W4S. .1 4 .f VOt:' I. ���NBI/SO'N, B. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1897. NO. 24. �� THE NEL;SON/EC6NQfl 1ST Issued every Wednesday at the city of Nelson, B. C I>. M. Carley.'���..."...... . Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One,Year to Canada and United States. A .... ...... ...'.���'.���$2.00' If paid in advance.... : :A. 1.50 One Year to Great Britain...A.:.............................. 2.50 If paid in.advanee...... .......... ..;... A . 2 00 Bemit by Express, Money Order, Draft, P. 0. Order, or Registered Letter. Correspondence on matters of general interest respectfullv solicited. Advertisements of reputable character will be inserted upon terms.which will be made known on application. Only articles of merit will be advertised in these columns and the interests of readers will be carefully1guarded against irresponsible persons and worthless articles. EDITORIAL COMMENT. Within a few. days the whole Christian > world will once more turn their eyes towards the star of Bethlehem, and with one voice proclaim from the bottom of their hearts peace on earth and good-will towards men. Under all the more sordid and common-place motives and conditions of every-day existence, a strong undercurrent of kindly sentiment runs broad and clear and. sweet among the Christian people, and, as the years pass, the celebration of the blessed "Christmas-tide" becomes more general. The manner of the observance of this day ma}^ have changed with years, but the sentiment peace on earth remains the same. In Canada we have a .Christmas day peculiarly our own. It is scarcely the Christmas of our forefathers in the motherland, the Yule of the Scandinavian, the Weibnacht of the German, the Noel of the Gaul, nor indeed the festival of any of the great peoples of Europe, but it partakes of them all, and is enjoyed and observed in many and various ways. To nearly every nation, however, Christmas still brings a gentle, religious reminiscence of the caravansary of Bethlehem ; the radiance of the guiding star ; the wanderings of the wise kings and their lowly homage and alien tribute to the helpless infant in his manger cradle. And strange that through all the years these reminiscences have been recalled, there is so little known but what we read in the New Testament of the early life and subsequent death of the Royal Infant, the Babe of Bethlehem, the blue-eyed embodiment of the Heaven's Creator. Some time ago it was announced as a remarkable discover}^ that a copy of a letter that was alleged to have been written by Pontius Pilate to the Emperor Tiberius had been found in the archives of the Vatican. : That Pontius Pilate wrote a letter to the Emperor Tiberius, describing the circumstances attending the crucifixion of Jesus Christ may be not at all improbable. That such a letter has been found in the Vatican is,. according to ecclesiastics well informed as to the manner in which the literary treasures of the papal residence are preserved, decidedly improbable. As read in the English translation, the alleged letter has the appearance of a clever fiction. There are two circumstances, among others, which especially tend to invalidate its claims to genuineness���one having that effect among all observant readers ; the other among a larger ciass of chronlogists who do not accept the traditional view of the length of Christ's active ministry on earth. The first of these circumstances is that in the alleged letter Pilate speaks of the followers of Jesus as ''Christians." That name was first applied to them at Antioch, some twenty-five years after the letter's date. The other circumstance is the reference in the letter to the "three years." of Christ's ministry before his death. That period was established, if established at all, by.deductions from the Gospels, not one of which had been written at the time when Pilate is represented as writing to Tiberius. And the scholorship of the world is now divided on the subject ; some chron- ologists coutending for a period of two years, while others compress all the events of Christ's ministry, from His baptism to His crucifixion, within the limits of a single year. The truth is, all that is really known of Christ is contained in the New Testament��� that He spake as no other child has before or since spoken, that He established a new code for the government of man, that His influence has been irresistible, that His teachings have brought mankind closer together, and that through Him we rna}' enjoy everlasting glory ���is all that is given us to know. For nearly two thousand years this magic influence has constituted the world's reservoir of moral and intellectual force, from which mankind have drawn their noblest forms of social, civil and religious energ3y There are few men or women so devoted to the cares of life, or so unaffected b}' the popular sentiment that do not recognize and provide for the gathering together of families on Christmas day. It is the day when children are made happy by the gifts of loving parents, and friends take each other's hands and extend the hope for peace and good-will. Indeed the day is different from all others, in that it reflects noble simplicity and universal love and charity towards men, the love and light divine which nineteen centuries ago ���illumined the manger of Bethlehem, and which through intervening ages-has cast its benigrn radiance ou so many human hearts in life and death. The Nelson Economist greets its readers with hearty wishes for their unalkryed enjo3^ment.of the coming Christmas, and to all to whom it may come greeting, may a happy home, a cheerful feast and all good fortune possible, make the day a golden milestone of the ever-var3dng wa3^ of life. To those in affliction, ma3' the divine love bring some portion of comfort, pleasure and consolation. Prof. Gold win Smith, in the Christmas number of the Canadian magazine, has taken the rather gratuitous trouble to expose the absurdhy of��� the theor3' which ; originated many years ago with Miss Dellia Bacon that Francis Bacon was the real author of the plays attributed to Shakespeare.. This theory afterwards found secondar3' expounders in Holmes, Ignatius Donnelh^ and others. How anybody- could imagine that Francis Bacon could have written the dramas of William Shakespeare has been to many one of the most amusing examples of human stupidhy in the annals of literature. It needs no learning, no critical acumen���nothing but that the reader of both shall not be wholly blind to color and form and deaf to tone to perceive the utter unlike- ness of ever3rthing that Bacon wrote to eve^- thing in Shakespeare's works. But, as Prof. Goldwin Smith in prefacing his remarks states, " the whimsical theor3^ seems to be still alive, and even prevalent in niai^ quarters." Prof. Smith points out that the Shakespearean plays are full of passion and humor. In Bacon's,works there is not a trace of either. The3' are the works of a very calm philosopher and a cool-headed, not to sa3r somewhat Machiavellian, politician. The learned professor then draws a comparison between Bacon's "Essay on Love,"���written in the spirit of the coldest analyst, but in that of a sage and a man of the world who despises the passion���and asks, can it be believed that the man who wrote this was the author of "Romeo and Juliet? Prof. Smith refers to the circumstance that in many of Shakespeare's plays there is obscenity, "which we can hardl\r imagine Bacon condescending to purve3r for the audience of the Globe theatre.'' It has been contended by Donnelly and other champions of the Baconian theory that Shakespeare did not possess that legal knowledge of which his works give evidence. This ii i'yi: NA iinfflnHRnmRmncnnEBstnEsanRsnsnt mBSfmBmmmmgmm THE NELSON ECONOMIST structure on which the Bacon building has been made to stand is completely: demolished by Prof. Gold win Smith, who states that the immortal bard of Avon, living very probably with some law,'student's, may easily have picked up some law terms. Shakespeare was one of the keenest observers who ever lived, but his works do not abound in evidences of the learning which is usually obtained from books. With Bacon it was otherwise. For instance, Prof. Smith asks : "Could Bacon have imagined that Bohemia was on the sea, and that cannon were used in the reign of King John.?. Could he have fancied that there were nunneries in ancient Athens, and that Athenians fought . duels ?" ' ���:���:..;���, ''; .A These aud other reasons are advanced to disprove the contention that Bacon wrote, or could have written, the plays of Shakespeare, and Prof. Smith dismisses the subject by expressing the belief that Mrs. Delia Bacon was inspired, it may not uncharitably be supposed, by her natural regard for the name. She thought the plays too good to be written by anyone but Bacon. It appears to us that the strongest condemnation of that -thing of '' shreds and patches " known as the "Liberal platform, "is meeting with,-, far more opposition from the Liberals than from the Conservatives. To the Conservatives it comes rather in the nature of a huge joke than as a serious declaration of principles of a political part3^ ; but its title throws its responsibility on the Liberals of British. Columbia, without asking b3r 3^our leave or license. That. it does not represent the.views of any considerable number of those holding Liberal views, we believe the remarks .quoted last week from the Vancouver World bear the most conclusive testimony. The World speaks for the Liberals of the mainland and it is not likehy that it would express itself so uncompromising^ opposed to the " platform " if there were vasniy Liberals who held the views therein expressed. The fact is, the Liberal convention at New Westminster was not called for the purpose of gathering together the threads of political principles, but to settle upon some plan for the distribution of government patronage. The promulgation of a declaration of principles was merely a blind, and has not deceived aii3rone but the j builders of the platform, who supposed the3^ j were sufficiently ambidextrous to conceal j their real purpose. If the Liberals did not j grab up ever3" ofhce in sight and howl for j more, the3r would be inconsistent with them- j selves, for long ago the3r appropriated the sentiment which prevails among the knavish politicians of their Uncle Samuel's country that to the victors belong the spoils. Therefore, it was not to be expected that the rank and file of the part\r would look silentl}- on while a few wire-pullers decided matters that in no wa3r concerned the doctrines of the part3r as a whole. It is what was only to be expected that the platform, wrhich in many respects resembles the architectural designs of the populist plat forms that have been floating around the United States for the last few 3^ears, would meet with opposition. Its primary principle is to confuse political issues and deprive the .���"country of responsible government, and that in the main was all that was ever -sought -by. their populistic brethren. The Revelstoke Herald of a recent date has a -very-'��� vigorous editorial on the Liberal platform. In the course of its remarks the Herald says : y " This condition of affairs has not been arranged to suit the Herald and it certainly is not the least in accord with the lines, on, which it was constantly urged that the coming election should be conducted. But as the choice has to be made between the Liberal platform and the Turner government, then the Herald has no hesitation in sa3dng that of the two it vastly prefers and will support- the Turner government. The Turner government may not be disposed to grant so full a measure to.reform as the Herald would like to see. Neither do the vote catching, and purposely vague and meaningless articles of the platform. But we do know that Mr. Turner and his associates will administer the affairs of this province as British Columbians pure and simple, while the whole histo^ of Liberal ascendency in provincial politics goes to show , that everything is conducted by them with a constant eye to the success of their party. At this very time the Liberal premier of the dominion is calling the Liberal government of Manitoba to his aid in the difficulties in which his temporary settlement of the school question has involved him. Who is going to say how some question of provincial rights may arise between British Columbia and the Dominion? And who is there, except the Liberal partizans, who wants to see such questions bandied about between the Victoria government and the Ottawra cabinet and kept open or settled to suit the exigencies of the Liberal part3^ from month to month? Who is there, except the Liberal partizans, who wants to see ever3' office in the administration filled with Liberal supporters, and the whole machine used to bring pressure on the electorate in Dominion elections. Both Conservatives and those who dislike the introduction of part3^ lines into our domestic affairs may as well face the issue at once. Reforms in the administration of our provincial affairs ma3^ be necessa^. They are necessary and its support of Mr. Turner's administration will not prevent the Herald from pointing them out. Several of the details mentioned in the Liberal platform itself will probably be considered at the next session. Other reforms can wait until the great danger at present threatening this province is overpast." These are very fewr supporters of the Turner Government who will not candkhV confess that the changing condition of affairs demand new legislation, but we rather believe a vast majority of the voters would place more faith in securing consideration and legislative relief from Mr. Turner and his government than an Opposition that in the past has displa3^ed a greater capacit3^ for drawing parliamentary salaries than for comprehensive and intelligent legislation. The people have very little faith in a part3^ that once upon a time, when it held the reins of power, demonstrated great genius in reducing the wages of honest working men and adding to the salaries of useless clerks. This was one of the features of Mr. Beaven's reign, and it is useless to contend that the seemingb^ immortal remains of the Hon. Ro bert Beaven will not be brought forth from the vaults to lead the Opposition should the opportunity present itself. The Liberal platform, apart from its populistic tone, has many of the finger-marks of Mr. Beaven upon it, and it may develop that while the hands that gave it to the world are the hands of Esau, the voice is the voice of Jacob Beayen���-for the Hon. Robert is a srnooth man. There is something radically wrong with our postal service. For some time the citizens of Nelson have enjoyed the convenience of,a rapid passenger and freight service with Slocan City, 3^et the postal authorities have not }ret been moved to take advantage . of this short service for the transportation of the mails. Just now it takes a letter posted at Slocan City for Nelson from .forty to fifty hours to reach its destination, whereas the same letter could be shipped over the new route tand reach here within a very short space of time. We understand that the attention of the postoffi.ce inspector has been directed to this matter, but so far he h&s fefusedto take cognizance of the fact. The mysterious things said to be done in the. lodge room invariably meet with the severest censure and ridicule at the hands of the uninitiated. Those who have gone through the ordeal preserve a commendable silence on the formalities of initiation, contenting themselves with the avowal that there is nothing in the proceedings derogatory .to principle or hurtful to the constitution. Now-a-days when almost ever3)- man belongs to some societ3^ secret or otherwise, the few exceptions to the rule have positive proof that the supposed tortures to be endured before one is thorough^ initiated are not so dreadful after all. Occasionalty, however, a case finds its way into court which would go to prove that in some instances at least the candidate is roughly handled, or that the ceremoii3^ acts upon some particular function in a manner other than that designed. A Knight of the Maccabees has just been aw7arded $10,000 03^ a Kansas city jury for the dislocation of one of his kidneys during filiation into the local order. Lenna Winslow joined the Knights of Maccabees four years ago, and from that date his kidne3* has been a source of trouble to him. He estimated his loss at $25,000, but the ju^ solemuW decided that $10,000 is fair compensation for one kidne3A considering that Lenna has had the honor of knighthood. The parrot-like persistenc3^ with which certain interior papers re-echo the abuse hurled at the Local Government 03' the chief organ of the Opposition on the Coast is becoming exceedingly nauseating. There is a great county here to be developed, and attracting the attention of capital should be the chief aim and object of the British Columbia Press. Instead of aiding our leading men in inducing the desired capital to open up our resources, we find week after week abuse and calumn3r heaped on the heads of the ver}' men who are in a position to divert capital in our direction. If a public man shows his faith and interest in this province hy llillMllUUMIMH^IMU^Mat^m^^ IWMiTOiroCMS THE NELSON ECONOMIST. W ft- m interesting the capitalists of the old world in the great natural resources of the illimitable West, he is abused, and compared to a boodler or some other synonymous term culled from the political vocabulary of the United States, Of course there is one inducement to print these long, 'dreary editorials���^theyyw.ill be reprinted with due credit in the Victoria Times. Such recognition as this is, to sa3r the least, very tempting. So far as moulding an antagonistic sentiment to the government, the effect is quite the reverse. It now looks as if Theodore Durrant would suffer death on the scaffold on Frida3v January 7th. The Durrant case has never been paralleled in the history' of criminal jurisprudence: He was found guilty of murder by the newspapers of San Francisco before he was tried in court, and since the moment he was first arrested he has been pursued d3a police and press of that chy most relentlessly. If there were an3r links missing in the chain of circumstantial evidence the Examiner and detectives forged them. The Economist has no feelings of sentimentality with regard to murderers.' It believes in the old Mosaic law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but it does most emphaticallly condemn trial by press and detectives, as was the case in the conviction of Durrant. The jury was intimidated, one member thereof having been threatened with personal violence if he refused to return a verdict of-guilty. Much of the evidence