@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "d5a443b6-b290-4aab-ad11-6f054b7467ea"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2013-01-09"@en, "1902-03-15"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xindependen/items/1.0180486/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note " Legislative LiWy Mar. 3l|ftl THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA . . SAVINGS BANK . . I A General {Banking Business Transacted. CFF1CES���Hastings Street, W., \"Westminster Avenue, Vancouver. VOL. 4. B. C. FEMArYEKT LOAA AM SAVINGS CO. Aiithnrlscil Cuiiiul - fl<>,(KVl,le-eiu_it���made to be broken���and so I send you a. note. K you .prefer to,, put it in thu waste basket there -will be no haul ublic with whom he came in contact, mud I have already said so in our .Journal. \"Well, starting with the good send-off which Vancouver gave, Knm- Joops was not any behind, but Revelstoke went away up ahead. After a isplendid public, meeting -we adjourned to tho Central hotel, -where the boys lhad arranged with .Mine Host Ahra- nuumson lo honor our chief with a ban- >. quet, and till Uie small hours of .the TOorning toast and. speccch and song 3nade a memorable night.- Golden and Calgary -were also good, chiefly because of tlie efforts the men made to 3�� present. -Medicine Hat was our cpiietest night, partly owing .to a M-retSk on the division east of tho Hat; Swift Current, too, from the same ���cause, but Moosejaw was In' line; Broadview*was a bumper, and OPortago la Prairie almost made us forget Rev- ���Blstofoe. Do not-let me claim A Scotcshman's Privilege ���ot apealking till lie is understood. Portage La Prairie almost made us ..think we were In Revelstoke. And, in one (point, lt went ahead of any meeting ���till we came to Pembroke, namely, In llie number of die ladles���God bless them���who came to greet the chieftain, whose life is devoted1 for securing to their homes the comforts they so well ���deserve. In Revelstdke, I led the boys *ii>glnf. to the toast of the \"ladies, ���\"They're all jolly good fellows,\" so fce&rtily. I waa hoarse for several ���nights afterwards. And as I wri^e of them, I think of them. I feel like -Shouting it.out again, for \"they're all jolly good fellows.\" -- \"Winnipeg left ���siothlng to be desired. Rat Portage, where we arrived after being 1C hours from Winnipeg���awing to numerous em&H accidents���was for our own men, feeing after 11 p. m. Fort \"William was nine. Srhilbner and \"White R-.ver ditto. Ob.ai>leau and North Bay were for our <\"/n men, but at Mattawa, Pembroke and Ottawa the usual programme.���o ir ibnyis flrst, the public afterwards, was ���can-led out. Pembroke Almost Takes F_rst Place, *otti for tlie number of ladles and tha ��ron-d ln general, but above all tlie excellent brass ur committee���will be able to affect a. settlement without another foolish waste i,f money on both sides. As I see it the question is simply this: Are we wortn what we are asking, and can Che company afford.to pay it? These are the only two questions. What other roads are paying does not enter into the matter. But I am. getting your readers weary, so must close .with best wishes and . *\" ' Heartiest Thanks to all the kind friends whom we met.' To say our chief was greatly pleased at 'the reception he got from the Canadian public is only telling a secret he gave away wherever we were, and the members of our order were, of course, delighted to see how he gained the respect \"bf those whom he met. I trust this may not be the last-time he will be able to take the same trip and I most devoutly wish when he does that it may be my good fortune again to accompany him. I might tell Bro. Mae- Maiiamon's fi lends in tlie west thit ���we had him with us east to Medicine Hat, and his Irish wit and wisdom added a pleasant variety to the meetings. Ho joins with me in sending greetings to all our western friends. Tours very truly, ' A. B. LOWE. Montreal, March I, 1!MK_. and their request being granted a, I organizer was sent over the road, the result 'being that 98 per cent, of th* ���foremen und men responded and tooU membership In the\"order and local divisions have been organized and placet. In operation on tlie entire system in Manitoba, Minnesota and Ontario. The divisions are the C. N. R. terminal division of Winnipeg, Belmont, Dauphin, Port Arthur, Atlkokan, Rainy River and Portage la Prairie divisions. The Canadian (Northern trackmen have sent delegates to Winnipeg to present their grievances' and endeavor to make better terms and conditions of employment with their employers. C. P. R. TELEGRAPHERS. The telegraphers employed on the Canadian .Pacific railway system have completed their new schedule, compris ing rates of pay and other conditions of employment, and the document will be (Presented to the company 'by the general commute representing the men on March 24. Tlie men ask that the minimum salary, which is now $40 per month on the eastern divisions, be increased to $53; and the operators on the western division, where living expenses are greater, ask a rate slightly in excess or this. A member of the board whioh has the making of the schedule in hand, says that he is very hopeful of a satisfactory and prompt issue of their negotiations with the company. It was probable, he thought, that a good deal of discussion might ensue .from the clause asking that after operators had been continuously In the service for a' stipulated period, they might be given two weeks' vacation yearly without loss or pay. When the last agreement was signed by the company and the men, three yeais ago, tlhis concession iwas granted! to the older operators, but an effort will bu made this year to include those whose terms of service are fewer in years, so that only an insignificant ntitnibei will be, deprived of the'privilege. THE CIVIC S0LOAS. A full council Iboard was present nt Monday night's session. Beyond a. long drawn out discussion on hospital matters nothing of importance was done. The board of health .committee's report, contained a report of a visit of Aid. McGuigan and the health inspector to Seattle. Aid. Brown asked: Wio authorized these missionary expeditions at the cltya expense? \"What were their object? Aid.'McQueen said'that they received tho monthly health report of Seattle, ���which showed 103 cases of smallpox and otter contagious disease existing in that city. And so the health committee thought it advisable to ascertain the true state of affairs, and see what steps should be taken. Aid. Brown���It seems that the committee can malke these expeditions whenever it likes. Aid. McGuigan said that regarding the state of affairs at. the boundary- It looked as if the attorney-general didn't (know what was going on. This was a' grave error. At iSumns, however, good work was going on. The report was adopted. Wlien the report of the board of works was lead, Aid. Wood wanted to know if the telephone company had been notified to remove certain poles aa ordered. The city solicitor should get after the company. MEETING IN MONTREAL. The trackmen on the C. P. (R. will reopen negotiations with the company on March 15th, and. several members of the committee, especially those from the coast sections, are now on their way to Montreal. A committee representing the malntenance-of-way men of the Intercolonial arrived in Moncton, N. S., this week, to present a schedule to Mr. D. Pottinger, general manager. The trackmen on the Canada Atlantic system, it is 6tated, win also make demands for inci eases ln salaries within the next two months. To a Montreal Herald reporter Mr. Wilson said: \"We are at'peace with all railroad companies, and hope to so continue. There is not a cloud on our horizon. Last week fourteen hundred of our 'boys' wore- granted an Increase in their salaries month.\" of soven dollars n ' C. N. TRACKMAN. From the moment the Canadian Northern Railway company secured eon- tinl of the 'N. P. lines in Manitoba and ut'i'ilgamted them with the Dauphl and Southeastern road, thereby joining the C. N. 'R. system, there has been considerable discontentment among the traokmen on account of the methods pursued ln operating the system, says TRAINMEN. No class of union men are more faithful to their fellow-workmen than the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. None face more dangers\", moie hard-, ships than the railroad employee; in daylight and darkness; .in summer's sun and winter's storm, the railroad man i.s ever at his' post, ever ready at the caller's summons to take his bucket and bidding his wife and mother and, perhaps, his little ones, good-bye, he faces his duty, and, perhaps, his death; his loved ones at home await his return, and the faithful wife or moth2r, no doubt have watched at the window witli mingled feelings of hope and fear, either for his return of the coming of a messenger to bring them tidings of weal or woe���ofthues the latter���telling them that he died at his post, a hero! Yes, a hero to his duty and to his family and his fellow-man���and although his heroism and his self-sacii- fice aad memory may not be drank standing and dn silence by his countrymen assembled in council or convention from' cutps formed fi om the bleached skulls of his vanquished foe, as was the custom of the savages of old, and ia still practised by nations calling themselves Christian, and who gloat over the coffimless beds of their vanquished fellow-man, whose only crime was his nationality or perhaps his inferior numbers or defenceless and unarmed condition, or that he was only able-to see his duty.-in-the light of-rea- son, that his Creator had given him the latter an unpardonable crime in the eyes of avarice and greed, and nlthoueh we honor and shall forever cherish the memory of those who fought and died to establish a country of their own, and to those who died ln its defence and perpetuation, we believe that there Is more real heroism ln a single railroad man meeting death at bis post than in all your so-called war heroes who offer up their lives, if need be, on their country's altar.���Ex. Aid. Wood asked when the estimates for the current year would be ready to ibe brought down. Aid. .McQueen, chairman of the .finance committee, stated,, that owing to sickness in his family, the city treasurer was unavoidably absent 'from the city, and could not get back for another two weeks. The seveial departments would not, ���however, be ready to-submit their individual estimates foi- another ten days or a foitnlght, but 'lie thought everything would ibe ready and the estimates! brought doi\\n 7>y that time. Ba- sldes the different committees should draft what they though would\" be necessjry, rMm^ .��� .'.��� ^ Regarding the provincial hospital act,, the council decided to ask the Vancouver members to endeavor to secure the acceptance of nurses' graduation certificates from any recognized training hospital or home in the Dominion and not Insist upon nurses having such to pass an examination before they can follow their profession in British Columbia, and other amendments to the act will also be submitted to the city members. IR. G. Rorigson,' secretary of the Vancouver 'branch of the Dominion alliance, wrote asking the council to pass the necessary legislation to give effect to the wish expressed by the electorate of Vancouver on the plebiscite talken in WOO. Aid. McQueen said that later on he intended introducing an early-closing by-law. The Barbers' Early Closing by-law committee reported that at a meeting with the barbers, it had ibeen dcilae* that the week-day hours of business should be from S a. m. to 7 p.m.. and till midnight on Saturday, and till 10 a. m. on days preceding .public holidays, the shops not to be opened before 7 a. m. on the following day. The' so - ment aid, 1900-01, l.aa patients, at G.i cents, equals $9,807.03. Under the new bill tho amount received by the city will be: Under sub-section B (SI grant), $1,000; C (70c srant), $1,030; D (35c grant), $1,376;' E (50c grant), $2,5C0; F (45c grant), $3,523.96; making a total of $9,448.95. Aid. McGuigan staled that the hospital act had been up before the medical association. Objection was taken to clause 11, confining the examination of nurses at the Jubilee hospitil. If the nurses of one accredited institution were to be exempt, then the same (privileges should be awarded to graduates of other accredited training institutions, such as the Vancouver Winnipeg, Toronto and otlier .prominent hospitals. The speaker; had baen informed by Dr. Munro that the government hod promised to change this clause. On the order papers of the ihouse he saw that Mr. Martin intended to Introduce \"an amendment which will put all hospitals in a city or district In a pot to share alike the grant made ���by the government. In Vancouver under this amendment the grant that now goes to the city hospital would have to ibe shared between at least three hospitals. The mayor stated that the provinciil secretary had Intimated that he would have the desired change, re examination of nurses, made. Aid. Brown said the municipalities should be responsible for their patients. The mayor said that the government made a grant for the patients from unorganized districts. Aid. McQueen moved that ?1 per patient be asked. Can led. Aid. Foreman thought that iiienrber<; fiom municipalities should be represented on the hospital board. Aid. McGuigan said that the machinery Is poor for the examination of nurses, theie being now isome SO exnm- ineis. The provincial board of health was considered iby many as a one-man institution, tho secretary .being it. Aid. Brown said it -was easy to prevent competent nurses from passing au examination. The examiners could ask some of the most trilling ^questions such as, nurses,-teachers, as-a ell .i others, did not thirtl; worth while stor ing in their memories. He held thag examinations should be limited to t books. 'Aid. McQueen agreed that eve^thin went by way of Victoria in this bill! ,. Aid. Brown also criticized the bill on the score of expense. In it tho hospiUI at Victoria will be made the prominent one. Hon. Mr. Martin's resolution w.ii therefore opposed by the council. ROSSLMD STRIKE SETTLED From Our Own Correspondent. The strike that has ibeen in force at the mines since July 12th was settled with John H. McfKenzle, manager ol the Le Roi, satslfactorlly to both parties, on January 24th. Since that time a great number of the men who were on strike have been .put to work at the mine. The be3t of feeling exists ���between Manager MoKenzie and the union men. In the case of the Centra Star and War Eagle mines the strike has .not heen settled. On February 24th a committee from the Typographical union of Toronto, together with. Mr. Chris. Foley, interviewed Mr. Blackstock, president of the War Eagle-Centre Star Mining company re an adjustment of the strike. The result of the Intel view was that Mr. Blaokstock assured the committee that* he would immediately write the manager of the mines in Rossland, Mr. E. B. iKIrby, and request him to remove the embargo against union men at present existing; or, In other words, he would request Mr. Kirby to announce to the men that he was prepared to let by-gones be iby-gones, and that no further discrimination would toe made against members of the union. So far Mr. Kirby has made no such statement to the union, and the men are beginning to dombt the sincerity of the a'bove named gentleman. The trouble at the Lo Roi, No. 2, is still unsettled. The output of ore from the Le Roi mine .for week ending March Sth, and for the year to date is a.s follows: For week, 0,CCO tons; for year, 45,193 tons, showing a substantial Increase since the union men haive returned to woiik in the mine, lt is expected that the.\\V��r Eagle ami Centie Star mines will soon be In a ,posltlon to begin -.hipping. Otlier \"mull piopertics are- working In the camp. The election of officers for the Miners' union .for the ensuing term took place on Mai eh 3t1i. President Rupert ' Bulmei- and Secretary Frank 'E. Wood- .^ide weie unanimously re-elected. ��� AUSTRALIA AND WHITE LA^OR the Winnipeg Voice. The trackmen and especially our outspoken advocate, I finding things were going from ben 'for the council to talke action in the matter at liny tlm\". fhould it think desii-nible. HOSPITAL i.MATTERS. Letters were 'received from J. F. Garden, M. P. P., W. Skene, secretary of the citizens' provisional hospital committee and the Trades and Labor council. 'Mr. Garden wrote that under the new bill Vancouver would receive a emaller grant by about $4C0 than last year, and asked the views of the council upon the act, also upon the proposed examination and certificate regulations' re nurses. 'He also enclosed a statement, showing the standing of the Vancouver city hospital, upon Its last year's liasln, 4n the light of the P'csent and the proposed acts, as follows: Record of the Vancouvtr hospital for 1900-01: Patients, 1,322; days' treatment, 17,831; .average days' treatment. 