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Comparative Figures For Fifteen Years

Reserve and Undivided Profits May Bist 1895, $ 346,460.

QUEBEC,

2,000,000, 1900, 573, 117.

“. 1905, . 2,500,000. “ «1905, 1,239,824.

Feb. 27th. 1908, 3,201 ,400. Feb. 27th 1909, 2,045,950. Deposits Total Assets

May. 3ist 1896, 8 4,904,128. May 31st 1895, $% 7,802,009.

* “1900, 6,573,637. + * 1900, 11,001,189.

ey «1905, 16,533,876. te ae | 22.767,100,

Feb. 27th 1909, 25,693,386. Nov. 30th 1908, 34,062,408.

April 3rd 1909, 26,845,000. Mar. 3ist 1909, 35,198,244.

SL ACOMES | BRANCH:

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, A Poor Man ‘s ‘Chance! .

‘Or a good opportunity, - for: a 'speculator to. make money.

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» Good enim section 7 miles fiom Lambe 45.acres broken, partly tenn good soil. . Price $1,400.

Good half. section 1 mile from railway station and creamery and school. Price if taken at once $1,100.

A good stock farm, 2 miles from cream-

_ ery, $1400. Terms easy. prada for horses

and cattle.

A five roomed house and lot 50x140 close in, well and pump, rented $10 per month. price $1,000, $250 down, balance to suit purchaser.

An 8 roomed house and large lot, price $250 down, balance can be arranged.

Small Cottage, 4 rooms, nice lot, price

$600: “Terms.

A 3 roomed cottage with stable, $700. Terms easy.

A 7 roomed house with large barn, price $2500, $250 cash, balance by monthly rent.

Town lots from $85 up, and easy terms of payment.

First class driver and rubber tired buggy and harness, complete, $300.

First class saddle pony, with new Eng-

lish saddle; make a first class polo pony;

14 hands, weight about 850 Ibs.

epent with saddle $125.

We can insure your horses and cattle egeinet death from any cause. Rates low. hy run any risk? Cal! and see us.

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The Charter of the Child. One of the things which makea

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ed in the Eastern Provinces, and now taking time by the forelock, patriotic ladies and gentlemen ot Alberta have interested themselves

id this universal movement and a Children’s Aid Society has been formed in Calgary and Edmonton,

It is'asad commentary on our

inevitable outcomes. of. the city is the destitute child. Old .truisms tell us that the child is the father ot the man, and if we would train ‘a ghild we must start with ‘his grandfather. ee dyies pherefare i in- presenting a re- sume, Of Bome of the principle evil #imed at.in' the. old country by the. Children's Act 1908, which came into free ‘on the first day ‘of April

Under the heading of “Infant |} Life Protection,” the law relating tothe regulation of baby farms is strengthened. It is provided | hat |

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of one or more infants under seven years of age, apart from their par; ents, or having no parents, such person shall within forty-eight hours of recejving the infant prive to the Board ot Theo the children are

to be visited from time to time by

written ‘notice Gu trdians.

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“protection visitors,” whose duty

is to see not only that the nursing

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is satisfactory, but that the prem- ises are in youd sanitary order. The guardians are given power to fix’ the bumber of infants who may be kept in any dwelling.

The second part of the Ac: is concerned with the various forms of cruelty and neylect. Every year the deaths fiom overlaying in bed reach a total of about 1,600 and those from unguarded fires In both these cases the Act imposes a pen-

about the same number.

alty against the parent or other Where a child under seven loses its life or suffers

adult responsible.

injury by fire, and there has been no fieguard protection, a tine ot $10 may be inflicted,

The growioy evil of juvenile smoking is dealt with in Part 3 of the Act. The vendor to a boy or girl, apparently under

who se I»

whether for will be liable the case of a first offence to a fine not exceeding ‘£2, in thd case of a second offence to a fine not exceed- ing £5, and in the case of a third or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding £10.

or cigarette papers, their own use or pot, on summary conviction, in

LACOMBE, jaativamiy MAY 6, 1900

modern civilization that one of the fjuvenile offend: rs. rf.

whieté'a person undertakes fOr re- Tes | certuin cases 1s"iine* the

ward the nursing and maintenance | °F guardian of the child in trouble

Moreover, constables and park-|of Agriculture. keepers are charged with the duty |aual event.

‘jot seizing cigurettes or cigaretie

papers in the possession of any

this presefit age a memorable one person under sixteen whom they hasbeen ithe discovery of thejmay find smoking in a street or child. Throdghout the civilised |public place. world the continually failing birth} {tis quite possible to imagine de- rate has roused statesmen to! {fant juveniles giving the police consideration of how the waste al and other guardians of their mor- child life may be prevented, but als no ‘end of trouble, and an

In this connection

apart from that an interest hag|@™Musing picture to this effect was been aroused ‘in children as chil} drawn by Mr. Balfour when the Associations for. the prot| smoking clauses were under dis- tection of children have long exiat-| cussion in the House of Commons.

Automatic machines, for the sale of cigarettes, if shown to be’ ex- tensively used by children, are to be subject to an order of removal.

Parts four and tive of the Act consolidate the laws relating to in- dustrial schools, and make import- ant innovations in the treatment of Their provi- sions aim at the abolition of im-

prisonment for children and the],

complete separation of the juvenile adult There are to be special

misdemeanant from the

criminal.

We make no apol-/courts for children, which, in New-

castle will be held on Wednesdays; and the police are to prevent as far as practicable, a child or voung person while being detained in a police station from associating with an adult charged with an of- fence. Special places of detention are aiso to be provided for juve- niles who are on remand.

Power is given under the Act

and the larger and improved use of industrial schools in liet of pris- on is ‘arranged for. The imprison- ment of youny people is permitted only in the most unruly cases. There are strict clauses against children being allowed in places of ill-repute, and their presence in the bars of licensed premises is

also prohibited. “If any person

” says one Clause, “or Causes

gives, to be given to a child under the age of five any intoxicating liquor except upon the order of a duly qualified medical: practitioner, or in case of sickness, or apprehend- ed sickness, or other urpent cause he shall on summary conviction be liable to a tine not exceeding £5.” Then it is provided that the holder of a licence shall not allow a child under 14 to be at any time in the premises, except during the hours of closing; and another im- portant clause reads:

“If the holder of a licence acts in cgntravention of this section, or if any person causes, or procures, or attempts to cause (r procure, any child to go to or to be in the bar of any licensed premises, ex- cept during the hours of closing,

he shall be lable, on summary

the age of sixteen, any cigarettes conviction, to a fine not exceeding

in respect of the first offence, forty shillings, and in respect of any subsequent oticace, £5”

June 2 is the date set for the big stock sale at Lacombe, The sale will be held under the auspices of the Alberta Cattle Breeder's Asso- ciation and the Alberta Department It is to be an an-

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Notice the dainty embroidered fronts with just the right amount of fullness, and the fashionable long sleeves in connection with the excellent materials and you will be surprised at the moderate prices.

New tailor made styles in White Lawns and

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Flour is Sure to Go Higher Buy Now

Lay in a supply of Flour while the price is reasona- ble. Wheat has risen to highest point in years. Millers will be compelled to raise their prices in very

‘near fature. We were fortunate in having several ~ care of Five Roses, Purity and Harvest Queen Flour ' contracted at the old prices. BUY NOW.

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Special Prices in Large Quautities.

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STORES

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H. THORNTON BOLT

Auctioneer, Commission Agent. nancial Broker.

Stockmen: A BUNCH OF DEAD HORSES

Were All Insured and Paid for by British American Live Stock epncarrent" Limited,

To Whom it May Concern:

This is to certify that we have this date received a cheque for $1340.00 from the British American Live Stock Asso ciation, Limited, of Vancouver, B C., in payment for the loss of ten horses in- sured with them,

Yours very truly, (Bigoature) M. JANSE, Per (Sgd.) B. C, JANBE.

Dated at Lethbridge, Alta., this 12th day of April, 1900.

Live Stock Salesman and

Insurance and Fi-

Lands Bought and Sold.

This Concerns Your Pocket!

Valuable Stallion Died.

To Whom it May Coocern:—This is to certify that, on February 10th, our Clydesdale stallion “Chartesfield Chief” was sick with inflamwation of the bowels and died about ten o'clock the next day.

That we carried a policy of insurance op him with The British American Live Stock Association Limited of Vancou- ver, B. C.

That our “Proof of Loss” was comi- pleted and mailed to them on February 19th, and that we have on this day re ceived their check dated February 23rd, for One Thousand Dollars, the full amount of our claim.

Dated at Lethbridge this 2nd day of March, 1909. 7

(Sed.) WM, A, & BH. C. OTT. Witness (Sgd.) W. C. 81MMONBS,

A Square Deal and Quick Action Every Time!

I represent the only Company io Canada that insures all kinds of live stock, whetber registered or common, and issues a policy that covers

death from any cause.

A word to the wise is enough.

Fix that iosurance right away, To-

morrow may be too late, and you are $1,000 in the bole,

Write, phone or call,

Over Government-Tele phone Office,

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Phone 100. Nanton Street, Lacombe

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He had Tescued her like a hero to leave her that way, and for

‘a tot of wretched cattle—it was too provoking!

“Do any of you know that man?” asked Mr. Renwyck.

“Ain't never seed him afore,” their guide. . he says, though, be sure biz,” said another. “The

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the girl, “it certainly I wish | knew his name.” f find it fer ye, miss,” said ° the guide, “although ‘tain’t jest: the “thing to ax a gent’s name out here. ‘The boys gener’ly don’t use their own mames on a range. They've frequently reasons for not mentionin’ of ‘em. it, wotever his name is, he’s a man, right.”

“He is, indeed,” said Miss Renwyck, and then she promptly collapsed a sec- ond time, .

CHAPTER III.

CHARD WILLIAMS, a young man of twenty-four, a gradu- ate of the University, of Tex- as, had spent the two years

since he had won his sheepskin on a rangé of his own, which had come to him through his mother. Foolish dif- ferences had arisen between him and his father, in which the young man ‘ ‘was generally in the wrong. A recon-

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cifiation had been effected, however, a |

short time before the arrival of Mr. Renwyck, and Richard had combined his cattle with some of his father’s. It was this ly ended the life of Miss Renwyck. The day after the departure of Ja- cob Renwyck and the young lady Rich- ard Williams had saved in so daring and romantic a manner the young man ‘was summoned to the ranch by a mes- sage from bis father. ing that it was war to the knife between bim and his former partner, the Texan laid his plans to bring to his feet the

echemers of New York. It was the)

west against the east, and no mercy was to be shown on either side.

Richard’s experience had been on the |

practical side of the business. He was his father’s son, however, and Bill Wil- liams had every confidence that he

could be safely intrusted to look after |

his father’s interests in New York. He explained the details of his operations carefully to the boy, provided him ‘with the necessary credentials and told him to hustle east and get in com- maunication with a firm'of brokers with whom his father already had dealt, who were to advise with Richard with regard to whatever action was re- quired.

Of course the young man learned the details of the quarrel between the two partners, apd a few questions put him in possession of the name and address of the girl who had made so deep an impression upon him. With unusual discretion, be said nothing whatever to his father about the adventure. Such things do happen outside of beoks, and Richard was thoroughly in Jove with the girl whom for one brief mjpoment be had beld in his arms. He was more than willing, therefore, to earry out bis father’s wishes. pursuit of the old man’s business he was determined that he would find time in some way, ip spite of the rup- ture, to further bis own affairs. The mere fact that enmity bad given a place to friendship and that there wa) open warfare between the two houses added zest to bis love affair. He bad cut her out from a herd of steers, and he had faith that he could wip ber from the Wall street “bunch,” as he phrased it, or from any other group of men who, if they had his appreciation of a good thing. would surely be stam. peding in her direction whenever she appeared.

