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 G. A. McBain & Co.
il Estate Broli
Nanaimo, B. C.
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G. A. McBain & Co.
Real Estate Brokers
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UNION, COMOX DISTRICT, B, C. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23,   1894.
$2.00 PER YEAR
McKim's Store.
"UlSriOiN",   B. O-
���IMPORTER and DEALERS-
Orocerie.
Hardware
Paint*
���rt-T-
Clothing-
Orock.rjr
Boot*
Qent'a Fumiahing
Tobacco'*
Shoe*
OOl^OX, BO.
Importers �� Dealers in
Order* Taken for Custom Made 8uits.
REM. ESTATE
MARCUS WOLFE,
Financial and General Commission Broker,
P. 0. DRAWER 17, JOHNSTON BLOCK, NANAIMO, B. C.
Canada Fermantnt Loan and Saving* Company, Toronto
Oitiwrn*' Building Society of Nanaimo,
Scottiab Union and National Inaurance Company.
Hartford Fire Inaurance Company.
Union Fir* Innirance Company of London, England.
Extern Fir* Auuranoa Company, of Halifax.
Phoenix Fire Assurance Co., of London, England
Sun Life Assurance Co., of Canada.
Great Northern  Railway.
Honey to Loan on Improved Farm Property.
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if one but the best
duality and most
fashionable goods
kept In atook.
Fashionable Tailor
William's Bloc*.
-TCTXO-tT, S. C.
Union Meat
hoicest
meats always on hand.
Market.
Fresh
Fish
Weekly.
Vegetables  etc.
I3**     Vessels   supplied on the shortest notice.     "**"*"1
Simon  Leiser,  Prop.
Puntiedge Bottling
Work*.
DAVID JOITES,
moF.
         MANUFACTURER Or        	
80DA  WATER,   LEMONADE,   GINGER   ALE,
Sarsaparalla and Champagne Cider, Iron Phosphates, Syrup
Bottler of Different Brands of Lager Beer Steam Beer and Porter,
. Agent for the Union Brewery Company.
S*aa -BEER SOTiT) FOB CJLSXS. GNX/*rT
Courtenay B. C.
Just received several cases of Ladies Under-
wear, Children's Dresses, Babies'
Cloaks, Dresses, etc., etc.
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A fine line of Gents' Shirts and several cases
of Clothing at prices never before
offered in the District.
Flour ft Feed Dry Good*
Farm Produce   . Boot* ft Shot*
Fancy Oroceriea Hardware
Crockery ft O loaawar* Paint ft Oil*
Ont* Furnishing*
Patent Medicine*
Stationary
Wallpaper
Spprtsmens Supplies a Speciality
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Union Mines
g:-.:j     Furniture    Store.
A  Full  Line of Everything.
Including Granite and
Hardware.
co2frxrB��&.CTOTis
AND
S-0*ZXj*3*E!SS.
13** UNDERTAKING  IN ALL ITS  BRANCHES.
Grant & McGregor Props
Ice Cream Parlors.
tj iNTonsr, b, o*
Soda Water, Candies, Stationery and Books,
B-RTJIT A. SPHOIALTT.
Presided over by Miss  Knapp.
TOBACCOS.
Imported and Domestic Cigars.   Briar and Meerschaum Goods.
Ihe Above Stone Adjoin, When Everything of th* ba*t in their Beapecti-re
line* will be found.
A. IF. Mclntyre, Prop.
TAILORING - TAILORING
p. Duppe
 OS lTO*W LOCATED A.T    ���
UNION,  B. C.
In th* Williama' Block Whan H*  hi*  on   DUplay On* of theFinert
Stook* of Woolen* Ever Shown in Britiah Columbia.
POWEB OF ATTOBET.
Mr. F. W. Robbins holds tny power of
attorney during my absence in the East.
99.1m Thos. H. Piercy.
E. Merman,
JEWELER & WATCHMAKER
WELLINGTON, B. C.
���K3TABLISHKD IN I'M���
Will be in Union every
month with a large stock of
Jewelry,.Watches, Diamonds,
and Silverware.
Watch repairing a specialty,
When in Union Drop
in and see us. We
carry a full stock of
Drugs  and  Stationery.
Family Receipts our specialty.
Orders accompanied with cash
will receive our prompt attention.
E. PIMBURY & Co.
Union, B. C.
GREAT SALVAGE SALE.
The great -Mirage Mia of Sloan and Scott
U attracting buyer* from a long distance
The damage to the gooda by water at the
great fire of Sept. 28th wu jaat enough to
make them ialvaj-e goods and tbey are go*
ing for what they will bring like hot eakea.
Their atook represented nearly $40,000 and
theirs ii euily the leading, and by fir tha
moat enterprising dry gooda honu on the
island. Having settled with tbe fire companies they are throwing their whole atook
upon the market u salvage goods, at sal*
vage prices. Snch a ehance to get cheap
goods will not soon oocur again. It wonld
pay ona to vi-.it Nanaimo inst to take advantage of this great sale, bnt If yon
go an order will be wall attended to.
C0T7B8E OF ENTERTAINMENTS.
A courae of aix entertainments will ba
given during tha winter at the Bay, and
Courtenay, At eaoh entertainment there
will be a leetnra on aome Interesting and ,
profitable aohjeot, also inatrnmental and
vocal music, with reading, recitataions, etc
The entertain min te will be given monthly, about tha full moon.
At tha Bay tha entertainment will ba
given on Wednesday evenings In tha
Knights of Pytbiu Hall; at Courtenay, in
tha new ball on Thursday evenings, and
will oommenw at 7.30 p. m.
The promoters wilt spare no pains to
make these entertainments first olass, and
trust they will be liberally patronized.
Tickets for the coarse, fl, to be had at
the stores at the Bay, and Messrs Duncan
Bros, Sandwick; for single lectures 25
cents to be paid at the door.
The firat one of tha coarse will be at the
Bay on Wednesday Nov. 14th and tha
rseoond at Conrtenay on Thursday Nov. 15th
when the Rev. A. Tait, will lecture 00
Love, Courtship and Marriage.
Among the speakers will be the Rev, D.
A. MoRse. B. A. of Nanaimo on tha Only Solution to the Labor Question.
Rev. Thos H. Rogers will appear in tha
Course. Hia subject will be, Some Hiitor-
-ioal Eventa in Amerioan History.
Other lectures will bo arranged later on
Tha proceeds will ba tn aid of tha Fruby-
tarian church.
THS CUR DEAD.
During Hts Last Illness He arranges
for the Marriage of the Cazre-
witch to Princess Alex ot Hesse.
The Czarina stricken with ap-
poplexy-Grand Dutchess Ill-
Grand Duke George serlouly
Attlleted-Provlnclal News.
St Petersburg, Oct 20 [Special] The
following official bulletin was issued at
8 3a o'clock this evening. During the
last 24 hours the Czar obtained some
sleep. He left his bed in the course of
the day. Hts general condition and thc
strength and action of his heart are unchanged. The oedema of the feet has
not increased.
The condition of the Czar's consumptive son, the grand duke George, continues tu be verv serious. It is said in some
quarters that he is dving.
��paris Oct 20 [Special] The National
Zeitungsays the Hanotaux minister of
foreign affairs lias received news that he
is with-holding the dispatch until the
news is confirmed by the Russian embassy here. The officials at the foreign
office declare that no such dispatch has
been received.
. Veinna, Oct. 20 [Special] A dispatch
from St. Petersburg!) says that early in
his illness ihe Czar had a lung interview
with the Czarewitch in which he outlined
the policies that should be pursued in
foreign and domestic affairs and insisted
upon the Czarewitch's immige tn Princess, Alex of Hesse. A special dispatch
from St. Petersburg to the New Freie
Hersse says that the Czarina, who had
watched constantly till today at her husband's bedside has had a stroke of apo-
pitlexy. The grand dutchess Axenea, her
eldest daughter, has broken down under
the nervous strain is obliged to pass most
of the time in bed. The Czar was tapped to day for dropsy. Itis improbable
that the Princess Alex will reach
Livadena in time to be married to the
Czarewich before the Czar's death. The
Czar expressed his earnest desire thnt the
marrage take place without delay in order that he might give his blessing to the
couple before his death.
NANAIMO NEWS.
Nanaimo [Special] The inquest touching the death of Patrick Magee, a victum
of the fire Sept. 18th last was concluded
this evening. Several witnesses were examined but no evidence was adduced to
determine the-origin of the fire. The jury
found that the deceased came by his
death in a fire the origin of which is
shrouded in mystery. It recommended
tbat efficient fire escapes be placed in all
frame buildings more than one storey in
height; that a periodical examination of
all buildings be made in order to prevent
the accuniulaii-jn of inflammable rubbish.
Messrs Thompson & Gray, the young
men who were to settle all medicine and
olher bills in connection with the Mongolian, whom they recently bartered,
were called up today and dismissed, the
Judge holding lhat the bills Ind- produced sufficient drain on their pockets in
view of certain extenuating circumstances
Bookless, the man who recently furnished the material for a Siwash jubilee, is
now hunting for the money where with to
smooth down out-raged justice.
A woman's dress and other clothing
has heen picked up in the bush near the
town. The clothing is plentifully spotted with blood, apparantly from a wound
The indications are that thc clothing be
bnged to a klontchman. The case is being investigated.
Responsible Indians say that whiskey
Charlie, killed his Klootchman and threw
her body into the river. Whiskey Charlie returned to the rancherie and when
he wos charged with the murder -skipped
out again.
Nanaimo Oct ig.[Sptcial] The search
for John Allan, Jas. Allen and Thos Mil-
burn has been renewed. Today a party
consisting of Chris. Jacobson, W. Blank,
J. Howard and L Pope, left for that purpose in a sail boat and are prepared to
carefully search the beach from Lagoon
to J.irvis Inlet before returning.
The big diamand drill belonging to
the New Vancouver Coal Co.. is being
prepared for shipment to Port Angelos
where it Will be used to prospect some
supposed coal fields in thnt vicinity.
The new Gasometer is rapidly nearing
completion at the Nanaimo Gas Works,
with the exception of the columns, the
tank has been entirely constructed in Na
naimo, Win. Godfrey of the City Iron
Works, Victoria, being the coutractor.
The case of John W. Lang came up today. The charge of having sent a letter
inclosed in a parcel contrary to the Postal Regulations was sustained and a fine
ol $15 imposed. Inspector Fletcher pro.
secutcd the case. He expressed the determination of the postal authorities to
rigorously prosecute the frequent pretty
infractions ofthe regulations.
ADVANCE GUARD.
Victoria, Oct. 20 [Special] Eighty head
of families have come from Minnesota to
take up land in British Columbia. They
are the advance guard of immigrants.
The prospects are that thousands will
follow. There art hundred of Norwegians
from Crookston, Minn. A good tract of
land, already surveyed at Bella Coola is
available. The Government is to establish colonies of desirable immigrants on
the available lands on the coast of British Columbia,
ATTEMPTED MURDER.
New Westminster, Oct. 19 [Special] F.
G. Turner is to appear in the court here
un Saturday to accuse Grace Irwin of attempting to murder him. Turner's rapid
recovery is considered almost miraculous.
FOUND DEAD.
Victoria B. C, Oct. 19.���A number of
Chinamen went to Ladner*s, yesterday
by steamer Edgar. One of them soon
bocame drowsy and lay down. Another
paid for him when the fare was taken
up. At Ladnerr-s all got off* and left
their brother companion on board. The
Captain thinking him drunk wheeled him
into the warehouse and laid him on a
Rile of hay. A few hours later a wharf
and tried to waken him but found he
was dead. His name was Ah Lee. He
was an opium fiend, so it wm said, at
the coronet's inquest.
O. P. R- BRANCH.
A Police Force to be Stationed at
Fort Yukon-Accident to Lady
Thompson.
Montreal, Oct. 2o]Special] J. J. Mann
the well known contractor, has returned
from Baitish Columbia. The object of
his trip was to determine the best route
for a railway from a point on the Canadian Pacific to Bnrkcrville the heart of
the Carriboo gold mining district, a distance of 280 mites. The projected road,
which presents many difficulties, will
traverse the gold range to the south forks
of the Quensnelte. Mr. Mann located
the works ofthe Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Co which properties are aaid to be
the richest ever discovered in America.
The shares are nearly all amongst Montreal people, including Sir Wm. Van
Home, Vice-Pres. Sbangbessy and Og-
den, ofthe C. P. Ry. Co. The Company
has only been organized two years, but
is carrying on work on a gigantic scale.
They already employe 250 men and
have not yet completed their works. Recently water was turned on for thirty seven hours continuously, and at that time
the ore washed out amounted to over
$5000 value.
Ottawa, Oct. 20 Inspector Constant ine
of the mounted police is expected here on
Mondav. He lias been summoned to
consult with the government in reference
to stationing a police force near Fort Yukon. Mr. Constant ine thinks fifty men
will be necessary.
Lady Thompson broke her arm the
other day by accident at her home.
UNION SHIPPING NEWS.
The Keewenaw arrived today (Tuesday).
The Thistle left Saturday night for Vic
toria. -
The barque Highland Light left Thursday for Departure Bay.
The str. Dunsmuir left Friday with
coal for New Westminster,
The ship Babcock left Thursday with
3500 tons of coal for Frisco.
The San Mateo left today. (Tuesday)
for San Francisco with 4500 tons coal-
The Capaliano called on Wednesday
and taking 175 tons of coat left for the
north.
The Coquitlam was in on Sunday to
coal and left for Banks Island, halibut
fishing.
COURTENAY ITEMS.
Dear News: The past week has not
been quite as lively as the last, as it is
not every week we have an exhibition.
Speaking of that reminds me lhat at the
annual meeting the old Board of Directors of the Agricultural Association
were re-elected, with the exception of A.
Urquhart, C. C. Westwood and M. Whit
ney, who resigned from the old board.
In their places were elected A. C. Salmond, David Jones, and Thos. Cairns.
Mr. David Jones has purchased the
late publication building of The News
and is fitting up the first storey fm his
soda water works, and the second storey
for a residence for his family.
A new bridge hns been built on the
backroad, not far from Thos. Cairns, in
place of a rotten structure, over a small
creek.
Master Tom Cliffe, the young son of
the proprietor of the Lome House, broke
his ankle on Tuesday the 16th inst. As
Mr. Beckensell's wagon was passing the
Comox school while the boys w-sre out to
play, young Tom attempted to climb up
on the wagon, and in some way lost his
balance and fell causing the injury.
Mr. Chas Ken ward and Frank Proctor
have opened a bakery establishment here,
using the building and oven formerly
used by E. F. Clay. They are turning
out good bread and doing quite a  trade.
On Thursday evening of lut week
there was a very pleasant social at T. W.
Scott's up the Settlement. Mr. Geo.
Grieve, and Mr. Tom Graham furnished
the music. There was quite an attendance, and a jolly time. Party broke up
at about 3 o'clock in the morning.
Wm. Cheney, the autioneer made a
splendid success of his auction sale at
Carwithen's ranch lasr week, selling a
large amount of property. He has now
laken out his license as auctioneer and is
in,the field for further business.