on which Durrant was convicted could ver3r easily have been supplied by interested witnesses. One witness���Rev. Geo. Gibson���stated over his own name that he could supphy important evidence that he had purposely kept back in the witness box. While there is a great deal that points to Durrant's guilt, there is just about as much that would go to show that he is a victim of a huge conspirac3r. The writer of this article was present in San Francisco during the excitement resulting from the disappearance of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams and was present during the removal of Miss Lamont's body from the cupola of Emanuel Baptist church. As a disinterested spectator of many of the events in that tragic drama he was forced to the conclusion that a detective with just about as much of the sleuth in his composition as the detective who worked up the case against Durrant could have made equalty as strong a case against one or two others connected with Emanuel Baptist church. The truth is Durrant was pronounced guilt3^ and tried afterwards. The United States wants to annex Hawaii, but the Hawaiians do not want to be annexed, for much the same reasons that Canada assigns to be taken under the maternal wing of the American eagle. Uncle Sam coolly sa3rs that the interests of his citizens in the islands are greater than those of any other nation, and hence he has the privilege of exercising his fostering care over the balance of the community. Unfortunately for him there are others interested in the islands, and these others very strongly object to his interference ; that he will be permitted to force annexation is altogether improbable. The object is altogether too apparent, as will be seen from the following from the Spokesman-Review, which is t3'pical of the general sentiment of the American Press on subject : '���' Native Hawaiians to the number of 21,269 have petitioned the United States senate against annexation. The United States would gladly leave them out if it could. It wants the islands, not the native race upon them." The Victoria Colonist is of the opinion that it will now be in order for the Toronto Globe to call upon Hon. Mr. Mulock to step down and out of the cabinet. He not only lent the prestige of his good name and high position to a financial corporation, but that corporation has proved to be a fraudulent concern. Perhaps, however, as in the case of railway subsidies, a different rule prevails as to ministers and corporations in the East to what the Globe thinks should prevail in British Columbia. The Rossland Times puts the tcase very clearlv when it states that the citv is too much interested in the development of its gold rnines to advocate any particular road by wmich its mining population can be deported to the Tar north. That a great number of miners and mining men will leave Rossland for Klond3Tke when the rush commences in the spring is to be expected, and that the foolishness of such migration will be exemplified to many of them later on is a certainty. But while the vast crowds are rushing pell-mell to the far north, the Trail mines will go right on increasing their output of gold and copper, and by the time the great majority of disappointed gold- seekers are back in Kootenav7 again our mines will be producing gold enough to throw the Klond3rke entirely in the shade. Having failed in open competition with Canadians to secure the outfitting trade of the Klondyke, the traders of the coast cities on the American side are now showing their teeth and are petitioning congress to have the sub port of customs at Dyea closed. The object of this move is to prevent Canadian goods from passing in bond across the narrow strip of United States territor3r. That their petition will be granted is very doubtful, for this is a game at which two can pla3^, and wiser heads at Washington will realize the situation. The gold fields are in Canada, but because Canada happens to be on the American continent that is no reason why Uncle Sam is to have all the good things which she possesses. Yankee merchants are no doubt handicapped by the fact that their goods going into the KloncH'ke are subject to duties such as would be imposed if they were to be brought into any other place at this side of the international boundar3', but this fact should not agitate them so much, seeing that Canadian goods are taxed upon entering the States. The newspapers in the communities interested., have fraudulent^ misrepresented facts and induced miners to outfit with them, knowing well that the outfits were dutiable. This fraud having been exposed the3r are now trying to make things disagreeable for Canadians who cater to the wants of miners going to Canadian mines. How not to overdo a good thing, says the Western Mining World, is a lesson 3ret to be learned b3r some mining men. Not long since a mining property in Oregon was sold for a consideration of $740,000, but j .list before th e deal w'as brought, to a close the purchasers learned that the middle men who were steering the trade to a conclusion were to secure a rake-off of $22,000, This made, them indignant, as well as suspicious of the true value of ; the property,1 and the3r refused to fake it, preferring to forfeit $15,000. already paid. Middlemen are a race of people more or les.s ��� necessary to maintain the . proper equilibrium of civilization, and'they should be permitted to eat regular^, but when they reach out after such compensatory fees as in this case a little pariugof the finger nails will do no harm. According to a dispatch from Washington the bill relating to pelagic sealing which has just passed both houses of congress, is far more sweeping in its provisions than it-was anticipated it would be. In order to strike a more effective blow at the 'British and Canadian interests it is proposed' to absolutely prohibit the importation of seal skin's into the United States from an3r source whatever. The United States is one of the largest purchasers of sealskins, so it can readily be understood that this measure will have a disastrous effect on the sealing industry It was not expected that the bill would go any further than to prohibit Americans from engaging in pelagic sealing, but there is a section which applies to sealskins in general ." taken in the waters mentioned in this Act," which includes the whole Pacific Ocean. The provision is as follows : " Section 9. That the importation' into the United States D3' any person whatsoever of the furs of seal- skins taken in waters mentioned in this act. whether raw, dressed, c^ed or manufactured, is hereb3r prohibited, and all such articles imported after this act shall take effect shall not be permitted to be exported, but shall be seized by the proper officers of the United States." So far this winter there have been more snowr slides reported in the Kootena\'S than in an3' previous year. And a significant fact is that main' of the more destructive slides have occurred in localities in which they have never before been known. There must of course be some cause for this, and we do not think it is far to seek. It is a noticeable fact that where the mountain sides have been denuded of timber, there is more probabilit}' of the unwelcome visitant sweeping down than in places where the timber is undisturbed. Prospectors and their camp fires have done much to start the destructive fires which leave the mountains bare. The3r ought to be more cautious, if only for their own sakes. If more caution is not exercised, it will only be a matter of time until mining in the higher sections will have to be suspendrd during the winter months. All Al A| \'i-l W 1 iS"* \i THE NELSON ECONOMIST LARRY'S LETTER. Hogan's Alley, Dec. 20* Deer Tim���Me decision in the relationship case that I was telling ye about last week, wTas rindered yisterday in favor of Casey. After spending several sleepless noights and wakeful days over the case I foind that its possible to have-seventy-two relations an' only ten peeple in the crowd. Mickey Burns hisself gives in that I'm roight, ,an! Billy Hering is a happy man -bekase he won a lot ov money over the bet. Whin meself gave me vardict won of the boys axed " Is that the case, eh ?" and thought he was having a grate joak on Casey, but he had all the laughing to hisself. Of coorse Billy traited after winning, an' says he to the boys, says he, ' 'Would 3^e like me to retrait ?'' '' Ov coorse we would,'' says they, and wid that Billy walks away���'������' I'll retrait," says he, an' he had the laugh upon thim, for they were thinking that he meant he was going to stand trait agin. They were drinking beer, Tim, an' some ov them called it loger an' more ov thim lager, an' they got up a row as to which was roight. They were rale hot over it, an' were laving it to meself, as usual, when a stranger come in, an' says Casey, says he, " We'll laive it to this gintleman, for he's in the trade." Well, Tim, they agreed to this, an' Case}^ axed him " Is it lager or loger?'' "I cant tell ye," says the,chap, -V till I taste it." Then Casey (he thought the man was a brewer) called for a schooner ov beer for him, an' that I moight nevir be wddout two blue duck eggs for me brekfast if he didn't swallow the whole ov it to satisfy his taste. ". If that's what ye call a taste," says Casey to him, sa3^s he, " I wonder what a thurst 'd be wid 3re, "says he: An3^wa3^, Tim, the droughty stranger decoided that loger was the proper word. 'l An' what moight \^ou be, an3^way.?'.'sa3^s won of the boys. "I'm a logger,'' says the chap, running aw^y from the crowd. " Sowld. agin," sa3^s the bo3rs, an' then they began to make fun of Con Case3r. Micke3^ Burns put him sitting on a stool, an' sa3^s Micke3', says he, " What's Con now ?" " Saited," sa3's Dooley. " Roight 3'e are," sa>rs Mickey, " he's Con-saited. An' if he was powder in a mine wThat!d he be ?" " Confused, '' says Dooley. ' * Roight agin," . sa3^s Micke3', "but if he was lost an' discovered agin, what 'd he be ?" " He'd be Con-found," says Dooley ; "but I'll give ye won. If he was camping out what 'd he be ?" "That's aisey,'' sa3^s Mickey, '' He'd be Con-tented.'' " If he was brought before the police magistrate," says meself, ''what 'dhebe ?" " He'd be Con-founded," sa3*s Micke3^, "an' Confined," sa3'S Doole3'. " If he wras after getting his shoes mended what 'd be?" sa3^s meself. " Con-soled ov coorse," sa3rs Dooley, "but if we axed him to have another drink, what 'd that be ?" " Con-tempt," sa3^s Casey hisself. " Now I'll give ye won," sa\<s he. " If meself had to come down the Hall street toboggan slide ?" This was a puzzler, an' the bo3rs were gessing all sorts of things. The}- found that he'd be Con-tested, Con-jested, Con-fusion, Con-stumbled, Ccn-caved, Con-vexed, Concentered, Con-citationed, Con-corded, Con- coursed, Con-current, Con-descending, Condoled, Con-doned, Con-ferruminated, Configured, Con-firmed, Con-fixed, Con-fronted, Con-genial, Con���globulated, Con-natural an' Con-spired, Con-strained, Con-tributory, Convulsed, Con-glaciated, an' a whole lot ov other con-ditions that I can't think ov. Meself, I couldn't tell ye half the riddles that were given but we were having grate fun. Of coorse we had the hen-an'-half an' the egg-an'-a half an' all thim owld wons. Boole}' held up his own empty glasj, an1 says he, " How does that re- . simble ttye ne.w reservoir ?" " Bekase there's nothing in it," says Casey, says he, "but how does the new reservoir resimble yerself?" "Bekase it 'd ho wid enough to do the whole town of Nelson," says Micke3>\ " How does a donkey resimble a stick of candy ?" was won of Casey's conumdrums. " Bekase the harder ye lick it the faster 'twill go," sa}rs Dooley. Arrah, Tim, but they kept going on in this way till meself got tired ov it. But talking of donkeys, Tim, remoinds me that I ought to be after telling ye that we have a rale, live, living won roight here in Nelson. Tis the furst I've seen since P came to the country, an' he brings back to me memory the happy toimes meself used to have in owld Ireland wid me legs across the donke3^'s back. Ye remimber the donkey that I used to have that we called Gra3^ Nedd3^, an' the varse I wrote upon him before I left. Poor Neddy Gray, I'm a-going far away, And you'll never see yer master any more, You've been a brother true, although I've.wolloped you Till yer hide, if it was tender, would be sore ; If ye can only spake, you'll do it for my sake, In accents even louder than of yore, . That wheresoe'er I'll be, I'll surely hear from thee, An' Neddy, wont he honor my encore ? I'll whisi^er in yer ear a parting word of cheer, . And for friendship's sake a lock of hair I'll take, Others may despise the look that's in yer eyes, But, Neddy, they don't know tis for my sake ; To the tender care ov me friends from everywhere I'll consign ye, poor owld Neddy, e'er we part, An' tell them to be koind,���I know they will, you'll foind��� To the playmate of me childhood, an' his cart. Meself doesn't know that they calls the donkey we have here Candy, but a licking 'd do him no harm. If meself had the nameing ov him tis Game-cock. I'd be after calling him bekase he'd die before he'd fun away. As I was saying, the baste is a stranger in the town and everybody stops to look at him. Maybe tis Con-saited he is, an' that he-wTont hurry on bekase he wauts evetywon to admoire his laziness. Even the dogs ov the town' have a go at him, and set up a howl whenever he shows up. An' talking ov dogs, Tim, but there taking the Klond3rke fever, or the chaps what have it are taking the dogs. If ye ax a chap now where's his dog, he'll tell ye its gone to the Klond3^ke he supposes. Begorra, Tim, but I'm towld some of the poor chaps up there is starving, wdd lots ov goold in their pockets. Hunger in a cowld country must be an awful thing. Tady Braui- gan was telling meself that Paddy Leary an' hisself was after coming from a prospecting trip out be Christina Lake wron time, an' that the}' hadn't a bit to ate for two days before they struck Cascade Chy. They crawled into the hotel���the only place they could get a da- sent mail, for the3r had lots ov money in their pockets���and axed for a dinner in haste. " Is it corn beef and cabbage ye'11 be after having," sa3'S the landlord. " Anything ill do," s?ys Tady so long as ye give it to us quick. Wid that the landlord got a business move on, an' the furst thing he put upon the table was a bowl of mustard, an' whoile he was out getting the corn beef and cabbage, Tady takes a big spoon an' goes for the mustard, thinking it was some soort ov a custard. As soon as he gulped down the furst spoonful, that w-as all he wanted ov it. He began to cough an' to groan an' to sigh, an' that Paddy couldn't see the big tears in his e3res, Tady hid his head in the table cloth an' kept sobbing away. '' What are crying for," sa3^s Paddy, thinking it was the hunger that was overcoming him. ' * Ah,'' says Tady, sa3rs he, " I was just thinking ov me poor Uncle Dan, what was kilt in the Crimea. He used to loike corn-beef an' cabbage." Be this toime Padd3' had helped hisself to a spoonful of the mustard too, an' began to act loike Tady. But Tady was rekovering, an' when he see the other chap struggling wid the mustard, he knew what was up. But says he to him, says he, " Paddy, what are you crying about ?" * * Bad look from ye," says Paddy, says he, "I'm crying bekase yerself wasn't kilt wid yer owld uncle in the Crimea. Why the divil didn't ye tell me what that stuff was ?" Just as they were having the scrap, the landlord came in wid the corn-beef and cabbage, and there was no more allusions to mustard or the Crimea for a long time. Biut they ate two dinners apiece, before they filled what Paddy called his vacuum. After dinner Thady fell into chat wid the landlord, an' they began to talk about there trip. "It took ye a long time to make the journey. Why, Dick Darrow or Alec Cameron or any of the boys 'd make it in half that toime.'' This made Tady purty mad, for he puts up to be a bit of a walker ye know, an' what does he do but put all the blame 011 Paddy. " I'd do it meself in half the toime," says Tady, " but ye see me. partner is gone oh the feet an' cant travel well. The poor chap has bad corns, an' I used to take him off the trail now an' agin an' let him rest for an hour or two." "I thought I seen him hopping about purty lively after dinner," says the landlord says he. Faix but this bit of obsarvance was nearly giving the lie to Tad3^, for Paddy is as lively a man on his pins as you'll foind in in the whole country. But Tady, the divil, was aqual to the occasion, and says he,. " Oh, yis, he's all roight agin ; the corns dropt off at dinner." " Dropt off at dinner 1" sa3'S the landlord, surprist loike, as if he was agin in doubt about the story. " Yes," sa3^s Tad}V '' didn't ye obsarve his agitation when ye came in wid the beef an' cabbage the furst toime ?" before Paddy was recovered from the mustard. " I thought there was something wrong," sa}rs the landlord, says he. "An' didn't ye obsarve how continted he was when ye came in wid the beef an' cabbage the second toime ?" says Tady, getting in his foine work. "True for ye," says the landlord. " He was after getting rid of his corn be that toime," sa}-s Tad}7". "Young man," sa3*s the landlord, rale sarious, " are ye trying to fool me ? What corns do ye main ? Is it the corn beef or the corn cobs 3^er having allusion to? I'd have 3-e understhand that I'm no tinderfoot���greenhorn I main." Faix, but Tady saw the landlord was getting crass, an' that if he didn't moind himself he'd he after putting his fut in it as well as Padd3^'s. " I dont want to make a fool ov ye," says Tady, says he. " Tisn't the corn that was on the beef or the corn that was on the cobs aither that I'm talking about, but the corn that wras on me frend's toe. The cure that he got from the corn doctor up in Nelson was acting on him whoile we were walking an' it wasn't till we sat down to dinner that the corn fell off. Tis the gratest an' the simplist cure I evir heerd tell ov. The corn comes out root an' all, an' yer nevir troubled agin. Ye seen me frend limping in, an' 37eseen him hopping round after asfriskhy as a two^ear-owld streer in a field ov clover. That'ill show 3'e what a cure it is." Begorra, but the landlord got interested in the case, and sa3<-s he, " I'd give a ten-dollar bill to get shut ov a corn that's troubling meself for the past foive years. I must ax yer frend for the resait." " I'll give it to ye meself," says Tady. "Get half-a- dozen mother-ov-pearl shurt buttons an' put thim in a wine glass. Squeeze the juice ov twTo fresh lemons upon thim, an' laive the buttons dissolve. When there melted, take a foine camel hair brush, dip it in the stuff, an' paint the corn wid it. When it dries it'll be a soort ov