Ip due season, therefore, Richard Williams arrived in New York, where he settled himself comfortably at the St. Regis. Preliminary to entrance on his financial campaign, and especially in the hope of waking himself out- wardly more fit for his role of a pas- sionate pilgrim, be discarded bis San Antonio clothing, including his soft felt hat of sombrero-like dimensions, for an outhit so completely up to date that his best friends on the range would not have recognized bim and then plunged into the buginess which bad brought him sorth. He presented himself at the offices of Messrs. Benton & Cart- ‘well, in Wali street, where the prepara- tory details looking toward the fipal adjustment of his father's complicat- ed interests» with Mr. Reawyck were put ip train for settlement with amaz- ing celerity. Where ip Teves desks

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erick in record . Mr. Benton gave him « hurried smile hurried hand. “The—er—culf iw into beef, | trust. Honored

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exception of the sale of ane inrge

batch of m bonds, which conid not be for at least a month

upon one subject—picking up the trail, Bo to fpeak, of Miss Harriet Renwyck. It was an easy task, for the “sign” was good and plenty, as a cowboy would bave phrased it. He easily lo- cated the offices of old Jacob Renwyck on Broad street and learned without difficulty that the family were at pres. ent occupying their country place near Irvington-on-the-Hudson, . But this knowledge, after all, was of little value. He could not present himself as the son of William Williams for obvious reasons, He smiled as he pic- tured his father’s apoplectic rage at such a proceeding and ceased to smile at the fancy of his visiting card in the hands of the tartar, Jacob Renwyck. He made a fiying trip to Irvington and walked around the. extensive grounds several times in the hope of catching a glimpse of his divinity, but failed, even from the vantage point of

He leaped for his Ufe to the sidewalk. the surrounding wall, to discover a single inmate, with the exception of a groom exercising a horse and riding with a curious up and down English motion that nearly turned the Texan's stomach. He returned to New York despondent, but with a mental picture of the home in which she dwelt. which was like a crumb of consolation. He grew the more restiess and unhappy on that account. He did not want crumbs; be craved the whole loaf.

He visited the theaterg and the op era, but his thoughts were not with the painted puppets of bygone days. Throughout the mimic tragedies—he was in no mood for comedy—he saw a more stirring scene: A piebald bron- cho, quivering between bis knees as it tore through a bunch of plunging steers, a weigbt in bis arms and a limp bead hanging backward, a cheek that bad brushed his own. With her a ten ¢eut show would be a beavenly enter- tainment; without ber “Gotterdammer- ung” was just a noise. (thers not in love have thought the same.

He spent his time in wandering aim- lessly about, making and rejecting one idiotic plan after another. He was en- Urely unknown in the city, lonely, mis- erable and as far from weeting the ob- ject of bis affection as though he were back again in the Lone Star State.

Ou the morning of the fifth day of his suspense while crossing upper Fifth avenue he was nearly run down by a coffee colored touriug car which recklessly swung around a corner, skidding as it took the turn. He leap- ed for his life to the sidewalk, turned and was about to express a candid opinion of the driver when bis sulphur- Ous salutation was exchanged for one of surprise and pieasure. ‘The offend- ing automobile bad come to a stop, and in its solitary occupant Richard recog- nized-a friend of former days, one George Henry Fitz-Clarence de Courcy Howard, earl of Croyland.

This genotieman had speot several

} months with Richard op the rapeb to

Texas, and, while the two men had few tastes in common, still a friend- ship knit upon the boyndiess plains is usually more lasting than one cootract- ed in the whirl and rusb of city life. lo geperai appedrauce the two were bot unlike, both bionds, rather tall and marked witb the braudinxg iron of vig- orous manbood, although Ricuaru was the younger, tbe fresber uud the more virile. The earl baud been in America for perbaps a year, seekiug Ly vurious schemes to rehabilitate av \mpoverisb- ed estate and io all bis undertakings meeting with indiffereut success. He had become the sole owner of a “salt- ed” wine in Colorado; be bad recouped in Birmingbam reali eState, only to “drop bis pile” again lo lexas cattle.

gad!” Lord Cro¥iand sigygested « spin

Jin his motor, and Ridhard, who had

nothing but lefeure on his hands and was giad of any break in the dull mo hotony, accepted with alacrity. The motor was a four cylinder Layton, with a vicious back fire and a hoarse, wet cough, which would have warned ab expert to look after his igniter and relieve the of] vent. The auto car was rented, and, besides, machinery was a detail to be looked after in the garage; therefore the driver hiccougbed up Riv- erside drive with a charming disregard for signs and omens,

The Englishman talked, and the Tex- an listened, thopgh he adroitly kept the conversation in a social vein on the chance of finding some opening for an attack on Irvington, In this he was not disappointed. The earl had #e- cured letters of introduction to Jacob Renwyck,.but on calling at the Broad street offices bad found the gentleman, absent. He left his letters, together with a note of regret, and had prompt- ly. received a cordial invitation to join a small honse party in the home of the Renwycks on the Hudson. He had accepted and Intended to go there on ‘the following day, where his valet would join bim, bringing his luggage \ from Washington.

Richard's heart rose and rejoiced. Here was a possible chance to meet Miss Renwyck, yet he must proceed with caution.

“Renwyck,” he said thoughtfully. “Seems to me I’ve heard that uanie. Well off?”

The earl became so eloquent on that subject that his companion's suspicions were at once aroused, and more 80 as the Englishman's attention was riv- eted upon an income rather than bis steering gear.

“Any daughters in the family?” ask- ed the Texan carelessly.

“One. Aw-—quite passable, I under stand.”

Richard agreed with him, but did not think it necessary to mention the fact.* >

“Did you ever meet the lady?”

“No, old chap.”

“Nor any of the family?’

“Never. I am—ab—not so keen, how- ever, on Miss Renwyck’s—er—relatives, don’t you kaow,!!.diumiledbis lordship in his most blase and superior manner.

The Texan’s white teeth closed with an angry snap. He could not bear his friend in that pose, but he put a curb op his tongue.

“Look here, Croyland,” he asked as indifferently as he could, “do you mean to tell me that yoy are going to Ir- vington tomorrow with the avowed in- tention of making love to a lady you have never seen?”

“Call it prospecting,” laughed ‘the Englishman. “It’s a fair game, isn't it?”

“No, it isn't,” snapped the Texan, falling into the vernacular of the plains. “It’s-a dingy deal witb a cold deck. Where does the girl come in?”

“Coronet,” drawled the noble earl, “and not such a bad sort under it, If she is satisfied, | am, I'm sure,”

“Birthright, mess of pottage and a pig in a poke,” suggested Richard rather warmly. “But what of you? Why, great Scott, man, you’ve never seen her! She may be humpbacked— hideous!” ‘ :

“My dear old chap,” said the earl, with a dry, indulgent smile, “you will learn some day that a Bradstreet re- port covers a muylititude of freckles. By Jove, I've even known ‘it to con- done a bump!”

Here the conversation stopped sad- denly. The machine had done the same. They were far out on the Westchester road in the vicinity of New Rochelle, with nothing in sight but a. farmer’s truck wagon approaching from an op- posite direction, with a big yellow dog trotting beside the wheel.

The earl drawled something about it being “most extrawd’n'ry” and began to manipulate the various levers, but without results. Clearly he was un- familiar with the vagaries of this par- ticular brand of motor. He descended from the car and turned bis engine over, being rewarded by a clattering roar which caused bim to leap back into bis seat again. He released his brake and inadyertently threw his weight upon the speed controller, The machine arose and rejoiced as a strong Map going to battle

As Mr. Richard Williams afterward described it, “the thing first bucked and then bolted for nowhere in partic- ular. It attepded to the yellow dog Orst, then ate up the farmer’s wagon, turned over on its back ayd kicked up its heels, bollering like a calf under the branding iron.”

TLe graphic his‘orian found bimseif sailing gracefully over a barbed wire fence until he alighted in a soft field, where be plowed up considerable earth, but sustained no serious injury. The Earl of Croyland had fared. worse. In bis headlong plunge he bad struck

4 fence post, wrenching one leg badly }

and fracturing bis right collar bone. The irate farmer arose from the dust with a bleeding nose and immediately put lu a claim for damages, not only for bis wagon and bis valuable dog, but for loss of time and the greater pertion of his costume. Nothing seemed to have happened to his vocab- Vlary, it was aoticed.

NILE’S VALUE TO EGYPT.

Why It ts Necessary Fer Great Bri- ‘tain to Hold thé Soudan,

In his note on the budget for 1009 Se gary financial adviser to the an Government, says: — Phe year 1908 has Bry, oe & per- iod of economic prosperity for Egypt. Nevertheless the economic ‘situation is,,in fact, essentially sounder how than it has, been for sorne years past: The complaints which are heard are due in a measure to a comparison of the présent situation with times of abnormal and morbid commercial

activity.

“The portion of the expenditure which has incurred the severest criti- cism is that which has been devoted to the Soudan. The criticism is, how- ever, besed on.an incomplete under-’ standing of a large political and evo- nomic — problem, he. essence of

Nile. The diminution of this supply, particularly in the critical summer months, would involve..an incaleul: able loss to Egypt. But this: would ‘at once result, if the ‘Nile water were di- verted, as it very well might be, to. the irrigation of the Soudan. It is to

maintain the supply cero ad ite} olds yudan, |

source that Egy Unfortunately, the Soudan is not to) be held ,without sacrifice: ‘A. -vast. country, ‘almost entirely ‘undeveloped, without communication, largélyocou- pied by uhruly tribés, needs expt

axpendis |

ture on its “administration éonsider- ably in excess of its annual. revenue. “To remedy’ this situation tworob- jects must be puratied,.: ment of the country’s ¥ intérnal security. For boty these pur- poses capital expenditu ‘ne sary. The soundness of this po been proved by, the growth in eight years of the audan e £E.187,500 to £E.1,000.000, & duction last year of the f aay subsidy from £E.253,000 to.

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MASTERS IN CON Pedagegue Caused a Sensation By Showing Ignorance of Scholars.

er great English public schools met.in con ference, and proceeded to tell each other how they believed the’ yenns idea should be taught to shoot. le headmaster of Birmingham caused shiidders: of horror to run down the small of all the agogic backs telling how he had discovered a “Uni- versity scholar’ who actually didn’t know that the stars shifted of nights, but’ thought they just yed where. they had been put to tWinkle. .The whole house of heads saw that the on- ly thing to do was to applatid wildly, which they did. And the Birmingham man, thus stimulated, worked himself | to the strong language pitch, He said that the condition of t university scholar could: be characterized only as one of “‘crass,.impenetrable; and swin- igh _ignorance” — and again all the héads roared applause, All bat ‘one. A headmaster 0: wi x4 school rose, unafraid, and said, .“‘T have never lis- tened ta such unmitigated. rubbish !”’. Then he showed the great heads gath. ered ether in council that, ea seve ge of the vilenth sine’ s stars was a very. pleasant 1 Mh man might still hove a very “fine cul- | ture. without knowing anything ‘be- | yond the nu rhyme lore that they - twinkled, twinkled, and wete -wonder- ful. He went, on to explain that all our modern science was good, but not essential to the dee phemeety ; men had lived very well, and thought very. highly, for some thousands of years

out knowing anything at all about these mysteries of naturé. In the end, ihe masters seemed to be of his opin- ion.

The Force Accounted For. “Where's the editor?” ‘ *Bunnin’ a race with the sheriff to git warm.”

“And the foreman?”

“Tryin’ to git the stove red hot witb rejected poetry.”

“Well, where’s the office boy?”

“Tryin’ to mortgage the paper to buy a snow shovel.”—Atlanta Constitution.

Always Forget. “I am in favor of the ‘open door’ policy,” said the starch salesman as he opened bis samples, ,

“Then, by heck, yeou are like those ,

loafers behind the cannon stove,” drawied the old storekeeper. “Every one of them leave the door open every time they come in.”—Chicago News,

Never Could Catch ‘Em.

“Yes.” said Miss Passay. “! discov- ered a burglar in our parior last night.”

“My gracious!” “Did you faint?”

“No; | tried to catch him, but”—

“Ah, your usual luck with men, eb?’ ~—Philadelphia Press.

put in Miss Pert.

F The Objection. “Nearly everybody makes mistakes at some time or another,” said the phil-

person, “Yes.” answered Miss Cayenne; “you |

can forgive anybody for making mis- takes if he isn't so egotistic as to in- sist on your admiring them.”--Wasb- ing Star,

‘forceps well u

t's prosperity is the water of the |’

er AN eae pointjs thas,

| it in Such. perfection. We

most.

draw a.

modern” dentist draw the tooth he has-a pa c s for a par- fictiiar tooth, and. a cruel bearted and

When you brace yourself in the iron chair and take a tight grip onthe arms of it and make up your mind you'll try to stand ft and he gets that r the gum snd—wait a minute; 1 feel. so kind 0° faint! Laws! Why didn't I mind my mother when shé told’ me hot to crack hick- ory nuts with my teeth? Well, any- way, you know he'll get the tovth out without doing more than take the whole top of your head off, and that ly in a figurative sense.

