xNO. 176. UNION, COMOX DISTRICT, B. C, TUESDAY, MAR. 24, 1896. $2.00 PER YEAR V JAMES McKIM "N Has just received a large consignment of Staple Dry Goods, Imported Direct from Stewart & McDonald's, Glasgow. These goods are of the Latest Styles and Patterns and being of the Best Manufacture, are Warrenteh to cive Satisfaction. The General Grocery business will be conducted as usual at ROCK BOTTOM figures and every effort will be made by the undersigned to cater to the requirements of his numerous customers. J-\MESMcKIM. Goal Mines Regulation Act Examination ter colliery Managers Certificate* ot Competency Notice is hereby given that an examination lor Man igers Certificates of .Competency under the above named Act will be held at Nanaimo, on or about the ind Thursday of April, 1(96. Candidates intending to piesent themselves at snch examination must, on or before the ist day of April. 1896, notify surh intention to the Chairman of the Hoard from whom all information as to particulars can be obtained. Applicants for examination must not be less than 23 years of age and must have had at least two years experience underground in a coal mine (or mines). Along with the application they ue to lend .1 certificate of service from their present or previous employer. TAKE NOTICE that there will also be an examination held at Union ia August month, 1896. This examination is for thc same object as the one above referred to which is to be held in Nanai* ma. For particulars apply to ARCHIBALD DICK, Chairman ofthe Board, Nanaimo. Nanaimo, January 9th, 1896. YARWOOD & YOUNG BARRISTERS and SOLICITOUS Center of Bastion and Commercial Streets, Nitouiuin, B. C. Bu*MH Oracx, Third Street snd Dnnsmair Avenue, B. C. Henry Cunliffe BAKER OF Home Made Bread and First Class Pies, Cakes, Etc eeTShoo nnt West of Kelly's Photograph Gallery. &-T~j-~ HIM A FINE STOCK OF > Clocks, watches, books and stationery. T. D. McLean ���: J~l~T~\TJ~~���'.- xranoir, s. c. X_-.T-U.GT8 FBOM CROWN LAND SURVEYS Between Comax and Ottsr Cove, Van- eouvar Island, t distance of 70 miles, there are good agricultural and timber lands, probably not leu thao 200,000 acres. The clearing of these lauds for farming purposes is uo doubt expensive, but the result in so tjood a climate as that of Vaucnuver Island saves the farmer wbo has tbe enterprise to netleruks and oarry it through to completive ho-hcnmf���rtahle and independent. Good Uod* ailjiiinn g the coast ars especially valuable, u ihe Ings may be sold when steering instead 0* being burned. 1 * f ln the Oomox Dntiio-, about 140 miles from Victoria, the soil is spread overs very eonsideralile area of prairie 0 >uutry, cum monly designated au opening, extending from ths ooeit up ths different branches of ths Courtenay River for teveu or eight miles. The surface of this district, which is naturally free from tiaabw, with the exception of single trees aud stump.*, onietiy ef oaks aad strip, of alders ia the bottoms, may be some twelve square Uilles, the scenery of which is picturesque ud parklike. Its margin is very irregular in shape, and it is surrounded by a growth of very heavy timber, among wbioh sre the Doug* lu pine, often attaining teu leet in diameter and two hundred feet iu height, half of which is free from branches, snd the oedar often equally large. The open country iu its natural state is mostly covered with a growth of ferns, whioh sometimes ettam a sight of teu feet, with stems three-quarters of au inch in diameter, and roots descending to a depth of three feet. The roots the native Indians prepare in -orne peculiar way lor winter food, aad excavate deep trenches to obtain them. The farmers are under the ueeessity of grubbing up tns fern roots before the ground is ready for uae, and they are ofteu voluntarily assisted hy their pigs ia this operation; these animals, it ia said, relishing the fern root ss food, I wu informed by Ur. John Bobb aud Ur. John HoFulas, two partnership settlers ef tha district, that tbe average yield of land, after it ia cleared and thoroughly under cultivation, is, of wheat from 90 to 35 bushels per acre j barley, 40 tu 45 bushels; eats (0 to 68 j pease 40 to 4Ij potatoes lip to 20t; turnips, 2t to 25 tous Soma of the turnips exhibited by Ur. Robb at the agricultural show are said to hare bean remarkably heavy, but those of the Swedish and yellow varieties seen by me, I consider rather small. Tha season, however, wu uid to be au uausually dry one. The yield of timothy hay is said tn bit about twa tous per sera. Clover thrives well, aod rye grass is valued for its altar orop. The yield of butter per oow, after ealf feeding, ie about 150 lbs. annually, the ordiaary selling price being 40 cents per pound. Cattle generally require to be home fed from the beginning of December to the middle of April. Snow seldom lies long. Heavy falls sometimes ocaur; but generally disappear in a tew days. Onoe or twioe snow bsa remained oa the ground (or two months. Apples, pears, plums, cherries white aud rod raipborrtee, red, white, and black eurrants, aud most kinds of fruit thrive remarkably wall. Soma applw, of which I obtained samples, measured thirteen inches in circumference and weigh'd nine* teau ounces. They were high favored, and well adapted for earing and conking. Of tke pears, many measured eleven inches in oircumfereucs, aad were high Savoured aad J��i��J* A PROGRESSIVE COMPANY WHOLESALING Mr. Simon Leiser has taken out a wholesale liquor license and will in future carry in atock a complete line of liquors, both in bulk nnd case. He will also act as agent for Ihe Victoria Phoenix Brewery, and will keep their celebrated beers coustahtly on hand. FARM FOB SALB Farm of 160 acres 4 miles from Comox wharf for sale. For particulars enquire of Father Duraad at the Bay or at tbe New, ofT.ce. Tht Union Mutual Life Ins. Company ���f Portland, Maine, is admittedly among the best incorporations on the American continent. Mr. J. E. Evans, Provincial Manager, who is at present in the town, reports that the business transacted by his company for the first quirter of the year, is highly satisfactory in character. One of the most admirable features in the company's system of life insurance, more particularly from the standpoint of the policy holder, is the operation of the Maine non-forfeiture law. Mr. T. J. Dalby, local agent, will be pleased to give any information to any one desirous of obtaining life insurance. FOR SALE���Pure White Plymouth Rook Kjgs at T. r>, McLean's. A STRANGER'S IMPRESSION To Thk Editor of the News���It was a surprise 10 me 10 (ind sn thriving and promising a little town away up here nestling at the foot of the Uufnrd mountains, which seem to suiround it protecting ly. On the arrival of the train at Union, I caught the first sight of the coal miners standing, a sturdy, strong, brave looking crowd of fellows, waiting to take the train which conveys them to their work. A picturesque group they were with blackened faces, wearing a pit-lamp attached to the front of their caps, and carrying, each man, his dinner pail. The miner's life compels ones admir- mation, for we realize that each day he faces a probable danger no other work is menaced with. And yet, 1 am informed almost every accident is the result of individual carelessness, and the Colliery Company surround their employes with ���very precautionary measure for safety. The sun was shining brightly when I started to "take in" the town. Ynu have stores which would be a source of pride and accommodation to many larger places; dry goods stores, where are displayed all the late novelties. The leading ones I found as reasonable in prices as further east. Simon Leiser's mammoth department store where vou can find everything from a paper of pint tu a silk dress in the dry goods department, everything in the house furnishing line in their annex, and in the grocery department all that cheers and nourishes the inner man, is nn establishment rivalling any in the province. Mr. Leiser keeps a large start of clerks, who seem alwaya busily hurried. Grant & McGregor's furniture store and undertaking rooms, are inaca nod. ious business building, There is a photograph gallery where 1 saw work which would compare with any. There are several good hotels, two barber shops, a first class drug store, tin shops, iewelerv stores, stationery and millinery stores, harness shop and others which 1 noted. There ara many pretentious residences for so aew a place. * *** We called on Mr. Whitney, Ihe urbane and bustling editor of the News and found him busy, but with time to spare in which to expatiate on the advantages of being a resioent of Union. The sound ofthe carpenter's hammers ringing their busy rat-a-tat-tat from every side, evidenced that building is brisk. Through the camp to the R R. freight offices is about two miles, and the cottages huilt by the company for the miners and their families extend the entire distance on either side of the road. In many of the windows are plants, evidences of refinement and lave of nature. The Chirtese quarter, like that of other places, is dingy and uninviting. The company, of which Mr. James Dunsmuir is president and chief stockholder, is surveying a location for the new offices they will erect right aw?y. Mr. Dunsmuir's discriminating judgment, aided by kis immense capital, has made Union, a place of business and a home for the industrious sober class of working men; and yet I am told not so very long ago some person or persons, who could not have viewed the situation with good judgment, tried to arouse a feeling of dissatisfaction among the miners. These anarchic influences in* variably result most disastrously to the working man himself, and few reason how much capital really helps the manv. In the States are hordes of idle man who would flock gladly to fill places where a fair wage is paid. The people whom I met seemed busy and each man shared wilh nis neighbor a great faith in a prosperous future for Union. The population is about 3,000, many being Japanese and Chinese and the town is only three years old. The surrounding couniry is a farming district, very fertile: I am mid. The trip to Union on the Joan is a delightful one. I was assured there are numbers of lonely bachelors sighing 10 be benedicts, who are satisfied it is not well for a man to live alone. The hospital ably conducted, is truly a boon I* those who are without homes or family���and among the miners there are many so situated. There is a brass band here which is very good. With the most conftrme-l optimist resident I think Union has not vet reached her acme of tiie and prosperity, ���A Strang ex. SIDEWALK STATEMENT The following statement relating to ths building of the sidewalk from Dunsmuir avenue up 2nd street to the bridge leading to Fjruwuod Hoi'-ats will be nf interest to tbess who contributed tn the enterprise. Amount of contract was $87, and cosi of clearing $4 50, making a total cost of $91.50. There was collected by aubrcrip- tion, 182.75, leaving a luUuce of $3.75 whioh hat baea ps'd hy the Epwtcth League, McPhee & Moore FAMILY MOCKS AND MEAT MARKET ���-IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN- Flour, Feed, Field and Garden Seeds, Etc., Etc OTJR 3VC__3A.T MARKET Is well stocked with choice fresh ancl salt meats, vegetables, butter, eggs, poultry and all kinds of fruits . . . .������*- ^"Goods Delivered Promptly UNION SHIPPING The tug Muriel called in on the 18th and took 31 ions ol coal for vessel's use. The tug Vancouver with scow left on the 18th with 119 tons ef coal for Victoria The tug Tepic and scow left nn the l8lh with 400 tons of coal for the C.P.R. The Rainbow left on the 19th with 141 tons of coal for the C. P. N., Victoria. The tug Tepic left on the joth with 424 tons of coal for thc C. P. R., Vancouver. Tbe tug Mischief look on the 10th 44 tons of coal for the vessel's use. The San Mateo left todav (Tuesday 34th) for Port Los Angeles with 4,300 of coal for the Southern Pacific. Tbe Progressist and Minneola will both be due Wednesday night. HASaViUtADE BALL The masquerade ball to be given at K. of P. hall, Comox Day will lake place on Thursday the 9th of April. The original date as published in the News was brought to the office from Comox Hay by a gentleman who mistook the date, i's we are assutsd the hall was engaged for lhe 9th and nol the 2nd. It is hoped therefore thut any annoyance occasioned by the supposed date will now, that the true dale is known, be removed. There will be more time to prepare the make-ups for the ball, and where these are made by, or under the direction of the persons who are to wear ihem, they show individual tasle, and a fitness not otherwise attained. CREAMERY OB CHEESE FACTORY A Mr. Lawson of Mt. Pleasant met a few of the Farmers at the Agricultural Hall, Courtenay to consider ihe subject of starting a cheese lactory. Further consideration of the matter was deferred until next Thursday evening when it is hoped thai all interested will aitend at the Hall. All present were alive to the desirability of a creamery or cheese factory being built. The committee hope all will be present next meeting to give their views. SECOND SAY OP MAY Or, the 2nd of May at Cumberland Hall the Union llra*,s Band will give their Benefit Concert. The band cleared from $90 to $100 at their benefit ball, and hope to make enough at their Benefit Concert to enable them to procure suitable uniforms. CHANGE OF TIKE The ss. Joan will leave Comox Fridiy mornings one linur later than heretofore and trains connecting with the Joun will leave Union depot Fridays at 7 a.m. calling ,11 the sawmill at 7.15. SUNDAY SERVICES St. Gkoiikh's Prksiivtiwia!* Ciiukch��� Rev. J. A Lugito, pa*,tor. 8ervioes at 11 a. in. auu 7 p. m. Sunday School at 2:30. YP.SCB at close of eveumg eervice. Communion ou ths laat Sabbath ot this mouth, Methodist Chcbch��� Services at the usual hours mnruing aud evening. Rev. C. H M. Sutherland, pastor. Trinitv I'hcrch-Ssivicei, to ibe evening, Rev. J X. Willemar, rector. RANCH FOR SALE One mile and a half from Union: contains 160 acres and will be disposed of at a low figure. Enquire of James Abrams. For Rknt.���The butcher shop at Union fitted up readv for business, lately occupied bv A* C. Fuilon. Cullon him or enquire of A. Urquhart, Comox. SATURDAY NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENT The entertainment Saturday night at Cumberland Hall must have netted a verv pretty sum as the hall was crowded. Rev. Mr. Logan presided. We have nnt space 10 notice in detail the various pieces, nor is this necessary as the programme was published last week, but reference to two or three may perhaps appropriately he made. Miss Webster reciied " lhe Curfew shall nut ring tonight," with very diauact voice and articulation, giving emphasis where demanded. Perhaps in the parts which required less voice and action she was best. She lost herself to a fair extent in the character assumed, throwing a good deal of feeling into her voice, and was roundly cheered at the close. The tableaux were well arranged and striking, but the method of throwing a strong bright light upon them so as to make them most eli'eciive filled the room with a smoke ancl odor highly objectionable and shows that a1 number of these pieces should not be given in succession. The Delsane drill was the most ambitious performance and must have cost the young ladies a good deal of study and practice. The ladies themselves were well selected for the purpose being of the right height and figure and naturally making a graceful pose. The attitudes assumed were correct and well expressed the sentiment intended. It may be suggested in this connection lhat there can be just a little too much even of a goud thing, and that it if always best to close soon enough to leave behind a feeling lhat it was all too short. But when so much time and labor are bestowed upnn a single piece it seems, we knuw, a pity 10 hurry it off the stage very quickly. And now comes lhe unpleasant part At such entertainments there are generally a large number of small boys, and we are glad to see this as they may learn much that is elevating as weil as being amused and instructed. The tendency is, however, and a growing one in this town, for the bnys in be unnecessarily noisy. This should be checked oot only for the benetit of those who patronise these entertainments but for the welfare of the boys themselves. It cannot be ef* feclunllv done always by any appeals from the chairman. Arrangements should in all cases, here as in the cities, be made for the attendance of a policeman. The mere presence nf an officer would be a wholesome restraint. Saturday night the boys were not only noisy but amused themselves by tipping or letting down seats, and by throwing shells and nuts at the heads of people. To tolerate or trifle with such offences is 10 encourage them. Where an officer's attendancecan not be secured, a special will be appoin - ted on request. Let the boys attend by all means but make tl-.em behava themselves, or it will soon come tn this, that no one will attend. Our town is youug and it is'cssenti.tl that in the beginning lawlessness shall be sternly repressed. FAB AWAY FIELDS The News of Tacoma hut this to say of the rush to Alaska: The News is informed on credible authority lhat there are quite a number ofTacomans who have started off for Alaska gold fields and as many more contemplating going who. are oot financially prepared to work the gold miniag industry on a basis of much work and small returns but are in expectation of striking it rich before their grub stake pans otn. To all such we have only oue word of advice. It is Don't ! There is no doubt much hidden treasure up there in the land ol the midnight sun but the summer season is short and the winter is long and severe and the man who has not enough on hand when the cold settles down to carry him through the winter is bound to endure much hardship, if nothing worse, and will be wishing himself back in Tacoma, where at least he can gel three square meals a day, and where the thermometer dees not go out of sijbt. ��� ; A ROMANCE OF GRIME. Two Men Confess to a Murder Never Committed. ADTERTIS1NS FDR THE "VICTIM." Iltorlul Kliltonla of tne seareh���Tracing the .VII. i Dmvu-l-iiiitiil at l.aut���Kei-og- iil/ml by Many���Liberation of the l'rls- i,n**r*. - i ii*rini,-iii,iittni avltleuoe at Fault. The mind ol the average layman ta apt to picture the contents ol tbe hundreds ol volumes In the law library ns pretty dry reading, But there are many strange and interesting things bound up there, well worth tbe seeking, Ouo ol the strongest hus recently como to the library ln pamphlet lorin. It is the story ul a supposed niurflcr iu Vermont, the con- teseion oi two men to thc crime, their conviction and sentence to death, aud posed murdered man brought about then the strange return ol the sup- by an advertisement in the daily press. It Is a story ot doings ln the early part of tlio present century, and was not printed until 1873. The tacts wero gathered and arranged for printing by Leonard Snrgeunt, ex- Lleut.