"ONPG" THE: RISKS WHICH MEN WITH GOLD n FEVER WILL TAKE. Gold Stealing is a Remuneratiye But Very Dangerous Practice, have had considerable experi: to the vagaries of mining, and particularly.in respect ims and the stealing of gold, while I also pos- sess in my safe some of the most re- markable nuggets which have ever I ence in. re to the *'jumping" of been f found, and for which fancy prices, far in excess of their gold value, haye been offered. The most extraordinary example of Nature's hand diwork in the shape of a nugget is one weighing just about two, ounces, which came from the Light- ning Creek Company's claim. is exactly in the shape of a diminu- tive golf. putter, and if it were at-| tached to a stick the size of a lead pencil, would really make a very prey Lilliputian gold golf stick, tes H. J. Hardy, in London An- | i A Well-planned Mishap. Gold stealing, although, of. course, most remunerative for the! time being, is a very ractice. A man who is knowa to a gold stealer can be sure that) "his number is up. Something | is certain to happen to him. It by; no means follows that e moral calibre of the miners with whom he | works is-a high one, but they will | not tolerate a gold stealer, because if he steals from the. mining com- pany -or claim-owner, he is Just as, likely to steal from them, as indi-| vidua!s, and therefore some unfore- | Gold stedling | A great boulder ro! seen mishap occurs. is the limit. down upon him; a dynamite char ze | explodes prematurely; a car runs} off the rails, or ane of a hundred other accidents happens, and there | is a premature end of the gold thief. Claim "jumpin thing altogether, but it iniquity. For some reason or other | a claim is left unprotected, either} by there not being sufficient men working it to fulfil the laws, or a mining licence is not take 'no out or renewed, and on comes the claim jumper, puts in his inion: and. by, the law of mining camps, is the, owner. But there arrives a time when he overreaches himself, or, at} any rate, when his. jump is so big! that legal intervention is absolutely vincial Executive ia Columbia, is Bs "the greatest jump on record." The holders of a mine, worth mil- lions of dollars, are asking the Gov- ernment to disallow the claim stak ed out by a 'jumper. "Jumping," as I say, arises fram smart men taking advantage of some technical error in a ceri. ficate which has gone undete eted, or some similar flaw. and it is becoming such an enormous evil in 'British Colum- bia that energetic steps cught to be taken at once by the Saphoritise) Lo put a stop te it The st. ry of this hig mine which has been "jumped "is quite a ro- -mance. It is near a p'ace called; Clond Forks, and is named the Bul- | ion Mine. It was originally acquir- | ed by the Canadiai Pacific Railway | 'Company. and they spent, I believe, | npon its dev elopment something like $2,500,000. Buying His Own. Then it was bought from the rail- way company by a very big New York firm, at a price which has not been dis closed, and improvements ¥ completed, and an expendi- ture of another $5,000,000 incurred, so that ihe property had roughly, up to then, cost $7,500,000 dollars in developments. Then, by an oversight nothing less astounding. the miners' cert ficat® which only costs about $1.2 per annum to entitle the once to be worked, was not renewed. result, in came the He staked out the-pro- as the law stands, it belongs to him. In other words, it is estimated that nearly ten million dollars have been captured. The seriousness of such a position consists in this, that a dishonest or " careless employee can involve his employers in dire ruin by allowing a certificate or licence to lapse for even a few days. There have been some instances where this sort of thing has been done out of spite, and others where flagrant bribery of an employee has been the motive force. Of course, jalthough- the, property 'ag "pumped,"' the improvements and machinery %n it do 'not belong to the "jumper," and which I could cite the "ju has been used for purely Blacknail- ing purposes. The large impr: ovE- - ments which have been effected up- on properties remain in the pos- session of the parties who ~ut them there, and there is created a sort of "dog in the manger" yx tefen The "jamper" usually tries to pote the Innd back because all the val» which that o«>- cannet b>: : to 23 OFIT t LAIW <: 'property It dangerous | gz' is a different! is an equal, ictoria, Brit- cies to be asked | to adjudicate on what is probably | ly in history are familiar to every- ceased to hold the ae work the! ad fact, is a; - Quicker Than ee The gigantic nature of the case I hed will probably prove .*'jumper,'" put a stop to similar jumping expeditions, although-some of these, be it whispered, have often been awiftly settled by ese quick ar=|. bitrament.of a six-shoote The wonders of plsoee ld min- ing in "British Columbia, where the gold is found' in great pieces, has yet to be realized, and [have a pure | the nugget worth $450 from the Cariboo district. It was washed out of the: bed of the river. The-industry is/ j simply in its infancy, and the actu- 'al source from which come the vast quantities of free gold obtained by 'hydraulicing has yet to be dis- Decides" on a Radical -- Change. 