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Ttli.'-'\nastaaaaastaaaaaaa\nLadies' New Belts, Ctllan,\nDutch Collars, Jabots, Netk\nRuching 6r Blouses at\nCampbell Bros.\nSubscription price $1.50 per yser\nt*\nJ hn Milton Brown, AH Aootd, Berths\nBltnoett snd Dell Blsneett, ohainpiouton\nbucking bone tud all-around riden ol\ntbe world, who baave itiaied t challeng\nto ride againtt tn; one lot (1,000.\nTheae people sre kaiown throughout\nthe weat tor their ili'l snd daring, tnd\ntheir win k in Biaon pictures hu caused\nmany thrill* ot admiration among aud\nienoait, John Milton Brown wit identi\nti. al with the 101 Ranch for three yean,\nand the Roundup C a. two yeart.\nArt Aoord rode the thiee most viciotii\nbucking hortet in the world, snd it thi\nonly mtn who baa ever conquered Steam\nboat, a man-killing equine. Acord rode\nthit animal three timet.\nBertha Blanoett, the feminine member\nof the quartet, is s graceful equesirinne,\nand won the world't championship in\n1904,1906 and 1910. She was connected\nwith the 101 Ranch for three yean.\nHer huaband, Dell Blancett, wat with\nthe 101 Ranch for several yean snd it\nknown >s the belt all around rider ia the\nworld.\nTlieso people think no more of roping\nsaddling and riding a vicious, biting\nkicking, bu king horse than ordinaiy\neat .:'.'\u2022 - of h , ...:ing 'ho olnlt.-B\nan aniuscmt u*rk, Vio >\u25a0> in ia thoii'\naiand battles with tit equine enemy, and\nfull onnlidence in. their, avhilii.y, has dev\neloped a feeling of indifference, to tha\ndangen of their calling. Thit absolute\nabandon and diaregard of iic-seual dang,\ner has made Biann tilins the talk of tht\npicture loving public, for it ia only iu\nBiaon him. that one can tee hurtet baaing\nridden at break neck tpeed, up snd down\ndsngerour cliffs, dashing through milling\ntorreuti, etc.\nThese pictures srs regularly shown at\nthe City Hall.\nBOARD MEET\nYearly Report Submitted at Meeting\nFriday\nFAREWELL SERMON\nTO-MORROW\nRev. Mr. McGillivray\nLeaves Local\nPulpit .\nTHE EDITOR\nUNDER OATH\nIs Asked to Disclose\nIdentity of Correspondent\nTHE POLICE\nThe most notable event in sporting\ncircles lest week was the defeat of\nScotland lay the Piters in a football\n(aim-. It seems that Scotland i\u00ab going\n'lack in the old game. The week before England anil Wales took their\nmeasure and now to let the kingdom\n\u2022 if Fife lieat Scotland is the limit.\nThe Fifers presented a nutty appearance in blue and while sweaters, hut\nheir playing was not in keeping with\ntheir neat appearance their ploy being\nvery ragged, in fset lioth teams play\ning such a rugged game that no one\nplayer can lie pointed out more than\nmother, th* score 3 2 was an excellent criterion of the game,\nThe principals of the Murray-Thomp\nson mutch are hard at work training\nfor their bout which comes off on May\nPay day. Mnrrays is not very well\nknown in Cumlierland but 1ms quite a\neputation in Scotland where lo hails\nfmai Having wrestled in various\nThe annual meeting of the Board nf\nDirectors of the Union and Comox\nDistrict was held in the Council\nChambers on April 8th.\nPri'sialent, Mr Abraina took the\nchair.\nTlie Auditors report wu submitted\nsa follows;\nTotal Receipts for the year I87R4.60\n\"' Expenditure \" \" \" 8154.66\nBalance on hand \" \u2022< \" 627.94\nAfter the report was read the pre\nsident declareil all offices vacant and\nelection wss proceeded with bs follows;\nPresident J. Abratna\nVicePres W. Willard\nTree Ia. Mounce\nSec'y F.J. Dulby\nDirectors, Dr. Gillespie, G. Parnham, 8. Magnone, vice Mr Bickle re-\ntireing, to which are added the two\ngovernment appointees;\u2014H. Mounce\nami J. Horbury\nMr W. E. Lawrence acted as chair-\nShort Meeting Held\non Thursday\nLast\nMany citixens of Cumberland in ad-\nilitiou to the congregation of the Presbyterian church will sincerely regret\nthat the Rev. I). McGillivray, for a\nnumber of years in charge of the Presbyterian church hr re, ia about to leave\nthe city aud will preach hia farewell\nsermon in the church where he hat\nconducted service for tV put aix years,\ntomorrow night.\nIn loeing Mr. McGillivray, the\nchurch ia losing a forceful and con.\nvincing speaker and an earnest worker\nin the Master's cause.\nMr. McGillivray will leave at once\nfor his old home in Nova Scotia where\nhe will carry with liim tbe heat wishes\nnot only of hia old congregation but\n>f the citizens generally.\naaaaa nawmg ...\u25a0\u2022- \u2014 \u2014 t\n.ornament against sonic of the best man\u201ef the meeting snd Mr. Jno. Wier\nSeveral of those who aro gaii\nthe Eagles'Ball on the 17th\ncalled at ili>. oH'ico to enquire if\nTact that hummer tail corns are\npolaory on thai occasion. It i\nand a man a fret- to wear\nhaa\nlint\nIu speaking to Mr Harrison, our Iocs)\nlegal light, regarding liquor licences etc..\ntome mention wu made regarding statements contained in a letter signed 'M.D'\nappearing in the paper of the 8th, Inst,\nwhich Mr Harrimn eharactsriasd u ab\naolutely false, and thst he had no know\nledge of any secret meeting of the licent\ning Board, or Police Commiasioneri; thai\nhn never attended tucha meeting, not\nhu he ever represented the Unioi\nBrewing Co. of Nanaimo at una meeting\nboard of either Police or licenie commit\ntioneri, he alto mentioned that it wu up\nto 'M.D' to get buty snd try and collect\nthe 1200 00 referred to in the lut ittua\nuf the \"Cumberland Newt.\"\noen in the welter division in Scot-1 as secretary,\n'and. He is young strong and lias a\nlarge knowledge of the game, and\ni mild bear watching. Thompson our\nocal ttxpummt. of the grappling ail. is\n.inio goor himself lining regarded in.\n.ajnie quarters as ii sure winner and .if\nihysioai strength has any thing] to oi.\n.ith this match combined witli goon\niHiiiditimt bo should bo the. favorite as\nhe is in vory capable hands having oo\nhis trsining stall' George (lay. n\niuat master in the wrestling gamo win\nhis lieeti associated with the Swatisorts\nfor yours, and in fact there are very\nfew Athletes who don t know Oordio.\nHis other trainer is Sandy Jure whose\nrep as an Athlete is to well known to\nneed mention here.\nLacrosse seems to hare taking the\ntoys by storm and every evening this\nweek, there hu been a large turnout\nto practice. Dune Robertson, Jimmy\nWhyte, and Sommerville seem to 1*\nmaking great heading in the fine points\nof the game.\nDOUGAL MITCHELL\nDIED SAT!\nM\nPassed To Rest After\na Prolonged\nIllness\nTHE FOOTBALL\nASouuIAhIIIi\nAnnual Meet ug II. Ic\nAnd Officers Are\nElected\nAa interesting meeting ol ths Lioenaa\nCommUtionera nu held in the Council\nChamber! on rhundty night.. His Wor\nship ihe Mayor and CommiidoutriPsm\nham and Watson being present.\nThs Mayor tnnounced thst ths matting had bun tallsd to investigate wrtain\ncharges raids by a tor respondent aigolim\nDimatlf \"M. D.\" in tbe hut lata- of Tax\nlauiuia.\nTht editor wu present by special re-\nqutit, snd it was moved by Culmination-\ner Parnham, seconded by Coinuiiiaioner\nWstson, thst he be put under oat li anil\nforced to divulge the name uf hit correa\npendent in order that' he writer of the\ntetter might be called before the B>an\ntnd given au opportunity to prove hi,\natstsmeuta.\nCity Solicitor Harrison aaaurei tha\nLloard thai they wete perfectly withii\ntheir right! in demanding that the edit\nor divulge hia c. ni. | < ndcrtt't uame.\nThe Commissioner, [.ought thut tht\nt.ititor'a request far a' adjournment in or\n.lair to obtain legal advice \u25a0 >uld be use\n.est delay, ..oo uu a'tuhasaiidnr wat dis\npatched to hunt up i ho City Magiitrate\nto put the editor io der oath.\nThe Police Com mitt iontra hsld a\nshort union at the Council ChanibsN ea\nThurtdty night.\nThs eummittee appointsd to Interview\nthe butinets men of tbe city with rtgtrd\nto tubaoribing towards the nigbtwateh-\ninsu's asltrj reported, ths coanmiasiousn\ngoing into secret session to rtcsiva tbe\nisms,\nAfter receiving the report the muting wat tgain opened to ths public.\nWhile a number uf the buiinsu Men\nwished a change iu the nightwstchnsa\n.11 had refuted to make s dtfinitt ohtitt\nagaintt him, and under thau clrcutn-\natancei theCommissionersthought that\nthey should take no ution until the matter wu Uid before the Council ot soy\ndeficiency in the amount raised by public lubteription would bsvs to be made\ngood by ths city.\nCummitttioner MuDonald moved that\ntbe City Clerk be inatrueted to write a-\nway for quotations for time clocks to be\nplaced in the city where the watebmaa\nwould be compelled to register oa kit\nbut at certain intervals during the night\nThe motion carried.\nTho .all\nlie calatoi\n. b-.\nsked leave\na.l aiiiistured,\naddress the\nThe deatli occurred in tbo local hospitable on Saturday from cancer, after\na prolonged illness of Mr Dougall\nMitchell, for the past 10 yeara a resident of thia city, nged 46 years.\nA wife and nine children, the\nyoungest of which wm less than an\nweek old, are left to mourn liis lots.\nThe funeral took place on Sunday\nfrom the residence of Mr D. Stewart,\nDerwent Ave.,and wu largely attended.\nThe Vancouver Milling Company\nhu promised a Cup for a series of 10\nHumes open to the Comox District.\nRowan and Cameron are both going\ntn enter a team and Courtenay is als.\ngoing to enter. They have some good\nmaterial to firm ateam, Rod McKen\ntie one of the best Lacrosse playera in\nCanada is staying there and with him\nto start with they ought to be able to Cameron liu also a fast aggregati n\nget a team that will make the Cutnlw- 0f 8tick wielders headed by himself,\nland iioys go some. the following playera are in hia lineup.\nCharlie Grant, Alex Walker, Sum\nThere lias been persistent rumors merville, the Carpenter, for lack of his\ni lint Vinson and Dixon would hook up other name Cotton the Money Kid tnd\nlie sure winners of the Cup Ymth\nand strength ia their mainstay and\nfor speed well I ahould amile. Their\nlineup ia rather \u00bb hard combination\ncombining all the above eleineuta.\nThe annual meeting nf the Football\nAssociation was held in the City Hull\non lut Sunday night.\nAll offices were declareil vacant, anal\nnew ones elected us follows,\nPresident J, llennie\nVice Fret D. Stewart\nSec'y J. Harvey\nTree* J.R.Brown\nCommittee,\u2014J. Dixcn, J. Hor\nbury, Ju Brown, W. Brown and W\nThomson.\nIt was decided to form a city league and also to draw up a schedule\nfur the McLeod-Maxwell Cup, Charity\nCup, and Keala-y Cup at another meeting to he held tomorrow night.\naie'requet.a.ii; Fi ., t'.u aeetlon oi\ntie act, under whieli the License Com-\nui jiliinera claimed tho rig'.r. to force him\n.. make public ill i a'lna -I the Corretja..latent, be read\nSa-ooaad: That be be granted an adjournment in \"ider'lia1 he might secure\negal advice on the matter.\nThird: That iu the event of his beinv\nforced tu give evidence under oath, tha\nthe faca. that he did in under protest, ba\nrecorded iu the uiinutet,\nThe tectum f the act naked for, waa\nread by ths City Solicitor, after which\nit wu moved by Cummittieuer Watt, u\nseconded by Oommiuinner Pan.bam.\nthst the adjournment takod tor bs granted.\nNotice it hereby given thst all account-\nttanding againtt the Piltsnsr Brewing\nCo. Cumberland mutt bs presented by\nthe end of April 1911, or the same wil\nuut be acknowledged.\nJ.G. Bums\nSec'y\n\u00bbel\u00bbst\u00bbe\u00absjWa|aJsisls^aejs*^>s Ulu wife \u201ef Mr Tho(J Comb, of thit\ncity, a sou.\nIf you wish to make your piano aai\nfurniture appear just like new. try u\nIstttle of Boyle's Piano and Fun.rn p\nPolish. Tt. is uu exceptionally gti;jl\ndish uii-1 you will not'u-o liny otlii'i\nyou want a suit that will wear and\nlook dressy, come to J N. MiIjhuI\nAgent for Coppley Noves k R atadall.\nA committee from the Fire Brigade\nmet a similar enminit.tee from the City\nCouncil mi Moiialay nigh' In arrange\na basis for the taking iivei* nf the do-\non \u25a0ttniM.t by th- i iiy, he report of\n'n jnlii! i'ii nm I \u25a0\u2022\ntain, the Council for\ntheir ih'xt me tin\/.\nill lad .la\nnsi.lnratiou ai\nafter ha\u00abi u' tinoil i'\nlip ill I-'' a\nhyC.ia\u00abS.-g\nCnniherlatid\n..tn\n*;1\ntlm fslando\n\u25a0iol\nLadiis'd'.pt.T\n;,\\t'. .. I. assoi led\nWailstsin lawn, lilli\n\u2022 \u201e1 ihoiarleos \u2022 ii\n'! ,\u25a0 Ci in i Stdro\u2014We\nk oi Ladies\ni. anil liltislius\nBirth\u2014Oo Thuraday, A>,ri, 13th, i-\nthai wifu of Mr. William Iliad <.f tl it.\n| city, a daughtur,\nChans\nsatui'ilay\nIn- in\ni0 .i\nthis\nMil, 1.\n. Illt'lltH fill'\n. > issue must\nrillioa md litter than\n1 a.u..i>.\nIllvrlll:\nlorninis\nThe Royal Bank nf Canada withes to\ninform the public that it haa been the\neiisumi fur yaars for banks to allow\nJoint Accounts to be opened in the\nnames of two or more persons, to be\noperated by any one of them, and ia\nthe event of death to be paid to the tur\nv i v\u00abr. This pract ice is not a new idea\nus many of the old timers here can affirm, they having operated accounts in\nthnt manner fir years with aa.\nMiss Minnie Horbury is visiting\nher parent in this city.\nMr. Evans and Ida daughter and son\nsua the guest of Mrs.ami Mrs Bergland.\n| HOLY TRINITY CHURCH EA8TKR\nDAY 8ERV10E9.\nHoly Cuinuiuniian 8 a.m. tnd 11 a.\nEvening Ssrvioe 7 p.m. Solos, \"Enter |\nEve,\" \"Abide With Ms,\" Mrs. Fox.\nOffatiuga are uked for the Mission Fund. I\nI THE ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND, B.C.\nLife Story of Madame Curie\nWho Revolutionized Science\nA BODY of men, serious, erudite.\nand cautious, to whose ranks uo\nwoman bas ever been admitted,\nis debating within itself, lint with all\nParis, all France, and all the world\nawaiting the decision, tho wiBdom ut'\nadmitting a certain Polish woman tu\nthe honor of its membership) says the\nChicago Tribune, This body is the\nFrench Academy of Sciences, and tho\nwoman is Mme. SklodowBka Curie, tho\nhumble wife of a bumble professor of\nchemistry who discovered radium and\nevolved tho whole science of radio-\nactivity which threatens to overturn\ntin1 theories of a hundred physlciBts ami\nchemists dead ami living.\nThere in no evidence that Mine. Curie\nwants tn lie admitted to the Academy\nof Sciences, sin' has persistently refused all honors and favors thus far,\nand certainly the academy has little to\ngive her. She \\> already fuller of\nachievements than any member of the\naustere Bocioty, Her name is now more\nwidely famous than those of any ten\nnion who are now debating about her\neligibility. Certainly it would lie a com\nventiimal honor for .Mme Curio.\nThe prestige of the academy is great,\nbut the prostige of enormous accomplishment is greater, uud the scientists\nof the world in this era are beginning\nto believe that Mine. Curio stands at the\ntnriiing point iu science\u2014the point\nwhere nil the fundamental theories of\nenergy, light and the chemical system\n\u2022f elements will have to be discarded\nand remolded,\nIn 1900 the Curies discovered the element that takes the world back to Newton's corpuscular theory of light, the\nmetal with the incomprehensible radiations which seem to bum for ever and\nare yet not fire, which have the weirdest medicinal qualities and yet are poison to the flesh, which seem to contain\ntho secret of eternal youth and have\nled scientists to doubt the usefulness of\nall their classifications of matter and\nto wonder vaguely if the outcome of it\nall will be a proof of the protoritomlc\ntheory.\nCertainly this mother of two children\nwho came to Paris a few years back\nand who lived in poverty in the Latin\nQuarter has been the greatest contributor to the chemical and physical sciences iu this generation, and the Academy of Sciences, whose membership\nBpells distinction, hesitates and debate's\nwithin itself as to whether a woman\nshall be admitted to its-ranks, while\nthe woman in question lectures, experiments, and cares for her children, indifferent to their decision. When one\nis solving universal problems, honors\nthat will be forgotten long before one's\nname has ceased to be a thing to conjure with are lightly considered.\nMme. Curio is by birth a Polish woman. Her father was a professor of\nphysics iu a college in Warsaw. Like\nthe traditional instructor, he was exceedingly poor, and every spare cent\nhe could save Irom his salary went into\napparatus for his laboratory.\nProf. Sklodowska could not afford an\nassistant, 'therefore, and the college refused to allow him a man to help him\nclean up after his classes. He had to\nbe in his laboratories all day preparing\nfor his work, and then stayed late every\nnight tu clean up aud wash his implements. When the little Sklodowskn\ncould scarcely read she was pressed into sen ice as'n test tube washer, and\nshe spent lung days with her father in\nhis classes, doing the rough work in\nbis experiments ami scouring the tabes,\nbeakers and crucibles as the students\nfinished with them.\nThe time came when she had exhausted the possibilities of her father's laboratory, and it was decided that she\nshould go to Paris. When she arrived\nthere she found that she did nut have\nenough money to pay the tuition at the\nuniversity, so she was fnrced to enter\na little technical school where the expenses were nbuust nothing ami the\nprospects fur her advancement nut so\npromising, either, ller tutor was Prof.\nCurie, a man of almost middle age, with\nsome slight scientific distinction but no\nsalary to speak of, ami no general\nrecognition.\nThe instructor marvelled at the earnestness of his little Polish pupil, and\nBoon discovered that she had a faculty\nfor absorbing everything he propounded ami a keen sense of analysis which\namounted almost to intuition. She snon\noutstripped ;tll her fellow students, aud\nProf. Pierre Curie appealed ollicially lu\nhis fuculty fur tin' power to make her\nbis assistant. They would not grant her\na salary, however, so she served as a\nhelper once more at no salary, working\nconstantly wilh her former tutof at his\nexperiments,\nPierre Curie found new cmplovment\nin the Mechanics' Institute, in tho deso\nlate quarter bind; of the Pantheon, and\nhis serious little helper went wilh him,\nAgain she was unable to gel a salaried\nposition, nud continued tu work unpaid\nfor Curie himself. Curio's income was\nsmall enough, but they thought tin\".\ncould do better if tiny united their\nresources, so they were married. They\nwent tu live in the old Latin Quarter\nin students' apartments, and con tin nod\ntheir work under better circumstances.\nThey did DOt live any better, however;\nthnt was not tin1 object, But they were\nable to spend so much more ou apparatus and chemicals.