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u TORONTO FSTABLISULY 1667
Paid-up Capital, $0,000,000 Rest, - - - 5,000,000
UBRAD Hilt
B £ WALLEY, President ALEX. LAiev, General Manager A. Ai. tREIAND, Superintendent of
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Branches throughout Canada, and in the United States and lingland
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MARKSMEN HONORED
CORPORAL DUGALD McINNES
/ OF Strathcona, Winner of the Governor-General’s Prize, | who was tendered a public reception last night.
Tipton’s new auction room was the] Premier Rutherford and) 6 Dr, Me-| jseene of a very enjoyable function} Intyre. | | last evening, when q public reception] Replies by Premier Rutherford and was tendered Comporal MeInnes, of | Dr. MeIntyre, i
winner of the Governor- |General’s prize at Ottawa, and Ser-
| Strathcona,
Song with chorus, Captain Leasard
Humorous recitation, J. Gallagher, |
geant Brown, of Bdmonton, who also | (encore.)
distinguished himself at the Dominion
Toast, “Our Guests,” #poken to by!
|Mr.
| marriage | Vancouwr B, C
he Strathcona Chronicle...
po STRATHOON A. CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, SEPT 20, 1907
A Strathcona Wedding. Mamieona essing “ALLAN, CAMERON & BLACKWOOD
Real Estate Agents CHOICE FARMS & CITY PROPERTY.
A very pretty wedding took place the h6me of the bride’s parents, and Mrs. H. 8. Armstrong, First street yesterday at 12,80 o'clock, when theit youngest daugh ter, Caroline Lwuella, was unlited in to W. Wallace Curtis, of by Rev. C. H
lat
south
Sole Agents for
THE ALLENDALE ADDITION.
ee
Shepard, of Leduc, assisted by Tes Thi , e sw? ,
i Gy Seeadbce, et Mieatnalen: 1i# property will be on the market in about 8 days,
The bride looked charming in a bo- Price from $100.00 up $10.00 cash and coming gown of cream voile over ( taffeta, with trimmings of rich ap- $10 00 menee Gael scan plique, and carried a shower bouquet We are sorry we have been diaapp inted in getting out the new of bridal roses and carnations with map. but we hope to have it ready in a few days, ferns. The bridesmaid, Miss May ;
Somers, of Strathcona, looked quite
BANKING BY M AIL. —Deposits may be made or withdrawn by hs aggre a hee ge onag of fone hho = | aaron we aint in a gowh of reseda eloline, RAPOPRPA ARAL é t mail. apeacienn accounts receive every attention ba ll, ie pons its ‘aaidhuhg Sernchtibans’ of the Fadmonton Rifle ba tmp crnhe at) —————— - Strathcona 1 TMC h, Gd. Ww. MARRIOT r, Manager decorated and draped with flags and] “For they Are Jolly Good Fel partie whe rat & bowkver of pink SS SS »
wate Ceatees bunting, and the refreshments amp!*,|lows."’ | eupsleusen = “M se neue sae If vou want to please yout
a Ke nes! a eaer eee: promptly served, and the entertain Replies by Captain Carstaira (on strong, of iciacn tie brothe it ‘es ite buy her one of thoee }" aoceunchinasheiovatinatinor -eeiiianempenaaitl ment programine was rendered with [behalf of Corporal Melimes), and bride 4 4h, ” sy out any delay or hitch. Premier | Sergeant Brown The nresente : Were: humeedile “hus KITCHEN Rutherford, Dr, MeIntyre M.P., and Song, Sydney MeDiarmid, (encore.) coatly, showing the esteem {n witch ABINETS other prominent citizens of Strath Recitation, Dan Alton the hide was held by her friends c leona were present, From Bdmonton| Sing, Private Baker | ‘The groom's’ gift to the iride ‘wa 4 Ww sti a canta for came Ma‘or Paton of “A” Squadron! Toast, “The Army, Navy ant Cos pink «tow, and to the titties tat ay abet ig eta . ¢, M. Ry Major De Mois Thibav-llonial Forces,” couple! with the gold Gradelet Cream Separators, Farm (eau; Capt, Lestard, Liout. Boileau,|names of Major Paton and Ma‘or The bride's traveliieur dimes ead of Scales, Chatham Fanning » ial y Tieut, Lambert, Lieut, Dechene and | Thibaudeau gon. brawn with allover: face wales Mills, Windmills and | CEDAR SHEETINOS Liewt. Perron, of “D" Squadron, and) Revlies by Major Patan and Major and.hbat.to match ee Pumps, Gasoline Engines PINE SIDING j nbout twenty-two non-commisdoned | Thibaudeau, Alter the . coremuny and eomurat and Grinders, Huggies and FIR FLOOKING ofeers and privates, The oa te Som, Quartermaster Sererant Tip) ulations « re over the party partook Bambi Carriages, Northwest cone equadron was of couree well te on, (encore) : avon IN MAP ne nied, and there were present Toast, “The Press,” gaplied to by gree ergy menay totes show geeg ee ted ve ee many civillana, \¥ _— Bolan, of Le Counter de ers of rice on the four o'cloes train : -_ rr) ‘ ‘ Major Jamicson occupied the cholr | Oucet, Weir of The Chronicle, Me : : : on Ateo a fall line of the cele «a Best Qualities British Columbia Lumber ind after a few introductory FORIATSS | ttae of Ue FPanocton Balleton, and pelle Thee Beg Phat op pny brated ee EEEEEEEaEEEEEEEE the following programme wae gone|Craham of the Kamonton Journal , pens : Massey Harris Co, Farm SHINGLES A:.SO DOORS through The ond of the programme having —_ +—___— Implements LATH WINDOWS Toast, ‘The King,’ with musical) been reached, Dr. Melntyvre proposed } the beat money can bay HAIR AND FRAMES honors, ond Jas, Weir seconde! a hearty ADDITIONAL LOCALS LIME ALL DESCRIPTIONS TRANSOMS Instrumental selection, piano and| vote of thanks to the committee jn) r, yy J. E. GRE EN, Agent WOOD FIBRE OF CASINGS jmandolin, Mesere, Westerby and we: | charge of the arrangements, and she om & BUILDING PAPER MOULDING Diarmid, motion was carried with three cheery. | The big road grader, drawn by P, P. Box 25 Phone 93 Song, Private Baker, Major Jamieson suitably replicd and eight horues, wad at work of White =—_—_ AT LOWEST PRICES Mong, Sid Judge. the singing of the National An Avenue today, i Song, Lieut. Marriott (encore), them brought to a close one of the — 4 | Toast, “The Houses of , Paria-;most enjoyable entertainments over| —- ne 4 Bay THE DONNYN LUMBER C0. | ment,” coupled = with the nanos of! hela in the city, The Uovernor-General'a prize won Wael Zes Wedeldldddddaddudddddd Successors to CUSHING BROS. Co., Ltd. jby Corporal Melnnes, together with Phone 18 . the latter's badges, medals, ete., for cpna power house tg) Edmonton, pro-| wgotimg, are on exhibition in the|
Clearing Sale
CHAIRS
An Assortment of Diners at 65c and Up
Rockers,Arm Chairs at a
REDUCTION
ece See Our Windows... -« PICTURE FRAMING
McCallum & Wesbrook
Two Doors Weat of Plaindenter
Everything the Builder Requires
Outside of his hardware, we sup; ly BETTER, MORE PROMPTLY AND CAEAPER than you can get it
elnewhere
A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE You.
Our Stock i# always complete and up-to-date
S. Q. O'BRIEN,
ICE & DRY WOOD.
Delivered to any part of th City. CASHJON DELIVERY, East End Wood Yard
Hutton’s Book Store,
School and Office Supplies
alway* on band, also ‘all lines of Faney a alt
WALL PAPE R.
Hest Assortment in tha City,
SPORTING GOODS
Sporting Goods, Hammock Seoteh Manufacture, large and small, Lacrosse, Football, Baseball, good eolordéd robber baile in great variety from Se op, garden croquet gets, garden tool sets,
G, McAllister, « Prop.
ARAAARARAAARARARARARARARAR | fro dshiny tapbiy intra | ing sand baits P BURNS & CO FANCY GOODS ry o eather souvenir post cards,
duet arrived large ship
.eW books, ete, from New Yoru a ment of 25e novels,
Dealers in
Fresh and Cured Meats Of all Kinds. |
J. D, HUTTON,
trathcona’s Stationer,
PHONE 64.
CITY COUNCIL,
| Thursday Evening’s Session
ee
As adjourned meeting of the City Council had been called for eight o'clock last evening, but at &.40 | when the prescribed time limit had expired, not a single alderman was ‘to be sem in the council chamber, )/ At 0.15 the aldermen trooped in and the meeting with Ald Hulbert occupying the chair in the abeence «f the” mayor. The only tusiness transacted was the consid leration of reports of committees,
The fire and light committee re- commended that a ld-inch sewer be fad on Walter's fat to extend far enough west to aflord drainage to the brewery, that the work be com and that the Strath. Co, carry their the funda necessary
war opened
meneed at once, Iirewing
promice loan jfor carrying out the work,
The tire and light) committee ported that they had arranged with the supply of the sur- current at the Strath
cone out
taimonton for plus electric
REMARKABLE PHENOMENON
REPORTED
vided the latter city construct a wire acroms the river, the price to be 7« per kilowatt hour | The that in view of the fact that the city
eaAme committer recommended
is now well supplied with inside wire
men, the municipality should discon
work and sell to the City Electric Co. all supplies on} hand with the exception of fixtures
Another report from the fire and light committee recommended that are lights be placed on the corner of} Weet Roliway Street ond Oliver Avenue, at the corner of Hardis«ty Street and Stanley Avenue, the corner of Nilng Tia Rovleaw Avenue.
The sewers committer reported that Mr. Martin bad applied for an exten sion of the sewer system on Lumeden Avenue the width of three lots, and was willing to loan the cost to the elty The recommended that in Cases where citizens were will ing to advance the coat of sewer ex tensions their application be provided petitions proper form
All these reports were the
tinue installation
and at Street and}
comm ttoe
granted
were put in in adopted and
FROM NORTH
meen RUMbiing Sound Lasts Two or Three Minutes and
Causes Stampede of Stock and Excites Curiosity of Settlers and Indians,
| §&. Winther Caws, who is home- steading six miles from the Pem- bina river and about twenty-five |miles northwest of St. Anne, re- | ports & remarkable phenomenon that occurred at five o'clock Satur- jday afternoon, A rumbling sound, jwhich lased from two ta three minutes, and which, were it not |tor the .Tect on the animal life of | the district, might have been taken for the noise of an approaching | wagon, was heard, ‘Those whose jattention was first attracted by the jsound would haves paid noattention to it were it not for the fact that a | horse which was tethered near by |and which was used to the rope, | excitedly broke loose and ran head- jlong over a neighboring embank- jment. The dogs ran under the ltents in abject fear and bid them- selves, Md cattle stampeded across
The strange sound was heard at St. Anne, and was described being in a north-westerly direction,
For a radius of 50 miles reports came to the party of (he bearing of the strange rumbling and its effeet an auimal nature,
A party is drilling for coal on the Pembina, in the direction whence the sound came, but whether or ict an explosion of gas occurred bas not been reported,
The general impression in the neighborhood seems to be that the cause of the unusual sound was either the descent of a meteor or: else an carthquake, It was snow ing lightly at the time, and at first it was thought that the noise was a jrumble of thunder, but this idea} was soon dispe'led because of its jpoatiqully, and the fuct that there j was no rise and fall to it such as al
as
rN” pais the country and were not found for| peal at thunder, no matter how} FISH AND GAME some time. Coming down yesters| prolonged, produces,
IN SEASON | London, Sept. 19.—Sir Arthur Gon: | day Mr, Caws qnd Mr, Butler, by; ‘The North Country isin a great
an Doyle, the well-known author and) whom he was accompanied, were , stale of excitement over the phen-
PLONE oristination of Sherlogk Holmes, Was! asked by all whom ue met, “Did. omenon and word. is a Isat
Highest Market Prices paid for yl Shae pagel Bn 2 oS you hear that noise on Saturday awaited from further north, as it
PIRET CLASS | tunities oe" afternoon?”? At the narrows of|has been found that the sound has
DRESSED POULTRY | _ |the St. Anne, the Indians on the| been heard east, west and south for
Ottawa, Sept, 10,—Despatches eclved here this morning state ex-President Grover Cleveland, the United States, is seridusly il and that it is feared recevery is im rowsible
of all descriptions,
Pouone oO
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thar] poserve asked excitedly about the na of Strange rumbling sound and said
|| their cattle and horses all stampeded -|in a high state of excitement, ‘Tudians were much perturbed.
The
a distance of half a hundred miles, and it is assumed that, Gaming from the north agit did, something as to ite cause may be reported from that direction.
| their
office of the Iroquois Hotel
Great Sale of Boots and Shoes!
4 = Work on the Oddfellow's Temple |“ wae resumed yesterday morniag and! Sm the contractors, Mesare, W, HH, Mar 4 tin & Co., will push on with = the . =
work as rapidly as possible
| ’ |
Fire out about ten o'clock) this morning in a emall building Anderson Avenue, owned by Crawford
broke
& Weeos, the ground floor of which was uscd by Jno grocery store, and tion by Droleseor Jones and other
roomers Ihe fire brigade were quick ly on the scene, but the fire had got ja good hold and their efforts wore of little avail, The building, which now practically useless, carried 8700 insurance, and Mr, Pankonin had $600 insurance on his stock,
Having received a heavy shipment of Winter Stock, we are compelled to make room for it and have decided to sell our spring and sum-
—
The
ankonin ae a the upataira por. | non-commissioned officers of 4
Squadron ©. M. I. will give a dance mer goods at wholesale cost price. in Tipton's new hall on Wednemlay next, Sept, 25. All members of Bb!
This stock consists of over 8000 dollars worth of boots and shoes in all its varieties from the finest and best makers in Canada
Syuadron are invited to attend with and invitations will also be issued to a ormber of outsiders Owing to the of the hall only a} limited number can be invited, the hope that friends who do not receive in Vilations will appreciate this fact and not The members of the committee Sergeant Majer Tighe Tipton and Wapahott tickvts will be $1 admitted free,
ady friends,
nize and of
non-coms, those
Come early while there are full lines
take offence management are Sergeants
Gontlomen's
and ‘
These are regular bargains 1 mee ese are regular bargains, and as we sell at cost price it has to be cash.
and ladies will be
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Juet what the country needed
F. Buhrer, Strathcona
FANBAARSBAABBARBAAREAABBAARRARBAARA
White Star Coal is Cash !
wrt,
i
see ws
The chap that gets up in the early | merning to measure the depth of Ue frost so as to use the fact to knock,
is an ‘‘undesirable citizen,” eee Many citizens went down to Cal gary this morning to enjoy the frat
sleigh ride of the season, Two cows to-day close to the Club that the steward mistook bells for the eleetric tied out to take the
were browsing Strathcona
weeds so
variety and hur orders
(2 Owing to the increased demand and the large capital necessary to finance our business, we are compelled to sell
our coal ona cash basis, Customers will please arrange
The farmers in the bit Hill and Ellerslie
vicinity of Rab- are arranging a
graded No, 1 Northern
reception for the mayor and alder) payment at the office when ordering coal, otherwise col- men They propose to take the city | ’ | Dads over the Cémetery read with a ection will be made on delivery, fast young team at full speed, so that they may get on idea of what ei emaet — the Rock Road to dordan used to be “lt used to be, Rattle his bones over] YY igite Star Coal Co. Strathcona the stones, only a pauper whom no body owns - I ad a Pe gy FIRST NOW WHRAT STANDARD OIL, MUST PUT UP | When. nt yp raley poy agar se to Luleton, Man,, Sept. 18.—The fire HBAVY BONDS, rock ; , of the new wheat in this vicinity this — When the wheels dip the whole ‘eens |? year was marketet to-day by Mr Chicago, Sept, 18.—Appeal bonds may fall, Frank Clarke, and bought by the) aggregating between $5,000,000 and em rs di Pe A gee Pe a | We stern Canada Flour Mille Co It $7,500,000 must be furniehed by the swear words and all Standard Oil Company of Indiana be The Cemetery road and MeDougall j ek ot : ee een, ae for pate Stree Y onto ’ » wo ore ne y t y p Discow of thoroughfare Vetweon here| MORE HARVEST HANDS NEEDED] Court of appeals, Without the supe aed the other side of——, oh, Fy Winnipeg, Sept, 19.—The harvest-|sedeas the government will be at lib iaty ! ers’ excursions from the east have notlerty to levy on the property for ex- | brought suficlent men for the handl-jecution under the judgement of $29, toa arereneg cy |ing of Che western crop, at least five|240,000 returned against the com Chicago, Sept, 18.—Marden Satur-| thousand more being urgently need-|pany in Judge Landis’ court,
to-day fatally wounded | ed It was feared q couple
ny, a& laborer, of weeks Baa ce his wife and then killed himself, The) ago that the laborers would be lOO] Winnipeg, Sept.» 19.—The price of cause of the tragedy was a quarrel) few to fulfil the requirements of the
flour here has been raised 20 cents a
growling out of the and this fear
‘ habite,
man’s dissipated | farmers of the west,
jhas now become a reality., barrel
(Continued) CHAPTER XIX. o Y, good evening. Te that your” struggled somewhat
hysterically
ly's lips. old days of the stolen jam and sugar bits had she known the feelings of a culprit caught red banded. The light from the park lamps revealed a merry, accusing emil+ on the face of Yetive, but the faces of the men were serious. Marlanx was the picture of suppressed fury.
“It fa the rellef expedition, your high- ness,” sald Yetive warmly, “We thotight you were lost in the wilds of the jungle.”
“She is much better protected than we could have Imagined,” sald the Iron Count, malevolently mild and polite,
“Can't I venture into the park with- out belng sent for?” asked Beverly, ready to fiy into the proper rage. The pink had left her cheeks white. “I am proud to observe, however, that the relief expedition ts composed of the most distinguished people In all Grau- stark, Is there any significance to be attached to the circumstance?”
“Can't we also go strolling in the park, my dear?” plaintively asked Ye tive,
“It depends upon where we stroll, I fancy,” suggested Marianx derisively. Reverly finshed a fierce look at the head of the army. “By the way, Baron Dangloss, where ts the incomparable Haddan?”
Baldos shot a startled glance at the two men and tn an Instant comprehen. sion came to him. He knew the secret of Haddan's coustant companionship. AB expression of bitter scorn settied upon his mouth, Dangloss mumbled a reply, at which the Iron Count laughed earcastically.
“I am returning to the castle,” said Beverly coldly. “Pray don't let me interfere with your stroll, Or te it possible that you think It necessary to deliver me safely to my nurse now that you have found me?”
“Don't be angry, dear,” whispered Yetive, coming close to her side. “I will tell you all about it later on. It ‘was all due to Count Marlans.”