Wotle Doc had one implement that did for every tooth; big and : little front and back. It wagn't a forceps: it Was & turnkey. “The. réal old folks know shat that is and will say so ay the cold chil ah se over them. But_you’ye never seen one, an@ many a man that, you would ‘call olf has never seen one. It's something like a canthook. .The loosely. riveted piece that curves slips over the tooth and catches on the insifle; the solid cam bears on the ottside gum; the opepator turns the Handle. Let's not! talk about it. Something has got to give. Maybe the pest yh come out; maybe it will

the jaw will frac:

ire dentine om

©, opérator twista the

tiandle something lias got to give, and

that’s, all. there is “about it—Kugene Wood tn Saécess Magazine. Neat oy ESN

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‘Telling Retort of the Lamblike, Violet iy Eyed Pid

{> Whereis a certain young woman who' ip eiful,. with that childish, wistful,

innocent, looking,” violet eyed beauty

é ually, as- sociate it with a lamblike, “appealing iientality that* permits itself "to be rid- den upon+as soon expect a wood violet to turm and rend you. s

A short time. ago she was’ asked to a. woman'g~ftuncheon’ and herself up occasion in a y that t of,her efforts a thing not easily.forgotten, She arrived look- ing 59: lov among, the guests for a few moments after Het entry into the room, Perhaps slie felt the silence. At all events, she turned to the woman standing nearest her anf said in a childish voice, with ever such a little lisp and pretty south ern rk ;

“How well yo’ are lookin’ today!”

It was-a well meant civility’ from a young woman to an ‘older one, who seemingly was unable to uccept it as such 2nd put up her forgnette, sweep- ing, the speaker from top to 'toe. What she saw was enough to disconcert a younger and prettier woman than her- self, but even soore finds it difficult to justify her next move, —

“Wish 1 conld say the’ same for you,” She returned, closing ber lorguette with a snap.

One or \two, of the guests were friends of the pretty woman and al- breathing «in. order. not to miss what they felt sure would come—and it came... The pretty one raised ber eyebrows slightly, theo said, with an air of gentle reproach:

“Why don't yo’ lie like a lady, like I do?"—Reboboth Sunday Herald.

What tle Needed.”

A sovereign would tempt. many men, and when Plimkins, making a few pur- chases at the stores, saw one lying on the floor just by the eounter he quiv- ered with excitement.

Glancing around to reassure bimeelf that none was looking, he quite acct- dentally @ropped ove of his kid gloves neatly on the coin an@ then dived. He got the glove all right, but still the sov- ereign remained. }

A shopwalker approached bim.

“Good morning, sir,” said the man, rabbing his hands. together in the ap- proved style, “and may | show you a bottle of r celebrated liquid glue, which gticks”—

—London Mail.

The Cellar Stairs.

A man who ence bad a bad-fall when going down bis cellar stairs now has @ broad strip of white painted en the floor at the end of the last step, This is easily seen, even if the cellar be dark, and many a nasty accident is avoided.

plece of white ollcleth cap be tacked to the floor at the foot of the stairs: See that the tacking 48 securely done or a worse fall may follow than from a oiisgauged step.—Philadelphia Presa;

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Dodged. - “I got my wife through advertising,” “Tage you'll admit that advertising

pays

“I'l admit that it brings ye Was the cautions reply. — Courter-J ournal,

No man can be provident of his time who {is not prodent in the choice of company.—Jeremy Taylor, ~

ely that there. was little said

If the bouse ls rented and » you do not like to paint the boards a_

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ry ° . n . af i, ee carer pr Venice tell ¢ of the h cen- poe sinister dooce, arFivae io the ett.

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her. Though far temoved from him in station, his blind passion took no count of this fact, and he determined to sue for ber hand...

There proved to be, however, a more insuperable. obstacle»to his suit. The girl was already bettothed, to another, & young nobleman of almost equal tank and fortune. The knowledge did not deter Tebaldo, who boldly present- ‘ed himself before the girl's parents in the capacity of a suitor for her hand. As. might have been expected, he met with a curt and unceremonious rebuff.

. The repulse rankled in‘his mind, En- Faged beyond measure, he shut himself up in his own house and there secretly studied" a means of revenge. Pro- 'foundly skilled in the mechanical arts, he allowed himself no rest until he had invented a most formidable abd death dealing Weapon, This*waaga large key, the handle of which was so constrict- ed that t¢ could. be. turned at. will. When it was thus ares a sectet spring ged, which, on. being’ pressed, ladhched from the key head’ a fine needle or lancet. ~The latter was ‘of such delicate construction that it penetrated the body of ‘the victim and buriéd itself deep in the fesh without Jeaving any external trace. ¢

The marriage of the betrothed cou ple was fixed to take /p' in. the prin- cipal churéh jin Venice >on a certain day... Before thé. ceremony. Tebaldo, cunningly disguised, stationed himself at the chureh dour armed» with his. dia-

‘polical. weapon... As ‘the bridegroont

was ‘about, -to enter the building ‘the concealed watcher pressed the spring

| and gent the deadly steel lancet into

the breast of bis victim. The young roblemat; had no,,euspicion ‘of injury at the moment; In the midst of the ceremony, however, he was seized with a sharp spasm of pain and sank fainting on the steps of the altar. He ‘was hurriedly conveyed to. his: home, where the, leading Venice physicians were summoned to Attend him. Ip spite, of their unremitting efforts he sank and died, nor\were they able to discover the nature of the mysterious and fatal seizure. : {With the removal of his rival, Te- balddé once more presented himself :be- fore the girl's parents and renewed request for bef band... Their refusal to listen to him sealed their doom, In what manner b* accomplished it is not ‘known, but within a few days both had been done to death in the den and mysterious fashion. The exalted rank of the victims cre- nto“ 9 profound sensation, and when, ul Gamination of the bodies. a fine stee! instrument was found’ in the flesh terror became universal, ‘The cit- izehs feared for their lives. ‘The ut- most: vigilance ‘was exercised on at

part of the authorities, but as yet no’

suspicion fell upon Tebaldo.

The bereaved. girl retired to a -con- vent, where she passed'the firat mothe of mourning in sorrowful seclusion. Tebaldo, however, sought .her out, in her retreat and begged to speak to ber through the grating. ‘ :

His dark, evil face had always been displeasing to her, but since the deattr of ber betrothed and parents {t had be- come repulsive, When, therefore./’ the course of the interview he p her to fy with him he met with an in- stant and indignant refusal. Her scoru stung him to the quick; Beside bim- self with rage, be brought his ly weapon onc@ more into play and suc- eeeded in wounding the girl through the grating, the obscurity of the place preventing bis action from ‘being ot¥ served.

On her return-to ber room the :girt felt.a sharp paio in her breast, Exami- nation of the spot showed that it was dotted with a single drop of blood. Physicians were hastily summoned. Taught by past experience, they wast- ed no time in valy conjecture, but cut into the flesh and extracted the slen- der steel, thus saving the girl's life.

The dastardly attempt occasioned « public outcry, The visit of Tebaldo to the cofivent became known and caused suspicion to turn upon him, The er-

Podge of the law descertied suddenly him, bis houge was searclied, an? there the abominable invention was

Giscovered. Swift justice and he ended bis days upon the fold, : k a

sena! at Venice—Chambers’ Journal

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Lovers! Quarrel, == * Nell—A lovers’ quarrel always re- ‘minds me of a crazy quilt’ Belle— How's that? Nell—Always patched up. BERS vod , 4 ee _£ Fortupe ts ever seen accompanying . tedastey.—Goldsmith. 5 Raat.

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* Too Bad Mr. Kallow—Yaas, I made up my mind I would never marry until I had found the right girl—and you’re that irl. Miss Bright—How provoking, you’ré the wrong. man.

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Bhe—Is it true that Miss Blank is | going to marry the prince?” He—“‘Er—well, they have issued a } denial of the story which contradicted

‘the report as to thé falsity of the “| ~ rumor that the account was untrue.-- Brooklyn Life. *

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in.the Belfast Academi- cal Institution, At the age of .15 he was apprenticed to the firm of Har- land and -Wolff, which even then was coming “into prominenté,.” Lord Pir- rie became a:partner in the firm and » fo be head of the great

for himself’ and -his. ships, he has been the preatest..benefactor that Bel: fast and Ulater: ever had. The sub- utb of Ballymacarrett, which thirty thirty years ago had a population of only & few thousands, housed most wretchedly amid i itary’ surround. ings; ‘Can now c nearly 100,000, and no small part of. that: increase is due to the employment gives by Messrs. Harland and Wolff. Th wages paid by the firm amount to about £20,000 weekly, and frem pres- ent indications éven that sum will soon be exceeded. -On an average 10,000 ‘hands are employed in ‘the works, and the tmumber sometimes risés to 12,000. It is needless td. say that the same enterprise . which marks his shipbuilding.is displayed in: the engineering works which have been’ added, and which are models in managefnent and equipment, and in the readiness with which they can be utilized for all purposes and all emergencies. In addition to their contracts for the mercantile’ marine in all parts of the world, Lord Pirrie’s firm have done extensive engineering work forsthe navy.

Of late years Lord Pirrie has -‘differ- ed in politics from the majority, of

| his fellow-citizens,, but this cireum-

stance has not altered their apprecia- tion of bis services. He owes nota little of -his social success to Lady Pitrie, whom he married in 1879. During’* the two years in which he was. Lord Mayor of Belfast~years which weré characterized by. ifi-

cent. hospitality—she discharged the.

ba of. her -position.in a manner which won the reapect of all the citi- zens. It was-dvring his’ Lord Mayor- alty that the Victoria Hospital was established and erdowed in Belfast, and the success of the scheme was iff

| great measure owing to the energy, philanthropy. and popularity of Lady.

Pirrie. » Lord ie was also high sheriff ef Down for one year, and high sheriff of Antrim for another, .so that;not’only the city of Belfest, but the ‘two counties in which it is situ- ated. did him honor. Belfast further testified its admiration of his charac- ter by making him its first honorary freeman. |

Delane’s Fastidious Taste.

A characteristic of the famous edi- tor of The London Times was the ex- traordinary thoroughness of*his edi- torial revision. He watched with the utmost; care not merely the’ substance and-the general sepa of an/arti- cle, but every detait of expression. He could correct commas at 3.30 a.m and would write one of his brilliant notes at that hour to warn a writer against an incorrect expression. I re- member his once writing to me at that hour to protest against my using the word “action” to descri an ‘act. “Action,’”’ he said, “is properly used only of a military action or an action at law.” I thin the authority. of the Scriptural expres- sion: ‘The Lord ik a of knowl edge, and by Him actions are weigh- ed”; but the vigilance which could insigt ‘on such a point in the heat and haste of editing illustrates the inde- fatiable éonscientiousness of his work. ~The Dean of Canterbury in The OCornbill. *

t Human Salamander.

There has been much excitement at Mangrol, in Kathiwar, where a Mohammedan Punjabi has walked through a burning pit and had coals at. white heat thrown on his head without being hurt, apparently. The Punjabi gave his exhibition on the grounds of the Sheik Sahib’s palace.

| A. ie wag dug under his direction an wi

300 pounds of fire-

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ablaze the heat was éo great that it drove back bystanders, but the “saint” walked down into the pit and walked through it several times, He conducted two of the Bheik Sahib’s

y rae burns or other injuries, It

ed that the villagers in the will shortly the Punjabi.

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Mr. P. G. Wells, of 338 Ogden street, Fort William, Ont., says:—‘‘Following my: duties in attending. to passenger trains I often get wet through with rain and steam (the latter in winter). This with hours of duty in icehouses in summer was no doubt the cause of my contracting rheumatism in both knees, left arm-and shoulder. This got so bad that I could no longer work, and was laid off on three dif- ferent occasions for several weeks, during which I was under the treat- ment of my- doctor...I seemed to get little if any better, no matter what I

tried, and this was my state when Zam-Buk was récommended to me. I

e| laid in a supply, and to my great jov

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Zam-Buk is also a sure cure for ec- zema, ring-worm, ulcers, abscesses piles, bad leg, suppurating wounds, cuts, burns, bruises, chapped hands, cold cracks, and all skin injuries and diseases. All druggists and’ stores sell at 50c. per box, or post free from Zam-Buk Co., Toronto, upon receipt of price. -

He Embraced It Freshman—“When I get interested in a’subject, I don’t stop, till I have embraced it thoroughly.” College Widow—‘‘How perfectly de- lightful! Do you consider that I am an interesting subject’?’—Judge.

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On seeing a child of three run overt at Malaga by a tramcar the parents and neighbors fired shots and threw stones at the car. ‘They then ‘‘z- molished it, filled it with straw, «wud set it on fire.

Repeat it:—" Shiloh’s Cure will al- ‘Ways cure my coughs and colds.’’

