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We are always on the * ground floor and always ready to do business, If you have anything to sell, or want to make a purehase, it will be to your advantage to call and seo us. WE HAV 30,000 ACRES OF COAL LANDS FOR SALE : base WE APPRECIATE YOUR TRADE AT REASONABLE RATES household effects and part of his|here. Mrs. Wilton has suffered ° sane ates ute family with him. Hecrossed the, | greatly from nervous shock. “The border without any objections. youngest child was a babe a year | SMITH & WwWooD General Merchants TAYLOR AVENUE “ TABER | Last Saturday, his wife, aceom- and a half old, States Would Fare Badly in the ret of Mar with Jann eisreai ToS, Al H. F. ANNABLE ACCENT, TABER Let us help you New York, April 12.—“I have We could not put 100,000. soldiers | CAPITAL PATD UP $3,000,000.00 - - RESERVE $2,100,000.00 never predicted any war with Japan” | there in one year because we haye HEAD OFFICE SHERBROOKE, QUE. said Ee@slié M. Shaw, former secretary! not the ships. On any foggy day, WILLIAM FARWELL, President, JAMES MACKINNON, General Manager of the treasury, last night in a speech | Japan could land 100,000 men on - before ‘the Commercial Travellers’|/ the Pacifie coast and they could National Merchant Marine Associa- j} capture our sea forts from the rear tidn, “but I have suggested it and | before the forts could he prepired ae ee 83—-Branches throughout Canada—83 eat seal tsi tected eReader oD ces omnes cd Correspondents all over the. World, Your Homes “ SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT os | predic ted what would happen. | for landward defence. LD “ rare ome eposits of $1.00 and upwards received Interest Credited at Current R ates +) Jacob Schiff has intimated that; “In the late trip of the battle- SPRING Is HERE oF . | . The Depositor is subject to no delay whatever in the withdrz awal of the whole we shall have war with Japan, He! ship fleet around the world we hired or any portion of the deposit AND SO ARE WE ’ was fiscal agent in this country oe bins ships of twenty-five nations to Japan at the. time of the Wsso-jact as colliers. ‘Not one of these’ | Japanese war and | shoulg@ecept| ships would be available for us in his opinion above that of ; the event of war, and when war retary of state who iS << that| comes, a battleship without coal will WITH Taber Branch - - 6G. E. EWING, Manager OFFICE HOURS, 10 a.m.—3 p.m. SATURDAY, 10 a.n—12 a.m. seoneesessonereeenes e Ad _® ° °. eo Sd eo * e ad +d 2 ° Sd °° oe House Paints Varnishes there will be no war. T ngtthat a} be found more useless than a battle- PE eee See eee ee o 2 b Ae AR ehaabat net nat loa de: . French adinital -has adyigede France| ship without guns. I am in favor of : : . 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Inthe event of war the toward-the establishment of American | Japanese could put 200,000 soldiers lines to South American ports, the | in the Hawaiian Islands in one Orient and the Philippines. . ' month because she has the ships. | u" THE OLD RELIABLE. _ BRUSHES from 10c. to $5.00 B SHIELLS” HARDWARE HOUSE TABER Front Street “mer 3 : Butchers . Fresh Vegetables of All Kinds. Best Creamery Butter Fresh Fish Daily $606 OOD SHO HHGSC SSOP SOS OSHVSOOSHD OWS HHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HH HD SHOOTS HOSES OO SO SESS SO SSH ESOS OOOO OH OOD How Canada Acquired — “Her Buffaloes HE extraordinary difficulties encountered in rounding up “the last great herd of buffaloes is told by ©, A. Carter in Munsey’s magazine. : ny : ; By virtue df the shrewd public spirit: of the Canadian overnment, and through the, United States government 8 ailure to seize a proffered opportunity, a splendid herd of 730 bison, the last wild survivors of the species, is now the prop- erty of the Dominion. The United States government might have kept these magnificent animals on American soil, where sentiment demanded that. they should remain, . But they are gone now, and the. only consolation left to those patriotic citizens who mourn their loss is that the Canadians had to earn their buffalo before they got them. In arder to move the monarchs of the prairie from Mon- tana, where they were bred, to uttermost Alberta, it was . necessary to ship them by rail. Before they could be shipped they had to be rounded up, of course, and corralled.: Yet ‘(rounding up’’ and ‘‘corral’’ are not precisely the words to use in this connection, for they are associated with the driv- ing of domestic cattle, whose spirit has been broken by ages of submission to man’s dominion. Besides, they fail to con- vey any conception of the two years of desperate endeavor by the flower of Montana’s cowboys, and of the heroic re- sistance offered by those true Americans, the buffalo. It was more like a war of extermination, in which many a brave son died fighting with his last breath and in which the sur- vivors suffered what to them was worse than death—removal from their native pastures. . To whatever it may be likened, this last great series of buffalo-hunts was an event which has no parallel in history, and which is not likely to be repeated. ; I must begin at the beginning of the story. In 1884, Michel Pablo, of Missoula, Montana, and a neighbor, C, A. Allard, bought 13 young buffalo from & Pend d’Oreille Indian, the progeny of four calves which the Indian had captured a few years before. Nine years later, Pablo and Allard added to their growing herd 26 head purchased from Buffalo Jones. Upon Allard’s death, soon after, Pablo became sole owner. The buffalo were allowed to run wild in the Bitter Root mountains, on the Flathead Indian reservation in Montana. Pablo’s only care was to protect them from hunters and to prevent them from straying. He sold a few head occasionally, but looked. to the future for a profit on his investment. In 1906, it was announced that the Flathead reservation was to be thrown open to settlement. As this meant that he was to be deprived of his range, Pablo realized that he must dispose of his buffalo. He hurried to, Washington with a pro- posal to sell the entire herd to the government. President Roosevelt approved the idea; but congress declined to make the necessary appfopriation, and that was the end of the matter. . Hearing of this turn of affairs, Alexander Ayotte, Cana- dian commissioner of immigration, suggested to Howard Douglas, commissioner of Dominion parks, that here was a chance to obtain some highly desirable stock for Canada’s national parks. The matter was laid before the minister of the interior, Frank Oliver; parliament promptly granted money for the purchase, and Douglas was instructed to take the first train for Montana and buy the buffalo. A contract was closed for the entire herd at $200 a head, and Douglas paid $10,000 down to bind the bargain. Pablo thought he had 300 of the animals, but as he wasn’t sure about it, he would only sign a contract to deliver 250 head or the entire herd, whatever the number might be. One day early in May, 1907, Commissioner Douglas ap- peared at Missoula to claim his herd of buffalo. He was at- tended by a retinue of enthusiastic Canadian newspaper cor- respondents and other loyal subjects of King Edward, who had invited themselves up to see the fun. These volunteer speetators imagined that all there was to do was to go and get the buffalo. Literally speaking, this was true; but if they had dreamed how much was involved in the getting, they would have prepared for a longer stay than any of them eontemplated. The first round-up was the easiest.of the series of five great hunts, though this does not imply that it was a simple task. Pablo, who knew the country and thought he knew the buffalo, managed it, with the aid of 20 eowboys. It did not take long to disclose the fact that the herd was very much larger than its owner had supposed. By two weeks of hard riding from dawn io dark, Fable and )hidenophogs managed tosmet Foo dediahge'a* Pence hine féet high, made of By alas Fe K+ spiked to posts set eight feet apart. It was a good fence (but tHe buffalo did not treat it with much res- pect.. One old bull, who chanced to take exception to the ’ eonduct of a cowboy on the other side of it, charged through the fence as if it had not been there. Another, to show his contempt for such a flimsy affair, inserted his horns under a plank, and, ripping it off with a single toss of his head, threw it over his back a dozen feet to the rear. Still another made a swipe at a panel of fence, and cut such an extraordinary gash with one horn that Commissionér Douglas measured it at the first opportunity. -It was an inch and three-quarters deep and three feet eight inches long. : Clearly, such animals as these could not be shipped loose in an ordinary stock car; so it was arranged to drop a rope around the neck of each buffalo as it passed up the loading chute, and to lash the animal securely to the car as soon as it could be got inside. Arrangements being completed the load. ing began. All the Canadians, the entire population of Ra- valli and all the railroad men who happened to be in town at . the time, gathered to see the performance. After nearly an hour of hard work by the full force of cowboys, a bull was finally. headed up the chute. At the right instant, a man dropped a noose over the anrmal’s neck. At the touch of the rope the bull made a spring which land- ed him in the car; but, quick as a flash, on finding himself in a trap, he whirled about and. came out again. There was the usual stock-yards arrangement of two heavy gates about eight feet long, made of two-inch planks bolted together, which were swung out on either side to make a pas- sage from the corral across the loading platform to the ear. As he came out, the bull caught the left-hand gate on his horns, tore it from its hinges.and started diagonally across the platform to jump-back among his fellows in the corral, in- stead of going down the chute. : Commissioner Douglas, Commissioner Ayotte and Mr. Me- Mullen, the livestock agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway, had chosen a position on the top of the fence beside that par- ticular gate as a sort of stage-box from which to see every- thing that happened. They were almost touching the gate when the bull ripped it loose and prepared to spring toward them, with the timbers hanging on his horns. There was no time to climb out of the charging animal’s way. They could not do anything but just let themselves drop into the corral, nine feet below. The three men hit the ground in a heap, right among the buffalo, while the bull, still carrying the gate on his horns, leaped-over them. All were stunned momentarily by the fall, and MeMullen broke an arm. The men spectators yelled, the women screamed and the uproar so disconeerted the buffalo that none had the presence of mind to seize the opportunity of goring. their helpless enemies, who were quickly rescued. All three were firmly convinced that the yelling alone saved their lives. After MeMullen had been cared for and the excitement had subsided, the spectators once more took their places and the attempt at loading was renewed. No one wanted a seat on. the fence this time, but fhe car-roof was well filled. Com- missioner Ayotte, a dignified Canadian Frenchman, stationed himself on the opposite side of the car from the corral, and peered through the eracks. . : Thirty minutes of strenuous endeavor induced another bull to venture into the chute. Like the first, the instant the felt the rope touch his neck he sprang forward as if shot eut of a gun. The cowboys had learned wisdom now, so a turn had been taken around a post.and a dozen men held the loose end determined to keep the bull inside the ear if they ever got ‘him there. Before they could take up the slack, however, the bull made a leap at the farther side of the car, went through it as if it were made of paper, and hung there with half his body outside. But for the rope, he would-have gene clear through. When he saw the bull coming straight at him, Mr. Ayotte started to. step back, but he was not quick enougli to escape altogether, He received enough of the force of the concussion te make him stagger. The bull had struck the car with such terrifie violence that he nearly knocked if off the tracks. All the spectators on the roof were thrown down and some fell off the ear, One, a half-breed Indian, landed fairly on Ayotte’s head as the half-stynned commissioner tottered backward, The. damaged :car was removed, another was put in its place, and the task was resumed. The next bull that went up the chute charged through the car, striking against its side with such violence that he broke his neck and fell dead. * It took an hour and thirty minutes to get the first buffalo —a fine young bull—housed in a car and safely anchored with a rope passed—around his neck and secured to hier rg on each side. But the other end of the bull was still free, and he proceeded to get it into action without delay, There was a dark brown flash as a heavy heel swung back, anda crash as a plank was ripped off. the side of the car. Crack, crack, crack, went those heels, like the, reports from a machine gun sending a shower of splinters on each side until. nothing was left. within reach, , As soon as it could be done, the bull was taken out of the ear intd which he, had been forced: with so much labor. Ulti- mately .he Was secuted in another car, with two-inch planks lashed inside, so that, he could not get room to swing his heels. In this way every buffalo had to be secured. Eight big bulls or ten cows with calves were all that could be put into a ear, and it required from half an hour to an hour and a half to load each buffalo. One magnificent bull, the monarch of the herd, 25 years old, was resolved not to go to Canada. He, was finally driven into the ehute, and a rope was’ placed around his ‘neck; but he was so powerful that not enough men could get hold. of the rope to drag him into the car. Every trick that the in- genuity of the cowboys could suggest was tried. His heels were tiekled, and tin cans were jangled behind him, with the idea that he would kick and be thrown off his balance, s0 that he might be jerked a few inches; but he scorned such peurile devices. Finally he lay down in the chute and refused to get up. Finding that he meant to resist to the death, the cowboys Teft him lying there overnight, in the hope that he might think better of it by morning; but in the morning he was dead. As there were no signs of physical injury to be found, the cowboys unanimously agreed that the indigifties to which he had been subjected had broken the old monarch’s heart. Altogether, a month of hard work was required to get the first shipment of 199 head started for Canada. A second shipment of 204 head was made in September of the same year, at an expenditure of six weeks’ toil and trouble, en livened by quite as many spectacular incidents as had mark- ed the first round-up. It was then found that about three hundred buffalo still MR. remained on the range. Elaborate plans were laid to finish shipping these in the autumn of 1908, corral the buffalo, where escape would be impossible. river at this point was 525 perpendicular bank, no where less than 50 feet high, appar- ently impossible for any four-footed creature to climb. By building a fence across the neck of the bend, a corral of several acres was made. The fence was to be buffalo- proof. It was built of logs eight inches in diameter at the small end, laid one aboye another, making a solid wall nine feet high. This wall was strengthened on each side with posts six feet apart, with their ends set four feet in the ground and their tops lashed together with wire. Opposite the corral was a coulee which led down the slope from the buffalo range to the river. Wing fences were built along the sides of the coulee for 12 miles on one side and seven miles on the other. The fences wer wide apart at their outer ends, drawing together like a funnel at the river, across which booms of Jogs were stretched, so that the buffalo could not swim around the corral and escape. All this required an immense amount of labor but Pablo wanted to have a pen ‘that could be counted on to hold his buffalo.: , After six weeks of hard work, the entire bunch of more than 300 head was finally encircled and headed toward the corral, Two-thirds of them broke away .and escaped before they could be cooped up between the wing fences. The rest headed down the coulee, swam the river and entered the en closure. At 4 0’clock one afternoon there were 114 buffalo in the corral. To secure them, it was only necessary to swing a boom down the river in deép water, so they could not swim back to the coulee, Pablo and hig weary men slept the sleep of triumph that night. Next morning there was not a buffalo in the corral. All of them had swum the river to the perpendicular clay bank and made a trail diagonally up its. face, cutting down the clay with their forefeet a little ata time, taking many a tumble into the water in the process, until at last they had as neat a 12 per cent grade to the top as any engineer could have built. ; It was too late in the season to muxe any further attempts at shipping that year, so the discomfited cowboys rode home with nothing but a herd of worn-out, broken-down horses to show for their six weeks’ toil. ever, Charles Allard, a son of Pablo’s old partner, a splendid “7 x ( ) ' \ i, ; Pablo himself select-| into cars, but the ed a horse-shoe bend in the Pend d’Oreille river in which to!The eight wag. The | iver 5 feet wide and 19 feet deep. En- jmake a dash for the f circling the bend on the opposite side of the stream was a/] } \ In the following spring, how- | | often the buffalo had to be dragged into the horseman and one of the best cowboys in the west, offered to ‘sweep the range’’ for a matter of $2,000. A bargain was made on that basis, and on May 9, he started out with a band of picked men. For three days the gang rode the range, cautiously driv- ing small bunches, of buffalo together, taking special pains not to stampede them, As‘they. were driven in the opposite direction to that which they had taken in previous round-ups the buffalo went readily enough. At the end of three days, a herd of 340 had been assembled within an area of five square miles. i Next day it was planned to turn them and begin the 60-mile drive toward Ravalli. According to a carefully ar- ranged scheme, the cowboys closed in on all sides at, a’ cer- tain hour to start_the turning movement toward ‘a big draw leading down the mountainside of the Pend d’Oreille river. It was fearful riding over