@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "81a7501c-55de-4f11-bc46-b853d38b393c"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2015-11-26"@en, "1910-12-08"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/htimes/items/1.0082028/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ SIDBSC KIBE NOV rows Th« Time* OUE DOLLAR a Year THE HOSMER TIMES SUBSCRIBE HOW Thc Times ONE DOLLAR a Year Volume III. HOSMER, B. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1910 NUMBER 17 I* SKATES \\\\ Ijjbur stock of Skates have arrived. Call j! early while the stock is complete : Snow and Sidewalk Skates Acme Club Skates n Boys Hockey Club Bokers Favorite Hockey Bokers Ladies Cresent | Starr Double End Brocketed Bokers Featherlight ■■$ Starr Mic-Hac :t.'"■■ Dunnes Tube - I- Mic-Mae Hockey Sticks, Pucks Bennett Bros. Hardware Furniture *********** Xmas is Coming Have you selected that Xmas gift yet ? i If not call in and see our assortment of J Holiday goods. Manicure sets, brush! and comb sets, perfumes, dolls, stationery !: A. B. CAMPBELL ■* ♦♦-*»♦♦*»♦♦♦♦ JOHN WYLIE , DEALER IN fj\\Staple and Fanpy Groceries New Goods Fresh Stock A Trial Order Solicited Gabara Block Hosmer, B. C. ■»-»♦■»■»-*»■»■»♦ ♦♦♦♦♦-»-»♦-»♦-»»-»♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦-»♦♦♦ la1 I" 3SMER HOTEL MAilt SORKIE, Proj. NIKE SORKIE, Manager Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars Any kind of mixed drinks that you call for will be starved in First class style Best Rooms and Meals in the Town TOUR TRADE SOLICITED Front St. Hosmer, B. C, 'y^W.-^WW^W' We ROYAL The only Commercial Hotel Sample Rooms Main St., Hosmer y^^^^^-^^^^^w^^v i****************************************************. Queen's Hotel | ROBT. GOURLAY, Prop. J I Transient rates $1 per day, special rates by the week + Opposite C. P. R. depot, Hosnier, B. C. X Big Free Moving Pictffre Show I ? EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT SW5. f ! Nuw ftiature films each week tinder the operation of Joe Kuklo J '^♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦^♦♦♦♦•^'■^♦♦♦,>*»»*^ School Report. There, were 22 school days during November. School was closed two days on account of absence of teacher. Those with x opposite their names were neither late nor absent. IV Lillian Ritchie 2 Hm told Musgrove 19 George Bolduc 17 1-2 Grace Miller 2 Bessie Lcudheuter 15 John McMeekin 16 Lauglilin Kennedy 17 1-2 8b. Ill Saxon Kearney 20 X Sarah Spencer 10 Herbert Robson 18 Sybil McMeekin 14 Stewart Fletcher 19 1-2 Thos. Miller. 19 Jr. Ill Lena Spencer 19 1-2 Doreen Kearney* 18 Maud Bolduc 0 Joseph Tortoralli .20 X James Miller 20 Alberta Quinn 19 Pearl Swanton 17 David Miller 19 Andy Kennedy • 19 1-2 Gretta Riyikin 20 Mary Miller 191-2 Rose McDougall 14 1-2 Sr. II Archie Courtney 21-2 Earnest Beeby 13 1-2 Wilfrid Beeby.,.. Ifl" Ja II Maggie Leadbeater...... 17 Eric Winter 20 x Willie Spencer 20 x Gladys Thompson.. 20 x Armand Minet 19 Powell Courtney 13 1-2 James Hedley. V.; 13 Nicky Maiello. ■ <■', • • •. 16 1-2 Lizzie McDougpll v 12 Jack Musgrove 20 x Jennie Strata., 19 Elizabeth Kelly 3 . Aa'AuBBBT Davis -.... Principal CLAeiS'aC *,..-. Andrew A-Jney. 19 1-2 Leonard Ayre. 13 1-2 Cora DeLaurier -....~... ,20 1-2 Eni Henschel....... . .*... .17 1-2 Christina Krisfo... .P.. Zi 1-2 William Kelly.......... 81-2 Dan McMeekin 17 Annie Pondelecek 22 Willie Robertson 20 Class B. * Baglione Ambrogio 21 1-2 James Bennett 21 1-2 Leslie Brown 19 Pearl Courtney. 18 Fred DeLaurier 18 Mary Donnachie 20 Annie Keir .18 Laddie Krish 22 Blanche Labelle 22 x Florence. Miller 22 x Charles McDougall 15 James Miller 20 1-2 Patrick Murray 17 1-2 Isabella Parkin 15 Mary Jane Parkin 15 ' eSedohia Pondelecek 23 Elsie Robson. 18 Winnif red Smith 19 1-2 Ralph Tortoralli 82 x Abel Minet ...131-2 Bohus Paleoek 21 1-2 Class C. Violet Anderson 211-2 John George Beeby 2 Charles Courtney 13 1-2 Georgina Crotto 11-2 Joseph Gabara 21 Julie Gabara 19 Edna Gourlay. 21 1-2 Nellie Gregory 12 Mary Jioia— 17 Laura Labelle 22 x Moyk Laba 18 1-2 Irene Minet 16 1-2 Mary McDougall 12 Steve Peach 12 Mary Peach 16 Lizzie Peach 13 Willie Rogers 21 •lack Robertson 61-2 Louis Salvage .21 Columbia Salvage — -.. 21 Peggy Strachan. 21 Joe Tavernese. 21 1-2 Tony Tavernese 21 1-2 Lester Wildman 22 Frank Steiner 16 Christina D. Y. Pitblado, L.L. A. Teacher. Hon. Fielding in Virginia. A despatch"-from Hot Springs, Virginia, dated December 1 says: Hon. W. S. Fielding, minister of finance iu the Cunadiun cabinet, arrived at tlie ■ Homestead hotel today from Ottawa, with Mrs. Fielding and Miss Florence Fielding. The weather here is cool and there have been Hurries of snow. Lowery's Upper Stope In Rupe carpenters are paid (124 cents an hour. Hot water heaters are to he made in Vancouver. The new town ea>t of Hazleton is called Larkton. Bread is live cents a loaf iu North Vancouver. Chilliwack will build a city hall at a cost of $21,000. The Conservatives will erect a ten story building in Vancouver at a cost of $450,000. Municipal waterworks are being installed at Oroville. Fred Mullins is wanted at the coast for forging checks. A Conconully boy recently killed two coyotes with one shot. George Jay is magistrate of the juvenile court in Victoria. A $6,000 steam laundry will be opened in Stewart this winter. Tobacco has been grown this year 15 miles west of Ashcroft. The flag that waves over Coleman school ie 18 feet long. At present the mail is carried by canoe from Kitselas to Hazleton. At Lacombe, Alberta, u farmer recently received $240 for 12 live hogs. For the first time English sparrows appeared this month in Rossland. Every day there is shipped from Coleman to Greenwood 10 tons of coke. About 100 men are mushing between Dawson and the outside towns.. In October the payroll of the Crows Nest Pass Coal Co. was $170,000. There are 70 men working in the Lone Pine—Surprise mine near Republic. In Vernon fresh eggs are 55 cents a dozen and apples are five cents a pound. The Sullivan mine in East Kootenay is shipping 100 tons of ore to the Trail smelter. At Regina the depot and hotel of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway will cost $500,- 000. James McDoway was fiued $10 for using obscene language in the streets of Victoria. Seven men wero arrested in Vancouver last week for playing blackjack iu a box car. Quite a number of people were recently lined in Lady- smith for using profane language. lhe Princess Royal is to replace the Charmer on the run between Vancouver and Victoria. Next mouth, in Stewart, an amateur company will amuse the people with comic opera. In Vancouver 80 rooms are being added to the Hotel Vancouver at an expense of $300,000. Thisjibtel will soon be the greatest in Canada. John Mclvor, formerly of Phoenix, died in Prince Rupert last month from appendicitis. Eighteen years ago this winter the population of Kaslo was three'times greater than Nelson. The demand for pig lead is now so great in Canada that tbe Trail smelter cannot supply the demand. At Grand Forks aDoukhobor was fined $25 for burying a child without a certificate of death. The business men of Rossland will back tho hockey' team of that city during the coming season. A new street car line is to be built between Vancouver and New Westminster via the North road. A compressor plant, boilers and bath tubs are being installed at the Lucky Jim mine in the Slocan. A mountain goat was recently brought into Port Essington that weighed after being dressed 240 pounds. The Fraser river is several feet above its normal level owing tb the recent heavy rains along its watershed. A box of big potatoes aro on exhibition in New Westminster None of the spuds weigh thun .'H pounds. "Bruce" in the Limelight. For stating in his paper that South Fort George is ii wildcat townsite, promoted by tinhorns, friskers, boot-leggers and four- flushers, John P. MeConnel has been committed for trial in Vancouver upon u charge of criminal libel. Such is strenuous journalism. It is full of thorns, writs, indignation, with an occasional shut gun thrown in. Whether in the right or in the wrong, the bold editor who steps outside the soft trail of meek and submissive journalism must bo prepared to receive a shower of blows from the enemy. The world loves a brave man whon ho does not hit its pocket. We know- nothing ubout the case in point, but we do know that trying to save the sucker from losing his money is, as a rule, a thankless position. The fool does not like to be dragged away from a shell game. We once exposed u townsite scheme and nearly got lynched by the dupes. Then over in frenzied Fernie, during our short but fitful existence iu the city of coke, w,e were slandered by hundreds because we attempted to break the cinch that the C. N. P. Coal Co. held over its meek slaves iu that burg. Our work in Fernie eventually brought forth changes that would save the people of that city $100,OOJ, and yet we did not evon get thanks, let alone a dollar. Such is the gratitude of the multitude. Then again, during the stock craze of '97, we exposed tho Ibex and other wild cat mining schemes, and for our pains we received an outburst of abuse, alike from sucker and shark. So dear John Patrick, if you win, you lose.except in one pur- ticular. Without paying for it you huve succeded in getting the Province to mention that weekly publication tlie Saturday Suuset.—Greenwood Ledgo. CHOICE XMAS GOODS Arriving daily at THR QUALITY STORE Large Assortment and Prices Right. Inspection Invited The Quality Store GEO. H. MARLATT Opera House Block For any of the following:— Hot House Lettuce Malaga Grapes Pears Crisp Celery California Crapes Dates Bananas New Figs Nuts and Jap Oranges Apples Comb Honey Give me a trial order. Satisfaction guaranteed. The finest ctf Chocolates in beatiful boxes for Xmas gifts in sizes from halt' pound to five pound. Prices aro from -10c to $4.00 FRED COX City - cTWeat - <*7Warket GABARA BROS., Props Choice line of Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Sausage, Butter, Bacon, Eggs, Lard, Etc., Fresli and Salt Fish. Gabara Block Near C. P. H. depot NOT IN THE TRUST Five Sent up by Court. His Honor .Judge Wilson finished up u three day's session of the county, court at Fernio on Monday, by sending Ave people to prison for terms ranging from three years in the New Westminster penitentiary to six months in the Nelson jail. In the case of Cupristauo, the Italian who carved up-Vinceuto Andrea at Michel some time ago, in such an artistic manner, gashing him in a dozen places with a knife, the judge sent the man to the penitentiary for three years. A man named Adrian, a car- pender who has been working in and and about Fernio for some time, was fouud guilty of having stolen sundry goods, including a dozen or two shaving brushes, numerous neckties and other articles, was sent to Nelson for eighteen months. The six men who were implicated iu an attack upon Constable Leacy at Elko when tho constable was trying to arrest Foster, one of the six, wero all tried before Judge Wilson. Foster, who seemed to be the leader, was sent to Nelson for eighteen months, Diernun for fifteen months, Roulston for six months and Cluskey was fined $10 while Ramsey was let off. Advice Worth Following. The following advice given by the Vancouver Mail is well worth noting : If you are a member of the Hoard of Trade or tho Civic Improvement League, or a regiment, or a church, or n fraternity lodge, be an active member. Don't put your name down, and your money up and then give it no further thought. Don't join unless you aro willing to help by ready und active service. Don't be a drone or a figure head; don't be a kicker and a knocker; do something to advance its objects. Work on a committee and work hard. If you are a member ot the Hoard of Trade be an active member; shoulder some of the responsibilities of membership. Paying your fees helps of course; but pay them promptly and then pluce yourself and services al the disposal ot counsel und ox- less I ecu tive and-work for tho gon- lerul good. 4 • ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ********************** :Real Estate Bargains! : . * For some snaps in real estate call and see me. Some good houses and rooms for rent. Agent for life and accident insurance in thoroughly reliable companies. : R. W. ROGERS ♦ Post Office Block HOSMER, B. 0. ******************************************* ! IF ITS LUMBER WE HAVE IT j > If you place an order for lumber with ns yon have u right to ex- >- neet well manufactured and evenly graded goods consisting of Boards, ] \\ Dimensions, Timbers, Flooring, Gelling, .Siding, Finishing, Moulding t and Lath. ' - Our Planning Mills ore equipped with modern wood-woi'kihtf i machinery and re-saws. All inquiries are promptly answered, and >• your inspection of out- stunk is solicited. J j ____^^_^_—_-^_——eaac——————_——_ > > >■ J The Elk Lumber Company, Ltd. ;' J C. H. Bomfohi), Agent llosmer, B. C. j! ***************************************************** ■ i P. BURNS €Em CO., Limited WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Meat Merchants X Fresh und Cured Meats, Fresh Fish, Game and Poultry. f "We supply only the best. Your trade solicited, Markets J in all the principal Towns and Cities in British Columbia. * MAIN STREET HOSMER, B. C. X**************************************************** ■ - - > e > - ' - ' e > e • r**************************************************** C JtlS AsSKI.IN F II. 1 Mi HAM [ Hosmer Livery & Transfer Co. Livery, Cartage and Feed Stable Rigs at all Hours at Reasonable Prices Dealers in Coal I J FRONT STREET HOSMER, B. C. J »»4«->f*H-l'4««>i<>}{>«<>»«4'«t4<{i4et«4,e|>tt4>M*l ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦-«'♦■* ♦ YOUNG MEN! | Here's where, yuu ran .save money buying youi1 * j Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Trunks, Valises i ♦ sola agenl lei THE HOUSE OF HOBBERLIN, Limited ♦ ♦ C-llll ,-lllel c-e If StOCk llf SHIItpll-N J 1 AIELLO C& BOSSIO I Ne-xi Door to Potatoffloct IIOKMKH, B, ('. .»♦♦♦-»♦♦♦♦■-» ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•»»♦••<*>**♦♦♦.*>♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦» THE TIMES, HOSMER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. E OF THE HEART. By BALDWIN SEARS. The scuttle in the roof of the farmhouse opened slowly, and a girl's dead appeared. As she held up her face to the evening breeze ber fair face, yellow bair and delicate features made her appear like some faint star just glancing above the horizon. A young man with a scythe over his shoulder crossing the lane below the barn looked up toward the bouse. Seeing the girl, be stopped, straightened his shoulders as though he half expected her to speak aud to speak himself, tben walked on with lagging steps aud disappeared below the orchard where tbe brook flows into the woods. Mary leaned her arms on the edge of the scuttle and looked out The hot air from I Me garret blowing In gusts past her face was like a twitch at her sleeves reminding ber of the household she had left below. She was the only one who had not already gone to bed. It was harvest time. They were cutting the wheat in Ihe meadows, and all day the hum of Ihe reaper hail come up from the broad while fields where Ihe men were at work. Since dawn tbe house had been buzzing with lively toll, but uow tbe day's work was euded. In the front room off the porch the farmer and hls wife were asleep. Tbey had gone lo bed Immediately after supper, and while Mary bad sat on thc j swered, looking up at him sweetly, porch she heard tbelr low voices talk- ■* ■ ...... .. . , Ing over the potato crop and the grain, their drowsy words growing fewer, 6lower, until at length they sank away and i-ensed while yet the bobolinks were skiminiiig over the meadow nud tbe red of the sunset lingered. Across the gate her married brother nnd a neighbor had talked politics. Mary bad beard tbelr nasal voices alternating like tbe wooden balls tossed by a juggler. In the south chamber just under ihe attic her sister-in-law had been putting her children to bed, the creak, creak of the rocking chair as It swayed over an uneven board dimly audible through the silent house. In the attic under the roof slept her little brother Bob.dreamless, tired and contented at the end of his long summer day. Down In the kitchen yard the turkeys and chickens had gone to roost In the apple trees and the grape arbor, clucking and twittering in sleepy protest against tbe awkward ones ae they settled themselves together. In a few moments it had grown very still and dark. The girl ou lhe housetop drew a long breath and leaned her head back against the edge of the roof. It was only 8 o'clock, and the faint yellow twilight lingered on tbe border of the summer night. A new moou bung low over tbe crest of the woods. 1 he west I through and cut her to the heart with ['Its questioning, solitary call, hidden ln | the twilight of the woods. She had heard It so often, year after I year, like the robin and the lark. Nev. i er bad ft sounded so lonely, so friend- j less and apart. A strange longing j swelled up In her breast; tears filled ber eyes. The years of her life, with j their simple tasks, their ambitions, ; hopes and dreams, came to her like | some vast tidal wave upon a sunny j shore, withdrawing In a long resound- I Ing slgb at the absence of some un- ■ known joy. She stared through the warm darkness toward the edge of the woods outlined against the evening as though one should try to read the soul i of a silhouette. Then sbe dropped her < face In ber bands for a single minute. At G o'clock In the morning Mary c was In the garden picking tbe vegela- I bles for dinner. Tbe sunshiny, dew fresb day, tbe beans and cabbages Id ; their prim symmetry, the tall scarlet I hollyhocks nodding against the fence, ! made the experience of tbe night be- i fore very remote and visionary. As Mary reached the end of the row ; of peas sbe pushed buck ber sunbonnel ! and looked up; tben ber song stopped, i and she kuelt silently. A young man was standing on the j other side of the garden wall looking ' at ber. He blushed as be met bet . steady, smiling gaze. "1'lcklng peas?" he asked. "Vou've got a lot. haven't you';" "Ves, ludeed; plenty tbls year Have ! youV" "All we can eat and more too. Get- '. ting old, though. How are these'-" ; He crossed tbe wall aud stood beside | her. "Yours are pretty tender yet." He tore off anotber pod. "Shan't I help you? Two cau work better than ; one." "Oh. thank you; yon needn't bother." Vet sbe smiled ut bim. "Ob. I like to do ibis. I'll take tbe Inside of the row." "It's very kind of you," she an- THE FinST EXCURSION. How brown and strong and sinewy be baj grown since be had begun to work In tbe harvest fields! Sbe bad not seen blm for a long while, not since they were in school together. Sbe was looking at blm again wben be glanced up aud eaugbt her eyes. Tbls time tbey both blushed. Tbey said nothing for some time. Mary picked busily, and tbe boy whistled half to himself. They were beside each other, with nothing between them but tbe slender trellis of pea vines, enough to give tbe boy courage to say. "Did you hear tbe wblppoorwlll last nlgbt}" Mary felt a flash that made her nerves tingle. "Oh. did you. too?" she exclaimed, tben stopped, abashed at ber own eagerness. How could Alvy under stand tbe confession sbe had made to a wblppoorwlll just because it wns unseen? "Where was It?" she asked, wltb all tbe carelessness sbe could summon. '■Down In tbe wood lot about bait past 8. I was coming home 'cross'lots back of your barn; been up at the other farm all day." Tbey wpre picking slowly now. How pretty Mary was wltb ber braided yellow holr. her rose pink ears, her smooth lidded, down drooping eyes! Alvy felt his heart throb dizzily. So many words nnd thoughts went round and round In bis bend tbnt be could Thomas Cook Ran the Pioneer Event in 1841. Forty-eight years ago Thomas Cook organized and advertised the first railway excursion in .England. Cook was then a turner by trade and a , temperance organizer UB a side line. One hot summer day in the June of 134!, young Cook set out on a walk which was to mark the turning-point i in his career. It was to Leicester, where he was to be one ol the speakers at a great temperance demonstration. The distance was but fifteen miles—a mere nothing to such a I pedestrian as he was; but, as he strode along, he read something which J set him thinking deeply. It was the ! newspaper report of the opening of I that portion of what was then known 1 as the Midland Counties Railway, j which connected Leicester with Lough- 1 borough. Now, it had been arranged to hold j another demonstration shortly at ' Loughborough, and all at once it | flashed into his mind, what a won- J derful success it might be made if the people could go by rail instead of having to walk; hundreds then might go, where dozens would not otherwise. Full of the idea, he explained it to . his audience that night. All were I struck; but. said some, "What abou*-. the cost? How many workingmen c could afford it?" "Leave that to tne." exclaimed Cook. "All of you who would like to go hold un your hands. So large was the response that, early the next morning, he betook himself to the office of John Fox Bell, the secretary of the railway company, and unfolded his plain. Mr. Bell at once fell in with the idea, and himself gave a contribution towards the preliminary expenses. Within a lew hours the arrangements were set forth in print, thus making it the very earliest publicly advertised excursion train. On the 5th of July, the excursion duly started, numbering five hundred and seventy pr.ssengats, amidst great popular enthusiasm, a band of music accompanying them to the station, whilst all Loughborough turned out to welcome them. A CANADIAN'S SUCCESS. Clarksburg Boy Gets Degree of Ph.D. From Chicago. Mr. E. S. Moore of Clarksburg, who graduated at the University of Toronto in 1904, is the first Canadian to receive the degree of Ph.D. from the geoiogical department of Chicago Uni wind brought up the hot smell of | not say one. And tbere was tbe screen ripening cornfields, and a bat darfedV of brasb nnd vines between them. The out of tbe orchard in swooping circles against the clear nlgbt. I'roin her eyrie above tbe treetops the farm build.ngs, the neighboring houses, tbe fields and lanes, even the wide post road, looked quite small and I cheap, like a toy village. The country- side In Its Irregular checkerboard of pasture, corn and woodland, pale yel- j iow with the wheat stubble, somber ! green where half ripened orchards spread, marked here and there by a cluster of roofs, a spire that told a hamlet In the hills, became significant | only In the mystery of distance as It mounted toward the bills and ended at last In one vast, gray, sealike level against tlie trackless sky. Mary looked at It all as one upon whose mind the meaning of these familiar scenes bad just begun to dawn—these fields, the chickens she must plui-k, tbe bread she must make, the raspberries she must preserve, all grouped themselves before her in a cohrreut scheme of life. From dawn till dark, each day alike, cooking, washing, preserving, holding the babies—the burdens of each side were hers. So far sbe had carried tbem unthinkingly, unqiiestinnlugly. lt was only the lot of every farmer's life. Tonight she was unusually tired. To escape a feeling of restlessness she bad determined to go lo bed. It was re?