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The oldest mining camp newspaper in British Columbia. ; The Ledge was published in Greenwood, in the Kootenay Boundary region of southern British Columbia. The Ledge was published by James W. Grier until 1907, and was subsequently published by R. T. Lowery (1907-1920) and G. W. A. Smith (1920-1929). The paper's longest-serving editor was R. T. Lowery (1906-1926), a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. The Ledge absorbed the Boundary Creek Times in April 1911, and was published under a variant title, the Greenwood Ledge, from August 1926 to May 1929.
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*B Y a .1 I I I > II- lift'.. I HI I! ! SiWr?:r*'..i*[J.^3������*'' Ol 1*. *lT( TT!- .'���������''S '���������������'- ->���������-.-.���������.��������� ^���������f'oTitfcialVIlbrary-j ���������wv. .j^..-, **. ���������j-(A.i.-(1ak.u,i','.jiiJ THE OLDEST MINIHG CAMP NEWSPAPER IN BRITISH COLUMBIA I .���������<' Vol. XIX. GREENWOOD, B. C, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1913. a^smsmssmss^mssimmej^msB That's fit for fishing. Reels, Lines, Leaders, Flies, Spinners, Waders, etc, A complete stock of tackle for the angler to select from. First class goods at reasonable prices, Hammocks, Baseball, Tennis Goods etc. Ni.0Uiji������niijc A. L. WHITE Stove and Furniture Man Phone 16 Greenwood, B. C. Around Home Fishing Tackle, Tents, Duck/ ing, Screen Wire, Screen Doors Poultry Netting, . Ice Cream Freezers Bicycles New Standard!' ' $35 -���������'������������������^'''���������������������������^'���������^ss**^-^^ CLEANLINESS 1 Albert Olsen is on a visit to Sweden. E. Jacobs is in the city' for a lew days. * J. A. Bertois has opened a general store at Cascade. Big-Andy Johnson took a,look at Rossland last-week. Grand Forks now has a nightly picture show daily. There are 17 .members in the Grand Forks band. In Greenwood last month body prayed for rain. There are 89 .telephones in Phoenix, and 121 in Greenwood. Work has begun upon the uew wagon road to the Jewel mine. The Jewel miue * has resumed operations with a large force of men. Guy Wright. C. Swanson, N. Franchi, E. Lund, 0. Braathen,' P. Sartor, E. S. Koth and C. E. Gilmour were made citizens at the court last week. The Rev. A. M. Lloyd will conduct Church of England services at Rock Creek on Sunday next. Matins at 10J30 a.m.. followed by Holy Eucharist and Sermon. Western Float Sidney now has electric lights, At Hosmer two men were fined ' 8200 each for peddling real estate' ���������without a licence. Some of those * real estate chaps should be fined * for running a gambling game. There are seven saloons in Re- A Catholic church is being built public, and they may all have to ������.,..���������u��������� -d..-. closer, owing to a ruling by the * United States of Vernon at Granby Bay. The business men have formed a club. Only three patients are in the hospital at Quesnel. , _ | Two Chinamen have opened a Ihe Rev. Mr. Hilton o'f En-,'restaurant in Creston. no- FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE OPPOSITE WINDSOR HOTEL, GREENWOOD *��������� ' '"���������-��������� ������ SSS-^SS^S-HSi-H*^-**^^ William C. Arthurs THE BREAD & CAKE BAKER Vienna Bakery, Greenwood Greenwood's Big Furniture Store The Finest Thing Yet for cleaning and polishing pianos, furniture of all kinds and Linoleum VERIBRITE VENOIL , ... . ... (Contains no acid) CALL FOR FREE SAMPLE ^ ?0 B T. M. GULLEY & Co. Opposite Posteffice.. GREENWOOD, B. C. Phone 27 WALTER G. KENNEDY GREENWOOD, B. C. ATTRACTIVE JEWELRY < has seldom been .-gathered in such an extensive display as the one we are now showing. We know you will become interested. Not only in THE ODD DESIGNS but with the prices that we have placed upon the articles. If you want to see the prettiest Chains, Lockets, Brooches, Pins and Stone Set Jewelry ever shown in this town come now. WHOLESALE l A. LOGAN & Co. GREENWOOD. - B. C. DRESSMAKING Kooms in store. MISS DREVER Miller Blk. over Drug A Full Stock of First Class Pipes. Pipe Repairs a Specialty. THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE SIR EDMUND WALKER, C.V.0K ALEXANDER LAIRD General Manatfar LL.D��������� D.CL, President JOHN AIRD Assistant General Manager CAPITAL, $15,000,000 REST, $12,500,000 TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES Issued by The Canadian Bank of Commerce enable the traveller to provide himself with funds without delay at each point of his journey in a convenient yet inexpensive manner. They are issued payable in every country in the world in denominations of $10, $20, $50, $100, $200 with the exact equivalent in the moneys of the principal countries stated on the face of each cheque. They are economical, absolutely safe self- identifying and easily negotiated. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT A, H, MARCON - Manager of Greenwood and Hock Creek Branches .WANTS. Etc- Fou Sale;���������Ladies bicycle and tennis racquet. Apply Miss Given. For Sali*.'**��������� Shingles, Flooring. Rustic and Finish and Dimension lumber. Charles Kinney, Greenwood. _ W. W. Craig aud several Penticton friends were in town on Monday.- Harry Bretzins has gone on a prospecting trip to New Hazelton. Send your powder orders to G. A. Reudell, agent forthe Can- adian Explosives, Limited. Mr. and Mrs. George Swayne have gone to Dorchester, N. B., for two months. Prof. Ries will be here this mouth to investigate the clay deposits of the district. There is an auto road now between Grand Forks and Franklin Camp, 4J miles long. Your old pipe may be made like new at a small cost, send it to W. G. Kennedy. * Nick Musso has sold his half interest in the Butte hotel at Phoenix to A. Luciani. The McCormick and Deering ing lines of cutting machinery at Browns, Ferry, Wash. At the Scandinavian pic-nic in Grand Forks Chief Savage won the fat man's race, R. A. Brown, of Volcanic, has a contract to cut 15,000 poles and 5,000,000 feet of sawlogs. Mrs. I. A. Dinsmore is yisiting relatives in Ontario, and will not return until next summer. Strawberries are $1.75 a crate in Grand Forks. A carload was shipped by express to Calgary this week. Captain Browurigg returned to Victoria on Monday, after paying a visit to his nephew, H. C. Williams. Fifty shares of Rock Creek Trading Co., stock for sale below par. Apply at Ledge office. KOOMS TO "GET Iii the Swayno House, Silver Street. Clean, private and com- fortablo rooms in a quiet locality at reasonable rates. Hot aud cold baths freo to guests. ANNUAL MEETING The annual general meeting of the Greenwood City Waterworks Co., will be held in the Company's oflice nt Greenwood, ou Thursday the 24th of July, 1913 at 10.30 o'clock in the morning, for the transacting of the general business of the company nml the election of a Board of Directors. ROBERT G. HARGRRAVES, Secretary. ** FOUND On Tuesday morning an Elgin watch. Owner can have same by proving property and paying expenses. Apply at this office. Bank of Montreal KSTAMJSHKp 1817 Capital, all paid up, $16,000,000 Rest, $16,000,000. UNDIVIDED PROPITS, .B0S,BI4.94 Hon. President: Lord Strathcona and Mouni1 RovAr,, G. C, M. G. President: R. B. Angus, Esq. Vice-President and General Manager: II. V. Mkrbditji, Esq. Branches in London, Eng. {&^MSS}WewYorkf.CWcago Buy and Sell Sterling Exchange and Cable Traiisfefa. Grant Commercial and Travellers* Credits, available in any part or the world. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT n^'JSnt Greenwood Branch - C. B. Winter, Mgr. | Llko it" on a book previously written by Sir Olivor Lodge. At the trap shoot, July 1, Rock Creek defeated' Greenwood by 203 to 187. Joe Richter took first prize with 46 birds out of 50 and Bert Logan got second. Shakespeare founded "As You Last week George Mattocks was injured by au explosion in the Granby mine. He will lose a portion of his right hand. * Constable McGuffie arrested eleven Chinamen at Keremeos last week for gambling. They were eached fined $20 and costs. W. G. Kennedy found a tarantula in a bunch of bananas last Saturday. He shoved it into a bottle and chloroformed it to death. Lightning hit two poles in Phoenix, but none of thc citizens took to the tall timbers. They are used to jolts in that elevated city. Thc new Federal building in Grand Forks will have a four dial clock, which will be placed in a 25 foot copper covered tower. A travelling life insurance ageut did considerable business in town last week, although Greenwood has several local insurance men. A game of football between a picked team from the city and thc senior team will be played Thursday evening. All players are requested to turn out. Service in the Presbyterian church next Sunday, July 6th, at 11 a. m., Sunday School aud Bible Class 2:30 p. m. Rev. J, R, Muuro Pastor. Miss Kathleen S. Ferguson returned to her home in Midway on Saturday, after successfully passing thc examinations at the J Normal school in Vancouver.' derby has resigned as a clergyman of the Anglican church. He was sued for libel and lost the case thc plaintiff being awarded $10. Jack Lucy left last week for the Tulameen, strong enough to act as chaffeur for a pack-train. He expects to locate another million dollar mine before the snow reincarnates. Leslie Clark and Miss Nellie Webster were married in Grand Forks last week. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark and was the first male child born in Grand Forks. Sam Miller, one of the leading financiers of Grand Forks, savs that he will not buy an auto until all the new wrinkles about these machines have been invented. Sam never wants any- anything that will get out of date, except that old Irish whis- kev that he keeps in the cellar. Last week a strawberry measuring eight inches and a quarter in circumference was brought into The Gazette office at Grand Forks. Like true Stoics the printers placed it in the clean office window so that the world can see how . big things grow in that glorious climate ot the Forks. Greenwood's junior baseball team went to Phoenix last Sunday to try their luck wi**h Phoenix. Verily our little giants did credit to the city and it was with tear and trembling that the boys lined up to face the wonders of Phoenix. In the first part of the game our boys were losing but in the last three innings a surprise was sprung and Greenwood won by a score of 17 to 16. Again Siz. boom, baa, Siz, boom, baa, siz, boom, baa. Greenwood, Greenwood, rah, Rah, RAH. J. R. Jackson, M.P.P. has promised to give a cup to the best football team in a league which is shortly to be formed, provided that Midway is included in the running. This league will probably be composed of Greenwood, Mother Lode, Midway and Phoenix. E. Miller, M.P.P. for Grand Forks, has also consented to donate a cup for which the champions of this league will compete with the champions of the Grand Forks league. It is also pleasing to note that hereafter the football games will be played on week days and we hope that all lovers of the game will turn out and boost for their favorite team. Bert Bonnet has organized a football club iu Shuswap. Kaslo and Greenwood are clamoring for resident dentists. The new fish bait inKaslo is beer and limburger cheese. In the Slocan seventeen men are working at the Utica mine. J. D. Sellin has opened a pbnio si oro in South Fort George. A carload of pigs from Alberta recently arrived in Summerland. This year L. Hanna will probably sbip 25.000 ties from Lardo. Tlie Canada Northern railway The Fair. The' executive committee of Greenwood's Fall Fair met on Monday and appointed the following sub-committees;��������� . Subscription���������J. L. White, W. E. McArthur, C. Kinney, R. Hal- crow. ��������� Finance���������K. C. B. Frith, H. McCutcheon, C. B. Winter. FRUIT & VEGETABLES��������� W. E. McArthur, W Jeuks, H, Whiting Col. Glossop, M. Christensen, R. Lee. Mineral���������F. S. Norcross, O. Lofstad, W. L. C. Gordon. Sports���������W. G, Pond, R. Hal- crow, W. C. Wilson, D. Biner, A. Logan, N. McLeod, E. McCutcheon, Dr. McArthur, G. S. Walters. F. S. Norcross, W. Lakeland. Live Stock���������W. Johns, W. E. McArthur, W. C. Wilson, H. Murray, S. Auger, S. H. McCon- ncll. Decoration���������J. L. Coles, A. Logan, W. G. Kennedy, N. McLeod, R. Halcrow, G. A. Rcndell, W. Lakeland, O, R. Matthews. Poultry���������A. E. McKay, II. McCutcheon, A. Sater, G. A. Smith. has over-1,000 miles iu operation. Montreal has none' the best of I'lioeuix. Snow fell there in June. The Kettle Valley railway will bridge the Fraser river near Hope. Tiie Vienna Cafe in Kaslo 1ms been re-opened by S. A. Peterson. The grading on tbe G.T.P. is finished for 100 miles east of Hazelton. Fied Waters, formerly of Fernie is running a restaurant in Spokane. At a distance a town is judged by the size of the ads iu the local paper. This year the first strawberries were shipped from Creston on June IS. The Inland Coal & Coke Co., at Merritt paid S50,000 for wages on its June payday. The Dominion government, will build a telegraph line upon tiie Queen Charlotte Islands. A lot adjoining the new post- office building in'Prince Kupert has been sold for 819,000. The Faithful Surprise mine at Danville has been-bonded to a R. - public company for SG0,000. Charley Walmslay of iv-'-ls-^nwas at the coast last week looking up a location for a seaside hotel. A trapper iu Northern Alberta recently leceived 512.C00 for seven black and silver grey fox puppies. This year 30,000 boxes of apples will be shipped from the Okanagan to Australia. The price is SI 40 a box. Ed Clark the oue time cyclone editor of the Coalmont Courier has returned to Merritt, and i.s selling cigars. Tbe quality and quantity of the advertising columns in a, local paper reflect the spirit of the community. The Crows Nest Pass Coal Co., is getting ready to increase its production from 4300 tons to G000 tons daily. Recently Pete Wilson of Cranbrook had a bone in his foot broken, by the overturning of an automobile. There are 226 telephones in Grand Forks, and 657 in Nelson. Vancouver has 22,852, and Victoria, 7,953. Rupe must be a dead prosy town. The Ledge has not had a subscriber there since Jimmy Mc- Cague cashed in. Ten carloads of,pre from the Silver Standard mine, near New Hazelton were recently shipped to the Trail smelter. The Doukhobors paid seven cents a pouud for several crops of strawberries at Mirror Lake. They do their own picking. In Rossland the police raided a Chinese store owned by Mong Bark Soon, and four other Celestials and seized 8600 worth of liquor. Upon account of being afflicted with the Cuba moth several carloads of potatoes from California were recently burned in Vancouver. There were 972,000,000 store cigarettes smoked iu Canada last year. If this keeps up we will be a weak bnnch of Canadians in 2013. There are too many empty buildings in Vancouver, aud too many people looking for work. Tho leal estato boomers should build a few factories in that city. Off Langara Island 1,000 men are trolling for spring salmon. The fishermen are paid four cents a pound, a rise of one cent over the price of last year. ��������� At Seal Cove near Princo Rupert the Canadian Fish Co., ib receiving 100,000 pounds of halibut daily, and at present Iuvb over a million pounds in cold storage. supreme court in reference to Indian reservations. Andrew Long was not granted a liquor licence in Merritt, owing to tbe fact that a town requires to have a population of 2,500 before it can legally have five retail liquor licences. The proprietor of the Tunnel hotel at Extension was fined 850 for disposing of a keg of beer that contained a larger quantity than his licence allowed. Nothing was said about the froth or the size of the buughole. _ The mint afc Ottawa employs sixty men and shows a profit of half million dollars a year. Thus by making money it makes money. The writer was the first to advocate the starting-of a mint in Canada, and wanted it built at ��������� New Denver. The mint camo along in due time, but it was grabbed by the east. Books that would make good reading: My Opinion of the Bank of Montreal, by J. ' Macnamara; The Wild Call of the Canadian West, by Champ Clark; Scotch Whiskey as a Remedy in the Home, by T. Roosevelt; The Poor Benighted Hindu, by H. H. Stevens", M.P.; Wedding Belles I Have Met, by Nat Goodwin; Why I am a Vegetarian, by Pat Burns; Oil (Standard) on Troubled Waters by J. D. Rockefeller.���������New Westminster News. The Rossland Miner complains because the business men of that town do not advertise enough. The Miner has over sixty local ads, while The Greenwood Ledge, . with a larger circulation, has only twenty-nine local ads and thirty- seven thafe are out of town. The Miner has nine lodge and society ads while The Ledge has none. In seven years the proprietor of The Ledge has expended 89,000 more in Greenwood than he has received from his local' patronage. Most of towns support their local, paper, but in the case of Green-"'^' wood the situation is reversed. - As a rule people do not appreciate a good thing until they lose it. A good paper is a useful and convenient institution in any town, district or country, and. when its advertising columns are not prin** cipally filled by the business men within a radius of 100 miles it shows a lack of the progressive and optimistic spirit that has built. up all the live wire communities on this continent. Send for a catalogue of headstones and monuments, made by the Kootenay Monumental Works, Nelson, B. C. Poultry Keeping. Recently, some valuable investigations have been carried on in Ohio with regard to profits iu poultry keeping. The best results came from a farm flock of 96 fowls, which gave a net profit for the year above feed and labor of $237.37, or 82.47 each; the lowest results wero from a town lot flock of 30 fowls, which gave a net loss of 827.90 or a loss of 93 cents each. Out of twelve town flocks, four showed a loss, while eighteen farm flocks, every one showed a profit, ranging from 14A cents to 82.-47 per fowl. The average number of eggs laid by each hen on farms was 71 as compared with 70 in tho town flocks. The profits, therefore, with farm flocks did not arise from tho difference in egg production, but rather from the lower cost of feud and labor and from the methods of management. The cost of feed for 12 town flocks and oue commercial flock averaged 97 cents per fowl yearly, as compared with an average 61 cents on 18 farms. The great difference in favour of the farm flocks is attributed to n number of causes, such as the use of the gleanings from harvest fields orchard and garden, waste product** ���������like cabbages and beets from the storehouse���������the use of extensive pasture, weed seeds and insects, dairy by-products, and tho lowei prico of grain consumed by hens on tho farms. Tho labor cost on farms and in towns averaged 28 ctt aud GO cents respectively���������anothei groat diiVeronco in favor of tin- farms. IIIS-M^ .. ^.