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BC Historical Newspapers
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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* i-.. - *��� >* VOL. S. ATLIN, li. C, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 190; NO. 19S. Contracts to Be Let For the Mail Service To Atlin From tho Railroad���Two Separate Contracts for'Sum- mer and Winter Services. Circulars have been senl out from Ottawa calling for bids for carrying the Yukon . and' Atlin mails, summer and winter. Separate contracts are lo be1-let for the services during the two seasons. Tenders for the services will'be received at'Ottawa up till noon of ��� May 22nd. The Atlin service calls for 700-pounds per week each way, and the contract about to be let' will continue in force for a term not exceeding four years ; the Postmaster-General reserving the right to terminate the .contract at any time previous' to the expiration of the four years should- the public interest, in his opinion, require it, upon giving the contractor three month's previous notice- of his intention. All expenses on the route for tolls; . ferries,'etc., must'.be defrayed by the contractor. Each tender must state the price asked per annum in, words at' length,"-and to be accompanied by the written guarantee of two responsible parties, undertaking that, iu the event of the tender being accepted, the contract shall be duly executed by the party tendering for the price demanded; undertaking also to become bound with the contractor in the sum of $1000 for the due performance of the service. For the winter services the contractor has to provide suitable sleighs drawn by horses or dogs as circumstances will admit of, and will be required to erect and maintain suitable stations along the route, and he will also be required to provide for the defense of the mail whilst en route from the weather or from any other cause of injury aud from dangers of every kind. The present contract, with the Canadian Development Company, expires early this summer, and the new contracts will virtually ��� come into effect upon the acceptance of tenders. An Extraordinary Meeting. An extraordinary meeting of the Pine Creek Flume Co., Ltd., was held in Vancouver 011 Tuesday last for the purpose of considering and, if thong'11 fit, passing a resolution authorizing the Directors to raise a sum o'f< money, by the issue of preference shares or otherwise; aud to receive and" consider the annual .statements of accounts ancl balance sheets ; to elect Directors and other oflicers. R. W. Queen is Secretary of the Company. America's Cup Defender. Special attention is called to the advertisement of the hydraulic plant for sale. This plant can be bought and landed in Atlin for less than half its original cost.���It is an opportunity of a life-time. A. F. & A. M.���Notice to all sojourning brethern-���A meeting for mutual benefit will be held on 1st Thursday in each month in the A. O. U. W. Hall,, Atlin, B. C, to which all brethren in good standing are cordially invited. The Reliance, lhe new yacht which has been constructed for the defence of the'International oup, was launched from the Herreshoff works, Bristol, R,L, on theiith ulto. She is the sixth-yacht which this firm has built for America's defence. . Three of these have defeated the British challenger, while two did not prove on their trials sufficiently reliable to warrant their selection for, the honor. Sir Oliver Mowat's Successor. ' Mr. W. Mortimer Clark, K.C., has been appointed Lieut.-Governor of Ontario, succeeding the late Sir Oliver Mowat. He is a citizen of the highest standing, aud prominent in church circles. The Best on Record. From Mr. Fielding's budget 'speech,'delivered before the Dominion House on the t5tli"ulto, he predicts that the surplus "of revenue over expenditure for th(e fiscal year, ending June 30th, will be $13,350,- 000, which will be the largest in the history of the Dominion. . Estimates. In the Proviuciul Estimates recently brought down, the sum of $1000 is set apait for the Discovery lock-up and the suni.of $20,000 for "maintenance and repairs "'-'in the Cassiar district. No detailed statement is given,' so it is impossible to say what proportion of that sum is available for Atlin. Those Cy&toms9 No Very Radical Alterations to Take Place ��� A Suggestion of the .Finance Minister. NEW SCHEDULE White Pass Tariff For 1903 Just Issued. Shows a Reduction all Round of From Ten to Twenty-five per Cent. '��� Two weeks ago a telegram over the-signature of Mr. W. J. Robinson, of Philadelphia, was pubished in these columns, announcing that mining machinery would be admitted into Canada free of duty. <��� From more recent advice it is learned that it 'is very likely that Mr. Fielding's suggestions, which were made in his Budget speech, some days ago, as to tariff changes, will probably become law before the House prorogues. The proposed change, as regards mining machinery, so far as our information goes, is simply an amplification of certain customs-regulations alread}' in force. The new clause reads: "That machinery and appliances of a kind not made ��� in Canada, for exclusive use in alluvial gold mining, be added to the Free List until June 30th, 1904." ; Prepared For Burial. Word was received early this week that the body of Joseph Abey, one of the unfortunate mail carriers, who lost his life in the discharge of his duty, on November 30th last, had been found within a few feet from the spot where the sled and dogs were found some days after the accident. Constable Owen and Undertaker Pillmau were at once sent out to bring the body to Atlin. Judging from the condition oi the body, Abey died from exposure, not by drowning. The head ancl shoulders were frozen into the ice, while the lower part was under the water. His body was found about 20 feet from the. shore a The Government Agent telegraphed to Abey's relatives at Chater, Manitoba, as to their wishes for the disposition of Joe Abey's remains. Word was received 011 Thursday night to have the body embalmed ancl shipped at the earliest moment. E. L- Pillmau is in charge of these arrangements and it is expected that the remains will be sent out via Caribou early next week. An Important Memorial. The members of the Executive *. Committee of the B. C. Mining As-: sociatiou met iu Victoria on the 20th and 23rd ultos for the purpose of drafting a memorial to the Government urging certain changes of the mining laws. This presentation, it is said, will probably be the most important to be made to the Government this session and is the result of the very profitable convention which was held in Victoria some time ago. New Stock of Garden and Flower Seeds at C. R. Bourne's. The following changes are effective , in the shipment of goods to Dawson over the White Pass route: As in last year's tariff there are three classes in that just issued, viz.; A, Band C. A carload is reckoned as 20,000 pounds aud over. Last 'year's rate to Dawson for less than carload lots ou classes A,. B and.C, were respectively, $4, $^- .50 and $5.50; this year, on the same classes, the}' are respectively, $3.75, $4 and $4.75. Special commodity rates are given on hay, shipments under 7 tons going'at $3.25 per 100 pounds, and over 7 tons at-$2.75 per 100 pounds. Oats and feed, under 10 tons, $3, and over 10 tons, $2.50. The same special commodity tariff is furthermore divided into-six groups for convenience of classification-.1 Group t, cotisijf-ii^g of.flour,. rice, salt, sugar, canned goods and such staples, is rated at $2.75 in carload lots. Groups i\ 3 and 4, consisting of groceries, are awarded substantial .reductions below class A rates (under which the}' usually appear) when shipped in carload lots. Groups 5 and 6 are hardware and such like, and are given rates at from $2.60 to $2.75 per 100 lbs in carload lots. These special commodity' rates- expire on August 31st, 1903, unless sooner revoked ancl "class rates apply from that time te the close of navigation. No through bills of lading will be issued after August 31st and none before May 15th. All rates are on a weight basis. The tariffs to Atlin show a similarly substantial reduction. It also enjoys the advantage of special commodity rates on carload lots. The-new Classification Lists and tariff sheets have not been received here yet, but they should be to hand at an early dale. Alaska's Wireless Telegraph An extensive system of wireless telegraphy is now being put in operation by the American De Forrest Wireless Telegraph Co. on the, Pacific coast. There will be seven stations. The first at Cape Flattery���which is already under construction���and the others girdling the coast of the most northerly possessions of the United States and the Orient, at the following points: Dutch Harbor, Cape Nome, Kamtchatka peninsula, Yokohama Hongkong aud Manilla. iwnwammnmuaimm M^MM^<-M^^WW*tl^^VH��U(rt^^ttl^ '.. ��*/�����? si/ vfcJEJKw fi�� IHRIOPft'Itf AND HIS MONEY. HoWH.0. Wlilli'. jm'itor Faith Jkkt��hl>y-Uirinii Church, New ' York. Pur (lu love of money is the root of tit *��U t which, wliile some coveted tllift limy have erred from the faith, Um) filmed flicmsrlves through with WM��y iM>tiow��,���i Timothy, vi., 10. <Ttt�� ��l��er, tin1 man who loves money tor IU��il alone, is iu this age and land �� n*K^tllUc *|tmtitlly ; but the man who Wv��l ��*J jkocki money for what it can 10 lof hint In much in evidence. It 11 |m tfbU form of covctousness that Fau��t tjJoiir eye: saw the source of so �����a��y ���orrown. Money is good���a 1 le<c����ury I'lonsi'ng. JJut tlic way in whkh vwy many Uve and seek and Mf iiionoy in a curse to themselves and lo everybody else. " Man loveu power. Money confers tower. The possession of enough of , confers the power to acquire and cn- |oy uIimo-h anything, except personal worth, which the heart may desire. Here lies its danger. It gives the power to furnish the necessities, comforts and luxuries of life, not only, but lo indulge every appetite and'passion , with the promise of escape from some Df th* natural consequences. The Imall gambler goes to Sing Sing, while ihe rich gambler 'goes to London ; ���/Inch is but typical of a thousand ' Dther ways in which the possession of plenty of money, however acquired, appears * to confer power and pleasure. How them shall a young man; with a Sic lo make or mar, regard the getting ind the using of this wonderful medium of power ? I. He ought to have some of it Ifoung man, the world does not owe fou a living. The only thing it owes rou is a fair chance to make something of yourself and make a living for Boursclf. On tae other hand, you owe le world something. If you think it pwes you somnthing, remember that It owes the same to every-other man, ��� and thus a part of the debt is yours. ( Jfou owe to the world, first, a contribution of personal worth and character. ray it And you owe to the world llso your own support. That means' rou must have money in some form. sou do not need to be rich, though you 1, may be, without shame, but you ought ��� *-with a great big ought���to acquire mo ugh good money to support yourself ind those naturally dependent upon rou. a. How shall you get it ? Not dis*-- lonestly. Honesty is not only good policy, but it is infinitely more. Hon- isty is riaht. He who departs from nonesty for money sells himself for the money sought������usually a pitiably ���mail pries. He has proved how baa* be ia, and has still .further defeased himself besides. Get your BJOftt-r honorably, or do not get it at ftD." Work tor it. The world has not R-utgrown the curse (or blessing) pro- Bouaced ia Eden. You have no right lo expect money, you do not deserve noricy, you are not fit to use money ontil yeu have earned it by braia or brawn, or both., 9. How shall you use it ? Do not Irlft into any way of using it. You Bay drift along fairly well for somo lime, but_ there is a shore somewhere, ���nd drifting almost invariably ends in Stranding. The world is strewn with lhe wrecks of stranded drifters. With- Eut being miserly, determine definitely ow, when and where your money shall go, and insist that it shall produce results for you. It is most important that you should recognize the religious obligation involved in its" possession. Jfou are God-kept, and all you get is In a sense God-given. Thus you are responsible to God for its use. This Dbhgation, which should be of first importance to you, agrees with and is reinforced by the ordinary considerations of wisdom -and morals and the fundamental requisites of business success. Jly this, and by all of these, wasting money is vicious. Debt is often - Df doubtful morality, if not worse, and eenerally dangeious. Gambling, in any form, is wrong, demorali/.ing, abomin- ible. Money spent for intoxicants of ��ny sort to vice itself adds worse than waste. Money spent on vanity makes return in impoverished character .-ind lessened chance of future success. Dress according to your income, never is some other fellow docs. Thousands of young men arc worth to 'the world little moie than lav figures for lhc display of haberdashery. They are saying no money, are letting slip their life chance and grow ever'more shallow in character. Don't ! Under the same principle fecogniVe irour responsibility to others. " No pan livcth unto himself alone." Money ��� Is not only power for yourself, but power for the world, and I think 1 am not wrong when I assure you that those who have made, not the most money, but the most out of money.are those who have most truly blessed the world with their money. Be sure lhat, other things being equal, the most selfish are the most miserable. Figure that into your expense account. 4. The limit ��f its power. There Is one thing: which money, even tha best money,' cannot buy���peace with God and eternal life. No amount of money or of good works done with . paney can geecre this. The only ���egal tentTer here is faith ia, Jesus, the Christ, which includes by virtue of its nature, its open acknowledgment, and 1 sincere effort to live by His prin- :iples. With all ypur getting of noney, wisdom, honor, power and pleasure do not provide thr* final and Sternal failure of your life by peimit- jing yourself to enter the piescnce of God not ha-ving Christ as your Friend, tou may leave behind you more mil- ions than you ever heard of ancl yet fo before the bar of God in poverty, nore pitiable and hopeless than that ��f the poorest tramp who wcr walked Ihe streets. "With all thy yetting, get inderstanding," and provide for tho nost important issues of life first. - For the Farmer. Two pounds each of cornmeal, cottonseed-meal and glutenmeal, ie pounds of corn ensilage, and as much timothy hay as they want, is recem- nended by the Maine Station as a satisfactory ration for milch cows, to be fed twice a day. Many farmers vould , doubtless prefer , to substitute bran for cottonseed-meal. The breed of cows the dairyman ihould choose depends on the line of work he purposes "to follow. If sale milk is to be his specialty he wants the deep milkcr3. If butter,' he wants the butter producers regardless of the quantity of milk. . If money is what he Is dairying for, then he wants the breed that in his particular line of effort will return him the most of it. ime^ which is in the finest possible1 :ondition, ,and is also' produced from /egetable matter ; that is, 'unlike stone inie, it has been used in the growth - if plants and'returned for use again in he wood ashes. But the objection to Duying lime in wood ashes is that in such form it is costly,' for if a ton of rvood .ashes cost $10, and the value of :he potash and phosphoric acid is ��650, as stated, the 650 pounds of lime would cost the farmer $3 50, ancl, as ae can buy stone, lime much cheaper, ie will not be benefited correspondent- ly by purchasing ashes in -order to pro- :ure the lime. Lime sells at from 50 :cnts to $1 per barrel, the cost of the duic lime being 31 1-2 cents'per ico pounds when hine<is 75 cents per barrel, while the cost of transportation ���nay be bat a small.sunvif the lime can De procured Hear the farm. Ashes :ontain all the mineral elements of the woods from which they' are derived, which includes' also soda, magnesia, -"silica, etc., but the nitrogenous matter Is eliminated during the burning-of the, wood. Vomers who desire tot,use ashes wB probably find them profitable H the price does not -exceed $7 per ton for unleached, but some lots' may be worth more. Fruit growers have a-preference for'akhes, as they serve to neutralize the acids of the soil when vepcLible mat'er is ploughed under, and for clover, peas, etc.,, ashes ire also * excellent.���Philadelphia- Re- 'cord.' ' ���* ��� The1 .Connecticut /Agricultural Station, Mr. E. II. Jcnkins.'