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About 100 yds Vol. Laves and Insertions, reg, Cc. to 10c, per yd. to clear at 2 yds for 5c. Embroideries and Insertions 10c. yd. at Campbell Bros. , i. »L THE ISLAN J I lh'4 A few Boys' Wash Suits, Children's Pinafores and Ladies W,'....'.• Canvas Shoes left. AU reduced to clear at at Campbell Bros. d No. 01 THE ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND, B.C., SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1011 Subscription price $1.50 per ye»r OF THE COUNCIL After Four "Weeks a Quorum Turns Out Foi' tlio first lime in four weeks • meeting of tho city father whs held ol) Monday evening, there being present Mayor McLeod mid .Aldermen I'*rn- liiiin, Wiiliii.l and Hunks. A letter waa received from the Pro vini'ul Saniretary stat tig that in aceo dunce with the wishes of the council, (lie government had arranged (or a poll to I* held on Aug. flth. of those poisons whoso property would he effected by the proposed extension of the ('ity boundaries, The Fire ItriiMile submitted a list nf i Ulcers elected, the same being ap proved by the Council. The list fol- \ lows. Chief T.E. Banks / Ass. Chief Chas Parnham Capt.No.lTeam..R. Grant jr. ('apt. No.2Team.R. Webster Treasurer J. Cameron Secrete ry F. Watson. Constable Uiay,s report was sub- miltli'il uai follows;— Salvaging. 1103.25 lload Tax 10.00 Police Court Fines 13.00 Watchman 42.90 $168.75 A communication was received from W. A. Matthews in reply to a nolifi- i at ion from the cily that Ile must clean op his promisen in 10 days or the city would undertake tho work and charge the expenses to him. He asked the the eity to notify other property owners in tho -nine way. His letter waa hiimled to the City Solicitor within- ! structiont to tuke action. The Medical Health Report was re- a'ivi a] anil laid on the table for future reference. Tne Mayor appointed Aldermen Hunks mul Piiriihp.in on the finance committee, replacing McNeil and Stewart. The Police Commissioners were granted nn addiiiohal $20 to pay for Pulieo uniforms. It was decided to produce a new tluiiip cart for Iho eity. . The board of works was instructed to produce an estimate of the cost of laying cement walks on Dunsmuir Ave. from Frst to Fifth streets. Air Slaughter will be notified to repair iliniiagi's to City Hall and Band Sunn! caused by his runaway team. The Pool Room. By-law was finally renal a lirst and second time. The pound by-law was finally passed and Mi Monaco appointed pound keeper, Th.' matter of procuring new cells for it i ity hick up was left in the hands of the Board of Works. » J FOR SALE [ A newly built 5 roomed house with bath- renin and pantry, nesr Mr. D. Kilpat- ! rick's. Apply on premises or at Mrs. Watts, Camp. 2wks An exciting runaway took place on Dunsmuir Ave Saturday night about light o'clock, when the team attached to Slaughters' butcher wagon bolted nnd litcned things up considerably. Tint, of tbe harness gave way allowing the v agon tongue to drop, and the occupants of the waggon were precipitated liuri iedly to the street. The horses took the sidewalk and completely demolished the porch in front of the city ball, continuing down the street as fur as McLeod's corner where they tried to run down a telegraph pole, but both horses were thrown violently to the sidewalk and one horse was rath cr badly injured, union our . WINS AGAIN Put It All Over Courtenay On Sunday Last Laat Sunday ■ bunch of pill heavers representing Union Bay demonstrated to a fair crowd of fatuities thit they are iu a class by themselves whon it comes to playing the national pastime of our American friends. The Bay outfit put the kihosh all over the would he's, representing a lown called Courtenay by a score of twelve to seven on the slack heap at the wharf village. The first four spassms were pretty rotten specimens of baseball, as it should be played; the errors on both sides were fierce, but the safe hits predominated. At the end of the fourth the score stood nine to seven in favor of the Bays. After the fourth both team liglatefy I up and served a generous public a brand of ball seldom seen on the Island. The Union Bay gang were short the services of their big first baneman, as he was out picnicking, and the engineer forgot how to run the engine or something; anyhow he did not turn up, Toylor was moved from second to first, and Sweeney to second; they both played a good game however and helped the F.ny win. Tlie following ginks did duty for tlieir respective teams in the following positions;— Clark, c; Higgins, p A 2nd B; Taylor iatB; Sweeney, cf 4 2nd B; Higgins, ss. ll p; Watkins, 3rd B; Le- Clair, cf; Ryan, cf;Gibson,rf.Cuirns, If. Courtenay Ryan, c; Thomas, p A Srd B; Donley, 1st B; Droskey, 2nd B alt p; Donley ss; Dickenson, Srd B; Big Boy, If; Patten, rf; Fabr, cf. Joe Bing made an impartial umpire. By H.O.B.O. Jack Gibson is improving quite rapidly in pool play'ng, he mn 15 balls downs in a game the other day and he is still talking about it. It is a durn shame that some fellows do not think twice before Ihey go in swimming in the hike in .a nude state, as there are quite a few women camp- lug out there, and to say the least it is not very edify ing to see a man stripped in swimming. Last Sunday the Nanaimo Outlaws defeated the Hillcrest ball team of Vancouver by a score of twenty-nine to something, one team made 18 error and the other team 21 errors. Those two teams should use lacrosse nets for gloves and footballs; they might win. Better still they should take a few lessons from the teams in this neck of the woods on the finer points of the game, Edd must think salt water is good for the hsir, he has made several trips to the beach this week, he had company, two each time. Some people can see more fun at the bay than in Cumberland. WANTED-Holder* of acreage, Und in vicinity of Victoria, Oak Bay or Satnicb district . Must be close in. Apply box 787 Victoria, & O. FOB SALK—.Agreement of sale st big discount. A bargain. Apply A.B.C. Island** Ornci Another of those mysterious fires oecured lut week at about 1 t. m. in the alleyway at the back of Simon Leiser's store. Fortunately it was discovered early and putout with a couple of buckets of water. SPORTING NOTES j OF INTEREST What Is Doing In Lo cal Sporting Circles The Union Bay balljteam look like winners of the I) st rict League; having only lost one game so far this year, and as there are not very many more games, it behooves the Imys to I* up and doing. Therfe must be some great attraction at Union Bay for ball players It looks fine to see four Cumberland players on the Wharf team. It either must be the Saltwater or or or—well, enough said. All members of the Blues team are requested to turn out to practice next week, in the evenings Joe 'Bailey the promising light weight of Victoria is looking for another match here. Cadman is the likeliest looking opponent and if these two book up there should be an inter esting bout There is some talk of a giant Swedi in Courtenay wishing to wrestle Murray, and before long wrestling fans will have tbe pleasure of seeing this wrestler preform again. ft is reported that the Leysmith team will play here a week Sunday, and the Pilseners will travel to Ladysmith Labor Day for the return game. The Lacrosse games seem to her losing interest with the plnycrs but not so with the fans, who are clamoring for more games; as from a spectators point of view it is by far the best game to walch. It would be a pity for Can- ados' national game to die out after getting away to such a good start. The next League game is scheduled for the 11th. of August and the Whites are out to win; putting the strongest twelve in the field they are able to obtain. It is possible that arrangements will be made to make this game for the cup, which ought to have been played on the 12th, of July Cotton, Whyte, Greaves, Raines, Grant, Cameron, Elliot, McConachie, big Jimmy Whyte and possibly Hal- crow will line up with the Whites on the eleventh. It will materially strength the White team to have Raines, and Whyte out on the llt.li. and if these two players intend taking that trip below in September the games would not hurt them. HOME FOR BURIAL An amusing runaway took place in town on Wednesday, when two Finns from Courtenay were in town and decided tn "feed their horse some water," In order that the horse might drink more easily one nf the men removed the bridle, and the animal promply decamped with the second Finn sitting In the rig. The gentleman who was assisting the horse was wildly excited and declared that he feared his partner would be "spoiled," hut strange to say this was not the case, although the rig belonging to the Courtenay Livery Siable wxi "spoiled," being deposited on top of a stump at the back of Pikets Hill. The fire department was called out about 9 o'clock on Tuesday night to a lire in China town which destroyed two Chinse dwellings and seriously threatened the balance of Clr'nk town. It is probable several million lives were lost, but none of them were human. Mrs. Joseph Hudson Laid To Best Here Wednesday The death took place in Vancouver on Monday morning of Mrs. Joseph Hudson a former resident of this city and a daughter uf Mrs. J. H. Piket. The deceased was up to three years ago a resident of Cumberland, having been married in this city. The body was brought over from Van eouver on Tuesday together with that of the dead child, and the funeral took place on Wednesday from the residence . f Mrs. Piket to the Cumberland cemetery, the funeral service being conducted by the Rev. Mr. Leffere. Besides her husband, two small children are left to mourn her loss. The fallowing were the (oral offerings: Pillow aud lilliea from mother. Sprays—Mr. and Mrs. Tho*. Piket, Leu Piket, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hudson, Mr. and Mrs.Hancock, Vancouver; Miss H. Kirkwiiinj and Miss Smith, Van oouver; Miss Aslott, Vancouver; Mrs. Nunley, Vancouver; Mr, and Mrs, L.W Nunna, Mr. sud Mrs. Jas. Abrams, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Hudson, Union Bay; Misses Viola snd Nellie Matthews, Mrs. and J. N. McLeod. Wreaths—Messrs Ernest, Albert and Fred Pickard; Mr. Joseph' Hudson's fellow workmen, Vancouver; Brother- tic.-d of trainmen, Vancouver; John and Mrs. Fuloher, Union Bay; Pythian Sisters, Mrs, and R. Grant and family, Mrs. and R. Cassford. Heart of Roses, Mrs. aud J. Mateer, Vancouver. Star. Mrs, and Noel MeFarlane. Pillow, Mr. John Bruce. Crescents, Mr. T. Irwin, Vancouver; Mrs. and T. H. Carey. Crosses, Mr. and Mrs, Hudson, Vancouver; Mr*. J. L. Roe, Mrs. and John Matthews; Mrs. and H. Creech, Mrs, and Chas. Whyte. Broken wheel on easel, Miss Cleda Drew, Union Bay. Globe, John and Mrs. Thomson. Bouquets, Miss Maggie Richards, Dr. and Mrs. Gillespie, Mrs. and B. Mellado Mrs. and James Stewart, Mrs, and A. Cameron, Mr. George Tarbell, Mrs. and Frank Bradley. The following gentlemen acted as pallbearers :—Messrs Jas. Turnbull, Albert Grant, Walter Woodus, George Tarbell, John Nurd, Robt. Grant, jr. Having disposed of my livery business to Messrs Cloutier at Kirkbride, I now take the opportunity to thank all my pa trons for the generous support they sc corded me while proprietor of the Cumberland Livery Stable, and 1 also bespeak for my successors the same generous patronage that has been accorded me. D. Kilfatkici. CARD OF THANKS We beg to thank all th* kind friends who by kind words and kindly acts triad to lessen our sorrow in our recent ber oevement; also for the many beautiful floral offerings. MoKit Family. CARD OF THANKS. W* take this opportunity of extending our sinc*r*st thauks to all the members of the Pilsener Baseball Club for their extreme kindness in rendering assist •nee during our recent bereavement. McKay Family. The Cumberland Livery Stable changed hands yesterday, Messrs Cloutier & Kirkbride being the purchasers. The aew firm will take over the business on Monday. FUNERAL OF GEORGE MCKAY Bourne To The Grave On Sunday Last Th* funeral of the lata Georg* MoKty took place from th* residence of Mr. J. Slant, Camp, un Sunday laat, at twelve o'clock, snd wu largely attended. The funeral procession wo* headed by the City Band. The following is the list of floral tributes;— Bouquets;— Mr and Mrs F. Bradly, Mr and rs Geo. Gray, r and Mis T. Lewis, Vr and rs J. Webster, Mr. and Mra. Westfield, Mr and Mrs D Hunden and family; iss L Cessford iu L Pea cock Miss D. Balagno Miss M Walker Mis* M. Gibson Miss K Dallos; Mr O Reid, Mr J Webster »' r R Webster. Globes;- C Home, Thomson's boarding house Star Baseball Team, Pilsener Baseball Team John Barkley, Ladysmith. Wreaths;— Alex Walker jr. Miss 8 Whyte V r and Mrs Juo. Slant Miss E Hayman K. Lefla.y Mr and - rs A Thompson. Spray;— Mr and Mrs Jno. Oibfon. Crosses;— Miss C Aitken, Mr and Mrs D Thomson, Horseshoe;— Miss J Whyte. The following were pall benrers. A. Walker, J. Cartwright, G. Bailey G. Richardson, L Coe, A. Ciiaplan » Campbell River Notes. The Vancouver Salvage at Dredging Co. are, at work taking the workings out of the S.S. Cottage City The 8.S. Spokane, of the P.C.S.8. Co. which sank close to Seymour narrows is' being floated this week, Two Chinamen were arrested last Friday tor selling whiskey to Indians at Quatiaaki Cove, Indian agent O'- Connell of Nanaimo made tbe arrest. The Tyee Salmon and Cohoes' arc running thick at Campbell river. Fish ■ mien are catching over a ton a day. Jack Wilson of Cumberland is running a gang of men fixing the Mc- Ivor lake road. Last, Saturday morning two natives f the Flowery Kingdom, 8am Wong anil Lee Oong, chaperoned by Dominion Constable Tom O'Connell math their debut liefere a Cumberland ninj istrate on charge of supplying fire wai- er to the|nati vea of B.C. in general and to one Isack Paul in particular. From the evidence given the Celestials have been doing a wholesale business with the Indian* regardless of consequences md the law. On one of the numerous spree*, heap big brave used a knife on little squaw, and put her in the hospital to have ber wound attended to. A half doeei. cases of the red eye have been confiscated by the government. As a warning to Chinemen thai supplying liquor to Indians was a poor wny of getting their head tax back the magistrate imposed a fine of One hundred dollars and cost on each of the defendants, TENDERS. Tenders will be received up to August xnd for painting two rooms in the Pub lie School and building an outhouse. For particular* apply to suy of th* School Trustees, or to T. H. Cany, Secretary. ELECTIONEERING IN ALBERNI Thos. E. Bate Addressed Meeting There On Monday Oo Sund»y afternoon a party consist- inyofTho*. E, Bate, W Dunn*, aad th* editor, of th* lM.A*nia left for Alberni by aato, whir* Mr Bat* was to ad- drws a meeting of Conservative on Monday night. After » aula* of tyre accident* which necessitated the party going to Nanaimo to have th* trouble* attended to, the parly re embarked on Monday morning, arriving in Alberni at neon ;aftw a 8 hour run. On Monday evening a large number of Conservatives from Alberni and Port Alberni turned out to hear Mr Bate, who bas been endorsed for the Oonaarvatb* n .initiation by th* party organisation* of this city and distritt. Mr Bat* wu in good form and met with a very cordial recaption. It was decided to hold a Conservative gathering in Port Alberni on th* 18th. when delegate* from all part* of the «l*c- tore! district of Albert^ would be present, including repreaentati.es of V*a And*, Parksville and West coast point* would be present and the question of falling in line with the other Conservative organizations in endorsing Mr Bat* would be taken up, and then is little) doubt but this action will be taken by the meeting. The party enjoyed their trip immeostly tnd were amased at the prospects tnd possibilities of Alberni. Th* timber i* perhap* th* finest on th* Island aad than art thousand of acres of it; good farmland there ia in abundance; go*] ia now being taken out of a slop* that has jnst been opened, the mine now hit a nam of H feet of excellent coal; aad to top all, th* town ha* a harbour that is th* envy of many a sea port town on tht coast. Tha railway is now graded right into the town* and th* nib at* laid to within a f*w miles of Port Albtmi and everything point* to a bright fotar* for that district. Tha party rtturaed h*r* on Tuesday afternoon. A gentleman from Courtenay met with a nasty accident on Thursday while driving into town from that thriving metropolis.* While reposing peacefully in the bottom of the rig with his bead hanging over the side, Iii* nose came into contact with tbe moving wheel with the result that nearly a third of his probosis wo* ground off. Mrs ST. Marsden left here last week for Ladysmith, where she wiil reside in future, Mr Marsden, who wss manager of the B.C. Telephone in this city having accepted a similar position in that place. Mra Marsden was also accompaned by her father Mr Denton who will make hi* horn* in Ladysmith, See G, H. Aston for "Big Ban" Alarm Clocks. LOCAL MAIL SERVICE Arr'val Tuesday niglit Thursday night Saturday night Sunday, per Cow.chan 9 am. Departure Wednesday—6.00 a.m. Friday—6.00 a.m. Satuday—4,ItVp,m. i Sunday, 2.15 p.m. sharp THE ISLANDER. CUMBERLAND. B.C. In the Interests of Science (ity Genevieve Thompson) • • Young 111:111.'' said iny host ami employer as wo sat together on liis piazza tlie list evening of my arrival in Greenfield, "are you of un oxpori- mcntnl turn ol' mind?*' "Why, I don't bqlloyo 1 understand." I bogun iu surprise. "A doctor ot* course " Dr. Leavitt shook the ashes out of liis plpo and broke in: "Of course, I know your record at tho medical school "Which I wish now hatl been better it-,'' I put in virtuously, but the doc or smiled quizzically us ho returned: "Well, my young frlond, it was just I with: 'Oh beeauso you worott t an honor man that |*NTo u>ugs, ''Monday, I callod and Margaret wa .sitting up in bod. 'I'm a little hotter, doctor,' she volunteered, and sho 1 tainly looked, it. "That aftomooM I congratulated st ill man on her improvement. 'Oh, it's only begun,' he replied confidently, "Tho next. Monduy when I callod on Margaret Scoti I uover would have known hor. Sho was sitting up at her window iu a pretty dressing-gown. She chatted about the girls ami things, and told mo she had boOU out in tho dot- tor's rig that morning. "In the hall Mrs. Scott accosted 111 isn't it wonderful, doctor! ■ilher. Ile tells her to eut I gut you hero. Wilson, do you ki\pw |aud.drink what alio wants.' such a thing us being ton selei there tilic'" I modestly replied that was an aspoi ot the Bllbjeot 1 had not yet soon. 