\nThen Mme. Curio secured a position\nas a lecturer in the normal schools at\nSevres. Again there was more money\nfor scientific work. In 1806 Henri Bee-\nquend accidentally discovered the emanation of light from u ran turn,\nlie made an exposure of u plate without suflicient sunlight in the presence\nof uranium, and believing that the plate\nwas still good because so little light\nhad reached it, he put it away to bo\nused at a later date. Fur some reason\nbe developed it and found to bis astonishment thai a dear Impression bad\nbeen made\u2014as clear as ii could have\nbeen dune in bright sunlight. Ho remembered the circumstances under\nwhirh his plate had been exposed, and\nImtriodlatoly set to work on hia study\nof the \" Bocquorel' ''rays.\nHrird and soft corns both yield tu\nHoMownv's Corn Cure, which is entirely\nsafe to use, and certain and sntisfne-\ntory in its action.\nWhen Mme. i'urie was first shown a,\nbit of this uranium extracted from Bohemian pitchblende she jumped to the\nconclusion that there were other substances in the compound which could\nbetter account fur these emanations.\nShe told Prof. Curie about it, and, although her belief was founded ou little:\nmoro than intuition, he had como to\nhave considerable faith in this scientific guessing of Mine, i'urie, so they set\nto wurl; on pitchblende, the waste from\nthe Bohemian uranium mines. First of\nall, they isolated polonium, having the\niridescent qualities uf uranium and so\nnamed because Mine. Curie came from\nPoland. The next to come out of the\nmelting pn| was actinium, nnd then\ncamo radium, the metal which has revolutionized science.\nAt Ihe Paris exposition of 1000, on\n;i little shelf in the department of retrospective sciences, visitors found a\nsubstance marked: \" Radium; Pierre\nand Mine. Curie.'* There was nothing\nin the catalogue about it ami no descrip\nlive card, for the discovery had been\nmade after the catalogue had been\nprinted, and so little Was known about\nthe discovery or the discoverers that it\nwas almost impossible to say anything\nabout it.\nOn this last discovery .the (Juries, had\nexpended more than a thousand dollars,\nwhich meant a great deal to them. They\nhad found few people who were curious\nto know what they were doing, and\nwhen a lew real scientists found'their\nway from tho exposition to tho little\nlaboratory behind the Pantheon, Pierre\nCurio was immensely fluttered and\nthought it gracious of his callers that\nthey should pay him so much attention.\nThey did not realize that their discovery really amounted to anything. The\nhonors that the world heaped upon, them\nwere all in the future, and Mme Curie,\nwho could scent radium in waste- from\nBohemian mines, bad no premonition of\nthe laurels that were coming, aud when\nthey came the Curies were modest, almost resentful of the attention that\nwas heaped upon them.\nRadium was found to have the value\niu medicine of X-rays. It was discovered that it was the most certain test\nfor diamonds, that it would bum the\nskin through a metal box and all sorts\nof insulation; and that the rays or emanations were of a gaseous nature like\nhelium gas, which could be bottled; that\nthey penetrated any substance and gave\nany substance the qualities of radium,\nbut. at that time the quantity of radium in tho world was infinitesimal; it\nhad not been isolated, and the scientists\nhad not learned enough of it to bring\nits properties into juxtupositiun in their\ntime-honored principles.\nStill it was interesting, wonderfully\nfascinating, and Prof. Curie was asked\nto lecture on its properties before the\nSorboinie.\nAfter that lecture honors came rapidly. The fact that it cost over $2,0(10,-\n001) to produce a pound of it from 2,50(1\ntons of pitchblende deterred the poor\nchemistry instructor from putting great\nquantities before scientific bodies for\ntheir study. The announcement that\nthere was more gold in sea water than\nradium iu pitchblende led the general\npublic to believe that it was such a\nrare and unattainable substance that it\nwould never be of much practical service. They did not know how little\nof it would work miracles and how little\nit would take to set the scientists to\nrevising their chemical axioms.\nTn Bin:, the Koyal Society of Great\nBritain presented' the Curies wit'1\nmedals in recognition of their contributions tu science. They received the\nNobel prize and a short time after Pnf\nCurio was given a chair in the Sor-\nbcnne.\nThen in lOOli, when Curie was riding\nhis bicycle, ho was run over and carried\nhome dead. Mme. Curie, the impulsive\nwoman of science, made no demonstration of sorrow. She shed no tears. She\nsilently prepared for the obsequies, attended by her two little children, and\nin nil ways in her grief was the same\nmodest, quiet little woman she had\nbeen iu her scientific triumph. After\ntho funeral there was some.tnlk of giving her her husband V place in the faculty of the University of the Sor-\nbonne. She expressed no enthusiasm\nabout this, Honors had been proffered\nher before, nnd she had consistently refused them.\nWhen she was unanimously elected to\ntake Pierre Curie's chair, all Prance\nhalf suspected that she would refuse it,\nthough no woman had ever beeu offered\na place in Uo- faculty uf a university\nbefore. It was an unprecedented honor,\nand after much persuasion Mme. Curio\ndid accept It. Thousands of people\nturned out tn hear her first lecture, and\nIhe people win. crowded the lecture\nroom were surprised to see an emaciated Utile wiimnii with a uurtent i'ous brow\nbut not the slightest symptom nf Puris-\nian chic iu her appearance. She is nut\nbeautiful. Hers is a plain Polish countenance with Ihe high cheekbones uud\nround chin, and the only feature that\nimpresses vou is fhe high, rounded fore\nhead.\nOne woman only had ever occupied\nthe position which Mme. Curie had occupied, and she did not hold it ollicially. That woman was Novella, the beautiful daughter nf .lean d'Andre of the\nUniversity of BologlW. When Joan wns\nill his daughter lectured eloquently on\ncanonic law. but Petrarch and some\nOther youthful students paid so much\nattention tu the fair face that they\nfailed to take notes, so the city fathers\nfnrced her to lecture behind a curtain.\nMme. Curie is not a sensationalist,\nnowever, either in appearance or mnn-\nner. Her modesty is the first thing\nthat impresses you, and her simplicity\nthe second. She is the mother of two\nchildren, and a mother primarily.\nSecondarily she is a scientist, and last\nnf all n lecturer, recipient of honors and\ncandidate for membership in the Preach\nAcademy of Sciences.\nIf they admit her it will not bo because she is a wonuin\u2014that is certain.\nIt will be because she bas been the\nchief experimenter in a field Which has\nforced tne chemists to put a question\nmark at the end of their long catalogue of elements and has led many\nf them to consider tho protoatomic\ntheory\u2014that is, the theory that all\nmatter is essentially one and that the\ndivision into elements is simply an arbitrary convenience not based upon\nchemical fact. Moreover, does not radium emanate light which penetrates\nvbjects which light has never penetrated? And does uot this emanation appear to havo an actual corpuscular character as if it wero mado up of fine particles thrown off from the body of the\nmetal? All this is opposed to the vibratory theory of light which has long\nbeen iu good scientific standing and\ntakes science back to the days of .Newton, tho physicist, who propounded the\nirpuscular theories of light.\nMme. Curie is the woman who has\nerected the turning post at which science in its progress must stop and consider whether it is on the right road\nalter all. ller intuition about the character of the pitchblende has grown into\na great question mark which now materializes iu tantalizing fashion before\nthe mou who have been working nut\ntheories\u2014books uf them\u2014on basic principles uf which none of thoiit is certain since radium remains inexplicable.\nThey debate her eligibility to the\nacademy. She is a woman, of course,\nand she never made any demands upon\nthe aeademy^-yet they cannot afford to\nexcept her; she has meant too much tu\n.Franco aud to science at large. And\nyet she is a woman. And so tlie learned assemblage puzzles itself.\nFIVE BILLION BUSHELS OF\nPOTATOES\nHOW many potatoes does the world\neat in a yearf That is a question to be answered in uo such\nordinary figures as millions. Even if the\nreckoning is by bushels, nothing less\nthan billions will answer.\nSo far as can be told from the figures\nalready at hand and the estimates of\nincreased production, this year's crop of\npotatoes will reach the prodigious total\nof .3,500,000,000 bushels. If these were\nplaced in a row of bushel-baskets the\nstring would reach 3,000,000 miles, or,\nsay, one, hundred aud twenty times\naround tlie glebe. If that isn't some potatoes, \"wnat is it? Barring the stock\nused for .seed, all of these will be eaten\nbetween now and a year hence.\nNew York alone\u2014thut is to say, the\ngreater city\u2014swallows up potatoes at\nthe rate of more than 100 car-loads for\nevery day in the year excepting Sundays. Aad its appetite is growing, for\nup to the tenth of last December it had\nreceived 3,940,173 barrels as agflinst\n3,189,432 for the corresponding period\nof the year before. Allowing for the\naverage' receipts of 50,000 barrels a\nweek, the year should go out with a\ngrand total of about 4,000,000, which is\nthe equivalent of 12,000,000 bushels, or\nnearly ono four-liumlred-and-sixtieth of\nthe world's crop. At 400 bushels' to the\n;kis makes some 30.000 car-loads.\nThese cost $0,000,000, wholesale.\nAlthough early potatoes are brought\nin from Bermuda at a wholesale price\nof $8 a barrel, and others from the\nSouth at half that price, the great bulk\nof Xew York's supply comes from four\nStates\u2014Xew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maine.\n' New Vork leads the United States iu\npotato production, despite all the yearly talk uf the huge Maine crop, Out\nof a total nf 300,000,000 bushels it\nyields -12,0110,000; Michigan comes next\nwith 27,000,1100; and Maine \\* third\nwith 2ii.000,000. Then como Pennsylvania, 2...UO0.00O; Wisconsin, 22,000,-\n000; Minnesota, 15,000,000; Illinois, 14,-\n000,000,; Iowa, 12,000,000; and Ohio,\n1100,000. Other Western States contribute a few more millions.. Long Is-\nmd grows 3,000.000 bushels. Canada\n..\u25a0ith 70,000,000, Mexico with 2,000,000,\nand south America with 10,000,000\nake tho total New World production\ni2.000.000 bushels.\nThis leaves the Old World tu account\nfor the greater part of the potato production. Germany with 1,700,000,000\nbushels, Russia with 1,000,000,000, Austria-Hungary 700,000,000, have records\nthat show where more than half of tbe\nworld's crop is raised. Then after the\n370,000,000 of Prance, the 250.000,000\nof Great Britain and Ireland, the 90,\nlu.0,000 of Belgium, and the 80,000\/\n000 each of Sweden and Spain are taken\n.o account, there still remain fur \"the\nit of Kurope\" no less than 300,000,.\n) bushels, or Ihe equivalent of the\nited States crop.\n.sin raises only 35|000,000 bushels,\nteh is less than the crop of New York\nte. Australasia adds 15,000,000 bus-\n\u2022, and Africa 5,000,000.\nt. is estimated that in the neighbor-\nd of 35,1)00.000 acres of laud were\n3S\nint\nres\n000\nUn\nAs\nwhi\nStfl\nh'elfi\nIt\nplanted to potatoes this\n'- ... i._,ij .. .i\u201en\u201e-\n... and that\ni bushel was\nSM\/qA's Cum\na-ii.ltlv slajaaaa , ..aaail..-.. cairra faalij.., Ii,.\u201e|.\nlilt llatoa.1 anal lunjt \u2022 25 caul.\ntho 1'ifip ni hull' a ilollur\ntvortii $2,725,000,000.\nI'litiiini's havo thus spread prottv woll\niver' tho civilized globe. They lmd 11\ntimo spreading, though. Laoss limn\n,- s ago, Etiropo, aside from Ire.\ndid nut hold them in high otteom.\nmi Mil!:'., jus' a century aftol this\nitablo was firsl brought to England\nVirginia, before ils groat nutritive\nwas generally roalizcd, I Iot \"\ntime its hoadway was nut gront,\n71 tho English woro feeding it t<>\n. an.I hogs inrftriwi ot using it on\nililn. Prance took it ii| ly about\nit my ago, and evon in Virginia nud\nEngland it mado slow progress as\niicl). of human dia't. Ireland, which\nfrom Virginia in 1686, liki'l il\naccounts for its belna; known ns\nMi potato, It is nut Irish, but\n1. The pi: nt is a \u2022uii.v of\nAmoricn, ami thero is ono species\nas far north as Now M'lia-n. The\narils camo across it mil -is enrly\nsixteenth contrary took it to\nwheeoe it mado its way thiniigli\nE'urope, As tlie Spaniards na believed\nto havo Introduced it into Florida, from\nwhich Virginia got il. porhap, tlie en-\ntin- nreilit ought to go to .Spain.\nTlir. potato, of roiirsi1, is n fjoianuin, Tt\nis. therefore, a relative nf the .'.ig'.it-\nHlia.ie, the wondorborry, nnd tho mng-\nnlilcoat Solnnum wendfandij that is the\nadmiration nf visitors ti. California,\nTHE PRINCE OF WALES' EDUCATION AS PLANNED BY HIS\nGRANDFATHER\nHIS Royal Highness the Prince of\nVVnles, ip April next, nt tlm con:\nelusion of the Raster Term, will\ncomplete liis courso of training nt the\nSonlci division nf tho Royol Naval Col-\nlego, at Dartmouth, anil the lirst phase\nia his education fur Hint high office thnt\nhard\n20(1\nIan,I.\nIt w\nvegi\nfrui\nVllllll\nlong\nIn r\nrati I\n(hot\na eon\nNew\nan n\ngot it\nlirst.\nTh:\nth.. li\ntropin\nN'.-ith\nfound\nas th\none day in the ordinary course of nature, he will he called upon to occupy,\nwill come to an end, says the Observer.\nHis future is now clearly mapped out\nhy the King, and it is possible to outline\niu some detail the lines upon which the\nPrince's career will run.\nIt was at first suggested that His\nRoyal Highness should accompany tbe\nKing and Queen on their forthcoming\nvisit tu India ut the end of the year.\nThis has, however, now been abandoned,\nand the first glimpse that the Prince\nwill get of the British Einpiro beyond\nthe swis will he when he embarks with\nhis brotner, prince Albert, for that\ncruise round the Empire to which reference will be made a little further on.\nAs soon as he leaves Dartmouth, the\nPrince of Wales will commence to read\ntor a short university career and his\nname will be put down for oae of the\ncolleges at Oxford\u2014probably Christ\nChurch\u2014and he will enter there iu the\nautumn, after the summer vacation. lie\nwill nut remain there fur the regulation\nfour venrs, two years being the utmost\nthat can be allowed for this portion of\nthe Prince's training. Rooms where he\ncan study in comfort are shortly to be\nlifted up for him at both Buckingham\nPalace ami Windsor Castle. His tutor\nin the first, place will be -Mr. llansell.\nwho has beeu iu charge ot' the Koyal\nschoolroom for some years past. Mr.\nllansell will be asissled by various professors of different subjects as required.\nAlready, the Prince has acquired an ox-\ncellent knowledge of those subjects in\nwhich he will be required to matriculate, and no difficulty is anticipated in\nhis passing his entrance examination\nwith ease.\nWhile he is at Oxford, the Prince uf\nWales will load precisely the same life\nand will be subject tu the same discipline aud routine as any other undergraduate, -i special suite of rooms will\nbe provided and furnished fur him, and\nhe will have his own tutor, but this will\nbe the.limit of the exceptions made iu\nhis favor. Thu King is very firm on\nthis point, and so long as any of his\nsous are being educated, he is determined that their rank shall nut assist\nthem, and that they must succeed or\nfail on their merits. This much liis\n.Majesty has made clear to his family\non more than one occasion.\nAn illustration of this was given\nshortly after the Prince of Wales was\nentered ns a cadet at the junior section of the Royal Naval College at Osborne. His Royal Highness was invited to a garden party one afternoon, and\nwas very anxious to attend. To his disgust, however, he was refused permission to bo present by the authorities of\nthe college, on the ground that his attendance was necessary at a special\nclass of instruction that was held that\nday. lu high dudgeon, Prince Edward\n\u2014as lie then was\u2014wrote u letter of\ncomplaint to his father. His Majesty\nat once Enquired on to the true condition of affairs and when he was informed of the circumstances, bis reply to his\neldest son was at once short and decisive. . j. Ii*\nHe saw nn reason, he said, in effect.\nto interfere iu the matter. His sun lmd\nto learn as quickly as possible that he\nwas at college merely as a cadet, and\nnut as a Royal Prince, and that the\nrules that applied to his comrades, applied with equal force to himself. It\nwas his place to set an example to the\nother boys by a cheerful obedience to\norders, however irksome the task might\nbe, and not to look for special favors\nbecause of his high birth. This tuuffht\nthe young Prince a vory salutary lesson, and he has never complained to\nhis father since of any duty that has-\nbeen assigned to him.\nIt would seem at the present time, as\nthough the young Prince were likely tu\ndistinguish himself at J he university\non the mathematical side, lather than\nas a classical scholar. Though a great\nreader, His Royal Highness has on\ngreat liking for the dead languages, ami\ngreatly prefers modern history 'and\nworks of a biographical nature. He bas,\nhowever, some command of modern\ntongues and can already speak French\nand German with a tolerable amounl uf\nproficiency. Mathematics-, uu the other\nhand, are a very strong subject with the\nyoung Prince, and in this he carried oil'\nthe palm nt both Osborne and Dartmouth.\nWhen l|is university course is at an\nend, the Prince of Wales will set off on\na tour of the British Empire, accompanied by his brother, Prince Albert. The\nprecedent of the similar tour undertaken by the present King and the late\nDuke of iJarence and Avoudnlo in the\ncruiser Bacchante, will bo very closely\nfollowed. Since that time, however.\nthe Empire has expanded to an extent\nhardly tu lie conceived, aud it is estimated that at least 12 months1 will be\nnecessary for the princes to gain oven\nthe most, cursory knowledge of the great\nDominions over which their father rules,\nAs was the case in the four of the King,\na cruiser will be specially fitted up for\ntlie accommodation of the Princes, and\nthis will probably be of the Indoiuilnble\ntypo. Their Royal Highnesses will be\nattended nv a rather large suite, Including distinguished representatives of the\nArmy ami Nnvy,\nPrecedent lavs it down most emphatically (hat Ihe Heir Apparent to the\nllritish Throne bIiqII be closely identified\nwith the Army. This is to be adhered\nto in the case of the Prince of Wales.\nConsequently, whon bo quits Dartmouth,\nat the end of the present term, his active connection with the senior service\nwill tormlnnte. Prince Albert, on the\nother hand, is destined to follow iu tho\nfootsteps of his father, and to become bi\ndue course, a \"Sailor Prince.