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No 75 THK 1SLANDKII, OUMBKRLANLi, li C, SATURDAY, NOV. 4, Subscription price $1.50 per jMr NEW MOVING ORDER OF LIONS A FUNERAL OF CONSERVATIVE DEFEATED TOE PICTURE SHOW ELECTS OFFICERS THOMAS BOYD MEETING

Officers Elected Last Cumberland Although Cnmberland Hall Was Courtenay Is Becom Remains Laid At Mr. Clements Addres­ Sunday October ses Large Audience Defeated Makes Greeted With Large ing a Town Of Best In Cumber 29th At Courtenay Good Showing Audience Importance land Cemetery

Mr. and Mn. Clement! aoonmpaoicd Good Picturet, Good Untie, Large Al (he meeting held in tlieK. of P. Tbe following froa Iht Ft* I me Tbi. betatiful little place in tbi On laat Sunday October 29 tbi funeral by Dootor and Mrs. 8proule, were vi* N»u»lmo, shows whal lh* OoulOhta Crowd—Tltit waa at the opening of the hall October 20th liy llie B, P. I. Order beirt ofiheOomoi Valley it de.tined of Thomas W. Boyd age (17) took place iton to thia eky hut Monday. It wat. ploni tbi .k ol Oo«tirltod'iplay,aod new moving picture allow, which started of Liens there was an election of oflice­ to hold itt hold it. I etd up among from the family aeaidence, Union B. 0 impoasMt for Mr. dementi to hold t the fromimnt centres on Vaueome at one o'clock, for interment in Cumber­ meeting in'both Cumberland tad Court­ •petit, highly ol Iht Mem! on laat Wedneaday evening in the Cum­ rs and the following were installed: Itlaud. Surrounded by one ol tie land Cemetery. enay, ao it WM deoidid to hold a smoker Past Master. F. Z. Good; I "Tho opetiog game ol lb* B.O. berland Rail by a company of well largest agricultural dittricta ol ibe The funeral service! were conducted by in Courtenay. Football Litgai WII pltyrd boto ot known gentlemen, and impacted wsi- Worthy Muster, William Merri­ north and closely coutlgnoui tn • he Rev. B. C. Ereeuian, uf Grace Me h- One of the lamest aad mott enthusias­ uitr. Church. tic meetinge. ever held in thil diatrict Bo idey, tbe local boyt defeating Oom- dsnts ai thia city, Messrs 8. McLeod field; arge c ntre of the eoal Oiimug ittdn - Deputy Master, William Nelson; try wbiob provides a market fur let The P.dltienrei were ns follows: Maa. gave Mr. Clement! a very hearty rt- berland alter a .trenuou. ftat by Iht Chat. Parnham and Austin Hugo. produce at do the Fraser K ver Hnw- aer Chas. Home, I)..vid Nellitt.D.m Ban oeptiun. Many prominent Content- oloie aoora ol ona goal to ail. Vice Master, Thomas McDonald; Tli« firat attempt of the promoters millt Logging Camp, erman, Ed. Huudeu, Wm. Thomson and tirst from Cumberland tpoke. Financial and Recordind Secretary Bert Parks. Mr. Clement! and Dr. 8proula gave a* Both teama pal ap t tat eleee ol haa met with grand succeed, and THI Witb the ttttlimenl of the oca. wind up tpeeoh that waa all that could' football aud t beta ware muy titilioi P. Harrison. Mr. Thus. Edwards, undertaker of IsLixoaa bega to congratulate them rigbtt oatei iu the courts, or tha ball* Vaucuuver, took charge of the funeral. be desired, and ws would publish seeu ' thrill*, whlob kept tba sptetlten ot Chaplin, M. Maleiick; ol legislation, coal mines will be op. o only lack of space prevent* ua from do- It thtir uadertaking.Never before waa The floral tributes at follows:- thatif-toa of cioiumaat duilag the Marshall, Geo. Yarrow; • ed right in tbe Valley and inerei •• i t ing so. The Cumberland Band wai ia * (!lubes-L.O.Y.B.L. No. 133; Mnand Cumberland Htll greeted with auch n population acre, and right iu Ilu aitendanoe and .wai highly compliment­ entire fame. Inner Guard; 8 Lawrence; 1 Wm. Harrison and family; Mean and large audience, tnd ai a good many with this advsiicf'ifeu' ttist ; mm .. ed on ail sides. During tbt Bret boll Ibt OumWr- Ouler Guard, A. Peacock; .' ol ths general store business iu tin Misses White; Messrs Campbell Broa.; were heard to remark that "the pictures Mr. and Mrs. Newton; Mr, and Mrs. lande looked aa Iboagb thty would Trustee!, W. Mernfeild; dtniiiot, Mr. J Mc. hi t, hns iu court- Dykes, Mr. and Mrs. McMurtrie; Mis. were the clearest and but that were of cuwpletiou a modem up-lo-datt- In making mention in our last issue ran away wltb tbt gems.bot >iatimo P. Gordon; aud A. Wall, Mrs. end Jus. Wall. ever ahown in Cumberland". f the presentation to Mrs. Games, we defenM wart playing t hard iMady F. Z.Good; ore whieh will besupeiior to au; Wreaths—Father, mother and family; There la noreaton whatever, why the thing we have to lar tern lire. had it that it was given by the ladiea garni, and lavid jnil in tint I* pre­ There wai quite an attendance that Employees of cigar factory (Vancouver;) Bea. estate offices abouud, those of the Macoalteea. This was an error vent wbtt looked to bt t ttrtaio goal. iCtntlemtn at the head of thit new Mr and Mrt W Wall and Mr and Mra T taxed the capacity of the Hall aad a barbiugeri nlboomt and tie eeideuc Edwards and Mr and Mn Kelley (Van­ as the presentation wsi given to Mrs. venture ihould not "make good," aa we Time and agaia Ibt vbittn by iphr- number of new candidates were init­ of prosperity are to be teeu on .ve y couver;) II C Brown, Mils Sophie Walk Garnea by tha Pythian Sisters of did combination and paaalag, woald •aid, they era well known, being residi- iated into the realms of Lioniam. tide. Mr and Mrs Reese, Mn Thoa Wil- which that lady is a member. work tht ball down almoal lo tht goal denti here for a long time, aud by Livery llablet' arl io prolusion nnd liarnt, Mn and G Gibson, Mn and J McLeod, Mrs and J Stewart, Mrs aid •oath only to lott il or mtkt t week proper management and catering to There will be a meeting Sunday No­ Ihree biiektmbb shops art k-pi bUfj Mr. H. M. Haggerstone, painter. J Porter, Mrn and B Cloutier, Mrs and all the year. lb< rt sre tiist oris, i - decorator and paperhanging formerly ehol. During Iht Aral ball Ibt pit} Iheir patrout in the right way. and by vember Gth, inst. at 2.80 p. ut. in K. 0 Davis, (Union Bay,) Mrs and E Chi­ - niodnti as to be I ed ia the hotel. with the Hudson Bay Co. Vancouver wat wry tvinly daiidad, bat Ibt Oan jedioioaa sdver tiling, ofooune; tbeie of P. hall. AU member nre .equested to lian. a < itber eidn of thr rivet. begs to notify the public of Cumberland berland ladl baflag t .bade tbt bt.1 attend. Wreath and crescent—Mn and 11 ia no ration why they should not male Tbe Am ki.lt-1 tn toe nnd it-Com - and Distriot, that he intends io open in ol tbt tggriHht work, bM waitbtr C.-nsford.* a Microti ol the moving picture b» i- .n»jn ihe Kiviitide, i wuid.ii tl. the, above business, and will [as prepar­ team aaeoatdtd ia atttlog Ibt ball, DON'T NEGLECT TO READ THIS :..oi«l Mr 0 H Feotucr li.islui Hearts—Mrs and R Curry, Mn and en. ed to give estimates in work brail dis-. eli} il firs-cot- u i v. ry rm ut, iu Wm Ileveinlge, (i H Kiiuwltoti (Vaii- and whea Ibt wbletk lor ball Iimt captions. Mr. Haggerslone has had Another attraction in the above ia the There are many who have depart. <1 act «btu • km,, ui'h n Spi-aya—Mrs and S R.binson, Messrs rendering of approperiate selections ly loved ones laid away in the "Silent decorativ«'Wttrit«'hd' cin guarantee sat­ Oa returning pity tkt CombtrUtd •uy hnd in diffii'nlialf bnnem tl. and Mmsen Wall, Mra snd J Cripps, Mis tha Roy Orchestra, City" of the dend—it is appropriate isfaction in e.wijt'Wigv Orders may boyi wtrt dttidadly oo Ibt aggrtMifa, tti«it(.idesr.d the Courtenay H•nii,n • G Wail (Vnncouver,) Mrs and T Bennett that they should have something Crosses—C L Bohuson (Vancouver.) Lefeftat- JwKtt Jack's Candy store, and bad ttteral Ibota oa Naotiao't We are informed by themnnagement latter wbicb is uwued by Mr. J. b ta mark tlieir last resting place ami Crusoimt—Mrs and B Mellado. that the pictures tor tht coming week 1 bn* i.u, nnd aoytuiug y< u want ni where they will 'receive prompt atten­ goalwbitb either weat wide or wttt that the dead mny not be forgotten. M r Buuquets—Mr and Mn Wilson, Mr oquid relrethmtnts can be sup­ tion. | ' were handled latliltetoiily by 8bt|- will be equally as good if not better Charles Home, Mr and Mrs1 Robertaot H. Parkinson cnn supply you with plied by tbeee tw i geuul hosts. Mrs and R 11 Robertson,Master' Johnnii heid. AI laat Nanaimo brokt tway, than thoae ahown previously, they something to suit you in the line of a BIRTH- Oh October !8rd io the The amuteuieut end uf the town L RoborUou, Mrs and HCieech, Mnand Brown tod Waddall workod Ibt ball iiaviog secured one of the belt film memoriam; these menioi iams are made tupplied by the opera houte owned by V. Marinelli, Mr. and Mrs. D. Walker, wife of Mr. James Peralme, a son. dowo tad ittared • torotr, Waddall aarvicei on the coast, to that the public out i.f wood and are an imitation of tho Mr. Fechner, and wu believe, uiauaged Mr, and Mrs. Pirks and family BIRTH—The stork has flown over look tba kitk tod plated niotly, oan real assured of witnessing a good, real marble tombstone, and can be sup­ by Mr Frank Cameron, »ho keeps the Jas. Tobacco, Medio Tnpella, Mr. ami plied by Mr. Parkinson in any design thihg on the muve with the best rpad Mn. D. Annon Mettn, E and 1. Mc­ the residence of one of our local preach­ Brown beading tht ball to Oibaoa't claaa, moral picture show, every night aud whatever inseriptiou you may des companiea, basket ball, dances etc., and Murtrie. er. Mrs. Thoe. Menzies, wife of leal, who took t qoiak ihot and ttortd ia tht week. ire. They are most reasonable in help to paaa the long winter evenings. , -SOW' ,, Rev. Thos. Meniies of Sandwick, btfori Ibe goal tender hod My poeai- gave birth to a baby boy on Nov, Ind The machine uted for the production price and will stand the weather a long Pool and billiard playera are catered CARD OF THANKa bltobenoiol laving. Thit did att to by Mr. Putter in the opera house Both mother and son are doing well. of these moving pictures is one of the time. dishearten ibt Cumberland boyt wbo blcck. up-to-date, meehiuna on tha market; We take this opportunity of thank­ Mr, J. H. Hawthornthwaito denies wtol tl il hammer tod tonga and There it alto a fine rettaursnt in tl e there ii no bitter used in the larger COURTENAY same block, owned by McKenzie & Cam ing all those kind friends and neigh­ that report that he has resigned his "Baity" wtt tailed opon lo atop toai eron with white help ouly. Thia restaur seat in the Local Legislature. Tht ciliea. .' TlieCour'enay Basketball and Social bors who liy kind words and klhdly pretty bot tbott, boi aooattdtd it. ant will be known aa tbe "Club Cafe". public generally wililearn with pleasure Club are giving a Grand Masquerade acts tried to comfort us in our recent handling Ibta all, although Ihey Situated next tu thit ia McLeod & Ut- bereavement, we also thank those foi lhat Mr. Hawthornthwaite haa no in­ Ball in the Opera House on Thursdny gie'a haberdashery, whioh it un the kept bim oo tbt jump. Tbt garni the many beautiful floral tributes. tention of resigning. Memorial Service for tbe Ute Thoe. December 28tli which promises to In- ground floor in this business and ought w ood ap with a ttrtt rally trtow! Boyd will be londuoted ia tht Method. one ..f the moat impnrtant Dances to to do well for their pluck and enterprit. MR. MRS. NIIL Hovn *xn KIMII.V. 20 seres good land in the Happy itt Church to-morrow evening. Ibt Cnmberland goal, whioh broaghi lie held in the district this season. All Afler Vititing the campt of the Frat- Valley partly cleared, with two houses There will be no Sunday School to tbe.peotature to lb.li hai la wild ta LOST—Between Big Hill Oamp and who were at the one held in Courtenay er River Logging Compauy, the reporter good well, running stream through morrow. The High and Public Sohool Town, a fur. Finder will confer a favor returned to town and lelt that he had property. School on corner of proper­ tbutiasm.acd during wbiob Ibt goal last mason will remeinlier what a fine w 11 reopen Monday with the exc pi ion ef by returning aame to thia office. duue a day't work. lender waa doing valiant work wbll. time they had, and the Cluh expects to Miss [Dingwall's room which will opeti Mi ty. A snap, For particulars apply lying loll Itngth on Ibt ground. Bt have even a better one than ever. w dnehdsy unless uew canet develops it. island Realty Co. Courtenay B. C. There is a big prize lint, the meantime. •ueoeeded ia olttring jutl before Ihi Tbt drtwiag for Ibt latbion Our old friend Mr. Alhert Piokard FOR SALF-Ono heavy logging Messrs MrKi'iizieantl Cameron havi' whittle blew lor fall lime. wbitb it oa show ia T. D. MiLtaa'a is iu the city on a visit, removing olti A poverty dance wat held ai Humphrey's horse and harness. Will like payment in opened up their new Cafe in Cuurtenay Tbe Cumberland team art t tat ag­ wiadow will bt drawo lor oa Monday acquaintance. Mr. I'iekr il has been hall latt Tuesday llight and waa the besl any thing that grows upon the ranch. nlgbt, Novtabtr lotb. Aoyoot witb and are going to catei tu the public in uver held at Union Bay, Splendid niu>ir gregation nl footballers, and trttdt- a rdsideiit of Tvxnilu since hu lefl. hore Apply W. Doane Comox, Ii C. mg lo gti tay doty work ol Ibi tbovi' Arst olass style. We all know big "Mac" by Messn Gluver and Simpson, Thi "Allien" is looking hale and hearty "And Nimrod was a mighty humer oided eeqnl.i i <0 to Ibt League. Tbt.. tlod ata do to by applying to T. D to lie a first clnss Chef ami hope he floor was lovely aud wu occupied until hefore the Lord." A party of our ree- playt laat aggrtteive game, tad lb' the rags began tu drop off. Lunch was tftLtaawr Mn.Bboltltworlh, Union will haw the success he merits peeled oitiiens, consisting of barben,bsr served at 12 midnight by the ladies, forward lint work wall togttber.Wbti •wf. Mr. A. E. Ev na tlte Survey..r is in NOTICE dogs,, ordinary doga, and othen, went to tbtyttrikt thtir gill Ihty wlll lake a Tkt Pythian Biitin kild a daooe io Courtenay for a few days on Profession­ On nnd after this date I will not In. every thing were sweet and so were they IV-xada for the purpose of slaughtering rt, Matt .lager left this week for Kai lot of beating, tbt witk tpol ia Bon- htOaabtrltad Hall oa Tundty ••- al business, renponsil'le fur deliis cuittini'ted by nn} a faw innocent deer and thereby hangs in.n'11, Montana; he will join hit brothel ininglul. Aaoiltnj ytblt tviaiog ono in iry name without my written the tale. Tbe loading spirit, the "nim­ dt/i game wat thtir .booting. Tb. The Bnsketliall Club are doing big Will, who wasfortomeyenrt Time Keeps! WM tptal. Tbt ladies win numerous rod" above mentioned, took command of' defence, headed by Tom Hiada, art tl things this senson. A Ball Onme ami ordei. . A NIJUKW THOMSON. for the A'udeison Logging Company. Ml gtntliaia wtrt al a premium the party and explained how everything good men and tha oppotiog team wil Dance every Thursday is ou the Dills. should be done etc. Night mme and no Mr.O. Fechner the enterprising pro '•Uimrod" appeared. A search party have to work for tvary goal Ihty pt.' Mr. W. J, Goard practical pinni LOCAL MAIL SERVICE prietor of the Riverside Hotel intends was organised with the gratifying result, . Alter being defeated ia Ntniiat AlMr ill Iht worrying whtthtr Cam Tuner will lie in Cumberland on Mon­ to put a |10,(XX>.(i(. addition on hia that after tbree huun starch he wat Iht team proceeded lo Violorit, tar utrlaad oanld held btr plaot in Ihi day and will remain one week. Re­ Passenger Couch will leave as follows h und atfely concealed beneath t lug Inigat, wi havt Iht atwt tbtl Ltdy Hotel this Fall. member Mr. Goard is no stranger in whilt Ibty btvt uothidg bot prtbt to connect with the C. P. it. at Unioi- aound asleep and dreaming of nxon and ••lib bai dropped cut ol tht League There are eight motor cars owned in Cumberland, and if y iu have an instru­ other thinga, tuch aa deer, soap, towell for tbt tqnaredaal tbty bad tl Natal Uny. talirtly; tad Vtaooavir. iht Mam Cuurtenay and it is expected there will ment tbat needs tuning, let M r. I'oani and panthers. BIO, tbty havt a decided groooh again Tuesday—5 p.m. tbtl wtt doiag Ibt mott kicking a- be more in the Spring. fix it up for you und lm satisfied, it Violorit oa Ibt ground of bad rif- Wednesday -6.4" n. m. VOL 8ALE-10 Leather bottomed boal Oaabtrltad gittiag a pltot io Rumors of marriage and giving in chain, 1 oak office Table, tod 1 tint treiing. Thursqgy—8 a. in. marriage are rife in the District. The class Oliver type-writer. Apply to Chas. ibiLeeguils notgoitg to play tin Friday—6.18 p. in. Tbeviiitiog team il lappottd lo names of Victors tnd Victims will lie HORSES FOR SALE. Charlton tt P. P. Harrison's office. January, and by thai Hat Oumbei- Saturday —5.46 a. tu. piok thi referee and Ibie role wai Ml published if they don't soon come One bay man, snd one sorrel mare, Iaad wlll nave played lour gem*, N»- alao wagon (little UBUI!) and harness; the Bout leaves for Comox, The Night School will bt opined on livad np to lo Violorit aad tbt ofBeitl through with the goods, aaiao tad Victoria two taeb. Van lot |400, cheapest buy of the dny, alto Wednesday - 7 p. m,. .; next Tuesday evening November 7th. appointed. There has alretdy been Uenty two mem- oouvtr iltiai they wnt to fiaith The delights of joy riding one bay mare, four years uld, not hrokei. Friday- -7 p. in. •• appear to appeal to feminine hearts ben enrolled. Thi entrance fit il $8.80. Well—tbe leet .aid tha belter. Oar ibtir Diitrtol tttgw, boi Ibt rail and cult., colt by Champion Hsckmiy Saturday—II a. ni. Ittia-oharttn-and- Hone $2WI, also hay horse, six years uld ney tooredin Iht firat minute, bul tbe I buy tnd nil Cleveland, Maaaey-Har- ration It tbit thtir .tar player, are 17 hands, harness and almost new bugtry the only hope for the poor unfortunate ri., Perfect tnd Crescent Bioyclte, alao goal waa diaallowad, aad with bird wilh Ibt Hillhtnl Mam io tbi Old •350. Can hum en mi} .ime y «pp. in Mrs. Wjillama, djredaraakei; and ownir of a horse and rig ia to wait until guns, rifle! and stoves. "Tommy's Bicy- look tad crippled playera tbt boy. Ooaalry aad will oot retmn lill New Hunt. Apply, tl->i»n & an.iiy, AuuLiuu mil.i ..'., oppoulte opera, houte, anow comn, if they don't get from out Courtunay cie Shop, Srd Street, box 380, Cumber- went dowo to defeat—1 lo aolbiag. Ytar. een, Cuurtenay. before. Snpt ttsptn land, B. 0. THR ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND, B.C.

