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The Atlin Claim was published in Atlin, a remote community located in northwestern British Columbia, close to the Yukon border. The Claim was published by the Atlin Claim Publishing Company, and ran from April 1899 to April 1908. Although a number of different editors worked on the Claim, the two longest-serving editors were Alfred C. Hirschfield and William Pollard Grant.
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rf: , rT^^r^? ��� VOL. 8.r .ATLIN/B. C- - \ & S I SATURDAY, - APRIL /i8,> 1003 NO. 196. A'BUGBEAR. Atlin Miners ' Think / They Are' Deceived. Bad Break Found in,, tho proposed Placer Amendments���' 1* A Timely ^Explanation. " - sf ' I, -*1 * ' - " For the information of many of our readers, we herewith reproduce a section, of the'proposed, amendments to the Placei "Act now in the hands of,the Executive , Committee of life "B-.C^ Mining 'Asspciation for final revision, which has caused righteous indignation here among men who 'have,1 heard it "read. ^.^.It^ must,* however;* be ' borne , in 'c-xnund by those who were, present at recent*, public meetings, both -in' Atlin and Discovery, that "the.proposed amendments read ,at these meetings, were not the* "'finished article " but a rough draft,' and that ,^ before final acceptance and/recom- , niendation to the Legislature, all -���* -'' - ' * * i i, ambiguity would be corrected, aiid ~a set of amendments���approved by the -representative miners1 of the ,- Province'-1^ as 1 nearly > perfect as could be franied/wbuld be presented to "the Government for action. " 1 The particular section "referred 1 to is'Section 18, of " Part VII, of - the propdsed changes, aud'reads as follows ��� "Placer Claims Containing Lodes ' ���Where a Free Miner or association of free miners or corporation is in possession of a placer mining claim" and also a vein or lode enclosed withitf the boundaries thereof, application shall be made" for a Crown grant for the placer claim with the statement that it includes - such vein or lode, aud in such case ltlie Crown grant shall issue, for the placer claim, 'subject,to the provisions of. this Act, including such vein or lode, upon payment of $10 per acre for such vein or lode claim and roo feet of surface on each side the'reof, the remainder of the placer claim ' or any placer claim not embracing any vein or lode claim shall be paid for at the rate of $5 per acre, together with all costs of proceedings, and where a vein or lode, such as is described in the Mineral Act, is known to exist within the boundaries of a placer claim an application for a Crown grant for such placer claim which docs not include an application for a vein or lode shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the claimant of the placer claim has no right of possession of the vein or lode claim ; but where the existence of a vein or lode in a placer claim is unknown, a Crown grant for a placer claim shall convey all valuable mineral and other-deposits within the boundaries thereof." To those who consider the sec- Continued on page 8. :' FRIE' Of-'"' OUW, Vi' The following telegram,, which should have^a most^important beating upon developments in^his section^ was lecently'receiv.ed.by, Mr. H. W. E. Canavan of Atlin ��� / V'fSjM0>J'i}'" , ] ��� ,, ,i' Ottawa, Apnl, r6th, 1903. ",1-Iave secured legislation in Ottawa adrnilting'nll placer mach" ���'incry free for a year. ' > ^ - l' J W_. J. Robinson." Mteteee Creek items. Much -Money Will Be Spent in> New Developments ��� A _.'��� ; . Steam Shovel to Operate this Season. AROUND THE CAMP. to the 1 fc v. Mr F. Hamshaw, of New York city,' who * arrived1-1 here 'last'week, accompanied by several influential gentlemen from , the' east,- is the forerunner-'of^a season of^activity^ on McKee'oreek.V' ' The property to' be developed'un- der'' the 'superintendence^ of "Mr. Hamsliaw.Ms'that locally known as the Ware^property, which was pur- cha'sed^by Mr.' Kinyon - and associ- ates last fall, and consists~of four ' ' . ' \ I ��� - J s 1. 1 bench leases and one creek lease, together with Woo miners' inches of water/ �� *~n ��� ^ ^Tii^n'"4nterview~''ivith 'Mr, Hamshaw this week wc learn that.it is his" intention, to" instal a steam shovel upon the property this sum; mer. This will have a lifting capacity of one and a half cubic yards, and shovel a daily average of 1000 cubic 3'ards. Until a complete survey of the property and of the creek has been made to ascertain required .elevations, it is undecided whether dump cars will be used or the dirt dumped directly into the sluice * boxes. Bedrock on the creek lease, where the shovel is to be installed, is understood not to exceed six feet'. The steam shovel equipment and other supplies will be brought in as soon as navigation opens. Some preliminary prospecting will' be T engaged in by Mr. Hamshaw to determine, if possible, the width'of the channel," and this will be done by a series of drifts sunk to bedrock across the channel. It is not the intention of the management to engage in any hydraulic work this season, at least, but the higher bench ground, if found to contain pay, will undoubtedly fal1 under the nozzle later on. A number of men will be employed on this property "as soon as the season is advanced. We will anxiously watch the progress of developments under the steam shovel, as this method, although new to this district, has been most effectively used ou placer ground in many parts of the States. The enterprise shown by the Mc- Kee Consolidated Co. deserves the rich reward we fully believe to be in store for it. "^Another. McKee 'creek property which has practically-lain'"fallow" for the la'st^two years, is this season to be called upon Jo give tip its gold. The Christopher property,*1 ^alongsideWid below'the groundt of the Atlin ,Mining Co.," is to Jje opened 'up?** "'�� "* ^ , ' 'r' ^ j The '"Christopher f property has gone through* several' vicissitudes since it was first acquired/but now it has^fallen into the haiids of those who intend to'systematically prove its value., <1\: has,recently been acquired by -a{few .monied men in 'New"York, "^v^G * have'- formed* a small syndicate,to purchase and work the ground. "���> , ' Mr. Clarence Hamshaw, brother of F. T. Hamshaw.va gentleman of considerable experience, has been engaged to superintend the work of installation of tlie., plant upon the ground. Active work,will be commenced in a few weeks, or as'soon as the snow leaves the ground. A flume line was graded two years ago,J but this nwill all have -to be done over again. A water right of 900 inches goes with the property, the intake being at or near the mouth of Eldorado, and the water will be convayedc by means of a flumes The*.plant is nearly all on the ground, so that as soon as the flume is constructed no time will be lost in beginning hydraulic operations. There is little' doubt, now that the property has> fallen into the haiids of men who intend to put it in shape for actual work, we will hear satisfactory raports during the coming summer. * The property acquired consists of seven creek and bench leases and a dredgihg lease'and comprises over 1500 acres. Messrs. Ronayne Bros., Geneca and Jones consolidated their holdings on McKee creek last fall into a lease and intend to work the ground 011 a more extensive scale this year. Friction hoists and hydraulic derricks, similar to those in use on Spruce, will, in all probability, be used. Mr. Geneca has gone to McKee lo begin work. As a pertinent indication of the prospects of Gold' Run, Mr. J. M. Ruflnei, since" his return, has increased his force by 20 men, and is running thiee shifts of eight' hours each. ElC'will have one of the biggest dumps on Gold Run, while of its value there i*? no'doubt. \J. B." Kershaw and ^associates .011 Wnghtrcreek>are going to hydraulic on their ground this season, and with pay in .sight, the boys are , likely to do well. Kershawr took the first load of pipe up creek last week c We1are advised on pretty good authority that Brook's property on Spruce creek will be operated by ���Messrs. Gritfiitli & Loveridge, contractors for the Pine Cieek Power' , I- A- ' * Company. ' - ' ��� '*' , , The' Pine Creek Power Co. in- tends to' operate two pits on the high bench channel of Pine, below Discovery, together with lhe pit on Discovery claim. <��� " ' Thfi latest reports from the White * 1 Moose mine are accompanied by somethiiig^maleriar.in the way of' very fine samples, taken - from a stringer evidently,very close to the ledge. The back end of #the drift. is becoming very wet.v indicating that the ledge walHis, pretty close at hand. , . * ��� _,, , , . 1 ,f V. ' 1 r :l-0 ft n ^-, -"' ''-ft - < iSi> I j��* i Shamrock JII. \ w , V, <. Shamrock III. left the Clyde on April 4th for Weymouth to participate in several yacht rapes about,to take place on the south:of England during the next few weeks.- She will return to the Clyde about the -, middle of next month to make her preparations for the trip across the Atlantic. , ' From the . sailing capabilities which the new challenger has already shown, the ' American j achtsm'eu are beginning to feel that they ha\e no easy rival for the ' International cup this"year. 'Ac- " cording to a New York correspondent ofthe'English press, "Shamrock III. is likely to prove a slippery customer and a haid boat to beat under almost any conditions of wind and weather." nil ris! ��3-1 '��, The^Juvenile Barred. The Dominion House, by a vote of T03 to 48, has declared - its opinion that in order to save the youth of the country, the manufacture, sale and importation of cigarettes should be prohibited. The opinion was expressed by everyone who spoke that the tise of cigarettes by boys was a distinct evil. It was pointed out that the proper way to regulate the traffic was to prohibit the sale of cigarettes to boys under 16. Nova Scotia aud Ontario had severe acts. Nova Scotia not ouly punished the seller, but the buyer, or anyone who acted on his behalf. , ,-j ���V-, t���� >JSS|5��1- ,-W>^3 �����ja^,3WifttoftflL>^.t.i I'j&^mrr^&hnLw w*ajfi*!^SLsB4il ii J1? . It t' } "V Lead us not Into temptation, but deliver OB from evil.���Tho Lord's Prayer. In the' prayer that teaches to pray, Jesus takes full account of the perils ef life and teaches His followers what ��o think concerning temptation. It is significant that the petition gives expression neither to a hope of escape ���or to a sense of despair II is into temptation, but not into evil, that wc are led ; it is from evil, but not fiom 1 temptation that we are to ask to be 'delivered. None knew better than Jesus that temptations are at once a menace ajid an opportunity, and, as our secret of safety, lie indicated a two- told nattitude of mind : a sense of shrinking lest wc be overconfident and fail of our equipment, a sense of security lest.wc falter and fail of the victor's ���rown. The petition is not a cry for escape, but'a confession of dependence. There 'is no escape possible but victory. To ask to be taken out of temptation is to ask to be taken out of the world. .1* the old parable of Ed��n' th�� tree ���which represented temptatioa stood with its fruit low hanging *nd inviting, x. standing challenge, in the very centre ���f the garden, where all must pass it ���very day. For all men all life la a ~ wries of testings ; every day is a judgment day. The daily decisions' of life .' test aad attest us. Here is some call tm duty ; shall we ."accept it of de- aline, it ? .. Fain comes to us ; shall we sVet aid ehafo under it, or' bear it bravely and try to see its deeper mean- fag ? Some richness of life is ours ; knowledge, position, ability, money; shall we clutch these things for ourselves or hold them in trust for the enriching of another's life ? No man can escape these questions, and upon hie answer depends his value to the so- . eial order. /Temptations are the penalty of man- " hood, they are the sign of a progress ' upward. Only a moral nature can be tempted. Temptations are the appeals of the lower nature, the impulse*'to be untrue to one's highest -vision, and 'to carry into a higher stage of life the characteristics of a lower.- In the na- - ture of the case, therefore,"thcy��do not separate us from God Only yielding does that. There is no experience of human life that lies outside the sphere of His purposes of grace. God never 'meant our lives to be artificially screened from danger. The safe life is not the sheltered life, but the victorious life. . Untested virtue is only a' possible virtue. The process of proving is for the purpose of approving. Testing manhood, temptations reveal it and prove its worth. Apiary and Garden. Red clover is valuable for the abundance of pasture it produces! and for its excellence as food. Rich in lime and nitrogen, as'well as containing a large proportion of starchy matter, it is one of the best-balanced foods used, and is also highly relished by all kinds of stock. In addition to promoting a large flow of milk from cows, it is unexcelled as pasturage for hogs. Its value as.a fertilizer is also admitted, and many farmers grow it for that purpose, as well as'for food. The'sash of the t hotbed should be raised a little every' day, to give the plants fresh air and to regulate the temperature. [When water begins to gather on the under side of the glass it indicates that th? temperature is running too high, and fresh air should be admitted, but be careful not to allow the <old winds to blow on ,the- plants. The,. sash should be closed, as the temperature falls, toward evening. If the night* are very cold extra covering will ��� be necessary. Old pieces of-carpet .or( matting can be used, or light board covers can be made, which are nffore, convenient��� Philadelphia Record. ,, ' King Edward and Absolutism. ' , Old Age and Honey. Aged persons who are toothless, says Dr. Fcrnic, in his work entitled "Herbal Simples," can live" almost exclusively on honey. The great Duke of Beaufoit, whose teeth were white and .sound at seventy years of age, whilst his gencial health was likewise excellent, had tor forty years before his death a pound of sugar daily in his wine, chocolate and sweetmeats. A relish for sugar lessens the inclination for alcohol, and seldom accompanies' the love of strong drink. With young children cane sugar is apt to form acids in the stomach, chiefly acetic, which causes pain and flatulence, so that'milk sugar should be given instead to those of tender years who are delicate, as this produces only lactic acid, which is the main constituent of digestive gastric juice. Tacitus, in> forma us that our German ancestors gave credit for their great strength and-their long lives to the'mead or honey beer on which they regaled themselves.- Pliny ^ells of Rumilius Poilio, who 'enjoyed marvellous health and vitality -when over a ���" hundred years of age. On being presented to the Emperor Augustus, who inquired what was tlie secret of Ins wondious longerity, Pollio replied, "The eating of honey and anointing Willi oil." Honey has certain 'claims as a food which cane sugar does not possess. It is a heat-former and a producer of vital energy both in the human subject and in the industrious little insect which collects the luscious fodder. Moreover, it is all 1 eady 'for absorption straightway into the blood after being eaten, whereas cane sugar must be first masticated with the saliva or spittle, and converted somewhat slowly into honey sugar before it can be utilized for the wants of the body. t An Interesting locality. ^' 1 The Detroit News-Tribune < says :��� "It is generally acknowledged that the Passmore Edwards social settlement in London is, indirectly, the result'oi the publication ��� of Mrs. Humphry Ward's 'Robert Elsmerc.' Gladstone and Tolstoi both,gave liberal criticisms in piaise of the, work, and Mrs. Ward has been given generous lecognition in (England and abroad. Mr. Gladstone in his review of her first prominent book emphasized the writei's strong tho'ugKt of the brotherhood of man, rich and poor, and Tolstoi 'has called her the greatest living English novelist' Mrs.'Ward has always kept her home life and her public career distinctly separate, and refuses all efforts to be interviewed. It is said that George Meredith is the only other prominent fiction writer who has never been interviewed. Mrs., Ward's country home is one of the old English estates within easy reach of London, and one of the few remaining estates of'its size *till mentioned,, in 'Domesday Book.' -Tlie house was once the homo of that charming "seventeenth century poet, Waller. Sir-'Walter Scott also' once occupied the eld house, and it is supposed that the little Village of Ivanhoe, near by, suggested the title of Scott^s famous! novel, j Indeed the whole'country round about is.fullp of the interest of literary association,^ and a delightful spot in which to evolve the studies of character which make sucb a strong "feature" of" Mrs. ;Ward's works." "'' ' ' Every mornJjis brought a cbrnnoe* And every chance a noble knight. But testing implies the possibility of failure, aad a moral failure is no tii- vial thing. The issues .