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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1915-08-19, Page 6THE GOLDEN KEY Cr "The A dveritures of Ledgard." By the A+lthor of "What Ho Cost Her." CHAPTER VIt—(Cont'd). "The concession," he remarked, "is granted to Scarlett Trent, and to one Monty jointly. Who is this Monty, and, what has he to say to it?" Trent set his teeth hard and he never blenched. "He was my partner, but he died in the swamps, poor chap. We had horrible weather - coming back. It pretty nearly finished me." Trent did not •mention the fact that for four days and nights they were hiding in holes andup trees from the. natives whom the King of Bekwando had sent after them, that their bear- ers had fled away, and that they had been compelled to leave the track and make their way through an un- known part of the bush, "But your partner's share," the Jew asked. "What of that?" • "It belongs to me," Trent answered "shortly. "We fixed it so before we started. We neither of us took much stock in our relations. If I had died, Monty would have taken the lot. It was a fair deal. You'll find•it there!" The Jew nodded. "And your partner?" he said. "You saw him die! There is no doubt about that!" Trent nodded. "He is as dead,"," he said, "as Ju- lius Caesar." "If I offered you—" De Souza be- gan. a "If you offered me four thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds," Trent interrupted roughly. "I would tell you to go to glory." Da Sbuza sighed. It was a hard man to deal with—this. "Very well," he said, "if I give way, if I agree to your terms, you will be willing to make over this sixth share to me, both on your own account and on account of your late partner?" "You're right, mate," Trent assent- ed. "Plank down the brass, and it's a deal." "I will give you four thousand pounds for a quarter share," Da Souza said. Trent knocked the ashes from his pipe and stood up. "Here, don't waste any more of my time," he said. "Stand out of the way, I'm off." Da • Souza kept his hands upon .the concession. - "My dear friend," he said, "you are so violent.' You are so abrupt. Now listen. I will give you five thousand for a quarter share. It is half my fortune." • "Give me the concession," Trent said. "I'm off." "For a fifth," Da Souza cried. Trent moved to the door without speech. Da Souza groaned. , "You will ruin me," he said, "I know it. Come then, five thousand for a sixth share. It is throwing money away." "If you think so, you'd better not part," Trent said still lingering in the doorway. "Just as you say. I don't care." For a full minute Da qouza hesitat- ed. He had an immense belief in the richness of the country set out in the concession; he knew probably more about it than Trent himself. But five thousand pounds was a great deal of money', and there was always the chance that the Government might not back the concession -holders in case of trouble.' He hesitated so long that Trent was actually disappearing be- fore he had made up his mind. "Come back Mr. Trent," he called out. "I have decided. I accept. I join with you." Trent slowly returned, His man- ner showed no exultation. "You have the money here?" he asked. -Da Souza laid down a heap of notes and gold upon the table. Trent "count- ed them carefully and thrust them into his pocket. Then he took up _a, pen and wrote his name at the foot of the assignment which the Jew had prepared. "Have a drink," he asked. Da Souza shook his head. "The less we drink in this country," he said, "the better. I guess out here spirit comes next to poison. I'll smoke with you, if you have a cigar handy." "Trent drew. a handful of cigars from his pocket. "They're beastly," he said, "but it's a beastly country. I'll be glad to turn my back on it." there is a good deal," Da Souza said, "which we must now talk about." "To -morrow," Trent said curtly. ",No more now! I haven't got over my miserable journey yet. I'm go- ing to try and get some sleep:" He swung into the heavy darkness. The air was thick with unwholesome odors rising from the lake -like swamp beyond the drooping circle of trees, He walked a little way towards the sea, and sat down upon a log. A. faint land -breeze was blowing, a mel- ancholy soughing came from the edge of the .forest only a few hundred yards back, sullen, black, impene- trable. He turned his face inland un- willingly, with a superstitious little thrill of fear. Was it a coyotte call- ing, or