ed his negatives and mode hia positives he and his associates wero charged with but must content themselves with their quently visited by Europeans thaa Its on board. Immediately on hia arrival further minor acts of brigandage on father's discarded suits. northern rivals. Geographically, Mor­ in America he distributed his films to the high seas. Wo naturally supposed that an em­ occo City la the real gateway to the People Who Still Believe in thc various film exchanges with whom Kven iu gaol his last chance was peror would spend as much money on Sahara. By the famous Glawl Pass ho had made arrangements. taken front him. Had he brought an his clothes as is humanly possible, that one road climbs over the Atlas to Tall- action;; againBt Bellamont, Romnoy, his favorite drink would be pearls dis let, and the caravan route continues to Witchcraft THE STORY OF CAPTAIN KIDD Shrewsbury und otner notables, enough solved ia champaghe, aud that he Timbuktu. A second road descends to Captain Kidd's name hae bocomo a would bavo transpired to brinir both would lie upon a golden couch with dia­ tbe Draa crossing the Atlas chain, while synonym for pirate, at a time when these worthies and the King himself monds at tho four corners. Wo seem a third leads to Tarudant and the Bus is less esteemed than formerly. into the position of principals, directly unable to conceive of a wealth that is Huruing old women at tho stake as they wure explained to him he ordered country. Close communication witb But Sir Cornelius Neale Dalton has responsible for the trip and its results. not associated with luxury or of a so the south has left its mark upon the witches is a pleasantry no longer in­ the shooting Mopped. arisen to vindicate him the "The Kcut But from this bo was dissuaded, being cial position that involves no display. dulged io, oven in Salem, but belief "It's agaiust the law," he told Jus­ people, who aro darker und show more Captain Kidd." The circumstances probably sick to death of injustice, the And yet it would be hard to find any patently the infusion of African blood iu witchcraft in nut altogether dead. tice Tridwell. "Vou have no right to are stated, and documents produced. concealment of documents, and tho Ouly u few months ago u woman in send this mau to his death. You can where a king or a queen who does not than tho Berbers and Arabs of the These mako an amazing und exciting other weapons used against this Scot lead tne simple life whenover tho exig­ uorth. Jersey City had a neighbor called to ouly bind him over to the court." narrative, from which oue can but cull tish Dreyfus. Kven the chaplain .. so encies of tbeir position will allow mom court" on tho charge of pretending to "It is the law, and it is here," the tuo details which reveal tho main drift fur forgot his high calling as to perpet­ ttf do so.',There is hardly a mechanic's possess powers ol' ovil and threaten­ Squire retorted, taking from his carpet of tho author's argument and the rate the following: son' in America who would uot rebel THS OLDEST UNIVERSITY ing tu une them unless paid to dosist. bug the Illinois statutes and pointing doughty Captain's exploits, 1' But hero 1 must tuke notice of n re­ against the discipline to which the As the complainant bos suffered a to that section which imposed the death The oldest and largest university in lt appears that in 1095 Kidd's ship, markable (and I hopo a most lucky) princes and the princesses of Oermany the world is El-A/.har at Cairo. Found streak of bad luck, in spitQ uf paying penalty for murder. accident which then did happen" (it tu ward it off, her belief in her friend "The ," was launch­ and Kngland are subjected or who ed in 975, it has been from the start a Wilson tried a new tack. ed at Doptford, and sot out upon the may be doubted whethed the reverend would not turn up bis nose at their diet. national institution, the Khedive boing whom she i'n Hod a witch wus cruelly "If you must shoot this man,'' ho gentleman would have, considered it so shatterod. high seas to suppress piracy. She was The dominant principle of thoir the rector. Tho minimum age of en­ argued, "surely you will give him sulli chartered by highly-placed people, in­ lucky if it had befallen himseli), young tives is an instant, unquestioning trance is fifteen, and tho applicant must More recently a woman living near clout time to prepare to meet his Godf " cluding the King; and Bellumont, gov­ "which was this, that the rope by obedience, tho subordination of overy know half tho Koran by heurt, if blind Butler, Venn., was ncCUSdd of being a This appealed to the stubborn judge, ernor of New York, was the moving which Captain Kidd wus ty'd broke, personal wish to the exigencies of their the whole Koran, and bo able to read witch, Mrs. l.uupuule Orbor was the und he con.sented to give the prisoner spirit. Hud ull gone successfully, and sn falling to the ground he wus position and tq the duties of the future. and write. Tbe curriculum consists of victim of (his anoleut superstition. a week in which to settle his worldly greut profit would have boon obtained taken up alive, and by this means had It is about time we ceased to be sur­ virtually nothing but theology and She wan charged by Mrs. .lulia Kroner, affairs and prepare to die. Spiva wus by comrnandeoring tho pirates' opportunity to consider more of that prised ut u simple, although royal life canon law, the final examination fifteen a farmer's wife, with having gone to thereupon turned over to Sheriff Fran­ ships. But, owing to , one or Eternity he wus launching into." that is trie rule and not the exception, years aftor matriculation being upon the Kroner bam and "easting a spell" cis D. hips, hut he refused to act, nnd two serious blunders wore mude, and to Kidd's tragic history, misunderstood those togothor with traditions of the over a cow so as lo prevent lier giving Spiva was released, never to be tried avoid foreign imbroglios Kidd wus made even by Mucaulay, serves to remind us Prophet, grammar, etymology, rhetoric, uu that charge again. MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS milk. Mrs. Kroner openly made the the scapegoat uf his highly placed t thut justice for the individual is lm IN INDIA und logic. charge of witchcraft in court, but the Some months later, howovor, ho felt possible so long us olllciul prejudice has plovers, was tried ut Newgate and the Thu Indian newspaper has uow ad­ It is tbe same instruction whicli has judge refused to consider it other than himself again "undor a spell," ami his Old* Bailey, and hanged at Wapping. He power to pull tho strings. prcvailod for centuries, und ono wbo one of disorderly conduct. On this brother William told him that his wife vanced so far along the path of jour­ seems to have been a sort of Captain nalistic civilization that it admits a goos into the great court where tho ground Mrs. Orber was lound guilty wus tlio guilty witch. William advised Kettle, strictly houornblo, a good circles of students are sitting at the and fined $!>. Abel to wait until Mrs. Spiva was sportsman, and bold disciplinarian: THE CHINESE MASSACRE IN matrimonial', column. Moreover, the asleep and thon, with u knife, draw a MEXICO column seems to be fairly well patron foet of their Gamaliels, looks upon a Other talus equally as absurd could The disastrous suggestion that Kidd ized and to offer a selection broad en scene preserved from the middle ages, single drop of blood from her forohoud shuuld bc sent out in command of a The Chinese Government having as­ be told of the rural districts, but none "without lotting hor know it." This sumed a resolute attitude iu requiring ouglt to pleuso any one who is not " u perfect specimen, living, breathing possess the eloments of a witch story ship, provided ut the expense of per­ over particular us to color. But there and entire." treatment. William said, would "break sons of consideration, and manned by a suitable compensation for the killing of so much as lhal of Abel Splva and his the spell." Chinese subjects by the Mexicans, the.) is one featuro that excites our admira­ brother William, who lived until a few scratch crew of undisciplined mon, em­ According to instructions Abel sharp Japanese press indorse their claims and tion. Whether it be a wife or a bus- Olive treos of Syria live to a groat your* ago iu Mcdonough County, Illi­ anated from Livingstone, und was as band that is advertised for the cmef age. Somo, known to be over 400 ened his long hunting knife, and thut sented to by the King us a pisuller. At think thut the United States, as an nois. The evcuts with which it deals Asiatic power, will only bo acting in qualification is usually education. yoars old, aro still in a flourishing con­ ore fl matter of court record at Ma­ night pricked liis wife's forehead. the worst the King could not lose a Startled from a sound sleep, she sud tbe spirit of the Monroe Doctrine by Very few of the advertisements con­ dition and likely to bear fruit for many comb, the county seat. farthing by it. If it succeeded he yeurs to eome. denly sat up in bed and the knife cut would not only gain his object, but assisting Peking in enforcing tho de­ tain uny references either to monoy or Abel Hpiv.i'u forefathers eume from a deep gash down her cheek. pocket u substantial share of the plun­ mand, Mexico, in turn, muy think the to personal appearance, but we may the Carolina* at a timo when belief Abel Spiva was arrested aad indicted der. Tho adventurers might pocket United States should protect an Ameri suppose that these lesser matters re­ Lady; "Now, cabman, I wish you to iu witchcraft was strong, and they for assault with intent to kill, but for more, but they would run somo risk of can Republic from Oriental aggression, ceive some sort of attention before tbe be extremely careful. Whon yon come brought their superstitions with them some reason the case was not pressed, parting with their money and getting so that the latter country may find her marriage is actually arranged. Erudi­ to a crossing you must wait until the into whut was then tho Western wil­ and he never was brought to trial. no return for it. solf in a position of great delicacy. The tion is a good thing, but as a solo quali­ policeman tells you to go on; and if the derness. Thus Abel honestly inherited But to her dying day his wife carried indemnity which China claims of thc fication for the holy state it seems to streets are slippery you must drive his belief in witches, as did his brother the scar as a ghastly emblem of Abel lu other words, they were out to pluu Mexican Government is variously esti need support and reinforcement. very slowly.'' William, who as a witch doctor had Spiva's belief in witchcraft. dor pirates, and Kidd was an agent mated at from $6,000,000 to $16,000,00, For example, the girl of eleven who Cabby: "All right, mum; I'll be very quite as extensive a practice as a regu­ who ran all tho risk in the hazardous and, according to a report in the Tokyo knows "Hindoo, Gurmukhi, Urdu, Per­ careful, mum. And in case of a haeci lar country physician of those days. operation. Nichi Nichi, the Celestial ruler evon sian, and English, wbo is still reading GEORGE HAitf FAILURE dent, mum, which 'orspital would you Whenever the simple folk of tho neigh­ About the oud of April Kidd left threatens to dispatch a warship to Mexi aud will not bo married before attain­ like to be took tot" ; borhood "folk a spell" -to which thoy You know George Ham, of course, I'lymouta, and on tho way to America can waters, should tbe Mexicans fail to ing fifteen years" is evidently a model attributed all their sickness and ill-luck and the report that for once he has captured a small French vessel. On comply with the demand without do- .of linguistic abilities, and any swain failed in the art in which he is supreme On a day when a rise in the priee of —tbey called in William Spiva, and he arriving at New York in July this lay. The nature of the outrage, which who yearns for a bride who knows Gur­ l drove out tho witches; at least he con­ grand master will be received with ship was declared a lawful prize, and the Peking Court claims was committed mukhi and Urdu bad bettor speak bread ook effect in London a little girl vinced bis patients that he did. astonishment. But this seems to be the proceeds went to equipping " The by the Mexican rebels, in described by quickly or forever hold his peace. But entered a baker's shop, and, placing the case, and the btume is all ou the Adventure Galley" for a further foray. twopence halfpenny on the counter, ask­ One day Abel Spiva told his brother the Tokyo Asuhi thus: frail human nature wants something ed for a loaf. political campaign. Tho host-at-large llis crew was recruited on a commission more than this. Personally we should that he was bewitched. Kvery night, of the C. P. B. has been taking the basis, and a wild lot of booty-seekers "The deliberate massacre of Chinese ' Another halfpenny, my dour, said Abel, a witch took him from his like to huvo a look at the damsel flrst, latest travelling contingent of British they must huve been. The voyage was subjects occurred in Torreon. Accord­ and at her mother. It must bo a sweet please," said tbe baker. bed, transformed him into a horse and journalists through the West. Kvery unfortunate. About fifty of his men ing to the report of the Chinese charge "Has it rose, thenf" asked the little rode him wildly about the country to boon to know tbat your wife can ex­ girl. day of the trip the din of politics grew died of cholera, and toe rest wore d'affaires at Mexico City, who sent to press hcr opinions in five languages Hnd attond the meetings of the Devil and louder and louder as the party proceed- angry at the absence of pluudcr. tho scene of outrage a committee of 'Vos, my dear; bread wont up this his host of Imps. As a result, Abel thut she is "still reading," presumably od, and presently tbe visitors could three meu to inquire into the matter, with a view to acquiring five more, but morning," said the baker. wus so tired in lhe morning thut he think of nothing else. They longed He had been the greater purt of a 303 Chinese residing in that town and "Woll, then, give mo one of yester­ found it hard to do the work of his year at sea without taking a prize, and there are other considerations that call to attend some political meetings, and its vicinity were murdered in cold blood for attention. There may tip u contra day's," was the reply. farm. William didn't suggest that see how such affairs are conducted in had lost more than a third of his crew while 59 houses, us well as banks and Abel's complaint was probably sheer by sickness. His ship uad grown crazy account somewhere. this country. But Mr. Ham continued clubs, belonging to the Chinese, were Photographer: "Vou are right now,* laziness, for they wore agreed that the to show the model farms and other und leaky; and neither he nor his men destroyed at the hands of insurgents. All only'way to break tho spell was to find had yet earned a penny. No wonder A STUPENDOUS WORK except your expression. Please look marvels of Western progress instead, this took place witnout any provoca­ pleasant." thi. witch and kill her. So they begau Ja s was his duty. Thc newspaper men that his ship's company was growing tive conduct on the part of the Chin­ If civilization were civilized it would to cast about for a likely woman whom discontented. The wonder is that Kidd find some wuy to reward Mr. Dwelly for Jay Green: "Hang it. man, I can't! didn't liko to admit that their desire ese. '' I'm bowlegged, an' am trying to bold they could accuse. i for information was lost and that only had thus far been able to keop them A Mexico City dispatch to the Tokyo a work almost without parallel in the fairly in hand, which he admitted lie history of literature. Mr. Dwelly is my knees togothor so's it won't siiow. It so happened that at that time their curiosity was alive. But they Nichi Nichi even credits the Mexican When I smile I forgit all about my began to look bored, nnd even the had done. insurrectoes with having displayed tnat not u Scotchman and his knowledge of Alary Friend, wife of Charles Friend, i Gaelic is un acquired one. Nevertheless knees, nn' when I poy attention to my a farmer living near the Spivas, was genial George's wit could not cheer Then began the tragedy. Kidd was sheer thirst for blood which was seen in knees I forgit to smile." dangerously ill with a fever which had them up. authorized to capture French ships or the days of Plzarro, and tells the story he has spent twenty strenuous years of pirates. They came upon a Dutch ves- of how,innocent Chinese, half deud from his life in the compilation of a Gaelic bad led the local doctor. Not believing Finally, the journalists held u cnu dictionary containing two million words The lato Sir W. 0. Gilbert was talk in witches the Friends had refused to cus at tne Royal Alexandra Hotel in sel, "The Loyal Captain," Kidd's cuts and bruises, were tied to horses ing to a friend about tho stage. "There gunner, Moore, proposed to take her by and dragged round thc town. and uow issued in three volumes that cull in William Spiva, so when Abel Winnipeg, und a deputation waited on are sold for the modest price of $10. were two actresses in an early play of opined that Mary