- freshlng to Ile In the cool darkness. But before she reached the top of tbe delicate film of green was strong as a prison grille, through whlcb the serene face of tbe girl showed upon blm. Somehow tbelr bands met upon the same pods. Mary's trembled, tben lay still lu bis. "1 saw you up on the roof." whispered the boy. "You were listening, weren't you?" Mary nodded. "Do you—do yen like to bear It, Mary? Do you like the wblppoorwlll?" Mary's lip trembled. "I don't know. I guess so." "Because he—he loves you. Mary.1* "Mary, Mary, where are you?" The two in tbe garden sprang up as the shrill voice called from tbe kitchen. As the boy leaped over tbe fence Into his own orchard Mary looked after him. From the trees among wblcb be disappeared came clear, low and sweet tbe call of tbe wblppoorwlll. Australia and the Chinese. Australia Is perturbed by the dlscov- erles of Mr. Batcbelor, the commonwealth minister for external affairs, wbo has been inquiring Into tbe illegal Influx of Chinese. Tbere is a wealthy organization in China witb agencies ln all tbe principal Australian ports, nnd witb the connivance of ships' officers the systematic smuggling of Chinese Into Australia bas been carried on for a long time. The ships trading between Hongkong and the Australian attic stairs she felt the dry heat of tbe i ports have been so cunningly supplied sun baked roof. The great, timbered | with false bulkheads, walls and floors (space, dark with Its age blackened beams and scantly windowed twilight, held a strange odor of cedin shingles, of nnrlent leather trunks, of musty papers. In the solemn dust the candle lost Its bold glare and drooped to a wavering spark, eyed by the glimmering gray panes of the gable windows high under the ridge. The two chimneys, like huge stone plants whom she had been feeding nil flay, stooped over her us they towered toward the roof, reminding her of tomorrow's kitchen work. As Mary sat on the edge of her cot. thinking of these things, she looked up vaguely. A star, the first In the pale night, shone through the window upon her, clear, unwinking, pensive, holy. A lock of hair loosened by the wind floated softly across her cheek like the Iclss of unseen lips. Kor the first time In he-r life she felt 'lie restless longing for some good of which she was Ignorant. What was It her simple, sweet rxlstence lacked? Had she not everything thnt a girl could ask-fnther, mother, food and shelter, a place In tbe world? What else had any onei The aged farmer and his wife—tbose two good people fastf asleep without a thought In their nightcaps beyond tbe potato crop—their daughter-in-law, tbe men at work in tbe fields, nil those de- pendeut on tbe great harvests, on the bountiful farm—were tbey not happy, contented, unquestioning? Was sh» not happy too? Had sbe anything to complain of, to regret, to wish for? Suddenly out of the hush came the cry of the wblppoorwlll, that piercing, mournful voice of the vacant, wind blown fields, of meadows flowering unseen and far away. It thrilled her like a pain, lt stabbed her through and that hiding room has been provided for eighty Chlnejse stowaways on a single voyage. Ship cooks bave been secretly paid to supply tbe stowaways with food. Tbe trade is very profitable, as Australia Is only a few days' steaming from China, and many thousands of Mongolians are always ready to pay large sums nnd run all sorts of risks to get to the land of gold.—Chicago News. Rushing Them Off. "What's Zeke Crosshy doing rushing down to the bam In such tin excited state foiV" drawled 11 Ira in Hardapple. 'Why. Zeke beard that one of bis seven daughters Is going to elope tonight wltb a sum mer boarder lu Zeke's auto." whispered the hired man. "Do tell! And I suppose Zi-ze Is running down to lock the machine up so they can't get It?" "Oh. no! Zeke's running down to grease it up and put tbe motors ln order so lt won't break down and break up the elopement,"—Chicago News. SENSE OF DIRECTION. How Bees Are Able to Find Their Way to the Hive. The directive sense which is pos- iessed by bees is ..the object of researches made by M. Gaston Bonnier I of Paris, and he seems to prove that bees possess a special sense like tbat I of carrier pigeons. Bees can fly for two miles frdm the 'hive and are then able to return after gathering their supply of honey. Lang- c ..troth and others suppose that vision comes into play and that bees can see a great distance and can also note j objects on the way so as to find their path. Others, with Dadent, suppose that the bees are guided by the sense . of smeii and that they can smell flow- 1 ers at one and a half miles. I The author makes experiments to prove that bees can return to the hive I without using either sight or odor. As to sight, he takes bees to a dis- ! tance of one or two miles from the I hive in a closed box. They always ] fly back to the hive when released. j The same is true when their eyes are J covered, so that sight is not essential. j As regards odor, experiments seem to i prove that bees perceive odors at I only short distances. When a needle dipped in ether is brought near the head of the bee it shows signs of perceiving the odor, but not so when the needle is placed back of him or near I other organs. Besides, when thc organs of smell (antennae) are removed entirely the bees will return to the hive. M. Bonnier makes the following experiment: At GOO feet from the hive he places a supply of syrup, and the bees soon i find it, proceeding to and fro to the hive. Such bees he marks with green- colored powder. He then places a second supply of syrup at the same distance from the hive, but spaced at 20 feet from the former. Other bees are now engaged in the to and fro movement to this point, but these are not the same individuals as the green- marked bees, who are still working on the first supply, and he marks these in red. We thus have two distinct sets of bees, and we see that they can distinguish two directions which form a very acute angle. We seem to have here a special directive sense which does not reside in the antennae, but probably in the cerebroid ganglia. Other facts may be cited in evidence of the directive sense of bees. One Only. Margaret, who lives In tbe city, went to the country to visit some cousins At breakfast the lirst morning tbere was a dish of honey on the table, nnd Margaret to show her cousins that she was familiar with country life carelessly remarked, 'Ah. I see you keep n bee."'- Llppincolt's .Magazine. Summer Travel. Mrs. Good hart-All the way from Chicago! Dldu't you find It very hot traveling? Dusty Trax—Not at all. madam. I always take a refrigerator cur lu the summer.—New Vork Life. DR. E S MOORE. versify. It was conferred upon him a short time ago, with the additional distinction of "Magna Cum Laude." He has also been appointed senior professor of geology in the State University of Pennsylvania, duties to commence in September next. Dr. Moore is at present in charge of a geological survey party in New Ontario, where he has held a similar position for the past five years. An Old Time English Election. A curious incident occurred at Pat- ton at an election for Parliament, Sir Mark Wood, who had been one of its members for several years, had as his colleague in the Parliament of 1812 Sir William Congrevc, the inventor of the famous "Congrevc Rocket." The latter resigned in 1816, and the baronet wished his own son to fill the vacancy. There were only three voters in the constituency. Sir Mark, his son and his butler, named Jennings, but as the son was away and the butler had quarreled with his master an opportunity was afforded for a singular revenge. Jennings refused to second Sir Mark's nomination of his son and proposed himself, and a deadlock was averted only by Sir Mark coming to terms with the refractory butler, whose nomination he seconded in order to induce him to act as a seconder to liis son. Matters b"ing thus put formally in train, Sif Mark arranged with Jennings that the former's vote should be alone given, and the final state of the poll at Gatton's only known contest stood thus: Wood (Tory), 1; Jennings (Whig), 0,—Westminster Gazette. ' | Venerable Trees. Over fifty of the "venerable trees" which Dr. Johnson and Boswell gazed upon in the vicinity of Cawdor Castle, Nairn, arc, it is said, still flourishing. One of the beeches bus a cirth of 16 feet and a spread of branches of over ICO feet. One beautiful gean-tree, which hns been blossoming for over 100 years, lias this season again presented a sight of splendor, while several fine ash trees, planted in 1670, are still holding seasonable rivalry with aged oaks. The antiquity of Cawdor Wood is surpassed, of course, by the pnlch ol Cadzow Forest, at Hamilton, where oaks that budded when Bruce was king are still giving evidences of life; but Cawdor has a spiendor which is not possible amid the smoke-tinged atmosphere of Coed- zow.—Glasgow News. Madrid it Highest. Madrid has tbe highest altitude of any city in Europe. Desirable. There are some forms ot poverty Uocclei suit me, 1 am sure. For Instance, it I had my way I'd .-house- to be land poor. PERT PARAGRAPHS. Rome people would rather eat tbe bread of depeiiileuce If it has a little jnm ou it than to take It without tbe Ju m. There are persons wbo are III natured been use they were boru so and are glad of It. THE PLUSH COAT. Sarah Jane Wa* Told the True Reason She Couldn't Get It. Fifteen years ago the community of Wigglesquaek Centre was startled, by the report that Eben Crabshaw was going to buy his wife a plush coat. Eben didn't deny the rumor, and Sarah Jane, his wife, contented herself with replying to all queries that where there was so much smoke she guessed there must be some fire. Jared Minthorn, who kept the general store, was much exercised, and wanted to take the order, but Eben said he guessed he'd select it from the catalogue of the mail order house, which caused considerable hard feeling between Eben and Jared. As the years went by and Sarah Jane didnt' get her plush coat, the storekeeper began to get skeptical. After ten years had elapsed he became facetious, and the thirteenth year he began to taunt her. "I hain't seen that there plush coat yit, Sar' Jane," he said. Sarah Jane went home and told Eben, and Eben was so wrought up that he determined to trade with Har- *. ey Stockpole < ver at Burnt Meadows, although Burnt Meadows was three miles farther away. But the legend ot the plush coat had penetrated even to Burnt Meadows, and after a couple of years had elapsed Harvey Stackpole said to Sarah Jane one day, "How about that there plush coat Eben's a-goin' to get you?" But this time Sarah Jane was primed. Eben hod tutored her. Drawing herself up proudly, she replied: "Mr. Stackpole, ef you knowed as much about furs as you do about mix- in' sand an' sugar you'd know that the United States Gov'ment has been compelled to pertect the species from foreign invasion, that the animal is rapidly becomin' extinct and that there ain't no more plushes bein' killed I" She Consulted a Clock. Girls are not noted for being strong on figures, and one of them was relating recently the mental maze into which she was introduced as the result of asking a perfectly innocent question. She was going downtown on the car one afternoon and queried the conductor as to the time.' He withdrew his alarm clock of a watch from a capacious pocket, observed the dial with the care used by a mariner in taking an observation with the sextant and then remarked in a portentous tone, "lt lacks three seconds of being 2:48." The poor girl was so overwhelmed with the mass of material for a short exercise in oral arithmetic that she waited until sbe got downtown before trying to find out really what time it was, and then she consulted a big clock, where she had plenty of time to see just where each hand was. Sorry She Screamed. The young man kissed her, and she screamed. "What's the trouble, Kitty?" demanded a stern voice from upstairs. 'I—I just saw a,mouse," she fibbed. Presently the young man claimed another kiss, and the scream was repeated. Again came the stern voice: "What is it this time?" "I just saw another mouse." Then the old man came down with the house cut, a mouse trap and a can and sat in • corner to watch developments. Of No Further Us*. A I'ussengcr-'lCre! Whoa! There's an old bloke fell off tbe bus! Tbe Conductor - Orl rigbt, sonny. E's paid 'is fare.—Sketch. SPEECH FRISHT. Many Great English Parliamentarians Had It. "No greiat ora'of his evjr liv.-d." the .ate; Lord Duuerin ouce said, "who did not feel very nervous before rising to his feet. I have often seen the legs of one of the most effective and heart- stirring speakers in the Hous; of Lords to whom that assembly never failed to listen, shake like an aspen leaf during the delivery of the first few sentences of his speech." This nervous orator who quivered like an aspen waa none other than Lord D.'rby, the "Rupert of Debate," and one of tbe most practised and powerful speakers Westminster has ever known. And his lordship made no concealment of his weakness, for he once come.-s.-d to Macaulay, at the very zenith of his career, "My throat and lips, when I am going to speak, are as dry as those of a man who is going to be hanged." John Bright, past-master as he was of all the arts of oratory, went through agonies of nervousness, to his last day. when he was about to make an important speech. "I know I ought to be ashamed of myself," he confessed, towards the end of his life, "but the fi.ct is, I never rise in the House without a trembling at the knees and a secret wish that somebody else would catch the Speaker's eye and enable me to sit down again." Even Disraeli, the most cool-headed and self-confident of orators, wus a sufferer from sp-ech-ftight. "Dizzy," his wife once told a friend, "is the sweetest-tempered of men, but he is always very irriti ble v-e-Jien he is going to speak;' and when they drove together to the House on those occasions his nervous condition was such that she dared not speak to him. "The blare of trumpets," he himself has written, "a thousand lookers-on, have induced men to lead a forlorn hope. Ambition, one's constituents, or the h 11 of previous failure have induced men to do a far more desperate thing—speak in the % House of Commons ' Gladstone, even, did not live long enough to face an audience without a tremor. Indeed, his nervousness when about to speak was often painfully noticeable. He would tremble like a greyhound in the leash until it was time to rise. WILL KEEP AT IT. Hubert Latham It Not Discouraged by Accidents. Notwithstanding his two unsuccessful attemp's to fly across the English Channel, Hubert Latham declares he will try again. At his first attempt ROBERT LATHAM. Latham fell into the water ten miles out fro* Calcis. While Latham was repairing his monoplane for a second trial Louis Bleriot stole a march on him and performed the feat of flying .'mm Calais to Dover in thirty-three minutes. Latham then undertook to fly from Cal.-Ja to London, but fell ...c.. jn this time only two mib»s out from Dover, The Original "Admirable Crlchton." Among the phrases which are to a certain extent stereotyped in the English '.anguage, "Admirable Crichton" is one that is invaluable. It expresses what no two other words can —the highest pitch of all-round excellence that it is possible for a human being to attain. But how many people know who the hero of the phrase was? To most he is a name and nothing more. Accordingly there is ample room tor an excellent brochure recently published from the pen of Mr. Douglas Crichton, F.S.A., Scot., entitled "The Admirable Crichton: The Real Character." Crichton was another Chatterton. "the marvelous boy that perished in his prime." The Admirable one entered St. Andrews University when he was nine years old. Three years later he became a Bachelor of Arts, and at the age of fourteen he took his Artium Magister degree. At his twentieth year he spoke ten languages, could never forget anything he ever heard, was philosopher, theologian, mathematician, orator, fencer, dancer, horseman. In his person he was "extremely beai-tiful." When one reads that "he *»-is also able to discourse upon politic*) questions with much solidity," it will be gathered thnt this Apollo wa* a prodigy of prodigies.