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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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Hardware;* Groceries, Clothing and Gents' Furnishings. aaHraikMiasH^-ffl-i^^ 1 s erne A ten cent-package will work wonders ��������� ���������- on apparently worn out-goods We have dves .in .all colors and shades for wool, silk, ��������� cotton ;.or -mixed 'goods* in' both. Diamond arid 'Dyola Brands. , IO CENTS A PACKAGE. i r THOMAS DRUG & MUSIC CO. I Passing Throng! ���������������������fm^s^iam>������m#s&$r������������&&$ , ' G. 0. Guise of Westbridge was in the city Tuesday. ��������� Mrs. R, K. Steven -leaves Tuesday, for a month's visit to the coast. . '.Jack' Lucy wi'l look for gold properties along Sheep creek this summer. 1 Bill Beach will npend the summer'in Idaho looking for mineral bonanzas. Ida Jero was taken to the New j Westminster asylum this week by A. D. Hallett. It is rumored that Tom Walsh has turned Protestant and drinks Orange bitters. The local lodge of Odd, Fellows will, confer the Initiatory degree next Tuesday evening. "-Several mining experts will be in Greenwood next month to look at mining properties. ".Six more Vuiachiue drills were put'in commission at the Snow- shoe Tuesday morning. ���������.Lost��������� A lady's gold* watch with diamond set in the back. Finder please leave at this oflice. of the wonders it will accomplish. Tb is about the only; salvation for Greenwood, and���������trh'e! only way iu which the high-grade veins can be economically opened' up. Greenwood may yet become a great city, providing some of the members of the^ board of trade rcau suppress their penchant for passing resolutions. We give "th'e Most Change Back. iaa*KiH5^k-a.t^^ Our stock of "Ladies' and Children's Boots and Shoes for Spring is the largest ancl best wc have ever shown. All the best American ancl Canadian makes are represented and at all prices. _ Dry Goods. Millinery. Boots ancl Shoes. ������<S������k--������8������-<-}k9^������*S=i"-<-E-_*k-*^ ( James Buchanan,& Co's BLACK A&D WHITE, ARSD HOUSE OF CO?, GREENWOOD LIQUOR CO. I IMPORTERS, GREENWOOD, B. C. ������ S������w������������������������k_������c������ats������o������k*^sea������������������a������_^o&������3k_k*w������������ gMMaaBMMJgg^^ AJ PHOENIX B. C Is opposite the Great Northern depot and is a delightful haven for tbe weary traveler. Great veins of hot water run through the entire house, and bathrooms are always at the; per/vice of thope in search of material cleanliness. The dining room is an enemy to dyspepsia, while the artistic appointment of the liquid refreshment makes the drinks go clow" like eating fruit in a flower garderij The sample rooms aro the largest in tho mountains and a pleasure to drummers ;with big thinks. JAS. MARSHALL - - PROPRIETOR The bursting of a main last, Tnesday made Silver street look like a trail to Noah's Ark. -Thomas TTardy, the leading merchant of Midwav, wns in the red metal metropolis on-Tuesday. McClung & Goodeve of the Windsor hotel will keep on draught during the summer Bass' Ale. -John Barclay, one of Greenwood's most enterprising merchants, is on.a visit to Spokane. John Melville, an old resident of Midway, died Friday last and was buried Sunday. He was about 60 years of age. ... 'The local lodge Knight* of Pythias will give a smoker Wednesday evening, 31st inst, after regular lodge business. C. Scott Galloway of Grand Forks was in the city Saturday. [Mr. Galloway has fifty acres in-MlI wheat' this. Reason. Jas. S. Birnie, R. W. D. D. G. M., left yesterday to pay an official visit to Harmony lodge, A. F. & A. M., GraniPForks. Sydney M. Johnson, H. Bunting, E. - T. Wickwiro and J. M. Millar went up to Rock Creek Sunday to examine coal measures in that neighborhood. At a special meeting of the city council yesterday afternoon tho tunnel agreement was passed and the voting on the bylaw will take place "Wednesday, April 7th. Norman McLeod, who has during the winter been attending to the line work of the Greenwood City "Waterworks company, ii again in charge of the power plant at Boundary Falls. The regular monthly meeting of the executive of the Greenwood Riding Conservative association will be held in the offices of the Greenwood City "Waterworks company tomorrow evening, 26th inst.. at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Crowley will leave for Boston next month to live with her daughter Winnifred, the well- known opera singer. Miss DaiBy Crowley will accompany her mother on the trip and spend a month's holidays iu the east. It is said that a committee representing a large number of the shareholders of the B. C. Copper Co, will shortly visit Greenwood to investigate the methods of the management. If, so, the. miners may not be the ones that will walk. It is said that a notice has been posted in the smelter announcing a close down on or .before the 1st of April. Business men will, of course, regret that this course has become necessary,' but they must feel thankful that, under the present management, it has been kept in operation continuously for ten months,'and as a result of the deprivation of women and children one of the temples in the city erected to the worship- of the Carpenter of Nazareth has been enriched and beautified. Jas. S. Birnie, D. D. G. M.. paid an official visit to Greenwood lodge, A. F. &A. M., Thursday evening. The M. M. degree was conferred ancl the work of the officers commended. On behalf of the lodge the district deputy presented a gold locket ancl ring, suitably engraved, to J. -I. Feeney, the senior warden, who will shortly leave for New Ontario. Mr. Feeney has beeu one of the most enthusiastic workers in the lodge and the members wish him prosperity in his new home. father along educational lines. The contracting parties are Nicholas Pol kayak and Sava Poucnca, both of Phoenix. The attempt to evangelize Greenwood will commence on the 28th of April. The people of the city are now so good that most of them havo quit drinking on Sunday and smoking cigarettes week days Next month only the most inveterate slaves of the habit will con- tinueg to inhale smelter smoke. In fact, so devout have the residents become that it is said the banks will close their savings departments. The necessity for evangelists is past, ancl the wealth necessary to create the proper enthusiasm is not present. -The case as to the cause of death of Frank Taylor- came up for trial before His Honor Judge Brown last week. Taylor "had his arm pulled out while working at the Mother Lode mine, and died a few days later. The company, in order to avoid payment under the Workmen's Compensation Act. endeavored to prove that Taylor died from meningitis, but did not call as a witness tbe attending physician, Dr. J. E. Suankie. Dr. Oppenheimer gave, evidence, aud his_ honor decided that death resulted from the accident. I. H. Hallett appeared for the company and Taylor & Shea for heirs of deceased. A civil marriage cermony will lake place at the court house on the 7th April, Government Agent McMynn, registrar, will officiate. Police Magistrate Hallett and Mining Recorder Cunningham have beeu deputed by the registrar to kiss the bride, and J. P. McLeod aud Jas. Birnie will address the groom, the former his legal responsibilities as the head of a family, and the latter as to his duties as a Not the Truth. In the Nelson Daily News of the 23rd, is the following by a Greenwood correspondent: "The Greenwood Miners' union made a voluutary offer to the company to accept a ten per cent, reduction in wages, but the company have taken no action in the matter" The Ledge has the very best authority for stating that the offer of a reduction has not been made by the union or any of its officers. In fact, a reduction of wages has not been discussed by the union. The offer of a reduction ' would be a very unusual course. Such' a request usually comes from the management, and not the union. The union is not in a position to know whether the concern u paying or uot, but the manager should know this. Whether from loss of values, petering out of the ore bodies, refractory ore, an excessive and too highly paid office staff, antiquated methods of treatment, or the many causes clue to mismanagement a company may be red need from a dividend payer to a loser. In the annual report to their shareholders the company puts the cost of making copper at S9 99 9-10. The market price of copper yesterday was 12}/o 12{r, or about 25 per cent profit. Every cent rise in copper above 10 cents increases the company's net profits 10 per cent, according to their annual statement. No statement has since been issued to the shareholders that the ore bodies have decreased in size or values, have become more refractory, that the office staff is excessive, that treat, mentis less modern and economical, or-that the management is less efficient than three months ago. Under such favorable conditions for the economical manufacture of copper it is highly improbable that the Miners' union should feel called upon to suggest a reduction of wages, ancl it is hardly possible that a philanthropic person, tkuch as Mr. McAllister undoubtedly is, would accept such reduction from his employees. The Daily News should have its correspondent examined by two reputable physicians Western Float i> The fellow who blows his own horn should be careful not to come out at the little end of it. Bass' ale on Windsor hotel. draught at the B^M^HB^BM-MI^^ rO������������������������<!**<IOS������t*K������������>*������e������t*,H*J0&S������I^ '' "'.-' Dealers in piresh and Salt JVIeats, "pish and Poultry '* K Shops in nearly all the towns oi* Boundary and the Kootenay. lOAiMMMScettaoMMii^Ma^Mi^iacMMaa^^ J. I. Feeuey and Mrs. Feeney leave next wee*k for tho East. V'Joo" will spend the summer prospecting in New Ontario, and Mrs. Feeney will visit relatives in Guelph and Harrison, Ont. Their many warm friends in Greenwood wish them prosperity. The Methodists will give their annual beefsteak pie dinner Easter Monday, April 12th, in the church. Dinner served from 5:30 to S. A programme consisting of musical numbers, and a Bcarf drill by seven young ladies, will be given after the dinner. Admission 50 cents. Tho provincial police were called in Tuesday to protect the property of the 13. Ci. Copper Co., and found no cause for alarm. Tho manager of tho company is becoming a joke. Any injury done to the property of of the company will not be done by members of the union, but will be for the purpose of hoodwinking indignant' shareholders, and the union will ace that the perpetrators arc brought to trial. The tin god, grand-stand business is played out. The big bore to tap tho high- grade veins will bo bored. In the meantime the whole community is being bored with glowing accounts g to the fact that our business is becoming almost as great in Kootenay as in the Boundary, and one or two other reasons, this is the last issue of the Ledge in Greenwood. The next issue will appear in Nelson where it will be published weekly for the geueral benefit of mankind. Exchanges are requested to note the change of address after next week. The Ledge will publish the news of the Boundary as usual in its new home. R, T. LOWERY. The dredge has resumed operations at Penticton. The creditors of the Okanagan Nursery Co. will-probably reorganize the "company. The Fraser Valley Record wii<* printed in green last week. The editor must be Oitaliau. Leonard Norn's, government agent at Vernon, has in his possession one of the '820 gold pieces coined at New Westminster in [1SG2. He has been offered $700 for it. The Sparwood Lumber compan\- at Hosmer has resumed operations". The Karnloops centennial celebration will not take place until . 1912, it having been discovered that the first wolf did not make camp there until JS12. Previous to the arrival of the wolf Karnloops was principal!}- w.-onery ami sand.