extremely rough country. Horse after horse ardoped exhausted, but the remuda was kept close up; and the men were remounted with but little delay. One at a time by twos, threes and half-dozens, the buffalo bolted and escaped so that -by nightfall only 103 were driven into a corral 20 miles from Ravalli. All the horses were used up, and the men were ‘equally exhausted, so there was no choice “but ‘to rest; and during the night, the buffalo, which were not even winded, escaped. a. Hope of driving these ‘‘outlaws,’’ as they were called, to the.railroad was now abandoned. Instead, .it was*planned to drive them. in small parties into a corral 36 miles from Ra- valli and to haul them, one’at a time, in-eage wagons to the station. , Another start was promptly made, with an outfit of 48 horses and 18 men, the best cowboys iu Montana. After two weeks’ riding, reinforcements of ten men and 50 horses were procured. Every day, Sundays included, the heartbreaking task proceeded, the-men often starting out at 4 o’elock in the morning, and not getting back to camp until night. Every ny pen were thrown, bruised and battered. Pablo’s favor- iteAMorse broke a leg; another wrenched its back so that it had to be killed, and still others were done for in various ways. For continuous, grilling work, it was a round-up with- out a parallel in the history of the range. Yet many a day the gang returned without a hoof. The most successful day’s work brought in 20 head. GOLDWIN SMITH Loading into the wagons was quite as difficult as loading men now had the advantage of experience, 3 ous were placed end to end, and opened up into a single long passage. Once a buffalo was started, it would farther end, and men stationed on the ast wagon would drop a gate behind it. The animal was then securely tied. ' The process, however, was rarely so simple as this. More wagons by main strength. ‘Twenty or 25 men would heave on the rope around the animal’s neck, while others would dangle tin cans or bags behind it, to tease it into kicking, and so throw it off its bal- ance. In this way, if the men on the rope were quick enough and pulled all together, they might gain half a yard or so be- fore the buffalo could get its feet down again, One Sunday afternoon, John and Joe Decker were riding close together, trying to drive a bull, when the animal whirled and charged. John was so near that he could not get out of the way, Sceing this, Joe tried to draw his revolver. to shoot the bull, but fumbled and Jost his chance. The bull sank both horns in the side of John’s horse and, lifting it clear of the ground, carried both steed and rider 100 yards at full run before throwing them to the ground. Fortunately for Decker he fell clear of the horse, and near enough to the fence, to escape, while the bull stopped to gore the dead animal. — , The round-up that began on May 9 ended dn June 30 with 130 buffalo still at large. at The casualties were five horses gored to death and tw five buffalo killed; but when the ecowbo Ravalli, they were said to be ‘‘the wor ever took part in a round-up.’’ | enty- ys finally limped into ‘st used-up outfit that THE AGE OF NIAGARA ~{O the question: ‘‘How old are the Niagara Falls?’’ geo- logists have returned replies varying by tens of thou: _ , Sands of years. At first it was estimated that the Niagara River came into existenee, through changes in the level of the land around the Great Lakes, about fifty-five thousand years ago, Water this was reduced to only ‘twelve thousand years, Lyell increased the estimate again to thirty- five thousand years, and still later other scientists lowered it to about nine thousand years. At one period, many thousands of of the falls years 2go,' the height was four hundred and twenty feet. air is stil), 1 wn) lamenras Or @ ing s y-s Ss st eee ih dee ait rie eeaimapes QO* a proposition made several years ago by Albrech Penck professor of geography in the University of Berlin, an adopted by the Geneva conference two years ago, a new map of the world is to be made. This proposition was more recently discussed at an international conference held in Lon- don, at, which all the great European nations, the United States, Ganada, Egypt, India,» and Japan’ were represented, and the plans were brought to @ point where it is only neces- sary to take practical steps to put them into effect. Great Britain has undertaken to construct a sample sheet,on the plans adopted as a specimen and working model. This new map of the world will be what. is known as a hypsometric map, and the contour lines will be drawn in brown at intervals of 100 metres or in decimal multiples or submultiples of that measure. The interval of 100 metres will be used up to a certain altitude, beyond which the: inter- val. for a further altitude will be 200 metres, the interval increasing at certain stages up to 7,000 metres and aboye. The spaces between will be tinted in, green for the lower altitudes, and then in different shades of brown, increasing in darkness of color to a certain altitude, where the brown will merge into other tints. Altitudes above 7,000 metres will be left white. The sea will be shown by blue tint, in- creasing in darkness according to depth. All other waters will likewise be in blue, special symbols being used to indi- sate rivers perennial, non-perennial, and unsurveyed, the navigability of rivers, obstructions of various kinds, salt and fresh marshes, swamps, and mountains, There will also be special characters to indicate main and secondary roads;. for railways, built, projected, and in course of construction; tele- graphs, post-offices, boundaries (both’ international and pro- vincial), and towns both great and small. The sheet for each country will be entirely independent, and the projection adopted will permit every sheet to fit ex- actly together with each of the four sheets adjoining its four sides, ‘lhese conditions are made possible by adopting what is known as a modified polyeonie projection; that is, by mak- ing it a plane instead of a spherical surface. Each sheet, therefore, will be indepenrent as far as it goes, and it will not be necessary for any one to have the entire map unless it is desired. All the sheets of the United States pasted to- gether, not including Alaska, will make a map about, eighteen feet east and west by about twelve feet north and south. There is no uniformity whatever in existing maps of the world, and the advantage of having a map of the entire world upon a uniform seale and a uniform base for geology, as well as topography, is a thing: to be appreciated. The expense of the map is to be paid by the respective governments, by geographical societies, and other official and unofficial organizations, and each government will adopt its own plan of distributing the results of its work to the publie. THE COLDEST CITY ON EARTH HE coldest inhabited place in the world is unodubtedly Verkhoyansk, in northeastern Siberia, with a mean an- nual -temperature of less than three degrees above zero, Mahrenheit, and a winter minimum of eighty-five below. Verkhoyansk is in north latitude sixty-seven degrees, on the great Arctic plain, seareecly more than one hundred and fifty feet above the level of the sea. Probably there would be no town there if it were not necessary to Russian govern- mental purposes to have an administrative centre for a region where many thrifty Yakuts, the fur-trading ‘‘Jews of Si- beria,’? carry on their operations, . All its inhabitants, save*a few officials and other Rus- sians, are Yakuts. This does not prevent, its being a place of some importance, for the Yakuts are the most progressive people in northern Siberia, excelling the Russians themselves in-enterprise and adaptability to Siberian eonditions of existence, _ The average temperature of the winter in Verkhoyansk is fifty-three degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. The 1 freeze to the bottom, and the small trees have been kno snap and split from the foree of the frost. Yet, with all this, Verkhoyansk is, it is claimed, not a dis- agrecable place of residence, and is preferred by the Russian oflicials to many more southern and warmer vosts. Its at- mosphere in winter is always clear, and for the Mttle time that the sun is above the horizon its beams are uno sructed. The ‘make life rivers wn to a>. _ The Siberian dress completes the comfort of this Arctie city. It consists of two suits of fur, an outer and an inner suit. The inner suit‘is worn fur side inward the outer fur side outward. With his hood down, and just enough space left to see out of and to breathe throu th, the Verkhoyansker is vastly more comfortable in a tem erature of eighty below than many an America. in his moe over- coat, in a temperature of five above zero, The winter, indeed, is more enjoyable than the which is hotter than.might be expected, The average tem- perature of July in Verkhoyansk is fifty-nine above mete and very hot days are not uncommon. The e ‘i rab and vegetation thrives, though only the is thawed. : He citizens of summer, arth becomes green } surface of the ground At Yakutsk, which is farther south than Verk- hoyansk, but not much warmer in winter, the mereury rises in July to one hundred degrees. ; THE CHARM OF KISSING ( NCE more the warning goes ou ri time it is voiced by _. Tanking officer in Dr. Bosley’s corps of fair : ace plished nurses. The contact of lip aad To a ee te Motte, acords an ideal opportunity for the voyagin g of mall - gene organisms. Most, of these germs, when hey puter the body at all, do so by way of the mouth. Of such sort are the germs of diphtheria, turbereulosis, meningitis influenze the simplé cold and all the familiar juvenile plagues Th rel * 1t is thoughtless and often cruel to kiss, and son ti ee hat. cidal to be kissed. - ee t that kissing is dangerous. Miss Ellen M. la Motte, the Thus speaks scienee, and its m ar babies and by invalids, But the great ma jority of folks he , no doubt, keep oy kissing. We have often wondered at 2, Ee 3 ] P i ae enormous popularity of the exereise. Why do people kiss? 2 ne “Tal j i 1@ act itself is ridiculous as a Spectacle and unsatisfyin “ an poe Its sole physical accompaniment is a feel: 1g of Sullocation, und on the psyehie side it is frequently " ¢ ag artieuls if 7 ; ; hat aha abd if an unexpected audience reveals Selt, Bay, by satiric whoops and eatealls, It } charms and other pleasures, such Pen tiee aae andate should be observed ¢ an ] as solfeggio, eating, an automobiling, for example. Kissing will aorer bulla ne the anemic nor soothe the neurasthenie¢ f Pi cciay A it rae ar no jeremiads on its perils will or Ww 8 abolition. le man wh I i liptiews fie F o makes a practice of > ‘Fair sex 1s a man attracted rath eae He é ather than repelled f or, ows that every kiss he i fearful hazards. Th i ? Mak bis ose oie , . e girl herself may bl i 2 1 ha: ; § é ack his e him oe a hatpin or eall for the police; and then isis ine may choose to regard his idle fay may cho q a Jide Tavor as an offer of marri aa ih pt him before he can eseape. Yet again hier father a eae hapten oo with his arm around her neck and se gazing into her forehead, ma i il hi his Z ‘ ad, Tush in and hail h as a relative touching him f las by hil or small loans, calling hi i } a Te chi m fo im b oe and seizing offensively upon all clio Familia steieg neh : r¢ ark es-in-law affect. Finaily, the mother of the girl may on el ile and send him amateur remedies 8 rheumatism and red nose, and | i i D he giggle every time they see him” : eee at A SPIDER’S ODD ADVENTURES FIVHERE was once a spider that we battles: and took a long without mishap. i nt through at least two res souEney by sea and land, all a: ‘he first time this particul i came a notice was jrst before the fight ae Athan: da Pre Egy pt. It had taken up its quarters in the ventilator of the heimet of a British officer. It was an energetic spider pom Ses at he to feed, and; after having its foie of *8, returning to its hiding-place, The officer: i » retur ; 2, er'] M ue ieee oem he went into the Atbara fight rake still i S_deimet, Men. were killed ail about this offi and ie Spider were unhurt. At Omdurman she nip ied ag a battery, and once more the spider went into action ; a the African troubles were over, the British officer ferns arueled to be sent home, and among them the helmet at had seen action. Inside that helmet was the spider. Not until t i j nis tae too late did the officer remember that he had sent but nothing could _ ; When the tot athe one, Help it, the British officer reached London, j ith ea bg ee that he opened the fatmee has eel Aone ae stg) red of the spider, He was, however, releieed riend alive and vigorous, and not UBOS the way the occupants of the helmet had Late - "or now two young spiders shared the strange retreat. friend on a long Voyage without stocking its larder, = We “THE TABER FREE PRESS HOW THE LATEST FASHIONS ARE INVENTED (By Mme, Paquin) B* what magie do you create such fashions?. What are the secrets of your art? From what hidden sources do you obtain the designs which have made the ‘name of Paquin so fam- ous in the world of fashion?’’ Not once, but many times have : these . questions been put to me,*and,I ean only reply that I.employ no magic art, have no secrets, and no secret source to which I go for designs and inspiration for new ashions. You will smile when I tell you how some of the most successful fashions have originated, A pretty and quaint collar so. much: worn, by ladies two or three seasons ago was nothing but-a replica of..thé coat-collar for soldiers of ‘an>Austrian regiment. The smock worn by German railway porters origin- ated an entirely new line in fashion- able gowns, and the loose garment ef the Egyptian fellah became the caftar shaped costume which was all the rage. What had suggested it to me was sim- ply the peculiar apron of the fellah, and the folds of the simple tunic universally worn by the Egyptian peasant women, Travel to me becomes a kind of gigan- tic pieture book. I am always on the look-out for ideas, and when I wish to create modéls with those ideas I try them in numberless ways on the pret- tiest of my ‘‘mannequins’’ until I feel satisfied with one arrangement—which then becomes a model. Often we alter the color or shape of a particular dress a seore of times before reaching the sat- isfactory stylé and harmony. On the other hand, by some amazing miracle we succeed at times at the very first at- tempt, and need to make no alterations whatever. Not only do I seeure ideas from mod- ern dress, but I explore our picture gal- leries, study sculptural work in mu- seums, and pore over old plates. How often has one of my ideas for a new gown originated in the folds of a cer- tain classic statue or the happy com- bination of colors in a certain picture! Costumes of the past interest me pas- sionately, but only to stimulate inspira- tion, for, while interesting myself in the past, I have always.an ambition to create new designs. Sometimes, however, it takes weeks and months to develop an idea. I am something like an author, who for a long time earries ideas in his or her head, and. who then little by little accumu- lates the materials—all the materials necessary to complete and to make the idea of value. And then, one fine day, the entire thing appears before my eyes, all ready except for the making, so that most of the’so-called new fashions you see have been long premeditated, But how do I actually work out an idea, the reader may naturally ask. I deal with a dress as a painter does with a pieture, or a sculptor does with a statue. [nstead, however, of using brush and palette or chiselling tools, | simply use scissors and pins. First I sketch, as it were, on the model itself. I use soft material which adapts itself easily to the contours, for it is the lines L seek to create, alter, and study, a part of my work which strongly resembles the work of {he seulptor. Then comes the question Ae colors, I ee: with various matérials—lace, ribbons, floun- ces,-and embioidery. I place them to- gether; I fold them and erush them lightly to see the effect. Lines, harmony of color, gradually and surely suggest themselves to me, and suddenly I have a gown before my eyes—a new idea, a new model. I dress Royalty, society ladies and actresses, but I believe that I am par- ticularly interested in dressing ac- tresses, for in the latter ease [ have to think, not only of the woman herself, but also of the part for which the gown is meant. I must suit the particular type of beauty of the actress, and yet harmonize with the book of the play, with the part, and with the stage itself. There are double difficulties to confront, and it is always a joy to overcome ob- stacles. Learn to Draw Cut this out and send jt to the West- ern Correspondence, School of Art, and we will send you full particulars of how to learn to draw by mail. The charges are moderate and within the reach of all My studies will afford pleasant pastime for young and old, aud at the same time prepare you for a good position. THE Western Correspondence School of Art Ryan Block, Princess Street, Winnipeg Ny [> your order at Once we ¥ give ag extra presents a pair ef uit Buttons and a fine solid piatn. engraved, or with brilliant e neg, in appearance to ri: ing $15 and or years. Order ings cont earn all foes handsome ddress THE MUTUAL CRED t Colborne St, To t ITCHING ERUPTIONS QUICKLY COOLED Just a few drops‘of the famous D. D. D. Prescription applied to the skin will take away instantly the worst kind of an itch. We positively know this. Oil of wintergreen, a mild, soothing liquid, combined with such healing substances as thymol and glycerine, wil penetrate to the inner skin, kill the germs, and heal, The D PD. D, Pre; scription, made at the D, D. D, Labora- tories of Chicago, seems to be just the eke ‘compennte as thousands of re- markable cures prove. Don’t go‘on suffering from eczema or any other itching skin disease, when relief is so easily obtained. . Just write the D, D. D, Laboratories, Dept. R. P., 23 Jordan Street, Toronto, and they will send you, free, a trial bottle. ‘This sample will relieve the itching at once, and prove to your satis- faction that here at last is the cure for your torture, ; Write for a trial bottle teday. For sale by all druggists. DAME FASHION’S DECREES Y UST why. dne matérial, is given ‘the préference over -all ‘others’is impossible to say, but it is all.in line. with évery- thing that has to do with fashion, and especially fashion as regards dress. Some color, some model and some fabric will suddenly spring into prominence and at-once be ‘‘the rage,’’ often