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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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^��S^i| THE LEDGE :-,f,:r-.----,Jr "*>.-- 4/y. ��������;, <w -C -*�����/. VI.'.-. . V4- THE OLDEST MINING CAMP NEWSPAPER IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Vol. XXI. GREENWOOD, B. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1914 No. 6 Summer time���Kodak time TAKE A KODAK WITH YOU EVERYTHING FOR KODAKERY Kodaks and Cameras same price in Greenwood as New York From $2.00 to $25.00. JOHN L. Books, Stationery, Kodaks, Wallpaper, Etc. Greenwood's Big Furniture Store . We are showing a Fine Line of IRON AND BRASS BEDS ^^^== ALSO =��= ~m Coil Springs and Felt Mattresses FRIITJARS The Perfect wide mouth adjustable is the latest and best on earth, A child can open or close them The Covers last a Lifetime. i pt. improved jem $1.50 per dozen. 1 qt. Perfect Seal $1.85 per dozen, 2 " " " $2.00 " " A. U. WHITE PHONE 16 New and Second Hand A few Refrigerators left over will go at reduced prices T. M. GULLEY & Co. Opposite Postoffice. GREENWOOD, B. C. Phone 27 0<KK>00O<>OO<>��O��O<XK_O0<>000<>00<>^^ DO YOU NEED Layer. Cakes 35, 40, 50 and 60cts. William C. Arthurs THE BREAD & CAKE BAKER Vienna Bakery, Greenwood aNaws^-^js^s^s^i^^^^-^vs^sr Around Home TEA. and JAMS COFFEE COCOA SALT SUGAR PEPPER MUSTARD ? FRUITS PICKLES CANNED GOODS BAKING POWDER CHEESE SOAP NO RUB STARCH If so call or phone The Greenwood Grocery 5' o F WALTER G. KENNEDY I ' GREENWOOD, B. C. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 1 A Full Stock of First Class Pipes. Pipe Repairs a Specialty. JEWELRY NEEDS FIXING? You have come to headquarters for having it put in order again. Whatever may be Required we assure you OUR JEWELRY REPAIRING . will give eniire satisfaction. We put in repair a watch of any make or re pair and make good as new your pins, chains, bracelets or any other article of jewelry. A. LOGAN & Co. GREENWOOD. - B. C. Bridge Whist scoring cards for sale at The Ledge office. Take a joy ride to Rock Creek on Sunday, and try one of Hanson's famous chicken dinners. Nothing beats it this far west. Bids asked for hauling ore now on Dump at Alps Mine, North Fork Carpenter Creek aud deliver same iu ore shed Three Forks, also for mining ore as per mining regulations and hauling and delivery same at ore shed Three Forks. Apply w. j. McMillan Cor. Beatty & Smythe Sts. Vancouver, B, C. Sunday chicken dinners are a specialty at Hanson's, Hotel in Rock Creek. LAKE STUDIO GRAND FORKS WANTS. Etc- For Sale Your choice of three span of mares, weighing from 2300 to 2750, two and a half miles from Ferry, Wash. Come clown and look at them. O. P. OLSON Ferry, Wash. For SATE���A block of Rock Creek Trading Co's stock for sale below par. Apply at Ledge office. Furniture Wanted. . Second hand furniture, range, etc, wanted. Apply stating terms to "B" THE LEDGE. TENDERS WANTED Tenders wanted for putting sills on cement blocks underneath the Old Masonic Hall. Apply to Secretary. Masonic Lodge, Greenwood. Up-to-Date and Best appointed Studio in the Boundary Amateur Finishing Beautifully Done, Postage Paid to and from Greenwood and Other Points. Agent for Ensign Cameras and Supplies DEVELOPING. 25cts per Roll PRIMS 50cts a Dozen. F. J. LAKE, Winnipeg Ave.. Grand Forks. The Yankee promoter came to town in a special car. He told bis admiring friends st the hotel that he had just "pulled off a deal" that bad netted him a million dollars. No, he didn't have the actual cash yet, but would have it tomorrow. He had just sold seven hundred thousand acres of land and "fixed himself for life." A week later the promoter was intercepted while making a quiet "get-away" from the hostelry. He was a picture of dejection, bat put on a brave front when asked what had gone wrong. "Didn't your deal go through all right?" inquired a sypathizer. "No. I slipped up on a couple of technicalities, and that, too, after I thought I had covered every point." "What were the technicalities?" "Well, the fellow whobad -Jfej-iie land couldn't make a clear title, and the man who wanted to buy i didn't have the money." ? Mr. and Mrs. Portman have gone to the coast on a two months visit. Sid Oliver left on Tuesday for Nelson where he will volunteer for the front. Miss Jeffrey, who spent the vacation in Victoria, returned to Greenwood last week, H. McCutcheon returned on Saturday from Vancouver, where he spent a two weeks vacation. Miss Eileen Oliver, who has been at the coast for the last four months, returned to town this week. The diamond drill on the coal mine at Midway, B.C., has drilled through two seams of coal, both about nine feet in width. Mrs. H. C. Cummins returned to Greenwood on Saturday last after an extended trip to England New York. Toronto and other points. The Greenwood Tennis Club entertained the Mother Lode Club at the local courts on Sunday afternoon. Ten sets were played and the honors were even. Miss Gibbon, formerly teacher at the Deadwood school, and who has been visiting here, returned on^Saturday to resume her duties as teacher in the Nelson school. It is an ill wind that blows no- I body any good. Many men who have been thrown out of employment by the mines closing down are getting lots of work fighting bush fires. J. McCullough, head clerk in the hardware department:pi L. A. Smith & Co. left on Tuesday morning by motorcycle for,'Sp'o- kane and. Vancouver. The journey will be about ]000 miles. An informal party was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. McLaine in honor of Miss Colville, who leaves shortly [for her home. About 18 were pre- jsent and all enjoyed a most sociable evening. Mr. Birk, superintendent of the Carmi mine is in the hospital suf-1 fering from a crushed hand, which he received while placing a large casting in the stamping mill. The hand had to be amputated. Owing to shortage of water, connections are being made .to pump a supply from Boundary creek. Citizens should boil all water used for drinking purposes and waste none whatever on lawns and so on. , This is important. Owing to the extreme dry weather it has been found necessary to employ a night watchman. Citizens should be extra careful during this dry spell as a spark or cigarette stubb might cause serious loss. An ounce of preventative is worth a pound of cure. Rock Creek, Midway and Greenwood Gun Clubs held a shoot at Midway this week when A. Logan secured the highest individual score getting 24 out of 25. The same clubs will meet in Greenwood the early part of next week, The Rebekabs gave a hard times party in their lodge-room last Friday and all present spent a most enjoyable eyening. On account.of counter attractions the attendance was not quite as large as usual. It is to be hoped that the Kebekahs, noted for giving good times, will give us more of their enjoyable parties in the near future. Miss Esther Lawson won the automobile in the Grand Forks Gazette contest. We are glad the honor of winning the auto comes to Greenwood, and this in spite of the financial depression, .shows There are many good and loyal Germans living in Canada. For instance there is a veteran of the Franco-Prussian war by the name of Theodore Witte, living at Deadwood aud who still wears his medal on his watch chain, but he says he would not fight for the present Kaiser. He is proud of being a British subject. On Monday night the people of Mother Lode gave a farewell dance, where a large and merry crowd was present. Mrs. Oliver, pianist, and J. Sutherland, violinist, furnished excellent and inspiring %nusic. The dance was kept up well until morning, everybody enjoying themselves so thoroughly that they were reluctant to go. The cosy home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Phillips was the scene of a gay time on Friday night, when their daughter, Evangeline, entertained a few guests in honor of her friend Miss Gibbon, who has been visiting here for two weeks. The evening was pleasantly spent in song, story and cards. A nice supper was served after which all repaired to their various homes votingMissPhillips an ideal hostess. Last Friday night witnessed a most enjoyable smoker at the Mother Lode mine when, in spite of the fact that the mine had shut down the night before, it could hardly be called a farewell smoker as there was another entertainment to come, but as the sportb committee had $100 of undivided capital, it might be more appropriately be called a "liquidation" meeting. O. Lachmund, general manager in a short address said that the mine was to open again when there was a rise in the price of copper.