5 : Dr. EB. J. Dillon, the famous Hpsponderit of the Londen jin the changes in personnel d. one a rr through the Russian provinces. AFTER THE EXAMINATION. the 'spot,' Questions That Have Brought Forth | Crooked Answers, I am an examiner. To be more precise, | am a corrector of ex ation papers; and my soul and Witte, nin-| poly of alcohol, Yi the spread of intemperance, which, the purpose of pumping knowledge | 'creep into the sy into the heads of small, and usually | unwilling, boys. | Such institutions have existed | for many, many years. Hence we must al] remember from painful ex- perience that, at alarmingly mt quent intervals, the powers that be. / endeavor to extract the knowledge pumped. Questions are asked. "These ques- | | tions have to be answered on paper. | | ness among its subjects, And I, for my sins, have jand judge the merits--if they exist cript to the new Finance .Minister, ' "--of many of these answers. It is .monotanous and dreary | 3| work, stale and unprofitable. Yet, | like all tragedy, it is relieved now | stem.' 'from the consumption of i tention is Aid to Monarchism rresolve not to tolerate this ¢ | . | tion of thin Ss an leon r, savs re,' SAYS the General, 'as and then by comedy. So I endeavor | 8 y ger A lto forget the former, and to haye| Dr. Dillon, "has produced a most tligf preseited by the transport of re ; a is the ---- ot that wes- the latter always before me. | fa vorable impression throughout dri nken reservists to the front was ais een' country, ~~ er ani- | In fact, I keep a book, a large the country and has cunsiderably never before seen any where else in dig ' veep in surprising y good con- 1 A qs : ' . 1 ledger, in which I enter faithfally increased-the prestige of monareh- ee Bictory. When the military au-|¢ On Marel all the humer that comes my way. ism in Russia. He has, enjoined the a asked to have the al } m coe Seis 2 oe Jay. | Let me open it at random, close my new Minister of Finance to reor- enrps closed along the route fal- And h a mules ges ail day eyes, and then, on" the "'dickery, ganize the entire sy stem and enable} fed by the troops they received a en : an, aay the peventy six | lo dickery, dock" primciple, see if my the Government not only to refuse )0ah Yical refusa It was a ir red i Was ie ¥ the norses that | alight upon a gem. tu depend upon national wee "dranken mobil lization.' War is al Suffered, and this was more from) finger will \} "The tropic incurable «disease. 'comes tn the geogra' vhy section, Se does the following: "The Mediter- ranean andgythe Red Sea are con- nected by the Sewage Canel." The geography section, by the; way, is one of the biggest in - my i book... It is second, in fact, only: t OF the history section, hha ons 4 of cancer is a ' ance as a recognized source of Tee , patoful, mind _and body that . ; them Dr. Dillon: points out how ar ous/is ~~ Salk aoe: toxthte new | After & ered. at, e na e ie task of. a events which ASS prominent- | es' for a considerable one ; not until the question of plac-' the consumpti ion of ing them arise s do difficulties begin, 'James [.."' a small bus once in- | the difficulties will be intensified by forms 'd me, 'claimed the throne of the utter lack of scope for construe: Fawland through his grandis ther. tive energy, should such energy be becauer he had no father But I' diseavered am nue tie nest mea The wasn't hard on that lad. All said: crrata wf the old financial system and done, James did inherit . are clogged by the results of use throne through his mother, Nor sod wont and hy the vested inter- was I very severe with the boy w he cxta and as vet nobudy knows how , Wrate "Monarchy is the state in to begin the work of transforma- which a man has but one | wife S y) tien. }} ' . . . - "The financial policy which lasted so long and gave such lucrative re- imagination is he id by the author : felt to be a 'Prince of the following: 'Romulus and Rup ert's drop,' a ball of unanneal- Remus were a couple of Siai nese €d glass which, if this one part be twins whe made Rome hi awl.' For severed, will break up in its entire- <ee arechy and monogamy beth begin with M. Mie challenge cup fur historical ae. sults is now a long while the cup wit held by ty and must be remade. Many the boy who wrote: "Joan of Are competent judges hold, therefore}. was the wife of Nouh.' But I, that the changes in the personnel 4 : Pall | think you will admit he was easily of the Government are and will for beaten by the author of Romulus some time remain the embodiment and Remus, though sometimes Tvin action of an inchoate, praise- am inclined to .think that this' worthy tendency, a prium desider- should get the prize : ium, but the entire nation is grate- "Julius Caesar hada cadaverous ful to the Czar