-J*r*yiai'^"'-1-*B>������*i''g,ng*r| -wwii em SffiSSSw-^Pr THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA. THE LEDGE Is located at Greenwood, 13. C, and cau be traced to many parts of the earth. It comes to the front every Thursday morning, and believes that bell would close up if love ruled the world. It believes m justice to everyone; from the mail who mucks in the mine to the king who sits on the cushions of thc throne. It believes that advertising is the life of trade; and that one of thc noblest works of creation is the man who always pays the printer. Tbe Ledge is $2.00 a year in advance, or $2.50 when not so paid. It is postage free to all parts of Canada, Mexico, Great Britain and thc comity of Bruce. To thc United States it is $2.50 a year, always in advance. R. T. LOWERY EDITOR AND FINANCIER. GREENWOOD, JULY 3, 1913. A blue, mark hero indicates that your Subscription has become deceased, and that the editor would once moro like to commune with your collateral. Tun live ad makes good bait for the slow dollar. Hk who worries will always be drilling in hard rock. Ai.ojnt; the cigarette tunnel thore is many a missed hole. THE POET-LAUREATE The position of Poet-Laureate in England has been rendered vacant by the death of Austin. The post has more honor than money. The salary is 8350 a year, with an allowance of 8135 in lieu of a butt of sack. This may be a lot of money for a poet, but it looks small this far west. As men of great poetical genius havo too many enemies it is likely that a second or third class poet will get the position. A great American writer says that it may'sound cynical, but is For. many moons we have nofcj undeniable that the human race as Ir we had many more months like June the rain-makers union would likely go on strike. Ii* the crops are good this year it will lighten the pain caused by the exploded real estate boom. heard of a section man having appendicitis, or being killed in an automobile accident. Blessed are the poor, for they shall escape from many modern evils. Ai-i, last month the sky was weeping, and the sun vainly peeping at the meadows far below. But now, uo tear rolls from the sky's blue face, and Old Sol has the cinch npon the human race. Twerk are all kinds of strikes in this world. Recently in Russia a number of monks went on strike because they did not get enough to eat, and had no trousers to wear. At the last accounts church services had been suspended, because tbe bishop would not accede to their demands, claiming that trousers were unnecessary for monks. It is not likely that the bishop will be able to obtain any masculine strike-breakers. The great men of the past are honored and worshipped today, although when they were on earth the masses crucified and persecuted them. If yon would lead a peaceful life do not get ahead of the masses, for just as soon as you run ahead of the human procession the rocks will be thrown at you. That is why we find so many dubs in our legislatures, parliaments and other prominent public positions. The real brainy, thinking and aggressive man has no show when ib comes to a popular vote. a rule, passes by its great men and selects those of inferior grade for positions of great dignity, authority, and emolument. Weak-kneed rontius Pilate was the ruler of the Jews and tolerably well accepted; they found nothing better to do \yith the greatest man in the % world when Ho happened among them than to crucify Him. Tho Greeks ostracized one of their wisest statesmen because they were bored with hearing him called "The Just"; and poisoned tho great philosopher of all time. The Florentines banished Dante and burned Savonarola, but willingly bowed their necks to the rule of the corrupt Medici. It is hard to find a bishop that ever amounted to mnch; only such as cast out Luther, Wesley, and Booth seem to havo tho divine fire we look for in prophets. The Hohenzollerns, Bourbons, Wettins, and Romanoffs, the grand life-job holders of Europe might possibly earn 850 a month on their own merits, but it is doubtful. There has never appeared anything resembling the superman among them. holism. Disarmament is simple. Let the nations get together. One international meeting whore they should atrreo to reduce armaments all around, or, better still, provide'for one international fleet to enforce the decisions of one international court, would save, the world billions of dollais in one day. To bring this to pans we must combat provincialism and emphasize humanity. , War depends upon provincialism, narrow passion for race or locality. As soon .is one gets humanity in bis mind and upon his heart war. becomes to him' unthinkable. It i.s the little rooster pi-ido of being a German, a Frenchman, an Englishman, or an American that loves a uniform and wants to light. When you feel Humanity you aro just as anxious to help the Japanese or tho Italian people as tho people of your own country. War belongs to the ignorant, cruel infancy of the race; America is fifty years ahead of Europe; wo are "getting to be a man now," aud it behooves us to "put away childish things." We���������tho nations of the earth ��������� must get acquainted. "II fault apprendre a nous connaitre" ("we must be taught to know each other") said Conrad Hausmann, a liberal German delegate, afc the Berne conference, and added, "If we seek we shall find one another.'' Franco and Germany met at Berne to talk things over -and get better acquainted. Why cannot the world meet, by delegates, and talk it over at least once a year? Business men have cOi.feiences constantly. Why not nations'? Let ns develop a world-consciousness. - God! What a world it would be if we were not afraid of each other! The continually increasing number of warships, war baloons, forts and armies, all getting ready Impossible mutual demolition, is so infernally absurd that some day tho real cure will come. The real cure for all antiquated humbiiggery is ridicule. Some day the world will see the joke. Then the whole military business will explode in one gigantic roar of laughter.���������Dr. Frank Crane. Place your orders NOW For McCormick and Deering Cutting Machinery, Binders, Mowers and Rakes - FERRY, - WASH. WESTERN - - HOTELS. NKWIHAUKKT UOTKI. Is the homo for all tourists and millionaires visiting New Denver, British Columbia. A. JACOBSON. Proprietor. ���������^ ^-^ ������fr 4< 4-������������������fr* 4 ���������*������������������*��������� ���������*���������*���������*������������������*��������� 4* ���������fr4'4-4������ 4 <& 4-���������������-$������������������*������ ���������*���������$������ PH0HE; 46 FOR FRESH STRAWBERRIES DAILY Fine Cherries, Sweet Oranges, Bananas, Lemons. Choice Grape Fruit. ' ARRIVING FRIDAY ~~ New Potatoes, Fresh Tomatoes and Cucumbers, THK PKOVINUIS HOTEL . Grand Forks, B.C., is in the centre of the city, and furnishes the public with every accommodation at reasonable rates. KmII Iiiii-Hou, Proprietor, THK KASLO [IOTKT, Kaslo, B. C,, is a comfortable home for ali who travel to that city. Cocklo St Pnpwortn. The Greenwood Grocery I WHERE QUALITY IS KING ������S"*8"S*,$"-J"f 'f'^^'fc'f $"fr ������f ^^"f >%">%"%��������� >$<&<%$+������������ ASHES Sometime, ou the birdlcss barrens, Sometimes, by a southern sea The ghosts of the days that have vanished Conic scurrying back to inc. Then a face or my memory dashes, Like the face of a falling star, While I am flicking the fading ashes From the end of my good cigar. Life's spring with its buds of promise, Life's summer with rose of June; Hut the buds they burst so early And the roses fade so soon! A rustic of silk aud laces, The wind of a passing car, Then gray arc the once glad faces, Like the ash of 1113- good cigar. CY WAKMAN. Optimism. A Dead Town DANDELION BOOZERINE Thinking Themes The dandelion is ft flower that grows without nursing, and is of little use, except for boquets on the 32th of July. In his scientific researches tho editor of Kaslo's leading paper has discovered that this little yellow flower will produce a jag if treated as follows: "Two quarts-of dandelion flower; ono gallon of water; boil 20 minutes; strain and add three lemons (grate the rind), four cups of granulated sugar, boil twenty minutes and strain. When cool add a tear-poonfulof yeast. Lot stand to ferment ten days, then bottle.',' Hero is a golden chance for he who is si washed, to get a cheap skate, provided the Inland revenue men do not arrest him for making tvino without a licence. Get the issue clearly in your mind. There are two sides to the question of military preparedness. The case is stated with his characteristic lucidity by M. d'Estour- nelles de Constant in his speech at the inter-parliamentary congress on the eleventh of May, at Berne, Switzerland. "For Forty years," he said, "France and Germany, who have been destined to render so many services to civilization, have been ruining themselves by excessive armament, and other states have followed their pernicious example. They tell us that these armaments are an assurance against war. Nothing is more false; those who support this argument are reduced to the worst Chauvinist appeals. Far from being a guaranty of peace, excess in military preparedness has become a universal menace." Don't let them fumble tho issue! It is plain as a pike-staff. You are in favor either of settling international disputes by the orderly process of law, which means reason and justice,, or of settling them by war, which means It's the Truth The progress of a businops house is measured by the energetic work of its owners and employees less tho dead weight that thoy carry in drones. The progress of a city is the net sum of the characteristics of its citizens. The live ones shove it forward. The dead ones, the knockers, the selfish ones, the ones who always want to do something else, hold it back. Which way are you pulling? Kind friends, have you heard of the town of No Good, On the banks of the river Slow, Where tlie Soiue-Time-or-Otlier scents the air, And the soft Go-Kasies grow? It lies in the valley of What's-the-Use, In the province of Lel-her-Slide; It's the home of the reckless I-don't- care, Where the Give-il-Iips abide. The town is as old as the human race, Aud it grows with flight of years; It is wrapped in thc fog of thc Idler's dreams, Its streets are paved with discarded schemes, And arc sprinkled with useless tears. ���������New York Press. Let Them Grow The packers have issued a pamphlet about killing calves as follows: Eat more lamb and mutton and less beef. Raise more cattle on the farms. Stop the useless and wholly indefensible slaughter of calves. The United States, says the pamphlet, is the greatest veal consuming country in the world. The number of calves slaughtered for food has increased 100 per cent in the last ten years. Tho