VOL. IV. REVELSTOKE. WEST KOOTENAY, B.C.. MAY 20. 1893. No. 49. WANTED, A GIRL to work (or a private family.���Apply to Genelle linos., Tappen Siding. M13-8 WANTED, SALESMEN, local and travelling, to represent our well-known house. You need no capital to represent a firm that warrants nursery stock first- class and true to name. Work all the year; $100 per month to the right man.���Apply quick, stating age, to L. L. MavkCo.,Nurserymen, Florists nnd Seedsmen, St. l'aul, Minn, This bouse is responsible. NOTJCji, Tbo Licensing Board will sit at the Courthouse, Revelstoke, on THURSDAY June 15th, 1893. Revelstoke, April 20th, 1893. Nukusp & SIim-siii Railway Conipauy. NOTICE. Sealed tenders will be received np to noon on Wednesday, the 7th June next, addressed to the undersigned, care Messrs. Wnlffsohn k Bewicke, Ltd., Bankers, Vancouver, B.C., tor the construction of this Company's Railway from Nakusp to Forks of Carpenter Creek. Forms of tender can be obtained on application to the under-signed at the Company's offioe, Victoria, B.C., and at the ollice of Messrs. Wnlffsohn k Bewicke, Ltd., Vancouver, and no tender will be considered unless made on such form. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. A. J. WEAVER BRIDGMAN, Secretary. Victoria, B.C., May 8th, 1893. A. McNEIL, BARBER SHOP & BATHROOMS, Front Street, REVEL8TOKE, B.C. THE Eevelstoke Pharmacy IS NOW OPEN to the Public of Revelstoke and the surrounding district with a complete Stock of DRUGS. CHEMICALS, PATENT MEDICINES, TOILET & OTHER ARTICLES PERTAINING TO TUE TRADE. THE MADDEN HOUSE, HUGH MADDEN, Prop'r. Beautifully situated on the Lake shore at the entrance to the best and shortest road to the Sloean mines and New Denver. The best fishing and hunting in the district, with grand boating and sketching facilities for tourists and artists. The Bar is supplied with the Best brands of wines,liquors and cigars. The accommodations of the Hotel nre of the best. CENTRAL HOTEL. ABRAHAMSON BROS., Prop's. Charmingly situated on the bank of the river, oh the principal street, clone to the post-office and Government buildings, and nearest to the Steamboat Wharf. First-Clang Table, (rood Beds, Telephone, FIRE-PROOF SAFE. 'BUS MEETS ALL TRAINS AND STEAMERS. Kootenav Lake SAW MILL, Q. 0. BUCHANAN, PROP. ���:o:���- LUMBER YARDS AT NELSON BALFOUR AINSWORTH KASLO Large Stocks on hand. Preparation*! aro boing mnile for the Groat Building Boom of 18113. Columbia & Kootenay .Steam Navigation Co. NOTICE TO SHIPPERS. Hereafter all freight for Hall's Landing, Nakusp, Fire Valley and other non-agency points must be prepaid or guaranteed beforo it will be received on board of this company's steamers at Revelstoke, J. Wa Troup, Manager. Revelstoke, May llth, 1893. R, H, RAMStY, House Painter, Paper- hanger ana Grainer. REVELSTOKE, B.C. WORK DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH. EDWARD LIPSETT, Sail, Teut aud Awning Maker. HORSE & WAGON COVERS, Bags, Hammocks, ko. WATERPROOF BLANKETS & COVERS TENTS POR SALE k TO RENT. 09 WATER STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. W. A. JOWETT, MINING AND REAL ESTATE BROKER, NELSON, B.C. Lardeau and Slocau Prospects Wauted. LOCAL NEWS. Connty Court will be held at Revelstoke on Tuesday, W. B. Fool has a gang of men at work olearing Lardean townsite. Fifty additional aores of the Naknsp townBite will be cleared at once. Mr. Tapping is selling cabbage aod tomato plants of astonishing size. Tbe excursion to Naknsp on Dominion Day promises to be the event of the aeaion. No programme has yet been deoided on for tbe 21th, bnt sports of some kind will be held. There is a big crowd at Thomson's Landing, fitting ont for prospecting in tbe Lardeau mountains. Tbe Rev. Dr, Carman will preach in the Methodist cbnrcb on Wednesday evening next at 8 o'clock. Mr. J. M. Kellie, M.P.P., is in Victoria on business in connection with a wagon road into tbe Lardean. Onr genial sheriff was a visitor in town tbis week, and left on Thursday to attend County Conrt at Nelson. Joe Dnnn and El. Crocker are prospecting between tbe N.E. Arm and Trout Lake, with headquarters at the Miners' Hotel, Lardeau City. The Rev. C. Ladner will preach tomorrow in the Methodist Churoh, morning at 10.30, eveuing at 7,30. All are cordially inviied. Mr. Walter Henderson, a surveyor aud mining engineer of Quebto, leaves that place to-day for Lardean, where he will take up his