11.6; govern- The .proposed new hospital board waj then talken oip and practically the same arguments all gone ovcr again. Tt is quite evident that the council will not hand over the control ot the city hospital affairs to a new management. Aid. McGuigan said he thought that the citizens should 'lie asked to vote $100,000 for new hospital improvements and the management remain practtcally in the hands of the city.. He thought there was a great deal of common sense expressed .in the letter of the Trf.des nncn In the company's service twenty-lire' yeara will also ibe eligible for rcilt\"- mertt, with a .pension. This K to be bnsed on length of service and average monthly pay for the ten yc.ii'3 Immediately ipreceding retirement. Tho pension ls 1 per cent, of the average monthly pay for the period employed. B. C. SOCIALIST P.VRTY. Mr. Frank Rogers on Sunday evening will address the B. C. Socialist party ln the hall, 132 Powell street. The subject discussed will be Socialism vs. Trade Unionism. All Invited. The best way to begin a crusade against sweat shop and Orlental-nnde products Is to OJuy only union labM goods. TO PROTECT UNIONS. Mr. Smith Curtis, M. P. P., at Victoria, in an address said: Trade unions hate been attacked lu the olci country recently, and apparently with success, so as to make trade union funds liable for acts of their officers dining a strike. Now, accordlng'to a recent Injunction Issued in England, one man cannot go to another and say, \"Theie is a strike on,\" and urge hint, not to go and work, or he would, It enjoined and rersisting |n iti j,e g^nty of contempt of court, and tlie court can Immediately lock him up as long as It likes, e\\en for a whole lifetime. No- oue until recently knew this to ibe law. I am bringing In a bill to protect unions, and if the Dunsmuir government throws that bill out all your unions in this province will ibe liable to. ���have tlhelr funds taken away on account of some officer's act*. I am a gr^at 'believer ln trade unions. Trade unions are why labor is now at all. I'.tirly dealt wlth.; '-'(ft V 'v The following suggestions for operating the Babeock test arc sent out by Dr. J. 1$. Liudsey and K. 15. Holland of the Hatch experiment station, snys American Agriculturist. They should lie followed carefully to secure accurate results: Milk or creiiin should be carefully nntl thoroughly mixed��� never by slinking tlie sample, but by gently rotallug it ami by pouring front one vessel to another. All cream nd-' heiing to the sides ami stopper of the retaining vessel must be Incorporated. and the resulting liquor should show- no solid particles of fat. A sum 11. line wire sieve is of great value In detecting tlie Imperfect (lumpy) condition of a (-ample aud iu preparing the same for -pipetting. I'ipette Immediately after preparing the samplo, tilling thu pipette slowly and taking care to avoid air bubbles. Hold the pipette In a vertical position wlien lowering the,Iiquld to the mark, nud always read with the entire meniscus above the line. In transferring mill, or cream to the test bottles avoid so I'itr as possible the smearing of the cull re neck with the liquids. Crentii testing above 2.1 per cent of fat should always be weighed, ns accurate results cannot be secured with the pipette. ln adding the acid turn the bottle so as to work down all mill; or crenm adhering to the sides of tlie neck and mix at once. Rotate the bottle until all the lumps of casein are thoroughly dissolved and the resulting mixture' is black In color. Mover slight the mixing, and avoid throwing the; fat up into the neck. Whirl at least five, two and two mln- utes. lu filling with hot water allow the water to run down the sides of the iieclc and thus avoid stirring tip'the contents ofthe bottle, ln reading the column of fat It is safer to use a pair of dividers than to trust to the unaided eye. Read the center of the fat colutuu from the lowest to the highest limit. A REMARKABLE JERSEY. Pride's Olcca Itli Has All the Point) of n Milk Producer. At the recent stock show nt the Pan- American exposition there was a very large exhibit of aged Jersey cows. Some of the finest cattle In the country were brought in competition for the prizes, says New England Homestead. First prize was awarded to Pride's Olgn 4th (00.S07). owned by Charles A. Sweet. She is n remarkable animal nnd embodies most or the good points required for a typical cow or her class, as shown In the Illustration. She is large and solid, of a dark fawn color, witli Holding; t.'p tlio Milk. A fresh cow that holds up her milk nearly always provokes thereby nn attack of garget nnd future loss of milk nil through the season, so that the dairyman or owner of a family cow should be on tbe watch to avert the trouble, says Farm and Home. When the calf 5s habitually taken from the cow* bo- fore It has had time to suck, the cow- will come to her milk .naturally ami without resistance, nnd this practice cannot be too strongly recommended ns a constant rule In the dairy. When, liowevcr. the trouble has occurred and a remedy ls sought, we find how powerless we are to strive with the natural instincts of an iiuinml excited to stubborn resistance. Soothing measures and perseverance or tlie use of the milking tubes Is the only effective remedy. PF.IU'ECTLY BALANCICl) UDDEll. an enormous, well formed and perfectlybalanced .udder, huge tortuous mill; veins, great barrel, slim neck,\"dish face, incurving horns and keen but gentle eyes. As a two-yeor-old she gave 2-12Vi pounds of milk nud made, 15 pounds 2 omices of butter in seven days. Just before entering the,contest at the Pan- American she made for one day n milk record of G5'/i pounds, seven days 4-17 pounds 2 ounces and In thirty-one days 1.011 pounds 14, ounces, in 113 days G.359 pounds. Previous to her last calf. May 10, she gave 12.000 pounds of milk in eleven mouths. Pride's Olgn 4th was born Aug. 2. 1S03. She was sired by Mclla Auu's Stoke Pogis (23.042). :,Her dtim.was Pride's Olgn (37.1SG). who has six tested daughters nnd another to bo tested soon. There Is such n thing as having the barn arrangements such ns will mnke it plcnsnnt autl agreeable work caring for the stock during our long winters, or, on tlie contrary, for want of proper arrangements it may bu made most disagreeable and unsatisfactory, says E. R. Towlc In American Cultivator. The stables should he sulllciemly warm, but uot close and uuvciitilated, and thero should be plenty of light-for all purposes. A dark, low, bad smelling stable ls nu abomination to man nnd beast, and wheu the nights get cold or there nre bad storms the cows will be much better off in the stable than out of doors and will exhibit their appreciation of such comfortable quarters by great contentment and1 Increased yield of milk. Another thing, it Is not wise to undertake to winter more stock than can be well kept and cared for, as this Is neither pleasnnt nor profitable. Young animals should be kept thrifty and growing nil'winter, .and'cows giving milk should receive the best of attention in care and feed, so they may give satisfactory returns at the pall. Aside from-the. stables7for7the_cow8 nnd most of the young cattle, it will be very convenient to have several pens, which may be used for n variety of purposes, as needed. Thla will be found a most convenient, arrangement. We Iind It bettor to tie calves from six niontlis to a year old In n stnblo. the same as other cattlo. They lonrn to become quiet In this wny nnd cnu bo more satisfactorily fed than when several are in a pen together. 1'Iic I.lRlitnliiK Roil. Hundreds of farmers have been swindled by the lightning-rod agents, paying for the rods much more than n fair price nud In; some cases giving notes for them when thoy thought that they were only signing u receipt for n certain amount of rod, which would bo removed If thoy were not satisfied to keep It nt the end of n certain time. Hut this does not disprove the efllcney of tho rod to protect from lightning when it Is properly put on and connected with the moisture In the earth. A lightning rod or.n conductor should run from every wire fence nbout once iu fifteen or twenty rods, going six or seven feet Into tiie earth, as tho electricity often follows the wires for n considerable distance, and when It leaves them may go several rods along the surface of the ground to reach man or beast. Grnlu For Dairy Cows. Under this head may ho classed the cereals and their byproducts and certain otlier seed, as cottonseed, flaxseed, etc., snys D. W. Mny In American Agriculturist. Of tho grnln feeds com is the more universal. The New Jersey station estimated that the feeding valuo of a ton of corn ls $2 greater when fed In the form of meal than when fed whole, deduction being made for the additional cost of husking and grinding. Determinations showed thnt 57.3 per cent of the corn fed on the car passed through the animal undigested. At the Pennsylvania station the feeding value of the corn wns nbout ouc-llfth greater than thnt of brnn ns nn exclusive grnin diet for the production of butter fat. At the Ohio station cows on cornmenl produce slightly more mill; for the food consumed than those ou bran and linseed mcnl. Those ou tho latter ration produced milk with the largest fat content, but this mny have been a matter of Individuality, as the grain ration was not changed. The cream should always be strained Into the churn aud the butter color added Immediately, If color Is to be used. There should, be no variation lu the speed of churning.' as too fast or too slow a speed will cause a rise iu temperature, resulting In too soft a butter, snys M. H. Matts In Kansas Farmer. Churns must be ventilated a couple of times after they start to let out gases of fermentation, which are always present. Be sure of a proper churning temperature, as cream will sometimes produce What is known as foaming and will nearly Iill the churn. This may be caused either by too much spued at starting, chum too full of cream oi cream being too cold (especially a thin cream). The best remedy Is to divide tlie cream Into two chiiriiings ami proceed at a proper churning temperature. In ���my experience I have found cream after being churned for lietween four and five successive hours, then given a rest of nbout nn hour, began to break in .teii. minutes after starting the second time. After the first stop the cream was not ���apparently any nearer the breaking pointthitii when lir.st slatted. Alter tho butter granules liave reached tlio size of n \"pin's head.\" of from one-sixth to one-eighth \"of an Inch In din meter, the buttermilk is drawn otf nml strained through a hair (.trainer; then wnter at the temperature of -l.\"> to 53 degrees F.. depending ou tlie teniperatino of the atmosphere, of about the same quantity as the buttermilk is added to the butter and ihe churn i evolved a few limes. Usually one washing is sufficient, though the wash water should drain comparatively clear. Tin- amount of washing will depend on the size of the butter granules and the condition the cream is In. Both under nnd over ripe cream will require more washing titan properly ripened cream. The Importance of using clean iind pure wash .water cannot be overestimated. The butter is now in a condition to salt, and the amount to use varies widely under different conditions. Salt preserves butter to a certain extent and greatly Improves tho taste. If salt hits been used iu washing, the finished butter will uot require ns much, or. in other words, the drier the but tor the loss snlt needed. From oue to two ounces of snlt per pound of butter fnt should he used. Butter only retains from one-half to three-fourths of tho nsalt, depending upon the condition of the snlt. which should be kept Hue nnd In a clean plnce. tis It absorbs odor. The salt does not enter the individual butter granules or grains, but is dissolved iu the water present, and any excess of It promptly coheres to the surface of tho grains and is pressed between tliem. Thus we ceo the importance of the kind and right use of snlt. FILLING THE ICEHOUSE. Proper Method of Storlun to Secure the Bent Ilcnulta. Mr. J. H. Brown in Kurnl New Worker explains the method he uses to store Ice. The illustratlou shows a cross section of his Icehouse, with boards nailed horizontally ou the Inside of the poles. From 12 to 15 inches should be left between the Ice cakes and the walls. Locate the Icehouse where good natural drainage mny lie secured. Tlle may be laid, as Indicated nt A. to secure mote adequate drainage it' lu'cded. Cut the eal.es so as to break joint*, sny IS liy '111 incites or 15 by S��. as conditions miij requite. It will lie impossible to n.ake the cakes ll' together perfectly, no mailer how c\\|ii'tt the --liw manipulator limy he. On this ncriuml we put In one layer, til closely ,-ts possible, then shave over the upper surface of nil the cakes wilh a carpenter's adze. The shaving's of Ice arc swept lino tlie crevices between cakes When freezing cold, a Hi lie Witter I.s sprinkled over tlie whole mii I'mi\" to ci'iiient the layer solidly together. As each layer is cutiiplelcd the saw dlts-t should lie tilled in iirnnml lite sides level Willi tile top iind solidly r win ���|Wnys consult tlie tastes of ninny farmers to decide to have some Ice next season, nnd nriy they thoroughly enjoy for the Unit time the cooling benellts which accrue to tlio fortunate possessjrs of the congealed fluid. i his customers lu this regard. ji��:$s_2L, Milking: Cowh CnntI.itioiit._y. A friend asks my expei'ience In milking cows continuously. 1 have sonic cows that Insist nu not going dry. 1 like to have tlieni dry about a month before freshening, both for the vigor of the calf and for llie ircupi'i-ntion of tho cow. snys XV. F. McSparraii In National Stockman. But 1 am not sure the cow or calf either needs this it' tlie cow is properly fed. nnd thnt is n very dlllicult thing to come at, so I prefer j the period of rest if I enn persuade the cow to take It. Whether sho milks better during the lactation after freshening because site rested or not I can't say. Some well Informed cow men sny It makes no difference in her period yield except In the Hush after cnlv- lug. with a rest before. It is hard to estimate. I have never known cows to do each year alike, so It Is impossible to tell what tho cow might have done. Twenty years' experience In the use of the silo has brought out some fncts about which all are agieed, says Farm nud Ranch: That a larger amount of healthful, ,_, , _ ,, ,_.,. food for cattle can be preserved in the ��� ���* ?to���?}_?_�����J^}t^J�� silo In heuer condition, nt less expense 'IDEAL MILK 1'AIL. not need to be removed, thus leaving no possibility of hair or dirt entering the milk. It has been tried at tho Kansas state experiment station, The points for aud against it arc as follows: For.���1. It is strictly sanitary. 2. Nothing but soluble substances can enter the milk. 3. Milk can be emptied into a can without straining except through a cloth. Against���1. It Is harder to keep clean than other palls.' 2. Where each cow's milk Is weighed, the pail has to be weighed back each time on account of the foam that remains' In lt and the cover. The amount varies from two-tenths to flve-tenths of a pound. Removing Odor* From Milk. Many of tho odors that affect milk and cream nre exceedingly volatile or evapornte quickly If the milk ls quickly cooled and ls exposed to the air in a thiu sheet, as tt is In the aerator, where lt runs out over cold pipes or through a cold air In a slow flow of thin stream or drops, says American Cultivator. This Includes the odors from weeds, even the wild garlic, which is more powerfully scented than tho onion, the odors from cabbage and turnips and the stable odors, which cannot alwnfs well be avoided when the cattlo are milked In the barn. We say they cannot be avoided, because ln many barns there Is a cellar filled with decomposing manure aud iu those of older construction a deposit of liquids below tho floor, so that it Is almost If not quite Impossible to prevent the air from having some part of the odor from below. In such cases the only remedy Is tbo acratcr. so placed that It will .permit these odors to pass off and not allow it to acquire new ones. We say the only, Wnter For Dnlry Cattle. Water must certainly ho regarded as a food, for It makes up over two-thirds of the body weight and must be constantly Ingested to keep up the normal body, writes Dr. George T. Palmer In noard's Dairyman. The water for the cow must never come from pouds or pools nnd should not be taken even from running streams If there ls any clinuee that the stream may have been contnininnted by t.\"wnge. In a thickly populated country, like our middle and \"westcnrstntusrtlie chances-lu-favor of contamination of country-streams are very strong. The water given cows In a high grade dairy farm should be from good wells nntl springs and should be supplied In troughs capable of easy cleansing. The lining of the trough should he of such material as to permit thorough scouring. nnswer this purpose as woll us a Inrgt- one. But'wheti the milk Is to be Bold especially bythe gallon, the quantity is of more 'Importance than the quality nnd usually it rut bor large cow will bf found more desirable When milk Is the object to be gained. i cowpea hay 10 pounds, com and cot \" meal 7 pounds, bran 4 pounds, soy bean meal 1 pound.' 5. Prairie hay 10 pounds, soy bean hay 10 pounds, ground wheat 8 pound*, oil meal 1 .pound. About Crenm. It Is claimed that the cream of two Skimmings mixed will not yield the butter as well as one. Itljiealnp: Clicc-He. Chopse when ripening should neve ip e:,;\\M>!i to currents of air, as th' ii-O'-i \"' ' '- ���>'\" tn la> ������i.\"��-'vd. The Sklnimllk Cow. It Is the sklmmlllt cow, whether Imported or homo raised, that keeps tha average of production down ln tho dairy herd. nnmlllnar Dairy Com. If far.nicrs knew how to handle cows as well as they think they do, there would be few unprofitable dairies In the country, says Farm nnd Itnnch. There Is more hope of a man who knows uothlng about milk cows and knows ho doesn't than of one who doesn't kuow and thinks he does. Ouo will learn how; the other will not. of labor nnd laud, than by any other method known. Thut sllnge comes nearer being a perfect substitute for the succulent food, of the pasture thnn nny other food that can be had In winter. Thirty pounds a day ts enough silage for an average sized Jersey cow. Larger cattle will eat more. A cubic fool of silage from the middle of a medium sized silo will average about forty-live pounds. For 1S2 days, or half a year, an average Jersey cow will require about six tons of silage, allowlug for unavoidable waste. The circular silo made of good, bard wood staves is the cheapest and best. Fifteen foot In diameter, and thirty feet Is a gootl depth. Such a silo would hold about 200 tons of silage cut In hair Inch lengths. Corn just passing out of roasting ear stage Is the best single material for silage. Corn nnd cowpeas are the best combined material. Silage Is as valuable In summer as In winter =���= -- ��� ment floor, kept clean by brushing and washing ench day, might prove more effective If every fnrmer could afford to tnke such n radical measure. Ilcst Winter Fond. Probnbly tho best winter rood now known Is ensilage, corn cut when the grain Is developed, just as it Is well glazed, says Dr. U. T. Palmer In Hoard's Dairyman.' It possesses the advantage or retaining n certain nmount or freshness and molsturo throughout the entire winter. Clioontnff n Dnlry Cow. Never chcose a dairy cow bocnusc 6lie Is fnt, sleek nnd a beauty. In a dairy cow \"beauty is ns beauty docs.\" The Tnt and sleek.dairy cow.doesn't Sllnee and Milk Promoter. A great number of new silos were built about here this season, and nine out of ten of them were square silos with tbe clipped corners, says John Gould of Ohio in Hoard's Dairyman. Ono or two tried the made up wooden hooped silos, celling up Inside the same as the square silos, and they aro pronounced \"the thing.