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Oiiib s1TE POST 0'1-`non IN THE DOMINION CUTS RATES THE ADVANCE. Clubbing Rates `WILL/-It Club J9_!2 P_.~rin*iI2.& J'A1UAnY 28, y_-urv-y nun I.ol.LlU_; DU-III? VWE-1' 1110? than the =ice,,. melts it here and there, _f1o'ming_`a.ir hole:--the river's -lungs. % _Wf0 V-ibetide ,_tho unwa.ry_ pedestrian M. . . Wtgo ha.ppem,;,, % .;{:t,r1lnei.o1,o.T or these W #4 ` 3: l 9 ` V ,. . tor. n -The Itlie in it i'o8eb v held sma raise Ev with she was the n esta1 \Yk att she 'Vvbic man {pm "over Bl acrq h_er sln dini in B and ado hen the we to ;,3r/3/I gyoavuua uav auvaU'uy- , After a week or two of good hard .` {aming `there is nearly always a gohinook wind that comes up from the \ ilouth for a. last ying visit, and the ice is broken up into huge. cakes. These drift before the wind or with the current, and when they are stop- ped byeome natural barrier they pile .up on each other, sometimes ma_ny._ .-loot high, making the ice jams that- nreso hn.rd.tor "musher_s or "log Ivullopers" to get over in -1sra.veling. `=;;ThEn 0012168 t-ha rnnl frnAnn..uri unkn- 'vvuuyc.l`u L0 $913 over In traveling`. comes the real froeze-up. when the `surface, of every lake and river-in j solid. V ..-.'Aa +1.- -..1.I `.._-___ -.-i " V55 Vljllall EIVU U. I i'3Tpoi5"E{aa this bl ,~ the melts id-e$P.`u`o.w?.I.`..`Er4E1.1EE ;?K.8w%tl:.m::.o1d grows more intenj '1 `HID Water in the depths glvg an . VEDOP- and i',I\'In 1-snlnm.-..n......-.. ;.I._.. (vuov--vs vu uuu uypur 311.16. ,3 Finally it gets so thick that. the { buoyancy of the ice overbalances the "weight of the gravel; the mass leaves `the bottom, and, reached a stratum 80! warmer water, the ice melts ' a T} jllttlu, releasing the gravel. and- :bobs merrily to the surface. The `(act 0! its being anchored to the _gre;vel at the bottom has given it gthe name of anchor ice, and that gtreoze-up is. expressively called "the fgnchor ice freeze-up." T V V Affair .. Ilvnnlr -.. L_;-.- -2 ..'__.1- I - ,oav\aGlU"'|J1Jp A If one will take the trouble 'to `peep into some shallow rivulet at ;this time of year he may. see nature ,'in her -workshop making a. winter. ` vEach tiny grain of sand is first giv- ien. a. coat of ice. The coat grows zthicloer on the upper side. 3 Finally;-it trains at` dI_:-l- Ll._; AI _ av up aqanu` lb. "i;r` morning-the cold air of the supper world will have welded_a.ll this imass together, and we have the _I`u'stT .!neoze-up. ' . Tl t\i\A -unlil L_|- 1` ` ` ' wouoin The old sour doug will rowlfor -the shore when he sees these signs upon the water, for; he knows well that in a. few hours thevwhole` iubr-`N "lace will be a mass of slush ice, dram which it will be impossible to extricate a, rowboat, and equally im- tuossible to leavoiit. - _ D us/\r\uov.{..... LL- --` ` ' " _...... mu: us-uu I.'u'u:.ua 001110. Presently a glassy bead bubbles about in the centre of one of the widening circles, then a largei: one, and la, still larger. Those beans are ` tiny ice globules. They come bob- bing up in rapid succession, then several together. In half an hour the g lfurfwce is covered. They have grown ,' as large as a butter bean, and near- I ly the same shape. but crystal clear. In an hour they are as large as "a lady's watch, and each one hasllittle I grains of sand sticking to it; some have a large gravel sealed up in- I side- . Oulvv side. AIlv'u-"that I`:-nee From` the Button II -A Water Juggler, The waters of V Alaska {memo from w the bottom. One may be gliding -"along on a glassy lake, with a gor- geous sun overhead. in a crisp, in- vigorating atmosphore, There is not a. sign of ice `except high up on the mountain si~des.