identically the same that has been before the public for season after season without even attracting atten- tion. It is one-of the secrets of trade; and a secrek not to be indisereetly. divulged, and the feminine papulation, as a rule, is well content to accept blindly the dictates of fashion as re- gards colors and materials, thereby saving a lot of time and thought, for the woman who would be known as smartly Mauve Liberty Satin Gown Embroidered in Silver : = gowned has a task in these’days tha’ involves far more sarge! than the world at large can imagine. There are materials popular year after year, and apparent- ly no change of style or fashion affects them, Chiffon has led a charmed life for a longer time than would be credited, and still survives and is in constant use. Silks, satins, velvets all vary in popularity as regards design and weave, velvet being singularly sensitive to criticism. Of late years there has been a much more practical view taken of materials, and in conse- quence life is far more bearable. Not only is a determined | effort made to produce materials suitably light and: cool for) summer, but correspondingly heavy and warm for winter, | while at ‘the same time fashion decrees the wearing in heated | houses of the same thin fubries that are appropriate for sum- | mer. * * * In consequence the whole question of dress has been sim- plified, and there is no such expenditure of time aud labor spring and autumn in putting away clothes for the next | seuson, With the exception of the heavy winter street and fur | garments. Voile de soie and cashmere de soie are ‘two materials of | which much is heard these days, and both are in great demand for every sort and deseription of gown for day and evening, | |for house and street wear, although this is rather too sweeping | a statement as regards the voile de soie, for it is quite too thin to be worn unless under a heavy wrap for some months | to come, Cashmere de svie is a fascinatingly soft and fine | material that lends itself most admirably to any fashion that requires graceful lines or close fitting effects. It molds it- self into the figure, it seems to drape itself into long lines and is of a beauty of weave and finish that makes it most becom- | ing whether it is in dark or light shades. It has a satin lustre that at a distance gives much the same effect as char- meuse satin, and any embroidery of silk or elaborate trim- ming of any kind serves but to accentuate its coloring. It has been made up in reception and theatre gowns and for the spring will be greatly used for street gowns. Voile de soie apparently is fashionable for any occasion, one reason being that there are so many different qualities and weaves, varying from rather heavy to the finest and sheerest effects. Some qualities resemble chiffon and mousse line de soie so closely that it is searcely possible to distinguisli one from the other, but a closer inspection reveals a rather closer, firmer foundation than the finer qualities of chiffon suede one, is gladly welcomed. | black, but as a harmonizing scheme. Black will go with any | hardest to evolve some modification of the original style that will be age ef and becoming. There are few figures that can stand the fashion of the skirts so much tighter around the ankles, but the combining of two materials is a great aid to breaking thé hard. line, for, the transparent tunie can be much fuller than the foundation skirt, and the folds hide or rather modify ‘the extreme: and eccentric narrowness. Then, if 80 desired, the tunic is most elaborately embroidered. or is finish- ed with a wide band of embrojgered trimming that makes ‘the material itself much thicker less transparent, ha ; * , ay; M IDWINTPR. frocks for the little girl are’ as”attractive as those designed for her elders and many of them are cut along the same lines. The most popular designs are those with the modified cuirass effect, and this style ‘serves ag well for the party dress as the school frock by varying thé choice of colors and quality of material, Serge is the best material for the schoo): frock, but cashmere and’ the lighter woollen materials are more fashionable. For the, little girl plaids are in vogue arid ‘ay interesting variety of checks. ; The ane-piece dresses cannot be too highly eommended and may be made very pretty with lingerie or embroidered collars and cuffs or ones of colored velvet or silks. * * * It is not the day of the glace glove. Its substitute, the There seems to have come about a change in gloves all along the line. Staring white kid ones are not as commonly worn for every occasion as, they once were. White and buff wash-chamois gloves, with the huge single pearl button, are much in evidence for street oceasions, for church, shopping, informal visits and traveling. They are not only smart, but they are long-lived and cleanly. Gloves to match gowns were never elegant when colors that were queer had to be chosen, and this season there is no attempt at it. The law of harmony still. prevails. One does not want to wear gray gloves with a brown frock, or the other way around, but for a majority of gowns the dull tan and gray suede glove will answer. This is entirely the choice with long sleeves, and the favorite choice with elbow sleeves. The dull, deep cream suede, with white stitchery, is the glove of the day for luncheons, card parties, weddings and after- noon receptions. In the evening the white-suede glove is much worn. Ee- centric gloves, like those of silk and lace, have never gotten any hold on our public, although one sees them in the shops and on the stage. ; * * & The mop of coiffure continues to agitate the feminine mind. She has tried it out in half a dozen different ways and finally hit upon one that she likes. She may use the braid or the rope coil, she may omit the littlé cap and use her own hair, she may add forehead curls to the flattened pom- padour, or she may merely wave her own hair across the centre ‘to rest on the forehead under the heavy coils. There are no limitations to the ways ii (which the mop coiffure can be achieved. All that anyone ‘Asks is that a woman insists upon experimenting with it until it is the right thing for her. Those who do not care for’ it in its. entirety, but. who like its simplicity, have taken to wearing a rather broad soft searf of ribbon or tulle around the head. This 1s not arranged like a fillet. It is a tightly drawn band that flattens the hair for several inches above its line of growth and then lets it puff out into a full cap above, It is unusually be- coming. 7 Not only have the young girls been successful with it, but many of the older women. Black velvet ribbon, the soft panne, weave, and black satin or spangled tulle are used in the evening. This is not only in deference to the desire for evening frock. | and a softer, more silky finish than mousseline de soie, The present demand for embroidery on the material itself can and is most satisfactorily carried out in voile de soie, ‘and the charming and unusual colorings are also most easily effected, for the fabric is so delightfully transparent that any lining shows to perfection. "Crystal, pearl, gold and silver embroidery seems to stand out from such a background more distinctly and if put over a satin foundation shows up the color of the satin, at the same time keeping its own individ- uality. The color scheme question is an all absorbing one, and the endless variety of effects to be obtained in the embroidered voile de soie’ gowns makes the occupation of choosing the trousseau at the moment most fascinating. A cinnamon brown voile de soie theatre gown, embroidered: in gold and made over a yellow éatin foundation, is a color scheme that appeals to every woman of artistic taste. Pearl or crystal embroid- ered pale grey over yellow is another scheme that challenges attention,.and the pale yellow over blue is also striking. One of the most attractive models of the season is a curious light yellow, embroidered in cut gold and yellow crystal beads. This is over a foundation of deeper yellow satin, while the daring contrast of nattier blue is introduced in velvet, a band of which finishes the tunic, but is put on-under the voile de soie. ishes the tunic, but is put'on under the voile de soie. On the On the waist is a large knot of velvet near the left shoulder. The design was copied from an old French painting, as, in- deed, are most of the best designs, and the coloring, materials and trimmings ‘are wonderfully attractive. Tunies, plain and draped, long and short, are most fashion- able in the voile de soie, and, as already has been stated, ‘eon- trasting colors are popular, At the same time, the all-one- color is fashionable also, Then the white satin linings, in eream white preferably, are also extremely ‘smart, A gown of white satin, with tunie and‘ waist of old blue in voile de soie, is most. charming and almost severely plain, as the only trimming is a broad band across the tip of the low cut waist, which has surplice folds that are most bécomingly draped. This model makes a smart theatre gown and is one of the. newest designs. s The skirts tied in around the ankles are certainly on the sceentric order, but that the fashion exists there is no deny- ling, and the leading dressmakers are apparently trying their ‘ r ’ Gold Embroidered Brown Mousseline de Soie Gown Over } . White ‘Satin The /spangled tulle in quite effective. The spangles are in the form of silver stars or crescents, The tiny beads are used, but they are not so effective as the flat spangles. * Fashions go atound in a cirele, and now we have handker- chiefs embroidered in colors once more in use, In a recent trousseau I saw some made of tiny squares of fine batiste, over which meandered butterflies, green dragon flies, or little brown and gold bees, all done in a sort of veining. Lilies or fleurs de lis and scrolls are encrusted in one color, with deli- cate buttonholing, to a batiste of another tint, and. other little handkerchiefs are edged with a double hemstitched band,’ one overlapping the other, say green with pale blue, . *. old gold and empire green, a row of veining dividing the two./, Some chic little squares in a pretty pale color were edged and monogrammed with black by way of variety, ' a This cut shows The DON’T BUY any kind of a grain cleaner until JUMBO" WAY. y gr. you know and understand the Write today for catalogue with illustrations and explanatory literature. The Beeman Mfg. Co., Ltd. 219 Nanton Bloc, Winnipeg “Jumbo” Hundreds of Farmers say it is the best Grain Cleaner ever made, and they are right. CAPACITY 100 BUSHELS PER HOUR SOLD ON AN ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE with Bagger Attachment ‘«Jumbo’’ The Best Wheat, the Cleanest and Most Modern Mills and Skilled Millers combine to give Ogilvie’ Ss Royal Household ~ _.. 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We nave at all times bargains in used and shopworn pianos at prices and terms which astonish the shrewdest oeees driv- Write today for a list of these great bargains which will be sent by return mail. ; : Quarterly or Fall payments arranged to suit, er. ee The Mason & Risch Piano Co., Factory Branch When You Buy a Mason & Risch PIANO You Pay Nothing Extra os pay for pianos only; no There is only one grade |the highest) There is only one profit (the smallest) There is only one price (the lowest) Ltd. ee eee Taber Free ress = A. Hamman, M.D., C.M. L.R.C.P. & S. (Edinburgh,). L.F.P. & S. (Glasgow.) PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Successor to Dr, Lang’ — 10.30 a.m. to 12.30:/p.mn., & 4 to 6 p,m. ‘Phone, No. 67. ‘Phone No. 5, Published every Thursday from the office of Publication on Hough Taber, by HERBERT LAKE, |, Street, Office Hours. Office over Drug Store. House, -7 Dr. Lang's late residence. Beesoeeesevessssseasesees Advertising Rates on Application. D. A. TAYLOR, M.D., C.M., SPECIALIST, Bye, ‘Ear, Nose and "Throat. ; * Stafford Block, Lethbridge, Alta. Office hours : 9.30—12'a.m., 2—5 p.m., 7-—8 p.m. $1.50 yearly, in advance, in.Canada and Great Britain’ Subsoriptions — ; - $2.00 to Unitéd States. * THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1910 @bon220800 (| ——— ————— ——— ae = Cc: H. NELSON Come in Grady, the water's fine. A. F. Grady,’ of Macleod, is : DENTIST playing a cinch game of politics. There’s nothing like it. He says that if [the Government at Edmonton will guarantee him a cabinet position he'll |run in the Liberal interests for the constituency represented by the late |Colin Genge. That is about’ the only way A. F. could get into the political game. First it was to be a senatorship. Nothing of the excitement of an elec- tion, and less of the uncertainty for Grady. That was in the days before he went to his reward as Postmaster of Macleod. Then a righteous and thankful but thoughtless government passed up the senatorship to Dr. DeVeber and left Grady with the choice of either the position of Customs Officer.or Postmaster. As there was léss work, and eighty doubloons more in the latter, he cinched the game, drew the bottom card and: went to be ‘forever with the stamp vendors. : Now that a waiting world and an anxious Government is calling on | Grady to work in the vineyard, it is natural that he should look for a soft | spot to light on before he lets go the staff of life. Grady is no gambler. He spurns the game of chance. }in—unless he can get his feet on his partner's toesr~ TABER, ALBERTA All Work Guaranteed Painless Extraction | OFFICE HOURS, 9-12 a.m., ee eee ee ee en ed H. G. Myers BARRISTER-AT-LAW, SOLICITOR &c | Solictor for the Eastern Townships Bank TABER, ALBERTA MONEY TO LOAN DSSVSOSSASSESSSSsAsSssssessess J. flarper Prowse, B.A., LL.B. Notary Public \ Solicitor for the Bank of Hamilton Taber - - Alberta | Money to Loan P.O. Box, 296 | P, | 1-5 p.m. He never sits Barrister, Solicitor, a Contractor Burns, of Calgary. surns, of Calgary, has the contract for laying the water mains for the city of Taber. Is it not about time that Pat was restrained from monopo- lies in Alberta 2? He has been in beef contracts, ice contracts, lumber and railroad contracts, and at the last we find him digging ditches. SVSVSVVSESSSsSsSssesTssssesess R. A. VanOrman. : CONTRACTOR, ,BUILDER, All kinds of Farm Work contracted “One honest Pat Burns was a hedger and ditcher ; Although he was poor did not want to be richer.” I forget the rest, but there is a moral somewhere. The most of us, |who. have been in the country for any length of time, remember Pat when he didn’t have to dig difches, and many of us wise puys were certain that if he attempted to keep hot the many different irons he had in the five that sooner or later he’d hit rock bottom, and here lie is. Some of these days when I see Pat with his coat,off and his overalls on, shovelling dirt out of a ditch on our right-of-way, I’m going right past and never speak to him. So there! for. p SLTVVSVVSSVVVeseesessesos, H. Hobson & Sons Front Street, next door to Palm Theatre | Phone 75. | , . | Who owns the brick-bats?) Does anyone know ? Try our sugar cured corned beef and pick- tell us who has charge of the cleaning up of the streets? Some day will led pork. It is cured with sugar, salt and) the man in control take up his duties for the spring, starting at the pile of saltpetre. The sugar gives it the mild |}+iek-bats in front of the Post Office. These may be handy for the editors sweet flavour. The salt cures it just right ‘ . ; , : . to fire at each other, seeing that they are neighbours, but speaking for the The saltpetre gives it a rich, red color, and ; makes it firm for slicing hot or cold. You latter we may rise to remark that we prefer snowballs at LOO yards. Clean up this dump! it looks bad. —_—— .0-- 90 —-—— Can anyone will find it delicious. ICE FOR SALE. SDBVSSSessesSesssssseseseseses ROvAL HOTEL The Table and Dining Roem Unexcelled —— 0 o- - Build us a Hospital. The discussion over the report of the Hos- pital Committee of the Board of Trade, developed severab features which are of moment to the city in general. The first is the evident care which characterized the Committee in the procuring of facts and data for- their report. They journeyed to Lethbridge, int¢rviewed Dr. Mewburn, in- | ispected_ the hospital. there, note —the diser ancies_in_the.plan of that! ‘Thstitution, commumiented wilh the GovernnQent, and with several other institutions, seeking ever for suggestions, andy presented a report through the secretary, Mr. Prowse, Bishop VanOrman! and Dr. Leech, that fairly | bristled with facts. Another feature of the discussion was the interest displayed by the! Board in the undertaking and the speeches delivered pro and con in the de- bate on the subject in question. A stranger cowd not help but be inter- | ested, and as the speeches were altogether free from the personalities which so often creep into discussions, and were confined to the matter under con- | sideration, the evening was entirely educative. Bar supplied with the finest brands | of Wines, Liquers and Cigars HENRY HOBSON -° Prop. SEE George A. Willoms GENERAL BLACKSMITH It is lrard for me to undere people in general. The third feature of the debate is the fact that Taber has come face to face witly a public duty and the sooner we know what is before us and set For’ Mine : Work, | wbout to accomplish our purpose, the better for us. ee Contracting Jobbing, . aber mnust have a hospital. It must be a larger institution than the Carriage and Woodwork. immediate present need. At must be up-to-date in equipment, and | practically fireproof. ‘To build such an institution will require considerable Plow Work and Horseshoeing are} money. How much is not suggested, and if the Bourd of Trade is as wise specialties. las they are supposed to be they will relegate their suggestive powers along ithis line to a public meeting. Therets a great difference of opinion as to iwhat is reasonable to ask from the people just now. The Government is to (be approached for a contribution, but if they should ask the Committee | what Taber is ready to give, can an answer be offered ? , | BACK OF TABLER HOTEL C.P.R. TIME-TABLE. Two speakers at the meeting on Friday night, both of them “men | who know,” were of the opinion that the estimated cost of a building sue) | las was recommended by the Committee was entirely beyond the powers of ithe people of Taber at the present time. ‘To this they added that if the | " BAST BOUND. No. 214 Passenger, daily. 1.35 a.m. ae : No. 236 Local Passenger, daily. 16.06 p.m. | people were of the opinion that the mine operators about Taber were wil- (except Sunday) ‘ling and ready to make large contributions to such an undertaking, granting No.8. Soo-Portland, daily. 