-.directO'-, New- haven, Conn., has issued a neat spraying calendar, containing not only the almanac, for the year, but formulas for insecticides and fungicides. It should prove most valuable, as, in addition to giving the methods of preparing the various'sprays, it explains to what kind of crops each is applicable. x Wood Ashes on Tanas. .Wood ashes have been known for nany years as excellent for all kinds >f crops. Long 'before fertilizers yere placed upon the market wood ash- ;s were .highly esteemed by farmers, and if they can be had 'at, fair prices, on guarantee, they sell readily. But ash- teVary greatly, those from hardwoods Jeing more valuable than the ashes orom soft wood, and yet it is difficult .'o decide upon the value of ashes even when the kind of* wood is kno.vn. The ingredient sought in ashes is pot- ' rash. ' Hickory ashes contain as high ��s 9.17. per cent; red oak,* 5.75 per rent; rock elm, 6,30; .walnut, 4.65; ,:herry, 5:82; 'quince, 6.30; pear, 9.70 ; butternut, 3.9S; plum, 4.80, and peach, 46.95. The cuttings of grapevines produce ashes that are exceedingly rich in potash, containing 12.20 per cent., while the pear tree, as may be noticed, produces more potash in its ashes than floes hickory. These fact3 make the purchase of (wood ashes a matter of uncertainty, so far as the actual value to the farmer is concerned, for unless lie is informed of the kind of wood irom which tliey are made he, will hava lo knowledge of the amount of pot- ish they contain. Should he pur- :hase butternut tree ashes he will not jet one-half as much potash as from iickory ashes, while ashes from old wees, young shoots, limbs, trunks and branches differ, even ' from the same tree. The bags ���bntaining a lot of ashes will also trary in percentage of potash, while he will also find it very difficult to distinguish leached front: unleached ashes. Then, again, the weight of ashes depends largely upon the humidity of tho atmosphere. ~If purchased when the weather is damp thero will be more moisture in the ashes than during dry jveather, as they quickly absorb mois- ;ure. Analysis of ashes shows that different lots vary greatly. Potash alone- does not gire ralue to 'ashes as they contain phosphoric acid and lime. The recognized average for jnleached ashe3 is 5 per cent, of potash, 1 1-2 per cent, of phosphoric acid and 3a 1-3 per cent, of lime. A ton of ashes, therefore, contains 100 pounds oi potash (worth about $5), 30 pounds Df phosphoric acid (worth about $1.50), and 650 pounds of lime. The value of the ashes depends upon the potash and phosphoric acid, the total being, $6.50^ as ,the lime is given no value in fertilizers that are purchased as such, yet It really has a .value, which is the same as the market value for stone lime. The proportions" of phosphoric acid and lime also vary according to the kind of ashes, but owing to their bulk for shipment, and the fact that they are some- limes leachod before put upon the mar- tet, the price of ashes is frequently much greater than their actual value to lhe farmer. Every farmer, however, ihould carefully save all the ashe3 wade from wood on the farm. Coal ishes have little or no value as fertilizers. Corncobs, the cuttings from fines and trees,, and even dead weeds, nake ashes which are rich in potash, but the ashes should be kept under ihelter and not allowed to become wet, as they are more easily applied on the 'and when in a perfectly dry condition. If mixed with 'barnyard man- are they cause loss of ammonia from ;he heap, but ashes and manure i��iay ie applied on land at the same time and worked into the soil. Potash in ash- js is in a pure, uncombined state, very ���austic, and at once exerts a chemical md mechanical effect on the soiI,while ,hat in fertilizers is combined as a 'salt," with acids, of which about one-' lalf only is pure potash. As there are about 600 pounds of ime in a ton of wood ashes, it is apparent that some of the benefits imparted to land by ashes is through the The Sultan's'Army. ��� Public Opinion publishes the following condensed translatie-a of an article ��vhich recently appeared in1 The Figaro, Paris:���We should enlighten those,who leem to think that the mobilization of 240,000 men is a considerable step for Turkey. The fact'of the matter is that at present the, Turkish army could muster twenty classes, each containing 35,000 men, which, by allowing a large percentage' for loss, makes a mass of about 1,500,000 men. ��� Thus, in giving the order to mobilize 240,000, the Sul- *an only places the seventh part of his army in motion. The figure of 240,000 tnen does not represent .even one-half of the force that Turkey, by calling upon all of thereserves,' could place in Macedonia alone. ^ - ' , For clearness of demonstration it is necessary to (state that the Turkish army is composed (1) of. the corps of the regular army, the-'strength_ of which depends on whether or not it is in a state of mobilization, - that is, whether it is on a war or peace footing; (2) ofithe divisions of the reserve corresponding to the corps of the regular army; (3) of the battalions of milita, also corresponding to the corps of the regular army, and (4) of the .excess from the first-two'classes," from "which there ar'e.formed'cQmplementary battalions. , s - The second corps of the army, with av base at Adrianople,' and the third, with a base at Monastir, are, because of their strategic positions, the strongest of the Ottoman army, the number of men being greater than in the other corps. They comprise different" bodies of troops taken from other military subdivisions, the second corps of the active army being composed on a war footing as follows: Infantry���Two divisions, comprls- inc 33 battalions; also two batta- lions ot cavalry, of tOO mon each. 30,600 Cavalry���One division, comprising 30 squadrons of 153 men each 4,599 Fiel* Artillery ��� Three brigades. comprising* 41 fcattallona. of 149 men each �����"��� Fertiflcatton Artillery���Three batta- 1 lions, of 10 companies, ot 250 men eaoh ������������ 2'500 Howitzers���Ono, regiment, comprls- ��� ln*r six batteries, of 140 men each. 84* Engineers���Feur ������mpa.nles, of 200 men each ..s S"0 Baggaee���Six companies, of 150 men each 9���� [ _ 45,970 Thus the force of this corps on a war footing, but without the reserve, is 45,970 men. The third corps is still larger, including five divisions of infantry and seven regiments of cavalry, as follows: infantry���Five tUvtslons, comprising fit) battalions (alM two ��f cavalry), of S00 men each 73,800 Cavalry���One division, comprising 35 squadrons, of 163 men each 5,355 Field Artillery���Three brfcjadss, com- pristna 66 batUllons, of 140 men eaoh ���-��� s-ul�� Fortlfloation Artillery���Eleven com- panles, of 250 mon each 2,u0 Howitnors���One regiment, containing six batteries, of 140 mon each.... 810 Engineers���Four companies, of 200 men each ��������������� ��� ������ o00 Baggage���Six companies, of 150 men each *1___ 93.GS5 Thus the force of the third corps on a war footing is 93,685 men, which together with that of the second���in both cases without the reserves���is 140,000 men in round numbers. If, now, we consider the reserves, which are formed at the rate of four divisions per corps for the infantry ^of the regular army and four regiments per corps for the cavalry, we have a total reserve for these two corps of 102,400 men, which, added to the figures of the active army, gives a total of 240,- 000 men in round numbers for the regular and reserve forces of the second and third corps���the number which advices from the front tell us were mobilized. These two corps of the Sultan's European army are in reality the very soul of the Turkish military establishment, and they are continually���in diverse degrees���in a state of mobilization. The Sultan ordered the mobilization of 240,000 men, that is, he added to the 140,000 men of the active army the 102,000 of the reserves, which is no extraordinary thing from a military standpoint, although it may be from a political. , Curious Bits of Newa, ~ !&.t tha International Congress of Am- 'fricantets Dr. A. 1<\ Oliambenain, iormer- y, of Toronto, described the contiibu- ttpns of t!he Algonquin Indians to tha ipoken and, written Jilnglish of America, tfoi-e .than'130 of our words, he said, lad iliis origin. Among tie more coiu- non of those words 'arc chipmunk,- hick- wry, hominy, mugwump, powwow,' rae- loon, skunk, squash, Tammany, terra- fin, toboggan, totem and woodolmck. *��� I Reoeoit statistics prove tihat tiie Unit- id States po&aeasee the most polyglot areas in tae world. Outside journals mblishod in English, (or American-Eng- ish) it has been ascertained that thero ���Te 743 published, in German, 63 in Swedish, CO in Norwtgian, 39 in Freneli,' (8 in Taeehish, 37 in Italian, 37 in Polish, 17 in Spanish, 10 in Hel/re'w, 10 in Dutch, 12 in Slav, 8 in Ji'innish, ti in 'Portuguese, ("in Lithuanian," 5 in Armenian, 5 ia [Hungarian, 5 in Croatian, 4 in Chinese, 2 in Japanese, 2 in Greek, 2 in Latin, 2 iu Russian, 1 in'Iroquois/nnd one-hi Gaelic. Babel must take second place, to, this. . It may be doubted whether the dictates, of fashion 'hav* ever led to anything mora cruel and repulsive than the practice described -in > a French medical publication as the one oUopted to pro* mro those sinister-looking,animals whose ierce and hideous attitudes tire lepro- luced iu ' the. jewelry, worn to-day by fashionable 'TPaiisian beauties. The artist who .piovide's , thcioe morbid'designs lives in a village near Paris, and in different cages keeps cats, rats unci ninny Dbliw animals'*whom he ulowly, starves to doaUi. 'Though ho lives among his riofcims, 'tlio arlL>t has grown callous Lo kliair cries,'and as the-wretched animals 1 Zivrifcho in their agony he gets'the horrible, and fantastic forms he desires ioi- blio jewelry destined to adorn ihe beautiful women of tk�� I'Yenoh capital., ������A telopftione church service, whoieby hundreds of people can listen to the sev- ricos .while at t'lieir own homos, has intently 'been instituted- in an Indiana town. Those who listen can'distinguish '&v��ry word, and the lcsult is. altogethci Mttisiactory.' "This is lhc futuie of all bixr social services," writes E. P. Powell b "Christian, llegister." "In my own n-ousa my sons frequently play fche violin and oigan for a giouping of a* dozen ox more,families scattered over a radius Kf two or three miles. The music (is heard" as perfectly'in tho mo&t remote .bouse -as,in .tihe nearest. In the same way the women of a circuit have established telephone tea-parLies. At a certain !hour bhey sit down to their 'phones, drink their own tea, and',distribute the gossip." Imagine 'how each one puts in (tn, extra lump of sugar! ' ,. .a The ease of Judge Campbell of yir- ginia, who 'horsewliippcd . tiie Rev. -Mr. Crawford, is again beforethe courts. .One of the witnesses, John L. Lea, described as a leading criminal lawyer of Lynchburg, gave testimony which throws some light upon the peculiar social relations which the duello creates in the South'. On the cross-examination the defendant's counsel, Major Conrad, questioned him as to his personal relations -with Campbell. "I prefer not to go'into that matter," he 'said. "I regret, Mr. Lea, that I am instructed to insist," eaid the major. Then the Lynchburg lawyer answered the quesftion as follows: '"My relations with Judge Campbell have been rather peculiar. Some ten or twelve years ago, during the time of my service as commonwealth's attorney, I,waa forced to shoot and, kjU his father. I waa promptly arrested, promptly tried and promptly ae- quittedhy a judge and jury whose integrity has never been called into question. For months afterward Judge Campbell and I did not speak. Finally Judge Campbell came to me, held out his hand, and said he didn't blame me for what I had done and -that he wished to be fri��nd3. I was placed in an embarrassing position, but, of course, I _ shook hands with him, and since that time we have been friendly in a way.' There was utrer wny intimacy between us." As Business Developed. "But why," askB the lawyer for tihe ���ieifendant of the eminent handwriting expert, "are you so cocksure that your decision on this ohirography is correct t" "Sir," replies the expert with somedig- t��By, "I have 'hod the i's examined by my aoneulting oculist, the p's by my gardener, the <ba by my apiarist, the cV'by a retired ehip captain, the e'a by a tramp that I picked up some tima ago, the h'fl by o globe-trotter who has done England* the j's by a professional bunco- man, the k*fl by a scientific cheese-maker, the g*s 'by the best teamster I could find, the fa by a renowned musician, the l's bv on elevated railway president, the m's by the president of the typographical union, the o's by three shrewd bill- eollcctors, 'the q'a by a Chinese savant, the t's by one of our leading importers, the v's and x's by a committee of bank eaahiers, the w's by a green-apple grower, the y's by a few members of a college faculty, and have relied on my own judgment as to the rest." "Your honor," said the lawyer, "we have no further questions to ask."��� "Judge." Names' of Teas. In 'the Canton dialect, "Pekoe" mean* "white hair," and for this kind of ten the vory youngest leaves of all are gathered, so young that the white down of babyhood ia still upon them���whence t their name. ".Congo" means "labor;" . eonsiderablc trouble and labor are taken la its preparation at Amoy, and these are perpetuated in its name. "Bohea" b named after a range of hilla in Fo- Kien., "Soochong" expresses no sentiments, but a bald fact, being Cantonese for "the small kind." "Hyson" Bigaifie�� "flourishing spring." 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You have the rarest disease of the century. You havo," you lucky dog, a disease that heretofore was thought to be extinct." ���"; . __ i Atkins. Lawrence, in recalling his'ap- |)"carane(;s. with Mary Anderson, when she was a,youthful aspirant for stellar ��� honors in the East, says: "1 was getting 11 littlo stout in those days, even though" I wis a young fellow, and, as Claudo y, Mclno-Ue, I had a vest that 1 had, supplied, with three powerful bucklea in the back. These I would draw as tightly as possible* lo make myself slim. _Oi��o night; I had just finished my description of myi , palace, and knelt down to ts.iy:,'Likcst Uiou the picture, Paulin'eV when suihlen-^ ly n.ll three of the buckles gave -way with a, snap that sot the people in. the or- ;hcslr.i tittering. 'What's ,the matter,. Alkjns?' -Mary Anderson said, in a stage whisper. 'My vest buckles have broken,' [ 'ivnswercd. ",'That's all right,' ehe replied, '1 was afraid it,was your suspenders.' " , , * " ���. ' . ' Tin his autobiography, "Citizen" Gteorge Francis Train says Emerson has had more Influence on his life than any other mam !n the * world., *Here is' his account of now,he met the author' under rather-pe- juliar circumstances": "One day a gentle-' nan, looking like a farmer, came into (tho Dffico and asked to see Mr. Train. I remember'that it-was the fifth of OctobcT, '47. T replied to this question that my name was Train. T mean the old gentleman,' he said. I told him that Colonel lSrain was out of the office at the time,- du�� as I had charge of the ships, I might be flble to attend to his business. But [ added that I-was' extremely busy, as' she 'Washington Irving' was to 30&1 in ��� an hour. 'That is just what-I. am here. - for,' said h"e. T vwant to 'sail on that ' mip; I:want passage-for England.'" "I , told him there was hut one sbatesoom left," and ,th'at he could have both berth* tor the price of ��ner-$75���but that he mist get-aboard in'great haste, as everything was ready, and the ship was waiting for final orders. He said he waa ready, and I "started to fill out a passen- rer slip. *What is your name?' I asked. Ralph Waldo Emeraon,' he replied. Then ae took out of his pocket an old wallet,- with twine wrapped around it four or. ave times, opened it carefully, 'aadi jounted out 975. -I could no*, wait to. lee -whether it was correct, but threw- it1 an the drawer and took him on board.| fcfr. Emerson waa then starting on jhM' famous visit to England, during -wtucbl ae -waa to visit Oarlyle." <b���. ..I ��� ��� Effect of London's Smoke. ' A startling, indictment of Londoa smoke and its disastrous effects upon the health of the metropolis was formulated at the meeting of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society held recently at the Duke of Westminster's Gros- venor House under the presidency of the Duke of Argyll, according to Tbe London Daily Mail. The everlasting pall of smoke habitually robs London of half its due amoHjat of sunlight. The investigations of the Meteorological Society have proved this fact Speakers at a recent meet- , ing declared that smoke clogs the pores of the skin, lacerates the mucous membrane of the lungs, poisons the blo^d, and by reducing the vitality weakeaa the power of self-control, and - drives men to the public houses for the false ��� support of alcohol. Smoke destroys trees and flowers, spoils works of art, fouls food and clothes, and eats away buildings. ' This is the state of things which the Smoke Abatement Society' has been' striving for three years to remedy. It has succeeded in depriving London fogs of their ancient power of stinging the eyes and choking the throat. Sir- William Richmond, R.A., went so far as to aver that the beautiful abnorijaali February weather was largely attributable to the Smoke Abatement Society- Smoke Up. % I i I i IT. [OWXBIUU'MUU] To Set Her Free By Florence Warden Author of "The House in the Marsh," etc, etc -..