@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "ba9cab97-7906-4404-af38-c3a7dcb32c94"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2011-09-27"@en, "1909-07-22"@en ; dcterms:description "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."@en, ""@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xledgreen/items/1.0181343/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note " 'V < '\"-j..*'--��������� , * /- -'*������������������������'.-��������� ',Y'''-?\"^''''\">\"7, ���������? -<-'���������? , '\"'.'f, V .v-*-*rS .-.'.. ���������:** -. .*- r\\ :/ J';\" ,\"4i * -I *������< J' ���������v-'' f '. Vol. XVI: -greenwood;-b.'a, Thursday, july'22, 1909. N6. >2 ' ifl > ' I r 1 Passing Throngi Dr. Oppenheimer' moved to Spokane last Saturday. - * ;',- ������������������ -Lane C. Gillam is placer mining at Cook's Inlet in Alaska. ' - - . Isaac * Crawford of Rock, Creek visited tbe city last-,week. \\ S. .T., Larson and daughters were visitors in tbe city Saturday.-- -- * There has beeu some frost in Greenwood during the past week. - The force at ,,tho Sally mine on the West Fork has been increased. - J. A. Tuzo and C.\" Crowson came down from tbo West Fork Monday. John Rusk of Westbridge is spending a couple of weeks in tbe city. *','';���������' . Bob Halcro of Beaverdell spent a couple of* days in tbe city this week. ��������� . ���������--'',.- \"Bill ;White was *in the \"city'on Saturday for the first time in ten years.'C ' -7 \" ', r ,; '- .Miss Goddard of Barclay������& Co. left Tuesday for a month's visit to the coast.s , , \\ , , . ' ' Dr. Simmons left Tuesday'on a professional trip, to points-in the been discontinued' for to present at the Golden Eagle mine on the North Fork,* only ,two men now being .dn pi oj*ed. Of the force working 'at -the\" mine, Bill Lewis, foreman, Sa'm Row, Dick Hambly. Jud Foulds and G. Bonk have gone to Field to work at the Moii. arch mine, with\" Bill Lewis in charge.;, ���������' ��������� ' ' \".\".\"*- '(T The Kettle Valley Riil way company-is, it Js/ksaid, making, ar-r tangements to resume construe-\" tion work on tbe Midway and Vernon railway, \"a party having arrived at Rock Creek last week for that purpose. .Mt is to be hoped that actual .construction work is intended,' and not a few shovels of earth ���������turned ' for the purpose oE holding the charter. If permanent work is intended it is probable the C. P. R. is behind the hot air line. The Strike. James Buchanan & Co's - ' HOUSE OF ������0������V_g$U\"&S������ GREENWOOD LIQUOR CO. IMPORTERS, GREENWOOD, B. C. PHOENIX, B. C Is opposite the Great Northern depot and is a delightful haven for the weary traveler. Great veins of hot water run through the entiie house, \"and batlnooms are al- wajs at tbe Fen-ice of those in searr-h of material cleanliness. The dining room is an enemy to dyspepsia, v. hile the aitistic appointment of the liquid refreshment makes tbe drinks go down like eating fruit in a flower garden, The sample rooms are the largest in the monn- taiuB and a pleasure to drummers with big trunks. JAS. MARSHALL - - PROPRIETOR -*fiiiii*i������������***t-^^ Similkameen. ** '' -, Alderman Wilson paid a visit to Nelson last week.. -He will shortly move to .Vernon. Chas. and Mrs. McClung returned last week after a two weeks' visit to the Seattle fair. Curley Campbell has returned from a month's toil over the range at the Golden Eagle mine. Miss Violet Kirby left on Monday oh a ��������� visit to Miss Shaw of Greenwood.���������Keremeos Chronicle. There was no quorum of tbe city council Monday night, only three aldermen being in attendance. James McCreath of the Greenwood Liquor ��������� com piiny left ,Mon- dey on a business trip through the Similkameen. Jud Mclntyie returned-from the Arrow lakes last week*, where be had'been \"with'oneTof tbe*C.'P.\"Rr survey parties.' ' Thos.\" Edwards arrived in the city Monday from the North Fork, where he had been working at the Golden Eagle mine. Dan Inglis came down from the Sally mine on Monday and this week will leave for a visit to the old homo in Nova Scotia. ���������W. S. Keith, formerly of Greenwood, is in Los Angeles promoting a company to put in a Cattan smelting plant in that city. W. Lawton returned to Midway Monday after building a 7-ioom residence at Carmi/ He intends to locate on the West Fork. MHHUM1\"���������1 -8ffl^l*Mia*W--������^^ 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. Phono 138, Greenwood WtO999999999O9e99999G999999������0Ce9999999999909999999f, Greenwood, is tho homo for workiugmen of all nationB. It is convenient to the smelter on the hill. Tbo dining room ia supplied with tasty and substantial food, while the bar coutains the best wet goods in tho market. Electric lights all over the Hot and cold baths. < prcmiaes., Ola Lofstad, Proprietor There is to bo a 200 yard race in Midway next week between an automobile and a racehorse, standing start. The bet is $100 a side. Bill Beach was in the metropolis on Saturday. He is dividing his attention this summer between mining and farming at Christina lake. Three ladips were making a a house to house canvass in the city Tuesday, introducing Robin Hood flour, a new Sascatchowan brand. Mrs. Phillips and two daughters of Beresford, Man., are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Russell. Mis. Phillips is a Bister of Mrs. Russell. There will b<** a meeting of tho executive of the Greenwood Riding Conservative association in the offices of tbe Greenwood City Waterworks company, tomorrow, Friday, evening an 8 o'clock. D. J. McDonald of Okanagan, Wash., is a visitor in the city this week. Mr. McDonald is not a very large man, therefore the name by which he is best known, ���������' Big Dan.'.'. He outweighs 300 when Marathon fit. . There is a vacancy on the aldor- manic board in Greenwood. Would it not be well to fill it? An election would Bhow approval or disapproval of Mayor Bunting's administration, or rather his majority in tho council. Thero ib one railway train in the Boundary run solely for the convenience of the train crow. One day last week the train was stopped twice for au hour to allow tbe crew to gD fishing. Tbe passen- sengers stayed in tho coach fighting moequitos. J. A. McKinnon of Rossland is ia tho city. Mr. McKinnon has lately been appointed organizer .for the province of the Western Federation of miners, and is hero with the object of. settling the strike. He is .familiar with local conditions, having worksd several years at the Mother Lodomluo. Active development work haa It is understood that the only question now in dispute between the B.C. Copper company and the Union is that of a physician. As the men pay ��������� for the med ical service, it is only reasonable that each .should .[Have the right to' choose his physician. It is understood that, the management claims a more efficient service will be tbe result of but one doctor for their employees. In 1898 a doctor was chosen by vote of the men, but officials of rthe company took the vote, not representatives of the men. Subsequent events have led to the suspicion that this is not the most satisfactory method of selecting a physician. Among she rules issued by the company doctor in June, 19.08, is the following: \"9th. All*'disputes pertaining to the medical service to be referred to the superintendent of mine or smelter for final decision.\" Why the siiperintesdent, who from his position is a company man, should be the''final arbitrator between tbo men -who pay for medi- cai service and 'the physician who receives payment for such service, is difficult to nhdcrsUnd. ' It looks ,very much like a game of '* heads [ win aud bails you loose.\" ��������� There is another and more important phastfof this question. In case of injury\\to an employee while working iu mine or smelter, an unscrupulous ^physician ujider^the. control- of tho ' company could easily deprive the injured person of just damages under the Workmen's Compensation Act. On the the other hand, it might be said that an unscrupulous physician might do an equal injury to the company, but tlie average working man would hardly have the price to enable him to influence the physician. was served, by Midy lodge and a social hour, was spent It is the' intention'' of 'the, district grand chancellor, Geo.\" Chappie of Grand Forks,. to arrange for frequent gatheringi-Tof \"this'kind,' with the object of improving the rank work. The-next' meeting of the four lodges will be in Grand Fork**, wlien the new hall in,th'it town is .finished.* :[ C The \"Kootenay -Cigar Co. of Nelson have in the Royal Seal a cigar that is known and smoked between the wheat country and the blue Pacific, Western Float Rowe-Hobbs. Knights of Pythias. Monday evening between sixty and seventy members from the four Boundary lodges, Knights of Pythias, met in the castle hall at Mid way,\" for the purpose of conferring ranks, installing officers, and comparing work. The^ranks were conferred upon three candidates, Grand Forks putting on tbe Page, Greenwood the Esquire and Phoenix the Knight. All the work was well put on, especially that of Phoenix lodge. After the rank work the officers of the four lodges were installed by George Chappie, D. G. C, assisted by Albin Almstrom, G. V. C; James Clark, G. P.; Jos. Burpee, G. K. R. 8.; N. McLeod, G. M. F.; B. Bubar, G. M. E., and F. Miller, G. I. G. Following are the names of officers installed: phoenix, so. 28. R. H. McCracken, C. C. W. X. Perkins. V. C. James Biteman, P. K. J. Gardner (P. C), M. of W. F. C. Graham (P. C), K. R. S. Gilbert Kay, M F. S. Lundie (P. C), M. E. 11. Reed, M. at A. OUEENWOOU, NO. 29. Chas. Birce, C. C. A. J. Logan, V. C. Wm. Lawsou, P. N. Morrison, M. of W. Jas. W. Grier (P. C), K. R. S. W. T. Thompson (P. C), M. F. Wm. Johns, M. of E. Chas. Dagman, M. at A. A. J. Lind, I. G. Wm. Rowo (P. C), C. G. OllAND FORKS, NO. 30. E. W. Stewart, C. C. Frank Latham, V. C. ��������� E. C; Honniger, P. D. M. McDonald (P. C), M. of W. W. E. Haddon, __.��������� R. S. Geo. Chappie (P. C), _1. F. P. A. Z. Pare, M. at A. Roy Curran, I. G. Frank Miller, O. G. MIDWAY, NO. 36. C, Bubar, CO, S. A. Crowoll (P, C), V. C. G. S. Stooko, IV\" J. O. Thompson, M. of W. F. M, Stevenson, K. R, 8. H. Eldridgo(P. C), M. F. P. Hilscher, M. E. 'A. Logan, M. at A. E. Munroe, I? Q., G^Wellwood, 0. G. .After dosing'.tha lodge ,������ lunch The following is taken from a Cornwall, England, paper : . At St. Austell parish church ou Wednesday last week, a wedding was solemnized, the contracting parties being Miss Ethel Hobbs, second daughter of Mrs. Edward Hobbs of Tregrehan, and Mr. Andrew Rowe, only son of Mr. William Rowe of Greenwood, British,\"Columbia. The bride, who was given away by Mr. H. Hore, looked charming in an empire gown of cream crepe de chine,, with yoke and sleeves of silk lace, and a silk empire sash .at the back. She also w������re a Merry Widow hat of silk crinoline trimmed in white tulle an-1 ostrich feathers. She carried a handsome shower bouquet, the gift of the bridegroom. The bridesmaids were the Misses Dcra Hobbs, sister,\" Elsie Frost, cousin, and Rosa Harper. The two former wore drebses of white lawn, trimmed with embroidery and Valen- cienne lace, with hats-\"of white chip trimmed in white silk aud sprays of pink roses. The latter wore a cream cashmere dress, trimmed with silk and lace, and a white hat trimmed in white tulle and feather. They carried bouquets of choice flowers, the gift of the bridegroom. Mr. Matassa, of British Columbia, a friend of the groom, acted as best man. The guests were Mrs. Hobbs, mother of the bride, Mrs. Fred Morcom, bister, and Mrs. J. .White, aunt. After the ceremony a reception was held at tho residence of the bride's sister. There were numerous and valuable presents. The Rev. W. Blackmore officiated. Albert Dewar and James Bdattie who were killed in a train wreck at Grilfilh siding were buried in Revelstoke last week. ��������� - - - ' % A. S. Pott-ya Winnipeg l.iwyer, has filf*d a claim\" against a the C- P. R. for $20 000 fer services rendered in settling tho strike last year. The Monarch lead mine at Field has been sold to eastern men for a large sum:' , In Rossland a 23-foot ledge of shipping ore has been found in the Idaho, and several more new and valuable chutes of ore have been located in the Center Star. ��������� The lumber imported last year into, Canada from the State of Washington amounted iu value to over four millions of dollars. The Province of Alberta is 280 miles wide and 700 miles long. It is the size of Great Britain. . The Fife mine is shipping ore to Trail that runs $22 to the ton. The Sally silver mine,' about fifty miles from Greenwood, is oue of the richest in the West. All the ore shippe'd in five years.has'averaged $115 to the ton.