\"\nTherefore, when the Princes return\nfrom their tour around tho world, tbe\nPrince of Wales will be ut once gazetted\nto one ot the regiments of cavalry of\nthe line then stationed in this country.\nHe ih not to undergo the period of preliminary training at tbe Royal Military\nCollege'at Sandhurst that is usuallv required from aspirants lo a commission\nin the nrmy,sniid here the Mime course\nwill be adopts) ns was taken in the eoso\nof'Prince AYrhur of Connaught, who entered the Seventh Hussars direct.\nPrince Albert will at once be appointed\nas a midshipman on board one of the\nbattleships of tbo home fleet\u2014probably\nupon the flagship of the admiral com*\nmaudiug-in-i*hief\u2014and will thus commence liis real naval training as an\nofficer of the fieet.\nThe life of the Prince of Wales in the\narmy will be that of any other subaltern. He will have his own quarters\nand his own servants, und that is all.\nThough attached iu tho first (dace to\nthe cavalry, he will, iu due course, be\nacquainted with the duties uf the Various other branches of I lie service, such\na stho Royal Artillery aud the Royal\nEngineers. It is the \"earnest desire of\nboth fhe King and the QucOU that their\neldest son shall be a soldier iu something mure than name, and no efforts\nwill be spared to ensure this. j|is position will prevent him from being sent\nto servo in India or elsewhere abroad,\nbut his training at home will be of ihe\nmost thorough nature it is possible tu\ndevise.\nThe great wish of the QuOOU is that\nthe Prince of Wales may remain a boy\nas lung as possible. Consequently he is\nnot tu be allowed to undertake any public duties whatever until after he has\nattained the age uf IS\u2014when Royalty\nlegally comes of ogo in this country.\nNot long ago, His Majesty was invited\nto allow the Prince of Wales lo become\nColoiiel-iu-Chief of a certain regimeut\nof infantry of the line, but it was then\nmade clear that such a suggestion was\nmost distasteful to their Majesties, and\nIt has not since been repeated.\nThough His Royal Highness will be\npresent nt the state opening of Parliament this mouth by the King, his role\nwill be merely that of a spectator, and\nhe will take no official part iu tin.' proceedings. It has been usual in the past\nto appoint a household for the Prince\nof Wales as soon as he came into the\ntitle, and more than one holder of this\ntitle had his great officors of state when\nhe was still in the cradle. Even the late\nKing Edward had a household selected\nfor him by Queen Victoria and the\nPrince Consort long before lie knew\nwhat to do with it. This is not to be\nthe case with the present Heir Apparent, and even after he reaches his majority, he will only have a couple of\nequeries at the outside, until such time\nas he marries.\nBoth the King and Queen have very\npronounced views upon tlie upbringing\nof children, and they are ont disposed to\nallow their sons to assume responsibilities and duties for which they are (it-\nted neither by age nor experience. There\nis even some doubt whether the Prince\nof Wales wlll'bo admitted a Knight of\nhis Royal Highness, as outlined above,\nwhere it has been usual fur the holder\nuf this title tu enter the order at a \\^ry\nearly age.\nIt may be added that the plans fur\nthe education of the Prince of Wales\nwas originally laid down by the late\nKing Edward, who, ns Suvoreif>ii, lmd\neimrge of Ihe education and training uf\nhis eldest grandson, the latter being in\nthe direct iin \" succession. Needless\ntu aiiv. fhb; plan was heartily endorsed\nby King George, and will now be ad\nhered to by him.\nThe King of Corn Removers\nIs Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor,\nForty years' success in many lands\nproves the superiority uf Putnam's\nPainless Com Extractor over every\nother remedy, Safe, painless, prompt.\nPutnam's Painless Com Extractor absolutely certain to remove corns. Sold\nby druggists, price 2fi cents,\nHOW r^OTOR-BUILDING HELPS\nOTHER TRADES\n(By Thaddeus S. Dayton)\nIT is a peculiar fact that there are today hundreds of manufacturing\npluats all over tne country, flourish\ning and paying big wages and dividends, (hough yeslerday they were but\nsmall, struggling affairs, whose present\nprosperity i\u00ab due entirely to Ihe tremendous growth of the automobile tn*\ndustry. Some of these lines of business\nthat novo grown far beyond the wildest\ndreams of those who started them are\nseemingly far removed from the field uf\nmotor-car manufacturing.\nTake the business of snake skins,\nfor example, Por years snake skins\nwere a feature of the leather business,\nnever large, but with a demand great\nenough to be worth the attention of a\nfoxv pooplo, in conjunction with other\n| branches of the trade. The only difficulty was that so few wanted this particular leather thut*\u00abit did not pay tu\nhunt out members of the constrictor\nfamily systematically, slay them and\nbring their skins to market, because the\nmarket was quickly glutted. Hut, one\nday, some experts in automobile upholstering, constantly on the hunt for new\nand rich effects, chanced to come across\nsome snake-skins Ever since then the\ntrade in that particular branch of leather has been considerable. It is difficult\nto find a more benutifuhsurfuco for the\ninterior fitting out of costly cars\u2014and\nthere is a nice, now. unexpected profit\nwhere one would never havo been\nthought of. It pays to bring in any\nnumber of these skins now.\nStriking commercial romances like\nthis ot snake-skins are. of course, rare,\nbut there are innumerable lines of industry, some very nearly as remote, (hat\n(he automobile stands godfather to.\nThere are few cities, towns, or villages\nthat have not been benefited in some\nway by the ears that shoot through\nthem like a blurred streak of light.\nThey may nut know it. but th\" effects\nof fhe building uf nearly 200,000 new\nmachines each year \u00bb'-e very fur reaching. Should the nutomobilo factories\nclose down, many a pay-roll in shops\nentirely outride of the trade would be\nclipped so Hint the dinner pail would\nshow it badly.\nOne of the big businesses uf America\nthat the ordinary public hears very lit-\nf tlo about, but that, buys many a pair of\nlittle shoes aud makes many a home\ncomfortable, is the machine tool industry. Machine tools is the trade name\nfor the thousand and one tools used in\nthe machine-working of metal. Every\nnew development means new batches of\nti ols and new principles and adaptations in tne use of old ones. Since the\nautomobile fairly got going in this\ncountry the production of machine toolB\nhas just doubled. Xew concerns hnvo\ncome info the trade, and old ones have\nhad to enlarge their plants.\nThe automobile has completely revolutionized this machine tool industry.\nWhen the \"horseless vehicles,\" as they\nwero called in the good old days when\neverybody doubted them, first began to\nbe really practicable, their makers\nfound so much Hint was new in the construction and adjustment of the complicated parts that the machine fools already iu existence were inadequate. So,\nburrowing ideas freely, they began to\ngel out machine tools uf their own. Very\nsoon thi\" auto business commenced lo\nreach a high state of mceliniiienl perfection, ninl the machine-tool men, fall\ning quickly into line and turning out\nthe new (ools themselves, saw they had\nBright Brains Count\nHeadaches, Biliousness, li.ul Stomach,\nWeak Kidneys,\ndull the brain.\nBrighten up with\n25c and 60c a bottle.\n\/ M\na hotter product than ever, a\u00bbH the\nhosts of new customers who wanted\nspeedy deliveries were not. difpowd U\nbe nt nil niggardly about the price if\nthey got them.\nIn oilier lines the demand has arrived\nunexpectedly. Manufacturers wfie had\nmen uut on tlie road painstaking!'\ndrumming up business that, when ^aur\ned, brought in only a lair profit, suddenly fonud them solve- deluged with\nunsolicited orders. There is ot least\none marine engine establishment in this\ncountry, fur Instance, that lmd ;i:K ex\nprrieiice. That is, it was a inari'io-en\nglno factory several years ago. It still\nclings tu Its s| laity, but that bas be\ncome merely a side line nowaday*. Thi\nplont has been oulargnd more than\nonce, but'It can scarcely fill its orders\nfor nutomobilo engines, for which there\nis au enormous demand and a good\nprofit.\nWhere the automobile has tnflwmsed\ngeneral business the most has undoubf\nedly been in rubber. Iu the first place\nthe new and unlooked-for deniald croaf\ned possinly the wildest cotuiner\u00abiaI ex\nciteioeut of the past twenty years. Thi*-\nwas by no menus confined to thifl ootw\ntry. It really reached its height in Mag\nlaud, where the British have been ex\nplotting shares in South American rub\nher fields. Tremendous fortunes hnvi-\nbeen made and lest In this commodi*;\nowing to the new use that lias been\nfound for it. Tires ure but. one part of\nan automobile, yet (hey call for so mien\nof the annual production of rublwr-\nsomething more than forty per cent., ne\ncording to the most accurate statistic*\n\u2014that all other rubber goods an\nsteadily becoming costlier,\nA new and decidedly profitable in\ndustry has grown out of this situation\nWhat was only a short time ago naroly\na surf of side line of the bllSOICSfl torn\ncome to be au independent Industry\nThe automobile alone has created il, and\nthe more automobiles turned out. oueli\nyear the more prosperous It becomes\nMany men have preferred to ongng:i in\nit instead of in the making of automo\nbiles themselves. This is the gather\ning up and reclaiming of nld rubber. It\nmight bo called the daughter of tie\njunk trade, for It is a direct offshoot\nof that. Always, over since rubber\ngoods were invented, sotuojthllig has\nbeen done in fhe working over of old\nrubber, lint until com pa rati* 1 It n\ncrutly the junk capitalist did nk Ihf\nhn nd ling of old rubber and nenr\nthought very much of it. Tbe how dp\nmaud made many a wise man fleo ritifer\nently, Hundreds of rubber reolahBiug\nco'ucorns hnvo sprung up, until i*\u00bbd.'i<\n\"second-hand rubber'' is as big an h\ndustry as the entire junk trad'' used to\nbe. The concerns engaged in it are (0\nbe found in every locality whero tin\njunk business is done, which meais ii\nevery commercial centre in America\nMillions of dollars are invested in tin-\nnew line, ami fortunes are being rapi \\h\nThe rubber-tiro demand has changed\nvalues all around. Certain grade* ol\nrubber scrap use 1 to go into coarse rub\nber matting at nut any'too good a profit\nXow that same scrap is highly refined\nby newly invented processes and i* A(*n\nverted into pure rubber again.\nAmong the classes of business men\nthat have profited most from the iudue\ntries that Ihe auto hns helped is thai\nwhich is concerned with the making of\nlittle things, thq trifles I hat would not\nordinarily be thought of. Screws go in\nto the making of motorcars, of cuirse\nA single screw-factory ia Cleveland has\nnearly doubled its capacity and ontptil\nin five years, merely on account of iu\norders from automobile makers. The\nmanagers' main work is to see that the.\norders get out on time and that the\nquality is kept up. Though the ^afi1-\ntics hayo never been collected, (her-\nmust lie more than a hundred other such\nconcerns in the East ami the West who\nfind the automobile people by far Iheir\nbest customers.\nWireless telephonic communication\nhas this week been carried on between\nstations 420 miles apart.\nTOOK THE AOVICE\nOF HER FfllfNOS\nAND DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS MADE\nMBS. PAINCHAUD WELL\nShe Inherited ill-health from her parents, and for seven vo.irs was a\nKUflerer from Kidney and Iloan\nTrouble.\nWhitworth, Temiscouta Co., Quebec\n(Special)\u2014Tnat *\"? t(,f,,: t'\"' advice ot\nher friends and used Dodd's Kidne;.\nPills is the reason Mrs., Julien Pain\nchaud of this place gives for the perfect health (hat slimes in her every\nmovement.\n\"1 inherited ill-heulth from my puj\neats,\" MrH. Pnhichund says in an if.\n(erview. For seven years my Heart\nand Kidneys bothered me. I was alway-\ntired and nervous. 1 could not rl-e'p\nMy eyes had dark circles round them,\nnnd were puffed and swollen.\n441 could scarcely do my housework\nwhen I was advised to try Dodd*H Kid\nney I'ills. One box relieved mo ot\npain, und six boxes made mc perfect|v\nwell.\"\nEvory woman who is feeling fagged,\ntired, and worn out. should use Dodd'p\nKidney Pills. They cure the Kidneys,\nand every woman's health depends on\nher Kidneys. Healthy Kidneys menu\npure blood, and pure blood enrrie* new\nlife lo run down organs which supplv\nthe body with energy.\nTf you're a mlferiig woman ask your\nfriends. They'll (ell you mil of thai!\nown experience to use DodnVs KH-Am\nPills. V THE ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND, B.C.\n*\/'\nN T A I N S Ki O A L- U IM\n\u2022*\u2022\nMag it\nBAKING\nMAGIC\nMING POWDER\nIS THE FAVORITE\nMD COSTS NO MORE THAR THE OMUIARYKIIK\nE.W.GILLETT CO. LTD. TORONTO, ONS\nI _ 1\nFASHIONS AND\nFANCIES\nAT Hub time of the year, when materials of all kinds, as\nwwH as gowns and wraps for spring and summer, are\nbeing exhibited in all tho shops, the careful woman\ntallies forth in search of bargains in winter fashions. It\nway bo just a trifle late, according to one way of thinking, to\ntajr tne winter outfit; on the other hand, all furs and heavy\ngarments are now sold for much loss than wns ashed for them\ntwo tnenths ago. Besides, weeks nnd months of winter are\natflf to come whon these same warm clothes will be a joy\n*nd tfciight.\nSuperb and costly wraps ore always in fashion, and\nMiiiili? snd ermine, and in fact all expensive furs, have a\n\u00abtendard value that makes them: an investment nt all times.\nTlie cut of a sable or ermine wrap adds to its cost, for the\nl\\\nBlue Satin Costume\nwrap iu fur is always high priced, and in consequence, ii tho\n\u25a0ttytb be ou the extreme order just as sure as it is late in the\nicwsou th\u00ab price will bo reduced, although the value of the\nfur will be just as great. All superlatives can be soon exhausted in describing the beauty of many of these fur coats.\nIliey ere alt large (although so cleverly cut as to make tlie\nwearer appear slender), are delightfully warm aud are smart\n\u00bbs well as effective, something quite unusual in a large fur\n**r*|> of any kind.\n(mats rather than cloaks aro iu fashion, but with the loug\nihonlrier seam and tho sleeve cut in one with tho shoulder, or\nmade to give that effect, there is a sort of combination of\nthe two. Full length is the rule, and the fur around the lower\n[\u25baart is so put together that the markings give the appeur-\n:iu\u00abe of a flat band. It is considered smarter, whon the fur\nIs of tho expensive kind, not to combine another kind with\nit. Sable and ermine nnd chinchilla are, for instance, far\ninure effective each by itself. The wide band oround the\nbottom, the collar nad cuffs of contrasting for, are extremely\ntnuulsoine when sealskin and fox or skunk are used together,\nlliis combines-the two skins, the short nnd the long hair, and\nwith advantage to both. Tho finest moire, Persian or baby\nlamb is this season also made up without trimming of other\ntut, but thin must not be taken as a hard and fast rule for\nthere are many charming coats of this fur trimmed with\nor mine, chinchilla and sable. All fur work has improved\n80 irinrvolously of late years that quite a new field has in\nBODflequotiCO been opened up to the fur coat, especially to the\nfar wrap, for insteud of being merely a clumsy cloak, worli\nonly for warmth, it is now a smart and becoming garment,\nmost, desirable to own for these reasons as well Us for its\ntvurmth. The opera cloak of olden days, no matter !,how\ntuporb the fur, was not becoming; but the modem fur opera\nlloah is one of the most becoming garments worn, ana* an\nermine opera cloak (oven if it is not really und truly ermine)\ni\u00ab it much to be desired possession.\nSo popular has been the fashion of tho long half fitting\ncoat that already it is being made up for spring and summer.\nThere is not liny marked difference botween the loose long\ncoat Intended for afternoon and tho evening wrap excepting\nthat the latter is wider. Sometimes, for practical use, it\nshould ne made to allow of its entirely covering the evening\ngewn over which it is worn. Satin is again to be fashionable\nfor the long coat, but there is every effort made to bring\nthe soft finished taffeta nad tho moire silks into favoT and\nto oust the sntiu from the front rank it has so proudly filled\nlife\nfor so long a time. The wide revcrs faced with white moire\nund trimmed with black velvet will again be in style, and\ntbo silver nndegold and white moire veiled with black chiffon\nare to be popular. The greatest attention is paid to the\nrovers of these coats. Whether they are becoming or not is\nmost carefully studied, nnd it is certainly remarkable the difference it makes whether the revers are long and pointed or\nsquare and short, and by these little details the distinctive\neffect is gained that is so all important.\nThe woman of moderate means has a splendid opportunity\nat the momont to buy wonderfully smart coats at half cost\nin tho different shades of cloth with fur ot moufflon collars\nand cuffs in velvet and in satin (the latter hardly to be\nincluded for they are few and far between). There nre\nmodel coots that wero perhaps too late for the autumn and\nearly winter customer. Many of the garments are exceedingly eccentric, but eccentricity is most fashionable to-day,\nand so long as the coat is becoming and not too scant (a\nserious fault in these times when the scant effects are so\npopular) it is often tho best kind of an investment.\nBrocade or moire coats are fashionable this spring, the\nlatter having more certainty of popularity on account of its\nseeming more suited to the season than brocade, which Is\nmore associated with winter fashions. Tho wide weave or\npattern of the. moire is moat effective and the satin finish\nmakes it seem younger and lighter, probably because for so\nlong a time the lustreless moire was so exclusively relegated\nto the older women. Now that there are no old women the\nmaterial with the sheen and lustre is included in the fashionable category for women of all ages. Yet moire and brocade\nare always associated with a somewhat old, heavy style of\ndress and aro always connected one with the other, but tho\npresent way of treating them produces strangely different\nresults\u2014the jet embroidered coat Is not only a handsome\nund effective garment but it is smart and up to date in\nappearance and is not merely n beautiful piece of goods trimmed with expensive jet passcmentorie.\nHG^i\nw;\n->r%' \";..\"'\u25a0\n\".. '-'.'