-Governor of Vermont, from minutes taken during the trial uud afterward. It Is frojn the pamphlot that the strange .story is taken. In the spring ol 1812 tliere lived ln the town ol Muncjiester, Vt., a family named Boom, consisting ol the father, Barney Boom, his wife and two grown sons, Stephen aud Jesse, and a duugliter named Sully, who had beeu married eighteen years to a man named Ruseell Calvin, and who, with her husband and two children, also lived with her father. The younger members ol the family were considered rather wild. Calviu, ths eon-ln-law, wan a man of weak intellect, and would sometimes absent himsell lor mouths at a time. In ths month ol May, 1812, during Mrs. Calvin's absence, her husband disappeared. Days and months nnd even years rolled on nnd nothing was heard ol the missing man. TERRIBLE SUSPICIONS. People hegun to make inquiries, aud suspicions ot foul play soon became whispered ahout. To add luel to the flame. It was remembered that the young Booms had spoken Btrangely ol the disappearance of Calvin. One ol them had said lie knew Calvin was dead, and the other that they had put hlin where potatoes would not freeze. Though those were probably Idle remarks when made, they served to engender a. belief In the minds of many that the Booms were responsible for Calvin's disappearance. In a short time the public camo to the conclusion that Calvin had been murdered und that the Booms were the murderers. .Some children .-it play on or near tlio old Boom place one day found a hat in a moldy nnd di- lapldated condition, which was re cognized as Calvin's. Search was at once made lor the bones of the unfortunate man. About this time Anion Boom, uncle of Stephen anil .(esse, and a mun of unimpeachable character, dreamed that Calvin came to his bedside and told liim that lie had been murdered, and to follow hini anil he would lead to the spot where he wns purled. This was repeated three times. The place ol burial as described In the dream was an old cellar hole, over which a house had once stood. To the many superstitious people ol the neighborhood these dreams were taken as "confirmation strong as proof ol holy writ." About this timo a barn on thc farm was burned, and It was supposed by many thnt the body might have lieen concealed therein. Another circumstance occurred which excited much attention. A Ind antl a dog wore walking one day near Barney Boom's when the dog began to dig under an old stump. Soon some bones wero dug out, and on be* lug examined were pronounced to lit human. This was too much* for thn excited Inhabitants. Stephen Boom had recently removed to New York State, but Jesse wns arrested and taken betore Justice of the Pence Joel Pratt. This was on April 27th. 1819, nearly seven years after Calvin's ills- appearance. Tlio examination of the prisoner lasted lour days and was attended by a large concourse of people. Tho old cellar hole was reopened, and a large knife, n pen-knlte and a button wero found, the large knife and button tiling identified as Calvin's. The bones found by tho dog In the hollow stump wero taken to court, and lour physicians pronounced them hones ot a human loot. This decision was, afterward changed on coiupnr* Ing the bones vvitii those of it human foot brought from a neighboring town. That dampened the public ardor somewhat, and It Is probable that Jesse would have lieen discharged bnt lor tho fact that on Sunday lie mado a statement that he believed Calvin had lieen murdered and that his brother Stephen was the murderer. THE CONFESSION VERIFIED, Ho said that Stephen told him the previous winter that he (Stephen) and Calvin wero hoeing In the Meld, that they quarrelled and that he atruck Cnlvln on the bend with a club and fractured his skull. He said that he did not know what had become of the body, but mentioned several places where ho thought It might he found. Whether It was to save himself or somo other consideration that induced Jesse to mako this statement wub never known, but it added greatly to the public excitement. Although tho whole countryside was searched by the townspeople no trace of Calvin's body was found. But neither tho court nor the people were satisfied. A warrant was Issued nnd despatched to New York, where Stephen Boom wns arrested. Both men were held lor the grnnd Jury, an,! Barney Boorn, tho boy's father, was ulso arrested as accessory to the murder. But he was discharged, much to the Indiguntioii ol the public. The ense against the Bone came up before the September Grand Jury. The principal witness against theni was one Silas Merrill, who was confined ln the same Jail on the charge of forgery. He testified thnt Jesse made n confession to him in June, while thoy were together In the Jail. Whether n nv snch confession wna ever ninrlo Is doubtful. One thing ls certain, betore the sitting ol the Grand Jury Merrill hnd been confined In chains, while nfter the event his chains were removed nnd he wns permitted to go shout the streets. The Ornml Jury Indicted both Jesse and Stephen for Calvin's murder, As tho law then was. capital rnsrs could only lie tried before a full bench, and the requisite nnuiliT of Judges not being present, the trial was postponed until the following Novemlier. In the meantime, public feeling against the prisoners was intense. Almost without exception thoy wero believed to lie guilty. Officers of the law who visited tho men in Jail told them ths caso was clearly against them ", that to confORs wns the best thing they could do; thnt if they made a confession nn effort would be mnde to have their sentences commuted to Imprisonment 'or Iffo. Convinced that this was their only hope, Stephen made a written confession, taking upon himself the sole responsibility of the crime, but claiming that he and Calvin had a quarrel, and thnt Calvin struck him first. Tho confession coincided sub* stnntlully with circumstantial evidence previously Induced. CIRCUMSTANTIAL, EVIDENCE. Tlie trial took place in November, 1819, before Chief Justice Chase and Judges Joel Doollttle nnd William Brayton. Thc evidence against the prisoners was entirely circumstantial and most unimportant, with the exception of the confessions, which were objected, to by defendants' connscl, but admitted In evidence. An effort was made on the part of the defense to weaken the clfcct of the confessions on the Jury by Introducing testimony to show that they hnd been subjected to strong outside Influence. Lnrge crowds ol pepole from Manchester and neighboring towns attended the trial -which was held ln the Congregational Church, ns the court house -would not accommodate the multitude. Great Interest was manifested in the case by all classes and verv few could be found who, did not believe the prisoners guilty, or who would venture to say a kind word for them. The judge charged In relation to the confessions thnt no weight should lie attached to n eon* fesslon Incited by hope or fenr and left tt for the Jurv to determlns whether the con*essio"S In tlie enn,, were so Influenced. T,nW rulings would probnhh have excluded tbe confessions from the e.*:s-> on that ground, bit Ju-le-c Chase wai rega-ded as one of the ablest Jurists of the time. After an absence of i-ne hour the Ju-y returned a verdict of murder In the first degree against both prisoner. The prisoners were taken Into rnn-t .iml both stoutly proclaimed Innocence nf the (--inu1. They were then sentenced to be executed nn .tan, 28th, 182-0. So g-ent was the popular excitement ngnlnst the prisoners at the time that Sirs, Bo'ivn, their mother, was excommunicated from the Baptist ehu-ch without form ol t-i.-il because It was supposed she must have been necessary to the murder. Notwithstanding tho general feeling against the prisoners, there vve-c a few who, though they may have believed them guilty, had some sympathy fo*- them, and signed a petition tn tlie State Legislature, whicli then had jurisdiction of such matters, fo* tlie pardon or commutation or sentence. After a spirited debute In i the Legislature Jesse's petition fmr j commutation to ]lfe imprisonment was carried by a vote of 10-1 to 31. j Stephen's petition wns Inst by a vote of 97 tn 42. Stephen was much depressed by the rejection nf his petition!, ADVERTISED FOI! MISSING MAN. To Mr. Sargeant, who had appeared as his counsel, lie suggested as a last resort that an advertisement for Cal- via be put ln some newspaper. It was thought a foolish thing, but was finally dune, and in the Rutland Herald this advertisement wub published: MURDER. Printers of newspapers throughout the United States are desired to publish that Stephen Boon), of Manchester, in Vermont, Is sentenced to he executed lor the murder nf Russell Calvin, who litis been abscut about seven years. Any person who can give Information of said Calvin may save the Hie ol the iiinuccut by making liiiiiieillatccoinmiiulaatl'iii. ��� ��� * In thc very issue of the Herald in which the uotico was printed there appeared an editorial maintaining that there was no possibility of a doubt thut Calvin was murdered, anil ridiculed what it termed a in, lish at* tempt to advertise Inr any informa* tion concerning him. This notice was copied by a New Vork paper In Its lssuo ol Nov. 89th, 1811). The next day it happened that the notice win read ulouu lu otic of-the hotels ol that city. A mau named Whclplcy, who was within hearing, said he formerly lived iu Manchester nud was well acquainted with Calvin. In tlie convc"- siition which followed hu related muny unccdoteg and peculiarities concerning hlui. Tabor Chadwlck, uf Shrewsbury, N. Jl, was also near and heard the conversation. On tliinklng the matter over on his return home it occurred to him thut a mau then living with* his brotheu-ln-law. William Polhemus, of Dover, N. J., answered cjtactly the dcscrlutlon of Calvin as given by Jlr Whelpley. He finally wrote ci his belief to the New York pnpei and to the po.tniastcr at ManrVeet >r. But us everyone scouted tue Il.c.1 of Calvin being alive little notice was taken of thc letters nud nothing was done. But Mr. Whel- pley had been impressed with Mr. Chudwlck's conviction nd determined on Ids own responsibility to go to Nevv Jersey and find out tlie truth. His expenses ln thfi matter wr re, however, afterward paid by ar, order of the city treasury grant'** by De Witt Clinton, then mayor if New York. A TRACE OF THE MAN. On arriving at thc housu of William Polhemus and making known hie errand, Mr. Polhemus admitted that there was such a man in his employ, that be at first gave the name of Culvin, but afterwards changed It, and that the man was evidently deranged. Mr. Whelpley saw the man und called him Calvin. He replied that Mr. Whelpley must be mistaken; that Culvin was not his name, although it had been once, but thut he was another mun. By degrees Mr. Whelpley induced the man to evince some Interest lu his lormer friends and acquaintances in Manchester. Ho succeeded iu inducing Calvin to return with him. In the meantime a letter had beea sent to Manchester stating tliat Calvin had been found* A few people began to believe tliat It might bo true, but the greater part were still incredulous, anil many bets wen) made as to his being the genuine Calvin. On nrrlvlng at Bennington the county court was In session. Some ono niHhcil ln and said that Calvin had come, and tho court broke up ln great confusion; the Judges, clerks, sheriff, lawyers and spectators Jumped over benches and rushed through windows and doors to see tlie man who had been dead, and lor whose supposed murder some of them had been Instrumental In having two men sentenced to be hanged. Calvin was Immediately recognized by al who formerly knew him. After B short delay the party proceeded tr Manchester, a courier having lieer sent in advance to announce tlieli coming. All along the route iieopli gathered iu crowds to see him. and when the stage drove up to Cuptair Black's tavern in Manchester o crowd had collected uud the wildest excitement prevailed. Cannon wen brought out and Stephen Boorn was taken from Jail to lire the first volley in token or his escape from death Tho most extravagant expressions of Joy were Indulged in by the peoplo who, at last convinced of their error were only too glad to make reparation. For two or three days lnrgf crowds collected from neighboring towns to see tlie man who was believed to be murdered, and all rejoiced at the unlooked-for termination ot the affair. JUSTICE AT LAST. There could be no doubt of the Innocence of the Booms, hut they could not be released from custody without due process of law. Judge Skinner at once wroto the Judges of the Supremi Court, then In session in Addisor county, that Calvin wub alive and ir Manchester. The Judges replied that they did not believe it could be Cal vin, and directed a most searching ex arnica tion to guard against deception Ths inu' "-lentlty was firmly estab lished, and at his own request 1* was taken back to New Jersey, where ht died a few years afterward. The case was without precedent and so Mr. Sargeant had to petition the court for a new trial on thf ground of newly discovered evidence A new trial was granted, and a nol pros was Immediately Issued by the prosecuting officer. This ended thf most singular trial then on the records ami ono nnout which there wa* and has since been a great diversity oi opinion. Perhaps u majority ol those best acquainted with tho case believed the Booms wero honest Id supposing they had killed Culvin, or that he died In consequence nt their ill treatment; but, viewing the east in all the light ol subsequent events it ls the opinion of the pamphlet's author that they did nnt think so. Tliej certainly could not huve disposed ol tlio body in the manner described Ir, tho confession, and after every known means of defence nnd palliation had apparently been exhausted, Stephen was the first one to suggest advertls* Ing lor Calvin. The confessions were probably made and framed for thf purpose of making tlio crime manslaughter or justifiable homicide, Instead of premeditated murder, and seem to have been indicted by fear on oue hand, men nf Influence repeatedly telling them that the evidence was strong enougli to convict them, and hope on the other. Silas Merrill, who was contincd with them, being a cunning rogue, no doubt advised them ae to the best way to get out of it. There were others who believed that Calvin was really murdered, and that the man supposed to have been Calvin was an impostor, gotten up for tbe purpose of clearing the Booms. Some color was given this supposition by the fact that Jesse Boorn wus after ward arrested ln Ohio for forgery, when he made the statement that It was not Calvin, and that his brother, Stephen, did actually murder bim.��� Brooklyn Eagle. AT HER TOMB. He visited the tumji where his beloved was laid. Currying a lighted candle and kneeling by her coflln he suid passionately: " Would I could die! Would 1 could die I" Just then the wind closed the door uml extinguished the light. Tho bereaved lover, who had Just prayed lor death, rushed to the door. He could not open Itl He tore ut It, knocked, kicked, struggled and screamed loudly for help. No answer; only tho utter silence unit darkness ol thu tomb. His wish to die wna forgotten. He sank down and wept--���with tears that were not lor his beloved, but for himself. Time passed���time, time, time. Who shall say how much? His brain seemed as If It would give wuy, but he prayed for sanity and his prayer seemed to be heard. At last he was assailed by intolerable pangs ot hunger, and then he thought ot his candle. He out It Into four parts. He ate tho first quarter the first day. the second on the second day, the third on the third day, the last quarter tlio fourth day. No more he must die of starvation. He made one more and desperate effort to open the door. It suddenly opened and the keeper of tlte cemetery stood before him; the sunlight blinded him��� he fell from exhaustion. He bad been there Just tour hours!���Ex. REPUTATION AGAINST HIM. " Y'ou havo the reputation of being a shrewd business man,'* remarked tho Iriend of a real estate boomer. " Yes,' was the reply. " It's getting so thnt whon I offer a man a genuine bargain ho takes It for granted thnt f nm getting the b��st of him.'* NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP. At mother's knee, tho greybeard says he learned His childhood prayer; There, bravely told her all his faults and fears AVithout a care. '* Pray, now I lay mo down to sleep, my boy," She sweetly snid, " And that tho Lord your soul will keep," she stroked Ills curly head. At once ho Ielt her Invocation's power And haply smiled; The Intaut soul mado new resolves, by her Sweot lovo beguiled. Out ot his lite that mother long has gono, But that caress��� Tho hand laid on tho curly hoad thero bowed That sho might bless, Can never go I Tho echo of her voico Kings In hla cur. When night compels the weary to repose, Then that old prayer, " Lord, now I lay nie down to sleep,'1 ls Bald With fervor true. The grcylwnrd breathes It from his heart again With peace anew. FAITH IN HUMAN NATURE, There has always been a disposition on the part ol clerics to build up faith in Coil by taking away our faith ��� ....... i*. rue incarnation oi the son ol Uod, rightly apprehended, cannot tolerate this method. Christ's mission was to show ub what lioil is, that we might bcllevo In Him, and likewise to show us what wif are, that wo may bellevo In ourselves, ne camo, Buying: " That Is not God, that terrible figure of a king seated amid lightnings, swlltof anger, heavy of hum! and stern of brow. See, He Is tender, Ho ls merciful, He pltteth us a father pitleth his own children. His name is Love, unit Ha IB your Pn-ther.'