Io reesei Milliofs of Pound Sterling: Held In | Only last 'week a tailors cutter re- | slaing tn Vienna received information || through the American consulate that his '| anele had died in America leaving him | a fortune of no less than £2.400,000. /At.appears, emigrated to New ork, where he bought forest land, and jechme owner of a gold hine, from which accrued his fabu- 1 Jous pugaith, 'His nephew was bis sole "An ola man, "apparently 'povefty: stricken, was found dead in bed last ar. The police, on taking charge of se 'which, so far as was known, all deceased man possessed, found en, ecurifies worth £80,000 and a 'ban! showing a deposit of £17.000. There was also a will appointing an executor, with 'directions (for him .to hand over the £97,000 to the testator's 'sister, who pesided in Dunfermline, Scotland, and who was entirely Sgnor- 'ant of 'her brother's wealth. In 1888 4 Sheffield joiner named Platts récelved news of a large fortune years ago Mrs. indfall befell Thomas McGuinness, | who Jived at a colliery in' a few years 'ago. 'McQulhness; received a lptter from a firm of Sunder- land olicitors enclosihig a copy of a letfer with documents recelved from Ae "York agents, by which it ap- he and his brother were MoGuinness, who shared the money, was a masén's ldb- orer,' : Mr. . J A 1 to England, Forbes Go, '| Jumped overboard and saved the life of : 8: Mss, MacIntosh, Mr. Forbes was | traced by an advertisement in a news- The mysterious disappearance, In 1888, of 'a journeyman printer at Ver- sallles, who awoke one morning to learn : he the 'Rappy possessor of a million sterling, begugathed to him by an old gentleman whose life he had sav- amon Tis Admurasits" Oo'y. made in od many years before. was the subject : . Eo ¢ of considerable speculation. It transpir- Sumitied wh--it's fs "a tory of od that 'besldes the legatee's relatives She nf 8 8 hu And acquaintances, there were many : persons who took the deepest interef ih his fate. For, on the strength of the thet! windfall, the journeyman printer had t | Dorrowed considerable sums of money, profits | respecting which the minds of the lenders were greatly exercised. 'The Judicial authorities were communicated ith on 'the subject, with the result x it diligent searéh was made for the 'missing man, but without success. Var- Tous 'theories prevafied as to 'the dis- appearance of the lucky legatee, 'the 'most popular being that the bank notes and gold he carried about lim tempted some false friends to make away with dim after a festive supper. An elderly woman, named Grundy, fled last year at Astley, South Lanoa- shire, Het husband, a small farmer Land: + upon 'examining -a lum- ber-room after her death, found close upon £1,100, mostly in sovereigns and half-soverelgns, which had been hidden there by bis careful wife. It was mentioned in. the Lancashire Chancery Court recently that several ore supposed to be tramping the (4.00 , Were believed to be entitled to [An estate worth £7,000. The vicerchan- cellor expressed his surprise that such windthlls were advertised in The Lon- | don Gasette. He wondered how many tramps ever read The Gazette. James Russel, a machinist, in humble circumstances, at Vahcouver, in 1899, R fell heir to $5,000,000, left him by a bachelor cousin. A Lomflon banker's vertisement was published in a Cana- local paper announcing that £1,- j= w PM 000 was ing for Russel and his 100 400° . if they wluld communicate with: a a the advertiser. Half-an-hour later, Rus- os #el appeared, In his workifg clothes, the required marrlage wertificate, M3 the proof was: sipparently ¢t, Mrs. Russel, overcome Jon in | With Rinted, and Russel spent the fay in celeb the advent. of pros- pective fortune. > A named Bernard Reilly died in sland in 1871, and, owing to the falls fre charitable bequests mentioned ifs will, and there being no known next of kin, over $6,000 was escheated to the Crown. A lady claimant, Mrs, Crawley, appeared in 1882, but: failed to r ber claim. Quite recently it w. i to an estate worth £300,000 left by their tingle, Mr, Michael Conlan, formerly of mon, Ireland, Who recently died A . Me. Mi "Citimants a; to the Blythe estate fn America, it may be useful to record the fact that thls case was @ls- posed of by the American coults as far y sole heirosnss' back as 1890, Mr. T. H. Blythe dled in- testate in:8an