residence. Str. Marion is making regular trips to tbe Northeast Arm with lumber and material for tbe rapidly increasing ton ns of Lardeau, Trout Lake and Thomson's Landing. Mr. Cassel, agent for a mining syndicate, who recently bought the Snowshoe claim, is now at Tront Lake with tbe view of buying all thepromising claims be oan get, Mr. O. H. Allen, of the Brewery, has several small apple trees loaded witli blossom. They were planted two years ago aud came from L. L. May k Co., St. Panl, Minn. Messrs. Ebrinanutraut k Madsen will shortly open business in New Denver nnder tbe firm name of the Slucnu Meat and Provisiou Co. Mr. Ebruianntraut left Revelstoke tbis morning by str. Trout Lake Cuj has started well. Two stores and two lintels are almost completed, aud other buildings are being commenced, wbile numerous tints dot the lake shore, A sawmill iB badly- needed. Tbe trail from Thomson's Land), g to Tront Lake is being put iu thorough repair. Pete Walker and Dave Fergnson left here Thursday to examine the lugs over watercourses and to replace them where needed. ON TRIAL FOR 90 DAYS. The Ant^ completi-at and lateat line of Electrical s|idI lancet In the world. Tber Un- nevei failed to care. We are so positive oftl that we will baok our belief and lendjua uy Electrical Appliance now In the market and you ear. i.-y II forTlirec. Montha. Largest ii.ai et 'Mtltoonfala 01 -aarth. F.'iid for book and jiurtal Ino. XV, T. Beer Ic Co., Wlndnor, Ont. Tom Roid, who has been trapping dowu river, camo np in his boat, tbe " Hattie R." under sail. His lag cum prised two cariboo, 14 martens, two beavers, one otter ard one lynx Tin latter has beon stuffed ami niouutoii iiy Mr, Goo. Sbiel, Judge Spin!:, wbo spent a few days ii town this we��k, left for Ninon on Thiirsdav on Connty Court hu si ness The Hon. Theodore Davie, Premier of British Colnmbia, will address a pub lie meeting in Revelstoke with regard to the Parliament Buildings Aul ami redistribution. The date wil] be either next week or week after. The Kootenai left for down river ports yesterday with eleven oarloaus of rail* way supplies for Peter Larseu, wbo has the nontraet for the Nelson k Fort Shep- pard road. On ber preceding trip the steamer carried the largest cargo ever taken down river- 14 carloads, Three nr four liundre I fruit and rose trees, consigned to different parti��s in town, arrived yesterday from the nurseries of L L. May k Co., St. Paul. They had been so long on the road that they were covered with long yellow sprouts and the peach tiees in blossom. H. Seroy, who has spent tbe winter at bis group of mining olaims in Lardeau, came up last week and brought some ore whioh assayed pretty high, hut whether be has made a new strike he would not divulge. He was as close as a clam wbile here, and left for the mines without imparting any ''nfnrrnatiou. Rev. C. Ladner, who has been stationed at Revelstoke about a year aud a half, has been appointed to Chilliwaok by tbe Stationing Committee of tbe Methodist Conference at Westminster. No name is mentioned for minister to Revelstoke and Donald. The members of tbe congregation express deep regret at losing Mr. Ladn.r. The body of poor Sieve Whyte passed throngh Revelstoke on Wednesday for interment at Winnipeg, where his relatives reside. It was found by Indians at the month of Harrison River last Saturday. An inquest was held on Monday at New Westminster Junction. Nothing has heen seen of the body of Pnshat the brakesman. Those who shipped ores from tbis distriot to the World's Fair at Chicago can obtain, free of charge, a copy of the assays of their respective contributions (on naming them) and any other particulars tbey may require, by applying to W. Pellew Harvey, Golden, Each certificate is signed by the commissioner to the Fair and by tbe assuver. Mr. W. E. Mann, of Wallace, Idaho, who is endeavoring to make a deal with the owners of the Silver Cup, paid Revelstoke a visit tbis week. He went in to see the mine, wbieh is situated near Trout Lake, and expresses himself highly pleased with the prospect. The hitoh in the deal, we understand, is tbat Mr. Mann wants an extension of time. Salmon Arm Athletic Club wound np tbe season last Saturday night with a supper. To make the occasion an exhilarating one a barrel of beer was purchased in Revelstoke. Unfortunately the barrel was left unprotected on the Revelstoke platform for several hours, giving tbe