��.., x enought it wasn't fair, for one thing, that thoy should set upon you and tear you to pieces when you "were not in fault. So I thought I' would break it to; them and get the co ,plosion over by myself. Only I didn't know how had it was going to be. Andl then, I suppose, being only a, woman, I was bursting with my secret, too. So that when Robert made one of his favorite allusions to the happy time we should have when I was married to him; I couldn't help flashing upon him the answer that that was impossible, as I was married already." ' "I can imagine the effeot of such an announcement at Mrs. Bascot's turn, tea- table," laughed Astley. ' Norma smiled a little too. "It was rather funny, though, as you may guess, I wasn't able to see the fun ���f it at the time. Now I come to think of it, thoy were really like a cageful of Uons when the keeper takes their dinner away. Thoy Bparcd neither mo 1101 you, and at last they made me so funous that I ran, away and came here, to givo them time to bottle down." c "You must dino with me," said Astley. "It will be lather fun, wim't it!" And ho looked at hor with a gleam of mischief in his eyes. Norma hcsitatod, and looked pii7/.led nnd t distressed. The complication*), . , brought about by their new relntionslup i n%, ' Mirough much woise things than that, 1 can'assure you, things that would, I really think, make you wonder that you could call your troubles misfortunes at all." ' lie was'serious enough now; and something in his voice thrilled Norma, and made her look at him with eyes full of ahy, sympathetic interest. ' "Really?" whispered she. He smiled a little. ���* 'I've a good mind," said he slowly, "to tell you what they were. But I'm not sure. It might give you a lesson 111 contentment, but, on the other hand, it Hilght pain you, disgust you." '* "Tell BJe," whispered Norma after a pans*, and without raising her eyes. "Well than, I've been mairied before��� unnappny,-" saia Asucy, in a tone wnicn was almost gruff. "Oh!" Tho surprising statement made Norma loolr/up quickly: and then a sense of shame 1 ashed through her heaifc, when she reflected that she had always been so much occupied wilh her own troubles that she hud concerned herself very littlo about the life and circumstances of tins man who had done so much for her' These thoughts and feelings brought the rich color to hcri checks, and a look of sweetness and softness to her great suddenly appealed to her as they had never appealed bofoie. Supposing one of "her uncle's acqiumtances were to hcarvof her dining hcio with Astley Dar- wen, how everybody would talk! What rumors would be set flying about, making it doubtful whether confession or concealment would be best! Even matrimony in a, legistiy office had its claims, its disadvantages Astley, meanwhile, had rung the bell, and, when the waiter appeared, startled Norma by ordering dinner for himself nnd Mis."Darwen. She was confounded Hie moment the man had left the 100m, Aie turned abiuptly to Astley: * "Why did you say that? You ihouldn't have said that," she remonstrated, bieathlessly. "You krow how people talk, especially hei e " "It's piecisoly because I do know how they talk, especially hcie," retoi ted Astley, calmly, "that I couldn't allow my Wife to run the risk of gossip at her expense." ���" r Norma said nothing, but she tiembled ffhere was something more than sliange, loinetlung that almost thrilled her, iti tearing the woids "my wife" applied to herself, by a man. lndifleient as she believed heiself to be to all men, cold, hard, inaccessible, the associations connected with the word were, of couise, too itrong dtor her to hear it unmoved now that by legal right it belonged to her. There was something, too, that touched ���er, as she did not want to be touched in the tone with which Astley at once look upon himself, as of right, tine tareful protection of her good name. Her feelings made her restless and shy. She was glad that the door was at this ^oint burst open by the waiter, who tame to lav more knive3 and forks on astley's table, which -w.is in the coiner taear the fire. ' A��llcy, who always saw the humor- nifl side of things, began to beam ,vvith amusement at the piquancy of this impromptu dinner with his own wife. It was clear that he took a mischievous pleasure in refciung to the tastes of "Mrs. Darwen," m informing the waiter that "Mrs. Darwen" drank claiet, and that "Mrs. Dai wen" would like a footstool. And at last sho threw lnm a reproachful look when the man was out of the room, and told lnm that it was too bad to tease her. "Does it tease yon?'" staid Astley. "Doesn't it rather amuse you too? .1 think this escapade of yours is the greatest fun. And if only your uncle would fling open the door while we weie enjoying our cutlet, I feel that the dramatic ��3- well as the humorous possibilities of life would he exhausted." "Whatever happens to you nothing ever seems able to make you sad or even serious," said Norma with inteiest. They were by this time seated opposite each other at the little table, and Norma was able to examine vwth earnest scrutiny tho face of tba man she had married. A typical Erglish face it was, with an originally fair skin tanned and reddened by the open air and the African tun, with smooth and shining mouse- colored hair, a moustache with a suspicion of gmgei color in it, fairly well cut features, and honest blue eyes. Astley had the fuither attraction of that exceedingly clean, turn look so distinctive of the uppei class Englishman, and par- ticulaily of the aunyiiimn. When he began to return her scrutiny, she looked down on the white table cloth, and tried to think of something to say. Nobody could have complained of any want of earnestness in his tone as ho answeied: "Doesn't it occur to you that I may have gone through experiences so sad and sciious that nothing less than a leal misfoituno can disturb mo? And, whatever cause you may have to look upon our���what shall I call it?���partnership? ���as a misfoitiine, it certainlj doesn't appear in that light to inc." Norma bent her head and blushed. "Of com so," she said gently, "your illness, and being wounded, and all that, weie misfoitunes; but that isn't the sort of thing that eats into one, is it?" "Oh, no," said ho readily. "I don't fisiMti U*j3P6 tilings at all. I've gone Astley met hor eyes, smiled a little, and looked down as he went on: r "Yes. I fell in love with a girl I met one winter, when, I was staying up at my cousin's, the most beautiful girl, I still think, that I ever saw in my life." t , Ho paused, and Norma made an impatient little gesture, urging him to go' on. �� "I don't suppose she ever cared for me much; she married me because it was a good, match for her, though it would have Jbeen a very poor one for* any girl of my own rank. She was the sister of a doctor's wife who lived near Astley Haigh, and it was at the doctor's house I met her. I might have known better than ito marry her, for she was even then trying very hard, as I could not help seeing, to capture my cousin." < "Sir Hugh Darwen?" "Yes. And failing ^in that���for Hugh waa a confirmed bachelor at that time��� she graciously accepted me. You see, I waa a more important person than I am now; for Hugh had declared he never meant to marry, and 111 that case the property and the title would some day nave come to me." "Has he married since then?" "No, but he's, going to, in about ten days from now1.? So 1 look upon it as a foregone conclusion that my chances aie knocked on the head I can't say I caie much " "You never told me all this," said Norma, very much interested. "To think of your having had such an mteiesting career, while I was too much wrapped up in my own little misenes to so much as ask a question about yours!" * Her tone was sinceicly penitent, and there were even tears in her eyes. Astley smiled appreciatively. "Well, well, it's not too late for me to come m for a little of your sympathy now," said he cheeiily. The next moment, however, he again took a moie serious tone. "We got on pictty well��� Lottie and I, till I was oidered abroad. And then 1 heaid little from her, but disquieting news of her fiom othei people. At first I would believe nothing: but at last I got a plain statement of fact on such good authority that I could not hope to deceive myself any^longer." Astley hurried on, with an uneasy fiown on his face: "As soon as I got home I set enquiries on foot, found that the news was only too tiue, and at once caused the divorce papers to be^ served on her at her mother's house at Leamington, where she was then living. You may judge "of my honor when, immediately afterwards, I learnt that she wasi dead." Norma gave a little gasp of horror. "At first I wondered whether it was true; then I resolved to go up there myself, and found it was no-fiction, as I had for'a moment suspected. She was lying in her coffin when I got to her mother's house. "Did you see her?" something prompted Norma to whisper bieathlessly. He shook his head. "No. But it was quite true," he said. In a low voice. "Well, we won't talk any more about it. But now you'll un- deistand better why it is that I can't ace the tragedy 'of small miseries so plainly as you do" Noma was terribly shocked and remorseful. She began to thirlk, as she might indepd have thought before, that ihe had no right to bring fresh anxieties into this man's life. She became uneasy, gentle, almost tearful; and, try as ho would to raise her spirits, .A-tley could get nothing but soft and u iiecatory answers and looks from her until they had finished dinner, and he was seeing her home. She was still oppressed by the fooling that her selfishness had been unexampled, and presently she told him so. He laughed at her fears. "You are selfish!" he admitted simply. "And quite absurdly sensitive and impulsive. But I did what I did with my eyes open, quite willingly. I suppose I was selfish, too, and bent upon getting a new sensation out of life, the sensation of being married to a lady who was not my wife." She was walkiDg beside him, "but not ~i if" i' a bu������~-���' irnn very close: he saw that she ���kiyered' at his word*!. <��� "1���I didn't know That you'd gone through," she stammered hoarsely. "You only said that you weie 'a poor devil'��� that was what you called yourself���who didn't Know how to manage on 'a pitiful pension'������that was what you called it. So���so���" ���'So you were quite justified, and not to blame a bit," add'd Astley choculy. And then silence fell on them both On Astley, because this unburdening of his life's secret had made him thoughtful; on Noima, bce*u-*c she 'began to fancy t'hat the woi'ian whom fain* h. d seen nirthe hotel ccurlyud was'hovci ing about, following the 111 sometimes on the one side of the stieet, and sometime-, oii'thc other. , She could not, however, be sure enough 'of the woman's figure to think it woith ���while to mention her fanc.e^ to Astley: and it was not until he had left hei on her uncle's doorstep, after hei fiat le- fusal to��let him come in and brave the st��rm, that ehe was sure, on seeing the same figure close behind Astley, that the woman whom she had seen in the hotel office had followed them to h'cr.u*icle's house, and was now following Astley back again. 4 ��� < ' ' He had*bees very anxious to come in and "beard the lion in his den," which was the wey he expressed'his intention of encountering the displeasure of Mis Bascot. * But Norma was so passionatelj earnest in her entreaties that ho would not, in her assurances that she would allow him to do so on the morrow, and V * m lhc meantime she would be verv centie and patient and meek, ,that tru had at length given way ifi her wishes. *. "I expect," she shievvdly said/"they will have been so frightened by my disappearance this evening that they will be inclined to 'climb down' a little, and to * make it easiei for me than seemed likely this afternoon." ^ Hor expectations proved to be well ���-founded. Her aunt nnd uncle, realizing that her marriage was an accomplished fact, and that she was now indeed mis tress of her person and her money, had had time to learn the bitter truth that ^heir solicitude haVl overreached itself, and that in trying to force on the girl a distasteful mamage in their own interests, they had but ���'hastened the time when she would emancipate hei self from their control. t , They were heartily thankful to see her back, and both took care to assure her that they were sorry for the manner of their reception of the news of her maT-) riage, ancl anxious foi 'her to remain with Ihem as long as she pleased. For Noima told them that she was quite ready to stay with tliem, if they wished, until Astley's visit to his cousin at Astley ILugh "was over. So the stormy andveventful day ended peacefully, and Norma woke next morning in a very chastened mood, half regretting her hasty acrion m getting married to Astley, and yet at the same time anxious to see him again. He had become a very interesting peisonality since her discovery of his history: she could think of little else. ������_ r And the woman? The myst* '-**>�� woman? Who could sho be? _ CHAPTER VL ' Now Norma was soon to discover that a distinct change had taken place in the attitude of her family towards her since the night before. Then they had been all contrition for their anger and unkmdness on hearing sf her marriageA Now, however, that they recognized more fully*vthe position of ��ffairs, and began, too, to have dim doubts whethei she had not niamed rather to spite them than to please her- Vslf, a reaction was "inevitable. So at reakfast Mr. Bascot was stiff, Mr3. Bascot^was leserved, and Robert y/as irntating and inquisitive. The two gentlemen, to Norma's great relief, had to go away, soon after bieak- fast, to their respective duties; but her aunt was more diflicult to escape from. And when the young girl had settled down to someneedlewoikby the dining- room fire, Mrs. Bascot glided into the room, sat down opposite with a basket of undarned socks, and fastened upon her prey. "Rather an unfortunate circumstance for you, this marriage of Sir Hugn. Astley's, isn't it?" was her first remaik, as Bhe explored a defective heel, and began to draw the sides of a yawning gap together. Norma's face flushed, and she bit her lip, but in a moment she lecovered herself and said: "How���unfortunate for me?" "Oh, my dear girl, surely you know that, at present, Mr. Astley Darwen is the heir to, the baronetcy as well as the property of his cousin but now that Sir Hugh is going to marry, he may very likely have a son to succeed him." "Indeed,"! hope he will," replied Norma quickly. "And I'm suie Astley wishes his cousin eveiy happiness." "Of course, of course, my dear. Still, it's not in human nature to be pleased at losing such brilliant prospects. And I suppose it was this change in his life which made Mr. Dai wen anxious to make a good match." These woids slipped out quite simply, and as if the speaker had no afterthought in her mind. But Norma well undeistood the ill-nature which prompted the speech, and it was with difficulty that she controlled her rising temper. "Was he anxious to make a good match?" she asked quietly. "I didn't know that he was; and yet I think I ought to know as much about his ways of looking at life as anyone heie" "Don't be angry, my dear. Nobody is blaming him. But tell me now, isn't it true that the marriage is a better one for him than for you? From a worldly point of view, of course?" "I tliink it's a good match, as you call it, for both of us," said Noima, with spirit. "I marry a man of excellent family and social position. He marries a woman with a little money, to help to keep the position up I think he is the most chaiming man I ever met; and I suppose he's satisfied with me, or he wouldn't have imairied me." Sfc was ���till with a little eaten of exit breath that Norma uttered those words 'kusband,' 'wife,' 'marriage,' and with a burning eense of the strange position in which she had placed herself. Mis. Bascot laughed a little. "Well, since, aecoiding to you, it was the best possible match for both of you, what reason had you for' keeping the matter so very daik, and for getting mamed at a lcgistry ollice? A thing people don't usually do when oveiytlung is as it should he, and there are no obstacles in the way." , "There were obstacles; at least, there was one," said Norma, readily. "If I had said anything about it, you would have moved heaven and earth to pie- vent my marrying at all." Her aunt's face flushed angrily. "Indeed, you have no right to say any such thing," said she, Uitly. "What reason could'I have had for trying to prcv ent a marriage which, if T am to De- hevc you, is the best possible for both' of you?" > "Oh, you knov/ as well as I do," said Noima, in a low voice. j And Mrs. Bascot, feeling ���that r<the ground * as rather delicate, did not pursue that part of the subject. 1 ' "It's quite true," she said, after a ���hort pause, "that I should have insisted en a decent interval bctween'your ���engagement and your marriage, that you might have made the acquaintance of >some of his family, and so not have been subjected to'the slight of being married without knowing any of his people." 1 , ' * * "How is it a slight'" asked Norma. 