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J2T. Srernenson, W.M.

A. P. VRALE. Sec’y.

TABER LODGE

No. 25 Meets every Thursday Fiveninn in Youglas Block, Main St., at 8 o'clock. Visiting Brethren always weleome. WM. McALLISTER, N.G. T. BULLOCK, R:S.

anson & Birch

Plastering Contractors Estimates given for of work ‘in this Ine. donc a satisfactory

all classes AWL work

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McLellan & Mcintyre

GENERAL BLACKSAUTHS Hractiva} LLorseshoers read eed

Trading Co

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Shop Opposite Reliance

W. BRUSH GRUBB

Insurance: Fire, Life, Accident @ Reeves Traction Engines. ‘

REAL ESTATE Taber Meat Market

Fresh and sait meats of

Fish

all kinds

in season, butter, lard and

fresh sausage,

J. B. Jett & Co

HIELL ELL TOVE

Also Makes a Spocialty of Supplying HOMESTEADERS' COOKING. UTENSILS

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$10, S15 & $20 Overcoats ‘= Pass

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Bank Loans and Insurance | Tt seems that for some time cattle: | to Prevent Spread of Smallpox oa oe eee 4 men around Lethbridge have sus: | poric LODGE, U. Dd ‘pected Edress Gardner and Kdward ; | VERY HE VY | oe a | Holmes of killing beef that didnot! | Serious Coni‘#ion to the South A. F. & A.M. G. RJA. | belong to them and selling the meat | : ae Ste vate f ‘in Taber. \ : 1 Aloets rege | ae ESI acini Hoke aaveeal| During the past week or two he) The provincial health Eiatvonsi| : 4 5. raving -lost severe : Oo. before the ul ' hend of 7" suadosun Wis wind. Ke passenger traflic on, the railroads| has received a letter from Dr. Mon- $) 3 | 3 U 3 é 3 8 ( ‘. i : | moon inthe Masonic pias cn ° ; pane Scie ‘ throughout the West has shown a, tizambert of Ottawa, director-general | + ‘ } stre see » col sate 1€ | y pire | . : Hall, Main Bircet. peace mee ee }great. Increase. The months of | j of public works, stating that tem- | Visiting brethren ;ties. Accordingly he and James} : - ; , ee eit oy a January and Fe! yruar Vy ‘are aienget porary quarantine offices would be} cordially welcome. | Puller set. out on Tuesday of las ; | a ; rather.dull, and this year has been | established along the border, and | i week.

Reaching the neighborhood 2 ; : - 6 . , noexcepfion: but this slack season | persons coming across’ the line would |

of the Holmes homestead near Wood- | . 2 : } , ; ” ;is now over, and the prospects are} be required to undergo an inspection |

pecker, they decided to cache them- aap { Pus ‘i | ; that before another month has passed |to ascertain whether they were carry:

selves and wait and watch. They . Pee ee oo te Bie cae “the resources of the railways will be | ing the smallpox germ. svemained at a neighboring wnch that Bases ee ds |< taxed in order to provide see aah a ; This is the result,of the request ‘night. and .watehed the next day, | . iy.) dation for the hosts of people who} made by the provincial health de- when the expeeted happened. Two ; i vill he on the movean the Canadian partment sone few days ago, when men drove up w bunch ‘of beef, and, {

ne lhwest. the trains in the West are well Bled,

ven at the present time | jt. beeame. known that) there were

kille dat.

j roping one, eaught if and

Hill and Fuller waited until the beef |

; ; and it is evident thnt,the rush of) of Minnesota, and it was almost im- was. hearly butchered before they : : : a settlers has commenced in earnest.” | possible for the health authorities of | , showed themselves.” Then they rode, =. —_ - : | The C.P.R. officials say that traffic that state to quarantine all who had |

down between the men and the ranch, |

ie a oe a : oe "$2.50 YEARLY

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SOLD IN ANY QUANTITIES

The Alberta Drug & Stationery Co.

astern Town ships Bank.

CAPITAL, $3,000,000 RESERVE, $1,860,000 57 branches and agencies in has, 48 years in operation General Banking Business Conducted ACCOUNTS SOLICITED ae Drafts Sold in all parts of the World

(Yukon: exeepted)_Unite at follawing rates, « : 310 to $30, 10¢

$30 to $50,

Money orders payable in any bank in Canada’ States, England, Scotland,

$4 and under, 03

$5 to $10,. 06

Impossible to Jose your money in. transmitting it by this enpibicid

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/ 1,800 cases of smallpox in the state ‘Taber Branch, Cc. E. Moe, Manayer

cnck we the pommel HiaPaniaalerell is steadily Improving and that pros-. the infectious disease. It was feared a y ‘ a 1@ po oO elr ¢ soraere . dine tes a ia A | Hoh pects for the season are exeellent. | that, owing to such a number passing \ ; ae WO men, Gravahnor ane QUES, ; . . : ; r : esterday the train from ‘the East: over the border into Canada trom to throw up thety hands. | An ex- e.2 ; ; ; ; ; aminntion -of the-beef showed the “2% 1 'wo sections, ¢ ud the special 'day to day, the disease might be (aur nhion oa ra Deel shower e : , . ans 4 . : Circle bint, he aueaperie Tot 2thi settlers’ trains are also bringing large brought in-and spread over the whole : ps a ls “Cle sand, e proper . the | : : ! OE LS aD : ‘ ape yarties from astern Caan, At country. <= eee a ae Circle. Cattle Company. The two | : ; ; : . : , meee k hat tie present time the vesumption’ of 3y the aetion of ‘the Dominion aa men were disarmed and taken that ai : ae. his week we are offering some very special values in lay to the Cameron: raneh, and later the regular daily Service on some of health department each place where cday to Lire wnere “WHEN, at hater A ; " 1 . ete brane dines is beige considered. the rmeulway passes: from the States >.” to. Lethbridge, under the- watelful : ; a : ; : qe I ADI E S’ m MIS ES (HiT Ty bch tbve Poaoumimber of these lings: as for into Canzda, where there is any like- 4d ak eVOC Ob Min ui. @ w\ OOK 1e 5 ‘ , : . ' ident . itstance the Korkella: branch, only hhood of persons coring fron Min- - nate wWlOng also. : . ~ oy) = 1 Hol 1} three trams a week lave been nesota being on the train, there will READY-TO- Gardner an olmes appeared) be- , running: but its is expected that be w quarantine station, and inspec: fores.d sspector. Weston Moves o : : ed ; WEAR ees re roeiee NO Perse herve nongeebo dehy. teins owiktako regevall doc Teg seers, if —~. ‘ of charged with Killime a heifer, flue pro- ; an Y ; hic ; : oe } agg. Hier CXPVess Wren Epo . ’ pety af the Cirele ranch. Wes Hin ; . . m Bla ieks, Browns, Greens, Gress and Blues i all ta during the winter bas been running n and Janes aier gave evidence as ‘ : aa wwestwaurd only as far as Moose Jaw Att k D C J d pa a ene rn mm to having seen the animal ia question ss j ; ac 0 tar u es : a . will shortly be sent on to Calgary, . tied yp in) Hobnes’ corral, and to \ . . : a ahd this will be a great couvenience Tire following-are a few of the Special Prices having watched the accused kill and | eas, | ; : : . - o the Jarge numbers of people Rev. Di. Fraser, pastor of the First ee ; v , e skin the abiimal im the morning. ° t . , MISSPS’ SKIRTS /... Regular S3.25 0 For $2.75 Ty ace ag ; travelling between Witinipeg and the Presbyterian Church, Vancouver, , wV arvrestec Litres bape ad ede Look : ‘ . Mis ~ S vp S30 * | he C ie of Alberta, By the Jivst of created a mild sensation when he {ISsi:S’ SKIRTS 3.0) them over to the wero Vaneh, os , ; ‘ . . , ea? fe - 4 > » ; ; Baldy: Buck. \pril it is contidenthy expected that spoke against the judiciary of B.C. LADHES’ SKIRTS | 34.50 33.60 where Baldy DucK, the foreman o : . es ere wrk ; ie : ‘3 he Cirel ; He identified the traffic on all Wester dines will, He said What we want in British LADIES. SKIRTS $5.00 4.00 the Circle raneh, was. e Ldentines a : : aise : . the hideas thit ofa Ciréle- anita DET TO DONA, Columbia is a self-respecting judici- LADIES SKIRTS BID S4. ; The GPR. atic retums ulsocary. Even patvolmen will tell you mene er so Messrs. Baek aul Hhitl then took he " ‘ | I u lie FeEMEN wISO | i LADINS SATRTS 96.00 4s S4 To ; how a daily increase. ‘The trains there ts no Use securing conviction eee - ‘ aceused to the barraeks ato Leth. 770% ; Nel ta The trudis , a a LADIES SKIRTS S700 $5.50 bridee. Ma. Baek’ “lence « leaving the city forthe West are ail because mt will be upset by the higher ae midge. Ma Buek ss evidence cor- on } ‘| vechnicalit F: \ , LLAADIES’ SKIRTS 3510.00 $8.00 einised aie Pe pasiill well tilled, and every day shows an bench on a vechnicalhty. ast Women whe « ) "Vs. ig ; A “ ‘ . ‘ Was that Paspeetor West committed mereasing Number who ave moving Were recently released on bruil pend- e ) e Vials i Spe t a = . ~ \ eee ' towards the West. Most of the ing appeal. Phey did not leave the Lad 1ecs Unde Ss ir e Holmes and Gardner for trial. ; ep . ad settlers Who are coming in at the ely, but vetimmed to their formar hfe +e . ‘ present time ave those who secured and conditions, aud are now nearly BLACK SATEENS Fron, S115 to $3.00 Each It is an axiom that the more dogs , land last suinmer and ave now pre- | &s bad as ever. It is x downright WHITE CAMBRIC Toc. to SY.00 Iman possesses the more shiftless paved to settle down with their shuine that a British bench should and inpeeunions he is, and that the: families. In many cases they are! be open to such eriticisin. { was | er —

lintormed on excellent wathority that jduring the hearing of an important | case bere the presiding judge fell

number of dogs in a neighborhood isi brmging quite a large quantity of | the. ad- ; vance guard of the army which will! follow... As vet these are}asleep on the bench and the case | the movement from | bad to be adjourned until next day!

| Europe not. having commenced. But | Thore is no mincing matters. To) laside from tho immigration meve-|order to effect reforms we should | ment the trafic, as a result of the! strike at the very contre.” ‘improvement iv’ twide. conditions, is | very evident and will without doubt 4 | reach nu ‘bih level during the coming |

iseason.-- Winnipeg Telegram.

w nover-failing index to the thrift and ; effects, and they ave only

i character of the population.

inost. of ! Americans,

Its Braman | |

Hill Has Control.

Developinents at a meeting held in

‘Toronto last week of the Crow's : } * ments of patent cradles, over a case ; Coal Company marked

: i ; of assorted brands of condensed milk, i the passing of the control into the ‘hapds ‘ot dames. J. Hill, Hin. ine| wren Doses Ff powder, prospeo tse | | ‘ie of thirteen kinds of feeding bottles, | teresis have quietly acquired control | i lay Gaivate ale: ‘ancl innumerable samples of safety | pins, rubber bibs, flannel, knitted |

Even advertising bas its draw- }backs. lt is said that a proud young | fathor, who announced in. o paper | recently the birth of a-son, has since iveceived nineteen sample tins of in- fants’ food, twenty-four advertise- |

iPr Finest CARR'S & ny RACY'S

BEAVERS & MELTONS

: My, ¢ ALSO \ fr, Gangh, the only new director, goods Snd-ailk The ban ales is a Hill man. ~ Mr. Graves, the [eon Sidhe ty id honk ta| A give Line of other man from the West, is a large} “acai

: | / | Selling worke on |the care of infants, }- a al h +}

R eady Wear ov RCOATS: individual steck _— : ‘by louis Makino basa agents | webs desire |

| to ; ,to insure the child’s life on vertain ‘daick nétalil apo the. brilwe, view lines, and by six salesmen for| And kiss ver gn the ffinfonte’ op houses. He says Pad ‘Chptnters aed. PmMHCKS 9: brook in below, tie ilk asether adkli«

te isen who know m4 Bot Jill, she murmured not. j tion to ta te in. the press.

The Taher Trading Co., Ltd.

Notice to the Public

McKellar &Wildman

Boilers and Contractors.

EN. Harding Co.

Harness,’ sackiles, ‘fain: cali blankets and everything for your’ horse. Special attention given to orders of all kinds ;

I have’ received about 3,500 Rolls of #908 Patterns al- roudy. They range in price from 124¢. to 55c. per roll

|\W.H. BALDREY _ PAINTE RAND DE Cc OR ATOR

_E. 6. JONES

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WALL PAPER

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‘Miss Penelope. aly TROY ALISON, Pi

Copyrighted, 1907, by. H..C. Parcells.

| She greeted her first and only board- #r with a shy dignity. .

“IE think you will find it quiet enough here, Mr, Holmes. You said in* your fetter that you wanted to get away. from home and the children while you @nished your book.”

| John Holmes put his suit case,down -@n. the veranda and took the huge -gocker offered by Miss Penelope’s col- -@red servant, Aunt Dilsey.

| “It looks nice and quiet,” he said, ' ¢aking in the gorgeous coloring of the -érees and the old fashioned flower gar- den, now gay with dahlias and gerani- ‘ums. “I think I will be able to work

’ after a day or so of rest and wander-

ving through the woods. When I got your mother’s answer to my advertise- @ment I instinctively knew that it was he right one to accept.” (Miss Penelope blushed faintly. \ s“Not my mother’s—I am your—host- W keep house for my father.” She ver in the world would have thought ¢ herself as his landlady. “Aunt Dil- @ey will render you,any necessary serv- fice. Wake Mr. Holmes’ suit case, Aunt $Dilsey, and show him his room. Sup- fer will be ready in half an hour.” ‘He went upstairs to the front bed- r coom, rather pleased that he would ': have for company at supper a pleasing ‘oman of -perhaps thirty instead of ihe middle aged .farmer’s wife whom

’ ais-imagination had pictured.

‘Miss Penelope, giving a final touch

‘« to her supper table, with its centerpiece - of brilliant fall blossoms, talked to her

‘Dlind father. “If it’s quiet he wants, ‘he certainly ought’to be satisfied. But r man than I ex- ‘pected. I have read his last book, and © ft .deesn’t seem that such a jolly look- @ man could have written books so

» serious. ; “Se said there were five children at »fais heuse and that their mother be- «Meved that a constant exercise of lungs dana muscles was good for their. devel- epment. We'll feel really important, @addy, having a real book written in our ,bouse or on our veranda or in our ‘back yard, wherever genius happens to \fnmspire him.” And she ran on merrily,

ve@eiving the little details which for the vtem gears of his blindness had been adhe pleasure of her father’s life.

wThe novel progressed finely in the -@ext few weeks, and the boarder dl-

~“] KEPT THE ROSE YOU GAVE ME.”

«vided his days into mornings for work, weiternoons for fishing and rambling <arough the woods and gay little chats @with Miss Penelope and her father after supper.

| .Mjss Penelope forgot the shyness for ewhich she was noted and talked of the @hings she had read and dreamed eabout for years as if she had actually YAived them, Returning from school ten swears before, she had not found the average youth of the communtty con- : genial. Her natural timidity and ret-

' Seenece had been mistaken for hauteur,

anG not one of the country swains had

)peasessed the courage to ask her to go

fer the customary drives or to the ‘gearly ice cream festival.

She had tended her flower garden, di-

‘ @ected the management of her father’s @arm and for amusement had lived in «y@ world of books and magazines. The -@nly love of her life was a worship of M@adolph Rassendyll after reading “The Prisoner of Zenda.” She unconscious- fy adapted her style of dress to’ the fines that she thought would have suit- ed the slenderness of Queen Flavia mud never realized that she was dream- . Ang ber life away. :

To Holmes she talked freely—of her ‘fancies, of his Work, of anything that »the moment prompted, and he had un- «@omeciously added: a touch of her to vwthe quaint heroine of his book.

“Let me read you the last three ewhapters,” he baid one evening when

@he rain had driven them indoors from

,,.fe flower garden. and the hammock i ammder the trees, “It always sounds rs ieeited for a writer. te wank fo read 4 :

‘ie own w I T have @iven the exact touch to this, and I @vant to see how it strikes you.”

fie brought the manuscript, and Misa wHenelope lit the did fashioned lamp. san he read her eyes dilated and she @listene eagerly. She saw her own aBablia garden flaun‘ong in the autumn

«0. the weodland path that led trom

gasped incredulously, “and idealized

the ‘back of the garden to tne creet, und wus it Mr, Holnies or het own Rudolph Russendyll transplated to

(MAKE TH

‘THE TABER

quiet and homelike atmosphere that 'ymIx IT YOURSELF BY SHAKING

was given A red. rose {n the garden by the strangely familiar woman in. the book ? :

«“You have made her ‘like. me,” she me, and, where she tells him about her life, lived ‘in the characters . from books she had read, it’s. exactly what I said to you the afternoon we went ridihg on the creek.” .

