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The Hedley Gazette and Similkameen Advertiser
BC Historical Newspapers
The Hedley Gazette and Similkameen Advertiser was published in Hedley, in the Similkameen region of southern British Columbia, and ran from January 1905 to August 1917. The Gazette was published by the Hedley Gazette Printing and Publishing Company, and its longest-serving editor was Ainsley Megraw (1905-1914). The Gazette served the communities of Keremos, Olalla, and Hedley. In 1916, the paper was purchased by James W. Grier, who shortened the title to the Hedley Gazette.
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A MOST SUCCESSFUL EVENT To Mark the Dawn of a New Era��������� When Cactus-covered Ranges will give Place to Cultivated Fields. R. H. KOGERS, M.A.V, B.C.L. SOLICITOR, CONVEYANCER, NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC. Vernon, B. G. A. MEGRAW Notary Public Conveyancer, Real Estate, Mines, Insurance,; Crown Grants applied for under Land Act and Mineral. Act. Agent for: The Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Canada, London & Lancashire Pire Insurance Co., The Ocean Accident & Guarantee Co. Hedley, B.C. H. fl. WRIGHT Boot and Shoe Maker B-fEDJU'EY', B. C. REPAIRING NEATLY DONE. Stage and Mail Orders Promptly Attended To. Nickel Plate Barber Shop FIRST CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT, ft HOT AND COLD BATHS. :: POR- CELAIN TUBS. fliex. f. McDonald ���������HEDLEY, B.C. FORTY-FIFTH YEAR. Be PACKS : WEEKLY : ULUSTBATED. indispensableYo mining men . $3 PER YEAR POSTPAID. . SlMUJ SOn SAMPLE COPY. Minings Scientific Press 830 MARKET ST., SAN FBAN0ISCO. OAL. The banquet on Tuesday night at the Golden Gate hotel in Fairview, in B. G. | honor of the' Messrs. Shatford, was in all respects a most successful affair. In spite of the rainy weather and sloppy roads, there was a good representation from outside points. Preparations had been made for fifty guests, and forty-nine sat down. The committee on arrangements are to^be congratulated on the efficient manner in which they did their work, for the whole affair went off without a hitch. The Golden Gate hotel' outdid itself in the excellent spread which comprised the whole gastronomic gamut of good things, and left nothing to be desired. The chair was filled by A. Megraw, who opened the toast list with the time-honored toast of the King, the guests singing the national anthem with Mr. Atkins presiding at the piano. The "Army and Navy", was proposed by Mr. Main and responded to by Mr. Venner, when a song followed by Mr. Wade. The chairman px*oposed the toast "Our Guests," which was received by the company in a manner so hearty that no doubt was left as to the intense appreciation on the part of the people of the lower Okanagan and Similkameen, of the great service done to the district by the Messrs. Shatford in their successful flotation of a very strong company which is to take over and subdivide the Ellis estate. The chairman, in proposing the toast, pointed out that this achievement, in so short a time, on the part of the guests seemed all the more remarkable' when t was remembered that men who had claimed for themselves great repute as financiers had fallen down on it after spending something over two years to flocit the scheme unopposed, while the Messrs. Shatford had been met at every turn with opposition, both covert and open, from influential sources, but won out in spite of it all. In doing them honor, the people of the district -were honoring themselves. Mr. L. W, Shatford replied first, expressing his gratification at the reception tendered them and giving an interesting talk on what had been done in connection with the project which they had in hand, and outlining future plans for the opening up of the district. Ho expressed in no uncertain sound his absolute confidence in the district and its enormous capabilities. Mr. W. T. Shatford followed, expressing his heartfelt thanks for the honor done him, and supplementing the remarks of his brother by further details of improvements to be eileetcd as well as drawing a picture of the change that would bo wrought when all had been consummated. He deprecated any spirit of sectionalism, and said that if tho sale of subdivided lands in the Ellis estate depended upon decrying those in other parts of the valley, none would be sold; but he was pleased to state that the sales that were being made on applications from ���������Outsiders had already exceeded their expectations and ultimate success was assured. An appropriate song "Money" with some clever local hits was given by Mr. Venner. The "Agricultural and Commercial Interests" was proposed by W. A. Lang, of Peachland, in an excellent speech that was meaty and entertaining. Messrs. R. H. Parkinson, J. K. Robinson, H. Ingles, C. J. Rippin and J. P. McCuddy responded, bringing out some very good points. Mi*. J. R. Brown varied the programme with a song. The chairman proposed the "Provincial Government," to which L. W. Shatford, M. P. P., and W, A. Lang Mr. W. T. Shatford proposed the health of Mr. Thos Ellis, and in doing ss expressed the belief that the public did not know him well enough to fully appreciate him. He hoped that Mr. Ellis would remain in the district and bis counsel would always be welcomed by the management.. The toast was heartly drunk, the company singing "he's a jolly good fellow;." Mr. Wade also spoke very nicely on this toast, adding his' testimony to Mr. Ellis' worth. Mr. Atkins gave a piano selection. The chairman proposed the Cattle Raising Industry, coupled with the name of * Val. Haynes who humorously twitted the audience with their felicitations upon doing away "with cattle raising and doing him' out of his job of cow-punching. Mr.' Main gave a recitation. Mr.- Venner proposed the Ladies and P. H. French and Dr. White responded. ; The chairman proposd the Host and Hostess and Mr. Jones responded with a song. '' The banquet broke up shortly after midnight with ��������� singing "Auld Lang Sine,"and all agreed that a most enjoyable evening had been spent with not a hitch nor a jarring word to mar the harmony. IN CAMP FAIRVIEW The Early Promise Booms of '92 and Not Realized. of the '97 A CHEQUERED MINING CAREER But a New Era of Prosperity Dawning as the Result of the Opening Up ... of the Ellis Estate. GENERAL. Hotel Licences in Southeast Yale and Nicola Licensing District In the licensing district of southeast Yale, the following have the privilege of dealing out the ardent for the first half of 1905: J. S. McLean, Iona, Rock Creek Crossing, 6 mos.; John McKen- zie, Westbridge hotel, 6 mos.; Charles Richter, Osoyoos hotel, 6 mos.; M. Sullivan, Fairview hotel, 0mos.; Evan Morris, Miners' home, Fairview, 6 mos.; H. Jones, Golden Gate, Fairview, 6 mos.; Geo. Kirby, Keremeos hotel, 6 mos.; H. Pittendrigh, Rock Creek hotel, 6 mos.; Jas. Reith, Central Hotel, Keremeos, 6 mos.; T. McAuley, Hotel Hamill, Beaverdell, 6 mos.; D. A. Cameron, Camp McKinney hotel, 12 mos. The commissioners present were R. H. Parkinson and A. Megraw. R. B. Venner, chief licence inspector. In the Nicola district the licenses were granted by commissioners E. Barr Hall and C. E. Thomas. Hugh Hunter, chief licence inspector. The licencees aits: H. S. Cleasby, Coutlee hotel, Coutlee; Chas. de Barro, Otter Flat hotel, Tulameen City; Mrs. Alice James, Granite Creek hotel; James Wallace, Princeton hotel; John H. Jackson, Hotel Jackson, Princeton; Golds borough & Worgan, Similkameen hotel, Allison; Herring & Winkler, Grand Union hotel, Hedley; D. G. Hackney, Hotel Hedley; A. McDer- mott; Hotel Similkameen, Hedley; W, A. McLean, Commercial hotel, Hedley, Thos. Bradshaw, Bradshaw's hotel, Fifteen Mile Creek. Mr. McLean is applying for a transfer of his licence, for the Commercial hotel, to Henderson & Fraser. Green Mountain News. The teamsters are reaping their harvest this winter as the roads are kept worn with travel, and''the "Green Mountain House" is full nearly every night. Miss Winnifred Clark lias gone to Vernon to visit old friends for a short time. Two degrees below zero is the coldest weather registered at Green Mountain. The Gazette is a bird of a paper. Shooting Accident at Keremeos. responded. On Thursday, the 19th inst., Alf. Allison accidently shot himself in the side with a 22 calibre pistol at the Coulthard ranch, Keremeos. He had put out some coyote traps, and on going to examine them found a coyote in one, which he intended to shoot with the revolver. In loading the pistol, he held the barrel in one hand and the stock in the other, and in snapping it shut the thing went off, the bullet entering his left side and passing out again after striking one of the lower ribs. Dr. Whillans was summoned from Hedley to dress the wound. The patient at last reports was doing well. , In the past the wonderful surface showings of Canro Fairview have made it the 'Mecca'of prospectors, company- promotors and all hangers-on of the average mining camp. Every acre . of- ground for several miles around the town has, at one time or other, been staked as a mineral claim, and strange to say most of them satisfied the mineral act by having mineral in place; but I regret to state that most of it is still in place, for with the exception of three or four claims, there" has been no extensive mining done in the camp. The first'locations were made about 16 years ago by Messrs. Reed and Bromley, and since then the fortunes of Fairview have been rising and falling continually; now on-the verge of a boom and again so low that even old timers have felt inclined to desert the place. In the eai%ly days the central settlement (it could hardly be called a village) was located about 2 miles up Red creek gulch just a little below the Stemwinder mine; anil it was at this point that Moffat opened the first saloon in the Osoyoos valley and gave it the name of Fairview Hotel.e* Later on Geo. Shehan took over this hotel business, and being also somewhat of a prospector, became interested in several claims round about. Amongst others, he held an interest in the Stein- winder mineral claim, which was sold to the Winchester Mining Company and later on merged into the Fairview corporation. The first mining operations of any extent were carried on by the Strath-, eyre Mining Co., under the superintendence of Mr- Reynolds. This company did a large amount of work on the Rattler, Brown Bear and other mineral claims which they owned. They also buiit commodious offices, boarding houses and a 10-stamp mill on Reed creek about three quarters of a mile from Fairview townsite. The mill was only allowed to run for a short time as the cost of operating the mines in those days seems to/have been very much greater than it is to-day and certainly was not sufficiently low to make the work profitable. The Stratheyre Company still owns its original property in Fairview, and lias not since attempted either to sell or to operate it, although I believe offers have been made to purchase the entire holdings. After the Stratheyre Company shut clown, Messrs. Mangotfcand McEachren mined and put through the Stratheyre mill a considerable quantity of ore from the Morning Star mine, realizing bullion valued at over $30,000, being about $11 per ton of ore milled. At this time there were three general stores in the camp, owned by W. T. Thompson, Thos. Elliott and W. T. Shatford & Co., all three being away up the gulch above the present town- site. Eliott first moved down to the mouth of the gulch and thus has the credit of starting the town of Fairview. In 1S96, Messrs. Dier, Davidson and Russell bought the Tinhorn mineral claim, and successfully floated a company to operate it. They employed a large staff and laid out a townsite, buying Geo. Sproule's pre-emption for the purpose. They got such good reports from their assa3'ers and manager that they installed a very fine milling and concentrating plant, and acquired a great many more mineral claims; to operate which they formed other companies. In the meantime the Tinhorn stock had been steadily rising till the the 25 cent shares were actually selling for $1.50. The town began to build tip rapidly, and all kinds of businesses were started. Messrs. Dier and Davidson built a $12,000 hotel (afterwards called "The Big Tepee"). There was promise of The stock-holders of the Morrison mine in Deadwoodi Camp are pleased to know that it will not be necessary for the Morrison company to enter suit against the Montreal & Boston to compel the,completion of the sale of the mine on the terms agreed upon in April last. The Montreal & Boston Co. claimed misrepresentation of the Morrison property and repudiated the d������.-al while the Morrison people claimed absolute sale: The Montreal & Boston stock, which was to have been paid over in August last to the Morrison stock-holders, has at last been issued but is to remain in pool until next June. James I. Cronin of the famous St. Eugene mine in East Kootenay has accepted the general managership of the War'Eagle ,-*nd Centre Star properties in Rossland. Munroe & Munroe, the New York brokers who successfully floated the Montreal & Boston deal in the Bound-' ary, and went into bankruptcy shortly afterwards, have tided over their trouble and are resuming business. FAIRVIEW ITEMS. We rejftjet to record the passing away, of Charles H. Cutler, one of the old timers of this localifcy.He died on Sunday the 22ndinst., riot so much, '.of old age as of a worn out vitality. His end was easy. Mr. Cutler has been ranching here for about thirty years, and quite recently sold his cattle to Mr. Ellis. The Crown granted his pre-emption last year,and with a spirit of adventure worthy of.a younger man,he promptly located a new pre-emption. The Rev. Mi*. Fowlie held service here on Sunday in the Presbyterian church. We enjoyed the service and trust he will be with'us more frequent- . ly in the future. ��������� ��������� The telephone wire is now strung out from Pentictori; to" Faii-view and well on towards the summit of the pass. We hope to be able to "Hello"- with you Hedley people in a week or two. - ��������� Mx*. L-. W. Shatford arrived home on Saturday last, looking well and (as one would expect) very cheerful. t Mr. Lambly is expected home from, his vacation about February ith. Continued next week. KEREMEOS NOTES. W.H. Armstrong of Vancouver, who with C. F. Law, lias the option on the Coulthard ranch at Keremeos, has been spending a few days sizing up thc ranch and the valley in general. While here he was in consultation with F. W. Groves, C. E., who will look into the matter of ascertaining what will be the best method of getting water on to the ground. Mi*. Armstrong was accompanied by his brother, .X.J. Armstrong, and J. D. Hunt, both of Cavberry, Man., who have been out to tho coast on a visit and are now on their way home. They are highly pleased with, what they have scon of (Jie fruit and other products of tho Similkameen, and they give the usual report about the people in Manitoba who have made a stake there anel are now loe>king to this country for a homo where they can get a change of climate and diet. Mr. Armstrong has large interests all through the Similkameen, including coal lands in the Nicola, a group of very promising high grade mineral claims on Bear creek and farming lands above Princeton, in addition to his interests around Keremeos. He feels confident that the i*ail ways will commence construction work in the early spring. People around Keremeos are looking for good time's in the coming summer and think that the success of the Messrs. Shatford will benefit them. Mr. Ed. Williams, preparing either for a cold snap or a hasty move, has wrapped his house in a roll of tar- paper. Mr. A. Allison is rapidly recovering from his accident, and was seen out driving to-day. No doubt this popular young sportsman has received a lesson in the use of firearms he will never forget. Since the rainy season set in skates can be bought in Keremeos at a dis-* count. NEEDS OF SOUTH AFRICA WHAT THE NEW COUNTRY REQUIRES MOST. Boors Gave Kindly Welcome Their Conqueror,' Lord "Roberts. to BATTLES OF LONG AGO TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER IN THE WORLD'S WARS. ' Thc long tour in ' South Africa .������������������from which Lord Roberts has just returned, though it was made in a strictly private capacity, may bo ol great educational value if the impressions which he there received arc allowed to have* duo weiirht in our dealings with that part of thc empire, says the London -Standard: Tt. was in accordance with tho best traditions of our race that the successful general should r have been everywhere received with, frank and sincere cordiality, even by'-. men who had been sent to imprisonment.-' and. exile as the result, of his victories. Once in the Free State he was driven over a .'Ions: distance bv the very umari.. who, owing to his -knowledge of ���������English, translated .Lord Roberts' messages to General Cronje in ' the laager at Paardeberg. This Boer, a Free Stater, and one of Cronje's stalwarts, who was imprisoned after the surrender,, may be taken as typically representing the feelings of thc present-day Dutch' farmer. WELCOME TO ROBERTS. Long before the war was over he had recognized thc hopelessness of the struggle, and now he is perfectly willing to live on good terms with the British, though he quite naturally put in a plea for representative government. He showed no animus nor was there a trace of any such feeling in the attitude of any of the lighting 'Boers, who welcomed Lord and Lady Roberts on their stops. But Lord Roberts would be the iast person to overrate thc political Significance of such a welcome. It is true that the power of the Bond is for thc present largely extinguished; it is true that in Cape Colony, the pivotal section of the country, the Progressive Party has gained the upper hand. But there are 'still Dutch organs of the press in Gape Town, Blpemfontein and Petrpria, ready to stir up strife; the predi- kants are as fond as ever of preaching sedition; and well-known Boer leaders in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony are not so anxious as they might be to assist the -Government. RAILWAYS FOR FARMERS. .The great hope, therefore, 'for the future lies in securing for the Boer farmer, who really wants peace, such an opening for his agricultural industry and- such a consequent measure of prosperity that he will no-fc he tempted through idleness or distress to listen to the voice of the prcdikant- or the political agitator. The one practical method of obtaining this object is the rapid extension of railways. The Dutch farmers arc only too willing to extend their industry, but are sadly hampered in the matter of railway facilities. If the war has brought about no other good, it has taken many Boors abroad, and shown them how other countries arc thriving. One prominent Boer has brought back the latest invention in machinery from America. He succeeded in getting a lower rate on the Natal Railway for his implements, but even then the cost of carriage from Natal to Ermelo was greater than the whole freight in America to the coast and from New York to Natal. Other farmers near the wayside stations cannot get their produce carried by the railway, which caters only for the through traffic. Cattle disease is also fatal to agricultural development in a country where there are few railways. At thc present imoment neither cattle nor mules are allowed to come into Pretoria from the Western Transvaal, and the Rustcnburg farmers have to use donkeys as their sole means of transport. ANOTHER REASON. It is not too much to say that tho whole future of the country depends upon thc rapid extension of railways and the improvement of tho existing service. If our Government would expend a few millions in construction, the capital sunk would return a rich harvest in peace and contentment. The great peace-making value of railways is well known-in India, and more especially in Burma, where the extension of the line to M-anda- lay did more than anything else to get rid of dacoits. From the moment tho work was taken in hand .the unrest in tho country began to vanish. Tho importance of railways is far greater in South Africa, since .we have so much more at stake. For there is not only the Boer question ever present with us; there is a danger well recognized in South 'Africa of a rising of the blacks against the scattered and comparatively small white population. This danger would be largely obviated by a rapid improvement of tho means of communication. Lord Roberts will have rendered another great service ,to his country if the strong impressions which ho brings back from South Africa aro allowed to have due weight with the public in this country. How the Russo-Japanese Compares With. Former Conflicts. War u Sixty thousand men, wc aro told, have fallen victims to thc war-fiend during an engagement lasting over a week. .���������"'���������' : , How do these figures compare, it may be, asked, with the slaughter in' the great campaigns of the past century." A glance at the figures of the big battles of the past will show that so.far the carbago in the Russo- J apanese war has many times' been equaled or exceeded in battles in which not many more than half the present forces were engaged. Take, for instance, the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, which surged buck and forward over Europe from 1791 to 1815. Allison, tho historican, estimates that the French lost, two .millions ^in killed alone in these campaigns. In nine of the battles in which Napoleon himself took part the losses were as follows : ���������'''���������'��������� NAPOLEON'S OWN BATTLES; t. Men Killed and Battle, Engagbfi. Wounded. Austerlitz, 1805...14-8,000 25,000 Jena, 1806 .'. ...... 98,000 17,000 Hylau, 1807 .133,000 42,000 Friedland, 1S07 ...142,000 34,000 Eckanuhl, 1809 ...145,000 15,000 Wagram, 1809 .....370.000 44,000 Borodincr 1812 ...263,000 75,000 Leipsie, 1813 ..440,000 92,000 Waterloo, 1815 ...'.170,000 42,000 It will be seen, that the casualties frequently numbered; a. quarter . or even a third of the opposing forces! If there be about six hundred thousand men fighting in Manchuria today, this Napoleonic proportion of dead and wounded would give a stupendous total. Yet the fighting went on year after year for the better part of a generation," and the suffering, disease and ��������� death caused to the peaceful;'-populations of- the ravageel countries must have been incalculable..'-: .:-.-:....----- ::../,...-.-_-,-.-. -'.. -...^.^..:- In .the Peninsula War, which was merely a little by-play compared with the great European campaign, England left fifty thousand dead and the French a quarter of a million behind them in Spain. At Salamanca we lost 15 per cent, of our troops, and at Albuera 65 per cent. In the Crimea the total losses of Russia, and thc Allies were put at 480,000, arid. Britain lost 22 per cent, of her men; but there were no great decisive battles with enormous slaughter. TWO THOUSAND BATTLES. * Never in modern history has there been such rapid waste of human life as in thc American Civil War, with its two thousand battles and skirmishes. From 1861 to i865 it raged over the whole of the Mississ- sippi "Valley and throughout Georgia and Alabama, taking in an area IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences in tho Land That Reigns Supreme in. the Commercial World. Mr. Balfour believes that a special session of parliament to deal with the problem of the unemployed would do more harm than good. Lord Avebury, presiding at the inaugural dinner of the Institute of Directors, said the access to mouey seemed to blunt a man's sense of hono:. A Spalding chemist stated at an inquest that ho had sold more laud- anuim and opium during four yours in Spalding than in twenty years in other piacc������. Ecightecn fires occurred in London within forty-three hours in the beginning of last week. Five lives were-lost, and many persons "were badly injured. Envillu Hall, the famous residence* 'of' Gatherum Countess of Stamford, has been destroyed by fire. The hall contained 'many priceless relics of Lady Jane Grey. The annual report to the Homo Office on drunkenness shows that the greatly increased totals of admission to special reformatories were largely due to girls and women. Excluding naval vessels, 13,716 ships of all descriptions, with a tonnage of 4,929,30-1, belonging to tho United Kingdom, were totally lost in thc twenty-live vears ended- June 1903. Speaking at Exeter, Mr. Rider Haggard said he had seen people herded together in England under conditions to which Katfirs or wild African tribes would not submit. The Kent Education Committee has adopted a new-scale ol salaries for; the teachers in tho county, which will entail an increased expenditure of twelve thousand pounds a year. Trinity Presbyterian Church, Newcastle, erected only eight years ago at a cost of .C17.000, has" been gutted by fire caused by the fusing of an electric wire, which set firo to the roof.- Mr. Hugh Hobson, who has just diecr at Bourne, Lincolnshire, was registrar of marriages for tho district for upwards of sixty years, and in that capacity he attended over 1,500 weddings. A terrible affray with firearms occurred near Scarborough, between three poachers and four gamekeepers. One gamekeeper was killed and two were seriously injured. Tho poachers, riddled with shot, were subsequently arrested. A. E. JetTs, .a pauper, was found clad in his nightshirt, in the streets of Coventry. He was a somnambulist, and in order to got out of the workhouse ho had to climb over a SEVEN TIiVUS A WIDOWER JOHN* MACFARLANE HAS TAKEN AN EIGHTH WIFE. Thsre Are Seven Oddly Painted Memorial Rooms in His House. In the "Petrified Forest" of |A.ri- Bosia there is a natural bridge across a narrow canyon, consisting of a petrified trunk of a tree, 111 feet in ieangth. larger than Europe, and in those spiked gate and slide down a roof four years six hundred thousand men were killed. In a frontal attack by General Grant at Coldharbor in 1864 ten thousand men fell in less than ten minutes. Here are some typical specimens of thc two thousand battles of this war fought for the liberty of the negro slave : Men Killed and Battle. Engaged. Wounded. Sharnsburg, 1862.128,000 21,910 Fredericksburg 1862.190,000 1.6,971 Chickamauga, 1863.128,000 35,100 Gettysburg, 1863 ...163,000 37,000 Wilderness, 1864... 179,000 26,000 Here again it will be seen that the losses in a single battle often came nearer to 20 and 05 per cent, than 10 per cent, of those engaged. The campaign of Sadowa, in which tended for the supremacy of the German Confederation, lasted only seven weeks, but the casualties numbered 57,000, or over 8,000 a week. The chief battle was that of Koniggratz, when the forces engaged were 417,- 000 and the killed and wounded 26,- 000. SEVEN MONTHS OF WAR. In thc seven months of the Franco-German War. 1870-71, the killed and disabled numbered 371,751. A million Germans and 710,000 Frenchmen took the field. Coming to the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-8, with its total loss of nearly 200,000, the only notable battle was before Plevna, when in the course of a protracted siege there fell in a single day 18,000 out of 80,000 Russians engaged. In the case of unarmed races confronted by modern arms, there have been some instances of tremendous slaughter as when Lord Kitchener's forces shot down ten thousand Dervishes at Omdurman. But probably Omdurman was the last of those easy victories over the barbarian. Tho Italian experience in Abyssinia, our Tirah adventurers the French view of Senussi, and the German encounter with tho Hereros all tend to show that savages will not again meet the European iu open battle without 'first having secured his weapons. And then there will be some-" thing very different from tho processional marches of the post. Teacher (to pupil)���������"How old are you?" Pupil���������"Six." Teacher ��������� "When were you'six?" Pupil���������"On my birthday." - "+ She���������"They say there are microbes in kisses." He���������"Nonsense. What dangerous disease do they develop into?" She���������"Marriage; sometimes." Senora do Leon, a gentlewoman in reduced circumstances in London, who was forced to part with a painted portrait of her grandfather, made the discovery that the picture was a genuine Goya. It fetched ������2,4.00. Tho Admiralty have released -from Portsmouth Prison Private Brooke, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who was sentenced by a naval court- martial to nine months' hard labor for throwing a piece of bread at a lance corporal. A Birmingham tin worker attempted to commit suicide by drinking hydrochloric acid. A policeman who was called in concocted an emetic by scraping some whiting from tho ceiling, and mixing it with water. The medicine acted promptly, aird thc man's life was saved. A leading Calvinistic minister in North Wales has gone mad over the revivalist movement, and a miser has become a philanthropist. In Llanelly a well-known inhabitant has been removed to the asylum, lie has caused considerable annoyance by singing and praying the whole night through, and he hacl not touched food for several days. At Amanford and Loughor some persons arc being- kept under restraint in their own hoi n oh. collecting dog, "Cimbledon Noll, ' elroppcd dead at Wimblcelon Station thc other day. With her red collecting barrel on her back, she was commending herself and her commission to the passengers. Nell's method was to smuggle her head into their hand.