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: PACIFIC COAST DAILY, Fir to April 15th, ia Vancouver, B.C, x OC. ] a to rs oe | San Diego, Calif. And to other NS at in oni: HONE trip ticke to Wes' tern Cansida, via" Khiea sud North Mar. and eve hoe IAL Re oo a until Og tober a Ticks rer tall . (ONB<WAY SECOND CLASS) From sts ations in Sntario to. cers ain ints iw Alberta British Columbia California Montana Oregon Washington Arizona Idaho, etc. Dally Untih April 15ih REDUCED SETTLERS FARES BA TY and an RCH AND Through Arsh. y innipeg and West, ON ALL hatge for Berths. Full particulars from FF. CONWAY, City Ticket Office, Cor. Princess and Wellington Sts. Phone 1197. Toronto to COLONIST TRAINS, No points (un British Co- | lutubin, Alberta and Western States STEAMSHIP AGENCY 0, 5 KIRKFATRICK 43 Clarence 4. Phone S08 [CUNARD LINE] : EF Me 1. CM A dy 3 4.25 3 class British eastboun 30.28 up Westbound $30 u 'PHONE 11750 Kingston Automobile Co. Queen and Bagot Streets Storage, Repairing, Acces sores, We guarantee satisfaction ORBEA PREMIERES IL URAABAAALMBMAOMAMSMMMBEML FOR SALE The Best Hand Vacuum Cleaner on the market. The Giant, $10.00. * Ball bearings and brush attachment Little Giant, $8.00. Dominion, $10.59. Dominion Queen, $12.00, Tuec Stationery Cleaners. O'Cedar Mops, $1.50. Houses in all parts of oity. H. 8. ORUMLEY | TT erry x Baby Carriages & Go Carts 194 Line" Carriages »..... $10.50 to $35.00 Go-Carts ........ $3:50 to $18.00 Sulkies ..,.... $2.00, $3.00 $3.50 Fibs, white "enarhal, drop sides, " 5.00, $6. Jo.00 $5 00 up CAA How to Held Local Patronage Despite the Aggressive Assavits of Mail Order Houses--"Special" Days eo Splendid Scheme That |e ProductiVe of Excel- lent Results. » - tin - 'The community which does' not or against another and all against the community evil, Unites by Strongest Tie. Co-operation tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain destruction and ny Detween business inter- ests, - It softens a polishes the manners of men. It disposes them to pemce by estab. lishing in their community wn order of citizens bound by their interests to be the guavdians of public welfare. Live merchants' associations, live in dividual merchants with inventive minds, ¢an do much toward regaining and bolding the farmers' patronage now being sought and fought for by the aggressive mai) order houses. All of the merchants of a town or county cooperating as members of the right kind of an association can accomplish much to the general bemefit of all concerned in the solution of the retail mail order problem. Must Conserve All interests. Too many combinations of mer chants fail because too often those or- ganizing them lose sight of the law of mutual benefit and seek to advance the selfish interests of the merchants alone at the expense of their custom: ers. To be permanent and beneficial, it scems to me, a merchants' association should confine itself to dévising ways and means of bettering trade generally in its own town. Efforts in that direc tion, of course, canuot be continually successful unless the interests of con- sumers are also conserved. Léw of Mutual Benefit. But, starting' with the fact that both farmer and townsman are interest ed in making the town and country prosperous, you would have the law of ajutual benefit on which to build up an association that would be powerful ia convincing all the people of the section that "it pays to keep your money at home." Getting farmers to town, it seems to me also, is the most important field of a merchants' association. And having "specials" or "bargains" for getting them into the stores is the field of the merchant's individual ef- forts within which he should' retain every bit of his liberty to act. Many Merchants Offer Prizes. In muvy parts of the counutry the merchants' associations have estab lished what they call "carnival day, or "county court day." or "fair day," "market day," and on these days each merchant advertises that he will give prizes for the largest sumber of eggs brought to his store, or for the best roll of butter; or for the best bushel of potatoes, * There are many other legitimate schemes which may be used to create interest and draw the people to his store, Sometimes several merchants offer prizes of the same kind of produce; and this stimulates interest and results in sharper competition. On these "Special" days the mer chants often arfange to have an ex: gert auctioneer en hand to sell a kind of secondhand machinery farm utensils, household goods, h rattle, etc., on a commission basis, sales are made the auctioneer receiv 5 per cent; if no sales are made th {3 no expense incurred. Wonderfully Helpful, Propositions of this character are wonderfully helpful in-bringing people fo town, and when they get to town it is a comparatively easy matter to, interest them in something they need.' These "speciel" days, however, must be afra to correspond with the periods of farm work. For instance, it would be useless to arrange such days when the farmer is in the midst of planting or harvest ing. Not an Ordinary Husband. The Lady (to the aeroplane demon: strator)--I wish you wouldn't try to sell an airship to my busband. The Salesman--And why not mad am? "Because he isn't to be trusted with Tt" "I But Neither Pride Nor Glory Figured Gime. Roughly, WANTED ONE MORE RIDE. in His Ambition. The Boston Transcript tells ap amas mg story of ene of the subjects of Lord Kitchener. cousul general in