glass ,. Bottles. SALTER BEWS, Phfti. B. Druggltt nnd Stationer, ���������R. J. Bourne is advertising bar --ainsin Boys'Suits. Half Price is the rule for the month of December. Bourne Bros.' old stand at the depot, Monday's Vancouver World antinun* ces tbat Theodore Lild--ate has at Inst f-ot control of Deadman's I-daiid, upon which he proposes to erect 11 large saw mill. A h'ftad-on collision'occured yesterday on the Canadian Northern nfinr Fort Francis, between a light engine and a freight train. Fireman Ficrnfly of the light engine was killed.. ���������(/, 11. Hume & Co. nre offering special good bargains in Boyt"' ready to wear elothing, special because prices are much below usual 'askings and good because they are reliable in every respect. Boy's $3.75 two - piece" suits for $2.05, boy's" $4.25 two'piece suits for $3.50, boys' $6.00 three piece suits for 91,93, boys' $7.50 three piece suits for $0.50. OPEN DAY AND NICHT . MEALS AT ALL HOURS FRONT STREET ���������$ Two doors cast of the /Sip Revelstoke Furniture Co. ^* rRCSH ovmns aftcr the isth. ^ ((^-tl^^)--^^t^^*-^^"^^-^@t^^-^^*-^(^ OUR NEW PHOTO STUDIO Ne.-tf to R.* IIOWSON'S Furniture Store, is making both Mlninliirc Photos and the regular larger style-. Cabinet Photos in the popular platlno tones at reasonable prices. Our Mantello Cabinet u (4.00 per dozen. P-me I'retty Mountings for our Photo Hroacnes, Watch Charms, Lever and Dumb Hell Cuff Unka, Scarf Fln������, ice. These arc suggested as very acceptable Christmas Gilt*. I also makedifferent sizes ol Plain Photo Iluttons and I copy from any Picture. Bring small children for sittings either In tha forenoon or not later'than two o'clock la thc afternoon. Sunshine Is not necessary. HOWARD KING, PHOTOGRAPHER. Revelstoke, B.C. CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF REVELSTOKE *"- ' . t ��������� WATER AMD LICHT DEPARTMEI4T Accounts,for the November service arc now due and payable at the City Clerk's Office. It is requested th'at'-all payment*- be made by the 20th inst. H. FLOYD, Collector. Dec 4th 1002. .... Built to Order Garments .... For Ladies and Gentlemen Are cut to individual measures and constructed by the most expert Tailors. Only hand labor of the very best can produce a well-shaped collar and give to the shoulders and chest the proper moulding. On this depends the fit and shape of the garment and the permanence of that shape. OUR COATS Will not develop those unsightly draws and wrinkles all along the shoulders and down the front which so beautifully and unmistakably adorn all the ready-made store clothes you can buy at one half the tailor's price:, Suits Suit from Drttss Suits we are offering at... Trousers, all the way from $15 to $35 25 to 50 4 to 12 l.adleb' Ralnurouf Coatss $14 to *3o Overcoats and Rainproof coats '. Ladies' Tailor-made -nits Ladies' Skirts Ladies' Skirtn $15 to $35 16 to 75 6 to 25 .We Carry the.L������rxest Stock,- British Columbia.' j; B. Cressman, Art Tailor i!.'* ������>>j*ri������J'*'^>j-������j������^---j������j������>J*^^ SUITS FOR BOYS AT HALF PRICE | $7 Suits for $3.50.. $3.50 Suits for $1.75.* $5 Suits for $2.50. $2.50 Suits for $1.25 $ $4 50 Frieze Overcoats for $2 25 EDWARD J. BOURNE, jj J[ Revelstoke Station. '" Bourne Bros.'Old Stand.-.' J[ i! J^,.:.:^:,,:!:..:.*^*.,.;-,,:.,-*. .*���������---.������������������ I (|^(^(^(M)(^(^(^^^llp(^)(M)(������) SIBBALD & FIELD, A-CH-E-rsr-TS .fo-k. Real Estate <"!. P. R. TOWNSITE, MARA TOWNSITE. GERHARD TOWNSITE. . -CAMBORNE TOWNSITE,/!, ��������� Canada Permanent ic Western "CI"J 4 "MPT a T * ' Canada Permanent ic Western -' "���������".- - ��������� ." ' Fill ANLlAL-l Canada Mortgage Corporation. ' V. . * '���������"���������, J,*,i' *^*-'"k*-*' ( colonial Investment and Loan Company. ' ��������� -'',.." . ("Sun Fire. - - Caledonian Kire' Atlas Fire. ( InCIIVinna Canadian Flre. Mercantile Kire. Northern Fire.- I HOUI mIIvC -I Guardian Fire. Manchester Fire. Great West Life. -1 , I Ocean, Accident and Guarantee. Confederation Life = (.Canadian Accident Assurance Co. Connecticut Fire ( COAL FOR SALE, .. HOUSES FOR SALE AND RENT. I CONVEYANCINQ.. ' I CHAS. M. FIELD. J. D. SIBBALD, Notary'Public. REVELSTOKE. B. C. Cheap Bedroom Suites, Dresser Stands, Tables, Chairs, Etc A CARLOAD OF B JUST ARRIVED. R. HOWSON & CO.S. Call In and Examine This New Consignment of Furniture S. McMAHON, General Blacksmith. Wagon Maker, Ete. Dealer in. CHATHAM WAGONS, WM. GRAY & SONS PLOWS, COPP BROS., PLOWS, CULTIVATORS, SEEDERS, &0. Douglas Street, REVELSTOKE, B. C. I HAVE IT I. The largest stoc������ of the latest WATCHES, CLOCKS, RINGS, SILVER WARE, CUT GLASS, FASHIONABLE JEWELRY, Etc. Hy many years' experience enables me to buy goods at the right prices, enabling me to sell to the public at reasonable prices. J.* GTCTZr BA.K/BBR-. WATCH REPAIRING A 8PECIALTT.