about Christopher Columbus till he got mo half scared to death. I'll be hanged if i I ever heard of any sich galoot. If you . have, then give it to mo straight." "Yes, there was a Christopher Colum bus. He was a Spaniard. He died over 850 years ago."© "Did, ek? And that old cayuse kept on tßlkin about him as if he hadn't been dead over a month. So there was a Columbus? What was his particular line?" "Why, he discovered America." "Is that all? Why, I thought he'd killed a dozen Indians by the way the old chap blowed around. Just discovered America, eh? I'll remember that and be primed fur j . ■*

the next feller as tries to show off over me. Now, then, who was Shakespeare? I had a woman up here the other day who kept talkin about Shakespeare. I kinder let on that I'd. seen him once or twice, and that he'd passed oyer this line two or three times with other drivers, but now I want dead facts. What's his pecoolarities?" "Shakespeare was a great English writer, you know." "He wrote, eh?" "Yes." •'...:' "Did nuthin but write?" "No." "Couldn't stay by a buckiug broncho, throw a lasso or handle a gun?" "I believe not." "Humphl And people talk about him! All Columbus did was to discover Amer ica and all Shakespeare did was to write books! Say, stranger?" "Well?" "Lemrne ask you sunthin else." "Go on." / "Aren't-you from the east?" ■-' "Yes." "And that old cayuse and that old wom an were from the east, too, I guess?" ''Very likely. What was the question you wanted to ask?" "Jist this, stranger: How in Halifax do you manage to live in a blamed country whar they praise up folks who hey bin deader'n a dead gopher fur over 300 years? Why, one of our drivers killed a stage robber last summer jist below here, and the thing got old all along the line inside of ten days!" ,

"WHO WAS SHAKESPEABE?"

A ROAD AGENT WHO GOT LEFT.

His Feelings Were Hurt, and He Cut the Gang. There were seven of us in the stage out of Austin, Nev., and after we got started •we counted up our cash and found we had exactly seventy cents in the crowd. We were a dead broke gang and bound for Eureka. Not a man had a bundle or a gun even. Everything we could rake and scrape had been put up at Austin to buy our pas sage in the stage. The seventy cents was tossed into a common purse and redivided, bo that each one had a capital of ten centa to start on in the otlier town. The driver had just replied thafc it was 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and most of us were asleep, when a fellow jumped into the road a few yards ahead of the leaders and ordered the stage to lialt. As he had a double barreled shot gun and seemed to be full of business the driver pulled up. Then the stranger, who waa a little man of great energy, came along to the right hand door and called out in a brisk and chirky way: "Now, then, twenty minutes for refresh ments, and every man throw up his bands as he steps down!" © We climbed down, every man with a grin on his face, and as we ranged up in line, hands up, the old chap on the left, who had put two cents into the purse and drawn out ten, began to laugh. "What in blazes ails this crowd?" de manded the road agent as he looked at us In a puzzled way. "Now, then, step one pace to the front and deposit your guns!" No one stepped. There wasn't even a cartridge to deposits "Do you mean to say you haven't any?" shoutedithe little man. "Then each man step Out and deposit his boodle!" We began on the left and each stepped out and laid down ten cents. The man stood there with his shotgun at a "ready" and his finger on the trigger, but yet the '■ absurdity of the situation struck the old chap so forcibly that he lay right down and roared until he choked. His mirth was infectious, and the other six laughed into the muzzles of the gun, while the driver cackled like An old hen. "Do you mean to say that this is your pile?" finally demanded the agent.

"Yes—oh, yesl" shouted the old man as hfs wiped the tears from his eyes. "That's every blamed cent the seven of iis kin raise, and you-r-yon"—— "I'm fooled, eh?" finished the agent. Pie searched every man in rotation, made an inspection of the coach, and then leaned up against n wheel of the vehicle with a re proachful ;*expreasion on his face and said: "Boys, it's a durned menu trick to play on a fatherless boy who's got .in old mother to support, and I can'fc git over st. S-veuh cents for this hull crowd! I've wrJk; ■■

eighteen miles and laid out all night to I stop this coach, and you offer me ten cents t apiece! Say, don't look at me! Don't epeak to mcl Don't even walk in my tracks! I cut the gang of you dead cold foreverl" And he shouldered his gun and walked off into the bushes and wouldn't look back when we called to him that he'd dropped something.