—"Edinburfc-S Even- irg Dispatch." Lunacy in England. The report of the commissioners of lunacy contains ominous figures regarding the increase of insanity in Great Britain. There are now 123.787 ef the certified insane, an increase of i.163. The women exceed the men by 10,000. The criminal lunaties have ncreosed 3.5 per eent. in the year. A noticeable feature is the high ratio of insanity among persons of the learned professions. Civil and mining engineers show the highest rrtio. The commissioners favor farm'col- iniees for the mild cases, und also an ■<-t'>nsion of the boarding-out system under supervision with observation •yards. Being permitted to do ua his wife pleases Is the Inestimable privilege of Ibe married man. Kill lh Is undoubtedly a very good tblng and makes a Due anchor, but It ts uo substitute for a lead Pipe cinch. THE 0ULD WORLD'S WAY. 8ure, manys' the sailorin' Ud Went singiu' and rockin' free Out over the ocean's rim As happy as us, ma chree! But many's the toime, me lad- Such ends the old world brings— That over tbe laugh and lost av him 'Tis the sea tbat rocks and swings! ind many's the boy wid a plow Who'd sing at the break av day As he turned the mould wid his share And buried the grass away! But many's the same lad, now. That sootherin' greensward won. And over his grey bones there 'Tis the grass that sings in the sun! —Arthur Stringer, in "Smart 8et " PAINT UPSIDE DOW'J. Pat Found a Reason For an Extraordinary Phenomenon. Down in Dundas County, the constituency which Premier Whitney represents in the Legislature, there resided until quite recently a merchant commonly known as "Pat." His store was situated in a village back from the St. Lawrence several miles, and it was a real country trading post, where neighbors gathered o' nights to talk "hoss' and "crops" and swap stories. Mow Pat, a typical son of Erin, had lived many years in the vicinity, and was respected alike for his honesty and wit. He was known by every person for miles around, even as far as Limerick and Connaught (two Irish settlements farther north in the country). One day when business was rather quiet, and no one wus about but a small guard of loafers, a lady entered the store and thus addressed the merchant : "I say, Pat, I am having a deal of trouble with the paint you sold me the other day." "And how can that be?" inquired Pat, his interest evidently very much aroused. • "Well, it's like this," she replied; "the paint will not stick to the floor as it should, while everything which falls on it from above sticks hard and fast." Pat's face was a study, but his native wit did not fail him. "That paint," he replied, "ia highly recommended. Sure all the neigh- bora for miles around speak well of it. But in your case there must be something wrong: Now, you tell me the paint will not stick to the floor?" "No, it will not." "And it will stick to everything else which falls on it from above?" "Yea." "Sure, then, there is only one thing can be wrong. You have no doubt opened the wrong end of the can and put the paint on upside down." A Misplaced Adverb. It is not even the most grown up of us who, can avoid an occasional defeat at the hands of an adverb that will not go in its right place in the sentence, but a lad in one of the To ronto schools has produced chef d' oeuvre which the teachers are still telling with great glee. Inspector Hughes had arrived at the school and was conducting a cheerful little quiz throughout the school. He walked into a very junior room, and ln his breezy, cheerful way, began to pry into the little souls of the children before him. Kindness was his topic, and he laid his ground by securing a few examples out of the experiences of the children themselves Would anyone give him an example of kindness? One little boy would. His father often took him to a fives-cent show. Then everv youngster in the room would. All the changes were rung on the subject of parental indulgence with examples', but still one little fellow i-emained unheard. He got his chance, and bursting with eagerness, he started, but his excitement waa fatal. "My father—my father—nearly gives me a cent every morning." Procession of Iceberg*. One of the most remarkable phenomena in Newfoundland scenery is the stitely procession of great icebergs passing along the East Coast in spring. This year there was not only an enormous number of towering ice mountains, but the field ice waa unusually heavy and late. The wind hung the drift ice in on the shore, and greatly interfered with navigation, af well as chilling the air and delaying vegetation But no matter how the wind is the bergs are always steadily moving south, driven along by the great Arctic River, known as the fabrador Current. They move south until they reach the north bend of the Gulf Stream, which reaches up to the Grand Banks, and then turns off for Europe and Africa. When they reach this warmer water they gradually melt away and disappear. ... This great ocean current, which delays Newfoundland agriculture and impedes navigation, however, brings down the food for the flsh and the whales. It >« one great living mas; of. food, full of small crustaceans and animalculi It makes Newfoundland the home of the cod, salmon, and herring Two Remarkable Men. In 1896 there waa no Canadian Northern Railroad; to-day there are 7,000 miles of it in operation, under construction or surveyed. At the present rapid rate of extension it will in a few years form a Continuous streak of steel from ocean to ocean, making the third trans-continental highway in Canada. The Canadian Northern is unique among rail'oads, in that its shares are not scattered among a large number of holders, but are owned and controlled by two men, William Mackenzie and Donald D. Mann, two of the most interesting characters Can- ada has yet produced. Estate of August WilhemJ. August Wilhelmj, a musician, well- known in Canadian circles from his residence in Toronto for some years, who died a month ago in Bavaria, left an estate of $15,130. Arthur C Mc- Master, barrister, of Toronto, is named executor. The widow receives the entire estate, the bulk of which consists in mortgages. Nctu-.je.lly. "How do you feel I" breathlessly Inquired tbe friend who bus come running tip to dlscovei tbe t-esult of tha accident "All run down." replied tbe man who bad just been trawled 4Mer by a latge red automobile Desired Is. Settle. "nef.r about Wlls-.o?" "No; what alwut Um?" "Wants to marry his laidlndy." "Is that so? I didn't th.nk be owed that much on bis biagrd." DEEP BORING. The Problem of Tapping the Earth For Its Internal Heat. - Sir William Ramsay's recent suggestion tbat the interior beat of tbe earth might be tapped by means of a bore hole Is not exactly new. Indeed, experiments bave actually been undertaken with tbat end In ♦lew. % One of tbe most Important waa ca- i lied out some years back by tbe Oe» J man government at a place called* i Paruscbow'itz, In Silesia, wben a depth of 0,572 feet was reached. Of course tbe bore Is of very slender dimensions —three feet six Inches In diameter at tbe top, decreasing gradually to two feet six inches at tbe depth of one mile, at whlcb lt remains for tbe rest of the distance. At La Chapelle Is a bore of a similar kind and nearly aa deep constructed by tbe French government for experimental purposes, and anotber similar one exists near Stavropol, In southern Russia. ' Io each case lt was tbe original Intention to carry tbe bore much lower, bnt the expense was found to be prohibitive wben contrasted wltb the* prospective results. Tbat la tbe worst of such works. After a certain depth tbe cost Increases by leaps and bounds, and tbe time occupied lengthens proportionately. Tbus Cbarles Parsons of turbl;- fame, who bas made a special i tbe question, estimates tbat hole ten miles deep down through the earth's crust would cost £5.000,000 and take eighty years. Tbe job la a stupendous one, yet It may be necessary to undertake tt. Our coal supply will not last forever, and wben this Is exhausted the greatest Industrial communities will be tbose tj that bave tbe moat direct means of access to the stored up beat of tbe earth's interior.—Pearson's Magazine. >f turbl j-. al study/ I to drill i Tha Meteorograph. Tbe methods of penetrating tbe upper strata of tbe air on board a vessel \\ equipped wltb tbe latest devices for meteorological observations Include kites, sounding balloons, captive balloons and pilot or free balloons. With the exception of tbe free balloons all tbese vehicles are equipped witb a wonderful Instrument called a meteorograph, wh|ch makes an automatic record of tbe conditions of the air. In spite of lta complicated mechanism tbe meteorograph weighs but two pounds. It contains a cylinder, revolved by clockwork, around whlcb Is wound a sheet of paper, and upon tbls sheet four different meteorological conditions are recorded-bumldlty. pressure or altitude, temperature and wind velocity. Tbe humidity record Is traced by a pen actuated by a strand of human hairs, whlcb lengthen wben exposed to moist air and shorten ln dry air.—World's Work. Inquisitive Penguins. Dr. Lionvllle, wbo Is wltb tbe Charcot expedition, in a letter to Paris says: "The antarctic region Is quite up to its reputation. I understand bow <; one can be fascinated with tbese ™ weird landscapes, where everything that nature sbows ia strange and unaccustomed. The animals are prodigiously curious and thc formations of tbe mountains and glaciers very unexpected. It ia unfortunate tbat we cannot spend ten days at this place, 'Deception,' so Inaptly named. Tbe penguins'are most Interested in my work. When I turn over pieces of rock on tbe shores tbey come up to watch what I am doing, draw closer and closer, elbow each otber to see better, peck tbe places where I am digging and end up by hustling me. I bad to apeak very plainly to one tbls morning, and he walked away limping."— London Standard, >( c Generate Wood and Bell. "' Major General Leonard Wood, now In command of the military department of the east, with headquarters ut Governors island, New York, will be tbe next chief of staff of tbo army. General Wood will succeed Major General 3. Franklin Bell, whose reappointment to bis present office was announced Immediately after the Inauguration of the uew administration. General Bell, however, has decided to remain In Washington but a year longer and some tlpe next spring probably will be transferred to Manila, where he will have command of tbe troops stationed In tbe Philippine archipelago.—Argonaut. Phonographio Library. Tbe Academy of .Sciences at Vienna ' bas decided upon tbe creation of phonographic archives which will be divided into three parts und wblcb vill probably be tbe most remarkable II- Ji. brary on record. The first section will JCt be devoted to examples of Kuropee- tfj*- ,*, languages and dialects of tbe differ- f, T- people spoken at tbe beginning of twentieth century. Tbe second will contain examples of music and song of tbe same period, while the third section will be reserved for the records nf contemporary orators. fa.-.-/ I U' -III *JI Fairly Warned. Postmaster Carney of Norfolk, Vs., recently posted tbls notice to employees In bis office: "All requests for leave of absence on account of toothache, severe colds and minor physical ailments and oo account of funerals, (denies, church sociables and tbe like must be banded to tbe superintendent ot your division before 10 a. m. on the morning of tbe gnme." rpHEUIS are individual.-! such poor "*■ demonstrators that they can't even show tbe point uf their owu Jokes. Nobody would be guilty of writing an anonymous letter. That's why it la anonymous. One-half of the world knows bow tbe other half would Ihe. If it were running things. Too many people keep all their coun tesy for their ncipialntuti-es and all tbelr indifference for their families. I* lu*. > it i I TIIE HOSlOBt THUS the Last Stand at Solferino |e Narrative of Ag03tuio Ginocchio, late try, Italian .Army fth Battalion of Infan- fcdous battle of Solferino, in :,ilv. v,.-i,- fonglit ou June The .struggle lusted for nr.*-. and .aimed in Uu* de- ustrians by the allied [tal ich. Tbo Sardinian troops distinguished t beinselves y mills. Solferino waa the of tlie short, fierce war, >111v a few weeks. The more than twenty thous od men, uml the allies had ty thousand killed and ■ring u total for the dread- ori >■ thousand casualties, try fight ended the war. ■/tersary of the battle, in le.*-,^,' tlie slain who had a H battlefield wer? con- ' \\11W\\W ossuaries, the cere* .tended by representatives . and Austria. L>rs uud a king took part ■famous tight of Solferino. tin* Emperor Napoleon, lhe Pruned; the Emperor lio was at the head of his Tl the King of Piedmont, lallaut Sardinians, It is three monarchs ure pros {-field ai the same time. 1 ilie world will ever such a thing? still lives- the aged tiles AuBtria. His fel (who helped to win one "greatest vietorios, died u nnd defeated mun. Thul battle of Sedan. Do you when Fiance \\s downfall nt' Prussia ate the din Pbeen prepared for N"apo auy i UeJO |lf Fir. pie ci did uriuol ill 0X1 to mind u-tlv the He'occu- ,-e.f 11 which 1 lad been | tbe 'to tl: ie ( tperor (Inner of w Austria, hich hud During one of the desperate assaults I with the bayonet upon that Austrian; position, which it seemed impossible toj win, we charged through a farmyard,] and I suw a woman drawing water from the wid I. Several women were eugag- ed in that work of humanity, and we were thankful to rush up to them aud slake our awful thirst. Pitiful it ia ti> think thut some of these women were shot by stray bullets, ami in one or two cases they fell into the, well, where. if they were not already dead, .they were drowned, That was sad enough, but the most pathetic incident in all that day of .slaughter—and there were hundreds of painful happenings—was witnessed when we entered the farmhouse itself. The woman wnn hud been drawing water had been shot while performing her act of mercy. She had left her baby inside the house, a tiny fellow, who was in uis cradle while the buttle was raging furiously about thc building. Bullets were whistling everywhere, and one of them entered the house nnd struck the infant in the arm. It wus pitiful to see the little sufferer, and strong men, who were unaffected by the dreadful slaughter which wus taking mi every band, broke down nt the f him. Ise seemed to lie forgotten in the i save the infant, and it was not e had been safely carried to the surgeon that t he lighters went their furious work of storming mg! \\\\r the ruler who hud mude I suppose thnt even human ns the humblest daresay that, the Em- enjoyed his meal after ich us I enjoyed my own; *f both him ami his mar if had practically no food file of that, fierce conflict, l-nimself had only a small kite, a million Austrian sol- eld iit Solferino against [my of the allies. It is i,the meaning of such a best understand I by remembering that irmy formed a line of us fifteen miles in extent n express train, rushing rales au hour, would take l\\ to roar past the as- art iiiery. and infantry. i>Vi guns and men anil Fv*-y. a .straggling village sur ills, ami a road runs place called Sun Casino particular hill there plferino is really built. |most prominent object It is like u gigantic i the summit there is | tower, from wliich you Jucrftll view of the glor- votn the Alps to the River r.ere are Ihe vineyards that -Italy Vovu .so well, and the for which Lombardy is looked a fair and fertile " Ine day which was to end Mul night, ppes of Solferino is call and there if was that 1'hting of the day took stria 118 were posted on heavy force, and there ioth sides who did not r position wus impregnable pr be carried by storm. Mart inn that I always miud goes back to the lenturv ago, when i was the army of oved so well, soldii I5;t.l whicli I I proud to have helped cl smart young' follow id of the white canvas guitors, and blue tunic /b formed my uniform. i'. we hud our over eful we found them ■fwas over. We hud our ,*nd pur rifles, bayonets, f,u\\s of ammunition. 1 n fsnldier went into battle envy burden—far ?. i-s now, when the ^tpL cartridge weighs .■fere muzzle-loaders, riion caps, so that to slow busi caps, was place Bight All wish to until in nearest back 1 . Sun Mnrtino. Ves, the baby lived. I nm always thankful to know that, The surgeon dressed his wound at once, and the little scrap of U patient went into hospital like a real soldier, und got well and strong. I wonder If he i.s still liv- lle wus too small, of course, to re- mber anything of what place at Solferino, but the who, in after years, would tell him of whut hnd happened. Yes, wonderful and almost Incredible things were done by individuals—and none more amazing, I think, than the achievement, of a gallant French of infantry. In the dense battle he suddenly came upon some Austria. artillery. What was he to do? Retire as unexpectedly as he had appeared hurl himself against the battery ns thought, he swooped down guns and captured seven—nnd with his own company of foot only. 1 dnresuy that he was us much amazed at his success as the Austrians were because of their lost artillery. Of the seven assaults which were made on the Austrian position, my own regiment made three. In those days a charge was u magnificent and inspiriting things, for we dashed to the with bands playing, beating, and bugle raised our own t was taking re nre ninny ofc ' Swift ni the did it tult olors flying, drums ringing, und eniendous cheer jault, but 1 we panted and struggled over the slop ing ground. There wus the cry from our commanders of "Attaceo alta buy oneta! "--"Attack with the bayonet" —then hoarse shouts from our own parched throats of "Avantl, Vavolo!" -which corresponds to yon "(lo it, you Britons! '' There is no more terrible form of conflict than that with the bayonet, and no fighting is so tierce ns that which) is done with the cold steel. We hnd the long, three sided bayonet in those days, ami a very dreauiul weapon il was at close quarters. We dashed up to the ass; not tell you whut really happened ia my uim ,...«. I know that legions of men were nrouud me, and that I plung ed out witli my bayonet, whenever I supposed the Austrians were in front of but thc firing was so tremendous incessant that it was almost impossible to see your next- rank man. The air was dark with dust and powder- smoke, and the excitement mnde it difficult to realize whether one was wounded or was still sound in wind and limb. There were muny cases that day of 1.1..11 being badly hurt, nud yet knowing bout it unt il they assault, 'l 1 of one of jum as sometimes the worst part of a .storm is at the end, so it happened that the dealiest part of the struggle came in this finishing assault. The sergeant of my own cnmpanv, wlm had escaped so far, was shot dead. A bullet pierced hi- brain, and he fell ut my feet as [ rushed forward in that last mad charge. All around me men were struck and falling, and when we reached the Aus , Manns uud weie plunging at each other | with bur bayonets, the list of dead and | wounded grow with awful swiftness. j But it was clear that we were winning, and the Austrians, seeing that they ha.} no chance of victory, began to melt away, and finally they left us in triumphant possession of that gently slop- ! ing hill which they had defended so valiantly, and which we had stormed so sternly. By that time only sixty of the officers and men of my company could answer the roll-call. We had gone into battle a hundred and ninety strong, so that out of my own company alone no fewer than one hundred and thirty lay dead or wounded on the field. The colonel, whose name was IJarretta, had been killed by a bullet which passed through him, and then struck the major who was second in command; but the major was not badly hurt. Many of the other ofiicers of my regiment were also numbered with the slain, and what hap pened to the 7th Regiment of the Line applied to nearly the whole of the Allies. Terrible and harassing as all this fierce struggling for victory had been to the ordinary ofiicers and men, yet how much more anxious must havo been the time for those three sovereigns who were on the field of battle, and partien larly to the one who had seen that for him the great day was lost, and that he must seek in retreat his only chance of personal safety? Hour after hour the Hmporor of Austria had watched the battle, and, though he must. ha\\e known that there was no hope of victory for his troops, he had reason enough to be proud of them, for they struggled gallantly to win the day. It was not until the fight had raged for twelve hours that he saw that all was lost, and he rode off the stricken field aud made his way towards the neighboring village of Goito. The Emperor joined the struggling fugitives who were crowding the road which runs through Solferino, and he and his staff were mixed up with the retreating army and the guns and carts, which choked the highways so densely that it was scarcely possible to move. The 'Austrians had taken two thousand carts from neighbouring villages, and these were crowded with dead and wounded, for the enemy took away both from the battlefield a; could do so. Trains, a. were soon filled with wounded, and the convent and casino at Verona, thirty or forty miles away, as well as all the churches and buildings in the neighbor hood, wen: turned into hospitals. Thus easily can a beautiful aud peaceful countryside become a place of desolation and suffering. So far the glorious Italian sun had been shining, making strange effects on thc dust and smokeladen air, and causing it to look like a golden fo^. But now a dreadful i .