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rgandiw. Patterns are .zsive to this store. ite dressmaker. >. 39 and $10 New mer'chand‘n - V ‘ ’ulness. c, Lke ghats, collars and ties, mite brilliant Listre mummy made i1! W Fe with overseains “I: back carding on 6013.? shave trimmed with nir- pear I buttons;- hneG, m 50- ki’nd. - ' -,g rf tglues. Styles agd 93““ 3 styles, attractive values LVais ts 'etty d artistic weaves SPRING THESE . IT Is ALL NEW. A1; ’3 new. Not. merely n" indsay and old to New 7 to any city fortunate Jthe human boby, new here, but there’s enou h orrect in dress for eary ! can fix! dressers aremak- FEBRUARY sat y not ? There is ample prices here. is store is it’s much. THIS 01 k 'irts v1 015 hing quality, workmanship, \‘L‘X‘Y l 0RD hos 31‘ 'HING h-sc three prices repre-6 {up notch of style and. \Vonu-n's Dress Skirts. O m‘ the bust. materials. :nvh inuulcloths, Eng-. 015 and nch finished tin-z styles are exceed- ng. 111053, of them have. shown for. the first! Waists SUITS 1'! elaborate White with rows of inscr- finishod with lace Y'fx‘ (‘harnxing style. )l Mutiny of them is v.- uxvlusin to this .vill in! hard to find. ommiu of here. h-Hwhn-d with them! \ Wtkely Pod iccable, styliSh is one 0‘ the daintily trim- run cufi‘s. new 'ont and hned pink, red of ~ixn shlos 0!. _! in tho better. ., \‘uitsf 1‘ or inâ€" m‘ the fashionâ€" :vk and white. Russian. blouse. ‘Ih three large ‘1;'.'_'k. smartly. dist, and cdgm: 11g. skirt is un- O mm'd. up and. CR'SL‘)" Cloth and A 000 1 want. a, style: A Lindsay we . In stripe, and. :-i;u-. the coat, x skirt. large. ‘;' HUT, strap-o m»! .md back, 1mm! through- I'ILI silk. Skirt, rapping of up. bottom tailor. Izzmst, any reâ€". 0000 I! over. Li nd saw: 1: of Black Che- Iing Jacket, u back, small guru. unlined skirt. nicely xx of black xllli 0f 'l‘wm‘d . 4', tight, 1); wk : A 1221.1! , cufl on and stylish do“; n plea; (It and skirt, ndds much t_\lc of it. l mcc y . ( ircnlar. l with O m “Tm“ FINE CUT GLASS and CHINA HARDWOOD LUMBER;WANTED Basswood, Elm and Birch (éut to Order preferred) Wholesale and Reta}! dealers in Salt over 100carloads handled during§1902 :RAILWAY mas =’ Contracts given for deliveryat any point on the Grand Trunk. (Northern ivision.) All kinds of Logs wanted at Our Mills at Lindsay and Fencion Falls. We 31: ‘ 1'ta'1;iz1g 0151315 for anv 1-2112 our cu asto 11ers dear: [hit we d not 1438;) in S'ock. Orders for mrs are 5511 coming in and any one desiring hrs or anything else Li .d‘y cm at the stare and leave p1: :culars and we will give our 13:51 1:11on irprocaring them 10 1h: sat isfaction of the customer. .Mr. Champion, the failcr is bumig? find-night oil getting out workt _:15 “.* 3: very busy :zying to get the work fin- Shed at the date promised. us: The suits w 2:11 we: are clearing on! 35D worth$ 62111.1 518 are gomz C2?! ani Ieave your ordrrs before 31: rush of Spring trade is on. Heady afla d3 £101 thing We are reducing the price of all our readymade goods, such as Overcoats. Reefers, Ulsters: and Men’s Suits. The Rathbun Co. LINDSAY AGENCY ' Highest market price? paid for Butter, Eggs, Dried Apples, Fowl, etc. Our waggon will be tak- ing its regular route 111 the Spring, and solicit your pat- Ionage. The Popular Jewelry Store Repairing neatly and promptly done esteem. Our stock of Handsome Watches, Diamonds and precious stones of all kinds and colors. set in fine mountings, make a. royal gift; [ave or 01 Fine silverware griate to love or f3 Pascoe Bros. Successcrs to vag Bros. . MCCARTY, OAKWOOD, . M. BAKER Agent. FEBRUARY 26th. £903. 911i. Vienna, Feb‘ 23.â€"It is reported that the Macedonian Leader Saratofl has organized within the past fort- night several well equipped Bulgari- an bands, in Macedonia, each conâ€" sisting of about 250 men. The Neue Freie Presse learns that 4, 000 armed Macedonians are concentrated 40 mafia from Sofia, and are preparing to attack the town of Melnik, in the Turkish Province of Seres._ There is an unconfirmed rumor that. the A1- banians have attacked the Rouman- ian Consulate at Mitrovitza, Tur- Baht-I Do 300 m tho Sultan's Pri- mates, a Wofid' the Religion- lmoptibmflu of the Immanuâ€" Sovoral sum lands of 2§o Each Won Equippedâ€"4.000 Armed Maced- anlm ‘0 mi.