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churches to give more freely in paying off church 

 debts, was also headed for Seattle, accompanied by his 

 wife. On our first night in the car I was sound asleep, 

 with my back toward the aisle, when about one o'clock 

 in the morning I was awakened by some one gently 

 trying to push me over in the berth, while a voice said 

 in a half Avhisper, so as not to awaken the other 

 sleepers : 



" Turn over, turn over, Annie." 



Then I turned over with a vengeance and asked the 

 man for it was the preacher what he wanted me to 

 turn over for. I wasn't "Annie." He apologized 

 again and again and then found his berth, which was 

 across the aisle. I told his wife about the incident in 

 the morning, and she was much perturbed over it, and 

 in confidence she told another woman, and in this way 

 all the women got to hear of it, and what a cackling 

 there was after that. 



Ashcroft, where we leave the Canadian Pacific Kail- 

 road, derives its importance chiefly from the fact that 

 it is the starting point of the famous " Cariboo wagon 

 road," which runs to the Frazer River, to and through 

 the mining regions of Lillouvet, Quesnelle Forks, 

 Quesnelle lakes, Cottonwood, Stanley and Barkerville, 

 the latter town being the terminus of the main stem of 

 the road. The stage line passing over the road is 

 operated by the British Columbia Express Company. 



It has a splendid equipment of stages, stables and 