-A :S..'I>P'.' . ^i\nitiS\nWr@P3V2'' N.a\n0% %''\n-rii'^i'- -* - \u25a0\nc,\\\/sM$.,\u25a0 ' i\nGrey Velvet\nCoat with\nChinchilla\nVelvet coats of all kinds are most fashionable, and there\nare so many different models it is difficult to select the most\ndesirable. A loose and long coat of velvet with sleeves so\nthat no shoulder Beams ore visible, would seem all too large\nand thick were it not for the clever shaping iu at the side\nseams and the way in which the fronts are eut. One model\nhas three wide bands of shirred velvet, each finished with\na rosotte. These bands start at the bust Hue and I hen bolow\ntho fronts hang straight in empire fashion, but the straight\nback and tho curved iu side scams inulce the outline of the\nfigure\u2014tho silhouette of which the dressmakers now speak\nso learnedly\u2014all that could be desired from the fashion\nplato point of view.\nTo blacken a brick hearth mix some blacklead with a little\nsoft-soap and water, boil the mixture for a few minutes, mul\napply it with n brush.\nREFLECTIONS ON THE WRECK OF\nA GREAT SAILING SHIP\n[T suited the common iroay of time\nthat the largest sailing ship which\never walked the water should suffer wreck from a daily steam ferry, plying between shore snd shore of the\nChannel\/' writes tho Nation of the\nwreck of the great German sailing vessel, Preussen,\n\"There is something human in the\nstory\u2014that first shock as she encountered a smaller but Btrouger force, like the\nbullet so amazing to a highborn knight,\ntaking tue fiold with rich caparisous\nand peuuoned lance. And then the bewildered attempts of the wounded creature to cast anchor, to be pulled by\nsteamers into safety, and even to stagger home to the port so proudly left\u2014\nthe dragging anchors, the parted cables,\nthe irresistible thrust of wind'and\nwaves, the helpless drift against the\nrocks at the foot of Dover cliffs.\n\"Thero the Preussen lay\u2014largest example of man's primeval and most daring adventure, us powerless as u hollow log ugainst the storm. A wicker\ncoracle, bound with hides, and supplied\nwith fat, could have fared no.worso.\n\"How flue wus the account that reports gave even of her rigging! Five\nmasts she had, and on each mast she\ncarried a lower yard, upper and lower\ntopsail yards, upper and lower topgallant yards, and a royal yard. And besides all these square sails, good enough\nwliilo trade windB blew steadily ^behind,\nshe could set fifteen fore-and-aft sails\n\u2014the only sails that count for manoeuvring against the weather. .\n\u2022H'an finer names be imagined than\nthe topgallant sail or the main-royal?\nWhat centuries of contrivance nnd inherited knowledge nro shown in the\nmoro catalogue of spars and ropes required to spread the wings cf such a\nvessel\u2014cro '-jack yard, upper mizzen-\ntopsail-yard, bowsprit-shrouds, bobstays,\nmartingales, clew-garnets, or spanker-\nboom topping-lifts!\"\n\"The Proussen,\" says the Spectator,\n\"is the largest sailing ship in the world,\nand for some eight years sho has made\nher voyages between Germany and Chile\nwith a punctuality which has astonished all who have watched thorn. She has\nmore than once doubled the Horn four\ntimes in the year.\nThe splendor of the boat and its sails\nleads the writer in the Nation to give\nus a brief imaginative sketch of how\nthe first sailing boat camo into being:\n\"No such historical summary ns the\nsailing ship now lives,\" he savB. \"An\nancient history of shipping tells us that\nNoah was tho first shipbuilder\u2014tho first\nto entrust himself upon the water, his\nheart armored with triple brass. But\ncompulsion, rather than adventure, inspired his enterprise, and the Ark, hav\ning no destination, had no sails. For\nthe originator of the Preussen we must\nturn to au uncouth berng of n more in\nnocont age than Noah's.\n\"Seatod astride a fallen tree, from\nwhich ho hnd torn off most of the\nbranches, he was urging it across a lake,\npartly by his hands and feet, but partly, also with a flattened bough that his\ngrandmother had found more offective\nthan her hands. Pausing to rest and\nenjoy the cool wind that tempered tho\nsun \"upon his back and helped to dry\nhis fur, he observed, with grunting surprise, that the tree continued to progress without his sweaty efforts. lie\nobserved that when he Bquared his\nshoulders and raised his arms, it progressed the faster, ond he glided to the\nopposite shore like a winged god, un\nmilled and sereoe.\n\"Next day the forest was uprooted,\nand the wnolo surface of the lake was\ncrowded with tree trunks, bestridden by\nuncouth beingt\", screaming iu emulation.\nTo cross the lake was now a thing of\nwonder and delight, but, as with the toboggan or Bid, the trouble caine of getting bnck to the starting place for another turn of joy. Abont a week later\nthe first sailor discovered that by pressing ono foot hard against the watej,\nlie could bring bis tree sideways on,\nand by keeping his back still square\nto the wind could continue to progress\nright athwart the course of his competitors. Cries of vengeance arose, but the\ninmost secret of sailing had been ro-\nvealed.\n\"Within a month, pressing first one\nfoot ngainst the water and then the\nother, and squaring his back this way\nor that ou the opposite side to his foot,\nhe slowly navigated his tree by a long\nprocess of zigzags right back against\nthe shore from which he started, although tho wind had not changed. Loud\nwero tho yells and the snortings of astonishment, but the rest was all plain\nsailing now.\n\"To hold up a banana leaf as an ox-\nteniled back, to substitute a stick for\nthe backbone, to drive it into the trunk\nand run it twice through tho banana\nleaf, to substitute nnother stick for tho\nfoot and push it ngainst the water, first\non one sido nnd then on the othor, to\nstitch many leaves together, to use the\nskins of wild beasts instend of leaves,\nand whero skins failed, to steal the\nloosely woven garments of the womon,\nto tie them to the stick with sinews\nand tendrils\u2014these devices were the\nwork of only a few generations.\n\"Thence camo the dugouts, swifter\nand more formidable than the officers\nof reserve who boar their name; thence\nthe silent canoes, with carved and painted eyes upon the prow, espying tlieir\ncourse through darkness; thence the rod\nbarges of the Thames, and the white\nwines that never grow woary.\n''Contemporaneously with the first\nsteamship's wonderful progress was still\nbeing made in building the fast clippers which sailed to the far East.''\nwriles the Spectator; \"but steam rapidly conquered nil other ambitions, and\nsince those days there have been few\nexperiments in the designing of mer-\neliant sailing ships. . We havo heard\nit suggested by a marine engineer that\neven the theory of wind puwer has not\nbeen fully explored, and that there is\nstill something to be achieved in the\nlifting power of wind.\n\"He rested bis ideas on the fact that\na ship when running tends to bury her\nRelief for Suffering Everywhere.\u2014He\nwhoso life is made miserable by the\nsuffering that comes from indigestion\nand has nol. tried Purmnloe's Vegetable\nI'ills does uot know how easily this formidable foe can be dealt wilh. These\npills will relieve where others fail. They\nare the result of long and patient study\nand are confidentlv put forward as a\nsure corrector of disorders of the digestive organs, from which so many suffer.\nnose ia the sea, and that this, tendency\nmight be appreciatively counteracted,\nwhile the lightness and buoyancy of the\nwhole ship could be increased by the\nsupporting power of na\\U used as planes.\n\"Wo civilized men do consout very\neasily to a considerable waste of per-\nmunont force, not Only iu navigation\nbut for engineering nnd domestic purposes. Wo do not live in the 'horse\nlatitudes'; the wind is nearly always\nwith us. Of course, everyone who wants\na cheap motive force has tried to harness tho wind. Every child has made\na paper propellor or a windmill. But\nean it be said thut the possible uses\nof the wind have beeu as arduously investigated as such recently discovered\nforces as- steam nnd electricity and\ngasoef Is it not conceivable that the\npractical uses of the wind arc underestimated just because they are so familiar?\n\"We cannot- help thinking that the\nwind will be more variously employed\nsome day, in tho some way\" that prob-\nably the problem of laying under 'contribution tho great physicalfuet of the\ntides will bo solved. *Oue would think\nthat the wind could bo used for electric lighting, yet there is no practical\napparatus for tho purpose. True, the\nwind is variable and occasionally ob-\nsent; but ns eloctricity can be Btorod,\none might suppose that this was the\nvery ease in which invariability did\nnot particularly matter.\"\nTHE PERSISTENT GYPSY\nEVER since the year 1530 Great Britain has tried to rid itself of the\ngypsies, those Btrango people who\nhave been quaintly described by an old\nwriter ub \"such as wake on the night\nand sleep on the day, and hauat tavorns\nand alohouses, and no man wot from\nwhence thoy come nor whither they\ngo.\" Every year or bo some country\nabroad is up in arms against thom, yet\nthey persist in returning, and apparently .thrive under persecution.\nThe gypsies are popularly supposed to\ncome origiuully from Egypt, as their\nname indicates, but their origin is traced to India. They appeared in England\nabout 1505, and twenty-six years late-V\nHenry VIII, ordered them to leave the\ncountry in sixteen dnys, taking all their\ngoods with them. \"An outlandish people,\" hn called them. The act was ineffectual, and in 1562 Elizabeth's counsellors framed a still more stringent\nlaw, and many were hanged. Many\ncrossed into Scotland and became an intolerable nuisance. Both in that country und in England legislation proved\nquite ineffectual.\nThe various acts fell into desuetude.\nUnder George IV. all that was left of\nthe ban against tho gypsies Wus the\nmild law that \"any person telling fortunes shall be deemed a rogue and a\nvagabond.\"\nGypsies aro no longer a proscribed\nclass. Probably the modem gypsy docB\nlittle evil beyond begging and petty\ntheft, but his determination not to work\nis as strong ob over, and it seems curious that an industrial people like the\nEnglish should continue to tolerate n\nhorde of professional idlers. How numerous the horde is may bo gathered from\nthe fact that the number who wintered\nin a single county iu England one year\nwas ostinmted at ten thousand.\nThe language, as well as the life, of\nthe gypsy tribe, has a tenacity of its\nown. Many of their words have taken\nfirm hold upon the English language.\n\"Shaver\" is the gypsy word for child.\n\"Pal\" is pure gypsy. \"Codger\" means\na man. \"Cutting up\" is gypsy for\nquarrelling, and \"cove\" stands for\n\"that follow.\"\nFEEDING THE JACKALS\nA STRANGE ceremony is carried on\nat certain temples in a district\nof India lying in a belt of swamp\nand jungle at the foot of the Himalayas. Persons who havo visited these\ntemples at sundown state that they\nfound the priests engaged in cooking\nlarge cakes before tho temples in perfect silence.\nAs tho last rays of sunlight disappear, the chief priest issues from the\nshrine. Moving slowly forward, he\ntakes up a hammer and begins to strike\na bell.\nAt the sound all the priests rise and\nmove solemnly and in dead silence\naround the quadrangle, bearing with\nthem their huge cakes, which they\nbreak up as they walk, and deposit on\nthe stones and tree-trunks and on the\nsteps of the temple. A rustling sound\nthen caused one of the visitors to turn.\nA jackal, big and plump, brushed past\nhim, and he in turn was followed by\nother jackals, singly and in pairs, emerging from every lane and passage in\nthe darkening thicket. They filled the\nspace before the temple. The high\npriest ceasod to toll the bell, and, at\na shout and a wave of the hand, every\njackal trotted, to what was evidently\nbis accustomed place in tho feast, seized\nthe cake in his jnws, turned nnd disappeared through the thicket.\nNo traveller has been able to elicit\nfrom the priests au explanation of this\nstrange bounty. \"It has always been\nso,\" is their only answer to any questions.\nTHE STRONGEST ANIMAL FORCE\nA SK ten persons what is the strong\nt\\ est animal force in the world and\nnine will reply that it is the blow\nfrom a lion's paw. The tenth man may\nhave had a checkered career and express the belief, based on experience,\nthat it is the kick of a .Missouri mule.\nAs a matter of fact, the blow of a\nwhale's tail is incomparably the strongest animal force; a blow delivered by\na full-grown whale placed nt just the\nright distance would smash in the side\nof a wooden ship us though it wero un\negg shell. The second strongest force\nis the kick of n giraffe, and this terrible\nkick is very adequate protection tu\nthese otherwise helpless animals. The\nBtroke of the lion's paw comes third on\nthe list.\nA POSTPONED TRAGEDY\n\"You have appendicitis,\" snid the doctor man [0 dim,\n\"And I must operate at tmce, ur rise\nyour chance is slim!\"\nChildren's Sca'p Sores\nare Healed by Zam-Buk\nMothers are well aware bow frequently children contract scalp so.os, ringworm, etc., ut school. At play tht\nchildren change caps, and right there\nthe infection is spread\u2014tho damage\ndone.\nSome children are particularly liable\nto eealp sores, etc., and often these\nbieak out with annoying frequency.\nSuch a ease was that of the daughter\nof Mrs. Albert Gaedike, of 4Si Amherst Street, Montreal. Mrs. Gaedike\nsays: \"My little three-year-old daughter suffered frequently from scalp disease, nud try as we* would, we ueuld\nnot rid tho little ono of this. We *\u00bbcd\neverything wu would think of, but felled to effect a cure, until we wero advised to try Zam-Buk. This baJm Mailed entirely different from anythiif wt\nhnd ever tried before, uud frou Inst\napplying it thero was a murktfr ua-\nprovomont. The sores became loss inflamed and less irritable. After a few\ndays, they censed to trouble tho child;\nand in less than a fortnight from first\ncommencing with Ham-Iiuk they were\ncompletely healed. In view of these\nfacts I fee] it my duty to let mothers\nknow how beneficial Zam-Buk is.\"\nt There is uo doubt that for sculp Bores,\nringworm, ulcers, abscesses, cold cracks,\nchapped hands, frostbite and similar\nsores Zam-Buk is absolutely without\nequal. It is just as good for piles,\nvaricose veins, poisoned wounds, cuts,\nburns, nnd scalds. Rubbed well in over\ntho affected part, it cures rheumatism*\nsciatica, etc., etc., and rubbed into the\nchest it relieves the tightness and feeling of weight due to contracting a bad\ncold. All druggists and stores sell at\n50c box, or post free from Zam-Buk Co.,\nToronto, for price. Refuse imitations.\nHis Old Age Made\nFree From Suffering\nBY GIN FILLS\nAnnapolis, N.8.\n\"I am over eighty years of age and\nhave been suffering with Kidney and\nBladder Trouble for fifteen years. I\ntook doctors' medicine und got no help.\nI want to thank you for sending me the\nsample box of GIN PILLS.\nI have taken six boxes of GIN\nPILLS altogether, but got relief before\nI had taken near that amount. I had\nto got up some nights every fifteen\nminutes and had to use an instrument\nbefore I could urinate.\nNow I cun lie in bed four or five\nI ours without getting up. I can say\nHint GIN PILLS have nearly cured me\nand T shall always keep a box in the\nhouse.\nW. H. PIEBfE.\"\nDo a* Mr. Pierce did\u2014w ite us for\nfree sample box of GIN PILLS aad see\nfor youruelf just how much they will\ndo for you\u2014tbeu buy tre regular size\nboxes at your dealer's\u201450c, or six for\n$2.50. GIN PILLS are sold with a positive guarantee of money back if they\nfail to give prompt relief. National\nDrug nnd Chemical Co., Dept. B.P., Toronto.\nensures no hard work and\nno dirty work. N o messing\nor mixing. A handy paste\nin a generous can. A few\nrubs, and you have a\nsplendid finish that lasts\nand stands the heat. The\nbest preparation for polishing stoves, pipes, grates\nand ironwork.\nIf your dealer does not carry\n\"Black Knjight\" Stove Polish In\nstock, send us his name and ice,\nand we will scud a full size tin\nby return mail,\nmr.F.DAT,LHfC0,,L|MITIll\nEtMlLTOK, ONI 33\nMakers qftiafammn \"* in r'ShoePohik.\nHAUnQfiUUUi\n\"Vou shall not touch a knife to me,\"\nwas James's firm reply\u2014\n\"I'll have no operation,* and I ain't\na-goin' to die!\"\n\"Ultima I cut,\" the doctor said, \"you'll surely pass away;\nVou will be dead, believe me, sir, by\ntwo o 'clock to-day.''\nHo Jim was scared and yielded, The\ncarving was a Bhock;'\nRut Jim wus very thunkful that he\nlived ut two o'clock.\nVox doctors know their business, and\nit's very plain to Bee\nThat this one saved Jim's life, because\nho didn't die till three.\nGermany will establish a record in\n1911 by launching six new Dreadnoughts.\nWarden\u2014No'm; the guy that killed\nhis family ain't here any more. The\ngov'nor pardoned him. The Visitor\u2014\nWhat a shame. I've brought him u lot\nof roses. What other murderers have\nyou? *\nA Ready Weapon Against Pain.\u2014\nThere is nothing equal to Dr. Thomas*\nRc lee trie Oil when well rubbed in. ft\nponctrntos the tissues and pain disappears before it. Thero is no known\npreparation that will roach tho spot\nquicker than this magic oil. Ia consequence, it ranks first among liniments\nnow offered to the public, and is accorded firnt place among all ita competitors.\n77 THK 1SLASUKK, CUMBERLAND, B.C\nTHE ISLANDER\nPublished every Saturday at Cumberland, B.C., by\nOemosd T. Smithe,\nEditor and Proprietor.\nAdvertising rates published elsewhere in thp paper.\nSubscription prise $1.00 per year, payable in ndvanoe.\nThe editor does sot hold himself responsible for views expressed by\ngorretpoodenU,\nSATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1911.\nWhat the Editor has to say.\nA Board of Trade is badly needed in this city, and we\nwould like to see this taken up by the business men of the\ntown. We believe that the Mayor is the proper person to set\nthe ball rolling, and we would suggest that he call a meeting\nof those eligible to form such a body at an early date. Space\nwill net allow us to dwell at any length on this matter this\nweek, but we will deal with it more fully in our next.issue.\nThe recent explosion on Protection Island, Nanaimo\nshould cause the citizens of our town to pause and think what\nthe consequence would be should the powder magazine here\nblow up.\nIf fourteen boxes of powder on Protection Island is suffi\ncient to break windows all over Nanaimo, how much of this\ntown would be left if the thirty tons stored here, exploded ?\nWe would suggest that the City Council take up this\nmatter with the Company at once, and we have no doubt that\nif the danger arising from the storage of powder in the present\nlocation was brought to their attention in the right way there\nwould be no difficulty whatever in persuading the Company\nto remove the magazine to some more safe locality.