- l'ron Sols- Constantinoplo, Fob, 23.-â€"The Aus- trian and Russian Ambassadors pr tented Satumdty to the Grand Vizer Identical mound. embodying the demands for relom in Macedonia. The proceeding was of a. semi-omcial Constantinople, Feb.- 23. â€" The Smyrna-Kassaba. Railroad Company has been instructed to prepare for the transportation 0! 25, 000 Redifs. to reinforce the third army corps '9: Salomca. . The chie! proposal made in the memoranda is the appointment or an inspector-general {or three years, with ample powers to act indepen- dently, and to requisition troops in‘ Case 01 emergency. The plan of re- form: also provides for the re-organ- ization of the; gendarmerie and police under instructors, tor administrative and financial reforms and for a. more equitable colleCtion of taxes. These reforms do not atlect the Sultan's prerogatives, or wound the religious susceptibilities of the Mussulmans. Concentration of Macedonians. Austria and Russia Present to Ports Identical Memoranda. REFORMS AGAIN DEMARBED Vplto'of tho Revolution. London, Feb. 23.â€"-The New York Sun correspondent has wired his pa- per that the date of the Macedonian revolution is fixeii for the last week in March. ~ Sultan’s Commander Snyl sun-Mon In ' Very Sathtactory. Tangier, Morocco, Feb. 23.-â€"A 'de- spatch from Fez, dated Feb. 16 and receiVed here Saturday, says General Sir Harry Maclean (commander of the Sultan of Morocco's Body- guard), in an interview describes the situation as very satisfactory. He considers that the pOWer of the preâ€" : tender, Bu ‘H'amaxa, who, accm‘ding to these‘ a'dvices is reported. lying wouhded near Tazzu, has been com- pletely crushed, and the Moroccan War Minister, El Menebhi, was ad- vancing at the head 01 a large force, London, Feb. 21.â€"'According to a. despatch from Sofia, published In this morning’s Morning Leader. des- perate fighting has occurred between a small band of revolutionaries and 800 Turks in a defile close to the Village of Bel-1k, near Kastoria, Al- bania. The Turks had 90 killed. The insurgents lost heavily, but suc- ceeded in gaining the mountains.‘ punishing in turn the rebellious tribesmeh. Tangier, F81). 20.â€"A despatoh frOm Fez, dated Feb. 13, annoumes that. a column of troops, under the com- mand of El Menehbi, the Moroccan War Minister, has defeated a'section of the Hiaina tribe. Many heads of the killed have arrived at Fez to de- Corate the city’s gates. The reports of the defeat of tho Sultan's troops by the Hiaina tribe are now con- tradicted. Madrid, Feb. 21.â€"-'A despatch 're- ceived here from Tangier. Morocco, says it is persi‘stently reported there thalt E1 Menebhi, the Minister of _ _._ L_LL‘- PAR 10. 100 rwngoi'l F“ Uninhabitod I nearly one nunarcu ‘ board, who are shot visions. One train, 1 from relief, has only two The relief trains were 3.1 One relief engine‘Was dit day, and most. "of the we of 30 men were trait-bin ‘__ . “-L I 0U mcu "v-v â€"v-, St. John’s, Nfld., Feb. 23.-â€"Reliet parties with 10.1 yesterday reached the trains which are snowbound in the interior, and supplied them with provisions. The nearest train was freed yesterday afternoon and start- ed for St. John's. The relief train is forging its Way forward, trying to clear the track to enable the other two blocked trains to move east: It is impossible to lay when they will be released, as the drifts are very Evldonce of Extensive Operations Carried on Many Years Ago. British Zambe; la, ranks among the chief gold-bearing countries or the world. ' The ancients mined and carried eway enormous Rhodesia, or Q under the scientific mining systems of the present‘ day their operations will be greatly_surpessed. In the re- 41_ -_ ‘hn 41A“- Rhodesia. 0’ ranks among the countries 0! the W‘ mined and carrie4 quantities of the I -1-_A:r. V0: was killed in battle Feb, OLD AFRICAN GOLD MINES. PRETENDER CRUSHED. 