button on the corn, an' all you've got to do is to pull that off, an' the corn comes wid it." " That's aisy,'' says the landlord, " if I had the brush." " You'll have lots of toime to get it before the buttons dissolve," says our frend Tady, and so he will. Larry Finn. i THE NELSON ECONOMIST. FROM THE PROVINCIAL CAPITAL. \i V. rr (Special Correspondence of The Economist.) If the outfitting trade for the Klondyke does not amount to something enormous, it will be a grevious disappointment to Victoria merchants. I have been informed by a Wharf street merchant, whose business it is to keep posted on these matters, that never in the history of this city have there been such large amounts of goods in the warehouses. And there is more to follow. The orders given to eastern houses for supplies approximate the seven figures. The estimate of the number of pilgrims to the land of gold has been reduced by one half; and the more imaginative give it out,that they will not drop one below 50,000. And the mad race for gold goes merrily on. . It is understood that the Local Legislature will convene within a month for the dispatch of business. From present appearances it is inferred that the coming session .will be one of the most important that has ever been held in British Columbia. .Mining legislation should be the predominating feature of the session, and it is understood that the new laws regulating that industry will be adopted. There is a growing belief that the weather in this latitude has changed very considerably of late 3^-ears and. that the great influx of eastern visitors are in some way responsible for the change to the worse. Years ago we were able to pull through the winter with half-a-dozen or so cold da3rs, but now it is considered the Correct thing to get regular all-round Manitoba winter, course this may be done to remind the Westerners that though far away from native hearths the3^ will find here something of home���even if that reminder comes in the way of a blizzard. up a Of Nor' their By the death of Aid. J. B. Harrison, which occurred last Frida3~, Victoria has lost a most enterprising citizen. The deceased has been a resident of this province- since the early sixties. During the construction of the C.P.R. he had a contract for a full section of the road. His death was the result of an accident a few months ago. The municipal pot is beginning to boil. Already there are two candidates for the mayoralty in the field���the present incumbent, Chas. E. Red fern, aud Joseph Westrop Carey ���and there are others said to be ambitious to fill the chair. The crop of aldermen promises to be a large one. Nelson sent us this week a delightful singer in the person of Mme. Frances Graham (known in private life as Mrs. Brougham). The fact that Mme. Graham's home is in Nelson impresses one with an exalted idea of the culture of your city. As 3^ou have all, no doubt, heard Mme. Graham/a criticism of her work here in Institute Hall, last Tuesda3^ evening would be superfluous. Suffice it to sa3' she created a good impression on the music loving portion of Victorians���who, liy the way, hold a very high opinion of their culture from a musical point of view. Strange that Nelson, that does not boast much in that wa3^, should have been the first to reveal to us that in British Columbia we have some really first-class talent. So far we have been struggling along with rather inferior singing material, but since Mrne. Graham appeared on the scene it would not surprise me in the least to hear that the lovers of art in this city should insist on a better quality of singing than we have enjo3^ed in the past. But stop ���I may bring down the lash of Mr. Greig's virile pen for my indiscretion. By the wa3^, Mme. Graham was accompanied hy her husband��� a most accomplished pianist. Both left here on the Umatilla for southern California. Beacon Hill. SENSIBLE ADVICE. The Victoria Colonist, in the course of an article intended to give a little advice to ten- derfeet, says that thousands of men will go into the wilderness of British Columbia and the Yukon next year with scarce^ any experience. Many of them will go through the sensation of being lost, which is, perhaps, about as" uncomfortable a performance as one can very well have. Nearly every one who cruises in a region that is new to him is likety to get astray, but this does not matter very much to him while his pack is full of provisions. It is the man whose " grub " has run short and who is making his way back to camp that is liable to suffer from being lost. As this may be any one's experience a word or two based upon practical knowledge may be of service to some. The writer of this article once emplo3^ed an Indian to cruise out a route for a road through a very little known portion of Eastern Canada. The Indian was gone longer than wras expected and on being asked for his reason, said he had been lost. Asked what he had done then he answered. " Biled kettle. When Injun lost, Injun bile kettle." There is a lot of wisdom in this answer. It means that he cooked a meal. Other experienced cruisers express the same idea b3^sa3dng that when a man is lost he should camp. The philosophy of the thing is that the sensation of being lost is likely, in case of the inexperienced, to lead to bewilderment, and to be bewildered may lead to very serious results. While "Injun bile kettle,'.' he gets time to think. He also gets time to familiarize himself with his surroundings. This gives hirn a new point of departure. He is no longer lost, for he can as well start to find his way from one place as from another. This is all very elemental, and ver3* simple; but hundreds of men have been saved a good deal of trouble 03^ observing the rule, and hundreds more would have been benefited 03^ following: it. Nothino; is so destructive to a man's '& self-control as to aitnlessty wander through a wilderness searching for the wa3^ out. He soon loses all sense of distance or direction. He will pass and repass the same spot without recognizing it. He will do all manner of foolish things. We are speaking now to the inexperienced, that is to the majority of those who will tiy the Northern wilderness next 3Tear. Keep the experienced Indian's sa3*ing in mind: " When Injun lost, Injun bile kettle.'' It nia3r save you lots of trouble, and ma3r be from a worse fate than trouble. Government Agent Armstrong has informed the people of Fort Steele that he cannot recommend the construction of the new bridge across Wild Horse Creek until other works of greater urgency have been executed. Vancouver will ask the Provincial Government, at the next session of the local house, for a grant of $18,000. Of this sum, $5,000 is for the Chy Hospital, $2,000 for a woman's hofpital, $1,000 for an orphans' home, $9,000 for a drill shed site, and $1,000 for the Fire Department. The only place where you can buy a bottle of tir.st-olass liquor at a reasonable price is at the NelsonWine Co. * THE CITK). COUNCIL. Mayor Houston;presided.at the meeting of the Chy ������'Cpiiiicil pii''Monday'afternoon. There were also present Aid. MaldiieVFletcher, Teetzel, Hillyer and City. EugineervMcCulldch. Aid. Fletcher suggested that the Columbia & Kootena3^ Railway'. Co;, who had applied for a suppty of city water at the mountain siding, be informed that the water would be furnished the compai^ to. erect its own tank. The Ma3ror recommended that the rate be fixed at $20 per month. After some discussion, it was decided to adopt both recommendations. A letter was read from J. Fife, Rosslaud.. re the franchise of the Kootenay:.- Gas Light & Power Co., seeting forth that it had been ruled in Rossland that such a franchise would have to be approved of by the ratepayers, ;and.asking that a bye-law be prepared by the city solicitor of Nelson for submission to the citizens at the approaching municipal elections, and a copy of same forwarded to Mr. Abbott, the company's solicitor, for approval. Aid. Teetzel asked if Mr. Fife hadenclosed a cheque to cover expenses, and being replied to in the negative, moved that the letter be received. Aid. Fletcher objected to this formal course , as a matter of business. S^oihe notice should be taken of the communication .;>" ;; After considerable discussion it was decided to call upon the company to have .���the-by-law prepared and to submit a copy of sameTor the approval of the city solicitor ; also to deposit a sum of $50 to defray' expenses. ���'��� - In reply to Aid. Fletcher the 'Mayor stated that a cheque for $750 had been issued as against the claim of the Nelson Town site Go. for right of way for water flume, etc. Aid. Fletcher asked if anything had been heard from the Provincial Board of Health as to the sewerage outlet. The Mayor replied in the negative. 1' There was a member of the board in town yesterday," said Aid. Fletcher, " and a few of us got after him about the Outlet for our sewers - and gave him a bit of our mind 011 the subject. It appears that Dr. Davie has never lived in a cold country, aud is stuck on the sewerage farm plan. It is all nonsense to think of that here, but when they refuse to let Kamloops drain into the Thompson they'd do anything." " Its a wonder they let Victoria dump into the ocean," suggested Aid. Teetzel ironically. The Mayor said he did not anticipate any trouble in the matter. Aid. Fletcher asked if there would beany use in again calling attention to the presence of a powder magazine and the consequentdan- to the communit3'. The Mavor did not know how the rnatter could be dealt with, so as to have the danger- removed. Something would have to be done. "I am told that they are filling it up choke- a-block again," said Aid. Fletcher, "and if any accident were to occur there the whole town would be blown up. The explosion that occurred in United States the other day shows how destructive such an explosion can be." The Mayor suggested that the subject be brouo-ht before the" legislature at its liext sit- ting. Aid. Fletcher said there was no doubt on . his mind that if the magazine went up.it would wreck the whole town. The Mayor asked if Aid. Fletcher had heard ' anything in reference to the proposed cefneter3; site. Aid. Fletcher replied that .the railway company required a sketch showing location and the area required. ' ' _ ' iil Try a bottle of the Nelson Wine Go's -l-Crown Scotch. !tffeFOTS?E37SM ^5OT^?^^^ THE NELSON ECONOMIST A SRANGE COINCIDENCE. The Chicago papers of the last few weeks have contained lengtty accounts of the somewhat mysterious marriage and subsequent death of a wealthy gentleman named Ket- chum. It appears that the deceased, some, months ago, married Mrs. Minnie Wallace. Walkup, of New Orleans, and shprt^y afteiv wards died under circumstances, to say the least, of that were rather peculiar. My reason for referring to the matter is that at one time I had the'honor of being acquainted with Mrs. ���Ketchurn, ���.-while she was being, tried on the charge of murdering her first husband, James Walkup, of Emporia, Kansas. , At that time I was connected with a newspaper in the Southern States, and the scene of the supposed murder being but a short dis- . tance. froiu me, .1; took much interest in the circumstances surrounding it. The accused was a handsome woman, and she had married a man sd' much older than herself as to preclude the p5s'sibility-'df:;the union being one of altogether disinterested attachment. At No. 222 Canal street, New Orleans, in . the 3'ear 1885, lived a Mrs. Wallace aud her -only daughter Minnie, Mrs. Wallace had , some time before-this been divorced from her husband, an obscure lawyer. Minnie, was the only fruit of a union which-covered a period "���of- a dozen' years. ' The house w^as a neat two- f stoiy "dwelling. :ymuch ��� the same as other buildings rto be. found in the Crescent City.' The place,was -used as a high-class boarding "and-lodging' house. ' During* the vear 188s, the exposition was"'.being held in that citv, , and amongthoseAwho were attracted to it, was James" Walkup,' :'Mayor of Emporia. He \ lodged during: his' short stay in the house of ! ���Mrs.- Wallace..- He-was a person considerabh7: j ��� ou the shad3l side ol fifty, .and a widower with j ��� a fa'xi!.L3^:, -Butuy)..twit:istiiidiiig his advanced | age the sprightly carriage and engaging man- j ners of Minnie Wallace,,who. w7as only seven- 'j teen wears of age, found much favor in his i ..eyes."- In short, with the consent, and encour- | agernent -of' the mother he offered her his ! hand in marriage ahd: was accepted. The old j stoiy of Uniting winter and spring was again j enacted/ although the -you ng lad\- was candid I enough to confess to her husband that a home | for-herself was the greatest consideration she- ! had in the matter, y | In .due time the 3'oung woman was installed j . in the" house of her husband in the bustling" j ^'little-city of Emporia., She w7as all attention | to the man ,she had sacredU^ vowed to " love, | honor and obey*," and everything- might have | gone along "smoothly enough had it not been I for the interference of.the husband's relations. I One daughter in particular by a. former wife I opposed her stepmother on every possible | occasion. -As'might-be expected, this state of ! "affairs had the effect of'repressing the cordial i and affectionate intercourse which should, exist between man and wife, and life for Min- ��� nie Wallace Walkup soon became irksome ��� indeed. In the course of a couple of weeks : after'the marriage Mr. Walkup took suddenh- ill, and despite the fact that several of the most skillful physicians were called in to make i diagnosis of the case, the cause of his illness ; was an 'impenetrable nystery. The 3-01111 g i wife was all attention to her sick husband. ! She remained'by his bed side and followed the j " doctor's.orders " with remarkable assiduity. !��� But neither the efforts of the phvsieians nor I the unceasing attentions-oi the wiie could pre- j vail against."the grim monster, death, and one j I eautiiul day in the autumn of 1SS5, James ' Walkup was gathered to his fathers, and the ! citv of Emporia was left without a mayor and i tV.e young girl'"from New Orleans was trans- \ formed, into a widow. j But people will' talk in Kansas just the same 'as-'they do any place else. It was first whispered and afterwards shouted from the housetops that there was something "irregular " about the death of Mayw. Walkup. At the suggestion of his daughter, the body was exhumed, and a chemical analysis- of the contents of the stomach was made. This disclosed the fact that arsenic had been administered to him in small quantities, but sufficient to cause death. A druggist of Emporia also volunteered the information that he had sold young-'-.Mrs.- Walkup sma.ll quantities of arsenic to poison the rats. These facts constituted a chain of circumstantial evidence that 'was deemed sufficiently strong to j ustify the suspicion that the deceased had been poisoned b3^ his young wife. She was accordingly arrested., charged with the wilful.- murder of her husband. In j ail she was permitted to live with the jailer's family, and was treated more as a distinguished guest than a person accused of murder. The day. for,the trial at last came about. It was in the early part of. November. The friends of the young widow., and she had many,' rallied to her assistance, and secured for her the best counsel available. The defence was unique in its "way, and depended largely on expert testimony. Several important facts were, disclosed, the principal one of.which was that the deceased had suffered from a painful disease, the excruciating tortures of which would be alleviated 03^ the use of small quantities of arsenic. It was also demonstrated that'it was a common practice among yourig ladies to. use arsenic for beautifying the complexion, and that it was for this purpose that Mrs. Walkup made the purchases of the drug. But there was another circumstance which, fortunately for the prisoner, much prominence -was.'nqt giveii to by-the' prosecution. It was' that the accused had a young lover in New Orleans, who would be benefitted'very greatly' by'the death of Mr. Walkup. I shali never forget the impressiveness of the scene, after the evidence was all in, and the addresses of the judge and lawyers to the juiy had been concluded, as the twelve good men in whose hands reposed the prisoner's fate, filed slowly out of the court rooms, to consider their verdict. Strange to say the prisoner herself appeared to be far less concerned than any one of the spectators. She was removed to the jailor's private parlor, and while the jury were wording their heads over the'testimony' of the experts, aud debating the case in all its bearings, she-amused herself and one of the jailer's children by singing " Naiicy Lee," and play-- ing her own accompaniment on the piano. After a short space of time it was announced that a verdict had been arrived at, and the jury returned to the court room, the silence impressive, but not ominous. After the usual questions, the foreman of the jur3r handed in the verdict, which was that Mrs. Walkup was "not guilt\* " of causing the death of her husband. A cheer rent the air at this announcement, but any attempt at further demonstrations was quickly suppressed by the judge. Minnie Wallace Walkup returned to her' home in New Orleans. The last time I met her was in the spring of 1886. She did not look as if her premature widowhood bore heavih* upon her; on the contrary she appeared supremely happy. Although she was entitled to a large share of her deceased husband's propert3', I was informed that she refused it most emphatically-. In the case of the death of her last husband Mrs. Walkup, or Ketch urn, was benefited thousands of dollars, but this time she proved property aud was handed over the goods, which shows that the times change and some people change with them. C. CHRISTMAS ON THE RANCH, Christmas morning dawned bright and clear on Stockman Roundup's ranch, on the Bitter water. There were signs of life all around the ranch as the glowing orb of ���-day surged.ab.bve. the .horizon, and all the men who were "up'save a few,sleep3T sluggards who were still in their :' tarpaulins,'' dreaming of catching mavericks ���'��� without number, and branding them with their own private marks, with bridle rings heated red hot in buffalo- chip fires. At last the door of the well-built house opened and Bessie Roundup, the -.