~ A little circle ap- . pears on the silvery surface. as though I einy pebble had fallen in-then an- other, and still another. There isn't a sound, and not even a mosquito to disturb the placid picture, but still. the little circles com . 'Dnnunn1-In .. ...I__--- - '- - "` Allin-' That ; \ FOR SALE BY ` . . J. Ross, : Aggnt, Barrie. I JVIflllul8C_llll'C(l Dy - ` = ` ' _ 2. BEFILINEB. 2315 St. Cathorlno smog. Montmu, I cmvmces 05 `THE Yukon. . av v--------------V -r -v " `I Is Guaranteed for five years. "It is made in Canada." . Sold on easy monthly payments ,1!` desired. Write for particulars. Catalogue and list of Records. V " Manufc_turcd by 1 ` `I I` Ia:-nlnuu:-In noun: a; I\._4I--__g.__ .~. . -- . _ 7-... .. ~..-\.q yucca vrucuhh ul-to You can play it in ve minules. The work of the most famous instrumental- ists. the voices of the grandest vocalists are produced `for `you. It sings and talks and every note and tone is true_ to life, Yo`: have In your home an instrument that is, at your pleasure. anther an orchestra or a ute-a singer ofcomic songs or a speech-ma'ker--a1l at prices not one-twentietht the cost of an ordinary piano and on terms so easy that anyoue_an afford it. Prices of Gram-o-gohons `T V ' ` ' ' A complete with 3 Records" - Guarantee-11 fnr un `nun-a N Yr in o....'.!. 8.. r\......1_ -- _ __ . . $1.00 brings you one. We make. it easy for .you to own a Gram-o-`phone. Even an ordinary piano or organ _costs a lot of np1oney-there are lessons to pay for and weary hours of praotic_e--and- then a piano i_'s.on1y a piano. - A .-1.`-..; I) ,1 V 7 I 7' '.' "-V*."V' x.'-`*GC J.`-IVVJLJCJ u The 5` Berhner Gram-o-phone g1ves `you mo_1fe than 2000 selectlons to choose from.--TA child can ope-'ate it. You can nlnv it in ve minuuhnn `Mu. nun:-Ir .-.9 n.- ........ L'........_ g.,.. No Home \ \' _ V \ A1`, ` ', * . T - T V ' so Humble ' I `, " _ . V . ; _ _ 1 ""V.s'~-.. :}` `I . . . A Aa 1 nee L 2 3` . - -9- . A` N` J . '3 F.` .:`_\s.' III " be without Gram-o-phone v `The News contains twelve pages daily with twelve extra pages on Sat- urday. The newsot I-theday is thor- ture is made of-the political and par- ' limentary` news. the reports being cable and telegraphic news of the day in the realm `of sport are chr.onicled~ in The News. 7Public questions re,- `anoial pa ' ' cularly ` ,-o ' ' if t oughly covered in its columns. A fca- full and free from party bias. The , . is thoroughly covered} and all events I ..oe"ive thoreugh and__ fair editorial.- treatment. The commercial" and,.-;1in,- a gas got` The l_ ,ews}_ are 7 parftia '3. ' 7991! T 1118 e _ December 14th, 1903. _We have pleasure in informing our readers this week that uW8 have entered into clubbing {arrangements with.the Toronto Daily News, which will permit us to sell The Newseand` the; Advance at the rote o`$1.85 a year. . . V - ' ' "T? ?" 'T'."` '2 " The Advance end the Toron- tp'Daily` News e for $1.85 V V ...,.... _4-Au; 955115 u,u7 uuu.u1'D1e. . ' But the `sour dough will nd more than water down there. When; night conmn! on he will cut a. spruce torch from - the forest near by Whittle ,a. vharpoon - out of pine knot, stand with his lighted torch gt ` the hole he has made and pull out V `big-. ne sh. until he. and his dogs are .se.tiatd.--John A. Hornsby, in `Toronto Sunda.y_ World, A T - . ... 5.`. wv.u1U w us: 1: uuucutn. Finally he strjikes almost dry sand in the bottom of the, river, but no owater. Tho '.