\nWe are told that blasting was being done quite recently\nwithin one hundred yards of the magazine.\nFrom a standpoint of property loss, the company itself\nwould be by far the greatest loser if au explosion did occur.\njt is rather difficult to improve our city streets without\nmoney, but the same is not true with regard to the cleanliness\nof our main thoroughfare.\nDunsmuir Avenue might be improved greatly in appearance if tin cans and rubbish of all kinds were not allowed to\naccumulate on the street and we think if the property owners\nwere made responsible for such accumulations in front of their\npremises, and fined for allowing rubbish to gather, it would add\ngreatly to the appearance of the City without making the\nslightest drain upon the civic finances.\nWe have lieen asked to comment upon the amount of bro\nken glass upon our streets, and ou the roads of the District\ngenerally. This is a matter of considerable expense and annoy\nance to cyclists and motorists, and those responsible for such\nmaterial being on the roads should be taught the error of their\nways in the police court, if caught.\nWe note that the B. C, Telephone Co., have inaugurated\nan all night service in Duncan.\nIn looking over the telephone directory and comparing\nthat town with Cumberland, we find tha1. while there are i\\\nfew more phones in Duncan than here; the majority of phones\nin Duncan are on the party system, while in this town practically all the phones are individual phones, and the revenue de\nrived therefrom must be at least equal to, if not in excess ol\nthe revenue derived from the Duncan centre.\nWe believe that there is sufficient business in Cumberland to warrant the Company in putting on an all night service here, and we think an effort might well he made to induce\nthe telephone company to install such a system.\nWe are of the opinion that the Company would be able to\ninstall a large number of new phones iu connection with this\ncentral, especially from the Happy Valley district by granting\nan all night service.\nBeadnell & Biscoe\nREAL ESTATE AGENTS\nOffices: Courtenay and\n Comox, B.C.\nBush and Farm Lands\nSea and River Frontage\nCourtenay Lots\np^e 6 at AH Prices\nI FRUIT TREES!\nNot the Cheapest, but the Best\nCatalogue Free\nJ Vancouver Island Nursery Co.,\n* Ud.\nSamenos, V.I.\n{,\u2666\u25a0>.,*> a,\t\njASnap in Timber)\nEight Million Feotof good timber mostly fir.\nEasy to log out and with a good harbor to\nhold the logs in. This is a first-class investment for some one, as the timber is right on\nthe wuter front. Price #1.00 per 1000. Apply\nj The Island Realty Co. |\nFire, Life, Live Stock\n... Accident. .\nnv , P. L. ANDBRTOM,\nPhone 22. Courtenay, B. O.\nNOTICE\nTenden will be received by the under\ntigned up to the 82nd. day of April\n1911, at 6 P. M. lot the purchase of\nBlock 27, Subdiviiiun uf Lot Mo. 641,\nGroup one, New Wottminaier District,\nututted in the City a if Vancouver, and\nMing the tlte of the old Provincial Court\nBouse. Each tender must lie enclosed\nin a regiatered letter and must be addrea\nted to the underlined, and plainly mark\ned \"Tenders for Uid Vancouver Court\nllouie Site,\" snd must be accompanied\nby an accepted cheque for ten per cent\nof the first payment uf the purchase main\ney. Payment for the property will be\nnccepted in iu.talmentt ot uue quarter\nuf the puichase money. The first of\ntuch iuitalnienta to be paid within thirty days after the acosptanoe of the tender, tnd the other three, annually there,\nafter, with interest at aix per cent per an-\nnum. In the event of tbe person whose\ntender it accepted failing to complete the\nthe tale tu him will be cancellud aud hit\nten per cent deputit forfeited. The ehe\nques ot untuccestful tenderers will be re\nturned. The higheat or sny tender will\nnot neceaaarily be accepted. No com-\ninitaioiat of any kind will be sllewud,\nWilliam R. lions,\nMinister uf Laudt\nDepartment of Landt\nVictoria, B. O.\nMarch 7th. 1911\nCANCELLATION OF RESERVE\nNOTICE is mint oivaw thst the\nreserve eziiting by reason of s\nnotice published in th* British Columbia (lazette of the 27th. dty of December, 1907, over lands trusted nn the\nIi'iat side of Texada Itland, lying to the\nsouth of Lot No. 26, formerly covered\nbv Timber Lioenae No. 13480, which\naixpired on the 7th day of May, 1908,\nis cancelled, and that the said lands will\nbaa open for location under the provis\ni ns uf the '-Land Aot,\" after midnight\non June lfrh. 1911'\nIioMKT A. Buwick,\nDeputy Minister uf Lands.\nLandt Department,\nVictoria, B. C.\n9th. March, 1911\nPROVINCIAL ELECTIONS ACT.\nComox Electoral District\nTAKE NOTICE thst 1 have received bbjatetiont in writing to ths retention of ths following iisui' t mi the Register of Voters fur the Comox Electoral District on the grounds sated below:\nAND TAKE NOTICE that a Coebt or Revision to bs held on the\nSivixtb oat or Mat, 1911, at the Court Hoi si. Cumiikl.hd, B. 0., it 10\no'ol ek in the lurauouu, 1 shall hsar aud determine ths sill objections, sad un\nlets tueb uamed persons, or some other provincial voter un their behalf, satiate*\nme that such ubj otions an not well founded, I thill atrik* such nam** ef tbe\nHid Bag iter.\nJOHN BA1RD,\nRegistrar of Voter*\nComox Elector*! District\nDated Mat Mth. dag of March, 1911.\nThe following persons are reported absent from the district:\u2014\nPuck\n.Cumberland.,\n.Main Street, Union..\nCumberland\t\nNo. Nam\n75 Bannerman, John R\t\n86 Bates, Frederick\t\n112 Bennie, Duncan\t\n165 Bradshaw, John James\t\n251 Corron, Jaiwn M\t\n273 Chambers, John\t\n466 Farmer, Harry\t\n53.1 Gamier, Chrittonher\t\n599 Green, Frederi. kJ\t\n618 Haggart, Thomas Forbes\t\n794 Jenkins, John Miles\t\n823 Junes, Edward Waller\t\n911 Lefley, John \t\n918 Uiistone, Ji.hn Toxei\t\n930 Lytell, James\t\n966 Martin' Owen\t\n1028 Misener, William Dunstan....\n1061 Munilell, John \t\n1137 Mclntyre, John\t\n1213 McMillan, George V\t\n1247 Napier, R. Ross\t\n1287 Olaon, Ole \t\n1302 Parker, Frank\t\n1386 Pivkard, Albert\t\n1837 Pickard, Frederick Day\t\n1342 Pidcock, William Thomas....\n1362 Piket, John Henry\t\n1411 Rees, J. M\t\n1469 Rua Antonio\t\n1613 Shaw, George Nelson Jardine.\n1720 Wall, William Henry ,^^___^_^__\nThe following persons are reported deceased:\u2014\nSees. 18 ami 45, Comox..\n Cumberland....\nUnion Hotel, Union.\nQuathiasco Cove\t\nSpring inn, Comox..\nSandwick\t\nCumlierlnnd\t\nCourtenay\t\nCumberland\t\n407 Dirkes, Frederick Augustus...\n482 Fletcher, Donald H\t\n651 Hancock, SydneyWilliaiuGeorge\n755 Howell, Lewis\t\n765 Humphrey, John\t\n1085 McCluskey, Harry\t\n1152 McKclvey, Adam\t\n1214 McMillan, John Alexander\t\n1308 Parkes, Nelson\t\n.. Cumberland..\n..Courtenay....\n.Cumberland..\n1647 Taut, Enrico Uuion.\n..Union Bay\t\n..Comox\t\n..Courtenay\t\n..Denman Island.,\n..Cumberland\t\nCourt of Revifiion\nA Court nf Revision will be held In\nthe Oily Council Chambers un Thursday\nMsy 18. lull, at 7 30 p m., for he pur\npus* uf hearing complaint, il >il)y againa!\ntha enlistment nf property in the City of\nCumberland for the year 1911.\nAny (aeraop ur persons lisviig cum\nplaint must give notice in writing at least\nten dsyt before thu aluto nf meeting.\nALU. McKmnun, Guy Clerk\nCumberlan, B.C., April 6th. 1011\nHAYH'AKD LAND DMTRICT\nDistrict of rtayward\nTAKK NOTII'K tlmt \u00abllllatn Maddlson Fnuxir.\nif Vancouver III'. occupation carpnttr, tntctadalai\nj.I\u00bb1 y fur pennlaslaiu to purcbaae tat following al..\naLTab.ll band*\u2014\nriiaaiuiencinK at a poat plantaaat about 10 chain,\ntltarth of tha a. W, comer of T. I. 27IDA; thencaennth\n\u2022n rhalna: thence west SO ctatnai th.net north So\nctialtla; ihetc. aaalat WI clualraa tt point of C0U18l.nct\niilutal, containing 040 scraa mora or laaa.\nWllluana Maatallaun fratar\nCtrl (.una, Stem\nlitis. March 10th 1011 (tpl I)\nHAVWAKI) LAND DIHTBICT\nMetric! iifsuyaaard\nTAKK NOTICK thiat George forler, of Vtncauar\niiri'upution burlier. Intenala to apply for peruiiaelon\n' -i DiirclauKe the faallowlng described land.;\u2014\n.aiiiiuieiia'lligial a poat plantta! at tht a. Kcoin.r\nnf I'. L. 371 ir. thence about B0 ctslnt west; thence a\nonut 1.0 chains north to short Una; theac. aotlb-\neMt, follaawlng shore Una to point ot cctainsocaaaeat\ncc-nulninjf M0 ocrea more or lata.\nGeorge Porter\nKarl Cllat, Aj.nl\nUiato Murcla mth. Mil. (tpl I)\nNAYWARD LAND DMTRICT\nDlatrlct of atyward\nI'AKK NOTI K tint Alfred Ctutanthe of V.nco-\nu\u00bber Il.a.:., occupation planterer, Inlanda to apply\nfairpernaluiontopurei,,, tD> follswlaf daatrlbtd\nlanala-\nan mencliujat poat planted about ncbalaa tort*\nilftlloKW corner ol T L X71S6; tbenct mil \u00bb\nrliuUK i bailee noma \u00bbll (tfl |)\nSubscribe\nFor\nt ISLANDER\nLittle cubes of metal\nLittle tubes of ink;\nBrains, and the printing presses\nMake the millions think\nThere is no better\nway of making the\npeople of this district think of you\nthan through an advertisement in\nTbe Islander tV\nTHK tflLiHDSR CUMRKRLAiKD. R.U\n>\n\\\n111;\nA\nTHE BIG STORE\n:m:eits oLOTHiira\nfor Style, Qnality, Finish and Price, the' Perfection Brand\"\nfor men ud boy* 1* unequalled.\nPrices from 12 00 to 27.50\nHATS & CAPS\nBorne very large shipments of Spring Style* just arrived- Our\nrange 1* too large to mention all in tbis spaoe.\nBOOTS & SHOES\nFir\u00bbt shipment of the Renowned \"Slater\" Shoe and \"Palace\"\nShoe* Every line the newest for Spring.\nMEN'S NEGLIGEE AND LAUNDERED SHIRTS.\nThe largest range ever shown in this store.\nWE LIKE TO SHOW OUR GOODS\nA Large Stock of the Freshest Groceries\nGIVE US A TRIAL ORDER\nSatisfaction\nGuaranteed.\nSimon Leiser\n& 00 LTD.\nDISTRICT AOBNT\n..FOR..\nThe Russell\nAUTOMOBILE\nThe only Car Made\nin America with\nthe \"Silent Knight\nValveless Engine,\"\nAlso made in valve\nstyle\nE. C. lEIfcODIE!\nCleveland. Brantford, Massey-Harrls, Perfect and Blue Flyer Bley.\noles; Fairbanks Morse Gas Engines; also the Moore Gasoline\nLlghtliig Systems. Oliver Typewriters. Repairing of all kinds.\nBicycles, Sewing Machines, Gun's, etc. Scissors and Skates ground\nRubber Tires for Baby Carriages. Hoops Jar Tubs\nTHIRD STREET, CUMBERLAND.\nIF YOU ARE THINKING OF BUYING A\nBUY A SINGER\nThe BEST Machine on the Market\nand sold on EASY TERMS \t\nJEPSON BROS., District Agenta, Nanaimo, B. C\nC Segrave, Local Rejiresentatire, Cumberland, B. C.\n\u20ac\n.H, ASTON\ni\nPractical Watchmaker\nAll Work Guaranteed\n1\nEof\nDunsi\nB ttleH Spi\n. . NEXT TO TARBELL'S, . .\nmuir Ave ::: Cumb\nally.\nerland\nmhi&\nUnion Lodqk No 11 I. 0 0 F.\nMeeU every Fiidnj uvui.iii^ \u00bb\u2022_ 7 null ck\nin I. a 0. F. Hr.ll Visiting brut hem\nvtloome.\nJsM fi A8T0N, SKOBKl'AltV\nI Giw 11*1x1 mnJ, emtio* DUtrivl, huve bvech'\n** coHbtttl lo\u00a7\u00abofthU\u00abtamp: . x 7, andaqtuire\nwith ltlter ('lit cuiitre. If uwiiitm wiah tn claim,\nplMM coiuinunkttUi to defray uiptjiiiM, Aililtvw\n\" hlaod.\nA FINE LINE OF NEW\nMA TERIALS JUST RE-\n-\u2022 : -\u2022 CEIVEL} : : :\nP. DUNNE\nUp-to-date Merchant Tailor\nDUNSMUIR AVENUE\n0001.\n\u2022io, be aur* to order your wo Jalin\u201e invi\nlationa at Ths Isuimn Ottos. Sample*\nat this ufljet.\nNow the timo will saion be coining\nWhen wilh jour residenceyutiilo\ndo get tick,\nFor after the firm the house with\ndirt does gst thick,\n8o don't you think we'd better be\nquick\nAnd sail on the Painter end have our\nhouse fixed.\nli. PARKINSON\nPainter and Papa-hanger\n8I0N WHITEK etc. CuinberUnd.\nTerms Moderate. Business Punctual\nTHE\nCUMBERLAND\n= HOTEL =\nW. MERRIFIELD, Prop.\nThe finest hotel in the city.\n..i m\n\u25a0 i\n\"Leading Tobacco King.\"\nWAaaM%aav\nBetter known as\n\"LONG WILLIE\"\nDealer la Fruits, Candy, Cigars\nand Tobacco.\nE3a\u00bb Billiard Room in connection\ni-ni\nGrocers & Bakers\nDealers in all kinds of Good\nWat Goods\nBest Bread and Beer in Town\ntiganta for Wlsener Bear\nH. M. Beadnell,\nComox, B. C.\nt\u00abV*t\u00bb\u00absajiNa*aa\u00ab\u00bbataataaa.a\u00bba\u00bbaaa.a\u00bb *,\u00bb -.,-1|^.|\u2014.-^^ f^^^-y^^\nJ. N. McLEOD\nC. H. TARBELL\nStoves and Ranges,\nBuilders Hardware, Outlery,\nPaint, Varnishes, Arms and Ammunition, Sporting Goods,\netc.\nAGENTS FOR;\nThe McClary Manufactuing Co.\nSherwin-Williams Paints\ni\u00bb\nAT THE\nFURNITURE STORE\njust Arrived\nA CONSIGNMENT OF SIDEBOARDS\nin GOLDEN and SURFACE FINISH,\nRANGING FROM $20.00 TO $25.00\n\"The Furniture Store\"\nMoPbee Block A. McKINNON Cumberland, B.O\nTffE NEDJ EHBLiD HOTEL\n\u25a0 JAMES WALTERS,\nPROPRIETOR\nTHE POOREST OF WINES, LIQUOR A BEER\nALSO THE BEST OF CIGARS. \u2022\nDUNSMUIR AVENUE\nCUMBERLAND, B. C.\n\u2022a\u00ab\u00bb\nPilsener Beep\nThe product of Pure Malt and\nBohemian Hops\nAbsolutely no chemicals used\nin its manufacture\nsssBest on the Coast ===\nS. G. HANSON'S\naj09piiUeta, hatched 1909\nIromJtai I taa (Kov II 1.1.(1 J75HC \u00aba>|\nWhich told tat tvhaatktaal'ar |arlct!\u00bb\n\u00bb\u00abl \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 $1219.12\n(Boat of feed for aama period 9ll.pt\n* 8C8.07\nHvtraettprofIt psr bird far\n151daya ...\nHfia'aS IOR HATCIIINQ.\nMarcti\nApril\nJune\nsa.ei\nPir II. Per IIM\nII.OO II.VIXI\nIMU 15.IKI\n\u2022 2.10 ' I2.jal\n\u25a0 2.11. 1.1.00\nHILLCREST POULTRY FARM\nDINCAN, B.C. J.\nPilsener Brewing Co.. Cumberland, B.C.\n IL\n; ISLfflllH I9IEVTIHIIHHE8\nD i s pin y Advertisements\n75 etints per column ini'li (ior rannth.\nSpi'i'iul .nil- for half page or more.\nCondensed Advertisements\n1 cent 1 mini, 1 issue; minimum cliargo 25 cunts.\nNn accounts run for this class of advertising THE ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND, B.C.\nFOUR PHYSICIANS FAILED\nMr. Gouge Pulos, a Well-known To-\nlucco Merchant in Broclcvillc, Out..\nTolls of His Faith in tho Merit of\nCatarrhozone.\n\"Ja Ue fall of 1903,\" writes Mr.\nPalo*, Wider date of June LOth, 1910,\n1 tjoalractM a vory severe cold which\n\u2022ievelaped into Catarrh. At that timo\n1 was living in Now Vork state and\ntreated with four different physicians,\nwh# afforded mo no relief. On coming\nla Broi-ekville, t was advised by a friend\nio kry OatarrliOEone, I bought tho dollar on I lit and was gratified by the re-\nsuits, i way completely cured by\nCatarrh ozone, and have used it since to\nabart a cold with unfailing results, Tt\niii fche grandest modicine in existence,\niwi I hope ray testimony will bo of\n\u25a0one nfio io other follow-suffer ere.\"\n(Signed) George Pulos.\nRefaae a substitute for Catarrhozone;\nit nJuiio oan cure, Sold in 25c, 50c, and\n*!.0\u00ab sizes by all dealers.\nST. LUKE'S TEEE\nWHILE there are many venerable\nami famous trees iu tho world,\nevery country having a Bpocl-\nurou \u2022)\u25a0 two that it regards with special\npride and veneration, most of them are\niu the lirst Hush of youth when compared with the great plane tree on the\nisland of Cos, in tho Aegean Sea.\nThis tree stands in the main street\nof the principal town, which is also called Cbs. Under its branches, tradition\nhas it, both St. Luke and St. Paul rested.\nIt is a pretty big tree, eighteen yards\niu circumference and over two thous-\naud years old, It is surrounded by a\npodium, or raised platform, breast-high,\ndoubtless built to support the trunk of\nthe tree after it had beeomo hollow and\nweak from age.\nThe lower branches are still well pro-\nserved, and havo been shored up by\npieces of antique columns, over tho\n\u25a0pper owls of which the branches have\ngrown like caps, in consequence of the\npressure of thoir own weight.\nOIoho by the treo is a solid marble\nseat which is said to havo been the\nchair of Iilppocrates, the Greek physic\nian, called \"The Father of Medicine,'\nand it is supposed that he taught the\nart of healing from that seat. Hippo\ncrates was horn at (Jos in 4IJ0 B.C.\nThis circumstance gives a clew to the\ngroat age of the celebrated plane-tree,\nwhich must be considerably over two\nthousand years old.\nThe Tailor\u2014\"Married or singlet\n'JJhti Customer\u2014'.'.Married. Whyf\" The\nTaJior\u2014\"Then lot me recommend my\n(Mite.ni safety-deposit pocket. It contain., a most ingenious little contrivance\nthai feels exactly like n live mouse.\"\n\"A number of performances are being described as improprieties,\" said\none theatrical producer. \"Yes,\" replied\ntlu* other, \"it's getting harder every\nyear to toll what improprieties the pub'\nHe regards as proper.\"\nf \u00b1 IfaM mm\n1 *\u2122b \u25a0 is n safe, pli imnt, amisepti\n| I lliilnipnl inr r-.(..icing v Lrlco*\nJ Vel \u25a0\u25a0 to :: mil! ceudlUon\nlB1_ | tn -\u25a0 ing Hn m even ;it'. t ii''','\n>ffie3iZ\u00a3),\\l-i. l.lltl.\n>ncU, \u2022\u25a0\u2022<'.)' n\u2014h. A ;,'< or] rein\ni}- fi I'-..a.; in t!u- house h\nmo the cli ildron goto b-nlcut\n- i i i ii \u25a0 throat, oi\n\"\u25a0-\u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0,.,! t ni Me where t\n\u00bb\u00ab1 In ii \u25a0\u25a0\u2022 n m.db&uBoml\n. IJM' \u25a0 '\u25a0:. ; , .*...,(\" n.'trnUt\n\u25a0\u2022 '..'1 a. At id\n\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 -.:...!-n11|1\u201e.,lni,lybj\n21QTimirfoSt,8^ngfleld,MlM\nH Ml .,,-, Ii'1-..ll-n U-oi'l.\nI^ li'il.* k WW r HI., Itlatelpn\naiwiliKuK *M?1sS2Sm * **'\nDr-MarteFs Female Pill?\nEIGHTEEN YE-R3 THE STANDARD\nProRcrllnid nnd rcconiinnnded for women's nil-\niii'ini!,, a \u2022icn\";tiii .illy |i:i'u \u25a0: 'ii rninody nf\nproven worto. Tho rainlt from their hoc in\nIftUek nnd poniiiiucnt. Tor h;i1o nt all driiR\nStores.\nMere's a Home Dye\nThat\nANYONE\nOan Use.\nHOME DYEING hai\narjirayj been more or\n1ms of a difficult nndeiw\ntaking- Not to whin\nyou uu\nDYOLA\nSemi fur Sample\nCird unit Sn.ry\nllpukletM\nI'lir JOirNSON-\nItlCHAIlDSON\nCO , Limited,\nMontrnnl. C\u00bbn.\nJUST THINK Of IT!\nWith DYOLA you can color cither Wool,\nCtitWn, Silk or Mixed Goads Perfectly with\ntlf SAME Dye. No clinnco of using the\nWHONG l)y<- l\u00bbr tin; Oogdl you li.ivo to color.\n\" TAKE A DOSE OF\npises\nM ^THE BEST MEDICINE mmmW\nrl\u00bbr COUGHS 6 COLDS\nMAV is dremlfully disappointed iu\nher fiance.\"\n\"What's tbe trouble!\"\n\"She'd just found mil that all those\nbeautiful things lie quotod from Shakespeare wereu't original.\"\nI don't see any sense in referring to\nthe wisdom of Solomon,\" said the\nman, smartly. \"Ile had a thousand\nwives!\"\n\"Yes,\" answered the woman, tartly;\n'lie learned liis wisdom from them.\"\nWE won't print any such stuff in\nthat!\" said the editor loftily,\nas he handed back the manuscript;\n'Well, you needn't be so haughty\nabout it,\"\" retorted the irregular contributor. You're not the only ono who\nwon 't print it.\"\nAN aged colored man was passing\na fish store whon ho stopped to\nexamine n huge turtle chained in\ntho doorway as an advertisement.