“I couldn’t ‘help’ it,” he confessed. “It fitted ‘the Esther in: my- story so perfectly that I was simply obliged to let her borrow the whole conversation. You don’t mind, do you?” = xe

“I never was more flattered in m life,” she said impulsively. “I never imagined there was one trait or thought of mine of enough importance to be written about, but you have made me seem all that I always want- ed to be.” ; ;

“Are you?” He laid the manuscript on the table. “I kept the rose you gave me that day in the garden,” he said abruptly.

She sat still and white, the situation being one that she had never met with or dreamed of meeting,

“To me you are Esther. I could love you the same way.” he said quietly.

Miss Penelope rose, frightened and childlike, a quiver of pain trembling on ber lips,

“Mr. Holmes, I have admired yon. I have tried to entertain you as best I could to keep. you from finding the dullness of our.life tedious. Perhaps I am to blame,” she said dazedly. “TI found you so sympathetic and congen- ial that I talked to you more than I ever talked to any one in my life, but I never thought that you would misun- “derstand me—would offer me this in- sult. You, a married man,” she gasped.

' “A—a—what?” he asked blankly.

“A married man,” she said brokenly, two tears trickling. down her cheeks.

Holmes, a finished product of civill- zation, let his mouth drop open in as- tonishment,

“I've never been married in my life,” he said in amazement.

“But those five children that you wanted to get away from?” she said faintly.

Holmes, struggled with his merri- ment and was finally able to answer:

“Those five kids belong to my sis- ter,” he chuckled. “I live with her and her husband in any part of the house that {s not pre-empted by those urchins. I never dreamed that you thorght I was married all this time.”

Miss Penelope still stood, nervous and dazed before him.

He took her hand and, stooping, pressed his lips to it. “I kept the rose,” he said insinuatingly.

_Bhe looked down upon his blond

ead, and her own beloved Queen

Flavia and Rudolph Rassendyll be- came from that moment mere crea- tures of fiction. She had found her own romance,

“I'm so—glad—-you kept it,” she sald timidly.

A Spelling Reform.

One of the witnesses in a lawsuit, who had just been sworn, was asked ‘to give his name. He replied that it was Hinckley. Then the attorney for the prosecution requested him to give his name in full.

“Jeffrey Alias Hinckley.”

“T am not asking you for your alias,” said the lawyer impatiently. “What is your real name?”

“Jeffrey Alias Hinckley.”

“No trifling in this court, sir!’ stern- ly spoke the judge. “Which is your tight name—Jeffrey or Hinckley?”

“Both of ’em, your honor.”

“Both of them? Which is your sur name?”

“Hinckley.”

“And Jeffrey is your given fame?’

“Yes, your honor.”

“Then what business have you with an alias?”

“I wish I knew, your honor.” said the witness ruefully. “It isn’t my fault.”

“What do you mean, sir?’ demanded }

the judge, who was fast losing his »temper. ;

“I mean, your honor, that Alias is my middle name, for some reason which my parents never explained to me. I suppose they saw it, in print somewhere and rather liked’ the looks, ef it. I'd get rid of it if I could do’ so without the newspapers finding it out and joshing me about it.”

“The court suggests that hereafter the witness. begin his middle. name with an E instead. of an A. . Counsel, will proceed with the examination,” said the judge, coughing behind his handkerchief.—Youth’s Companion,

His Qualifications.

I am reminded, says a writer, of the little boy who applied for a job at a squire’s house, where. he could earn 5 shillings a week by making: himself generally useful,

Squire—Can you clean silver?

Hoy—Yes, sir,

“Can you cook and light fires and sing and dust old china and make beds?’

“Oh, yes, sir.” ;

“Can you clean bicycles and repair punctured tires and tuhe pianos?’

“Certainly sir.” ,

“Can you mend electric bells apd do plumbing and gas fitting, teach. mod- ern and ancient languages, geography and the use of the globes?’

“I can, and also do anything else

‘that is required.’* ?

your house built on a clay soil? . . Squire—Well, it happens that it ia

. But what has that to do with it?

“Well, I thought you would like me to fill up my spare time by making bricks.”

lence.—London Answara, _

He was not. engaged for his edd

INGREDIENTS IN BOTTLE

. ', Toronto Newspapers Say Hundreds of

_‘ Peonle Will, Welcome This Ad- vice, if Only. Partly: True What will begged very interesting to many people taken from a Toronto daily paper, giv-

ing a simple prescription, as. formu-

lated by a noted authority, who claims that he has found a positive remedy to cure almost, any case .of backache or kidney or. bladder ‘derangement, in the following s'mple prescription, if taken before the stage of Bright’s disease :

‘Fluid Extract. Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces.. Shake well in a bottle and take in teaspoonful doses after each meal and again at bedtime. :

A well-known druggist, when asked regarding this prescription, stated that the ingredients are all harmless, and can be obtained at a small cost from any good prescription pharma- ev, or the mixture would be put up if asked to do so. He further stated that while this prescription is dften prescribed in rheumatic afflictions with splendid results. he could see no reason why it would nipt be a splen- did remedy for kidney ‘and urinary troubles and backache, as it has a peculiar aétion unon the kidney struc- ture, cleansing these most important organs and helping them to sift and filter from the blood the foul acids and waste matter which cause sickness and: suffering. Readers. who suffer, os make no mistake in giving it a trial. ,

Think Again! Applicant—What is the first thing to do. before you get a marriage li- cense? ‘ . License Clerk—Think it over, young man; think it over!—IIlustrated Bits.

Diph.

Minard’s theria.

Liniment Cures

AUSTRALIANS ARE PLEASED. ©

French Government to Get Rid of Pacific Convicts. -

Information has reached Sydney from Noun:ea that the French Govern- ment has at last decided to begin the work of repatriating certaiu classes of convicts to New Caledonia. This news has given great satisfaciion to all Aus- tralians.

Women who were sent to the island in the Pacific for petty crimes are to be permitted to return to their homes, anc eventually further repatriation is to proceed.

It has always been a sore point with Australians that their competitors in the colonization of the French and British groups of Pacific islands should perpetuate that “birth stain”

hichathe Jo o., geloga:

0 dctoo mane Jong e20 ge of the “bad old convict days.”” New Cale- donia’s proximity tc the New Heb- rides and the comparative ease with which escaped prisoners from Nou- mea can settle in ‘these lazy Pacific beauty-spots, and taint the reputation of white men, has added a touch of bitterness ‘to the generation of old grievance of the Commonwealth against France.

From the days of 1871 New Cale- donia has been the dufnping-ground of France’s criminals. genuine turn of the tide of criminal emigration, it will do more than any- thing else .to cement French. and British relations in this part of the world.

ATTACKING POSTMEN.

New Way of Preventing Service of Writs in Ireland.

An extraordinary outrage is report- ed from the district near Killarney where a rural postman was attacked and gagged and his mail bag rifled. He was cycling through the rural district of Rathmore delivering letters in the lonely hamlets, when in the gathering darkness two men attacked him from behind, pulled him off his machine, and held him down’ while they cut the mail bag open.

The assailants escaped without be- ing identified. The postman was not seriously injured, and was able to re- sume his journey and report the affair at Rathmore postoffice.

Nothing of any value was taken from the post bag,- although there were a number of letters containing remittances to peasants from rela- tives in America. ,

The only solution of the mystery is that the outrage was actuated by the same motives as some’ of. those which have occurred in Leitrim, where post- men have been attacked and writs ‘which were being sent through the post were taken.

.There is a good deal of agrarian agi- tation in the district connected. with the sale of Lord Kenmare’s property to the tenants. A number of writs from the Supreme Court have been served recently, which have. caused some unpleasantness, and many ten ants declare that they will use every means in their power to prevent their cattle being seized for the arrears of vent, which they refuse to pay.

here is the article;

If there be a’

ppease

FREK PRESS. —

IS UP AT HOME| suo two swps For one. | A

W. T. Stead’ Would Have Britain Double Germany's Efforts;

Mr. Stead;, who was one of the first to arouse national interest in the navy, has in the. new issue of the “Review of Reviews” an outspokén pronouncement. on the question of maintaining the British navy and lay- ing down two ships-toone in answer

‘ta the German program.: Mr. Stéad,

if will be recalled, wrote in 1884 ‘The Truth About the 'Navy,”. which he ¢laims was mainly responsible for the rebuilding of the first’ line ‘ of, de- fence. :

“There is no question’? says Mr. Stead, ‘‘as to what John Bull will re- ply to the German program, be it litttle or big. He will say that he is sorry, but if it must be so he cannot help himself. Without any unfriendly feeling he accepts in all courtesy the challenge which’ is offered him. He wishes for nothing more than the maintenance of the statys quo. :

“He has no army to speak of; his only defence 1s his navy. The main- tenance of its unquestioned supremacy is for him a matter of life and death. His readiness to secure that supre- macy is the condition of the existence of the British Empire. He does not waste his breath in idle moan or pro- fane objurgation when any of ‘his neighbors chaHenge him to see whe- ther or not he is prepared to hold his own and maintain his position. The challenge is none -of our seeking, we simply take our stand on the status quo. .We aré willing to maintain the status quo, either by reducing arma- ments or by arresting the increase of armaments. But if it can be main- tained in no other way, we are ready and resolved to maintain it by com- petition.

“We shall bring forward no impos- ing .counter program. But when the Kaiser lays down one keel. we lay down two. That is the formula of safety. We shall no more discuss it than a swimmer discusses the neces- sity of keeping his head above water. We shall simply do it because we have no alternative: except that of suicide, .

“We shall not be any worse friends with Germany because she wishes to alter the status quo to our detriment. It is a fair challenge and we shall ac- cept it in the same spirit in which we accepted the challenge for the blue riband of tho Atlantic. Only instead of allowing the naval Neutschland to take the prize and hold it for yéars while the Luisitania and Mauretania were buildiing, we cannot afford to allow our naval supremacy to be im- perilled. No, not even for a single day. ‘Britons, hold your own. And so say all of us.”

The cost of what we may call Mr.

Stead’s naval program for 1908 would be: 8 battleships, etc., at £2,-'

000,000 apiece ......... £16,000,000

4 protected cruisers at £300,000 ..

4 destroyers at £80,000. . *

1,200,000 1,920,000 £19,120,000

This would involve naval estimates of £40,A00,000.

The Political Woman.

The English suffragettes have done good service. by showing us plainly what the political woman would be. They are, of course, picked specimens, but it would be the picked specimens that would mount. the political plat form. Nature has apparently ordain- ed, and for plainly good purposes, that the family should be a unit be- fore the state, represented by the man, on whom falls the duty of pro- tection; a duty from which no suffra- gette apparently proposes to absolve him. Not all women are married, but marriage is the normal state, and as yet we have apparently no proof that eunmarried women have been special sufferers by the lack of the franchise. It can hardly be denied that legisla- tion generally has long been, and still is, favorable to women. Nor will it be denied that the sex has its privi- leges. Both privilege and equality it cannot have as when it came to be represented by suffragettes would plainly appear. In England the par- liamentary champion chosen by the ‘women demands for his clients not only the suffrage, but seats in both Houses of Parliament. Both the po- litical parties in England have used womanhood as they would use any- thing, if possible more sacred, for the purposes of their fray. In the Unit- ed States the movement which at one time appeared to be carrying all be- fore it, has of late appeared to flag.

He Collapsed.

A cat may look at a king, but it is sometimes at the cat’s peril—at least Bo it would seem judging. from. this anecdote concerning Alfred Tennyson. The then poet laureate of England was once dining at the home of his brother-in-law, Professor Lushington, and among the guests was an inoffen- sive stranger’ who, never ‘having had the honor of being in Mr. Tennyson’s company before, every now and then stole a glance of curiosity at the illustrious poet. Suddenly, however, those present were startled by the poet, who had been rather quiet for come time, looking up from the table- cloth and glaring wrathfully round the table. He fixed the young man with his glittering eye and said loud evough to be heard by all pres- ent, “You are leoking at me, I tell you.” The collapse of the young gentleman was, of course, complete and instantaneous.

Leap Year Proposals.

What woman has ever availed her self of the privilege of proposing in leap year? Nevertheless, it is inter- esting to discover whence the. idea arose. “Her maist blessit majestie Merearet” decreed in the year 1288 hat during her reign.every maid of Scotland, whether of high or low de- ; should speak to the man she oved. If he were not betrothed al- eady he must marry the maid or ay £160. Queen Margaret died, and he women were then clamorous for his strange privilege to continue. To them an act of Parliament as passed allowing the maidens to ake their proposals every fourth

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Canada’s Golden Grain The Br'tish consumer must eat bread and every loaf he eats is a grain of gold in the Canadian farmer’s poc- ket. That is why the financial crisis has not rea'ly touched Canada vitally. —Canada.

Ignorance Is A Curse.—‘'Know thy- self’’ is a good admonition, whether referring to one’s physical condition or moral habitudes.. The man who is acquainted with himself will know how to act when any disarrangement in his condition manifests itself. Dr. Thomas’ Eclectric Oil is a cheap and simple remedy for the eradication of pain from the system and the cure of all bronchial troubles.

Up north the other day a young law- yer, who spends most of his time try- ing to seem busy and _ prosperous, went out for a while, leaving on his door a card neatly marked: a3

“Will be back in an hour.’’

On his return he found that some envious rival had inscribed under- neath, “What for ?”’

‘Itch, Mange, Prairie Scratches and every form of contagious itch on hu- man or animals cured in 30 minutes by Wolford’s Sanitary, Lotion.

There fs a StMiWart Uegro in a town ot Alabama whose naturally tine sing- ing voice is the feature of the. loca calnopad.oh choir. . ‘ .

On one occasion when the singer was suffering from a protracted illness one of the deacons called to ascertain how the patient was “gittin’ on.”

“He's got an awful bad cough jest now,” explained the singer’s wife, with a most mournful sigh.

“Well, dat’s too bad, dat’s too bad!” exclaimed the deacon, casting about for some means of consolation. Then a bappy thought struck him. “Come to think of it,” be added, “it ain’t no wonder, wif dat strong voice he was pressin’ on his lungs! He’s shore due to have a cough now ’n’ then, ain't he?’'---Iarper’s Weekly.

Governor’s Narrow Escape.

The narrow escape of the Lieuten- ant-Governor: of lsengal is reported ia a Reuter telegram from Calcutta which describes an attempt made to wreck the special train in which His Excelleney Sir Andrew Fraser, Lad) Fraser, with his ‘staff and a numbe) of police, were traveling. Having regard ta the nature of the explosive; used, railway oflicials are astonishe: that a terrible catastrophe did no, occur. The train was running through to Kharagpur, and when _ between Marayanger and Benapur the drive: felt the engine lift and bump. Simul- taneously he heard a loud explosion Luckily the train did not leave the rails, and the vacuum. pipes parted automatically, putting on the brakes. The explosion tore a big hole in the ground, while some sleepers were blown to fragments. The ‘“States- man,” dismissing the theory that the outrage was the work of disaffected Bengalis in the Madnapur district, says: ‘Pieces of shattered sleepers were found at @ distance of from. 150 to 200 yards away. from where the ex- plosiom o¢turred, and we are told that some af ‘them Have.’ been sold ‘at as much, as 100 rupees each as memen- toes of the first attempt that has been made on the life of a high state ‘official since the assassination of Mr. Justice Norman and Lord Mayo.” A police officer and 50 men have gone to the scene of the outrage. Under a tree close to the spot sweetmeats and other traces of an encampment have been found.. Various theories are put forward to account for the outrage, one being that it was the work of a discontented ganger.

KEEPS OUT COLD

A Modern Development ;

“Your child undoubtedly has chiek- en pox,” says the attending phy- sician.

“And why does she have continued chills with it? Is not that unusual?’’ asks the parent.

“Well—ah—no doubt it is a new manifestation of our changing con- dit‘ons. I. might diagnose the case as cold-storage chicken pox.’’— Sve- cess Magazine.