-only .daughter- of the house, stepped cut into the crisp morning air. As she turned towards the corral and the quarters of the cowbo37S, she noticed Dick Roper, the handsomest rascal who ever cut out a -two-year-old,'throw away a cigarette and reel'in her direction with that awkward yet graceful gait which'., indicates a long usel'of high-heeled boots and a life in the saddle. He approached her in a modest and respectful wa3', and, lifting his broad sombrero, saidi " Good' morning, Miss' Bossie, and Merry Christmas! -And what did'you find in 'your'., stockings this morning ? It must be something nice, for I heard the jingle of Santa Claris' bells last night." The 37oung gitl, with her color heightened by7- the frosty air, and-her'eyes snapping with mischief, looked" ��� archly at him a moment, and then replied : " Wal, Dick, yer right, I did get something mice. I got the'two' prettiest calves that ever come-on the range. But they're mavericks, for there ain't a mark on aiy one of 'em, and. so I' m going" to"keep 'em out o' the sight o' the boys, -you bet.". " The latest Outcry in English societ3^ against American habits is that youiig and pretty American girls do not hesitate to live bv themselves with necessary servants, whenever they feel inclined and can afford it. They give dinner-parties and balls, supper and theatre-parties, as if the37 were married women. The worst of it, writes a correspondent of Vogue, is that English society acknowledges that there is a tendency to follow that lead, and that some smart English girls have started establishment's-of their own, and that, strange to tell, they have not been frowned down upon by " certain.-, aristocratic, old- fashioned, and conservative families " as it was expected they would be. An instance is given in Lady" Rose Molyneux, who gave a house-party at Abbey stead, including the usual shooting party, all fully described. Lady- Rose'being her father's favorite daughter (the late Lord Seftcn) at his death she inherited an estate in Lancashire with thirty thousand dollars to keep it up, besides ten thousand dollars a year. Her house-party turned out a perfect success, and her mother, Lady' Sef- ton, was present as her daughter's guest and nothing more. Mme. Kedwig Lamperti, the widow of the famous Italian singing-master, is to come to America next year for a seas'cn of teaching. Though Lamperti was fully seventy'years of a.ge when he died a few 3rears ago, his widow is less than half that age. She was studying singing with the great maestro when he, an elderly widower, fell in love with her beautiful face and married her. For some years she had assisted him in his-work, and he left her all his. valuable notes and manuscripts. John S win ton, who has been associate editor of the New7 York Sun for twenty-two years, has severed his connection with that paper. ������i.iu��iiii����>Mll^lj,HBMM.WW)aWgCTBgCT WMIMIMM^^ THE NELSON ECONOMIST. 7 V a i > '���- h-i ''��� V,- mi 4 '-ill fill if nn ^ THE WIDOW. . The dull winter's day was drawing to a close when Marianne de Ccurvoy came home from the cemetary where the remains of her fiance, .Jean de Themines, had been interred. This brilliant young man, the elder of the family whose name he bore, died from the effects of a hunting accident at 28 years of age, and on the eve of a marriage ardently desired by all concerned and one that seemed to combine all the conditions of happiness. Marianne sank down in a state of exhaustion on a sofa in the drawing room. Her strength was _ exhausted. So man3' overwhelming emotions had completely exhausted her and ���she -fainted: away. The careful attention of loving hands brought her back to consciousness Then she swore to God to bury her twenty years in the sorrows of a voluntary widow7 h ood and in the solemn duties of eternal fidelity to the memory of the past. The resolution that Mile, de Courvoy had formed and had communicated"'to her farnity did not take long to make itself known generally to the world. Among people who did not know her well she found only unbelievers. Her father and mother alone believed in her resolution, 'for they knew', her firm will and the energy and singleness of her soul. They were convinced that as the widow of Jean de Themines she would wear her widow's weeds forever, so much convinced, indeed, that they made no effort to combat her resolution. During the year that followed the death of her betrothed Marianne received two proposals of marriage. She refused them. A third who arrived upon the scene received the same treatment. Her sisters married, and their marriage furnished an opportunity to test somewhat the strength and depth of the young widow's resolution, bin she remained unchanged. '' I am a widow,'' she said, '' and a widow I mean to rerriain." Every six months she, spent a few weeks with Jean's mother, who lived since his death in retirement in the chateau of Themines. When she returned to her parents after these periodical abscences, she showed the same disposition to remain single, and by degrees the conviction at which the world had laughed was accepted as serious and final. It past belief that Mile, de ConrVo3^ would never marry again. < * * * * ^ Mme. de Themines had a second son, Pierre de Themines. He was younger than Jean and was now at the age at which his brother had met death in the hunting field. Marianne did not know him. At the time when she was bethrothed to Jean he was away in Asia on a voyage of exploration, and although after his brother's death he had signified his intention of coming heme for two years he had been detained by the delays of a long and tedious journey. His mother was still waiting for his return. She awaited his arrival with an impatience that was more keen because she had not been able to console herse1 f for the death of her eldest son or to fill the void caused by that less. Her grief was only partially aleviated w7hen she w7as able to talk of Pierre, her beloved second son, in whom all her hopes were now cantered. She hoped that soon after his return home he would marry and by his marriage bring back to her hearth and homesome of the joy and light that Jean's death had overshadowed. Marianne was the only person to whom the old lady had confided this hope. She was the person to whom, in preference to all others, she spoke of the absent one. She would praise his excellent qualities of heart, his personal appearance and his character. " He is the exact image of his brother," she would often say. Marianne heard so much about Pierre, read so many of his Tetters, saw his picture and heard his praises so often and so loudly sung that she began to feel an interest in him, although she had never seen him. She began to form in her mind a picture of what he should be if his character and appearance had been truly drawn. But in this interest for the absent Pierre was no trace of the love she had conceived for Jean. She merely professed for Pierre, without knowing him, the affection that she was bound to feel for everyone who had loved or known Jean. She looked upon herself in seme sense as his sister, and she would have protested strongly against any suggestion that the, character of her affection for this unknown brother could change into love. One evening while she was staying at the chateau a letter came announcing the arrival of Pierre in the country. It w7as followed two hours later by the arrival of Pierre himself. "You will see him and you will love him," said Mme. de Themines to Marianne. She attached to these words no special meaning, but when he came into the room she was overwhelmed. Mme.de Themines had not exaggerated when she said that Pierre '-was the image of Jean. Marianne thought that she saw before her the old lover alive from the dead. The same face, the same hair, the same frame and build and the same manners. She listened for his voice. It was the voice of the dead man, and in the accent and turn he gave to thern it was as if she were actually in the presence of the: dead Jean and listening to his words if cm the grave. This interview resulted in an attack, of prostration. On the following day she made hurried preparations to go aw7ay, as if some danger threatened her. But Mhie.de Themines would not allow her to depart. "If you go away now," she said, "you will throw a shadow over the j 03^ I feel at the return of my son." So Marianne did not go away. In spite of her alarm there soon took place in her a transformation that, unknown to herself, resulted in the awakening of hopes' that she would not admit. Once again she experienced in talking with Pierre the charm that she had loved so well with his brother Jean. With the help of this illusion her heart opened and warmed once again with love. One day Mme. de Themines came up to her and w^hispered in her ear : " Pierre loves you, my dear girl. Love him." She did love him. Now they are married. Recent^, for 375 vacancies in the ccrps of Paris street-sweepers, there were 21.562 candidates. In the freshly published memoris of Mrs. de Morgan, widow of the distinguished mathematician, Charles Lamb is described as a "small man, quaint and old fashioned and greatly given to indulgence in chaff." And on one occasion, as Mrs. de Morgan records, "he was indulging in a bottle of Loudon stout. " > j Miss Clara Barton is the first woman who ever held an official position under the United States Government. When she was 24 years of age, she was appointed clerk in the patent office, which had then been organized but a few years, and she was still holding that position when she commenced her philanthropic work at the outbreak of the Civil War in the year 1861. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The Duchess of Devonshire is a large contributor to current lh^ under a nomde. plume. Henri Rochefoft no longer haunts the boulevards of Paris, but lives the life of a literary relcuse. ' ', ' . '" '.-'���' William Black, the novel writer, is also a portrait painter, an enthusiastic botanist and an all-round sportsman. Mrs. Rudyard . Kipling attends to all her husband' s correspondence*and caretully guards him against would-be intruders. The Queen of Greece is -an .accomplished yachtswoman, holds a master's certificate and is honorayr admiral in the Russian navy. A Herbert Spencer was a newspaper reporter in his youth and attributes his habit ol close observation andaccurate memory to theytraiu- ing he then acquired. President Diaz of Mexico at 67 possesses a bodily and mental activity of a man of 20, due, he says','to the fact that he has been a great eater and a good sleeper. Professor Huxleyy's notorious fondness for cats was a fad w7hich he shared with Cardinal Richelieu, Cardinal Mazarin,. Charles Stewart Parnell and other eminent public men. a .Blondin never .used a netting to save himself from a tight-rope, and. alter devoting his entire career to the most perilous feats of rope- walking, he died peacefully7 in his bed. Rabah, now the head - of the sultante of Bornu, was at one time a slave. He is a full- blooded negro of gigantic stature and is said to be possessed of immense stores of gold,' silver and ivoy7. Rev. Robert Colh'er, while at the breakfast table of one of his friends in the county7 near Boston, was asked by che of the family : " Mr. Colfyer, do 37ou enjoy as good an appetite as in 37-ears past?" " To w7hich he replied: "My dear, if I lose the appetite I now hay7e, I hope no poor man will find it." William E. Gladstone receives more requests for his autograph than any other man in the world. In One day recently twenty- five letters reached Ha warden from various parts of the world, politely asking for specimens of the grand old man's chirography. Mr. Gladstone is too busy to gratify the wishes of autograph collectors, and his secretary so informs correspondents. George Curzon, under secretayr to the British minister of foreign affairs, and the man who married Miss Leiter of Chicago and Washington, represents his department in the debates in the House of Commons. He has, up to the last session, been regarded as a man of great promise, but is steadily losing ground on account of inordinately long and tedious ver- bosiy- of speech. The House of Commons will not stand a bore under any circumstances. Lord Wolsele37 gives an interesting account of his first meeting with Heny7 M. Stanle3r. The Coomassie affair had become a hand-to- hand fight when Lord Wolsefy noticed a man in civilian attire, literal^7 surrounded, butw7ho went on calmly potting Ashantees with his rifle. Lord Wolsele3' was much impressed with the man's coolness, and inquired his name " You were luck37 to escape," said Wolsely afterward ; "didn't 37ou see that 37ou were surrounded?" "Well," replied Stanley, "I was too much occupied with the niggers in front to pay much attention to those behind." ������1 ���5 8 THE NELSON ECONOMIST! A LANARK COUNTY DANCE. ��� ��� ft. ��� ��� ��� . ��� ��� Dancing, I read the other dayr, is the outward expression of the happiest and most exhilarating emotions of the heart and was one of the most ancient of pastimes, inc proof whereof it is pointed out that the children of Israel betimes tripped the light fantastic and David executed a sand jig before the Ark. There have been many forms of pastime since .those, day's,-but the, dance has "more than- held its own against all-comers, especially the particular kind of a gathering of which I am about to write. Indeed, you may have wandered in every clime and partaken of every pleasure your peregrinations afforded ; you may have absorbed the incense of those grand Cairenne evenings while dreaming in the gardens of Esbekieh ; you may have flirted with ." the sweetest girl in all Tennessee ;" perchance youtiavesat night after night behind the scenes with some favorite actress and Bohemian-like imagined -your cup of happiness had been filled to the brim ; perhaps you have ogled some mischievous, black-eyed Irish barmaid, then asked yourself what is there left in this life worth living for ; you may have done any and & 11 of these things, besides, gazed upon the seven winders, yet I sa^ unto you your life has been a bleak, barren, malarial waste, if you have never participated in a Lanark County dance. I mean the Lanark Count37yof the years when I was a boy, and that is not so long ago either. To brush up the geographical and topographical knowledge of the reader, I may say that Lanark County wras, and I have every reason to believe is yet, situated in the eastern part of the Province of Ontario. The count3r was settled in the early da3^s of the present century by natives of England, Scotland and Ireland, but the representatives of the latter two left the deepest impression on the socialogical condition of the people. The bright wit of Paddy contributed amusement for the well-being of his more cautious and thrifty neighbor Sandy. They agreed well, but Sandy created wealth, while Paddy supplied more than his share of the.fun, not but that Sandy occasionally^ engaged in the sport and Paddy had "a shilling to lend and a shilling to spend." Particularly- were the social qualities of Sandy more in; evidence when the farm work of the season was over. Then it wras that the descendants of Irish kings and Scottish chiefs joined forces for the purpose of showing good fellowship and giving the bp37s and girls a dance. A later generation, especially those whose dancing da37s; are over, may shake their heads and sa3r "all is vanity," but I do aver, and I propose to bequeath this1 opinion as a legacy to nyr children and their heirs, even to the third and fourth generation, that more healtly -amusement was never provided than that to be obtained b3r attending one of these dances. While the music may not have been so intoxicating as streamed forth from Apollo's lute, 3-et to my mind it was "a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets." Those functions (that seems like putting new wine into old bottles) it should be remembered were invitation affairs, and while there were 110 elaborate cards issued to the elect, the obligation to be present was none the less imperative. The first invitation, of course, was to the fiddler. The fiddler for the district in wrhich I lived was a blacksmith. Since the dayrs when I first heard Jimmy'tune his fiddle and strike up the "The Soldier's j Joy," or "Off She Goes to Miramichi," with j "The Flowers of Edinboro" for a breakdown, ! I have heard niany more pretentious violin- j ists, but the marvellous harmonious combinations of Musin, Remenyi and Ole Bull, never pleased me one half so much as the strains would women tea and success so that* the con- which poured forth from Jimmy's fiddle in old Lanark County, and if some kind friend will convey this intelligence to rriy old friend I shall esteem it as an especial mark of their goodwill and feel ever so much obliged. It must not be supposed that we had o'nly.'ohe fiddler. Indeed I had a brother whose rendition of "Steamboat Quickstep" (with variations almost innumerable) was soul-stirring and lamentable in its effect. And there were others���-many others, in fact. Then came the invitation to the caller-of. My own district was exceptionally wrell provided with "callers-off," but the twro who were in greatest demand w7ere JohmyyK and Bob M������A I may mention that there was sometimes considerable rivalry as to the respective merits of less noted "callers-off," but I do not remember ever hearing anyone pretending to believe that the ones mentioned were not the most accomplished in the whole county. Next came the1 invitations to the young women and young men. Indeed, I violate no confidence, at this late da3^, when I sa3A that the fathers and mothers sometimes dropped in for an hour just to look on, audi pledge rny word that once upon a time I beheld with my own two eyes a most distinguished, clergyman of the Church of England mixing up with the dancers. Moreover, a son of "the Bishop," (who, when wearied with theological study sought recreation in the skirling of the bagpipes,) told me last summer, in Nelson, that he had accompanied this same clergyman to many a dance in my native village, nearly fifty years ago. As the good man was born and reared in Lanark County, no doubt the recording angel refused to mark down these transgressions. At 8 o'clock the guests began to put in an appearance, and about 8:30 came the announcement : "Partners for a cotillion." In the meantime, Jimmy with his fiddle had arrived on the scene, andwas busily engaged in preliminayA tuning up. After the cotillion came a waltz, and so on until every number of a long programme was exhausted. The best dancers w7ere always in greatest demand, but to the credit of the young men be it said it was not often that a 3roung woman was subjected to the indignity of being a wallflower. And there were good dancers in those times, and as proof of what w7as accomplished in the way of producing terpsichorean artists it may be remarked that the champion step dancer of the world first saw the light of day in Lanark County. Then came the supper, and oh such suppers ! There were cakes that wrere marvels of the good housewife's culinary skill, pies that aided digestion instead of producing dyspepsia, cold ham