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BC Historical Newspapers
The oldest mining camp newspaper in British Columbia. ; The Ledge was published in Greenwood, in the Kootenay Boundary region of southern British Columbia. The Ledge was published by James W. Grier until 1907, and was subsequently published by R. T. Lowery (1907-1920) and G. W. A. Smith (1920-1929). The paper's longest-serving editor was R. T. Lowery (1906-1926), a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. The Ledge absorbed the Boundary Creek Times in April 1911, and was published under a variant title, the Greenwood Ledge, from August 1926 to May 1929.
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p I���������" Vol. XVI. Ifi^^UtM^^ 'teJZSW- ' "-7*' 7 GREENrt-OOD, B. C", THURSDAir, JANUARY 13, 1910. No. 27. C. F. STORK Dry Goods, Shoes, Furs, MilKnery, Ladies' Furnishings Stock always complete and Prices the Very lowest, 0 I C for House Furnisbings,' new and second hand. ��������� Blankets, Quilts, Pillows, Sheets', Pillow Slips, Fire Ammunition^ Cutlery, Trunks, ���������Valises. Light Bobsleighs, Horses, if [Spring Wagon, Oat Hay. If you can't come, write, or phone' i\ ������ 9/9 -^^^^^���������^^^^^^^v*vv������^������^-'lJV^%^%^^' &%,'&&&wm,s 16. What we have not in stock Noah lost iu the Ark. A. L. WHITE The Furniture and Stove Man. PHONE 16. Cheese 50 cents a pound, and ^ Cranberries 15 cents a. -quart. ��������� Macaroni'from Italy and Chees from Switzer- , land.. Italian Peas and Beans ;' also some from Quebec. Plenty of (Good Apples,-and tons .of-Christie's .Biscuits. ..... j . . . ��������� f | Russell-Law-Caulfleld Co., Ltd. | ' Hardware.v Groceries. Furnishings. Crockery. %^r%^r%^/9,'9^9y^/9/9^9,'-, -Vfe/WtVt/& -*/**fc-**V&-V^r*V������/**fc^&,%i We have just received a shipment of Clocks of the very newest designs in Marbelized Wood. ��������� Enameled Wood, ancl Alission Finish. Also i . Something' Very ' Nifty in Mantle Clocks. A. LOGAN & CO. ���������; ~ . Jewelers, Greenwood, B. C. RJAYNES Nabob Coffee and .; ,V:*.Tea-';^:^n 45 cents a Pouricl Our Prices are The Lowest in the City Pastry Baked Daily and Always Fresh.��������� Regular monthly meetings of Greenwood lodge No. 28, A. F. /\f~ & A. M., are held on the first Thursday in each month in Fraternity hall, Wood block, Government street, Greenwood. Visiting brethren are cordially invited to attend. JAS, 8. BIKNIK. Secretary, W.F. Greenwood Miners' Union, No. 2-2, W. P M., meets every Saturday evening in Union Hall, Copper street, Greenwood, at 7:30. Also in hall at Mother Lode mine Fridav evenings at 7:80. GEO. HEATHERTON, Secretary Take yoiir Repairs to A D. MORRISON Grand Forks, tbe Leading -.,J*V-.!( . A promiiientpowder man will shortly wed a lady in, Spokane.,_, Mrs. S. A.* Crowell of Midway was a visitor in the city Mqnday. Alex. Stewart'o'fj.S'ocan City is' on a visit to his brother, Dan Stewart. The new eity. council will" have its initial ineeting.next Monday evening. ' I ���������' ' Sydney M.k Johnson, wife and family have gone on a visit lo Stratford, Ont. James Turner -is--.spending -a few days in the city. He comes from Missouri. * Thomas Walsh-will-be granted a license this month for his ho'tel at Bridesville. ^ ������,.. It is reported5 that j operations will be resumed upon the Emma mine in March. Big Andy Johnson is - doing a rushing business at the Central hotel, in Phoenix. Wm. McBride left" Tuesday morning for Idaho, where he will engage in fann- in&" ":i| ��������� ������������������ .. - Near Beaverdell a ledge three feet wide' has. been struck on "the Standard Fraction. " - ���������/ ' .,,...-���������* In Phoenix Batt Boone has leased the dining room of the Dominion hotel to J. Ij. Clark. ��������� .. ,r...y-i The bachelors entertained their friends to a dance in the Auditorium yesterday evening. ,. v.'f"���������,;ii? ,' Ori .Tuesday in Grand Forks the hockey team of that city defeated Phoenix by a score of 5 to 3. " ;j The ice crop* in 1-Greenwood is very- heavy this winter. Seme of the ice put up is 20 inches thick. / "Tlie-Bonnie-Briar ,Bush" company played to a large audience in the Auditorium Tuesday evening. A liquor license has been refused the only hotel in Boundary Falls. The reason is unknown to the public. -. It is likely that a special train will be run from Greenwood when the local hockey team plays iii Grand Forks. Near Beaverdell on, the dump ofthe Buster there are eight tons of ore that will run in value from $100 to $200 a ton. Eagles install Office is. Monday evening of last week the following officers of Greenwood Eyrie, F. O. E., were installed to serve for 19:0: Wm. Frawley, President. Ola Lofstad, Vice-President. . - Geo. Lamb, Chaplain. Fred. B. Holmes, Secretary. .- . A. Sater, Treasurer. ' " , O. Hartmann,' I. G. Thos.,Edwards, O. G. During the past year the Eyrie has made very satisfactory progress. . I 0. 0. F. Installation. The following officers of Boundary Valley lodge, No. 38, I. O. O), were installed on Tuesday evening: Fred. B. Holmes (P. G.), N. G. F. E. nrown, V. G. A. Logan (P. G.). R. S. G. B. Taylor (P. G.). F. S. A. E. Braithwaite (P. G.), Treas. T, L. While (P. G.), Warden. D. A. McDonald (P. G.), Conductor. W. B. Fleming (P. G.), I. G. W. Elson (P. G ), 0. G. A. Jaynes, R. S. N. G. . J. A. McMillan, L. S. N. G. , L. L. Mathews. R. S. V. G. . A. Keir, L.S. V. G. ' W. .Watson, R. S. S. A. E. Pemberton, L. S. S. The installation was conducted by F. McDougald, D. D. G. M., assisted by Past Grands Logan, Cook, White Mc- Cague and Fleming. A large number were present from Phoenix and the Mother Lode and refreshments were served after the installation. Western Float t 36Q The Kingston mine near Hedley has suspended operations. 1 , , Last year the Rossland camp produced 237.57s tons'of ore, valued at $2,862,024. Frank Hartinger has completed his new hotel at Grand , Forks at a cost of #22,000. Pat Byrnes is doing work at his claims upon Hardy mountain. After a long visit to Scotland N. D. Mcintosh has returned to Grand Forks. A few half-starved horses wander occasionally around the streets of Grand Forks. f Efforts are being made to organize a brass baud at Princeton The police have run the,, tinhorns out of Revelstoke. Sid Brown- of Groville is seeking for a lease of Richlcr's hotel at Osoyoos. ��������� Princeton coal is sold at Keremeos for $7. This price is rather high forsucha short distance from the mine. Wanted���������Goorl live business of any description. Must be a paying proposition. Vancouver Locators, Loo Block, Vancouver. City Council. The council met on Monday evening and passed the following accounts: B. C. Times $ 16.40; The Ledge, ������8.40; Dr. McLean, $58.00'. The Mineral Output/ found P. BURNS & 60. - Dealers in Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish, and Poultry. Shops in nearly all the towns of Boundary and Kootenay. COPPER STREET, GREENWOOD of the Boundary District CITY PHOENIX BEER is delicious in taste.and free from impurities. Order . a( case or bottle at the earliest opportunity. Phoenix - Brewing - Co* (Limited.) The Pride of Western Canada. Phone 138, Greenwood Baggage transferred to any part of the City. Furniture moved to any part of the District." General Dray- ing of all kinds. SIDNEY OLIVER. \$9999999999QG99&99������999991 Get your Razt rs Honed ] and your Baths at Frawley9s Barber Shop, Greenwood, M. B. Jackson of Victoria has bought the interest held by^Thomas Russell in the iron mines north 'of Port Arthur iu Ontario. -. ���������-���������������������������. At the curling bonspiel in Nelson upon January 24 Greenwood will likely be represented.by Messrs, McMynn. Petrie, Bishop and Dr. McLean. Previous to her .departure for Greenwood Annie Carlson ..vfSs presented with a watch-by the .boarders of the" Great Northern hotel iii Hedley.- Jumes Summers and Nelson Carson have returned to Phoenix, from the east, where they spent three months selling ihe stock of a local 'mining company. , ,J: W. Frost has returned from a visit to the" coast cities.-' 'He'' w'ill remain - in' Greenwood until spring, and then go1 east to work on his iron claims iu Ontario. J. R. Jackson, M. P. P., went to Victoria last Saturday. He carried a large book in which are written all the things that John has been asked to get for this district.. The dance at the Hotel Ladysmith on Tuesday evening was a happy event. A large number were present from Phoenix and the Mother Lode and the light fantastic toe was tripped until four in the morning. Tom Peck, the C. P. R. conductor, has so far recovered from .his recent severe attack of pneumonia' that he will be discharged from the Greenwood hospital next week. " PHOENIX, B.C. Is opposite tlie Great Northern depot and is a delightful haven for the weary traveler. Great veins of hot water run through the entire house, and bathrooms are always at the service of thore in eearr-h of material cleanliness.' The dining room is an enemy to dyspepsia, while the aitistic appointment ofthe liquid refreshment ��������� makes the drinks go down like eating fruit in a flower garden, The sample rooms are the largest in the mountains and a pleasure to drummers, with big trunks. JAS. MARSHALL - - PROPRIETOR MERCHANT TAILOR Clothes Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired. Dry Cleaning a Specialty. GREENWOOD, B, 0. e������������������������������������������������������e������������������������������e������������iiB������*s������������������s������ee9������������������������������*������9������o������������ James Buchanan & Co's BLACK AND WHITE, AND! HOUSE OF C0SVJSV1UW6 GREENWOOD LIQUOR CO. IMPORTERS, GREENWOOD, B.C. PROCTER & BLACKWOOD NELSON, B.C. Real Estate, Mines, Insurance and Fruit Lands. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. STARKEY & CO, NELSON, B.C. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Produce antv Provisions " Self-conceit on fact. isn't necessarily founded If you are not open to conviction you must hayp been "convicted,1' In the tunnel of the Argo Mining Co. the_ rock has changed to solid granste which is a very favorable indication. When the'eompany strike a body of ore there will be a great demand for stock. Practical men consider it one of the best investments in the camp. The Frechette Attachment company is being organized in Greenwood for the purpose of manufacturing a horse collar attachment recently patented by A. A. Frechette. Sufficient money has been subscribed by local men to defray the expense of incorporation. Joe Kelly has sold this winter in Waterville and Spokane several iarge blocks of stock of the Alaska Mining Co. The company is operating tha Buster and Alaska, two promising properties up the West Fork of Kettle river, about three miles from Beaverdell, The shaft on the Buster is down 90 feet and iii a drift from it a 6-inch paystreak has been struck in a ledge that is nearly three feet in width. An item appeared in this paper last week stating that it was reported a wife- beaters' club had been organized in Greenwood. - A. resident of the city has taken objection to the item and asked the editor to apologize. The resident informs this journal that no club has been organized of that kind, so the editor in order to keep peace upon earth apologize for printing a local that mentioned no time or person. The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. has recently paid over . $20,000 for claims adjoining the No. 7 in Central cemp. For the Black Jack Messrs. Bur- bank,. Buchanan and Cook received $3,000. and the same amount was paid Alex. McDonald aud E. O. Lewis for the Caberfae Fraction. There are about 30 men working iu Central camp in and about thc No. 7. and in a short time that number will be materially increased. The Nominations .On Monday the mayor and aldermen were elected by acclamation.' For Mayor���������Duncan Mcintosh, nominated by S. P. Dixon and H. McCutcheon. SOUTH WARD. H. McKec, nominated by S. P. Dixon and Daniel A. McDonald. James Sutherland, nominated by C. A. Dempsey and D. Mcintosh. S. P. Dixon, nominated by C. J. Bales and W. VV. Craig. NORTH WARD. F. C. Bucklcfis, nominated by II. Bunting, W. B. Fleming and J. L. Coles. W. W. Craig, nominated by D. Mcintosh and S. P. Dixon. A. Sater, nominated by. S. P. Dixon and T. Jenkins. The school trustees were also elected by acclamation. P. W. McLaine and Hugh McCutcheon, both nominated by J, S, Bli-nic and I. H. Hallett. Last week the Nelson News publishen its annual report upon the mining^in- dustry of British Colnuibia. The review was edited by E. Jacobs, one of the hardest working and best informed mining writers in the West. The Review reflects credit upon Nelson's greatest newspaper, and is an advertisement of great value to this province. The product for the province for 1909 is: Placer gold, 30,000 ounces, value #600,000; lode gold, 250.000 ounces, value $5,167,500. Total value $5,767,500. Silver, 3,000,- 000 ounces, value, $1,470,000. Lead, 46,000,000 pounds, valne $1,748,000. Copper, 41,000,000 pounds, value, $5,289,000. Zinc, 270,000 pounds, value $500,000. Total metallic output $14,774,500. Coal, 1,940,000 tons, value $6,790,000. Coke, 277,000 tons, value $������,662,000. Building materials, etc , $t,200,000. Total value of production $24,426,500, as against $23,- 851.277 in 190S. The aggregate value of British Columbia mineral production for the pastil years is shown to be $356,060,000, made up as follows: Gold, $120,317,000;.silver, $23,278,000; "copper," $55,242,000;'���������" other metals, $991,000; coke and coal, $102,- 782,000; building materials, $9,693,000. B. C Neglected. In the course of the budget debate in Ottawa, G. H. Barnard of Victoria entered a strong protest against the manner in which British Columbia is discriminated against in the matter of harbor improvements and ocean and river service. He took the following subjects : Tonnage of sea going vessels ; tonnage of coasting vessels; exports and imports; duties paid; excise revenue; postal transactions. Under each of these heads lie showed that on the figures for '190S-9 British Columbia i far ahead of both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. For example, the exports and imports of British Columbia in that year amounted to $43,000,0000 as against $36,000,000 in the case of Nova Scotia, and $30,ooo,oooin the case of New Brunswick. British Co- lumbia.paid $4,400,000 in duties as against $2,100,000 by New'Brunswick and $1,500,- 000 Iby Nova Scotia. The excise duty by British Columbia amountsd to $533,- 000 as against $232,000 by New Brunswick and $156,000 by Nova Scotia. The sea-going tonnage of British Columbia was 6,300,000 as against 4,300.000 for Nova Scotia and 2,100,000 for New Brunswick. The coastiug tonnage of British Columbia was S,8ao,ooo as against 4,100,000 for Nova Scotia and 1,700,000 for New Brunswick. Yet despite these circumstances British Columbia gets very much less than her fair share of the money designed to improve the trade of the country. Iu the last ten years the sum of nearly $1,700,000 has been spent on Halifax, and up to the end of 1909 very nearly $2,000,000 on St. John. During thc present year the province of New Brunswick is to obtain $1,- 241,000 for harbor and river improvements and dredging. Nova Scotia for the-same purposes is to have $1,076,000 spent on it. But when we come to British Columbia, said Mr. Barnard, we find a very different condition of things. We find that" the harbor of Victoria is receiving $65,000, that the harbor of Vancouver is receiving $90,000, that the province of British Columbia generally is receiving for dredging $225,000, that there is a general appropriation for thc harbors and rivers of $139,850, making $418,650 in all for the province of British Columbia. That is to say that the Province of British Columbia is to receive on account of these' expenditures a sum amounting to a little less than twenty per cent of the total appropriations for the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. ' Watered tha Boozd. An Indian with a name not pronounce able in English, and who for the'sake of convenience is called Harry, was fined $50 and costs by Magistrate Neill at Kyitoquot on Monday 011 a conviction of having sold liquor lo another Indian known as Jack. Harry bad been to Victoria and returned to his home with a number of small flasks 'of rye whiskey which lie retailed among the members of his tribe at $1.50 a flask. Harry admitted that these bottles had cost htm only 50 cents, but he figured that the risk he took, together with a strong demand for his goods, justified him iu making large profits. The buyers did not object to tlie price so long as the goods were the real stuff, but Jack, after consuming three flasks, and failing to reach a satisfactory state of hilarity, became suspicious that Harry had sola him mostly water, wliich is even cheaper in Kyitoquot than in Victoria, and informed ou the Pedlar.