Editor—Have you. ever done work on a newspaper?

Applicant for Position—Yes, sir; for nearly six months I contributed to a column in’our home paper under en of “For the Uplift of Man-

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. Wanted to Warn Him.

Sir Algernon West tells this story ta his “Recollections:” One day the late

George Campbell, who bad a very strident, lond, rasping voice. called on Sir Algernon, whé was then secretary to Mr. Gladstone, to-talk over the land question.

After. he had been in conversation about three minutes the office keeper appeared, .bearing the card of an M. P, who, he paid, was very anxious to see Bir Algernon, The latter snid he was sorry ‘to be engaged. In another min- tte he appeared with the card of a well known peer who was most de- efrous to have a word with him. Again the latter said he was too trisy to see tim just then, In another minute the man again came in with a buge card saying the lord mayor and sheriffs of London wanted to speak to Sir, Alger- non West very urgently in the next room,

Bir Algernon apologized to Sir George and went out to such great dignitaries, When he got out of the room the office keeper startied him by saying, “There ain't nobody bere, sir, but I was afraid & madman haG been shown in to you by mistake, and I wanted to warn you, at»

Scottish Marriage Custom.

Many bed m. customs stilt survive In many old English and y notable tradi.

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Another eign of spring—the crows are perched in the bare and leafless treetops of the rural regions, waiting for the festive farmer to start plant- ing corn.

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The vistors in the historical mu- seum gazed curiously at ai small feather pillow which nestled in @ glass ease.

“T don’t see anything unusual about that pillow,’’ remarked one of the visitors, turning to the guide.

“Tt’s a very valuable pillow,’’ re- plied the guide. ‘‘That is Washing- ton’s original headquarters.’’—Lippin- cott’s.

“That ‘pretty girl wants a plase in your office. Can't we give her a ob?” '

“What can she do?”

“Well, she earned a prize in botanv, and she can make fine welsh rabbit and Battenberg _lace.”’—Clevelund Le ader.

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Bo gradually and stealthily does a cold is from ite simpler form of a cold in the head into inflammation of he bronchial tubes and then on to he lungs that many do not -ealize thetr condition until pneumonia is upon them. ;

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in a lawyer's office. Even in those days, however, it was a familiar re- mark amongst his fribnds that ‘Tom would go far,”” and he started by acquiring a good practice and being appotriea Junior Advocate Depute, an office, by the way, whieh for some reason is flippantly called “Boots.” Eight years later—in 1894—he was Solicitor-General for Scotland, and four years ago attained his present eminent position, The fact that Mr. Shaw likes nothing better, during his apare time, than to stand beside a stream with rod and line, has led to the joke that his finest catch was the £2,000,000 which he hooked from Mr. Carnegie for the Scottish Universities while on one of his fishing holidays. |

The Wavs of Women. Oh, women’s ways are strange, ‘tis true, And wooing is a wondrous thing! They lose a man when they pursue , And win him by surtendering!

Cuttivating the Power of Observation.

“iow many seed compartments -p there is an apple?” he asked. No one answered. “And yet,” continued the | school inspector, “all of you eat many an apple in the course of a year and | see the fruit every day probably. You must learn to notice the little things in | nature.” ‘

The talk of the inspector impressed the children, and at recess the teacher

overheard them discussing it. A little girl, getting her companions around her, gravely said:

“Now, children, just suppose “i am Mr. Robinson. You've got to know more about common things. If you don’t, you'll all grow up to be fools. Now, tell me, Maggie,” she continued, looking sternly at a playmate, “how many feathers are there on a hen?’— Woman's Home Companion.

Repeat it: —“Shiloh’s Cure will always cure my coughs and colds,” |

Crime

The pale, proud girl turns to the big, heavy-browed man, who is gaz- ing at her so intently. He has a glittering knife in his hand.

“Have you no heart?’”’ she asked in low, even tones.

No,” he telle her. e

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Rapidly ‘cutting “off the desired amount, the butcher wraps it up ‘ir her, gives her the change, and turns to wait on the next customer.

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An aeroplane experimenter was talking the other day to Thomas A Edison about the failures and disap- pointments of his experiments.

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“It’s a pity you haven’t enough,” said Mr. Edison, “to move your uero- plane.”—Washingtou Star.

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The cheapest thing to give is a kind word, and it is often worth more than gold.

Rivers was explaining the opera- tion of the new noiseless gun, as he understood it.

“It’s like this,” he said. “There’sa corrugated compartment called the ‘silencer,’ and the ‘pall’ of the gases in trying t. escane not only prevents all noise, but eliminates the recoil and the gun doesn’t kick.’”’

“There's nothing strange in that,” said Brooks. “If I had a pull I

wouldn’t kick either.”

. f 7 Wj i { f \ \4

ie sweating of ‘the: ‘contract fo we political purposes. ia

These illustrations serve to show} how the Treasury is looted. :

The Great Naval Crisis.

“The time has atrived when ev- ery member of the British family shall aid io dissipating any doubts as to Great. Britain’s title to be mistress of the seas, On the val- idity of that title the whole struc- ture of the Empire is founded.” — Toronto Globe,

The first intimation that all was

“Britain's ‘capacity for building hulls was considerably in excers ot Germaey’s} we were superior, in fegard to the manufacture of guns; the doubtfyl point was as.16, con- straction of gun mountings:

There were two extremes which would produce a conflict between Britain and Germany: ~ One) was an attempt of our part to isolate

. oor Sap ine te Se

abs den watt: inched

To what other we newspaper anywhere in Canada, whole hearted and genérous | been avcorded as may he found in the following examples of what ie id by press and people all over thé Domin- ion?

The “Witness” is a oowepanet al: which Canadians are justly proud, It publishes all the news fn the most straightforward way and ite readers are kept well in- formed. Moreover its readers dre leaders in their reepective communities, the “Witness”. appealing stronyly to’ thé people of character every where,

te. SOHOOLEY, Pabtixner.

Tuunspiy, May 6, 1900.

Looting the Treasury,

The methods of looting a gov- erhimedt treasury ate many. Mr. Foster raised a row a few days nyo by a’spetch in reference to the taking of money from the Public Treasury by a circuitous routé for purty purposes. No one denied» his assertions. All the premier said was that he dots not take public money for himself, and and that. personally, he does not touch it for party use. The gov- however, has. a large political fund’ upon which it draws, Where does the money come from? . Let us see. Charles Pat- ton, of Ottawa, wished to supply tire extinguishers to the .govern- ment. Before the order was giv- en him he had to sign the follow- ing contract:

Germany, and the other was the attempt by ay great continental power to dominate the. policy. of Between the two extremes there was a widg space in which the two nations could walk in friendship.

The followidg statements of fact’ are worthy the consideration of anyone of our readers,

“The ‘Witness’ exerts a most beneficial influence in the homes ahd hearts of our people.”—The Late Archbishop Bond, Primate of all Canada,

“The ‘Witness’ has manifested in an eminent degree the qualities of courage and sincerity,”—R. L. Borden, Leader of the Conservative party,

“The Montreal ‘Witness’ is never in- fluenced by mere party feelings.” —Chat- ham Commercial. °

“The Montreal ‘Witness’ nuosbers among its.clientele the most independent and thoughtful newspaper readers in Canada."— fd monton Bulletin,

“The Montreal ‘Witness’ stands for purity and honesty in government,” — The Hamilton Spectator.

“The Montréal ‘Witness’ is a newspa- per which is bold‘enough te be honest, and honest enough to be bold.’’—-Sarnia (Ont.) Observer.

“The Montreal ‘Witness’ was never better or more useful than it is today.” —Dominion Presbyterian.

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“The ‘Witness’ never fails to command respect for its fairness and impartiality.” —BSarnia Observer.

“The ‘Witness’ 1s the most impartial and independent newspaper in Canada.” —Charlotte, P. EB. I. District.

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: 5 the continent. not well with the British navy was

gained from th® speech of Mr. McKinna, first Lord of Admiral- ty, in‘ his statement on the naval

Our naval expenditure must be

estimates, He gravely announced

that Germany had accelerated her a peee oo Set neny sy eee shipbuilding for this year; that the 1908-9 program would be com. pleted in 1910 instead of ror1; and

that the collection of materials,

Germany’s was not dependent up- on ours, because it was essential ernment, we should not fall into a position Germany had “io- formed him that she would hot

of inferiority.

guns, etc. for four more ships had boa ae accelerate her naval program, and

en Begun for Ene 1909-10 Pro-| vould not have 13 dreadnaughts gram. . Such a momentous state-

re h _ until the end of 1912. Ment, coming from the minister aoe ? 8 When the division was taken a most concerned, created nu small . straight party vote gave the gov-

consternation. Public meetings

ernment a big majority. For 135. against 353, government majority

218.

; . . were held in the city of London “For and in consideration of $1 -

ithe uodersigned binds himself to ‘pay to C. S. Cameron the sum of

’ $2,000 in the following manner: $1,000 on receipt of an order from the Department of Marine and Fisheries for 500 of my Star Glass lined Chemical Fire Extinguishers and a further $1,000 three months after date of receipt’of such order, and pro rata thereof for any or- der.” .

After this contract had been signed Mr. Patton yot his order. He had to pay $2,400 out of the amount that was collected by him from the government.

Charles Strubbe, of Montreal, was yiven an order for $2,300 worth of files. His charge for the files was $4,786, but of this sum.he had to surrender $2,286 before Jeaving Ottawa. ° Here are two transactions from which $4,- 689 was collected.

A wholesale stationer in Toron- to received a small order for en- velopes. and supplied the goods. W hen it presented its bill a politi. cal worker proposed that the sum of $70 be added to the account, that the firm collect the money, and that the money be paid over to the politician at Ottawa. This “rake-oft” was not carried through

and elsewhere rating the govern- ment for their lackadasical hand-

Food for Thought.

“World Wide” is a publication ‘that will not interest the ignorant or the peo- ple who do not want to thiok, but those who wish to keep ir touch with great thinkers of the time in Great Britain and the United States will find it both ‘in- valuable and extremely entertaining. “World Wide” is unique. It is the only Canadian paper of ite kind and the. only paper of its kind in the world, to our knowledge, that gives such a wealth of strong and suggestive writing on, every subject for so small a subscription. price.

The peculiar mission of ‘World Wide” seems to be that of turning the full tide

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ling of the first line of defence. The Conservative parfy were not slow to show the gravity of the

situation and leave was asked to introduce a vote of censure upon

the government. The Imperial

House of Commons was face to face with a great issue.

It is pos- sible that history will show that the fate of the nation hung in the If the nation’s fate had been the concrete.issue the mem- bers of the House could not have listened with more wrapt ettentior to the arbiter than they did to the words that fell from the lips of Sir Edward Grey.

The House. was crowded to its

balance.

Right minded people will appreciate } such opinions and will pass thew to friends who may not bave seen them.

The Daily edition is $3.00 a year and the Weekly only $1.00. These rates are low, since it costs much more to produce a paper like the Winegs than it does to produce many of ita leading competitors. Character counts because it costs.

The Witness is published by John Don- gall & Son, Meotreal, and has now com- pleted its sixty-second year.

utmost capacity. The Peers were as eager as the, Commoners to hear the speech of the Foreign Minister, They jostled and crowd-

ed each other in their small gallery

and overflowed into the side gal-

lery. The nations of the world

were as eager as the subjects ot the King to hear the debate. The Austrian umbassador occupied a ‘prominent place. Next to him was Mr. Whitelaw Reid, the Am erican ambassador, sitting cheek by jowl with Viscount Kato ot Japan. the German naval attache, while rep-

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but it can be readily -understood|resentatives of Italy, Portugal,

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Mrs. Meadows, Optician, 131 Jasper W., Edmonton. _

that a number of such operations}|Sweden and Spain could be easily

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would swell the party fund mater-

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In this instance a contractor was|immediate provision of battleships

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SERIOUS DEPLETION IN FUNDS

HARD TIMES HARD ON THE POOR CONSUMPTIVE

Muskoka Free Hospital for Consump- tives Makes an Urgent Appeal for Money.

$25,000 Required to Cover Bank Overdraft and wouse for Maintenance of Poor Patients.

More Women CutThroats,

St. Petersburg, April 26—A band of women cut-throats, who for many months have been committing with im- pupity a series of murders, was discover- ed and arrested yesterday in the village of Kurchina, 30 wiles from St. Peters- burg.

The principa) culprits are a mother and her two daughters, who kept a tav- erp. Assisted by other wowen io the village they murdered travellers wh stopped at the ion for the night, disfix- ured the, bodies beyond recogoition and then tbrew them into a rapidly thowiog stream that ee near the ion.