- . The lid may be put on^n' Hedley The C. P. R. has **\"'' *A \"' putjup $2,500 Near Ely in'Nevada '400' miners^ are on f-trike at the Veteran mine. The two sons of Alex T;ucas have opened a law office in Vancouver. ITiny -Vrailenburg of Oroville, aged 12, while playing about tbe ' ruins of a laundry that had been' burned, ' touched a-live electric wire and was nearly* killed, his' hands being severel}1- burned.-, The Vancouver Province says, that Prince Rupert is'a fish port , It may be more than th-it in 20 years. ' James R. Brown, government' agent at Fair view has been ap������ pointed deputy assessor and col-J lector for the Kettle River assessment district during theabsence on'- leave of Howard A. Turner, o J. C. Paull, a wealthy English . miller, has secured an option on the Neal Beaton ranch at Cherry creek, and it is bis intention'' to bring out two carloads of the Clyde aud Shire stallions and organize one of tbe largest .borse-breeding'v. ^establishments' in .Cauada,. He will pay'over $40,000 for the ranch,\" Hi3 son will be left in charge.'-*-Mr.- P-iull also intends so build twenty modern houses in Kamloops, and_S will spend in the neighborhood of >- nearly half a million dollars altogether. *��������� ' '' j. - *> *\"��������� , ' f-l '. Al Insurance of, any kind is a good investment, whether,- life, accident or fire. In Phoenix D. J. Mathe- son pays particular ^attention to to educate the child of Constable *-his !inf f business and those in- Decker, who was killed by a train *e,^tei1 f.h0\",d cons?h h\\m a* , J their earliest convenience in per son or by mail. \" ' Dr.\" MacLean\" of Phoenix - Has taken over the practice of Dr J. E. Spankie and Dr. Oppenheimer and will move to Greenwood next week. Another physician will be associated with Dr. MacLean in the practice here. Set Fire to Stor3 Early ou the morning of the 2nd inst. tho jewelry store at Enderby, occupied by A. J. Dake, was discovered to be on fire, and was burned to the ground, the efforts of the fire brigade being concentrated upou saving tbe adjoining buildings which fortunately escaped with slight damage. Dake was in Armstrong at the time, and his assistant,\" Frank Belmont, who had been acting as a traveling salesman for bim, was supposed to be in Vernon. The stock had been insured a short time ago for $2,500, and a watch was set on the ruins, so that nothing might be taken away of any value. In the early hours of Monday morning the watchers saw a man approach the scene of the fire, and his movements at once excited suspicion. They kept in the shadow, and finally saw him make a move towards his hip pocket. Fearing that they had been seen, and that ho was going to pull a gun, they covered him and ordered bim to hold up his hands. The man proved to be Belmont. Upou searching him for his gun, they discovered that ho hud a stocking filled with burnt and battered pieces of jewelry which ho apparently was about to plant in tbe ruins. The following day the ashes were carefully examined, and little or no trace of the stock could be discovered beyond a few clock springs and a tool or two. Subsequently Constable Gardom discovered the missing jewelry cached away in Dako'e room. Dake and Belmont were both arrested. There is a suspicion that still other parties aro implicated who did the actual work of removing tho stock.,;.':;.:;' Belmont has since made a confession. He says that he and Dake rigged up a clock alarm in such a way that .it would turn an emery wheel. Tho conspirators for the insurance money then placed matches against the wheel and underneath these scattered shavings sn.tui'uted with oil. Tho alarm was set for 1:.'50 o'clock on the morning of July 2. It went* off on shedulo tinie, Belmont and IXike went to the nearby town of Armstrong and listened to the fire alarm whistle eight mili't* away, Then thoy returned to the bcoiio of tbe fire.���������Keremeos Chronicle. The Columbia cigar and free-smoking cigar. is a. largo It is sold in all mountain towns and mado in Nelson.-... ;���������.������������������'���������---,.'������������������>���������'. killed robber at Ashcroft.\" The enlargement of six of the furnaces at the Granby smelter is finished aud the balance of -.the battery will be fiuished by September. Then thie great smelter can treat 4,000 tons or more every day. The C. P. R. has paid Percy Andrews $2,500 for injuries.he received last year. - ' The Royal bank has opened a branch in New Alberni. Some mill ownres have* been fined at Nakusp for putting'sawdust in the lake. Bears have been seen in the South Belt near Rossland. Garry R. Barrett was hanged in Edmonton lost week' for tbe murder1, of. Deputy'-Warden Stedman dfsthe---**Alberta,-**1penitentiaryr\" He protested his innocence, claiming the killing was done in self defense. W. J. Henderson died in Tula- meen a few days ago. He was formerly in the hotel business at Hedley and Tulameen. His wife and three sons survive him. Dr. Lizier has been appointed coroner for the Princeton district. The Northern Crown bank has opened a branch in Quesnel. C. Law has gone north to develop a propeity he owns on tbe Babine range, adjoining the Dibble mine. The government is sending Pat Daly to investigate the scale of wages paid the .men working on the first hundred miles of railway out of Prince Rupert, There is now a close season for bear iu the province from July 15 to September 1, and they cannot be trapped south of the main line of the C. P. R. The 12th of July was celebrated by citizens of Keremeos. J. A. Kirkpatrick is retiring from the grocery business in Prince Rupert. It is expected that E. M. Sandi- lands will be made gold commissioner at Jed way this year. At the recent auction sale of lands iu Lethbridge more than a million and a half dollars were realized. The average price was $11.00 an acre, and the sale was probably the greatest ever known iu the world. The Russians imported iuto the Yukon have endured great suffering from lack of food. Many have had to bo fed in Dawsou and Fair banks at soup kitchens aud tho problem for next winter is a serious one. Mike Bartlett has been taken in charge by the city of Seattle as a hopeless drunkard. He is woll known in Kootenay and the north. T. Mayuo Daly scores.Winuippg for being a very immoral city. He evidently believes in hiving vice and not allowing it to spread all over the city. The Indians up tho Skeena are growing hostile to the palefaces and it is reported that already tliey have killed some white settlers In Vancouver, for selling whiskey to an Indian Robert Lockbarl was sent to jail for three months at bard labor; Dr. McKechnie and J. S. Rear of Vancouver havo bought 25,000 the Renewed Activity. \"All is-ended now, the hope, fear and the sorrow.\" \\, --- Once,r more the 'smoke issues forth from our towering stacks 'and blazing coke ovens and the merry evening whistle shrieks out its bulletin-like message, while a half , a thousand blackened faces, sparkling with renewed labor, present a cheerful and pleasing prospect With the agreement signed, another epoch has been added- tn Coleman's history, an epoch not *; mingled wilh Yiooousness ormob. madness.'but on the other hand - tempered with cool and deliberate.-' thinking on the parVof the miners;*;.'' After, all Jihat -has-'been..said and-- done, we naturally revert to the\" question : ���������' What good has the strike done ?\" Alter the storm there generally comes a calm,\"after a' good well- fought fight there follows an understanding, which state describe** the condition of affairs \"existent here. The miners\" have secured a;' written promise\" that *��������� no ��������� miner shall be discriminated against on account of membership in labor organizitiousK and, further, the \", scale of wages shall remain the same'as in the old schedule. .The operators have seourgd at last tranquilityand a clear and lucid understanding with the _men, which tho Miner hopes will continue so for many years to come. The country as will as tbe operators and miners have also been sufferers from the effects of the strike, so much so that a strong and growing public opinion is being formed that will no doubt cause a new law to be placed on the statute book, that any person who is not a resident and who holds uo interest in the district where he advocates' a strike, shall be arrested and duly punished. This law would prevent many unnecessary strikes and would be a decided advantage to the miner, who has intelligence enough, without outside influence, to vote for a strike when he sees fit for himself to do so.���������Coleman Miuer. ^ Widdowson, Assayer, Nelson, B. C acres of fruit lauds near Vernon. It will bo sold to settlers in parcels to suit. New York mon are investing i'ovoral millions iu timber upou Howe Sound. They will oi'cct two eawmills, Thoy also expect to buy several largo limits upon Vancouver i.laud uoar Cowichan., Flowery Words. P. A. O'Farrcll, speaking oi B.itish Columbia, says : \"It has been apparent to me for a quarter of a century that British Columbia would take rank in time amongst the greatest nations of the world. It ,has be3*ond per- adventure the finest climate, the most superb scenery aud the most fruitful valleys in all the world. It has beyond peradventure the the finest climate, the most superb scenery and the most fruitful val-\" leys id all ,tho world; Its mountains are honeycomed with vaHt deposits of gold and silver ores, of lead and zinc, of copper, coal and iron. The energy of 25,000,000 liorseB can bo harnessed and utilized from its majestic rivers. Its fisheries are of tiusurpasscd extent, aud British Columbia is greater iu t-xteut than the German empire and France coinbiued, and it ha** (10,000,000 ncrcH of the richest fruit garden and pasture laud, aud 182,- 000,000. acres of forests. ItB navigable rivers and lakes exceed those of all Europe, and it is destined to become tho homo of a race of people even more vigorous more strenuous aud as heroic as any that hau ever yet lived.\" Some imen fail to hit the target of success because thoy aita too high Widdowson, Assayer, Nelson, B. C. '*���������??/ :������. I^LivCviv*/ VI-.-- - -.:��������� Zi*:x:iuji.������ ,'.v-������ ���������.'���������'.,.'-.\".��������� v ���������'?!'���������'��������� ������������������*^ fr-^Or-:.^^ ������-\"*5\"i','!5'\"'-\"*'5'\"'J**'^^ ^���������^ V_..'vj^a- . ..n-,. .*!;������'.*\"������������������'���������'-*-~.,������..'?Tij^*^'gfjj*'. THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD,. BRITISH COLUMBIA. OWSErl IS MISTAKEN rteads of the Death of Mother-in- law With Regret. TELLS SAD NEWS GENTLY. Convinced of Its Truth Until Ho Was Confronted by Spectacled Woman With a Carpetbag, Who Arrived Just In Time. [Copyright, 1900, by T. C. McChire.' \\UFj \"Bowsers hail finished dinnei without any awful event happening when Mr. \"Bowser quietly observed: \"Your mother is getting pretty old, Isn't she?\" \"She is close to eighty, I believe,\" wns the reply. \"That's ten years beyond man's limit, and oJ! course you realize that she can't live beyond a few years more at best?\" . \"Of course I realize Jt. Dear old mother���������I shall grieve to see hor go.