��������� Alberni Pioneer. WlddoW8on, Assayer, Nelson, B. C. Edwin John, a Cariboo pioueer, died in Victoria last week. - Princeton coal is now being sold in Spokane. Hedley does riot- like its box-car station. ' A smelter may be built near the proposed' coke works- at Welldo or Granite Creek , The Princeton Star says that plans are under way to run 500 feet of tunnel upon the Columbia Copper company's property upon Friday creek.- This tunnel, when finished, will put in sight a million tons ofore. _ Screened coal is sold at the coal mine near Princeton for $4 a ton. It sells for $5 in Princeton. Petroleum is said to have been near Abbotsford. Antoine Laprone, the oldest inhabitant of B. C, died in Kamloops upon Christmas Eve aged 111 years. He was a pensioner of the Hudson's Bay company, for whom he worked as a trapper and courier in the fore part of last century. During 1909 there were 959 marriage licenses issued in Victoria.. Not far from Princeton deer are wandering in large herds in Whipsaw basin. Bob Stevenson nas twelve men working at his mine near Princeton. ' r. In East Kootenay it cost Garrett Wor- son of Spokane $105 to shoot a mountain goat without a game license. It was 60 below zero in White Horse last month, and the editor of the Star has gone south to prospect for carbon. In the recent election it cost the province $320 to have eight men poll their votes at Canoe river. In his cabin at Alberni George Cromp- ton was found dead. The police found a bank, book behind the panel of a door, showing that the old man had $800 to his credit. Bill Hennessey, formerly of the Slocan, is living. i*.f-.Lps^Angeles; Fo'r*years" he has been 'mining in Nevada; '---���������*' Last year'the-mineral output of Nevada was worth $40,000,000. Arizona produced last year 165,000 tons of copper. The highest price paid per foot for real estate in Fernie last year was $266. - At Osoyoos lake fifteen surveyors are camped who will survey the. route for Jim Hill's road from Oroville to Penticton A sanitarium for treating nervous diseases has been opened at Sidney. J. 0. McMullen. inspector of provincial police, has succeeded Wm. Manson at Prince Rupert as government agent. Permission has been given the Indians in northern B. C. to kill beaver. . Milk is nine cents a quart in New York. It is cheaper than that in Bridesville. In 1909 Canada produced 167,000,000 bushels of wheat, valued Lachlan McDonald died in Summer- laud aged 67 years. In Victoria seventy rooms are being added to the Empress'hotel. It is reported that Ex-Governor Mackintosh, formerly of Regina, Rossland and other points, is about to make another fortune in the Gowganda silver camp in Ontario. Charley has had a spectacular career since the days when he was city- editor of the London Free Press in 1862. During the boom in Rossland he is said to have made $600,000 out of the sale of the Le Roi. The milkmen in Victoria are lieble to be prosecuted for raising the price of lacteal fluid. A railway is to be built from Winnipeg to Dawson and the Yukon. It will touch Lethbridge, Calgary. Edmonton, and go through the Peace River country. The road will be 2,000 miles long and cost fifty millions of dollars to build. The 'Layritz nursery has opened a branch at Kelowna. Mike Ward and "John Williams have been committed for trial, charged with tapping the till of the Queen's hotel in Fernie. In 1909 the St. Eugene mine at Moyie produced $705,000 -worth of ore and employed 350 men. The Apex mine near 'Chesaw is shut down in order to install a compressorand other machinery. The Duluth-Torodo mine has made a shipment to the Granby smelter. This mine has recently shipped two gold bricks east and employs 15 men. The residence of Roy Sweeney near Oknnagan Mission was burned at an expense of $3,000. A company has been formed to work a marble quarry not far from Spokane. Mighton & Cavanaugh have sold out their business in Nelson and will open in Vancouver. Their departure leaves only one'stock broker in the Kootenay metropolis. On Monday at Moyie the St. Eugene mine paid out $31,000. Electric lights will flash in Fort George next summer. A company is being incorporated to build a railway Irom Eagle lake to a point near Barkerville. The B. C. Express Co is building a $40,000 steamboat to run between Sod.i Geek'and Fort George. Thc name of Mission City is to be changed. In Barkerville last mouth a local amateur dramatic company played "The Virginian." None of tbe actors were seriously injured, although an hour or two after tbe performance some' of thorn could hardlv walk home. In sixteen years the mines in Rossland camp have produced ore valued at ,$46,- 793.454. This is a record to be proud of in a section J:hat' at one time was supposed to be iron caps. '. To check the, growing cigarette habit among the school'boys of; Seattle, the board of education has, detailed 'a-special'- officer for the sole purpose of detecting' the-smokers and. .prosecuting dealers caught selling cigarettes and','de mak-' ins" to the youngsters. In many, instances were boys have been found backward, in their studies, the trouble has .b.-en -traced, to cigarettes. -In fact, it is now being urged that a special school be established, where victims of the cigarette habit can obtain instruction and freedom ��������� from their enslavement. The fight on undesirable employment agencies has been renewed iu Spokane. Ou New Year's day half a dozen of them were put out of business by the refusal of Mayor Pratt.to renew their licenses., All of the larger cities of the Northwesry where labor markets have . developed, have had trouble with employment agents because of their tendency to prey on unfortunate men and women searching for work, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland face the ssme trouble. While there are some agents whose dealings are honest, the mayor of Spokane fears they ' are too few to trifle with aud he has an- nounced'his intention to close all out as rapidly as their permits to operate'oxpire. J. E. Wheeler is claiming $25,000 daiii- , ages from Kilowna, because' the license - commissioners of thai "city passed ccrtum resolutions and .cancelled the license of the Royal hotel:. The mayor expresses himself publicly that Weeeler'has been "done an injustice.' '.In East Kootenay Robert', Strachan of Moyie and Evan Evans of Corbiu have been appointed mine inspectors. C.-W. Busk of Nelson- is on a"trip to the West Indies. ��������� , ��������� J. P~Vrodm ot Waneta and Miss Daisy Maudsley bf Vancouver will be'married in-Nelsou next month. Jack Frost froze up thc water system ,in New Denver and'also putj the* electric plant out of business, making that beau-i- sul town dry and dark at the same time. At Nelson Stanley -Dykes got thi-te mouths in jail for stealing ten cents fn.ni a little girl. ���������- Near Silverton development-work .is being pushed upon the Noonday. The Van Roi and Buffalo are shipping to Trail and large-bodies of-ore are being blocked out at the Hewitt. .J. W. Power was elected mayorofKajdo by acclamation. ��������� D. ]. Matheson and J. G. McKeown : re the candidates for the mayoralty .in Phoenix. - . ' . In fhoenix A. Mackenzie was elected a school trustee by acclamation. ������������������ - It is expected that the government will establish an experimental farm near Curzon in East Kootenay. Dan Babbitt died in Creston last w ek, aged 62 years. The copper market is firm and the next movement will be in" the direction "of " higher prices, ��������� The value of copper produced in Amencajduringjthe last .year was $182,- ' 760,6607*'^V "-r-":"*", ;:>'".'- * r" -*-*--- -W. H. Yawkey of the'Ivanhoe mine in ""' the Slocan has just returned from a long trip to_ Europe, thoroughly, wised to everything across the pond. There are over a billion dollars in gold - in the United States treasury at Wash- '-" ington. . "l- ��������� ' .. ���������- Jim Moran, formerly of New Denver, is now managing a mine in Mexico. Recently several new houses have been, erected at Kaleden. In Summerland recently seventy bachelors were given a banquet by the junior Bible clashes of the Sunday schools.- That" town should be a haven for young and old maids. * The Workingmen's club in Fernie has been refused a liquor license. In Fernie a miner was fined $ro forMe- j liberately breaking his safety lamp while at $141,000,000. I at work in a' coal mine. The coal company at Fernie now charges ladies 25 cents for .riding on its cars between that city and Coal Creek. A Chiuamau was recently found frozen to death near Blairmore. - A movement is ou foot to establish a. general hospital at Coleman. Th.3 Kootenay Central. At the recent conference ofthe western officers of the C. P. R. in Winnipeg, an appropriation, showing the approval of the board of directors, was made proyid- ing for the construction of 50 miles pf the Kootenay Central railway next year. There is every reason to believe that the grant will be ratified. It is proposed to start work early in March at or near Wardncr station on the Crow's Nest Pass railway. Tenders will likely be called for early in February. The new line will open up one of the most fertile agricultural and. fruit growing districts in the interior, including the famed Windermere valley. The route extends north through the Kootenay valley and thence via the Columbia valley to Golden, a distance of 160 miles. The completed surveys show the maximum gradients not to exceed four-tcntlis of one per cent. The C. P. R, own in both valleys land grants aggregating 200,000 acres, most of which is. available for agric Itural or fruit'gruwing purposes. A number of pioneer ranchers have already demonstrated the fruit growing possibilities of the district. It is noticeable that the dyspeptic weakling is generous with advice to the robust and cheerful person how to live. When a fellow: remarks tliat all he wants is to be let alone he is generally ���������looking for a fight. Some piople impress us as being so meek as to feel sorry they have nothing to feel sorry about.- The man who fails to deliver the goods is/ of course, 'convinced that advertising doesn't pay. Yes, a man may be taught against Ins will. t)ne ofthe best text books for this purpose is a baseball bat, A man must be .considerable of a liar when he feels lie can't depend ou anything he says. Thc man who marries lor money often has a harder time getting it than thc fellow who works for it. '0 "8 'uos|on -jaXBRsv 'uoSMopp|/v\ Some men are not satisfied with courtly trouble���������they go uhciid and marry it TETE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA. X DEATH OF A GREAT fl.A. HOW MR. W. P. FRITH CAME TO PAINT "DERBY DAY." Famous English Artist Whose Picture of the Great Race Meeting Won Him Widespread Fame, Wanted In His Early Days to Be an Auctioneer ��������� "Railway Station" and . "Ramsgate Sands" Were His. Mj. William Powell 'Frith, R.A., tlie oldest of the Academicians, died recently at his residence in St. John'a Wood, at the age of ninety. Mr!" Frith's most famous pictures were "Derby Day" (now in the Tate Gallery), and "Railway Station," and 'Ramsgate Sands" ��������� pictures which obtained an immediate and immense popularity. Horn at Studloy, near Ripon, on Jan. 9, 1819, he began to study art, though lie wished to take up auctioneering before, lie fell in love with his work. When he was sixteen years cf age, accompanied by his father and a huge portfolio of drawings, be journeyed from Yorkshire to London on the stage-coach. During tho journey ho sat by a portly, irritable old gentleman, who requested that he might be allowed to reach the metropolis "with a little skin left on his shin- bones." In London lie began to take up painting at the Illooiusbury school of Mr. S.-ik.s. In J839 he exhibited at tbe British Institution a portrait of a child. At the age of twenty-one Mr. CANADIAN IS CHIEF. LATH W. P. FRITH. Frith's picture. "Malvolio cross-gartered before tbe Countess Olivia," was hung in the Academy. Five years later he was made an A.R.A. A picture entitled "The Village Pastor" is believed to have brought him this honor. In 1851, on the death of Turner, he was received into full membership of the Royal Academy. Beyond question Frith's most famous and deservedly popular picture is the "Derby Day," exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1358. As a study of the varied types to be seen at the great race meeting it is almost b-jyoiid criticism; and as an accumulation of carefully wrought out details it could scaicely be surpassed . Mr. Frith lias related bow thc idea of the picture originated: "I was with some friends at Hampton Court, and was walking with one of tlie ladies about the course when the idea suddenly struck ine what a splendid picture a racecourse scene would./-make; not the actual racing, but the people who flocked to the spectacle. "I mentioned it to my companion, but she thought the idea was absurd and could not possibly be carried out owing to the^iminense number of figures which would enter into the com- postion, "I was doubtful about it myself, but at last I'summoned up courage and made tbe preliminary sketch, and from that after many .'