'It was,by our own choice that wo didn't consult anybody, cither his fiends, or mine." / f r ' "And the consequence is that he proposes to go on to his cousin's, and to leave you here," said Mis. Bascot, drily. Noima dicw her bieath. shaiply ! through her teeth. * , "It was my wish," said she. "Of course the wedding of a man I don't k.now couldn't be veiy mteiesting to me." * '���Still, it is a sort of slight upon you, that youi husband*' shouldn't take you nith lnm to Darwen Hugh, isn't it'" "You had better speak to Astley himself, when he comes to-day, and see what lie thinks,"' said Norma; and, not trusting herself to say more, she left the room abruptly, and took her wouk upstairs. ! J ' * How impatient she was for Astley to arrive, and to take her part against these unsympathetic people! It had been arranged that he was to come just, after luncheon,* when the gentlemen of the family, would be at home, so that he might "beard them" all together. And >the girl was ^surprised to find that her heart beat quite as fast, and very nearly as joyously, at the thought of seeing him* again, as if indeed they had made a love match, and had been dying for each othei '' , Moie and moie did,the.feeling grow uponi her that this gencious, chivalrous, quixotic gentleman vva^.m *tiuth what she had called him,' "the most ch'arnung man in the world," and^moie 1 and moie strongly did she see that' she had taken an undue advantage of his good natuie, i-i using him as a means,to>-fiee heiself' tiom the thraldom in which she was kept at 'her aunt's in this mood of repentance, the only consolation Norma had was,., in the thought that she really could help Astley in a substantial manner, by means of the fortune which was now her own. She resolved that, the moment ,he, re turned from Darwen Haigh after his cousin's wedding, she would get lnm'to take her to London, and would call upon her late mother's solicitors, and make an ariangement whereby four hundred a year of her money should be paid direct to Astley every yeai, whether he liked it or not. It should be paid by the solicitors, without her saying a word to prepare him; as othei wise she knew that he would refuse and piotest. ,With the remaining three hundred a year of her own money Noima knew that she could not only live comfoi tably m one of the charitable settlements m the East End of London,ot which she had heard and read, but could give substantial aid to such charities as seemed to her worthy of help. > For, with a not uncommon blindness, Norma, while she had freed herself by an act of undoubted selfishness, was quite determined upon devoting her life to the good cause of helping others. When she had to go down to luncheon, her heart was beating very fast, and all through the meal she started at the least sound, listening nervously for a ring at the bell.k But the time passed, and Astley did not come. More and more anxious and aervous did Norma become as three o'clock struck and then foui, and the tea was bi ought in, and still Astley did not appear. , Mr. Bascot had had to go out again, and1 Robert, who spent the afternoon at home, did everything m his powei to make tho time *piss as unpleas'intlv as possible for Norma, in revenge for what lie choso to considei hei bad ticatment of himself. Although she declared that Astley had not said at what time he would call, it was evident to her aunt and cousin that she was bitteily disappointed and miserable as the hours passed, and he did not arnve. Robert took occasion to sneer at his successful rival's remissness. "I suppose it always happens, as they say," said he, lisping out the words over his bread and butter, "that ladies think more of a man who lets them wait for lnm than they do of one who pays them too much attention. But I must say, STorma, though no doubt you admire your husband v for it, I should be ashamed of such conduct if I were in his place." "He has boon unavoidably detained," said Norma, tiying to disguise the restlessness she felt, as she played with the tassel of the blind-coid, looking wistfully and eagerly down the road. "You know him better, both you and aunt, than to think he could be guilty of discourtesy." "Indeed, we know very little about ���*?','<[ mm, except' that he was an impecuni-'' 7 otis person on the lookout for a wif��</ Kith money," said Robeit, sweetly. f)Ao "I've known people to whom that do- * j" icription would apply, certainly," retorted Norma, with as much fire as_ if 1 sho had been passionately in love with j7 ner husband of the businees-marriagcy "but theie is no one in the world to ; , whom it' applies so little as it does to * - ' \stley Darwen." \ ^A r ( * ., (To be Continued.) , ' v / . U PBOTHE GREAT .fi SOUTH ," ^AMERICAN NEffVINE. Will first feed BerSHA-TTEREDNERVES; then -strensrth- by It they will put every vital ' i to work vigorously.^ The liver ened organ ��� .. . .��� ��� will do Its share, tho heart will have ^ blood to pump, the nerves will be quiet ' Tho woman will ba beautiful ogalr '��� Mrs. Tames Edge, Post-Mistress o: Edge Hill, Ont, wtifs : / ^ *} "I have had indigestion and dyspepsia -, for nearly ten years At times I could eat tnothinsr. After t-ldnc: two bottles v & of South American 1 crvine I -was en- <-* \tirely well and am in perfect health." , , The Great South Amer -���� Kidney Care dis- . eolves and washes out waste matter at. once from kidneys and bladder, and simultaneously be^'ns the building up(i ,of new tissues. Relief in six hours. 21 VfK> An art dealci r-cently had on ex--. A'i hibition a numb* of proof etchings' . ����� after the works of Walter Dendy Sad- *>",'.. ler, the well-known English painter. - * One afternooon a woman walked into,-' the shop and asked to see the Sadler * VJ pictures. They were pointed out to her. ' , f- ,>-* , "But," she protested, "where is he*" > " "Who, madam?" inquired the* deal- , er. 1 u .< v ' 'Why, the saddlerK A friend of mine told me to 'come and see a charming Sadler etching. I thought ' I would find him here doing "something beautiful on leather." ��� New >York Times. * , �� . 1 \ He Watched the Cow.���When 'Sir , if Stafford Northcote, afterwards the Earl ���^i ' of Iddeslcigh, was an officer in 'a yeo- "! 1 manry regiment in Devonshire, one ofi /. the men who was leading a small force *���' across the country was taking a rather' * % circuitous instead of a straight course. ",' "Why don't yon keep your eye on a" given point?" asked" his officer. * i "I-do, sir." JWell, what point ?" v , a . 1 "That old cow, sir," replied the man: ~, The Earl was olten known to use this anecdote when political leaders did not' go straight.���-Illustrated'Bits.' , ��������� jU A lady, who is a district visitor, became much interested in a very poor, but apparently respectable, Irish family named Cunan, living on the top floor of a great building 111 a slum district of her parish. Every time she visited the Currans she was annoyed by the staring and the whispering of the other women living - in the building. One day she said to *��� Mrs Curran: "Your neighbors seem very"-curious to know who and what I am, and the nature of my business with-you " ' , "They do," acquiesced Mrs Curran. Do they ask you about it?" > "Indade they do, ma'am." ' ��� "And do you tell them?" - r * "^aith, thin, an' Oi do not." v "What do you tell them?" "Oi just tell tlnm," was the calm re ��� ***��� ply, that you are me dressmaker, an' 4 let it go at that." w, / JUST LIKE BUYING RHEUMATISM. We put the bills in your pocket and taka K away the malady. Isn't that just hka buying it ? 1 There's the bunch of money you'll pay 4 out to get rid of the rheumatism if you buy prescriptions with it. It's a cure you want, not prescriptions. SOUTH AMERICAN RHEUMATIC CURE pull the rheumatism out by the roots. No more doctoring, no more medicine, money saved; health saved, life saved. CURES IN I TO 3 DAYS. Mrs. E ElsurR, a trained nurse, of Halifax, living at 92 Cornwalhs St., vvruet, ��� "I have been a sufferer for six years fro'n rheumatism. Many doctors treated me, but relief v\ as only temporary. I tried South American Rheumatic Cure, and after four days' use of tbe remedy, was en* tirely free from the disease." SOUTfi AMERICAN KIDNEY CURE rich in healing powers, relieves bladder and kidney troubles in six hours, and in the worst cases ittill speedily restore perfect health. 8 1 , nuuMimiutm*awim meB&eJu -fr ^'T!tSE=^-riKSW5'��Saxi��j:r*=~ ?. ' l.' J'-l w ^ l\ n 13- ��� l , m W r Tiie Allin Claim. I>\ I'iiI.IihIiuI omi\ Stiniiliiii mot tun T'lr. Ailin Or, aim I'uiiwiiuso Co. A.O Minsrii') Lid, 1'i.oL'j.ii ton. I) 1'oijii l.iaii-i, vIana-.i.nc i.nnou Oliii-o cil |)iili!n.ii(i(,u I'i ai 1 S*., Atlin, P. <7 Ailw i*li.ni**r K itn*. . **l Oi) pu'mcli, (,'ni'l. ins' lbion.* l't-.ldiiu MDliir-i, -!'i i-fiits u line Siit'cinl Couti\i({ Rutcs On application Tin* Sllbil*! iption pint* i�� *"i ii M'l i pij- u 1)'"* in luhuiM'f. No p i per w ill In* <lcli\ei I'll �� ii lc**=. -. I 'n* r onilition i. (omul in I \\ itli. SWDRDAY, MAY 2ND, I9O3.' Our attention has been called to 'the fact, thiough a veiy roundabout source, that the1 Dominion Government, is calling fo: 'tenders foi the comevance of mails to and fiom Atlin and Log Cabin and White Hoise and 'Daw-on Bids will be received, nt Ottawa up till noon of the 22nd inst. The tenders will be foi summei and wintci seivices senuiatelv. j * . ' ���Just how long the N notice of "Tendets Wanted" has been out we don't kiiow, but this \vo do know, .that no official notice of any kind has j'et been lcceived iu At- - lin. Our infoimaliou is deiived ,from a nev-vspapei clipping fiom one of the Dawson papers. From what wc can leain, notices have been sent to Log Cabin, White Hoi se ancl Dawson. The failure to include Atlin, in 0111 opinion,"shoVs either woeful ignoi- ance on the part of the despatcher of the notices as lo the relath e mi- poitance of Log Ca,bin ancl Atlin in connection with the Atlin-Log Cabin service-r-tlie voting stiength of the two places being; Log Cabin, 1, Atlin, about 400J���or a willful intention to discilrni 11 ate unfairly against possible Atlin tendciers. Apart fiom that the Government is not treating the public with justice in the matlei of open tendeis, as the existing conditions virtually ?0R QUARTZ MINING. Incorporation of the North Columbia Gold Mininsr Co. A Strong- Company'(Oi'ganiaori By Mr. J. K. Ruffnor of,Atlin ��� . Cincinnati Peopie Interested. The last issue, of the J1. C. Ga-, z.ette contains the aniioiiiictnieul of r . i * - the legislation of a new com pan v *-* 1 v , r to opeiatc in Atlinr, that of tlic N01 ih Columbia Cold Mi.nngCo. The head olfice of the conipanyas liuion, SduIIi Dakota, and the head office foi' this Pioviuce is in Atlin. Mr. J. M. "rRuffnei is the attorney of the company in B. C The followipc* aie some of the .' * ' objects foi which the compauj has been established.. , __ To do any and all things set Foi th heiein to the same extent as hatuial nelsons might 01 could do, and in any pait of the vvoild, as piiucipab, agents, titistees 01 othei wise, and in fuiiiieiance ancl not in Iiniilatiou ot the geneial powcis convened by the laws of the Stale of South Dakota. . ' (1 ) To secuie, purchase, take, bin, own,, discover," acquire by concession, giant 01 otherwise, any mining piospects, mining claims, mining lights, mining lauds, mines, mineral lights, limber rights, water lights, buildings, dwellings, easements, rights and piivileges, plants Atlin "��� fflesgget and, Gaaa'p��aRIsags il And All Kinds of jewellery Manufactured on the Premises^ $5e2F"-- Why send oik when you can get goods as clieap hei'e? Walettas From $5 ays.- Fiszo'Lano of SasjircnZr Sfjaousa JULES EfifiERT &'S0N, The Swiss Watelimakers. ��a**coa��>o4>aca*��o>K''!>oo&'&o*K><$c*o*��>&olO'*o I ,XHE KOOTENAI HOTEL.-I George E". Hayes, Proprietor < ' 'Cok. Fir: t'ani/ Trainok STUl.J'.VS. 1 r I Tin-, K11 si Cl.i*.*. llotul hiis lioon l-cirioilcli'il mid * r*rm ni'.huil tinou^lioiit r and oil 01 stho brst n< ooinnKxIntiou to Ti aiihieiit 01 Pim muuoiit '1 - ', Uui'sts ���Ainci 11 an und hiiioppuK pl.iM. Finest Wistscs, IZcsHiSPS-siaQCf GSe^fS* , 1 Billiards and' Pool. o*��c<*i:i*&ooo^ci^ciX(*o*o*o*'>3>*>>:i<>*ct��':>*<:'<!>o<>C"*!:i4-oo1^*':'*>C!<>cicfoo>> THE GOLD :IiOlJSB5', r ' D'SOOVERY, 13. C^ ��� * Comfortably rumlsliocl Rooms���By tho Day, V/oek'or Month. The Best ot Liquois and Cigars aVays in Stock, ������ Fine stable in con1 , ���- iiP"tioii wilh the House. t , AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN' PI,AN. , J. P ftosi., Miuiugd. leave the bidding in the hands ot our: or two, theieb) piecluding the Postal Dcpaitment from getting the benefit of open competition. Unless the Government can show cause, the dale fo'r receiving bids should be extended, in oidei that Atlin men may have time lo obtain the rcquiiccl foims and lime allowed for the transmission of tendeis to Ottawa. ; - An excellent opportunity is hereby opened to the local Iabeial Association to demand of the new member, Mr. R..^ G. Macphersou, M.P., one of his election pledges, and that Atlin's rights in this matter be lecognized. Aaio>TG the first ladical changes which, by resolution, the Atlin District Placttr Minei's Association sought to bring about, for the benefit of the district, was the appointment of a committee to devise ways and means for the introduction of a competitor to the Ayun Claim, that journal being deemed opposed to the rights and privileges of individual miners ! ���' " If it is of any service to'that committee wc may say that the Atlik Claim is for sale, but' that we cannot be "bought," while to all unbiased citizens, tlte dominant feature of the Claim has been its persistent efforts for the public good. machinery, tools aucU othei j properties what'soevei, which this cor- poiation may, fiom time to,time, find to be for its advantage and purposes; (2.) To search^ for mineials and ores ,' to explore, woik, develop aud mine in leased or owned properties or mines; "��� ,(5-) To suivey, build, construct, repaii, manage, control aud maiu- tam roadways, tiamwajs, piivate railways, water-courses 'for private uses, reservoirs, ' 'bridges, mills, smelters, works, waichouses, stoies and other such adjuncts aud improvements as may seem advantageous to the best iuteiests of the corporation; (9.) To carry on business in any othei slate, or in any part of the the world, and'to hold meetings, tiausact business, and keep such books as may be necessary, outside of the State of South Dakota ; providing, however, thai such power gives nothing inconsistent with the general laws of the State of South Dakota. The North Columbia Gold Mining Company has options on several well known mineial claims in this district, including the Rock of Ages and the Yellow Jacket claims, as well as several of the extensions of what has been locally known as the "Mother Lode." Systematic prospecting of these claims will at once be commenced, aiid there is little doubt' lhat'the' North Columbia Gold Mining'Co. will make a name for itself and for the Atlin district. This company was recently organized by Mr.- J. M. Ruffner, of Atlin, in and around. -Cincinnati, Ohio, aud has -on its directorate and. among its shareholders some of the best known men in the State. THE' WRITE* PASS & YUKON ' ROUTE. ' . ; Passengei and lixpiess Service, Daily (except Sunday), between Skagway, I,og Cabin. Bennett, Canbou, While Hoiseand luteiuiecbate points, making close_coiiueclions with our_owii steameis al While Hoise for Dawson aud Yukon points, and', at Canbou for Allin eveiy Tuesday and Fridav ; Retuiiung, leave Allin e\ei.y Mondaj* aud Thuisday. Telegiaph Sen ice to Skagway. ' Express* matter will'rbe lecehed for shipment to and fiom all points in Canada and lhe United States. For information relative lo Passeiigei, Freight, Telegiaph or Express Rates appl}' to any Agent of the Company 01 to -, < J. F. Lee, .Traffic Manager, Skagway. DISCOVERY, B. C. Finest ot liquors. Good stabling. Ed. Sands, Propnetoi. G. C. Hayes O.K. BATHS BARBER SHOP G. II. FORD Pi op. Now occupj tlicir nov\ quartets, next to tho B.mlv of U. N A . First Stieet. The bath 1 moms,mo oquull} as }?ood as found in cities. Private Euti anco for ladies. \ " Discovery. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT IN - CONNECTION. > Heiulqututois foi Bioolv'j, stasre. The Canadian * Bank of ��� Commerce. CAPITAL .PAID UP $S,000,000. Reserve, $2,500,000. Branehes of the Bank at Jeattie, San Franciseo, Portland, Exchange sold on aS3 Foissts. Skagway, ote. Gold Dust Purchased- -Assay.Office in Connection. D. ROSS, Manager. E. ROSSELLI, Proprietor. Corner Pearl and First Streets, Atlin, B. C. ��o* FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION. -�����*- CIIOiCCST WIVES, LIQlOItS AND CIGARS CASE GOODS A SPECIALTY. HYDRAULIC GIANTS, WATER GATES, . * ANGLE STEEL '. RIFFLES & HYDRAULIC. RIVETED PIPE. Estimates furnished on application . ���'' The Vancouver Engineering Works, Vancouver, B. C. A. C. Hirschfeld, A-^ent, Atlin, B. C BBSS -i"K iM ATUN, B C, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1903 ^ ,can, give You as Good Value for*your CASH as '^jroC��!"8! v, any House in Town. - ��� ^ - > ' , ~ ' J ' ��' 'Criant' va^ions, e Powder r on, hand. ^1 'NEW METHODS Givej Largely Increased suits, in Mining, ��� Re- The Impressions -of- Prof. Haanol, j '' Dominion Supt. of Mines from a Visit to the Yukon. ~ l The new methods now being put in foice iu the Dawson countiy by. the iutioduction of niachineiy.