Friend was probably their host. "Hum," said the spokes a ruse. They were to get the Captain The Japanese press without exception mine," he said, "both very beautiful; aboard, make him sign an affidavit that heartily sympathize with China nnd un­ But a statement such as this give but the witch that found so much enjoy­ man, "wc will have to go through with a faint impresssion of tho magnitude of but the lending actress was thin. She ment in changing bim into a horse, he this civic welcome affair. We suppose Kidd had not taken his vessel; then, reservedly indorse the step which Pek­ quarrelled ono day at rehearsal with tho having plundered her, they were to ing has taken in regard to the question. the work, Mr. Dwelly retired from his had u ready aud willing listener in thore ts no way out of it. But for position os a ban,k. clerk twenty years other lady, and she onded the quarrel William. Tho two brothers decided, heaven's suae don't show us any more clear off. This Kidd forbade nnd a According to the Tokyo Asahi, the Chin by saying haughtily: arose. Soon after they fell in «so Government, besides claiming an ago, having saved barely enough to car­ after scant reflection, that Mrs. Friend experimental farms, If you do there ry him through his inteuded task. " 'Remember, please, that I am the was the witch and that her illness was may bn murder. Take us to a political with the "Mocu Frigate," a pirate ves indemnity, hns demanded of the Mexi­ sel under Itobert CuIHford, Kidd pro­ His only assistant was, his -wife and star/ only shammed in order to give her an meeting.'' can Government un apology for insult­ ' 'Yes, I know you're the star/ the opportunity to4ie in bed and rest after posed to take her, but his men rebelled, ing the Chinese dag, the summary pun a few interested correspondents. No Kvery body laughed and the thing and, threatening to shoot Kidd. made publisher would .become responsible for other retorted, eyeing with an amused hcr nightly rides in the Devil's cam pa. wss dene, ishment of malefactors, and the relief smile the leading actress's long, slim overtures of peace to the enemy: of the families of those murdered. The so unpromising an undertaking, so Mr. At first WiUliuin Spiva was puzzled Dwelly bought type and set up tho figure; 'but you'd look better, my dear, Some kind of a compact seems to Osaka Mainichi champions thc cause of if yon wero n little meteor.' " as to how to rid his brother of the ENOUGH GRAIN FOR THE FAMILY China, and asserts that the new govern­ whole vast work with his,own hands. witch's spell, but after consulting his have been come to by which Kidd un­ Grain men calculate the British Km­ dertook uot to molest the pirates, and ment of Mexico, if it means to be true Then he bought a stereotyping appara­ * * • "witch's book" he hit upon a novel pirc will have all the grain it needs to its professed adherence to justice and tus and stereotyped it. Thon he bought A venerable professor of a notod plan. Abel must go into the woods, CuIHford agreed to let Kidd keop the without going abroad for it, this year. nnd a certain quan­ fairness, should prom ply meet the terms a printing press und printed it. medical college was addressing the grari carve the outlines of a-woman's figure If Canada has ten million quarters demanded by China, But He says that at the nine hundredth uatiug class. iu the bark of a tree, givo it the name tity of the goods on board of her. It to dispose of, India nine to ten, and s difficult to see how Kidd in his then "China's position in this case is be­ pnge ho "got very sick of it," and felt "Gentlemen," he said, "you are go of "Mary Friend, the Witch," mold a Australia about nine, us hus been esti­ thnt he could not gd on,' but '' we got ing out into the world of action. Vou bullet und at sunrise the follow position could huve made a better bar­ set with dangers and difficulties. For mated, all will be well. Kngland im­ gain than this for the greut men who should Mexico, knowing that China is over that," und finished the I03S pages, will likely follow in some degree the ing morning shoot the image. Thus, ports ubout "7 million quarters a year double column, seventy-six Hues to a example of those who have preceded reasoned William Spiva, would the spell were employing him. Judging from in no position to resort to forceful mea­ nnd the rest of thn Kmpirc about two the amount of specie and goods which sures, full buck to a policy of procras­ page and thirty letters to a line. And you. Among otber things you may be broken, for it would mean nothing million quarters, so ut last the work is finished [and Mr. marry. Let me entreat you to be kind plgo than Mary Friend's death. he succeeded after all in bringing to tination and evasion, China will find England's home-grown supply is not America, he appears to huve done very herself powerless to press her demand. Dwelly proposes to tako a vacation nnd to your wives. Be patient with them. Abel Spiva did iis his brother direct­ large, of course, but tho wonder is the Well indeed for them. Possibly the China may be able to «end a cruiser or stnrt upon the study of pedigrees. Do not fret under petty domestic trials. ed and returned to his work with a tremendous drought has not dono it canny Scot, notwithstanding the theit two to Mexico for the purpose of de Some day we shall hear that the Bri­ When one of you asks your wife to go feeling of renewed vigor. Shortly be­ more harm than it actually has. Kveu of his cheat, hnd more gold and valu­ monstrntion, but the Mexicans know tish government has made Mr. Dwelly driving, do not worry if she is not fore noon he was chopping wood when in Kast Augliu, where tbe soil is porous ables concealed in his impenetrable thnt China must perforce stop there, a grant of $5 a week, in recognition of rendy at tho appointed time. Have a » passing neighbor railed out: and easily scorched, the yield will be cabin thnt the deserters dreamed of. and will look upon such a feeble display his -literary efforts, which is, of courso, treatise on your specialty always with "Heard the news, Abel"! Mary good in quality und quantity. Yet wheu his trial came this action of force on China's part with indiffer­ the best that can be expected by any you. Rend it while you wait, and I Friend is dead." was held to be part of his treachery. ence and even sinister sarcasm. To man who has not invented an explosive. assure you, gentlemen," and tho profes "Oh, I know tlmt," remarked Abel MET THE EMERGENCY Another feature that told against aim send an army of chastisement across sor'.s kindly smile seemed to show a indifferently. "I killed hor. She way "J um charmed," begau the polite was a quarrel with Moore, the gunner, the Pacific is, in China's present condi­ THE POPE'S FAMILY trace of irony, "you will be astonished a witch and 1 shot ber with u silver fusser, "to meet you again after such who had played the diabolical part of tion, uttorly out of the question. Should The charge of nepotism can nover at the vast amount of information you bullet." And he told the story of his a long time." arousing the men to mutiny. tho matter come to this dilemma, the be laid at the doors of tho present Pope, will acquire in this wuy.'' bewitchment, and how, as he thought, "It's nice of yuu to suy so," answer­ The result of this irregular trading only course open for China would be to whose sisters are the same simple aud # * « be had killed Mary Friend. ed the social belle, "hut us u matter was bad, nnd when Kidd eventually invoke the interference of the United unpretentious women that they always Professor: "We will now read a chap The news of Abel Splva's confession of fact, I don't believe you even re­ landed home again he wus threatened States in her favor." were and who inhabit a little flat that ter in concord.'' spread quickly, and from all sections member what my name is." with a trial. Thc charge was unknown an A merican workman would despise. Pupil (whispering to seat-mate): of the countryside farmers came to ask "My dear lady," he came hack on to htm until it wus preferred suddenly. But tho cuso of the Pope's brother is Toll mo quick, is 'Concord' in tbo him about it. His story sounded lu- the instant. "I remember your name Insteud of beiug faced with u charge EDUCATION OF CHINESE EM­ still moro remarkable. Angelo Sarto Old or New Testament f" credulous, but he lold it. with so much as well as T do my own." of piracy, whieh the French ship's PEROR is a third etoss postman attached to the • « * seriousness thnt it proved convincing, "What is it, thon," papers would huve disproved, a ennrge The young Kmporor of China is about little v.llagO"of-Grazio. He has to walk un average of seventy miles a week, Mr. Fogg; "Why aren't yon in especially as she hail died on tho very "That's whore the trouble comes in or murder was preferred against him, to be educated, and a court order bas school. Bobby f" morning Abel lired »t her carved Imago Seeing you has delighted me BO much No rei in hie witnesses were brought, been issued appointing his instructors and his pay has lately., been raised to $80 u year. Bobby: " 'Cause 1 road in the his on the tree. thai I forget my own name." and the chief witness was it "King's and outlining the course of his studies. tory hook that great an' successful While Ihe majority of Abel Spivn's ll* fellows are bound tn be fussers, evidence'': They seotn formidable enough for a Probably it will never be more than men usually stnrted in life without neighbors believed lhat. Mury Friend they ought to be trained for such The version given by 1'i.lmer, the child of live years and five months. He this, nor does it ever occur to Angelo many educational advantages, an' I'm had met hcr just desert i there was one irises. King's evidence, was this: "Captain must be instructed in "the causes from Sarto or to his sisters that (.'to exalte I more ambitious thnn the other boys." who wus convinced lhat fl crime hail Kidd eamo and walked upon the deck, which has proceeded good government position of their brother ought to have, boon committed. Having no faith in MOVING PICTURES OF THE CORON and walks by this Moore. And when or anarchy in ancient und modern time* or can have, auy effect upon their own ','Ah," said the casual caller, seeing witches lie filed fl complaint boforo ATION he eume to him he says, "Which way in nil countries of the world." Tbis, material fortunes. It is probable that the poet at work in the adjoining room, •I list Ice of the Peace Tridwell, charging According to a German trade pnper ron Id you have put me in a way to in itself is a large order, and if China no display of statecraft on ;h-. part of "the fire of genius is burning, obf" Splvn with murder, Abel WUH arrested, devoted to the interests of the moving lake this ship aim been clour?" "Sir." can produce a competent instructor she thc Pont ifl', no exhibition of genius, "No," said the poet's practical wife, and upon being arraigned in court picture industry, the activities of the says Moore, " I never spoke such a word is the only country that can. could so doeply impress itself upon the "it is his cigarette thnt smells so." pleaded guilty. moving picture makers to obtain good nor ever thought such n thing." Upon He is alao to be taught the "needs of mind of the world ns this ovldouce of i • • Squire Tr Id woll was himself fl bo* films of the coronation were equal to which Captain Kidd called him "a the day," and here, too, ttie programme detachment from material concerns. Two persons were onco disputing so Uovor in witches, but he admonished tho exertions of any of the newspapers lousla dog." "And," says William seems a full one. Othor items of educa­ loudly on the subject of religion that lhe prisoner thai his confession made to publish the fullest arid best accounts Moor*!, "If 1 am a lousie dog, yon have tion nre not enumerated, but it is un­ MOROCCO CITY they*woke a big dog, which had been him liable to a death sentence, Abel' of the ceremonies. All told, fourteen made mc so. You have brought me to derstood "that the cardinal principles Morocco City, tho capital of the sleeping on tho hearth before tbem, and Insisted on his guilt, however, and the firms sent 200 operators to the corona­ ruin and many more.'' Upon his say­ of Confucius shull be faithfully adhered southern half of the Moroccan kingdom, he forthwith barked most furiously. An justice reluctantly sou tot) cod him to tion. They were woll received and had ing this, says Captain Kidd. "Have I to, whereby the investigation of know­ is a far more interesting city than Fez old divine present, who bad been quiet­ ho executed forthwith, "the same us to pay heavily for good positions, as ruined you, you dogt" and took the ledge produces sincerity and righteous­ (says tho Now York Sun). Architect­ ly sipping his tea white the disputants he shot tho woman"—so read" lhe much as $1,500 in ono case. It is snid bucket and struck him on the right side ness, und tho cultivation of the moral urally its monuments, including the woro talking, gave the dog a kick and old court record--by being stood that not less than 10,000,000 feet of film of hts head, of which he died the next nature leads to a state of ideal govern­ famous Kutubiu tower, the counterpart exclaimed, "Hold your tongue, you silly against n tree and shot, by the eon- were required, which wus used up ut a day. Repeating the words two or ment" This sounds very well, and we of the Giralda in Seville, the famous brute, you know no more about it than stal)to. Boca(LB6 of Spivn's plea no rate of about 20,000 feet an hour by three times, he took a turn or two on may expect great things for China mosque of Mutey Abdallah and a hun­ thev dol" evidence was produced to show that e-icti of the ca morns. the deck and theu struck him." when the young emptror gets those dred other ruined or semi-ruined edi­ * * w Mrs, Friend had not died as the result Many of the moving picture theatre This Kid admitted, but pleaded pro­ things into practical application. It is fices surviving from the days when tho Some Frenchmen were boasting of of u bullet wound. owners had made arrangements to ex­ vocation. And, in dealing with a almost as inspiring as a commencement city had 700,000 inhabitants and was their "affairs of honor," when one of From the courl mum to tlm woods hibit the coronation films on the very louder of mutineers, a less ;violent day address in America. ono of the world capitals of Islam, are them declared that he had inflicted up­ at the edge of the village went the evening of the coronation itsolf. Some method would have led to his own the most considerable and magnificent on an antagonist tbe most dreadful constable and the prisoner, followed of the railroads considerately placed death. One witness, indeed, denied ROYALTY AND THE SIMPLE LIFE in Morocco. fate that a duellist evor met. by a crowd. Against a tree they placed special trains at tho disposal of the that the blow was tbe cause of donth. Every now nnd then some newspaper Equally beautiful is the site of this "How waB it!" asked everybody. Abel Spiva, and the constable, raising manufacturers, and thus the films reach Kidd had no money at his pisposal to breaks out into a spasm of surprise nt city in the upper valley of tbe Tenesift "I was at nn hotel, and I chanced his long barreled "squirrel rille'' to ed the provinces with astonishing ra­ fee counsel. Further, he was unable the discovery that a king or queen River, surrounded in a half circle by to insult a total stranger. It turned his shoulder, was about to fire when pidity. The films were developed on to obtain the ship's papers, by which he leads the simple as well ns the strenu­ the great wall of the grand Atlas Moun­ out that he was a fencing master. there came a shout from the road. It hoard the trains and positives made im­ avowed he could clear himself of piracy ous life. The latest case is that of the tains, whose snow-clad peaks are seen " 'One or the other of us,' he de­ waB the warning cry of Samuel Wilson, mediately. On the very night of coron and thus strengthen his position in tho Emperor of Japan. How amazing it is beyond a foreground of large farms and clared, in fearful wrath, 'will not go then a young lawyer, and later Col. at lou day films were thrown upon tho murder charge, since he would then to discover that in tae morning he fertile fields. out of this room alivet' Wilsoo of tbe .Sixteenth Illinois Infan­ screens at Liverpool, Manchester, Bir­ huvo been an authorized captain, nuin- wears a plain blnck frock coat and that A city far less given over to war, " 'So let it bet' I shouted in re­ try, riding homo from court in an ad­ mingham and oven in Paris. The repro taining discipline. But fair play -ud in tho evening hiB costume is of white with a population less ferocious, less sponse; and then I rushed out of tbe joining county. He demanded to know sentative of a French firm, who took no part in this trial, nor in the fur­ khaki, and that his sons are not allow­ fanatical than that of Fes or Mekinoz, room, loeked tbe door behind me, and what thn proceedings meant, and when passage on tic "Mauretonia," develop­ ther one at the Old Bailey, in which ed to have costumes ordered for them, Morocco City has been mueh more fre­ left him there to diet" / ,7* THB ISliANDER, CUMBERLAND. B.C.