.months of incessant, work grew the finished picture. ��������� '..',.'' " 'The Darby Day' occupied me for fifteen months, and appeared in the exhibition of 1858. When Queen Victoria came to the private view with Prince Albert, she went round the exhibition accompanied, according to custom, by the president only, and whenever she wished to speak to any of the other academicians sho would send for them. "Instead of following her usual custom of viewing the pictures one after the other, as they appeared in the catalogue, she went to mine first, and I received a summons to attend Her Majesty. "She was very ^complimentary, and Prince Albert surprised me by his deep and accurate knowledge of the principles of art. lie went right through the -pictures with me, tolling tne by what process I arrived at. certain results, and pointing out some laults, and niaking admirable suggestions. When the picture came out ot the exhibition I adopted "several of them, and in every case with great benefit to the picture." This picture bad to be roped In to keep off the.crowds. The engraving rights alone of this picture brought him' $7,500, while the Railway Station, his t-reat success of 1862, was worth at least $22,500 to him. His work was always viewed with favor by royalty, arid "Ramsgate Sands," exhibited in 1854, was purchased by Queen . Victoria for $5,000. In January last, when the veteran ���������rtist celebrated his ninetieth birthday, he received^ letter of .congratulation from King Kdward, in which bis presence was requested at Buckingham Palace to receive the insignia of a C.V.O.. In the famous libel action, "Whis- ' -Her v. Ruskin." Frith gave it as his --pinion that Whistler's pictures were not serious works of art. In a mar- final note to his account of the'trial vV'lii.sflt-r added, quoting from Frith'a uil.-liiogntpliy: "'It was just u toss n\< wlii'thiT I b"cnme an artist or in ���������iiictioiit'i'r.'���������W. P. Frith,, R!A. ?..���������/!.���������(��������� tion : Hl iniiflt have kissed up." Washington*! Death. George Washington died on (he last hour of Ihe bint duy of theVeelc of the hint month of the last year of rhe century. He died at midnight, Knfinrmv. Dec. U. 1709. - ' Devonshire Cream. Devonshire erentn, which Is.eaten In London with strawberries in season, la made by skimming tbe skin and foam off Immense shallow pans of simmering milk. '.,..,'- Cotton Spinning. Cotton spinning was performed by build wheels until 1770,. , Son of Minister Now Leads the "Flying Rollers." Once more the strange "Jezreelite" sect and their temple, the huge, square!, windowless building on the top of Chatham Hill, Norlh Kent, Eiigland, have claimed public attention. The remnant of "the New and Latter House of Israel" have been ejected from Jezreel's Tower by a sheriff's ollieer owing to the rent being .f-250 in arrear. The official, armed with an order granted by the -Rochester County Court,- turned out the twenty people, including children, who still remain faithful to thc weird religion. "Prince'Michael," the l:nd- er of the sect, was away, and returned to find the building locked against him. Thc "prince" and his followers took lodgings in the neighborhood, and later the amount owing was paid. The remarkable tower, which can be seen for many miles around, is inseparably connected with one of the oddest of the many strange religions which have sprung up in tbe country. Over thirty years ago a private soldier bought his discharge from the army and proclaimed himself the. pro- phot of a new sect, calling himself "James Jershom Jezreel." He claim- .���������d that he had received from Heaven through an intermediary at Jerusalem a document of Divine origin, which he called "The Flying Roll." Kx- tracts wore given, from this and sold to the disciples of" the sect, but no one has ever seen the Flying Roll itself. ��������� "Jezreel" soon gathered hundreds of credulous followers, who, as prescribed by their faith, let their hair grow long. He soon gained a consider!, ble fortune, married a beautiful Chatham girl named Esther Rogers, and lived almost as luxuriously as the "Prophet" Dowie. A quarter of a century ago he started building the temple,"which was to hold 5,000. It was to save tbe elect at the destruction of the world. The Flying Roll stated that the number to be saved was 14-4,000. Neither' Jezreel nor the Roll made it clear where the remaining 139,000 were to'be accommodated. One mistake, however, was made by Jezreel. Ho said he would live forever. But he died, and the sect would have received a grievous set-back but for the promptitude of Mrs. Jezreel, who said that, after all, she was the real prophet, and proclaimed herself as Queen Esther. Three years later she also died.; For a time the sect languished under the control of the eldoly brother-in-law of the founder. The building, being gaunt and incomplete, was sold and part of it was rented to the Jezreelites. But the rent fell into arrears, and they were ejected after a struggle with unregen- erate policemen. ' Three years ago the Jezreelites were adopted by a ne.< leader���������an engineer and the son of a Canadian Nonconformist minister. He is the self- styled Prince Michael. He is middle- aged, thick-set man, with flowing beard and twinkling eyes. KOBLTJG A HYP:::Ti3T, The Man With the Magnetic Eye and His Manager Had to Flee. The recent troubles of a traveling hypnotist in Glasgow recall an episode in Toronto in - which students played no p.-:rt. but in which a traveling hypnotist fared badly. Years ago, before Hnnlnn's Point became a wilderness of shows ancl a largo area of land, it was a small breathing space with a wbitc-wnshed hotel, a few trees, a wharf, find a showman in the person of .Julius Caesar Connor, a native of- Whitby, Out., nnd since deceased. Connor looked like the imaginary likenesses of Artemus Ward, which figure in old editions of that humorist's works, and was proud of the fact that ho had never worn a necktie. He maintained that for a man with a chin whisker a necktie was superfluous���������that it was, so to speak, gilding tho lily. Although the showman, be was in reality the show; for 'though he used to employ entertainers, they were not nearly so entertaining as his own speeches in introducing them. On ono occasion he in trod need a strong woman of vast dimensions with the words, "The little lady will now lift a hawse." And she did raise a hefty beast. Hypnotism was then thc craze, and Connor found a hypnotist and a "subject." Tho performer was advertised as a marvel unequalled, and after the (ir'st performance it was seen Hint bis entertainment was manifestly the thinnest, kind of a fake. It was not even funny. The same crowd used to go over to the Point every night, nnd at the second performance they went, armed. As the unequalled marvel reached tlie climax of his performance an egg struck him. Connor jumped to Urn"platform. "I will give ten dollars in real money for tho name of the man who threw that aig," he cried. Hardly were tbe words out of his mouth when another egg struck him square on the left cheek. The hypnotist, in the meantime, decamped, and the crowd who had nothing against Connor followed him. They cbtised him on board the steamer, and though he tried to hide in a dark corner, they rooted him out of there and made him take refuge on top of the paddle-box, whore he maintained a precarious position all the way across the bay. Derisive passengers suggested 'that be hypnotize his tormentors, but he did not try it, nnd when the city was reached was glad to find safety behind tho sheltering blue uniform of a constable on the wharf. WHY JONES PAID. Ho Preferred to Buy tho Supper Rather Than Do Wife's Bidding. II REE friends who hud been spending the evening at their c-lub agreed that the one who Aid not do the first thing his wife told bim when he got home should pay for an oyster supper. Smith .In trying to find the matches trod on the cat. "That's right." suld the wife, waking up. "Kill the poor fat and have done with it." "Well." thought Smith, "I'll have to do it oi- pay." So he killed the family pet. Brown, in the dark, stumbled against the piano. "Why don't you break the piano?" demanded his wife. Brown ut once broke the piano. When Jones got home lie stumbled on the top step of the staircase. "Go ou," s.nld his wife���������"tumble downstairs and break your neck." "Not me," answered Jones. "I'll par for the supper first."���������Illustrated Bits. WORTH' KNOWING Simple Remedy That Any One Can Prepare at Home. Most people aro more or less subject to coughs and colds. A simple remedy that, will break up a cold quickly "and cure any cough that is curable is made by mixing two ounces of Glycerine, a half-ounce of Virgin Oil of Pine compound pure and eight ounces of pure Whiskey. You can get those in any good' drug store and easily mix tboni in a largo bottle. Tho mixture is highly recommended by the.Leach Chemical Co., of Cincinnati, who prepare the genuine Virgin Oil of .Fine compound pure for dispensing. AMONG THE L.L '3 Sho spoke severely. ' "IIow can you throw yourself tit him like that." - ��������� The younger and more beautiful girl smiled. "But," sho argued, "he's such a good catch."���������Kansas City Star. The Legislative Epidemic. "Dis .ver iegislatur' business is what you might call epidemic." said Brother Dickey���������"goes de rounds an' sometimes sweeps thoo a whole family 'fo It gits thoo wid 'urn. For generations au' generations white folks has been teglslatin'-liere, dar nn' every- whar. It runs In de blood, an' dey kin no mo" be'p It than I kin he'p beiu' righteous or a-possum kin he'p feelin' '.Simmons we'u dey ripe an' ready for dim." "Any of them ever make a mart?" he was asked. "Oh. yes. suli. One er 'um got mud nn' tliowed a Ink bottle at somebody, but outside er dat I never did .hear tell dat any er 'inn did much cuttiu' up."���������Atliuita Constitution. Sudden transition from a hot to a cold temperature,- exposure to -rain, sitting in a draught, unseasonable, substitution of light for heavy clothing, aro fruitful causes of colds and the. resultant cough so perilous to persons ol weak lungs. Among the many medicines fer bronchial disorders so arising, there is none bettor than Bickle's Anti-Consumptive Syrup. Try it and become convinced. Price, 25 cents. "The time to save is when you're young." "That's all right, but n fellow doesn't earn anything till bo gets well along and then it costs more to live." ���������Boston Herald. QUICKEST WITH SAFETY T.ttt W-ST RtftKH.l.TQl (fiUGttS^^ For the baby oflen means rest for both mother and child. Little ones like it too���������it's so palatable to take. Free from opiates. All DruirsUti, 25 cents. ',-' 3ESE . - A Bore .-:������������������ "A plague on.bim."- I. loud: exclaim. Won't some one fell 'him to'-.'tbe - floor?. - ��������� ��������� -:"' ���������������������������] A curse upon his..vcry. name, ';���������) The man who's seen tlie showebe- foro. v.i Haggart thc Oldest. An interesting study at the beginning of every Parliament is to discover who the oldest members arc, as the number of those who were returned to Parliament in 1896, when Sir Wilfrid Laurier attained power, is now very rapidly diminishing, the following is tbe list of the- thirty who remain: Conservatives���������Major Thos. Beat- lie, London; R. L. Borden, Halifax; Andrew Broder, Dundas; Hon. Geo. E. Foster, North Toronto; Hon. J. G. Haggart, South Lanark; David Henderson, Halton; Col. Sam Hughes, Victoria and Haliburton; F. D. Monk, Jacques dirtier; William B. North-, rup, East Hastings; E. B. Osier, West Toronto,- Dr. John J. Reid, Grenville; Dr. W. J. Roche, Marquette; Dr. T. S. Sproule, East Grey; Geo. Taylor, Leeds; Uriah Wilson, Lennox and Aldington; W. F. Maclean, South York���������16. Liberals���������Sir Fred. Borden, King's; Hon. L. P. Brodeur, Rouvillc; J. P. Brown, Chateauguay; Jos. Acethier, Two Mountains; Hon. W. S. Fielding, Shelburne and Queen's; Hon. Sydney A. Fisher, Brome;" Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Quebec East; 'Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, Gaspe; D. B. Meigs, Missis- quoi; Hon. Frank Oliver, Edmonton; Hon. Win. Paterson, Brant; Hon. Clifford Sifton, Brandon; O. E. Talbot, Bel lech asse;\ John Tolmie, North Bruce.���������14. The father of the House is Hon. Mr. Haggart, who was born in 1836, and is thus 73 years of age. He has been in public life since 1867, when he became mayor of Perth. He was elected -to Parliament in 1872 and has held his seat without defeat ever since. He was appointed Postmaster- General by Sir John A. Macdonald in 1888. Montreal Goes Ahead. Mr. Alex. McFee, the Montreal grain exporter, asked recently whether that, port lias held its own as against Boston, New York, and other United States ports on the Atlantic, in grain shipments for the year said: ".I think that Montreal is holding its own. But it is my opinion that the combined exports of grain from the Atlantic ports bus decreased ol late years. Montreal's supremacy in this regard is to be attributed to our canal system, which gives us cheap freight rates from west of the great lakes to Montreal. The fact that the shipment of grain goes by an all water route, obviates necessity of breaking up bulk of the-cargo. The American system of grain transportation, utilizing both lake and rail, is fit a disadvantage here. j Has Had Ups and Downs. W. G. Tretbewey, who discovered the famous mine at Cobalt, which bears his name, and also its neighbor, the Conagas,', but who now pursues the -quiet life of a gentleman fanner on his model farm at Weston, Out., bas probably cleaned up more cold cash out of Canada's unrivalled silver area than any other man who ever planted foot in the camp. Some may remark that he lias been exceptionally lucky, but Mr. Tretbewey, like most" other people, has had his full quota of ups and downs. Ho. learned the" trade of a steam-fitter, but has played every part in the mining game from a grub-staker to a squatter. Nearly twenty years ago he was dangerously near-the millionaire class several times but did not know it. He lacked the nerve. In 1890 he was offered a half interest for $300 in the famous I.e Roi gold mine in British Columbia. Thc properly had just been discovered, and was not regarded as very promising. Later it sold for nearly three million dollars. That same year Mr. Tretbewey had another gilt-edged opportunity. An impecunious American .military man, who had erected a shack at Trail, B.C., and dished out pork and beans to the miners, said one day: "Look hero, Tretbewey.'. I own 360 acres of town site here, and if you will pay the mining license fee��������� one dollar per acre���������I will give you a half interest in the whole business." The young .man had the necessary amount in his pocket at the time, but he hesitated and lost. Just think what owning half tho property in the busy, thriving town of Trail would moan to-day. It was fourteen years later that Mr. Trethewoy, while prospecting, discovered the famous properties in Cobalt which made him a millionaire. "'-"-���������' A Dismal Thought. "Well, airships may be all right, but I don't believe I'll ever care ns much for ttiem.ns I do for automobiles." "Why hnve you become possessed of thnt Id'paV" "Just think of it. Whpn you're out In nn airship there never will be any tliniik-.voiiinn'iinis ro make the girl squeal and grab hold of you for protect iom"-Chieiigo Record-Hern Id. COUGHING BURST BLOOD VESSEL Says Natural Histoi-y. A certain fnihor who is fond of putting his boys through nntural history examinations is often surprised by their menial ngllily. Up recently nsked iliein lo tell him "wbai animal i.s satisfied with the least nourlsh- ineiii." "The moth!" one of them shouted contidenll.v. "Il cats nothing but holes."