station jokists ample time to carry out their little game. When the barrel was tapped at the supper tbat night all tbe conipauy wept, ivith the exception of those wbo were Good Templars, The beer was water I The first number of the Kaslo Claim comes to hand this week. It is a five- column eight-page weekly, and contains a great ileal of rending matter. A long article on the Kootewy country���geographical and historical���is well written, its euitorials are pithy and its news items dished up iu t spicy manner. Whether it will pay is a question for the future to decide, but unless more advertisers come to its assistance it seems doubtful. Anyhow, it is a vast improvement on tbe little hybrid which Las held sole sway and screamed so loudly for the past six months in :liat unique town ou Kootenay Lake. The practical jokers nt tbe titatiou will come to grief some day. As long as they confined their pranks tu chopping up each .libers' hats ami shaving barbers previously dosed with alcohol nobody seemed to notice tbeir lollies. But it appears that these it alio youth* are hankering after notoriety, and seek to ohttiin it by damaging and destroying property iu the lower town. On Sunday night Mr. McNeil's sign was eanind lo the extreme end of Front Street aim waa broken. If the perpsttntors oi these senseless acts knew the opinion held by the townspeople as to Iheir actions tbey wonld foel pretty small Such couiiuot is more befitting a hoodlum than a J.P. Three or four bugi slices from the river bank opposite the Methodist church have gone into th.< Columbia during tbe past few days. Tbis wis uot due to the rise of tbe river itself, is it is still 8 or 10 feet below last jeir's high water mark, but on account of water percolating throngh the light, sandy soil and forcing its way to tho river, undermining the roadway and berrying away the sandy foundations of tl" hank, winch at that point is between 80 and 40 lent high. This erosion ii lika.lv to occur every spring with the molting of the snow on the mountain', and might be obviated by confining tlio stream which at prerunl spreads itself Over the land between the church and tin C, P. R. traok. Mr. Tapping 1ms offered to do the wnrk for 825, but we think it. wonld take ��100 m oo it thoroughly. It will probably cause an epidemic of fever during the hot weathrr. nnd we think Dr, McLean, th* bealtli officer, will lie Degleoting liis duty if lie does not look llilo ibe uinttc.i' at oiici. . NAKUSP ITEMS. f MOM OUI1 OWN COIHIESl'ONOF.NT. ] NaJ-psr, May 17th. Among tbe first to start the building boom is Hugh Madden, who is erecting an addition to his already oommodious hotel in the shape of a wing 32ft. by 18ft. This will be used exclusively for bar and liquor purposes. Mr. Maddon is so confident in tin1 progress of Naknsp that be contemplates adding a third storey to the main building. Everyone is looking to see the third story go np, and we all know it will if business does, Among the prominent visitors are Messrs, Schroder and A. Hattrem, of Seattle. These gentlemen have a mild bin decisive eye for business opportunities which mayorop np in the Kooteuay country, It is uot yet known what they will turn their attention to, but it ia known that they represent considerable oapital. There is nn better field fur investment just now than Nakusp, especially on Slooan Ave. Capt'. Eastbrook, of str. W. Hunter, passed through for Sloean Lake this week. He went to Nolson by the Sloean River trail, abont 34 miles, and prefers returning over the short trail via Naknsp -20 miles. In spite of the stories published in tbe Nelson papers as to tbe exorbitant freight rates between Nakusp and New Denver freight continues to be largely landed here, and is taken in to New at $00 per ton for small or large parcels. Never in the history of Nakusp has the charge been 4 cents per lb, The price is the same now as last year���2% cents per lb���and it will be quite safe to predict tbat it will go lower instead of higher. If the jealousy of your Nelson contemporaries will not permit them to publish tho truth concerning Naknsp they ought, in all fairness, to abstain from publishing untruths. One of tbe Mabon Bros., of Vancouver, passed through here on the 13th going to Four .Mile City to look after the firm's mining interests there, which are quite extensive, Real estate has bad a remarkable upward movement. Over three hundred lots were sold