for his splendid ini- appetite, and before he died he ate' tiatiye."' two brutes." Oh, shades of Shakes- peare! | Personally, I shall always have an ungrudging admiration for the Res whe solemnly declared: "The bar- ons made King John sing the Mar. na Charta." John certainly deserv- > hed that punishment. Have you ever tried to read the document? In my acientific section T have many treasures. Here are a few of them: "In the London parks the aw "of gravity is twelve miles an Has No Fear of Revenue. --, | The Novoe Vremya considers that M. Bark will have no great difficul- 'ty in getting the necessary revenue | if the preductivity of national labor jand the productive power of the country generally are raised as re- quired by the Czar. "At present,' it says, "the aver- age annual income per head of the ussian people is not more than about hour." "Gastronomy is the study | ab: sixty rubles (30), and with of the stars and heavenly lights."| this they manage to contribute to (I've often wondered if the boy's fa-|the State exchequer more than 3,000,000,000 rubles (%1,500,000,000). They spend nearly 1,009,000,000 ru- bles ($500,000,000) on drink for the benefit of the Government treasury, while the entire sum expended on education by the Government and local bodies combined i is less than a third of Hat amount. . Se alice "Tilicit traffic in spirits. and Why Collections Are Large. drinkirig on the streets, which dis- A pious old lady of our acquaint-,; tinguish the Russian towns, inelid- = devotes the proceeds from the/ing the capital, from all foreign es her hens lay on Sundays to | cities, has frightfully increased."' a éhurch. Fortunately for the | A recent report by the Governor Sah caer all her hens are Sab- | of St. Petersburg Province deserib- rea ed the alarming spread. of drunken- ness and hooliganism in the~ sur- ther told him that after some civic! banquet.) j "Quinine is the bark of a tree; , canine is the bark of a dog." Or, writes enother embryo Treves, "The appendix is a part of a book for which nobody has ever yet dis- covered a use 2 After the services were over One | rounding villages. Even school re i i - - of the conegaion turned to 'ik| il in nome feces are Tported to y fave taken t inking. . church ! pi reked up @ hate ait pus roe e presi dent of the State Council in opening the diséuSsion on the bill dealing with this evil, declared that they were all agreed that. drunkenness undermining the strength of the, Bevesan people, physically and mér- ¥ it ia my y change pocket where I had Gracious, my dear!" : tis wife, very muc . "And vou 'dropped ittin- sleet basket by mis- a confound it !'? replied .? i, put in the dime. "The Emperor' s impressions on says Dr. Dillon, "were deepened by statistics laid before the Council of the empire by Count who, although himself the creator of the Government mono- inveighed against are kept intact thanks to the innw-} jie alleged, is to be ascribed to the |merable institutions which exist for) phuses which have been allowed '46 Count Witte's statement is that when he quit the Finance Ministry ithe Russian Government reeeived vodka {| $250,000,000 a year, whereas to- day it. receives $500,000,000, and his con- that no Christian State |should be dependent for its exist- ence upon the spread of drunken- This view read is adopted by the Czar in his res- "The Czar's publicly anno woe That enue, but to ado pt efficacious means! of extirpating this vice and to af: ford the peasantry the opportunity of displaying the high qualities of characterizeq7 = 'the f hundred millions aterlnig whe alcohol now! 'brings in is form'dable in itself and. 'Telegraph, in the course of a aia Be. letter from St. Petersburg, ascribes} direct intervention of the Czar now | taking place in the present Govern- ment crisis to the effect upon the sovereign of the spectacles "of the} § material squalor and moral degra- dation caused by the drunkenness | which he beheld 'during his journey Mrs, James Hartley. Montreal, have asked fo = Striking Observations - in this connection are made Gen. Kuropatkin, Commander ed. Z the Exchange Gazette. der the heading "The rs to a remarkable state Se the Ministry' of Fi took to squeezing more. mon Sout of the spirit monopoly the extra military expenses. , red business, not to» be fightls rtake n with drunken songs and Fdions." ING. CARE OF FOOD. in tlre 'pink of néatness,' 'E-mean," he continued, k of knowledge fod: puts the members of the house a in grave danger. énéss in this respect THe average woman dves not think that milk and butter most delicate SLoY cajnes along, and not only 000 other germs. isspooking or cleaning up. ' How-eften- we see a cak dew to cool, als) to flies: - the country. tion, the air is more contaminated, it is a positive menace to health. does not occur to most house- cool should be lightly covered with a thin cloth or piece of tissue paper to. prevent mould germs and dust from falling upon them, but should nok have a thick cloth thrown over ore or they will