-cone, for the s a strife so hideous, sign of friendship. To upset salt ifl un lucky, bays the old Raw. Tie tirst to leave the table where thirteen have eaten i.s said alwnys to be the uni one who will die the coming year, be cause Judas left first. Not to pick up a pin is "unlucky"—because it denotes thriftlessness—and so on; there is always a reason for old saws—"dye tire where the smoke rises.,f Yet a former editor of this paper proved thirteen to be a lucky number, and tbe present writer prefers to begin things on a Friday, that bo ^alled unluekv day.— Pail Mall Gazette. the yield of seed per acre. J ii the past year experiments with autumn sown crops were conducted by 43;* Ont ky j farmers ii ceived Ontario. "The i from winter wh Variety report s it of long as they well as carts, M' PICKING OUT BEST KINDS OT WINTER WHEATS Results of Experiments by Agricultural College and Fanners—Tests of Bye, Barley, Emmer and Hairy Vetchra UCH interesting and valuable information is packed into the report just issued by C. A. Znvitz, professor of field husbandry, Ontario Agricultural College, (iuelph, Ont., on the results of experiments with autumn sown cropH ooneiuetcd at that college and throughout Ontario this your. About 2(jc> varieties of winter wheat have been grown at the college in the past 21 years. All have beon weel tested for five years; the poorer have been elropped and the bettor kinds tested further. This year 43 kinds, besides some selections and hybrids were under experiment. The Dawson B Golden Chaff produces a very stiff straw of medium length, boarelless heads with red chaff and white grain, somewhat short but abont the standard in weight per measured bushel. The Imperial Amber produces a large amount of straw which is somewhat weak, a bearded head with rod chaff, aud a red grain of average quality, Tho straw of the Tasmania Red, Geneva, Kentucky Giant, Turkey rod, Tuscan Island, and Mc.Phorsou is comparatively weak, but the grain is hard and woighs well por measurod bushel. Thirty-one varieties of winter wheat, grown in 1910, have been under experiment for at least five years. In the five years' test, the highest yiold of grain per acre of the named varieties have been produced by the Dawson's Golden Chaff (47.6 bushels) and three other varieties which resemble it closely and which have yielded as follows:—Ameri can Wonder, 51 bushels; American Ban ner, 50.8 bushels; and Abundance, 48.6 bushels. The highest yields produced by varieties of other types in the five years' experiment are as follows:—Uri- — • -. ■ >a- a-. :.— „ A America ii Wonde Tasmania K.-J Imperial Amber Crimean Ued ind ll: tli. verage vie-lds they 2 by the hurri and mud were swept then, as suddenly as tempest died away, - by an almost mirac the atmosphere. The dense, black clouds gave pi glorious fleecy blue as the sun nnt again and rode serenely in placid sky. That was at nearly o'clock in thc evening, by which tittk tho beateu Emperor had vanished from the ptricken field of Solferino. Then also his legions, brave but- vanquished, were retreating, and we knew that San Mnrtino had been won. fane, aud stones intn our faces; it had come, the ml was followed ulous clearness of tee to bllTSt i thc six O HOW STAMPS ARE GUMMED PFICIALS of the Bureau of graving anil Printing En- Wash* * most Ills fm Mcc ol" 1 • jiiiiiig thnl loug nnd Mcerliine wa*. stormod veil ei Si.s times lln1 i.ic.i follows Heal thoy Btoi-moi-s buck, and it |!he seventh thai we* ter regiment wa s sent pition, and a 3 often as I k other t roopa wore lit. Beth si. les ft night ['eeur; tgo, and lhe F rench 1 line ■icnt reputation of jllle' rs. They were pro- to ll, sw rifled guus. and Ue-ri nination to su cceed rugged those can in in up >'' antry found it hard Fapous did,heavy exeeu I'cause of their rapidity through the efficient ey were handled. They ptrians terribly, and, in Austrians' oldor-fa.sh- [her failed to carry their jf;»pj)osing ranks, or, be- favated, the shell burst make jenta. 1 thoughl ul I saw thc In.sis dead at MftjOlltn more than thirteen thousand ofllcnra and men were buried nn that fatal field---that no fiercer bat lie could be fought; bnl Solferinn was infinitely moro dreadful, because lhe cessary. Austrians were lighting fnr n great | fur other stake They knew thev must either mec win nr acknowledge that they were a beaten nation. Blood was np tn fever heat mi both sides. Tt was seen that we must either make a forlorn assault ou San Mnrtino nr be defeated, and early in the afternoon King Victor Emmanuel called a Council nf War and said: ''Wc must take San Martini- nr retreat." That expression hns become a proverb in Italy, and the people today say, when they have any special undertaking in hand, that they must either take San Mnrtino or be beaten. The Council resolved that all the forces should make a grand assault, and so it happened that for the seventh time an attack was made. Thc weary troops pulled themselves together, and again, with colors flying nud drums beating and the instruments sending their wild notes into the thick, choking air, tho Freneh and Italians, brothers in arms, swept over that stretch of land wliich had become a field of death; for by that time many thousands had fallen on both sides, and the dead and dying were lying thick amongst tho vineyards and the mulberry trees. at ...Hton aver that nne of tli delicate operations connected with the manufacture of our postage stamps is the gumming thereof. Wheu tlie sheets have been printed lhey are passed under a roller, from which they receive a thin coating of gum, and then gradually over coils of steam pipes until they are dried. Much care is exorcised to get the layer uni , formn on every part of the surface. The gum in the little vats, from i which it drops to the roller, is maintained at an oven temperature and. thick- j ness, Tests are frequently made of the ! warmth and humidity ef the work-room. But even with thc perfection nf me j chauical exactness, some allowance must always be made for the season : nf the year. I'nr summer sale a slight harder gum is used, because of the trouble occasioned by the sticking to- (fPthor of stamps. In winter precaution against the cracking of the gum med surface through contraction is no- A third grade of thc material seasons is known as ''inter- ■dtnte." IN IVtEMORIAM Vnu did not live in vain. Though life was short And early fell the night. A few of ns were taught llv you to seek the light. You diil not live in vn in. A few will grieve; A few will miss your face And voice. Absent, your soul will leave A silent, aching space. Ton did not live in vain. You met life's test Bravely. Without a cry You gave your all; and best, You showed men how to die. UNLUCKY DAYS AND SIGNS A WRITER in one of our leading dailies remarks: "No one knows why the number 13 is counted unlucky." Thirteen was tho number who sat down to that "Last Supper," and the old painter in depicting the scene makes Judas, in rising hastily, upset the salt. To eat salt together was the ean Red, 4-4 bushels; Prosperity, 43.4 bushels; Kentucky Giant, 42.9 bushels;, Genesee Reliable,' 42.7 bushels; No. 5i Rel, 42.6 bushels; Early Genesee Giant, 42.6 bushels; Turkey Red, 42.3 bushels; Egyptian Ambor, 42.2 bushels; and Ban- atka, 42.1 bushels. The heaviest weights of grain per measured bnBhel in the five vears' test have been produced by the 'Northwester, 63.7 lbs.; Geneva,* G3.1 lbs.; Bauatka, 63 lbs.; Rudy, 63 lbs.; Genesee Reliable, 63 lbs.; Egyptian Amber, 62.9 lbs.; Kentucky Giant, 62.9 lbs.; Crimean Red, 62.8 lbs.; Turkey Red, 62.7 lbs.; and Imperial Amber, 62.7 lbs. Of the forty-three named varieties of winter wheat grown in 1910, the greatest yields of grain por acre were produced by the Grand Prize, 53.fi bushels Crimean Red, 53.2 bnshels; Banatka, 52.4 bushels; New Perfection, 52.3 bushels; kuarkow, 52.1 bushels; Red Wave, 51.2 bushels; and Buda Pesth, 50.3 bushels; and the heaviest weights per measured bushel by tho Rudy, 63.3 lbs.; Bulgarian, 63 lbs.; Nigger, 63 lbs.; Northwester, 62.9 lbs.; Farmers' Friend, 62.8 lbs.; Kentucky Giant, C6.6 lbs.; and Michigan Amber, 62.5 lbs. From tests in tho past three years the bakery department of the college found that the largest- loaves of bread from equal quantities of flour were produced by the following varieties:—Crimean Red. Banatka, Tuscan Island, Buda Pesth, Scott. Yaroslaf, Kentucky Giant, Tasmania Red, Rudy, and Egyptian Amber. These 'all possess red grain and, with one exception, bearded heads: and with two exceptions, white chaff. Generally the experiments at the college show that white wheats yield more grain per acre, possess stronger straw, weigh a little less per measured bushel, nre slightly softer in the grain, produce a more popular pastr*- flour, and furnish n somewhat weaker flour for bread pro duetion than the red varieties. During the past three years the highest yields of all the winter wheat experiments, both in yield of grain per aere and of weight of grain per measured bushel, have been obtained from some of the new kinds originated at the college either by pure selection or by the aid of croRS-fertiliz.ation. Some of the most interesting hybrids have boen obtained by crossing the Dawson 'a Golden ChaiT with the Tasmania Red, the Buda Pesth, the Turkey Red, the Bulgarian, and the Imperial Amber. Twelve tests showed an average increase in yield of grain per acre of 6.S bushels from large ns compared with small seed, of 7.S bushels from plump as compared with shrunken seed, and of 35.6 bushels from sound as compared with broken seed. Seed which was allowed to become thoroughly ripened before it was rut produced a greater yield of both grain and straw ,and .- heavier weight nf grain per measured bushel thau that produced from wheat whid was cut at any one of four enrlio stages of maturity. Winter wheat grown on clover sod yielded much better than that grown on timothy sod. Tu the average of eight tests, land ou which field peas were used as a green manure yielded o".n bufihela of wheat per acre more than land on which ; buckwheat was used as a green manure.1 Winter wheat has been treated to pre-j vent tlie development of stinking smut. Tn the average results for five years, untreated seed produced 4.2 per cent, of smutted heads, while seed immersed for twenty minutes in a solution mnde by , adding one pint nf formalin to forty- | two gallons of wnter produced a crop ! practically free from smut. Seven years' experiments show the j following yield per acre and weight per measured bushel:— Mammoth White, 60.8 bushels, 57.5 lbs.; Washington, 56.7 bushels, 57.7 lbs.; Thousand Fold, 51 bushels, 57.4 Mis.; and Common, 53,7 bushels, nnd 56.7 lbs. Tn 1910. the Mammoth White yielded 62.7 and the Common 54.0 bushels per acre. During thc past seven years, the Mammoth White gave the greatest yield per acre in each nf six years, and in the other year occupied second place. In 14 years one v.'iricty gave an aver- ago yield of 56.1 bnshels, and produced grain weighing 46.0 lbs. por measured bushel. Two varieties were tested in the past four years and the better yield was an average of 52,8 bushels per acre by Tennessee. Tn 17 years winter barley has uecn killed out on three occasions. This is a type of spring wheat, the grain of which is used chiefly for feeding purposes and is about equal to barley for those purposes. Four years' nv erago yield of black winter emmer was 2,404 lbs. per acre. Sowing hairy vetches in the autumn for producing seed in the following year, nine years' average yield was 7.'. bushels of seed per acre. Canadian grown, ns compared with imported THE QUEbT OF ?KE UNDISCOVERED SOUTH POLE ON the morning of June 1, the "Terra Nova," which ship bore the officers and equipment of the British Antarctic expedition to its winter quarters on the South Polar continent, left the West India docks and sailed away down the Thames over the first few miles of its long journey. In May 27, Captain Robert Scott told a crowded audience at the Royal Institution his plan for reaching the South Polo. After giving particulars. Captain Scott pro cooded to say that "during the winter preparations will be made for a great effort to reach the South Pole in the foi lowing season. We know now that the first phase of that journey must be over| the plateau of tho Great Barrier, thei second a climb through mountain pass-' es, and the third a traverse of a lofty inland plain. It is ouly possible, certainly not probable, that auy means of transport can be taken beyond the first phase. If it is impossible then we shall have, as Sir Ernest Shackleton, to make all further advance with the unaided efforts of man alone. Shackleton's party started on the second phase with full loads, and achieved the maximum that could be accomplished under such circumstances. The only manner, therefore, iu which such a record can be beaten is by taking a larger party of men and sending sections of them back at intervals. This is, of course, a well known expedient in polar work, but it has to be remembered that each multiple of the original number nf men only adds a fraction, and a diminishing fraction. to the radius of action. In other words, a party with ihe nid of a sup aud over mountains, tin waa always a factor to I sod sometimes a serious one. The harmless Eastern brand of Indians had been reduced to a tribe of mendicants. When not too lazy to breathe, au occasional muskrat or mink skin furnished a precarious existence. And when the white man came nlong, the crumbs that fell from his table were not despised by his red brothers, and they would often camp alongside of him and laboriously move along. With their well known instincts of true gallantry they would kindly permii the squaws and a .small retinue of dogs, never absent, to pack heavy loads ni' their belongings, while haughty chief tain strode along in the lead with nothing heavier to carry than au old musket. Of course, tuis class of .Vborigine. principally of the Cree persuasion, "cur no ice." He was simply regarded as an indolent, improvident, dirty, unreliable lying son of the forest. All Cooper', fairy tales fade away when you en counter the real child of nature, so dif ferent from the tall, lordly savage portrayed by the novelist, marching aloneg, arrayed in a bunch of leathers and a eoat nf red paint, witb his lovely eon sort at his side, whoso simple toilet, in expensive, but effective, consists of a string of beads; a coiJlure made up with the aid of bacon gre,ise; buckskin Ug gings and embroidered mocassins. Alas! liow all is changed. The wretched old ragged, pock -marked, BO sanitary, insect repository who follows' along your trail uow, with his old BOTB- eyed squaw and numerous offspring, picking up the white man's leavings, tells a pitiable tale, and shows only ion plainly the decadence of tho redflk.'.n. On the Western plains, of course, different tribea are encountered. Horse Indians are invariably superior to* those other decaying specimens. Many a line, tall, straight, upstanding, unreliable t+avage have I encounter ed, clothed nimply in hi.**, right mind, mounted upon thc self supporting little wall-eyed eayuse The different tribes were, seldom, if ever, friendly, and iu the old days an} plain Indian would kill a Crcr. on sight. The "Stouies" iuhabitod the Roc-: Mountain Hinges and seldom if ev *r came cast, of Swift Current Creek, then there were "Surcees," "Hlackfee^" "Blood.s." t(Pagan8j" ami many ot aer hard varieties. According to the old mi.sjiionaries' aud traders' stories, many fights have tskou place between the rival tribes. I remember well, some year:* ago whom camped at Swift Current Creek, where I had just tini.med the location of the C. P. R. main line, discovering three or four bodies of Crce Indians recently murdered and scalped by some hostile tribe. A particularly perfect skull struck my faaey, and as I was n- turning East next day, I annexed it for a souvenir. When tbe cook had cleaned and san-d- papered this headpiece, I '.-rribblerl the following verso upon the dome of thought, and pi','- it under the seat of my buckboard: grinning manner i u; but, vhen it udonng I roame-a these drenrv i, men, irtue *s fool and V, path rams IV porting party of equal numbers can only hope to achieve a distance one third greater than it would have done with out a supporting party. Taking i!ii> fact into consideration, together with the increased risk of individual breakdowns which the larger number of men must bring, it must be evideut that the achievement of the South Polo, iu view of the distance which has to be traversed in the second and third phases of the journey, is by no means a certainty. Of course, one is not without hope that either tho ponies, the dogs, or the motor sledges may traverse the disturbed regions of the rrlacier, and if this is possible the difficulty of the journey should be greatly diminished. But even so, it must be remembered that the last phase of the journey, owing to the height of tho plateau, has to bo accomplished under climatic, conditions which for severity arc unequaled either in the Arctic or Antarctic regions." Captain Scott declared to the audience that he was taking with him on his journey to the South Pole instruments which would determine thc position of the Pole within the limits of one mile. He had, he added, no hesitation at all in making that statement. The excellent instrumental equipment of the expedition accounts for Captain Scott's certainty on this point, a very interest ing one in view of the recent controversies which mgod round the question of the discovering of the North Pole. The instruments wind Captain Scott have beon supplied by the Ami of Hughes & Son, opticians of Fen- church Street. fu determining one's position by an instrument the most ini portant factor to be arrived at is thei height of the sun above tho horizon at l noon. This is done by measuring the angle made by the sun, thc eye of the observer and the horizon. In of her < words, one has to draw a line from thei yuu to the eye and from tho eyi horizon, and measure the angh these two imaginary lines make sextant ihis is done by means ui able mirror attached to a gr, scale, which gives the angle r The imago of the sun in the mirrnr la broughl down to the edge of the horizon "Long hav plains, I 've used up ho And oft' frnm strayed To find* a fifty t' Hut now. thank God, I Tl rake ii rest Content, I've done my level best, To this green earili ! 'II say farewell, And run a Railway lino through Hell." That night, there was an alarm of "Indians coming/' and upon turning ut we found a buuch of Cree*. sprawling through the long grass into camp, nil thoroughly scared by " 1:1 noils,' and "Stonies,' whom thev said iverc cluing them. They asked our protection, which was afforded, and the whole cavaleado n,| women, and children, moved down next day with my party. We saw nothing of the hostile 'tribes'. Being anxious to get down to tho end of a track as soon as possible (about 250 miles), I took ono man and several spare horses, and jogged along ahead of my transport, making between sixty and seventy miles a day. The second day nut f met a stranger, a typical down east Vankce trader. Ife was a long-hair ed, lantern jawed specimen, driving an express wagon, piled up with all sorts of merchandise to trade with tlie dusky savages. lie was driving two ponies and loading four others. He stopped me and fired a volley of questions at me at once. He enquired particularly about the Indians, wanted to kuow if I had seen any; whereabout a would he meet them, then if they were bad. etc.. etc.? I told him they began to get real bad at Swift Current, and they had killed several Crees at that point to iny cei tain knowledge. This was the spot he was heading fnr. He thru wanted my opinion as in what ii e probabilities were in his par i.:„..i_ff? _.. ._ i ..i.i j.: 1..... .. bing out for a/i lhe aboriginal nuisance removed outside, bet ore grant iog an audience to so distinguished * visitor. The picturesque scoundrel turned out to he "Sitting Hull V right bower, and rejoiced in the nn.nr of "Rising .Sun." Hi- wardrofce on sisted of an elaborately tattooed cheat and a bandolier of Winchester .earl ridges. This handsome vagabond was 00 a little excursion up north ia Oana- dian territory, accompanied by \\ band of about seventy or eighty ragMiiutrins, witb their squaws and dusky progeny, seeking what they might devour My camp was in disorder after \\%* j gale, tents blown tn smithereens-- horses j stampeded, etc., etc. With tin* aid --i' -* I Sareee interpreter he informed me that my presence (in my own country) was not only undesirable to hi- MajjBty, but decidedly objectionable. Wc advanced the old well worn Indian .argument that 1 would scare the game away and thus prevent him and his tribe from making an honest Tving. After pointing out to this child of nature that lie really belonged tn I'nclo Sam, and wa.s trespassing upnn my bailiwick, V did tfce usual thing, and after the powwow introduced bim tn a generous breakfast which would have puz/.Ied t!.o digestioa of au ostrich. He ate event lung ia sight, i then made him a present nf much flour, sugar, tea, and tobacco an a peace offering, and told r tl,K through the interpreter, that I was closely rohit ed to the "Great White M.