“It was all done to humiliate me,” replied Beverly, indignation surpassing confusion at last. “I hate all of you.”
“Oh, Beverly!" whispered the prin cons in distress,
“Well, perhaps you were led into it,” retracted Beverly, half mollified. “Look at that old villain whispering over there, No wonder his wives up and died. They just had to doit. | hate all but you and Count Halfont and Baron Dangloss,” which left but one condemned,
“And Baldos?” added Yetive, patting her hand,
“I wish you'd be sensible,” eried Bev erly most ungraciously, and Yetive's soft laugh Irritated her. “How long had you been listening to us?"
“Not so much as the tinlest part of @ minute,” eald Yetive, recalling an- oth: disastrous eavesdropping, “I arm much wieer than when Baldos frat came to serve you. We were quite a distance behind Count Marlanx, I as sure you.”
“Then be beard something?” asked Beverly anxiously
“Tle has been in a detestable mood ever since we rejoined him, Could he have heard anything disagreeable?”
“No; on the contrary, It was quite agreeable.”
All this time Baldos was standing at attention a few paces off, a model sol dier despite the angry shifting of bis black eyes, He saw that they bad been caught in a most unfortunate position. No amount of explaining could remove the impression that had been forced upon the witnesses, voluntary or in voluntary, as the care might be, Bal- dos could do nothing to help her, while aké was compelled to face the susp! cions of her best friends, At best it could be considered nothing short of a clandestine meeting, the consequences of which she must suffer, not he, In his heated brain he was beginning to picture seandal with all the disgusting detalles that grow out of evil misrepre- sentation,
Count Halfont separated bimeelf from the group of three and advanced to the sedan chair, Marlanx and Dan- gloss were arguing earnestly in low tones,
“Shall we return, your highness?" asked Halfont, addressing both with one of bis rarest amiles, “If 1 remem. ber aright, we were to dine en famille tonight, and it is well upon the hour, Besides, Count Marlanx ts a little dis tressed by your absentmindedness, Miss Beverly, aud I fancy he ts eager to have it out with you.”
“My absentmindedness? What ts it that I have forgotten?” asked Beverly, puckering her brow,
“Thats the trouble, dear,” sald Ye tive, "You forgot your promise to teach him how to play that awful game call- ed poker, He has waited for you at the castie alnce 6 o'clock, It ls now & Is it any wonder that be led the searching party? He bas been on nettles for an hour and a bait,”
“Goodness, I'll wager he's tn a tem- per!" exclaimed Beverly, with ao re morse, but some apprehension,
“It would be wisdom to apologize to him,” suggested Yetive, and ber uncle nodded earnestly,
“All right, [think I can get him into good humor without half trying, Ob, Count Marlanx! Come here, please, You aren't angry with me, are you? Wasn't it awful for me to run away and leave you to play solitaire instead ef poker? But, don't you know, I was 60 wretchedly tired after the ride, and I knew you wouldn't mind if I"— and #o she ran glibly on, completely fore- stalling him, to the secret amusement of the others, Nevertheless, she was nervous and embarrassed over the sit uation, Jhere was every, reasop &
through Bever-
Not since the dear |
By GEORGE BARR M'CUTGHEON,
Author of “Graestarh” +
' ‘ t i é t \ é '
tear that the Iron Count had beatt’and seen enough to form a pretty good opin- fon of what had passed between her- self and Baldos in this remote corner of the park. A deep sense of shame “ras taking possession of ber.
Marlanx, smiling significantly, looked into her brave little face and permit. ted iier to talk on until she had run out of breath aud composure, Then he bowed with exaggerated gallantry and informed ber that he was bers to com mand and that it was not for him to forgivs, but to accept whatever was lee gracious pleasure. He called upon the chair bearers, and they took up elt burden, Beverly promptly changed her mind and concluded to walk to the castic. And so they started off, the chair going ahead as if out of com- mission forever. Despite her efforts to do #0 the American giri—feeling very much abused, by the way—was unsuccessful In the attempt to keep the princess at her side, Yetive delib- erately walked ahead with Hulfont and Dangloss, It seemed to Beverly that they walked unnecessarily fast and that Marianr was provokingly slow, Baldos was twenty paces be- hind, as was his custom.
“Ia It necessary for me to ask you to double the number of lessons I am to have?” Marlans asked. He was quite too close to her side to please Beverly.
“Can't you learn tn one lesson? Most Americans think they know all about poker after the first game.”
“Lam not so quick witted, your high- ness.”
“Far be it from me to accelerate your wits, Count Marianas, It might not be profitable.”
“You might profit by losing, you know,” be ventured, leauing stil) cloe er. “Poker ts not the only game of chance. It was chance that gave mea winning hand this evening.”
“1 don't understand.”
“It shall be my pleasure to teach you In return for lostructions T am te ave, I have tried to teach your ex- cellent guard one phase of the game. He has not profited, | fear. He has been blind enough to pick a losing band tn epite of my advice. It is the game of hearts.” Beverly could not bot understand, She sbrank away with a shudder, Her wits did not de- wert ber, however,
“IL know the game,” she sald steadily, “One's object le to cast off all the hearts. I have been very lucky at the game, Count Marians,”
“Uump!" was his ironical comment. “Ab, tan't this a night for lovers?’ he went on, changing tack suddenly, “Te stroll in the shadows, where even the moon ts blind, le a Joy that love alone provides, Come, falr mistress, share this Joy with me.”
With that bie band closed over ber soft arm above the elbow, and she was drawn close to his side, Beverly's firat shock of revulsion was succeeded by the distressing certainty that Bal dos was a helpless witness of this lo dignity Khe tried to jerk ber arm away, but be held It tight
“Keloase my arm, sir!" hoarse with passion.
“Call your champion, my lady. It will mean hia death, I have evidence that will lusure bis conviction and ex ecution within an bour, Nothing could eave bim, Call bim, I aay, and”
“t wil call him. He ia my eworn protector, and | will command bim to knock you down If you don't go away,” she fared, stopping decisively.
“At hie peril"
“Daldost’ whe ealled, without a sec ond's besttation, The guard came up with a rush just as Mariaux released ber arm and fell away with a mut. tered imprecation.
“Your highness!" erled Baldos, who had witnessed everything
“Are you afraid to die?" she demand ed briefly and clearly,
“Nol
“That ta all,” she sald, suddenly calm, “Il merely wanted to prove it to Count Marlaux.” Tact had Come to her re lief most opportunely, Like a Gash ahe saw that a confiict between the com- mander of the anmy and a guard could have but one result, and that disas- trous to the latter, One word from her would have ended everything for
she cried,
“Stop!” almost shricked Beverly.
Baldos. She saw through the Iron Count’s ruse as if by divine Inspiration and profited where he least expected her to excel tn shrewdness, Marlanx had deliberately tnvited the assault by the guard. His object bad been to snare Baldos lato his own undoing, and a horrible undolng It would have been, One blow would have secured the desired result. Nothing could bave saved the guard who bad struck bis supertor officer, in tine.
To die is easy, your highness, You have but to ask it of me,” said Baldos, whose face was white and drawn,
“She bas ue Intention of demanding
but Beverly thought ,
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such a pleasant sacrifice,’ observed Count Marlanx, covering his failure skillfully. “Later on, perhaps, she may sign your death warrant. I am proud to hear, sir, that a member of my corps has the courage to face the In- evitable, even though he be an alfen and unwilling to die on the field of bat- tle. You have my compliments, eir. You have been on irksome duty for several hours and must be fatigued as well as hungry. A soldier suffers many deprivations, not the least of which is starvation in pursuit of his calling. Mess is not an unwelcome relief to you after all these arduous hours. You may return to the barracks at once. The princess is under my care for the remainder of the campaign.”
Baldos looked first at her and then at the sarcastic old general. Yetive and her companions were waiting for them at the fountain @ hundred yarda ahead,
“You may go, Baldos,” sald Beverly lo low tones.
“Ll am not fatigued nor’— he began eagerly.
“Gol” riaried Marlans, “Am I to repeat a command to you? Do you Ig- hore the word of your mistress?’ There was a significant sneer in the way he said It.
“Mistress?” gasped Baldos, his eye blazing, his arm balf raised.
“Count Marlanx!" implored Beverly, drawing hereelf to her full height and staring at him ike a wounded thing.
“) humbly implore you not to miscon- strue the meaning of the term, your tighness,” sald the count affably. “Ah, fou have dropped something. Permit me, It ts a note of some description, | think.”
He stooped quickly—too quickly—an recovered from tha ground gt her fr the bit of paper which bad fallen from her band, [t was the note from Ravone to Baldos, which Beverly had forgotten ln the excitement of the encounter,
“Count Marlanx, give me that pa- per!’ demanded Beverly breathlessly,
“Ie it a love letter? Perhaps it ts intended for me, At any rate, your highness, it Is safe against my heart for the time being. When we reach the castle I shall be happy to restore it. It is safer with me. Come, we go one way and—bave you not gone, sir?” in his most sarcastic tone to the guard. Beverly was trembling.
“No, I bave not, and I shall not ro until 1 see you obey the command of her highness, She has asked you for that piece of paper,” said Haldos, standing squarely in front of Mariaux,
“Insolent dog! Do you mean te question my"—
“Give over that paper!”
“If you atrike me, fellow, it will be"—
“It I strike you it will be to kill Count Marlanx, The paper, sir.” Bal dos towered over the tron Count, and there was danger tn his daredevil voice. “Surely, sir, Lam but obeying your own instructions, ‘Protect the princess and all that ts hers with your life,’ you have sald to me.”
“Oh, I wish you hadn't done this, Haldos!” eried Deverly, panic stricken,
“You have threatened my life. 1 shall not forget it, fool! Here ts the precious note, your bighness, with my condolences to the writer.” Marlans parsed the note to ber and then looked triumphantly at the guard. “I dare soy you have done all you can, alr, Do you wish to add anything more?”
“What can ove do when dealing with his superior and Goda him a despicable coward?” aall aldes, with cool Irony, “You are reputed to be a brave sol dicr, 1 know that to be false or I would ask you to draw the eword you carry aud” Ife wae drawlog bis sword as he spoke
“Baldoa!" tmplored Weverly, Her evident concern tnfuriated Marlanx, In bie heart he knew Baldos to be a man of superior birth and «a foeman not to be deapleed from bis own sta- tion. Carried away by passion, he Gashed his sword from its sheath,
“You bave drawa oo me, sir,” he snarled. “I must defend myself against even such as you. You will Ond that I am no coward, Time is short for your gallant lover, madam.”
Before she could utter a word of pro- test the blades bad clashed, and they were hungry for blood, It was dark in the shadows of the trees, and the trio were quite alone with thelr tragedy, She heard Baldos laugh recklessly in response to Marlanx’s cry of:
“Ob, the shame of fighting with such carrion as you!”
“Don't jest at a time like this, count,” sald the guard softly, “Remember that I lose, no matter which way it goes, If you kill me I lose, if I beat you I lose, Remeber, you can still have me shot for insubordination and conduct unbecoming”
the risk of personal injury she rushed between the two swordsmen, Both Grew back and dropped thelr points. Not a dozen passes had beep made
(To Be Continued)
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As an example of what men in the railroad business have to endure, a conductor on the Seaboard Air Line relates that while he was passing through a conch a few daws ago a woman stopped him and asked him Ow far they were from Weldon He replied that they were about 65 iniles from Weldon. She then asked “This side or the other side?’'—Ar- gecnaut
Are you a sufferer with cornea? Uf you are, get a bottle of Holloway’s Corn Cure. It has never been known to fail The amallest coin in cireulation t« the Maltese grain, a bronze piece the sive of a pencil top, and worth one-sixth of a cent
A Missouri lawyer elle of an aa- sult and battery case that waa re- wntly tried in a Kansas City court To the firat witn called the pre- iding magistrate put this question ‘Why didn’t vou go to the ald of the lefendant when the fight occurred?’ “Heenuse.”” anewered the witness vith a amile, “IT didn't know which me of them was going to be the de- endant.”—Detroit Free Presa
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William Dean Howells, at a Lent en dinner in New York, said
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“Tipping” In Europe. According to immetmorial usage, Eo ropean servants are entitie! to tips as fn assured part of their Income, At the hotels the theory is that the land. lord furnishes a guest a private room and the use of the public rooms, heat and light, food and dishes, but not menial service. For convenience he keeps at hand a corps of servants who will respond to the guest's summons, but at his expense, In old times trav: elers were attended by their own serv: ants to walt on them. The modern custom echoes the ancient. The trav- eler no longer carries with bim a ret- inue of servants, because he can hire temporarily those of the landlord. The customary fees are the payment. To avoid feeing is really to cheat the sery- ants, who need all they can get, heavy. en knows. A chambermaid at the best hotels receives as wages only about $2 a month. Tipping servants in America is a regrettable imitation of the Buro- pean custom without ite resting on the reasonable basis of the foreign instita- tions.
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The game warden of Colorado was walking out in the mountains on one occasion when he met a hunter with his gun. The official suggested that that ought to be a good country for hunting. “It certainly is," said the hunter proudly. “1 killed one of the finest bucks yesterday I ever saw, and he weighed over two hundred.” It was the season when deer may not be shot without subjecting the hunter to a heavy fine, “Well, that is a fine one,” said the warden, “and do you know who you are talking to?” Being assur: ed that be did not, the official said, “Why, I am the chief game warden of Colorado.” The hunter was only taken aback for a moment, when be asked, “And do you know who you are talk ing to?’ The warden didn't know.
“Well, sir,” said the hunter, appar ently much relieved, “you are talking to the biggest liar in the whole state of Colorado.”
The Primitive Violin,
In ite primitive form the violin was a direct development of the lyre and monochord—the strings from the for. mer and the elongated box, with its sound holes, finger board and movable bridge, from the latter. The history of the violin began with the Invention of the bow some time before the thir teenth century, when the volle, or vielle used by the troubadours, made Its ap pearance. Tile instrument underwent many changes until the middle of the sixteenth century, when the true vlolin model appeared. The primitive violin had little or no contour, It was not until the thirteenth century that the vielle was scooped out at the walet The corner blocks were added in the fifteenth century and are attributed to Germany. For nearly a century the sound holes were shifted all over the instrument before they were cvt fn their proper place and the bridje fixed between them.—Circle Magazive
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“Are you a manufacturer?’ hardware dealer asked
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Among the army of Blackpool car riage drivers ia an Irishman noted for. hin native wit, It stood him in poor stead one day however Pat was engaged by a gentleman to drive to a hydropathic establishment
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One of the brightest and nicest little patients in the surgical ward of one of the city hospitals lay on her bed moaning with pain, says the Boston Post, She had just come to consciousness after a alight opera- tion, and, though only five years old was exhibiting heroic nerve
Yet she couldn't keep from occa sional low cries eseaping her. She was the sort of child who hates above all things to give trouble, and
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THE GIRL IN we BLACK ¥
By CONSTANCE D'ARCY MACKAY |
Copyright, 1904, by B. C. Parcelis |
In a shaded spot just inside the en- trance of Central park a girl was sit- ting. She was all in black, from the crown of her fetching little hat to her low shoes. Her face was “ale with the paleness of a summer spent In the city, her brown hair rippled back from & smooth white forehead, her eyes were deep gray, steadfast and coura- geous, “And I have need of courage!” Cornelia Stratton murmured. For two months she had been hunting a posi- tion and so far she had not found ene, although she had been able to sub- atitute at a large commercial office for &@ week or two, and the pay she had re celved for that had, by careful board- ing, saved her from actual want. Yet as time dragged on her money dwin- died and there seemed no hope in sight.
“I shouldn't complain,” she said valiantly; “it’s the lot of many another girl who goes to a big city where she
TUKY CAME FACE TO FACE WITH A PICTURE THAT HELD HER AMAZED,
has neither friends por relatives to help ber. But, ob, I do wish I could fiud something. I'm eo tired of dis @ppolntments.”
From where she sat she could wear the ceaseless bum and stir of the city. There bad been hours when it seemed to call like a challenge, and her beart beat in answer to it. Now it fright: ened her, It seemed so vast, so over whelming, There were so many prob- lems to be met and mastered. Une of them was clothes,
She bad chosen to dress in black be cause it was the most economical, Her deft fingers had fashioned a chic hat for a triding sum, and for the rest abe wore the same suit, day in and day out, taking such scrupulous care of it that she looked as well groomed as many a woman of means.
Kach day, when she had searched for work till she was too tired to search further, she came to sit in the park, where everything was green and quiet, where squirrels frisked unmo- jested across the grass and where the clear liquid notes of birds lent a sem- blance of the country, There were moments when the scene charmed Cor- nella, but oftener she was too dis heartened to care, “What am I to do {f this state of affairs lasts much lon ger?” sbe mused on this stifing after. noon In mid-August. Bhe was utterly despondent. Her hands were clasped Matlessly in ber lap, and she shut her eyes to keep back the tears, When she opened them again, she encounter ed the direct gaze of a man altting on the bench opposite her, He was a well set up young fellow of about nine and twenty, broad shouldered and smooth shaven, As thelr eyes met the pity that was in bis look changed to something deeper. “Take courage,” the look sald. “Life is a battle for all of us. Fight on.”
Cornelia turned away her head, ber heart fluttering strangely. Some one fn all that vast city bad seen, had cared, “It's simply nonsense,” she told herself, “He's never seen me be fore, nor I him.” Yet already she felt ebeered, Unrolling @ newspaper abe held in her hand, she went over its want columns agaln, At the next office where she applied the business man- ager noted something bright and spir- ited in her aspect that argued well for her, “I'm the happlest girl in the whole wide world,” she laughed a few minutes later, for she had found a po- sition at last,
The winter months sped quickly and pleasantly, There was so much to do and so much to see—the shops, the the- aters, the surging throngs on Broad- way and the great promenade on Fifth avenue at twilight, when countless carriages blocked the crossings and when all the fashion and beauty of the earth seemed to shine before Cor- nelia's delighted eye, It grew to be a custom with her in golng to and from her work to search the faces of the passersby in the half confessed hope that some time, somewhere, she should again catch a glimpse of the man whom she bad seen In the park. It was a wish, however, that seemed destined to remain unfulfilled,
But one Saturday as she loltered In a crowded downtown art gallery she came face to face with a picture that weld Ler amazed and spellbound, for it wus a portrait of herself, Half trem- ing and turning the leaves of her cat- logue with nervous Gngers, ehe read ts name, “The Girl In Black,” by Jeorgy Heathwood,
“And certainly the best thing you've lone, George, old man,” suld a boyish ooking fellow at her elbow, “It's the iit of the exhibition, and such a simple thing too! Just a girl with a pretty Jower-like face, sitting on a bench in the park, Ob, | remember! She's the yue you once told me about. Have you found ber yet, George?’
“Not, yet,” gald a voice, that made
5 | fornelii’s Teart leap, “Not yet; Dut 1
| PENSIONS IN AUSTRALIA.