-New York Journal. He Approves. Friend-Why do you encourage these woman sufti-age meetings? Surely, you don'l approve ot ihem? Husband- Approve? Willi nil my heart! I enn come Inline as hue as I like now wii bout liwliiig my wife nt borne to ask iiiie.siuiiis.-l-'liegendo Blatter. time BOOKS. It is worth noting, in passing, that tho fisheries blue book, which formerly, made practically unintelligible reading for the outsider, has been re- arranged under Mr. Venning's super- intendency, and now presents a clearly analyzed, tabulated and indexed ���������form, which enables even the casual reader to obtain with the least unnecessary labor the information he seeks. The Department is to bo congratulated upon .the improvement which Mr. Venning bus- made in this regard. Other blue books might bo similarly simplified.���������Journal, Ottawa, What Australia Lacks. Australia i** to have a high commissioner in London, but the Commonwealth tins no Btnithcnnii to fill tho . tjost.��������� Toronto Xeim, ^ Last Chance. Pearl-Sue u.stti to suy she would ncc-opt the right uiud when he en me n long. * Ruby-Yes, uul then accepted tbe left man. - . , .''Pearl-Left? '."��������� . . . Ruby-Yes, n man Jilted by another ��������� ll-l -- f I'lll-llll l-V/C I'l'CMM A Western Hold-Up. .;.. A famous vehicle is the old Cariboo treasure stage,- which was held up by two unseen robbers on the morning of November 1, at 150-Mile House, Cariboo, and robbed of mail sacks reputedly containing $4,000. The quick wit of the driver, Charles Westoby, in juggling the mail-sack which he knew contained $20,000 in gold, with his feet while tossing down a. half-empty grain sack to make up the tally demanded by the robbers (they being fooled by this simple device in the shadowy light), prevented the big haul they expected to make. The robbers arc known, to be local men, but have not yet been identified, although a reward of $1,000 has been offered for their apprehension and capture. The coach has carried no treiisure-guard for several years. This hold-up occurred at the identical spot where Charlie Brown emulated the famous Black Bart and made a single- handed hold-up fifteen years ago, getting $6,000. He was afterwards tracked and captured by Indians and sentenced to twenty years. True Loyalty. "You should stand up for the railroad Ilia; is doing so much to develop your suburb." ������������������Well," answered Mr. C'rosslots, "come lo think nf it. I npver gel a sent. I stand up for il ut\le:t.**t three hours a day."���������Washington Star. Hard Graves. P.efore a 'grave can be-dug. in th( churchyard of Llanb.-idoe. in soutf Wales, the rock has to be blasted away Danger Avoided and Cures Coughs in 5 Hours. A writer for the medical press sti.tas that coughing is responsible for tho bursting of blood vessels quite frequently. A cough or cold moans inflammation (fever) and congestion, and these in turn indicate that tho body is full of poisons and waste matter. Simple relief, as found in patent cough medicines, and whiskey, often result in more barm than good; ag they cause more congestion. A tonic laxative cough syrup will work marvels and here follows a proscription which is becoming famous for its prompt relief and thorough euros. It rids the system of the cause, except it be consumption. Don't wait for consumption to grasp its victim, but begin this treatment, which cures some in five hours. Mix in a bottle one-half ounce fluid wild cherry bark, one ounce compound essence cardoil and threo ounces syrup white pine compound. Take twenty drops every half hour for four hours. Then one-half to one teaspoonful three or four times a day. Give children less according to ago. A Gentle Insinuation I.ady���������My husband gives me a piece of jewelry every brthday. Friend���������You must, havo quite a collection of them now, my dear.���������Meg- gendorfer Blaetter. A Llittle Llight on the Country of the Lleck. When Mr. Lloyd-George, in his recent Newcastle speech, declared that he was "proud of the little land among tlie hills," he proved what a thorough Welshman he really is. "Worst of all," he cried bitterly, quoting one of the criticisms levelled against him, 'be is a Welshman! Well, they've got to stand the Welshman this time!!' ' This was typical of his race, for no people are inure proud or patriotic than the inhabitants of Lloyd-George land, and perhaps it;is for the reason' that thoy prefer, as a general rule, to keep to .themselves that so many ol the idiosyncrasies of these Welshmen, whose national emblem is the leek, 'and who national game is kiss-in-the- ring; are unfamiliar to the English. Though there' arc in Wales something approaching two million people, it must sometimes strike tlie stranger that they cannot have more than ten or a dozen names between' them. Take any list of Taffies, tick off the Joneses, the Williamses, the Davises, the Hughesos, the "Roberlses, ��������� the Lewises, the Morgans, tbe Llewel-'- lyns, and the Richurdses, and you will practically bave exhausted the roll. This is probably due to the fact that, until some six or seven generations ago, the Welsh had no surnames at all! About one Taffy in every seven now bears tbe surn.-imi! Jones, and the name of the David Joneses���������besides being David Jones���������is legion. Thus, when there are, say, half a dozen David Joneses in the same village, it is necessary to find seme further distinguishing appellation.for each, and otie will become David Jones wyn��������� white David Jones ��������� another David Jones llwyd���������David Jones 'tlie grey ���������man���������another David Jones " Sais���������the David Jones who speaks English. The sjcry is told how, in one village' in the land of daffodils," there were so many Joneses that all the available adjectives became used up, and when a new Jones appeared upon the scene inventive-mass was for some time unequal to the occasion. But when Jhe bought a pisce of land,- and employed on it some-lads, whom he paid sixpence a day for working from t^thrl slxes^ggStett^ mKs- "��������� *������ *avo ���������^<* ^ *��������� sary distinction, and he forthwith be- m������J? y������u re appearance as,a singer? came Sixpenny Jones. Suffragettes will be interested to hear that in that principality it' !s the wife who keeps tlie purse, and a woman who has to ask her husband for a shilling is considered an object of pity.' In many parts, $25 a year is considered quite sufficient pay for a general servant; while the servants of the small farmers do not get more than $15 to $20���������or about half a cent for every three hours' service! On such farms, however, equality for all is the motto, and tho servants sit at the same table with their master and mistress; ancl if, when the daughter of a farmer gets married, she introduces into her household the new custom of dining before her maid dines, she is branded with the stigma of bsing "stuck-up proud." This is another of the idiosyncrasies of the Welsh���������their singular habil of using double adjectives of the same meaning. Thus it is always n "bad wicked man," an "awful dreadful storm," or a "little tiny house." They Cleanse .While They'.Cure.��������� The vegetable compounds of which Parmeloo's Vegetable Pills arc composed, mainly dandelion and mandrake, clear the stomach and intestines of deleterious-matter and restore the deranged organs to healthful 'motion. Hence they are tho best remedy for indigestion available to-day.- A trial of them will establish the truth of this assertion "and do more to convince tlTo ailing than anything that can-be written of those pills. Lady (to her sister, n doctor)��������� "There���������I cooked a meal for the first time today and J" made a mess ofrit." "Well, dear, never mind, it's nothing. -1 lost my first patient." $100 Reward, $100. Th������ renters ol this papar will be pleased'to learn J������������t there U at Kut ont dreaded dlnase that scltnoa kai been able to ours lo all lu lUfes. and that la Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure la the only posltlr* eurt now known to the medical traternltjr. Catarrh ������������������Ing a constitutional disease, require* a coottJCu- Uoaal treatment. Hall'a Catarrh Curt It taken In- tornallr. acting directly upon thc blood and mucous lurtaoei .ot the ayttera, thereby deetmrlns; .the foundation of the disease, and tiring the patient - ���������ttentth by building up the eorutitutlon and axial. lag nature In doing lu work. Th* proprietor*-havo ���������o much faith In IU curative power* that they oner On* Hundred Collare for any aue that It (alia to tur*. Send for Uat of ttitlmenlala - -'.--,. Uddrea* r. J. CHENEY <Ts CO.. T*l*do. O. i'S* "'. Sold by all orugglaU, Tie. ' *.-; IU* Ball** Family rUla for conatlsatlOB. ���������"Yes," answered the amateur soloist. "There was a policeman keeping order in thc gallery."���������Washington Star. TEA Unsurpassed for Quality &. Flavor Lead packets only. At all grocers Pecan Culture. , . , - Pecan nuts are grown successfully U-j what's going'on." several states, but mainly lu thos* states soul Ii ..of- parallel 40. - Kortj feet is generally the distance apart of the trees.. If the triangular method of planting is adopted forty trees can be growu to the acre. Pecan treei may boar a few nuts at an early age but paying crops cannot be expected under ten. years and full crops undei twenty. The annual yield of a tree ii full bearing has been variously report" ed at from one to twenty busbels. Pills of Attested Value.���������Parmelee's Vegetable Pills are tho result, of careful study of the properties of certain roots and herbs, and the action of such as sedatives and laxatives on the digestive apparatus. The success the compounders have met with attests the value of their work. These pills have been recognized for many years ns the. best cleansers of the system that can be got. Their excellence was recognized from the first and they now grow more 'popular daily. "I want to be well informed," said the ambitious girl. "I want to know Pawnbrokers. Tbe first pawubroklng establishment was that of Krelslngen, In Bavaria, opened In 1108. Iu 1350 there was one In Sallus, in Frnncbe-Conite. and In 1301 one was opened In London. None of these was. however,- successful. The present Purls Mont de Plete was established In 1777, in the same street where the bead office Is now situated. Manic���������"Isn't this muff Aunt Sarah stmt mo for Christinas a beauty?" Dorothy���������"It's nice, but I want a much larger one." " Manic���������"Of course you do. But this is plenty big enough for'my hands."��������� Lippincott's Magazine. Well," answered. Miss Cayenne. "I would suggest that you get one of those telephones that will put you on a line with five or six other subscribers."���������Washington Star. A Ruskin Paragraph I am tormented botwen the longing for rest .and. lovely life, and tho sense of this terrific call ol human crime for resistance and of human misery for 'help. It seems to mc as the voice of a river, of blood, which can but sweep me down iu the midst, of its black clots, helpless.���������John Ruskin. Points of .View, Different people .look nt marriage according to their occupation in life. A sailor wants to be spliced, a carpenter Joined, a coachman hitched, n Verisel* man muted, a briikeman coupled up nud a locksmith united in wedlock. , The Battering Ram. ' The battering mm of Ihe Romans was like the hill of a huge woodpecker, the walls of Ihe enemy being the tree trunk. The bnilerlng rani was so called because, ni the end of the beam, from (JO lo JIM) feel long, wns fastened a bronze niin> bend. The benrn was hung on ropes In. n shed and worked by from 00 to 100, men. Tho Welcome Nugget. Tho Welcome iniggel. one of the lurgesf pieces of niiiiirnl gold In-Ihe world, wits Inkeii from Ibikery bill. Unllarat, lu 1&*8. It'wns found nt a depth" of 180 feet. It weighed over '%'>i7 omu-cn and wns sold for $r>2.G00; is the original���������has been the standard for thirty-five years. / There are thousands of so-called "just as good" Emulsions, but' they are not���������they are simply imitations which are never as good "as the original. They are like thin milk��������� SCOTT'S is thick like a heavy cream. N If you want it thin, do it yourself���������with water��������� . but dont buy it thin. FOH HAtK MV ALLUIlUOGIBTa . I was cured of nainful Goitre by MINARD'S LINIMENT. .BAYARD McMULLIN. Chatham, Ont. I was cured of Inflammation by MINARD'S LINIMENT. MRS. W. A. JOHNSON. Walsh, Ont. I was cured of Facial Neuralgia by MINARD'S LINIMENT. Parkdale, Out. J. H. BAILEY. The Testaments. The period iu which the Old Testament was being written covers 1.000 years, while the period of Ihe composition of the New Testament covers about 100 years. The oldest poems In the Old TVstu-iieut date, back to about the yenr 1200 B. C. while some of the Psalms and Hook of Daniel are placed at the year U00 II. U. The-earliest part of the New Testament was written about the year 50 A. D. and the latest part about 150 A. D, Veal and Goose. Roast veal is the most Indigestible of butcher's meat. It takes tlve and one- half hours to digest. Roast goose fakes two and c^ie-bulf hours. VETERAN SCRIP THE FARMER'S OPPORTUNITY! D( A Lofty Bounding Mark. The highest placed monument In tbe world Is ou Lu Combru, the summit of a pass in the Andes, and marks the frontier of the Chilean and Argentine republics. It stands at au altitude of 12,790 feet above the sea level. ''Do you keep servants?" "No, we are like all other housekeepers in that respect, we bire servants but do not succeed in keeping them."���������Houston Post.. Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes Relieved By Murine Eye Remedy. Try Murine For Your Eye Troubles. You Will Like Murine' It Soothes. 50c At Your Druggists. Write For Rye Books. Free. Murine Eye Rem edy Co., Toronto. R<<ihI IIVi.', nfimo n( pnpar find this, nrl, fnr oar bi'iuitlfnl Murium Hunk nnd Ohlld'n Hkiitoli.lfouk. Kaoli bunk coutuliin a Ouud buck l'uitu,. V, ..,.,. SCOTT.A BOWNE , 126 W-sllr'nartou Straet, Want Toronto, 0*4, W. N. U., No. 772. The Iceman's Scales A young couple out in Osborne county became the proud parents of a Mttle girl tbe other day They wanted to weigh the youngster as soon as she was dressed, but had no scales. Just then the iceman came along, and they borrowed bis scales. _ To their surprise tbe little one weighed forty pounds.