~aio opening up '-large areas of giound which weie hitheiWcousideied 1111- * pi ofi table. ,' < Piofessoi I-Iaancl, Dominion Snp- eiintcr.dent of' Mines, in jhis fiist -annual iepoit;��� 1902 r��� recently - published, describes one or two of the plants now* an use ^ His des- ciiplion of one ofr these, a steam shovel,) 1-5 iuteiestiug in view of the proposed early installation of a steam shovel in this district. Prof Iiaauchsays: The"plai. is on the property of Dougherty & Stiles, on Dominion creek.', The-operations are con- ' ducted with two machines, one being lhe steam shovel, proper, aud the other lheJgravel-"dressing plant. The steam shovel'is built on the plan of a common dredge, the contents ol the bucket-sho\.el being dumped by leleasing the catch s which, holds the swing bottom,in place when being filled, elevated and swung over to be emptied. ' The bucket-shovel is capable of effectively excavating gravel 10 feet below the level of the machine 1 The bucket-shovel holds about three-fourths of a cubic yard, and the machine has a capacity of 800 cubic yaids in two shifts of 10 hours each. The gra\ el-dressin'g plant is composed ot a hopper into which the steam -shovel dumps the-gravel, which is there attacked by two streams of wat��r under pressure to disintegiate and wash it into a rotating trommel. The trommel is 40 inches in diameter, and perforated with holes of JH? and f4 in. in diatnetei. A spiral ledge, 4 inches high aud about 12 inches between spirals, keeps the tailings tumbling long enough to be thoroughly washed by the jets of water which proceed under a head of 27 feet of pressure from a perforated pipe passing through the center of the trommel. The over-size tailings fall upon a belt conveyor, which can be lengthened, shortened and inclined, astnecessityi requires, and thus find their way to the dump. The uuder-size gravel, carrying the gold and the wash *. water, passes into a box beneath the trommel, from which it is elevated by a centrifugal pump into the head of a sluice-box, which is connected by gates with two separate sluiceways, provided with Hungarian liffies, one sluice-way being used when the other is being cleaned up, so that no stoppage of operations is lequiied duiing the lime occupied by, Lhe clean-up. > The sleam-sho\el absoibs 10 h.p. and the gravel-dies'*ei S h p The plant is said to ha\e cost $20,000. * ' r and Willi the' exception of some 11 * castings, which weie imported, w as 'designed and corsti nctcd in Dawson. The woikiug foice consists alpiescnt bf 20 men, ro foi each shift of ro houis.7 ' v ( -The quality of tho giound ,woiIced is'low grade, and accoulingHo the niauagei's icporl, carues $1.50 pci cubic yaid of pay gravel. Under the favoiable conditions which pievail at' this claim/ much lower guide gravel could be handled with profit.' The cost'of opeiations is ieporlccl*as_ 13 cents per .cubic yard handled. 'Phis low cost is account- s i * *. - ed foi in part by the exceptional cheapness of the fuel m this special locality. Theie1 is plenty of wood neai at hand costing 3S4 pei coid laid down at the claim. l , * The plant just descnbed fui- nishes an excellent illustration of ,the method-to be puisued-i-.j woik- ing.piofitably gia\el which could be worked only at a loss by the ordinary placer methods. This will be seen-fiom the following figures : j.5 cubic yards of compact gravel is about the aveiage amount a man can shovel from a dump" into a sluice-box in a^shilt of110 hours, foi \\hich he receives $7 50, the ordinary wage, at these mines. This is at the rate of $1.66 per cubic yard, exclusive 'of the expense for labor in* bringing the gravel to the dump at the sluice- box. Q ' ' tho puiposi' ol ffOue.Mtui(> olocti ic pov m , fiir'liiu"|iui poiO ol suppb i.i,*> tno sumo to tliu mines ami 'di <'ilf,iii(r o,ii!uitioiM itlon^r "Pino Cierk and tlio iloi-iliboiliood thoicol, nnd to ehuiH'C tolls thcioloi. ' TUL BRITISH AMKHICAN imrUGTNG ' inli21-8'i ' < C0MPA2��V LIMUEl). PRO/VINCI A L pjlf, HONOUR SUCUl.TAItY'!-. oi'Vrrou, thp Ijioiitonaiit-GoMii nor sin Council hiiR* Ijbpu ploused to make the lollowiuf.'appointment.��� ' �� ' r , '* , " 3rd Apnl, 19u3. 1 jFhamc HauisT Moni.uv, of Atlin, Lstiuiic*, to be a' Liconco Commissioner, loi'*tho Atlin Licence Disli iet, Mco Mi. .1 St. Clair lilm-hott, lcsiKimd. ��� ��� > NOTICE. RESPECTING TIMBER L1CENCIS., The Coast Cable. The cable shiy, Burnside, which is to lay the cable between Seattle and Juneau, is due to arrive~at the former city about July ist; by that time it is expected that the( three landing stations will have been placed in such shape that the actual work of stretching the cable may be commenced. a The Burnside will lay about five miles of cable an hour. There will be between 1200 and 1500 miles of cable to be laid and the work will not take long after it is once under way. The Alaska land lines have been about completed and will be wholly so before the lime when lhe Alaska cable is leady lo operate. .They are now engaged in finishing up the Tauana district. Between St. Michael and Nome there will be a wireless service and this will have been installed by the time the land lines are finished. ���RJOTICE is horehj ��i\ou, puisuant to the piovisions ol Section 50 of the "JLantl Act," that in futuie no special licences to cut timbei 011 Ciown lands, -n ill be (/ranted or lenowed until aftei rho* applicants have had the limits ��,iii\ejcd M a duly'qiialifiecl Piovmci.il .Laud Sin^ejor to tho'satisfac- tion of the Laud* and Woilts Depattnient. , , " W. C. WELLS , CliiefiComniissiouei- of.Lands <S- Works, Liinds <X. Woiks Depaitnient, ��� Victoria, li. C , 2bth Maich.'lOO'/ -llap-lt CIikI Coiuiui^Hioiie:- of L.ird*. .tuil Woilu. foi Dci-iui^siou to p'uiilitisc the lulluu iiij1 ilu-iCi'lbud pilicel 01 tinctol laud iui n^ii' unl('ui-vi] pin pose*. Coiiiiiienciu^: nt a po��t. planted on the east ohuio ot Alluito Kivre; llienco <iU chains 111 a nuiil.eilj dnucliou uloii; tin* shoio of Talcu Aim, thence 2& < chains 111 au uust< 1 b duectiou, thence lit chains In a suiithcib ducction; thciice^O chains in .1 \\ ostoi ly duectiou, to tlio point 01 1 onunemeinenl, eoutaiuiu^ 10 acies inoie- 01 less. " " , 'J'. lliiichchll'P. ' ' -1 iiKiTOir*., li. C , December JSth/lSKU. ' ':M COAL PF^OSPECIING tICENCES, % TVfOl'lOJS ii liorcb} fjnen thntafter fiomdate, 1* intend to appb V\ daj�� t to the Chief Cominiisionet-of Lands .md'Works lor^n.Ln once to piospect Ioi coal on tlio follow iiifi.dusci ibed lauds . ,\ ' On tiie 1101 tli side of >tho Tahltnii Ruei" about Ibinilos tiom Tolo*,iuph cieclcfcom-'- mentiiip, at a'" post1 planted about 4 miles fiom tho mouth of tho nvei. ma* ked "D. G. j Stewait';, S, W. c'oinor,"'thence 80 cha.ns. north , thonca SO oh 11ns east, thence SO chains' south. thence 30 chains w est to point of commencement, continuing blO acies moie or' less, \ " 1),'G. Stewait, Ro-Located, .Vai ch 30Ui, 190'i A' ' ^ ". t A ��* s '- ',-. - * 1 ir m (*-.-, ���*." - <?Aj 'i ' "M*J A ���* t*\\ ,*��� * / " V ^ - ' t ^- u 9 \, ~\ NOTICE. ���.. . ... . - ^ ' f commencing at a poit marked jMTOTICE'is lieicbj tfivon that Sixt-. il.us.',IUluj's N 'W.' cc^riioi-^post,' aftoi dale I intend to appb to Cluot Commissioner ot Lands and Woiks foi pei mission to inii chase the follow d.^ descnbed tiact ot laud foi ajjricultmal pui poses That p.acel 01 tiactof land situated 111 tho Atlm Lake <Mii*iii�� Dimsiou, commoneiiifi; at a post planted at the ^ W. corner of Atlin" Tow nsite, thence hast 10 chains, thence 1101 th 20chains, thence west 40 chains, theme south 20 chains to point of commencement, containing SO aci es, moio 01 less ' L,P Ql-ldn. Dated at Atlin, B.C , this Gth da> of -Mai ch, lOOii mar7-St .NOTICE. * ' TVTOTICE is hoiebj Riien that Sixtj dajs after date I, intend to appb Nto the * 7 SPECIALTIES IN FANCY CAKES & PASTRY. ' *. * Fresh Bread,^Rye Broad, etGa "- ��� Chas. Myer, Proprietor. Good Rooms, to Kent���By the l)aj, Week 01 Month at reasonable lates. Wholesale and J Retail FIRST STREET, ATLIN, Butcher B. C NOTICE. J^OTICE is horoby ghen that application will bo lncdo to the LoKi"dati*,o Assembly of tho Provinco of British Columbia at its next Session for an Act nuthoi izinpr tho British American Dredging; Company, Ltd., to divert and nppropnato tho watois of PineCieek, in the Distuct of Atlm. in the Provinco of British Columbia, at a Point abovo Pino Crook Kalis about 1100 feet, for Fish, C. DOELKER, FRESH MEATS ALWAYS ON HAND. . . Game in season and home made Sausage. First Street, Atlin. FINEST EQUIPPED HOTEL IN THE NORTH. EVERYTHING N CONDUCTED IN FIRST-CLASS MANNER. French Restaurant in Connection. David Hastie, Proprietor. Corner, of First and Discover Streets. v - - (T\TOTIGE 1*. lioiobj 'given that after SO daya fiom date, C intend to appb to tho Chief Commissioner,, of Lands and Woiks for a Licence to prospect for coal on the following descnbed lands ." t ' On the 1101 th and south sides of tho Tahl- tan n^er, commencin!? at a1 post maiked "A. R.t McDonald's . S K.v-ooiner," thence 80 chains noitli thence,SO chains west thence SO chains south, ctheuce SO chains, cast to point of ' commencement, f containing (U0 acies, moie 01 less. A. R."McDonald Ro-LocatPd, Mai ch ISOth, 1003. ���RTTOTICli is heiebj Riven that attei SOdajs fiom date, T intend to appb to tho Chief Commissionei of Lands and Woiks* for a Licenco to prospect for coal on the lollow ing descnbed lauds; l On the 1101 th side of ,tl,o J Tahltan nver, 'Mm (look thenco 80 tho {chains east, thence 80^chains south, thence SO chains west, thence SO chains 1101th to po.nt of commcucempnt, conta'niu,*; 610 acies, moie oi Jess. ' Muidock McKaj."* Re-Located, March JOth 1903. pjOTICE is hereby gnentliat aftei .lOdajs ^ fiom date, Iiintend to appb to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Woiks Toi a Licence to piospect foi coal ou the followlnfrdescnbed lands. ' , Ou the uoithanci south sides of theTahl- tan mer, commcncingr at a'post maiked " T. A. Tiascr's N E. corner," thence 80 > chains west, thence 80 chains south; thence 80 chpns east, thenco 80 chains 1101 th to point of commencement, containing 640 acres, moie or less. r J. A. Vrasei. Re-Located, Marcli 30th, 1903. ' I �� -', 1 1 c ���?i 1: - .1 ���ut ,\ s'l- '���""''''���"���"M^W'^^ tlf^wIL" if/ ,ps 3if.J; 1���� J J Mc. Bnniey ori Keening-1 Lent <���% I. : i i >i 'i i ��� *��� ] 4, i I.-*- - j I'!- ip -: I-! Iv' -' r * ;\,A>, (H* / s 'I "I "J vf .11 ,v Ir I;'-: i "Keeping Lent" is the title given to Mr. Dooley's latest outburst :��� ��� "Oho," said Mr. Hennessy, "twinty- fvan days to Saint Pathrick's Day." ''Ar're ye kcepin' Lent ?" asked Mr. Doolcy. "I am," said Mr. Hennessy. "I put th' pipe back iv th' clock day befure nsteidah night. , Oh, but th' las' whiff, tv th' ol' clay was plisint. A-re ye kcepin' Lent ?" 'Tam that," said Mr. Doolcy. "I'm on'y smnken' me secgirs half through ta" I take no sugar in mc tay. Th* Lord give me stien'th to laol till Talh- rick's day t I'm kcepin' Lent, but I'm aot goin' up an' down th' sthrcet tclliu' people about it. I ain't anny pioudcr Iv kec^in' Lent thin I am iv kcepin' tlane. In our fam'ly we've always kept it. 1 raymimbcr secin' me father tuck away tli' pipe, cork up th' boLtlc an' but it in a thtunk with something between a moan an' a cheer an' begin lo find fault with th' wurtuld. FY us kids Lent was no gr-rcat'hardship. It pn'y meant not enough iv something besides meat. I don't raymimber much kbout it excipt that on Ash Wmsdah K't-ybody had a smudge on his forehead, an' afthcr awhile th' house begun to smell a little iv fish, an' about th' thirtieth day th' eggs had thrown off til disguise, an' was jus' plain, yellow "Yes, sir, in our,fam'ly we all,kcp' Lent but me Uncle,Mike. He started >vitli th' rest an' fr a day or two he >vint up .an' down 'the road whippin" butchers. 'Twas with gr-reat difficulty, Hmnissy, that he was prcvintcd fr'm marchin' into th' neighborinV saloons p.n' pourin' out th' sthrong wathers on tiie flure. F'r a short distance me Un- tle/ Mike was th' most pious man I jver met. At such times he organized 111' Uncle Michael Good S'cicty an' Vint ar-round inityalin' mimbers.' -To iiearhim talk about 9 o'clock on Ash IVensdah mornin' ye'd think he was lus'> goin' into th' arena to fight a line befure the onholy Roman popylace., , He'd take down The' Lives iv th' - Saints' an' set r-readin' it with a con- Sescindin' smile on his face like a ' champecn athlect goin' over^ th' ol' re- tords. 'Oh, yes,' ' he seemed to^ be , jayin', 'they were all r-right, very good Ip their day, no doubt, but wheie wud{ Siey te now ? They'se no minlion iv aint Jerome goin' without his'smoke, jn' I haven't-had" a > pipe, iv tobacky iince 12 o'clock "las' Choosdah night, ^n' here it's 9 o'clock Wins-lah mom- hV Thin he wud look" casually to'rd Vi' back iv' th' book to see whether *7'r��ps something mightn't 'vc been put n itbout him at th' las' moment, an' thin he wud throw it down an' say to Umself : ' "Th' Lives iv th' Saints" f'r tightecn hunderd an' fifty ain't out yet,' fir march savagely fr'm th' room, "jcickin' his nieces an' nevvews as he irint.,-'At 4 o'clock in th' afthcrnoon ��e was-discovered be me father scttin' in a sawhorse in th' woodshed, puffin' Iway at a pipe with a bowl like a small stove that, he'd took a way'fr'm a Ger- -inan, arir singin' to himself. - "But me Uncle Mike, though a -tr-rcat warryor in his day an' th" soul \v s'ciety, was not a model f'r a longdistance ' Christyan champcen. 'He - itartcd with th' rest iv us, but he always pulled up lame.' Th' throuble with him an' th' throuble with th rest ,v us is that we exoict to be canonized In time to show th' brief to th' fam'ly ' It dinner. So I say I don't go ar-round tillybiatin' Lent. I don't expict Father Kelly will sine! down th' Father Mac- ��liew Fiie an' Dhrum Corps to seren- ide me because I left that lump iv ' ugar out iv me tay an' put in twice is much milk. Whin th* postman comes ���o th' dure with th' usual line iv bills 'in' love letthcrs tr'm th' tailors, me lands don't thrcmble expictin' a note 11'm th' Pope telhn' me I've been can- inized. No, sir, I congrathylate me- >ilf on mc sthrong v. ill power an' ray- ilct that sugar makes people fat.- I am aiver goin' to place anny medals on mnywan f'r bein' varchotis, Hinnissy, L'r if varchue ain't a ways necissity. mc toy, it's th' nex' thing to it. I'm tim- ��rate because too i..uch dhrmk doesn t igree with me ; m��->-.cst because I look ftest that way ; gi' rous because I don't want to be thoupht stingy ; honest be- tause iv th' polis foorcc, an' brave whin' I can't r-run away. . . . "So I say, no medals, plaze fr me ��n account iv that lump iv sugar. I lone me jooty an' no more. Whin th iivvle tempted me to put in th lump I said : 'Get thee behind me, oatan, I'm too fat now 1* That was ill. I done what was r-right because it was r-right an' pious an* a good Ihing Cr me to do. I don't claim no rratchihood. I don't ask f'r anny adjuration iv me piety. But don t I look t>etthcr, Hinnissy ? Don't ye see I m 1 little thinner ?'l "Not an inch," said Mr. Hennessy. 'Yc're th' same hippypotymus ye was. "Well, well," said Mr. Doolcy. *That's sthrange. P'raps I'm a betther man afthcr all. How long did ye say 't was to Pathrick's day ?" Future of the Corn Crop. American farmers and newspaper ���ncn are very likely to_become great oencficiaries of a great scheme of co- bpcration in making the most of the :orn crop, says The St. Paul Pioneer Press. Not of the grain merely, but ��f the whole plant, stalk, leaves, pith, assets, husks, cobs and kernels. Af- cr a long course of expeiimentalion, ���atricd on a Kankakee, III., under the sneouragement of the National Agricultural Department, it is found that ugh grade paper can be profitably manufactured, in dilleiuit varieties, from various parts of the plant One kind is made from the hard shell of the Ha Ik, another from the pith, and a third from the husk. "From the pith is turned out the finest grade of oil paper, almost equal to linen paoci." so it is claimed by experts at^the department. A machine has been invented, and is now being manufactured, which will take the cornstalk, with the ear still on it, husk the ear, separate the husk from the stalk, nnd then remove the shell from the pith. Sending this machine into the fields, the paper(manufactureis will propose to farmers' to buy their corn crops as they stand in (he fields. Jf the farmers wish the corn after it has been husked, it will be passed back to them ; otherwise it will be marketed by the owner of the machine, who will convert every remaining part of the plant into some form of manufacture. Dog Worship. If theie exists a man or a woman wflio can own a pot dog without degenerating in intellect, I have got to ' meet tho exceptional person, writes a contributor in an exchange. There is alboufc these canine toys a mysterious ,forco which is as occult in its origin as it is exasperating in its effect.' If a fool becomes possessed of one of the little beasts lie develops,into a bigger fool than ever;'if the owner is o person of brains he almost infallibly, and very rapidly, sinks several points in the intellectual scale. There is a certain house in which I was once a welcome t dinner guest. My host was a fine talker, 'his .wife-a most intelligent woman. A veritable Paradise! But the serpent was 'at hand. It did not look paiticularly ophidian on its first appearance. It was simply a,pug puppy, a comic and ridiculous little barrel-like body supported on four-limp and sbaggcry legs. I rather liked it at first, but as it grew my affection diminished. Within a week or two of its 'advent it became the principal interest of' my hostess' life. Books, art, sport, politics���no subject I could start had a chance at that tahln. any more; the once delightful Sunday afternoon was given over to n by no means bricf^ abstract' and chronicle of the adventures of'"Poddies" during tlic past week. It was thesfirst case ot dog-mania I had met and I thought, it might, pass, and give 'rational conveisation a* chance again. But it didn't pass���it spread, and infected the husband; aud the' wcek-to-week biographies of Poddies, instead of a solo, 'became a duel. Sometimes, in 'fleetinj; (moments of sanity, when Poddies wa<- 'out of the'100m, never if he was present, 'the .talk would become rational, but H was infallibly checked in mid-career bv ,the beast's waddling, grunting entrancr hailed, by a yell���1 can use no mildei 'word���of besotted.admiration fiom wife 'husband, orv'both: "Oh, look at hei! Isn't ,she lovely!", and followed by a gabble of ungiammatical and niibpio 'nounced expressions of endearment sup posed to be suited to her undcistanding. ��� My suffenng from Poddies i-, no long- ler active. It has taken the negative 'form of-(avoiding the once-pleasant rool wlucli shelteis her. For at last���even ��� the worm will turn, sooner "or later���] [objected, openly and plainly, to the tyr |anny of Poddies. She was placed by llicr mistress on a cushion on the top ot a whatnot ait the window, "because she llikcs to bark at the cab3." It is a well (frequented street, and cabs aie frequent ,AVhen, after an hour and a half of nerve- ���destroying yelping I���politely, I hope��� jintimated that we had had perhaps enough of Poddies for that afternoon :my hostess was genuinely amazed at me ��� "She's only barking at the cabs," she (explained; and, in answer to my���again, II hope, courteous���letort, said some tiling, |to the effect that I must "not interfeie with "the mistress of the hou-.c," mean- 'ing, not herself, but Poddies. The phrase iwas meant as a humorous exaggeration, but it was the statement of a plain fact I had been too blind to sec. Poddies was. and is, really the mistress of the house. I pass that way sometimes, but the door of my whilom Paiadise is for 'ever closed against ine. ' lieuben Fax, as the Postman in "The Bonnie Biiei Bush," at the Grand Opeia ��� House next week. Mr. Fax is a Cnv*a dian by birth, a native of Brantford, whe was reared in Woodstock. Mr. Fax is as well known in Austialia as he is in Canada or the United States. Tesla's Wireless Method. The wireless telegraphy plants you may have seen are but networks of flimsy wire. We are not doing anything of that sort here at Wadenclyffe. Wc are' building for the future. It will be some time before our preparations are complete, but when wc are ready we will 1 be able to accomplish what we desire. We shall not ,bc handling a piaything. It will' be something for business. I, do not believe that messages can be transmitted without wires for more than, fifty or sixty miles without the ,us>c of the pnnciples'which I have patented throughout the civilized countiies of,the woild, By the use of my system you will be able lo put an instrument in your house and talk to anyone who has a similar apparatus anywhere in the country without any metallic or artificial connection.