Provision For Old Age Devised by Royal Commission. :
STRALIA AFRICAN WITCH DOGTOR
hean to if I have to spend ali my life in trying.” | “And find her when you're at the tender age of forty! You needn't frown A ort of great interest has bee vo savagely! I'm sure you've often | made by the Teewalien royal com | been near ber when you haven't tn the | tnission on Old-Age Pensions, The least suspected It! Today, for instance. | commission was appointed in 1905 to Have you searched this room thorough- | consider the existing state schemes ly? For you know It’s a true saying,” | and to devise a scheme for the whole {drawled the boy over his shoulder as ne os mahi The systems at pres-) he moved away, “tha ent in force are: } ple blind.” 7 pF dad aS on New South Wales: Maximum pen- “What do you mean”— Heathwood | fin 108 4 week; for marten poor
Ta 6d a week each; may be began, and then, turning, caught sight at the age of 65. lneome, including
Are Present In Every South African Village — Kaffirs Revel In Witch. craft—They Are Credited With Every Calamity—Their Influence Is Enormous, and They Are at the Bottom of All Mischief.
of Cornelia. “You!” he said softly bée- jon, must not exceed £52 a year.
heath his breath, “You!” ee ee et Meee cee tee | Among the innumerable pests with Cornelia flushed, £508,000. dirt is baer land of South “I beg your pardon,” he sald quickly, || New Zealand: Maximum 10s aweek; 4 ica is 80 be cursed, the witch
“but since circumstances are what they |in case of n married couple, joint in- loctor must take high rank.
a: I, wre have ae great many exceed £90. May be claimed at 66, rs of all degrees, from it ar leie has S...4 % years id Eupajina, the mighty rainmaker, who dent. Police magistrates administer, | Professed to control the seasons, down without boards, at trifling cost. Pen- | pewty local practitioners who could shoners, 11.770; total cost, £225,000, | do little more than smell out wisards
Victarin: Maximum @e a week; at, 8d arrange to poison their neigh 65, or earlier in case of dangerous | bors, but of the whole number I can- or unhealthy occupations; 20 years’ hot remember one whom I regarded residence. Income, including pension, ; With anything but disfavor, says a must not ex £20. Pensioners, | London Mail correspondent,
11,452; coat, £206,000. Source of All Trouble.
The commissioners Whenever there is troube in a vil acheme of old-age ions for the! | it is always safe to blame the whole Commonwealth to be paid out! witch doctor, for if he did not actual: of the consolidated revenue, as fol-| ly plan it, he certainly assisted in the later stages. If anyone dies mysteri-
are | am going to call a truce to con- | come, including pension, must not | vention and ask you to do ine a favor, Will you please stay just where you fre for two minutes? Promise me that you will not go away.” He evidently took ber reply for granted, for he did hot wait to hear It. But before half the allotted time was up he returned with 4 distinguished, gray haired woman, whom many people in the room seem- «l to know, for they bowed to her ar she passed,
“It's Mrs, Heathwood,” Cornelia heard some one whisper. “The mother of the famous young illustrator.”
recommend &
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Heath wood approached Corvelia. Maximum 108 a week parpbte at! ously, twisted np into a knot by one Mother,” be said, “I want you to | 65, or, on conditions, a in case | of those ghastly vegetable poisons so
neet Miss—Miss”— of permanent indaparity, Payments | dear to the heart of the Kaffir, you “Stratton,” Cornelia murmured, fortnightly through postoffice. al} may be sure the witch doctor sup
jon, not to ex-
lied the dose. If a t . sat ‘£9,600,900 P one 4 trader is boy
cotted, if his hute are burned and his cattle assegaied, it was the witch
“Stratton! rejoiced Heathwood | income, including Iwelling on the word, cood £52. Esti
The older woman smiled tn apprecia, |" FO": i ssiomers
lay down that| doctor who brought it about. If a "Rte eaten ne I , 2 pensions should be ted as a right,| mine suddenly ceases to get labor, if con, Mr. Beathwoea?”” Present My | not as a charity, h they pro | the boys run away without any ap
that persons of drunken or dis abits shall be ineligible, the allow. . They also
rent reason, it means that the place as fallen under the ban of thes pests. If a tribe rises against the white man, it was the witch doctor who stirred up the passions of thy pone and who gave the signal for first massacres. Controls the Kaffir's Life. The influence of these men is enor-
Cornelia bowed.
“And now that we've been proper! titroduced"=~ George commenced, ¢
“There is a Japanese tea room next door,” Mra. Heathwood broke, in, ‘where | am very fond of going at tuis sour of the day. Won't you join us. Miles Stratton?”
the inatitution of jons will dis courage thrift, and suggest that the
’ Government should eneour A pir
Corvelin assented gladly, It was ali ‘ 4 t mous, for witchcraft controls every 10 sudden and bewildering that it aeeatenee greens ead ernie action of a Kaffir's life, from the era- eomed like part of @ dream—a dream | those wishing to for old age | fle lo the grave, At hie birth the that was coming true. “For now that [to do so with the certainty afforded magician threw the bones to
discover if it were auspicious for the new arrival to live is choice of a wife, his journeyings and hunting his seed-time, the sale of his cattle and his daughters, his friendships and his Yengeanese, all are determined by the will of the spirita aa interpreted by the witeh doctor, and, even after death, the ghost of the departed stil! requires the ministrations of ite for- mer adviser,
Witcheraft is the main interest in the native’s life. He revels in it, It provides him with an unending source of conversation, adda seat to exist ence, relieves the otherwise impos sible tedium of the daily round in the kraala. Go into the native dis tricta, live among the Kaffirs, learn their languages, watch them in the fields, in the kraale, at the beer drinks, get to know them as inti mately as possible for a white man and IT guarantee you will never come acroas anything in the least resemb! ing the assegai-waving heroes of whom ou read in the book. But, none the lens, you will see many Interesting things, learn pany gruesome secrets aa you sit beside the fire at night and listen to those deep, guttural voices
Witcheraft All the Time,
There will be no hint of noble bar- bariam, no high-flown sentiment, no longings for independence from patri- otic reasons, It will be witcheraft, witcheraft, witcheraft, all the time Grim stories of uneasy spirits, the restless ghosts of the unburied dead, who cannot sleep with their fathers, but wander perpetually on the moun- tain sides, tales of the hyena, the loathed and loathsome horse of the evil spirit; tales of the owl, the Hon, and the snake, the sons of the evil spirita; tales of the eagle, the men. senger of the departed. Then will come even grimmer stories atill, a let of the wizards who have been emell- ed out by the witch doctora and re- moved by poison, by the assegal, or by the knob-stick, a long List this, an appallingly long one
Tt is a hideous revelation at first, until you get used to it. Then you acoept it aa inevitable, as part of the Kaflir's very existence, and you realize that no legislation can ever stop it, for prosecution is useless where evidence is unobtainable.
Ive found you,” declared George (leathwood, “I never mean to lose you iealot”
As they moved slowly through the room the young fellow who bad been (feathwood's companion half an hour ‘artler looked after them with twin sling eyes.
“It's enay to seo,” he chuckled, “that that pieture of Georgo’s wasn't prop erly named, for the Girl in Black | colng to be the Girl in White, with o tulle vell and orange blossoms. So rane the world!”
by a Government guarantee.
TWO MEN SNOWED UP.
Hut Buried Im Drift and They Have to Tunnel Out.
An Englishman named Morgan and a German friend of his have had a terrible experience on the Salzfluh, a mountain 9,965 feet tngh.
They left Schruns, on the frontier of Switeerland and Austria, with the in- tention of ascending the mountain on skis, and they no guides with them.
Nothing was heard of them, and at the end of three days a search party was organized, It found no trace of the missing men, and Mr, Morgan and his friend were given up for lost.
They crawled into Schruns half dead from want of food and exhaustion.
When near the summit of the Suls- fluh they were overtaken by a blind- ing snowstorm, and after wandering about aimlessly for some time pros discovered a hut, in which they too shelter,
Hour after hour the snow fell, un- ul the hut was buried beneath it and res were close prisoners. Their ouly ( for four days waa two loaves of bread, and melted snow was their only drink,
Then Mr. Morgan, in desperation, burrowed through the drift round the hut, and for ap @ through the snow, which was walat-high in the open, followed by his German com- panion, who was even more exhausted than he waa.
Both of them are reported to be well on the road to recovery.
The Queer Parson Bird.
Two splendid male specimens of the peo honey eater were recently acquir- od by the Zoological Bociety. Its throat is adorned with email feathers, which, from their resem- blance to clerical banda, have gained or it the name “parson bird.” Ite netallic gee plumage, with bronze ind purplish reflections, is very beau- tiful, Ite long and rather slender beak is curved; it haa rather large feet and the length of ite tail is con- siderable.
Although somewhat rarely seen in this country alive, Chis bird is plen- tiful on both the north and south is- lands of New Zealand. It is a good songster and mimic, and its lively temperament renders it a most inter- esting cage bird, Ita food consists of berries, inseeta, and honey, It has an extensile tongue, the tip of which is forked, and, being covered with fi- bres, forma a kind of brush, most use- ful to the parson bird in gathering its food.—Pall Mall Gazette,
Home For Lost Cats.
Two tntelligent Horses,
“I have heard many stories of the in- telligence of animals,” sald a close ob- server of animal life, “but the actions f two horses the other fay equaled if jot surpassed many of the tales, The mir were fine looking beasts attached to a farmer's wagon and had been left yitside a feed store on Kensington ‘venue, Just beyond thelr reach were several bales of hay, By some clever maneuvering the white horse, which was nearest the pavement, managed to get bold of some of the hay. His brown mate, not gettlug any of the bay, with almost buman actions made the white borse anderstand that he wished to share the feast. To antiafy bis mate the white horse took larger mouthfuls of the hay and turned his bead In a way #o that the brown horse could enjoy the feast. By the time thelr owner reached them nearly half the bale of hay had been consumed by the palr, When the owner of the hay was informed of the unique manner In which the horses secured their lunch eon be sald that it was a good scheme and be would stand for the loss,”— Philadelphia Record.
Sermons by Time,
“I bave attended church in a good many different places,” sald the south- ern man, “but I bad to come to New York to see a man preach holding bis watch in bis band. Down tn our part of the country the pulpit orator is useu- ally long winded. He has a certain subject In mind and has certain things to say concerning it, and he holds forth until be bas sald them all if it takes Ull bedtime to do it, Up here the time that can be devoted to the delivery of & sermon appears to be limited, In or- der not to overstep the bounds several clergymen that I have beard talked lit- erally by the watch, They did not lay it down or stick It Into a convenient pocket to be consulted occasionally, but beld it out face up as a constant re minder that time was fleeting and that other pressing engagements awalted them, That may be an excellent pre-
In the Royal Private Apartments. To many people the most interest ing parts of Windsor Castle are the rivate apartments occupied by the ate Queen, and also now by King Edward and Queen Alexandra. The suite is approached from a small cir. cular hall, hung round with the late Queen's favorite family pictures, es- pecially representations of all her children’s weddings, which she always had painted as mementoes of the deeply-interesting event, In this gal- lery she kept all her most prized poa- soasions, one of which was a crystal
which ease containing Gen, Gordon's Bible,
ventive of weariness in the congrega- ’ open at his favorite chapter, The tion, but I must say it makes me un- 7 peredin. | Tes hy» ak neg late Queen had always cherished the
comfortable to have spiritual udvice measured by the minute and second,” ~New York Press,
greatest admiration for Gordon, and was known to be deep! ares over his fate. This Bible i been pre- sented to her by Gordon's sister in private audience, Another possession most dear to her, which was always, kept in a sort of oak shrine, and only | opened and shown to her most inthe ; mate friends, was the beautiful statue pure Carrara marble of herself.
and the accommodation provided is most luxurious,
Outside there is a large wired-in run for exercise, furnished with a tree and a bed of mould, Inside, the sleep- ing quarters for the winter time con- sist not only of little wooden huts but of shelves, arreneed like berths in a ship's cabin, ch the inmates reach by vigorous springs from one to another of a se of brackets, The daily menu is most elaborate, and meals are served as follows:
Dinner—Cats’ meat; fish, two days a week; or for invalids, gruel or rice, vegetables.
‘ea (at four o’clock)-—Milk, Papper (at eight)—Same as dinner, Nighteap (at nine)—Milk.
More “Jungle” Complaints.
. Blyth has reported to the Mary- Be Sram Gcanall teat 0 dow of
Had to Concede It,
“Well,” said Subbubs, “I've just weathered a little labor trouble that’s costing me seventy-five per week,”
“What! exclaimed Citiman, “Sev- enty-five dollars a week?"
“No; 7 cents, Our cook struck for 1 raise from $4.25 to §5."—Catholie Staudard and Times,
John Milton's Cottage.
One of the best preserved historic country bouses in all England is John Milton’s cottage at Chalfont St, Giles. to which the blind and aging poet fled when the great plague swooped down
£70,000 For Lifeboats,
Over £70,000 has just been ueath- ed to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, According to the will of the late Mr. Charles Carr Ashley, of Mentone, this great sum is to be de- voted to the establishment and main- tenance of five lifeboats, and the bene- fit of the widows and families of life- boatmen who have lost their lives in endeavoring to save life at sea. i
on London, That was in July, 1665 |), The conditions attached to the be- and Milton had just finished “Paradise |the canned meata from America, | quest are that the lifeboats shall be Lost” and recelved a five pound note! which he analyzed, were distinctly fve in number ahd named the Susan for it, with a promise of three morv | unfit for human food from | Ashley, Charles H oF Ashley, Rich- five pound notes if the poem sold fou |dirty material, “pro enough the | ard Ashley, William Cantrell Ashley,
¥ sweepings of the factory,” Samples of the latest consi omene of canned foods from the United States examin- ed were wholly uno le
Queensland Fibre Plants.
Queensland is particularly rich in fibre plants, one called by the aborigi- nals “boorgay” being so tenacious that if the leaf is Simply. wwisted in- to a rope it will bear strain of several hundredweight. It is now found that there is growin around Brisbane a fibre plant called by bot- anists ‘‘murva,” that will yield fibre of great value, Major Boyd of the Ag- ricultural Department netted some “murva” leaves and sent a sample of fibre to a rope-maki firm in Ger- many for test, and manufac- turers are now prepared to purchase is at $175 to $200 a ton.
editions of 1,800 copies each, The cot tage stands at the top of the village and it Is in practically the same coo dition as when Milton left it. Here the poet received his distinguished guests during the latter part of his life
all be first-class, without steam, and
be stationed on the English and Welsh
cows la ake | School Children Boycotted.
A curious deadlock has arisen be- tween the education authorities of Durham County and the Borough of Gateshead. Recently Gateshead took a census of the county children at- tending its schools, and demanded | payment for seme four to five hundred | coming from Durham. This demand | has been refused by the county, and! the Gateshead Education Committee approved of a circular to send the parents of the children living over the borough boundeary, informing them that their children will not be admitted to the Gateshead schools after the end, of next month.
——EE Zephyr, Cipher and Zero.
“Zephyr” and “cipber’ and “zero” are words that come to the English from the Arabic “sifr,” which meant literally “empty” and so “nothing” and the figure that represents nothing. In mediaeva) Latin this figure was called both “clphra” and “zephyrum,” the lat- ter probably from association with “ze- phyrus” or something even lighter than alr; hence through the Italian “gefiro” there is the word “zero” as a doublet with “ctpher.”
TIE CHRONICLE, STRATHCONA, ALBERTA,
SIR CHARLES TUPPER.
Veteran Canadian Statesman Receives Portrait of Himself.
This is an age of grand old men. Mr. Gladstone set the happy fashion in the ‘eighties, when we saw one who was well past the apportioned three score years and ten conceiv- ing a piece of constructive statesman- ship of unprecedented daring, and leading his party unflinchingly through vietory and defeat in ite behalf. The two grand old men whom all friends of Canada delight to honor are more happily emplo the vigorous evening of their days, Lord Strath- cona and Sir Charles Tupper have in their time, and in eir several spheres, fought hard battles, political
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pa commercial history of Canada’s up- building, and the tireless gladiators, with their armor still on and their zeal undiminished, are content to for. | get that they were ever partizans, and | bs aged only that they are Cana-
ans, These facts are most pleasantly re- called by the recent presentation to! Sir Charles Tupper by a few friends of Canada in ion of a handsome portrait of himself as a token of their eateom, The subscribers were of both who united in their and pa-
otic labors for Canada which have marked Sir Charles Tupper’s long and MMfont aitingly, “ihe i
‘on ingly, Presentation waa
made on behalf of the subscribers by Lord Strathcona, and most fittingly, aleo, it was made at the Weatminster Patace Hotel, on the very spot, that is, where the Magna Charta of Can- ada’s nationhood, the British North Amerien Act, was f in consulta- tion between British Ministers and the delegates of the people of Can- ada, among whom Sir Charles Tupper in, alas, the sole survivor, The ocean. sion was thus one of peculiar historie interest to all friends of Canada. The picture is an excellent presen: tation of the veteran statesman. It was painted by the late Mr, E. J, Tur-
LORD #TRATHOON A. ner, and depicts Bir Charles seapet as we knew him in this country dur- ing his indomitable activities on Can- ad's behalf as High Commissioner
Mr, Turner, the artist, painted many | important pictures in his day, among | them a portrait of the late Queen Victoria, which Her Majesty herself bought, and another of his mother for King Edward. Mr, Turner also paint ed portraita of the late Duke of Edin- burgh, the Duke of Connaught, the late Duke of Cambridge (ordered by H. R. H. and now hanging in the King’s Military Gallery at St. James's Palace), the late Lord Napler of Mag- dala, the Earl of Rosebery, and Ad- miral Lord Charles Beresford,
Lady Minto III,
India’s trying climate has been too much for Lady Minto, and she sailed recently from Bombay, bound for Eng- land, and will spend four or five months recuperating her stree in Europe before returning to India the latter part of the summer, The Min- tos have so many friends here, aoc- quired during the of office of the earl as Governor-General of Canada,
that the news of the countess’ break- cove hie cause =e Lady nto is accom on her voy home by her wwe older daughters, the Ladies ileen and Ruby Elliot, while youngest of the three, Lady Vio-
the
let, wil! remain with the viceroy, to do the honors as hostess in the place of her mother during the latter's ab- sence, The Mintos have achieved no end of popularity in India, among the Europeans and natives alike--more so, indeed, than any viceregal family since the Dufferins, and they seem to have given uni satisfaction out in the Orient, as well as at home, by the extremely successful manner in which they have m the state visit of the ruler of Afghanistan.
Northwest Mounted Police,
The present stren, of the Royal Northwest Mounted ce is now 55 officers, 549 non-commissioned officers, and constables, and 80 guides, inter- d special constables,
, and 576 horses,
less and 30 horses less than last year.
is 407
agreed
in Alberta and Saskatchewan only three under the number upon.
High Livers.
Rupshu, a district on the north slope of the Himalayas, 15,000 feet above sea level and surrounded by moun tains from 8,000 to 6,000 feet higher has a permanent population of 600 per. sons, who live in goat hair tents
Letting Soap Dry Out.
