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" ^^StWo Ass^p\nTHE ISLAND\n^-rwamm\u00E2\u0080\u0094Amm-*\nNn. 2\nTII 10 ISI.ANUKII, OUMHERLAND, B.C., SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1910.\nSubscription price Sl.aO per year.\n. i BAYS BEATEN BY\n\ BREWERY BOYS\nv,\n\u00C2\u00BB'\nI .\u00E2\u0099\u00A6..\nI\nt'\\nm\nIJ\nPilsener wins from the\nLeague leaders in Ball\nGame on Sunday.\nThe Brewery Hoys pulled even wltll\nthe league leaders in ihe light f i- tho\npennant un Sunday lust, when tliey\nwon from Union by a score of .1 to 2\nThe piny whs even throughout., nnd it\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0was anybody's guine till the lust man\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0was down in the ninth, lloth team!.\nwent out in one-two-three order in the\nfirst round; nml Balo, who was twirl\ning for the Union team, got. h:s fifth\nstrike out in succession in the sei-otul\ninnings, lu tins round the Greys\nlooked decidedly dangerous: hut. with\nthree ou hwca and two men out. Ward\nwas fanned and nobody scored. N.\nHalo reached tirst through the kind'\nness of l'erliune. Clark tried another\nin the same place but died. I-'reilc-\nricks pushed one lo ri<*ht anil Halo\nadvanced to second. Smith rolled\none down the third base line ami\nBalo was forced at. third, on n pretty\npiece of play. Slant taking the out.\nEverybody was safe when Boyd failed\nto handle Pike .'s grounder, and the\nUnion roolers made sonic noise. It\nwas up to Ward to conic through with\nv hit, but Stant hail him guessing,\nand the opportunity was lost.\nIn the third Pilsener got. two on but\nfailed to make the round trip. McKay\nwent out to the pitcher. Gib-on gol\nthe Ilrst hit for the Brewery with n\nsingle to centre. McNeil fouled out\nto the catcher. Jamea was safe on a\nslow throw from l,e Claire. Boyd\nmade the third out when lie bumpi'il\nan easy one to Balo. Union went oul\nin- oii-vtwn three. l'il\u00C2\u00ABin<\"- followed\nsuit in their half of the fourth, but\nUnion scored one run. N, Balo\ndrove one to centre, which Robertson\ngathered in. Clark got a safety in\nthe same place, stole second, aud in\nan effort to catch him napping Ihn hall\nwaa thrown away, nnd the runner\nscored. Fredericks was safe on a hot\none past second, hut the next, two\nmen went out. Pilsener evened the\nscore in their half of the fifth. Robertson hit a safe one to third ami\nwent down to second on a wild heave\nover first. McKay was there with\nthe goods and advanced the runner\nwith a pretty sacrifice. Gibson fanned, but McNeil was safe on Frederick's error, .lames swung hard at\nsonic wide out curves and the side was\nout. Union again opened up a lead\nin their half. Wanl was out for wan |\nduring oul of tlic batter- box after\na wide one. I,c Cluiru fill, a good!\none to right. K. Halo was safe when\nliis roller was thrown wild, nml l,e\nClaire closed the pan. Halo was |\ncaught oil' first hv a swell throw bv j\nJames Cumin fanned Tlio score\nwas mice more tied up in lhe sixih;\nafier the lirst two Pllstner's wenl uut.\nBuy I struck at some tlmt ooultl barely\nbe seen with a telesaope, and Perlame\nwent out Halo to I'Veilericlcs, Hoss\nreached Ilrst on Plltols wild throw to\nIlrst. Slant hit the bull on tbo no-o,\ndriving it to deep centre and scoring\nRoss. Robertson reached thu first\nsack on N. Halo's niisine. McKay\nput. up a pup Uy which Picket collected, nnd Union went to bat. This\nhalf was eliieily reiiiarkiihlo for somo\nfast play by Perlame, wbo dug up\nClark's hard grounder and caught the\nJ lunncr at first. Pilsiner got the win-\nI tiing run iu tho seventh, Gibson\njwent, out at first hy the short stop\n/route. McNeil was safe when Cur\nran dropped his fly.\" James hit to\nPiket who made a wild throw to\nthird, and the run scored. Boyd was\nout from Piket to Fredericks, and\nJamos was nabbial al. third trying I\nstunl. For Union, Smith was safe on\na grander to third, which Perliimc\ncould not handle iu time. Piket and\nWard both fanned, and Le Claire\niluw out lo second. Ill the eighth\n1'erlnnie fouled out to the catcher.\nRoss bit a hut one to right and was]\nBRIEF MEETING\nOF THE COUNCIL\nRINGING OF\nWEDDING BELLS\nPass resolution post-1 Wedding of Miss Piket\nponing polling till the\n20th, and adjourn.\nAn extremely brief meeting nf the\nCity Council was held on Monday\nevening, at the conclusion of tin- public meeting iu the Cumberland Hull.\ntin; Mnyor at id Aldermen McLeod,\nStewart and Brown taking their scuts\nat tlic board at fifteen minutes tu\neleven.\nThe minutes of the la>t regular and\ntwo subsequent special meetings were\nrend nud approved.\nChief of Police McLennan submitted\nIds report, allowing a revenue derived\nFrum police courl fines during April\nand May of $47.\n.1. It. Gray, of the City Police, reported collections for the month of\nMay, as follows:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nScavenging ... 100.25\nNight Watchman... 86.00\nHoad Tax HG00\nDog Tax 23.00 ,\nHall Kent 'J5.00\n(Sills to the amount of $73.90 were\n.submitted to the Finance Committee,\nas follows ;\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nTelephone Co 90\nCumberland Klcctric\nCo 39.25\nNew Kngland Hotel ... 2.75\nY. -V. Harrison H0.00\nOn motion of Alderman McLeod,\nseconded by Alderman Brown, it was\nresolved : That the dute of polling un\nthe Sewerage By-law be postponed\nuntil the 20th tost,\nThe letter from thc Provincial Secretary, which appears iu another\ncolumn, wns ordered acknowledged\nand filed.\nThe meeting then adjourned.\nand Mr. McFarlane\non Thursday last.\nA verv pretty wedding was snlenroiisecl\nin \ntttei'ded hy Mis* Mar^arei McKenzie.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*liiie Mr. Robert Soiiieivdle aunported\ntliu groom, The happy couple Mi\nyesterday on a ahort h i ney moon trip\nmid ou their return vill take up their\nresidence iu Cumberland.\nUnion Bay.\nComox.\nCapt. P, M. Ciuthrie of Comox loft foi\nQuebec last Wednesday morning on important business.\nMr. and Mrn. McB. Smith were pas-\nongeri un the outgoing boat yesterday.\nMr. McFarlane nnd bndo departed on\ntheir honeymoon on yesterdays steamer.\nA numt successful Sale of Work vat*\nheld Uat Wednesday. It resulted in over\n\u00C2\u00A3100 being colheted in aid of the Anglic-\ntn church. Amongst those who ably a*\nistei! were Mesdames MrKt:n\".ie, Thom-\nnun, I) vis, Moore, Itridbury, and Misses\nItlankuiilmh, Clill, IIijuiiih and Fraser.\nA most eiijiiyablo dance followed.\nTENNIS TOURNEY\nARRANGED\nThe draw for the Tennis Tournament on\nTuesday the 21st.\nThe annual club tournament of tbe\nCumberland Lawn Tenuis Club will\ncomtuence on Tuesday the 'Jlst inst.,\nlift the clul> court, when the first\nrounds in Mixed doubles and Muti\\nDoubles will be played off. It is the\nintention of the cluh to bold an open\ntournament later in the season to\ninclude events in both ladies' and gen\nlumens'singles nud doubles mul also\nmixed doubles. The court ii now in\nfirs! oltlss condition, and route fust\nyhmeS rtfe expected on tlio 21st. The\nfollowing is the result of the drnw :\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMixr.n pquniits.\nMiss Willeuiar and .J. \V. Cooke vs.\n.Miss 0 ugwall and Pr. Cilleapie.\nMm Tarheltai.d W. bailey vs. Mrs. I.\nIt >e and 0. Sinithe.\nMrs, Cooke and F. Dalby vs. Mine\nMcKenzie and G. Roe.\nMius Brown and J. Polner vs. Mis. O.\nit u and G. Tnr bell.\nMen'h Dounr.BS.\nDr. MacNaugtiton aim il, fSiuythe(bye)\n.'. I'ahnor mid W, Laurence vs. Dr. Gillespie and F. U recti.\nRov. H. L\u00C2\u00BBtlore and ti. Roe vs. F.\nDalbyandG. Tarbell.\nJ. Cuuke and W. Bailey (bye).\nCourtenay.\nProvincial A Meteor MoR. Smith tigur\nH i iu un seoldenl ou the Uiuoii K>,v mad\non Wuhiusilay, iu which the horse he wiih\ndriving wan seriously injured. MrKiniih\nescaped with a few bruises but the horst.\nwhich Has owned iu Nauaium, was ship'\nped down on the boat to thnt elty.\nThe .Australian liner Manuka bunkered\n! here laut Sunday,\nI\nSteamer Hyndfiird bunkered and\ncleared f-.r Chemalnua Wednesday, to\ntake on cargo ot lumber.\nS'eainer VVoltan bunkered and cleared\nfur Portland on Thursday.\nTug Cotitli And scow took coal on\nWednesday, and cleared for Vancouver.\nHarges Two Brothers, Baroda and\nPotter will all be towed and moored at\nKs<|uimalt.\nMis. Catt, uf Victoria, was the guest\nuf Mr. and Mra. James laud last week.\nMis. Capt. Owen spent Wednesday\nguest uf her sister, Mrs. Wm. Hiley.\nMtb. Capt. Scarf spent Thursday visit.\ning friends at Union Bay.\nMessrs. Sabine tt Stevens have a force\nof men At work clearing the right-of-way\nbetween Union Bty and Courtenay, for\nthe new proposed C.I\R. liy.\nThus. Hudson, local telegraph lineman, will shortly commence building a\nline from Cmiox to Cape Luzo, connecting all land stations with wireloas at that\npoint. This, when d no, will Assure the\npublic at >ill times of a thorough up-to-\ndate service.\nMr. E McMurtrte, accompanied by\nhis father, A. J. McMurtrie, proprietor\nof the AbbulHford Hotel, Lidysmith,\nciime up troin thatcity ou Friday eveti\niug iu their launch. Th y report having\na nice trip.\nMr. and Mrs. Bishop returned home\non Satutdb'y, atter enjoying a two weeks\nvacation away,\nAu automobile party from Cuinbmlai d\np issed through heie last >S .tuiday uveu-\nmg, en route for Home Like on a Unit ng\nexpedition, making the i rip down in re-\ncurd time fourteen hours- muludfrig ah\n,\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E. Uupe. Tluj repun li\u00C2\u00BB\"\"\u00C2\u00AB l\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00ABl \u00C2\u00BBj [,\u00E2\u0080\u009E,,\u00E2\u0080\u009E,\u00E2\u0080\u009E, |,u\u00E2\u0080\u009E, M.ii.Uy, I\n(.pvii'id online., linhiug being excellent\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0tnd wild animals plentiful. They also\nreport having seen smite inoimturu ot thu\nI forest and a wihl man, imt it is d\"U0tful\n> whal brand they cai nd with them.\nAs necessity is the mother of invention\nau thu extreme hot weather that pi e-\nvailed throughout the valley durii g tht\nlast week resulted in one uf CmrtenayV\nbusiness men inventing a new kind ol\nsummer drink. It possesses the wonder\nf'il qualification that it inebriates bui\n{foe* not/ intoxicate,, and proves to be a\ngreat success financially fur the inventor.\nTho first brew waa consumed by himself\nin solitude, (he seci-ud waa distributed\nouoiigBt 1; iends aA samples and the\nthird, we are informed, will be ready\n.md pieced on Bale at the Agricultural\nEihibition next September.\nThe date for the annual strawberry\nfestival, given under the auspices of the\nLadies' Aid Society, iu aid of the\nPresbyterian Church, and which usually\nproven the event uf the season, is set\niur the L'Kth June.\nMr. W. J. McKenzie, and a party of\ntrtciids from Seattle, left Saturday\nafternoon un a tishiug trip to Oyster\nlliier. They returned on Sunday, but\nwith thu usual linht'i'iiieiiH iuck,\nThu strawberries are commencing tc\nlipOli tn the vnlley, and if the weathei\ncontinues tine theie will be a large crop\nlhis year.\nMr. \V. Fitzgerald, eldest son of Mr.\n.1. t\. Fi':'.u\u00C2\u00AB'iaid, while woikiug for th\u00C2\u00BB\nKilmer Idver Lumber 0'., had the IUtint his I g by\nletting an hxc fail upon it, as a result\nof which he will be CO) ili Uud to (he\nlimine for some time.\nCITIZENS DISCUSS\nTHE SEWERAGE\nPublic meetings held\nSaturday and Monday\nnights re By-law.\nSince our taut issuo two public\nini't'tin^H Imve Iwen field to difmUSs\nthe SeworugH Ity-law. On Suttmlny\nlast Mayor Mai'donald touk the chair\nnl a meeting in the City Hall, and\ni'x|'lained the reason lor the meeting\nbeing culled. Although the hy-!uu\npresented to the people authorised the\nliorrowing of $25,000 it was not pro-\nposed to borrow anything like this\nsum. The lowest tender tor llie work\nwjjs $20,100. Tho Govoinmeni, how-\never, had promised $9000 toward the\nnstallatiou of the system, and it.\nwould uot lie necessary for the olty to\nrinse more ihan $J6,000, The Coun\noil proposed to provide for interest aVid\nsinking fund by means of a froutnge\ntax of IU cents per foot, Those own\nnig a half lot would lie required tu\npny 110 cents per front foot. This was\nwhnt lhe council proposed to do. If\nanyone had any better suggestion to\nmake the Council would he pleased lo\nconsider it.\nMr. l*eacock expressed the opinion\nlhat if % frontage (ax was the basis\n\"f laxa'ion it would not be legal to\ncharge the man with half a lot double\nthe regular rate, moreover it would be\na hardship on the small man.\nJlr. Uaniels defied the Council to\nmake him pny as much for a half lot\nas fur a whole lot. If the Government demanded the installation of a\nsewerage system here, they had better\nfirst sewer the camp. He doubted tne\ngenuineness of the telegram, it waa\nprobably bogus. The mayor read the\nlelogmm promising $9000Government\naid, but Mr. I 'aniel's was not satisfied.\nDr. McNuuglitiui referred to the\nnecessity for a modern sewerage system from a sanitary point of view,\nand considered thnt something of the\nkind was absolutnly necessary.\nMr. Eickle expressed the view that\nit was no good to clean up the town\nuntil the Camp was first attended to.\nDr. McNaugliton believed that steps\nwould tie takeu to have a sewerage\nsystem installed in the Camp by the\n'.ioncrnment; but, in uny case, he did\nnot think thnt tliey should tnke an\nexample frum a liuncli of Orientals.\nMr. Ilnte ihnught that the rate,\npayers were entitled to more infoims-\nIinn. What was the revenue that\nwould lm derived from a fronlage tax\ntlt 10 cent, per foot I\nThe Mayor replied that the amount\nwas approximately $lo,0(io, there\nbeing iiiiil sixty foot lots iii the city.\nThis would provide fur $900 interest\nnml $600 sinking (und niiiiullv.\n.Mr. lisle thought that n clause\nihould be inserted in the agreement\nmilting llie eily llie privilege of ro\ninyiug the lunn al any time after live\nCONFIRMING\nTHE TELEGRAM\nMayor Macdonald gets\nfuller information re\nGovernment grant.\nThe following is the text of the\nletter received by Mayor Macdomild\nfrom Provincial Secretary, re sewerage\nsystem for Cumberland :\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\" Yuur letter of the 10th ultimo,\naddressed to the Hon. Mr McBride,\nwas submitted to the Kxecutive CoiAii-\noil at its meeting yesterday, and after,\nu direful discussion nf the matter, 1\nam instructed to say that the Kxecutive Council nre willing to assist the\nCity of Cninbcnwd ,in the esiablish-\ninent nf a sewerage system ou the following conditions: Provided that the\neity cnn shnw a borrowing power lo\nthe extent of $20,000, the Executive\nCouncil would grant the skim of $9000\ntowards the completion of the sewerage system.\nThe reasons for this action of the\nKxecutive Council nre that they are\n.ware of the small area of the town\nand also of the smallness of the income derived from assessments, and\nthey feel justified, although there is\nno precedent for such action being\ntnken.\nThe $9000 will include the $0000\nalready promised towards the installation of a sewer from the Government\nbuildings.\"\n1 have the honor, etc., etc.,\nII. K. Youno-,\nProvincial Secretary.\nThe K of P. and IO. O. F. footballer\nplay to-day in aid of the Hospital\nGats's boarding house wss sold yesterday to Mr. Marnelli.\nRsv. B. 0. Freeman and family arrived\n< his week tn take charge of the Methodist\nchurch. He has been engaged in missionary work for 17 years and can speak 3\nIndian languages. Mr and Mrs Freeman\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ere tendered a tjecoption by the Lsdies\nAid on their arrival.\nThe meeting of tbe Licensing Board\nwas held in the Council Building last\niVednosday night, to consider applications for renewals of liquor licensos,\nsli the members of the board being\npresent. All the applications were accepted, and only oue was questioned-\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthai of F. Dallas, whose application\nwas opposed by Mr. Shaw, of tbe Police\nCommissioners.\n-nfc. htnut went tu second un n\ndouble to left. Kobertsnu went out\npitcher to lirst, and Ross, who hesitated too long, was caught at the\nplate. Union did nothing in their\nhalf. Tn the ninth McKay wns safe\n\"ii the pitcher's error. Gibson bit.\nhard to left but Ctirran featured the\nguine, gelling it in his mil afler n long\nrun und ivlnying the pill tu 1'Ycile\nricks In time to make the double play,\nMcNeil fanned. Hoss succeeded\nSlant in the box in thn ninth antl\nstruck the first two Unionists out,\nand Piki't was struck by a pitched\nball but died at Ilrst, when .lames\ncaught him wandering from tuu bag.