•FBUCE TABN Strtnsthans lln Throat Tho expression "mubogauy over­ coat" used to be employed as a sort of Mr. W. P. l'urdom, writing from St. syuonym or euphemism for "coffin"; Anne's Hoy 1'.()., nays: "1 uaoit to be but if things keep on us they have troubled with relaxed throat, eonatunt started under the impulse of inventive irritation and coughing. 1 inhaled Cn genius, we may soon hour of "locust tarrhozone na directed nnd huve been shirts" and "bass-wood collars" and permanently cured. 1 ean think of even "long-leaf pine ulsters." Tbe nothing ao good for tbe throat, none Germans bnve long since endeavored to and bronchiu! tube aa Caturrhor-ouo. I coast of South Carolina. This colony was fixed into laat ENJOYED a heart to lioart Interview with the suceeeefol make themselves independent of for­ recommend it to ull my friends. Cure I married woman tbe other dav. Shu JB one of the most year, and again this yeur, so that uow less than twenty eign sources for tbe various raw mater­ ia quick and dure if Cuturrhozone ia successful married women 1 know. Tbo plain little fire- birds remain. It will be but a few years, anlcss some drastic ials which they require for their own uaed (or Bronchitis, Irritable Throat, let of gold on her thin] finger lias woru thin and smooth in measures are taken, before the history of this bird will be borne consumption, as well os to manu­ Catarrh and Chest Troubles; 2.">c, BOc, tue years of faithful s.rvicu pf loving, capablo hands, but the same as that of the passenger pigeon." facture for export, and now we hear and (1.00 sines, at all .lenient. thoro Isn't a dent or dull np t to dim tlio golden halo of ber • » ft that there has been mnde of spruce domestic happiness. She Ims mnde tt .-nsiness of being mar­ The sharp autumn evenings arc hero, when thc dialing wood a yuru thut is quite spinnuble. ried. Sho is a specialist. She itt a success. Ky that term .lish is in requisition again. If you are sufliciently expert Whether this is a "yarn" or not, cun- TENNIS AN OLD OAME of many interpretation*, I don't moan what pious folk are' in its possibilities you can almost manage a six-course din­ not be said, but on the authority of It mny be claimed that lawn tennis wout to call "worldly" success. Tho successful married ner on one of tbese indespeneable little affairs, and at uny Der llolkzkaufer, which is many times is at li .ist three centurion old, having woman's home is a modest one, her little establishment rate you can make it a useful adjunct of the hfter the theatre removed front being a comic paper, and been played in 1591, wheu tjueon Eliza­ blasts of but one maid, her pretty hats are sometimes "made 1 supper, or to wind up a cosy evening of reading and so on iu fact revels in the most wooden of sta beth was entertained at Klvotham, in over ' ones, and when the successful married woman's bus- with "him." It's rather hard to think up anything new tistics for the foresters and lumber Hampshire, by tho Karl of Hertford. band turns at the old elm nt the gate to wave a goodbye in tho way of chafing-dish recipes, but here is one which is dealers of Oermany the formidably Btrutt, Hunting from Nlchol's "Pro- toward a certain break fast-room window (and be always tried and tested and very popular iu my own little circle named " Aktiengesellschaft fur 0am gross of Queen Klitubeth," tells us thut docs it—mark that) he swiugs intn the 8.10 car and hangs of intimates, and it will be decidedly apropos now while fresh fabrikation" of Berlin has for eome after dinner, aoout three o'clock, tea to a strap with tbe rest of as, instead of gliding smoothly time been having experiments made on of bis lordship's servants, ull Boniorset- tomatoes are still "in." 1 might give it some high-sounding away in his motor car at V.S0. the same lines as tbose which have re­ shire men, in a st|u»re green court, be Spanish aame or otber very appropriately, but, as a matter This particular morning she was engaged in that hit of of fact, it is known to us by the prosaic appellation of sulted iu the production of artificial fore her majesty's window, did bang up household routine which figures in thu weekly bulletin as linos, squaring out thc form of n tennis "tomatoes and cheese." silk und cotton; and the result seems to leaning the silver." I was Idling, and between whiles be gratifying, as spruce IB comparative­ court, and making a cross lino in thn figuring uut a certain plan of exterior decoration whereby Take three or four medium sized tomatoes, peel and dice ly plenty in the "Fntberlaud," while middle. ln this square, they, being a last season's navy blue serge might he gloriously "trans- stripped out of their doublets, played, into the pan. Sprinkle with pepper, salt, pupricku, a wee as yet (there being no Luther Hnrbaitk mognieed," as my old darkey nurse used to say, intn one live to five, with baud ball, to the grent bit of mustard, and dot with butter, ('over heavily with ou ber rolls) cotton and silk aro not of this year's new ones, with the wide lapels and just u hint liking of her highness.'' . grated cheese aud repeat the seasoning process. Add a very numbered among tbe productions of hsro and-thMe of that delightful new shade of bronay gold. Ofteoftfce latest i little water and a few shreds of green peppers if desired. central Kurope. The uew product is Kvery woman knows that such a misonseene is far moro con­ tloaoo ta apeak Mi _ Lot simmer slowly till cheese is melted and tomatoes thor said to have a fiue finish and much net Uiaer—"How cornea this dead;fly in ducive of: tbe comfy gossip hour than tbe drawing-room luh'a fevoar li Mr. C.B. Sanfordl oughly cooked. DO not stir or the cheese will get "stringy." ter surface than is usual with the na­ my wrapt" softened by the twilight's dusky shadows that tbe best fir af Weston. KingVCo.. N.S. Mr.f tural fibres as yet used for spinning. Sanford Is a Justice of tho Peace I Wuiter: "in fnct, sir, 1 havo no posi­ tionists are HO, fond of introducing at the beginning of Tho Tochnisrhe Laboratorium fur Ma tive idea how the poor thing came by chapters. Lobster a lu Newburgh is un old one, but if you should for tho County* and a mombor,bf tiie | terialprufungeu of the Technical School Board of School Commiulonen. its death. Perhaps it had uot takon "I made a (food many mistakes tbo first years we were happen to have forgotten the proportions here is an excellent for Textile Industries in Reutlingen bus nny food for o long timo, dashed upon way to make it. It is equally good substituting the tinned He le also DMOOD of tho Baptist Churoh married.'' shown that when leuther feed-rolls are in Berwick. Indeed it would be d flicull the soup, ate too mueh of it, und con­ lobster: I hugged myself. To a bard-worked scribbler even her used, the now yarn when used us warp to And a man more widely know n and tracted an inflammation of tho stomach friend's most sacred confidences are sometimes by .way of or chains is 12Va times as strong as more highlv respected, lire ii hts Take one large lobster, u pint of sweet thick cream, a .(hat brought on death. Thc fly must being "copy," and well T know, milady, that if you won't jute; and when used as woof or fillings, opinion of Zam-Buk. He snys ;— have had a weak constitution, for when profit by the other woman's mistakes, at least you'll cer­ tablespoonful of batter, three tablespoonfuls of sherry and 30 timos as strong. As against jute, "1 never UMI] anything that EAT* mv I served up tho soup it was dancing tainly like to read about them. two tablespoonfuls of flour. Boil the lobster for fifteen "Sylvalin" has the very great advan­ •nab satisfaction ae'Zulu-Buk. 1 hud » merrily ou the surface. Perhaps—and minutes. Pick uut the meat and cut into small pieces. Pour pitch of Kosaina oa my ankle which U-i "Tell me," I urged greedily, tage of being,odorless, even when moist. been thore fnr over _*) year-*. Botuctnur* the idea preaents itself only at this "Well, I often think how many things IM do differently over it tbe crenm and ndd the butter, which bas boen suffi­ Articles woven thereform are naturally alio the disease would hi oak ont on my moment—it endeavored to swallow too if 1 had those yenrs to live again. I'd talk more to Tom ciently melted to run; last add the flour. Warm the whole not exposed to the attacks of moths..If shoulders. I hud applied var out oint­ large a piece of vegetable; tbis, remain­ and stir constantly; wheu thoroughly blended and smooth ments and tried nil sorts of things to about things. I'd tell htm about nil the little hurts, and all these things are true, and the pro­ obtain a oun. but In vain. Zm Buk, un­ ing fast in the throat, caused a choking worries and flitting bits of doubts, that a woman broods and creamy add the sherry. cess is aot too expensive, there must be like every thing also 1 had tri.d, proved • «i 0 in tbo windpipe. Tbis is the only ren­ over. And wben I'd told him, 1 'd let him help me. A man's a good future for the new yarn, espe­ highly satisfactory nni cured the Miu,cut. son I can give for the death of that poor "I have also u*«l /AID It k for itci.h'g broad, breezy viewpoint can be a mighty help iq time of The following recipe for Swiss rarebit is ascribed to Mrs. cially if (as is said) it can be worked -"" and It hss curod thom omnple'oly insect!'' trouble, if we women would only avail ourselves of it. And Booth Tarkington, wife of tbe well-known author: witb till the usual other fibres. The also, I tako comfort In helping my brother To a third of a cup of mashed potatoes add two-thirds first attempts at weaving have been an, and ff the nublloatl n of my opinion there's nothing in tbe world a mnn loves like struightening of thehonlinr vnluo of Zam-Huk wll lend FOB MASKED MEN ONLY' things out for you. But I didn't do that. 1 kept things of lentil pulp, half a cup of cream, a grated onion, a few with wall tapestry, which are most sat­ other sufferer* tn try If, 1 •tunId bs nl nl. If you find your razor us dull at- a ta mysolf, Every littlo coolness, every fancied slight, all stalks of grated telery and pepper and salt to taste. Mix isfactory in pattern nnd color, and have Forthereltef otHiiiroriiiK CMIMHI by IMIes i*r well together, uud spread a thick layer of nut butter over Skin Diss* ts I koo* of nothing to canal hoe, ask your wife if she wnsn *t paring Tom's little sine of omission and commission 1 carefully the great advantage of being so smooth Zam-Buk." her corns. You can surely remove your stored away, to bo taken out later and turned over and the top and bake brown. that dust does not attach Itself there­ Eta Buk eurw uk»n, ataMMs, Meod-penon, corns quickly, painlessly, and promptly magnified in my hours alono. I'm ashamed to think how to as readily as to other stuffs used for riirworak teetering or rmmiiif eon*, but Hf, TUMW ulcers, tilt rtwuw, prairie ftufc, eatt, by using Putnam's Painless Corn Ex­ much 1 cried that first year. But I never told; and I re­ Cocoa fudge is easily made on a chafing-dish, aud is nicest the same purpose; also, that in brushing bona hraltM, baby's sow* ata. tartly btrbel, tractor. Unequalled us a painless rem­ joiced in my stiff-nocked pride, like the little Pharisee 1 when it is Btill warm aud fresh. Take one and ono half them down they do not get rough, oo Mo boi, drmrafcU *i*Htur«. BSfaatfuiU edy. Benierabor tho name, Putnam's was.'' cups of sugar, one-half cup of sweet milk, a small piece of called Japanese mats have beeu made Painless (Torn Extractor. Bold by She smiled placidly us she held up a teaspoon critically butter, six teaspoons of cocoa, one-half teaspoon of vanilla. of sylvalin, and are hardly to be dis druggist*, price 85 cents. to, the glint of the morning sun. Mix sugar and cocoa and add milk, bet boil, stirring so it tinguisbed from those made from rushes. am-Buk "I'vo learned better. We ull do if wc give ourselves won't burn. Add butter und vanilla. When it forms u There is this great advantage on the a chance. It's the shut-in hurts that distill bitterness, and small ball when dropped in cold water take from fire and side of tbo sylvalin yarn, that it may nowadays we always talk things over, Tom and T." beat. This makes it creamy. Pour iu buttered tins and be woven in the loom whereas by rea­ The successful married woman seldom uses slang, bnt now mark in squares. son of the shortness of the individual pieces, rushes can be worked up only It Has Many Quatttiea.—The man "We're pals," she said. Which happens to sum up the who possesses a bottle of Dr. Thomas' moral of this Httle tale. And if "he" prefers, something more substantial you cun by hand. Tbe new material bas also bcen made up into cord of various Kclectric Oil is armed against many w * * make a "hum aud egg" sandwich on that self same chafing dish that will be perfectly delicious with hot coffee or eoeoa. kinds, alono and in combination with ilia. It will cure a cough, break a cold, JTHIS ita HOME DYI And, speaking of morals, you aren't a sample fiend, are Have the pan hot, and put in butter the size of a walnut. othor materials, for decorative and prevent sore throat; it will reduce tbe youf The sample picker is the terror of busy salesmen and While the butter is browning drop in two or tbree pieces of other purposos. swelling from a sprain, cure the most Jhst ANYONE weary milliners, at tbis particular Hoason, persistent sores and will speedily heal IHU very thinly sliced bum. When thc ham begins to eurl ut "I haven't an idea what I want. I do wonder if yon the edges break nn egg over the ment and cover with another euts and contusions. It ie a medicine oould holp me. Something stylish, you know, but still not thin slice of the ham. Let brown, and serve with or with CURATIVE VIRTUES OF VEOE chest in itself, and ran be got for a too pronounced. 