\nHo had \"never soon a turtle before,\nand lie prodded tho strango creature\ncuriously. Suddenly he popped his\nfinger into his mouth with a howl of\npain. Aftor tho finger had stopped\nblooding, ho gazed at it ruefully, then\neyed tho turtle apprehensively.\n\"What's the matter, 'Bastusf\" asked the fish dealer with a grin.\n\"NuiuV, sah, nuffin' Ah was jest\nwonderin' whether Ah had been bit or\nstung.\"\nMES. WILSON'S husband was often\nobliged to make long journeys on\nbusiness, and frequently did not\nreach home till after midnight.\nHis wife had usually slept peacefully\nat these times, but a number of burglaries in the neighborhood during ono of\nMr. Wilson's trips had disturbed her\ncalm.\nOne night Mr. Wilson was stealing\ncarefully up the stairs, so that his wife\nshould uot be awakened, whon ho heard\nher voice, high and strained:\n\"I don't kuow wbother you are ray\nhusband or a burglar,'' Bhe called,\n\"but 1 am going to bo on the safo side\naud shoot. S'o if you aro Henry you'd\nbetter get out of the way.\"\nAN American newspaper correspondent, who followed the government\narmy In, a recent revolution in a\nLin tin-American country, tolls a story\nabout an exporienco that he had with\ntho general commanding the division,\nTho correspondent observed that\nevery town that tho troops invaded\nthej would help thomselvos to every\nthing that was not nailed, screwed, or\nauchoreii down.\nThis did not appeal to the Amerieun's\nideas of tho rules of war, aud he re\nported tho misdoings of the soldiers to\nthe, commander,\n\"That is selfish,\" said the latter, in\ndignantly. \"I will seo to It that when\nwe reach the next town you will have\nthe lirst chance.\"\nThe correspondent confined himself\nthereafter to tho writing of \"copy\nEDWARD TERRY, the distinguished\nEnglish comedian who has appeared iu a number of plays in Canada\nrecently, tells this story:\nSome years ago, when playing in\nLeeds, Kngland, f started a swimming\ncompetition among the members of the\ncompany, and to encourage them, offered ns a prize a silver loving cup (won.\nby the way, by the late Kdward Lon-\nnen). The ovont apparently created\nsome interest in the town, and a friend\nheard two men engage in a discussion\na.s follows:\nFirst Man: \"I say, durst ta know\nthis 'ere Terry's given u coop to bi\nswimmer i' company?''\nSecond Man: \"Aye, what's that\nfor?\"\nFirst Man: \"Oil, I suppose it's to\nkeep them play-actors clean.\"\ni WELL-KNOWN theologian said in\n. V a recent address:\n\"Thomas A. Edison tells us\nthat he thinks the. soul is uot immortal.\nBut, after all, what does this great\nwizard know about soulsf His forte\nis electricity and machinery, nud when\nho talks of souls he reminds mo irrest-\nibly of the young lady who visited the\nBaldwin Locomotive Works and then\ntold how a locomotive is made.\n\" 'Vou pour,' she said, 'a lot of sand\ninto a lot of boxes, and you throw old\nstove lids and things into a furnace,\nand then you empty tho moll on stream\ninto a nole iu the sand, and everybody\nyells and swears. Then you pour it\nnut, let it cool, und pound it, and then\nyou put iu it a thing that bores holes\nin it. Then you screw it together and\npaint it, nnd put steam in it, and it\ngoes splendidly; and Ihey take it to\na drafting room and make a blue print\nof It. Hut one thing I forgot!\u2014they\nhave to make a boiler. One man gets\n(\u25a1Bide and ono got-8 outBido, and they\npound frightfully) am! then they tld\nit to the othor thing, and vou ought t\nsee it go!\"\nDO not sneer at. the juvenile iutel\nled,\" sail] a district superintendent. \"SotnotimOB a boy can ask\nquestions that a man can't answer.''\nAnd he went on to tell of an oxpori\n\"lice he had when ho was principal of\nune of Ihe New York schools, lie was\nculled on by a teacher to come to her\naid.\n\"It's nil right,\" said she, \"until\nmil lira I history hour cmncs. Sammy\ntones lives on a farm, and he thinks\nlie knows more about natural history\nthan the man that invented it. He\nkoopfl asking me questions\u2014and if I\ninswer them Sammy laughs, and if I\nloll't the children ' do. Discipline is\nlimply gone to pot. The children would\n\u2022 Wo up their recess if I would lengthen\nhe natural history hour by five minutes.\"\n' 'So,\" Bald the school superintend-\n\u2022it, \"in the pride of my manhood f\ntold her I WOUld come to her rescue.\nWomen With Weakness\nFor all weakness from which girls\nnd women suffer, no surer remedy exists than Dr. Hamilton's Pills. They\nintain that bracing health \u00a9very wo-\nii so earnestly desires; they uproot\ndisease] and bring strength that lasts\ntill old age.\n\"No medicine could be more bene\nicial than Dr. Hamilton's Pills,\" writes\ndrs. Mary E. Ayrton of Victoria. \"I\nlave been strengthened, my digestion\ns better, I have improved in color and\nocl considerably better since using Dr.\nJamilton's Pills.\" Sold everywhere,\n!;lc per box or five boxes for ono dollar.\n'One short sharp answer will denote to\nSammy that the matinee is over.' The\nteacher welcomed my aid. That afternoon I dropped iu and took charge of\nthe exorcises. I told the children 1\nwould allow just oue question oach.\nAud Sammy stumped me. I hud hardly\nmade the announcement before his hand\nwas up.\n\"What is it, Sammy?\" I asked.'\n\"Has a duck eyebrows?\" asked Sammy.\n# # #\u25a0\nHERE is the true story of how Representative Champ Clark of\nMissouri, who bus got a half-\nnelson on the speakership of the next\nHouse at Washington, got his name.\nHe told it himself to a reporter:\nMy paronts named mo James Beau-\nchamp Clack (he said). They didn't\nchristen me because.they were Camp\nbellites and didu 't believe in christen\ning, I hudn 't been noticing things\nvery long beforo I discovered that there\nis a J. ii. Chirk at nearly every post-\noffice in tho United States, One day\nI went down into Kentucky to a place\nwhere as usual there was a man named\nJ. B. Clark. Nearly all of my mail\nwent to him. He was a queer sort of\nfellow, nnd he opened my letters and\nsent them back to the writers. When\nI found that out, you may be suro I\ngot mad. I then and there decided to\nchange my name.\nTho first thing I did was to drop off\nthe \"James.\" I thought it would bo\na nice thing to be called Beauchamp\nClark. But the first thing I knew they\nwere calling- me Beechamp, Boochamp,\nBicbainp, Bawchamp, and every other\nkind of \"Champ.\" Nobody could pronounce it right. I never was certain I\ncould either. So I just dropped off the\nfirst purt and kept the \"Champ.\"\nIt was tho best thing I ovor did. I '11\nbet you almost anything you want that\nthere is no man in Congress that gets\nhis full name printed in the papers as\noften us I do. Other fellows are re\nferred to as Representative Smith, Re\npresentative Jones, etc., but they cnll\nme Champ Clark. Just how much that\nlucky name has to do with my political\nsuccess I can't say, but I kuow it has\ndone a lot.\nsou\ntrial\nthe\ncerti\ntosc\nover\nami\nA\nthe\nqua\nsid<\ncun\nml\nobsi\nbias\nfori\n(>v\n0U8\nTHE OBELISE AND THE PIRATE\nT1WO or three years ago thero foun-\nJL dered at seu the good old ship\nDesBOUg, a stout craft that had a\nlung and varied career which ended in\nher serving ia tho humble capacity of\na coal transport. The Dessoug was\nlaunched in .Scotland in 18(1-1, and In\nmost notable feat was the bringing to\nthe States of the obelisk that was pre\nseated to the city of New York by the\nKhedive of Egypt.\nAu interesting story is told in con\nnection witli this voyage of the Des\nsong, seeing that the Vessel was, strict\nly speaking, a \"pirate\" during that\ncruise,\nA lieutenant ia the service of the\nUnited States was commissioned Io go\nto Alexandria to bring tho obelisk. Act\ning in behalf of his country, the lieuten\nant purchased the Dessoug trom a\nsteamship company in the eastern Med\niterraneau for the sum of twenty-five\nthousand dollars. Two plates were re\nmoved from tho bows nnd the big obe\nlisk was rolled right into the hold,\nwhere it was mado secure and the plates\nwere replaced. Although the old boat\nmet with terrific storms on tlie way\nover and her machinery became disabled, she brought the obelisk safely\ninto port.\nThe romantic feature of the trip,\nhowever, lay in another phase of the\nIJessoug's experience. When it was decided by tlie officer mentioned to buy\nthe ship curious complications arose. He\nwas warned that if he applied for elear-\ne papers many attachments would\nbe placed on th<> boot by reason of debts\nowing to Knglish an'd Greek merchants\nby the ruler of Egypt, So ns soon as\nthe obelisk was aboard and proporly\nfastened, the ship put to seu without\nany loruiality.\nNow, the United States Congress did\nnot permit the American flag to bo\nflown over craft built abroad, and the\naptain durst not raise the Egyptian\nr.lurs since he had not officially cleared\nfrom the Alexandria customhouse. Tbe\nDessoug was, therefore, literally a pirate ship, aad as such fair prize for any\ncivilized nation that should capture her.\nThe officer took the precaution, however, to write to tho governor of Gibraltar, the only port whereat he Intend-\nI to stop, stating the exact facts and\nrequesting that he direct the oflli - who\niliould come aboard to make only n\nuporfiolal examination.\nBefore Alexandria was left tlie name\nof the boat was painted on ihe quarters\nand on the bows iu letters more than a\nyard high. This was done in order that\nher identity might be lixed by any vessel conceiving the notion of firing a shot\nacross the bows.\nThe governor at Gibraltar proved\ncomplaisant and allowed tho nationless\ncraft to coal and provision at bin port.\nHad he choson, he could have seized the\npirate and sent the obelisk in the hold\nto Kngland.\nFLOODS AND SUN-SPOTS\nBV geographers floods are attributed\nlo the destruction of the forests;\nastronomers have attributed then]\nto comets; meteorologists assert that\nthev are due to the rain,\nWhen ruin falls continuously for\nlays, it is natural to ask: Where does it\nill como from? tt Is evident that it\n'nines fro mtlie clouds, nnd all know\nhat clotlda are formed by Ihe evapora-\niou of Hie wator of tha oceans. The\n'vnporutloiis take place because the\nWorms sup tlie strength and under\nmine the vitality of children. Strength\n\u25a0a them by using Mother Graves' Worm\nK\\ti'iiniaator to drive out tlie pura-\nsites.\nShilohi Cure\nnulckly \u2022toil* tuudha, cures celrU* h\u00abaU\nlb* tht\"*t aad (uaga*\neff\nDu\nmode\nhu<\ntai\nAt\nof\nsolar\ntw\nolevt\nmuch\nof\nhave\nincessantly heats part of the terres-\nglobe; bo the first cause of ruin is\nnun sent to earth an mnurying\nlin times it is reasonable to sup-\nthat the earth at such times is\nhealed by tbo sun. This is a fact\nnot a theory.\n.ncient astronomers believed that\nsun sent to earoh an unvarying\nntity of heut. To-day tbe buu is con-\nred to be a variable star. After re\ning intervals of some eleven yeftrs\nsix months the sun appears to its\nrvors ns an immense ball of fire,\ning liko the newly fed fires of a\ne. The fires giow and tho elements\nion in their normal state aro gnse-\ni) decompose and separate, their sep-\ntion and decomposition being the\njet of the increase of heut.\nmring sun storms, photographed by\nuis of the powerful instruments of\n[em astronomy, some of the flames\n,e attained a height equal to the dis-\nice between tho moon and the earth,\nsuch times fire springs from all parts\nthe sun's surface and the sun-spots\nii crease in number and in size.\nIu former times the sun's storms ware\nsupposed to be tho results of a mo-\nntnry cooling of the planet; now thoy\nre supposed to be the results of a mo-\n\u25a0 regarded as indications of very high\nr tempornture. The interval bo-\neon the storms may be less than\n'ven and a half years; it may be\neh longer. This fact should be cou-\ndered in comparing tho sun's activity\nid tho earth's climate.\nSince tho year 16*10 the sun has been\nider man's observation and its periods\ne known to have been variable. Some\nits phases have been short; others\nre been vory long. Some have been\nof marked fury; others have been calm.\nDuring tho last half of the nineteenth\ncentury the sun was notably calm. Recent solar- study has revealed tho existence of remarkable laws. There is oao\ngeneral rule: ' two normal periods are\nfollowed by a period of groat activity.\nFifty-four metoorologlcal stations iu\nEngland have recorded excessive rainfalls when sun-spots were most numerous and most threatening, and a comparison of. the registers of the world's\nmeteorological stations shows that inundations'havo beon worst when the\ndisturbance on the sun was greatest. In\n1903 astronomers traced the solar influence in the rain curves mapped for\ntho region of Paris. To the fluctuations\ndue to thnt influence they attributed\nthe great inundation of the Seine,\nSince the tenth century the Europoan\nclimate lias been divided into periods of\ndrought and of humidity, obviously\ntraceable, like the variations of the levels of the great lakes, to the influence\nof the sun's cycles. Thoso facts justify\nthe claim that meteorology is based on\nvery simple and very reasonable principles.\nto write each neglectful horseman for\nthe information that is required uudor\nthe rules of the National Trotting Association. Rulo Two reads as follows:\n\"The entry shall give the name and\naddress of the owner, and if signed by\nau agent, the name and address of the\nsaid agent; also the name and color of\ntho horse, whether a stallion, gelding,\nor mare, the name of the sire,- nud tho\nname of tho dam, if known; if unknown, it shall bo so stated in the\nentry. If any of these requirements\nare not complied with, the offondiug\nparty may be fined not less than $5.00\nor more \"than $o0.00 for each offouco,\nand if the facts aro falsely stated for\nthe purpose o. \\ deception, the guilty\nparty shall be fined, suspended, and\nexpelled.\" *\nIt is a notorious fact thut this rule,\nimportant ns It is, has boon ignored\ncompletely by many horsemen and secretaries. Why this is tho case is hard\nto understand. Ignorance cannot be\npleaded us uu excuse, for there is not\na man in a thousand who makes an\nentry that does not know tho name,\ncolor and sex of tho horse he is.entering, nnd few thore aro who do not know\ntlie sire aud the dam of the horse, SHU,\nthis necessary, information is not given\nsimply through carolessness, but if the\ngoverning associations would inflict a\nfew penalties as provided in Rulo Two,\ntho desired rosult would Boon be brought\nabout. Tho Horso Roviow enrried oh a\nsystematic campaign aftor the publication of the Year Book for 1908, aad\nby means of private correspondence nnd\nthrough the medium of its columns succeeded in recovering the pedigrees of\nmany horses, tho breeding of which was\nrecorded as untraced. This work, com-\nmcndnble as it was on the part of the\nReview, should never have been necessary.\nIt is not very many years since tho\nwriter, in attendance at one of the biggest race meetings ovor held on the\nico in Canada, had occasion to call upon\ntho secretary to obtain information\nabout certain horses which should have\nappeared on tho regular programme,\nbut which were omitted; but this office\nwas not forthcoming even from the\nsecretary in person, who knew as little\nnbout the sires and dams of the leading\nhorses at his meeting ns it is possible to\nimagine. Tbo entry forms were referred to, but, liko the seerotary, they\nwore devoid of information, so a ean-\nvobs of the drivers hnd to bo made, nnd\nUseful Around the Farm\n\"Enclosed please find one dollar for\nwhich please send me two lncgo 5dat hat-\never been known at u huriMUM hers*\nmeeting in this country. It baa beon\ngenerally supposed thut this owner wo*\nwithin his rights in doing as be 4H.\nbut a reference to Rule Two will show\nthat he wns transgressing the rules Off\nthe N.T.A.,, and as the meeting n qiev\ntion was held under the protertian of\nthe big association, tflio Bocrctiuv was\nreally a party to file deception, ft is\ndoubtful if it has ever occurred to Mile\nsecretary that there had beon a grass\ninfraction of the rules under wU\u00abh Mf\nmeeting wns conducted, but tbere waa.\nEvery horseman in Canada kaows the\nhorse Unit was tho medium off the\n\"killing,\" and all will agree that U\nthe advance information us to Bis sea,\ncolor, sire, and dam had beea givea\nwith his entry, ns required by abe rae\ning rules, ami had appeared am bae\nscore card, this \"killing\" woaM have\nbeen of much smaller proportions. However, the owner, whoso name is nbnait\nas well known ns that of his faneas\nhorse, is a real good sportsman, ant 1\nfor one nm not sorry he slipped \u00bbur\nthe trick, even if he did leave himself\nliable to n fine.\nThe Harseman\nIN a leading editorial last week, that\nexcellent authority on harness horse\nmatters, the Horse Review of Chicago, takes up the matter of the neglect of horsemen to make their entries\nfor race meetings iu proper- form, a\ncarelessness which causes no end of\ntrouble to the American Trotting Register Association, compilers of the Year\nHook, an invaluable work to the horse\nnen themselves.\nAh a rule, secretaries of harness\nhorse meetings are so eager to get en\ntries that they will accept them in any\nold shape, proper or improper, as long\nns tlie entry fee is forthcoming, when\na little effort on their part to get the\ncolor, sex, sire and dam of the horse\nentered would save a great deal of\nwork for others later on, and bring the\nsport uf harness racing up to a higher\nstandard. Many horsemen tnke it for\ngranted that all they have to do in\nmaking entries is to give the names of\ntlieir horses and Hie classes in which\nthoy wish to start them, and leave it\nto the secretary to do the rest, the\nsecretary, in nine ciiBes out of ten, not\nknowing anything about the breeding\nof the horsese so entered. In accepting\nh entries tlie secretaries are also to\nblame. It would take but little time\nWhile more pttValciit in.winter, when\nsudden ehange-W^-the wenther try the\nstrongest constitution, colds und coughs\n;md ailments of. the throat may come\nin any season. At the first sight of\nlerangemeiit use Hiekle's Autl-Oon-\nlUmptlVO Syrup. Instant relief will be\n'Xperioncnl. uinl use of the medicine\nuntil the cold disappears will protect\nI he lungs from attack. 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Ons el tht\ntl of Ihe NA-DRU-CO Una.\n.m 25wn\u2014I wish I had; but so long as he\nis lu my regiment T will be father to\nhim.\"\n\"Thank you,\" said Lady Tressider.\nShe rose to her feet. \"I know that\npeople who are as highly strung as he\nis often lose their hods in time of\nlangcr. And I would rather see him\ndead at my feet now than know that\nhe hnd played the part of coward.