\" A few about here built small silos In addition for next summer soiling to sec if the bran bill cannot be largely eliminated. Our own, experiment with our last winter's milk cows tbat would not dry off this summer showed that a bushel of slluge a dny per cow, with one pound of bran, wns a great milk promoter nnd was cheap compared with the old grain ration. Feed Dry Forage With Sllnge. Irrespective of all other considerations we believe It to be expedient for the health or tbe animal to feed some kind or dry forage with sllnge of any (;lnd, snys Hoard's Dairyman. The cow craves this. and. profiting by the Instinct of the cow. the best dairymen of today not only feed dry forage with sllnge, but give hny when cows are nt pasture. We' specified corninoal and bran from a conviction that a good cow cannot maintain a full flow of milk If limited to bulky feeds. She canuot cat sufficient rougbnge to supply the material required for profitable milk pro- Good Dairy Cofm Are Valuable. Never In our life hnve wo met a farmer who wns the owner of a good cow but that tho owner was loud ln the praise of the\" animal' and proud that he was ,hcr owner, says Dairy Age. The farmer who owns n good cow knows thnt' the cow ls a money maker and knows that a herd of cows as good would be a profitable undertaking on any farm. But farmers are slow to catch on to the fact tbat a good herd can be reared In a few years If the work Is set about ln the proper mauner. What a most delighted set of farmers the west would have If each one would some morning wako up and find In bis.lot a herd of cows as,good milkers as tbe best one he now owns! A herd of good milkers is worthy of any man's admiration. The farmer who has perseverance and Intelligence enough to get together a good dairy herd has reason to be proud-of-bls-nehloveinents.-- ��� 1 do the handsome thing. The scraggy, bony cow does. Therefore sho is tha | ductlon; hence the necessity for sup- real dairy beautv. plying more or lese concentrated feed. Baylns a Chora, The following points are to be considered In buying n churn, snys M. H. Watts In Kansas Farmer: The most complete churning possible In a proper space of time���from one-third to one hour, according to the condition of the cream and room temperature���easy, filling, emptying, examining and cleaning. The material of which the churn ls mnde should be of somo bard, close grained wood, made solid or firm and fitted wltb a suitable arrangement for warping. Each churn has Its own working en pacify, but Is generally limited to nbout one-third Its actual measure. ��� Instantaneous churning is not advisable for tbe reason of too great a loss of butter fat In the buttermilk nnd en Inferior quality of finished butter. Care of Dnlry UteualU. It Is often dllllcult to keep dairy utensils In the best possible condition In winter, because of lack of sunshine. On most farms vessels nro washed and scalded nnd then put lu the suiishlue until wanted.' Many winter days have no sunshine. Utensils should therefore be boiled thoroughly or subjected to live steam if this Is obtainable. At any rate, give them n good scalding In boiling water and place them where they, tre exposed to outside air. Sunshine Is tbe best possible disinfectant. Keep.' your dairy utensils In tbe sunshine as ��� much as possible. , i i :r'botUo. Kold b:. all ilriiwr'Rt-. Twtix:��ju.Uiln free. . . .' Hull'.. I''u_iii!y PiUs ara tbu best. :. ��� . =. \"-��� Tho reason that somo .'.peoplo carry tlieir hearts on thcir sleeves is nob that their money crowds it ,out of their pocket. ' -\"' Whatever weal or woe betide, be that sense of duty still thy guide, and all powers will aid. Soutthey. WinuipogCity Tickot, ToloffrapU and Freight oflice, 431 Main St.. . GEO. H. SHAW, ' Tel 891. --\" ��� ' v ' Trafflo Mana��M* CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY TIMETABLE Bault Sto. Mario, Owon Sound, Toronto nnd. East via Lakes, Monday, Thursday andSuturaay,.... Tuo8��� Fri.,' nnd Sun.......,..;... Montreal, Toronto. Now York and East, via all rail, daily. :., Rat Portago and intormodlato poiata dally Uolson, Lao du Bonnet ana Intormodlato points, Tlmrs. only .'.- PorluKO la Proirio.Uriindon.Calgfiry, Nolaoa and ull Kootenay and all coast points, daily,,,.- Portago la Pruirie, Brandon end in* lurmediato points, daily except rlundny ; ���.. QladHtoue, Neopawu, Minnodosa and . intormodlato points, daily oicojit tiundny , .' Shoal Lako, Vorkton niul intormodlato points, Mon., Wed., and Fri: Tucs.. Thurs., aud Sn t. Bapid City, Homiota, Jllniotn,Tues day, Thur. aud Bat Wou.. Wod.. uud Fri ��� Mordent Dolornftio and ihternicdluto j.ointa dully oxcept Sunday Napinka. Alttmcdu uud iuteiniciliuto f.ointi, daily oxcejit Sunday via Iraudou '. ,-..-. Tues., Thur., nnd Sut Qlonboro.fionria and intormediato , . .K>iu_fl,dailyoxcoptSundny*.....��� Pipo-.touo, Hc&ton, Arcolu and inter mediate noiuts, Hon., Wed., and Fri. viallrnudon -. Tucn.,'P-iur���and Sat, via Brandon Frobyshiro, Hiroch, Uionftiit, Pito Tan,TU3S���'J_hars,1Suf:.1 via Brand ou LV All, Tuos.; Thur., Sat.; Via Brandon'.. Orcttia. .St. l'aul. Chicago, daily .... West Selkirk, Mon., Wed. ond Prl.. . Tiios., Thurs.. uid Sat .-.....' Stonewall, Toulon, Tue^., Thur., Sat. Emorscm, Hon., Wod,, and Fri J, W X-EONAKH, tion Supt. 10.00 8.00 7.30 10.30 it 7.30 7.30 733 T.S0 8.20 7.30 0.0S 7.S0 ri) ;u.io 18.30 10.15' 10.15 18.00 18.S0 lite 21.80 ���22.30 2.30 15.45 22.30 /-. 15.15 22.30 [M.SO 113.35 Still Anollirr Trlnmpli���Mr. Thomas S. Bullen, bundcrla d, writes: \" For fourtoon vears I wns aiilicled with Files; and ft equont- ly 1 was unnblo to walk or sit. but four years aRO I was cured by using Dr. Thomas Eck'ctrio Oil. I have also been subject.to Quinsy for over forty yours, but Eclcctric Oil cured It, nnd it.wns.n permanent_curo.inbotlica..cs,-as nbithor tho Filos nor Quinsy havo troublod mo Ho/doetli well Uiat rather seeveth the coimnohwcdl than his own will��� Thomas A. Kempis. 13.20 \" .0 In a V'ery.Bnil Yi'aj-. \"I have been kept; In the house ��� for three days,\" said h'eltt, \"with a felon ou one of my Suiters.\" ��� \"I know a iiian with foititeen hundred felons on his hands, and they do not bother III 111 much,\" said Utitt. \"Koiirtreit litindrcd felons on hi.-) bunds! Who is ItcV\" ���\"The wnnlt'ii at the'state'prlsou.\"��� ['hil.'idelliliia North American. and Treasure When Good Na- tured n��d Iloallhy. All children in every home in the country need at some time or other a medicino such as Baby's Owl Tablets, nnd this famous remedy has cured many a serious illness ond saved' many a little life. -Mothers insist upon having- *t because itl contains no <.p_'.Uc or harmful flmijss. It is purely vegetable, sweet anil pleasant to kike uud prompt in its effect. For simple fevers, colic, constipation, disordered stomach, diarrhocu, irritation accoinpnnyinij tho cutting of teeth nnd indgcsiioii, I3alt>y's Own Tablet.s:m-e a certain euro. . Ju fact in nlmost any disorder common to children those tablets should be given at once and relief may bo promptly looked for. Never givo ���'���..the, babies so-called soothing medicines which simply put Llwin into an unnatural sleep. TIicms UiI_Gcts aire small, sweet, phu^aiiL to tako and prompt in acti*��g.i Dissolved in water, thoy ..will'be taken readily by llie smallesL infant. Mrs. .lolin AIcHwan, Bathurst Village, X. 11., writes : Aly baby was almost constantly .troubled .with colic before I gave h'ni Baby's Own Tablets, but since giving them to hun Jie hns not since sulTored. Every mother shoul'd keep tlicse tablets tiXwua's at hamd.\" TJiey cost 23 cents abox. You can find them at your druggist's, or, If-you-do-not, ���forward-the���money ditect 'to us ami we will send the tablets prepaid. The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Dept. 'T.',, Brockville, Ont. Alleged peacemakers are sometimes little better than busy bodies..;-. There never was, and nover will bo. a universal panacea, in ono remedy, for all ills to which flesh is heir���tho very naturo of many curatives being such that were tho germs of other aad dilTorcntly seated diseases rooted in tho syatom of tho patient��� what would rolio, 3 ono ill in turn would ap- gravato tho othor. We havo, however, 111 Quinino Wine, when obtainablo in a sound, unadulterated stuto, a remedy for many and grievous ills. By its gradual and judicious uso.tho frailest systems ero led into convalescence and strength by the influence wliich Quinino exerts on nature's own restoratives. If relieves tho drooping spirits of thoso witli whom a chronlo stato of morbid despondency and lack of interest in lifo is a diseaso, and, by. tranquilizin? tho nerves, dispot.GS.to eoimd and ���: refreshing sioop-T-imparls vi^or to tho uetion of tho blood, which, being 6limiilatcd, courses throughout tho veins, strengthening tho healthy animal functions of tho system, thereby making activity a necessary result, strengthening tho frame, and giving lifo to tho digestivo organs,which naturally demand increased substance���result, improved uppolito. Northrop & Lyman, of Toronto hnvo given- to the publio thoir superior Quinino Wino at tho usual rate, and, gauged.iby tho opinion of scientists, this wino approaches nearest perfection of any in tho market. All druggista sell it. Tlio habit of looking on the best side of overy 'event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.��� .lohnFou. ' . Oui- greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.���Confucius. lie who can conceal his joys is greater than he who can hide his griefs.���J-avator. IttltiN So KInU-i* \"Colonel,\" said the fair grass widow, \"suppose thnt ynu and I wore up in a balloon alone and\"��� \"Oh,\" lie ti!is\\i-ei-tMl>.is the cold sweat, began to upiieiir.on Ills forolienil. \"Ihere'a no ip.e suppii-dug that. 1 never go hnl- louiihi!. without 11 chaperon.\"���Chicago ltuL'ord-IIeruliI. Many people are called firm merely because they haven't tlio moral courage to own their second thoughts.��� Mrs. Craigie. .Tim Bkrt . Pn.i.s��� Sir. Wm. Vnndorvoort, Sydney Crossing, Out., writes: ��� * Wo hnvo boon utiititf Pitrinoloo s I'ills,aud find them by far ll.o bost pills wo over used.\" Fordolicafoand do* bllitcd rotistitutioas these pill -act liko a chnrin. Takon Itl small (to.ies tbo cflVt-t Is both a tonic nml a stimulant, mildly exciting the ticcrolious of tlio body, giving touo uud vigor, iTover nnd ogua nnd bilious derangoments aro positively cured by the use of Parmoloe's Pills,- Thoy not only cleanso the stomach and bov/els from all bilious matter, but tiny opon tho OAcretory veesels, causing them to iraurcopioiu-ofi'iistoua^from'-iho'-lilorid 'into* tho bowels, after which tho corrupted ma^e is thrown out by the natural pac-stge cf tho body. They aio used as a geuaril faraily medicino with tho bast results. A Shopkccper'a/Eipcrleneca With a -Lud tVhoni lie Tried to Tunic. \"The trouble between the small..shopkeeper and his customers.\" said a Columbus avenue haberdasher, \"is due in large measure .to the errand boy. 1 know 1 was a boy once, and I don't expect a boy who works for three dollars a week to take the same interest in my business that I do. But my customers are not so charitable. In fact, they do not even consider the boy.;. They kick to me. \"Take that boy of mine for a sample. After a bunch of experiences with others I hired this one antl tried to tame him by taking an interest in him. His mother is a poor woman. One evening when it was raining I sent him home in u cab. He had told nie it was his mother's birthday, and I gave him a dollar and a small package of fruit for his mother. \"Two hours later the cabby came back and said the boy had stopped on the way and invested in cijarettcs,aud had.invited him in to take n drink. ' Then the boy tried to bribe the cabby to drive him to a theater, and when the cabby refused the boy cursed lilm and banged his feet against the doors of the cab. \"At first I thought of discharging the boy. But what was tke use, I asked myself. The aeit boy would do something worse. I gave the hoy a lecture, not a Mjvcre one; hut one which I thought would make him son-y. He was a pretty fair specimen of a juvenile reformer for a week. Soon after I sent him to my house. \"While ho was on his wuy I called up my wife and told her. to give him a lunch. She did so. He ate like a hired man. Then he put up a pitiful story about his mother's illness. \"My wife gave him half a dollar to take to his mother. As he passed out of the house he met my son, who is several years.younger than himself, and. persuaded him to go along. My own boy went homo sick nnd confessed that he had been smoking cigarettes with pop's messenger boy. who hud spent the money whicli my wife gave him. \"All that time several packages for my customers were waiting to be delivered. One of the packages was delivered so 'late that the man refused to receive it. The goods came back. I lost a customer. I am not saying, that this boy is any worse than the average boy who is employed to run errands. I have hod trouble with a lot of 'em. Each boy has his particular braad of cusscducss. Each oue soon forms tho acquaintance:: of other boys in the neighborhood and they form a trust on Ion ling. \"We can't employ men to run errands. Y��UM} WOMAX���AGHD 21���just como i��to possession of $14,000 ���wishes to correspond with honest,, intelligent man, who would appreciate a good w.fo, Box 2,538 Toronto, Ont. iltay & Champion BANKERS AND BROKERS WINNIPEG. Write to.us for prices of SOEIP, Get our List of Lands. Stocks and Bonds Bought and Sold, Wo can fnrntoh tho exact amount of Scrip for any payment on Dominion Lands, So not pay cash. MEN AND WOMEN $12 00 A WEEK MA FIDE SALARY to; represent. ns ������: a pointing agents. Some to travel,: oth- or._ for local worki Bapid promotion and increase of salary. Ideal employment, now brilliant linso; beat plans; old established Houso. Sradlcv-Garrctson Co., Ud., Branljord, Ont. ��al?.cr'i ltaue '(rfvciIUoi, - J-THiim sod at , Uc a ton. ' FARM SPELTZ��� WlltltlHftf Catalog tell, I Proudest record of wiy soedmnaiTrm oaiUj, , ] and yet we are reachlug out for more., We deviro, by July Int, SW.000 moro patrons and I lieuco thin unprecedented offer. ., -r.;1 ;���.���������:-���'.'' m worth mm\\aWi We will mall upon recoipt of 15o lnKtamris oiirCTeatvutaloifiu-. wnt-th HIOO.OO to.any wide awaKOfarmer or eariiunoi-, tocctlivi* with manv l-arni SonO kaiuptu poflllvely worth jto.Wto (fot a start with,uponrecelptof hut 15 CU, lo Cuuadlao ftampa. SSplfpa. .arltpit.,���{-ta- _^_53?* Please ','^^8s��^\"\":��:. JloPUEUSON. Qea, Pass. __fi Ilccliirooltr- \"Do yon think your constituent! will lend their indorsement to four course?\" bu id the friend. ' \"I,never thought about it,\" tiiswercd Senator Sorghum. \"But'If..ay constituents will keep out of debt and not ask ine for indorsements I'll be Willing to tu lie chances on needing theirs.\"���Washington Star. An lmprvsiiioB. \"I am very nitich afraid,\" said MIm Cayenne, \"that I am losing my roputatiac as a keen observer and a satirist.\" .\"What makes ynu think so?\". \"Several people yesterday said tliey were glad to _.ce_ me as if they really mount it.\"���Washington Star. ' A good heart is like the sun for it shines bright ami never changes, but keeps its course truly.���Shakespeare. Paj'te complements is not litfuid- atiag a debt. ��� .��� \"' I��' Hl< Favor. _ - t , She���Papa says that a young'man who smokes cigarettes will never, set \"tli*' world on fire. ....-.���..-. - -.j.,.. He���Well, that's tho first good thing I ! wives, ever heard any' one say of a cigarette ' He���I don't know. I suppose she's Bmoker.���l'onkers Statesman.' , _ - murryiug him to reform him.���Smart Set. t Laudable, Ambition. She���Why is Ornce going to marry Mr. I'Mueliwe'd? Ue' has already had three Tootli Powder' 25' Good for Bad Teeth Not Bad for-Good Teeth Sbxodont ialk-mlHi wny of trying to convince people was in no small irtnsure the cu-.ife nt' .Mr. BodwcU's defeat, lt .-iioulil be .in object lesson to Y.inecu- The nbvtrnii of the 29th annual report of the tV-iisti-ar of 'births, deaths anil tnaiTiiiKt's of the province of British t'olutiilii.i. Just issued .shows llie registration for the province of _\\107 lili'ths, 1,100 deaths, ar.il 1,1L'_! mat ring}* for the year IUO], against 1,771 births, 1,-liH ilfiithx .uul 1.001 niariiaires for the year Ittofl. SATI'RDAY. .MARCH 13, 1302 XVe tire infoiiiied that there i.s a re-il editor in L'uniul.i. who don't use tho scissor!-, iie uses a knife. \"Because uf brow n -su^ar taken place ��� it increase in the prlco o' a revi\\al in Ontario 'has in uie maple sim;ar In dus tr;. A .sweet ht.ite ol utfairs lilts. Speakins of the property qunllflc.i- fiun fur inaycr and altlertneii, doej it Rl\\e 'i\"ti Iji.-iIus'.' If it diii, it should lie r.ii:-1_11 up to about a. million for Vdin-on\\ ur's heticftt. \"Wind i.s nil right in a balloon, but it don't cut much ilitjiii-e in an election conte-.t. This was demonstrated very eltcctively in Uie Prior-Bndwell light iMomlay. Tho \"Ions* green\" i.s more convincing. An exchange sny.s that tha $].000-bi!l is becoming (utile rare in circulation. There may ibe something: in the rumor, ���for v.e'\\e not noticed any of into. In fact, we've 'been too'busy uuniiing-om- dtfbtors.. The native sons took another long pull nnd ;i st.-onsr pull at Jimmy's leg lasl Monday. Hut Jimmy will slti.-ia for that if .he can only .siuff off the E. & N., together with that bonus. Oh, ���but he's wise. Nobody but an ass .would sugggest such a regulation as to hold the licensee responsible fry a policeman talking a drin'k. It is a deliberate insult to the .police and is probably the .suggestion of a very ignorant aeison. The world is poorer m the loss of cx- fiovei-nor Altgeid, of Illinois, who died on Tuesday night. He had a great ���heart In ���hint and was .relentlessly pursued 'by the money sharks ot\" the United States, because he dared to bellet.e thut .'ill were oorii fiee and ettuul. The provincial liuanee minister has just presented a return to the legislature .showing it hat Tiritlsh Columbia'.! revenue for the half year ending Dec. .'list last aniniiiiud to $741,-J4r>, whilst the ev| ciid'tiii-i im- the same period was JI;.',23;xi.i, making a'deticit of tSJSl,- 7.1-1 fo.- the six months. Tliis Is a tae,-._ trille for '.Mr. Prentice. \"Prentice\" is a good word for sucb an administrator. CURRENT OPINION���ALL SORTS. The Referendum. Unless some such check as the referendum would supply is placed upon the people who nre now controlling our government, there will soon be nothing left worth giving away.���Win- nliieg Tribune. Good to his promise, Mr. Smith Curtis, i.M. P. P., has- introduced in the legislature a bill, No. 10, being an net respecting trades unions and kindred associations, and is cited as tho \"Trades Unions Protection Act, 1002.\" The civic tii-enien 'have asked for an increase of salary. They wonk longer hours and are the poorest paid of any ilremcn or. the coast, and desenve :i raise in their wages. Christianity vs. War. It I.s no marvel that Christianity is losing Its influence, when Its piofessed exponents preach bloodshed. The gospel of peace, of overcoming <;vil by good, of loving enemies, has become antiquated.