Francisco in 1883, leaving. property worth $4,000,000. One hundred and ninety~seven claimants sought this prize, along twenty-two lines of de | scent, Among the number were the English families ot Williams nd Sav- and some Scotch gypsies, who trac 8 Blythe ancestry to Sir Walter Scott's Jean Gordon. The judgment | of the courts awarded the bulk of the property to Miss Florence Blythe, who | claimed the estate in the absence of any will, as the sole recognized and adopted 'child of the deceased. Tt was alleged that the Californian law, on sufficlent evidence, allows such a claim, even against the next of kin. James Crannis of Wymondham, Nor: folk, late landlogd of a village inn near Bury St. Edmunds, a few years ago was informed by a firm. of solicitors that he was entitled to nearly £9,000 as next of Kin to Robert Reeve, who left Wy- | mondbam in 1852, and who acquired wealth-in Manitoba, ultimately retiring to New York. Mr. Reeve dled in 1900, since which time the solicitors had been endeavoring to discover an heir to the property, ----ei----t---- PASTE FOR ROYALTY. Blazing Gems Themselves Are Really Stored In Vaults of King's Bankers. , The visitor to the Tower of London Who is permitted to Inspect the Crown Jewels seldom knows that a large pro: portion of the blazing gems are merely paste, and that, although the 'Tower might be considered a safe enough Place, most of the famous stones are In reality stored in the vaults of the King's | bankers, their plages being taken by | cleverly executed 'counterfeits in paste: The Koh-l-noor is never on exhibition, | and some of the other stones are repre: | sented by proxy, though the famous {| ruby worn in his helmet by Henry when he invaded France, and which now blazes in the centre of the Maltese /| Cross «in the crown made for Queen || Victoria is shown. It was the early custom to provide an ornate but inexpensive crown for the Queen Consort, and, though these cir- clets blaze with jewels, none of them are real. When Victoria was to be crowned Queen Regnant it was realized that it would never do to offer her paste, and a new crown was provided, "for which stones were taken from the earlier masculine crowns. 'With the exceptionof' the Queen's crown and some few stones in other) badges of royalty, the entire display is of paste, and yet shows the original stones, even the Imperial crown mever having boastel real jewels, Oddly enough, most of these paste Jewels attract more appreciative com- ment than the few crowns set with genuine stones, and the sightseer goes on his way rejoicing or envious, accord- ing to his temperament, although any] fash Jeweler's store will display fen times the number of real precious Stones. ' . Intrinsically the entire display is not worth more than a quarter of a mil- lion, Some Irish Spirits. In The Monthly Review Lady Gregory has collected a. number of stories of the bellef In spirits shown by the inhabi- tants of islands of the Irish coast. These spirits seem to swarm, and are but rare. ly friendly to ordinary mortals, who, Wwe are told, unlike the dwellers in "far- off -barbarous England," are not 'trying to recover their belief in this cloud of witnesses, for they have never lost touch with them--this is the way in} which the spirits are referred to. And this is how the islanders account for the origin of the mysterious people: "Fallen angels they are sald to be. God threw a third part of them into helt with Lucifer, and it 'was Michael who) interceded for the rest. And then a third part were cast into the alr, and a third In' the land and sea. And here they are all about us, thick as grass" The stories that Lady Gregory has col- lected about 'these fallen angéls are most tantalizing. They never seem to lead anywhere, and the most promising, break off when we long to know the end. What, we wonder, happened to the girl who died, but returned to the cur- ate with her spirit-lover to be married? The curate performed the ceremony, but nothing further is recorded, As a rule, the spirits merely play impish tricks, such as stealing sticks, for they are great fighters, and they are unimagina- tive enough to dress like ordinary peo- ple. < A Judicial Reproof. A counsel in the middie of hls cross- examination was handed a telegram. "Halloa!" he sald as he read 1t, "So- and-so has won the Metropolitan stakes." "Mr. A----" said the judge severely, "it is very unseemly that in} the course of solemn judicial proceed- ings, where a man's liberty and reputa- 'tion dre at stake, you should be talk- ing of the winnet of a horse race. Br-- | by the way; does the telegram say what was second and third ?"