^ Songs were well rendered by Messrs; McKay, Hand- cock, Lakeland and the Austrian quartette as well as Messrs. Winter, Burnell and Parker, the accompanying being skillfully performed by Mr. F. Marrirge. J. Sutherland played pleasingly on the violin. The chair was most suitably filled by Mr. Crane the superintendent. W Western Float up Greenwood's Opportunity. LADIES OF GREENWOOD! At a meeting held in the Star Theatre last week to consider ways and means of helping during the presrnt crisis the ladies proved themselves eager and anxious to raise patriotic funds to care for those left behind and to assist the Daughters of the Empire, who are able to take the lead because they are an organized body. Mrs. Coles, Mrs. Rendell, Mrs. Marcon, Mrs. Hopkins, Mrs. McCutcheon, Mrs. Hobbin, Mrs. Foyle-Smith and Mrs. F. W, McLaine are the women organized and who are working and planning with an earnestness and devotion beyond all praise and with a spirit which is as inspiring as it is indomitable. $200 has already been collected and forwarded to the Daughters of the Empire. The Women's Institute subscribed $25. When the war is over, when the smoke of battle is cleared away, when freedom has been re-established upon a broader and ever broadening basis, when once more we are able to resume the ordinary avocations of life and in the time of peace recount the incidents, of war, there will not be a more constant theme of admiration than the contribution of the Daughters of the Empire to the greatest moral and material victory which the pages of history will record. BIRTHS To Mr. and Mrs. L. McKen- zie, of Greenwood on August 11th that^Gr^enwo^ money \ a Gaugater. toi'spare than" t^e other towns.' This^another feather in Green-j To Mr,: and Mrs. H. Andrews, wood's cap and Miss Lawson is to; 0f Mid way,'on August 9th, a \be congratulated. 'daughter, New Denver will hold a fair on October 1-2. Great Britain imports yearly food worth $1,375,000,000. War will be declared in a few I days upon grouse and deer. The war has stopped the annual flower show in Rossland. A 12 stall round house is being built at Rupe. In spite of the war limburger cheese is still holding its own. Wm. Blair will open a general store at Soda Creek. Dick Case of Oroville is out for sheriff in that district. Kaslo will not build any cement sidewalks this year. This has been a record year for weddings in Hazelton. A new electric light plant is being built at New Denver. There are 1000 men making Ross rifles at the gun factory in Quebec. Silver ore is being shipped from Bablne lake to theTacoma smelter. Harry Howson is manager of the Fiddler mine up the Skeena river. This summer the best hay crop on record was cut in the Chilcrotin district. Fifty special refrigerator cars have been ordered to carry fish east from Prince Rupert. Wong Gone was fined $75 for keeping an opium joint in Rossland. Henry DeLesprinasse of * Grand Forks has gone to France to join the army. The winter poultry show will be held in Grand Forks on November 25 and 26. This month a monthly cattle market will be established in Kamloops. Prohibit the export of meat and cattle and living will soon be cheaper in Canada. Angns'Stewart will have charge of the work on the P.G.E. railway at Soda Creek. The fish hatchery at Gerrard is fully protected by a large flept of stone boats. Eight leasing contracts upon the old Republic mine at Republic have been granted. Many people are leaving Peace River Crossing. \ Tbe rush was too big and too soon. Roy Cruikshank, well known in Revelstoke, was recently killed in Australia in an auto accident. In B.C. last year bounties were paid on 58 golden eagles, 232 cougars, 277 wolves, and 1618 coyotes. The times are panicky and the people full of fear. Even delinquent subscribersjare'afraid to pay the paper. A pack train between D8ase lake and Telegraph creek was recently held up by. road agents and robbed of $4000 worth of gold dust. There are 1000 men working day and night at the big C.P.R. tunnel in the Selkirk mountaine. The tunnel will cost $10,000,000. . A Frye has booght a store in Curlew from Geo. Thomas. He also owns 30 million feet of timber near Curlew and will build a sawmill. A number of Jewish capitalists from Nova Scotia have invested $75,000 in land and cattle at Republic, Wash., and will establish a Jewish colony. Tbe sale of gun licenses in B. C. last year brought the government $99,225. The fines for breeches of the game act amounted to over $4,000. In Kootenay, the Bluebell, Rambler. Standard and other mines are temporarily closed down until tbe smelters can handle their ore. Mike Ryan died in Sandon last week. His health had not been good since he was injured in a railway accident at Rosebery about a year ago. The postal business in B. C. requires some changes in its administration. The public suffers because the officials cannot keep up with the bnsiness. Look at the Princeton office. The service is rotten because the postmaster has too much to do. The Veinon News was shown a specimen of remarkably fine coal this week, taken from the claims at Shorts' Point. S. C. Smith who is one of the principal owners of this property is greatly pleased with the prospects, and has every hope that the St. Catherines syndicate who are having a report made by Jas. McEvoy, the: well known Ontario geologist, will take hold of the claims and develop them into a producing mine. /^The Dominion of Canada in its exhibition at the Panama-Pacific Exposition is to make a special feature of a very interesting and complete mineral collection made up of ores and specimens found in Canada. In this exhibit British Columbia, it is needless to add, will be in the lead. With the intention of making a very thorough and representative collection of the ores and minerals of this province, Wm. Thomlin- son, well known in connection with the Provincial Bureau of Mines, has been made official collector for the commission which was appointed by the Dominion to have charge of this exhibit as well as the forestry and fisheries exhibits. In the course of his duties Mr. Thomlinson has completed an extensive tour of the northern and central parts of the province and is now in this district having spent Tuesday and Wednesday visiting the [Jewel and other mines in the vicinity of Greenwood and left here today for Phoenix. In conversation with the Ledge Mr. Thomlinson pointed out that as every expense was to be paid by the government it remained in the hands of the people of B. C. to make surejthat they would be adequately^ represented. Specimens should "always be chosen and labeled with care, details of their origin beingjfgiv- en as well as other information likely tojprove of value. Speci- may be of any size and should be packed in. cases, not sacks as they permit of too much movement, and addressed C O.D. to the collecting warehouse at 324 Water St. Vancouver, B.C. We repeat that all charges, even those of packing and local hauling, J will be paid by the government. The collection, is to be continually added to, will remain" the property of the government and.will be exhibited on everyrpossible occasion. That the greatest benefit to the province will result ��� from such advertising is obvious*and it is up to Greenwood to do its individual part towards making the collect!on complete in~~every~~re^""' spect. The statement is sometimes made by the uninitiated that the water-powers north of the settled parts of our Dominion are of litte value. The existence of numerous falls and rapids is not denied, but the argument is advanced that, the temperature and other climatic conditions existing where these fails and rapids are situated will prevent their utilization. As a direct contradiction of the above assertion we need only to turn to Norway, the latitude of which is about the same as that of the Yukon, and where climatic conditions are similar to those of northern Canada. In size, Norway is only slightly larger than our Maritime Provinces, and yet we find there power plants with a total capacity of over 1,500,000 horse-power, either in actual operation, or in course of construction. Hydro-electric stations of considerable size have been constructed in different parts of that country. Many of the smaller ones have been erected ior municipal use, but the larger ones are for the electro-chemical industry, in which a main factor of success is cheap and plentiful electric power.