2.52. a.m. | ever its worth,—-that a disappointment was in store for all such. WEST BOUND. If the men at the head of the financial institutions of the town declare No. 213, Passenger, daily. 2.304M-. | oeainst such w project as a $20,000 hospital, if they advise revision of No. 235 Local Passenger, daily. 12.05 p.m. Met y ren ve : ha (except Sunday) plans and curtailing of preliminary expenses, if they are of the opinion that | ~ No. 7 Soo-Portland, daily. 4.00 a.m. | it would be wise to make haste slowly, and to be always within our means, can we with safety rush in where bank managers fear to tread ? The hospital problem is an interesting and important one. Our col- umns are open for discussion on this topic. This is the time for “pro-bono-publico” and “nix bonum”’ to get in their fine work. The Churches | ANGLICAN Sr. THEODORE’S CHURCH.—Morn- ing Prayer, 11 a.m. Sunday School, A Petitition :—God save our friends: and preserve our enemies, The former gives us a living; the latter establishes our personality. 3pm. Evening Prayer, 7.30 p.m. The former may borrow from us; the latter neither borrow or lends. Holy Communion, 11 a.m. first Sun- We can make money out of our friends; and keep our enemies busy day in each month and 8.30 a.m. on | getting it away from us. - i third Sunday in the month. . : “o-oo, Take it home, brother! Don’t knock. No Cowen was made for L.D.S. : CuurcH oF JEsus Curist oF |°® man’or one concern. You don't want opposition? Then get in a LATTER Day SAINTS.—Sunday |town your own size—a smaller one than this. 4 wT é é + ». t fellow wants to LIVE, even if Then the world. takes every man at The man who rates himself .001 is right at his value and the chances are the rating of the other fellow at par is at his value. Don’t get cheap. The other /EXISTENCE is a delight to you. {his own valuation. School at 10 a.m. every Sunday. Sacrament meeting at 2 p.m. Sun- day evening service at 8 p.m. Young | Ladies’ Mutual Improvement As- | sociation, every Tuesday at 7.30| Don’t keep trying to put the other fellow out of business. It is ten to ”. Primary Association every |°® bet that he is nearer to a decent living than you, and if the world gets Batarday at 3 p.m ” \to thinking that way, you'll get laughed at; and ridicule is the two-edged : _ sword that stabs to kill. . .-—0-0 PRESBYTERIAN. Knox OCHURCH.—Morning Service, ll a.m. Sunday School, 2.30 p.m. Bible Class, 3.30 pm. Evening ‘Service, 7.30 p.m. Frayer meeting, Wednesday, 8 p.m. Last week a New Hampshire girl, Miss Rosie Caban, handed: Michael Hasselbar a lemon on a little love deal they had, and in return Mike—the ungallant swipe—sent Rosie a pair of adders in a, chocolate box. They. missed Rosie, and a policeman killed them and arrested Mike. This is the first we have noticed the snake feature in love affairs for some time. Men who have been jilted in times past have generally had a series of snakes, horned-toads, red-headed geese, and purple spiders, accord- ing to the liquor routes they ran oyer,‘but sending adders in chocolate boxes to one’s best. love—this is too much—too much. ’ Subseribe to The Free Press Piensa I notice by the Advertiser that | him. Just here we rise to speak | : . CORRE out in meeting. It is a shame,: Contracting & Jobbing Owl Restaurant 'a measly shame that Board of | 450s tosdae Slawle ik Hoare Trade matters are relegated to Carriage & Woodwork er en 7 ” eas | PRICES ON BILL OF FAKE a few enthusiasts who will insist | : a ae ae FOR MEALS | | Rogers —Cunningham Lumber Com- | v ; ; ; a | Hstate stand why so little interest is taken in the affairs of the Board by the) editor of the Taber Free Press. Borden and his troubles. Tho row in the Consery ative party al Ottawa at the present time will undoubtedly result in benefit to that party. If the’ Conservatives are to accomplish anything inthe Dominion, they must get rid of the millstones and traitors that have sunk them fe few years. Mr. Monk and one or. two of his followers would danin any party that ever had the misfortune to he linked up with them. live years ago Mr. Borden knew exactly what Monk was, even if he (lid Tet ues long before that. Monk promised Mr. Borden faithfully that, in his speech on the famous Autonomy Bills, he would not say anything that would clash with what Mr. Borden, as leader of his party, had said the day be- fore. One hour after making this promise Mr. Monk rose from his seat directly behind Mr. Borden on the floor of the House of Commons and for more than two hours devcted his atféntion to argunient that was directly opposed to practically everything that his leader had said. There was a great row over this at the time— although the row was kept quiet—and it was fully expected that Mr. Monk and Mr. Borden would break off all relations with each other. Mr. Borden unwisely per- mitted the affair to be patched up, however—and to-day he is reaping the fruits of his folly. Mr. Monk has been of no use toviim in (Quebec. and has been a constant weakness to him in all other parts of the Dominion. He is more of an affliction to the Conservative party, ten times over, than Mr. Bourassa ever was to the Liberals. Both these men are inordinately vain, ambitious, They have no idea other than the one that will best serve their purpose for the moment. They are detertnined to he conspicuous, and they do not believe that loyalty to anyone but themselves should prevent their gratify- ing their desires. At the present timo, the Conservative party has a good opportunity and a good excuse for having a thorough shaking up. There are others besides Monk who could be dropped with advantage and by dropping Monk at the present moment a good start would be made that would probably not stop until these objectionables also had been shaken off. |; —SATURDAY Post. OXFORD CAFE] >\¢ (Late Imperial Restaurant) Taber, Alta. Uuder flew Management From April 12th JOE FONG - PROPRIETOR CANDIES AND FRUITS TOBACCOS AND CIGARS VEGETABLES OF ALL KINDS Best Clean Help in the World wv the last Dining Room Girl Wanted at once and solf centered. | 4 (Formerly Beck's Opera House) Lessee and Manager—C. E. Jupson MOVING PICTURES Every Night at 8 o'clock except Wednesday fight CHANGE OF PROGRAMME EVERY NIGHT | DANCING GLASS SEE ” Under the direction of Mrs. Carl Judson Robel t Johnson Wed. Night, 7.00-9.30 GENERAL BLACKSMITH SOCIAL DANCE FROM 9.30 FOR TO 1 a.m. Taber's New Furniture Store Henderson Bros. and Ross, whose initial announcement appears in this issue, are to be congratulated on their start in Taber. They have builded their quarters, have filled them from cellar to garret with a little better stock of furniture than is generally seen outside the city stores. These men comprise the kind of a concern wo can afford to boost, for by their presence they are standardising our centre, and helping to shape the town into the proportions of a city. Will they do business? You can be sure of the fact that Tfenderson Bros. and Ross will force their share of the trade if bargains, wnd attention to business will help—and it generally does. Taber Board - of Tradc The regular meeting of the Doard of Trade of Taber was held in the, Council chamber on Friday night. | The President, Mr. Anderson, pre- sided and a_ reasonably good rep- resentation of ‘members was_ before Ske]e p.m. Mine Work on doing their best, utilizing their, sparobinre; tor the benéfit of their, town. Some of these days we are as apt as not to publish a list of! the business men who never think | of attending these important meet- ings. Three new members were added to the roll. H. H. Macleay of the Barber Shop in Connection OPEN DAY @4T% NIGHT Hair tonic of all descriptions at Plow Work and Horseshoeing Specialties reasonable prices FIRST CLASS IN EVERY RESPECE BEHIND SCHOOLHOUSE BARNWELL MR. & MRS. A. D. KNOX Just east of Palace Hotel, Main Street Taber pany, Perey Lapum Leach Real and Insurance, and the Mr. MacLeay and Mr. Leach were made members hy virtue of their positions, and the fact that they. had the price and on unmitigated gall the editor squeezed through. There were several communi- cations read by tlre secretary, and CITY PROPERTY these were laid on the table by motion. HALE SECTION two miles of Woodpecker. A rattling good buy at The President then asked Mr. $25.00 peracre. Dont buy before seeing me about good land. SEVERAL GOOD CITY PROPERTIES for sale in Taber. Town Property will never be so cheap again as now. Mr. Prowse, wise in his day: and ONE £ and ONE 6-ROOMED HOUSE TO RINT. generation, held on to his chair, , ll = 10 A during his address. Losing a chair | 3 in the Council Chamber isa disaster. MONEY TO LOAN ON FARM | FIRE, LIFE, ACCLDENT AND If you don't believe the reporter LANDS AND CITY PROPERTY | FIDELITY INSURANCE ask Alderman Mitchell, PERCY LA PU M LEACH The secretary’s report was to the Phone 90. Office—Alberta Drug Block. Prowse, the secretary of the Hospital Land and Jommittee to present his report. effect that the Committee tad cov- ered the initiatory ground of investi- gation, had considered finances, and) "= necessities and had decided on a plan which eventually would involve k of the sum of $20,000 for a building, to which might be added the sum of $5,000 for equipment, and a surgical ebuipment of $750. The discussion that followed was full of good reasoning and plausible argument. | Mr. Ewing, conservative, keen, and concise, spoke in favor of a smaller undertaking. Mr. Hammer, always practical, asked for and argued in favor of prepared plans. .e | Bishop VanOrman, as optimistic ,. as a Virginian Oriole, stayed by the Committee and its raport. Dr. ‘Leech ran into figures and ethics as natural as life, produced his deductions, made his suggestions and delivered his enunciations like a politician. What this gentleman | is doing out of the diplomatic service | is a wonder to the most of us: | ‘The other speakers were A. H.' MacLeay, Mr. Leck, Mr. Fisher, and Dr, Lake. ; | The Board authorised Bishop Van; | Orman to proceed to Lethbridge, | interview the architect, secure a working sketch from ‘the latter; and) with Dr. Leech, proceed to Edmon- | ton to interview the Government: as to support, etc. The work is in good bands, may there be results— \: hundred fold. We carry a compfete stoc the best in LUMBER — BUILDING MATERIAL Come and examine our stock: before purchasing elsewhere A square deal to everybody is our motto | e ¥ Smut in Grain We sell 16 ounces to the pint. | You are sure of getting Good Strong Fresh Formalin from us. , Alberta Drug & Stationery Co., Hough St., Taber | Mr. New Comer! DID YOU SAY CHINOOK WINDS ? TRY OUR GOGGLES AND BEHOLD THE CHANGE! ITS SUNNY ALBERTA THEN. o — WESTLAKE's — j hours and -still were sleepy. They Jewellery and Stationery Store H. M. WHIDDINGTON' W. A. WHIDDINGTON Strathcona. Lethbridge. H.M. & W. A. WHIDDINGTON REGD. ARCHITECTS 211, Sherlock Block, Lethbridge, Alta. The Liquor License’ Ordinance. Applications for Re-_ newals of Liquor Licenses. The téllowing applications for renewals of, and s li juor heenses will be considered by the Board of License Commissioners at the annual meeting to be heltat Lethbridge on Saturday the l4th day of May, 1910, at 1UJo'clock a.m. : ‘ Pallister andf Smith, for renewal of hotel license In Fespect tot 10, in Block 8){ Burdett. Henderson eon tespect to the Queen's Hotel, situate on ts | and 2, Block 6, Royal View. \\. McDonald, for a new hotel license in res- , Carmangay. Peter McNaughton, for renewal of hotel license respect to the Grange Hotel, situate on dots 8, 9 andl 10, Block 3, Carmangay Damned Needhain, for renewal of hotel license respect to the Myrtle Hotel, situate’ on lots 33, and 40, Block 11, Bow Island. Demmon Bros., for renewal of hotel license respect to the Coal City Hotel, situate on lots 27, and 29, Block 18, Coal City. : Phomas A. Underwood, for renewal of hotel | © in respect to the Grassy Lake Hotel, situate riots 21, 22, 23 and 24, Block 11, Grassy Lake. Zougue Bray, for renewal of hotel license in respect to the Taber Hotel, situate on lots 2, 3,4 snd Ss. an Block 3, Taber. Joseph Dobbs, for rengwal of hotel license in respect to the Union Hotel, situate on lots 6, 7, and Soin Block 18, Taber. | Fred J. Herscher, for renewal of hotel license in respect to the Palace Hotel, situate on lots 36, 5 and 3s, Block 4, Taber. . Donald J. MeMillan, for rene wal of wholesale in respect tothe premises situate on lot 20, Block Is, Laber Henry Hobson, for renewal of hote) license in respect to the Royal Hotel, situate on lots | and 2, lock 9, Taber. Hudson's Bay Company, for renewal of wholesale | license in respect to the premises situate on lot 22 Block 7, Lethbridge , C. Pagnuelo Wane and Spirit Co., for renewal of wholesale license in respect to the premises sit uate on the most easterly forty feet throughout of lots 9, 10 and 11, in Block 7, Lethbridge. Messrs hotel license in respect to the Coaldale Hotel, sit uate on lots | and 2, in Block 32, Lethbridge, Messrs. Bowman and Downer, for renewal of hotel license in respect to the Lethbridge Hotel, | situate pn lots 20, 21 and 22, Block 18, Lethbridge. Messrs. Bowman and Downer, for renewal of hotel license in respect to the Balmoral Hotel, sit uate on lots 30 and 31, Block 32, Lethbridge Charles Hansen, for renewal of hotel license in respect to the Castle Hotel, situate on lots 12, 15 and 14, Block 5, Lethbridge, H, E. Miebach, for renewal of hotel license in respect to the Windsor Hotel, situate on lots 1, 2 and 3, Block 5, Lethbridge . J. B. Reuter, for renewal of wholesale license in respect to the premises situate on lot 13, Block 7, Lethbridge. William Porter, for renewal of hotel license in respect to the Arlington Hotel, situate on lots 8,9 and 10, Block 6, Lethbridge. Dallas Hotel Company Limited, for renewal o hotel license in respect to the Dallas Hotel, situate on lots 12 and 13, Block 31, Lethbridge. DATED AT EDMONTON this 8th day of April, 1910. A. Y. BLAIN, Acting Deputy Attorney General. Notice to Greditors. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF LETHBRIDGE. IN THE ESTATE OF Franz Ellner, Deceased Pursuant to the order of His Honor Judge Winter, dated the 9th day of April, 1910. : TAKE NOTICE that all persons having any claims or demands against the late Franz Ellner who died on or about the 3lst day of August, 1909, at Taber, intestate, are required on or before the 3lst day of May, 1910, to de administratrix of the estate o deceased, in care of Simon and Shepherd, Barris ters, Lethbridge, her solicitors, their names and addresses and full particuiars of their claims in writing, and the nature of the securities, if any, held by them, and such statement shall be verified by Statutory Declaration made by the Claimant or his or her agent, « AND TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that after the ) Said 3ist' day of May, 1910, the said administratrix ‘will proceed to distribute the assets: of the said deceased, having regard only to the claims of which she shall then bave had notice and the said adminis- tratrix will not be liable for the said assets or any part of them to.any person of whose claim she shal not then have received notice. f the said Franz Ellner, DATED AT LETHBRIDGE this 9th day of -D. 1910, SIMMONS & SHEPHERD, ¢ | Solicitors for the Administratrix. Appil, A ‘ © Sayre te Foe Pras FORMALIN | |’. Walter Ross, of North:Bay, Ont:, o West Hotel. situate on lots 15 and | nd Chapman, for renewal of hotel | the Victoria Hotel, situate on lots 1, 2 and 3, | | Bowman and Downer, for renewal of | liver to Annie Ellner, | News, Notes | and Comments | was found’ guilty of. murdei.and was sentenced to be hanged on May 20th. | * Ottawa, April 9.—In the Commons this morning Hon. W: S.- Fielding gave notice of an amendment to the Coinage act, which has for its object the manufacture of a silver dollar similar to the American silver dollar. x On Tuesday last, Geo. A. Evans, while brazing a copper tube in one of the carbonisation tanks in the sugar factory at Raymond, was| badly burned about the face and jhands, and narrowly escaped -a horrible death. | x Victoria, B.C., April 11.--D. D Mann, who drew a lot in the Duns muir estate sale a few days ago, now seeks to purchase the Dunsmuir castle from from the lucky winner, It is said he wants to make a home in Victoria during the winter mouths. x Evansville, Ind., April 11.—Seores | of people in this community complain | that they are unable to get enough | sleep, in fact several instances people have slept for fifteen or twentyfour attribute this inclination to to Halley's comet. sleep x The Western Canada Cement-and | Y ‘ * | Coal Company, which: owns the Iixshaw works, is in financial diffi- culties, and the plant is passing into the hands of a receiver, Who will be appointed in a few days. The debenture holders and bond’ holders will continue to run the plant as be- fore, and no change will be made in tle outside working of the institution. x St. Catharines, April 9.—““Gentle- ;men, I will have to ask you to lower /your voices or we will adjourn. There is a little girl dying in the next room,’ said Mayor McBride last night as the council got into heated argument. The waretrg-eldermen were~-st in the night. x “Village Blacksmith” leaves his Forge. A despatch to the NEw YorK AMERICAN from Lyn, Mass., -says ‘Thaddeus W. Tyler, the “village blacksmith” is dead. It was while watching him at work over his | forge and anvil that Longfellow was inspired to write “Under a spreading chestnut tree, The village smithy stands, The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands, ; ° Andthe muscles of his brawnyarns | Are strong as iron bands,” ete. ya The cold of the Pole was torrid in comparison with the reception ten- ‘dered in Montreal Peary, by an ‘audience of 800 per- sons, that seemed dwarfed by the huge dimensions of the Arena. This much discussed veteran of Polar enterprises gave & lantern lecture on Saturday evening on his trip to the north pole. That his lecture created much impression could not be claimed. At no time did the audience exhibit enthusiasm. There was applause at intervals but its ring was not convincing. Indeed, from the entrance of Com- mander Peary, the demeanor of the | audience was marked by comparative ‘indifference. And the commander | seemed to feel the lack of cordiality ‘in his reception. His voice was nervously husky at moments, but he plodded on with his theme, an un- magnetic, self-centred, prosaic per- | sonality, whom the romance of the Arctic appeared to have left striking- ly’ uninspired. - -He had no over- | whelming proofs to present, when he showed the picture of the pole, which seemed to have been ‘comical- ly shaped by nature, and he did not state how he:knew he had arrived | there or describe the steps leading to such conclusions. Choice Farm Land Money to Loan. F | | through, his quitting the office. | Parliament are in sad state of mix- enced. The child was the daughter iof the caretaker,- and she died later original | to Commander | Owner of unsold portion of Townsite ‘South of Railway. ! ! \. BEFORE PURCHASING, SEE OR WRITE C.C.MILLAR - Taber, Alta. Night telegraph operator Voyer,. of the 'O.P.R. train office ‘was on Friday morning sent to jail for pe | months for-deserting his key on ‘the Wednesday évening previous. | Me was intoxicated and gave the. dis- | patcher: the “‘good-night, no more” signal. ‘Fortunately the agent was secured, and.danger to trains -was avoided by a new man being ap- pointed. Voyer made his, own de- fence and contended: that ‘as Regina was a divisional point. all ‘trains had to stop there, there. being no danger ; The magistrate decided to make an ex- ample of Voyer, this being the second case within a week. x The Conservatives of the Dominion up over the opposition Leader Bor- den is making to the Laurier Navy Bill. The ToRONTO WorRLD in a des- patch from Ottawa, written by W: F. McLean, publishes the situation | with more. brutal frankness. Mr. 