that inspired respect and gratitude for the porcine from whose body it w7as cut, and tea���the Lord bless us���that float an iron wedge. Lanark County were conj urers in the art "of making pasty, and I hope the secret- of their in this art may some day be divulged the cooks in restaurants and hotels tinent over ma3r benefit therebyr. After the supper dancing was resumed, and I think generally eveyrone was in better spirits for the good meal. There was the same routine of dances until about 4 o'clock in the morning, when breaking-up time came. Then was executed the last dance, which w7as almost invariabhr a four-hand reel, with a clog step or so by wa3r of extra. Then each young man escorted his luost intimate lad3' friend to her home, and they bade good-by-e���meet to again some other night. It must not be supposed for one moment that the people devoted all their day7s and evenings to the perpetuation of this pastime, and to the exclusion of intellectual pursuits and the other serious responsibilities of life. On the contrary, the fathers and mothers manifested a more than usual interest in providing an education for their children, so that they might be adequately equipped to fight the battle of existence. History proves that Lanark has contributed at least her quota to the men who have made Canada what it is to-day. . In politics, natives of that county7 have chiselled their names high up in the rock of fame ; in the field of commerce they have cut a wide, swath at home and distinguished themselves abroad, and in the learned-professions Lanark has had many7 eminent sons. In developing the natural resources of Canada they have alwa)7s taken the lead, aud British Columbia as much as any province in the Dominion has benefited by the labor and wealth-creating qualities of the descendants of that hardy old, uncompromising, unflinching British stock that settled in Lanark county nearly one hundred years ago. Indeed, all over this province there are mines and ranches the names of which "must induce the belief that the natives of that county were determined to perpetuate early associations in monuments of industrial wealth. The determination and energy of these people, in the face of what would now seem almost insurmountable obstacles, cannot be fully appreciated by the people of this day and generation. They hewed out homes and caused grain to grow where once stood the lordly pine and in-. dustrious maple. Some years ago, that excellent weekly newspaper, the Almonte Gazette, (then owned and published by William Templeman, the recently appointed senator from British Columbia,) reprinted a series of letters, originally published by Rev. Robert Bell, of Perth, Ont., in 1810. A perusal of these letters afforded an interesting study of the marvellous ptysical capabilities and fortitude of the early settlers of Lanark. They were confronted wdth hardships and privations that now appear almost be37ond human endurance. But they hewed, ploughed and sowed, with the result that what w7as once a forest wras eventua1ly forced to yield sustenance to an indomitable, unconquerable and thrifty class of people. May their names and deeds be as revered and imperishable as those of our greatest warriors and grandest statesmen.. ���' Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team a-field; How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke."c " To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes." But this is a digression, for which the excuse is that the writer is a patriotic, if not always a discreet, champion of his native count3^. *> ^ It is a good many years since I attended one of those dances, but even 3-et I can hear the music of my old friend Jimmy's fiddle or the voice of Johnny K���: as he shouted, "honor to partners, honor to corners, all join hands and circle to the left." Of allw7ho took part in one dance (twenty years ago) I doubt if the requisite eight could now be gotten together in response to the call of "partners for a cotillion." "Some are in the churclyard laid," and far be37ond the cares of this w7orld. Others are married and. their children are doing the dancing for the family, aud many have found homes in the great west. No doubt all have drunk more or less frcm the bitter cup of sorrow7. To those who happen to survive, and who are not too intensel3' devout to appreciate a dance, I extend a heart3^ God bless 3rou, for the da37s of "Auld Lang S37ne," and to all " A Merry Christmas and a Happy^ New Year." D'Emcee. m VfiMtfM! mwmmiBBaiaBmmsPi&7S*?*rrtt73?' ^^^^ THE NELSON ECONOMIST '& IV* 't,, ��M. ,& 11 MAXIME LABELLE. A CANADIAN'VOVAGEUE'S ACCOUNT OF THE NILE EXPEDITION. Vietoriaw: she.have beeg,war, E-gyp's de nam' deplace��� An' neeger peep dat's leev 'imdere, got very black de face, . An'so she's write Joseph Mercier, he's stop on Trois Rivieres��� " Please come right off, an' bring wit'you free bonder yoyageurs. ' , " I got de plaintee sojer, mc, big'feller six foot tall��� Dat's II'JEnglishman, an' Scotch also, don't wear no pant at all; Of course, de,'^Irishman's de be.s', raise all de row he can, But nobodee cuiu pull batteau lak good Canadian man. "I geev you steady job for sure, an' w'en you get 'im t'roo I bring you back ou Canadaw, don't cos'de man un sou, Dat's first-class steamboat all de way, Kebeck an Leeverpool, An' if you don't be.satisfy, you must be beeg, beeg fool." ��� We meet upon Hotel Dufresne, an' talk Mm.till daylight, An' Joe he's treat so many tam, we,very near get tight, Den affer w'ile, we mak' our min' dat's no bad chance, an' so Joseph Mercier he's telegraph, "Correc', Madame,��� we go.'-' So Joe arrange de whole biznesse, wit' Queen Vietoriaw ; Two dollar day���work all de,tam'���dat's purty good 1'argent ! , An' w'en we start on Trois Rivieres, for pass on boar'"de ship, Our fren' dey all say, "Bon; voyage," an' den, Hooraw ! E-gyp i Dat beeg steamboat was plonge so much, I'm 'fraid she never ���'.stop���:' . De Gapitaine's no use at all, can't kip heron de top���. An'.so we all come very sick, jus', lak' one leetle pup, An' ev'ry tam' de ship's go down, de 'h'.'inside she's go up. I'm sorry spoke lak' dis, ma fren', if you don't t'ink it's so, :.A Please h'ax Joseph Mercier heself, or,Aleck De Coteau, . Dat stay on bed'mos' all de tam, so sick dey nearly die, But lak' some great, beeg Yankee man, was never tole de lie. De gang she's travel, travel, t'roo many strange contree, An' ev'ry place is got new ham', I don't remember, me, We see some fonny t'ing for sure, more fonny I can tell, But w'en we reach de Neel Riviere, dat's feel more naturel. : So many line beeg sojer man,-1 never see before, All dress 'im on grand uniform, is wait-upon de shore,, A Some black, some green, an' red also, cos' bonder dollar sure, An'holler out, "She's all right how, here come de voya-' .' geurs !"���..-������ , ��� ' . . We see Boss Generale also, he's ride on beeg chameau, Dat's what you call Ca-melle, I t'irik.Tlaugh de way she'go J Jomp. up, jompdovv.n, jomp.ev'ry.place,. but still de Generale Seem satisfy for stay on top, dat funny an-i-mal. He's holler out on Joe Mercier, "Comment ca: va Joseph, You lak' for come right off wit' me. talc' leetle-ride youseff ?" Joseph, he mak' de grandsalut, an'.tak' it off he's hat, "Merci, Mon Generale," he-say, "I got no use for dat." ��� Den affer we was drink somet'ing, an' sing "La Brigadier," De.sojer feller's go't prepare; for male'de embarquer, An' everybody's shout 'im out, w'en we tak' hole de boat, "Hooraw pour Queen Vietoriaw !" an' also "pour nous autres." A ' : - Bigosh ; I do hard work meseff, upon :de" H'Ottawa, De Gatineau an' St. Maurice, also de M.attawa, But I don't never work at all, I 'sure you dat's a.fack .. Until we strike de Neel Riviere, an' sapre Catarack ! "Dis way, dat way,.can't kip-her straight," "look out, Ba- teese, look out!" "Now, let her go"���arrete un peu," dat's way de. pilot shout, "Don't wash de neeger girl on shore," an' "prenez garde be- hin'" y" " Wat's .matter wit' dat rudder man ? I t'ink lie's goin' blin'!" Some tam of course, de boat's all right, an' carry us along, An' den again, we mak' portage, w'en current she's too strong On place lak dat, we run good chance, for sunstruck on de neck, An' plaintee tam we wish ourseff was back on ole Kebeck. De seconde Catarack we pass, more beeger dan' de Soo, She's nearly forty mile for sure, it would astonish you, Dat's place free Irishman get drown, won day we have beeg storm, 'I s'pose de Queen is feel lak cry, los' dat nice uniform ! De night she's very, very cole, an' hot uponde day, An' all de tam, you feel just lak you're going melt away, But never min' an' don't get scare, you mak' it up all right, An' twenty poun' you los' dat day, she's coming back sam' night. We got small bugle boy also, he's mebbe stan' four foot, An'firse t'ing ev'rj* morning, sure, he mak' it toot! toot! toot! She's nice enoxigh upon de day, for hear de bugle call, But w'en she play before daylight, I don't lak dat at all. We mas' get up immediatement, dat leetle fellow blow, An' so we start 'im off again, for pull de beeg batteau, De sojer man he's nice, nice boy, an' help us all he can, An'geev'im chance, he's mos as good lak some Canadian man. Wall all de tam, she go lak dat, was busy every day, Don't get moohe chance for foolishness, don't get no chance for play, Der's plaintee danger all aroun', an' w'en we're comin' back We got look out for run 'im safe, dem sapre Catarack. But w'ere's de war ? I can't mak' out, don't see no fight at all! She's '���'not' irig but une Grande Piqnique, dat's las' in all de . '-'fall!'. ���' ', ":. Mebbe de neeger King he's scare, an' skip anoder place, An' pour la Reitie Vietoriaw! I never see,de face. ' ������'��� , But dat's not ma biznesse, ma fren', I'm ready pull batteau So long she pay two dollar day, wit' pork an' bean also; An' if she geev me steady job, for mak' some more i'argent, I say, "Hooraw! for all de tam', on Queen Vietoriaw!" , ��� ' ' William H. Drumrnond. books: THE CHARM AND OTHER DRAW! NG-ROOM PLAYS, By Sir . ��� ,. /; ��� Besant and Walter H. Pol lock. There is something of a dearth of cleverly constructeel pla3^s suitable for drawing-room presentation, and adapted to the talents of the average amateur, and those few which have been favorites for so loug have been done to death. It is, therefore, a pleasure to welcome .this little group of pla37s by Walter Besent and his co-worker, Walter H. Pollock, and to find in them that airy grace and -simpleness of plot and construction, which are so needful for dramatic work which is to be done -with little or no machinery and under conditions which are difficult at best. Anything like seriousness or heaviness in the situations has been avoided in-most of the plays as being unsuited to the nature of their stage", the occasions of their presentation, ye\. Xk.ey are superior to the average drawing-room "farce," and will doubtless;-; receive a cordial welcome at the hands of those who are devotees of this \Texy charming and- entirely fascinating form of amusement. There are eight pla3^s comprised in the prettily-bound volume, of which the title-giver, '-'The Charm," and probably one or two others, are-already fairty well known. The excellent-drawings are by Chris Hammond and A. Jules Gdrdman. THE EYE OF 5STAR, By .WiHiam Lee Qusux. Mysticism land .danger are the elements of this, story of the Soudan, and its clashing tribes. Romantic material is furnished b3;r the customs of palace and harem, by the despotism of half-savagelnibnarchs, the dangers of desert travel and the mysteries of a race and religion which feeds oh occultism and' its attendant .manifestations. Romances of the order of ."Istar " seem, a bit old-fashioned when one considers how long it is since " She " delighted a large and breathless audience, but all this refreshingly impossible sort of thing is agreeable to read once in a while, even though it has not a ghost of a" mission," nor even an apology for a problem. As a romance of the wildest adventure, " The h/ye of Istar " is an unmitigated success, calculated to produce the maximum number of thrills which it is possible to experience in the course of one short story. THE FOURTH NAPOLEON, By Charles Benham. Luckily for history, the career of the Fourth Napoleon is confined to the realm of fiction, otherwise some dull pages would fall to the lot of the student of nations. Even romance has failed to make interesting the career of this m37thical, shambling and indeterminate personage, though Charles Benham has led him through 600 pages of intrigue and adventure, only to kill him off ignominiously on the six hundredth, without having vouchsafed him even a gleam of manliness to sustain him in his great position and in the lofty name he bore. B3^ an impossible coup d'etat this great- grandson of Napoleon I is placed upon the throne of France, only to find, when his ambition is attained, that the responsibilities bore him and that the men who have made him their Emperor and who now surround him as advisers and official retainers, regard him with the profouridest contempt; his wishes are disregarded and he has neither force nor pertin- acity sufficient to insist upon their enforcement; his brief reign is, of necess^, an ignominious failure and his taking off a matter of congratulation to those about him. ~ A .. The story offers an abundance of incident, yet there is a certain lack of clean-cut impressions iri the, earlier chapters relating to the intrigues which place Napoleon at the head of the empire. Beginning with the introduction of the Framlingham fainity, however, whose daughter is to prove Napoleon's undoing, there are some good character drawings and an -influx of animation in the style 'which1 visibly alters the character of the narrative. The unlovely side of character predominates not alone in the upstart Emperor,but in those-- who flock to his palace, seeking either social' favors or official patronage. The nabbiness; and faint-heartedness of the master- attract ytoy themselves -only' the contemptuous and ��� the- sneering���those in whose hands the mail is -a- tool and an ineffectual ;one. Naturally-"the- assemblage is not an admirable, one, nor the- characters such as are likely to induce a cheer-- ful view of human tendencies. Nevertheless a the story is, in the main, cleverly told and its incidents the logical outcome of the character of the hero. ���'>-. ;��� ^::;^ :������; .a :-.,;-. ��� Anthony Hope Hawkins, the author of "The Prisoner of -'Zenda,'" proves,A on-'- closer acquaintance ���which, his visit to country is now yieldingy h"o: less attracfiye as a1 man than a writer: His public readings ffomA his own works seem to give his large audiences" ,w the highest satisfaction ; ; and in the' course of friendly dining through- which he1 has been put since -he landed he has "showh; himself the kindliest and most 'unassuming of sruests of honor. ������- ��� - ���������'��� r ' ��� y;^ Mr. Hawkins, is how ,34 years old. ' 'He beo;an life as'a. lawyer,-'and. in 1892 he 'made a vigorous . but unsuccessful' caiivass . for ; a Liberal "seat in parlia.ment. . While \vaiting for clients he besran to Write stories. He. made his wa3^ but slowly at first; he had-been; writing but four or five years . before ;he; achieved a pronounced success' in "The Prisoner of Zenda:" V' The Dolly Dialogues;'^ followed and confirmed his popLilarit3A ' Tt'is^ an interesting fact that while he is .visiting-' this countr3r an American magazine will begiif publication of a sequel to the story.'which was his great success: McClure's Magazine "for December contains the opening' chapters of '' Rupert of Hentzau,'' a new . Zenda novel which continues the histor3r of .the love and; adventures of Rudolf Rassendyll and Princess Flavia. They were extrernety' engaging people as the3^ presented themselves in "The Prisoner of Zenda," but those who have had the privilege of reading the new story sa3r that they are still more engaging in it, and that the series of adventures through which it carries them is one to keep readers sitting up all night. The stoiy has been illustrated for McClure's 03^ the author's personal friend, Charles Dana Gibson. The Christmas Ladies' Home Journal opens with a page of pictures of beautiful children, selected from thousands of portraits. The children's holida3r greeting is a pleasing introduction to the excellent articles pertaining to the great festal season. One of these interesting^ describes Christmas in the palace at Potsdam, telling how the German Emperor and Empress and the nryal children celebrate the da3'~. HWSUIMllfflnZf UWiWUfflMUHWYitJWUil'B mtmawmmmmmigmmmm MMfimiMi'MHi^M^i^itrMimvmmmumimmbim IO THE NELSON ECONOMIST. GOVERNMENT AUCTION SALE. The auction sale of 279 government lots was held at the Courthouse on Wednesday last, 1 and proved an unqualified success. Mr. Joshua ��� Davies, perhaps the best known and most expert auctioneer in Canada, was selected to conduct the sale, and there seems to be no two opinions that in every detail the work was admirably done. \ There were over 200 persons present, and sharp at 2 p.m the auctioneer read the terms of sale, and in a short address sue-' ' ciiictly proclaimed that the value of Nelson realt3r was conceded, and that from Kaslo to Rossland the palm was given to Nelson as the city of hotnes, the head quarters of the government in the district, and the commercial centre of the Kootenays: \ > ��� The sale commenced with block 6, and the ���best bidder had the choice of auy or all of the loas offered in the block. The purchaser was Ma3^or" Houston, for P. Burns & Co. The sale occupied three hours, and from start to finish was conducted wdth vigor and with a rythmic cadence'of voice which always interests Mr. Davies' audience, and holds the bu3^ers without noticing/the time as it slips b3A It is probable that not more than ten persons left the room during thesale, and these not without securing the particular'lots in which, they were interested. At times, especially during the bidding on lot.24, block 58,. which was contested by a lad3^ and one of the.;,sterner sex, the bids came like the crack of a1 whip, w7ere picked up in a flash by; the auctioneer, and thelady being declared,the purchaser, .was cheered D37- the audience. A When ,block 72 was called, Aid. Hillyer'asked that it be put up at so much per lot,; and made a bid of $250, which the auctioneer accepted. A spirited contest" then endued, the competition up to the $385 mark being-confinedA'toaAiocal syndicate and Mr. Gra3'. From this point Mr. Peter McVeigh, the well-known railwa3^ contractor, entered the contest, and brought the figure rip to $435, but Mr. Gra3r went better, 'and at $440 per lot, or $5,280 for the block, he was declcred the purchaser. This bu3~ was a popular one,- and Mr. Gray was applauded for having secured the best piace of property in the city, for warehouse . and forwarding purposes. Mr. Gra3' is at present occup3dng the ground as a mill site and lumber yard. Excepting the lands owned and for sale b3r the C.P.R., the realty of the city is now in the hands of individuals, and the progress of Nelson should consequent^'showr a marked advance in the building line, even in excess of this year, although 1897 was conspicuous in this particular. At the conclusion ��� of the sale Mr. Davies thanked his audience, and many of his friends came forward and congratulated him upon his successful handling of the business, aud for the clearness and fairness with which he placed the propert3'- before the bin-ers. There is one feature which:" always strikes the hearer, no matter how often he may hear Mr. Davies selling, and that is his intense earnestness and the almost mechanical rapidity of his utterances, which can alwa3;rs be heard clearh^ and distinct^', no matter how large the room or the audience. The sale totalled $24,440, or an average of $87 per lot. Many, of the lots are fractional, some in river beds and on the side of ravines, and all have been offered for sale by auction before, so that the average price obtained for a 25-foot frontage lot in Nelson will compare favorabl3r with that of any other cit3' in the interior. Appended is the list of the lots sold, name of purchaser, and price obtained : Block 6- 12-13, P. Burns & Co., $210 15', E. A. Dills, $50; Waterman, }no; I4j ; Alice Kiinpling, $60 ; 16, L. Pogue, $65. Block 7���15-16, C. A 19-20, W. Johnson, $140. Block 8���20-21. j. Cochead, $95. Block 17-���1-2, R. Ince, $270 : 3, J- H, Matheson, $135 ; 4, J. H. Matheson, $90; 8-9, J. A, Turner, $220. Block 18���3, C. A. Waterman, $115. Block 24���4 to 9 inclusive, R. Hunyv $540: 17 to 20 inclusive, O. Falconer, $240. Block 28���13-14, S. Roberts, $360 : 15, C. Hoskins, $i'8o.y .'