--Tatler. ti -------------- The Workhouse Organ. Notwithstanding that they have twice been told by the local Government Board that they consider the price ex- cessive, the Edmonton Board of Guar- fllans has resolved to pay £235 for an organ for the new workhouse chapel. A quantity of hymn-books are also to be bought at half-a-crown each, - A ----------------_ansn. Queer Postal Address, A létter from Cornwall has just been delivered fn High Wycombe (Bucks) with 'the simple address: "To the Saw- mill that quts up large elm, High Wy- combe." "Not high price but high class," McConkey's "Puri ty" a pound box for 60c. The only candy sold in Kingston 'the ¢hdice of royalty. Sold at Gibson's Red Cross drug store, Roll butter Crawiord, 20c., finest potatoes. WHIG, SATURDAY, JUNE 9. TERS WAYS Fem FJ SOMETHING ABOUT PROSPECTORS | "WHO HAUNT NORTH COUNTRY. They Have a Hard Road to Travel In New Ontario's Mining Country, and "Gains Are Not Always Commensur- ute 'With 'Work: Done--How a Claim Is Located, Marked and Registered-- * Striet Regulations. Until the coming into prominence of the Cobalt: on, "prospector" was a 'term little known in Canada, at least in 'Ontario, 'writes H. R. H., in The Mail and Empire, under date of Cobalt, May 15. Now, however, the name 'prospec itor," is claimed by nearly nine out of ten of the people one meets up, here in this north country. . From the picturesque shores Lake i to the breezy plateau of the height of land and beyond the prospector ds blazing his trail. Hav- ing procured his license, for which he contributes to the Provincial Treasury 'a fee of $10, he gathers together his outfit, which generally consists of the following articles: A light canvas tent, » gheet-iron folding stove, the in- dispensable pork and beans, with flour, meal, salt, tea, coffee, and sugar. Por- tions of 'his ordinary attire are dis- carded for a sweater, long boots, and slouch hat. A canvas sack, bound by a tote strap, ie used for carrying sup- pliés over his shoulder. A hand axe and six-shooter fastened 'to his beit, with a. shining new prospectors 'pick in his right hand, complete his 'outfit, "Hitting the Trail." He then immediately proceeds to "hit the trail" and, with the recklcgimess of "Rasselas, who tired of his happy valley and 'sighed for the free breezes 'of the hill 8," he keeps moving along. He invariably selects for his camping place a locality where likely ledges of Tock abound, and as conveni- ent as possible 'to a good supply of water. "The Hight stove he carriés is more for the purpose of heating the tent at night, 'for his cooking is 'gen- erilly done outside on the old-fash- "Joned fire, Often he is alone, but i four or five band togeth- er, and one 'of 'their number acts as cook, . He climbs' the rocks and tears away with his prospectors pick gt.the moss and roofs of treed in search of the cobalt bloom and ealcite yeins, which betokent to hifi the presence of the pre- clous metal that may be found beneath, How. far beneath an arduous and expen- sive search is frequently necessary to determine, Marking a Claim. When he does happen to find an ore- bearing vein or deposit of valuable min- eral in place, the procedure he must adopt is as follows: "To plant a dis- covery post of wood or iron, on vhich must, be stamped, or written, the name of the U , nymber of li with date df discovery" This must be done exactly on the outcropping or show of "ore or mineral in place within the boundaries of the claim" of twenty or forty acres as the case may be, and by planting at each of the four corners a similar post in the following order: No. 1, at the northeast corner; No. 2, at the southeast' corner; No. 8, at the southwest corner, and No. 4, at the northwest corner, the number in each case to be on the side of the post to- wards the post which follows dt, in the order in which they are named." Should the nature of the location ren- der the planting of a post impractic- able, "such corner or corners, may be indicated by placing at the nearest suit- ble point a witness post, marked with the letter W. P., and indicating the bearing and distance of the site of the true corner post from such witness post." 