'I'll old dot-tor did not answer right but a gleam of merriment shone froi his eyes. We smoked 11 fow minute I confess I was rather sore over it, Hut St ill man had such a trunk, nice wny of putting things to 1110, llo said it was just a little experiment of his iv, land he hoped it wouhl be successful as ho had been working it out for nbout It was thai timo bptwoeu the dark and the davllght whon people who can afford it take their breathing spell. The doctor infori I inn tlmt it wus his custom to smoke a pipe just after dinner nnd I migbl bear Id til company. As I sat nn tlie porch I lim] iny lii'st opportunity of looking at my new surroundings, which were most attractive. A large white house with a porch faced ours across the street. As I looked a fat blonde woman of about thirty rose from her porch chair, came "tit througl her gate uml walked up ami down once or twice on her side or the street. Shi eyed tho doctor stonily, but I felt that she was trying to get a view of me without seeming to do so. Presently she went in and Dr. Leavitt looked very communicative "That," be said, "is Miss Margaret Scott. She hasn't spoken to me for twelve years. She just had to come out this evening to survey the land. Mr. Wilson, tlmt woman caused the biggest split-up iu tho annals of Rye County; It's because of her that the Prices and Snows nfon 't on bowing terms, and tbe Lords .and the Sanborns aro at "outs." It was your predecessor, Mr. Wilson, /who brought ubout this state of affairs. I haven't had an assistant for twelve years now. All I ask of you, Mr. Wilson, is don't be too scientific," Tho doctor's eyes were sin i Hog. "I don't believe I could be acused of that, doctor," I modestly asserted. "Would you like to hoar about it? It was this way. In the fall of '96 I wanted au assistant and 1 sent notice to the Baltimore College, as T did in your ease. They recommended .lames Stillman, who had done excellent work in college, won the European fellow ship, and was willing to come to this little one-horse town to, make a start." " Vour research work hi tuberculosis " I interrupted. "Hail nothing to do with it," re torted Dr. Leavitt irritably. "Anyway, to make a 'long story short. Jim Still man came and had tho goods to show lie wus quick, bright, genial, and had a medical grounding that was surprising. My wife took to Iii in from the lirst and he contiuuod to improve. The girls were all crazy over him, 'for you may imagine that a young college man, good looking and smart, who had lived iu Paris, London anil Vienna, was quite some iu this town. The only thing about .lim was that he didn 't euro a rap about the girls. He'd refuse invitation after invitation to card-patties, dinners, and dances to stay lit home and smoke with me und talk over some of the late discoveries in the medical journals, lie hail some very original ideas,, too. He came to live at our house, and if my wife wanted to go to somo party or other he'd take her ami call for' her, but she used to tell me she scolded him both ways for not paying more attention to ihe girls. The Price girls, the Kennedy yirls. ami the Lords were all on his trail, and Bessie Price was the prettiest girl in town unless it was "Susan Lord. But .lim wus all for business, and lie ami I got to bo better friends every day. Even when I was called down t'o Boston for a few days, mv wife said he sat ami talked with hor Por a while every evening after dinner and then went to his room aud studied. "When dim had been living with me for nbout six months, and doing splendid work, Margaret Scott eaiiio home, from school, She had always been fairly healthy ami we were shocked when her mother brought her home he fore the end of the term ill. Her mother called no1 in and as Iced me what I tliought was the trouble with her. 1 never SOW a girl go oil' so. She was polo nnd languid and had lost in weight. I tried the tuberculosis test, but nothing there. I Buggosted every ailment in the almanac, but loo's was a brand new disease. I called regularly for a month and Margaret was no better. One day at church—I always make it 11 point to take my assistants to church, Mr. Wilson--I saw Margaret Scott, whose mother made her go to church if she was able to walk, and the | r girl looked as if she could hardlv hold her head up; bloodless, weak, shaky, and thin nH a mil. I pointed her out to Stillman ami he had a look at her across the, aisle. Xext,Sunday she was ill in bed and getting paler every day "One bvouing 1 was discussing the case with Stillman. I remember telling him T thought the girl was fading away before our eyes. He said in his quiet way that he had a theory regarding the case and that if I would let him put it in practice he thought he could euro her, lie said he had been studying the external aspect of her ease for some timo. So 1 told him to sail right in, as Til tried and failed. Ile asked that I would not interfere for two weeks. Af- ll'l •th nt In ' Sll i.l 1 mi .-ht rail every M .111 V 1: .ml v i'p how tli i' 1 mtlont wns anil if I'll ea 'till- .1 l> BO 1 Ti. IV if III inch •00 tu nn marl Weeks ini'. 1 koal lio Ilgl progri avnnl.l 1 1111 oss nt turn .1 In. 1 tin. tli.. nok it ill'. "II (i |in ill n lut of nttont Ion to it. Al II ,'Sl ll 0 1 'HIM a .la.*. ■ 11 .In y. but nt tli 1" 1" ml nl • tl 10 WOOll Ill wns < IrivlDg «P tu tin > Sim .tt' s twice 11 ilay. 1 Sll|.|lll .soil th Ingi i avc ra> (jolng 1 Ity Ian <l. lull ns I'd made a failure of the coso, I didn't think I was the one to interfere. " I was called to Boston for three lays uml I dropped in to see how Mur jarot Scott was getting; on I'Yuliiy evening instead of Monday. She was positively blooming! In an evening gown of some kind of pink stuff with a hunch of violets at her belt. She smiled ami looked positively charming, 1 say 'charming' because any young person who is the picture of health is more or less charming. I complimented her on her looks ami it SCO mod to please her mightily. " 'She's feeling as well as she looks, too, doctor,' her mother smiled and purred at me. The woman is a perfect cat. 'Perhaps when you come buck, doctor, she'll have something to tell you.' " 1 went straight to iny train, but those words of Mrs, Scott B ran iu my head all the way to Boston. If I had not had to light death for three days and nights I'd have taken tho time oil' |'to write Jim. but money now wasn't any too plentiful at our house aud tele- grains cost. 1 hooted the idea and dismissed it. She wasn't his kind. "When I got home Jim wasn't there ia the rig to meet me, but I saw a farmer f. knew and he dropped mo on his way home, The first thing he said was: 'f heard young Dr. Stillman's goin' to marry Widow Scott's daughter, Margie.'" "He seined to be waiting for me to say .something, but 1 never opend my mouth on that drive. So Jim Stillman had passed by Susan Lord and Bessie Price ami had been roped in by Margaret Scott. Aly clever Jim's career ruined by a fool of a wife. 1 was silently harranguing ou the villianies of designing females against my unsuspecting young friend when we arrived nt our gate. Before I had reached the house Jim came out to meet me. Mini,' I said, holding out my hand to him, 'it's not true, is it" "Por answer the poor boy picked up my valise and led the way to the arbor. " 'Doctor,' said the poor chap. "I'm in a devil of a mess.' " M kuow it.' " 'The deuce you do. It is already spread over seven counties,' " 'Sit .down, Jim.' " 'It was this way. doctor, f always had since I entered college this theory thut some people need a heart interest. One of my cousins was that Hnd ami fellow who lived in our town, never happy unless he had some girl he. was taking to parties, sending candy U and ,vas interested in him. 1 saw Miss Scott, who, botweeu you and me, hasn't any too much sense, moping and pining ami thought I'd try iny experiment on her. F felt sorry for her case and thought the cure was worth the remedy. I tried for a week being very agreeable ami attentive ti ami she seemed to improve. Then I took to dropping iu for an afternoon hat also. And the way that girl sat up aud took notice indicated that she needed the heart interest all right. Last week I got to the flower-sending stage. " 'Yesterday I wanted to test her n'gth. 1 asked her to play tennis with me all morning, lunch with me at the clubhouse, and go on a tramp in Ihe woods in the afternoon. And, by love! even after all that she was as fresh as a daisy!' Por a moment a gleam of professional pride lit up his gloomy face. " ' Look here,1 said I. putting my hand on his shoulder nnd looking him square in the eve. 'if vou made love to that giri " 'I suppose I was awfully nice to her,' he said, after a pause. 'But I never proposed. I never did do that. 011 my honor. Oh. it's au awful mix- up.' " 'Keep cool, Jim, nml tell me this -aren't vou iu love with her?' " 'No.' " 'But you certainly were iu love with her for the moment?' " 'No, I never was—not for one moment. ' "Tnis astounding statement from Jim Stillman foil like a thunderbolt. And I knew he spoke the truth. " ' Maybe you lost your head and proposed,' I suggested inanely. 'That will happen sometimes.' "'Nothing liko that for me,' said Jim with fierce conviction. ." 'I don't know how it was. doctor, but I felt from her manner at luncheon that she wanted the people at the club- house to know I was interested. She was looking as well and healthy as |)0s- sibl nl I determined to let her down gently. Por, to tell Ihe truth, \ was about sick of Spending two hours a day on giggles and gurgles, Her little air of proprietorship made mc tired, but somehow I couldn't tell her. On our walk she mn nn nbout things and seem- el to take it so for granted that 1 just couldn't tell her just then, but I shut Up like 11 clam ami resolved to let it die a slow death so as not to hurt her fcel- i ll I'S.' "That was so like Jim that I half smiled. "'Woll, we got through that walk and 1 was just shaking hands with her n her hall when her mother apponrorl iml Margaret excused herself to tuke iff her hat. Mrs. Scott, and 1 were alone. She dramatically beseeching, "Oh, doctor, be good to my child—always, always." " ' I don't remember what I said just then, but if 1 ever lnngod to strangle a human being, it was that purring, dinging old cat. 1 suppose it was brutal, but 1 camo out and told her that T had novor beeu iu love with her daughter, wus not now, nml never would bo. " ' "But your attentions," sho hissed. "She never had any other gentleman show her such attentions, buggy riding and violots. Vour attentions—" " ' "Wero in tho interest of scioneo, madame," said I cold-bloodedly. "1 cured your daughter, From the sick girl she was less than a mouth ago she is now the picture of health. You will admit that. " * "Yes," she snapped, and I never saw a human being so bottled up with rnge. " ' "The ease is dismissed, Mrs. Scott." said I shortly. "Vou forced me to this declaration. Good after noon. " ' "Pr. Stillman," she fairly screamed at mo, "you 're a brute—a horrid brute. I shall ruin vour reputu- tion iu (treentteld. I '11 publish you as a Iritler with my girl's alfections and a murderer. I 'II have this case taken up. Margie will die and yon will be her murderer." "'Doctor", I wus so furious I never thought what I said, and I retorted ami left the house. This was my parting shot: "Sho won't die. That's part of the theory. Pride will bolster her up." I left, the house ami came home, and aftor din ■ every one in Greenfield knew all about it and more too. Isn't it a mess, though I' ' * ' Roma lice versus science,' I re marked. "'Don't joke, doctor,' begged tho poor chap. 'This morning f made my calls and the Kennedys sent their maid down with a note from Mrs. Kennedy, saving she didn't need my services any longer. Half the people I bowed to cut me dead. The Joneses,- the Wil- coxes, and the Lords all passed me by— no, not all of them either,' he finished. 'Miss Susan Lord, came up and spoke in a very friendly wa'y.\ The poor boy said it gratefully, without one glint of humor," Dr. Leavitt paused ami puffed his pipe. How did it turn out."' L Inquired. "Well, Dr. Wilson, it's . a queer world. Science isn't.us popular as romance. Will you believe it,'Stillman's practice fell oil' and peoplo were cutting Iiim 011 all sides. All Greenfield was lined up in one faction or another and things got so hot I advised him to leave —go somewhere else—and he did. 1 hated to lose him, for he was a medical genius, thoroughly scientific. 1 believed his story and do to this day. My wife sides with the Scotts." "And the cure?" I asked. "Was that permanent?" "As you see. Margaret Scott drooped for about ten days, then pride was the best shoulder brace, and has never been ill since. She has put on flesh steadily. Now you know the greatest event iu Greenfield history.' But," con eluded Dr. Leavitt, "I always regretted that fellow Jim Stillman. Ho was, as I said, a medical genius. Ami now I must get to work." About a month later Doctor Leavitt came into the dining-room with a letter in his hand. " Letter from Jim Stillman," he cried excitedly. " Humpht " Ami Mrs.. Leavitt stopped pouring the tea. " 1 hope it is lomothlug to his credit this time." The doctor scanned the close written page, " lie's married." I hope,'' remarked Hrs. Leavitt. with a malice of which I never thought her capable, "she's a widow with a past, with ten children for him to support. '' "Listen to this,'" There was triumph in the doctor's tone. "'You muy be interested to know that I was married last week to Miss Kegiua Elizabeth (^uackenbush, head of the department of science at Wcllcsmoro College. Miss Quackenbush recently secured her Ph.D. for her exhaustive' treatise on "The Absorptive Spectrum of Chlorine aud the Poly basic Acids of Mesity- lene." She is a thoroughly scientific woman . who '" ami here followed three-quarters' of a page expounding her virtues, ■ "Perhaps," observed Mrs. Leavitt acidly, "a real scientific woman can got along with Jim. but all the same I wish she had beeu a ballet dancer!" "A HOME MADE GENTLEMAN" (By Arnold (loldsworthy) Ruth Jordan stood hesitating for a moment outside a big, old-fashioned building in St rent ham High Street, which bore in large letters the words: "J. Magwin, Ironmonger and Black smith." Por the moment she had no list? for Mr. Magwin in either capacity, the attraction for her being a neatly printed card in the window of the ironmongery shop to the effect that three rooms were to be let on the (lr«t floor,1 oltlior for residential or business purposes. It nth was five-ami-twenty, ami, though somewhat slight and pale, was undeniably handsome. The youngest of a large family—her father had been a country curate—she had been kept at home to mind house for her parents. Now they were both dead, her brothers and sisters wero scattered over tho world, and Ruth was alone. That this moment in her life must come sooner or later, sho had always known, ller mother had prepared her for it by providing for her lessons in Iressmuking, Until having always shown unusual aptitude with her needle. \nd her knowledge of dressmaking, together with the few pounds her mother had left behind—country curates are not usually endowed witli a surplus of material wealth—now constituted hor nly capital with which she was to face the' world. Never had she felt more terribly me than as she stood there summoning her courage to inquire as to the price of the rooms, which she designed for both the purposes mentioned—business and residential. She had a few customers a I ready among her friends, and she cherished the hope tlmt, if she started in a regular way, more ens- tomers would come. While she was hesitating, she peeped into the shop, and saw a middle-aged woman behind the counter. Encouraged Mrs. Mugwin, the middle-aged woman iu question, ran a critical eye over her prospective tenant, and then went to the back door ami called to someone in the blacksmith's forge at the bottom of tho yard. "Tim! Bring mo the key of the first floor. The guv'nor '11 tell you where it is." When the key was brought. Ruth felt her heart sink as she surveyed the wild- looking mail who hail handed it to Mrs. Magwin. lie was a huge fellow, about thirty, who looked as if he hail never been taught the beneficent effects of a judicious combination of water aind soap, and his acquaintance with tho razor was clearly of an extremely fitful kind. But the most striking' thing about his appearance was a vory obvious black eye—so obvious that it pro claimed its identity oven through the grime and grease tlmt surrounded it. "Here's tho key, Mrs, Mugwia," began Tim, ami then he stopped short as if taken by surprise at the timid and gentle figure of the girl before him. Por 110 reason that he could understand, he turned to her uml suid: '' 1 've just come from the smithy miss. I didn't know there was a lad; here, or I wouldn't have shown mv self," Kuth. quite unprepared with any suit able form of comment upon tho Vol un tary statement that did not concern he iu the least, turned with an appealing '"■''- to Mrs. Magwin, who, as sin look grimy fel snatched the key from thi low, said: "Nobody, as far as I know, Tim Dal by, asked you to put your spoke in. did they1."' '' No, I s'pose not. I " And, having no more to say, he strode off. About ten minutes afterwards Mrs. Magwin came out of the smithy where her husband was supervising Tim's workmanship, ami announced that the young lady hail taken the rooms and hail paid a week's rent in Advance. She was going to open as a dressmaker, ami would be bringing her furniture and fittings on the morrow. Mr, Magwin made uo comment. He was the cipher in the establishment. Ti.ni Dalby ventured the remark that she seemer a nice quiet sort of girl, and then he began to hammer a piece of iron with such vigor thut Mr. Magwin felt, const rained to remind him thut "thereWas no need for to go and try and smash tho bloomin' anvil." Tim accepted the reproof in silence* uid worked on with a diligence that was almost sullen. He was by nature really a cheerful sort of man, but the lack of any very great success in life brought upon him periodical fits of depression, especially when he found himself suddenly contrasted—as had been the case a moment or two ago—with an attractive sample of the results of earnest endeavor and clean living. Tim, although an excellent workman, was troubled by two serious defects which had always stood in his way when he set; out—aa he had done time and again—to better his position in fife. One defect was a marked partiality for beer; and another was a hobby for tights. The second defect arose from the first, for in his sober moments Tim was as gentle as a lamb; ami it was a cruel irony that made the lighting instinct most prominent in him just at the moment when his head was hardly; clear enough to enable liim to do justice' to his superior size and weight. The' black eye from which he was so obviously suffering at the moment had come to' him under these disadvantageous conditions. On the following morning, Ruth arrived to announce that her furniture was on the way. Tim had hail