had he indeed heard the moan of a dying man•, somewhere back amongst that dark, gloomy jungle? He scoffed at him§elf! Was he becom- ing as a girl, weak and timid? Yet a moment later he closed his eyes, and pressed his' hands tightly over his hot eyeballs. He was a man of little im- aginative force, yet the white face of a dying man seemed suddenly to have floated up out of the darkness, to have come to him 'like a will-o'-the- wisp from the swamp, and the hollow, lifeless; eyes seemed ever to be seek- ' •ing his, mournful and eloquent with dull reproach: Trent rose to his feet with an oath and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He was tremb- ling, and he cursed himself heartily. "Another fool's' hour like this," he muttered, "and the fever will have me. Come out of the shadows, you white-faced, skulking reptile, you— bah! what a blitheri ng fool I, am! Thereisno one there! How could there be any one?" He listened intently. From afar off came the faint moaning of the wind in the forest and the night sounds of restless animals. Nearer there was no one—nothing stirred. Ho laughed out loud and moved away to spend his last night in his little wooden home. On the threshold he paused, and faced once more that black, mysterious line. of forest. "Well, I've done with you now," he cried, a note of•,coarse exultation in his tone. "I've gambled for my life and I've won, To -morrow I'll begin to spend the stapes.". CIIAPTER VII. In a handsomely appointed room of one of the -largest hotels in -London a man was sitting at the head of - a table strewn with blotting -paper and writing materials of every descrip- tion. Half a dozen chairs had been carelessly pushed back; there were empty champagne bottles upon the sideboard, the air was faintly odorous of tobacco smoke—blue wreaths were still curling upwards towards the frescoed ceiling. Yet the gathering had not been altogether a festive one, There were sheets of paper still ly- ing about covered with figures, a brass -bound ledger lay open at the further. end of the table. In the back- ground a young man slim, pale, ill dressed' in sober black, was filling a large tin box with documents and let- ters. It had been a meeting of giants. Men whose names were great in the world of finance had occupied those elaborately decorated leather chairs. There had been cynicism, criticism, and finally. • enthusiasm. For the man who remained it had been a triumph. He had appeared to do but little in the way of persuasion. His manners hadbeen brusque, and his words had been few. Yet he remained the mas= ter of the situation. Ile had gained a victory, not only financial but moral, over men whose experience and knowl- edge were far greater than his. He was no City magnate, nor had he ever received any training in those arts and practices which go for the malt- ing of one. For his earlier life had been spent in a wilder country where the gambling was for life and not merely for gold. It was Scarlett Trent who sat there in thoughtful and absorbed silence. He was leaning a little back in a comfortably uphol- stered chair, with his eyes fixed on a certain empty spot upon the table. The few inches of polished mahogany seemed to him—empty of all signific- ance in themselves—to be reflecting in some mysterious manner certain scenes in his life which were now very rarely brought back to him. The event of to -day he knew to be the cul- mination of a success as rapid as it had been surprising. He was a mil- lionaire. This deal to -day, in which hehad' held his own against the shrewdest and most astute men of the great city, had more than doubled his already large fortune. A few years ago he had landed in England friendless and unknown, to -day he had stepped out front even amongst the chosen few and had planted his feet in the higher lands whither the faces of all men are turned. With a grim smile upon his lips, he recalled one by one the various enterprises into which he had entered the courage with which he had forced them through, the solid strength with which he had thrust weaker men to the wall and had risen a little higher towards his goal upon the wreck of their fortunes. Where other men had failed he had succeeded. To -day the triumph was his alone. He was a millionaire—one of the princes of the world! The young man, who had filled his box and also a black bag, was ready to go. He ventured most respectfully to break in upon the reflections