- The Summer-land theological students play bi'-e.b-ili. lb is to be ' hoped thaL this will n >t lead up tn "bit rhe," "tb,il,*s the bahy," ''deuce in the bile,'* and other, pastimes. The Baptist church services have been discoutirni'-d in .Suinini-rl.ind " while the evangelist-" a,--i working that town. Possibly the water be-', came overheated. The Chinese are beginning to occupy business places ou the main street of Revelstoke. The provincial government i.s to pay one-third of the cmt of the uew school building in Revelstoke. The council of Revelstoke havo ordered a chair to fit the mayor. R. H. Spedding, formerly of tbe Kelowna Courier, has purchased the Mount Pleasant Advocate. Mr. Spedding is in the happy position that any change which he makes in the Advocate mist be an improvement. Jim Hill has obtained coutrol of the Crow's Nest Coal company, aud G. G. S. Lindsay ancl Robert Jaffray, president and vice-president, have resigned. Kaslo is to have a lacrosse club. Alphonse Dumas of Kaslo has a broken ankle as a result of being "Dutch flipped." When in Nelson drop into tbe White House Cafe, next to the postoffiee. Turkish ancl other baths can be procured in the same building. Taylor Bishop, proprietor, employs all white help." Do It. Terse and Emphatic. The following telegram was sent to the Nelson Daily News Tuesday by the secretary of Greenwood Miners' union : "I have been notified that Daily News claims Greenwood Miners' union have asked for a reduction in wages. Your correspondent is a liar. George Ueatherton." A Boys' Club. The boys of the Presbyterian Sunday school have organized a camp of the order of the Knights of the Holy Grail. Tho following officers have been elected : Willie Bryant, esquiro commander. Russell Hunter, vice-coin wander E. Anderson, esquire of scroll. S. Smith, esquire of purse, M. Melntyre, prelate. Willie Smith, herald. ���������Harold Hunter, esquire, H. Anderson, page. j The warm weather has come and pedestrians, voluntary and otherwise, aro preparing for a summer outing. There aro so many summer- resorts in this great western land and so many trails leading to them that it is difficult to arrive at a decision us to the best route. Many of the miners at the Mother Lode will taki a much-needed rest, the smeltor men drift away from' the fum ea for a time, the clerks will take to the hills to gather strength for the rush when tho bore gets boring, the bankers will bo balancing up phantom ledgers on the shore of some quiet lake, the" cook's, will be manufacturing mulligans on some quiet mountain stream, the Ledge staff will be tin- leading any old place, but tho usual bustle and rush will continue at tho federal aiul provincial offices. , He who agrees with everybody, strange paradox, does not agree ith mo : in ftii The Wenatchee Branch. The Wenatchee World gives out the information that work will begin upon the Oroville-Wenatchee branch of the Great Northern this spring, ancl that the first section to be constructed will be tbe gap between Oroville* and Brewster, building to be"| pushed south from Oroville. The world seems to speak with the freedom of authority, and as the "wish i.s father to the thought," we are willing to accept tho surnu'so of the World with pleasure. That early building is contemplated^ borne out by the activity in the field at this early date, the engineers being out in force, laying down tlio route for the grades to follow. While tbe appearance of surveyors does not mean-the immediate following of tbe construction crew, yet the situation as it exists here gives bright promise that in this instance surveying is the forerunner of building. Aside from tbo growing demands of a north and south line through the rapid development of tbe country, it is plainly apparent eveu to tho unitiated that the railroad powers will not continue for any great length of time to pull freight over the Molson grade in a roundabout route to tide water when a link from Oroville to the main line at Wenatchee will lessen thc hauling distance and save the wear and tear that is inseparable from long, heavy-grade pulls, even eliminating the element of danger that perpetually exists in the present eastward haul.-Oroville Gazette parisou with some others up at the mine. Good progress is being made in sinking the shaft which is being put down on the hanging wall, and has alreedy attained a depth of J-t'J feet in good ore all the way. Another shift is to be put on shortly when work will go much faster. The ore is strongly mineralized and the company are immensely pleased with the way in which the property is opening up. The shaft is making very little water and does not interfere with mining operatious.-Hedley Gazette v When you want a monument or headstone, write to the Canadian Marble and Granite Works, Nelson, B. C. Golden Zone Shaft. It will not bo difficult to obtain big ore specimens from the Golden Zone shaft for tho Alaska-Yukon- Pacific exposition, Some of thoso which were brought down last week to the company's office in,,,,, - xrt , _=. ., town were over a cubic foot, anc* w"������er.���������Nicola Herald. they are said to be pigmies in com������J Wftfdowaon. AM������y������r# N������l������on, D. C. The Wild and Woolly West. lyuuloops Sentinel : Another peripatetic divine, a certain Rev. Dr. Chown, has returned to Toronto'from a visit to this province, with a tale of rampant immorality in the West. If these learned and pious gentlemen would investigate a little nearer home ..they might be less ready to cast slurs upon the people and customs of the Pocific coast. Western people are not all saints, but they are not a whit worse than the dwellers in the east. There are some folks who aie forever on the verge of doing something. They make elaborate preparations, warn their friends, brace themselves for the effort, and end with some flabby act of hopeless mediocrity that disgusts everybody. They mean well, but their mouth i are larger than their heads, and their ideas than their capacity for carrying them out. This trais would be amusing if it were not fo annoying; but the man with great expectations has the knack of getting everybody and everything about him in a state of restlessness and worriinent that is mobt exasperating at times. A man who fusses will never do anythiug truly great. The man of genius is a man of gdepth, and there is no depth where there is noise and foam. Greatness is almost invariably associated with unconsciousness. Au ounce of doing is worth a ton of talk about whufc you expect to do. If some men would quit talking about what they are going to do aud get down to putting into each day some unfinished task or some effort laid upon a solid foundation of purposeful thought we would bo nearer the business as well as tbe religion������������������ millenium. It makes one sick to see a man roll up his sleeves, spit- on his bauds, take up the shovel and after two or three feeble thrusts sit down beside it. Do not be" eternally huntiug up some big jo'r to simply walk around it. Put an effort in the task that lies befo:-e you, Do what you have found lo do with your might, not with your mouth.���������-Ex. Horse Thief Gets His. Harry Dupray, who was arrested by Constable Clark for stealing a horse ancl other articles from si- washrs at Hot creek, was given two years and three months at New Westminster this week. Tho piisoner was arrested half a mile from Merritt on the Nicola road. He was first tuken to Ashcroft, from where he was Hent up for trial by Magistrate Webb, and electing for speedy trial and practically admitting his guilt, bis case was speedily ^dispatched by Judge In Phoenix D. J. Matbeson has the agency for nearly all the be, t life, fire and accident insurance companies. He also insures plaid glass, and if you are looking for insurance drop him a Hue with particulars of what you want. Misplaced Affection. Perhaps I am too close, ventured the silly suitor. If I should lay three-dollar-a-pound candy at yonr feet would you love me any more than you do now V . Not at all, was the haughty reply of the cold beauty, I don't eat candy with my feet. The Kootenay Cigar Co. of JsV- sou have in the Royal! Seal a cigar that la known ancl smoked between the wheat country and tho blue Pueiflo. 1 I THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA. *.*-Ua*U_ _.1_>������__ _u_^ SANDY BEND JUSTICE. Setback In ihe Case of Wheeler and Tom Stokes. HIGHER COURT TAKES ACTION. Reverses Decision of Judge Hoke and Orders a New Trial���������Fong Lee and Poke Smith In a Mixup Over an Unsatisfactory Laundered Shirt. [Copyright, 190S, by T. C. McClure.] "B'S there any longer any west?" | plaintively asked Judge Hoke of J Sundy Kend ns he opened his court thc other morning with the air of a iiiun who hud been dealt a heavy blow. "Is there any longer any west or any manhood hovering over this portion ot the great United Stales? lias it como to it that a gun Is only to bo used to shoot jack rabbits? Have wc got to call a bluffer's bluff by haling hini into court on a charge of using violent language? "Two or throe-years ago I thought 1 saw evidence of what they call civilization creeping In upon this town of Sandy JJcnd, but 1 refused to believe my own senses. I thought it might come to it that we would some day have to wear paper collars and eat Ice cream, but that the time would nii YELLS "HANDS UP I" AT OUlt DAD MAN. come when a man wearing two guns and a knife would holler for jestice instead of using his tools no man could nave made me believe. I've got to believe it now, for I have the evidence right before my eyes. "My friends, over there sits Bill Wheeler, and over here sits Tom Stokes. You all remember the case. Bill Wheeler was a sort of a terror around hero for a year or so. He was never tired of reading over tho list of bad men he had wiped out. He held this town in awe of him. No matter what we said behind his back, we was Sunday school children to his face. We wondered if he had the sand he claimed to have, but none of us cared to experiment. We let him swagger around and run the town. Tears spring to my eyes when I think of it. "Take a look at Tom Stokes. You might travel a hundred miles and not lind another such humble looking kuss. He's got the face of a kid. lie's as humble as a lamb caught in (lie bushes. You all know him too. He's been hanging around this town for years. He's never had au opinion on any subject, lie's always waited to agree with thc majority. He's been bluffed and booted more times than he's got hairs in his head. Nobody would havo wasted a cartridge to remove Tom Stokes. Had he died of sickness they wouldn't have dug a grave over two feet deep for him. "Three months ago our Bill Wheeler- got sighing for other worlds to conker, lie got too big for Sandy Bend. He wanted to lind a crowd in which some one would call him a liar. In fact, he got dog lonesome to be a bad man all through, and so he pulls up stakes and heads for Golden mil. He had guns strapped to him. no was mounted on an ambling cayuse. lie held his head high. lie had money in his pocket. We turned out and gave him a farewell, and the last we saw of him he was disappearing gayly over the hills. Meets Tom Stokes. ���������'And what happened him? Twenty miles away lie meets Tom Stokes. It was still broad daylight. He was still feeling that he wanted some critter to look cross eyed at him. He had them same guns at his belt. Tom comes along with an old pistol without hammer or trigger and consequently without a cartridge In It, and ho yells out 'Hands up!' at our bad man. . "Gentlemen, docs the proud and haughty Bill Wheeler ride onward after one contemptuous glance at Tom aud his bogus gun? "Docs he come to a halt and yell to Tom to beat It or take the consequences? "Docs he reach keerlessly behind him and draw a gun and send the humble soul of the humble Tom flying to the four winds of earth?" "H-ho d-don't. Excuse this emotion, but he don't. What does he do? Well, ft was brought out on the trial. He climbs right down and begs for his life like a ten-year-old boy nnd lets Tom strip him to the bide and take his cayuse besides. You don't want to believe it, but you've got to. He has owned up to it. Tom rides off with a grin, nnd then Bill hoofs it back to Sandy Bend and hunts me up to say that he's been robbed and wants jestice. When ho told mo tho story in Ihe Red Dog saloon, of which place It is well known 1 am proprietor, my knees wobbled with weakness nnd my breath came lu gasps. Slay none of you ever have the feelings that camo over me. I talked and talked, but stilt Bill howled for Jestice. "Well, I had to issue a warrant, and after two or three days Tom Stokes was arrested and brought in. He denied nothing. Ho stood pat on tho legends of the great west. I stood pat with him. I sentenced BUI Wheeler to six months In jail for allowing himself to be robbed In that manner, nnd I told Tom to gc and sin no more. I didn't contend it v ,! law, hut Jes- tice. It was jestice to tho record the west has made and is seeking to uphold. He went off to jail, but got a shyster lawyer to appeal his case, and the higher court has reversed it on me. I am directed to give hiri* a new trial. Ata I going to do it? The man among you who thinks so don't know Jedgo Hoke. .Teclge Hoke can resign, but lie can't be driv. He may bo here to uphold the law, but he's also here as the guardian of the rights of man. He'll ladle out law when he thinks law will hit the case in hand; when he don't think so he'll ladle out jestice. "Tom Stokes, you can walk out as before, and if I was you I'd hit another climate for awhile. Bill Wheeler, you can also take your departure. There will bo no new trial for you. You will have to pass through a crowd outside, and if you don't like the remarks and other things hurled at you as you go no one i.s to blame but yourself. Sandy Bend won't never nestle up to you ag'in, and my advice to you is to keep away from hero in the future. "We have one other case on the docket. It Is Poke Smith versus Fong I.ce. Poke has never been classed as a bad man. Most of us have sized him up as a critter that wouldn't light unless he had to aud would then shed a bar'l of blood. He has always carried guns, but ho had no notches cut in thc stocks as (ally marks. Nobody cared to elbow him, ancl nobody took him for a parson. My own private opinion was that he'd show sand if the lime ever came. Poke C-kdly Used Up. ���������'Well, the time came yesterday. He had a shirt up in l-'ong Lee's laundry. He went up to get it, and there was some dispute about thc quantity of gravel stones and burs that had been elubbcd_out of it previous to washing; also as to whether Fong wasn't responsible for some of the new rips and holes. At any rate, Poke started to take the shirt away without paying anything, and there was a row. Poke had his guns. 1 don't claim that he should have done any shooting, but I do contend that he ought to havo used them to get out of tlie affair with dignity. Did lie do so? When his yells had drawn a crowd he was found buried under a heap of unwashed shirts, and Fong Lee had them shooting irons iu his possession aud has got thorn yet. As soon as Poke could dig his way out he hustled down to the Red Dog and me and hollered for jestice. Didn't want to go back with thc gun I offered to lend him and have it out with the heathen, but jest wanted jestice. "When jestice is demanded in this court, jestice shall be had. I shall fine Fong I.ce $2 and costs for having a pair of squint eyes on him, and lie can keep the two guns and the shirt he took away from the plaintiff. Poke Smith i.s free to walk out and show himself to bis friends around town, and if he isn't patted on the back and called a hero maybe he can figure out why. "Don't let it go out that this court either favors the Chinaman or is opposed to Iii in. What this court favors is a man getting his clean shirt when he goes after it. and if he hasn't thc sand to do it it's simply a question of what they calls lapsus linkum, and the Chinese have nothing to do with it. That's all. Court's adjourned." M. QUAD. NO HARD FEELINGS. Was Even Willing to Pay Half thc Repair Bill. COMING to a sudden stop, the driver of the automobile jumps out of his machine and runs back to where his victims lie upon the ground But one of them is alive, and he is seriously hurt. "I'm profoundly sorry this happened," says tho man from the automobile, "but it was an accident I could not avoid. I am deeply sorry, and I hope you will allow me to settle whatever damages there are aud that you will not feel harshly toward me." "It's all right, friend," sighs the surviving victim. "That other man was my rich uncle, and I am his only heir, and. besides, 1 havo been carrying a ���������k-100 a week accident policy for ten years. This is the first time I could ever get action on it. If your machine is broken I'll pay half the repair bill." ���������Judge. HE '$ A MESSAGE TO ALL WDf ENGLISH SCHOOL LIFE. MADAME LETOURNEAU TELLS THEM TO USE DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS. Changed His Mind. "What is in that big package?" asks Mrs. Clans while old Santa is loading up his sleigh. ���������Thai's a lot of dolls and triukets for Mr. Growleigh's house." "Mr. GrowlolgliV Why. isn't he the man who has always argued thnt ChrNtmas was a nonsensical, extravagant idea and who has headed a crusade to abolish the giving of useless things?" "Yes, he was. But they've got a baby at his house now."