in one week, and the de- maud is still brisk. It is predicted that prices wil) i.ave as rapid an advance as those of Kaslo. The trail is fast being made first-olass. Mr. Cameron, the Government road surveyor, has a large gang of men at work repairing the worst places. Mr. Fitzstubbs, tbe Government Agent, baa ordered tbe trail to be kept in good condition until the completion of tbe Nakusn k Slocau Railway. Mr. J. A. Anderson, a former resident of Nakusn, has been appointed purser on tbe str. Kootenai. Nakuspites wish him success. SLOGAN NUGGETS. [from OUR OWN cobrespondent.J New Denver, May 17th. The O'Grudy party have made an immense strike on one of the claims of the Alpha group showing a 4 foot face of solid galena, with well defined walls, entitling it to rank as one of tbe best claims in tbe Four Mile distriot. Tbe boys almost bad their claims bonded last winter, but some flaw prevented tbe real from being completed They are now delighted that the flaw occurred. Mr. Mi 'dough, who represents Duluth capital, and officiated at the sale of Four Mile City, is again in Nelsou. He is endeuvoring to make arrangements for the purohase or charter of tbe str, W. Hunter for the summer. What he will do with Fonr Mile Citv is not yet known, but the supposition is that lie will erect concentrating works, as a great deal of the ores in ml joining mines aro concentrating. New Denver people are full of hopes and expect :be town to undergo a magical change with tbe completion of tbe Nalni p * Sloca" Railway. Aud surely it ought, tor tbe Sloean country must have its supply base, and no oilier point offers tho ml vantages of New Denver. So far the town has steadily kept the rule obtaining in mining camps, paying good prices all round. But every camp sooner or later has its tinhorns, ami thoy appear to have struck Denver in a different guise to what tinhorns usually wear. In the past wages have always been At a day, but it is stated that men have heen recently paid off with *>i a day. Onr townspeople should look into this muttor at one , for low-priced labor makes low prices all ronml, Of course every contiactor has a right to pay what he pleases, lint be should never make himself detrimental tn a new town. We have no use for such men, ami it is to bo hoped the whole town will show a decided hostility to this out in wages. J. Currie has slaked and recorded for pre emption 100 acres of land adjoining the liigelnw addition. Frank Doiirne, of Bonrne Bros,, paid us a living visit to look after the linn's business interests,and probably to break bis own reoord for pedeslrainism. LAllDEAU NOTES. [Knoll OUR OWN (luRUEseONDKNT. | Lahiikau, May lGib. David F. Douglai, resident agent of tbe Lardeau Townsite Co,, is located at llie 001'uer of Victoria Avenue and Ash Struct. He will do a general real estate business, conveyancing ��nd money to loan. Mr. W. Mann, representing a mining syndicate, made Lardeau u call last week. He says if one half of what tho prospectors report concerning the wealth of Fish Creek ami Trout Lake mining belts is true this Kootenav country will have one of the greatest booms ever known. The position of Lardeau as the gateway of this rich mining district gave him great satisfaction. Dan Lamey, the merchant prince of the Gateway City, will bave bis business block completed by the 20tn. His stock will be in by that time, ami the lady shopper or the hungry prospector can now have their wants supplied, Those magnificent cedars on Lako Avenue would make any sawmill proprietor happy, One of them measures, 34 fei t around the base, We have plenty of snch timber, and the first sawn ill ou thn spot will be better than a gold mine, Sunday passed without Divine service, but rather than this should continue Billy Pool says be will ��tart a Salvation Army corps, eveu if bo baa to lead tho procession with Ins violin. If any neighboring towns think they bave a wrestler we want to hear from them. Jack Richardson, lnmtloid oi the* Miners' Hotel, has wou great renown ia tbe ring. We also thiuk we are way np in a tug of war and invite a challenge. ROGERS' PASS JOTTINGS. [FROM OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT J Rogers' Pass, May 18th. Everything is dull at the Pass, and tbe inhabitants are leaving one by one. " Friend after friend departs. Who baa not lost a frienu ?" Mr. and Mrs. Smith, of the depot boarding house, leave for California next