'McLean notes that as a result of the | |revolt of the French-Canadian fol- | |lowers.of Mr. Monk in the House and internecine strife, it has been ;decided to call off the proposed party federal convention next June. | | HTe declares that there is no doubt jof the truth of the published state- ments that a number of Conser- | vatives are dissatisfied and insurgent, | /and that this insurgency in the | | Opposition rank and file is due in the | ;main to the policy pursued in -the House by Mr. Borden. | 7 Sheep Man Injured. | George Inkster, a recent arrival | from Ontario, met with a mishap on Monday that resulted in a badly broken arm. Inkster, who is em-. ployed by the Neil Bros., the sheep men, was driving a horse and a broncho attached to a wagon loaded | | With lumber. While going“down. ithe side of Chin Coulee the broneho refused to hold biek and the load of! jlumber = slipped, carrying Inkster | with it. | He fetl under the wheels and one: of them passed over his left arm. Ile was found in a dazed condition } by. another employee of the sheep \ }men an hour or more after tlie accident and was brought to Bur- dette, Where Dr. Blackburn set the fractured limb. | The team was found several down the coulee just previous to the \discovery of Inkster.—BURDETTE | TRIBUNE. = x ~ | THE EDITOR OF THE MEDICINE HAT NEWS WRITING HIS EDITORIALS. x One of Raymond's Pioneers dead. At Gridley, Cal., on March 4th, |Chester Southworth, a highly es- teemed imember of the Mormon ‘colony, expired suddenly, while | working in his yard, of heartfailure, having been apparently well up to his death, although he had coin- | plained of pains in his chest. He | was born in Nauvoo, I[Il., on August |} 22, 1834, and went to Utah in 1852, 'with his parents, and located at) | Farmington. In I862 he removed to Brigham City, where he married |Miss Agnes Caldwell, who survives | bim. In 1873 this family moved to, | Bear Lake, Idaho, where ‘he lived | luntil the year 1900, when they) | went to Alberta, Canada, and was lone of the first to help build several | |'Mormon towns along the border. He lived in Tber, Alta., a few years prior to going to Gridley, where he / was engaged in light farming. He) | was associated with many of the | veteran actors of Utah, among others | being Phil Margetts and the McEw- ans, and-wherever Mr.. Southworth went-he was instrumental in organ- ising w home dramatic club to enter- ttain the settlers .and for the benefit |) of the Church, and auxiliary organi- sation. He was.a staunch Latter- day Saint. Besides his wife, he is survived by six daughters and four sons and a large circle. of friends to mourn his departure.—Raymond Rustler. s. City Property. ire & Life Insurance. ‘ iilles | nie § — Se GER eR R We Want to tell You about SLATER SHOES — v NEAT STYLES, PERFECT FIT AND COMFORT, AND FOR DURABILITY THEY ARE UNEXCELLED. ‘NOVI MODI LADIES’ SUITS & COATS | NEWEST GLOTHS AND LATEST STYLES: In Prints, Ginghams, Dress Ladies’ Waists, Underwear, Corsets, Hosiery, Goods, Muslins and Novelty D ’ ’ - Dress Fabrics, we have a hiss accheaclaaalinas thing in Women’s and Child- lendid i Splendid selection of fice, All. New and ren's Wear. Clean Fresh Goods. Nifty Neckwear, Collars, Ties, Jabots, etc. AND DON’T FORGET TO SEE Royal Worcester Corsets | le ies s The New Furniture Store Henderson Bros. & Ross HIGH CLASS (| FURNITURE TIN TABER .. $HSHFSHHHFS SHS SSCS SSSTCSSCSH SFY OHH OH HHHHHHHHHHHS Hall Stands, Carpets, Linoleums, Rugs and Curtains, Window Blinds and Picture Framing. 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Limit 809 ‘Hargrave St. : Why not for you? Winnipeg Do you trap or bny Furs ? lam Canada’s largest dealer. I pay ‘ highest prices. Your shipments solicited. I pay mail and express charges ; remit prompt- ly.. Also largest dealer in Beefhides Sheepskins, etc. Quotations and shipping tags sent free. JOHN HALLAM, TORONTO Consignments — OF — WHEAT, OATS and FLAX will receive personal attention. | We gladly wire what we can get before selling. Continental Grain Co., ita 223 GRAIN EXCHANGE WINNIPEG Treatise on the Couderay, Wis. Oct. sth. 1909 | **Please send me your book-‘A Treatise On The Horse'—I saw by your ad that it was free, but if it cost $5, I would not be without it,as I think I have saved 'wo |§ valuable horses in the last year by follow- ing directions iu your book." William Napes. It’s free. Get a copy when you buy Kendall s Spavin Cure at your ¢lealer's, If he shonld not have it. write us. 40 Or, B. J. Kendall Ca., Enesburg Fotis, Vt. a|had very much to do with 50e all | Com ngs. .}and was beaten out by a filly that could . The orseman All kinds- of theories and ‘notions have been advanced regardihg the horse that stops. Why he does so, has been credited to-a hundred different causes. Undoubtedly there is much truth in many of these premises. One of the most prevalent explanations is that of heredity. In our American trotting family there are some branches that are is undoubtedly much of hereditary soft- ness is a predominating féature. So well have these features become known to the general racing public, that it has become common to refer to a faint- hearted horse as racing like an X Y Z, or something of that sort, naming a sire or a representative family. And. there is undoubtedly much of heredited soft- ness among the army of horses that are disposed to quit. Why this weakness should not be transmitted as well ‘as other qualities, both good and bad, it is difficult to understand. Besides the theory is backed up with so many in- stances and illustrations that it becomes not only feasible but extremely prob- able. So common has it become, however, to trace this weakness to inheritance, that many cases are unjustly credited to the ancestral line. We are far too quick to take up the heredity of the performer in case he is subject to rac- ing défects, absolutely ignoring the fact that other considerations may have his short- -Training, care. and all the numerous factors that aid in making or marring creditable racing careers are too often cast aside to make way for the prevailing medium of responsibility, the sire. A story is told of a western breeder of German descent, which if not entire- ly true, is, nevertheless, illustrative of the common usage. This man had a half-mile track on his farm and develop- ed his colts with the aid of a trainer. Two stallions were maintained, one of which had gained an enviable reputa- tion as a sire of game and fast perform- ers, whide the second was quite ‘‘yel low’’ in his racing career and was re- puted to transmit this feature to his progeny. Among the band of ten or twelve two-year-olds that were in train- ing there last year was an exceedingly promising trotting colt sired by the better of the stallions. In his early work he leoked so good that the proprietor never failed to call the attention of his visitors to the fact that the colt was the son of his favorite stallion, which for convenience, we will call ‘‘A.’’ Now A was the owner’s favorite theme, morning, noon and night, and he never tired of recounting his glory, while B, the second stallion, was plainly as big a disappointment in the stud as he had been in his races. One day in mid-summer, the colt given his.first work in competition and the owner was due for a revelation. For the colt, that alone had shown such speed and finished so admirably, ‘‘back- ed’? quite pereeptibly when challenged | in fhe stretch. ‘he owner Hadn’t mueh to say; evidently he hoped that this trial was only a fluke and the colt be himself in his next work. Instead, the youngster ‘‘backed up’’ with greater emphasis on the ‘‘back.’’ Changes were tried, without suecess. Alone, the colt would act like a racehorse, in company, he would fade away in a most disap- pointing way imaginable. Then the shrewd German owner began to delve into farm literature and began to hint at doubts of the colt’s progenitor. ‘‘I don’t tink he is py dot A,’’ he said. ‘‘T will look him up more,’’ as though the looking up proeéss involved a_ great amount of work. was One day the colt was advanced to the period of ‘‘repeats’’ in company and then he failed most miserably. Coming home in the second heat, he was over- hauled handily and despite the driver’s most* energetic work, quit absolutely | not show nearly his speed alone. Com- ing back to where the owner stood after the heat the driver halted for a consul- tation. ‘‘ What shall we do about him,’’ he asked, with a view to the colt’s en- gagements of the year. ‘Oh, I will have dot catalogue chanched und have him made right,’’ said the irate owner, ‘‘he is not by A, and [ know id; we will chanech him und make him right.’’ It is a very doubtful question wheth- er a natural quitter might be converted into a racy individual. ‘‘Once a quit- ” that inheritance. The killing, methods of some trainers are a prolific source of this deplorable vatiéty of ‘racing per- former, It may bé urged that horses with courage will race well under any system of training; and that no length of incessant honing and number of hard heats will serve to take from them the disposition to fight out their battles to the end. But in our experience, we have been confronted with numerous ex- amples of the opposite case, wherein it was plain that confirmed quitters were made out of naturally game performers. The system of matinee and road rac- ing at half-mile heats also is productive of this class. In these the aim is to get away fast and keep going. For the short heats, the horse is, of course, able to finish well, but when afterwards ask- ed to go the long route, he. invariably rebels, provided his matinee work has been of long duration. There is a dis tinction in these cases, to be sure; the horse that is exhausted when the stretch is reached bears not the ignom- iny attached to the nag that, collared in the stretch, gives up the fight through lack of fighting spirit rather than physical shortcoming. Yet in our prevailing style of racing, either is cul- pable. With heat racing and tedious scoring, the winning horse usually must THE TABER FREE possess the highest racing qualities be- sides a rate of speed that is increasing with each year. PHOTOGRAPHING THE HEART- BEAT, E have become so accustomed to the wonders which modern sci- ence has been enabled to accom- plish by means of photography that we are no longer surprised when some new and important discovery is announced. The service which photography has ren- dered by its application to science with- in recent years has proved so invaluable that one may now with truth say that photography is become the handmaiden of science. However useful photography may be as a pastime or as an art, there can be no doubt that in conjunction with science it has rendered such in- valuable service to mankind as to have become practically indispensable; and in no other branch has it proved more valuable than in medical science, In this field it has added considerably to the lot of human happiness, since by its means operations have been made pos- | sible which were once considered im- practicable, and it has been of con- siderable help in the alleviation of suf- fering. In this conenction one need only mention the discovery of the Rotit- gen rays and the various inventions to which it has led. The latest of these is | a contrivance .for photographing the | beating of the human heart, which is in | itself almost as astounding as was the original invention. Although the new contrivance is of quite recent date, its practicability is proved by the fact that it has already_heen introduced into most of the important physical laboratories on the continept. Before proceeding to describe the method of photographing the heart beat, it may be as well to initiate the reader into some of the mys- teries of the invention. The patient whose heart is to be examined is usher- | ed into a piteh dark room, from which every ray of light is excluded. Without removing his clothes or making any other preliminary preparation, he is in- | vited to sit down on an ordinary chair before a large glass bulb. Then the operator switches on the current, and in response the electric sparks hiss in the glass bulb, filling it with a pale green | light. Then the operator holds in front of the patient a plate which ‘ras pre viously been prepared with a compound of barium platinum. On to this is jthrown a clearly defined image of the | heart, and the electrie rays are so ar ranged that the shadow of the rib bones is scarcely perceptible, and does not in any way interfere with the examination | of the fleshy mass forming the heart. So | distinet is the image that one can clear ly observe the opening and clasing of the valve, as the blood is being pumped jthrough it. Needless to say, the pat- jent feels nothing whatever during» this operation. So far no photographie emul- |sion has. been discovered which is suffic- jiently sensitive to record the movements of the heart as seen on the barium platinum sereen, though it is expected that before long it will be possible to ter, always a quitter’’ has been the generally accepted answer. Yet, we have seen a few instances where horses of very decided inclination to stop were manipulated into quite creditable per formers. However, it would undoubted- ly be the greatest test of the trainer’s art to try such a conversion, and an un- usual achievement to bring about such a change. All kinds of defects of gait faults of speed rating, erratic heads, et« are met with and remedied. So are But the trainer always looks dubious when the prospects of the quitter are mentioned. To eliminate the habit of quitting when such a quality is inherit- ed, is a more difficult task than train- ers are willing to take upon themselves, and the horse that ‘‘stops hard’’ is us ually but a short time in the racing ranks. It is undoubtedly true that many horses .that quit are not foaled with Sure cure and body. Largest selling live $11 @ dozen. will get it for “ DISTEMPER any ‘age are infecte acts on the Blood and Glands, expels the poisonous germs from the Cures Distemper in Dogs and Sheep and Cholera in Poultry. 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Into each of these vessels a copper wire is led which is charged with electricity. Where these wires meet, a very thin platinum wire is attached to them, resting within a high- |ly charged magnetic field. As soon as the contact is completed the platinum | needle begins to move, its movement be- ing regulated according to the strength of the electric current passing through it. Since the human body is a conductor of electricity, the contact cireuit is made: whenever the patient places his arms in the vessels of water into which the wires Jed. It naturally follows that the movements of the needle follow the contraction and expansion of the -heart, impelled by the electricity generated by the action of the muscles of that or- gan whilst. performing its function, When these contractions are strong the swing of the needle is much greater than when the contractions are weak, Under this moving needle a_photo- graphic film is slowly passed, and the’ light above it is so arranged that a faith- ful imprint of the beating of the’ heart is recorded on the electro-cardiagram. It is hoped that this new discovery will afford doctors the means of studying more carefully and closely the heart and its action, enabling them'to treat more exactly the various diseases of the heart which have until now been more or less a mystery to them. NEW, USES FOR OLD TIN CANS HE rejected tin ean is generally re- garded as a typically worthless ob- _ | ject. Neverthpless in these econ- omical days it does really possess a not inconsiderable value. In fact, there is hardly a tin can thrown away anywhere that is not eventually turned to some useful account, ‘ 4 scat eendinateembeieniemneaa teretaae PRESS Most tin cans in cities find their way to the ash dumps, from which they are carefully collected by professional scav- engers; who know where to find a mar- ket for them. There are factories which are exclusively engaged in the business of dealing with just this sort of mater- ial, The first process consists in expos- ing the cans to.a high ‘heat, which melts the solder, the Jatter running off into a separate recéptacle, to be sold afterward at 6d. a pound. re By this means the.tops and bottoms of the cans are removed-—to be subse- quently smashed into homogencous masses with a steam hammer and cut up into sash-weights for windows. But those cans which are in Al second-hand condition have only the tops unsoldered, and are afterwards utilized as -recep- tacles for paint and varnishes. The paint-ean of today may have held soup or tomatoes in a previous stage of its existence, The cylindrical parts of the cans are usually more or less dented and batter- ed, This, however, is not a matter of any importance, for they are rolled out perfectly flat by machinery, and in this shape serve extensively as roofing ma- terial for shanties and other small build- ings, 2s well as to cover the bottoms and corners of trunks. Every part of the pig is said to be turned to profitable account except the squeal, In the case of the tin ean every- thing is used except the label. Even ihe refuse tin clippings at the factory where the receptacle was originally made are converted into little trumpets, dishes, teapots, and coffee-pots for chil- dren’s playthings. AMBERGRIS IRMERLY there was much mystery surrounding the origin of amber- gris, that most valuable substance, but now it is pretty generally agreed that it is nothing more or less than a ‘‘morbid secretion,’’?’ due to a disease of the liver of the sperm-whale. (The whales which yield ambergris are invar- iably sickly and emaciated animals. In ancient times this substance was known as ‘‘amber,’’ a name also applied subsequently to the fossil gum now com- monly so called. In order to distinguish between the two, one was called amber aris (grey), and the other amber jaune (yellow). So, we perceive, the word ‘‘ambergris’’ means simply grey amber. As in the case of the fossil gum, pieces of it were found from time to time on the shores of the sea, where they all had been cast up by the waves. lor many hundreds of years ambergris has been employed in sacredotal rites ‘of the chureh, and with fragrant. gums it was formerly burned in the apartments of royalty. To some extent, it was used as a medicine, and as a flavoring for cer tain dishes. Nowadays ambergris 1s utilized almost exelusively by perfumers in the preparation of fine scents, béing first converted into a tineture by dis solution in aleohol. Some six or seven years ago there was stolen in California a Jump of amber gris said to have been valued at $30,000, One of the finest and largest pieces of ambergris obtained in modern times was sold in London in 1891. about 163 pounds and brought $50,000. 4 It weighed | Sto ryettes RRY—'‘ Wot’s’yer ’urry, Bill?’’ » Bill—‘‘?’ve got to go to work,’’ , ?Arry— Work? Why, wot’s the matter with the missis? Ain’t she well?’’ * USTY RHODES — ‘‘I wouldn’t have to ask for help, but. I’ve a lot of real estate on me hands that I can’t get rid of.’’ Mrs, Rurall—‘‘ Try soft soap and boil- ing water.’’ a stayer. Se * * Gh aeren pleased you must be to find that your new cook is Hostess—‘‘My dear, don’t mention it! She’s a stayer all right, but unfor- tunately she’s not a cook.’’ * * * \ Ww all your wealth are you not afraid of the proletariat?’’ ask- ed the delver in sociological problems. ‘No, I ain’t,’’ snapped Mrs. New- rich. ‘‘ We boil all our drinkin’ water.’’ J\RIEND (consolingly): ‘‘So you’ve lost yer job, eh? Well, don’t worry about it; I reckon you was only wastin’ yer time in a place like that.’’ Young Bill (sadly): ‘*Yes; that’s what the boss told me when ’e sacked me.’’ * * * * * OUISIANA COLE (writing home)— ‘“Mammy sure’ll be pleased! She done said when I came No’th: ‘Yo’ll nebber git no place in New Yawk chile’—an’ here I’se don had six places de fust month!’’ * K all winter): ‘‘Are you fond of ' puppies, Miss Smith?’’ Miss Smith (promptly): ‘‘What a sin- gular way you have of proposing, Ed: win! Yes, darling.’’ And now the cards are out. : ‘ | used to be two or three, little bald spots on the crown of my _ head, away back. Are they there yet?’’ Barber—‘‘No, Sir; it ain’t so bad as all that.) Where those spots used to be sir, there’s only one now.’’ * * DWIN (who has beer hanging fire * EGULAR CUSTOMER — ‘‘There * * * * OW, Mr. Janus, I don’t see how with your salary you can afford to smoke such expensive cigars,’’ re- marked a merchant severely to one of his clerks, ‘*You’re right, sir,’’ responded Janus. “*T can’t; [ ought to have a bigger sal- ary!’’ ”” * * * 2. BIGHEART—‘ Wiggins, old boy, we have raised $50 to get the boss a Christmas present, and we POLLING TIMBIN THE DARK ~ ~2aut-something thatqwillmako a show N English clock-maker has invented a watch with which‘one may tell the time in the dark as easily as This is brought about by the use of radium. The hands and the numerals in the dial of the watch are made of a metallic composition which contains radium, and thas these parts appear luminous in the darkness. GOLD-PLATED LACE NOVELTY of French invention is a process for electroplating deli- cate laces so as to give them a brilliant flexible surface of gold, silver If is announced that a company has been formed for the de- }velopment of the process on an indus- trial scale. So thin is the metallie de- posit that the softness of the lace is not destroyed. The first suggested uses of metallized lace are for furniture covers, wainscot- ing, and the inerustation of wood; but it is thought that it may also be em- ployed in the trimming of garments and. the ornamentation of head dresses, THE BUCK-EYE for the money—something that will look big, you know. Can’t you suggest some- thing ?’’ ; Wiggins—‘‘Sure. Buy $50 worth of rice and boil it.’’ * a traveling salesmen, detained in a little village hotel, were intro- duced to a crazy little billiard table and a set of balls which were of ‘|a uniform, dirty-gray color. ‘*But how do you tell the red from the white?’’ asked one of the guests. “Oh,’’ replied the landlord, ‘‘you soon get -to know them by their shape. ( small farmer, reputed owne: of a pianoforte): ‘*Exeuse me, Mr. Mangold, but would you be so kind a3 to Jend us your pianoforte for the econ cert at the schools?’’ Small Farmer: ‘‘Take it, take it. But, mind, | don’t suppose ye’ll find all the sd RGANIZER of Village Concert (to * * noates in’t, for when my missus wants | a bit o’ wire, she allus goes to the old , ” pianner. VOL. 1 Conflicting Evidence The Chairman of the Railway Commission, Judge Mabee, was once explain- ing the intricacies of evidence to a complainant before the Commission. ‘Usually, in conflicting evidence,’’ he said, ‘‘one statement is far more probable than the other, so that we can decide easily which to believe. WEEKLY EDITION “‘It is like the boy and, the house hunter. ‘A house hunter, getting off a train at a suburban station, ‘* “My lad, I am looking for Mr. Smithson’s ne cottages. How far are they from here?’ ‘“*About twenty minutes’ walk,’ the boy replied. _ ‘**Pwenty minutes!’ exclaimed the house tisement says five!’ ‘Well,’ said the boy, ‘you can believe me or you can believe the adver. tisement; but, I ain’t tryin’ to make no sale.’ ’? That sounds like a knock for advertising; but it’s not. What would the man do in such a case? — He’d TEST THE EVIDENCE FOR HIMSELF. That is where the value of conscientious advertising proves itself, If we are telling the truth about BUCK-EYE, we need have no fear as to result of your test of its quality. Remember, my friend, that the sale of one cigar to you means a us of practically nothing. If that was all we could hope for, we couldn the to pay for this advertisement. Our aim is your continued custom, which we believe will follow after our first sale to you. WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE THE GOODS. That being the case we invite you to test the BUCK-E The accumulated acquisition of knowledge ig wisdom A knowledge of the BUCK-EYE igar is essential to the connoisseur in tobacco. The BUCK-EYE costs ten cents. The conclusion is inevitable. You buy a BUCK-EYE, Thousands, like you, have bought BUCK-EYES, and GOT THE HABIT. Why not you? Test the BUCK-EYE for Yourself ‘ ‘ e ‘ 4 a erate ne ale = w block of semi-detached hunter, ‘Nonsense! The adver- YE for yourself. NDREW CARNEGIE was en board a ferryboat at Norfolk on the day the President visited that pert. Something went wrong with the com- pass. ‘The captain appealed to the mate. The mate examined the compass, amd said: ‘‘I guess it must be attracted by that steel magnate over thére.’’ * * * I ADY—‘‘T want to put in this adver- A tisement for a cook. It will go in three lines, won’t it?’’ Clerk (after counting) — ‘‘No, madam. We’ll have to charge you for four lines; but you can put in four mere words if you wish.’’ : Lady (suddenly inspired)—‘‘Say ‘Pe liceman stationed opposite corner!’’ * K 4 here, Mr. Bangs, you’re a scoun- drel of the first water. When I bought that horse I supposed I was get- ting a good, sound animal, but he’s spavined and blind, and got the stag- gers. Now, I want to know what you’re going to do about it?’’ Bangs — ‘‘ Something done, that’s a fact.’’ Excited Individual—‘‘ Well, I sheuld say there ought.’’ Bangs—‘‘Well, I’ll give you the name of a good veterifary surgeon; it’s a shame to allow the horse te suffer in that way.’’ * XCITED INDIVIDUAL — ‘‘See * ought te be * * * SCOTCHMAN and his wife were coming from Leith to London by boat. When off the Yorkshire coast a great storm arose, and the ves sel nal several narrow escapes from foundering. ‘*O, Sandy,’’ moaned his wife, ‘‘I’m ra afeard o’ deein’, but I dinna eare to dee at sea.’’ ‘‘Dinna think o’ deein’ yet,’’ an swered Sandy, ‘‘but when ye do, ye’d better be drooned at sea than anywhere else.’’ ‘‘An’ why, Sandy?’’ asked his wife. ‘“Why,’’ exclaimed Sandy. ‘‘ Because ye wouldna cost sae muckle to bury.’’ DY:0-LA ONES rox Lvs orcooes)] Just Think of it! With the SAME Dye youcancolor ANY kind of cloth Perfectty--No chance of mistakes. 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From ‘half a Street district as fast as their legs can} dozen places the’ police got wind of a carry them with tens of millionsof dol-) boy-spender with a fabulous roll. But, Jara in securities in their pockets, Only|somehow, he always slipped away. just fifteen minutes remain of the time in|when they were about to get. hold of which the brokerage houses will receive] him. atock from one another, and:they are| At last, in Chicago, the arm of the the most frantic fifteen minutes of the|law got a firm grip on him. He had just day in the streets and offices of the|dined at the Auditorium and was hav- money-centre. It is in that short space|ing his nails rhanicured. He had a gold of timo that almost all the stock,trans-| watch set with diamonds, a diamond ferred in the day’s sales is delivered.|ring, a diamond in his tie.as big around very minute—every second—must be|as a dime, a silk hat, a suit of startling mado the most of. A stock-runner who] checks, and a fur overcoat, not to men- stops & moment to watch a street-fight|tion a few other, luxuries, and was may cost his employers hundreds of dol-|about to take the manicure-girl to a lars—the day’s interest on the shares|box at the theatre. He had spent three ho earries. Ags like as not he has any-|thousands of dollars depend on _ his where from five hundred thousand to}in three weeks. : two million dollars in stock in the in- The broker’s boy gets twelve dollars sido pocket of his coat, and a day’s in-|a week—if he is lucky—yet sometimes terest on investments of that value|thousands of dollars depends on _ his amounts to a serious loss if the securi-|quickness of wit and the speed of his (jew are not delivered on time. legs. Quick legs and quick wits the youth-| Ten years ago, during a panie that fyl stock-runner must have, And he must |sent the bottom out of the market with know the narrow streets and alleys and|terrible rapidity, a boy, emploved on hallways of the money-kings as well as|the Stock Exchange floor by R. 0. Ru- if he had lived in them from babyhood.|dolph, slipped while wriggling his way Ile must.know the very shortest cut to|through the frantic erowd with a mes- any brokerage house in the distriet.|sage to a broker. His knee-caps struck There are no street-addresses on the/on the hard floor, and as he pulled him- fortune-laden envelopes he carries—only |self up, dazed. with pain, he found that ihe» brokers’ ‘names—and there is no/he could not use the leg. It took him (ime to stop and ask the way. Many |several minutes to get the message to . day the elock-hand has erept to within|the broker. Tt was an order to sell a five minutes of the time-limit when he) block of Northern Pacific. During the is shot out with his pocket bulging with} few moments of delay that stock had investments. ; fallen five points. The selling order ‘“«Stoek for four places!’’ cries the | Wis executed at a loss of more than ten wan in charge of the firm’s boys. ‘‘It’s thousand dollars—all due to the. boy’s o 10! Rer-rush!’? «| fall. i The boy makes a grab for papers that Boys employed by messenger com- may be worth a million or more, jumps|Panies play a strong part in the Wall for the doors, darts across the sidewalk, Street game, making stock and bank earcless of what pompous magnate he deliveries and earrying packages of may butt in the stomach, and takes to|money. A boy never knows what won- the asphalt, where there is a clearer derful treasure he may be about to have course. And at the same time he is |!" his grasp in that world of riches. alaneing over the names on the four en-| , There was that boy with the box of Volopes and mapping out his route. shir for example, One day he was yen with so little time to spare, it |/% led to the Standard “Safe Deposit ‘4 seldom indeed that a stock runner | ‘ ieee in Broad Street, by a nephew would fail to make the four deliveries. & rebhgr Niciets dong Ieteher, 1 take he her if he does fail, it is not beeause he 5 ue ao i aaae as big as a two en ‘hosen his ovurse wisely or run | Pound candy-box. In Broadway he stop- oe hi : sed. but beeause of | Ped to watch a erapgame, and left the ae a a ". apeedy youngster lying on a window-ledge behind yrs aeeirde . é t a Z lu: rom the firm of Fisk & Robinson, while | Bim. making deliveries of stock during the a dive minutes, was running ; th his head down, at the junction of |last, he started off, the case Was gone. Nassau Streets, and rammed A osmall newsboy, named Pietro Sarto, it | case Becoming absorbed in the game, he | full tilt,|Stood there a long time, and when, at | e FREE PRESS and refused to give them any more em- ployment. is . Inthe curb market are several boy financiers. who have made fortunes, They started as stock-runners, most of them, but ‘one was & newsboy. His name is John Schneck, He was in charge of the ¢urb-market news-stand, and after selling papers to the brokers for two: or three years he had absorbed a, pretty good working knowledge of the way they did business. One day there was a new boy in charge of the news- stand, and John Schneck was inside the ropes dealing in stocks’ on commission. He made money. _In.a few months he was a trader on his own account, Then Nipissing ‘began to climb upward. He had had his eyes on that stock for some time. vid and up it went; and it was still climbing when Sehneck deeided it was time to get out. He had cleaned up almost thirty thousand dollars, and he was not twen- ty-one years old. He is still in the curb-market—a shrewd, cautious bov, making money more often than he loses, and banking his savings for use sume day in buying a seat on the Exchange. It’s a good deal better than selling newspapers. . And then there was Ellis Fogarty, who used to be a stock-runner for Jobn W. Gates. When Fogarty was twelve yenrs old he was an oflice-boy in a news- was luck that did most of it. The wis- est boy financier that ever lived could THE SUFFRAGETTE IN ROMAN : DAYS ey T will doubtless, cause a shock to many to learn that the Suffragette trouble was not unknown to the Romans, - In Secribner’s Magazine Mr, F. F. Abbott tells us something of the agitation among the Roman women in the days of Cato: . ‘ ‘*The bold methods which they used in ¢arrying their plans to a successful issue shocked'‘the sedate historian Livy, who tells us that the matrons could be kept at home neither by: persuasion, nor by a sense of modesty, nor by the auth- ority of their husbands, ’, They blocked ‘up all ‘the streets of the city and the approaches to the forum, importuning men .as they came down to the forum to vote for the restoration of their rights, The leader of the party opposed to them was Cato, who held display in dress and the new woman in like abhorrence. These are the two topies upon whieh he deseants in his indignant “speech against the repeal of the law. He eyni- cally asks the women: ‘¢*Are your ways more, winning in public than in private? And yet not even at home ought you to eoneern your- selves with the laws which are passed or repealed here. Our fathers have not wished women to manage even their private affairs without the direction of a guardian; they have wanted them to be under the control of their parents, their brothers, and their husbands, ’’ never wring a fortune from the curb/ without luck in large quantities. He got hold of some Western mining stocks just at the right time, and within a few months was worth several thousand dol- lars. Then the curb became too slow for Fogarty, and be began to dabble. in list- ed securities. Whether he used his own judgment, or acted on tips from friendly brokers, he never told, but anyway he was always on the winning side. He was dealing in margins and taking big chances, but the luck that had followed him on the curb saved him from the pit- falls. It was at a time when Steel Common was hovering between ten and fifteen. ‘ Wall Street: gave i night, he had sold the last of his papers. ue: ee - ; ore , si 1 Fibdil Then dre went to sleep in a blast of hs 1 paimed surprise, one at I[e | warm air that came up through a grat : he the acai oe i renal Ha ie jing in Park Row and used the ease for todo there almost a minute, SHARIN, | : a Co . ae ia pillow. is eane and expressing his feelings in , | ee | ieee then. suddenly becoming | It was still dark when he woke up wood t niger he broke into a Jaugh and and decided to examine his find Ie : nee Dut that minute's loss of {pried the cover open and found inside alted ta the bov’s failure to/# dazzling collection of diamonds. One | Leo eee a {diamond brooch alone was worth five nae sade et |thousund ity aR? have been worse,’’ said { bem iia : took - the _ Jewels : | igh a a rear oe ' sche | police, and in course of time reeeived runner. Anyhow, Pretty | tan dollars reward, whed him out. | ‘dering that the stock-runner ear only stoek, but enormous sums fied cheeks, and, often, large \ its of money, it is surprising that there are net more losses. through him. course oft a day’s work, he is, Hioels to carry certified cheeks running | mito the hundreds of thousands of dol and sueh a pieee of paper is almost is neyotiable as eash, A. clever thiet would not find mueh diffieulty in turning t it tha etiel A first-rate chanee to rise in the world has the stoek-broker’s boy. Often is not more than sixteen vears old when ‘he is promoted to the telephone-booth, jand that is a position of some import- ance, Some Wall Street telephone-op- erators get fifty or sixty dollars a week, for much depends upon the rapidity with which they gend and receive or- fders. A stutteren TP a broker’s. tele- }phone booth would bring his employer to : F i ruin, And much depends, too, on the » money if he should act quickly; | carefulness