statement i.s mado that unless some nationwide laws are passed���������laws similar to those now in force in South America forbidding the slaughter of calves, the prico of beef is still going to bo higher. The morn calves that arn killed the fewer cows there will be by and by. This is ono of the principal j reasons for tho constantly increasing cost of all leather. Tho farmers have been killing or selling Pickled People If there wero no piekled people in that country of the free, what a fine upstanding country the United States would be! Half the jails might bo abolished and upon the poor-house door, there would be a sign announcing: "Nothing doing any more!" And the cops might safely slumber all nightlong upon their beats, and there'd be no hopeless pilgrims finding lodgings in the streets, and but few would ever perish on the creaking gallows tree, if there were no pick-1 is every other religion. Omit faith John D. Rockefeller forty yeais ago believed in tho future of his country, bought oil on a big scale, and became the world's richest man. Andrew Carnegie says he borrowed every cent he could get to invest in his steel mill, and later sold out for something like three hundred millions. J. I>. Morgan himself avowed that he was always a "bull on the country," and he died leaving a great name in the financial world and a monumental fortune. -Biamark was the prince of optimists, and tho German Empire is tho sequel. In his own day Wm. Pitt outshone every other Englishman in the belief in his country's coming greatness, and to him more than to any other ono man can be given credit for an empire on whose dominions the sun never sets. Every prospector who over tramped the hills of this glorious Kootenay was an optimist. Thero aro some of tho typical sort in our midst right now, and, while they havo not the prico of a meal in their pockets, they believe in the depth of their hearts that the prospect thoy have been nursing for years will yield them millions. Content to spend nine months in hard work with a hand drill, with no fare but bacon and flour, or such as they can pack upon their backs, they come to town with enthusiasm oozing out of them. A little lubricant helps tho flow at times, but who ever know these old characters to back up or for a moment lose faith in their holdings. Theirs, is a splendid example in optimism for some of our merchants and others who voice their doubts about those who are striving to develop and produce., no matter in what line. The Christian religion itself is founded on optiimism, as TItKMONT HOUSE Nelson, 13. C, is run on the American and European plan. Steam heated rooms. All white labor. Special attention paid to dining room. "KuiiHomo * Vumpbell, "Props. TULAMEEN HOTEL Princeton, B. C. is the. headquarters for miners,, investors and railroad men. A fine location and everything first-class ��������� KIRKPATRICK & MALONE, Proprietors. nelson, B. # First-class in everything. Steam heat, electric light, private baths. Telephone in every room. First-class bar and barber shop. 'J3us meets all trains. QUEEN'S HOTEL, PHOBNIX B. C. The Newest and Largest Hotel in the City. Everything neat, clean and comfortable. Steam heat and electric light. Meals and drinks at all hours. CHISHOLM & HAfiTMAN ��������� Props. l-IUI)KSVir.T,K UOTKI.. Bridesville, B. C. This hotel is within easy reach of all the leading Boundary towns and the centre ol a fine farming district. THOMAS WALSH. Proprietor. THE SIMILKAMEEN HOTEL Princeton. Tills hotel is new, comfortable -well-furnished, and is close to the railway depot. Modern accommodation and .sample rooms. SUMMERS & VVARDLE. Proprietors HOTEL KEREMEOS Opposite depot. Extensive alter ations have recently beeu made rendering this hotel one of the most comfortable in the interior. A choice selection of liquors and cigars. New pool room and sample rooms iu connection. Mrs. A. F. K1RBY ON PARLE FRANCAIS NATIONAL HOTEL ' GREENWOOD, B. C. The Reallv Best House, in the Boundary. , Recently Remodelled and Strictly Up-to-Date. Restaurant in connection OWEN BOYER PROP HOTEL CASTLEGAR, Castlegar Junction. All modern. Excellent accomodations for tourists and drummers. Boundary train leaves here at 9.10 a.m. W. H. CAGE Proprietor GRANITE CREEK HOTEL Granite Creek, 13. C. Headquarters for miners, prospectors and railroad men. Good stabling in connection. Tasty meals and pleasant rooms. H, C00DISS0N, Proprietor WINDSOR HOTEL The Windsor Hotel is one of the best furnished hotels in the West. It is located iu the heart of Greeu- BSE wood and within easy reach of all the financial aud commercial institutions of the Copper Metropolis. Heated with steam and lit by electricity. Commodious sample'rooms. The bar is replete with all* modern beverages and the cafe uever closes. Rooms ' reserved by telegraph ��������� The Windsor Hotel Co E. J. Cartier, Mgr. GRAND CENTRAL Opposite Postoffice, NELSON, B.C. American and European Plans. H. H. PITTS, Prop. ALGOMA HOTEL Deadwood, B. C. This hotel is within easy distance of Greenwood and provides a comfortable home for travellers. The bar has the best of wines, liquors aud cigars. JAMES HENDERSON Pro rletoi CENTRAL HOTEL PHOENIX. ��������� One of the largest hotels in the city. Beautiful location, fine rooms and tasty meals. A. O. JOHNSON PROP. .:������x������xm:������x������:������x���������x,.>;���������x���������j���������j,.-j������j���������x���������;,,;^, 11 EHOLT, B. C. GOlRfffi DAVID 0XLEY Proprietor. ! led people in that country of the free. If there wero no pickled people, homes now full of grief and woe would ho glad with songs and laughter, as they were long, long ago, ere Tired Father took to placing crimson tints upon his beak, ere he handed to tho brewers all tho earnings of tho week. And a million weary women might forsake tho tubs and suds, and a million ragged children might bo wearing handsome dubs, and a million useless loafers might bo busy as tho bee, if there wero no pickled people in that country of tho free. Half tho sorrow, and tho trouble in this weary world of ourB como from tall and brimming flagons, sparkling wines and whiskey sours; what a brighter, bettor present, what a future wo might see, if there were no pickled peo plo in that country of tho fronl- Walt Mason. from them and the corner stone is gone. When yon have troubles or doubts as to the future of this great country just think of the tireless, persistent, hopeful and optimistic prospectors who never lose hope and are always willing to wait for what they aro sure is buried in the claims they have staked.���������Rossland Miner. Parallel lines are tho same distance all the way, and cannot meet unless you bend them. your Razors Honed | and Your Baths at f FRAWLEY S BARBER SHOP GREENWOOD, | Subscribers are reminded that The Ledge is $2 a year when paid in advance. When not so paid it is $2.50 a year. ARG������ TUNNEL their calves rather than keeping inexcusable, stupid, national dia- ���������.*.���������... .. . , , ' r ' I thorn to increase their herds. Louis XVI. was gelatiued dur- the French Revolution. Price of Racehorses London���������The sum of $100,000 was paid by tho Government of Argentina for the horse Craganour which was first past tho winning post in tho Derby on Wednesday, hut was disqualified for bumping. Only four occasions has the price paid for Craganour, who is to be used for breeding purposes in Argentina, been exceeded in the amount paid for a racehorse. These were Ormonde, who was sold for $150,250 to an Amorican sportsman; Cyliene, who wont to an English sportsman for $157,500; Diamond Jubilee, sold to au Argentine breeder for $157,500 and Flying Fox who holds the record for price and was sold to a French sportsman for $190,875. The Argo Tunnel is a few minutes walk from the centre of Greenwood, and less than half a mile from the smelter. The mining of ore in this property means great prosperity for the entire district. OL/A LOFSTAD President -Illicitly mopi* coughs, cured colds, and tieale I the Uircat und luno. it tt 30 cents. JAMIDS McCREATH Secretary. When you want a headstone or monument write to the Kootenay Monumental Works, Nelson, B.C. THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA. 1% >i I MANUFACTURING JEWELER Nelson, ������&���������*.'-���������. ^ The Only Up-to-Date Optical Department in the Interior. O, C. -��������� ���������x*>*x������x*><---':������:������^^^^ " TEMPERANCE * | is all right if shorn of liiinibnggery Too much water drinking is jus just as injurious as too much liquor or ���������uiytliing else. OUR PURE WINES | AND LIQUORS are medicinal if not abused. Every household should have a moderate supply of pure wines or liquors in the closet for emergency���������either unexpected visitors or sudden illness, when a drop of pure liquor iu time may forestall all necessity for drugs. | Greenwood Elquor gompanp, Importers, Greenwood, S. & f *&*w.:wX*.:<**x**<*"*M"K***j^^ ^���������-���������'���������^^������������������������������������-ss-***'^^ 4 i f Dealers in Fresh and Salt.Meats, Fish and Poultry. Shops in nearly all thc ��������� towns of thc Boundary and Kootenay. COPPER STREET, GREENWOOD, B.C. :(R 1 1 i if. i i^^-^-'-s^s's^-s*-^^ THE PANAMA CANAL ZONE." Said to Bo tho Most Orderly Community In tho World. In all this "wide, wide world the most m-derly'community is that of the Pan- uinu canal zone. Here Is the least i-rinie; here are the fewest misdemeanors, the least exercise of the functions of. the courts, the most Industrious, the fewest Idlers, absolutely no poor, equally conspicuous; the nbseiiee of the rick * With its steam shovels working like sentient beings, its locomotives rushing about like screaming busybodies, its ���������cement 'buckets, skimming over tho earth and riding tbe air to perform their varied tasks, with the .long dirt trains. weaving and turning on their tortuous tracks like pythons, still the most persistent impression is of beauty, orderliness and propriety. The greatest public- work the world has ever seen is carried on not only with tinremitting diligence, enthusiasm and honesty, but with elegance, a high stauclard of living and a - morale to which the oldest and most opulent cities have never attained. These are the words of truth aud soberness. The problems of tho engineer are greater than man has ever before 'encountered but in kind. The cubic yards of dirt and cement tniusccud experience, but only in bulk, it is the ��������� organization that is, without .precedent in the whole history of public works���������it is this that is the eighth wonder of the world. In this organization (here Is,.no detail so minute not to have received attention From the most puzzling problems in engineering to the American youth's lovo of ico cream nothing seems to have been left .unconsidered. This elaboration of detail has doubt loss been gradual,"but to tho visitor coming upon its completeness today the Impression is staggering and not unmixed with envy.