���������Chicago Post. How It Would Tempt Him. "See yon fat fowl," whispered the tall tramp at the water tank. "Wouldst thou enjoy him V" '"Yeas." yawned the laziest tramp in all tho states and territories. "If de engine killed him, a cyclone whirled all his feathers off and de lightuin" struck de dry grass and baked him uice aud brown 1 wouldst enjoy him, pard; yes, verily."���������Chicago News. A Musical Education. "Why do you keep your daughter practicing so incessantly on that piano piece?" "I want' to be sure she can play something when our friends ask to hear her." "But suppose they want to hear her play something more?" "Oh, there's no danger of that!"- Cleveland Plain Dealer. Road Why She Gives this Advice and How Sho Was Relieved of Her Sufferings. St. Paul clu Baton, Montrnagny ,Co., Que., (Special;.���������It is a message 'of hope that Madame F. X. Letourneau of this place sends to the suffering women of Canada. "After my last child was born," she states, "I suffered with Kidney Disease which developed into Rheumatism, Sciatica and Backache. I was fearfully nervous. My limbs were heavy ancl I had a dragging sensation across the loins and pains in the back of my head and through the eyes. I was a perfect wreck.' "Chancing to read that my symptoms were those of Kidney Disease [ began using Dodd's Kidney Pills ancl began to improve almost at once. Six boxes worked a complete cure." Diseased Kidneys arc the cause of nine-tenths of the ills that make life a burden to so many women in Canada. Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure diseased Kidneys. A Northern Wheat Crop. People who havo not given the matter much attention imagine that the fanning that has been done in the Mackenzie River Valley is of a purely experimental nature.. Fort Vermilion is seven hundred miles north of Edmonton, and a settlor who came out last autumn told a newspaper man that he left shortly after threshing began, but that about 18,000 bushels of grain had been threshed. That this was only a part of the crop is also shown by the fact that for some years the Hudson's Bay company has had a mill at Fort Vermilion which would be useless were the crop not of considerable size. There is a market, too, in the north, and the Hudson's ' Bay company was paying $1.25 per bushel for the best quality of the wheat- Even while people are arguing about the possibilities of the Peace River actual production is in progress.��������� Toronto News. Easily Removed. "Pshaw," exclaimed Miss Krotchett, "I'm afraid this gown doesn't become my complexion at all!" "Well," remarked Miss Knox, "why don't you change it?" "How can 1? It's made up now, and the dressmaker"��������� "But you can wash it off and make up in some other way."���������Catholic- Standard and Times. A Two Foot Rule. A Double Disappointment. He���������I suppose, then, we may as well break the engagement and say we have both been disappointed in love? She���������There seems to be uo other conclusion. You thought I had money, and I certainly thought you had.���������Baltimore American. Too Much For Him. Giles���������The man who makes those moving pictures bumped up against his first failure today. Miles���������How was that? Giles���������He tried to make a moving picture of two men playing a game of chess���������Chicago News. A Mild Pill for Delicate Women.��������� The most delicate woman can undergo a course of Parmelee's Vegetable Pills without fear of unpleasant consequences. Their action, while wholly effective, is mild ancl agreeable. No violent pains or purgings follow their use, as thousands ��������� of women who have used them can testify. They are, therefore, strongly recommended to women, who are more prone to disorders of the digestive organs than men. "Young man," said the stern parent, "when I was your age I worked hard for my living." "Very inconsiderate of you to mention it," answered the gilded youth. "You'll have them talking about it at the club next."���������Washington Star. Repeat itT^" Shiloh's Cu������*e will always cure my coughs and colds." The government of Austria- makes special inducements to farmers who will reclaim waste lands and make use of them. Eton Headmaster Discusses Old-Time Treatment of Lads. The R*y. "E. Lyttelton, headmaster of Eton College, in a speech at the opening of the new elementary school at Slough, contrasted the care taken of school children in the present day with the treatment which they received 300 years ago, and incidentally pointed out how much happier English schoolboys are than the little boys of Germany. It was amazing to reflect, he said, that our forefathers were able to build up tliis empire out of nothing, hardly knowing what they were doing. They "whacked" the Spaniards, simply because they had nothing to do at home, and took all the best part of the world from the French for the same reason. It seemed most amazing to remember that these men were brought up under conditions absolutely barbarous. People had come to such a state of mind that whenever a child expressed a wish for anything, unless it was at once gratified, they immediately wrote to the newspapers and made a remonstrance. These were ��������� the sort '.of things, Shakespeare had to do. He had to be in his place in the school at G o'clock all through the year, The children had to stay in school three hours before breakfast. In those days nobody had any timo for breakfast, and he fancied they must have taken to school a portable sandwich and munched it between little bits of Latin. The morning was resumed from 9.15 to 11.30, when there was a break of an hour and a half, to .enable the children to go home and get something to eat. The scholars assembled at 1 o'clock and went on to 3.30, when a quarter of an hour was allowed for play. Then work on again until 5.30. They had come to a time in their history when they believed in happiness, and he believed they were right in doing so. Shakespeare spoke of the miserable face of the child going to school. Such faces he (the speaker) had seen himself in that country which was always being pointed out to us. Little boys in Germany on their way to school had to pass the drill ground, where in a hot sun might be seen the miserable recruit doing the goose step. That boy recollected that if he did not work out his studies and pass a tremendously stiff examination at school he would be condemned ��������� to spend three years in the army, whether he liked it or not, while, if he passed the examination he got off with one year. That was the kind of school life children had in Germany. He read in a brilliant book only the other day that schools were absolutely futile and useless things because children went too late to them. The real valuable time was in the home training of the first seven years of their life. Many people believed this. There was no doubt that the sooner they got the children to school the more permanent and lasting throush life would be the influences to which they were subjected. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. A little flour sprinkled Iii the pan When eggs are frying will prevent the sputtering hot fat that la so disagreeable. Finger marks on paint can be easily removed by rubbing with a clean white cloth dipped In kerosene. The wood should afterward be wiped with n dry cloth. If muslin curtains are needed In a hurry, for a'kitchen or bathroom, they can be washed, slightly starched, shak en hard, pulled Into .shape and'bung up without Ironing. Small punctures In hot water bags or rubber gloves may be replaced by ap plying a small patch of tailor's mend ing tissue; moisten with common' chlo roform, lay ou a second Vpateh and moisten again until four or five patch es have been applied. The chloroform dissolves the tissue and 'when It evaporates leaves a firm patch. Match' marks on the kitchen walls which have been caused by carelessly striking matches on them will disap-. pear If rubbed first with "the cut surface of a lemon, then with a clean cloth dipped in whiting. Afterward wash the .surface with warm water aud soap and then ijulckly wipe with a clean cloth wrn-'" ������'U nf piear water. All the Same. "What' is the size of your large men's handkerchiefs?" asks the shopper. "They are just the same size as the small men's handkerchiefs, madam," explains the affable sales person. "The size of the man doesn't make any difference in his handkerchief."���������Judge. The Gentle Art. "I'm going to have one of these artificial figures made to have my new gowns fitted over," states the first lovely damsel. "Going to?" smiles the second. "1 thought you had one made every- time you got a new gown."���������Chicago Post. COAL BUCKETJELL ON HIM , .Couldn't Walk for Two Months. Worker Owes His Restoration to . . Zam-Buk. Warts on the hands is a disfigurement that troubles many ladies Holloway's Corn Cure will remove the blemishes without pain. Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc. Of thc 63,-l,"J3 Chinese admitted into the Transvaal, only 17,000 are still in the country. Henpex���������Say, Maria, is there a foot- rule anywhere about,the house? Mrs. Horrpcx��������� Yes. Y'ou just wipe yours on that mat before you dare enter this room.���������Harper's Weekly. THE BABY. Always a Matter cf Doubt as to Who-v He Resembles, "���������flTSN'T he a darling, Lucy?" said m Mrs. Youngmother, who: was _[ showing her firstborn to a former college churn. "Do you think that he looks like me? I don't, but mamma thinks his eyes are a good deal like mine, and you can see thai his mouth is precisely like his father's, and he has the real Burton nose, and he reminds me a good deal of his Uncle Jack, my brother, you know, in the shape of his cars, and his general expression always makes me think of his Grandpa Burton, while his Grandmother Youuglovc says that he looks precisely as his father looked at his age. nis chin is just like his Grandfather Burton's, and when he laughs ho reminds me of my sister Lou, and tunmraa says that when he cries he puckers up his mouth exactly the way I did nt his ago, but I think that the older ho grows the more he looks like my brother Neil; then again I think he doesn't look like any one but myself. Of course It 13 always a matter of doubt who or what a baby six weeks old will look lll-o."-Pue!-. In a Casual Way. "Doctor," said the grateful reporter, whose slight wound the skillful surgeon had bandaged, "you have rendered me an important service at a time when I needed it. How am 1 ever going to repay you?" "Mention it," responded the skillful surgeon.���������Chicago Tribune. Very Nice of Them. Parke���������Do your children know you when you rig yourself up as Santa Claus?/ Lane���������Oh, yes, but they are very nice about it! They pretend they don't.���������New York Life. Take Notice. Wo publish simple, straight testimonials, not press agents' interviews, from well-known people. From all over America they testify to the merits of "MINARD'S LINIMENT, the best of Household Remedies. MINARD'S LINIMENT CO., LIMITED. A Strenuous Musician. - Mr. Henry J. Wood, the popular conductor of Queen's Hall, London, whose orchestral concerts attract so many, music-lovers at this time of the year, is only 33 years of-age;--and without a doubt is the first of English musical conductors. Curiously enough, until he was 17 Mr. Wood had sft his mind on adding the letters "R.A." to his name. Even to-day he is devoted to the art of sketching, and a fine afternoon sometimes finds him rushing off to the country to indulge in his hobby. Mr. Wood, however, has little time' for sketching nowadays. His motto is "Rehearse! rehearse! rehearso!" and, with small intervals for meals, he oftiu conducts at Queen's Hall from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. But he has always been known as a hard worker, and when at 19 he joined the Rousby Opera Co. as conductor -he frequently worked twelve hours a day for two guineas a week. What is more, he kept up this laborious life for four years. "The unlucky in love are said to be luckv at cards." "What good does it do 'em? They can't get out nights to play."���������Louisville Courier-Journal- The man who invented the gas meter has just died. He takes his place as coming the nearest to date to solving the problem of perpetual motion. ���������Hartford Courant. Real Thing. Dolly���������Do you approve of this present fashion of having no hips? Jack.