- But what was the good of telling as thut.' How does it matter what God is, unless I know what I am ? So In tho divine mystery of the Incarnation, that greatest ol ull events aud crises, that centre ot history and crown of the world's processes, was revealed the other thing necessary Ior salvation���truth as to what man is. It had never been drummed ol; the glory ol it had never flashed out ln men's wildest dreams. Jesus came, saying, " Tliat is not man, that pitiful, sad figure which has played his part. The cruelty and bloodshed, the wars, the faithlessness, dishonor, Ignorance, brutality and greed which have been blotted over the pages of history���that ls not the work of man, but of a spirit, not himself, which hns entered Into him, nnd persuaded him tliat it was himself. Tliat Is the mistake and failure of Immunity ; not its truth. See! such as 1 am, true, unselfish, kind, thoughtful of others, full ot courage and honor, pure, faithful, unflinching, strong and yet pitiful, forgiving, ready io lay down lifo for another's sake��� tliat it is to be a man I" Oh, the .raudeur ol that revelation. In Its light alone can I have tho faith through whicli salvation comes, faith in my God, and in myself. Not In myself as in anguish I find myself, but in what I was made to be, and what I, therefore, in my essence, am; la what it Is possible for me still to be; In my Idea, which once was realised by Jesus of Nazareth. So shall you bo Increasingly saved, as you contemplate and pursue your Image of Christ. You will never attain it; It will flee before you. The better you grow, the more unworthy you will seem to lie. That Is the paradox of salvation. The end Ib Infinitely lar away; eternally you must tread the path toward God, ���Lny sermon In Boston Herald. AMENDMENT TO TOE TRAYER. I have lately heard from an old minister who had retired from active service, but who still retained his seat In his former pulpit, while candidates were preaching there. Ho always ol- tered the closing prayer, and after asking tho Lord to bless Ills servant who had broken the bread of lifo to His people that day, was accustomed to mid, " and may he shlno as a star of the first magnitude forovor and ever.' But It hnppencd one Sunday that a very dull preacher occupied tho pulpit, nnd tlio good old minister was unutterably bored. When It wus timo for tho prayer ho offered tho usual petition that tho Lord would bless Ills servant who had addressed thc people that day, and���hore he paused. Ills faith wus not strong enough to allow 'him to coucludo tho sentence In the customary way; so thc conscientious old man added Ilrm- ly: " And may he shlno as a star of considerable magnitude for ever anil ever.'���Boston Transcript. BRIGHT THOUGHTS. The biggest coward is not alwayB the man who refuses to fight., It takes more courage sometimes to turn away from a brawl than to plunge Into It.���The Rev. Washington Gladden, Columbus, 0. Imagine the terrors of an aroused conscience. The fearful reckoning that comes when sin ls illuminated by the searchlight of an awakened memory.���The Rev. L. A Banks, Brooklyn, N. T. i No one can fall bo Ian away irom God that tbe law of redemption cannot reach him. The individual who has the ability to fall very low has also the ability to rise very high, If only turned In the right direction. Some people have no ability ten do either; but, no matter how dark the sinner's record, ho may have lull pardon through the blood of Jesus Christ. ���The Rev. Dr. Northcutt, Houston, Texas. Alter the police had vainly endenv- I ored to disperse a mob, a; minister mounted a box and made tne simple announcement: " A collection will now be taken np.' The military could not have done the work quicker. The best cure for nn Inflammable tongue ls the water bucket of absolute silence. Hasty speech is explosive ; slienou ls cooling. The talking tongue Is more dangerons than the angry tongue. A hasty word may De excused", but a tattling tongue never. The tattler Is Just like sin��� ts foreign substnnce here for no other purpose thnn to annoy and irritate. ���Tlie Rev. Fuller BergstresBer, Allegheny. Pa. Uellglon Is not a matter of opinion, but ol Supreme conviction. Broadly stated, for all honest men, bellicf must needs follow conviction of truth. To be convinced ol truth and not to act upon It Is to outrage; the soul, to tamper with the moral consciousness, and to let the moral life ebb away.���The Rev. Clinrlcs E. Mitrrnv, Wilmington. Del. ti A Toiu-h ot Nature. Father (winding tlie clock)���Time to lock up now. it's nearly lu o'clock. Mother-Oh, dou't hurry, father. Futher���Dou't hurry V We ought tn be asleep by this time, considering we ve got to be at tlie haying by sun-up to-morrow. Are tho boys iu hed'.' Mother���They've gone up stairs. Father���Well, theu, I'll close tlie ��� Mother���Ida huiu't como iu yet. Father���Huln't couio iu ? Why ? Mother���Oh, she'a at the gate. She's been down to sbiglug class. Father���Woll, why doesn't she Mother���Sh-sh���they'll hear you. There's a young man wltlrher. Futher���A young man? Who? Mother���Isaac l'eun came up with her. Father���I should think lier brother** would ho company enough. Mother (drylyj,���Should you'.* Father���Aud if a young man doc** walk up with lier ho needn't stand three hours at the gate. Mother���He hasn't been there ten minutes. Father (severely)���He has no business to ho there any minutes. Why duesu't lie know enough to say goodnight uud go? Mother���Ephram, wasn't tliere ever a young Tellow that used to walk homo with mc Irom singing, and hang over the gate till all hours, especially a night like this ? Father���That was different, You were woman big. Mother���Ida's woman big. She's 19 past. Father���Ida's nothing hut a child. Mother���Well, she's a whole year older than I was when you Father (hastily)���And besides, crab���I was dead In love. Mother (quietly)���How Jo ynu know- that Isaac hain't ? Father���Isaac l'enii in love with Ida? Sho I The boy nasn't a vote, yet. Mother���lies got a heart, though. You had your first vote tlie yeur we were married���Just remember that, l-'ather���Mother, I'm surprised a; you putting up with such nonsense about Ida. Tlmo cuough for her to keep company five years from now. Mother (approvingly)���Of course it is, and it's time enough now, 11 tlu- right one conies along. Isaac is good and steady. Father (firmlyj���Well, I won't have It, that's nil. Call her In. It's lied* time. Mother���Ephrntn, you don't suppose I would do such a thing us that? Father (with sternness)���Neelie, it's your duty. Mother (with spirit)���It Isn't m.v duty to Insult m.v daughter. My mother never did It to me. Father (hall smiling)���She never had to: you wouldn't let ine stay so long. Mother���Oh, I wouldn't let you stay Father���And no sensible fellow would want to stay. Mothor���You were a sensible fellow, Ephrnm. Father���Now, mother. Mother (with decision)���But you were: everyone said so. Father���1 couldn't Iw sensible with you, Neelle: you just turned my head. Mother isoftly)���Well, they were pleasant times. I love to remember them. Father���Ye*es. I don't know as anyone ever had a pleasanter courtship. Mother���But you were mighty Jealous. Father (musingly)���Was I? I suppose I was. 1 know there seemed to be nlways someone trying to cut me Out. Mother���Do you remember the night at Lucy Orumtn's wedding, when yon snt and sulked all evening In n corner? Fn ther���And that big student fellow from New Haven wns shining tip to you? But 1 wnlkotl homij with you, after all. Mother���1 guess you did. And how you scolded. We stood nt the gate till the moon rose���the llttb) silver hnlf moon. Fnther���And you cried and we made It all up. Mother���And the next dny you wrotn me n letter-(tho gate clicks)���oh, there comes Ida. (Enter Ida, Bmlllng, radiant.) Ida���It's the loveliest night! Just a sin to go to bed. Father (smiling also)���Woll, Ids, dismissed yonr company, have you? Ida (demurely)���Isaac 7 Oh, yes. Father���What a shame to send him off so early. Mother���Ida knows what to do. Father���But Isaac don't. I'mbleit If any girl could hustle me like thnt when I was Isaac's age.���Madeline S. Bridges, In Ladles Home Journal. SMALL ASSETS, A man who went to look up a debtor ln Central Maine the other day, having ln view the collection of bis debt, found him to be an old fellow whose sole earthly possessions of an attachable kind are two bears. He was living like a hermit, alone, save for his two queer companions. The collector was not eager for tains bear ment, and did not disturb the menagerie.���Lewlston Journal. Gold found at Perry, Okla. d% "Do not weep, futher," said George, "God will save us," ���"Alas I it Is impossible." ���'Ob, lather, do not say It ls impossible. He who gavo ub strength to reach this rack, can He not send a a ship?" "A Ship I Yes, tliat ls the only restating chance: but it ls u very feeble one." ''And why, father ? Look, as you wero sleeping a piece ol wood from the poor Avenger flouted within my Ian fishermen; but tholr bristling moustaches uud closely-cropped hair gave them a much less reassuring appearance. A tall man was at the tiller. The hood of his cloak hid most ot his face. Hi) spoke to his mea la a guttural voice, and seemed to be swearing at them. The castaways bad reached the ship so exhausted that they had sunk on the deck, moro like lifeless logs than men. Suddenly the wan who nad sat in the stem begun to Interrogate them In English. Robert hud uot the strength to reply. It was Ids son who related In a few words the wreck of the Avenger. What were you on board?" reach ; I managed to get It; I planted roughly Interrupted the mnn In the ti tl,r.,*e nt the ton of the rock; I slock, "you nnd tbo two others. L_It* my wiilte handkerchief to It., who look to me as It they, would " re- IrlBh under not anow vim. ......... "���- --- _-���_- 0,-my (nthef, whom you Borelle, the most dangerous reel ln | �����e0���* re8Cuej.*. "Hal haf two and we almll 1>R Been " ' Soon bo 'to0^ '0I* *���* Sharks ?" ana we sliall be seen. , -,Tll|8 mnn ,vas _ top-man, "Poor child I" snid Robert But, p���ca Georgnp polnUng to the do not know thnt we are on the I sailor; " I waB an engineer - ��� - I *,.��� ������, - .. �� . you i these sens, the one which snllora tear the most. There ls not a ship sailing between the coast of Alrica and Sardinia but what goes thirty miles out oi her way In order to avoid tliese breakers. 'When one sees the Sorelle une sees death,' say the Sicilians. It In a spot accursed, and ship-wrecked men alone tread these fatal rockst How many belore us, perhaps, have perished here?" "No, father, no, do not think of death," interrupted George. "A man doea not die when he possesses courage ; you have often told me so, and 1 have couruge; you will see." And the brave lad cast on Robert a glance ���so calm and firm that the unhappy lather Began to hope that their lives would bo spared. , For the first time since, tlie fatal moment when the Avenger hud been engulfed Dy the waves, Robert calmly surveyed his position. It wus a terrible one. The rock upon whicli the frigate struck was entirely hidden by the water, and the two points from which It derived its name alone offered a reluge from the waves. The higher one, that on which the shipwrecked men were awaiting tlieir death, consisted of a narrow platform which sloped steeply towards the north. The whole surface was not more than some thirty paces square. Constantly washed by the Atlantic swell, it had no covering of seaweed, like the rocks on moet other coasts. Nothing lived on this gloomy and desolate rock, and tlie untortunate wretches whom the sea had cast upon tli had not eveu the chance of pro- tanging their existence by means of the shellllsh which ordinarily abound Is the Mediterranean. However, George mado it lortnnatc discovery. On the extreme summit, la a hollow of the rock, a sort of natural basin formed a reservoir which the rain had filled with sweet water. Of all the sufferings which threaten shipwrecked men. the most formidable, the one that makes Itself soonest felt��� thirst���was no longer to be feared. Bnt the supply was not Inexhaustible, and It was of the utmost Importance to husband thia treasure, more precious at that moment than all tbe gold stored la the Avenger, and Robert took his post near this heaven-sent lountaln in order to eee that each drank lu his turn. He soon saw that the Irishmen who had been saved with them had no wish to avail themselves ot this last resource. At that very moment the two men were emptying a bottle full of rum which one of them had brought tn his belt. Death, hideous and threatening, was awaiting them. and. in order not to see it, these poor wretches were intoxicating themselvea. During the night the fragments of the ship had disappeared under the constant action of the waves, ferrying to the bottom of the sea the Inst chance they had ot procuring lood. A tew barrels ol biscuits had floated UV>n> the wreck, but the waves had broken them against the rock, and this last hope had vanished ln the storm. Rescue, 11 the castaways were still to expect It, could now only come from the horizon which sur- .-- ...- a ,,��� ���*,_ ��� lea_e��� . engineers and top-mnnl Splondld recruits Ior us!" suid the stranger. And he began to talk to his men again in a foreign tongue. His gestures clearly Indicated that he was translating to them what George had Just said, and the explanation appeared to quiet the grnmblers. Robert began to be uneasy, and he half rose from the bottom ot the boat where' ho was lying. He fancied that the captain's eyes were fixed ou liim. He saw them glittering under his hood, without being able to distinguish his features. The stranger was looking at him intently, as if he wns trying to recall his laco. His hair plastered on his temples by the sea- water, und his face blue with cold, made him look more like a drowned man than a living creature, and the man seemed to hesitate. Suddenly ho burst out laughing, and Roliert heard the following words, which rang In hla car like thc last trump; " What! my dear Mr. Roliert. It's you that I've found in this deplorable condition ?" And at the same time lie threw his hood back, and Rolmrt recognized the abhorred lace of Morgan. Robert could not believe his eyes, and his stupefaction was such that he could not say u. word. " And this fine fellow," continued Morgan ln a mocking voice, " is young George, whom I have seen playing when a child. Come, It was certainly a good Idea ot mine to go and see what the white Hag meant that was floating from the Sorelle. And theso fellows here," he added, pointing to his men, " wanted to persuade me to send you to the bottom of the sea. on the pretext that we did not require your services on the Caiman. That ls the namo of my brig, my dear sir. But, now I come to think of It, you -will find a friend���a relation���on board ; you will guess that I mean Dlego. Yos. my dear nephew Is my partner, and our little affairs 1 have prospered since wc lett you���a little abruptly, perhaps; but one can overlook that want ol ceremony between friends." Robert listened to this hateful Jesting without attempting to reply to It. George, whom he had never Informed of his suspicions and his grids, thanked Morgan, and rejoiced naively at the Idea ol seeing hla uncle again. Hoping that his silence would lie attributed to exhaustion, Roliert lay at tho bottom of the boat and pretended to tie asleep. The eight men rowed vigorously, nnd were not long In reaching the ship. A voice whicli Roliert recognized at once, and whicli made him shudder from bend to foot, called to Morgan, and naked hlin fineerlngly what prize ho had brought bnck. " A splendid one, my dear nephew, a splendid one," cried Morgan, " and I've gut n surprise for you. Come, Roliert, courage! get up, I beg rounded the ring. Sorelle like Mr. you, ng. Robert and George fatigued their eyes In scanning this gloomy solitude. As far as they could seo, tho dreary waves mingled with the great clouds driven along by the west wind. Nothing Interrupted the monotonous line of grey sky which hung over the sea. It was a liquid desert, a desert without the sun, without the mirage, and death reigned alone over these gloomy realms. Fnom time to time, a gull, blown along by the wind, passed over the rock, uttering Its cry, mournful as tbe groan ol a dying mini, and disappeared In the midst. The day passed thus. As the snn was setting Robert turned round to look at It once more. Suddonly lie lumped up, giving vent to a loud cry. Southwards, and hardly two miles off, a ship appeared under full sail, They could already see the foam which she churned up as sho clove the waves. Bhe had certainly seen George's signal, for she was standing ln towards tbe rock. Presently she hove to, and Robert plainly saw a boat push olf. In less than halt an hour afterwards It was within earshot, and the man who wns la command shouted out to them In English to swim off. There wns still too much surf to allow him to bring his boat any nearer. Joy gives strength. Not one of the shipwrecked men hesitated. In a lew minutes they reached the boat, bat three of them only. The sea had Just swallowed Its last victim. Worn oat with fatigue, one of the-Irish sailors had disappeared on the way. The boat was manned by eight sailors with strange costumes. Covered with ragged cloaks, with naked legs, and and ahow Dlego that i'nt not boasting." Whilst he was speaking the boat, having been made last to the tackle, was being hauled up the Bide, and wns soon on a level with the deck. Roliert found himself face to fnce with Dlego. nnd remained Immovable, as It ho had lieen turned to stone. Dlego started back ln astonishment, and Morgau laughingly looked on at this mute scene. He kept up his horrible Joke by expressing surprise at their coolness, nnd urging bis nephew to throw himself Into Robert's arms. Dlego soon recovered him'"'" i his contracted features attempted a smile; ho advanced and orfered his brother-in-law a hand, which the latter did not* dure retusc. uml poor George, who know nothing of tho pnBt, threw himsell Joyfully on his uncle's neck. The deck wna covered with evil-looking men, who witnessed this meeting with mocking indifference, nnd Morgan, with the Bnme ironical politeness. Invited Roliert antl George to go down Into his cabin to recover trom their fntlgue. The Irish sailor was handed over to the mute, nnil tho cnstavviiys followed tlielr hateful rescuer. Roliert's mind was made up. Ho wished to preserve his son, and, In order to save this precious lite, he wns resolved to overcome his Just animosity and submit to the crudest of humiliations. A moment's reflection had enabled him to take In the situation. Dlego must be Ignorant that his brother-in- law iknew ot his crimes. Robert felt that his son's fate depended on his silence; with that end ln view he hail strength to dissimulate, and to act ns| if be had never had any Busplclons. Moreover, Morgan's first words had told him that ho wns ln need ot them. It was certainly not a feeling of humanity that had prompted him to come and rescue the shipwrecked men from tho Sorelle, and since he had not thrown them Into the sea on recognising them, it must be that they were ��� *.