week on a two mouths* vacation. While they will be missed, we all wish tbem a pleasant time in the Golden State. Mr. Cadden and family bave left for Revelstoke, where they will make their future borne so as to give the ohildren a chance to go to school. Tbe Hamilton Bridge Co.'s men have- arrived at Stoney Creek to build an iron bridge over tbat deep ravine, at present spanned by a wooden structure. Tbe spieling of bagpipes aronsed tho eoboes of tbe Piss to-dai, and the weird music nmnsed the boys for awhile. Tho itinerant musicians gathered in somo shekels and passed on eastward, Tbe rotary, which has seen considerable servioe this winter, has quit smoking, and Billy Milligan, who has had bis eye on it during the whole season, leaves for Donald. Connacher and bis engine are at Donald. Tbe engine is in for repairs, while Jimmy is taking a much needed rest, John Simons is doing the pushing act at present, and trains bave to "get a- move on" when his engine is at the rear eud. John Hopgood and orew have left for Donald, Dau Alton is bossing a bridge gang at Stoney and Dan Fraser has charge of Surprise Creek bridge. Fred Kidd is abont to be promoted to section foreman. He is not related to the celebrated captain of tbat name. James McNeil is sole proprietor of tho Queen's hotel. It will henceforh be known as the " Dewdrop Inn." A new sign is being pnt up. Jimmy will make an ideal host. Mr, J, Hardington has returned from the Glacier quite improved iu health. First Shipment of Sloean Ore via Revelstoke. The lirsi shipment of ore from the Sloean country this season was brought to Revelstoke by the str. Kootenai on Thursday morning, and was put on the- cars for L'acoma. It was brought out to Nakusp by Hugh Maun from the Vancouver mine, oue of the Mabon group of claims on Four Mile Creek. There was about 200 tons in sacks, and it is expected to average 8200 per ton. Tho C.P.R. aud the U. it K. Nav. Co., with tbeir usual far-seeing eye to business, bave quoted a special rate for oie from Naknsp toTauoma of $1 per ton, tlm* kuockingtbe bott"tn out of tbe Knslo- Bonner's Ferry ronte, This is only the begiuuiug of what is destined to be���oo the completion of the Revelstoke it Arrow Lake and Naknsp k Sloean Railways���an immense mineral traffic via. Naknap and Revelstoke to tbe Tacoma, Sun Francisco, and, let us hope, Iievelstoke smelters. Three American families arrived np on the str. Kootenai ibis week. J hey v/ere fr^ni Washington and came in by way of Nortbport, Tbey brongbt nine horses aud a large st'>ck of implements. Yesterday the Lytton brongbt up lour families from the Slates of initio anil Washington. Then horses, implements ami household furniture, nearly two car loads, bad to oo left foi tlie uext boat. The party put up at the Columbia House aud left to-day for their destination��� Edmonton Five bnndreu lauiilies frota the western States are BXpeoted to past* throngh lor the Northwest tbis season, COLUMBIA & KOOTENAI" STEAM NAVIGATION CO. NOTICE. THE ANNUAL MEETING of tbo Shareholders ot the Columbia .v. Kooteuay Steam Navigation Co will bo held! at, lhe Oompanv'f office, Rovelstoke, ou Thbhsdat, Jnne 1st, ��t il a.m. V. i.i. CHHI8TIE, Seoretary. Revelstoke, May 15th, W&. ll I l\JI I IIAI IMAUIU Wl lUIHlAl l-iarv wa , wa , w VI A Thrilling Story of Chinese Tbeacuebt lhe ] roper way an.l as a business, to his Herman CHAPTER XXVIII. |Costisted). jpealt with in Several days had passed, and Nforris, al- transactiou ii ^^^^^^^^ lliou.'h weakened mentally and physically ' iriend. by the silent cause of the unknown horror I And liera strangely it came that Norris, which oast its shadow deeply upon bim, had in signing falsely, placed the barrier be- still given no yielding sign; and the tween himself and those who came to seek 1 by instructions, him i tor Bonsel, many months after,*""1 priests, iu part instigat ^^^^^^^^^ from beyond the temple walls and in part allowed hy Slian-miii-yuen to attain his end by devices of their own, determined upon fresh bodily torture for the miserable man who would not yield. It was now for a cause different from that ��f months ago that N'orris was tortured-���a cause that is in the main differing and yet oonneoted with the other in a way that is difficult to explain. When at the first he had been mado a captive by the priests, they, fearing lest their deed might prove ill advised, had sent two of their number to Shan-min-yuen