\" ��������� \"Hut you will know that she wus prepared \" \"Yes; mother is a consistent Christian woman. She has never kiiowingl.v harmed any one. She will be ready tu go wheu her time comes. I'm sorry that you don't agree better.\" \"So am I, and I've come to the conclusion that it's mostly my fault. I suppose every son-in-law starts out with tho idea that ho must hate hi.-* iuotliei'*iii-law. Sho has said somo pretty hard things to me and aboul me.\" ! \"But you can forgive her?\" 1 \"Yes. Perhaps I have deserved all she's said. Poor, dear old lady! I, ton, shall grieve when she is no more. I guess she has tried to do right as near as she knew how, while you know I don't always stop to thiuk whose corns I'm treading on.\"- \"Thai's awfully sweet and nice of you, Mr. Bowser. \"May I write and tell her all the nice things you've said? I'm sure it would please her.\" ''Yes: you may���������that is, we'll sec , al'out it later on. Have you ever thought of how the news of the death of your mother might reach you first?*' \"I can't say I have, but I suppose I'd get a telegram saying that she was very ill and asking mc to come at once. Ii's a lamentable thing to think of. but I hope I may be with her to the .last.\" \"She is always willing to put hersell out for others,\" observed Mr. Bowser after a long silence. \"Always.\" \"And she could always find some good in even the worst of people.\" \"Always. She always looks for the gocd instead of tho bad.\" \"And I don't think she has an enemy In the world.\" \"Not one, the dear old soul. You don't ' know how I bare grieved to dead?\" \"Hardly that.\" \"But you havo hoard somo sad news. You couldn't havo heard that mother was ill, or I should have heard it too. Tell me just what It is.\" Mr. Bowser looked solemn. ITo looked sad. IIo looked like a man who gets on a street car and finds he has left his roll at home, ne made the most of the situation for a moment and then said: \"Mrs. Bowser, whatever good' you can say of your dear mother I can cheerfully corroborate. She was one among ten thousand. There is not the least doubt in my mind that she has gono\"��������� \"Mother gone! Where has she gouo?\" ' \"Be brave, now. Be brave and remember that you are the wife of Bowser���������Samuel Bowser.\" She sank, white faced and trembling, into her chair and waited for the stroke. Thero were a lump in his throat and a tear in his eye as he presently said: \"I trust and believe that it was a painless death.\" \"Do you mean that mother Is���������is dead?\" \"I do. It Is sad, sad news, but it must be broken to you. Yes, the dear angel is no more ou earth., At the present moment hoi- spirit is with the angels.\" \"And did you Just hoar of it this afternoon?\" \"Just as I was leaving the office 1 read of it in au evening paper. She was run over by a street car and never knew what hit her. She didn't even havo time to yell out. Be brave, Mrs. Bowser.\" \"I am trying to be. Where Is the paper?\" \"1 didn't bring it home,'but I will run out and get one. 1 wanted to tell you about it first.\" \"Aud there can be no mistake?\" \"Unfortunately, no. It gave her name and age and all about it. It even went so far as to say that she wore window glass spectacles and had feet,.like-a man. Was that some one opei*||^&ihe -door?\" itorsSfBowser's Mother Appears. Mr.' Bowser's ear had detected a sound in the front hall, and he crossed the room to have a look, In so doing he came face to face with a woman carrying a carpetbag, and before he could utter a word a well remembered voice observed: \"Oh, I wear ten cent spectacles and have feet like a mau, eh!\" \"Mother!\" shouted Mrs. Bowser as she sprang up. \"Mother-in-law!\" added Mr. Bowser as he fell back a pace. \"Yes. it's me, and I have arrived just in time, as usual. Ten cent spectacles! Keet like a man! Same Samuel Bowser, I sec! Got frisky again and need a strong hand!* Well, here's the hand! You just squat yourself clown in a chair till I get my things off and a bite to eat and I'll make you think you are wearing ten cent spectacles on the back of your nock!\" M. QUAD. THE LAPLANDERS. This Dying Race to Be Transplanted to Labrador. A commencement has just been made in a most remarkable and long talked of enterprise. This is nothing less than ,the transplanting of the Lapps from Lapland, where they are a dying-race, to 'Labrador, whore It Is hoped that they will flourish and increase. Whether these hopes will be justified or not remains to be seen. Similar experiments In the past have seldom beeu wholly successful, and some have resulted disastrously. The Doukhobors, for instance,' who In 1S90 were transported to the number of 8,000 or 9,000 from their homes in southern Russia to the Canadian northwest, were for a time in dire strails. They also behaved en-atlcally, marching naked through the snow and abandoning their flocks and herds to tho wolves. They are now, however, reported to be settling down aud doing better. On the other hand, the attempt made some eighty years ago to transplant the Hoskolnikis of the Don country to a new home that was supposed to have been found for them in eastern Turkestan resulted in one of the most ghastly tragedies recorded in the annals of history. The huge caravan lost its way in the terrible desert of Gobi and was never heard of again, the probability being that hunger and thirst, combined with tbo attacks of rioniad robbers, were responsible for the deaths of the entire party. TO PREVENT . TIQNAL WA CANADA'S RESOURCES ARE BEING ,RECKLESSLY EXHAUSTED An Expert Gives Some Interesting Data to Show How the Dominion is Being Sapped to its' Own Great Disadvantage���������Should Foster Home Industries, Instead of ' Shipping , Raw Products Abroad A student of economic conditions in thc Dominion of Canada contributes the following-.��������� \"The'groat west is filling up with population, but tlio older provinces need more people. In some parts of Quebec there is a fulling off, as the latest returns show that in 18 districts out of GO there was a loss of population. \"Nearly half the countries in the maritime provinces have by the last census actually lost not only the natural increase ol 2% per cent., hut a further percentage, drawn away hy the attractions offered by the Great West, or the industrial centres of New I-'ngland. \"Loss of population is always a symptom of decadence, and how tliat is to be arrested i.s a question of deep importance to tho country and of interest lo every public-spirited citizen. \"All-artificial inducements, such as subsidies, bonuses, etc., offer only a temporary stimulant and ought to be Equally dreadful was the fate that i put ilsidc ns valueless. befell the 10,000 Jutl.-indcrs transplanted to the east coast of Greenland by Queen Margaret of Sweden. At first they flourished exceedingly. Villages were founded, churches and schools were built, and a bishop was appointed Then one year the ice pack broke loose from the remote northern seas and came to a standstill along th-) coast opposite the settlements in a belt fifty miles broad. All communication with the open sea was then cut off. The settlers wero unable to obtain supplies, and in the end they perished down to the very last man.���������Pearson's Weekly. \"'she was nuir over bi* astbeet caii. know that you and she didn't get along . better nor how glad I am to think that you are willing to become the best of . friends.\" \"I'd kiss her in a minute if she were here.\" ; \"Would you, indeed?\" '. \"I certainly would. Yes, I'd kiss hor aud tell her it was all my fault that we hadn't got along better. Death is a sad thing, Isn't it?\" ���������' \"Awfully sad.\" 1 \"Even when the victim is an old lady?\" \"Age makes no difference. I don't think yon ever wrote mother a letter In your life. How nice It would be for you to sit down and write just as you talk! I'm sure she'd treasure the letter.\" ';��������� Moralizes on Life's Brevity. Mr. Bowser got up and walked up and down for three or four minutes and then halted to say: i \"Mrs. Bowser, you haven't received any telegram that your mother Is ailing?\" \"Mercy, no! Of course I should have let you know at once. So far as I know, she Is in the best of health.\" \"Dm! Death often comes to people who aro seemingly In the best of health. Almost every day wo read of people dropping dead of heart failure.\" \"I know, but If mother was carried off that way some of her neighbors would telegraph.\" Mr. Bowser walked nomc more and then said: ��������� \"We should all be prepared to hear bad news any hour In the dny, and when It comes we should meet It with fortitude.\" \"Yes; that Is true, hut I never lot myself worry. IM did I should shiver Bvery tlrao the doorbell rang. Do you know I'm rather surprised to find yon In this mood tonight? It is an unusual one.\" \"I���������I may have heard somo news today���������some sad news.\" \"You don't mean It!\" exclaimed Mrs. Bowser ns she sat up all of a sudden. \"Don't get excited. I have said that ono should bo prepared to hear bad news ot any time. \"Even though we get bad news wo must try to realize that It might be worse.\" , \"But whut Is it, Mr. Bowser���������what Is It? Havo you speculated In Wall street and lost a lot of money?\" \"N-o, not exactly,\" . \"Havo yon heard that yonr sister Is A Mistake. \"1 thought from the way that girl talked she was the whole tbiug in the vaudeville sketch, and when I went tc see the act all she did was to appear as an assistant in a milliner's shof pasting inside bands on hats.\" \"Oh, then, she probably gave you a wrong impression by telling you she was a headliiier.\"���������Baltimore American. Money Hidden by Prisoners. \"I would venture it as a safe assertion that there is every cent of $2,500 in cash hidden within the walls of this prison,\" said Colonel E. E. Mudd. the warden. He then explained that the convicts hide the money in all sorts of places, even to burying it In the yard. They will hide it in cracks in their cells and in the shops, frequently changing it so that the other convicts cannot get hold of it. A convict complained to the warden recently that he had $100 hidden under the window sill in ore of the shops and that it had been stolen from him by another convict. This shows how much money gets into the prison from time to lime and is not discovered when the general search is made. The convicts are not allowed to have money in their possession, although they may keep it with the r-i'ison clerk. When tho search was ryade the other day an old negro was forced to cough up Sij cents, which he had in pennies and nickels concealed in his month.���������Frankfort Cor. Louisville Courier-Journal. Roue,\"* on Officers. Bill���������What do you think of this smokeless powder and noiseless guns? Jill���������Don't approve *pt them. Why tho officers five miles back of thc troops on tho hill won't know thai there's any fighting goiug on at all.��������� Yonkers Statesman. Farewells. Stella���������Did she give a farewell dinner to her bridesmaids? Bella���������Yes, aud probably the first one she cooks herself will be a farewell one to her husband.���������St. Louis Republic. Just That. . Crazy Railway Methods, flow the Chinese are wasting British capital In building the Shanghai-Ilaii- kow-Ningpo railway is told by the Pel-iii correspondent of the London Times, who says: \"The railway presents ev^ry possible defect. Bridges- are unsafe. Bails are of native manufacture, of obsolete section, spiked into soft wood sleepers from Mauchuria aud Japan. Sleepers are wrongly laid. Wrongly ballasted, their life Iu this soil is little more than one year. Eight different patterns of rolling stock are iu use. Where tliere was difficulty in bridging a stream the Chinese built the bridge on dry land and then dug a canal and diverted the waterway under the bridge, both the entrance to the diversion and (he exit from it being literally at right angles to the natural direction of the stream.\" \"Ah, how pleasant to see a little boj In such a hurry to deliver his message!\" \"Aw, go on! I'm just doin' this tc keep In trainln' for do next Mara* thon!