of his employer. - "Is there anything more for me to do sir?" .'rent woke from his day -dream into the present. He looked around the room and saw that no papers had been omitted. Then he glanced keen- ly into his clerk's face. "Nothing more," he said. "You can. go." It was significant of the man that, notwithstanding his hour of triumph, he did not depart in the slightest de- gree from the 'cold gruffness of his tone. The little speech which his clerk had prepared seemed to stick in his throat. "I trust, sir, that you will forgive that you will pardon the liberty, if I presume to congratulate you upon such a magnificent stroke of busi- ness!" Scarlett Trent faced him coldly. "What do you know about it?" he asked. "What concern is it of yours, young man, eh?" The clerk sighed, and became a lit- tle confused. He had indulged in some wistful hopes that for once his master might have relaxed, that an opportune word of congratulation might awaken some spark of gener- osity in the man who had just added a fortune to his great store. He had a girl -wife from whose cheeks' the roses were slowly fading, and very soon would come a time when a bank- note, even the smallest, would be a priceless gift. It was for her sake he had spoken. He saw now that he had made a mistake. "I am very sorry, sir;" he said humbly. "Of course I know that these men have paid an immense sum for their shares in the Bekwando Syndicate. At the same time it is not my business, and I ass sorry that I spoke." "It is not your business at any time to remember what I receive for pro- perty Scarlett Trent said roughly. "Haven't I told you that before? What did I say when you came to me? You were to hear nothing and see notliing outside your duties! Speak up, man! Don't stand there like is jay!" The clerk was pale, and there was an odd sensation in his, throat. But he thought of his girl -wife and he pulled himself together. "You are quite, right, sir," he said. "To any one else I should never have mentioned it.' But we were alone, and I thought that the circumstances might make it excusable." His employer grunted in an ominous manner. "When I say forget, I mean for- get," he declared.. "I • don't want to be reminded by you of my own busi mess. D'ye'think .I don't know it?" "I am very sure that you do, sir," the clerk answered humbly. 'I quite see that my allusion was an error." Scarlett Trent had turned round in his chair, and was eyeing the pale, nervous figure, with a certain hard disapproval. "That's a beastly coat you've got on, Dickenson," he said. "Why, don't you get a one?" "I am standing in a strong light, sir," the young pian answered, with a new fear at his heart. "It wants brushing, too. I will endeavor to get a new one—very shortly." His employer grunted again. "What's your salary?" he asked. 'Two pounds fifteen shillings a week, sir." "And you mean to say you can't, dress respectably on that? What'ilo "As you like it" SEALED PACKETS1 BLACIt,•• MIXED ONLY. I OR CR' EEN, B20 you do with your money, eh How do, you spend it? Drink and music -halls, I suppose!" The young man was able at last to find some spark of dignity. A pink spot burned upon his cheeks. "I do not attend music -halls, sir, nor have I touched wine or spirits for years. I—I have a wife to keep, and perhaps—I am expecting-- ." He stopped abruptly. How could he mention that other matter which, for all its anxieties, still possessed for him a sort of quickening joy in the face of that brutal stare. He did r.ot conclude his sentence, the 'moment- ary light moment-ary'light died out of his pale common- place features. He hung his head and was silent. "A wife," Scarlett Trent repeated with contempt, "and all the rest of it, of course. Oh, what poor donkeys you young men are! Here are you, with your way to make in the world, with your foot scarcely upon the bottom rung of the ladder, grubbing along on a few shillings a week, and you choose to go and chuck away every chance you ever might have for a moment's folly. A poor, pretty face, I suppose. A moonlight walk on a Bank Holiday, a little maudlin sentiment, and over you, throw all your chances in life. No wonder the herd is so great, and the leaders so few," he added, with a sneer. (To be continued.) BUMPER CROP' ASSURED. Report Just Issued Indicates Record Yield. Given normal weather until harv- est, the yield of grain per acre along the 5,000 miles of the Canadian Northern Railway in