** and wag her tail as they gave their tickets up to thc collector. So popular had she become, that in pennies she vised to average a receipt of nine shillings a day. ��������� {>. _ John MacFarlane the "Lake Ains- lic widower," of Cape Breton, has painted one more room of his house in mourning and has married again. Several neighbors who have seen the room say it is a duplicate of six other rooms, and that thc sight of them given one the creeps. The new Mrs. MacFarlane, who was Ruth McDonald, daughter of Donald McDonald, is the eighth mistress that has ruled over the house of MacFarlane in the last forty years. She is 20 years old and pretty' He Is 61 years old, and handsome only in the size of the cheque he can sign his name to. Thc disparity in' their ages seems to have no dampening effect upon their happiness. MacFarlane is tho oddest character in the Lake Air.slie district, a settlement made up' of Scotch Presbyterians, who are so orthodox that they will not allow even an organ in the- church. He is rich as riches are accounted there, ' and has made a good husband to his successive wives whom he dressed and bonneted to the envy of the rest of the community feminine. FIRTS OF THE SERTES. He was married at the age of 20 to Mary McLean and lived happily until thc first heir to thc house of MacFarlane was born, co-incident with thc mother's death. He immediately went ir.tto deep mourning and remained a recluse until a year from the day his wife died. He celebrated his return to society liy inviting all his neighbors to a banquet. Dinner was served in the death chamber. Thc walls were papered in pure white and the ceiling was white also. But every bit of woodwork was painted1 deep black. Six epitaphs adorned"- thc walls, and all about were pictures of flying angels. The host attempted" to dispel the gloom cast by these surroundings by reciting anccdo.tes "of his departed wife and otherwise making himself entertaining, ne made no allusion to or explanation of the decorations. Shortly afterwards , MacFarlane married Margaret Elfatrick. Prior to the wedding he required her to make oath before a notary public that she never would go into the room his first wife had occupied or refer to her in any way. He took a similar vow. Two months later thc second Mrs. MacFarlane met death by trying to row across the' lake in a storm. Again the widower went into seclusion, but this time only for six months. Then he gave a second banquet, and guests were served in a second room decorated after the manner of the first, In addition, however, were menu cards with black borders "and bearing hand sketched tombstones, upon which epitaphs were inscribed. When the guests left the house, after listening to witty stories relating to Mrs. MdcFarloiie 2,. they observed that two black WRITING DONE BY WIRE MARVELLOUS SPEED OF A NEW INSTRUMENT. Telegraphic Invention Shown London���������Photography Used. m. THE FOOTSTEPS. Quick steps are indicative of en ergy and agitation. Tiptoe walking symbolizes surprise, curiosity, discretion or mystery. Turn-iu-tocs arc often found with pre-occupied, absent-minded persons. Tho miser's walk is represented as stooping and noiseless, with, short, nervous, anxious steps. Slow steps, long or short, suggest a gentle or roflectivo state of mind. When a revengeful purpose is hidden under a feigned smile the step will be slinking and noiseless. The proud step is slow and measured, the tora are conspicuously turned out, thc legs straightened. If the direction of the stop wavers, and follows every changing impulse of thc mind, it inevitably betrays uncertainty, hesitation and indecision. stripes had been painted on'a-white hitching post in front. MacFarlane married a third time, and for three years his life was commonplace. When on a visit in Halifax his wife died of diphtheria and MacFarlane was so upset he took to his bed. When he got well he decorated another room in mourning and invited his friends to a strawberry festival. As usual, he ushered his guests into the chamber occupied by the most recently departed. He delivered a funeral oration before a morsel of the dinner was served, and then tried to enliven the evening with more anecdotes. Tho whole affair was depressing in its tendencies, but the dinner was excellent, and the guests, who had now become accustomed to MacFarlane's ways, took tilings as a mattor of course, and when they left looked to sec another stripe on tho hitching post. Shortly after his next wife reach- eel the house and found three chambers locked; her curiosity got tho better of her. She broke into one, and the sight so shocked her that she went home to her mother. While she. was taking steps to procure a, legal separation she died of pneumonia, <and another room in MacFar- lano's house was decorated. This was half in black and half in a brilliant red, as MacFarlane said the young woman had made but half a wife. ONE COMMITS SUICIDE. Throe other wives followed ir.i fairly rapid succession. Two died natural deaths and the third committed suicide. Tho memorial room for the latter was decorated with crude pictures of Dante's "Inferno." This tragedy occurred four years ago and McFarlane has said he had become tired of married life. This was before he met Miss MacDonald at a funeral. Before the cermony the bride-elect had to make several agreements. She promised: To decorate each week the graves of her seven predecessors. To make no reference in conversation to tho dead wives. To see that thc hitching post with its seven black bands was kept clean. To visit onCo a year some relative of some one of the deceased . ��������� On his part McFarlane promised : To make his wife his solo heir. To take her to Boston once a year. To give up smoking a pipe and to smoke cigars. To build a seven-room ad- Idition to thc house. The average person can write rabou't thirty to thirty-five words a minute, says the London Express, ol a recent date. A good typist .will turn out about double that amount. There was exhibited at thc "Charlton Hotel a telegraph instrument' that can transmit, messages and write them out in the most legible of handwriting at thc rate of more than 40,000 words an hour. This is the latest,' and it would seem, tho greatest marvel of elcctic telegraphy. The fastest telegraphic instrument at present in operation is the Wheat- stoiu! Automatic, wliich transmits telegrams from city "to city at tho rate of 200 to 250 words a minute. But messages when sent by this system will have to be' translated "from thc Morse tenlegraphic language in- . to ordinary language, and this can be done only at ordinary 'writing- speed. Tho new Pollak-Virog telegraph instrument transmits messages at nearly four times the speed, - and delivers them direct from the instrument written in the plainest of ordinary copy-book handwriting. ��������� METHOD OF USE. How it is done is a technical marvel that takes an electrical export to grasp completely, but.roughly simplified thc system is a commonplace. First, tho message to be' transmitted is converted into tale- graphic dots and dashes on a ��������� perforator that looks like an ordinary typewriter. This perforator punch-, es in a slip of paper a complicated scries of holes that correspond in electrical.impulses to tho form of letters. / ��������� * By passing this slip , over a series of cylinders, electric waves find their way through the perforated .holes. . quick as a lightning flash, and ore transmitted instantaneously to tho other end .of the wire, however far it is, and come out at the other end in the same sequence ir.i which they entered. Thc manner in which the letters arc recorded is the marvel. PHOTOGRAPHY HELPS. Photography is called in. The electric waves arc conveyed to a littlo mirror, and they make the mirror move in two directions���������horizontal and vertical. Electric light is focused on thc mirror, and then directed from it to a slip of sensitised paper. The mirror moves only about the hundredth part of a millimetre, and the exposure of the sensitized paper is only about. the thousandeth part of a second; but thc lightning flash is quick er, aaul though the eye cannot follow-thc writing, yet it appears, plain as a pikestaff and with- . out the possibility of error, at the rate of almost fifteen words a second. '���������'.'.,,. The two motions���������vertical and horizontal���������with the motion of tho paper being drawn before the finger of light, supply all the motions . of. handwriting. . If produced slowly . they would, of course, be angular, but the speed makes them practically curved. Developing and fixing the photographed., message takes ten seconds later than its transmission. AHEAD OF THE AGE. The system is so fast that it really is ahead of the age. Very few towns, let alone individuals, want to telegraph 40,000 words an. hour. Indeed, Austro-Hungary, the homo of the inventors, while enthusiastically endorsing the invention, could" not make use of it, because no two telegraph offices in' the empire have enough work to keep it going. They would have to save up telegrams for a week to keep tho instrument -going ten minutes. It ought to prove of immense value in .transmitting speeches from out of the way places, whore few wires exist. ���������-��������� * THOSE DEAR OLD LETTERS. Only a bunch of faded letters, Yellow and worn and old, Letters he penned in his amorous youth Ero the love in his heart grew cold. Letters that whispered tho old, old talc, Told since thc world bogun, Of tho golden, halcyon days to be, When two should be joined in one. Carefully treasured, those missives old, Guarded with jealous care; (You may take it from me that you could find No flies on this ladye fayre.) Only a bunch of faded letters, Yellow and worn and old, But they proved when the case came into court Worth more than their weight in gold! A new system of manufacturing peat fuel in tho form of briquettes by a chemical process has been devised. The raw peat is mixed with lime, nitrate of potash, soot, and saccharine matter, by which moans tho water set free froir the cellular tissues of thc peat fibre, by the action of tho limp and niArato of potash is absorbed by the lime, whilo tho soot absorbs tho ofl o* the peat. If a man looks'at hifc v.iitch while* you are telling him a l������������'4jy story, cut it short.. v> IS 1 ������ V li* ' ��������� *& *���������<6*������*gC*g*6*���������'g*g<*g'������l<������*������**t*������������������(g������. A A A A A A A A $ About the ....House ^-������������������������>-������-������-������>������������fr������>>*fr������>������������ HOME.-, Tho little resting spot*? of men Thu.t* creep along Time's wall, Like shadows in the noonday glare, Aro kindest ai'ter all. When wearied by the morn of toil, Burnod with ambition's flame, /Tis sweet to seek the humbler spot ��������� Where someone breathes your namo FINE BONBONS. The variety of candy obtained at a moderate' cost is almost without end, for combinations are limited only by the knowledge of the one compounding them. Honey Nougat���������Put $ lb.'each of honey and granulated sugar in a sauce pan and boil until brittle. Test by dipping a metal skewer into water, then in tho boiling , candy and again in water. After a few seconds push the candy off the skewer, with thumb and finger, form into a ball, lot stand in water a few seconds, then press between thc lug four hams, averaging 12 pounds teeth. If it leaves them without each, have ready ono and a half clinging it is cooked enough. Add gallons of best-salt, one pound of! the stiffly beaten whites of 2 eggs, good brown sugar, one-eighth pound | and stirring them in well, continue of powdered saltpeter, one ounce of to cook until the mixture will not black pepper and one-half ounce of adhere to the fingers. Remove from cayenne. Cut the joints into proper the fire, add 1 lb. blanched almonds, shapes, without unnecessary bono unci shredded lengthwise, and stir until fat, and lay' them on a board or '���������veil mixed. Turn into a square pan table. First ru . tho skin well with linod with paraffin paper. Place a salt and lay each joint aside, ti on sheet of paper on top, fit on this a begin over again, and into thc fleshy j board to cover pan, a trifle smaller. Bide of each ham rub two toaspoor.i-j and put a weight on top; a couple .fuls of saltpeter and a table-spoonful of flatirons will do. When cold and CURING HAMS AND BACON. ' Those are the days when "butchering" has to be done and thc housekeeper in busy making sausage and head cheese; trying out lard and superintending tho putting down of hams and bacon." It is a disagreeable, greasy duty, and everybody is thankful when it is done.1* "- Many recipes for pickle for beef'and pork arc used year' after year in. some families, giving good satisfaction every time. Hero is an old Virginia method, of widespread use, which attests to its value: For cur- pork tako 10 pounds of salt, two and a,quarter pounds of brown sugar, "'two-' ounces of' pepper, two ounces of a soda, two ounces of saltpeter, and water enough to make a brine that will float an ogg. Pack meat in barrel. Boil and skim tho brine of sediment. When cool, cover tho moat with the. brine. Weight.it down, and be sure it is all covered. Add tho pepper after skimming. Lot it remain in brine, four- or fivo weeks, of until it is salt enough, smoke and lot hang in an open dry place. Rub well with powdered borax and no insect will over bother' it. Tho meat may be left in the pickle till wanted, without injury. Ono reason why pc^k sometimes spoils is because of the barrel, which ought to be thoroughly washed, and scalded before the meat is packed in it. every woman to havo at least ono black gown Injior wardrobe, and "to put it on when sho is fooling tired or off color." To dross in vivid hues under tho Circumstances, she declares. Is to acccntuato weary looks. WHICH IS THE CIVILIZED? "WE SELL" COMPARISON* OF RUSSIA / JAPAN. AND of brown sugar mixed together. Rub the pepper, particularly, about the hock tind under the bone and give to the whole ham a good application" of salt. Now pack the hams, one upon another, the- skin side downward, with a layer of salt between, into a tub or box the bottom of which has been covered with salt. Tho process of salting will be complete in five weeks. At the end of that time have ready about a peck of hickory ashes; clean the hams with, a brush or.-dry cloth and rub them with the ashes. To smoke the hams the joints'should'.be hung from joists beneath tho ceiling ���������and a slow, smothered fire kept up; boiling point half lb. sugar, three for five or six weeks, so as to smoke ].ounces grated chocolate and 4 table- thoroughly, but not overheat the hams', Wrap each ham in heavy paper, and enclose it in a canvas or coarse cotton bag, and hang in a cool, dry place. ~ Many like a pickle containing molasses or sugar. Make as follows:��������� To four quarts of fine salt and two. ounces of pulverized saltpeter add ���������enough molasses to make a paste. Hang the hnms in a cool dry place for three or lour fays aftei cutting up; then cover with the pickle mixture; thickest on thc flesh--side, and George Keenan Says Educationally and Otherwiso Japan Leads. ���������"If tho wholo world had to corao under cither Russian domination or Japanese domination, which would you choose?" I should cast my vote unhesitatingly in favor of tho Government and people of Japan rather than in favor of tho Government and people of Russia, writes Geo. Keeman, in tho Outlook, and I should do this for the reason that Japan, as 'a power, is civilized and" modern, while Russia, as a power, is semi-barbarous and mediaeval,' and that among ono of the first things that strikes the attentive newcomer in Japan is tho great number of external evidences of widely diffused education. In Tokio, for example, thero is a bookstore on almost ovory block, not only in the parts of thc city inhabited by tho higher social classes, but in the quarters and districts tenanted almost exclusively by poor shopkeepers, artisans, and day laborers. Since I took up-my residence in the capital I have ridden hundreds of miles through its universally clean streets, from, Ucno Park to Shinag- awa, and from the Botanical Garden to the river, and I think I am well within the limit of moderation when1 I say that there arc ten bookstores in Tokio for. every one that can be found in St. Petersburg. . JAPANESE SCHOOLS. School children of both sexes aro quite as much in evidence at bookstores, and at certain hours of tho day one cannot ride or walk three a\soft ball staged Add b,������cka ������\ ailf Dart of the city with- anilia and stir in des- OUt, m?c1tlin.S *??* in tho ���������orcd caps and girls in the maroon-colored. Occidental skirts of the Japanese student world; whilo on holidays long processions of younger children from the primary schools march'-through the streets, singing as they go, on their way to some excursion suburb or picnic ground. If ono had no other material for tho formation of a judgment than that afforded by the bookstores and school schildren of Tokio and St. Petersburg, one would naturally and inevitably conclude that, in educational facilities, at least, Japan is far in afvance of Russia. MONEY FOR EDUCATION. But there is other and more conclusive material for a comparison of thc two countries in the matter of Ceylon tea in sealcd^ead packets only, in order to bo in a position to guarantee contents. This is your safeguard. Black, Mixoa or Natural GREEN. By all grocers. Received tho gold modal and highest award at St. "Louis, 0 WAS FRIEND OF POLICE. A Londoner Who Led a Three- sided Life. Cnrpontcr by day, insurance agont in tho evening, burglar by night ���������- emergency, to disregard tho law altogether. Tho Minister may then delegate a part of this., illegally acquired authority to tho Provincial Uovornors; tho latter, in turn, may turn over a part of it to tho deputies. ' . _. ct, o ... Tho contrast between all this and'sucn was tho "triple "life icd by Wil tho state or things which prevails liam par|ier. ,tho young man who was sentenced ot Clcrkenwell Sessions on Wednesday to fifteen months' imprisonment for burglary at llighgulo, says the London Express. During I ho last three months it is . believed that Parker committed between thirty and forty burglaries within a milo eif -his.workshop ia York-rise, Highgate, a small street near Parliament I-Iill-ficlds, which in Japan, is so great that ono can hardly pass from one to tho other without a mental shock. Tho power of the Em'poror in Japan is limited by a constitution, and the will of tho people is expressed by moans of a Parliament. Officials, as well as citizens, arc bound by law, and tho laws bear equally upon .all. There is no political crime, and consequently, house searches, arbitrary arrests and sentences of exile aro unknown Every war in which Russia has adJ������'nf5 th" go rims, belonging to boon engaged since hor struggle with noaI**y 200 house's tho allies in the Crimea, has shown1 rho youthful criminal very nice firm cut in squares, and dust with powdered sugar. 'Phis is a very r sweetmeat. Cocoanut Squares���������Boil 1 pt. ' su- g-ar, 1 tablespoon butter and quarter pt. milk without stirring, for 15 minutes, or to one teaspoon van iccated cocoanut until thick; ono cup or half pt. is about the right quantity. Roll into balls, or press iuto a flat shape and cut in squares. These arc excellent dipped in chocolate - or. fondant colored .."pinic or green.- /. '.:-���������' "���������'*-." *.-. An easily prepared chocolate for dipping is made by heating to the spoons water. When it comes to a boil, remove from fire and dip the candies ��������� one by one. Nut and Fruit���������Chop half pt. citron, half lb. raisins, 1 pt. shelled peanuts and half pt. shelled walnuts. Boil 2 lbs. sugar with quarter pt. vinegar and 1 tablespoon butter until quite hard, but not brittle, when dropped into cold water. Beat until partly cold, add the fruit ar.id nuts and when it begins to harden turn onto a damp cloth and work into.a roll. Wrap the cloth about tho dishonesty of her officials and general corruption of her civil service. HUMANE RUSSIA. As to thc humanity of the two nations, the following extract gives thc Russian standpoint��������� Tho Moscow Gazette, tho able but unscrupulous journal, edited for so many years by Mr. Katkoff, boldly advocates tho indiscriminate slaughter of thc Japaneso wounded. "Our great general, SuvurofT," it says, "when ho fought against tho civilized French, vary often gave the order "no quarter' to his troops. This was not cruelty or barbarism; it was necessity. And now necessity ���������ho is twenty-four years old���������took the workshop about se*ven months ago. Having lived in tho neighborhood for years Por!<e������������������r was acquainted with many of tho local police, who knew him only as a respectable young carpr>nt.e>r. The constables, all unsuspicious, used to spcnd"an - evening now and then with Parker.and there is littlo doubt that hr������ .profited by their confidences regarding tho police mpas-- ures for catching the unknown burglar, who was raiding Tlighgatc. Parker was well known to many Highgate residents, and when he opened his workshop he was called to do repairs in several houses, somo of forces us in this war with a half- which ho. subsequently "burgled." gone, and hunger and starvation j His methoel was generally the stalk through every part of the land, simple onn of using a large table- If the siimo conditions existed in knife to slide hack the fastening of Franco, French literary men would a window, hut .in some cases he went certainly get up a new and exhaus- to the trnuhln of removing wholo tivo political and social, philosophy, panes of glass by scraping, the putty and the French people v,ould prob- awav. In most rases he rarely secur- ably upset the Government. But cd mora than a few shillings in coin the English, from the lowest ranks or a pair of .boots..-The stolen goods to the highest, have always been a ho used-to sell to a "receiver," who peculiarly conservative and practical has not yet been traced, people. They have never gone much j it was his silly way of spending on finely wrought theories in any'money that led the police to suspect branch of philosophy, political or the. carpenter-burglar. One of his otherwise; nor has it ever been easy j weaknesses was to buy rings.- lay them skin sido'-down for three or it, and when cold cut"ir.i thin slices. four days. For 1.00 pounds of ham make brine in the following proportions: Seven pounds coarse salt; two ounces saltpeter; one-half ounce pear- lash; four gallons soft water. Heat .gradually, removing all scum, as it rises, then cool. Pack the hams in a barrel, pour the brine over them, aivd keep in pickle five to eight weeks according to size. Another recipe which omits the rubbing requires, for 100 pounds of Chocolate Brittle���������Boil 1$ lbs. brown sugar, one cup molasses, one cup water and a level teaspoon crcai of tartar until it is brittle. .Test as in foregoing recipe. Then add ono tablespoon butter, cook fivo minutes more, add two level.teaspoons soda and one cup broken hut meats. As soon as it begins to foam pour onto a large platter ir.i a very thin layer. Several smaller platters or granite ware baking pans may be used. When cold pour over the top molted chocolate, prepared in this way: Melt 2 oblongs of chocolate in ono tablespoon water, letting it come to a boil, then pour whilo hot over candy. When the chocolate is firm, break the candy in pieces. culture. Official statistics show that to work many of them up to a pitch j Another was to hire an open car- Russia has at school only 4,4-84,594 pupils, or about 25 per cent. Don't tHink you are justified in being laid up with a cold half the winter merely because it's the season when everybody, is supposed to have colds. At first a cold may not amount to much but it is likely to hang.on long enough to give you trouble if it, is not stopped with These colds that hang* on weaken the throat and lungs and make the way easy for pneumonia and perhaps consumption. It is just as well to reduce the chance as much as possible. Scott's Emulsion soothes, heals and cures a cold and does it quickly��������� that's a good point to remember. Will semi you n HtMo to in if you like. SCOUT ��������������� BOVVNE. Toronto, Ont. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To take grease out of dress goods, get from your druggist a piece of French chalk���������with a penknife scrape' off enough of fine dust to cover well the soiled spots, and lay the garments carefully away for some hours ���������a day or two, perhaps���������then shake or brush it off gently. If the spots are not entirely removed repeat thc process. Wo know of nothing more oliectivo. In fall and winter a housowork- er often has great difficulty in keeping her hands soft and white. Ijn- lesa somo soothing lotion is used, they will surely become chapped, especially if ono does any heavy housework. A good lotion is made of two parts of roscwator, two parts of glycerine and one part of citric acid. This rule has been used for years by a woman whoso hands are always soft and white, though she has charge of a largo farm and docs a great deal of kitchen work. But for this mixture, which sho uses every night, she says that her hands would bo rough and coarse. Vaseline "is, of course, good for chapped hands, but care must be taken that it js not rubbed on the lips, for it will produce superfluous hair. Cold cream, too, it is said, will do this, and should therefore be used with caution. If coffee, tea and chelate spots on . table linens arc treated imme- iately with boiling water, they will almost always come, out completely, unless tho water is from an artesian well. The linen should bo placed over a bowl, and tho water poured through it till thc stain disappears. Stains that have become set, should be spread with a mixture of og-g yolk and glycerine, and exposod to bright sunlight. An English fashion writer advises of her children of school age, while Japan has under instruction 5,351,502 pupils, or 92 per cent, of her children of school ago. Russia; with a yearly national revenue of about $2,- 000,000,000, spends for primary education something less than ������12,- 000,000, or 8 cents per capita of'-her whole population; while Japan, with only one-eighth of Russia's revenue, spends for the same purpose nearly $16,000,000, or 34 emits per capita of her whole population. Russia's military expenditure bears to her primarj' school expenditure the ratio of nearly 18 to 1, while Japan's dis- burcscments for military purposes bear to her primaiy school expenditure tho ratio of less than. 4 to 1. STUDIES COMPARED. -So far as the practical utility of the instruction given is concerned, Japan is far in advance of Russia. In Japan the course of study for primary schools of thc first and second grade, comprises reading, writing, 'arithmetic, geography, Japaneso history, elementary science, drawing, singing, gymnastics, and for the girls, sewing. In tho higher primary schools having a four-year course, manual labor and thp English language, may be substituted for clcomciitary science and singing In Russia, oven tho best of. tho primary schools have a curriculum far inferior to this in practical utility, while more than half of them���������those controlled by the Holy Synod���������are devoted chiefly to religion, catechism and choral church singing, with reading and writing as mere incidentals. Intolerance and bigotry, persccu- savage and barbarous nation, to'riago and pair on Sundays andjtake adhere to SuvarofT's rule of no. quar- two - or three 'shady" ' companions. ter.' In our war with Japan we for a drive. are like a man attacked by a vipor. | The-'result wns that Detective'Ser- lt is not enough to frighten it and'goant Gale dccirWI fo wntch him,' cave it to hide in a bush, it must nnd for a fortnight he "shadowed" be destroyed, and we must do this *jie workshop without considering whether England jjivbronl- and the cosmopolitan plutocracy ob- j lparkerVs '-darln* ls sll0wn Si, H������r, nC������ ;r������Tb"rden Russia'f.act that when Sergeant Gale pounc- with thousands of Japanese pris-. ��������� ���������!m, onob . . from nightfall until by the Japanese prisoners, spreading dysentery, typhus, and cholera among tho Russian poo- pic, would, perhaps, be in accordance with humanitarian principles, but it would be very unwise. No quarter and no prisoners should be our motto." .