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Mike is dead. Fire couldn't hum him, water couldn’t drown him, mas- tifl couldn't worry him, but m in-‘ curable habit of chewing up fuse, n it was spitting towards the tridge led to a sudden and disas- rous encounter with the seven dexils tied up in a stick of dynamite and poor Mike went aloft and came down without his head. There was a gr: eat funeral at the Home Extension. fer their mascot was dead. Once upon a time Mike lived in a kennel in Toronto, had a pedigree and travelled on a chain. Those were sleek, hand-fed days for Mike when the little white bulldog was caressed loved hands and made much by soft-g: of by the fair sex for he was sur- ipassingly turly. and it is this trait that my lady fair lows and prizes in a bulldog. Then his owner brought. him to Porcupine and the maliga fate that had marked him for its own tracked him up and down the “MIKE” Ellis Tfl TAKE NOTICE! TAKE NOTICE! Choice Ready-made Clothing, Gents’ Furnishings and Boots and Shoes Absolutely No Reserve HDSOllHelY “0 Reserve Everything Must be Slaughtered and disposed of within 20 days at 50 cents on the dollar. This is the chance of a lifetime as such bargains were never before heard of in the North Country. Everybody should take advantage of this GREAT SALE and lay in a supply for Summer and Winter---It will pay you-and then some. In Timmins. Here are a few of our Bargains, Everything else in Proportion each . All to be Siaughtered at Prices Hitherto Unheard of. Do not take our word for it, but come and you will be convinced 100 (loz. Men’s Woolen Socks, regular prices 35c and 501', all to be, slaughtered at 100 per pair. 50 «km. Fancv Summer Silk and Cashmere Socks. regular prices 50c to Tfie per pair. all to be slaughtered at 200 per pair. 25 doz. Men's Strum: Overalls, regular price $1.00 to $1.50 per pair. all to be slaughtered at 45c per pair. 100 doz. Men's Linen Collars. Latest Styles. to be slaughtered at BC You cannot afford to neglect this opportunity. Remember the place and date. Our doors will be thrown Open to the public at 8 o’clock sharp on the morning of Come. eazay and Get First ©hoice. CANINE ETERNIIV trails and the boggy roads of the early days of the camp. Mike was never afraid of anything animate or inanimate. His was the pure joy of fighting, and be tackled the big mastifi just as readily as he had seized the Irish terrier the day before. But the mastifi was piqued and though Featherweight Mike put up a great battle he had no chance with the big fellow and before he went to the mat for the last time the life had almost been choked out of him. But he was not born to be worried to death. Next he went through the ordeal by fire and wa~ ter. It will he remembered that the Dome Extension was swept by flames last summer on two separate and distinct ot'casimis‘; through both cy- clones oi the Mike went, losing all his wlii<l\'e'r~' and part of his hair. Hn the day of the great fire he had come down from the mine to South Por- cupine and was wandering round the hotel when the stampede for the lake winninenvml. lie was shut in the King George hotel and when one of the last to rave down the street saw Mike peeping out of the window he stopped long enough to let the little white bulldog: out and they raced to- gether down to the lake. Mike swam about among horses and men and women and children in the water and the surging waves of smoke until he was tired out and ready to sink when a kindly hand hoisted him on to the back of a singed horse and there he rose until the furnace be- hind them had ceased to roar and the waves on the lake had gone down. Then he returned to Dome Extension to pass the rest of his life in a quiet and tranquil old age. No; \like would never acknowledge that he was not the strenuous pup of sev- rral years back. He