>f eternal life ire at stake upon the battlefields of the heart. _ Temptation met means the moulding of character ; yielding means hs sure awd terrible nrevention. Consider it a matter of no moment when a tongue of Same destroys a canvas beyond price ; breik without a thought an infinitely precio is >.ise but do not tall it a trifle when the higher faculties of the soul are dcad:icd, whci>- lofty ideals are eclipsed, when one h stver- fcd from the greatness and the glory of fife. Knowing human frailty, Jcb'j* laid not hesitate to teach i-,s to valk ivarily. _ His own prayer in Geth- ���emane is tlie exact counterpart of this petition. He dir^.iK from the ti,al whose shadow was deepening over His life, yet He did not decline to r.'set k. The bravest are not those who know no fear. lie wn> alone of all men was never found wanting ta��ght mat the only way to be safe was never to be overconhdi.it Had iho disciple who denied Him gone into tlie palace offering Jesus' prayer instead of vaunting his own strength he would not have gone out iutc his night of bitter remorse. If the inevitable testings of life are a penace, perilous indeed are the testings that can be avoul<:d, .m.i if tlie petition invokes a spirit of dcpoc'fncc inpon God moment by moment, Vipremely does it rebuke a spirit of presumption. While it is i��rotoundly Irue that God leads us into temptation, He does not lead us into all temptations. Into some wc lead otiiielve-, J<ut when one wilfully makes a choice of circumstances or actia.is th.it are hob- tile to the higher Me of himsc'f or of others he simply pla.-es himsolf at the mercy of the forces of ".'/il. Compromise is fatal. There is no possible security outside the p.ichwiy of God's guidance. A prayer of dependence and a prayer of confidence. .\'ot .i re^rest that we be taken out of temp'anon, but that we be kept in tr-mp-alion. We need falter in no testhg into which duty shall lead us. Whin, in liyr lty to life's highest standard, it is your purpose to try as best ;OU can to do the right thing, count it all joy when you fall into manifold temptations. They are a bugle call to battle ,n which you may win the crown of an eternal life. Yet ever let him-that thinketh he standeth take heed lost he foil. Hotbed Management. The methods of preparing and caring for a hotbed are very simple, and with care one should have but little trouble.^ The ordinary hotbed sash is three by six feet, but any old sash will answer the purpose. - The bed should extand east and���west, and the frame should be a little higher^ on the north than on the south side, to give the glass a pilch toward the sun. Ten inches in front and 14 behind is about right. The sash should fit closely,and the ends of the frame should come up even with tlie top of the sash, to prevent the wind from blowing" under on to the plants. The frame should also have a stay across tho top about every six feet, lo prevent the sides Irom springing in. With the first warm days in March, or oven as early as February in some districts, preparation should be made for ,the hotbed. A few barrels of good gard��n loam should have been prepared the fall 'before and stored in a place away from the frost, for it is difficult to get good soil at this season of the year. Select some-sheltered spot, where there 13 plenty of sunshine, and draw out a few loads of fermenting horse manure. If the manure is heating evenly all through it may be built up into the bed at once, but if not it should be shaken up ifrell and piled in a flat heap for a few day9, and if any portions of it are dry these should be wet down. When the heat has permeated well through the pile fork-it ovrr and build it up into the bed, shaking out all of the lumps, so that it will pack .evenly and give a steady heat. Tread it down qijite 'firmly, for if left too loose it will ferment rapidly, giving an intense beat for a short time, then become exhausted. Build the bed about two feet thick and large enough so that it will extend two feet beyond the frame on all sides. Then set on the frame and bank it up to the top with manure. Next put in about four or-.five inches of soil, put on the sash and let it sweat. It will soon begin to heat quite violently, and the temperature will run up considerably over 100 do- grces, after which it will begin to si '���>- side, and about the third or fourth day it will be down to about 90 degrees, when it will do to sow the seed. It was claimed some years ago by The American Agrrculturist that radish, lettuce and onion seed may be put in along with tomato, cabbage, peppor and egg plant seed for plants. Rake the bed smooth and fine, and sow the seed in drills three inches apart, covering half an inch deep. The plants will be up in a few days, and in about ti.ree weeks' time, if the weather is favorable, radishes will be fit to use. Lettuce, however, may be transplanted to a cold .frame, and onions will give sets for the garden. If in picking the Ieltuce the leaves are removed and the roots and crowns left they will throw out a new growth and continue to produce all through the season. The plants should be kept free from weeds and thinned, so they will have room to develop. Tomatoes will make stronger, stockier; plants if transplanted when they are'two or three inches hierh. Carnegie and His' lieutenants. Andrew Carnegie, "according te- an article iniThe New York Sun,-was recently" aeked: >' , ~, "What influenced you mest in the selection ol your lieutenants in the steel industry?" P - ' . * "Apparently trivial incidents," was the ropiy. Then, alter a moment's pause, he added, by way of explanation: , ^ "1 watched young men with whom1 1 came in' contact, and whenever I ran across one who, all unconsciously, by some small action or word uttered 111 ordinary conversation, made me feel that he had tho qualities demanded in my , business/11 'gave,,him a chance.to prov�� he really had them. And when ho did, - then ha became one ��f/my lieutenants, and in return for his assistance I endeavored to let him have a fair share in tki profits of 017 business," <��� A number of incttants are related in the article bearing upon Mr. Carnegie's remarks, ��f which the following is one: "Only a few years af�� William B ���Corey, President of the Carnegie Company aad the C��rnegis Steel Company, . and frequently talked ��� of as a future President, of the United _States Steal Corporation, was pus&iig a wheelbar. row in the yards of one of the Carnegie mills in Braddook., He wheeled so much more Iron in a day' than the men at his elbowa that he was soon made a foreman ever them. Then his employers noticed that he got three times as much work out ot his men aa tho other foremen aadi at. the' una timo tbe men worked harder without any grumbling and swore by their new and youthful boas.- Corey was straightway picked out by Mr. Carnegie as a promising acquisition aad he had constantly widening opportunities. He worked hard, studied at sight to improve his public school education, and in time became an expert chemist and an armor plate authority. He was made Superintendent of this mill and that department, and invaria-' toly increased the output. When Mr. Schwab resigned to become President of the Steel Trust, Mr. Corey was the only' man considered' for his successor at the head of the Carnegie Company aad the Carnegie Steel Company. Curate���And how did you like my harvest sermon, Mr. Wurzel ? Mr. W.���Not bad, sir, not bad at all, Ipnsiderin' yer total hignorance of the subject Under the'caption, "English Distrust of Edward VII.," the Literary Digest says : , > ,, ��� When a little over two years ago Edward VII. succeeded his illustrious mother? on- the throne of England, he proclaimed" his intention of being "a constitutional monarch in every sense of'the word." But an uneasy suspicion, vague at first, but ever growing more- precise, has seized the British mind, that the King is not keeping within_'the limits prescribed,for him -by,,, the unwritten constitution of Ins country. He is accused of usurping, or 'attempting to' usurp, functions winch rightly pertain only to the responsible Ministers of the Crown. 'The tone of British comment upon this suspected development of the King's character indicates that the blood of the race winch dealt with Charles I. still flows in the veins of the average Englishman. In other, words, it is being m- 'timated in the London press that if Edward VIT. has really undei taken to interfere with the .Ministry and'to decide the policy of Great Britain after the fashion of the German Emperor, there will ensue consequences of a serious kind. The Spectator (London;,1 it is true, scouts the idea that the King has done, or wants to do, ��� anything of the kind. However, The Daily News .(London)' insists ' that, Edward'VII- forced the German alliance���so far as Venezuela is concerned���upon a reluctant Minist'rjf, and it points out that this proceeding of his 'Majesty's was a most serious step to take. The.Out;, look (London) solemnly warns he King,against nis course, which is pronounced revolutionary'and dangerous. This'paper attributes the King's usur- pation'of Ministerial functions���if there was any such usurpation, and-it says there was���to the weakness of Premier Balfour. To quote the exact words of our ^contemporary: "Our Piime Minister is Mr. Balfour, and- Mr. Balfour is young to the office. And we can imagine that if some kingly elcsire had 'to be declared impoliticjmd impossible, more experience and austerity than Mr. Balfour possesses as yet would .-be necessary to utter the requisite interdict. ^As things have gone, a most ^glaring divergence of sentiment between the British Government and the British people has been revealed to the world." However little such a(contradiction may matter as between the Ger- manGovernment and the German people, in this country it m'ust, if persisted in,-make the'Government impossible ffhe British people rule in Britain The German people do not rule in Germany." , _ ' The'explanation of Edward VII's-, '"sudden'taste for, absolutism, proceeds this London paper, is to be found in the fact that "��� the German Emperor is his nephew/ . The uncle is dazzled, and he has been', misled into cajoling the - Ministry,' which , in its- turn has betrayed the " ^people . "What" answer would the ordinary Englishman gi-fre if asked why his Government, so misrepresented him ? Not to employ any phrases about the matter, he would and does sa3r, plump and plain, that the reason is to be found in the relationship of King and Kaiser; that also is the answer of members of Parliament and those whose business it is to seek an explanation of so strange a Ministerial procedure. A Government containing Mr. Chamberlain, the Mr. Chamberlain ,who replied to Count von Buelow with brusque and unaccommodating brevity, could not want for a convinced interpreter "of the plain sentiment of the British people, a sentiment of self-reliant national dignity needing no'help from Germany in the work we have to do in the world. But Mr..Chamberlain is not Prime Minister." The situation is certainly unusual, for it is( generations since a British ruler has been accused of attempting what George III. failed so signally in achieving. The Paris Temps says it is "interesting and novel" to find English criticism directed against the /y'irone. "For the first time in long years the throne is publicly accused, censured, impugned Sagacious observers have remarked that Edward VII. feels disposed to govern. His friendly relations with William II. are understood, as well as the disagreeable comparison the British monarch must have made between what is permitted him by the constitution of his country and what is permitted,, his young nephew, the German Emperor, in world politics. . . The least that can be said at present is that the personal policy of the King of England coincides with the policy of his Ministry, and both coincide _ with the policy of Germany,, while tlie British nation is inclined to a policy quite the reverse." r prices ruled only a shade lower, so that there 'seems to be moneyc.even in the encouragement of morbid curiosity, for a lot of doors which had done duty for ordinary .cells brought in only ��2 10s. ���and there were-twenty of them! The copper washing bowls from the cells, < however, averaged over a pound apiece, while for the last few lots purchasers were prepared to pay more than thirty- shillings a bowl rather than go., away empty-handed.' ' *f ,;'�� He married a leading lady, And she's leading still, 'tis said, FjOr she spends his money so freely " That he never can eet-ahead The Tramp. Reasons. ) 1_ *. Owner of Piopeity (sternly, to tramp reclining on a mossy bank)���Don't you see that notice^���"Tiespasseis will be prosecuted?" J , Tramp (calmly)���No, I don't see it, for I en n't read: ' j 1 Owner of Property���Well; you know what il is now, so got ' ' Ti ainp���IIc\euse me, mister, but I don't know wot it is. I've only got yci bare woid for it, and you'ie a pullect stranger io me For what I know to the contrary ,Hhe notice may bo "New milk sold 'eie." or "Cheriii>s tuppence a pound," or "Welkim, -\\eaiy wanderer!" Don't you lay your hands on me, mistor, or I shall \ivo lo see wlicUici my stick is leally good old oak, or only a .sugar stick I , WEARY, ACHING JOINTS. The Awful Twinges of 1 Rheumatism Mean ��� Old Age in Youth. . Relief irr Six Hours.. Ointments, Salves . and, Lotions are, positively worthless for Rheumatism. Get at the cause���the blood-"���and bjr purifymg that, restore the system to a clean, healthful condition. Xho Great South American Rheumatic Cure re- < lieves in six hours and cures in one to three days* Muscular and Articular Rheumatism, Inflammatory Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuralgia, Sciatica, and any affections of the joints and muscles arising from impure 'blood. Mr. 'F. E.' Wright of Toronto, Canada, writes: "I suffered almost constantly with Neuralgia and Rheumatism.' I used several remedies, but notb ng seemed to relieve the pa:n until-I t *d South American- Rheumatic Cure. 'After using', a few- bottles of 'Rheumatic Cure' and 'also ���Nervine ^Tonic.VI was wholly cured."' Pain in the Region of the Kidneys. ' ' Pain-- anywhere it a.' dangel- signal." ~" 'Pain in the region of .the kidneys, means-* 'that they are not "working properly. The Great South American Kidney Cure restores these organs to a healthys Working state. ' No. 38- Anecdotal. One of th* keenest of jouraaiHsta andr wits, Moritz Gottleib Sivphir, had ��hef better of th* irate stranger against wih.o<m 'he ran by accident at the corner of a' street in Munich. "Beast," cried the, otfemled person, without waiting for anj -apology. "Thank you," said tihe jourBei-i ist, "and mine is &tphir." ���������"~���" . ^��ss* "Education." Belies at Newgate. The first bid out of the ordinary at the sale of Newgate Prison relics, according to The Westminster Gazette, was obtained by means of an appeal to Dickens' worshippers. "Now, gentlemen," the auctioneer began, persuasively, "surely you remember your 'Bar- naby Rudge'l Here is the cupboard to which Denis, the hangman, went for the keys I"���and the old oak, iron-faced, warders' key-cupboard, with an old record-book cupboard, went together for ��12 10s. The p.ulpit from the chapel was sold for ��8 10s., and the two seats, also from the chapel, set apart for the use of condemned prisoners, with the warders' pews belonging to them, sold for -��3 5s. The heavy, wrought-iron grille that guarded the condemned cells went for ��3; and the door of one of the same cells for ��13, and its two small windows, with their bars and frames. In the second condemned cell���identical with the first��� Oh, the etuffed little boy Is a wonderful- ' He's so very precocious and bright: He has tutors and teachers, blind, mla- Eui&ed creatures, Who stuff him from morning till night. And this marvalloua youth, still a baby. In truth. By thls\wonderful braln-crammingr p&n. Has such wisdom acquired ho la almost as tired , * As If he were truly a man.. ���From " Tn Merry Mood," by Nixon- Waterman. . ij,.,i j You make people sick��� You keep yourself sick. You can do it if you exercise common sense and use only Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder. It relieves colds and catarrh and cures headache in a few minutes. If you have common sense and catarrh you will use it now, Rnv. L. McPhcrson, of Jefferson St.