\"���������New York World. - Cold Comfort. \"Father, what Is an empty title?\" \"Well, an empty title Is your moth cr's way of calling mo the head of thi house.\"���������New York Herald. Insinuating. \"Lady,\" said Meandering Mike, \"you don't want to listen to no hard luck story, do you?\" \"Not a bit of it.\" \"You relievo my mind. If you want to hear somethlu' worth while you Jos' gimme n chauce to show what I kin do ns nn after dinner speaker.\"���������Washington Star. Canada and a National Anthem. . Every now and then some one tries to write a ualional anthem for Canada; but, In the opinion of the Victoria Colonist, every effort is a failure. The Colonist adds: \"Canada is not old enough to have evolved a national anthem, The sentiment of the people has not clustered around any particular person, event or idea. When the average rhymester sits down to write a Canadian song he tries to Include everything In it, from the herring fleet of Nova Scotia to the miners of the Klondike, and the result is a species of directory. By and by something may happen, or we may do something as a people, or some one may think of something that will catch the popular Idea.\" From Lake Superior to the sea,- east, tlie country possesses natural resources as great a.s tho vast wheat prairies and stock lands from Lake Superior to the Rocky Mountains and a hundred times more diversified. This belt of' country, more than a thousand miles in breadth, possesses forests, fisheries stretching around hundreds of miles of coast line, minerals of all kinds, coal and iron, great fruit, dairying and stock raising lands, and above all, a superb climate for developing the human animal to its greatest perfection. No country is more richly endowed. What more is necessary for the creation and development of a nation? Still it has a great lack of people; the country needs more people and we do not have them because under the ordinary laws of supply and demand there is not profitable employment for them. How is employment to be provided for workers? Tlie only way i.s to work up thc natural sources of wealth���������our forests, fisheries, farms, minerals. These are the only true bases of tlie future activities, and wealth of our people. Provide employment by working up raw materials, 61 which our country is rich, into finished products, ready for consumption. For example, take our forests. Shipping abroad logs and wood, to be worked by foreign labor and returned to us in a finished product is a reckless form of national extravagance, as it transfers to another country both thc population and capital required in manufacturing, as well as the higher profits created. \"We wish the United States well, but we have to look out for ourselves. We have no need to ask them to manufacture for us goods made from our natural products. We want the workers this side of the line���������not south of it. We want people to fill up our towns and villages, make new homes, earn money, spend it, develop new lines of trade, industry and manufacturing. \"With more population we. will be less dependent, more powerful, more wealthy and more important in the world's affairs. We will give a concrete example of the labor value of even a rudimentary industry���������that of harking or \"rossing\" pulp wood. It is taken from the report of the United States committee on pulp wood, etc As we announced last week, we offer $500.00 cash in prizes.. First, a prize of $300.00 to the Farmer or Stock Breeder who will send in the best suggestion for a name for our new Farm Weekly; then, as a con- solation, 20 cash prizes of $5.00 each, and 50 cash prizes of. $2.00. each to the 20 and 50 persons sending in the next best suggestions,- making seventy-one prizes in all. ' , : The Judges will be: Mr. Wm. Rennie, the well-known Seedsman, and author of \" Successful Farming.\" Mr. Thomas Graham, of Graham Bros.; Claremont, well-known Horse Breeders. Mr. J. H. S. Johnstone, editor of the paper. / DESCRIPTION OF PUBLICATION The new publication will be a large illustrated weekly. The subscription price will be only $1.00 per year, though it will be made the best farm journal in * Canada. / It will be edited by Mr. J. H. S. Johnstone, for ten years Associate Editor of \"The Breeder's Gazette,\" Chicago, which is well known as the best Stock Journal in the world. He- is also the author of \" The Horse Book���������\" which is the recognized authority on horsecraft. It will publish reliable and original information on all subjects of interest to Farmers and Stockbreeders all over Canada. It will cover thoroughly all departments of Stock Breeding and Raising, Grain Cultivation, Poultry, Orcharding, Horticulture and Gardening, Soil Development, etc. , *��������� It will publish accurate weekly reports and statistics, of all the leading grain and live stock markets. It will have its own special crop and stock reporting service. It will publish special reports of all important Fairs, Exhibitions, Live\" Stock Shows and Conventions. It will publish free to its subscribers plans of economical and sanitary homes, barns, outbuildings, etc., specializing on concrete construction. ' ' .t . It will have a correspondence department, giving the most reliable information on all subjects of interest to its readers, replies being written by the best., recognized experts in the different departments. , CONDITIONS This generous prize offer is entirely free to subscribers. Every prize winner must be a Farmer, Stock Breeder, Horticulturist, Fruit Grower, or in some way actually interested in Agriculture. Send $1,00, for which the paper will be sent you for ONE YEAR, and with your $1.00 send your suggestion for tbe name of the new publication. .Use the Coupon. Every Coupon with a suggested name must be mailed on or before May 22nd, 1909, to be eligible to win a prize. The person who FIRST SUGGESTS the name adopted will win the prize, and priority of sug gestion will be decided by the POST MARK ON THE ENVELOPE in which the winning coupon is mailed. In this way all who submit suggestions will enjoy equal chances to win the money. Subscribers in Nova Scotia and British Columbia will have exactly the same advantages as those in Ontario���������no more, no less. This is absolutely the only advertisement that will appear. So cut out the coupon and send in with your suggestion for a name. We want agents to take subscriptions. Address THE COURIER PRESS. LIMITED. Box 158. TORONTO \"5������J of its own people in order to attract to Canada all industrial people that will increase our population of consumers and taxpayers, develop the internal trade and enrich the whole country with the results of new productive energy.\" Worms in children, if they be not attended to, cause convulsions, and often death. Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator will protect the children from these distressing afllictions. Status of Cat Rises in Japan The status of the cat has suddenly risen in Japan, and the few families ���������...,,-.,.,. in that country which are without; ?*)en air starts the blood circulating these pets arc on the alert to secure 'in evcr*v arter-v nnd V0ln in t,ic cuUtQ \" Benefits of Walking ��������� The ordinary man, who is employed indoors throughout the day, does not walk enough. Ho needs the fresh air and sunshine oi the outdoors, and, no matter how tired he may bp, a short time in tlie open air will rest, him. If he has no opportunity to walk during the evening he ought to do it in the morning. Thorp is no better tonic than a two mile walk-before going to work. Some business men, who live some 'distance from their offices or stores, walk down regularly and are greatly benefited thereby. No matter how sluggish they may feel on arising the morning walk puts them in good trim for thc day's work. Exercise in the one or more-of them wherever they are to be found. The cause of this increased demand for felines is due system, opens up the pores of the skin, so that the waste matter may be set free, limbers up tho joints and lately published. A wit- ro^hTsVale\"nVcn77ocenUy\"macfo by Dr. I mllsclcs j11\"-* Puts ������ne in s-nipc, for the **\"* i - . . . duties of the clay. _���������_��������� ,���������u��������� ��������� , - , . - lu \"i- niiin-iiiuiii. it-ui-iiuv muni* ncss *-ho is;a pulp wood.operator m ��������� Koch, who advised the keeping of the Adirondack!- and ships \"rossed\" i catg n8 the best means of avoiding the plague. The Japanese authorities have taken a census of the cats in ips wood to YVatertown, and also to Niagara, gave evidence that he paid for several of thc larger cities, and in Osaka, whose population is 1,500,000, it was learned tliat 48,222 families kept cats to the number of 5*1,369. In stumpngi- ,113 per cord. The labor of cutting and carrying to the mill is $4.80 per cord. The labor cost of rossing is $1.82 per cord. The mill nl!lTt'!!C -rCf cf- Thc_f.reiSht *tile-HH, uJcnn, airani i! and Hftfo. Lnmp po^ for itself in Tow moiithft In Faune oil. An ideal light for ttoio. oMu-u or mommo. Write for our piikk i.ami- Introductory offer. The Mantle Lamp Company, Dipt. L. of America, Amenta wanted Everywhere. Ill Uunnatyne Ave.. Winnipeg. 1 11 i|p i ISJjeS & 3'i'ift'J tt 99 (not a dip) Keep Minard's Liniment in the houso. A Clbveland inventor has brought out a torch, operated by oxyg.*n and acetylene, producing a\" heat of G.300 digroes, with which it is said to he possible to w-jld aluminium, heretofore regarded as impossible. New Place for Cards Recently two well-known Washington society women making calls, arrived at the house of a certain friend, and, after ringing the bell, waited) No answer. They rung again, and after considerable delay tlie door was opened by the new cook, who asked: \"I'llwat do you want?\" '. Upon being told of the nature of tho call the girl replied: \"Oil Stick yer cards between me teeth Oi'vn been making bread.\"��������� -Philadelphia \"Record. Thc electric motor is put to a novo1 use by a resident of Nevada, la., who uses one lo drive a revolving brush with which he cleans his chickens' feet. it Destroys all Nits and Lice and does not injure the wool. Kills germs in Scabs, Cuts and Abrasions, and is a quick and safe healer. One Twenty-Five Per Gallon. ������������(not a dip) Specially prepared to clean Lice and Vermin from Stall Fed and \"Breeding Stock. Jt is antiseptic nnd healing and valuable as an insecticide to keep off flics. One Twenty-Five Per Gallon, If yonr storekeeper does not keep thcin write Disinfectant Dept. Limited WINNIPEG, CANADA. Manufacturers of \"COWL BRAND\" Oil Specialties. What promififs lo be one of the greatest competitions of light igrlcul- tunil motors Hint ever has taken place in North America will bo held nt the Winnipeg industrial exhibition in July. , Ho far as federal health statistics extend, tliey indicate that thc death rate among negroes is 30.2 per 10,000 while among whites u Is 17..1 per 10, ,11 Not His Ycnst���������I think I came up in train with your wife yesterday. Crimsonbeak���������Did you notice teeth? Yeast���������No; she didn't open mouth once. Crimsonbeak���������Oil, well, it wasn't my wife, then, the her her Iluit, althoiifili capable of making n liquid or solid incandescent, cannot milkc a gas incandescent, merely increasing its pressure A Gdldon Rulor \"Tho golden rule for initio,\" he cried; \"By it my dealings nru controlled; The rulo I've carefully applied. Tlmt'a likeliest to bring mo gold.\" --Washington Star, THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD,, BRITISH .COLUMBIA. ��������� '> S The Particulars of a Remarkable Cure Told by a Presby- ' **> , terian Clergyman���������The Sufferer Brought BacK from ���������Death's Door. THE FUTURE OF WHEAT St. Andrew's Manse, Cardigan, P.E.I., Jan. 1908. Though I have never been sick myself, and have not had occasion to use Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, I thought , you ought to know of the remarkable cure they have wrought in Mr. Old- ing's case. Duiing a visit to my home in Mori- gomish, N.S., some years ago, I was grieved to find our next door neighbor and friend, Michael Olding, very low. \"He. is not expected to live,\" J my mother informed mo, \"and you must go over and see him ns he is, liable to pa***- away at any moment.