���������Osborne, Kan., Furmer. - - Thc Canadian Pacific Rnilway are running their Annual Excursions from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta to Eastern Canada, nnd with tbe Touring Sleeping Cars, now run on all through trains, enables passengers from Western Canada to travel East with comfort, and at a minimum cost. By taking the "All Canadian Route" (O.'P.R.) passengers have very few changes of cars, no tedious transfers across crowded cities and no examination or bonding of buggnge. "Doctor, I can't sleep." > "I will give you something for your nerves.'.' "No; T don't want any medicine for myself, but. for heaven's sake, can't you let me, have some kind of dope for our baby?"���������Chicago Rocord-Hernltl. "Speaking of joy rides, did you ever have a.real one?" "No." "Never go out in u buggy along a sluidy iaiie, with a plug of a horse and the only girl in tho world? Sny, .you don't know .what, life ; .is"���������Philadelphia Public; Ledger, j, ' ' * Moonlight In Cuba. Moonlight most intense sometimes causes sore eyes in Cuba, and tbe natives navigate aud perambulate with umbrella aud paruluua. Liberia. Tbe mineral resources of Liberia are "practically imkiiowu. Prospecting iu that part-of Africa is u inntter of extreme difficulty, owing to (lie density of the forests and thc disturbed state of tbe country. |0 YOU realize the opportunity South African Veteran Scrip affords to secure title to 320 or 640 acres of land? Land adjoining that upon which you can .locate Veteran Scrip is being sold to-day at from $10 to $15 an aero. Figure it out what this means to you. 80RIP SOLD ON EASY TERMS. We will sell 320 ACRE WARRANTS ���������on terras���������without any cash payment if you have improved farm land to offer as security. Our price is only $650.00 a Warrant and five years to pay tho same. JJANADA LOAN & REALTY CO. Limited. 16317 Mclntyre Block, Winnipeg. WANTED LADIES TO DO PLAIN AND LTGHT sewing at home, whole or spare time, ��������� good.. pay; work sent any distance; charges paid; send stamp for particulars. National Manufacturing Company, Montreal. Cdll8-2w-82I2. Agents Wanted liiiii LMltTONibNIABltj Rhode Island. Rhode Island received its name from what was supposed to be a resemblance lu coutour to tbe. island of Rhodes, in tbe Mediterranean., During one of his presidential trips Mr. Cleveland, accompanied by Secretary Olney, arrived at a town in a heavy storm, and they were driven from the station with hailstones rattling on the roof of their carriage. A brass band, undismayed by the.weather, bravely stuck to its post ' and pluyed the welcoming nirs. - "That is the most realistic motto I have ever beard," remarked Mr. Cleveland. ��������� When n: minister, makes a mistake people forget all about the'mantle of charity. * ' to push and Mil a full line of Tho Wlllmott Binders, Mowers, Rakes, Shockers, Shock Loadsrs, Etc.' *'���������' Apply HENRY W. KINO, -.'}.- Western Representative. - Regina. ^������������������ ~������������������m���������-mmm Do j-ou trap or buy Furs? lam Canada's largest dealer, I pay hlgfiestprices. Your shipments! solicited. I pay mail and express charges; remit gromptly. Also largest dealer in Beefhides, heepskin8,etc. Quotations and shipping tags sent tree. I 9 JOHN HALLAM, TORONTO A NRraOT BOOT RfHKDY. Endorsed by the Bngllih Journals���������"Lancet," "Bolenos Blifluii,'1."Health." Supplied to British 8oldl������rc tn South Africa. ForstllThroat and OlanslTronbUi, Pleurisy, Lamps), Ab*neM<'������, Old Moras, Uleari, raloas, Bkln DisMtn, Bi*s<*ma,riBiplas, Stiff Joints, .Bhettnatlsm, Lamhaga, Sprains, Braises, I'll*., ������:uts, Bora Fact and Treat Bites. Sold bv OruffBiots, 260. Try It onofl* TrMM/CAtfDy^UP//m> offer you more of Better Toilet Tissue for the Same Money than any Other Make on the Market. Made in Every Known Form and Variety, and Every Sheet Guaranteed Chemically Pure. sna>BBa]sBgsBnB������*������n*HasjsBBBsnBaa^^ Always Everywhere in Canada Ask For EDDY'S MATCHES ijimfc wii MffiaWPtW w*aft,eafiCTjlTiTir..i*^'*.i WiMB iX&- THE , LEDGE, -GREENWOOD. BRITISH COLUMBIA. M m Do you know the difference between working and having" the work done for you ?,' Sunlight. Soap actually makes the dirt drop out���������saves you time and money���������but injures ,- neither hands nor clothes. That is just the difference be t w ee n Sunlight Soap and ordinary -soaps. A Lay Matter "Would you ,like tbe floors in mosaic?" asked the architect Tho Springfield nitui looked dubious. "Would you like the floors in mosaic patterns?-' ��������� -..-..��������������������������� "I don't know so much about that," he finally said "I ain't got any prejudice against Moses us "a man, ancl nifiybe. he knew a- lot. about the law. As regards laying lloors, though, 1 kinder think- I'd rather have them unsootarian."���������Harper's Weekly. JOSS PAPER. When .the professor-of mathematics has discovered you iiitrignonietry. examination with a crib containing- a brief digest -of the .whole subject in your hand,'and wishes to know how it got there, answer: ���������"I fear, Dr.- Pons, .that' that "confounded valet of mine bas given me the wrong coat this morning, putting my.study jacket containing my notes of your entertaining instruction out for mie instead of my examination coat," in which, in order to avoid "even the'appearance of evil, I have no pockets whatever:"���������Harper's Weekly. Farms from the Water Tho face of the country of. Europe has boon materially altered by human effort. Of the' tillable land of Holland 90 per cent has been wrested from the sea, and in Great Britain a work scarcely less has been done, for a thiru of tho present land is said to bave been bogs and marshes in the time of King Alfred In the United Stutes, where the work of reclaiming is just beginning, it is estimated that drainage will add 200,000 square miles to the farm land. The Way This Popular Chinese Mo-, torial Is Manufactured. The principle districts In' the -Yangtze valley iu China in "which the manufacture of joss paper Is carried on, Sonshlug, -Kingpo, Hangtscbau, and Futschau, lie to the south of Shanghai. Young bamboo trunks are placed In ditches; in layers with a covering of lime bet ween them. The ditches are sometimes us.lurge.as thirty feet wide nud ninety feet long. Water is poured over the mass and the contents allowed to remain uutil tbe trunks have rotted, which sometimes takes, us long as three months.V ' '. , After the liuiewater has beendriiwn off. the mass is-placed in a ditch provided with stirrers, where-it is washed. ���������The reduction to-fibers .takes place la mills drawn hy buffaloes. After a sec- ond washing the material Is ready for tho mold of the pa per maker, in China us well as, hi Japan tbe mold consists of fiue bamboo sticks. For this reason the paper is always ribbed. Tbe product is squeezed in wedgo 'presses,! dried on a board and then covered with tin. Tho pulverized metal is strewn over'tbe sheets and; hammered between the 'fibers with hammers of soft wood. ��������� The chief difhculty lies' iu this.hammering, and in spite ot ihe thinness of the paper the Chinese,, attain a shining surface of tin. The paper is packed in bales of 3,000 or 3,200 Bheets. QUEER JAPANESE FISH. TRICKIMG A BANKER. In a corridor of one of the University of Texas buildings there is a large replica of "The Winged Victory." A waggishly-inclined student observed the headless, armless, footless statue, and wrote underneath: "God pity Defeat!"���������Lippincott's Magazine. "Father/ 'said little Rollo, "whatls the'Arctic circle?" _ "The Arctic .circle, my son,-is an imaginary line bounding, a large area of uncorroborated evidence."���������Wash ington Star. ..Judge (to boy oh witness stand)��������� Well, my little man, do you know what an oath is? Boy���������Yes, sir; I was your golf caddie for a whole week last summer.��������� Boston Transcript. Possible Boarder���������"Ah, that was a ripping, dinner, and if that was a fair sample of your meals, I should like to come to terms." Scotch Farmer���������"Before we . gang any "further was that a fair sample of yer appetite?" When the Sleeper Wakes "John!" she exclaimed, jabbing her elbow .into his ribs at 2.17 a.im, "did you lock the kitchen door?" And .John, who is inner guard, and was just then dreaming over last evening's lodge meeting, sprang up in bed, 'made the proper .sign, and responded, "Worthy Ruler, our portals are guarded." Oh, ho hit: the title right, even if he was asleep.���������United Presbyterian. *" One That Uses Its Fin as a Sail���������How the Dorado Is Caught. One^of the most interesting of ilsh" of Japanese.waters is tbe oriental sail fish (Hlstiophorus orientalist. The generic name, given by Dr. Guentber,' means the sail bearer and refers to ' the buge dorsal fin possessed by tbe species. . -- ��������� The fin stands higher,than.tbe. body above it and is used as a sail before the wind. It is.a large fish, ten feet In ' length and weighing 160 pounds. They swim about usually iu pairs in rough .and windy weather,-with the huge Bus above the water. It is a favorite food fish, and the annual catch is nearly 2,000,000 pounds. The sail flsb is caught by means of a harpoon. ���������Another food fish, known as.a dolphin or dorado, is sometimes caught In a curious way. The fishes congregate under a decoy bush and raft made of bamboos and are then caught by books baited with squids, or the decoy bush is surrounded by a seine net, and the dolphins are driven by beating tbe sur������ face of the water with sticks/This tish is eaten both fresh,and salt and is as great a favorite in western Japan as the salmon Is in the northeast.���������Zoologist. *��������� Scotch Sabbath. For traveling, trading and all the things one must not do on the Siib- bnth, Scotland, of course, must ever holdthe palm. Not in the seventeenth century alone, bui through all the ��������� ages and even unto the present day the Scotch Sunday has. a law unto itself. There Is the experience of James Payn, for instance, to the Edinburgh of only the seventies. "In the street where! first resided." be wrote, "It struck me thnt to judge by the drawu down blinds the people spent a good deal of their time upon the seventh day In bed. On my second Sunday, however, I, was undeceived, for my landlady en ine up and informed tne that, though she bad not spoken ol it last Sunday', she must now draw my attention to the fact that it was not usual in Edinburgh to draw up (lie window blinds on the Sabbath and that the neighbors had. begun to remark upon the 'unlawful"appearance* of ber establishment, which bad heretofore been a CJod fearing house."' Ingenious Fraud Was Worked on a London Manager Recently. Shortly utter the audacious fraud Ptfipulrutud by the too-famous "D. 8. Windell," it-was announced that "additional saieguaitls" had b^eii decided upon by.banK authorities, 'lhat this seep v/ua necessary is illustrated by. the following story. A customer having a fairly good balance, never .sinking ' b:-low four 'figures, at a branch of a well-known nana; iiurried in one morning not so long ago, according to The Pall Mail uuzctte, and asked to see the manager. 'ihe usual civilities were exchanged, aud the caller explained that.he was Inaiviiig a rutuer guou investment, and aud promised to pay $5,000 the next J������y. . - ��������� '��������� W "Well," said the "manager, "there's ,o cliuiculty about that." "Precisely," wus the rejoinder; '"but will you do mc a small luvor?" "What is it?" queried tne . manager. ,<"! want my d'it-nd to see that my paying him p'5,000 will not exhaust my resources. vVill you, therefore, oblige me by in- .tnicting all the pay clerks (and they rt-cre numerous) to cash my check, tvlien it-is presented, without referring .o the ledger to see how my account stands? It will make a good impression on my man, and it cannot do ,-ou uny harm', as you know what my balance is." . It was a little over i.5,000..) ' '"Certainly, it you particularly wish t," replied the unsuspecting manager, ior his customer's name had been" long on the books, and there had never jjen i-.ny trouble with him. When the check" was' presented tbe next day at a particular desk ��������� tho jlerk, without going through the formality of referring to the customer's account, pleasantly inquired) "How will you take it?" and handed over the amount without ado. In the meantime the same little ceremony was being gone through at four otber pay desks, each clerk, acting upon instructions, cashing Mr. 's check for $5,000, making $25,- 000 in all, or nearly $20,000 in excess of the wily customer's balance! And, of. course, when Mr. f received a polite note requesting him to call ut the bunk,- he was not to be found. They cost no more���������they give much' more. Make peace -' with your suffering shoulder muscles through the "sliding cords." All dealers, 50 cents. Light, medium and heavy weights. GET THE GENUINE- PRESIDENT ON, EVERY BUCKLE. The Sailor's Prayer "When" tbe British under Lord Nelson woi'o bearing down to attack the combined fleet off Trafalgar, the first lieutenant of the Revenge, on going to sp.o that.all bands were at, their quarters, observed one of the men devoutly' kneeling at the side of his gun. 'So very unusual an attitude in an Rngl-sh sailor exciting his surprise and curiosity, be wont and asked thc man if he was afraid. " 'Afraid,' answered the honest tnr, with a countenance expressive of the utmost disdain. '.No; 1 was only pi-,- y- ing that the enemy's shot may bo" distributed in the same proportion as the prize money ��������� the greatest part amongst the officers.' " SIRES. AND SONS. GRAND NEWS ���������JOB. WOMEN MRS. E. P. RICHARDS TELLS HOW DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS - CURED HER. FLY 0:1 GLADSTONE'S NOSE. A WINDSOR LADY'S APPEAL To All Women: I will send free, with full instructions, my home treatment which positively cures Leucor- rhoea, Ulceration, ��������� Displacements, Falling of the Womb, Painful dr.Irregular Periods, Uterine and -Ovarian' Tumors or Growths, also Hot Flushes, Nervousness, Melancholy, Pains in .the. Head, Back or "Bowels;; Kidney and Bladder Troubles,' where caused by weakness - peculiar to oiir "sex You can continue treatment at home at' a cost of only about 12 cents n week. My book, "Woman's Own Medical Adviser," also sent free on request. Write to-day. Address, Mrs. M./Summers, Box.'H.'77, Windsor, .Ont.. .���������...���������.:���������.'....'.���������...-... ��������� ��������������������������� In 1950���������"She belongs to one of our best families." "Did her ancestors conic over in the May flower?" "Oh, no. She's much moro exclusive than that. She's-a. 'Daughter of Discoverers of the-North Pole.' "���������-, Life. ' Minard's Liniment relieves JJeuralgia. ���������r��������� Vicar (severely)���������"I was surprised nnd sorry, Mrs? Smith, to'observe that your husband walked out of church, in the middle of my sermon last Sunday?'. ��������� "'.���������.