These head-lines tell the story of our needs,

They are heavy and urgent.

Many times during the past twelve months the question has pressed itself upon the Trustees, ‘‘'Can we j continue the work further?” e

Every month brought its quota of accounts for salaries and wages of staff, bills of butcher, milkman, ergs, groceries, heavy coal bills— a serious item—and other uncon- trollable expenses so long as the doors were kept open.

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A recent Lonon dispatch says: In im- posing a tax on bachelors, the example set by the Bulgarian Sobranje may pos- sibly be followed hy the! chancellor of the exchequer in Eogland, not only asa means of additional revenue, but also ‘with a view to conciliating the suffrag- ettes. Such a tax existed in England trom May 1, 1695, to August 1, 1706, dur- iog which period every vowarried man had to pay an impost, graduated accord- ing to his station in life. This ranged from $63 in the case of dukes and ‘arch- hishops, down to 25 cents in the case of those scheduled | us‘ ‘other persons.”

These had to be paid somehow. Contributions — especially’ after the turn of the year when the finan- cial depression was felt at its keen- est—fell off to such an extent, that each month the burden became heavier.

During all this period there was only one thing to do, and that was to Jean on our banker—swelling the bank overdraft.

The trial was the severest -in the history of these Muskoka Homes, in which nearly 3,000 persons, stricken by the dread white plague, have been cared for.

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Daring Calgary Burglars. . Calgary, Alta, April 26,—During last eveniig’s beavy windstorm, wheo all good people were indoors, daring bur- glars carried away the safe from the store vf 5s. T. J. Turcottee, Sunnyside, the su; burb north of the city acd opened it with crowbers, The safe contained two hun- dred dollaré and valuable papers. A horse fo a stable wt the rear of the store was hitched toa rig to haul the safe a wile away. After opening the safe the

But never for a single hour did the doors of the Free Hospital fail to swing open, and give a welcome to suffering ones without money and without price.

The good news has gone forth of a rich harvest the wide Dominion over.

Friends, we come to you at this

time, when the clouds of depression are being lifted, asking that you jnow—in the direness of ‘our ex- tremity — help to lift the burden being carried—not for any personal gain, but solely, alone, only on behalf of suffering sisters and brothers.

Our plea is on behalf of the sick ones,

What will you give?

Do not say nay,

Help generously.

Help all you can.

Help some.

Help now.

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“Judge, you know well enough that

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“Neither do {, colonel. ing to build this one of concrete.’—- Chicago Record-Herald.

2 “SI aay, D’Orsay, have you heard that joke about. the guide in Rome who two skulls of St. Paul, one a hoy. ng Peony other as a man?”

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The Ninety and Nine

A certain minister was deeply im- pressed “by an address on the evils cf smoking given at a recent synod. He

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“Brother, this morning I received a t I have

present of 100 good cigars. smoked one of them, but now I’m go- ing home and burn the remainder in the fire.”’

The other minister arose and said it was his intention to accompany his reverehd brother. ;

“T"mean to rescue the 90 and 9,” he

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weakens the system but does not cary In the spring the systen

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We are s0- “VW showed some travellers

deah « boy—no—aw—let 1-e heah it.’’—Boston Tramsvript. 4

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though a man_of law, ently ia will stipulated that ried 18 feet — on je of the church, the

annum was set aside

r prayer boys,” each of whom receive 40¢. The task of the

to

“boys is not a light one. On morning of Feb. 2 have to bareheaded around the tomb,

recite trom memory the Lord’s Pray- et, the Ten Commandments, Apostles’ Creed, read the 1th chapter of the First Epistle to. the Corinthians, and then write from cictation in a legible oT verses from the same chap- r, Thé erdave beite on the north side, there is no shelter from the «biting wind, and marv a_ cormhpetitor—per- haps an expen, scholar—when numbed with the cold hra his discomfiture added to by contact with the cold mar- ble. Consequentl~ he blundets in-his recitation and fails to become a prize winner. Letely, however, a small tent has beén drawn erovnd the tomb to act as a wind-screen for the juveniles, and the reading rnd writing exercises are .condrcted in the schoolroom. Some of the bofs in the recent com- tition, almost stammering through he cold, were secretly rejoicing that it feM to their lot to repeat the short Commandments, but a moment later the judges were calling upon therh to show their proficiency in the knowl- edge.of the second and fourth, The “forty shilling:” is a cherished award in the little village. —

Singing Fish.

Fish always dumb? Not abit of it. Any number of them can make some kind of noise.

The common red gurnard of the British coasts, on being */ooked and hauled rudely out of the briny, will grunt loudly and indignantly, as a fisherman will *tell you. It is a strange croaking sort of. noise, suich as one might expect a young rook to make.

Then there is a fish called the but- terman—why, nobody knows—which is found off the Scotch coast-line. This fish, whjch is a fat and comfort- able looking beast about a foot long, as a rule, makes a distinct hooting noise from the back of his throat when landed in @ net or caught on 4 long line. A netful of these fish— though they are rather rare—is some- times caught, and when they are haul- ed in the chorus of sharp, siren-like hoots is very startling to a stranger to thegcoast.

But in Ceylon there is a shell-fish —s kind of mussel—which positively sings: ‘In still weather, when the water. has ¢bbed away from the mussel-béds for a few hours, these shell-fish can be heard producing a long. low fluting sound. How they do it.no one knows, but they certain-

singing, and as thev have no throats they must produce. the sound by some manipulation of their double shells. The sound is low and not at all un- pleasant. but rather sweet to the car on a still summer’s night.

Entombed Eight Days.

Twenty-four natives have been res- cued alive and well from the Wit watersrand gold mine, which was flooded by the outbursting of dams a few days ago.

The condition of the natives who have been rescued is wonderful, con- sidering their eight days’ entombing without food. P

The wives of Mr. Prout, the mana-

ger, Dr. Perkins, the. mine doctor, and Mr. Matthews, the mine cap- tain, accompanied their husbands

with the rescve party below.

It is believed that the constant sup- ply of compressed air saved the lives of those rescued.

The greatest efforts are still being made to effect the rescue of any men who may still be alive in the mine.

Explained to the Wrong Duchess. That distinguished stateman Lord John Russell once took the then Duchess of' Inverness into dinner. When Lord John got to his place, he suddenly left his ducal partner, and walked round to the other side of the table and sat down beside the Duchess of 8t. Albans. Lady Russell asked her husband afterwards: ‘“‘What on earth made you leave the Duchess of Inverness and go across to the Duchess of St. Albans?’ “Well,” re- lied Lord John Russell, “TI should ave been sick if I had sat where they had placed me, for the fire was lat my back.” “But I hope,” said | Lady Russell, “‘that you explained | this to the Duchess of Inverness?” “Oh, no, I didn’t,” replied her hus- band. “‘but I did to the Duchess of Bt. Albans !” bg

Madame Albani’s Gracious Act. The fact that Madame Emma Calve recently sang at the bedside of a doo- tor who was ill and had expressed a desire to hear her magnificent woice reealls a similar incident in the ca- reer of another famous prima donna, Madame Albani. Some years ago, when she was on a visit to Norwich, an old gentleman, who had formerly heard her sing “The Last’ Rose of Summer,” wrote to ask if he might hear it again just once more before he died. Although hy was a total stranger, Madame }bani, was 80 touched at his request that she went straight to the ide of the invalid «and cheered his last moments with her wonderful rendering of the beau- tiful song.

Novel Service In Memory of Milton. | Ata P. 8. A. service held at the Ful- ham (Eng.) Congregational Church re- cently in connection with the Milton tercentenary, a blind man read the lessons, a blind quartette sang to the accompaniment of a blind organist and a blind man ed the piano. The subject of the was; “John | Milton. the Blind Poet.”

ly make a quite distinct attempts at

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Fortune Eaten by Rats

Once a noted French beauty, she Countéss de la Premiere, was fouiid anconscious on Monday in a wretyi3/ room in the ancient city of wens When the policé, called by the neick- bors, who were alarmed at not sc eing the countess about as usual, ente...! the room they found her nearly 4 +1 from starvation, and also discs¥: ted that rats had destroyed a fortuna Uy gnawing up marty bank-notes anil bonds in the cupboard.

Repeat it: —“Shiloh’s Cure will always

cure my coughs and colds.”

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Jigsmith, I believe? arlow—Y es. a

aa Trea you. consider him hon- es :

Barlow—You bet I do. Why, I ence loaned him a $10 umbrella and he 10-

; turned it the next. day.

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If you select your shoes with a view of comfort instead of style, it is a sign that you are growing old.

_ His Brilliant Scheme

Small Boy (in chemist’s shop)—“I want the medicine the doctor ordered for my mother.” ‘

Chemist—“Here it is, my lad, but there’s twopence more to pay. You'd better run home and fetch it first.”

Small Boy (after perplexed pause)— “T’ll tell you what. You drink. two- pen’orth out; -that will make it just right!”

Happy Bride (on wedding tour)— You say we are coming to a tunnel, Harry? Is it a long one?”

Bridegroom (momentarily depress- ed)—Yes; entirely toa long. The con ductor tells me they light up the ears before entering it.’’—Chicago Tribune.

Minard’s Liniment Cures Dandruff.

Mme. Oristin, a woman of vighty, was being: put in her coffin in Pa-is when she sat up and asked for a drink. She recovered, and in. the afternoon was able to leave her. bed.

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Only the uninformed endure the agony of corns. The knowing ones apply Holloway’s Corn Cure and get relief. _ 7

The Nursé—Mrs. Judson, baby has swallowed one of those silver favors you’re going to give your guests this evening.”

Mrs. Judson—That’s awful, Marie. Why, I just had enough to go around.

Throat Coughs

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INSTRUCTION IN STORY-TELLING

Torentonian ts Running a School for After Dinner Speakers. |

Mr, P. Grenville Kleiser, a Toron’ tonian who: some ten years ago took up his residence in the United States, has won’ some attention through’ new scheme of his own. devising— that of teaching people to tell funny stories. Mr. Kleiser commenced ’*is eareer in Toronto in the early tiine- ties as a concert elocutionist, and later became ‘fér a season private secretary to the’ late Richard Mans- field. Then he returned to Toronto and commenced thé teaching of ex-

| pression and conducted an entertain-

ment bureau. He is now established in New York, and among his activi- ties is that of ‘‘conductor”. of the Public Speakers’ Club.

The scheme which he put forward a week or so ago is so mnique that it has engaged the attention of the press,..whose humorists, seems to be sceptical as to’ the outcome, A report- er went to hear Mr. Kleiser lecture to his ¢lass in extempore humor, and says that it numbered at least eighty persons. It more than intimates that if Mr, Kleiser succeeds in turning them into humorous individuals he will have. performed a task greater than the Idbors-of Hercules. It is stated that they were of all ages, nationalities, and previous occupa- tions. After Mr. Kleiser had told sixty funny stories in fhe space of an hour—charting them on a biack- board as he did so to show that there were only twenty-three o al stones in the world, the balance being varia- tions therefrom—he invited his: pupils to the platform one by one, each ,to tel] a story of his own, and sear his method “when it was

The chief admonition that he gave was not to tell the: point before you

“have told the narrative. He also ad-}

vised his pupils not to try to tell a story of Which they had forgotten the point, The pupil exhibition seems to have been rather a painful

episode, and Mr. Kleiser showed that

he is not devoid of humor himovlf by closing the proceedings with the remark :

“Now, I think that you will . be-|&

lieve me when I maintain the anti- quity of all jokes.’”’ .

Jim Hill as a Cain Raiser.

» With a great blare of trumpets and bang of cymbals the Vancouver press has announced that Jim Hill. is go- ing. to connect up a number of ‘stray raliroad links from aralvosibe to Van- couver, put on -a five-day penne service between these cities and make the latter a_ cotton export point. Oh, yes. Jim Hill is always going to raise Cain. It is Jim Hill who is al- ways planning to put on a limited

n between St. Paul and the Paci- fic coast that will knock all existin speed. records into a cocked hat. is Jim Hill who is going to collar the trans-Pacific trade with a huge fleet of ocean-going steamships. Some

rs ago when the Kalso and Slocan Railway was added to the Great Northern, it was predicted that the line wovld be standard gauged and extended from Sandon to Slocan City by way of New Denver and Silverton.

e projected program was not only not carried out, but the original Kaslo and Slocan has been lopped ix. two and the service cut down to tri-week- ly. Yet it was Jim Hill who was or ing to make a great line for trade tween the Kootenays and Spokane, out of the Kootenay Valley line, ex- tending from Bonner’s Ferry to Keotenay Landing. The service on that is now a tri-weekly one also, Jim Hill was going to push the V.V, & E. through to the coast in rd order and smash all apisting freight rates to Gehenna, open u e Simi- kameen and develop country thereabouts. Just now the people of that neighborhood are w : whether the crack of doom or. the V.V. & E. will come about first, bot are now beginning to suspect that it will be the former—Kaslo Kootenaian,

An Old Saw Striked « Nail.