orders to stand by so that he might lend ! hand in getting some of the thing: upstairs, and he was iu the simp when ade some remark about Margie audi by the prospect of being able to talk me being so suited to one another, or matters over with one of her own sex, Bomothlng like that. And the lirst thing she entered the shop nervously nnd nsk- 1 knew she was leaning ot: my Blioillderlod to see the rooms that wero to let. RUth ^a^a^a^_. For the moment she could hardly be lievo he was the same man whose appearance had scared her so much the day before. To begin with, Tim had washed his face, and although the lurid black eye still continued to speak for itself with no uncertain sound, the change in tht? rough fellow's appear anco was decidedly for the better. Furthermore, Kuth was agreeably surprised to find that, in spite of Ids rough and burly appearance, his manner was gen tie to a degree. As she came into the shop, Tim strode forward nml caught hold of the heavy hag that. Ruth was carrying. "I'll take that bag upstairs, miss," he snid quietly, but. iu a tone that was rather too authoritative to suit Ruth. "The mi-sis said 1 was to help, ami, besides, I don't wait for her to tell mo what I ought to do. 1 know it's a gentleman's plnco to help a lady." " A gontloman would ask a lady's permission before forcing his services upon her," sho replied with quiet firmness as she nervously tightened hor hold of the bag, and wondered that she could have the courage to talk to this huge eatnre so boldly. To her surprise, Tim said nothing. As he kept silent she turned to look ut him. He seemed to have been struck dumb with wonder ami dismay, nml he looked at her a little reproachfully with eyes that—as one of them at least dourly demonstrated—wen1 large ami bright and brown. In the surprise of having come oil' victorious, iu an encounter from which she had apprehended the worst kind of defeat, Ruth felt she could afford to be generous. "I am sorry if I have said anything to hurt you?" she suid quietly. "I don't think I quite understood. It will be very kind of you to carry my bug upstairs for mo." Tim followed her upstairs with tlio bug which he deposited tenderly just inside the large room on tho first floor. Ile had begun to descend tho stair again when, on a sudden impulse, he turned hnck. "Anyone can see you're a lady," he said with quiet admiration, "1* didn't take you long to find out that I'm not a gentleman." "'Oh, please, don't think that," sho said, looking at him a little apprehensively ns if she hardly knew whether to be afraid of him or not. "I'm mire yuu pted my apology as generously as any gentleman could havo done." Tim thought over hor words for the moment, ami then, deciding apparently that he had uo compliment, equally graceful to retort with, he bowed cluni- By, and, deciding to let well alone, hurried downstairs, When the furniture arrived. Tim con-1 ititnted himself master of tho eoro* \ monies with un eagerness that was so apparent that Ruth could only with \ difficulty keep from smiling at his well meaning! oftieiousiiess. While the undersized carrier was appealing for a helping hand to enable him to got a large box into the front room, Tim took the thing up boTlily and ran in with it. When the last of the furniture had been brought up, Tim motioned the carrier to take his leave as quickly as possible. lie wus about to follow, when, seeing that Ruth was watching him, he ventured to come back a step or so. "With regard to this eye of mine, miss," he said in the tone of one who has been waiting impatiently for au opportunity to make a necessary explanation, "I shouldn't like you to think I got it fighting, or anything like that because it was nothing of that kind at all. 1 tripped up iu the smithy, and fell up against the anvil, and " "I am very sorry, indeed, to hear of your accident," interrupted Ruth, not altogether relishing this quite unwarranted manner of taking her into his confidence, "Will you please tell Mrs. Magwin that I am ready for her liowf She promised to help me get straight." Kuth hardly knew what to make of the man. However benevolently she might feel towards him. it was' clear that she could not afford to oucouriigo his conversational gifts, which throat ened to be 'Overwhelming on Ihe slighl est provocation. She did not wnnl I hurt his feelings, but she felt obliged t give hi in an occasional hint that, his room was preferable to his company. On the other hand, she derived a certain amount of sutisfuetion from the reflection that iu this rough but well-- meaniug man she had at least one friend in her loneliness whose fidelity she thought she could rely ou if occasion required. On his side, Tim would not have felt it easy to explain even to himself, the strange impression this timid aud gent I little Jady hnd mado upon him. Perhaps it was her helplessness that appealed to him, or it may have boon the charm of her undoubted refinement which awoke a new aspiration in him, and reminded him that he too was capable of better things. Certain it was that the good impression was there. About a fortnight after Ruth's arrival, Tim's black eye waSitWoftV This auspicious circumstance, j( yled to the fact that when he was not in the smithy Tim had taken to wearing a Collar und tic, made such an improvement in his appearance that Ruth, catching sight of him oiio day, wondered what there could have been about him to frighten her so much 011 the day of her arrival. Mrs. Magwin, noting the great change, wouhl have it that Tim was in love; ami Tlm replied rather curtly that, oven if that were the case, it was no one's business but his own. Mr. Magwin, with a view of making peace, suggested that Tim was trying to become a gentleman, to which Tim retorted that there was room for improvement in the manners of other people besides himself. As a matter of fact, the worthy cou- ■ were not inistuken. Tim's chief trouble was that, although he desired most ardently to become u gentleman, he had so little opportunity of meeting with individuals of the class ho desired to imitate. Gentlemen, as a rule, are not much addicted to friendly chats with either an ironmonger or a black- in ith. Some days after that, Tim was sent upstairs to make a sligjit repair to one of the lock-s. With the exception of a rather lurid necktie, his appearance was quite neat and becoming, ami Miss .Ionian meeting him on the landing, smiled graciously and wished him good- morning. This was Tim's cue. She could see what progress ho had made towards becoming a gentleman. Putting his hands in his pockets, and, leaning against the wall, ho snid: "Good moriiin'. Jolly fine day, what? We hail some pretty rotten weather to begin the season with, but if we get weather like this for long, the roads 'II be in a rippin' condition, demitall, what?" Miss Jordan stared at him ruth-r fiercely for a few moments, and then, blushing crimson, turned on her heel without a word. Tim could not understand it. "1 beg your pardon, miss," he said in a penitent voice, "but have I said the wrong thing? I'm frying so hard to become a gontloman, and I got. that littlo lot straight from 11 real gentleman who belongs to some of the biggest people about horo," Ruth smiled—she could not help her- solf. It was clear to her that Tlm was uot muking game of her—as she had been afraid was the case. So long as sho was sure that Tim's attitude was sincere, she felt genuinely interested iu him as a man who was making a strong effort to improve his condition in life, And besides, as things wore going with here then' was no reason for her to emphasize the social distinction between herself and a man who was probably earning moro thnn she herself could hope to do. "Oh, I see," she sriid, as she cnine back. " 1 wondered what the matter was. A gentleman does not use that lorl of language in the presence of a lady." "Oh!" said Tim, looking a little per plexed. "Well—I'm really sorry if I said anything to hurt your feelings." "Thank you," said Ruth, holding out her hand. "Tho first gontloman in the land could not have suid a nicer thing.' " Vou see, miss," continued Tim. growing as usual more confidential on slight, encouragement, "I'm doing nil 1 know to become a gentleman. I'm going to leave here next week, "To leave beret"' echoed Ruth, betraying by her voice the interest she clearly took iu him, "Why?" "Woll, you see, miss," ho went on hurriedly for fear she should run away before he had quite explained, "this place was good enough for me onco, T got pretty good wages for a single man, and I've got no expenses. But lately I've got a bit ambitious. When 1 saw what a lady you wore, T wanted to make myself a gentleman." "I've* got a very good place at Red- hill, miss," he continued. "I'm not a blacksmith any more. I'm n motor mechanic. A man 1 know got me 11 show wilh a good firm, nud I put a car together quicker than nny other man they had got. I '111 starting with them at good wages." I am so glad!" said Until. When I got settled at Redhill, Tim went on, speaking now more slowly and with greater care, "I should like to write you a letter now and then. If 1 did, would you answer it? I've got no one else in the world to send a letter t0-" .... "Of course I will answer it, said Ruth. "A lady will always answer the letter of a—gentleman. " Tim went downstairs in high spirits. So high wero his spirits, iu fact, that when Mr. Magwin suggested that he was not treating them fairly in leaving them, Tim very nearly asked him if he wanted to come outside nud fight. But he checked himself just iu time, and merely replied that we must all do what we can to better ourselves iu this world. Ruth was agreeably surprised at Tim's lirst letter to her. Uo wrote a very fair hand, and it was clear that at some time or another he had had the rudiments of a tolerable education. He wrote to say that his new employment left him plenty of leisure, and he was much interested in the study of median ics, in which he wns associated with several other—gentlemen. The signili cuuee of this referent 0 to his improve ment was unmistakable. After he had been away six mouths, Kuth had a letter from him to say he was going to call oji the Magwins, and that if she could be persuaded to re eeive him for a few moments, ho would bo very pleased. It was quite a grace ful letter, and she could not help won dering al the quiet strength of the man who, under some sudden impulse or other, had so rosolutoly'fought his way into a hotter and more wholesome en vironment. Tim's appearance was a surprise to his old employers, lie was neatly and quietly dressed in a well fitting suit of clothes, and a howler lint; and his friends -and enemies—of the neighborhood wouhl never have recognized him if they had met him in the street. Ruth herself had to look twice at him as he stood hat iu hand ou the threshold of her workroom, and said ho hoped she would not mind if he told her he was very pleased to see her again. '' I am pleased to see you, Tim—I mean Mr. Dalby " Kuth began, and then, .for some reason she could hot explain, she blushed. "It used to be 'Tim,' " he said quietly. " Whatever could have happened to make such a great change in your ideas of life?'' she asked, ignoring his remark. "I was satisfied enough with what I was doing till I saw—you," he replied. She turned as if to go, but he held out his hand frnnkly. "Let me say it, do! " he appealed. "The day 1 saw you I fell in lovo with you. 1 knew that was foolish, because the man who could marry you would have to be a gentle man. Ever since then T've tried to be a gontloman—and I'm going to keep on trying. Won't you wait for me, and givo me a chance?" Kuth gave him her hand, and smiled when ho seized it and kissed it t'orvont ly. And then they went downstairs together to tell Mr. and Mrs. Magwin. THE "SUFFRAGETTE" EARRING An enterprising jeweler who niukon a specialty of earrings has put a new ono on the market, which he calls the ''Suffrngetts earring.'' "A lot of young women wore earrings, '' he explnins, '' but they wero not all tho right sort. With tailor mado togs ami for suffragette meetings there is only one style of earring permissible, tlmt is an ornament without any pendant, flat against the wearer's oar. "The particular style dabbed Suffra gette is a carefully selected baroque pearl, irregular shape, without any vis ible setting. The earring screwing on the unpiereoil ear, "Of course, thore are a lot of Suffragettes who have thoir ears pierced because they belong to a generation who believed in that, but they are in. the minority. Women no longer have to submit to thnt form of barbarism, for you can get any style of earring you want with the so-called "unpierc- ablo setting" which holds the article firmly against the lobe of the oar." As the earring expert went to the case to take ont some tailor-made ornaments, he contiuuod his dissertation. "Thero is nothing that is quite so feminine as the earring, and .if properly selected it will give tho most commonplace face an interesting look. Thero is uo doubt that whntevor the sort of earring worn, it gives a delicate look to many faces." "But doesn't the earring make the face look older?" asks uu undecided customer. "That is the usual criticism." "I think that is so in mnny cases, but you will find that it is because tho wrong stylo is selected and that a certain lino 1ms been ncceiituatod which gives the face character," and to many strength and yoars are synonymous." One of tho most effectivo of the tailor-mado" earrings exhibited on a small white velvet puff is a beautiful sapphire, cushion shape, sot in platinum, with a small French white stone at the top. It fits closely against the ear and just gives the bit <>f deep color necessary to bring out the tint of the eyes and to relieve the masculine severity of a shirtwuist suit. THE MUSKRAT AS A DELICACY Tho trapping of mnskrats is tho means of livelihood for a groat many persons in this country, ami the east- em shore of Chesapeako Bay, in tho State of Maryland, is probably the most fertile field for that industry. In that section alono the sale of skins this senson will amount to nearly $500,000. But the pelt is not the only value connected with the taking of the musk- rat, because it is frequently used for food. Practically every rcs'tnurant on tho Maryland peninsula sorves muskrat whon in season, and it is a favorite dish at midnight suppers. Tho majority of persons are disgusted by the more thought of eating musk- rat, but undoubtedly this is due to the prejudice against the name of rut. However, they are greatly mistaken in disliking this rodent, for it. is ono of tho cleanest of living animals, and is deli- eious when properly cooked. Tho muskrat's home is built of marsh grass heaped into a mound and situated above the level of high water. This liouso is dry and warm and tho interior is always spotlessly elenn. Feeding entirely upon tender roots and herbs, this peculiar little nnimal invariably scrubs thoroughly in tho wator every bit of food before it is eaten. 94 vl 1(1 THE ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND, B.C. Outdoor Sport and Zimbnk Rvery athlete, every ball-player, every swimmer, every canoeist, ovory man or woman who loves outdoor life and exercise, should keep a box of Zam- Buk handy. Zam-Buk is a purely herbal preparation, which, as soon as apoliel to cuts, bruises, burns, sprains, blisters, etc., sots up highly beneficial operations, First, its antiseptic properties render tho wound free from all dangers from blood poisoning Next it-i soothing prut orties rcliev*. and eflrfO the paie Then its rich, herbal balms penetrate thu tissue, and set up tho wonderful process of healing. Barbed wire Scratches, insect stings, skin diseases, such us eczema, heat rashes, ringworm, babies' heat sores, chaied places, sue feet—are all quickly cure) by Zani-Buk It also eases and cures piles. All drug gists ami stores. Use Z-un link Soap, l!fic. per tablet. Do uot let a cold settle on your lungs. Resort to BiddenV Anti-Consumptive Syrnp at tho first intimation of irritation in the throat and prevent disease from lodging in the pulmomiry organs. 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"Beautiful Joe" is known all over the Knglish spoaking world nnd has been a great factor in promoting humane feeling and education, "My rets," another story by Miss Saunders, ta principally a story of birds, whilo the other books deal largely with dugs aud other domestic animals. Birds have always boon her espocial pets, ami sho has a farm where, besides a groat variety of animal boarders, she has an aviary. For years Miss Haundors kept a careful record of tho lives of hor pets, and' she has combined this record with un explanation of hor methods of keeping and caring for pots, both tamo and wild. .This story is fascinating und practical. She says: "One thing I have become persuaded of iu iny study of bird life. This nation must protect its birds or the eonsc- quonces will bo serious. Wo annually sustain au immense loss through insect pests ou account of the link of protection of bird life. Our birds, our t'orosts, and our children—lot us protect all throe, aud wo shall be a happier and a more prosperous people." Miss Saunders has long advocated tho protection of birds, fur economic as well as humane reasons, and when she was in Winnipeg a year ago expressed her surprise that we wero so far behind the times in our protection uf one of the most useful forms of animal life. Having made a special study of birds iu their relations to insects, she says "thoy nre the hardest workers on tho face of the earth. If you do not believe this, count the number of trips yonder father or mother bird makes to the nest in the course of the morning, the beak dripping with insects." People are becoming moro and more alive to the value of birds to the nation, and oven the callous, selfish moneymakers realize that the crops ami gardens would suffer were it not for the help given by the birds iu keeping down tho insect post. MISS MARSHALL SAUNDERS Of Halifax, Author of "Beautiful Joe' For this reason tho native birds in must communities are gradually winning protection—but the foreigners, tho caged birds—Miss Saunders says her heart is wrung with pitv for the littlo slaves. "Foreign birds not only sutler untold misery after coin* illg to our shores, hut their sufferings begin immediately upon tlieir capture. I am assured that some bird-dealors give the prisoners plenty of fresh food and water, and good-sized rages, but these comforts an' not what the bird wants—he wants his liberty. "I appeal to humane workers tu do something for the foreign birds-—the pitiful little captives, upraising their sntl'eriug voices in protest all over this continent. We let our black slaves go—lot as set the bird slaves free also." The last number of Current Literature publishes a review of (I. It. Stilling Taylor's "Teachings of Mary Wollstou- craft." which is of special interest at this time when tho "new woman" is rampant. Although Mary Wollstoncraft lived ovor a hundred years ago, her theories and teachings were, in tlm main, the samo as those of our ultra-modern Olive Schreitier. particularly with regard to woman's right to bo regarded as a rational being] and uot to have concussions granted her its a privilege, but as a right; equal right with man to both work and pleasure, the same freedom, the (.