`aour dough, on tho other hand, is a water witch, after ,0. fashion. With his ax he will per- cuss the surface, just as the physi- cian does_a. man's chest, and often- times -one blow will open up .a. cry- - stal river. His ear never misaleada ` him. `The signs` are infallible. ` R11} +114: `'u~...u.. .I-....1_n on n - agurgle somewhere beneath. uvgnusuuu u D u_l. cuxua . At this time of the year the che- chako, or tendefoot, may dig with pick and ax and shbvel for 20 feet: down` through the ice to get water, all the time -hearing its deep-toned mnvv L- -J--3`-A-- now "you vul. bll.U 1|-Rio ' After I. month or two of freezing weather -the ice grows very thick. The waters beneath. dried up at ` their source, "shrink `into smaller apace. and the great mass of ice "settl_es. Long cracks open up in its narrow surface with thundering noises like volleys of artillery. Then the water beneath, hard pressed for an easy channel, runs into and along these cracks`, the surface freezes up, and there is an ` artificial subterran- ean river, so to speak. More cracks open up and more of these little riv'- _ era form, until the g~rea`t_ mass of ice contains `a veritable network of in-V dependent streams. p` Ad. 41...`- a.-.._- o . . . -,- ~, 1 upon the vtrozen surtace or a. mac or _.river and see many of these air holv .90. distinguished only by the volume, of vapor rising like the smoke .0! huge signal res "upon a. prairie. `When. the weather moderates some of these `gigantic nostrils seem to be u_n-* necessary, and 3; thin coat of ico forms over them. '1lhcy they V are more dangerous than ever, -because thechannel is just beneath, ready to 'ta.ko the victim instantly into the bowels of the ice. -. ` AIL-.. - ...-..AL -~ I ` ` _---v Natural!" the womh "impatiexiztly "".l`.he`1-be ; ngthipg natural . The Nntlufal Part. "She seems. ,to be a natural` irt. -$4.9: V ~ The Real Thing. -. - Sportsman--Any good hunting in this part of the country? V Nativ`e--Lot` of it. T Sportsman-.-What kind of game? Native--No game at all. Just hunt- ` Wretch. "George, did you ever love any other woman as well as you loved me?" -Oh, yes, my dear; several of them. "Indeed! Why didn't you marry one or them instead of me? .. Well. I suppose I'll be asking myself _that question, too, `some day)? . _' _ ".A't;,"y::;:l: that may be, but it : no to be truisted. It's laid oot in the plaid o the leeln MacF_echtons." was. his comment, - - Why He Donhted the Hap. ' At a St. -Andrew's society dinner-one or the speakers told or ascotch gar- dener, recently landed, who had great vdlmculty in acquiring a knowledge of American geography. The son or the ; household, falling to teach the gardener j in any other way. brought out a huge. highly colored `map. The Scot looked. at it critically. .". __-_ `_j_AI_,AV . - __._a_ ........ caveat), cuuu _wu.u IL! sixteen ante-hells, making the same number of cold that there are oi. hot hells. Be- sides these-272 hot and cold hells- for- ofenders of the common sort the wily : Japs have twenty mammoth hell: of utter c_iarkness.". into which. will he f conlgned the spirits of children who take the name of Dai Butsa, or Great ` Buddha, in vain. The Japanese Hell. The Japanese language has no equiv- alent for our word hell. but has the word JigokuV instead. 'Jigoku consists of, rst. eight immense hot hells, rang- lng one beneath the other in tiers. Each ; of these hells has sixteen additional hells outside` its gates. like so many antechambers. so that-there are in all 136 hot hells. Second. there are eight ' large cold hells, each with its sixteen nni-n-h:':lla -y...1,|..... 4.1.- ..-...- _-w _.