Known to Thousands.— Parmelee’s Vegetable Pills regulate the action of the secretions, purify the blood and keep the stomach and bowels free from deleterious matter. -Taken ac- cording to directions they will over- come dyspepsia, eradicate biliousness, and leave the digestive organs healthy and strong to perform their functions. Their merits are well known to thou- sands who know by experence how beneficial they are in giving tone te the system.

“John, I’m afraid of burglars.’’

“You needn’t be. Our main pos- session .is a second-hand carpet, and that’s nailed down.’’—Loiusville Cou- rier-Journal.

Minard’s Liniment Cures Colds, &c.

' “The Yeuts “Were Safe.

“It would please me mightily, Miss Stout,” said Mr. Mugley, “to have you go to the theater with me thin: even- ing.”

“Have you secured the seats?” ask- ed Miss Vera Stout.

“Oh, come now,” he protested, “Sen's. not so heavy ag ajl thatl’— kee >

Excitement on the Sun.

There is now visible upon the sun’s disk a remarkable array of spots in which rapid changes are taking place. The activity to which they are due is no doubt connected with the great sun flame, shooting up to an elevation of 825,000 miles, which was recently ob- served at the Radcliffe observatory, Oxford. The entire length of the dis- turbed area, which lies practically parallel with the sun’s equator, is not less than 350,000 miles.

Recent spectroscopic studies of great sun spots have stimulated interest in these wonderful phenomena by show- ing that in the nature of the Nght giv- en forth from them they bear a re- semblance to certain red stars which appear to be in -@ more or less ad- vanced stage of decadence. Thus they Serve as indications of the existence of a tendency in our sun toward a change of state which will probably end in its ultimate extinction.—Gar- rett P. Serviss in New York American.

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HERE -is no denying the : charm of the fine lingerie blouse.

; Unfortunatély, the abuse of the blouse modes is even more in evidence than its uses, and shop counters are piled high with shoddy, fliasy blouses, sometimes good in design, but made of coarse materials and loaded with cheap trimming and slipshod. machine work.

There sell in amazing quantities,

arn the results, so far as the dress .

of women is concerned, are lamen- table and make, one glad that the trig tailor-made blouse has again come into its own. ,

As a matter of fact, the lingerie blouse is an extravagant mode, a mode which demands a very ‘consid- erable outlay of money on the part of a woman who buys her blouses ready made.

A sheer blouse, however, need not, in order to be successful, be elabo- rately hand-embroidered and trim- med with real lace, but to be suc- cessful, it must be constructed from fine materials and daintily and erxrefully made. '

Whenever in the ready-made blouse one finds these essentials, one finds, too, a price which, while small compared with that of hand-

‘some hand-made blouses, is high enough to makc the possession of a liberal supply of such garments out of question for the average woman.

And a liberal supply one must

have if she i- to wear lingerie blouses for many occasions. These sheer blouses muss, soil,

lose their freshness with a distress-.

¢ ing’ readiness, and, since only when it is consummately fresh and dainty does it possess characteristic charm, it follows that a considerable num- ber of them are tequiféd“by” ont who would appear in them fre- quently.

There is one w:y in which women may obtain the desired blouse re- sults required this season in the lingerie type of waist at a slight expense.

She may make her sheer blouses herself.

Naturally, the making of an elab- orate trimmed blouse would mean much work, but the blouse of a certain type may be accomplished

Prurs in light eolors are much worn by children this winter, and the littl girl or boy who hasn’t

a coat, a cap, a collar or a muff and.

boa set will feel that ,his or her wardrcbe has been neglected.

The exccllent imitation furs shown in the shcps are not more expensive than cloth garments, and are. more attractive «ind appeal more strongly to little folk, espe- cially now that they are so much in favor.

A long cot for a small child,

made of white lamb in the prevail- .

ing fashion, is quite as warm and makes a good. appearance, even if it isn’t as handsome as an ermine that would cost between $300 and $400.

The average child possessing such tn outdoor wrap would be just as happy as if clothed in chinchilla, and, as far as style goes, would be just as smertly clad, for all the, voats this season are made loose and full, with either single or dou- ble breasted fronts.

The collar, a turnover or shawl effect, gives a desirable finish; while the -leeves, in bell shape with or without turnover cuffs, are equally stylish.

The difference in price of a lamb coat and one made of a “real” fur

_is enormous, of course, for a pretty one in lamb may be bought for $11, while the coat of gray squirrel or ermine would be more than $30.

Splendid imitation ermine coats, trimmed with tails to look like real skins, are maue of coney fur, and may. be bought for $15. Tibbo: coats: wll be used for young chil- dren.

They are sxceedingly pretty, for they are a good whité, and the wool seems especially appropriate for babies. .

“URS

ception of gray squirrel and krim- mer, the latter a light slate-color fur with curly hair, nothing but white is gencrally worn, though, of course, an otc larette of muskrat, that is a rich dark brown, or a boa of nutria, which is about the same shade as beaver, will not be considered out of date if children like them.

Mouffion, a white, curly skin that looks like goat, will be much used for muff sets, as will the “coney,” either with or without ‘imitation ermine tails.

In the muff sets that will be car- ried by children this season there

ional muff or col-*

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effort, and is certainly much more attractive than the much-trimmed blouse. The finest of batiste, handker- chief tinen or mull, made-wp-wich a yoke, cuffs and collay of. the finest pin tucks, utterly devoid of trimming, save, perhaps, a line of nurrow lace at the wrists and throat, is the simplest and dainti- est blouse of the lingerie type. The sketehes given on the page show the very newest French de- signs, and are all hand-mude. " They are the style of blouses that are being worn with the smartest tailor-mades. Nearly all the sleeves are still the

without any great

are several stylez, so that little folk will have a choice, the same as grown-ups. ,

In the collar pieces there are the cravats, with straight or diamond- shaped ends, that may be. tied in one knot about the neck or woru crossed on the chest.

The throw scarf, that is consid- erably longer than a cravat, shou'd be tied and thrown carelessly. over one shoulder; though, if desired, this style neckpiece may be worn straight.

Shawl-shaped collars and collar- ettes with rolling collars are stylish, as’ are the pieces that have broad

three-quarter. or elbow length. The long sleeve is seldom seen on these French blouses.

All sorts of jabots of hand-work and all sorts of smart little silk and velvet cravdts are worn.

The first blouse to the left of the page is of sheer linen, with hand- embroidered strips of linen put on the blousé in a novel, yet simple, way.

The embr-idery is edged with knife-pleated frill of sheer linen.

A tiny cravat of bright green velyet is worn with the blouse.

The secoud blouse is a combina- tion, of mull hand-tucked and strips of mill embroidered with large dots fully as large as a penny.

The jabot is of the mull hem- stitched on the edge. The collar is of hand-tucked mull. These sim- ple collars are worn more and more on the finer blouses.

The third illustiation is particu- larly good for the young girl.

It buttons down the back and the

. gueks_on the shoulders give the new long shoulder line so much to be de- sired,

The fourth model is one of the newest designs shown. It is df the sheerest white linen. The? tiny pleatings are edged with a’ tiny band of light blue linen. The cra- vat is of China blue silk. The but- tons are of crocheted linen.

Fine dimity makes attractive blouses of this so-t at a cost much legs than that of the fine handker- chief linen, and some pretty models

ends to give a stole effect. With thgse neck furs either round or fiat mutfs may be carricd.

In real chinchilla a set vould cost at least $15U; the same in ermine; while a child’s set in white Angora may be bought for $1, though thibet, moution or “coney” sell for from 5 upward. — :

The hats that will be smart are in three shapes that will be particu- larly becoming to the average girl or boy under 8 years of age.

One of these new caps is a round polo shape; anotuer is a copy of the “Glengarry,” or Scottish tur-

SOME PARIS NOTES

E attraction of sweet simplic- ity is well proved this season by the smartness. of the tailor- made costumes which are the rage at present among the Parisiennes.

Coats and skirts in striped vel- veteens are being very much worn, Some of the newest tailor coats are being carried out in velvet. plain or striped, and trimmed with wide strappings of cloth, to match the cloth of the skirt with which they are worn.

The tunic on the skirt is quite the lastest fashion, the revival of

an old mode, while the tightly clinging skirt is more the rage than ever.

Simplicity is the keynote of the

hour, and the only trimming per-~

missible on these’ tailor-mades, be- sides the braids and “soutaches, : which are always in vogue, is: the quaint embroidery, some of Egyp-

Checked and striped skirts, ac- companied by coats in plain cloth, are immensely popular, and simple fur jackets are also worn above skirts of this description.

For evening wear; the Greek style of dress is gradually super- seding the Empire idea, and crepe de chine and liberty satina are the materials mostly employed.

The hair must, cf course, be dressed to go with this: classical style

Large Hatpins

NE of the favorite fads of the moment seems to be ‘abnormally large hatpins.

They are formed of weird lumps of mineral, enameled metal, china or glass.

The prettiest specimens shown are of inlaid tortoise shell and those af Japanese carved ivory.

Horn, in a lovely shade of green,

The new moujik toque has taken Paris by storia, and every other woman is wearing one of the large fur toques, made of chinchilla or skunk, the favorite fur par excel- lence, or sealskin, trimmed with a very full aigrette either, matching the fur or white. placed almost in front. slightly to the left.

_ These toques are especially smart and beccming when the hair is well puffed toward the back of the head. Sometimes the top. of the toque is of velvet and the wide edge only of fur. ,

_ The fur toque. is frequently worn at the theater, but tulle is more liked, or net, trimmed with osprey feathers and paste - buckles.

The muffs that are carried this winter are quite flat. Some are made of chiffon, and upon them are laid either several chinchilla or sable skins, with heads, paws and tails, or’ one. complete fox

are also shown in embroidered

swisses in small designs. __

Aline of narrow baby valen- ciennes or very fine baby cluny, set on plainly, makes a delightful finish for the wristbands and collar of one of these simple tucked blouses. .

A small amount of lace is needed ‘for such purpose, and adds but lit- tle to the cost, while it adds great- lv to the daintiness and individual- ity of the blouse.

The lace may be frilled, but in the very narrow width it gives a better effect wher set on plain.

By the way, it may be remarked in passing that the wide frills of lace introduced at the throat upon many of the newert lingerie blouses are unbecoming more often than be- coming, and mary a woman would look better in her blouse if she would exchange the lace neck frill for a plain flat finish.

The pleated frill sho.n on a number of the newer waists is charming, but offers difficulty for the layndresa. ;

Most attractive frills and jabots are made by hance if one will but pick up short ‘lengths of fine nar- row embroidery or lace, suitable for the purpose; and such an adjusta- ble ‘trimmirg will add smartress to the plairest of sheer tucked blouses, in. addition to making a front opening possible.

These frilled blouses are usually worn with embroidered linen collars and ties, the ties in some cases be- ing of lingerie to match the frill.

THAT THE LITTLE FOLK ARE WEARING

ban, worn. by the soldiers, and the third is a “Napoleon” shape, with the two points to be worn at either side of the head.

Of the three shapes, the polo in coney with a white suede ‘or and a brush effect on the side is most worn, though the Scottish turban in imitation gray squirrel, with gray suede top, is much liked by little boys.

The “Napoleon” shape will prob- ably be most practical, for it has earlaps that may be let down when needed.

Made of coney or squirrel, with a suede top to match, it is a chic cap for either a little girl or boy.

Black at the Neck

‘THE toucn of black at the neck is more fashionable than ever.

It is shown in many jewel-sjudded bands of black velvet to be worn

_at the top of the collar.

It is also used with low-necked gowns, not ouly studded with jew- els, but combined with a chain ar- ranged in graceful festoons.

This is an artistic way of using éne of the old long, jeweled chains or Roman-gold chains which were so fashionable years ago.

Sleeve Smartness

GLEEVES have undergone sev- eral changes. ‘

The very newest, model is the draped sleeve.

This is arranged folds to the elbow.

Like the majority of the newest tailor-made. sleeves, it is cut in one

in horizontal

‘ with the bodice.

™ . A Silk Waist Hint.

F A silk waist is laid away with-

L) "ecm, srptien of mom, ‘ goes a ces of .wom-

~haircloth-sofa effect of pomipadour

’ sociated with.

harmonizing of their colors. Here, i is. the touchston of the milliner’s art. . :

‘lier, Reboux, Georgette and: Talbo...

‘

e trotting skirt; | ; here the street skirt is short, and ~ ‘ small, fat woman in a 8 ing skirt and one\of the latest ver- sions of the picture hat is a sight to. wring tears: from: lovers' of \the beautiful. hi

But a truce to criticism!

Fortunately, as has been said be- fore, there is much beauty in the successful hats, even when ‘thuse hats are bizarre.

Mark the word “successful” Never’was unqualified success. more necessary in the handling’ of mil-- linery problems than it is at pres-~ ent. "

When a hat or gown is audacious* it must be able to defy criticisms Only the inconspicuous in dress can afford a comfortable mediocrity.

The new hats demand handsome . materials. indescribably tawdry. :

Cheap velvet, cheap feathers? ~ cheap buckles, cheap flowers, massed ~* lavishly upon a cons vicuous hat- shape, covered with cheap*velvet or satin, produce wonderful and fear- ful results, and the woman who can- not aftord an expensive hat should! avoid the extremes of present-day millinery as she would the plague: ~< and never have the,windows of the’ cheaper millinery shops abounded iv’ more distressing illustrations of what should not be worn than. are now blossoming in them:

There are, however, many pretty shapes in fine felt or covered with’ faille if one will take the trouble to search for them, and there are- smart and unaggressive ways of: trimming these hats if one will but study the costly models and select from them the details which do not of necessity spell great expense.

One thing ‘is general throughout all the new millinery—the suppres- sion of the bandeau. A little ban-— deau may be. used to give the hat the required tilt, but it must be un-- | assuming, lost to view in the abund-~ ant locks of the cuTure. . @

The modish hat sits low en_ 4: upon the head, dropping low at tke. back and being set back far enough to show the soft front locks of the coiffure, though the big hat. perch J upon the back of ‘he head behind »

a caricature much in evidence, is no more fashio..able than beautiful.

The drooping brim all around, as- ushroom and cloche shapes, is sti. in high favor, and the fancy for facing such shapes. with some contristing color that will be becomiug next the face has added greatly to their charm.

The contrasting facing is one of the triumphant innovatior of the season, and is to be noted not only in’ the genuine mushroom ani. cloche hats, but in the hats of up- turneo brim as well.

These last, :+-a rule, have the np- ward roll of brim:restricted to front’ or front and side, the brim in the Lack retaining the drooping lines. and in a majority of cases even the- front brim does not roll sharply up- ward save near its edge.

Some of the prettiest felt shapes are in dark color, with facing of white, and have wide brims rolling in front at the edge like the aureole’ shapes of last’ spring, or a’ sharp: little roll all around the extreme edge of the brim. ,

Other felts, with white facing. are smaller and roll more abruptly. . resembling in shape the panama hats so much worn. during the sum- mer.

Some very attractive and simple little French hats in this last shape are trimmed merely in big soft scarfs, after the fashion of the sum-" mer hats, or in large choux of sill or velvet set at the front.

The use of big choux of silk: or velvet in comb:nation with other trimming or as the sole trimming is widespread, and clever milliners ob- tain excellent results in this way. although the idea, being readily susceptible of imitation in cheap- materials, has been. much abused.

Where velvet is used for the choux it should be of the softest.. finest variety, and the skill of the designer is displayed not only in-the

graceful shaping and posing of these huge soft choux, but in tlie

Subtle color harmony must be- felt, not learned, and it is ixi the color sense that the milliner” excels, ’

To be sure, even the Frenen “ail- liner has her failures, but the ma»~ ter artists of millinery, such as Cai:

have a wonderful surety of touch in

Without them they are™ ©

No dark furs are being worn tian design and coloring, which ia » being pressed into service, and is skin. ! out taking out the shields, the matters of colors, and handle most ' either as coats, in muff and boa seen in the waistcoat or appears in also used for the new backcombs, The fur. is generally chosen to rubber will cause the silk to crack daring combinations with signed fete OF a8 gave, and, with the ex- the collar and cuffs, ~.. fides and pins for the heir. match that of the toaue or stole. in @ short time success. ; et ei \ : : gals ‘ metho é b 4 ’ 2 K - : ee WEL DCT CASON Oe EEQOI Wwe. “ Qaea owe. DG saa. GO! DS MUL IONI SD =\ cle OE TOT SLO NAO icc Dread SAO 5: GY PNONS OTs SYN O". QOLB OTs SLOG ) aa ~ ry ‘ \ Ds 2? ~ —- ~ a - 4 ~$ ou - - ~ Bs. tof ~ \F. : ” \\ < ; CONS. OGBSIOAVI DE" OO] Ones 9S" 4 OGG. Oaaste soc Moa OWS {Opes Do" # A os 4 t ’ ' , aye if , a 4 e tae * y ve ¢ lot) : t , : ; \ : A oS eos ‘ ‘ fog 2 4 = ‘ ‘S es! ee + a — . f ~ ee ee - otto oer PaSnaray ee spies 1 - , + SEP as i , y aye ee

+ oe

ee fv) a Taber Furniture Co. Bids You Get a for Spring

“We have & large shinciontot Baby

Carriages, Go-Carts, Folders and the Patent .All-Win Folding Go-Cart on show for you to choose from.