The pet economy of a woman who is a splendid manager in every respect is getting soap by the box and spread- ing it out upon clean papers on the storeroom floor to dry out thoroughly. Some way the bara last a good deal longer,
One ee
. HONEYMOON IN PRISON. English Bride of & Foreigner Subject- ed to Many Indignities,
KILLS-HIS FHIRTEENTH LION.
Explorer's Narrow Escape—Life With the Pigmies,
A Friday adventure with his 13th lion was, the superstitious will note, one of the most exciting incidents in Major Powell-Cotton’s novel honey- moon.
The famous explorer has just re turned after 27 months of travel in Africa. In 1906 he intended to return to England to be married, but hesi- tated about breaking his journey, and 80 his flancee went out to East Africa, where the wedding took place. Since then they have explored ther the — of the pigmies of the Ituri For-
It was in October last, while on the bank of the Sassa river, near Lake Albert Edward, that Major Powell- Cotton had his most exciting adven- ture. A lion which he had wounded oo on him, digging ite claws in the major’s back and legs.
It tore ite victim’s coat to shreds, and then attempted to tear open the abdomen, but owing to a folded copy of Punch which Major Powell-Cotton had in his pocket, the brirte’s claws were unable to penetrate to the fleah. Finally an Askari shot the lion dead.
It was then found that Major
cigar shop in the West End of Lon- don. Her husband was arrested in Brussels on March 3 on a charge of thefts of ye / and on suspicion of being the assailant of Miss Low, the = sh nurse, who in January last was the victim of a brutal assault in & train in the Mont Cenis tunnel.
Andalo and his wife were on their honeymoon when the arrest was made, and h were imprisoned and as apart, She was kept for eg! b] hours without food on the first day of her imprisonment, and underwent all the degrading processes of measure ment, =fhotosraphy. ete., to which criminals are subjected. Bhe was only discharged after two dreary weeks of solitary confinement in a cell, Unable to speak French, she could not even exchange a word with her warder,
When she was released she was al- lowed to visit her husband in jail, and informed him, to his great sur
prise, of the charges against him. AD} Powell-Cotton had received 17 dalo was sudden only to SS herted over the Dotch frontier wounds. He, however, rode to the
nearest Belgian camp, where he was nursed back to health by Command- ant Bastien.
This incident h med on a Fri- fey. and it was the explorer’s 13th
jon, Among the Pigmies.
whither his wife is following him Their money is exhausted, and she haa not at present the §25 necessary to secure admission as an alien to her native country, where, however, she intends to return.
coded magis “ Speaking of his experiences with ed oe a re Er cartin the pigmles, Majer = Powell-Cotton
"The excitement of these little peo- ple when they first saw my wife was extraordinary, for they had, of course, never previously beheld a white woman. Perhaps the chief source of wonder was her long hair, which, for
that in his ciate of Italian anarchists, this be ing the reason why he has been de- ported from um, She replied that she knew nothing of ee pat
Con > Hig into —_ the special benefit of the dwarfs, she
ble. They marry ra without | Would let down, while they crowded
knowing anything of r past his eee our tent in speechless won- ” Tr.
tory. “Occasionally when away I would
leave my wife alone. She had learned a little of their language, and did excellent medical work among them In my absence she took charge of the caravan, and was always treated with the greatest reapect by the people.”
On the conclusion of the work in the forest the expedition proceeded to Lake Albert Edward, where the explorer visited a tribe of inke dwellers, who spend their whole lives on the water. Their houses are all built on Cpe, platforms, anchored to long poles. The main floating vil- lage consista of 30 huts, while two others comprise 10 and seven respec- tively.
“Bome of these grass huts,” says Major Cotton, “were built round a emall square platform about 25 feet by 10 This forma the common back yard and practically the world of the children. The people were healthy, woll fed, and good-looking. They pic marry outside their own com- munity, for they say a land woman would be useless and unhappy if compelled to live on their lake vil- lages.”
A LADY OF RESOURCE.
Beautiful English Countess Goes Into Fruit Business.
Most Canadians have heard or read of the beautiful Countess of Warwick who has for many years been an ar dent socialist, The name and fame of Warwick are 50 closely ansociated with feudal privileges and king-mak ing power that it is diMficult to as sociate a countess of that line with anything so modern and undecorative as socialiem, Lady Warwick's views are described by one writer as a kind of pink-tea democracy, rather than the red variety.
Hor sister alee o woman of puywion! charma, Lady Algernon Gordon-Len nox, has recently shown that she holds in light esteem the convention that a feminine aristocrat shall be useless, Not content with being known as a perfectly-gowned woman and one of the cleverest amateur gardeners in England, she has also undertaken to earry on an industry which appeals to every housewife. Bhe ia going to establish a fruit-bottling business at Broughton, Oxfordahira and is con fident of success, as the trade in bot tled and tinned commodities has greatly increased of late. The gardens at Broughton Castle are the most beautiful in the ony, with their hundreds of different kinds of tea rones. If equal suceéss crowns her efforts in fruit bottling, Lady Gordon
Boers Hate Chinese.
The new Transvaal Ministry will adopt no heroic measure with regard to the repatriation of the Chinese coolies,
The Imperial Government will be thoroughly disillusioned if it expects the Boers to display any anxiety in the direction of sending the China- men home
Lennox a, rove a formidable com potitor to ifornian and Chicagoan General Botha, the new Premier, firms, which have been rather un-| 89d bts colleagues do not love the
Asiatios, but they are wise enough to approve their stay in the country so long an it in to the Boer interest
The Boers are far more interested in farming than in gold mining, but the success of one depends on the other. If the Chinamen were sent away, the demand of the mines for Kaffir labor would be so great that the Boer farms would be depleted of their hands.
If the Radical party knew how the average colonial in that country re- ears them, they would understand wh ople aay they prefer Boer rule to being left to the erratic mercies of Downing street under a Liberal dis- pensation
The real cause of the distress that prevails in Johannesburg among men whose wealth ran well into six figures only. a few years ago in not far to seek, There are many capitalista who have retired to Europe, and have lent money on mortgage of real estate at 7 or 8 per cent. through the medium of the bankers.
_ Owners of property find it almost lmpoanitte to pay mortgage interest, and Qhe mortgagees are foreclosing in every direction. There are no buay- ers, and absentee lenders can become ownery of first-class properties at any rice from a third to a half of what ey coms to, erect,
popular in England since last year's ‘exposures,
The Baffled Lion.
(Near Lake Albert Edward Major Powell Cotton was saved from being killed by a wounded lion by a folded copy of Punch whieh he had in bir
pocket.)
The lion in his wounded pride, His victim mauled with tears scrunches, And all resistance he defied, Until he met et last “Puneh's.”
lf “Puneh” could thwart these wild eat schomes, And all a lion's efforta cumber, Just as it should have been, it seems, It must have been a funny number
with
Yet “Punch's” lovers with disgust Must own that when a lion rages,
It's clear his sense of humor must Ke but in embryonic stages
He tore at “Punch” with all strength, Aud sorely he began to rue it, Because he was compelled at length, To own that he could not get through it, ~M. 8.
Smugglers Killed,
A remarkable discovery of ammuni- tion smuggling has been made here, after a fight, in which two Pathans were shot, says a correspondent from Lucknow, India,
Two constables, peturning from pa- trol duty, found three Pathans with several camels, preparing to cross the bridge of boats connecting the Now- shera cantonment with the North Bank of the Kabul river, When question- ed, they said they were going to Swat, and had nothing except empty bags and fodder for their camels.
The police asked to see the bags, and were then offered bribes, which they refused. They insisted on the search, and when they were joined by 8 third constable a free fight en- 6
Two Pathans were shot and the third surrendered, Examination of their packs showed
his
The Advance of Asia.
General Bir Ian Hamilton of the British army wrote the evening after one of the great battles which be had witnessed between Russians and Japa- Bese in the recent war in Manchuria: “To bed! Although it ls with reluc tance that I prepare to lose my grip of the exciting consciousness that I have today seen the most stupendous spec tacle that it ls possible for mortal brain to concelve—Asla advancing, Ku rope falling back; the wall of \\9t and the writing thereon.” Then as to the meaning of this retreat of Burope be fore advancing Asia: “The more | think the more certain I am that it was not strategy or tactics or armament or information which won the battle of Linoyang for Oyama, bot that it was rather the souls of the Japanese
eee” eh ee L, poeeeess troops which triumphed over the less among the bags. developed, leas awakened, less stimu:
—_—___—_—_— lated qualities of the Russians.” Palace As a Club.
The old royal palace at Enfield which was once the abode war VI, and was given by him to Queen Biteahoth, hep Seen spened a 6 Vee teresting things at a recent banquet, royal monogram and the ancient coat-| The element that oreuples his atten of-arms are still conspicuous in the tion is not alr, but water, He dreams mural decorations, of a time when bis shark-like boats will make war on the sea a thing of
The Turkey Buzzard. John P. Holland, the inventor of the submarine warship, sald some very bn-
W the past. Yet he also has of alr- People in this world are so much | ships. His advice to Pri Bell alike that if you find fault with one | was to forget about his KN@Pand other,
you will hit a bundred. — Montreal Btar,
artificial devices and e@mely the tur key buzzard, which kdevwdidore about flying than all the callegaw on earth, “The thing that beatslgime(all,” said ; Mr. Holland, “ls thegaivaule turkey buzzard. There |s apolecgegrebensible mystery which it ls for mighty man to solve--how that bigg cggqeoar, circle, careen and sweep radius of half a mile without tA ent move- ment of Its wings sabootta mystery, \ and man will conqugs the alr.”
The Utilitarian Age.
The more picturesque the country the more inevitable it appeara to be that its beauty must be menaced and in most tnstancee eventually much tm: | paired by the erect/an of a hideous line of telephone posts, with thelr relent- leas reminder that we live in an age in which the beautiful has constantly to be sacrificed to the useful,
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One of the matters that should en gage the attention of the Department of Agriculture of the Province of Ak berta is the question of SEED
GRAIN for next year.
There ia no denying the fact that the wrain of the province in large mea pure, while not injured for market purposes, is affected for seed, The experience of men who have farmed in thie dietrict for years goee to show that If defective seed is sown it may come up all right, but soon shows a lack of vigor, and results are anything but satisfactory
The second year's production from the same seed is pot what it should be, It takes three years before a proper rejuvenation of the crop pro duct resulta, Some time ago The Chronicle advised the Larmers to pre nerve sufficient of last years grain flor eood «purposes, Since then we have learned that many farmers have sold out their crop of last year, and with this year's grain more or lees dam aged they will not be in a position financially to buy, and many new settlers will be unable to secure first clase seed for next year, There are thousands of bushels now in the ele vators of the province that the De partment of Agriculture has the means to, and could purchase and store, and could sell to the farmers at actual cost of buying and storage, and it would be a veritable boon to the agriculturalista besides going far in the direction of maintaining the reputation of the province as a grain producing one, in the next two or three years,
The council of the Board of Trade will meet this afternoon to consider the question and if they view it as we have suggested, will likely passa resolution urging upon the Depart. ment the advisability of taking the meatier up at an early date,
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James Weir is secretary of the Strathcona Board of Trade; he also happens to be editor of The Daily Chronicle, For bis seeretaryship ke gets $1000 a year, A strong kick was recently made against his hold- ing both positions, At @ meeting of the Board it was shown that Mr Weir was doing his duty; no kick came from that quarter, But he was a Conservative, A big, fat, full fledg- ed, jolly, whole souled Conservative Strathcona is strongly Liberal and after a full discussion of the secre tary's evil doings be it said to the everlasting credit of the Strathcona Board of Trade, they voted that he was giving satisfaction by a vote of 21 to 7, A mean that can run a4 daily paper and give satisfaction as secretary of a Board of Trade in a Liberal town like Strathcona must be a jewel, and we congratulate the jovial editor of The Chronicle on having his abilities recognized,--Red Deer News,
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Se ee eee
le sheet posters.
They may yet be united in one big city.
previous time in their history,
Western Canada Contractor,
Even that is a better view of this city’s future than the one reputed to lave been voucheafed by thet emin- statesman, Hon, Frank Oliver, who said: This Man. kety Blank Son of q Blankety Blank town
ent Wagnorian
is no good, ever was any
good, and never will be any good, and if 1 fad my way Td wipe it of the map."’
We presume the connecting link be tween the two cities will be the Grand Trunk Vacific Hailway, which great facility Hon, Frank has done *O much to secure for this city, we don't think
The telephone service in this city may be an outstanding
the beauties and
example of perfections of a municipal owned telephone
but there are one or two matters in
ayatom,
which it could be materially improv- ed by an imitation of the octopus The latest list of subscribers in this office bears the date August, 1006 Fortunately the girls in both the \_and Strathcona central are exceptionally attentive and have good numbers ; otherwise the service would be less satisfactory than it is, The delay in getting Edmonton numbers, too, by reason of the lines being busy, argues an inadequate
Eximonton
memories of the
service, and this should claim the attention at the earliest moment of those in authority,
-—————+ ——____- THE AUSTRALIAN WAY
(Hamilton Herald.)
A few days ago the Montreal Ga- gotte, to thro we cold water on Mr Borden's proposal in favor of nation alizing the telegraph service, pointed to the fact that the Hritish telegraph service, which is a branch of the pos tal system, is operated at a loss. In reply, the Ottawa Journal pointed out that the British telyvapn rates are less than hall the rates «nares in Canada, and showed thot if the Canadian rates were charged ‘ny lel tain the telogtaph of the Mitch post offlce department would ylell a large surplus revenue, Moreover, the eve ernment supplies the railway compas. jee witli a free telagraph service, and the ritish press rates are only a fra- ection of the rates charged for press dispatches in Canada, The British Policy is to give the people cheap amd eMfcient telegraph service, not to ut- ilize the service, for revenue purposes, If the latter policy were adopted, it would be easy to make the telegraph service yield a large revenue by) charg- ing tolls not so high as the people of Canada and the United States have to pay.
But it may be said that it will be
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long before Canadian conlitions are such as to make the operation of a national telegraph system commer- clally successful—that it might be done in Pritain, with her emall ter ritory and her teeming = pop ation, but that it would be impossiile in Canada, with her vast territory and sparse population, Well, let us see what Australia has done in that line, Conditions in Australia are similar to those in Canada and ite popula tion is a third = leas, And yet Aus tralia’s telegraph aystem, owned and | operated vy the government, is by no means a failure, The service covers 48,000 lineal miles, and more than 8,000 offices are maintained for about 4,000,000 poople, The dis
tances are magnificent Vaat atretch- es of line have had to be constructed through tracklees desert, Messages from Queensland niust be sent down the east coast and across the south: | ern coast to West Australia, a die)
tance of 6,500 miles to cover a gap land demanded to have evidence heard | daughter in
of about 4,000 miles in a straight! line. One line rune 1700 miles through a wilderness practically un inhabited, The rates charged are} lower than the Canadian rates town and suburban messages the charge is 12 conta for sixteen words, including address For within state bordera 18 cente for six teen words is the rate, and for mes sages from any point to any point in the country 14 conte is charged For more than sixteen words the unt form rate is two cents a word
mossages |ever required
And et myself by
years from holding a seat in parlia- ment, It is to the diseredit of Can- ada that we have a minister of jus- tice so reckless and irresponsible, We indict him amd his friends not upon gossip or rumor, but upon public ree. ords and sworn testimony, Let him bring on his pretended evidence and he will find me ready to meet it and to meet him at any time he sees fit, and at any place, Untike my oppon ents, L have never been afraid to face a petition fled against me, 1 went at great inconvenience and without | any compulsion to Halifex during) the eeesion of 1006, and submitted myself for examination by petitione ere’ counsel, and avoiding the evil example of the minister of finance, | answered every question put to me Later on I attended a trial and when counsel for petitioner refused to pro- coed with it and raised the point that the court had no juriediction, I protested against any euch decision
aed the case disposed of, My latent instructions to my counsel before 4 left Halifax on August 21 leet that no
were | evidence affecting me upon
were perjured, and that I could and} that I would return to Halifax when-| in case any stich evi dence was suborned and given
“Ll remember what was attempted in South Oxford against Donald Sutherland, and I realived what might be attempted in Halifax again meant of some un
yet the Australian government-owned | scrupulous tool desirous of thue en telegraph system is not operated ot) suing appointment to public office in| wound caused by the accidental ex-
t lows, It pays the cost of opera tion and maintenance and 8 per cent interest on the capital invested
If, with all the handicaps of the Australian telegraph service, it ie a
commercial success, why should it be
seid that a Canadian national tele j graph service must, of necessity, bea.
failure? Are Canadians inferior executive ability to the Australians ? Lat it be remembered that when the Australian government railway sys tom was disorganized and a source of annual loss, it was a young Canad
jan who reorganized it and speedily Anti- Asiatic
transformed it into a ducer,
revente-pro
—_—_q~——__——
The honor which the citizens
paid Mondaynight under the leader} jyrjune
ship of ‘B' squadron C, M. R, to Corporal McInnes and Sergeant Brown, was one richly deserved.
The “tremendous enthusiasm,” |io ihe
the gift of bie government During the campaign of 1004 1
; wee in Halifax only three days, and
Mr. Aylesworth’s wild and irrespon sible insinuations are absolutely de vold of the slightest foundation. He-' fore repeating them let him devote! hie time to explaining hie own dle
in reputable connection with the Gamey
case, and let him low hie well-known dread of meeting RoR. Gamey upon the public platform,”
a
Parades Forbidden
Vancouver, H.C,, Sept, 17.—Mayor announeed to-day that no further parades by the anti-Asiatic league will be allowed in the near future, Hlindus have notified the
mayor today that they would appeal
GHORMLEY
Ticks from the Tele- graph
(Special to the Chronicle)
The Duke of Atruzzi has been ap. pointed second in command of the Italian fleet in the Mediterranean,
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The Fort Madison electric railway bas been sold to the Mississippi Val- ley Railway Company,
Richard Wilson, a laborer, fell from a four storey building in Vaneouver this morning and sustained such se vere injuries that it is feared he will hot recover,
Mrs. Annie Baker, aged 31, of Low Angeles, brooding over her ill health and the absence of her husband in Colma, drowned herself and little Johnson's Lake yeeter day.
\ locomotive drawing a passenger train blew up at Calhan, Colorado,
"aH | For | that petition coukl be given unless it| yesterday, killing the engineer, J.D.
Hartney, —
The Shinamen recently arrested js Itegina for census purposes, have is sued write against Mayor Smith and four policemen for two thousand dol- lars damages each,
Albert Dagendisi of Hull, Quebec, died this morning from a bullet
plosion of a cartridge whilet ha was out hunting.