1 never did go in for those awfully odd new out prepared mustard between slices of buttered bread. TABLES quarter of a dollar. shades; ono tires of thom eo soon, don't you think! W-e-e-11, Without acknowledging thut hu is in yes, that is pretty—still, things do look different when you A clever housekeeper, who cuu always be depended ou to any sense a vegetarian, a writer in The get tbem out of the shop away from tbe rest—I always think British Medical Journal asserts that, "He used often to go early i the the light in here's a little bad, anyway. I'll take a sample be up-to-date in tbe latest economy wrinkles, gave me this little clipping tne other day, nnd I pass it along to you: the therapeutic and dietetic uses of morning and mount upon tha platform of that though. Oh, and there—that blue—you might just and from sunrise until tho duek of evon "Cereals that can be eaten without further cooking after vegetables have been, by no means, left snip me off a piece of that. It's rather more expensive ing, never puttiiig down hia brush, and d tbey leave the factory are alike in one detail, if in no otber: to be discovered by modern faddists, «««l ALL Iheaa thnn I'd intended to get, but I may as well take a sample. forgetting to ent nnd drink, paint with The package once opened, tbey quickly grow flabby and taste­ ('ato, he says, regarded cabbage as the Ves, that's nearer what I ean afford. Would you mind if out ceasing. Then two, three, or four DIFFERENT KINDS less and tough, unless restored by careful drying In the oven sovran'st thing on earth for every nil I tako a sample of it, too? I can compare them when T get days would pass wlfen be would not of Good* for a few minutes. One way out there is. Keep your pack­ ment and hurt, from a fever to a frac home and see which I really do want. Thanks. If I do de­ touch it, but remained for one or two ages on the shelf above the kitchen range or on the radiator. ture. At the present day the banana ==-«lf: h fhe SAME Oye. cide to come here for my suit—but I have so many places hours together contemplating, consider­ The contents will remain crisp and delicious and be truly and the potato are held in high repute «r= to go first before I can run lly tell whut I do wnnt." ing, and examining withiu himself, "ready to serve" without risk of thnt scorching in the oven by some physicians in the treatment of I used As her collection grows sho gets the family together, and judging itis figures. which always happens wheu we forget for only a moment, rheumatism; the latter vegetable bus, after au evening of consultation decides on tbe one she's and the sudden emergency that finds us looking for bread or moreover, been raised by a French phy­ "I hnve seen him, too, according as hud in miad from the first hour of the first morning she cracker crumbs for dipping cutlets or croquettes, only to sician to the rank of a specific for dia­ his caprice or humor moved him, go off DYOLA started on her sample-strewn career. Next day she spies a betes. Moreover; find the jar .empty, will lose its sharpness if we have a box at noonday, wheu the sun was in Leo, woman on the street, and tbe woman is clad in fabric of of crisp "flakes" of any sort. These, crumbled between the "A larger field for the therapeutic from the forte Vecehia, where he wat some positively unknown color. Thnt is the thing. That hands, made a most delicate substitute for bread or cracker action of vegetables is repotted to have composing his stupendous horse of ts the exaet shade sbo simply must havo. All tho blue crumbs, be the need one for conting food that is to be fried lately been opened up in France. In clay, and come straight to the Orazie serges, tho gray cheviots, the stripes und plaids and hair­ OLEAN and SIMPLE to UM. or for tlin top of scallops and pates. For the latter use don't this, ns far as wo can mako out each and, mounting tbe platform, take a lines and mixtures are tossed iuto tho waste-basket and the «f MlMthe WRONG Dr* for the Cood• forget to dot liberally witb butter. They are especially vegetable is credited with a specific brush and give one or* two strokes to mine. A]| colon from jour Drekjdat or search begins all over again. She is a woman of persever­ •Inter.. FRCEColof CirJinJ STOHV Hooklrtll, tempting with creamed fish or sweetbread* when served hi therapeutic action. The carrot, for in­ one of tbe figures, and straightway de­ Tbo JotatMMi-KkJwJww Co., "Utnllri, HMHT-I. ance, of force, of pluck, a woman whose borioc determination scallop shells. stance, seems to bold n large place in part and go elsewhere," is undeniable—is the sample hunter! Still—don't be a sam­ the system, ns to it is attributed the ple fiend. property of curing bilious attacks. Ve­ it* "If your supply of crumbs for dipping he limited, getables, it is said, act not only ou thc FACTS ABOUT MASTICATION Dr.Ntrtel's Female Pills By the wuy, if the appearance of one additional ounce of stead of putting them in a dish have them on a sheet of clean functions of tbo body, but on the torn adipose tissne comes with your new autumn gown, it is a brown pnper. Koch time a chop or cutlet is laid on them per and character, and even on domes The force required to crush an or­ MIRER TEAM TIE STMMD failure. There are muny different colors, a thousand and to he coated the paper eau be lifted at the sides nnd the tic conditions. *-us, if a man is afflict dinary nut, such as one too often sees one materials and a variety of stylos that range from the crumbs tumbled toward the middle. Moreover, thc use of ed with a troublesome mother-in law. cracked between the baek teeth, hat street gowu of "man-made" simplicity to tho multiplicity paper for this purpose saves the washing of an extra dish. the treatment is to send her to Vichy beon ahown to bc equal to a weight of 0*. pleats and puckers involved in the marvels of evening For flouring fish try the same labor saving device, dropping nnd feed her on carrots. But we seem more tban 110 avoirdupois pounds, di­ frocks and house dresses shown in tbe shop windows and tho paper in the fire when it has served its turn." to remember a proverb to tho effect rectly applied. The amount of saliva fashion plates these days. But whatever the make, 'ware, » t • that it is easy to lead a certnin animal daily secreted by tbe average inal* oh 'waro tho fattening dress. If you are in the very least And another clipping from a. dear, snowy -haired old lady to thc water, but not so easy to make it adult ia about 1% litres, or 1.59 quarto. inclined to "plonmpuess, ' get something tbat will make who sits by her window through these short, glooming autumn drink. A plato of spinach is an excel­ In thoroughly chewing 100 grammes of you look about ten pounds thinner than you really ure. days, waiting—ever so cheerfully, but still, just waiting. lent remedy for a too dictatorial char "Zwieback"—a kind of sweet toasted bread—there is needed half a litre There is just one thing worse tban looking fat. That is In her home there is only one now where there used to be nctor; it will also mitigate too aggres (0.53 quart) of saliva; ia ateeticatinf to achieve an appearance of scrawniness. As for the hats, "two." She had committed the little poem to memory,

Mr. Clements ttie member for Comox-Atlin nnd liis wife jJBea&neff &^§w up. Price, business lota $250, c r- s thought the district was a very important one. ner *350. Ternn laO cn-h, bai. 6,12 and IS mouths' Apply .Hgevtf • He wished.to impress the Association with the fact that it £__ ISI.ANDKK Office or • takes time to make changes and they were not to look forward Offices; Comox & Courtenay. ttoo anxiously, but for them to get together and send their pe­ The Island Realty Co. titions to him at Ottawa and he would surely fight to a finish Fire. Life, Live Stock P. L. ANDERTON, . . , Accident. Phone 22. Courtenay, B. C. for them. FOB SALE All round Mr. Clements has made himself very popular by * visiting this district at this time and by his tact has made a CLEARED FARMS, BUSH LAND great impression on all those who came in contact with hiin, AND LOTS iPEflUID L1UERY ST0BLES Agents for E. & N, Lands, In regard to.tlie association and their petitions to Mr. Cle- Comox District. meuts THBISLANDEB would like to suggest that one of the first CLOUTIER 4 KIRKBRIDE questions is that of the Mail Service which is a disgrace to this community. ' PROPRIETORS Beadnell & Thwaites We would suggest that the mail contract be assigned, under the condition that it be delivered according to schedule that the public be fully warned of any change thereto, and that a fine be imposed or a sum deducted from the contract All Kinds of Haolins Done money for failure in these conditions, excepting weather con­ ditions, such as fog etc., and then our mail would be treated as First Class Rigs For Hire- mail and not as mere freight. Then again there ought to be Bettor Known as GENERAL BLACKSMITHS "LONG WILLIE" another assistant for night work, as the present post office ein Orders Promptly Attended to Dealer in Fruits, Candy, Cigars Horseshoeing a Specialty ployees now average about sixteen hours a day owing to the and 1 ii.nic.ii. irregularity of the mails. £__. Billiard Room In connection Third Av<\, Cumberland

The question of a Customs Officer here is another point. There has been a Customs House or offices in our post of- l> fce ever since it was built, but so far no Officer has been ap­ ** pointed. This has been a considerable nuisance to the busi­ Local Agent for m m&l_- ness men of this city. The London ft Lancashire Fire Insurance Oo. In our issue of February 25th, this year, there was an ed­ Get rates before Insuring else Sale of Mineral Claims for unpaid taxes in tko Comox itorial which we quote as follows: "Customs inspector Mar­ where chant has recommended to the Customs Department that ('tnu Office: Cumberland Assessment District. berland be made an outport of Customs tind an Officer ap­ *>.iE__n_t.._.. • >i.-ti\^miAe_W-t*mme I hereby give notice Ibul,pn Monday, the Oth dsy ol Nofember 1011, A. D ,»t thn hour nl ten o'clock in the pointed." That is nearly eight months ago, and it is aliout A FINE LINE OF NE if forenoon, st the Court House, Cumberland, I nhall oil' r 'ur sale at Public Auction the Mineral Claima in the Iim, here time that he was appointed. inalteraet out. ol tbe pnraooein t >e laid lilt hereioafer aet out, ol whioh Drawn Prints ha»e been lamed, |, r the MATERIALS JUST RE- taife remaining unpaid and delinquent hy laid porioos in tbe 30th day ol June 1011, sod ler Crete and tspet tea, i: This ought to find a prominent place on the Association's the total amount due li not sooner paid. .. ; ; CEIVED : : : petitions to the Dominion Government, LIST ABOVE MENTIONED. P. DUNNE Up-to-date Merchant Tailor Owner Nume of Claim Lot No. T. xes Costs Total

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31&I o»y ttl October, IUU. fui iho urucii m a it 0 m- age of plotiuii i<( u Inr^e ouo-i ui Inline aohoob fvTS 'I'.unu Ht HiMtlqutrtera, in ;hw Otiniox Eltjoiitral District^ It. 0, «Jr I.. \ I ..-.,• Shipment of I'..ma, ...... ill, „,l,,.i .1' ti .. ..GRAND,. , ••,. I , ,„ y ... Liu ll HII .(IMI II ll .my Ol Oc • lllll, I r iff *M*: S VI n's Fall and Win tei lil.ua ul A .11. lllll,..,,, _ q,, awcUiy h ;'7 i- oi lor'a and Stiff Hals 'if tliu Schuul ILi.titt, Ilu,t..|iutiler*, via OPPORTUNITY! n ;l ie 'omnx, 11. O, uie Government Agt-m, i'/V^W ' " t'' leading shades :•..,.l.cil wl 11. C, ,iii,i it,,. Dii|iartineni .I I'uliuu Wurka, l'u.imiiuiu limiting. |[| ' and shapes. Nothing Vict.ru. but the very newest E ch proposal most, bo m'c.min ..uitflt V,^ *it iiccevieil bnnk ch,quu or ttiiiitk.it u ol PflflGTtGflLLV GI1IEH jMg. i iimt tin H chartered bank of Osiiwdx shown, iiiadtt p.yablu tu tho Hor. (lie Mini.tjr uf 1'uhliu wurka, for Ibe mnn of t'ittO. THE CORNER STORE which ah ill bu forfeiteil if tho jwrty tend, uriin: decline to unlet ilitu coiiiruct when Continues MEN'S WORKING SHIRiS railed upon to ilu ao, or if hu fail to coin CUMBERLAND ptetu the wurk contracted fur. Tin IN II *'XSB S TB-E.ED8, ASD LATEEN, AM) tihequea or certificates of iio|) returned tu thom upun tho exoQUjIoii of thobuiitrnct. ' Tendcra will not b-j ooliaidored unless MEN'S WORKING GLOVES iimilo uut on tl'.c forms aupplied, tinned »itli (he actcl signature of thc tenderer, JN, HOR K 111 IT. Hi -KIN, MULE RK1N, PISTQ SHELL uid ooulinod in thu eiivolupua furnished Tie 'u i ns'T, II K" I.'r nil, «nd all 'lpl»s» l;p fl. i••:', ASTON Hamilton, Alexander 15 aoiw, of \V. J of lot 114 1 80 1 20 16 2 Oo t 16 Smith, Horace, senior, estate uf [Lot 132, 160 acres 10 80 60 2 00 18 40 I £.J~| El i (ib 2 00 Whitson, \V. II \-0 aoroson north boundary of lot 205 8,00 80 50 11 SO 8 00 +0 2 00 in.yo, JIICIIIMIS li E. .t N. ll}- Co..., S. E. j oFS \V. 14 soc. II, Tp. 1 10 40 NELSON DISTRICT. r Practical V/atchmaker Hnrwood, John iSection -» 15 00 8 76 1 00 2 00 21 75 NEWCASTLE DISTRICT Gordon. Clforu" A IScotion B 82 00 1 75 2 00 36 75 All Wor\ Guaranteed (SION 1 • Nu 11, I. t) 0. F. Gordon, Gonrau A Seotiou 20 4 80 2 00 7 06 . L • Meeta overy Friday evening al 7oclocl GROUP I, N. W. D. i I. t). 0. K. Hnll Visiting brcthen l'aliii.'i', William C Lnl 1370, 107 acres 1 80 25 2 00 706 welcome. Welister, ll M " Kill. Iil7 ncres I 11 22 2 00 688 .IAU E. ASTON, SEOHKTAHI SAYWARD DISTRICT 9 CO 60 2 00 McGill, James II Lot ["ifl, lftO aores 11 60 lii f ii a Sira .McGill, James II j " 160. IG0 aores 12 OU 06 2 oo 14 06 ^WA^M^VN^^^^ RUPERT DISTRICT. 5 10 28 2 oo . . NEXT TO l'ARBEI,L'S, . . C"x, George A Section 25, 107 aores 7 88 8 80 20 2 oo White, William II • " 133, 160 acres 6 80 Kenny, Marshall •( Lot 315. H9 acres 8 00 4+ I 00 dtunsrnuir Ave : : : Cumberland it uo 10 44 White, William II " 228, 94 neivs 15 0+ 1 27 18 31 1 10 White, William II Station 2, +90 aores 40 00 2 20 44 20 2 0U Eberts, linn, 1 >. M Undivided 1-3 of section 15, Quatsino 20 20 1 44 29 84 l n 2 00 Grocers 8c Bakers Priest, Maria Jano N. E. 1-4 of section 12, Tp.2, lOOueres 16 00 88 18 88 Township of Hardy Bay ip 810, heim.. subdivision of S. W 1 I of see DISTHU'T AC Dealers in all kinds of Good lion 30, Tp, li. .. eon .. 11 O. EMDE Wet Goods Williams, Fmina Ulouks I, 2 and :i 1 80 10 1 OO 1 oo t*n Best Bread and Beer in Town " " 4 5, 0.7 12 00 66 The R 4 50 25 1 oo 13 W Agents for PiUener Beer " Lots Ito 12. block 9, I t..l8, block 10 AUT0M0 " " 1 lo 2(1, block II, I to 20, bill 12 0 00 88 1 oo 6 76 " i" 2 to 20, blk 13, 1 to 12, blk 14, 1 7 83 The otilv (im Matlo j io 5, blk 18 0 90 80 1 oo 8S8 '• '• Lots 7 to 0, i'lll 16 +5 08 1 oo Am :, 1 48 " Ill.ilis 10, 17, IK, 111. 21), lota 1.'2 8, 15 30 8+ 1 oo THE 5, 7 to 12 of blk 21 17 14 \ ;i \ . • _\i-r___ffliW< +6 08 1 oo Lot. s 2,3, I nf lilnck 22 1 48 AIBH niiiile in '• 1 20 23 1 oo *&&.—I*—J..3J «» , CUMBERLAND " I" 8 'loll, blk 23, lots I to lO.blk 24 6 43 4 50 25 1 00 .,. Btvie.... • ^ ~y " « 1 to 20, blk 28, lots 1 to lOblk 26 6 76 2 55 1+ 1 00 ' I pi: t - t . . ,,r, i,.i.ii,,nu.i utttc .ij.t "t^ ==HOTEL= '• •• j" 1, 3 to 18, blk 27 889 . .Miio.i; also the Moore GiiHOline " |" 1 to 8 blk 28, 1 to 8 and 5 lo 10 j . | '." Tvi, writers, Kepairing of all kinds. W. MEP.UIFIELD, Prop. 2 84 12 1 on blk 291.11; .'III 3 48 8 00 62 I oo Bit'ift'li's, " "i duns eto, Soinsnrs' and Skates yrowtd Morrison, James Lot 1 of blk 22 .6 11 The finest hotel in the city. I Townsite of Port Hardy, map 700, titr Haby t tn'iagcs. Uoops Jor Tubs I pnrt of sections 30 and 81, Tp fi. 1111111} STREET, CUMBERLAND. Williams, Emma Lots, 8, 0 to 12. blk fi 1 20 05 ) oo 2 26 Mull, Dr Lowis •• fi, blk fi 25 1 00 1 26 Lugiiii, Charles 11 •• l to lu, blk 14 7 20 1 18 1 oo 9 88 Williams, Mrs. Einiiiu N.'E. I-I of seoUi, Tp 9, 100 acres.. 10 00 80 2 oo 18 80 Williiiins, Mrs. Emma :s. E. I-I of sec 20 Tp 9, 160 acres, 10 00 80 2 oo 18 80 85 20 1 76 2 oo K- J-*-*"''••' '• •" Eberts, Duncan W. ostnte JN .J and N lot's I, of sec 24, Tp 10 38 98 Eberts, Duncan W. estate. ,, Tp 10, 0+0 uc 61 20 2 00 2 oo 66 76 • -r (OAST DISTRICT, RANGE I • , '' MoKav, Alexatide Lot 147, 107 acres + 80 25 2 oo 706 THE ISLIIfl 1 20 06 2 oo |ALLJ mm HOTEL Ellis, William .... '• 158. south pnrt 40 acres 3 26 McDonald, Peter.. Part of lots 20, 21, 22, blk 4, Shoal JAMES WALTERS, Bay TiMiisiif, subdivision of lot 151 PROPRIETOR map G45, Sieutiilu Townsite, Mul colli! Island, Map Kill 1 20 00 1 00 Itt Dominion Trust Co... S El, blk 2,N W J,.blk 14, S W l-l, , blk 78 • 1 80 15 1 00 195 THF POOREST OF WINES, LIQUOR & BEER Hilton, Guslav NE It blk 28 00 05 1 00 1 86 I IlL Ahation, Chr N W l-l blk (i9 60 05 1 00 1 66 ALSO TIIE BEST OF CIGARS. Murine Limiliii A Trading Co W l-l bill 121 1 20 0« 1 00 128

DUNSMUIR AVENUE CUMBERLAND, B. C. Datod at Cumberland 9th Oetober 1911. JOHN BAIRD Deputy Assessor, Comox Assessment DiBtrict-Cumberland P. 0. ~"

THK ISLANDER. CUMBERLAND. B.C.