���Huntingdon, Out., Gleaner. Should Be Thrown Open to Settlers. The Crow's Nest Coal company -s said to be anxious to ihave the Dominion government, select Its .\">0,0OO acres of coal land in East Kootenay, but wants It held in resenve after being selected. It should be selected and then ihrown open to locution.���Phoenix Pioneer. tThc Store t Twith a Purpose | A Looking backward, the reason^ ��� of this store's existence (decided * i nine yuus atjo) was a good one. * Y ]lo toll, und we think we have j proven to some extent, ihul i thcru is room in this city fi>r a ay store that, sells satisfactory iiuiil- ��� ities on n small margin of |-ro- | lit. l-'roin tho very bcgiauiiitr we f worked (iiml to the best ot our T alulity) on the principle that the\\ . store that buys largest can sell J j the cheapest, the store thut tsX X most lair with its customers nnd J a) irives the best value.-, is going to | i net the greatest iimount ot trade. ��� ��� The same principle applies to.lay. ��� ��� liccaiise this Store is the largest J 9 Dry tloods Store iu the city, doi ��� not overlook tin; fact wo ��� - For gall thai excites one's admiration Premier Diinsiouir and his coterie of grafters lake the cake. As if it were not enough to announce in the legislature that he intended giving the Canadian Northern .1 fabulous sum as a 'bonus, he adds insult to injury by informing lite public that one of the conditions is that, the railway people shall buy the M. ,fc N. This means, we ..'-Mime, that while the province is being skinned to the tune of about $10,- CC.1.UU0 in land and money, Jimmy will get even on .Mackenzie k Mann by selling his cnie-iioise road to them for a qoud round sum. Oil, generation of snifters���ni tists. Tiie Youngstown (O.) nothing if not enterprising 7th It issued a twelve-p.ii Labm-itc is On Marjn e eight-col- ilt i�� the wont of we very moral (?) Britishers to point the finger of scO:'n at corrupt legislators in the United States. Where will tbe found a more brazen-faced piece of political jobbery than the 'Canadian 'Northern deal proposed to .be pyt through 'by Dunsmulr? A suggestion lias been made to The ���Independent worth considering, naine- ��� ly, to let the thospltal site and buildings, whether t!hc- old or the new, continue to stand in the name of the city for 'hospital purposes, and not be sold or transferred without tihe Joint assent of the city council and the new board. This would give the council effective control of all property bought by it and meet that difficulty. One of the odd things of campaigning, writes Bennett Burleigh, the w.r, correspondent of the London Tele- umn anniversary edition. \"Youngs- town's Business Proclamation,\" signed by all the lending business ifirms of t'hat enterprising iron .city, appears on the first page, and at once stamps the Labor!te as being ono of the leading publications of that state. The tradesmen are .beginning to sec the great importance of n labor pape'r, and consequently are gradually supporting it more and more every day. Tito L'l- borite is one of our newsiest exchanges, active in the cause, and well merits the success it is now enjoying. May bad luck forever follow- t'he Lti'bori.e ���but never catch up to it, is the worst wish of The Independent. Smith Curtis, speaking in, the legislature Tuesday, criticized the conduct of Mr. Dunsmuir in his\"relations with Lieutenant-Governor -Mcinnes, 'which lie declared culled for explanation. 'Hon. Mr. Ditnsnuiir���\"That 'was my ���business.\" Mr. Curtis���\"I don't hear you.\" Hon. 'Mr. Eberts���\"He says it was not your funeral.\" Mr. Curtis���\"No, it wasn't my funeral, it was the Governor's funeral.\" And Dunsmuir laughed .with G'HOUL- 1S11 glee. Knighthood. It is said it cost Mr. Dunsiuuii- $100, 000 to seat lus colonel.) But if be sells his .railway and gathers in a knighthood such a sum is a mere bagatelle. No one will deny that physically, socially, ethically, and, in fact, in every sense, he will make a model, modern, polished, .courtly sir knight.���Victoria Times. Socialism vs. Competition. The next move of evolution will be socialism. Socialism means the operation of all the indiistiies by the people, for the people. Competition Ins ibeen so general that the economists mistoook it for a law of nature, wlvn it is only an incident. Competition is no more a law of nature than i�� hate. Hate was once so thoroughly believed in time we gave it personality and called it the devil. The trusts are getting ready for socialism. Humanity is gmwing ir. intellect, in patience, in ikindness, in love.' And when the time is ripe the .people will stop in and take peaceful .possession of their own.���The Philistine. Land-grabbing Up-to-date. There is nothing the matter .with Mann & .iMackenzie. Talk about this being a, democratic country, the government does' not begin to understand the meaning of the word. Before one can get a parallel in English history to such a lief of land as tiiese grabbers would claim one must go back to the days of the Plantagenets. when the lordly b'aion had at least to light for bis country In return for his baronial acres. What in thunder would ���Messrs. Mann & Mackenzie do? Hire a few Japs or Chinese or DoukaborsV ���Rossland World. graph, happened to t'hut .untiring and fearless leader, Lord Methuen. In Older to trap a few Boers he made a, rapid night march. Unfortunately the night was pitch dark and Ills guides were indifferent. Moving with great caution lie suddenly found himself close to a convoy, rushed, and successfully captured It. It was 'lils own and .he had been marching In a circle. If this noble lord had been captured two years ago the British cause would not have suffered any thereby. We had thought that VancouverheU ���llrst place In .the province for dirty party bigotry, but it Is not In it wl'l�� Victoria. The rowdy scenes at thu public meetings held there during the f'cent 'Bodwell-Prlor contest ���would ���e.i'Tipare favorably .with those ofBed- l\"in of old London. Think of human? howling like wolves when a public man attempted to malke ��-��-^^.��.*#.^+ WA NTHD ��� AGENTS ��� Don't forget, (\"The early bird catches the first worm\") we give you advance information a'bout fho best to appear, PHEli. Send your address immediately. J. M. Mucliregor Publishing Co., Box 417, Vancouver. .Will Again Be Dead. And \"Joe\" Martin will ibe good an.l dead when Sir Hlbbert Tupper succeeds in burying ihim as completely as he, Sir Hibbert, buried the remedial government, of which he was a distinguished member.���Toronto Telegram. THEATKE ROYAL. On Friday, March 21st, the Clara Mathcs Stook company has kindly consented to give a benefit to the Trndjs ti.n 9 *������>���>*>+*>������> ���������������������������������������� �������,����������������� Procure one of our Shnmrodk Ties for Monday. 1lio 17th. Wc have tliem In Derbies and Shield Rows for high-band turn-av'er collars. Trices '23c and 50c. T'he latest styles of Spring lliits a re just to hand, including a large assortment of Christy's feather-weight stiffs. They are the lightest, most durable and most up-to-date .hat for gen tleuien's wear s-hown by, exclusive hatters to-day. Why,pay $4.00 and $5.00 for a hat you can procure from us at $.1.00 ami $.1.30? ' ��� RLKTHONE CLUBB & STEWART, 702. 160 Cordova Street. PATRQNIZE^UNION CLERKS. All members of the R. C. I. P. A. can show t his card. Ask for It when oakiag jour pcrcliucs. CNDORVCD BY THE *. F.OfU ONCTHIHO ACTUAL SIZK. COLOR IS CHANGED EACH QUARTER. Good only duriDft months named on right hand corner and whoa proptirly fti.rnoa aud stamted with the number of tho Local. ��� CHINESE COMMISSION. An Ottawa, dispatch says ithat the rcimrt of the royal commission to enquire 'Into Oriental Immigration, lias been made public so far as thut part of It relating to Chinese Is concerned. The .findings are prefaced 'by the following Quotation from the minute ol council authorizing the appointment of a royal commission, setting forth \"the representations madehy the people and legislature of liritish Columbia:\" '���That the provlncs l�� flooded with an undesirable class of ipeople n'on-as- alnillatlvc and moat detrimental to the wage-earning classes of ithe people of the province, and that, this extensive Imnvlgiutlon of Orientals is also a menace to the ihealth of .the community: \"That ther; ls probability of a great disturbance to the economic conditions In the province and of grave Injury being caused' to tho woiflolng classes by the large Influx of laborers fro-n China, us Uhe standard of living of the Gold Seal Canadian Rye is Seagram's Grand Old Rye. Only, 50c bottle. Gold SealLiquor Company;^ :��� Tbe Mint > Is the new saloon at tlie corner of Carrall and Hastings streets. Case goods are the best, anil the prices O. K. Seattle Rainier beer; 5 cents. If you want a jeally good rye whisky at a low price, our 60c rye is it. Gold Seal Liquor Company, 740 Pender street. Telephone 1���2���5 for a fine livery turn-out. J. J. Sparrow, Palace livery stables. Drink Red Cross Beer, the beer that's pure, 76c pints, $1.50 doz. quarts. Gold Seal Liquor Co., 740 Fender street. Convalescents need Eisen Port���\"the builder up oi the weak\"���60c bottle. Gold Seal Liquor Co., 746 Pender street. P. O. E.-VANCOUVEB ABRIH, No. G. meets Wednesday evenings; visiting brethren welcomo. Bert Robinson, W. P.; Grey Ure, W. 8.. Arcade. JOB PRINTING AT THE INDEPENDENT.\" UNION CIGAR FACTORIES. EFYDOOTV&iig Is o. Kst of the Union oigar factories hi Brifflsm OolumlMa Who use tlhe blue la'bed: W. Tletjen, Nlo. 1�����toisllon No. 38, Vancouver. Kurtz & Co. No. 2���Division No. B8. Vancouver. Inland Ctlg&r Manufacturing Oompany, No. J���DiVIBlon No. S8, Kta.m_oo.ps. iB. Wlfflberg & Oo., No. 4���Division No. 38, New ���WetrtmiliiEter. ��� ' T. Woxtstook, No. 6���Division No. 38, Vancouver. Kotowna Shippers' Union Company, No. 8���Division No. 38, Kelowna. Wirier Bros, No. �����iDivtlalon No. 38, Rossland. ���Kootenay-Oisar-iranisSaotuiing-Oons-:- ptany, No. 10���Division No. 38, Neieon. Moins & Johnson,-No.-2--Division No. 37, Victoria. M. BantUay, No. E���Division No, 37, Victoria. ���Island Cigar FtWWoy, 8. Norman, No. 6-Mvision No. 37, Vtatorta. ^Province Gigar Co., No. 7���Division No. 37, VJotorto. A, Sctaioter & Sons, No. 8���Division No. 37, Vtotorta. P. Qatde, NO. 9���DIvlsloo No. 37, Nanalmo. J. Lory, No. U���DWUBton No. 37, Victoria. IM. J. Booth, No. M-UvMob No. 37, Nanaimo. C. Q. BtOmaeo���DlvHSon No. (7, Victoria, T. P. Gold, Cnpltol Cigar Factory, No. 12, Victoria. B. C. ' Harris & Stuart, No. 6���Division No. 38, Revelstoke. J. Martin, No. 7���Divlalon No. 38, Sandon. Fhelln & McDoiuratfi, No. 12���Division 38, Ndson. PARIS ORBJBN. HHI____B_BORE AND WHAUa OIL SOAP for tb* extermination of the OUT WORM and other Insects���tor eale by tiie MeDow- ��J1, Atfcte*, Watam Ooarpany, Tho DiVSvMat Vmmutw. THERE IS of Fire or Injury to Health when you use the The price is now such that almost everybody can afford it. Once used, always used. Apply at Office of - LTD. Cor. Carrall and Hastings Streets. IC Works, lm|>orfer�� and Bofffers GORE AVE. 'PHONE 783. BOLE AGENTS. Ftor stomach trouble ot sny Und tabs Flint's Dyspepsia Tablets. Tliey cam or you get your money', book. GQc boat. McDowell, Atkins, Wataoot Oo. .1 111 i n ! il 4 a i>__ if 'A 4 _���! \" ��� !i jnM*w*w*rw��w��*i-�����j-��� o * SATURDAY MIAAOH 15, 130 THE INDEPENDENT. Hardware, Stoves, Ranges, Etc. 35 Hastings Street Cast. PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY Uy Smoking \"Kurtz's Own,\" \"Kurtz's Pioneers,\" \"Spanish Blossom\" They are tho best in the land uml tnailo by Union Labor in KURTZ & CO.'S PIONEER CIGAR FACTORY f VANCOUVER, B. C. JEM^Call for them and seo that you get them. m UNDER CON TRACTORS. Reynolds condemns the home government for not learning something about contracting methods, instead of talking _ so much about methods of expansion. The writer says that It is now mo-.-e than two years since their Incompetence was first exposed, 'but they have .paid no attention to public censure and the latest revelations of their scnndal- ou's muddling nre as astounding* as any that have gone before. Moreover, we have not come to the end of this dls- - graceful business by any means. Even in what is known as the remount scandals, still more serious exposures are expected when the Inquiry Is held. .What are we to think of a government that calmly walks into a ghastly war of several years' duration when its intelligence is not .equal to the commonplace task as that of buying horses? Let us lock at the facts as revealed by the committee appointed to investigate Hie charges inade'by'Slr-Blunde.l Maple. More than, two years ago, Captain Ilur- tigan Introduced a Mr. Lowison lo the remount ollicer on the Yeomanry Committee. Mr. Lowison is given a contract to supply horses from Hungary ���a contract worth more than ��100,000. Lewison gives Hartigan a commission ���of .two and a. half per cent. It appears ��� th'at 3.S0O cobs were supplied,', nnd 2,300 of theso were examined .by Captain Webb. The other 1,500 were passed by Hartigan. ��� In other words, the very man employed to Pass .the Horses ��� ' wna drawing a commission from the contractor supplying them. There were two prices in this contract The first was ior 1,500 horses at '��33 Ids 8d each and the-second was for 2,300 at ��26 each. Why was the outrageous price of ��33 paid for the llrst lot? . There appears to be no\" reason whatever why they should not have been bought at ��26. The difference is ��7 lGs Sd per horse, and for 1,500 horses this means a loss of ��11,730. Mr. Lewison siib-let the contract to a Mr. Hauser, of Vienna, paying Hauser ��22 a horse, whilst Hauser is said to have picked tliem up for ��S and ��12 apiece. We have the evidence of the best\" authorities thnt the horses supplied were ��� often quite unsuitable. Kitchener himself called .some of them \"flat-catchers.\" Hut what achievements could you expect from horses worth ��S? K the '.C3Q a-plece, niore or less, had been paid 'for really good1 animals, there might be, little to complain aibout, but when suioh a price Is pa'id���for rubbish, It constitutes a scandal. Mr. Hab- liousc, IM.P., puts the profit on the , contract for these 3.S00, horses at ��41,- '��� 000. ,/As\\t'he itotal nuinlber ot horses ���sent out.has reached albout a quarter ���-of a million, we can work out a litt'e ; rule-of-throe . sum;- and guess^ liov.-. Tnuch tihe contractors have made .during the iwar''so far. -TVe know that ���che'government'hod'spent nearly ��13,- ���000,000 up to November 1 laat. Uy now \"they must have spent another ��5,000.,- '���000. - Sliall -we .put the contractors\" Profits \"at ��$000,000, ������counting It up In the light of the re -cent revelations? If co, the taxpayers 'have lost at leant five millions of money more thnn they ought to ha^'o ������done on the matter of horse* alone. ILordijCarrlngton has asked in tihe House 'of Lords .whether Rothschild'^. 'flnn found ithe\" capital for Lewison. It '.Is a,little surprising to find 'Lard Cnr- t-ltigton asking suoh delicate qusctlon:. about the relatives of his great friend ���Jtosobery. Hnrtlgan's statement Ih that Leu ison ivenfc to thet city and raised ��75,000 (from the Rothschilds. Now, let us look at ithe meat question. Tnait distinguished Mr. BroOrlck has ,. -- *v *��� just been bragging albout aLsannng of ��o0,00Q a month' in the oontracts for meat for th�� troops. Well, ithe war hag been 'going on for twenty-setven -months. Have wc, then, been diddled ��� out of. JCCO.OO�� too much eaiah month for nearly all that'time? Ha3the.g0v- ��� emmemt muddlea sway a iwllllon - on meat? Is lt only now that the waste Is stopped? ���Mr. Brodrlck has another boast. He has effected a. saving of thirty per cent, iu the cost ot supplies in Cape Colony. We may put this saving at ��300,009 a year, and assume that the pravious waste here was at least half a million, ls that a mere trille? Th'e new meat contract has gone to the Arm of liergl & Co., 'as to whicli firm Lord Cari-ington has asked whether one of Its aneni'bers wns fined at Liverpool police court 'for selling meat under the false description that it came from New Zealand. Hero is another question nbout another flnn. Is it true, ns stated, that the South Africa Supply & Cold Stoihge company ha* made a. million pounds on its army contracts'.' ll' true, t'he question arise-: whether it i.s right that such a huge margin of profit should have been diverted tp ons finn. Sir Howard Vincent lias expressed bis satisfaction at tindlnq a n.-iluction In ihe price of landing horses in South Africa. We lisjd to pay, he says, 10s. a head and now the price is _s..9d. Then, ih.-i.vo we paid Ss. 3d. too much on oa;h of about, say, 2-10,000 horses'.' This works out at' .CUD.ftOO. Such is, roughly, the nature of the most Recent Indictments against tho government. The evidence of Mr. ���.Maple audi Howard Vincent nnd the admissions shall ask why the goawrn- meiH .withholds from the soldiers tha back pay to wlilch they arc rightfully entitled. J. 0, LUNDIE DROWNED Wharnock, B. C, March 13.���The young man who met his untimely death at Stave river by drojynlng was J. O. Lundle. He was in the employ t.f Mr. Stewart for about three, years. The two men mentioned went down under the bridge together to within four feet of the wr.ter to get the lenghs of the bents. Mr. Lundle had a piece ot stick about live feet long ln his hand for a. measure. He walked out on the planks for a distance of some S3 feet, apparently safe enough, air. Stewart had turned for a moment or so to look for something, when one of the men above called to hlni, saying t'hat there was someone In the water. There was a boy standing in a 'boat by the shore. Mr. Stewart, quick as a Hash, threw the rope In tlie skiff, which he shoved off, the boy starting Immediately to row as fast as he could direct to the spot where the sad accident took place. Though tlie distance was so short, yet. Just us 'he got within the length of the boat, poor Lundle went down to rise no 11101 e. Tlie accident was most singular, for the victim hail been, in less time than it takes to explain it, working only four feet above Uhe water, .ind' was within seve.