The odor of orange blossoms is in air,
and rumor points to one of our business
young men as the happy man. They will
make their home in this village.
Rev. Mr, Tait is arranging for a series
of lectures to be given under the auspices
of the Presbyterian Church. They will
be in the new Exhibition Hall, here. It
is understood there will be one each
month, and lhat several of the most eloquent divines on the Coast will appear in
tne course. The first one will be given
in about three weeks. These will furnish
amusement and instruction, and will also
illustrate the value of the new hall to this
charming village.
Mr. Joseph Hunter, M. P. P. has written expressing regret nt not being able
to attend the Exhibition, slating that it
was the intention of himself and wife to
have come but that at nearly the last
moment he was detained by important
business.
Occasional.
ODD FELLOWS' BALL.
The anniversary ball of Union Lodge
took piace last Thursday evening at Cum
berland Hall, and is reported to have
been well attended, and fully up to previous entertainments of this enterprising
society, but as the customary complimen
lary ticket was not sent to The News
11 is taken for granted, as it is in all such
cases, that no write up is desired.
SPLENDID CHANCE.
We often hear of one warring to buy
an acre or two of cleared land, convenient to schools and churches, but unable
to do so. The difficulty is removed
for a season as blocks of one or
two acres can now be obtained through
Kev. Mr. Willemar, at Sandwick, facing
thc road, for the reasonable price of a
hundred dollars per acre.
As money is wanted to build a parsonage it has been determined to dispose of
this very disirable property.
Brevities.
Whooping cough is on the decline.
The ditch in the big swamp has reached the bridge.
The ne.v shaft has been sunk 42 feet,
14 feet below the rork.
A live merchant advertises in a lively
manner and does a lively business.
The contract for grading the railway to
the new shaft will be completed this week
For Sale.���A Jersey bull, full pedigree. Apply to John Piket, Cumberland
Hotel, Union
There will be an auction sale of Hetb-
erington's effects at the farm, soon.
Look out for the notice.
No. 4 engine has been neatly painted
by Mr. J. H. Sullivan, and is ready for
work on the new branch line to shaft
No. 5.
Louis W. Fauquier has some first class
farming property for sale, also some fine
acre property. Water frontage land,
very cheap.
The lovely maple is yielding to the
pursuasive touch ofautumn, and its leaves
are turning from dark rich green to a
golden yellow.
The McKims have made a new depar-
turh. This time it is in the line of carpets. They have some fine patterns.
Call and inspect them.
At the meeting at lhe Reading Room,
this Tuesday night it is proposed to start
with a clean slate wiping out all back
dues and electing new officers.
The bad weather of the last few days
has had a dampening effect on most
everything but building. That seems ta
flourish like a green bay tree, and it ap
pears that only the heavy snows can
stop it.
Loige Simondi was badly burned on
Saturday evening in No. 4 slope having
ignited the gas. His arms, face and
hands were the parts reached by the
flames. A Chinaman was slightly burned at the same time.
The ball last night (Monday) at Courtenay tor the purpose of rasing funds to
get new desks for Puntiedge school was
fairly succesful, there being 60 present.
It was well conducted, with good music;
and the refreshments were furnished by
Kenward 8t Prockter the popular bakers.
It is expected that No. $ shaft will he
ready for timbering and cementing by
Thursday. The new timbering will be
inside the old or outer timber wall, with
a spare between them of nine inches.
This space will be filled with concrete so
as to make the shaft perfectly water
tight.
OYSTERS.
Call at O. H. Fechner-s for Oysters,
the best in the market.
NOTICE.
The auction sale of the stock, implements, etc., of the Hetherington Estate
will take place Thursda), the 8th of
November next at 10 a.m. Full particulars next week.   Watch for them.
A GREAT RUSH.
Where? Why of course at Leiser's
mammoth store, where everything can
be found and at remarkable tow prices.
This store is but one of Mr. Leisers'
stores, which wherever established take
the lead. One secret of his great success
is that he knows the value of printers
ink. Like all successful, brainy merchants he knows thoroughly the importance of generous persistent advertising,
and he knows too that there must be
good goods, and plenty of them, and
that the prices must be reasonable. He
therefore is enabled to turn over vast
quantities of merchandise, and if his
profiits are small on any particular article, as they undoubtedly are, in the agre-
gate ihey must be large. Being a
wholesale dealer he can defy competition
and is enable to meet the rush with satisfying goods at satisfying prices.
PERSONAL.
Dr. Hall, the demist is still at the
Waverly, and is doing a good business.
Mr. j. B. McLean, who went to Ab*
botsfbrd last week is expected back on
the Joan tomorrow.
lohn Burns, representing Crathem &
Overbid of Montreal was staying at the
Waverly a portion of last week.
T, J. Wheeler, gen'l agent ofthe Greal
Northern Railway was a guest Wednesday and Thursday at the Waverly.
Mr. Robert Grant has been spending
the last few days at Wm Mathewson'-
ranch, superintending the gathering of
crops.
J. Cunningham, of the Cunningham
Hardware Co. nf New Westminster was
up here on the last trip of the Joan. He
is   registered at thc Waverly.
Mr. Archie Dick, Inspector of Mines
was up here Wednesday end Thursday
last. He was a guest at the Union hotel
as were also Mr. M. Hamburger and Mr.
Mermon of Wellington,
Mr. M. Hamburger, of the great hou^e
of Leiser & Hamburger, Wellington paid
his brother Mr. H. Hamburger of the
Mammoth Union Store here a visit last
week, returning on Friday.
Mr. C. McG. Van Houton, cf E. Pirn*
bury & Co. is up this week, Mr. Charles
Van Houton having lett for a weeks visit
to Nanaimo and other places. He is
staying at The Cumberland.
John Prentice, representing F. R.
Stewart, wholsate Produce Dealer of Van
couvet was here Wednesdey and Thursday la-it looking after the interests of his
house. He took rooms at The Cumber
land.
E. Merman, the leading jeweler of
Wellington, and one of th** most enterprising merchants is in town. He is so
pleased with the place and its business
firospects that he intends to make month
y visits to this place.
Mr. G, F. Cane, barrister of Nanaimo
was up here on business. He was found
at the Cumberland. He expressed surprise at the remarkable growth ofthe place
and spoke enthusiastically of the dry
bracing air we enjoyed so different from
the heavy damp air near the Gulf.
We received a pleasant call from Mr.
N. R. Hesketh of Vancouver, who isstay
ing at The Cumberland. He is selling
among the Chinese an admirable work
entitled, English for Chinese Self Taught
It is a book of about 500 pages and hy its
means a Chinaman may soon acquire a
knowledge of tbe coloquial phrases of our
language. PRACTICAL FARMING.
Table For Sorting1 Beans.
The culture of Oe&an in rapidly iuereaaing.
M they generally command * profitabl
price in tho market. Iu thrashing aud
winnowing tho beans It is almost impossible to remove all  pieces of pode and vinea,
FIO. 1. V18W OF BIAS   SORTING TABLE FROM
ABOVE.
ud the shruoken or diueaied beans, hence
baudsorting ia necessary to put the beans in
the clean condition whiuh securea the best
prices. An ingenious table on which to
aort the beans ia shown in tho illustration.
FIO.  2.   SIKK VlF.w IU' MEAN  miKTIM: TAIil.K
Fig. I preaenla a view of tlie table from
above, showing thn sievi* anil the spout.
A side view ia tthowu in Fig. 2, with the
drawera for refuse and bad t-eans, beneath
the sieve. This useful contrivance may be
made in portable shape, aud the less can
be folded ao that it can be brought into the
bouse on oold, stormy days. The legs are
bolted to the sides with one bolt each.
The height of the table can be varied by
making the legs slant more or less, and then
fastened by a wooden pin in holes bored to
suit. A elide keeps the beans from pouring into the sieve too rapidly.
Conformation of Datry Cows.
A prominent dairy authority claims that
the English idtia of & cow ia baaed on the
���utline of the Shorthorn, and hence ia more
or leas of a beef form. Answering this a
correspondent writes aa follows to the
London Live Stock Journal.
There is an increasingly common belief
that an ideal dairy cow ought to be, what
may be termed, wedge shaped, wide behind
and narrow forward. This, of course,
means narrow cheats, and narrow cheats
means weak cattle. Granted, for the sake
of argument, that auoh is the proper conformation of the ideal dairy cow, it may
be well to consider what this leads to. We
all know the story of the ending of tbe
experiment to get a horse to live on nothing. How well it succeeded up to a certain point, and would have heen entirely
successful had the horse lived ; but, as
luck would have it, the horse died when
only one straw stood in the way of complete fluccoca of the experiment.
If we are to breed oattle to be useful, we
must breed them with strong constitutions
and, after all, it is not yet satisfactorily
settled that we must breed oattle with
narrow chests if we are to have high-class
milking sorts. How does the matter atand,
at present T We have the Channel Island
cattle; essentially milk breeds, and we have
the Ayrshirea and Kerriea. With regard
to thB Channel Island cattle, we have in
them oattle whose milking qualifications
have been most carefully attended to by
generations of breeders, Theae breeders,
with their circumscribed boundaries, but
favorable climatic situations, have produced a olasa of amall cowa that give milk of
greater richness thau that of any other
reed. In the Ayrshirea and Kerriea we
have small-sized cattle, small food consumers and yot, comparatively apeaking,
great milkera. While both the Ayrshirea,
and the Kerriea are expected to live on
harder fare, and are subject to greater
climatic hardships, than the Channel Islanders, the experts in dairy cattle judging
are, and have beon, insisting upon having
the Ayrshirea aud Kerry cattle with the
same narrow-cheat development as is found
in the Jersey. All practical cattle -breeders
know where this muat end. Horry tales
are already told * of the constitutional
weakness of one of the breeds, and it is
only a matter of time, and that a very
little |time, when the effects of suoh a
system of breeding will ahow themselves.
Is it necessary to have narrow cheats in
dairy cattle? How doea the matter stand
with Shorthorn oattle���eattlo that, after
all tbat ia said or oan be said for other
breed*, are the dairy oattle of England
Every ono who has had experience of a
atook of dairy Shorthorns csn look back
upon many a wide-cheated, deep-milking
cow. They can quote many a cow as giving
four to five gnllona of milk a day, milking
ateadily month after month for fivo nr six
months, and gradually settling down till
ahe waa dried off after being in milk ten
months. They cau toll of a lean cow after
ten months' milking and a cow full of
flesh and substance at next calving time,
ao full of flesh at* to be mistaken by many
for one of the beof-bred aort. Suoh ia no
fanoy picture; it ia one that tens of thousands of dairymen and farmers could, and
doubtless would, willingly attest.
And, with regard to Shorthorns aa dairy
oattle, it cao be confidently asserted that,
aa they at preaent exist, they ara phenomenally better than could have been expected of thom considering that they have
been bred in auch a haphazard way, so far
aa their dairy capabilitiea are concerned.
We may all look forward to a much moro
systematic and carefully-worked outmanago,
ment in dairy cattle-breeding in future.
We have improved appliances by which,
with the least possible troublo, not only the
quantity of milk a cow may give can he determined, but a definite estimate of the
quality of suoh milk uau be at once obtained.
The tendenoy has heen to overvalue a
class of cowa that, at calving, or aoon after,
have an extraordinary bag development,
when in everyday cxpetienco these big-
bagged cowa may, and often do, fall ahort
in two very Important points. They may
j*ive a great quantity of milk't * a ahort
time, but after being again in calf, they may,
and many do, go off quickly. And, again,
although giving a great quantity of milk,
the quality may be so poor that, for all
other purposes except milk-selling, they are
less thrifty than many of their neighbors'
with a lighter milk record.
And all these things requiro muoh more
careful attention than they have yet had.
The hay hazard way cow-owners have
hitherto arrived at an estimate of the values
of their cowa haa been most unsatisfactory
and unbusinesslike. The evidence of those
owner* who have gone in for simply weighing each cow'a milk invariably goes to ahow
that tho top common system of depending
upon milkers' statement* as to a cow's
milking powers is a very uncertain one.
If we are to settle down to Ihe belief
that to get great milk -fat producers we have
to depend upon narrow-cheated, weakly
constitutional cowa, the outlook is dark
enough. If, on the other hand,'our atrong
wide-cheated cowa, are leas valuable than
they ought to be, simply on acoout of neglect on the part of breeders, there is a
glorious prospect and a wide field open lo
every breeder of Sliortliorns,
find to do in the hest and moat thorough
manuer, as by Cud'a law, makes that and
the action hue. It ia not so much the work
as tbe manner in which it is done that ennobles the worker. A well-scrubbed floor
is a much mure useful work than a badly
executed oil paiutiog in which muoh valuable canvas and other material haa gone to
waste. Intelligence and faithfulness tell
iu every department of work. Respect
your work whatever lhat work may be,
and remember that the best, brightest and
wisest of men and women will respect you,
Care of Milk In Berlin.
At Herr Bolle'a famous dairy in Berlin
Germany, the milk ia a trained through wire
aievea covered with a oloth over which fine
gravel ia sprinkled. After the milk ia
strained the gravel ia put in a hot oven,
that any gertna that may possibly have
been strained from the milk may be destroyed. The gravel ia thua used for filtering
the milk any number of times. For the
butter made at thia dairy both aweet and
sour cream are uaed, that made from aweet
cream commanding the higher price. After
the compartments filled with a particular
kind of milk are filled, the wagon ia locked,
and the milkman who delivers it haa access
lo tho aupply only through tho faucets on
Ihe aides of thc wagon,
CHINA'S NAVY IS CRIPPLED
TWO OF HER WARSHIPS SUNK AND
TWO BURNED.
A Blx Hoars' Naval I'.iigaKi-uieiil In Which
Belli Fleet* MaATer-Hlx Hund ml Mem
Ilrawaril   By a  Traa-tperl   Mini* Imt-
-S..WO Killed In llu* Bailie.
A despatch from  Tieu-Tacn  aays .���A
number of officers who wore engaged in
the naval battle on the Yalu   Kiver have
arrived at Port Arthur with half a dozen
warships bad ly damaged and filled with
wounded mon.
Admiral Tinge's fleet left port on Friday evening to convoy seven steam
transport! conveying a large force of
troopa. A number of Kuropeana in the
service of tho Chinese admiralty accompanied the troopa, whioh were to be landed
near Wipi, from which point they were to
be aent to tho front. These troops comprised aome artillery, but were mostly
comprised of infantry. Nothing waa aeen
of the enemy uutil the Chinese fleet reaohed the mouth of the Yalu River, when a
fleet of Japanese warships were sighted.
Thereupon the transports were hurried
forward and two warships were oleared for
action. The efforts of the transports to
land the troopa were auoceaaful, and moat
of them were gotten ashore before the naval
battle began.
The Chen Yuen was the first vesael to
open fire, and waa aoon engaged with two
Japanese warships of about the same si/e,
one of whioh is supposed to have been the
cruiser Chlyoda. Soon all of the vessels of
both fleets were engaged. The Chinese
cruisers Chi-Yuen and King Yuen were
sunk, and (JOO officers and men on board of
them were drowned.