- ,, .- ya. on so; Luv uwcr q|l8.l'(8l'(" -I putln no other quarter at all.` mum. That's wvlmere so many spoil the c,o.'ee, - mum-by puttin . in another quarter." ` uuy ucl. IHVISIPESS 3810. t0 her: Bridget, the coffee you are giving III is very good. What kind is it?" - It is no kind at all, -mum," laid Bridget. It s~a mlxter." . `A "How do you mix it?" * ` "I shake it one-quarter Mocha and one-quarter Java and one-quarter Rio." But that : only th tee-quarters. What do you put in for the other quarter?" 1`! nm In M. ..n..... .......L._ A -- 2 W117 Your Cone? Is Bad.` Bridget is an excellent cook; but. . like most women of her profession. she` is opinionated and insists upon making ell her dishes strictly according to her own recipes. Her mistress gives her full swing not only as to cooking, but as to the purchase of supplies. The other day her mistress said to her: nnIr`nnAL 1.1.- A-$- - ,_-_ ._ ...- vuowh cu I.-uc IJUBLLIULI HCCUI-`C1 ' to `A women. There is no purdah there, and. gentle as she looks, the married woman is the head of ` her i pierced, which is equivalent to a `com- ; in; out reception, are allowed to roam ' about the streets playing boyish games with their brothers and their. friends-, 5 house. The girls before their ears are- aud afterward `there are many oppor- tunities for young men and women to meet at festivals, boat races and other : gayetie. Marriages in Burma there- ' 3 fore are usually love matches, and the 1 unmarried woman is in no hurry to 5 change her state. Burmese women are _ ` and demurely coquettish. They wear gayly `colored garments, which make ; them look like ower beds. and their hair. which i shining and smooth, is ` always uncovered and decked with owers. charming, "generally slender, dainty ' V .lVla.u-laces In Bufma. , Burma is unique among the coun- tries ot theeast in the position accord- M `I! ' Ilrnrnnn f'lVI.....- 1-. - ` .95, wvei-2'-'v>~-,r-,v " ` . 6 . . . / v ..,. 1 ' - iv -9,`? v<- -r` _.` -..:-vL'..u.4r :7 -(:2 -v-~ #"~,' 5'? "` ""'."""`-`."v"' 1"-" ' . . ' ' ` a"'I`IQ- luooeanfl lcllelt--of. 'l`lI0It- _ . * An agentjiwhogwas in despair-owlni" g 1 -v `to his Irallure: to; get any advertising that had not. been paid for found him- self -in a big western citymwith his at- . traction playing.-to strong competition ` and something. desperately. needed to attract?" public attention to his show. `-in` one scene of the piaya pair of hand-. cus gured. The agent had an in- . spiration. He had `the star snap a a handout! on her wrist, "and then the agent concealed the key. saying.it had been lost. The star was compelled to -nish the act wearing the handcuff dangling from her wrist. The audi- enceknew it should not be there. and comment was aroused. "Between the next two acts" the agent drove the ac- tress swiftly to police headquarters, near at hand. The police captain was mysteriously called out.` He was in- formed that the actress must have the handcuff removed at once and secretly, as she did not wish news of her pre- -dicament to get out. The chief brought out a big bunch of keys, and finally the f handcuff was removed. but not until a dozen alert reporters had snuffed a story and were plying the reluctant press agent with questions. `Finally the wholegstory was pumped out of the agent, the star -having returned to n- ' -ish the play. Next morning the first . page of every local paper had a ue f story, descriptive of the plight of the * actress who had accidentally fastened a `handout! to her wrist. was interested. and ocked to see the The public I . play. and the resourceful agent went 5 " 1 on to the next town wondering what new thing he could spring. on the sen- I sation lovers there.