\" \"Not expected to live,\" tliat was thc opinion not only of the. doctor who attended him, but of his wife and-family as well. Upon visiting him myself 1 lound abundant evidence to confirm their opinion. Mr Olding had for years been afflicted with asthma -and bronchitis, but now a complication of diseases was ravishing his system. He had been conlined lo his bed for months and was reduced to a skeleton. Though evidently glad to see me, he conversed with the greatest difficulty. and seeming to realize that it was the beginning of the end. He was daily growing weaker; his feet' were swollen to twice their natural size, and the cold hand of death was upon liis brow\". ' \"It's no use,\" ho said feebly, \"the doctor's medicine is not helping me-and I am going down rapidly.\" I prayed with him as for a man soon to pass into eternity, and when I took his hand in parting it was tlie last time 1 expected to seciiim in the flesh. Three years later while on anotlicr visit to my mother's Michael Olding had ever seen him, for, as I said, he had always been ailing. In sheer desperation he' had asked his wife \" get him Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They soon began to help him.\" His appetite and strength began to improve, and to thc astonishment of his family and friends he rapidly regained his iie������lth. Now though the burden' of well nigh four score years is upon him, he' is able to do a fair day's work, and is in tho enjoyment of good health, even the asthma has ceased to trouble him as in former years. Mr. Olding himself, as well as his neighbors and the writer of this letter, confidently believe that his rescue from thc very jaws of death���������seemingly so miraculous���������is due under the blessing of God to the timely and continuous use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. REV. EDWIN SMITH, M.A. Mr. Olding himself writes:���������\"I am glad Rev. Mr. Smith has written you about my wonderful cure, for I confidently believe that if it had not been for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I would have been dead long ago. It would be impossible to exaggerate the desperate condition I wis in when I began to use the Pills. No one thought I could get bettor. I scarcely 'dared hope myself that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills would bring mo through, but they did and I have ever since enjoyed good health. Though I am seventy-nine years old people are always remarking ,on 1 ow young I look���������-and I feel joung. I can do a fair day's work, and 1 am bettir in every way than I bad been for years. I cannot say too much in praise of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and I take every opportunity I can to recommend them to friends was seemingly in better health than I [ who are ailing.' Dry Farming Congress ���������A dry farming congress will meet at Billings, Montana, October 26 to 28 of this year. -The international exposition of dry farm products will be hold during the week at Billings. Thirteen western states and territories, two Canadian provinces, Mexico and Russia arc expected to send exhibits. In the-west 200,000,000 acres of arable land awaits development by dry ttirm- 'iug methods. . Texas has 25.00,0000; 'Montana, Colorado- and Wyoming, 50,000,000; New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Idaho and Arizona, over 60,- 000,000. Experts estimate that in ten years every drop of water available for irrigation will be utilized. For every acre irrigated there will be fifty acres of dry farm land when irrigation possibilities are exhausted. Experience, shows that non-irrigable land yields crops averaging 50 per ' cent, the quantity reaped under irrigation. To this land the future home- seeker must come. . . Hbw.'s This? . We offer Oie Hundred nollnrs Reward for finy ensu of Catarrh tliat carniot be cured by Hill's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. We, tlie underslKi.ed. Iulu: knoun F. J. Cheney for the List IS yeara, and believe lilni perfectly hon- orib'e In all bual'ii'Si tra-smtions ar.d flr-aticlally able to carry out nnv oblleations made by his Arm. Wauiixg, Kinvw & JI>HVI*J, -. Wholesale I'i ucglsts. Toledo, O. UsH-*- Catarrh Cure h ta'vfii Internallv. acting dlrcctlv U\"0*i the bloo.l and muroiM biirt.ieen ol th{ Bytiern*. Testhuoilals tent free. Trice 70 ccnta per buttle. Pn'd by nil Driuralnts. 'iauo Hair*) i'uml.y Mils for co**stl������atlon. grow A Practical Poem Some advertise when things slack, And get a lot of business back. But biz v.ith some is always prime; They're advertising all thc time. Alcohol and Parenthood A remarkably interesting utterance on \"Alcohol and Eugenia\" was delivered by Dr. C. W. Saleeby, London, before the society for the study of inebriety. The effects of alcoholic poisoning and lead poisoning, Dr. Saleeby pointed out, are very similar. The evidence that both caused degeneracy in offspring was, he said, indubitable. The mother, the developing child and the race suffered. It had been shown, he said, that an enormously large proportion -of the children born of parents employed in lead works, or in allied trades, died during the first year of existence, and a similar proportion 'of those who survived were either morally or physically ��������� degenerate. It was the same regarding alcohol. Taken in its entirety, he said, the case against alcoholic parenthood was overwhelming. No phenomenon so-horrible was to be found in the wide realm of nature outside the circumscribed sphere of man. In\" remedying the evil, he said, it was not necessary to go back to nature's method and destroy. It was not proposed to work through a selective death-rate as nature did, but through* a selective birth-rate. They distinguished between the right to live and the right to parenthood. The application of this principle to the per Cheapness of Land Has Governed,the Price of Grain Throughout the World Thirty years ago'the' world's wiia-it production was about 2,000,000,000 bushels a year. It now averages 3,200,- 000,000 bushels. As this increase is out of proportion to the increase in the world's population, it is* evident that wheat as a food substance is displacing other commo'ditics previously, used. Increase in production in this country has'been a little more rapid than the average of world increase The American crop of thirty,years'ago averaged about 300,000,000 bushels, and it is now about 000,000,000. The variation of conditions from year to year makes impossible any exact statement, but thc figures of the last five years show a large decline in the percentage of American wheat exported. From 1880 to'1889 about 30 per cent, of the total crop was exported, and from 1890 to 1899 about 33 per cent. The average of the last rive years has been about one-half of that of the preceding 25 years. While thc maximum of possible acreage has not yet'been reached; there is little\" or no probability that the acreage, if it is at all extended, will increase as rapidly a3 it did in earlier years when new railways were opening now areas to settlement and cultivation. In fact, the largest acreage in the record was that .of 1901, when -19,895,514 acres were planted. The. year 1903 followed, with 49,464,907 acres. The figures foi 1907 drop to 45,211,000. ,It is conceivable, though- little probable, that another ten years may see 80,000,000 acres in wheat. The greater probability is that the increase in acreage will not keep pace with the increase in domestic demand, and that tho predictions of some observers regrading the diminution of wheat' exports will be justified. The conclusion is inevitable that with the passing of cheap land there must also be a passing of cheap wheat, unless there shall' be devised and adopted some profitable system of intensive cultivation, with decided increase in yield to the acre. The alternative will be. importation, duty free, from countries that still have cheap land. The Oil of the People.���������Many oils have come and gone, but Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil continues to maintain its-position and increase 'its sphere of usefulness each year. Its sterling qualities have brought it to the front and kept it there, and it can truly be called the oil of the people. Thousands have benefited by it and would use no other preparation. Emily���������Why are you waving youi handkerchief? Angelina���������Since papa\" has forbidden Tom the house we have arranged a code of signals. Emily���������What is it? Angelina���������When -he waves his handkerchief five times, that means \"Do you love me?\" And when I wave frantically in reply, it means \"Yes, darling.\" Emily���������And how do you ask other questions? Angelina���������We don't. That's the whole code. Locating by Telephone A stranger in town was at an office in one of the downtown skyscrapers a few days ago. He had promised to call on some friends on the uppei West Side while in the city, but found that his business would not permit him to do so. Wishing to excuse himself, he called his friend on sons affected involved the greatest ( nie telephone. The servant answered happiness for them, and the greatest. and saju *ler master could be called monetary economy for society, while, up {lt a certain other number; he had at the same time, protecting the - gone out. Mr. Stranger called the future. The interests of the race, and f number and war soon in communica* I cured a horse, of the Mange with MINARD'S LINTMENT. CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS. Dalhousie. I cured a horse\", badly torn by a pitch fork, with MINARD'S LIN1* MENT. SI. Peter's, C.B. EDW. LINLTEF. I cured a hi rse of a bad swelling with MINARD S LINIMENT. THOS. W. PAYNE. Bathurst, N.B. An alloy of nine parts of lead, two of antimony, and one of bismuth expands in cooling, therefore makes a good combination for plugging holes in metal, as the plug fits tightly when cold. the individual, he said, were one. The practical policy that it was desirable should be advocated was interference with the parenthood of the alcoholic devotee. All future legislation,-he declared, and all future public opinion in this matter would more and more take the line of insistence on the immense importance of parenthood and of restricting the parenthood of persons . addicted to alcoholism.���������Vancouver World. Hopeful Winks���������In every generation thc age for marriage gets later. Our grandmothers mnrricd at sixteen, but our daughters do not marry until twenty- live or thirty. Jinks���������Well, that's all right. In the course'of time, people will put off tion with his friend. \"Well, where are you now?\" he was asked. \"At a certain number in Broadway.\" \"Is that so? What room?\" \"No. 515.\" \"Well, I am in 516, next loor. Come in.\"���������New York Times. Experiments in Germany to sho\\ the effects of magnetizing steel, bj rolling, show that it becomes more highly magnetic at right angles to the direction of rolling than parallel to it The largest proportion of negrc population in the United States is in Isaqucna county, Mississippi, *vliere is 94 per cent. The use of the flesh of dogs for food marriage until too old to marry at, -s increasing mi Germany, over 5,000 all. and then the millcnium will' carcasses liavi-\".' passed the govern- begin. A Pill for All Seasons.���������Winter and summer, in any latitude, whether in torrid zone or Arctic temperature, Par. melee's Vegetable Pills can be depended upon to do their work. The dyspeptic will find them a friend always and should cany them with him everywhere. They are made to withstand any climate and are warranted to keep their freshness and strength. They do not grow stale, a quality not possessed iii many pills now on the market. The Buzzy Fly How dotli the littlo buzzy fly Improve each shining minute��������� The early fly the window finds Before the screens are in it. Minard's Friend. Liniment, Lumberman's Druggery Money may be a drug on the market, but some of us have to wait a long time to get our prescriptions filled.