Mr. Scrappington (tmusinglyy— As Lincoln said, a map may fool some of the people all the time and all the peo- ple some of the time— Mrs, Scrap- pingten (briskly)—But you can't fool me any of the time!—Puck,

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Thick silence. ‘

Pretty Unpopular.

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Repeat -if:—"*Shiloh’s Cure will

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of toll Very pleasant, dear, if you will only listen to your heart—and mie,” <<» ’

“f have listened to you,” she remind- light laugh. “Why, Freddy,

been a era, night in year that yo ave not

alone the cigar came from the corner, box on the five cent, end, but when the young jJady came Alphonse always brought a perfecto from the box in the ice chest with an elaborate- ly casual “The usual, monsiecur,”

This was intended to impress the gest. with the belief that Sheldon ha-

“Perhaps,” she said uncertainly, and Sheldon pressed the advantage.

“Wouldn't it be nice if you didn’t have to serimp and scrape and plan the spending of every penny?” he de- manded. “Wouldn’t it be nice to have a real home instead of a three room flat, to eat regular meals instead of chafing dish messes and to—well, to have me actoss the table every night

“and not a table d’hote.”

“Perhaps.” a)

It was spoken so low that Sheldon had to Jean across the table to catch the whispered word. But he did catch it, and -his face beamed satisfaction.

“and you, will marry me?” he cried delightedly. ;

This time he di@ hot hear, bot he knew that. the, coveted answer had been spoken, and he caught the hand that “‘nervously-with the cup,

He spoke no word, for none ‘was needed. Their: eyes told each other

into words, spoke a language that only loyers know—and Sheldon ..was. ¢on- tent.

‘| It ‘was Alphonse whose discreet but ‘} suggestive cough fromthe doorway leading. to the main’ rooin recalled them™to more earthly matters and an uppaid check. Sheldon drew, a bill from his pocket and laid it upon the tray. »; Hares es ere

“Keep ‘thé change)” he said, “and “drfhk to our good: fortime.”’ Then ‘Al- phonse, helping him into his overcoat, fassured ‘his. radiant customer fn Wrench and English that I€ should ‘be . In Sansin’s customers tipped half a back on Saturday night?” commented |:gonar only when the worse for wine. Bess. “I don’t know when we have'| fro;

. ere was a man, to-all appearances en out to dinner in the middle of | soper, who tipped 60 cents. Alphonse's e week,

° thanks followed them even out upon “Never, I guess,” agreed Sheldom,

the” street, where Sheldon tucked “You see, Saturday is a sort of holly | Bess’ arm into his own with a new Gay. 1 get my salary, and you get your) air of proprietorship that the’ girl check from the. publishers, and we're ,

. found ‘very comforting. both happy and content, even if not in Spell ks whispered, “did you

red and gold sashes. Tonight °Al- plionse’s ‘elaborate politeness was ig- nored by the usually genial Sheldon. “Now for the news,” he began as the waiter headed for the bar. “I couldn't: ‘wait for Saturday to ‘tell you, thotigh it is only-two days off.” ‘ , “Isn't it funny ‘that we always fall:

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eee a viknow? that I tired and depressed

at ppt art in agreement if you | toaaye” .. » Aen : P would onl Kear considering a proposal “Taras only taking chances,” he ex- as: an feature of the Satur- plained, e witha ‘happy laugh. “I day "reminded Bess, with ‘

thought it out last night when.I was almost in that Benny would put ‘the deal ‘through. 1 figdred that you always felt as I did when” you had Mpotey in your pocketbook on Satur-

nd that you'd feel as 1. do “tWo days before pay day. It was worth taking a chance by changing the day.” *

Bess patted his arm affectionately. “I wish you had found that out be- fore.” she whispered. “It is only from Saturday to Tuesday that I cared about a career.” :

nity. ‘proposing. kK

you Aong”ago that to spoil ty career. 1 am making mame for myself in the art’ and I can't keep house and’

“You must go and when- marry

“And I've told you,” retorted Fred, “that 1 would not stop asking you to marry me until you said ‘Yes.’ 1 guess I've proposed. to you sixty times in last sixty weeks, Bess, and I'm for sixty times sixty if 1 have to out that long.”

“Did you ask me out to dinner to propose.to me?’ demanded Bess.

’ ~~ “Not primarfly,” he admitted. “What |; I wanted to tell you was that my big chance has come at last. Benny Groll

“has made a*good contract, apd he needs a-man to put a little money and a lot of time into the business. I have more experience than money, but Ben wants me, and he'll give me a half in- terest if I'll come in, Is what I’ve been ‘working and waiting for ever since"l came to town, Bess, and this fs to Celebrate my good luck.”

* Cards and Their History.

Cards are square shaped pieces of pasteboard printed with -various de- vices and employed.as a business me- dium by money changers. They are usually made up in packs of fifty-two, oné for each week of the year. A good many people play cards for pleasure. in. which case their opponents are said sto be buying experience. In most eard games the ule is that the cards ‘may be cut, but-mot otherwise marked. This rule is not, strictly observed in games in which only three cards are used, Indeed, the marking of cards has attained a high degree pf pérfection since the introduction ¢f qumerous eard index systems. Pashies change in card games as im everything else. Old maid, for instance, if nowadays seldom played in the best clubs, Play- ing cards should not be confused with ,those sold on ericket grounds; which are rather larger, or with visiting cards, which are emaller.—Pry's Maga- zine. .

2 his own. am so glad,” she said ly. “You have worked hard, and you are-entitied to your reward.” “Which is why lam going ask for it;” retorted Sheldon. “l am go- ing to my usual custom and propose on ‘Thursday instead of Satur- , Bess, I> want you to work for, dear. It will be pretty hard camping

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Doubtful Quality.

apother good day’s work for you,” “I got some free advice from Dr. | . “Work, - virtue, shotla “be its | Closeface last night,” own rowan Bess, Shel- | “How did you do it?" don shook ead impatiently. “Caught bim off his guard at a social Wy. simp pel he said, “byt that | gathering.” sounds than it works out.. 1| “My free advice to you would be not want to feel that when the jdb is | to take it.” 7 done iy, St Groll .& Sheldon become a By og ee eee firm of ffance Mrs, Sheldog is| - Probably. — j proud of what her husband has done.” | “Some people are so inquisitive,”

“I shall always be proud of what | “Yes, but they are usually stupid.” you do, reminded Bess. “We | “Stupid?” ae two are only ones from the olf | “Yes. If! were as inguisitive as you town in all this big city. We have al- | are I would know everything.” shall be proud of your great sebleve- Inevitable Conclusion. ments." ». ' : is mot atall fond of so

Seeman ean | rent.” ood Weed ag ‘4 Oe } , ow! course am going ; does, does she?” after uo matter whet, and | . Pe Mae ea yi ‘ fU work es hard without your prom | «fer own dressmaking”

tain amount of shore leave.to men in

@id all his work with high efficiency

‘|. The man -was able to use his knowl-

in messages that never’ have -been put |.

‘Jane's partner.

| ing a sip.

fin §

VER ISER 2 LACOMBE : WEN'S CLOTHES. THE HONEYMOON PARADE.

Wedding Custom th One Town When the Train te Late. A Nn city, which need not be to- much pleasure from dress and scarce- | cated more particularly than that it in ly notice the changes of fashion In | so here east of Boston, hae its own men’s clothes, They ate vaguely | pecn) why of speeding the newly aware that a hat looks ofd@ when ite | ma of their honeymoon, For one thing, every one goes to the | atatidn to née the couple depart. This fs done in many small eae oe ¢ showering of rice or confetti and the not at the home of the bride, but at the greater inter- | station. To that extent the city re- It were & | ferred to is not unusual,

mark of frivolity. But in this city train schedules fre- This is an ignorant mistake. Dress quently go awry, and when they do

is or ought to be an art, and therefore, | the unusual happend. ‘The wedding, of if only a minor art, it is a more seri- | course, has been, celebrated on time, ous matter than any of the games to |.ana the reception has taken as much which many men give reaver his be. time as such thitgs usually take. The and pains, Besides, men bave ofily be- | geparture from the bride’s home is come indifferent to their clothes in | made in due season to catch the train modern times, if it 1s on time,

In the heroic age of Elisabeth they The wedding guests rush to the sta- made themselves as smart as pea- | tion, where all other inhabitants hav- cocks. Great soldiers and poets then | ing nothing better to do have assem- took pains to be In the height of the | pied already. It is a free show which fashion, and fashions changed with | no one would miss. some violence and rapidity. In the | ‘he carriage bearing the newly mar. eighteenth century, too, which we do | ried pair is drawn by white horses and not think of as a time of elfeminacy | decorated with white ribbons. Custom and when men were wanting neither | demands this, and nd one has yet had in enterprise nor in seriousness, they | the temerity to do otherwise. were as splendid and extravagant in| ‘The carriage arrives at the station, their dress as women.—London Times. | and it is learned thatthe train is .s0

many minutes or so many hours late. WONDERS OF VELOCITY.

Usually the measure is in hours. The carriage doesn’t wait. It goes A Piece of Thin Cardboard Will Cut | parading. It drives around and around Through Wood.

Velocity has a great deal-to do with one substance’s ability to break fbb sadly hs ccemained ao station. Other curious persona station paratively soft substance against a themselves at points along the route much harder-one when the former is | JUSt to see the wedding coach pass, given enough velocity. A bullet made | Smetimes two or three carriages, of a tallow candle would smash flat if | 7@wn by white horses and decorated fired aguinst a board from a toy gun, in white, swing steadily around this but when shot from an army rifle tt | bymepeal circuit. It seems like an ewill go right through the board. endless procession. It is not. unsual stream of water has been known to | fF & wedding pair to spend the first have such swiftness of movenrent that five hours of their honeymoon just rid- a sword was broken in two when a ae round and round waiting for the strong man tried to cut it through. n.

CGyiienes have been known to drive | _ When the screech of the locomotive such frail projectiles as straws well finally is heard the triver continues to into a tree. swing up to the platform just as the

\ train comes to a stop. Then the bride al cats case uae te and bridegroom make a mad rush for performed by attaching a bristol their car amid a shower of rice and board disk to the motor of an electric | C°Dfetti and old shoes. The honeymoon fan and setting it to revolving at the | P&®rade 18 over.—Exchange.

fan’s usual rate. If a piece of wood, such as a lead pencil, for example, be THE REAL BOWERY. earefully applied to the edge of the PS EN revolving disk, the wood will’ very | Swiftly Passing, It Has Never Been readily be cut through. Of course if Wholly Revealed. the disk were to revolve slowly the| he real Bowery’ has never been wood would soon blunt its edge.—Path- written. up, and probably it never will finder. be, because it is swiftly passing. Hun- dreds of attempts have been made by Roaring Muscles. those who have not even penetrated “If a writer wrote of roaring mus- | the surface of its reserve, Its heart cles, you would laugh at him. Joints | and sonl—for the Bowery has both, as crack, the stomach thunders, but mus- | wel] ag reserve—are a sealed book to cles, you would say, don’t roar. That | the writers. It is a Sargasso sea lit- js your mistake, They do.” tered with derelicts of all worlds, drift-

The speaker, a physician, put his | ing pack and forth with the endless finger ia his ear.

“T hear a muscle roaring now,” said he. “Try it, and you, too, will hear the sound. And to prove that it is the sound of a muscle, put a plug of wood in your ear instead, and you will hear nothing. ;

“Contracted muscles give out a roar- ing sound. Relaxed muscles are si- Tent. This fact is of use in diagnos- ing certain diseases. The stethoscope makes the mrscular roars audible, and those strange voices proclaim the pres- ence of such diseases as tetanus, men- ingitis or strychnine poisoning, while silence on the muscles’ part is, so to speak, a sullen admission of the pres- ence in their midst of atrophy, degen- eration, paralysis.”—Buffalo Express,

_

tirely unnatural and came about from a combination of two separate systems. The reason was that naval reguiations compelled the giving of at least a cer.

the second grade, while the sy#tem he was using actually allowed less to a man in the first grade, The result was that’ in a short time the bulk of the men were in the second conduct grade Where they could get the most liberty. At.a later date, on another ship, the executive officer was an extremely able man. who had studied this ques- tion more carefully and was a great believer in making it worth while for the men to behave themselves and keep in a high conduct grade. He.s0 arranged matters that if any man be- haved himself sufficiently well and

he could bave an unusual amount. of Uberty. The result was that this ship had more than half its crew in what is known as the “special first class,” far and away the largest percentage that ever came under my observation. —Walter M. McHarland in Pngineer- ing Magazine. ‘

EXPERT PLAYERS.