took a vene- muus dislike to all thimrs that snap- ped and sputtered and when they lit the fuse one day to blow out some stumps Mike grcmled and bit at the sputtering thing till it went off. When Mike came down one eye was managed to potter around and kept in exercise with an occasional wran- arle or so with (logs that Visited the Extension; he couldn't. see anything to speak of and his teeth were gone, but he could sure growl and be was like a weasel; there was nothing too one and his face shattered. Still he THE PORCL’t’lNE ADVANCE 50 (107.. Men’s Top Shirts, n-gular price $1.00 to $1.50 per pair, tu be slaughtered at 45c each. Also Hundreds of Lines of Boots and Shoes, Miners” Boots and Dress Shoes. Penetam: Moccasins, Elk and Prus‘pm‘tors' Boots. Sweaters. Flan- nel° Shirts. Fancy Shirts, Ileavv Underwear, Fine Underwear. Working Trousers and Fine. Trousers. Riding Breeches. A Big Assortment of Men’s Suits. Two men, thought at first to have been murdered. were found on the G. 'I‘. R. tracks at White Station. near flteddit, on Saturday. Provincial Constable Green and Coroner Brand- on received notification on Monday. and went. to make an investigation. lThcv have not returned as yet, but word has been received that the .men, whose identity is unknown at fpresent, entered an old powder .house, where the engineers or con- tractors had stored several kegs of ‘pnwder. and lit a fire, being: unaware of the contents of the Vurimxs pack- 'aL'cS. The erpiosion which follmvml ~biew the bodies up near the tracks. where they were found by the secâ€" tion men. i I The last‘accne of the tragedy clos- ed last week when once agam Mike met his old enemy, the spitting spark at the end of the fuse, and the Dome Extension has lost its mascot. big for him to tackle. Started Fire In ,.._.-. PowderZHouse Next to Ree hind: Ti m m i n s. Look out for the Mg Sign Cobalt Easily Beat Haileybury The opening game of the Terms- kaming bascba,l league at, North Co- balt last Saturdav afternoon proved an easy victory for Cobalt over Haileyhury, almost. a shutâ€"out being: made by the miners. The score stood 13 to 1 in favor of the Silver City team, while the Haileyburians were allowed but two hits, both of them in the seventh innings. Ilaileyhury players broke all previous records for errors, l5 being: chalked up against the team, while Cobalt played error- less hall, except in the first and third inninus when three were made. The opening: («gremnnies of the game were performed hv Mayor McAulay of llaileylmry, ll. T. Shillington, M. L. .-\., and Father O'llorman. llis Worship in the hex made a very poor showing and was inclined to heaVe the hall owr the grandstand. l-lail- evhury's priest's best attempt was to foul tip, which the genial member almost got. 18y nne Point at Iimmins--Sales- men Were in fine Condition lflruund MINE MAMBERS [USE Ill UBUMMEBS (“3‘ pit of of H11 last '13; margin ( men m hard mm at the Manager 'l’l‘w 0'\1 mimrut ~t .it ted “lwu \Wmthvv 'sum‘lwel will a l\\u-l-:\L"L'o‘r. l'llllL'lllL' was and Lake hump, (h.- uulv twn runs in the inrriucsfl‘hmue L't'lllllL' as far as sm‘mul. tukimt lint haw nu halls and trettim: tn sm-uml nu l‘haus' hit. The drummers got untitltt'l‘ two in the nest. llrounh t-nmim: home on a two-hagger bv Qua who got to third on a sinule hv Lake. and stole home on a misplas‘. .