+ A French scientist has made somo interesting observations as to tho love of different wild animals for tho sea. Tho Polar bear, ho says is the only ono that takes to tho sea, and is quite jolly when aboarel ship. All othr-rs violently resent a trip . on water, and vociferouslv give vent to their feelings until seasickness brings silencu i wheeling away a handcart which ho had stolen a few nights before from a man to whom he had sold it a week earlier. He* wns about to sell it again. when he was .arrested. Nearly a dozen recent burglaries have been traced definitely to Parker. Doctor���������"A man of your physique needs perpetual exercise, and should not bo perpetually indoors." A sedentary regime doesn't suit you; you should livo in thc open air, and have plenty of walking. Lot mc soo ���������what are you?" Patient���������"A postman, doctorI" And Returns Year After Year or Develops Into Asthma or Consumption. The Cure is DR. CHASE'S SYRUP OF LINSEED AND TURPENTINE Bronchitis is too serious a diseaso to trifle with. Children are most likolv to contract bronchitis, and if neglected, it becomes chronic . and returns your tion and exilo, meet reformers, civil nfter year until it wears tho patient or religious in Russia. Even now, in time of war, the Orthodox Russian church, established in Tokio by tho Czar's Holy Synod, is tolerated and protected, and Father Nikolai, the Russian priest, is ministering to Japaneso converts and carrying on his services as usual. RUSSIAN AUTOCRACY. The most intolerable features, perhaps, of thc Czar's bureaucratic system of government is what .the Russians themselves call "proizvol"��������� that is, the substitution of individual volition for legal prescription. In civilized countries laws duly enacted by tho legislative branch of the Government, and approved by the head of the State, must bo obeyed by olhcials as well as by private citizens; but in Russia such is not the case. A Minister, in a private interview with the Czar, may obtain the latter's permission, not only to ignore a certain troublesome legal provision, but in case of alleged out or develops into somo deadly lung disease. Chills and fover. nasal or throat catarrh, quick pulse, loss of appetite and feelings of fatigue and languor am among the first symptoms. The. cough is drv and harsh. There nughly curing tho disease so that it does not return. Mrs. "Uichmotid Withrow. Shubon- acadie, Hants Co., N". S., writes: "1 have used Dr. Chase's Syrup of JLin- send "a'nd Turpentine with good success. My second daughter was troubled with bronchitis from the age of three weeks. Oftentimes I thought I she would choko to death. The several remedies we got did not seem to be of much use, but tho first doso of Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine brought relief and further are Dains in the chest which are ag- treatment made a thorough euro gravatod bv deep breathing and coughing. Expectoration is of a frothy nature, stringy, tenacious and sometimes streaked with blood. Pains in the* limbs or joints and ������\-trome. depression and weakness. rev fiiilt from continuation of tho disease. Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine is, wo believe, tho most e'.fTective treatment for bronchitis that money will buy. It is the imost effective treatment for bronchitis because it is so far- reaching in its olfoct on the wholo svstem, not only loosening the hard dry cough, but actually and thor- This trouble used to come back from time to time but the*, euro is now permanent. Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine has saved us many doctor's bills, and I would not bo without it in tho house for many times its cost." Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed nnd Turpentine, 25 cents a'botUc; family size, three times as much, GO cents, at all dealers or Edmanson, Bates <k Co., Toronto.- To protect you against imitations, tho portrait and signature of Dr. A. W. Chase, tho famous receipt book author, aro on ovpry box. /*������������������? mmm and Similkameen Advertiser. uoeljun Thinneliiys, by the IIkw.kv Gazettk I'lUNTlNe. A'KI) I'UHl.lStllKO.C'OMl'AKY.i rji.MiTED, at I-fotllcy,' B, C. provincial autonomy was to bo o-i-aiited to the Canadian North- O west territories, the speech was devoid of public interest and rc- NOTICE. Certificate of Improvements. markable only for what it didn't pittsijuiig Minomi oinim, situate in the mi ���������' l ii j. i ti ���������" Osovoos Mining Division of Yulo District. say. Tne point that dwellers m :��������� Vv here located ��������� Onmp Hedley. Subscriptions-in Advance ,, v. " m',,,. i>>*f.ff>Tvpd most to see ill it. is j anel w7 i*\ Cninoi-au, V. M. C. B22J70, 'intend, Six Month!? 1.00 j some statement of what tiie : Mining Recorder feii!a Ccitilluatc of lmprovc- Advcrtising Rates . Mciisiircniont, 'ii* lincs'to the inch. Transient Advertisements���������not exceeding ono inch, ������1.00 for ono insertion, "5 cents for etich Ktiljsci,uont insuvticn. Over one -inch, 10 cents per line for-first insertion anel f> conl'is per line for each siiksoijuorifrinsortion. TriinsiuRtss payable in adv-incc. Land Notices���������Certificates of iiuprovomciitcte,-.. $7.00 for (JO-fitiy notices, iind Sij.OO for 30-day notices. Contract AdverilsftinsiUs��������� One inch per month. Sl.iiiV. over 1 inch and up to 4 inches, Sl.(i') per inch pornioiitli. To con.Htant advertisers- taking larger space) than four inches, on iipplieaifcion, rates will bo given of reduced cha.-ges. based oil size of space and lons'tli of time. Advertisements will be changed once every mouth if advertises*.*xlissiros. without any extra clnu-ofo. For changes offcener than once a month thrs "price of composition will'be charged at rogultu* ratus. . Changes for contract advertisements should be in the ofiioe by iioon on Tuesday to secure iiltentio:) Cor that week's issue. ��������� A. MBORAW, Managing Editor. Sun. Won. Tubs. 'We>1. Tim. FrI. SatJ 1 s 35 22 '���������:n 2 9 .10. '23 so 3 10 17 4 11 IS ,12 19 6 13 20 27 7 U 21 28 The Associated Boards of Trade of Eastern British Columbia, willmeet shortly in Nelson nnd the programme -outlined to engage their attention is vith kiHgiVhy and weighty, including such topics as organization of a department of mines as a branch of the Dominion .. G 'vorhme-nt per vice, tlie imposition oi: a duty on rough him- ber coming Into Canada, the encouragement of zinc production, a scheme for forest 'preservation, especially, from fires; cancellation of reserves on land, changes hi system of provincial surveys of iand, to prevent issue of (1 uplicate titles to the same portions of land, an occurrence quite possible under present conditions: nnd finally assistance to a Coast to Kootenay railway, and to the Kootenay Central raiiv/uy, running north and south in tlie East Kootenay vaiiey from tlie Crow's Kest line to the main line of the C. P. IL The part of the programme that most concerns us in the fcjimilkameen, is that of railway extension which they are go.ng to make include both the coast to Kootenay. and the Kootenay Central. Iff is to be hoped that they wiii not forget that Kootenay is already pretty Avell carved up with railways and that before anything was known of tlie district sought to be served by this Kootenay Central, (he Similkameen was producing in its cattle trade and its placers, more wealth than all the Kootenays put together, and yet to-day there is not a foot of railway in the whole of the Similkameen electoral district. The Coast-Kootenay road is the one most needed in the province to-day, and it is to be hoped that its speedy completion will not be imperilled by any Kootenay Central red herrings, introduced at this stage by the Associated Boards of Trade. The speech from tlie throne read by his excellency Earl Grey on the opening of the Dominion House is declared to have been Dominion Government is going to do for tthe Ooast-Kootenay railroad. Last session they led Hill to expect that the; V. V. i&E. charter granted by the Dominion Government."(the provincial charter has long since expired) would be amended so as to give expropriation rights for the section up the Boundary creek from -Midway to Phoenix; but prorogued the House without touching the question. Without; this, Hill apparently- does not want to move westward from Midway, and immediately upon prorogation of the House in July hist, before anything had been done, it was given out that the rails would, not even be laid last year on the section from Curlew- to Midway;' and-neither they-'were, although the grading had been completed early in the fall. That no mention has yet been made of ..what this session will bring'.forth, is not re-assuring. An Ottawa dispatch to tlie [.coast papers, however, states that the 'British--'Columbia mem- bers, the solid seven, are behind the Goast-Kootenay and that the--missing piece of .legislation will be forthcoming this sessionv Let us all hope that they, "vvill be more successful in this6than they have been in the matter of the customary grant to the Dominion Exhibition, which singularly failed to connect this year, apparently because it happened to be British Columbia's turn for the exhibition. lmpr monts" for the pm-piwc of obtaining a Cr_ Grant of the above claim. And' further takes-notice that action, under section ?>7, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. It. If. PARKINSON. Bated Uec. 12, A.U., 1001. 1-8 NOTICE. Certificate of Improvements. BOSTON Mineral Claim, situate in thc Osoyoos Mining Division of Vale District. Where located: Camp Hedley. TAKE XOTICK that I, R. II. Parkinson ar agent for AV.��������� IT. Cameron, administrates of the estate of G. M. Stumps, Free Miner's Certificate No. B2247(>, intend, sixty days from date hereof, to apply to the Mining- Recorder for a Certificate, of-.Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining- a crown grant of the aboyc claim.-��������� And further take notice that action, under section .!", ruiiKb be commenced before thc issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. It. H. PARKINSON. Dated Doc, 12, A.D., WOi. 1-8 No Mistake! Moffef s Best IS STILL THE BEST FLOUR. MADE UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE PURITY, BUT NOT BLEACHED. ^s THE COLUMBIA FLOURING MILLS CO., Ltd. VERNON arid ENDERBY, B.C. P\ SIMILKAMEEN r* ��������� Jii ' " Livery, Feed and Sale Stable NOTICE. Progress in Board of irs.de Organization. Certificate of Improvements. STKMWINDER AND CHARTER OAK Mineral Claims, situate in the Osoyoos Mining Division of Yale District. Where located : Camp Hedley.' .:���������;.. TAKE NOTICE that I. Charles dcB. Green as agent for M. K. Rodgers, free miner's certificate No. BS532G and for Georgo H. Cahill, I<\ M. C. No. B7891;������, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certiilcate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of thc n- uovc claims. ' And further take notice that action, under section 37^ must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. - Dated this 23rd day of December, lflOI. - 1-8 ' C. doB. GREEN. KETTLE RIVER ���������������������������' ASSESSMENT DISTRICT Single and Double Drivers. Saddle and Pack Horses. Wood for Sale. HOPKINS (������b McINNES, Proprietors, Hedley, &. C. When in Keremeos STOP AT The Central Hotel TWEDDLE (Si, REITH, Proprietors. Good Accommodation and Strict Attention to the Wants of the Public. Livery Barn in Connection. 'a remarkably dull production, for bevond tho intimation that | again on Monday the 30th, at 7:30 p.m The meeting called by-the special committee, appointed at a former pub- He meeting to obtain information as to organization of a Board of Trade, was held in the Gazette Mull on Monday night. Tho principal business was that aris: ing out of tlie; committee's report which was submitted. Following is the report: "We, tiie committee appointed at a public meeting bold on ��������� January 2nd, 19fj'5, to inquire into the working of Boards of Trade, beg to report as follows : From information and data received from several Boards of Trade in the province, including those of "Vancouver, Nelson and Vernon as well as the Associated Boards of Trade of eastern British Columbia, we believe it is in the mining and commercial interests of Hedley and district that a Board of Trade be organized at Hedley forthwith; that the funds of the organization could be used to best advantage in schemes of advertising and of equipping a bureau of information of the resources of Hedley and district, and that incorporation, or affiliation with thc Associated Boards (both of which are cosily) be deferred for the present. In our perusal of the by-laws of several organizations, we iind those^idop- ted by the Okanagan Board of Trade, at Vernon, to be the most suitable to our requirements. "We now hand you a copy of the said by-laws, and recommend that the bylaws drafted for an organization be on lines somewhat similar to those referred to. All of which is respectfully submitted." The report was favorably received by the meeting and was adopted as read, on motion of Messrs. Brass and Frasor. Messrs. McLean and Schubert moved that a Board of Trade be organized to be known as the Hedley Board, of Trade, and that a committee be appointed to enrol members. The motion carried, and was followed by a motion by Messrs. A. F. McDonald and J. D. Brass that the committee consist of Messrs. McLean, Gladden and the chairman, which was also carried. The meeting adjourned on motion of Messrs. Oliver and Tingley, to meet NOTICR in hereby given, in accordance with the Statutes, that Provincial lie venue Tax and all assessed taxes nnd income tax assessed anil levied under the "Assessment Act, 1903," for thc Kettle River Assessment District., are now duo and payable for thc year 1H05, at my office, situate at the Government office. Fair- view, B. C. This notice, in terms of law, is equivalent to a pereonal demand by me upon all persons liable for taxes. Dated at h'airvicw, B. C. this Mth day of January, 1903. JAS. R. BROWN. Asst. Assessor and Collector, 1-1 Kettle River Assessment District. NOTICE. Certificate of Improvements. . \ LORTflNIA. LION'S PAW, RKNO. CANADIAN BELL, COPPER WORLD FRACTION and MIDNIGHT SUN Mineral Claims, situate in the, Osoyoos Mining Division of Yale District. Where located: In Camp Hedley. TAKE NOTICE, that I, Francis W. Groves, acting as agent for Horatio ,1. DulFoy, free miner's certificate No. 5803, and T. D. Pickard, free minor's certiilcate No. B02035, intend, sixty days from date hereof, to apply to thc Mining Recorder for a Certiilcate of Improvements, for thc purposo of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claims. ������ And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before thc issuance ofsuch Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 20th day of January, A. D., 1905. 2-8 FRANCIS W. GROVES. IX NOT NECESSARY To discuss the advisability of Life Insurance. Everybody now admits it. The two things to be decided are: lA/HSCa-g COMPANY? ss.ti(A WHAT A/nOUMT? Let us help you to decide these! Briefly stated, the answer to the first is Be Mutual Lite o! Canada (old Ontario Mutual.) and to the second Fkll "Vol* Can Ceurry. The MUTUAL LIFE OF CANADA is the only Canadian company that is purely mutual, all its profits going to the policy holders, and no foreign company (stock or mutual) doing business in Canada has been able to do as well for its policy holders, or give insurance at as favorable rates. Take a policy in it before 1905 is out and come in for this year's profits. W. J. TWISS, Manager, Vancouver. A. MEdRAW, District Agent, Hedley. M /\ G J* Z I N 'E S Gitu Drug and book store HEDLEY, Q.C Headquarters for��������� PUBE DRUGS AND MEDICINES; BRUSHES, COMBS AND TOILET REQUISITES; TOILET SOAPS AND PERFUMERY; BOOKS AND STATIONERY OF ALL KINDS. ��������� Your Trade Solicited. Mail Orders Promptly Attended To. Druggist enrkd Stationer. i o D i c J\ & Hotel Keremeos GEO. KIRBY, ilanager. First Class in Every Respect. Commercial and Mining Headquarters of the Keremeos and Lower Similkameen Valleys. Post House on Penticton- ton-PrincetOD Stage Line. KEREMEOS, t>������ w. Town and Distri<&. II Jt 1 V. I 9 ' Remember the Board of Trade meet- ing on Monday night in the Gazette Hall. W. Henderson and W. J. Snodgrass . were in Keremeos yesterday on telephone business. "* ' Augustus Schubert, brother of our .townsman J. A. Schubert, has been< elected reeve of Spallumcheen. J. D. Kearns is snuffing out incipient ' fires in "Vernon with the Phoenix fire extinguisher. , W. A. Forbes was laid up for a few days last week with a severely cut foot. 1 Electric lights have been put in the gymnasium to permit the playing of basket ball, which proved too dang'er- . ou.s with oil lamps. * , 'The regular monthly social meeting of the Twentieth Century Club ��������� will be held in the church on Friday , -evening next. The committee in charge have prepared an interesting program. .Everybody welcome. 1<\ W. Groves, C. E., returned to Princeton on Saturday. He had been down at Keremeos. to meet W. H. Armstrong with reference to some engineering work required on the Coulthard ranch. Mr. F. H. French, local manager of W. T. Shatford & Co's store, went to Fairview last week and will be there for some time, stock-taking. Mr. C. Haii-sine of the Fairview branch came ~ over on Thursday to take his place here. Air. and Mrs: Schubert and Master Bert left on Tuesday morning for Pen- ticton. They intend taking a holiday for a few weeks, and before returning to Hedley will spend some time with Mr. Schubert's relations at Spallumcheen. The first official school meeting was held on Monday evening at Nickel Plate, and was well attended by those who arc interested in school matters. Messrs. G. P. Jones, Chas. Joyner and E. Mills wei-e elected as provisional trustees, to fill office until .the end of June, 1905. Government agent Hugh Hunter, of Princeton, made a descent upon Hedley last week. When Mr. Hunter brings jwith him that voracious looking pair of saddle-bags, there is no escape. The only satisfaction is to'"sa'ss" him. The snowfall hi the mountains this winter so far is reported to be below the average". On the summit between the Nickel Plate and Keremeos creek, where from 0 to 7 feet is- common, a measurement a few days ago showed only two feet. The Ladies'- Sewing Circle. The telephone wire is now all strung from Penticton to Fairview, and by tonight it will have been completed from Faii*view to Keremeos. The line from Keremeos to Hedley %yhich had been strung as far as the Ashnola, will in all probability be completed into Hedley before next week's paper is issued. The following are the arrivals at Hotel Similkameen for the past week: T. I. Dickinson, Rossland; Carl Hair- sine, Fairview ; W. E. Wfilby, Penticton ; Hugh Hunter, Princeton; \T. Sketchley, Looinis, Wash.; Rev. A. J. Fowlie, Princeton; James Tingley, Kamloops ; C. H. Rowlands, Berkley, Cal., andG.H. Flower, Vancouver. The new boiler at the power house referred to briefly last week, is of a type quite new to the Gazette, and is known as the Mumford, manufactured in Nova Scotia. It is a fire tube, the length of boiler being 18 feet. The firebox is built right into the end of the boiler and, with the combustion chani- bjv, takes up 9 feet or half of its entire length, although the grate bars only go back 6 feet, leaving 3 feet between the grates and the ends of the tubes as a combustion chamber. Around the fire-box is a water shell, into which the feed water is first introduced; and a dome 30 inches in diameter runs the total length of the boiler. The rig looks likely for being both economical and a quick steamer. The B. C. Mining Record, published in Victoria, begins the year under new editorial management. Mr. E. Jacobs, one of the best, if not the very best writer on mining topics in the province, is now at the helm. It is doubtful whether there is any other place in the province where the public have leanied more about the actual operation of its mines and smelters than in the Boundary district, and it was Mr. Jacobs who accomplished this. The mine operators of the Boundary learned in time that no improper use would be made of information imparted to Mr. Jacobs, kand they took him into their confidence. That they were right in doing so, the sequel has proven, for in no way has any confidence been abused, and the general public were satisfied that they were Beiug kept thoroughly posted on all essentials. This is as it should be, for after all, both the mine operators and the public dependent upon the mining industry have rights, and tlie press will do well to emulate Mr. Jacobs' example, of striking the golden mean and imparting information that is absolutely accurate and reasonably full. On Wednesday, January 18th," the Ladies' Sewing Circle held their first meeting in the new year, to review their past work and decide on. work for 1905. ' This society was organized in August 1904, and in that month held an ice cream social, clearing $42. This sum was.voted to provide a dinner service for the use of the society on social occasions, and to form a fund to purchase materials for a bazaar to be held in December. This was duly held and $116 was made, clear of all expenses. The society voted the payment of $38.- 75 due for repairs, etc., to church parsonage, and the i*emaining sum was handed to the'trustees of the Methodist church towards lumber to build a new parsonage. This organization is small���������only ten in number���������but is always pleased to receive new members. It meets on every second Wednesday at members' homes from 2 till 4 p.m. The society received a very acceptable Christmas present from Messrs. Finnegan and-Tingley, of a moveable cupboard for keeping the property of the Society. President, Mrs. Garrison; vice-president, Mrs. Rodgers; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Doeksteader; assistant secretary, Mrs. Hocking. -' Logging. Accident. On Friday morning last an accident occurred at the Hedley Lumber Company's camp on Stirling, creek, that gave two of the loggers, Dugald McMillan and Win. Cook, a very close call for their lives. These men were loading logs on a pair of sleighs when another log that was coming down the chute, for some unknown cause, jumped the chute and came towards where they were working. It struck the end of the top log on thc sled and made it spin around like a stick of black thorn. Cook was sitting on this top log andWas hurled over twenty feet away, falling in the creek. McMillan was on the ground and the log struck him, breaking one arm and giving him a bad shaking up. Cook was dazed with the shock he received, but has made a quick recovery and is going to start work again this week. McMillan's shaking up as well as the broken arm was more severe. Dr. Whillans is in attendance and does not think that any internal injuries have resulted. The Reason Why DOTHE BIGGEST BUSINESS: are the Best on the Market, Up-to-Date and always Fresh and Clean. Our Goods AND Our Prices ARE TU6 are Reasonable, and always the Same to Everybody. Goods are tlie Cheapest; don't. buy inferior goods when you can get the Best at the Same Price. Mrs. a b. Loon* PENTICTON NOTES. The Ellis deal is now an accomplished fact, and the Messrs. Shatford have now in hand the gigantic task of portioning out this vast estate for the needs of the big army of peaceful invaders, who are about to locate on this extensive and fertile area. The vanguard, consisting of about eight well- to-do Manitoba farmers, arrived on Wednesday of last week and viewed the country near Penticton, and were so well pleased that each one secured a site. Among the party were two businessnien, who also have secured town property here %vith a view of going into business. W. T. Shatford, accompanied by F. H. Latimer, C. E., and another party of land-seekers, arrived on Monday night's boat. Mr. Latimer proceeds immediately with the work of laying out additional town lots adjoining the present townsite, while negotiations are pending towards the absorbtion of the old townsite by the new company. The land hunters are mostly from Manitoba, and are in on the ground floor and will secure choice property. Mr. T. Ellis and family contemplate visiting England this spring. m * m m ������ *������������������������* ������������) ������������> ?��������������������� ������*> Millinery in Latest Styles, s if? a* 3*--3-35"-3&S:fefe������-������ 2J ���������H m ������r? Dry Goods Fancy Goods Boots & Shoes HEDLEY, - B.6. ������ W. T. SHATFORD ������> CO. ���������DEALERS IN��������� General Merchandise of Every Description HEDLEY, B. C. ������������������ Bread For Sale.. ���������/\T��������� Schubert's Store. JAS. M. CODY, Hedley, B.C. ^3^^^^39^9S-3^^v^^^^^B3a^>' ALFALFA MEAT MARKET w.unw.-wi m Fresh and Giired Meats Wholesale and Retail Fairview's Leading Hotel..... 2S Golden Gate H. JONES, Proprietor. This house was lately overhauled and enlarged, and is now comfortable and convenient. moderate. Cawston 8 Edmond HEDLEY, B. C. =BUTCHERS= Charges All Orders Promptly Delivered. Bates Given to Hotels and Boarding Houses. 5 Per Cent, off for Cash. 10 " . " off on' Saturdays. R. J. FAIRVIEW, B. C MANAGER. Hedley Livery, Feed and Sale Stable Similkameen bred and Similkameen fed Cattle have long been not������d for furnishing the finest meats .for the Boundary and the Kootenays. . Buy it at home and know that you are getting the '. Best. Choice Meats Always on Hand. HEDLEY, B.C. HEOLOV, B.C. The Leading Hotel of thc Similkameen Valley. This House is New and First Class in Every Respect, being Equipped with all Modern Conveniences��������� Electric Light, 'Phone, Baths, Etc. ahiifta^MaiMflimgMT Strictly First Class Service. Special Attention given to the Travelling Public. Teaming of all kinds done. Horses Bought and Sold. OTEL EDLEY W. F. REVELY, Proprietor. Be Pioneer Carriage and Repair Shop HEDLEy, - - B. 6. Horse-Shoeing and all kinds of Blacksmithing done. : : GEO. tt. SPR0UL&, Proprietor. The Leading House For Commercial Men. : : : Best Only Provided for Table and Bar. D. G. fflGKNEY, rrOD. [HEN journeying to the Boundary Country arrange your plans to stop and rest a while at the IONA HOUSE, thc halfway hotel between Midway and Sidley. This is where the stage stops for dinner. Good Accommodation at Moderate Bates. J. 5, -���������j* ,- :fe* 1 Proprietor. >r/in'?Mtiit.li,tiit..t.,t.J,.t..I.flM'lirtl1irl l1iil.*>i_4i * ��������� jj lh<? Home CHOICE RECIPES. Beef Loaf .���������Ono, pound -.'meat put through chopper, 1 egg, salt and pepper, one cup stale bread crumbs, summer savory or sago to taste, lump of butter thei size of an egg. Form into a loaf and put into a hot frying-pan with dripping enough to brown it. Brown on each side, then pour three cups Wiling water around loaf and cook covered on, top or tho stovefor an horn- ami a half. j aftorwards wash in soapy watcr ln Saratoga Potatoes.-Peel and slice Uhich'a little soda is dissolved. For on a , slaw-cHittcr into cold water krus;ncs th.at havo been usod for var- wash thoroughly, and drain; ap-rcad | ^ USQ Lrits��������� f wine ��������� or methy. of warm -water is within the roach of everybody, and is moreover an excellent emetic". To boil oi.rioua.