Egypt. whe turned the power and in- fuenée of the famous English svidier 10" his personal profit. While driving one day Lord Kitebh- ' ner noticed an old man in the street whom he recognized as an acquaintance from the Sudan. The consu! general ordered the driver to stop and invited the old man to take a seat in the car- riage. So the two dreve together through the town to the place to which the Sudanese wanted to go. A few days later the davk friend of Lord Kitchener was seen hovering about the British agency. At last an fficer asked hin what he wanted. "I shold so wich like to drive ont with Lord Kitchener once more," the old man replied, "WHF? the officer asked. "You see," the Sudanese answered agivgly, "after my friends and ac- quaintances saw me sitting at the side of Lord Kitchener they came to we, ope after the other. and from one [ received {5, from another £2, from oth. ers f1-and 49 piasters from the very poorest. 'Thiey all believe that I could speak in favor of El Lord. "And," the old wman-added. "I should very much like to see that happen all over again™ VARYING FORCE OF RADIUM. Powers of the Three Different Rays-- | Alpha, Beta and Gamma. There are three kiuds of so called | rays having their inciting origin in ra | dium, three rays are known as alpha, beta.gnd.gamma rays, and each of these has characteristic peculiari- ties. The alpha rays bave a range ipside ; of haifa incl from their source, the | beta rays reach about three times as far, and the ganna rays are yet more penetrating ' A thin sheet of paper or a film of tin foi) or mica will efféctual- ly halt the alpha rays. A millimeter of lead or five millimeters of alumini- um will stop the further progress of the beta rays, but the gamma rays will go through nineteen centimeters of iron or seven centimeters of lead before their original futensity is reduced 1 per cent. The alpha rays consist of positively charged atoms of heli advancing at & veloeity of 12.000 miles a second, and the beta eays are negatively charged bodies projected at a speed of quite 150.000 miles in the same interval of the beta rays are a hundred titnes more penetrating than the alpha rays, while the gnmma rays, in thelr turn, are a bundredfold as searching as the beta rays. --~Exchauge. Primrose League. The Primrose league was formed in 1884 inl memory olf the late Tord Bea- consfield. whose favorite flower the primrose is thought to have been. Bea- consfield died on April 19. 1581, and the anniversary of that duy is termed "primrose day," when the Bower "is generally worn by his udmirers apd also placed upon his statue in Parlia- ment square. The joke of it is, the primrose was not the great statesmau's favorite ower. It wus, however, the favorite flower of Queen Victoria, and when asked about the floral tribute to be sent to Beasousticld's funeral she advised sending "tbe primrose, my fa- vorite flower." In some way the mat- ter got mixed up, and the delusion sprang up that materialized in the Primrose league.~New York American, ~ Persistent Carlyle. The father of Thomas Carlyle was a patience hy pide in his 0 receive a severer test. He fgisiz iste ei bi 1.80 E - Mudie may bave charms , but the girl on the. for sav. who does a 3 ort) YEP. V'VE Bin READIN' DARWIN, (By Bliss Carmaa.) 1 know a vale where I would go one day, When June comes back and all the world once more. Is glad with summer, shade it lies, A mighty cleft in the green bosoming Deep with hills, A cool, dim gateway {0 thé moun- tain's heart. ; . On either side the wooded glopes come down, Hemlock and beech and chestnut; here and there Through the deep foresh Laurel : spreads and gleams, Pink-white as Daphne in her loveli- Doss P That still perfection from thergrorid withdrawn, As If the wood gods had arrested there Immortal beanty iz her breathless flight. Wht ao Far overhead against the mrching blue "uk Grey, Jods overhang from dizzy Searted by a thousand winters and tamed, The po winds in from the broad river lands, Luring the happy traveler, turn by torn, | Up to the lofty mountains of the sky. And where the road rung ia the nk ley's foot, | Through the dark Naods the the moun- als stream comes - down, and dancing al} its youth pe Among the boulders snd the Shallow {| Where sunbeams pierce and mossy tree-trunks bang. Drenched all day long with murmur. ing sound and spray. There, light of heart and Toot Tree, % would go Up to my home among the lasting 8. And in my cabin doorway sit me down, Companioned in that leafy solitude By the wood ghosts of twilight 4 and of peace. And ju & that sweet seclusion I should -- the cool leafed Bbeches in the dusk, The Salmaolzed thrushes = Aner hymp-- So undisiraagh, sa rapturous, "n ure, 1 It well might be, !n wisdom and In joy. The Aus singing at the birth of time The unworn ritual of eternal things, - Rudimentary Astrenemy., - Hypatia--Did the young collegian ex: press interest in the solar system ? Muriel---He gaid he'd got no further than the solar plexus.