"PO yOU MEAN TO SAY THAT THIS IS YOUR PILE?"

Love on the Arkansaw.

Twilight had come again on both banks ♦f the Arkansaw, It hadn't cost a cent, Mid the husbandman lighted his pipe and eat 4own to mentally declare that he'd be j dodgonedjjto catfish if ha hadn't struck a Bof t snapf The Widow White stands in her front I door'fcwking out into the gloaming—gloam ing is also cheaper than cornmeal on the > Arkansaw. Now and then she lifts her plump hand to swat a mosquito nestling on her chin; now and then she rubs her w)ack against the doorpost to agitate tße spot where a gallinipper of the Queen Anne style tried to bite her in two at one mighty effort. , As she rubs she murmurs: "Durn yo'r pesky hide, but if I had yo' in my hand I'd frizzle yo' to death in yan skillet!" Tfoe gloaming grows deeper, and that also without extra charge. Widow White has just raised one of her marble feet to kick a yellow pup when her heart gives a sudden jump and she grabs up the splint broom and begins sweeping the puncheon floor. , A step —a cough—a he-he-he! A middle aged man of swampy aspect and ague demeanor stands in the door. "Whyah, Mistah Perkins, but what a fright yo'un give I'un comin up so soft! Come right in and t^ke a cheer. 'Skeeters around moas' powerful this eavenin. How's con agittin ovah yo'r way?" "Cons pore, Missus White—very pore. Bin chillin any lately?" "Chilled two days ago, thank yo'. Be yo'still chillin?" "Sorter reg'larly. Mighty good y'arfur chills, I reckon. I'll sot in the doah if yo'un doan' mind." "Of cose I doan'. I'll sot with yo'. Better chance in the doah to slap 'skeet ers. Daddy Taylor cum along yere this xnawnin, and he'un waa atellin 'bout Bnaixs. He'un says theys powerful thick this y'ar. Yo'un hain't bin bitted, I hope?" "Thank yo', no, not as I consider to re member. Snaixs doan' pester me. Reckon I'ze too powerful mean." ) "Shoo! Yo'un hain't mean." "Beckonl'ze too humbly." "Shoo! Yo'un hain't humbly." Hia heart went tunkl tunk! tunk! It was still tunking when she brought her fine Italian hand down on his knee with a smash and broke the spinal column of a gallinipper boring for meat. She did not remove it. He'un's paw stole softly down and clasped it and they squoze. During the next three minutes not a word was uttered. Both were busy with their thoughts. He was the first to break the silence. In a voice modulated to harmo nize with the song of the whippoorwill in the adjacent swamp he finally said: "Leonore, I'ze bin waitin fo' long y'ars to tell yo'un sunthin." "Shoo!" "Fo' loag and weary y'ars. All that time I'ze lu'ved yo', but I dasn't speak 'cause I was pore." "And now yo'un is rich?" she queried as he hesitated. "Beyan' my wildest dreams. Yesterday I got a job at agittin out hooppoles by which I shall cl'ar ovah sixty dollars this summer—ovah sixty dollars in cash, Leonore, and this eavenin I hey called to to" "Lionel, my heart tells me what yo'un would say," she whispered as he paused. "And yo'un will marry me?" "I will." "Then dodrot my pesky hide if I hain't the happiest man in all this world!" And he'un was happy and she'un was glad, and they hooped it up. M. Quad.

He Discriminated.

