bay ~ ished, hand engraved or engine SIDNEY AND ISLANDS REVIEW, SIDNEY, B. C., FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1913. 5 Sterling Silver .. . $10.00 to $22.00 Cigarette Gases $4.50 to $36.00 Match Boxes ._ ___ $2.00 to $5.50 Vanity Cases. __ $3.40 to $35.00 These we carry in all styles, and they are hall marked with the . British Government uarantee of quality. = The styles include rich plain pol- Card Cases turned. Some of the cigarette cases are made very thin for evening dress. They donot bulge the pocket. Call and let us show you our line. SHORTT, HILL & DUNCAN, LTD. (At the sign of the -four dials) Corner of Broad and View Streets Victoria, B. C. Established 1890 Robert 5. Day REAL ESTAT LOANS INSURANCE ~ INVESTMENTS COLLECTIONS AGENTS FOR London Guarantee and Accident Co. Limited. Lioyd’s Plate Glass Insurance Co. Colonial Investment and Loan Co. Reliance Loan and:Savings Co., and General Agents for B. C. of The Guardian Assurance Company, Ltd, and Law, Union and Rock In- surance Company, Ltd. Notary Public for British Columbia. Commissioner for Nova Scotia in British Columbia. ~ VICTORIA, B.C. Chassis Clydesdale Stallion Pade of Drumburle No. 13656- Bred by Jas. Hamilton Drumburle, Ayr- shire, Scotland. 4 SIRE—Baron of Buchlyvie, (No. 11263) DAM—Elsie Royal (Vol. XXIX) by Mon- trave Mac, (No. 9958) Will stand for service at the Prairie Hotel stables, Saanichton, from Thursday noon till Friday morning, and will not go to Sidney as previously advertised. For particulars apply to Jas. Bigeam, care of Prairie Hotel, Saanichton. j Terms—$5 at time of service and $20 when mare proves in foal. A PAGE OF SHORT STORIES THAT WILL INTEREST YOU JACK “HORNER” A REALITY. — Nursery Legend About the Pie Con- ceals a Real Tragedy. Hew people know that the nursery legend of “Little Jack Horner” conceals a real tragedy. At the Reformation the chief of an abbey in the West of England re- solved to surrender, and in token there- of to send the deeds of the religious house to Henry VIII. at Whitehall. For security's sake the abbot placed the documents in a pie dish and cov- ered them with crust. The dish, with- out saying a word about the contents, he gave to a lout, Jack Horner, with aster to their owners is firmly believed King in London. About half way Jack Horner became ‘ravenous and came to the conclusion that it was foolish of him to starve while he was the custodian of a pie. So he broke the crust and put in his thumb and pulled out—a roll of parch- ment! The disgusted Jack Horner chucked the lot into an adjacent brook. The non-arrival of the deeds caused Bluff King Hal to suspect the abbot of econtumacy, so his Majesty commanded the poor cleric should be hanged.—Mail and Empire. “ THE DOLLAR AND THE BOY. They were seated at table in a family hotel where you pay a dollar for a The mother read to the small boy the vari- ous dishes on the card. She had told him he could have “anything he want- dinner and order “all you want.” sed” and he took her at her unthinking word. Presently a stockade of varied dishes was built around his plate. Tasting here and there he finally made out a dinner. The mother smiled on him benignly; the waiter scowled. “He didn't eat much,” observed the waiter. Id have had to pay the dol- ie re- A: Flen-O sire not to be defrauded in she had given her small son a vivid object-lesson in American food waste —the waste that is an immense factor in the cost of living in this country. Would it not have been better if that mother had paid one dollar for a single dish of oatmeal, from which her little son might have made a meal, than to have inculeated in his receptive mind the idea that waste is ever de- fensible? CAUSE OF THE TIDES. An old fisherman puts forward a theory of the tides which is not with- out its interest as well as its drollery. He a philosophical old fellow, much given to meditation in the sun, and, above all things else, determined never to be caught by a question. He had always his answer, no matter what the inquiry made might be; and in the fishing village where he lived he had something of the reputation of an