'Where there are standing trees they have to be clearly blazed and the boundary lines marked. Where there are no standing trees, pickets, or stakes, mounds of earth or rock 'two feet high have to be placed." Limited to 20 Acres. The claims in the Township of Coleman, in which Cobalt is situated, are limited to 20 acres each, and the descriptions of the different portions of the lots are considerably complicated by having to describe them in divided parts, such as the, N.-E.%1-2 of . the southwest quarter of/ the north half of such a lot, ¥ Many of the same claims are staked three times over, and from such compli- cations it would seem that an up-to: date prospector would soon have to add both a surveyor and a lawyer to his outfit. After his claim is properly located and staked the prospector has to di- rect his steps without delay for the office of the mining recorder, this of- fice for the Temiskaming mining divi- sion being situated at Haileybury. Here he has to prepare a plan and make an of dis¢overy even to the very hour, and for a fee of 25c the application is then registered. i It has still to await Inspection by the mining division inspector, who will determine whether or not it shall be passed as a mining claim, and unless there has been '& genuine find of "valu- able mineral in place". where the dis« covery post was planted; the location will again be thrown open. Should the claim be phssed the prospector secures an assay and a certificate of the same, Prospectors of All Classes. These northern prospectors seem te be drawn from all classes and condi- tions of men. Your correspondent was in the postoffice at Haileybury to-day when a clerical gentleman came in. He Was a Baptist minister and had just ar- rived from the Puritan State of Massa- chusetts. Even he had, contracted the prospectors' fever, a) apparently it had caught him good hand, for he told me that he had hired three men to assist him | in a prospecting tour in the vicinity of the end of the Steel and he said: "In a couple of days from now you would not know me; for, 1 shall be dressed out in entirely differ. ent togs." Several lawyers and doctors have also joined the band of prospectors and among the latest recruits to the "pick and shovel brigade" is a wel 'known vocalist from a Torbntc ----------n That is the most sanitary fountain I ever saw, said a physician in Gib- *fon's Red Cross drug store on Thurs day. Burtch's horse radish can not he es. cell.d; always pure and fresh. Large bottles, 10c, Ask your grocer for it. » affidavit of the location and tha' time. WILL FOUND IN BRIDE'S GARTER. / Document Had Remained In Odd Hid- ; ing Place Seventy-Five Years. A will drawn by Jules Chambord sev- enty years ago has been found in a garter worn by his bride, and subse- quently used by three members of his family or descendants on their wedding days. The garter was made In France, and was worn several times before it came Into the possession of Chambord. At the time Chambord was married, he owned a little property, which he agreed to leave to his wife in event of his death. It was known that he drew a will, but when he died, in 1831, the document could not be found, and the property was equally divided between the widow and two children, Henry and Marguerite. The widow dled two years after her husband, and the daughter four years later. Henry married, and was the father of four children. Jules, the oldest, married a woman named Laporte and settled in L'Anse du Foin, on the Saguenay River. The issue of this marriage was six children, all of whom died except Hen- ry. Smallpox was the cause. To Henry was handed down the garter, lis moth- er on her death-bed telling him to pre- sent it to his bride-elect and enjoin her to wear it on her wedding day, as it do. lage, and on the day they were to be pearance it looked much like a bracelet, was made of a heavy silver band with by a double hinge. After the Wedding it 'was noticed that the hinge had been sprung amd the garter was sent to a Montreal jeweler to be repaired. It was 'the jeweler who discovered the will held 'the 'buckle an inner tim of the document; a thin parchment, was dis- closed. The writing was still legible, and the will carried out the promise of Jules Chambord to. leave