Best values. on. the market in General Furniture and. Bedding al- ways in’ stock at prices to stit- all.

The Taber Faraiture Go.

Ervine & Todd

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Lime and

Farm Machinery

Public © Notice

proving all oyer Canada, which if

SITTINGS OF THE DISTRICT cOUet 1k OF THE DISTRICT OF LETHBRIDGE. |

The Sittings of the District Court of the District Court .of Lethbridge during the year 1908 will be held at ihe places -and on the dates given ‘elow for the trial of actions and the «tisposal of any other civil business which may properly be brought be- {ore the said court.

LETHBRIDGE ‘ ‘ommerteing-— Monday March 93rd Monday April * 27th: ‘Tuesday May 26th Monday June 99nd | Monday July, 20th Monday September 28th | Monday October 26th Monday November 23rd Monday December 21st “ RAYMOND

Tuesday April Mth Tuesday July Tth Tuesday October = 13th |

WAGRATH™ ~~ Wednesday April “15th ° Wednesday July 8th | Wednesday October 14th

CARDSTON | Thursday April 16th Thursday “July 9th Thursday October = 15th

; TABER Tuesday ~ May 5th Tuesday July W4th Tuesday November 3rd WARNER

Tuesday May 19th Thursday July 16th Tuesday November 17th

Dated March 2nd, 1908. S. B. WOODS, 5-3t Deputy Attorney General.

Gaber “ree Press

Advertising Rates on Application

Subscription $1:50 yearly, in advance | W. A. M. Bellwood, editor and manager |

THURSDAY, MAkcH

a 1908

BOPHERS ARE A NUISANCE

That the gophers are going to be a; vreat nuisance is quite evident, and | unless farmers put

“up & strenuous |

fight against them considerable dam- |

age will be done to the crops. ‘he

oldest settlers tell us that

to be completed by the 15th March, but according to the Medicine Hat Times the bridge will in all probs- bility not bo ready till the 1st of May.

This moans that it will be ‘some

starts. work. here. ‘

is the all-important matter to Taber at present, and for the settlers, north ofthe river it is an absolute neces- sity. . Every day they have to’ risk their lives and the lives of their horses in coming to. town, and in the fall whon they: are marketing their grain they are compelled to

simply for the want pf this bridge.

Surely it does not take the whole crew to put the finishing touches on at Medicine Hat. We think it would be possible to have part of. tho crew working here, and plenty of oxtra help could be got locally to make up a good crew and the. preparatory work pushed forwhrd) There is no necessity for further delay.

> + Notes and Comments

The daily press report times im-

true we soon should sée a change “for the better in Taber.

Taber has a by-law to prevent cows running at large on the streets, yet sometimes the street looks like a farmyard. A little business at the town pound would act as a pre-

ventive. x 4 | The people of Saskatchewan and | Manitoba are. still

enjoying them-

berta the farmers are tilling their |

{ . . sround and getting ready for seeding. : a 5 6 aes ©" \ for forming a joint stock company to

Mr. Barton, who has just |

| roturned from a visit to Oregon, SAYS |

John

place he saw.

a a short time will beim hemor, +

| again. |

little time yet before the bridge crew |.

The bridge across the: Bolly River ate

drive many miles out of their WAY | price.

| tion of building a new school.

‘thts year on Wednesday night : | .

;selves skating, curling and playing) last wook—-a shower of blessing. |

|hockey, while hore in Southern Al- |

j erect a cold storage plant at Regina.

{Canada is good enough for’him, and | in Winnipeg to the important posi- | | that he likes Taber better. than any | ‘tion of Presidéht of the Manitoba Taber is all right and) Pharmaceutical Association.

sl |

A Cayley correspondent to the open April Ist t# South African and | | Fenian Raid land 9,000 bushels of | holders.

High Mr.

| Jones

River Times says: +- ” threshed

| wheat from 825 acres, and the pro- |

ceeds from same will more than pay) °

for his farm.” foecurrence in Sunny Southern Al-; | berta. |

+ The Lothbridge

News says:

i vernment that says you shall not be! | allowed sd buy a glass of beer after! 10 p.m.” Can the News put up no! | stronger political argument than this | against the Liberals? Honest, sober | Conservatives will not appreciate i this low insinuation.

The Standard Oil Co. {Union Oil Co. of California: are at

~~ | war in Seattle, with the result that | | gasolone dropped four cents a gallon |

in the last four months and the other refined oils proportionately. | gallon. result would be appreciated by the. | people.

The obstruction tactics at Ottawa

they are on the: increase, and this makes! cost something. Already well over prompt and-deterniined action all “thot 6 volumes of Hansard have more “necassary. * Phe most succese- i been. filled, . mostly with the ideal ful plan to exterminate the gophers is | talk. As the production of Hansard

to poison them with strychnine.

This being the case the goverment should assist the farmers in securing The

farmers in other

cheap strychnine. government

‘has assisted the

parts, and if the matter is taken up | the government will no doubt assist: |

the farmers here.

BRIDGE TO BE

Mr. W.C. Simmons, M.P.P., was ‘in town this week, and we under- stand he stated that work on the bridge across the Belly River here would be started as soon as the bridge crew had finished the bridge ut Medicine, Hat,

The bridge at Medicine Hat was

jalone costs about $5.43 per column, House $50 seen that talk is not cheap when indulged in for ob-

and the expenses of the

a minute, it will be

struction purposes.

| - Wehave often been asked if Taber

mer. Everybody feels that Taber should be represented, and if any- thing is going to be done a move should be made at once. It would be a good proposition for the coal mines to make an exhibit of the famous Taber coal and show to the world that Taber turns out the finest domestic coal free from -bone and slack,

Gaso- | \line is now down to 164 cents a! A scrap in Taber withe-dike |

This 1s a common |

| New York.

ie wet | Remember, it is a LIBERAL Go- | The Cardaton Board of Trade. is

‘Mary A. Barber, who live about nine |

‘office, lost their hearings in a storm

‘the premises caught fire, but by

iIreland arrived at St. John, N.B.,

iwith 1,260 passengers on board. | and ‘the,

To dress well is an Ss *

But all ready-made clothes are not cheap. Our clothes—

CAMPBELLS CLOTHING

for instance—may cost a little more, but om account of the better quality and the making a clothes wear better and last longer.

Length of wear is something, but not everything, to look for in buying clothes,

Clothe’ that wear well and look well white they are worn"' ere what every man is looking for these days, and that's the kind which we will be pleased to show you whenever yon care to call.

\CAMPBELL & ANDERSON,

The Big 3 tore —

News in Brief

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The World’s News Boiled Down for Busy Readers

Raymond is considering the ques- | q

=f Cardston had its first ramstorm

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Negotiations are now in progress | 6

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W. Young of Neepawa was elected |

age

The township of Lyon, Bay district, Ont.,

| Thunder | will be thrown

grant certificate |

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Hypodermic injections of a serum similar to that used in the treatment of diphtheria are being successfully

‘employed in scarlet fover cases in

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jinvestigating the system of single ‘land tax which is said to be working | satisfactorily in various towns and cities in the West. —o-— The C.P.R. steamship Empress of

Over half of this number are coming | to Western Canada.

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As the result of cating apple pie with canned apples nearly forty people, all guests at the Empire Hotel, Brandon, were suddenly seized | with painful sickness. No deaths | have resulted.

ety

Mrs. John Barber, jv., and Miss |

miles north of Wavey Lake Post-

last men

| Mass., at the head of which is Rev.

| Haynes,

; wheels of No.

| log crushed below the knee. He had | to havé his leg amputated. anes A. despatch from Macleod BAYS |

| John Hayes Hammond, a Minneapo-

|genheims as the

Mr. Krauss has bigies appalintad auditor of Medicine Hat for. 1908 at a salary of $400,

—o— The jewellery establishment of

Fiske & Johnson, Minneapolis, was robbed of $1,075 worth of diamonds

The ‘Young Men's ‘Club of. Medi- cine Hat held a most successful ban- quet, the occasion boing’the opening of their new zymnastum. .

a -O— - : 4

‘President - Roosevelt, has , decided |: to destroy the bucket- Tepe: and all the machinory of the government will be used against these concerus. |

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Great fires bave swept through some of the timber bolts jn the state of Montana ond have caused a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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The bricklayers and stonemasons of Ottawa, some 300 in number, Will on May Ist receive 50 cents an hour, | the highest they have ever beon | _ paid.

The big western railroads havo served notice on their telegraphers of existing agreements and. call for a conference to conform with the new law to wipe out overtime.

A movement is on foot in Gardner, |

C. A. Larson, to organize a Swedish- Finnish colony, with the object. of settling in Western. Canada.

caer eee

The four-year-old son of GC. M. station agent at Trudeau, | east of Port Arthur, fell under the!

97 and had his left

that the C.P.R. land

was fined $200 and |

costs) for working

Mullen on Sunday, Dee.

Operator | 15th, with- 24 ‘hours’ rest dur- ing 813 81x days, contrary to the Lord’ s|

out allowing him 2

~=p-—.

In Lincoln, Neb., the excise board | ;has adopted a rule providing for all-' daylight. saloons, beginning at, the | new municipal year in May. The

hours for opening and closing are |

7 a.m. and 7 p.m., and the license fee}

is to be $1, 500.

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Postmaster - General Buxton of! London, England, intends to make a small issue of stamps with mourn- | ing borders as a feeler. don’t take with the people in mourn- ing they will become valuable to stamp collectors.

_— | The Canadian Northern yards: at | Port Arthur are rapidly filling with; grain cars. Owing to the work that | is being done at the elevators the | plant cannot handle the grain as. fast | as-usual. One day there were 280! cars in the yards for the elevator. |

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Although for the last tive yoars

lis expert, has worked for the Gug- highest salaried

Not content with $800,000 a year he | wants $400,000 more, and in addi- tion more time to ‘devote to outside | | interests reprosenting a little private

last week and had a narrow csc ape | | from death by exposure.

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The school at Cardstan came cane being burned during the high winds of Thursday last. Some refuse on |

the | |

|prompt action of the teachor and|

; a ils the flame | purposes having an exhibit at thé| Potore wed penne ane + | Dominion Fair at Calgary this sum- | y oi ; ;

vere extinguished ,

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The Prince Albert Board of Trade | has forwarded to Regina two white- | fish, two lake trout, two jackfish and | two pickerel. .These fish are from ‘the lakes north of Prince Albert and | are splendidsamples. The oombitied | weight of the eight fish was sixty- two pounds. They, will be exhibited at the Dominion Fair at Calgary,

j had no right to discharge any men.

fortune of $20,000 pele

Strike at Coast

Men on inca Work Quit Because Some Were Dismissed Manaimq, March 13th-~A hun-' dred men, who were engaged on government work clearing the land i here, quit. work in a body this morn-

| ing. The. men: had been given em-;

; ployment to relieve the labor situa- | tion caused by the closing down of , several coal mines. The reason the men quit to:day was that thé fore- man laid off eight of their number | because too many men were on tho | job and feared someone would be | hurt. They insist that the foreman

OL I ONT Un a - ~—

If they}

| |

RISA. Y WORT

TABER

FLOUR & FEED : STORE

Try LETHBRIDCE NEW MILL UNION MADE FLOUR

South Side of, Track, opp. Depot

Public Scalés in ja ad

BERT. SUTTON

Se on SE es

96488

PROPRIETOR | TAKE THR: LOAD

Pioncer Feed

Livery Stables)

James Pierson, Proprietor Special preparations for land-seekers

Good rigs, reliable-horses, single

or double, saddle outfn ete

CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS

Attention

Call on us when in need of Doors, Windows and Sashes and all Kinds of Mill Work, Mail orders will have our prompt attention

The Medicine Hat Lumber & Manufacturing Go. Medicine Hat

Established since the flood

and up-to-date ever since

Depew & Veale

| CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS | : | All work guaranteed in every way | Jistimates given on all classes of

Taber, Alberta

dolin F. Hamilton

Day A Act. - : |

~Beneral Blacksmith

Wheelright in connection guaranteed

‘Horse Shoeing and Plow Work our specialty.

All work

Canada West

Goal & Coke Co., Ltd:

Best Coal on the market

and a good steam producer for

Stationery Boilers

Taber, Alberta

_| OFF YOUR MIND

about the Juniber you are thinking of buying. Come right here and your l&mber troubles will be ended.

WE SELL ALL KINDS OF LUMBER

except the no-good kind. We prefer to have your good than your ill will. Se we furnish lumber that wilt -, accomplish that result.

Royers- Cunninghame _ Lumber Go., Ltd.

J. F. GLAYSHER

LOCAL MANAGER

THOS. IRVINE GENERAL MERCHANT

Fresh, clean stock of groceries and dry goods always on hand

MINOT, ALBERTA.

’

R. A. VanOrman®

CONTRACTOR, BUILDER,

buildings

‘

For Acre Building Lots and a limited amount of Farm Land on the

Johnson Addition,

near the Canada West Coal Co.'s Mine, Taber,

SEE

AARON JOHNSON

FRANK JOHNSON, Agent EASY TERMS a |

THE

Leading Hardware Hlouse.

| Call and See some of our SEASON- ABLE GOODS, such os BREAD- MIXERS, FooTt-WARMERS, CaR- PET SWEEPERS, HARNESS, WHIPS, ROBES, GLOVES, HORSE BLAN- KBT8, HEATING AND COOKING SYOVES, ETC.

We Lead In Paint: Try the ARCOTUM, the Water-

add any place affected by water— guaranteed.

J. W. HILL & SON.

| proof Paint, on your roofs, tartks

Enterprise

|man in the world he is not satisfied. |

Building Materi

Lumber Co.

al of Every Kind

Masscy-Harris Farm Machinery

Agent, J. Barton

For business lots

and residental loty

in the water belt.

| SEE W.W., Douglas

Prices and terms to suit everybody.

‘Money to loan to assist in improving these Properties.

See our new line of PIPES

from 25c. up. For your Best ins use the BBB Brand.

Iinglish Nowspapets and Magazines

always i in ‘stock

@WESTLAKE’S JEWELAY & STATIONERY STORE

‘

THURSDAY, MARcH 19, 1908

Taber Breezes

Tuesday was St. Patrick's Day.

Geo. Rever of Craik, Sask., was in town Saturday.

@:. W.*McNicol .was a Lothbridge itor to town -Friday. Are yous subscriber ‘to the Fiee l'vess ? If not, why not? Coal is again moving and cars are ling loaded every day here. W. W. Douglas and R. H. Walker were at Lethbridge Monday. Tenders for the new schoo! south of the track close to-morrow. B. 8. Young of, Raymond was a husiness visitor to town Saturday. 8. -A. Jones, pit foreman at the (J‘anada West Mine, Was in Leth- Inidge Tuesday.

Dressmaking and alterations done..

Call at Mrs. Robbin’s, north of 4-4

sruswell’s Store. - We understand that a dispensa-

‘rion has been granted by the’ Grand Master for a new masonic lodge at Lethbridge.

The Cardston Board of Trade is inaking application for space at the «oming Dominion exhibition to be held at Calgary.

A Snap 1—Three choice acre lots n residential section of the town; ood well, splendid water, freo flow. 52-tf

Campbell & Anderson are present-

\pply to Mases Simpson.

ing a very neat clay. pipe stamped with the shamrock to their cus-

omers, present and prospective.

‘Mr. G. W. Quibell is meeting with every encouragement in the Agricul- iural Society movement. He al- ready has many more names than the required number.

For SALE—Two pullets and one cockerel Buff Leghorn, threo white tock cockerels, also one Buff Rock cockerel, all prize birds. Apply to log. Shorthouse, Taber Mine. 5-1ltp

Bishop Anderson of Raymond was siven a surprise Friday night, when :: number of his friends entered his happy home and presented him with ‘» musical case. A jolly time was spent.

Messrs. G. M. Hatch and H. J. H. Skeith of Lethbridge have just re- turned from Calgary, where they

ve arranged for a space,ten by sixteen feet in the main building for ihe Lethbridge exhibit at the Do- minion Fair.