���������Sure. A poor fellow Isn't so likely to get stuck on a girl's shape.��������� Puck. 8ervant Girl Problem Explained. Wo couldn't keep Joslo Or Bertha or Itoslo: Wo didn't null Mabel or Nell. Tho problem that vexed ua So mudly 'perplexed us We sought n n apartment hotel. Tho problem was ended Tho nlclit wo nt tended Tho setmon'fl succohs on Broadway, Ono look nt tho chorus Of ladles hoforo us Explained whoro tho trouble all lay. For kitchen bred Josle And Nellie and Roslo Do Btuiitu In it pony ballot, Whllo Uortlia nr.d Mabel, Who waited on tablo, Are j-lv-al skirl dineor-i today. The Garden Variety. "One's clothing may be luxurious, my dear, but never luxuriant." "How about hats?" ���������Browning's Magazine. Friends. Trouble Is a friend of mine- When it came with me to stay Such a host of kindly friends Trouble brought to mako amends That they crowded It away. Trouble Is a friend of mine. And another friend Is pain��������� Pain, almost forgotten now, Brought thc gentle, thrilling touch Of the hands I love so niivh, Tenderly to Boot lie my brow- Yes, a friend of ml-ie Is pain. Yet I havo a better friend��������� 'Twos a better let mo know, More than kindness or caress, What exhati.stluss tenderness From a heart could overflow- Sorrow Is my dourest friend. ���������Kansas i.'lty Times. Put His Head In It. Mr. Monk���������Whnt happened? Mr. Rhino-Why, just as George Gt raffo tried to kiss Helen Hippo sb������ opened her mouth.���������Puck. Kind Hoarted We, Wo should sharo our neighbors' troubles Wo should laugh with all tho gay, Lighting ono another's burdens, So tho good old precepts say. And somotlmcs we'd gladly do It. Willingly wo'd share the curso Of tho sad old millionaires who Bear tho too, loo hoavy pursol .' ���������New York Telegram. Eradication of Brome Grass. Brome grass has proven a blessing to the prairie section of Western Canada because of its adaptability to the soil and climate. It is a persistent grower, in fact too persistent in some places, and its eradication has become more or less of a problem. It has ���������proved itself to be exceedingly valuable as a permanent pasture grass especially in dry localities, but the strong and extensive root system ���������penetrating five feet into the soil and extending laterally by root stocks, as does perennial sow thistle��������� which gives it its drouth-resisting qualities, make it a difficult grass to eradicate. At the Lacombc Experimental farm in North Alberta the superintendent is trying different depths and times of ploughing and various methods of cultivation with a, view to locating its most vulnerable point. The grass is so valuable���������being superior to timothy in every way hut this one���������that if a sure means of killing it when required can be found'it will become a prime favorite with stocking growing farmers: Queen Alexandra's Publisher. Lord Burnham, the proprietor of The Daily Telegraph, which paper undertook the publication of Queen Alexandra's Christmas Gift Book, *3 not only one of the most capable journalists in England, but also the originator of those popular public subscriptions which have been a notable feature of The Telegraph. His lordship, in fact, has always been a leader in every good work connected with the press. He has a thorough practical knowledge of the printing trade' and journalism. His father, the late Joseph Moses Levy, who founded The Telegraph, placed his son as an apprentice to the printing business. In due time young Levy became dramatic critic of the paper, and ultimately principal proprietor, having meanwhile assumed the name of Lawson. He has frequently entertained tho King at Hall .Barn, where Edmund Burke, the statesman, spent many happy days. .-���������'.' There are 00,000 motor cars and au- to-cyclcs in Great Britain at the present time. _ ���������*��������� **'A MOTHER'S AID IN THE (? NURSERY. ������ Every mother should be able, j* ^ to treat the minor'ailments of -������ * fier little ones. Prompt action 3a J| may prevent serious illness- j* 2 perhaps save a child's life. A it> ���������j simple- remedy always at hand *_ S is therefore an absojute neces- jj 2 sity and there is nothing else {��������� ���������. so good ia3 Baby's Own Tablets. {��������� Jj .These Tablets promptly cure all fj ������i stomach and bowel troubles, ���������j break up colds, cure simple fev- 5| ers, expel worms, and make SJ teething easy. Good for the $��������� new born baby oi the well |J grown child, and guaranteed to i������ contain no" opiate. ' Mrs. L. W. S������ Smith, St. Giles, Que., says:��������� g "I have used Baby's Own Tab- It let's for constipation and other {��������� ills of childhood and find them |J the best medicine I have ever j* given rny little ones'" Sold by jj medicine dealers or by mail at i������ x.25 cents a box from The Dr i* Williams' Medicine Co,, Brock {��������� ville. Out. S Mr. Daniel Goddard, of Bay Street, Sault Ste.- Marie, Ont.,, says:���������"While employed superintending-the unload-, ,ing of a coal vessel at Cohen's Coal' Dock, a heavy coal bucket in descending into the vessel to 'be re-filled suddenly overturned,. grazing my left leg ancl scraping the flesh off to' the bone. I was compelled to discontinue work' and go ,home for treatment, where I was confined for about'two months." ��������� "When able to'get out again I- got cold in the wound,.., inflammation started, the wound opened again, and- for-another month. I was'unable-"-to move-'about. I tried all manner.-of things'to get ease and get the wound to heal up,- but nothing seemed able io do it. Not' only did everything I tried seem- useless so far as healing went, but I-could vget no.ease from the' aching arid, the burning pains. At times I was just about crazy with the intense throbbing.pains," and' night .-iftcr night got no sleep whatever". "Not until my wife began applying Zam-Buk did, I find relief. When applied to tho injured member this balm quickly soothed the pain, .and as we continued using it each day brought an improvement. The throbbing pains were soon banished, the inflammation'and soreness relieved, and the wound thoroughly cleansed of all poisonous and unhealthy' matter. "Healing then began, and in a wonderfully short .time���������considering the seriousness of thex wound���������Zam-Buk effected a complete and lasting cure. I have since had no trouble with the limb at all, and-it is as sound and strong as 'before the injury." ��������� Zam-Buk is a sure cure, for cuts, lacerations, burns, eczema, ringworm, cold-sores, chapped , hands, poisoned wounds, festering,sores, bad leg, and "all skin injuries and diseases. It is also a cure for piles. Druggists and stores everywhere sell at 50c. a box, or post free from Zam-Buk Co., Toronto, on receipt of price. You are warned against harmful imitations sometimes represented as "just as good and cheaper.". The Surprised Highwayman. A" highwayman stepped out behind, a fashionable young, woman * and hit her a tremendous blow across the side of the head with a piece of gas pipe,' expecting to "send her to the ground unconscious and rob her of her valuables. Imagine his surprise when instead of a dull thud, a muffled scream and a fall to the .pavement,' the weapon' bounded back as though it had struck a large piece of rubber and the victim of the attack turned about angrily with "Beast! what do you mean by trying to disarrange my hair I" Foolishness. "Why do men fool with whiskey?" asks the Atchison Globe. The only answer we can think of is, "Because the fools are not all dead yet." Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. There is no medicine on the market that can compare with Bickle's Anti- Consumptive Syrup in expelling from the system the irritating germs' that colds engender in the air passages. It is suicide to neglect your cold. Try the cheap experiment of ridding yourself of it by means of Bickle's Syrup which is a simple remedy, easily taken, and once, used it will always be prized as a sovereign remedy. "Mother," said .five-year-old Jack, 'how much older than you is father?"- "Just thirteen years," replied the unsuspecting parent. - "Well,* mother," seriously continued the child, "the next time you marry don't marry a man thirteen years older than you; don't you know it is bad luck?"���������Delineator. Two men met on the street. They hadn't seen each other for months- One of them had a wife who occasionally figured in the society columns. After they had exchanged views on things in general, the other man asked him���������"Is your wife entertaining this winter?" "Not very," said he. Repeat it:���������"Shiloh's Cure will always cure my coughs and colds." ��������� No unmarried woman over 45 is fit to teach, says a writer. Fie! No unmarried woman is that old.���������Cleve- j land Leader. New York City leads in the number of her newspapers and periodicals, for ihe publishes one-hundredth part of the entire output of thc earth. The total population of the British . Empire is over 400,000,000. \ JWE *C������ ,G P "> TIT Hands and Pockets. He was an English tourist, and when the train stopped at a highland station he regarded the lounging natives with a curious interest. Beckoning one of them to him, he said: "Good gracious, Donald���������I suppose your name is Donald or Macdonald ���������you don't tell me that the misfortune of unemployment has reached so far north?" "Och, no," said Donald. "It's no' so bad as that whatever." , "Well, hut," said the investigator, "why is it I see a number of stalwart young men like you standing about with their hands in their pockets?" "Oh," replied Donald, "it's perhaps because we have na been far enough south to learn to put them In other people's pockets." A Deep Hole. A hole has been bored in Silesia to a depth of 7.000. feet. Whether yon consider Dependable Quality, Ease and Comfort, Dressy Appearance, or Reasonable Price, Eimira Felt Shoes and Slippers meet each and every requirement. Insist on the dealer showing you the "Eimira" Trademark when purchasing felt footwear. : Sold by Dealers Throughout the West 43 ft ALWAYS, EVERYWHERE IN CANADA, ASK FOR " ' 'J, Her Motto. "I think It Is high time," said Mrs. Oldcastle, "for the people of this country to tako a firm stand against vivisection." "So do I," replied her hostess. "No north, no south, Is my motto."���������Chicago Record-nerald. 726. Tho Barrier. First Tramp���������You won't get nothing decent there: theni people Is vcgctn. rlanw. Second Tramp���������Is that right'- First Tramp-Ypj*. and they've got a dog wot ain't.���������Philadelphia Inquirer. Eddy's Matches have hailed from Hull since 1851���������and years of Constant Betterment have rosulted In Eddy's reaching a Height of Perfection attained by No Others. Sold and used everywhere in Canada. these 57 Matchos forWeokly Pries Lists. JOHN HA LI. AM ___E_0 Shipments Sollcltod. TORONTO, ONT. ������| J.I. ( THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA. t , j ,{,1 ��������� if1 ��������� v_i . . -'' ,'' ' "c^ The Danger . of Piles AND THE CERTAINTY WITH WHICH THIS OBSTINATE DIS- EASE 'IS CURED BY FIRST ONTARIO CURLERS. It is a mistake to look on piles or , hemorrhoids as merely an annoyance, for they are serious and dangerous as well,' and 'in their chronic or aggravated form bring keen distress and the ruination of health. ? The cause of piles is very'different in different cases, but there is always ��������� relief .and with regular treatment thorough cure in > the use of Dr. Chase's Ointment. There is nothing severe or disagree- ��������� able about this treatment, for by its soothing influence it helps almost as soon as applied. You feel, the benefit, and know "for -a certainty that it is doing you good. On the circular which goes with every box of Dr. Chase's Ointment are give'n full instructions as to the use of the ointment for itching, bleeding and protruding piles, ancl itching skin diseases- If you follow directions we guarantee satisfaction as a treatment for eveiy form of piles. Mr. D.'Mac Vicar, Caledonia Mines, N.S., writes :���������"For years I was troubled with bleeding, protruding-piles and could not obta'n a cure. I would be laid off work for weeks. Two boxes of Dr. Chase's Ointment completely cured me." 'Mr. J. Mawer, Roden, Man.,writes: ���������"I "had itching piles for five years and the doctor told me there was no cure for me and that I would have to undergo an operation. Dr. Chase's ���������' Ointment completely cured me in one week.'As this was six months ago and there -has been no return' of the old trouble, I believe1 tnat the cure is a ..'permanent one." Dr. Chase's Ointment has an un- . paralleled .record of cures; 60c a box at all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Toronto. Fergus Club Played With Wooden Blocks In the Thirties. The Fergus Curling Club 13 the oldest club in Onjario. This year sees the seventy-fifth anniversary of the club's establishment. ' The original members of the Fergus club in the thirties were a "byordin- ar'" set 0' Scotchmen,1 and in the thirties and well into the forties the club played tho game with blocks of wood, turned out in shape similar to the stones now used. Some of these blocks still exist and can be seen by visiting curlers. . The early curlers played on a part of the Grand River called the "Washing Green," the place where the early settlers used to wash their sheep" in the ranid current below the old mill dam. Here the curlers made the rocks ring with "their roar and rattle. The Reavers' Dam, at tho far end of Perry's meadow, was another favorite, cosey spot, where the curlers went for "a day o't" when the ice was bad on the river or the wind "too nippy," whistling "between the towering rocks at the "Washing Green " But that is all past and gone. The Fergus "brothers 0' the broom" now play the game in a fine modern covered rink. The following lines are from a song composed by one of the old Fergus curlers and which used to be roared and ranted on festal occasions when the club met around tho "Beef and Greens," lang syne. "Hurray for the curlin' I Here's tae the curlin'! Hip, hip, hurray! for the game the stanes. The roar and the ring o't, The dunt and the ding o't, The flash ancl the fling o't, The sweep and the swing o't, . The glint ancl the gleam o't, -The scurry and scream o't, The whirl! and thc birl! and dirl! 0' the stanes." WHAT ANIMALS COST. Wl' the SO HE DIDN'T KILL IT. Dr. Had Them in Mind. , ' She (after elopement)���������I received a -i'. letter from papa today. He���������Well? She���������He. writes that he had just , finished making his will. He���������Did he remember us? She���������Yes, indee'd. He has left all his monev to ah asylum for hopeless idiots���������Tit-Bits. It Makes New Friends Every Day. ���������Not a day goes by that Dr.Thomas' Eclectric Oil doe3 not widen the "circle of its friends. Orders for it come from the most unlikely places in the west and far north for" its fame has'travelled far . It desorves this attention, for no oil has done so much for humanity. Its moderate cost makes it easy to get. ��������� A special bird's-eye map of France is being prepared for air navigators, and an airship compass is being sought. The ordinary compass" is made useless by the effect on it of the airship motor. HOW'S THIS?