���������Mary. Gay. Humphreys in Sc-rib* ner's. DEAD LETTERS. T I feel another man. Improved In temper , As thy direct result of duty done (A. moat unusual thins*���������0 si sic semper!), I'll-back my morals now with any one.' 1 feel my cabin'd spirit burst Its fetters. I feel Jt soar aloft like bllly-O, Because I've polished off a load of letters- Answered a dozen at a single go. Unanswered letters are a constant menace. :1' find they worry trie an awful lot They simply spoil by back hand drive nt tennis And utterly upset my riiashle shot Lucky it is my conscience never wallows In idle ease, but keeps severely spry, Urging on me the manly course as follows. Which other people might do well to try: When letters have been left six months or longer Crammed In the rack I answer them, ory quits With conscience, make my moral fiber stronger��������� By simply tearing up tho things to bits. ���������Punch. It will probably be quiet in Nelson upon the 12th of July. There are plenty of Irishmen in that city, but they are not inclined to follow a fife and drum oh a hot day. It is more than likely that D. J. Robertson will put up a big yellow flag upon that day, and open a barrel ofl^'l'^t^ ��������� ������ .1 * 1 f ' ������. -i . \��������� Cer,;ifil*a'*io''In*provements. orange wine tor the benefit of his I Dalcdtl,,R2,,"da'rofj������������������ friends. MINERAL ACT Certificate of Improvements. NOTICE. Enterprise and Teresa Fraction Mineral Claims, situate in tlie Greenwood Mining* Division of Yale District. "Where located: On Ncl*!- creek about two miles from the West Fork of tlie Kettle river. TAKE NOTtCE that I, Sydney M. Johnson acting- ns aftent for Teresa M, Graham, Free Miller's Ccrtllicate No. 7SS.1S.i5, Intend sixty days from date hereof, to apply to the Miniiifi-Recorder for a Certificate of Improve, ments, for the purpose of obtaining- a Crown Grant of tUeabove.cIalms, , A. D. 1913. SYDNEY M. JOHNSON. gmmimnmtmnnmmnmnmmmmfflmmmmmmii^ | Greenwood to Phoenix Stage | B Leaves Greenwood Daily at 3 p. m. ~l s= Arrives Greenwood Daily at 10 a. m. =������ B GREENWOOD OFFICE - ~" BATHLESS BRITONS. B JOHN FULLER CLUB CICARSTORE -^3 ������������������*��������� PROPRIETOR 3 I Tlie Midway Store for' Quality Goods | i ������ s% I "& General Merchandise, Boots, Shoes, Dry Goods, -{'Hardware, Sleighs, Wagons, Buggies and all kinds of Agricultural and Horticultural Implements and Appliances. JAS. G. McMYNN, MIDWAY, B. C. %mmmm������mgm$������ CURE WHERE OTHERS FAIL. Many fly-by-night quacks advertise cures hnd Ircntiiicnt.-' that prove onlv a temporary stimulant and it is only a matter, of time till il,t* old symptoms return. My7 years 111 one location proves tliat my methods 'are eeuuine and my cures lasting. Many of my patients have come Uiroiudi the recommendation of their friends whom.I have cured. My'if, vears cxi-erience eimbles.me to diagnose your case properly and effect a prnu-incnt cii-:e All diseases of men my specialty, regardless of how long standing The Tale of the Tub That Is Told Out ���������. ��������� Loud In England. It lias long been whispered '.that the alleged devotion of the Briton to liis morning tub is a myth. Dr. tt. fl. Quine has had the '.temerity to proclaim the fatal truth from the housetops. Inquiry among hotel keepers has. it seems, disclosed'tho fact that a proportion varying from one to ten per cent of their visitors alone use the balh room. "Commercial gents" sire notice able for their abseiitmiiidi'diiess in this respect, and the average of clergy men is not high. In their (.���������ase. we suppose, godliness is regarded as 11 substitute for cleanliness, though Dr. Qnititv char itably attributes tho failure to poverty. In point of fact, the Briton's morning tub is a comparatively recent and very partial institution, ���������Kliznbeth's Englishmen ".were great, hut din .v. and we doubt if the bucks of the regi-ncy were much better. Public opinion in the schools'nnd'. the'messes'enjoins ablution under penalty of���������sheep washing," but that wo do not ourselves believe that the linbit has gone very deep is shown by:the fact that we sometimes permit ourselves to speak of the mass of our fellow countrymen as "the great unwashed." Sir Almroth Wright, who considers ablution ..pernicious, may rejoice; but to those who have advocated public baths and washhouses. or striven to make the bathroom a necessary adjunct of the workman's tenement, tlie experience has been disheartening. lie may use the bath to keep ducks in; otherwise it is probably "the driest spot in London." Tie Is content with the "good old annual," and, perhaps, lie takes even this by proxy, like the cockney who was heard to exclaim to the friend he .was seeing off to the seaside: "Shall y'ave a bawth when yer gets there, Aif? 'Ave one fer me, will yer?"���������Pall NEW ADVERTISING SCALE. The newspapers in Greenwood, Phoenix and Grand Forks have adopted the following scale for legal advertising: Application for Liquor Licence (30 days) J5.00. Certificate of Improvement Notice 1 (60 days) #7.50 Application to Purchase. Laud No- I tices (60 days) ���������..,.*,.".......... .������7.50 Delinquent Co-owner Notices (90 days) $10.00 Water Notices (small) ^7.50 All other 'legal'advertising, 12 cents a| line, single column, for the first insertion; and 8 edits a line for each subsequent insertion. Nonpariel measurement .^i&M COUNTY COURT OF YALE. ' Hy order, WALTKR DEWIJNEY, KCKistrur 0. 0. of Y. SUMMER EXCURSIONS itliinitKi Hit Hen- BierdiinpII (as his tall vls-a-vla slowly rises)���������Say aren't you goihg to leave off getting up soon?���������Fliegendo Blatter. Dangerous Talk In George's Presence. "Mother, I wish you wouldn't mention dishwashing wheu George Is calling on me." "Why not, indeed?" "I don't like it It sounds common." "Common, eh? We have to eat, don't we?" "Of course!" "And George knows we eat and use dishes?" "That's very true." "And George also knows that dishes have to be washed, therefore somebody has to wash them?" "But mother"��������� "What now?" "If you keep on talking. about it George may discover that you make father -wipe them, and lie may think the same thing is coming to him If he should propose to me."���������Detroit Free | Press. Mall Gazette. A New Kind of Bait. Hector Von Bayer,'".architect of the bureau of fisheries, was telling fish stories in Washi^ton. "I was once fishing for bass In Lake Sunapee," he said. "Old Jake,was my guide. Jake chose the fishing grounds, and he also selected the flies. "The Osh rose well till after luncheon. Then they vanished. After an hour of vain casting I said to Jake: *" 'I guess they're taking a siesta now, eh?' "'I guess inebbe they are,' the old man answered from his armchair in the stern, 'but any other fly with a bit of yaller In it would do jest as well.'" ���������Pittsburgh Dispatch. Return Rates from Kootenay Points to WINNIPEG S 60.00 ST. PAUL GO. 00 CHICAGO 72.50 TORONTO 92.00 MONTREAL 105.00 HALIFAX 129.35 NEW YORK 10S.50 BOSTON 110.00 Correspondingly low* fares to other Eastern points. On sale daily May 2S to Sept. 30, 1913. Final return limit Oct. 31, 1913. Liberal stop-over privileges. Tickets and all information may be obtained from any C.P.R. agent or write J. V. MURPHY, District Passenger Agent, Nelson, B.C. Humor and Philosophy By -OlfACA// M. SMITH PERT PARAGRAPHS. TT La hard to make a good janitor out of a poet. He doesn't have a large enough output to keep the fires going. Any woman can manage a man if she lets him do as he chooses and always pleases him when he can't choose. Any broom sweeps clean if a determined woman is attached to the motor end. A cheerful disposition is a good thing to have around the house, but sometimes it is hard to get it to stay. The way of the transgressor is hard, but it has to be for his rapid transit The only trouble with the family skeleton is that it so often doesn't want to stay in the' closet It is most exasperating to convince a man that you are right and then have him face about and steal all your thunder. Synopsis of Coal Mining Regulations. ^"OATv mining rights of the Dominion, ^* in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories and in a portion of British Columbia, may be leased for a term of twenty-one years at an annual rental of #1 au acre. Not more than 2,560 acres will be leased to one applicant. Application for a lease must be made by the applicant in person to the Agent or Sub-Agent of the district in which the rights applied for are situated. In surveyed territory the land must be - described by sections, or legal sub-divi- ' sions of sections, and in unsurveyed territory the tract applied for shall be staked out by the applicant himself. Each application must be accompanied by a fee of $5 which will be refunded if the rights applied for are not available, but not otherwise. A royalty shall be paid on the merchantable output of,the mine at the rate of five cents per ton. The person operating the "mine shall furnish the Agent with sworn returns accounting for the fuil quantity of merchantable coal mined and pay the royalty thereon: If the coal mining rights are not being operated, such returns should be furnished at least once a year. The lease will include the coal mining rights only, but the lessee may be permitted to purchase whatever available surface rights may be considered necessary for the working of the mine at the rate of $ro.oo an acre. For full information application should be made to the Secretary of the Depart: ment of the Interior, Ottawa^ or to any Agent or Sub-Agent of Dominion Lands. W. W. CORY, Deputy Minister of the Interior. N.B.