- ..,_ Ro_-jrt founded on wearing red woollen caps, they | necessary to him. mightlinve pasaod at first tor Sicll- this reasoning a fresh hope ol safety. Half an hour nfter their arrival on board, George and his father, clad In warm clothes, and already Invigorated by several glasses of rum, were seated at a plentllully provided table, of which Morgan and Diego did tne honors. Determined to play Mb j*nrt to the end, Robert had recovered sufficient solf-posseaslon to 'keep up n conversation on the sad eventa which had preceded and lollowed their abrupt departure. Diego, evidently reassured by hla brother-in-law's attitude, apologized In sugared tones Ior having been forced to leave Paris without seeing him. He carried his Impudence to the point of lnmentlng Mary's death, nntl at this Impious language u shudder of horror passed through Robert. Morgan, not to be behindhand, inquired with solicitude as tn the cause of his ruin, and when IJnbert had briefly related hla disasters lis said to him iu a tone of the liveliest Interest : I am doubly rejoiced, my deur sir, at tho stroke of good luck which 1 owe to that northwest wind. After having prevented you from dying of hunger on thnt dreadful rock, 1 cau contribute still more to the ra-ootab- lishincnt ol your affairs. You have heard me speak sometimes of a certain Island of which 1 am solo pus* sessor, and which contains enough gold tn make us all richer than we have ever been in our lives. 1 will not conceal the fact from you that wo ure making our way thither at the present moment. In confiding to you our secret, to you nnd this dear boy," he continued, pointing to George, "I nm yielding to a feeling of sympathy which Is as strong as it is sincere; but U you have any scruples In accepting my offer 1 can dismiss them by telling you that you can contribute largely to the success of the voyage. In consequence of financial misfortunes, which have Ielt me with very little money, I have had great difficulty In chartering a vessel and collecting a crew, and, I am not afraid to confess It, the Caiman and the crew who man It leave much to be desired. I picked up theBe good fellows where I could, without Inquiring too closely Into their antecedents, and, as lor the vessel, I bought It, us a raa'keshilt, o! the Bey of Tripoli. It Is, as you may have noticed, a wretched hulk; but It is provided with engines, and we are ouly sailing because we have no coal. But look you I We have on board men of all coua- trles and all trades. We have sailors, we have gunners, we have even poets; we have no engineer. Our friend Dlego was ono formerly, it is true, but he's got rather rusty. Fortunately you are here, dear Mr. Rob *rt, and thanks to you, we are now certain of making oar little trip qulokly. We shall save at least a month, for the Caiman sails wery badly." This speech told Robert what he had already suspected, that Morgan had need of them; but It lett him ln a state ol uncertainty as to the destination of the ship, for he found it difficult to believe iu the existence of the celebrated island of gold. The crew looked like a collection ot the worst 'kind of robbers, and It was only likely that piracy was Morgan's true occupation. The rumors whicli had been formerly circulated ln Paris occurred to Robert's mind; but the moment would have been badly chosen to ask for explanations, and he eagerly accepted the offer. He was Installed with George iu a large cabin near the engines, and they both of them soon fell Into a sleep which lasted fifteen hours. Ou awaking they went on deck, where Dlego was wulklng up and down with Morgau, und met with a must favorable reception. The weather had become very fine i the wind hud changed, and the ship, driven by a strong breeze, made rapid way. A glance at the compass lulormed Robert that they were steering west. He noticed that the Caiman sailed uuder the Turkish flug, and that the crew talked sumo Oriental tongue���Arabic, probably��� for ho recognized the rough accent to which he hud become fainillurlzed in Malta. For the mutter of that, he did not remain loug lu uncertainty. Morgan, who appeared to have taken upou himsell tu initiate him, said graciously to him : "Isee, my dear sir, tliat my crew puzzles you, and 1 owe you sonic explanation belore finally giving you uu interest lu our undertaking. These good fellows ol ia ther ferocious aspect prolesa tho religion of Mahomet, or, lu order to be moru precise they weru burn lu u Mussulmuu couutry, und they ure not very pious. Yuu behold In them the last representatives of an epoch lu which privateering flourished lu the States ol Bni-bury. The ccapture of Algiers left uuoccupled a crowd of excellent sailors, who, as retired corsairs, love to brave the most dangerous voyages. I alwaya apply to them when I want a safe crew for a trip to my island. I used to know all this cuust from Alexandria to Tanglcrs, and I hnve ninny friends here. Thus I have only too muny to choose from, und I have always got on well with the recruits 1 have raised. With these men, you see, there Is nothing tu Icur. When 1 have brought my cargo of gold back to Europe 1 pay them, 1 send them buck to eat dates In tlielr native country, nnd 1 keep my island tu myself." Robert listened, trying to give his face a look of credulity ; but possibly Morgan was nut taken In by this pretended simplicity, lor he could not help smiling every time he referred to his golden Island. Robert did not think It expedient to ask the geographical position ol tho fantastic Island, and ho entered on his duties the same day by examining the engines. They were In pretty good condition, und ulter a lew repairs which would be easily executed tliere wua no reason why they should not work well enough. The vessel was provided witli very tnll masts, and seemed originally to have been built for sailing; her broad sides and bulging hull allowed her to take a large cargo. She appeared to be heavily laden, for she lay very low, ln the water and rolled very little. Robert wondered what sort ot merchandise she could be tnklng to a desert Island; but bis flrBt Idea did not seem to be a correct one. In fact, although the crew was more numerous than Is usual ou trnlning ships the nrmnment consisted solely ol two dilapidated swivel-guns, und was certainly uot that ot a pirate. In two days' time tlie engines were ready to work, uud by Morgan's orders Robert prepared to steam at full speed on the next day. They were approaching the Straits, and the steep rock ol Gibraltar could already be made out to starboard; but Morgan gave orders to steer southwest, and the Riptieau Mouutaius, ou the coast of Morocco, soon hove lu sight. Robert thought for a short time tliut they were making for Tangiers, but he saw that they were hugging the coast ol Africa In order to gain the Atlantic more quickly. It occurred to hini that Morgan was particularly anxious to avoid the war-vessels stationed at Gibraltar, and to pass (Illicitly through the Straits, as a traveller who carries a large sum of money with him hastens through n dangerous pass. What confirmed him In this view was the fact that, after having gune for forty-eight hours at full speed, he received orders to extinguish the fires. They were out at sea nt the time, and Morgan, whu appeared very pleased, told Robert that the coal must be husbanded, and that they would Ball as long as the wind continued lavorable. Up to that time, in spite of tlie suspicious 'appearance, of tlie vessel und crew, Robert had noticed nothing which was opposed to the Idea of a trading brig, and he bccimie almost satisfied that the Caiman was really In search of gold. Three days alter having passed tlie Straits, Morgan took a reckoning and found that the ship was more than a hundred miles from the coast of Africa. He appeared ln a very good temper at dinner. He exchanged glances and smiles ol Intelllgcucc with Dlego, aad a good deal more liquor was consumed than usual. Robert and George, who remained quite sober, found that, under the influence of rum and whiskey, the conversation took a singular turn. Tliere were allusions to some enterprise already commenced, the dangers avoided und still to bo avoided. Suddenly Morgan rose, hts eyea bloodaitot, his ���gait unsteady, and, addressing Robert, said, with an evil smile: " Come on deck with us, my dear sir. I am going to give my cargo some air at last. It must have lieen In great need ot It for the last ten days. Come, I pray you; I am sure that It will Interest you." Roliert followed him without understanding his words, and mounted tho poop, where a strange sight awaited hini. Almost the entire crew was on deck, ranged against the netting, armed as tor a fight. Soon at the main hatch appeared a sailor, holding In his hand a boarding cutlass. Two chained negroes lollowed him. Behind this dusky couple walked another sailor, then more negroes, who took up their position In a line as they reached the deck. Roliert counted one hundred and ten of them In two rows. All woro a chain, riveted to their feet nntl waists, like convlctB, The myBtery was Bolved at last, aud Robert was astonished thnt he had not guessed It before. Ho wns on board n slaver; Morgan and Dlego wore simply slave-dealers. A look ol sad surprise appeared, no doubt, on his fnce; tor Morgan burst out laughing when ho aaw It. " Confess, my dear Roliert," said he In the gayest of tones, " that you didn't expect to lind me bo well provided with 'ebony.' This la of the hest quality, and Is as good, I can nBBure you, as a gold mine," he added, emphasizing the last word. " Excuse ine for not telling you sooner that you were sailing with���what shall I Bay? I don't like tliat ugly word slave-deoters���with recruiters for tlie agriculture of the tropics, If you like. And lielieve me���I hnve bad much experience���tliere nre few trades so lucrative. Accordingly, I was very anxious to take my nephew ns a partner in my Ilttlo business, nnd I am charmed that you and dear George should have lolned us, ton. There's some risk ol being hanged, especially II you are captured by the Euglish, who are tearfully brutal; but we take caro not to lie captured." He stopped to give an order In Arabic, and Robert saw the unfortunate negroes begin to walk rouud the ship, under the eye nnd whip ot ten robust sailors. " There's loss, too," continued Morgan ; " but with watchlulnesB and care the cargo Is pretty easy to keep. You Bee how I'm airing it. It went very much against me, 1 ean assure you, to leave these poor devils packed In the hold, like sardines; but what Is one to do? The Mediterranean is us frequented as the boulevards, and Its not really sale till tho Straits are passed. Now that we are out in tlio open ocean there will lie a walk every day nnd two bulls every week. You should see these fellows skip I" Tho wretch went on talking Inr n long time In this wuy, and Dlego did his best to outdo him. Roliert hnd the strength to contain himself. Now that ho knew the secret ol these two vlllnlns, It would 1m> cnsler Ior hlin to hit upon somo plan of esca|io. He set himsell to listen, to watch, nnd. Ilttlo by little, he learnt everything thnt he did not know before. Morgan had carried on the sluvo trado for more than twenty yeara, lirst In the Antilles, whore be was born, then in Brazil, whither ho was now going. Ills brother-ln-lnw, Dlego'B father, had formerly lieen In partnership with hlin: but ho had met his end by liemg hanged at the yard ol an Amerlcnn cruiser. Alter mnny chnnges ol fortune���now ruined, now rolling in gold���Morgan, after two lucky trips, had Joined liis nephew ln France, twenty yoars before. Whon he hnd made an entl ol squandering In Pnris, with Diego's assistance, bis protlts and poor Mary's fortune, he took to his old occupation again. But times had changed. An active watch had rendered slave-dealing almoat Impossible ln the Gull ol Guinea, where It was so easily carried on liotore, and Morgan had thought of shifting his scene of action. Privateering with the corsairs of Barbary had formerly gives him employment, for all rob- lwry was familiar to him. HIb former relations ou the const of Africa hnd given him the idea of quite a new plan. Slavery, abolished in Algeria sinco the French conquest, still continued in tlie States ot Tunis and Tripoli. Numerous caravans brought from the Soudan quantities of negroes, who were to lie bought very cheap in the coast towus, and these Blavei were stronger and less subject to nostalgia than those frnm the Congo. ' Tu transport them to Cuba or Brazil was a safe speculation, as the Mcdi- ! terranean was not watched by cruisers. When fate brought Morgan and Diego within sight of the Sort-lie they were coming from Deruah, a small, almost unknown port In the State ol Tripoli, where they had collected a crew of rormer pirates, and embarked as many negroes as tliey could cram into tlielr vessel. They were going to ilrazil. whore thoy were certain, If they escaped the cruisers, of selling their human cargo at a high price; and they did not conceal their intentions of going to enjoy themselves tn Pari-* on the profits of tlio undertaking. The miraculous Island had never existed, and Morgan's frequent trips out of France had no other object thnn that ol buying and Belling his fellow men. Having been enlightened as to tbe past life of tlie two villains who held his life and tliat of his son at their mercy, Roliert calmly reviewed the ehnncea which still remained to theni. Them was' no doubt that Morgan would endeavor to rid himself of the castaways, the day when they censed to lie useful to him; but steam might save him, ln caso ot pursuit, and no one nmong hla crew waa able to manage tho engines. It was onlv on the return journey, then, that danger threatened, and Robert had time to prepare a piao. (To be Continued.) EXCELLENT. Beyond the Power oi Fen to Deseribe Is the Verdict I Would Give to Tour Wonderful Medicine, South American Nervine. I have beeu a continual sufferer from Nervous Debility, Indigestion, Dyspepsia and general physical weakness for a nunibet of years, and bod been tmtted by Humorous doctors and specialists without avail. Recently while visiting iu Toronto I wae indueed by a Iriend who had beea cured ot similar complaints by Its use, to try South American Nervine Tonic, which I did with the most astonishing results. The very lirst dose seemed to " hit the right spot," and five bottles completely cured me, and, best of all, I have stayed oured. Gratitude lor what this grand remedy has done for mo prompts me la making this statement, which I want you to publish far and wide, so that others who suffer from these complaints may know that there la a cure, absolute and certain, withla their reach and to be had almost for the asking. May South American Nervine ever prosper, and Its proprietors reap tha reward thoy so Justly deserve, is the prayer of Yours truly. D. G. OWEN. Plctos, Ont., Dec. 10, 1895. ROUND OF BEEF. Truss a round of beef weighing from five pounds upward and put It ln a saucepan, with four ounces ol beef suet; fry briskly and brown all ronnd; drain off the iat; add two onions and two carrots, cut ln quarters; a bunch of parsley and aromatic herbs, a clove of garlic and salt and pepper; add a plat of stewed tomatoes and nearly cover with broth or water. Put oa the Ud and cooi slowly for three hours; dish the beef, remove the fat and thicken tbe sauce. Poor part of It over the beef and serve the rest of It '.a a boat. Serve with a garniture a la Flamande, which consists of mounds of turnips and carrots, cut with a vegetable cutter, and boiled separately In water, alternated with peas and stringed beans, either canned or fresh. PERTINENT AND IMPERTINENT. The licst mirror is an old friend. Paiu ls forgotten when gain comes. The day hns eyes, the night has ears. Six leet ot earth make all men equal. Open not your door when the devil knocks. Prldo in prosperity turns to misery In ndvorslty. The calmest husbands mnko the stormiest wives. Send not for a hatchet to break open nn egg with. 'TIs hotter to cry over your goods than after them. That ls but nn empty purse that ls full ol other men's money. REASON TO FEEL HOPEFUL,. I am going to propose to Miss .Tinkles,' en Id Whyklns, thoughtfully. " Has she given you any encouragement?'