.'������ Block 34���-3, D. Hawkey; $150 ; 4-5-6, O. Newling, $165 ; 7. R. Bradford, $150 ; 8,. W. N. Shaw, $85 59-10, W. Askew, $200 ; 13-14. C. A. Waterman, $220; 16, G. A. Jackson, $105 ; 17-18, A. L. McCulloch,' $150-; 19, T. A. McDonald,' $80 ; - 20, W. N'. Shaw, $60 ; 21, R. J. Brewster, $75 ; 22-23, J. A- Turner, ���$i8o'. .'.'; ' x - "'"��� -��� ' '���"' ', ���.���' Block 36���16, A. Ford, $50 ;; 17-18, R. W. Da3^, $100 ; 19, H.Ward, $55"; 20-21, W. P. Robinson, $100. >;_.. ." Block 38���5-6, John Knudson, $170 ; 7-8, O. Falconer, $60 ; 9, W. Askew, $25 ; 10, G. L. Robinson, $45.; 11-12, C-. H. Leichester, $1.70-a ������,.���'���' . " ���������'���"���������. "a":::'.:: ; Block 40���4, A. L..McCulloch, $65; 13-14, C. A. Waterman, $230 ; 15-r6, A. L. McCulloch, $170-,17, A. Manson,- $55'; 18-19, A. Booth, $130; 20, J. H. Matheson, $60 ; 21-22, J. H. Matheson, $170 ; 23-24, C. A. Waterman, $230. Block 42���18-19, A. L. McCulloch, 140; 20-21-22, H. Selous, $195: -.-'.".' Block 44���19 to 22 inclusive, A. McDon- aid, $150. ���'.-��� ,'--':-'-'. y Block 44A���1-2, O. Falconer, $70 ; 3-4, R. W. Day, $50 ; 8-9-10, F. Fletcher, $150. Block 44F���1 to 6 inclusive, H. E. Croas- daile, $300 ; 11, R. Gordon, $35 ; 12, L. E. Gallowa3', $40 ; 13-14, R. W.Day, $60 ; 15- 16, W. McDonald, $60 ; 17-18; Jas. Faulds, $60 ; 19 to 22 inclusive, H. E. Croasdaile, $140 ; 23-24. H. E- Croasdaile, $100. Block 47���-3. Geo. Holbrook, $105; 4-5, A. L- McCulloch, $160 ; 14 to 22 idclusive, H. Selous, $450. ; Block 54A���1-2, C. Jiscowitz, $70. Block 58���3; C..S. Rosey, $135 ; 4 to 6 inclusive, D. McCreath, $420; 8-9-10, H. J. Evans, $345; ii, E. Kilby, $135 ; .16-17, W. R. McLean, $220; 18, Mrs. Stutter, $110 ; 19, A.' Manson, $105 ; 20-21, D. Morris, $280; 24, A. Smith, $230. Block 70���12,, Mrs. * Stutter, $355; 11, Webster Traves, $360 ; 13, R. Dinsdale, $255; 14, Applewaite and Newton, $155; 15, A. Ferland, $165; 16, A. M. Tamblyn, $210 ; 17, Judge J. A. Forin, $220 ; 18, Joshua Davies, $260 ; 19, J. O'Shea, $240 ; 20, Wynn Evans, $280. Block 72���1 to 12 inclusive, T. W. Gra3^, $5,280. Block 74���1 to 5 inclusive, H. B. Thomson, $275 ; 6, LaBlanc, $45 ; 7-8, J. M. Jameson, $70 ; 9-10, Lawrie, $100 ; 11-12, Wm. Martin, $90. Block 75���1-2, W. R. McCarty, $140 : 3-4, J. LaPoint, $90 ; 6-7, W.J. Hatch, $90; 8, Fred Turcott, $60 ; 9-10, T. Elford, $100. Block 76���1, G, F. Trimm, $50 ; 3-4, G. F. Trimm, $130 ; 5-6, McKay, $90 ; 7-8, G. A. Jackson , $80 ; 9, A. Smith, $45 ; 10-11-12, D. McBeath,'$i65. ��� Block 77���4-5-6-7, Mrs. Emily M. Stephenson, $240. Block 79���1-2, G.N. Wolf, $150 : 3 to 7, W. Hancock, $175; 8-9, -Dr. Arthur, $150; 10, 11, 12, W. Hancock, $210; 13, W. Askew, $45; 14-15, Walter Askew, $140; 16, 17, 18, Dr. Arthur, $150; 19, Jeremiah Cleveland, $65; 20, F. A. Nichols, $40; 22, O. Falconer, $40. Block 80���2, 3, 4, J. J. Maloue, $465; 9 to 12 inclusive, G. Still well, $360; 13, N. Ranger, $70; 14^ "15, 16, T.G. Proctor, $165. Block 81���1-2, O. Newling, $250; 3, O. Newling, $55; 4, E. Gustavson, $80; 5, 6. 7, H. H. Ward, $225. , Block 98���3, E. Roper, $45; 4-5, R. Cor- lett, $30; 6 to 9 inclusive, G. A. Jackson, $60; 10, 11, 12, F Fletcher, $120; 13,..., 14, F. Fletcher, $110; 18 to 28 inclusive, H.A E. Croasdaile, $165. Block 100���1, Alex. McDonald, $70; 2, Alex.' McDonald, $25; 3, 4, 5, R. W. Da3A $105; 6 to 12 inclusive, W. P. Robinson, $280; 21-22', R. Bradford, $70; 23-24, O. Falconer', $90. . CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL LIBEL. HonA J. H. Turner, premier, and Hon. ', C. E. Tooley, president of the executive council of British Columbia, have brough a charge of criminal libel against Hewitt Bortock, M. P., Ian Coltart, and W. C. Nichol, all said to be connected in one capacity ��� or another with, a weekly paper called the "Province," printed and published at .Victoria, and Senator "William Templemau of the Times.A The article complained of was first printed in the "Province" and copied into the Times., The information, after giving the article, goes 011 : "And which libel was written in the sense of imputing that the said John Herbert Turuer and Charles Edward Poole3% as such minister of finance and agriculture and president of the provincial executive council respectively, had each of them betrayed the public trust reposed, in them and as such minister of finance and agriculture and president of the executive council respectively, are bribable and have received bribes and that the3^ did put and are prepared to put the plans and purposes and secret information of the said ex-. ecutive council and government of the said province, of which the3^ are members, at the dispositijn of a certain commercial compan3^ or companies, with which they are connected, and that they are lending such their official influence and official knowledge as such members of the said executive council to the promotion of companies of a questionable character (meaning in regard to honesty) for a valuable consideration direct or indirect to a large amount paid or given or to be paid or given by such companies to each of them the said John Herbert Turner and Charles Edward Pooley therefor, and that such their conduct constituted a corrupt bargain and sale of themselves and prostitution of such their public offices for their own private gain as men in high places, meaning their said places as such minister of finance and agriculture and president of said executive council, and as such members of the legislature of the province of British Columbia is dishonestly and corrupt^- accepted or attempted to obtain for himself money or valuable consideration on account of something done or omitted, or to be afterwards omitted b3r him in his capacity as such member of the said legislature and of the said executive council." As the matter is now before the courts the door to comment is necessarily closed. Hon. Geo E. Foster has purchased two additional claims in the Dibble group, and now owns nearly all the claims that surround Dibble's original location. Commencing with the new 3?ear, the C.P.R. will introduce a change in the method of making up freight trains. The coming into use of cars of large capacit3^ necessitates a reduction in the number of cars composing a train, and a fixed amount of tonage will constitute a train load. B,�����<��''����swBsni^^ THE NELSON ECONOMIST ���III: LOCAL NEWS. 'MINING, NOTES, P t\ \$ R. W. Drew was married at Renfrew last Friday. .... . . The skating rink was opened last Monday Jiii^hfTpr;the season. ;: ": Several oLour city churches have prepared specialmusic for Christmas. A hockey team from Sandon will play a Nelson team in this city next Saturday. The annual Masonic banquet will be given at the Queen's Hotel on the evening of December 27. The developments of the past few weeks disclose the fact that Nelson will become the great railroad center of the Kootenay country. A The Maple Leaf Social Club are'arranging for a masquerade ball, to be held on New Year's eve,, which promises to be a big success. The storekeepers of Nelson are all.well supplied for the Christmas trade, which this year is better than ever. The store windows are beautifully decorated. ���-"'.' .During the severe frost of the past week a couple of men spent the nights under, canvas atrfhe lake shore between the C. P. R. and the city wharf.. Their camp fire was the warmest looking thing about. The fittings for the completion of the waterworks system have at last arrived from the East, and have been put, in position. This will bring the new reservoir into immediate use, and secure an ample suppty of water for all purposes. xA largely attended meeting in the iuterests of the Independent Order of Foresters was held in the Methodist church on Tuesday evening,'and was addressed by Messrs. J. H. Falconer aud G. L- Lennox, deputy supreme chief rangers. These gentlemen spoke of the -objects and benefits of the order and adduced facts so convincing that at the close of the meeting several applications were handed in. LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL. I he provincial government assessor was in Ymir last week engaged in the valuation of the town property. ./Chestnut, the victim of the snow slide acci- deiit:0at -the; Porto-Rico, has almost quite recovered from theAinjuries received. While British Columbians are enjo3dng most delightful Christmas weather, down in Southern California they are keeping fires going in the orchards to keep the trees from freezing. Engineer Burns and staff, of the Crow's Nest Railway, have been at work locating a Hue for the railway into Fort Steele. Two lines have been run, each of them bringing the track up to the west bank of the Kootenay river near where the bridge crosses. The survey of the Hootalinqua River has been completed by Mr. St. C}7r, the government engineer, who reports that it is navigable for its whole length from Teslin lake to Lewis river. Some parties who could not get to Dawson are wintering on this river. At a special meeting of the Rossland city- council on Saturday7" evening the bank of British North America made a proposition to loan the city $14,000 to pay off its floating indebtedness, if the city will sell it all the debentures amounting to $65,000. The offer was accepted by the council although Mayor Scott opposed it. The Nelson Wine Co. sells only the purest wines and liquors Trv one bottle. the Dundee gives The latest assay from $100 to the ton. . , The evening Star has been added to the-list of Shipping mines in the Rossland camp. , The ore shipments from Rossland during the week ending Saturday last were 1720 tons. A pay streak of rich galena has been uncovered on the Snowslide, on Wild Horse Creek. The Hall Mines smelter closed down last night for repairs, but will be iri full blast again in a few da3^s. . A ".. It is reported that a large bod}^ of free gold has been discovered on the Big Patch group, ��� on Porcupine Creek. The 50 foot shaft 0:1 the Tamarack has1 been timbered, and preparations made to work the property during the winter. Col. 33. S. Topping, of Trail, who returned from a trip to Spokane last week, has closed a deal for the sale of the Good Friday mine. The final payment of $40,500 for the1 Porto Rico and the Lizzie B: claims has been made b3^ the Canadian Pacific Exploration Co., Ltd. A mining exhibit company is seeking a Dominion charter at Ottawa to show samples of Canadian minerals in Montreal and elsewhere. The Goldie-Rene group of claims, owned by. the Goldie-Rene Mining company, limited, has been bonded by a syndicate of English capitalists. A dispatch from Camp McKinney announces that Alexander Ramage, a miner, received an ugly cut in the neck while in a drunken row at that camp a few days ago. The tunnel of the Dodo ou Wild Horse is in 45 feet and the showing of ore is fine. Preparations are now being made to sink a shaft on the Klondyke, an adjoining claim. At the second annual inter-provincial conference of mining engineers to be held in Montreal during the first week in Febrriar}', Prof. Carlyle will read a paper on the progress of mining in British Columbia. It is rumored that the Monte Cristo and Colona will be consolidated. The properties are practically owned b}^ the same parties, but worked under the management of one company it is claimed that considerable advantages would be obtained. Messrs. Darrough aud French brought in from Porcupine Creek last week, some samples taken out of a five foot shaft in the Big Patch group, which assayed $389 in gold and $5.45 in silver. The claim was located in June last b}?- the present owners. The London Hill Mining and Development Co. Ltd., held its annual meeting at the company's office in Kaslo last week. Eveiything is reported as looking well, but owing to their inability to get in further supplies and danger from snow-slides the company have decided to discontinue work 01 the property for the rest of the winter. At a meeting of the Hall Mines Co., ltd., j held in London, Eng., on the 15th inst., a ; dividend of 10 per cent, was declared on the | ordinal^ shares in addition to the usual 7 per j cent, preference. The report showed gross j profits for the year amounting to ,��30,357. \ The dividends declared total ^"1,750 on pre- j Presentation Goods at Thomson Stationery Co., L'td. All the popular lines of imported cigars can be had from S. J. Mighton. * ferred and ^"25,000 on the- ordinary shares. This state of affairs is eminently calculated to bring the Kootenay mines in td.greafer prominence than ever, as it demonstrates beyond all doubt the profit there is iii; them.y No-Cotn^ pany has attracted greater attention in England than the Hall Mines, and: the fact that it is in a position to declare so substantial a dividend will be productive of the- best results. \yith the addition of the second reverberatory furnace and roasting oven and other improvements still better things Ama}^ be confidently exDected from the Hall Mines, y- The Wasa group of claimson Wasa.Creek, has been bonded to Henry Croft of- ..Yietpria for $20,000, cash at the end of;60 days, y \ A ; r By all means give the Nelson Wine Co...a (.'all���-i.il..you want good liquor. ... ���;���"' ; -:'] "��� ���;-- ��� ��� ���* �����' G. 33.-D. pipes can cbe found at-'s" -JiAVPighton's' Post;Office cigar store. .. ' '.......-.;.,,,. -,'.'���. ,,;/.y ;.-,.,..!��� ",,y?; '���-.,:���;_ <;.'���*... .., Attention is called to the sale, of bootsi ancl y shoes for the next thirty days; at the,. Peoples ;: Shoe Store, on Ward Street. ;iVThis'��� is a .bona, fide clearance sale. ; y J. K>. Tho.mso^,(',������';V'.;y Advt. ..������;���,.::..: y:;.|.yy,/A;v-s.yManagerv A good "Christmas gift, '.would-be one.'of S. J. Migh ton's 13. B. , B pi pes. ,'A ��� '���'��� '.' '-'".A-* 'A'""' ' ' ���' A :A ";','"; .-'-*'���*���-" ���-; Mr. Justice McColl -sat at' Verho 11 ' Wednes- ��� day as commissioner to investigate certain ; charges preferred against County Court Judge-' Spinks. The latter "was ���presents at the- lap- '���' pointed hour as was also ;,A^ -Hehdefsonj bf^ New Westminster, representing ! the minister- of justice,' and Charles Wiisoii, Q: C.,' on behalf of Judge SpinksA Np'bire appeared oil behalf of the complainants^ The'commissiOnerA of course dismissed the c'aseV'and ; commented^- on the extraordinaty cdtiduct:; 'of; the- "fiartiesA who had laid the charges-'aiidL?vet"failed:1 -toi appear to snbstantiatethem. ��� ru y/c- ^.u^i ��� ^ >;���.':;;.;.. TENDERS WANTED: In the matter of the Winding-up'Act .and/in the -lijatter of the Nelson Sawmill Co. (Limited). . . > { Sealed tenders will be received by the- undersigned .as' 'Liq.i'rik.. dator of the Nelson Sawmill Co. up-to 12 oy'lock^iocu^on Sat-;, urday, the 22d day of January, 1S9S, for' the "purchase'.-of the- estate and effects of such company, viz.! : '���'���. A-y^'";:<���"���.' ^:--',\ ��� r Sawmill, 20x96, sash and door house, .dwelling-house, dry" kiln and boiler, lumber shed, safe, sto'clc'-of nTouldin'g^,- and.:, 10,000 feet of lumber, one engine, and rb.>.iJei4, (l.Oo U-.p.) n.pA,vr;> one shingle machine, one lath machine, one' thrtfe-saw ed-' ger, one inserted tooth saw, o2 i-ncliesA- one-solid'tootlt- suw,,; 4S inches; one solid tootn saw, 50 niches;, .one planer;; one' circular cut saw, (new); log carriages; helti^igA '���������'���'H i'-'J- v i ���. The machinery and belting, .are- nearly--ne\vf.,auil, in gpod condition. '��� v ': ���;>..-, --���.���'������'-- The above property is situate in the limits of the CompKn-y, ' adjacent to the city of Nelson, B. C. Book accounts ayjproxiniatihg $21212:08.': -';' y:-:i '.-; -��� ���--, ;-��� >'' Timber Limits���Lot 2S2, group I, Jvoqteany, comprising 1,000 acres, less 120 acres transferred to the 'Hall' Miuds;;Jlot.-*28:^,Aj group I, Kootenay, comprising 1,0-JO aere^; lot. 2S8;A.,.group I. , Kootenav. comprising 80 acres.-' '" '��� 'A r ''"'" l The above parcels are held, under: a ;21: yearsA dease. frqirj- Government, dated 14th Mar.cli.,.,lS92, ^atan. annual rerftal o"t - 10c per acre and rent is paid up to .-Marcli-lslth. '189ft. '���' ...:?"!���; , Lot 22S, group I, comprising- 50.0 acres, hold-under a,. 