���������Unauthorized publication of this advertisement will not be paid for. LIQUOR ACT, (Section 49) 1910 LYNN CREEK DAIRY To Out of Towa Patients I invite your correspondence and can prescribe for you by mail as well as if you saw me personally. All letters held confidential and given my closest personal attention. DR. KELLY, Expert Urologist 210 Howard St., Spokane, Wash. 11 ARE A I QUALITY TheBRILLIANTES Arc tlie Best Clear Ilavanasln Canada Made by Union Labor in llic best Hy. /flciilc Knctory in Hie comitrjr. Call for tliem ami i?ct value for your money instead of rope WILBERC & W0LZ, Prop. B.C. Clear Factory, New Westminster, B. C Write for free Booklet Wandering Wireless Waves. A curious phenomenon In connection with wireless telegraphy has been observed In the neighborhood of the Clichy-Levullols railway station, near Paris. In proximity to the railway line some telegraph lines were recently erected on columns fitted with ordinary insulators. The workmen occupied on the section experienced severe shocks when they touched the wires. Experiments were made to discover tbe cause of this phenomenon, and as a result it was found that the currents were produced by Hertzian waves originating from the wireless telegraph station at the Eiffel tower.���������Telegraph Age. Too Fast. "I don't believe in forcing schools for children," said Governor Woodrow Wilson nt a dinner at Trenton. "A child that knows at four as much as ordinarily It would know at eight is. to my mind, about as tasteful an object as Calhoun Clay's watch. "'That's a One watch you've got there, Calhoun,' said a friend. 'Is it a good goer?* "'A good goer?* said Calhoun Clay. 'Well, you bet your life it's a good goer. Why, it can do an hour in half the time!"'���������Milwaukee News. n DELIVERED To any part of the city or district J. McDO NELL, Proprietor Don't Be HOODWINKED WE NEVER CHANGE BRANDS r Cleveland's Street Car Transfers, Cleveland, home of the three cent street car fare, has added to its un- ���������usual tariff of rates a transfer scheme which is probably unique in the history of the trolley system of the country, inasmuch as an additional penny Is charged for the slip of paper which enables one to take another car. That in itself is peculiar enough, but the most amusing feature is that upon presentation of the transfer to the new conductor the passenger receives back his penny, tho company thus acting In the dual capacity of salesmnu and purchaser.���������Exchange. How Would They Like It? "Madam, you wear too much false hair. It Injures the nerve centers and fatigues the blood cells of the brain." "Young woman, what do you mean by such impertinence?" "Holty, tolty. now! I'm the welfare inspector for the idle rich." ��������� Pittsburgh Post His Way. "Dogmatic, isn't he?" "Very. He makes a guess, concludes it is his unalterable opinion, states it as an established fact and then wants to tight anybody who does not agree with him."���������������������������Judge. IN GRAND FORKS - Ideal in Second-hand goods and have the largest sign in B.C. I buy or sell anything from a needle to a carload. ED. PECKHAM J. E. CAMERON, Leading Tailor of the Kootenays. KASLO, B. C. The man who never loses money fa a miser or has none. Ever notice that it Is always the girl who can't sing that does? Too many of us Just bare to do the things that we don't want to do an* eo get into difficulties. ' ��������� -' hi Subdued. f>i O Bridget, In our hours of ease V* We let you do Just as you please! But when we get a grouch en us *We want to say: "Do thus and thus. Bring something fit to eat on here. And let it be before next year." We feel like speaking so, but don't Because we know you'll say you won't, For, Bridget, you've a heart of stone, . And to ill nature, too, you're promo. You'd go away in mighty ire And basely leave our kitchen fire- Yes, leave us all to thirst and starve, Without a steak or roast to carve, To pine away aBd maybe die, If we should criticise your pie. Tour coffee's murky, weak aad pala. Sfour salad's warm and often stale. To eat your biscuits we're afraid. They're not the kind our mother made. We know these charges grave are tru^ But dare not say a word to you, For, Bridget, you'd be very rudo And would refuse to serve our food. Then we'd be left to moan and sigh, With neither bread nor cake nor pie, Without a thing to eat In sight To nurso an awful appetite. So we reflect that if we'd eat Three times a day, to bo discreet. Is far tho better way to do Than rouse thu tyrant rage in yoa NOTICE is 'hereby iriven that on the -lfita day of July next, application will be made to tlie Superintendent of Provincial Police fur tlie transfer of a licence for the sale of liquor by retail in and upon the premises known as .The Westbridg-e Hotel, situate at.WcRtbridge. fl. C, froniEinile Etcliepare to Louis Clery of British Columbia. Dated this 16th day of June 1913. E.MILE ETCHEPARE, Holder of License LOUIS CLERY Applicant for Transfer Even So. ������ Adams & Brown Dealers in Grain & Flout*, and Rolled Oats X *%- *%j Toughest Kind of Wood. The strongest, toughest, most durable wood In the world nnd the kind best able to resist, the dreaded teredo, which destroys everything but metal and stone in tropical waters. Is the famous greeheurt of British Guiana, according to tho Panama cannl engineers. After comparing it with the best Americnn timbers and the noted Iron barkwood from Australia the engineers have selected greenhenrt for tho construction of tho miter sills in the great lock gates of the canal. No less than 1*10,000 feet of tho wood will be required. Utilizing It. "What did you do with that hole in the ground you couldn't sell anv stock in?" "I have built a lecture room over It and started a school of mines."���������Kansas City Journal. STARKEY & CO. NELSON, B.C. "MINING BROKERS PROSPECTS BOUGHT AND SOLD Has His Own. "I was talking to DIggby this morning about tbe latest Dreadnought He didn't appear to be much Interested." "I should think not! DIggby married one."���������Birmingham Age-Herald. Hot and Heavy. He���������I got it hot and heavy from my wife this morning. She���������How was that? He���������She made some biscuits breakfast���������Town Topics. for Try Dr. Rusli's Famous CHIC FEED 000000000<X>0<>C-0000<>000<>000 ,������-������I-I������>������7m> lillEI. SHOES SHINED At the Windsor Hotel by ZACK WATSON MESSENGER SERVICE V ADVERTISE IN THE LEDCE Plumber land Tinner I am prepared to ex**- ccute all orders for plumbing and tinsmith*-- ing in city or country. M I About Float. Float is not a periodical. It is a book containing 86 illustrations all told, and is filled with sketches and - stories of western life. It tells how a gambler cashed in after the flush days of Sandon ; how it rained in New Denver long after Noah was dead ; how a parson took # a drink at Bear Lake in early days ; how justice was dealt in Kaslo in '93; how tho saloon man outprayed the women in Kalamazoo, and graphically depicts tho roamings of a western editor among the tender- feet in the cent belt. It contains the early histoid* of Nelson and a romance of the Silver King mine. In it are printed three western poems, and dozens of articles too numerous to mention. Send for one before it is too late. The price is 25 cents, postpaid to any part of the world. Address all letters to R. T. Lowery GREENWOOD, B. C. "Tlie devil is generally iu good humor." "Ho has reason 10 be." "Why?" "Hcciinse he has the majority of us working fur ulm lo beat the band." Greenwood & Midway AUTO STAGE Leaves Greenwood for Spokane at S:20 a.m., & for Oroville at 3:10 p. m. Leave orders at Terhiine'f- Cigar Store. Ohables Russell. '^<*K><><><><><>oo<x><xx><x>ooo<x>oooo T. THOMAS CLOTHES CLEANED PRESSED AND REPAIRED TAILOR - GREENWOOD ������������������W^ooo^o^voooxkhhhioooooooo GEORGE CLERF. See Whoso Thoy Are! "Those chlldreu 11 ro such patient littlo things." "They need to be." "Why?" "How else could they get along with their parents?" Economical. "You should get Dr. Dosem for your sick folks." "Why?" "Ills bread pills are so large tbat tiie. patient doesn't need any other nourishment" a ��������� a SfWGKE. Mountaineer and Kootenay Standard Cigars. Made by J. C. THELIN & Co., NELSON. A S S A V B R E. W. WIDDOWSON, Assayer am? Chemist, Box biioS, Nelson, B. C. Charges:���������Gold, Silver, Lead or Coppci $1 each. Gold-Silver, or S'.-sr-Lcad, $1.50. Prices for other metals: Coal, Cement, Fireclay analyses on applicn tion. The largest custom assay office ii British Columbia. Thu family remi-rty for Coughs "Slitloh coats 00 little and does nnd Colils bo much/' * The Difference. "I like my hat to suit my face." "So do 1, but I can't havo it" "Why not?" "Because what suits my face doesu'l suit my pocketbook." Good Timo to Call. "Say. let's go and make that long poHlponed call upon Jones tonight" "Itut why tonight?" "lie says his phonograph is out of repair." LOWERY'S CLAIM During tho 87 months that Lowory V Claim was on earth it did business nl over the world. It was the mo.