* " I Bhould sny so. Why, she Is nfralil I nm spending too much money lur bouquets nnd matinee tickets." DUenspil blood, constipation, and kidney, Mver snd bowel troubles are loot Test. "Yes,' BEYOND QUESTION; lid the girl who collects, ' Is one of tlie best autograph* I h;iv,- geuulne ?" In lay collection. "But are you sure Its asked her friend. "Positive. I cut tt with my own hands from n telegram that his wife received from him." - Italy's trooiw ln Abyssinia are In a pinch. THE WEEKLY NEWS, MARCH 24, 1S96. IM .ij^ji illW** �����iit> Unad Every Tuesday At Union, B. C. :>/, iVhitney Editor TEAMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. IN ADVANCE. One Yonr WW III Months l-'3 aiugls Copy OW RATES OF ADVERTISING; Que laoh per yesi $l'iOU .. .. month IW ellththco! perycur 25011 founh SOCKi week, .. lino CO 10 Locul uotiees.per lino 30 Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths, $o cents each insertion. No Advertisment inserted for less than 50 cents. Tittdaj, lint 24,1898. SCIENCB OF NUTRITION As the source of all steam power is the supply of fuel to the furnace, so is fond to man the source of all his physical and mental power. It is nol strange therefore that the science of nutrition is receiving constantly increasing attention. What food to buy and how to prepare 11 for the table is being taught in ,1 depart ment by itself in many public institutions. Every year household economy is giver increased attention, ancl very much nf the health, happiness and prosperity of thc people ii dependent upon the pro|*i understanding of this subject. Proper nutrition is perhaps the most important br-inch of it, certainly if ne except correct methods ot sanitation. It is closek allied with morality and perhaps religion, aod if studied in proportion to its importance and the knowledge thereby gained, be properly used, it will result in untold blessings to mankind. CLEANING UF It is pleasant to see the general clear* lag up of yards which is taking place. It would be worth while if nothing but for appearances; but how much more docs it not mean at this time of the year ? Il means health for the household. It means that Ihe litlle ones are nol to become the victims of filth, unbroken households. It means that the reputation of the town as a healthv place in which to live is to be maintained. It means that the tide of travel is nnt to be diverted by unsavory rumors to other places, and thit prosperity which attends on health and enterprise is to be ours. UNION MINES (Inspector's Report.) No. 1 Slope���Closed. No. a Slope���Down about 700 vards, through rock and thin coal, but now a change for the better, and coal ,)', feet thick, hard and of good quality, ventilation good, average of men at work, 54, This is on the south side where 1 think wiil yet be seen the great productive mine of lhe company, the surface showing this tn be a fine country. No. 4 Slope���Most extensive mine in Union Colliery and 2,000 yards frnm the entrance to face, in addition to 700 feet outside. First 500 yards almost flat, worked on the tail rope system; after this easy grade so that cars take the rope down to lowest landing, abnut one mile from entrance. A diagonal slope leaves main slope aear entrance to east at an angle of 45 degrees, down ncw 1,000 yards, much greater pitch than main slope and at its face almost as low. Six levels of the main slope; 11, 12 and 13, west side, in all of which lhe coal is good and hard, averaging six feel; 3 levels on east side working, coal good but not lo thick as on west side. Veatilaiion good. All appliances of the mosl unproved system. No, 5 Sha��T���600 feet down. When ai depth of 590 feet coal was found 4' feet thick, very hard and of usual good quality of Union coal. Coal worked into in three dillerent directions from shaft, south, east and west for 200 feet each, the cnal keeping very good. Taking out 100 tont per day. All machinery made at Albion Iron Works, Victoria. The mine lias appearance of giviag good returns from now on, Com���They are making tome first class coke frnm fins coal lhat could not otherwise bt sold, and are now erecting ���vent by which they will be able to turn oul over 100 tons of coke per day, tnab- ing to work soft coal. December 31st 189$. IIW GOVERNMENT AOENT W. I). Anderton, of the Bay, has been commissioned Government Agent and Registrar of births, deaths and marriages. Thc books, we understand, were turned over nn Saturday by Mr, Creech, the lorwci government agent. __ LU MAgjQ, O-raeJnrem In South Alt-lea Wh* r.rtem, Feat* ur *_r_ecderaaUi Truly Wtaderrul During the Zulu war I was in South Africa traveling north through Zulu, land. Ia Dunn's reservation, two hundred milea north from Durban, in Natal, I saw a witch doctor levitate ths (aim of a yonng Zulu by waving a tnft of grass abont his head, amid surround* ings calculated to impress themselves deeply upon ths most prosaic ins-urination. It waa evening, snd tha witab doctor, who belonged to ths class described more thaa ones by Rider Bag. gard with great accuracy, was at ravel t ing in his appearance at tht high oastt fakirs bad been pleating. A number of fakirs hud gathered about onr camp Art and I had given them some illastmtiont of my own skill. They eeeintd pnizltd but were not tptcially curious. Onttf them stole away and after soma minutes returusd with thtir own conjurer, tht witch doctor ia question. After con sideruble solicitation from tht natives, ths intricacies of Which my knowledge of tho Zulu language did not enable me quite to penetrate, the conjurer, who at first seemed reluctant to girt hit consent to an exhibition of hit powers before me, took a knob kerry or club and fastened it at the end of a thong of rawhidt aboot two feet long. A youug native, tall and athletic whota eyes appeared to bo fixed upon those of tht conjurer witk an appithentire sttadfustness, took bis own knob lterry and fastened It at tht end of a similar thong of hidt. Thr two men stood about six feet apart, ie the full glare ef tht fire, and began, all the timo in tilenct. to whirl their knob kerrys about their headt. I noticed that when tht two elnbs seemed iu their swift Sight almost t< corns in contact, a spark of namo passed or appeared to pass from one to th�� other. Ths third time thit happen*' there was an explosion, tht spark ap poared to burst, ths young man's knob linrry was shattered to piecea, and ht fell to ths ground apparently lifelsss. The witch doctor turned to tho high grata 1 fsw feet behind us and gathered a hand ful of stalks about throe feat long. Stand ing in the shadow aud away from the fire, he waved, with a swift motion, tx actly similar to that of tht olubs �� few minutes before, ths bunch of grasi around the head of the young Zulu, whe lay as dead, in ths firelight. In s momont or two the gross seemed toignitt in its flight, although the witch doctor wna not standing within twenty fett of the firs, and burnod slowly, cracking audibly. Approaching more closely tht form of the nativtin the tranct the con juror waved the flaming grass gently ovsr his figure, about afoot trom ths flesh. To my intense amaseBitnt tht t-senmbsnt body slowly rost from the ground and floated upwards in tho air to a height of about three feet, remain, lug in suspension and moving up aad down, according at thn pusses of the bnrninggrasswereslowerorfasUr. At the grass burned out aad dropped to tht ground the body returned te its position on ths ground, and after a ftw passtt from tht hands of tht witch doctor, tha young Zulu leaped to hit f tet, apparently none tht worst for hts wonderful si* perlenee.-Fross "High Casts Indiaa Magic," by Prof. Kellas, te N#r��h tmsricaa KsvW for Je-wwrr VOBTHWXailBN ENTERPRISE It is iai*! that America it another name for oppor > aity, Tht crowded populace of tht old �� 0, Id is oblidgtd to toil tsrly and late to grmu oat a meagre living, and at tlie ssioe tin s is compelled to support an eip, ne'.ve r, yalty auu nobility and maintain largo eteni* ng armies, Their existence Is one weary online, aad at ths snd of life lhey find tl tnttlvtt at farther sdrancsd thau at th, beginning. In America, however, the,, it a, okanee for every energetic, letup ra'e man lu get ahead, for wt have hei a vast uatural resources���agricultural, miuur.,,1 and oetnmo oial. Our educational laoilities are the lit t, and our population it as yet comparative y tnim. ln tht rooks and aoil we hart untold wealth still wholly uutonahed, which only awaits intelligent, welt-direct, d eueigy to be brought out. The N.ir hweet. especially with itt bra- cim tUtnite and varied mounts, offers to push end pluok opportunities unsurpassed anywhere in the world. The doors open to lhe worker are evidenced by the suooess by which enterprise here hu already been atteuilod. We ire justly proud uf tht great min* t, 'he f ai mi and ranohte, tht indie, at inufatttrlts and commercial housea tf the N. rtliw**-.t. The farmer*, tad miners aro supplied with groceries, oiuthiug. tools, etc., from ths cities, aud iu turn fiud in tht cities a market for their agriooltural produce, ores, hides, skins and other prod no tinns. One hou t bat for utsrly two deosd t* furnished a marks, for ell nf the latitt otase of goods tbtt oould be shipped to thaui, aod although consignments art mado direotly to them, usually without a price, simply with tbt name and addrtta of the oonaigunr, immediate remittances at the full market valut art insdt without exception. Ju McMillan ft Oo, havt for year�� been known in overy nnok snd eranny of the Northwest u leading dealers in hides, fure, sheep pelts, wool soil similar eommod ities, and their business hts grown from nothing to be ths largest of itt kind in the oountry. We might mention houtes in every line of busiuees whose perseverance ted practical judgoitut have raited theui to tht highest stratum of tht couuneroiat world, and whose straightforward business methods havt won tbem universal confidence���but out example will suffice, The prolonged panio through whioh ws are passing it lit* ahla to make us furget our natural advantages, but we firmly believe that soon our hard timet will bt ovsr and tar toantry will again prosper u her mounts and enterprise rarrrnt. Ills said that George Dunbar, who had formerly charge of the Riverside hotel, Counenay, has bought out the Half-way house which has been licensed between Union and Courtenay. There is only the lumber for the building oa the ground now, but the place will doubtless bt ready fcr occupancy ia a ftw weeks. QUALITY COUNTS. We have nearly all our New Fall and Winter stuffs in Stock Don't you make a purchase without first taking a look through our store. We mean to do the business this fall and have marked the goods to sell. Drop in anyhow, when in Nanaimo. We will be more than pleased to show you our stock whether you are buying or not. 49 Commercial Street. SLOAN & SCOTT. Nanaimo, B. C. UNION BRICK YARD B. 0. W. WALTER A SON, Manufacturers of Handmade and Slock Bricks. Special Patterns Now On Hand Fur Chimney Heads, Cornices Kic GUARANTEED TO BE FROST PROOF EttablitheS 1B77. CAPITAL, $600,000. incorporated hint 16, IMS. Jas. McMillan & Co. MOMItTORS Of THK Minneapolis f 8heepskln Tannery. ixeon-rtst or INCORPORATED. mm Shipments Solicited nnd Prompt Returns Made. sennas ass sastavsss C. 8. Hides, Dry Hides, Pelts, Wool, Furs. TALLOW, Cl.aiNCASENCCA Writ* ror Lat.tt Prist Circular. RIFIRINeta BY PERMISSION: Jtcniltj Bisk if Ilu-Mts, llllt IlUnllll hit, ��� ��� htfli'i less, ��� ��� ��� Itaiupolii, llss, Minneapolis, llss, IiUQttftlil, lill. ���intiiti' litlml leak, ��� * hate, Indie. ���odUh htlml Ink, . . Iilru, lMtlll, Utiiitf lukifCfMtNIs, ��� ami lilli, hit. MAIN HOUSE, 200 to 212 FIRST AVENUE NORTH, minneapolis minnesota branches: helena, mont, i chica90, ill [vic ih1im,h.c |wlnnlp��o.man.jeoihmton,n.w.t. Cooke & Bozenimi Rt[ I 35 Wh_-f St. ] : 8*1 Ling St. | J neper Are. Ors Lawrence ���* Wsstwoorf. Physicians and Surgeons. ���qia-TicaiT Mc %!'**, have appointed 12*. *Iancios .ts.lt- inrns our collector until ruitnor notice, to whom all ovsrdua accounts ���"ay be paid. 7 Nox 1895. Society Cards I. 0. O. f-., No. 11 Union Lsdge, I. 0. 0. F., meets every Friday night at 8 o'clock. Visiiing brethren cordially invited te attend. A. Lindsay, R. S. Cumberland Lodge, A. F. & A. M ,B. C. R. Union, B. C. Lodge meets first Saturday in each month. Visiting brethren ure cordially invited to attend. Jamks McKim. Sec. Hiram Lodge No 14 A.F .& A.M..B.C.R Courtenay B. C. Lodge meets on cveiy Saturday on or before the full of the moon Visiiing Brothers cordially requested to attend. K. S. McConnell, Secretary. Loyal Sunbeam Lodge No. 100, C. 0. 0. F��� meet in theil lodge room over McPhee's store, Courtenay, every second Saturday at 3 p. in. Visiiing brethren cordially invited to attend. ). M. Fulton, Sec. Cumberland Encampment, No. 6, I. 0. 0. F., Union. Meets first and third Wednesdays of each month at 8 o'rlork p. m. Visiting brethren cordially invited to attend. J. COMB, Scribe. Nelson Camp No, 51 ofthe Canadian Order of the Woodmen of tht World meets every other Monday even mg at 8 p.m. in Odd Fellows Hall, over Leiser's store. Visiting neighbours cordially invited to attend. Geo. Hull, Secretary. NOTICE We the undersigned hereby authorise John llruce to collect all accounts due the estate of Robert Graham. R. Grant 1 H. Hamburger j. Trustees. CUMBERLAND SHOE SHOP. I have moved into my new shop on First St. next tothe Customs off.ee, where 1 am prepared to manufacture and repair all kinds of men's, women's, and children's shoes. Give me a call. Nelson Parks. ,.**iJi*.*.).*. .[.';i., *������. . ,.��� 1*)',111**1,1 ' .* ;; "7':;^H>* Esquimy'lt and Nanaimo Rv. Steamer Joan L. P. LOCKE, WASTER. On and after Mar. 22nd, 1893 The Stcanvr JOAN will sail as follows CALLING AT WAY PORTS ae pameagers und freight may offer Lea,e Victoria, Tuesday, 7 a. m. " N��i)��imo for Comox, Wednesday, 1 ��. ni Lear. Comox for Naualuo, Fridays, 7 a.m. " Naiiiim. for Victoria Saturdey, 7 a.it For freight or state rooms apply on board, or at the Company's ticket office, Victoria Station, Store street. Esquimalt & Nanaimo R'y Time Table No. 2S, To take effect at 8 am ta Monday, October 28,18U5. Trali,s run on Pacific ,-tanuant time. GOING NORTH I Dally. I ���_____ Lv. Vlctorln foi Nanaimo and I a. *. I p. v. Mollmgton I I.M I J10 Ar.Nunulmo I I MO I IH Ar. Wellington I 11.110 I 8.S6 GOING SOUTH r ul r> , Dally. I Sat'tiy. Lv, Wil ington for Victoria IX I 1.90 Lv. Nmiaimo for Victoria... IM IMS Ar. Victoria IUB 7,00 For rates aad Information apply at Com* pony'- offices. A. OUNSMMR. JOSEPH HUNTER. President. deal Supt U.K. PRIOR. Otn. Freight and Patttsgtr Alt. NOTICE Any person or persons destroying or withholding the kegs and barrels tf the Union Brewery Company Ltd of Nanai mn, will be prosecuted. A liberal reward will be paid for information leading to conviction. W. S. Norris, Stc'y POST OHICX "MOULATIOaT The money ordtr dtpartment closes at 7 p.m, Thursdays. Letters may bt registered up to 7.30 p.m. on Thursdays. Apply for boxes to arrive aeat raoath befort they are all taken. a. or t. Union Division No. 7, Sons of Temperance, meets in Free Mason's Hall, Union, every Monday evening at 7:30. Visiting friends cordially invited to attend. THOS. DICKINSON, R, S> Eiver&ide Courtenay, B.C. Grant Ss Mu*-������>_��� hai-. Pi ops I Best of Liquors Finest of Cigars and Good Table Courteous Attention The Famous DOMINION PANT8 CO. 9M * 9M St. James St, MONTREAL SUITS To ordt PANT IS OSTMiiti for SMt.plpg. 1'u*_���__.������- dtlivoiy. ( n loov ill t��ubittm*>*-,tt, taiinfi Eaw Mili -AND- (M aid Boor F A 0 T O RY ���o��� :o :o-������� A. HASLAM, Prop (OFFICE-MILL STREET.) IP. 0. Drawer X. T.lo|>h_nt Call, 11) NANAIMO, B. C. -__?" A complete stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber always on hand. Alse Shingles, laths, Pickets, Doors, Windows and Blinds. Moulding, Scroll Sawing, Turning, and all kinds of wood finishing furnished. Cedar. White Pine. Redwood. Barber Shop : : - AMD - ; .* Bathing Eslab.ishment Having varehatid ths abort ol Mr. 0. D. Kits., Ithallbtpltsstdto-ss all a,y old fiitcdi, ttd tt assy atw oast ss may choose lo givt mt thtir patreatgt. O. H. Fechner, r_%OF_%X_LTO*B IVERY- y I em prepared to tarnish Stylish Riga and do Teeming At reasonable tktem. D. KHpat-rlek. BnH��,B.G EAMING-S98 THE WEEKLY NEWS, MARCH, h, 1S96 fi LOCALS When your rival is out of the newspaper it's a good time for you to stay in. A stock of ladies and gents' Oxford ties just arrived at McPhee St Moore's. Those who make use of printers ink into obscurity never sink. FIVE Linen Collars for 25 cents at Lang mans. A. D. Williams, after a couple of weeks absrnce is again on deck. 2000 pairs of ladies fine shoes from Si. up Simon Leisek. If you have a room for rent advertise it in the News. Mr. T. D. McLean is back from Nanaimo. Theobald the painter, has on hand for sale a large lot cf fine fence pests, Mr. Geo. W. Clinton returned from a trie to Victoria on Wednesday. Take a peep at Blore & Son's new wall papers. Ernest Halliday and family will leave fer Kmgcume Inlet in a few days. Some new lines in Spring Prints, fast colors at Stevenson & Co's, Union. One of the latest styles of up-to-date bicvcles graces the show window of McPhee St Moore. For granite ware go to Grant St McGregor's, who have tbe largest and most complete stock in town. The band benefit ball was well patron* ised and the work of the band orchestra received unstinted praise. Orders for powder left for me at Dave Anthony's will receive prompt attention. F. Curran. Mrs. ]. S. Kendell, the milliner, returned last Wednesday from Victoria # where she bad been on a business trip. If you want the newest and besi styles in men's felt hats and nl Iml/ rc_ulfti prices by nil meant! I) iy at Liiogmim's. Mr. VV. H. Walter and family luve returned tu Comox Tlieir uc-ji bakery oven i*, bt-ic^ completed. For new flannelettes and fancy spring ,'jrcij-; goods, Stecohson & Co is thc place tn i;itl the correct ihing .11 thr. n^ht price. , The north side nf Dunsmuir avenue, Cumberland, presents avety neat appear* ance. Now lei the south side show that it cannot be surpassed. To clear Joo men's fancy laundered shirts with collars and cuffs nt 45c. wotth $1.50 Simon Leiser While Dan was away Tom did good work slicking up things; another week and the street pump would have travelled to the backside of the building. For Sale.-- 8 acres rheap at Comox Terms to stilt. Owner going 10 England. R. L. Leigh Spencer I'. O. Bon 370., Nanaimo, or at Cumberland Club..Union. An examination nf candidates for the High School, among the various schools of this district, wus held al Courienay last Thursday. LOST���An open faced Rold watch (gentleman's) mi Tuesday, March 17th, supposed 10 be Inst on Coniox Koad between the New Saw Mill and Dowell's house, Union. Finder will please call at the News office. A liberal reward will be paid. With the reaction of the British Pa. .V'-*.*'.