Only a few of the men struggling In the
water were picked up. TheChao Yung and
Yang Wei, in manoeuvring for mora advantageous positions, get into shallow water
and ran aground. The stranded vessels
were helpless under thfl fire of tha big guns
of the Japanese ships and were finally aet
on fire by the enemy's sheila and became
wrecks.
Itisfearedsome of the transportahips were
sunk, inclnd ing one whose troopa hadnotyet
landed The Chinete loss is estimated at 1500
killed and wounded, and the Japanese loss
is supposed to be 1000, but none of the
Chinese officers giving accounts of the
battle know the namea or size of the four
vent-els of the enemy whioh are altedged to
have been taken.
Taking the Chinese best view of the
battle, it is plain that the encounter has
resulted in seriously crippling the naval
strength of China.
CREEDON TALKS*
The Sturdy Australian In Prime
Condition for Ills Contest With
Fltzstmmons-
IIe Tells aeiuelbla-t or HI* Inner Uft-
Naltes ������Secret or lhe Mean* Ue tiu
pie?*** to Keep In Shape���HU Manager
Dees nol Believe In Doctor*.
From the St. Louis, Ma, Chronicle.
As September 26, the date aet for the
95,000 oattle between Dan Creedon and
Bob Fitzaimmona, grows nearer its uncertainty growa greater and the interest of
the sporting world increases. While Fit/,
simnions will no doubt be a hot favorite in
the betting, yet the truth of the matter is,
that bnt very few have got a true line on
Creedon. While the wise men of the ling
who have oome in touch with him, are say*
ing but little out loud, it ia a welt-known
fact that Fitzaimmona' followers are finding
in a quiet way all the [Creedon money they
want.
Personally Fitzaimmona haa always
believed that Creedon was easy game,
But then, Creedon haa improved almoat
beyond belief aince he oame to this country. The instruction he received while
helping to train Corbett for tlio Mitchell
fight did him no ond of good, while his
method of living and manner of taking
care of himself haa greatly improved hia
condition.
Some timo ago it was reported that
Creedon whs a victim of muscular rheumatism and that hia daya as a fighter had
passed. Thia haa no doubt taken many of
ih'! sporting farternity over to the Fit*-
a.uiinona aide.
Honest Labor.
We have very little respect fnr the girl
who ia so lacking in aelf-reapect heraelf as
tobe ashamed of honeat work. She who
endeavors to do whatever work her hands
DOMINION LOAN COMPANIES.
Elablllilfs and Assets or Ihe highly* I wo
Loan Compaulea Doing Basinets In the
Dominion,
The annual report of the loan companies
and building societies in the Dominion for
the year 1893 waa issued recently by the
Finance Department. The material for
the report wu ready in June, but owing
to the orowded state of the printing bureau,
Mr. N. S. Ciarland, who compiled the
report, atates that it was not possible to
get it printed until now. Thero were
loaa companies and building societies that
made returns, being ao increase of 12 over
the previous year. Theae are represented
by provinces aa fallows '���Ontario, 72;
Quebec, 8; Nova Scotia, 2; total 82, Of
the 12 new companies, 11 aro in Ontario
and 1 in Quebec. The total liabilities
of tho companies are pi iced at $132,*
410,430, and the aaaot at �� 133/250,285.
The present coah value of investments on
mortgages and other securities is placed
at 9131,276,354. For the yoar previous
the investments on mortgages waa 8128-
151,577. Tho amount loaned during the
year was $20,865,871, compared with 823,-
437,786, for 1892. There was $23,437,986
received from depoaitord during tho year,
and $24,963,830 repaid to depositors. The
amount of principal and interest overdue
and in default on mortgages waa 82,740,872
a", increase of over $200,000 as compared
with 1892, Thore ia $5,191,251 of mort-
mortgaged property held for sale, and
84,903,940 chargeable againat the aaid
property. The amount borrowed for investment during the year war* $05,463,335, as
compared with $68,179,144 in 1892. The
amount of dividends declared during the
voar was $2,511,477, aliout $5,1X10 leas than
in the year previous. The real estate placed
under mortgage in Ontario is placed at
$100,782,388 ; in Quebec, $9,152,712: and
in Nova Hootia $981,458 making a total of
$110,916,559.
A Woman Hater.
Lilian���'* Ain't that your brother t"
Maud���" Yea 1"
Lilian���'* Why don't yer interdooce
meT"
Maud���" He's a misant'rope j he'* been
croHt in love an' he'a giv' our eex the cold
hake!"���Lifo.
Luck In a Mule's Foot.
While ploughing in a field a few days
ago on Woodson's Kidge, near Oxford, Mias.,
a negro discovered hia mule'a foot to bo
entangled and sunken some distance below
tho surface of the ground. When the foot
waa drawn out the negro was dumfounded
over the jingling of coin and a few golden
piecea that flew up with the extricated foot
of the animal. He immediately dug down
and brought up a large tin can containing,
he says, $1,700 in gold ooins.
Creedon is doing hia training in St, Louis
under the care of his foster brother, Tommy
Traoy. He was aeen in the oflice ot his
manager, Col. John D. Hopkins, by a
Chronicle reporter, and among other thinga
unbosomed himself regarding the' 'muscular
rheumatism" story :
"In Deoember last" (he laughed when
the subject waa broached) "I waa giviii-
sparrlng exhibitions with a variety am
athletic company. We played a week'a
engagement in Boston. During Christmas
week it waa bitterly oold, the theatre in
whioh we played was uiiaerably heated
behind the curtain. The dressing-rooms
were so cold that you could actually aee
your breath. My oontraot with the manager stipulated that I was to box two bouts
of three rounds eaoh, one of whioh was to
be "try-out" with any local fighter possessed of an ambition to make me 'bite the
dust.'
"Though my task waa not a severe one
from a scientific point of view, the work
waa hard and monotonous and the perspiration streamed from my pores aa I scampered from the stage into my cold,damp dressing-room. I resisted the shock of theae sudden changes until the night before we closed
our engagement, when, as I waa dressing
preparatory to leaving the theatre, a
sicken ine chill penetrated my back, my
legs ached and i suddenly became aick at
my atomach. I drank two hot whiskeys
in a neighboring saloon,hurried to my hotel,
and huddled up in bed.
"On the following morning on awakening,
my right ankle waa atiff and sore, and the
muscles of my arm were swollen and pained
excruciatingly.
"I rapidly grew worse. My physician
ordered hot water bags for my feet and
prescribed an alkali concoction for muscul*
ar rheumatism. Within a week I was unable to bear my weight on my feet.
"I discharged my physician in despair
and tried enough so-called rheumatic curea
to stook a fair sized drug store. By the
advicejof Col. John D. Hopkins, my manager, 1 purchased a box of Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills. Col. Hopkins had read ao
muoh in the papers of the man elloua cures
made by Pink Pills, and being a victim of
perlodioal attacks of rheumatism, gave
them a trial.
'Physicians be hanged, I have spent hundreds of dollars on 'em," here broke in
Col. Hopkins.
"After using one box of Pink Pills," continued Creedon, "tho pain gradually relaxed, my appetite improved, I atarted
taking a aecond box, and the paiu and
swelling disappeared from my ankles aud
feet, and the muaolea of my arms were restored to their normal condition.
"I left for Jacksonville, Fla., New
Year'a Day with " Billy Delaney, trainer
of Jim Corbett, to assist in preparing the
champion for the international glove contest with Charley Mitohelt. I had finished
iny aecond box of Pink Pilla when I left
Boston. The sudden change of the climate
combined with the malarial atmosphere of
Corbett's training quarters at Mayport,
revived the pain in my muscles and I became alarmed at my condition.
" I went up to .Jacksonville and secured
another supply of Fink Pilla, The marvellous effect of theae Pills almost baffles
belief
"Tho Pink Pills battled successfully
with the rheumatism and the seeds of
malaria planted in my ayatem by the
damp nights spent on the Florida coast.
I waa in oondition to begin work with
Corbett after a few day's rest and was
rapidly restored to health, the musoles
of my legs and arms being as strong and
good aa ever,
"I never in my life worked harder
than during the Corbett training campaign at Mayport, The rheumatic
ankles of a few weeks previous, were free
from soreness and stiffness, as all visitors
to Mayport who witnessed ma play handball and speed over the hard sand of the
beach oan attest.
A remarkable feature Is, that
plunged from the cold of the North into
the dampness of the Florida climate into
a rheumatic siege, taking no particular
care of my health beyond the regularity of
my Pink Pill treatment. I give you every
detail of the caae in order to end all further
controversy about my condition. I never
felt better in my lifo and, barring acci-
dants, will be ready to fight tho fight of my
life on Sept. 2(ith."
I hereby certify that tho foregoing interview ia truthful In every detail.
(Sig) Dan Crheiion.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are especially
valuable to athletes* and thoao undergoing
severe physical training. They act as a
tonic and bracer, stimulate the whole
system and keep the blood and nerves in
"the pink of condition.1 They pilla also
effect a radical cure in all cose* rising from
overwork, mental worry or excesses of any
nature. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents per
box, or aix boxes for $2,60���nover aold in
bulk or by the hundred.
RIVALS ALL BOLD FINDS,
SIR M. FRASER TALKS OF THE RECENT AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY.
Saya That lhe CoolgaHle Territory Ex
lend* Over Met Mil**, Nearly All at
Which la Anrlnsrena Earth, aad That
It <-pi.ru no Ear Kt-celvett, Wilh Ihe Lea*
aoaa Taught la oiher Fields, Polat ta
a Fatt-r-K of Itunieaie Prodnellea far
the   ateceaily Iklorovered Held Field*
Tbe reoent rich discovery of gold at Coolgardio, which has been oabled from Australia, promises to be one of the moat important ever made in that colony. Sir Malcolm
Fraaer,agent general for Western Australia
in England, in discussing tha atrike the
other day aaid the present generation need
not trouble about the permanency of the
gold mining in that colony. He believed
we were ouly standing upon the threshold
and that greater things are yet to oome. In
July, 1889, aome energetio gentlemen, led
by W. Anstey, went oo a prospeoting tour
to a poaition about .'MO miles eastward of
Perth, when almost a legendary report had
arisen that gold could be found In a district
since named Yilgarn. Theae gentlemen
fouud that the report waa not a myth, aa a
gold centre named Southern Croas was discovered, in and around whioh good paying
reefs were found. In the aame distriot.nome
milea north of Coolgardio, a discovery had
been made which would seem to eclipse
anything ever discovered in the world'a
history. A hole 5 foet 4 inches wide and 3
feet deep had yielded ��10,000 firat, and
then enough gold waa left to scale 200
weight. This reef waa outcropped for a
diatanoe of half a mile, and it was believed
to be a deep one,
"The auriferous belts of western Australia," aaid Sii M. Fraaer, '-extend from the
Dundas hills In the south to the Ord river
in the north, a distance of over 1,200 miles.
Of courae it does not follow that every mile
of thia ground is auriferous, but when you
think of the wonderful discoveries already
made it la not too much to expect that the
greater portion of thia land will bo found
to bo gold-bearing. The utmost energy haa
been brought to hear upon the construction
of railways, The Hue to Coolgardie haa
been completed to Southern Crosa, a distance of 300 milea, leaving over I'd) miles
to construct, whioh is to be proceeded with
at once, and the line to Upper Murohiaon,
a distance of 300 miles, ia being rapidly
completed,
"Thia will connect the fields with a good
seaport, aud thus give tha necessary impetus to the rapid development of the district,
It is in contemplation to construct other
lines to the more northern parts ot tho
colony to bring theae districts into line.
' 'The water aupply of the western aide
DEATH OF COL. MOFFAT.
ttae or jUailim'* Ol-lr��i aad Moil Respect
nl lealdcat* Caae.
A London, Out., despatch saya :���Lieut-
Col. James Moffat died at an early hour on
Tueaday morning at his residence, corner
of Talbot and Simcoe atreeta. in his person
a well known, highly respected and valuable old citizeu of London has paaaed away.
For two yeara he haa been ill. He waa a
native of Scat land and came here in 1844.
For aeveral years deceased waa brigade
major of No. 1 military district. Col.
Moffat waa a member of the Town Council
of London at an early date and w��a mayor
iu 1860, when the Prince of Wales visited
Canada, the colonel haviug the honor of
presenting His Koyal Highness with the
addreaa on that memorable occasion. Col,
Moffat waa much interested in educational
matters, waa on the Board of School Trust
teea yeara ago, and waa chairman of the
board in 1880. He was also for several
years, and almoat uutil taken ill two years
ago, a member of the Board of Health. Ho
waa a direotor of the Agricultural Loan and
Savinga Society. He waa one of the oldest
and moat respected members of the Maaonio
fraternity in Western Ontario. He held
the office of deputy grand maater of tho
grand lodge of Canada for two yeara and
was ohoaen grand master at Kingston, whioh
oflice be held for one year. Tho funeral
will take place Friday afternoon.
CAN YOU COOK?
II la Nolhlaa Less thaa Wicked ta Marry
Wllbeut a Knowledge of This Art,
A girl who deliberately marries without
understanding the art nf cooking la commit*
ing a���well, the law of the land does not
call it a crime. Especially ia this true of
those In modest circumstances, who cannot
employ efficient cooks. Burnt fingers,
sour bread, scorched roasts, leathery steaks,
wishy-washy coffee and disordered stomachs are not conducive to the happiness
that one imagines the honeymoon ahould
be filled with. There are ao many reasons,
logical and philosophical, why cooking
ahould be Included in the accomplishments
of young girla that it is useless to enumerate them. Good cooking is the basis of
happineaa, health and success In the home
life. One may thoroughly understand art,
music, architecture, science and philosophy,
be* familiar with astronomy, mythology,
the mysteries of evolution, politics and
literature, yet if tho chemistry of a loaf of
bread has been neglected the education is
sadly incomplete, ao far aa the "houso
mother" ia concerned.
O ����� the equal of
forfyePrt>mptajjd
PerhiancntCurfe of
Peons a*J7d*2\cljeS
Mothers
differing with weakness and
emaciation, who give little
nourishment to babies.should
take
Scott's
Emulsion
Champion
of
Canada. .   ���
I have boen drinking St.Leon Mineral Water
Mgulurlr tor four yean, and consider lithe
very best thing to drink while In general training. It It an excellent regulator, navlng completely cured me ot constipation and kidney
trouble.
W. IL Hasi.ii r. 383 Manning Ave,,
Champion Pedestrian of Oanadn.
St Leon Mineral Water Co'y, Ltd.
Haad Offloa-KHu St. W��� Toronto.
All DnigKlrtU, Orooer. aad Hotel*.
the Cream of Cod-liver OU
and hypophosphltes. It will
give them strength and make
their babies fat. Physician,,
the world over, endorse IU
Dos't be dacatisd b) Sufestltutcsl
B^ltlDU��Bt.Ball��W��.AUDrui��UW.Wo,*��L
of Australia 200 milea from the coast la
spaamodio in character, drenching rain,
quite tropical, accompanied by the moat
violent thundor-atorms, ia precipitated on
the thirsty soil. The average yearly rainfall at Coolgardie haa been estimated at
twelve inches in ahowera, or, rather, de*
luges, of ahort duration. It only remains
for the Ingenuity of man to catch and pre-
serve this beneficial and ample rainfall to
provide for every one ofa very large colony
of miners. Apart from thia, aalt water
can be readily obtained in most parte by
deep sinking, and this hu been found to he
moat useful in the extraction of gold, although not so good as fresh water. Of
course it can be condensed and then it ia
ready for oonaumption.