���L. G. D. Ben Petersen is prospecting in the Peace River district. He is well known in Greenwood and Hazelton. THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA. THE LEDGE R. T. LOWERY KDITOR AND FINANCIER. is located at Greenwood, B. C, and can be traced to many parts of the earth. It comes to the front every Thursday morning, and believes that hell would close up if love ruled the world. It believes in justice to everyone ; from the man who mucks in the mine to the king who sits on the cushions of the throne. It believes that advertising is the life of trade; and that one of the noblest works of creation is the man who always pays the printer. The Ledge is $2.00 a year in advance, or $2.50 when not so paid. It is postage free to all parts of Canada, Mexico, Great Britain and the county of Bruce. To the United States it is $2.50 a year, always in advance. Hunger Brings Health A blue mark here indicates that your Subscription has necoino deceased, and that the editor would ouce more to commune with your collateral. like GREENWOOD, AUGUST 20, 1914. Just now many a sock heavy with gold. is Thinking Themes Tine shooting season opened rather early in Europe -his year. T will take more than . ._e kings to win the pot in . . rope. Ananias has a steady job ose days running war bul- ��� ���.���Litis. Fear is the cause of all antes, and much sickness ;nrinsr war times. If Egypt is short of corn icre is heaps of it in the ;nited States. Troubles do not come singly. The hens have quit laying in our back yard. In addition to its naval fleet, Germany has a vast number of schooners in Berlin. IF the Iron Duke was living today he would make no request for "Night or Blucher." These days it is a good thing to have a bit of land, some spuds and a barrel of buttermilk, IT is just as well to postpone the teaching of .Eur<v pean geography for a few months. In these unpleasant days in Europe, not many soldiers will save their lives by carrying bibles over their hearts. Most people eat twice as much as is necessary. Better '..-������> on war rations. Your .. alth will be better and food .caper. Ttte war has opened up 'or Canada and the United States a vast market for manufactured goods in Asia, Africa, Australia and South America. There is no excuse for the prices of foodstuffs in America going up. The rices should go down as we iiave more grub in America than we can eat or sell. Thought is the trouble maker of the world. If it were not for the thinkers kings might go on undisturbed spending in play the cream of the nation's toil, and trusts might keep sleek as fatted swine, and superstition 'rule forever, all old frauds flourish as eternal oaks. It is the thinker that is at the bottom of every revolution. He splits parties , and churches, he sows'discontent amony the lowly, and makes the magnificent ones of earth suspect_theirj?rivilege. Thought brings down them that sit on high, and the despised and rejected of men it raises up. Thought is the loyal friend of demos. It is always for the many against the few. The sure and selfish cry out, "They that turn the world upside down have come hither also!" Thought is always modern and more, it is a futurist, it is the abiding heretic, the ever present disturber of the peace. Thought it the "angel that troubleth the pool." Thought for the foolsthat heed no warning swell, Prepares its hell."���Dr. Crane. FROM THE TALMUD He who loves his wife as himself and honors her more than himself will train his children properly; he will meet too the fulfilment of the verse: "And thou shalt know that there is peace in thy tent, and thou wilt look over thy habitation and shall miss nothing." Rabbi Jqse said: "I never call my wife 'wife,' but 'home,' for she indeed makes my home." He who possesses a knowledge of God and a knowledge of man will not easily commit a sin. The Bible was given us to establish peace. He who wrongs his fellow men, even in so small a coin as a penny, is as wicked as if he should take life. He who raises his hand againBt his fellow in a passion is a sinner. Be not the friend of one who wears the cloak of a saint to cover the deformities of a fool. In America several millions of men are fighting the European war. The fighting is principally from store counters and arm chairs, while the weapons used are war bulletins and ozone more or Jess heated. The other day a man with a ruby nose was brought before a magistrate charged with the crime of impersonating a police officer. "What have you to say?" asked tbe magistrate. "lam innocent," replied the man. "What did he do?" asked the magistrate. What did he do?" exclaimed the policeman, hautily, who had hoped that such a question would not be put, "Why, he tapped three times at the door of a 'pub' on my beat, and when the landlord shoved the beer out through the: half-closed door he took it and drank it. That's what he did!" Amid the roars of laughter the case was dismissed. These hunger strikes, doctor," inquired an "Answers" man of a famous London physician, "are they dangerous to life?'' "Ob, yes! ' said the doctor. "They may be dangerous for a delicate woman, but incidentally they cure a lot of troublesome ailments. "Fasting relieves pain of almost everjr kind. If you have a bad toothache, refrain from food for 24 hours, and ten to one your toothache will vanish. "Are you gouty or rheumatic? Then the sovereign cure is a good long fast. "Paraylsis you probably think is an incurable disease. No doubt many forms are, bnt miraculous recoveries have occurred under treatment by fasting. Men who had abandoned all hope, aud who then tried fasting for thirty, forty, and even fifty days, had the use of their limbs completely restored. "How doe3 this, happen? My theory is that certain waste matters, poisoning< the nerves, are often the cause of this disease, and by a prolonged fast these are removed. "I have known a patient suffer for years from chronic catarrh of the nose and air passages. No doctor could cure the trouble, but a twenty days' fast completely cured ib in this instance. "That fasting should cure stomach and liver trouble seems natural. But how many of us make use of the remedy? Next time you are bilious or have bad indigestion try the remedy of abstinence from food, aud you won't be disappointed. Deafness, resulting from catarrh of the air passages, is another matter. You would scarcely try fasting to cure it, But I have known the hearing of such a person to be completely cured by a seventeen- day fast. "If a man feels dull, heavy and stupid, nothing can cure him like a fast. "Here are a dozen cases in one��� a real example of the marvelous virtues of fasting. A patient suffered all at the same time with rheumatism, kidney disease, ex- cema, loss of power in the limbs and several other affections. "He sampled half the drugs in the pharmacopoeia, and then, in despair, tried a long fast. In forty days he was perfectly cured of every trouble. "In reality we are only obeying Nature when we fast to cure diseases. What course do all animals follow when ill? They drink a great deal, but, as a rule, they eat nothing. This measure, combined with rest and sleep, is usually successful. "Of course, no sensible person will undertake a long fast of ten days and upward without medical supervision. Unless properly conducted ib might wreck even an apparently strong man. How is fehe fast to be carried out? There are many ways. One is to omit breakfast for a week, and then live on one meal a day until cured. "Another is to fast two or three days, then eat a couple of light meals���milk, rice, etc.