���������Ohio State Journal. The change of dietary that comes witli spring and summer has the effect in weak stomachs of setting up in* fliunmation, resulting in dysentery and cholera morbus. The abnormal condi. tion will continue if not attended to and will cause nn exhaustive drain on tlie system. The bent available medicine, is Dr. J. D. Kcllogg's Dysentery Cordial. It clears the stomach and bowels of irritants, counteracts thc in* Jliifiiination nnd restores the orguns to healthy action. A few troys of charcoal sot on the floor or Hhelvos of a dump cellar will make'the' air pure and sweet, and take away tho nuir.ty smnll. Wrote Prison Story in Blood Lady Constance Lytton is one of the ninny women who have suffered imprisonment in Holloway jail foi*** endeavoring to proclaim .n the House, of Commons her views on the suffrage for women. Sho has been released, and tells'the story that as pencils were refused her, and she was anxious to make some notes for a speech for which she was tj deliver the night she was to leave prison, she remembered that she herself was a bottle of red ink, and so with her blood she made the notes that she required. It is difficult now for anyone to say that women are not in carni'st about the cause. ment inspection last year. Fly Mattir General attention is now being directed against the hou.-e fly The fly is \"not now consider' J nn ordinary and inevitable nuisn-i _ us it once wns, but is known to be a menace The fly breeds in'film and revels in it, and, with his -feet stuck full f refuse tracks it in the food that people eat. In this way it spreads lisinse germs. It is not a great task to guard against thc invasion of the house, and especially ��������� of the kitchen, by nie:*. Scrupulous housekeepers did it long before the (lnngnro*is nature o the fly wns suspected. Tne means that will. protect \"��������� man's h -use from the mosquito will keep o.it the fly. Use screens. There are many devices for destroying flies should ihey gain cn- tranco to tli-2 house. Countless have been tlie cures worked by Holloway's Corn Cure It has a power of its own not found in other preparations. Steam dredging for gold in lh*i bed of the Sal ween river, in Biirniah, from which much was expected, has proved a failure. Ono touah of the nandbn-* man in enough to make one sore. are Discouraged Because of lingering weakness and nervous derangements there is new hope and cure. The letter quoted voices the experience of thousands of women who have found health and joy in the use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. The Christian Scientists arc undoubtedly right. To sonic extent. The mind does influence the body both in health nnd disease, and if you give up hope, leave off treatment and fall into discouragement and despondency there, is little reason to expect that good health will force itself upon you. You must do your part if you are going to get strong and well. You must make up your mind and then select rational treatment. If your system is weak and run down, your blood thin and watery nnd your nervous system exhausted choose a treatment such as Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, which has never been equalled as a means of building up health, strength and vigor. That Dr. Chase's Nerve Food is particularly successful in the cure of ailments and derangements from which women suffer most is attested by such letters as the following from Mrs. D. D. Burger, Heather Brae, Alia., which refers to her niece. She writes*��������� \"Mrs. Armstrong had great weakness, heart trouble and indigestion. In fact she was run down in every way and had lost all hope of ever getting well again. She had been in poor health for over four years after the birth of her first child. The persistent use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food has proven of nuirvollous .benefit to her. She feels real well now, Is looking fine nnd fleshing up so that one would hardly believe her tho mime person.\" Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, 00 cents a box, 6 boxes for $2.60, at all dealors or Kd.m'unson, Batps & Co., Toronto, By EUGENIE ULRICH. Young Iletherington'QUed his brier* . wood pipe., \"You ,dou't mind, do you? You are always so jolly and chummy.\" ' She smiled, a little, deprecatingly. There were times' wheu somehow she wished Hetherington did not find her so jolly and chummy, though these times had nothing to do with the brier- wood pipe. Tbe comfortable house was hers in effect, aud she, the friendless and klnless kindergartner, must of course have felt it good fortune to be saved the lot of the boarding house and given the companionship of pleasant and well set iip, people. All the other young women she knew told her over aud over again and reminded her that she ought to be grateful for her mercies.* It is true that if Mrs.,IJetherlngton's oldest daughter had not married and gone to' live In n distant city and her youngest had not died she perhaps would not have felt the need of a girlish presence In the house enough to take in Winifred.\" ' Winifred watched Hugh Hethering- ton lift his fine length and move across the room after a light for his pipe. As the match flare flickered on bis clean features she thought, as any woman must have, what a handsome fellow he was. But Winnie thought also that if her own mouth had not been so big, her tendency to freckle so hopeless and the tint of her hah- so uncompromisingly red Mrs. Hetherington might not have> liked her quite so well. Moreover, she looked a bit older than Hugh, too, .though she had carefully figured out that she in fact was a year younger. But then Hugh's childhood had passed in the flush of pleasure and the sunshine of affection���������aud hers? She was too humble to be sorry for herself and too wise not to see lu the worst that had ever happened her tbe possibilities of still worse and thus be thankful for the providence that had kept her In its hand. But yet this evening she thought more sharply than usual of another girl's symmetry, her gowns, her accomplishments, her opportunities, all the things that are dear to the heart of woman. And why not? Venus herself was not irresistible until she put on the right girdle. Hugh had asked her to help In comparing seme lists, and she buew very well that every minute of help she gave him this evening was an extra minute for the other girl. She bent her head over the papers before her. for the things she was thinking must steal into her face in spite of herself. \"Are you very tired?\" said Hetherington kindly, but yet altogether impersonally. She raised her head nnd smiled. What was the use? If it were not this misery it would be something else for a waif such as she. \"Oh, not at all,\" .she said. \"I do not believe there is another girl who would be as patient as you are with all my tiresome stuff and with me too. Even mother's endurance gives out once In awhile, and she scolds about my den. if it weren't foi you I don't know what would happen. If you're really not tired I want to go over these lists with you now, nnd then I'm off for the Kendrick reception. Gertrude Stevenson will he there,\" he said, a happy little smile playing about his lips. \"Seems to me she is getting more beautiful every day. /Don't you think so?\" Hetherington did not even look at her for his answer. He was Indeed insisting on being even chummier than usual this evening, and Winifred bent her head close over the papers once more. \"Of course,\" Hetherington went on, \"Gertrude is popular, very. Sillington has a mint of money, too, but I don't think she's the bind of girl who would stoop to anything like that\" Winifred had to listen to that and much more in snatches and monologues, and she was glad when at last Hetherington left. There are times when it Is singularly harder to be \"chummy\" than at others. The next morning Hetherington had gone when ��������� she came to breakfast, something most unusual for him. In the evening he did not ask her help. He talked/very little, and Mrs. Hetherington later said to her husband, \"Can It be that Hugh is not well?\" \\ Her husband looked up retrospectively over his glasses. \"Maybe he's In love. Maybe he has proposed to some girl and she's turned him down. Every young fellow has to have a lesson or two. It won't hurt him, I suppose.\" \"Oh, how can you talk so? I nm sure Hugh would not propose to a girl without talking to me nbout It Drst.\" Whereupon Mr. Hetherington, . Sr., smiled behind his paper and went on reading. A long and comparatively serene matrimonial voyage had taught him that arguments only fill the sails with head-winds. Winifred herself neither questioned nor seemed to take heed of Hugh's moods. After several evenings he came down nnd asked her once more to come nnd help hi in. \"What do you think, Winifred,\" he snld abruptly after awhile, \"ought to bo the test of love?\" \"I should think If some one loved you all the time, whether you arc fresh or tired, pleasant or not pleasant, successful or uot.\" ���������������������������',.������������������ \"Fresh or tired, pleasant or not pleasant, successful or not\"- Then he laughed a little Jarringly, she thought \"But what do you know about It, after all? You never loved like that, did you?\" - She looked at him with startled, almost guilty, eyes, and Hetherington hud a queer feeling of having entered unwittingly Into a sanctified presence. He rose and walked around the room .aimlessly for a few minutes. Then he said he had some nasty experiments to make and maybe she would not want to stay, although he rather looked as though he would huve liked to have her. But she left and then sat at her window watching his shadow move to and fro as It fell against tho trees of tho cardan. Suddenly she heard a splutter OR OLD FOLKS WHAT DODD S KIDNEY PILLS DID FOR HIRAM BROWN. Cured His Aches and Pains and Gave Him Restful Slumber���������Known as the Old Folks' Friend. East Maplcton, Cumberland Co., N. S. (Special).-I'hough well past the allotted span ol life, Mr. Hiram Brown of this place,.is still one of the grand est sights in life, a hale and hearty old 'gentleman \" \"And like many-another Canadian veteran he gives Dodd's Kidney Pills the credit for his abundant health. \"I am seventy-two years of ,age,\" Mr. Brown said in an interview, \"and I want to siiv that Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me of Gravel and Kidney Trouble. I was troubled with Backache, Headache and Dizziness, Cramps in thfi Muscles and Stiffness of the Joints. My sleep was broken and at times my limbs would swell. \"But since taking Dodd's Kidney Pills, all these troubles have gone, f consider Dodd's Kidney Pills a won- deiful medicine.\". The, aged inu-i or woman who has healthy Kidnev.