-C-hurch of Christ. Buffalo, N Y., says.���" Dr. AgnuwI's Catarrhal Powder relieved me in ten minutes and is .1 blessing to mankhid." r The Ursumhe Sistlks of St Bernard's, Grand I'orks, N. Dak., snte ���"We have been using Dr. Agm.w s Catarrhal Powder in our institution. We lind it a very good remedy." The Great South American Nervine Tonic is first a nerve food and then a physician, searching oulraTid strengthening every weak '.pot in the body of man, woman or child. It means nerve, health, vigor, hope, liveliness, lightheartedness and life. 23- -.LdPOFH EKO XJII. ~u ' �����_/������ V ��? [ooptriohtkd] Set Her Free > ' ' ' -By Florence Warden i " Author of "The House in;therManh," "A Prince of Darkness," SkaaNBmti*$n>f**to* to overwhelm him by any uncomfortable) fllaplay of excessive gratitude, yet there r * was no doubt he was her rescuer, and if the met him again sho could hardly fail to refer to the fact. - -. Foiled in hia own attempt to escape, Astley was seized with a sudden impulse to laugh on finding that the girl herself had been foiled in a similar fnsh- t Ion. When, therefoie, sho reached the ' fireplace, and turned round abruptly, in a shamefaced manner, towaids him, she caw that' ho was convulsed with merriment. rAstonishcd, as well sho might bo, tlio girl stared at him in silonco. Tlion, half turning as sho stood with ono foot upon the fondor, sho caught sight again, as sho had done upstairs, of her own reflection fn a weather-stained looking-glass, and her feminine vanity suddenly got tho better of every other fooling. a quivering lip. His manner altered directly. "I should strongly advise you," said ho, with tlie resumption of a more everyday lone, as ho' glanced towards the fireplace, "to tako oft your hat and wait - quietly and get thoioughly warm beforo the cab comes, as you will have a very cold drive." "And���and you?" faltered the girl, in a strangled voice, and sho instinctively turned as if to obey lum. "Oh, I think I shall perhaps stay tho night hero, unless I tell tho cabman to come back foi mo," lie-said. i-. It wa3 quito clear,that tho gal began ito breatlio more easily after this. To the highly-strung mood in which-he had first met her had succeeded tho inevitable reaction, so that sho now felt as anxious to conceal Tier identity from her rescuer and to hide the ia��h attempt she' had made, as she had previously been J*UT��T*^ltl ���&��� *KS��'. *����ff��2��*'to *n ��'?se ����"?8- '���uddenly as she stared at tho unattrac- 'tivo-looking object beforo her. It needs beauty of a high order, and in tho most 'perfect condition at that, to stand tho ���rdeal of an" appearance in a shapeless hat which has boon thoroughly soaked ���nd imperfectly dried, seen through the medium of an early "Victorian looking- glass.' The girl's good looks���for she was good-looking���could not stand such a tost. Hor olive skin, looked ,grcenj her black hair .looked lank, twisted up, half-dried, in an. unbecoming fashion; and her large dark eyes and fanly legu- lar features counted for nothing against these odds. _ n ! Instinctively she turned her head away from Astley, who was struggling to le- fain his gravity. For the awful thought ad suddenly struck lum that she might think he was laughing at her.. Pi fact, the curious little knob into whidi she had fastened her hair peeped out under her shapeless hat in an extremely comical way. -It'behoved him therefoie^td he caieful. _ i t "I'm afraid yon" think it very stupid of me to laugh,"j he said, as he came^ forward a little way into jihe room, and stood behind one of the mahogany-- armchairs. "Oh, no. Some people see fun in anything," said the girl, somewhat distantly OhT" she,ejaculated in alow voice, in a tone of uninistakablo relief. There was a pause, and^then sho said: "But I don't like' to take your cab. 'And if you've been ill, lit's even more important "that you should get back than that I should.- I think it"-will bo better for you to'go first, and to send tho cab back for me. Ill promise to wait," she added quickly, and with a coitain ingenuousness which confirmed the impiession that she was very young indeed. Astley tried not to smile again. '* t ' * > *��� , "Oh," said lie, "don't 'trouble your jficad about me. After roughing it through' an African rnmpn!<jn, this sort of experience is a m��ie picnic." > A look of ntcrest suddenly peeped out of the sidelong glance she gave him. Then, as he still stood'in the way between her and the dooi, she muttered, "Very, well, then," and , ^immediately walked back to the fireplace, where sho resumed her former 'position/ standing with one foot on the fendar, and her eyes directed towards that terrible looking- glass ,. -' ' - ' Astley came forward slowly, drew* one of the horse-hair arm-chairs hack to a discreet distance, and sat down. As she ,was between him and the window, tho only view'he could get of iher face was Evidently she was not grateful for b fti light of the fire below her,.which what he had done for her. Astley felt 5t��rew dl|torting shadows upon her "face that tins was a peat comfort Aid,it sLlttle ag he Ba^howaver, he was eon- amused him to think that ho had been scloug that slie was taking up the bur- emaous to avoid an hysterical scene��� otl den of hfe in; and trying to devise tears and thankfulness, ,while she hrdi Bome manner of tricking hnn, so that tern just as anxious to escape the sight she m]ght hlde her jdentlty. " ' ~ ���f him at all. t "Well, when things"aie at a veiy bad pass they have a way of takmg a , laughable turn, f don't you think sot" said he - ^il can't say I do," said the girl, tartly. "There's a long walk in the snow to be faced," for one thing, and in the dark, too." And' she glanced out into the gathering gloom. Astley broke in cheerfully:' "Oh, it's not quite so bad as that I've aent in to Oxford for a cab, you know, - ��nd���" "But I mean to walk," struck in the fflrl, and she suddenly sprang away from he fireplace and made for the door. Astley, however, was nearer to it than ���he, and, in spite of his lameness, was ��ble to obstruct her passage. "Oh no, you can't do that," he said quickly, speaking, with sudden gra-wty. '"Oh, but I can, I must!"' And into the gjirl's tone there came suddenly the first intimation of inward distress which tthe had given since her reappearance. ' "Indeed you must not. I can't allow it," said Astley, speaking in his turn with seriousness, and also with unexpected authority. "To venture on such awalk along an exposed road, in the dusk) with the snow and the wind driving towards you, would be danger, if not certain death, especially after,such an adventure as you've had," ho added hurriedly What gave him authority with the firl was not so much the fact that he ad saved her life an hour or two before, but a certain haidness, amounting almost to a suspicion of mockery in his manner, which made her curiously conscious of a' feeling of inferiority to him. though he was pcitoctly courteous, it was with the courtesy of one who stands In an unassailably superior position. 8ho felt that he'looked down upon hor, despised her, was courteous only because it was a convention of his class to be verbally courteous to women. Tho thought enraged her, quite swallowed up, indeed, any impulses sho might have had towaids giatitude. "Oh, as for that, I'm none the worso ffor getting ray foot wet," she said, ungraciously, as she paused n moment, watching for her oppoitunity to slip by 8iim and get away. "Getting her feet wet" was such xa auphemishe description of what had happened that Astley could hardly forbear another smile. The girl saw it and made another dash for the door. She was foiled, however, again. "Excuse me,", said he, "but you must allow me to insist." Tho girl drew herself up. "Suppose I insist too?" "Then we shall have to see who can Bnsist the hardest," retorted Astley with perfect coolness, "and, to judge by our previous experience, you know, it���will Sot be you." The spirit, the dash, the daring went ��ut of the girl's face and bearing in a moment. She gave ono shy, frightened look at hia face, and turned away with Long before this Astley had discovered that his companion belonged to a differ ent social class from that he had at first supposed, and perhaps shef divined his cunosity. At >any rate she presently Eaid,"after a pause: > , , k "It's really most important that I should get back to Oxfoid quickly, as I'm only passing through it, with���with my aunt, and I have a train to catch tonight." "Indeed 1 Then it's as well the cab is coming," said Astley politely. "Yes, I hope it won't be very late My aunt might be anyious As we're both in gieat tiouble, tiouble about business, she might think, you know, she might thmk all sorts ofs dreadful things," went on the girl, fluently 'enough, but with a "manner which was transparent to the observant Astley. "Yes, indeed," said he, in the same tone as before, when she paused. The girl went on with her odd confidences. - "You see women,, are easily depressed when anything goes wiong with them, and when you've kept a, shop for years, and things suddenly go wrong with it, why you don't know what to, do. But I suppose you don't know anything about shopkeeping?" she went on, turning suddenly to him,_as if with & little buret of frankness. Once again Astley smiled. This time safely enough, for his face was buried in shadow. And his answer was made in a little demure voice which startled her: v "Perhaps I Snow as much as you about it. There was a pause and he hoard her draw a sharp breath. Then she said curtly: t "You don't believe what I'm telling you?'' Astley answered with great suavity: "Well, no, I don't. But what does that matter! It's no affair of nunc, you know!" Dead silence followed this unexpected retoit. Then tho girl moved restlessly, glanced two or three times at tho motionless mass of shadow in the big chair, and at last asked in a querulous, high- pitched voice: "How do you know it's not true?" "I would much rather not answer you, but if you insist I'll tell you how I know." Again she waited a moment, and then said imperiously, but in a low voice: "I do insist." "Well, then, I see that you don't belong to the class that keep shops, that keep them seriously, I mean." "I don't see how you can know that. Tradesmen's daughters are educated nowadays, better educated, sometimes, than other people's daughters." "Better educated, perhaps, but not educated in quite the same way. And they don't get the same tone." Beforo the girl could reply to thii, the sound of wheels and hoofs struck otid-. denly upon the ears of both, and they heard iho cab ston. The next moment - ���-,/-<���- Clicy heard someone running in tlio passage. ' ' ' "We don't want to s itisfy the cuiiosity of those people," slid Astley quickly. "I'll go out and say I menu to stay licie tho night, while you will just get into the cab and dnvc away." "Oh, thanks, thinks" He was ahe.idy at the door, and they exchanged a hasty how as he want out She s.vW nothing moie of lum With her heart beating a little faster, she heaid his voice informing the landlady that he hardly liked to nslc the chilly dme, and asking for a loom foi the night. And a few moments latci Mis.,Benne came in and told her the cab wis at the doth She got in quickly, not giving hoi address in the hcautirr of the landlady, but simply telling the cnivci to go into Ov- ford. v ������ ��� It was altogether a stiange adventure, Astley thought, as ho wondcied who the girl he had rescued could be, and,whit her histoiy was Before night, how- evoi, he had pcisonul, concerns moie pressing to, think about', for the chill he liad got developed mlo a fevcush attack, and he had to send for his fuend and a doctor. Although he was well enough in a few days to go back to the hotel at Oxfoid at which lie Uud been btaymg, Astley, weakened and demoralized by this fresh attack of illness follownfg on th* still more dcinoiah/iiig typhoid, stayed on in the town, instead of going to his cousin's seat on tlie bordeis of Eaat Lancashire, for the hunting boosou, as lie had proposed to do. , i The friend he had come to Oxford to see, ran undergraduate, some half-dozen years younger than himself, did his,beet to make the time pass pleasantly for him. Uo'intioduced Astley to his friends in the neighborhood, one by one, and finally to au family named Bascot, who lived on the outskirts of the town. "I'm afraid you won't find them very interesting people," he remarked, as they drew near the modern gabled redbrick house ono Sunday evening. "But they're inoffensive at least. - The son��� theie's only the oae���is studying for the chuich. He's,an ardent stamp-collector, and he's going to marry a rich cousin. That's about all there is to-tell about him." l , r They were shown into the conventional drawing room, which agreed in all respects with the piomise of the modern gabled red bricked exterior of the house Theie were the usual small^over ciowd ed tables, the usual curiosities, the usual photographs One of these attracted Astley's attention: it was tlhat of a girl, in e\ ening ^ dress, holding a bunch of roses He thought he had seen the face somewhere, but could not remember where. He had not, however, had much time forrconsideiing the point when the door opened, and Robei t Bascot, the son, came in. , ��� s He proved to be a rather small and effeminate-looking fair man, with ^cmly light hair like a baby's, and a pieciaa little voice and manner. Astley mentally agreed with his friend,*, that the stamp- collector might be amiable, but .was not Interesting. < - ^And then two ladies came in.% "Mr. Ha-igh���mv mothei���my cousin 1" said Robert Basoot, introducing the visi tor. " x -> i ' Astley bowed, and (hook hands wit* the elder lady. Then his heart leaped up to his mouth. For as his eyes met those of the younger lady, their eyes flashed out a,mutual recognition. Robert Bascot's r cousin was the girl Astley had saved* from drowning ten days before! i ' CHAPTER HI. Nobody noticed the confusion of theto two, as Robert Bascot chirped out th��i names in introducing them to' each oik er. > Astley bowed and looked down; so did Norma Bascot. There was a second's pause, and then it was Mrs. Bascot,,a thm-faced woman^ofjfoity live or so, who ware glasses and was "intellectual," who began the conversation. ^. And Norma stole away to the furthest possible corner, and took care not to meet Astley's eyes r He was so utterly bewildered by the discovery that tlie girl^he had saved from drowning and the nch cousin whom Robert Bascot was to marry were one and the same person, that it was with tho greatest possible difficulty that he answered intelligently, and laughed in the nght places. And as Boon as he could, he, took the ���opportunity of examining minutely the face of the woman who liad appealed to him within so short a time in two such very different characters. So different indeed, that if it had not been for her own miserable self-oon BCiousness, Astley might even have been tempted to believe himself mistaken For, with her black hair beautifulh dressed, pai^ud in the middle, waved, and coiled into a missive knot behind her head, her face looked much more beautiful than it had done when she was blue with the cold and sick with net vousuess: while her slight figure, which had preeented no,, particular atti action when wrapped in a bedraggled sknt and shapeless jacket, looked exceedingly graceful naw that she wore a black silk skirt, with a slight train, and a blouse of lavender silk trimmed with black vel vet, and two rows of lovely pearls round her throat. In the oourso of the evening Astley noticed other circumstances about the frirl whieh excited his curiosity still fur u��r. In the first place, she received tho attentions of Robert Baseat, who was znoat effusively oourteous and even affectionate to her, with aa irritable p��tu laaos which wae patent to such a dose observer as Astiay.