\n1 2 3 4 B 6 7 8 9\nPilsiner 0 0 0 0 1110 0-3\nUnion Buy 0 0 0 110 0 0 0-2\nStanding of the League,\nFriends of Mr. Bert Crench will b,\nilini tn lenrn that be is recovering from\nliis illness, and will soon he ar< und\nagain,\nMr\nA meeting of ihu Ist. July Sp irla (' nil-\nmittee wss held oil MuuUay evening last.\nDetails in gullnral ale progru nillg very\nfavorably, and cuniinittees are striving tu I Mr. .1. Humphrey, of Union Bay, and\nmake the celebration surpass all previous Mr, W. J, Oheeuey wbu, some year,\nonus. A prize of *7it will be glveu fur avo wn. a resident, uf this d'striot, psid\nBaseball Tournaments with an entry feu n Hying visa to Courtenay last 'I uesdsy,\nnf $f>; also Imy'a name, 14 years and\nunder, $lf> prize. All other athletic I The K- * N- \u00C2\u00BB\"\"\u00C2\u00BB)' VM*1 have\nsports will be printed ou programmes \"\"'Vl'(1 ,huir ''\"\"'I' '\"\"\" 'heir first Iocs-\n!\u00E2\u0080\u009E,\u00E2\u0080\u009E,._ 'Ion nosr the Fraser lliver [nigging\nOu's CHiup, to Black Creek.\nMr. I,, fl. Warren, representative of |\n\V. II. (iiavo * Co., Seattle, spent Tues- j\nWon. Lost.\nUnion 2 1 -\n- ,607\nPilsener 2 1 -\n- .007\nCourtenay 0 2 -\n- .000\nUy .mil \Vi;(liit!\u00C2\u00BB(1;ty hurt) Uokint,' itfter the\nbunkering of S.N. \Vul,nn, of which W.\nK, Grave A Co. are charterers.\nMm, A Anthony, of Vancouver, and\nMiaH N. Prltchard, of On ur fun ay, were\nthe KiieiU of Mrn. h. Way on Thursdny\nafternoon,\nA merry aurprine party, under tho\nlefulurship of Mrs. O. M. Fox md MrB.\nQ\u00C2\u00BBo. Booth, took the residence of Mr.\nand Mm. D. It. Haggarb by storm on\nWednesday evening, and a vory enjoy\nable uvening waa spent in dancing, louufi,\nrecitations, etc. The invited guest. present were Mr. and Mrs. I). K^mvick,\nMr. and Mis. L. Hay, Mr. and Mrs.\nMr. W. A. (Jilloy, contractor for the\nFraser River Lumber Co., haa com\npleted thn railroad bridge across thc\n('oiiili'imy river, and lias commenced\nihe wharf and other construction work\nnear Roy's Hunch.\nCeo. Roe, Mr. and Mrs. H Chirk, Mrs.\nHooper, Mrs Oenry, Mr. and Mrs. Jas.\nMcNeil, Mr. and Mrs. (iao. Campbell,\nMr. and Mra F, Crown, Misses Fen,\nClover, and Mensrs. Reid, Clover, Ryan,\nWilliams and Siirtans.\nn\nA Chiinimnn employed at the wharf\nliu'O, while riding on coal cars, had the\nmisfortune of having hia right h'g run\nover emitting same bo h,-. amponlcd, ou\nWednesday afternoon.\n_\nyfiai'4, Nitiiaiiiio luul hwiHted upon a\nsimilar clause m their by law. Hmi\n(lit; city any guarantee tlmt thu sit\ntif tllQ pr<>|iuied septic tanks wuul'i\nnut lie sold '\nThe Mayor stated, in reply to this,\nthat the septie tanks would he situated\non one of their own streets,\nMr. Omiiels wanted the Hate nf\npolling poaiponed until the citizens\nliad more information and tlm right*\nof tlm oit-y Itail beoii more.ijir.'ctivoly\nrtafe^uardetl.\nThe opinion was also forthcoming\nthat, tho telegram road by the major\nwas a fake, and that the members of\nthe Government were a d lot of\nrogues.\nA motion to postpone thc vote on\nthfl question for two weeks was then\nput and carried without a dissenting\nvoice.\nOn Monday evening a aeeond public\nmeeting was held, at which practically\nthe same ground was covered.\nThe Mayor nnnounced that the\npolling day had been postponed.\nA short address was also mnde by\nMr. Sinclair, tlte contractor, who ex-\nT F, Sinclair, of Vancouver, the sue*\nessful tenderer for the work of ju-\nitalling the proposed seworage system\nin Onmberltind, arrived in town on Sun*\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 U> Ust, and registered at the Cumberland Hotel, Mr. Sinclair has just completed the installation of a similar system\nin Revelstoke, and previous to that he\nput in the sewers iu Kamloops, and has\ni ilso hnd considerable experience iu put-\n[ uiig in s.'piii' tanks iu Vancouver. In\nI conversation with our reporter he stated\n1 that he thought that the people of Cum*\n1 oerland were getting oil'wry light with\na tax of ]U cents per front foot for sewer-\ni 'tO* purposes. In both Kamloops and\n\u00C2\u00AB' I Revelstoke the tax was IH cents per .\n1 root foot. 'Ine lower rate in Cumberland was, no doubt due to the remarkable\n'Minpactiieaa of the city.\nTHK BASKBALL SCHEDULE J\n(Rkmajnisu Games).\ndune 12\u00E2\u0080\u0094Union at C -urtenay.\nJuuo lH-Couptenay at Cumberland.\nJune 26\u00E2\u0080\u0094Union at Cumberland,\n.'uly 10 Cuiun at Courtney,\nJuly I7-Coimonay at Cumberland.\nJuly 'Jl-Cumberland at Union.\nJ ulyjil\u00E2\u0080\u0094Courtenay at Union.\nAug. 7\u00E2\u0080\u0094Cumberland at Courtenay.\nAug. 14-Uniou at Courtenay;\nAug, 21-Cumberlatid at Union.\nAug. 28-Ouurteriay at Cnion.\nSept. 4-Cumberla- d at Union.\nSept. 11\u00E2\u0080\u0094Union at Courtenay.\nSept. 18\u00E2\u0080\u0094Cumberland at Courtenay.\nplained thoroughly the workings of a\nseptic tank .system, and replied to a\nnumber of ijucsiion* in regard thereto. THE ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND, B.C.\nThe Winnipeg Clearing House-\nA Barometer of Trade\n\i house is nn\nuuuh beard ot*\nit gives uut;\nwidely known\nnu'il rt'iiiurUiible, and\nrkublottoss, some fume\nurbanization wltieli pro-\nQgurosi li^urcs tbnt\nwomlerfiil (irogrosa of\nwithout |iui'allel in thu\n>nlj'\nis aeon\n'|\"1IIK Winnipeg eleai\nJL institution that i\nthrough tho tigm\nthut is, tho Ouiirr\nami justly et\nby this rem\ntollies to lln;\n.Jutes these\nepltouilxo tin\na community\n.vuild today) Bguros that toll the story\nof this progress truly umi well to the\nunderstanding mind of the business man\nof other parts, to whieh these figures\ngo out, full of information, accurately\nsntting forth the rise nml fall of the\nbusiness barometer of Winnipeg, simply\naccurate, convincingly strung.\nClearing house Oguros announce that\nthere is an increase in the Winnipeg\nbank clearings for lhe week of half a\nmillion dollurs user the corresponding\nweek of a yenr before\u00E2\u0080\u0094perhaps a mi'\nlion or moro over the week of tw\nyearB previous. This news is printed i\nthe local papers anil goes forth to tho\npress of other cities. Kvery city nf con\nsequence in Canada has the nows; bust\nuess men of New York, Chicago and\nLondon hear of it; and, in general, thc\nworld knows that Winnipeg bank tic;\njugs have made a big advance. Kor half\nA million n week is a big advance.\nvear of such advances puts thc city B\nbank clearings tweiity-flvo millions\nahead of the year before, and mauy of\nthe older cities would be much more\nthan thankful for such a raorcy\u00E2\u0080\u0094they\nwould bc hilarious. But half a million\nincrease in a weok is no wonder\nWinnipeg. Tho largoat figures for\nweek in 190!) exceodod tho largest\nweek's figures of l!\u00C2\u00BB0K by more than\nfive millions, the diQ'erouco between\n1U08 and 1007 was about the same, and\neven so far back as 1905 and 190B, tho\nigures for the latter year\u00E2\u0080\u0094for the\nbeBt bank clearing week\u00E2\u0080\u0094show on increase of almost four milliou dollars.\nMeasures the Flow of Trade\nTo the banker and the experienced\nbusiness man these figures toll a story\nof trade and business transactions that\ndoes not advanco with the slow, eau-\ntions stops of communities whoro the\nsearch for a dollar is a work of care\nand tbo process of milking ten thousand\ndollars the task of a lifotime; it tolls\nof commercial and trade dovolopmout,\nthat takes its strides like a giant and\ncovers as much ground in a day as older titios do in a montli or ovon a year.\nThis is an open bonk to the man who\nknows what a clearing house does and\nwhat its-figures mean, but the average\neitlzon roads the woekly, monthly aud\nvearly publication of thn doings of his\n\"city's clearing house with only a vague\ncomprehension of what thoy mean and\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094usually\u00E2\u0080\u0094with a vaguer idea ot how\nthev come about, how such fignr-s i.-'l'-\npened to bo published; their cause; their\neffect. In thc case, nf tho Winnipeg\nbunk clearings, it. is, indeed staggering to be told that tho figures for\nToil!) were $770,049,322, and still more\nstaggering when this enormous total is\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2lacod against the total for 1901\neight years before \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and it\nUnit tho yearly bank clearings for that\nTear were hut $100,9110,730, or less\nthan one seventh of tho amount in 1909.\nUgain the banker and the business\nnan know what these figurcB und those\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2emparisons mean; again tbe average\ncitizen sens no more than two suiub ot\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0oney, one enormously larger than the\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ther, hut. each beyond his ken us a\nthing real, tangible; iiandlod by men\nis the regular course of business; carried along the streets; passed about\nand exchanged from man to man; count\nnd, measured and taken account of by\nactual process and all in a matter-ol-\nfact, everyday way\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB n carpenter\nshingles a roof or a bricklayer builds\na cottage chimney.\nWill Be a Billion Dollars This Year\nIf the Winnipeg bank clearing figures\nkeep on increasing as tbey havo done\nduring tho months of tho year that\nlave passed, the yearly total for 1810\nVill bo a billion dollars or very near\nit Given a crop as good as Mat Of\nT909, and there is ovory probability\nthat Winnipeg bank clearings will pass\ntke billion mark. Tho firnt quarter ol\ntke year is notedly dull in rospoct of\nhunk clearings, us a rule, but thc total\nuncase of this your's clearings over\na .orresponding period last year, runs\n,p to the tidy sum of ...19,799,7M. That\nis to say: There has beeu nearly forty\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ilium dollars worth more business\ntransacted in Winnipeg than than WU\nnr the Hiime period of time in IWW.\nThis Important fact has been deter\naims! bv the Winnipeg clearing house,\nv, Institution sn simple in its working,\nand bo neenrate in t.ho results obtainable, that the man who aces it in opera\nlinn for the first time, cannot full to\nbe struck hy the bald, open, unadorned\nway in which exchanges of millions are\nmade and accounts handled that rcprc-\nseit a larger fortune in tho daily transactions of the clearing house than it is\ngivon to more than a very fow ot nuin-\nfciad to roll up in a lifotirne of strenu-\nok business life.\nHow the Oloaring House Works\nThe Winnipeg clearing house has its\nheme in tho basement of the Merchants\nBank. Uke the way to the spider a\nchamber into which tho fly was cordially invited, tho approach to tho\nclearing house is down a winding\nstair. Thore the similarity ends;\nthose who walk this stair do so\nra agrooment-und for the purpose\nof doing good to each other. At\nthc foot of the stair are two guards,\narmed for emergencies which, happily,\nhavo never arisen in Winnipeg. Down\nthe stairway thero come, ovory banl;\ning day but Saturday a troop of mon.\nThree in a row, so to speak, thoy como,\n* clerk, a messenger and nn escort\nfrom each of tho twenty one banks in\nthe citv\u00E2\u0080\u0094eixtv three men all told. The\nmessenger carries thc packages contain\ning checks and money that reprosont\nthe businoBB of his bank on tho previous bank dav, tho escort and clork\ntravel light and all three aro armed\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nin fact or in supposition\u00E2\u0080\u0094becauso the\nmessenger carries in thn leather ens.\nthat hangs from his Bhouldcrs, treasure\nthat thieveB might break through and\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0teal if opportunity afforded, ln the\naggrcgato, these sixty-three men may\nnarry ae much as flvo or six million\ndollars between thom, somotimoe, and it\nis a pour day when they do not have\ntwo millions. More or less, they carry\nit, and so safely that the first loaa is yet\nto be recorded.\nBy ton o'clock of the ordinary banking day, and by niuc-forty-five on Saturday, these sixty-three men aro assembled lu the basement room, that is\noccupied by tho Winnipeg clearing\nbouse. They must be there on time\nor be fined, and it is a rule of the clearing house that no wait uf lunger than\nsix minutes will be made. Such a wait\ncosts the haul; that is the ciniso of it\nthreo dollars\u00E2\u0080\u0094fifty cents a minute\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nbut fines are rare and prompt attendance usual.\nIn the room where these bank employees assemble every bunking day ill\nthe year\u00E2\u0080\u0094rain or Bhiue, blow high or\nblow low\u00E2\u0080\u0094there arc twenty-one booths,\narranged in horseshoe form, and at the\nupon end of the shoo a raised platform\nwith a desk. Across this desk is a st rip\nof wood with hooks on it\u00E2\u0080\u0094twenty-ono\nhooks; one for each bank, again. Behind\ntho desk is a man, fair-complexiotied,\nalert, businesslike, and with that sort\nof facility at figures that enables him\nto cast up accounts that mount to millions, with one hand, and\u00E2\u0080\u0094figuratively\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094to carry on a conversation with the\nother. This mnn ia Bdward M. Counsel],\nfor four years manager of tho Winnipeg clearing house, and thoroughly experienced, by this and other work in\nbanking, for his position,\nThe Autocrat of the Clearing House\nAt hia dcak in the clearing house,\nMr. Counaoll is monarch of all he surveys. It is one of the rules of the clearing house that any person who has to do] error and the account is corrected. If\nwith its business and who disregards I it had been cents instead ni dollars, the\ntions to wipe this out; if so the oilier\nbunks owe the Bank of Montreal the\ndifference; if not tho Bank of Montreal\nowes the difference to them, or, since\nthere is a clearing house, they owe\nit to the clearing house. The clearing\nhouse has the figures of the several\nbanks to show what condition of debit\nand credit obtain between the banks\nand it is important to find out whether\nall of the accounts agree.\nAnd so accounts are checked up and\na balance sheet struck. Since it is only\na daily balancing of accounts, the tig\narcs must agree in tliu several columns\nin order that the accounting shall be\ncorrect, lf there is u disagreement it\nmust be because some one nf the many\nwho have had to du with making up the\nfigures has blundered iu his adding or\nsubtracting. From each bank the clearing house manager has two slips. One\nshows how the daily account stands\nbetween the two banks named on the\nslip, nnd the other has ou it the amount\nowed the clearing house, or wbat is\nowed by lhe clearing house.\nVor a few minutes after the messengers have taken themselves nnd their\nburdens of wealth back to their respective banks, there is Bileneu again in\nthe clearing house. The business ia not\nprovocative of noise, or rich in conversation. Mr, Counscll finishes his figuring and the clerks, now idle and waiting, curl themselves up and do nothing\nbut wait, unless it lie to tako a glance\nat tho morning paper. Having gono over\nhis figures again to be quite sure of hia\nown correctness, the mnnager suddenly\nannounces \"Ono thousand dollars.\"\nAnd then there is n scatteration! The\naccounts do not balance by a thousand\ndollars and somebody has made the\nerror. It costs half a dollar to do that\nand bank clerks are not so sumptuously\npaid that they can afford 'o lose\nhalf a dollar very often. Thero\nare a few minutes of strenuous work\nand then it is found out that a clerk\nmade a mistake of a thousand dollars\nin adding his figures. Ile admits his\nllsroga\nthu manager's instruction, shall be sul:\nject to a fine of a dollar. iJusincss begins when lhe manager rings bis bell,\nwhich is sharp on the stroke nf ten\no'clock. Up tu that time the manager\nis busy taking account of slips turned\nill to him by the clerks.\nAt ten o'clock he says: \"Is everybody here?\" If there is no answer, he\nriugs a bell. At once, the doors are\nlocked by the guards, who stay outside.\nAt once, thc messengers who have\nbrought cases full of packages of checks\nami money, begin to pass around the\nroom leaving the envelope or package\nfor each of the other banks with which\nhis bank has transacted business the\nday before. As a rule, every bank dues\nbusinoss with every other bank, and,\ntherefore, each man will have twenty\npackages when hu atarts to distribute\nthem aud when he conies around the\nsecond time, to collect the packages\nfrom tho slant bottomed metal box underneath the desk of his bank, there\nwill be the same number for him to\ncase would have beeu the same; the\ncounts must be gone ovor until lhe\nlor is found and corrected.