25,000 Rod“. Moving. FROZEN IN. The relief train ward, trying ‘0 xa‘ble the other move east: It when they will {gifts are very if??? 393%: i “s g E i a 5 E E % Ina-Bons'iealth was dug out of the have gone to the north and cost; it l Was probably wrought into the l crown of the Queen of Sheba. and till- I ed the coflers of Solomon. ' A! clout Smokers. The ancient smelting furnaces are - Still easy to recognize. They are sunkI into the floor The furnace blowpipw' u’e made of the finest granite-powder! cement. and the nozzles of the blown! Pipes are. covered with splashes of 801d. The linings o! the holes are ;covered with specks of gold. When the first lining became worn by the heat, a fresh lining of cement of an excellent quality, which has outlast- :ed time, was smeared aroundak on top of the old lining. One can tak 0 an old lining, split of! the layers With a. knife and find gold splashes abundance. The tools of the ancient Workers which have so far been discovered in- clude a small soapstone hammer and burnishing stones of Water-worn rock. to which gold still adhera. There are evidences that the ancients carried on an extensive industry in the manufacture of gold ornaments and utensils. Thirty-five thousand dollars'- worth of gold ornaments have been taken in the last. five years from the ruins of Matabeleland alone. V Pooplo say the old-fashioned girl is coming into fashiOn. It may be soâ€" it all depends. But we doubt if the latest form. of feminity will take the ghape of a I'evi\'al.. An adaptation, perhaps, of a. modification, or a re- vised edition. But a mere replicaâ€" No! Women have their phases, like the moon and other creations of the gender, but, unlike the lunar planet, they never repeat. themselves. The early Victorian girl was a. sim- pering, giggling, blushing, fainting, ringleted. champagneâ€"bottle shoul- dered, whitestockingcd. clothâ€"boot- ed, impeccable noneuity. The mid-I Victorian Miss was a thing of bustles, chignonS, sprightiiness, archâ€" Apparently the ancients Wasted gold lavishly. Gold has been found in large quantities in the form of pellets as large as buckshot in the ViCinity of the furnaces, and a150 thrown aWay on the debris heaps outside of the outbuildings. meetings, and dawning emanci- pation. The later Victorian New Wo- man was Composed of platform phra‘ses, cropped hair, thick boots, formless arguments, affected animad- version of the tyrant man. and do- apair of the matrimonial estate. We toâ€"day are full of "smart” ambi- tions, overflowing with smart slang, weighted down with smart liills l(r smart (-lot-heS, coinpcllc-gl to live in smart streets, to the great attenua- tion of our l;ss smart incomes. Nev- er, in fact, has there been such an Old Man of the Sea as this fetish of smartneSs that we have been hugging to our soulsâ€"or what mumsents themâ€"for tln- lust doz'on 3ears. «Not, to be smart is to be socially dead, and to be socially: dufunct it were better nch-r to have leun born. So says the modern Saga. With What. result, one nu-cd not add. A glance at names gracing the Bankruptcy Court lists, or, say, a icw siilthlights by a. tax-collector, and the plaints of un- paid tradespcoplc would amm some contemporary history full of thrilling situations and go far to explain to future generations the curious fever- hcat with which the desire to be smart has afflicted this Edwardian era. Meanwhile. as one swing of the pendulum inevitably induces ano- ther, “W are promiScd a retrogression to grcadian simplicity, which will dislodge made-dishes. banish “Bridge" after a.nx., introduce the cult of mere muslin frocks“ and lean:- en our erotic literature with tho heavenly manna of Jane Austen and Alfred Austin. ‘3'hnt is to be done with Ladies’ CIUlX and private tele- phones has not yet come up for dis- cussion; but. dotibfiws, Phyllis and Corydon willA nyDNQx-iately reâ€"ap- pear attuned to the éxrroundings of their blue-ribboned era“as the paint- ed fans and mouchcs "“1233 of ping rot and Pierrette recede or. this over- done horizon. ~â€".â€"â€"â€"fl V‘ \ Hanged and Buried. Yet L . It is not given to many me be hanged and buried, and yet be able to tell the tale, but such was ”Rex- perience of one John Bartendnlo. limo was executed at York in 1634: 10:. felony. After his body had hung for nearly an hour, it was buried. A gentleman passing by the grove, which had not been filled up, though: he saw the earth move. and with the help of his servant, he disinterred the convict. who Was still alive. It Old-Fashioned Girl Made New. Bow Ancients Was-ted Gold. would 217nm! some my full of thrilling far to explain to the curious fever- thc desire to be my eyes. from Which I tell into a state 01 who. uld Wt!!! taco-forum Md... . Flnnicnaâ€"I wonder why it 1- that those who attain the M 0‘ m cua never seem to be hum!!