Harry Russell, a C. P, R. fireman at Maple Creek, yesterday lost an arm through the bursting of a gun
—
James Carter, who had heen in the employ of the @G, TT, Ty for thirty five years, died in Toronto yesterday, lle had charge of the train wrecked at the Humber in 1884, when twenty. nine men were killed
The Rev, Cyril Johnston, a To- ronto University man, was drowned in the French River yesterday morn- ing
A barn belonging to Alexander Smith, Sandwich, Ont,, was etruck by lightning last evening,
The Court of Appeal upholds To- ronto's contention that the ©. P, ht
governor general to prohibit) and the G, T, BR, should build the
as the Journal man put it, was|any immigration of Hindus to Van-| bridge over the Yonge street crossing heart-whole, and the frequent out- | °euver
breaks of applause sprung from the deep well of gratitude on the part of Strathconians at the glory won by her brilliant son,
The speeches were timely, and, while devoid of any bombast or spread-eagleism, were eloquent of the sincere admiration felt for the winner of what in Canadian rifte shooting is tantamount to the King's Prize.
The spirit of bonhomie which marked the occasion, was claract- eristic, Around the camp fires and at the mess tables of the Brit- ish army are found the highest types of manhood the world kvows, and the Canadian Militiaman is a close second in his distinguishing attributes,
Strathcona, as was well shown last night, is justly proud of her adopted son, and shares with her sister city its pride in Sergeant Brown who is a close second to Corporal McInnes, not only in his splendid marksmanship but in his inherent modesty,
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LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION STRIKES BACK,
Speaking at Peterboro, Ont., os Wedaesday last, the Hon, R. L. Bor den made an eflective reply to Mr, Aylesworth's address at Dundas on the previous day, Mr, Borden said: “Hon, Mr. Aylesworth is reported to have indulged in certain character- istic statements respecting myself at Dundas yesterday, He tol? the peo- ple that some one had told him that some one else could give evidence which would disqualify me for eight |
John Rayburn ployment bureau
of a Chicago om | has written Mayor | Ikethune that he ean supply all the white labor the city may need i
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The long distance prize in the inter. mifonal balloon ascension competi: tion at Hrussels has been won, by the German balloon, The Swiss and English competitors are racing for
President Roosevelt yesterday had a conference with the Japanese am- bassador and General Luke EB. Wright to discuss relations with the Mika- do's kingdom,
Agrarian troubles have again brok- en out in Southern Italy, and the situation is once more serious,
soe
Frank Katzenbach, of Trenton, N. J., Was yewterday nominated as democratic candidate for the position of governor of New Jersey,
Girl Would Blow Up Police Station
St, Petersburg, Sept, 17.—The po- lice today arrested a young girl nicknamed ‘‘Wanda'’ who is accused of participating in @ plot to blow up the headquarters of the secret police station on the Moika canal, whose torture chambers have aroused bitter feelings oa the part of the Revolu- tionists, The police claim that Wan. da planned to be a walking bomb and enter the headquarters building in the middle of the day when it is generally full of people, wearing the uniform of a gendarme officer, lined with a wall of gun cotton and carry- ing a powerful bomb, Wanda, the potice add, hoped by blowing herseli up to reduce the entire building to ruins and kill all the officers compos- ing: the staff of the political police,
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THE CANADIAN NBWSPAPER
See ewry | sunent those rr the lee © boetaen cona, who undertook the float.
| Sharples, president, Quebec ; George|; , = “ DIRECTORY FOR i907 A a O C A L ( Mhompeon, Quebec; Wm, Shaw, Que- de of a $20,000 loan to ho J ) bee; F. T. Riley, Winnipeg; Thos. able the new Oddfellows
| . ‘ We have just received from tt by S (he <e a eee ee ed) | MoDougall, Quebec; P. Lemoine, Temple to be completed, to- liskers, A, Mekim, Limited, of Moat.
Quebec ; G. H. Balfour, general man- , =} . a (From Friday's Daily) bane Quebec H. B. Shaw, western day received by cablegram froin aa and Toronto, q copy of the 1907 J an England client with whom /edition of the Canadian Newspaper
J. RK. Lavell and wife returned yes-| oi orintenden {nnipe : ity pom) Prete leupelior/ >; Whmloey they had been negotiating, to| Pitectory. Ihe Best Sub-division on the Market to-day
terday from a week's trip to Ban. | y western inspector Winnipeg u ; ; ; This is the f the effect that their efforts|, ooo OC ie
To-day is the anniversary of che branch, C. F. Pentland, assistant
conquest of Montealm by Wolfe |manager Calgary Branch, and the
TES following managers of branches on
\ meeting «f the hockey club will | the Calgary and Edmonton line: E.
be held in ihé Fire Hall on Tuesday si gtrathy, Lacombe ; W. W. Wilson,
evening for purjoves or reorganize | Innisfail, and F, N, Ballard, Dids- tion, bury.
Thos, MeCalirey, manager Vancouver had been successful. The
tae tory published in Canada t} come to citizens at large and|gone beyond a first edition ana ie
to the local members of the |has now become the standard work 1.0.0.F. in particular. of reference for all information about
newspapers, (From Tuesday's Daif¥) It not only lists and describes fully A meeting for the purpose of re-organ. |¢very periodical in the country, giv-
izing the Strathcona Hockey Clab will | full particulars but it supplies, as
Jos. A. Ellott, of Elliott Bros., (From Saturday's Daily) left yesterday for Novth Dakota to! Hon. CC. W. Cross passed through look after some thre-hing intereate the city last night on his return from is trip to Calgary.
there « a , ge Wika, f be heldin the Fire Hall at 8 o'clock thie| ell, a comprehensive Gazetteer of yy
The reception to Dugald Melnnes | The Rev. F. J. Johnston, of Clover evening. me Dominion,
winner of the Gove.mor General's} Bar, will occupy the pulpit of the Comparing this edition with former
@ prize at Ottawa, Is postponed until | Methodist church to-morrow morning Cr ones, we note a large increase in the Monday evening one Wtene The Stettler District Fall Fair, whieh Tialies Walaneals of dielcar en — . . : y on sup-
The Conservatives of Edmonton Mrs. KR. Hawlings, of Petrolia, Tharedey,® ste ape od wai Perted by affidavit and thereby fe meet to-night in their new club|OMt., has been the guest of Mrs. D. “seg ay, Y “ta postponed tn “leoived the star of honor, This is as rooms, Howard street, Major Gries | Cooke, corner of Oliver and Grandin | tober Ist and 2nd, it should be, and helps to put news- Let me tell you the reasons bach will deliver an address, oe etn EE at ainbeye CRE Ss llike i rae On a more leisiness
— oo © basis. The rapid growth of the ‘ J. Hamilton MeDonald, editor of} One of the Rdmonton bosses droppe! |new wostern i is v
The foners) of Mee Chae. J. Daggan].. , ’ provinces is very appar-
, 4,| The Plaindealer, who has been on a] intoa hole infrontof the Star Livery on | ent, for they are credited with ’ R oe * R will take py iden souaa trip to Regina and other Saskatcho- | Whyte Ave.laet night and the frontaxle | twice as many papers as in wae FI STLY It is only four blocks from the C. P, ca bene ii previ ne py ners Wan points, returned home Thursday. |snapped. The crippled bus was this! The McKim Advertising Agency a sca hiding Hh ibd store ‘i — morning dragged into the diteh, where | puolishor of this work, has beer “A
=e 4 . ' on form. R : F. Sache has returned from a visit] it has remained all day, a silent tests |ed into a limited company, capital. Yards, Car Shops, ound House, etc The Canadian Bank of Commerce) ig Lioydminster and points east on mony to the state of the roade ized at $200,000, to be known as A, |
has let o contract for a $12,000) the ON. R. Mr, Sache stopped over brick block to be erected in Lanigan,/a¢ Vegreville on his return journey Sack, The ateel has just reached }to look over some farm lgnds he has thie point jin that district.
McKim, Limited, with headquarters at Montreal, a branch office in To- ronto, and representatives in Now mired in front of Naylor's Confectionery.| YOr* and London, Eng. This change store this afternoon. A loug rope was |8s been made to facilitate — the tied round the hind axle and ten stow | @PTline of their steadily increasing citizen hauled on itto ald the efforts of the | business,
straining toam, Unfortunately the rope ~
oroke and several of the men on itt k Jed by 8 McKim, more than Aseat upon the muddy pavement with {ja Fang aie is ¥ a oe more haete than urave. The break was public r and odinttes nr Mee ’ bt quickly repaired, however, and the uray | ode are right wpriouditiacbbterrenin " was soon out of the nud, Progressive, and xystematic to a "a gree,
The firm has won an enviable rep- Miss Henderson will have her mill-|utation for fair dealing and jr map
inery opening Friday and Saturday payments and is undoubtedly at the of thie week, head of the profession in thie coun —_—— try.
SECONDLY---It is well within the City Limits
and more central than sub-divisions that
An Edmonton delivery dray became
Meeere. J. od Sullivan & Elliott! Io. Wilson has leased the Ontario liros yesterday concluded a deal | ptouse, which he ts having refurnich whereby they acquire a fine farm ot led and refitted throughout Mr 208 acres touching the city limits On) Wilson will have one suite and — six ‘a south-east | single roomea to let. When the hot 2 is put into shape it will be one of the best boarding houses in the city
er since thie business was found
have been selling at double the price.
Rev, Arthur Murphy M. A., of Tl monton, will conduct® the services in) Holy Trinity church on Sunday, for) Mr, Boggs, of Hooper & Boge, Itev. W. Kt. George, who will con-|jeaves on this afternoon's train for dluet eorvices at Wetaskiwin Red Deer and other pointe on the
_ routh jine, On his return on Mon
hw noelal held under the auspices of} day he will proceed to Lanigun, 4).- leties of toly Trinity eharch in all) Sask, where the firm has just open of ‘hat institation at the home of Mra [ed a branch office, OM. Hi last evening wae a complete —— Billy Vogel is doing the *'What The program incladed duets ta * A. MeGibbon, — Me a ~~ ah x on A is al ——————4—___-
sett, Dan Bissett, Boyd Hitchio and| irl, an illy is proud a erate: | sem on omsch on : oe | axe Ititchie left on the afternoon | ful. WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO a OWN AND OPERATE THE
train for Toronto to resume their Adolphus Slee brought in a large! PACKING HOUSES,
studies at the university, Mr. Me Gibbon has for several months acted/| eagle thie morning that ‘had been killed in a life and death combat
ae assistant editor of the Strath ia ‘ with en owl When the eagle ous ‘itor Strathcona Chronicle cumber to the death-dealing blows of| We have heard considerable lately the owl, the latter was killed by the |About combines and trusts in. the lad. jmeat and lumber business, and the The eagle measures six ft, one inch| People have quite a bill to pay for from tip to tip and is a fine speci commissions that haw been appoint a ig ed to investigate these co
cona VPlaindealer men, rms, ‘The
It would therefore be a good idea for investors to
callinto our office and see our prices before buying
elsewhere.
feces, by Mire Porte and Reggie Porte, Misses Muriel and Agnes Wileon;: piano aol ly Mra, J. Jackson and Mise Kuh Somereall; songs by Messrs, Mar- rics and Howe, and a recitation by Mr Wotherspoon
% \. Gregg, of the Mail and Empire Geo, MeCraney, the popular M. P of feronte, avd P.O. Cronyn, of the | of Rosthern, was a visitor in the city
World, were vistors in the city tora) tact evening, and called on Dr. Me ehort time today and left on the affter|intyre, M.D. Mr. MeCraney wae noon train for Vancouver, Grieg and! visiting some points on the CN. i
Cronyn are both veterans inthe journal) and took a run up — People have known that theee indus . 4 - " . " tries are combined mi it w jetic line and an teal pairtodrawto.| Mra” MeCraney accompanied — her Meeers. J, M. Kinnear, of Strath a as not} “a T. A, Gregg formerly edited the Kdmon-| husband on the trip cona, and Tellamy, of Edmonton, Recemary to «appoint a commission, (ESTABLISH ED 1897) ton Post and during hie incumbency on narnand took part in the Saskatchewan ten-| holding sessions all over the country
the tripod every number wara warm| The Golden Rule restaurant on! nis championship open competitions!‘ find it out, but it made an excuse
one. He leon bis way to the coast to|Whyts Avenue East has changed | at Regina last weet and got into the oe the government, at the expense of report on the Orlental question and in | Dandle KE, Moore, who has been for} semi-finals in the singles and finals in pond people, to give some of their taking Cronyn along a# a body goard two yeare dining car conductor on} the doubled. Speaking of their pee | ieinus friends a pleasant and in > *, . : ulo, Bie Wife the ©. 9 WL, taking over the bust [formance in the doubles the Regina | & ting time and help the govern | Ii King Bdlward, the Mikedto, lnew from bd. Bonin, Mr. Moore | Leader nay« ment to scours their support at the| fed Laurier and Dick Meliride #ill joat) |
. mows the catering business thor “Kinnear and Bellamy created |Polle, When the government can fur leave the Jape, Chink and Hinds oughly, ond ble assumption of the | somewhat of q@ sensation by defeating |Dieh a teat for their friends to pull} question to Gregg and Cronyn, WO) cinons ix @ guarantee that it willl the elub Veracks,”” Wheat and Gur-|@t they soon secure the dope that! trouble will soon be over ihe run on first-class lines ney im the semi-finals of the gents’ | Chloroforms them. Now, after apend
-_ fe Cr CS : —
re — eum jing all the money, and we know that!and unhealthy! Nor be it owned by {to get justice, Don't forget when we at from 810 to 815 for the settle,
A. J. MeLean; city engineer and The funeral of Mise Mabel teebella]| Ilodeon and MeGachen had a great | combines do exiet, these concerns are | the feople whe buy the meat and jallow ourselves to be led by che nore but have government Joans to set-
building inspector, has issued the fol) Duguid, who died at the howpital on) fight against Kinnear and Bellamy, |*Ull doing business at the old stand | pay from two to three tines as much! by the politicians, that they have the| tlers at about one-third the iaterest lowBe building permite | Thursday from typhoid, will take | the play ot times being brilliant on} @Md at the same price, and no one) for it as the farmers get, A thous) utinost contempt for usa, Certainly! he { . ic
Clement 'T. Brittain, dwelling Of) piace tomorrow (Sunday) from the | hoth sides, and the large crowd on | has been put behind the ban —or) aml thes better would it be for the} they, will smile upon us when we give iN ra CO aR neve 10 pay
lot 4, block 4, Sheppard and Ruther-| fainily residence M atreet south | joyed and applauded one of the best] likely to be, Yet everyone imows| people of the United States and for! them our support. If we want to be) They have government fire and life
Bs ford addition frame construction, iy the Strathcona cemetery, The cir | games ever seen in Hegina.”’ who can use a lead penell that the) hall the civilized world if the govern: | respected we must stand out as solid) (Meurance, government cold storage
conerete foundation, coat $000 cumstances attending Miss Duguld’s price that is paid to the farmer for) ment owned and operated the pack las the eternal rocks for our rights.) ware houses, pactdng houses, whole
i, Mayall, «table rd 22 andl ontimely death were very aad, her Ottawa Nopt, 17.—The Supreme me: a — Pork is doubled before! it hones of me} am! they were! If we do our duty as citizens we can! gale ware houses in the principal cit 28, vlock 1, ri lot D, frame con |, . brother both being in the reaches the coneimer, enabling the) run in Ue interests of the people | have oOvprnment mcking how “ rey pLE iy poeta aashete he selves, a ihe Courts of the Provinces of Alberta owners of these monster Pe wd tei Then the people would rt pels pected toate tc stiles canal tee of Diglant and Seotland, and the R. M, Call, dwelling on lot 14,1 cine The family came tn from and Saskatchewan are now complete.| pile up thelr millions out of the pro.) oned with diseased and rotten meatse|ment ownership of railways, — the j farmers get the full price for his pro ‘ block 108, frame construction cost) Avonmore, Ont only reeenthy Me. | \t a meeting of the cabinet J Hh} it that should be divided Hetween cured with poleonous drugs, and sold) arad water land tax, government) duet lew the commission, They have $400 Duguid having died a short tine be: | Lamont Attorney-General of Sas | Producer and consumer The wealth for private gain, The farmers wouldlerop, aml fire insurance, and I know]! no multiqillionaire packers or rail
of Phil Armour has been extimated! met a better price for thelr beef and) that ninety per cent, of the fanmers
" i x, dwelling on tote 5 . . * as on ) see » - George Darling, dwelling o fore Mine Duguid wa nly 1 ‘ve hatchewan, wae appointed = puien jroad stockholders because the people