���and then fast again, "Nature will tell you when to end the treatment. The tongue clears, the spirits become buoyant, and the appetite becomes ravenous. "You may, of course, while fasting drink as much water, lemonade, etc., as you like, and may also eat juicy fruits, such as oranges and grapes." "The Lost Art of Behaving Well" refers to a manual of be- navior which in 1S03 had run into a third edition. The author was a cler. :yman named Truslar. Am ong his directions was a series addressed to the guest, who was admonished not to smell viands on bho fork before eating them, nor to "eat" his soup with his nose in fehe plate; "eating quick or very slow at meals" moreover is characteristic cf the vulgar; "the first suggests that you are starving; the second that you do not like the food set- before you." He avers that it is exceedingly rudo to spit, eat greedily, pick your teeth before the dishes are removed." I'd rather be a Could Be If I could not be an Are; For a Could Be is a May Be, With a chance of touching par. I'd rather be a Has B��.en Than a Might Have Been by far; For a Might Have Been has never been, But a Has was once and Are. Although only a month married, the young man had learned much feminine logic. Tired out with a day in the shops, his wife opened her eyes languidly as he struck a match. "Another?" she said. "Mortimer, I do wish you would not use cigarettes.,, "Why?" "Because tboy are bad for you. You don't know what is in them." "Ob yes, I do. Why, for the trifling sum that cigarette costs, you get nicotine, valerian, possibly a little morphine and any quantity of carbon." She sat up alert and bright-eyed. "Good gracious," she said. "All that? Why, that is a real bargain, isn't it?" The active head of a great law school says tbis country needs fewer and better lawyers. In other words, this country needs fewer and wiser clients. ���Cleveland Plain Dealer. SPRING SUITS MADE TO YOUR MEASURE Now is the Time to Order Your NEW SUIT We Have Them in All The Latest Weaves And Colors SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Windsor Hotel THOROUGHLY RENOVATED AND SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL TRADE THE WINDSOR HOTEL is one of the Dest furnished hotels in the west. It is located in the heart of Greenwood and within easy reach of all the financial and commercial institutions of the Copper Metropolis. Heated with Steam and Lit by Electricity Commodious sample rooms. The bar is replete with all modern beverages and the meals are tbe best. Rooms reserved by telegraph. X t X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X :��<��>x~:��^x~K^x^<^^M><��K��<^>*<^<��*����<Ht^��<H��->��^>.>^._, Mrs. Nag (looking at the hearse which is to take her fifth to bis last resting place)���But I didn't order all those expensive plumes. Undertaker���No, mum. We threw those in on account of your being such a regular customer, Mrs. Nag. Mrs. Muriel took great interest parish affairs. Last year she promised to assist in decorating the parish church. One illuminated text, she thought would look well over the chancel screen, and requested her husband to bring it from town. As might have been expected, ho forgot the text, and wired to his wife for particulars. To the surprise of all the telegraph clerks this message came flashing over the wires. "Unto us a child is born, nine feet long by two feet broad." W.EIson&Co WATER NOTICE Application for a licence to take and use water will be made under the "Water Act" of British Columbia as follows:��� i. The name of applicant is Robert Daniel McKeuzie. ��� 2. The address of tlie applicant is Greenwood, B.C. 3. The name of the stream is Providence Creek. The stream has its source in Marshall lake, flows in a westerly direction, and empties into Boundary creek within the boundaries of the City of Greenwood. 4. The water is to be diverted from the stream on the north side, about 60 feet below the confluence of the water flowing from the Resevoir belonging to the city of Greenwood with the water of the said creek, and on the Providence Mineral Claim, tot 618. 5 The purpose for which the water will be used is irrigation purposes. 6. The land on which the water is to be used is described as follows;���The.Elk- horn Fractional Mineral Claim, being lot 297S, in the Siinilkatneeu Division of the District of Yale, the surface of which claim belongs to the applicant. 7. The quantity of water applied for is as follows:���14 acre feet per annum. 8 This notice was posted on the ground on the 24th day of July, 1914. 9 A copy of this notice and an appiica- tion pursuant thereto and to the requirements of the "Water Act" will be filed in the office of the Water Recorder at Grand Forks. Objections may be filed with the said Recorder, or with the Comptroller of Water Right, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C., within 30 days after the above date. r. d. Mckenzie, Applicant. J*+4��*******4"fr* ********+***!? Cbe fiume fiotel nelson, B.C. The only up'to/date Hotel in the interior, in every respect, First-class CENTRALLY LOCATED Hot and Cold Water; Steam Heat and Telephone in each room. ROOMS WITH PRIVATE BATHS. CUISINE AND SERVICE THE BEST First Class Bar and Barber Shop 15 FREE SAMPLE ROOMS Steam Heated; Electric lighted. RATES $1.00 per day and up; European Plan. Bus Meets all Trains and Boats. a********'*"*'****'*'** ���********���f* WESTERN - - HOTELS. NKWMAKKKT HOTKT. Is the home for all tourists and millionaires visiting1 New Denver, British Columbia. A. JACOBSON, Proprietor. -������Jp��rlf,JP-?K'K,JPas*-<,l^1J<,K,-��,lCJf, A fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc STAY AT: tbe Strathcona fiotel WHEN IN NELSON Under new management, JAMES MARSHALL. Prop Nelson's best located and most popular hotel. Rooms with private baths, steam beat-in every room. Commercial Rates _Given. 7 Best Sample Rooms in Nelson, Best attention given to tourist and Family Trade. *��� if *��� IP IP K1 tP-K' if if if if If If if K* If* fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc' fc fc fc I TRKMONT HOUSE Nelson, B. C, is run on the American and European plan. Steam heated rooms. All white labor. Special attention paid to dining rcim. Kangome 3c Campbell, Props. ***************** iP-C-CjcjpjcinjCicjejciCK'-CjfK'jc. Hotel Brooklyn The Only First Class and Up-tcvDate Hotel in Phoenix, New from cellar to roof. Best Sample rooms in the Boundary, Opposite Great Northern Depot, X X Modern Bathrooms If a dentiBfe polled the wrong tooth and tbe man in the chair took a pnnch at biro, who would the toothpaste? Shilohm The family, remedy for Coocta and Colds "Sbilch costs so little and docs so roach' STEAM HEATED, ELECTRIC LIGHTED O, D, Bush, Prop, Phoenix, B, G THE PROVINCE HOTEL Grand Forks, B.C., is in the centre ol the city, and furnishes the public with every accommodation at reasonable rates. 'Emll Larseii, Proprietor, THK KASLO HOTEL Kaslo,'B. C, is a comfortable home for ali who travel to that city. J, W. COCKLE, Prop. TULAMEEN HOTEL Princeton, B. C. is the headquarters for miners, investors and railroad men. A fine location and everything first-class KIRKPATR1CK ft C0ULTHARD, proprietors. EXCHANGE HOTEL KASLO Plenty of first class rooms, and a scenic balcony, Everything new and cheerful about the. house, The dining room is in charge of one of the most noted chefs in the Kootenay. Friends tourists and strangers always welcomei ALLEN & McQUISTON Proprietors, BR1DESVII.T.B HOTEL. Bridesville, B. C. This hotel is within easy reach of all the leading Boundary towns and the centre ol a fine fanning district. THOMAS DONALD. Proprietor. ARLINGTON HOTEL Trail, B. C���This hotel has been thoroughly renovated. It is heated by steam, aud has hot and cold water in all rooms. A pleasant borne for all who travel. JAMES WILLIAMSON, Proprietor ROCK CREEK HOTEL Rock Creek, B. C. This hotel is situated on historic ground, aud has tasty meals and excellent rooms. ' T. R. HANSON, Proprietor. QUEEN'S HOTEL, PHOBNIX^ B. O.' The Newest and Largest Hotel in the City. Everything neat, clean and comfortable. Steam heat and electric light. Meals and drinks at all hoars. HARTMAN & WALSH Props. THE SIMILKAMEEN HOTEL Princeton. This liotel is new, comfortable well-furtHslieil, and is close to the railway depot. Modern accommodation and sample rooms. SUMMERS & WARDLE. Proprietors Cbe fiakyon Sanitarium ���04 ANALYSIS OF WATER. Chlorine Sulphuric Acid Silica ................ Lime Alkalies as Soda ...... Magnesia Ljithia ..........,. Sulphuretted Hydrogen 8.14 363-4S 74-29 84-57 5-91 232.00 .86 32.00 Has recently been thoroughly renovated and re-furnished, and is now the greatest health resort upon the continent. Natural hot water in baths, 124 degrees of heat. A course oi baths at Halcyon will care nervona and muscular diseases and eliminate rheumatism and metalic poisons from the system. The water heals liver, kidney and stomach complaints. The rates are $2 a day np; or $12 weekly np. Postoffice, express and telegraph offices in connection. Oniliatn Boyd, Proprietor, Iftlc^;B.& EXCHANGE HOTEL Sandon. The largest hotel in Sandon. Large aud pleasant rooms. Dining room and restaurant. Wines, Liquors, and Cigars. A comfortable hotel for miners and travellers. THOMPSON & MOLTEN, Proprietors ON PARkE FRANCAIS NATIONAL HOTEL GREENWOOD, B. C. The Really Best House in the Boundary. Recently Remodelled and Strictly Up-to-Date. Restaurant in connection OWEN BOYER PROP RIVERSIDE HOTEL Rock Creek, B. C. This is one of the oldest hotels in the Kettle Valley. Excellent accommodation for all'travellers. S. T. LARSEN, Proprietor. i A LOOM A'HOTEL Deadwood, B. ���_. This hotel is within easy distance of Greenwood and provides a comfortable home r for travellers. The bar has the r ; best of wines, liquors and cigars. The Knob Hill Hotel PHOENIX. One of the largest hotels in the city. Beautiful location, fine rooms and tasty meals." A. O. JOHNSON PROP. ip * r it r r r r r mr if r r ip ��p I COALMONT HOTEL \ �� COALMONT. B.C. �� fc First-class Accomodation fc for all Guests fc fc Hotel is new and well fninislied. �� Near Station- J Excellent cnisine and bar supplied * with the best ? . fc lie Coalmoat Hotel Co,, Ltd. fc /��� james henderson proprietor] irtrrrrrsririrrrirrirrr��. IsPlPll THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA. I i When you go to a dealer's store to hear a Phonograph be sure you hear an Edison Phonograph If you do not hear an Edison you do not hear a phonograph. There is only one Edison and only one Phonograph bearing his name. The Edison Phonograph is Mr. Edison's own personal achievement. He invented it and he perfected it. He is responsible for its clear, lifelike musical Records���the Blue Amberols, unbreakable, playing four minutes and lasting a lifetime. He has produced the indestructible diamond reproducing point, that never needs changing. He has recently perfected this new cabinet model���a thing of .beauty in itself and a marvel of musical perfection. Hear this new model. Hear the new Blue Amberol Records.em- bracing everything worth while in the field of songs and instrumental music. Edison Amberola VI Cjliiael Mahogany or Golden Oale. Diamond _H)_Ttl____ Point Reproducer; Powerful Spring Moloi. *"v"^ Ploy. Blue Amberol Record, Edison Phonograph- and Records are sold by TM. Crulley fc�� Co. GREENWOOD, B.C. T. 0. GUNDERSON Contractor and Builder ���DEALER IN��� Doors, Windows, Sash. AU kinds of carpenter work neatly done. Box 127 - - - Greenwood. P. BURNS & CO. Dealers in Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish and Poultry. Shops in nearly all the towns of the Boundary and Kootenay. I COPPER STREET, GREENWOOD, B. C. L if >5_^i^53^3-_!^^^^^sH^?5-^j^-^5-i^3-#^K^> w ��� 1EWPERANCE is all right if shorn of humbuggery. Too much water drinking is just as injurious as too much liquor or anything else. OUR PURE WINES AKD LIQUORS are medicinal if not abused. Every household should have a moderate supply of pure wines or liquors in the closet for emergency���either unexpected visitors or sudden illness, when a drop of pure liquor in time may forestall all necessity for drugs. I Greenwood Liquor company, importers, Greenwood, B. g. ^mmmmmmmmmpim mm mmmmmmmmmm|: I Greenwood to Phoenix Stage 1 ���=: Leaves Greenwood Daily at 3 p. m. =s B Arrives Greenwood Daily at 10 a. m. =~ C= GREENWOOD OFFICE CLUB CIGAR STORE ___3 B JOHN FULLER < < < PROPRIETOR ^ ARG�� TUNNEL The tunnel of The Argo mine is only a few minutes walk from the centre of Green* wood and visitors can see the workings at any time. Investors should examine the property. It is situated on a highly mineralized mountain, and the lead may be struck at any time. OLA LOFSTAD President JAMES McCREATH Secretary. Direct from the Factory to the consumer By PARC EI, POST at wholesale prices to advertise our Brands. Every cigar we make is absolutely guaranteed filled with genuine Havana- Filler Box of So's B.C. full weight, five inches long $3.50. Box of 50's O.S 4 inches long, Conchas, 3J.3 bo. Box of "Brillantes" Clear Havana Wrapper, full weight, 5 inches long, 50 S $5.00. Send money order, or certified cheque. Do not send money unless registered. References:���R. ... DUNN & CO. WILBERG & WOLZ, New Westminster.B.C. FRED A. STARKEY, NELSON, B. C. MINING BROKER PROSPECTS BOUGHT AND SOLD IN GRAND FORKS I deal in Second-hand goods and have the largest sign in B. C. I buy or sell anything from a needle to a carload. ED. PECKHAM Daring some recent excavations in the West End two of the lab' orers, during their dinner hour, were staring into a jeweller's shop in the neigbbprod. One says to the other, on beholding the masses of diamonds and other jewels in the window: "Say, Pat, how would you like to have your pick in there?" "Begorra," says Pat, "I would far rather have me shovel" THE HOME CIRCLE Pleasant Evening Reveries. A Column Dedicated to Tired Mothers as they Join the Home Circle at Evening Tide. ��. First paper mill in North America, 1690. First public library in America ���Philadelphia, 1731. First medical school in North America, 1762. First pianoforte made in the United States, 1775. First use of electric lights in a store, 1878. Notice to Delinauent Co-Owner. Greenwood & Midway AUTO STAGE Leaves Greenwood for Spokane at 8:20 a.m., & for Oroville at 3:10 p. m. Leave orders at Terhune's Cigar Store. Charles Russell. ***************** CO., I/TD. Leaves Mother Lode 9.30 a. m. 6:30 p. m. Leaves Greenwood 2:00 p. 8:30 p. m. m. Saturday last stage leaves Mother Lode 6 p. m. Returning, leaves Greenwood 10 p. m Greenwood Office NORDEN HOTEL ***************** LOWERY'S CLAIM Daring the 37 months that Lowery'a Claim was on earth it did business all over the world. It was the most unique, independent aud fearless journal ever produced in Canada. Political and theological enemies pursued it with the venom of a rattlesnake until the government shut it out of the mails, and its editor ceasad to publish it partly on account of a lazy liver and partly because it takes a pile ol money to run a paper that is outlawed. Ihere are still 20 different editions of this condemned journal in print. Send 10 cents and get one or $2 and getl the bunch, K. T. LOWERY, Greenwood, B. C. I ?. ?! f. i <_ Plumber and Tinner I am prepared to ex/ ecute all orders for plumbing and tinsmiths $ ing in city or country. To L. A. Smith, or to any person or persons to whom you may have transferred your interests, take notice that I, the undersigned co-owner with you in the Butterfly mineral claim, situated on Cranberry creek, about two miles from Beaverdell in the Greenwood Mining Division of Yale-Cariboo District, and province of British Columbia, have done the required work on the above mentioned claim for the years 1913 and 1914 in order to hold the same under section 24 of the mineral act, and if within 90 days of the publication of this notice you fail or refuse to contribute your portion of such expenditure together with the costs of this advertisement, your interest in the said mineral claim will become the property of the undersigned under section 4 of the Mineral Act Amendment Act of 1900. Dated at Greenwood, B. C, this i7th day of June, 1914. MARK KAY, Co-Owner. NEW ADVERTISING SCALE. The newspapers in Greenwood, Phoenix and Grand Forks have adopted the following scale for legal advertising: Application for Liquor Licence (30 days) $5.oo. Certificate of Improvement Notice (60 days) $7>5�� Application to Purchase Land Notices (60 days) $7��5�� Delinquent Co-owner Notices (90 days) 1 $15.00 Water Notices (small) .