-' When the devoted Robert dhirped into hor ear, she looked helplessly round the room as if anxiou-, far a ehaaee oi escape; and when he leaned over her, with an odd, prim little assumption of t��**er paseecsion, she got up and walked away. And thrangaout the long and some what heavy evening, which was charac torteed by mnok ecehange of a dry sort of talk whi��b the frequenters of the beam eaasidesod intellectual and sthira Hiring, tho girl talked to everybody in the house, which was'soon half full oof visitors, except to Astley. Ho, on his sido, was bound to respect her evident wish that he should be equally discreet; but his cunosity was piqued all the same, and ho would have been glad to exohange if only a fewt woids with his heiome The next best thing to talking with her, however, was to talk about her, and he contrived to mention her to Mrs Bas cot, by taking up'the photogiaph he had previously no'iced,'and asking whether this was hei niece. "Yes," said the lady at onco, "that is Normi It's rather a good ono: don't you think so?" "Very," said Astley. And as he spoke he raised his eyes, and saw that the gnl herself, with' a look of deep anxiety binning in her .eyes, had drawn near enough to listen to what her aunt and he were Baying.' , " - < ' "It gives Me Italian look, doesn*t it?" "Italian," said Astloy, glancing first'at the porti ait and then at the beseeching eyes of the girl- herself,- and- then quickly looking down again, "yes, perhaps it does Is she Italian?" "Not altogether, of course. Hor father was my husband's brother. '(But her ,mother'wa8 half Italian, which accounts, I> suppose, for some of hei daughter's perversity. Norma's ccccntricity-ia rather trying." Tho good lady did not know now noar" her nice* waa. fWell, eccentricity is' rather refresh- fa* in these days wh"n we're all as much alike as if we'd bepn turned o"ut by machinery," said Astley politely.' t w'Not m a young girl," retorted, Mrs. Baacot almost" tai tly. "Why, only un- agina what.she did the othei dayi * In th* most dreadful weather, with a hurricane blowing and the snow falling fast, eh�� went for a walk ^ along l tho river bank, and; of course slipped into the water, and came back moie dead thaa alive, looking'like a diowaed lat. What do you think ot (hat?" Once moia Astley looked up from the .photograph, and saw that^-the gnl "was standing quite close to her aunt, looking piteously iinta hi* faoe. His eyo* met hers for a 'moment only, and then he turned to the elder lady and s<ud ,, "Well, I think, if she fellaato tlie wa- terwon a snowy winter's day, that yon won't have to repioaeli hei with such eccentricity again1" ��� - The next glimpse he caught of Norma was of a pair of big daik eyes swimming in grateful tears P �� �� When the time came for going away Astley tried hard tor get near enoughl to the'girl to bid her good night. But 6he would not let him She became absoibed in ��� the'Conveisation of somebody else whenever she saw him coming her way. Astley, of couise, said nothing to his ^ friend, Jack Fielding, about his discovery. But he lingered on in Oxford, and when Jack ipibposed another visit to tho'Bascots, he leadily assented "Now I wonder at youi wanting to go ' there ^again," Jack said "To > myy mind it's the slowest house in,0\foid And the women one meets there are all 5ot_high dried,, "except Mis Bascot'sj niece. _ You'ie not attiacted thcr��vl hope, because you know she's booked?" he addad suspiciously. �� "* -. Astley shrugged his shoulders'with a Frown. ���* - "Am I likely to be attracted by any iroiaan, after my experience?" said he impatiently. \ 5 * , "I know you say vou're not, Vut���" "And it's the tri.Hi. Perhaps one,of the attraottans of th" Basoots' house to me' b that the cullute-press seems to have dried most of the attractiveness of femininity ��mt ��f thu larlieii." "Not out of Noi j She's feminine enough, in all conscience, with her im- & nor In a quiet corner, sho turned io him at once, and eaid: > ,. , j "I do agree with you so thoroughly in what you aaid about marriage. 1 think it's a hideous tbmgl" "* ,_ Prepared aa he w^�� for tlio eccentricity of which he knew, ^��tley looked at her, id roai auipnsa. , ' "Why," said he, '-'that is, if yon will allow mo to aay so, a strange Suing to hear from a lady engejed to be marrioa nerself." ' ,. -, Norma's eyes flashed. _ ( - "I'm not engaged to him,3'sho said vehemently. "They're doing thei�� best ta drive mo into it; but I ask you/do yo�� thmk it is possible for any woman with r the least spark of humanity in Tier, *��� '- contemplate the thought of mainage with'that'white rabbit I" ~ ���> , . y ' Astley wanted to burst out laughing. "Those aio .veiy strong woids," he said n "They're not stronger than my feelings," lephed NoiniA, whose plissionately uttered woids liad, a strange piquancy, from the fact that they weie spoken in' the lowest and most musical of voices, t Astley remembeied the voice heJ had bepn struck with it3 syihpathetie quality, ( on the day of their adventure k "Well," said he, more and more interested in tho stiange girl, "theio's surely; __<��� no need for you.to waste so much emo��t \ turnover the matter No woman cam j be forced to marry against her will" But at this, Noima threw upon him �� - look of acornful aurpnse "Oh, yea, she can," she replied witfc confidence. "I'm not very old, but I know that. And if you will think, ana oonsider all your aoq -aintanccs; I'm aura you will find instances of girls beinf '.(,/ made^to marry against'their5will.", * -_,s* *���** Astley reflected i , ' S <**V; "Well, perhaps I may know of som�� <���-��!> instances of particulirly weak aad eaa-/-^' ^ lly led girls being persuaded mto^mar^ /i nage,? he said at last, "but not girls like <��� ' you." *"* . Nonna turned towards him with, a little grave smile ( '" ^ "You think I'm stmng minded because I'm'- self-willed, I a'lppoae," ska said. "Peopla often make that mistake But I'm not. No girl can stand the eonatant pressure, the never ceaaing strain My J _ mother left me at the mercy of the��e^ people; I don't know why, considering ���r all the cncumstances <sl her life, but she 'j - did And I can't mov . I can't even hava command of my own money, until I come of age���and fiat won't be for two -<- years���two whole ye*ra���or until I mar- ' ry" "Well, then, why not marry somebody'else?" suggested Astley < "Because theie is nobody else They '��� won't let theie be," r plied Norma quick- - .- ly. "Look at that stamp collecting ����� idiot���" > ; "Oh, come now," p otestcd Astley ^ ! But lie wanted to laugh again when -. , 3 he cast a glance m tnc direction of poor Ts little Robeit Babcot, and saw that he^ - was fidgeting in his chan, and casting tJx doleiul, uneasy glance3 towards himself. , y. n-. 3 '- i\ ���H (Ta he, Centiiued ) ,n| puteiveness and hor impatience I" "It's not the piettiest side of woman- hoed, that. No, Jack, young Baacot need not look upon me as a hated nval" "All right, then. I own I shouldn't like you to make a second venture with an opera-singer's daughter." "Opera-singer's, eh?" ' "Yes. About the last thing you would expect to hear of that menage, isn't it? Bascot's brother marned a smger, and though they are gneved at tho taint, they arc not at all unwilling that the money she earned should be kept in the family." Theee details concerning the - girl whose acquaintance he had made so oddly inrreased Astley's interest, and on his second visit he determined that' she should not escape * un as she had done the first time. * ' But to his surprise her manner to him had changed altogether. Satisfied now that he woulet iceep her secret, and grateful for his retioenoc, Norma at once, upon his entrance, gave him her hand with a blush and a famt smile, and made no fuithcr attempt, as she had done on his previous visit, to avoid; speech with him. It was natural that, as on the previous occasion, Astley shouM be made much of as a hoie who had touglit and bled in his country's service The fight ing clement was usually conspicuous by its absenco fiom the slightly stuily pro fcssonal Oxford atinospheie, and the la dies in particulai were never tired of hearing Jus adventures, which he described with an attractive admixtuie of truth both new and strange And o-f course it waa piesently sug gested by one of the matrons that he should marry. Jack Fielding, who vva3 near, answered for *.im. "Now I'm going to 'give him away,'" said he, with a lau^h. "He made a con fession to me last night, and owned thai he disapproved of marriage altogether Won't have it at any price, wants it abolished. Naw you know what a ser pent yau*ve b*en harboring by your fire side." There wae a chorus of remonstrance, and, Astley defended himself as well as he oould, though he was hardly listened to. For each of the ladies was more intent upon being heard Ukin upon hearing him. Norma, w*o was near enough to hear all thJB, was the only silent and grave listener. But when, presently, he got the ODDerboaifcy he -mated of speaking to Mias Weld, in writing of the visit of ��� _, Tennyson to her father's house in Lon- , *' dan/aoys- "My uaole d*sliked an,over-' ; -7 duplay of aetnoDBtration in public,,and -" >" saicLuhat m hfe experience, 'When young^",<, married peaplo keepjm publicly.,rawing ^ "my dears" thick upon each other, it ia - a euro eign that a quarrel is at hand.' Akin to tiuks hotrod of unreal affection ' too* my uode's diahke to the fulsome- flattery and. general vapidneee of many ejftar-dinifeer speeches, aad he deoiared. to me tbat, if called an to make a speech when be felt he had really nothing to .. jsay, fee eh��uld juet nee and exclaim: " ^Out of my latitude, ae I live, Therefore no platitude���pray forgive,' and promptly resume hw eea-t." A story told of Lord Holt, who was " Lord Cfeief Justice of PBngland mt the 4 eighteenth oentury, shows what a deadly enemy to wild superstition a Ben9e of fact may be. A man presented him3elf to Lord Holt, and aaid' "A spirit came to me from tlie other world, and told me that in your next awe ^ou must enter a , plea of nol. praa."���tiutt is,-- lefusal to ^4 prosecute Lord Beft looked at the man " . a moment and tbea. emilcd "Do you believe that such a message is wise for a human being to <Jbey'" "It is abso; ��� �� Let It be Grip, Malaria ' Fever or what not, always strike at the Heart to protect it, to strengthen it, to cure it, and you baffle every other ailment. Dr. Agnew's Heart Cure puts new vigor into every heart, and ninety-nine out of a hundred need it, for that percentage are sick. Having put that machine ia good working order, it has guaranteed the whole system against sickness. Every organ is soen sound. It always relieves in 30 minutes. Mrs Ezra Dugrahaw, Temple, NB, Canada, wntes :��� " Have had heart trouble for years , would have it u ���ften as three times a week, sometimes lasting t��enty-four hours. Waa persuaded to five Dr. Agaew'B Heart Cure a trial, which I did, with the greatest results It surely is a pocrlew reae<K and would advuo aay aaa who bas heart bedble to try it." DR. ASWEW'* onrcUENT. He who would be free from piles and skin eurptions must use this cure, which routs then out at once end for all time The safest, qutckest cure, because compounded on correct principles. Fiercest foe of itching slua diseases. Pn��e, 35 aeata. 20 ytrf -����- >J^-t.^r��*r'i^��.^-ri��.5*.^rA!!^i* * '4rM^ja.' vh&& if- w M ,13 ' ATLIN, JJ. C.'.*" SATURDAY, ,APRIL-i8, .1903. I\ r " )!��� m . Vr- r! I-Si'" 1 ,i> El ?; Iv lb < aw j If ? HI Tlie Atlin Claim.. Published every Sntnrdny morniiiff bv T'.in Atlin CrjAiji Puiimsiiiso Co. A.C. UiiisciiiriiiiD, Piioi'iuirroii. V Todd Leks. Managing Kmxoit. Oliicu or publication 1'unil S\. Atliti, ��. C. Advortlslni! Kates : >l.00 i>er inch, eaoli liisui'tiou. HcmlliiR notices, 25 cents a'lino. Special Contract Hates on application. Tho subscription price is $5 n your pay- ixblo in ndviiiicc. No \t tpisr will lie ilolhered unless this condition is complied with. , ' Saturday, April iStii, 1903.; TO BE OR NOT TO BE. Oppositionists Carry , Meetings'.. Two Objections to Organizing- a,-Per- 1 manent Mining Association ���A Warning to Heed. Labor strikes seem to be the order of. the ��� day throughout the ,' length and b'feadth of the continent,' much to the injury, and detriment ', cf all concerned".. ' . No sooner is .a strike in one branch of trade settled than one'in another is begun. British Columbia is bavins a surfeit of the'econo- mic evils, and the sooner some measures are adopted lor their sup-' pressiou the better, either by arbitration, compulsory or otherwise. , It is an unfortunate circumstance, but, nevertheless, true, "that the strikes iu this'' Province have,' in tbe main, been brought about by foreign interference, and it seems to us that any legislation passed, should be with the end in view cf making an example of these same foreign labor'agitato'rs. , The Dominion Government has been asked by Ralph Smith, M.P., 'to appoint a commission to go to British Columbia and take evidence under oath to ascertain the cause "of labor troubles in the west, and re- port on\he same. The Provincial Government-intends to bring down a Bill with tlie view of obviating aud settling industrial differences in future by conciliatory means. Surely, to all right thinking men, a settlement of differences between labor and capital by arbitration or kindred means is far preferable to these disastrous strikes and lock-outs, which, of late, tend to ruin tbe country financially", socially and morally. ' * We regret to note that Lawyer Sawers still continues to pour in hotshot to the people of Vancouver through tbe columns of the News- Advertiser, much to the discredit of this camp. He makes an almost direct assertion that the local Government stafF has -a '.'ring," and that that ring gets tbe "tip" of any snaps that are going, thereby making a most unjust slur upon the Gold Commissioner and the office. If C. W. Sawers, Esquire, and bis methods were as well known to the Editorial rooms of tbe News- Advertiser as be is here, be would 1 find.scant room in its columns for | then that its influence is already such that no legislation will be effected by tbe B. C. Government except with the consent and approval The meeting, called ,for the .pur- pose of discussing the formation of a ' permanent branch of the B. C. Mining Association, ( which .was held^ at -Discovery on Tuesday of this week, was,' like the previous meeting to hear the Delegates' re- poits, a farce. The meeting could not-be called- a representative one by-any means, and .was "run" by one or two speakers, who, unfor- tunately, for.the good'of the cause, by "their evident enthusiasm persuaded many of the miners,'against their own best judgment, that the Mining Association was run and controlled'by the "hydraulic men!" ���a statement utterly false and unworthy of consideration ; by. any, miner. Tbe result was, that by a vote of 36 to 18, it was decided to disband the first local ��� association and irrevocably'cancel all that had been done. . *' - ''���*���','. A . meeting, having- similar objects to tbe Discovery meeting, .was held in Atlin on Wednesday evening, and "a similar'condition of affairs'prevailed, though 'the. tactics pursued by the opponents to organization'were unique in the extreme. By a vote of 15 to>i"i, an ".endorsement of the minutes of' tbe Discovery meeting, held 14th inst,". was carried, when, as a matter of fact; there were no minutes to endorse ! Again, a resolution, "That a branch of the B. C' District Mining Association be formed in Atliii and those willing 'to join, should sign tbe roll to .be prepared by the Secretary, ".was voted out'of order, in- opposition to the ruling of the Chair, and the, meeting adjourned practically without accomplishing anything.' However,"the first preliminary step was taken towards permanent organization," and a number of miners signed the roll'of membership. In due course a meeting will be called and a permanent local branch organized with the necessary officers. "' One of tbe first and most important things the opponents of the organization of a branch Association forget to take into consideration is tbe fact that* the British Columbia Mining Association IS an organized body, aud that Atlin helped to organize' that Body, fur- ��� Atlin, ��� kugget and Grape Rings .. And All Kinds of Jeyellery Manufactured on, the Premises. MSF* ->Why send om 'when you can get goods as cheap here? Watches Front $5 ujiB Fine Line of Souvenir Spoons. JULES EGGERT & SON, The Swiss Wa&hmakers. I ':TH,E KOOTENM.'HOTEt' Cor. George E. Hayes, Proprietor FlRCT AND TRAINOR STREETS. O This Fli-bt Class Hotel litis been rcmotlulecl iind'ref urnitlliuri lliYoiiglicut T (mil oll'ei'ti tlio licwt iiuuoininuilntloii to Transient or Porinimoiit 'X' " , Gnosts.