\nDaily Settlement Made\nti inaile,\nIn a\nand the\nbalatic\nis several million dollars\nants--has taken no mure\nWhen the correction has In\nthe clerks may go, not befo:\nfew minutes they are all goto\nwhole transaction covering th\niug of |i\nworth of\nthan folly minutes. The day's work is:\nnot over, though. Mr. Counscll makes j\nout a daily account, sheet which ho\nsends to une of thc tellers of tlic |\nI'.aiik of Montreal, who acts as\nsettling toller for the clearing house.\nAl! payments to banks that owe\nthe clearing house must be made\nby half past twelve of the same\nday that they are determined, Ihe hour\nfrom half past eleven lo half-past\ntwelve being given over In this. Pay\nincuts by settling banks begin at\ntwelve o'clock, and must be iniide by\nSTIRLING\nIN SUNNY SOUTHERN ALBERTA\nThe new town of Stilling in growing by leaps and bounds. Last Juno it wns opon prairie;\nto-day a thriving town, with lobal ninl long distance telephone. A nowspaper, \"The New Stirling\nStar,\" has just been established, and a telegram from the editor states that the lirst issue will he\nout this week.\nLots from $75 to $300 Each\nCASH\nRegistered Plu\n\"STIRLING\n4347Y\"\n$10\nA MONTH\nBuy to-day aud get the benefit of the tremendous movement. Your money invested in New\nStirling works twenty-four hours a day. Send for maps, plans, blue prints and views.\nThe following form may be used:\nOR\nSTIRLING TOWNS1TK SYNDICATE,\nUNION BANK BUILDING,\nWINNIPEG.\nSTIRLING TOWNSITE SYNDICATE,\nSTIRLING, ALTA.\nGentlemen,\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nEnclosed vou will find $ being cash payment on .lots in\nthe townsite of Stirling (Registered Plan 4347 Y), and 1 hereby agree to pay thr\nbalance at the rate of $10 a month on each lot. Kindly allot, me tliose closest ill ttl\nI get the plans, when I am to have the privilege of changing to any unsold it I wish.\nKindly send plans, maps and views of Stirling by return mail.\nName.\nAddress.\npllshod, this is cheaper than gold dollars\nat eighty cents each.\nStupendous Growth of Banking\nIt is no misapplication uf terms to\nsay that the growth of banking business\nin Winnipeg has lieca stupendous, enormous, When the clearing house was\nestablished in 1894, there were lint nine\nbanks. So recently as April, 1902,\nthoro were no more Ihan twelve banks\nin the city, or an increase of but three\nin eight years. Botwcon 1908 und 1910\n--another eight-year period\u00E2\u0080\u0094nine new\nbanks were established in Winnipeg, or\nas many aa the city had altogether up\n1902\n1909\nMontreal ..$1,004,476,7913 $1,806,040,82!)\nToronto . .\nS05,S8!,13O\n1,437,700,477\nWinnipeg ..\n188,370,003\n770,049,322\nHalifax, N.S.\n87,559,418\n95,278,402\nHamilton\n45,672,053\n84,803,930\nSt. John, N.B\n41,507,190\n72,404,500\nVancouver .\n55,225,705\n280,005,100\nVictoria. . .\n28,551,290\n70,695,882\nQuobec \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n71,4:10,958\n118,803,773\nOttawa . . .\n95,409,180\n173,181,973\nLondon \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .\n23,097,53!)\n62,098,837\nFor ;i comparison of Winnipeg bnnk\nclearings witli those of a city in thc\nUnited Statos, tho case of Providence,\nRhode Island, is instructive and eueour-\naging\u00E2\u0080\u0094to Winnipeggors. I'rovidenec '..\na city of over two hundred thousand\npopulation, nnd is noted as u centre of\ntrade and banking not only in thc state\nwhero it is, but among tlio cities of like\nsize iu all the states. litist December,\ntho newspapers of Providence gloated\nover the tact that the city's bnnk clearings for L909 showed an increHso of\nmore than sixty one millions over tho\nbest year prior to 1!)09\u00E2\u0080\u0094thnt of 1900.\nTho record for flvo years was given as\nfollows:\n1000\n1908\n1907\n1000\n$:u)S,sis,goo\n;J37,480,000\n,180,088,000\n397.19:1,700\nThe Winnipeg Clearing House in Opernt ton. 8cene in Boom Whore Accounts Aggregating Over Three-Quarters of\nBUlloo Dollars Were Cleared Last Year\ncarry back. It takes perhaps tive minutes to exchange these packages and\nfour or five million dollars may pass\nfrom hand to hand in thiB short space\nof time; moro than that, even, since\none bank has been known to contribute\na million and a half to the day'H businoss. Everything is dono with precision and eelority and nt the ond of\ntive\u00E2\u0080\u0094perhaps six\u00E2\u0080\u0094minutes, Mr. Counscll asks his second question: \"Are you\nall done?\" Again, if there is no answer, the bell rings. The guards open\nthe doors and tho messengers and their\nescorts file out, treasure-laden and treasure-guarding, as thoy entered, tho\nclerks stopping behind to go over thc\nday's accounts!\nWhen Columns Do Not Balance\nThe millions have passed out with tho\nmessengers who brought them, but there\nstill remains tho task of finding out\nwhether everybody has done his part nf\nthe day's work with tlio same degree\nnf accuracy.\nThc banks have presented their accounts of the business dune the day boforo; each onvolope brought, by a messenger contained checks nnd money\nshowing oik* bank's share of that business. Suppose that, the business of all\nthe other banks in the city with the\nRank of Montreal's customer* amounts\ntn a million dollars; it may be more or\ntoss, but whatever it Is it must be paid.\nIt may bo that the Bank nf Montreal\nholds enough of the other banks' obliga\none o'clock, an arrangement which i to 1804\ncompletes the work of the clearing porntlot)\nhouse for the day at that hour. Hank\nIn this short and expeditious manner Ideation for th\nthe Winnipeg clearing house handles the] banks into tli\naccounts of twenty-one banks\u00E2\u0080\u0094accounts that aggregated nearly eight\nhundred million dollars last year ami\nwhich will probably touch the billion\nmark this year. Resides performing j to T000,\nan invaluable work for the public in nf-J ings ran\nfording weekly, monthly and yearly\nfigures that give the best possible line\non the volume of business transacted in\nWinnipeg and tho section servod by\nit in a business way, the clearing house\nsaves the banks of the city a deal of\ncumbersome and costly work. Without\nthe clearing house, each bank would bo\nobliged to ma in tain n ledger account\nwith each of the other bunks; with the\nclearing house, no ledger account for\nthis class of business is kept at all. Iu\nlhe days before the clearing house was\norganized there was no way ol getting\nsiu-h u settlement as is now effected by\nthe clearing house, but by sending an\naccount to ench of the other banks. This\nwas slow, expensive nud unsatisfactory,\nthe clearing house is swift, sure and, by\ncomparison, the cheapest, device for securing such big results that could bc\ngotten up. There are two paid officers\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094the manager and the settling teller\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nand two guards. All of the expenses of\nthe clearing house for a year amount\nto no more than three or four thousand\ndollars, and for the work that is acenm-\ny years after its incor-\nity.\nng figures show the justi-\nentry of so many new\nfield of business cover-\nI by Winnipeg. Taken by years, these\nfigures are highly instructive to students of commnrehil growth, of trade\nprogress. I''<>r tha nine years from 1001\nlusive, Winnipeg bank clear-\nto these figures!\n1001\n1908\n1003\n1901\n1005\n1900\n1907\n1008\n$100,050,720\n188,370,003\n240,108,000\n294,001,437\n309,808,179\n504,585,914\n599,007,570\n014,111,801\n1009 770,049,322\nWinnipeg stands third on a lint of the\nOft een dhundinn cities that have clearing homes. This list is made up of\nMontretl, Toronto. Winnipeg, Halifax,\nIJnmilUn, St, John, Vancouver, Victoria, QiuboO) Ottawa, London, Calgary,\nKdmniton, Brandon, and Reglna. nud it\nIc to lie noted that of nil the cities of\nCan iid a that have had clearing bouses\nsine. 1902, the increase of clearing\nhouse business has bcen by fnr greater\nin Winnipeg than in any other. The comparison is an interesting ono, and shows\nthrte figures:\n1905 381,833,400\nFigures Show Conditions\nThe comparatively small Increase between the years 1907 and 1908 is a case\nin point of how bank clearings truly Indicate activity or dullness of trade.\nTho year 1907 was a poor crop year in\nWestern Canada, tho winter of 190007\nwas the most severe on record for a\nperiod of twonty-fivn years. Winter lingered in the lap of Spring until it seemed as though he never wuuld say goodbye and go. Not to fail of reminding\nthe country of what he had done, ami\ncould do, .lack Frost hurried back early\nin the fall of 1907 and between a late\nspring and an early full, the wheat crop\nwas sole pinched for room to ripen. The\ncrop was short by twenty five million\nbushels or more, nnd trade in Winnipeg Buffered In proportion. Nowhere is\nthis condition recorded witli greater\nfidelity and accuracy than in tllfl bank\nclearing figures. An advance of fifteen\nmillions was the best tliey could do, as\nagainst ninety-live millions the prccod\ning year, and of over one hundred and\nfifty-six the lollowing year.\nThus the records of tat and lean yenrs\nin Winnipeg may be traced by means of\nbank clearing figures. No need to ask\ntho old settler how business was in such\nand such a year. His recollection may\nbe faulty nr his reply influenced by\nsome lucky\u00E2\u0080\u0094or unlucky\u00E2\u0080\u0094happening befalling in his own case. It is a wonderfully well -balanced mind that acts din-\nregardful of things personal to itself,\nand man's memory is wretchedly defective in identifying time, plnce, and\nconditions long past. Whether it bc as\ntrue as it used to be deemed, that figures will not tic, may be a moot question, but it may be set down as wholly\ntrustworthy that clearing houso figures\nure barometrical gauges for all time of\ntho business and trade of tho section\nthey cover. Upward and downward\ntendencies of any moment will be recorded on the books of the banks doing\nbusiness in the section and writ large\nIn the clearing houso figures, for tho instruction of contemporaries and the enlightenment of future seekers after\nknowledge of that period.\nMOVING PICTURE SHOWS\nIT is impossible to know the exact\nnumber of persons who go to the\nmotion-picture theatres, but It is\napparent to anybody that they are\nworking a revolution in the amusement\nfield. Five-cent theatres abound on every hand; their illumination is the most\ngarish, their white and golden fronts\nnre the most inviting, tbe crowds about\nthem the biggest to be found on the\nstreet. Squads of police are necessary\nin mnny places to keep in line the expectant throngs awaiting their turn tt\nenter the inner glories.\nThe motion-picture show has already\npassed out of tho empty storeroom stage\ninto thc possessiou of many large nnd\nfamous playhouses. In New York the\nbiograph manager has driven vaudeville\nnnd the old-fashioned, lirst class drama\nfrom the Manhattan Theatre, the Union\nSquare, the Lincoln Square, the Circle,\nthe Majestic, the Yorkville, the Savoy,\nKeith and Proctor's 23rd Street Theatre\nand tho Harlem Opera House, among\nothers, and threatens to occupy even the\nAcademy of Music. When the great\nhall which loug served thc metropolis\nfor an Opera House, and in which Now\nYork gave its ball to the Princo of\nWales\u00E2\u0080\u0094when so famous a place echoes\nthe click of the moving-picture reel,\nsomething is taking plnce that merits attention.\nThero nre said tn be today 12,000 biograph theatres in the United States.\nThey are ''coining nmney,\" one and all.\nThey are driving vaudeville and meln\ndrama out of business and cutting into\nthe, gate-receipts of the more sedate on\ntertainment houses.\nThe '' gallery gnd,'' whiwr modest\ncontribution used to be in the aggregate\nan Important part of a season's success, is in his place uo more; he has\nsaved part of bis quarter and is occupy\ning a cushioned orchestra Heat, watch\ning the pliautusmagoric performance on\nthe screen of '' The Bijou Bream,''\n\"The Crystal Palace,\" \"The Mignon\"\nor tho \"Theatre Unique.\"\nThc biograph theatres already eup\nport twenty or thirty stock-companies,\nwho act boforo the ameru and appear\nsimultaneously in a hundred cities.\nTwenty new productions go out every\nweek in n million nnd Q half feet of\nfilm, ou which Mr. Kdison gets a royalty\nof half a cent a foot\u00E2\u0080\u0094more than $7,000\na week. Five million people are thought\nto be in daily attendance at the picture shows. If it is a matter of public\nconcern whnt sort of plays are ruu on\nthe stage aud wbat sort of articles are\npublished in tho newspapers and magazines, it is surely important that the\nsubject-matter of the most popular medium of reaching the people be at least\nnot. degrading.\nAlready the moving-picture hns been\napplied to serious educational uses. May\nit not bo used in political campaigns!\nAnd arc there not many good uses to\nwhich it muy be put?\nEOES THE SUN CHANGE SHAPE?\nONK scientist, ns tho result nf much\nstudy on his part of heliometer\nmeasurements, snid to be confirm\ned by solar photographs, has made the\nremarkable suggestion thut the sun\nperiodically changes its figure, being\nsometimes an oblate spheroid, like the\nearth, with its equatorial diameter ex\nceeding thn polar, and sometimes a pro\nlate spheroid, having a grented polar\nthnn equatorial diameter.\nHis idea is that the solar globe is to\nbe regarded as a vibrating body, having\nnn equatorial diameter on the average\nslightly in excess of the polar, but\nchunging at certain times so that tbe\nratio of the two diameters is temporarily reversed. The period of variability,\nit is thought, is the same ns the sun-\nspot period. The changes of figure, if\nthey really occur, aro so small that only\nthe most delicate observation can make\nthem manifest.\nINCIDENT AT THE BIEGB OF\nTABRIZ\nA HORSEMAN undertook to carr*\nthe constitutional flag into AWi f\nthat tho little force inside migj\nhoist it, a perhaps unnecessary perfortl\nance, but one which appeals to the thi\nutrical instinct of the east. With thll\nHag shooting upright from tbe pommel\nof his saddle and its folds flying out\nbehind him In the breeze, he galloped at\nn furious pace full in view of the enemy\nalong the hard highway. A perfect blia-\n/.nnl of bullets flew around him. The flag\nwas riddles, and I looked to see him fall\nor plunge to the cover of the bank. Still\nhe might reach Alvur. But. at a die\ntance of 150 yards from the village,\nwhere tho most advanced post of those\nwho hnd failed to come in was firing on\nthe enemy, the cavalier stopped hie\ncourse and joined them. He bad one\nflesh wound, and had made a fine ride,\nbut not to a finish. The flag never reached Alvar. V\nTHS ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND, B.C.\nv\u00C2\u00AB\nFASHIONS AND\nFANCIES\nTHE problem of the summer outfit is really far more bar-\nrusBing than the winter outfit, for not only is it essential for summer gowns to look always fresh aud smart,\nbat for mere comfort's sake must there be a far larger number than is required for winter, lt is impossible, for instance,\nto eliminate wool gowns from the list, but they do not play\naa important part. There must bo gowns of somo weight,\nis exceptionally smart and novel. The model for a cashmere\ndo soie would serve far better for pongee or voile de soie\nfor the majority of women, for it would require the moat\nperfect of figures and regal pose not to look shapeless iu a\ngown of this description made of too thick or heavy fabric.