��� Statement by Nikola Tesla. Ammonia in the House. ' ' I have* often read of the great aid rendered the housekeeper by ammonia, but, as happens in the case of much of the other good advice, it was absolutely thrown away on me until quite lately. I one day went to work to , clean-the silver, and as there was quite 1 a little of it I was prepared for a long I job and a most disagreeable one. An 'old aunt who was with' mc proposed a wasirin strong soapsuds, with a dash of ammonia, when lo, at the expense of a good washing and'wiping it t was restored to the sideboard with a lustre I "had never ^been, able to obtain with polish or whiting���and unlimited elbow grease, ^lorc, the filigicc work was cleaned perfectly, without any of the white sediment,leftjthat is'.so difficult, nay, almost impossible to get out. The knives, forks 'and spoons had to have a little.rubbing with whiting to remove the discoloration, but" nothing to what was usually required.���The Household. grown fowl fifteen" drops (that is to say, just exactly cne-sixtcenlh of a tablespoonfiil)'three times a day it would do a great deal more good; for the system of a fowl can only assimilate a small quantity of the chlorides and the bromides and the phosphates and the iodides in cod-liver oil, and what is given beyond that is waste, or worse than -'waste, for it tends to cause hypertrophy _ of the liver. Small closes of medicine given frequently and regularly are infinitely better than big doses given un- tystematically and spasmodically ���W. M. Freeman, in American Cultivator. Most Attractive Age. ,It was Thackeray who decided that* the" age of the Venus of Milo was 32. This we may take as an expert authority, and so, regard 32 as ,tlie era when a woman is at her perfect moment of full bloom. Certainly, it would seem that from .this on to forty are the years when she is most apt to leel and to inspire great love. ^ Someone has announced that Cleopatra was thirty- eight when she'and Anthony "kissed ,away kingdoms," and someone else has declared that Helen of -Troy was nearly" forty when Paris was smitten with her beauty, and embroiled the gods and heroes in 'battle. And as these two- ladies have a reputation for attractive- *ness unequalled since Eve gave ear to the serpent, we may _, take it that the 'age of charm is nearer the days /of Indian summer than the',day_s of. spring buds and young leaves.���From an ar- 1 ticlc on Woman's Perfect A*ge, in Ain- . slee's Magazine. - ^ Richard Burbage, Prophet. 'The London Daily News inclines to think that the name, of prophet can hardly be denied to Richard Burbage, who recited the following- epilogue at the Globe Theatre in 1G01,' in reference to the succession of James, of Scotland to Queen Elizabeth :��� A Scot our King.' The limclns State That day must need a cuitch. What next? In time a Scot will piate As Primate of our Chmch When such shall be, why then you 11 see That day it will be found ��� The Saxon down through London erounu ' Shall burrow undei (giound. And sure enough, while Archbishop Davidson is called to Canteibui-y, London's "tube? system' is being pushed on. Stories of Sam Steele. Crimean veterans recallc General Sir George Biown, who commanded the Light Division, as the typioai .representative of old-fashioned "pipe ,clay" traditions. Sir George's extremes though, were not a whit more extravagant in the one direction than (so report insists) Colonel Sam Steele's have been on the other. Colonel Steele, it may be remembcicd, led the Slialhconas I (in the late war. Though probably hall 1 the stories told about him are inventions or exaggerations, his name isfatill a household word among colonials in South Africa. One day a British officer com- 'plained to Steele that he met troopers oi the Slrathcona Ilorse who did not salute 'him. "Why, confound them," was the answer, "they won't even salute me!" It is acknowledged that Sam Steele ,knew his men thoroughly amd got an immense deal of good woik out of them .Still incidents like the following do nol make for military discipline. They are ! attested by a Toronto man lately back from South Africa: "They say General Buller was annoyed at him, but soon got over it. Steele, in liia shirt sleeves and smoking his famous short clay pipe, would sit at the door of his tent when Buller and his staff came riding past. The first time this happened everybody was petrified except Colonel Sam, who was quite at his ease. 'Well, General,' he said, 'anything doing today!' General Buller politely stated th'at nothing special was being done. 'Well," said Colonel Steele, T think you should send a bunch of the boys oft' to the right thero. The blankety blank Boers are fiddl.'ng round over there all right enough.'" It was Colonid Sam Steele, too, who, toeing invited by Lord Milncr to Government House at Capetown, declined the invitation on the giound that "things of that kind weren't in his line." Dosing a fowl. Pills are a convenient form, and for poultry they never need be larger than four or five grains; but'better than these pills are gelatine capsules, which my own poultry will pick up off the ground. If I want to give one of my own fowls a dose of medicine, I have only to get it into a corner by itself and throw down a raspberry-colored capsule, and the bird will<pick it up of its own accord 'and swallow it whole. This is in realty far better than having to get a fowl and force a pill down its throat, and I want to emphasize the importance of treating a sick fowl as you would treat a sick child; do not make it worse by having a struggle every time a dose of medicine is necessary. Failing a capsule, a small pill will generally be taken without difficulty by a fowl if it is placed in the middle of a little piece of moist bread. There is another point. Most people seem to have very crude ideas as to what constitutes a "dose" .for, a fowl. I come across people sometimes who think nothing of giving a large pinch of cayenne pepper to a fowl. I have known as much as a quarter of a teaspoonful to be given to one unfortunate bird. When the farmer is tempted to give cayenne pepper to his birds, let him remember that one grain of cayenne pepper makes eight doses for a full-grown fowl. The use of cayenne pepper is as an occasional���a , very occasional���internal irritant, the object of which is to act slightly upon the liver or to excite the digestive organs and make them a little more sensitive than usual. The folly of overdosing must be one which causes more suffering to poultry than to any other members of the animal kingdom. I can give another instance. I hear of people giving a tablespoonful of cod- liver oil to a fowl, and I always tell them that if they would give a full- Interesting Items. The lack of male heirs among leading Snglish military men is remarkable. jord Wolseley has but one child, an un- larried daughter. Loid Roberts hna tow no,son. Lord Kitchener is a bach-, lor; and Sir Bed vers Buller, who once ms regarded as quite in' the running for [creditory distinction, has an only child -a daughter. ��� ,' James Brar.il and Mrs. "Aggie ,Turner if" Cashion, Oklahoma, have created a tecord by being married three times in me day. i They first sought the probate udge at Kingfisher, Oklahoma, and, m Qiere was a contest over the ollice they [ot both tilie candidates to marry them. ���Jot feeling satisfied as to the legality of lhe ecreimony, they returned to Cashion md wereJmarricd again by a minister. Martin J. Cass, a'man of fifty, has be- lought 'and* obtained , the prolcotion , of fudge Carpenter's Court, in Milwaukee, Ijjaiinst the wilcn of a Miss Ormondj 'who nsists on marrying <him Whether he de- are it or not. He avers that ho loves ler 'passionately when in her presence, aid that her let/leis exercise uomplcto ' iway over his mind, but that when tho nfluenco.of both has depailcd 'he ex-' jciioiioes't'hc utmost loathing for the wo- iian. _, A1 A funny story is'going around in New Ifork concerning a very sportily-inclincd lcbutamte who is cxticmoly fond of a !elc-��-tete. At a recent leception she uid one of 'her men Iricnds, not finding i more convenient place, ensconced Ihem- telvcs in a big mahogany warthobc.in line of the halls, Wheie she was finally liscovered by her chaperon, who was looking for her wraps. Not in the least iisooncertcd, the girl said: "Isn't this a liee quiet place? Won't you come in md join us?" { / ' , According'*to "Truth," a delightful Method > of dealing summarily with female kleptomaniacs of gentle birth prevails in certain West End sihops. Every lady detected in .fhe act is given the option of 'being -prosecuted in a court of law or birched by ,the manageress, a person specially selected for lier biceps. The tn'reh is a formidable one."* In a shop alone, it is said, 20 ladies have accepted ��� tihe ordeal of-the 'birch,'in addition to two young girls" of foreign nationality,. wlio, in consideration of their tender pears, were treated to a milder form of Dhastisement. , , " ' �� ' ~ * - * ' The "Indian Daily News" (Calcutta), In describing the Durbar great state ball In the Dewan-i-am. says: "Lord Kitchener took part in fhe state lancers, dancing with Mrs. BourtUllon. His knowledge of tine figures was of the vaguest description, and, in consoquenee, whenever the call 'Sides' was given, all he succeeded in doing was to tie himself and his partner in the most absurd.knot, to the intense amusement of the others in tbe set and of the large crowd looking on. The hero of Khartoum was beaming with delight, and eo he blundered through to the end. When the music ceased he was in the middle of the room, looking for his partner, and laughed heaitily when she came up and found him." ���1 m * Aphorisms. Cherish your enemies. You may need them as an antidote Lo your friends. The man who says he has never told a lie has "just added anotlier to the list. There is nothing perfect in this world ���not even a perfect failure. The things you buy for ['next to nothing" are generally" worth it. [ A truism is a truth, so true that it makes you feel tired to hear it. How many of us good Christians cherish, the secret hope that when we get to ��� heaven we won't meet there some of the people we used to know on earth? rt A matrimonial paradox���Two become one, yet the population! increases. New rendering���the classes and the asses. It often happens tliat the richer a man becomes the less he is worth. The greatest foe of liberty is not the tyrant, but the contented slave. tHonoT women, for only from honored women can free men spring. What wo know as history is mostly prejudice in a retrospective mood. The type of the miser for all timo was the dying man who blew out the candle, saying he could see to die in tihe dark. Uncomfortable. Finnicus^���I wonder why it is that fchosa who attain the pinnacle of success never seem to be happy? Cynicrus���Because the pinnacle of success is like the bop of a particularly tall lightning-rod with a particularly sharp point, and those who succeed in perching tempor- wily upon it usually find that th'cy are targets for all the world's lightning.��� "Town and Country." "I should like to know why/' said the Intellectual Grubber, "money ' ia called 'dough.' " ' - * ' -"'Because," simperd the' Cheerful Idiot, "everybody, kneads' it"���Baltimore American. '���. ��� ��� , ' Wife (during the quarrel)���Yes, and^ people say you only married me for my money. r , ' Husband���People are wrong, "my dear. They overlook the fact that you also had consideiable' real estate.��� Chicago News. " ' ! " *~������ ' , , ,.', Harris���Walters has' been looking pretty sad since his daughter got married,''hasn't he ? Correll���Yes;, you sec, he had no sooner got his daughter off his hands than he found he would have to put her'husband'on his feet.���-Town and > Country. - ,. r, �� 1 Billings���I saw you on the avenua yesterday afternoon. . By the way, I thought you didn't approve of smoking in the presence of ladies. ��� Grimes���H'ml That wasn't a lady; it was only my wife.���Boston Herald. - �������� Anxious Mother���Daughter, why do you persist in reading those sensational stories? '- Pretty . Daughter���Because they make my hair curl, mamma.���Chicago 'Daily News. - ' ,'' ' " ' ��������� 1. "Yes," said the'aggressive, business agent of' the labor union, "arbitration is all right m its" place." _ ' , "What do you consider its placer ���'"Why,'it always seems to mc as it we ought to strike'first ancl arbitrate, afterward. We lose all the fun tho other way."���Chicago Evening Post. ' ' . �� '- It was about this time of year when 'the late Eugene Field, of Kansas City, Denver and Chicago, was boarding at a "swell place" in Denver. , A, few strawberries were on the market ait $1 a pair, and the landlady invested. Field was a star-boarder. She passed a strawberry. He looked at "it mournfully, and'then replied to her proffer ^of the vegetable diamond: - , "No, thanks, ma'am; I'm afraid it would spoil my taste for. prunesl ��� ^Baltimore News. , �� ��� ��� , �� v Tickery^ tickery, tock, * The lambs ran after stock; The stock it' turned, and the lambs got c - burned, -.7 r.v And now they're all,in hock. _T. W. Lawson's Ticker Talk. ^ * ��� * i First Golfer (to second golfer, who" is caught in" a bunker)���Well. Jones told me this morning he did this hol�� yesterday in four. ZZ >it Second Golfer (who stammers)���It Jones.s-s-said he did it in four, he was a 1-1-1-1 .... ,v .'.,-'.*. . First Goiter���Steady,, friend, steady! , 'Second Golfer���He was a 1-lucky beggar 1���Punch. "This is the best stove in tho market. It will save half your coal." "Is that bo? Then give me two of them, so's I can save it all."���Chicago "Daily News." Whippcr���Do you think traveling on those ocean greyhounds is safe? Snap- per���What kind of a poker game do you Clfl&? A New Departure In Nursing:. 'ti the line of trained nursing a new leparture has been taken which will ippeal to the housekeeper whohasstrug- , ried with the question of home nursing, wits alternative. Convalescent nurses ire trained, to take care of the patient luring the last weeks of a - fever, or >ther lingering sickness, defore he is veil enough to go out and yet demands iompanionship. The duties are light, ���.onsisting merely of reading aloud,' giv- ng tonics, keeping the depressed spirits ip, seeing that the invalid does not ovcr- lo, himself and all thehundred and ona hings which the occasion demands. Of course, the salary is not so great- is it would be if more detailed attention ?ere required, but by means of this ���hange many a nurse who could not ,pend the time and money necessary o take the full course at a training ehool and hospital is enabled to begin ler duties in this way, while the boon 0 the average income is a great one en- ibling a nurse to be retained during he trying weeks which succeed a dan- ffirous illness, when otherwise the f am- ly would be obliged often to do the hun- tred and one little things which a quer- ' ilous patient demands, and which aro o fagging. While the salary of the ex- iert nurse is from $25 a week up, that f the convalescent nurse is about $8 or ilO, and yet her work may be as satisr actory as that of the other is an example of the progress of medfc Ine during the last century the medical ecord cites tho case of Washington's last llness. He died of laryngeal diphtheria and he treatment was. It would seem, for an Id man sick with a disease, yc-ry exhaust* ng. to the'vltality. It conusted in the ab-�� traction of between two and three quarts i blood.the 'administration of about twenty ;rainB of cslimel and six grains of tarta�� metic and an injection, with external ap- ilication of blister. And yet so strong waa )Va9hington's constitution that ho survival this treatment for twenty-four hours. During his visit in Chicago, Sir Phihp Burne-Jones has been exhibiting his tainting, "The Vampire," which inspired Kipling^s verses of that title, and ako a portrait of Kipling. In' an interview ho remarked that there was no truth in |lhe story that Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Aie English aetress, had posed for "The Vampire." The model, ho declares, was A Brusselsprofessior -.1 * ii 1 If "Tiie Widower���-A Study In ' Natural History. , de Widower.