-i or eight feet of a raft, where he fell in, besides there was a snag boat close uy. Another noticeable fact was that he was lying on his .back when he gradually sank. As soon as Lundle had disappeared '11 r. Stewart, In all haste, sent one of the men for the grappling hooks, and within a couple of mlnues the drowning man was grappled for. One man tried fhre.1 times without success, when Mr. Stewart, on the second attempt, caught the unfortunate. Consequently it could not have been 11101-3 than ten minutes from the timJ Che accident took plane before Lundic was rescued. Everything was dime that,wns possible to resuscitate life, but it 'was of no avail. Thus ended the career of one of tlie noblest of young men. He iwas a faithful worker and well liked by 'his fellow workmen. When one considers all tho dangers surrounding the tnaintenance- of-way men, they should be a class (if workers most honored and respected. .Among those wiho feel the keenest sorrow is Foreman Stewart. He speaks highly of.���Mr. Lundle as 'being one of the most faithful men Iho ever hnd in his employ. Another very touching fact was his betrothal to Miss McTag- gart, of Mission .Clly. This estimable young lady is prostrated with gri.?f, and the shock ihas made it necessary for tlie seiwices of a doctor. 'Her ���brother, who 'Is also well known in these parts, Is tit present engaged with James McLaughlin on . the big Mission bridge. Universal sorrow Is expressed by all the people hereabouts, especially by lallway employees, in the demise of J. O. -Lundle. and Anarchistic Socialism In the United Stales. Before such a wave of feeling the ordinary constructive Socialist Mill find his efforts hopeless. TRADES CONGRESS ACTIVE. A conference has been held tit Ottawa, of the available ofllcers of the Dominion Trades and Labor congress, thi; business being to tnke steps lo carry out the Instructions of the 'Brantford convention, to properly hri.ig before the government the demands uf labor, and also to consider the measures and .proposals of a .parliamentary character that the labor membeis -ire dealing with. After a careful consideration of tlie Allen Labor Law, and In view of the experience under It of the pnst year, the conclusion was reached that the poor results from it were not Justly attributable to defects in the act as amended last session, but rather to the refusal to take the responsibility by tlie government which tlie act still places upon it. The transference of the operation of the act 1111111 the attorney-general to t'he minister of labor will be sought and the acceptance by that minister of the responsibilities imposed by clause six of tho act. ���PHONE 179. ���9 P. O. BOX 2X. w. j. McMillan e, Co. : Wholesale Agents fob TUCKET CIGAR CO. UNION LABEL CIGARS Brands: MONOGRAM, MARGUEBITA, BOUQUET, OUR SPECIAX, EL JUSXIIXO, EL CONDOR, SARANTIZADOS, SCHILLER, Corner Alexander Street and Columbia Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. THM AMERICAN' : R13F- ant. WW. MEUEIHTII ON THE EKI-_.\\*.Dl*M. On May 21, 1S9I, Sir William Meredith, then leader of the Ontario opposition, made a. speech at London, setting forth his policy for t'he elections to be\"held In June of that year, ln the municipal elections of 1891 a plob- Isclte hud been taken, and a very large majority, given for prohibition. On this subject Mr. .Meiedlth said: \"If It shall be determined thnt there Is Jurisdiction in the local legislature to deal with this question of the liquor, trafllc, then l_ will be the duty of any government which Is in ipower in Ontario to bring in a bill and puss it for the purpose of carrying Into effect .what hus been determined to he within the Jurisdiction of the legislature. But it seems to me that uny such law ns that-should tbe an effective law, and should have no results that would hn disastrous to the Inteiests of temperance throughout the country. And therefore I think that lt would bo decidedly. In the Interests of the iwiholi- community that any measitie .suoh as thn I, befoto It should become law, should be ugitin submitted to the people, in oidei lhat Ihey should hane au opportunity of pronouncing yea. or n.iy upon It.\" AN \"AT HOME.\" Tlie olllceis of the Vancouver ��erle, Fraternal Order of Eagles, have Issued Invitations for an At Home to be held ln the O'Brien Hall on Uie evening ot March 19th, that day being the third anniversary of the formation of the society. ��� , ��� ' / EARNINGS OF LABOR. Professor Robert K.' Ely, the Secretary of the League for Political Education, has been making some scientific examination into the^earnings of less fortunate workers than Mr. Whitney, and presents some conclusions which are quoted in the March \"Pilgrim\" necessarily much condensed. It Is proper to note that Mr. Ely's figures are drawn from the Federal census: \"The wage earners of the United States number some fifteen million men, women, boys and girls of ten years of age or over. Their average individual earnings are $400 a year. But on the average two persons aie dependent-on tlie one wage earner for support, which means that three people must live on that average monthly wage of $33.33. Investigation has shown that about a quarter of a workman's wage goes for \"_rentratTd-abouf~lialfTo~food and fuel. Thus, this average workingman with a family of two, will have left each month after paying for the roof ovcr his head and the food needful to sustain life, about 3S.30 a month for clothing, medicine, recreation, and a bank account against a rainy day���or the time when he shall become superannuated. Professor Ely vory naturally says ln the face of these figures that 'the terms of our economic problem cannot be solved by thrift alone.' And Indeed the poorest encouragement to'\"'thrift Is the knowledge thai with the utmost pinching economy for years the savings of a family will he inadequate to meet the needs of six niontlis' of Idleness or two months' of costly sickness.\" 'i'he NiMis-Advi'itlser of this t clly adds: Meanwhile men Hike Itocke feller, Picipont Mot gun and Carnegie earn by evploillng labor and using their own and many others' capital���to put the. case, 'mildly���at least twenty times as much as the utmost merit of their capacity really entitles them to obtain as a fair distribution of the profits, ln respect to their admittedly great abilities as orga-nlsers of commerce. The result will probably be, unless the early future brings about a big- change, a tremendous outbreak ot a destructive --uiieiulmer.ls enlarging the scope of The Conciliation Act will 'be jut t forward. The administration of the .fair wage clause is to be dealt with, and steps will be taken to put definitely on record the congress' endorsation of 'the day labor principle. Hon. Mr. Tarte has applied this still more generally in his department, but In replying lo an Ottawa deputation said 'he had not the suppoit. of his colleagues, nor even of t'he labor members. This impression will be removed. The ga\\eminent has been asked to receive the official Congress Delegation on M'iri'h 17th. Complying with t'ie wish of the conventlun of September last, it is to be pointed out to the government that previous Interviews have been very unsatisfactory to the men present and tl.e -workers whom tliey represent, on account of their perfunctory character. It is wished that the ���various ministers be prepared to discuss the questions relating to_ th'eU- departments so that conclusions may be reached and be mutually understood. If A Conference of this 'kind can be obtained representatives of every province in the Dominion will be called here, being members of their respective provincial executives. The list as far as completed is as follows: British Columbia���Ralph Smith, M. P., president ol congress; Manitoba���A. AV. Puttee, M. P.; Ontario���Messrs. March,- Flett, Henderson, Arinaiblc- and 'Secretary Draper; Quebec���Messis. Fontaine and Guthrie; Nova Scotia���ll. Burns; 'New Brtins- wick���G. 'McLean; Prince Edward Island���Mr. J. W. Sutherland. The Toronto special Union La'bel Law Committee will also meet here at that time and take part. Tlie Letter Carriers will have the privilege of sending delegates to take part in the presentation of the endorsed demand for a 20 per cent, increase. tie, scrap mlt mine vlfe already, und den maybe I gets some preakfast. You play round all dny und have plenty ot fun. I haf to work all day und haf trouble. Ven you die, you shush lay still. Ven I die I haf to go perhaps to hell yet.\"���Berlin (Ont.) News-Record. Try a bottle of Eisen Port, the sunshine of California, 50c bottle, at Gold Seal Liquor Co., 7-16 Pender street. Union Directory. THE VANCOUVER TRADES AfiTO .Labor Council meets - first and third Thursday in each month, at 7:30 p. m. President, XV. 3. Lamrick: vice-president, F. J. Russell; secretary, T. H. Cross; financial secretary, J. T. Lilley; treasurer, C. Crowder; sergeant-at-arms, C J. baiter; statistician, J H. Browne. When you want to hire a flrst-class horse and buggy, go to the Palace livery stables. Telephone 125. Pay up your subscription to the Independent, ilt does not cost you much and you should not hesitate about giving your support readily to a labor paper. UNIOX BAKEIRTES. XV. D. Muir, Mount'Pleasant. AV. Murray, Prior street. Montreal Bakery, Westminster avenue. F. Adams, Scotch Bakerj', Hastings street. W. D. Kent, oC Cordova street. J. Oben. Hastings street. MinchenjCo*7: Granville* street; 'y\"y; iiy\"'; Barnwell Bros., .Granville', street.,;:..;..\" Largen.& Tupper,:Granville:str��*���< JOURNEYMEN BARBERS' INTEIKNA- TIONAL UNION. No. 120���Presidonr. G. XV. Isaacs, vice-president. Fred Haw; corresponding- financial secretary, J. A. Stewart, 51 Cordova St; recorder, Ct IX Morgan; trensurer, E. Morgan; guide, N. A. Bradley; guardian, P. J: Bennett; delegates to T. & L. Council: G. W. Isaacs and Fred. Haw. Meets first and third Wednesdays of eaoh 'month in Union Hall. OOOKS, WAITERS AND AVAITRHSSES' Union, Local No. iii President, Wm. Bllender; viee-piesident, W. W. Nelson: recording \"ccromry, Jlisi Adella Con- nant; financial secretary, J. 11. Perkins; treasurer, XX'm. Bllender. Meeting ovety Friday at SdOp m ln Union Hall, corner Homer and Dunsmiiir streets. a VANCOU'R TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION*, ���No 220 meets the last Sunday in each. . month at Union Hall. President, C. S. ' : Campbell; iIce-president, W. J. McKay; Kccrettttv, S J. Gothaid. P. O. Box 06; livusuie:-, Geo. AVITby: s^rge.int-at-arms, A. F Arnold: e\\eciitni_- committee, K. \\V. Fowler. J. H. Uiowne, AV. Brand. Itobt Todd; delegates to Tiades and Labor Council, W. Brand, Robtx Todd, J. H. Browne; delegates to Allied Trades Council. F. A Towler, W. J. McKay and C. J Marshall Hunt, Cambie stieet. Morgan, The Tailor, Granville street. Can Stewart, Cordova streot. Clubb & Stewart.Cordova street. W. Murphy, Cordova street. MdRae & McDonald', Hastings street, east. E. Lareen, Hastings Street. J. OarreHl, Cordova street. Simon & Co.; Cordova street Johnson & Higgins, Cordova street. S. McPherson, Cordova street. STREET RAILWAY MI-..VS UNION��� Meets second and toittth Wednesday of each month, in S.itheil.ind ll.ill, comer Westminster Am'iuip .1 ml ll.i_.ilug_i Street at S p.m. President. 11 A McDonald; vice-ptesldcnt. John (_.iiillnei . -ecret.iry, |A. G. Perij: trc.i-111 ou shust tuins round free times und lays down. A'en I got mlt der bed lu, I haf to lock up de blace und vind up der clockz und undress myself, und my vlfe vakes up und schols me, un den der baby cries und I haf to vawk hlni up und down; then, to tine ratea et apply to __, J.COTUT, JAMES SCUTJC A.G.P.A. Ticket Ageat, ToneeiTOT,��. C. ��w Haatlnca 81, Vtmcauvsr.B.'-, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OP MACHINISTS���Beaver Lodge, No. 183��� Meets second and fourth Wednesday la each month in Union Hall. President, Wm. Beer; corresponding secretary, B. TIn-.mlns, 72G Hamilton street: financial secretary, J. H. McVety, 1H1 Seymour street, c. VANCOUVER rlSHERHEN'S UNTON. ���No. 2 Meet1- in Laibor Hall, Homer street the Inst Saturday In each month at S p. m. Sydnev H.inK. secretary, care of water works ^hop5, Powell street. JOURNEYMEN\" BAKERS A'ND COST- FIOCTJONERS' Inter11t1t1011.il Union of Amonci. Local No. AO, Vancouver, B. C. President, XVm. H. Barnes: vice- president, Fred Ja>: recording secretary. Sam Walker. St. Georgo St., 7th Ave.; financial secretary, N. Mc.Mullin: treasurer, W. A. Wood*. CIGARMAKERS' UNION ,NO_ 3B7��� Meets the first Tuesday in each month: in Union Hall. President, A. Koehel; vice-president, P. Crowder; secretary. G. Thomas, Jr., 14S Cordova street west: treasurer, S. W. Johnson: sergeant-at- arms, J. W. Brat; delegates to Trades and Labor Council, J. Crow, C. Crowder, C. Nelson. BROTHERHOOD OF PAINTERS AND DECORATORS. Local Union No. 131 Meets every Thursday in I,a.bor Han. President, XV. Pavler; vice-president, W. Halllday: recording ���sectomry, E. Crush, 221 CSeorgia street; financial '���oeretary, A. Gothard, S23 Howe street; treasurer, H. MeSorley. JOURNEYMEN TAILORS' UNION Oit* AMERICA, 'No. 17k ��� lleet�� alternate Mondays In room 1, Union Hall. President, F. Williams; vice-president, Chas. Wbalen: recording secretary, H. O. Bmv rltt: financial secretary, W.ilfred Larson; treasurer,- W._W._ Toombs i-sorgeant-at- - arms. J. MoPheivon. From Their N'analmo, bou'thfield an* Protection Island ''ollicriea, $feam, Oas And House Coal Ol tie Following Grade*: ___out_2* Scfw*n*d Irump, Run of ttl* Mln*, Waahwt Nut and BAUVSL U. EOBINB, Sapetintendaat. EVAUI3. COLEMAN * EVAN8, Agaata, Vancouver City, B. O. VSl r.wassiii.cwi^ivsr^.ri; zju* hu.^*waHawre<*ajtaaaa*��rtcBtemw^ CHRISTIAN COURTESY The Most Beautiful of All the Royal Family of Graces. I Id J'f II; M till i lit Sti. ma |p,;: |&$7! Ito;, ��� w-5-. m: m ABSTAINING FROM DEFAMATION If Otlit!i-s Lack CourtrKj- That Ih N'u tli' ��� cun llhj Iho Christian -.liuulil I.in U 9 ��� U(!;.pi>nothcr,and those children. will/ bo : Sfou'nd-picking':'at cadi other, and iJir down thi road of life will/ be :--;'';7'''v'7-\" ./':7'\"''..'7yyS i (iccti tlie same disposition to pick j ut. others. Iletier ihau .this habit of pickiiig at children, which so ! many parents indulge in, would bo one good 'healthy application of tlio rod. Iiut lor a shower that lasts a few minutes than tlie cold dri/zlu of ninny days. We never get ovcr our Iirst home, however many homes we nitty have afterwards. Let us nil cultivate lliis grace of Christian courtesy by indulging in the haliil of praise instead of the habit of liliunc. There are evils In tlie world that we must denounce and tlicre arc mon untl women who ought to be rhastisi'ii, Iiut never let us allow the o]���por'tun'ty of applauding good deeds ra.'-sv unimproved.' The old thenry was that you must never .praise pco) ie lest we. mnke them vain. No. danger of that. Before any of us get through with life wo will have enough incan und ignoble and depreciating uud lying things said about us to keep lis ..humble. God approvingly recognizes tt system .of rewards as well as of punishments. In tlie cultivation of this habit of Christian courtesy Ictus abstain from joining in llie work of defamation. Every little while society takes after a- man, nnd it - -.must have a victim; If you had a roll of -ill .the public nien of this, generation who lmve been denounced' tint! despoiled of tlieir good name, il would take you a long while '���',-. to call the itoll. It is a bad streak in'human nnlure that there are so many who prefer to believe evil instead of good concerning any one under discussion..-, If < a good motive and .a bail-motive huve been possible in the case in hand, oho man will believe the conduct was inspired by a good motive, and ten men'will believe it was inspired by ii bad motive. The more' faults a man has of his own tlio more willing is ho lo ascribe faults to others. �� What a curse of cynics and pessimists alllicis our lime, afflicts nil liuie! .There arc those' who praise no one until bo is (lend. Now that bo is clear under ground and a heavy -'stone is on. top of j him thero is no possibility of his ever coming.up again as a rival. Some of tlio epitaphs on tombstones arc so fulsome thiit on resurrection day a man rising may, if ho reads tlie epitaph, for the moment think he got into the ..wrong grave. Speak well, of one another, and if you find yourself in circles, disposed to slander and abuse be for the time as dumb as the sphinx'which.though' only a. few yards aw'ny from tlie ovorshiidowing pyramid of Kgypt.hus not'Willi its. litis of stone spoken one word iii thousands of years. There are two sides to* every man's chiiraclet���a good side and an/evil side The good sec\" only the good and the evil only the evil, and tli2 probability is that a .medium opinion is. the . right opinion. ...; Most of tlie people Whom I know arc doing- about' as well as they can underotlie circumstances.: When I see jienplc who are worse, than I ani; I conclude that if I hail tho same bad influences around mc (ill my life that tliey have bad. I would probably have been worse than ,'; thoy now are. .Tlio work of reform ;, is the most .important work, but many, of., the-reformers, dwelling., on one -.evil, see-nothing' but evil, and they get so/used to-,,anathema they, forget ;llio usefulness, once, in awhile of a. bencilieUqi-- They get so riccus- Lomoil to excoriating: public men. that they do not realize that never since .lolin Hancock iii boldest chi- rography sighed-the Bcclarution of Independence, never, since Columbus picked up the flouting land .lowers that showed liini lie was coining near some new country, have; there . been so ninny noble and .splendid and Christian men in/ high places in this country -ns now... You /could go into the\" President's\" Cabinet or. the United. States .Senate or the hoitsc-of representatives in Ihis cily \"niul \"find plenty, of nieii capable. . of holding an old fashioned Tdcrhodist prayer.,.mooting, plenty of .senators and representatives and cabinet officers :��� to ��� start the tunc anil, kneel ���with the penitents at the ttltiir. In . iill : those places there a re men wlio could,\"without looking: at the , book, recite \"the ..sublime., words, ns did Cladstone.diii'inS vacation nt I-ln- : warden. \"X believe in God, the Fath-. er Almighty, Maker -of heaven , and earth, and 7 ,'\"'Jesus' Christ';\" 7 and from the soiiate'.nnd.house of representatives and 7t!ie Presidential Cabinet' and from tlio surrounding ofllces and committee rooms, if tliey could hear, ./would come many voices responding \"Amen and amen!\" .ChrisJ.iaiij.'_nirtcsy_Lcspecial l.VAOin-^ Tiiemi to those who~h1fve^iib\"or1lin~ ntes. Almost every person lius sonic ono under lilm'. How do you treat that clerk,.that servnnt, that assistant, that employe? f)p yoii accost him in ��� brusque terms; and roughly command him to do that which you might kindly ask hiin to do? The last, words thut the Duke of Wellington uttered were, \"If you please.