\"\nColonel Davant realized tho truth of\nwhat she said.\n\"And thoy often mnke tho finest sol-\nHera,'' he replied. j\nAad so six weeks later Tressider loft I\n\u2022Southampton, amidst tho fanfare, tho\ninthusiasm which speeds each parting\n\u2022egimetit, to take up his position iu a\ncareer for which he felt he was unfit,\nfor which he hud no liking, having in\nlis heart a great fear that when the\niiomeut camo he might be found wunt-\n.ng.\nFrom the hour they embarked Colo\njel Davant kept a watchful eyo upon\naim. Having spent his life entirely\nimong soldiers and seen service in all\nparts of the world, the culone^ knew\ntrain past experience that Tressider\nnight either turn out a hero or from\nlis haunting fear sacrifice tho lives of\nhose under his command.\n1 Uiseinbarkiag at Bombay, within\ntwenty-four hours of tlieir landing the\nregiment wus entrained and hurried off\nr.n the first stage to Peshawar, where\nIhey were to be stal toned.\nIndia was then in a state of turmoil.\nLike a huge volcano for ever erupting\nand breaiung out in some new place,\ntrouble\" wus brewing amongst tho hill\ntribes. Rumor said it spilt the commencement of a European war, and\nthat behind the seeming Insurrection\nof a few thousand natives menaced the\narms of a great nation.\nA week amidst tho sun-dried plains\nef l'eshawur, beneath the shadows of\ntho hills, and the regiment was called\nto tho hills themselves. News had come\nto the ollicials of u largo rising u few\nmiles south of Chitral. Five Europeans\nhud been killed, n native village sack\nod, the crops destroyed, and the cattle\ndriveif off. The rebels had been led by\na man notorious throughout India, Sud-\nar Khan. Revered by one-half of tbe\npopulation, ho was us much distrusted\nby the others. Leader in two rebellious, he had bcea deported and his\nlauds confiscated. When he returned,\nit was to find bis wife, the ono person\non earth ho revered, dead. By her\nbody he swore that ho would reBt neither day nor niglit until her death had\nbeen avenged and the English driven\nfrom the land in which his forefathers\nhad ruled ns princes.\nColonel Davant's face becamo serious\nas he heard the news.\n\"I would rather meet any man, the\ndovil himself, amidst these'hills,\" h>\nsaid to his second in command. \"Have\nyou ever seen hinif\"\n\"No,\" replied the subordinate.\n\"1 met him once, seven years ago,\nat a Calcutta bazaar. He is one of the\nfinest men I have ever met. He stands\nover six feet six, and has the strength\nof un ox. He knows the hills so well\nthat he could find his way from Chitral\nto Ktirrun blind folded. God only knows\nhow many men he has, and I am pitted\nagainst him with si force of one thou\nsand five hundred.\"\nNever tlie loss, Hie fighting instinct of\nthe old soldier was aroused, nnd lie\nwent out to the hills with his men us\neager as a boy.\nThe force marched out of Peshawar\namid the silence of a duly night. The\n' it all day had been oppressive; but\nwitli evening a cool breeze hnd arisen,\naud blew softly upon the men across\nthe stony road. To tho north-east lay\n:i dense jungle, from which nt intervals\ncame the roar of a hyena or tho wild,\nlaugh of its lesser brother the jackal\nThe moon, shining down upon the\nranks, showed an eagerness upon the\nfaces of the men; and it shone also\nupon the dark passes and crags of tin\nmountains ahead\u2014the mountains which\nheld somewhere in their fustnosses a\nmati almost a maniac in his lust for\nrevenge, followed by men scarcely a\nwhit less wild.\nThere is a silence in the hills on the\nnorth west frontier which is heavy and\nppresslvo, ami speaks of danger\u2014a sil-\nnce which tears at the heart of a man\nnd makes him prematurely old and\ngrey. Men have been known to go mad\nafter spending a night alone upon the\nnorth-west pnsses.\nAs they entered the defile which led\ninto tho heart of the hills there came\nno sound to tho men save tho steady\ntramp of their own feet, aud occasionally a soft sibilunco from the rising\nwind.\nThree miles in thu pass, midway up\nthe side of the hills, they cuiuc upon a\nplain, and here Colonel Davant camped\nfor tlie night. Tents were put up, and\nmen posted on sentry duty. . For this\npurpose tlie colonel chose the smartest\nin his little force, for he knew the\ndangers of the hills and the cunning\nuf !he man against whom he was lighting\u2014 a ferocious cunuii.g, which had\nearned him amongst the natives the\nnnmo \"Son of a Wolf,\"\nThat night Tressider stood at the\nentrance of his tent and viewed for the\nfirst time that which to men who have\nwitnessed it can never bo effaced\u2014the\ndarkness of the north-west frontier,\nand its gradual awakening as dawn\nbreaks over the hills.\nWithin the next twenty-four hours he\nhad taken his first lesson iu the art of\nguerrilla warfare. Before reveille had\nbeen sounded the enemy were sniping\nthe camp from unseen 'shelter. Little\npuffs of smoke occasionally told of the\nposition of a native, but most of tlie\nrifles only told of their presence by tit\nsharp explosion nnd rattle of the lead\nngainst the rocks,\n\"Smokeless powder!\" said the colonel with raised eyebrows.\nIn a quarter of an hour the tents\nwere struck, the transport mules loaded,\nand the men on the march.\nColonel Davant divilcd his force into\nthree. One he sent farther up the defile in a westward direction, the second\nhe sent south, whilst the largest proportion of men he himself led in a\nnortherly direction towards Chitral,\nwhore ho judged the rebel Sudnr Khan\nhad his strongholds. Third in command,\nho took witn him Alan Tiessidor.\n\"Vou'ro in for your baptism, my\nboy,'' he said as tho Hues of men\nswung past them.\nTressider's eyos flashed; ho was borne\naway by the excitement of the moment.\nIt was during tho hours of loneliness\nthat his fenr of cowardice entered his\nsoul and took possession. In the din\nof marching men his mind had no room\nfor it. Tho look ou his face deceived\nColonel Davant., \"A mother's idle\nfancy,\" he said to himself, thinking of\nwhat Lady Tressider had said. \"A\nlelicate lad perhaps, but a bom soldier,\nis all Hip Tre\u00absider<\u00ab are.\"\nAs they entered the gorgo which led\nup a steep gradient to the northeru\nrungu of hills, the foreo met with a\nheavy sniping. Instantly Colonel Davant spread out his men, und, firing as\nI they marched, they returned the fusil\nlade. Each puff of smoke from thi\nhills und a dozen rifles spoke in reply.\n\"Got him!\" suid a Tommy with\ngruesome enthusiasm as a white-robed\nfigure toppled with a shriek from some\ncrag above them, and bounding frum\nrock to rock, fell nt their feet a lifo-\nless, unrecognizable mass.\nlu a few moments the firing ceased,\nand tho silence which followed was\nmore terrible than tho \"ping, ping!\"\nof bullets upon the rocks,\nssider\nTho Colonel, riding level with Tressider, saw him glance anxiously from\nside to side. Above them on either\nhand towered the grey bills of the\nnorthern frontier, silent and threatening, holding no onu knew what amidst\ntheir thousand hidden paths.\nThe colonel knew the hills; but even\nhe, who had travelled through them\nbefore, fen beneath their spell, which\nturns a man's blood to water.\nTho road wound up before thorn, between the hills, like a thread reaching\nalmost to the sky.\n\"Another two miles,\" said the colonel, \"and we shall havo left this be\nhind us.\"\n\"Thank God!\" murmured Tressider\nto himself. ^^^^^\nColonel Davant had spent five yours\nof his life on the frontier\u2014five years\nspent; in quelling a series of native re\nhellions, when no man knew what the\nnext hour might bring forth. Those\nfive years hud turned his hair grey, but\nthey had taught him many things, and\nhe knew the hills second only perhaps\nto Sudar Khan himself. He pointed to\nwhere a shaft of light breaking across\nthe path showed an opening in the\ndefile. \"We turn up that path,\" ho\nsaid; \"it is a sheep-track winding up\nto tho summit.\"\nTen minutes brought them to the\nspot. A sharp order, and the men\nwheeled to the left. Ab he came\nsight of it, the colonel looked up the\npath through his glasses. Misgivings\nfilled his mind. He knew the lulls, and\nhe knew the ways of tho men who lived\namidst them. But ho kept silence, and,\nTressider by his side, led tho column\nup tho slope.\nA few hundred yurds, and from somewhere came a voice issuing a command\nin the native tongue. In answer a thousand rifles spoke, and the bullets fell\nupon the advancing party liko hail on\na stormy day. j\nThe colonel's fears had been realiz\ned. He turned and faced tho men. Already a score lay upon the ground,\nwrithing in their agony.\n\"Boys,\" ho said, \"follow me!\"\nAnd he leapt up the slope.\nWith a cheer, their ranks thinning\nevery moment, his grey bend their ori\nflnmmo, the Seventy-Sixth followed him.\nThey would have followed him to thi\ngates of Hades had he asked.\nA few moments, with the bullets\npouring around them, and the foremost\nmen gained the heights. Already the\nnutives were in flight. Tho soldiers\nwore intoxicated; the lust for killing\nwas iu tlieir blood; a mad desire to\navenge their comrades who bad fallen\nfilled their hearts. Fixing their bayonets as they ran, they turc aerosB the\nplateau.\n\u25a0 On the summit of tbe path, at the\npoint, where it widened into tlie plain\nbeyond, stood a small aperture leading\ninto a cave cut from the rock itself.\nColonel Davant had seen two white-\nrobed figures passing through tho opening, one of whom he recognized. ;\n\"Follow me,\" he suid to tho figure j\nat his side, without knowing who it\nwas. \"Sudar Khan himself is in that\ncave.''\nStealthily he crept to the side of the\naperture, then turned to his companion.\n\"Vou. Tressider,\" he said. \"Good!\"\nlie held a revolver in his hand. \"As\nsoon as t have fired I am going in. Follow me ns closely us possible. If we\nare uot hidden in the smoke of my revolver, they will shoot us as they see\nagainst, the skyline.'!.\nA moment, and he fired three shots\niu rapid succession, right in the mouth\nof tho cave.\n\"Now!\" he whispered, and clutched\nTressider *s arm.\nQuickly and silently tho two. men\ncrept iu, and, crouching ou hands uud\nknees almost, moved to the right if the\nentrance. Thero was' no unswering\nshot; the smoke had hidden them.\nThen, deep in the shadow, they waited, knowing that somewhere in the\ndarkness two men were waiting for\nthem\u2014waiting for some sign of thour\npresence.\nSlowly the nioments dragged by, To\nTressider they passed like hours. No\nsound came from tho outside air. With\niu there was nought but a heavy silence,\none pregnant with danger.\nHe felt figures moving towards him\nout of tho darkness; every second he\nexpected to feel a hand upon his throat.\nA wild desire seized him to shriek, to\nlo anything, to rush into the darkness\nand grapple wilh tho unseen foe\u2014any-\n\" 'ng to break the awful tension. He\npped the butt of his revolver aud\nliit liis lip.\n\"Sternly!\" whispered the colonel, his\nfnco barely six Inches away.\nTho hot breath upon his cheok made\nTressider start, and tho colonel gripped\nhis arm\/\n\"Steady!\" he whispored again, \"or\nwe are lost!\"\nStill the moments passed by in a\ndead, heavy silence.\n\"God!\" whispered Tressider through]\nhis clenched teeth,\nHis imagination had run riot; every\nsecond he could feel the enemy coming\nnearer to him out of tho darkness, nearer aad nearer, until he could almost see\ntheir forms silhouetted against the\nblackness. Intently his ears were\nstrained to catch tho slightest sound,\nuntil the cavern seemed filled with\nvoices and wild laughter. Sudden 1;\nunable to bear the strain any longer,\nhe raised his revolver und fired twice\nA scream told that one of bis shots\nhad found a target. For n second his\nface was illumined by a ray of flame,\nnnd with a grunt of satisfaction Sudar\nKhnu raised his rifle. \u25a0\n\"Phew!\" whistled the colonel. The\nshot had struck him in the fleshy part\nof his le.t arm.\nPor a second the whole euyorn was\nlighted up. revealing Sudar Khan hend-\ning low over the sight of his rifle, and\nby his Hide, lying upon tho ground, the\nbo*'\" of another nntive.\nWith a wild shout, Tressider leapt\naid tho colonel.\nHe's\nforward, nud befoTe the light completely died away the colonel saw him spring\nat tho throat of the rebel chief.\nThen came darkness, and tho sound\nof two men wrestling in' a death-grip.\nThe colonel heard the shuffling of their\nfeet upon the ground, the short, hard\nbreathing ns of men strained to the\nutmost of human power.\n\"The young fool,\" ho mutterod, and\nstood waiting, revolver in hand.\nFor five minutes the fight continued,\nwhile tne men swayed and wrestled\nupon the floor. Once they wero ulmost\nwithin arm 's-reach, and he buw their\nfigures dimly outlined. Then they passed away from him again to a distant\npart of tho cave.\nThrottle him, Tressider,\" he culled\nout once. \"It is your only chanco. He\nhas the strength of a dozen.\"\nIt. was not for him to know thnt till\/\nman he counselled had been driven t(i j\nthe verge of insanity by the lensioil\nof liulf-anhour, and that his was thdl\nstrength of a madman.\nSuddenly there came the sound of a\nheavy fall, followed by a series of\nsharp knocks, aa of someone beating\nanother's head against-the stone floor,\nThen Tressider's voico, \"I've killed\nlim, colonel.\"\n\"Thank God,\"\n' Where ure yonf'\n\"By his side. I'm done for.\nstabbed mc through the lungs.1\nThe colonel groped his way across\ntho cavo, and, stumbling over a body,\nlit a mutch. Sudar Khan lay on the\nfloor, his neck broken. By his side lay\nTressider, blood flowing from a. wound\nin his right shoulder. \u2022 i\nGently the colonel picked him up and\nenrried him into the open air,\nTressider's eyos wero, glazing as tho\ncolonel knelt by his side.\n\"I'm no good as a soldier,\" he mutterod. \"I've no more nerve than a\ncat.\"\nThen he closed them. Alan, the last\nof the Tressiders, hnd been under fire\nfor the first and last time.\nThree days later the insurrection was\nover, and on the fourth Colonel Davant\nled his force back into Peshawur. Ou\nthe plateau, by tho entrance to the\ncavern, rested a small wooden cross,\nwith the initials \"A.T.\" aud tho date, i\nTen days Inter Colonel Davant ap-'\nplied for leave, and on reaching England went straight to see Lady Tressider.\n\"I'm ashamed to meet you madam,''\nhe said, bending low over her hand,\n\"for I have betrayed my trust.\"\n\"You could not help it,\" 'she an-\nBWered, smiling bravely. '''But tell\nme, how did the Inst of the Tressiders\ndief I hope he died as a man, not as\nhe always feared lie might. It will\nhelp me t'o bear my sorrow better.\n\"Madam,\" replied the colorel, \"he\ndied as a hero, saving my life\/':\nAnd Colonel Davant looked her\nstraight in the face.\n\"Thank yon,\" suid Lady Tressider.\n\"And may God forgive me the lie,\"\nsaid the colonel to himself.\n\u25a0however, with a Bupremo effort, nerv\njug himself as ho realized thaf.. to win\nmuch one must dare much, ho.spoke-T-\nsoftly'aud with a quaver in hisvoicci\n\"Muriel,'' he said.\n\"Yes, Harold,\" replied tho girl, wav\ng her Watteau fan gracefully to ami\ning\n\"Do you-'-do you\u2014like me, Muriel!'\nhe went on,\n\"Indeed I do, Harold,\" she; replied\n\"What* a funny, question! Why: should,\nn't I like you? Youiire humlsome,, witty\ncourteous, and one of the best \u2022dancers-\nof the Boston I ever met.\" -,\n\"You do not object very strongly, d(\nyou, to having, me nrouud ?\" he pro\nccodod. , , . ,\n\"No, indeed, Harold,\" she replied\nYou are really ono of the must con\nvenient ot such' modern social ounvOu\nlance's as 1 am blessed with fcliu't 1 know,\nof. Vou take mo to the .Opera;'' Yon\ntake me to the theatre, and somotimet-\nwhen poor lillle .Muriel, because of hei\nadvancing years, is iu dancer of becom\ning a wollltower, it is you, dear Harold.*\nwho Invariably turn,.up ut the critics'\nmoment and p'luVk the' faded little flow\ner from the trellises of jioglcct.\n\"Then, Muriel,\"\u25a0 he whispered;, pas\nsionately, I .may consider .myself a\u2014\n*r\u2014a man after your own heart?\"\n\"hmtirelv so, Harold, entirely so,'\nshe whispered, giving his arm a gentle\nlittle tap with her fan. \"When I sin\nhow splendidly you enrry a platter of\nchicken salad on your wrist, n saucer of\nice-cream on your forearm, a flomi-taSW\nor cup of care frappo hanging from yoit'\nlittle finger with the cake basket ii.\nyour othor hiuid, without spilling a\nthing in theso overcrowded functions,\nhow could I deny that you are a mati\nafter my own heart?\"\n\"That being' so, sweetheart;\" In\ncried, \"will you be mine?\"\n\"Ah, Harold dear, that is andtkei\nstory\u2014I fear, dear, that may not be,\"\nshe answered.\nBut why?\" he cried. \"If,-as yot\nsay, I am a man after your own heart\n- \"Yes, Harold,\" sho said, gently;\n'but you know, dear, there's another\nman after it who can give you n one\nlap start on^any track-and beat you to ft\nfinish.\"\nAnd Harold went out into the night,\nmuttering to himsolf words which show\ned that at heart he was uot a gentle\nman.\nOPIUM IN CHINA AND ENGLAND\n1'tUE Orontes flowed into tho Tiber,\nsays thu Latin satirist, and all\nthe debilitating vices of Asiatic\ncorruption were permitted to sap tho\nvigor and destroy tho Sabine strength\nof Rome, Oue of the greatest social\niiirses of the Far East in our own day\nhus been tho use of opium, but tin\nChinese are arousing themselves ut this\nmoment to repress it. As the Ephe\nMinus burnt tlieir books of magic, so\ntho Chinaman is burning his long-loved\nipium pipe and teach ing his sons to\nollow those methods of athletic training pursued in tho United States and\nnot practicable excepting with habits\nof temperance and of abstinence, But\nAtttioch, while pouring her corruptions\ninto Italy, did not abandon them for\nherself. Tho exact contrary is the case\nwith tho Celestial Empire, China gives\nup opium, but infects Loudon and Paris\nwilh a passion for tho poppy. We read\nin tho Paris Tour du Monde that in\nthe Fast End of London, notably tho\nLimchouso Causeway, there\n\"sumptuous smoking-rooms'\n\"Here, amid the fragrant smoke of\nscent-boxes, amid the luxury of damask\ncurtains and fine rugs, in tho dim light\nof liiatiy-colored lanterns, citizens, some\nnf thorn prominent in the ait and politics of free England, como to drug\nthemselves at the price of twenty or\nthirty shillings an evening. They become intoxicated with that opium,\ndamnable stuff, the use of which should\ncertainly be reserved to the Celestials,\nThe Loudon County Council heard of\nIhe growing abuse through tho papers\nnd decided by a resolution that tlnjse\n[iium dens were to be abolish od in tlje\nnurse of 1010. The resolution remains\nunfulfilled to this day\u2014a piece of Platonic legislation which ends in nothing,\nlike so mnny good resolutions. Por the\nChinese quarter of London, West India\nDock Road and 1.iniehnu.se Causeway,\nstill goes on ils tranquil way and the\ndivine weed, tho 'soveieign drug,' still\nbrings nepenthe and dreams to its votaries, whntever their color.