become damp and y. Of course, when cake is iced it is impossible to do this until the frosting has hardened. An iced cake may be placed in a china closet with glass doors to keep off the dust until it is ready to be stored in the cake box. Never put anything but dry food, like cake or bread, away In tin, Enamelled cake or bread boxes are allright. But to open a can of fruit or végetables, use part of the con- tenbs, and let_the remainder stay in the ¢an may mean ptomaine poi- soning or other sickness. ples or apple pie, if cooked in tin or even granite ware, should never be allowed to cool in the pan. When- ever possible apples or any acid fruit or vegetable should be cooked in earthen ware, for acid has an affinity for tin and sometimes gen- erates @ poisonous substance. oo a few French phrases. which sMe worked into her talk on every pos- sible occasion. Entering the butch- er shop one day she inquired if he bad any '*hon-vivant, "Boned | what, ma' am ?'* asked the biitcher, | goes 'Bon-vivant,"' she repeat- "That's the French for good five you know." re nant and Mrs. Hartley, of 197 Guy 7 recognition from their city attempt to walk around the Hartley is an English ume. ; d oe Sage the idea to Ahusban by in fin Manchuria in 1904, whose on the present condition of Un- Drunken t and War" Gen. Kuropat- by Count Witte in the Council tate to the effect that at the very beginning of the Russo-Japa- to ch an indecent and disgustiy ng tet. Into, , Extables ut Errors AS TO : ir the evening. Pry criminally careless in the care of "that about the care of And heed- Is so ensyv. )| fille."' are of absorbents and and lL quickly receive any germ that receive, become the breeding place of- If she did' she weld be more careful about leav- milk uncovered and the hap dig on the.kitchen table while she e or pie or(maybe a pudding put out of the exposed to all the dutt-that blows about and possibly This is bad enough 'n But in the city, where, owing to the density of the popula- keepers that bread or cake when taken out of the oven and set to Baked ap- | three years on | 4 st in a distant mountain. range, r the white-tailed deer in eastern So- rains, which happens rarely. far from water. of many years' shot deer southeas confirms this. residence, who cated animals in the -|than those of moister regions. means of -| principal subsistence. . | Even horses do not come in to drink of their own free will every day In my travels it during the winter. was the usual thing for our animals the quality of the water they had eonditions. Besides suffering from thirst, the hot-soil makes its fect sore, and it does not know on. which travel, Indians, when they stay | panting i tli they | JOHN AND MARY. Only Really Two Sérious Forenames of the Centuries. A French journal has been dig- ging into the soul of the and asking her what she wants in a husband as to color, age name, The vast majority of 50,000 reply that they want a dark man of twenty-seven, and his name should be the French equivalent of John. None of your Algernons or Erics for the cautious damsel. None of your Hippolytes or Pauls--mer- curia]l or subversive persons. They want John when it comes to hus- bandry. And we shall"have to re- construct the title of a famous play | and call it "The Importance of "Be. ing John. There are only two really serious forenames that have come down through the centuries--John and, Mary. The French girls are right | in demanding the solidity of a John | (which has sometimes degenerated | into a more genial Jack). On the other hand, the good Catholic girl! ¢ has always Mary somewhere before her surname, even though the fri- volous pervert it to Molly grPolly. But a John and a Mary (not Jack and Polly) should always be pras- perous and happy. ----t_---- NAMING THLE DAYS. Saturday Has a Quite Appropriate Appellation. The first month of the year is éall-| ed after the old Roman god, Janus, the god of the sun, stronger as the New Year gets) older. While the months have as a rule Roman or Latin. names the days of the week have nearly al! got) names which our old Nérse fore- gave them. They, too, the sun, for it. Moon's day (Monday) w was | that of the wife of the sun, and, of course, had te be honored algo. Tyr was the god-of war, and ¢o they had Tyr's day (Tuesday), while Wednesday is Weden's day, the god of the Norseman's heaven, Thor was the god of st#@ngth, so he has 'Thursday. Friday is Freya's. day. Freya was Woden's wife and Thor's mother. The last of the days, Sat- urday, gets its name from a Roman god, Saturn, who presided over the games on a holiday called the Sat- urnalia, su that it is quite aan. pfiate that -- Saturday should be 'a holiday, too Tt has been Sota i Betual ex- | periment that small rodents of arid regions are able to live for ys or 'most independent of the water 'sup- or tues in 'the aS water nearer than a lonely fnaie| ° which they could hardly have had any knowledge. The roving moun- tain sheep require more water, al- though Mexicans and Indians