\nThe constant changing of fashions ns the weeks go by is\nmaking the selection of tho summer wardrobe unusually difficult. As has just been instanced, the different materials\neau be chosen witb nn idea of making them up in other colors\nund fabrics, and this is a task that requires cool skilled\njudgment. Thc color is not so difficult as the material, for it\ncan bu decided by choosing the becoming; but the material,\nwill it drapo well, will it make tho figure look too thick? All\nthis is of far more consideration in this impractical ago than\nwhether it will wear well. Fortunately it is not necessary tu\nbuy the most expensive materials to secure the best results,\nand there uever wus a timo when there were so many effective\nmaterials to be had for so little expenditure. No one color\nis ordered by Dame Fashion. For the moment, owing to the\nt'hantecler influence, red predominates, but there is little indication thnt it will so continue to lead. There are most exquisite blues, and mnny of them clear, vivid blues, and the\nduller antique shades. There are greens and many yellows,\nand more black gowns nre now being made than haB been the\ncase for a long time, while whito in any texture and weight\nis most popular. Bands of satin nnd fancy borders to plain\nmaterials tempt the lover of novelties, and the colorings are\nmost fascinating in both heavy and light fabrics. Figured,\nstriped and plain, all aro in style, while the fad\u00E2\u0080\u0094it iB nothing\nelse\u00E2\u0080\u0094of combining contrasts makes a variety, if that is desired. The conservative still elect tho ono tone color scheme\nin preference to nil else, but for those who claim that its too\nmonotonous the contrast of color and material present-a must\n.alluring field of choice.\nj Thc use of black trimmings has much to recommend it,\nI but is not to be rashly advocated. Facings of plain blnck\nsatin nn voile de soie aro effective, but then the one tone of\ncolor Is also effective and the contrast of material makes a\ncontrast of color. Trimming plain materials with figured\nis also one of the fashions of this season, and last year's, blue\nserge costume can be wonderfully freshened if the coat bo rc-\nllned with polka dotted foulard, with collar and cuffs of the\nsame. This is more novel than the black trimmings, which\ngive the more marked contrast,\nSimple but charming evening gowns ure quite a feature of\nthis summer's styles, voile de soie, chiffon, soft finish satin,\nand for those who must count pennies the fascinating mercerized wash materials ami flowered muslins are to be had\nin a wonderful variety of color and design. These Inst can\nbe made over lawn linings, although silk is to be preferred,\nand now is tne opportunity to use up the old evening gowns\nfor linings, for the fact that the first freshness has departed\nwill make no difference under the other material. When expense is being carefully calculated, be it remembered that\nsilks and satins are often much less expensive in the end than\nthe transparent materials that do not cost half the price, for\nthe former do not require an expensive lining, which the latter as a rule do demand.\nWhile dresses are selling freely it is certain that thoy are\nI to have strong rivals in thc separate waist of a more or less\nj elaborate type. These styles are shown in chiffon, niessnline,\n| net. taffeta, voile and similar fabrics.\nThe difference of opinion that has prevailed as to sleeve\n| lengths goes merrily on. Domestic manufacturers are not\nI yet convinced thnt the shortened sleeve shown in all imported\nj models will be universally worn later on. The majority of\n) consumers, however, are not only convinced, but willing to be,\nI that tllfl three quarter or elbow sleeve will bfl the sleeve of\nj fashion for 1010.\nWaists now shown, therefore, have more long sleeves of oue\nj style or another than short ones, and three types comprise\nI thfl variety: the bishop, thfl full tip with a deep cuff, aud the\n* staple coat sleeve.\nTailored waists, both plain and dressy, are meeting with\nLi.\nGreen Silk Voile Gown\nDot su warm or heavy as wool, aud there must be foulard and\npongee gowns for tho very hot weather, so that the woman\nwho finds it comparatively easy to took smartly gowned dur-\nlag the cold weather if she be provided with three of four\nquite satisfactory costumes must realize that double the number fur summer will be tbe rule.\nVoile de soie, silk veiling uud marquisette, preferably the\nformer, are much iu demand this season, as in truth are all\nextensive, uud when the exact shade and effect cannot be\nfound it eau be obtained by combining two ur three shades,\ntine over the other, giving a wonderful depth and warmth of\ncolor. The rndid colors ure no varied, however, that it would\nlightweight trans|>arent and semi-transparent materials. As\nhas beeu aaid many times, tbe choice uf colors is wonderfully\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00ABwm as though the most critical might be satisfied. In green\nthere nre endless shades, for green is one of the favorites\nHis year, and a moat charming model Ls in one of the new\nshades combined with liberty satin, a perfect match, or, if\nMl desired, with black. The former is the smartest aud the\nmoat generally becoming. The style might ge called elaborately simple. It consists uf a lower skirt with wide facing\nof tbe satin, a full overskirt finished with two bands of satin,\na most simple waist with yoke collar, fiat baud dowa the\nfront of the waist, nud cuffs of tine Mitliuc laco, The belt is\na* the normal waiat line; the sleeves, elbow length, nre of\nnormal size, and the gown attracts attention by its finish and\nsimplicity,\nLiberty satin it* a material that has again come into favor;\nit never did entirely lose its popularity, for it i.s such a be\nroiniug material and CUR be draped and fitted easily. It is\nused iu all colors, and in many of the brightest colorings as\nwell as in black. In one of the new shades of red is an o.v\ntremely smart model, but rather a dangerous style to re com\nmend recklessly. Again is then1 the double shirt, the upper\nquite full and gathered into a broud band of Venetian lace;\nthree rows of heavy cording form the belt that joins the\nwtiist and skirt, and are placed to give the short wnisted\naffect, The sleeves are in three wide lucks, but do not reach\nquiff to the elbow, and have as finish a puff of the same lace.\nThis same model copied in hljick is also extremely popular.\nArtistic and aesthetic are terms applied to manv of the\nBOWOSt styles, and if loose, more nr less floppy effects are\nsuggested by these terms, tbey certainly are well named.\n'llie sleeves and waist in one piece, with no shoulder, no\nsleeve seams, give a vague outline, while the full skirts,\ndrawn iu about the ankles with u wide baud of lace or satin,\nquite effectually disguise the natural lines of the wearer. The\nl\u00C2\u00BBw cut eollur, with its encircling frill, may display a pretty\nthroat, but it breaks the shoulder line ami displays most un-\naent promisingly any defect of skin or formation of the neck.\nA truly beautiful woman has certainly this season much to be\nthankful for, as she knows for once that her rivals cannot\nhope to compete iu the face of such odds.\nA gown of Nattier blue liberty that has many points to\nrecommend it for the woman who is tall ami slender. A\nquite full skirt is gathered nt the sides and back and is\nelaborately*flftlbrolnflrot! in heavy silk of the same shade as\nthe material, The loose blouse waist fastens under the left\narm und the waist and skirt are joined under a wide folded\nbelt that is caught under a large, fancy buckle. There are\nends of ribbon fulling from under lhe buckle that are finish\nwith loug tassels. This model iu white is as charming aud us\neffective as in any color.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nWool materials are _o associated with out of' door costumes\nand tailor gowns tlmt wheu in the Hummer season models of\ncloth gowns are exhibited it always seems as though there\nwere some mistake. Although there are nut many days during the hented term when a woollen or serge gown would seem\npractical in the country, nt the seashore or in the mountains\nthere are many opportunities for wearing it. And then the\nmodels displayed in serge or cloth cnn almost invariably be\ncopied in other materials. The blue and white striped serge\nor cloth could be made equally well or better in pongee or\nfoulard, and there are many details that could be Improved\nupon in the other fabrics; the waist in a lighter material\nwould be far smarter, tbe alcoves more graceful, for the model\nm\n\u00C2\u00A7_\nw MAGIC\nBAKU .G POWDER\nDoes not contain Alum\nCanada will some day stop hy legislation the use\nof alum in baking powder. Alum powders injure\ndigestion. Great Britain already prohibits alum in\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0gygR\nRaspberry Red Liberty Satin Gown With Venetian Lace\ntheir aCflUStOllied favor, The \"dressy\" tailored wmsH are\nmade so by the pcrinnm-ut or adjustable side trills at thc\nclosing, some of them also having a sleeve finish to correspond. Touches nf color in the wuy of embroidery enliven\nmnny of these frills und are apparently well liked, *\n\" Pluin*tailored \" walBts show many tucks of many cizes.\nfrom the familiar pin-tuck up, All white is preferred, although mauy smart effects in colored hairlines uu white are\nseen.\nRide closings, a lu Russe, or peasant, are among tbe claimants for favor io the tailored waist class, and there have\nbeen experiments made in the Japanese sleeve vtyle which,\nso for, have fallen flat.\nBAKING\nPOWDIB\nMade in Canada\nfoods.\nMAGIC is better than\nany food law requires.\nMAGIC insures healthful, wholesome food. Brings\nsuccess to you\nin baking light\nflaky biscuits,\ncake and pastry.\nMAGIC is\na medium priced baking\npowder and the only well-\nknown one made in Canada\nthat does NOT contain alum.\nFull Pound Cans, 25c.\nALUM\nBe sure of purity\u00E2\u0080\u0094insist on MAGIC\nE. W. Gillett Co. Ltd. Toronto, Ont.\nCDCC CC\u00E2\u0080\u0094TW Or-fW U\u00E2\u0080\u0094A\u00E2\u0080\u0094it\u00E2\u0080\u0094,\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094t~t.t\u00E2\u0080\u0094,d*-at.C-A,t^m.Hml.m\t\nm agd rI\EX> WUn DXJVJl- \u00C2\u00BBp-.t ...d ._i it,. ..,_&*. imb b~k -m u m_ui fr.. w __--\nTHE BUCK-EYE\nVOL 1\nWEEKLY EDITION\nNO. 30\nAll Western Cenede Loves e Buck-Eye\nThere wus it young girl in Wu.skada\nWho made up hcr mind that it paid ber\nTo Hell a good smoke\nThat would please thc men folk,\nSo she shipped some BUCK-EYES to Washada.\nThere was a bar tender in Watrous\nWhose cigars were sufficient to slaughter un;\nSo we boarded the train,\nVowing, \"Never again,\"\nKor they hadn't a BUCK-EYE in Watrous.\nSaid a newspaper man ot' Lacombe,\n\"H's liko getting money from home.\nWhen you buy n cigar,\nOct a BUCK EYE, it's far\nAnd away the best smoke in Uirombn.'\nA miser there was in Wadena,\nThan whom there was nobody meaner.\nWhen a stub\u00E2\u0080\u0094u BUCK-EYE M\nCatch his eye, ho would cry,\n\"That's ll re.nl, Simon-pure 1'cacberin.i.'\nP.S.\n-And everywhere you go, the burden of thoir song is that\nthe BUCK-EYE Is the best Ten Cent Cigar on the market.\ni \"it.\nTAROLEMA\nCURES ECZEMA\nAad Moat Olk.r neria Skla Dleeaaea.\nTarolemi Consists of Compounds\nwitb Combined Oils-of-far\npan cnn,minx \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB Mild cue. or\nWel Kc.rma, m.e TAIIOI.10WA No. 1\nPOII IIIIY KI'/RNA mm* Kr.rma .t\ntke Head, Mae TAIIOI.RMA No. il.\nPOB SliVKIIH CASUS, (ienerallT Pi\u00C2\u00BB-\naenafer laearnble. aae TAHOI.RXA\nNo. S.\n50c Per Pol at All Drnggisti\nIf yarn* DrnffKlRt mme. not aell\nTAHO' KMA. era>r street, aad addraea\nDeal. P 1\nTbe Carbon Oil Works, Di, Winnipeg\nQueen's anfoersity\nand College sffisr\nARTS\nEDUCATION\nTHEOLOGY\nMEDICINE\nSCIENCE (IneluJing Bafineeriaf)\nTba Art* couth may be tekea wrM*-\nKrt .tt.ndino.. bat etaJente iaair-4\n|e> gredoeti must attend one teesioa.\ntbere were 1517 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2tnJente nf*t*t*i\nmelon 1909-10.\nPee Calenders, write tbe Regietret,\nT. <\u00E2\u0080\u0094K\u00E2\u0080\u0094nt. a A.\nOalaite\nBra$$ Band Bl\ntnitr.m.Mi. Drama. B*eiel Mme, Eet\nEVERY TOWN CAN HAVE A \u00C2\u00BBA.<\nLoweil prloee e.er gaoled riaeeau.w\niter MO ninitieUoM, Bailee bee. Writ, v\nSir anjtblae la Maek er IhMMnaw.\nWHALEY. ROYCt 0 CO.. Umi*.\ntonal* Onk, aad Wlaalvo*. ka*.\nRUSSELL\nAUTOMOBILES\nWl BAVE SECOND-HANI) CABS\nALSO MOTOR SUNDRIES\n; Dr. Mattel's Female Pills\nSEVENTEEN YEARS THE STANDARD\nPrwriUil ami recommended for wanmi'l til\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0tent*, s H;if mini \u00C2\u00BBlh |.r. (..itmI remedy ot ptmtu\nworth. The mull from ihnir use in .|ukh sml\nponnsnont For wl'- at nil dnm atom.\n0AMADA CYCLS S MOTOB\n144 Prucoie Si, WUmlf*\nOO\nKlanifpin\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"l'bot would yer. do if yes\nlived tn be two hundred yuan oMt\"\nLanigan\u00E2\u0080\u0094\" Oi don't knnw yit.\"\n30a THE ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND, B.C.\nTHE ISLANDER\nPublished every Saturday al Cumberland, B.C., by tiie\nproprietors,\nOhmond T. Smithe and Frederick J. Gn.i..\nAdvertising rates published elsewhere in the paper.\nSubscription price $1,50 per year, paynble in advance\nThe editor does not hold himself responsible tor views expressed by\ncorrespondents,\nOrm'ond T. Smithe, Editor.\nSATURDAY, JUNE ll. 1910.\nWhat the Editor has to say.\nTHE BY LAW.\nThe action of flie Council in deciding to postpone for two\nweeks the vote upon the Sewerage By-law is one that is to be\nwarmly commended. Had the vote been taken upon this\nnuestion on Tuesday it is almost a certainty that the by-law\nwould have been defeated, while the chances would appear to\nbe excellent for it to carry on the 20th inst. It must be confessed that the by-law, at the time the first public meeting\nwas held a week ago. was in rather a crude state. A number\nof ways in which the bylaw might be improved were suggested, and the mayor and aldermen have shown a praiseworthy disposition to profit by these suggestions, and the result should he that by the time polling day arrives the business arrangements Bhould be in such shape as to make its passage a practical certainty.\nThat a proviso should be inserted allowing the city to repay the loan, or any portion of it that it sees fit, at any time\nafter five years, is a reasonable proposition, and one that\nshould be insisted upon. We believe that the Council fully\nrealise the importance of this matter, and will fully safeguard\nthe interests of tbe city in this respect.\nThe suggestion that a guarantee that the water rates should\nnot be increased by more than 25 cents per month-for every\nbouse should be secured, we believe, has already been acted\nupon, and the document in tlte hands of the mayor.\nAt the time the money by-law was drawn up it was never\ndreamed tbat the Government would come to the assistance of\nthe city in the liberal manner that they have done; and it\nwill, therefore, not be necessary for the city to raise anything\nlike the amount that was at tirst supposed.\nThe lowest tender for the work was $20,100, and with the\nGovernment, grant of \u00C2\u00A70000 it should not he necessary for the\ncity to raise more than $15,000. Althotight the by-law is\nnominally to raise \u00C2\u00A725,000. it is not necessary for the city to\nraise anything near that sum of money, and the citizens\nshould realise that thev are in reality only voting upon a\nSI5.000 by-law, ns tbe citizens have the word of Mayor Macdonald that this is the amount it is proposed to borrow.\nWith regard to the manner in which it is proposed to raise\nthe revenue to defray the lixed charges for interest and sinking fund, we are unable to see eye to eye with the mayor and\naldermen. It must be admitted that to arrive at a fair and\nequitable basis of assessment is u matter of no small difficulty,\nand it, is possible that the city fathers may he ahle to arrive at\nsome scheme that is an improvement upon the one at present\nsuggested.\nIf a frontage tax is just and equitable, well and good; but\nto charge a man who owns half fl lot 20 cents per front foot,\nand a man who owns a whole lot, or two or three lots, 10 cents\nper front fool is most unreasonable, and furthermore, is unlawful : and therefore this part of the scheme must he reconsidered.\nThe impression that this revenue must he raised on the basis\nof a frontage tax is fni erroneous one. It is not compulsory.\nln our opinion the principle of putting taxation for general\nrevenue upon land values only is a sound one, and one that\nmight well lie adopted ill this city, hut this is too large a question to he dealt wilh in this issue, hut it will be dealt with ill\nthese columns at an early date.\nWhen it comes to raising a revenue for sewerage work, however, we believe that a certain proportion\u00E2\u0080\u0094say 50 per cent\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nshould he raised upon the value of the improvements, the\nbalance should he raised upon the value of the land itself.