--Judge, » Leas Severe. "Did you ever, my good woman, cas tigate your children?" "Never, marm. I only wallops em." Baltimore American. HHH PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. . ad Eye Strain, o_o One makes a great mistake by saying that the eyes ave tired and the retina or seeing portion of the eye is fatigued. This is not the case, for the retina sel- dom if evér gets tired. The fa- tigue is in the inner and outer muscles attached to the eyeballs and the muscles of accommoda- tion which surround the lens of + the eye. When.a near object 3 2 De Lotetedetetotutattuntutulatatutadatotadolntuk iirc + totomtontfofodotootetfelodote Las to be louked at this muscle relazes and allows the lens to thicken, Increasing its retractive power. The inner and outer muscles are used in covering the eye on the object to be looked at, the inner one being especial- ly used when a near object looked at. It iy in the three mud: cles wentio) at the fatigue is feit. and relief ured tem- porarily by closing the eyes or gazing at far distant ébjects. The usual indication of strain is a redness of the rim of the eye- lid, betokening a congested state of the inner surface, accompa- nied by some pain. Sometinjes this weariness indicates the need of glasses rightly adapted to the person, apd in other cases the Andy is to rub the eye its surroundings as far as be with the hand wet in 228] 1 i DS oelilialiaes bates eat etosdostitiat teat Sd Bb 0 8 0 3 5 8 3 5.5.8 8 8 dette dato tad dt b 2 8 8 4 4 8 uss onte of scandal, as a rule, DICKENS' ROMANCE. His Early Love, Who Jilted Him, and Her Pathetic End. The story of how Charles Dickens was jilted is particularly interesting. When he was eighteen Dickens be- Came acquainted with the three daugh- ters of George Beadnell, a Lombard Street banker. With one of them. Maria (the original of Dora in "Davia Copperfield"), who was a year his Senior, he immediately fell in love, and Maria flirted with him very desperate ly. But the love making of the future novelist was not treated very serious ly, for he was not considered by any means an eligible party, and even Ma ria herself adopted an attitude of amused tolerance. For three years the affair weut on, and then Dickens realized that bis case was hopeless. He pleaded in vain with the girl, whose caprices madden ed and gladdened Lim alternately, for, as a matter of fact. Maria Beadupell was a willful coquette. The end of it all was a reply that held out no hope, aud so the parting came. For twenty yours they saw no more of one an other. Ultimately Maria Beadnell was mar ried to Henry Louis Winter, and when Dickens met her again time bad wrought sad bavoc on his youthful ideal. Mrs. Winter wrote to her old lover, but Dickens did not care to re- new a correspondence with bis old sweetheart. Then Mr. Winter failed. and the chagrined wife appealed to the lover of her girlhood for help, but without avail, and the romance ended long before the death of Dickens in 1870, ~Exchange. THE LADY EXPLAINED. Then He Probably Smiled, but/It Must Have Been a Sickly Effort. 'A woman with fifteen bundies board- ed the street car the other afternoon when I was on my way to my subur- ban residence. She was a very pretty young "woman I felt sorry for ber. She was returning .from a shopping tour. Being a man with a kind heart, I helped ber upon the car and piled her bundles about Ler. A man got on at the same time and took a seat on the other side of the young lady. When the car came to my street X was swprised to sce her rise and be- gin to pick up her bundles. Instantly my sense of chivalry prompted me to help her off the car, and, as I was go- ing in the same direction, 1 asked per- mission to carry her fifteen bundles. The man got off also and started on ahead. 1 was loaded down like a camel crossing the desert. In those packages she had -everything from an electric flatiron to a five pound bag of prunes. We trudged along about a half mile. The man turned in at a gate. When we reached this gate the young lady thanked me and said: "This is as far as I go. I live here. "aank you very much." "But the man ahead of us, the man | who came out on the car with us, turn- ed in here too." "Yes," she said. "He I§ my busband, but he hates to carry packages through the street."--Brooklyn Eagle. "itt Muscular Christianity. | Muscular Christianity found an ex- | ponent in the cucate of an English dio- | cese of whom James Bryce tells in his | "Studies In Contemporary Biography." He "had once, under the greatest prov. ocation, knocked down a person who | bad insulted him, and the bishop wrote | him a letter of reproof, pointing out, | among other things, that, exposed as the Church of England was to much criticism on all bands, her winisters ought to be very careful in their de meanor. The offender replied by say- ing, 'I must regret that, being grossly insulted and forgetting in the heat of the moment the critical position of the Church of England, I did knock the man down.'" The bisbop~it was Fraser of Manchester -- retaliated by asking the curate to dinner. 5% Indian Caricature. Humor is more or less' a gecular en- Joyment, and its suggestion in pictorial art therefore necessarily bas a secular significance. And as the chief motive of Indian art was religious expression, secularism in the form of caricature Was never very much emphasized. But this aspect, though not very frequently represented, was pot entirely absent in Indian art. Even the oldest records of Indian paloting bear evidence to the fact that the sense of ridicule or satire was uot altogether divorced from the wendy dy a © The rule of "ruin plan is fever adopied hy men of Iairness and hon ot futentions. morning cup. . Chase @ Sanborn, Montreal. PATENTS 'Herbert J. S. Dennison REGISTERED ATTORNEY, 1% King Street West, Toronto, Pa- tents, tade-Marks, Dealgns, Copyright, protected every. where; ears' exper fence. 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