The fat lady was nearly a block away when ahe saw the car. She became agitated at once and shook her parasol frantically. "Stopper," she yelled, in a high, pene trating tone. No one in a position of authority in the car appeared cognizant of the existence of the fat lady. "Somebody stopper for me." It was an appeal to chivalrous hearts in general. Four men who had been talking politics on the corner evinced interest. "Hey, there," shrieked the fat lady; "hey, there." She was proceeding along the sidewalk with all possible dispatch, perspiring copi ously and almost breathless. "S-stop that car," she gasped. The sympathies of the four men on the corner were fully aroused. Prompted by the innate gallantry that has beautified manhood throughout the ages, they broke into a run and pursued the rapidly reced iDg car. Two of the men shouted, One whistled. The other gesticulated. They compassed their designs after covering three blocks. "It's—puff, puff—a wonder—whe-ew— you wouldn't know enough to—puff-« stop." The man who had simply gesticulated was upbraiding the conductor. The men who had shouted and who whistled could only glower eloquently. "Do you wish to get aboard?" inquired the conductor coolly. • The man who had gesticulated snorted. "No, sir," he declared fiercely; "we were trying to stop the car for a lady." The conductor looked indifferent and rang the bell. <D "That's all right," he quietly observed. The car was moving. "Hold on. Hold on. Why don't you stop?" © The four men spoke in loud, angry tones. "It was a fat lady with a red parasol and a mustache, wasn't it?" demanded the conductor. The four men nodded. I "Well, I thought I knew my business. Do you suppose a woman like that ever stops the right car the first time? Well, I guess not. I think I know what I'm do ing. I tell you you have to discriminate If you want to make time." When the four men returned to their corner rather dazed, they found the fat lady standing there. "Much obliged," she chirped gleefully. "Just as you started I discovered that it was the wrong car." The four men stood for' a moment in sad contemplation and then dispersed.—De troit Tribune.

A Horrible Blunder.

"We shall write to each other every clay, dearest," said the summer resort young man to his newest fiancee. "Of course." "By the s way, sweetheart, where do you live? Where is your home!" "Billingsville, Mo." The young, man fainted. He was from Billingsvillo himself.—lndianapolis Jour nal.

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EXCELSIOR ~ SHOEING" FORGE AND COAOH FACTORY John l*a^^T, Junr., PROPRIETOR. Snoefng promptly and effeciently performed. Coach Painting and Repairs a specialty. Note the Address - v BURNETT STREET, Opposite Orange Hall and next Mail Office. [A CARD].- BIKS A. C CL.ARIDGE, OF PIANOFORTE & ORGAN, COX STREET, ASHBURTON. imm on application. 3



AWING' TO THE SUCCESS y WHICH HAS ATTENDED MY BUSINESS, I find it necessary to PROCURE ASSISTANCE Which I am now endeavoring t& do T TAKE the opportunity to thank the Public of Ashburton i for their kind patronage, and to say that I hope to continue to , merit their support. 11. E. Bonitingtoß, CHEMIST & DRUGGIST EAST STREET, ABHBURTGN. i



! COMPULSORY SALE OF S W- ALCORN & COS. STOCK OP GENERAL DRAPE BY, M4NiLES, MILLINERY Etc. C omm B nc BS on xHURSDAY, 11th INSf. EVERY ARTICLE A DECIDED BARGAIN !AS STOCK MUST BE SOLD. 0 S W. ALCORN & CO. EAST BTBEET. 9f miming- department W. H- COLLIER Specialty. TT7E ARE PREPARED 10 SUPPLY FARMERS WITH FIKST CLASS i ROLLIE FLOUR AT LOWEST CURRENT RATES. AND TO TAKE THEIR WHEAT Firsts or Seconds) IN EXCHANGE AT FULL MARKET VALUE. FRIEDLANDER, BROS. fTTE ABE PURCHASERS OF— WHEAT, OATS, BAELET, AND BYIIGBASB [IN LARGE OR SMALL QUANTITIES, FRIEDLANDER BROS. \V7E HAVE FOR SALE ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF SEKIfwHUAT. SEED OATS, & SEED BARLET, MAOH IJtT B D,'E|E SSED IF DESIRED, AT CURRENT MARKET BATES. FEIEDLA.ND£€R .BEOS J UST LANDED ASHIPMBSN^OF PAPEKHANGINGS OF THE LATEST DESIGNS from the Celebrated Make** MESMS CARLISLE! and CLEGG, London, which, with our already Large Sbock, will enable us to give Customera a very varied range of patterns to choose fronu • —ALSO PAINTS OILS AND ALL PAINTER'S REQUISITES. L^ ** ' HAND IjAMPS HANGING LAMPrf TABLE LAMPS . BRACKET LAMPS ■ ■—**•— We are offering SPECIAL BARGAINS IN LAMPS, and we xeqaestlending Parchaßprs to lnspec}.. lohn Orr & Co., HARDWARE AND PROVISIQIf JMKROHAKm