-William Loftus in ' Reader Magazine. _ i 1 I 1 1 1 baowosow THE5H.bu{ET THE NORTHERN ADVANCE Perlshed In Pursuit of Prey. Among the curiosities ot the North- ampton (England) museum there is none more interesting than a glass case containing a smoked cat. In her litetime puss was a respected resi- dent in a hotel in the town and cer- tainly paid ror herkeep by prociency fin mousing. 1 One `day, however, she disappeared-was searched-tor, lament- t ed. torgotten'-til.l years after in work- 4 man `repairing a chimney in the hotel t V threw a sudden light-' on `the: mystery ot -her tate`,-V She` "w'_a's' d_j1scoyered.: stand-. `-....... nun uuuug 101' the D0111`. ,Exp1oring the lake, inlets or bays and examining the -island wore away -much more time than shing. Then `the log fire in the spacious replace, the library and the story followed. The farmers: had killed a. moose three miles on the Alexis, and. considered the {eat no amallone. They had not heard of ` increase in the moose family, but merely that one had lost its way,and had thus been discovered _ and shot on" night by the ifermer who` could get In the rst` load of buckshot. railway side of St. VJ ..,., suuas UUWII. - Flip went the y-cast at ' early morning, the `deft hand dotting the- ! }ake surface: with the life-like y hooks and feathers. ` Again and again the cast, and here and there the dies danced and necked, until, sud-denly came a. leap and the surge .of life from the water. A lusty trout was at its battle for life with the ang-ler at the other end (if the line. Five minutes and a. beauty. three and a. half pounds in weight was in the p ilending net. p_ _ p _ Soon afterwards the same deft 'ha.n._d' had captured a. three-pounde13.. That was enoughfor the hour. . Flrnlnrinn {Inn `l-l.- :._I-. _ - ab ..,-...., V. vvanavlly vvu \.:u_u1q PIULUFBI Winding hither and beyond ran the river, its banks very heavily gclad with foliage and suggesting a canoe course of pleasant smoothness mile after mile until of a sudden an up- rearing of the hillside showed a. fall of more or less torrent-like pictures- queness that might easily have been the original that Jan Ridd desdribes; in "Lorna Doone." as the back door to the Castle.of the Doones. A pause to examine and enjoy the wealth 0! color all around, and then the pony carried us - swiftly on avdetouri 0! more than a mile. We came through the rear .01 a fa.rm_er s yard. Past bym. barn and home house, Then I from the rise we sav) Lac a l Eau ` Claire. It was delightful. _The sun- light upon the home house, boat- _ house and bathing-house tinged the . white paint `with mellow light and the yellow eheen oi, the mirror-like surface of the lake was only dimpled here and there with a y or trout ripple. The forest fringes of the lake were reected vividly, and one might easily imagine from the opposite is- land the lady of theylake and the boat coming to meet us at the silver strand-only the strand- was rather of the golden hue. Itis safe to say that never in all his life did Sir Wal- ter Scott `view a more romantic` scene than this. Neither did he hear the cry of the loon-nor the swish and [ scream'`oi Canadian wild duck. But the sunset left no gleaming, bright as e was the setting it gave- to -the picture, when the shadows were cast by its going down. min II!n\r\J- LL- -- - - - ` ` ` u, vvol uuav - uuus Db. Jrwuuu. The `way was along the banks of tho pretty "winding river, and the farm- ers and their homes, the (locks of cattle and the milk preparations for the cteameries were pleasant to see, .with in two or three places a, saw- mill, where the power is good. ' nan furry-any-q 4.L...'