-tli.-r1' Vic tOfiaS era), who possessed more red coated .soldiers than his dig had fleas, and tvnuld not hesitate to blow him off the map if h-e wasn't good. With these cheerful .assurances, I bid lim good bye, say;.ng, as a parting shot, that I toped never to see his ugly mug^again, { was congratulated bv the half-breeds upon my diplomati of dealing with the nobfi chief a as! for all human eale ilatioi comes to dealing with the i \\omnd of the plains. Thc next morning at 'iawn f swoke to find tho noble savage once more .squatted at my feet. This timo I wis indeed annoyed, but diseretij-n triumphed, and •ending for the interprete-, 1 at lirfit denouueed him as au unwashed, hand painted impostor, triling him that he had broken our sacred cout net by daring to show his forbidding countenance again—I ulso remarked with* aa air of assumed ditjnity befitting oue se closely related to the Roya'.. Kan.ily that the "Great W'hiie Moth. »-■" would be greatly distressed at the wayward manners uf her red skinned children, and would probably disinherit the whole bunch, etc. This speech, being interpreted! to hinr, with any amount of ha'.f-breod .tmbroid cry, seemed to hav.j a soothing effect, but after thinking it carefully over, tie noble warrior emitted a su'Jen grant, and told the interprster to Udl me that he, too, came of a proud a,nd haughty race, and was not nearly such a rotter as I had depicted. He didn't want, any favors at my hands and wJiat wad more wouldn't accept them, in fact, be didn't admire my style anyway, aud much preferred his own. AU. he sought wa» permission to bring t&e ladies of his harem into my camp, that tbey might gaze upon the classic features of tha Caucasian ore wo departed This being granted, that same after noon a loud jingling of spurs, mixed with suppressed giggling, announced the arrival of the female element in old "Rising Sun's" entourage. Talk about feminine curiosity, they could give their fairer sisters cards and spades and then beat them at Iheir own game They poked their noses into everything; chat tered continuously; asked all sorts of "fool" questions, and I expect many of the younger damsels had never gazed i,[hoi the tair features nf a white before. They were particularly interested in the culinary department, and after being fed hung about the cook's tents examining every detail. .\\ peculiarly beautiful bean pot sfniek the fancy of an old fat chaperone, w mine over to my tent accompanied by her sixteen- year-old daughter, attired iu one single garment, generally advertised by the department stores as "white wear, " In this particular case it might have been ipiite true originally. After manifesting much anxiety and making many violent gesticulations (the old horror had her daughter in one hand and (tie bean pot in the other), I gave my consent to anything for a quiet life, | and at sundown they departed, bean pot man i iculaP cast or other level employed. The ordinary sextant is held in the hand, and is probably uot so reliable as the theodolite which Captain Scott used on his former journey and which he is using again. This is fixed to a tripod ami gives very reliable results. At sea a captain oh serves the altitude of the sun by bring ing it in contact with the horizon where sea and sky meet by means of the little I told him, according to being taken by I their *usual destructive habits, that they would probably first of all annex his ponies, then divide the spoils on the wagon amongst them, and most likely take a few put shots at him as they rode Off. lie seemed to be reflect in;: deeply, and a change of mind appeared imminent, bul; a thoughl struck hin, and with his unmistakable New Enc land accent, lie drawled; " Wa a \\ stranger, yotl enme by there safe, how tn the is it they didn't dn nothing to youf" Which "Ob," '■aid I. putting on a r*-al enn- In a : ning look, and at the same time reach- i mOV j ing down under the seat and booking luated iny linger into the grinning skull of the (uired.l late lamented. Here is the last son of ' ' a dog that tipped his I all. Imagine my, well, consternation, at least, upon returning to my tent to fiui that wretched old russet colored diaper one had missed her count and forgott«i the dusky daughter who appeared to be perfectly satisfied with the proceedings. My young interpreter, in broken English, punctuated by many grins, inform ed me that, marriage contracts in that particular tribe wore often entered into through the medium of some such mis erable wedding present, and in my case even a measly bean pot would be con side red quite legal. Here was I hooked up fnr life to a dark bay damsel whom I had never seen before, whose language I didn't under stand, and to whose family I had not oven been int rod need, and what was more embarrassing, the chief engineer wa- expected to arrive any day. What a predicament for a modest, innocent, assuming church member to find lum self in. There was my wild, unkempt, picturesque bridelet, do untaught d:iiiLrliter of a BavagQ r.a f warriors. coyly enjoying every moment ni my con stem a tion, while I could only explain the awkward situation to her through an interpreter. interfered with me." [to This gentleman was in (lately dOS Id felt hat back, scratched patched to the Indian camp." and •d man hi- shaggy ^^^^^^^^ "guessed lie could do most as well witl that stuff back to Moose .law," tun.. | slowly round, and trotted along behind me, east wa irl bound, Shortly after tnnl notorious warrior. "Sitting Hull," had ceased from annoying our American neighbors, various armed bands of his people, called bv courtesy " war part ie-,'' wandered reflectively, and I broughl back with him a brother of the .*.-» «., «r„n «"flk'maiden, who was 'he;, returned to the paternal "teepee," with Diy compli- ments and regrets. "SEC." mirror which can be moved by the hand.] north of the Imaginary line to try and An artificial horizon is usod on land ; worry unsuspecting survey parties, ■ ■' where the surface is irregular. Fnr thisj particularly any loose "tenderfool " purpose a little tray of mercury is often I that might happen along on the plains. is not possible in tho An-1 I remember upon one occasion ben;; the temperature would j in charge of a small party, running h trial line across the Snuris plains. We were delayed by a big storm, almost a hurricane, south of Moose Mountain. | odor which was not there when I turned A thick mist in my tent wns finally seed has produced moro than doublet of tbe hori7,on. 1; but thi tarctic, whei freeze the mercury. It must bo remembered that during their sledge journey to the south the, party will have the sun at their backs.' 1 awoke with tho sense of some subtl i.e., in the north, and that tho sun will roach its own highest point in the heavens on December 22nd, the mid- attributable In a tall handsome savage summer day of the Antarctic continent. Uquatted on his hunkers, calmly waiting The summer period—the period In 'or M|C 1o wake up. The bouquet came wliich the sun is visible—lasts from partly from a huge pipe of "kill-i-ki- September 22nd to March 21st. It nick," that vile concoction made of should be noted that Captain Scott does willow bark, and partly from the noble not intend to start his journey tn the warrior behind the pipe, who wns in- south until some time in October, thus dustrioualy fouling the atmosphere while allowing tho sun time to got well ^learjl was wrapt in thc slumber of guile ! less innocence ONE of tbe attache- of the American Embassy at London; tells a story wherein Mi. hael Joseph Harry, the poet, who was appointed a police magistrate in Dublin, was the principal figure. There was brought before him an Irish-American charged with suspicious conduct. The officer making the arrest stated, among otber things, that the culprit was wearing a '' Republican hat." " Does your honor know what that means?" was the enquiry put to tho courl by the accused's lawyer. "II may be," suggested Harry, "that it means a hat without a crown." POLICE COURT "ROOF GARDEN" On the top of the West London Police Court a fine "roof garden" has been cultivated by the housekeeper. .Mr. Ed- war 1 Swift, ln spite of the absence of the sun the roof garden is a bJnze of color, 53 THK HOSMER TIMES CRIPPLED BF H Buttered Ibrtui Toot r|*iHE wearing «,l mourning iu Bnglfisd esaynaa-equeut upon the ~ liuil -l'riiii-a-ii. Away The J'ain. letatli ol King Edward VII.. baa exerted a wide-spread influence iu favor of blank anei black an.l white tbat will lc* felt for Beveral iiie>nihs. Strangers visiting London tec-, eiieiiueo,i to wear black because otherwise tliey were disagreeably eaonupicuouu. (en,* American woman who. not pro-1 the niotd fa-Minuting little fitted waiettoat of bright bl and wwheed ••! ttet it ie qpoto tatm te predict thee, befure | winter it wiel bave betaine »l only ptmsibW bat even attratjti-re . The1 ..'mt that a» uc,rc/ehi,e. .ta, .'a, .1. .". .t, .♦» .t.-.ta, „f, v a ■ .*.l weih ce black gown, went t'e ihe play attired in light the famous fruit ^ blue, snun lie-.-ceccu- see painfully conscious that she was the ■ only woman in tlie e-citire- house wearing a color that she left before the piece wees over. It has been sai.l that ill conse quence of the enforced wearing of black an outburst of most vivid colors will follow, but that remains to be proved, and the dressmakers cue* busy turning out the smartest of all black and black und white gowns that are su fascinatingly becoming tbey are e-.'ctaiti tee tee copied. Never were I he-re so many bllick satin gowns worn, lhe coat anel skirt costumes especially, and it is remarkable how many different kinds eef black satin there are. Some have a bright lie.:*lc. others n ele,'I: then soene of the gowns are "Fi uit-a-tivrs, n c • sei'cu:1- r. ie.. |y ever discovered for -■ i .--. . ■ '': i ::-.t-e.,. ■ •• i,y j;„ marvellous action on tr..- bowels, kidneys and skin, )ei-,-ve-iiis the accumulation of lie Ariel, which causes Rheumatism anel Hu,, by kt-e ps te,e_- bluoi5 pure and Mrs. Walte ,- Hnnper, 0f Hillvlew, Ont., sa- -c "1 ..,.; c.-u: from .-. vi re Kheumaiism, lott the use of my right arm an i c -,e..c n -i eio my work. Nothing I :-.-• until I took "Prult-a- Hv« ' . . . this i ledicine cured me." 'f il c-. abject to Rheumatism, e-'ece'1 I . : .e severe alien-;; comes I'll bet', re tiylng "Frult-a-tlve s" T»he : e fruit t iblets now and tic is I'Ce > i, .,■ ... icks. I ilt-i - Ivc-s" ts sold by all dealers '■■-' • ■■ ' li for I..- '.ce. or trial box, ' be obtained from Fruit-a- tlve.- Limlti d Ottawa. w !. X POLICEMAN cc enterprise. Lol An A WO 'ITH tt c , c* bus dee eeleil to test the ■ jccilc! . uf ;e woman *■ police mail * ne- i ■ be ui med w c-.h a re- volvi'l -HI* Ce l-cedee-. She u ill . ui - i uudei ii,,- ujier- isiou ,,i tlie ... , - ,,,11,.,. Bul mc- won 'i wen mi not jusl \\ e-t. :.; In p0| ce •. -i.e- will be- ;c "plain .loll,, . , worli will ileal most ly with boys ai girls, dunce halls, mov ing |,„ ; ure -i s, and penny arcades. K.-.-.-i.- i. -i.e- ee-c:c,i-.j e.f Baltimore begun :■ i' o> ■ ii ■ I foi the appuiutinenl of c, irnnni ce oflleer. Thus far theii efforts have ■ t" naught. There have been similar :..- e-jcu-tci-c in other cities, I,i,i il i-i* rei . : nd for Los Angeles i" ,,,,! i|,,■ scbe me -- lest. Most big e ities, including I . I ule-lphiu, leave their wo in,.,, probation eellicers. They h-i*e- cclsu their police matrons. Tbese wonieii have deei,,. exceller.l service—that iiie-n '-"i'l ! -; ,;i, ;,« wi I! r l'i'-.*- liie-''. Whether ihi' woman •' .-.epper" uf Los \\ngeles| will provi ; cess remnins to lee- seen; l.ut -,'j„. esperiiiiei I c- --: suflicieiit inter est i.i i-i ,,i wale liing. UNIQUE SWIMMING MACHINE ■ ASWIW.MINti machine thnt can be packed in an ordinary traveling I.;,.; ami v. •ii'lK only ten i ne..- hUE j„ .:■ inve ted ley ci frenchman "i' tl -,, ;' i ■ ■■ nier, I! combines some of the principle - of the- catamaran, the power boat. . : the bicycle, ecu,I enables tbe cese-r ice md-,. faster progress through ll.c wcc.ci- than l.v swimming. It can be used wcci, safety by a person who min.io -w im. and mokes il possible tu travel i-elalivi l.v I.eng distances iu the water witboul exhaustion. 'I lie swim mer lees ecu i. - -toiuiich on a connect leinte.l neetccl llollts, pedals a* under the moire. This is separate from the eoat, which can be worn without it if so desred, is fitted us carefully as the waist, is open just a little at the throat, is fastened with fancy buttons, and it certainly uiake-s the gown a hundredfold more elaborate ia effect. -Verise and a bright green aand au odd shade of yellow* are all fashionable if coiior be desired, aud if a womun wishes to dress altogether in black it is a relief to know there is seeme way in which a too tiresome monotony can be avoided. Not aa absolutely new fashion is the band of satin around the bottom of the skirt, but it is at the moment a popular style for the more elaborate street sostumes, and is sejon on the all satiu skirts as well as on the eloth—not only the plain bauds into which is gathered the fulness of the skirt, I but the straight skirt with no falnes* is also linished iu ; this way. When combined with cloth it is certainly most , effective, and the latest information vouchsafed is Ihat for ! the wister the same fashion will be carried out in velvet j instead of laatiu, while satis aud velvet will be extremely I smart. I The fashions of Ihe moment are so extraorelinarily ceein ! ple.x that it is most difficult in any way fo distinguish what ■ is -ittractive from such a mass epf eoutral ction, and con sei'vative taste bag hard work to hold its own. but here and j there are to be secu models which display unbroken lines mil marred by the introduction of too glaring contrast* e-ilhor in material or color, and when black in chosen there is less ; e'c.ngei* of one's taste being led away into strange Iields eef color and secfleot. Nothing siuipli*r m,r smarter can be found than the aceoreliou plaited and tucked voile de soie* gowu , trimmed with blcu-k satin anil ecru laoe, the skirt short, but lent oxcigem'.riita'dly short, and the waist tight tittisg, the J plaits held down by the broad bands of satin over the ■ * liouhleei-b, grossing back and front,. An especially becoming | style has the braid bands crossed at the back and falling lo the hem of Ihe skirt, forming iu fact the bnedt of the gown, , the frout being linished with a wide baud of the satin. The ] gown is inconspicuous save for its marked simplicity and beauty of line. This is a new model that is most popular. Elaborate bodices are almost all made at present with sleeves which finish either just above or just below the elbow. The majority of the new designs have high collars, and all without exception have the flat shouUcr and the broad draped girdle. They are trimmed with lace, bands of satin and applique embroideries, soniotimes of quite large and showy design. They are in the same color as the costume with whieh they are to be worn or in some softly harmonizing shcie,c or io black, the last wheu thc costume is trimmed with black. One of lhe fashions of tho hour is to have almost or quite all the trimming of the blouse on the foundation bodice, the outer blouse being merely a transparent and -perfectly simple garment through which the under trim liiing shows. The most popular materials for these bodices at present are voile de soie. miroir de soie, tulle, plain and embroidered, and unusual designs in net. Those bodices ofl'er an opportunity for using up small bits of fine trimming which is effective in color and desigu even when it is not entirely fresh or wheu the lace, for instance, may have been mended. As squares of lace and bands of trimming are used under the transparent material. defects wliich would be apparent without this shield are entirely concealed. Thus strikingly handsome garnitures which are a bit tarnished or otherwise not quite perfect can verv well lie- utilized. White Satin Gowu Veiled with Black Mousseline -■I nc cJtm'U I'liere is it ke ; '•'" :tinS ""■' ,ll;i'.,'",,!! briude-.l cr embroidered, while oth I, the rear ileal I l.ese ,„,. :ll|suh|U.lv bi ,, a straight '■'"»■"•■ i,|)Mls :,,,. ,„,„.,. » last autumn and winter hnvin in-j '»'"' lend e-, il!i oil ci bicy, tube-, and mechii nisi ktv-p tic The fioct Itoat i- swiveled ami eurrl0si iast autumn and winter having pa a tin whicli serves as a rudder. " tromelj- scant, both skirl cine! coat, an.I wueeel.-n tear is edso connected with Uie .u.v^^ (fi ., |c„,,th that renchejs midway I propellei b u una of suitable geiirma stf thai b.\\ a:" ately p" liing mi1' pull ing cc, Hce* bar Mie swimmer euii us-, £0 fu], t(| w, SHtjgflu,t,,n ,|„v ,„„,, |„, si*d his legs in propelling the inai-liine o( ^lh] nnJ ^ b| wfl, ;,||t • ,^ |)aa |jeeu a|roudy stttte,| —— there i> a strong efl'oel being made to bring in the old-fashiou- COL0KF.L FINED FOR A KI.SS ed soft, lustreless silks in place of black satin, hut the former p, GLONI-U. I'ATHCAKT DEUPSTBB, j« ""' l",i"l.v s« becoming a coat In considering the fashions for the autumn, color occupies a most important position. It is some time now since Paris was startled, if she really ever ean be startled, with the vivid colors which Paul Poiret introduced in his straight up- and-down eccentric frocks. I'oiret claimed that to make a gown worth while, to give it a really distinctive touch, it must have ri smart, note of color, and a color so vivid, more- [ over, that it would be hard to forget it. At lirst the other ,„,i Ihese l\\ie majority,.'P^p","> "! m'U' '" P«is were perfectly willing that Paul - ' i oiret should carry out Ins ideas of color just as he saw fit. but they would not follow. Thi*- past spring they began tn ln.il- -it- t I.,. ,..il>... nnnnfa .Iiii- ...-il. T.. . 1 i> '■ i . eii into uhliviun 1.1 ( _ | ii uu iiuw i iiv v ;ii r aueiutj u . ceceaory color, are now the heighl ri- made witU short skirta ami ti liii'iuii... lia'i.uth, the. long coat of m ., , , , , * , ■ , ■ , , *. ^ i look nt the color question a little with Pan] Poiret s eyes I -•■ titthiff flB^ "ow tll0-v are sce'nS lt -iust -',s he does— vivid tonos/es- ilbow and lu,,'i:i,!-v whl''1 1,!,f',t :,k; i,n aceceaory color, arc now the heigh wrist, those coats are very smurl li' well made and ut' good material, the fashion not being adopted Lo Ine limited income, Cor tt> be satisfnetmy they must be of a good quality TALK Mo-6 ---SeV'waUwsa-alvJ**- MAGIC BAKING POWDER Does not contain Alum NO baking powder that contains alum ia fit to p' in your home baked food. Alum lessens the flo of the gastric juices* causing indigestion and irritatio The heart and nervous system are also affected 1 alum, and it is pronounced unfit for any food by food experts. 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De.LI.EY OO., LIMITED, Hamilton, Or COI.ONI-.le ' A :, i.-iiieel eii-iii.T iitlie.-i-r, «bo was at Hi istul mi Monday, Uneil -l' .-(.e*i> for ', I*--.; ,' a e|ecciie*.*cti ce slie-l-. I'l.-ci-i.-.i ces cm ext-USi .-ouilece-i thnl In- liei'l injured In by falling "ixt.v feel over ti preeipice tiie- result I" iiica thai en tun.-- he D0( .,. ,'uulll for Ilis Cll'tieell*. NO COMPLAINT .lijiiletl'itl cl tin 111 Cllicl lt is etici[i|'i will biiee.eed, 'rice three piece costuine iu black satin is certainly ti.s.*t'ul ...... n cuiel sitmrl and will lee- e-nciie-'l I'eec- the- winter iii pectin liuis-hecl f01, liis I blach cloth- lhe late :i ie•,■ 141 n inoeeols, if not too eceeutrie, lie-ccel being tccke-ii as models. The tlue-c piece suit i> morn apt t" lee wlceet it i^ ,-celle-ei, ilei-e-c pice'.