! WALKER'S BOT FIjY HEMEDII& £\TARRANTED TO CURB ANY HORSE AFFECTED WITH BOTS. IF GIVEN ¥ IN TIME, and to Improve the Condition of the Horse, whether he has Bot» or not, given in two drenches. LOCAL TESTIMONIALS. Gray's road, Amberky, in all stages of transformation, I became September 6,1892. much alaimed about the rest of my stock. Mr Walker, Sir,—Your Bot Fly I used your Bot Fly Remedies on one Remedy reached me in due course. I that was very bad, and had every syrap gave them to one that was very batl, and torn of dying, and in three days she was as I had lost a splendid young horse, I completely cured, and is doing well. I got very anxious, as the stomach presented believe it is the proper thing, and ;if one mass of bots in all stages, with the given at th« proper time we shall have no coating eaten away. I am glad to tell more deaths from the Bot Flj. you that the one I drenched according to ' Davxp Brown. your instructions got quite better, and is ■ now at his wrk attain. I would highly Brookside, December 12, 1892. recommend farmers to use the same in Mr Walker,—Sir,—l wish to add my time, as lam satisfied that they will save testimony to the wonderful effects of your and greatly improve the condition of the Bot-fly Remedies. 1 had a valuable horse. Send m« some of your Bot Fly horse which got very ba.d and gradually Preventive for the summer, and oblige, got worse, I quite believed he -would —Yours veiy respectfully, have died. He kept losing flesh, got a Edward Watson. dry coat, tight skin, careworn expression -—> of the eye, a cough, running at the nos- Killinchy, September^ 14, 1892. trils, and could scarce walk I got your Mr Robert Walker, Christ church, remedies and gave them as directed, with Dear Sir—Your Bot Fly Remedies have the most beneficial results. The second proved a complete success with my horse, day after getting the last drench he began He had been very bad for some tima ; the to pass bots in handfuls, some of which coat dry, a tight Bkin, got very low in I herewith baud you. Immediately after condition, and got scarce able to walk. I passing the bots he began to mend, and quite expected he would die, as he had all is now as fat as butter, hearty and well, the symptoms of one that my neighbour thanks to Walker's Botrfly Remedies. lost with the bots. I gave your remedies Any who doubt them send them to me, as you directed, with the following re- and I will convince them that your reme sttlts :—The horse, after gettilng the late dies are a boon to the community and the bottle, became very pained, lying down suffering horse. Every horse should rolling and groaning with pain, in the have them in the season, as lam confi paddock. He began to cough very hard, dent if usedthere will be no more deaths each cough bringing away a thick humor- from the bot-fly. Uro this as you please. ,ous matter from the nostrils, the like of H- Lovm* which I never saw before coming from a ——" horse. This continued all next day, Greenwood Farm, which lam cerain were the bots burst- Southbridge, August 2, 1892. ing from the fleets of the Remedy, and Mr Walker, Sir, —I am glad "to bear coming up through the nostrils by the testimony to the wonderful effects of your effects of thorough. After this ceased, Bot Fly Remedies. One of my. best thejhorse began to mend, and in six days horses became very bad ; the skin tight, I had him at work again, heartland well, the eye lifeless and a bad colour, and got You should make these Remedies public, low in condition. Anxious to finish so that farmers might knew there is a ploughing a paddock I did nob want to remedy for this destructive pest. Send lay him up until he became unable to lift me some Preventive for keeping off the his feet, or do any more. We had to fly n summer,—- And oblige, help him into the stable. I gave him Robert Mclobraw. your Remedies, and the treatment you —— prescribed, and in a few days he was Amberley, July 26,1892. quite better, and Is now at his work, To Mr Robert Walker, Christchurch. hearty and well. I quite believe, had I Sir, —Having lost three good horses, and not given him your