**.: unique, independent and fearless join nal over produced in Canada. Politic;.' and theological enemies purmiod it wit! the venom of a rattlesnake until tin g-ovorninont shut it out of tho mail) and its editor ceasad to publish il paHly on account of a lazy liver am partly because it takes a pile of tiiotir>> to run a paper tliat is outlawed, 'llier. are still 20 different editions of this coi domnod journal in print. Send 10cent, and get one, or ffl and get tho bund R. T. LOWERY, Qroonwood, B. O. "aaisShiTiiffirTT THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA. 00000000<K><><>C>0*00<><X)<><KK>CH>0 ������ BOUNDARY MINES | ���������OOOOO O0000-OCK)00-C)OOOCKKX>000 Last week the Rawhide shipped 5/182 tons of ore. Last week tho Granby mine shipped 24,5S1 tons of ore. Last week the Granby smelter treated 24,5S5 tons'of ore. * , Last, week the Mother Lode mine shipped 5,184 tons of ore. !'* Last week the Greenwood smelter treated 11,547 tons of ore. [T Last week the Napoleon mine shipped "S5 tons of ore. Lust week the Queen Victoria mine shipped 57G tons of ore. The Granby Consolidated * com- panyj-p rod need 1,828,000 pounds of copper in May,[making a total of 9.222,(507 pounds for the five months ended May 31. During last ten days of the month the smelter made a record of 782,000 pounds. 00000-000000000000000000000 s - ������ 8 B. C. MINING NEWS ���������ooo-ooooooooooo-oooooooooooo I ,7am es Clarke, tho well-known prosppritor of the Alberni district, who recently returned from a trip up tlio west coast, reports that operations havo been commenced on a mine in the vicinity of Clayo- quot with the object of taking out a large shipment of ore for smelter trial purposes. Mr. Clark also ro: ports thafc the Tyee Copper Company is sending mining machinery into tlie interior of Vancouver Island 1)}* way of Bear river, the destination apparently being in the neighborhood of the Big Interior group.���������Port Alberni Nows. the Colorado property, and a large tonnage of rock running well-over 850 which it will not pay the owners to ship under present conditions, Work on the Colorado has been carried on all winter with limited force, and the tunnel is now in 250 feet, a winze sunk 25 feet, and a stope nearing completion to the surface, in which the values for a good two feet of its entire width Bhould not fall below $200, mainly in silver. The stope was started at about the same distance ��������� in the tunnel ns the shaft, about "150 feet from the entranco, and good time has been made. The problem of treatment of the sulphide ore in this district almost necessitates the owners and prospectors of the country adjacent to the Basin bestirring themselves with a view to the establishment of a custom concentrating plant to meet their needs; and no better field for a modest plant of that character offers than this. The probable cost of shipping and treatment of the Hunter ore will be about 850 a ton, and with the ton- | nage which could be guaranteed the concentrating plant on the known properties already being worked the fortunate owners of the plant should have an excellent The Proper Spirit The great assembly of the Tres- byteriau church in Canada just closed iu Toronto will undoubtedly result in a wonderful increase in work and interest in the mission of the church, not only in Canada, but throughout tlie world where missions are maintained. To everyone in attendance tlie assembly was an inspiration. To those unable to attend, the press reports were an inspiration. The work should in the future be carried on in a broader and more thoroughly christian spirit. That the results expected have not been accomplished in the past has been recognized and thus the great gathering was organized and made possible. Much of the lack of success in the west has been due to a lack of the true christian spirit and inability to grapple with the situation, which we admit is vastly different in the west to the cast, on the part of tho ministers and missionaries. The west, and especially the northern part of the province, is not "the gates of hell," as stated by the Fort George minister in his address to the press gnlleries. THE ASSIZES Messrs. Arthur F. Noel, Andy Ferguson ..and ex-magistrate A. "Williams returned Friday from their trip to tho Coronation and Pioneer properties. All were well pleased with tho results of the first run of the mill. There is among the people of tbe Fort George district, as well ns all throng!) tho northern interior, nvestment, besides stimulating the j &"* moro renl Christianity than in owners of good showings to develop them instead of their energies stopping at the annual assessment work.���������Aldermero Nows. Closing Famous Mines Mining engineers all over tho globe will hear with regret that the famous old silver and lead mines at Freiberg, in Saxony, aro finally to bo closed this September, says London Engineering. Though the. Mining Academy of Freiberg only dates from 17G5, and though this academy is not itself to be closed, so many mining engineers have received their training, over there, and gained practical experience down in the mines, that they will Speaking with The Prospector before his departure, Mr. Williams! be sorry to hear that the working stated that he was so well pleased with the prospects of the district visited that he had considerably increased his holdings there, having acquired a large interest in one of the best properties. "At the Coronation," said he, "the old mill was running as smoothly as would a new one, and was operated twenty-four hours at a stretch. I had the honor of handling the first amalgam from the plates. The rock which is being crushed is extremely rich, while all around the dump gold is plainly discernable in the ore. The workings are already in a considerable distance. The main tunnel is 750J feet long, with a crosscut of 5S0 feet, on a depth of 250 feet. Twenty men are working around the mill and mine." Regarding the Pioneer, Mr. Williams considers it a bonanza. Here the owners have an eight foot ledge and three feet of ribbon rock uncovered. Assays are heavy in gold all through. A mill will lie installed this fall, active preparations for which are well under way.���������LiJIooet Prospector. of the mines is to bo discontinued after 800 years of continuous activity. The government of the Kingdom of Saxony ��������� has not taken this decision without good reasons. The mines simply do not pay any more, and operations have, in fact, for nearly twenty years been carried on at a loss for the purpose of preventing a calamity in the poor Freiberg district, where 3,000 men and their families depended, in 1834, upon the mines for their bread. It is not that the mines have actually given out. But the decrease in the price of silver, and the increased difficulty of mining at greater depth, have killed the profits. Considering that the total silver which the mines have yielded would alone represent a value of some forty-five million pounds the ministry. The fact that a bar room employs six bartenders and that disorderly houses are permitted to operate does nor. blast tho.whole town as "hell." We do not make any excuse for sin, but the west is different from the east and will always lie different. Abuse will not convert the cast ofi's, but big men, with big ideas, a broad knowledge and a true christian spirit, will reform many evils, The whole west will welcome a new life in the church. With, that new life predominating, the people of the west will (lock to the church in greater numbers than even in the east. The west is not "hell." It is God's country, and the people are God's people���������the biggest and most christain in the world.���������Omineca Herald. Tree Planting. The bunkhoiise for the accommodation of tho miners and packers for tho Hunter claims has been erected, and active development on the King claim started. Tho delay in the arrival of tho railroad is a sourco of much uneasiness on account of definite knowledge when cars will bo available; added to which is the speculation on tho rato per ton. Thero is enough high-grade ore on tho dumps to make a good Hhovving aud net good returns, even with the exorbitant rates the railway is charging from near-by points. Besides the oro already extracted from the Hunter claims thero is between ten and eleven thousand dollars worth of first and second class oro already sorted on at present prices, the Freiburg mines have not done badly. Old chronicles have much to say of the fabulous wealth of Mark- grave Otto the Kich, of the house of Wettin (the reigning Saxon dynasty, the oldest in Europe,) who started the mines in 11 OS, and founded the town of Freiberg, and of his successor, Henry tho Illustrious, who lived about 1220. But the fate of the mines is sealed; it was sealed in 1903 already, when it was resolved not to continue the working for more than ton years. At Gettysburg. It was July 1, 1803, and on Cemetery Ridge was posted this sign: "All persons found using firearms in the grounds will lie prosecuted with the utmost rigor of the law." For tho failure to enforce it you must blame old John Burns, for he was the constable of Gettysburg, but the majesty of tho law was himself blazing away with a borrowed gun. A certain teacher in a rural district in Saskctchewan, having prepared the ground last summer, has planted nine hundred young trees at his school this spring. The varieties include Manitoba maple, green ash, golden willow, Russian poplar and caragana. In addition to this, he has a flourishing school garden. As a result of his. work, the people of tho district���������mostly Germans���������are applying to the Indian Head nurseries for over 50,000 trees for the spring of 1915. The importance of tree planting on the wind swept prairies of the Canadian west is obvious to anyone who will give tho matter a moment's reflection. Yet why is not more of it done? Wo often hear it said that the farmers have not tho time. But in any district where an enthusiast begins the good work, others follow; the essential thing is to stimulate interest by a concrete illustration of what can bo accomplished. If every teacher in tho west would emulate this young man's example a change would be wrought in the appearance of the Canadian prairies and thc general comfort of western life that, in a very fow years, would amount to nothing short of a revolution. Some day the casual traveller betweon Winnipeg and Calgary will no longer turn wearily from the car window and sigh for a change of scenery, but will write to his friends of tho charm of peaceful homes, each snugly sheltered by its grove of trees and surrounded by its garden of bright flowers. This is no moro idyllic picture; it is within tho scope of art to make the prairies as attractive as any countryside that inspirod the songs of Tennyson or of Burns.