$7.50 All other legal advertising, 12 cents a line, single column, for the first insertion; and 8 cents a line for each subse quent insertion. Nonpariel measurement Hotpoint Electric Appliances -AND- Mazda Tungsten Lamps TRICES REASONABLE Greenwood City Waterworks Company Synopsis of Coal Mining Regulations. ��"*OAL mining rights of the Dominion ^"* in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al berta, the Yukon Territory, the North' west Territories and in a portion of British Columbia, may be leased for a term of twenty-oue years at an annual rental of $1 an acre. Not more than 2,560 acres will be leased to one applicant. Application for a lease must be made by the applicant in person to the Agent or Sub-Agent of the district inwhich the rights applied for are situated. In surveyed territory the land must be described by sections, or legal sub-divisions of sections, and in unsurveyed territory the tract applied for shall be staked out by the applicant himself. Each application must be accompanied by a fee of $5 which will be refunded if the rights applied for are not available) but not otherwise. A royalty shall be paid on the merchantable output of the mine at the rate of five cents per ton. The person operating the mine shall furnish the Agent with sworn returns accounting for the full quantity of merchantable coal mined ana pay the royalty thereon: If the coal mining rights are not being operated, such returns should be furnished at least once a year. The lease will include the coal mining rights only, but the lessee may be permitted to purchase whatever available surface rights may be considered necessary for the working of the mine at the rate of $10.00 an acre. For full information application should be made to the Secretary of the Depart ment of the Interior, Ottawa, or to any Agent or Sub-Agent of Dominion Lands. W. W. CORY, * Deputy Minister of the Interior. N.B.���Unauthorized publication of this advertisement will not be paid for. The time to have the brightest lamps lit, the . hottest supper ready, to wear the gayest dresses and hunt up the funniest stories in one's memory, is the cold rainy night, when there will not be any company, but when the homecoming husband, sons, and brothers will doubly enjoy the cheer. * * * The father who is "chummy" with his boy, gets down to that eager, inquiring, restless little soul and explains and encourages, does not need to cut. a birch gad in order to maintain discipline; and the mother who sympathizes, cuddles and plays with her children can keep her slippers on her feet and her hairbrush on the dressing table. Children need love and sympathy as much as flowers need air and sunshine. * * # The best way to keep the boys at home is to make it an object for them not to go out to seek amusements, for these they will have. Every farm home ought to be made a very heaven on earth to its inmates. Not alone the farm home either, but all the houses in the land. Learn each child's nature, and then work some home charm to keep him in your circle. * * * ' 'Time has scattered the snowy flakes on her brow, plowed furrows in her cheeks���but is she not sweet and beautiful now? The lips which have kissed many tears from the childish cheeks are the sweetest lips in all the world. The eye is dim, yet it glows with rapt radiance of a holy love which can never fade. Oh, yes, she is a dear old mother. Her sands of time are nearly run out, feeble as she is she will go farther and reachr lower down for you than will any other on earth, You cannot walk into midnight where she cannot see you; you cannot enter a prison whose bars shall keep her out; you cannot mount a scaffold too high for her to reach and bless you. In evidence of her deathless love, when the world shall despise and forsake you���when it leaves you by the wayside to die unnoticed���the dear old mother will gather you up in her feeble arms, carry vou home and tellyou of your virtues until you almost forget that your soul is disfigured by vices. Love her tenderly and cheer her declining years with holy devotion. .**������# If you want to keep your children away from sin you can only do so by making their home attractive. You can preach sermons advocate reforms and denounce wickedness and yet your children will be captivated by the glittering saloons of sin, unless you make your home brighter than any other place on earth to them. Gather all the charms you possibly can into your house. If you can afford it, bring books and pictures and cheerful entertainments to the household. But above all, teach those children not by half an hour, twice a year on the Sabbath day, but day after day, and every day teach them that religion is a great gladness, that it throws chains of gold about the neck, that it takes no spring from the foot, no blithness from the heart, no sparkle from the eye, no ring from the laughter, but that "her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. ASSAYBR E. W. WIDDOWSON, Assayer and Chemist, Box Biio8, Nelson, B. C. Charges:���Gold, Silver, Lead or Copper $1 each. Gold-Silver, or Silver-Lead, $1.50. Prices for other metals: Coal, Cement, Fireclay analyses on application. The largest custom assay office in British Columbia. ��<x>ooooo<><>oooooooc>oooooooo T. THOMAS CLOTHES CLEANED PRESSED AND REPAIRED TAILOR - GJREENW00D X>��*0000000<X-OOOOOOOOOOOOd DR. A. MILLOY DENTIST All the latest methods in high-class Dentistry. LOO BUILDING Corner Abbott & Hastings Streets. VANCOUVER. - - - B.C. COUNTY COURT OF YALE A SITTING Of the County Court of Yule will be holden at the Court House, Greenwood, on Tuesday the 8th day of September 1914, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. By order, WALTER DEWDNEY, Registrar C. C. ofY. **��***���*���������*��*���*���*���**������*������ II your Razors Honed :| and Your Baths at | FRAWLEVS BARBERSHOP GREENWOOD, About Float. JFloat is not a periodical. It is a book containing 86 illustrations all told, and < is filled with sketches and stories of western life. It tells how a gambler cashed in after the flash days of Sandon j how it gained in New Denver, long after Noah was dead ; how a parson took a drink at Bear Lake in early days ; how justice was dealt in Kaslo in '93; how the saloon man outprayedthe women in Kalamazoo, and graphically depicts the roamings of a western editor among the Jiender-^ Bank of Montreal KST A BUSHED 1817 CAPITAL AUTHORIZED S2S.OOO.OOO: Capital, paid up, $16,000,000 Rest, $16,000,000. UNDIVIDED PROFIT., .1,040,217.80 Total Assets (October 1913) $242,263,219.60. President: H. V. Merbdith, Esq. . General Manager: Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor Branches in London, Eng.{&��^^^ Buy and Sell Sterling Exchange and Cable Transfers. Grant Commercial and Travellers' Credits, available in any part of the world. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT ���%��Jg&��LM. Greenwood Branch - C. B. Winter, Mgr. GEORGE CLERF. Smmlom TaicVJy mops ca-cfcs. cares caM*. as-d neaU __��. -Jbrtit aod taac-k _; _: 23 cent*. Subscribers are reminded that The Ledge is $2 a year when paid in advance. When not so paid it is $2.50 a year. THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE SIR EDMUND WALKER. C.V.O,LI_.D_, D.CJU PMaldcnt -ALEXANDER LAIRD. General Manager JOHN AIRD. Ass't General !