-nine law ami equal pay for equal work. "After li hundred years ur comparative neglect and sometimes misunderstanding," Mr. Taylor declares, "Mary iWollstoncraft, as a pioneer, stands far before all her follows} she grows iu greatness still; perhaps she had never so much pre-eminence as today. What she taught at Iho end of tho eighteenth century is yet in front of the everyday social philosophy at the beginning of the twentieth." I'p to the age of twenty nine she was merely an obscure provincial governess, but at this age she went to London, whore she begun hor journalistic career as reader and traas later fur Johnson, the radical publisher. Tlioro had been a fow women writers boforo her. but they had Imitated men, whereas Mary Wotlstoticraft claimed her right an n Woman, to write as a woman and tn have her work judged on its merits. Wo quote Mr. Taylor again: "It is the lesson of history tluii example alone dues not bring about reform; thore is always need fur au Intolerable amount of preaching about it. It was not only necessary for women to show by actual deeds that they had 'rights' of Intelligence, it was necessary also thut someone should begin to put those 'rights' into theoretical form. "Sho was the first Mnglishwoman to put her declaration of Independence -into the form nf a precise statement. No one has denied to Mary Wollstoiicraft the title nf pioneer If anyone struck nut a iiew pat If, beyond all manner of doubt she did. Of course, there aro very'different opinions as to whither her path led. Many think and say very vigorously that it must, end iu fire ami brimstone; a few have more hopeful views. But a new path it cfertAUlly was. indeed, si new that it still remains untrodden by the large majority In other words, this pioneer of the eighteenth century h still clearing a way for tho twentieth." As a proof of her quality it is only necessary to state t sho was received as a friend ami equal by the most brilliant minds in 'Kngland and Franco, men who were loading the advanced thought of their day. She wrote a "Vindication of the Rights of Men"—that is, of mankind as a whole, ami "her reply to the narrow class-pleading nf ftdinund Hurko was a passionate assertion of the rights of the vast majority of men and women against the petty tyranny of tlie few, who claimed that tho world was made for the satisfaction of thoir Insignificant minority . . Her protest against Burke's defence of tho nobles and royalties of Franco would today bo called tho preaching of a class war, and be labelled with the name of Socialism.'' In her ''Vindication of tho Rights of Men," she hold up to scorn Burke's defence of the French nobility "In such au outburst, of intelligence," that "it is ono of tho most dashing political polemics in the language." The pamphlet was written at the very height of her indignation, and was published before anyone else had a chance to answer Burke. Hor biographer insists that Mary Wollstoiicraft was no sox fanatic, but like Ellen Key, Charlotto Perkins Oilman and Olive Schrciner today, "her philosophy was based not narrowly on women's rights, but on tho world-wide foundation of human rights." She wus a woman of remarkable intelligence, keen insight and indomitable courage, and when sho saw the rational way did not hesitate to troad therein. Sho refused to accept an opinion or a condition, simply because it was sanctioned by age, without any common-sense foundation, and sho did not hesitate tu rise in rebellion against accepted tradition," Hor "Thoughts ou the Education of Daughters," published whilo she was still a governess, show her to have had the scientific outlook. She snys, "the first thing to uttend to is to lay the foundation of a good constitution; the mind is uot, and canuot be, created by the teacher, though it may he cultivated and its real powers found out." To women both "new" und "old" her most interesting work is the "Vindication of the Rights of Women," which is not, as everyone seems to imagine, so much an attack on the male sex as it is an attuck ou women, and is written iu defence of mankind, Mr. Taylor puts her preachings in a nutshell: "Indeed, the first fact which oue must grasp lu Mary Wnllstoncraft'b advocacy is that, far from being a sex-plea, it is quite the contrary. It is a plea to abolish sex as an important and radical dividing line in the affairs of society, leaving its distinctions as a somewhat minor mutter to which far tuo much attention has been given. It is not a plea for the grunting of sex privileges; it is rather a passionate demand that her sex shall be obliterated by the larger claim to be considered a human being. Tbe note which sounds throughout her book is that the 'privileges' of women are their chief disabilities, . . , They are not privileges at all, but a codo of prison rules; and the women not queens, but prisoners. ... In other words, this vindication of woman, which some havo hastily thought a bitter demand for sex privileges, is, in reality, a very 'wild wish' that sex privileges should cease altogether. . . . It is a vindication of woman's right to be unprivileged. She would solve the sex-problem by abolishing sex. . . . Plan all your social arrangements so that women shall become intelligent beings; and all the other problems of sex are of very littlo importance and will solve themselves. That seehiB to be the summary of this teacher who wrote to vindicate the rights of women, fe'o that the very noteworthy fact is that whereas Mary WollStonecraft is usually held up to ridicule or esteem (according to the tasto of the disputants), as being absorbingly interested in the problems of sex in the narrowest meaning of tho word—tho physical attractions that bring man und woman together, with all the psychological phenomena which result from that attraction—yet truly she clearly considered this aspect of the case as a rather trivial matter to which far too much attention js given." To Rousseau's saying: "Educate women like men, aud the more thoy resemble our sex the less power will thoy hnvo over us," Mary WoIlstonecraft replied: "This is tho very point I aim at. 1 do not wish them to have power ovor men, but over themselves." She discovered what is the very essence of the most advanced section of the "woman's movement" today—that the fundamental need of women is economic independence. The ballot follows as a practical necessity. "But all these matters ure only details," con eludes her biographer, "which follow naturally from her main argument that women are human beings; whon once her central thesis is acknowledged to bo true, then the rest of tho argument must fall into its place inevitably without ;much waste of time." He states finally: "A man writer in the United States set out to observe the styles, or to search for what he calls tho "stylo motif" of the present day, and chose for his point of investigation the Easter parade at Atlantic City. "The result of his observations was that ho wus moved to pity for the unhappy stute of the fat woman in this hip' less age. Ho laments her fate from first to lust of his article, and so loud ure his lamentations that one is forced to conclude that his own better-half must be a sufferer and ho is merely rehearsing her woes. "I grant you no man or woman has a right to bo fat; but thut doesn't get us anywhere, for many mou are fat and many women. " What chance hus a fat woman in this present age, period aud trend of fashion? A fat man can woar anything with impunity except a frock coat, and most fat men do. Nor will it excite other than passing remark. I once knew a man who weighed four hundred pounds and dressed in a suit made of blue-and-white bed ticking. The stripes ran up and down, and he was quite au addition to the rural scenery. But what happens when a fat woman, anxious to bo in style, tries to dress in the present mode—in those clinging, scant, ethereal adaptions of the sort nf gowns they toll us tho ladies used to wear in Grecian aud Empire days? What would happen to a fat wuman who tried a jnpe-cnlotto in other words, a harem skirt—or, to bo frank, a French dressmaker's idea uf a feminized pair of pants'.' 1 pause for a reply. Bearing iu mind that the style motif is thi high waist and the scant, skirt, and bearing in mind the various physical formations nf the ladies of our times, it may be necessary only to say that a hundred thousund women. seventy-five per cent, of whom aro wearing high waists and scant skirts whether or not they aro high-wuisted or scant themselves—wearing all sorts of combinations uf colors- are likely to,foster the opinion that, so far as frcakishness in women's clothes goes, there cannot be much farther for the style-motif gentlemen to go. Still, if there is any far ther they can go, undoubtedly the women will gn with them provided poor old father can furnish the wherewithal. "The conclusion, after arduous Investigation, is that the style motif is the scant skirt, the long, attenuated gown, the high waist, tho delirious hat; and that ou this motif, owing tn the Ingenuity of tlie dressmakers, thero can be built almost anything in the wny of a freak gown that may be desired, Further, that on this motif there has boon built this spring an astounding array of attire that causes mere man to wonder hopelessly where it will stop. The answer is that it isn't going to stop so long as pour uhl father can continue to finance it, and that next spring it will be something else —probably something worse. Meantime let us hope Iho fat woman will hnve a look in then. She certainly i shabbily treated this spring." Aunt Mary gives this week, recipes for picnic dainties: Cold Pigeon Pie.—Cut dressed pigeons in halves; add strips of veal steak, lardoons of bacon and seasoning, simmer until tender. Put iu a pie-dish with cooked mushrooms, Reduce the broth freed of fat; add to each cupful ono*fourth of a package of Boftoned gelatine, uml strain over the meat. When the broth begins to jelly, press upon it a cover of eimked pilll'-paste. Pressed Chicken and Eg&s,—Simmer a fowl until tender; remove skin and bones; let. cool, then cut in bits. To tho liquor; freed of fat and reduced to u cupful, add one-fourth nf a box nf gelatine snaked in cold water. Season with salt, paprika, mushroom ketchup and lemon juice. Add the meat, thou pour inln buttered baking-powder boxes decorated with hard-boiled egg. Let stund tu become firm, Banbury Tarts.—Chop a cupful of seeded raisin* ami two ounces of citron peel. Add a cupful of sugar, grated rind and juico of a lemon, little salt nud n beaten egg. Place on rounds of pastry. Brush half the odgu with cold water, bring the other half over the mixture and press the edges together with the tines of a fork dipped in flour. Hake in a moderate oven. Devilled Eggs.—Lot eggs stand half an hour iu wator just below the boiling point; cool, remove shells and cut lo halves crosswise. Rub the yolks to a paste with mustard, oil, lemon juice and salt, and mix with chicken, ham, tongue or sardines pounded smooth. 1'ross together corresponding halves filled with this mixture to form a band between them. Bull each egg iu confectioners' paper, twisting the ends. NEW STANDARD GAGE ELECTRIC RAILROAD The now standard gage railroad which will be opened in Sweden in 1914 presents a considerable intorost. It belongs to the state railroad lines, nud runs from the mining district of Kiruna to tho frontier. Recently the contract was awarded for pnrt of the electric lucomotives to the Gorman Siemens Schuckert firm, and theso are now build ing at tho Berlin works. However, tho Swedish company is constructing two high-speed passenger locomotives and two freight locomotives, while eleven freight locomotives will bo built in Germany. These last are of the double typo und consist of two separate units coupled tugether. Each unit ur half- locomotive has three bar-coupled axles operated from a single uiottric motor. Transformers on the locomotives/ are used for lowering the voltage, As'oach half of the locomotive Is imlcpemluut. this gives a good moans of guarding against accidents. The motor is mounted inside the locomotive cabin and ilrivos the wheels by crunk drive, so that a large sizod motor can be used and there is given better air cooling. The Por jus Falls will bo callod upon to furnish the current fur the electric mil- rond. MOVING GUNS BY MACHINERY The British military authorities have been experimenting 'with a new nud novel oil-fuel traction engine designed for hauling artillery of the heaviest type over all kinds of roads and across rough country uud up hills. Tho engine weighs eight tons, and is of seventy horse-power, with a maximum speed of eight miles an hour. What appears to be quite a new principal iu locomotion is applied iu this engine, which, instead of travelling in tho ordinary way, rolls along nn au endless track that it lays for itself. This track is something like a great chain of steel links, the outside of each being shod with blocks of wood, which act like the sleepers of a permanent way. This track enables the engine to pass with great ease and little prupul- sivo power ovor any kind of rough ground, rocky area, soft sand and bog, safely negotiating the very stiffest gradients and crossing ditches and gullies. It was tested across the soft sand of one locality, drawing a six-ton field- gun, and suctoediug in getting it up and down the hillsides about Aldershot, over deep wutercoursos, the batiks of which were very steep. Then it was taken across a wide stretch of boggy ground, which was by far the severest test o/ all. the gnu at times sinking in up tn its axles. CATCHING THE COBRA It is said that nf all reptiles the cobra js the most passionately fond of music, and that it may easily bo euticcd from its hiding-place by the notes of the violin or of a bagpipe. In India it vary seldom hears any but tho first instrument, and those bent upon its capture tuke advantage of the cobra's weak ness ior 'Jio violin .When a cobra la found to havo taken up its abode iu the neighborhood of a Indian dwelling, it is cuutomary to scud for professiunul su.ike-charm.i.is, who at once proceed to work upon the snake's love uf music. One man will play ,t tune near the place supposed to bo occupied by tho eobru. It sluwly emerges trom its hiding-place, aud takes up a position in front of tho player. It thou becomes the business of this man to hold the attention of the snake while a companion iim'ettakes his capture. Tho second man, with a handful of fine dust, creeps up behind the cobra. CANCER BI* Mia. 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The casting of the dust upon tho suake startles it, and for a moment it falls its full length upon tbo ground. Brief as this period may be, however, it suffices for tho purpose of the assistant snake-charmer, With a lightning-like movement he seizes the cobra by the neck just below the head. If it be deemed desirable to extract the fangs at once, the captor presses his thumb on the throat of the snake, thus compelling it to open its mouth wheu the fangs ure,drawn with a pair of pincers. Should, however, as not infrequently happens, tho operator desire to keep the cobra intact for the time being, the musician comes to his fellow's aid, forcibly unwinds the coils, and places the body of the cobra in a basket. The head only is left protruding, this being held by the other man. The lid is then pressed down to prevent the cobra from wriggling out. Then, suddouly, the captor thrusts the head in, and bangs down the lid. Sometimes music is employed to draw from the cobra its venom, needed for medicinal or experimental purposes. The musician's assistant arms himself with a large plate covered with a thick plantain leaf. While tho snake is engaged with the music, he sits down immediately iu front of tho cobra. It is too much engrossed to notice the man until such time us the music abruptly ceases. Then tho snake, recalled tn'existing surroundings, strikes at the man who is nearest. But the snake-man has been waiting for this. S'wift as the thrust muy be, he is just as swift, interposes the plate, and receives the blow on it. The poison goes through the puncture in the loaf and is deposited on the plate. It is a thick, albuminous fluid, resembling the white of an egg. One drop of it communicated to tho blood is enough to cause death within a very short time tn any warm-blooded creature. 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Both aro united in the pleasant tasting syrup, Mathieu's Nervine Powders which sell in boxes of 18 tor 26c. are the best treatment for any fever or fever* Mi cold, as well as the best cure for headaches. J. L. MATHIEU CO., Prop's. SHEBBBOOKE, QUE. Western Distributors FOLEY BROS., LABSON & CO Winnipeg, Kdiiinuinn, Vancouver and Su>kutoon HS=SSS3g§bs32lI are new and entirely different from ordinary preparations. They accomplish Iheir purpose wlihout disturbing the rest of the system, and are therefore the ideal laxative for the nursing mother, as they do not affect the child. Compounded, like all NA-DRU-CO preparations, by expert chemists. If unsatisfactory we'll gladly return your money. 