a i ES ia Se oo I a ee en Beautiful Carpets ~ and Linoleums Spring will soon be here and you may want to brighten up some of your rooms with new floor coverings.

We have them in fore designs and at right prices. Call and see our stock before buying W. G. McArthur Furniture Dealer and Undertaker Tunistail Alta.

Tee erent pen HeAT ON Nee aneniT We clave Just Received a Car of RISING SUN FLOUR Made by the Western Milling Co.

of Calgary This Flour is one of the best grades on the market and insures anv user of the best of Bread or Pastry Thousands of satisfied users testify to its Ligh Merrits Bran and Shorts, Rolled Oats, and Linseed Meal always on hand wWese andCoal Vardin “'Gennhection Custom Grinding Bowden Fea Ii Feed Min ARTHUR BOYD Me.

© [nisms eh jee GOSSOOOSS POOPED ERODOOSOCS H. E. SHENFIELD © NOTARY PUBLIC he Private and Company Monies to Loan —_———— D. ARNELL | fs co gad Valuator Highest Prices Always Secured Commission Charged within the reach of all. A talk with me regarding termes will Convince you D. ARNELL Auctioneer - E Innisfail i JUST ARRIVED 50 SETS OF HARNESS Stylish Light petri arene and and heavy. You will save money by inspecting them gud setting our Prices bere buying elsewhere iL. & A. bode New and Second Hand Store INNISFAIL ALTA. OLD STAND NEXT PHONE OFVI CE SCSSSSSSSSSECSESEEESESTS 7 : | 1 torte weorDoore Wal + RE Ro 68) cewnles Yelhe: 0 oe ambi! 9 -—-BY— H, ARMITSTEAD, B. Se.

ocerecere ree ee ee | I detest using a false name and as I cannot give the Gentleman’s correct name I leave the name blank, Mr. —— was a rather retiring man whom I often met in the Far East. Often after dinner over cigars we had long talks, and when I could get him in reminiscent mood he had many adventures to relate. —— was quite a pergonality and although his stories were modestly ‘told, he could give a piquancy to them that was refreshing. Appended is another of his stories ;— Wirn Tue Gamsiers IN CHINA What I am going torelite to you| baseball is to the American. By to-night is rather tame; but will be|nature he is favored by all the ne-I fancy, of interest to you, old man|cessary qualities to make a gam-—a person who takes such a delight |bler. He js cool and daring: he in the study of the Oriental. knows no timidity; he has a sense The Chinaman, the shy, reticent |of fair play; he can win without inhabitant of » mysterious country, | any hilarity or explosic n of feelings; is not easily understood by aj/he can take defeat with due com-Westerner. He is, as you know, | posure. never perfectly knowneven bymen| fo, multitudinous forms o who have spent 8 couple of decadi s gambling the Chinaman is without in China. There is, and always|, compeer. Such is his nature that will be, n wide divergence of lhe will gamble on anything and| opinion regarding him. Your #a-| oven in his small business transveller, touring the world, doing actions. Inthe street it is no un-Hong Kong, with its neighboring | pommon sight to see a coolie make places, Kowloon, Macao, Canton |, wage relative to the fruit, say an, and Shanghai, the usual program | jrange, that he wants. He bets the may not know the Chinanian at all.| »ondor that there are certain num-He gets superficial and erroneous | her, or more than that number, of ideas from his hotel boy, his MAFoo pips in a selected orange. If the and the chair and rickshaw coolies. | .ojected number does not please the The novelty, too, of unfamiliar ha- vendor, there is some haranguing bits and customs are apt to trans-|¢ij] the number is fixed. The orfigure to his enraptured senses, ange is then cut open, the pips ex-Much of what he has to tell in con-| ractzd and counted. Ifthe number jecture, Granted objected falling | of pips in the orange be the same, under the observation of his senses | 5+ more than the number fixed upmight be clearly known yet any-|on the cuolie gets the orange for thing abstract—religion, morals,— nothing; but if the number of pi must be darkly gnessed. be less than the fixed number; the The Chinaman is sometimes un-| fixed number, the vender receives fortunate in his ‘chroniclers, who | twice the price of the orange. base their remarks on the barest of] 4 form of. gambling, which is 1 Pegi He is described | rather common, and whieh for simas a moral anarchist and anything} plicity always appevls to the eye gfe is vile. His low morals are done with two ngtches. On beyond anything heard of in the} one of the matches is tied some western world, I am well aware,| ootton. The matches are juggled ‘but the tirades against him are! pehind the back and then held to oftentimes grossly exaggerated. To! view between the thumb and foreunderstand him you must go in-/ finger, To win the wager the betland and see him in the old-time}tor has to guess the the match villages and country towns—grace-| with the cotton on it. Sometimes fully old-fashioned places without} the method of match gambling is being dead. ‘There is seen the ty-| varied, A short piece of match is ical Chinaman, unaffected'by con: | substituted for the “cottoned” trast with Europeans,—heis a man| match, To enumerate all the forms of fine physique and super abun- of street gamtling would produce dant energy: he is simple-minded;| nausea. Nevertheless, it is perhe:ps he uses implements of hoary age:| worthy of note to mention that he wor'ss in spells ‘not according “pitch and toss’ is very prevalent to his fixed hours; he worries not] on the Praya of Hong Kong, and about politics; he cares for naught | this in the heart of a British Colas long as he gets his rice and dried 5), A benign of - officialdom fish. pork ete; he wante but little blinks its eyes at the weakness of here below; his calm and stolid tin autitenks manner is no indication of his mind. | pichtie Under the severe countenance lies| 1t is the gambling den with its arspirit of radiant, lawlessness, that knows not care, and that expresses itself in pleasures of an exciting aud poignant character. The out let of this restless spirit is generally gambling—the most rousing form of amusement ever devised tar..The dens are exceedingly numerous in every town and village; they are as plentiful as stores. They are open ali day and the tables are seldom The by man for immediate personal|g@mbling halls, if such they can gratification. be called are sometimes fairly sub-The Chinaman is an inveterate) stantial buildings; other times pargambler, the terms Chinaman and ticularly inland, like big boyes with gambler being almost synonyms to} ¢\ oir Jide off. None of them seem Western ag arena front to have uny pretentions to architecwom ig pcg gee rene tural beauty, while their interiors mentyor from tradition or from the ; st. are plain to extreme severity. combined effects ofall three, every v ‘ Chinaman is a keen gambler. Gambling is to the Chinaman what vacant, < Continued on Page Six ) hypnotic spell that lures the Tar-| | | ~~ eects pyres ede ses ty ete ‘THE BREWSTER one aul Uabed io Guides coca coceuneseatiaenacoaeeon 04 FLOUSE Bowden Alberta First Class In Every Respect. tention to Travellers.

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