��������������> Ill INI LEI CAPITAL, $15,000,000 RESERVE FUND, $13,500,00. SAVINGS BANK ACCOUNTS Interest at the current rate b allowed on all deposits of $1 and upwards. Careful attention is given to every account. Small accounts are welcomed. Accounts may be opened and operated by maiL Accounts may be opened In tbe names of two or more persons, withdrawals to be made by any on* of them or by tbe survivor. 831 SAVINGSBANK DEPARTMENT A. H. MARCON - Manager of Greenwood aid Rock Creek Bnaclcs feet in the cent belt. It contains the early history of Kelson and a romance of the Silver King mine. In it are printed three . western poems, and doz- : ens of articles too numerous to mention. Send for one before it is too late. The price is, 25 cents, postpaid to any part of the world. Address all let- terete R. T. Lowery GREENWOOD, B. C. He Does Not Advertise. Breathes there a mam with, soul so dead Who never to himself has said: *My trade of late is getting bad, I'll try another ten-inch ad 1" If thercw, go mark him well, For him no bank account shall swell. No angels watch the golden stair, To welcome home the millionaire. The man who never asks for trade, By local line, or add displayed, Cares more for rest than worldly gain, And patronage but gives him pain. Tread lightly, friends; let no rude sourd Disturb his solitude-profound; Here let him lie in calm repose. Unsought except by tneri he owes. And when he dies, go plait him deep That nothing may disturb his sleep, Where no rude clamor may tiispel That quiet that he loved so well. - And that tbe world may .know its lose} Place on a stone it wreath of moss, Aad on a stone above "Here lies" A fossil, who did not advert.*;." THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA. I J. C. MffllNC NEWS J OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO The activities of the British Columbia CopperJCo. at Princess camp on Copper mountain are in line with what was reported some time ago. Buildings of a permanent character are being erected. The movements of the company denote ore production on a large scale. From 700 to 800 acres of land have been bought on which to pnt np buildings to be used in the redaction ofjore. A body of ore rich in galena and carrying high values in silver and lead has been discovered on the north side of i] Constance Cove, Ea- quimalt harbor. The ground has been'staked and 'recorded. Lead can be traced for a distance of 1500 feet. The land on which the location has been made is said to belong to the Hudson Bay Co. and is close to tide water. World's Largest Banks They are getting a lot of high- grade ore on the four hundred foot level at the Silver Standard mine. Steady improvement has lately been the reward of this work, and the present showings are very favorable for a large body qf pay ore near at hand. It is expected that the work will run into No. 1 vein this week. They are now encountering ore in fehe seams, which iB a good indication that there is the large body of ore that the owners have been expecting near at hand. Last month's work shows that over two hundred feet of tunnel, 5 x 7, has been driven and by five machine men. This is looked on as very good work as the rock lies. McCrimmon & Stewart, lessees of several claimB of the Silver Standard property are sinking a Bhaft on Black Biver. They had to put in a syphon to relieve the workings of water flowing in from the excessive rains. The boys have' taken out quite a lot of ore and such as they have mined is quite up to the uniform high quality of stuff previous* ly extracted from Glen mountain. ���Omineca Herald.. Frank Brown has just returned from Bob creek, six miles from Houston on the G.T.P. railway, where he and J. T. Dravenstott were the second locators on the new gold strike���Soper and All- port being the original locators. Chinamen are' now placer mining on Bob creek, and above their placer ground is a porphyry dyke seven or eight hundred feet wide, which carries free milling gold values for ite entire length, and looks like a big steam shovel proposition. Mr. Brown will return to Bob creek at once and will cross- cut and sample the dyke thoroughly. While away he visited his holdings at Owen's Lake, and states that be expects to do considerable work there this year. Speaking of the new Btrike near Tellkwa he says that it looks very promising and that the ore is high grade chalcopyrite. TheChisholm boys are shipping ore from their proper- to the Trail smelter.���The Chalcopyrite. D. J. Galloway, assistant provincial minerologist, finished his labors in our district and went to Hazelton last Wednesday. During his ten-day stay here he examined the Bocher de Boule, Bed Hose and Brian Bora basinB, and his work has evidently been very thorough and complete^-The Chalcopyrite. Harry Howspn, well and favorably known among the mining fraternity in this part of the world, has charge of the development work now under way on the Fiddler mountain recently token over by Martin Welch of 8pokane. We are glad .','4o;i/^^-'vj^pc^quia: mining men and mining money getting on in the Skeena, and hope with a great hope thai this new enterprise; So frequently the question of fchr world's largest banks comes uj> that we take this opportunity of presenting the list published in the foreign banking section of The Statist. London. Sixty-one banks each with deposits of ��100,000,000 or more are included, three of which are Canadian institutions. Deposits and Current Accts. 1 Imperial Bank of Russia ��125,928,000 2 Lloyds Bank - 104,306,000 3 Loudon City & Midland Bank 93,834,000 4 Credit Lyonnais 89,399,000 5 London County & Westminster Bank 8S,314,000 6 Deutsche Bauk 79,002,000 7 Soci efce General (Paris) 72,513,000 8 Bank of England 71,357,000 9 National Provincial Bank of England 67,8S2,000 10 Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation- 01,554,000 11 Barclay & Co _ 60,806,000 12 Comptoir National d'Esco m pee d e Paris 50,574,000 13 Bank of Spain 56,316,000 14 Direction der Dis- conto-Gessellschaft 50,000,000 15 Dresdner Bank 47,920,000 16 Banco de la Nation . Argentina 47,264,000 17 National City Bank, New York 44,266,000 18 Parr's Bank 43,669,000 19 Russian Bank for Foreign Trade 42,084,000 20 Union Bank of London and Smith's Bank 42,084,000 21 Bank of France 40,318,000 22 Capital and Counties Bank 39,958,000 23 Canadian Bank of Commerce 3 9.769,000 24 Imperial Bank of Germany (Reichs- bank) _ 39,694,000 25 Bank of Montreal... 39.100.000 26 London Joint Stock Bank 37,637,000 27 Oesterreicbische Cre- dit-A u e t a 11 fur Hahdel und Ge- werbe _ 36,005,000 28 Continental & Commercial National Bank, Chicago 35,840,000 29 Banque Internation- de Commerce a St. Petersbonrg ... 35,252,000 30 Bank of New Sonth Wales - 34,281,000 31 Volga Kama Commercial Bank (Bus- sia) I.........;_.......... 34,126,000 32 Guaranty Trust Co. of New York 33,386,000 33 Russian Commercial and Industrial Bank 32,668,000 34 Banca Commerciale Italiana 32,491,000 35 Darmstadter Bank _ 30,3S4,000 36 Banque Russo-Asia- tique 30,000,000 37 National Bank of Commerce, New York.. 29,745,000 38 Allgemeine Oester- reichische Boden Credit Anstalt... 