25c. a box. If your druggist has not yet stocked them, send 25c. and we will mall them. 24 National Drug and Chanaicaa! Caaappny a.i Ca»aa.at I.a,„i..id, . - • Montreal, FOR THAT NEW HOUSE Sackett Plaster Board The Empire Brandt of Wall Platte* / Manufactured only by The Manitoba Gypsum Co., Ltd* Winnipeg, Man. i TUB I.SLANDKR, CCMBERLAND, B.C THE ISLANDER Published every Saturday at Cumberland, B.C., by Ormond T. Smiths, Editor and Proprietor. Advertising rales published elsewhere in the piper. Subscription price (1.50 per year, payable in advance. The editor does not hold himself re«ponoible for tiewn expressed by correspondents. SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1911. What the Editor has to say. With this issue we sever our connection with the editorial columns of The Islandkr, and on August 1st our interests will be taken over by The Islandkr Printing & Publishing Company, with Mr. Chas. Segrave, of this city, as managing editor. During the past fourteen months that we have occupied the editorial chair we have found the business a both pleasant and profitable one; the business men of the town and district have been generous in their advertising patronage, and our subscription list shows that our paper has been appreciated by a large proportion of the residents, and in retiring from the editorship and proprietorship of The Islander we would ask for our successors the same measure of support that has been meted out to us. It has been our policy to criticize freely any person or per sons who have been in our opinion deserving of criticizm, with out fear or favor, and that policy has no doubt resulted in earning for us a few enemies, but on the other hand this poli cy has commended itself to the broader minded members of the community, and has at the same time proved profitable to us, as is proved by the fact that our circulation is double that of any other paper in the district, notwithstanding the short time The Islander has been in existance. If in our criticisms we have at any time wounded the feelings of anyone, We wish now to assure them that we have not done so intentionally, and in retiring from all business counection with the paper we do so without any feeling of animosity toward anyone in the community. In conclusion we would again bespeak for our successors the support that we feel certain they will deserve. The cow and horse nuisance in Cumberland is not the only thing to cause people to complain—there is the dog nuisance. In the vicinity of Penrith Avenue there are a tew useless brutes which make the hours of night hidious by their howling and barking, and which seem to live for no other purpose than to keep peaceful citizens from getting their night's rest. We would like to know, is there any way of remedying this nuisance ? NOTICE. Having disposed of my interests in The Islander from August 1st, 1911,1 am desirous of settling all accounts in connection with the paper up to that date as soon as possible. All accounts owing by The Islander up to the above date will be paid by the undersigned, and all accounts owing us (except subscriptions) are requested to be paid as soon as possible to ORMOND T. SMITHE. FRUIT TREES Not the Cheapest, but the Best Catalogue Free Vancouver Island Nursery Co., Ltd. Somenos, V.I. 18 Courtenay Lots CLOSE IN. MOST BE SOLD QUICK Price for tbe Wbole 18 lots is only $1,400 $500 down Balance easy terms. The Island Realty Co. Fire, Life. Live Stock P. L. ANDERTON, , Accident.. I Phone 22. Courtenay, B. C. ^eabnett &^E>voa\U^ Offices: Comox & Courtenay. FOB S-AXjE CLEABED FARMS, BUSH LAND AND LOTS Agents for E. & N. Lands, Comox District. Beadnell & Thwaites ISLiDEH jmiElTIIIIB iTES Display Advertisements 75 ccnta per column inch per month. Special rate for half page or more. Condensed Advertisements 1 cent 1 word, 1 issue ; minimum charge 25 centa No acaounts run for this class of advertising F. B. CLOUTIER Bonora Block Carriages, lapis, awl Fan Implement; Buggy fittings of all kinds Pilsener Beer The product of Pure Malt and Bohemian Hops Absolutely no chemicals used in its manufacture Bottled Beep Supplied to the Trade Only. ss=Best on the Coasts Pilsenep Brewing Co.. Cumberland, B.C. iti Summer Furniture Offerings for the . . Floor . . Linoleum, Carpet Squares antl Pugs, For the lOindows — Blinds, Tapestry and, Lace Curtains ami Curtain Poles. For the kitchen = Ranges, Cupboards, Chairs and Tables,. For the bedroom -Iron Beds, "Pestmore" Mattresses, Springs, Dressers and Stands. Full Line of Dining Room Furniture on Hand "The Furniture Store" McPhee Block A. McKINNON Cumberland, B.C A FINE LINE OF NEW- MATERIALS.1 VST PE- : : : CLIVED : : : P. DUNNE Up-to-date Merchant Tailor DUNSMUIR AVlLNUli, THF CUMBERLAND =HOTEL= W. MERRIFIELD, Prop. The finest hotel in the city. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOI P. PHILLIPS HARRISON Barrister, Solicitor and Notary Public. ucooooooooooo<xx>oooooooo<i J. Colts. "Leading Tobacco King." Better known as "LONG WILLIE" Dealer in Fruits, Candy, Cigars and Tobacco. *£^, Billiard Room in conneotion Local Agent for The London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. Get rates before ins uring else where Office: Cumberland GENERAL BLACKSMITHS Horseshoeing .a Specialty Third Ave., Cumberland IE. O. 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We have a large and ex» ceptionally well assorted range of Misses and QhiU dren's Duck and Muslin Dresses, •• Underskirts Gowns, Slips etc. which we must clear this month at prlcei that will suit all. You cannot make them at these prices, 80 oome early before stock la broken. 0 .1' Srocory Department is always stocked with the Choicest of Grooeries, and we would like a trial order from you. :ffi Satisfaction Guaranteed. Sill LB 81 n, un. 1 ABE PREPARED TO SUPPLY ICE IN ANY QUANTITY TO THE TRADE AND PUBLIC. NOT LESS THAN 25c WORTH SUPPLIED. To Ensure Delivery the same day orders must not te later than 11 a. m. CANCELLATION OP RESERVE NOTIOE is himby oivaW thit tha reawve existing by reaaon of a notice publuhtd ia the British Columbia duett* nf the 27th. day of Decern ber, 1907, orar lands situated on the East side of Texada Island, lying to th* aouth of Lot No. 26, formerly eoearad by Timber Lioeos* No. 13*50, which aaipired on th* 7th day of Hay, 1908, ia cancelled, and that th* aaid lands will lie open for location under th* provta* iaana a.f th* "Land Act," after midnight on June l«tb. 1911' Rossrt A. Ruwici, Deputy Minister of Lands- Lands Department, Victoria, B. 0. 9th. starch, 1911 Grocers & Bakers Dealers In all kinds of Oood Wet Goods Best Bread and Beer in Town Agents for Pilsener Beer NOTICE is hereby given that at the next meeting of th* Board of License Commissioners of th* City of Cumberland, I intend to apply for a renewal of the hotel licens* held hy tn* for th* Cumberland Hotel, situated 00 lot 1. block 6, Cumberland Townaite. WILLIAM MERRIFIELD. Dated thia 15th da« a.f M.y 1911. [JEmM Union Lodo'' No 11, I. 0 0. F. Meets ever)- Fa iday evening »>. 7 a .clock iu 1. U. 0. F. Ball Visiting brethern welcome. ■Us E Aston, Bsokstasy T0E ISLUPEfi $1.50 a Year PUBLIC HIGHWAYS. Pbonixcs or British Columbia. NOTICE is hereby given that all Pub lie Highways in un. r a iz.'d di • tricts, and all Main Trunk Ri.nds in or zanized Districts are aixty-s'x feet wide and have a width of thirty three feet un eiach side of the mean straight cent e line of the travelled toad. THOMAS TAYLOR, Minister of Paahl.c Wanks Department of Publio W.,rka, Victoria. B. 0., July 7th, 1911. jylttn Star Third St. & Penrith Avenue MAXWELL k HORNAL Proprietors AU kinds of hauling done First-class Rigs for Hire Livery and team work promptly attended to -60RNER STORE *'N»^'^a*Na',Sa,»a»**a»%a^a>^^atl^tjiaat^li^.^a^.>0>^l^^atyat^^l^/a^,^^a^^l^a^a><i<, WE HAVE A GEEAT EANGE of Summer Suits at $15.00. They are the latest in style and best in quality. DON'T FOEGET-weare a- Sents for Coppley, Noyes & Ean- all Clothing. LADIES' DEPARTMENT Our Ladies' Waists have arrived and are open for inspection. •a»a***a**»»a*»aa»>a»*»j»*eat**aB**» a<>ka**a4'ka*v»jaAa*>4^a^ataa,«a»«^VaVa^a^a^a«aaa) J. N. McLEOD 0. H. TARBELL Stoves and Ranges, Builders Hardware, Cutlery, Paint, Varnishes, Arms and Ammunition, Sporting Goods, etc. AGENTS FOR The McClary Manufactuing Co. Sherwin-Williams Paints J* ? Will Old Age Find YOU Still Drudging Along; What is life going tomean to you ? Is it Going to mean comfort and prosperity, or is lack of training going to condemn you to hard labor for the rest of your days? FOR YOU, THERE IS A ROAD TO SUCCESS. Let Geo. Shaw, Nanaimo, tell you all about it. Tiie International Correspondence Schools . . NANAIMO REALTY COMPANY . Fredericton Sub-Division, Edmonton Some of the leading business gentlemen of this city are putting this sub-division on the market, and a lot bought on this valuable property cannot help but net you a handsome profit in a short time on a very small amount of capital. This property is situated on Alberta Ave., adjoining the city limits. It is intersected by the St. Albert road, making access to city easy To give you an example of tlie rapid increase in value of this property, see need but say that Fredericton was bought in November last, and resold a few months later al over double the purchase price. Can you afford to miss this opportunity to invest a small amount of capital in thit subdivision t Lotion Alberta Avenue are 50 x 12S, the others 50 x 140. Prieei range from ft100 to 8400, terms IS cash, balance 6, 12*18 moth*. Agents for Columbia Fire Insurance Company BOX ^jioel ^c^axfane, manager, m. §uxnbex£ax\b, ^8 THE ISLANDER. CUMBERLAND, B.C. CURED IN BEANSV1LLE, ONT. "AftOY a long rxpt*ri^iu*o with differ- cut pain reimntit's, 1 am convinced tlmt ■ono 016 equal lo Nervilino, I was taken witli a cold ia my chest, which Inter developed into n surt nf cltronlc bronchitis. Kverv time 1 eOUghod it Bcemort to rat'U and tear my whole cheat. 1 was nlso Bubjeot to a great titltTness In my joints, especially about the knees and Bhoufdors, ami oxporionc- ed much pain in my muscles. TO <;nro my i-lii'st troubles I lirst rubbed on 1 Norviline' copiously for two days, ami then put a Nervilino Porus Piaster over tin? sore roglon. I uot quick relief. Rubbing I lie sure muscles and aching joints witli Nervilino did more than all other treatments mm hi nod. Hy thu aid of Nerviliue and those wonderful Nerviliue Porus I'lusters almost any ache, and ceniinly any kind of Inflammatory •old can lie cured. (Signed) "Mrs. \V. .1. S'linrpe, " BeumsvlllOa" All drii^iHts sell Nervilino in 20c. und aOc. bottles, Get it today. Andrew I). Davidson, "the father oi the Auieiiwiii invasion" which has talc en thousands uf Amorioatl farmers from the I'nited States into Canada BlnOfl 1008, wns horn ou u Canadian farm, where his lioyhond Any* were spent. Me came over the border, however, before lie was twenty, ami began rail* reading, Litter he went int<> lund and lumber, bocamo very wealthy, and is now president of ten hanks. At one time his hmd selling organization numbered 3,000 agents. He is a born manager of men ami money, and is always on the lookout for young, capable lieutenants. There ure now mi wolves in France, but the positions of "lieutenants de la louveterie" are still in existence and are oagerly sought. The lieutenant has no work to do, but he wears a uniform adorned with wolves' heads, and lie has the right to shoot in all tho state's preserves. In nearly every street in .Itipanese •Hies is a public oven, whore, for a mimll fee, housewives may huve their dinners and suppers cooked for them. AH the principal department.'; of a Dreadnought are connected hy telephone, and on each is a telephone ex •bango with about fifty members, and a man in charge. "DODJf||;'''„ Chilllwack, British Oolumbia Tht* Garden of B.C., in the 'unions Kroner Cilley. Finest fiirming and fruit land in the world. Irrigation unknown. B.O. Electrie Hy. from Vancouver; O.N.R. transcontinental and Ol. Northern building. Chilliwack a modern «nj—waterworks, electric light, etc. Oreen *rMft the year round. The Prairio Man'* Paradise—no front, no four month's snow. Writ*- n. T. Ooodlnnd, Secy. Board of Trad-. Ollllliwuck, for nil informiition, hook- ifts, mapi, etc.—THEN COME. Woman ll lniet«t«J and shotiM •MRVH,' WWlllig' Spraj ' '- —n V.i|;inal Hyrintjr. H«l convenient. It cleanse* iii'.t.intly. Ask youi dtuegist fort' N 1888 Mark Twain received from Vale College the degree of master of arts} the same eolloge made him a doctor of literature in 1001, A year later the university of his own State, at Columbia, Missouri, conferred the same degree, and then, in 11*07, came the crowning honor, when venerable Oxford tendered him the doctor's robe. "I don't know why thoy should Rive me a degree like that," he said, quaint* ly. "I never doctored any literature. I wouldn't know how." The late Lord Young, of the .Scottish bench, was responsible for enlivening many a dull euse. Ono of the best remarks that ever fell from his lips was tho reply to a counsel who urged on behalf or a plaintiff of soinewhnt bibulous appearance: "My client, my lord, is a most remarkable man, and holds a very re sponsible position*, he is minmger ol some water works." After a long look the judge answer ed: "Yes, he looks like a man who could be trusted with nnv amount of water.'' The city couple vacation ing iu a country cottage decided to have a late supper, and culled at the littlo store and roused the proprietor from his nap on a bench at the door. They followed his lumbering footsteps into the building and told him that they wished a pound of cheese aud some large, square crackers for a Welsh "rabbit." The old man tapped his wrinkled brow reflectively. "(lot the cheese all right," he said, "but hain't got no large square crackers. Won't yer rabbit eat the small ones?1' Thomas A. Ivlison was explaining to a reporter the part played by M. Rrau ly, the new Trench academician, in the (liBCOVory of wireless telegraphy. The punr reporter a little bewildered by all the talk about Hertzian waves, tians initters. volts, ohms, and so forth, ven- lured on a question thnt made Mr. Kdi- son smile. "That question,'1 he said, "reminds me of the city father who rose and said, 'Mr. Chairman, I'd like to know, for my constituents' benefit, whether this here proposed hydraulic pump is to be run bv steam or electricity,' " The late Charles Pel ha ill Villiers, the "father of the Jlonso of Commons," used to tell a story of bow ho had beea asking a ltadieal elector to support him. "Yes, I'll support yon. Hut. Willnrs. we must have a diwision of property!" "Certainly," replied the diplomatic candidate; "I should be quite in favor of such a measure. Rut I am afraid if property is divided, there will not be enough for you and me and the rest of After a momentary embarrassment the cheerful and resourceful Socialist hit on a remedy: "Why. then. Willnrs. we must diwide again!'' In one of the provincial appeal courts iu France a boy, about fourteen, was summoned to give evidence, and his appearance was such as to move the whole court to laughter. He was small even for Ins age. lie wore a long redingote, peculiar to the Basque country, ami immense boots, liis trousers, collar, antl hat were unquestionably those of a man. The court was convulsed, and the president asked tho boy how he dared to treat the court ia such a man nor. The boy seemed as surprised a; the president, and taking out the cita tion from his pocket, read the formu ft inviting him, "Oomparaitre dans les all'aires de son pere." (To appear his father's suit.) "What? How do you get about?" '' I walk.'' "1'isk refused. A scorcher in a dangerous risk, but a pedestrian has no chance at all. Buy a ear, old chap. Sorry—good-night!" RACE PROBLEM Those peoplo who have contributed to the Industrial School nt Winston-Salem, N.C., will bo interested to know that its work lias ho impressed tho Stato authorities that thev havo olTorod the school $12,000 if it will raise a like amount., The authorities consider this sum well spent, as the school has eliminated race feeling ami negro crimo in its vicinity. Mr. William A. Blair, Vice-President of tho People's National Hank of Winston Salem, who is receiving contributions writes: As treusuror of the Slutor industrial and State Normal School for colored people located here, I beg to thank y most sincerely for your past favors to the school, aud wish to usk you to rIiow this letter to the good people of the North, who would cheerfully aid thu most worthy cause the United States has on its hands to-day. The educating aud 'Christianizing of the colored people is not a local matter but a national one. It is positively tbo only solution of the race problem, 'Ihe influence of this school has eliminated every vestige of race friction iu the entire vicinity. The Institution is not an experiment, but a splendid real ity, being the most important one in the entire South for colored people, save Tnskegee and Hampton. Tlie lauds, buildings, appliances, etc., cost $.10,000, all ownod by the institution. One of our citizens tendered the trustees $5,000, provided they would raise same amount for a hospital, where colored girls could be educated for trained nurses, thus introducing an employment for colored women which in peculiarly well adapted to the S'outhern ideas of propriety. His offer was ucceptod; we raised $5,000 and with $10,000 we have built a hospital worth almost double this amount, as students and friends of the school did much of the manual labor. The State otlicials, seeing the salutary effect upon the colored people, have offered the School $12,000, provided the trustees raise the same amount. We have strained ourselves to the superlative degree, and have raised only a small part of this amount to meet the oifer of the State, nnd, I may say,'it- is totally impossible for us to Mise it here. The State has already generously advanced a part of the $12,000, and it is hoped you will do vour utmost to help raise the .$12,000. Thus, with $24,000 cash in hand, we can increase the plant at least $4S,000, as the colored people will do the manual labor free. Every dollar given by your friends now means four dollars to* tho school. BLOOD, PURE, RICH, RED Rosy glow in the face, sparkling oi-es, vivacious spirits aro all tho outcome of good blood. No surer way exists of purifying and enriching the blood than to use Ur. Hamilton's Pills, By their gentle action on tho bowels, kidneys and liver thoy filter every impurity from the system, leaving it wholosome and nblo to do tho work necessary for the maintenance of health. To bo woll, look well, and feel always at your best, use Dr. Hamilton's Pills of Mandrake ami Butternut, a truly wonderful medicine for young nnd old. Price 2.1c. at all dealers. TkeHtnenai It seems that before shipping from Memphis to Indianapolis, (iecrs worked Tlie Huguenot a mile in 2:08Mh which equals Lady Oreon Goods' sensational mile at Lexington. To quote from Frank ti. Trott: Still those 2:081,1, trips make The Huguenot and the Lady the most- WINDSOR SUPPLY CO. Windsor, Oat. flnm: Dr.Martel's Female Pills EIGHTEEN YEARS THE STANDARD Ptweiibfid uid recommended for women's ail- SMeti, » idenUflcaUy priptred remedy of Parma worth. Ttii remit from their dm U rpkk ind perminaat For iaU ot oil drag TO AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS Our Inn,' ready ior i over .