���������Pool onions of equal size, and-let them lie an hour in cold water. Put these on to cook in boiling milk and water, simmer slowly till tender. "Drain and serve with melted butter sauce. To soften leather there is nothing so penetrating and softening as noatsfoot oil. I,have known it work on leather that has not been touched by other oils. A blacking for the home rriay easily be made by mixing the following ihigiredients together: one pound of treacle, one pound of ivory black, two ounces of olive oil and ono ounce of vitriol. 13c very careful in' mixing the-vitriol not to let it touch your hands. , ... To Clean Paint Brushes.���������Firsts soak the brushes in turpentine, and cloth, "between the folds of a clean ciora, latod s irit" instcad 6r turpentine,: < rub and pat until dry. Fry a few at ^^ ^ ^ ^ valu'ab\0 stifau. lant to the brain arid nerves, .thowgfh a time in boiling lard; salt as you take them out. Saratoga potatoes are often eaten cold. They can be prepared three or four hours before needed, and if kept in a warm place they will be crisp aud nice. They are used for garnishing game and. steaks. ������������������ ������������������ Boiling Potatoes���������To "boil a potato well requires more attention than is usually given.'' They should hot be it has only a slight amount of nutriment. Mixed with more than half j its quantity of milk, coffee forms SHIP'S STRANGE VISITORS THEY ABE MANY STRANGE AND WEIRD THINGS. Animals and Insects That Are Never Seen by tho Passenger. Many sti'angc and weird things inhabit forcign-bounu ships in the form of animals and insects that are rarely suspected and never seen by tho ordinary passenger. '���������', Most "people are aware that the presence of rats on board ship is inevitable, whether tho vessel bo of wood or iron.1' Indeed, sailors consider them safe shipmates, and sure signs that, the vessel is seaworthy and not in danger of sinking. The sight of rats deserting a ship is sufficient to discourage any sailor from going on board for a trip, but. vigorous search is instituted, with' the result that at least one monkey is shortly aftorwards found, and sometimes half-a-dozen. , These animals resist capture at first, but soon accept the inevitable," and become in a very short time- great chums with the sailors. When England is reached Jack takes them ashore and disposes of them for re:ady cash to dealers in the neighborhood of thc docks. Many of the parrots brought to this country have been visitors on "tramp" boats.���������London Tit-Bits. PLOT REVEALED. the Prisoner Invents Machine for Destruction of Ships. A plot to blow up steamships,. for the sake of recovering ��������� insuranco moneys, conceived in a cell at Dart- make them bold, .and,.'..'instead of staying in the hold where, the cargo is~~stored, they invade the sailor's quarters, and . even make their appearance in thc_ captain's cabin. But rats are not by-any means the the most perfect breakfast beverage only strange, visitors thaWtravel in for hard working men and women, .ships without the consent of either especially those oWho lead, an active j owner or captain. There are many lire. ;'��������� '*' . (insects that migrate from one quar- How to save Starch.���������After using ter of ��������� the globe^to another by a .bowl of starch do not throw away (means of the vessels which ply be- what is left. Put the basin on ' one ;twee'n distant ports. Indeed, the moor prison and carried out in a oh. the other hand, too many rodents |suburb of Liverpool after the invon- on board spoil everything. Numbers tor's release, was revealed to tho parod before boiling; they lose-much I """' "."��������� -������������������;������ "' "J ������* ���������������'"' ,������.wtor instant ports. xnueeu, WM! of the starch by so doing, and are ! *<**��������� anf, w*c", th'c \^C\^\?T������T \sm'Cad ������( "PW"^1 kinc,s of llvinS . . ^ "' . . i nan vrt r.hn hnl.r.nm Timn' nit t.hA wn- l^H������ni... i.~.. ,.: -'eupn-dont on the nations. Winged made insipid. Put them into a ket tie of clear cold water, with a li salt, cover closely, and boil rapidly,\ ^^"^"nar'd cate^nd using no more water than will lust .. ��������� . . , cover them, as they produce a con- a>vay rcac*y for lISo al',ot siderablo quantity of fluid ped to the bottom pour off the wa- jcrcaturcs has been dependent on the title 'er' -Place tho basin in the oven for.ighjpg of civilized :Ilv. T1V������ .mim!tcs'.. r^e starch will toe !pes(/g and blessings have boon steadily carried to now countries by this means. Not long- ago; a ship from one of 'I- solves while boiling, and too much water will make them heavy; As soon as just done instantly pour oil tho water, set them back on the range, aud leave the cover off tho saucepan till tho steam has evaporated. They will then, it a goal kind be dry and mealy. This is an Irish receipt, and a good one. , Fried Cakes Without Eggs.���������Take one and one-half cups of sugar, ono ithc tropical countries was followed A SWARM OF BUTTERFLIES, can be put ay ready for use another day. thorn-! ������n Freckles.���������These may be remov- ~!ed by rubbing the following lotion on face and hands at night, before Dv" g-oir.ig to bed; One ounce of lemon juioe, a quarter of a .drachm of powdered'borax, and half a drachm which persistently hovered round the of sugar. Mix thoroughly, and lot j rigging of the vessel until the shore it stand in a bottle for three, days, was lost-in'tlie'mists. Then the in- Shake before using. ."-. To Clean a Mackintosh Cloak.��������� First dip the garment in cold, soft water, then with a,scrubbing brush sects alighted oh the masts and decks. A few desappeared in the night and were destroyed in the water or reached shore-safely. Some of the others hid away in.,the cab- all over, having spread it oh -the! ins and"-hold-of'the ship, table. When the dirt -il removod,: | After the trip of some thirty days dip the cloak in repeated waters to the.-,. vessel reached ������������������ England, and get rid of -.-the.--suds, but do not-from their hiding-places in -"the ship wring it. Bang up in tho air, or in'a .few' of these butterflies emerged an airy room, but do not put near'and " flew ashore. Thus an entirely the-fire. Paint or grease spots must new species of butterfly was intro- be removed by spirits of turpentine duced into England. Cockroaches are and common soap will perform the too ancient an importation to be rest. The dirtiest part will need worthv of more than a passing no- most scrubbing. "N.B.���������It.i cleaning a mackintosh always avoid hot water. HAPPY HOMEMAICERS. Have many interests. A kiss is the emblem of love. Remember that flowers brighten the home. cup of thick cream,, two cups of and yellow _ soap proceed to scrub it.,. buttermilk,, owe teaspdonful o>f cinnamon, about two and one-half tea- spoonfuls of soda, --ianid flour to mix, ������Roll, cut into rings, and fry in very hot lard. Rolled Fig 'Pudding.���������Cut the stem from one-half of a pound of figs, then chop fine, add three-quarters of a cupful- of sugar aud one-half of a cupful of boiling water, and simmer gently until cooked to a smooth paste. Mix well together one cupful of chopped suet, one cupful and a half of flour, one-half of a toaspoon- ful of saft, one tablcspoonful of sugar, and one teaspoonful of baking powder. Add sufficient milk to mix to a soft dough. Roll out half an inch thick, spread with the fig paste (which should be partly cooled), roll up, and steam for three hours. For the sauce cream well together one- third of a cupful of bs:tter and two- thirds of a cupful of sugar. Add two well-beaten eggs and one cupful of boiling water. Stir over the fire until thickened, add ono tea- spoonful or vanilla, and servo with the pudding. Lamb Roulettes.���������Take the scrap ends of uncooked meat, enough to measure one pint; put through a ���������mincer. Add to this twelve mint leaves, quarter of an onion minced fine, two tabloupoonfuls of butter, one teaspoonful of salt, good dash of pepper, three rolled milk crackers yolks of two eggs. Roll into small finigers; dip into beaten yol s, then cracker crumbs; fry in deep fat. Servo on new cabbage, shrcckied, tice.j Grain-carrying ships are overrun with weevils, and these grubs do an immense amount'of harm to thc cargoes. Ships engaged in fruit carrying from warm- countries are often visited by a nrscellaneous collection of queer creatures. Concealed in the cooked tender, then drained, and hot cream, butter, pepper, and salt added. Garnish with hard-boiled eggs. Cabbage a la Creole.���������Chop fine one head of cabbage, two onions, two green peppers, one bunch of ���������celery. Leave in . salt water over nigJiL Then drain. Boil enough vinegar to cover, add a little sugar, put into jars, and seal. "Old Reliable" Cake Mixture.��������� Two eggs, one cup of sugar, two- thirds of a cup of milk, butler the size of an egg, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful- flavoring, salt flour to make stiff batter. Croam sugar and butter together, add eggs '(which must have been well beaten), then the milk; sift in cream of tartar, soda, and salt, with four, and add flavoring. This mixture may be, in turn, marble, chocolate, according as you color, flavor, and 'divide it. Angry words never improved the bunches of bananas there imay be happiness of any home. poisonous reptiles and insects that "Never waste food. Always have a'havc travelled half round thc globe. lought for the poor and needy. T"������y ma-y sting- or bite the hand of the Know how to talk and how to listen, how to entertain and amuse. Use only what you can comfortably al'.lord, for quality and quantity. Let your home appear bright and .-suiii-ny. It is not oasy to be unpleasant in ,a cheerful room. A certain formality is necessary to save everyday life from truiality and freedom from looseness. Do not overcrowd your rooms with small nick-nacks. They' tend to create anxiety lest they should be damaged. Attend to the "niggling particularities" of the household whilst the bread-winner is absent. Forget them when he comes home. HINTS FOR THE HOME. For flaky pastry use the best lard; it is cheaper than cooking butter, and makes delicious pastry. When adding boiling milk to beaten eggs put in a spoonful at a time and the eggs will not then curdle. The secret in baking sponge cakes is to have a steady oven and not to open the door for the first twenty minutes. Air the house thoroughly every morning, especially in winter, opening opposite doors and windows for 'five to fifteen mi mites. Bedroom windows should never be entirely closed, if the owner is in fair health; oven in the coldest ni<rht in winter a window should be open an inch at the top. Salt fish can be quickly freshened by soaking in sour milk. Dry carefully, and cook as usual. All traces of mud can be eradicated from a black dress or coat by rubbing the s-pota with a piece of raw potato. In casws of Poisoning.���������One table- spoonfu> of mustavd in half a pint "Well, her natural hair doesn'tl SOME COSTLY FRUITS. Zanzibar Apples at Ton Dollars Each Bite. It will interest a great many people to know that in some of the very expensive restaurants in New York and other big cities fabulous prices are charged for some kini'.s of fruit. In fact, you can order a special dessert in some places that will cost anywhere from $25 to $250. These deserts will comsist principally of fruit dainties, to provide which the greater part of thc world has been ransacked. There are peculiar apples from Zanzibar, looking rather like turnips; pears in appearance strongly resembling oranges from Northern Africa: grapes from English hothouses: and Australia will most likely be represented by the Eiffel Tower pineapple. Of all fruits Zanzibar apples are perhaps the rarest. Do'/ens of trees together only boar a. few of these apples, and thc time for picking them has to bo carefully selected, must be gathered just a. month before they would ripen, otherwise they will very quickly spoil. These Zanzibar apples have reached the enormous price of ������100 each. They are not largo, probably containing about ten bites at ������10 a bite. The apples havo to be specially ordered, for no caterer would ever dream of keeping them in stock. Custard apples are another expensive luxury. They Can be purchased at prices ranging from $5 to ������25 each, according to quality, and, according to those whose judgment in such matters is considered to be absolutely correct, must he eaten with popper and salt. Two of the most fashionable fruits in the winter some receiver of fruit, or the3r may be killed before they have inflicted any harm. Sometimes, however, they escape ashore, and if the now country proves cemgenial to their growth and multiplication they may in a very short time establish a progeny that will eventually spread in all directions. POISONOUS SNAKES of the tropics have thus boon introduced into lands where none were ever known te> exist before. Moths of a destructive nature constantly go to countries in the fruit ships, and their spread is only a matter of time and opportunity. They aro visitors that cause no trouble to tlie sailors, who are very often not even aware of their presence on board, but they prove expensive to the farmers and inhabitants of the land where they become established. Even flowers and plants from, other countries bring with them new migrants in thc shape of bugs, bees, and other insects. Concealed in tho blossom or curled-up leaf of tho plants, they remain dormant during the long voyage, but when they roach a land where climate and surroundings aiv* conducive to their propagation and active growth, they come forth to establish themselves in tho land of their adoption. Thus from thc West Indies we havo brought insects by tho hundreds concealed in tho beautiful Easter Lily blossoms, and from all parts of the world strange insects hidden away in thc cup-like blooms of orchids, which hunters risked their lives to secure, have been introduced in our midst to work destruction or add to our pleasures. Not all visitors on our incoming ships are obnoxious. Some are of distinct value to our country, and their introduction in this secret way very often works out successfully problems of great public and COMMERCIAL VALUE. Most travellers to India and China will remember the revulsion of feeling with which they were seized, on flrst detecting a- scorpion or mosquito in their soup at luncheon or dinner. Some of the liners which are kept constantly for thc traffic from Aden to Bombay, and known as tho Red Sea boats, are never free from these pests.. With the tramp ships that visit the South Pacific monkeys and parrots are tho most common visitors. mo'nth.s are Muscat grapes and strawberries, and until tho end of.It is a very frequent occurrence, af- January the latter are beyond tho tor a "tramp" has not touched at reach of moderate means. . ^ Does her hair curl naturally?" any port foi n week or so, for tho sailors tp Iind that their food is continually being stolen. They know at world at tho Liverpool assizes a few days ago. A. man named William J ago was the accused. Many bold adventures and audacious crimes had previously been crowded into his life. Besides having served a sentence of fifteen months' imprisonment for forgery, ho was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for having robbed the mails while acting as chief officer off boarel an Atlantic liner. A. short, thick-sot, boarded man, with a clever face, Jago, who has been a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve and a master of many ships, mode a clever defenrn. The allegation was that, having insured a wooden packing case for ������400, ho filled' it with inflammable assortment of fire-lighters, charcoal, paper, and clothing saturated with creosoto oil and spriiddeel over with a mixture of sulphur and nitre. In this he placed an india-rubber tubing containing sulphuric acid and nitre, which gradually ate its way through thc rubber and came in contact with a glass tube containing chlorate of potash. This caused an explosion and set fire to tho box in the ship's hold when throe days out on thc voyage from Liverpool to Hamburg. Thc fire was put out at sea, and the box, tho contents of which were only partly destroyed, was analyzed. Jago's alternative theory was ingenious. It was that when ruminating in his coll in Dartmoor . Jail the idea of a non-deviating ship's compass occurred to hiim, and he* evolved a new patent which, on coming out of prison, he began to develop. He took a small house at Egremont and lived thoro alone, finding work as a laborer under the district council, and making, in his spare time, a number of chemical experiments. Ho produced-.- letters from- foreign legations to show that he had been in correspondence over somo patent, and sa.id he had been advised not'to sell the compass for ������l,000. Among other things he had discovered how to preserve milk in fluids by means of charcoal, .and called a clerical gentleman to prove that ho tasted tho preservative. Ho determined to take his compass, of which he had now made a working model, to New York, but as, owing to his record, it would be difficult to book a passage from Liverpool, he~~ determined to go via Hamburg, and was sending his packing case on ahead -He. placed tho working model inside, and threw in tho charcoal and the nitre, and sulphur simply because they would come in useful, for the experiments in America. As ho failed to account for the absence of any tangible "Sign of mechanism in the box, however, the jury concluded that the much-vaunted working model devised in prison for improving navigation vMs nothing less than a diabolical instrument of destruction. Mr. Justice Phillimorc, who characterized insuranco frauds as tho worst kind of frauds because they involved tho loss of property and often of life, said that the best service tho prisoner could render was to act as a finger-post to warn others. He sentenced him to fifteen years' penal servitude. RELICS OF QUEEN, SBAOA. Murdered Queen's Possessions Soldi by Auction. Tho shadow of a great crime hung over Christie's salesroom thc other day, when thc jewellery and dresses the murdered Queen Draga of' Servia, came under the hammer, says tho London Express. Thc tiarra which the ill-fated Queen wore on her wedding day, her robes of State, and the bracelets given her by the Czar, all were put up for public auction, but the total sum realized was only ������2,335. Tragedy was in the air. Society' ladies, jostled by hawk-eyed dealers, shuddered under their sables, as they gazed at the gown which the', dead Queen wore on the day when Alexander made, her his ' Queen. Above them, hanging on the saleroom wall, was a portrait of Alexander and Draga, the Queen in the bloom of her beauty, leaning against her husband, and wearing that samo bridal gown. The g'own, of pleated white satin, veiled .with old Burgess lace, simply made and high in the neck, was made in Paris four years ago. The auc- - tionoer suggested ������60 for. it, but tho dealers shook their heads. Bidding commenced at ������10 and slowly crept up to ������30 ,at which prico it changed hands. For tho State costume fashioned after the royal Servian model of the 14th century and worn at all the State receptions by Queen Draga, comprtition was keener. The robo itself is of royal purple velvet, richly embroidered with the arms of Servia in gold' and silver thread. The final bid was ������270, and both purchases, it is understood, were on behalf of interested Servian parties who will have thc gown restored to-- Sorvia. One of tho most interesting lots was tho Czar's barbaric bracelet, with its big emerlalds and- brilliants. ' Probably never before has thc wedding gift of one European sovereign to tho wife of another been sold by public auction. The Caar's wedding present was reported to be worth ������4,000, but the highest bid was ������480, at which price thc bracelet was sold to Mr. Draysolk Only ������il5 was offered., for tho Persian Order of the Sun, with its diamond star and badge, presented to Draga by tho Shah of Persia four years ago, in spite of thc fact that thc only others known to be in existence are those hold by thc German Empress, the Czarina and Queen Margherita of Italy. CHARITY ON THE CHEAP. PAPER KETTLES. Preparations aro being made to furnish the soldiers of the German army with paper kettles. It is understood that the now devices arc tho invention of a Japanese. Although thc utensils are made of pliable paper they hold water readily. By pouring water over them they can be hung ovor the fire without burning for a length of time sufficient to boil tho water. One kettle can be so used about eight times, and the cost is only two cents. The chief advantage in favor of the unique receptacle** is that they are much lighter to carry thau anything else yet devised. ��������� .4 *. SCHOOL FOR PARROTS. A school fe>r parrots has been opened in Philadelphia. It is a dame's school, thc professor being a laely, and the birds are taught to speak by a phonograph repeating the samo words and phrases for hours.till they pick them up. DECLINE IN WHEAT CROP. A preliminary statement compiled by the Board of Agriculture shows that there is a decline in tho British wheat, acreage from 1,581,587 acres in 1903 to 1,;J75,284 in 1.904. This is little more than u third of tho Ono of those toil-hardened, true- hearted chaps often read of in romances made his appearance in a street in Liverpool, England, the other day, and his sympathies were at-once arousc������l by the sight of three or .four old men star.i.iing abput looking for work. "I'll bo hanged if it isn't hard on you," he replied, when they told him that they hadn't had any-work for a month. "How would you like some oysters?" They smacked their lips by way of reply, and he gathered up a crowd of eight, marched them! to a restaurant, and ordered oysters for each one. "It just does my soul good to see them cat!" he said to the.owner of the place as tho eight got to work. "Yes, it's a beautiful aight," was tho reply. "It makes me feel good in here,", continued the stranger, laying hia hand on his heart. "A good deed brings its own reward," was the soft answer of tho retaurateur, as he calculated profits. "I can't rest here���������I must do further good," said the big-hoartod man, and ho rushed out aird brought in three cabmen, a chimney-sweep, two boys, and an old woman, and ordered more oysters. ~v" The fifteen people went for oyster soup in a manner to amaze, and their genorous friend nudged tho restaurateur in thc ribs and said:��������� "Just look at 'cm! Oh, that I could feed tho. poor of all Liverpool!" "You are a good man and Heaven will reward you," replied the proprietor, as he filled up the dishes again. The stranger said he wanted to bring in just fivo more, so ao to say that ho had fed an even score, and he rushed out after them, while tho restaurateur sent out for more oysters and .bread. He has not scon the philanthropist since, and now requires cash down from his customers. LONG- LEASE). once that monkeys aro on board. A | acreage under whuut in 1869. Probably ono of the longest leases known was granted for a small piece of meadow land, some sixteen acres in extent, in Surrey. England. It is for the term of 2,900 years, and was granted on St. Michael's Day in 1651, at the singular rental of a "red rose when demanded." It is, not stipulated that the rose shall bo the product of this land, which la fortunate, for no such rose grows anywhere on thc sixteen acres. --4 ��������� WEDDING-RING DRAMA. A Berlin bridegroom had just reported that ho had swallowed hia wedding-ring. He suffered intense agonies and vowed he was dying, until his pockets wore searched for money to pay for a telegram, when the ring was found in the lining of his waistcoat. He becutnes woll in a few minutes. .^KsatSMte^ TREATMENT OP THE POOR. " Bow the City of Berlin Handles th������s "Problem. Many interesting details regarding the condition and treatment of the poor by tho municipality- of Berlin are contained by the report forwarded to tho State Department by United States-Consul Haynes at Rouen, France. From this report it appears that is is a crime in Berlin to be out of work. When a ragged man makes his* appearance on one of the streets In Berlin ho is immediately requested', by a policeman to" show his papers. If they show that the bearer has slept more than a certain prescribed tiumber, of nights in an asylum for the homeless, from three to five days, he is immediately conducted to .the " work-house, which, although hot a prison, resembles the latter in all details. Every person of humble'means is insured . by the State in Germany, Clerks, shop assistants and* ' servants are Compelled to insure against sickness and old age. The State has built an immense sanatorium at'Beel- " itz at a, cost of nearly $2,500,000, where the invalid citizen is sent with his pension, in order to expedite his return to the ranks of the wage- earners. The whole object of the Berlin municipality is to secure the physical and intellectual well-being of ;its citizens, and although v .the Germans are not soft-hearted in the maimer .of achieving this purpose they havo this recommendation���������they succeed. Dr. Freund, the chairman of State . insurance in Berlin, takes thc ground that the State should do everything to fit its citizens for the battle of commercial competitions, and when it has done everything, when it has NEIGHBORLY NEIGHBORS. ��������� A rather humorous story is told of a lawyer and physician who lived next door to each other in a small country town. The physician one (lay asked if- ho ������ *?l,U"tJ "*";*""*;. "-"'" "- might borrow from .'the lawyer his first equipped, then safeguarded and ,.?. ��������� . c!i,���������i.������������������������������������',^���������*��������� _���������i.��������� afterward assisted in distress, it ������d?��������� of Shakespcarc.s works.- -. . You are welcome to rea should punish sternly arid steadfastly the lazy and the indolent. " " Sick, says the State to its worn: r - - ��������� .,. people, and we will nurse you back awa*V Wlth y������u> T am sor,y to say������ to vigor; drop out of employment for 1 have losl so 'many books and we will find you fresh work, i1hrmw^ lMiclimr them that I have WAS IN ITS GRIP '���������:,-/ FOR* 25 YEARS THEUfjDODD^S���������- KIDNEY' PILLS CJJRED^ HIS, KIDNEY- DISEASE. .) - Remarkable, Cure' Reporte'd Prom. Qucbec���������The Lesson it Teaches. Hunterstown, QueT,1" Jan.- 9���������(Special).���������The thousands ,of Canadians who suffer from Chronic Kidney complaint will be interested in the cure of Maximo Boucher of this place. For twenty-five years he suffered from Kidney , Complaint. Dodd's Kidney Pills cured ''him. t Speaking of_���������hi& case Mr. Boucher says: "It was Dodd's Kidney Pills that cured me. For twenty-five years ��������� I suffered with "the malady of tho Kidneys. I felt .always feeble-and was "often "in pain. One day I received a Dodd's'.AJmanac and read of many wonderful' cures in it. Then I decided to give Dodd's Kidney Pills a trial. I took twenty-five boxes,, in all*.arid'now I am perfectly cured."* Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure sick Kidneys. If the disease has got a firm hold it "takes thorn longer than if is just starting.' But there is no form nor no stage of Kidney Disease that cannot be cured by -Dci<ld's Kidney Pills. fast-1 ^ou aro wdcomo to read- the -pi || work in any library," the lawyer an- work BW*eref'. "but you .' can't take , it A week passed, and tho lawyer came and asked for -the loan of' his lawn-mower. I am only too glad to lend you my lawn-mower," said the physician, "though it is my rule never to let it leave my lawn. There, however, you may use it all you please." awl we win nna you iresn worn, =- -*- grow old, and we will provide you resolved never to let another volume with'bread and butter; but become leave myhouse." lazy and vagabond, and we will * ^ "*" ' lock you up and make you work till you have paid the uttmost farthing of your debt. Rags and misery- dare hot lie about in tho park or scatter disease through thc crowded streets. If there is any virtue in the unemployed the State will certainly develop it as well as it is possible to do so. There is a central bureau for providing men with work, and when a man knows that not to work means the work-house he solicits emplojonent here and elsewhere with such a will as almost compels wages. In one year the State has secured employment for 50,000 men. The citizen is provided with sanitary "dwellings, with unadulterated food, with schools and technical colleges, and with insurance for sickness and old age. - For. a penny he can travel almost from one end of Berlin to the other by electric tramway or electric railway. His streets are elean, brilliantly lighted and noiseless; his cafes and music halls are innumerable. Ho lives in a palace. And all this is the result of municipal government by experts instead of by amateurs DAY GROWING LONGER. A scientific writer in the Electrical magazine advances the startling theory that the time occupied by our world in its diurnal rotation is slowly lengthening. The fact, ho says, remains irrefutable that the duration of our present day is much loss than it was some million years ago; but there are now several natural physical causes tending to effect a gradual arrest of the earth's proper motion about her axis. The most important of these is thc retarding effect of tidal action influenced by the sun and moon's attraction. Thc tides, no doubt, had an enormously greater effect during .the early stages of tho earth's career .than at present; but while the retarding action of the tides still remains probably the greatest factor in the possible lengthening of the ,day, it must be infinitely loss than iformcrly, when the globe was a mol- jten state, and at a still earlier period when it was in a gaseous condition. I Thero are other retarding causes which have to do with tho lengthen- ening of tho day���������the drift of millions of tons of glaciers in their flow towards the equator, the weight of excoriae thrown up by volcanic action from possibly the depth of a jmile to the earth's surface, and the action of magnetic currents, which Iwould absorb some energy from the [revolving mass that represents our world. To prove to y<m *Shafc Ur. Chuso'a Ointment :"������ a oortnin and absolute euro for eat* and every form of itchina bleodingand protruding pileu, 'Tie manufacturers have cmarr.Mccd it. Sec tea. imonials in the daily press and ask yournei^h* lors what they think o f it. 1 ou can use it and tefc Tour money back if not cured. 60c a dox, all 11 dealers or Edmanson.Bates & Co~ Toronto, Lady���������"Why don't you go to -work? Don't you know that a rolling stone gathers no moss?" The Tramp��������� "Madam, not to evade your question at all, but merely to obtain information, may I ask what practical utility moss is to a man in my condition?" *;' , ���������"' TAKE NOTICE. We publish simple, straight testimonials, not press '���������,.-. agents' interviews, from well-known people. From all, over America they testify to the merits of MINARD'S LINIMENT, the best of Household Remedies. 0. C. RICHARDS & CO. PROBLEM OF THE PAUPER. Great Question . Which England Has to Face. England's greatest and most pressing problem to-day is not Imperial federation. Nor is it preferential tariffs within tho Empire. Tho problem that is worrying her most is, what to do with her paupers, says the New York Sun. One family out of four of that country's population earns normally less than $5 per week, and 8' per cent, of all the families in the kingdom have an average income less than this. In London one person in every fivo dies in the workhouse (a public poorhouse in which adult paupers aro made to work), in public hospitals, or in public lunatic asylums. In 1887, out of 82,545 deaths in London, 17,000 took place in public institutions for paupers. This being the normal state of affairs, somo idea may be formed of the frightful conditions existing among the laboring class when, as now, the country is suffering from a severe industrial depression. Hundreds of thousands of men and women are out of work, their little savings aro where they wanted to bring on a quick, violent revolution. In the present ctmergency, as in past ones, they are not spinning theories or indulging in violent talk of riots, but a largo portion of the intellect and wealth of tho country is energetically endeavoring to ameliorate present had conditions and to contrive some Vmeans to prevent their recurrence. The rich arc contributing generously to the Mansion House and other funds for tho relief ob* the poor; and meantime both socialists and non- socialists ore attacking vigorously itho land laws, which probably are. at the root of present deplorable conditions. . There are very few cleansing operations in which Sunlight Soap cannot be used to' advant '���������ere. It makes "the home bright and clean. IB Dyeing! Cleaning! For (ha *rarf bait tend your work to tha '���������BRITISH AMERICAN DYEING CO." Laok for a������aat In jour (own, or ������������������ad 4!raa&. Montreal, Torooto, Ottawa, Quebt* No Breakfast Table, complete without ^4umMu_ jJU~t<M, <z������rtv>u4 ������������������e>--Mcs^ - d&&d itfl&������''PCrfsf ^rfies <&eu?ud^. Wo can handle your poultry either alive or dressed to best advantage. Also your butter, eggs, honey and other' produce. < THE LAWS^N QO!VI?VMSS.OSI CO., Limited Cor. Woit Market anil Coltiorno Sis', 'TORONTO. An ^admirable food, with all its natural qualities intact, fitted to build up and maintain robust \health, and to resist winter's extreme cold. It is a valuable diet for children. The Most Nutritious and Economical. The game of chess is still included in the curriculum of "Russian schools. He���������"Why did Miss Oldly take to the violin?" She���������"Because a .bow goes with It." f Miiiard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia ESTATES IN LONDON. Bits of Land" That Bring Their Noble Owners Wealth. Viscount Portman owns less than 300 of London's 74,672 acres, but they ar������ worth more than half a county elsewhere. y The Duke of Bedford is lord of 84,- 000 acres; but the 118 acres which lie within the four-mile radius are probably more valuable than all the rest put together. The Duke, it is said, draws an income of $60,000 from the tolls levied on the fruit and vegetables that enter Covent Garden Market, in addition-to an -enormous sum from rents. The Duke of Westminster has two estates in.London, either of which yields a truly regal income. From thc two estates.the Duke is said to draw many millions a year. The Duke of Portland has a snug and very valuabfe little estate tuck- ed'away in the corner between Portland place and Marylebone road. In point of acres it is insignificant, but it produces in rents ������2,500,000 a year. When in the 17th century Sir John Spencer, Lord Mayor of London, bought for a song a few acres in the districts known as Clerkenwell and Canonbury, 'he little dreamt that he was preparing a regal fortune for a noble family. Sir John had a charming daughter who was wooed by a handsome but impecunious Baron, Lord Northampton, on whom the city Knight refused to smile as a potential son-in- law. But the young lover was determined to have his way in spite of pacernal frowns, and one day, so the story goes, he dressed himself as a baker's apprentice, called at the Knight's house, and carried off the heiress in his basket on the top of his head. To this romantic incident the Lord Northampton of our day owes the enormous revenue that comes from bis London property. ������������������ 1 : HABIT'S CHAIN. Certain Habits Unconsciously Formed and Hard to Break. An ingenious philosopher estimates that the amount of will power r.roces- sary to break a life-long habit would, if it could be transformed, lift a weight of many tons. It sometimes requires a higher degree of heroism to break the chains of a pernicious habit than to lead a forlorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady writes from an Indiana town: "From my earliest childhood I was a lover of coilee. Before I was out of my teens I was a miserable dyspeptic, suffering terribly at times with my stomach. "I was convinced that it was coffee that was causing the trouble and yet I could not deny myself a cup for breakfast. At the age of 36 I was in very poor health, indeed. My sister told me I was in danger of becoming a coffee drunkard. "But I never could give up drinking coffee for breakfast although' it kept rne constantly ill, until I tried Postum. I learned to make it properly according to directions, and now we can hardly do without Postum for breakfast, and care nothing at all for coffee. "I am no longer troubled with dyspepsia, do not have spells of suffering with ray stomach that used to trouble me so when I drank coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book, "The Road to Well- vilito." INDIANS' SUPERSTITIONS. Believe in Ghosts, Witches and Power of the Medicine Men. The Indian believes there are boa constrictors .,in the streams of North America, and also that the South American tapir lives in North America.' He calls tho boa constrictor the iste-ach-war-nayer and calls tho tapir nocas-oh-mer. The Indian believes he has a cure and preventive -for rabies or hydrophobia.' He also believes he can cure any snake bite on earth, from a ground rattler to a velvet tail or diamond rattler. An Indian never was known to go mad from a dog bite or die from a rattler's bite,, while other races succumb to the ve*- nom of a snake or go mad from the bite of a rabid dog. The Indiarj believes that cleansing the stomach each full of the moon by vomiting gives long life and good health to all who will practise it through life. The Indian, when in battle and fatally wounded, believes that if his medicine man can reach him with his bitter medicine before he dies it will give his instant relief and he will be able to escape from'the battlefield, lie thinks every man is honest until he finds him out, in which event he loses all confidence in him and never gets over it. The Indian never makes up after falling out with any one. He may speak to an enemy as he passes, but dies with tho hatred in his heart. He believes as much or has as much faith in an Indian doctor as the paleface has in his M.D. \-'." The Indian doctor claims he never undertakes to treat a patient unless ho thoroughly understands the nature of the case. The red man once believed in witches, but he does not how. He says Some old time Indians were witches, but they are not the. experts in medicine they once were. He believes: that through their medicines was; gained the power of, witchcraft. Tho Indian believes in ghosts, but claims that not many are able to see them; some never see them, while others do. ������ -; ���������;���������.'������������������ ALREADY SUPPLIED. The man who has to pitch the hay Sighs "Ok, to just sit down Beside a desk and work the way Those felloes do in town." ' The man who's caged from morn till night" '���������'..'���������'' Takes liver pills, and then Says sadly, "If I only might Be on the farm again!" For Over Slicty Yencs MRf'.WiNfM.o'w'isSo-vrHTNo Syiw? h.v������ bs������n -a-ii-l *j mUlioTieof mother* for their children while teethin*. lleoolhasthe child, softens tlieguirw.aHayapain, euro) windoolic.retfiilatesthostomacbanilliotrels, nDiiifl clw totstremedyfor Diarrhoea. Twauty-llve oente a bottle told by druggist* throughout tha world. Ba sure o.al ���������Is/or"iifti. WiNsLoyrjaooTuixuSvuirr." W-01 He���������"I suppose Miss -de Millions married that poor young artist because she loved him?" Shcj���������"No; because her dearest friend loved him-''' Used in H.B.K. Mitts, Gloves and Moccasins���������tough as whale- vbone, flexible, soft, pliable, scorch- proof, ���������wind -proof, boil-proof? crack-proof, tear-proof, rip-proof, cold-proof, almost wear-proof��������� certainly the greatest leather. ;ever used in mitts and gloves. > "Like buckskin it is tanned without oil, unlike buckskin it is not porous, it is wind-proof-���������will * outwear three buckskins. ���������"Pinto" Mitts and Gloves never crack or. harden, never get sodden, are always warm, pliable, soft and comfortable. Sold at all dealers but never with- out this brand:��������� te I l&m&'s Llnimeiit Cures Burns, etc When a Japanese audience wish to express disapproval of a play, they turn their hacks to the> stage. An idea of the popularity of Tuckett's Marguerite Cigars may be gained from the fact that the sales in 1904 exceeded 12,000,000, which is by far the largest sale of any brand in the history of Canada. She3���������"I think it's so silly of lovers to quarrel." He���������"Yes. Tho making up is so expensive." Miiiard's Liniment Cures Dandruff, - HIS. LAST PLACE. A gentleman who was interviewing a valet asked him, "Why did you leave the last place you lived at?" "Well, sir," replied the valet, "I didn't like it at all, nnd was glad to leave. But I could go back any, time I like." "Then, if you could go back again that shows you must bear a good character, so I'll engage you," said the gentleman. It afterwards transpired that the last place the valot lived at was a prison. Women kiss when they meet just to show tho men that they are ready to do unto othcru as they would that others should do unto them HUDSON BAY KNITTING CO. Montreal Winnipeg Dawson A church of soliei coral is a curiosity of tho Isle of Mahe, which is the highest o! the Seychelles group. Minard's Linimsnt for saie everywhere Only a very old lady can rememSbier events that i^iiSfccurred twenty years ago. Lever's Y-2 (Wise Head) Disinfectant Soap Powder dusted in tha bath, softens the water and disinfects. The "middle ages"- we so often hear spoken of do not refer to the1 ladies. Ladies have no middle ages; they are all young or old I | When you think you have cured a i cough or cold, but find a dry, | hacking cough remains, there is 1 danger. Take Dure ���������Rs1cLuns at once. It will strengthen the lungs and stop the cough. Prices; \ 8. C. Weixs & Co. sod 25o. 50c, t}l. LeRoy.N.Y..T������K>nto,Can. ISSUE NOi 1���������05,, ���������:������ PROPERTY IN HEDLEY Is A And Will Safe Investment is the supply point for the Nickel Plate mountain, on which is situated the famous "Nickel Plate"���������the richest gold mine in Canada��������� and many other promising mines and prospects. It is the mining and business centre of the Similkameen the new mining district wliich has already been proven, by a small amount of development work, to be one of the richest gold, copper and coal mining sections of British Columbia. HEDLEY is the chief town on the route of the pro-, posed Coast-Kootenay railway; and with the advent of this road, which is assured in the near future, it will unquestionably become a large and important city, and town lots will bring big returns on money invested at the present time. ...PRICE OF LOTS... Scott Ave. (main st.) $400 to $600 Other Streets $200 to $400. .... 1 d\i"l<>7iiii 1-3 Cash; balance in 3 and 6 months, with interest at the rate of 6 per cent. For Those Who Invest Now ==Piirchase a few Lets before the Railway Comes������������������ For F^ull Particulars, Maps Etc., ��������� Pi-fvi-rv to ��������� The Hedley City Townsite Company, Ltd. HEDLEY, B.C. L. W. SHATFORD, Secretary and ilanager, M WE MAKE Try. One Grade Only AND THEY STAND THE Heaviest Fires. Ne\ser Knowrn to "Roll. "We do not make Thin Wall Safes. Vktoria Cross CEYLON TEA. Pure and Invigorating, NOW IN ITS 39th YEAR The leading mining periodical of the world, with tlie strongest, editorial staff of any technical publication. Subscription $5,00 a year (including U. S., Canadian, Mexican postage.) Sample copy free. Send for Book Catalogue. The Engineering and Mininq Journal 261 Brotdway, New York "\\ fiCommercial Hotel HEDLEY, B. C. This hotel under new management has been re-modelled, and has ample accommodation for a large number of people. The table is supplied with the best in the market. The bar contains the popular brands of liquors and cigars. Henderson <Mh Fra$ei% Proprietors. Subscribe for the Gazette. Mclennan, mcfeely & co��������� Ltd. Vancouver, B. C tmrnaKPFWutiumiutma Wholesale and Retail HARDWARE, STOVES, SPORTING GOODS. Grand Union Hotel HERRING & WINKLER, Props. Choice Liquors and Cigars always in stock. Good Table and Comfortable Rooms. Careful attention to wants of travelling public and regular boarders. The GRAND UNION is the nearest to the works of the Daly Reduction Co., which makes it especially suited for regular boarders. All white help. ��������� HEDLEY, B������C. 9 LIVERY, FEED & SALE STABLES F" .a 5 r \/5 e= w/ -ALSO��������� Proprietors���������FAIRVIEW AND PENTICTON STAGE LINE. Good Horses and Rigs and Careful Drivers. Teams furnished to do freighting, transferring and general teaming, and good saddle horses always on hand. v .. _/ I PROPERTY IN Is A Good, Safe EDIEY Investment And Will Make Money Mffc������llf*������f *8 the supply pqint for the Nickel Plate moun- ��������� ��������� ���������VlliV.J tain, on which is situated the famous *��������� Nickel Plate"���������the richest gold mine in Canada���������and many other promising mines and prospects. It is the mining and business centre of the ...PRICE OF LOTS... Similkameen the new mining district which has already been proven, by a small amount of development work, to be on - of the richest gold, copper and coal mining sections of British Columbia. HEDLEY is the chief town on the route .of the. proposed Coast-Kootenay Railway; and with the advent of this .load, which is assured in the near future, it will unquestionably become a large and important city, and town lots will bring big returns on money invested at the present time. Scott Ave. (main st.) .... .$400 to $600 Other Streets $200 to $400. ��������� ������.. 1 dyi'l^,,.. 1=3 Cash; balance in 3 and 6 months, with interest at the rate of 6 per cent. For Those Who Invest Now. -^---���������^^Purchase a few Lots before the Railway Comes:^== For full Particulars, Maps Etc., -APPUY TO��������� The Hedley City Townsite Co'y, Ltd. L. W. SHATFORD, ' worn nw rV ~ Secretary and manager, - - TlfciDLEY, B.C. s������*������*������*i * Mrs. G. ft Loon 1 ���������#:*M*******e** jg.DRYjGOODS I FANCY GOODS BOOTS & SHOES J Try: I Millinery in Latest Styles (j# ���������AGENTS FOR.��������� $ MASON dfi, RJSCH Pianos. 3 ***3*****.*** IflEDL&y, B. 6. * CEYLON TEA. Pure and Invigorating. ALffltH MEfll WE MAKE MARKET Fresh and Cured ..Meats Wholesale and Retail One Grade Only AND THEY STAND THE Heaviest Fires. Grand Union Hotel HERRING & WINKLER, Props. Choice Liquors ��������� and Cigars always in stock. Good Table and Comfortable Rooms. Careful attention to -uveints of tr-Av<e>lllnf������ public and regular boarders. The GRAND UNION is thc nearest to the works of the Daly Reduction Co., which makes it especially suited for regular boarders. All white help. - HEDLEY, B.C. Never Known to F*&il. All Orders Promptly Delivered. Bates Given to Hotels and Boarding Houses. 5 Per Cent, off for Cash. 10 " " off on Saturdays. R J. Wynne, MANAGER. We do not make Thin Wall Safes. MGDOUOall & GO'S LIVERT, FEED 8 SALE STABLES Fafrview ���������ALSO��������� Proprietors-^FAIRVIEW AND PENTICTON STAGE LINE. Good Horses and Rigs and Careful Drivers. Teams furnished to do freighting, transferring and general teaming, and good saddle horses always on hand. ���������SCommercial Hotel HEDLEY, B.C. This hotel under new management has been re-modelled, and has ample accommodation for a large number of people. The table is supplied with the best in the market. The bar contains the popular brands of liquors and cigars. Henderson ������> Fra$er9 Proprietors. Mclennan, mcfeeu & co., Ltd. Vancouver, B. C Wholesale and Retail HARDWARE, STOVES, SPORTING GOODS. China's reply to the Russian chnvgesi of violation of neutral- Uy. hns been forwarded to the , powers, and i.s of a character to iinjiko Russia feel "sorry that she spoke," for not only is it a ] pretty thorough refutation of the charges made but places , China in a much better light on I tlie subject of neutrality observ- ; ance. That Russia's position is i aiiy worse because of it, does . not follow, for in her diplomacy {'she had already reached the stage where one lie more or less doesn't count. Snare. <i Amor. land n. Hull. . ���������8 u ii terious inonui. ��������� throu*^. Of till*! tensive ���������������<, which i. enormous lieved to , Hall has- years' ������>.��������� Zimbabyi desian months* ;-r .. reques- the M;. in rnx.s bell.-to ; galleries. ���������!������������������ of some lor inlormcd He- his recent o baoye bad I ; these * r* r ���������������. tion. F"s. r!; hitherto i-i'1; cii'tit or'! pold orP' ��������� ��������� in ft;, the ��������� ��������� ; _:---i' waa practiced ai^-ns.-. '''>.'< t ���������* ;t .���������f.*oi ! en '��������� l= ; "! : ���������'l ;n, *, , .,'> ���������'������: i!������������������ "V much ���������. sceneries o' . ��������� e,tt*ri fe;- . 'tire*, buri'i*: " ';���������>. d relics' when 'phn-'Ii' . have becii hi: portant. A larsri* section o'': ter. also of jro!d and other h(is Iven seriT'-e:!. The eM'rie*"*-'" '"���������'oelesin was the country fro* ��������� ,*��������� ' ''inp "-"'���������olomon's frold was o!>t.- ire fast per.urn;!ating'. The hir: ������������������f the r-n-n nnrir-it portion of t' ��������� 'nw''������������������.. nnrt extensive ruins ���������*���������������(������������������ '!������������������** i"' ro hni-n iioon Sabaeo-." -ibieng ������f about .iriO������ "B.O-.. who ef t'-- t .' rfn*ei"er������������ the rold purvpvors of the ! "���������oriel. Vo iw������e"r'*stion has* been rrftf'e ��������� that any of trr structure* wen* ere<"t- ; ���������v! hy th������ "Phoenician*, but distinct j trace* ������f their influence ara believed ; t������ havo b-Mn ertiacovered. i i t I ��������� 1 t f d i- K o l- ������. t h. i s se Iv*- ... "'oi Treat. A retniarkable fiah atory ja told by, ��������� gentleman who has been spending a few days' holiday near "tagestre Hall. Staffordshire. Eng. While be was walking round a point in the neighborhood, he says, a lads came out of a house and threw ������. piece of bread on the placid surface of the water. Suddenly there was a swirl, a glimpse of bright color, and the bread disappeared. Other crumba followed, thrown nearer and nearer, to thc bank, and gradually there swam into view a fine rainbow trout. Without the slightest - trace of .������������������liynofis the fish came to the edpe of th'o !*������n!c at the foot of the lady, and v.-jiited for more bread to be thrown, and this he swallowed up with great irusto. The lady, in reply to quostions, stated that the trout had bewn her pet fe*r a lon<*- time, and liad become so tinni! that it would even take & worn* or ;i piece of meat from her I in pern. The; pool is stocked with hun- drs-rls of trout, but this, .. curiously enough, is thc only one amongst' Uk'hi all to act this way. Kan** it:" Kt-^Uuil Xota *i*TIt!> a HUl<Vry. Apropos of ill'-) return ol Lore! j l)'.:nd j::.'.!-.;, iiir.ny people may not I.siov.- tli:ii theri* is in the ll.-ui't-: uf Kni'liir.fl ;n ������l,(i(Hi note whie.ii r.:i-al)a scd i:i.*:.'ioi'it*3 oi' the* first Kr.rl of [Jumionaki. After be-in-,' di.s^racicl in l'*r!������:'lii:iel on a frtlne* accusation, he* joined the I'.raziliun navy, ai't>*T service with Chile, and was its first admiral. In 1S14. he was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and to pay a fine of ,-fji,()()(). The money wa;i col- lt*e*te*d hy his con.stiti'i-nt.s at Westminister in penny subscriptions. Very much against his will, he paid the tine with a ������1,000 bank note, on tho back of which he wrote: "I submit to robbery to protect myself from murder, in the hope that I shUl live to brinp the delineiuents to justice." ���������London Graphic. NOW IN ITS 39th YEAR The leading mining periodica] of the world, with the strongest editorial staff of any technical publication. Subtcription IS.00 a year (including U. S.i Canadian, Mexican postage.) Sample copy free. S������nd for Book Catalogue. The Enoineerinq and Minino Journal 261 Broa4way> Ne* York n THE SORROWS OF BOBBY. "I'll Dover speak a piece again. I don't care ������;h������;i folks say, 'Cause onca: 1 learned tho nicest speech To speak at school last day; My, but I studied awi'ul hard, , An.' practiced makin' bows, When I wan chorin' 'round the barn 'I'd say it to the cows. Then, when the, foks all come, An'I was called to speak, I clean forgot to make a bow,' An' my knees was dreadful weak. Stid o' the words I was. to say. -'There come a great big lump In my throat, an' stuck there fast, An' I stood there like a gump. Jes' like a gump, with open month Aii' starin' eyes an' achin' heart; Then everybody laughed, but ma (She alius takes my part.) I spect I'd be a standiiv , yet, My mind was that confused. But,teacher, speakin' .jes' as kind, Said: '_'B.ofoby,..-ybu ai0 'soused." Ziggsby���������"There goes a fellow who whistles at danger." Persia���������"Ah! he must bea very brave fellow. Who Is he?" Ziggsby���������"A locomotive driver." "Is this a good place to hunt rabbits?" asked the amateur sportsman. "I should just say so," rcplisd the boy; "you could Inmt .here i'or a weak, arid never tod none." NO DOUBT ABOUT ROBT. BOND'S CASE HE WAS CURED OF BRIGHT'S .,. DISEASE BY DODD'S Kp- NEY FILLS. : Doctors Said There Was no Hope For Him, but He is a Well Man How. Mount Brydges, Out., Jon. 16.��������� (Spe-iaf.)���������That Dodd's Kidney- Pills cure Bright's Disease completely and. permanently has been clearly showij in the case of Mr. Robt. Bond, a well-known, resident of this place. Mr. Bond docs not hesitate to say he owes his life to Dodd's Kidney Pills. ..������������������������������������ ���������.,... ���������."' .'���������������������������.���������' .'.'.My. attending physician,":r Mr. Bond states, "said I was in the last stages of Wright's Disease and that there was no hope for me. I then commenced to use Dodd's Kidney Pills and no other remedy. I used in.all about twenty boxes whon my doctor pronounced inc quite well. I have had no return of the trouble since." Bright *s Disease is Kidney Disease in its worst form. "Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure it. .They, also easily cure milder, forms of Kidney Complaint. IGHT REDUCES EXPENSE, S5,0G0 Reward ZlfdHJJS Limited, Toronto, to any person who :an prove that Ibis soap contains my form of adulteration whatsoever, ���������h* contains any injurious chemicals Ask for thc Octason Bar. / -:. ���������*������������������ ������f ���������v Dyeing! Cleaning I For th* vary fcatt (tad four w������t k to tfc* "���������RiTltH AMERICAN DYEING 00." -1 Laoh lor ���������feat, In f 0*1 town, or i������d 4lr������M������ Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Qucfeetfc d&4i*>Cc~ti<6 rvAtyyl". c^e^ded/Su mv POULTRY aaii* C-, Qerrsfortabie Livin WITH A Chatham Incubator Poultry raising with a Chatham Incubator is a very profitable and easily managed occupation. Unless you want to go into it extensively it need take but very little of your time. Government reports show that the demand for chickens in Canada is greatly in excess of the supply and Great Britain is always clamoring- for more. . That means a steady market and good prices" for chickens. You cannot raise chickens successfully with a setting- hen. She is wasting- time setting when she should be laying-. While she is hatching and brooding- a few chickens she could be laying- five or six dozen eggs. The percentage of chickens she hatches is much less than that produced by the Chatham Incubator. It will pay you to own a Chatham ! Incubator. Chatham Incubators contain et'ery improvement of importance in Incubator construction that has'been produced. They are made of thoroughly seasoned wood, with two Avails, case within case. Between these walls ! mineral wool is packed forming- the j very best insulation. Each piece of | the case is mortised and grooved and | screwed, making the whole as solid I as a rock. Chatham Incubators are equipped with scientifically perfect regulators which are an infallible means of reg-ulating the temperature. y lo cash to pay unti October, 1905. We will start you raising poultry for profit with a Chatham Incubator without one cent of money from you unfil next Fall. That means that you can take off seven or eight hatches and make considerable money out of the Incubator before thc first payment becomes due. We couldn't make this offer if we were not certain that if yoei accept it you will get complete satisfaction, if we were not positive that the Chatham Incubator will pay you a handsome yearly income. This is a straightforward offer. We make it to show our supreme confidence in the Chatham Incubator. We want you to accept this offer as we are sure of the satisfaction our Incubator will give. Every machine we have put out so far has made other sales in the same neighborhood Our offer is to send you a Chatham Incubator at once, freight prepaid by us without one cent of cash from you. You make your first payment in October, 1906. The balance to be paid In October, 1906, or if a Cash Buyer you get it cheaper. Could any offer be fairer or more generous ? Smith Falls, Out.. Horomber lfttii, 1004. Tho Tnenbotor and Brooder tint I bought from your Bccnt, on tlmo. I w!