\nThe reason for this, to our mind, is quite clear, lt costs just\nas much to lay a sewer past a vacant lotas it does past one\nthat is improved, therefore it is clear that the land should pay a\ncertain proportion of the burden for installing and maintaining\na sewerage system. On the other hand, it is manifestly unfair\nthat the rate for a lot containing two houses should be as low as\nfor a lot that is vacant. The service rendered is a matter\nthat should he taken into consideration, and we do not\nknow ol' a better method of arriving at a fair basis of taxation than hy putting a fair proportion of the rate upoutlie\nimprovements,\nlf any of our renders have anything heller to suggest we\ninvite the fullest discussion through the columns of The\nIst.AMiNi!. We believe that the Council, too, are open to\nany suggestions that might form the basis of a more equitable method oi'raising the required revenue,\nWanted\nCanvassers\nto solicit\nAre you\nA JEWELLER?\nIf not\na\nio is!\nIn either case you should be interested in this\nCHANCE OF A LIFETIME\nsubscriptions to\nTHE ISLANDER\non commission\nHDUEHTISINB HHTES\nDisplay Advertisements\n7,1 cents per column inch per month.\nSpecial rate for hall page ur more.\nCondensed Advertisements\n1 cent, 1 word, 1 issue; minimum charge 25 cents.\nNo accounts run for this class of advertising.\nRepairing, Cleaning and Pressing\nCumberland Tailor\nS. ISAKA, Proprietor\nm Cults' Moil Tii\nDunsmuir Avenue, Cumberland, B.C. \u00C2\u00BB\nCarrying a full line of the very best\nClocks,\nWatches\nand Jewellery\nAlso a\nBOOKSTORE IN CONNECTION WITH THE BUSINESS\nThe present owner is making lots\nof money, but will sell at a sacrifice\non account of\nAGE AND ILL HEALTH\nWill sell on the buyers own terms\nThe building and lot are also for\nsale cheap, or will rent on reasonable terms\nFull particulars may be learned\nby communicating with\n\" IM \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nM\" The Islander Office\nCumberland, B.C. A\nTHE ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND. B.C.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094_\u00E2\u0080\u0094-m\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094e\u00E2\u0080\u0094mmmmm^\u00E2\u0080\u0094*m\n\\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n1HB1III HI THE Lfllfl PRICE GUSH WW\nCommencing Saturday, June llth, we are going to start a CLEARANCE SALE, which will\ncontinue for one week only, and strongly advise everyone who needs anything in the goods men;\ntioned below to act quickly while the assortment is large.\nWe quote s few of the many Bargains which will be offered for the one week.\n50 Pairs Men's Pat Coi.t ItlucHKR\nShoes ami Oxfords Itegu nr tli\nSale Price $4.50\nBoV'a Bo . Calk Shoes. The l>e\u00C2\u00BBi\nnmke. hih! guarantee . to wear wel),\nSizm 1 to 5. Regular %'.! fiO pair.\nSale Price $2.75 pair\n10 Dozen\nTowels, Jumbo\nI'NIIl.EAl'HED Tl RK1SII\nBrand.\nSaturday 50c. Pair\nlo Dozen Mux's Mhoi m Natural\nI'miskshirts, just ilie thing Ut the\nMine. Hernial 7fio eaoh.\nSale Price Soc. each\nYoi th's llox Kii' Shoes, \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 f medium\nweight and guiui (|iiRhty. S !\u00E2\u0080\u00A2..\u00E2\u0080\u00A2! H to 12\nRegular .'2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\" (2 25 psir.\nSale Price $1.76 pair\nlO I). ZBN Women's ksu I UILURRN's j\nCotton Husk in bittck and tan. Ui-^ul\u00C2\u00BBr\n80a Hiid 88c. pait.\nSale Price 15c. pair\nKM) Mkn'n ani> Hov s t'Ai's in tweecU\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0iml Serges, *il bizei, U\u00C2\u00ABgular :t5c.,40o.\n'imt 50c. i Hill\nSale Price 20c. each\nBoy's TwilD Pants, double seats and\nknees, all aizei.\nSaturday only 75c. pr\nMen's Ponoee Silk Shirts, all sizea.\nKi'ltular J3.R0 each.\nSaturday $2 50 each\nDon't tail to attend this Money S.ving Sale, and re 'number wm are going entirely out of Crockery, Euaiuelware and\nTinware, and the goods are at your own Prices. REMEMBER THE PLACE AND DAi'E.\nOppuaite McKinnel'l Candy Store,\nH DUNSMUIR AVENUE\nRICKSON & CARTWRIGHT\nPOOR\nPRINTING\nIS A GREAT\n=BENEFIT=\nTo the printer who\ndoes good work.\nGood printing is the\nonly kind we do, and\nour prices are reasonable\nSee us about your\nnext printing job\nTHE ISLANDER\nPrints everything\nPrints it well\nA Indue nf Knight* of Pythias will bt\niiiHii'iitei! Hhnrily nt Courtney, and \u00C2\u00BBln\u00C2\u00BB.\nat Union Buy.\nJob wnrk ( Ynu can pet; what yon\nwmit when yuu warn il ut Thk [dLAKORK\nPhone 35.\nDr. Kerr, Dentist*, wil! be in Cumber*\nlam) frulU the 2nd to tht* lthh \\\*\\nMnke yourappi-intmenta early. jlO\nNothing better in the line itf job Work\neati htt fiuunl anywhtire than itt Thh\nIslanoek otlice. I'liei** moderate, qua\nIny rim hest. Phtuie 35.\nThos, Gunk contributed 8ft and tht-\no\u00C2\u00BBHts of the \"court; on Wed need y niyh\\nbefore J'a.P. Willard and Shaw, for\nswearing ou the public streets.\nDon't fail to attend the Development\nLeague meeting on M-'iuhy night\nBiiHiiH-MH nf considerable importance is t<\nhe disputed nf, and n Urge attendance in\nurgently requested.\nMr. Merrifield, of tbe Cumberland\nHotel, has made arrangements to receive\n'he results of the Johnson-Jeff des tight\nby rounds, over the wire nu the night of\n'he big contest, July 4 h,\nThe ladies if the Macabnes met laat\nweek at the home of Mra. Frank James\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2tod presented three of their Past Commanders, vi/ : Mrs. W. Willard, Mrs.\nAlex. McKinnon and Mrs. J. R. Grey.\nwith beautiful Past Commanders Jewels,\niu token uf thei- appreciation uf tin\n\Vunble services rendered to the society\niu the past.\nF. Dallas wss hailed before the Cadi\nin Wednesday, charged with aw earn i<\nand using insulting language on the public street. P. P. Hairisou appeared foi\nthe defense, nnd hfter listening to argument the court decided to udjouni till\nFriday evening, iu order tu allow the\ncity to procure council.\nOn Monday last Coroner A brums was\ncalled to Little Qualicum to hold an in\ni(ii\"8t upon the remains of Manuel Me-\nKuluey, a Chilian, who was crushed to\ndeath by a lug, in the camp there.\nMcKelney carelessly got in front of a\nmoving log which was bring hauled by a\ndonkey engine. A verdict of accidental\ndeath was returned, no blame being attached to anyone.\nTHE WEEKS ARRIVALS AT THE\nCUMBERLAND.\nT. F. Sinclair, Vancouver.\nF. T. Malone, Toronto.\nE. A Richardsnti, Vancouver.\nF. H. Tnpp, New Westminster\n\V L. Burns, Victoria\nJ. H. Shields,\nH. Vaughan, \"\nT. J. Stephens, Vancouver,\nW. P. Bassett,\nJ. H. Renfree, \"\nW. E. Schwanz,\nT. Lumsden, \"\nH. J. Javons,\nW H Brenen.\nW. Perry,\n(i Martinich, Comox.\nJoseph Biistow, tfburno.\nTo the Editor The Islander,\nSir,\u00E2\u0080\u0094In reference to lho rumor cur-\nrunt that I was assaulted nml robbed\nin the Wavorley Hotel, I wish to in\nform tho public tlmt the faots huve\nbeen grerttl)' exaggerated. It in correol\nthat I hml tt Httle trouble with some\nperson unknown to mo. in thu hotel,\nand thai after lonvhtff the hotel I\nmissed n small sum of mnnay.\nNow, I wish it to be understood\nthat tlmre is no blame to be attached\nlo the proprietor of tlio hotel nr any\nperson connected with the place.\nFurthermore I do not allege and I do\nnot believe that the money I missed\nwas stolen (mm me. The assault I\nam plained of wus not preceded by\nonv wrangling noise or dispute, and it\nwas absolutely impossible for the proprietor of the hotel to prevent the assault, but he did all in his power, how-\n(.ver, after I was struck, to prevent a\ntight taking placed He did tbo right\nthing wheu he insisted those concomed\nin the assault leave the hotel premises.\nWm. Hendricks.\nThe\nCorner Store\nWe would like the people of Cumberland\nand district ts visit our Store this week,\naslwe have just taken stock, nnd reduced\na lot of our lines for quick selling. There\nis no need to say much about it; you\nonly need to visit us to appreciate the\nvalues. Those of our customers who\nhave frequented the Store the last week\nhave seen and benefitted.\nOn Saturday the llth we are offering 15%\noff our Large Stock of Shoes\nCOME WITH THE CROWD TO THE CORNER STORE\nJ. N. McLeod\ni\nC. H. TARBELL\nStoves and Ranges,\nBuilders Hardware, Cutlery,\nPaint, Varnishes, Arms and Ammunition, Sporting Goods,\netc.\nAGENTS FOR\nThe McClary Manufactuing Co.\nSherwin-Williams Paints\nREAL ESTATE AGENTS\n= Gomox. B.g. =\nS<-a frontages and farming land for sale\nOtoairst Chaital\nCool and Restful fop the Warm Summer\nDays\nSea-Grass Rockers\nSea-Grass Chairs\nTeak Wood Chairs\nQuarter-Cut Oak Rockers\n__^_^^^ Mahogany Rockers\nA full line of Furniture and House Furnishings always on hand at\n\"The Furniture Store\"\n\. McKinnon ,, Dunsmuir Avenue\nPilsiner Beer\nThe product of Pure Malt and\nBohemian Hops\nAbsolutely no chemicals used\nin its manufacture\n= Best on the Coast e===\nPilsener Brewing Co.. Cumberland. B,C.\n j-\nSMOKE =\nost of ns smoke\nsometime here\n or hereafter.\nThose who prefer to (lo their smoking\nhere will And an especially line assortment of Cigars at\nJohn McKinneli's\nTobacco, Fruit, Confectionery, Ice\nCream and Soft Drinks\niii THE ISLANDER. CUMBERLAND, B.C.\nMINISTER WHO TESTED ZAM-BUK\nRead His Deliberate Opinion!\nBev, p. P. LaugUlj \"The Manse,\"\nCarp, Out., writes! \"Some considerable\ntime ago 1 begnu using Zam-Buk\nwith a view to testing it thoroughly,\n1 um troubled with eczema, which is\nalways worse in tho early part of winter, und aconis to leave me ubout\nspring. 1 tried ZiimHuU Immediately\nmy bands started to break out, aud am\npleased tn say that it cheeked the\ndisease, Which is mure Ihuu I can sav\nfor anything I have ever hefore tried.\nWe now have Zam link in the boUSO\ncontinuously, and 1 carry a small sample\nhox in my pOQkot. One evening 1 happened to* look in where an uld man\nhad met with un accident a week liefore,\nuiid hud lost a linger nail. 1 droned\nthe wiiund witli Zam Buk and left the\n[\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ample box with them. I have seen the\nold gentleman since, and the injury is\ncured.\n''On another occasion a farmer called\nat 'The Manse,' and I noticed a rag\nou his finger. Enquiring about the injury, I learned that ho bad somehow\ntaken a piece of flesh off, and the wnind\nbad Blurted to fester. Hfl was ufraid\nit would turn to blood-poisoning, 1\ngave him about a third of a box of\nZam Iluk and lie applied it. A few\ndays later I saw him, and he said\n'That's great salve of yours; my finger\nis now doing line.' ''\nThat is exactly tho kind of testimony\nwo must, appreciate. Test Zum-Buk!\nDon't go by hearsay! You will lind it\ngives the best results in ail cases of\neczema, ringworm, festering sores, idles,\ncuts, burns, face sores, eruptions, and\nall skin injuries and diseases. All drug\ngistH and stores, 50c box. or from Zam-\nBuk Co., Toronto, for price, but refuse\ncheap and harmful substitutes and\nimitations.\nHOW is your wife, John!'*\nJohn (the waiter)\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Well, I\ndon't know, miss, When the sun\ndon't shine she's miserable, and wheu\nit does sho suvs it fades the carpet.\"\nA FRIEND was complaining tho\nother day to Captain Barber, Port\nCaptain of the State pilots, about\nthe crowded condition of the steamboat OU which lie recently made a trip.\n\" Pour In a room?\" cried Barber.\n\"That's nothing. Vou should have\ntraveled in the days of the gold rush to\nCalifornia. I remember one trip out of\nNOW Vork we carried more than one\nthousand passengers, and if you pul\ntlfty on that ship today there'd bo a\nitOiler that would reach Washington nnd\nmake trouble for somebody. To show\nyou how crowded it was, and what\n'crowded1 really means, three days out\nfrom New York a chap walked up to\nthe old man and said:\n\" 'Captain, you really must find uie\na place lo sloop,'\n\" 'Where in thunder have you heen\nsleeping until now?' asked lhe old mau.\n\"'Well,' said thc fellow, 'you see,\nit's this way: 'I've heen sleeping on a\nsick man, but lie's getting belter now\nand Won't stand for it much longer.' \"\nMTHE DEAD HAS COME TO UFE\"\nI \"FMH4-THB\" MIUCU\nTo use\nMeans\nPerfect\nResults\nmo-hix\n%i 0NEDYE for/V\.Lk,hd& ofg\u00C2\u00B0cos.\n,'i l.v,:,, bave to know wliutklnilol cloth\n19 \u00C2\u00ABi\" nvid'.- Ot. SAVK Hy,- f'\u00C2\u00BBr ALL.\niru IMPOSSIBLE, Fail umi llratitlEul\nI coots. Don't {allto try It. SumpluCanl\n. Mn\n..I, Moi\nr\t\nun*. salts* rcmncK\nSnterarlw, Ont, October nt, 190!\n\"I .offered torture! for seven loaf\nron from \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Water Tumor. I ni\nforced ta Uke worpM* eoututlj I*\nrelieve the awful pains, ud I watitai te\ndie to get relief. The doctor, gave m*\nap aad my friends hourly expected my\ndeath. Then I waa induced to tak*\n\"Fruit-a-tivea\" and thia wonderful frail\nmedicine haa completely cured ma.\nWhen I appeared oa tke atreet again\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A07 friends exclaimed \"The dead haa\neome to life.' The cure waa a positive\nmiracle.\" MRS. JAMBS PBNWICK.\nSoc a box\u00E2\u0080\u00946 for $1.50\u00E2\u0080\u0094or trial box,\n15c. At dealers or from Fnut-a-tivca\nLimited. Ottawa.\nStoryettes\nVeteran Scrip\nFarm Loans\nWe will areept a first mortgage on\nimproved farm laud ond sell you\nVeteran Scrip in this way at regu\nInr cash price. Write today for\nloan application.\nTOUE OPPORTUHITY IB NOW\n6AM0A LOAI ft REALTY CO. Lt\u00C2\u00AB.\nWINNIPEG, MAN.\nCAXVINO THE ORAND CANON\nTHB popular idea th;*t earthquakes\nand volcanic explosion.** played a\npart in forming the Grand Canon\nof the Colorado Kiver ts thought by tho\nbeat authorities to b.< without founda-l\ntion.\nWe ore uow told lhat the canon was\ncut out entirely by the water of lhe|\nriver, and that the most effoctlva tool j\nemployed wm. the quartz wind brought i\ndown from the sources of tho river in\nthe mountain.). This sand is harder\nthan any ot the constituent!) ot the rock\nStrata in which thi' CtttlOU haa been\ncarved. Hurled hy the swift water\nago Inst the sides and the bed ot the\nstream, i' RHt-8 the foul, as easily as ii\n'ile rots soft iron.\nY*\u00C2\u00ABr Drmmmtet WUI T\u00C2\u00ABll \u00C2\u00A5\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nMurtiif Br* RiBMl lUtttftt Ben m\fee\\nStrengthens Weak Byee. Dnu'i Smart,\nKnothe* Kye 1'aln, and Sells (or 80c. Tn\nMurine in Your Kyee and Is Bakra\nByes (or Scaly Eyelids aad Oraaulatlaa\nOLDJHUM\nCigarettes\nTEN FOR TEN CENTS\nDILLY\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"My salary is knocked into\na cocked hat this week.\"\nDally\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \"Whyf\"\nDillv\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Mv wife's ohantooler will\nwill lake it all.\"\nMISTRESS (hiring urvant) \u00E2\u0080\u0094\" I\nhope you know your place?\"\nServant\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Oh, yes, mum! The\nlast three girla ynu had told mo all\nabout it.''\nMINISTER\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"So you arc going to\nschool now, are you, Hobby?\"\nBobby (aged six)\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Ves, sir.\"\nMinister\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Spell kitten for me.\"\nBobby\u00E2\u0080\u0094.\"Oh, I'm further advanced\nthan that. Try me on cat.\"\n\u00C2\u00AB t \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nPRETTY Miss Jonos\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"As I play nn\nold lady iu this piece, L shull have\nto have wrinkles painted round my\neyes, cheeks, and mouth.\"\n'llrowu\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Ah, they will be lines easl\nin pleasant places.\"\n\T ISITOR: \"eau you read the past?\"\nFortune teller: '' Certainly;\nthat's my business.\"\nVisitor: \"Then 1 wish you'd toll me\nwhat it was mv wife told me to yet for\nhcr.\nWltfiJN you are grown up,\" queried\nthe visitor, \"will you he a \"doctor, like your father?\"\n\"Oh, d'ear me, no! Why, I couldn't\neven kill a rabbit,\" replied the boy\nwith great frankness.\nEVE had given Adam au apple. \"I\nsuppose,\" she mused as she constructed the fig-leaf suit, \"after\nthis I'll always have to feed him to get\na new dress.\" Subsequent developments\nconfirmed her fears.\n\u00C2\u00BB \u00C2\u00BB *\nSMALL HOV (significantly): \"I\nheard you kiss sister in the hall\nlast night.''\nYoung Man: \"What's that, you little\nrascal?\"\nSmall Hov (boldly): \"I heard you\nkiss bister in the hall last night, that's\nwhat.\"\nYoung Man: \"Well, here's a dime,\nNow Keep your montli ^hut.'*\nSmall Hoy (outside): \".love, wasn't\nthat easy/ ' Ami 1 was asleep in bed.\"\nHI-, asked so many questions that day\nthat ho finally wore out his mother's patience.\n\" Robert,\" she cried, \"if yon ask tne\nanother question 1 shall put you to bed\nwithout your supper.