- Cynnlcuaâ€"Because the pinnacle 0‘ mkllkethetopoftmlnfl! tall lightning rod with a parflcnmly sharp point. and those who succeed 1n Tu! too' custom in mono an bury suicide. and executed without my coda. The ma was My kitted. and entirely recov. and. He beanie hauler at the coaching-house in York and lived u most mphry life. When asked whet. he could tell in relation to hanging. so having Waxed it, he replied. “Thu: when I was turned oflfluhelolflmaeemedtodu'tbom M témpomrfly upon It usually and tint they are targets for :11 the world’s lightningâ€"Town and Country. It Was the Icon- 01 Bringing Mur- uhnl Key to Death. A saber of honor brought Marshal Key to dishonor and death. When Na- poleon entered Cairo on the fld of J uly, 1793. he was presented with three swords of honor richly inlaid with pre- cious stones. He brought them back to Europe, and in 1802, he gave one to ’Ney and another to Murat. keeping the third for himself. Ney received his at an imperial reception. The sword passed from one to another of those present, among whom was a young snbaltern of the Auvergne regiment. When Napoleon escaped from Elbe, Ney left the Ring and took sides with his former chief. After the allies en- tered Paris. Key made preparations to get out of the country. but his wife and a friend ,persuaded him that there was really no danger, and he decided to re- main in France. Then came the order fer his arrest. He fled to a castle in the possession of some friends and sne- ceeded in reaching it without his pres- ence being known. One day, feeling tired, he threw himself on a couch, first taking oi! his oriental sword, which he always wore out of affection for the emperor. Hearing voices, he sprang up and hurriedly left the room. forget- ting his sword. A minute later a par- ty of women and men entered the room, one of them being the young snbaltcrn of the Auvergne regiment. now a colo- nel. He atonce recognized the sword and, calling in some gendarmes, pro- ceeded to search the premises. Finding that he was discovered. Ney gave him- self up quietly. On Dec. 7. 1815, the ring. 3mm- my years otAelrort I mabletonylcanmmmmdonny- thmshewantsto," The Auctioneer. Said a conscientious auctioneer: “Leo die- and gentlemen. there is no sham about those carpets. They are genuine tapestry carpets. I bought them a. old Tapestry himselt.” button-ted Friend-Mp. The majority of men recognize noth- ing in human affairs as good unless it yields some return, and they love those friends mostâ€"as they do their cattle- trom whom they hope to obtain the most profit. Thus they lack that loveli- est and most natural form of friendship which is sought for its own sake only, nor do they know from experience how beautiful and ship is. freshman. “Just dropping a line to my governor, wishing him many happy returns of the day," replied the sophomore. “Why. is this his birthday?” “No: pay day He sent ' cm“ this morning.” A SWORD OF' HONOR. An Aniteratlve Poem on. Pigs. One or the book collectors of Phila- delphia has in his library a volume of Latin jokes that was printed in Ger- many in 1703. says the Philadelphia Record. The name of this volume is “Nags Venaies." and it contains a poem 300 lines long wherein every Wordâ€"every single wordâ€"begins with the lute;- up,” marsha], whose sobriquet was the Bravest of the Brave, the hero of a hundred battles. w'as shot; Scarcely two months after the owner of the sec. ond sword. Murat. had met his fate in the same way. mppy DI!- you writing?” asked the how lofty isuch friend- J. J. WETHERUP Mason ' Risch Bell Dominion PIANOS Doherly I W Other Makes supplied to Orgicr Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Weth crap Dominion ORGANS Bell , Sussex «2': 7‘“! Sis. Lindsay Bax 415 (“Ice Corner >E\Hz\’:} MACH” thcher 8; Wils MC MINES. New WEI :iams Standard‘firand Dcmtsfic PAGE SEVEN