"The premier of the colony atated the
other day thata condenser capable of heating 3,000 gallons of aalt water can be procured for ��Ift0, Thirty thousand pounda
haa been already expended by the government in water conservation, ao that after
the next rain Coolgardie will be provided
with an ample supply of water. The government have beeu doing what is necessary
to keep the minora provided and communication open ; of courae, private companies
must look after themselves. The climate
is magnificent and moat healthy. The
government havo given their consideration
to the question of a mint to bo erected, so
you see they have an idea lhat there will
be plenty of gold. Towns are springing up
right and left. Undoubtedly, what was
yesterday a desert will tomorrow be a large
town."
As to the tenure upon whioh the land ia
held the agent general added : "The gov*
ernment have, perhaps, been too liberal in
thia respect. Before they found tbey had
so muoh hidden treasure they made contracts with certain syndicates, the Hampden Plaina Kstate Company, for Instance,
which owns a very large and important
area of mining and pastoral land. Miners
who discovered a gold area wero rewarded
with a picked chain It is only right that
the men who first light the torch of progress
should have aome benefit from its rays.
The gold discovery in western Australia is
neither a aecret nor a trick. Kvery day
will show tho world that it is one of the
moat wonderful realities of the century."
It's Astonishing
tow Dr. Pierce'a Favorlto Prescription acts
ipon nervous women. It'a a marvelous
-emedy for nervous and general debility,
'.'boron, or Si* Vitus'Dance, Insomnia, or
Inability to sleep, apaams, convulsions, or
*' fits," and every like diaorder.
Kven in oases of insanity resulting from
functional derangements, the persistent use
pf the " Prescription" will, by restoring
the natural funotions, generally effect a
cure.
For women suffering from any chronio
f female complaint" or weakness ; for wo-
pteu who are run-down or overworked j at
the change from girlhood to womanhood j
and, later, at the critical '-change of life.'
-it is a medioine that aafely and oertalnly
builds up, strengthens, regulates, and cures
If it doesn't, if it ever falls to benefit or
cure, you have your money baok.
What more oan anyone ask t
Is anything that isn't aold In this way
likely to be " just as good T"
   -at* -
A Pretty Picture.
Little Ulrl���"Oh, Mr. Wheelman, do
���top talking to sister a minute, and oome
and aea my kittau, Sho looks too cunning
for anything."
Mr. Wheelman (reluotantly)--"Um-*
what ia the kitten doing V*
Little Uiri��� "She's sLandiu'up so stralgh
And pretty a-sharpeain' her claws on you
bicycle,"
A P. 729.
A Little Too Late.
Miss Fadd��������� The meanness of aome
people is past comprehension."
Mra. Fadd���" What has gone wron g, my
love T"
Mias Fadd���"Last woek I waa elected an
active member ofthe Youm* Ladies' Philanthropy Club, and to-day I began my
miniatrationa by taking a basket of cold
victuals to a poor woman whose namo was
down on the books. Well, when I got there
I found that eome meddlesome busybody
bad heen thero two weeks ago and given
her work, and I had to carry all that stuff
[back."
in the Neck
Scrofula
The following la from Mrs. J. W. Tlllbrook,
w-fc of the Mayor of McKeesport, Penn.;
"My little boy Willie,
now si* years old, two
years ago Iuul a bunch
under one ear which tlie
doctor said was Scrofula. As It continued t'l
grow ho finally lanced ii
and It discharged foi
! sonic time. We then be
gun giving l:lni llood'l
Willie Tlllbrook. Siirsuparllla nnd he im
proved very rapidly until the .tore healed up,
Last winter it broke out again, followed by
i'*r*f-*ipi iu*. We ugaln gave him Hood's Sarsaparilla with most oxoellent results and he
h**s had no further trouble.  Ills cure Is due to
Hood's Sarsaparilla
He lias never been very robust, but now seems
healthy and dailr grawlag airoager."
Hood-b Pills da uut �������������������������-. ������--* ��������<
elK-uttou and tona tbe stomaeb. Trj tt-en*. Ste.
The coldest place in the world is Yaku-
tch, Russia. Sometimes the mercury drops
to 73 degrees below zero.
Charlatans and Quack?.
Have long piled their vocation on the suffering podalti of the people. The knife haa
Eared to the quick ; caustic applications
ave tormented tha victim of corna until
the conviction shaped itself���there's no
cure. Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor
provea on what Blonder basis publio opinion
often reals. If you auffei from corna get
the Extractor aud you will be aatisfied.
Sold everywhere.
Tho foot travel across London bridge each
year reduces to powder twenty-five cublo
yards of granite.
Get Rid of Neuralgia-
There ia no use in fooling with neuralgia.
It ia a disease that gives way only to tho
most powerful remedies. No remedy yel
discovered haa given the grand results that
invariably attends the employment of Pol-
aon'a Nerviline. Nerviline ia a positive
specific for all nerve pains, and ought to be
kept on hand in every family. Sold every
where, 25 cents a bottle.
According to English insanity returns 10
oases in 1,000 are caused by love affairs.
St. Leon'a "keeping"  propertiea ara unequalled.    It ia juat ar good In  bulk as
bottle and much less expensive.
There ia only one dock of pure merino
aheep in England.
Tbe Tree of Heaven is the common name
for the Ailanthus, a very topical, looking
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CHAPlER XLH.
Aa aoon aa I waa up and about. 1 hunted
up Ethel, and as ahe happened to ba alao
hunting up me on her own account, we
very aoon found ourselves alone together,
not In the shrubberies but upon the lawn,
where we oould at onoe discontinue our
conversation, and plunge boldly into something else, ahould anyone break In upon
Jni.
"I hav* newa for you, Ethel."
"And 1 have news for   you."
"Bless my aoul 1 we are alwaya doing, or
thinking, or wanting the aame thing, or
having the aame thing happen to ua at the
aame time, It'a marvelous 1 Well what la
it and what ia it all about*."
"It'a no very great aecret dear. U'a
aimply this, that a man, who happens to
be eligible and to be alao a very good
fellow into the bargain, haa proposed to
me."
"Good beavena, you don't say ao 1 And
a man, who happens to be a very nlco fellow and to be very eligible into the bargain,
haa a second time proposed to me. It al*
moat begina to look aa if we were bewitched,   Tell me now; who ia your man?"
-'Before I answer that, you muat tell me
whether you have accept-d Lord Aahwell
thia time or whether you have been insane
tnough to onoe again aend the poor man off
about hia buaineaa."
"No, Ethel, I have done the right
and the merciful thing thia time. I have
told him that I will do all I can
to make him a moat amiable and in every
way a model wife, and I have aent him off.
I really believe, ao happy that he hardly
aeema to know what to do with himaolf.
Now tell mo what you have done, or rather
tell me lirst, who your victim ia."
"My victim, aa you ara pleaaed to term
him, lady Craven, ia bearing np wonderfully under all the oircumstancea. Allow
me to inquire after the health of yours."
"Mine ia radiant with delight and now
that we have eaoh of us hooked and practically landed our fiah, suppose we begin to
compare notes. Who ia your fiah, what
doea he scale, how old if he, and ia he in
seasonable oondition ?"
"I wilt anawer categorically. My fiah ia
named Sir Thomaa Jackson, and ia an Alderman and ex-Lord Mayor, and very presentable in evory respect. Of hia exact calling I
know nothing aa yet, except tbat he ia
���omething in the oity and muat make a fair
amount of money by purauing that occupation, aa bia private residence and place of
reaidence out of businesa houra ia la Chef-
ham Place. He may be a toap boilir. for
all that I care ao long aa he ia content to do
what ia right and handsome in tbe way of
aettlemeuta, pocket-money, and other auch
mature of detail. It is in the matters of detail
dear Miriam, that the whole secret of thia
world really lief. Look to your detaila.aud
the larger mattera will take care of them-
aelvea quite naturally."
"So 1 am coming to believe. Firat.how-
ever, let me congratulate you with all my
heart. We are auch very old friends, and
good frienda,that I need hardly dosoin aaet
speech,now let me in turn tell you all about
my own love etieir. I have made my fiance
the happiest of men, and he ia, I believe, at
thia moment either dreaming of me, or
���Iaa thinking of me over hia after
breakfast cigar and brandy and sola. For
Heaven's sake, if ho ahould come up, aa he
may at any moment, don't look full of
guilty knowledge. Try and talk as if nothing whatever was passing in your mind.
Put on what I have heard you call a casual
appearance. It la a very happy phrase, ex*
Actly hitting off what it describes."
"I will look, my dear, aa casual aa I pot-
albly oan, and I had better perhapa begin
to look ao at once, forbore comes the young
gentleman himself."
The young gentleman himself waa bearing
down upon ue at thia juncture and wanting
to know whence we came, and whither we
were going, and what we thought of the
weather, and ao on, gave me at lut the
chance of telling him that I waa going up
to London on business that very afternoon,
having in faot received a letter which made
it neceasary that I ahould do so.
Lord Aahwell drove mo up to the station,
aod aaw me off- Arrived at Paddington, I
procured a hanaom, and, in about twenty
minutea, found myself once again in thc
offices of Messrs, Wylie ft Wylie.
Mr, George Wylie received me in hia
usual manner, although with more deference, 1 farcy, than he would ahow to ordinary clients. And he then proceeded to
���xtraot my buaineaa from me eo skilfully
and rapidly that he really knew all about
it before I, for my own part, waa aware that
I even told him anything.
Wheu he had leatnt what he wished to
know he congratulated me very gravely
and courteously. Lord Ashwell, he aaid,
Waa ft young nobleman, whom eveiybody
liked, and who had never been involved in
any scandal, or even difficulty ; else he,
Mr. Wylie. would moat certainly have
known all about it. Hia lordship waa in
the beat set, and belonged to two or three
of the very beat clubs, the Carlton aud
White's for instance. He waa aaid and believed, to have very considerable ability,
and to be certain oneday to make his mark
in the Upper Houso, And then Mr, Wylie
abruptly gave the conversation a new
departure by asking mo whether I had as
yet told Lord Aahwell of, what he politely
termed, the persecutions to which I had
been subjected.
I answered that I had not aa yet had
time to toll Lord Ashwell anything, and
that my real object in coming up to town
had beeu to aak him, Mr. Wylie, what he
thought I had better do.
The man of law considered the matter fora moment, not being, according to
hla usual practice, ready at once with
an entire solution of tho whole difficulty.
Then, having thought the matter out,
he replied cheerfully:
"Of courae you muat let him know, sooner or later, and before your engagement
gate abroad ; or, if you do not, aome enemy
or other will do the thing for you. It is
quite necessary that it ahould be done, and
I advise you to do it at once. The only
possible question is, wilt you do it yourself,
or shall somebody do it for you'���* Now, I
would gladly go beyond the routine of professional duty, only that I think you had
better tell Lord Aahwell yourself. Then
cornea the point whether you shall write to
him, or whether you ahall tell him, and if
I were you I ahould moat certainly tell him.
Ha is ft young man of atrong oommon sense.
He is sure to Know this story already. In
all human probability he haa heard the caso
discussed several times, and from every
pouible point of view. If ao, he will have
formed his own opinion, and I have very
little doubt myself u to what that opinion
will be."
"But tbe papers were ao down on me," I
uid.
"Leading articles in newspapers," he
replied, "always accept the fait aozompll,
always say that they had foreseen it all
along; always make it out worse than it iB;
and alwaya moralize about it in a manner
which is often sublimely impertinent and
aickeningly hypocritical. No man with any
confidence in his own opinion is ever influenced by the papers, Lord Ashwell,
whatever he may have read at the time,
will have formed his own judgment upon
your history, and I should say that his
judgment would be a sound one.
"And all these things being so, I oannot
help thinking that your best courae ia to
tall him yourself who you really are, and
then to suggest tbat he should come and
see ma, as i had Mr. Sabine's confidence
entirely/, and can thoroughly satisfy Lord
Ashwell upou any point he may wish to be
informed about."
thi
Thia wu evidently meant to be final, ao
I wiahed Mr. Wylie good day; wu escorted by him in person to my oab, and, u I
had determined to stay in town for the
night, wu driven at once to my old quart-
era at the Langham.
On this occasion, instead of going to the
play, I dined rather late, with the allowance of a pint of champagne. A man after
thia would, of course have smoked. I, on
the contrary, aat before the fin (for tt wu
rather chilly) with aome tea and a small
glass of fine champagne, and then wrote a
fetter, which, u I knew, would, if
despatched by hand to the station-box at
Paddington, reach Tho Uplands in the
moroing mail bag.
CHAPTER XLIII.
My letter waa abort enough, but I know
that Lord Ashwell would be delighted to
hear from me. I told him tbat I had got
through the little shopping tbat had taken
me up to town entirely to my satisfaction,
and tnat I intended to return by an early
train the next morning, whioh would land
ma at the atation at about eleven, and that
I ahould then drive straight to the house.
I pleaded the necessity for catching the
float aa an exouae for the shortness of tha
Btter, and having made certain that It
would be aent off safely, went to bed earlier
than my usual hour.
My lover met me at the station. He
had sent down from London a i
stanhope, ftnd ft couple of fut-trotting
cobs, whioh he said he wished me to try.
I need not remind my reader that my
little experience of driving had been
acquired very late in life. But I had ft
natural aptitude for it, ftnd I oould feel
aa I took the reins that the horsea knew
their mistress, and that Lord Aahwell
could see u muoh.
When we reaohed The Uplands I promised that I would join him at therustiohouse
by the campshead aa soon u I had changed
my traveling dress. Thii operation 1 performed with great oare, trying to make
myself look at my very best, and I really
think succeeding tolerably well. Then I
nude my way down to the water's edge,
and there found Lord Aahwell throwing
pebbles more or less aimlessly into the
water, and evidently in an extremely
reatleu frame of mind.
He began at onoe about myself, and
about our marriage. How soon wu it to
be ? and when and where wu it to take
plaoe! and how soon might he tell ill his
freinde about it? At preaent he had
thought it best to keep strictly to the very
Utter of our understanding, and to tell no
one. But, of course, the thing mnst be
known sooner or later, he did not really see
any reuon why it should nnt just u well
be made public at onoe. Why should we
not tell the Fox's who were kind people,
and would be aure to be pleased, and have
the whole thing put in the Post in the
shape of the customary announcementt
There wu not the least occasion for any
mystery, and for his own part he wanted
the news to be made public property u
aoon u possible,
Ho wu evidently In earnest, and not at
all in ft humor to be put otl. All that I
could do wu to beg nim for a few days
to let mattera rest u they were.
"I have no doubt," I said, "you will
think me fanciful, ao perhapa 1 am. In
faot, I think that all women are fanciful
more or leas. I oan only uk yon for just
this once to bear patiently with me, and
to honor my fancy, A day or two, or even
a couple of weeks (for which I do not uk,
and have no intention of asking), is a very
little matter after all, where two lives are
concerned. As for our marriage itaelf, I
have no wiah to postpone that indefinitely,
or, in faot, at ull. I only want a few days
more."