���This interesting bird, ioncermng whose habits little that is authoritative 1ms been wiitton, is believed J>y ornithologists to belong to tihe Phoo- jux family (niaiubus easy consohbus) be- Sause it has the powei to u&o fiom its ashes in ' resplendent plumage and 10- aewcd youth. Tiie Widower is a migialory bud, and ��t intervals makes its appeal anco in. \svery community, but so gieatly is,it esteemed as a household pet, and. so keen is the'pursuit'after it, that it rarely escapes the net of the fowler for long, (tndj tew'of the species aro to be seen at large. In appearance the Widower is what ���nay'he called interesting rather than beautiful, though it vanes gieatly at inherent ages. When it is young it has _, �� sad and melancholy an, and utters plaintive notes that make every female who hears,it long1 to-console it. But this sorrowful swan song lasts only dur- Lag the first few mon Wis After that it povvs cliupy and chippci, and blithely carols a. nieny roundelay that gieatly resembles ''A Hot Time in the Old Town . fTo-night." The plumage of the Widower is also worthy of note, foi it has I lie pctuhai, Ehamcleon-hke quality of changing ' under dlflcicnt conditions Dining captivity it almost invainiibly woius a, garb of eombre hue unfishioniiulo in cut, and frequently conspicuously uiipieeiicd and unkempt. i ' Tho moment, howcvci, it becomes free j tins' sliango bud blossoms foith m a beautiful and goigeoiv coat of lively hues thai is calculated to cilch the'eye fiom a distance; but .is soon (is il i*�� again caught and caged it molls, its fine fcatlipis ami lesumps its umilliaclivc appearance. No one has ever been able to account for tins uliosynciasy, but the phenomenon of the Widower doing his lightning change act into a buttettly, 01 back into a giub, may be witnessed daily Tint, pecuhauty, unfoi tunalply, often causes great disappointment to the ovvncis, as not infrequently a 'female goes to gieat trouble to cap hue a Widowci, thinking It a Bird of Paradise, only to discover when she has got it home that it is nothing but a.scarecrow Thus, from this simple circumstance, does nature teach us not to buy a bird by its looks. Concerning the' anatomy of the Widower ornithologists differ greatly, though all agree that it is All Heaic. Some authorities conte'nd, however, that this organ, in size and shape, is like an omnibus, while others hold that it is of the elasticity and durability of a football *tt is interesting to observe that some of the most earnest and painstaking investigators along this line of scientific "research aro women, and we may confident ly look for valuable light to be thrown on the -subject in the near future. The chief characteristic of the Widower is, as has been stated, its ability to bxise from the ashes of the funeral pyre ���as long as it is its wife's funeral���with renewed youth. Reputable eye-witnesses declare jfchat they have seen one of these birds, droopy, with draggled tail feath ers, and one leg swathed m red flannel bandages for rheumatism, suddenly metamorphosed into a giddy young thing 1.111(1 01 red-hub Jiuaa *��UlU luudy lo f^ia .o the pipei-?" i "Yes, si. " ' "The scenery and costumes are all flushed, i believe?" ' "Yes, sn " "Veiy well. The pxtras are out announcing that the prisoner m that mui- Jei eas>i> has been acquitted Call the tompany for lehcaisal tomorrow morning, and who the manager of the opera louse in New Roclicllc* that we open lliere ou Monday mght." "Yes, bii, but " "Oh, yes, I had almost forgotten; ring ip that author of ours and tell him to vrite fche play"���"Di im.itic Mirror." The Englishman's Rasher. f ���������. From the tight lutlo English island, Sa an editorial m the London "Daily Repress," conies staillmg dietetie news. It is nothing lct>s than that in tho tery citadel of Beefeaterdom, m the very tortex whence annually descend innumer- ble rashers and countless companioning ggs, a doubt has anseu whethor "copi- fus breakfasts of fried eggs and broiled (aeon" (as Thackeray puts it), followed (y two oi thiee solid meat meals every lay, is_quite the propci thing. Our British friends, it appeals, have at last be- Kn to wondei whether emulation of hn liidd, m Uie matter of morning honu, is conducive lo agile minds und a Ight and spungy step. They aro actu- llly beginning lo fe.ii, 'lis said, that thoy rat too often, loo much, .md feho wrong flung. Tho "lixpiosb',' find* levl tor its sobor title rsci mon oii'o-.ci-enUiit; iu the le- lort of 'tho United Slates consul at Liv- Irpool, which ��,talos<that Uh�� KnglitJlt mi- toilations of bacon', fiom Amend an- lually amount in value to ton millions if pounds atcilmg, and that most of (Jus poik is absoibcd by the British >rcaktaslci. , "On the, whole," says the "IXpiess," naively, "Uusps not a tact to ��e exulted m." It goes even tuithei, and idmits thai theie is a "kernel of truth" in the foreign accusation against Eng- islnnen "of living mainly upon chops and rteaks, Brussels sprouts and lurnip- K>ps."^ "The eternal bieakfast bacon," the "Express" continues, "is one striking instance of the shocking lack of variety In food, which may, with some truth, be iMeged against England " This dietetic monotony it attributes, fiist, to "want of* Imagination" (to which we unanimously igree), and, second, to "railway rates" (which statement seems -obscure). But 'however "shocking" may be the lack of variety m food at English tables, *hll more of a shocker is the redundance In quantity of meat. Fifty millions of iollars' worth of bieakfast bacon 1���not "to mention eggs," fried or omelette.J No ivonder the "Jixpre33" giavely asks "Do we eat too much, meat?" and in conclusion declaies for answer that, "it is very iouhtful whether the Enghsih habit of three meals is a sound one either foT health or business" For the English business man, it says, not only partakes copiously of bacon and eggs m the morning,'1 but refuses to, foi ego a substantial allowance of meat for lundh, and tackles a. goodly ehunk of Old England's roast beef for dinner. We quite agree with Bhe "Ejqpreas" that he is thereby "handicapped.'' iuuta Ol tills ,killJ' I v' OJCtt tiicc.vwlh ny stagger,' said lhe eighteenth-century player, who thus mined the gieat scene nf^a fine tragedy on the night of its irst pioduclion at Diury Lane. 'A liss upon the kips' is another story told of lhe original Claude Melnotle, Macrcady. "I have to confess that the evlrane- >us influence which has sometimes di awn ne out of tjie spmt of my part and once >r twice has made me laugh m the midst >f a serious situation, has resulted fiom :he fascination which the faces of chil- Iren have for me. Eveiy emotion is joignantly and completely leflected in their little countenances as in a mirror." �� m His First Prescription. -^--~-"���* i Mrs Mulligan���Pat, didn't th' docther ave yez inny midicme' Mr. Mulligan��� **Tot a bit. He'd hov me makin'_a billy; [oat av mesilf���lakin' this piece av pap- ir ivxy three hours���"Judge" "1 don't know what there is about bet- iing on horse races that should be so leletenous to health," said young Mrs. ToikiiiB, pensively. "I never heard of iuch ia thing," aii&vveied tho visitor. ���Neither did I until L hc.inl Charley talk- ii<* about it. Eveiy 111111' he makes a ��et he comes homo mid says there is fomcllhing vwong vwlh his system."��� tflra��hington"Stii." "What,", asked Cheerful, "is the difference between a'man who is'inegu- lar at 'his work .-ncl the tail of a wealthy, man's carnage horse?" "I don't know," wcanly responded his victim. ' , ��� -v "Because," replied Cheerful, without the slightest encouragement, "one is docked because it's absent, and the other is absent 'because it is docked. Ha, ha!"���Baltimore Amencan. Among the -carnivorous 'mammals, the that could dance the two-step and -stay ' North American certainly ranks low in up all night, and that looked like a two- bhe list in comparison with his voracious year-old. II. has also been observed .that the oftener the Widower arises from the ashes ithe younger it becomes, until after about the third rejuvenation nothing but a debutante is young enough to attract its attention. In its habits the Widower is a curious iwwnhination of the fly ibird and the barnyard fowl, for while its giddy flights are, interesting it is admirable because it Iknovra ibxrcv to scratch for a living. It !haa, too, generally a well-lined seat, instead of having to build one. In a way the Widower has something of the predatory characteristics of the liawk, and knows that the only way to get a thing is to take it, and this causes at to often pounce upon the most charm- ing young pullet in the bunch and bear fher away, under the very eyes of her chaperon. -On the whole, though, it con- duets it* love-making after the manner of the nightingale, and sings a song of such surpassing sweetness that no heart can resist it. There are many reasons why women should have a great fondness for Widow- era, and a desire to possess one. It is always much more comfortable to have a thoroughly trained pet about the house than one that one has to domesticate themselves. A Widower's first owner has always taken the edge .off of it and taught it littlo tricks, and it knows when to pipe up, and when to sit on his perch and. keep mum, all of which render it a most desirable orname&t lor the parlor or boudoir. Inasmuch os the Widower has once been caught in the matrimonial transit has been argued that it showed lack of Intelligence in allowing itself to be snared a second time. The truth seems to be, however, that after having onco had its wings clipped, it does not know what to do with freedom, and so returns to the cage through force of habit. British brother, especially -since we, in this country, have been assailed and taken prisoner by the innumerable army of breakfast cereals j "while they, in Britain, are but just now fronting tho attack. Apropos of cereal foods, .we note that another English paper, the "Daily -Mail," speaks of the "many and wonderful" varieties of cereal foods of late introduced by "divers advertisements, somewhat to the bewilderment of .She public;" and that it also announces, in an editorial, its plans foi a aeries -of practical articles by an -"athlete and brainwork- sr" on the '^bewildering" new comestibles. "That the public may *be guided in its choice by competent authority," says tihe "Mail" with great solemnity, "Mr. Eustace Miles has undertaken an heroic experiment." "An heroic experiment!" W��e sincerely trust that Eustace will survive the fourteen "new foods" which he proposes to test, .one each day, during a fortnight. But surely 'tis, a long, long ��tep for the British citizen from greasy fried eggs and greasier" fried pork, to a light cereal breakfast. Perhaps, if he get through tibis successfully, he and all of us may later learn to listen needfully to the wise words of the ���'revered EdwitTd Hooker Dewey, MD., the original No Breakfast Plan man ��� a person who strenuously contends that only he who omits the morning meal has really mns. tered "the true science of living." perhaps he's right. The Story of Adam and Eve. The two compositions which follow were wntten by two girl pupils of tihe Now York public schools, and their authenticity is vo'iched for in ^tihe New York "Evening Post." ��� * ,'" 1 �� God made the fn->t person that was a man this man wanted a lady so when he went to sleep he cut out a rib and made a lady. There were a lot of fruit trees and one was a apple tree. -, J God said they may eat all the fruit but not the apple tree and those two people were forbidden not to eat the apples on the tree and Eve took "some of the apples and gave then to Adam Adaim eat them and they stayed down his throat. ^ ' God saw that some one has been eaten the apples Adem said that Eve gaveJit to him, and those two people wore had to work for their own living. IL * ' v God made Adam he was fasti asleep wlien God look the side bone and made a. women The womens name waa Eve She was" Adams wife. God said they Bhould go to the orchard and get all the fruit they wanted but do" not touch tihe apple plant so Eve took one of the apples and gave it to Adam. He aie it they was a snake that told them that God said that tJbos Apples are not to be touched, so God looked down at Adam wid said Didn't I say you should not touch them apples So Adam eaid Eve gave me it so said you must leave this orchard So Adam and Eve left it and. Angel gied them out the angel had a J -ove Letters cf a Busincsb I.I^j. Tlio course of tine love, though he-��et nth almost insiumounlablo oo��tuucd, iften lewaids the failhlul loveis at the hst with supieme happiness. But, ala-,1 oniclunes the said, tiuo love pioves loughfc but a toboggan slide leading to a neupice, into whn.11 tlic tiuc lovcis' topes -aie hulled and dashed into?atomic nil tfhei eons. ' We have befoie us, bays "Punch," a ���olumo of a "Bu&mess Alan's Love Let- iers," a few extiacls fiom which wo five below. Header, if you have a teai, irepare to shed it now! The burning, mssion which surges in the lovei's heart, though embodied m plnases habitually ised by a business man,'13 sure to toueii four soul. But piesently comes the fathehc ending, wnen she is no longer mything to him, and he���to use the mi- ^eiicci, but'comprehensivc vernaculai��� b to her as "dead as a dooi-nail." * Header, lead onl August 1, 1899. Dear Miss"Smythe���With rcfeience to ny visit last evening at lhe house of Mr. John Jorkins, our mutual fuend, when I had the pleasure of meeting you. Hiving been much cluumed by youc ���onvei ���) itiun and gcncinl alti.ictiveness, [ beg id cnqiiui* whether you vvill^allow ne to cultivate the acquaintanceship lurther. 4 j .Awaiting the favor ot your esteemed 'eply��, '. Touts faithfully, 1 ' , J" <��� John 'Gieen. ' /H. r . < > , August 3, 1S99 ; My Dear Mi&s Smythe���I bog to nc knowledge with many, thanks' leceipt of pour letter of even date, contents' of which I note *with much pleasuie. l 'hope to call this evening at 7 13 p ni. when I liust to find you at home'^ With kindest regaids, I beg to remanij Youis veiytiuly, , ,��� ^ 1 John Gieen. ��� , _ni.- N A August 21, 1S09 My Dearest Evelina���^-lteferimg to our jonversation this evening when you con- lented to become my wile. ' ' ' 11 beg to confirm the, arrangement then made, and< would suggest the wedding should take place within,the ensuing ysix months. No doubt you will give the other necessary details your 'best consideration, and will communicate your views to me in due course. < _ * / - Tiusting there is every happiness before us, v I remain,* ��> t Your darling Chickabiddv, ; ", 3 John. , / IV. . ��* ^ " ' August 22, ,1899 My* Ownest Tootsey-Wootsey \���-Enclosed please Jind 22-karat gold1-engagement ring, set with^ thirteen diamonds and three rubies, receipt of which kindly acknowledge by return.1 *> , 4 Trusting same will give every satisfaction, I am, ' ' _- f Your only lovey-dovey, f ", Johnny. Kmdly note kisses. " * t i j V. ��� -% , NOT' KNOW HI; saw in his hand. Dreams. Men counted Mm a dreamert T)ream�� Are but the light ol clearer skies��� Too dazzling tor our naked eyes. And when we catch their flashing beams We turn aside and call them dreams. Dh! trust me every thought /that yet tn greatness roee and sorrow set��� rhat Time to ripening glory nursed. Was called an "idle dream" at first. ���Ernest Jones. November 24, 1899.' My Sweetest Evelina���I am duly in receipt of your letter of 20th mst., ^hioh I regret was not answered before, owing to pressure of business. - ^ In reply thereto I beg to state that I do love you dearly, and only you, and also no one else in all the world. Fur-* ther, I shall have much pleasure in con- __ turning to love you for evermore, and no "one else in all the world. ' Trusting to see you this evening as usual and in good health. I am, Valentine Fisher's Sciatica. Cured toy Dodd's Kidney ��' ' Pills. t- 1 Could.Hardly Put OneiFootito the- Ground.-,Now he Can Walk all Day Without Trouble.l Collingwood, Apur 5.���(Special ) ���, ���'Dodd's Kidney Pills - made' a' new", man of me," so ��� speakb Valentine Fisher, well known in Collingwood ^ ancl the surrounding country; '11 was- troubled with Kidney Disease for,thir- l teen years It developed into Sciatica and located (in my bide so that I was hardly able to walk, and could not do without the aid of a cane My back was'also aflected and altogether I- II t " r was a cnpple in , the most painful sense of,!tlie>word. ' . n rh ' v , "And,-the _ .worst of it all was "I - could'tet no lehef Doctors and medi-, ' *^ 1 y x cines failed lo do me any good,, till I ' was fortunate 'enough to liy^ Dodd's-���;- .Kidney Pills The benefit was almost miraculous My, health'"came back �� and ^ the change m my appearance was - io' treat that some of >niy neighbors 1 did not "know me ' ��� 'q- r,<- -' "Whereas before^ could hardly put . one'foot to the ground, and I had to \ use morphine to ease the pain, I was^ ^ enabled to go to work .selling ir fruit*A trees-and walk all day without any/"^ trouble " , : ���v " Sciatica and kindred,; diseases , are ^ ,'.? caused"1 bv uric acid in the blood: ,l ;iV Dodd's Kidney Pills put-the Kidneys, A^ m shape to take the unc acid eut.pf' , ' the blood, (and'the 'Sciatica disap- <^ pears. 