Remedies, he would on examination found the stomach of two have died. You can use this as you completely eaten through, and the whole please. Robert Thompson. of the stomach thickly covered with bots AGENTS FOR ASHBURTON—W Anderson & J. Hebbltinb, Saddle A KUFAOTURER—ROBERT W ALKER, Canal Reserve, Woolston 4 William Patching, EAST STREET SOUTH, TTAS ALWAYS IN STOCK,- Tents—Calico, Duck and Drill; Tarpaulins, Dray and Rick Covers (all sizes), Oilskin Clothing, < Manilla Rope (half inch to five inches), Wire Rope, Plough, Garden and Fishing Lines, Iron and Wooden Blocks, Belting, Seaming and Rop ing Twiue, Pig .Nets, Horse Covers (all qualities), Tents and Marquees on hire, from 12 x 24 to "_ 25x60. . , Watches! Watcheg!! Watches!! _____ - j CLOCKS! CLOCKS!! § ROBERT MURRAY, HOROLOGIST AND DIRECT IMPORTER oJ^^T]) WATCHES* CLOCKS, yJJ^&T JEWELLERY, AND MATERIALS. A LARGE ASSORTMENT of BOYS' CHEAP WATCHES. Guaranteed. AN UNRIVALLED STOCK of WATCHES and CLOCKS of all descriptions, including latest and most approved forms of HOROLOGICAL SKILL. NON MAGNETISABLE WATCHES. Not aftected by Electricity, Magnetism, or Swift Running Machinery. All ENGINEERS and ELECTRICIANS should wear them. 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Business Notices LONGBEACH COACH. j ON and after MONDAY, April 3, for the winter months, the Longbeach Coach will start from Ash burton at 4 p.m. R. R. BROWNE, ■ fJoftchroan. WANTED KNO WN THAT J; NICHOLAS HAS REMOVED TO NEW SHOP IN EAST STREET, For tha convenience of Customers. He has now got a well selected Stock < BOOTS AND SHOES, Whioh be intends to Sell Cheaper than any other Shop i» town. ' His own make —" which w second to > none in the district," always kept on hand, or made to order on the shortcut notice. Repairs neatly and promptly executed. J. NICHOLAS, BOOTMAKER, Next to Mr Salek, Watchmaker. T. GRAINGEK, WATCHMAKER, CO LEM AN'S BUILDINGS, East Street, Ashburton, ANNOUNCES that he has Commenced the Business of WATCH AND CLOCK KEPAIBING, At the above address, and ia soliciting patronage would intimate that he has had twenty-five years' practical experience in some of the best shops in England, and can guarantee satisfaction with al) work entrusted to him. 6§227 Thos, E. Kilworth, ASHBURTON MACHINE WORKS AND BRA 88 FOUN DR V, CAMERON STREET, Ashburton. T OCAL AUTHORISED AGENT FOR MoLAREN'S CELEBRATED TRACTION X ENGINES. Estimates given for all kinds of Mechanical Works. Correspondence Invited. G. Je sso n, (Late J. Quinn), PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER & JEWELLER, EAST STREET, ASHBURTON. TUFAS on hand t, well selected stock of WATCHES, CLOCKS*;JEWELLERY, Of every Description. Watches cleaned and guaranteed for twelvemonths '. 4s 6d Mainsprings fitted (best quality) 4b 6d Clocks cleaned and guaranteed for twelvemonths 2s 6d Brooch pins fitted ... - 3d Spectacles to suit all sights from Is per pair. Note the Address: €t Jbssov Watchmaker and Jeweller, East Street, Ashburton. PRINCE ALBERT TEMPERANCE HOTEL. MRS RAWG£R T>EGS to announce that she has GIVEN UP THE DINING ROOMS, BURNETT STREET, And concentrated her business as above. Thanking; old Customers for their patronage, she trusts they will continue their favors. Well Furnished Bed and Sitting Rooms. Hot, Cold, and Shower Baths. MEALS AT~ALL HOURS. MRS RANGEP will continue to cater for banquets, balls, weddings, and parties. Cutlery on hire. 6JI ACTS LIKE MAGIC, AND HAS "NEVES FAILED TO NSTANTLY RELIEVE OR CURE MANKIND of Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lambago, Sprains, Cuts, Wounds, &o. CUBES~HORBES OF Sore Shoulders and Backs, Girth Galls, Greasy Heels, Sprains, Cracked Heels, SpUnta, Cuts, Mange, &c. COWS Of Ulcerated Udders, and Sore Teats. DOGS of Mange, Cuts, &c. To Farmers it is invaluable. No Household can afford to be without li. GUARANTEED THE BEST EMBROCATION IN THE WORLD. Manufacturers: S. COX 6 CO., 422 Bourke Street,. Melbourne New Zealand Representative: A. PARSONS, Morten's Buildings, Ohrlstohnrch. Ashburton Agemts: JOHK OBE & Co., ASHBUETOIC DeUO Co. H. E. BoniruraroH. 160 Country Agents Wanted.