in- rit that they drink oply when rain alls. ' Moreover, I have it on. the au- thority of an intelligent and obser- vant American in Sonora that while nora drink regularly, those in its western part never drink unless it He has never seen their tracks at the water holes there, although he has observed them elsewhere not very Another American Ié is certain also that domesti- arid regions are much less.dependent on water Cat- tle will live well for months without any other water than the juice of the cactus, which plant is also their to go without water every second leg to stand. , Even the dogs of the} seine] who becomes: fathers, who lived in North Eurepe, | worshipped | and Sun's day was named } BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRI TISH COLUMBIA. ; -- : eS {tems From Provinees Where Man) 'Ontario. Boys and Girls. Are "Making Good." | Hon: Dr: AR aintagise: Minister of Public Works for Manitoba, had to go to Hot Springs, Ark., for he health, and will be absent 'from his desk for the remainder of the ses- = named "Scotty" Smith left Winnipes with a dog team, en route to.New York over the snow. He carried greetings from the May- or of Winnipeg to the Mayor of Gotham Hekiry Salsbrun and Charles Sharp were arrested by the North West Mounted Police, charged with arson. It was alleged that they caused the $50,000 fire which des- -- the yillage of Luseland, & The most famous will case ever heard in Alberta has just finished. Mrs. Geo. Hutton moved to set aside the will of her late husband and lost the case. The estate in volved totalled $125,000, and of Libertad, costs will be paid out of it. An. investigation will be dem ed into the methods employed i: construction of the new |} George hospital at Winnipeg. It 1: claimed that the sum mentioned to be spent was $250,000, but that nearly $400,000 was spent. Chief Justice Haultain, in the Su- preme Court of § Saskatchewan, com- mented strongly on the great preva- lence of perjury in the courts of that province, and promised that efforts would be made to punish the practice in the near future. Three men, foreigners, waited out- side the Dominion Land Office at Regina, from Wednesday till the next Monday, in order to Ret the first right to take up homesteads. During the. time the ie were there the therntometer dropped to 40 be- IW Zers, 'Samuel Kirk of Hamiota, Man., could not start his gasoline engine, the house so took thé gasoline to j{ had than from the lack of it. Man's! "© Se ees nlaniner 'soli " closest. companion, the dog, how. | "arm it by placing the gdsoline sir ever, cannot adapt itself to desert | Ct Water on augtove, The gasoline exploded with the result that Mr | Kirk and his six-year-old daughte were burned to death. At Edmonton at the conclusion o! a civil case, Chief Justice Harvey ordered. John A: Gauthier, one ol to deli red inte 'oo many people, 5 j went into court with" the "den of winning their case ra- ther than 'telling the truth. Se PARIS AND NEURASTHENTA. Members of Academy Think Uprow City's Greatest Plague. The bang of Paris is nuise, accord: | ing te » several members of the Acad emy of Sciences, which has bees considering the subject of neurae thenia and city neises In a paper rend by Edmond Per rier the director of the Museum of Natural Histery, he said that: the experithents he had carried out dur ing th® last ten years had demon- ' straied that travelling mail clerks | printers, lingtypists and typewr: | ters, all of whom performed ¢ ; work to the accompaniment of - {stant noise, habitually she symptoms of fatigue, due to exe 'sive pressure of blood while at. worm and a depression a the vital force when reaction set i | Dealing with the same subject, Emile Gautier, a writer on scienti-' | fi topics, said that Paris was he- coming unighsbiteble because of its noisiness. It was high time, he said, "to organize in order to re- strict to a tolerable minimum the « infernal charivari which. daily drums our ears, shatters ou nerves and shortens our lives."' - HIS REPLY. * Politician Was Fully in Accord with Providential Removal. | A man's animosity towards a poli- {tical opponent is sometimes so bit- ra that it does not cease even when ) the opponent is dead. A gentleman | who had figured prominently in the | history of his State suddenly came | to the end of a long and useful life. {On the day of the funeral one of [the strongest political enemies of the deeeased was asked :--"Are your going to attend Mr. ----"s funeral to-day?' "No,"" responded the dis- 'tinguished gentleman deliberately; "but I wish you to understand I heartily ap prove, of it.' Bréwn was an easy-going olf fellow. He believed in taking things as they came. Not so Mrs. - Brown. 'Don't you think," she reniarked one day, "'that we should be , considering Mary's future 7 li's time she was married--she is. al- ready 35 years of age." "Oh. "I shouldn't worrs, replied 'ld Brown, Let her wait until the ight sort of man comea' a long."* "Why should she eG reterte 28 Mrs. Brown. "'I didn't." a