Four Ladies and an interesting At- tempt at Whist.

The following conversation was over-

heard by. a waiter at a ladies’ club.

which the driver can get due notice of the approach of the train. The crowd remains patiently at the

’

edge of shorthabd to take notes, hav- once: been a reporter:

“Jane,” said Maria, “it is your tead.”

“Why, no,” answered Jane; “it is Ida's.” ax iw" i

“No,” spoke up Ida; “it is not mi lead. Susan dealt the cards.”

“Why, then, it must be my lead,” said Maria. ‘What's trumps?”

“Hearts!” shouted three young voices in unison.

“Well, 't! is my lead,” said Maria, playing the deuce of clubs,

“But you must lead a trump card, my dear,” cried Jane.

*“Yes, and lead the biggest tromp you have in your hand,” ‘put in: Ida,

“Well, then, here is the queen of hearts,” said Maria.

“Ohayou mean thing, you!” exclaim- ed Jane. “That takes my king.”

“But I will take the trick, for I have the ace,” said Ida.

“But,” remarked Susan, “that ig the ace of diamonds.” :

“So it 1s,” said Ida. “Well, here is the four of hearts.”

“I've got the ace of bearts,” purred Susan. “Does that take the trick?’

“Of course it does,” answered Jane.

“No, it doesn't,” said Ida. “A court eard always takes another card.”

“Oh, let’s stop playing!” cried Maria wearily. “It’s no fun when there are ho men to tell you bow to play.”

about them is the ceaseless activity of commerce, of development, moving onward and upward despite the cease- Jess cross current, which no litérary mariner, cruising in these uncharted waters, can understand.

Those who know it best and have some skill in writing as well as some understanding are #0 overwhelmed by |its endless complications, its infinity

ness and its frightful depravity, the baffling mystery of its wonderful hu- ‘Manness and its fantastic mystery,

— _

« : Banks.

It was in the City of Brotherly Love that the first bank was established in 1781. It was incorporated by congress under the name of ‘“‘The resident, Di- rectors and Compafhy of the Bank of North America.” Three years tater the second bank in the country was opened in Boston and called the Massachu- setts bank,

In the’ same year the Bank of New York was founded. ,

The first United States bank was founded in 1785 and the second in 1816, in which year the first savings banks were established, one in Phila- delphia, the otber in Boston,—Scrap Book. 7

even what they know. Only one man in all literature could have interpreted the Bowery—and Balzac is dead.

Most of us know the Bowery through fugitive newspaper sketches and fear- some lurid melodramas; The sketches present certain phases more or less in‘ telligently, but the melodramas’ are weird burlesques, unworthy even of being scoffed at, so far as any consid-

It is Well.

It is well to carefully cultivate tastes. Ruskin says, “Tell me what you like and J will tell you what you are.”

It is well to study human character. Bodenstedt says: “In the face of ev- ery human being his history stands eration of truth is concerned. But plainly written; his innermost nature | these cheap melodramas, endlessly re- steps forth to the light. Yet they are | peated, have built up a fiction that has the fewest who can read and under- | come to be accepted as the reality.— stand.” Everybody's Magazine,

It is well to “brush up against the world.” Goethe says: “Talent forms itself in secret. Caaracter is the great In a certain part of Scotland, ac- current of the world.” cording to Dean Ramsey, the shep-

It is well to be never cast down. herds used to take their collies with — arpa vn tnteg sin Capt them to church. The dogs behaved

Be One args -|-well during the sermon, but began to

Until the day's put and the labor done "| D@ restless during the last pealm and | saluted the final blessing with joyful

Whe the Mound Builders Were, | >#rks. In one church the congrega-

Who were the mound builders of| t#0m resolved to stop\thia unseemly North America? The Rev. Dr. Bryce | 4¢t!l, 80 when a strange minister was of Winnipeg has examined a large | *4Qut to pronounce the blessing all re- number of these interesting struc- seated instead of rising, as be tures and is of the opinion that they |@*Pected., He hesitated and paused were built by the Toltecs and mark | ti! an old shepherd cried: “Bay awe’, the course of the Toltec immigration | fF! We're a’ sittin’ to cheat the from the south alomg the Mississippi ,2°7s*!” and Ohio to the t lakes and the Bt. Rae Be slong the Missour! and Breskfasting With Whistler. along the Mississippi proper to the The was a foreign painter who used Rainy and Red rivers. This would|t®? breakfast at Chelsea, and when make the earliest mound date from | MF. Cart asked bim if he had been about 1100 A. D, > there lately he replied: “Oh, ne; not

F now so much. He ask me a leetle while ago to breakfast, and 1 go. My cab fare, two shilling, ‘arf a crown, I errive, very nice. Goldfish ia bowl, very pretty. But breakfast—one egg, ene toast—no more! Oh, no, My cab fare, two shilling, ‘arf a crown. me no more!"’-—Lopdon Telegraph,

With a String. j “Do you trust your husband im- plicitly “Wheat a question! Why, of course I

Fooling the Dogs. inadvisable.

During a snowstorm on the Highland railway a train was held up for an hour or two. The guard, a cheery Scot, passed along the carriages trying to keep up the spirits of the passen- gers. -An old gentleman angrily com- plained that if the train didn’t go on he would “die of cold.”

“Tak’ my advice an’ no’ dae that,” replied the guard, “Min’ y’, we chairge a shillin' a mile for corpses,” — Dundee Advertiser.

Sour Milk. The milk was not of the destred sweetness one morning, and little El- mer pushed his glaes away after tak-

“What's the matter with tue milk, Elmer?” asked his mother.

“I guess the milkman hae béen feed- ing his cow on pickles” wag the re- ply.—Exchange.

The Duel.

Gaston burst like a whirlwind in upon bis friend Alphonse, '“Will you | be my witness?’ he cried,

“Going to fight?”

“No: going to get married” ~

Alphonse after a pause inquired, “Can't you apologize?’—Argonaut.

His Strong Point. “It is true,” said a friend, “that you chave amassed a great fortune. But your grammar”’—

“Never mind the grammar,” said Mr. Dystin Stax, “This is an era of Specializations. I may be weak in some branches, but I’m an authority on the possessive case.”—Washington Star. ,

Writing For Money.

Two Tragedies.

To @ woman there are two trage- dies. One ts not’ getting the map she loves; the other is. getting him. The first. ts resfenation, the secopd disiliu siun.>New York Herald,

It ig best to profit by the madness of

a prescribed route, from every point of |

ebb and ‘flow of the tide, while all ,

of contradictions, {ts astonishing good- |

that they do not dare attempt to write |

For,

TRING OUT THE STAG

A “Deer Take” In England's Oid- est Deer Park.

HOUNDED UNTIL HE GASPS.

The Game Animal te Meroilessly Driven Hither and Yon, Through Lake and Wood, Until He Falle Ex- hausted, Though Undaunted.

Parts ‘of certain great parks in Hng* land, such as Eridge park, the oldest deer park in the kingdom, are kept practically wild in their original forest state, while near to the castle is the cultivated home park. Eridge park contains 8,000 acres and is the only estate in England, with one exception, where deer taking with hounds is still cafried on. Eridge park once formed part of the royal chase, It still retains the wild beauty it then had, although there are more than seventy miles of lovely drives in it, not counting those of the home park. :

Deer taking is entirely different from deer hunting. The object is to take the animals alive so that they may be transferred to the home park to be fat- tened and eventually turned into ven- ison, el

The sport is by no means as tame as it sounds. A seven to nine r old red deer is an awkward er to tackle. He is powerful, agile and well armed with antlers and hoofs,

When there is to be a deer taking at Eridge park the meet ig planned for 11 o'clock at the park keeper’s house. The underkeepers, with fresh hounds, are scattered through the park to head off the stag should he come their way.

The underkeepers having spread themselves over the park, the park keeper, with the “field” (those follow- ing mounted and on foot) set off to find a deer which looks ready for fat- tening purposes. Having selected one, it is the work of the keeper to get him separated from the rest and then to slip his hound and set after him as. hard- as we can gallop. The pace, of course, is tremendous, and as rabbit holes abound the risk of a fall is even betting or, rather, a trifle of odds on the certainty of our “taking a toss,”, As our deer bounds away with his wonderfully easy, elastic movements he makes for the wildest part of the park, expecting to escape his pursuers:

In one place aftér another he is met with hidden keepers and fresh hounds, till with the instinct of his species he turns fo. what he thinks is ‘bis sanc- tusry—the lakes. With open mouth and tongue outhanging be plunges a good fifteen feet into the water and swims for the opposite bank. Gasp- ing and tiring, he lands on what he hopes is freedom from hig pursuers. But, alas, no! Yet another hb honnd is after him. What can he.do?, He is too pumped with his already hard burst to face the hill before him.

He turns around and tears down through the bracken with a hound on each side of him, ready to pull him down if they get but half a chance. It is a dingdong race, under trees, through bogs and bracken, up and down dells and breaks, smashing head- long’ threugh everything, anything, to reach the shelter of the friendly water once ‘again, With a mighty spring he is in again, For a moment there is breathing space, for now the

| keepers and hounds, yet somé way off,

are making for the poor beast, which is in the middle of the lake. Away he swims with graceful movement. of his noble head, glancing all around at his* pursuers, but with his mind fixed on his line of retreat. He reaches the shore, and, with dripping sideg, he is out upon the bank.

Again be makes an effort to baffle and leave behind those clinging hounds that would hear him down. And now two great hounds are stretching them- selves out to thedr utmost pace. Bide ty side they race after their tiring quarry; in another’ minute they will have him. The stag, however, man- ages to make a spurt, though he is now stiffening rapidly, and just reaches some park palings surrounding the big lake. ;

In an instant be bas turned on his pursuers, and with head down and up- raised fore leg he is prepared to fight to the death. A hound rushes in, but in a twinkling be is on. his back, buried away like &@ piece of wood. This checks the other hound, which dodges and bays around the stag.

‘Peeling that things are now getting a

bit too warm for him, the stag sudden- ly turns round and, smashing the pal- ings like match wood, finds himself again in the icy water of the big lake. Away and away he swims, up this long stretch, the water seeming to re- vive him, for he swims the eastern length, three-quarters of a mille, and then lands at the far end while we follow on the shore. He swims till his feet touch the ground and stands fac- ing us.

All we can do now 1s to end the situ- ation as speedily as possible, A keeper deftly throws a rope with a loose knot over the stag’s antlers, In a moment four burly keepers are haul- ing him out by the ropes. It is now a slow march to his feeding ground in the home park. Slowly the procession moves, never a slackening of the rope or the hold on the antlers. Through the gate di the parks he is brought, av unwilling prisoner, though undeunted. This ends the deer taking. ~Town and Country,

Never think that intellect ts nobler than the heart, that knowledge is greater than love. Not so! A thou sand times no.—Frances Power Cobba,

fete

’ moving to their farm east of Stet-

evens:

TOWN: JCOUNCIL MEETING.

' Council net in vehi session Tuesday evening. Members all present. Minutes of last meeting read and with one correction. ap-

When « a ‘Ganlation liar. breaks louse, some of bis stunts are alinost amasin’,

, proved. Avnger & Shute, dental parlors,

upstairs over Morris & Taylor's hardware store.

Telegrams were read from the

[party touring western Canada by special train in the interests of the Winnipeg World's Fair, announce ing that they Would be in Lacombe at 9:45 Wednesday and desited to meet the officials and other busi- ness men of the town. °

May 13 is the date of Mrs. Roy Clarke Murphy's recital. in mind.

Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Huntley. are

Keep it

tler this week. Several unimportant communi-

cations were read und ‘placed on file.

Accounts to the

The recital to be given in Day's hall on Thursday evening, May 13,

; ; amount of eee ese Beni: $54.46 were presented and referred G. H. McFetridge’s have this|to the finance committee. week moved into their new house

in the north-west part of town.

A representative of a wireless teleyraph Company was present Miss Winnie Lundy has return- and gave a demopstration with a ed home from Boston, where she

has spent the past few months.

miniatufe apparatus, the evident purpose beiny to enlist—eapital in

the wireless enterprise.