oracle. _ “Thompson,” someone asked him,*‘do you know what causes the tides?” The old man smoked in silence a mo- ment, and then, without removing his pipe from his lips, he answered: “Wall, I hey some idee.” “xplain it to us, please.” was Thompson would not be hurried, but, after some urging, he answered: “You've turned over in bed, I think’s likely ?” “Certainly.” “An' when you went over, the bed- clothes kind o’ slipped ‘round and sloshed ‘round, and didn’t get there at the same time you did.” “Yes.” “Wall, that’s the way of the tides. The old world slips ‘round inside of the sea like a man under the bedclothes, and that’s what makes the tides. It’s easy enough to see how ‘tis after you understand it.”—Tit-Bits. BAD LUCK FOLLOWS Possessions Which Bring Disaster Wherever They Go. That certain things bring sure dis- who for years had lived in dire penury. in by many people, Pearson's Weekly. Take the case of a Mr. Apperley, a young artist. A little over three years azo he bought a small West African idol, or ju-ju. Before this for years in suecession he had had pictures hung in the Royal Academy. He has not had a picture in the academy since he bought the idol! Just after Mr. Apperley bought it his house was burgled and all his wife's jewelry stolen. two later an outbreak of fire oceurred. Next year his wife had a serious illness, and the artist had a run of bad luck and disappointment. He lent the “ju-ju” to a friend, who returned it hurriedly in a fortnight. During that time he lost heavily over a business deal; his wife, a most care- ful woman, scalded herself on two oc- easions; his neighbors bought a puppy the day after the idol came, and the result was a mob stoned-his windows in mistake for those of the puppy own- Says his A week or er! Finally, he had a severe attack of rheumatism. No wonder he returned the idol! Still more extraordinary was the case of the mummy of the high priest- the British This priestess belonged to the Royal family of Egypt. A party of four young Englishmen Secured the mummy about thirty years ago in Egypt. One of the young men was crippled before they left that country, and another was shot shortly before reaching England. A third died suddenly, and the fourth followed, after ess of Ameéen-Ra now in Museum. ‘losing a large fortune. The sister of the last hastily pre- sented the mummy to the museum. The drove it there died within a one d to carry it On + PATRONIZE. HOME INDUSTRY } AND SMOKE “The Grand Duke” MANUFACTURED IN SIDNEY BY UNION. LABOR. PERCY K. WINCH. 900-0200 -0 4+ $00 e 27> 24 O POH 0 900 O 0-4 0 9 -o 9+ 9 > e+ Sn a SR a a a SS 4 9) Two Thousand Feet Wooden Water Pipe. Can be seen at the new Sanatarium. Apply DUFFUS & BRYSON tograph the mummy-case fells! his camera, and cut his face severely! The first journalist who described the ill-luck that followed it died afterward. Finally the daughter of the March- joness of Salisbury, who went to look at the mummy, fell and sprained her ankle! An Indian idol is said to have been responsible for the : President Carnot of France. soon assassination of It be- longed to one of the rulers of India, and there was a tradition that the idol bestowed power with one hand and death with the other. Ruler after ruler who possessed the v When Great Britain conquered India the idol, then in the possession of a rajah who lost his life fighting against the British, fell into It continued to bring evil fortune in its train, how- idol was assassinated. humbler hands. ever: HER MATCH. A dear old lady had been presented with a parrot from the Congo, and she Was showing it to her old gardener. “You know, Joseph, that this parrot eomes from the Congo, and Congo par- rots are So human. This bird ‘Elome, Sweet Home’ so that the tears run down its beak.” “Yes, mum,’ quoth Joseph, “I know almost whistles beautifully them parrots from the Congo. ter ‘ave one, and it whistled ‘The Vil- lage Blacksmith’ so bewtiful sparks used ter fly from its plooming | = | tail.” |B “That will do, Joseph; you may go.” —Tit-Bits. ORK REAL OLD DUNCAN & GRAY VICTORIA, B. C. 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