-\ desperate attempt hy .l. V. Wat- sun to steal home and hreak the hnmlmi was beaten out and in the next nu tally was made, Thorne put~ ill“! the drummers out one. twu, three. The managers were held in this innings to two hits and no runs and in the next the druutuers St'nl“ ed three. ”rough got to serum! nu a hit that put the hall over the Mattatrami. made third mt lhmhar's sinkle and home on a single hr l'mnr. lPunlyar came in on a tip up by Qua. who was °aught out. and l"om:(‘t\ttte to second on a single hy Lake. steal~ int: third and vomim: home on a hit “V Southern who was beaten to first. \VA'I‘SON'S FINE IA'I‘CII. The managers had not scored yet. Evans fanning, .l. C. Watson getting beaten to first and the next man to bat caught out with Cunningham on second. The next. session was a short one for the drummers, Dunbar .going to bat first and being caught. iShort was beaten to first and Brena-h retired by a splendid catch by J. C. Watson. The managers broke their hoodoo in the next. Charlie Watson getting home after singling to first, getting to second I‘m fl .Vlilhuuuun 'â€" on Rattray's Mt, stealing third and coming home on 'l'hgrnn's single. \“IIIIIIIH ........ In the sixth the salesmen Wt'l'e tub ing chances. Dun-bar was out steal- ing second, Fem: was beaten in first and Qua followed his example. T'iu-ir opponents mudv their SM'nnd run. .I. (7‘. Waits-mu singling: and vumim: hUllH‘ on :1 svl'ivs nf N‘I‘m's by 1110 infield. \W In the seventh the salesmen were» hack in form and made a couple of tallies. Lake singling. getting thin! on Wilson's szu'rifico. and coming home on Southcc's single, which was sunvcrtml into tWt) has-ms hy errors. Henry sinulml and Southm: gut homo. Short was button to .sccuml tut-(l Fug-t: trying; to make first (m :1 hunt retir- ed tht- sidv. 'l‘hu managers had :1 tht't spssimn Itztttt'uy lwim: t‘flHLflll‘ nut and 'l‘hm'm- hmtun to first ful- lnwtéd hv l’nit'it't'. 'I‘hv sttlvstnou math! the-ir tt-nth Inn in tho- maul. Qua c‘mmtstl. Lulu- was hmttmt to that, nut and 'l‘hm’m- boar lowed In l’Uilit‘l‘. 'Ih than u-mh run in 1 fanned. Lukv vase Wilson got a base ( second on Southcc's on .I. C. Watson's hit. Watson was caught out. Poirier trot to first and made second and third on Rahhin's hit, both of them getting home on the next hit. The score at the end of the ninth was 11 to 10 for the salesmen, but owing to some dispute with the oiiieial scorer another inn- ings was played in which 'I'hnrne iheld the salesmen to no runs, while éthe managers scored nne run. ’l‘hume ”getting home after singling and mak- ing: third on Blosser's two-hagger and home rm J. C. Watson's Qingle. l The official score for the game was 11 for the salesmen tr) l0 for ' the “managers. The teams were as: inl« lows: . Drummers:»â€"â€"Qua lh.. Lake 1:, Wil- ‘snn I’m. Hamlin- sky, lit-my: r.f., Short. (at. Brough 3b.. lmnhm e, Wilson 1:0! :1 base second on Southct int: third and SH Hhm't at thv but, tallivs wvx'o mum funnml. Lukv was lwnton to first, Wilsnn wit u linst' on halls and got second on Soutlicu's Sint'lc hit, stt-nl- int: third and stealing homo with Short zit tln- lint, whn fanned. Two tallies Wt‘l't', muslv hy tliv managers. Illnsst-r grt-ttinL: hmnv :iftt-r singling and getting third un l‘lvnns' single and home on J. (l. \Vzitsnn's single, Cunningham hit out :1 single, bring- ing Watmm tn scvnntl. lint Evans '115 hcutt-n nut tn third. Robbins at the hat hmuu'ht Watson and Cun- ning-ham humw. but was beaten out to first. C. Watson fanned, rotiring the side. -___._.-- EXTRA l.\'.\'l.\'(iS. In the ninth Dunbar got home for the salesmen. ('oming in on a tww bugger by l"om:.- This was where the managers got busy, tallying live runs. Rattray got. a base on balls, stealing third and coming home on a threeâ€"bag hit by Theme, who came home on a single bv Blosscr. who stole second and third and came in Short $10 M season was that Murdny wlwn the matched (stemsoh'e W11 t. ~40 n N n an 71H “n HM) SHUR’I' RI'H'}. \m 8‘0"“: I 3mm mm ll 1201‘ 10 H H \V "f H lnfll'fl L'h )int whivh th indicatiw o ('h rulnl. the yin: Hrumm It H‘I‘H HI Hm: FWD RI'XS on I'hnr I“! \l 110 records a: hall encounter: mt at Timmim the Mine. Man elves against I mlcr the titlc ram ( attra p 'l‘l' 33’ \V 1‘" m "1:! l! 3821‘ (‘34 to title narrow he anicw of the Rbbhi ns oiric'r I“ Wntr l.f