"Well, my darling," he answered, "it
is idle to pretend that I am uot disappoint*
ed, for I am, and I tbink I have a little
reason to be. I always hated mystery,
and I wanted to have had the whole thing
out at once. It must be, however, u you
pleaie. For the present I will say nt
more about it, but we oannot, of course,
prolong our stay here indefinitely. The
best of the people have gone already, and
the reat will soon be going. For my part,
I think the sooner wa let the thing be
known, and without giving people any unnecessary time to think about it and
chatter about it, get married up in London
and are off to the Continent, the better it
will be.   Cannot you give ine any idea!"
Upon what slight oircumstancea our
whole life often lingers. I felt strongly���
almost irresistibly-tempted then and there
to tell him everything; out my evil destiny
prompted me to put olf doing ao. I wu
tired with my journey, with late hours,
and with the excitement of my triumph,
and perhaps also I waa vain enough to believe that a little something like coquetry
might not be altogether without avail. So
I put the matter lightly by, telling him
that I should very probably make up my
mind that night, and that I would certainly let him know before dinner the noxt
day*
Then wo made our way up through the
reddening plantations to i the house, for,
early u it was, the mists were already he*
ginning to Ile heavily on the meadows, and
among the reeds and sedge.
Wo parted in the hall, and 1 made my
way to my own num. 1 had looked to one
or two little things, ftnd wu beginning to
think of going downstairs to luncheon, whon
Ethel burst into the room,
"I have to be off at onoo to Paris, my
dear," ahe began, "I won't bother you
with my affairs. You have quite enough
ot your own to occupy all your attention ;
but go I must, or I most certainly would
not be leaving you at this particular crisis,
I have looked at, the Dradanaw, and all the
other authorities, and I find that if I leai e
here at five sharp, I can just manage to do
mattera comfortably. Alt my packing ia
completed, my formal adieux have been
made, and thero is nothing left for me but
to lie ready for the carriage when it comes
round to the door. Meantime I bave a
letter for you whioh hu l-enn forwarded
from Paria, where it wu addressed oare of
myaelf. It Is idle to pretend that I do not
know the writing, for it happens to be that
of Prince Balanikoff. Open it at once, my
ohild, and let me know what that moat
estimable of Russians, and least bearlah.has
to say for himself."
1 complied, more or less mechanically,
and with ft certain amount of uneasiness.
I was passing through a very severe and
sharp crisia, and my nerves were strung to
the most extreme point ot tension.
The letter itself did not take by any
means long to read, or to master ita purport. It was not brief, but it wu tren-
ohantly to the point.
"Jockey Club, Paris,
"October 24th, 18���.
Mv dear Lady Craves,
"It is just possible that it may be soml
time before thia letter wilt reach you.
do not know where you are, and I am
aware that in England, at thia time of the
year, your movements are very likely to be
erratic
" Why am I writing to you'! Of course
I have not forgotten the stern interdict
under which you have virtually placed me.
Of course I am wrong in breaking it. Mais,
que vnulez-vflitH ? News, sometime*', come
to me in odd ways, and I have heard newa
of yourself, and, to tell you the truth, of
Lord Aahwell. I hope what I hear may be
untrue, u his Lordship is a most estimable
apeoimen of a young English country gentleman, and would, no doubt, make a model
and extremely affectionate husband. Of
that I have no manner of doubt. But it is
only my duty to let you know, ai soon as I
possibly can, that yon an threatened with
danger. The exact atory of your lite ia
likely at any moment, and when you taut
expect it, to be sprung upon yon. Yon
will than find that you have plenty of fighting to do, if you an even to hold yonr
own, ao you consequently oannot ba too
thoroughly forearmed.
"Meantime, my own lovo for yon
mains unaltered, I told you truthfully
that it wu, and hftd bun, tha
only passion of my life, and it remains
an now. At any time, and under any circumstances, -any old proposal to you, and
the promises attached to that proposal.hold
good. I will leave Russia forever, and let
you choou for yourself our place of abode.
"If yon want me, u I am almost certain
yon will, aad muoh sooner thai yon think,
telegraph to mo hore, or oome to mo hen,
whioh ever yon prefer. I have a aort of
fancy that yon wilt come, and ao shall not
leave until I hoar from you.
"I could write pagu; bnt I have said at!
that ta necasaary, and will now wait until
our next muting.
"Youn till death.
'���BALANIKOFr."
I handed tha letter to Ethel, and aaid:
Read it for youraelf.my dear, and tell me
whfttit means. Your Drains are sharper
than my own by fnr. For myself, I confess,
that tt fairly puulu mo."
Ethol read tha letter over, not onoe, but
two or thro* timu. until I felt certain that
ahe had thoroughly mutend it, Thon she
handed tt back to ma with an enigmatical
expnuion of countenance. She wu evidently at once amused and bewildered, and
yet not at all anxious or disquieted.
"Ho is a funny follow, dear Miriam,"
ahe said, "very persistent, and vory terribly
in earnest* But I alwaya told you that he
meant well. Aa for reading between tho
linu of his epistle, tbo talk is an auy one
���far euier than the small pea under one of
tho threelittle thimbles. He ta making ft lut
desperate effort to gat yon to accept hia
proposition, and to trying to frighten you.
What, however, you have tobe frightened
about, I fail to aee. If I wen you, f should
certainly not anawer the totter; but I
should none the leu keep it u a ourioaity,
whioh, indeed, it mott unquestionably is.
And whatever yon do, mind u soon as you
an married, and have got Aahwell to your*
���elf, that you make a olean bnut of evorything to bim, and leave him nothing to find
out. There will ba a scene, no doubt, at
tbe first, but through that yon must
struggle, and you will end by being firmer
lovera than ever, and, better than lovers,
friends. For friendship ia better than love
in proportion as it bu confidence in it.
while love Is always passion, and oonse.
quently mon or lew irrational, capricious,
and uncertain, if not, indeed, at timea entirely treacherous. Marry him at once, my
dear Miriam, and then tbe very day afterwards have the whole thing over.'1
"Bnt yon do not seem to underatand,
Ethel 1 mean to tell Lord Ashwell everything before I marry him. In faot I muat
tell him before. You forget I hnvo aeen Mr.
Wylie, whoso ad rice entirely chimes In
with my own previous determination. Besides, u Mr. Wylie told me,if I married in
any name but my own, the marriage would
bo an idle ceremony entirely nnil and void,
and then all aorta of complications would
follow."
"Well, darling," aaid Ethel, "then is
only ono thing certain at cards, and that
it that the cards oannot alwaya be againat
yon. Of that I am quite confident. Your
bad luck up to now haa been persistent,
oruel, and almoat malicious. It is high
time that tbe tide began to turn. I for my
own part feel pntty certain that it hu
tamed already, and I consequently vote
that we keep our own counsel snd for
tho present uy no mon ftboat tbe matter.
Then is tho luncheon bell, and I havo my
old Alderman to pacify. He will bo fur*
ioua at my having to go over to Paris, and
I do not mtnd telling yon that he is the
kind of animal who wants a good deal of
smoothing down. I shrewdly suapeot'that
he hu ruined his digestion with thick
turtle soup and Mansion House punch, and
that his digestion hu ruined his temper.
Nous verrona. When I am Lady Jackson,
I Will put a ring in his nose and pipe to him ;
and my bear ahall dance to my own tune or
I will know why. You ahall aee my dear.
You ahall aee. And we went down to
lunoh.
(TO BI CONTINUED)
FACTS IN FEW WORDS.
The firat public library wu established
io Athens, B.C. 54a
Then are 9,000,000 foreign born people
in thu United States.
British fishermen daily drag $100,000
worth of fish from the sea.
Mftssaohusetts now hu ft company that
insures against tosses by burglars,
Tho annual taxes of the world aggregate
the enormous sum o! |4,35O,0CO,0O0.
Several European journals are being
printed on Amerinan-made paper.
London hu the but water supply of any
city in tbe world. Every day 420,000,000
gallons oan bo pumped into the pipes-
According to a custom of Corea, all loyal
Coreans must were a white hat for three
yoars after the death of one of the royal
tarn Ily.
Ike Saeger, of Canton, O., sawed off the
limb againat wbioh his ladder wu ruling
while trimming treat the other day* He is
still in tho hospital
The Hungarian of three centuries ago
wu entitled to wear one feather tn hia cap
for every Turk he killed, hence the phrue
in common uae among us.
Tarring and feathering wu once a legal
fiuniahment for theft. It it said to be found
n tho statutea of both England and France
about the time of tho Crusades.
Two Mexican cowboys fell in love with
the same girl, and, with the young woman's
consent, settled the matter hy a duel.
Both wen seriously wounded, but it it
utd the young woman will keep to her
agreement and marry tho victor u soon as
he to ftble to be about.
Id Australia creat inconvenience la ex<
perlenced in telegraph conttruotton by tho
fondness of tho natives for win for bracelets, ear and nuo rings, and their weakness
for the procelain Insulators, which they
fuhion Into arrowheads,
A novel suit is being brought by an Indiana woman against a number of prominent people of that state. She wishes to
ncover 9*3,000, whioh, ahe alleges, her
husband lost to them gambling,
There's a man tn a little town about ten
miles fnm Dallas, Tex,, who Is landlord
of the only hotel, the storekeeper, tho only
lawyer in the plaoe ftnd tho putor of tho
only church.
In tbe dominions of tbe British empire
alone somo 8,000 indviduals vanish every
year without leaving any indication u to
their whereabouts or ever appearing again.
A Louisiana man wu bitten the other
day by a poisonous snake. Ihe tragio re*
suit did not turn out exactly u expected,
for the snake it wu that died.
Amateur Maritime Law.
Landsman���" When  two boats  are in
danger of  collision, which   one  bteera
and gets out of the way V
Yachtsman""Tbeone that'slut painted,"
Clergyman (to young lady acquaintance)
���1 feel sure you wouldn't be willing to die
as you are.
Young Lady���Heavens 1 isn't my hat on
atraight T
A raft, containing six and a half million
feet of logs, wu reoently towed into Col-
lingwood.
He���May I ktsa your hand!
She���Will yon be satisfied then .
He-Yes.
She���Then you oan't kits it
All Ab out Pickles.
The fruit season ia to the housekeeper
what baying and harvest are to the farmer
���ft very busy timo. And she feels quite
U complacently sal f-satisfied when tbe lut
quince ta "tied down" and she looks over
bar well-filled fruit olout u the farmer
when he surveys hia full barns and granaries.
Cans, catsups, jama, jellies, preserves���
���nd pickles. For with all our sweet thinga
wo mnst not forget tho acids ths appetite
craves, particularly along toward spring
when wo begin to get "bilious." Sugar ia
a great source of energy, but natun'a remedy for an inactive liver it an acid. And
although pickles are probably not the moat
inoouous form in whioh we can gratify our
craving for something tour, they are not,
when properlymade and not eaten m excess,
worae for the digestion than a great many
thor thinga wo indulge in.
Muoh of the good or til whioh reaidea in
a pickle it due to the vinegar with whioh tt
it mado. Tho pickling or white wine vinegar of commerce ia not above suspicion. It
is made by chemicals, and sulphuric acid
largely enters iuto its composition, it eats
the pioklea, and ita action on tbe lining of
the ttomaoh it very injurious, Itt um is
to be avoided.
A few of the "first principles" of pinkie-
making are these: Do not uae vinegar thnt
ia too atnng ; it "oata" and softens the
pickles. Keop pickles tightly oovend ;
vinegar is "killed" by exposure to air. i)o
not let vinegar boil; let it oome to the boiling point; skim if neoesaary, and uae at
onoe. Never put pioklea in a jar or crook
that has held grease.    Wherever possible,
Eut pickles in cant or bottles and sett when
ot, Remember that freezing spoils
pickles.
To keep pioklea sound ftnd firm when in
b.-ine, add half a bushel of grape leaves to
ft barrel of cucumbers. The leaves also
vutty improve tho color. Ifa scum rises
bn top of picklu, several slices of horseradish wilt dear the vinegar if put in the
jar.
The housekeeper usually makes cucumbers the baais of her supply of pickles.
The small-sized, shapely young fruit, about
four inches long and an inch or so in diameter, are pnforrod; these, after being wiped
with ft toft oloth, aro packed in layera with
aalt, preferably in stone or wood; the juice
of the cucumber with the salt forms a brine
tn which they remain till wanted for use,
when they are freshened by soaking three
or four days in tepid water, renewed daily;
then put into vinegar. Care muat be taken
to keep them under brine, and also under
tho vinegar. An old plate turned over
them with a weight on top, doea this
nicely.
Thero la no equal to the vinegar produced
by the alow aoidulation of fruit-juice, u
when older is converted into vinegar. It
is the most healthy form, and the cleanest
and punst. The failure of the apple crop
tor tho put two seuonshu largely reduced
the supply tn firat hands and pure cider
vinegar hu boen bard to get. Bnt it ia
so muoh more desirable for pickle-making
aod every other culinary use, that every
farmer's wife should plan a year ahead for
an ample supply.
All sour pickles, and all aweetpicklet not
made of ripe fruit, an soaked twenty-four
hours in a brine, the usual proportion being a targe oup of ult to ft gallon of water.
The uae of tho brine to to draw out tho acrid or strong flavor of tho green fruit or
vegetable, leaving the pulp ready to ab*
torn tho vinegar and spioes. The first vin
agar iuto which gnen pioklea are put usually draws out mon of thia acrid principle
and thould be drawn off, thrown away, and
fresh added. Tbe pioklea will then keep
without fermenting.
A Handy Wardrobe.
An old housekeeper who lives In a large
village not ft hundred miles from Chicago,
declares with great emphasis lhat it is
impossible to have too many closets in ft
house.
Oar house is our castle, bnt It if a very
untidy abiding plaoe unless it contains a
great many reoepteolea for the clothing
and odds ond ends of every description that
accumulate tn the best-regulated families'
Arohiteott are often unwilling to mar,
what they call, the artlstio effect of certain
rooms in tho house. When auoh is the caae
wardrobes must be provided, but u these
are expensive, the busy fingers of the house
wife must be depended upon to provide
substitutes, A corner in tne room may be
utilized u follows :
Two strips of wood u long u you desire
and four inches wide by one inoh thick are
screwed into the angle of tbe wall, about
six feet from the floor, boards ara out off
to fit in the corner and reating on theae
atripa, this forms the roof, A brosa or
wooden rod it then run across the front of
this board from wall to wall and fnm which
tho curtain ia suspended by rings. Cretonne, chintz, etc., can be uaod for the
drapery. Screw upon the underside of the
roof and on the cleats u many hooks at
are required. A ahelf may bo inserted
about fifteen inches below the roof to which
tho hooka may bo attached, A closet like
the one described will be found a great convenience. Stretch ft piece uf muslin or
paper across the upper side of the roof to
aeep out the   dust.
sweetened whipped cream, or stiffly beaten
and sweetened whites of egga.
Steamed Applea��� Pan and core aweet
apples. Cover the parings and corea with
cold water and atew twenty minutes.