9, years,' lease, dated February 5th, 1S92, from CJOverh'me'nt at -ivii annual rental of 10c peracre and rent is paid up. .toyl'lebru^ ry,'5.M T898, The four parcels above mentioned are.on thp.north;slop.c ot Toad Mountain, and commence .about half a mile iroiu son. B. (.' N'el- ftV.'ll . I >. V .. ............. Lot 937, group L comprising 1,400 acres, .is held under .leas, from the Government, of 21 years fro m.M arch -Ith, 1890. an 1 is on Kootenay River, aliou t 4 mi leS w:est. of Nelson. . T,her ; is a balance of rent, amounting to |140, due on this parcel. There is a flume one and a-lialf 'miles long \vi th ainplewa- terhiipplv to float the lumber from tlie mill.to the city yard, and the company has a statutory right to .100 miners'' inche < of water from Cottonwood Smith Creek and 00-inches from Cive Out Creek. Tenders arc to be for the entire assets of the coin pany; but parties so desiring may tender separately for any portion o the assets, and such tenders will be considered. - Tkiois���Ten per cent, of the amount-must, accompany each tender, the balance to be. paid in (it) days from tlie date of acceptance, with interest at N per cent. Or, Terms may be arranged for such balance at the meeting of the creditors to be held in accordance with the notice hereunto attached. The lowest or any tender not. necessarily accepted. Inspection of the books, copy of the leases; and all other information can be obtained on'applieatiou to tlie undersigned. Dated at Nelson, B. (A, 20th December. 1897. II. R. CAMERON,, Liquidator of Kelson Sawmill Com pan /' NOTICE. In the mat ter of the Wind ing-up Act and the Nelson Saw wil Compan\ V V'Ul |'(UI > , A meeting of t he crcdi tors of the above company wil held at the law office of Macdonald <v. .Johnson. Raker st Nelson, H. ('., on Tuesday, the 25th January, 1S9S, at 2:30 \ to consder the sale of the assets of the company and ree report, of liquidator and deal with all matters within t power affecting the com pan v. Dated at Nelson, B, C. 20th December, 1897. II. R. CAM KRO.V. Liquidator of Nelson Sawmill Comp mill. I b root, >.m., civ ��� he ��� 12 THE NELSON ECONOMIST FRENCH HEELS. A profound German thinker has assured us that "der Mensch ist was er ist," that is, in other words, meat makes the man ; we are of such stuff as we feed upon. Schiller's poetry was inspired by the odor of decaying apples ; Goethe's ''Sorrows of Wer- ther" came into being after an over-hearty meal of fat ham and brown bread, washed down with deep draughts of Frankfort beer : Heine's sentiment.was the offspring of German sausage and French wine ; Poe's "Raven" is a fit of delirium tremens set to the music of verse and rhyme, and Longfellow's ���"Hiawatha" is the legitimate result of pie for breakfast. Oh, yes, meat makes the man, but I will not admit that it has so much to do hi making woman what she is. Physiologists assure me that the gastatory nerves are very imperfectly developed in most women. That as man in the early ages was always the hunter and provider it never became, necessary for the woman to educate her senses of taste and smell. She had to eat what the man brought home. It was Hobson's choice with her���ground hog or nothing.. But not so in the matter of dress. Here the woman had an opportunity to cul ' tivate taste, to create proclivities, to develop a force along a certain line. Depend upon it, Eve did not remain long in full fig. Feather trimming came in vogue that Fall and a sealskin sacque made its appearance when the eold weather set in. I was once inveighing against the rum traffic fostered by English traders on the coast of Africa. "Bah!" said one of the officers who had followed Stanley through Darkest Africa, " a load of beads does ten times more harm than a cargo of spirits ; the men can sleep off the effects of the liquor, but the women never recover the effects of the beads. In London a riviere of diamonds does the business; out there a string of glass beads corrupts a,whole village." Really, I begin to understand now why Sa- phirakept back the money. She needed a new gown. A woman will barter her soul for something to wear, just as a lord of creation will part with his for something io eat. While the old men are dreaming dreams and the young men seeing visions, the women are busy with their toilets. " I powder my nose twenty times a day," said a lady of fashion to me, " but I consider it is time well spent." Now, if you admit that a woman is what she wears, you take your stand with Emerson, who declares dress is more powerful than religion, that there is more potency in a "pouf " than in a prayer. It was Auguste Comtc who asserted that woman's virtue largely depended upon the kind of shoes she wore, and that the world would continue to go wrong again. You know what a sandal is. and that there were no heels in those days. The Cornelias, the Portias, the Lueretias stood in no danger of toppling over on their precious noses. They never were able to catch a Roman senator in the act of kissing a pretty chambermaid, for the clatter of these sandals on the marble floors gave timely noth e to frisky benedicts. It was impossible to tiptoe about the house, hence the sin lal was a real and substantial help to those who were anxious to be happy though married. The French heel has changed all this���a man never knows where his wife is. High heels have transformed every woman into a home-made ballet dancer by developing the strength of her toes. She humps her shoulders and sails as noiselessly into the drawing- room as the ballerina crosses the stage on the tips of her white satin slippers. 1 have been astounded at times to see the ease with which some women can support their weight on their toes. This explains why some girls are such delighful waltzers and such poor walkers. There can be no doubt that there is a moral as small as physical centre of gravity, and I go so far as to affirm that the one is very largely dependent upon the other. To keep their women in perpetual childhood the Chinese don't permit their feet to grow. It was a happy thought, but the women of this continent meet their masters half way by adopting the fashion of the French heel just as in the olden time we women followed the ridiculous mode of towering headdress or long trailing skirts, anything to keep us indoors and make locomotion difficult; this has been man's aim from the very beginning of things, and we, poor, vain, weak creatures that we have been, still take pleasure in being "pleased with a rattle tickled with a straw," just as in childhood's days. Shall we ever.get rid of our skirts, our corsets and our heels ? In this, the American women are more French than the French themselves. They lace tighter, their heels are higher,' they munch more candy, they drink more wine, they eat more indigestible food than the most chic of Parisiennes. They take to French vices rather than French virtues���just as the Romans pushed aside porridge for the curry of humming-birds' tongues of Heliogabulus. I heave a sigh of despair when 1 walk down street and note the perilous height to which the French heel has grown, and then to think that the girls just entering their teens are permitted to throw their spines out of gear by setting these pegs uder their insteps wrhen they walk. < . Isn't it monstrous ? Is there any wonder that migraines, neuralgias and nervous ailments, nourish among our women? How can they get their shoulders back when their bodies are tilted forward in this manner ? I really believe that the French heel is a potent factor in the bringing about of these conditions which culminate in divorce or some other modified rupture of the marital relation, for how can a woman be mentally well-balanced when she is physically "wobbly ??' ' Only the other day 1 noticed a young boarding-school girl, who is usually perfect in ner exercises and vocabulary, had suddenly manifested a tendency to make most surprising breaks in the irregular verb. My first tnought was that her engagement had been declared off for some reason, and when I began to make discreet search for the cause of her mental perturbation siie burst into tears. c " Oh, no," sue whimpered, "Jack is still faithful to me, but he has made a request which, if he insists upon my complying with it, will force me to give him up, dear, good lei- low though he is!" " Love m a cottage, I suppose," said I, laughingly, "or possibly to stop reading novels." '��� Oh, if it were only that," sue explained, with a sigh, ' 1 would, gladly let Jack nave his way. Yes, I would do more, i would give up round dances, stop candy-eating, promise ne\er to flirt, agree to let him have three evenings out of every week, even content that mamma should not live with, us; bat, never, never so long as I have any self-respect leit, shall I consent to thrust my feet into common- sense shoes and go hip-rlops up and down the sidewalks merely to humor tne wuims of a cranky young man. He must take me as I am, French heels and all. In six months he'd na.e me in a health-corset, and at the end of a year crimps would go. In heaven's name what would there be left for a woman to live for?" Claire. NOTICE. Owners of Placer Claims are invited to send a few ounces of the black or gray sand, obtained in washing the gray sand or gravel for gold, to "The Provincial Mineralogist, Bureau of Mines, Victoria," stating the name of the creek irom which the sand is taken, and its locality. It is believed that PLATINUM and perhaps IRIDIUM are frequently passed over and lost by the prospector, as they,have much the appearance of iron in the sand. These minerals are as valuable as gold, the latter more so, and if the placer claim owners will send the black or gray sand as aforesaid it will "be assayed and the results given to the owner. JAMES BAKER, Minister of Mines. Tax Notice. "Unpaid taxes Within the municipal limits of the cities of Nelson and Rossland." "As provided by the Speedy Incorporation of "Towns Act, 1897, a rateable portion of the " real estate taxes within the municipal limits " of the cities of Nelson and Rossland for the " year 1897, is payable to the respective muni- " cipalities. In order that the Provincial as- " sessment roll may be closed, in so far as re- " lates ...property assessed within said cities ; "notice is hereby given that unless all arrears " of taxes due and payable on said property " are paid to the undersigned at Kaslo, on or " before the 30th day of November, 1897, the " lands and property against which taxes are " then unpaid will be advertised for sale in ac- " cordance with the provisions of tax sales un- " der the Assessment Act." John Keen, Assessor and Collector. Dated this 4th day of October, 1897. IS HONOUR the Lieutenant-Governor, under the provisions of the "Counties Definition Amendment Act, 1897," and the "Supreme Court Act" and amendment Acts, has been pleased to make the following Rules, Regulations and Rules of Court respecting Registrars, and proceedings in Sub-Registries of the Supreme Court. ������ Proyincial Secretary's Office, 9th December, 1897. Assessment Act and Revenue Tax, rovincial Rules, Regulations and Rules of Court respecting Registrars and Proceedings in Sub-Registries of the Supreme Court. 1. Each Sub-Registry shall be known by the title of " The Rossland" (or other local description^ Sub-Registry of the Judicial District. . 2. In each Sub-Registry there shall be a Registrar and such Deputies or Assistants as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint. 3. Each Sub-Registry shall have and use such seal as is provided by the Order-in-Council establishing the Sub-Registry or by Rules of Court from time to time in force. 4. Writs of summons and otlier process maybe issued out of, and all proceedings taken and had in a, Sub-Registry as if the Sub-Registry were a separate District Registry of the Supreme Court, and all Statutes and Rules of Court relating to District Registries shall, mutatis mutandis, be applied to proceedings in a Sub-Registry. 5. A Judge may at any time, by special order, direct that any process may be issued, or proceedings had or taken, in the Registry whereof the Sub-Registry is a branch, and anything done in pursuance of such order shallbe valid and effectual accordingly. G. Any motions or other applications in Court or in chambers may, by leave of a Judge, be heard at the main Registry or in any other Sub-Registry in the same Judicial District. 7. The Registrar of a Sub-Registry shall have the same powers as a District Registrar of the Supreme Court, and generally perform such duties in respect of any proceedings in the Supreme Court pending in the Sub-Registry as heretofore have or might have been performed by the Registrar of the main Registry in like cases, or may be assigned to him by Rules of Court or these Rules with respect to proceedings in his Sub-Registry, or to anything to be done in his Sub-Registry in connection with proceedings pending in any other Registry or Sub-Registry. 8.. On these Rules coming into force in any Sub-Registry, an order may be procured by either part} trami'erring to sveh Sub-Leg stry any cause, action or matter which, in the . opinion of a Judge, may be more convenientlv I 'carried on in such Sub-Registry. Nelson Division of West Kootenay District. Four-Crown Scotch is the best tonic for nervous debility. The medical profession recommend it ; $1.25 per quart bottle at the JSelson Wine Co. * INDEPENDENT ORDER OF FORESTERS. Court " Mines, " Ainsworth B.C. < Meets every Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m., at Henry's hall. Donald McAuley, C. D. S. C. Ranger; .John Milles, Chief Ranger; Leander Shaw, Treasurer; W. R. Jarvis, Recording Secretary; Wm. P. Freeman, Financial Secretary. Visiting brethren cordially invited. Court Kootenay No. 3138, .Nelson b. c. Meets rirst and third Wednesdavs in the month in the Odd Fellows hall. Officers: F. W. Swannell, G.D.S.C.K.; M. McOrath, C.K.; J. Mowat, W.C.R.; YV. B. Shaw, R.S.; YV. Hodson, F.S.; W. H. Graham, Treas.; J. K. Green, Chap.; E. C. Arthur, M.D., Phys.; A. Shaw, P.C.R. NOTICE. To Seach it Brown, Plasterers, Nelson, B. C. : Take notice, that on the (5th day of December instant, .1. A. Sayward, milfowner, commenced action against you in the County Court of Kootenay, holder! at Nelson, to recover the sum of $174.(.54 for goods sold and delivered to you and an amount due by you to the Lawrence Hardware Company, assigned by the said company to the said J. A. Sayward. And further take notice that by order of His Honor Judge Forin, dated the. 9th day of December instant, it was ordered that service of tlie plaint aud summons in the said action be effected by posting a copy of the order plaint and summons in the Nelson Postoffice, addressed to Seach & Brown, Nelson, B. C, by posting a copy of the said plaint summons and order in the hall of the Court House in the City of Nelson, B. C, and by publication of this notice for two issues of the Weekly Economist newspaper. And further take notice, that by the said order you are allowed ten days to appear in the said action, and that in default of your so doing, judgment may be entered against you by default. Dated'this 9th dav of December, 1S97. .1. A. Airman, Mara Block, Nelson, B. C. Plaintiff's Solicitor. NOTICE is hereby given, in accordance with the Statutes, that Provincial Revenue Tax: and all taxes levied under the Assessment Act are now due for the year 1S97.. All the above- named taxes collectible within the Nelson Division of West Kootenay, assessed by me, are payable at my office, at' Kaslo, B. C* Assessed taxes are collectible at the following rates, viz. :��� Four-fifths of one per cent, on the assessed value of real estate, other than wild land. Three-quarters of one per cent, on the assessed value of personal property. So much of the income of any person as exceeds one thousand dollars the following rates, namely, upon such excess, when the same is not more than ten thousand dollars, one and one-quarter of one per cent; when such excess is over ten thousand dollars and not more than twenty thousand dollars, one and one-half of one per cent.; when such excess is over twentv thousand dollars, one and three-quarters of one per cent. Three per cent, on the assessed value of wild land. If paid on or before the 30th dav of June, 1897 : Three-fifths of one per cent on the assessed value of real estate, other than wild land. One half of one per cent on the assessed value of personal property. Upon such excess of income, when the same is not more than ten thousand dollars, one per cent,; when such excess is over ten thousand dollars, and not more than twenty thousand dollars, one and one-quarter of one* per cent.; when such excess is over twenty thousand dollars, one and one-half of one per cent. Two and one-half per cent, on the assessed value of wild land, Provincial Revenue Tax, #3.00 per capita. John Keen, Assessor and Collector. Kaslo, B. C, 2nd September, 1897. TO THE REGISTRAR OF JOINT COMPANIES, VICTORIA. STOCK Sir���Notice is hereby given that the Byron N. White Company (Fo'rcign) intend changing the situation of their registered office in this Province from the City of Nelson to the Town of Sandon, in the District of West Kootenay. Such change to take effect on the first day of January, 1898. Dated this 27th dav of December, 1897. BY RON" N." WIIITE COMPA N Y, , ^ ( By j. hoyt Smith, President. J. W. Dadmun, Secretary, In the Supreme Court of British Columbia. In the matter of the Winding Up Act and in the matter of the Nelson Sawmill Company, Limited. The Honorable Mr. Justice Drake has by an order dated the twenty-seventh day of September, 1897, appointed Hugh R. Cameron, of the city of Nelson, British Columbia, to be Official Liquidator to the above named Company. Dated this 6th day of October, 1897. E. T. II. Simpkins, Deputy District Registrar at Nelson, British Columbia. Notice of Application to Purchase Land. Sixty days after date the undersigned intends to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works: to purchase the undermentioned tract of land, situated south side of Kootenay River and on the east bank of Sandy Creek"; post planted ahont twenty chains south of Kootenay River marked Northwest post running 40 chains south, then 40 chains east, then 40 chains north, thence to the starting point. 160 acres more or less. David McCreath. Nelson, September 1st, 1897. Notice of Application for Certificate of Improvements. U. B.���L. 2018, G. 1���Mineral claim. . Situate in the Nelson Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located:���About one and one half miles west from the Nelson and Fort Sheppard railway at Hall's water tank, i ake notice that I, W. A. Macdonald, acting as agent for W. H. Sherrod, Free Miner's Certificate No. 81993, intend sixty days from date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 17th day of September, 1897. W.'A. Magi onald. NOTICE. corporate seal of byron n. white co. 1, Edward Cordingly, hereby give notice that 1 intend to apply at the next meeting of the License Commissioners for the City of Nelson for a transfer of the Saloon License held by me for thn premises on Lot 4, Block 1, Vernon street, Nelson, B. C, to premises in the rear of Lot 7, Block 9, Ward street, Nelson. And further, that I intend to apply for a transfer of said license from myself to S. E. Emerson, of the said citv of Nelson. Dated Dec. 11th, 1897. Edward Cordingly. '-4.> m km ial��l-.ij 9frammma3af0tB!aatBSSrt, "5T ������mi ip-tt-- ��� ^^r^^ <��� 'hi mf^^ njir ft* THE NELSON ECONOMIST. 13 m- ii /y ft ' <?