���������P.M.B. At the. Assizes Inst week in Greenwood the members of the Grand Jury, were: O. Boyer, E. J. Cartier, A. Greig, W. Johns, J. H. Goodeve, J. McCreath, F. W. McLaine, A. JX Marcon, C. J. McArthur, H. McKee, S. M. John- son, W. Eleon and W. L. C. Gordon. ' Mr. Gordon foreman of the Grand Jury read the following presentment to Chief Justice Hunter: Greenwood, June 24, 1913 Your Lordship. The Grand Jury desire to give you a hearty welcome on this visit to tho Boundary district. We have visited the Government buildings and have found as follows: The hospital in excellent condition. As regards the school everything was found satisfactory with the exception of certain minor points which we understand will shortly be taken up by the School Board. As regards the goal, it does not appear that the recommendations of the previous Grand Jury have been carried out so far. The Grand Jury lias inspected the alterations now being carried out by tho C.P.R, on the public road between Greenwood and Eholt, where it passes beneath the old trestlo bridge of the above railroad, and desire to enter a strong protest against the manner in which they are at present being carried out. The alterations now being made to carry r.he road beneath the new embankment substituted for tho old trestle bridge, not only introduce a-considerable increase of adverse grade, together with many sharp changes of curve, but also bring in a very objectional feature, in that there will be Rome sixty feet of road which will in winter be devoid of any snow covering and therefore impracticable for heavily laden sleighs, and especially for sleighs coming south which will encounter an adverse grade of four' per cent. Furthermore the curves of entry and exit to the tunnel are such that drivers of vehicles cannot discover the presence of other vehicles coming the opposite way until they are actually within the tunnel. As these curves are bounded on both sides by perpendicular retaining walls, this feature is a great menace to the public using this road which is the main and only highway of the district. We desire to express our wish that you may be long spared to perform the duties of yonr oflice. On Saturday last the Greenwood football team journeyed to Phoenix to play a return exhibition game with the picked players of that city and although the score did not come up to the expectations of the enthusiasts, still the]|hard tussle they gave the Phoenix crack team proved that Greenwood, with a little more practice and encouragement, will eventually be the champions of tho league when it is formed. The lack of combination was the cause of Greenwood's downfall. -After scoring tho first goal, which was made by Rogers, Greenwood collapsed-before the formidable onslaught. McArthur at back was in splendid form. He played carefully, but the rough, wet ground and the rain soaked ball handicapped him. Matthews also tried his best to pull away for big team and made several good checks and passes. Of the forward line Jackson was always sure, while Bidder, Rogers, Loring and Carlson worked hard. Phoenix scored four times but they were all made .from a throw in, whereas Greenwood scored twice on a straight rush. The game throughout was a good exhibition and our boys can bo de- ponded upon to give a good account of themselves at all times. Football when well played is as inspiring a spectacle as any sportsman could wish to gaze upon. Parcels Post System BUY A BIRKS' MESH BAG They are Made in the Latest Designs Neatest Fashions and Mosi Durable Qualities. Every woman who is considering the purchase of a Mesh Bag, will be much interested in the illustrations on page 68, of our catalogue. The work and material employed iii the , con^ struction of the Birks Mesh bag is of the higlv est order and quality, whether the article be of Sterling Silver, German Silver or Gun Metal. If you should desire something of a more ex*-* pensive nature write to us regarding it, as we only show a small assortment of our stock of Mesh Bags in our Catalogue, We are always pleased to furnish information to any out/ofr town buyer regarding any line of &oods we stock, Write for our catalogue it is a satisfactory guide to successful wedding gift buying. HENRY BIRKS & SONS, LIMITED JEWELERS AND SILVERSMITHS Geo, E Trorey, Man, Dir, VANCOUVER, B, C, ^tWQ������e>QtoMW������*M&99������9M9m������QQ9Q9a)������G999QQm&������Q9 'fflfljft A Fine Exhibit. Grand Forks will make a great struggle to win the capital prize for the best district exhibit at the Calgary Fair this week. The Gazette says; A large shipment of heavier specimens was forwarded by freight this week and consisted of the ends of three largo logs, a crate of dressed lumber, a box of brick, a box of Midway coal, a box of marble a box of cement blocks, a sack of wheat, a sack of barley, a sack of oats and specimens of copper ore, slag, inatto and blister copper. Another shipment will bo forwarded today by express and will consist of green alfalfa, timothy, clover, broome grass, wheat, rye, barley, peas, oats, asparagus, spinach, onions, turnips, boots, carrots, and potatoes. Branches of apple, cherry, plum and prune trees loaded with fruit will also bo sent ovor showing the growth already mado this season, while butter, eggs and flowers, strawberries, gooseberries, tomatoes and cucumbers will also form part of the Hhipmont, The Hon. L. P. Pellctier, Postmaster General, is losing no timo in developing by means of the bill which passed at the recent session of parliament, his ideas on the parcels post system. The Postmaster General is busily engaged in securing data and other information to enable him to perfect as soon as possible the details of tho scheme. The rates question is ono that naturally demands most attention and the Minister wishes to arrange for rates that will be just and equitable to all concerned. Au official of tlie United States Government, who has had considerable experience in perfecting the details of the Bourne bill there will be brought to Ottawa to give the Post Office Department the benefits of the knowledge gained in eight months' successful operation of the system acros the border When the house meets in the fall, Mr. Pelletier will be ready to proceed in putting the system in force, although it is not, necessary to await the meeting of parliament as the bill provides that the scheme can be put in operation by Proclamation. It will be in force not later than the beginning of the New Year, the same period of time that elapsed before the Bourne measure in the United States went in force. The peoplo will then got the benefit of useful legislation and money wtll be saved. ANALYSIS OF WATER*. L? Chlorine s. 14 Sulphuric Acid 363.43 Silica 74.29 W������ie 84.57 Alkalies as .Soda ...... 5.91 Magnesia 232.00 Ivilhia .S6 Sulphuretted Hydrogen 32.00 William Boyd, Proprietor, . Has recently been thoroughly renovated and re-furnished, and is now the greatest health resort upon the continent. Natural hot water in baths, 124 degrees of heat.' A. course of baths at Halcyon will cure nervous and muscular diseases and eliminate rheumatism and nietalic poisons from the system. The water heals liver, kidney and stomach complaints. The rates are $2 a day up; or $12 weekly up. Postofiice; express and telegraph offices in connection. fialcyon, B. G. ������ (MO A CARLOAD OF PURITY FLOUR Has just arrived. All orders from any part of the district promptly filled RUSSELL-LAW-CAULFIELD Company I1 G. A. REN DELL DRY GOODS, BOOTS & SHOES. SEE OUR NEW SUPPLY OF Linen Table Cloths, Table and Dress Linens, Pillow Cottons, Sheetings Towels and Towelings. GREENWOOD, B. C. Silver Foxes. Saskatoon, Sask. Juno 25. Gender shows whethor a man is masculine, feminine, or neuter. Geometry teaches us how to bisex angels. Oravitation is that which if thero wero none we should all fly away. Fifty moro black, brown and silver grey foxes came into Saskatoon today to join the 44 which arrived yesterday. Tho whole shipmont of 91, which is valued at 850,000 will go east to St. John, N.B., this afternoon. Wot for many years have so many shipments of live foxes passed through this city as in the last two months and this is the fourth shipmont. Tho first shipment of foxes that wont through this city was conservatively valued at $G0,000, thero being 0!) in it. Tho second, consisting of 16, was valued at about $2,000, and this shipmont can bo said to be easily worth ovor $50,000, making ovor $100,000 worth of live foxes shipped from tho northwest to the oast via Saskatoon inside of ono month. ISUMMER 1 & SUITS % Tennyson wrote "In Memorandum." 1 P. W. GE0RGE & C������. I B COPPER STREET , . GREENWOOD, B, G' 3 7m\\mmmimtmm^mmmmmm<M GRAND FORKS GARAGE GRAND FORKS, B. C. is now open for business and is in charge of an Export Mechanic. All repairs and adjustments quickly attended to. Complete lfno of AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES carried in stock. Best grade of Gasoline, Lubricating Oils, and Greases always on hand. Sole agents for Republic Tiros. Tires pumped up free of charge. GRAND FORKS GARAGE CO.,
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