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We are doing wonders in the straw hat line.

can ate of Bargain Corner seliing, <. d 9 ; s ' Beys’ Blouses and Blouses Suits ls i > . in Cotton, linen and serge. ” lance ; wi ; a : serge. ‘The balance of these goods will be cleared out at a sacrifice on our part. | MO BYINPS PANTS We claim to be; ; é be able to do better for the men and boys in odd pants than ever before. We have & TREMENDOUS STOCK A Beautiful Assortment, and Special low price. ¢ sell in = Ge @]2@ 2242822282224 828 . Q ae =| a LY NIX Sa nnn eon NNN “ Prot CLES Eines: sou nubs. Scott’s Emulsion is Cod. | : A a oo) A Memarvabte PeGUOlio, tow ine om | LVer Oil prepared as a food. a] ea \ an 1 iis tl ALO deesiamaba At the same time, it is a we Arta Po er I es, my : en ey bus-} ,t BRISTOL’S ee see Se | blood maker, a nerve tonic moss and during that time have fitted hundreds and hundreds & Sr ha yh HL 5 BEN Bp and an up-build t of persons. Some had put off getting glasses so long that they BRISTOL S| thdlaeitrccinceh int alte ta Bs el me a a ae as : Greer pence) tnt ag principally it is a food for culd not see a large 4 inch letter A without going within 2 or Fae ed eee tate | othe taal rane: alk einai 3 feet of it, and might have gone blind if they had put off Sarsa) aril! Sate ieee dee. (er ae eer | 3 for ye d who was peacefull . to getting glasses much longer. Others have been fitted or te az - pied ‘a8. cook in a distant opium ‘den, = po = vane ra “ rather misfitted, with wrong glasses by travellers, andcharg-| gycar " Rute do bow Uwandens.: Wom outer, | Ue iat Cpe. sae roms ns eda great deal more than they ought to have been. This| GOATED PILLS albchonaddiieasieeenin temaiioe: their ordinary food; for chil- dl year our traveller, Mr. C. H. White, intends calling on par- + eates at Live veeds of valor performed by his brother, othi eems g p The Greatest of all Liver, dren whom nothing seem

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end his word was taken. One day the ecok in the opium den, who had never even seen a battle, read his name in The Gazette and found to his surprise that he had attained the rank of colonel in the imperial forces,

Military service is in many ways very remunerative to the officers. They enroll any men they like, and they al- ways draw the pay for many more men than are actually in the army. About 70 per cent of the full number of men nominally serving and for whom pay is drawn is the average strength of the forces, even uncer Li Hung Chang’s comparatively honest officers, while elsewhere 100 men on paper usually mean but 40 or 50 in the fiesh. On re- view days the officers engace a sufficient number of soldiers by the day to mate the army loek all right. But th..s are other sources of profit besides dealing in dummy soldiers. The live ones have to wear uniforms and to eat, and both food and clothes are supplied at extor- tionate prices by the officers, so that of the 5 taels per month paid by the gov- ernment for each soldier, about one-fifth or less reaches the pockets of the men. All this refers to the “‘braves’’ who are Only engaged during wartime and are disbanded the moment the fighting is over wherever they may happen to be and nearly always without the means of returning to their homes, thus keep- ing up the supply of armed robbers all over the empire.

As to the soldiers of the standing armny in times of peace, they are, with the exception of the Mantchoo garrison, s0 wretchedly paid that its strength ex- ists only on paper. The men enlist and regularly draw their pay—3 shillings per month—and have scarcely any fur- ther connection with the military serv- ice. The few that go on duty in the city gates live entirely on bribes. The Man- chu force under the Tartar general, on the other hand, is well paid, but these soldiers do no fighting. They are only engaged in guarding the city against Chinese rebels. They live in a separate quarter to that occupied by the Chinese,

on whom they often make unprovoked -

attacks. Thus fights between the Chi- nese and the Tartar soldiery are of com- mon occurrence, aud as these Tartar sol- diers are not under the jurisdiction of the civil law their outrages invariably go unpunished. Naturally there is no love lost between the city guards and the native Chinese.—English Exchange.

ECONOMY in taking Hood’s Sar- saparilla, because ‘ 100 doses one dollar” is peculiar to and true only of the One True BLOOD Purifier.

to nourish; for all who are fat-starved and thin.

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PE. Island Railway.

Saturday Excursions.

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‘Augont and September, 1897, return

tickets will be issued at one first class fare from all Booking Stations to all stations on this Railway every Satur- day good for return on following Mon- day. ‘Lhese tickets will not be good for return on date of issue.

A. McDONALD, D. POTTINGER General Mun

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NO FAKE.

But legitimate mining. FOUR CLAIMS. One being on the famous Molly Gibson vein. Two above Enterprise, which sold $300,000 cash, and another one half mile from Slocan River. High grade ore out cropping on threee Well defined ledges ona.J. Capital only $250,000 in 25 cent shares, First issue for development 3 cents, non assessable. Next issue not Jess than 10 cents. Reliable management.

Nothing less than 500 shares sold. Order through bank.

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42, Fort St. Victoria, B. C,