- We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo.O 'We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe, him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system Testimonials sent free. Price % 75<* per bottle. Sold-*by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for con etipation. Samson's Wildcat Proved to Be Rather "a Fantasy. Dr. Samson was born' on a farm. He is fond of farm . yarns. - One which he sometimes tells is rather of the Poe order. One rainy fall day, when a boy on the old home, east of Blenheim, he had got through greas- 'ing his boots; it was still raining���������a grey ceaseless downDour that shut out of view most of the rather narrow landscape except- a ��������� second-growth bush behind the swamp. This patch of woods was a famous place for gunners. In those days it was the ambition of every healthy farm boy to shoot a wild cat. James had that ambition. This rainy fall day he was dreaming about it as.he sat by the stove and watched the window. As he thought over the thrills of wild- oatting he became suddenly aware that an animal was moving with remarkable celerity over the tops of the second-growth trees.' The more.' he looked the more James felt sure it. must be a wild cat. No other beast could have walked on trees with such agility. He went to the shed for the gun, yanked his cap from the rack over the stove and went'to the window to take a last "look so that he might locate that lynx. When he got there he discovered that tho wild cat was "travelling "on" the tops of "the swamp-trees���������as a house-fly on window-pane! the "Are you aware," said the philologist, "that some of these campaign orators split their infinitives?" "Let 'em alone," answered Senator Sorghum; "We'll be lucky if they don't split the party."���������Washington Star. Repeat it:���������" Shiloh's Oure will always cure my coughs and colds." There are over 60.000 motor cycles at present in use in Britain, and the number is increasing rapidly. Honduras Means Death. Mr. Gordon Waldron, of -Toronto, who represents Toronto capitalists in large rubber arid banana plantations in Central America, has been in that city recently, and on being interviewed by a reporter on the proposal that tho Hindus now in British Columbia should be sent to British Honduras, says: "They would not live there. They would die. These poor fellows, if they cannot be returned whence they came, for which I can see no reason, ought to be left where they are. ' It would. seem that they are satisfied" with British Columbia. They are docile and industrious and pleasing to look upon, if I may say so,.and perhaps racially akin to us. "It might brutalize us more, hut it would be more humane to butcher half of them where they are and give the rest free transport to the tropics than to send them to Central Ameri- ca. Giraffes and Hippopotami Bring the Highest Prices. Wild animals from the Gizeh Zoological Gardens in Egypt,- delivered during the years 1896-1908 at London, Marseilles, Hamburg, and Rotterdam, realized the following prices. The "king of beasts," the lion, sold comparatively cheap, mainly because the cost of feeding made buyers shy of the investment. Fine wild-born lions Realized irom ������75 to ������100. Menagerie-born animals cost on an average ������10. A lioness has even sold for under ������4; while, on the other hand, ������240 to ������300 is not too big a price to ask for an exceptionally fine specimen of lion. Pumas ��������� occusionally described as lions���������are not in such demand;* ������5 will often buy one; fair average specimens fetch ������15, ������20, and .a few ������30. The tiger is, however, a high-priced animal; ������100 is the lowest figure at which he sells, with ������80 for a tigress. A specialty of value is the European lynx. A young one cannot be had for less than ������20, and the full-grown animal is worth from ������25 to ������35. Wolves are a weak market; ������2 isJ their average per head, ������1 the minimum and ������5 the top price. Catch u fox quite young, and the cub may realize ������110s., or only just 5s.; full grown, its value is ������2. Polar bears always maintain their price. Very rarely does a specimen change hands at les3 than ������30; but other kinds of bear conic cheaper. A sea-lion costs ������20. The' beuver is good for ������20, a pi ice due to the animal's destruction for bounty iu the Rhone Valley. Hippopotami have no quotation in some markets.1 Wnen in supply this prehistoric-looking beast is worth from ������600 to ������750. Elephants are much more widely dealt in. A young one may be purchased for from ������200 to ������250. But most considered of wild animals is - the giraffe. Previous to 1898 it was impossible to. buy one for less than ������1,000; in 1903-4 the price had shrunk to ������250, which did not repay the cost of importation. The actual market value of a young' giraffe in good condition may now be quoted at anywhere from ������500 to ������600. . As to the monkey market, the chimpanzee varies a good deal in price, a young one "in condition fetching ������50 to ������70. Other big apes are more expensive, although at. times_ there goes begging a good chance, as in the Suez market, where a young orang-outang, almost full grown, was on offer at ������8 recently���������a real bargain. - Barbary apes, of the kind which still inhabit Gibraltar Rock, sell at ������3 to ������8. Bombay and Southwest China monkeys are not held of much account; ������1 will buy one. Baboons cost more���������generally from ������2 to ������20, according to the specimen'.���������Tit-Bits. LA GRIPPE'S VICTIMS Left Weak, Miserable and a Prey to Disease-in Many Forms. La Grippe starts with a sneeze���������- and ends with a complication of troubles. It lays'the strong man on his back; it tortures him with fevers and chills, headaches and backaches. It leaves him a prey to pneumonia, bronchitis, consumption) and other deadly diseases. You 'can avoid La Grippe entirely by keeping your blood rich ancl red by the occasional use of 'Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. If you have not done this, and the disease lays you low, you can banish all its evil after effects with this same great blood- building, nerve restoring medicine. Heie is proof of the wonderful power of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills over disease. Mr. P. E. Paulin, Collector of Customs at Caraquet, N.B., says:���������"In the winter of 1907 I had a very severe attack of la grippe, which broke me down entirely. I had to take to bed for several weeks. During that time I employed a doctor, but without benefit, in fact I seemed to be getting worse and worse. I did not sleep; suffered from night sweats, and had no appetite. I was really a physical wreck. On a former occasion I had used Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for general debility, with great benefit so I decided to again try them. I sent for half a dozen boxes and began to use them at once. When taking the second box I began to feel quite a change in my condition. I was able to walk about the house and my appetite was improving. From that on, I gained strength every day, and before the six boxes were done I was able to return to the office and attend to my work. Now I enjoy the best of health, and although 63 years old, am feeling quite young. I think Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a splendid medicine foi troubles of this kind." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a blood-making, nerve-restoring tonic. In this "way they cure anaemia, indigestion, rheumatism, neuralgia, St. Vitus dance, and partial paralysis. They are the best medicine in the world for the ailments of girlhood and womanhood. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for ?2.50 from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. THE S0APLESS AGE. Nor THElr ROPED HIM !N. Minard's-tTiniment Cures Diphtheria Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Denmark have given the municipal franchise to women. A safe and sure medicine for a child troubled with worms is Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator. "What a funny looking camel," Baid Bessie at the zoo. "He hasn't any hair on him." "No," laughed Brother Bobby. "I guess he lost that going through the eye of the needle."���������Chicago News. "Do you believe that the world owes us all a living?" "Yes, but the smarter fellows are collecting the debt for us on an 80 per cent, commission." ��������� Boston Tran script. en iou Take Cold One way is to pay no attention to it; at least not until it develops into pneumonia, or bronchitis, or pleurisy. Another way is to ask your doctor about Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. If lie says, " Thc best thing for colds," then take it. Do as he says, anyway. A Self-Confident Amateur. Mr. Gershon S. Mayes of St. John, George S. McAvity's associate in dredging operations, is also an amateur musician���������no, a singer. Professionally ho builds wharves and deepens channels; as a friend he drops into oratorio and heroic ballads. He used to be thc bete noire of an impressario of his own town, who has latterly managed some of the greatest concert stars in America. "What do you think Mayes wants me to do now?" queried this persecuted one of a friend one day. "There's only one possible" desire he could have at the moment," was the reply. (The local concert manager had just then engaged a celebrated baritone.) "He wants you to include on your pro- pram that great duet for two basses, 'The Lord is a Man of War,' in which he will take the second part," and this happened to have been tho purport of Mayes*-request. Mineral Output Grows. Reference has many times during the past year been made to the great increase in the movements of minerals. Neither 3tress nor storm appears able to chock their progress. In 1900 the mineral production amounted to $79,057,308, in thc following year it rose to $86,183,477, this year it is safe to say the hundred million mark will be very nearly reached..",, A noteworthy occurrence is tho opening up of the mint at Ottawa. This Is another step towards complete re- litTn'ce upon ourselves. England's Oldest Paintings. A portrait of Chnucor on a panel of date 1380 and also one of Henry TV. of England painted in 1405 are sard to bo the oldost paintings known In England. Youngest Rear-Admiral. Captain David Beatty, who 'has been appointed aide-de-camp to thc King, is- a senior officer of the navy, and will shortly be due for promotion. He will then be the youngest rear-admiral the fleet has had for many years, for he will not celebrate his 38th birthday until Jan. 17 next. His rapid advance has been due to particularly distinguished, war service. It was in Egypt twelve years ago that he .was suddenly called upon to take command of the gunboat flotilla," and showed great skill and courage against the enemy, winning the D.S.O. During the Boxer troubles he commanded the BarfleriT, and led a splendid attack with a couple of hundred bluejackets against two Chinese guns, which were causing u great deal of trouble. It was a fruitless but daring effort, during which he was twice wounded. He was made a captain when only twenty-nine years of age. HER MISTAKE. The Way It Was Explained to Her by the Clumsy Man. Owing "to the fact that tire car lurch- id suddenly as he was passing along he aisle Bronson was deprived of lis balance, with the result that in ittempting to save himself from filling he clutched one of the shoulders if a handsome woman who had suc- :eeded in getting a seat. Moreover, ie knocked her beautiful hat awry md with great difficulty avoided step- ilng on her toes. As he succeeded ia ���������(���������covering his equilibrium the lady -turned toward him and said: "You contemptible pup! I wish yon ;o understand that I am not a lamppost or a piece of furniture to be ���������lung to for support: You ought to ride in a cattle train. You have no right to crowd In where you can tear )thcr people to pieces with your big, iwkward hands. You pitiful clown! Tou ought to be thrown out into the itreet You are not fit to be allowed ;o go where you are likely to lnter- !ere with the.comfort of refined people. You unmannerly bumpkin! You leserve to be"��������� "Excuse me, madam," Bronson man* iged to say, "you have made a mis- :ake." " "A mistake!" the lady demanded, tar .eyes flashing with wrath. "What lo you mean?" ...... "I am not your husband." And Thereby the Business Man Was Taught a Lesson. The business man who owns two dogs made a sad mistake a few days ago. Every Sunday he takes tbe dogs for a walk, and for fear that they may go astray "he fastens them together with a stout rope. The little dog, he feels assured, will not lose the big dog, and he is quite.