Manitoba, Sa- skatchewan and Alberta is almost certain to average high according to a consolidated report from its agents which has just been received. This gives an estimated average for wheat of 24 bushels; oats 54; and barley 37 to the acre. In each case, where the agents give a range, such as 25 to 30 in their estimates, the Canadian Northern adopt the lower figure, so that the 'average may be regarded as con- servative. Officers of the company said that had u middle course been followed, the result in all probability would have been 27 or 28 bushels of wheat to the acre. When comparison is made with the figures of the North West Grain Dealer's' Association for the average wheat yields in Western Canada for the last five years, the remarkable character of the prospec- tive showing along C. N. R. lines this year is apparent. The figures refer- red to are: 1910, 12.9; 1911, 18.2; 1912, 18.6; 1913, 17.0; and last year 12.7 bushels to the acre. The Canadian Northern average for wheat is compiled from reports from 171 stations between Port Arthur and the Rocky Mountains, the International Boundary line and the most northerly areas now served by its lines. In the Emmerson District in Manitoba the estimates run as high as 30 bushels to the acre, and in Rapid City District as high as 32. Dauphin reports 25; Portage la Prairie 26; Rossburn 30;and the Swan River District up to 35. Along the main line in Saskatchewan the re- ports from the Humbolt District run up to 33 bushels to the acre, and estimates up to 30 bushels comes from the North Battleford section. Northwest of that city, Meota, reports 28 to 30 bushels. East of Prince Albert in Saskatchewan on the north- ern line, Melford estimates are up to 30 bushels. The Saskatoon section estimates go as high as 35, while the .Kindersley division, southwesterly to- wards the Alberta boundary, are es- timated at 35 bushels to the acre. The De Lisle division in approximate- ly the same area reports up to 40 bushels to the acre. In Alberta, the Hanna seetion, in the south and the Athabasca in the north, estimate the yield up to 40 bushels per acre. The Edmonton Disctrict forecast runs as high as 35, and Vermilion to 30. Di Central Alberta and Battle River District prospects are given as high as 35. In only a few instances does the estimate fall below 20 bushels, and those statements are widely separated.. The estimates for oats is derived from the statements d 159 stations and that for barley from 126. The highest forecast fob' oats comes from the. Elrose District in Saskat- chewan. There the expectation is for 100 -bushels to the acre. Next is the report from the Hanna District at 90 bushels. The lowest of all is 20 to 30 bushels. In Barley the highest esti-- mate, comes from Ardate in the De Lisle District and Dinsmore in Elrose. District, each estimating 60 bushels to the acre. The lowest is 15 bushels. Strangely enough in each case where low averages are diven,the next Sta- tion reports an expectation for yields of excellent quantity.; Telegraphic advices received yes terday by the Canadian Northern from the Departments of Agriculture of Saskatchewan and Alberta indicate that warm weather is the rule throughout both provinces. That. from Saskatchewan reads: "The special weekly report on crop conditions based on telegrams re- ceived from all parts of the Province is issued to -day by the Department of Agriculture. In the' summary of dis- trict by mail for convenience of those seeking harvest work will be found the average , dates on which cutting will be general but the 21st of August should see the binders busy through- out the Province. From the 'South- west exceptionally good reports have come in and the wheat heads are stat- ed to ,be larger than usual. No furth- er damage by hail is reported and in those districts where hay can be ob- tained a satisfactory . supply of good hay is being saved. Hot weather is now general throughout the Prov- ince." From Alberta the information is: "Southern District weather clear and warm, all grain growing rapidly, harvest operations commenced and will be general next week. Central District warm weather, all grain ripening fast, barley ready in some localities but harvest general in ten days. Northern District weather very warm, slight damage by hail, all crops maturing fast, barley will be ready early next week," Divided the Loaf. The Duke of Portland is an ardent sportsman, and a good story is told of how he once named a racehorse, Some time ago he and another peer bid together for a -fine animal, and the contest between them was very keen. At last over £500' was bid for the horse. "If we go on at this rate," said the other peer, "we shall be pay- ing far more than the creature is. worth; suppose we buy it between us?" The Duke of Portland agreed, and later on they hail a discussion as to what the horse should be called. "Well," said his Grace, "as we are going to share it, why not call it The Loaf ?" And The Loaf it was called on the spot. 