**>'*;^ I F. Curran i I SCAVENGER 1 UNION, B. C. C. H. TARBELL, COR. 3RD AND DVNSMOIt AVK. Keeps a full line of Gurnsey Tilden Stoves, everywhere famous, AND DOES ALL KINDS OF Tin work Sheet-iron work Rooiing Job work Repairing AND Cumberland Hotel. Union, B. C. The finest hotel building Fixtures and Bar . North of Victoria, And the best kept house. Spacious Billiard Room and new Billiard and Pool Tables Best of Wines and Liquors. J. Piket, Prop. YBNDOMB RESTAURANT At this Kew Bosrdiag Hestt tad Rtttasr aat yen oaa obtain Meals st St ctatt and upwards. Board and Lodgiags at $90 par month ea ths STRICTLY ADVANCE CASH PLAN. If paid at tha tnd of tht month $25 will bt invariably thtrgtd. W. J. HARRIGAN, Prop Not One Man in One Hundred So invttts hit money that it yields, it twenty years, aaytbiag like tht profit affurded by a policy of Lift lusursuce. HISTORY) The percentage tf individuals -niOTXB [- who succeed ia business THM ' ���) is small ' No old-line mutual life insurance eompuy lut tier failed. AB II AS AN PROTECTION 1 I INVESTMENT LIFE 18- insurance \UBBIVALLED m LESS THAN ���Ten Cents a Day*C4 Will buy for a man 35 yeara of iga a $1,000 20-Payment Lift Policy, ont oi tht butt forms of iaauranct written ia tht Union Mutual Life Insurance Company Of Portland, Maine School and office stationery at E. Pimbury & Co's drug store. A Sound, Safe, Ably Managed, f mooxroa* ItelisWe Subetautial Institution \ at a, whioh asvix stands ( 1848 tirox TicHmcALinss ��������-���-**���*"��� I. K. EVANS, I'roTincial llanagtr, r.o. BOX 693 Vancouver, B. C. For further information call on ��. i. DALBY, With James Abrams. I have an unlimited supply of money for loans on the security of farming property at low rates of interest. Loans put through expeditiously. Mortgages purchased. Insurance effected. MARCUS WOLFE Nanaimo, B. C P. O. Drawer 17 Dr. JEFFS Surgeon and Physician (Graduate ofthe University of Ttrontt, L. C, P. & S., Ont.) Office and residence. Maryport Ave., next door to MP. A. Grant'a Hours tor consult* tion-0 to lo a m, 2to4and7telOpm. I. J. Theobald, House and Sip Fainter, Paper-Hanginj, Kalsomining and Decorating. GRAINING A SPECIALTY. All orders Promptly Attended te Union, I. 0. R. B. ANDERSON. Watchmaker and Jeweler General worker in Mitels Jobbing ol au kinds Office and Works ���* *g_ ���� inaicvr *���. o. M. J. Henry Nurseryman and Florist , P.O. address:���Mount Pleasant, Van- couvtr, B.C. Greenhouse and Nursery, 604 Westminster Road. Most complete Catalogue in B. C���Free to your address No agents. RI-P-A-N-S B. mm Ul e�� J a u �� u > The modern stand ard Family Medicine : Cures the common every-day *�� 0 ills of humanity. 0 z 0 dj�� ��� , n* ��� Union Mines Furniture Store A Full Line of Everything Including Curtains, Carpets and Rugs, and our Celebrated woven wire UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT we keep -eoQiid Hand Funm-me k_x_h *'.*$Bi;!-'7:^!' We conduct every branch of the Undertakii-g Business including Embalming, and keep all necessa ry supplies oO:_T-_____6_CTORS A."��� S-aT��,*3E.R-S Grant & McGregov Puntiedge Bottling Works. DAVID JONES, Proprietor, MANUFACTURER OF ��� SODA WATER, LEMONADE, GINGER ALE, Sartaparalla, Chumpr.gue Older, Zrcu Phosphates and Syrupt. Bottler of .Different JSrondu of lager Beer, Steam Beer and Forttr, Agent for thj Union Brewery Ci-mpany. SB3 BEER SOLE FOE CjRJ3~ CNLT COURTENAY, B. C. Stage and Livery C OURTEIT-A-Tr, B. O. Fine Rigs at Reasonable Retes Always on Hand, .'. Teaming Promptly Done, .'. I presume we have nsed over ��� one hundred bottles of Piso's _'Cure for Consumption in my family, and I am continually advising others to get it. Undoubtedly it is the 11 I ever used.���W. C. Miltenberger, Clarion, Fa., Deo. 29,1894 1 sell Piso's Cure for Consumption, and never have any com- "~ Slsinta.���B. Shore*, Postmaster, horey, Kansas, Dec. 21st, 1894. BLORE 4 SON Paintebs a Nm Hangers [Wall Paper and Paint Store . . ���i]Tinting and Kalsomining a specialty ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO Williams' Block, Thivd St. Union, B. C. H. A. Simpson Barrister:!- Solicitor. No's a ft 4 Commercial street. vrjAXTAZieco, 23. a. J. A. Oarthew ARCHITECT ana BUILDER, ���VHTI02-T, B. C. Nanaimo Cigar Factory Philli*, Gable and Co., Prop's Bastion Street ��� Nanaimo B. 0 Manufactures the finest cigars tnd employes none but white Ubor. Why purchase inferior foreign ague when you can obtain a Sl)l>lR��o�� akti zti. foi tlie same mosey 4 ***|.+++'1.+++4.<.++++4.+4��M,*'H"M'�� AGKICOLTUKE, Hauling out tbe manure iu winter is an Innovation which commends itself to thinking uieu. The sled is more convenient than the wagon ; neither is there danger ol cutting up the ground when hauled In tlie snow reason. Above all, the wnrk is none when no other pressing demands are upon the husbandman. . II .vou have never done so before, plant some carrots this year. Some Of them you may sell nt a good priee, Imt what yoa do not sell nor eat make an excellent am! profitable addition to the feed for tlie horses, colts nnil enws during* the winter. In moderation, they will give the desired " butter culiir" il fed in the dairy. Clean cut cultivation should i,e given ln order tn prevent the planted crop from being defrauded hy the volunteer orop whioh is ever ready to spring up beside it. Everything which grows takes some valuable fertilizing element, from the soil, and au especial loss Is incurred in any seed'production. Good farmers on good land will continue to grow some wheat, but the area of this crop Is certain to lie smaller until the demand roqulres all the product. We must turn attention to other crops, requiring more labor, for they will pay better. It has been too easy to grow wheat upon cheap land. llraiuage pays iu tliat tbe very soils wliich need it most are the most productive, as a rule, when drained, (.'lay soils, whicli are retentive of moisture, and, therefore, cold aud late, are strong soils, aud retentive of applied iiiiiuures. In proper mechanical condition, tliey yield better than naturally dry suils, usually deficient iu plaut food. Stable manure i.s usually poor in potash and phosphate, and its decay in tho soil promotes late growth (if wood and loaf, which is not desirable in fruit trees or shrubbery; but for corn, or for a top dressing for clover, the results prove it most beneficent. By making a large growth of tlie latter it enriches wonderfully the soil for the next crop. The carriage house should Ik; dry and well ventilated. There sliould be no chance for gases from the stable or manure henp getting into it, Ior ammonia in the air will destroy varnish and lade colors, both in tlio painting and upholstering; it unites with and gradually destroys tlie oil in the varnish, causing it to slirluk uud crack. The true rule is to sow no more ground than can Isi thoroughly prepared ; but where tlie soil is not too compact, and is freo from weed ���growth, ploughing may sometimes lie dispensed with and the upper crust lie put in good shape to receive oats by ciirelul harrowing. Thus It may be under way belore the pressing spring work begins. The chicken house produces a fertiliser which is of great value when properly bandied, but oue wliich can lie quickly made worthless by mistaken methods. Lime or ashes (infrequently dusted about them nnd thrown lioneatli tlie roosts under the impression that they are needed to keep the bouse pure. Tliese liberate the valuable ammonia. To get tlie liest results from chicken manure feed it in a semi-liquid form about the strawberry and other small fruit plants. Sprinkle dry clay or land plaster plentifully nbout, to absorb the injurious gases m tho lien bouse and the excessive moisture, and remove weekly. It rats infest the barn, fill a tight barrel half full of rye nr other grain and give them a treat for a fortnight, placing a board agaiust the barrel for easy access. Some night substitute water for the grain, leaving enough of the latter on top to deceive, and tlie results will astonish you. Moreover, the rats will leave that bam for months. If farmers would exercise their ingenuity as do manufacturers and business men, In au ellort to get up a greater diversity of products, und to put up tlie old products in new ways, tliey could widen tlieir market almost indefinitely. Ordinarily tlielr market is a narrow one. The bulb of a well developed onion grow-s near the surface, the true roots going down but a few Inches. If the soil is loose lor Siny considerable depth the roots will grow long, to tho detriment of the bulb, which becomes slender, instead of growing lull and round. Plough deon II vou will, but harrow well nhwl roll often. STOCK. The tendency ol the sow lo destroy her yuung is unnatural, and comes largely from Improper care and unsanitary surroundings. It Is hard to tell what a sow will do if she Is feverish or worried. Infanticide is not uncommon among human beings who nro surrounded by filth and IKior sanitary conditions, nnd wc cannot wonder at the poor brutes doing the same, Wc have learned how to take better care of the hogs, giving less corn and more of a variety of food ami constant supply of pure water, nnd there is less persistent Inbreeding to destroy the vigor and constitution of the pigs. In oilier words, hog cholera has been almost Investigated nut of existence. Corn Is undoubtedly the handiest and most palatable leed for hogs the fiirin produces, but, either In linear or in meal, it is too rich In fnt formers and too weak in bono nnd muscle makers to build up the strong frame and hardy constitution which are essential to the cheapest production. Iu stock raising consider your tastes and opportunities and then follow out tlie plan you hnvc laid down until yon become known in connection with the production of some specialty, nnd when any one wants n thing in your line lie will come directly to you to buy, feeling certain . that It wil! nlwa;vs bo of the very best. Where lands nre high nnd' the markets good wc must change our custom to meet the Issues of the times, and produce poultry, spring lambs, prime mutton, high grade export beef, and high class horses : we nlrendy raise the best hogs in the world. This very procedure is to yet redeem the New Kngland States. It. has been demonstrated that, when fed with nitrogenous toods, corn fodder lias a feeding value equal tn 110 per cent, of the same weight ot timothy liny. Ynu farmers, think ol this when you are feeding the hay whirli Is worth from $10 to 1520 a ton while the Cora fodder stands wasting in thc fields. As grain growing becomes less remunerative live stock is essential to the Independence and prosperity nf the farmer ned to ti *'"' f"r tility oi' the snll. No fnrnier can raise Wheat and buy his stock lor meat and his horses; neither can tbe southern fanner raise cottnn and send north l'��r his mutes and bacon. The Australian newspapers recommend quack grass as a valuable fodder, thriving In any soil ami coming up first lu tlie spring, nnil because cattle are very fond ot it. q'hts may do while It Is a grazing country, but when cultivated crops take tin- place of sheep raising it will Iw seen In,another light, l.et n�� fight shy of it here. 1'Ori.TRY. There arc broiler firms wlio produce 5,0(111 or more chicks nt the snme time by tlio use of Incubators, and everything is conducted upon business principles, It would be Impossible to supply tlie spring markets with early broilers were it nut for artificial in- cubu tl o u. Witli a guud supply of water and a goud -supply of feed, we should remember, alsu, tu give tlie latter in variety. If a certain rution does not produce eggs, then change it or alternate it with something else. Fowls muy huve enough to eat, but not just tbe kind they desiio or ueed. It is a troublesome Job to keep water before hens iu winter, but tliey must have it In plenty, or they will neither do well uor lay well. Protect it from filth. In cold weather let it bu placed before them as hot as they can drink it. Without painstaking there will be no success. Always keep before the fowls a supply of ground hone or oyster shell, aud to theso may be added cut fresh bone or meat. There is no single ration which will give sueh results as grouud fresh boue Irom the market. Place a sheep carcass in the hen yard, and the increase ln the egg production will be at once discernible.* Tlie farmer will obtain a large Increase iu productiou and profit hy checking the roaming tendency ol his fowls. This is really a matter worth heeding. It will pay to provide suitable shelter and yards, and they will uot only return amply for tlie care bestowed, but that care brings a pleasure of its own. Iieeauso capons find a ready market la a few of the larger cities ol tlie country It doos uot follow that they will be equally in demand everywhere. At some points the supply lar exceeds the demand. Let us restrict the production uutil the demand Increases. An excellent morning ration for tlie hens is boiled oats. If laying, a good mixture can be made of meal, bran and ground oats. Foil the evening meal alternate with wheat, corn and oats, whole; and give them the needed exercise by making them scratch for it undor the straw. Save thc chicken mauure. Place the droppings lu barrels or boxes, aud keep them from contact with the rain or snow. Some tilings seem trifles, but the little savings fill up the greater leaks. Tills manure, if used to tiie best advautagc, will show its worth. Many a farmer's wife is not only making pin monoy, but a large profit, from her hens. In the near future we sliall hear of the general use of the Incubator on thc farm, and iu tiie skilful hands ol the women, The specialists will not always have things to themselves. Tho hen in winter quarters must be artificially supplied with what she can pick up for herself when running nt inrgo. II grain Is constantly (cd, our first prompting will be an egg laid with a thin shell. There Is not shell forming material In the ration; it is not properly balanced. A scientific breeder says 100 grains of lime nre needed to make a strong egg shell, and as 1,000 pounds of wheat or corn contain less than a pound of llnie, the hen enn not get the lime she nnr.ds out ol her grain rations. It wonld require tlie lime from 200 pounds of wheat to supply n dozen eggs. If tho poultry will not eat the clover rendu v nftei It Is run through the cutter, mix It with hrnn or shorts, nnil it will mako a splendid morning rntlon. Steam It by throwing It into a pall nnd pouring boiling wnter over it. letting It stand over night, Tn clover there will be an nhundnnt supply ol lime. Do not feed merely to keep the hens llllve nnd satisfy their hunger. Hnve u purpose In feeding, nnd feed for tliat purpose, Dnless tlie hens nvo In n bright, healthy condition, expect few ergs. Neglect neither food, exercise, cleanliness nor protection. One gieat point lu Invor, ol nrtin* elallv hutched Chickens is that they rarely have a bug or Insect upon thom, Tills helps to reduce tlie loss by (loath, and nids by bringing tbem up strong nnil healthy. Th" ordinary nest Is so often foul with pars* sites that the chicks have but little rhance to get a start In the wnrld. A FARMER'S ADVICE. He Tells tlie People to Shun Imitations, Be Had Heen Imposed Upon 'i, un 1 iis.iiiji- ulons Dealer With Che Kesiilt That It Nearly Oust the Life of a Li.veUMeuther of Ilia Family. (Prom the Woodstock, N. B. Sentinel.) A reporter ol the Sentinel recently ; dropped Into the. Victoria lintel, j looking for general news, and to scan the register for arrivals. Among those present he noticed a well dressed farmer sitting rending a small pamphlet, The reporter asked the landlord If there was anything new, and being answered in the negative the farmer tamed and addressed him. "Looking lur news, eh '.' Well, sit down and I'll give you something worth publish- i ii*g." The reporter wns ut once on the alert, and the fanner continued. "You I sec this Utile book 1 hold in my hand? Well, the title of it Is 'Five Prize Stories' and tliere is more good sense in it than in half uf the philosophical works of the duy, und it don't lay in any of the stories, either. Well, aliout a year ago 1 got hold of another little book by the same authors, entitled 'Four Generations,' which I read carefully through, and oue very Important thing 1* rend in it H'M, beware ol imitations, Just ns I read In thta little book. Now, I wish to show how I had been taken In ddeceived) and how I lound it out nnd how near It came to costing me the dearest member of my household. Well, to begin at the beginning, my name is Shepherd 'Hanks; I reside 11 1-2 miles from the village of Bristol, Cnrleton Co., N. B., and nm a well-to-do farmer. For several years my wire was troubled with pains In the back and weakness of the kidneys. About two yeurs ago -she was taken very ill, the trouble taking the form of acute rheumatism. We consulted no less than three different doctors, who, however, failed to help her. She continued to grow weaker and weaker, nnd the pains she endured were something terrible. For over a year she was unable to do a dingle thing about the house, and she had fallen away in weight from 180 to 130 pouiuls, and we despaired of her recovery. I happened to notice in one of tlie newsp_jierR a testimonial of a similar cure through the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I immediately got a couple of boxes. My wile began taking them, nnd by the time she hnd used these she began to! gain appetite aud lier pains were much eased, and we begaai to have great hope* or au ultimate cure. I then went for another supply ol the pills. This Ume I Sun-chased them lu bulk, paying SO oents for 100 prills, widen were taken from a large glass bottle. I took tbem home and my wife began their use. Soon after she began to grow worse agntn ; the old pnlns returned severer than ever. We still Oonttnned the use of the pills until about n third of them wore gonte. About this time I got through the mail, along witli my neighbors, the hook entitled 'Four Generations,' Issued by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. On reading It It did not take me long to find out that the pills I had bought tn hulk were & fraud, as Dr. Williams' Pkik Pills are not sold in bulk, butt in boxes with the trade mark on the wrapper. I Went to the cupboard a Ml taking dowu the box tn which the pills were threw It and its contents Into the stove. I then went and procured a half dozen boxes ol the genuine Pink Pills, and Irom tlie time my wife began tlieir use there was an improvement in her condition. She used about twelve boxes altogether, and Ito-day there is rio heartier or healthier woman In the neighborhood, and Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the standard medicine in our home. Publish this ? Yes, It may do some other sufferer good. We are all thankful for what Pink Pills have done for us, but be sure you caution your readers against those vile Imitations." The warning uttered by Mr. Banks Is one that the public will do well to heed, for some unscrupulous dealers in different parts ot the country try to Impose upon the publio by trashy imitations colored to present the appear* ���nee of the genuine Pink Pills. The public can always protect themselves by bearing ln mind that the genuine pills are never sold by the dozen, hundred or ounce. They are alwayB put up In boxes, arouiid which will be found full directions lor their use, the whole enclosed ina label bearing the full trade mark, " Dr. Williams' Pink 1111s for Pale People." If you want a medicine that will cure all diseases dne to i>oor or watery blood, or shattered nerves, ask for the genuine link Pills, and take nothing else, no matter what some interested dealer who Is looking lor n larger profit may say. FOR LUCK. Tom���I like your new house. What n charming vista, one gets through theso parlors into the library. Kitty���Yes; but my brother says I'll never have any luck until tlie portieres are up. A SUBSTITUTE. Young Housekeeper���Have you any canvas-backed ducks ?" -Market Man���No, lady, hut I have sonic line ennvus-packed hums. Shall I send you up a pair 7" Young Housekeeper���Well, yes; I suppose they'll do. A SCKIl'TUltAIi INJUNCTION. "It wns St. Paul who ndvlsed Timothy to take a little wiue for his Stomach's sake, wasn't it?" usked the prohibition boarder. , "I think it wus," unswered Mrs. Hushcroft. "H'm I No wonder it took the steamship ol that name so long to get away from the bar." OVERDOING IT. 