-posilive that the big dog will not lose the little one. Of course if the big dog takes It Into his massive head that he wants to go In a' certain direction he is pretty apl to have his way. Luckily he is an easily persuaded animal, and tlie little dog by the exercise of some diplomacj gets fully as.much fun out of these promenades as the big fellow. Well, all throe of the friends were out walking Sunday, the two dogs and the master, and the dogs were some distance ahead. The snow wns drift- ed'deep "in places, arid * the'"master de' termincd to turn and go back. He whistled for the dogs. The big dog whirled around. He saw his master had stopped and instantly came full tilt toward him.- The small dog was taken by surprise and for a few moments could not regain his footing. When he did ho put In some trill running. They came down on the master at a stiff gallop. As they approached their speed increased, the little dog at the end of the rope1 running for dear life. Just as thoy reached the master they separated, the little dog going around liim to the right aud the big dog to the left, che six feet of stout rope held taut between them. - When the master gathered himself out of the snowdrift and blew the flakes from-his mouth and dug them from liis cars and rescued his hat and brushed off a 111 tie-of the more sticky mass, he started for home with one shivering hand grasping the rope, the dogs demurely trotting along on either side. Hereafter ho will either shorten the ropp or else get behind a conTenlent tree the next time he whlstles.-Cleve- land Plain Perrler. Health-With Neither Sanitation Rational Medicine. Soap was unknown to the classical age both in Greece and Rome, says The New York-Medical-Journal. Pliny mentions a compound which he calls "sapo," made by the Gauls and Germans, and the ingredients that entered into it. He also informs us that it was more used by the men among the latter than by the women. It appears, however, to have been a -pomade for the hair rather than a soap. Whether the term is Celtic or Teutonic we do not positively know, probably the 'latter. That the word was later borrowed by the Greeks from the Romans appears certain from the name "sapon," still in common use among them. The name eventually was adopted by most of the people of Europe, the Turks calling this article so much in demand in our day "sa- bun" and the Finns "saippio." In its stead the ancient Greeks used flesh scrapers. These were so highly esteemed that they were sometimes made of gold and given as prizes in athletic contests. Herein we see how men's ideas of the fitness of things change with the people and the age. Nowadays one would hardly commend himself to a friend or an acquaintance by the gift of a cake of soap or a comb. This can, however, not be said of Athens. The mortality does not seem to have been much greater than it is in our own day. Five hundred years before Christ the average of human life was reckoned at about thirty- three years. We are often astonished at the enormous population assigned to some countries. There were few large cities in Ihe modern sense of the term. As the houses were seldom more than two stories in height, the population cannot have -been very dense. In Athens the reputable women spent most of their time in the open air. What effect occasional over- j crowding produced may be seen from the description of the terrible plague in Athens near the end of the fifth century B.C., as given by Thucydides, when the surrounding population was driven into .the capital by the exigencies of war.. As the countries of which we know most were grouped around the Mediterranean sea, where the climate is mild, outdoor life occasioned no discomfort, to say nothing of habit. In some parts of Italy whole families still live in caves. In Spanish cities the tourist-who'is out late at night is surprised to find the streets littered with persons lying asleep. To' the natives it is the most natural thing in the world. The population of China is evidence that filth is not incompatible with an exceptionally large number of inhabitants to the square mile, notwithstanding the prevalence of infanticide. The writers who have made the most careful study of the economic condition of France have reached the conclusion that the population of the country at the clo"se of the middle ages was as great as it is now. It was, -however, fearfully cut down by the Hundred Years' war and the plague. - Yet during all this period there was no rational practice of medicine. Until quite recently most of the villages of continental Europe were without a, resident physician. Such is still the case in many parts of the world that are reckoned civilz- ed. ,. , While nobody doubts that medical 'practice "fills an important" want in modern civilization, there, is "no question that it is largely due to civilization that the want exists. HOLDING THE CELLO. An Anecdote of Duport and the Emperor Napoleon. Napoleon, In a way, was fond of music. It Is admitted that the, musical tastes of "the. Corsican ogre" were not elevated. Cut for all that he loved singing so much that many a time after a couccrt' he -ordered the vocalists to come to. the palace and sing before him and the Empress Josephine. A curious'1 anecdote is told of his brusque manner of dealing with artists. One night at a concert at tho Tuileries, while Dnport, the famous violoncellist, was performing a solo, the emperor suddenly entered. HIs majesty nodded his head approvingly and when the piece was finished said to Duport: "How the deuce do you manage to keep that instrument so motionless?" And, taking up the cello, he tried to jam It between his spurred boots. Foor Duport nearly fainted when he saw his treasure treated like a war horse. For several minutes he looked on, trembling from head to foot. At last, however, he darted forward and called out "Sire!" in such pathetic tones that the emperor handed him back the instrument. Duport thereupon showed how the instrument was held, but every time his Imperial master extended his hand to attempt to do it himself Duport threw himself back In alarm till finally Josephine whispered something to her husband, who burst out laughing and put an end to the cello lesson. SHETLAND PONIES. ran man cue OF RHEUMATISM Remarkable Case of Cure After' Specialists Failed. o Winnipeg, Man.���������'Al prominenC resident of this City, who for personal reasons does not wish im name mentioned publicly, but who permits us to show. Lis letter to interested enquirers, writes to say that ho was suddenly taken' with excruciating pains in the back and , Bide, which wero pronounced by hia physicians as Rheumatism. Hot applications wero at once resorted to, the usual medicines administered, supplemented by electrical treatment, but all" to no purpose. In his desperation he took Gin Pills on hi3 own account, and in a few hours -after taking the first] Pill the pains commenced to - subside, lie continued taking them and in 48> hours lie had not an ache or a pain left. Gin Pills are > sold at 50c a box���������a for $2.50. Send to us if your dealer does not handle them. Sample box free if you mention this paper. Dept. N.TJ., National Drug & Chemical Co., Limited, Toronto. lift THE CLERMONT. First Wo pablUh our formulae We banlih aloohol I from our mydlolim Wt uri������ 70a to ooiMiiHjror- doctor vers "When the bowels ������re consiipntcd, poisonous substances ire absorbed Into the blood instead of being daily removed from Ihe body as nature intended. Knowing thta danger, doctors always Inquire about the condition of the bowels. Ayer's Pills. **~KU������ QJ tk* J. O. AjU a������H IiOW������U, UUmJ���������- How to Make a Cup of Cocoa. Take a tablcspoonful of cocou and put It In n tin cup. Add ono teaspoon- ful of granulated sugar and ono table- spoonful of boiling water. Mix well, eo that there will uot be any lumps of cocoa. Tour a llttlo less than one- half pint of milk Into a saucepan und cook It, stirring all tho time, until it Is ecaldcd-thnt Is, until a film forms on it and It begins to bubble a llttlo. Stir the cocoa mixture Into this aud cook until It bolls up.���������De- llncator. Passage by Steamboat From New York to Albany. In August, lSOS-the exact day is a matter of dispute���������the steamboat Clermont mad*1 the first passage by steam from New York to Albany. The dls* ranee, somewhat less than 1C0 miles, was covered In thirty-two hours, a record hailed as a triumph in speed, for previously the passage between the two cities averaged four days. "Robert Fulton had experimented with steam several years, but tho Clermont'wns the first boat he constructed *������n a largo scale. As ho could not get the engine ho wanted In this country lie ordered ono from England.. The Clermout was so reconstructed In the following winter that It gave more ;ommodlous accommodations to travelers, ancl tho year 1808, which was the first year of regular travel by steamboat, Fulton made It a point to 3tart his boat precisely on scheduled lime. Curiously enough, a portion of tho public complained of this. It was not until well along In tho summer that travelers got accustomed to It Previously boats had been held for two hours at tho request of pnssen- c-ors who weren't ready. Fulton's perseverance won public approval before, tho season cloned,���������Auucondu Standard, ! "After taking three bottles of your wonderful medicine, our baby was entirely well and needed no more medicine. At sixteen months of age she weighed thirty pounds. She had cried eight months, night and day, and nothing did her good until we tried ScotfsEmulsion."-MRS. E. C. SMITH, Villa Rica, Ga. probably saved this child's life. Four doctors had been tried. Scott's Emulsion seemed ',0 be just the thing needed, and it is just the thing needed by thousands of other children. It's so easily digestecli so pure and haimless, yet most powerful in building up che most delicate child or adult. But I e sure to get Scott'-* Emuls-on, there are so many worthless and harrnful imitations. A1A DRUGGISTS A fall oopr ot Mm., flmllh'i letter ������nd many othete of a olmllrtr nature, toKOther with iomi������of our Titluitbli lltoratuta regarding children, nlll bo ������e������f noun r������. colpt ot /our tkldrew, mentioning thle paper. iCOTT * BOWNE US Wall'tuton St. W. Toronto Kipling's First Effort. The London M. A. P. believes it has discovered the first poem that Rud- yard Kipling ever wrote, the manuscript of which is now in possession of a schoolfellow of the author. It is entitled "The Jampot" and ia in a Browningesque vein. , The Jampot���������tender thought^��������� I grabbed it; so did you. "What wonder, while we fought Together, that it flew In shivers," you retort. You should have loosed your hold One moment; checked your fist, But as it was���������too bold, You grappled���������and you missed, (More curtly, you were sold.) "But neither of us shared The dainty"���������that's your plea? I answer . . . "Let me see How have your trousers fared?" - Active as Terriers, Sure Footed ������������ Mules, Patient as Donkeys. Shetlands are "foaled in the fields, live iu the fields and die in the fields." They have a rooted dislike for indoor- life and thrive best when allowed to feed naturally ou green grass, with perhaps hay in winter. Until two years old nature' provides a soft, woollike covering. Afterward the mature coat of hair appears, to be shed each spring, when the ponies appear sleek and handsome. Full grown, they are immensely strong, with wide quarters, powerful legs and a great width and depth over the heart and lungs. Aud, as Bengie wrote In 1S70 in his "Tour Iu Shetland:" "The Shetland pony is the most lovable of animals in the wide creation. They are sprightly and active as terriers, sure footed as mules and patient as donkeys. . The horse is accredited as the noblest of the lower animals, and the Shetland pony stands at the head of this noble race as the most Intelligent and faithful of them all." * The great value of the Shetland to the coal miners lies "in its ability to work in the low galleries in thin seamed pits, where other ponies could not travel. Their strength does not correspond with their diminutive proportions, and they will travel thirty miles a day in the seams, drawing from . twelve to fourteen hundredweight. Underground their lot is hard, but use becomes second nature, and they are treated, if roughly, not unkindly. A Free Advertisement. A French woman on her way to this country met on the steamer the principal of a well known school of languages. After she reached Philadelphia she took some lessons at the school, stating that she meant to write a book of her impressions in America, and intimated that she should speak at length of tho institution and its master. Thinking of the free advertisement that was to be his, the professor redoubled his affability. When the book appeared, he read with mixed feelings: "On the steamer I met Monsieur X, who was seasick in seven languages." That was all.- - " The Pill That "Brings Relief.��������� When, after .one has partaken of a meal he is oppressed by feelings of fulness and pains in the stomach he suffers from dyspepsia, which will persist if it be not dealt with. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills are the very best medicine that can be taken to bring relief. These pills are specially compounded to deal with dyspepsia, ancl their sterling qualities irl this respect can be vouched for by legions of users. Only,seven metals were known in the days of Columbus. There are now 51 in use. Repeat it:���������"Shiloh's Cure will always cure my coughs and colds.