\"\nRobert promptly asked another and\nwas packed off to bod.\nLater his mother repented. After all,\nasking questions was the only way he\ncould acquire knowlede; so she tiptoed\nupstairs, knelt beside his bed and told\nhim she was sorry.\n\" Now, dear,\" she snid, \"if you want\nto ask one more question before you go\nto sleep ask it now and 1 will try to\nanswer.\"\nRobert thought for a moment, then\nsaid: \".Mother, how far ean a cat\nspit ? .'\nl RECENTLY divorced gentleman\n*'V whs invited to a friend's houso\nto dinner. As soon as he was\nseated the host's little daughter asked\nabruptly: \"Where s your wife?\"\nThe man in some confusion answered:\n'I don't know.\"\n\"Don't know?\" replied the enfant\nterrible. \"Why don't you know?\"\nSince the child persisted he thought\nthe easiest way out would be to make\na clean breast of the matter. So he\nsaid: \"Well, we don't live together. We\nthink, as we can't agree, we'd better\nnot,' *\nHut the little torment would not stop.\nShe exclaimed: \"Can't agree! Then\nwhy don't vou tight it out, as Pa nnd\nMa'du?\"\nWMKN Willie's father came home to\nsupper there was a vacant chair\nat the table.\n\"Well, where's tbe boy?\"\n\"William is upstairs in bed.\" Thu\nanswer came with painful precision\nfrom the sud-faced mother.\n\"Why, wh what's up? Not sick, is\nho?\" {An anxious pause.)\n\"Jt grieves ine to say, Robert, that\nour son, your son\u00E2\u0080\u0094has been heard\nswearing on the street. I heard him.\"\n\"Swearing.' S-ott! 1*11 teach him\nto swear.\" And he started upstairs in\nthe dark. Half way up he stumble.! and\ncame down with his chin on the top\nstep.\nWhen the atmosphere cleared \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0* little\nWillie's mother was saying swept h\nfrom the hallway: \"That will do, dear.\nYou have given him enough for one Ies\nson.\nHOW TO AVOID THE \"FLU.\"\nDR. MAURTCE DE PLROHY writes:\nDo not stand or sit in draughts.\nKeep out of all crowded places.\nKeep your feet warm. Oet plenty of\nfresh air ond exorcise. La grippe is\ncaught most eitsily in crowds, drawing\nrooms, theatres, concert halls, big shops,\nHefore enteting them spiny the nose\ninternally with mentholated oil and water, two parts to 1,000, ami aftor coming\nout rinse the nose with hot salt water,\nAt the tirst symptom take a hot bath\nand lie down ami sleep for a whole day,\nSpmy the nose and gargle the throat\nwith mentholated oil and water; take a\ndose of calomel or castor oil; feed on\nmilk, bread, vegetables, an.l cooked\nfruit. Take hot drinks lhat will flush\nCERTAINLY!\nROYAL CROWN SOAP\nIS THE BEST IN THE WEST\nTis made especially far the Hard Water ef thle Oountryi\nEqually Oood In Soft Water\nand\nTHE PREMIUMS ARE FINE I 8AVE THE COUPONS I\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ow to Dimmit th size.\nCat a atrip ot alck pspsr tts that tka aUa wlllaaattly\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0aat, whn train tightly .round tka MM Joint of tka luu.\nUy oa* .at oo tka aiaaram at O aad otte tka alaolk*\nRing No. 515.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Hand\nrhciaod, bighly finished.\nVrea for 12.\" wrappers.\n&_mm\n18*\nNo. 184\u00E2\u0080\u0094Small Accordion, plays perfect tune,\ntree for 175 wrappers.\nPostage, Sc.\natkaraadladloatea.\nWiuiumi\nSINQ 8IZES.\nBing No. 508.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Plain\nOval Wedding Bhg.\nHand Burnished. line\nfor 125 wrappers,\nNo. 'Mil \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Alarm Ulock.\nBest quality of German\nNickel Alarm ('lock, with\nsecond bund, ami stopper\nto shut off alarm. Pree for\njoo wrappers. Recipient to\npay express charges.\nThis Basket is Satin Engraved\nQuadruple plate, on whito metal, for 470 Royal\nfrown Wrappers, or $1.50 and \"5 Wrappers.\nlf outside of Winnipeg add 15c for delivery.\nNo. 520\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Child's Bracelet with Lock and Kay.\nFree for 75 wrappers.\nNo. 530.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ladies' Braeo\nlet, same as above, bai larger. Free for 100 wrappers.\nNo. 57. \"Ottawa,\" Parlor. Height\n11% inches; width 1014 inches; dial,\nivorlne or pearl, G inches; case, black\nenamelled wood, with marbleized\nmouldings and pillars. Finish on\ntrimmings, gilt or bronze. Movement,\n8-day half-hour strike,cathedral gong.\nFree for 1,050 wrappers. Recipient\nto pay eipresa charges. These goods\nara made by tbe largest and beat\nmanufacturers of clocks ln America,\nand are told under guarantee.\nReceiver must pay sxpreas charges.\nNe. 140.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Oxford Child's\nThree-piece Set, heavy plating,\nexceptional value. Frsa for\n225 wrappers.\nA Premium Catalogue\nI* Pre*\nPor the Asking i\nA Poet Card will brine **\nRobinson's Famous Baak\n\u00C2\u00BBt Modem Coauilfl,\npapar coven, coals taha\nover 1,000 up-to-teto itfr\ndies, eonundrume, eta., a\u00C2\u00BB\nexcellent entertainer. Free\n{or IS wrappers.\nADDRESS!\nThe Royal Crown Soaps, Limited\nWINNIPEG, CALGARY OR VANCOUVER\nmm*% Weak. Woarr* Wmtery \u00E2\u0096\u00A0#\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2.\nRelieved By Murine Bye Remedy. ~\nP*\nMurine For Your \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB Trouble* TN\nWUI Uke Murine. It \" \"\nSootbca. Mo At\nYour Druftlit*. Wrlto Kor Uyt Book*\nFree. Murine Bye Remedy Co., Torest*.\ntin* kidneys mid start perspiration. Uo\nInto tin* patient If possible, Spray hi.'\nroom with antiseptics, such ns etiealyp\nto! or thymol, mtd, when he is owed,\nhave thn room disinfected with forum)' I\ndehyde. Tor thi- grip is it sort of blood\npoisoning) with mtui). complications, uud ,\ni> \itv contagious.\nCOLD BROUGHT ON\nKIDNEY DISEASE\nFOR THAT NEW HOUSE\nSackett Plaster Board\nThe Empire Brands of Wall Plaster\n.UASVI'M.tihKIl OM V I1Y\nThe Manitoba Gypsum Co., Limited\nwnmiPBO, MAM.\n\"DODD'S\n^KIDNEY\n&, PILLS _=.\nI,, ''Hi -,jM . T1 \- A\".*\n';'' '[[-H i , r>;\' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ,\ni-Yy^mssstfy \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n. .ir*.^,',\.4i-v a\n-Z^^-^-m^mmmmm~waa^_t\nBRANTFORD LADY SUFFERED\nTILL CURED BY DODD'S\nKIDNEY PILLS\nMrs. A. II. Thomson hnd He.vt Div I\nease, Lumbago and Rheumatism.\nand Tolls How She Was Rostoiel\nto Health.\nRrttntford, Ont., May ft.\u00E2\u0080\u0094(Spec'ml)\u00E2\u0080\u0094I\nHow Colds, li.i Grlppo, and other minor\nills sot tlo oil tho Kidneys and dovclop\nRhuumatism, Heart Dinoase, Bright's I\nDisease and othor terribly dungoromi\nailments; and how any und all of til em j\nnro cured by Dodll 's Kidnov 1'ills is\nfully shown \"in the ease of Mrs. A. II.\nThomeon. whoso homo is at la Albion\nStreet, this elty.\nMrs. Thomson was, somo years ago,-\ntaken with Cold and Ln Grippe and!\nStraining, which alfeetod her Kidneys, I\nand tho result was Backache, Lnuibu-1\ngo, Rheumatism and Heart Disease,\nwhich caused both lier and her friends'\ngrave anxiety.\nSim Imd Buffered some years when she!\nhoard of euros effected by Dodd's Kid !\nney Pills, and bought a box, which slio\nused with sm-li splendid results that she\neiintimicd to take them till she was\ncured. Shico then she has used Dodd's\nKidney Tills in her own family and ro-\nonllintdndoil them widely to ho'r friends,\nall of whom have warm words of praise\nfor tho standard Canadian Kidney\nremedy;. Dodd's Kidney Pills.\nHeart Disease, liheumiitism, Lumbago and Bright'h Disease aro all Kidnoy\nDiseases or uro caused by diseased Kidneys, You can't have any of thorn if\nyon keep your Kidneys sound and your\nblood pure, Dodd's kidnoy Pills mako\nthe Kidneys sound. Hound Kidneys\nstrain all tho impurities out of the\nblood.\nCHICKEN CHOLERA\nAmong oil poultry nholern plays havoc. \"SPOHN'S,\" jrlv\u00C2\u00ABn in\ntrrnnnd feed, cures it lind stops It from ([oinit further. DISTEMPER aiming horses, sheep, dogs, nnd other domestic animals it\neasily handled with \"SPOUT*!.\" Ask your drotfirist or harness\ndealer to supply yon. All wholesale druggists carry \"SPOHN'S\"\nDISTRIBUTORS; ALL WHOLESALE DRUG HOUSES.\nSpohn M\u00C2\u00ABdlealCo.CMsdttu\u00C2\u00ABlutirfilnwt,USUI,rH.tU\n36a 1\nTHK ISLANDER. CIJMUKKL.AND, B.C.\nTHE BRASS BUTTERFLY\nBy William Le Queux\nTHB affair of the Brass Butterfly has\nboen kept u profound secret for\nreasons which will bo obvious.\nWe, of tho Secret Service, are always\naverse to affording tho public any insight into our methods or knowledge of\nour Bphore of industry, and only recently have I received tho Chief's permission to relate tho curious circumutuueos.\nLuto ouo winter's night, ubout three\nyours ago, I alighted ut tho big echoing\nstation of Bologna, after u long and ted\nions journey from Charing Cross.\n1 was on a secret mission, und there\nwero strong reasons why 1 should not\ngo to tho Hotol Brunn, or uny of tho\nothor lirst doss houses frequented by\nBritish tourists, therefore 1 drove to au\nobscure little place situate up a back\nStreet, culled the Hotel TttZza d'Oro.\nYou muy have seou it, u dark, frowsy\nlittle place, dingy und so obviously unclean thut, as uu Englishman, you havo\nshuddered at the mere thought of passing u night thoro.\nBut 1 wus not desirous of being recognized by certain persons to whom i was\nknown in thnt city, therefore I registered my name us 1'ictro Pirelli, commercial traveler, of Naples.\nI was there in order to solve a problem which has considerably puzzled us\nut Whitehall. Ambassadors may bow\nover the hands of foreign sovereigns, attaches may flirt at Court with pretty\nwomen, Consuls may bluster pompously,\nand id embers may ask questious in tho\nHouse, but it is oftou upon tho information furnished by our Nameless Depart-\nment\u00E2\u0080\u0094quito erroneously known to tho\npublic us tho Secret Service\u00E2\u0080\u0094that the\nforeign policy of the Empire is basad,\nand our slow, deliberate British diplomacy achieves its end.\nI glanced about tho shabby, unclean\nroom to which I was shown, washed my\nhands, und thcu sauntered forth .ilung\nthose long, dark colonnaded streets that\naro the samo today as they were buck\nin the Middle Ages, until 1 had crossed\ntho broad moonlit Piazza before the\nDuoiiio, nnd plunged into a maze of narrow thoroiighfures which brought mo\neventually into a wider mediaeval street\nin front of a groat, dark, almost prison-\nlike palace of the cinqucconto with a\niioat-of anus graven in stone ovor thc\narched gateway closed by a ponderous\niron-studded door.\nIt was tbe Palazzo Bardi, wherein lived the Donna Stella, the twenty-year-\nold daughter of the groat Marquis\nBardi, the millionaire landowner and\nSenator of tho Kingdom of Italy.\nThe windows of the great square\nstone building, almost a fortress, were\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0losoly shuttered and barred, a grim,\nlilent place which none would believe\noontuiued such priceless works of art,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2r one of the most famous collections of\narmor in the world.\nI crossed thc road to the big ancient\niloor which hnd withstood many a siege\nin those turbulent days wheu the Bardi\nm constantly fought the Gincstrclli\nfrom I'isloja across tho Appcniucs.\nThen, switching on tho light of my little\nelectric lump, i stood on tiptoe and carefully examined the antique brotize\nknocker in tho form of the grinning\nfaco of a satyr.\nUpon one of the polished cheeks of\ntho grotesque musk 1 found what 1\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ought\u00E2\u0080\u0094a small cress, scratched by a\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0in.\nThen, well satisfied, I turned upon my\nheel and retraced my steps to my obscure hotel. The Donna Stella had received my message in safety, and would\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0eet me in secret noxt duy.\nWhen nt noun I stood at tbe remote\nspot in the Httle park beyond the city\nawaiting hor, she came, a slim, neat*\nwuistcd figure in black, accompanied by\n\"Spot,\" her English fox-terrier. A\nsmile ef welcome lit up her handsome\nface as she placed her gloved hand in\nmine in greeting.\n\" You are, no doubt, surprised, signor-\ntna, at my sudden appearance iu Bolog-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0u,\" F said. \"But it is. in a groat measure, in your interests.\"\n\"In mine! I don't understand!\" she\nreplied in excellent English, for she had\nbeeu educated at Brighton.\n\"In the interests of your friend, Cap\ntain Devrill,\" I said quietly.\nHer face changed instantly.\n\"Have you beard anything of him!\nHave you just come from Vienna?\"\n\"Unfortunately, 1 am entirely with-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ut information,\" I said. \"My friend\nhas mysteriously disappeared.\nJack* Devrill, ox captain of Royal En\ngincers, and one of the most alert and\nactive of my colleagues, was her purtio\nular friend. They had met in England\nwhen she was still a schoolgirl, and their\nfriendship has ripened into affection.\nYet u great gulf lay between them, for\nit was hardly likely that sho, only\ndaughter and heiress of one of the\nwealthiest Woman nobles, ami niece of\nPrince von Furstenberg, the great Austrian statesman who held the otlice of\nImperial uud Royal Minister for Foreign Affairs, and who ruled at the Ball'\nhausplntz, tho Foreign Ofllce at Vienna,\nwould Iw allowed to marry tho careless\ncosmopolitan Secret Service agent.\n\"I have boen waiting in daily anxiety for news of him,\" sbo sighed. \"I\n-cannot understand it. Ah! Mr. Mor-\nrice, you cannot know in what torror\nand dread I have existed ever since I\nleft Vienna twelve days ago. I\u00E2\u0080\u0094I fear\nthat something terrible hus happened to\nhim!\"\nThat was exactly the opinion of our\nDepartment. Jack Devrill had disappeared into space; he had fallen the victim to some enemy\u00E2\u0080\u0094betrayed, without\na doubt.\nTho facts wero briefly those. Sixteon\ndays ago Jack and I hnd arrived in\nVienna on a most important and secret\nmission. .Suspicion bad been aroused\nthat something unusual was afoot at tho\nBnllhausplntz, nml we bud been dispatched from Whitohnll to endeavor to\nascertain what wus in progress.\nIn tho gay Austrian capital wo were\nboth woll known, so we at once left\ncards and received many invitations. I\nhad served as attache thoro four years\nbofore, hence I know a great mnny of\nthe officials. Wo lived at tho Hotel\nBristol, as was our habit, and the Donna Stella being on a visit to hor uncle,\nwo were both invited several times to\nthe great official residence of the Foreign Minister in tho Frnnzcns Ring. On\none of theBe brilliant occasions, an offi-\nolal ball at which the white-bearded\nKmperor and his suite wore present, I\naccompanied Devrill. Donna Stella,\nwith whom [ waltzed once, looked inexpressibly dainty iu turquoise chiffon,\nbut soon afterwards i missed the pair,\nand concluded that they wore sitting\nout.\nThat night, however, Jack mysteriously disappeared. Inquiries X made of the\nnight-porter next day showed that nij\nfriend had returned at about two-thirty,\nchanged his clothes, and au hour later\nhad gono forth\u00E2\u0080\u0094whither no one knew,\nI had returned uu hour afterwards, but\nhad beeu unaware that ho was missing\ntill near noon.\nI wont to his room, and there found\nall his belongings iu perfect order, but\nou tho table there stood a quaint antique object which ho hnd evidently\nbought ouly a few hours before going to\nthe bull\u00E2\u0080\u0094an old Turkish ornament in\nwhich to burn perfume\u00E2\u0080\u0094a big butterfly of polished brass.\nIt measured about a foot across from\ntip to tip of ita wiags, fashioned beautifully, the body perforated to allow the\nfragrance of the smoking pastilles to escape into tho room, i examined it minutely. Tbere was a cavity along tho\nbody, but nothing was inside. I saw\nat once that ho had evidently bought it\nto add to the collection of antiques he\npossessed at his cosy rooms in Half\nMoon Stroet. I wondered, however,\nwhy he had not shown it to me. Whether it was on account of its unusual gro-\ntesqtfeness, or the delicacy of its design,\n1 know uot, yet I somehow became\nunusually attracted by my friends'b curious purchase, and took it to an antique\ndealer in the Burggusse, who pronounced it to be a rare specimen of sixteenth-\ncentury work, probably from the harem\nof some rich pasha in tho south of Turkey.\nI grew alarmed at tho non-return of\nmy friend, and reported his disappearance by cipher to that cryptic telegraphic address in London with which wo are\nso constantly communicating. My orders wore to spare no effort to clear np\nburdened by griof. Yet what was tho\nnature of the secret she would not\ndivulge?