���Ainnt'icmi nntl liuropciui pluu. > cf- ���,. 9 ' ' Finest Wines, Liquors arid Gigars.' I Billiards and' Pool. �� ���, ., * T HE,-: GOLD HO USE, ' ' , , " -I D'SOOVERY, B.C.' , ��� ' ��� Comfortably, Furnished Rooms���By the" Day j Week or Month. ' - The'BesL of liquors'and Cigars a'ways in Stock.' ���, -Fine stable in con ;-" ne/Hion with the House. ,t > ' '-"'' '. , -( A MURICA-N', AND "'EUROPEAN' - PL AN.' ' *'' -_'��� , 1; ' ' J. P. Rosic, Muiinger. THE- WRITE' \PASS. "& ��� . YUKON- ���-'"���/ ^ , -!ROUTE. '<���- -.>���-": ��� V' ��� ������� - - '*''���, 1 'i) *i/v'- _,-- ' Passenger and Expiess Service, Daily (except .Sunday),- between - Skagway,;L,og Cabin. Bennett, Caribou,-White"Horse^and Intermediate points, making close connections with ouf own steamers at While" Horse for Dawson and Yukon points, aud at'Caribou for;,Atlin every Tuesday"; and Friday; Returning, leave Atlhrever.y'Monday-and Thursday. -Telegraph Sei vice to Skagway.' 'Express matter will'be-received for "shipment to and from all-points in Canada and the"United States. For information relative to Passenger, Freight; Telegraph-or Express ��� ' r , Rates apply to any.Agent of the" Company or. to - ' - , J.; F: Lee," Traffic Manager, Skagway. . Pine tree Rotel. DISCOVERY-, B. C. Finest of1 liquors. Good stabling. Ed. Sands, Propjietor. O.K. BATHS BARBER SHOP G. H. FOPD Prop. ' Now occupy their new quarters next - to the Bank of B. N. A.. First Street. The bath rooms are equally as Rood as found in cities. Private Entranco for ladies! G. B. Hayes. J.'G. Cornell. nuggei fivtei ��� I Discovery. ' ���- ��� "- OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. FIRST-CLASS RESTAURAFT ' ' --' in ���' ' -'"-.*- ��� CONNECTION. Headquarters' for Brook's stapFe. ' The Canadian Bank of Commerce. CAPITAL PAID' UPi $8,00,0,000., ' , Reserve, $2,-500,000. . Branches of the Bank at Jeattie, ,San~Fr'aneiseo, Portland,- Exchange sold on all Points." Skagway, etc. Gold Dust Purchased- bis worthless effusions, 1 Atlin, and, for that matter, the Province, will have an excellent opportunity this summer of watching the operations of big mechanical devices for tbe, treatment of our auriferous gravels, as well as Legislature, but to the Association tbe proving of tbe relative effectiveness of the steam shovel aud the dredge. As both these devices are about to be installed here this season, interesting developments may be looked for. ��� of tbe Mining Association. If a few men are under the impression that our delegates or the Association have abused our trust tbe re. course is not by a protest to the -Assay Office in Connection.' - - D. ROSS,- Manager. II1E KO��At. HOTEL, E. ROSSELLI, Proprietor. ". Corner Pearl and First Streets, Atlin, B. C. :��� ta> 1 FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION. - CHOICEST WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS CASE GOODS A SPECIALTY. if itself, and this can only be done by and through tbe district .branch of the Association! The necessity for permanent organization, with, a big membership, is apparent to any one who studies tbe situation. Hycira.ulio Mining �� �� "��� Machinery, HYDRAULIC GIANTS, WATER GATES, ��� ANGLE STEEL RIFFLES & HYDRAULIC RIVETED Pumping & Hoisting Machinery. PIPE. Estimates furnished on application The Vancouver Engineering Works, Vancouver, Bl C. A. C. Hirschfeld, Agent, Atlin, B. C. >* - A fl u*j ~r>rtf*"��jzzr' u V * Two Lion Stories. r j J- I5S I* Sir Charles Wan en, in his recently published "Ou tho Veldt in tlio Seventies," tcll3 two capital lien stories that he heard while surveying between the Change and V>ml riveis. "A man," lie Elites, "was driving hi nis bullock wag-on ono dark nlgMj along a road m the inteiior, where there weie big game, but he was not fearsome, beoause 'ho had seicial laige, fierce doga With lum that baiked at c^ ei j'-thing th(*V, met. On a sudden tlie o\cn stopped, aud, whip them as lie would, they would! ��� not go on, but as the dogs did not bark, iho did not think of danger. lite native 'leadei' called out I hat theie was a mtilo Qying in the load in fionl, and lie went tfoiwaid and saw what he tlioughL was a .' Btiange ox lying i��� fiont of tliem. Getting angiy at finding his way slopped, he lushed at the be.ist, ,uul gave it a good kick, shouting 'Foot sooki' (get nway). Then aiose a ni'ij,>slic animal, Which slunk with a ion 111L0 the bush. It was a lion, just dclibeinf ing bow ho could make his spnng upon one of the oxen, but the sudden onslaught of the mtin so disconceiled him that oft he went. When the dinci went bio'c to hi? ���wagon ho found all hi^ln.nc dosrs lying skulking undci the wagon; tliev could not baik foi fe.u Tlie moial'of this story is to put a bold fiont on muttcis and 'dangers will flee away T lather dit>Uus,t Lhis stoiy," adds, Sn Oliailes, "as linpropeily told. . . 'Another ver- bion I have heard is that.the driver did not go up and kick the Jiou, but guve it a good lash with his'whip; that seems to me moie probable." The second slory is as follows: "Some Korannas, when out hunting, came upon an elephant just as they weie passing a lion's lair. Tne elephant, when lie saw .them, made after them, and they, m their alarm, ran close up to where thu Hon was, and ho also was disluibed 'Looking round they saw the lion, run ning, also, but not aftpi then; he wtu 13-unning with them, away flora the clc iphant. After a time they all got into a narrow path, wheie theie was, little 'room, and by that time1 the Koiarmas had got so used to the lion that ono of ,them was bold enough to give lain n ���push, and say, 'Give me moie looMuto run.'" , 0 . . Iii im \tcostott ���Dunk water. Tininp���That's pist it, yei lionnei. I want the tannei to buy a iiltei so as I can swailei the vvalei without the Hale of being poisoned by nuc- lobes. A Canadian Nobleman. Wife���I am going down town this morning to tiy to match a piece of silk. Husband���Veiy well, my dear, I'll tell the cook to save some dinner for you, and I'll put the children to bed myself. "How about references?" enquired the mistress. "Oh, I loike yer looks, mum," said tho Applicant lor tho position of housemaid, "an' I won't ask yer fer re- terencea." ^ , "~~ '*. 'i Tha Guild in China. i The handsomest buildings in China, excepting the great temples, says Public Opinion, arc the guild halls." The Chinese aie past musters 'in tiade organizations. Evety industry is a simple but effectively oiganizcd guild, and the guild halls of some of the richer tiades in Canton aie superb. Even in the north it would be hatd to find anything to suipass the green-tiled,' exclusively ornate middle gateway of one of the guild halls in Clicfoo. The guild idea is highly developed, too,"cven"to the extent of profit-sharing by employees. The beggais and thieves have their carefully goverftcd guilds, as well as the carpenters and the silk dealeis. A'non-union beggar will be diiven out or quickly made away with The begging business is handled with scientific precision, the vagabonds making regular,rounds, pounding tins, tin owing offal, and otherwise making life impossible for reluctant givers Ai tegular payment to'the head of the guild seem es immunity. Theie is a considerable admission fee chai ged lo candidates-for membership in the beggar guild. It is largely by means of the guild organizations that a Chinese city is governed." In Canton, for example, each guild lias its own street, and, of cotusc, its own cldcis. For the maintenance of the streets, its cleanliness, the preservation of order in it, the heads of'tlie guild arc responsible. Accordingly, at night one finds gates locked at each end of the street,.and passing down one of the gieat streets where tiade succeeds" trade, requites a continuous squeezing through half-locked gates Any ciimc committed in the stieet of the jade stoneworkeis would be laid at their door, and they would have to produce the criminal 'or a substitute Municipal orders would reach the guild members through then cldeis, with whom alone the Goveiiiment ^de'ils Even the guild of thieves fiudb its place in the Chinese civil system. The head thief occupies a semi-official position in south China, at least, for though he may continue to steal himself, his punishment is remitted that he mav watch over thieves, and be in a position to recover stolen property. hi Sunday as a Social Holiday. In all the larger cities of tho United |Stales there is nowadavs no othei- socal holiday equal "to Sunday Theie are-some soits of ducrsion that !��iie still foi bidden on Sunday, by social conventions. Nobody ever heard, for in stance, of a cotilhon on Sunday oi a tea to introduce a debutante. But there aie gallons of info:mal'tea ponied in diaw ing-rooms every Sunday afternoon, and there are dinneis on Suudcy night���for- 'mal dinneis at' home and 'dinners at fashionable lestauianls Many hostesses prefer the battel, and as a icsult Sunday night is the most difficult tune of any to find tables at a populai restamant. In Ifew Yoik tlie vogue of the ipstaurant 5s even more pronounced, and it h very difficult for people to get tables at fihorry'a, Dolmonico's, oi tlio Waldorf- Astoria. At these p1accs ��i certain num jbei of tables aie always kept for guests who ngioe to come theie to dinner every .Sunday dining the winter, or let the ~j waiter know during tho affernoon that they v ill not. "Then, on Monday," one imnnager informed a New York "Sun" ���wilier, "the orders for tables for the [next Sunday begin to come in. If there iliappens to be a laige party���six or eight ���we sometimes get woid two or three |wceks in advance. That is necessary iThen, throughout the week the orders ,come in until by Satuiday the two din ing-rooms are filled, and we could seat .twice as many persons The oiders con Itinue'to come m all day on Sunday, and we sot tables in the hall. That leaves no place foi the casual guests who aie 'ceitain to come without taking the trou (ble to telephone m advance. They make lup almost half the attendance, and there jrnust be loom for them. So wre biing jdown tables and chairs fiom the half [room upstairs and spread tables in the, .men's cafe Then, with only room enough" Ito pass between the tables, every (inch ol [available space is taken. This continues from the middle of October until May jAnd dunng the past five years that 1 .have been in this restamant, I have no iticed the Sunday night crowd getting 'bigger every winter." ������� �� "^._J. i j-jt Devery's Warm Vocabulary. '���**��� ' i " " i "Big Bill" Devery has succeeded. In having the Superior Court issue an order iTesbrainhig the executive committee of v��� &:nn17iUf fTu tai?n?, "IT ���N6"0" The high auguis are not in unison; jmfcil the .cader of the ivinth_ Ward has we arc back m the old, extravagant ��en admitted to> its fold. When i,0 waa am, (Ilsastrous syst(.m 0f government *rred out the other nirfit.at the oigau- ,��� compartments. The question which Ration of Tammany_ Hall's executive a|i those who inteiest thcinschcs m :il defence aie ncs it that af- , , , , - , ,. -- Lv-i luniiuii, ���uiwiiil/, iin.rsficld, Latigli- cured by fraud and corruption at the ^ aml all the scnes of brilliant wiit- ^^1���?���*!?"^''??^' c,s ���� naval ^ratcgy have laid down riJ^ ?'^d Cen^al Plunkitt, Bnd mcontrovcrt.blc principles of na- tho tnith about him would poison the tlonal strategy( how comes it that our British Military Problems. In view of the recent interesting de-~ batc in the House of Commons, the following from Blackwood's Magazine is of interest ��� For the average reader who may have ceasedrto 'take absoibing interest in military refoim after the passing of his hot fit, it is well to paiticulanze The War Office ideal of strategy gives us, in addition to recruits and non-effectives, 190,000 men for home garrisons, 200,000 men, more or less, for the defence ofj London, and a home field army of 120,000 men, with So.coo white troops for India and 30,000 for the colonial gamsons. We must, therefore, carry forward a total of half a million men at least, committed, by the nature of 'their functions and the law of their leciuiting, to a task which is nothing more nor less than a sinecure unless our ''navy is driven from the seas. "These numbers," said Mr. Jiiodiick to the colonial Premiers', 'aie ccitainly not deemed too laige by our mihtaiy ad-viseis, in view of the possibility of our at any lime losing the command of the sea" The veil is luted and the nuuder(is out No woids could express more naively the cutiiC absence of coinpi chension of the leal pioblenitthat confronts "our military advisers " The statement quoted is in direct conflict with the Duke of Devonshire's famous declaration of JS96 ��� 'The maintenance of sea supremacy has been assumed as the basis of the system of Imperial defence sgainst attacks from over the sea." . 52ko English papeis contain particulars of one of the most rcmark- I aW�� cases of fraud that have 00- ��� <nBni��l the time of the law couits'for ( some yeais, and which has just been brought tc^an end at tha Leeds Assizes, when James Albert Mar��on, a clerk, was convicted of obtaining ' ��3,127 10s by false pielenscs, and was sentenced to three yeais' penal seivitudc. -In 1898 thero appeared m a weekly Saper an aaticle headed "Tlie Coming lichest Man in the World." It described how a Pan Francisco multi-mil- lionano hermit willed all his possessions to hia male euccossoi, who wrould bo found in England. Law^cis misapplied the vast estate, and weie imprisoned for the crime, and tnen the lightful heir wa3 discoveied and the hermit's mansion ex- ploied. Down^a trap-dooi into a mysterious passage the way led to a large room lined with gold" ingots, to another filled with bags of gold dust, ana to ,a massive 11 on door which boro a warning that a person foicing it was liable to death The door was opened by chemicals, the dcalh-tiap���a deep pit���was bridged, and fin flier on was found a gold mine of counties* worth. The1-article went on to say tniit the heir was "itill scratching wuh his pen/' but shortly would enter upon a lingo estate in Dcvonslihe which had "been seemed for him by the Go\ eminent," and that the Queen had "ahwuly intimated her intention of making him a peer of tho realm as soon as the woild was acquainted with the information." , Tho prospective Croesus was James Albert Marson, afc that time earning,30s a week as a mcichant's cleik 111 a Sheffield house. A toll, handsome, tairly-educatcd man, he found no difficulty m acting the part of the owner of millions He showed to his friends copies of the will and doci- ��� nients purpoitmg to entitle him lo a fa, bulous yenily income,'an estate in "On tario, -United States," half the si/c of Ireland, and vast quantities of diamond^ and rubies He told them he was entitled to bound ,less wealth, signed letteis "Albeit, the future Lord Syer&ton" and "Marion, K G.," wore a ring "which ho'said had'been "sent as a token of good will by Lord Minto, the'Go\einor-Gcncial of Canada, pretended to be puichasing a ��12,000 steam yacht, and showed them a "draft of ��5,000,000 and a bill of exchange for ��50,000,000, this > moncjr, 'aceoiding to his statement, having been forwaidcd by his Canadian agents Ho rctucd fiom business,'installed a telephone, a -\alct, a private secretary, bought horses, guns and fui-lined coats, and was attended by a letinue of, favorites anxious to please. ,To someW them he promised "staff" appointments���the boots-at the largest hotel in the city was to h ive the position pi ^butler at '��2,000 a yeai, and Ins doctor was to have ��1,500. All this meant money, and to keep oft his creditors he boriowed on the strength of his "expectations." Sums