'Now, 1 maintain,'* said Miss Strung, "til'iitrtncj*,.* is no punc*- fliltedi by -a, nitin which a woniuu cannot UU. Is thut comprehensive einuiugh ?" "It is very comprehensive," replied Mr. North-side, "but I ami prepared to go still further iu advocacy of woman's ability." "Are you ?" "Yes, I am. On tlie sent of a street car, for instance, she cuu fill twin men's places." SAYINGS OF A PRINCESS. Here arc some of the sayings of Princess Faradla, a Swede by birth, but who is tlie wife of the Turkish Ambassador at the Hague; "It is u great blessing for n womau to have a husband who is a gourmet, for then she knows the way to his heart." "Egotists ure the only people who will never huve to bewail the dentil of tlielr best loved friends.' "God crented the hiisbnnd nnd wile ���who created tlie niotlier-in-law ?" "It '*> less luiniiliuting to bore the world thnn to amuse it too much." PUZZLING NOMENCLATURE. Farmer stopped in front ol Michigan city's electric light plant and usked a bystander: "Whnt is that air bulldln', a factory V" "No, a plant," came the answer. "What do they rnlso there?" "Currents," replied the quick-witted bystander. "What are they worth a bushel ?" "We sell tliein by the shock." Farmer pulled his beard, scratched his head, nnd drove down town to market, 'his vegetables. NOTHING STANDS AS HIGH As a remedy for every womanly ailment, ns Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It ls an invigorating, restorative tonic, a soothing and strengthening nervine, nnd a complete cure Ior nil the derangements, puinful disorders nnd chronic weaknesses peculiar to the sex. For young girls entering womanhood ; Ior women at the critical "change of lite"; for women approaching confinement; nursing mothers ; nnd every womnn who is " run down." tired, or overworked���It Is a special, sate, and certain help. Send Ior free pamphlet or remit 10 cents (stamps) for n book of 108 pages on " Woman and Her Dlsenses," and how to cure them with homo treatment. Addlress World's Dispensary Medicnl Association, Buffalo, N, Y. Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure constipation, piles, biliousness, indigestion, or dyspepsia nnd headaches. A BUSINESS YOUTH. There Is n very practical young mnn In Brooklyn ol the name ol Lombars. He heard of a position tn business which he could have It he was married. He wns not a benedict, but he mnde haste to be one. He advertised nt once that he wanted a wife. The replies came in at once and have been coming ever since. Now he hns 049, but long before that number wns reached he had found a girl who answered perfectly and had married lier, 'aifter a carelul examination of her merits. It wns wholly a business nflalr, he says, but while he was about It he thought It best to have a first-class wife. HOWS THIS! Wo offer Hue Hundred Hollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that can not lie cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. .1. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O, We. the undersigned, have known F. ���T. Cheney lor the Inst 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their Ilrm. West & Tru.'ix, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. 0-; Wulding, Kinnan & Marvin. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surface* of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold Iiy all Druggists. Testimonials tree. Till* VALENTINE KISS. SAFE, SURE, PAINLESS, .lust what yott need If you are troubled by aching corns. Putnam'B Painless Corn Ettractor acts in this way. It makes no sore spots, acts speedily, removing the worst corn in twenty- four hours. Putnam's Corn Kxtrttu- tor, the only sure corn cure. SHE MISJUDGED HIM. Mrs. Hardhead (glancing over EMBARRASSING SITUATION. First usher (wbo was a rejected suitor of the bride)���I can never keep step going up the aisle. Second usher���Go up with me; 111 fix you. (As wedding march strikes up.) Now! Left���left���left���Ielt " First usher���For heaven's sake, shut up I J know I'm left, but don't tell the whole church about It. Karl's Clover Root Tea purifies tlie blood and gives a clear and beautiful complexion. AN ACCOMPLISHED HORSE. A colored man was bragging about his horse. "Why, bless you, man," he said, "dnt ar boss kla kick yo' collar button off wldout ebber tleliin' yo' nock I"���Youth's .Companion. TTIioitsiinds of cases of consumption, Asthma, Coughs, Colds, and Croup are csi-od every d.iy by shllnh's Cure. ISSUE NO 10 1896 NOTE. In replying to nny ot tliese _o vertlseinents, please mention tills paper. scrofula An}* doctor will tell yoa that Professor Hare, ol Jefferson Medical Colleea, Philadelphia, is one of thn highest authorities in the world on the action oi drugs. In his last work, speaking of the treatment of scrofula, he says: " It is hardly necessary to mate that eod-ltMe oil is the best remedy ot all. The oil eheeJH be given in emulsion, so prepared as is to palatable." He also says that tho hypophosphites should ba combined with the oil. Scott's Emulsion of cod- liver oil, with" hypopho* phites, is precisely such ��� preparation. tni \Attt.���" tte Hort-M MM toner to 1/0 Mat It km., It tiu man* brant* ousee, snd supplies lu eooda and renala at tow door. lic��u��inia��, luniU. better article lor less meets Qua outers- It makes pumping aat mOamfisteel, aairamiMaBee. "���Completion Windmill ..TUtUa '_____?'___** *������������. Steel Sin 55 g���aei��On ��ppli_����on It wll name one S-r^mmeet snide, u.st I, mu lun.i,*, unta ^.-*_--__'J__J-"*������_�����-������������ "�� t���r��i��*u ou Street Car, Soon I..* slm|,lilie(l.*^H Probably the most Important changes now going on lu electrical railway work is the substitution ol mechanical or automatic power , My love is dancing tlie minuet. brakes for tlie crude hand brak.s thnt ! ,Vitl1 stately step and slow, depend upon the mere muscle of tho j *n" ehe links so fair with her po*���� motorman. All the progressive street aerai hair. H+++*++**++++*f*|.++++++++*.i A LADV (II*' I.ONti AOO. dered hair, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Like a lady o*. lung ngo. And as 1 gaze on my owu true love (Her roses all ablow), I wish tlnut 1 were a lord, and sbo Were n lady ol king ago. For then 1 would kneel ut ber little leet, And, humbly bended low, car lines are evincing a preference for brakes that eliminate the factor ol human power and endurance, and are rapidly substituting air-brakes, the air for which is compressed by the car itself. Tliere are also one or two forms of magnetic brakes, and a new form Is that of a hydraulic*, brake. It is worthy of note that until recently street railway men had a pre- I i could "tail my tnio'Vn ii' manner inset Judlce against power brakes on the ��� score of their causing liat wheels. Investigation shows that tbe truth Is exactly opposite, and that the quicker the brake ls applied tho less the flattening effect. The hand brnke, working with comparative slowness and with less facility, tends, it seems, to muko the wheels skid nnd flatten. Strangely enough, outside this country there Is very little public worry on tlie subject of fenders, but the demand for power brakes almoet everywhere takes the form of a governmental or municipal regulation. It ls believed that American opinion will also reach tills point la time, no matter! how good the fenders muy prove to be. Another modification of street car practice is expected iu the adoption of more musical gongs. The prevalent types not only deafen the passors-by, but use up the energy of the motor- men and Jar their nervous systems,, It has also been predicted that the big, heavy lever handles, now familiar on the 6urs, will disappear, and that the men will be seen controlling the movements of the car by a small lever, or even hf a simple unobtrusive push button.���Pittsburg DlspntciiL In 1S70 a man died ln Loa Angeles, Cal., leaving $200,000. Litigation followed, and a few days ago, all the heirs having died or removed from the district, an order was made for the payment of the competency Into the county treasury. It realized exactly 40 cents. It is comforting to learn that there has been no dishonesty ln the handling of the case, all the money being accounted for in "necessary legal expenses." It begins to look as if a settlement of thc Venezuelan boundary question were within sight, at least so far as the United States and Britain are concerned. What Venezuela may say or think doesn't enter into tlie consideration, apparently. Still, thc logical consequence of Intermeddling in South American alfairs is becomlug responsible for South American countries' behavior, and If the United States assume responsibility it may simplify matters much. Amelie litres Chanler, author ol " The Quick or the Dead," aud who was divorced In October last, has married a Russian, Princo rierre Trou- betzkol, a musician whom she mot and fell lu lovo with shortly alter her marriage to Chanler. Atnello's tirst love was dead long beforo the law loosed tho tic, and she has been quick enough In all decency ln buckling to the newer ono. Amelie ls evidently rapid- The Canadian Baptist remarks that It Is an Interesting fact that the new railway station at Jerusalem ls ln tlie Vale of Hlnnom. and on the exact spot which used to be the site of the Gehenna of the New Testament. This ls one ot the words rendered "hell" by the translators ol King James' version, the others being " sheol" and " hades." Time brings queer changes, and one of them la the brakeman's cry " next station, Gehenna; all change care I" The Church clubs of the United States held a conference In Buffalo last week and gravely decided that the standard of business morality ln the States is perceptibly lower than It was fire years ago, and ls steadily sinking. Tliis was sold to be specially noticeable ln Chicago. If some observant Briton had ventured tliat opinion what a howl It would About three yeurs ago Hugh F. Dempsey was sentenced to penitentiary for seven years for the deliberate murder of a number of workmen, at Homestead, by poison. The crime was a diabolical one, and that a capital sentence was not imposed was a *dev��n> t\rftvre\,vr. oa ion administrn*- tioii of Justice in Pennsylvania. Now a movement is ou foot to secure the multi-murderer's pardon, political Influence being brought to bear. That sort of thing accounts for the disrespect for law wliich prevails in many parts of the Republic, The orderly certainty of punishment as much as its severity toads to confidence and security in a community. Ite knows better than to alii Sjiaia even indirectly in tlio Cuban war. Ul* knows thnt such a course would raise un angry protest In tills country iu comparison witli wliich thu feeling over the Venezuelan incident would be a flash in tho pan. If England has oceuslon to send warships to Havana, It will bo to call Spain to account for some shortcoming, wliich would help, not hurt, the cause of tlie revolutionists.���Rochester Union and Advertiser. Salisbury has Just as much right to send vessels to aid Spain iu Cuba as he would have to send thom to hurt To a lady of long ago They suy the world tins iirugressi'd since then ; Alas .' It may be so", For lovers were'Slain like submit iu��*s For thc Iml cs nl lung ago. And yet. as 1 gme on m.v little love. (Hor rose* nil ablow), I think that I had been proud to die For her In the long ago. llie Hut, riiniii Bat. ;'X) her. He Is not likely to do cither _ _ but If be concluded to do so, no amount ' li,!0 maladies than merely lifting the TAKK (AUK OF THK OI1KST. Aud the Keen or the Body Will Take Care or itself. " Tnko enro of your chest," said the physical culture teacher within the hearing of a Now York Sun reporter, " and the rest of your body will take care of Itself. The chest is the chief thing to be remembered. Keep It well raised and your liead, spine, shoulders will involuntarily assume their proper positloas without any elfort on your part. The cry from parents and teacliers used to be ' Throw your shoulders back I' But this mistaken notion Is now completely exploded. The shoulders have nothing to do witb correct posture. It is all the chest, and its elevation or depression will regulate tlte rest ol the body. The chest is the seat ot all things spiritual, elevating and onobling. Bring it into prominence nnd you bring into prominence the best qualities of your nature. It has been snid tliat whatever psychological attribute ls most marked In a human being ls corres- jiondingly most marked In.his physical being. If he's a glutton bis stomach is most in evidence; if a scholar or brnln*-worker, his head is suro to be thrust well forward, but If he preserves a propor intellectual balance he walks with ills chest in advance ol the rest 01 his body. It is curious, too, how one may really Influence his own mental condition In this wny. Just try nnd seo how impossible it is to sny ' Oh. how hnnpy T mn '.' with sunken chest and six-nt breath. One involuntarily lifts his chest nnd tnkes a good, long breath when bo says anything optimistic and brave, for If he doesn't lie might Just as well but ' Have mercy on us miserable sinners.' Tlie effect ls the snme. There is no surer cure for tlie ' blues- ������"C ___ The hat Is of black shiny beaver with flat bell crown and wide brim I it is trimmed with a band of ribbon tied ln a small bow at the side, and rather at the back is a cluster of peacock's feathers. A iieaotllui nn,ii-**. of Yankee screaming would i purpose. stnrb his Tbat Manoa company wliich hud so much to do with stirring up the Venezuelan trouble has gone into the hands of a receiver. It was an aggregation of Yankee siieculators, said to comprise somo high officials, which got some " concessions" from Venezuela. The land was in the territory claimed by Britain, and It Is not likely that It cost tlie adventurers much ln cash. The Washlng- llar tolled for them and few ton Yankee papers overlooked their "Interests" in fulminating against Britain. If the Inner history of this fake concern wero written it might provo highly interesting. The fondness of some of our republican cousins for thoso nuiue adorn- _^_^^^^^^^^^_^^__ ments which nre, theoretically, tho i ln e-rcoss ot tho corresponding total distinguishing feature of " effetu mon- '" "'" ""' chest and taking n good, long breath, It scores away all the butrnbooH of pessimism. BRADSTREET's'oN TRADE. Tlio condition of general trade tlio past week throughout the Provinces ol Ontario aud Quebec appears to be unfavorable. Sales aro slow and collections somewhat discouraging. The long list of business failures Is continued, and Dominion banks are curtailing credits. Favorable features of tbo business situation tliere seem to lie small stocks In tho hands of dealers and tho absence of inflation. General trade seems to be Improving In Nova Scotia, where tlie country ronds aro in excellent condition. Bank nnd Labrador codfish are lower, owing to Importations from Newfoundland. Tho St. John's, Nlld., scaling Hoot has finally lieen uble to get through tlio Ice, and sail. P.ank clearings at Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton nnd Hnlifax aggregate $19,200,000 last week, about i5 por cent, moro thnn tbo previous week, nnd moro thnn 25 per cent. archies," lends William Drnn Howulls to (Loclaro that " we Americans need titles and need 'cm right awny.'* Probably the crop of war generals and colonels Is nearly exhausted mid something is needed to break the monotony ol " Jucfgen " and " llonoriibles." A Kansas editor appreciates tho situation and he steps Into tho breach to do his share by dubbing overy man who pays a year's subscription In advance, "Colonel"'; six months earns "Major"; three months, "Captain"; nnd so on. That's cheaper than col- lego degrees. HER HOPES DASHED. "Doctor," said a distressed wile to the lamlly physician, us he was coming downstairs from his patient's room, "cun yoi* give me no hope of my husband'! Can nothing be dono t" 'Madam,' said the delighted doctor, rubbing his hands, "allow me to congratulate you. Our patient has taken a turn for the better and now we may hope to have hini about again In a few weeks." "Oh, doctor I" exclaimed the horrified lady, throwing up her bunds, "you told me ho could not possibly get better and I havt sold all of his clothes!" a yoar ago. In tho second week of February, 1R04, tlio totnl wns $16,- 100,0(10, nnd In 1898 It wns $18,000,* 00O. Ouo of the largest weekly to* tnls of business failures over reported for tho Dominion Is thut for Inst woek, 70, ns compared with 60 the previous wnok. ,-19 111 the second week of February. 1811". -17 In 1804, 44 In 189,1 and with 43 In 1892. NO MERCY FOR WOMAN. A man may lie and still we think tliere Is hope of recovering hlin for truth; a mun may be n drunkard, and yet mny bo restored to sobriety; he mny steal and murder, nnd still there Is hope; ho may live a flagrantly licentious life, and hardly carry tbe spots of shame upon his person. But if a woman fall once Into the sin ol unchastlty, we call her abandoned. We shut her out from our homes, from honorable associations nnd employ- ment, from social privileges; wo shut her out from light and put her Into outer darkness.���Rev. Lyman Abbott, Brooklyn. In 1702 a salt tax was lovlod ln Great Britain, nnd during tho French war waa raised to ��,10 por ton, ovor sixteen times the value ol the artiole " How much Is un inch ol rain, papa?' "Not vory much, my son, if you havo an nmbrella, but it seems nbout two gallons If you aro caught out without one.'' This 1,louse Is carried out la blue and brown shot iiierreilleuz, curious shades ol turquoise-blue and chestnut* brown, whicn nevertheless harmonise to perfection. On tbe outer side ol each sleeve there is a diamond-shaped applique of dark brown velvet, edged with a narrow Insertion of cream guipure. Thc shot mei'velllcux Is cut with zouave fronts opening over a kind of pouch of brown velvet, while the arrangement at the throat is distinctly novel, with Its upright pleated Medici collar of brown velvet at tbe hack nnd Its soft folds nf shot silk in Iront. CRANDERItY PUFFS. Light cranberry puffs mu made thus: Rub through a sieve one pint of flour, livo u.