with a humble <��� nifostion and a prayer for advice as to what they should now do with the foreigner,whoso resistance to their attempted extortion and whose subsequent violence had landed him a prisoner within their walls. It they released him,they feared ; if they killed him, they also feared ; for the priestly mind in Its cruelty was deeply saturated with fear; and therefore they came to the mandarin, their adopted father, for advice, bringing humbly a tale of lies which might excuse their act; for to them it seemed that the mandarin's anger would be great, when lie learned what had occurred, Shan-min-yuen received the deputation and, immediately upon learning the particulars the priests had to narrate, lie perceived that the whole might easily be turned to his gain ; for the priests knew no Knglish, whilst he could speak an'1 write thai tongue,���badly, it is true, but still sufficiently clearly to convey to an Englishman, or to a foreigner who spoke English, whatsoever he desired, As yet lie il i.i not know that Norris waa an Englishman, though he conjectured that this was probable ; but ho was not long, as has been seen, in framing t.he plan which the pne.-ts hail in i !o do so as they forgotten the incident of the worthless cheok sent by .Shan-min-yuen, or if he did remember, itwas chielly to wonder whether the mandarin had ever obtained his money through another source. Bonsel was not a quick-witted man, so that his mind found no connection whatever between the returned check hearing another name and the name of William N'orris: and this is natural, we must admit, seeing that to the i lennan his Chinese friend was upright and tine, so much so indeed that the (lennan pressed Vanseombe and Chin-chin- wa to visit his friend and to obtain his aid. Had Norris signed truly, he would have lost a thousand pounds; but at least those who came to seek him would at once have got the clew, since Bonsel would have recalled the name, in all probability, when Vanseombe first brought the affair before him, I pon receiving the check, Shan-min-yuen explained to the priests that it was not yet time for the prisoner lo go : but ho did not press Norris for more money, waiting rather j till Bonsel should hand him over the pro- j coeds of the first extortion. In the meantime the priests treated their prisoner but hardly ; and then at length came the day ol the temple's desecration, and Norris's attempt to escape; and a terrible fate became his. Such had been the past. Now tlie case was altered : the order had been returned, placing Shan-min-yuen in a position difficult toexplain away with his German friend; and he was alike Infuriated with the feelings of anger anil disappointment, and tilled with the strong determination that Norris should yield. Hc had come to the temple to look upon N'orris, who was then as one mad : and his anger upon beholding him thus in a comli- pcoved to him that in "this iiiea of the j tion which he knew rendered the execution prisoner's nationality he was clearly ill the of his designs impossible, in taking from right, I him all chance of gain, rebounded upon the He hastened to reassure the priests, or I priests ; for to Shan-min-yuen the temple's ratiter to dn so in part only ; fur his crafty | desecration was as nothing, and Ids avarice mind perceived that by acting alike upon [ was all in all. their fear and greed, and upon their ij-nor- j It is true the priests had come to him to ance of the Knglish tongue, he might j tell him of the murder, and that he had eventually gain much from what was to be i permitted what it was then in their frenzy regarded, as far as he was concerned, as a J almost an impossible thing to stay���the ac- lucky chauei ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That lhe priest I should let Norris escape was no pari of his plan ; tor he laid out menially other designs for the man now nu hin his power, They had done a wrong and an ill-advised thins, a i lie told them : but what was done complishmenl of fitting torture as revenge ; but now, months later, when lie looked upon the result, and knew that the condition to which Norris had been reduced ended the system of extortion he had hoped lo pursue, his anger fell upon tha priesthood in words of threat terrible to their was done, and it was well that they had | cowardly souls. i ome to him. The nation to which the j But threats are little when