-, thau what it was last season,I ronlciI whon Mu* ccl'.iit and waist in one were selected, N'ow w:lj^l cei,el shirt ine' eeliinist in\\;ilicilely chosen, for il In* been proved liccti for a gowu to In* worn e\\-,iii ;, i icie-i-c.' i*c ilic great i est advantage in lei-iuje able ice wear differenl w:ci-i*c. Most I'asc-iiiiiting cic the waists of laee ;e-ce| fancy uel veiled in "1 ivini'ii'i nh,*. -o many ;.. - a. j. I a - iu- black voile ele- soie, "ill, ihe- lower purt of the waist of satin msi on keeping dogs thut are no good 1" |„ s.,rt folds, on the plan of ce high draped bodice. Han.I* ••We-!!." suid lice- proprietor of the 0j- ,|M. sl,i;,i. which e-.-nc lee- ice color el' so desired under Hi. vilJa^e- lee,Iel. •! cclevei.e* ci*-e-|e ce ie-« \\,\\-A,-k voile, cm, over ilee- - llc.lllcle-l*- cell.I finish 111,.' c*ie'e*\\e'S. dog* hi take le re.lllt'eelt te. See e- ;ular withoul l;iis ns the skirl- of me street costumes. The 3trnigl.il elVecl hack and from is -;ill fashionable, ami it is only thai there is more slmj-iiiL;. in a curving at the sii.1-,' vermis -the fashionable figure always* hriiiu extremely slender, lmt al tli- same time more rounded than angular. Oni tin- 1.' Ion .nt ami short corsi I" i gowns ami coal s to y appearance demanded. It is mosl interesl in: ! this slender effect i« o|.- ■ \\v advocal e ;i n est rot entirely upon tin- cu uired .-ti-iiii'lii ami -lc ie mar\\ oIIour p|j tin- U'.-'iriM- unit- lmu tlie [jOW- IS by no means thill. All seams arc straight in effect, for all lineo ure perpendicular, bul us vol it. requires the skill of a i-levcr dressmaker tt. carry out :1m- idea. But in ilsHf the fashion i- nol -<- invoked, and with :t :: I, porfed fittinfi paltern il will !"■ quiti1 possible before .\\ nter nt** iu for even .vuiituu ' km \\ hitM her winter --.'it t-liall !'»■ mud*-. I ill) (4 .elvel i- i" i"- e.vtrenielv fashiouable tlnfl winter, uol \\: iiHOfni'Miei black velveteen and corudroy will again nr, lmt for 1 he :■'■■-. - i tueli •■ utei \\nte can "nly i"' lalked about, while cloth :«'■! tl;< lighter weights of Herges and camel's h r ure chosen in pre pa : lioi for the lirst coo! ■ ::;•■ "i nut nmn, \\' Mi \\ont, voile, i hi'Ton. foulard, laci 'itui all tlir light, cool inalerinls are fa? more popular, l-'on lanl, ivhile emphatieall^ e sum mer fahrie, will this soo Hon be worn late in the autumn, for i In- tie wesl design* hnve a black of Mylo. I *h rk costumes, iiii- autuiuu, will have a I ntii round with onh :> rmnW pattem of white, and thai luuchol contrasting color introdueed ufteutimei1 iu the r.... (. . ,, quite I'ai ii in rl ii tue rlesign --■ ihat tlm effeel '•■ much more or Iheir Irunni ugs. The idea of conibluiug iiuut.v tones of, 'l.1*51}'.0-}' .: ,'"' ' '' ol .i *; ' i Limn 'i foulard, '-".i- of the latest fashion* i>- the nni' coloi is n^i nearly so fasljionuble ns i; was, The mum id <■' lace 'in u-l.itp muslin, Mie oj.cn | t-uh ol rough cheviot; lor iustauee, i>* quite us apl lo ha\\ Gcwn oi' White Laco ami Black Satin LINKS WITH THE PAST Some Old People Wlio Knew Other Old People Who Recalled Great Events THK London Times has revived aa interesting correspondence which appeared in its columns a few years ago under this title. Some of the examples furnished by correspondents are verv striking. Mere ure a tew; "0. P, C." writes: 'MollU Rotlo was born in 1700, created a peer iu IT'.'ti. and attended Queen Victoria's coronn- tion in his old age. His second wife died in lSiii>. Thus the joint lives of husband and wife lasted l.i"> vears. (!>.'»> note in W. H. Wilkins's "".Mrs. Pltsa borbert and George l\\'.." vol. 2 jp. !7i>). j "It is difficult to re'ili.e how wide a gulf muy be bridged over by two lives. , Possibly some hale old ce-iteinirian still exists who can recollect sitting, a little i child, oa the knee of another equally ; hale, and hearing from him his personal j recollections of the events following the . death of Queen Anne, •'Let me add two iiiHtnnces of links with the past which may interest sonic : of your readers, "1. Lord Brougham, who died *, I : think i in 1807, heard his grandmother relate all the eireumstaue.es of King Charles the first's execution as they ; had been related to her by au eye wit ; ness. "L\\ Thei.' must be still living .\\lagda ] leu men who remember President Kouth ul- 1885), who himself remembered see- j ing Dr. Johnson at Oxford, remembered also, as Mr. Godley tells us ('Oxford in I the Eighteenth Century," p. ."(-")), undergraduates being hanged uu 'Gownsman's Mallows' in Holywell street.' Mrs. Flora Annie Steel, the well | ' known novelist, writes: *;My grand* j mot her. wlio died in 1872, in full possession of her faculties, used to botlst i that her grandfather was twelve years | old wheu Charles 1. WUS beheaded. She I said her father was born when his I father was ia his eighty-second year, | ami that a Gaelic song was made to I commemorate the event. She herself was born in her fat her's sixty seventh j year. The Uov, Dunie] Radiird writes: • My | great graaufather was born in the reign \\ of diaries 11. If this savor of till t tiquity. it i* partly explained by my being more than half through my eighty j !ll(1(it w\\\\\\ third year the youngest child but one ! of my father, who had ten children, and . who was himself the youngest but one of twenty live children by the younger of two wives. • • l'\\"' writes: "The late Lord Mian - ilic told the writer that iu IM-I John ['.right went to Mrudshaw in Lancashire. to shulte hand- with ... llorro.-ks' aged ' 105, whose father had *een Cromwell." Horrocks' son, had married wh vor eighty, and the following venr had this long liv e Cl Nd pilll'tlll. e'!||i Cllele' eel' llttl'IK'tillg a I leiil inn cellel e-Ne-ll ing a strong iullue'iii-e- upon anv e-eeiic nutnit.v, tlcc i-hniiees an- then lie will ll'poillllllfllt. ,\\ geeeeel ma iiy yea rs agee there was a icMvyi-1^ in a small Kceccseiv town who ftfnnd ll,.- sl.'el.ling exedllent, says the Kiiipni-ia OllKOtte. lie* wees a good talk- eriind was reasonably talented anel be i-aiiti' i|niti' popular. The loe-cil papers devoted hlderiilile spare to his do ings I lie was elected attorney, and lliings came liis way beautifully. That was twenty years agee and In- was then cu i thirty years uTil. Had In- remain i'i| in cl seven lev nine I lice I I lo- c--"ls were providing witu n grateful heart, he llleer ul ill (ecutiou ol e 'InuK-s ••'nn- eldest brother of tho late tcipiiretl a mv.'IIc.I h the.I Ice was lei,ling Ihsi This islliel ivhile- lie ii'iiieliae'il worlll | lltillowity 's I 'on .it lev I lie' roots. ney out of I ho bnmjtl I'liie-ago. whore a mau ' weeulel havo a e-llcinc't'. Au l']tlMniti;i W'eituclll well stricken thai sin safety razors, was a Kansas-town when tin joying liis greatest pi4 Iv she was visiting part of Oklahoma, ami driving, with a fi-ietiel;] Thoy emtio lee ee e-lu'eeji anel stopped there anil aslitl of water, 'fhe lat-me'i-_■«-]■. een.l botlt, ami loolci'.lj old, looked at the Bn teiilly. ami aslccit her cc 'i Sii-cciiiiici IVriwinlile n 'I once liv in the referred tee. \\ lew the fuel thai the- von an aspiring lawyer of th] wenl clean broke in i'hi Wretched life foi yeeirsj tho edges of the law perionee leach all -S nnd made him lis. eelfl he was av c-cciililW I he.ugh he- had Ilii-Ym,,hwj before talents l-'ltzt Mr. K. Iiis sho l-.e-'l ll|e I'l he , whie-li iv ;' la the he town. Such j liitioiis people who lia\\e| larger Held. - elusion Hint Iheir Id tint lot'ic hi" . tcne small fen- lliem, Ha ll! mm * i 'a,',*'c um.-xI" '•"■mt *, n'*5, ■ J-Hi|e t;' i ee- h lie III [intt ■ i cited ale ilu- pattern! Ileal look like Veen, j i|. .,,,.,!,, ,,,- brtiadclet ' :.-' I-i-'- in design, 'this i" cclw-ccys veiled with black voile violet. Th" vogue l'i 11 ; cl is newer tl lace -eii-l i* eelsie combined svil.li season where black w lc'-i'. the. - .ke. c.ei.i collar, unveiled, being eef ll.e lnce, while black gown uud the c: nil the '-- er trimming is of embroidery, veiled wilh voile for lhe autumn. .\\e de --.:e- .cd eliilTmi. : h,,c |,. . mure I'otchic In order to gain lhe desired effect eel' scantiness in silk or 'i'lio*colors must t'::--leie ble t'eer ihe- full 'I'" greate -I c taken in llu* eon it is tne coal anel .'skirl sui, cu- the e pic" writes: - -1 ant one nf is ,md cuffs in I'uwii color as in I u 'few elderly Oxonians' who knew or ■ hi colors i- verv notable in cc suw Dr. HoutIt between sixty and seven ill occupy s.e promiiieul 'a pluce, feci- I lie M v vears ago. cVear Carfax iu Is *., my alack and white gowu are style lenders tutor poiuted oul a venerable *.- -nl I.* I suielv this is good a,-us, for there i*-1!' i" lhe High street. 'Thnt,' In- said, -.; than a study iu I.lack and white. 'is Dr. Routh. lie i- ninety yours old, iniiii-. whether and wctlks li\\.' miles every day.' In-.-, cue first| "! 'i'i'.'-' ,"1''- l'1'"'" ""' 'Quarterly Ke- 'el thi a foundation or underskirt black, next grey, then auy nf ihe new blues ur the eepiull. is f-lieed ns tight as possible I'ashiociai'l" purple shades, Koyal blue is in gnod style and so | Iced; i short distance I.chew tin- : Bra Mlivy, |ieacock blue- cenei celse', a very, very dark blue known ; I'lia straight tlceuice-e of th,* ma ; llt> eurbeau blue, In tin- (iut-|ele' tones we have the very fusil- ' Oxf y and huckleberry, as well as the pru tcrial nud eee- ii.es falls the- siraiglit skill or tunic, (luished I ionuble elderl •villi -.. wide l'"i ■ li' lh.' Ii-..s arc teeo trying Hiei the' tunic mauve shaeies. is sliaped to be shorter in ihe front or lhe back and the! 'I'he curves *lieew enei.o fulness in the way of sc-aat box ph-ats wide J platinum slimlcs beii lhe ml pleigu ml of KS7.S thai In. Routh knew whose mot her remembered King ■s II. walking in llu* ' Parks' eel d eluriiier I lee' year of the great ■ ia London. i pail. -I 'I'll! .Ir many varieties eef tone g extremely fashionable. As an after-1 A Simple and Cheap Medicine.—A who is uee; jnutli of e-haciioe-h-r. we have many bright pinks, but llie-see are simple, cl p. uml effective medicine is I effect, a* though tin' tunic were purely among the accessory colors. something io In' desired. There is nee e across lhe front and tie el lhe side In I lie' yellow tones uuicli maize*, .-eiuaiy and beige will ' medicine so effective a regulator of the III'-- 'I'll'1 lower part of the waist i* be used, not only in combination with brown, bul with black digestive system as Parmolee's Vege lrnped, the folds going around Hu- ligure, not up uud down, aid with gr '. Amber and old gold will be fashionable table Pills. They are simple, thoy are I ihe material can either bo drawn tiLiht ice give as small | colors lie use I'm- pipings ce.nl insets, as well as e-aineee nud cheap, tin-*' can be got anywhere, and | _'h le I ell a waisl measure as possible-, eer. like the eelnssie- draperies, be left loose to quite hide the effect ol' any waist aud make the ligure vory nearly the same width at the waist line as ed the hips. In description this fashion may appear impossible fen the majority e,r' won , but already it is being so modified saii-neii pctiic. lieelie-lin. sky blue, nnd sevre blue an- modish their beneficial action will prove their ci^ecl iu ihis same way. And then there el re the Paisley, the j ret'Olllineaelatioll. They al" I hi' llleeli Kast Indinn ami the' Persian colorings which an* decidedly cine of ihe poor man ami those who the style, They are seen uot only in silks und satins, but i'n wi ' '-' "c "" eleu*i..*■..■' bills will do well I ihe filmy ehilfons aud martruisettes. I in giving them a trial. We guarantee the perfect quality and absolute purity of the tobaccos used in the manufacture of SweetCaporal Cigarettes. I, 1 Mud*. P t_ = IS A POPULAR CHOICE TIIE TIMES. HOSMER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. SENATOR DERBY OF I.O.O.r. HEAD If Cheese King of Canada Has Long Been Prominent In the Odd Fellows and Is Promoted From Deputy Grand Mastership — Was Elected to the Commons In 1904, But Gave Up Seat to Graham. At its 65th annual meeting the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Ontario, v^hich was held in Ottawa recently, Whose Senator D. Derbyshire to be its grand master for the coming year. Senator Derbyshire hns been prom- r inent in the Odd Fellows for a long ' time and last year was deputy grand SWEET SCZNTED P.LL0W3 t ! ! r% ■ MSmL ^}Mk ■J ■■&/&■) SENATOR DERDYSniRE. master. He is very popular in the order and the honor conferred upon him by the Grand Lodge is very satisfactory to the members. He is known as "Th-s Cheese, King of Canada." For 20 years he "was president of the Eastern Ontario Dairymen's Association and he has done more than any other man to raise and maintain the standard of Canadian-made cheese. For years he was an active worker in politics and a staunch supporter i of the Liberal party. In 1904 he waa elected to the House of Commons, but later he resigned his seat to open a constituency for Hon. G. P. Graham, who was taken into the Laurier Cab.net as Minister of Railways anl Canals. In 1907 Senator Derbyshire waa appointed to the Senate of Canada. V-.-trl ajiid * lies sf Not So Popular Then. Lieut. Shackleton is the hero of the hour, in geographical circles at least. The audiences which crowd the lecture halls to hear him tell the story of his Antarctic expedition prove that. But he himself contrasts the present crowds with his audiences two years ugo. before he became the fashion. It was in Scotland, and he advertised a lecture to be given in I.eitb, telling of his personal experiences in the Antarctic Circle with Captain Scott and Captain Wilson. He drove down from Edinburgh at tiie hour appointed, and found one halt-drunken man, two old women, and a half-dozen boys assembled as "the audience." In despair, he went back to his cabman and asked whether he would not like to come and in and hear the lecture. The man was grateful, but unappreciative and declined, declaring he was quite comfortable where he was—i.e., inside his cab, while the horse dozed between the shafts. Eventually twenty people turned up, and the lecture was delivered. Shackleton had spent £7 on the hire of the hall and in advertising, and the receipts he calculated would be 20s. "No," said Mrs. Shackleton, "only a possible 18s., for I sent tlie cook and the housemaid to hear you, and that is 2s. off, as they had your cards, marked 'Free'." Son Beheads His Father. During his service on the Indian Frontier, Lieut.-Gen. Sir James Will- cocks, who is expected home on short leave next month, has collected a number of interesting anecdotes. One of the best of these relates how eome years ago, during a small campaign against these marauding hillsmen, his column was constantly annoyed by the "sniping" of one individual who stalked them day by day, relentlessly, and usually found a human target. Eventually one of the newly- joined tribal levees with the column volunteered to attempt to end the trouble by stalking the stalker. His offer being gladly accepted, the man set off on his dangerous errand. Before many days had elapsed he returned with the head ot the sniper in his hands and laid it at the feet of Lieut.-Gen. Willcocks. When asked how he hnd achieved his success, he answered, "I knew his ways, sahib." "Why? Was he a friend of yours?" asked Willcocks. "No, sahib, only my father!" was the man's surprising retort. Westminster Museum. A new feature of interest is to be opened in Westminster Abbey. This will take the shape of a museum of Westminster objects and will be situ- cd in an hitherto generally un- vn part of the abbey buildings, condition of this section until quite recently has precluded its being open. Architecturally the part to be opened is of great interest; for it dates" frum the reign of Kdward the Confessor and is one of the most remarkable examples of pre-Norman architecture in England. Access is gained lo these buildings by means ot doors leading out of the eastern side of tne great cloisters. They consist of a long, low Norman vaulted substructure, destitute of any ornamentation or decoration, but utilized us the basis for the subsequently built dormitory of the Benedictine monastery, now represented by the chapter library and the great schoolroom of Westminster school. Tbe Silent Man. "De man who speaks uuffln bul d« simple truth." said Cucle Eben, "will And ho much lo do In de way of lores Dentin' au' medllatln' dat be ain g'lneler bave much time fob talkin'.' — Wasblugion Slur. '-. .Wes I a i-*4"d How to Prepare the Stuffing and Select the Covers.. In order to make sweet scented pil- 'ows, tirst of all the pillow stuiiinia must he well dried. Lay the leaves on flowers in an airy shaded room and toss them about gently every day, that they shall not collect moisture and mold. When they are quite dry you are ready to stuff the pillow. Take enough raw cotton to fill one-half of the pillow, tear it in small pieces and lay it in a big pan and dry it out well jn the oven. This makes a fluffy filling. Now mix the cotton with the dri d flowers und leaves, fill up the cushion of ticking and sew it firmly. It is ready for the outer covering. Of course, if you prefer it, you may make a pillow of hops or rose leaves or lavender alone, but it will not be ^o comfortable as the pillow that is partly baked cotton, and, since you want to put your hee.d on it, why not make it comfortable? Hops must b.; used by themselves, and so must lavender. But one may make truly delicious blends by mixing dried lemon verb*na. rose geranium, rose petals from the old fashioned flat double pink roses; they are the sweetest sort. Pine pillows hnve a refreshing woodsy perfume, and fern leaves dried have a delightful mysterious odor that makes one rememb-r the belief of childhood that one could put fern seed in one's eyes and ever afterward would be able to see fairies. Clover iiakes sweet pillows, too, redolent ol new mown hny. The common pink ■lover makes the sweetest sort, tiiougi. white clover may be used. As for the covers, choose something distinctive and individual. A li.ttle pillow of rose leaves arid lemon verbena, covered with rose colored linen witli a little rosebud stenciled on it, is most unusu .1 and charming. For a hop pillow choose a linen cover of dull green and embroider your monogram in mercerized cotton exactly the same tone in one corner. The cover for a pine pillow might well be of rough tan crash or linen with a stenciled pattern of green and brown on it, or else, with a smart monogram—block letters—embroidered in brown in one corner. Fern leaf pillows should be covered with creamy linen, rather heavy in quality, with green fern leaves embroidered or stenciled upon it. Make the cover in the form of two squares, considerably larger than the pillow, and work long buttonholed eyelets through both, lacing them together over the pillow with a ribbon of dull green. At the' corner where the ribbon ties slip two or three big green beads on loops and ends. To cover pillows a cover of the popular Russian crash in cool gray would be appropriate, and if it is stenciled lightly with butterflies or dragon flies it will add to its daintiness, or it might be embroidered in small, flat squares in rose colored cotton. The flower perfumed pillows will be found useful for the afternoon on lounges in the hammock. Slip them under your head, and they will perfume your hair with just a touch of delicate fragrance. If you are troubled with insomnia try the hop or the pine pillow—they will help you to sleep if nothing else wiU. A JU-JU DANCE, Breaking It Gently. 8he stood in the doorway, one hand on the knob. "Pupa, dear," she lisped, 'do you know what I'm going to buy you thith year for a birthday prethent?" "No. darling," said papa, looking up from his papers. "What?" "Mentha, papa," answered the little maid, "a pwetty new china thav- ing mug with gold flowerth on it." "But," said the fond parent, "papa has a nice one like that already, dear, a very handsome one." ■ "Oh no, he hathn't," replied the little girl; "I've jutht dwopped it!" A Thoughtful Gift. Tom went out to buy a pair of gloves for his sweetheart's birthday present and to make a purchase for his father. Of course he got things mixed, as they always do in storieB, and the young lady received a pair ol heavy woollen men's socks with the following note; "Dear Helen,—Please accept these tn consideration of my love for you. Oh, that I were to be the only one to see them when you wear them I If youfind any difficulty in getting them on, blow in them. Yours affectionately, Tom."