Messrs. John Barton, Jas. Shirts, Clarence Layton and.Frank Stewart returned Sunday from Oregon. We understand | Mr. Barton and Mr. Shirts oadh: bout..twenty “acre” plots near the town of Union. They port having had a pleasant trip.

re-

Miss Taylor, who taught in the public school here, has resigned her position and has gone to Lethbridge to take charge of one of the divisions there. Miss Taylor was a good

acher and her many friends regret her departure. Mrs. H. P. Munro, i teacher-of much experience, has taken charge of Miss Taylor's class.

Mr. A, Primrose, and- daughter, Miss Jean. Primrose, who have been visiting friends at their old honie in Barrie, Ont., returned home Friday. His son returned with him, Mr. Primrose tells us times are even worse in Ontario than here and that he has not seen so much snow for years. He is glad to get back to Taber. ,

on ee in = op ees reper Se

of land.. ‘

—\ E. U. Ruylarde of fecbhibidge Wis in town to-day.

ay es

E, 8. Rowden was 0 Tuber visitor to Lethbridge Tuesday,

W. C., Simmons, MeP.P., of Lath: bridge, was in town Tuesday.

E,.6.. Moe ‘and. G. ©. Millar were as Gragsy Lake, Weoduesday.

Wm, Balvade of Grassy Liaké paid Lethbridge a-business visit 'T uenday.

’ Mr. Sperger refifirned to his home- stead on the Little Bow, Wednesilay.

«Mr. Jos. Turner was tp at Leth- bridge and filed for a quar ter: section

Mr. Bert Sutton went down, to Spokane Saturday, returning home Tuesday.

Mr. Chas. Leonard of the Rogers- Cunningham ~ Luniber. Co. was down from Lethbridge to-day.

The little flurries of snow we are receiving are welcome. They will do untold good‘ in moistening the land.

Mr. Seager arrived Tuesday with a carload of effects from Jowa and-is now busy moving to his homestead north of tho river.

Those who have to cross the river had better take warning from Mr. Jacobson’s experience. The ice is becoming too dangerous to travel upon.

Mrs. (Iion.) John A. Davidson and daughter, Mrs. 8. W. Pugh, of Win- nipeg, are visiting Mrs. (Dr.) Leech. Mrs. Leech is a daughter of Mrs. Davidson.

We understand Kilmer Johnson, who left here last Christmas, has taken an interest with a large furni- ture company at All will wish

and implement

Springville, Utah.

+ Elmer success.

About nineteen of the freémasons | of Taber so to Lethbridge this after- | noon to attend the organization of a new lodge in that city. which takos | place this evening. .

J.T. English of Grassy Lake had!

in .the district court at

Lethbridge Saturday for robbing a

his trial

dead Indian. Judge Winter pro- nounced the accused guilty, but allowed him out on a suspended sentence.

OB, 8 Oe

The new, lodge | will be known as Lethbridge Lodge. |

a -

J. R. ike went to Leth- bridge last night.

Mr. Hudson had Mrs, Stckles up

roe

and §. J. Layton, J.P., to-day on a charge of pointing a gun at him dur- ing an altercation between her hu band ‘and:Mr. Hudson. Mrs. Sickles was fined $10: and costs and re- ceived some good advice from In- spector West. W. C. Simmons acted for the plaintiff and ‘R) P, Wallace for the defendant.

Literary Society

The Literaiy Society met Friday evening in Knox Church. . THe fore- part of the evening was spent in the study of missionary work in ‘India. This was followed by adebate, the sub- ject being-—“ Resolved that the Irigh cleverer as a race than the Scotch.” The affirmative was wtpheld’ by Messrs. Ervine, Anderson and Vickery; for the negative Messrs. Dr. Lang, Wallace; and Taylor. -

KIO te

before Inspector West of Lethbridge

Interesting |:

ARRAN EDS DR

Young Ladies*’ Mutual Improve ‘ment Association every Tuesday at 7.80 p.m. Primary Assosletion o every

{Saturday at 3 p.m.

‘Knox Church—Morning service at 11.a.m., followed bv Sunday School and Bible Class. ‘Evening service, 7.30. Wednesday Congregational Prayer Meeting, 8 p.m.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter

Day Saints—Sunday schogl at 10 a.m. every Sunday. Sacrament meet- ing at 2_p.m. Sunday evening ser-

_ | vice at 8 p.m. ° ° \

St.’ Theodore Chireh — Morning Prayer and Holy a on first Sunday in month at,11 a.m.; Even- ing prayer 7.30.p.m. Suniday. School -1l'am., except first Sunday in the ‘month ; first Sunday in the month school will be at 3 p.m.

Irishmen indignant

addresses were given by both sides, |.

and the judges (Mrs. Jenkins, Mrs. McLean and Miss Dowser) decided in favor of the affirmative. - Miss Keoley and Mr. Owen each gave very acceptable solos.

These fortnightly meetings are be- coming very popular and the attend- lance is gradually increasing. The next. meeting will be held on the 27th March.

Canada’ § Ethnic Problem

| Canada is in the presence of an | |

ethnic problem such as no country ever faced before. The United States

hansiae foreign population by de- |

grees and was always able to keep well ahead of it. We have it every- where—in the warp as well as the

woof of our newera. The uplifting

\of it must be She supreme’ purpose of our statesmanship and of

Christianity.

‘our

catory expressions on the part of a | government emigration agent with

regard to the assisted emigration

~ + that is finding its way to this coun-

While driving a load of hay over} t

the river at the ferry Saturday Mr. Jacobgon's team broke through the ice.

very deep at that point. He ‘saved

his team, and by unloading the hay |

hé got his waggon out.

Word comes from Utah that Mr.

Aaron Johnson, formerly postmaster |

here, has bought out the general. store of Mr. Chris. Thompson at Mapleton. Mr.. Johnson will con- tinue the business, while Mr. Thomp- son expects to bring his family to! Taber early in April.

The Ladies’ Relief Society ' held their annual celebration on Tuesday. In the afternoon a most pleasant and sociable time was spent in the church, when a splendid programme was presented. In the evening a dance was given in the opera house, at which all enjoyed themselves.

Taber young men and Young ladies | are soon to organize basket ball clubs | again. Last season they defeated | everything in sight,. and now iti would appear as though they might have difliculty in getting on games with sister towns. Taber has the | material_and intends ta catry_off ‘the basket ball honors again this year.

Van's ; Friday night last week sneak

thieves broke into J. W. Hill & Son's |

hardware store. They rifled the safe of its contents, taking a number of cheques and a small amount of cash.

They also stole.a rifle and cartridge,

and a small gold watch and some |

other articles. It is not known who | the parties are, but there is a strong | suspicion.

The Ladies’ Mutual Improvement | Association: held a basket social in the opera house Friday evening, » at | which there was a large attendance. The evening was spent in dancing and wound up with the sale of the baskets, which netted a good sum, | and lunch. The evening ’s entertain- ment broke up about 12 o'clock, all |’ having spent a very pleasant time.

Fortunately the water was not |

organization in These organizations range | from the self-help -society, which re- its emigrants to raise the | money necessary for their own trans- fer to a naw country, down, through various grades of assistance, to the | distress committees which are em-

that benevolent | Britain.

| quires

lin order, to provide opportunity for the unemployed, and which resort to emigration only when other methods jfail. The first of these sends us, by natural selection, the fittest; the | last naturally tends to the unfittest, and must include some who would be a burden anywhere. While urg-

pendents upon us, we should be very careful how we reject any of our own blood who can really aid in building upsour country. We sheuld bear jin tnind what Commander Bramwell | Booth answered to those who said that the emigration to the colonies of

, that are seeking, our shores.— | treal Daily Witness.

| BIRTH

| WALKER At Taber on Thursday, March 19th,-to Mr. and Mrs.

Robt. Walker, a daughter.

Any small boy knows more about his big sister in a minute than any}, man can find out during a year's orauntelales a x h.. Yee, I'm getting onto this Western dialect pretty well now, but there is one word that always ‘sticks me, I know what.a “cayotte” is and a ‘cayuse,” but what the devil kind of an animal | is a “ chinook”? |

-We note some depre-| -

try under the guidance of this and |

powered to assess the municipalities |

|ing the unfairness of unloading de- |

‘|attempted to turn the truant back |

ee ete sect

Protest Against Caricatures of

Their Race on Picture Postcards |

Ottawa, March, 14th.—The county board of the Ancient Order of Hiber-

nians, representing all the city and|.

county lodges, has passed this. reso- lution: “Resolved that we, tho members of the county board of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Carleton, vigorously protest against the disgraceful manner in: which our race ‘is being caricatured by picture postcards on sale by some merchants in. this city, and that we call the! | attention’ of Irishmen generally to the fact that the most effective way to resent this insult in misrepresenta- tion is by withholding our patronage from these. merchants.”

RN. W.M.P. M. P. Accident

| Medicine Hat Corporal Suffers ia-| * ternal Injuries in a Runaway

Medicine Hat,.. March 13th. — |

and threw him out on the heats trees, where he hung for some time

but finally dropped off, and both

wheels went over his abdomen. The

exact nature of his injuries cannot

be ascertained for a day or two.

Man Tossed By

Steer

Sustains Stight ‘nmi

(tii near and wisely sheltered him-.

self behind a telephone post. All, went well until one of the bunch! | broke- loose, and then Mr.- Evans} abandoned: his ‘previous caution and |

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' wen 1 knew that no experienced

ériminal would kéep about him any

euch important evidence as a’ bottle that had contained chloruvform. The

odor clings to it for a long time. I

committed the mistake at first of sup-

posing that he had hidden it in the boathouse. I should have known peat- ter. Naturally he would throw it into the bay. There was a single chance against me. If he had thrown It in uncorked it would prabably hove sunk. That was a point he didn't think of, and by just that much he’ fell bemw perfection. I think he probably ad- ministered the chloroform’ by pouring it upon one corner of the sheet and throwing it over young Graham’s face.

No doubt the odor would have been

perceptible next morning had any one

thought to aaa er it. There was only wy ee case,@he added

4 Sein utterly at va- riance with my hoe aan it worried me badly for a time.”

»“What was that?’ I asked.

“That was the story the jailer. told us—that Miss Croydon believed Drys- dale. guilty. But you have seen how nattrally that was”explained. I knew “then, In that instant, that | was on the ‘vight track— that nothing could defeat

me. But let us go back to the begin- + ning—and I'd like you to point out any flaws you see in the story.”

“Very well,” I said and settled back in the seat to listen.

“Tremaine had two very powerful motives. for the commission of this crime,” began Godfrey. “He needed money and could take no more from Miss Croydon, since he was trying seriously to win her affections. Hé was determined to get Drysdale out of the way under circumstances as discred- {table as possible, confident that in that case he would himself win Miss ‘Croydon. Which,” .be added in 4 thoughtful aside, “from what you've told me of him, I don't think at all im- possible.”

{ “Not In the least,” I agreed. ay be- Neve Tremaine could win any woman he really set his heart on.”

“At any rate, he learns of Drysdale’s jealousy and of Miss Croydon’s prom- ise to explain things. He sees that at any hazard he must prevent that ex- planation. Monday morning he comes to town with Delroy, and the latter tells him that he intends giving the necklace the salt water treatment. You'll remember it was Tremaine who originally proposed this, though he could scarcely at that time have fore- seen what would come of it.”

“Mere chance,” I nodded.

“Well, Tremaine takes the early train back to Edgemere and lays his plans. He writes the note”—

I “But you really haven't any evidence that he did,” I objected.

‘ For answer Godfrey took from his ‘pocket the blotter he bad found in Tremaine’s room.

3 “J told you that these letters aren't in Tremaite’s hand,” he said, ‘but if you'll compare them with the note you'll ‘see how nearly they resemble Miss Croydon’s. Again, they are only capital B’s, G's and I's, which are the only capitals used in the note. That's pretty good circumstantial evidence. Tremaine, of course, burned the piece of paper he practiced on, but he didn’t think to burn this blotter. It was only the freshest line at the bottom of the paper that left these marks.”

“But did. Tremuine have a sample of Miss Croydon’s writing?”

“There’s no reason to think he didn’t have, but if be didn’t he could no doubt have found plenty of samples among Drysdale’s things. He’s prob- ably an adept at forgery as well as at most other Wranches of crime.”

“All right. Go ahead,” I said.

“Tremaine writes the note and leaves ‘t In Drysdale’s room,” continued God- frey. “Then he opens the trunk and secures the revolver. Perhaps he knew the revolver was there and perhaps he didn’t. If he hadn't found it he’d prob- ,ably have taken something else belong- ing to Drysdale for a weapon.

“Having secured the revolver, he re- turns to his room by way of the bal- cony. What’ passed in the early part of the evening you already know. Drysdale goes to keep the rendezvoua at the pergola, starting early, because the house with Tremaine in it has be- come unbearable to him. He stops for a chat with Graham, which the latter’s son overhears, und then goes on to the pergola, which is quite at the other end of the grounds from tbe boathouse.

“Meanwhile Tremaine has spent the early part of the evening talking with Delroy and Miss Croydon. At last he goes to his room on the pretense of writing letters, gets the revolver, lets himself down by the vine and starts for the pier. He enters the boathouse softly, feels his way to the cot, whose

. position he has already seen, and care- fully administers the chloroform. The dose was no doubt nicely calculated, and the boy would probably have awakened naturally in a few hours,

“That done, TreMuia walks boldly out upon the pier. Old Graham sees him, perhaps challenges him, but of course allows him to approach as soon as be recognizes him. They talk to- gether for a moment. Then Tremaine, ewitt vie lightning, knocks the othey

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A Story of Manhattan By BURTON EB. STEVENSON |

Asther of “The Reotiaday Case”

Mears Mets aad @oapecr .

‘averytMifg Td Mappenet Jost ait” he hoped it would. There was- sheorney? | ne suspicion againgt him.”

tise in the meantime,” I observed,

“Yes, he may have done that,” ad- mitted Godfrey, “and yet why should he?..He has no reason to believe that nny. stich’ suspicion ‘attaches to him. He'll naturally wish to keep the pearls by bim until-bhe has a chance to sell them, one by, one. He can’t do that fet. He'll: probably arrange a:,trip to Lurupe ty get rid of them. . If the neck- lace is concefled -at all it's concealed somewhere in his rooms. And if it’s there we'll find it!” ~

“Long Island City!" yelled the guard, slamming open thé door. “Change for New York!”

We took the Thirty- -fourth , street ferry: and ten minutes later were in a vab hurrying downtown.

“We'll get Simmonds first,” ‘said God- frey, “I’ve & sort of reciprocity treaty with him. Besides, we've got to have an officer tu make the arrest. Here we are.”

He jumped out, paid the driver and hastened up the steps, I after him. As we entered the room I saw that a slock registered half past 10.

‘To Be Continued)

! down. Graham propiévly “fen without crying out..I faney 1. can see Tre-. maine. pausing t6 make sure his ‘victim is dead ‘before, he goes on to the end of the pier to get the necklace.”

I shivered. I could.see him, too, bend- ing over in the darkness, wie a hor- rible calmness..-

“That throwing of the siatal into the boat,” continued Godfrey, “‘was one of those flashes of inspiration which come to a man sometimes. It was superb! It proves that our friend is really an artist. Not one man in. a thousand would have thought of it. He must have laughed ‘with sheer satisfaction when he heard it clatter safely into the boat.”

He paused for & moment to think of it, to turn it over, to taste it.

“Well,” -he continued at last, “he secures the necklace, throws away the bottle and probably goes down to the water’s edge to wash his hands.”

A FIGHT FOR LIBERTY.

Tragic Incident of Life In the Uneas, Land of the Czar.

The chief of gendarmerie of the To-

bolsk government has sent to the cen

“Did he take the necklace with him tral authorities at St. Petersburg a to the house?” I asked. full report of the desperate attempt at “ano,” gaid Godfrey decidedly. | escape made early in October by a

convoy of prisoners who had been halted in the village of Kutarbitka, The convoy numbered thirty-three prisoners, of whom four were “politi- cals.” They were being marched from Tuman to Tobolsk, the escort consist- ing of eighteen soldiers of the Ninth Siberian reserve regiment, commanded by a noncommissioned officer. Kutar- bitka consists of one long street, at the end of which is a large isolated build- ing, where passing convoys of prison- ers are lodged for.the night. The con- victs had behaved exemplarily during the march to Kutarbitka, and their guards had no suspicion that an out- break had been planned and all the de- tails arranged. The prisoners were put into two rooms, the escort occupying two other apartments, with one senti- nel tn the corridor and another outside the building, which is surrounded by a high wooden wall. At 10 o’clock all was quiet in the prison. { Some of the soldiers were drinking tea, while the others had already set- tled down for the night. A few re- marks were exchanged between the prisoners in the two rooms, but, being in Yiddish, they were not understood

“There was no reason whatever for him to run that risk. Ile had doubt- less -picked out a safe hiding place for it.in the afternoon. The necklace once deposited there, be Lurries back to the house, climbs up to the baleony and re-enterg his room. He assures himself that there are nv blood stains on him anywhere, then he moves his tabl~ near the witidow and sits down to wait for Drysdale’s return.