*■ 111J In ■omfl photo the 1.1 [||<- '."l< ■ml in III..I v dntc i catnlagua L'titaloirui' iikb inxt n Itmln Tone, Tin oontobn O tmml nud Iho Hearing a noise at midnight in one f his rooms, a gentleman tiptoed to the spot, thinking to take the burglar unawares. Kikes, however, was not. to be caught napping and before the owner of the house fully realized what was happening he was looking down the muzzle of a revolver. "Vou reiilize that you are at, my mercy?" "Ye—p" replied the house-owner. "And also realize that I could shoot you dead if I wished?" Another trembling allinnative. '' Vou did not hear me enter tho house?'' "No." "Well, if you had your windows fitted with one of Ketchum's new patent burglar alarms, this wouldn't have happened, f am an agent for the——" Hut the house-owner had swooned. Impurities of tne Blood Counteracted. -Impurities in the blood como from defects in the action of the liver. They are revealed by pimples and unsightly blotches on the skin. They mast be treated inwardly, and for this purpose there is no more effective compound to lie used than Parmoloe's Vegetable I'ills. They act directly on the liver and by setting up healthy prm-esscs have n beneficial effect upon the blood, so that impurities are eliminated. talked-nbout trotters now before the public. Lady Oreen Hoods took a record of -:'M\ as a yearling, aud was then only a little short of being n champion. As a 2-yoar-nld she was laid over for the futurities of lust soft son, Against Colorado E and (trace she had no chance, but did show her ability to race in 2:07'/j and soveral times gavo evidence of having a terrific brush. She was very long striding and carried so muoh weight that fow fancied her. Bob (Irndy and his father have used the winter in getting rid of the weight and improving her gait so that she goes light and moves in a pleasing way. Wintered ut Macon she touched 2:20 before going to Lexington early in April. Her work from then on bas shown thut she should be up to biles hotter than 2:10 the last of May, so that her performance of last Tuesday was no tax.' With her racing experience she vory properly will have a largor following from now on til race day than Tbe Huguenot, Tho Huguenot, the son of Chimes has never raced, infact has displayod habits that made most every one lose faith iu his ever getting to one. Passed up 'iy some excellent judges, he seems apable of rewarding the man who has maintained he would some day be a useful trotter. When he became tho property of Arthur Parker bo was a stallion", but in the hopes of changing his sour disposition he was gelded. Trained at Iteadville last summer by his owner and Eddie Mcdrath, ho stepped around 2:12, but never a friend did muke. He was turned over to Oeors in September, and it was not until ufter the muster had tutored him at Memphis n tho fall that ho showed any signs of being a stake trotter. Today he is not perfectly mannered, but. his trainer says he is learning and that no better gnitod horse lives. Breeding horses for a certain purpose, as for cavalry use. is not different from breeding any other domestic animal, as a cow, a hog, dog or a sheep for a certain purpose, and every experienced domestic animal breeder knows that class improvements and perfections do not come from abrupt outcrosses, or. indeed, of outcrosses of any kind. Among breeders of every class, except horse breeders, or rather would-be horse breeders, these principles aj-c well or generally recognized, but {he out cross for perfection horse breeders is continually springing up anew—not now innovations, as a rule, but the reapplication of old, aad proven bad ones, by new experinieiitors, or theorists. The thoroughbred running horse has been proposed and tried over and over again as an improving and perfecting factor in about every class of horse breeding, except for draft, and ho has as often been dropped as Impractical 'is nn improving factor. Vet the national government now proposes to make extensive use of thoroughbred sires iu an effort to produce, uniformly, the ideal cavalry liorse. While this operation will, undoubtedly, produce an occasional useful cavalry mount, we very much doubt, if there is a practical and successful experienced horseman in the land who would undertake, as a personal business enterprise, the breeding of cavalry horses along this line. There ure, or ut least, there used to be, families of thoroughbred horses, such as the Hostons of tho earlier generations, from whicW, through a proper selection of both siros nnd dams (thoroughbred sires and thoroughbred dams) from which an ideal breed of cavalry tnaunts could have been established, and that quite readily. Hut to build up such a breed from the material now at hand would be quite an under taking, A real cavalry mount, ns our horses are now bred, is an accident, and with thoroughbred sires, ou the class of mures likely to be used, he would bo still more of au accident, wo think, The cavalry horso must bo a pliable horse in disposition, nnd this tho thor- oughbrod horse, as now bred, is not- even in grades, Look out for Uhlan, The world's champion trotting gelding is ou the wnrpath this season and unless misfortune befalls him Father Time is go- ingto be given nn awful beating before the snow flies next fall, On .Tune 8, Uhlan was given his stiff- est work of the season. Six heats, the slowest iu 2:51 and the fastest in 2:10Mt, were asked of the champion, and iu doing these miles, Tinnier let the dashing black step parts id' most of them at a merry dip, The filial quarter of the fifth mile, which was in 2:10»/j, wub trotted iu iHO'/,. while the final mile was iu 2:11 Vi. and the last quarter of it being in :21M/|. Mayor Shank stepped Hannah Louise, Thistle Donne farm's M. and M. candidate, a mile in 2:14%, her fastest mile of tho moruing. Tho M, and M. entrant stepped to tho threo-qimrters iu 1:10, but appeared to tire as she trotted the final quarter iu l84%, Previous to this Hannah stepped a mile in 2:2;i'4 and one in 2:15'/,, and in both she acted very nicely. For almost fifty years French breed* ers of trotters have been in the habit of giving their foals names which begin with a certain Initial each year. For instance, in 1878, the letter "A" wus used, iu IS7i>, "IV and so on until "V" wns reached iu 1899, Then in 1D0O n new stnrt was made with "A." This system has many advantage: It prevents duplication of names. Fo instance, after the name Lou Dillo was used it would be 2:1 years befor it could be used ugnJu. Attacked by Bronchial Catarrh Bound Brooke P.O., Port Antonio, Ja., June 4, 11)10. Dear Sirs,—1 have been Buffering from dreadful attacks of Catarrh and Bronchitis for a period of one year and four mouths, during which timo I spent most of my oarniugs in trying various remedies, but, alas! without any satisfaction. I was just about giving up hope of enjoying life for the future wheit in our Daily Telegraph papers of ,liimucin I saw your advertisement for Catarrhozone, uud tried one bottle. That was sufficient. I now know Catarrhozone is the best and only medicine for my trouble. It has made a thorough cure. (Siguod) T. O. White. Largo size, sufficient for two months' use, guaranteed, price $1; smaller sizes 25 cents and 50 cents. Beware of imitations und substitutes, and insist ou getting "Cnturrhozone" only. By mail from tlie Cnturrhozone Company Kings ton, Out. Another advantage of the system is that you can always tell a colt's age by his name. All the starters in this year's French Trotting Derby for throe year-olds hnd names which commenced with "I," because thev were all foaled in BIOS. The system is in use in America on several farms. On nne farm we have in mind, all 11)11 colts will have names commencing with "K." What an ad vantage it would be if all Hill foals throughout the United States woro given namos commencing with "K," or any othor initial which would bo used bv alt alike. Neb range biggest gun had an extreme ne mile. HE'S A CONVERT TO A GROWING BELIEF THAT DODO'S KIDNEY FILLS ABE THE SURE CUBE FOB KIDNEY DISEASE Mr. Benic Moulaison was treated by two doctors, but found his relief and cure in six boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. Surette Island, Yarmouth, M.S..— (Special).—Renio Moulaison, n fisherman of this place, is a convert to the growing belief that Dodd's Kidney Pills arc the sure cure for Kidney Disease. "My trouble started with a cold," Mr. Moulaison states. " My muscles would cramp. I had backache and I had dizzy spells. My head often ache.l and 1 had a tired, nervous feeling while specks of light flashed iu front of my eyes. "I suffered 111 this way for ovor two months and was treated by two doctors but they didn't seem to lie able to do much for me. Then 1 started to take Dodd's Kidney Pills and soon stinted to improve. I took six boxes in all ntnl now I am glad to say I am cured " If you have any two or three of Mr. Moulaison 's symptoms you nay be sine your Kidneys are not in good working order, Had Kidneys mean Backache, Rheumatism, Heart Disease or BrightN Disease unless attended to. The one sure way to cure tli I'm is lo use Dodd's Kidnoy Pills. THE TRAP-DOOR SPIDEB How many times can a spider rebuilt its web? This question seems to have been answered with reference to at least one species of spider, the trap loor spit)or. Theso spiders arc very plentiful in California. They construct their nests, consisting of a mammoth tube lined with silk of their own manufacture, in the ground in situations protected from the washing effects of rain. Then they cover the nests with a woven trap door supplied with u hinge. The upper surface of the door is made to resemble the surface of the ground. Tf any insect disturbs the door the owner instantly opens it, and if tho dis turber is not too large and strong, the spider seizes it and drago it into the don. If, on the contrary, the stranger is a formidable enemy, the spider claps the door to and holds it down with nil its strengtK. The Jesuit id' many experiments, as reported by a naturalist of Sail Diogo. shows that if the trap-door is destroyed the spider can reconstruct it just five times uud no more; but each time there is evidence of a greater economy in the use of silk, and although the spider will attempt the renewal the sixth time, it Invariably fails because its «ilk has been exhausted. It would appear, however, that after the lapse of a considerable period, the spider acquires a fresh supply of the tluid from which it spins its web. Then it is able to resume the construction of BllkMinefl dens and trapdoors. No left hand batsman has ever made a century for Kngland in a Test Match. I On Sale Everywhere.—There may be ouiitry merchants who do not keep Dr. Thomas' Eclectrlc Oil, though thoy are few and far between, and these may suggest that some other oil is just as good. There is nothing as good aa n liniment or as an internal medicine in certain cases. Take no other. The de maud for it shows that it is the only popular oil. King lilloved of pnt.ll re 1ll< \riNil. ii We hi in- i phoiotiraptitc ruipplle il nl prices ittnl conn ii ml flit tilling ib-vfllnped, I die guard -hick the AXSin nnd Die ENSIGN (It uny en muni, Tlm Largest M.ill Older Honso hi Tho Photograpliic Supply Trade MANITOBA PHOTO SUPPLY CO. •-'.-.:, k Porlajta Avo., Wlnnlnea Wnl ■ it [de; .VI|1|IPC1 The Wretchedness of Constipation Cm quickly be overcome by CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Purely vegeublfl i —Id lureiv and geotly oi the fiver. Cure Biliouioeu,^ Heed. •die, ■eu, end IndigMtioo. They do their duty. Smell Pill, Smell Dm*, Smell Prico. Genuine munbeu Signature wmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Bavaria was much ccusion when the sol- the palace gates ncg looted to present i.rms. The soldier did not know his majesty by sight. "Why don't you present arms.'" the bitter asked, angrily. "Don't you know to whom yon nre indebted for your daily breadf" The sentry glared angrily lit Ihe king, und. imagining him to be the urmy baker, replied: "So you are the miserable soil of a buker who furnishes the soldiers with bread, arc you? Well. I should like to have you by yourself iu some quiet place. I'd spread your un* L'ainly anatomy over three kingdom si T'd mnke dough of you!'' * » ■ The InBurrince company *a doctor had reported that the man seemed to be all right, ii ml iho man himself enrtifiod thnt he wa* not, engaged in any (larger ous occupation. '•I lend ii sedentary life," he told them. " I work iu nn office and wc have no danger or excitement." "How about sports."' asked the ex unmier, " JJo yon play football* Base- bull' Do von box.' Belong to an athletic ell.b?" ' "No—none of that stuff. 1 guess I 'm n safe risk.'' " Do you scorch." "What do you menu?" "Do von drive vour car faster thnn the speed limit?"' "I hnve uo car." Xo child should be allowed to suffer ui hour from worms whon prompt relief an be got in a simple but strong remedy -Mother Graves* Worm Exterminator. Don't Build Until You See Us Our Contract Department is prepared to figure with you on your building wants for summer and winter houses. We can savo you large sums of money. All our work carries our guarantee. Our draughtsmen are at your service free. We Erect Buildings of All Descriptions Winter Houses Store* Offices Banking; Offices Summer Houses Warehouses Churches Schools Poultry Houses Oarages Barns and Threshers' Bunk Houses and every description of Sectional and Ready-Made Buildings -~rfi-'-" ALL OUR BUILDINGS GUARANTEED WEIR BUILDING COMPANY, LTD. 403 Builders' Exchange Telephone Main 3708 Winnipeg, Manitoba A SEARCHING INVESTIGATION WILL PROVE SUPERIORITY OF IDEAL ww°,vREEN FENCE When finished, you will have indisputable evidence that IDEAL is the stifi'est, strongest, heaviest, most rust-proof woven fence. If you are like ihe railways you will erect for permanency.'5That means an order for IDEAL fence. Out first nf all let us send you our free booklet, so you can sec the different styles for hogs, cattle, etc. Investigate IDEAL fence. Do like the railways. Test the laterals for elasticity—the uprights for stiffness. Test both f.ar smoothness?, and heaviness of galvanizing. Test the lock for gripping- tenacity. Put a raill on the scales and weigh it. .The more searching your investigation the greater the triumph of IDEAL fence. *nm HAVE WE AN AGENT IN YOUR LOCALITY ? If not, then is n splendid chance for goiiaeone to increase liis income. IDEAL fence is an easy sollor. Its welttlrC quality anil strength are appreciated by every man who la looking for A permanent fence Investment. IDEAL PENCE CO., WINNIPEG, MAN. 1 I i' ( St .fl il *l i THE ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND, B.C. riA LIANTI-SHAN WE ure, us 1 write this, steaming along in a north-westorly course close to the Lian-ti-shau promontory. We are some ten miles Ml' tho land; but with the aid of a good telescope all its chief features are distinctly visible. Linu-tishan—or the Old Iron Mountain, as tho Chinese call it—stands at the southwestern comer of tho circle of hills surrounding Port Arthur. It is practically on tlio extreme end of tho Kwung Tung poll Insula, and, being fifteen hundrod feet high, forms the most prominent feature uf a barren aud desolate-looking coastline. A solitary gun perched on Us highest part, ami pointing out over the sea iu muto defiance, remains us a relic of the battery which was erected with the idea of preventing the Japanese mcu-of-wnr from bom- bnrdiug the town of Port Arthur from under the cover of tlm land. The rugged slopes of the inoiintain itself, destitute of all vegetation, and bathed iu the rosy stream of the setting sun, form a picture which impresses ouo with its terrible grandeur, It could not tie called beautiful, as tlie foreground—tlio mud-colored water of the tlulf of I'echili—has not enough life or color iu it to show olV the dull gray and purples nf the coast it encircles. It is a dead calm, and I lie monotonous glassiuess of the water, is only broken hy the brown sail of an occasional junk and by n few touches of crimson reflected from the glory of tho dying sun. The sky has littlo color iu it, und except, at the spot where the sun is sotting in its vivid hnln of scarlet and orange, is of a dull, uniform gray. A particularly black ami heavy-looking cloud is poised over Linuti-shun itself, and tho rugged mountain looks as if it were in mourning for the vast, number of mou who havo died in its .vicinity. Monotonous as this picture is, there is still something about it that holds one's thoughts; aud it is not its actual beauty, it must bo its associations that havo this effect, in the dim distance, and behind tho lower portion of the promontory, a series of hills aro visible. Theso, with the uid of a glass, resolve themselves into the well-known shapes of 203 Metre Hill, Aknsnkayamn, and the 174 Metre Range, ail well known to those who have studied the siego of J'ort Arthur. These dull purple battlegrounds, although they look ordinary and commonplace enough from here, havo associations which render them famous. Tho wholesale slaughter that took place iu tlieir vicinity during tho war of 1904-5 has made their names memorable as one of the greatest bat tlofields of modern times. Although the fighting in this particular locality was more sevore than at any other place, tho whole of the Kwung-Tuug peninsula was in reality ono vast battlefield. Practically every hill is pitted with shell craters and every boulder is splashed by bullets. An observer stationed on tho summit of Limiti shun during the eventful period between January, 1904, and tho same month of the following year would havo witnessed a series of scenes wliieh would have given him an excellent opportunity of forming realistic impressions of the terrible grandenr of modern war. Me would have seen tho sinking of the Russian battleship, Petro- pavlovsk, when ono of tho few oflicient sailors that Russia produced iu tho Far East, Admiral Mnknrov, was drowned. He would have witnessed the storming nud capture of "n:! Metro Hill and of many other positions too numerous to mention. Every night during the earlier months nf the war ho would have seen the blue-white rays of the searchlights slowly sweeping the harbor entrance; a burst of wild tiring would herald the appronch of Admiral Togo's blocking vessels, and the vivid flashes of the guns would illuminate the blackness of tho night and the snow-clad elopes of the neighboring hills with momentary flushes of rosy light. He wouhl havo seen tho irresistible but gradual advance of tho Japanese army, and tho result of thoir valor as hill after hill and position after position passed into their hands. Everywhere he would have seen the blue snltire of St. Andrew gradually being pressed back as the Rising Sun banner pursued its victorious progress. Par a wny out at sea the dull shapes of Admiral Togo's battleships, staining tho sky with their black smoke, would have been visible. Inside them again there would be a cordon of cruisers and destroyers zealously guarding nil the means of exit from the doomed fortress. Turning his eyos to the harbor of Port Arthur itself, the observer would hare seen the Russian licet totally unable, through lack of training, oflicient leadership, and morale, to cope with the victorious Japanese. He would hnve scon these ships starting out for the memorable bnttlo of August 10, and their return tlie following with tho gaping holes in their sides, testifying to the superiority of the Japanese gunnery. Uo would have noticed with dismay