\"\nde-\nman-\nreligion\nare many\nA CRUEL MAID\nIN tbe distant ballroom tho merr*\nstrains of a mud Hungarian valst\nwere sounding upou the midnight\nair. Half a hundred young people\nfilled with the wine of youth, wort\ndancing the hours away in a whirl of\njoyous gnyety. Even as in the poot>\nlines, there was a sound of revelry, and\nagain soft eyes looked love to eye*\n' ich spoke again. Here in the quief\nof the conservatory sat Muriel, the fair\nsweet Muriel, not a debutante of thit\nseason, it is true, but still as freshB\nlovely iu her maidenly charms as oi.\nthat rare night throe seasons gone by\nwhen she too, like hor sister Yvonne\ntf'Ight, was the iciitrc of all t.'.'is romi\nand gladsome rout. As she fat there ;\nunder the rose-bushes the roses them j\nselves alternated between glances of'\njealousy and soft caresses. Jealous of\nher beauty wero they, yet still enamor\ned of her charm; and on their stalks\nrising proudly from between tlieir frond\ned guards the whitest of lillies wero en\nvlous of the purity of her check. Ai\nher side Harold gazed, e-ntrnneed witl\nthis rare vision of loveliness; and hu\nlieiirt beat; madly as he thought of tb*\npossibility that to him might be in\ntrusted tho care of that fair spirit for\never, although deep iu his heart werr\nmisgivings as he realized his own tin\nworthiness, By turns courageous and\nfraid, he hesitated to put tho question that would consign him cither ti\nlife of estatic happiness or to day*\nof dull and da-k despair Kindly.\nASTOUNDING CUSTOMS IN- THE\nSOUTH SEA ISLANDS\nPERHAPS of all the out-of-the-way\nparts of tho world; tlje-South Sea\nIslands have tho greatest1 fascination to the stay-at-home Englishman.\nRomantic and sensational fiction writers have woven mnny utrango stories\nround these islands,' but although they\nhave proved interesting rending, they\nhavo created many erroneous and misleading Ideas with regard to the manner in which the inhabitants of these\nislands live. *\nA new book, \"Melanesians and Polynesians,\" has been written by a gentleman who has spent many years of\nhis life in the South Sea Islands, and\nmixed a great deal with the 'inhabitants. > ;;\u201e \u2022\nIn interesting fashion he gives\ntailed account of the islanders\ntiers, customs, superstitious,\naud morals, a somewhat delicate task\nwhen ono considers that little civilization has yet found its way to the wild\ntribes who inhabit this portion 'of the\nglobe.\nIn fact, ia his zeal for detail, the\nwriter has included iu his book the\ndescription of several native customs\nwhich are likely to give, offence, and\nmight well have been dispensed with\nwithout in any way lessening tne value\nof the work.\nBoth cannibalism and polygamy are\npractised by the natives of tho islands,\nand iu some directions their morals\nwould scarcely pass muster in n civil\nized community. Iu some parts of New\nBritain the natives have very queer\nideas ou matrimony. Amongst other\npractices is ono of plucing young women in strict seclusion before mar-\niago by imprisoning them in cages for\nseveral years, until-they reach a mar\nriageable' state.\nThe writer describes how on one. occasion he inspected n number of'these\nhuman cages. The atmosphere insijle\nthem wns hot and stifling. \u2022*\u00bb\nHe says: \u25a0 \u25a0\n\"The cage was quite clean and contained nothing but a few slmrt lengths\nof bamboo for holding wator. The'ro\nwas only room for a girl to sit or lie;\ndown in a crouched position on tine'\nbamboo platform, and when fhe doors\nare shut it must be nearly dr..quite\ndnrk inside, Thoy are never allowad\nto come out except once a (lay to bathe\nin a dish or wooden bowl placed close\nto each cnge. They are placed in th\nstifling cages when quite young, and\nmust remain there until they are youn<_'\nwomen, when they arc taken\" out and\nhave each a great marriage feast pro\nvided for them.\"\nlu parts of the South Soa Islands tin\nnatives indulge in cannibalism, but this\ncustom is mot so much due to the de\ngenoracy r,r the scarcity of animal food,\nbut is generally practised ns a kind df\nreligious rile, nud often to discharge\nau obligation to the splrils of the\ndead. ,\n\"The human body \" .(states' tho author of tho book) \"is cooked in the usual\ncooking place. Pig is forbidden to be\ncooked in an oven common to the family, because tho flesh of the pig is forbidden to members of the Iniat Society\n(a powerful native organization), but\nthis does not apply to n man killed, no\nthat the body may be cooked .in the\nordinary oven.- No special vAss'ols or\nimplements are used and either sex can\nent it. The natives speak in a jocular\nway of a fat man as \"i laruan,\" i.e..\ngood for eating, but, with all this, there\nis still a difference recognized by them\nbetween the eating of the humnn body\nnnd that of nay other animal. Por in\nstance, the man who is cutting up a\nbody will tie something over his mouth\nand nose dining the operation to keep\nthe spirit of the dead from entering\ninto him. For the same roason when n\nbody is being eaten .the doors of the\nbnu\u00abei are shut, and afterwards the poo\npie all shout, blow horns, shake spears,\netc., to frighten away the ghost or\nghosts of the man or men they have\nenten,\n\"In the Short la nds group, Solomon\nlfllnnda, there is a small rocky islet in\nthe port to which the natives take any\nperson they may capture a'ntF'fcill Iti'm'\nthere. They do'not liko to kill anyone\nn the village for fear of the spirit of\nthe dead man making 'trouble- after\nwards. Many people also on the Duke\nbV YoTk Island wertk .very frightened\nwhen a liu\/nan body was being cooked,\nand would hot, go arid look at the body, '\naud many, also, especially boys nud\n\u25a0girls, refused to eat it.\".\nAs will be seen, tbe natives are extremely superstitious. They believe in\npowers of magic, and indulge largely\nin religious rites. In'some parts the\nnatives would n'ev*.'pass along a road\ni'*-go t.hVough'* WflugV,; -where a dead\nchief was tyfpg. N\\\u00bb fishuig was al\nlowed,\" or ciluoes would' net travel on\nthe lagoon adjoining tho village, and\nother practices were carefully avoided,\nowing to the fuct that tho spirit of\nthe deoouS'id chief was believed to still\nhaunt'the village.\n\u25a0 \"Other1 prohibitions were probably\nonly marks, of respi'd, such as that forbidding anyone to stand up to bteor or\npilot a canoe or boat when passing a\nchief's house,- or to sing when going\nthrough ciitain passages in the reef,\ntt was also forbidden to stop over the\nleg of another individual, <>r to throw\nanything over the head ol' another, A\nman would express most violent rage if\nunyoke, oven in jest, threw or sprinkled\nwa'rw on the head of 'his child. The\nangciv wus so gn'iiit thnt' il is diflicult\nto account for it, except; on tho suppos\nition thut some evil meaning was attached to the action. An umbrella.carried open'past the house of a chief was\na great insult.'' 'V\nlirsome directions the-morals of the\nSouth Sea Is)amloi*s archery lax, but\nin others they have a very strict moral\ncode; which few natives have the eour\nago to violate.\n\"Suicide wns neither praised nor condemned. They thought that a man\ncould do what he pleased with himself.\nMaiming . wus, of course, considered\nproper in war. In times of peace, however, it was generally confined to a\nbroken hend inflicted by a husband on\nbis. wife, or by carpenters on follow\ncraftsmen for transgressing some rules\nof the trade. Au assault committed by\none man against another was consider\ned to bo simply a matter between them\nselves and their relatives. Theft and\nfraud were in most cases only consider\ned ns offences against'the perBon in\njured, . '\n'CThcating.and lying were'condemned\noffences ngainst mora>ity, but were\noften practised. Laziness, dirtiness,\neither of the person or the house, gos\nsilting, nnd tale-beariug were nnivers\nally condemned.\"\nPOVERTY IN NEW YORK OF\nALARMING PROPORTIONS\nHIGH' rents cojused Hy congestion of\n. population (.and) the high eost of\n,' . .liv^fig are'the chief causes of ex-\ntehsive 'poverty In New'York City, according t'o*a ruport prepared by Alderman Cnllaghan, chairman of the Committee on Charities of tho City Congestion Commission. The report, deals -\nat length with the charity work now\nbeing carried on aud endeavors to point\nout wherein funds are not being used\nto the best advantage. The document\nbus been submitted to Mayor Gaynor,\nOne person in every nine of the total\n\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0*\u2014\u2022 : g public charity\n. from the city or\na semi-public institution. The commit-\ntoo has examined nearly all dim impor-\npopulatioii is,, receiving\niu sonio'Tdrm\/ e.ither*',fn\na semi-public institution.\ntoo has examined nearly ..... tuu unpin-\ntaift public and private charity institn\ntious and places tho mimbeis of persons\n persons\nreceiving aid at SOO.OOQV'^he daily as\nsistaricia ranges from frnftity-llve cents\na family to $2 a persoji. Seven of-the\nlarge relief societiest\u00abT Manhattan flnd\nBrooklyn are giviujrassistance to*54,-\n031 families, num Moving ;iJ5,fi!).i persons,\nTho committee d\u00bbs not consider medi\ncal care as charity. ,\nThe estimate is that tho total expenditure fqr*'chaiities in this city from\nprivate sources, the municipality, -nnd\ntho slatejs about $35,000,000 a year.\nEmphasis is laid by the committee\nupon the fact that charitable insti\ntutions aro located iu congested sections of Manhattan and Brooklyn, where\nland values are the highest. If these\ninstitutions were placed in the rural\ndistricts the cost of maintenance would\nbo reduced, it is asserted, nnd the income derived by tho city from the expensive property would go a long way\ntoward caring for the city's poor. The\nassessed valuation in 1910 of the charitable institutions iu Manhattan alone\nis placed at $.l2,87o,400, of which sum\n#80,432,850 is for (and.\nIa the opinion of the committee the\ncity could provide car fare to its public institutions in remote sections with a\nmall fraction of the income from the\nlaud now used for public charities.;\nAs an illustration the work of the\ncity farm colony on Statcn Island is\ndescribed. This colony includes sever\nal hundred acres under cultivation aud\nmakes the institution partly self-sus\ntalning, For the juice of one building\nlot in Manhattan, whore many public\ninstitutions are now located, acrcF\ncould be purchased ia Statcn Island,\nwith tho result that\nmore doHiralilu\nsites could be obtained at u small per\nceutago of tin; present cost, the report\nshows.\nTho views of many experts in cbnr\nHy work have beeu obtained by thli\ncommittee. Prederick D, (ireen, of the\nNew York Association for Improving\nthe Condition of the Poor, stated thai\na large part of the money spent by the\ncharities of tho city is made necessary\nby congestion and low wages, Robert\nW, Hibbard, secretary of the State\nBoard of Charities, attributes the larg\nest part of tho expenditure for tho re\nlief and prevention of diseases tn over\ncrowding in tenement houses. Dr. \\V\nH. Park, of the Department of Health,\nstated that ns long ns people wero per\nmitted to occupy dark rooms there\nwould be about ten thousand death-* 'i\nyear from tuberculosis and tiO-OOO \u00bbjpw\ncases a year.\nIt is estimated that there are 340,000\npersons who are ill at nil times In Now\nYork';,and for these about four hnn\ndred institutions provide relief. In\nspite of this provision, however, it is estimated that 30,000 persons die nnnftal\nly from proven tilde diseases duo.\n^ack of care. ' |[; j\n,v','The cauites for poM^jr\/ijt\n\u00a7f nppl&atiQU for aid Me 'tfe(\nafcely aimier force ,hcad;\nto\nlie tim*\n3 scpar-\n .^e* most\ncommon cause is low wages; hign eost of\nliving^ nnd high rents. T\/he second di\nvision, of causes includes sickness, accident, and uncertain employment. The\ns old age, desertion, imprison-\nnon support, and non^employ-\ning more than two In a room, and there\nare 20,000 who live six or more in #\nroom. ..\u2022\nthird\nment,\n77 THE ISLANDER, CUMItERUND, ft.C\nHorseshoeing a Specialty\nThird Ave., Oumberli\nThird St & Penrith Avenue\nMAXWELL & HORNAL\nProprietors\nalio\nONLY\nA FEW\nLOTS LEFT\nON MAIN STREET.\nGet in at Original Prices.\nC.A. Powell\nPHOTOGRAPHER\nNOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS\nPost Cards, Views & Portraits\nPrice* Reasonable.\nWORK GUARANTEED\nG. R. BATES,\nREAL ESTATE AQENT\nCOURTENAY\nLocal Agent for\nThe London & Lancashire\nFire Insurance Co.\nOet rates before insuring elfe\nwhere\nOffice: Cumberland\nVI kinds of hauling done\nFirst-class Rigs for Hire\nUvory and team work promptly\nattended to\nREjF,RVE\nNOTICK is hereby given that sll va-\notiat Crown landa lint already under rteerte, \u2022.tawed \u00bb\u00ab*> *\" b'\"\"\"1\"-\nri\u00ab of the Land Reonrdini! Wrttkna; .\"\u00bb\" Ps\nDitUion of Ysle Land R\"\" \u2022'\u00ab\u00bb,l! T>,J\ntrict, ere reserved \u2022\u2022\"\"> \"\"* \u00bblie\"\"\"\"\"\nunder the \"Lend Act\" except by pre-tm\nptioa.\nRoMHT * RKNWtUK\nDeputy Minuter ef Lands\nDepsrtmsnt of Lsndt.\nVietorie, B. 0., April 3rd . 1911\nNOTICE\nTV T.I.IC NOTICE it hereby given,\n1\u00ab thut, under the authuli y contain\nal in teation 131 of the \"Laand Act,\" h\nemulation hit been approved by the\nLieutenant U avernor in Council in tin-\niil|( ihe minimum aale price, nf firat tnd\nwoni'd-clats laud, at (10 aud to per acre\nrespectively.\nThia leg.ilat'im further prnvidet that\ntha pneet tixtad therein ahtll apply ta.\nall landa with reaped ha which Ihe ap-\nplicaii ii ti. purchiate it given fsvonrabe\nwaiiaideraiion after this date, notwith\nstanding the date of auch applioatiou pr\nany delay that may have oecured In the\noonaidor'ttion of the same.\nFurther notice ia hereby Riven thtt\n>all pursuits who have pending applications taa purchaae landa under the tira vi\n\u25a0iont if seclinni 34 or36 aif the ' Land\nAoi.\" and wliaa are not willing to complete auch purchaaet und. r the price, fixed by the aforetaid regulation shall be\nat liberty to withdraw tuch application and receive and refund ot tuoneyi\naleposi-ed on account of tuch \u00bbi plica!-\niont,\nWILLIAM R. ROSS,\nMiniiter of Lands.\nDepartment of Landt,\nVictoria, B. 0 . April 3rd, 1811. \u2022\nlOstasaEjpr,\n\\0 %\n|>oo6 \u00a7oD!\nr\n,*\u2022**>\nVRS SIR,\nThst\nPRINTINQ\nWis Dob.\nThe ISLANDER\n\u2022HBBPUL raHNTBRB\nDUNSMUIR i : : AVENUE\nk\ni \u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0\nCOAL-MINKS REGULATION\njfcCT\nNotice of Examination\nNOTICE ia hereby given, that Ex-\nanimations sill be held fur First\nSecond-, and Third claw Certificate! ol\nCompetency under the provitiont of the\n\"Cainl Mine. Regulation Aot,\" \u00abt Ns.\nmaim , Fa rnie, Cumberland, snd Mar\nrit, on Ihe 9th., 10., and 11th., day.\nof May, loll, commencing at ft o'clock\nin the forenoon.\nThe aulajeots will be at follows:\u2014\nFirst Class Candidates\nMining Act and Special Rules,\nMine Oases\nVentilatl\u2122\nGeneral Work\nMine Machinery\nSurveying\nSecond Class Candidates\u2014\nMining Act and Special Rules\nMine Gate\nVentilation\nGeneral Work\nThird Class Candidates\u2014\nMining Act and Special Rulea\nMine Gaaet and Geiirtl Work\nApplicaiiona mutt be made hi the un\nderaigned, mat laier than Wednesday,\nM\u00bby 3rd., 1911, accompani d by thi\naatuary fee at faallaawt: \u2014\nBy an applicant for Firat-c'att\nExamination $10 09\nl\u00bby an applicant for Second-clatt\nKxaniination $10 00\nBy an applicant for Third-claii\nExaniinatioii \u2014 \u2022 $6 00\nThe applicntiona mutt be accompanied\nhy aariginal tettimaaiiiala and evidenca\nfataatiiat! that:\n(a) \u2014If a candidate for a Firtt Clau,\nihat ia- ia a Britah Subjec and hat hao\n. le\u00bbat live yean' experience in or ab-\naiui tue practical workings of a cos'-\nmine, and is at leatt iweuty live yean\nnl age,\n(a)- If a candidate for Second Claw,\nthat he haa had at lesst five years ex-\n, a nonce in or about the practical work\ningt of a coal-mine:\n(ii)-lf a candidate for Third Clsst,\nthat he haa had at least three yerrt ex\nperienue in or about the practical work\ninga uf a coal mine:\n(ia)-A candidate for a Certificate of\nCompel iency as Manager, Over-man,\nShiftboat, or Shotlighter, shall forward\na certificate from a medical practitioner\nduly ipialflied to practioo as such in the\nI'aovince uf Britith Columbia, showing\nthat ho haa taken a course in ainbulen\nce work fitting him, tha said candidate,\nto give firat aid to persons in cost mine\ning opairatinna.\nBy order of the Board.\nFRANCIS II. SHEPPARD,\nSeoietary,\nNanaimo, B. C.,\nJanuary 21st, ln.ll.\n'S-KJ-v-'tYV.^ei, i^ASS\n?2\n> HEADQUARTERS FOB'\nFurniture\nWallpaper\nCrockery - ^\nEtc., ete.fR\nA nice line of Iron Bedstead?.^!\n$4. - $40. \u201e\njust arrived Sn\n-Lr^utrXw^7^\/\u2022*>'-* ''J-4' a>tt3 ,^Vj' \u25a0. .-v i^^ *V* \u25a0ah)'-* fc\/WaVv-3Le\/\nYOUR NAME IS\n\u00abGOOD \u2014-\nAnything\nin the\nJewellery\nLine\nPayment\nWATCHES\nSTODDART\nTHE JTEl-VsTELLEU\nNext door to Royal Bank, opposite Post Office\nCapital $8,200,000.\nReserve (7,000,000\nTHE ROYAL BANK\nOF CANADA\nDrafts Issued In any currency, payable nil over- the world\nSPECIAL ATTENTION paid to SAVINOS ACCOUNTS, and Interest at\nhlgheat ourrent rates allowed on deposits of 91 and upward*\nCUMBERLAND, B.C., Brunch - - - OPEN DAILY\nCOURTENAY,B.C.Sul>Bmncli OPEN TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS\nUNION WHARF, B.C., Sub Brunch-OPEN THURSDAYS\nH. F. Montgomery, Manager\nWE\nhave recently received\na carload of\nMcLAUGHUX\nCarriages \u00abfc\nBuggies,\naw\/ are. prepared to quote you ftowert\nPrice* nnd Reel Terms : : ; ' \u2022\nGive us a cnll\nMcPhee &\nMorrison\n GBNBRflL MERCHANTS \t\nCourtenay\nii\nj","@language":"en"}],"Genre":[{"@value":"Newspapers","@language":"en"}],"GeographicLocation":[{"@value":"Cumberland (B.C.)","@language":"en"},{"@value":"Cumberland","@language":"en"}],"Identifier":[{"@value":"Cumberland_Islander_1911-04-15","@language":"en"}],"IsShownAt":[{"@value":"10.14288\/1.0342406","@language":"en"}],"Language":[{"@value":"English","@language":"en"}],"Latitude":[{"@value":"49.6186111","@language":"en"}],"Longitude":[{"@value":"-125.0325","@language":"en"}],"Provider":[{"@value":"Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library","@language":"en"}],"Publisher":[{"@value":"Cumberland, B.C. : Islander Publishing Co.","@language":"en"}],"Rights":[{"@value":"Images provided for research and reference use only. 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