������h now to p������y tie whole amonnt tills fall. If yoti will give mo a discount, I am -very nmch pl������M������3 with "both IneuTtttor ond Brooder, n������a would not l*o without (bum, becauso I cleared this season, more tlian the Incubator ������nd Brooder cost mc. YonrsroB^ullr. m.8LOp_ . Write us toVday for full particulars of our offer and mention this paper. Don't put it aside for another *tinie as this special proposition "fiiiybe withdrawn ai any time. T*rlS MANSON '.CAJWPBELLCO., Limited Dapt. 32 Chatham, Ont. '��������� i ���������' ��������� '���������:"' ��������� ������IA>lI/FACTl!REJt3 OF ' ' . Ch*tbam Taming ?.t.tlla. find Clmtb.-im Fmto S/:a'ea,_ .; : :���������' nisTiuroTiNo WAtiKHouaM at'���������������������������������������������������������������' Moninvi!, Que., Uramlon, Man., Caltrary. Alto.. ���������:' - itrr IVflnlmimter.rn.C., Halifax; K.S.- FACT0R1E3 AT -.,.��������������� OUTCOME 03? THE WAE.. Russia Must Be the First to Sue "For Terms- "This war will end when Russia asks for terms of peace, ��������� or, in the contrary event, when the Inst Japanese creature of either sex, capable of ;. bearing arms, dies fighting against her." Such was the emphatic declaration of Mrf;Arthur Dibsy,* F.lt.G.S., founder of ���������the Japan Society of London, recently. Intervention; he regarded--.as practically out of the question; Japan would take care not to be swindled a (second time; _i-...... ���������-.._��������� '���������.:..���������._>-...-'.��������� The struggle was likely to affect the' commerce of the world to a greater extent than any other war in history. It was a conflict between a retrograde typo of civilization, re- preser.ited by a so-called Christian nation, and a free and enlightened type, represented by* a so-called heathen people. Thc real cause of the war was the present condition and future of China. It was the ambition of Japan to awaken the Chinese, and she would have every advantage in attempting their regeneration. Russian success would not, in the lecturer's, opinion, be well for British trade. Wherever a Chinaman had come under the thumb of the Russians, he had found it to-lus advantage to buy other than British goods, and if Russia become all- powerful in China, there would be a great increase in the sale of'German, Belgian, and Swiss products, until such time as Russia herself could supply tlie articles. There was undoubtedly a danger of a commercial rivalry stronger nnd fiercer than the world had ever seen, for China was likely to become one of the greatest: if not the 'greatest, of industrial nations. In the interval, at all events, this country could keep its mills going to their fullest extent for China would need plant and tools,' and a great deal of those would bo supplied by Great Britain. Those who engaged in this business must dp so on scientific lines; they must take a leaf out of thc German book in the Far East, and several leaves out of the Japanese. It would bo worth doing. GR&NOTRUNi^^ For the Winter ���������GO TO��������� CALiFOitNlA, MEXICO OR FLORIDA. The "Land of Sunshine, Fruit. and Flowe*rs." ���������-Round-trip tourist tickets on sale daily. Monm; Clemens ''Mineral Baths" Situated on direct line of Grand Trunk. St. Catharines Mineral Springs Those who ncejd a rest should spend a few days or weeks at this ���������delightful resort. Best of hotel accommodation. For tickets . and full infonmation call at:any Grand Trimk Ticket Office.., THE CAWS ON Cor. West Market We can handle your poultry elthec' alive or dressed to best advantage.; Also your butter, eggs, honey and other produce. COMMISSION CO., Limited and Colborito 8t������., TORONTO.. In Germany.' employers of labor ���������arc.-..'.compelled'' to grant one hour's rest-at midday, and women with household cares niay claim an extra half-hour';--- M i nard's Lin! menl Cures Gsrget inCows IJnrcfroshing but sound sleep nearly always shows that the blood does not leave thc brain by the veins at tho. normal rate. Soaking the feet in hot water, and using a high pillow, will be beneficial. A. W.CHASE'S CATASEH C&BE... ts econt direct to the dteeassd parts by the Improved Blower. Keah tte uloeis, clears tli������ alt pjwsages, *ie>ps dropping* in tha throat and perrnanairUy cniea Catarrh and Hay Fever. Blower free. Al! dealer*, or Dr. A. W. Chas������ I Medicine Co.. Toronto and Buffalo. ! The minister look'od round with thc Rook in his hand. "Who jrlves tins bride away?-" he domando.l "f do," hastily replied - her father, "most* willingly." DEADLY PISTETJIVEONIA. In All Its Varieties Disease is Due to Infection. In all its varieties, pneumonia is due to infection. Twenty years ago even that much was unknown. Now it is an undisputed fact that the majority of cases of this most elendly diseases are caused by a germ "known as the pneumoccus-���������or, as -it goes about in pairs, thc dipplocoee'us pneumoniae. That there are other bacilli which cause pneumonia is also admitted. How many different varieties aro in this"class is a question, but several of them have been discovered beyond cavil. "Pneumonia," says a distinguished authority, "in caused by weakening of tho lungs duo to congestion, allowing the inroad of germs which were in the body before." Investigations have apparently established thc fact that all the microorganisms which cause pneumonia enter through the respiratory organs. The bacilli are found in large quantities in thc mouths and noses and breathing passages of persons in a normal condition of health. In fact, ai'cording to a Chicago physician, who made many tests, pneumonia producing germs exist in tho bodies of 45 out of every 100 persons, under average normal conditions. When pnomrmnia develops in one lung or both, as the result of a cold, or because of some other depressing fact', it means thnt tho patient is in such a reduced slate that the microorganism can lake hold and multiply. It is evident, therefore, that nmin- ��������� taining tho general.health 's'thenrat IcSson of prevention. TAKE NOTICE. . "We publish simple, straight tcsti-. nionials, not press agents' interviews, from well-known, people. From, all over America they testify to 'the merits of MINARD'S L.INI- 'MI5NT, thc best of Household Remedies. . .���������'���������'���������'���������. 0. C. RICHARDS & CO. OPENING FOR A YOUNG MAN. "Yes," said Mrs. Malone, to the old friend who was picking up tho threads of family history, "my Rob- by, he's travelling with a circus now," "Pretty hard work, isn't it?"- inquired the interested caller. "Never a bit of it," returned the proud mother of Bobby. "He's )iv- ing like a gentleman, ho is���������hands in his pockets, as ye might say,���������for it's a handsome sala.ry he gets, and evei*y blessed thing he has to do is to lay his head in the lion's mouth a matter o' some two or three times a da5r or thereabouts!" IRELAND CAN GROW TOBACCO. An Initial Experiment Produces Surprising Results. A new era'appears to have opened for Irelanel. Not only will she be a manufacturer of' tobacco, but she appears likely to bo able to grow a good leaf of her own. From the lands of Col. Nugent Ev- crard, in Randalstown, County Meath, twenty ucres of tobacco have been harvested, and' Professor ~J. N. Harper, of Kentucky University, the American" tobacco expert, describes it as "a tobacco crop of the highest quality, quite equal to that, in Virginia and Kentucky." Professor'Harper also pronounces thc Irish climate to be almost perfectly suited for tobacco culture. Col Everard has been supported-by tho Irish Department of Agriculture and his is tho first .experiment in producing a tobacco crop in Ireland on a commercial and practical scale. The Department of Agriculture agreed to assist anyone who would experiment with tobacco culture to thc extent of ten acres by. bearing the cost "of ..the drying and curing plant. Col. * ILverard agreed " to lay down twenty acres. The best procurable seed was brought ,from Viiv ginia, and planted early in tho spring, and since SuktemJber the process of curing, sorting and drying has given employment to a number of local hands. The twenty acre.-s have yielded about 14,000 pounds weight of leaf. This is a remarkable result for what ie practically an initial experiment; it is estimated, however, that thc average yield per acre will be ./about 1,000 pounds of tobacco. Dublin manufacturers and experts have valilea Lhcj samples already grown as high as 16 cents a pound for;the ;.bcst leaves. '.���������..���������'��������� The Government . has removed the prohibition against tobacco culture, and undertakes : to refund to J* tho grower one-third of the duty levied. The concession, however, is limited to. five farmers to undertake tho heavy initial years, and it is impossible to expect cost for this, limited period. ?.-. f : " A NEW PLUG, OF TOBACCO. : The Tuckett Tobacco Company- has, placed upon the market 5a new plug of their celebrated T & B tobacco, which, sells at 10 cents. The well-known quality of the tobacco assures the success of the new venture. Made big enough for a big man to work in with comfort Has more material in it than any other brand of shirt in Canada. Made on the H.B.K. scale it requires 39^ to 42 yards per dozen, whereas common shirts have only 32 to 3 3 yards. The celebrated soprano was in the middle of her solo, when little Freddie said to his mother, referring to the ' conductor"- of the orchestra:��������� "Why does that man hit at thc woman with his .slick?" "He is not hitting at her," replied his mother. "Keep quiet." "Well, then, what is she hollerin' for?" Miiiard's Liniment Cures Colds, &o. Sloel fishing-rods have "been 'brought to such a *anto of perfection . that they arc now being sold extensively in the pla'.*e ol those of bamboo. It is saiel that they are handier . to carry, and are better balanced. ��������� That's the reason why the H,B.K.������������������'*--Big" Shirt never chafes the armpits, is never tight at the neck or wristbands, is always loose, full and comfortable and wears well. Each s.hirt.bcai-s a tiny book that tells the whole history of the " Big" . Shirt, and also contains a notarial declaration that thc H.B.K. " Big " ��������� Shirt contains 39>< to 42 yards of material per dozen. Sold at all dealers but only; with this brand:��������� HUDSON BAY KNITTING CO. Montreal Winnipeg -Dawson % A picco of lancewopd an inch sciuarc will stand a strain of 2,000 pounels before breaking. Ffr Over Sixty Yenr* lUn!=.WlN������UOWl-803TUINo8VKUrt)tl t������*)0r|lll| ft DiUUoi.ee! tsMtIie*ra for their c'lllrtren whlla uv,>iln{. lUoo;liDBt/hechild,Roftemn th������enui������.aliay������|i[iiln, lorut ciDdcollc.rrgiilatuitUietitoinacnnn'UiO'TeK inilii h> inBtreinedye'ijr O.unhwu. i'wauty-n>������������i-jiiU n iot,i.li fcclcl by drugiiauairoiUfhoul. U>������ world. Jin sura iin 1 l8iw"Mi*... Wiawtorf'Bdooi'iiisudvui/r." u-m "Littlo Willie���������"Father, what is a spendthrift?" Father���������"He is a man who spends a great deal of money foolishly." ".Little Willie��������� "Then, is a man who lends lots of money foolishly a lendthrift?" '7&8S&6& A German inventor has recently produced o. magazine camera, which is contained within thc handle of n cane. Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper PnOFIlIJLTAIlY "RIGHT. little F;dith had spent an afternoon busily searching with nimble fingers through the soft fur of her pet kitten. When she was through she carno to report to her mother. "O mamma," she. cried, "I found a little flea on kitty, and I caught it!" "What did you do with it?" asked her mother. "Why, I put it back on kitty again, of course. It was her flea."' "And what arc you in hero, for my poor man?" askod thc lady visitor of the prisoner. "For making money, mum," was the reply. "But, dear me, it's not a crime to rnako money!" "Yes, it is, mum," replied tho pi-ispncr, '.'vvhen ypli' makes twenty-five cents an' dollars an' so on." Minaad's Liniment Ouray Diphtiierla Tho n'.nsf-ed navies of the world Include GOO battleships, 471 cruisers, 1,25"/ gunbonts, and 1,600 torpedo craft Lifebuoy Soap ��������� disinfectant ��������� i9 strongly recommended by the medical : profession as a (safeguard against infectious discuses. 22 For locomotive purposes last.year, Dnglnnd consumed 9,251,563 tons of coal, Scotland 1,700,758 tons, and Ireland 357,092 tons. When the little folks lake colds and coughs, don't neglect them and lot them strain the tender membranes of their lung's, Give them Cure -fonicLuns It will cure them qujckly atad strenfjthen their lungs.... It is plejasant to take, Prices, 2Cc, 50c, or.d $1.00. 800 ISSUE NO, 2���������05, J , -. n-."'- ' ' l-^-'-^V- ���������>' , Towa aiwS District. morn- - \V. J. Snodgrass and Wm, Hender- ' .������(m of the telephone line were in town on Thursday last on their way to Princeton;' Miller's Electric "Wonderland is heading this way and will tie billed for a date in Hedley in the near future. tfXK) feet of moving pictures is the lib- oral allowance for one dose. Much needed repairs have been Mr. 13. Burr left by Monduy ing's'stnge on a trip'to Kansas. Rev. A. J. Fowlie will hold service in the Methodist church, Hedley, on Sunday evening next; ' < Our townspeople appreciate the convenience of .getting their waler supply from tlie taps since the water has lx������en : <.ff<.cted on the sidewalk at the Grand turned on. ' Union .The walk has been widened,' Mr. A. II. Brown, superintendent oi* '*lKl <"hfc position of the steps, which the Daly "Reduction Co.'s stamp mill , formerly constituted the chief source and cyanide plant, has been indisposed ������f danger, changed, during the past week. Measles. ' J The new officers of the Ladies' Sew- Mv.B. D. Boeing is putting up :/|������������ ������������^e, elected at their last-meet- building on Scott avenue on the 1<a ��������� ������������ff ^e: President^ Mrs. Rodgers; V.ce adioininq the Gazette office, on the ���������������������������������*������*, N������. Garrison; Secretary. novth. The building is 22 x +1 and will i ' ~���������. Mrs. Schubert; AssisUnt- bc u-rd.-u-ab-IHardhall. . ^Cre^r>"' *?"��������� ^k'"f', Ne*fc J"6**" ! ing will be held on Feb.8th.at the home 'x"n<-- cnhle parted on the short gravity ' ���������r *���������*���������,, Greenhill. t���������������nr,.-ay between the tipple and the ; ,������hc te, hone Hne men ^^ Hed. ore bin at the lop ot the stamp null a . ,oy from th<j south Qn ^^ affcer. to few days ug.>, allowing both chms charge into the bin. Tt made a "rough hf-r.so" for a little while, but the damage was soon repaired. ; noon' and are now well on their way | to Princeton. The wires are"strung I now all the way from Penticton to ! Hedley and from Nicola to Princeton, A big, hcallhylooking butterfly, in j the only unfinished portion being be- sunnnei* colors, was seen Hitting about j tween Hedley and Princeton. The in- the power-house last week. This is j st rumen ts are at Princeton and will scarcely what might be expected in j Ik* put in shortly. January, but then you must remember ' that Hedley is the heart of the Sim- while was ornamented with hand-cuffs and leg-iron**., and a charge was prefer red against him, of being intoxicated the moreser ious features of the case being over-looked by the constable in laying the charge. He was brought before A. Megraw, J: P. on Wednesday morning, where after a lecture and a warning he was (fined $30.00 and $10.50 costs. During the hearing the magistrate tried to draw from the accused some information as to where he was getting the liquor. It is well known that Indians have no difficulty in procuring liquor in and around Hedley, and whether it be from the bars or from bottles packed to them by others outside the hotel business.the practice must be put a stop to. Anyone who gives liquor to an Indian is outside the pale of all that is decent or law-abiding, and it is altogether a false idea of cither honor or lenity which will attempt to shield them. Land Notice. -TAKE NOTICE thitt 60 days from elate) I * intend to ripply to the Chiof Comminaioncr Worlciifo for permiuion to purchase W. * Section 33, Tp. 49, ilk.imecn. Mr. -las. K. Roliertson, of Fairview, has taken up another pre-emption on the Okanagan river, below Fairview. It was a fine piece of land that had been overlooked until he gathered it in, and from it he is hatching out another " park ranch." .Tas. Watt has completed the new- sidewalk on Scott avenue and Haynes street. It is a seven-footer" of good sound plank, and is held on an even grade, the higher portion lming protected with railing; and good wide1 steps run down to the roadway on Scott avenue, which is at present much too low. k This gives a much better appearance . than " would have resulted from following the natural grades. . E. D. Boeing's fine residence on Kingston avenue had a narrow escape from being burnt down on Monday morning. The thimble going through t the ceiling was too small and did not allow sufficient space between the pipe and the outer shell. The pipe becoming too hot ignited the boards, which were, beginning to blaze when noticed by his little nephew, Harold Bowerman, who gave the alarm in time to save the house. If the man who manufactures that style of thimble knew Mr. Boeing's opinion of where he (the manufacturer) should be it would do him good, and probably save some houses. It is understood that arrangements are about completed for the opening of a branch of one of the chartered banks in Hedley. So far all the. business from this section has been done with the Vernon branch of the Bank, of Montreal, but the volume of business at Hedley has now outgrown that arrangement and demands the location of a branch of some bank here. The Bank of Montreal, Bank of Commerce and Bank of British North America are the three institutions to which business men are looking for relief from the serious inconvenience experienced in being so far removed from a banking point. The Daly Reduction Company make no bones ahout it, that the first bank in will get all their business; and every business man in Hedley who has been spoken to on the subject feels the same way. There is no doubt that it bank located here would receive the loyal support of all Hedley and thc entire Similkameen valley. The new hotel near the old crossing of Rock Creek on the way to Midway is proving a convenience to public travel,, as it divides the distance on the stage road between Sidley and Midway. It is known as the Iona "Souse, the proprietor, J. S. McLean, hailing formerly from the historic purlieus of Staffa and Iona on the west coast of Scotland, where the Iona House, famed as a tourist resort, rears its head among the ruins of old castles and Druid remains. If the government or the railway companies do not got a move on, the vicinity of this newest Iona House will soon become also a rendezvous for seekers after antiquarian lore, for it was here that in the sixties the placers, of Rock Creek maintained, for a time, a population of nearly a thousand people, and today it is in the centre oF u thriving farming section, and on the line oE the two proposed and pre-proposed railways. Of course it is in the .Similkameen riding, and maybe that explains its neglected condition in tlie matter of railways, for on the coast they always leave the Similkameen out of all their railway schemes. I Tlie Gazette made inquiries of Mr. W. P. Rodgers concerning the rumor that the company had contracted for a large volume of additional electric power from the plant installed at the Similkameen'Falls in Washington state. Mr. Rodgers said that it was all news to him.and he spoke admiringly of the vivid imaginations required to manufacture some of these canaids. ,The ideal winter weather of the Okanagan and Similkameen is something .that one can never get tired of talking nlxnit. When over at Fairview on December 15th the writer noted a temperature of 00 degrees at 9 a. m. and 65 degrees at 12 o'clock. On returning from Fairview last week the weather was such that if one were writing a story of the trip he would -begin .with- "It was a beautiful spring morning in January." Just fancy; on tlie 25th of January���������the anniversary of Bobbie Burns' birthday no less ���������spinning along th]* rood in a buggy past Manuel Barcello's ranch, the wheels flicking little particles of mud and gravel on the knee cover and the sun beaming so warmly on one's back that the back rest of the buggy even felt warm to the touch of the hand. Not a vestige of snow was to be seen anywhere on the roadside or in the adjoining fields.���������nowhere in fact but on the tops and sides of the surrounding mountains. The fields had that gray, sober look which they take on in late fall and early spring���������nature just resting a bit before starting in on another four crops of Richter's .alfalfa next summer. A fracas occurred on Tuesday afternoon on the street in the region of the Grand Union as the result of too much budge. Charlie Squakim, an Indian of the Chichi wayai tribe got drunk and proceeded to do up Charlie Burns wlm he said owed him $20.00. Constable Haynes stepped in to stop the trouble, and found the Indian full of fight. Squakim after resisting arrest for a of Lands and the south half of N. OnoyooH District. Dated At Fairview, January 26th, 1905. 3-1 It. B. VENNER. LOST. DETWEEN Hotel Similkameen and Sam I,cc J-* Sine's wash-houso, one parcol of laundry. Finder please return to hotel. 3-1 W. T. ATHERTON. FOUND. ON thc sidewalk on Scott arenue. a lady's belt Owner call-M the* S-l GAZETTE OFFICE. NOTICE. Certificate of Improvements. SATURDAY Mineral Claim.- sittiate in the Oieoyooe Mining Division of Vale District. Where located: Camp Hedloy. TAKE NOTICE that I. H. A. Whlllana, free* ���������V. miner's cortifleato No. B78926. intend,sixty* days from thc date hereof, to apply to the Minim* Recorder for a Certiticate of Improvement* for thc purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of thc above claim. '���������""���������. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before thc issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 30th day of January. A. D. 1905. 3-8 H. A. WHILLANS. c have a lot of Lumbermen's Rubbers, and Men's, Women's and Children's Overshoes left, and nave decidied to sell them off At Cost *������ as W*e don't wish to carry a single pair over for next season. We have marked them down from 20 to 25%. If you require a pair, secure them at once as they will soon be all sold. W. T. SHATFORD A CO. General Merchandise, HEDLEY, B.C. ..Bread For Sale.. -f\T- Schubert's Store. JAS. M. CODY, Hedley, B.C. F. RICHJER & CO. General Store KERE/WEOS, 0. G. Fairview's Leading Hotel..... ,S Golden Gate H. JONES. Proprietor. A Large and Entirely New Stock of General Merchandise Just Opened. Prices Reasonable. Give Us a Call! =*V ������,.V.>'*-I* * This house was lately overhauled and enlarged, and is now comfortable and convenient. Charges moderate. FAIRVIEW, B. C. Cawsten 8 Edmond HEDLEY, B. C. =BUTCHERS= Hedley Livery, Feed and Sale Stable HEDLEY, - - B. C. Similkameen bred and Similkameen fed Cattle have long been noted for furnishing the finest meats for the Boundary and the Kootenays. Buy it at home and know that you are getting the Best. Choice Meats Always on Hand. HOTEL SIMILKAMEEN HEDL.E'V, B.C. The Leading; Hotel of the Slmllkaineen Valley. This House is New and First Class in Every Respect, Being Equipped with all Modern Conveniences���������Electric Light, Telephone, Baths, Etc. :'.'���������'��������� 'Rates /V!o*dlet3rateec Strictly First Class Service. Special Attention given to the Travelling Public. Teaming of all kinds done. Horses Bought and Sold. OTEL EDLEY The Leading House For Commercial Men. : : : \ W. F. REVELY, Proprietor. TH6 Pioneer Garriaoe and Repair Shop HEDLEY, ��������� - B.6. Horse-Shoeing and all kinds of Blacksmithing done. : : GEO, ft. SPR0UL&, Proprietor. Best Only Provided for and Bar. * Table D. G. HftGKNEY, FrOD.. lONft HOUSE IN1 [HEN journeying to the Boundary Country arrange your plans to stop and rest a while at the IONA HOUSE, the halfway hotel between Midway ami Sidley. This is where thc stage stops for dinner. Good Accommodation at Moderate Bates, clean, Proprietor. ji-jasw-t****-* VtJ tit.iA.*ntM&Ji W m^U>II*>������I|S������{^^ utftiuqanattaiseMWbMAuitvtxu^^ L ��������� ���������' ii ��������� r, ' jilh^fiome ������- effS'.s dor., havo stir all layers SELECTED RECIPES. ��������� Orange - Frosting���������Orale .''into' a bowl tlie thin yellow rind of an or- nngc. Squeeze .the juice over it, add ��������� a tablespoonful of lemon juice unel let .siand half an hour. Then heat into it, gradually, powdored sugar 'enough to make it spread evenly. Bent between each addition of -sugarJ as this tine ens the* frosting..' Suet I'lidding��������� Chop a cup of suet very line-, .and free it from strings. Add to it a cup of molasses, and warn* .the mixture .slightly. Add .two wcll-'beateij eggs, cinnamon and! mace to taste, ,anet a pint of flour that has been sifted twice with a saltspocmful of salt and a scant teaspoonful <if baking soda. Last of all, st.ii- in a cupful of seeded and minced raisins, .-plentifully dredged Willi -flour.: Pom*, into a buttored moid and ';'."steam for three hours. Serve' with 'liquid sauce. Orange Custard���������Take the juice of six largo sweet oranges; strain and I sweeten to taste, stirring over tho fire until ��������� the sugar is dissolved, remove'from the fire and when nearly coHI adel the well-bcaton yolks of eix eggs awl a pint of cold boiled mil:". ,-.Return" to lire and stir and cook when > cold heap tho beaten whites,- ,sweetened with, powdered sugar, over'the top of each. < ,. ... Orange Pie���������Beat the yolks of three eggs Might with, a cup of granulated' sugar and a tablespoonful of butter. A'dd.'.the pulp ' ai'.id juice of; two oranges and the grated rind of half of onev.'Then add a cup of cold milk. 'Mix well and turn into a rlcop pie dish lined with pastry well baked.' Put. in a modoratcly h-ot oven and bake until-custard is firm or set in the.middle. Cool and cover with a .meringue made of the beateri whites;, and three large tablespoon- ftils of powdered sugar. Brown slightly in oven and serve cold. White Mountain Cake.���������Take -two cup's sugar, one-half Oup . butter, three, cups flour, one cup milk, two two teaspejoiifuts ...baking;_p.b.w- ��������� After- the ^ sugar, and abutter been creamed, add the rest and together well. Hake" in throe and put together with icing or je'ly. - ;r. - -'';--.������������������ Fruit Layer Cake.���������Sift togethor 'two cupfuls of sugar, one-third, cupful of butter, one cupful of sweet milk, three cupfuls of sifted flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder.j "When mixed divide into two parts and to one portion add beaten wlii tes of five eggs and to ' the second part thc beaten yolks. This batter may be baked in layers and then cither put together in alternate layers of white and yellow with any fancied filling, or made* into two separate .layer cakes with different filling and icing, or it may be made into a loaf cake, adding to the yellow part one tablespoonful molasses, one teaspoonful cinnamon,' one- half teaspoonful clove;;, one-half of al's; ice, one-quarter pound'citron, Hiked thin, one cupful chopped rais- ��������� ins and cupful of flour. Put ono batter in the pan in alternate spoonfuls eo that it will have a marbled appearance when done. Bake in moderately hot oven about forty-five minutes. Chocolate Cookies.