Womtn With WMkntM "A"—trotted 2,600 meters (about 1 5-8 Far all weakness from which girls miles) at the rate of 2.30 14 to the mile in 1903. She is also the dam of Liob and women suffer, no surer remedy ox ling. ists than Dr. Hamilton's Pills. Tbey Aufwicglerin started trotting aa a maintain that bracing health every wo­ —Even Whooping Ccugfi three-year-old, being the fastest of her man BO earnestly desires; they uproot year and lowering the Austrian inland Bbrtoon Ounce* of tha Quickest, Surest disease, and bring strength that lasts record to 2.19 1-2. I^ast year she trot­ Cough Remedy for 50c. Money till old age. ted in 2.18. "Last year two of my children were Refunded If It Fells. "No medicine could be more bono » w . taken witb croup. They coughed some B8T YOUTH: Scientists say thut tleman one day, sorr, and he lookod in ficial than Dr. Hamilton's Pills,' Godero,1 2.09 3 4, tho roan son of Bin­ thing dreadfully, and wore too sick to Jf you httVQ nn abhtinat"*. deep-seate? F trees contribute to the heat of tho credulous like, just na you do, and me writes Mrs. Mary K, Ayrton, of Vic gen, 2.06 14, and Jolly Bird, 2.15 14, cough, which refuse* to be cuml. sot a M* atmosphere,'' cousin couldn't stand it for him to toria, '' I have beon strengthened, my by Jay Bird, at Faenza, Italy, July 30, eat anything, 1 applied Nerviliuo to wnt bottle cf Plnex* mix it with bomo Seeond Youth: "That's eo; :t birch doubt his worrd, sorr, and so he aaid, digestion is better, I have improved in woo the Italian trotting championship the throat and chest and gave it inter iiuultt suuar syrup aud start taking It, i n- bas warmed mo many a time." color and feel considerably better since im lly, also. 1 also got the children lo hUifM.f ?i bourftyourootiRhwDlbe itobe.or ' Hegorra, 1 '11 prove the truth of me. race in the fastest time in which it was * t * worrds,' and off with his clothes aud using Dr. Hamilton's Pills." Sold ev­ over trotted, 8,1] M0 and 2.10 310, inhale 'Catarrhozone.' No remedy could very nearly so. Even woonpiug-oough tf have workod more satisfactorily. 1 ttbloi< ;ire yours." Baeehorse Owner: "William, you are longer. "1 can tell you where the ance was decidedly tho best of nny of Cloae to each farm steading Ilea the I'jmjt in a n|*«lal and highly oorioon* too heavy. t)nn't. vou take something candles huve gone. I ate them, to these, and that the contest was a bril­ willow 'haded pond, where tbe farm fraud comnmuul «tf Norway Wulto 1'ine The Sqmre. "J*i yonr buaband in! off!" grease my throat so that I could swul boya slide in frosty weather, or in sum extract, rtcn in ."itaiiMMil und other hooting liant one is shown by the fact that Fred ptneeloroontt, jithai oftett been Imitated, OoUiigcr'-* Wlfo: "No, air, Bo'fi Jockey; "I'm wearing my lightest OW tbe coal more conveniently! " Leyhurn, who wns second, himself trot­ mer throw stones nt the long suffering though xwrermwoeNifully, for nothing oltw .irillin V suit and haven't tasted fowl all day." Mayor Uay nor was talking tt) a Now ted bis heats in 2.11 20 and 2.11. Co ducks in the glad hours after school. wlUprodncetheauiomnuts. Simply mix The Squire; "Ab, quite so. Terri Owner: "Then, for goodness' sake, Vork reporter about a famous robbery doro was foaled in 1903, and trotted to Tho Clydesdales know that mill pond with Hiifmr syrup or stniiiwd honey, in a torials, eh?" go and Ret shaved," case wherein a criminal had been con­ his record of 2.09 3-4 as a four-year-old well, for thore in the dusty summer 16-ounoe buttV, and it Is ready fur une. Cottager's Wife: "No. sir. Tur victed by means of the Hort.illon system at Lexington in 1907, boing sold for nouns they are ridden knee-deop iuto the Anyone who tried Plnex will quickly inuts!'' "Then you don't think 1 practise of finger-prints alone. export, the following winter. His flrst cool, green water weed, and allowed to understand why lt In used tn mure huint* drink thoir fill, and there in the sum ln the IT. 8. and Canada than any other what I preach, eh? queried tbe minister "It reminds mo," snid the mayor, season on tbe European turf was uot "There is nothiug more unsatisfac in talking with one of tbe deacons at "of a story ubout a parson. Tbis par­ particularly successful, but he appears mer evenings tbey quench the thirst of cough remedy. The genuine ia guaran t«ed the long, hot afternoons, while tho big to giro almoin to nutafoct Um or money re­ tory than a boarding bouse beefsteak,' meeting, son hnd a fine orchard, and nnu summer to have been steadily improving in funded. Certificate of guarantee is growled tbe chronic grumbler. "No. sir, I doa't," replied tho dea­ form, and ie no* probably better than collars slide forward on their nocks. just, when tho Hertillon system first and they shake them sel vel tilt the loop wrapped in each package. Your druggist "Oh, 1 don't know," rejoined the con. "You've been prcacbin' on the came out, tbe orchard was robbed. Tho ever beforo in his life, as his two heats hasHnexcirwillgetltforyon. Ifnot,send in 2.11 110 and 2.10 3-10, over a half- ed chains jingle. to The Plnex Oo, Toronto, Out impressionable young man. "Did you subject o' resignation for two years, only due left was tbe robber's finger­ ever get a kiss from :* pretty girl over an' ye haven't resigned yot." print on an over-ripe peach. Tho par mile track, demonstrate. Previous to Where in the wide world is the air so the telephone?" son had a photographic enlargement of 1911, Codero hnd won tne sum of 44,- fresh or tbe pasture grass so green, its With hisses and groans tbe audience the finger-print made. Then, with this 900 lire on the European tracks, und down those sloping braes above tht? A SHINING METAL this season he han added 20,607 lire to "Mamma," nsked little Florence greeted the great scone - of tbe new' enlargement under his ann.-'Tje''accosted burns and in the shelter of tho high thia, or about $13,000. Tbe value of There is it legem! among the peasants drama. All hope, then, was at on end, thorn hedgesf Hero in tho heart of the "should I nay pants or trousers?" in the main street the man whom bo the Fnenzn championship race was 10,- uf Cornwall, in Kngland, that at night "Trousers, my dear," replied her "It's hard to tell just what the pub­ suspected of the theft, summer, For two irresponsible months there may be; observed a faintly-shin­ mother. lic wants," murmured thc heart-broken '' ' Pete,' ho said, * somebody robbed 000 lire—about $2,009—of which 5,000 the big Clydesdales go free of tbe ing mineral among the rocks brought playwright. my orchard last night.' lire went to the winner.—Horse Review. chains und graze along the shady hoad from the mines. That thin is not pure "Then," said Florence, "I must give lands, or stand in the warm noons under "It's easy enough to tell in this "Pote took his pipo from his mouth. t'aney has been proved by Prof. Strutt. Fido some water, for he trousers just * * • the shadow of thc spreading ash trees. case," said tbe manager, grimly. It He gulped nervously. 'It that so. sir?' A specimen ot' tbe mineral autunite, awfully.'' Scotland, in ine general sense of tbe nibbling at tbe drooping branches or •t < * wants its money back." be said. whieh is also found in Wales, was cent word, is the home of tbnt great breed rubbing one another's shoulders, er " 'Yos, Pete, that's so,' said tbe par­ to bim from Portugal because if ita lu­ "Enjoy yourself dnring your holidays, 01 draft horses, the Clydesdales, aad in flicking tho flies from a comrade's face A certain editor had cause to ad son; 'but the thief left his murk bo minosity. He finds that it closely re- Smyth t" * few parts of thut country nro they brod with busy tail, while accepting the monisb hia son on account of his reluct hind, nnd I shall easily trace him.' Hem Wes artificially prepared salts of "Tremendously! Cline upon a place to a higher standard, fed to more per­ same good oflice from him. Later on, ance to attend scuooL. " 'Yes, sir?' said Pete, huskily, and uranium, and that ite luminosity is due where there waa no band banging away fection, or used to greater advantage, when iho grain ia cut nnd gathered, and three times a day; no niggers; no ser­ "You must go regularly, and learn he cleared his throat. tbe atubble fields lie nuked to the uu to spontaneous radio activity. The light 1 toon in the rich agricultural valley of vants after tips; no complaints wncn to be a great scholar,' said the fond ' ' Yes. Ho you see this, Pete?' Aud Tweedsido. Viewed as a homo for man tumn winds, you wiP see the white it shed* is stronger than that of nitrate father, encouragingly, "otherwise you of uranium. Upon parting with its the children yelled, and no extra charge tho preacher held before tbe man'» eyes or beast, what a magnificent district it fnced, feather-fetlock ed beauties stop­ for anything." can never be an editor, you know. tho huge enlargement of the finger­ is! Northwnrd, tbe broad, green tops ping slowly two by two from hedgo to water of crystalieatioa t bc mineral What would you do, for instance, if IOBCS its tumiaeus property. "Where was this ideal spot?" print. of thc Lammermoora, eastward the hedge, while in their wbko the brown "At home." your paper came out full of mistakes?"' "Pete, beholding the photograph, wooded height of Hodden Hill, south­ ribbons grow broader and the gokleu The boy looked up into hia parent's made a gesture of despair, ward tbo blue line of Cheviot from strips grow less. In n snow-white cloud 1 MAflUCHIKA SHIMOSE "Speaking of eccentricities," sabi face with childish innocence. " 'I see there hain't no use denyiu Wavering Bell to the Carter, westward thu sea gulls follow, fighting nmouug themselves over tbe spoil of tbo rich Mawuchika Sli itnow, who invented Propplcton, "my father is an example. "Father," ho snid, solemnly, "I'd wot I done,' he said. 'Yer got the the three peaks of Kildon and tbe far blame 'em ou the printer!" bulge on me, parson. I pinched yer domes of Kuberslaw and the Dunion; earth's larder. Tbe plowman plods on, the high explosive tu which the name He has not cut bis hair for the last hall swinging between tbe handles of bin Rhintnsc powder waa given by the Jap­ dozen years." And then the editor fell upon his eon's fruit, nnd no mistake. But I certainly and between, like the cheek on somo nock and wept teurs of joy. He knew goblin-woven plaid, lie the squares of plow with ono foot on the stubble and anese navy, died on September 7tb. lie 'Indeed! His hair must bo very i»ng would like to know, though, where ye be had i) successor for the editorial green and brown and golden fields that one foot in the furrow. Every now and was prnl'eKKur of applied chemistry and by thia time?" got that there impression of my eordu chair. toy pants!' " make the pride of agricultural Seotluud then he gives an order to his horses was bom in 1859. For several years 'Oh, no! The old gentleman wan in -4 valley the fairest iu the world. in tbe "soft lowland tongue of the he was superintendent of tbe ammuni­ bald before then." Border;" uncouth words are his, und "William, do you know wby you are Through tbia Garden of Eden runs tion department uf the naval arsenal, "I say, mamma," said little Tommy, unintolligahle to tbe stranger, but plain like u donkey?" thc broad Tweed, bearing on its silvery during which time hr made extensive "is it true that when you first met and familiar to the Tweedsido natives, Old Gentleman (benevolently): "l-et breast a precious burden of the lore researches in connection with explo­ "Like a donkey?" echoed William, pupa you had fallen into the water, and and soothing as a caress to tho standi. me see, I believe you arc tho boy I and logand of romance. Through wide, sives, llis compound was adopted in opening his eyes wide. "No I don't." be jumped in and saved youf" big team that'swings a band's-breadtlt bought a paper nf yesterday, when I green meadows, where the giant Clydes­ 1893 by the Japanese navy, and for "Do you give it up?" '' Quite truo, my deor,'' replied to the right or left at everv whispered didn't have change. I owe you a half dale marcs move slowly with their fouls his services ;i decoration and u sum "I do." word. Lator in the season still there penny. Here it is." mamma, with a smile, at toot, tho little burns go singing down of money were granted to bim, "Because yonr better-half is stub is heavy (Hilling for the Clydesdales on Newsboy (who isn't tbo boy): "Then, I wonder if that's why papa to the Tweed, singing songs of seed bornness herself!" the turnip brake, with the purple or 'Never mind, mister. Keep it for your won't allow me to loom how to swim?"" time and harvest, sougs of rural simpli­ "That's not bad. Hal ha! I'll give yellow roots piled high upon the carts, city and pastoral content. At distances honesty!" that to my wife when I get home." with the deep braeside to climb, and of a mile or so apart, the grey-roofed "Emily," he began, na he sat down She had risen several times to let a every gateway fetlock deep in tnud and farmhouses, with their attendant groups Gadabout waa boa Bt ing of his exten- to supper, "do you know why I um gentleman pass out between the acts. slush. of cottages and barns and byres, nestle Hive acquaintances. No celebrity could like a donkey?" "I am very sorry to disturb you, be mentioned unknown to him. He was among littlo sheltering plantations of DODDS ' He waited for a moment, expecting madam," he remarked, apologetically, as larch or elm or fir; near them are group­ intimately acquainted with all of tbem. bis wife to give it up; but she didn't he went out for the fourth time. ed, like sentinel troops, the golden oat THE SIZE OF THE OCEANS Finally Dobflon inquired: She looked at him witb some pity iu "Oh, don't mention it," she replied und barley slacks. Not least among KIDNEY "Did you ever happen to meet tbe her eyes, and replied: pleasantly. "I am most happy to ob theae cosy farm buildings stands the Tho Pacific Ocean covers QS.06p.000 Siamese Twins?" "I suppose, dear, because you were llge you. My husband keeps the re warm, straw bedded stable, where the square miles; the Atlantic 30,000,000; tiudiifaout reflected n moment, and born so." freshmen! bar," big Clydesdales in tbeir hours of leisure and the Indion Ocean, Arctic and An ',, PILLS J thon said: * » « tug at tbeir well filled hayracks, mak tarctic Oceans -12,000,000. To atow away the contents of the Pacific it would bc " well, 1 am not quite sure tbat Thc railway trouble iu Scotland has ing merry music witb the rope blocks fhe manager of an engineering works necessary to till a tank oue mile long. met both of them; but I knew ono of recalled some stories respecting the on the mangers, or lie dozing in tho soft was watching an apprentice who was one mile wide and one mile deep, overy them \ery well." North British Railway strike of twelvo yellow oat straw to the gentle patter swinging thc hammer in a leisurely way day for 440 years. Fut in figures the #LKIDNEYJ7/ Tbe teacher, after having taken great years ago. In the emergency an amat of the brown ruts in the bedding. 'Look here, my boy," ho said, going Its waters weigh 325,000,000,000,00*, trouble to explain the difference in the eur engine driver bad been put on duty up to tho youth and taking the ham Betwixt farm und farm run tha clean, 000,000,000 tons. Thc Atlantic aver meanings of the words "dream" and on a branch line. At ooe station IV &"i:s_pi5*^V;',,, mer from him. "when I see a man who white roads, witb a strip of green grass agos a depth of imt quite three miles. "reverie," addressed the claws. "Now, ran his train a considerable way past takes his hammer by the end of tbe at either side, nnd beyond tho grass tho Its awtors weigh 325.000,000,000,000, could any of you give mo a sentence thc platform. Stopping at last, bc hawthorn hedges, tender greon in early handle and striaea a proper blow like 000,000 tons, and a tank to contaiu with the word 'reverie' in it?" "backed" and went as far boyonu at spring, foam-white with blossoms in that 1 give that man $8,00 a week, but them would have euch of its sides 430 A small youth put up his band. the other end, May, rich with berries in Autumn, sil­ "You. John!" she uttered in aston­ a man who takes it in the middle like miles long. Tho figures of tbe other The old porter, who had remained ver with hoar-frost in thc Chirstmas ishment. "Well, what IB it?" this only gets $6.25 a week, and is dis­ oceans are in the same startling propor loyal, eyed the proceedings with cynical weather. On these roads in summer you "Please, ma'am," said the urchin, missed whenever wo get slack. Sec?" tions. It would tnke all the sea water amusement. "Stop whuur ye are," he will pass the Clydesdales stepping sober-* the reverie' blew his whus'le and stop Hoping he had sufficiently well driven in tbe world 2,O0U,u0O years to Aow shouted, "and we'll shift thc statiou ly between tbe shafts of tho farm carts, ped the game." home his point, he surveyed tho lad over Niagara. Every Woman more in sorrow than in anger. But for ye,'' ^eing to and from the town with thoir I* initmtnd and «howl-t kat* varied loads. In winter, on tho same about tfce waetUtful • « e the latter requested un extension of the road, now deep with snow that drifts HJUtVa WUrttif SflAf A conjurer who was giving an enter­ lesson. tainment to a crowded audience in the above the hedge-tops, you will pass the Pills of Attested Value.—Farmelee V 'Please, sir," snid he, "where uught Clydes again, hauling the heavy snow- aehool at u village in Yorkshire per­ I to hold it for my dollar a week?" Vegetable Pills are tbe result of careful formed some astonishing trickfl. He plow, four abreast, snorting in tho cold. study of the properties of certain roots frosty air, and mnking the tug chnins was clever, and he knew it, otherwise * • • The Horseman and herbs, and the action of such as there would probably have been no At tbe courts a case coucerning motor ring again IIH they bend thetr proud necks to the collars. In the harvest sedatives and laxatives on the diget muse, to tell the following story. driving waH being heard, wben the tivo apparatus. The success the com WDIMOft SDFPLT CO. "Ladiea and gentlemen," he said, chauffeur declared that while driving at Aufwicglerin now holds the record pounders have mot with uttosts the val­ lUMT.Ott pompously, at the conclusion of his last forty miles an hour he could, if neces (2.12) for Austrian-bred trotters. Auf­ ue of their work. These pills hnve been trick, "1 defy anyone in this audience snry, pull up in ten or twelve feet. wicglerin is one of the two horses thut Mothers can easily know when their recognized for many years as the best to mention n single action that I ean "Um!" said tbe judge. Dr. Hermann von Fischer, the Vienna children are troubled with worms, and cleansers of the system that can be got. perform with my right hand that 1 can­ Then tbe next, witness—an expert— horseman, is contemplating bringing to they lose no time in applying the best Their excellence was recognized from rotr gave his evidence. Said his lordship; America next year. Tbe other is Pier .('(irniitllunfu^CiilIoiulIuiirhM, not do with my left." of remedies— M ot her Q ra vos' Worm the first aud thev grow moro popular "If a motor var wore travelling at rot, tbe champion trotting stallion of ffirvti, Ailiintr. Swollen Jv, l. li Thn intense silence which followed the Exterminator. daily. * a I tay h (mln uuil taki-x out si-r. r.ipuiibt!i» put!.,*•> stop it within ten or twelve feot. where is a five year old brown mare by Wig I.IMIOK nu tarn In bulliilnirtiijw.liuulUij room. would the drivor go?" Wag. 2.1U It, dam, Oluck auf—mean­ (Issue andflltnloatlng thn old. Alex "Put yer left hand in yer right-band I AM. Tbbltuport, todH writ*! NOT. U, "Depends very much on the sort of ing "cheer up"—by Prince Warwick, f..'j: "Noduulttyoa n'tinmluTmf i«l- trouser*pocket, guv'nor! he shouted. litiil iwo lM>ltl>'.,i:til»r;.