—Success Magazine. Salomon the Snow White. Johann Peter Hebel, the German poet wh i flourished in the early part of the 19th century, had better luek than has fallen to some greater poets. He became a bishop and inspector of schools He took pains with the children. Once he asked a class what Solomon wes famous for, but none could tell. Pointing to the snow outside in the hope that the white (weiss) color might give them the cue to the word weise (wise), he said- "The snow is white. Now, what was Solomon?" Came pat the answer, 'Snow white I" Settled Her Doubts. At a certain fete in the north of Kngland there was a captive balloon, whieh, on payment of a shilling, you •oultl get in and have a view of the .urrounding country. Nervous Lady (cbout to enter car if balloon to attendant)—I say, my -nan, is thcie any danger of this bal- 'con bursting? Irish Attendant—Eist aisy, marm. Don't you see it's fastened wid a ;able? And should it burst we could insily pull you down. Nervous lady steps into the car -juite satisfied.—London Fun. A Permanent Thlnr. "You have stated," said the badgering lawyer to a witness, "that you were born in 1886 Now you say you were born in 1887. That's an incriminating discrepancy, though perhaps you may be able to explain it. ' "Certainly I can explain it." retorted the witness. "There's no incongruity there. I was born in 1886 and just stayed born. Why, I'm boru yet."—Yjuth's Companion. Not Congenial. When man admires woman's stylo And all her pretty graces 'Tis ead when ho starts making eyes To And her making fares. — Von ken statesman. A West African Native Religious Ceremony. The glaring tropical sun beats down fiercely on the half-baked earth, from which rises a thick, choking dust, caused by the shuffling oi many naked feet. To the accompaniment of the monotonous throb of the tom-t'.m a crowd of half-naked natives beat time automatically with hands and sway in unison with their bodies, chanting the while a refrain which has no apparent tune or any end. Into the open space in the centre bursts the ju-ju witch dancer. A huge two-faced painted wooden mask encloses his head, and he is robed in a gaudy costume of embroidered velvet plush, while in his hands are two fluttering fans. The mask, with staring goggle eyes, fixed mechanical repulsive smile, and painted rows of huge cannibalistic teeth, advances and letires, bowing to the assembled chiefs who are seated in conclave apart from the crowd. Then, to the quickened beat of tomtoms, he pirouettes, twists, and finally whirls round in a mad orgie of motion. Faster and faster go the drums, and still faster gyrates the spinning, whirling, human teetotum in the centre, with its grinning gor- gon head and gaudy robes. Tht l-.-o- ple yell, wild with unrestrained excitement, and the dust rises, choking and stifling in the burning sun. At last, exhausted, the dancer stops, and sinks into a seat, while spectators surround him and reverently lifting his robe (they must not expose his hidden face) vigorously fun the hot, breathless man. After a brief interval, during which the crowd indulge in draughts of palm wine or petoe (native sour beer made from maize), the dancer again rises, and again performs the same dance with apparently undiminished vigor, and again falls exhausted, to be fanned back to life by h,s "seconds." In reply to all questions as to what aie his thojghts when he dances, the dance*- replies that he has none, and that he is not himself, but is possessed ot a devil, which enables hiin to perform his weird revolutionary antics. SHOWS GREAT PROMISE. Ottawa Gir: la Going to Be a Great Artist, Say Critics. Lovers of art who have seen some of her productions prophesy a brilliant future for Miss Gladys Vickers, of Ottawa. Her father, Harold H. Vickers, has won fame in Canada and the United States and finds it impos- LITTLE KNOWN WEALTH MISS OLADT8 VICKEBS. sible to meet the demand upon him. He is an Englishman, who came to Canada 25 years ago. and was forced to struggle for years before the merit of his work won recognition. His daughter inherits his genius, and is fast becoming his rival in the world of art. Her productions find a ready market and ment with much praise from critics. With Apologies. It your neighbors turn you down, Keep a-smlllng. If your mouth taslea dark red brown. Keep a-smlllng. If ynur friends keep, In their blindness, Back Ihe mils ot human kindness, There is other milk in lown- Keep a cow. -Cleveland Letter. Side by Side at tho Seaside. Athletic Blither - I Just dote op Browning, dou't you? Fair Bather-1 don't miud brownlnj aa long as ll doesn't freckle.—Judge. Rural Simplicity. Tbe summer Doanler goes about Without a hat or eoat or veot. Compared lo him. without a doubt. Th* farmer's lad is linely dressed. Preferred the Meal. There is a story told that during a recent all-night sitting in the British Commons a Liberal and Conservative were eating breakfast at 7 a.m. trom the same limited dish of bacon and eggs, when the division bells rang. "I'm hanged if I stir for that division," said the Conservative. "Then I'll pair with you," said the Liberal, with a friendly desire to relieve any qualms of dereliction of duty on the part of his political opponent. "Oh, that won't do," said the Conservative; "the obligation tb vote sits lighter on a member of the Opposition than on a supporter of the Government." But the Liberal insisted on neutralizing the absence of his opponent from the division by remaining away himself. "Well, I suppose I must agree," at last said the Conservative ruefully; "but I hoped you would go, so that I should have all the bi.con and eggs to myself." The "Silent Soldier." Few living British soldiers hare seen more service than Sir Ian Hamilton. The Afghan war of '78 gave him his "baptism of fire," and three years later he was present at Majuba Hill, where he suffered a serious wound. The chief successes of his career, however, fell to him in the last Boer campaign, where he earned his lasting reputation. Then he accompanied the Japanese army through Manchuria at the time of the great war with Russia, and it is interesting to recall that—always excepting "Tommy Atkins"—he has declared the Japanese soldier the best in the world. Strong, dauntless, energetic to a degree almost superhuman, Sir Ian Hamilton iB generally known in the service as the "Silent Soldier." He i» now fifty-six years of age. Fatal Result ot a Wager. While two Glasgow men were making a wager regarding their marksmanship, Joseph Wilson offered to hold a pipe in his mouth for them to fire at. Instead of hitting the pipe one of the marksmen shot Wilson, who died from his injuries. Ho Would. Molly—If you were a successful business man would you make your firm Insure your life? Coddle—What reason' have yon to believe 1 would not be as conceited as any of them? Father's Mistake. "That youug man wlm bus been calling on you for some time seems to lack ambition," remarked I'apa Got- rox. "There's where you go lame, papa." •rejoined bis only daughter. "He is nro bilious to uiurry me."-CUIcago News. PARTS OF CANADA THAT ARE ALMOST UNKNOWN. OCCUPATION FOR WOMEN. THE SAFEST SPOT. Inland Lakes of the Northland Are Full of Fish, Including the En- connu Which Weighs as Much as Fifty Pounds — Less Than 2,000 Persons Are Rulers of This Vast Empire of the North. The vast inland lakes of Canada's great northlands, as well as the smaller lakes and rivers, are teem ing with fish; whitefish, salmon trout, mountain and arctic trout King salmon, pike, pickerel, and great varieties of other fish are to be found. Jaekfish weighing up to tb pounds, trout 50 pounds, and stur gean over 100 pounds in weight an common. Herring in vast numbers from the Arctic Ocean find theii way up the Mackenzie River as fm as Great Bear Lake. At Great Slav Lake and along the Mackenzie River they have a fish peculiar to those parts. It was noted by Fir Alexan der Mackenzie, the discoverer of the river that bears his name, who call ed it the "Enconnu" (or unknown) which name has stuck to it ever since It is a large, silvery-scaled lish, sal mon-like in appearance, and weigh- up to 50 pounds. While this district cannot truth fully he called an ideal one for stock ruisii-g. although it is considered se by many (the ideal country for stock raising existing only in imagination), lhe abundance of upland and lowland hay, pea-vine and red-top, and the heavy growth of marsh grass, make it an easy matter to provide food for the wintering of stock Horses forage the year round, and even those not wanted in harness for the winter are turned out after the ground freezes in the fall to shift for themselves through the winter, and are taken in again and put to work in the spring. Kven colts are fre quently left out for the winter, and, like the older horses, they paw away the snow, and find an abundance ot nourishing food beneath. Cattle frequently stay out until Christmas, after which dairy cows and young stock are stabled and fed. while the rest are turned out to a straw-stack, which is their only she! ter. The latter are generally found to be in as good condition in the spring as those that are stabled. The percentage of loss is not more than five per cent., as compared with ten per cent, in the south, lhe dairying industry is proving a financial success, and it is certain that with improvement in the breeding of the herds stock-raising and dairying will soon develop into an important and profitable industry. The Rooky Mountains are the home of the famous mountain shoe) and goat, the fierce grizzly and th'- cinnamon be-ir, al] well known there. Elk and a number of deer are also found here. In the vast country between the Rockies anil Hudson Bay, as well as the west coast, moose, deer, and black and brown bears are common. The grej timber wolt, coyote wolverine, fox beaver, otterfisher, marten, mink, er mine, lynx rabbit and squirrel art found to be well distributed The saakietoon, or service berry, it, peculiar to the northwest, and i- much sought after by the hears whose liking for the delicious frui' often lands them within easy react of the hunter's rifl'*. Strawberries raspberries, currants, high and low bush cranly»iries, gooseberries, a*her ries and a num'i,-r of other berrie- are found in great abundance. A me't handful of white people less than 2,000. rule this empire ol the north, and attend to the business, which is already estimated by the million-dollar standard. The 3A.00I Indians are peaceable, having beer taught by precept, judicious treat ment un-1 tactful handling (if nol always by example) that lhe whit, man's mission among them was one of peace and good-will. In no coun try in the world are life and property safer than in this region, remote as it is from all the restraining influences of civilization (and bad whisky). T*ie work of that splendid body, the It.N.W.M.P., is greally ap predated by all alike, as they do their duty without tear or favor, and do not count their personal safety or comfort anything while in discharge of their duty. Canada has, in her Mounted Police, a body of men of which she may well be proud. The opinion of such a man as Hon Edgar Dewdney, for many years Minister of the Interior at Ottawa, later Governo-* of British Columbia, will be of interest. Speaking of the part of the Peace River district that lies in British Columbia, he said: "There are undoubtedly many rich mineral deposits still untouched." "Gold has been exploited there for a number of years and nitrate silver has also been discovered in large blocks.'* "The Peace River country is at present practically uninhabited, lt can hold and feed millions. The climate is by no means severe." "The opening up of this land by railways will mean an immense influx of people north, for there is little doubt that it is one of the richest and most attracts-, portions of British Columbia." The present Dominion Government Is adopting a wise course in pursuing a vigorous and clear-cut policy in the opening up of this country, as evidenced by the extension of the surveys, the extension and the improvement of the mail service, the establishment of an experimental station or the Peace River at Fort Willitt.ii, tne building of telegraph lines, the improvement of the waterways and in the establishment of a northern land district. The Provincial Government see a great future for this land, and are laying out roads, building bridges, assisting rail road construction, building telephones, establishing schools, encouraging agriculture ..nd stock-raising snd taking up the regulations of the judicial affairs of the newer portions of the country. What's tho Uso. "Come Into the garden, Maud." Bald facetloue minded Freed.. "What's the uae?" aald Maudle. "I have It on my head." Latest Profession in London Is Coaching Ladies of Fashion. j rl. long as new occupations develop as they Have during the last decade it would seem that no woman should be disappointed in an attempt to find ugreeable work. In London there is a i i uew calling which was first noticed in the spring in numbers sufficient to give it place among the recognized trades lI women who support themselves. It is an occupation which must penetrate to America, where the conditions that brought this way of making a living into women's world exist iu such a high degree. Ihe claims on the time of a woman of society in the swiftest whirl of London life are now so great that she cannot be expected to keep up with the latest news of the world, the smartest talk about the new books, or even the latest notes of fashions. With her socil. dutieB and their necessary preparation she has her hands full. It is to supply her with these necessary attributes for conversation that intelligent young women in London are devoting their time. They go once a week, sometimes daily, and while their patrons are in the hands of the hairdresser, their maids, or i-ve i their dressmakers, they talk to them about the interesting affairs of the day, telling them just what is new in politics, art and literature. In this way my lady is able to acquire sufficient information to appear with credit. It sometimes happens that one of these universal providers of small talk may literally coach her employer for some particular function she is going to attend. This may be a din- n.r that will demand a certain amount of acquaintance with politics or science or literature. Her duty is to make these subjects as clear and comprehensible as she can in as short a time as possible. So successful has this new field been that the humber of intelligent, well-informed girls who now earn a good liv.'ng in this way has greatly increased during the last year. If the worn in cf society finds that she needs to have decided opinions on any parti -mar subject, it is thr duty of her mental stimulator tn have them also on hand. It is not to be doubted that si me resourceful woman will introlace this same system of brightening up the minds of society in our large cities next winter. CAPE COLONY'S PREMIER. Rt. Hon. J. X. Merriman Attends Two Conferences. One of the prominent delegates to the Empire Defence Conference recently held in London was the Right Honorable J. X. Merriman, Premier of Cape Colony. Premier Merriman was in England on a double errand at the time, for he was also a dele- HON. J. X. MERBIMAN. gate to the South African Union Conference, which was so satisfactorily settled by the representatives and ratified by the Imperial Parliament. The defence conference was a little premature, so far as the South Africans were concerned. Their Governments ure in a state of change and the representatives could not act with authority until the union of the provinces was complete. John Xavier Merriman was born in Somersetshire, and went to South Africa in 1840, when he was eight years old. At twenty-eight he was in politics, and ut thirty-four was a Minister. Since that time his rise has been steady. Played It On the Judge. Once v V*n Baron Bramwell was sitting on the crown side of the South Wales circuit, counsel for the defence in a certain case asked leave to address the jury in Welsh. The case being a simple one, permission was given without demur. He said but very few words. The baron also did not think much comment was necessary, but was somewhat startled by a prompt verdict of acquittal. "What was it," he afterward inquired, "that' Mr, L. said to the jury?" "Oh, he just said: 'ThiB case, gentlemen, lies in a nutshell. You see yourselves exactly how it stands. The judge is an Englishman, the complainant is an Englishman, but you are Welsh, and I am Welsh, and the prisoner is Welsh. Need I say more? I leave it all to you'." Ships as Weighing Machines. How the load of a ship can be quickly ascertained without actually weighing it was demonstrated recently by Mr. Edward Beresford at the Temple Pier by experiments on a 200-ton barge. The apparatus used is known as a porhydrometer, and consists of a float placed in the water which is admitted up a pipe fixed in the centre of the vessel. As the load is increased the vessel naturally sinks deeper into the water, and the water in the pipe rises to a greater height, and the float thus raised throws a lever out of balance. A sliding weight enables one to bring it into balance again, and the position of the weight on a scale shows the amount of thc load. The porhydrometer was sufficiently accurate to show the weight of a man j I stepping aboard the barge. < Deck of Vessel is, Perhaps, Most Secure in the World. Probably the majority of people, if asked what they considered to be the safest spot for them to be in, would reply, "In bad, or in an arm-chaii by the side of the fire." But tbey are cjuite mistaken. The risk of injury .s much greater than if one was traveling by ship or rail. At least, tbcet is the conclusion which the writer of an article on uccident insurance, published in the World's Work, has come to. The curious fact is mentioned that, according to statistics, 60 per cent, ol accidents happen while the victims are at horn.- or in the street, the explanation being that a man when going a journey, or entering upon a hazardous undertaking, exercises special care, thus escaping injury, but while at home, or taking exercise, vigilance is relaxed, familiarity with common dangers breeding contempt. Prob..bly the safest place on land or sea is tlie* deck or r.accin ol tt tirst-class ocean liner. A first-class railway carriage is also an exceptionally safe place. This is so clearly recognized that accident insurance companies can afford to double the compensation when accidents occur on railways or tramcars. Certain companies will in- hown signs of neglect. "When I come into the house I have to hunt for my slippers und everything else I happen to want, hut when 1 used to court ynu, and your father would conic in from the city, you would gather up his things, wheel his easy chair to the fire, warm bis slippers and get him a head rest anil n foot rest, so that all he had to do was to be eoomfortable." "Oh, that was only to make him go to sleep soonei I" was the young wife's satisfactory explanation.—London Muil. MRS. BESANT IS BACK THEOSOPHIST LEADER VISIT CANADA. MAY Englishwoman Who Has Been In the Public Eye For the Last Forty Years Is Now Lecturing In Amer. ica—Home Is In India, and She Heads a Large Cult—Has Always Been a Fighter. The arrival in America of Mrs. Annie Besant has aroused great interest among he*r followers in Canada, and sbe will no doubt be much in the public eye during her stay here, owing to the extensive lecture tour she has planned. A native of England, but by choice a resident of Adyar, India, Mrs. Besant has been at the head of the Theosophieal Society for several years, succeeding Col. Henry 3. Oleott in that position, and she is Ths British Isles. There are 77.6S3.0S1 acres" ln tb* Brit lab Isles. Belated, "The sting of the bee Is behind." I "Just the way with my repartees—I \\ eever think of It Ull the next day."- Pack. Ths Errant Chauffeur. He stole him t Joy rtda, The Impudent thief. But ateered at a lamppost And got only grief. -Phlladalphta Ledgsr. Tho Ragman Rolls. 