\nI argued with her for a full hour, but\nshe refused to tell mo anything. Iu\ndeed, her attitude became more puzzl\ning. Something had occurred on that\nnight, but the mystery was inscrutable.\nI told her that 1 should return to\n.Milan at four o'clock that afternoon to\ncatch the through express from Nice\nto Vienna, for I intended at all hazards\nto solve the problem of my friend's disappearance,\n\"I hope you will, Mr. Morrioe,\" was\nall she said as she placed hor small hand\nin mine for a moment, thon bowing,\nturned away and left me.\n1 had sent a telegram to London, and\nbeing compelled to await a reply, did\nnot leave Bologna till just before midnight. But as I stood on the platform\nawaiting tho train 1 saw, to my groat\nsurprise, the Donna Stella herself. She\nwns uloite, wearing a long fur travelling\ncoat ami toque to match, and bad not\nsoon mo. She travelled by the same\ntrain to Milan ns myself, and next evening I watched her descend from my\ntrain at the Hudbahnhof at Vienna.\nOn alighting, while I still remained\nunseen iu my wagon lit, I saw that she\nwas mel by a short, dark-bearded man\nand n thin, rather angular woman in\nbrown, with whom she held a hurried\nconversation. She was apparently annoyed at their presence, for as soon as\npossible she escaped into the fine carriage which hor undo the Prince had\nsent for her.\nAs T drove down the brightly-lit Heu-\ngasso, to the Bristol, I could not put\naside the thought that thc man had used\nthreats towards her. I hail noticed tho\nexpression of fear upon her palo face,\nhalf hidden by her veil.\nYet. sho had deliberately concealed\nthe truth from me, and thiB had aroused\nmy suspicions.\nI hnd kept on my sitting-room and\nbedroom at the hotel, and as I entered,\nthn first object that greeted my eyes\nwas my missing friend's curious purchase, the Brass Butterfly. I had given\nup Jack's rooms, Liad his belongings\nhad boon transferred to mine. Taking\nup the curious object I gazed at it in\nwonder, as I had done several times.\nSomehow I entertained a fixed belief\nthat its purchase was in some way connected with his disappearance. The po-\nmissing, eh?\" I said, still looking\nstraight into hor splendid eyes. \"Answer ino one question, signorina. Has\nthat Brass Butterfly any connection\nwith his disappearancef \"\nSho hesitated. I saw in her countenance fear and confusion. At last'she\nnodded in tho affirmative.\n\"Then tell mo tho truth, signorina\u00E2\u0080\u0094\ntho truth of what occurred on tho night\nof the ball?\" I urged.\n\"I can't,\" sho cried. \"It shall never\npass my lips!''\n\"And yet you are here iu Vienna, becauso your secret is threatened with ex\npnsuro!\" I said very quietly, my gazo\nstill upon her,\n\"Mio!\" she gasped, starling, \"How\ndo you know!\"\n\"Vour honor is at stake, Stolla. Why\nnot allow nie to assist yon against your\nenemies; ' I asked. \"Why not toll mo\nthe truth, ami let mo advise you? Let\nus combine to solve this mystery of poor\nJack's disappearance. Surely* yon ..re\nconvinced that I am your friend'ns well\nas his?\"\n\"If 1 told yon, Mr. Morrioe, you\nwould instantly become my enemy,\"\nshe said hoarsely, as with n choking sob\nsho turned and left the room.\nWhat did she moan? Her suggestion\nwas that Jack 's disappearance bad been\ndue to her\u00E2\u0080\u0094that sho held a guilty knowledge of the truth.\nThat afternoon, while keeping vigilant watch upon the big house in thn\nFranzons Ring; I saw, to my surprise,\nthe man Von Voissenfeld call. He was\nadmitted, and remained within for half\nan hour, or so. Then ho hailed a cab\nfrom tho rank, and drove to the lihein-\nisch Cafe, away in the Prater Strasse,\nwhere, at a table hi a corner, two rather ill-dressed men awaited him. .Seated\nwhere they could not observe me, I\nwatched thom holding a consultation in\nan undertone, and by it becamo convinc-\nd that some crooked business was\nafoot. J noticed, too, that ono of the\nmen took a pencil from his pocket, and\nwhen the waiter's back was turned he\nscribbled something upon tbe marble\ntable-top.\nAt length the trio rose and, leaving\ntho cafe, separated flfl soon as thev were\noutside.\nAs soon ns the waiter had gone up to\nthe desk I rose, nnd crossing tn get a\nnewspaper which lay near, bent and discerned something verv fainllv written.\n_$.-.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0__\n* Iff\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 'if < \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 , \u00E2\u0080\u00A2- \u00E2\u0080\u00A2- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nf if l* \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 w\n**m_i JHfc\nW\u00C2\u00B1\u00C2\u00BB$_i\ny\n1\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nIk-\n!< 3?\"\n4\n_j\u00C2\u00A3h. . Km\ni\nii, i' W'^1\" \u00E2\u0096\u00A0M,f\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0^^.^\u00E2\u0096\u00A0rafAAV_m^\n'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2:'\".' .*'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'' \"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0. ..'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -\ \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\u00C2\u00AB\"* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'''''' ' WiiiV '..\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0A.tpy%Mii.tsA_ .. .r-..i_:\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094i\nBank Messenger and Escort Leaving Merchant's Bank After Clearing Hou.io Hour:.\nthe mystery. As far as eould be nseor\ntained, tho political horizon was per\nfectly unclouded. Vet the fact of Jack's\ndisappearance hail considerably strong\nthened our suspicions.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0What effort has been made to find\nhim?\" asked the girl anxiously.\n\"Eveiy effort, signorina. The police\nof the whole Austrian empire aro iu active search for truces of him.\"\n\"What ean I do?\" she nsked hoarsely, pale faced and anxious. \"This si\nonce of his moans foul play\u00E2\u0080\u0094of time I\nnow feel com incod!''\nThat was exactly mv opinion, though\nI did not admit it. Jack Devrill wmld\ni-ertainly have reported himself are lhat\nby sending his name to tho deaths column of the Times \"In meniovia'u\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nmethod of announcing our safety and\nwhereabouts to the chief on occasions\nwhon we dare not write, tel 'graph, or\nOtherwise communicate with homo.\n\"I'm hero, signorina,\" 1 sail. \" to\nask you a question. Pardon my uiquisi-\ntlvenoss, but it is in Devrill'a interests.\nOn the night of the ball at His .Excellency's both you and he woro absent\nfrom the room aftor eleven o 'clock.\nWore you sitting with him the whole\ntime?\"\nHer face blanched, then flushed crimson. At tirst she became confused, then\nindignant at my question.\n\"I really cannot see whnt that hns to\ndo with it,\" sho answered resentfully,\nsurprising mo by her antagonistic attitude. Over her handsome countenance\nwas a cloud of undisguised displeasure\nthat I should ask such a pertinent question.\n\"I nm trying to solve tho cause of\nJack's disappearance,\" I snid quietly.\n\"Cannot you be frnnk with me. Cannot\nyou toll mo whnt actually occurred that\nnight?\"\n\"I\u00E2\u0080\u00941 can't!\" she blurted forth.\nThen suddenly recovering herself, she\nadded: \"I don't know what yon\nmoan.\"\nHor attitude puzzled me.\nAgain I endeavored to porsundo her\nto relate what had ocurrod between\nthom, and tbere heing no one in tho\nvirility to soo or overhear, I plnced my\nhand tenderly upon hor shapely shoulder.\n\"I know it is not just to him to hold\nback anything that took place on that\nfateful night, but\u00E2\u0080\u0094but I can't toll\nynu!\" sho cried, bursting into a flood\nof tears, '' 1\u00E2\u0080\u0094I prefer to remain horo,\nalone and desolate, with the memory of\nmy dead love, than\u00E2\u0080\u0094than to reveal my\nshame I\"\nT saw that her young heart was over-\nlice of Vienna had inquired of ovory\nantique dealer in tho city, but tho per\nboh who had sold it could not bo found.\nAbout two o'clock next day, while\nkeeping patient watch upon the private\nentrance of the big houso of His Excel\nlency the Foreign Ministor in tbe Fran-\nzens King, not far from my hotol, I saw\nthe durk-eeyd girl, neat in a brown\ntailor-made gown, como forth, and walking as far as the corner of the Volks-\ngarten, she entered a cab. Across the\ncity I followed hor to the Kronpriuz Bu-\ndoff Strasse, where, turning down a side\nstreet close to the Danube, she entered\na rather dingy house while ber cub\nwaited outside.\"\nFor perhaps three-quarters of an hour\nshe remained there, whon she emerged,\naccompanied by the same short, dark-\nboarded man who had met her at the\nstation. Ho bowed to her as she drove\noff, but it was evident that thoro was a\ncoolness between them.\nThe girl's sweet face was pale and\nhaggard, aud I saw that she hnd boon\n.'.:\"' utlv upset by what had transpired.\nAlready my inquiries hnd rcveolcd thut\ntho man's name was Karl von Weisseu-\nfeld, and that the woman was his sister\nFreda.\nThat evening i wrote Stella a note,\nsaying that I had seen her in Vienna,\nand asking her to meet me next morning in the Tirolerhof, a small, quiet cafe\nin tho Wcihburg, whero ladies often go\nto drink milk. In response she rang mc\nup on tho telephone, saying that she\nwould prefer to call at the hotel, as\nsomeone might see her at the cafe.\nTherefore ot eleven next morning she\nwas ushered into my salon, but at sight\nof tho Brass Butterfly she started and\ndrew back almost in horror. I noticed\nthat the more sight of the quaint object\nupset her.\n\"Why don't you put that horrible\nthing away, Mr. Morrioe\u00E2\u0080\u0094awny iu some\nplace of safety? Sell it, give* it away,\ndestroy it\u00E2\u0080\u0094anything\u00E2\u0080\u0094onlv get rid of\nitl\"\n\"Is the sight of it so very painful to\nyou Ihen?\" I asked, greatly surprised.\n\"I\u00E2\u0080\u0094T don't wish to see it,\" sho answered, pnle ami agitated. \"It recalls\n\"Recalls what?\" I asked, fixing my\noyos upon hers as I took the old perfume-burner, and plnced it within a\nHmall cabinet near by.\n\"Ah!\" she cried. \"No; do not ask\nme! You would not, if you knew how\nmuch I suffer, because\u00E2\u0080\u0094-'becauso I can\nnever toll you tho truth\u00E2\u0080\u0094because of my\nshame!\"\n'Then you know wby Jack Devrill is\nIt, appeared to be \"Bristol. 108-0.\"\nThis surprised me, for the number of\nmy room at the Bristol wan 19$, while\nIt apparently stood for nu appointment\n;it nine o'clock. Whs*, could it meant\nFor two hours I remained there pretending to drink, until at last a tall,\nthin, shifty-eyed man with n reddish\nmoustache entered, and seating himself\nat the tabic ordered a .buck. Then,\nwhen the waiter had gone tn obtain it,\nho benl nnd searched for the secret\nmessage. Having road il, he wotted\nhis finger ami quickly effaced it. Afterwards he drank hi* boor at a draught,\npaid, and went out.\nWas it some appointment made at my\nrooms? I resolved to remain wary and\nvigilant.\nTherefore, alter eating my dinner\nthat evening in the smart whileand-\ngold rest nut ant which you who know\nVienna know so well, I ascended by the\nlift, and at about r quarter past eight\nentered my sitting room. Afterwards J\nswitched off the light, and concealed\nmyself behind the long green silk curtains which had boen pulled across the\nwindows,\nThen I waited\u00E2\u0080\u0094waited so breathlessly\nthat I could hoar my own heart beat.\nThe clocks chimed nine. The waiter\noatorod to make up my wood fire, and\nleft. Then the telephone-bell rang, and\nthough I dearly wished to answer nnd\nascertain who might wish to speak to\nme, I remained in my hiding-place.\nThose moments of tension sootned\nhours. What wns intended, I wondered,\nat nine o'clock ?\nAbout a quarter of au hour passed, as\nnearly as r could judge. My watch ticked with a noise like a threshing machine.\nSuddenly I board tho click of a latch,\nthe door communicating with my bedroom slowly opened, and I saw by\ntho firelight standing in the doorway\nthe man wilh the rod moustache. Behind him was Von Weissenfold himself.\n\"It must bo in hero,\" I hoard tho\nlatter whisper in Gorman. \"It certainly\nis not in tho bedroom.\"\n\"He may have sent it to London,\"\nremarked his tall companion.\n1' No,'' replied Von Veissenfeld.\n\"Stella told mo today that it wns here\nfhis morning. Look over there\u00E2\u0080\u0094in yonder cabinet.\"\nThe man with tho rod moustache\ncrept noiselessly across the room, opened the door of tho cabinet, and with\na quick exclamation of satisfaction\ndrew forth tho Brass Butterfly.\n\"Good!\" cried Von Woissonfold, In\ntriumph. \"Then the secret will bo ours,\nafter all!\"\nThe fellow had transferred it to the\nsmall leather bag he carried in readiness, and was about to retire, when I\nsprang forth and, covering him with\nmy revolver, cried:\n\"I have watched you, gentlemen!\nYou are thioves, ami 1 shull hand you\nover to tho police!\"\nAnd ut the same moment I placed my\nhand behind me, locking the door leading out upon tho corridor.\nVon Weissenfold remained perfectly\nunperturbed. Indeed, I have never soon\na man take discovery so calmly.\n\"1 do not think, Herr Morrioe, that\nit will be exactly wise to cull tho police,\" he replied, \"for if bo, 1 shall\nexplain to thom that you aro a secret\nagent of the British Government!\" and\nhe stood before mu in defiance.\nI was wondering why, if the Butterfly wero abstracted, tho secret would be\ntheirs. What secret?\n\"Mako what statement yon like, I\nintend to cull tho police,\" I said determinedly, turning to find the button\nof tho electric bell. By this action,\nhowever, I foolishly relaxed my vigilance for a second, und when 1 turned\nagain, not having found the boll-push,\nI discovered that both men bad drawn\nrevolvers and wore covering me.\n'' Touch that button, and you 're a\ndead man! \" exclaimed Von Woissenfeld\ndetermination upon his sinister fuce.\nInstantly 1 saw myself in a dilemma,\nlocked in that room with these two desperate thieves.\nI demanded the return of the Brass\nButterfly, but both men only laughed\nin my face.\n\"You and your friend Devrill played\na clover game!\" replied tho dark-bearded fellow who had threatened Stella.\n\"But wo have outwitted you. The secret is ours!\"\nAt that moment, ere I could reply,\nthere was a loud rapping at the door,\nand a woman's voice called my name.\nIt was estella I\nI replied that entry could be obtained\nthrough my bedroom, and next moment\nshe burst in, accompanied by the manager of the hotel and throe porters in\nuniform. At sight of tbem the intruders fell back.\n\"Ah! Mr. Morrioe!\" she gasped\nbreathlessly. \"I telephoned to you, but\ndid not obtain a reply. I have been\nindscreet. I unwittingly told that man\nyonder something,\" uud she indicated\nVon Weissenfeld, \"and afterwards I\nfelt certain he would come here tonight,\nin order to secure tbe Brass Butterfly\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nto kill yon if necessary in order to\nobtain it!\"\n\"The Butterfly is in the bag in that\nman's band,\" I said, pointing to it with\nmy revolver. \"Come! give it to me!\" I\ndemanded, advancing towards him.\nBut the fellow thrust hiB weapon in\nmy face in defiance.\n\"Josof!\" said the hotel manager,\n\"just telephone for the police.\" And\nthe porter, thus addressed, crossed the\nroom nnd obeyed.\nThen the urbane manager induced\nboth men to lay down their arms, an\nexample which I followed, while ten\nminutes later u brigadier of police, ac-\ncfimpanied by four agents, arrived. The\nbag was taken from Von Weissenfeld,\nthe Butterfly handed back to me, and\nthe two men, who had little to say, were\narrested and afterwards conducted out.\nStella, left alone with me in the little\nsalon, turned and, laying a trembling\nhand upon.my arm, said in a low voice;\n\"Forgive me, Mr. Morrice, for 1\nought to have revealed the whole truth\nto you before, I should bnve done so,\nbut that man Von Weissenfeld forbade\nmo, threatening to denounce mo if t\ntold you. What occurred between Jack\nand myself on that fateful night I can\nno longer conceal. Wo neither of us\nwished to dance, therefore I took him\nup to my uncle's smoking-room, which,\nyou will perhaps remember, adjoinB his\nprivate cabinet. Presently I left him\nwhile I went to my room to readjust\nmy hair, which had become disarranged\nwheu waltzing with you. When 1 returned Jack was not there, but peeping\nthrough into my uncle's room I discovered him bending over the writing-table\ntaking swift notes of two official-looking papers wnich he had taken from a\ndrawer. At first he was unaware of my\npresence, but when, in horror, I charged\nhim with espionage he admitted it, aud\nthen revealed to mc his true position. I\nwas bewildered. My tlrst impulse was\nto go to my undo and tell him, but ho\npersuaded mo to remain silent. It seems\nthat an hour later Captain Devrill went\nto the central telegraph bureau, and dispatched a cipher message to London.