\" That conqueror in what was in some respects tho greatest brittle yy ever fought, in his last hours, asked by his servant/.if ho would take some tea, replied,7\"If you please,\" his Inst words on expression\" of courtesy.;' Beautiful characteristic In ittiy class. Tlie day laborers in Sweden, passing each otlier, take off their huts iii reverence. There'-is ho ' i;x- cuso for bdori.slinosK in miy circ'o. As complete a gentleman as ever lived was the inuii who was unliorietl on tlio road to Dnmuscus iind be- honded on the road to Ostin���Paul, tho apostle 1 know lm might lie so characterized'by I lie way he apologized to Ananias, the high ��� priest.- . 1 know it from tlie ' wny; he complimented Felix ns tl -Judge and from thu way .'..he greets the king,.. \"I ihank myself, King Agrippo, because 1 shall answer.for myself lliis, \"day before Iheo touching uli Ihe .. things whereof I tun accused of the .lews, cspi.'Cially because I know, thee'to be expert in 'all 'customs .und,'-questions, wliich-arV'' among the '.lows.\" ���. . ������ 7'What'a .mighty; means of usefulness is'ivuiTCSyi Tlio lack of.it bi-itiirs to niony a dead failure,' wln'le ' |n:fore those.-wlii) possess:it in . .large iiuan- tity all' the doors of .'opportunity.'itrif.' open. You oitn tell that urbanity dues not cume liinii study of books of cliniictte. alihuiiah such books have their use. but from a mind full of tluiughlfitlni-ss for others 'aiid a heart in sympathy with the conditions of others. If those conditions be prosperous.' a gladness for the success, or if the conditions'be'depressing, a sorrow for the unfavorable circumstances. All. this world needs lighting up! To thus.; of us who are prospcioils it i.s no credit that. wc live in a state of good i.'hocr. but in tlie lives of iiincly-iiiiie out of u hundred there is a pathetic side, a taking off, a deficit, an anxiety, a trouble, lly a'genial look, by n kind word, by a helpful .'.ction, wi; muy lift a little of the burden in i! partly clear tin.' way for the sluini ling foot. ���Oh, what a glorious ait il is to say the riyht word in Ihu riylit way at the right time! How reprehensible the behavior of those Who pride themselves, on tho opposite'.quality and have a genius for saying disagreeable things, us-, ing sarcasm and reiort not for lawful purposes, but to sting ami hiiinil- iato and hurt! \"IMiln't I take him down?\" \"Didn't l.nutl'u him wince?\" \"Didn't T give it to bin'?\" That, is '.lie spirit of.the devil, while the,opposite is Uiu spirit, of Christ. ' The time must conic when tho /world will acknowledge .-international courtesy. Now courUsy between nations is i-hiully nuido of rhetorical greeting, but ..us .soon us Ibere is a ililTcrcnce of interest thcir ministers plenipotentiary tire called home, and the guns of the forts are put in position, aiid the' tirmy and navy get ready. Why not it. courtesy between nations that will defer to each otlier and surrt'iiiler ti little nitiiot1 than have pr.-iloiigetl itcrinimiv, \"ending in great slaughter? lltitim for all- nations of. iho earth and all styles of government.. Whal the world wants is less ariiiunioiil and more-courtesy, loss of the spirit of destruction., aiid more of-tlio spirit, of amity.' This century bus opened Willi too many ���armies in the field and too many liioii-of-wur on tin; oceun. Before the century closes ���may the last cavalry horse'bo hitched'tu tlie plow aiid the last, .warship become a merchantman. : But We arc not iu olllcial positio'h und therefore must leave to others the cause ..of international amity. What we want to cultivate is good will: to'-1 those with whom we como in contact day by day. Jlny we all be charged iind 'surcharged witli that courtesy. Wo may strengthen this grace by coming to a higher appreciation of'what a man is, of what a woman- is. Wo cannot expect;perfection, but in almost every one there is. something good und worthy\" of courtesy. If they arc clear down,; they ure trying to rise If they have gone astray, tliey-want to'get back, lie is tin iitiniortul being, whom'..ypu are 'Confronting, 'he', is a being made in the imtigo of Cod- be/will outlive tho planetary .system; he will live as long as the ���Almighty lives. Started, he ���will never slop. Your Christian courtesy ��� may be his eternal rescue. To^tlic young let mo say: Sow courtesy, iind you will/reap courtesy; sow hostilities, and: you will ... reap hostilities. Get. your heart so right 'that it will '.make, the toiics of .your voicq ' persuasive and your salutations/on the street and your greets lugs at tlie door of home and. church and hall a1 blessing; to till, and,, the kindly, influences yoii throw upon tliem will rebound upon /your own heart and, life While you are making them happier you will make yourself .liuppieri.; 'If others luck courtesy that is no reason why you should-lack'it..\":' lic- spond to rudeness by utmost affability. Because .some one else is a boor is no reason '\"'why you . .should bo a boor.. But. how: few show, urbanity when badly treated! Human nature says, \"An eye for an eye, a tooth .for a tooth,' retort':' for retort, slander for sin nder,'''maltreat ment.-.'.for inultronti-icnt.\" But there have been thoso. you und J have known who amid assault and enricature and injustice have maintained the loveliness of-blossom' week in .springtime. Nothing but divine grace in the heart can' keep such equilibrium. That is not human nature uiil.il it is transformed by supernal inliuenccs. To put it on flic lowest, ground you cannot afford to be 'revengeful...' and 'malignant.../' Hatred and high indignation ure.stiiges. of unheiilth. They enlarge the spleen; they: weaken the nerves; tliey ut lack\" the brain, lingo in a man is one form of apoplexy. Every timo you get mad you damage your body and mind and soul, and you have not. such a surplus of vigor aiid energy that you can nlTord to sacrifice them. ���So=I-appliiud=GI��ristiah=cotir-t.osyT=Is would put it upon the throne of every heart in the world. Tliu beauty of it is that you may extend it to others nnd have just ns much of it- yea, more of it���left in your own heart nnd life. Tt is like the miracle ofthe loaves and fishes,which, by being divided, were multiplied until twelve baskets Were filled with the renin a n Is. It is like'a torch, with which fifty lumps may be lighted and yet tho torch remain as 'bright-' as before-it-lighted the first lamp. But' tliis grace will not come to its coronal until it reaches tlio. heavenly sphere What a world that must bo where selfishness and jealousy and pride and acerbities of temper havo never entered and never, will enter! No struggle for precedence No rivalry between cherubim iind seraphim. \\7o ambition as to who shall lmve thn front, seats in the temple of Clod und tlie Lamb. Courtesy tlicre easy, because there will bo no faults to overlook, no apologies to mako, no mistakes to correct., no disagreeable- iiess to overcome, no wrongs to right.. In all tlie ages to conic not a detraction , or: a subterfuge. A perfect soul in'-a ���perfect, heaven. In thut realm, world without end, it. will never bo..necessary to repeal tho words of my.'text, words that, now nwl/oft repetition, \"Be courteous.\" . BOJIN OF A CAPIUCE.. CURIOUS AND ENTERTAINING HISTORY OFTHE HAGUE. A Ciill l>\"wn fur vr. ,T. Jtfr. Marriifidiike Jeiikviis���Well, old boys .will be old boys, Mrs. Jenkyns. jilrs. Jlarmiitlukc .lenkyns���Oh, no. You. moan: that old boys will keep on .trying, to be young/ boys. .-���;.���. .\"Klus of tha Romung\" Was the Foamier ���It Wms Firit n Chateau Surrounded 1_7 a Uedse���Existence ut the Cbuteuu Wni, Heirever, Not always Penceful, nnd There Were Fierce titrussles From Time lo Time. The llngite was born of a moro caprice of Count William It., \"King of tlie Komans,\" who, in I'iflO, in order to have a suitable resting-place, between Haarlem iind his property of S'fira.vensahdu, built a chateau which he closed off from the surrounding forest by a hedge whence we have llu name \"Den Tlughc\" given to the residence tif the \"lords of the land.\" Originally the chateau'attracted merchants mid workmen who eiiinud their, living from the life within the wails of the domain, which was-not only a hunting-box, but under' the rule of the house of Bavaria, a centre of pleasure and distraction, whore festivals of iong duration were organized and endless games played; wheru skating during the long severe winter was indulged in by ��� the nobility. During carnival time there .wero great masquerades, in which the duchesses themselves took part, and in l.'IM, under, the direction of Lady Alide van Tlouschesen, the , first chamliei- bf-rhetoric was founded in the royal manor. '.- ., Nol always peaceful, however, was the existence of the chateau, for it was frequently disturbed by the fierce struggles that divided the country, and in 180_! Was/the scene of the murder of Donioislle Aleitla, daughter of-Jan van Peolgcet-t and mistress of Duke Albert,--brother of William V. Under tiie Government of Jacuiioliiie oi Bavaria the chateau fell to ruins and the court passed tho most of its time elsewhere, a cir- cuiiislatico that: seemed to mark the decadence of the city. Tlie house of Burgundy, however, restored the old manor, and in 14H2, in llie great hall,- the first assembly of the States was held. The second took place there also, in l-l.\">(i, the. 25th anni- versury of the founding of the Order of Hit- Golden T'leccc wns held tlicre. In .1 .���)()() The Hague took nn active pant in the religious revolution,, and two of/its'..lenders, Adrian Monick nnd Dick Jooslen, with the consent of ���the.:, magistrates,: entered the Church of St. .1 nines and destroyed all .\"tlie statues, the church, ���after the ruining of the siege of Leyden, passing into the hands/of the Keforniers. During the first year of the war with Spain tho 'Slates-General held its sessions in 'different cities, in 1581 it sat/in tlio great hall* of the knights to sign the act declaring Philip IT. no longer sovereign and to withdraw: its oaths of allegiance. After the death of William tlie Silent the Statcs-Gencral decided to meet, regularly at The Hague,.and the residence of tho old \"seigneurs\" became the /centre of the nation's activity. '/ In tlio eiiihtecntli'century\"tiiiit picturesque row of.rambling buildings known as the Binneiiliof was enlarged to contain _��� a residence for the stathoudiirs, and it: wns from tho Binnenbof that William V. fled the revolution and French, invasion to lalior refuge in England,\".where ho died in 1S08. Iii. 1800 Louis /Bonaparte caiiio to live in the sttttlioud- ci-s. Iiut'in''1808 transferred his residence to Amsterdam. From the sixteenth century down to-iho. present day, therefore, The Hague has been the political capital of tbo Statcs-Genei'al, and in the seventeenth 'und ciglitcuntli centuries, was tliosci.'tie of most important diplomatic ������'',' transactions. Up to the time.when'.,Louis Bonaparte was King of '.Holland the jealousy .of the other Dutch, towns had deprived The Hngiie of any representation in/ the States-General, iind so it continued to. hei the Fai'gcst.-'-village of Europe until Louis Bonaparte finally-granted' it all the privileges of it city. , In 13S0 the royal residents' only liiiiiiborcd 50,000 souls. In 1899 it had 200,023 inhabitants. and is steadily increasing iii extent,: stretch-, iiig-out /into fine suburbs with ���broad.avenues, and imposing residences..'/* ���\".;.���.' ������.., In ;tht) midst of the Woods to the northeast,; and ainile and a half from tho;centre (if the city, is tho Huis Ton Bosch House of the woods, an unassuming but very pictiirosquo place, 'belonging to the Queen, approached through the heavily-wooded Bciioordcnhoutschu W'eg./uiid nestling in the midst of the woods. It is a house with a history���built in memoryof Frederick -Henry,' -Prince.'/��� of Orange, by his widow, Amulia van Solma. Tho Prince was the\" stat- hoiuler frorii 1,025 to 1045, under whoso presidency tho unity of tho Dutch republic became consolidated and prosperity of the Slates reached its climax. The famous \"orange room,\" wliero tliu sittings of the'International i.*eacc uonference were held, is situated under the cupola, by which it.is lighted. The walls .and ceilings are ablaze of color and form a series of huge paintings, .whioh took , the pupils of the,great Peter Taul Rubens nine years to execute They depict the lifo of Frederick Henry, the principal wall being covered with allegorical work, b.v Jordaens,' representing the triumph of youth over vice, sickness and nil the enemies of early years, as well us tlio Prince's triumph over the Spaniards. ,. .. '���!> One ol tho groups represents peace, while in the centre of the lofty cu- poli' is a finely executed painting of the. Prince's widow. Tho Prince's father, William'the Silent, is here .cprcsert.cS by a grim.skeleton RtiiDd.r.? behind his son and guiding him to victory. Ever since Princess Aninlla van Solma built it, the Huis ten Bosch has been used by .the ��� different stud- Iioiidcrs and kings of Holland as, a summer resort, and one chamber; known as tho Japanese room���luxurious in; the richness of its 'white' embroidered silk hangings and lacquer work and vases���is lilted entirety Willi present.-, made to Prince William V. of 'oruuge i..y ihe ljj- peror of .J'u|.l��u��v��-l*y Nothing more wonderful in the history of the progress of science or in the story of Ihe iediii-tii.it of lite elemental forces of Iho universe to the uses of mankind lias over been ruclird- ed; than the graphic uiiiKHiiK'ciia.ul from '''Newfoundland tlie oilier day that JMartuni had ictetved .stgiuus across tlie ocean. 1,701. miles, by his s-ystcni of wlielcss telegi.ipby If truo, it marks ii long ..step forward��� hardly safe yet to call it the culmination���in the interesting series of c>- periments of Sig Aim com in li.ins nutting and leuiving messages by means of the eli'Uiii' ua\\ci of iii- air, dispensing uilogotlic. with \\\\11��.��. expciiuienls on winch the j.iinds m scientists have been fixed m lcccnt yenrs to a greater e\\.iiut than on steamships: has been / shortened nearly a day, communications passing between the * vessels and the Marconi stations a long time befoie tho stciimcrs reach their destination, Signor Mai com is aifianced to Miss Josephine* Uowcn Ilolman, an ���Indiana'girl:.. Her marriage with Sig- not Marconi'will', 'take'place: early next year, and thereafter-'she 'will live with her brilliant husband in England CHILE Y. ARGENTINA CAUSE OF.THE WAR CLOUD THAT HOVERS OVER THE REPUBLICS. ABOUT WOMEN RULERS. SlU.NOIt MAIIUO'.VI. any other of the mntvelous develop ments of this electric ago. Gugliolmo Mnicom is luudlj Unity yeais old, an Italian by bath and partly so by pai ont ago His motl.ei was an English woman, but Ins father was a native uf Hulv I lis bnlli- plato was Boglotia Since 1S518, however, he has been a losident of England, and has appaienlly identified himself peimunentiy with that country Both bts .scicnltltc and Ins financial buckets live theie. Jltu- coni is, and professes to bo, an amateur cleclncian lie had been about seven yeais at woik on lus pai titular subject of \"wneless\" tolegiaphy, carrying out many experiments on his fnmilv estate neai Bologna, befoie ho discoveied the lmpoilnnt fact that electtic waves geneiated by a sparking nppaiatus of the kind used b.v tho Geimnn physicist, lloiiui.h Ilertz, would not only cany to long distances, but weie unaffected by intervening hills and nntiiial obstacles Befoie lyOG two miles was the maximum distance icached, while English observeis had accoinphslicd one and llucc-nuniter miles With his 011- gimil apparatus for tiansinitting and receiving Hell/ waves much unpiover1, Mt Mai com went ovei to England in l8lJfi, nnd succeeded in getting the patronage of tlio Biittsh postal officials, mulct whose auspices ho cat i ied out signalling e\\pci intents on Salisbuty Plain and at Fcuarth. Since then he hns gindually impiov- ed both his methods and Ins lecoids, ihe distance travoisiri by lus olheiie signals being mtieased successively from fom teen and a half miles, between Alum Bay and Bournemouth, to eighteen miles (Alum Buy and Poole), and Unity-two miles, obtained between two stations erected at the instance of the Fiench Government on Dovci Cliff, close lo the South Foi eland lighthouse, and at Wimercux, near Boulogne In addition to this, Mr. Mm com made successful expciiments in caiiving out signals between ships and Ihe shoic, a pcinianent insinuation having been at woik for some time between the South Foielnnd station and one of the Goodwin lightships In September, IS'10, the young Italian gave an exhibition of lus wneless signalling at Hover Town Hall, at which penod he asseited his abilitv to flash messages a distance of eighty miles In tlio samo year Marconi came to America to give demonsti ations of his disco\\ciy befoie oflice!s of the Ilcsplte tlie Uood Ueeordt of tlle (llleens, Kliistit Are I're.eri'ert. In spite of the proved capacity of women to rule, iii spite of tlio universal admisyion of their capacities in that respect and in others, if these tiipucitivb be rightly trained, all nations would sooner have at their head a man tliun a woman, lt is not solely because tho King can personally load his armies to, war in case of necessity, though it mny htivo nothing to do with it. It is Hot at all proved that Elizabeth-Tudor could not havo done as Well in v-iirfuio us any of her generals It is certain lhat Jlana Thcicsa could have: done considerably better than the majority of her captains in tho Seven,Years' war. Catherine II, siirnauicd \"Tlie Great,\" aiid justly so named, wus-the .superior in brains of neaily all hei milil.ny counsclois in tlie countiy where tho sixty-sec ond paiugtaph of the Salic law has .ihi.ii-s been slnctlj legaidcd the most dauntless wutnot was a woman whoso namr, is still a won! to conjure with. Yet in the count i y of the great Cittl.cnnc ��� who, in spite of lier faults, was equally as gieat as a iiilci���and of her ptedeccssois t'lcio is .it piesent a poignant legiet that their Csnr has \"only duiighteis, winch, uudei the new dispells mon, aie excluded fiom tlio succession In tho countiy of M.uia 'Iht'iesn tl.e dismay caused bv the untimely and tia- gn death of the lieu of Kiancis Joseph continues, although thcic is nt least one sister and also a daugiuci of the dead aichduku wlio, if all accounts be true, aie itiiite as fit to uile as the male hen picsuniptive. Vet Francis Joseph knows peifcctly well thai to attempt .mother \"piug- m.ilic sanction\" such ns (hut which raised Ztlarm Tlitiosn to the tin one would ho'ii.''forlorn' hope.