<)iJtilandi. The villain's Bobcme had succeeded. Aufwicglerin was bred by Leopold Varlcow Vrtim. Milk U*iu Htr;.ln», Hpralns. Hound hand and foot, the fair maiden "James," said his mothor, "you eat Wanko—also breeder of Pierrot and Il'vila Cult, I'.rnlMM, Lmvratloni. Vriro (1X0 »tMHP.00at«,l|(lniBBlnl»or(lfWT.«r«L RM* I « r—*. wus put into a sack, unable to move tnd eat, and never aeein satisfied. Here Willy- and is still port owner wilh Dr. w.r.VQCW6.PJJUl>tyiMtlittilHbMt by MvllB lfc»l«m WtrmOn. Wlhtilp** ried down a flight of stairs, put into a Vf _. il.n»il li|i_-»lt'l Cliflul&tl Cu. MtiuUuu t Otllllf • vehicle, and then driven nway. She lames started on the pudding will, de had a Kuropeau record of 2.10 14, tut HMMlMm Hna, V% IML. VNMIM struggled vainly to release herself, but light. which would have bcen lowered but the villain had done uis work well. "Once upon a time, .lames." went on for his untimely death. Finally the conveyance stopped. Ins mothor, "there was a little boy who Wig Wag was bred by Douglas Thom­ Ohilllwack, British Oolumbla Again she was lifted, aud carried into ate nnd ate until one day lie nto too as, Lexington, Ky. He took a three Tke Qardin of B.C., In lh* fttnoui futet a building, fainting and gasping for much pudding, and he burst." year old record of 2.1G 14. He was aold »»!Uy. FinMl farminc tnd troll land in mi soon after by Jobn Splan to Mrs. Polly rtrld. Irrigation anltnowa. B.C. EUelrtr Ry breath. The sack was removed, then "There ain't such H thing as too hem VftDCOOTtr; CNU. tranirontinentil eui the gag. Tho villain, still masked, his much puddlngl" grunted Jimmy, as he McPhee Schllctegroll. who died from REPEATING SHOTGUNS 9* Nortbtrn buildmj Ohilllwack e modtra eyes gloaming like coals of fire, released finished his helping. an operation before the horse reached No mttier how big tbi bird, no matter bow buvy its plumage or •tf—waUrwnrki, tlfatrir light, etc Oram Kurope. Wig Wag was then sold to mat tke rur round. Tha Prairii Mao's her, and said through his tightly-clench "There must be," said his mother, •wift ita flight, you can bring it to bag with a long, •trong, raradiM—no froat, no tour month'• mow. ed teeth: or why did the little boy burst?" J. Schoomaker for Louis Winans. He atraight .hooting Wincheater Repeating Shotgun. Reaulta are what Writ* H. T, Onodland, Secy Board of "Not onougb boy!" replied James, won the championship of Europe for his count. They alwaya give tba beat reaulta in Held, fowl or trap Trada, Chilliwack, for all informa lion, book- There, my pretty bird, Hcream as new owner, aa a four-year-old in 1903, and banded up his plate for a fifth help •booting, and are aold within reach of everybody'e pocketbook. em. mapa. etr -THEN COME loud as you like; no human ear will trotting in 2.1.1 l>-10. He was second ever hear you. You arc totally within ing. in thc championship of 1004, fourth in fMCi Sn* um ..* mint, M a foml ear* ll at tarts tOtitmid tttaletu. my power." # * • V.W. On tho morning of the 1906 Where am I?" she gasped. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO.. N«W HAVEN. CONN. A lady was continually accusing hcr hampionship, for which race he was In the shop of a man who never ad­ servant of extravagance without any an overwhelming favorite, he died from vertises," was the cruel reply. real cause. The servant always bore olie American trainers in Kurope Dominion Alaa!" she moaned. "No power this accusation patiently. considered htm a 2.05 trotter over on earth can save me. No one will One day the servant informed her American tracks. In 1905 he won tho look for me here." mistress that tho coal had all been con­ mpost Handicap of 2,610 motors— Business College And tbe poor girl fainted. sumed. This was followed by the about 1 8-5 miles—from a standing usual remarks on the part of the mis­ start over a five eighths milo track in WALL PLASTER In County Sligo there is a small lake tress, who finished up by saying: .1.30 IM0, which is at the rate of 2.10 College open throughout ths whole renowned for its fabulous depth. A to the milo. During this race he wns Planter Board Ukea the plane of L»th, and ia fireproof. yeur. Students mny join at any time. professor happened to bo in that part officially timed a soparate 1,000 motors "u I.IS 7-10, which Is at the rate of "The Practical College" of Ireland last summer, and started out A bottle of Bicklo's Anti-Consump­ The "Empire" brands of Woodfiber and Hardwall o day for a ramble among the moun­ tive Syrup, taken according to direc­ 1,06 1-2 for the mile. Plaater for good construction. Write fot free catalogue. tains, accompanied by u native G»''1C- tions, will subdue n cough iu a short Qluek auf—tlic second part of name As thev climbed Pat asked him if he time. Tins assertion can be verified liould not be spelled with a capital SHALL WB SEND TOP PLASTER LITERATURE would llko to see this lake, "for it's no by hundreds who have tried it and are CANADA lil.lu;. DONALD BT. bottom at al), sorr," pleased to boar testimony to its mer WiNMI'KU, MAN "But how do you know that, Put?" il-. so that all may know what a splen Corns cripple thc feet and make The Manitoba Gypsum Co., Ltd. nsked the professor, did medicine it Is. Tt costs you only walking a torture, yet sure relief in 1). COOPER. C. A. Principal WINNIPEG, MAN. "Well, sorr, I'll tell ve. Me own 2fi cents to join tho ranks of the many the shape of Holloway's Oom Cure is cousin was showin' the pond to a gen who havo been benefited by its uso. within reach of all. inn THE ISLANDER, CUMBERLAND. B.O. (fl tugged a coin from hor knotted hand —suppose, tbe sign of an open and af­ kerchief, and dropped her pittance in fectionate character. More often tban tbe box. not it betrays the criminal. A detec­ "God bless you for itl" muttered tive declared tbat the worst rogue he PROVEN tbe £irl. ever came across was possessed of a Emma did not pause te hear tba (Uy Kdward Boltwood) pair of over-steady eyee, and that their Evolution of thc Moving Picture beuediction. Bhe turned the corner unswerving gaze kept him above sus­ into a side street. It was a stroet ot picion for a couple of decades. He old brick houses, converted into tene­ would probably never have been sus­ ments; beyond the distant end of it, pected of his many crimes had he not Emma Saxon tremulously preBsod room, paneled in rose du Barry brocade. under the lights of a towering bridge, Tbe origin and commercial progress became a rich man in five years, and backward against tbe partition of her The furnituro was covered with Gobe­ been caught red-handed while attempt­ was revealed the sullen current of the ing to cush a forged cheque. of the moving picture in interestingly now controls forty theatres, maay of employer's private office, and steadied lin tapestry; and on a couch reclined a river. traced bjr Robert Orau in Tho Moving which he owns, but even he will admit her suddenly throbbing palms on tbe lady whose flowing gown had the color Tho unsteady eyo—that is, the eye The shadowy street would have been Picture Nows. 80 far us this device that tho biggest profits came when he eool glass. and sheen of morning cobwebs iir a that jerks rapidly from eye to eye when quiet had it not boen for the countless can be said to have been originated by augmented the vaudeville phase of bia dewy garden. Another woman, soberly tue owner is excited or accused or a Beyond the partition, in the work­ children; but over sidewalk, curt), und programmes. dressed in brown, sat at,a inarqueterio crime—does not express guilt, as is of­ any one porsou, credit belongs, Mr. room of Miss Gardner's typewriting hduse-steps, they swarmed like frenxied desk; but Emma looked only at the lady ten believed. In nino cases out of ten Grau thinks, to Eadweard Muybridge, "The manufacturers who started in agency, the girls had closed their ma­ bees. A desperate bandit of seven of Oakland, Cal. Mr. Orau makes him chines for the day. Tbey chatted soft­ on the couch. Never had she lookod it is a sign of honesty and un unsettled the early stage and who now firm tke years triumphantly caught and held a plain "Edward," but bo spelled bis ly and gaily while they adjusted in­ at such a beautiful creature. mind. nucleus of the Patents Company, have Emma's skirt as she passed. She bent namo as wo give it—u peculiarity tbat all made fortunes und are now wealthy credible hats ovor niiraeuloua coiffures. "Madame will receive you," said thb down to loosen the chubby fist, aud If you measure the distance between From the lavatory drifted the faint, your eyes you will probably find that it used to elicit from the irreverent tho men. whilo some of these for a period maid. ; . >. found that, for lack of breath, she advice that be run his name through a of throe yoars made between $100,000 clean odor of perfumed soup. "Is that Mrs. Trent—on fhe sofa!" is tho breadth of ono eye. If by chance could hardly speak. moving-picture machine. Mr. Muy­ and $1100,000 a yoar. It la a question •'The name—did you say the name gasped Emma. your eyos are farther apart than tbat She waited for u minute among tbo bridge first gained famo by his Hue if any of these manufacturers can was Mr?. Franklin Trent?" faltered "Of course," breathed tbe servant, you are possibly very intellectual and bildron, with a band on ber leaping Beries of instantaneous pictures of trot show earnings in excess of 1755,000 a Kmma. with much disdain. . have a tenacious merory. Eyes that are tcart. Then sho wont into the tene­ ting-horses iu motion—tho nrst that ro yoar tuduy. "Ves, yes," Miss Gardner replied Emma advanced into the room. Tbe ment-house -and up the sagging und very closo together very often signify from bur desk. "Vou must have no­ ludy raised ber graceful, tawny-haired a deceitful, cunning nature. voided both to zoologists and to artists "As for the independents, none caa narrow stairs. thr actual method of the animal's pro ticed the nume in tbe newspapers. This bond from the heap of pillows;.und her Blue eyes arc considered to possess be called wealthy, and ouly four or five Tho humble room which Ptpum en gross. Says Mr. Orau: of thoso muke any money ut all. Mrs. Franklin Trent needs unother soc­ voice was kind and musical. * torod wns poorly furnished, but very more attractions than eyes of any other "At tbo instigation of Guv. Leland The Patents Company assesses overy ial secretary for a while. She will see "This is Miss Saxonf", neat und clean. A man sat be.su! > the color, Among the Greoks and Romans you at six. The house is on l'i.tli "My name is Saxon, ma'am. I um of classic times, girls possessing eyes of .Stanford of that state (Muybridge) oxhibitor two dollars a week f,.r each lamp, reading a book. Ho lookod up mado countless pictures of tbo Gover­ Avenue, and here's the address, und from the Gardner agency.*' pleasantly wt tall, powerful man, al­ this color found great favor among machine used by him] tbis tax ia di- nor's celebrated trotter, Occident, the your stage fare." "Ves," said Mrs. Trent. "1 shall though bu bad the blenched face of men, and it must oot be forgotten that vidod botwoen the Edison and Hiograph timnm s slender lingers shook a little neod u secretary, for u fow weeks, to an invalid. One of his arms was tn a tho goddess Minerav received a sur­ first horso to trot u milo in '2 minutes Companies and constitutes an enormous when she picked up the coiu and tbe assist Miss Vesper," and sho indicated, sling. name to signify the blueness of her and 'ii, seronds wost of tho liocky income nnd ouo that has beeu resented with a white, jeweled hand, tbe woman Mountains. Occident was the pride of liy the independents who are uot forced card; and Mi*s Uardner frowned im­ , "Why, Emmy!" said ho. "What is oyos, and physiognomists declare that at tbe desk, the Governor's hoart, und be ongagod to meet any such demand, patiently. itf" the pure blue eye, whilo denoting a sin­ •'Now, for Heaven's tuikc, Kmma, "I have always given satisfaction, cere, honest nature, is seldom possessed Muybridge to photograph bim lu ovory "Tho Patents Company consists of Sho stured at bim witb shining, brim­ conceivable size nnd shape. dou't get rattled,'' ma'am, as it stenographer uud typo ming eyes. The breath caught again by a person with large intellectuality. Mossrs. Kdison, Dyer, Kennedy, Hook, "But, if you please, Miss Gardner, writor," ventured Emma. in her throat, and she could not speak. On the othor bund, the large, clear blue "In making a series of snapshots of Smith, Bluckton, Baldwin, Marvin, Coo­ 1 can't—I would rather not go." Mrs. Trent's good-humored smile was "What's the matter!" he demanded, eye indicates not only great mental tho horses's actions, Muybridgo was ler, the Lo|wr Eetate, Marion, Long, "What do you think I pay you fori" very winning, rising witb quick anxiety. "I've such power, but sincerity and honesty. The ablo to show tho horse's motion. In Kloino, Lubin, Melies, Spoor, and An snapped Miss Uardner. "Vou bet "I am sure of that, but a pen-writer glorious news, Em! The doctor swears eye wbicb is half blue und grey, and is order to satisfy bis ambitions employer, deraon and Selig. you'll go, or else—" is what I nood," she rejoined quietly. that I'll be back at work within a absent of orange specks, denotes a prac­ Muybridgo evolved a novel scheme of "These gentlemen are all fairly weal­ "Very well, I'll be there ut six," "My correspondence, I fear, is too tri­ month! Thank Heaven, you won't tical pure mind; but tbo china-blue eye, placing a number of cameras, covering thy, none savo Kdison IB a millionaire, murmured Kmma Saxon. vial to be typed. So may I trouble you mueh longer have to—why, Emmy, lass, when it is glassy and unchanging, Is at least one-tenth of n milo. From though all ure rated between #100,000 Tbe bright figures in the outer room for a sample of your handwriting? That wbat ever has como to youf" generally a sign that the owner is of a these cameras he stretched silk threads and $500,000, all earned in the first is the whole point, you know." contrasted oddly witb Emma's grayish Emma clasped him in her embrace. cold and selfish nature. This eye is across the track at about tho height three years of tbe erase. hair and black gown of cheap serge. "Certainly, ma'am," Emma said. "Oh, my husband! " she cried broken generally the property of criminals. of the trotter's knee; tbose threads "J, J. Murdock, who really has beea None of the girls spoke to ber while Miss Vosper arose, and Emma seated ly. "I was afraid—afraid; but I have being broken, each one made a distinct- the most vital figure in the expansion she was putting on ber hat and jacket; herself in the desk-chair. An angle uf Thero are no eyes which are coal- picture of the horse, and, by putting seon without envy what might havo black. What are called black eyes are of the entire industry, became ao ill a she was like a dumb raven among the wall was between the desk and the boen, and it has been proven to me—• them together and riffling from tbe few years ago that his retirement wu orioles. The astute manageress ob couch. She heurd Miss Vosper reading of a very dark brown, and as a rule thnmb, the horse could bo seen in ac­ proven that I could never have cared tbey aro possessed by men and women forced, and all of his vast interests dis­ served this with a satisfied smile. a concert programme to Mrs. Trent. tor anyone but you. And, John, I love tual motion. posed of. He has now recovered, aad Emma found a blank sheet of crested who are constaut in their affections and "I guess I made no mistake in send­ you so—I love you so!" "In 1885 (almost a decade before tbe in resuming activity has brought aboat ing Saxon on this job," remarked Miss paper underneath a manuscript list of perfectly honest in all the business they undertake. Dark brown eyes which, Cinematographe was rovealed at tho formation of a third combination io Gardner to her blotting-pad. "If ull charitable hospitals on the desk. She the newly organised Kinomaealor Com­ you hear about Franklin Trent is true, selected one of tbe mother-of-pearl pen­ LEGEND OF THE RAIN-TREE while sparkling, are very shifty, nedote Keith's Union Square Theatre) Muy­ that tbe owners are selfish, unscrupu­ bridge sailed for England, and there, pany, a six-million-dollar corporation his wife wouldn *t bo keen about having holders, consulted the jude inkstand, During.tbe last few months the news­ holding tbo Urban-Eelipee patents aad and wondered what she ought to write. lous, and of a cruel disposition. Light affiliating himself with 11 half dozen uny chatty young piece of dress-goods' papers have revived tho well-worn tale whieh is about to introduce in this coun­ Then sho turned her perplexed,glance, brown eyes express deceitfulness add others, evolved the Snt n»ovi»|-pioturo around the house. Poor old Emma's of the "Peruvian rain-treo," which af­ try the Kinomaeolor pictures with tke over forty, and tho best hand in the and it met the pictured face of Frank­ lack of imagination, while the small, camera. A year later some of these fords protection against drought. The expectation of thoroughly revolutionis­ shop, at that." lin Trent. She had not seen him for penetrating brown eye, of medium cameras reached America. In 1887 thc leaves of this tree are said to have the ing the moving-picture business. Kmma sidled into the elevator, pack­ twenty yoars. property of condensing atmospheric shade, is a sign of n mercurial nature, Patent Oflice of Washington commenced ed at this hour with noisy clerks and Middle age had marked him but moisture iu large quantities and preci vivneiousness, and deceitfulness. to roceivo applications from any num­ "The first of these offerings, constit­ giggling stenographers. She bad work­ slightly. Framed by a wide band of pitating it iu the form of rato. Accord It hns hen declared that all clever ber of inventors for moving-picture ap­ uting the Coronation Ceremonies in ed in Miss Gardner's agency for half gold, the musterful, handsome face was tag to one writer, "the water falls men and women look upon tbe world paratus, both for taking and projecting England, are now arriving in thia coun­ a year, but sho bad made no acquaint­ tbat of the boy who had vainly' im­ from the leaves aud oozes from tho with grey eyes. That there is n con­ purposes. try, und tbeir advent bas already caused ances elsewhere in the building. Uer plored Emma to love hltn. lt almost trunk and forms veritable rivers, which siderable amount of truth in this state­ "In 1890, the Kdison Company camo the greatest upheaval in the industry cold, tired face, with its pathetic traces seemed thut he was' imploring her now, cun be led as irrigating canals to any ment ean be gathered from the fact into possession of tho Latbem Eidolo- iuself; in fact, the color pictures are of former beauty, somehow kept people so perfect was the portraiture and so point desired. Making Jiheral allow­ that a large proportion of living writers scope, and started in tho moving-pic- expected to prove so suporior to all pre­ from her. vivid was her remembrance. ance for evaporation and infiltration, u and artists have eyes of grey, and that turo movement. In 189a tbey were fol­ vious efforts that an entirely new eras* Broadway was aglow ind flashing. As she gazed nt the photograph, she square milo grove of the trios would among great ones of the past whose lowed in thc field by tbo Biograph, in­ is looked for.". Emma glanced at au illuminated clock, became a girl again. She fancied thut simply for distribution about 100,00 eyes were of this color were Shake vented by Herman Cnslor, of Cunastota, and knotted ber coin thriftily in a she was aware of the pure fragrance gallons of water daily." speare, Coleridge, Byron, Charlotte N.V., and tbis wus expected to prove DE8TBUCTIVE VIBBATIONB handkerchief. Tbe pavement was of apple blossoms, the sleepy twitter­ On the strength of similar stories oue Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Oeorge Eliot, an innovation in that tbeir pictures A violin note may denote an explo­ slushy witb melted snow, and her shoes ing of nested birds, the timid luster of of tho trees to whieh the