���������Take a cupful of light brown sugar, one-half cupful melted butter, one whole egg and .the yolk of another, one-half cupful sweet milk, two tablcspoonl'uls melted chocolate, one cupful raisins finely chopped, and one and one- half cupful flour, with two teaspoonfuls baking powder sifted through it. Mix well together and drop from a spoon on a greased tin, far enough apart so they will not touch as they ���������spread. Bake a rich brown and brush over with molted chocolate sweetened. Cream Cookies.���������Two c'upfuls sugar, one cupful butter, one cupful sour cream, two eggs, one teaspoonful soda, oi'.e teaspoonful lemon, mix soft as you can roll. f'inger Cookies���������One cupful molasses, one-half cup'ul shortening, three and oim-quarter cupfuls flour, eine- h-ah" teaspoonful soda, one table- spoc.-nful ginger, one and one-half iteaspooi'.'ful fault. Heat molasses to boiling point and pour over shortening. Arid dry ingredients mixol end sifted. Chill thoroughly. Toss one-fourth mixture on a floured board and roll as thinly as possible; shape with a small round cutter, first "dipped in Hour. Place near together on a buttered sheet and bake in as moderate oven. Gather up the trimmings and roll with another portion of dough. During rolling the bowd. containing mixture should be kept in a cool place, or it will be T.feccssary to add more flour to dough, which makes cookies hard rather than crisp and short. use them, and then watched to see that they always do use thorn. But as to iilia/!'is, . the toilet of the mouth must be performed for them and should never bo neglected. For this purpose a little wad of ..sterilized .absorbent, cotton;should.be used, and then thrown away or rather burned. When the baby has its bath, the mouth should as a matter of :��������� routine be washed very gently with a pledged of cotton wet. in a solution of boracic acid. or any. other mild .-disinfecting liquid. If the little gu'nia are soft and spongy anel bleeding, dabbing them with tincture of myrrh will help them. ��������� Any e:old whitef'sh may; be , niadc into an acceptable entree by being treated a la Newliurg. A little white wine, in which cloves and allspice have been steeped, may be added just before the sauce is poured over the fish. It should than simmer till warmed without being .boiled. On a long railway journey a woman can keep the dust and dirt" from licr hat by placing it in a large paper bag and hanging it up. A useful bag for. a wet wash cloth or sponge can bo maidc of rubber, tho outside being covered with, plain or fancy silk. ��������� The following recipe for Cough niodr: ic.ino .-comes-from .a New England- housewife aud was handed down to her froni an old-time sea-captain, who considered it valuable:. Blend, one bunco of senna, one ounce of. whole flaxseed," one ounce of crushed' '.licorice- "and' half an ounce of anise seed. and cook in '.'boiling water] (about, three or four pints)'.' until"'re--'.; duc<KL to; 'a,; quart.'���������*.":'This housewife always uses an iron kettle to boil the mixture . in. Strain, add, one "cupful" of molasses and boil a few minutes - " longer/ ' Then cool; and when cold add a little whiskey-: or alcohol;- to "prevent, fermentation. Keep the medicine in air.-tight bottles. Use a teaspoonful or two when needed. This, is really' an, effective;.'rotnody' for* the -"'severe hack-/ ing colds and coughs that are contracted in winter; EXPENSIVE -HOUSEHOLDS KEEPING A FAMILY ON $250,- 000 A YEAR. DO YOU KNOW. ; That a tagloss shoestring wet in mucilage is ready for service when dry? ��������� . ������?:; '"'/��������� ,;";Uv ''.-'""��������� "' ":>.'���������''"' That, equal parts of glycerin "and witch, hazel is a cheap and effective lotion fei'r chapped hands are 'damp?' : ^ % That bread is nearly kneaded hard at night,, left The Home Life of Wealthy Women Has Almost Entirely Dis appeared. Tho'eternal .'servant'problem must ucutely affect the millionaire. In one iron king's household there are two thousand servants. Tho "managing housekeeper" to another magnate has an army of twelve hundred damsels under her, ranging from eighty-seven parlormaids' to twenty- eight "rough hands," girls of from fifteen to seventeen years of age, who have to do the dirtiest work in the huge'household, and .make themselves gomrally useful to the servants of higher grade. . This .'important position of "managing'-housekeeper ,������������������"��������� the salaries for which range from $5,000 to .^25,000- annually, is a -development, in household: management - of- recent years, and consequent upon the remarkable increase in the number of palatial millionaire homes in -the United States. The. positions -are much sought after, and it is interesting to note that, all other things being equal, Englishwomen stand the best chances of being appointed. ��������� BREAKFAST AND IUJ.SINESS. Old-fashioned homo-, life. where wealthy women took charge of their own, houses, has almost entirely disappeared. The ,; millionaire's wife mow realizes that she can no longer 'continue the two roles of society leader and house-caretaker, and therefore, the-." "managing.housekeeper" has become, necessary. This man- agress takes breakfast daily alone iwith her , mistress, and, over coffee and cakes, discusses the" programme for the day, and submits the previous day's ��������� record. 'She is really the head of. tho household." The mistress herself takes 'no hand in the house whatever.., Servants come and servants go, gai'dcners/change, footmen disappear, revolutions may happen; but nothing of this- comes-*undor the notice of-the reat-hiistress., She' is virtually aqueen, and the "niana- gre'ss" her prime.-minister.. .'���������' Every branch .;of. /.the '��������� household management is -sub-divided, and each perfect when section, lias- its ;, highly-paid chief. Like a1 real queen, the millionaire's thing, that- the market affords. A*������ much as ������"5.000 will be spent on a single dinner. CHEF REIGNS SUPREME. Regal is the table in thc million aire's household, in white and gold, profuse in floral decoration,- exquisite bon-bons, tropical fruits, and hors d'oouvros���������awaiting the ocinun-y or tho chef's many and marvellous courses. After the senips. timbales. For roluves, Spanish mackerel or Foyle salmon. Never did fish or man dream of such decorations as the chef will have bestowed upon these. Even the plebian potatoes will scarcely be recognized at first sight. They aro as little*, in their ch>- ment as aro tho fish in thc Rhino wine, with which they are served. These edibles give place to a saddle of mutton, with currant jelly. | Champagne, almost frozen, displaces the last wine. Now the chef tempts waning appetites with entrees of sweetbread and terrapin, and Chartreuse warm. Then follow a sorbet of frozen Kirsch punch, canvas-back ducks, and salad, with Chamber tin wine. Finally, plum pudding, drowned in cogiiac. Ice cream follows, and then black coffee and "cordials announce that the millionaire and his guests may rest from their digestive labors.���������London Answers ODD USES FOR WARSHIPS ME-NT-OF-WAR' WHICH, ' ' EXCUJ"--" CASEY Fleets, of Vessels Owned by Third- rate Powers Are Apologies for Warships. hands, wh on to rise, then worked ready,' for pans ijy-jwife has her .mistress of the robes, greasing hands, and adding no-.morej and the posit is no-sinecure. A large flour, all flour being then raised the '; staff is mnintainoel- for -the cure of same length of time? That the best-way to train child in thc way you want it is to , persistently walk that yourself. '��������� That the best way to keep own hearth and home bright happy is constantly to put the Wardrobe Twice a year my self aside work and vvltir love righteousness? and- charity KEEP YOUR PROMISE. Many . a woman who would not think lightly of breaking a promise made to a grown up person is utterly careless about keeping her word with her children. She promises whatever is convenient at thc moment, and apparently thinks that the breaking-o'r keeping of those promises is a matter in which she can please herself, and that her children have no right to consider themselves aggrieved if she docs not do so. - THE WASH BOILER So many people complain 'that the boiler ��������� runt and iron rusts tho clothes. This may be entirely vented by rubbing the boiler with any kin-d of kitchen soap me-'iately after emptying it' whilst it is warm. Give it a liberal coating, remembering the soap is not wasted, as it all geies into and helps thc first filling of the boiler next washing day. WHAT A SMALL VICE COSTS USEFUL HINTS. A salad dressing- warranted to keep better than mayonnaise comes from England. Stir togethor in a small saucepan a teaspoonful of sugar, a little salt and dry mustard ,thre;e tablespoonfuls of vinegar and three e>f cream. Stir well and add two beaten egg yolks. Place in a double boiler anei stir until the uii.'c- ti ire is like cream. Young children, as soon as tho fir.'U, teeth appear should be given little toothbrushes with very soft bristles. ' ������Mid should be taught to "How can you afford these books'?" askeil a young man, calling upon a friend; "I car.it -seem to find, spare change; for even thc leading magazines." "Oh, that library is only my one cigar a day," was the reply. "What de) you mean?" inquired the visitor. ��������� , . , "Mean? Just this; when .you advised inc tej indulge in an occasional cig-ar several years ago, I had been reading1 'about a young fellow who bought books with money that others would have .burned in cigars, and I'thought I would try to do the same. You remember that I said I should allow myself one cigar a day?" "Yes, I recall the conversation, but don't quite sec tho connection." "Well, I never smoked, but put by the price of a five-cent cigar everyday, anel the money accumulated 11 bought books���������tho vei-y books you f:ee." "You don't mean to say that your books cost you no more than that! Why, there are dollars' worth of them. "Yes. I know there arc. I had sir- years more of in.y apprenticeship to serve when you advised me to be a your ;lady receives consignments of -drosst- to go es and other apparel from Paris, or way-London. The; fickle changes of fash- lion -in England affect her not. your: HOW LINO El HE IS KEPT. When these big trunks arrive, their ' con.Louts ' ni'-C: foi-thwitJ*. -'���������sproiicl in tho hall. Each waist of���������'���������'' every ��������� garment is stuffed with tissue-paper, sleeves and corsage, as well, as every other i part "and every bow-���������thus all-aro held in shape. | It is no unusuaf occurrence for a j thousand drosses to arrive ��������� at one time, and, before they are put away, jthc mistress, ..accompanied by her 'maid,'" spends an afternoon in the hall, anel carefully inspects her new .'purchases. For lingerie there arc .very large wardrobes- with shelves, and this forms quite another depart- imcnt under an experienced mana- giv'.ss. The shelves are entirely covered with perfumed silk sachets, and thc dainty lace-trimmed and be-rib- boned articles are piled upon . these sachets in sots. Hats anel bonnets ���������are another branch; and then a -smaller section,-employing just about live to eight hands, is devoted to wraps and winter furs. 'J'ho stall' eif a millionaire's household is accotnmodateel in an entire wing of the residence. Each employee has his or her separate room, anel all arc allowed to choose their meals from a comprehensive' menu, printed and issued daily. Iliey have, in addition to their salaries, numerous'advantages. There is on old-age pension scheme, and the services of a medical man arc always available on. the premises. The arrival of the season's clothes is also an occasion ol rejoicing'among them. Each member of the household shares in the distribution of the last season's apparel, and on this occasion the mistress is brought into contact, with her IMMENSE DOMESTIC STAFF. Wo havo already stated the handsome salary which the "managing housekeeper" in a millionaire's household receives. Tho mistress of the robes receives from ?2,000 tei "While the groat maritime Towers aro striving might and main in.tho struggle for naval supromacy, there, are one or two important .countries- to' wlibm a navy, in the modern sense of the word, is'unnecessary and useless. Such countries are diplomatic-ally known as "neutral Pow- j ers." The most typical instance in this connection is that of Helgium. Although sandwiched between Germany and France, apprehensions of annexation by either never perturbs tho minds of Pelgian politicians. The Croat Powers ' 'mutually guarantee Belgium's integrity. Tho ilelgian fleet, however, comprises some seventeen vc-vkcI.h, but the last thing they would lib fit for is fighting. NAVIES AS POSTMEN.c The larger number are employed as mail-packets, and any traveller who has journeyed between England and Ostcnd in a packet flying thc reel, yellow, and black tricolor has really made tho trip on a Belgian man-of- war. The two crack warships are of 798 tons, and have a spel'd of 21 "knots. The officers navigating tho vessels comprise the" naval' ' reserve.- ��������� Those vessels which arc not employed in tho purely pacific capacity- are maintained feu- the protection of the fishing along tho coast. In addition to this fleet, however, there arc u number of shallow-draught, stern-wheel boats patrolling the rivers of tho. Congo, but this navy is distinct ..from that of Belgium proper. Yet the country has ambitions towards naval supremacy, for there' are two coast-defenco vessels and six torpedo-boats projected. In view of the large ox tent of tho sea-line of-Mexico, the navy possessed by that: country for the delcnce of its coast verges upon the. ridicu- Ecuador has two old wooden andiron tubs, purchased from France; while tho latter country acquired an obsolete Spanish torpedo gunboat, which now acts as flagship. , It would bo interesting, to loam thc salary which tho ad-murals of the navies of Liberia, Cambodia, Korea, or Tersia receive in respect of thoir duties; ' and, furthermore, exactly what thoir duties comprise The Ld- bcrian admiral has. probably the easiest office A year or two ago thero wore two vessels "demanding his supervision, but one, unfortunately, foundered whilo at anchor. Thc remaining vessel, the "Itocktown," a stenim schooner, is scarcely sufficiently seaworthy to venture beyond shallow water, anel the crew, it would appear, pass thoir time "potting" seagulls. A FLEET JN���������FUN. Of late tho Korean navy has faded into oblivion, in comparison with the titanic forces at-present in those waters. But there are two vessels��������� the "Chi Pong," of 700 tons, nnd "Ban'-chef flenriksen," of 600 tons. What thoiiv speed is would make an entertaining guesning competition. Both warships, by the way, were procured from Norway, and so indifferent is tho country to naval affairs that they have not yet troubled to change the name of thc second vessel, which still retains its original Norwegian nomenclature. Another curious little navy is that of Sarawak. The present represcnta-. tive of Rajah Brooke cannot renounce his English desires for a navy, so has gathered together a motley fle-et of three vessels���������"torna Doone*' and "Aline,"' small se*.rew steamers, each carrying two . small guns, and a small paddle-boat. . Morocco bpasts two.small- vessels. Though obsolete, they are'morc formidable than the Costa Rican men- o'-war, or that of Johbre Even volcanic Hayti maintains a navy - to - strike additional terror into the-*; hearts of its foe-s. It is a motley."- flect in being, and one shot from a 6 inch gun would send the whole consignment of hulks to the bottom. ' . MOVABLE HOUSES. Dwellings That May Always' the Sunlight. . r Fact pro- well im- anel Ions. The inhabitants cannot com- ?3,500 a year about ������2,000 An ordinary S250 to Stiob tiein, there and tho annually. lady's maid servant, is paid from a year, and, in addi- are the advantages enumerated above, and board and lodging of an exceptionally good class. The start' also include mechanics in large numbers���������������������������carpenters, plumbers, painters, and "useful men,'' who all reside em the premises. But Ihe chef's elepartment is tin* ono upon which by far the largest amount is expended. monsieur ,le chef is .supreme in the kitchen, anel wiij brook, no interference. Even his man. I put bv the money, w.Jiich at live cents a. day amounted to <!������ily interview with the nianagress ������18.25 a year, or' 9109.50 in six is conduel.ed with frigid independ years. I kept those books by them- je-nre. h\.r v. eiief's respect, for his selves as a result of my appri'iit ie������- | employers is measured by their read- ship cigar money, anel if you'd done iin-.s.<; lo live liberally. The more the same as I did you wentld by this jHanoraio the menus he has to pro time have saved many more* dollars j pure, the better pk-a.-'vd hu is. latin- th-nn I have, a"hd would have been ,'height of tin* season lm will be found belter oft in health anel sob'-respect '.surrouneiVd t,y a siuall army of ns- hev.idos." '.jistnnt.s, ex-cupieel with ovcry costly plain of being ground clown by taxation to support their navy,' since it only comprises eight vessels, and four of these are woefully obsolete. Tho four largest and most recent were construe tod in 1902-8, are of 1.2S0 tons, and 10 knots speed. A PENNY STEAMER FLEET. Still, Mexico has no fears. "Hands ot'il" is the cry- of Uncle Sam when any Power casts longing eyes upon Mexico rind its wealth. But the extent of Mexico's interests, and her reviving prosperity, demands extra naval fence; and a programme has been elaborated for six cruisers and eight torpedo-boats, spread over five years, at an outlay of one million elollara per annum. " Egypt is another country, which has been saved thc necessity of building up a navy by its protection under England's wing. True, there are somo forty boats comprising a fleet, but the majority of these may be safely placed in the same category as the Thames steamboats���������they aro about as ancient and efficient, One Egyptian man-of-wat, when not belching forth shot and 3h,*ll, serves as thc Khedive's yachr- another as a transport; and several in the capacity of coastguard steamers. Many of the South American Stateis, though immune freim European aggression, thanks to the Monroe doctrine, yet maintain navies���������just, as it were, "TO KEEP TH'ETR HAND IN," for quarrels between them are almost of every flay eiccurrencc. Perhaps the smallest, anel most bizarre are (.hose of Paraguay and San Salvador. The foi'mt'J* has one gunboat of 440 tons, carrying four thn-c-pounder guns, and two smaller slejini'M'.s; while the latter Power is still worse equipped, for her solitary gunboat is only eif 75 ions, am! the ariiKinmiiL consist:, e;f one*, small quick-tiring gun. .'���������ionic of Uu:!m< lowers���������such nn uaelor auel the effervescent VYn::ue- On, no -doubt, quite sufficient grounds, exports in hygiene arc accustomed to lay a good deal of stress on tho importance of correctly orientating . dwelling-houses,' ' so that they may receive the maximum ' amount of light and. of protection from cold winds. It certainly does appear that tho more tho rooms' in ��������� which we live arc exposed to the rays of the sun the better, for sunlight seems to be, at once stimulating te.) human vitality ^tiid destructive to that of many -objectionable . low forms of life. .:.,���������- ���������:"���������.... Experience has taught. \is to select as far as is practicable a southern aspect for our houses, but even when this is done, the fixity of. the structure prevents our regulating thc supply of sunlight to ' different-- rooms according to our varied tastes. Two French gentlemen���������Dr! Pellc- grin and M. ,E. Petit,' an architect, of Paris���������propose to change all this. They have, according to thc. Lancet, .designed a method of erecting-houses on rotating platforms, so that tho building can be made to.face iu any required direction at any time. Tho platform is supported on two Concentric walls, the inner chamber ' so made containing a stairway, and tho axis of rotation is occupied by a shaft through which pass the supply ar.id waste pipes of the house. A gas or petrol engine is employed to move tho platform���������and if necessary it can be used to drive clockwork��������� which will enable the house front to follow the sun during the day. There arc obvious difficulties in the Way of the general adoption of schemes 'oi- this kind, but the idea is, our contemporary urges, one worthy of tho attention of British architects. PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN NESTS. Travellers who have returned from the heart of Africa and tho Australasian continent toll wonderful stories of nest-building people who inhabit the wilds of those countries.. In the bushmcu of Australia wo find, perhaps, the lowest order of men that is known. ��������� They aro so primitive that they do not know enough to build even the simplest form of hut for shelter. Tho nearest they can approach to it is to gather a lot of twigs and grass '.and, taking thetn into a thicket or jungle, build a nest for-a home. The nest is usually built largo enough for thc family, and if the latter be very numerous then tho nests are of a very large size. Sometimes the foliage above' will form a natural covering, but there is never any attempt at constructing a protection from the. rain and storms. -4-. JAPANESE PRISONERS. E la-���������possesses second-hand warships. Prisons in Japan resemble large country houses with mnny outbuild' ings, amd do not, either in. the solidity e*r details of their coi.stnm'tion, wear a penitentiary a..spo:t. Thc prisoners get food in proportion to their ceinduct anel industry. The labor is compulsory, 'hut not severe, and the prisoner gets part of his earnings. Serving a .term in prison flex-.s nei't impose an indelible stigma. All youths under t'ineteen years pass f.we> hours each day in schoo.!. Even when their term of sentence is over they cannot be released till a surety is found for their subseepiont good behaviour. ���������-���������win-... mnamiMiri^"*"*'���������"��������������������������� ������������������*"- '^m^mmm ���������** ' f Ab0Ut the i *" ** ' ...c House raspberry juice, and half a cup of sugar, stir "over ice" water," and when 't begins-to "set" fold in a cupful and a half of ,double cream beaten soirl. Pour,, into a mold.;When cold serve - surrounded with the froth iron* whipped cream. Batter for Pineapple Fritters. ��������� Beat ono egg without separating the ,,,white-and yolk. Add half n cup of | Hour-and "one-fourth of a teaspoon of ��������� salt, and beat with a spoon until uerlectly smooth. Then beat in- oao- fourth of a cup of milk. Cream of Pumpkin Soup.*���������This is in ine centre of each place ,���������? , y.iovcn to ma-**y old cooks.' nd neatly cored apple, fill- ,,���������! , ?"lto worth adding to the list of, fall soups. Cut a nice r ripe I small pumpkin in pieces enough to I nil a .quart measure. Put in a saucepan with a pint of cold water and season with half a teaspbonful each of salt and pepper, a teaspoonful of sugar, and a few sprigs of -- ^ ^,J3,a,sloy or SWeot marjoram. Cover of egg and 'dusting with s������ucepan and simmer gently for car. Serve with hard ���������r *na a half' stirring.-' tre- . ;. . ' , . ��������� |Quon������y. Strain through n colander to get put the skin, then through n finer sieve. Put tho puree back in the pan. , sprinkle over it a heapin-r teaspoonful of-flour, mix thoroughly"- then pour over it. stirring all tho time, ono quart of hot milk. Add a tablespoonful of butter, .and simmer fifteen ��������� minutes: - Then add half a pint of rich cream and a teaspoonful ofifino cut parsley; heat.' but do "not boil, and serve with toasted crackers. . - 9������������������������������������'������-������������������������������>������������>>������������>������*������; DOMESTIC RECIPES.' Baked Apple "Oumplmgs.���������Cut - a short pje crust into five or six, inch squares, in me centre of each place ft pared-and neatly cored apple, filling the space with sugar and cinnamon, it liked, also a clove.' After wetting the edges of the pastry with white of egg, fold it over tho apple, pinch and flute them to look woll. lf and encase the apple completely. ,������ Boko,from thirty, to forty minutes, .5 toward the last brushing tho top .J with white of ��������� ��������� * ��������� - - .^ a little suvar '*. saue'e. - - - -Inexpensive Fruit Cako.���������Cream together half a cup of butter and ono ���������cup of brown sugar, moistening, in tno nrocess with half a pint/of strong'; coffee: add on������ cup of Now Orleans' .molasses, a teaspoon of .allspice, ono grated - nutmeg ami a' teaspoon, of k Bowocrcd cinnamon;" one well1 beaten egg and throw cups of pastry flour sntod with a heaping teaspoon- of toakxw-; powoer, ond one cup of In- -OW-ift' -si���������1. Heat steaifiily for ten with,a. little cold, milk, beat, the e������'gs and sugar until light, and stir tho whole, into the scalding milk I'lavor with essonco of lemon or vanilla, and sot aside to cool. Line a plate with pie crust and bake, fill it with cream, nnd cover it with frosting made/ of the whites of egg, beaten dry, with two tablespoons of sugar*. Uake/a delicate brown. Cu^a7Vl>rPie.-Stew and mash one Pint green -currants until all are burst using as little water as will keep thorn from burning. Add sugar to make it very sweet, and one soda cracker rolled fine. Bake between two crusts. . Eipo currants may be used without stowing. Cocoanut Pie.-Ono quart milk hlVf-f-' aml ono ������-'at011 cocoanut; beat tho sugar and cg-s together S St r, .,int������ th6 mi,k w"on hot SV ���������ak������. Wlth a botiom crust twenty minutes We'll Write rt Down Till Everybody Sis It"_Ti|������ Everybody Knows It Without Seeing It. If, Worthy of Wide Publicity, EST *"*lved t*" UsW ���������**���������-d ��������� i-FSi 5 ������ THE PRIZEJS CANADA AMERICANS' AIM IN- SEEKING ��������� RECIPROCITY. Their Offer ComTs Too Late - Defeat Mr. Chamberlain's ���������Plans. SNAIL'S INTELLIGENCE. SJL b.������ f������V th0 Canadian transeonti- ncL-tal railua^s. On the other hand . extra traffic for United StaSs���������SR! ftaj s. A - reciprocity treaty that to minutes and then stir in a qMartor of nnd of shredded citron, half _ m ��������� ' ofNa pound a pound of largo seeded-raisins, cut- in two, and one pound of "currants. ���������Turn.into a round cake pan lined with greased paper and bake 'throei quarters of an hour in a slow oven. Ico while still warm. " '' New England Bannocks.���������Scald eight heaping Lahlespoons of .meal-by , staring in two cups of boiling wa-' ter add four tablespoons of flour, a snltspoon of snlt. one-fourth of a teaspoon of baking sooa, two well beaten egjjs.ami sullicientTcold milk to form a thiefk hatter. Beat?-"for"five ���������minuten after, the last ingredient , is added and drop by the spoonful into hot iat. frying the bannocks'to" a golden brown. Serve accompanied oy maple sujrar. *'������initil Roast ("From* the* Vegetarian)������������������.^oak two cups of lentils , over night. Jn the morning add' two "or three slum of onion and several "-sticks of celerv. - When tender pass through a colander. Add ono cup ������������������-of tomato, cooked and strained, one cup of whole wheat flour, two weir beaten eggs, anel place In o butter- ed tin Baste well with melted hut- ter and-bake from twenty to' thirty minutes. .CelesteV Fritters.-^tale ; sponge cutter, .fence the cako carefully and ' fry to a nice brow,*. Pip cach slice HINTS FOR THE nOME. Soii a 'socoi'"'���������'' in a milk, dra"Vihg this , of^thc. vte^l; lay on a ooi. a ism and spread thickly with^strawberry jam ���������poac>. jolly, p.- OLher cIeIicate-;-.JcoVir eep-e. ^ Pile them neatly .and send ^aund hot. with crealm to pour over tnqm. ������������������-������������������>���������::.--.:- ��������� - - r. Seed Cakos.-Ono cup of butter. Thrco cups of ^sugar. One cup of: loppcren -^Jk or cream. Pour ������s;gs, Six cups of flour, or lu^t .enpugh to -stillon Into a thin paste- .rwo. tablespoonfuls fennel or caraway seed One tablespoonful soda dissolved i��������� hoilfnp water. Roll out t'hin nnd cut. into shapes Raspberry Havarfan Crcam.