** New York City has grown more in' the use of telephones during the last three years than London and Pari3 combined. Minard's Liniment cures Garget in Cows. Telegraphy In China. The first telegraph line was opened in China in 1872,--'and there are now about 15,000 miles of line, the whole under imperial control. The Chinese language being syllabic and not alphabetic, many may wonder how a message is transmitted. The method is= simple, but ingenious. There are as many characters as words in the Chinese language, and the messages are sent in number cipher. When the numbers arc received at the other end a double ended type is used with numbers at one end and characters nt.the reverse. A message is set up by" the numbers and then printed from the reverse end, which shows the characters.���������London Globe. ������������������ Cleared His Doubts. A well known English gentleman engaged a tall and powerful hrgl> lander to act as gamekeeper on his estate. Having been a considerable time at his post and not having caught any poachers, the gentleman suspected his gamekeeper of carelessness. So one dark night he disguised himself and went out with a gun to poach cm his own ground. He had fired only one or two shots when he was suddenly pounced upon from behind and his gun wrenched away. Then kicks and blows were showered upon him until ho fell down half insensible. The hSghlauder then walked away quietly, and when the gentleman recovered sufficiently he crawled home and took to his bed for two weeks. He has now no doubts as to whether the man can perform his duty or not. St. Patrick was driven the snakes* out of Ireland. If you take my advice, young men," he said to the reporters, "you won't write this up���������you'll get the reputation of being nature fakers.*' But the good man's admonition was wasted. They rushed the story into print.���������Chicago Tribune. "What's thc matter over there?" "The sword swallower is being choked by a iishbone."���������Puck. A NAUTICAL HAMLET. Says the steward to the cook, says he, ���������Til tell you wot It Is��������� This world Is but a walo o' tears. And If It warn't for Liz I'd just jump oft Into the sea And end the ugly biz." Says the cook, "Before yer go," sayi he, "Just calkerlato a heap. Things might he wurz where you'd -fa, So think before ycr leap. I ain't by this denying that Tne ocean's mighty deep." Bays the steward, "That's quite true," says he. "When everything Is said My plans 'u'd surely be upsot And knocked upon the head If arter klllln' of myself I'd find I wasn't dead!" ���������Contury Magazine The Chinaman and His Dragon. If a Chinaman wishes for happiness and peace in this world and the neit he feels obliged to consult his majesty the dragon as to where his house shall be built and his grave be made. Through the earth, so say the Chinese, flow two currents ���������the dragon and the tiger. "Now, for a man to have good fortune In life or, as he would; say in "pigeon English,^ to "catchee chance," his house must be put In a certain position in reference to these currents. If he is to rest quietly in his grave, that also must bo correctly placed. So called "wise men" make a business of choosing favorable sites for homes and graves,- professing by means of a wand and incantations and other kinds of tomfoolery to be able to detect the presence of the dragon and the tiger and to tell in what direction they flow. WE WANT A REPRESENTATIVE In some districts to handle our line of Metallic Building Material, which includes: "Eastlake" Steel Shingles Rock and Brick-faced Steel Sidings Fire Proof Glass Windows, Shutters and Doors Corrugated Iron Metallic Ceilings and Walls Hayes' Patent Steel Lath, etc. Our goods have been made and sold in Canada for 24 years, and have established a reputation for quality that makes them easy to sell. Exclusive territory to the right man. For particulars write THE METALLIC ROOFING COMPANY, LIMITED, Manufacturers, TORONTO AND WINNIPEG. -*-" ������-������'f5VH?=-i ���������^*vH??i His Strenuous Job. MI lately passed through a small town on a train. Say, but that station agent has a lot to doL When the train comes in he's got to sell tickets, attend to the mail, shift the express, chock tho baggage, fix the signal lights, put the danger lantern at the street crossing, post the trains on the bulletin board, operate the telegraph instruments and carry the messages." , "Heavens! Was he doing all that?*" "No; he was asleep." The Black Flag. A gunboat was entering the mouth of the estuary when she passed close to a small'collier. The officer in command hailed tho latter, "Ahoy, there I What have you got the black flag flying for?" The reply came back: "You'd better not let the captain hear you. That's his best shirt hanging out to dry."���������London Exprcao. .* Skating. Skating is believed to have been Invented in northern Europe In prehistoric times. William Fitz-Stephon speaks of It in London toward the end of the twelfth century, but It did not really catch hold until the cavaliers who had been la exile with Charles II. brought It with them from Holland. On Dec. 1, 1GG2, Mr. PepysJ, having occasion to cross tho park, "first ln my life, It being a great frost, did sea people sliding with their skates, which is a very pretty art." On tho 8th he went purposely to see the sight and again found It "Tery pretty."���������London Chroni",le.~ An Ocean Sanitarium. Some particulars are given In tha British Medical Journal of a proposal to provide au ocean sanitarium for tuberculosis. The suggestion Is to fit up a sailing ship of about 2,000 tons for not less than fifty patients, each to hi provided with n largo and well ventilated cnbln. Tho deck would he used for what Is commonly called the veranda treatment. Tho Intention of the promoters Is that tho ship shall crulse ln t'io neighborhood of thc Canaries. Whore It will have the advantoge of tho trade winds and of an equable climate, while 0 port will not bo far distant In ca6s of thc onset of bad weather. Are You Up to the Mark? If not feeling as well as you should, do not make the mistake of letting 3-0111* health take care of itself. Resort to Beecham's Pills Sold Everywhere. In boxes 25 cents. Shoe Boils, Capped Hock, Bursitis are hard to cur������, yet !fl?BSORBIl*E ���������will remove thorn nn<1 Ichyo no blom- lahi Does not bllntrr or reuioro1 the hnlr. C'tiroi any puff or (woUlne. Hoks rm be worltoJ. 12,00 per boltle.dellverokl.liook 0 1> (rut. ABSOB*aiN_, JR., (mankind, I1.C0 bnttlo.) rorBolli. Kruliiwi, Old Eorea, Swellliicn, Uul.ro, VaricoseVoln������,VnrlcoU.I������n, Al'nj-n I'nln. W. F. YOUNG, P.D.F., 137 Honmouth St., Springfield, Mm. LY-UN, BUNS * CO., Ilootr..!, Cuilillu 4(rnli. Alio furnished t) Martin Bote A Wynne Co., Winnipeg, the national Drug A Chemloal Co, Winnipeg and Calgnrgt and Uondtrto* Bros, Co. Ltd.. VanamaT- KEEP YOUR IGNITION RIGHT \ \ \ \ 76% of all Gnwlino Engine trouble, - come Irom poor l|<niuoci. The "VIM MAGNETO" Joe, away Willi DalteriM and can l>e uv?d on any Engine. Il alwaysjjivein good Tiol jpnrlc l-'ully Guaranteed��������� Agcnte Wanted. R. Wllllami Machinery Co. Limited, Tororua ������������������-'''''���������'��������� ���������'��������� ��������� "^������������������������������������������������������ ��������� ���������������������������!���������' ���������*��������������������������� ��������� ni mill \ W. N. U. No. 726. THE LEDGE, . GREENWOOD. BRITISH COLUMBIA. ��������� v ������***��������� ���������**��������� ikKiaMWUVu** 'Hi U I.S* A TV AT CUES. DlAttQ'SDS. JKvFELKV EASTER SIFTS AT Logan & Go's. Sll.\ KISW/l KM, CUT GLASS. CHINA e������_������^k'W5S������<'^������98-a������k'"-kl>'k"'^ 75 Si o r������ f) '���������5 s soO Reward for the Scalp of the Son of ti Gun who Sells Cheaper than tlie /���������"���������JTAJ LEDGE Is published every Thursday at .Greenwood, B. C , and the price is $: a year, postage free to all parts of Canada, and Great Britain, To the United States and other countries it is sent postpaid for 5?.5oayear. Address all letters to The Ledge, Greenwood, H, C. R. T. LOWERY, PUBLISHER. GREENWOOD B. C, MARCH 25, 1909 . "^""^ A bluo mark here indicates that yonr Subscription has become- deceased, and that the editor would once more like, to commune with your col lateral. Timics arc largely a the mind. condition of Tin-: climate oi" CJreenwood is said to be the finest in the world. | A. L, WHSTE, 'PHONE 16, I I Livery Stable I jkij Given wood. The uiOht durable and t-tylish critters, sleighs and U carriasjr-h in the Boundary. Turnouts furnished with or without 0 lirivc-rs. Prompt service day or night. Drayiug to any part of thi' eitv or L-oiintrv. DiMMNc the past few month*- no smelters have shut down in Arew York, v Guns, red wheat and cattle seem to be the principal products of Alberta. Tin-: hen that lays the biggest eggs does nob always make the loudest cackle-. I'otatoks may be high, but no one us buying them in the east. The, express rates are too high. 6 P RHP, 4J opeiEToe. -is^^^ms^issssss^^s^smss^^s^j^^s^m .". :'S55s__3iT. uzwbes^sbb&es^bs&es. 3_gses3aiss_ gs ;_5_ssssa m PHOENIX' BEER u >\ Is '.lulici'.uis in (aste and free from impurities. Order ]'��������� a case or bottle at the earliest opportunity. I Phoenix = Brewing -= Co. I*" j,| (Limited.) | The Pride of Western Canada. Phone 138, Greenwood B*a____S_____S'0*'k_*g_i_J_S 1 S3 Piroi'Kiki.v advertised the country west of the copper- mi'l.ropolis should attract thousands of settlers. It is no the Slocan. about lo be moncl drill. longer zinc or swim in The Payne, mine is perforated hy a dia- Tin-: exhibit of ore at the Seattle Fair this summer from B. 0. promises to be great enough to attract the attention of the world. Tins promises to hs- a very prosperous summer for the lumber- industry, owing to the cr-eat increase of business in the cannery east of the mountains. I1H Tim Alberts elections w,-is so what of a fro-kt for the Tories. Tn a, province where Dim can Marshal! can lie elected a member of the legislature missionary effort and free textbooks are very necessary. ,-"-5?K-'--^**'-'r^LC "-ESS"- AVitii all the glowing reports from around Cobalt it seems truly wonderful that some of the richest operators of that district are rapidly investing their rrronay around Sheep creek, about twenty-five miles from Xelson. ���������''aroused to white heat" the moment they cannot have' what they ask for are not safe men. The conclusion of Mr. Spencer's tirade is sufficient to show what are the plans of the local optiouists. He says : "The campaign is on. Let every .moral reformer work. If thc foolish move of the government even for liquor support reasons means their defeat and the placing of the Liberals in power, who is to blame? * * '���������'���������- We must put principle before party ancl vote for thc; men who will put the settlement of the liquor question in the hands of the people." Pray. Mr. Spencer, who are the people? And in what better way can the question be more equitably settled than by a plebiscite? The men who do not agree with the local optiouists in their arbitrary demands are property owners and ratepayers, and surely they have soi.:'* rights. So have tho liquor men. Local option is not a new thing, nor has it, proved a panacea for all intemperance. If a government cannot be permitted lo hear both sides of tho question without "rousing the ire of the temperance people, to white heat," they are very intemperate temperance, people.���������lCiidery Press. Ladies' Oxfords. , Big variety. All kinds, all pi-ices. Barclay & Co. A Telephone Opiate. The elder's wife was seriously ill, and the doctor advised rest and ancl quiet, but the lady was very devoted to church work and worried herself into hysteria because she could not attend services and hear her favorite pastor preach. She in ust not leave the house, warned the doctor, but you can easily arrange to have her hear the sermon by telephone. The elder grasped the suggestion and nindu tlie necessary arrangements for transmitting the. the sermon into his wife's room. At noon on the Sabbath the doctor called and asked '��������� How did it work?" " Fine,' declared the elder-, rubbing his hands gleefully, "ten minutes after the sermon she fell sound asleep. The camel locked at tho eye of the needle and shook his hump. ' " It doesn't look "as if I could get-through there?" he remarked. "Oh, come take a nip," said the sympathetic elephant. " Perhaps that will'give you courage." ��������� " Perhaps it will. I do need an eye-opener, don't T ?" ,Mary���������How would you like to spend eternity with young Rogers ? Alice���������I did. lie called last night. Experience teaches us how to make the same mistakes in the different way. Some men are cynics, and some have good digestions. Now that Maxim has perfected a silent gun, shots will no longer ring out in the darkness, or on the frosty air. It is a heap easier to deny anything than to study i\ Never try, to beat the other fellow at his game. Get a game of your own. I know people who can keep their temper���������who can't keo*)*anything else. bega n Boys' shoes, Rarclav & Cc. the kind that wears. 