they remain prisone. bslonged was one to be feared, he i as such, and Shan-min-yuen's anger con- said,in that the Chinese powers were friend- , lined itself to the threats with which he had ly with its powers, and would assuredly iu : left the temple upon that day. some way punish the priesthood for the act, j Time weal by. Shan-min-yuen and tiie Therefore caution was necessary, whilst, at'] temple still stood apart from one annthei llie same lime, there was no need tor great fear. To priests, o' some of iheir number, had sought .0 extort money Irom Norris, as has been seen. A small sum would then have and the priests permitted William Norris to live, lest they should the more anger the gieat man. At length the recovery,���an unlooked-for tiling���slowly came ; but the priests did sufficed, or, indeed, an equal division of his | not at mice go^ to Shan-min-yueu with the tiaos might have mitigated the priestly greed ; but, as it was, he had been taken prisoner owing to his own rough action in attempting to escine; and prisoner lie must now remain until lie .should agree to tlie eruditions imposed by Shan-min-yuen. It seems strange that members of a priesthood endowed richly by Shan-min-yuen's father'should have been tilled with avarice for lhe small sums which the Englishman could disburse : but it must be remembered that those priests who had acted as Norris's guide, weio probably of :he West grade, and that the temple's wealth, although shared by them iu a m-tasuie as regards sustenance, clothing, ami all the necessaries nf life, did not come into their possession, as actual com : and lhat even had it lone se, it is not to be looked for in a Chinaman lhat wealth would satiate his greed, for the miserly instinct, when inherent in the nature, is a thing that grows and i.s never satisfied, feed it how we may. Shan-min-yueu's answer was nn re than could have been desired by the pries'- i true there was a touch of uncertainty and (ear still left upon their minds, but that was but a, small thing and would soon sway, The priests had van ��� '��� money should nave it, so he said: for ne - �� te i .. wh ��� ��� I ild ��a Noiri', demanding i ler lin sum,���but twentieth of the actual amount named in i epistle news, but in their own evil hearts conceived fiash tortures for the Englishman who had desecrated their holy place and brought misfortune upon them in the anger of the mandarin, Then, having so far satisfied their lust for another's agony, they went to Shan-min- yui ii : and ns came and saw the man who had still survived the cruelty, and whose mind was once more cleared. From thc time of ��� hat interview, even as had been the firat, the priests and Shan-min-yuen worked in ccneen aid yet apart. It wis a strange position���the position which had existed in the past and existed still. The priests obeyed Shan-min-yuen ; they were to torture, but not to kill, until Norris wrote npon the paper constantly by hia side; sofa" they obeyed him to the letter. But they went further than this, deceiving the man whom thev called father, for tbey cared liltle what the torture might efiei i SO '.hat it aatistieil their thirst for cruelty and revenge, snd Shan-min-yuen did not know of all l eghastliness which ���iest ������ min Is n ��ived. To them itwas nothing if Norris went ive that en le ! his misery ; what fault, now, wa* thai ol l eira shan-min- ynen h id <���*��� I, Tori ire and lo io in- ere was, as there always had been i first la] ht�� imprii nn i i sural }i mixtnri I evil influences iro i N'orris, some tending ons way, some the I he rem under of tho sum asked would be !o,l!*" one goal i imp ni I his le -o'ly a his: i >i iow ould th-' priests km ��� tbey had i tceived .:. ��� lep ���' i ho inderstan h- ial: how 'ne; argued, mid I ������ E ig il m in obi lin the .. ��� ������.. ��� id nono on hia person I' was npossi ite foi him t �� nuke gold wil i mi ��� - :. i ele lied tie temple, - iao min-} len hrietlj explains I ��ii p..su ile i wt il ai to pay; in this was de reed to be done fn ��� Shan-min yuen led the pries's to believe ' KAP1: v that I mand " ��� u ire ��� I beo id, an orture - hat at an early dad man mui o .' en thai Norria waa icw in iu ditlon that the sirs ipplied rt isl i oi ie toogreat in is he onld bears ibat he should, hindI tlie pria rtosil ertain an ml if pa m overplus wonld hefore iie -hnuld leave the temple: hu "' ,'"'1 ?