'I They Were Sweethearts. A chair built for one held' them both, and yet there was room to spare. As she snuggled to him she asked pleadingly, "Jack, do you love me better than anyone else in the world?" "Of course I dorsaid'the young man, promptly. "And will you promise always to do anything you can to please me?" "Certainly, little girl!" "And you will never, never be cross with me?" "Darling, as if I could be," protested the yodng mans wondering what onearth this was leading up to. "And whatever I ask you to do, will you do it?" "Yes, sweetheart, but—" "Then,"—her sweet voice faltered—"will you burn that horrid red necktie you wear on Sundays?" Letting Well Enough Alone. "Madam," said a doctor one day to the mother of a sweet, healthy babe, "the Iadies have deputed one to inquire what you do to have such a happy, uniform good child?" The mother mused for a moment over the strangeness of the ques- tion, and then replied, simply and beautifully: "Why, God has given me a healthy child, and I let it alone." A FRENCH +'TYeFIVE" GUN This photograph was taken In is wood near Mins and gives a good idea' of the angle at which guns are frequently tired in ordertodrop the. projectile upon We gamily. • About the Household Grandmother's Recipes. Here are 'a •few of good old-fashion- ed combinations, some pet recipes straight front 'grandmother's hand- written !look: . . Spiced Plums.—Boil a - gallon of plums . five minutes. Pour off water' and/ add three pounds ,of sugar, one teaspoonful each of cloves, allspice and cinnamon (ground) 'and one pint vinegar. Boil half hour stirring constantly. Put in jars and seal at once. Pear Conserve. -Chop four pounds pears, four lemons (rind and pulp), r/2 pound crystallized ginger-. To this chopped mixture add four pounds of sugar. 'Boil three to four hours until desired thickness- is 'obtained. Pineapple Honey.—Peel and cut eyes from three pineapples. Cut in pieces, taking out hard centre. Run through grinder. Add las: much wa- ter as youhave pineapple, after grinding and as much sugar as pine- apple and water together. Boil about 'iz hour or until desired consistency is obtained. Grape Conserve.—Three pints grapes, washed and picked off stems; three pints sugar, one pint water, one cup English walnuts, i, pound rais- ins. Press pulp of grape from skin, beat pulp until soft. Run through colander and put back in kettle with the skins, water and sugar and two oranges sliced thin. Cook until -done (one hour). Jim -Jam. --Five pounds currants, 1% pounds seeded raisins, juice and rind of two oranges. Wash currants, nearly cover with water, and cook until soft. Strain through jelly bag. Put raisins through grinder. Grate rind and squeeze juice out of grapes. Put all together, taking cup for cup of mixture and sugar. Cook till the consistency of jelly. Preserved Watermelon Rind. — Seven pounds rind, 31,a pounds sugar, 1 quart vinegar, 'Am ounce white gin- ger', cloves and cinnamon to taste. Take the thickest rinds and pare off. the hard green covering, slice and drain in colander over night. In the morning place in a strong brine, changing every three days; in the last brine put in a little alum to make rinds hard. Make the syrup and when hot put in rinds; cook 10 minutes, re- move and cook the syrup 15 minutes. Pour over rinds. Can and use after standing two weeks. Tomato Sauce.—One peck ripe to- matoes, 6 onions, 3 stalks celery, 3 red mangoes. Chop fine. Mix well with one cup of salt and put in thin sack to drain over night. Next day take 2 pounds brown sugar, 5 cups strong vinegar, 1 tablespoonful mus- tard seed. Let this come to a boil, then set aside to cool. Pour over above mixture and put in jars. Menus for Children. Some suggestions for menus and foods allowable after 80 months are: Menu 1. -Beef broth with vermi- celli, bran or wholemeal bread and the best butter. obtainable, lightly broiled lamb chop, minced and sea- soned with salt;' spinach, boiled ten- der, and mashed through a puree sieve, served plain or with a spoon- ful of cream or broth; baked potato with salt; orange tapioca for dessert and a bit of fruit juice to drink. Menu 2.