'Tbe Bagman Bolls" were a series of deK-uuii'iits recording ibe progress of Edward I. through Scotland In r.IKi, wltb the names of the nobles aud others who did homage lo him. MBS. ANNIE BESANT. now sixty-two years of age. Since her twenties she has been fighting, first to get a separation from her husband. Rev. Frank Besant, who resented her advanced ideas, brother of Walter Besant, the uuthor; then by the side of Charles Bradlaugh; in connection with the promulgation of a pamphlet advocating the limitation of poor families; then to hold her daughter, sought by her husband; again in the ranks of a good many kinds of radicalism, including socialism, and finally for theosophy. Mrs. Besant is a little stouter than she used to be, and her gray eyes are clear and sharp, as they huve always been, and her face, strong lined and masculine, indicates a masterful mind behind it. Theosophy, or divine wisdom, numbers many thousand Americans adherents to its doctrines and has numerous disciples in all quarters of the globe. The largest branch is that of India. "What is theosophy?" is a question being asked more often now than formerly, and ut the same time doctrines of the cult are more widely understood. Reincarnation, the living of a succession of lives on this sphere until perfection is reached and one graduates to a higher life, is the primary belief that actuates the followers of theosophy. During her stay in America Mrs. Besant will visit the principal cities, lecturing to theosophists, and will probably visit Canadian cities. Another Link With Dickens Lost. The closing of the old 8aracen's Head Hotel in Snow Hill, London, will soon remove another link with Dickens. The old place has been compelled to close by the pressure of the new budget taxes. The Saracen's Head was an important place in its day. Dickens immortalized it In Nicholas Nickleby. He made Mr. Wuckford Squeers, of Dotheboys Hull, in Yorkshire, stop there when he went to London to interview the young gentlemen who were to be "accurately educated" ut his academy. Parts of the building are about 400 years old. and there are records showing that it has been used as a hotel for at least that period. Of course it has been rebuilt a number of times, and the structure now looks quite modem. In the mail coach days it was one of the recognized stopping places. The guests at the hotel used to collect on the balconies which surrounded the old yard to watch the coaches arrive and depart. This yard has long since disappeared, its site being covered with business buildings. It is expected that the old hotel building will either be torn down or converted into warehouses. In Doubt. A prominent church worker of Balti more wus delivering one Sabbath s | talk to a class comprising pupils who lived in u rather squalid section of the town, says Harper's Weekly. Tbe good man touched upon the- quality of untruthfulness, and at one point in his address he said: "1 want every little boy who hat never told a lie to raise I,is hand." Not a hand went up. But a lud in the rear rose to ask a question. "What is it, my boy?" "Well, sir, whut I want to ask is is it u lie il nobody ever knows?" What He Meant. "Your novels will not endure," said the critic. "I know it," said the author. "They are not literature," said the critic. "Correct," said the author. "Well, then, what do you mean by them?" "Money," said thc author. "Wait er, fetch me a porterhouse stc«k." Her Busy Day. Hlgglety-plgglety, my black hen— Bhe laid three eggs at half past ten; She laid another at half pist eight And then laid off to re-coop tier-eight Brother of the King. The Duke of Connaught, whose resignation from tlte post of Inspector- General of the Mediterranean Forces is announced, seems to possess tbe happy knack of winning the esteem of everyone with, whom he conies into contact. To a certain extent this is due to his''/f[Tfiibleni'ss. As a *ieldie-r once put it. "There's no la-di- lu foppery about the1 Dook. 'Ell st |> uiuJ tulk to you in thee street, and y eii can talk to 'ini pretty straight, as ■ hi to man, without belli' ate up." The duke, by tlte way, seems to bave inherited something of Queen Victoria's power of repartee. On the occasion of a visit pniil by him many years ago to Dublin, a certain Mr. Ilenn insisted on being introduced to His Royal Highness b'cuiise, he said, his son bad sut next the prince when both were passing their examinations f.er the army "I was tln-n." eebseTvel the duke, "between two birds, for on my otber side was a Mr Peacock, and none of us was plucked." A Bicycle Clock. A Frenchman has mnde a clock twelve feet high, entirely compose*-! of bicycle*s or their component parts, lhe framework is a huge bicycle wheel, and twelve ortlinary-sizeel wheels, fitted with pne-i-'i-ttic tires, serve for the hours. 7 s are made ol steel tubing,5 ia used for the fruniewoik oi V .es. The cbiuies are ordinary bicycle bells. Prepared. "Be careful what you say to paps. I'm afraid he's sore." "Well, I've got plenty of salve tot him."—Atlanta Constitution. Joys of Living. ,„ With rhubarb pie and rhubarb saueo And atrawberry shortcake fine. Ah, why Bhould life be Incomplete And why should we repine? With lettuce green aid Bplnach fresh And mint In glory growing. Oh, let the llghta of life burn bright. Each heart with radiance glowing! The Polka. Tbe polka was originally a Servian war dance. The Psychological Moment. The time Is ripe! I will not pause, But put the question fateful. I know aha lovea me well, because Rha uv, I'm "lust too hateful." Tho Tendency. "Will peach basket hats go out of style soon?" "1 tblnk so," answered the fashion expert. "Tbe bushel basket bat ls already on tbe way.". . THE TIMES. HOSMER. BRITISH COLUMBIA. The Hosmer Times SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ono Yoar One Dollar in Advance Single Copies Five Cents Each Publlechc-tl every Thursday morniiagat Bosmesr, lirltiecii Columbia, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1010 No. Vo No, No, No. No. c: No, No Time Tables. 0. P. R. TIME TABU-: .arrive- He 313 West 311 Bast 312 Local Haul 311 Local "Wesl 7 West ["Iyer 8 East Flyer bangs tonk effect Sunduy Oct eclllcl' . 9.15 . 18.30 . 0.43 -JM.oo .11.33 . 1.00 . 80 I.. N. TIMETABLE 201 leaves Michel 0.00 a. in. Ai-vivesat Hosiuui-,., 0.45a. in. 232 leaves Rexfoi-d.. 4.15p. in. Arrives at Hosmer... 7.13p.m. TALK OF THE TOWN Tho Times 'phono No; is 10. Robt. Strachan is awny at Victoria this weok. I. Zislotnau is visiting friends in Calgary tin's week. Sam Snell, now of Olson, took in tlio flremens' hull on Friday. Como to the social in the Methodist church Tuesday eve ! L. A. Lanthier made a business trip to Pernio on Monday. . Do yon enjoy a pool game? Drop in on Jack Haddad. 51 Sam Snell and Murdoch McGregor nre hibernating at Olson. The ond seat hog is the only one of his species that hasn't a market value. Tho quarterly board meeting of the Methodist church was hold on Tuesday, J. F. McDonald, Miss K. Kirk- patrick and Miss Collins drove in from Fernio on Sunday. John B. McDonald, is busy soliciting subscriptions for the Lethbi-idge Herald contest. T. ll. Cox, of tho Elk Valley Brewing Co., Michel, paid a visit to our city mi Tuesday. C. E. Dyce, organizer for the .Lethbridge Herald voting coin- petition was iu t iwn Monday. H. Seville, of Feruie was assisting in the P. Burns Co. store horo for a few days last week. J. O'Doa and .J. VV. Fitzgib- bons, insurance agents of Frank, visited Hosmer this week. Go to old, reliable Pete for a good shave, hair-cut or bath. Pete's Barber Shop. lltf Miko Sorkie left on Wednesday morning lor Spokane! on account of tho illness of his mother. W. I). Broun, representing the Fairbanks Morse Co., Calgary, was a Hosmer visitor Tuesday. Percy Bean, of tho firm of Bean Bros., Fernie, was transacting business in llosmoi yesterday. If people take you for an easy mark it's your cue ti) got busy and mark them off your calling list. Miss M. Salmon, of Cranbrook, spoilt a few days with Mis. (J. B. Winter and attended the flremens' dance. Fon Rent—Furnished antl unfurnished rooms at the Scotia hotel. Too much faith is to bo deplored even as too littlo, especially when dealing with a green goods man. I'oto Comiilini, one of the pioneers of Hosiner. now residing at Ki-xford. Mont., spent a fow days in town this weok. Alec Podunski, of Michel, managed to peddle his way into town on Friday, llosmer was soemingly to warm for hiin, Percy Warr mnde n trip to Lethbridge last woek fm- ll.e purpose of setting at the engineer's examination fur Alberta. The Hev. Dr. Cbonoweth, B. A., iif Michel, will preach in the Methodist church .Sunday evening. Everybody most cordially invited, The third annual ball under the auspices of North Star Lodge* No. II, Knights of Pythias, will be held in the opera house on Friday, Dot-ember 30th. The best music in East Kootenay will he furnished by the Hosmer Orchestra. A lunch will be served. Tickets one dollar and a half, ladies are admitted free. Frank Labelle and family drove to Cokato last Sunday. .Sam Walters, of the Waldorf hotel staff, Fernie, paid Hosmer a visit yesterday. Dave E. Kersley, manager of the .Summit hotel, Crow's Nest, visited Hosmer last week. T. F. Dawson, a dry goods salesman from Calgary, was in town Tuesday. Gus Dunn, travelling for the Lincoln, etc., cigars, of Montreal, was "doing" tho town this week. Coasting on the hill is now in all its glory and a largo majority ot our sp-norts and youthful beauties aro taking full advantage of it. Next week thc Times will publish a few illustrations of tho plant of the Hosmer Mines, Ltd. Orders will be taken at I the oflico of publication for ox- I fcra copies. Nettie and Win. Partridge and Steve Lawson wero visitors I in Carlstad, Alberta, last week. They report tho climate very 1 mild up there being only twelve j below zero. Every man has plenty of i friends who can e^JI he made I his mistake, but tho friend who lean and will givo him a straight , tip is' more rare than fresh water pearls. The regular meeting of tho Hosiner Board of Trade will be ,held on Monday evening, December 12th in the old school house. All members are requested to attend. Every father knows ho never was such a driveling idiot as : his son is, and the son hugs himself in tho mild delusion that he never will be such a back number as his dad is. One of our citizens received this week from a Winnipeg firm, a bill for ono cent. It cost two cents to ask foi- it and would have cost two cents to remit, however, he did'nt send | it. PlANO—Now at railway sta- ■ tion nea i- hero will be sacrificed i for $2511.00 cash, never been used, L-itl unable to keop it. Apply in first instance to Mrs. j Mungeaii. 20111 Columbia street, Vancouver, B. C. 16-2 Miss Tiny Mason died in Hos- ! mer Saturday morning. Decern- , ber 3rd, 1910. The funeral was J held on Sunday afternoon from 'the undertaking parlors of T. A. Cornett, and the remains were interred in tho Hosmer com- etary, Tho presbyterian Xmas tree will bo held on Friday*, December 23rd in the opera house at 8:30 p.m. Any of the parents of any denomination are wel- !conio to put anything on the tree for tlie children. A collection will bo taken. A social will be given in the Methodist church next Tuesday levelling, December 13th. Tho i proceeds will go to the Methodist .Sunday school children's Christinas tree. Everybody in- ; vited, come and have a good time. Admission 10 cents. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Swanton 1 leave tomorrow morning for '. Vancouver where tbey will make their future home. Mr. Swanton is one of the pioneers of Hosmer, having resided here over four years. They loavo a large circle of friends in Hosnier who wish them success and prosperity in their new homo. The Women's Auxiliary of lhe Church of England will hold a sale of plain and fancy work, suitable foi- Christmas presents, toys, candies, etc., on Tuesday, December 20th in the opera house block. Tea will bo served during the afternoon and the members of the society hopo to receive liberal patronage from the people of Hosmer. For a comfortable shave or a neat, artistic hair-trim visit the shop of Jack Haddad. 51tf Tho 55th annual of the Sons ot Scotland, O. F. A. G. T. B. and (i., will give a grand ball •and supper on Monday evoning. January 2nd, 1011. Among the many features will bo old country dancing, music and bagpipes. The affair will bo in charge of G. Rankin, W. Whito, J, Patterson and J. Campbell. Admission $2.00, ladies cordially ; invited. Tickets may be obis ined from any member of the committee, Attempted to End Her Lire. ' Coleman, Doc. 5.—This afternoon Miss Tillie Rosebach, fifteen years of age, attempted to commit suicide by drinking car- Wolic acid. Miss Rosebach, who formerly lived in Blairmore, succeeded in drinking two ounces of tbo fluid before discovered. Medical aid was summoned and with careful attention it is esiuected the young girl will pull through. No cause is assigned for hor rash act. 'An accident occurred in the International Coal and Coke Co.'s mine this afternoon, by which a Polo named Krigo, was injured by a fall of rock. The man was removed -"to the hospital, whero is was ascertained that tho man's injuries were not so serious 6s at first supposed. cac . . . ac . , Firemen's Ball. The fireman gave a very enjoyable dance last Friday night in the opera house. The music was excellent, and the toilettes ot tho ladies were beautiful and varied. This is tho first dance in Hosmer at which individual programmes havo beon used, and the idea seems to have mot with universal approbation. We understand however that tho dance was not very successful financially, which fact is rather to bo deplored, as the fire boys desorve substantial support from every citizen of Hosmer. A Calendar for 1911. Tne publishers of the Youth's Companion will as always at this season present to every subscriber whose subscription, $1.75, is puid for 1911 a beautiful calendar for the new year. The picture panel reproduces a water color painting of an old time garden iu a flood of sum mer sunshine, with a bajk ground of Lombardy poplars through which one catches a glimpse of distant hills. The picture being in 12 colors, the tones of the original are faith fully reproduced. — ea . . i « Cheer Up ! The coal mau and the blacksmith smile. The ico man is temporarily out of business but he does not fear a hard winter. The colder it is in winter the bettor he likes it, the hotter it is in summer the broader his smile. The lawn mower has been put to rost under the back stops. Stove pipes never before slipped together so easily as they did this full. Cheer tip ! —Fernio Free Pross. Elect Officers. The North Star Lodge, No. 41, K. of P. held a meeting lust Thursday evoning and elected officers for the ensuing term : C. C.—A. McAuley. V. C.-C. Hiltz. Prel.—W. Simmonas. M. of W.—A. L. Fortier. K. R. S.~W. Balderstone. M. of F.—R. W. Rogers. M. of E.—E I. Bennott. M. at A.-W. White. I. G.—A. Pednault, O. G.—J. Donachie. Don t forget the free moving picture show at tho Queen s Hotel, Saturday evening from 8:30 to 11 p. m. CANADIAN PACIFIC AHHDAl Eastern Canada EXCURSIONS Low Round Trip Rate* to Ontario, Quebec and Maritime Provinces Tickets on milo Due, 1 to Dec. 81, iu- clusfVc, good to return within throe Dion ths Tickets issued i n connection with Atlantic Steamships will be on suit- froni Nov. I] nnd limited to five months from date of itisuc Finest Eijuipnient Standard First Class and Tourist Sleeping Cars and Dining Curs on all Through Trains. Compartment- Library - Observation Car on "Imperial Limited 3 Through Express Trains Daily ~ THE "TORONTO EXPRESS" | leaves Winnipeg daily at 22.10k, milk- I ing connections at Toronto for all pointsc Kim) and West thereof. j The "iMl'EBtAt, r.lMITKli" h.-aves Win- j nipeg daily at H.2.">k, and the "Atlantic Express at 10.00k daily, making connections at Montreal for all poinls Easl (hereof. Apply to the nearest C. P. If, agent for full information. A Study in -Geography. Tho Spokesman Review is a paper which reflects great credit upon the city whero it is published. In quality, it is ono of the best printed anywhere. But it publishes a map of the Pacific Northwest on which British Columbia is sho.vn as extending far east of Calgary and Lethbridge. If an English} paper, printed six thousand miles away made a similar mistake with regard to the limits of the State of Washington, what facetious comment we would read.—Nelson News. Football. The following aro the results of the old country games: Fibst Division Evorton I Manchester City 0 Notts County 0 Sheffield United 3 Bristol City 1 Blackburn Rovers 0 Oldham Athletic 3 Liverpool 1 Sheffield 5 Notts Forest 2 Newcastle 0 Bradford City I Middles-borough 1 Sunderland 0 Tottenham Hotspur 3 Woolwich Arsenal 1 Preston Northern! 0 Aston Villa'l Manchester. United 3 Bury 2 Second Division Bradford 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 Burnley 2 Leicester Fosse 1 Fulham 1 Chelsea 0 Hull City 0 Clapton Orient 2 Leeds City 3 Derby County 2 West Bromwieh 0 Blackpool 1 Bolton Wanderers 3 Hudderstield 1 Birmingham 1 Glossnp 2 Southern Division. New Brompton Watford (postponed) Millwall Athletic 0 Leyton 3 Queen's Park Hangers 1 Brentford 0 Westhani United 1 Crystal'Palace 1 Portsmouth 1 Swindon 2 Northampton Exeter City (postponed) Norwich City 1 Brighton and Hove Albion 1 Coventry City 0 Plymouth Argyle 1 Southend United Southampton (postponed) Scottish Leaoub. Celtic 3 Motherwell 0 Falkirk 3 St. Mirren 2 Queen's Park 1 Third Lanark 1 Kibnarnock 2 Dundee 0 Morton 2 Airdriebnians 1 Patrick Thistles 3 Baith Bo /ere 0 Aberdeen 1 Glasgow Bangers 0 Hearts 1 Clyde 1 Hamilton Academicals 1 Hibernians 1 Played on the grounds of the first namedclub. Rev. Hicks' JUmanac Tho Rev. Irl R. Hicks almanac for 1911, that guardian Angel in a hundred thousand homes is now ready. Not many are now willing to be without it and the Rev. Irl R. Hicks magazine, word and works. The two are only one dollar a year. The almanac is 35c prepaid. No home or office should fail to send for them, to Word and Works publishing company, St, Louis, Mo. CLc/lR^K'S MOVING PICTURE AND VAUDEVILLE Company —on— cTWONDAY DECEMBER 12th DON'T MISS liie Best Program of Moving Pictures and Illustrated Songs ever shown in Hosmer. Strong Mexican Films ILLUSTRATED SONGS STARTS AT 8:30 Watch for Handbills. Come Early Follow the Crowd. ISc ADMISSION 35c LEROY TAYLOR Boots and Shoes Neatly and Satisfactorily Repaired Leave work at Fletcher's store. Supreme Means Unequalled ^-*—^—^—- Our Supreme brand of Flour has no equal for bread making. We consider ourselves fortunate in securing the sole agency for Hosmer for this exceptionally high grade flour. Give it a trial and you will use no other. Just received a car load of Ashcroft potatoes and vegetables, the best that can be had. A. MATHIESON TBE STORE OF. SATISFACTION Main Street HOSMER, B. C. *************** ************ STEAMSHIP TICKETS! On Sale to any Part ol tho World j If you wish to arrange for your friends coming out to this country, call and the matter can be arranged without trouble for those travelling. Full information given upon application as to all steamship lines. I W. T. WATSON * Agent 0. P. B. Hosmer ************************** C. H. DUNBAR Barrister Solicitor and Notary Public HOSMER - - B.C. O. P. IaAWB Al.KX I. FlBIIltlt. 11. A, LAWE & FISHER Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. FERNIE B. C. Stopping an ad to save money is like stopping a clock to save time. PEOPLE'S CLOTHING STORE I'll. ADELBEKO I. ZISBLMAN, Mob. Clothing, Gent's Furnishings, Boots and Shoes, Jewelry and Watches Droew Swell You Might an wall HOSaUKR, B. 0. JOSEPH RYBNICEK CARPENTER Am BUILDER Good work at low prices ami satisfaction guaranteed HOSMER, B. C. HOSMER TOBACCO STORE HABBY SllAl'KA, WM. GOIUTK, Pi-ops. Cigars, Tobaccos, Pipes Etc. FIRST CLASS POOL TABLES CALL IN AND SEE US Main Street HOSMER, B. C. THE HOSMER DAIRY G. M. IIEDLKY, Prop. Fresh Milk and Cream delivered to all parts of the town. HOSMER, B. 0. Hosmer - Fruit - Store V. Milo, Prop. Fruits, Candies, Cigars, Tobaccos, Etc., Ice Cream and Soft Drinks CALL AND SEE US Next door to Tony Lombardi's old stand. Bath Rooms Up-to-date. You are all welcome at Pete's Barber Shop Front St., Hosmer T. A. CORNETT UNDERTAKER AU Kinds of Pictures Framed on Short Notice Agent for the SINGER SEWING MACHINE Call at the Diamond Hall, Main Street, Hosmer, B. 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