“As soon as he hears him enter. his room he gathers up the' letters which he had, of course, written during the afternoon and goes downstairs, And it is here that he makes his most seri- ous mistake. He fancies, perhaps, that he is to have only the country police to deal with—only your Heffelbowers— that hé must clinch the nail, that he caunot make the evidence against his victim too strong. So when he places bis letters in the bag on the hall rack he ‘rlso tears eff the top button of Dry sdale’s raincoat.

‘Te returns to the hall, talks with Delroy; the storm comes up, and young Hrabam rushes in. They run down to the pier, kneel beside the body, try to discover signs of life—and Tremaine adroitly shuts the button within the

dead man’s hand. That, my deur Les- ter, is, I fancy, the whole story.” I.smoked on for 1 moment in silence, turning it over in my mind with a certajn sense of disappointment.

by the sentinel in the corridor. Then

“One, two, three!’ rang out sharply and distinctly, and the prisoners in both rooms ‘burst open the doors and rushed pelimell inte the corridor..The

sentinel shouted the alarm, and with- in a few seconds the soldiers of thc escort were massed in the passaga where a furious fight ensued for the carbines stacked at the farther end. The prisoners managed to secure nine of these weapofis and strove to come to close quarters with the soldiers, who were soon pouring a devastating fire into their ranks, The greater part of the fight took place in complete darkness, as the lamps were shattered by carbine bullets. About twenty of the prisoners were killed or wounded in the corridor. The remainder suc- ceeded in escaping from the building. Three were shot by the sentinel out-

“It may betrue,” I said. “It seems to hold together, but, after all, there isn’t a bit of positive evidence in it. How are we to convince a jury that Tre- maine really did all these things?’ ‘Godfrey blew a great smoke ring, out over the seat in front of us.

“I agree,” he said, “that we haven't as yet any direct evidence against Tremaine. It may be that this whole

structure will full to pieces about my

side. rm

The handful who survived, hamper ed though they were by the -hains on their feet, clambered up the wooden wall and made for the neighboring forests. One of these men, who car- ried a carbine, was struggling to get over the wall when a soldier ran to- ward him and addressing him as “com- rade” offered to hold the carbine for a moment. The prisoner, believing him to be a fellow refugee, dropped the carbine to him, and the soldier there- upon bayoneted him to death.

Another soldier armed bimself with a bar of iron and killed one of the con- victs, whom he struck with such force that the latter had a hand completely severed from the arm. In all eleven prisoners escaped, with nine carbines and sixty cartridges. Three were re- captured the following morning, and five carbines were recovered.

The noncommissioned officer ° in charge of the escort seems to have acted with great presence of mind and courage in the face of the unexpected attack.

, The six casualties) among the sol- \diers were all bayonet wounds. Five ‘were of a slight character, but the ‘sixth ended fatally. Twenty-two of the convicts were killed.—Bultimore Sun. :

“After ull, there ist a bit of positive evidence is it.”

ears, but I don’t believe it. I believe

within an hour we'll ve in possession

of theeone piece of pusitive, indisputa-

ble evidente that will outweigh all the

rest.”

“What is that?’ 1 asked.

He turned to, me with that bright light in-his eyes that 1 had seen there once or twice before.

“The necklace,” he answered,

CHAPTER XXXI.

HE necklace! Of course the necklace! “But, then,” L objected aft- er a moment, “if your theo- ry’s correct we're going right away from the necklace. You said that Tre- maine had hidden it at Edgemere,” “Yes, aghand no such fool as to

‘How He Made It Up.

Ciark Williams, New York’s super intendent of banks, said the other any of a bankrupt:

“It is. no wonder the poor fellow “went under, When it became neces- sary for him to borrow, the securities: that he offered were quite worthless, This fact was pointed out to him, and he produced other bundles of securt- ties less valuable if possible than the first lot.”

Mr. Williams laughed.

“He reminded me,” he said, “vr “s waiter whom I heard.about the other day. His waiter was summoned ap- grily by a guest.

“*Look here, waiter,’ the guest grum. bled,. *these oysters that you have brought.me are bad.’

“‘l know. that, sir,’ the waiter an. swered, ‘but we have given you three | more than you ordered to aaeee up ba’ | es ar

come away\and leave it hidden there. He's not the\man to make the mistake Miss Croydon made—to conceal a thing in a place where he can’t get it again without exciting suspicion. No, no;-he took the necklace with him to New York. Be ~2n no risk in doing that

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of causing the patient to swallow ice. 'Possibly the cold key has no other ‘hemastatic power than what is con- | ‘nected with the sensation of cold

THE COLD KEY. i 7 + A Popular and an Ancient Remedy For. Nosebleed.

In case of hemorrhage, especially, in that of bleeding. from the nose, our forefathers applied to the forehead and to the nose ointments and even the patient’s own blood. They practiced ligation. of the limbs, a means devised by Apollonfus in the reign of Nero,

ligating’ the great toe of the side corré-

®ponding: to the bleeding nostril, and they resorted’ to derivation by ..blood- Jetting. They plug the ears - with ‘tow, a procedure’ recommended by Ga- len. But, above all, they sought to produce fainting. Locally: the haemas- tatic most employed was spider's web,

ith which they filled the nasal fossa.

f all these empirical procedures the

ost. widespread and the one still

ost employed in popular medicine is he application of cold. The most avatl- ‘able source of cold, because it is every- where procurable, is water. Conse- ‘quently it has oftenegt been employed. n In epistafis the ancient physicians ad- ‘vised bathing the face with very cold water and causing it to be held in the mouth. They also soaked the hands and feet in cold water.

On the theory that cold things re- straih hemorrhage many persons re- placed water by solid cold objects and hung about the neck of the patients attacked with episfaxis coral, jasper, yellow amber, marble or articles of fron. Physicians pointed out, indeed, ‘certain regions with which it was pref- erable to make the contact. They real- ized that it was the coldness of the object, not its nature, that did the work. No special property must be at- tributed to the iron, said Guyon-Dolots, for chains of gold, silver or lead would ‘serve the same purpose. In popular medicine, however, iron has remained the material most employed in nasal hemorrhages, and the application of the key to the back is largely resorted to in the household. Dr. Helot pos- sesses an enormous key which he uses only as a paperweight. One day a pa- tient, pointing to this: massive key, ex- claimed, “It is to stop hemorrhages.” It was a key of the eighteenth century.

We may laugh, says -M. Helot, at the charm attributed to the key in epistaxis, but we must admit that cold has a certain action in cases of hemor- rhage. It contracts. the capillary ves- sels. When it is applied at a. distance from the site of hemorrhage its effi- ciency may be a matter for discussion, but its effect is certain when it is applied to the actual seat of the bleed- ing, and rhinologists know the value

which it produces. A cold compress would probably act with more certain- ty, but it would be difficult to dethrone

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‘ograms in gold and silver fs. in’ favor,

NEW WEDDING GIFTS.

Cut Glass Chosen In Preference to Silver.

Sitverware of the intimate sort is not now sent.to a bride by any but the nearest relatives, and no plated ware is permissible, says an exchange. Cut glass is chosen in preference to silver

as a gift.

Even for toilet sets ivory with ‘t mon-

and desk sets and tableware are shown in exquisitely tinted and patterned copper and rare china. Leather goods also. are utilized, and’ bags and purses, dressing cases and jewel , boxes, belts with odd antiques as settings are among the gifts in which modern brides rejoice. ,

‘Antiques of all sorts are “very fash- fonable now as jewelry. Silver chains set with corals and turquoises and all sorts of oddities ‘in the way of. hair combs are being chosen as wedding gifts.

Pictures and:statuafy are not as pop- ular as once, for people are supposed to desire their own taste in their homes rather than that of their friends, but sets of standard books.in fine bindings always make welcome presents.

Bric-a-brac goes out of favor'as a wedding gift except in the case of the rare new art bronzes. There are sets of coffee cups in Dresden or Sevres that come in satin cases, bouillon cups in silver stands and tiny individual dishes. of filigree for sweetmeats and salted nuts that are luxurious and charming. .

Nothing is more popular than the hand embroidered doilies in sets, com- bined with lace and often done in or- ange blossoms for brides. ’

There is such a-rage for sport in these days that it would ,be odd if it were hot reflected in the wedding gifts. Silver and gold mounted poker sets, dainty smoking ‘sets and all known implements for after dinner service at table are among the charm- ing novelties.

Candlesticks are popular alsg, some of them with the antique pendants which are becoming so fashionable for boudoirs and dressing tables.

Diamonds are no longer seen 80 much among wedding gifts, although a string of pearls is nearly always included. The average girl much prefers a motor car to a tiara, and the motor car is a strong favorite as a bridal present.

People seem to seek out something odd in thése days, and an athletic girl

who married recently found a weigh-

ing scale for home use among her ‘treasures. It was in white enamel, with ber monogram in gold.

Small safes are also furnished in this way to be used as wedding gifts, with. velvet lined compartments, for jewels and drawers for cash and pa- pers of value,

the key, which one always has in one’s pocket. There is certainly some wis- dom in the resources of our ancestors and of the common people, even as the

BEWARE OF FACE CREAMS.

Every Wise Woman Makes Her Own

alchemists of old were no fools, as is shown by our modern .chemistry.— New York Medical Journal.

Dodging a Problem.

Little Gracie was very much inter- ested in her arithmetic, and some of the examples which she brought home to work out during the evening hours were puzzling to her parents, who many years ago had forgotten even the rudimentary rules. The other evening the little girl had one about carpeting a room, and this she handed out to her father as the family sat about the ta- ble after supper.

“Papa,” said Gracie, “if you had a room thirty-seven and a half feet long and forty-two and three-quarter feet wide, how many yards of carpet three- quarters of a yard wide would it take to carpet this room?”

Papa thought a minute and then said: “I think I should leave it to the man in the carpet store. He is paid to figure those things out.” .

“But, papa,” said Gracie, “I've got to do this example. Suppose you were the man in the carpet store. How would you get the number of yards””

“Well,” said papa, “S guess I woald have to throw up my job.”

“How would you do ‘it, mamma?’ said the little girl, turning to her mother.

“Well, Gracie.” said mamma, “T don’t think I would carpet the room at all. I believe I would buy a rug. It is easier to take care of and a great deal more sanitary.”

And Gracie had to struggle through the example all by her lonesome.

To Move the Road.

There appear to have been in the Old Dominion during early colonial days a great number of dogs of a mon- grel breed, the chief use of which was to destroy the smaller kind of animals running wild in the woods and fields. How valuable they were considered to be by their owners is shown in a case which occurred in Northampton coun- ty about 1691 and is recorded by P. A. Bruce in ‘The Social Life of Virginia In the Seventeenth Century.”

A complaint was lodged in the coun- ty...coum nst Mike Dixon on the ground that he *{rniitted: bis doga. to rush out and bark at persons passing along the highway, which was situated immediately in front of bis door.

Instead of proposing to kill or re- strain the dogs, Dixon simply petition- e@ the court to bave the public road removed some distance back from his dwelling house, “because it was necc- essary.” he declared, “to keep dogs for the preservation of creatures from vermin.” ‘

‘The “creatures” he referred to were poultry and young pigs, and the “ver- min” were wolves, foxes, minks, pole- | cats and the like.

It is not stated Whether or not his pe a was granted.

Toilet Cream.

“If women knew the danger that lurks jn stale face creams they would exercise more caution in the use of these complexion aids,” said a drug- gist.

“People who would not think of em- ploying rancid oil or stale fats of any kind simply as an application, seem to lose all. fear of the same elements when they have been melted together in the form of a toilet preparation.

“A cream, salve or ointment contain- ing various oils and greases is allowed to remain on the dressing table for " space varying all the way from two months to a year, to be applied at ir- regular intervals. Of course, the tem- perature of the average house is not low enough to keep the preparation long fresh in winter, while in summer it will become unfit for use in a few hours.

“You know what a_ disagreeable flavor table ¢il takes on when kept long in a warm room or closet.

“The skin absorbs the rancid stuff with all its germs, and the latter pass slowly, but surely, into the blood. If there happens to be an abrasion of the skin where the stale cream is applied, bad results are much more rapidly de- veloped.

“The proper place for all such prepa- rations is the refrigerator or other cool spots where perishable provisions are kept.

“Every wise woman makes her own toilet cream, and under no considera- tion will she keep cream longer than six weeks.”

HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

To remove rust on copper rub the article with liquid ammonia.

Never put salt into soup when cook- ing it until it is skimmed, as salt pre- vents the scum from rising.

Wash the silver in the water in which potatoes have been bx lled if you would have it beautifully bright and clean.

When your piano keys become yel- low they can be’ restored to their for- pier whiteness by rubbing them witb turpentine.

The best housekeeper is the one who passes less time in making things clean and more thought in keeping

them (lean as she goes.

Ke¢p campher in cupboards where clothes are stored, for not only will it keep away moths, but also mice, which dislike it exceedingly.

Paraffin spilt on a stone floor may be removed by rubbing bath brick over the mark and ietting it stay till next day, then wash in the usual way and the floor will be perfectly clean.

Paint ean bé removed from glass by rubbing it with hot, strong vinegar. Stains on the hands can be removed by acetic acid or salts of lemon. and ink marks, will soon yield to puuice stone. S

WITH HAT AND: DICE.

Feat of Magic That Any Clever Boy Can Perform,

This trick is simple enough, but it te not so easy to detect, after all.

All you need for it are the following - articles: First a cube shaped box, with a cover that ‘completely envelops it, highly polished and painted blivk. with » the box part sharked jn imitation of a die: (this isto be the false one of your two dice), then a real die, i looks’ precisely like the ‘false, one and will exactly fill the inside of the box, and two hats, ' Having first made sure you are ready to perform the trick, sét a table in front of the comipany several feet away from them and set in it the twa

THE TRICK EXPLAINED.

hats. Then produce your box, black and handsome, and set it on the top- most hat.

Remove the cover, leaving exposed

on the hat the false die containing the real die. _ Rattle away in a happy conversa- tional- style, making all sorts of re marks, anything to keep their attention fixed on you rather than the box, and as you do so clap your cover on and lift up the whole thing off the top most hat.

Then, still talking, bring it down on the hat again and remove the cover again, but this time, pressing the edges slightly, carry away the real die in the cover, leaving only the false die on th hat. Your audience, sitting below th level of the die, will not see the HR ference.

Now, talking for all. you are worth, go through a few unnecessary and meaningless flourishes, in the midst of which you should manage to move the top hat just enough to admit the read die into the hat below.

As soon as you think fit announce to your audience that now they see the die on the top bat, but “Now.” clapping | your cover down over the false die and removing it,, with a flourish, then dis playing the bottom hat—‘tnow you see it in this hat.’—Philadelphia Nortb American.

Gre A FAMILY OF MICE. |

What Happened to the Stupid Ones “When They Went to Play. There were five little field mice. Their mother was very wise, and on¢®’ day when they went ont to play she told them that when she chirped like @ bird they must.lie perfectly still. That seemed so funny that the mice were surprised and began to ask each other a great many questions about it. It would have been much better to ask their mamma, but they were very little. Just then their mother saw a hawk in the sky and chirped. One poor little mouse got frightened and forgot al} about what she said, and one dived down into a hole. Unfortunately there was a weasel in that hole, and the weasel got him. Another ran off and got lost in the grass and never was found again. Another ran and tried to hide under a leaf, and a hawk swooped down and ate him up. An- other jumped into the bushes and @ snake swallowed him. The fifth stay- ed quite still, and, though he did not know it, he looked so like a withered leaf that neither snake nor the wease} nor the hawk saw him at all. Which one do you think was the

wisest?—St. Nicholas. Monkey In Sight. e

One girl leaves the room, while thé others hide a thimble or some other small object. When they are ready, they call “Whoop!” and she enters, If she moves toward the hiding place they cry: “You burn!” “Now you burn more!” If she goes very near they say, “Oh, now she is most blazing!” If she moves from the object they sayy “How cold she grows!” If the article {s found the finder cries, “Monkey in sight!” and then she has the pleasure of hiding it as some other child leaves the room.