\nThe clerk Von Woissenfeld, who took it\novor the counter, possessing some knowledge of tho cipher used, mado out a\nportion of it and, suppressing it, came\nto me next day to blackmail mo. He waB\na complete stranger, but I have since ascertained that he is a secret agont of\nGermany, and hence, I suppose, kuow\nsomething of your British cipher. He\ndemanded that] should obtain from my\nuncle's writing table the original of\nthose two documents, and allow him to\ntako a complete OOpy, otherwise bo\nwould denounce mo for having given official information to my English lover.\nThis I refused. Captain Devrill, before\nho left me, hnd entrusted me with a\nmessage for you.''\n\"For me!\" I cried in surprise.\n\"Yos, He told me to tell you to unscrew tho head from the Brass Butterfly, und send to London what ynu found\ninside.\"\nWith trembling hands I took up the\nantique brass ornament, and nfter some\ntrouble found that tho bead really did\nunscrew, revealing a small cavity within.\nThere, concealed inside, was a piece\nof thin foreign note-paper eovered with\nJnok's well-known handwriting. Glancing it through, I found, to my abject\namazement, that it revealed Austria's\nimmediate intention lo defy Europe by\ntearing up tho Treaty of Berlin, and to\nannex Bosnia and Herzegovina!\nAt first I could scarcely believe it\ncredible. Yet previous knowledge of\nthis amazing move which had actually\nreceived tho Emperor's approval and\nsignature, would place Downing Stroet\nin a position of defence. We would be\nforowurnod, and consequently forearmed\nagainst being drawn into international\ncomplications!\nThe war cloud had arisen, and we\nalone hold knowledge of it! Tbat brief\ntelegram sent by Jack had been suppressed by Von Weissenfeld, hence our\n('hiof was unaware of tbe success of our\nmission!\n\"But why did Jack disappear?\" I\noxclaimod, speaking aloud to myself.\nA postscript, addressed to me, how-\nover, explained it. \"I nm going on to\nSarajevo and Mostar, tho capitals of\nBosnia and Herzegovina,\" he had\nscrawled. \"I shall ondouvor to ascertain\nthe feeling there, and so shall efface myself for a few weeks. There aro reu-\nBons why 1 should leavo Vienna hurriedly and disappear. Stella has discovered the truth concerning me, and\nothers may perhaps know it. Toll tbe\nChief I shall report among tho deaths\non Fobruary 1st. Bo careful of this\nBrass Butterfly, I want it for my collection. Take cure of yourself, old\nchap!\"\n\"Ah!'' I cried. \"I see quite clearly\nnow. He feared to leave a note for me,\nand was compelled to catch the first\ntrain to Budapest. Therefore he hit upon tho device of concealing tho secret\nwithin tho Brass Butterfly!\"\n\"Why, today is tho sneond of February!\" cried Stolla, whose mind was\ngreatly relieved by reading that postscript. \" Yesterday's Times would have\narrived from London an hour ago.\"\nI rang, and when the waiter brought\nthe paper, we found beneath the \"In\nMomnrium\" column\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Devrill, In affectionate remembrance of Guy John\nDevrill, husband of Ann Devrill, who\ndied at Belgrade, Servia, On February\n1st, 1901.\"\nAt midnight, while the blnckmailing\ntelegraph clerk and his companions were\nhelpless in the police cells charged with\ntheft at the Hotel Bristol, I rolled myself up in tho wagon-lit already on my\nway to London, via Ostend, bearing\nwitb me that precious scrap of paper\nwhich contained news of tbat sudden\npolitical move which, a fortnight later,\ntook the whole world by surprise.\nThroe weekB afterwards Jack turned\nup again at Whitehall ub spruce and\nsmiling as ever, but utterly amazed at\nthe apprehension his sudden disappearance had caused.\nLater ho explained that Stella had\nhesitated to give me his,message, feeling that by revealing what the Brass\nButterfly contained she would be further betraying her uncle's secret. She\nhad, ot course, no idea of the reason\nwhy hcr lover had bo suddenly vanished.\nFurther, it seemed that Von Weissenfeld bad feared to denounce us, lest it\nshould have been discovered that he\nwaa a secret agent of Germany, while\nthe Donna Stella had, on the day following my departure, returned to Bologna.\nThat early knowledge of Austria's\nhostile actions\u00E2\u0080\u0094which no doubt surprised you when you read tbem in tbe\nnewspapers\u00E2\u0080\u0094enabled Great Britain to\nunite with Russia in preventing a\nbloody and disastrous war in Eastern\nEurope. Therefore the end surely justified the means.\nJack is retiring from the service at\ntbe end of tbe present montb, for he is\nto marry Stella. Whenever I go to\nsmoke with bim in his rooms in Half\nMoon Street, however, I cannot help recalling how that most vital and important secret of state reposed unsuspectel\nfor so many days within the head of\nthat quaint object which now occupies\nsuch a prominent position upon the polished table against the wall\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Brass\nButterfly.\nWHY NEWS IS SUPPEESSED\nIN the Atlantic Monthly for March\nMr. \u00C2\u00A3. A. Boss writes a most illuminating article on \"The Suppression\nof Important News.\" He says that in\nAmerica we have reached the glacial age\nof journalism when newspapers oxirft\nbut as money-making machines, f'ows\nof the lirst importance to tbe public ia\nhabitually suppressed whenever, it is\ninconvenient to the advertisers, wbo\npractically control the papers, whica\nwould perish if they withdrew their advertisements. Mr. Boss gives a numbor\nof scandalous instances in which news\nwus thus suppressed, with the remit\nthat the greut advertiser has the editor and the public alike ut his mercy,\nMr. Boss says;\n\" On the desk of every editor and subeditor of & newspaper run by a capitalist promoter now under prison soul once\nlay a list of sixteen corporations in\nwhich tho owner was interested. Tbis\nwus to remind them nut to print anything damaging to these concerns. In\nthe otlice these corporations wore jocularly referred to as 'sacred cows.' Nearly every form of privilege is found in\nthe herd of 'sacred cows' venerated by\ntbe daily press. The railroad company\nis a 'Bacred cow.' \"\nThe public service company, traction,\nparty system, thc mon higher uj>\u00E2\u0080\u0094all\naro \"sacred cows,\" ubout whose misdeeds thc truth must not be spoken.\nMr, Boss says tbe defection of tbe\ndaily press hus beon a staggering blow -\nto democracy. He says:\n\"What is needed is a broad new avenue to tho public mind. Already smothered facts are cutting little channels\nfor themselves. The immense vogue of\nthe \"muck-raking\" magazines is due to\ntheir being vehicles for suppressed news.\nNun partisan leaders are meeting with\ncheering response when thoy found\nweeklies in order to* reach their natural\nfollowing. The Socialist Party supports\ntwo dailies, less to spread their ideas\nthan tu prtut what thc capitalistic\ndailies would stifle. Civic associations.\nmunicipal voters' leagues, and iegisla\ntive voters' leagues are circulating tons\nof leaflets und bulletins full of suppressed facts. Within a yeur five cities have,\nwith the taxpayers' money, started jour\nnals to acquaint tbe citizens with muni\ncipal happenings and affairs, ln many\ncities have sprung up private non-partisan weeklies to report civic information.\nMoreover, the spoken word is unco more\na power. The demand for lecturers and\nspeakers is insatiable.\"\nThe only effective remedy, Mr. Ross\nthinks, is the creation of endowed news\npapers. In the last fifteen years two\nhundred million pounds sterling has\nbeen given for public purposes in the\nUnited States. There is money enough\nto endow newspapers which, not boing\ndependent on tlio advertiser, would not.\nsuppress news. He would safeguard the\nendowed newspaper from being converted into the custodian of thc sacred\ncows '' by letting vacancies on the\ngoverning board bo filled in turn by the\nlocal bar association, the medical association, the ministers' union, tho degree-\ngranting faculties, the federated teachers, tho central labor union, the chamber of commerce, the associated charities, the public libraries, tho non-partisan citizens' associations, the improvement leagues, aad tho social settlements.\nIn this wny tho endowment would rest\nultimately on the chief apexes of moral\nand intellectual worth in tbe city.\"\nSuch n newspaper would be a great\ncorrective of and check upon other\nnewspapers. \"The endowed newspaper\nin a given city might print only a twentieth of tho daily press output, and yet\nexercise ovor tho other nineteen-twentieth an influence groat and salutary.\"\nI THE ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND, B.C.\n\"J!\".!!'... \" i')\"*\u00C2\u00BB\nTHE\nBIG STORE\njn\nTHE TAIL OF THE COMET. Everybody\nwas looking for it. Snme people remained awake\nall nigbt waiting to see it. It never, never lias.\nnor will it lie seen this celiturv.\nOUR CLOTH ISC ,S.-1/./\u00E2\u0080\u00A2,'is something real. All\nyon have to do in to come into this store, and ymi\nwill rest assured that our values ate unequalled\nin Cumberland.\nFEW MEN DO THEMSELVES JUSTICE\n(unless they are well dressed) is the opinion expressed by a well-known specialist in nervous\ndiseases.\nA GOOD SUIT ACTS AS A TONIC. You\nfeel well and look better. That is the kind of\nClothing we carry, as is proven by our success in\nthis department during the last lew weeks.\nOUR WINDOWS ONLV HINT AT THE\nSTOCK. Everything is plainly priced, so that\nyou can compare the styles and prices, with the\nbest vou know of outside.\nUnapproachable Syles\nBeautiful Fabrics\nCareful Tailoring\nUnmistakable Values\nThese are tbe strong points in our Clothing.\nNo trouble to show Goods, All we ask is tbe opportunity\niser k Cl 1\nFolding Go-Carts $10.50\nFor Mixed Paints,\nFloor Stains,\nWall Paper,\nFurniture, etc.\nTHE MAGNET CASH STORE\nIs the place\nT. E. BATE\nCapital $5,000,000\nReserve ?5,7O0,0CO\nOf\nCumberland, B.C.\nSub Branches at Courtenay and Union Bay\nDrafts issued in any currency, payable all over the world\nSpecial attention paid to Savings Accounts, and interest at Current Rates allowed on Deposits of *1 and upwards\nH. F. Montgomery, Manager\n15 -ri Sleveni in Mid G. T*rbell leave\ntin Tuoadny ou a plaaoure trip to Home\nUke.\nB. Potter, nf No. 7 mine had ttie mis-\nfortuuo to fracture hm arm on M nday\nImt.\nMias Potter returned on Sunday last\nfrom a tlmt. wct.k\u00C2\u00BB visit to lier aiitur,\n>1\u00C2\u00BB. K. B. Ololltier, of Duucan.\nMr. George H. II >b\u00C2\u00ABrtaon left yente.\nJay for England, where he expecta to\nremain for four ur tive inuutlu, visiting\nlna old home.\nMr. Ernest Pickard leavei tomorrow\niiioriiing tor Vancouver to meet hia in*\ntended bride, who ia now upon her way\nfrom the old countiy.\nMeeara. Qaane Broa., who have been\nlocated in Cumberland fot tht put four\nyeara will leave thia week (or Vancouver,\nwhei e they will engage iu the coutrating\nbuainert,\nMisa Inez Gill, who hai been laid up\nwith a broken leg for the paat 6 week*,\nia now inak mc rapid atridea toward* recovery, thaoka to the atteuti n aud care\nUeatowed upon her by Dr. McNau^hton.\nTho High School matriculation examination for McGill Uuiveisity atudeuta\nwill be held in the Cumberland Public\nSchool, starting on Monday next, June\n13th. The presiding examiner being the\nRev. H. W. LaffeM.\nA. Aitkon waa fined f5 and coatt\nbefore J'a.P. WUlaid and bhaw on Tueaday laat, f r being drunk. Thoium\nClark alao imbibrd too freely, but wan\nallowed off after paying the cunts of tin-\ncourt.\nMeeara. Stevenson, Hudion end Rip\nley returned thit week from Horne Lake,\nbunging with them over 176 pounds of\ntrout, the result of two days tiahing on\nthe part of Messrs. Hudson and Ripley\nand one for Constable Stevenson, who\nwat called out at the end of the iirat day\nto attend an inquest at Little Qualiouin.\nMessrs. R. Grant, Sr., R. Grant. Jr.\nC. Grant, W. Bailey and G Anderson\nre'umed thit week from au auto trip ti\nHorne Lake, after a successful tiahing\nexpedition. They report having teen, at\n(tome distance, whnt they believe to have\nbeen the famous wild man of Vancouver\nInland. The creature waa covered with\nliair of considerable length, and moved\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0vith almost incredible swiftness.\nS. G. HANSON'S\nS. C. White Leghorns\n402 Pullets laid in\nJanuary- - 7616\nFebruary - 7310\nMarch - - 8606\n23b32\nAverage per lilnl for mi thtys AS fi TIiIh record\nimi n-.el lieeil lieilloll on tin- S Alili'liinli ninli\nunit Tltene iiir.ls \u00E2\u0080\u009Ei!l imikca I lueeilliiji stuck\nfur liiu. I'rin-|3eacli. 8-yv-olil breeilerstl.GDeocli\nHILLCREST POULTRY FARM\nDUNCAN, H.\u00C2\u00BB' jt\nDealer in Bicycles and\nEngine Supplies\nBnglialt mid American Wheeh front\n%Jt0 up, also Sscmtd'hand Wlisels. )\nTHE\nCUMBERLAND\n=HOTEL\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nW. MERRTPIKLD, Prop.\nThe finest hotel in the city.\nThe\nStar\nI\nThird St. & Penrith Avenue\nMAXWELL & HOENAL\nProprietors\nAll kinds of hauling done\nFirst-class Rigs for Hire\nLivery and team work promptly\nattended to\nWe have recently received a\nCarload of McLAUGHLTN\nCARRIAGES iV BCJGGIES,\nmul nro prepared to (junto\nlowest prices nnd best tonus.\nGive us ;i cull\nMcPhee &\nMorrison\nGeneral Muls, Courtenay.\nr\u00C2\u00BBo Light Drmft Teams, weight nbout\nUOOIbi. Apply ShopUnd Bmi,\nSaudwick. jll\nRoom and Board, nr would take baby\nto mind. Apply Mn. Marshall, Sand-\nwick. jU\nDouble Lot, with modern K Room House,\ntennis lawn and well kept grounds,\nfur sale aheap. Apply to Mra. Koe,\nopposite the Hospital.\nLost\u00E2\u0080\u0094Many * aale is loat through thi'\nsecond person nect-ssary to complete\nthe bargain nut knowing what the first\nperson lus to sell. It takes two to\nmake a bargain. Are you one of thr\ntwo I If ao, try a condense J ad. in\nThk Inumirk.\nFound\u00E2\u0080\u0094A satisfactory advertising medium. For further particulars apply\nTin Islander, two doors from the\n1-ost'ollice.\nF,r Sale. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Subscriptions to Tin In.\nUNDER, $1 fiO per year, iu advance.\nWanted, immediately. 1000 subscribers\nfor Thk Ihlasukk.\nIB? 1\nLocul Agent for\nThe London & Lancashire\nFire Insurance Co.\nGet rates before insuring elsewhere\nOffice: Cumberland\n'T HUBEL\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Telephone\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nSave time and money by using\nthe Long Distance Telephone\nQuick ron n eel ions lo all important\nVancouver Inland and Mainland Point\nGoto\nJ. JACK, Jr.\nFor Candy, Emit, Ice Crenm\nnml Lit/lit I/unchetnu -rs\nBORN\nAt the Cumberland Hospital on the 4ib\nillBt., to the wife of B. Sweeney\u00E2\u0080\u0094a son.\nYon don't get done\nwhen von denl with\nDUNNE the\nUp-to-date Merchant Tailor\nP. DUNNE\nDUNSMUIR AVENUE\nNotice to Advertisers.\nChange advertisements for\nSaturday mornings issue musl\nhe in this nlliee not Inter than\nlo ii.ni. on Thursday.\nTHE I8LHNBEH\n$1.50\na Year\nin advance\npoooooooooooooooooooooooo^\nP. PHILLIPS HARRISON\nBarrister, Solicitor and\n9 Notary Public.\n&oooooooooooooooooooooooo(\nCUMBKBLAND COLLECTION AND Co.M\nmission AoRNOY. Ileiits anil\nDebts Collected, Brokerage, K\u00C2\u00ABal\nEstate nml Auctioneers, Thomson Building, Dunsmuir Avenue,\nCumberland. Phone 17. John Thomson, Manager.\nA Methodist Sunday School Picnic\nwill be held st Roy's lkach on the\n18th.\nT\nv\nH\nI\nN\nK\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\nThe Islander"@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Cumberland (B.C.)"@en . "Cumberland"@en . "Cumberland_Islander_1910-06-11"@en . "10.14288/1.0068308"@en . "English"@en . "49.6186111"@en . "-125.0325"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Cumberland, B.C. : Ormand T. Smithe and Frederick J. Gill"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/"@en . "Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives."@en . "The Islander"@en . "Text"@en . ""@en .