of the operator. vt he could probably realize on stock)“ Quring the flurry in Roek [sland cortificites, too, for that matter, if be) i yeq last December, when it unac coull get rid of them before the NEWS | vountably rose thirty points and fell of the loss was flashed over the wires . ins thirty points in some cleven minutes, ery broker in the district. | the eause was assigned in gyome quarters |to the mistake of a telephone operator, lwho had changed a buying order .for four thousand shares to forty thousand, Whether or not that was so, a tele | phone operator does now and then make fa blunder in repeating an order that causes a loss of thousands of dollars. /Yet it is sometimes a gain, rather than ja loss, that such a blunder causes. iit, Somehow, valuable paper lost -in he money-distriet almost always comes mek. One reason for this is that there ire not many professional crooks down there, because of the large number of detectives on wateh, and lost paper is upt to be found by somebody connected with the distriet. In’ that. case it is re- iurned immediately to the office of the broker from which it came, It is not at} ul uncommon for a few hundred thou- | sand dollars’ worth of stock-certifieates or certified cheeks to be picked up in Wall Street, but it is very rare indeed that the finder is a thief. It was a case exceptional enough to cause a great deal of talk among tho brokers when a certified check for seven thousand dollars disappeared absolutely a few months ago. It is the custom, when a boy is rushed for time in mak- ing his deliveries to the bank, to leave his checks in the teller’s window and then rush on to the next bank, waiting until his deliveries are all made before coming back for the receipts. This seven-thousand-dollar cheek was tossed by a sixteen-year-old boy into the teller’s window of the Mechanics’ A few years ago a telephone-boy for one of the largest firms in the Street changed an order to sell five thousand shares of Steel Common to a buying or. der, Just then Steel Common began to shoot up at an amazing rate. A profit of. close to twenty thousand dollars was reaped from the five thousand shares that were bought against orders. Of all the young beginners on Wall paper office, HH 3 was foar‘cen when he came to the Street. A year later he began to take fliers on the eurb, where one doesn’t have to have more than ten Cellars to be a speculator. Ile was only sixteen when he threw up his job as stock-runner and appear- ed in the curb-market as a full-fledged trader. Right from the start luck was with him. He was shrewd, too, but it- two deliveries, which meant a loss | | E j i urs, ¢ here were ten} comployfers of one hundred and | thousand dollars, and the . a t wees :s dollars’ worth. of other pieces | to the | he Bank. He had no more than flipped it under the bars when he turned and sprang for the door, for he had three other banks to visit in about three min- utes, Coming back for his receipt, he was told that the eheck had not been re- ceived. The boy produced two witnesses who had been standing at the window and had seen him throw the check at the bars: A search of the entire floor was made, The valuable piece of paper was not to be found. As payment can- not be stopped on a certified check im- mediately, and as it is almost as good as ready cash, it was’ a serious loss. Yet the check was never presented for payment and has never been found, _ The presumption was that a crook got it and that his courage failed him, Seldom; too; is it that a stock-runner turns thief, but it does happen now and then, Not long ago a boy employ- ed by J, A, May ran off with ten thous- ‘and dollars in checks and six hundred dollars ip cash, The next day he mail- ed the checks back; but kept the money. Tho police got him a few days Jater, af- ter he had spent a good part of his stealings, Five yeurs ago a sixteen-year-old boy named James Ryan dropped out of sight with five thousand dollars. in money in Street’s ladder to riches, the boy who lives by his wits and is independent of regular employment furnishes the most interesting study. Sometimes he is a stock-runner at thirty cents an hour; sometimes he carries special messages for brokers; at others he is in the curb- | | | ing to plunge ou it. It'll be up to sixty within a year. Take my tip and buy.’’ Steel went up and up and up. [t was said that he got out with one hundred thousand dollars. At any rate, enough to satisfy him. He announced that he was through with Wall Street and was going to retire.. He was then twenty-one years old. A few months ago a curb-broker ¢ame back from a vacation in Europe. “Do you remember that kid, Fog arty?’’ he said. ‘‘Well, I met him in Switzerland. And I’m a liar if he did- n’t have a wife and child and a valet and a maid. I asked him why he did- n’t come back and get in the game, and he said: ‘No, I’m twenty-six years old now, and it s time I settled down to a life of ease.’ ’’ As everywhere else, brains, energy, perseverance count most in Wall Street, but sheer luck has been responsible for the rise of more than one of the boys of that district. There was a_ twenty-year-old stock runner who. inherited twenty thousand dollars from the broker who had em ployed him. And everybody wondered what had induced the broker to leave him so much money. The boy had never done anything unusual and had served the broker no better than a doz- en other boys. Yet he wasn’t so very market speculating; but there are doz- ens of ways in which he makes his liv- ing, and often it is a surprisingly good living for a boy. Thirty cents an hour isn’t small pay for a boy of fifteen or sixteen when he can keep busy, but the free-lance isn t content with this. When he can, he manages to run for two or three firms at the same time, making sixty or nine- ty cents an hour. Now and then he matehes his wits’ against the brokers and reaps a rich harvest. One of his favorite schemes is to pass a package of stock-certificates or ehecks to a boy confederate and re- turn to his employer’s office with the announcement that he has lost it. the course of a‘'few minutes in comes the other boy with the package, The re- turner of valuable papers will receive a reward of at least twenty-five dollars and often much more, In This scheme was worked so often by the boy adventurers of Wall Street that some houses put.up bars against them lucky after all. : He had not had the money three months when he married. Six months later his wife got a divorce, with ali- mony that amounted to just the income of her husband’s property. Now he is just about as well off as he was-before he got his inheritance. Almost always trouble looms ahead for the boy financier. If he amasses a small fortune. before he is grown to manhood through some run of luck in the Street, it usually slips through his fingers in a short time. No matter how shrewd he may be for his years, the spirit of the gambler gets the better of him at last. Yet there must be dozens-of future millionaires among the boys of the Street today. They are not all taking chanves with their savin Like as not the future magnates will come from the steady, plodding kind, that one doesn’t hear’much about, rather than from the ranks of the sharp-witted young adven- turers who belong to the wor mance, he And he had no sooner bought than | he had | FOUR-FOOTED CRIMINALS UTHORITIES seem to be agreed that crime is to be found among the lower animals as among hu- man beings, and there are evidently, in the lower orders of creation, individ- uals which, like men, seem incapable of living and satisfying their wants with- out doing harm to their fellows. Lom- broso and his disciples ‘have even gone so far as to assert that almost every variety of human wrongdoing finds its counterpart in the crimes committed by animals. . We constantly find among bees cases of theft. These thieves.of the hive, in order to save themselves the trouble of working, rob the hives, and carry off the booty. Then, having dequired a READY FOR A SNOWSHOE TRAMP ,taste for robbery and_ violence, they |form regular colonies of bandit bees. Curiously enough, it has been ascer tained that these little enemies to liw and order may’ be artificially produced | bees a mixture of honey and brandy to drink. They become morose and irrit- jable and, after a short course of the mixture, lose all desire to work, and, finally, when they become hungry, they attack and plunder the well-supplied hives. Owners of doves assert that in almost every dove-cote there are birds that try to obtain material for their nests by ab- stracting straws that have been collect- ed by others. These amiable thieves are not only lazy, but untrustworthy as well. Murder is not uncommon among ani- mals, murder in this ease being the term employed for that kind of killing which has nothing to do with the struggle for existence, but arises from malice pure and simple or from passion. Storks, it is said, frequently kill members of the flock which, at the time of migration, either refuse to follow them or are un- able to do so, ' We have the word of a distinguished veterinary surgeon that in every regi- ment of cavalry one may find horses which rebel against discipline, and let no opportunity escape them of doing harm either to man or to their fellows. In dealing with these horses, it is al- ways necessary to be on one’s guard, and it is often imperative to separate them from the others in the stable, as they try to steal their companions’ food. What is still more curious is that their skulls have an abnormal formation, the foreheads being harrow and retreating. POOR GOAT There was a goat in our town And he was wondrous thin, And yet wherever food was, he Was always butting in. And when he found the food was gone, He never acted blue— He merely ate the dishes, and He ate the table, too. He ate a family washing and The clothesline at a bite; And then he ate a whetstone, just To whet his appetite. , He might have been there eating yet, But that’s an open question— of ro-|He ate a box of breakfast food And died of indigestion! by the simple process of giving working S _ MARCH, THE STORMY — (By George J. Hagar) _ ARCH was originally the ° first month in the year, but in the various rearrangements of, the calendar it became the third, though, in some parts of the world, it is still reck- oned the first: When ‘it was the first month, the year began on the :twenty- fifth. ning of the year in England till 1 when Parliament ordered that the year should begin on January 1; but in Seot- land thé year, prior to 1752, began on January 1. This difference led to diffi- eulty in Sting exact dates of notable occurrences; hence, many events. in January, February, dnd a ‘part of March, bear two P eae dates, as 1745-6, March is noted for dryness and blus- tering winds in its early days, and marks the beginning of another of na- ture’s years. The ides of March, in the Roman eal- endar, occurred on the fifteenth, and, at that day was the anniversary of Cae- sar’s death, it was observed as a day of mourning, and the Senate held no ses- sion. It is said that the great Napoleon was frequently cautioned to ‘‘ beware the ides of March.’’ The ‘‘Field of March’’ was the name -| given to assemblies of the Frankish peo- ple, under arms, held in Frifece under the Merovingian kings every year in this month. Under Pepin the Short the time of meeting was changed to May. The sacred year of the Jews begins in March, and the feast of Azymes, or un leavened bread, oceurs on the four- teenth of the month Nizan, or March 29. : Romulus is said to have named this} month after his supposed father, Mars; ; but the people of Italy had a period of time bearing this name before his day. The changes in the weather have given the month various proverbs: ‘*As mad as a March hare’’ (i.e., as mad as possible). ‘(A dry March never begs its bread’’ (typifying prosperity). ‘**Tt comes in like a lion and’ goes out like a lamb ’”’ ‘*A peck of March dust is worth a king’s ransom.’’ The. Scotch have a _ saying that ‘“March borrows three days of April and they are ill;’’ and these days are thus described in ‘‘The Complaynt of Seotland’’: The first, it shall be wind and weet; The third, it shall be sic a freeze, Sall gar the birds stick to the trees. The gem of the month is the dark- green, red-streaked form of the jasper; flower, the violet; tree, the juniper. . tawny color and fierce aspect, with a helmet on his head—so far typical of Mars—while, appropriate to the season, he is icpresented leaning on a spude, holding aimond blossoms and scions in his left hand, with a basket of seeds on his arm, and in his right hand the sign of Aries, the Ram, which the sun en- ram denotes the increased power of: the sun’s rays, which, in ancient hierogly- phies, were expressed by the horns of animals. In the relation of the to the anatomy of the human _ body, of Pisees—till the twentieth, and the head and face—under that of Aries-— from the twenty-first. Persons born under the sign of -Aries may expect prosperity, fidelity, dutiful children, and many liberal friends, but will be more or less hot-headed, unless Mercury should be one of the planets, when they will be quite amiable. Jupit- er and Venus are fortunate, and Mars persons to be born under. Should Venus be the only morning star at the time of birth, such persons will have many jlove-affairs. Persons born in’ March }should marry with those born in Jan- juary, September, or October, and begin all important al/fairs in May or’ June. Males may expeet serious sickness be- fore their thirty-fifth year, and females will be very domesticated. : If this year’s anniversary of your birthday falls on the Ist, 9th, llth, 14th, 17th, 26th, or 28th, you may count on general good luck throughout the year; if on the Ist, 4th, 5th, 8th, 11th, 15th, 17th, 21st, or 26th, you will be especially fortunate in business affairs; if on the 7th, 10th, 12th, 16th, 20th, 25th, or 29th, you will have a troublesome, unsettled, and more or less disastrous year in’ business, with sick- ness and disappointments in your fam- ily. The greatest prosperity in business and happiness ip domestic concerns) will come to those whose anniversaries fall on the 11th and 17th. Those whose an- niversaries fall on the 13th, 20th, or 23rd, should avoid traveling and busi- ness and home changes; on the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 19th, 22nd, 30th, and 31st, should neither speculate nor lend mon- ey; on the 4th, 16th, 27th, and 31st, should not go to law, Males. born this year on the Ist, 5th, Sth, 9th, 11th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 21st, 26th or 30th, will be clever, persever- ing, generally successful in business, and will rise in life; on the 2nd, 3rd, Tth, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 27th, 29th, or 31st, will be restless, headstrong, hard to manage, quick in temper, careless in disposition, and unfortunate in business, and will have much trouble in their employment and domestic life, Females born on the 14th or. 15th will be very fortunate in wedlock; on the 3rd, 10th, 13th, 20th, or 29th, unhappy therein; on the 28th or 31st, will have kind but unfortunate husbands, 2 According to early English calendars, Noah entered the ark on the 17th. The first. omnibus service was started in France on the 18th, 1662; ‘first daily newspaper brought out in London, 11th, 1702; first number of the London Spec- tator issued, 1st, 1711; first inoculation for smallpox, Belgrade, 18th, ,1718; first | full ascent in a hydrogen balloon with win; and rudder, Paris, 2nd, 1784; first bat- tle of ‘ironclads—the Monitor and Mer- rimaec, Hampton Roads, 9th, 1862; first exhibition Bell telephone, 15th, 1877; first international convention of women, Washington, 26th, 1888, Pope Leo XIII. yee. ea 4-8 a gibted Cleveland, th, 1837; ili ennin Bryan, 19th, 1860, ys . Durjng the current year March will t That day was ‘the legal begin 7 52, The next, it shall be snow and sleet; | March is portrayed as a man of a} ters on the twentieth of the month. The | constellations | March controls the feet—under thé sign | and Saturn unfortunate. planets. for such | 19th, | P 4 observe Mid-Lent (or Mothering) Sun- day on the 6th; St. Patrick’s Day, 17th; Palm Sunday, and beginning of Spring 20th; Maundy Thursday, 24th; Go Frday and Festival of the Annunciation — of the Virgin, 25th; Holy Saturday, Rome, 26th; and Baster Sunday, 27th. In tlre ‘astronomical world Match wilt have Mereury, Venus and Uranus for morning stars, and Mars, Jupiter, Sat- urn and Neptune. for evening stars. Venus will be brightest on .the 18th— 19th; Jupiter on the 31st. The moon’s aaah p. by Eastern Standard time, will e: Last quarter, 2h. 52m. a.m. on .the 7th; new moon, 7h. 12m. a.m. on the 11th; first quarter, 10h. 37m. p.m. on the ith; full moon, 3h. 20m. p.m. on the 25th. : THE JARR FAMILY A Ferocious Monster Has Invaded Their Domicile ‘ | H, HOKEY!”’ cried the little Jarr | boy in great glee. ‘‘It’s come! My alligator’s come!’’ he expressman had just delivered a small wooden box, the top covered with wire gauze, **T want an alligator! I want an alli- gator!’’ shrieked the little Jarr girl. ‘‘Now, Emma, you must be good,’’ said Mrs. Jarr, holding the box. ‘‘I’m sure Willie is a kind and loving little brother and will let you play with the alligator Mrs. Hickett has sent him from Florida.’’ ‘‘Naw, I won’t!’’ said little Willie, {Sogrely: ‘“‘I’m goin’ to make it bite ner.’? : “‘T’m sure I’m afraid to open the | box,’’ said Mrs. Jarr; ‘‘and if I wasn’t |I wouldn’t open it, if that’s the way lyou talk to your little sister.’’ ‘‘Well, it’s my alligator,’’ grumbled | the little poy ‘*Do I want to play with jher dolls? Why does she want to play {with my alligator? | box, Maw; I ain’t afraid.’’ ‘*They carry off the little colored chil- dren, dreadful thing,’’ said Mrs. Jarr, eyeing with alarm the limp little amphibian hardly discernable through the gauze. ‘*‘Shucks! little boy, boldly. ‘‘I got a knife.’’ But it was noticed that he kept a re- |spectful distance from the box. ‘Tt was awfully sweet of Mrs. Hick- jett remembering you and sending you the alligator,’’.said Mrs. Jarr. “But |£ know J will be in terror of my life | from it.’’ : | Mt this juncture Uncle Henry, the Jarr’s rural relative, still sojoruning in |the great city, entered. ; ‘*Unele Henry, you’re just in time!’’ jeried Mrs. Jarr. ‘‘Mrs. Hickett has }$ent our Willie an alligator from Flor- jida. Will you open the box and take }it out and put it in a pan of water for | him?’’ ; ; ‘‘In the bath tub! Put it in the bath |tub!’’ eried the little boy. ‘ | ‘*You wouldn’t ketch me touchin’ the |thing with a ten-foot:pole!’’ said Unele |Henry. ‘‘T ain’t afeared o’ varmints that I’m acquainted with. I’ll walk up to a rattlesnake with a bean peje -and jlam him to a frazzle, [ fit a painter | with a pocket knife onct, and though I |got scratched and chawded up pritty | badly I got a dollar from the county for {his skelp. But I-wouldn’t tech one of them foreign pizen insecks fer no /money! ‘ The children were listening with open eyes. ‘‘Did you pull the painter off his lad- der when you stabbed him, Unele ‘Henry?’’ asked.the little boy. ‘‘Mr. |Slavinsky is a painter, was it him?’’ “‘T’m speakin’ of a fee-ro-shus ani- mal,’’ said Unele Henry. ‘‘Pike Coun- ty and Clinton County ust ter be full of them painters and cattermounts before | the timber was cut down off the moun- jtings— But, as I says, I wouldn’t tech any of them foreign pizen insecks.’’ ‘‘Why, it’s only a little bit of-a thing,’’ said Mrs. Jarr, mustering up |enough courage to look in the box. _ Stand back fer yer life!’’ cried Uncle Henry. ‘“Them foreign pizen insecks kin blow the wenom on their breath and kill ye whare you stand!’’ “‘Ooooh!’’ exvlaimed. the little girl, |running to her mother and hiding her |head under her mother’s apron. ‘*What’s the wenom that he throws?’ jasked the. little boy in delicious fear. “*Is it his stinger or his quills—like a |poreupine throws?’’ ; ‘*It’s his breath which is death!’’ said Uncle Henry, not knowing he was speaking in rhyme. ‘‘All them foreign pizen insecks kin blow their wenom on you that way.’’ ‘*Oh, why did Mrs. Hickett send us such a dreadful thing!’’ eried Mrs. Jarr. ‘* Willie, go whistle for the janitor and tell him to come and throw it in the fur- nace!’? ;poison me, He’ll only poison other peo- ple,’’ he began, _ Mrs. Jarr was about to summon’ the janitor herself when Mr. Jarr came in, They all began to shout to him at once to keep away from the box, as there was a deadly alligator in it. ‘*Nonsense!’”’ said Mr. Jarr, And he ripped the gauze cover off the box and lifted into view the pathetic igator, some, ten quite dead. ** There, inches long and ou see!’’ cried Uncle Henry triumphantly, ‘‘He’s jest held his breath and killed hisself!’’ MAN. who was traveling in the . “Ozark Mountains on horseback stopped before a typical Arkansas farmhouse to inquire the way. ‘‘What’s the news?’’ ‘asked the. mountaineer, as he leaned his lank frame inst the fence and pulled his long beard thought- y- On finding that what had become a part of histo: traveler asked why he did not take some weekly or monthly that pm mg keep in touch with the world a «eWal,?? said’ the old nativ Sa eeren ee ea ea a height of about three | 4 I ain’t done readin’ of ’em gs Let me open the - Really, I’m—I’m afraid of the. I ain’t afraid!’’ said the- ‘“‘T’ll make it a pet and he won’t Saute of. a very. starved looking little. a aa was news to him, the . IIREIDIRST Cn i aclinlnneetts et . _ y 3 ” yee \ New York-Alberta Land Co. We have several thousand actes.of choice improved’ and unimproved land for sale‘in this: district. "if aes are thinking of making a purchase call and see us. We can quote you some interesting prices. " , Agents for. the celebrated E.M.F. and Flanders’ Automobiles. We are in a position to buy either farm I ind or town property. D. W. COULTER (Office over new Bank of Hamilton) Manager Johnson met Lang at Melbourne on March 4, 1907, and easily whipped the Victorian pugilist in nine rounds, John- At Sydney on Dec. 26, 1908, ‘ = arts the year ? Old age is approachi of us—are you making for it ? ; son defeated Burns, who had claim- | ed the heavyweight title since ;was relinquished by Jeffries. it This fight’ was stopped in the fourteenth | Nick Bawlf, the Winnipeg boy round when who is now in Ottawa and has! helpless. made his name in eastern athletic circles both at football, baseball and! his fellow on the running track, is after the} 2 last. big stars. Since he turned out! with Haileybury last winter he has) though Burns had .the—better been barred from amateur athletics’ the fight for ten rounds he weakened Burns was. practically countryman, on and now he wants to take on Postle| in the latter half of the fight while; and Cartmell, sprinters. that Nick tlie crack professional , Lang rallied. The weather was It can hardly beanticipated and the. fight was witnessed would have any chance 17,000 persons. The betting with either of these two, though) 3 to 1 on Burns when the he. has more than once showed’ tered the ring. Burns tipped the class when he donned the spiked! scales at 181 pounds and duang at shoe. Asan amateur in the spring} 188. The referee was Ifugh Meln- last year Bawlf reached the final! tosh. of the hundred yards with Bobbie Kerr and beat the Hamiltonian for 50 yards of the distance before dropping back to run «a dead heat for the bronze medal. That was in the C.A.A.U. championships. LACROSSE Tuesday night the lacrosse enthu- Hotel to discuss the prospects of the vame in Taber for L910. About fif- x teen gentlemen were present, cre- - ating a record for a sports meeting is. to : Jeli his The ring in which box daily has arvived in training camp in the Santa Crux mountains and was put in position by Burns and Bob Armstrong Although Jeff may not the identical ring Johnson used at his training quarters near Mmeryville when training for Al. Kaufman. ‘This was learned from Pemne tng paties who shipped the ring to) CO!™ ites appointed to wpproach Rowardennan from Oaklend. It) the business men for subscriptions means that the ropes ahd stakes in aid of the club, into which Bob Armstrong and Lt is’ the hope of the club that Farmer Burns will bump when h: ind | Sufficient support will be tendered to pressed by Jeff, are the same ring | cuable them to make application for, boundaries against which Johnson and to secure membership in the used to force big Dave Mills and) | Southern Alberta League. ’ : The practice nights are Young Peter Jackson. an x ednesday, and lriday. Sydney, N.S.W., April LL. my Burns won on points from Lang, heavyweight champion Australia, in the 12th round of their fight for the Australian title to-day. x here. The election of officers resulted as Hon. J. Mclean: Robert Vice- Douglas; See.-Treas., Stanley; Manager, B. W, Captain, Archie Clendinning. The membership fee is $1 Messis. Moe’ and Mitchel. are an follows: Pres., A. Farme) Pres., Anderson; Mayor Pres, Rov Wright; recently | know it, it ds which: Jack and a | Monday, W | | | | | a Forest Scenes in Canada Monday night at the Palm Theatre suw the crowd that has the Burns-Lang} turned out in Taber to anything of Australia, ; recent date. The attr iction was the visit of Abraham Knechtel, Inspector W ho Tom- Bill! of | largest Chief interest in bout fought at Sydney, in which the Canadian heavyweight champion won the decision over his Australian rival in twenty rounds, | was derived from tle fact that.Burns| Scenes in Canada Dissolving is the man. whose defeat by Jack | views of the finest that could be Johnson earned for the American! obtwined were used to illustrate the colored pugilist the title of heavy- | lecture. weight champion of the world, and | Mayor Douglas opened the pro- ~ afforded him an opportunity to meet ete for the evening with a few James J. Jeffries. words of welcome to Mr. Knechtel, of Dominion Forest Reserves, delivered popular lecture on “Forest Pe LH HAH A AG REE CI OR = “Who's Who Whats What In the West” THE SPECIAL EDITION SUPPLEMENT OF THE TABER FREE PRESS 5 | springs, With a Five Thousand Circulation which may be doubled. A Complete Write-up of Taber and the District. Fully Illustrated, and Printed ‘on the Finest Book Paper. The accepted best medium for personal and busi- ‘ness advertising’ in the West to-day. WRITE AT ONCE FOR SPACE. THE TABER FREE PRESS BREE KEKE KEKE HEHE MELEE by} was | | men é6n- slasts met in the parlor of the Palace “city people do pot care very (on y | Mr. Lang had won the Austra- lian title by knocking out Bili Squires, Oct. The decision was not popular for of | { = fine} as the representative of the Do- minion Government, the pleasure of the audience and of | himself at being favored by the, presence of Mr. Knechtel and forth-! with introduced him to the audience. Mr. Kuechtel, throughout the evening, proved his thorough practi- cal knowledge of the subject in hand, fle gave the plain story of forestry in ae that was readily> under- by all, and gave faets and fistires to substantiate his statements The views thrown upon the screen, heing in their natural colors, snd deseribing the actual conditions, could not fail to interest the audience, but at the same time prove an un- usual source of information and aw education, The © views — included forests, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, trees, flowers, birds, fire Tahting, Timber ing, etc. . There were France, Germany, Switzerland, Possibly those drawing jtention were the sunrise and views. Just in the immediate vicinity: of Taber we cannot boast of very much in the shape of trees. It may pos- sibly be thought that farmers and inuch the interest shown Monday night in this lecture entirely dispels any doubt that score, und leaves the impression that the beautiful things of nature are lovely in the minds of the people as eyer they were. We feel sure that all will appreci- ate the suggestions and advice given by Mr. Wnechtel regarding the advisability instituting a com- mission for the city of Taber for the purpose of getting to work and ar- ranging to make Taber beautiful by the introduction of trees along all the streets. . We are aware that this has been in the minds of some of the citizens for some time past, and we should therefore like to see something done in this direction. | Space forbids us enlarging upon this at present. In the course of his lecture, Mr. Knechtel treated the subject under the following heads: (1) The primeval forest and its treatment by the early settlers. (2) The benefit of the forest to inankind—it furnishes wood, feeds prevents floods, shelters stood ’ from ele scenes most at sunset about them, but Ol as of How much of your income have you left over, at the end of It is not difficult to accumulate money, once you commence. and expressed | - Taber of Saving to open a Savings Open one to-day—at the near- est branch of the BANK OF ng for all HAMILTON. provision Interest current rates—on W. H. LECK ~ Agent TABER, ALTA. Around Town It is said that twelve thousand | farm hands could find employment in the west this year. Taber needs a deal of unskilled labor this summer | and one of the questions of the hour is not, What will we do? but, what | can we do with the undertakings in hand? | What with a Waterworks System | to cost between $45,000 and $45,000, | a gas exploitation $15,000, hospital $22,750.95, Presbyterian Church $500, Catholic Chureh $2,500, a baker's dozen private homes, several and other improve- Taber will be a busy town this stumtuer. business blocks, ments, x We bey eall attention to our advertisement on the back page, of “Who's Who and What's What in the West, the book which is’ in preparation in the Free Press as a special supplement for the early summer. This will be the third edition of “the book since it » was copyrighted, and will be the best one to date. It is owned and controlled by Hl. Lake and is intended’in this instance to cover the district of for subject matter, and the whole of the Northern States, with Minneapolis as a pivotal poiut, for distrtbution. In its form it is a better advertising medium than a special issue of a newspaper, and has been adopted by the California and Oregon Chambers of Commerce as essential to their publicity needs. Next week we will begin an active canvass. Those who have already received a prospectus will under- stand what we require. 10 from storms, gives health and recre- , ation, protects the game and. fish, ‘and gives the country wasthetic features. How the forest can best be pro-| tected. At the conclusion of the lecture an opportunity was given for ques- i\tions. Only two questions; however, | were asked. | The concluding picture was a very | fine portrait of our King. As_ this was. shown upon the screen the audience joined in singing . the National Anthem. —_—+p+ MARRIAGE Mr. Harry. L. Miles |Netta C., daughter of Mr,, John Jespersen, Taber, were married on | Tuesday evening, at the residence of E. B. Tainter, in the presence of la goodly gathering of relations and friends. The ceremony was’ per- formed by the Rev. J. ‘Munro. Mr. and Mrs. Miles, we understand, will reside on the farm, 23 miles north of the River. and Miss ‘ Osvesa BHxen~ MR. H. 8. BOTTS, THE ARTIST OF THE FREE PRESS STAFF, WHO WAS AR- RESTED LAST WEEK FOR STEALING WATERMELONS FROM THE GARDEN OF H. H. MACKEAY. MR. BOT'TS NEARLY LOST HIS JOB WITH-US. x Every time I feel like cussing a man to a primal finish and consign- ‘ing his hereafter to a region where the climate is torrid-—-and regular, compromise on forcing him to spend the rest of his natural days in a hotel. as « regular boarder. ‘I'hen the name of the hotel is suggested, and that qualifies the Hell. It is a wonder some smart woman who understands ‘the game, does not come into Taber and open -a first class* rooming and boarding house. |The hotels here are up to the mark,’ credited—at highest | | but not for the regular boarder. The olfered fin this regard, | reason It is Not Greater Income That Need, So Much as the Habit The best way to commence is Account. deposits of $1.00 and upwards. Head Office, HAMILTON Capital Paid-up Reserve and Undivided Profits Total Assets $2,500,000 2,900,000 over 35,000,000 The We own and have for sale at righf |fact is that he is not at all welcome. |prices. more than 80> sections of transients pay better, and choice land lying to the southeast of naturally the regular meal-ticket Taber and south of Grassy Lake. forced to accept the treatment Always in the market for good or get out. He has no say wholesale tracts from owners. in the matter. Write ATLANTIC-PACIFIC LAND I have often wondered SYNDICATE, head office, Minne- has awakened to a sense of apolis, or call niain field office, 2nd It Floor, Alberta Block, Lethbridce. secure rooms In private homes, - is not apparent. There is nothing about renting furnished room to a lady or gentleman, that ‘conducive to a lowering of the home standard, Cal- gary with a room to spare have that room rented. ‘There more than the mere received that should aceonunadatian. Tha people have a certain duty in’ this) respect that saoner or later they must shoulder Sure they have. Is if Taber her duty is impossible to The -_ / as The Star Theatre has closed down for the summer season, and the Palin Theatre has put on a bigger and. better than ever. On Saturday might the pictures were excellent and on Tuesday evening the programme was extended into an hourand a half Mrs. Judson Lis singing the picture (songs, and enter- ean We with her ragtime and popular must. The Bunddl Orchestre hays been engaged for the stuumer at this cosy little theatre, and) Mr. and Mrs. Judson are to be congratulated on thier future prospects. They have played tho game fairly and /won on their merits. Some night, gentle reader, when you want to be entertained go over and sit in, the shade of the sheltering Palms. rae is show The best bomes in something rental to prompt is he the Local and General A movement is on land: to av business men’s club in ‘Taber. form +2 Boulders and Bouquets laast week's issue of the TAKER hREE PRESS was the second one under the present management, and was markedly different from all preceding ones in that it attracted special comment, some favorable and suine unfavorable to us. It came much after the order of the following, and we hand it on believing that it typifies an ordinary town’s appreciation of an effort to establish a paper within its limits. The names are witheld for apparent reasons. “The best issue of presented in Taber.” “It comes to the standard of the best in the Province.” “Our ad. in this issue is the best I ever saw.” “Our ad. was a winner. sending several copies Hast.” “You are a four flusher, and while |the make-up of your paper is good, | yet it is a mile from being interest- ing.” “So you are the Outlaw! Your Iree Press istnot general enough to ‘make as interesting reading as The ‘Outlaw, but your town will be ad- vertised by your paper.” ~“T sent back your paper because by don’t want‘it.” >. 4 “Lean get all the town news I want from the paper [ now take.” “The Free Press is the best local paper ‘in Southern Alberta.” So there you are. They saniglib us coming and going. Thee are ‘men in town that won't do business The Malo Lumber yards and sheds | ide ; re nrg ae ne ‘are in the course of construction | jee repaid 2 oe ee and will be finished in a few days. | ee Na ‘eae it ewido? - Itis Mr. Malo’s purpose to keep his roehanted ° I ec pI rig os advertising output up to a very desizable stan- | 92°C? #Re Some Tor no special reason dard, , at all. So it goes. Glory be,, haw- ever we are beating the game, honor- The additions to the Royal Hotel | ably, like men, -living—not existing, are now almost completed. The making a: profit and- establishing furnishings ‘of the new bedrooms) ourselves decently and in order, and ure quite up to the mark. The two) really we don’t give three whoops to highly coloured seats on the-verandah , do business at all if we can't do it ave quite inviting, | that way. ib A. Underwood, was a business Monday. Lake, town of Grassy Visitor to on The new furniture store on Hough Street opens for business to-morrow, (Friday.) TO RENT. two upstairs Campbell. C.C. Wright and wife, and Mr. Gillespie of Fernie, B.C., spent the week end with Bo. W. Wright) of this city. Small rooms. Also 5 Alec House. Apply, Those who have made the effort: to locate. Halley’s Comet at 5.30 a.m. this past week have not been wholly rewarded. | The Reverend Mr. Robinson the apostle of the cent-a-day mission movement, preached in Knox Chureh | 'on Sunday evening last. D. M. Kimball of Grassy Lake, visited Taber this week. The new) car Don drives shortens the distance | between the two centres. a paper ever I awm Contractor Wildman reports build- |ing reasonably brisk. In town he has the Malo buildings and fences, but the most of his work is in the! ; country. | Constable. Coleridge, R.N.W.M.P., | of Grassy Lake, was in town on business this last week. ‘The.prairie ‘fires of late have kept him pretty inuch on the moye, Has anyone seen Pat Burns— tlre Contractor, on the streets of Taber this week? He was scheduled for this last Monday. Hecan be noticed | as thick ,brief and to the point. iy