-j-lllusti'utc'd London News Tliey Are Tery Urenlr Matched lu Tholx Army and Navy Peace Footing���Some Details 'Unit Aro Interestinc Concern- | ine Their .Military and Sea Strenctli- A Ciood N'cuclel In .Case of U'ar. The wnr cloud which now hovers ovcr the two South American republics. Chili and Argentina, has arisen out of tho dispute over, tho boundary lino between these countries, shown oh the accompanying map in the range of mountains run- COMING TO AMERICA. Famous Womnn Atlronomer to Aisist Pr��. \"Jemor liou_riii at the Lniunil Stanford, Jr., Uiilvei'iity In .California. All of the Klumpke girls have made a name for themselves abroad in art, music and science, and again one of them has gained new honors. Miss Dorothea Klumpke, the famous astronomer,\"-'has just been appointed thief assistant to I'rofessoi Isuuc Huberts at the JLclund Stanford, Jr , University. A number of years ago she-.went to Paris to take a vocal education, but finding lier voice coiild never make her great she turned her attention to tho study ' of mathematics in their application to astronomy. Mjss Klumpke became u student in the famous school of astronomy nud mathematics connected with tho observatory of Paris and was the first woman to win the degree ol doctot of mathematics. At the age of twenty-three, ������in' competition with fifty Frenchmen, she won a position as S03IE YUKON WOMEN HOWSEVERALOFTHEM MADE MONEY IN THE FROZEN NORTH. JUDGE ALBERT DERUTZEN. Tho Chief \"lleak\" of .(All the London I'nlicn CoiirlM, Albeit De nut/en, the new Chief Magistrate of all the police/courts of London, is the thud son of the late Union de Rul/cn, und has sat on the polite bench of tlie modem Bab} Ion foi upwind of a qiiiu ter of a. ccntuiy Police magistrates in ���.London .ue often gieat scholats and sometimes nip cniinciit in the law The piesent thief magistiale, foi the noux-PAity iy dispute. ning north and south Should wni eventuate the two lepublics will find thcinsehes veiy evenly matched Nei- tliei has the advantage of the otlier in the mutter of coast exposal o and coast defence Aigcutina, of couise, is a much Jut get countiy in niea and has a population appi oMiiialcly ol '1,000,000, while Chili has a population of about 3,000,000 -r[he nic.i of Chili is 290,829 squaic miles, wliile that of Argentina, including it*. tcintoues, is 1,111),S'19 scjuaic miles 'J'he army of Argent mu, on a peace footing, numbcis 21,510 ofheets and. inch; that of-.Chili 19;750 oflic- et s and men. Ihe Aigentina navy consists of four coast defence aimor- clads, five armoied ciniseis, tlncc ���-eiond-ilaes trttiscis of high spied Mid seven smallei outsets of modem coiisttuLtion, together with four cleslioyeis and t\\\\ uitv-two totpede boats Tho Chilian licet consists ol five ai moi-i lads, two stcond-clus< and two tintd-t lass ciinscis, elevei gun vcstels and gunboats four de- stiojeis of now make and tbu ty-knot ��� '\"��� ;;-';XAVAL,.AXIl7Mll.n'AKY\"i'OWKIl/ /':,/ ; speed, and:niiietcdii:.loi'pei.loboats.-;.0: ���/tlie;-'two\"/'navies'liy far. tlie /best/boat is the;'critiser;0'lliggins, built at Els /wick for./Chili/iii..1896, uiid;'a.\" lint vessel7;in all respects; ' Slio.has /Vc ^displacement ;of 8,500.; tons, and car-. Iries 'foiir.'eight-iiicli/guns.';Witli these forces',;; based'oil peace,, the -two re- publics/liavegbbd iibuclei foi' develop; iiieiit^of.iPp.werfiii'-ai-iiiies/nnd'navies in case-'ofwar.;,.:.::.\"-[X.���.'..:-���'���\"���'..������.;:.��� ;;'./;-;-:,; ':'���:,:��� SUSS DOliOTHEA. K-tlMPKK. head-'of-'a depurtrtient in. Ihe,.���:.' Paris Observatory, ;wlier'e her work has attracted- a great\" clcitl of. attenlion.7: 1 The .astronomerJ.i'is; 'a tall, . w-ell formed, handsome/woman and a gifted ,;. cotivei'satioiuilist.' She speaks .Gerhiiijii,; French : mid /��� Engl Ish ; with ctiutil facility.;', -About:a year ,. ago she -'made several /buUoim/uscutisions to study the leonid showers uiid take otlier observations, oiie?of her .voyages ;talcingjher;as far/as the/coast of, Niirmiiiidy.;;/;The/French Government' rcccnlly .decorated her. ���'���'���':/���:-���,���... /Of 7 the sisters;-iJf.'JIlss''.-'Klumpke, Anna'is.; a';famous portrait/painter, Julia;is-a brillianttviolinist, and.A gustit/was the iirst _\\vomah to\"be appointed house /surgeon iri; ii Paris/ hos pitdL :Xyy yX.y:������.,-. y:X.ll x-zyy-yy;. Two Ilonietitic Servants Witli liralnn and Cluir..cter mid 'I heir Mircecoful Careen iu the Kloiiu!:li M'uil >eafly Iteuutieil 'Ihey Continued Itenoluli.ly to .Straight ColirMi aud Won. Not quito four years ago two young women who had been domestic servants journeyed up the Yukon to Dawson. They were ; thoroughly nice, good girls, with better manners and bringing up than hundreds of Klondike women'who inailo moro pietensions. They expected either to'cook or keep house for somebody, they did not know-whom..-.-- In the Klondike there is every temptation for a good Woman to fall into evil ways if theie be Iho lest possibility of hei do.ng so, but th��se guls weie resolute in their determination to get money honestly, or not at all. For a considerable timo they did not get it. They shitQicd in their canvas tent and ate the provisions tliey had brought with thum. As these-.'diminished the respect of all who knew the gnls mcieased At length, after the unual stampede, a new '.mining camp was opened on a cieck some fifty miles from Dawson That was the chance for the girls Tliey had then goods conveyed to tlie now diggings by pack horse and dog team, while they themselves footed it thithci thiough bogs and creeks and along dangerous . mountain paths 'Ihey opened a Inundiy It was well patiom/ed from tbe fust In n few niontlis .one of them married ,a man .worth S75.000. The other continued with the ' launchy alone lVomnn a tender flower, is she'' What think you the young Klondike launch ess does when her supply of soap and starch gives out in the mining i.unp fifty miles fiom Dawson? She herself proceeds ', alone with one of. those half wild Eskimo dog teams over the lugged tiail to Dawson, purchases hei supplies and returns in the same /manner, trust- A LIFE SAVER. Keniarhable lirci'i-d of George Geddei o_f Olasgow, Itecently .Honor* d by Loudon , liumune socii'tv of tireut ISriluin. The Royal Humane Society ot Great Britain recently awarded lt�� silver modal to George (leddes of the Glusgow lluiii.int Sociotj Tho record of life-saving thus rewarded Hard ran | arid commemorated is ''surely one of the most remarkable of its kind, Getldes, who is now thirty-eight,, be* gun his career by saving a girl from Iho Clyde when only fourteen. Dur* ing the past .thirteen years he has on thirty-six occasions plunged into tho Clyde and succeeded in effecting rescues, in addition to making foU8 .lunoi. AiiiEP.t nt. itDT/.tn e^amplo, is a C.unhiidge man and was a well-known l.uwei when he was fust appointed ' beak\" of the jMaiylcbonc jiolite cottit Since then he has been piomotcd steadily, until he is now tho sitpicme head oi the system 'llie ap pointment is always made by the home secietaty, and tlie chief Judge is neai Iv aluays knighted, as w.is Sir Fiankliii Luslnngton, Judge Do Ktitzcn'.s pieduccssor. In his col lege days De Hut/en, who is now 70 was a ciack oarsman at Cambridge book more pale New Use:fur Automobile. Princo Khilkoff, Russian Blinistoi of Ways of Communication, has do- vised an entirely novel way of utilizing an automobile In his gaiden 'oid.nniy railway slccpeis have been laid a distanio of a couple of hunch ed yaids, and along these timbers bonrding has bum fixed on c.snetly the distunte up.ut for the wheels of ' nn . automobile to i-iin uponv them -just as a train runs on rails. A lut- er.iLplunk ncts_as_.i-gunid-to--pro- vent the automobile leaving the tiack. An oidiuuiv .'J> hoise power Do Dion-Bout on caniage easily pulled a cart' laden with bricks and a workman, the whole weighing 110 poods (neaily two tons) at a speed of 12 versts un houi 'llie Ministei pm poses to apply the system Ihiougluuit. thu enipne as a supplemental v tne ins of transpoit between points not icached by Midways Bptei-iuiiH About Women. The one who has lead the that is called woman knows than the one who has giown in libianes ���-lloussayo I lcceived money with her and for the dowiy have sold my autlioiity ��� I'lautus Tho only tiue and (lim fi icndship is that between man and woman, because it is the ouly nflctftioii e\\cmpt fiom actual oi possible rivaliy���A. Comte Woman's powei is ovcr the affections A beautiful dominion is heis, but she nsks its foifeiluic when she seeks to extend it��� Bo\\ce The woman Who is resolved to be respected can 'make herself to ./be so e\\en amid an aimy of solclicis ��� Cci- vniites A fan: is indispensable, to a woman who can no longer blush Tlie woman who throws herself at a man's head will soon hnd hei place at his feet.���Dosnoyers New \"llov'to Nuvnl 1'r.ilnln^.JI The Ilowaldt woiks at Kiel have begun woik on a Russian vessel, which is styled au ' engineer, machinist and stoker training ship \" It will be the only ciafl of its kind ever in existence The vessel will bo fitted with tubular boilcis of fom system, including the C ennui \"Schulz\" boiler, and will cany all the dilleiont styles of auxibaiy engines used in wai ships Tito new training ship will be employed partly as a coal tiansport for naval .stations. It has a displacement of 12,- 000 tons, and will cany a ciew of 730 The vessel, which will be named Oklan, will cost 5,000 000 inaiks (31,190,000) The Russian Minister of 3Iaime expects good lesults from this new depailuie m the way of tmining cnguieois, machinists und stokers for the navy Will Wear Famous Gem. One of tlie sights of King Fdwnid's coioniition will be tho famous jewel, the Kohinooi, which will be woin in the crown.of' Queen Alexandra.' It is one/oflho largest diamonds in ex- AuKtrnlirt's New Kniblem. ; Australia's now flag: is ^-practically the Victorian design. It has tlie Union, Jack iii the top left baud corner, and- immediately below is the ^t_ar7p_f^Ajistra_ltiZfe UAIICOM'S'FlANRIil. United States Annv and Nnvy, pnd Incidentally to illustrate its Workings nf .'the international yacht race of that yen Since that year Jfarconf has steadily improved his system, rind more and moie nicieased its pi actual field of usefulness,; chiefly in the .direction of communication between passing ships at sea and between the .slio'o and incoming and depiiiting vessels- Regular ship repotting stations have been recently established on theliish coast, and at Nantucket, the time of isolation fiom tho outside woild experienced bv the great ti ans-AtJantic Ennritioii* '! riililn atllm Sno. Over d,78.1,000 tons of freight passed thiough (lie Aiuuiil.ui und Caiitidinn canals at Suull\"Ste. Jlario in .July, an iiilumsu of about 2(>2,- 000 tons over .1 une. The number of vessi Is cairylng'tliis tonnage was 3,211 and besides G,Sod,777 bushels of uiie.it, 1,0')2,025 ban els of Horn, 1 ,S'1H 100 feet of luiubei und 3,- .'lol 2'M tons of uou ore. 14,200 pnssengois wcio earned Theie nie few btistei Loinmcicial points in the .world and the: traffic is far in excess ol that of the Suez Canal. AUSTItAUA'S XEW SKAI,. senting one ..of .the-six states of the union. The other half of the ling is devoted to depicting tho -Southern Cross. The-country's;new seal lias a symbolic figure of Australia for the obverse and a grouping of the iirnis of the,six states for tiie reverse. ofe Moliilioof Oriqinaiform GBORQIj: 'GB'UOES, SCOTI.ANll'S- CIIAMPI08 LIFE SAVEU. lnoffectual attempts to savo htet Twenty-two of the above lescues wer�� of an exceptionally hazardous nature fiom -daikness, tiie cun cut and depth, coupled with the extremely; filthy state of the water In tho same penod he lias effected nineteen lescues by means of a boat, and by using his drag has lecoveted over* ��50 bodies from the nver within tho limits of the city Being an expert in tho use ot icstoiative treat- ment, he has at various'times sue* lecded in this ducction under the most apparently .hopeless '.'circumstance When it is added that last year Geddes easily gamed fiist placo in the Puns inteinational life-saving competition, hold in the Seme, it will be lecognizcd that he lendily takes fust place in the estimation of his count!ymen who are inteiested in the cause of humanity. A-.iinst lillii-.ci'ii. London has started''a''movement against blinkeis for horses, which in most cases ate useless and haiinfill to tho sight of the animals Host of the gie.il i.iilioad companies ond one of the ti.nnway lines have done awny with them, so that now, it Ib slated, \"10,000 horses aie working without bl'aker*. Moving a .Mammoth. Tho skeleton of a ginntniniiiiiiol.il, uncurl bed some lime ago in Lust foiboita, will be bi ought to St, Petersburg in the coining winter, writes a SI Fotoisbuig loiiespond.'iit. Tlie task of conveying it is a most formidable one, as the distance to Irkutsk, which is tho neai est tniluay station, is fi 000 miles '1 ho fckc- lcton will have to bo cut up and tioatcd with uisqiuc, each portion being nica'cd in cowhide in oidcrto juevent the .t��� l a'loiting it. As far as Yakutsk tlie Kivci I cna will bo ulili/cd, hut fi om tlicio iiiatlv 2,- 000 miles of swampy foic-t will haxe to be ti.r.ei'i'd 'I'ho comcyunce will bo efficicd m sloi^lis, and it is calculated tlint t t least ,->0 hoises will be roijuiicd to chaw them. Present funic ofthe ftohiftonr islcnce. Queen Aloxtindrawill bu tlio latest of a lung series'of queens who have worn it in various lands and in the courso of a period of time which extends buck to the ages of fablo. Xo More (ilovf- for SoliliiMK It is announced that tho French aimy will soon lie riepi lved of gloves fiom motives of I'lonomy. Each of tlie 500,000 soldicis icceives two pahs a je.u, anil I'tich pun costs one franc 2a ti-it lines But the m- hahitatits of Nioit, who live by the nianufacliire of thc-e gloves, nie pio- tcstum vigoiousK ngainst the pio- poscd measure Fotu Uioiisiind people will be tin own out of woik should 00*11 Antti.\" peisist fn introducing the lefonn Needless to say, every pioupion Mill hail it with delight. The gltne oi latliei the ab- senco of it, savs the Palis correspondent of The Fall /Mall Gazette, 1ms been the cause of moie punishment, thnn all the test ot tho catalogue of mditaiv offences. ELLEN* AND II Kit UOU TKAll. ing and sure and safe, to hei cabin in the mining canip. No dnnger befalls her. ��� You may put it down as a universal truth: , There is no placo whoie a good woman is so safe as in a mining camp, w hei e the most despciutc chuiucteis among men .no supposed to galliei anil do gather In the dead of wintci, the thermometer, fur below zero; Ellen mid her dog team may bo scon sliding swiftly over tho dog trail, she running alongside and uiging with hei whip, the dogs trotting with the heavy sled behind, them.; Is it not a fine picture of independent womanhood? . Tlicre are otlier women Who have made mote money less woitlnly. Two, no longer cither young or handsome,\" whose career oh the vni- lcty stage in the States was about over, went to Dawson soon .after..'the first saloon vaudeville theatre was .opened ln two \\cais they \"went out\" with S20,000 apiece.- .-Then there-is Mrs. Blank, \"coining inoncy band ��� over fist,\" it is said of hei I'loi met ly_she. wus-pi opi ifni-of ���a restaurant ��� no matter where. - It was a respectable, well 'conducted place, not gn.uh teuuiiieinine,however; But tbcTC she learned liei business. Willi a little capital she made her way to Dawson, ,'. looked about her and presently opened a roadhouse on the trail between Dawson nnd one of the'gieat mining camps. , At her house; miners and travelers stop for rest, food. aiid drink. The piopi telicss iiei self stands behind the bar and deals out iltinCs to her citstoincis. Sho pile- men with alcohol till thoy scarccli know their heads from., a 'football then when they,hand out their, line of cold dust to pa\\ her sho take-, two or three or four limes as much as the liquor is worth oven at Dawson pi ices, and the men .uu too drunk to discover tlie steal One refined and estimable lady who was a pioneer woman in Dawson, found no suitable opening: in tlie Klondike,'so.with the llrst rush to Cape Nome, she went tlicio with the mining people and stinted a laundty. Now she is succeeding very well. C�� rious/ Pol.vu lo t Period teals. Threo curious poljglot peiiodicahs are now being published One is the China Times, which is rcguUily pi luted in seven languages* lt is published in the capital of China, and the languages in which it appeals aio tliu LngJish, Fiench,, Geiman, Italian, Russian, Japanese and Chinese Auothei polyglot paper is ther Austrian semi-inoiithly.^entitied: -Act*. Comp.u-ationis Litei.uuiu Umvoisar- um. It has coiicspondents and subscribers all ovei the woild, and tha contiibutions of the foi met aie m- vaiiably piinted in the languuge of the countiles fiom which ihey are sent As a icsult il ficquently happens that in one numbci of the paper thero are attiilcs in twenry-hvo or thntv languages The thud poljglot paper is tho\" \"Pantolodion Mug.i/ine,\" which is published in St Feteisbutg, and which contains ciiulhI essays re- g.uding the new books published thioughout the woild. Each of those essays is pi in ted in the language of the countiy wheie the new book of which the essay treats appealed. Thus a io\\iew of an American book is punted in .English\", a lcview of a ricncli book is printed in French, and so on One number of tins Tenodical has contained articles in fifteen dilTeicnt languages��� namely, Geiman, Fiench, Limhsli Italian, Spanish, Hutch. Foi tuguese, Swedish, Danish Ilungait.in. Rou- niania, Russian, Servian, Bohemian and Polish Disraeli ut 22 This is a pictui c of the late I or63 Bcaconsfield at the ngo of 22 He was then plain Benmmin Disraeli, and had just published Oiis celebrated novel, \"Vivian Giey,\" which won Ui'panee, \"Well,\" ho said, \"I don't protend to Know everything \" \"If I were going to revise tl*at statement for jou,\" she nnsweiod, \"I could think of only one \\ hange to make.\" \"What would that be?\" \" 'Anything' for 'everything.' \" ni-K.ii 11 \\i - high favor in bleary London Tho pictuic was i t\"iply published us \"tho nutliot of '\\ ivian Giov,' \" and for a time was'tlio lulk of the town. Loid Bcaconsfield was boin in ItOl and died in J SSL An OstentHllt'UM'Toiiil A list id ikt The young Queen of Holland is a total abstninoi and ostentatiously refuses on all public occasions to lake wine. Her most intimate friend, Fiincess Paulino, of Nurtcin- bcrg, was by her won over to tho Kinks of the teetotalcis Now King Humbcit is dead,'it is Queen Wilholmina is the_ only total reigning monarch, if' one cepts tho Sultan of '.Turkey. that said toe- ox- \" mmi rtNtf-riMtUXttrur-KSUU c THE INDEPENDENT. SATURDAY MARCH 15, 1902 If, III' m oo ..