-, can afford to laugh at the ills of life. For healthy Kidneys keep the blood pure and ensure good restful sleep. Dodd's Kidney Pills always make healthy Kidneys. That is why they are known as the Old Folks' Best Friend. COMPBELL'S CONTROVERSIES. Canadian Author Has a Particular Fondness For Being In Hot Water. . That Mr. William Wilfred Campbell has started a purity hunt after the novelists of the day need surprise no one who knows tlie man. It is no ordi'iarv small frv like the Canadian ladv who wrote \"Three Weeks\" that he na3 sharpened his pen.for.. It is such robust personages as George Meredith and William de Morgan that he i.s after. What he thinks about Fielding, the first of great- English novelists, he does not reveal, but his view Would probably be too hot for publication. Mr. Campbell is nothing if not courageous, as he has proved on more than one .occasion. He comes from the Lake Huron region, and at one time when he was a clergyman-station at-St. Stephen, N.B., he published a book of lyrics descriptive of the lake country of his bovhood that attracted general attention. .Finding\" that he could not accept the orthodox view of Christianity he courageously resigned his charge and attempted to make a livelihood through literature.' Friends in -the late Conservative administration, recognizing his undoubted talent, obtained for liim a post in the civil service at Ottawa, whither he went to join the rather numerous band of poets who reside at the capital. Shortly afterward The Toronto Globe decided to run a weekly symposium on literary themes, by Mr. Campbell the late Archibald Lamp- mar., and Duncan Campbell Scott One Saturday Mr. Campbell gave expression to what some would deem harmless views on the position of tlx* cro-is as a religious symbol, statine -that it bad been so regarded in the East lone before the crucifixion. At once the \"fat was in the fire. The old Presbyterian subscribers .took it to mean-that The Globe was spreading heresv. The editor had not understood'it that way but the letters kepi pouring in and finally the journal was forced to editorially repudiate -Mr. Campbill's statements. That was an end to the weikly symposium. Perhaps, however, the most exciting controversy that Mr. Campbell ever precipitated was when he attempted to denounce Bliss Carman-as a plagiarist. Carman was then, and is still, the doyen of'the Canadian colony.-in New York. At great length Mr. Campbell went through Carman'? herself with a quick turn, she tore' work with a fine tooth comb and ac , ., , , .., ... cused him of stealing most ol ms oesi down the burning portieres that ^ p^-p.^y froBm Matthew Arn- ��������� iig, explosion and a strange guttural cry. For n ghastly second she watched the fitful leap of lights on the,trees, but his shadow did not c-oine back. Then she grabbed her water pitcher, full, happily, and the heavy rug on tin- floor and ran Into his room. She flung the door open upon a thin blur of flame and flickering tongues reaching like dancing imps here and there in midair and through it all something li'������* a huddled figure on the floor. Up went the water ahead of herself and over herself and theu the rug over the figure, and with a strength she hardly dared to think could be in her tense muscles she dragged it out toward the ball. Then, wrapping her skirts around j TWO MAGISTRATES TEST ZAroa-BUk.: - Cure effected in both cases. - screened the laboratory from the den, and, finding the hose attached to the hydrant, she set the spray over herself and over the room. By this time the others had come. But it was really all over. She staggered out to look at Hugh. His eyes were closed, his face blackened. \"Is he dead? Oh, Is he dead?\" she said weakly. Then, covering her face with hei burned hands as if fearing the answer, she sank down in a white heap beside him. The next day -Hugh, who, though singed and stunned, had been little hurt, sat beside her and held her band aged bands. He watched the play of her fea tures as he talked to her, and it seemed to him like watching an unfolding flower. He caught himself wondering again and again at some newly discovered charm. What deep, fine eyes! What a singularly sweet and unaffected smile! What an Intimate gentleness in her voice! Mrs. Hetherington said one morning: \"How charming you are in that pale yellow wrapper! You are quite transformed.\" And she passed her hand tenderly over the girl who had saved her last child to her. Hugh said. \"She is Cinderella, and the tairy godmother has snaken tbe magic tree over her.\" And he did not know just yet that the magic which was touching her and him, too, was older even than fairy godmothers. He speut his spare moments now trying to please her, pven as she had once tried to please bim. He told her over and over again that it was her wit and her spped and her dear burued hands that saved his lite after his stupidity with the ether and the 'eollo- dion. \"Ah. no!\" she would say. \"It was an Inspiration. 1 am not a bit brave ol mysplf.\" \"Do you remember,\" he said one day, \"your test of love?\" She blushed a little this time. \"Yon never told me,\" he went on, \"whether you ever loved any one that way or not.\" She did not answer. \"Do you think that you could?\" He thought be saw a smile flit over the face, bent away from him though It was, and he took her bands that were now healed, though still scarred a little. She raised her bead and looked at him, and Hetherington suddenly knelt down before her and kissed her bands, and then he drew her bead down to him and kissed her on the lips. old. Some of his analogies were not very clear and it is probable that no poet who ever published a line could stand such a \"gruelling\" process an-' escape the charge of plagiarism. At once the New York colony fell upo; William Wilfred and rent him hip and thigh, suggesting that he look to his own house. Campbell's reply wa*. that the 'New York colony v;ere ��������������� gang of log-rollers anyway. The controversy raged until the newspaper* were obliged to close their columns to it because it was fatiguing the general public. It will be seen that Mr. Campbell is a man of radical views. A fev years ago he startled a few University professors in a lecture up at 'Varsity by assertirg that the Roman civilization had clone nothing for humanity. It is probable that Meredith and the others .who have the honor to keep him comniny in Mr. Campbell's ba-' books will survive the assault for <-. little while. And the question that occurs to one is, \"If Mr. Campbell does rot like novels why does he read them?\" Mr. F. Rasmussen, of 211 Marquette.. Street, Montreal, who is a Justice of; the Peace, and a nian not inclined to' give praise except where it is well due,' says:���������\"For many years I was troubled, with a serious eruption of the skin.; This was iiot only'unsightly, but very, painful. 1 \"first* tried various 'house-'' hold remedies, but 'as' these proved- altogether useless, I- took medical ad -.: vice. Not one, hut several doctors ,in turn were consulted,' but I was unable - to. get, any permanent relief. .Some* time back I determined to\"give'Zam-- Buk a trial, and after a thoroughly fair test, 1 can say I am delighted with it. I have the best reasons for this conclusion;,because,'while,every-, thing 1 tried failed 'absolutely to re-* lieve my pain and rid me of , my- trouble, lhr������e boxes of Zam-Buk have worked a complete cure. \"In'my opin* ion this balm should'be even\" more widelv known than it is,\" ' -'--' - \"Mr.'C. E. Snnford, '.I.P., of Weston, King's Co., N. S., .says:���������\"I -\"had''a patch of eczema on my- ankle, which had been there for over twenty years. Sometimes, also, tlie 'disease would break out on my shoulders. I had taken solution of arsenic, had applied various ointments, and tried nil sorts of things to obtain a cure, but in vain. Zam-Buk, on the contrary, proved highly satisfactory, and.cured the,ailment. . , , ; \"1 have also used Zam-Buk for itching piles, and it has cured them completely. I take comfort in helping my brother-men, nnd-if the publication'pf my opinion of the healing value of Zam-Buk will lead other sufferers \"to try it, I should be glud.-. For. the relief of suffering caused by piles or skin diseases, it is without equal.\" . For eczema, eruptions, ulcers, piles, blood-poisoning, varicose ulcers, children's sore heads, ringworm, salt rheum, cuts, scratches, bums, bruises, ��������� and all skin injuries, Zam-Buk is a perfect cure. All Druggists and Stores sell at 50c. a box, or post-free from Zam-Buk Co., Toronto, for price. Three boxes for $1.25. Uncle Ezra Says\" \"Sometimes a man will laff at a cat fur chasin' its' tail, which is there, then go out and chase a rainbow himself which isn't there.\"���������Boston Her aid. Minard's Liniment used by- Physicians. Goosey \"Can you cook and bake?\" he asked her, \"For a wife should be of use. * She was ready with an answer, And she straightway cooked hi3 goose. A Charivari, week Joseph They Soothe Excited Nerves.���������Nervous affections are usually attributable to defective digestion, as the stomach dominates the nerve centres. 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A blue mark here indicates that your Subscription ha-3 become deceased, and that the editor would once more like to commune with your collateral A man* in Victoria has invented allying machine. Peoplo do not need it in that beautiful city. Arizona is a great red metal country aud will produceover $41,- 000,000 worth of copper this year. NoTJiixa hurts you if you forget. A keen memory is sometimes a cause of misery as well as pleasure. . Thk air is full of whispers about copper being 10 cents in September. Within two years from now the price will be over 20 cents. Last mouth more than a quarter of a miliiou pounds of fi-sh were sold in Vancouver. That may account in part for the brains of the real estate men. All bartenders in Alberta must now register and take out a license before they can work. Some day a man will have to take out a license in order to get a drink. It is so dry in China that the government is asking the people to pray for rain. This is a new innovation in (Jhina and tbo experiment will be watched with interest. Indication's point to a great advance in the price of copper within the next few mouths, and that before January the movements in red metal will surprise the majority of people. It is quite likely that local option will be in force in this province withiu two years. It will not carry in all sections, but. the prevailing opinion is that with tho exception of some of the coast towns most of this province will be dry in tho near future. J, R. Cameron. Leading Tailor of tho Kooteuavs. Kaslo, B. C. GREENWOOD ��������� LcaveB Greenwood for Spokane At 7 a. ni,, and for Oroville at 2:'i0 p. m, ' J. McDoxKLL. THE LEDGE Jast$2 a year In Advance. 3.INK1.AI. ACT Certificate of Improvements NOriOB '''Lexicon\" MiiicralCl.i'in.'-It-i'itR Intlu? Oreen- wjoiI Mining l'iW**li*u of V������l������ DUtrU't: Where lovatudi Skylark Camp (South), TAKE NOTICE ili/it I. J.'.ii)e*i S. Hirnli*. Krcc ���������Ulncr'a Orti.iei.te \"**(*. iJ-UVtf. fur Wfirawl Clm.-i. ii T^.Vfi'e AlJiw'siCm't'lli'.ito No [��������� Get your Razcrs Honed \\ and your Baths at Fraw ley9 s Barber Shop, Greenwood, lS99Q������Q9Q9WQQ������fia MhIii-M* M- Juliriiiori, H-'i;.W nml 1'rco MlniT's ���������ertlflua(H ay ��������������� No. Hl.'6'iOO, ^intend, Mxly d;i)������ frmn tho (lute patent, lu apply to thu MIiiIiik Hwunl'T I������r a \"('M-ttileatcof Iin|'i*nv(!iiii������nN, for thn ���������mriiose of olituinlti!' a Crown Grunt lo tlio above cluloi- And further take notice that ui/llnii, uniler ������oi!t;on 37. mint Li! I'oimiiciiml lan-re ti.e (���������v-uance of inii-h Certllicatvof Iini'roveiiiciit.' Dtted thlKOUuM-'Df June. A. Il.llxn. J.VMKS S. UJKNIB. LOWERY'S_CLAIM During thc. R7 montitH that Lowiu-y'*- Claiiii whu on (-iti-tli it illil l-usines*. nil pyer tlio world. It wm the most unit-it*-, independent oud funrlcss jour- Ji'il ever produced in Canada. Political and thnolo'tlcnl enemies pur-med it with tin* viinom of n rattle-make until the irnvernni'-nt r*hut It out of thc m-illH, find its editor ceasnd to publish It, pn'itly on iirt'nuut of a'Inny livi-r and imrtly hcc.iuHe it takes n pile of money to rim a pflper thai la outlawed. 