Strain off thu liquid, add augar and a little
butter, and boil ten minutes. Steam tho
apples until tender, then carefully plaoe
in the serving dish. When the syrup to
cold, flavor with lomon, vanilla or spice,
dip it over the prepared applea and aerve
cold. A thin custard pound arouud the
apples is a delightful addition.
Compote of Applet.���Pan and core tart
apptot, and place them on tho bottom of
an agate pudding mold. Fill tho hollow
of each apple with augar, grate ft little
nntmeg ovor tho augar and bake. Four
ona cupful of boiling water over two table-
spoonfuls of butter and four of augar;
after the applea commence to bake baste
them with the ayrup and repeat tbo basting twice. Sift augar over the top u soon
u taken from tbe oven, and aervo hot.
Apples.
Like many of the moat abundant, and
therefore the cheapest, articles of diet, applet are also one of the mott whole-
tome, ftnd oan bo served in ft greater number
of appetizing and delicious dlahu than any
other kind of home-grown fruit. And yet
if they wen do moro plentiful, and had no
greater " keeping power" than peaches and
plums, we ahould, no doubt, have no mon
appreciation of their value. A celebrated
teacher of cookery, whose word no up-to-
date housewife would think of questioning,
saya that apples can be solved in nearly or
auite a hundred delightful ways, It ia
oubtfut, however, if the majority of housewives are familiar with oneqnarter of that
number. To prove superiority of modern
mtthodt of cooking, one bu but to compare
a pie made of thinly-sliced apples seasoned
with allspice, with one mode of quartered
and cored apples flavored with a little
lemon or vanilla extract i or compare the
richness and delicate natural flavor of applesauce mado of sour applea; pared, quartered and cored, sweetened with sugar
dissolved in plenty of hot water, covered
closely and cooked until tender, without
stirring, in a hot oven with the old-tashioned
sort; or by testing any of the recipes given
below.
Baked Applea.���Wuh and core aour
apples : place them in a baking pan; flit the
hollow of eaoh apple with augar; put a bit
of butter on the sugar, fill the pan to one*
third the depth of the apples with water,
and bake until tender. Remove them carefully to the serving dish and dip tho syrup
over them. Serve cold, with sweetened
whipped cream spread around them.
Stewed Apples.���Put a cupful of
water, the same amount ot sugar, and (a
few bits of atlok cinnamon, In an - agate
saucepan and boil slowly fifteen minutes.
Pare and core eight medium-sized apples ;
arnnge on the bottom of a saucepan ; remove tho sptoe from the syrup and pour It
over tbe applea ; cover closely and stew until tender but not broken.   Serve cold with
PERSONAL POINTERS.
A Fewllieana  Abont Seine a* Iho Creat
Folks of ike  Wert*
John D. Rockefeller iatftld to have given
hia daughters to underatand that tbey are
not to be great heiretaes. Tho bulk of hit
property will go to a number of public
institutions.
Henniker Haaton, in hit summary of the
marriago and divorce laws of tho world,
states that there are more divorcee in
Franco than in Germany, but that the
United States leads the way.
Besides being ft clergyman, tha Rev. J.
M. Springer, of Bells Vernon, Ponn., it ft
justice of the peace, an undertaker aod ft
furniture dealer. He ean also make an
omelette, and edit a paper better than tht
editor himself.
Miss Millioent Fawcett, the brilliant senior wrangler of 1800, It about to begin a
business oaner u ft oivil engineer. Chicago
has her counterpart in Miu Anise De Barr,
who is a duly accredited and practising
engineer.
The habit of writing, tf not tbe genius,
runs in tbe family to whioh Mrt. Humphrey
Ward belongs. Her fitter, Ethel W.
Arnold, hu just published a novel entitled
Platonics.'* It is evidently not ft "Robert
Etsmere" or ft "Marcella."
Mr. Cleveland hu boen ft student of
literature all hia life. Hia reading covers
a very wide range, and ho to very fond of
the English novelists. He praters Dickens
to Thackeray, and ia a gnat admirer of
Walter Scott. His favorite English poeta
ara not English, Burns boing a Scotchman
ftnd Moore an Irishman.
Willard I. Towmbly, of Portland, Me.,
who recently built a bicycle to be pro*
polled by the vapour of ether, hu now
finished an ether launch, operated in ft
similar manner by mechanism, iu which
the vapour of ether takes the place of
steam, As ether is vaporized at 96 degrees, while water requires 212, tbe saving in fuel is uid to bo important.
Miss M. E. Rraddon, who hu written
fifty-four novels, quails baton the camera.
One hundred dollars and ft royalty on every
picture sold have been offered to her it
ahe will consent to be "taken," but ahe to
not tempted. She knows ftnd fears the
resources of the snap shot, and whan the
it abroad, is constantly on the alert to
protect heraelf from a poasible, indeed a
probable kodak. In theu days of
ubiquitous buttons to be pressed, however,
Miss Braddon cannot hopo to escape muoh
longer.
Tha Czar recently gave orders, at the tug*
geatiou of Russian scholars, that the under]
ground rooms of the Kremlin at Moscow
should be searched for hidden treuurw. It
is hoped that In them tbe famous library
of Ivan the Terrible may be found, whioh
contained more than eight hundred Greek
and Latin manuscripts unknown to the
Weatern world. In the vaults there must
also bo many documents relating to the
history of Russia, while popular tradition
fills them with countless tnuuraa hidden
in times put.
Mist Eranoes Willard divides her 24
hours into three periods: Eight houra for
work, eight houra for sleep, and " tight
houra to do aa I please," Bhe aaya. Moat
women would find the latter period the
hardeat one to hold to its text Tho doing
as she pleues of any woman ts contingent
upon so many qualifying conditions���the
pfeuure and convenience or comfort of
others, accumulated duties pressed out of
Klace by work and steep���that the eight
ours would often be consumed in finding
time to do as ahe pleued.
The parish register of Greenwich records
the marriage, 1685, November 18. of "John
Cooper, of thia pariah, Almsman in Queen
Elizabeth College, aged 108, and Margaret
Thomu, of Charlton in Kent, aged 80
yeara, by License of ye Lord Bishop of
Rochester, and leave of ye Governors of ye
Drapers." It would be difficult, in all pro*
bftbillty, alter this lapse of time, to sub*
stantiate the age of the bridegroom, bnt
that of the bride indicates, I think, tbat
Cooper, whether centenarian or no, wuat
any rate a, very old man. One wonders
who proposed,���
The Lady Margarot Grosvenor whose engagement is announced to the young
Prince of Tcok, a brother of the Ducheaa
of York, ia a daughter of the richest Duke
in Kngland. The Groavenora an alao **ne
of the oldest families in England, the first
of the family coming over with William
the Conqueror. The family name comes
from this ancestor, who wu a gros veneur,
or great hunter, and his lovely representative In this nineteenth century has all the
hereditary fondneu for horses andhouuds.
The income of the Duke of Westminster,
Lady Margaret's father, ia uid to exceed
one thousand pounda a day.
AN HONORABLE THIEF.
���e Felt   Thai He was  Reins;  Foaleal but
II- Kept hi* Want.
" I once had an experience that proved
to me that there is honor among thieves,"
uid W. J. Burgeu, a Montreal drummer.
It happened several yeara ago in a littto
town up in Manitoba. I retired to bed tn
the hotel at the usual time, and placed my
watch and pocket-book under the pillow.
After having been aaleop for somo time I
wu awakened by hearing a strange noise
in the room.
������ You can imagine I wu considerably
startled at beholding a man with a handkerchief tied over his face standing by my bedside. In hie hand wu a dark lantern,
which shone fully on my face. Ho did not
give mo muoh time to think, but in a gruff
voice demanded my watch and money, I
don't know whatever put the idea into my
head, but, endeavoring to bo as calm u
possible, I said:
" If 1 tell you exactly where they are
will you promise not to molest me and leave
me to finish my sleep'!"
" Well, you arc a cool one, Imust aay,'
he replied, "but you must tell me where
your valuables are, and I will promise not
to harm you, and leave you in peace."
" 1 will take you at your word," said I;
" my watch is at the jeweler's being repaired and every cent I havo ia looked up in
the safe downstairs."
He stared at mo a minute or two,
though trying to tell by my face if I had
spoken the truth. It muit have convinced
him, tor, muttering something I did not
catch, he turned on his heel and walked
out of the room without a word.
SW0RDFISH ARE FIGHTERS.
II Is ���-Ureal Baltic  Whea  Two  or Them
tome Together.
A ahort time tgo the Attention of the
paaungera on a ateamer off the Southern
Pacific coast wu attracted by what wu
evidently a fight between two ae* monsters.
What appeared to be ft mountain of foam
firat caught their attention ; thon an enormous toil wu seen teased into the air. Then
tho monster breached and rolled over and
over, beating the water into foam with resounding blows that could bo hoard a mile or
mon with tho wind. Nothing but the
gnat black mau could be aeen, ftnd for
twenty minutea the strange aigbt continued,
*-o the wonderment of the voyagers.
Ifthe ateamer oould have approached
they would havo witnesud a moat unequal
struggle between a large whalo and ft foa of
inaigniflcftnt site. Beneath tbe water
several awordfish, or possibly oue, ware
literally prodding the large animal to its
death, running their sharp aworda into ita
unwiedly form until tbe creature wu In ft
perfeot fury, and could only fling Ita huge
tall about in impotent rage. Suoh incidents
art by no means rare at sea, and tho pres'
ence of the awordfish u the causo of tbe
trouble is often disputed, but in nine cases
out of ten It is the offender. Enraged for
aomo reuon at the presence of the whale,
It duhea repeatedly at it, sending its sharp
sword into it, ftnd in some instances producing its death. The unrelenting ftnd ferooioua
nature of the awordfish ia not generally
known, but the latter may be aet down u
among the moat dreaded of all fishes, con*
sidoring the damage it does and the havoc
it plays among other fishes. It may be
said that the fish -It utterly without fear and
will, like a Cape buffalo or a rhinoceros,
oharge anything that offends the eye, in
this way often doing an amount of execution hardly to be believed did not the
evidence exist.
The combats with Its own kind ara most
interesting, and may be compared to two
expert swordsmen who have rushed to the
contest, not with folia but with rapiers, and
fence for blood. Snch a contest wu obaerved
In Pacific waters not long ago. Some fishermen noticed two big fish leaping out of
the water and dashing along at the surface.
Soon they taw that they were Bwordfish.
The season wu when the fish an supposed
to be pairing, and the mates are unusually
ferocious. They had msde several rushes,
snd when oburved were at close quarters,
striking eaoh other powerful side blows like
cavalrymen. This wu unsatisfactory, and
finally they separated and darted at eaoh
other tike arrows, the water hiaaing u their
sharp dorsal tint out through it. Thoy evidently ttruok head on, one missing, while
the sword of the other atruck juat below
the eye and ploughed ft deep furrow in the
fiah, partly disabling it, ao that it turned
aud attempted to escape. But itt ad veraary,
now thoroughly aroused, also turned, and
with a rush drove ita sword completely
through its body and, despite Ita struggles,
held it tut, only wrenching its weapon
Ioom when ita enemy stopped swimming.
This one lunge had finished the battlo, ftnd
tho victor left the field. Tho vanquished,
floating on the surface, wu picked up by
the fishermen. The writer later oburved
the wounds, wbioh gave ample evidence of
tho ferooity of tho attack. The force with
which a awordfish strikea hu been variously estimated, bnt that it ia equal to that
which drives a twenty-four-pound shot from
a howitzer oan be believed from viewing
tbe results.
Id the waters of the Pacific at leut three
kinds of swordfishes oan bo seen���Xiphiua
gladius, Tetrapturua albidus, and Hiatop-
phorua gladius. The two former have been
observed by the writer. The fish engaged
in the battle described wero of the kind
first nimed. It to the ordinary awordfish
found on both tides of the Atlantic, fn
appearance trim and shipshape���a veritable privateer. It is ft piratical ooutin of
the mackerel. The striking feature is
the sword, whioh is ft continuation of the
upper jaw into a sharp, bony sword. The
jawa are toothless, the lower one being
hard or horny. The eyes are large ana
prominent, the tail sicklo-sbaped and
powerful and the whole appearance of the
fiah denotes speed and activity. It attains
a length of from five to nino feet, and,
when working at full speed, can pierce any
ship with wooden hull aheatlied with
copper. Many remarkable instances of
this are known, and thero is hardly a week
in the year but something of the kind is
recorded by shipping agents.
One of the most rematkable .cases on
record it that of the ship Dreadnought.
Onu day, at tea, the enw felt a sudden
shock, and aoon after that the ship sprang
a leak and wu obliged to put into port.
It wu found, when she wu drydocked,
that a large awordfish had struck her.
One of tho finest apeclmen of the Tetrap-
turns albidus ever aeen in Pacific watera
found recently by the writer in a little
bay on one of the ialands off shore. It
wu ft magnificent specimen about six feet
in length, the body massive and powerful
and remarkable for its shape. It did not
taper to tht tail, as many of ita tribe do,
but oontinued large all the way to the tail,
whioh wu a powerful organ. It had a long
dorsal fin almoat the entire length ot the
back, and ite sword wu short. Evidently
it had been partly broken in a fierce combat
with another of its kind. The head wu
large, u were alto the eyes, I examined the
fiah for the cause of hts death, and found
that it, too, bad doubtless' succumbed
to a fierce thrust from an enemy, possibly ft
Xiphius, or long-sword fish, u it hftd ft
single out 2\ inches wide that penetrated
the entire body like a knife, The defeated
swordsman had apparently been carrying on
an unequal tight, Armed with a short sword
or dagger, it had been struck by a cavalry*
man of the sea, whose keen rapier had killed it, the fiah being blown in ahore to the
amazement of the fishermen of the island,
who had never sun a fish of tht k ind on tlio
Pacific oout  before.
"When it came drifting in," said an old
aea dog, "I thought It wu a porpoise, it
wu so big ; but when it got in shore I aee
it wu something like a awordfish, though 1
never uw the likes of it before. Ite sword
���. _ ahort, but it had a body like a batterin'
ram, and if It atruck anything it would
have to give in aure."
A singular thing in connection with the
awordfiah ia that little or nothing ia known
io regard to ite breeding habita,and a young
awordfish, so far u known, haa never been
seen on the Pacific oout. The young are
curloua creatures, with enormous eyea, and
the bills, upper and lower are equal in
length.
JIEALm
Unhealthtness of Women's Clothes.
A London hospital doctor writea : ��� The
clothing of tho body ahould be ao arranged
that all -parte of it are kept at the umo
equable temperature. Now, how far ia thia
object carried out in the uaual drew o
women at the present day ? The anna, the
shoulders, and tho upper part of the ohut
u low down u the top of the comet, will
be but slightly covored, perhaps by the
outer dreaa only. The main part of the
trunk will lie well and properly covered
until the region of the hip, the part about
whioh the petticoats and othor garments
are attached, is reaohed, and hen tho body
is found surrounded by many layera of
clothing that vary according to the number
of garments that encircle the lower extremities. Thua the female body may be divided, according to the plan of physical geography, inio a frigid, a temperate and a
torrid zone, and I need scarcely sty that
this eccentric distribution of warmth ia '
neither natural nor advantageous, and although it may possibly be productive of no
very great immediate harm, yet it to in
direct contradiction to the laws of health,
and is an arrangement diatinotly to bo
avoided.