—Chicken broth with rice, minced broiled tenderloin steak with salt (no butter on it), spaghetti creamed, brown bread and butter, as- paragus tips or stewed celery with hot cream sauce; cup custard for des- sert. Menu 3. --Mutton broth, the white meat of chicken cut into very small pieces, macaroni in hot milk, cauli- flower or spinach; mashed and sea- soned- with salt and cream; bread and. butter; orange float -for dessert (made with gelatin). Menu 4.: Beef tea, stewed squab, boiled or steamed rice, bread and but- ter, puree of Bermuda or Texas onion ter, puree of Bermuda or Texas onions, stewed very soft in milk; jun- ket with egg for dessert. Menu 5. -Milk soup, roast beef, rare and minced, with dish gravy; boiled spaghetti, with dish gravy from the roast beef; spinach or stewed cel- ery, bread and butter; rice pudding for dessert. Menu G.—Strained vegetable soup, minced broiled mutton chop, rejecting all fat; baked potato, apple sauce, bread and butter; junket and cream for dessert. Menu 7.—Beef broth, creamed or broiled fish (watch that it has no bones), boiled macaroni with milk, cooked very soft and.creamy; cooked asparagus tips, also very soft; gela- tin with whipped cream for dessert. Useful Hints. Iron rust stains may be removed from goods by using sour milk. To cleanse hands from vegetable stains, -rub with a slice of raw po- tato. To clean out flour barrel use'a child's small broom; the_long-handled hind. To prevent cream from spotting table linen, clip linen in cold water before washing. Press mohair with a very moderate iron. Press sills between two pieces of tissue paper. Porch chairs of wicker or reed can be cleansed with soapsuds and a scrubbing brush and: then can be shellbacked. Icing for a cake can• be colored a beautiful pink with a small quantity of beet juice. It is inexpensive and absolutely pure. ie Linen that ls become yellow may be bleached snow white if soaked in. buttermilk for a short time—rinse and hang in sun. Cucumbers make a delicious vege- table when stewed and served with a white sauce, or seasoned with butter, salt and pepper and served on toast, When one rips out threads '.they wish they had three hands, Use a steel crochet hook and the work is easily ,clone. Pull out hastings the same way: To clear a house of roaches equal" quantities of sugar and pulverized w borax is recommended. Spread where the insects congregate the most. Next time you bake beans add ,a diced' carrot, a couple of tomatoes cut fine, and one small onion, browned in pork fat, and see what a delicious dish you, 'have. ' To remove mildew soak asticle in. sour milk and lay in the sun. Or use chloride of lime made in proportion of a teaspoonful of lime to a quart of water. Cream of tomato soup is not apt to curdle if a teaspoonful of cornstarch with a pinch of soda is mixed in the cream before it is added to the to- mato mixture. • If a crust of bread toasted till. nearly black be put into the water where 'greens are' boiling it will pre- vent the disagreeable smell that arises when they•are cooking. If the wall is so soft that it will not hold a picture nail, mix a little plaster of paris and water; enlarge the hole' and fill with the plaster and in a minute insert the nail and let it dry. All the trials and tribulations caus- ed when trying to sew the bows on one's pumps may be avoided if a few curved 'surgical needles are added to the sewing basket. Purchase at any drug store. When you must go to the dentist's carry your prettiest boudoir cap and don it before you get into the chair; and when the ordeal is over you will find your hair in as good order as when you 'went in. From the Ocean Shore BITS ' OF NEWS FROM THE MARITIME PROVINCES. Items of Interest From Places Lapped By Waves of the Atlantic. , The city engineer estimates the population of Halifax at 55,400. Halifax has upwards of a thousand unlicensed dogs running at large. Altogether, Newfoundland will con- tribute five aeroplanes to the British army. Restigouche, N. B., municipality contributed $1,000 towards the relief of the Belgians. Truro Red Cross Association will send a nurse to the war and support her while on duty, Absence of freighters will likely send a million tons of