1 ' ' ' i* - , . - ^-1, i( Anecdotal. "Ici," nvused the simple iello*w, spelling put the word <m window of the reetaur- tnt, "that's ice���On, that's on, of course ���parle, Ofhi that's talk, and, of course, the other word's French. French talk ou ice! Wish I understood it���always heard it was,pretty warm." And Blunders on the Stage.' The Modern Meihod, Tho 10, 20, 30 manager sat in his palatial office and knitted his brows. When he had worked them into a sufficiently grotesque pattern he walked nervously to the window. He waa distinctly "on.edge." Suddenly he gave a cry of joy. He had caught a glimpse of the front page of a "yellow extra," in the hands of a newsboy two blocks away. It took but a moment to summon hia press agent. When the Trust's promoter of publicity entered the room the following coned sation ensued: 1 'Is tlio printing for that new play all ready?" "Yes, sir." "Havo you got plenty of good photos ��f the peopla engaged?" "Yes, air." "And a yMh big bua&b. .*�� ��bo -boat W "Players are often guilty of amusing blunders on tihe stage. It is one of tlio traditions of our profession," says Julia Marlowe, the American actress, "that a new player is never really 'seasoned' until he has been the victim of some unusual or remarkable stage contretemps. "On the first nigbt of 'Thei Cavalier* I made a slip, which, fortunately, I re- severed from by the rapidity of my sub- lequent actions. Tha ambulance had departed under the guidance of the treacherous villain, and I, as Charlotte Durond, ivas about to follow and save the men. the aoldiera were ru-ilnng to make everything ready. I had picked up my saddle from the floor and threw it to one of the tnen. " 'Put my horse on my saddle 1' I cried. . "If I had hesitated or had tried to repeat the line properly the audience tvould have roared. But that is one thing { have learned by experience, as every player does. If one makes a mistake, lever go back to correct it. Everyone in the house will notice it then, whereas if rou go right on the chances are that Knly a few people in the front rows hare Understood, and they'have not time to laugh if you hurry. Id-timers can. qu��U a score ot inci- nnniMM Your ownest own, a John. VL January 4, 1900. To Miss Smy the:.. Madam���In accosd- anee with the intention expressed in my letter of yesterday, I duly forwarded addressed to you a parcel containing all letters, etc, received from you, and presume they have been safely delivered. I have received to day, per carrier, a parcel containing various letters which 1 have written to you from time to time. No doubt it was your intention to despatch the complete number written by me, but I notice one dated August 21 is not included. Will you kindly forward the letter in question by return, when I will send you a full receipt? Yours faithfully, John Green. VH. January 6, 1000. To Miss Smythe: Madam���I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of yesterday, and note your object in retaining my letter of August 21 last. As I intend to defend the issue in the case, I shall do as you request, and ��ill leave all further communications to be made through my solicitors. ' Yours, etc, John Green. vm. 15 Peace Qourt, Temple, E.C. Messrs. Bang, Crash <fc Co., 9a, Quarrel Ptow, E. O. Smythe v. Green. Gentlemen���We are in receipt of your communication of yesterday's date, with which you enclose copy of letter dated August 21. We note tliat you state the , document in question has been duly 'THE blood is your life; when it stops, stamped at Somerset House, and are X ,.,.,...-,.,,�� ..���.,>.�� j���j rf .. i-_ir -. I !..__ -1 j. 1.1.' _��� uv _ Heart Strength is Whole Strength coursing you're dead. If it half slops, YOU'LL BE HALF DEAD. Your pain, your weakness, your eternal weariness will all dibappcar if you strengthen ymir heart. But you may take special medicine for special trouble if you're in a special hurry. Cheer up 1 / Don't be moping I You can be cured. Try it and for the first time you will know the true meaning of that grand old v,ord -Hernia. DRt AGNEW'S HEART CURE renews the vigor in thirty minutes after taking the first dose. Will CUKli the poorest heart and strengthen the strongest man. W. H. M-dley, drucg st, rf Kingston, Ont .wrltr-n "Mr. Thomas Cooke, of Kingfon, purchased six bottles of Agnew's Heart Cure and s iys he is cured of Heart Weakness, from which be had suffered for years." Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder relieves catarrh or colds at once and cures forever. Dr. Agnew'B Ointmoat compels Piles to perish permanently. It gives ease on the instant. Ban- ishes all manner of (kin diseases and orupUons. Tbe tafeat and ckeapest cure. Ftfa, 85c 4 wilting our client this evening with a view to offering your client terms, through you, to stay the proceedings nhich have, been commenced. , Yours faithfully, Blithers, Blathers, Blothers St, Co. Affection for a Piff. Wlhen the late "Tom" Heed' -vis* flrtft piked of for tho Presidency, he was> Isked if he thought ,t!he party would put lim in nomination. His' reply waar 'They might do worse���and Ivthlnk'-tlheyi nil" 1 ' * ' ^ - , a ' ��� To a group of friends Ellen Terry one* (aid: "Acting is not like dra/wing. You Sake a line. If it is wrong, you rub it it ait once and make.another.^With; kting that is impossible; there is no al-1 leringj���it must stand. I often feel as ifw I must cry to the audience, 1 'O -that ia^j- |n-ong, not as I meant it to be! Let meTf fet that part or sentence over again!'" 1 A certain learned professor in a Ger- v, p university has a learned twin broth,-1 k, living in the same'town, wh'o re-| kembles him so closely tHiat it is almost'v ppossible to tell them apart. A towna- ���an meeting tho professor on the boule- '��id stopped him, saying: "Pardon m&, tut is it to you or your brother that II lave tihe honor of speaking?" "Sir," was lhe ready reply, "you are speaking to myl wotlhear." , , *-, In a Southern state the other day a- Jentleman, who was waiting for his train' ft a country station, asked a poiter who- Iras lying on one* of the seats where the Ifcation-master lived, and the porter laz- ly pointed to tihe house with his foot.', tbe gentleman, very much struck at the nan's laziness, said: "If you can show^ Ine a lazier action than that, my goodf .. man, I'll give you two bits." The porter, not moving an inch; replied: "Put Jit- m my pocket/guv'nor." Among the stories that'most ��� amused the late Queen, who had a keen sense ofi , aumor, was that told her by. the late Puchesa of Athole "of the comical ad-, fcrtisement regarding the Dunkeld and' Blairgowrie coadli, which vyas posted 4n *��� Uhe village of Dunkeld. The eoaoh waai , Eed *Tho Duchess of Athole,' and ,the - from which it started was 'The- e'a Arms.' The notico ran as foi-' tows: The Duches3 of Atliolo leaves the. Duke's Arms every, lawful morning at 'v dx o'clock.5�� -I In her reminiscences, Henrietta Cock-' Win relates an amusing anecdote of Rob- " ttt Bi owning. She relates that as -flie- Kvt in the drawing-room of her London house one afternoon, she bappened to took out of tho back window. "And! t - there," she says, "I saw Air, Brownings' Dursing a goose, absolutely carrying it ini his arms. The poet came into the balk with the goose. I laughed, remarking that it was v. queer kind of pet. 'It is 10 clever and atiectionate,' answered Mr*' Browning; 'it is not well, so I am look*< ing after it. It follows ma about just! like a dog.'" Bishop Watterson tells a story of how; he was once taken for a "drummer" by} a. traveling salesman who was riding on fche same .tram. "What house do you re-, present!" he was asked. "Lord &j Church," replied the bishop. "H'ml"! mused the drummer; "never heard of rfa Any branch house?" "Branch houses all over the world," said the man of God,! easily. "That's queer I" ���went on tao. drummer, who began to think he bad run across a boastful representative oi soma email concern. "Er���boo��s and! shoes?" "No," said the bisihop. "Dryj zoods?" asked the drummer, beginning! to display irritation. "Well, no," saia the bishoD^'some folks call 'emnotions."' ,>} .'! When Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois was married he was in decidedly poor lircumstances and Lis mother, an economical Quakeress, w"ho was anxious to Have him found a household, said to aim: "Joseph, now that thee is married, SZSFSLP ?etooakcZth^igad^ ^^s��i!L^#i:^t^^bS relates Mr. Cannon; "I tried to milk the taw, but she kicked me over, nnd I had to give that up as a bad job. I tried to Je��d Qi^oaHf^and it butted nja^aZU Mr. Honeyman���Miss Lofty, you are- he sweetest, loveliest, t " woman in all the world. Miss Lofty���Thanks. v It is so pleasant to have one's own conviction indorsed by a gentleman of such excellent judgment as yourself.���Richmond' D13- 2ateb. ���J������*������������Mwtarral** i-vspjiritpt^a immmatiasmsam^ ���^^^'tfiiCc^?^^ JfU -r*��*j!.v�� bi J ' i ' t j l i . *^| ^"MT *"^ nilik. j-mP. vlffl ��� i. in ���"^iy*!tU^.^'jjrt^��i j*��i��'n'i��*iM u *i s���^ ��*J ,-i fe?' ' 1, ���-I tr f ., 'f-i i, y i i*S 4 w ^���1, / w ;* f ��� -i. �� �� i 1 I. * < i* o L w": pi- Li i ', '& I1 i!-. 1 Ik it, ~ < r '? ri) fie. /J !! M J. |��J<*rjT.��iirM.|i.��><t���*M��^a*<*Wl^g1 JUS y i *' . 1 w J . ' ' ,1" ,3?r ATLIN T3.'C.',. SATURDAY;'', MAY ;2, , 1903. PICKED UP HERE AND THERE. Church ol Eiiuluiul: St. Martin's. Cliuruh, cor. Tliiul and Traln- oi- iti-eota. Sunday, services, Matins, ut II a. 111., IiveiiboiijrViM p.m.' Celebintion of Holy Communion, 1st Sunday in ouch month and 011 Special occasions. Sunday School, Sunday nt 8 p. m. Committee Meotinus, 1st Tliin-kduy iu each moiitli. Kev. 1'. 1j. Stephenson, Rector. St. Androw's Pi'esbjterluii Church hold services in tho Church on Sncoud Street. Mornin;; sei"> ice nt 1L evening service 7 :'.50 ' Sunday Jjchool nt tho close of the nioriiiuir ���service. Kev. 10. TurKliigtau, .Minister. Kree ��� Heading Room, to which nil are welcome. Mr. and Mrs. Ryder, of San Jose, Cal., arrived last week''and will -/'spend the summer. Mr. Ryder, who is a first class surveyor, will ' assist J. H. Brownlee, P.L.S. * /" Capt. Richards,'of the Gleaner, spent'a. day or two in town this week. ., ' ' .. ; L. H. Griffith, one of the con- 'tractors for the Pine Creek Power KQo.; returned * to Adin this week He brought in' eleven men with >s him. ,; -' " - > Mr. David Hastie, of the Grand Hotel, has completed an important . addition, which consists of a large extension to the ladies'., parlor,' and - the construction of' a verauhah * overlooking the lake. H^ intends inaugurating, the improvements by giving a'dance on "Victoria Day, to %. .which everybody will'be "duly welcome. ��� . ' * ,* . Nat-Wheeling returned with, his bride on Wednesday of, this week. Mr.'.and" -Mrs. Wheeling will take up'their residence 'above Fraser & Co.'s store where, they have fitted up very comfortable quarters. The Claim extends its heartiest congia- tulations and wishes Mr. and Mrs Wheeling every, happiness and prosperity,'' Sixty-five cents per pair Ladies' Misses' and Boys' Rubbers at Blaekett & Co.'s". Fresh stock of Imported and Domestic Cigars at C, R. Bourne's. R. A. Jackson, late manager of the Atlin Lake Mining Co., returned Thursday from a month's visit to Vancouver. Mr. Jackson will devote his energies to looking after his own interests on Blue Canyon. Oranges, Lemons and Apples��� McDonald's Grocery. F,. S. Wilkinson, P.L.S., returned to Atlin this week. Spring Cleaning���Get your Wall Paper aud House Lining from J. A. Fraser & Co. Daltou Rorke has been receiving tbe personal congratulations of his many friends in Atlin, on his elevation to "papa-hood." Mr. Williams, the new manager of the Birch Creek Co., arrived from Vancouver this week. The concert, to be given in Discovery next Friday in aid of the Fire Fund, promises to be a. very successful affair, and although the programme has not yet been completed, the committee, in securing such talent as the- following, is assured of a bumper house: Mrs. Blaekett, Mrs. Costigan ajid Miss Edwards, Messrs. Lurnsden,. Pilling, Moberly, Kerr, Parrott, Fall and Pavey, au orchestra, consisting of eight or tea pieces, assisted by Anderson and McKay on the pipes. .Subscribe lor the Atlin Claim and get your friends to subscribe. W. J. Anderson returned from an extended, visit to Sail - Francisco this week. * ', Blue Ribbon Coffee is absolutely pure.���It is sold iii all the stores in Atlin , Gents' Furnishings, Boots and Shoes at cost." A chance to outfit for very little money. C. D. Newton's, Discovery. ��� .We are pleased 'to announce that Mr. W. G. Paxtou, Notary Public, has opened an office on Third street, directly .opposite , the Government office, where he will be prepared to transact all mining ancl other business referred to him. "He will visit Discovery regulai ly twice or.thrice each'' week during the' season. Messages may be left either at Kerr & Co.'s stoie or at Mc'Don- aid's Hotel. " ��� ���-, .Slaughter prices on' Ladies', Men'**, .and Children's Shoes .at Closiug'Out Sale.���Blaekett & Co. For a good, square meal go "to the Pioneer Bakery and-Restaurant. .'CLOSING OUT, We Our- are going out-of_ Business. Stock must be sold. by, the opening of 'navigation.' We- have'' a large line of -Men's- Furnishing Goods, including ,' \ MEN'S UNDERWEAR, ' OVERSHIRTS,' FEDORA HATS , '; STETSON' HATS,' /"FINE SHOES, in different" t weights/ ; DRY' ../GOODS, BLANKETS,' /*' Etc.,' Etc, All ,of which. can .be bought below cost.- . , ' ���'���'���'', DON'T OVERLOOK THIS! Come and look around. You will surely see,"something. , *= you need and on which you will save money) / ��� BLACKETt &'��� CO. - t - *'A New.Store* Russell Hotel, DIXON BROTHERS, ��������� Proprietors .E. L; Pillman,& Co:'"have just completed^ the alterations of then- new store recently purchased from McLellan & McFeely, , of Vancou- ver,"and have made of it one of the finest stores in the North.- > - Pillman &' Co. intend^ to greatly increase their already "very large business. ' With ^the' "opening ,* of navigation they will -carry.a full line of dry goods and general hardware, and will besides carry bne of biggest stocks of groceries and provisions in the district. Their endeavors iu the interests of their customers and the public will no doubt meet ..with the support and encouragement which their enterprise justly merits. ^ ��� * ' Pool' ���& '. Billiards, Free. -. . - ��� , Freighting and Teaming. & Horses and Sleighs for Hire.' UancoiHKr General Store, > ' A - - - - , ( ���~ ������-������� ��� ^ r ' , Dealers in -Provisions,"' Dry,Goods,/Etc., -' "'" ���- . A. Sm Gross: & Co.... DRINK THE BEST ��IV A BOB TEA." is ��� > The Rise and Fall. The lowest temperature recorded for ��� the week ending ist inst, as follows : April 125 ; . 3t above " , 26 . 22 , ' l. 27 . 19 , ,28 . , 11 , .29 . 17 , . 30 ' ��� 29 , May ' 1 - , . 25^ > In Lead Packets ol ^4-lt> aiid i-lb each. .. ] For Sale by all First Class Grocers. KELLY. DOUGLAS & Co.. Wholesale Grocers, Vancouver, B.C Certificate of Registration of an Extra-Provincial Company. Companies Act, 1897." I HEREBY CERTIFY that I havo this day rofjiiterotl "The North Columbia Gold Mining Company" as an Extra-Pro- vinciul company undoi* tho "Companies' Act, 1897," to carry out or oiFect all or any of the objects hereinafter set forth to which the legislative authority of tho Legislature of British Columbia extendi. The Head Offico of the Company ia situate at Huron, in the county of lieadle, State of South Dakota. The amount of the capital of the company is five hundred thousand dollars, divided into five hundred thousand shares, of ono dollar each. The head office of the company in this Province is situate in Abltn B.C.,and Julius U. Rulfner, whose address is Atlin, B.C. is the attorney for the company. Tho time of the existence of tho company is 20 years, Given under mv hand and seal of office at Victoria, Province of British Columbia, this 15th day of April,,one thousand nine hundred and throe. ]I/.Sj S. Y. WOOTTON, Registrar of loint Stack Companies. A Boon to the Thirsty I Drinks, 2 ior a Quarter. Commencing Monday, April 20th, I will cut prices on allvmy 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. . Hydraulic Plant FOR SALE���AT A BARGAIN��� A complete hydraulic plant, consisting of: 260 ft., 18^n. steel pipe 684 , 14 , 821 , i nj4 , 60O , TO , , 1 reducer, 22 to 18 inch \ ' 1 do 18 to 14 inch 1 do 11^ to 10 inch 1 18-inch elbow 1 14-inch , 1 nj^-in. , 2 6-inch monitors 1 ii-inch water gate, Etc., Etc. The plant has been in use, but is guaranteed in first class condition. For terms, etc., F.O.B. cars, call or write this Office. Northern Lumber Oo. Priees for the'Season 1908. Rough, up to 8 inches, $35. do do 10 ,, 40. do do 12 ,, 45. Matched Lumber, $45. Suriacing, $5.00 per 1000 feet. %^9 Ml* -ALASKA ROUTE SAILINGS- The following Sailings are an- nonnced for the month of May, leaving Skagway at 6 p.m., or on arrival of the train : Princess May, May, 7, 16 & 27 For further information, apply or write to H.J3. Dunn, Agent, Skagway, Alaska.. 1 nn I I n\ a 1 Ml I 1 i m
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