and 6, block 18, Gar uo Katate, | of age ljudge of the Saskatchewan Suprenve at BA00,.000,000 What an enor pores, the — people would be able tolare in favor of this Ihut we are frame construction, conerete founda pala Court omd N. D, Beck K.C., of a-] 008 sum for one man in one firm) eure their meat at a lees price} such chumpa we do not know how) °*" (oom and their wealth in more tion, cost SH00 A. & Rosenroll MLL.A., of Wetask-lmonton, was appointed pulsne judge} make largely out of beef and than they do now and the heliyito ask for it jevenly distributed Sherif Duncan, Regina, block Ofliwin, ia in the elty today on hin lot the Supreme Court of Alberta pork ? Vorsibly IT could help you) would be better paid but there! One thing Strathcona is to be con | 12—That the Great West is the stores ‘on lot 14, block 68, brick] way home from Winniper Mr. Tos he names of the Chief Justices and | Dotter realize what that means when) would be no chance for any individ- | geratulated upon ta having an inde) only paper in Canada owned and con truetion, brick and concrete foun! enroll came up by Way al the. C 4 the other pulene judges of both court |! Reve. out to you that it would) val packer to amass a fortune of) pendent Seweumeree’ It t9 worth publiched by the farmers; that the dation, cost $3,300, R. to Regina and ©, N. BR. to Ed-| were recently announced and the ap. | #!¥6 990,000 farmers 81000 each > at) 8500000000 Woukin't that belmore to Strathcona and surrounding monton, He says most of the crops! poiniment of these two gentlemen | four to «a family it would be 2.000.. awful if we should secure goverment country than $1000 to have a rrowine| “PS Ulators and gamblers fear it Corporal Dugald Melnnes, winner off in Manitoba are cut and escaped the both well qualiied for the bench a eo you Py it would represent Packing houwes in Canada ? \ndj) paieg that is not afrakd to eriticlse | More than they do all the elevators the Governor General's prize, arrived} frost, At Hegina the frost was se jal vacancies for the time, the wealth of 2,000,000 farmers, be bdnonton be deprived of the chance! and condemn the wrong wherever it} and mille in Canada, amt that they n the city on this afternoon's train | vere and the same comlition prevail Mr. Lamont was a member of the re the average farnwer ie not ol inaking any multt-millionatre | found, and to have an editor who and the party politicians would like end was met at the depot by a num-led all the way up. The farmers! Dominion parliament where he took whe , ae bane & thousenwt dollars, packers No, |osay God forbidlin not ehloroformed ip’ pee at, desthaved. ’ Temsembes thes ber of his fellow officers of Bb Squad-jalong the line were feeling some lan active part in all that pertained wn owe are told what great things that Giifin or any other pac king | In cloning let me appeal to you in otis ron, CMR. what despondent at the outlook lio the welfare of the West .and a these industries do for the towns in house whal be allowed to do for Kad j th words of the Poet Longtellow one 0 “« big concerns refuse to Corporal Melnnes was tired after The frost seems to be general all |host of friends in Eastern Canada, | Which they are located The Hd monton and Canada what the pack In the world & broad field of battle,/ @¢Vertive in ite columns because & a, journey, and after calling at the} over the west but grain that was | as well as the Wost, wilt be delighted pyar Evening Journal of Sept 7 ore have done for Chicago Lat us} in the biveouae of life, | carrion the Nght into the dark cor shop of BE, J, Blavin, where he te standing up is not greatly injured, }to hear of his oles ation to the bench cq Peng Nes about the Griffin own our packing bouses, | know He not like dumb driven oattle; | nors of the earth, but if you and I employed, he retired to his room the most damage resulting to the — 4 os ~ All who know what that the farmers of — Alberta are! De a hero in the strife ; are loyal to our paper all the fend Seen by The Chronicle, Corporaljerop that was down oer on low) Winnipeg, Sept, 17,-Jehn Camp: | '™ - B igpnagy HT tr bes have dong unaninous in favor of it, because we] SOME THINGS FARMERS hie ei ark “ mas Melnnes vaid the events were keenly ground, . bell, aged 25, a brakeman on the © vo ; eee re wane City look] have passed in our convention rveo-| BHOL LD) REMEMBER } , Mav. BOD the power to dew contested, and he believed the Canad (Prom Monday's Deily) N, It.; was killed hore tovlay by be ihe Anan Hct pe Pest i when lutions in’ favor of it without one! 1 Phat you are citizens of Alberta) toy it ians are as good) markemen as any wi Ae ae duavis" as alent et ing ron over by a O.N.R, train while H led A J ar ri p ya al started B\seenting voice of vote and the ons Canada ; 1 That you should subscribe for in the world wich nt of the Alberta Funeral Direct at eer ser po the bridge. over the As around tb " 1 t ty i: " Grow Up) larmere are ninety per cont. of the; S—That as citiams you shiul? as- at least one independent paper, In the Palma trophy the Americans sega bea F i i ye NV waa | iniboine river, One leg was cut of ins a vw plant that " be taken! population Ii we do not get the! sume thé reaponsibilition aod privy W. R. BALI used the peep sights and had the ad SWlias® al agtited ea tiieaag na fren and he was so badly erushed that h al o aot and awe bs populas govermment to give ua pac king! iloges of citizens, | we Be A ¥ vantage of a calm clear day if fe if the executive ahemalitan of died 45 minutes = after the accident - : haa what have these pacsing houses it is because we do not know S—That the farmers are ninety per ovale, there had been a breeze blowing he Hed aie association | Mis parents ave said to reside at Md barre waa i for Chleago and the how to ask for them, Don't forget} cent of the population of Alberta believes the Canadian team would jmonton, He was aarried, hme gy farmers ? a would thin farmers, that the government ofj}and seventy-five per cent, of Can DIED, have won, Corporal Melnnes left = : Sat 39 | 7 to awe the Editor of The Jour! Canada has given 84,000,000 to the! ada that their representation in] fae sh Ottawa on Saturday last and arrive The Edmonton Steam Laandry have rf P fs " ~ mae pe he Jungle, if hu a and = steel industries as a free) parliament in lone than 4 per cent CARL-—At Strathcona, Sept, 18th., od in Calgary on Wednesday, where placed Mr, Harry Barber in charge their Traffic in Japanese awed pasta seeenet-S. 0. a an ait to put them on a sou financii!| d-Phat you are responsible for] aged 37, Mra, Mattie Banish Carl, he stayed over, the guest of Captain Strathcona business, who will call on 4 ation as the wealth of basis Remember that nearly all the the laws of the country wife of Ralph M. Car). Funeral : his customers daily. The Edmonton | Women the owners of these industries We! money comes out of your toil; youl 5—That the farmers produce eighty Thursday, Sept. 19 at 2 Armetrong, Laundry ie new and uptodate, with | hope and pray: that no big monster have had to hump your back anh’ five per cent. of the wealth of the! nif dee Donald J, Clark, son of Horace J./ the latest machinery and other ap k E per ry houses may ever be known to! work early and late to make up that! country - -———— - — . Clark, of the Clark Dredging Co.,| pliances, and ought to geta large share Fort William, Sept, 17.—It is be ll or i and Canada what money, and it was not used for your That about ninety per cent, of LOCAL SA arrived in Strathcona yesterday @nd| of Jocal business. lieved that there is traffic in Japan 2 A telly yg ety — st i oe we fori — 0 ae | the weer sr eo eet Prenat LESMAN 4 x ‘ ° tev. "he ? ie, ma . “ © ten 08 o rod you ive w ral is Owned yy the railway stockholders, 4 will spend a month in the city and pasa ope weep going on in this city, The timony of army oflicers these big) ways have — secured 228,000,000 | speculators and retain i " tn resin ba indy Clark is a mining en Watt Adame the pugilist has a long chief of police is endeavoring to lo monster corporations have without) cash and more land than there is in| ptoducts, money loaners and bankers WANTED
letter in the Calgary News, complaining |cate a man who on Saturday tried} heart, soul, or conscience, sent out! England, Scotland and Wales and a 7—That it is because of your cold} of the treatment he got in Strathcona, to obtain lodgings for three Japanese|the poison that has killed hundreds! slice of 4,000,000 acres off of JIre-, blooded indifference in public affairs | for STRATHCONA and ad- and says he is going to see a lawyer! women, It is believed that they arc | 4 thousands of soldiers and oth- land. Your share of that money! and possibly because of your ignor Peas ly” : P
about the write-up he got in the Chron: ers, and no one has been arrested for) would be about $800, All this has) ance of the evil eflects of vidious log-| Jong district to represent
gineer, He was here @ year ago making explorations and assays be fore it was decided tq build the gold
dredge just completed, He will now , , ibeing harbored outside the city lim oe ectn Rain fi ‘ , or AseAy 1 inspect oth |iele, We advise the legal gentleman to ite nurder, wir help have been com-| been done by the dear old party poli-|islation upon your calling that this! ping ian rf tth rs \ ud ta the in| 4et hile fee in advance This champion pelled to wotk for starvation w ages ticians that you love hetter than| state of aflairs existe Canada $ ircatest Nurseries ‘ ater D 7 ' 1 have been obligad to live le j t | ; ! j j ieti o decdaes moat sea | ve find besides neglecting to pay his ‘AN . . and ha Niged to live under) you do your country, your family or) 8=—That unless you tranple under special list of v Ye stallation of more drdaue 6 hotel and printing bills, and dividing CANADIAN ORDER OF conditions that has been demoraliz | your homes your feet party polities and put re : SI , ‘ f varieties in son. FPORESTERS ing, and the reputation of the farm-| I have departed a little from the/ country before your party and use! Fruit and Ornamental stock
} te | The dredge, built at the mouth of} ap the receipte with Mr, Fisher nleor} 6, urt St ‘ Cit ya =o Hl ey A | : ore A the White Mud, is now in the river, | overlooked the matter of the hall rent | vauat rathcona ity Lodge No,/ers’ beef and pork of the United! question to show you what we allow| your influence and your votes in the) suitable for Alberta planting,
: States has been blackened in the! the government to do because of ourl interest of the farmers vor ‘
and the guy lines Ts pean ye oar a Strathcona, Alberta. markets of the world, and the farm. indiflerence or ignorange of "the evil] ways be the under dog wil al | Thoroughly tested and haryd, operation are pres stre! ae ans The Alberta Employ ment ant Come This lodge will meet every jers will, amt have suffered on account | efeets of vicious legislation upon our 9—That it Is the hidehound party A permanent situation for the ri ht apron, <The: Fevveh WOT S ok and mistion Agency have during the past/ Third Friday of every month at 8 p.|of it, and not the owners of the calling, but the dear old politicians] politicians that have robbed you and, min; Liberal Indacements; Pay Week: ing will be commenced wow itarie three weeks placed about 150 harvest|m., in the Orange Hall on Lumaden! packing houses. And because they! tell you to keep polities out of your| are robbing you to-day, ; y: Reserved Territory: Free Equip- the results will be watched wi hands on farms, besiles 800 men for! Ave. cannot dispose of their canned goods! society, Oh, how you love them, and 1o—That the farmers of New Zea ment, specially designed for Western terest, railroad construction, Most of thee} Bor Safe Insurance, Sick and Acci-| as usual, the people have to pay) how willing you are to obey them,.|land are forty per cent, and their Agents,
_— ; laborers came from Eastern Canada, |dent Benefits, you cannot join a bet| more for their preserved meat, Who, What rot! What rot it is through representation in parliament is forty | STONE & WELLINGTON
r A number of officials of the Union [titel | ter order, owns Packer Town in Chicago? Is! polities we have been robbed and! per cent,
Bank of Canada who are making Bs Messrs. Hooper & Be ges, Bro H, 8, Armstrong, it the farmers who furnish the meat,! bled till we are white, and it is only 11—Thot the people of New Zea Fonthill Nurseries tour of the country, wapred. one. the well known real estate| Chief Ranger, or the hard working and poor paid by going into politics, sending men|}land own their railways, coal mines | (over 800 acres) the city this morning and ha , Rev. W. R. George.|imen, women and children, who do all, to parliament pledged to demand and public lands; no land there for TORONT: fast in the Strathcona House, and financial agents of Strath: Financial See,'the work and much of it filthy dirty,’ what we want, before we can expect the speculator at $1.00 an acre ana | e) ONTARIO
a |
Below Stairs
By Will A. Page.
Copyright, 1907, by C. H. Sutcliffe. SSCSHSOHESSSSOHSHOESOOOOSES
Evans, the butler, was industriously reading the newspaper out loud. On the other side of the kitchen table Mor- timer, the coachman, was mending his whip. “
“The daring robbers then bundled ap their booty and decamped,” the pom- pous butler read very loudly, “leaving the detective officers baMed without a | clew. As there was no evidence that | the doors had been forced or locks tampered with, the detectives were at first Inclined to suspect the servants, but as Mr. Walcott declared he had the utmost faith in them the police were not allowed to search their rooms.”
Mortimer, oblivious of the newspaper item, did not reply when Evans stop- ped reading as though expecting some comment.
“1 say, Mortimer, old chap, that isn't such a bad haul, is it?) The paper says they got away with $2,000 worth of allver.”
“Bad haul?’ queried Mortimer. | “What are you talking about?”
“Talking about?’ repeated Evans, disgusted. “Why, what else should I be talking about but the big robbery down the street at old man Walcott's house?”
“Oh, I'm sorry, I didn’t know you were reading anything of importance.”
“I should say it was of importance. As the servants there are suspected, that naturally places us in an awkward position.”
“What do you mean?”
“Aren't we all servants? And If one ‘of the fashionable families takes up a fad don't all the other fashionable fam- flies follow auit?”
“Nonsense, Evans, You're an old fool.”
“I tell you,” persisted Evans, “that if the Walcott servants are suapected of dishonesty the servants of every fash- fonable family in the city will have to clear their characters.”
“Why, we are well known to the missus, I have been with ber alx years, yet you dare’— And Mortimer rose, flourishing his whip.
“I don't mean you,” sneered Evans. “It's Mise Charlotte who is more like ly to be suspected.”
Mortimer resisted the Inclination to strike the fellow, though he was strong- ly tempted. The doorbell sounding then, Evans, with a muttered impreca- tion, rushed to a emall mirror banging on the kitchen wall, primped Wimeelf and disappeared, bowlng elaborately to Charlotte, the maid newly come to service, who happened to be entering the kitchen at that particular moment,
“Now, then, you stupid,” broke in Charlotte, “you almost made me drop the chinaware.”
Charlotte bowed, without speaking, to Mortimer, who commenced to mend the whip with redoubled anxiety, She busied herself at the gas stove making chocolate, and neither spoke a word for several moments, Then Evans broke in hurriedly upon them,
“Ita a detective,” he ered, rushing across the room toward the door which led into the front basement. “I seen it on the card he sent up to the missus, ‘A. L. Walker, Detective Headquar- ters;' that's what the card sald.” He opened the door Into the basement,
“Tut what does be want?’ inquired Charlotte
“That's Just what I'm going to Gnd
ont. There's a furnace pipe tn there that is loose, and it opens right under | where the detective ts sitting, I can |
hear every word.” And be disappeared into the cellar
“I'm afraid Mr, Evans ts not trou bled by scruples, Mr, Mortimer,” said Charlotte, turning to the gas stove again, “I always thought butlers a bad lot.”
“I'm glad you think so,” began Mor timer.
“Why, Mr, Mortimer, what do you mean?’
“Of course one can't be jealous of a butler,” broke in Mortimer, dropping | the whip,
“Jealous? Well, I ke that? with a tows of the head.
“Perhaps I shouldn't say jealous,” continued Mortimer, abashed. “But, you see, | wanted to ask you"—
“Welt
~“it you'd spend your next evening out with me, anless you have some other engagement,”
“Next week, on Thursday?’ sald Charlotte coquetiiably, “No, I don't think I have anything on my card.”
“Then I'll put you down for next Thuraday, Miss Charlotte, Thanks!”
“Did you say it was for the grand opera, Mr, Mortimer?’
“No, Miss Charlotte; for the coach- men's ball,”’
“The coachmen's ball?" repeated | Charlotte enthusiastically, “Oh, how jolly! I've always wanted to go to a coachmen's ball, It's-—tt's rather ex- clusive, isn't it?"
“I should say 80,” answered Morti- mer proudly, “Only those who drive for the west end families are eligible.” |
The sudden boiling over of the milk | interrupted these pleasant anticipa- | tions of future happiness, and Morti- mer was dispatched posthaste to the dining room to secure some chocolate, Charlotte, left alone, reached for her | handkerchief and found a letter in the pocket of her apron, Evidently she was deeply interested, for she read and reread the letter several times, Then ghe untied the handkerchief, dis- wosed a large diamond ring and tried It on several flogers,
“Oracky! A diamond! cried Evans, entering suddenly from the cellar. Chatiotte hastily returned the ring to her pocket.
“It's my own,” she declared. “It was given to me by a dear old lady who has just died.”
“Stuf! and nonsense? broke In the man roughly, “It's the dlamond some one stole from the missus, I heard all about it through the stove pipe. The detective is looking for it now. He's going to search the house.”
“But it’s mine, I say”— |
“Ah, your game is up, my girl. Give me the ring and I won't tel. Say you'll marry me. I can eal *) ala mond”
| each other,”
ay ya
THE CHRONICLE, STRATHCONA, ALBERTA.
“‘et me go. You hurt me, Help! Let me go.” b
“Perhaps you'll oe good enough to oblige the lady,” said Mortimer, strid- Ing down to Evans and giving him a twist on the collar, “Be off with you!”
Evans withdrew to one side angrily. “I'm going to tell the detective!” he cried roughly. “Then we'll see whose turn It will be.”
The man rushed dat of the kitchen angrily. Charlotte flushed red. “What is he going to tell the detective?” asked Mortimer.
“He—he—thinks I have stolen this diamond,” she answered, showing the ring.
“My God! Where did you get that ring?” erled Mortimer. “And be says you stole it? Quick—give it to me be. fore the detective comes, I'll any I took it.”
“But It's mine—really"—
“Then what does he mean? Ah, | know you wouldn't steal a ring, Mise Charlotte—you wouldn't steal anything more than you've already stolen, my heart—but If I can help you only say the word.”
Evans entered a few minutes iater at an unfortunate moment. He was decidedly gloomy.
“Fine joke, you people may call this, making game of a man,” be muttered, crossing to the cellar door.
“The detective—you told him?" eager ly asked Mortimer,
“Yea, I told him. 1 goes upstairs and tells the missus and the detective just as he is about to leave that ber mal’ says as how she stole the diamond’ ring and ts waiting in the kitchen to be arrested. At that the detective and the missus commence to laugh and the deteck be says: ‘Gulity con science, my lady. Watch that mak Some day she'll steal preserves.’ An he goes out laughing. And then th missus turns to me and says, ‘Evan the detective found my ring under th hall rug, where it had fallen.’ ‘Al right, ma‘’am,’ says 1, backing out, fo I saw something was wrong.
“While on the subject, Evans,’ con tinued the missus, ‘perhaps you wi! explain Just bow you learned I had lo« a dlamond ring. I never told you’ And #o I was caught, and the best could do was to say that one of thy furnace pipes was loose and that happened to be In the cellar by ace! dent. Now the missus has given ov orders to fix that furnace pipe.”
And he gloomily plunged Into th collar.
“Bo you really believed I had stole the ring?’ said Charlotte.
“Not once. | was prepared to awea I had stolen it, because I love you.”
A terrife crash from the cellar to terrupted them again at a critical no ment.
“What's that?” erled Charlotte,
“Lt think the furnace pipe must have fallen on Evans,” answered Mortimer cheerily, taking ber in his arta,
“Poor Evana,” murmured Charlotte “And we'll use my diamond ring as an engagement ring, We must save money now, you know.”
Equal to the Occasion.
“A Chicagoan named Littledale piay ed with me in amateur theatricals | my early youth,” sald a well know: actor,
“Littedale in one of our shows bad to leap into a river in order to escapr from a wild beast,
“The stage was so arranged that th river was invisible. Littledale was t leap and dileappear, striking a soft mattress in the wings, and at the sany time a rock was to be dropped tn «a tub of water to create a splash.
“But, though the leap worked all right in rehearsal, on the night of ac tual performance it went wrong, There Was neither mattress por tub there When poor Littledale Jumped he fell eight feet and landed on an oaken floor with a crash loud enough to wake the dead, and there waa no splashing water to drown the crash, by Jove,
“The audience, expecting to bear o
| splash and hearing Instead the thun
derous impact of Littledale’s bones on the oak, set up a Utter, But the heroic Littledale, equal to the occasion, #! lenced them,
“ ‘Heavens,’ he shouted from below, ‘the water's frosen!’"-—-Home Mega sine,
The Account Gettled In Full.
At a salon in Paris some years ago the Sieur d'Almerie was one of a group to whom he was imparting an account of his pedigree, which be claimed was derived from the pharaohs of Kgypt Just then the late Baron de Rothschild approached the group, and one of its members called out; “Baron, come and let me make you acquainted with the BSleur d'Almerie, He cames from pha- raonic stock, and you ought to know “Yea,” said the baron, bowing gravely and addressing D’Al- mere, “I believe our families had some transactions In time past.” “Yes,” re
| Joined D’Almerte, “we have a record
that your people when leaving the coun-
try borrowed a considerable amount of |
| Jewelry from my people, for which I
should now like to be repaid, with tn- terest.” “I remember the transaction,”
| sald Rothschild, “but the account was
settled at due date, Your fathers re- celved a check on the Bank of the Red Bea.” P
Happiness For Children,
If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty yeare hence by the memory of it— Bydney Smith
A Wellington Ruse.