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Just as he clasped the beautiful girl in his great strong arms a strange man came out and stood beside them, loob- ing exceptionally foolish and idiotic, due possibly to his embarrassment.

“Pardon me,” he said. ‘The. play- wright had more epigrams than he could put in the mouths of his logical characters, and I've dropped {in just here to get off a few of them. I'll be as quick as I can. You undegstand my position, of course.”

“Oh, dear, yes,” they replied as with one voice. ‘‘Don't mind us. Go right ahead. Take the center of the stage and talk as long as you like. We've been in society drama before, you know.”—Puck. :

She Knew.

A physician in a town not far from Philadelphia who has some practice among the colored population in the vicinity was once awakened in the middle of the night by a frantic ring at his bell. Putting his head out of the window, he inquired, “WH’s there?”

“It’s me, doctah. It’s Dinah.”

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COL. INGLIS AT LUCKNOW,

Heroic ‘Canadian’s Gallant Defence During Indian Mutiny.’

“The review of the veterans of the Indian Mutiny by. Lord Roberts in London commemorated one of. the most glorious pages in the ‘history of Iu few other striggles, offensive or defensive, did the soldiers as a whole fight ‘with mord’ distin- guished bravery, and instances. of in- dividual gallaniry would. fill volumes:”

To-day wé have in India a ‘source of strength and weulth, with a great army of ‘repeatedly proven loyalty.’ Fifty years ago, we were just readin the thrilling story of the defense an telief of Lucknow., The older people tellsus ‘with what\a shock the whole civilized world learned of the totaly unexpected rising in India; of'\the awful outrages committed; of the little hand/uls of gallant men, defending positions against countless hordes, and reserving the last cartridges for their women and children, rather than have them: meet a fate worse than death. They were tales of sick- ening horror, which make one shudder to read even now.

Btanding out as the grandest feature of the whole rebellion was the gallant defence of Lucknow. Canadians, to this day, recall with a thrill of pride that the brave soldier who conducted that defence was one of their own. When his senior in command, Sir Henry Lawrence, was mortally wounded, the defence of Lucknow fell to Col. Inglis. This brave Nova Seo- tian gathered the women and children into the Residency, and there with his handful of devoted men _ eon- ducted the most desperate and gallant defence in the history of warfare. Sir Henry Lawrence Had unfortunately left the buildings surrounding the Residency standing. These were loop- holed and occupied by 8,000 Sepoys, who could thus fire down upon the little band. Assault after assault was made, each being preceded by the ex» plosion of a mine, but Inglis, with almost inconceivable valor, beat back every attack. The little garrison saw their numbers being decimated, the horrors of starvation staring them in tthe face, ammunition running short, surrounded by. a. rélentless foe, the rain, heat and unburied corpses of the slain adding disease to their terrible condition. We have heard of battles lasting for several days. The defend- ers of Lucknow fought without an hour’s intermission for 87 days. Dur- that time they were subjected to a continuous fire, and repelled repeated attacks in hand-to-hand fights. At last, on Sept. 25, the distant skirl of the pipes of the 78th Highlanders told them ‘The Campbells are Coming,” and sweeter music mortal ear never heard. at

The London Times said: ‘‘The de- fence of that place is, we believe, without precedent in modern war- fare.’’ In the general order of Dec. 8, 1857, the Governor-General of India placed on record this significant sen- tence: “‘There does not stand recorded in the annals of war an achievement more truly heroic than the defence of the Residency of Lucknow.’

While the Nova Scotian soldier was winning an undying name for British arms in that very hell at Lucknow, it must not be supposed that the people of the rest’ of what is now Canada were looking on in idleness. In every war Britain has fought, since Wolfe and Montcalm fell at Quebec, British- Americans took part. . When the Cri- mean war was: on, and Ger. Sir Fen- wick Williams, another Nova Scotian, was making his superb defence cf Kars, a troop of cavalry wag-raised at Quebec, and Lord. Elgin personally conveyed to Her Majesty the offer of their services for active duty. So, too, when the tragic news from India reached us, a regiment of foot was at once raised in Canada and placed at the disposal of the Empire. While the rebellion was over before they ar- rived, the 100th Canadian Regiment remained for years afterwards a part of the regular forces of the nation, and only a few years ago returned to Canada.

Another Canadian Decorated.

It has just been announced that Commander William Balfour Mac- donald, Royal Navy, a younger son of Senator William J.. Macdonald, of British Columbia, has been decorated by the German Emperor with the or- der of the Crown of Prussia. It will be remembered that on the recent visit of the Kaiser to England, his Imperial Majesty became lost in a fog off the Isle of Wight. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the secre- tary of the German Embassy, and the flag captain at Portsmouth, went out in a destroyer in a search hunt, but could not locaté the German equaern Commander Macdonald

o went out, in Admiral Bosanquet’s barge, and was successful in diseover- ing it. Going on board the imperial yacht he informed the admiral in com- mand of his position. At this stage the Emperor appeared on deck and gave the young Canadian a cordial greeting. The Kaiser took him to the chart room, and erage J his finger on the chart, said: ‘I place my ships there.”

Commander Macdonald, reckoning -the position from a buoy he:had seen, and measuring the chart, said: ‘“‘Your Majesty is quite right.”

The Emperor: ‘What do. you think of that now?” .

Commander Macdonald: “Ff think you are a very good sailor, sir.”

At this the Emperor laughed hearti- ly, and insisted on introducing the commander ‘to the Empress.

The. incident ended in the ship being safely brought to port next day. {

Abounardes Macdonald, as we. learn from Dr. Morgan, of Ottawa, was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He entered the Royal Navy as the nomi- ‘nee of he Governor-General of Cana- da, Jnly 15, 1883, and attained com- ‘mander’s rank quite recently, :

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“Where, Mr: Trouble, did you meet your wile who has treated you this way? ,

“Well, judge,” somewhat meekly, “you see it’s this way: I never did meet her. She just kind o’ overtook me.”’—Indianuapolis News.

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“Now,” said the physic’an, ‘you will have to.eat plain food and not stay out late at night.’

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Mrs. E. Boxall of 75 Scott St., St. Thomas, Ont., writes: ‘I consider it my duty to write of the benefits deriv- ed from using Zam-Buk. For some months I was a constant sufferer from bleeding piles. I had used a great many ontments but got no relief un- til I had tried Zam-Buk. It cured me and I have had no return of the trouble. Since my cure, I have ad- vised others~suffer'ng with a similar complaint to use Zam-Buk, and in each instance have heard satisfactory reports.” :

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Tenant—All right; I wnderstand that the man who occupied it before T did left owing three months’ rents— Harper’s Weekly.

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An Miinois physician bas revived the Idea of resuscitating drowned people by first immersing them in a hot bath for twenty minutes or longer and then resorting to the old and ordinary meth- ods of restoration: He says the lungs of a drowned person’ do not contain water, a’ spasm of the ldrynx voccur- ring ‘which prevents the’ entrance of ‘water for ‘a petiod of ‘nine days. Drowning, so calied, 18 merely suspend- ed animation and not déath. By this process lifé@*may be saved if the body has not been submerged more:than six hours. ,

A Year’s Crops. ‘ According to the eleventh annual re- port of the secretary of agriculture made public recently, the main crops of the country are valued as ‘follows: Corn, $860,000,000; hay, $675.000,000; cotton; $675,000,000;, wheat, $500,000,- 000; oats, $360,000,000; potatoes, $190,-. 000,000; barley, $115,000,000; tobacco, $67,000,000; rice, $19,500,000; poultry and eggs, $600,000,000; dairy products, $800,000,000. ;

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Englishman’s Curious Wager — Must Go Masked and Push Perambulator. | In the face.of a north-east wind a

man started recently from Trafalgar t

Square, London, an # teur around the. world; The adventurer undertook the task for'a wager of $10,000, the details n the course ‘of ai interview. “EGE Rif inage ““Thig. wager,’”’ ‘he said, ‘“‘was laid’ ‘by a friend of. niine, a well-known American ‘tmillionare,, as the outcome of an argument. that took place at. a club in’ Pall Mall, He declared” that no Englishman could walk around the world and push. a perambulator. Af- ter, heuring the conditions I at once made tp my mind to accept the wager myself, Upon telling him-of the deci- sion I had come to he at oncé “made arrangement with another well-known American gentleman to accompany me. He is only doing it for sport.

When asnee i he was going to subsist he replied:

“T am pa penniless and I shall sell photographs and pamphlets while on the journey. I am allowed to ex- ‘pend any sum not exceeding $5 for photographs and pamphlets for sale at the ‘start. That is how I shall subsist.”

A very difficult task is before the walker. In order to win the wager he has to touch every sonny in Eng- land, to visit Scotland, Ireland and Wales and to call at twenty coun- tries. He is to buy a postage stamp at every town passed through on __ his journey, Among the other conditions of this most remarkable wager are that he is to (md a wife on the road, to forward an account of the miles walked and the towns visited and to obtain a signed document from the mayor or some other responsible per- son in each town bg is to be allow- ed to “go as you please.

“Good-bye,” the wayfarer called out merrily as-he disappeared: ‘‘See you. in ten years.” :

BRIDEGROOM LOSES MEMORY.

ot. English City.

An extraordinary story of a sequel to a Christmas Eve marriage came to light at Bristol recently.

‘A man went into a Bristol postoffice and stated that he had not only lost his memory, but had lost his bride. He remembered being married at Wig-

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out for Bristol, where he was going to spend his honeymoon. On the way he missed+ his wife, though he was unable to remember how this hap- pened.

Finding himself in a strange place, without any’ knowledge of his name or address, he applied for assistance to the postoffice officials.

The one clue he had was that before leaving Wigan he recollected sending a telegram to relatives in Bristol, ad- vising them that he was coming by a certain train. He knew the time he handed it in, and was able to give ‘the. name in which it was sent, but there his memory ceased. ie

The post officials made enquiries, and were at length able to find the address to which the man. wished to go. They sent him vhere in charge of a messenger. ;

He had been wandering about in Bristol streets for four or five hours before it struck him that the post- office people might help him. When given a clue to the address he jumped readily at it, and said it came back to his memory like a. flash.

After expressing his thanks. to the officials he left, with the remark, “This will be a lesson to me.”

’ ez Chinese in Cadngiff. Among sea-faring men in Cardiff the steady increase in the number of Chinamen whc obtain berths on ves- sels at that pert is causing alarm. It is stated that the Chinamen accept half the wages of European seamen, and are less particular as regards food, requiring only a few cheap though wholesome articles of diet. The Chinaman does not ask for pe and haricot beans, flour, oatmeal, milk, syrup, suet, pickles, and dried fruits. He lives for a month on the same quantity of salt beef, salt pork, and preserved meat as the white man requires for a week. Even of coffee and tea he wants less’ in a month than his white competitor in a week. “Four years ago,~ said the Cardiff secretary of the Sailors’ and Fire- men’s Union, there was not a Chinese boarding-house in Cardiff. Now there are-seven. Four years ago you_could

the Greek and Spanish flags. The Spaniards drove the Greeks. away to a gréat extent. Then the Italians came in. Now the Italians are disappear- ing gradually, and also the Arabs and Turks, and the Chinese are taking their places. ‘

“There are between’ 200 and ‘300 Chindmen always on shore, and avail- able for engagement. increase of the- past year or so is kept up we shall have.a new Chinese boarding-house _es‘ablished- every month or two.” -

Pleased Three Sovereigns.

The Grantham acrobat, - Henry Johnson, who boasts of performances before three British sovereigns, has just attained his 10Ist birthday.

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“Is Mr. Champion in this car?”

The question, uttered in a loud, anx- lous and even appealing tone, arrested the attention of everybody in the ele- vated railway coach, which was crowd- ed to its utmost capacity.

“I mean Mr. W. J. Champion!”

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In This Car Apply to W. J. Champion.’ |

I want space! I want it understood that | am applying for space in this car right now! If Mr. Champion is not here, gentlemen, is there any person legally authorized to represent him? |! want space enough to live in, space enough to breathe in”—

But here the train stopped at a sta-

wanted to get off swept the tall man, still protesting at the top of his voice, out into the open air.—Chicago Trib-

une. Bait Dress of Stamps. :

At a ball in Bermuda, a wonderfu: dress’ was worn, and in the making oi it over 30,000 stamps were ‘used.. Years were spent in collecting: the stamp: and three weeks iu the making 01 the dress, which was of -the muslin. .

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Judge Boyd, of the Irish bench, kept a supply of his favorite “‘pizen’”’ on the desk before him in an inkstand of peculiar make. When he wanted a sip he took it. through a quill pen, while counsel professed entire ingnor- ‘ance of the little manoeuvre.

“Tell thé court truly,” he once said to » witness, ““‘were you drunk or sober ” ,

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A Summer Idyll]. .

It was indeed a beautiful ' night. The gentle zephyrs played .musically - amid the delicate fronds of the tur- nip-tops, and wafted from far distant fields the subtle perfume of the lus- cious onion and the fragrance of de- caying cabbages. “Betsy,’’ he whis- pered, as they sat together on the fence surrounding Mrs. Filligan’s ig styes> ‘ow’ bea-utiful you be! te think of it, Betsy! When us be mar- ried us will have a pig of our own! Think of that, Betsy!”

“Jan,” she whispered, a note of re- sentment in her voice, “what do I care for pigs? I shan’t want no pig when I’ve got you!”

Then all was silent once more, save for the musieal frolics of the zephyrs already mentioned.—Punch.

The poultry editor of a country paper received this letter from a poet- ical summer cottager:

“Dear Editor—What shal! I do ? Each morn when I visit my hen house I find two or three fowls on their backs, their feet sticking straight w and their souls wandering fields Elysian. What is the matter?” - The prosaic editor replied by re- turn mail :-—

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and despite his checkered career :

weight of years is moderately active. the royal comrsission, . ‘ : : : | é :

Scottish mining centres and will ct the miners’ houses with a

it w to embodying a |

ond

een. &

Kicked By a Horse|

r Taber Boy Heroivally Rides Five Miles toa Doctor. —.

anidinbhietiahid

“Alfred De Mate, who was discing on a homestead about five miles out of town, met with a painful and what might have been a seridns accident, Saturddy. “One ‘of the lyorses ‘he was

driving’ kicked,” striking young De}

Mare full in the face, cutting him hadly and splitting the cartilage of his nose from end to end, and knock- wi lg bim agnsolass, He was all alone and how long be was unconscious he does not know. When he came +o he had bled considerable, and he got onto one of the horscs and rodé to town could = for medical When _ reached town both he and his horse

as fast as he

attendance. he were covered avith blood loss of blood he was gotting weak, but he pluckily held up while Dr. the his face will be some-

Leech dressed wounds.

chances are

what searred, but he is fortunate in | : on Alfred is a}

«seaping with his life.

brave boy and displ: syed a good deal |

of presence of mind in his difficulty.

BY THE WAY

| lf sonie people only spoke their

aninds they wouldn't have so much 40 Say. oO Timey isn't exactly ,money, but

| some people spend one just about as

foolishly as the other.”

They met the old cow all forlorn And asked how she got the crumpled

horn ; Vd erossed the rout” the old) cow said, And ans auto collided with my head.” ia) \ judge inthe Mast is sure that poor cooking «lvives miary ten to rink. Tard drinking, too, deprives

NaNy &@ poor Woman of the necessary

things with which to cook Maybe if the man would cut out the booze and Dring his WyaneN howe ihe couk- ne woulda t be so bad, a) awh Wyisp't a Missouri editor, but at

printer's devil, who was going through lis first experience on “making up) forms. Phe paper was late and the boy got the galleys nixed. ‘The first part of the obituary

notice of a peeunioas citizen had been dumped ins the forms, att the next handfubof type came of a galley read like

“Phe pall-bearers lowered the

deseribing a recent fire this. and as it Was coh-

hody to-the grave,

signed to the flames there were few a! my regrets, for the oladb wreek lad been an evesore to the town for years. Of course there was indi vidtiadl Joss. but that was fully covered by insurance, Phe widow thinks

the wrote the obttuary that

way becuuse the lamented parther ot

editor

her joys and sorrows owed him five years’ subscription. ~_-

Too Deep. The story is tollooft a dank,

sate looking fariner who one cay

dug the pro

discouso chur:

with the air of wie who lus heey sur- feitedy with a feast of saine sort.

“Do you know who's talking fu there now?” demanded w stranger briskly, pausing for a dmonient beside the dis- «vusvlaie farmer, “or are you ing in?