������������������ Mrs. Smith���������"Ob; you really must excuse 'im, sir; 'e's a somnambulist,' and Walks in.'is sleep, you see." Minard's Liniment Cures Burns, Etc. The optician would soon brjjooking ior another job if beer glasses, improved the eyesight. iiiiiw s2a'.thb; A Justifiable Protest* "What's that?" cried the convicted incendiary. "Five years? Well, if you people ain't the worst I ever ran up against! Here I goes out in tbe even- in' an' sets fire to the tallest buildla* in town���������sets fire to it so that in less a n minute tbe thing's a shootln'- blaze a hundred feet up into the sky. The whole poppylatlon is there quicker'n scat, nil of you tickled.to death at the sight! f'or .four, an' five hours you stood'tbere watchin' the Are���������hoursof solid enjoyment, too���������an' it not costlri' you a cent! Why, a circus or the theater or a scandal trial wouldn't have given you half as much fun, an' you know It! An' yet you sit "there an' bring In a-verdlc' givin' rae five years in the penitentiary���������me that's shown you all a Rood time an' ought to be considered as a benefactor If there wuz any gratitude in tbe human booz- um!"���������Exchange. ^ The Grand Old Man Showed to Poor Advantage In the Lantern. I remember once (says Harry Fur- niss, in The Strand Magazine), when I was' giving a lecture on "Portraiture: past and present," and illustrating the portraits on medals with the Aid of a lantern, I came to some near the bottom of the screen. "Here," said I, "we have the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of London, 1300 A.D." At that moment, the mayor and mayoress of the town, who, for effect I suppose, had come in a quarter of an hour late to the seats reserved for thorn in the centre of the hall, walked past tbe rays of the lantern, and were, of course, shown on tho screen, and, as can be supposed, caused an effect that had not been anticipated. On another occasion a fly was an offender, whilst 1 was giving a lecture, with the aid of a lantern. I was showing some portraits of Mr. Gladstone in uiy entertainment, "The humors of Parliament." I was telling my audience, as I pointed to the pictures on the screen, that one moment he looks like that, when there was a great burst of laughter. I .roceeiled to speak about Gladstone's lashing eye and noble brow, and by the time 1 mentioned something about ids aquiline nose my 'audience seemed in hysterics. Thinking that by ioine mischance the wrong picture vas being thrown on the screen,, I turned round, and was nt first horri- 'ied to see a gigantic fly apparently walking on the nose of the Grand Old Man. It appears ..tlmt.'the fly hud got into the lantern, had been caught between and was being .magnified' a hundredfold on the screen. After- Suffering For Twenty-Eight Years From Pains and Weakness and Sleeplessness���������Dodd's Kidney Pills the Only Medicine She Wants. Cottle s Cove, Notre Dame Bay, Nfld. .(Special).���������Grand news for suffering, women is that being scattered broadcast by Mrs. Elizabeth P. Richards of this place. For years she suffered ftom that terrible"' weakness and those agonizing pains so many women know. She has' found relief in Dodd's Kidney Pills and she wants all suffering women to know it. "For twenty-eight years," says. Mrs. Richards, "I suffered from Rheumatism, Kidney Trouble and Neuralgia. I got so weak I could not do my housework. Sleep was out of the question except for a few minutes at a time. My back ached so I could not sleep. I tried all kinds of medicine and had come to the conclusion that there wus no cure for me, when reading advertisements led me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills. I now sloop well ancl rise refreshed every 'morning. Dodd's Kidney Pills are all the medicine I want." The woman who has healthy Kidneys will never know-.the pains and weakness that make life hardly worth living. Dodd's Kidney Pills always make healthy Kidneys. Rodney Waiiumaker of Philadelphia, John's partner, has bought a .Bleriot monoplane. The youngest master plumber In Massachusetts' Is said to be (Jeorge II. Maluue of -Leominster, who recently secured his license, havlug passed tilt examination In practical work with a percentage of 07. lie is twenty-two years old. I-'ei-dinaiid Si-hlelfer of Nashville lays .claim to be the oldest active hunter In Illinois. He Is eighty years old. rie still has a license, of which he mad* use dui-lhg-Jhe season, hunting quail and other small game. He strongly belies his years, being bale and hearty. John Skinner, eighty years old. is thought to be tbe oldest bell ringer in England, lie has rung tit ail the principal eveuts of the lust seventy years at Kxeter cathedral. Including Queen Victoria's coronation In 1838, her wedding in 1830, both her jubilees and' King Edward's birth and coronation. Louis Nicolovian, ninety-seven years old and for fifty.-two years cashier and office manager for u New York firm, bas beeu pensioned. Iu more than half a century he has been away from' the office only fourteen days, and: he told his associates that lie disliked, to see Sunday come because It interrupted bis work. . ' The new dean of the national cnpltol guides appears lu the person of Ben Cady. Guides to .-the. capitol.nre appointed for life. There nre. fourteen of them, aud they divide the profits of their work. It Is up to one of the number to take the earnings of all and divide it. Cady has been a guide for ���������fourteen years. * OLD STUDENTS' PflANKS. In tha "I owe Pjenks a call." "Going there this evening?" "No. You see���������er���������that isn't all I owe him."���������Cleveland Leader. quickly stops coughs, cures oolds, heals the throat and lungs. ��������� * ��������� 25 conta Heat m i Healer. Ileat Is one of the most important of stimulants to 'living cells. The bot bath Is the commonest means of applying heat as a therapeutic agent and. is useful in a great number of conditions, especially to plethoric Individuals and In advanced tuberculosis. The usefulness of loooj applications of hot water Is well known. The general hot douche Is a remarkable means to bring blood to the surface of tbe body, to accelerate the circulation, etc.���������El- change. ������������������".' Losing Your Temper. "Losln" yoh temper don' pay," said Uncle Ebon, "in a heap o' cases it don' do no mo* dan put you tovde expense of lilrln' a lawyer to show you whah you'8 wrong."���������Washington Star. See that all Ihe hours of the day are bo full of Interesting and healthful occupations (hut tbere Is no chance for worry to stick Us uoee In.-Luther H. Ollllctr Geraldine���������"Who is the hero of your new story?" : Gornld���������"The man who accepted it." ���������Judge. Man on Shore���������"I'm going to have you arrested when you comes outer tharl" . N "Te���������he! I ain't coming out���������I'm .committing.suicide" (sinks with a bubbling grin),���������Life. "Why do so many otherwise clever women write silly letters to men?" "They're probably j making collections of tho answera thoy got,1' When Bribery Prevailed. English Parliamentary elections arc not altogether free from corruption. Worcester wu-S for a time disfranchis- -d after the last General Election, on account of the irregularities found to havo 'been prev.-.lent. and other constituencies had a rough time before they were secure of their respective members. But the old-time elections were altogether different. The popularity of the Reform Bill, which purposed the abolition of bribery, was by no means universal. In The Times of May 10, 1831, there is a story of a London police-constable who asked his inspector for lenve to go into tbe country to-vote for an an ti Reform candidate. He^explained that he would get .1!50 and his expenses for his vote; but complained (hat it was not then as in former times, when he had had as much ns $200, and never less thnn $125. "And if that Reform Bill passes it will be a sad loss to ine and my brother freemen," he add>d. King .George III. had his own meth- oils us an esk-ction age*-.t. On the eve of an election at W.ndsor. in which Admiral Kcppol was the Whig candidate, the King strolled into a silk- mercer's shop in tlie town and called out, "The Queen wants a gown���������wants a gown. No Ki>ppel]_ No Keppol!" Stout Party (who has dropped cigar)���������"Now which can I afford to lose���������my cigar or , my buck buttons?" ���������London Opinion. Minard's Liniment for sale everywhere Poor Animal "Little boy," asks the well-meaning reformer,-'"is .Unit your .'mamma' over yonder with the beautiful set. of furs?" "Yes, sir," answers tho bright lad. "Well, do you know what., poor animal it is that'had'to-suffer, in order that your mamma might have the furs which she .adorns-'herself so proudly?" "Yes,- sir���������my papa."���������Chicago Evening 1'ost,. Things Theatrical. Charles B. Hnnford. a Shakespearean actor, and Marie'Drofnnh are appearing Ibis seilson iu "Tbe American Lord." Miss Julia Marlowe was one of the Invited guests lately to a suffragette- function and so '.tt being hailed as a convert to the cause. Willis P. "Sweutiintn has bean engaged by Lew Fields und the Shuberts for "Sweet Sixteen," n play with music by' Victor Herbert and George V. Ilo- bart. Elsa Ryan, who has an Important part in "The Belle of Brittany." supporting Frank Daniels, is the wife of Ambrose Miller, a well known theatrical manager. In "The Lottery." the new comedy hy Itiila Johnson, which the Shuberts produced recently. Jameson Lee Finney is playing the part of a New York newspaper reporter. - Lifebuoy Soap is delightfully refreshing for Bath or Toilet. For washing underclothing it b unequalled. Cleanses and purifies. tf "I think the little one is going fo bear a resemblance to his father." "Well," answered Mr. Rasper, "if that is the case 1 hope the child'will'learn to bear it with'patience and'courage." ���������Washington Star. -��������� . Absent-Minded. When the Bishop of Truro, Dr. Gott, was Dean of Worcester, his absent-mindedness was so. notorious that lie earned for himself he sobriquet of "Dean For-gott." On one occasion he had invited some friends to dine with him; ou their arrival a short time bo- lore til-., dinner-hour, lie suggested thnt in the interval of waiting his Mentis would perhaps like to walk through the {.-rounds. After spending about ii quarter of an hour in admiring tho flowers, shrubs, and greenhouses, they suddenly came upon a 'nor in the gtird.n wall. "Ah!" said ''" dean to his astonished guests, "lln's will b> ,n much .lean."- w-jy for you-fto go home than iv going b-ick to the front." And, II uiiennseioii? of his invitation, he .ijcncd the door ana' bowi-d them out. "Dear>-Souls" An Irish evangelist always addresses bis hearers us "dear souls,'' but ho eaumto grief, when, addressing an audience in Ireland, be called them "ileur" Cork souls"���������Tho Christian Rogutor, "But money doesn't always lend to happiness." said the pnbr young man who bad just boon banded the frigid mi J., "Trui," rejoined the fair owner of the cold-storage heart j "but it nfton facilitates the search."���������Chicago Daily News. ' "'- '. ��������� " Mothers can easily know when their children arc troubled with worms, and they lose no time in applying the best of ..remedies���������Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator. Nephew (just returned'from abroad) ���������"This franc piece, aunt, I got in Paris." , Aunt Hepsy���������"I wish nephew, you'd fetched home one of them Latin quarters thoy talk so much about." When liis safanic majesty t'.-mpts some people they want him to get behind tht-in���������and iwsh. Sporting Notes. Numbering football players is growing in popularity. Michigan1 university'Is'giving basket- hall another trial. Pittsburg bowlers have taken up the large size duekpln game. Beloit college has challenged Notre Dame to a wrestling tournament after the holidays. Boy Mercer, the freshman; pole vaulter at the University of Pennsylvania, has a record of 12 feet 1% inches,^ which Is also the eastern scholastic record. Although Stanford, university has dropped rowing, a club called the Lake Liigunitti Boat club has beeu organized among .students aud bus arranged a race with the University of Washing-" ton's crew. COUGHS & COLDS LEAD TO CONSUMPTION Cold* ate the most dangeroui of all forms of diteate, A neglected cold leach lo Bronchitis, Consumption, Pneumonia.- "Coughi" are the result of irritated bron- chialtubef. "PSYCHINE"cure8coughf. by removing the irritating particles and healing the inflamed membrane. It u a germicide and destroys; the tubercle germ. It u a tonic that strengthens the lungs, the liver, and tones up the system. It makes (or better health in all conditions of humanity. Get strong and thecough will disappear. "PSYCHINE"; makes weak people | strong. It cures coughs of the most obdurate kind and breaks up ��������� cold in a few hours. Write fer Free Sample. F������ SrJt kj ������U Draitisli������J Dulers SOc. It $1 par bottlt. Dr. T. A. SL0CUM LIMITED, TORONTO I PRONOUNCED SI-KEEN . W. N. U., No. 772. College and School. Simmons college, Boston, boasts it Is the only place iu ihe world where women can be trained to plau and to manage lunch rooms. Miss Helen Donovan, formerly of Uochester, has been elected by the Milwaukee board of education to take charge of the new trade school for girls. .'.-���������.. With a brilliant record of fifty years' service In the public* schools at Philadelphia. Miss I.ydia A. Kirby, director of spei-lul schools und sewing, has resigned. Professor Henry Carter Adams, statistician for the .Interstate commerce eonimiNsb.il, i.s in charge of u new department at the University of .Michigan, where students may have a four year course In rail way administration. ' Ring Off, Pteaae. They were seated by tbe fireside, dreaming of the future, when they would bo one, a winsome telephone girl and her fiance. The smalt talk anally drifted, to the question as to who should light tbe Ore In tbe morning. It Was his opinion that it was tbe wife's place to get up and start tbe fire and let the poor, hardworking husband rest. After this declaration there was silence most profound, but only for tho space of about half a second; then the girl thrust out her finger encircled by a ring and murmured sweetly but firmly: "Illng off, please. Tou have connected with tbe wrong number."- Philadclnhla Ledjrer. Sapleigh���������"Bah Jove, you know, an idea bus occurred to me " Miss Pert (interrupting)���������"Pardon me, Mr.'Sapleigh, isn't thnt more than a mere occurrence? I should call it an event."���������Boston Transcript. Bridget���������Will yez have your dinner now, sorr. or wait for the missus? Head of tho House���������Where is your mistress, Bridget? Bridget���������There's an auction boyant tho corner, sorr, an' Bhc said she'd stop thorn for a minnit. Head of the Hotis >���������Have dinner now,! Bridget.