-iispoonluls of baking powder und hall u teaspooalnl of salt. Add two eggs well beaten and milk enough to lunke a batter aa thick as for pancakes and stir in one pint ol cranberries. Butter custard cups and partly fill thorn with the mixture. Place tbem lu a steamer and steam one hour without lifting thn cover. They should be very light and like .puffs. Serve with tbe following sauce: Cream together one cup of powderd sugar, half a cup of butt*t*r, oue egg and one teaspoon* ful of vanilla extract, Have one cup ol milk boiling, nud when ready to aerve stir It Into the creamed mixture. HER SILK PETTICOATS. She wun going u.lu one ol thu big newspn|K..r oilices and was bent on ma king au Impression. Sho woro a sllk-lincd gown and sho minced along Just ns airily and fluf- lily as she could, so tbat the bend man of tho place might bo Impressed with the frou-frou ul her silk-lined garments. When she entered the sanctum bo was very busy and she coughed n low, timid ilttlo cough I It hud no cltect and so she pranced toward the desk. " Excuse mo, but " slio murmured. No reply. " Pardon me, I nm " " Eh, cb," growled the old gentleman, as ho grasped a huge ear trumpet, " a little louder, please, I'm as denf as an adder." And the .voting woman hasn't sine* tried to make an Impression by rustling her silk petticoats. SHE'S EVER HIS GOOD ANGEL. When good reports start out about a young man trnco tbem up nnd you will Ibid that his mother hns been pinking n lew neighborly cnllB.���Atchison Globe. A large meeting was held in Philadelphia mi Saturday, which declared itself ia favor of International arbitration. G. A. McBain & Co., Real Estate Brokers, Nanaimo, B.C. XJLTS LOCALS. looo tons of coal were mined in No. 4 slope onc day last week. Call at McPhee & Moore's and pro- cure your garden seeds early. Special prayer meeting will be held this week on Wednesday and Friday evenings in the Presbyterian church. Linen Collars all styles and prices at 3 lor 25c. Simon leisek. | At the examination for entrance to the ' high school at Courtenay l.i*l week, tl-ere : were 18 pupils���a pretty ijood showing. \ A Urge and varied stock of men's and boys' spring and summer feu halt just opened up at Landman's llarg.iin Store. Perforated pie plates ut Tarbell'* is Ihe latest novelty, it prevents soguy, wet undercrust. Partridge & Walter's are receiving this week a fine assortment of Toilet and Lanndrv Soaps direct from the factory. Any one desiring a good servicable sswing machine in capital order ran be accommodated at K. II. Anderson's It will go cheap, too. M rs. Jarley is on her way over from Eur ipe and will exhibit her wax works ind curios in Union sometime during the latter part of April. Remember to call at Simon Leiser's cash store if you want value for your money. Ynu cannot get the same bargains elsewhere. Miss Nash left Friday morning to visit the sprinr millinery opening at Nanuimo and Vancouver. She is espected back br aext steamer. Call at Partridge & Walter's (next door lo Post Office) and try a packet of their Salada Tea. The best 40c tea on the market. The British expeditionary farce sent up the Nile to settle difficulties is supposed to be reallv in aid ol Italy in her tussle with the Slinsns. The gross earnings of the C.P.R. during 189s *v��re $i8,94i 1i.l6.87. The expenditures were $11,460,085.88, and the net earnings weie $7,480,9,0. Inspector Wilsen, of the Department of Education, came up lasl week to conduct thc examination for the high school and during his stay is visiting the various schools ia the district. Miss Lephia Bryant took passage on steamer J otn Friday morning for Aberdeen, Washington, in response to 1 message announcing the serious illness of her sister who resides at that place. A meeting of the graduates of McGill University, residing in British Columbia will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) at Metrepolitan Club, Vancouver, for the purpose of organising a McGill Graduates' Society. M. J. Henry, florist and nurseryman of Mt. Pleasant, is doing a good business up this way. His latest orders have been from J no. Hawkins, Denman Island and Mrs. Rena Whitney, Union. James Abrams, local ageat of the Dominion Building and Loan Association Toronto, has received a dispatch announcing the acceptance of four loans for this place for which application had been recently made. This is an indication uf faith in the town and building activity. Frank Owens' was brought up Wednesday by Officer McCanney, charged with selling liquor lo an Indian, He was taken the same day belore His Worship, Magistrate Abrams and sentenced to seven months imprisonment. He was a passenger down Friday morning and will do some needed street work. Officer McCartney has been looking for him for some time and located him on Denman Island. IHE PURITAN SCHOOL. * BELIEF THAT SPARING THE ROD SPOILED THECHILD. If Ther Had Only Known. They are trying a man in Norfolk ���ounty, Massachusetts, on the charge of being aa habitual criminal. He has already been sentenced to several terms of four years in the State prison. If he ���hould get the twenty-fire-years sentence of the habitual criminal, his years ot imprisonment will aggregate about six* ty. It would have been easier and less expensive to have sentenced that am Im Ufe la the first place. Man; tneenlone Method*! Devleed to Tor* lure the Dleobeiltent Scholar���The Rod ami the VeruU In Frequent Demand-* Favorite studies. Great attention sras paid to ponii.-a�� , ship. Spelling wus nought if the "wrighting" were only fair and flowin-**. 1 I have uever read of any criticism nl j teachers by either parents or town officers save in the one question of writing How deeply children were versed 01 grounded in tho knowledge of thn pro per use of 'Siiume colings not ofinterio* -cation* pcorids and coimnor-s" I do not know. A boundless freedom apparently was given, as was also in orthography��� if wo judge from the hitters of the times The school houses were 1 iniple dwell* ings, often tumbling down and out of repuir. The Roxbury toucher wrote in 1081: "Of inconveniences [in the school- house] I shall mention no other but the confused and shuttered and nitstie posture tliut it is in, not fitting for to reside in. the glass broke, and thereupon very raw and cold;the lloor very much broken and torn up to kindle tires, tho hearth spoiled, tho scuts some burned and out of kilter, thnt ouehad well-high as good keep school in a bog stio as ia it.'r This schoolhonse had beon bnilt and furnished with some care in 1653. ' -The f eolf es agreed with Daniel Welde that he provide convenient benches with forms, with tables for the scholars, and a convenient!; seats fnr the schoolmaster a Desks to put the Dictionary on and shelves to lay up bookes. Tho schoolmaster "promised and engaged to nse his best endeavour both br precept and example to instruct in all &cbolasticnllmorallftndTheologicalldui cipline the children so far as they bo cap able all A. B. C Darians accepted." He was paid in corn, barley or peas, the value of 25 pounds per annum, and each child through his parents or guardians furnished half n cord of wood for the tchoolhouse fire. If this lond of wood were not promptly fumisbed tlte child suffered, for the master did not allow him "the benefit uf the fire"; that is, to go near enough to feel the warmth. The children of wise parents like Cotton Mather, wore also taught "opiik ib< aud beneficial sciences"such as tho mystery of medicine���a mystery indeed Ci colonial times. Puritan schoolmasters believed, as did Puritan parents, that sparing the rod spoiled the child, and great latitude was given in punishment; the rod and ferule were fiercely and frequently plied, ns in English schools of the snme ante. When ?-oung men were publicly whipped in col cges, children were sure to be well trained in smaller schools. Master Lovel, thnt tigerish Boston master, whipped the culprit with birch rods, and forced ni .�� other scholar to bold the sufferer on his back, Others whipped on the soles of the feet, and one teacher roared out, "Oh, the Caitiffs, it is good for them." Nut only were children whipped, but many ingenious instruments of torture wero invented. One teacher made his scholars sit ou 11 "bark seat turned upside down with his thumb on the knot of a floor." Another master of the inquisition invented a unipod���a stool with ono leg ���somotimes placed in the middle of tho sent, sometimes ou tlte edge, on which the unfortunate scholar tiresomely balanced. Others sent out tho suffering pupil to cut. 11 branch of a tree, nnd making a split in tlio largo end of the brunch, sprung it on the culprit's noso, und he stood painfully pinched, an object of ridicule with his spreading branch of loaves. Oue ornel muster invented also an instrument of torture which lie call ed a -flapper." It wns a heavy piece of leather six inches in diameter with a hole in the middle, and was fastened nt the edge to a pliable handle. The pain inflicted by thiB brutal instrument can well be imagined. At mini her school, whipping of unlucky wights was done "upon a peaked block with a tattling," and this expression of colonial severity seems to take on 1111 additional force and cruelty in our minds that we do not ut all kuow what a tattling stick wns, nor understand what was mount by a pe.uk ad block.--Alice Morse Karlo in Inde pendent AROUND TOWN Lut week brought us delightful spring weather, and the birds tilled the air witb sweet music The lirst of this week, how* ever, lute brought a decided ohaaue, and a impious supply of ram has fallen. A number of ottizens have been olesning uo their premises. That is right. Every ouo ought to do it, in faot must do it. About these sink holes, cesspools, ash heaps and like places the germs of disease ara lurking. Dirty trendies are the hatcheries of many dreaded distunes. We have had a taste of diphtheria. It is one of those diseases whioh is the product of nncleanaess But it is only one of mauy that is ready to spring upon us trom the reoesees of filth and dirt, if we are to have a healthy town and peraervs ths lives of our fsmilies, wo must havo a olean town. So let overy one get to work, and clean up, hack sad front; ���not by dumping your dirt on tbe nearest vacant lot, but by getting it ont ol town��� out of reach., whore its decaying matter will not menace the community. It does not ooet muoh. Iu faot the thorough draining of the town would be inuxpeoaivo. Take for example the str, am tbut passes down through the town luck nl the churches, mil many residenoes, Tnat stream is son. tinnslly reosiving lilth anil oontlnnslly giving it oil; am) tlm neighbors nro breathing in it.*, impurities, ii t-liat stream was drained anil oriblled, it would oarry off the impurities, and beoouis a sourse of health, The health of the toirn la lurnnly io the hands of the pimple, who should holt, ami euootirage the health olBcie*. ia overy way iu thu diuchsige of his duties. It is a pity that the line hall in whisb so many publio gatherings are held is not bet. ter seated. It ia time that these antiquated uncomfortable, miserable apolngea for seats were used for kindlingwood and something better put in their places. Come now, get a move on, or you'll be left���verbum sap. The Delesrte drill whioh wss given at the concert on Saturday evening wae a delightful feature of the programme. Tho young ladies are tn be congratulated on the pre* dentation made, on their easy, gracelul, and lady like movements. Some people want their children to go to the dance rooms to learn graceful motions. The Delsarte drill will accomplish muoh more in that di* rection than the dsnoe room aud baa none of the objectionable features. ���Rambusk. Ratranrdhiary Beents -��t a Atone. On* of the strangest things to be ten al Santa Cruz these days is a queei ���pouting rock, or rather a tunnel and rocky aperture, through which the sea water boils and bubbles furiously. The queer spouting rock developed (luring a recent great storm. Every two or three minutes alternately a volume of water sixty feet high shoots into the air. To view it wholly from the surface it appears to be a gigantic geyser. The water, which is thrown np in such a great volume, is salt brine from the Pacific ocean. For a thousand years possibly,and muy be many more, for nobody knows, the waves of the ocean have been playing such an earnest game of hide-and-go-seek witb themselves and tlio rocky shore that tbey have worn great chasms'and tunnels into the land. An examination ot the ground thereaboutB by a Snu Fran Cisco Examiner man revealed novel things. It was found that a long, narrow groove or cut led into the shore. It was widest at the Bea en 1, liko a wedge, tnd grew narrower as it reached iuto the Uud. It extended about eighty feet. Into this the waves thrashed and hm*. mered as they rolled in froui toward tin mountains across the bay which bordsr the Salinas river. As the waves crashed against the end of the tunnel thoy kept Wearing away the soft sandstone which composed it and a portion of tho roof above. At length the waves extended far beyond the weak portion of the roof, and tliere was a rebound which was very powerful. Gradually it ate away the roof. Suddenly during the storm it burst through, making an aperture about two feot square and looking much like a hopper to a grain mill. It appears to have at a point where a peculiar strain was put on a portion of tho caprock, whicli cracked and fell. When this oc- cured the water was partially freed from the queer underground prison, and as the waves played back and forth it teat the column skyward. Fnlotlun l,y Wholesale The painting and decorating of ths vast exhibition hull* at Chicago is an enormous undertaking. Frank Millet Is the artist in charge. A recent estimate of the area to be covered with paint developed the fact that it would be impossible to set enough men at work with brushes to complete the task in timo for the opening of the Fair. Mr Millet thereupon contrived a mat-hint fordoiug the work. It consists uf t piece of gus-plpo flattened at oue end to makea "spray." From this a mbbei hose connects with an air pump driven by an electric motor, nnd beyond this is a barrel of paint. The pump sucks paint from tho barrel and tho sir jet sprays the paint with force upon tho surface to be coated. Four Workmen "-iih this mechanism enn iiccomplish more in a dny than a small army of painters could ia a week.���Scientist 1 American. Duel Bpolled Dy a ltltf Hug. '. wo professional men of Milan, Italy, wl u had repaired to a frontier village to fight a duel, were prevented from doing su by an enormous St. Bernard dog which appeared on tho scene just as the wonld-lie duelists wore taking their places. Several attempts to begin opor* stions were muilo, but the dog< interior* sd each lime. Finally tbo riiliciilous- ucus of the situation dawned upon the principals, and thoy shook bauds nnd returned to Milan togc'.hur. Kew Vork World. A stiii-.it. ISxporliuunt, A neat little experiment in electricity is to soak half a sheet of stout foolscap paper in water, drying it rapidly before a nre, spreading it while warm on a Tarnished table or dry woolen cloth and theu rubbing the surface sharply with a piece of india-rubber. The paper becomes so electrified that it will stick to a smooth wall or looking-glass, or attract bits of tissue-paper liko a magnet, and on being laid upon a japanned tea-tray wliich is stood npon three thoroughly dry goblets will cause the trny to give out sparks at, a touch of the finger. *^��.&-3Q"C733KAI*E ��#��i#��:b all AT THE ' K.OI P. HALL, COMOX BAY Thursday, April the 9th 1896 For the benefit of The English Church at Comox Bay BARKER �� POTTS, BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, NOTARIES, *C. Ollice Itoom II, Mcl'heo fc Mooro tl'id'g and at NANAIMO. B. C. P. O. DKAWUt IS. LOOK FOR . * BOYD'fi TEAM Good Oil fer Light CHEAP IRESH FISH Ev*---y^r Day NOTIOB All persons interested in organising an Orange Lodge in Union are requested to meet at the Masons' Hall, Wednesday April ist, at 8 p.m. By Order, NOTICE On and after April ist, 1896, the barber shops will close on Saturday night at 12 o'clock and remain closed nntil Monday morning at 7:30 Stn C. Hoover. O. H. Fechner. Has to Loan at once- *�� ���$100,000 Repayment $13.30 per $1,000 per month No First Class Loan rejected. No ca'sh required down. Cash promptly disbursed un registration of papers No Mechanics Liens All desirous of borrowing should apply lo R. L. Leigh Spencer Island Agent Cumberland Hotel ���jSy-HEADOmcE Commercial Street r.O. KOX 370. NANAIMO Dave Anthony's Cigar and Fruit Store 2nd and Dunsmuir Av*. UNION, B. C. NUTS, CANB1KS, NOTIONS, MIXERS SUl'I'UKS. H O T E I ��. . - - Vendome The largest Hotel in the City with the best accommodation for Travellers . . . The bar is stocked with the best of . . Wines, Liquors and Cigars Barber Sf Williams, PROPETBTOES LAUNCH FOB >-< SALE >-< Steam Launch Ior sale, built of Oak. very strong, tltted with compound surface condensing engine. Tows well. Apply to Nanaimo Foundry Nanaimo* Wm. O'Dell Architect and Builder (5 Plane snd Specifications prepared. and lulidings erected on tlte Shortest Notice. Houses built and for sale on easy terms of payment. MBS KENDALL'S GSAND Millinery opening Tuesday, March Slit. Nsw store opposite Waverly House. Her- in| received her spring stock of all the la* test styles ia shapes, dowers, feathers, rib. bins Sec., she will tind no trouble in showing goods. Don't forget the day. ^����teag^^��^$^��^^��_|)g^*_*��9Np��^ Our Spring stock has commenced to arrive.���we have received so far about 40 cases and packages of Blouses, boots and shoes flannelettes, piints, hats, gala- tea, zephers, caps, gingham, cotton challies, shirting towelling, cottons, handkerchiefs, shawls, canton flannel,art mus lin, fishing rods, cambric hose and flies, men's ties, art silks flower seeds. These goods are cheaper and nicer than ever before. Call and see them while they sre fresh. ���**i^ SllVIOf. LEJSEP