> ft '' i !. > SHORT STORIES, Dr. Johnson paid a pretty compliment to Mrs. Siddons when, for a moment, he had 110 chair to offer her : "Madam, you who so often occasion a want of seats to other people will more easily excuse the want of one yourself." ��� " o Down to Charles the Second's reigii' women were not permitted on the English stage, and their parts were taken by men. Kynaston was to act thus in the "Maid's Tragedy," and, not being ready, the curtain did not rise. His Majesty, losing . patience, sent to know the meaning' of the delay,-, and was told by the manager that "tlie queen was not shaved yet." Charles Kingsley was a great martyr to stammering, and it was torture to.him to keep conversation waiting until he could put his thoughts into words. Singularly enough, when he was reading or speaking in church there was no sign of stammering; but 011. the way from church he. would say : "Oh, let me stammer now; you won't mind it!" Under the Valois kings duels were simply murders. In an encounter between three favorites of Henry the Fourth and three of the Guise faction, the point of the sword of Caylus, one of the favorites, caught in the hilt of his adversary, D'Entragues. As Caylus had neglected to bring a dagger, this left him at the other's mercy, and he pleaded the inequality. "We are here to fight���not to split straws," said D'Entragues, and stabbed him to death. Edward the Fourth had the habit of calling his wealthy subjects together and asking them pleasantly what they meant to give him for the maintenance of his wars. He was extremely handsome, and this so won upon a womau of good estate that she exclaimed : "By my faith, for your lovely countenance's sake, you shall have twenty pounds." This was-so much more than he expected that the king kissed her. Whereupon she gave him twenty pounds more. The late Dean Stanley used to relate that a gentleman once called to tell him that he had been into the abbey, and had knelt down to pray, when the verger had come up to him and told him he must not kneel there. On asking why not, the verger had said : "Why, sir, if I was once to allow it, we should have them praying all over the place." This recalls the gentleman visiting the church and asking the sexton whether gentleman ever used it for private prayer, to which.he replied : "I ketch'd two of 'em at it once." A good story is told of an English family living in Norfolk County who possessed the eu- phonius name of "Bug." As that term in England is never mentioned in polite society, and signifies a minute insect noted for its power of jumping, the family of that name did not appreciate its uniqueness. Upon coming into possession of some money, they at once petitioned to have it changed to "Howard." Their request was granted, but, alas for them, the bugs of that portion of the county were henceforth known by the more refined title of the "Norfolk Howards." Dr. Chalmers, the eminent divine, was fond of telling the following story: Lady Cunningham, having had some difference of opinion with the parish minister, instead of putting her usual contribution in the collection plate merely gave a stately bow. This having occurred several Sundays in succession, the elder in charge of the plate at last lost patience and blurted out : "We cud dae wi' less o'"yer manners an' mair a' yer siller, ma lcddy." Dining on one occasion at the house of a nobleman, he happened to repeat the anecdote, whereupon the host, in a not over well pleased tone, said: "Are you aware, Dr. Chalmers, that Lady Betty is a relative of mine?" "I was not aware, milord," replied the doctor; but with your permission I shall mention the fact the next time I tell the story," During the recent visit of Sir Wilfred Laurier and other Canadians to Washington, the ladies of the Canadian party were entertained by an excursion to Mt. A'ernon and were accompanied by the wives of the U. S, Cabinet ministers and several others prominent in social circles there. They were met by Mr. Dodge, superintendent of the place, who escorted them Pants���you need them, choose from at Ross'. Over 100 pairs to through, the, old mansion and grounds, and finally conducted them down the winding path to the bluff that overlooks the Potomac and conceals the vault that contains the dust of the father of his country. As the party approached the sacred place Mr. Dodge, who, was leading, turned and said, in an impressive tone : " Ladies, it is just a step, to the tomb of Washington." There was a pause and' a; reverential silence for an instant, which was broken by the clear, sweet voice of a Cabinet lady, who asked that ever-present conundrum: "Is my baton straight ; Men's patterns in English, Scotch and Irish tweeds at Ross'. For Oysters in anv stvle, Clam Chowder, Short Orders. The best Coffee in town.. Next to Tfemont Hotel, Baker street. 4. TOTAL DAILY CAPACITY 8,200 BBLS. "OGSLVIE'S PATENT HUNGARIAN " will hereafter be .known under the brand; "OGIL- VIE'S HUNGARIAN." Branded Blue. ' ' ",'OGILVIE'S STRONG BAKERS "will hereafter be known under the brand "OGILVIE'S GLENORA." Branded Red. . All these brands have been dulv registered in the Government Patent offices, and anv infringement Of the same or refilling of our branded bags with flour will be prosecuted according to law, as each bag of flour is fully guaranteed which bears our registered brand and sewn with our special red white and blue twine. ��� ' ' In thanking you for your patronage in the past, and in soliciting a continuance of your favors, Ave take this opportunity of informing vou that " OGILVIE'S HUNGARIAN " and " OGIL- VID'S GLEWORA " have been established at" a -high standard, manufactured under special process, securing the right combination of properties gluten and starch, to produce the highest results in baking. . In placing our new brands upon the market we do so with the assurance that your most profitable interests wilLbe served in securing you the finest quality of bread. No expense is spared in the manufacture of these special brands of flour, and our prices will at all times be ot as low a figure possible consistent with the superior article which we offer. Yours truly, -PANY. .Contractor. 25 Years' Practical Experience. Office Ward St'.-, near CourtHouse, Nelson, B.C. T. S. Gore. H. Burnet. J. H. McGregor Provincial and Dominion Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers. Agents for Obtaining Crown Grants and Abstract of Tiile to Mineral Claims, &c. E LSON , - - .- British Columbia ^^ESs*"���-^ elson, B. G, G,' M. LEISHMAN, Victoria, Agent for British Coiumbia, High Glass Suits Made in the Latest Styles. A Magnificent Line of Scotch Tweeds and Worsted, and West of England Trouserings, Suitable for Spring wear. A special feature of Fancy Worsted Suitings.. UIRE. Baker St., Nelson., B, C. X'MAS. 1 NEW YEAR �� �� A large number of business lots for sale. Also business blocks on Baker, Vernon and other streets. Residential lots and houses for sale in addition A and other parts of the city. Baker Street, Nelson Three carloads of Dressed Poultry have left Ontario, direct for our Kootenay markets. Thev will arrive December 15, when we will be in a position to fill all orders for Turkeys, Geese, Ducks aud Chickens, either WHOLESALE OB RETAIL, at reasonuble prices. Orders can be placed at any of our Branches now, and they will have our prompt attention oil arrival of stock. We will also have a large assortment of Prime Beef, Pork, Mutton, Cured Meats, Fish and Oysters. Mail Orders a Specialty . Branches at ROSSLAND SANDON TRAIL NELSON KASLO THREE FORKS SLOCAN CITY Opened under new management Everything First-Class White Labor Only Employed MEALS FROM 25 CENTS UP. GIVE ME A CALL. F. J. VAN BUREN, .Prop. Is fast becoming a social as well as a mining and business centre. The maii3r social, political, church and club banquets held the past few weeks attest this fact. The fine glass and chinaware so conspicuous at most of these functions was furnished by The largest dealers in these lines in the district. They also furnish the choicest teas, coffee and groceries. eattle Fish and Poultry Market rop. All Kinds of Fresh Fish, Oysters and Poultry. Opposite Thomson's Book Store, |�� Baker St, Nelson. \y& umanajiujMmym'JiEWiuiHtuiiJWiM ��BWH^miM4^ii^^ 14 THE NELSON ECONOMIST. DRAnATIC DOINGS.: ' Sarah Bernhardt is coming to America this winter. , Four Chinese plays are now swinging around the continent. Victoria and,Vancouver have been provided this season better-than ever with "theatrical attractions. And the agonizing cry still goes forth from the throats of the multitude, why hasn't Nelson a theatre.' "Peter the Great" will be -produced in London during the holidayAseason by Sir Henry Irving at the Lyce'um.'^' :'"������ A,-' Anthony Hope's play, to be entitled, "The Adventures of Lady Ursula," will be presented in Philadelphia by E. H. Sotherii. GENERAL NOTES. e uiaries for 109 Special Values in Typewriter and Office Supplies. Canada Drug and Book Co., L'td. Wagon work and Blacksmithing in all its Branches. Nelson Blacksmifh Go- H. A. PROSSER, Manager. Lake St., Opp. Court House. A NELSON, B. C Naples is to be connected with Mount Vesu vius by a direct railroad line. A Camera for a X'mas Present at Thomson Stationery Co., L'td. The firm of Turner. McKeand & Co., whole sale grocers, Winnipeg, have assigned. A Fouutain Pen at Thomson Stationery Co . L'td... ��� Sir Richard Cartwright lias returned from Mount.Clements, Mich'. ���. Haycock Brothers of Ottawa, have invented a thawer and excavator for miners. Toys at Thomson Stationery Co., L'td. Overcoats in Beavers and 'Chinchillas,-, at Ross'. ^> ��i^lDSGxdlDe fco? Tlie anqttert, ���..Hangin ,H �� GOODS AMD PRICES RIGHT- Telephone 2i Baker Street, Nelson, B. C i .. B*'S Very Handsome and Appropriate X'lVIAS GIFTS. Compare My Goods and Prices before Making Your Purchases. VANSTONE'S DRUG STORE, Kauffman Block, Baker St., Nelson DEALERS IN Rough and Dressed Lumber, Sash, Doors, II BAKER STREET, Jn y>remises latelv occupied bv A. McDonald ct Co. NELSON, B.C. and Soft Coa! for Domestic Purposes acksmith Coa! and Coke Contracts made on application to ��� i (TWO DOORS FROM CORNER BAKER ST.) BLE & O'REILLY, Baler St.. or WILSON & HARSHAW, Vernon St.l boo^sI^S c^LhoL^hMii bTllm ll1bTtom^S1^ Telephone No 35. cial attention to making: and renaming. THE PEOPLE'S SHOE STORE oors, Sashes and Turned Office Fillings. rackets an Satisfaction Guaranteed. Prices Reasonable. WINNIPEG, MANITOBA. Wholesale Dealers in Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Apples, Poultry and Cured Meats. The largest handlers of these goods in Western Canada. All warehouses under perfect system of cold storage. Full stock carried at Nelson, B.C. For prices write or wire P.J. RUSSELL, Mgr Nelson Branch Parsons Produce Co ���3 mmTOii!ium��w��m^^ W: $3& TV 1 hti mmim^mm: THE NEtSON ECONOMIST 15 Come with the Crowd and take tlie advantage of the IO PER CENT GOTTHNTT ; SALES AT A. ,1 A' f(A \ ft a 4 A HERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL. PERSONAL. Joshua Davies left Monday for Victoria. A. B. Gray, Nelson, is ragistercd at Victoria. J. A. Sayward, Victoria, was in the city Thursday. ����� Charles Wilson, barrister, Vancouver, was in Nelson last week. Oscar C Bass and Alex. Henderson, New Westminster, were in town last week. E. J. Coyle, Vancouver, is in the city. ___^ C G. Cunningham, a mining man of Ymir, is in town. A. French, merchant, Vancouver, is in town. M.H. Cowan, contractor, was in Nelson on Wednesday. T. S. Gore has gone to Victoria, for the winter. N. F. Hagel and son, Percy, left last Friday for Toronto. O. M. Rosendale left yesterday 011 a visit to Spokane. Walter Askew will spend the holidays with relatives in Victoria. John Keen was down frjm Kaslo Friday. J. B. McKilligan, ex-Police Magistrate of Kaslo, has gone to Victoria to reside. X'mas Ornaments at Thomson Stationery Co. lAtd. Cigar and cigarette cases, suitable for Christmas gifts at S..T. Mighton's. GENERAL NOTES. Fox's Serges in Blue and Black, warranted not to fade, at Ross'. A Guitar, a Violin, a Mandolin, an Autoharp, a Banjo at Thomson Stationery Co., L'td. The Presbyterian Sunday School will hold their Christmas entertainment to-morrow evening. Old and young are invited. Services will be held in the city churches Christmas morning. Presentation Goods at Thomson Stationery Co., L'td. Mayor Gordon of Kamloops has taken action against Thomas Roadley for defamation of character, damages being laid at $5,000. Empire Typewriter at the Thomson Station^ ery Co., L'td. R. B. Skinner has purchased the Forty Thieves group of claims on Bridge River. You have your T. &, B. plug cut while you wait at S. J. Mighton's. The directors of the Excelsior Gold Mining Company, have arranged for the treatment of ore at the GJolden Cache mill. Get your tobacco pouches at S. .1. Mighton's Postoffice Cigar Store. Dr. Callanan, of Quesnelle, is said to have ridden to the Forks, a distance of 150 miles, in 26 hours. He had been called for consultation in a serious case. MUSIC. European papers state that Mascagni, of "Cavalleria Riisticana" fame, has just completed a new opera' entitled "Iris," which treats of a Japanese subject. It is often wondered whv there is not an amateur musical society in Nelson. Thereis abundant material here for the production of the less difficult of the light operas. Mrs. W. A. Thurman, who has been delighting the congregation of the Methodist Church with her singing lately, is a decided acquisition to the musical circles of Nelson. For Toys go to Thomson Stationery Co., L'td. Big line of pipes in endless variety at S. J. Mighton's. Playing cards at S. J. Mighton's. Music Lessons. Mrs. Morley is prepared to receive pupils for piano, violin or organ. For terms apply at residence, Silica street, or Thomson Stationery Co., L'td, Nelson. asoosc Banquet. The annual Masonic banquet will be given at the Queen's Hotel on the evening of Dec. 27. Sojourning brethren are cordially invited to participate. Tickets can be had on application to members of the committee or the undersigned. S. P. Shaw, Secretary of Committee. er EnormousrSale Great Reductions Thomson Stationery Co,, Ltd NELSON, B. C. Of PouIt ry J ust A r r i ved -AT- WEST KOOTENAY BUTCHER CO'S Anything you want at the lowest market price. Wholesale and retail shops at Nelson, Kaslo, Sandon and Quartz Creek. A specialty made of supplying railway companies and miners. Head Office, Nelson, E. C, TRAVES, Manager Just One Moment, Please. We don't care where you have been buying ; get your wants in the line of Groceries, Provisions, Fish Poultry, Fresh and Cured Meats, from The B. C. C. D. Grocery, and you will be money ahead. We can't offer you any 30 or 60 days' time. Our only inducements are courteous treatment and prices that will defy all competition. arSey imoson. Proprietors. Agents for the Bell-Knapp Patent Bob Sleighs. ^~Y~ HJJL ��T All kinds of Watches, Clocks, Spectacles and Eye-glasses FOR SALE CHEAP. Mara Bloc5k* JNTelsox^ J���L & 9 H GENEREL HARDWARE, STOVES, MINING SUPPLIES, LAMPS AND LAMP GOODS, PLAIN AND FANCY. Agents for Armstrong & Morrison's Ore cars���the best in the market. All Work Guaranteed Eyes Tested Free of Charge. OPPOSITE SILVER KING HOTEL, BAKER ST., NELSON. sr.i? i6 THE NELSON ECONOMIST >TT* :T. tesi ..This startling arid Mtt#ing' Mm tfte people of Kootenay as the: FACT thM Brands of Liquors Jn Turner, Beeton& Go's Nelson ^ses.a liC^ose b HUHOROUS. ���' Jabber's son, they say, could talk when only, two weeks old." "That's nothing. The Bible says Jo-b cursed the day he was. born." '" y ���'.'��� '���".���". She"���"Do you tliihk it would be unmaidenly' for a girl to propose to a man?" He���"Certainly not, if she is'.rich enough for two." >'��� . . 0 ; ������.."* '��� .. . .s - ' '. ...'-'.���.'... ���'���'.-/'__��� . ... a . . . _ "Prisoner at the bar," said his lordship, solemnly, having donned the black cap, you will shortly have to appear before another and���perhaps���-a better judge." ..'������,'<"������'-��� ......... , .. . ... See the young woman'. Is the young woman being suddenly and unexpectedly kissed ? Ah.,. yes. And does the young woman raise a hue and cry ? The young woman' raises a slight hue but no cry. A ' "Laura," said the fond mother, "what are the intentions of that young man you are permitting to call oh you so often ?" "Never mind that," answered her mother's daughter,���'!. know what my intentions are..'.' JL large stock of all graces from the "best makers. We can sell yon any kind of a pipe Criterion Saw Sets, Ice Creepers, Coal Oil Stoves, ' Queen Stoves Warrior Stoves and Kanges. . ���AT THE��� BAKER STREET/NELSON. P. Received per express 3,000 fine Havana Cigars���a sample lot���comprising Henry Clay, Espanola, Herrnosas, Carolina, Bock and other well-known brands, packed 25 in a box. Also a lot of beautiful cigar-bolders, cigar cases, tobacco pouches, cigarette-holders, cases and match safes. Why to Gilker's for anything I need. See his new stock of ;s, Telescope Bags, C ags, ravemn ;s, Salisbu Just the Thing for is Presents. L fH Hungarian, NXXX Strong Bakers, Economy, Superfine, Bran, l*i* W�� Shorts, Chicken Feed, Chop. u The Okanagan Flour W\\\$ Company, Ltd, Armstrong, B. C. & CO., AGENTS, KELSON, B. C, anutacturers' ��sl��;i Kers ar Agents for Manitoba Produce Company, Gold Drop Flour, Wheat Manna, Wf. J. Pendray's Soaps, M. R. Smith & Co's Biscuits, Etc. P. O. Box Vi t��. 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Title | The Nelson Economist |
Alternate Title | [The Economist] |
Publisher | Nelson, B.C. : D.M. Carley |
Date Issued | 1897-12-22 |
Description | The Nelson Economist was published in Nelson, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, and ran from July 1897 to July 1906. The Economist was published by D. M. Carley, and edited by C. Dell-Smith. In August 1898, The Economist absorbed a paper called The Nation. In July 1903, the title of the paper was changed from The Nelson Economist to The Economist. |
Geographic Location | Nelson (B.C.) |
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FileFormat | application/pdf |
Language | English |
Notes | Print Run: 1897-1903 Frequency: Weekly Titled "The Nelson Economist" from 1897-07-14 to 1903-07-11. Titled "The Economist" from 1903-07-18 to 1906-02-17. |
Identifier | The_Nelson_Economist_1897_12_22 |
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BC Historical Newspapers |
Source | Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives. |
Date Available | 2011-04-18 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
Rights | Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/ |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0183864 |
Latitude | -117.295833 |
Longitude | 49.493333 |
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