Once during the Iron Duke's cam- paign in the Pyrenees it happened that Genera! Picton's disposition for receiv ing the assault of Marshal Soult dis pleased him. The danger threatened from in front, and the difficulty lay in delaying the attack until Wellington coukl effect the change he wished, [le was, as usual, equal to the occasion Waving his hat In the alr, he gallop to the front of the regiment as if ne meant to order a charge. The whole of Picton’s line cheered tremendously, and as the roar died away Wellington was heard to remark half to himself: “Soult !s a cautious commander aud will not attack in force without ascer taining the meaning of these cheeis. That will leave time for the Sixth divi tion to come up, and we shail beat bim.” This was exactly what happen- ~t sad Soult sustained a bloody re pulse where he might bave won an easy victory.
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ENLISTS IN THE RANKS. | « English Army Officer's Mysterious |
Disappearance Accounted For.
Debonair Lieutenant Tryon, who mysteriously disappeared from the Hotel Metropole on the early morn- ing of January 31, has for three weeks
ast been the darling recruit of the!
aforth Highlanders in Edinburgh | Castle. Now, to the great regret of his comrades, he is guarded as a pris- oner in the castle,
It was at the beginning of the fren- zied search for him by private detec- tives and Scotland Yard that on Thursday, February 7, a tall, clean- shaven young fellow walked up to a eet do in Stirling, and after an introductory word remarked: “I would like to enlist in the Sea- forth Highlanders.” The reeruiting officer, with a keen eye for a fine man, regarded the young six-footer as a “find.” He asked him particulars as | to himself j
“My name ia John Fraser,” said the young man, “and for eighteen months
have been at a place near Stirling.” There was more conversation, the up- shot of which was that the stranger was given a railway warrant for Edin- burgh, and on February 9 found him- self with the Seaforth Highlanders at Edinburgh Castle, an accepted re. eruit. He entered himeelf as having been born in the parish of Waterloo, London, and his trade or profession as that of a laborer.
John Fraser soon proved himself no ordinary laborer. A giant in physique, he had the upright carriage and the lithe movements of the athlete. Criti- eal drill sergeants turned an approv- ing eye on him. He was really a won- derful recruit. Within a week John Fraser had been tentatively selected to beat the big drum, though it was fated that he should never reach that honor,
Scrubbing the Floors.
His comrades liked him very much because, speaking and behaving as a cultured man, he yet showed no- thing in the shape of “swagger.” In athletics he excelled, and he carried out his new duties as though to the manner born, On getting up in the morning he would quickly make his bed, and after recruita’ drill would take his turn at the ordinary duties of the newly joined soldier, helping
to carry in the food of his colleagues, aweeping the floors and scrubbing them mon were instinctively im
pressed with John Fraser, and in the course of a week or two he be came a favorite, He put on no airs, visited the canteen with the others, but nevertheless gave little or no in formation about himself
It waa in the canteen on Monday evening laat that there arose a dra- matic scene, A lance-corporal was reading pense which contained a vortrait of the missing Lieutenant yron, and suddenly looking up at Private John Fraser near him, call-
ed his attention to the picture and the ||
atrong resemblance.
The new recruit turned not a hair Smilingly he admitted that he and Lieutenant Tryon were one. The men wore staggered into silence. But then vame the surprising — These stal- wart Scotamen, having found a good man, had no idea of telling tales about him. The news spread like wild fire among the Highlanders, but al though many scores knew of the iden- tity of John Fraser, all kept the news religiously from the authorities. How it eventually crept out in not known, but two days later, on the Wednes day night, John Fraser waa placed under arrest. Under the name of Lieu. tenant Tryon he still remains under arreat
Colonel's Statement.
The following statement was iaaved the other morning by Colonel Macin-
tosh commanding the regiment; “Pri- vate Fraser, who enlisted three weeks ago into the Seaforth Highlanders, quartered at Edinburgh Castle, has been identified as Lieutenant Tryon, who absented himself without leave
from hia unit at Gosport. He is at
present detained at Edinburgh Castle.” Speaking the other day, Colonel
Macintosh remarked: “I do not think there is anything else to say. A large number of the men knew of his iden- tity, but they kept it to themselves Now, all I have to do is detain him What action the authorities will take I cannot say, As to any explanation of the lieutenant’s action, | have heard nothing.”
Break, the sergeant major of the Seaforths, a splendid specimen of the muscular Scotaman, was a little de- govted the other day. “You ought to ave seen him (Lieutenant Tryon) walking at the end of that detachment of recruits on parade, He was ‘great.’ There waa only one other man in the a gy to equal him in physique,”
dd the sergenat major sadly.
A fellow-private with Lieutenant Tryon remarked on the ease wit which he did his military tasks, “You ought to have seen him, sewing the buttons on his clothes. He did it es OF Another private remarked; ‘One of the smartest chaps we ever lendid fellow,” and a ser-
: “He was just the lor our drum, and we shan’'t get another like him.” Altogether, an air of melancholy lies over Edinburgh
0.
Some Peeresses’ Jewels,
Many society women are the owners of jewels worth the proverbial king's ransom. Perhaps the largest collec tions belong to the Duchess of Port- land and the Duchess of Marlborough, but Viscountess Iveagh is the posses sor of one of the most valuable neck. laces in England, Her pearla are
worth over £70,000, and took Lor! Iveagh a time to collect. Lady Rothschild, Countess of Dudley
the Countess of Annesley, and Lay Denmen all own most beautiful pearls The Duchess of Roxburghe and the Marchioness of Dufferin both have a large number of turquoises,
Lord Mayor Soldier and Sailor.
“You would hardly think, to look at me, that I am colonel of the regi ment,” said the Lord Mayor of Lon don at the distribution, at Guildhall! of the prizes to the First City of Lon don Royal Garrison Artillery, of which he is honorable colonel. Ye is alac
of the Port of London.
Out For the Dust.
Eva—Have you decided to accept the young man, Katharine? Katharine— No, At present I look upon him mere- as a pack of cards, EBva—A pack of cards? Katharine--Yes. If he has the long green I shall make a deal, Bva— And if he has not?) Katharine—Then I shall cut him,
The Sun and Moon.
Harris in his book “Hermes? says that all the nations of the earth, an- cfent and modern, have ascribed to the sun & masculine and to the moon na feminine gender,
MRS. ISAAC L. RICE.
Leader of the Antinoise Crusade in| New York.
Mrs. Isaac L, Rice of New York is a ‘woman who is endeavoring to bring about a reform that should appeal to the residents of all large towns and cities, that of eliminating from dally life all the senseless and uncalled for Molses that wreck nerves and make existence almost unbearable, especially for the invalid.
Mrs. Rice, who lives in a mansion on Riverside drive, one of the fashionable avenues of New York, has established
MRS. INAAC L. RICK
herself as the leader of the crusade against unnecessary nolses which jar! the nerves of wetropolitan residents and has been so far successful as to have many of them suppressed, notably the steamboat whistles on the Hudson which have screeched undaunted and disturbed the repose of the residents of the shores. She has associated with her such representative citizens as Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, and for the | edification of the powers which control the city Mra, Rice had reproduced by Phonograph all the various nolses that make day and night hideous ia New York, Her eventual success in suppressing these sounds is prayed for by all quiet loving citizens.—Bxchange. | Mothers and Daughters.
There is a certain type of mother |
who seema to think that a daughter is always a child. Poor, crushed crea- tures these young women are. They are not allowed to choose their friends ‘—the mothers see to that—and the consequence is the girls are probably made to consort with companions with whom they have no taste in common, and the unhappy girls aré ueprived of one of girlhood's greatest charus—con- ‘genial companionship, Such girls are taught to regard all ‘members of the opposite #ex with sus | |picion The consequence ta that as the | ‘years go by they find themselves be- ing “left on the shelf” on account of ithe fact that prospective husbands have been frightened away. A mother | often hedges her daughter round with | eo many home rules and regulations that to many men It seems as though they were all suspected of some dia- hbonurable motives in seeking to make ithe acquaintanceship of the girl
And if the latter bas any ambitions she dare not gratify them if her moth) er b* opposed, Of course this attitude on the part of mothers Is usually the outcome of stories which one reads ‘from time to time of the alleged dan- gers to which present day girls, who jenjoy freedom and privileges tever al- ‘lowed thelr grandmothers, are exposed, But there la a great deal of differ. (ence between safeguarding a daughter in a proper manner and absolutely re- | fusing her pleasures of Yer own choos | | tng. To deny a girl the right to select @ friend or mix with members of the opposite sex, for instance, is extremely | Solid. Tiow can any girl develop mentally if she is not allowed to act a Uttle for herself?
A mother’s duty Is so to train a girl | that she will turn out a useful member | of society—one ready to take up the, duty of wife and mother, If, however,’ mothers persist In crushing daughters @nd treating them constantly as chik| dren, the women become failures in Ufe and thvough no fault of their own.
The Girl In Business.
The girl in business who is addicted | }to trifiing inaccuracies or who has a , way of forgetting little things may be. a very nice, well meaniug girl, but she will never be a success in business un- leas she conquer her failings, She may be an exceptionally rapid stenographer, ,but if she ts not careful to take her notes with exactness and transcribe them with accuracy and neatness her speed will avail her nothing. A busi- ness man wants, above and beyond ev- erything else, employees whom he can trust and whe can be depended upon to do thelr work as thoroughly without his oversight as with it.
The labor market is overcrowded with whose “little mis!) | takes” it takes half a day to detect and straighten eat, with stenographers |whose letters need editing and fre |quently rewriting and even then 1% ‘not unlikely to be sent out minus post | ge, with elerks who are jnvariably a
|, few minutes late, and with all the reat
of the careless and incompetent ones that forma part of every busy man's burdea.
| In matters of daees and personal ap- | pearance the trides are of supreme im
Poruiuee, The untidy Gin, due wollen | collar, the rumpled shirt waist, the
badly adjusted belt, the skirt frayed at
the hem or gaping at the placket, the
gloves In need of mending, the shoes
dusty or down at heel—these things,
all and sundry, are among the most
palpable of the unconsidered trifles
which interfere so sadly with a girl's
success. Any one of them, taken by It-
self, is sufficient to create an unfavor-
able impression; taken altogether, they
infallibly stamp any woman as hope-
lessly careless and slovenly, says an
exchange, And the woman who Is
‘careless and slovenly in persona) mat-
‘
day or two,
| twelve or even eight, that being the
| running a sewing machine ia to find
| one Atting of the bodice in order to
ters 14 morafy certatn to M&pliay sinil-
lar characteristics in all the affairs of life.
Which brings us back to’the originai proposition—that it is the “unconsid- ered trifles” that count.
Cleaning Thread Lace.
“Spots, or Two Hundred and Two Cleansers,” gives the following good idea for cleaning: For thread Ince sew | new white muslin around a bottle and_ then roll the lace smoothly and se-| curely, tacking the ends, Touch the lace lightly with sweet oil while wind-! ing. Fill the bottle with cold water to keep it from bursting, and set it up-! right in a strong suds of cold water and castile soap. Tie a string around | the neck of the bottle and secure it to the kettle and boil half an hour or more or until the lace is cleay. Rinse, with hot water and set the bottle in’ the sun. When quite dry, remove the lace and lay in long folds between | sheets of white paper and press for a/
How to Wear Colors.
Nothing is prettier and more becom- ing to a fair, slight woman with a pretty complexion than white, but white gowns must be carefully avoided by her sister of too ample charms, Black is tLe color for the stout woman, especially if she be of the black eyed and black haired type. A black gown will make ber look slighter than any thing else, while pale blue, light gray and nearly every shade of red will take her “too, too solld flesh” most undesirably self assertive. A subdued shade of blue, hellotrope and olive green, with black, may be advanta- geously worn by the stout woman.
Red Carpet Fashionable.
“Red carpet for royalty” is an well established a custom here as abroad, and now in this country thé hostess who entertains at all extensively bas her own roll of crimson carpet, prefer- ably velvet, to spread over the steps and pavement In front of her house on the occasion of any entertainment. An awning may be omitted if the weather ia fine, but the red carpet is obligatory when the guests number more than
limit In number of an informal enter- talnment of any kind.—Dross,
When Machine Gtitching. “One of the most annoying things to
that the lower thread has run out just when In the middie of the seam,” says a writer in Good Housekeeping. “Now, I run my seam and wind the next bob- bin at the same time. I put a spool of cotton in the little top drawer of the machine, leaving the drawer a little open to allow the thread to pass more easily, then use the winder as usual and never have to wait for a fresh shuttle.”
tn the Bathroom,
In the bathroom there should always be a bottle of household ammonia at hand, one of a 40 per cent solution of formaldehyde or other good diasinfec- tant, a couple of cloths, a long handled brush and a scrubbing brush. It is also well to have a can of concentrat- ed lye or one of the preparations like it, which will cat accumulations in the waste pipes,
Fitting a Gown.
A weil known French dressmaker al- ways asks his patron to stand with hands lightly clasped behind when he ia fitting a skirt in order to secure the figure as it la when the woman walka, He also has her sit down for at least
be perfectly sure of the neck, arm- holes and back.
To Make a Couch Rug.
A otrikingly handsome couch rug may be made from red denim in wide stripes, the light and dark sides being used alternately, The stripes may be embroidered in heavy mercerized yarn in black, sparingly outlined in gold, The design may be patterned from a Bagdad rug.
Selecting Fish.
In buying fish the careful housewife selects one that is firm of Gesh, the eyes full, the fing stiff and the gills red. Stale Osh are easily detected by the dullness of eyo, the fexibility of the fins and. the soft and fabby desh.
An ounce of camomile ought to be enough to make a good strong tea with a pint of water. Thia will slightly lighten the hair if used after waBhing. The haly rinsed in the tea should bo dried in the sun,
When pillow slips with buttons are bought, the buttons should be exam- ined, If these are of metal covered with linen, remove them, Use those made by folds of linen only,
When fanning an invalid, if a few drops of aromatic spirits of ammonia be sprinkled upon the fan it will be found very refreshing.
When a cloth is removed from the table, it should be pot Into a press and lightly screwed down until wanted,
Smoking In Congress.
The rule against smoking in con- gress was adopted some years ago at the suggestion of the late Senator In- galls of Kansas, The Kansas senator complained one day that smoke was being wafted into the chamber from the corridors or cloakrooms, Other senators joined the Kansan in protest. The rule was passed, Later it de veloped that the smoke came from burning waste near the capitol, and the wind carried {it into the building. When ft reached the olfactories of Mr, Ingalls it reminded bim of a Kansas elgar, But the discovery of the mis- take did not abate the rule.
Points of Law.
“I object to that question, your hoa- or!” exclaimed the attorney for the de- fendant.
“On the ground that it is imperti- nent, Immaterial and irrelevant, I pre- sume?”
“Only the first, your honor, It’s ac- tually impudent. Why, an answer to that question would give my clieut dead away?"
Naturally so delicate a point had th | be taken under advisement.
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Clever Scheme Carried Through by e Plausible Woman. —
An elegantly dressed Spanish lady one day visited a specialist in mental diseases in Madrid on behalf of het husband, who, she said, was a sufferer from religious mania. Having explain- ed the case, it was arranged that she should return in about an hour with the afflicted husband.
The lady's next scene of action was & jeweler’s shop in another part of the city, where she selected diamonds to the value of $5,000 on the understand- ing that she woul! buy them if her husband approved, Would some one accompany her home tn a cab and the money would be paid immediately? A trusted clerk was sent, and with him the lady drove back to the doctor's house, In an anteroom she took the stones “just to show them to ber hus- band.” ‘Then, entering with sublime assurance the doctor's study, she In- formed the specialist that ber husband was now In the anteroom and ready to be examined,
Leaving a visiting card, the lady took her departure, and the doctor, bidding the supposed patient enter, proceeded at bis leisure to ask professional ques- tions, The jeweler’s man was puzzled at first, but soon he realized that he had been made the victim of a clever frand. The doctor, however, interpret: ed his agitation as caused by his com- paint, and when after two hours mat- ters were finally explained the lady im- postor had vanished with her «polls without leaving any trace. — London Tit-Bits,
CATARACT OF THE EYE.
How the One It Attacks May Watch the Obstruction Grow.
Cataract is anid to be due to the gradual deposition of oxalnte of lime in the substance of the crystalline lena, at fret in small spots or streaks, sometimes In one part and sometimes in another, The deposit gradually itn creases until it penetrates the whole of the lens, causing bitndness. The femedy, then, is to remove the lens, and after its removal the patient needs A substitute in the form of highly mag hifying apectacies.
All that is necessary to enable a patient to see his own enataract for himaelf ia a plece of card and a nee die. A visiting card will do very well Pierce a clean round hole near the middle of the card and hold the ecard up to the light clowe to the eye, look Ing preferably In the direction of 4 plece of bine eky, With the cant near to the eye the patient will not see the small hole plerced by the needle, but he will see a comparatively large, faint ly Hluminated field with his cataract projected upon it. He ta, in fact, ob verving the ahadow bast by his cata ract on the retina at the back of his eye, With a «mall puncture in the card the shadow #0 thrown is compar. atively sharp, But with a normal eye an evenly Ulominated fleld or clean disk will be seen. The patient may thus map down his own cataract and vettlc for himaelf whether It ls exten. ing and whether he will have an op eration or not.
The Traveler's Tree Myth.
Among the romantic stories of far off lands that have long maintained thelr circulation and commanded more or leas bellef te that of the “traveler's tree,” credited with possessing a reser volr of pure water fitted to save the lives of wanderers tn the desert. G. F. Seott Eliiot declares from his own ex- perience that the tree grows only in the neighborhood of swamps or springs ond that, although it has a considera ble amount of water in @ bollow at the base of ite leaf, the water possess es a disagreeable vegetable taste and of course ts inferior to other water to be found In the vicinity,
tlow German Beats English.
“We speakers of Bogtlah,” sald a lee turer, “are handicapped by our lan guage. We can never hope for such sonorous tiles as the German's have,
“A young German matron once sald
*'Ach, bow glad I am that my dear Fritz has been appointed hauptkassen verwaltungeassistent’—assistant cash ler, ‘Now,’ she went on, ‘a my Ulle of hauptkassenverwaltungsassistentin =| boast of Ove letters more than that proud oberbofsteneramtainspectoria’ excise Inspector's wife—‘ean claim,’ "
Why the Market Wabpies.
The financial balance ls #0 extremely delicate that the slightest movemont affects It and throws it out of gear, 1 once beard of an important “deal” be ing spollt because a prominent Onan cler had hia big toe cut by a chirope dist so badly that he was ebliged to keep his room,.—Maurice Mortimer in Grand Magazine,
Horses on Snew Shoes.