all his pro- perty to his wife. As nothing remains of the property, the will is, of course, valueless, i HIS "WICKED: BANISHMENT, In 'Will, Late Charles Durand Refers to Events of 1837. The will of the late Charles Durand, the vétéran barrister, who died recently, has been proved in the Surrogate Court. Toronto to Hamilton, and' he refers to his banishment in his 'will, which: is a lengthy document, In enumerating his possessions he refers to the burial plots of his parents. He wrote: "I have a right in law and equity to a plot of land, as heir (sole heir) of my late father, James Durand, senior, who died on or about the 20th day of March, 1833, and was buried in the village of A , township of Ancaster, Went- worth, over whose grave there is stand- ing a stone square monument lettered, and which I dictated in 1833 and 1844. "And also a monument which my father caused to be erected In 1829 over his wife, Kezia, my mother. . . . . . and over this monument I have guarded and watched faithfully. "My Wicked Banishment. "Since those dates, except about six years during my unjust and wicked banishment by the Upper Canada Family Compact, or Canadian Govern- ment under Sir Francis Bond Head and Sir George Arthur, wicked and unprincipled Governors. During their temporary rules I was unjustly com- pelled to leave my beloved Canada, but I have since June, 1844, against resumed my care and guardianship of this plot of burial land every year." For Lount and Matthews. Mr. Durand collected the subscrip- tions for the monument to Lount; and Matthews and delivered the ordtion at the unveiling of it. His estate is valued at $11,000 and consists of cash $7,000, furniture $500, and 287 Huron street, worth $3,700, His widow, Mrs. Mary Ann Durand; receives the entire estate. She, her son, Charles F. and her daughter were appointed administra- tors, as deceased named no executors. eet ------ A Faded Glory. The arrival of the Meteor on Sunday morning brought to the older residents vivid recollections of what was at one time the greatest event in the Liskeard year. Before the construction of the railway, the town and surrounding Country was dependent entirely on the | ice road down the lake in winter and on the boats in the summer for com- munication with the outside world, says The Temiskaming Herald. On the 'breaking up of the crystal floor and be- fore the ice melted or drifted down the | Ottawa, the country was walled in with | a hundred miles of the wildest rock | country. The first boat was a looked | and longed for messenger. It brought | word from friends and relatives at the front. It was stored with needed provi- sions, and, above all, it threw down the wilderness 'walls of the prison, 'When the smoke-<belching codrier hove in sight the whole populace flocked eagerly to the wharf. So great was the crowd that waved its welcome in an- Swer to its saluting whistle that the dock did not afford sufficient standing room. On Sunday some eighteen or twenty persons watched in silence as the majestic Meteor stole quietly into port: -------------- $8 A Horrified Barrister, A well. knowh 'Toronto ' newspaper man hag a daughter of the mature age of two, years, who nevertheless is al- would bring luck. This he promised to ; Henry eventually became engaged to Marie St. Gabriel, 'of his native vil- | married gave the garter to her. In ap- }| only widerthan is commonly worn. 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The other day she | 'was being taken for a ride cn a street | car, when a well-known barrister of | dignified appearance and carrying his barristers blue bag, got on the car. | Gentlemen carrying bags she had seen | before, but they had been in the-lane, | and when this néw arrival failed to #ive the password she proeeeded. to do it for him, piplag out: "Old clo's, old bottles, old rags." --tableau. tter And Potatoes, " Roll butter, 2ecy finest creamery butter, prints and solids. Crawford. -------------- Tee cream made from pure cream dis- pensed at Gibson's Red Cross drug store fountain. : LABATT'S ) Ale and Porter are Nature's. Best Tonics. Pure Malt products, made' from the choicest barley and best selected hops. They are very healthful' and aid digestion. Labatt's are very palatable beverages and agree with the most delicate Stomach. JAS. 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