1 1 1 1 Is the best furnished hotel in the I'onridary district. It is heated with steam and lighted by electricity. Excellent sample rooms. The bar is always abreast of the times, and meals are served in the ( afc at any hour, day or night. McClung & Goodeve, Propr's. We recommend and sell Sina-rdon shoe for women Ktarlright shoe for children clay & Co. the , the Bar- ')> ''Unequalled for Domestic Use." KASLO HOTEL KASLO B. O. Is it, comfortable home for all who travel to that city. COCKLE & PAPWORTH. ��������� ������������������ THE, Mainland ... Cigar Is smoked in every camp, town, city and hamlet in British Columbia. It is inacle in Vancouver by Win. Tieljen and Hold on the Mountaineer and Kooto- - nay Standard Cigars. Made by 3. & Cbclin $ go., nelson rouil \HeuurriSittket\Hote\ Is the home for nil tourists and millionaires visiting New Denver. British' Columbia. HENRY STEGE. PBOPE. ������������������^���������^������������������wi'-nTO i* at Darling1.! tr-K&s *jjt?rjrvii������i LOWERY'S CLAIM | 'Diirinir the .'" iriontliH Unit Lowcry'r*.1 Ciiiini win-on earth it did l-nsini-s ��������� all' Il w.i.1 the most TtJEJttOflT HOUSE Nelson. B. C, is run on the thc American and ISurnpenn plan. Nothing yellow about the house except the tfoid in t������-e safe, Malorpe & TrrccjilJus I.ANI- ACT- rnini or xotici:, iiUtrU't ������r over, tii<! wiiibl. unirpii!, independent end fi--ir*,-ns jour ii.-il ever (ii-iidiicediiif'nii/uia I'oliticnl; .SlinUksumiiiu r.ami i-i.-iird-t ���������ti>d f!H-!i!o;.M(-;il mteiiiii"-piii'Mii'd It with i v������in the venom of n nuili-Hii-ike until the' Take Vntleuth/u f-'vord UhIIh sieve* of MM .���������������������������ovennrii-rit .-dillf it out nf tllO rn-llls,; Wl,y-'1- ("., occupation, eontriiehr, Intends lo .���������mil its editor i-ea.-iul to puMinli it. f,PP'y,/'','P<>���������M(Mi to piin-linHc u,,.. \���������\\,lV\m oi ' Intemperate Temperance. The Good Book says ������������������ Be temperate in all things." bub our woman suffragists and local option- irit.-- think they have a better way. This week the editor received ������ fifteen hundred word communication from D. Spencer, superintendent of the Local Option League, accompanied by a letter asking us to publish it. As our space is limited and we have the local field to fill we are compelled to lay the, article, on the table. It pretends to express the. position and intention of the Local Option League with reference to the action of the provincial government in deeidirg to submit the question to a vote of the people, but it. is for the most part the vituperate cry of a spoiled child who has peevishly demanded more than the parent can give iu fairness to the rest of the family. We believe a temperate policy in in all things i.s the best policy. Intemperance never wins. And Mr. Spencer i.s very intemperate'. He objects strenuously to the matter being left to n plebiscite and accuses the government of showing great weakness in so deciding. He forgets that the .'30,000 signatures presented to the government represents scarcely a, seventh of the population of the province. Surely the government has a right to consider the rest of the family without being considered weak, or a tool in the hands of tho liquor men. After accusing the Government of these things Mr. Spencer- goes after it for passing a resolution asking for a royal commission to be appointed to inquire into the liquor IraHic. This, ho says, is another way of shelving the question, and "will arouse tho spirit of the temperance- people to white heat. im illy Mirtiv .-li l-OMIlf of ;i Ml('"' it tllkl'f. !! b'Y.v liver nnd ������J,,������,rll)i'������l lnn.1: riornmnn.-ltm nf n noil plnn'.'.l nil, ,,f ,rm 1 -il">iit-J'JfljultiH.������j:.-.f-ii..t nnd In .-, n..rrhorlt- .11- tortiiui |',i);.-r llml ih uutlawecl. 'Jhern Kettle rlvor, Hlmllkur n AUrM llin.-'t,' are Htill a������ different edition-- of this con-; north 80 chains, thonco mm hi dinl/ii. them-ii clumntid jottriml in print. Solid 10 centa B0Ut''m cl'iiinn^ ihuneo west 20 ctiHlna to pomi and got one or p 50 and got the bunch, too?ooT\*nXmnt' *"" ���������"���������"���������''���������"���������"'f *()0 "mm, II. T LOWEIty, Dflt^i Mrd'jwiiinry, loot). .,...-. HrPHUWOnd. R..O.....J .. ���������Wirnjrt..T.mir.jn.omr^tnin;... JiiHt so. The most intemperate people on ea'th are the temp'-nuici' people. Dare to question any attitude they take, or presume to demand of them tin* same i-i-iimou- ablcnc.'-s as would be ileinanded in other legislation anil they an- "11 roused to whiter hen, We have little pitience wilh an in- terrifierate man, bo he given to liquor or cold water. All men pnV sobriety and piinity, and the mrin who dot'H not reallzo that wo need all tho brains we'have got in minding our own bi'.sineBS and doing our work as it should be done fM_,l.lHlV>lr,,.tt!1JT>-bnt!_ _l*jl������_n������.ItJnL_������k..n. Brains and Gall. Brains can never be mistaken for bumptiousness. AVhen ..you see a man acting as though he thought he was the real thing, you can put it clown that he i.s a "job lot." If you have anything under your hair that is worth carrying around you will not have to stand on the corner and invite people to look at you or feel that you have to say things that will cause them to stare. There are some people in this world who imagine that lo be considered wise they must be "eccentric and they immediately proceed to make themselves a nuisance to their friends find a source of amusement to the general public. Nevertheless the public which likes to be humbugged manifests its peculiarity along this line now and then, permitting quack philosophers to gain a place of more or less prominence in the public eye. Cheek and gall thrust a man into a prominence, although they will never keep hii.*.- off the dead level of brainless egotism.���������Shoe ancl Leather Journal. The Columbia cigar is a large and free-smoking cigar. It is sold in all mountain towns ancl made in Nelson. A Police Clew. In Kansas City the police even arrest on Sunday musicians who give concerts. "But," said the marshal to the grand jury, "several persons who participated in the Philharmonic Orchestra's con- concert tin's week got away. We were unable to catch Beethovan, lios.-ini, Mendelssohn, Chopin ancl H. Wagner, whose names appeared upon the programme. I would suggest that warrants be issued for them." Wlddowson, Assayer, Nelson, B. C. Sardonic Descriptious. Was there ever a, more mordant and sardonic stroke of description than that O'Conuell gave of Peel'B bloodIcdsness: "His smile was like the silver plato on a colli 11." Less scathing if not less witty also was his description .of a lady of a .similarly repellant temperament: "She had all tho characteristics of a poker except its occasional warmth," We never knew a man so "sot" against advertising as to kick at a free pull'. The difference- between a stylish hut and an unstylish one is .$1/3 and up, dear Mable. Minding your own business is uot only the more profitable but usually much the safer plan. You can get just as black an eye in the other fellow's scrap as you can iu your own quarrel. I am poor enough in all conscience, but, the Lord be duly praised, I am contented. You can't sell your cake and eat it too���������unless you can work the buyer for an invitation to dinner. Whether a belief is reasonable or not frequently depends on whether- it is mine or some other fellow's. Some people's idea of charity is to give a man au order on a restaurant when they know he is dying for a drink. It is qui eh nobler to fight for- principle than for mere money ; besides principles are much more plentiful than cash. I can remember the time when a man with $10,000 or over was sanctified, and I'm not so old. None of those good old clays in mine. Yon can't deadhead into heaven on a church membership. Optimism is not indifference. Genuine charity is never, nearsighted. - Heaven is not won by success, but by effort. Faith is the oil that keeps the light of love burning. ' The answer to prayer is not always easily understood. A pastnrloss church is like an engine without steam. The ro'ad to heaven is not con: strncted for lazy travelers. The rolling stone is never on the level. You can't always measure a good time by the pi-ice. ��������� " There are men who don't consider they are taking their own unless they grab the whole thing. It takes a good bluffer to keep the other fellow from finding out thafc we are afraid to fight. The theory that love makes the world go round may account for the fact that so many girls are giddy. No man can become popular unless he is willing to be bored once in a while. The 11. C. Electric Co. will erect a now station building in Vancouver to cost ������750,000. Local writers should not forget the $!25 prize to be given by Mc- Clung & Goodeve for the best written article'upon the resources of this district. The competition closes upon April 10. The Prince Rupert board of trade has entered a protest against the proposed sale of lots of that city in Vancouver or Victoria. General Merchants, Midway, B. C. Hay and Grain always bn hand. Sleiffhs and . Wao'ohs and Implements of all kinds carried in stock. The very best at right, prices.' goods STARKEY & |C0. '���������' nelson, b. c. wholesale dealers tn; Produce and;. Provisions Frank Fletcher Provincial Land Sukveyok, Nelson, B. C. THE _fci_B Gigaf Store Tobaccos, Pipes, and all other Smokers' supplies. Next door to Pacific hotel. JAS. DRUn AT THE Hote! = Balmoral In Phoenix the dining room will please the gastronomically critical, the beds bring sweet repose, while the beverages in the bar will appease any ordinary human thirst. Miners, muckers, tourists and millionaires always welcome. J. A. McMASTEK, Proprietor, M EROHANT TAILOB Clothes Cleaned, Pressed and- Repaii-ed. Agent for Blaine Bros' Ordered Clothing. ASSAYING Gold, Silver unit Copper. Euch 80c' IU, O. WKST, 530 Itloliardd St. VANCOUVER, 11,0. Bargains in: Toilet Articles, Perfumes, Brushes, f Combs, Leather Goods, Gentlemen's Purses, Ladies' Purses, Rubber Goods, Syringes, Hot Water Bottles, Razors, Razor Strops, These goods must be sold to make room for new stock before we move into our new store in the Wallace-Miller block. J. L. WHITE Successor to While Bros. Get your Seed Grain at C. S. BAKER f Provincial Assayer and Ore Shippers' Agent. Correspondence solicited. Samples recefve prompt attention. P. O. ISOX 123, IIREENWOOD, K. C. ��������� ��������� -��������� ��������� - II II I" .!��������� The Kootenay Saloon Sandon, B. C, has a line oi nerve bracers unsurpassed _ in any mouo- lain town or tlie Great West. A glass of aqua pura given free witb spirits menti. Hotel Alexander PHOENIX, B. C. Is a comfortable home for the miner ancl traveler. Good meals ancl pleasant rooms. Pure liquors and fragrant cigars in the bar. R. V. CHISHOLIM, Pbopmetok. J. R, Cameron. Pioneer otel... Cfeenujood, B. C. The oldest hotel in the city, and still under the same inanngeinerit. Rooms comfortable, meals equal to anv in the city, and the bar sppplies only the beat. Corner of Greenwood and Government streets. J. W. Kelson PROCTER & LAGKWOOD Leading Tailor of the Kootenays. Kaslo, B. C. The cheapest place in the city to buy Wall Paper, at McRae Bros. IN FERRY Blue Stem Wheal, Seed Oats, Seed Rye. NELSON, B. C. Real Estate, "* Mines, Insurance and Fruit. Lands. CORRESPONDENCE .'SOLICITED. WAFTED: ^ I We have discovered some amazing pysiological features in the papers recently. One man was cliot in the ticket box, another was fatally shot through his door, still another received a fatal wound in the window. Quickest death of all was his who was shot in the (vtiburbs. Kate is the goddess of the incompetent. If prayt'r relieves the slato of m i ti ci which prompts it, it is answered, though nothing else follows. If you make too much fuss about a budding genius, he develops often into a blooming fool. If you expect to rido a hobby with dignity and eclat be snre the accoutrements are fashionable aud oaoo EHOLT, B. C. First-class meals and rooms. Railroad men, miners and others will lind a pleasant homo at this hotel. The bar contains fragrant cigars and the most popular beverages of the day. N. LOSE,.' PROPRIETOR GJEO. P. WELLS, Proprietor. First-class in everything. Steam heat, electric light, private baths. Telephone in every room. First-class bar and barber shop. 'Bus meets all trains. GREENWOOD AND g$ 1200 Haro Street, 0 Vancouver, B. C. Leaves Greenwood for Spokane at 7 a. tn., and for Oroville at 2:30 p. m. J. MoDon_���������l. Regular monthly meetings of Greenwood lodge No. 28, A. F. & A. M., are' held on the first Thursday in each mouth iu Fraternity hull, Wood block, Government street, Greenwood. Visitiug brethren are cordially invited to attend. JAS, 8. 1-IKNIK, Secretary, W.F. EHi;: i. in., i wood Minora' No. 22, W. ,, . , - , moot--- every Saturday.oveiling in Union Hall. Copper street, Greenwood, at 7:80.'������������������' Also in hall at Mother Lode mine I'riday oveningH at 7:80. GEO. HEATHBKTON, Secreiai'/. Lakeview = Hotel NELSON, Ji.O. Is a homo for Miners. Rates $1 a day. All White Help. ,-vr ..hi T)..���������., MINEUAIj AOT Certificate of Improvements NOTICK Mountain ftolle Mineral Claliti, ttttiMti'-lu tlio Oretiii-vouil Mining Wlvlalon of Yalu Din. trie',. Whom locatml: North of Wnllueu Mountiiln, Went Fork of 'Cuttlci Hlver. TAKK NOTICE that 1. Iloliort Wooil. ���������*rofl Mliim-'Hccirti'l-mtu No, UillViiM, for myHPlf, and no ntfont for Siimiuil f). F-'owler, Froo illnnr'H ('ci-tllli-iito No. 1JIWM, will Tliomar Curry, Kroo Mluur'M Curtlllciilo No. Ilu.'XJ7B IiiUmi! jilxly (Iiivh from thi! ditto la-roof, to -'imly to tho MIiiIiil' Kwiordor for a UurtlllniUoof ini-jrowimuiiti-, for tiin inir|iotin of.olitaliilntf a Crown Orwitiof tlio humvit claim. And fiirtlior talie notice tlmt, notion, tnidor auction 117, must tin cwnirioncud licforo nic Isau- unco of -mull Cortlllcnto of ImprovumuiUu, , Dalwl tills 10th day of Kolirunry, A. D, l.Wfl, Cbe Pacific Uotel... ������������������ -Is under tho m-inngemeut.'of Greig- & Morrison. Tho Rooms are Com- fortably furnished, and tho bar con. tains tho best brands of wines, liquors and cigars., tbe Pacific 0afe... Is the best-appointed Restaurant In the interior of British Columbia. The best cooks and most attentive* waiters only employed. Open all tho time. MltB. GlvEICl, Pl-vOrf'IKTKKfiS. The Hotel Slocan Ihrce Forks, L, C, is the leading hotel of the city. Mountain trout mid game diuncr/r'a specialty, Rooms reserved by telegraph. ;L 1 ��������� *j
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