the total Inactivity of this collection of ships uud tlieir ultimate bombardment and destruction by the Jap UOOSe land forces. Think of it! Think of a squadron cooped up inside a liar hor, afr&id to go out and fight thoir battle, and being slowly but surely destroyed by land artillery! Tho watcher would have heen amply repaid for the trouble of watching; and he could not have been itnprossed by this display, so dazzling in all its splendor nnd horror. Although he would not bo able to see it, men were dying horriblo deaths every minute—blown to piecoH by shells or hnnd-grenndes, or being frozen to death in iev water. To him, watching from so groat a height, it would all rieom so futile, and the proverb, "He who sees men dancing fur off, and cannot hear the music to which thoy dance, must think them mad," would seem to him to be very true. And yet, when ono looks at this historic place. Port Arthur, which since 1894 has been twice captured by tho same people from u different enemy in the short, space of ten yonrB, one cniinot fail to be impressed with a sense of the honor due to the bravo Japanese and their gallant foe. Tho town of Port Arthur stands, ns it were, in a huge circular basin surrounded on nil sides *>v hills exeopt at its sea-front. Tt hns enormous natural strength, if defended properly, and on looking at it ono wonders how it was over captured. Por the first timo in modern history modern weapons wero pitted against pormanont fortilicatio'iN, and with what rosult? Tho lire of the Japanese did not destroy tlio forts to any great oxtont, and the positions wore only captured nftor months, by what was practically hand- to-hand lighting. The torifllc shell-fire did not even render the forts untenable, as the infantry found to thoir cost whon thoy advancod to tho assault. Tho procedure of tho siego was exactly the same as it was a century ago, although, of course, tho ritlo was used instead of the musket, and tho long range howitzer and field-gun instead of thoir short- ranked counterparts of a hundrod years boforo. Months of weury sapping against permanent fortifications, tho final mine laid under the counterscarp of the fort, the explosion, and tho desperate rush of the infantry iu eloso formation to tho attack wero all exactly the samo as thoy were in the time of Napoleon. It only shows that the method of conducting a Btego where both opponents aro determined must, and ulways must, remain tho sumo. Port Arthur, the place whero tlio empire of China, Russia, and Japan have lost sii many of thoir soldiers, stands alone in the history of, the world as regards the awful ferocity of its fighting. It is not to bo wonderod at, therefore, thnt ono gazes at tho place with a certain spoil-bound interest. Tt has passed through troublous times, and Lian-ti-shau raises its mighty head as an everlasting monument to tho souls of thousands of human beings who havo diod in its vicinity. War seems so very futile that one wonders why civilized human beings should descend to such a moans of settling their disputes. It is an evil, however, which may tttko long to eradicate, and whilst arbitration may, we hope, succeed it, tho old primal fighting instinct of man himself will always assert itself, und will continue so long as this world of ours continues its existence. A MECHANISM FOB TESTING SKYSCRAPERS The United States Geological Survey is erecting nt Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, oue of the most remarkable machines ovor invented. It will be unique in that it is intended, by means of destruction, to prove indestructibility. Tho object of tho great machine is to determine certain things that have remained mysteries to the greatest engineers of the world from the days when the Pyramids first reared their heads in the then fertile plains of Africa to the timo when the groat steel spans of the Williamsburg Bridge at Now York wero swung into place. Among tho problems which have perplexed the builders of the centuries aro tho determination of how much weight a granite or brick column will suport, and how much strain may bo safely be applied to an iron or steel bar or cable. That theso quantities aro still undetermined will probably strike tho lay rondor as astonishing—nn engineer will admit that he simply has to guess them. The lack of this information caused tho collapse of tho great stool bridge at Quebec last year, with a consequent sacrifice of months of labor, thousands of dollars, and eighty lives. Por lack of such information a great building every now ami then, for no appreciable cause, simply tumbles down. Engineers have attempted to got at the strength of a largo steel beam by measuring that of a small ono of tho samo proportions and multiplying, but experience has proved that these calcu latlons aro utterly unreliable. They have undertaken to estimate tlie resistance of a pillar of stone or brick by placing a fragment under pressure,, building according to tho results—and reaping disaster. In the end they havo been forced simply to guess; and, as a rule, to multiply many times tho amount of material they think would he suflicient, so as to bo on tho safer side. The Geological Survey, however, now proposes to measure the strength of material as accurately as tho chemist measures his drugs, using a titanic machine such as has never before been seen. Stripped, it stands a structure of steel eighty stories high. A building ten storjes high must bo erected to house it. On each side elevators will run up and down, currying tho experts who will note the effects of tho test. The building must be made so strong that the falling of great masses of crushed stone and other material will not injure it. The framework of the machine consists of four great vertical screws, i;ii(, inches in diameter, with the strongest possible foundation, and huge steel heads above and below, between which tho mnterial to be tested will ho placed for the application of pressure. If it is a pillar of concrete, this will be built upon the lower head to the height, desired, and with a broadth up to six feet, which is the capacity of the machine. The uppor lion 1 wil. then be adjusted and the power applloJ by (be means of a triple plunder pump, the ■Mthine in this way beconui; simply a large hydraulic press. As tho pressure is increased its amount will be recorded by an automatic gauge. The tension of the press may bo increased until the capacity of tho machine is reached, tho enormous figuro being^ 10,000,000 pounds. This is nn almost inconceivable pressure and probably groator than that borne bv any pillar or beam ovor placed in a structure. Tho same method is to bo followed in testing Btecl beams and structurnl steel in all its forms, particularly in the great bourns that nre built up of many parts. This is probably whore the greatest immediate demand* for the machine will be found. Builders are developing all manner and form of these beams, and want them tested in order to dotermine just what forms are most satisfactory. Thero hns been no mothod hitherto, except the uncortain "calculations,'' or the actual placing of the material in the building, to determine just what the performance of n specified design would bo. This new machine, however, will receive aud test any form of beam up to sixty-five foot in length. TONGUE-TWISTERS It is told of a distinguished profes sor of history that, in an address before a woman's club on ''Obscure Heroes of tho French Revolution," he had reached the point whero ouo of them, nobly roBolvod to ossay the rcscuo of a friend doomed to the guillotine, sought a parting interview with his sweetheart boforo making the almost hopeless attempt. The professor had u moving voice, nud wus eloquent; the assembly of women, many of them already near tears, hung breathless upon his words. "Biddy diddy," said ho, pathetically, then coughed slightly and wont back: "Hiddy biddy—" Something wus evidently amiss. He tried again. "Biddy hiddy diddy doo." By this timo tho ladies looked puzzled aud tho orator desperate. Drawing a long breath and speaking with painful deliberation, he nt length cou- que rod tho elusive syllables, and snid: "Did ho bid adieu?" A speaker in tho interest of foreign missions had, not long ago, a similar experience, He had related tho conversion of two itauVBB on a savage island, and ufter narrating tho acts by which thoy signalized their abandonment of their old religion, ho tried to conclude a sentence with tlie words, "thus totally' repudiating their two tutelary duties." It was a simple enough phrase to the understanding; it proved otherwise to the tongue, Two, tutelary and totally together wero quite too much for him. "TluiH tutolly repudiating their too toe—■" he began, confidently, when a titter in the audience checked him, aud threw him into such confusion that his second effort only mado matters worse. Thus tnt.olnry porudiating their tee- totallary deities," ho blundered; and the laughter increased. With tho perspiration starting on his forehead, ho dashed once moro wildly at tho obstacle, but failed to clear it: "Thus teetolly torupiating their too- too-tootoot—" "Tootl toot! toot I" cried a voice in tho gallery. "Throe warning whistles and now she comes!" "She came," indood, as the burst of hilarity, under cover of which tho speaker had time to collect himself, subsided; nad he was enabled intol- ligibly to repudiate those two tutelary deities nt last.—The Youth's Companion, THE SOAP-NUT TREE Mr. E. Moulie, ucksonville, Florida, who has beon greatly intorestod in the cultivation of the soap-nut tree, and has been distributing seeds for its propagation, has written to the Scientific American on the subject. The kernol of the nut makes a good substitute for cotton-seed oil for soapmaking, and has other by-products. The Rev. Benjamin Helm, a Chinese missionary, is credited with first bringing seeds of this tree to tho United States, from which only one fully developed tree wns reared in Florida. It hns been tho parent of many others, along with seeds from Algiers and those distributed by the Bureau of Industry; tho product being some half a million trees. The soap-nut and the kernol of the seed furnish raw materials for a score of toilet articles of commercial value. The kernel furnishes a fixed oil equal to olive-oil for culinary purposes, while it can be used for making a soap equal to the best Castile. The soap-nut hns also internal uses iu cases of salivation and epilepsy, ami as an expectorant; the leaves are fodder, and the cakes from which the oil has been extracted are enten by poultry aud cattle. Once the tree is started the cost of production is practically nothing. OUR GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES While most of the states of tho Mississippi Valley, besides countless rivers and lakes in all parts of the country, boar Indian names, but a small number only of tho towns that aro the work of tho wihte man have adopted names borrowed from the original owners of the land. Not one in ten, it hns been pointed out, of the one hundred and fifty large cities, has an Indian name, and among those that have it is usually lake or stream. The early explorers and settlers have left tlieir racial marks. Up tho Hudson and Mohawk the trail of the Dutchman is pretty clear. Tho French influence in Northern Xew Vork and Vermont and along the lino of the Crcnt Lnlres is familiar ia many names. Mississippi has no "saints" in its list, whereas across tho river, Louisnna, by nine parishes and many towns, rivers, aud lakes, perpetuates the religious tenets cf its curly settlers. Kentucky and Tennessee evidence the vocabulary of tho hunter nnd trapper; Montana and Idaho that of the miner. Ail the re gion acquired from Mexico, purtieu larly Southern California, maintains in its place-names the memory of the Spanish explorers ami settlers. Thero are relatively few Indian names on the Pacific, coast. North of the Spanish bolt capes nnd towns frequently reflect tho loyalty of the early settlers to tho -drier states of the Union. CROOKED GAMBLING EXPOSED Over a door in Fleet Street, London, appears tho abovo sign. Within, John Philip Quinn, the reformed "King of American gamblers," has opened a room for the purpose of teaching Britishers the foolishness of gambling, In appearance, tho London correspondent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer tells us, Qulnn resembles a minister, wenring "plug* hat, frock-coat, and neckwear almost clerical ia it. sseverity." At the door is a "spieler who dissolves into tears at the mere mention of Broadway, New Vork, which, ho says, is the home of white men." Besides. "it hurts his pride to huve to spiel for men who, though Knglish, can not un lerstund the English language." But his efficiency does not seem to be diminished by his homesickness. For there is, we are informed, a steady stream of Londoners coming in, "who pay sixpence admission to see the "king of gamblers' show how it is done." According to tho Plain Denlor story, Quinn hasn't touched a card for money in twenty-three yours. Of his mission- ury efforts in London wo read further: He delivers pithy points on poker. Tho dice are unveiled. Rouge ct noir is ruthlessly rent. There are revela tions'on roulette. Haccurat busting hu* a prominent place on the program. Tho swindles of tho spindles are sovoroly served. He gives a plain talk In rasping United States. "Sluiflle the cards,'' he says, and it is done. "Bore's a pokor'hand for you and one for me. If I know what curds you've got it's a cinch I can beat you, ain't it? Of course it is. An ace of spades, a queen of diamonds, a ten of diamonds uud two deuces—a <dub and a spade. Am I right? "Vou Britishers think you're smart," he goes on, rattling the dice box and throwing fivo ucos. "Vou'ro chock full of confidence that you can do everything a [eetlo mite bettor than anybody else can. And right there, gents, you make one big mistake. "For one thing, you're the worst gamblers ou earth, and J 'vu gambled with all kinds of folks. Why? Because you've got grit—bulldog grit—British grit. When you start a thing you don't like to quit. Uamblers get rich on folks like you—that don't, know when to quit, "Spin the spindle, my friend. I'll give you $10 if if doesn't stop at six. Something seems to tell me tills isn't the first time you've spun a spindle. I told you—six. Vou've bet money on spindles and you thought they wero honest. They weren't; they wero crooked. Now, weren 't, you a fool to bet good money on another man's game? I reckon you dropped your roll?" A sheepish grin. "Of course you did. Vou thought you were slick enough to kuow if there was any crooked work going on. Tho fellers you played with were nice, pleasant 'chaps,' eh? S'uro thoy wero. They lot you examine the spindle as muck us you liked to see that there wasn't nnv hokus-pokus about it. Vou bet they did. And it was u crooked spindle nil the samo, only you didn't know it. My, but you Britishers are fools when it comes to gambling." He lets them try to guess which shell the little pea is under, und of course they never guess right. He lets them drop marbles into perfectly innocent dovices, to rattle through 'forests of pegs, to Anally come to haven in little compartments numbered or lettered to correspond with charts on the wall. "This hero gont." indicating an elderly and respectable niiddle-classor wearing dundrenries and a monocle, "this hero gout is my confederate. I'm going to let him win. Drop the marble, my friend. "Aha! he wins £10." Tho crowd odges away from the middlo-clnsser as though fearing he may pick their pockets. .'' Extrawd 'nary 1'' ejaculates the middleclasser, looking uncomfortable. "Vou try it, brother," to a pale- faced cockney. "You'd liko £10, I guess. You think you can win something, too. Aha! he gets-a star number. You'll have to double your money to stay, my friend. Once more. Goodness, gracious! another star, number. Kight bob, this time. "Don t you soe, my friend, that you can't win unless I lot you? Don't gamble, my boy. Never play with strangers. Never back another man's game. It's rotten all through. Horse-racing's crooked. Monte Carlo's csooked. Roulette, fard, rouge et noir, poker, baccartlt, dice—they're all crooked. And "when you see a man who makes his living by gambling, it's the one best bot, my frionds, that he's crooked, too. "Oh, yos, I know what you'ro think ing of," and hero he startles the mid- dle-classer by shaking a finger undor his nose, so that that good man jumps back with a muttered "my word I" '' You 're thinking about some profes sional gambler you know who is a good feller. He is kind to his wife, squnre with his puis, and generous to tho poor. "I know that kind, too. I was one onco myself. And there was Pat Shoe- dy that died a while ago. Good feller, as gamblers go. Thought a lot of his wife, everybody said. Nothing was too good for hor. And that's all right, my friend, as far as it goes. Ho was good to his wife, but how about the other fellers' wives—tho wives of the fellers he skinned? "No, brother, thero riin't any good fellers in the gambling business. Leastways they ain't making a living at it." With that he thanks them, in good showman fashion, for "their kind attention," aud will they please puss out of the side door? They go, numbed and thoughtful, for it is more than likely that every man in that little audience is a confirmed, if unsuccessful gambler. "f don't like 'em," says the spieler. "I can talk and talk and talk till I'm blown.' dust, and they just bung out their eyes nnd stare. They 're thick. Did you see the old gick in the knee pants? I'll bot if you was to cut his head open you'd find his brains was a suet pudding. Gee, I wish I was back in little old New York!" "No," says Quinn, the "king of gamblers," "it nin 't that. Tliey 're smart enough, give 'em time "You see I've known these peoplo a long time. 1 was over hero in the days when I was gambling for a living, before I got converted ami saw that it was my duty, not to show people that gambling is wrong—but that it's foolish. I got plenty of high piny in the West End Clubs that you havo to have un introduction to get into. "And let me tell you, sonny, that there were just as many crooks iu those swell clubs as you'd find in tho crook edest joints in New Vork or Chicago. "So, wheu 1 got on'religion, I made up my mind I'd come to Kngland again before I died and make up a little for the wrong I did the lirst time. It's the biggest field in the world for my sort of reforming. Everybody gambles. Royalty, nobility, gentry, middle-class. common people—everybody "Aud it's funny, too, that tho Knglish should bo so crazy to gamble. Why? Well, 1 told you they were tho worst gamblers on earth. They're tho hardest losers, too," PORTUGAL'S LEAKY SHIP OF STATE As peoplo forsake a sinking ship or a burning house, so tho best elements of Portugal are getting out of tho country as fast as thoy can, says the Lisbon correspondent, of The Outlook (London). They take shelter iu Spain. France, and' England. The Republic has disappointed them. Its leaders are "pothouse politicians" who have not kept thoir promises. Wo have quoted this correspondent a number of times on sing may Portugal's shaky condition, but his statements merely echo what wo find in the press of Pans, Berlin and London. Optimistic, views of tho new Republic nre ominously absent. Portugal's "unrest" is the constant theme of German correspondents. Tl.u.