Celery for Rheumatism.
New discoveries of the heating virtues of
plants are continually being made. Ono of
the Uteat is that celory Is a cure for rheumatism, and it hu been asserted that tho
disease is impouible if tho vegetable bo
cooked aud freely eaten. The celery ahould
be cut into bite and boiled in water until
soft, and the water drank by the patient.
Cold and damp never produces, bnt simply
develops, the diseue. Try this remedy
onoe aud yon will not do without it. Cooked celery is a delicious dish for the table,
and the most conducive to the health, of
any vegetable that oan be mentioned.
Flowers In the Sickroom.
A great deal of nonsense hu been talked
about the injurious effect* of (lowers in
the sick-room. The presence of flowers
with atrong odora is usually offensive to
persons in health, and, of courao, is much
more to to an invalid with supersensitive
nerves. The presence, however, of flowers
with delicate fragrance is generally beneficial. Certain colors are aaid to aot
favorably upon the nervous system. Red
blossoms aro stimulating, while delicate
blue (lowers an soothing.
Dyspepsia.
For warding off dyspepsia, attention to
the condition of the mind to of u much importance u to that of the body. It thould,
be kept tranquil, for nothing is so likely te
bring on a recurrence of the disease as a fit
of passion or anxiety, or even intense study
especially toon after a meal. The influcne,
of the mind oo the digestive organs, indeedn
hu been generally observed and has beet
referred to by many authors, both anciene
and modern.
Health Hints.
FUet have long bun accused of spreading
disease; but it is aaurted now from
Havana that mosquitoes havo a uao, for if
they inoculate any one after biting a yel*
low-fever patient, the diseue which follows is so mild that fatal results are raro.
A physician says that ninety-five feminine disorders ara directly traceable to tight'
lacing, and tbat the prominent tout at
medical banquets ahould be���" Woman,
God'a boat gift to man and the ohief aupport of the dootors."
When a child ohokea, what is the beat
thing to do f A contemporary recommends
tbe following : Take the child by tho heels
with the head downwarda, and pat it on
the back, when the article will probably be
dislodged from the throat and disposed of.
If the throat is very sore (says a medical
contemporary), wring a cloth out of cold
ult water ftnd bind it on the throat when
going to bod; oover it with a wolleo cloth.
" Whistling for half an hour aftor meals
is," uys Mrs. Alice Shaw, the lady whist-
lee, " the best possible aid to digest ion.
Try it, weak-cheated, slender-throated
staters mine, and profit by my experience,"
.  Royal Apartments.
It to uid by a visitor lately distinguished by a " command" from tlio Queen at
Osborne that the Indian room in the palace
la the moat splendid apartment in th
world, uys tho Boston Herald. Heretofore
the Salon del Glaoes at Versailles and the
famous salons in the cutle of tho late King
of Bavaria have been unapproachable models in royal interiors���but the gallery at
Versailles is now public, and no longer
modern, and the apartment*-of the unhappy
Louis are closed to all savo servants' eyes.
The Indian room wu built and decorated
in commemoration of the Indian Empire,
and it ia uaed solely for great banquets and
thoso State occasions demanding special
grandeur. No photographs, if they were
allowed lo bo printed, would do justice to
the magnificent scheme of decoration,
which was the work of native artists during two years. In this regal room the
Emperor William and all the royalties
lately gathered at the Cowcs regattas wore
assembled and the spectacle is described
u having been grand beyond words. It
would seem u if tho great littio Queen
desired to impreu on her rather bumptious
grandson tho importance of England a sovereign beneath that splendid roofttec, and
if so it wu a tfuueees, u the German courtiers cannot fay enough in praise of their
surroundings on that oocuiop. Oaborne
Houae is the palace leut known to the
Queen's subjects. It is in all sens** a
nrivate residence, a  seaside  home, not to
mi invaded by sightseers, as Windsor
cutle, or even Buckingham palaco, is when
the court Is absent.
They Always Do.
Teacher���"'They builded better than
they knew,"   -Do you underatand that V
Bright boy���" Yes'm. They always do.
" Who always do T"
"Tho   architects,    you   know.      Pop
new   five-thousand-dollar house cost most
ten thousand,"
He Went Shortly After.
Miss Amy (at 12.10a.m.,after Goslin has
related an anecdote)���'' That story reminds
mo of you, Mr, Goslin."
Goslin (presumptuously)���1* Because it is
bright, I suppose."
Amy���"not at all.    Because it won't
Cholera tn Europe.
Reports from Europo during the put
week concerning the progress of cholera
are disquieting. Iu Weatern Ruiaia the
disease prevails with great virulence, and
the mortality la increasing in the districts
lying along the boundaries of Germany and
Russia. But tho outbreak near Liege in
south-western Belgium is more alarming,fur
it aeema probable that the greater part of
the Meuae valley will be Infected and a nuw
centre established two hundred miles from
Paria. It was just two years ago that
America experienced ite greatest scare,
Cholera ships were numeroua in Nuw York
harbor, and President Harrison it-sued liifl
proclamation that all vessels carrying
immigrante ahould be quarantined for
twenty daya, The need of vigilance at the
present time la hardly lesa --reat than it
wu theu.
The Peers Bore.
By tho death of old Lord Denman the
British House of Tee��� loses ono of its greatest cranks. Whenever Lord Salisbury
would get upon his legs to mako a speech,
Lord Denman would at once rise to address
the '-louse, with the deliberate object of
talking down the Marquis, saya tho San
Francisco Argonaut. As ho wm stone deaf,
ho would pay no heed to expostulations on
tlio'part of hia brothor peers or of the Lord
Chancellor u presiding officer, and wu to
be stopped from further utterances only by
being dragged down, into bis seat by his
long coat-tails. THE WEEKLY NEWS, OCTOBER 23,   1894.
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SPREAD OUT.
There are various ways in which spread
itiy ont works harm, but it is the salvation of a new town. Even here the principle must be rightly applied, and thu*.
applied it means that frame buildings
must not be crowded together. There
is plenty of land, and until brick woiks
are established in our midst so as to furn-
ibh us the best and most durable of alt
material cheaply���and another year will
probably witness this���we should spread
out. In this way we can keep down in
durance rates, and protect our new town
from distinction by fire. Not only that
but the intermediate vacant lots will
largely increase in value. It's a short
sighted policy to build compactly now
for the sake ofa little present supposed
advantage, to reap a baptism of fire later
on. Let us learn wisdom by the folly of
others. If we do not have a care the Insurance companies will withdraw, and
then one must have a large capital to
command credit. .Spread out and fill in
later on with substantial brick structures.
IMPBOVE THE STREET SIDES.
Good appearances go a great ways.
Hence the front of the lots abutting on
our main street should be cleared of rubbish and stumps. We cannot enforce
this by ordinance because we arc not yet
incorporated; but if each owner will do
his share, which would be but little, the
thing would be accomplished. Our own
interests dictate such a course, for property would be enchanced in value; and
as we are here to stay we should commence at once to make the place attractive. The planting of maple tress along
the street front, cun best be done now,
and in a comparatively short space of
time they would add much to the beauty
of the place. We are quite well aware
that there is usually an appearance of
ciudncss about a new town, but this
should not be allowed to continue an unnecessary length ol time. There will be
no better time tn clear off the front of
0111 lots than now, nnd the work should
not be delayed. After removing the unsightly roots and debris, a couple of
planks might be put down which would
answer for the time being for a sidewalk.
Tram Third street to First���which includes the business portion of Cumberland���we should no longer be compelled
to take Paddy's sidewalk���the middle of
thc street. The discomfort of getting
about would be removed by adopting the
measures suggested. Thc hotels have
provided good approaches and so have
some ofthe business houses, while some
of thc latter sadly need a tew loads of
dirt with a covering of gravel between
them and thc street.
READING ROOM.
The semi-annual meeting of the Association takes place the evening of Oct.
2j at Reading Room Hall. Officers will
be elected, a report made and the proposition tn organize a mock parliament discussed,  A general attendance is desired.
NOTICE,
Mr. Geo. Roe, customs officer has
authority to collect all debts due me, and
receipt therefor Persons are requested
to make payments to him, or to my brother, Mr. Robert Grant, at Union.
99.3m J- J- Grant.
T.ftt--|t-i-r Work In Jnpan.
Jnpfinrfw lAeqnsr In a reml* -mado product of nature, Miir prep-tml from the
tap of tho Vii'i-t trt**>. which, wh**n tiard-
ene-l, In nf mirror like ���mnothix nn. no*
ntfrctwl hy either nuidt or hut water. It
fa of gri-'it durability, never Splitting or
PtTH-klng.    The iii-.u--tr.nl   ItnportatiuA of
Incqner work I* far above Ita art ?��lu�� in
Jft'-i'ii, where it it employed for an iuflnlta
variety of uses, even for anun objectl iu
field tatikn, Khi'i keele and phologr-tpliio
tnb'ett, not to epenk of tho ohjeott of do-
iiit-Mtid une. Tlm unique nii]��eriorlty of
Japane-M) lacquer work fa rJUO nut only to
tbu R|iei-i*il merit uf thu material, Imt alx-i
tn thu car�� and ttkdl allow ti hy the Japanese in the manipulation of   thu   11mte1i.1l.
The ��rt lacqnar work of Japan It estwn*
tidily iiidividii-tl. It it not merely bric-a-
brac. Thom It M widen dUilnctloti tie-
(wwu the 11 linary lacquer tra.v or cnhlui-t
of rummer--** mid the ejiquiHitu Ino* by the
ureal Japnm'M artful* at b*twe* n a etreut
placard and a canriw of Raphael. Eaoh
of tho great matteri of lacquer creat* d a
���trie of hit own tod founded a aehool, of
wbleh to t-Mdlliout were k-j-pe tilre fcy kit
A BOtL IN TUB !**KY.
Tbey mn brothtrt���rame Into tho
world the tame dey, the uoie hoar, aud
ia like meaner, they ap|wert->d before
the teat of Pe-dru Longman, a thowman.
who traveled from Tillage to village with
hit troop ot acrobats, juggler* and train
���dliona.
"What oan you dor he aaked.
������Anything requiring tkilt aad agility.'*
"Ah I that la laying a great deal.
Can yoa give tola aa evidence of yonr
ebilitjr
The wordt were acarcely tpoken when
they made a perilous leap over hia head,
turned a doable totnertanlt, and landed
in nailing precision before him. Pedro
wae delighted; the engagement waa
toon concluded at a very traall weekly
ttipend, the brother! saying: "Pay ua
what yoa pteatu; yon mutt decide tbat."
From the advent of those two nn-
.known (for no one knew their mat iiaiw-t
���they ��imp]y ���tyltd themselves. Diok
and Dock) good fortune teemed to tuiile
on thii traveling show.
In truth, it waH imiKKuible to Ima-rinp
anything more graceful and daring thau
these young acrobats, whether mispond
ed from the trapett*, ftyiag through tbe
air, or leaplag and vaulting in tho moot
wonderful manner���they teemed as onu
body animated by one will; thon with
inuomparabltt grace they would light on
their feot, aud, hand In hand, r-rcei-ro
the plaudits of the delighted crowd,
while golden loitU, houqueta and billets*
doux, thrown by dainty hands, would
fall in tht sawdust ring. But those per
fumed billet* noYor had the honor of
being opened���not even their teals
broken���for Dick and Dock teemed utterly oblivious to bloudet or brunettes,
and when not in the arena, were always
itudying their profettinn or practicing
new feata of ttrength and agility.
Nevertheless, they were good cun
radet with Juannot, the clown; with the
cannon-ball man and with the colo-isal
fat woman, who waa no other than
madame Pedro henelf. Amid all this
adultation r-nlj* oue person leemod indifferent to their attractions aud that
was Niu, the only daughter of Pedro,
the most exquisite little darliug yon can
Imagine in her rose-colored gauae.
spangled with gold; sho looked like some
aerial creature dying round the ring,
leaping through the hoop* of pnp-x.
Fresh aa a rose and changeful aa a
butterfly, ihe mockingly teasad the
brothers, sometimes running aftor Dick,
sometimes leaping on the trapote behind
Dock. Very eold and correct they
silently received her coquetries, never
showing the least familiarity to the
daughter of their patron.
Time rolled on, and gold rolled into
the coffers of Pedra. He was growing
rich, and often wondered at the indifference of Dick aud Dock, who hivd
never asked for an increase of salary.
Thia mercenary Spaniard, Pedro, could
understand why a man would toll for
profit or position, bnt to work for little
or noting wna nnnntural���there muat be
tome'Mng behind it
��u I .eulr a thought struck him. They
-a tie -iriving to establish a reputation,
and would then aet up a bunim-ma for
themselves. He mnst retain these
valuable a>��tsti-,ota by a bond not easily
broken. "I will give them my daught
er Nit*.   Sapritttd the can only marry
one or tnera; which shall It be? Dick is
stronger than Dock, bat Duck It more
agile and graceful."
Then Pedro took a decided retolntion
and laid his dilemma before the brothers,
"Which ono of yoa will marry my little Nita!"
Dick and Dock exchanged looks, then
one of them aaid: "In teu dayt we will
answer you."��� "Ah, yea," confirmed the
other; "In ten dayt."
"That's all right." said Pedro. "After
the balloon ascension; I understand."
Pedro had arranged with an aeronaut
for a balloon ascension, a trapeze to be
attached to thn car, on which the brothers would perform thoir wonderful feats
five hundred motors above the earth.
Naturally, they wished to wait until
after this neriloua adventure before they
could decide.
Shut up in a court they daily practised
those dangerous exercises which were to
angment their renown aud the pocket-
book of their employer.
The day of the exhibition arrivod���a
perfect sea of faces���the baloon on the
centre swaying like n bird trying her
wings. Wild shouts of euthusiiutui as
Nita appeared In lior ifold-tpangled costume, dexterously driving the chariot
containing the two brothers. She wat
more beautiful and coquettish than ever
In her rose-colored gauze���perhaps in
contrast to Dick and Dock, who were
dressed in black velvet, lubtly touched
with silver lace���rather a funeral costume for inch a festive occasion, but
probably chosen because they would be
more clearly outlined on the bright blue
iky.
Leaping to the ground, the brothers
gracefully salute the crowd; then, taming to Nita, they kneel before her and
gracefully kiss hur hand���something
they had never done before,
Tho aeronunt mounts hit oar, follow
ed by the two brave acrobats. "Let
her loose!" A moment a alienee���then
deafening shouts of enthusiasm aa the
balloon cleaves the air.
Two young aud irracef ul forms climb
through the cordage of the car and appear upon the trapeze. Their grace and
audacity were marvelous. With folded
arms they stand facing each other, very
pale but very determined; a slight motion of tbe hips maintains their equilibrium.   Dick wus tne first to speak.
"You love Nita!"   "Yes, aud you���"
"Love her and cannot give her up."
"Aud I will not," answered Dock.
"Then fate must decide���the survivor
will take hor."