���������Now York Sun. They Were More Ingenious Earlier Days. Tho recent fuss at the University recalls some of the truly formidable student doings of past years. What must Dr. Beattie Nesbitt and others ,of the class of 1887 think of a celebration in which- a trolley rope was pulled, a lawn mower injured, and a fpw garments destroyed! What'must they think of expulsion .and other dire penalties for these comparatively harmless hoodlum proceedings? Those who spent their childhood in Toronto in the eighties well rpmem- ber the two cannons given to the city after the Crimean -war by the. British Government. They stood in Queen'? Park just where, the.monument to Sir John Macdonald is now located nnd pointed down Queen's avenue. They are now placed on either side of the entrance to tho Parliament buildings, hut escape general attention. One night, over twenty years ago, the residents of the central part of the city��������� and il was mostly central then���������were awakened by a ^eafoning roar. Everywhere, people' 'in night caps thrust their heads from windows thinking that the end of the world had come. Then it was remembered that it was the niu'ht of thc thirty-first of October. Next morning it transpired that the students had liuspiked those two relics of Sob.-istopol, hud loaded them with gunpowder and old boots, and had touched them off. 'It was lucky that there was no one on Queen's avenue ut the time, and that the guns were not of long-range cbnrac.ter. Tbere were no casualties; not a student had even'a linger burned. The identity of the- ringleaders, one of whom was Beattie Nesbitt, was kept a close secret, but nowadays sober professional men who are losing their hair, boast of having taken-part in that enterprise, an J become ten years younger in tell ins about it. Old University graduates also relate how a gentleman, now a prominent clergyman in the United States, went down on his knees to a committee of students appointed to deal with his case, to save his . moustache. The orders we're that one half of it was to be,sacrificed, and that he was to appear, for a week,, with only the left side of his mouth so adorned. It was a very beautiful golden moustache of a kind rare up at the University, and finally the committee bad mercy on him and accepted some other act of sacrifice,instead. And then-there was the'occasion when the students by some means or other took the cnre: taker's cow up to the tower of University college, a task as seemingly impossible as the building of the pyramids, and left the poor- beast there bellowing her troubles to the night air. It was only when the students commenced to destroy property other than that connected with the University that the town and gown troubles in this city commenced. But in those good old days there was not much doing and everybody relished a bit of riot, whatever the occasion. The pranks of the students, moreover, have lost their flavor of originality, and are apt to be sordid,'- unimaginative, ancl destructive when carried beyond their own campus. Didn't Know Mr. Gompers. Mr. Samuel -Gompers and party occupied boxes at tbe Princess Theatre," Toronto, one night" recently,' as guests- of the management. Their b.-Oies were draped with British and American tlags, and Mr. Gompers, with, his little round silk cap, his twinkling glasses, and his benign, fleshy, clean-shaven countenance attracted no little attention. Of course, there were some people in the house who did uot know he was the High j Priest of Trades Unionism in America, but they realized 'that he must be a High Priest of some- sort. This led to considerable discussion between ��������� acts, and after the performance, in a. street car, the writer overheard a conversation on the subject which was very' much more amusing than it can be made to appear on paper. A -'gentleman," aceomapnied by two ladies, remarked to one of his com panions: "So you didn't know who Gompers was, eb>" ��������� ��������� "No." she replied, "all I could Te- ���������.menib'T buying heard about him was that he ought to be in jail���������oughtn't he?'-' Then up spoke the other lady: "You say he's presiilentof the American Federation of Labor. Why, 1 thought Mr. Mackenzie King was head of all the labor people!" Gifts From Canada. A ceremony of interest to Canadians took place at the Hampstead ! ianien Suburb, London, Eng., on the,' recent, festival of St. Simon and St. | Jude, when the Veil, the Archdeacon ' of London -dedicated the site of, and ! Mrs. S. A. liamett cut the first sod ' .'or, the new Church of St. Jude-on- J the-Hill, of which Bev. Basil G. ; l-ic-urchier, M.A., is vicar. Mr. Bourch- ier v-jr/dtod Montreal in February, utid March last, where he acted as special Lenten preacher at the Church of ot. John the Evangelist , and the Church of the Advent. As a result of liis Canadian visit, the new church is to possess a Canadian pulpit and a Canadian lectern, as well us several other gifts, the votive offerings, of Mr. iJouichier's admirers in Montreal and elsewhere in Canada. TRIED REMEDY FOR THE GRIP, Illinois vs. Missouri A Misaourian informed a traveller who'had ,-inquired about corn that each stalk h.-id nine ears on it, and was 15 feet high." ' :: "That's nothing to our corn," replied 'the other .quickly. "Up in -'-Illinois where I came from, we always had nine ears to "each stalk and a .pack of shelled corn hanging to each tassel; but wc never could raise 'anv held beans with it." '. j "Why," asked the Missourian. 'Because," nodded the other "the corn grow so fast that it pulled the beans .up."���������Circle Magazine. Time Has Tested It.���������Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil has been on the market upwards of thirty years and in that time it has proved a blessing to thousands. It is in high favor throughout Canada ancl its-excellence has carried its fame beyond the seas. It has. no equal in the whole list of liniments.' If it were double the price it would be a cheap liniment. ���������' Wary Thompson���������Suppose a man should call you a bar, what would vou do' Jones (hesitatingly)���������What sizW man?���������Jewish Ledger. - .A Corns cripple tlie feet and make walking a torture, yet. sure relief in the shape of Holloway's Corn Cure is within reach-of all. Teacher���������"How many make' a million, Johnny?" Johnny���������"Not many." Minard's Liniment Cures Dandruff. "Fashions arc changing like the deuce. "How do y' know, old man?" . Saw the minister for the first-time in six months"���������Puck Nervous prostration. takes all the vigor and energy out of a person. It leaves you weak, helpless and without an interest in life. . Nervous prostration does not disappear of its own accord.- You must fill the system with new nerve, force, new energy, new vitality by the use of Dr. A .W. Chase's Nerve Food In this great res toratiye treatment are combined the very elements of Nature which areknown to formnew rich blood and create new nerve force You can fee] yourself (retting well and atronfi: -when you use this medicine. You can prove it by noting your increaie in weight. But to tret t'.'.euo results you must be sure that you'set tho genuine, bcar- ( ing portrait and si?naturo of A. W. Chase. M. D., tho famous Receipt Book author. 60 eta, a box at all dealers or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Toronto. _-. I ��������� Good Roads. The aid from the Provincial Treas ury is such that good roads should] be found in every county in Canada, tree, for the cultivation of those business relations which aro essential to the success of the farmer. Access, to markets without cost or restriction is a necessity in the -/East. It is the rlist.inpuishng' characteristic of the West, and should not be its monopoly.���������British Whig. Kingston. Quick Relief for an upset stomach, hiccoughs, a sick headache, constipated bowels, or a bilious attack is secured by using BEECHAM'S PILLS i>old Everywhere. In Boxes 35 cent* Want a Fleet. We want a Canadian fleet, but such a fleet should be directed and con- trolled by the Imperial authorities, at j least, .until Canaiia is rich enough to f put on the sens 11 real navy, which j will be able to meet any enemy and fight it on' even terms.���������Daily Province. Vancouver. MADE IN CANADA GILLE1TS :s:^B#^���������������������������'.'R^ ffiA?-\:''-^" '" mil"' ' ' -'*���������-*��������� *1"'-^'w-'^-.tV^';-.'->���������. Waiting at thc Church "So Wilkinn deserted Miss Barkis' at the altar. Did his courage leave bim?" "Leave bim! No; it returned.." "Can I get the silver service for the fire department?" inquired a young man at tho free library. ' - '.'Tlie what?': asked the girl at the desk. '..:������������������ ''...".. "The silver service .for the-fire do- partment-^tho questions they nsk you when you take the silver sarvice-examinations, you know." ��������� Newark livening News. High |������ulS*? Grade Guaranteed Chemically Pure SOLD IN PACKAGES AND CANS Same Price as the poor ... Adulterated! Kinds E. W. GILLETT CO., LTD. Tomato, Ont. ���������������ftflw jiM.\gl_Sl!S____^!i -jjujnK^rHji^cgci,^^ "--^&&l THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD. BRITISH COLUMBIA. )| The Union j-iotel Eholt, B. C. COMFORTABLE HOSTELRY John R. jVtefl/Iastet* Proprietor. Mountaineer and Kootenay Standard Cigars. Made by 3. 0. tlKliit *% ������0-., nefeon Frank Fletcher Provincial Land Surveyor, Nelson, B. C. THE LEDGE Is published every Thursday at Greenwood, B C , and the price is $i a year, postage free to all parts of Canada, and Great Britain. To the United States and other countries it is sent postpaid for $7.50 a year. Address all letters to The Ledge, Greenwood, B. C. R. T. LOWERY, PUBLISHER. GREENWOOD B. C, JAN , 13 19IO. GREENWOOD , and MIDWAY Leaves Greenwood for Spokane it 7 a. ni., and for Oroville at 2:30 p. m. J. McDo.velt;. nelson, B. 0. ���������GEO. P. ffKLtS, Proprietor. First-class in everything. ���������Steam heat, electric light, private baths. Telephone in every room. First-class ibar and barber shop. 'Bus meets all trains. mSQmgQS&8$jtf&$F J. E. Cameron, Leading Tailor of the Kootenays. Kaslo, B. C. A blue mark here indicates that your Subscription has become deceased, and that the editor would once more like to commune with your collateral. WRITE TO MOTHER. ������������*��������� @������ 0 K\< PHOENIX ������������ The nearest hotel to the *& Granby mines. One of the w largest dining rooms in the {/jU city. The bar is replete ������M with nerve bracers of all Jfe kinds, and the most fra- ^ grant cigars. Drop up and C , see me. Tj\ A. 0. JOHNSON ������ PROPRIETOR. n? The National Hotel Has home cooking and home-made preserved fruit. Sunday Dinners a Specialty. Meals served from 6 a. m. to 9 p. m. A Ear in Connection. Plenty of warm, clean and pleasant rooms at reasonable prices. Mrs. Harry Towns, Lessee. Pioneer Gfeenuiood, S. C. The oldest hotel in the city, and still under the same management. Rooms .comfortable, meals equal to any in tbe .city, and the bar spppliea only the best. Corner of Greenwood and Government ���������streets. J. W. JSlelson "" '. THE Arlington Hotel GREENWOOD Js the place for Peep-o'-Day Cocktails and Evening Night-Caps. Buttermilk a specialty during the warm season. Dempsey, & Rippeto. The Dominion Hotel In Phoenix Is situated in a central and prominent part of the city. The rooms are warm-and pleasant, the meals tasty and substantial,. the cigars and liquors of the best, and the landlord will be pleased to have everyone call and see him. J. B. Boone, Proprietor. Hotel Alexander PHOENIX, B. C. Is a comfortable home for the miner and traveler. ���������Good meals and pleasant rooms. Pure liquors and fragrant cigars in the bar. Jt. V. CHISHOLM, Proprietor. WESTERN - - HOTELS. THK KOOTENAY SALOON Sandon, B. C., has a line of nerve bracers unsurpassed in any Jtnoun- tain town ot the Great West A glass of aqua pura given free with spirits menti. TKKMONT HOUSE Nelson, B C, is run on thc. American and European plan. There is nothing yellow about the house except the gold in the safe. Slalone & Trcglllm. In the far, wild and beautiful west tbere lives many a boy who forgets to write to his mother. Away back in the cent belt many a gray-haired mother silently sits as the shadows of evening grow darker, wondering where her boy is that night. Perhaps he is sipping high-balls in some gilded booze dispensary; perhaps he is gazing at a hole card or trying to push a bobtail against a forlorn hope ; perhaps he is at church trying to win the sweetest choir singer in the town. Perhaps he is in some dark stope pounding a hole in hard rock, or risking his life, with the provincial police of B. C. Perhaps he is rich, or a member of the legislature. Perhaps he is sick, broke, sober, drunk or dying ; but if he fails to write to mother he is lackiug in a quality that produces more joy in this world at less cost than almost anything else. For 48 cents worth of stamps, boys, you can write home once a month for a year, and no better investment can be made. If you wish to still be more of a prince always drop a dollar bill in each letter. n"ring a long and chequered career upon the frontier we always wrote home to mother. Sitting in her rocking chair she would read our letter, then place it under the cushion, only to have it within easy reach so that she would read it again and again, often with misty eyes, as memory brought baek to her thc "days when, as a boy, we sat by her side and read aloud some cheery tale of fiction. But, Time in its relentless march brought the day when death stole into our old homo and took mother away to sing with the angel?. But our sadness was not tinged with remorse for we had always written home to mother. So, boys, drop a line to the best friend 3*011 will ever have and do not delay, for flowers cannot help the dead, ancl ifc is better to make others glad when they are alive than to mourn for them when they are dead. The following verses, written by an Irish lady, will touch any heart that is not atrophied : Pray, may I ask you, worthy lad, Whose smile no care can smother, Though busy life throbs round about, ' Have you written home to mother? The Victoria Colonist has all the other western p-ip'-rn backed over the dump. It publishes a column of news fifty years old. Although somewhat belated it is all news to the present generation. The editor of the Star at White Horse says that it was not necessary as far, as be was concerned for the saloons of that burg to put in one hundred barrels _of beer for winter use. He drinks nothing but whiskey with aqua pura as a chaser. The .charm of life in Victoria will pass away when that city grows much bigger than it is now. In fact many of the oldest inhabitants are already complaining about its rapid progress. If the pace keeps up Victoria will ere long lose its reputation as being an excellent resort for sleep and repose Halley's comet will be seen only on the Pacific coast next May. On the 18th of May the earth will pass through the tail of the comet, giving the people a chance to see the greatest exhibition of fireworks ever seen. Real estate men in Vancouver should take advantage of the coining event to make hay while it rains.. If. the gcomet gets ugly it is liable to make us all cash in, and we would warn all our delinquent subscribers to dig up bo that they will be fully prepared to meet the worst that may come. The postal rate on parcels going from Canada to England lies been reduced to 12 cents a pound, but it still costs 1G cents a pound to send a parcel from Greenwood to Anaconda, a distance of one mile. It is simply preposterous that parcels can be sent to England cheaper than to points in Cauado. How long will the government of Canada combine to favor tho express companies, who are taking advantage of the situation to squeeze every dollar possible out of trie people. By a material redu.