-Soft- tmo in half a cup of raspberry juice* dissolve over hot water; add the Juice,of half a lemon, a cupful of , Damp spots on morocco leather should be rubbed with -methylated- spirit. Two or three'applications may be necessary. " To clean "a" Wall-pa per.���������Take a very dry crust of bread with about ah inch* of''crumb on it, and rub the soiled patch lightly till tho stain disappears. To Cure Sore Throats.���������Tut a teaspoonful of powdered borax into one tablespoonful of 'honey. ��������� "Dissolve over,,heat. When copl/;_npply it re- peate'dly with a' camel's hair brush to tho throat and roof of tho mouth"** This* will" soon effect a euro and allow the pati������n.t to swallow comfortably. ^-^ . . , ��������� -. -," Dripping,'"if carefully clarified with boiline: water, and^mclted into a firm cake, makes as troo'd pastry for pies and tarts as butter^ - To remove tho smiell' of onions froau the breath eat parsley and vinegar; from thc hands, rub an. outside piece of celery on them. Breadcrumbs for frying.���������Let these !always be .baked in the oven without'being** allowed to take color. By th is method tho fish or meat, ��������� etc.. will be much crisper. -? -To avoid dust marks behind pictures, place two smrll pieces of cork , at the bottom of the picturo frame This prcvents-the .accumulation of on *tho--side'- dust .and tho consequent dirty un-, hot dish- and*./sightly ..���������marks,/.:- -, -v I ho disagreeable taste of new wood in buckets and vessels may bo eradicated, thus: Fill with.a solution of hot soda water.and let it remain till cold, then rinse, in clear water. To Blanch Almonds.'��������� "Place in a cup,, pour boiling water over them; this will swell tho"skins and allow them to be quickly drawn ofiV Throw the almonds into cold water and wipe dry with a cloth. . To. Clean Spectacle Glasses.���������G-ive 'them an occasional rub with a clean cloth moistened wit,nT���������'." ruetl"iyi*7kte(i spirit. Then polish with a chamois leather, tho spirit having removed all grease. To Make Fried Bacon more Diges: hlr. T*..'l '--'.' Writing in Industrial Canada Mr. Watson Griffin comments as follows on'tho Reciprocity ^.agitation in thc limited States; According to tho Boston Herald the' greatest game to bo played in international politics in thc near future is to bo with a football called -"reciprocity," and "as goes tho battlo so -'rises or sots thc star of a great consolidated British Empire." , "The ..indications are,' larly to Meals! P-ZK ,har.nVess s,uff ������s g-enerally credited with no greater intelligence than the power to crawl aimlessly about leaving a slimy track behir-i it. In a letter to tho London Times, however, Vr. Horace Dobel] bowl pf boiling .off statosmon . awak0ui--6 ot American ami\ th " I ������ conte&t - draws on frmU C, ^^'P^o'is Canada-nom: T��������� ������fJ P������Iltlcal. dominion." 4/o7' tho Pc������Pki of tho-.United States are just beginning to reaii/o statesmen a.-c - bcginni���������e. to apprS ciate ,the possibilities of the DomLT }f������ well said that1 Cana5adisIjtorib2e tuiy. j.t is not conceivable romierwho hotels such a high of Canada's future will "consent- tr, ���������fiTionawn?fffment by-^fc������-the Dom- SnbbcU^011?c th������ ***** of the JtepiHjijc. It is true that Sir Wilfrid would enable the big iuiustrial centres of the United Stateiss to supply Canaelians with manufactured goods and drive Canadian manufacturers out of business'/would ruin the - , -������ great Canadian railways. Wncn the !w'r!ting * from Parkstone Heights, factories which supply the Canadian , Dorset, g-ives remarkable proof of its people with goods are in Canada, possession of an excellent memory Canadian railways must carry tho and a considerable amount of rea- raw materials as well as the finished soning power. products. They must carry piovi-1 One morning I observed the silver. *5ions, clothing, "and furniture to the trail of a slug or snail round about workingmon. To take, an extreme the spot where the crumbs had been, case to show the value of Canadian Even the smallest crumbs had been factories to the.'great railways, sup- cleared up. pose that all the. factories in Toron- | "But what especially struck me to, Hamilton and Ottawa, with the was that tho trail came straight up workmen employed in them, were t0 the crumbs. There was no sign suddenly- transferred . to. the, City of of wandering about in search of Bullalp, what an immense falling off thcmi but an evidence of knowledge there would be in Canadian railway iH10*^' fc an cvide������cc of knowledff0 business, although Bullalo is just on ' ������ the cxact PIacc at which to; find the other side of the border ~ Sup-!1'101"' pose that air the .factories in all I "I watched tho window after this the cities, towns and villages of Can- and foim(1 that Just before dark a a-rta were transferred to'towns and'larS*'3 brown slug camo straicht un 5��������� ������������f r ,������ ^"ited ?^atei' lh"e rail- t0 U,1P Sp0t and atc th0 remaining ways of Canada would bo obli<>o'l to crumbs. dis.harge three^fourths of thei? cm-1 "For two more nights it cams Plpyees.. .for every branch of their'again and ate the crumbs as boinZ .bus. ess would decline in an extra-, being accompanied on the second ordinary way: Of course a rocipro- niffnt by a small brown slu- abo ? city treaty would not-close up every! half its size. ������ , ������Ut Canadian factory, but it would close "I then washed out'the trail fh���������f up many of thorn, and every factory'it should not bo guided bv ^t hnJ fal^-rtotto'o^hT1.108", t0 t]" ''"I S,Uff CC"li������^o������ on fine rauuajs. .On the other hand, every nights. 1-bccept on wet nights, Wne������ ' new factory established in Canada and every extension of an old one increases tho business of Canadian railways. 4��������� A "MOTJJEU'S PRECAUTION. There is no telling when a medicine may bo needed in homes where there tiro young children, and thc failure tuiV !?-{������ '--^ nnd thc failure L:/^ 111fc?roi PromW "rin������t1.c1oac������ivabJo..thaf the'to hav*> a reliable medicine at hand i^8/, adds Of C^narH'f J ������+WS 8a?,h a mSh V-CW ^ay "loan ^������oh. oulToriny, and, per- d,d tho sI'*^ ������L ?"^s futuro wil1 consent. tol|laPs* the loss of a priceless life ���������f"Sfc 'in*rtance, Every mother should always keep a box of Baby's Own Tablets in the /JAuriteroncV f'������Vn,Z tna-r Sir '-WUfrid Ihouse. This" me.dicin'e. acts promptly tho Uiut^^S^-^^^ With i t^���������0���������*'-. CU-S !** . W'P" as oral years ago it did not appear at all, it camo straight ovor the edge of tlie sill opposite the crumbs, and continued to come every few nights throughout ���������July and August. "One night I put out some grains of rico, but the slug left them untouched. "The interesting question for scion- jtists," adds Dr. 'ijobcll, "is. How find the .��������� crumbs in tho . and how did it know the exact time nt Which to climb up for them?" " but he said sev _ ������&- in the Canadian House of Commons: "Canadians no longer desire reciprocity." Those were true -words, as regards thc great majority of the Canadian- people at that time, and they are even truer to-day . than they wore thon. The change of sentiment is duo to the fact that they now appreciate tho possibilities of Canada as they never did before, r,,K��������� "*'" '" stomach and bowel troubles, teething troubles, simple, fevers, colds, worms and other little ills. And the mother has, a.- guarantee that s the Tablets .contain ..no opiate or harmful clrug. Ono wise mother, 'Mrs. Geo. Hardy, Fourchu, N. S., says: "I have used .Baby's Own Tablets and find them a tdessing to children. I am not satisfied without a box in the house at all times." If your They agree with 4m- wn V V U������,US������ at aH tin*es." If your -./trnf^Kad^is ^o SSer������ef ���������*J������������������P*W'T**& in If not, something must be wrong with its food. If the mother's...milk doesn't nourish it, she needs Scott's Emulsion. It supplies the elements of fat required for the baby. If baby is not nourished by its artificial food, then it requires tible���������Take a good sized applo and cut it in slices with the peel on and li'vy till brown in tho bacon fat. Servo highly seasoned with popper and salt and you will havo a delicious dish. j Linseed Tea.���������Pour two quarts of boiling water on. ono ourico of whole lin.seeo and twelve drachma of sliced liquorice root. Adel a few slices of lesinon. Let this stand in a covered jar for six hours, then strain for use and.sweeten to taste. To Prevent Illack Stockings Turn ing Orccn When Washod.-���������Turn the stockings inside out and wash in lather; do not rub the soap on the 'stocki'n-rs. Rinse in tepid water to wh'ch a little vinegar is added. Dry in the shade, and pull ������>-ently into shape. l)e> not wash a Frying-pan often, for as a rule the following method of cleaning it is very effectual: Place the pan. on tho fire for a few minutes to melt any fat left in it, and whilst this is hot, rub the inside of tho pan with clean, soft paper until it is quite clean. The paper should be , semwed up and used vigorously. Treated like this, frying-pans will never burn till they are worn very thin frid in thinking that Canada is to be thc country of the twentieth century, and they bev������ no desire to surrender it to tho United . States. They believe that Canadians should have all tho advantages to be' do- ___ ������������-/ioi..jano! |ond it-is-saii rived from the opening up of this . ti,e "houBo is on fire!" Jane (calmly) !soon bo nscd I grand country, and if the people of __������<Yes i know. Il-.'s thn r,,-o*- ���������fi ��������� the adjoining Republic���������tno country of. tho nineteenth century���������want to share the profits of tho wonderful development which is about to take place, they must move across tho border into the country of the twon tieth century. TO KILL IMPERIAL RECIPROCITY. stock send 25 cents to Tlie Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville. Ont., and you will get a box by mail post paid. ; ���������: + , Mistress (excitedly)���������"Jane-!, .Jane! he house is on fire!" Jane (calmly) ���������"Yes, I know. It's the first ifiro in this houso that I haven't had to light." Snuppo���������"Yes; I believe I did say you were always lying about your- Gelf." Bragg*^���������".Sir, I'm not accustomed to that kind of talk. I'm. a gentleman, sir!" Snappo���������"There you a**e again." LABELLED OLD MAIDS. ���������.In some parts of Shun a girl who reaches a certain ago without marrying is laboiled, and placed in -a privileged class under- the special care of the King, who binds himself to find a husband for them all. Ilia method . is delightfully simple. . A prisoner in any one of the Siamese goals-may gain his-pardon and release by marrying one of-.the,ineligible class. Whether ho is already married is not of great consequence for in Siam a man is not restricted to eime wife. Glass bricks aro coming into use, and it is said that this material will' soon bo used for making statues.fas it resists the corroding effect of tho weather much bettor than marble or granite. A little boy was asked his namo, ami answered, "Well, they call ma Jimmie, for short, but my maidenr name is James." Half a teaspoonful three or four times a clay in its bottle will bring the desired result. It seems to have a magical effect upon babies and children. 8C0TT & BOWNE, Chemists, Toronto. Ont. l'-IVIS PLES. Chocolate Pie.���������One coffcccup milk two tablespoons grated chocolate-',' three-fourths cup sugar, yolks eif three eggs. Heat chocolate and milk together, add the sugar and yolks together, beaten to cream. Flavor with essence vanilla. Bake with under crust. Spread meringue of the whites over the top. Custard Pie.-One' pint of milk threo ogog, a little salt, three tablespoons of sugar. Flavor with essence vanilla or nutmeg and essence of emon If the milk is raided it w,n require but two eggs to a pint. Cream Pie.-One pint of milk scalded, two tablespoons of corn stnrch, threo tablespoons of snear vol Irs of two eggs. Wet the starch It is probable that the reciprocity agitation in tho United States would bo confined almost entirely to a I few cities not far from the Canadian border such as Boston, Buffalo, Do-J troit bt. Paul and Minneapolis, but' for the fear that Mr. Chamberlain's proposals for- mutual Imperial tariff prolorencos may bo adopted. This fear has caused a rapid development of reciprocity sentiment in tho United States. If the United States Congress agress to reciprocity with Canada, it will be chiefly for tho purpose of killing Imperial reciprocity. Once killed, that great imperial project can never be revived and the United States will then be'in a position to withdraw any concessions it may have made to Canada for tho purpose of defeating Mr- Chamberlain's plans. RAILWAYS AND RECIPROCITY. Queer things sometimes get into tho stock market z'oports of the newspapers, but perhaps thc most absurd statement that has yet appeared was one copied by a number of Canadian newspapers to tho eil'ect that a reciprocity treaty between Canada and tho United States would cause a rise in Canadian Pacific Railway stock. To any thinking man it must be evident that a reciprocal arrangement with thc United States that would cause trade to flow north and south instead of cast j and west must prove disastrous alike| to tho Canadian Pacific Railway, tho Grand Trunk Pacilic nnd the Canadian Northern railways. The greater tho business between thc eastern I and western Provinces the better it Is Your Liver to Blame 7 Her������ Ar������ th������ Symptoms Which Tell ofa Congested Liver, and Indicate the Need of DR. CHASE'S KIDNEY-LIVER PILLS. the the the Tho tongue is coated, the appetito is impaired, digestion is deranged, tho bowels are constipated, and there are feelings of fullness and soreness about tho liver. You may have hi>ndacho and dizziness, pains in the limbs, fevcriah- ness, yellowness of the eye and skin, depression of spirits, and irritabil ity of temper. So great is the influence of liver on the other organs of [body, that once it is deranged, whole system seems to bo upset. There arc no means by which you can so quickly and certainly obtain relief froim torpid, sluggish liver action os by the uso of Pr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills. One pill at bedtime, and the result is a thorough cleansing of tho filtering and excretory systems, and new. vigor and regularity for liver, kid- ineys and bowels. I No family medicine has boon more extensively used in Canada than Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills, and nono has such a reputation for reliability nnd certainty of action. Enliven the ue:tion ,\>' -the liver by this well-known treatment, and 3*011 ensure good digestion and regular action of thc bowels���������thc foundation of good health. Mr. Rogers Clancy, farmer, Chep- stowo, Bruce County, Out., states:��������� "I have used Dr. Chase's Kidney- Liver Pills, and would say that there is no medicine that equals them as a cure for stomach trouljes, biliousness, torpid liver and headache. I was troubled a great deal jwith these ailments before using Dr. I Chase's Kidney-Liver Pi I Is, and they I have proven wonderfully successful in I my case. "I would not think of being without a box of these pills in the house and v/heneve'i* I feel any symptoms of' these disorders I' take one of these pills, and they set. mo all right again. I can strongly recommend Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills for tho troubles mentioned above.' Dr. Chase's TCjdney-Livef Pil,.-.. pill a dose, 25 cents a bo.v, at all dealers, or "Edmnnson, Bates & Oo., Toronto. Thc portrait and signature of Dr. A. "VV. Chase, the famous receipt book author, are cfl ovcry box. Pills, one :'���������":������;���������'������������������ .*���������:.-��������������� .f, and Similkameen Advertiser, ��������� a ��������� ��������� ..��������� f-wui-itl on Tluivsduys, by tho Hkdi.kv (U/.kttk l'l'INTlNG AND l'CIIMSHINf' COMPANY, ��������� Li.MiTici), nt Healer, li. C, Subscriptions In Advance ��������� Pel* Yc*!*r....... -. i.......������2.W Six Months ,.. !.��������������� Advertising Rated Measurement, Vi Hues to thc inch. " Transient Advertisement*���������not cxcccd'np one i;ie:h, $1.00 for one insertion, Iii cents- for each subfiejeiuent insertion. Over one inch. 10 cents per line for first insertion nnd ;i <:ent������ per line for each Kuusequcnt inncrtion. Traniiicnbt payable in ���������Mlvance. Land Notices���������Ccrtiflcaten of improvement etc, 17.00 for 60-day notices, and fS.00 for aOdny notice*. ��������� On tract Advertisements���������One inch per month, J1.25: over 1 inch and up to i Inches. $1.00 per inch per month. To constant advertiser.* taking larger space than four inches, on application, rates will be given of reduced ohnrgcH; based on 'siree of space and length of time. r Advertisement*- will be changed once every month if advertiser desires, without any extra ehftri-i*. For changes oftener than once a month che price of composition will be charcod at ruj-ular rates. Chnnt-es for contract 'adverti������ement������ nhould be������ in tho office by noon on Teicnday.to (tecuru attention for that week's issue. A. MEORAW. Managing Editor. N'������w Moon Feb. 4. First eiuur. Feb. 12. Mr**' ��������� Full Moon I Feb. 19. W Lant quar. _ >������b.36. 1905 ���������REB. * 1903 Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Tliu. Fri. Sat. l 2 ������ 4 c 7 8 0 10 ii 12 18 11 15 10 17 18 W 20 21 22 28 21 25 2(1 27 28 eminent to''throw-no' obstacle in. the way of the completion of the Hill system over this route, but to do what they can to help it, and they will expect from Mr. Hill a clear and full statement of what he is prepared to dp, both in speedy completion of the line and in direct transportation of passengers and freight between the Boundary and Vancouver, after completion. If tlie Great Northern will give satisfactory assurances on these I)oints then no restrictions regarding crossing or recrossing the line for1 more favorable gradients must be imposed. Coast papers tell of a visit to Victoria by J. D. Farrell, of Seattle, who is assistant to President J. J. Hill of the Great Northern and recognized as the political agent of the company in its negotiation** with the Provincial Government of British Columbia. Mr. Farrel is credited by the "Victoria Times" with wanting to know from Premier McBride and his government . the exact position in which his company stands in so far as its building rights in British Col- lunbia are concerned. He was accompanied by two other officials of the Great Northern who intimated that their business was in connection with East Kootenay lines, but the "Times" smells a^rat and thinks that negotiations are with respect to a route to the Similkameen to tap its mineral fields, and, ever ready to get ti dig at the administration, takes occasion to doubt that any railway policy has yet been formulated, or would ever be announced to the House. Events will soon show whether this is or is not borne out in fact for the House will>imeet on the 9th, and Premier McBride will do well to take heed that there is a section of British Columbia lying along the boundary line from Fort Steele all the way westward to the Hope mountains and extending many miles north, embracing nearly all the rich mineral fields from which comes the bullion that makes up the sum of the output of lode mines, published in the report of Mr. McBride's department of mines. That section is vitally interested in direct railway connection by Mr. Hill's system from Midway westward through the Anarchist mountain, Lower Okanagan and Similkameen sections to the coast, and the people resident therein are in no temper to be thwarted in their wishes in this behalf. Especially is this the case with those west of Midway who have waited for fifteen years or more on the C. P.R., and they have reached that stage where their immediate material interests will over-ride all political considerations. They will expect Mr. McBride's gov- The yearly enactment of anti- Asiatic legislation at Victoria and the annual knockout of the same at Ottawa, by veto of the Federal authorities goes on uninterruptedly, for again the news comes from Ottawa of the veto of the act passed at tlie last session of the British Columbia legislature, cited as the " British Columbia Immigration Act, 1904," the objectionable clause of which reads: r "The immigration into British Columbia of any person 'hereinafter called a prohibited immigrant) who, when asked todonoby an officer, fail* to write out fit dictation, in eharacteirs-of nome language of Europe, and ������ign in'this presence of the officer, a passage of fifty words in length, in a European language directed by the officer, is hereby prohibited." The reason always given by the Laurier government for disallowance has been that it is opposed to Imperial policy, but this time the provincial government felt secure in that their enactment was modelled on the Natal Act, which has been recognized by the Imperial authorities. Whether the same old reason for disallowance will be advanced again is not known, but if the utterances of the Victoria Times can be taken as inspired it would seem that the objection will be that the act is called an " immigration act" and that immigration pertains to the federal government, which is but a quibble at best, for the preamble of the slaughtered act cites section 95 of the British North America Act itself which says: "In each province the legislature may make laws in relation to agriculture in the province and immigration into the province, etc." In fact this latest disallowance puts the Liberal party in British Columbia up against it, in so far as its relation to labor is concerned; and Billy Mclnnes and those of his associates who have attempted to dance to the same tune will have a bad half hour trying to square themselves. They asked the province a few weeks ago to give a solid seven at Ottawa, which "was equivalent to asking the province to tell Mr. Laurier that the people of British Columbia approved of his annual disallowance of its provincial enactments to protect white labor. That is the only logical way of putting it, so no one has any right to blame Mr. Laurier for disallowance under the circumstances. to A Westminster despatch the News-Advertiser says-: "Mayor Keary yesterday received a communication from Mr. J. B. Kennedy, M. P., at Ottawa, to thc effect that thc B. C. members could not be got together last week to make a joint representation to the Government with regard to the Dominion Exhibition. Mr. Kennedy therefore drew up a memorial to the Government, and it was signed by all of the B. C. members except Messrs. Riley and Smith. Apparently the Government did not look upon this as a strong enough application and the decision not to give thc grant was arrived at." The above item would indicate that the solid seven is not remarkable for its solidity on all questions effecting the interests of British Columbia. It is not known, of course, what counter attractions prevented Mr. Kennedy from making a successful round-up, but in vain did he appeal "Knock out your pipes and follow'mo; ;V Finish off your swipes and follow me." tinn They could not be got together" was his complaint to the mayor, but he managed to get four of them besides himself to spare him sufficient attention to sign his memorial. The other two (both islanders) were obdurate. And thus the little petty sectional jealousies that influence them at home cannot be set aside at ��������� Htawa long enough to enable them to work' together for the common good of the province. What hope for "better terms" for the province with such a rex>resentation. NOTICE. Certificate1 of Improvements. "PITTSBURG'Mineral Claim, situat* in the Osoyoos Mining Division of Yale District. Where located:'Gamp Hedley. TAKE NOTICE that I, R. H. Parkinson, aa 1 agent for L. W- Shatford. F. M. C. B6202S, and W. F. CaiJicion.'F. M. C. B22476, intend, sixty days from date hereof, to apply to the -Milling Recorder feir a Certificate of ImproTc- ments, for the "purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must he commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. R. H. PARKINSON. Moffet's Best PATENT FLOUR STRONG, UNIFORM AND WHITE; MADE STRICTLY FROM HARD WHEAT. y THE COLUMBIA FLOURING MILLS CO., Ltd. VERNON and ENDERBY, B.C. ^ Dated Dec. 12. A.D.. MM.' 1-S NOTICE. Certificate' M Improvements. BOSTON Mineral Claim, situate in thc Osoyoos Mininc Division of Yale District. Where located: Camp Hedley. TAKE NOTICE that I, R. H. Parkinson ar agent for W. F. Cameron, administrate* of, the estate of-'G. M. Stumps. Free Miner's Certificate No. B22476. intend, sixty days from date hereof, to apply to thc Minim; Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant'of the aboye claim. *���������' ��������� > ��������� And further take notice that action, under section 37, must, be commenced before the Issuance) of such Certificate of Improvement*. , R. H. PARKINSON. Dated Dee., l^A.D.. 19M. 1-8 NOTICE. Certificate of Improvements. STEMWINDER AND CHARTER OAK Mineral ClaimSi situate in the Osoyoos * Mining, eivisioii of i'aJe^Districfc. Where located : amp-ii<|ai^y������ ? --������������������'���������- f- * TAKE NOTICE tna'tT, Charles dell. Green as agent for M. K. Rodgers, free miner's certificate No. BSrtfl'ti and for George H. Cahill, F. M. C. No. BTJSi'lo, intend, sixty days from the date hcrcolyto apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the. purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the a- bove claims. '"?'��������� And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the isBU- anco of such Certificate of Improvements. ��������� Dated this 23rd day of December, 1904. 1-8 ; C. deB. GREEN. SIMILKAMEEN Livery, Feed and Sale Strfible Single and Double Saddle and Pack Drivers. Horses. Wood for Sale. HOPKINS <������������ McINNES, Proprietors, Hedley, B.C. When in Keremeos STOP AT The Central Hotel - TWIDDLE <& RETTH, Proprietors. Good Accommodation and Strict Attention to the Wants of the Public. Livery Barn in Connection. NOTICE. Certificate of Improvements. LORENIA. LION'S PAW. RENO. CANADIAN BELL. COPPER WORLD FRACTION and MIDNIGHT SUN Minoral Claims, situate in the Osoyoos Mining Division of Vale District. Where locateel: In Camp Hedley. TAKE NOTICE that I, Francis W. Groves, acting as agent for Horatio J. Duffey, free miner's certificate No. 5803, and T. D. Pickard, free miner's certificate No. B6203o, intend, sixty days from date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the "above claims. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before thc issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 20th day of January, A. D., 1905. 2-8 FRANCIS W. GROVES. IX 13 NOT NECESSARY To discuss the advisability of Life Insurance. Everybody now admits it. The two things to be decided are: WHICH COTVVPArNY*? and 1A/HAT AMOUiNTr'*? Let us help you to decide these! Briefly stated, the answer to the first is Tlie Mutual Life of Canada (old Ontario Mutual.) and to the second /"111 "Vou Can Carry. The MUTUAL LIFE OF CANADA is the only Canadian company that is purely mutual, all its profits' going to the policy holders, and no foreign company (stock or mutual) doing business in Canada has been able to do as well for its policy holders, or give insurance, at as favorable rates. Take a policy in it before 1905 is out and come in for this year's profits. m A; z I N 13 & cm Druci and book store HEDLEY, O.C HwAi^uAnTKns FOB _ PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES; BRUSHES, * COMBS AND TOILET REQUISITES; TOILET SOAPS AND PERFUMERY; BOOKS AND STATIONERY OF ALL KINDS. Your Trade Solicited. Mat! Orders Promptly Attended To. JOHN LOVE Druggist andL Stationer. I o D I C A Hotel Keremeos GEO. KIRBY, flanager. First Class in Every Respect. Commercial and Mining Headquarters of the Keremeos and Lower Similkameen Valleys. Posfc House on Penticton- ��������� ton-Princeton Stage Line. KEREMEOS, B.C. VV. J. TWISS, Manager, Vancouver. A. MEGRAW, District Agent, Hedley. J. A. S6HUBERT Wholesale enrrci Ret tail ���������^ General Merchant Groceries Dry Goods Gents' Furnishings Boots and Shoes Hardware Flour and Feed Sash and Doors Lumber and Shingles Stores-HEDLEY jarscJ F-JENTTICT-OIN 'Aaitnwwmiwm'mvamxKtomw.M.ywxiimmzss. M'JJimw-'fBVjewm*^^ /-, \
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