tiom ��0 to ��260 were" lent freely; by '-his friends, who " 'believed hia" promises implicitly. One man^advanced as^much as ��3,120, another* "��420, and many lent smaller sums. The laigest creditor, Mi. Thomas Eastwood of Chesterfield, once received from Marson cheques for ��10,000 and ��150,000, but he was asked to return 'them for "��e endorsement." Mai son's accounts showed a deficiency of ��5,307, and he had been living at the rate of ��1,000 a year.' Ono of the most curious points about the story is the methods by which Mai- son duped Eastwood On one occasion he wrote:t"Rest assured that for eveiy pound I have had from you the samo will be repaid at the rale of- ��5,000 for every pound, and an annuity to each of your children of ��10,000 to accumulate Lo their years of discietion.", Later, Marson wiote: "I havo already signed half a million a yeai foi your natural life,' iirespectne of your stipend, vliile in my scivice.' ' Marson lived 111 a house of which tlie rent was 0s pel week, yet Eastwood believed lum when he said that the Homo Secretary and the Duke of Norfolk weie coming to dine at bis house. The judge, in passing sentence, said prisoner had been convicted on clear evidence. Whatever the onginal story was, he took advantage of it and made untrue statements to Eastwood, who was a gentleman easily taken in.t v ci easing m num Dei 'in Uie Southern States there were 17 more legal executions and 21 fewer lynchings than 111 1001., It is to be presumed that many of ���tlie negioes lawfully executed last year would have been lynched a few yeais ago in pieference The whole number of executions in 1002 weie 114, as against 118 in the pievious year, showing that punishment is keeping up with tihe increase,in muidc.s. Of the whole number of men hanged 88 weie negroes. The manager of(a concert given in a small town, instead of putting "not transfeiable" on' tho tickets, posted ca notice on the door: "No.gentleman admitted unless he comes himself" - ' Spinsterhood. Discussing old maids in t1ic"Centur3 Magazine," Lillian Hamilton Fiench wonders why it 'is that histoiy ainl tradition have done,.so little foi the spinstri except to /make hei absurd. <��� "Why," she asks, "hus lib eratuio ncvei enshimed hei, I <i&k my self often���set her apart in a coiner, by herself, as poets and philanthropists anc groat world-saviois aie set, wheie slit can rest honored and levorenccd, not as some special and unselfish sistei, 1101 yel ns a certain unmanicd and devoted con' sin, but simply and without equivocation aa an old maid, an individual ab ncccs eary'to'thc world and its progiess aa even the married ones? For thmk of all tihe other people's children old maids have loved and'reared; of nil the homes In which they have been benedictions; of all tho niniringes they have helped to bring about, and the husbnnd-s and wiven their counsels have kept together. Think ��f these things, and then of how, wlicn 110 longer needed) these old mauls have slipped away and been foi gotten, like the ashes of last year's fires." ' " Another of their good -tiaits, Miss Picnch points out/is that Uiey ni'c suoh f;ood listencis, despite ^Iho fact that no >ody pays any attention to their speech "And^I wonder," she adds, "considering how many confidences men have poured Into their eais, and how many other things men have found to say about bhem, that not a gentleman hns yet been found good and generous enough to pay tribute to this 'sui passing excellence in spinsters���an excellence sor-deai to the masculine mind, llow many 'old, maid aunts, indeed, have nephews not be guilcd? How ' many old-maid' sisters have not opened their ears to the self ' praise ot their unsuccessful brothcis who, have missed a hearing at the bar, or in the pulpit, 01 wheiever theie.,was com petition among men? Patient souls, these old maids, listening to each of us is a mother only listens to her own, and who have listened so long that at last they have the an of never expecting any sne to, pay- attention to them. -They renture into, speech on their ow 11 ���-,account, as timid mice into pallors,.leady on'the instant to whisk about and seek covei again. These, though, aac the old maids for whom corners aie nevei lacking, so cagei aie the veiy leasU among men to as-me themselves of a hearing somewheie." GEMS OF THOUGHT, . More people have starved to deatS from the want of love than from tha want of food. ' Those ;who respect the restriction*' of the law are 1 the least restricted. Morality is economy, i Passion often bolls over into tears.- Ixsve in a girl of sixteen ia here iworshlp. \ < -,, Men sigh for two reasons; becausd they have, loved, i and because thejj. have not. '~ t ,*., .. ��� , _,, Only old new things can be said of love. - > " _ _ . ( To maintain a reputation of hon< esty requires great tact, but not necr essarlly an honest character. The man who seeks to evade fate fa , fullyyas foolish as the man who tempty ��atej ' There Is nothing like an old ,bool; tor a young person. , t WJt prompts a laugh; humor, if cmile, and satire, a grin. The pun^ is the Jonah of literature. Purchased honors" and :counter��s!l coins are ever subject to suspicion. Faults in great men tend to show {heir greatness in stronger relief. Wield wit warily. ., * A poor etory well told Is better re* colved than a good &tory poorly told. A lazy man Is tho rejected stone thai never becomes the 'head of the coi* per. ' ^_' " 1 , * *. 1. r 1 It Is^the ','would-be" 'geniuses, to* <lay, ���who a-o eooentrlc. ��� , , Chance may make a reputation, bul not preserve it. \ ' It takes a business man to 'succeed in art j " , v , '* Literature is considered more of q confession than^piofesslon. '���' Truth,*, unadulterated -with" false bood, would be very dull reading. ', It takes falsehood to got at the bob* " lorn of truth. ��� \ , The ladder ' descending froma fanw bas but.few rungs. ��� ', , i ^ , The tongue is the most generous oc gan in the body. ., * - - LIFE LINES There are quite a nuinoer ot people who can look in a mil 101 without seeing ihewflve* <i�� <-,llieis see them. , The Germ of Laziness. Last Year's Violent Crimes. nfr; Pennsylvania Charley "(Murphy), ���who held up the tunnel; Dago Dan, with this waxed moustaches (McAMion); and -Big Tim, who tries to skin the New Yerk (Central and the Pennsylvania et the eamo time. Do they flunk Idicy can put ���up such a job on me? I'm no'railroad to bo held up, and no fanner to take tho ' big mitt end slide home. Before I'm done with them I'll make them dance a ' 'LivoTpool hornpipe. I'll go to court, and pt'll win. They can't keep me out. Tlieso jumping-jacks are not grafting a fran- ��� cMso when they take hold of me. They've got a Live one to deal with. I've got , Itho law with me, and I'll fight, fight, ��� fight. I feel disgusted enough with the gang to start an independent Dcmocratio , labor party ovci our way. But I'm going 1 to fight. I wont to fight. I'll fight every minute." '' Science on the Road, War Office should continue to both pleach, and, to our heavy cost, piac- tisc a theory of war which is the exact antithesis instead of the corollary of our naval policy ? Buttonhole one of these solemn old gentlemen in Pall Mall, whose daily existence has only three fixed points���the office, tlie luncheon room al the Rag, and their West Kensington fiicsule���stop them ind ask them why they ask us to pav for 640.000 men, mostly organized, to do nothing at home ; ask them when last England w.is invaded, and why ; isk them who is going to invad" us>. and how ; ask them when last a Bnt- ish battery on the coast fired a shot in anger ; as'k them when a fort in the Ulterior of England or Scotland was "ver of service to man or boost Ask them���fid they will not tell >ou(i bc- :nusc they do not know, and ncitlici docs anyone else |r The Chicago "Tribune" has again pro- pared a list, of general statistics f leaned from the happenings of 002 in Uncle Sam's country. Among them are crimes of violence, which embrace murders, suicides and lynchings. The figiucs, being compiled from the daily piess, arc not oflicinl, and probably not complete, since a number of occurrences 111 each class may easily have been missed. Sufficient, however, has been gut/Itcicd to_makc an examination of it inteiesting. , The number of minders during the twelvemonth indicates a recurrence of tho wave of homicidal tendencies which was piominent in the statistics between 1891 and 1807, and wfoic'li receded after the latter year. oThcic were'nearly 1,000 moie murders in 1902 than in 1901, when the number recorded was 7,852. Last year theie were also 1,000 more suicides than in tlhc previous yeai', when 7,245- were reported. Tho pistol and the poison routes weie chosen by two-thirds of those wllio sought a path to self-destruction, and caniolic acid was the favorite poison. Despondency, based on disappointment in. love or domestic un- haippmess, was the cause generally as- ���igned. Only 07 suindes were ascribed to failures In business. It has generally been conceded by statisticians that the proportion of suioidcs as to sex ia about The newspaper report of the recent address of Dr. Stiles, a zoologist of the Department of Agriculture, before the Saul- tary Conference_of Ameiican^Republics about the hook-worm disease, has been received- with impassioned "interest by thousands of more or less afflicted read- Srs. J Dr. Stiles is tho discoverer of this -nalady, which he has named uncinariasis He has just come back from studying ii in parts of the South where it flourishes. He says it is a bad disease, little understood, and almost always confused with malaria. It is what is the matter with many of the poor whites in tbe Southern States. Their laziness is abnormal, Dr, Stiles says. Their pitiable condition. du�� immediately to laziness and to their Inferior physical and mental development. Is more remotely due to the presenco ei this hook-worm disease among them for generations past. The clay-eaters and pickle-eaters of North Caiohna owe'then- abnormal appetites to uncinariasis, The lasy crackers who send their infant children to work in mills have got it, too, but the children themselves, Dr. Stiles thinks, profit by the change in their en- viionment. He says that the disease can ba cured, but that the physicians In the sand districts whore it abounds most must be taught to know its symptoms and how to treat it. A newspaper, in telling of Dr. Stiles' diecovery, cries in headline type that tho germ of lasinoss has been found. That expresses the feelings of the general reader and accounts for his enthusiasm over tho discovery. Evory man, remarks "Harper's Weekly," feels the germs of laziness working in him, and would like to have them killed cut of him by treatment from the outside if possible. He is glad to lay the defects in his energy to the hook-worm. But Dr. Stiles' hookworms seem not to be available for gen- eial use. They are leal microbes, and so far as appears, they only flourish in districts, and under conditions favorable to their development. It is no wonder that they htove been confused with malaria., for the symptoms of malaria and the symptoms of sin are very much alike, and the hook-worm symptoms resemble both. We want to hear more about the hook-worm. If he can be extiipated in tho cracker with good results a wonder will have been done. The South American delegates who w>re told about him think he exists in their countries, too, and are going to search for him when they go home. M<��ybe he exists in tho Philippines also. A traveller lately re- ' We get very tired of enjoying our rights; it's other people's rights weV .��� most like to enjoy. , ^ ' A woman feels safe when she thinks ��he can trust a man, but she'd be a whole heap safer if she could always* trust herself. - 1 f ' Success would-be very sweet if It evoi * stayed long enough1 for us to leaixr ' the taste. <*' \ ^ ���' I - ~: - J-" , "Many people try to get what J;hejv ���flilnk ',they- want; these- are ~ the knaves. " The rest try to think thejf ' want what they "get; and these an the fools. P - , The cheapest way to learn fortitude /s to watch others suffer; their hearj tears harden our cheeks., - It ignorance really is bliss, it's a wonder more of us don't die of sheej bappmess. _ _ ��� 4 l - M TramjJ^Say, mister, gjmme ft. tMmer,, torn males to one female. Last year the ttlni0(} from those Wands thafc th# figures formed a strong contrast with js]andB aro beautiful and their possibiU- previous records. Three- times as many tieg morm(ma but thflfc tho faiipmos women committed suicide as in 1001..The won,t wrk and that induatria/1 devej0p. figures given are 6.032 males, 3,009 fe- ment m on, ^^ ^^ the introduo. males. I^ntfaings showeome sign of de- tion of chine30 iabor> That wunds like hook-worms. BACHELOR'S REFLECTIONS A girl's eyes aTe never so sharp' ta ��when they are looking through a maw riage veil.�� Probably the man who will end by coining the nearest to understanding fltromen. is Profe&sor Garner. When a man stops telling his wif�� that he loves her it is time for her to rtop telling him that he doesn't., A man can always stave off a quarr rel with his wife by telling her soma thing nice that some man didn't say about her. > The average woman would rathei find out three days afterward that sha fcad married a lunatic than to have fcim disappear the night beforo th�� Wedding. A woman is eo constituted that whenever she doesn't smile &he has to tnake faces Th�� second week her husband ia sick a woman loons over all her old black dresses. Cook books wore written to make young women think their mothers didn't know how to_cooli. Probably tho average mouse thinks Women are the most dreadfully inv modest creatures it ever saw. "The consent of the governed!" Did anybody ever consent to be govorned'i A laugh tells the tale better than 9 volume of words. The great progressive soul rosentj the tyranny of custom. So docs th} criminal, but for different reasons. When women are emancipated, wint about the emancipation of men? Tur/ Tibout Is fair play. The initiative lets In a horde wit? Would never have ventured first. liove and despair cannot occupy the lame heart. DINKELSPIEL SAYS- Vare ignorance vaa pllss more pet* pies geds killed py der trolley cars. My son, uf you vould be a vise chea*' tteman, yust led your ears grow un# keeb your tongue tied mit a rope. "Was willst du haben" somedimea /leans a vlfe'ad home naidould money to pay der rent. You can'd make a silk purse py a /ow's ear ould, und -you doan'd ne���� a silk purse anyvay, so vy Is der use? Pen Picture of Rockefell r. Ir In Ida M. Tarbell's history oi tbe Standard Oil Company, now inn ning in McClure's, the personality of J. D Rockefeller is discussed at some 1 length, in part as follows ���"Of course Mr. Rockefeller knew that the railioad was a public carrier, and that its char ter foibade discrimination "But he hnew that the raihoads did not pietend to obey the laws governing them, that they regularly handed special rates and rebates to those who had large amounts of freight. That is, you could bargain with the railroads as you could With'a man carrying on.a strictly private business depending in no way on ?