$2.50 SHOES Most dealers would ask more money for our S2.S0 Shoe, hut we are determined to sell the hest \"for t'he money. The Ladles' Shoes are made of kid and cult, some in mannish shapes with extensoin soles��� right up to the very .hour In style. T.he lien's Shoes are made of Dongola Kid, AVal Calf, etc. .New styles, all sizes. Give out ��2.30 Shoes a trial; that's the ibc. By H. Williamson, ol Ihe Independent. ;j ^^{���){;>:*K**i;*;l;^r>>K*5!^K^K Since If wiou- last week 1 am sorry ���to anniuinit- that the miner who was ,30 seriously injuivd ut Phoenix lias ���died. The otlier two, howe\\er, are gct- IhiS nlonif tn- well ;.s can be expected. __.lith.uy i-J the terminus of the C. P. J_. in the I'.iuiiuliiry country. This is rather a small town and very quiet at present. The people here ure looking forward to the road being continued .on up through lloi-lc Creek, talking in ������Camp -JIoKiniiey and connecting with llie coast. I spent a couple of days :it the \"West \"JToillcs -with my ibrotheiv,. vt hu huive a ranch there. The several hue and cry at this point it. \"give us a railittnil so that .wc can gel our products to iikii- ''set.\" This part ol the Boundary Is a .Kreat producer of general farm produce and is a very valuable section of the district. ���Since arriviiur baok In Greenwood I ���Iind that the miners .have bad a very ���important change in the personnel of the oillcers anil trustees of tlieir uiiioi. - Air. G. P. Dougherty, formerly th\"* ���president, has ibeen elected tbe new ^6epflarj--treii_:Ui-er, vice Mr. Kane, resigned. The following is the complete list: Donald McGlnshen, pre.slilt.iit: Samuel lUcOlelltinil, tvice-president; G. \"3S. Dougherty, secietary-treasui'tr; .R. *C. Morrison, lecoi'dins-secfelury: Jas.. Davidson, conductor; Nels Larson,, warden: S. .McClelland. N*. Larson. Murdor-lc Kempt. H. E. Poulinier and 3. D. *\\Vlic-l.-in, trustees. The new president is a Nova 'Scotian. and the ne.v secretary hails from Butle, ilontaua, w'liere he had resided for about 1-1 years and where 'Ik- was connected oft and on with the International revenue ollice jis cleric of tlie district court-. He -Was also in tiie employ of the Anticon- -d-aand Parrot companies.- The icliriiig secretary', Mr. Kane, has been an enor- Betlc officer. .He has several claims that lie is most anxious lo go tn'Or, and, besides, he has an hotel al Phoenix, whicli he is desirous Ot taking over and running it himself. During the past six months tlie . (Greenwood Miners' union 'has paid out J1,1__0 in sick 'benefits to the members. The membership has during the same 3>eriod increased about ICO. per cent.��� to be accurate from about 12�� to inO old member.\".--. L_wlll _leave_foi-__the_coiist_ about tbe end of the week. GIUA.XD CONCERT. In a few vveelks there will 'be a srnnd production of the cantata, \"Kstl.er, the ISeautlful Queen,\" in aid of a I'lillilien's vraM In the proposed new city hospital. Tlie project hus met with the almost universal approval of tbe loudliii. iwoplc of this cily, and has .secured tin- co-operation of about 13 of our lumlins musiclnns. Iteliertrsals are held at the Conservatory of Music, nt 7:lj every Thursday evening, and are progres.i- Jnff most favorably. Any siiiKCis cle- eiroUH of iildlnir so worthy nu obj.-ot should at once report. The following is a. synopsis of this \"beautiful and Instructive wonk: Esther was horn In Persia about 300 years before Christ. ���From infancy an orphan, she w:is ���adopted ���by her uncle, Morilfteiil, nnd trained in the accomplishments of highest womanhood. She was a great natural Ibeauty, and vvas chosen iby\" the King to be his wife and queen. Bu Bhe \"did not disclose the fact that she %vas a Jewess. Now, Hainan was .the king's chief minister and favorite, and he .hated Mordecai because die ��� would not bow before him, as the k'lng had ���commanded all to do. He, however, did TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL not know Mordecai's relationship to the queen. In revenge therefor he obtained from .the king a decree to destroy all the Jews in the 1'27 provinces under ?iis sway. - Moi'deeai discovered the plot, and charged the queen to petition the king for the safety of her people. This she did at the peril of 'lier life, because of the law that no ono might go unco tlie Iking unhidden. The king .heard lier petition, nnd Hainan was defeated. Hainan had made ready for Mordecai a gallows ,.0 cubits high. An attendant informed the 'king of the fact. The king in and coal needed uf the best quality, p.nij at ivi.li; bottom figures! The smelting interests of the province demand and must have competition in fuel sun- ���ply, aa well as in freight. It is absolutely essential; otherwise the major profits from our low grade ores will go into the capacious maw of the Crow's Nest Coal company, which now has a practical monopoly.���Phoenix Pioneer. BEHIND AS USUAL. The Railway subsidies brought down this year in the Ontario legislature call for grants totalling $631,000. The IronUale, Bancroft & Ottawa Railway gets $210,000, including a rebate of *:��,- 000, tho Idea being; to complete a short and more direct route from the Ottawa Valley to Toronto. The Thunder Boy & St. .Toe Railway gets $2,000 a mile for 10 miles and 5,000 -acres of land per mile. The C. P. R. gets $11,000 a mile for 15 miles from Dinorwlc to Lake Minetuke. Thin will give ntivlgation to Lac Settle-. The James Hay Railway gets a cash subsidy of $1,000 a mile or $9.\">,000 In all from a point on the Canada Atlantic, near Rose Point to the C. P. lt. near Sudbury. The subsidies seem sudly small by comparison wilh those offered to the Canadian Northern et al. by British Columbia. But Ontario Is not a prodigal Province with \"money to hurn,\" or rather bestow, on railroad promoters, already well on the way to become multl-mll- llonulres. \"To them thut have shall be given,\" Is the political maxim of the rulers of the Pacific Province, whilst from \"them that Ihave not\"���the majority of the people���shall be taken that which they think they have, or may have for themselves or their descendants in, a very visionary by-and-by.��� News-Advertiser. Advertise in -The Independent. CANADIAN. The stove-mounter--* of 1'ra.nttord, On- turio, have organized. The Lardeau Miners' union have deckled to build a hospital. Tlie Sandon miners' union hospital will hold their annual ball on March 17th. I'leslilent Ralph Smith of the Tradfs and Labor Congress of Canada is werl- ously 111 at Ottawa. The threshers of Gait a:i.i Crnn'.forrt have organized. This is the beginning of iho organizing of tlie farm wot iters of Ontario. The masons and plasterers are about to organize a union at Revelstoke. The rate of wages demanded iby the meni- bei-s of Uhe above union throughout Kootenay is $3 a day of eight hours. The master painters of Toronto lut.-e decided to declare a lock-out on March 17th, If 'the employees persist In demanding increased wages. The (plumbers ^aiiil gatj-litters are asking for a minimum rate of 37 1-2 cents an 'hour and an eight-hour day. Census figures of Newfoundland place the population at 220,2-l'.i, of whioh Newfoundland has ,210.013 und Labrador 3,631. According -to the figures of 1S91 Newfoundland had 107,')30 inhabitants, while Labrador had 1,106. The increase shown by the liiit report equals about 9 per cent, of llie total population in lS'.il. The Sandon 'Miners, union held its svml-nnnunlj election of oillcers last week. Following are the unities of the successful candidates: President, G?o. Nichol; ivice-pi-csident, It. M. *\\Vpl_ster; recording secretary, S. U. Clement; iiuaneial secretary, D. B. O'Neil; conductor, George F. Clement; warden, Eric Lemieux; trustees, F. G. Carlisle, Dun 'Nichol, William Foiguson. Mr. John Armstrong, No. '.li's c.ii.i'i- diilu for the- Childs-Di-L-xel houi..- for union .printers, received the endorsation ot nearly 30 unions throimiuuit the jurisdiction, ���which is considered ri-mai-ku'ble, us .he entered the fielJ til a. very late date. .Mr. Armstrong' is one of the olilc-st meinbers of the Toronto Printers' union, and in 1S7!> vvas president of the 1. T. U. of America. The sealers' strike- at St. John's, Nlld., is ended, and the steamers have sailed for the ice-iloes. The committee directed all the men to join thair ships, and within two hours till the ships had crews and put to sea. The agreement is that the- man shall get $3.50, as against $3.:'3 last year, per hundred-weight for seals. They also get tree .berths, as against the lormer charge ot $3 each. 'The mineral production of Canada last year totaled $72,000,000, of 'Which the Yukon yielded $18,500,000. British Columbia's .principal mineral products were gold, coke, copper, silver, lead, etc., valued at '$20,700,000. The Northwest Territories and Manitoba contributed gold, coal, gypsum, building material, .worth $3,000,000. Ontario's products were Iron, steel, iron ore, copper, nickel, gold, graphite, natural gas. mica and oil, 'worth $13,000,000. Nova Scotia equaled Ontario, its products of COM, lion, steel, gold, gypsum and grindstones ibeing valued at $13,000,003. AMERICAN. Cheyenne, Wyo., has a live union paper and 22 union's. Fresno is bragging that it will be the *best organlzed'town on the coast by April 1st. lihe Laundry Workers of San Francisco are preparing to ask for a slight increase in pay on the expiration of their present contracts. James XV. Tufts, the millionaire soda \"fountdin\"~m\"anufacturer_of~Kostonrlei't by ihis 'Will the sum of $S0,O0O to be divided among his employees. ���A headlight has recently 'been Invented iw.hich turns with the curves of the track Instead or shining in a straight line with the boiler, thus keeping the light always on the track. ' The Kansas City Lrouor Record is complaining that the A. F. of L. pays no heed to their culls for an org.inlzsr und Is on the verge of turning lo tlie Western Labor union for help. * The miners liave Instituted a new holiday to be known ns \"Anti-Injunction day.\" May 17th ls the date- appointed, and they usked trade uulonlsLs everywhere lo adopt the suggestion. The Journeymen Tinkers or Dallas, Tox., are on strike. The master bakers are. In effect, thcatening the hotels and restaurants with 'blacklisting ir they favor union label Ibrend at tills time. ���Some one seems to ihave a grudge against the carpenters of California.' First the eastern papers were filled with announcements that carpenters were wanted at good wages in Los An-, gelt-s, until the town is over-run with men searching for the promised work. Now' the San Francisco .papers have published advertisements to tlie effect that carpeuteis are wanted in San Jose, llakerslleld and Sacramento, when the '.ruth is that those towns already have u surplus of help. The members of the San Francisco Sign and Pictorial Painters union have received an advance cf $1 a djy. Tho sign painters will now receive ?4.50 for an eight-hour day and the pl.-toritil painters $5.30. The Introduction of the working card system ihas proved a strong point for the unions of Fresno. Last year th-j contractors tried to ikeep their men out of the unions. This year they are telling them to go in. The Tcne Haute stieet cur strikers have sume most loyal supporters. Eighty-five children at Selbyvllle, Ind., picked up their books and left school because some of their teachers rode on the boycotted line. A strike is threatened on the Denvet and'Rio Grande anil Rio Grande Western between Denver and Ogden on account of the summitry dismissal of numbers of employees. Investigations are now being made. The city of ���Memphis, Tenn, is getting along with vary little plumbing these days. The plumbers are locked out by the bosses, who tried to force a diiferent scale of prices and distaste fui shop rules upon them. Mr. Erackden, a good union mnn who has got Into the Ohio legislature, 'has Introduced a bill providing a miiiimun wage scale for teachers in the public schools, .based upon the- years of experience and the grade of the teacher's certificate. It is uin.ouneed in the pres-s dU- putehes that the difficulties with the National Cash Register jieople have been settled at a conference 'presided over 'by a committee of ihe National civic fed.;; a tion. 'But the terms or sei- tlenient are not given. | YOU'LL NEED HEAT j�� \\ Before long now. Tho best heaters made ��� ���the cheapest to buy and the most eco- ��� nomical to use are the v JJ AIR-TIGHTS AND X BASE BURNERS. + made by the McClary Mfg. Co.- ��� ��� Wm. RALPH, 126 Hastings St. | A SOLE AGENT 2 M This high 6-rade WALL FINISH .Is in . __i __t f**. *-*. I **. Skater demand this year than ever. ���flB\"_P\"_rlni___ifli BECAUSE it mixes ��� easier, works \\aM B a\\Ja\\ I \\mW cosier, looks 'hotter and lasts longer ��� than any otlier illnlsh manufactured. Asflt for the \"best and the best Is MURTLO. blade In twenty-four shades and .white. Sole Agents, McLennan, McFeely & Co*. Phone 14. 122 Cordova 'Street., Vuncouvor, B.C. Phone IOCS FOHKIGN. The IJengul government litis suppressed bai'iiiaiil.s. The next international socialist tun- gress will 'bo .held at Amsterdam, in August, 11103. Cablegrams announce the execution of a number of the strikers who were arreslL-d during the recent Barcelona riots. The Prussian government is asking for a loan of JS.000,000 marks, wllh which to purchase tlie coal fields of Westphalia. Mornrjl V. Nuik has formed a co-op- ertutlve society on the Roc-lida!-: plan in 'Bombay. The society has at present twelve- inem'bers und excellent prospects. ���The socialists of Berlin, have started u movement to nbollsh night work for women and to establish the eight- hour system for nigiht labor for adutt males. Twenty-live thousand men are idle in S'ieiinu, and great suffering is reported unions the laboring people. The troops recently fired upon a mob ol hungry men and women. It is Said that a bona fide socialist party is'being formed in New Zealand. The trades council of Christchurch endorsed the movement and voted to become a branch, and the new party is rapidly spreading among the organuea workers. France will soon hold its general elections and the rapid growth of the socialist movement is putting the politicians on* tlie anxious seat. Prince Bonaparte has come out in opposition to socialism, and offers to \"suvi France,\" hut Ihe is not looked upon with favor toy the republicans. The British Miners' federation having adopted the principle of direct- re- presentation liT^parliamMitriK~reduclng its proposals to practice with commendable zeal. There arc over S70,000 unionists affiliated to the federation and the scheme adopted Is that for each of these ls. per year sliall be paid Into il representation fund, each affiliated union 'being 'then free to select one candidate for e-noli 10,000 members, the legal election expenses being puyuble from the fund, together with a maintenance of -CIPiO per session und a first- class railway pass for ouCh memiber returned. I'ndcr .these proposals the fuiid Income should amount to ��18,7uii a. year, and the number of federated candidates ��t next election too :)7. If all the 37 candldaltes .were returned, tho molntenanco allowance, exclusive of the railway pass, -would absorb .Cll2,95i_ a year, leaving a handsome surplus to accumulate for election purposes, Mothers Know a Great Deal [About Boys' Clothing But do you suppose they ever dreamed .that it would reach the ���perfection it has now attained. Our window tells the story���gaze iu and see the smartest tWngs In Boys' Suite that you ever saiw. Perhaips you have a boy���then you may tbe tempted to come inside and ask questions about our Boys' Suits. JOHNSTON, KERf GOT i* CO. 104- and 106 Cordova Street. Trunk Store 12? tlasllngs St., 0|i|>. Wm. Ralph's. KELLY, DOUGLAS & CO. WHOLESALE GROCERS, Cordova and Water Streets, - Vancouver, B. C. ���> [JQf\" Headquarters for Domestic and lm- Jjorted Cigars and Smoking Sundries. Dinner Sets We are sihowiing a splendid assortment of New Dinner Sets, running in price from $8.00 to $50.00. . They are the best English Semi-Porcelain goods. O,. The famous \"Crown Darby\" patterns .are among 'them. R. G. BUCHANAN ���� CO. CIIOCKKKY AXD HOUSE KL'KNlSIIiNGS, Telephone 9-1-5. 409 Huttings Street. ��� �������<>-���������������� ������������������� t Wishing the Citizens of Vancouver a Prosperous New Year_^> ���we again want it known that we are still doing business at the old stand and invite you to make us a cull. Get prices, note quality and be happy for 1902. FORD'S GROCERY Tel. 726. 25 Hastings St. E. ��� ���������������������� *>*>99*>9 ^ -T__l-_.urthe.r_noHce_W9 ��� 9 will sell * Watches at 10 Per Cent. Less than any advertised price $ of any other store in the oity. J DAVIDSON BROS., | The Jewelers. ' * ���^���^���5K*Ht*H-:*H*:^H*H(^f;^K^*; The\" A new hroom -I.s supposed to sweep clean, one with the label on ���will sweep cleaner; try It. The broom makers are organized and should Ibe assisted, look for their laibel .when buying a (broom. In order ito have a \"pull\" in .politics It ls necessary to starifl in with the \"ousto!\" Httvlnt: the Only Up-to-Dato Grill Room in B.C. which in Itself Is a guarantee ulaFlret-ClaisHotel and Restaurant. Seymour Streeet, Klint's Dyspepsia Tablet! are guar- ��� nued to restore falling appetite and ���orret^ any kind of stomach tronbl\". ���i c. box. McDowell, Atkins, Watson ��AVOY THEATRE McDostli, it SiMi'SON Pioprletors. Alf. P. James Slat's Mnnuger, . Week Commencing Monday, Next Artistic and Refined Vaudeville. o EVERY ACT A FEATURE. . . MASKS A _r-.Cl.UTY OF . . ��' Dewafs special Liqueur\" also -'. �� usher's bigck LoDe) Liqueur wmsMv;. -LARGE STOCK OK- IMPORTKD AND DOMESTIC . Ciqars. R. B. Mulligan & Co., Props, Coiner Cordova and Cabrall. | : GEO. HAY : �� 4&S Vancouver's Pioneer Clothes ^^.~- ^J Renovator, makes a suit now. jT ? Dyeing and Repairing. X. Al ��� 216 Cambie St., Vancooveii. jfc Tel. 346���Laundry. Tel. 1175���Branch. The Sanitary Conditions ot tho Pioneer I_avndry tire perfect. There Is an abundance of light and fresh, pure air���the -Laundry ���belns In a blook by Itself with lots of space all' around'it. Scrupulous cleanliness marks every nook and' corner. The watchword of tho whole Institution ls \"OLiEAiNMNESS\" nnd from tho timo our driver tiikei your bundle until Jt Is returned to yo>u It will' Havo passed through tho hand* of whito peoplo only. Steam Laundry Phone 346. 910 ��� 014 RicnARns St Downtown Office, No. 4 Arcade. WHITf HUP ONLV. For the noxt SO days you can get a suit sd i your own- price at THE\" ACME To introduce our new system of talUiliig >*- - tore our ���Kail Stock anlvti. 2 G*M��ii>StS. CI4, HallMtf. Cutter ~"@en, "Print Run: 1900-1903

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