... 1. .... -_ KIILVKJ 1\nn'u-`I-1-nan TQ~ '......v 5:; q. u.u.4nux_y. KJIJ, UIIUDU lllrlll` e era who were doing this were gener- .. a.'lly fairly well off-the result of the f high price for cheese and their abil ity to produce it economically and good. In St. Paulin there were storekeepers actually laying water pipes for: house service indoors. Gen? 'i erally the farmers were thrifty, and their families well looking. There I was no sign of anything but thrift Sol we drove through the sunny` air and the glory of landscape, and the sun went slowly down in a. sky the- blue of which `what could picture? WiHrl{1\n 11:4-Ian an-I I------4` -- ._..--, .--nu-u uuu yuvvvl to EUULI. se_a farmers painting their houses means the presence of , good times, for paint is a luxury. So, those farm- Aila `Bk . vu-nu... A..:_.. .LI-.!_. __ ` -osrnnvn yuan vvlvl-1,000. Lac a. l'Ea.u Claire, nine. miles drive `from. .St. Alexis, was the objective point-the country seat of the Hon. `George W. Stephens. St. Alexis. was a. ten-mile drive from St. Paulin. V111"; 1....-- ..-_- 4!--M AL- ' - 2 I` 3,. am 1%.". .;~. ` _ `ullpn risp1..`,.;-`_gao V. 9 's161V?.. f`iefn._.t&l!t2In Wu 6! Canadian maples in `the. Laurentideo _ last week made pictures `gorgeous be-. yond, anything-`the. painter. with eith- er pen or `brush might convey to eith- er eye or , One could only gaze in wonderment and adore` tho_- land of such` manilent landscapes.` ` '-with veneration .f.or, `the creator 0! it all. Quite a rew-Montreal gentle- men and ladies; who visit Ste. Agathelhave talked a of the beauties of tree-clad hills, slashed all with the ame-tinted maple, softened by the yellow-tinted birch and -the~ deep green cones of the spruce, and balsam shooting between like spears. Hav- lng seen our own glorious. Mount Royal and the woods of Montreal` Is- land, with journeyings through the Eastern Townships, one might think he had seen all that there could be of autumnal forest beauties. They were fortunate travelers that passed along the Great Northern Railway last Friday and Satu.rday-.-perfect days-and saw the fringe of the Laur- entides. The railway is splendidly built and the passenger cars very comiortalble and clean. After passing New Glasgow, the blaze of glory of the woods was with us all the way, , even to `St. Paulin Station, where we stopped for a dive ibto the heart of the great masses of the woods for nineteen miles, says a writer in The Montreal Witness ' 0 II?` (`NI 9 noon , FOREST mamas. V` of all kinds in stock or made g. .; . Uxgafpe all Funeral Requisites furnished. { `?*,` V'i$.P'mP*}Y attended to- " `4l7 Hwwws } % -:4-.., ::4..: `:m. 1.. U R T A KE R. rililill Ann Jjj;-:3 WALL HAMBLY 5 BAKER coLomAI. STOCK FOODS, and poultry food at this se-ason of the year.; We are agents for the ..... .. I6 will be to the interest of every farmer te use stock ST OVES. H ORS E BLANKETS. ROBES, LAMPS AND SKATES j_\for its Subscribers at Tl}_g_ VAdv&ance Office. A REDUCTION or 50 PER CENT. IN MANY LINES. Now is the Time for Cheap FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS WE ARE `OFFERING SPECIAL PRICES ON _ DR. HESS STOOK FOODS. COLONIAL POULTRY FOOD and DR. HESS PAN-A-CE-A will make hens lay. .BABRIi AND smouo. THE ADVANCE WihAnvPaper A BARGAIN LOT OF Letterheads. Noteheads, Billheads, Envelopes.Statements, Dodgers, Etc. FROM A `DOLLAR A THOUSAND UP, FOR gum NEXT FEW MONTHS AT