name "rain- and Charles Beade. were takon on a film 2x2% inches in sive, or, ii long continued, may weaken were worn; but teu cents meant a early stnrs. The lurking dread slowly- tree" bus been most often applied, vizs Gr>y eyes, by the way, denote crea­ height and width, wbicb was supposed steel or disintegrate stone, wc aro told breakfast, and she liad time enough to vanished from her oyos. That queer Albizzia (or I'ithccolobium) Saman, tive temperament, but not always hon­ to give them a decided advantage and by u Scientific American writer, lie walk. shadow of apprehension, which bad has lately been exploited and sold ex­ esty. What novelists and" poets term produce a much better picture. This, does not go so fur us the apologist who darkened them for an hour, wus lifted-. She seemed to have more than time tensively in Australia. The virtues the cold, grey eye is considered to be a however, did not provo to bo thc case, elucidated thc miracle at .lericho by ex­ A resolute, eager light replaced it. She enough, for she walked hesitatingly, claimed for it hnve proved to be alto sign of selfishness and cruelty, though as tho projecting machine reduced tho plaining that the vibrations of Joshua's gazing with brooding eyes into the was like one lost in a dreary swamp, lilm to what they call recklino or stand trumpets disintegrated thc walls and who suddenly finds a safe path home­ gcthor illusory, although it is useful as it often denotes shrewdness and talent. brilliant shop windows. From a dis­ a shade tree, and is widely planted for Very clever people whose eyes are grey aid size, uamoly one square inch, tho made tbem fall down, but this reason ward. ing is along tbe same line. Musical vi- tance, you might have said that she this purpose in semi-tropical countries, gonrully have small spots of oni nge in clearness of the picture depending on was a wandering rural visitor, on Miss Vosper uoughed suggestively. the sharpness of tho negative. brulions nre capable of marvelous Tho legent of the "rain-tree" or tbe iris round the pupil. things. He writes: Broadway for the first time. But her "I beg your pardon," Emma acknow­ "raining tree" dates buck ,tp the star '' About this timo, during tho World's eyee would have changed your mind. ledged; and she wrote the names of ies of the Fortunate Isles, where uo Pair in Chicago, in 1893, the Lunitere "Experiments were made in Kngland Thoy were tilled, not with wonder, but tho months on tbe sheet of paper, and rain fell from the skies aud the soil HOW WE OUGHT TO SEE Company of Lyons, Prance, came to to snow that u beautiful wave structure with dread. submitted it to Mrs. Trent. wns refreshed by the moisture shed by Data have been gathered in Oermany America with both u camera and u pro­ can be imparted to tbe surface of mer­ I'n one great window was marshalled The lady examined it with regretful a trim of the sort described. The early with reference to the distance ut which jecting machine, which were shown ut cury by the vibrations of a tuning-fork an oriental parade of golden and purple scrutiny. Emma's handwriting, in fact, navigators brought home stories of persons may be recognized by tlieir the World's Pair. At this time, and, und tbat eveu the surface of solid lead fruits; in the next glistened an enor­ was the commonplace script of an old- similar trees in the Eust Indies, in Uui faces und figures. If one bus good eyes. iu faet, for several yoars nfter, tho which has boon subjected to similar fashioned copy-book, devoid of distinc­ mous maze of silken rainbows; in a nea, Brazil, etc. The Peruvian ruin the Gennuns claim, oue cannot recog­ motion pictures appeared to bo more or vibrations possesses a structure resem­ third the innumerable sparks of jewels tion nnd cbaructer. it tree appears to have been brought to nize n person whom he has seen but less a fad. As a matter of fact, out­ bling tbnt of a vibrating surface of darted from folds of somber velvet. "I'm so sorry," decided tyi*. Trent side of tbe novelty thero did not seem mercury. ... Through tho polished glass sides of the notico of tbe world by the reports once befoie at u greater distance than gently; "hut really, I fear—I'm so "Iodid of nitrogen, u black powder, motor-ears Emma caught glimpses of of-a Uftited States consul in Peru, twenty five metres (eighty two feet). to be any groat commercial market for sorry to disappoint you!"' is one of tbo most dangerous of all ox pretty woman daintily clad in fur. jibovt-JHtf. These reports were widely If the person is well-known to one, one the pictures. This state of affairs went "It's only an ordinary < worka day quoted ut. the time, and led the govern­ muy recognize him at from fifty to one along for somu two or three yeurs, until plosives. When dry, the slightest touch Occasionally she beard, from the open hand, ma'am. And, if you'll excuse ment of India to seek information ou hundred metres, nnd if it is a member the attention of the vaudeville mana­ will often cause it to explode with door of a restaurant, the hum of me, I'm not disappointed." } , . the subject from tbe authorities of Kew of one's family, eveu at one hundred gers wus drawn to tho possibility of great violence. laughter and the dancing lilt of violins. "Not disappointed^" murmured Mys. Gardens. Tbe' investigations of W. T. nnd fifty metres. The whites of the their exhibition as u vaudeville attrac­ "Thuro appears to bo u certain rate Trent. She smiled thoughtfully' nt Sne baited at a place where tickets Thistleton Dyer brought to light u plan eyes mny be seen at frum twenty-seven tion. of vibration which tbis compound cuu for foreign travel were sold. The Emma, vaguely impressed- by some elu­ siblo explanation of at least a part of to twenty-eight metres, uud the eyes not resist. In experiments to deter window displayed n huge model of a sive change in the bearing und voice "11. P. Keith in the East and .1. .1. tho rain tree stories. themselves at seventy-two to seventy- steamship, swinging lazily, as if at of this gray, shabby woman. "How­ Murdock in the West were the pioneers mine tho cause of its extreme explosive- moorings, un a peaceful sea. Pencils ever, Miss .Saxon, 1 in genuinely sorry The traveler Spruce reported his own three metres, Thc difforene pnrts of in placing the moving pictures actively ness, some damp iodide of nitrogen was of warm, yellow light streamed from that you've bad this trouble for noth­ experiences with thu rain tree as fol­ the body und tbe slightest movements before the public. At thut time there rubbed 011 the strings of a bass viol. It the port-boles nud the must, and a ing. [ feel sure that you deserve help, lows: are distinguishable at ninety-one existed in America oaly the Edisou and is known that the strings of such an miniature moon silvered the little palm- und that you work well uud hard." '*The,tarnla-caspi, ur ruin-tree of the metres. The limbs show at oue liun­ Hiogrnpb Companies, which were en­ instrument will vibrate when tbose of a drod and eighty two metres. At five similar inBtruinont, having an equal tree on tbe tropical shore. "I work bard, ma'am, hut perhaps eastern Peruvian Andes, Is not a myth, gaged in litigation with the hope of ex­ hundred and forty metres a moving tension, uro played upon. Kmma clasped thc threadbare collar that ini't uuytbing to feel sorry but a fact, although nut exactly iu the terminating eacb otber, man appears only as au indefinite form, of her thin jacket around ber throat, ubout." way popular rumor hns lately presented "hi 1800 the vaudeville munugurs "In the present ease, after tbe ex­ and ut seven hundred aud twenty and walked on rapidly. Thc curious For a silent moment eacb looked it. I first witnessed the phenomenon in found it neeeasuiy to look for moro plosive had become thoroughly dry up­ dread deepened iu her eyes. tensely into tbe other's reflective, September, 1805, when residiug nt Tarn metres—2,3(11,0 feet—the movements of manufacturers, aud this resulted in on tbe strings, another bass viol was the body are no longer visible. Finally a cross-town street led ber ruther startled fuce. It was us if n poto. I had gone one morniug at day­ Messrs. Selig and Spoor starting thu brought near and its strings were sound­ to Mrs. Franklin Trent's magnificent supernatural power were trying to flash break, with two assistants, into the (irst American motion-picture plunt fur ed. At ii certain uotc the iodide of ni­ a message between them. But the gulf adjacent wooded hills to botanize. A thc manufacture of films in Chicago. trogen ou the prepared instrument ex new bouse on tbe avenue. Emma had THE HOW OF HARMONICAS never identified it before. The ornate was too great; the message was blurred little after seven o'clock we came uu "Nothing of great moment occurred ploded. front of the stone mansion, a jumble and indistinct, like the faulty nnd un­ lei1 a lowish spreading tree, from which Trossinguu, iu the Black Forest of after this, until 1904, whon a number "It wns found thut tbe explosion oo of costly carving, wui an architectural readable call from the crippled sender with a perfectly clear sky overhead a (iermany, is the centre of the foreign uf Kuropeau manufacturers came over curred only when u rate of vibration joke; but Einmn did not seem to be of u wireless telegraph machine. smart ruin was falling. A glance Up liarmonicu industry, where most of the to America to dispose nf thoir wares. of 00 per second was communicated tu amused. Her lips shivered strangely Mrs. Trent sighed,- without knowing ward showed a multidude of cicudas world's "mouth-organs" of the cheap­ Then was started the guerrilla wnrfuiet the prepared strings. Vibration of tbe as she climbed the broad steps. why, and moved petulantly among thc sucking the juices of tne tender young er grude are made. One factory alone Subjects were ao sooner on the market (1 string caused un explosion, while that For the houso would have been her velvet pillows, branches and leaves, and squirting is saitl to employ several thousand than they were immediately duplicated. of tho K string hud no effect. own, if she, in her father's orchard, "Are you going hack tu thc agency forth slender streams of limpid fluid." hands; uud the number of harmonicas This wns not confined to any particular "Thu question is often asked. What twenty years ago, bad whispered a this evening, Miss Suxonf" This is net the only explanation. That turned out by all tne fuctories there is set of men or manufacturers, hut was force, least oxpoeted, docs tbe greatest "yes" instead of a "no" to young "Nu, in a am, I am going ---somewhere many plants spontaneously exude mois­ norm Oils, amounting to almost a million quite general in the industry Itself, damage tu liuildiiigsf One architect'., Flunk Trent, on the night when he left else.'' ture under suitable conditions is well annually. until it reached a point whore it was answer tu this question may be a stir their Connecticut village to seek his "I shall take cure that yoar employ­ known. The phenomenon is called Among the liner grades of barnuinicus practically impossible to make a sub prize to thoso wbo do not understand fortune in thc Western copper mines er doesn't critiei/o you because I scut ' gnttution,'' and hns perhaps been are the kind known ns ' 'concert,'' wot without having it du|>4iroteil with that il is the regularity of vibration you away. Miss Vosper shall attend most fully described by A. Burgerstein whieh come in sets of from four to a in twenty four hours, 'lhis continued tlmt mnkok it powerful. \ Ih pried fuotmaii swung the heavy to that iu the morning. Good night!" in his worh "Die Transpiration der dozen and sell for several dollars front 11104 to 190(1, whon it became up "'I venture to say,' remarked this door, and surveyed Kmma Simon brief "Thnnk you, ma 'am, and good-by!" Pltun/en " (Jena, 1904). The moisture apiece, These tiro tuned in various parent to the leading figures in the (ilia architect, 'thai you would never SUB If mid Emilia, smiling inscrutably. ilrawu up from the roots of plants most keys. In one form they show six har­ tield thut something must he done." pect that violin playing would injure "Other entrance, he grunted, HI frequently pimses off into thu air in a monicas of different keys grouped The "something thut was theu the walls uf a building. Yot it cer­ Emma did not understand. She Thu nupercilious maid led Emma gaseous form; i.e., by transpiration. If about a central stem. Many of the "done" was the uptodato American tainly doos. Thero have boon instances hlinked doubtfully over the lackey's haughtily down roar steps to the ser­ the air is saturated with moisture, and elaborate and expensive harmonicas are thing, llie formation of The Motion I'ic when uo walls of stenc anil brick struc­ crimson sleeve at the pillars of the vants' entrance; but Kmma was un­ if the supply of moisture to the roots handsomely decorated with designs of tore Patents Company -a "trust" or tures huve been seriously damaged by ' Roman hnll. touched by the slight, or by the grim copious, tbeu liquid drops will be gold and silver upon mahogany. Tbo combination of makers that for u time the vibrations of a violin. These case's "ff you please, I—I have an ap mockery of sucb a departure from the exuded sometimes in large quantities. wood used in the cheaper grudes is controlled the market until its undue are, of course, unusual, but the facts [lointmeut here at six," said she, and house which might huve been hers. The Moli.sch records a case in which a single pine. exui'tioos t'oreeil tin- uppearaai-e of in are established. ottered Miss Gardner's card. determined smile was still upon her leaf of a species of Colocusiu gave oil dependents who dually in turn com­ " 'The vibrations of u violin ure face, She walkod erect now. with her "Other entrance," repeated the l!H> drops per minute. Burgerstein gives Tbo Telford road consisted of placi­ biued in a trust nt tliuir own--the In­ really serious in Iheir unseen, unbound footman. shoulders squared. In tho street she a list of 241 plants, belonging to 101 ternational Producing Company. Those ed force, and when they eome witb turned hcr back on tho glare of the ng under the level bod prepared for But a trim lady's-maid now appear families, in which gnttution has beeu two organizations aow, according to Mr. regularity, they exorcise nn influence splendid nvenue, nnd set off ut a brisk road materials, a bottom courso or layer ed from behind a pillar. observed) (Iran, control the whole situation. pace toward the east. of stone to he set by hand, in tbe form upon structures of hriek, iron, or stone. "One minute, Mr. Uibbs," she in­ This procoss goes ou chiefly at night, of a close, firm pavement, the thick­ Large fortunes have beon mado in It follows, of course, that thore must terposed, sennniug the card, '' Madame At longth she came to tho whining and iu cloudy and foggy weather; i.e., ness of this foundation course varying tho motion-picture field by comparative have been continuous playing for years expects a—oh, yes! [ will bring her to tracks of tho Elevated. The thorough­ when thu relative humidity of the uir ly few, uud tho number who have met to euuse the loosening of masonry or madame. It will be quicker so." from "> inches upward, depending upon fare beneath them was a wet and noi­ is highest. It is altogether probable disaster is legion! lu no othor legiti­ to make iron brittle, but it will do so In some cave. Grimy men and women, the material composing the subgrade Tho maid crossed the lofty hull, and that in the inoister parts of the tropics mate business can money be lost so time.' " with the dull, submissive eyes of toil­ and the vehicular traffic it will be call­ Emma followed, with shoulders bent, there are trees which exhibit this pne quickly or in larger amounts. as if the luxury of the house oppressed ing oxen, thronged tho foul pavements. ed upon to carry. Upon tbe top of nomenon in such a degree that thc "Thomas A. Edison is paid a royalty A PORTABLE CLOCK them like a burden. Mr. Hibbs yawn­ In u deafening, unending procession, this foundation is placed a course, or name "r.iin-troo" may be fittingly ap­ Among tho eloek uovolties is a por­ ed, examining his finger-nails. iron wheels of ponderous trucks clanged oursos, of varying sized stone, to form of onohalf a eont a foot for every foot plied to thom. It is, however, certain of raw material, or film, ordered of thn table clock that fits into thc curved Cavernous apartments, mysterious savagoly over the cobbles. what is known as the "metal surface." that no sucb process cnn occur in a Enstorn Kodak Company, which manu­ top of a liglit framework of plain or with rich drapery and dimly lit by hid­ The Mac A dam road differed from that With lips parted expectantly, and dry climate, and that uio proposal to factures all of thc ruw material for inlaid mnhognny. The stand is about den lamps, glowed to left and right. firm chin pointed upward, Emma hur­ of Telford in that MacAdam was satis­ plant the ruin-true ns a panacea against the Patents Company. This brings to five feet high und can easily be moved Emma's worn little shoes trod marble ried on, like one speeding to a goal. fied with laying tho metal surface dir­ drought is entirely chimerical. from room to room. stairs which had boen taken out of "a Even in that hastening crowd her haste ectly on the surface of the ground after 'the wizard' of Menln Park from this famous Veuetian palace. Peering over wus noticeable. A group iu front of tbe irregularities had been levelled, the one source a revenue of about half a The round clock, framed in mahog­ the exquisite baluster, she had n vista, a murky saloon skipped out of her wuy WINDOWS OF THE SOUL sido ditches formed, and tbo proper million dollars a year. any, has on ono side aa eight-day clock through the priceless picture-gallery, of with burlesque agility; a jocose police­ There ure scores of little eye-signs drainage system installed. This metal "Outside of Edison moderate for aud on the otber uu aneroid barometer. tbe ballroom, with its stately organ. man asked her where the fire was. Em­ which give the key to a person's surface was composed of hard stone tunes were made iu tbe early dnys of Another combination clock is a four- At a door near the head of tbe stair- ma's eager smile did not waver, and thoughts and betray thnt person when broken to a uniform size and cubical the croze by neorly all of the manufac­ sided one of silver. It is set in iu cub* case Emma's guide pressed tho conceal­ the policeman winked at his companion. he or she is unaware of it. An ordin­ in form, ranging from Hi to 2 inches, turers, as well ns the exhibitors, but frame, with round opening on four ed knob of an electric annunciator, A "They never get too old to neat it ary man, bent on deception, will flinch and was placed to a dopth varying from the eompotition with the exhibitor be­ sides, one for the clock and tbe rest second maid opened the door silently, to a date," he proclaimed sententious- his eyes if someone looks him "straight G to 9 inches. came so fierce that thoir fortunes were for a thermometer, calendar and baro­ faced tbe card on a silver tray, and in thc eyes." The accomplished rogue, soon wiped out or greatly reduced, and meter. This useful norslty ia unfortu­ iy. today, if the truth be rocordod, but few nately beyond tho arerage parse, but feft Emma waiting behind a half drawn A blue-coated und blue-bonneted girl however, will not. Tho eye that never Finland, with its thousand lakes, is of tbe moving picture theatres make will doubtless suon appear in cheaper portiere of rosy siw. emerged from the saloon, jingling an flinches when challenged is not, as now considered attractive enough to be forms. Beyond the curtain was an octagonal alms-box of the Halvation Army. Emma many people—especially yonng women on the general tourist's list. money. It is true that Marcus Loew 108 THE r$u\'r>p,n, rmnRM.AKii, ie

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