They step book the length of tho tra
pezo���a knife clasped in their right
hands���and in bitter anguish gaze upon
each other, utterly careless of the wind
that swayed the tr.ipi-ze back and forth,
nf tbo yawning gulf lielow. Then, with
panting breath and gteuuiing eyes, they
nub upon eaoh other, still clinging to
the bar that bends l>enuath thoir weight;
a frightful struggle enBUos; cheer after
cheer from thu admiring crowd, Nita
wildly applauding with the others.
Theu they stand motionless for a moment, when, by a BUddun movement,
Dick makea Dock lose his hold and fall
back on the trapeze. Dendiug over him,
he saya; "Will you give up Nita?"���
"Never I" He buries his knife iu his
brother's throat, the hot blood spurting
in his face.
With a wild maniac laugh, he rises
up and leaps into space, falling a crushed
and helpless mass un a distant roof; the
dead body of hit brother convulsively
clinging to the trapeze, floating in the
blue sky whilo the aeronant, who had
teen nothing of thia terrible tragedy,
���till waves hit gayly colored flags.    -
One reason why the Russian csarowfts
ean never marry the Princess Victoria of
Wales, with whote name goai-dp baa connected bis, is tbat they are lint eousiui,
and the marriage of first cousins is strictly
prohibited by the oauona of the Greek
HELP WANTEDI
WANTFD.-Activk, IToKKflT GXNTLRM.H
or I.Aiiv to trav.l npreMntlng MUbllahod, ro*
llabl. homo. Salary *!T�� monthly and trav.l*
In* expooK.. with InoroaM If mlud. EdoIoh
nlntaot aadMUaddreawditamp��I.DTOlopo.
TBI DOHINIOK.
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LOilS W. FAUQUIER
1-TOT.&JR *z-' *e*t3**t*ffijd,
CONVEYANCER.
Fire, Life and Accident Insurance.
-BEAI.   -ESTATE���
-PUBLIC AUCTIOXXXB.--
HEHTS COLLECTED
���JUTD���
���STATES MANAGED.
RIYERSIDI BAKERY
oo-*j��T-eiTji.-*r, *a o.
We furnish the best of
Bread, Cakes and Wedding Cakes to order and
deliver at the Bay on
Mondays, Wednesdays
and FridaysandatUnion
every week day.
KENWAKD & PHOCKTEH.
Painting, Paper Hanging, Etc
During the Fall and Winter
months I will attend to jobs for
Farmers and others of inside
painting, papering, etc., at quite
reasonable rates. Any word
left at The News Office will receive prompt attention.
g. h. scon,
���o-sriON, B. o.
R. B. Anderson,
Practical  Watchmaker
Worker in Light Mt t ils  and
Gunsmithing and  Tin   Work
Dingwall Building.
Co*"-ox, B. 0.
Wedding and other rings made to order.
Union Saw Mill.
LUMBER
All Kinds of Rough and
Dressed lumber always on
hand and delivered at short no
tice.
MOULDINGS.
Also all kinds of sawn and
split shingles and dressed pine
and cedar.
STUMPING.
Stumping done at reasonable
rates by our Giant Stumper.
WOOD.
Coal, brick and lime on
hand and delivered at short
notice.
R. Grant & L. Mounce, Proprs.
[L.S.]
U DEWDNEY.
CANADA.
Province of British Columbia.
VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, ofthe
United Kingdom of Great Britatn
and Ireland, QUEEN, Defender of
the Faith, &c, Sec,
To Our faithful the Members elected to
serve in the Legislative Assembly of
Our Province ot British Columbia at
Our City of Victoria���GRKE'1'1 NO.
A  PROCLAMATION.
Tiikodoh* D.vvik. lOTHERFAS We are
' " desirous nnd resolved, as soon as may be, to meet Our
people nf Our Province of British Columbia, and to have their advice in Our Legislature;
NOW KNOW  YE,   that   for divers
causes and mnsidcrations, and taking into consideration thc  case  and   conven-
venience of Our loving subjects, We have
thought fit, by and with lhe advice of Our
Executive  Council  of the  Province of
British   Columbia,   to hereby convoke,
and by these presents  enjoin   ymi,   and
each of you, that on Monday, the Twelfth
day of  the month   of November,   one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-four,
you meet Us in Our said ' Legislature or
Parliament of Our said Province, at Our
City of Victoria, For THE DISPATCH
OF BUSINESS, to treat, do, act, and
conclude upon those things which in Our
Legislature ol   the   Province of British
Columbia, by the   Common   Council   of
Our said Province may, by the favor of
God, be ordained.
In Testimony Whereof, We have
caused these Our Letters tobe made
Patent and the Great Seal of the
said Province to be hereunto affixed;
Witness, the Honourable   Eugar
Dewdney,   Lieutenant-Govcnor   of
Our said Province of British Columbia, in Our City of Victoria, in  Our
said  Province, this Twenty-seventh
day of September, in the year of Our
Lord one thousand eight   hundred
and   ninety-four, and in  the fifty-
eight year of Our reign.
By Command,
JAMES DARKER
ProrlMlal Satrflbar-f,
IP you wiah i-MdkiM or dram ot
1   any kind wrilanrannd loCyrua
H. Bower*. Ilei IM.�� JobaaUti St.
Viotoria. D. C.   Mat! ortlar* hart
Cnipt attMiloa   AllooinmunicMt-
utrictly oonBdeattal.   Cat thia
ont and n "
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Riverside Hotel
Courtenay B C
% Sharp,  Proprietor
The Hotel is one of th: test equipped
on the Pacific Coaat, and is situated at
the mouth of the Courtenay Kiver, between Union and the Urge farming set*
dement of Comox.
Trent aie plentiful in the river, and
-arge game abounds in the neighborhood
The Bar connected with the hotel is
ktpt well supplied  with the best wines
tnd liquors.   Stage connects   with all
Steamers.   Terms moderate
Cumberland Hotel,
Union, B. C.
The finest hotel building
Fixtures and Bar
North of Victoria,
And the best kept house.
Spacious Billiard Room
and new
Billard and Pool Tables,
Best of Wines and Liquors.
J. Met, Prop.
^f    General Teaming
^5��\,   and
Livery
Business.
Comox. B. 0.
Esquimalt and Nanaimo Ry.
Steamer Joan
J. E. butler; master.
On and after Mar. 22nd, 1893
The Steatn-r JOAN will sail as follows
CALLING AT WAY PORTS as puungera
nnd freight ra*y olfor
Leave Victoria, Tuer4:>r. 7 a. m.
"  Nanaimo for Comox, Wednesday, 7 ft. m
Leave Comox for Nanuimo, Frldnya, 7a.m.
" Nanaimo for Victoria Snturdvy, 7 u.m
Leave for Valdes Island once each month
For freight or state rooms apply oh
board, or at the Company's ticket office,
Victoria Station, Store street.
Esquimalt & Nanaimo R'y.
Time Table   No.  20,
To take effect at 8.00 a. m. on Friday
April 27th, 1894.   Train* run
on Pacific Standard Tlm*.
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On Saturday* and Sundays
Return Tlokota will be Issued botwoon all
poiits for a faro and a quarter, row. for ro-
tnrn not Inter limn Monday.
Iteturn Tickets for ono and a half ordinary
faro mny he  iiurchasod dally to ill points,
good for sovon days, including day of issue
No Roturn Tickots issued for a fnro and a
quarter whoro tbe single faro Is twonty-flro
cents.
Through rntoi botwoon Comox and Victoria,
Milcago and Coimnutton Tickets oan be ob
Uinod 011 application to Tiokct Agfnt. Victoria
Station.
A. DUNSMUIR, JOSEPH HUNTRR.
Prwldent. CUol Sapt.
H. IE. PRIOR.
Oto. Fnltbtaaft P-um-b-iW itl
COURTINAT HOUSE.
CCUHXEtTAT, S.O.
Th�� leading fcottl ia Ccmox dig-trie,.
Hav aad nandaomtly furniahad*
excellent hunting aad flahiaff oloae
to town. Touriete can dapaad oa
���tret-claw accommodation. Beaaoaa*
ble rater Bar evpplied with the
choicest liquors aad cigars
R. Graham, Propr.
Yarwood & Young,
Hamsters, So'ititors, &c. Office Cor
Huston and Commercial St., Nanaimo, U. C
The Nanaimo Pharmacy
Nanaimo B. 0.
W. E. Mc Canney Chemist,
Manager.
Purr Drugs Chciniuals and Patent
Ufidtuin-H.
Phyilcans Prosclptlou asd all orders 0.11m.
with care and dli-twtoh. P. O. box IS
fe McDonald,
i
Courtenay, B. C.
CARRIAGE     MAKERS
���JL-ST-D���
General. Blacksmiths.
-OTJT  *F*RJOHlS,-
M on Yonr fork
Nanaimo  Saw Mill
��� and  ���
Sash and Door Factory
A Haslam. Prop. Wll St,, V 0 Box 3S, Tel. 1 -11
Nanaimo I). C,
A complete stock nf Rough and Dressed
Lumber always on hand; also Shingles,
Laths, Pickets, Doors, Windows and
blinds, Moulding, Scroll sawing, Turning
and all kinds of wood finishing furnished
Cedar,    While   Pine,     Redwn.d.
All orders accompanied withCASH prompt
If and carefully attended to.
Steamer Kstell
Harbor and ontsid* towing done at reason
able rates.
All Kinds of
Fresh Meat, Hams and Bacon
and
All Kinds of Vegetables and
Farmers Produce,
Orders from surrounding coun
try promptly fiiled.
A. C. Fulton, Prop.
Waverly):
I House,
xriTioisr, b. o
 0���
This Magnificent  Hotel  Building
Will be Opened lor the Reception ol Guests July 1.
Finest Appointments.
Best Table.splen       "ample
Hooms   and   Reasonable   Rates.
A, Lindsay,
Wood & Kilpatrick,
UN'ION, B. C.
Having Added to their Own
the
Splendid Livery Outfit.
of R. Grant and Co
Are Prepared to furnish  Sty-
ish Rigs at Reasonable Rates
Give them a call
Robert J. Wenborn.
Machine Worka, Nanaimo
Dealer in Bicycles. Agent for Drai.t-
ford Hicycle Co., H. P. Davis of Toronto
English Wheels, Beaston, Humber,
Rudge, New Howe and Whitwonh. Will
sell on installment plan or big discount
for cash. Paris supplied ��� Repairing a
Specialty,
BULBS,
TREES    -    PLANTS.
Tulips. Hyacinths, Crocuses, Daffodil**, and
LUlicfl now ready for plantinir.
Lame nnd complete Btock of ono and two*
year-old small fruit plants and troea.
PinoSMOrtmmt of two and tlireeyoarold
Apple, IW, Plum, Prune, Cherry and Apricot
treea. Buy your atock of flirt handa. No t nr*
ellloR twenta, no good* on tommluslon. Kati*
mate* given on your list, bend for catalogue
before ordering.  Addreat.
M. J. HENRY,
lit, Plaawat P.O., Vaaoeaw, B.C.
(Mr*.
The Great Sloan & Scott Salvage Sale commences
Wednesday, Oct 17. All that fine stock will be cleared
out at salvage prices. Doors thrown open at 9:30 a. m.
and closed at 6 p. m. every-day except Saturday.
Cash   only   during sale.
SJL.OAJX &SCOTT.
40 Commercial St.
Nanaimo, B. C.
J- ABBAMS
Union Clothing Store
Union, B. C.
Have Just received a fine Assortment of English Worsteds fur
Suitings.   Also Keep Ready Made Clothing, Hats, Shoes and
GENTS FURNISHINGS.
Kfe-The Tailoring Department is in charge of D. McLeod,
which is a guarantee of perfectly fitting garments and the best
of workmanship.
Stage and Livery,
COXne,TE51!T-A.T, B. O.
0���' - ���
Fine Rigs at Reasonable Rates Always nHand
.'.  Teaming Promptly Done,  .'.
-McQ-TJILLAlT t5c Ca-ILlittOK-B.
Get Suited.
J. Abrams, the clothier of Union has a
fine of 1400 samples to choose frnm for
suitings, ranging from $22 per suit upwards.   Perfect fit guaranteed
0. H. Beevor-Potts
Solicitor, Notary Public. Conveyancing
in all its branches. Office Comer-
cial St, Nanaimo.
Society    Cards
1.0. O. F., No .11
Union Lodge, I. O. O. F., meets every
Friday night at 8 o'clock. Visiting brethren cordially invited ta attend.
Wm. Wright, R. S.
Hira m Looge No 14 A.F & A.M..1I.C.R
Courtenay 11. C.
Lodge meets'on every Saturday on or
before the full of the moon
Visiting Brothers cordially requested
to attead.
R. S. McConnell,
Secretary.
K. of P.
Comox Lodge No 5, K. of P., meets
every Saturday, after the new and full
moon, at 8 p. ni. at Castle Hall, Comox.
Visiting Knights cordially invited to attend,
John ll.urd
K. R.S.
C. O. O. F.
Loyal Sunbeam Lodge No.' 100, C. O
O. F. meet in the old North Comox
school house every second Monday at 8
p. m. Visiting brethren cordially invited
to attend.
J. B. Bennett, Sec.
Union Clothing Store
Oooda At Ooat.
For the next thirty days you can purchase at the Union Clothing Store Cloth
ing, Hats, Boots, Shots, White and Colon! Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, Gents under
Clothing, Socks, Overalls, Cordigan Jack
ets at cost. The above goods all new.
Please cal! and inspect goods. Suits
made to order at the lowest possible price
H A Simpson
Barrister and Solicitor. Office in snd
flat, Green's Block, Nanaimo, B. C
Will be in Union every Wednesday and
Courtenay on Thursday.
Nanaimo Cigar Factory
Philip Gable, Proprietor.
Baaton Stra.t     ���    Nanaimo B. 0.
Manufactures   the   finest   cigares,
employing none but white labor.
Why purchase inferior foreign cigars,
when ynu can obtain a superior article for the same money?
O. H. Fechner.
BARBER
Shop: Late Drug store.
Onion, B. 0.
G. B. Leighton
At th* Bay, Oomox, B. 0.
Blacksmithing an    Repairing
of all kind*
Carriage Work and Horseshoeing a specialty
For Sale
My farm of 113 acres, with coal right,
also atock and farm implements.
James Clark.
Comox, B.C.
J. A. Cathew
ARCHITECT and BUILDER,
tri-rcar, -a. o.
HILBERT & SON
Funeral Directors and Emrat.mbrs
Ormliifttfii. of the Oriental. Eureka,
and United States CoHorcs at Em-
bitltiiii.K s
Nanaimo, H. C.
���VARNING
All pentons driving over thawhait
or bridge* in Comox district hit*r
than a walk, will bt prosecuted according to law.
8. Onwh
Gov. Agent.
UNION Bakery
UNION B.C.
Best of Bread, Cakes and
Pies always on hand.
The Bread Cart will   be at
Courtenay and Comox Tuesdays and Fridays.
Adderton & Rowbotham, Prop
1. D. McLean
Jeweler, Bookseller
and Dealer in
Organs, Pianos, Music
Stationery,   and  Notions of all kinds.
Union  Mines, B C.