coal from Cape Breton to Montreal by railway. Six million feet of logs went adrift when the south-west boom broke ow- ing to high water on Burnaby. River. Gilbert M. Ganong, of St. Stephen, N. B. is among those giving $1,000 to the Government for a machine gun. The post office at Dorchester, N.B., was entered, but' the burglars did not blow the safe, taking only a few odd dollars. The Carleton cornet band of St. John has offered to aid a recruiting campaign and then enlist as a body themselves. Frank Gallagher and Medly Mip- reau broke out of the county jail at Edmunston, N. B., and got away; both were theives. Extensive additions are being made to the Marconi wireless plant at Louisburg, C.B. Better accomoda- tion is being built. The first patient at the Ross Con- valescent Hospital at Sydney, C.B., was a midshipman from the armored cruiser Leviathan. ' Alexander Graham Bell stated at Baddeck, N. S., that aerial warfare would be the feature of future con- flicts of the world, The motor ambulance to be given by the women of New Brunswick to the Canadian forces will cost $1,600 and is now on order. Dr. Gordon D. Atkinson, of Derby Junction, N. B., has gone to. Serbia to aid iii hospital work; his father is the station agent on the I. C. R. Judge McKeown granted three ab- solute divorces at the last court at Fredericton, N.B., one case each from St. John, Moncton and Woodstock. The Dominion Conservation Com - MAKE$ PERFECir BREAD mission is , studying the.; fungus that destroys pit props in Cape Breton, mines with a view to aiding miners. There ie a plant at Windsor for evaporating potatoes for export to the War Office, London. Formerly it sent apples, but the war killed that trade. FROM SUNSET COAST WHAT THE WESTERN PEOPLE ARE DOING. Progress of the Great West Told In a Few Pointed Paragraphs. Penticton has cancelled its annual fall fair this year. The price of milk in Pheonix is now 12i cents a quart. Civic salaries at Kelowna have been heavily cut this year. Much of the alfalfa crop of Okana- gan was ruined by excessive rain. AIdermen of Fernie get $5 pee meeting; the mayor is paid $500 yearly. Greenwood will not sell thero- perty of active soldiers for overdue taxes. Vancouver has two bloodhounds now attached to police headquarters aid work. Every employe of' Granby Smelter, Grand Forks, gives $2.25 to the patri- otic funds. Of the 120 volunteers for the war from Roseland it is said but twenty are still alive. Some of the interned alien enemies at Fernie are found to have as much as $1,000 in cash. Governor Dunne of Illinois was a charmed visitor to the Canadian Rockies and the coast. , About G00 mechanics have been sent to British munitions plants form Victoria and Vancouver. There are 'this year 300 white fish- ermen on Skeena river as compared with 20 two years ago. On the Commonage at Vernon 12,- 000 acres of ranch lands were sold for $60,000 to W. J. Hanna. To stamp out potato scab, greater restrictions are urged for the Chinese growers in British Columbia. Manchurian corn is to be shipped into Canada and the United States in large quantities, via Victoria, from Robe. Mayor Curley of Boston was sur- prised at the size and opportunities in coast towns of the Pacific in Can- ada, he said. It is proposed at Vancouver that civic salary cuts extend to the mayor and aldermen, who have not yet pas- sed the plan. Burnaby unemployed ask the coun- cil to advance railway fares to the harvest fields and promise to repay the loans. The school year report at Vancouv- er showed a decreased attendance of 2.5 per cent. and at the high school 14 per cent. Prince Rupert raised $140 to give to the local Serbians and Monte- negrins going to the war; the volun- teer allies gave it to the Red Cross. Edward B, Allen, assistant master mechanic for the smelter at Anyox, was killed by the fall of a' water - jacket. He was a native of St. John, N. B. Part of a cedar telephone pole. placed in the ground near Burnaby Lake in 1886, perfectly sound now, has been submitted to British postal authorities. Carl Hapstad, of Dawson, Y. T., was buried by his request on Hay- stack Mauntain, 1,000 feet above the scene of the mining. activities. For the bearers of his coffin lie provided• beer. After lying 14 months; becoming air-dried, two bodies were 'found in adjoining cabins near the mouth of Swift Creek, Hootalingua River. They were the remains of A. 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