& “Now sir, Uve just, the farmer decidedly. talking in there

“What abouts’

“Well, be didu't say.” the auswered. puasiig a knotted” aeross bis farelead,

said Evarts is

come out.” ~M f.

usked the stranger.

hand

A Pet Tiger.

Out of a river bed where it had tum bled wien its dain was put to flight syive hunters in india fislied a tiger eub. kitten and grew up the playmate of the camp terriers, It was very of theweaud the terriers worshiped ine tigress. visitor the tigress was one vight chain ed up. found with w man undey her, She tind - pot hurt him, He was a thief and,

e knowing of her existence, had come

within the area which ber length of |

“chain enable hier to command. She 4 eprang upon fifi tay ow bin ‘and kept hin prisonet iui! guards came to re Sense him.

4 7

lrom:the |

The |*

ss of & political meeting | fa Cooper institute steud an the steps |

just go- |

faruier |

In two days.if was as tatne as a | foud | To allay the fears of a wotan | Next morning the aninmal was |

bol ,

me Curiou. , Facts, Avout the. Size ‘of ‘Wings’ and Bodies.

n thesaic ay to dh. over some unt Sal das oni dig) Meytivts have lose | cotee wena iy imyrber of spe

ma tiiost pu dag pa sidux, (perhaps

‘S most in, stertdis (of the esigmius “at the-subject peosentk It is that in umber of Dirds wid insets the size the v fay eevee ry ortion to

vw incre. se 40 sive of cee bod. of the fig credtur 1 tratian erane, ve. Insianee, weleoeuver 3000 tines

sove than. the spvos. but th: propor: oi” has oily on evetith the wing ‘ea of the smaller bird

Thiscurious, fact ds equally striking a Wwe couipare birds with insects. If he gnat were increased in_size until it vas as large us the Australian crane nd if the wing: of the insect were enlarged to main.vin the proportion they noaw “bear “to its bddy they would ‘re about 150. times litger than the urane’s.

It requires 3.u + ,vare feet of wing area per pound to float the bank swal- low, but to sustain the tawny vulture, au monstrous bird ti comparison, re ‘uires only 68 of a square foot of Wing surface pér pound of body The albatross, welshin elrhteen .pounds. Nas a spread oj ‘ne of eleven feet ix inches, wht “Mnpeter swan, Weighing twen pounds, has a pread of wing of ons eight feet. The ‘stork weighs more” than ‘he pigeon. but i: proportion bas only af aso muvh. wing surface.—Every- vody’s Magazine .

/ PALEREY F9% DINNER.

it Was Not Horseflesh, However, That | Dr. Jo!'nson Ate.

Dr. Johnson in lis journal mentions

he interesting fact that be had on a

ertain Gay had “palfrey for dinner.”

tow, these three words have caused

‘vot a little trouble to the critics, and

‘or this reason, that they know that palfrey reatly is. It) has

uggested that palfvey is a clerleai er

; or made by the doctor himself

astry,.bnt the doctor wrote so legibly ind there is so auch Aiference be

| ween the words palfrey and pastry

‘chat this position is not at all tenable.

{ Palfrey is defined in rated dictionary as or ladies’ snd hat the doctor teonehorman were notorious) mits

rdoon the

sposed oof at

ele times

Trot been

Johnson's .cele- horse: fit thonght (Whose ferts us a

Yosmuarll some. lave have Droken a reco and di hese and other nab we will proceed to give the explanation, The: word frey dy the still in

day it question horse. ATI

CORJCETULOS Ae

Smal Wroy COrrect

Come times reoot dame tha is mig the peal novily of

, rend tro ste tirbite

ly “ss tine

palfres intercehane:

pad Use min rusties ol Ireland aud Wher thes first Stelrenab

“elose’ oor De

land the

it } ' th) Chie Sty

ripe

hot besunm to ster. Thess tite

sprokem af gis ae: padre”

solid im the + rene

nly

tnd are cousidlered a laxtry. Wer dotin

son proboabbly pleked typ the word: from

his friend Boswell or from some other

Seotel: aequaimbiee. Londen Noces pad (Queries, , e : A Gocd Medicine.

Tarighier not outy gadis’ friends. bu

its a wood medicine keeps the eve bright. the heart dight and) inerestye the number oof red corpuscles Pei haps that is the ressou one sees se fey fashionable. people trawhing. “Phey ape + cullivacting blue be! ood,

Aman who was vers il was visited

by his doctor ane co. rose Lirias creatures, about as eleertui as a tosh stone. Pde assumed the property de jected air aed tug i of this Stel mith Where his) tris fe | cus they need le totitie “a im shit if be had ga ast retest

"Yes one, the qertient auswered fee hiv :

“Whatis its

“Po ish DP did senethoer: doctor”

Embrocetion. sd pre

A Curious

Rattlesiiake oil is preserved

for ; ;

- MANNING THE “YARDS,

A Naval Gosaisbi That \s Not What . | He Used to Be.

In’ the otf navy,, when, United States ships wére dctually shins with yards, the ‘bos'n’s inate’s enll, “Alk bands ! cheer ship!" was followed by a° muth more pieturesque ceremony -than is possible now, when the vessels of the, navy are fitted with but a‘single yard i

and that only used for signaling, At

the ‘word’ of commian' ‘Man. the yards!" there was-an i... nt of acro- batie seurrying on the tain decks of the old ships that was calculated to make the ship sitor hold his breath, the. thing looked so dingerous... Tie men forward tn blieyseset) uniform

\would fairly leap up. the tope ludders, und almost. by the time the echoes’ of

the .command bad died away every yard on each’ mast) would support scores of men and bors. all standing ; erect, most of them only held up ‘by the erossed arms of ‘the men’ béside | them. This representation of a cross {was beld® by all of the men, and it lwas their business to stand thus with | absolute — statuesdqueness Then the

command “Cheer ship’ would be bawled out on deck by the chief bos'n's mate. and there would be m yell from eathead to mizzen that couldirt help but warm the blood of everybodys with iin hearing of it When the men | manned the yards with all sail exeept

| topsails and stunsails set, such a pic i ture was really. beautiful, the men’s | uniforms of blue standing out in sap | phire like contyns' to the cameo white i ness of the shrouds ‘This was a cere | mony on all formal aceasions, sueh as , the visit abonrd the old ships of dis- | tinguished. men And o-AManm the fvards!" and "Cheer ships) were can,

mands when one of the | old clippers of the Uaited st pws either departing for oor j

from a forelzn’ stition

TO MASTER THE

always given fes mavy

arriving

SHEET.

| What You Must Learn if You Want to Be a Sailor.

One thing you have to learn befor you can write sailor after vour paine, and that is to master ao sail Brute force is of no account. To wse rate jforee with wosail is like eniployi it to enpture an eleplsuit or min dowt an untamed steed. Mastering asl js oa snaine oof stratesy. tiesses at ploimacy. flattery. porsdasiog amd yp severmnee, will dieree oe uerey thashes! fot Che right: insted You ob Know vour srdb Soibs are i What will wath cistron fii Upplicd Goa mais th ar tapsid

Whe ootee bein tists Frere skilled oat this ae be esd came ato it dha three tibber Pveose three noes taekde st jib anid: come des on the lead: Uarthe dd aad) lecaten at adit tecn omrinete Peutl utueb taeda : JowW oto quarter their catmen we ioe au OuL UL comanes thy mind et WoCaplise dn fet iiiantes

Aosaib daaSter dias tye tials tga e his aims, two oem tis deus, aimed | (teeth Besides, Tre dia knees. his el hows, the evip of bis thighs. WIS neck Aid dis whole body fie ust beam octopus, a ben Seomstrictor sud oa monkey. combining with theiv casatir ties the® patience of am ox. the quiek-. hess of a tiger aud the sabttets of oa fox. TP. Be Day im the Outi Marge zine,

* His Medal.

The button worn iy chase to whem Cousvess awatrads anedsls fer special bravery in the countey’s service is Dine with white stars, buat it} is not cotton chou for dis signitienanee tobe veneradiv understood A city officint who was enterigining Visi tor Whe Wore gre ol those batttats wars pruzzied by doa Hilly asted: ti is flor qo centighten dina Vdye tastia dive taited inodestiv card) began to cexglain that it was different tram tuost dee Ovations, espeeeriy Foreign. whieh are

ustially britlinueds the offiehl recatled meant,

"Oh. To ounderstaned rupted: | vit

colored Stiddiemds

Wirt thre ctrechad nea he dadter

cortatuds is different

pared very carefully for use as a dimi ‘Phere’s nea yellow i it.”

mopt in some parts oof the world wv

Rheunistiso and sore joimts are the =aaetaare

ailments im whieh dt is eliethy ers Lively Mourning.

ployed, ‘The fat is taken fron the A neted Eijyylish artist once was

dead domtite ad ditid pen a cloth in, standing at the edge of the road wait-

the hot sum. frome whieh the filtered fog for bis horse and he was dressed

oO drips dite ae jar Prom fear Chat in bis usual peculiar stvte-— mustard.

the repiidle ay be bitten itself the ; colored vidiow Snit. vivid waistcoat \ vlear ooil*is tested hy areoping a por | and bright rad tie. A man who had

lion of it into milk. Tf it Baats inoue. evidenthy been reveling bappeucd to

globule it te regarded as unaVeceted | lureb round the conier of the street. { f it breaks inte beads and cardies the le- stared at the famous artist for

pith ft is Judged to be poiseneus aid,

thrown away. acesewstery o

The Poor Cat. A young wife cated ber the telephone fu tell hin a tale of woe Tu tear choked accents she said: you, dearie’ Well. ly chicken pie Loinade voi hit borvid old cat caine in and ate it up befare 7 conld step it.”

j He aaswered, “Never mind, Qarhing: | Vil get you another cat.”

His Symptoms. “Maybe that bev of yours will be famous some day.” said the friend. “LT shoukiat be surprised’. answer ed Farmer Corntossel: “he duss like ty

| wear curious clothes an’ say thingy | that sounds gore surprisin’ than seusi- ble.” | Her Oischarge. “Why did yoo leave your last pice?” “Sure, Lo oworr discharged for dein well, mum.” | “Discharged for doing well? Why. | where were you?” “T werr iwethe horspital, nium,”*--

Yep ee maptigpte rites i idliierits triestettia

with ‘the deepest prabe on forth the hidden CMaractér,-—2étitua.

Pee aga ‘Auswers.

Hurband an;

“That | you know that lave |

os hay

a thinute in silence, theo he touched his cap aud asked tn oa tone of deep coumoiseration, “Reg pardon, gav'nor, was you ip mournin’ for anyluds 2?

The Place For the Repentant.

“RIVER OF ' SALT. WATE ait

‘Flows Inland in p a Greek ‘Then’ Disappears. , One of the anost curious ‘phenome of geography is fond on the gor ert coast of the idlahd of Cephalonia, near treece. It is a stream of salt water vhieh for 40 unknown period has left the almost tidcless sea and. flowed in- l laud with considerable yolume, The sca enters the

Island an

land at four

J points where the coast is practically on

a level with the salt water surface. ‘The. four initial streams unite to form the little river that flows ‘inland ‘ina iroken rocky channel until ft finally cisappearss Invthe IHmestone rock and “inks into the eurth.

“It is far too great for removal by evap ‘oration, ehemiecal combination ,or even

livsical absorption by pores or cav- erns in the rocks. “What becomes of ‘Ye water that is constuntly flowing

“yland and disgppears finally in) the issures that have opened in the lime- tone?

The question has been the subject of auch study, butsno conclusive answer been given. It is probable that here isan und@rground channel which water back tito the sea at »>greatdepth below the surface. The oustint intlux of salt waser at Cepha- mia is duplented as far as is known { no other the world.

irries the

poin. of

SPORTS AND THE SPHERE.

The Basic Pursuit In Most Games le to Drive a Ball.

Some day there will arse a patient avestigator who will work out. this vroblem, Why ave mast sports but. the

sarinntis of one object, the, propulsion wirsphere?— \

Billinrds. baseball polo. golf, sling ing. qnerdles, squash. handbaile foot- hall, rackets, crieket, hockey, bagatelle, ennis, shoothiz. pelota othe basia pur- suit inceneh is to drive a ball, the pro-

pulsion of a sphere. Vipeat, shuttlecock ive the ciiploytient of modifications of the sphere, archery is but another method of icles fot. : Htois oa

and top spinning

aud

tramge limelation of form, nod there inust bea reason. Phose who delve inte ovivins ay aseribe the Whole detive of sports fo seme pbome aimed hiirstites ormeestor owl first

threw on pebble aia fellow eave dwetl epocuye Powel i wremt faa

Orit nny be poor irortal’s attenipe toe r Stith) Pastiion into the tre \ fous oseheime af the diverse, Whiel is the everbisting movement of eospherves. Ci dt daa -he that sports re feed da daevitadite ohedionec to sere irresistibie Taw af qiaatine

Nt orate the tiet ois sports are Frosesd orm uh prreoputisdare ab Ube spelrere,

Soviet oarcertit tea tind hoobeMsSan

Vari

Wych Haze! Not Witch Hazel

Phas oprect tates Pav by bitedis Vir viliies lot by duitze bat owvelh hovel Our pland Tas Te Seommeetion witht Mrede al tie yy ater damier rh higekthorn of add. Pras wou iowa fhe wed tsed im these dvingwifows, or whatever these super ti sopraciicees ina be oternied. pba totadoa very wide noewning dn the den times. ane the elm us well as He onut mow hrewar as stele wis hazel the oof these eliis. new how as Ul PAIS nnbousbattial Wars tlre favorite wood or mstkitg Wiehe: or provision ele md owas thipre fore Kiowa as the wel titel Tn dive present day it

the wvel eli. Oie hetiiinetis. re clved frome the earky settlers the name Pow sel tazel trot the peseurbhanece f the desves te tiase af the wyebw dit eloorcedin of the ad werd. Taree eformers iimicinine that web shout vspelied Witch are respousthle for the omfusion. Wael drazel is the correct erm foroour plat

Dangerous Golf.

Oneoof the rates or the Westen-super Mire (inehanade Grol chide reads, 7A val) ovneey FRE Lifted: cand: dropped with

the toss af when plivyed with in thes rvilings Surrounding the powder am VYhere appears to he au Mement of danger in Which reminds a ‘ertain solf an coast, Where the cizhth Always optional its

oS Trowe

zbne.”

writer of a West Afri- and ninth several

Loaticlets

cottrrse oon (he

iotes are

volfers ure osnid to have heen lost bere owing to the proximity of tbe innele, Abich is knawh to be a favor- ite lair of the lion. Where the Difference Lay. “One of bis complainis agniust bis

wife inthe divorce suit.” said Gre Jaw- ver, “was that sbe smoked cigareties.”

“Ob, tny geendiess! Aud whenever he comes to see ine,” cried the bacbe-

i They had eloped and returned for) jap girl, “] sthoke and smoke!”

| re ee anes “Oh he duesu't uilnd other woken “Fathor,” the beautifl young woe guoking cigarettes.” declared Cre law-

. tian said, “we are sorry for what wel ver, “de likes i, tt is onty his wife.”

‘dave dene, Will you"

“Then.” the ster old gan interrupt. ed, Uwhy douwt you gu te the lawyer around the corner? Tino he divorce eourt:” . ; riers

The Little Darling. Mrs. Upimore Guaking a call ) this is your latest phofograph,

-Why, ist it

| It's an excellent Likeness of vou, bat tt isn't so good of baby. Wasn't he-- Mrs. Highmus--The idea! Laid you.

think the lithe darling in my baby? Thats Fide!

lap Was

. OF Hativclnation: Knicker -— A boy's wother always finds out when be has been swimming.

| Baeker—And yet fotks never kuow | when a oman takes: a Wall street i i pliitige. wd ~ Hirmaciana Lapps,.. workt's | fullest: and sho: test people, five side | wy alte, owes op etgdiibennen.:--uhe

For the Defense.

Ma--J bear that yan've been playing with -Dotratd Suaith— again, Tom@niy. Now, To teld you ‘Totumy-- Playing

With hii! You see the bheeck-ove bets got wud you'll sows guessa if there was auy playing about it. - Puach,

Always at it.

Mis. Pease—My husband aud I nev er «lispute before the children. | We always send them ont when a quarrel sues imminent. Miss Shary-—Ah, ive often wondered why they're so much iu the street!

Pretty Het.

“Tider the equator, ,

warked ‘a exiqunive traveler, “it is se

bot ihat the waiives, have to put hens.

{ti fee chests fo prevent their ‘laying Hard ‘balled eggs.” —Loniten Mall

R |

This inland flow’ has continued al-_ wost certainly vor several centuries.

this kind of golf.

gentlemen.” re. ;

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