( mibhc franchise Moreover, Mr Rocke- - seller knew that if he did not get rebates somebody else'wdukl, that they Were lor the wariest, the shrewdest, fihe most persistent If somebody was to get rebates, why not hc? This point of Mew was no uncommon one Manj men held it, and felt a sort of scorn, as practical men always do foi thcousls, when it was contended that the shipper was as wrong in taking rates as the railroads in gi anting them Thus, on one hand theie was an cxiggciatcd 1 sense pi personal independence, on the other a firm belief in combination, on one hand a determination to root out Hie vicious system of lcbates piactiscd by the railway, on the other a determination to keep il alive and piolit by it flFhosc tbconcs which lhe body of oil men held as vital and fundamental Mr Jlockefcllcr and Ins associates cither 'did not conipichcnd or'were deaf to (This lack of compicliension by^many '���icn of what seems to nothcr mou to be the, most obvious principles ftf justice is "not rare Many men who are widely known as good share it Mr. Rockefeller was 'good' There was ���o more faithful Baptist in Cleveland " nan he. Every enterprise of that church he had suppoi ted, liberally irom h,is youth. He gave to its poor. ie visited its sick He wept with'its suffering. Moreover, he gave unostentatiously to 'manv outside chanties oi (whose worthiness ha was satisfied He ��vas simple and frugal in his habits He tvever went to the theatre, never drank wine. He was a devoted husband and ne gave much time to the training of lhis children, ^seeking to develop in them his own^habits of economy and of tharity. Yet he was willing to strain every nerve to obtain for himself special and illegal privileges " from the railroads which were bound to rum every man in the oil business not sharing them with him Relnjious cmo tion and sentiments of charity,tpropriety and self-denial seem to have taken the place in him of "notions of justice and regard for the rights of ^others." ' , The Man Behind the Cow. Much is" being said of late in dairy' Journals^and at conventions about the comparative quality" of butter made where the cream is separated at the factory, and where it"is separated at the farm and only the cream delivered to the factory Put into a few words, ^t is a battle between the factory separator and the farm separator, Sn'nearly every case the reports of the buttermakers are that a higher touch of quality is obtained from the lactory separated cream than from the gathered cream separated at the farms Just here is an important matter for consideration, and one over which we have not seen any discussion that the advocates of the farm separators have brought to their aid The milk, whether taken directly to the factory or separated at the farm, in both cases is alike when it comes from the cows. It is the man behind the cow that is the cause of any distinction, good or tbad, that may be found, and not the separators The cream as it comes from the small separator at the farm is in every respect as sweet, fresh and perfect as the cream from the large separator at the factory. It is in the after care of the cream that is the fcause of such imperfection, if any, that may be met in the cream. ^ The quicker cream, *' after it leaves the cow, is carried through the necessary changes on its way to the butter product, the better will be the quality of the butter, as judged by present standards Factory rules of management do not require t prompt fiaily delivery to .the factory of the cream from the farm scpaiators, where the cream gathering plan is practised.' For the convenience of the maker the sream is held at the farm where made for a day���or two, and frequently for leveral days, before delivery. Under any conditions of care this delay is damaging, and, further, the care under which it is kept at the faun is not in all cases such as its best condition requires, nor such as it would receive at a well-managed factory In this way the quality of the product made from it is graded down The man behind the cow, in whose care the cream is left while at the farm, is responsible for all defects in the cream yhilc under his care. The practice of keeping cream for several days, or for a/week, as is sometimes the case, cannot be too emphatically condemned. Choice butter cannot be made from cream a week old, as every critical butlermaker, pnvate or factory, knows. Another error of the dauyman is in failing to clean and scald .the scpaiator each day, and every tune it is used Complaint is made in some localities, and at conventions, that anxious salesmen represent that this is not necessary. But this is all wrong. All utensils employed in handling milk and in daily work whether the factory or the farm separator, or milk pail, must be thoroughly cleaned and sterilized after every using. A,speaker at one convention declared that where separators were properly used they always got good cream1���Maine Farmer. No animal can use its food twice. "H a cow converts her provender into milk she cannot also make it into good beef If >ou pick your clucks and geese regularly for then ffathers you should not expect many eng"5 Whatever an animal is doing for you it is hard to persuade it to do si mcthing else j Decide what product you want and then get that kind'of breed,which converts lis food into that product as a surplus from what it u��;r*s n living �� ��ir<- Legislation on Osculation. Kissing will have to bo dona surreptitiously in Virginia, or' those who kiss may be guilty, of-,a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of five dollars for each smack���that is, if a bill recently Introduced in the Virginia Legislating be- oomes a law. Tho author of the unique mcasuic in question is Di. B. B, Ware, a physician in good standing, jfbfy _ Uk* many other doctois, is dimly "convinced that osculation spieads disease. Briefly, tho piovisions ot tho bill requiio that persons who insist upon kissing shall ob- tanu a physician's certificate pronouncing them fieo" fiom all contagious and mfec^ tious maladies Tho tevl of tho bill is asffollows '/Wheieus, kissing has baoa decided by tho modical piofcssion to bo a medium by which contagious aud infectious diseasos aio tiansuiittad fiom 'ono person to anothoi, and whoieas the prohibiting rof suoh an oilonto will be a great provoutivo to tho apieadutg ojt suoh diseases as pulinomuy tubeiculosia, diphtheria, and many other dang��rouj diseases, thorofoio, bo it enaoted by th* General Assombly of Vuginla, that it" shall bo unlawful'for any person to kiss another unless ho can pTovo by hia family physician that ha hasn't any coatagl- All Kinds of Kisses. i -i ���* A serious book, on a frivolous subject, by an eminent sdiolar���such is "The Kiss and Its History." It has,been translated into English from the Danish of Dr. Clmstopher Nyrop, professor of lomai'oe philology in the University of Copenhagen, Dy William Fredenck Harvey of (Moid, and, according to the pieface, has also been tians- lated into German, Swedish and Russian, and has gone through two editions in Denmaik. Verily, the history of the kiss is a matter of universal mterest _ Dr. Nyrop presents in the volume but little personal opinion; raflier ho contents himself with weaving together proverbs of all psopies of all times on the subject of kissing, and gn es, "in1 addition, quotations from th?" poets who have rhymed of kisses���and they aie^o small number! For his ^.quotations he has hunted in out-of the wt\ places, and has sought them among lh�� m i->srs as well as the classes Foi uial mix, the ladies of Geimnny have the poetical saying that "a kiss without a be ud is like Vespers without the Mignihcat," but tho milkmaids of * Jutland'o\ pi ess a like idea by the lough-hewn pio\eib that "ki3Sing a fellow without n quid of tobacco and abend is like kissing i i>l i\ will" That kioSLi aie naughty the llihans deny, saying '"that a month is none the woise for (having been kinscd," while tho Pic nek proveib inns ''Bah' two kisses. What of that? They aie exchanged like bullets that mis3 the maik, and honoi is satisfied," anil-even coolei-blooded races agreo fto that, saying _"a kiss can be washed ofl," though to this proveib there is a corollary which urns "A kiss may( indeed be washed away, but the ihe in the heart cannot be quenche'd" Of stolon kisses there are many pioveibs. "One returns a stolen kiss," say the honest Germans, and tha Spanish havo the same idea* "Dost thy .mother rhido the* for having givenmo a kis3? Then take back, dear gnl, thy kiss, and bid her hold her, mrtvn," someone saia to isiotner iJicKey. "yes; Satan's eyes always flash fire when he sees a chinch steeple gwine' up." / "And hero's a colored bi other killed another at a camp meeting" "Yes; Satan goes ter mcctin' 'long wid' de ies' er dem, en sometimes shouts de loudes'." "And a jpreacher was di owned in tlio river last week" ., "Oh, yes; Satan's "in de water, too. He 'bleege tei go dar ter cool off." "So you blame eveiv thing on Satan, do you?" "Bless God," was the reply,1 "ain't dat what he's fer?"���Atlanta "Constitution." oiis'or infootious disaaso. 2 If physician' tongue." The_ learned author casts a testifies that tha defendant has, weak } glance'at the"propei number of kisses lungs ha shall bo found guilty of a misda- that ought to be bestoved at one time, and ��. page or two lightly touches the doubtful subject of "the topogiaphy of the^To^." Again, the various Junds of meanor, and" tha soma penalty shall'be imposed'aa if he had soma contagious or infectious disaaso. 3 Any person vio latmg the provisions of tha first and second piovisions of this act shall be deemod guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not leas than one dollar nor-moie than^ five dollars for eaoh oilenca." Com xnenting on this uniquo bill, the New "Stork "Sua" says- "Di Waro soems to regard kissing as a niflscubno indulgence _ ^ But kissing loses half its satisfaction if, ��,11 fcre^iad. Of $uoh tenoi is the book, not reoipiocated. As well smack a Pai ^aahaajs&ve "almost, it v\ould seem, of the ian statiw'as a lass -who would not kiss back.' Tho learned doofoi must know this, and tkeiefoicf lio will amond his bill to cms tho ovoisight As it stands now, tha gentle se^ may osculate at v ill regardless oi hygiene, but man must ic froin. Fatheis must not kis3 then elnl dren or lovois - tho*- maidans of then chojoa, unless they aie fiea from the suspicion of mfoctious oi contagious di-> ease. We seo Cupid in tears with hi�� arrows j hi oken, > aud tho occupation _of "the amatoi y poets gone." ' off. Pickwick up to Date. i * s" (Mr. Jingle's Elopement) 'TSiegr"!* gone, sir,��� gone cleaji aJrl" gaaped tha seivant. ' ' "WWi gone?" said Mr. Waidle fiercely.. ' . - ^ '-TkOsfcar'Jingle and Miss .Rachel��� started off in a motor hired ten minutes siase, and���" , "Qaickl" shouted Mr. Wardle, "my car, at once' John, Hany���some of you ���go and get the petiol! Tom, my respirator aid spectacles this instanf! Mb. Jcsaph Malins, in the "Prize Be dome along, Pickwick^ we'll'catch 'em in oitar," says.' "A well-known public man i*63 tha-n no time���out of the way, Win- was lately assured bv the chauman that H��, out of the way! Ueie we are���jump .���fcba assembly welcomed him 'with no un T m, Pickwick. Stand clear theie!" feigned pleasure,' at vvkicih the visitor-) -^ud m less time than it takes to de- waa so embarrassed as to s'iy," 'I���I'm scribe the event the two intrepid old ���iwaya glad to be her*���or anywhere gentlemen had started on their chase. ���fa*.' Tkase at th* recant Birmingham -A.way they went, down tb<> narrow lanes, ,4cwa����s iaooting,-on tho bill toiiehing thji J��ltnjg in and out of the cart-ruts and .aeiieaclpaliiiatioa of the tramways, pi'*- , bumping against the , hedges on either jfckbly ut in asserting that it was tha' sida. Blunders in Public Speaking. aasyor who ordaeod aa intawuptar to ,'ait down'and go out I' He was not as pehi* &s"a suburban councillor who deli- faately intimated that an opponent was '<Joubtlsg3 afflicted with a slight impedi- r dnaat in hia veracity.' Mr. Josawh Onam ibarlainj when Mayor of BinakmJWia, was Ipaa polite when ha denied tha 'allegation' of an opponont and lepudiatcd tho 'al ~ ligator' In our.prftsunce a Glouoester ,re speaker suggested that tha pend * A Dinner at Ilagnevs'. My friend Van Amheig worries me to "death sometimes on the subject of food lie is a ciank. If ho were- a chimpanzee at tho. Zoo, or some equal ly valuable exotic animal, he could not be moie fanciful over dietetical matters, When he hoars of a now foim of break, fast oats he is not happy till ho tries it, nor, when he has,tiied it, is he happj till he lw<? tncd all his fnends with bh�� fcloi' of lU'indigestibility., Hi's leal discise isJtwo thousand a yeai and nothing to do. Tie has made a hob by of his stomach, nnd his hobby has made him a frank, whole souled and pcr< feet boie. ' , I was sitting over the fire the othei evening waiting -for dinner and re-read> ing "Trilby" when Van Ambcrg, who inhabits the rooms below'mine, caanein ���and told-me to use up and follow him as he had discovered a positively miraculous cafe, and wanted, to take me there to dine. To escape a eold leg of mutton which had haunted me for two evenings, and which I knew my landlady was at that moment "laying" only that it might appear before me in the more fughtful form of a hash, I took my hat and foi lowed Van Amberg. "I will give you'a dinner such as you have never eaten befoie," said he as we got into a hansom '"You know the ��� ^ -������, . ��� etate of my health and that I'only live kissasr^thosa "cool and tender,' or ones % on sufferance, so to speak; sugar, with like ��k$se of Hafiz, whose mistress was out any metaphor, is death to me, and 1 afraid that "his too hot kisses would love itlT I have sometimes thought oi Iduw hor delicate lips," or those which going into Fuller's and ending my leaya marks behind, against which Are-' wretched existence m one wild debauch inhuaa warned Lycas in a letter���''Oh, I always take the other side of Oxfoid suffar txp young gnl to punt the mark "street when I am passing Buszaid's, foi iOf A*r teeth on your neck"���theie Me the place has an attiaction for me which "' " ' I can only liken to the attraction of a precipice. I can't eat veal, I can't eat pork, I'can't eat anything I want to eat I sometiibes pas3 the Cailtdh" with a pocket full of sovereigns,,but I_no more dare go in there and dine than "the mar who sweeps the eiossmg just below; but at this new place Ilagnevs' I'can eat, 'anything. He is the vuzaid of the kitch en. 'You wait and see" , * 4 We dismissed the cab at the Ov-foul Btreat end of Waidom 6trcet. Wc walked down <Wardour street < through Old Compton street and down an alley, at the door of a dismal looking ^hiul clas3 restaurant he stopped." "This* as HasneraV' " - ' * * ' '%urely," I said, "you are not going to dine in a place of ���-this descnption " Without replying 'lie' enteied, and-1 followed. The place was artanged inside in tha 'old-fashioned English manner- loose boxes with a stable in eacji. Van ( Ambarg chose the box neaicst the dooi | vvhiah was vacant, and up came M. Hag nevs in person to enquiie what he could do for U3.