Hotses wear snowshoes in Dakota in winter, Thos equipped, they trot lightly over drifts wherein they would otherwise sink out of sight. In some parts of Dakota the snow les all win- ter long eight or ten feet deep, but a crust forms on it, and with snowshoes men skim over it easily, 80 do snow shod horses, The equine snowshoes are made of boards twenty inches long and fourteen inches wide, An indentation to fit the foot is branded on each board whh a hot horseshoe, and the con- trivance is fastened on to the hoof with an tron clamp and a bolt, After a day or two of practice a Dakota horse becomes an expert snowshoer,
er Apples as “Nightcaps.”
The apple is such a common fruit that very few persons are familiar with Its remarkable efficacious medic: inal properties, Every one ought to know that the very best thing be can do is to eat apples just before retiring for the night,
pes Advertising in Japan.
Enrope is beginning to follow in the steps of Japan as an advertiser, and the Sunrise Kingdem got its billboard ideas from America, Worshipers at Buddhist temples invariably wash their hands In a fountain at the entrance be fore waking their supplications, Vor merly the priests hung towels thera Now the merchants of Tokyo and oth er cities furnish the temples with free towels, reserving the privilege of prias- Ing their advertisements on then— Harald Bolce ta Appleton's,
POSTMAN WHO PAINTS
STUDIES IN SPARE TIME AND ACQUIRES FAME.
Tells. the Story of His Hobby—Orew Zulu War Pictures On His Slate— Initiated Working Men’s Art Club —In Intervals of Letter Carrying Takes Lessons—Now Exhibits At Dore Gallery.
Mr. Samuel Henry Hancock, who in his intervals of leisure as a postman has managed to produce the remark- able series of pictures now on exhibi- tion at the Dore Gallery, is a Lon- doner bred and born, It was in Nor- ton Folgate, Bishopsgate street, that he first saw the light. This was in 1873, 80 he is now just 34 years old.
Interviewed by a press representa-
tive, who managed to catch him just aa he finiahed his round of deliveries in the neighborhood of St. Luke's, the postman artist told a very interesting story :— “f was always fond of drawing from my earliest days, he said, “and the first things that took real shape as pictures were done on the back of my slate at school. Ae regards education, I may tell you that I went first to the Bishopsgate street Ward school, and later to the Wood street school, Spitalfields.
“It was here I started my pictures. The Zulu war was in progress, and we boys were very keen in following it. T) amuse the others I used to draw imaginary Png Ay of battle on my slate. One day the teacher caught me and took the slate away. Then he anid, ‘Youv drawing is very good; I shall keep it and show it to the head- master, But all the same, young Han-
cock, you must not let your neon 8
ideas get in the way of your lessons
I did not, but I drew whenever
could on all sorts of materials, and
the headmaster kindly supplied me
with subjecta to work at home, Evening Classes.
“It was not, however, till after I entered the postal service, in which 1 have now been 15 years, that I got any lessons in drawing. I entered t evening classes at the ple’s Palace and learned drawing and shadin from the model. I joined the Birkbee! only last session, but had to give it u hecause my work as a postman made the task too heavy. However, I man-
THE POSTMAN ANTINT. aged to secure two South seasingten rom
certificates, one for drawing antique studies, the other for pictures of common objects done from mem- ory.
‘One thing I am very proud of— namely, that about ten years ago I initiated the Toynbee Hall Art Stu- dents’ Club. I was going through 8t. Jude's Art Exhibition, when hap- pened to say to one of the attendants what a good thing such a sketching club would be for men like myself, He was interested, and introduced me to the Bub-Warden of Toynbee hall, who asked me to formulate a scheme. I did ao, with the result that the Art Stu- denta’ Club came into existence. Mr, A. Parsons, A.R.A., is now ita Preai- dent, and we have fifty members, all working-men. I waa the first secretary, and am still on the committee,
“As to subject and medium, I draw in pen and ink and do washwork in black and white, but my forte is color, and I prefer landscape, Most of my
work is done in the back-parlor of my house at Victoria park. Bome of the pictures are scenes from memory,
others are done from direct sketches and written notes. Dore Gallery Show.
“At the Dore Gallery I have forty- four pictures in all— in ois, one ja black and white, and the res in water-color, My best picture, or, ra- ther, the one I like beat, is the one in the exhibition I cali Cloud,’ I
saw a wonderful cloud effect when on™ ‘
a visit to High Beech, Epping, and made a rough pencil skete of ie and some written notes, From these I
minted the water-color picture, and
lieve it to be the best piece of col- or work T have yet done, Sky effects over London are often very splended, and I hope some day to rentodaes one or two if I can,”
Asked whether he had any Royal Academy ambitions, the ortiet-pest> man confessed that he hoped he might seine day be considered “worth hang- ing” by that institution, At present he is very well satisfied with the re- sult of the Dore Gallery Exhibition, which will be open for another month. Already some of his best pictures are marked “sold,” for ¢ prices. If he has the luck he hopes for Mr, Han- cock intends to take a holiday tour in Derbyshire, with a view of transfer ring to canvas some of the beauties ot the county that is the Switzerland of England.
LT The Honest Barmaid.,
That a barmaid’s life has ita own diMficulties and its own temptations is true enough; but so has every oth. er life that honest women have to lead; and there is ne sufficient evi- dence that this life is not led by thousands of women every whit as honest as those who would deprive them of this particular chance to hold their own in the pitiless struggle for existence —Pall Mall Gazette,
The Weight of $1,000,000,
One million dollara in gold weighs 8,685.8 pounds, If the money ts allver the million dollars will weigh 58,929.9 pounds,
Good Idea. | First Beggar- How is it that you al- | Ways manage to get something from both of those women on the ground” floor of that apartment house? BSec- ond Beggar—Dead easy, I ring both , bella at the same time, Both women , Come to the doors at the same time and each one wants to outdo the other,
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Bill Nye and Maartens
The presence in this country o the distinguished Dutch novelist Maarten Maartens, recalls the story of his election in the spring of 1a0r os an honorary member of th: Authors club of New York.
When the name Joost Marius M van der Poorten-Schwartz came t the attention of the memberahiy committee there was a gasp of a tonishment,
Finally the late Bill Nye came t the rescue with the suggestion the the first half of the name should b acted on at once, but that the lar half should be held over until Uh autumn, when the weather would b cool.-Bookman,
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Starting with bis bride on thei honeymoon, a man entered a rail way office, and, as always in th past, bought only one ticket,
The bride noticed the oversight a’ once
“Why, you bought only one tick
&, dear,” she sat
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Hadn't Been Drunk. He eviden: aed to the.wayt of big hotels, He looked as though he might have been from some Kansas
first time. Somehow he had heard that the next morning men who had been absorbing intoxicants drink lots of ice water.
“Say,” he said to C. T. Newton be hind the desk at the Shirley hotel about 8 o'clock In the morning, “the other clerk last night told me to ask fer things over the little telephone in my ftoom when | wanted 'em.”
“Yes,” said Newton,
“Well, this morning, about a half an hour ago, I asked fer a glass of ice water. Some girl answered the tele phone.”
“Yo.”
“Weil, I don’t like to be took fer a heavy drinker. I wasn't drank last night.”
“What de rou meun?’
“Jea’ this: I didn't get no ginas of ice sowin That gir! sent me up a whole 4,900 ‘ It looked mighty much to me’ one-half
water, pitcher.
farm and was in a large city for the’
in a shirt factory
compounded from
highly anti |
ic and
Zam-Buk ie herbal extracta, is
at Strausstown
is an expert at
He in
Berks county, Penn., sewed on
five and means 600
on buttons. yuttona recently
hours, which
like she thought | was full of liquor shirts, seven buttons to a shirt, or Inst night and would need a whole “bout fourteen buttons in a minute
pitcher, <A glass would
‘a’ bees | At another time, not being aware of
enough.” And as be turned and strode! te fact that he was being timed, he
away he wore one of those “Guess I didn’t call him down, eh?” looks,
An Old Time Alderman. | Several patrons of the restaurant at Broadway and Tenth street were lunch- ing there a few days ago, seated at a table between the corner windows on the second floor which commanded a fne view down Broadway, which makes a sharp turn at Tenth street. Sald one of them: “Do you know that this bend in roadway wae made tn order to snve a tree? Well, it was, As originally planued, Broadway would tave cut a slice off the lawn of Hen- drik Brevoort, who ran a tavern in the Dutch farmbouse which stood) where Grace church gow is. He was an alderman, ilke many of bis profes elon today, and not only succeeded in saving the magnificent tree in the shade of which bis customers lingered over their pipes to watch the traffic on Bloomingdale road, but about 1849 al- 0 prevented the opening of Bleventh street from Fourth avenue to Broad way, which would have necessitated | the tearing down of bis tavern.”
The Madrigal.
The word madrigal sounds very forntidable to a beginner fn muate, | More than once have | beard the ques! tion, “What is a madrigal?’ Strictly speaking, a madrigal ts an elaborate | vocal composition in from three to aix| parts, generally sung in chorus, The melody should not be carried through | A single part, but should be dispersed in phrases through the differeat volc. . in the conversational manner posetias | *o the muatle of the aixteenth and sev- tmteenth centuries, The true madrigal | ma no accompaniment. This form of song is considered English, but is ought to have bad its origin tn the Zetheriands, The exact derivation of the wort ls not known, The first tmadrigaia are believed to have been morning songs, shepherds’ lays or songs in praise of the Virgin.
A Very Practical Christian,
A benevolent old man who lived on his farm in lowa never refused abelter to any who might ask it of him, His many friends remonstrated with him about this characteristic, knowing that many unecrupulous boboes would avall themselves of the opportunity and that toere was great danger of the old toan being robbed. To these remon- strances the old man replied that he velleved In “practical Christianity,”
“But,” sald one of bis friends, “this seems very impractical, Suppose one of these men took it Into his bead to rob you one night?"
“My dear young friend,” was the re- ply, “I bid all enter in the name of God, but I prove my belief in practical Christianity by locking up their pants during the night.”
Poll Parrot as a Game Birds
While the parrot is a bird of beantt- ful plumage, as a table delleacy it ts not to be recommended, as | know from sad experience, My fret essay at eating @ parrot was attended with mod- ifed success, The bird must have been comparatively young, and after several bours’ boiling became soft enough to masticate and finally swallow, leaving behind it an Impression that we had lunched on the sole of a ruber boot.— Arthur D, Temple in Field and Stream.
The Tip Randolph Wanted.
Can you put me in no way to be- come a successful rogue to an amount that may throw an alr of dignity over the transaction and divert the atten- tion of the gaping public from the enormity of the offense to that of the sum?-From a Letter of Jehbn Ran- dolph of Moanoke to Dr, John Brock-
Two of a Kind,
A revival meeting was in progtwss, and Sister Jones was called upon for testimony, Being meek and humble, she sald: “I do not feel as though | should stand here and give teatimony. I have been a transgressor for a good many years and have only recently seen the light, 1 belleve that my place is in a dark corner, behind the door,” Brother Smith was next called upon for his testimony and, following the example set by Sister Jones, sald: “I too, have been a sinner for more than forty years, and | do not think it would be fitting for me to stand before this assembly asa model, I think my place is béhind the door, in a dark corner, with Sister Jones.” And he wondered why the meeting was convulsed with the laughter of those who came to pray.
are you getting along?” travelling man of an ac- gone on the
“How asked a quaintance who had atave
“Oh, T have success, I played first time.”
"Did you get through all right?”
“Yes, except that [ hapnened to stumble and fall into Ophelia’s
met with a share of Hamlet for the
grave.” | “That must have been embarrass ing.”
have hadn't got
“Tt was; but IT wouldn't minded it if the audience seemed 80 disanoointed when I out.”--Chicago Tribune,
sewed on seven onds. fasten, on a wager, 21 buttons in a minute, seven buttons to a shirt.
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CENTENARIAN MARINER,
An Ancient "Sait" Dies After an Ad venturous Career,
Born in Long Acre May 2, 1806 Edward Collins, aged 100 years and 11 months, has died in the Rackham street infirmary, North Kensington, from the effects of an injury caused by a fall ou the stairs at his lodgings in Marylebone.
Collins came of a family renowned for longevity, his father, a pawn broker, living to the age of 110 years and his grandfather to 111 years, In his early days his faney for a senfar- ing life led him to join the Royal Navy, and during a career. of over 30 years at sea he had many adventures
One of the earliest of these was the search for and chase of pirates in the Indian Seas. He was one of the ex- pedition which brought to England three pirates who were hanged in public at Newgate, and he often dilated on the excitement of chasing slave-traders, arresting their officers, and liberating the poor slaves. He served his country in the Crimea, and was at the storming of Sebastopol,
On giving up his seafaring life he settled down as a maker of snile and blinds, an occupation he waa able to follow close up to the time of his death, Ten of his 11 children had pre deceased him.
Up to the Iast Collins retained all his faculties, He had lived under five Sovereigna, and remembered the rejoicing after the Battle of Waterloc and the coronation of the late Queen Vietoria
Governor of Jamaico.
Sydney Oliver, who succeeds Bi) Alexander Swettenham as governor o! Jamaica, ia a Radical of Radicale—ir fact, hia views are more pronounce: and frankly avowed than ia custor ary with permanent servants of th crown, For some years he was sec retary of the Fabian Society, any when this ia mentioned the color o his polities runa no riak of being mi taken
No one can gainaay, however, the’ Mr. Oliver ia an exceptionally bri! liant man, and aa he in atill on th sunny side of fifty his public caree may yet have much in reserve, H already knowa Jamaica, having serv ed for five yeara in that island as Colonial Secretary, and later aa act ing-governor on three separate occa sions, Eduecationally he is a good ex ample of what Oxford and a German university can turn out, and when he firat entered the Colonial Office, a quarter of a century ago it was at the head of the open competition, At »resent he is principal clerk of the feat African dpeartmens of the Col onial Office, and in his time haa serv ed as Colonial Secretary in British Honduras, auditor-general of the Lee ward Islands, and secretary to the Weat Indian Royal Commission, Some years ago he waa sent to Washington to assist in the reciprocity negotia tions on behalf of the Weat Indian colonies, and in recognition of hir work he was created a C. M. G. Mr Oliver was formerly private secretary to Lord Belborne while at the Colonial Office.
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A Real Seaman.
A short time a writer “Pp. T. O.” was talking with a sailor who had served under the command of the Prince of Wales, “When first we heard that the prince was going to command us,” he said, “we were a bit dubious, and certainly we had to put up with a lot of chaff from the other ships of the fleet, whe
romptly christened our boat Buck ngham Palace, and would stop us in the street and ‘beg our lordships’ par don, but could we oblige them with a match?’ The prince had not been
in
whole cruise our ship was 4 prtare and a better disciplined or happier crew never sailed, The prince was @ reat change from some of the shout ng, raving captains I have served under, You can take it from me, added the tar in conclusion, “that the Prince of Wales is a jolly good sailor’-—only the adjective he used
was not “jolly.”
Premier and Suffragettes.
dust come to light, says The London Daily News, that on Frida afternoon last Sir Henry Campbell. Bannerman was cleverly interviewed by two of the most militant leaders | the suffragette campaign, The pre mier, who was on his way to Cannes, entered the dining-car of the train for the purpose of taking tea, and sat down at a table adjoining one at which were seated two ladies, The latter promptly introduced themselves as Miss Annie Kenney and Miss Mary Gawthorpe, and a friendly discussion ensued, Sir Henry expressed approv- al of the educational work of the Wo men’s Social and Political Union, but went on to criticize its methods, He gave no hope that the Government! would bring in a bill enfranchizing women this session and said he wish ed to dissuade the ladies from engag: ing in further demonstrations out side the House of Commons, consid ering that such proceedings were nol likaly ta nraduce good resulta
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abroad long, however, before we found out that he was no ornamental sailor but a real seaman down to bir boots, And he stood no nonsense either! He knew what he wanted, and he saw that he got it, During the
THE JERUSALEM CHAMBER. A Celebrated Recess In the Wall of Westminster Abbey.
In the southwest wall of Westmin- ster Abbey a narrow recess shows on old onk door. Behind it is a passage leading into a small room with finely carved panelling called the Jericho parlor, which leads into the celebrat- ed Jerusalem chamber, This chamber is of profound modern interest in that it was the ecene of the 161] and 1884 revisions of the Bible, in the latter instance the United States taking a most prominent part.
The Jerusalem chamber is also of great historic interest, being one of the few remains of the old palace o
Wostminster, which for centuries was distinct and separate from the abbey fany rooms in the old palace had similar fanciful names, such as heav- en, paradise and the Antioch cham- bers. The Jervealem chamber was built by AbSot Litlington in 1386 and was so named from the colored glass brought Jerusalem which decorates it. The room is rectangular in shape, wainseoted with cedar and other woods, all of which were brought from the Holy Land, The ceiling and the upper part of the walls are frescoed, and here and there hang costly tapes- tries, which Henry VIII, placed in the choir of the abbey, but which have since been removed to this room. The splendid cedar mantelpiece was put up in commemoration of the mar- ringo of Charles 1., then Prince of Wales, with the Princess Henrietta Moria of France. The carved and wooden heads on either side of the mentelshelf represent the royal pair. One of the frescoes depicts King Henry IV., who breathed his last with- in these walls in 1413. This event oo curred twenty-five years after the room waa built and was doubtless the firet really important incident in ite history, for celebrated, indeed sacred, aa the chamber has since become, nt ite construction it was only intende as the withdrawing room for Un guesta of Abbot Litlington. King Henry, with the unensy con science of a usurper and 4 supersti- tions belief in a prophecy that fore- told his death at Jerusalem, decided upon a eruande to the Holy Land. The crusade, which the King deemed am- ple atonement for his sins, was, how- ever, too long deferred. Preparatory on hia journey to Jerusa- lem, while praying before the shrine of St. Edward the Confessor in the abbey, he was stricken with a mortal sickness, and, in the words of the old chronicle, “they for his comfort bore him into the abbot’s place and laid him down before the fire in this chamber.” On coming to himaelf and learnin that he waa in the chamber nam Hierunaalem then said the King, “Laud be to thee, Father in heaven, for now 1 know that T ahall die in this chem. ber, according to the prophecy mode ff me before enid, that I should die in Hierusalem.” And so he made himeaelf ready and died shortly after. he body of Addison lay in state in thia room, whence it was borne at the dead of night to ite Inst reat ing place in the chapel of Henry VIL, the procession passing round the shrine of Edward the Confessor and the choir singing a funeral hymn, From the Jerusalem chamber alao the body of Sir Isaac Newton was carried to the grave, the pall being borne by the Lord Chancellor and by dukes and earls, King’s Cane Collection. King Edward is a diligent collector of walking sticks, match-boxes, carl catures, and model ships, His collec tion of canes numbers pearly 2,000, and most of these have remarkable associations. A stick pigals prized by the King is one used by Queen Vio toria in her closing years. It is made from a portion of the oak ip whose boughs Charles |, concealed himeelf after his defeat by Cromwell at Worcester,
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