28,771,000 39 Royal Bauk of Canada _ 28,500,000 40 First National Bank ChicBgo 28,441,000 41 Bankers' Trust Co. New York 27,448,000 42 Manchester & Liverpool District Bank 26,917,000 43 ChaeeNational Bank, New York- 24,816,000 44 London and River Plate Bank - 23,432,000 45 National Park Bank . New York... 23,138,000 46 Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., New York 23,045,000 47 Hanover National Bank, New York.... 22,673,000 49 Oesterreichische TJn- garische Bank 21.8(59,000 50 Londou and South western Bank _21,.">:n,oO0 51 Union Bank of Aut- ralia Ltd. Aug. 30 21,335.000 52 Central Trust Co. New York June 30 21,293,000 53 First National Bank New York 21,210,000 54 Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney _ 21,150,000 55 Yokohama Specie Bank 21,077,000 56 Standard Bank of Sonth Africa 20,900,000 57 Anglo-Austrian Bank 20,780,000 58 Bank of Liverpool 20,277,000 59 London and Provin cial Bank 20,240,000 GO Yorkshire Penny Bank 20,100,000 Gl Bauk of Scotland (Feb. 14 1914) 20,001,000 If the war prevails a market is assured. When it is all over Canada may be the richer and better for it. That is a plain way to look at the possibilities. The Reason Why. will prove snocettfuL- pyrite. -TheChalco-|48 Oesterreichische J Landerbank- 22,341,000 What Effect will it Have. That is the question men are asking so far as Canada is concerned. As to the effect the war will have. Will Canada benefit or not? Undoubtedly it will precipitate a marked financial stringency so far as the money which we borrow to carry on our national and provincial works and operations. And all the enterprises depending on foreign capital will feel a pinch. Of that new loan guaranteed as it is by the Dominion, the [Canadian Northern have had subscribed only about one-fifth of the required amount. Probably Canada will benefit. Russia will conserve her wheat crop to feed her troops in the field, and the crop may suffer from a scarcity of labor. Europe bent on fighting will be forced to depend on the American continent for a wheat supply. There is a possibility that wheat may advance to a price never heard of on this side of the globe. Two dollar wheat would enrich the North West farmer, for in time of war wheat is paid for promptly. If the prairie farmer has a good crop he will be on easy street. The fisheries will feel the influence, for they constitute a notable source of supply of food. Thousands of men who now encumber the labor markets will be drawn from this land and leave the ranks of the unemployed so many less. While money in large amounts may be difficult to find there will be enough to keep things moving. People are asking this question: Why should Britain be drawn into a war, and to which, as a party, without ostensible object? The folio ay assist to make the matter plain. The Triple Alliance is a compact entered into between Germany, Austria aud Italy against Russia. It was formerly the Dual Alliance entered into in 1S79, when Germany and Austria pledged themselves to joint action should either be assailed by Russia and to neutrality should either be assailed by auother power. In 1SS3 Italy was admitted into the Dual Alliance and it became the Triple Alliance. Tho treaty provides that should Russia assist any nation at war with any of tho signatories to the treaty the other signatories must come to assistance. The treaty is very specific in its terms and provides for a division of all territory acquired at a victorious war. Under the treaty the Triple Alliance must back Austria should Russia come to the assistance of Servia. In addition to the Triple Alliance powers, Bulgaria, for Balkan political reasoup, will support Austria. The Triple Entente is the offset to the Triple Alliance. It embraces Russia, France and Britain. The details of the Triple Entente have never been made public, but it is accepted as certain that France and Russia are bound absolutely in an offensive and defensive alliance. ���Just how firmly Britain is bound is not known. Spain has become a party to this agreement, but to what extent is conjectural. For Balkan reasons Greece and Romania will support Servia as against Austria. Russia's support of Servia is part of the Pan-Slavic programme as against the Pan Germanic expansion plans. "These kids I teach aren't a bit slow," observed a school teacher yesterday. "In fact I'm afraid they read the papers. The otber day I proposed the following problem to my arithmetic class: ���' 'A rich man dies and leaves $1,000,000. One fifth goes to his wife, one sixth to his son, one seventh to his daughter, one eighth to To make life happy is an art��� a good many people have either lost or never found. There is nothing gained in the government of children by threatening that which is not performed.' No man, however great, is known to everybody, and no man, however solitary, is known to nobody. ���Moore. his brother, and the rest to foreign | missions. What does each get?' " 'A lawyer,' said the smallest boy in the class, promptly." The reason why women do not propose ie supposed to be due to the fact that they want to have the last word. It is worth a thousand dollars a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things. AT THE CHURCHES Christian Science service will be held in the Oddfellows Hall on Sunday at 11 a.m. All welcome. On the 3rd Friday of each month at 8 p.m. testimonial meetings will be held in the same hall. Sunday school every Sunday morning". Rev. J. H. Hobbins will preach in the Methodist church next Sunday at 11.00 a.( tn. Sunday School 2.30 p.m. Service in the Presbyterian church next Sunday, Aug. 23rd will be held in the evening at 7.30 o'clock. Sunday School and Bible Class 12:15 p.m. Rev. J. R. Munro Pastor. St. Jude's Church���1st and 3rd Sundays in the month, Matins and Celebration of the Holy Communion 11 a.m. 2nd and 4th Sundays in the month celebration of the Holy Communion 8 a. m. Matins and Litany at 11 a.m. Sth Sunday in the month Ma- and Litany at 11 a.m. Evensong every Sunday at 7.30 p.m. Rev. R. D. Porter, Vicar, Cathouc Church, Rev. DomG. Dorval, Rector, Mass 2nd and 4th Sunday, at 10 o'clock. Evening service at 7.30, sermon and benediction. Daily Mass at the hospital at 6 o'clock. Confessions are heard half an hour before mass. WATER 'NOTICE DIVERSION AND USE Take notice that I, David Oxley, whose address is Eholt, B. C, will apply for a licence to take and use 20 inches of water out of Eholt Creek, which flows southwest and drains into Boundary Creek about 7 miles south-west. The water will be diverted from the stream at a point about 300 feet from corner of lot 1223 and will be used for domestic purpose upon the pre-emption described as Number 1235. This notice was posted on the ground on this iotb day of August, 1914. A copy of this notice and an application pursuant thereto and to the "Water Act, 1914," will be filed in the office of the Water Recorder at Grand Forks, B. C. Objections to the application may be filed with the said Water Recorder or with the Comptroller of Water Rights, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C., within 30 days after the first appearance of this notice in a local newspaper. The land is for farming purposes for which purposes I am going to use the water. The date of the first publication of this notice is Aug. 13, 1614. DAVID OXLEY, Applicant. .7= S. GREENWOOD FAIR *- Sept. 24 &.25 i 1914 W. E. McARTHLIR, President. P. H, McCURRACH Sec. Treas- JJ t Birks' Silver FLAT WARE is made in substantial weights and dignified designs. It is beautifully finished and possesses a lasting strength which assures perfect satis** faction to the purchaser. We are the only Silver manufacturers in Canada selling direct to the consumer. OuVof/town buyers should write for our catalogue which illustrates and describes our fine family patterns in both Slerling Silver and Silver plate, All orders prepaid to any point in B.C HENRY BIRKS & SONS, LIMITED JEWELERS AND SILVERSMITHS Geo. R Trorey, Man, Dir, VANCOUVER, B. C 1 The Midway Store for Quality Goods Get what you want and get it Good. Our Stock is Clean, Fresh and Up/Tc'Date. Our Aim is to Please. .Give us a Trial Order. All kinds of farm implements, JAS. G. McMYNN, MIDWAY, B. C. A r-smmmfmmmwmrmmmmmmmtmfwmmmmm--. I PANAMA HATS j Mallory Hats Semi-Ready Clothing i P.W.GEORGE J B COPPER STREET / GREENWOOD, B. C, ^ ^iiiiiiaiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ CANADIAN ReducedFares FOR SUMMER OF 1914 ��n SaIe JUQe H. to September 30th Final Return Limit October 31st Winnipeg - / $60.00 Montreal - ��� $105.00 St. Paul - - - 60.00 St. John - ��� ��� 120.00 Chicago - - - 72.50 Halifax - ��� ��� 129.35 Toronto - - - 92.00 New York - 108.50 Compartment Observation Cars* Electric Lighted Standard Sleepers "Canadian Pacific Service" S. SMEATON, Acting District Passenger Agent, Nelson, B. C. SMOKE Imperator and Kootenay''8}-��nrlard Cigars. Made bv J. C. THEUN fc Co., NELSON J. B, CAMERON, Leading Tailor of the Kootenays. KASLO B. O* LEDGE ADS. BRING RESULTS .5
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