-, ,',o read in the Hamburger Nachrichten: "The Provisional Government is daily unearthing fresh monarchist plot- tings. Local centres aro. being found in Lciria, Alcobnca and Coimbru. Many civilians and soldiers, mostly potty officers, havo beon arrested. The trains from Oporto recently brought a uumbor of prisoners arrestod for conspiring against the Republic. Tho movement of tho Monarchists havo been carried on with such wonderful rapidity that the Government is at a loss which way to turn." • This paper in a second article calls the Provisional Government "u Punch and Judy show, in which Punch (tho people) gives tho devil a beating at last, the Devil in this case having eight heads, each hearing tho name of Minister, beginning with Braga." "The Minister of tho Intorior has boon burned in efligy by tho students of tho Uni versity of Coimbru." "Tho laborers ii the arsenal at Lisbon mado n demon stnition against the Minister of Marino in front of his hotel." says tho Vos siche Zoltung (Berlin). Theso aro hut straws in the wind, but much more spe ciflc is tho news given by tho corres pondent of Tho Outlook in his series of letters on Portugal, Tn ono of thosi read: Nothing is now spoken of here but the Royalist conspiracies which nn loubtodly honeycomb the country. Al though au attempt is made to conceal the fact, thoro is no doubt that Portugal is, at tho present moment, under mined iu every direction by conspirators, incessantly reenforcod by crowds of the discontented, tho disappointed, and those whom the incredibly autocratic methods of the Provisional Government have driven almost mad with indignation. From north to south, civil nnd military conspirators draw up thoir secret plans and discuss in their mysterious haunts tho possibility of an in surrectiou. The vast extent of these conspiracies naturally makes absolute secrecy difficult, and there is nothing surprising thereforo in the fact that some clues have boon discovered here nnd there by the Government, which is industriously trying to follow up those clues, though it certainly does not possess the necessary strength to crush the insurrectionary forces, even if .the latter aro discovered. Tho Republic is in the position of u man with his back to the wall and a loaded revolver in his hand. He knows that ho is surrounded by enemies whom he can not see, and he knows that it makes little difference so far as the final result is concerned whether be discovers one or two or oven a dozen of his unseen foes." Of the general desire for a restoration this writer uses the following con fident language: "Two years have not yet elapsed since King Manuel left Lisbon; never theless the capital is already tired of the Provisional Government and would like to see its youthful Sovereign back again. The Republic has not come up to the general expectations, to tho chi merical ideas that were formed of it among the lower classes, and suggested by mendacious demagogues. The com mon people were left, for example, un dor the impression that the new Gov ornmont would not only solve the political problem, but would also resolve with miraculous suddenness the ccon emic problem, "This illusion did not last long. It was soon seen that so far as tho economic question was conc.eriie'i, thero was little to distinguish the Republic from the Monarchy, excepting only the cynicism with which the latter went back on nil its promises. The influential Republicans who seized various portfolios hud hnd no previous experience of tho work which they then took up and were quite incapablo of settling the grave questions which account for tho present misery of the country." The blue and white flag of Portugal is again seen in the streets and people aro cursing the Republic, as we aro told in the followoing sentences: "The people, properly so called, have received not one of the loavos or fishes, Beyond windy rhetoric and eloquent exhortations to self-abnegation, thoy have received nothing. For the resources of the State arc not illimitable. Thero is not enough (especially here in Portugal) to satisfy all. This abandonment by tho Republican leaders of their most solemn engagements, coupled with this administrative nepotism, has profoundly irritated the populace. All over the country, they have broken out in strikes—it was the only kind of protest that was open to them. In some instances, at Setubal, for example, these strikes were stained by tho blood of the strikers. And it wouhl be a mistake to imagine that this industrial revolt was dovoid of political significance. On the contrary, there wero to be seen in the streets of Lisbon four laborers, clad in workmen's blouses, who waved the blue and white flag of the old regime. And in front of the Ministry of the Interior, in the faces of the cavalrymen who protected that building, ami who mndo believe as if they wero dispersing the mob by force, other strikers raised a unanimous shout of 'Death to the Re publicM ('Morra a Hepublica!')." quuin Herr Saorlst Schmidt that tho« who want tn warm must buy wood. Third, I acquaint Herr Sacrist Schmidt that 1 shall not I rust any longer to the bulustrade next the river. Aud 1 acquaint Herr Sacrist Schmidt, fourth, that I will not have any more correspondence with him, f FREDERICK. THE WORKERS Their day is night, tlieir lot severe, ^ Their boasted freedom, but to slave*, Their youth is age, their age a waste Of blighted days; and then tho grave. A grave, perhaps, that no stone marks, No font, no urn, no line of fame. Living; tlieir life was but a strife; Dead: and they sleep without a name. Dead, and their place is quickly'filled, ; Life's endless chain doth nevo'r yiold; The work goes on; one takes his post Hy the shaft's mouth or iu the Hold. The work goes on, one woman woops, One woman who has ne'er known rest, Weeps, but tolls on. for who shall Uml The helpless babo upon her breast? The work goes on, the daylight fades, And drakness slips across the sky. No pence is theirs, no rest from cares: Another day is nigh again, —John Law Dallam. ' A GOOD REASON My Mabel can not sing a note, She writes no verses free, Sho cun not paint n little boat Upon a wnvoloss sea. But. friend, I bid you, do not pause And say with knowing look: "He loves his Mabel just because She certainly can cook I" it is not that she cooks, O nol That wins hor place so high— I can and do love Mabel so Because she doesn't try! AERO-WORSHIP Ere rcckloss mortals riskod their necks By vying with the swallow, Admiring members of the sex That's weak wero wont to follow My movements with an interest That parents thought unseemly, But which, if truth must be confessed, Dolighted me extremely. Thoy camo in crowds to see mo act, Braved blizzards at the stage-door (Oblivious of the painful fact That ,1 was middle-aged), or Solicited an autograph Or lock of hair to treasure— A state of things my hotter half Regarded with displeasure. \ Alack! My fascination palls, And they transfer their passion To men in dingy overalls Who pay scant heed to fashion. No longer does the matinee Allure, and I depend on Mere man to patronize the play, His sister goes to Hondon! DEER DESTROYING THE CROPS A large herd of deer, nearly four hundred in number, have boon roaming over a small district in western Iowa and greatly damaging the farmers' crops in that locality. There is no open season for deer in Town, and the penalty for killing one is a fine of $100 and costs, so the animals appear to have tho law on tlieir side. These deer are not from wild stock, but nro the increase of a private herd that was collected by Wiliam Cuppy, a wealthy pioneer farmer living near the town of Avoca. Upon the deatli of Cuppy the estato was divided and the property was sold ia small sections. The deer were forgotten, apparently, and, being allowed to wander as thoy pleased, gradually reverted to tho wild state. CANADIAN SOD HOUSES Tho traveller in tho Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta is astonished at tho great number of sod houses which are scattered throughout tho prairie farming district. These do not occur in tho vicinity of the towns, but are out about ten miles or more. One might suppose that such rude structures were tho result of poverty. On tho contrary, the sod houses denote advancing prosperity. When the homesteader takes up a section of that wonderful wheat land in Western Canada he plants his crop it the earliest, possiblo moment in or- Jer that he may not miss a harvest. Often he is occupied to such an extent with these agricultural operations that neglects his dwelling-house and hurriedly throws together a rude makeshift of sod. Even though it were desired to erect a frame- house this could be done only with great difficulty bo- [•aiise of the scarcity of lumber. It is far better to live in temporary quarters until the railroad pushes out into that territory and brings the comforts of ivilization. However, these soil houses nro by no means uncomfortable, for they are wonderfully cool in summer and correspondingly warm In wintor. THE POLITE LETTER-WRITER Someiimes the formal correspondence f government secretaries is varied with n stroke of wit or an odd show of politeness. A good example of the Xtremely courteous iu public corres pondeuce was tho notice sent to Charles James Fox that he was no longer n member of the government of George III. It read, "His Gracious Majesty has been pleased to issue a now Commission, in which your name does not appear." A sacristan of tho Cathedral of Jtor- liu once wrote fhe King of Prussia this note: "Sire: I acquaint Vour Majesty, first, that there are wanting Books of Psalms for the royal family. I acquaint Your Majesty, second, that there wants wood to warf the royal scats. acquaint Vour Majesty, third that the balustrade next the river, behind the liurch, is become ruinous. "SCHMIDT Sncrist of fhe Cathedral," The reply of the king was as follows: '' I acquaint, you, Herr Sacrist Schmidt, first, that those who want to buy boohs. Second, I ne st rovers. In Berlin a novel insurance scheme being introduced] recommended by the Kaiser, having for its chief feature nsiiranee against neddontfl to school hildren on tlieir way to and from school. The policy covers all accidents to children within the walls of the H-honls, as well as on the playgrounds, Ins during lessons iu physics and chemistry. The premium is 40 cents a year and' in case of death a sum of .'1,000 marks ($7.f)0) is paid to the parents, while total disability entitles the child to an nmount of $1,500. For temporary disablement, the company pays all doctors bills and 75 cents a day. If a Chinese sailor rescues a drowning man, he is bound by Chinese law to koep liim aud feed him for the rest of his life. Over 200,000 seamen, of whom 128,000 are British and the remainder lnscars ami foreigners, are employed in British merchant vessels. Knch Dreadnought hns a bakery, a barber's shop, a tailor's shop, a boot repairer's, a canteen, und a hospital holding about 00 patients, with two surgeons. A new navnl dock is to be constructed on tho Clyde, and provision is to be mndo for the stationing of a battleship aud a flotilla of torpedo-boat de- 94 THE ISLANDER, CTJMMJRLANb, B.O SCME FINE LOTS IN COURTENAY On The Road to Union Bay. ST LOOK AT THE SIZE AND LOCATION Courttnay Opera Home X UNION BAY ROAD 13, 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 0. KluMo Hoist x COMOX LOGGING & RAILWAY CO PRICE8 Lotl, $300 Iot« 8 nnd 4, $250 Lot 5, $320 Lot 6, 873 Lot 7, 8250 Lota 8, 9, 10, 11 anal 12, $250 Lot 18, |-275 Situate about 300 yards from Courtenay Opera House. ALL LOTS CLEARED. Cash, Balance, 6, and 12 Months. Terras, Third G.R.Bate: L EXCLUSIVE !l ...AGENT.. mfflSBSEffimsBBBamfflmz AT STUD KING ARNOLD 2TO- 4571-2 WILL BE FOR SERVICE DURING THE SEASON TERMS:-$25 TO INSURE, $10 AT TIME OF SERVICE, BALANCE WHEN MARE IS KNOWN TO BE IN FOAL. A PPT.1T: IDj&JX. kilpateick. People's TEA is sold by McPhee & Morrison GBNBRAL MERCHANTS ag-fr ^JJa Courtenay t$.V2. at 40c This TEA is a Special Blend and well worthy of al trial, so do not fail to TRY IT. I vwnww PUBLIC SERVICE ACT. THE qualifying examination! for Third class Clerks, Junior Olerka, and .■Stenographer! will be held at the following place*, commencing on Monday the 3rd July next:—Armstrong, Chilliwack, Cumberland, Golden, Grand Eurks.Kani- laa pa, Ktala., Kilowna, Ladyamith, Nanaimo, Nelaou, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Pesohlaud, Revelstoke.R as- land, Salmon Arm, 8ummerland, Vancouver, Vernon, and Victoria. Candidate, muat be Britiah subjrets be tween the agea of 21 and 30, if for Third claaa Clerka; and between 16 and 21, il for Junior Clerka or atenographera. Application! will not be accepted if re. ceived later than 15th June next. Further information, together with application formi, may be obtained from the uuderaigned. P. W4LKER, Registrar, Public Service Victoria, B. C, 27th, 1911. Bp27 CANCELLATION OF RESERVE. NOTICE i* hereby given that the res. erve existing by reason of a notice publiahed in the British Columbia (>»■/. ette of 2"ih December 1907, over a par eel of laud situated on Bead Island known aa Lot No. 452 Sayward District, formerly coveted by Timber License Naa, 36862 which License expired on the 20th November 1909 is cancelled, and the a*id lands will be opened to location by pre-emption only at midnight on Friday 15th October 1911. ROBT. A. RENWICK. Deputy Minister of Lands. Department of Lands, Victoria, B. C, 5th July 1911. jyl6.'lin Old Newspapers for sale at The ISLANDER OFFICE. 25c. per hundred. 8PKNT AT HOME REACTS IN ITS IIFNR \|TS WITH UNCK4.SI.NCI liKNKRal. PROFIT B OUT Ot TOWN ITS LIFE 18 ENHKI) KEI'T WITH THK HOME MERCHANT!) IT IB * MK»- BENaF-H OF CONTINUOUS BENEFIT DUB- IXEBB MKN SHOULD AWAKE TO THE IM PORTAXCXOF KKKlMSlI THIS IIOI.I AR AT HOME AND MAKE A HID FOR IT BV JUDICIOUS AIIVIKTISIKll Mah Lee Laundry P. 0. BOX 294. Satisfaction Guaranteed Near tlie Saw Mill NOTICE. All permits faar burning are cancelled. No more iasueal until further notice. J. w. Grieve, Distiict Kiro Warden. PUBLIC NOTICE Public notice ia hereby given, thnt on Saturday, August 6th. a poll shall be taken at the City Hall, Cumberland, B C, for the purp se of obtaining the consent of the owners of Und to be included within the proposed extension nf the city limits. Such poll shall be open from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. By order in Council dated July 22, 1911. A McKinnon, Returning Officer. City Hall, Cumberland, B.C., Juld 25th. 1911. FOR SALE—Forty-two acrea of hay by acre or ton; if hauled by purohaaer 120 per ton; if delivered by seller 822 per ton. Oood Clover, and Timothy, Apply to Chiu Yeuk, Weatwood Farm, Sandwick, B. C. jy-15 SEALED TENDER?, superteri-ed "Tender lor 8clia)t.l-l)ou»j, Denman Island," will be received by tbe Honourable tbe Minister ol Pubic Works up to nono ol Thursday, tbe 10th. dsy ol August, 1911, for tbe erection and completion of a large one-room Irsme school-house st Deo man Island in the Comox Eleetorsl District. Plans, apaoiticaticns, contract, snd forms ol tui der may be seen on aud alter the 17th. day ol July, 1911, si tbeirtloenl the Government Ageui, Cumberland, B. 0.; Geo. Dalziel, Esq., Secretary ol ihe School Board, Den- mau Island; and st the Department ol Pobl a Works Viciori*. ' Escb proposal must be acooaipan- ie.i by sn accepted bank cheque or certificate ol deposit on s chstteied hank ol Csnads, sssde psysble to the Honourable tbe Miniatir ol Public Works, lor tbe sum of $250, which skill be forleited if tbs pany tendering decline to enter into eontrset wbeo cslltd upon to do io, or il bs fsila to complete tbe work contrseted for. Tuecheques or certificates of de- pesit ol ULiucceasful tenders will bsre turned lo them upon tbe extoutiun ol tbe contract. lenders will not be considered unless made out on tbe forms supplied signed with tbs aetutl sigosture ol tbe tenderer, snd enclosed io tbs envelopes lurnisbed. Tbe lowest or any tender not necessarily sccepted. J.E. GRIFFITH. Publie Works Engineer Department, o' 1 ubiio Works Victoria B.C. 14;h. July, 1911. Jy. 15-Aug. 10 TO THE FARMERS OF COMOX DISTRICT. The Pilsener Brut.ing Company, of Cumberland, has a quantity of grains to dispose of weekly, aud would like tenders for the same. Apply to the Sec'y. FOR SALE-Singer Needles and Oil at the Islander Office. FOR SALE—Three excellent business locations on Dunsmuir Avenue. Apply Mrs. A, Jones. We are prepared to Bell acreage large or small tracts, on the Harry Martin ranch, one mile south of Courtenay on the Cumberland road. D. Martin, Bruce Towler, Courtenay, B. C. s i mm HEADQUARTERS FOR Furniture Wallpaper Crockery Etc., etc. A nice line of Iron Bedsteads $n. ° $40. just arrived T. E. BITE IF YOU ARE THINKING OF BUYING A ii BUY A SINGER The BEST Machine on the Market and sold on EASY TEMRS TEPSON BROS. District Agents, Nanaimo, B. C. C. Sagrave, Local Re/rresentative, Cumberland, 11. C. Capital $6,200,000 Reserve* 7,000,000 THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA Drafts Issued In any currency, payable all ovei* the world SPECIAL ATTENTION paid to SAVINOS ACCOUNTS, and Interest at highest current rates allowed on deposits of 91 and upwards CUMBERLAND, B.C., Branch— - - OPEN DAILY UNION WHARF, B.C., Sub Umnch-OP.EN THURSDAYS H. F. Montgomery, Manager COURTENAY, B. C. BRANCH OPEN DAILY R. E. Culbert, Manager. ifr When You Want a HIGH GRADE PIANO, PLAYER PIANO, ORGAN or GRAPH0PH0NE, IT WILL PAY YOU TO GET OUP PRICES. We carry the Largest and Best Selected Stock on the Island. FLETCHER BROS. The Music House NANAIMO, B. C T. E. BATE LOCAL AGENT, Cumberland ■♦a>a>a»a>a>a»a)-a>. ■»■<>■ <>^a>-»- Ul NEW ENGLAND HOTEL JAMES WALTERS, PROPRIETOR THE P00REST0F WINES, LIQUOR & BEER ALSO THE BEST OF CIGARS. OUR $20 SUITS Are made hy the name tailors what make the ones at §25 8110, und .*:!.".. Yatu will get as good tailoring aa in the higher-priced ones. Alata bear in mind we are the firm wlm guarantee a perfect lit nr refund your money. WE ARE SHOWING SOME SPLENDID QUALITIES IN THE CHEVIOTS AND WORSTEDS. Made to Measure at 820. UNION BAY CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY Sule Agent* the I Inline of Hubberlin Limited "Tailors to the Canadian Gentleman."
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