*- tion.upon postal packages we can procure an equal reduction of ex press rates. If tho postoffice uii! reduce the rate upon pont.-il packages to eight cents a pound ro mij part of Canada the expre.*.-. rui!!- panies will be forced rof-'llow mii-i. We can hardly ������\xj><vl' like this from Li'mieiix. busy shutting j.->> 1-* ���������������������������<��������� mail that tell th u !>. ing labor acts tl-'-i '1 -: w immensely impressed when told that the locomotive had the running lynx faded for speed limit. After the old-timer had exhausted his fund of information upon the workings of modern transportation methods the red man propounded the following question: "S'pose train hyak dis way," Baid he, moving his hand rapidly across a beaver skin, "oder train hyak dis way," bringing his left hand towards his right; "just one trail ; eh! what he do?" The old-timer considered -not a moment: " Oh, make a portage," said he.���������Qnesnel Observer. For Sale���������The Commercial hotel in ��������� Greenwood and furnishings. Price, ������1,500; $300 cash, and the balance ou time at 8 per cent.-interest. Apply to J. W. Mellor. Canadian and Whittaker's-Almanacs for 1910 now on sale at Coles' Book Store. RTHfciR Dealer in Coal, Wood, Ties, Poles, etc. Heavy Teaming to any part of the District. " Unequalled for Domestic Use." I have an extr.v large stock of jewelry for the holidays. Have a look at it. E. A. Black, the Jeweler. Phoenix. The Kootenay Belle is a cigar that can be found in all parts of the Boundary, ond you should ask the man behind the bar to produce it when you line up to the mahogany. All kinds of office and pocket diaries for 1910 Coles' Book Store office can be bought at GEEENWOOD Is situated in the heart of tho city and -within- stepping distance of all the banks, restaurants, express, stage, telegraph .offices, etc." The building is heated with hot water and has. a radiator in every room. The barcontains a large variety of brewed, vinted and distilled -beverages suitable to the tastes of a cosmopolitan1 population. Come in and have something. J. H. GOODEVE - - - PROPRIETOR Olympia oyster cocktails always ready at the Windsor hotel. Fresh oysters are a specialty at the Windsor hotel cafe. The-dining-room of the Rossland hotel has been reopened. Best of meals and excellent service Kodaks and photographic sup- plies at McRae Bros., Phoenix. Thc rcstitiir.-iiii. in hotel ii. v--r :'li*������erf tha Windsor Hi!' .-wl: .':.��������� Fl.:������l. ii II If* V P.icili. I,!'.' rll.li -L'll I- Ir, . ��������� Uo." oi Nel- ri-.i! ;i i-ifiai K--(l li"t -A'.'t'll .1 .Th- .|ij~. Is the best furnished hotel in the Boundary district. . Ifc is heated with steam arid '���������glued by electricity. Excellent sample ������������������"(inis The,bar is silwavs abreast of the ������ Th������- ���������Hi's, and me������li* ������ny'hour. ���������-'' ��������� isor Hotel ''i>. -<t. er) the * afe ;a, ���������ti-'r, *r;i't;i������vr A3 a. ...j. unv: ,f. 11 ������������������1 -i .W. TIIK IIOTJKL SLOCAN Three Forks, B. C, is the leading hotel of the city. Mountain trout and game dinners a specialty. Rooms reserved by telegraph. Hugh NI veil, Prop. KKWHAltKET UOTJSE. Is tho homo for all tourists and millionaires visiting- Now Denver, British Columbia. Hoiiry 8t������������f5c. Propr. THE HOTEL GRANBY Is pleasantly situated in the heart of Grand Forks, and ia convenient to all the leading financial and commercial institutinns of the city. Travelers will find it a comfortable place to sojourn when in the city. FRED RUSSELL Triinnfer of. I.lquor UoiMiHo. Take Notice that I intend to apply to tlie Puperliitendont of I'rovliU'lal Folce for 11 ���������ransfer of Hie llijuor llecnao now held liy mc for tlie1 Northern Hotel jo Eljolt, U C. to John jjulllvfui pttfed tills 21*t duy of December, IfTO. NOKMAN LUSE.' THK PltOri.VCK HOTEL Grand Forks, is a large three- (���������tory brick hotel that provides the i-ublic with pood meals and pleasant rooms. A new building but the same old rates Kmll Lumen, Proprietor, LAKKVIKW IJOTEI, in Nelson, B C, em plows all white help and is a home for the world at #1.00 a day. N.CMiillotto, Proprietor. You are forgetting, aren't you, quite, How fast the weeks went flying, And that a little blotted sheet, Unanswered still is lying? Don't jou remember how she stood, With wistful glance at-parting? Don't you remember how the tears Were in her soft eyes starting ? Have you forgotten how her arms Stole round you to caress.you? Have you forgotten those low words '���������Good-bye, my son, God bless your Oh ! do not wrong her patient love, Save God's there is no other, So faithml through all mists of sin��������� Fear not to write to mother. Tell hei how hard it is to walk As walked the Master lowly ; Tell her how hard it is to keep A man's life pure and holy. Tell her to keep the lamp of prayer Alight���������a beacon burning; Whose beam shall reach you far away, Shall lure your soul returning. Tell her you love her dearly still, For fear some sad tomorrow Shall bear away the listening soul, And leave you lost in sorrow. And then, through bitter falling tears, And sighs you may,not smother, You will remember wben too late, You did not write to mother. - Insurance 01 ji.i.') Kind is .1 g*-od investment, wl*. ther life, arciii* or fire. In PIw.-.-j<.x D. J. Matheson pays pai ticular attention to this line of business and those interested should consult him at their earliest convenience iu person or by mail. A Moral A-duck wliich stuck faithfully to business during the summer and laid several dozens of large, fawn- colored eggs, complained that she wasn't appreciated. "See that hen over there,'',, she said. "Jihe hasn't laid as many eggs as I have, nor as big, but she has books written about her and verses composed in her honor, while nobody is saying a word about me." "The trouble with you is," said the wiBe old rooster that was standing near, "that you don't tell the public what you have done. You lay an egg and waddle off without saying a word, but that sister of mine never lays one without letting everyone in the neighborhood know about it. If you want to cut any ice in this community you must learn to advertise.", 1 1 :i ' ..: III '"<..' 1 hum iceutly ��������� r**k . , ���������,.;.- . . 1. Ti ...- ���������.'. U"'-ii iii.,. .���������.��������� . ir. t>..*.ii.," said tbe utim'siri*. ������������������ iluw in it jour good wiffgis not OUt lOtlhV ?" "She's no but poorly," was the reply. "It's uae wink o' sleep she's had for the last three nights." The minister was sorry to hear such.a poor accouut of Mrs. Bain's bealth and expressed a wish for a speedy improvement. '.' I'm thinking if she could get a good sleep," Baid the shoemaker, "she'd soon be on the mend. Maybe if ye're passing the' house tomorrow y'e'll no' object to ca' in an' just give her frae 'lastly' to the the end o' your discourse this morning. I'm no' saying it wadna be very helpful."���������Dundee Advertiser. Real spring chickens that come in the fall are being served daily iu the Windsor hotel restaurant. The epicures of the city have already discovered the fact. THK KASI.O HOTEL Kaslo, B. C, is a comfnrtnble home for all who travel to that city. Cockle Jb Pnpworln. LOWERY'S CLAIM Dtirinij; tho 87 months that Lowery's Qlaiin was on earth it did business all pver the* world. It wan the most plib]up, independent ond fearlnsH journal ever produced in Canada. Political and theological enemies pursued it with (he venom of a rattlesnake until thc jrovernmeiit shut It out of the mails, 'aud its editor ceasnd to publish it,' naitly. on account of a'Injsy liver and fiartly because it takes n pilo of money 0 run n paper that \a outlawed. Ihv.rf lire still 'Mi (liff'Toiit editions of this --on- (Jcrnned journal in print. Send lOeonf'a and gut one or $2 60 and ^et tlie bunch ��������� ft.T Lowurty, ' Greenwyud, B. Q. I RANCH FOR SALE. A .W-nrrc rnncli for mile. I-'Irst-cla.s.i soil jvikI .<ml)-lrrlpitod from 11 lnl.o on tliu north ond, 7Sac*ru4 clciired, (10 ac-roM free from slumps and seeded M-lth timothy Tlio linl.mi-e of (lie land Is coven d with 2,tm,(ffl) feet of open, inorelmiit. iilrlc tiiiilror All the land Ii fenced m a llrst- clnHS manner, mid the 7.0 acres cleared is fenced off from tho the uncleared portion. Oormlti, chutes, loir Imnm nnd house. Just ������} miles 'from a rallwRy fliifr stiiUiin mid two miles from n sawmill sltu-itc-d on 11 npnr of the Orw*,t Northern mllwiiy, X'crpeluiil sprlint of writer that nover fronsw.i. This ranch luw a frotid (tov- prnment r-ad coiinoetliitf .villi oilier purls of tho district. It. Js shunted on Annrchist mountain, soven inllea from Mola-ii, Wash, The price In in) per ncro cash, A pply to II. 0. SIDLEY, Sidley, B. 0. ���������If Jfihe sticks to her job long enough, the girl who .becomes a young man's slave uiity develop intp an olfj man's darling. has commenced in It is done with a Fl.OUGHING the Yukou. rotary. Tub ranks of New Year, resolutions have been terribly decimated within the past ten days. Ai.Aw may be passed in Canada making it unlawful to have ore in your possession unless you can prove where yon got it. Sik MackBiVZik Bo well is probably the oldest printer in Canada. Lie has beeu connected with a Belleville newspaper for 75 years. A man was fined in California for betting on a baseball game. By and by they will be arresting people for buying mining stools or tickets for a church raffle. A itEpoRT from New York says that in 1903 the American Telephone Co. made a profit of $150,- 000,000. Part of this was made by paying amalj wages to ^ellc flirjs, ��������� - ' * ���������-"-��������������������������� Blaze to Hades. Many years ago the pioneer, John McLean, who lives here, was wandering with a partner over the stretch of forest which is now the townsite of Quesnel, when Mc Lean's partner discovered a hot spring which used to flow near the spot where the Chinese cemetery is now located. McLean, who was some distance off, was suddenly startled by his shout: "Hey! John, come here ; hell ain't half a mile from here!"���������Quesnel Observer. The Columbia cigar is a large and free-smoking cigar. It is sold in all mountain towns and inadi* in NelBon, ' He Was Sho' Sick. An old negro wan asleep on the train out of Sedalia the other thy, mouth open and snoring, when ������ commercial traveler emptied >���������- quinine capsule ou hits long1!*", says the Waycross Herald. Tbe old darkey awakened, began - to spit around and ca" f->r the conductor, and yrt'nl: '���������'..' " " B ihs, if there a dot tor on 1 iii* here train?" ..'," I don't know," said the conductor. "Are^you sick?" " Yes, sir, I sho' is sick, I sho' is sick." " What is the matter with you ?" " I diiuno. sir, but it tastes like I busted my gall.". Science, being a foe to romance, regards a kiss as merely an exchange of microbes. A Railway Portage. / An old -ti met- in Fort George waV explaining to a si wash the elementary principles of railroad operation tfje other da;y. The red wan wdb About Float Float is not a periodical. It is a book containing 86 illustrations all told, and is filled with sketches and stories of western life. It tells how a gambler cashed in after the flush days of Sandon ; how it rained in New Denver long after Noah was dead ; how a ' a parson took a driuk at Bear Lake in early days ; how justice was dealt in Kaslo in '93; how the saloon man outprayed the women in Kalamazoo, and graphically depicts the roamings of a western editor among the tender- feet in the cent belt. It contains the early history of Nelnon and a rofnance ofthe Silver King mine. In it are printed three western poems, and dozens of articles too numerous to mention., fiend for nni* h'-foid it i." too late.��������� Tbe price is 25 ' centB, ' pcsf.p-iid to any part of the wiiilrl. AildnvH all 'letters 1.0 /������---T, Lowery GRKENWOOO, B. C. MH.TMMNmWMMWMaMMMSWMMM������aH������M Application f>r <(<*tall liquor V.Iconno. Nnt'i-o is lmrebj-irlven th-it'. thirty ditys afler date. I Intend lo apply to tho superintendent it provincial police, F. 9. Hit-wy.of Victoria, for a retail liquor license for the Bridesville Iiotol, located at Bridtsvlllo. I). 0 ��������� Dated Octobor 14,11)09. THOMAS WALSH. Greenwood, is the home for workingmen of all nations. It is convenient to the smelter on the hill. The dining room is supplied with tasty and substantial food, while the bar contains the best wet goods in the market. Electric lights all over the premises. Hot and cold baths. 0 fa Lofstad, Proprietor MINKKAf. ACT Certificate of Improvements NOTICE "HO" Miners!Claim,situate In theOroonwood Mining Division of Vnlo Dint let V'hcro located: Boomerang Camp. West Kurk'of Kettle Hivcr. TAKE NOTICE thnt I, J. P. Harrison, airent for Marlon Aiwood, Kreo Miner's Certificate No. B:iM410, and Thomns M flravcs, Free Miner's Ccrtliionto No, il 14140, intend, sixty daj-8 from tho date hereof, lo apply to the Mining tltooordw for a Certilieato of Improve. meiits, for the purposo of obtaining n. Crown Grant to tho above olulm, And furthor take notice that action, under sootron 87, must be commenced beforo tuo issuance of aueh Certificate of Improvements Dated thbj Srd day of December, A. D. 1800. , ,. --- j,BrifABBiaojf. ' Far away fields are usually thought to be green. This is probably why so many people in the Boundary are constantly buying real estate and stocks far from the district in which they live. Why not put some of your speculating money in ventures within a few miles' of yonr own door, and benefit yourself and the country in Avhich yon reside and. make money ? The Argo Mining and Tunnel Co. of Greenwood is Organized under the laws of British Columbia, with a capital sto^k of $125,000, divieed into 500000 shares at 25 cents each, non-personal Ha* . bility. Adjoining Greenwood the company own a large number of valuable claims, with high-grade gold andcoppoi- ore showing on the surface. The company Ls'now.engjige'd; in runmnu' a XQDO-foot tunnel to tap all theawjeadsat great depth. Every indication is favorable to the striking of valuable deposits of ore, and the time to invest is now, S'.>eri as "ore .is encountered at great depth the price of slock will ascend rapidly and the chances of rnakinii' ibig..ni'on'ey uut of a small investment will nor be so good. The time to speculate is when things are beginning. The success of thfe big tunnel means great \yealr.li for the investors and increased prosperity for the entire district Investors and visitors to the district are cordially invited to inspect the properties and view the work being done in the tunnel. For further particulars address the president or secretary.....'. ��������� OLA LOFSTAD, A. 5. BLACK, President. Secretary. vl N-������l -J i Hi
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