~ He was a tall man with long black hair and piercing black eyes; an ideal brigand, a man of energy, too, foi in less than no time oui dinner^ was sewed. Ah! w'hfl.t a dinner that was, from the lobster-red crawfish soup to tihe pale gTeen curious-tasting ice. What a dream J > "A very great violinist is dining' here to-night," said M. Ilagnevs as he served us with coffee himself; "no les3 a person than Herr r. You will hear Mm wneh, as a matter of fact, tlfey are ae> Jf" ^ vouring a'turnip, and if hypnotism oa.it ^, turn a turnip into a pineapple vvhal might not hypnotism do for English cookery? , - f If it could, even in a dream, turn th�� "tune tho old cow died of" into the mu<l ' sic of the spheres, what ini<riit>it not d^ foi liuglish music /���Henry de Vere Stao * poole m London "Outlook." t A Thackeray Letter. rt An amusing rhymed letter from Thacb erny to Miss Kate Peiry and her sister Mrs Elliot (Jane Perry), is included n( a set of manuscripts to be sold at Soth�� by's in London this month., It runs a�� follows* 1 "Well, I thought as sure as sure could be,,should find.a letter from kind J. E Pray, why doesn't she'wnte to me? l'& like to know, and if not she, wfliere's hei 'Sister, Miss K P.? One or other is sure* ly free to send a line to double you t��u What is the leason' I have often said] Aie Kate and Jane both ill in bed? Is, that little slhvenng greyhound dead? or lias anything possibly happened ta . Prod? or havo,thcy taken a" friend instead, of that old, fellow they've often fed (along with Venables, .Clem, and Sped) with a broken nose and a snowj head? Tell me, how shall the riddle bi read?" ,'. > ' ���>> i j i~ possibilities of the subject���on paper. <% s ' Its Annual Meeting . ��� An interesting illustration of corpor-' ate methods is alloided1by the^recent - experience of a stockholder in the Stand- / ard Oil Company, lepoited m Leslie's Weekly/ Armed with the regular print-'", ed invitation of the-company to, all of u its "stockholders to 'attend its annual ��__ meeting, he started for tbe olhce of'the ' Standard Oil Company at Bayonne, N.J. After threading his way through a^ * labyrinth1 of tanks,' pipes, cars andt buildings, until he reached a common-1 ��� place brick building on the veiy edge of the f bay, he was told to climb two ��� flights of 'stairs on the outside of the Btructure/and there, inaden away m^a loft, without a sign to indicate its location, the annual meeting of the great and powerful.Standard Oil Company was<( being held. He says"��� "��� "1 found a hue looking,'1 courteous, middle-aged gentleman, seated f by the i side of a laige table, upon which were " piled the pioxies sent in by stockholders authoiizmg -Messis Rockefeller, , Flaglei and others to repicsent them at the meeting '1 then discoveied^ that I was the only stockholder from" the outside who was pie^ent. 1 lnquiredaf an annual report of the earnings of th�� ��� Qompany had been piesented. Tho reply was in the negative, the gentleman immediately stepped into an adjoining oihee for. confidential consultation with the cleiks 1 was the subject of a-good , deal of scrutiny and was appaiently aa object-of decided mteiest.J After a time V my credentials wei e accepted, and 1 ven-,. tured again to ask whethei he-was able P. _ i to give mo a statement bearing on the a J company's business for the year., Oour- '. J"~ -teous as ever, he declined to say more than that he must refer me to Mr. Dods, the solicitor of the company, at the New" York office. I have not been., a believer in anti-trust legislation, but I am changing my mm*." II r\K ><l ���f "Is it���is it safe?" mumbled Mr. Pickwick behind his lespnatoi, as he peered anxiously through 4lns goggles into the sunounding darkness ' ? "Hope so," repl-ed Wardle, fumbling with tho speed gear. "Wish I understood this blessed machinery' better, though. Only had a motoi a week, and���" A violent cannon against a signpost cut the remark short. - .For a while thpie.was silence. Then lag proposition 'be postponad to'the fu ^T\ liolcwick, wioiiad been sniffing nn- itura���or some other time.' Tho locent ���ppoiatment by a MidLuid authority oi 'a lady as medical officer brought a pro teat 'against women becoming, medical man;' which reminds ono of the conven 'lag of a meeting of 'women of every [class���regardless of sec or condition.' Su ,Francis Soott, who conraanded the lata' ��xp��ditioa in Ashantee, in subsequently 'reviewing his troops, said that, 'if there easily, broke the Silence once more. "My dear good friend," he gasped, "What is this abominable smell?" "Acetylene," rej'oined Mr. Wardle afc- ruptly. "Something gone wrong .with the lamp. Look out, shaip corner here-^ and now we go downhill. Sit tight!" .. But to comply with this direction was impossible. Mr. Pickwick was thrown up and down in his seat like a code, IS IN LINE s*ii i v (had ta an any fighting there would hav�� **** goggles were jei ked from his nose, foean many absent faces hero to-day.' hia cap blown'like a feather'towarda the -day.' -Thi* reminds ono of the scantily attended meeting at which we heard the chair. stean say, T am sorry to see so many absent faces here.'" ' A Pullman to Whitechapel. There are many stories in circulation regarding Mr. Albert Chevalier, tha coster comedian, but the best of all is an absolutely true one which he himself tells, says "M A. P." He was ���to use a professional phrase���"working two turns." There was no time to spare between the engagements.and "Chivvy" used to run across to Edg- ware Road station in his war paint, cut-away coat, bell-bottomed trousers, pearlies, rakish hat, and red handkerchief included One night he bustled to the booking office, put down his money and asked for a "first-class to Hammersmith " Standing close by was a leal, genuine coster, whose attire was almost as picturesque as that of the actor. With amazed eyes ho followed the movements of Chevalier, admired his "get-up," and was on the point of striking up an acquaintance with a seeming "pal" when he heard Chevalier ask for his ticket. "What ?" cried the real coster ; "that cove wants a fuBt-class to 'Ammersmiff ? 'Eie, matey, give me a Pullman to Whitechapel I" sky/his whole body converted into ono tremendous bruise. ��� '^Ah, we're moving now," cried Mr. Wardle exultingly���and indeed tlhey were moving. Pields, hedges and trees seemed to rush from them with the velocity of a whirlwind. Suddenly Mr. Pickwick exclaimed with breathless eagerness: "Here they are I" Yes, a few hundred yards ahead of them was a motor, on which the well- known form of Jingle was plainly discernible. It was traveling quite slowly, and Mr. Warale increased his speed yet further with a shout of triumph. "We have them, Pickwick, wo have them I" he cried, while tho car flew like a streak of lightning. And then suddenly���a foump���a crash���and Mr. Wardle and Mr. Pickwick found themselves seated in the middle of'tlie road, which waa shewn with fragments of their machine. Two members of the constabulary were coiling up a rope which, stietched acios3 the highway, had pioeuied their downfall. A third pobceman licked his pencil, and produced a notebook. "Thought our iop" would spoil your little game Thirty s \cn miles an houi, I make it Names and addiesses, please?" Jingle's car had stopped a short way ahead. "Ta-ta, Pickwick," he shouted, "good-bye, Wardle���measuicd mile��� scorching a mistake���police waiting ��� twigged 'em dneotly��� slowed down. If lucky���option of fine���piobably imprisonment. Well, so long!" and restarting his machine( he disappeared.���"Punch." play." I heard a fiddle being tuned, and then from a back room of that disreput able restaurant came music. Ah! that was music indeed: music to live for, music almost to die for. 1 <��� When it ceased my friend arose wear ily, and, placing the amount of the bill on the table, turned towards the door "Come," he said; "let us go." "Well," I said when we were in tihe alley, "I must compliment you ooi yoiu discovery." Van Amiberg laughed. "What have you had for dinner?" he asked. I enumerated the courses and he laughed again. Then he said. "You won't be aa gry if I tell you something?" "Perhaps not���������go on." "Well, that dinner was all a| faket al) those wonderful oourses were simply dry bread and cold water. Do you think J could have eaten those things? I at�� them in my imagination whilst my body ate bread. Ilagnevs is a hypnotist; hii guests are hypnotized. At his places on�� can eat and drink anything and enjoy It without harm to oneself���tho fat man can revel in sugar, the man with indigestion ��m eat poik. Is not that the great- eat discovery of the age?" "But ho did nob hypnotise me; he did not touch me." "Do tho Indian fakirs touch th�� Geo. CChalker Tells What Dodd's Kidney Pills did for Him. Took Him from his Bed, made him a Weil Man, Able and Witling to do a Fair Day's Work. Housey's Rapids, Ont, March 16 ��� (Special )���As every city, town and village in Canada seems to be giving its evidence as to the wonderful cures resulting from Dodd's Kidney Pills;, there is no reason Housey's Rapids should not be m line People here have Kidney troubles just the as elsewhere, and like others have used Dodd's Kidney Pills been cured. - On&Aif the most remarkable cures as that of Geo. C Chalker. He say&. "I am cured of my Kidney Complaint. I have no doubt about it in the least I weigh ten pounds more than I did fourteen months ago, can do a fair day's work every day and I am clear ^u ^^ of my old enemy, lame back, heavy crowds they hypno"ti2;e,"'the crowds thai achin�� arms, dull bloated eyes���yes, same they" and l! ! Satan to Blame. "Lightajsg knotted thj^nwjh jgaaplo watch them climbing ladders that hang with no support in the air and stabbing children in wicker baskets?" "But the violin playei ?" "Oh! he is an old fellow Ilagnevs geti in for eighteenpence and a glass of grog: he plays the tune the old cow died of, and undei the spell of hypnotism it becomes the music of the spheres." As he aiid this he suddenly vanished tho sticefc collapsed and I woke up in my aimchoir by the fire just as my land lady entered the room bearing tlie hash It was a dream���not the hash, but th< dinner at Ilagnevs'���and I thmk it wa( caused partly by "Tnlby," which I had just been lc-reading, foi when I examini the name "Ilagnevs" it seems very much like "Svengali" spelt backwards It was a dream, but when one think* over the matter there seems a good deal ia that dream. I have seen men mesmerized and mad< to believe that they are eating pineapph it is all gone, purged out by Dodd's Kidnev Pills. "No one can reall7C the relief except those who have been through it all I was so bad I could not work , hard, hut was compelled to make a living My head felt so bad that my ' eyes would seem to float I felt tired all the tune, my arms felt useless at times and so very heavy At last I was laid up and could do no work "Then I was induced lo try Dodd's Kidney Pills and you sec the result. It only took six boxes to cure me completely " And Mr Chalker is only one ol many, in'this neighborhood who charge their good health up to Dodd's Kidney Pills, i^-j . ..">' _ii^;t^v^��^^^ s^s .���.���,.���.,.. ����� = - -i,'". ATLIN B:C.,'r SATURDAY, APRIL , i8, 1903. i:> 0' {���j '�� n % lit PS & ,' its * Iff IS" ill is �����$! if J A - ' 'i > - -i -? 1 i PICKED UP HERE AND THERE. Mr. A. S. Cross had the pleasing intelligence some clays ago that he has been elevated to the venerable position of a Grandpa, through the birth of a son and heir to Mr. and Mrs. Dalto'n Rorkc, of Atlin, but who are now sojourning in Vancouver. _, . ��� The new tariff of the \V. P. & Y. Co. has been completed,' but the terms will not be made public for some days. For the first time in the history of the Noith has whisky been sold for "a, bit" a diink, yet such,is the means adopted by Mr. Ii. P. Queen, of the Leland Hotel, to sell out his large stock of "wet goods." - ' FOUND ��� A Lady's Fur Boa. 'Owner can have same by pioving > property*:-and paying for this advertisement. 7���Apply at The Claim Office.- , - A Mass Meetiug has been called by Mr. W. B. Comoy, to, be held at the Nugget Hall, tonight, .. Tom , Kirkiand, who has been spending the winter with his relatives .in the East, returned last 1 Friday, accompanied by F. Mc- "_ Giuuis, late of the B. Y. N. Co. Sixty-five cents per pair Ladies' Miss.es' and Boys' Rubbers' at * Blackett & Co.'s Dr. Carroll of Vancouver has ap- ' plied to the Government for a water concession in Atlin. ^ Fresh stock of Imported and Domestic Cigars at C, R. 'Bourne's. , Invitations weie received -this week for the wedding of Mr. N. C. Wheeling,' which took place on Saturday - last. ' -Mr.' and Mrs. Wheeling will return to Atliii early next month. . , Oranges, Lemons and Apples��� McDonald's Grocery. We regret to learn that Messrs. Blackett & Co. have decided to close out their business, just on the eve of prosperous times. The public, however, will derive the benefit of this decision, and we would call special attention to" their add appearing in these columns, for there will be bargains which are worth taking advantage'of. The first of the season's crop of oranges at E. L- Pillman & Co.'s. M. R. Jamieson, of the Nugget Hotel, Discovery, has returned from New South Wales, and is in Victoria, en route to Atlin. Famous Moo-iehead Brand, Oil tan Shoe Packs, just arrived at Blackett & Co.'s. We regret to announce the sudden death of Mr. C. H. DeWitt, which occurred at the Parker Hospital, New York, on Tuesday last. Mr. DeWitt leaves a widow and a large family to mourn him. The sympathy of this community goes out to them in their heavy bereavement. There is more solid comfort in a cup of Blue Ribbon Tea than iu a gallon of most beverages. New Stock of Garden and Flower Seeds at C. R. Bourne's. Captain Lawrence, of the Scotia, was in town this week on business connected with the White Pass Company. For a good square, meal go to the Pioneer Bakery and Restaurant. The Rev. Father J. ,M. McGuck- ii', O.M.I., D.D.', a pioneer of the Piovince, and parish -priest of the Catholic Chinch of , Vancouver, died suddenly on the 6th'hist in that city. , ' j <~ Dave Hastie took over the Grand Hotel yesterday. Jie will give the business his personal attention in every way, and his talents as a hotel-man are so well known that "further comment is unnecessaiy." Full line of Wall Paper at E. L. Pillman & Co.'s ' '\ The miueis of the district should very carefully consider their position befoie they decide against the Mining Association. ��������� > ., - , George Fiuclloy has taken over Hinchcliffe's Hotel;at .Taku. Mi. and Mrs. HinchclifTe will be associ- ated with Ed. Sands invthe Pine Tree Hotel, Discovery. > Men, get to work.���Overalls and boots you can get from Fraser & Co. Over 'iso hydraulic leases have been cancelled this week in the district.���A good time for a " foot race." - ' .,,'_;- 1 1 Blue Ribbon Coffee as absolutely , 1 pure.���It,is sold in all the stores'in Atlin ' ,-.'.-., Spring Cleaning-^Get 'ypunWall Paper aud House Lining from J. A. Fraser & Co. Let your Light so���shine.���Use Eocene Co��l ,Oil. Donald's Grocery - . A New. Hotel.. CI We are ' jgoing - out of -Business. " Our, 1 ��� ' "Stock niust , be , sold by' .the- opening, of .navigation.. ��� We " have a ,. large' line of Men's' 'Furnishing Goods,- including, ,' -j ,' MEN'S, UNDERWEAR, ,' ��� .FEDORA HATS .-/''STETSON FINE- SHOES, -in different weights, GOODS, ; BLANKETS, ' Etc., All of which can be- bought below, cost. BON'T OVERLOOK THIS ^ ' ,' ' ' -. '��� ' Come,and look around. ,, You will surely see something ��� ��� , you need and on which you', will'save-money," ' ' .��� ��� 'BLACKETT.":& .CO. ,. OVERSHIRTS, HATS; DRY ' Etc., Russell Hot el, DIXON BROTHERS, ��� ��*����� Proprietors 1 ' , 1 - ' . V - " Pool &'' Billiards; ' Free. /, l '' Freighting and Teaming., , ��j**\- Horses and Sleighs for Hire. For^sale at Mc- < The vvoJk of re-inodelling- tlie Gold - Pan Inn, at Discovery, is about to be commenced for the new owner, Mr. W. A. "Anderson, late of 'Caribou. The improvements contemplated will make of the Balmoral��� by. which name it will henceforth be known���a first class, up-to-date hotel. Mr. Anderson is one of the pioneers of the district, and is well known and highly respected by the community.^ By strict 'attention to business he is sure to get , his, full share of the trade. , .��� Uancouv e r Sen e r a I $ t ore, ftv Dealefs; in - Provisions, Dry Goods- Etc.", ^ - A. S. Cross & Co. >> DRINK THE BEST "NAB OB;T E A, 99 In Lead Packets ol yz-ii> and i-lb each. ' , . > . For Sale by all First Class Grocers. KELLY. DOUGLAS & Co..' Wholesale Grocers,-Vancouver, B.C A Booo to the Thirsty! Brinks, 2 for a Quarter. The Rise and Fall. The lowest temperature recorded for the week ending 17th inst, is as follows : April ix . 15 above ,12 28 , .13 ��� ,23- . �� H , ��� 9- - , ,15 _ * * 22 , ,16 " . 28 ' , , 17 '��� 12 , J^r Commencing*Monday, April 20th, I will cut prices 011 all,my goods at the LELAND HOTEL/ I have "a large stock of First Cass Goods and intend to dispose of them at Cost. This is-strictly a Closing Out Sale: Goods must be disposed ,of by July ist. Hotel Building for Sale���No Reasonable Offer Refused. ��� - ' . , E. P. Queen, , A BUGBEAR. Continued from page 1. tion at all, it can be readily presumed that it will not be pas��ed in its entirety, but that the last clause, which practically annuls all the good of the first part of the section, will'be withdrawn or at least modified to exclude all other than the alluvial rights. The miners of Atlin may depend upon it that those representatives who are< remodelling the mining laws, will permit no such pernicious I sections a3 the above to pass. Hydraulic Plant FOR SALE���AT A BARGAIN��� A complete hydraulic < plant, consisting of: 260 ft., 18 in. steel pipe 684 , 14 , 821 , liyi , 600 ', 10 , , 1 reducer, 22 to 18 inch 1 do 18 to 14 inch 1 do nj^ to 10 inch 1 18-inch elbow 1 14-inch , 1 nj^-in. , 2 6-inch monitors 1 n-inch water gate, Etc., Etc. The plant has been in use, but is guaranteed ia first class condition. For terms, etc., F.O.B. cars, call or write this Office. Northern Lumber Go. Prices >for the^Season 190S.' "v'Rbiugh,'"up to 8 inches, $35. .Ci do do 10 ,, 40. do do 12 ,, "45. Matched Lumber, $45. i Surfacing, $5.00 per 1000 feet. -ALASKA ROUTE SAIL1NGS- The following Sailings are announced for the month of March, leaving Skagway at 6 p.m., or ou arrival of the train : Princess May, April, 7, 17 & 27 For further information, apply or write to H. B. Dunn, Agent, Skagway, Alaska. * U n i 31 -41 is 1 m s*3 skVf **- - lit m . 1111.1U niLuuM UM�� HMMlJlMUIMlUUIiSmjmjU^'jj
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