'Ihorn pro mill 'ib different uditioiifl of thin condemned Journal in print. Send 10 cents Af'd _ct one or $i 50 and get the bunch.' The Bridesville Hotel Provides Tasty Meals-and Good Rooms for Travelers. Tourists always welcome. THOS- WALSH . Proprietor. Patronage. The merchant who does not advertise at all may or may not be your friend, fellow worker, but it is a foregone conclusion that be who liberally patronizes tho columns of all other papers and refuses to advertise in your paper, is not looking for the workingman's patronage, doe3 not wish it, and is not desirous of your friendship. You will find those who advertise in these columns worthy of your eveiy consideration, for we will use every precaution to protect your interests. When you patronize the man who advertises in your paper see that he knows where you saw the advertisement. You will find this a benefit to you as well as to the paper. Tlie Princeton Star says of the Washington blue-law code recently adopted, that \"the very fact of the purpose, meaning and tendency being to uplift not degrade, to elevate not lower, to improve and not make worse, it should be supported.\" On the same grounds the Spanish inquisition or the New England witch-burning laws might be commended. Their purpose and meaning were good. To say of them or of the Washington laws either, that their tendency was good, is to beg the question. A large part of the misery that tho human race lias endured has been caused by well-meaning but unwise laws. Good intentions are no more a guarantee of the bonifi- cence of a law than they are of the happiness of that region where they aro used as a material for pavements.���������Keremeos Chronicle. of British Columbia. \"There is one glory of the sun, another of the moon. , Wherefore Victoria has no need to be jr-aloua of Vancouver. The fierce white light which suits that altogether modern city is not to be compared with the mild moonlight happiness of Victoria, where all the - best citizens are philosophers in comfortable circumstances, looking afc ' life's . brief fever serenely, through a club window. All minds are purple in Victoria, aud opinions are the same. They believe that business was made for man and not man for business. They desire .money only as it means the elegance of life. They are' gentlemen and ladies, and do not take \" their dollar hunting home to dinner. Victoria is worth seeing as the one city in 'North America that puts mere wealth in its place. And they do say that there aro more people in Victoria who cross Canada, without looking at|it, to visit England, than tliere are in the other eight piovinces together.\" Government Report. Tn his report to the minister of mines Charles Camsell, of the geological survey and now at work near Otter Flat, fays : A new discovery of tertiary coal of a fairly high grade was made a couple of years ago ou tho North Fork of Granite creek. An English company obtained a bond on a group cf these claims and spent several thousand dollars in the work of driving tunnels aud making crosscuts to expose the different beds. Owing to\" inability to secure au extension of time oh their bond from the owners, with a view of making thorough coking tests, operations were suspended last spring and nothing further has been done- The work of this company, however, was sufficient to show the great economic importance of this coalj field which, though somewhat smaller in extent than the Princeton coal field, contains a coal which will be in great demand for steam purposes as soon as a railway reaches theTulameen. Rails and Bridges. Clearing ground for divisional facilities will shortly begin here. Piles for the permanent bridge over the Similkameen river at the foot of Bridge street are now being got out by French & Carlson for the V., V. E. A horsepower pile driver will be here about the 1st of August to commence the work of piling which, when, finished, will be used for aH. . A-1). MKSKKK, Midway, B. C. Frank Fletcher Pitpv^ofAJi Lakd SunvEYon, ' Nelson..R. ft \"Witty Rejoinder. The editor of the Canadian edition of Collier's Weekly was recently called down for having slighted Victoria, always making its transcontinental allusions to read \"from Halifax to Vancouver.\" The editor opens his molasses barrel and spa titers over tho people of Victoria in this fashion : \" Far from being a slight, it is a compliment, subtle, perhapH, and needing explanation, but a compliment withall; The truth is, we would keep this name aloof from common usage. There were, in Bible days, certain holy und delectable cities which had forbidden j names. Fa vote oris���������this from tho ancients. Bo favorable with thn lip.1*. That is, say nothing at all. So has it been with Victoria. Not that we did not desire to speak of it,* but that wo could not my good enough about it._Yictoriu._iH tho, citv..beautiful. Hay and arsenic are the chief components of ouo of the most popular brands of smoking tobacco manufactured by the Trust, according to an \"analysis made by the chemist of the United States pure food bureau of the agricultural department, says a writer in tbe Cigarmakers'Journal. This shows one of the beneficial effects of the new law. It is one of the oldest brauds on the market. Many smokers when they go iuto a tobacco store and are offered somo other brand of tobacco will throw it back and say, \"throw that 8tuffaway,I want some real tobacco.\" The neat littlo sack containing 03 per cent alfalfa, 5 per cent arsenic, 1 per cent opium, 3 per cent of fluid, and actually 27 per cent of tobacco, is handed out.to them. They roll it in a paper doped with more opium and brag on the fine brand of tobacco thoy are receiving. \" Smoking fodder\" has long been a term of contempt applied to some of the cheap grades of tobacco, but now it can also be applied to some which are supposed to be tho \"real thing.\" For when wo find out that in buying a much advertised article we are really getting 03 per cent alfalfa, that comes pretty close to making the article \"fodder\" in tho strict sense of the word. Tho iujiirioiiB effects of any such doped up trash as this is easy to understand. Tho arsenic exercises a very depressing influence on the system, while tho opium forms a habit very hard to break. It is on the formation of this habit that tho trust depends for continued and increasing salea. ��������� What can T do Selling Under. Difficulties. A writer in the Lord's Day Advocate tells as follows about some of the desperate things that are done in Hamilton, Ontario : - \"Burke, the Hamilton news vendor, who has already been fined several times for selling papers on Sunday, is said to have contrived a most ingenious scheme to evade the law. He has an-oflice in the basement of the Spectator building. In the door was a hole for the delivery of letters. This was enlarged so as to permit a man to easily pass his hand through the door. Either Burke or hisageut would lock himself iu tbe room, and the purchaser would approach the door, thrust his hand containing a coin through the hole, and when ho withdrew his hand the coin had gone, and instead was the coveted paper. \" The police discovered the trick and set a watch to secure the person who was selling the papers. They succeeded, on the 11th of April, in buding a paper, but when they demanded that the door be opened, the occupant of the room refused. Four policemen watched the room all night, but while they watched the door all night the occupant crept through a passage unknown to the watchers. In the morning the officers discoved that the occupant of the room had fled. As they had no evidence, there was no prosecution. A. L. WHITE \"t$l}tCh ��������� The Furniture Mail Rossland Is, the leading- hotel ..of the city, and the home of tourists,. mining men and commercial travelers. Do not miss it when visiting, the famous Golden City. B. XoniRins, manaGer. 'PHONEi .16. Dress Reform Needed. Mrs. J. Gardiner Merritt, the sculptor, is very fond of illustrating tho need of dress reform for women by the following experience: I heard a young man, a rather lazy young man, tell a pretty girl tho other day that he envied woman her idleuess, and that ho would like to have been born a woman. The girl, tossing her bead and snorting, answered: You'd like to be a woman ! Oh, yes ! Just try.it for a day I Fasten a blanket and counterpane round your legs, buckle a strap round your waist so tight you can't draw a full breath or eat a hearty meal, have your hair all loose and fluffy so that it keeps tickliug your ears and getting into your eyes, wear high-heeled shoes and gloves a size too small for you, cover your face with a veil full of spots that make you squint, fix a huge hat on with pins so that every time the wind blows it pulls your hair out by the roots, and then, without any pockets, and with a three-inch of lace to blow your noso with, go for a walk aud enjoy yourself!��������� The Outlook. Anything from the Kitchen to the office; Also Trunks and Traveling -Bag's. A. L. WHITE The Furniture Man. MINKKAL ACT. Certificate of Improvements. NOTICE. Bounty Mi'iernl Claim, si uiili: in the Greonwood Mlninr; Division of Vnlu District. Where located: On Walluca Mountain. RTAKK NOTICK thdt 1, Svdnoy M. Johnson, KrcR Minor's Cortl/icute No. B. S-fiOO, and 1'I.llip U. lSi>������iicer Stiinhopo. Frco ....Mlncr'n Certlfi- cute No. II. 2(113.*, intend, sixty days from the data hereof, to npply to tlu-|Mliiin������ Jto cordor for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant totho above claim. And fnrthor Tako notice that notion, tinder section ST, must bo commencod before the issuance of such Certiflcnte of Improvements. Dated tilts 8th day of July, A. I), 1D09. . . ' ISlemmaffket-Hotel Is the home for all tourists and millionaires visiting New Denver. British I Columbia. HEHRY STEGE. iPROPR. When in Nelson drop into the White House Cafe, next to the postoflice. Turkish and other baths can bo procured in the same building. Taylor Bishop, proprietor, employs all white help. T^EpOflT HPdSE Nelson.'B.C., is nm on the tlie American and European - plan. Nothing yellow about the house except the gold in tl'esafe. MevIoi?c &. Trcgillus STAHKEY: & CO. ' - . ��������� NELSON, B. C. ' wholesale \" dealers in;. _ \". . Produce ,. ando- Provisions PROCTER & BLACKWOOD NELSON, B. C, Real Estate, Mines, Insurance and Fruit Lands .- CORRESPONDENCE - SOLICITED. THE GLHB Cigar Store Tobaccos, Pipes, and all other -Smokers' supplies. Next door to Pacific hotel. L. L. Mathews Pioneer l^otel... GFeen-cciood, B. C. The oldest hotel in the city, and still under the eamc niiina������:emciit. Rooini* couifortnblc, nioala equal to any iu tho city, and tho bar spppliea only the beat. Corner of Greenwood and Government streots. J. W. Helsoh Bill Nye's Reporting. Bill Barlow of Wyoming told of ono of tho first humorous paragraphs of his former editorial associate. Bill Nye. Thoro had been a railroad accident, Tho loconrio- tivo was lost, two paBseuger trains wore destroyed, -the express car was smashed, but no ono was Ja- rnni-p.l...>il-cJjpEi������-jfc������l-tr-J.to rhe Kootenay Saloon Sandon, B. 0., has a line oi nerve bracers unsurpassed in any mouo- tuin town ot the Great Went. A glass of aqua pura'given free with I spirits menti. Lakeview >'. Hotel KELSON\", B.C. ,; Is a homo for Miners. Bates $1 a day. All White Help. . N. Mallktte - - Proprietor A; ���������' - Regular monthly mcotlugs of -������fY Greenwood lodge No. 28, A. P, /V & A. M., aro held on tho flrsf Thursday in eaeii month in Fra> ternlty hall, Wood block, Government stroot, Greenwood. Visiting brethren arc cordially invited to attend. JAS,'���������-.. ..lKNIK, Secretary, W.F.E1 KASLO HOTEL KASLO B. O, Is a comfortable homo for all who travel to that city. _r_**/> ITA Tr ������������������������.,.Til.' r.,/1.*- ���������*���������������������������������'-.���������,\"- ���������������������*���������������������������.'������ f-vl *H������ MM _��������� Greenwood Miners' Union, No. 22, W. , , -^-.Mm inootf- every Saturday ovoninff In Union Hall. Coii por Btreot, Groenwood, at 7:80. AIko in hall nt Mother Lode miuo I' ridny cveiiinp-s at 7 .SO. GEO. HEATHERTON, Secretary. The Hotel Slocan Three Forks, B. C, is the leading hotel of thc city. ; Mountain trout nnd game dinners a apecialty, Roouisjrescrvcd by telegraph. m il 'Ml IM 1 m -*������ *-i U"@en, "Published as The Ledge from 1906-05-10 to 1926-07-29; Published as The Greenwood Ledge from 1926-08-05 to 1929-05-23.

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