8 The town have a force of men at} The finance committee reported

work this week putting in the

recommending payment of -ac-

crossings decided upon some time ayo,

counts to the amount of $19.40. Report adopted and accounts or- Interest in motoring is showing |dered paid. a marked increase locally this spring. Messrs. W. F. Graham, A. Belcher and Norm. Morrison

are sporting new autos. this week. ! Miss Nora Drader and brotbers

Wilbert and Eugene, of Victoria, B. C., stopped over last Friday and Saturday for a brief visit with rel- atives here, on their ‘way north, where all will teach school this summer.

Councillor Kent reported that he had members of the Fire Brigade and

interviewed about ten

they were .all indifferent on the matter of accident insurance. He recommended that for the present no further action be taken towards providing accident insurance.

A communication was read re gas producer plant. 5

A communication from the town

Solicitor was read, statiog that he

J. MeCutcheon and bride (for- merly Mrs. Cook of Calgary) ar- rived in Lacombe Wednesday from Calgary, where they were married last week, The boys ten- dered the young couple an enthus- iastic charivari Wednesday night.

had, as directed by the council, is- sued writ on the Blindman Elec- tric Company for cancellation of contract, . Notice was given of a bylaw to regulate the sale of fire crackers

d ot ks i ; Don’t fail to attend the evening ROG ollier ANS WOEee JA: <acne be

recital which will be given in Day's hall on Thursday evening, May 13, by Mrs. Roy Clarke Murpby, as- sisted by Mrs. Archibald and Mrs, McKinnel, of Ponoka, and Mr. Roy Clarke Murphy of Lacombe.

Councillor Mobley recomended that a box drain be constructed across Dolmaye street to drain stagnant pool into catch basin on Barnett avenue, as asked for by P. H.

effect carried.

Winter. Motion to that

Kirk Dix was placed under ar-

The matter of publication of the rest last Saturday morning ‘on a

Auditer’s brought up by Councillor Mooney. After some discussion it was laid

annual report was charge of “carnally knowing a girl onder fourteen years of age.” The magistrate remanded the prisoner until Friday at which time be will

be brought up for preliminary

over ull oext meeting. The question of continuing the

ringing of curfew during the sum- nearing. In the meantime the ac-

cosed is in jailat Edmonton. The information was laid by the girl.

mer months was brought up by the police committee. It was de-

cided to continue.

Recital.

Oo Thursday evening. May the 13th, Mrs. Roy Clarke Murphy of Lacombe, Alberta, will give a Re- in Day’s Hall, Lacombe, which promises to be the musical She will be assisted by the following artists:

Mrs. A. D. Archibald of Ponoka, Alberta, reader; Mre. R. W. Mc- Kinnel, of Ponoka, Alberta, pign- iste; and Mr. Roy Clarke Myrphy, of Lacombe, baritone.

The town assessment notices were sent out the latter part of last week, and show a higher assess- ment than last year, which of course means that taxes will be higher accordingly. We had hoped to see a substantial reduc-

tion thie year 0 we would have a

cital

event of the season.

few dollars left to paint up the old buildings and make them some- what more presentable, but evi- dently it is not to be, as it will take every dollar we can dig up to

pay our taxes. Mrs. Murphy has a pure con-

A good many show troupes give this town the go-by because they say it is not a good show town.

tralto voice which for three years was carefully trained by Mr. Cyril Dwight Edwards, of London, of Canada’s leading baritones and

one We can give the show people a pointer, So long as attractions | most saccessful teachers. advertised as first class and priced| Mrs. A. D. Archibald is a reader at a dollar or seventy-five cents per |of marked ability, having received ticket, give theatre goers nothing |ber training at Madame Alberti’s better than a ten cent show for | School of Expression in New York City.

Mrs. R. W. It would take a lony striag of good |complished pianiste, shows, without a break,

their money, just so long this town

will remain on the show black list. McKinnel is an ac-

baving for to over-|some four years oveupied the posi- come the effects of one sell-out.

tion of a teacher of piauo in a la-

as >

Sceemunnianenendl

Te odealenade La re EW

dies’ college int one of the southern | States, and later on the position of | necompaniste to Mr. David Rose |- of Toronto, another of Cntiadla’s leat leading baritones and teachers,

Mr. Roy Clarke Murphy pioa- senses a baritone voice of great compass and excellent quality, ‘He received part of his training in the east under various teachers . but of Inte has been under the ecaréfal training of Mrs. Murphy and with marked results,

In presenting these artists Mre. Murphy aims to furnish to the mosic-lovers of Lacombe and vi- cinity a fare treat in return for which she and they should be greeted by a fall house.

Seats may be reserved at N. I. McDermid’s drug store on and af- ter Monday, May 10th.

Cures ~ Indigestion.

Take your sour stomach—or maybe you call it indigestion, dy s- pepsia, stomach; it: doesn’t matter—take

gastritis \or catarrh~ of your stomach trouble sight with you to your Pharmacist and ask him to open a 50 cent case. of Pape’s Diapepsin and let you eat one 22-grain Triangule and see if within five minutes there is lefi any trace of your stomach misery.

The correct name for your trouble is food fermentation— food souring; the digestive organs be- come weak, there is lack of gastric juice; your food is only halt di- gested, and you become affected with loss of appetite, pressure and fullness afier cating, vomiting, nausea, heartburn, griping in bow- els, tenderness in the pit of stom. ach, bad taste in mouth, constipa- tion, pain in limbs, sleeplessness, belching. of gas, biliousness, sick headache, nervousness, dizziness aod many other similar symptoms.

If your appetite is fickle, and nothing tempts you, or you belch gas or if you feel bloated after eating, or your food lies like a lump of lead on your stomach, you can make up your mind that at the bottom of all this there is but one cause —fermentation of undigested food.

Prove to yourself after your next meal that your stomach is as good as any; that there is nothing really wrong. Stop this fermenta- tion and beyin eating what you want without fear of discomfort or misery.

Almost instant relief is waiting for you. It is merely a matter of how soon you take a little Diapep- sin.

The Vancouver newspapers are advocating a raise in the assess- ment of that city, which they state is now less than one-sixth of the averaze market value of real es- tate. Lacombe where as we all know real

Somewhat different from

estate is assessed at much above its selling value, a fact which bas been more than once admitted by mem- bers of this year’e council, one member having stated that he would be glad to sell all of bis real estate in Lacombe at less than the assessed vale.

The notorious Kinrade murder mystery has at last reached the stage of a verdict from the coro- ner’s jury, the essential portion of the verdict being: “We, the jury assembled to inquire into the death of Ethel Kinrade, hereby find that the deceased met her death by shot wounds inflicted by some person or persons unknown to thé jury.”

-ocean the C. P. R. transcontinental there

Dowinion in the autonomy, sald that Premier Robhio had been sending representatives from the Manitoha goveroment to Ottawa coon trom Sir Wilfrid Laurier the saine kind | of financial teraia we have in Alberta

that id, a subsidy ip lied Of lands: This r is'only the old fable over of the shield SAE OE Dinh SYS SOM parettneay Wet

having two sides. ness men; who are tovring the west for Oo July ist, 1908, one J. A. Bulfour | the purpose of “boosting” the proposed

had written to Premier Roblin on :this | World’s Fait in Winnipeg in 1912, pulled

subject. In reply Mr. Roblin said it] info Lacombe at 9:40 Wedtiesday morn

part “we would of course prefer to bave

our own lands, our own timber and tines | *

and to be indemnified for those taken,| The party wae met at the station by a

but the trouble with os is that nearly | large turnout of Lacombe business men, :

all our public lands have been used, and |and ascorted to Day's hall, where’ the

we cannot hope to get. them. back snd objects of the present tour and the de-

muat insist on being paid.” Latterly in the negotiations with the Dominion gov- sitability of holdibg the ares were of | set forth by the visitors.

ernment in reference to the extension of

Manitoba's boundaries, Premier. Roblin} Hon. T.Mayne Da'y, of Winnipeg, was and Minister Rogers have most definite | hist spokesman at this meeting. He ly expressed themeel ves that the Mani- ietathd Vink this Wanoetts irq : toba people were willing to accept either * ee cow the terme of Ontario that under canfed |™é@morate the laoding of Lord Selkirk eration retained all her lands and re-|and the first settlers in the Canadian sources or tha same terms of Alberta, a| West. It would be of inestimable value gubsidy io lieu uf the lands. An waking this great. country better

In one of the ridings at che late elec tion thebrrambet one put’ up and “we -known to the world. The purpose of the

think # very good argument to the effect | Present tour was to enlit the active co- that by selling 6,000.000 acres of the ag-| operation of the entire west in getting ricultural lands at $5 an a -re there oould | financial help for the project from the be realized $30,000,000 which invested #t} Dominion government. Mr. Daly iw-

5 per cent, the interest would umaa ey to pressed upon his bearers that the one. $1,500,000 which would be 81,126,000) jutetanding, all important fact to Le

more than we are pow receiving in “leu! yo5¢ before public attention in connec- of our lands which is only $375,000, and) tion with the project, is that it will be a $375,000 inore than the maximum amount} pational event, and to the national ad- received .when the population reaches) vantage. It will not be merely a western 1,500,000 which 18 then only 81,125,000) affair. It will be an all-Canadian onter- and thereafter no increase. prise. Oaoada has not yet bad a ‘world’s The epeaker.on the other side was an fair. It is fitting aod altogether desira- editor of the leading Grit paper opposing ble: that the striking. opportunities of a farmer, and there and ‘then happened | tne centenary of westerd Canada’s initial what has been happening with the Lib-| ,ttiement should be taken advantage of erals ever since attaining office in '96— By the holding of ao all- Ganadiat Brpo- whet the country’s interest conflicts aition. with party, throw dowa the eéuntry, Mayor wise of Winnipeg, spoke

This great country that had been lauded ; ; briefly along the sawe lines, as did also and gloritied till people were sick of Me. H, Ormand of thé sacilorwisy,

reading about it suddenly became 4 very poor country of poor people who could 4 resolu‘ion that the citizens of La» not buy the lands except ut a low price combe assem led at this meeting en- and on time. Only for the'action of the} thusiastically endorse.aod support the Conservative governwent some 28 ) ears | Proposed Exposition avd urging “upon since in putting through frow ocean to|°Ur members 10 “Parliament that. finan- ‘ cial wid be granted, Was uoanimously carried, as was-also a resolution that the town council end. board of trade at once take steps.to organige a ‘Bacombe tom- mittee of the Canadian Exposition and Selkirk Centennial, 1912,: who will take care of the organization in: Lacombe and the surrounding district.

‘A special train carrying about a: bun-

there is no. question but the lands today would be of little value. But what do we find, what do we see now? Hudson's Bay and ©, N. R, lands. selling *from:, 86} | to $12 an acre and school lands have been known to sell as high as $20 an acre. Under Oliver's land bill last season over 2,000,000 acres of land was sold re- alizing considerable over 86,000,000, even with the conditions of settlement which confine the sale to certain classes only. But with the experience of the Dominion it does not look as though it would be necessary to wake forced sales for revenue.

A return tabled in the House of Com- mons at the request of M.S. McCarthy showed that the cash recieved for the fiscal year of 1907 8 from the-sale of lands in Alberta, bonuses from timber berths, from coal aod mining lands and royalties on coal amounted to over $800,000. Out of this Alberta got $375,000 exqppt an el- lowance for public buildings atd the Dominion some $500,000. So it pays the Dominion pretty well to administer’ the lands and resources of Alberta, Last year the outpat of coal in the proviace was over 2,000,000 tons at a royalty of 10c a ton would yield more than one-half the amount of subsidy, With the vast coal measures of the province, what. will be the revenues when the population reaches, say one and a balf or two wmil- lion people.

Just now according to Premier Ruth- erford's statement the total subsidy re- ceived from all sources from the Domin- jon government is $1,160,375. In this amount is the item of 6375,000 only in lieu of lands. When the population reaches 1,500,000, the land subsidy in- treasing with the increased population will be $1,125,000. The maximuw is here reached. But the total Bubsidy at that time is $2,710,375. Here is where the politicians have fooled the people. It has always been “look at the big sub- sidy. And tke electors were not told that the old Provinces that retained their lands and resources received the same subsidies and in some cases more except on debt allowance aud the subsidies ip lieu of lands. So we think anyone is quite justified in saying Alberta got a very bad deal in provincial autonomy.

J.J. G,

SSS eee

FRANK VICKERSON

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