�� ""' '" powerlessness di'te il this last point waa nothing to him, foi lie " '''' '' '' had determined to keep N'orris i priai r the priests rememl Ill i for nt lor a long time, perhaps for life, mil iy o:'esh in their recollection that, after a lei promises of Ireadom to extort various aums, riWe torture, their victim had been i aa he might Hud it good. Bl1 l" :l condition in whioh fresh pain oould The Temple of Confucius had taken Irom ''"'" ' " ��nd although n was aoth him in the old time all thc money which ing to them that he should reaoh that point should have heen hia hesaw the posaibilit* *"'"'��� " WM yet-more In accordance with of regaining this now ��� ho should be able to their crafty cruelty and hideous revenge extract in time from the temple all, ay, and that jt should be gained slowly ������( .,������ more than all, perhaps, of the sum "which "I"'1'*' ; "' "' U"' "" ' ""ally in new sl Id lilt father had left upon his death. '���'* ����P( ln V"!W- >'���** not approaohed too 8n he gave the priests what he intendel | "O'rly, until they had satiated themaelve t, he the drat nf a series of notes, and thoy and avenged their brother's death by slot* uorc it to N'orris, as hai bee,, seen, and in a'"' ���IUJt*-D* '*���""""������ tbeend he signed the false check. But Ine mandarin had given hia com maiu I; Shan-min-yuen, thinking over matter,, he knew thai it would be obeyeii, and he wonderod at the readiness ol the paymi ni helleved that Norria must yield , and, toi Was this man, lm r.iiesibuieil, true i ami the rest, he left to tbe priests In ths main was the check worth tho amount there the means to bu nmplnyed to attain hia oh noVa-,1 ? '"' '��� though, indeed, il was..- who invent He uoi'id not tell, hut, In the mean lime "'' ' liabolbul thing which was to be tin letermiiied u, ex n t only the note now aems Jif all that Xorris suflnred, and which brought him. nnd 11 wjl Bonsel's advice "'"'j1" '" lesoribsd as the most err,,;. that all wi- well. Ho sent the owlet tobel '' llllu cac'iiii'iii, uciui' by him was put in for Iheir powei the I ^^^^^^^^^^ might chooae. Tiring of the subtle mental agony so easi- j iy inflicted thiough the medium of the llavor imparted to every article of food and j to every drop of water which reached the , prisoner's lips, they cast about for some i new device which would give more visible agony than that now to be observed. It I became a necessity for the prolongation of a bodily pain that, in Norris's weakened state, it should not be too severe, and yet, by its repetition, of greater strength than might be found in the utmost severity. They chose a simple expedient���the bastinado; for this yielded itself to their uses in greater or less acutencss of pain, as they might desire. The bastinado ! you may see it used in j Canton, if you visit the Chinese court. In i I'ekin itis morcditfici.lt tosec, and but few of those who read these Litiea will ever stand within the I'ekin walls; but in Canton anyone may look upon the criminal punishment in tlie open court. Why should not the court be open? It is I better that the curious multitude of lowestl grades should flock to gaze upon a fellow- creature's agony, whilst the air is tilled with his brute-like shrieks. It is better that they should see and know, ao that I they may themselves avoid a crime. So at least think the Chinese. Picturo tlie scene within the court whilst I the criminal lies, face downward, on the! ground ; whilst men hold his feet and hands; | whilst the judge sit- cold and cruel, and tlle curious crowd press near. Picture the bare limbs quivering with the man's agony in expectation of the stroke, and mark, whilst fascinated by i horror beyond description's power, the bastinado lifted and! falling again, anil yet again, until the whole soul sickens at the awfuluess ofa punishment which is surely the equivalent of a ��� crime. It is upon the back of the thigh that the blow must fall���that part where the limb I thickens just above the knee ; and to him i who much bear its pain it is well to give ' some grass, that he may clutch anything in his teeth and hands save the mere emptiness j of the air, so that t lie teeth may not cross or bite the tongue and that the nails may not dig into thetlcsh. Such was the nature of the torture to be indicted upon Norris. In its full severity the strain would pvo/e too great, that is to say, that a few strokes even would undo the man ; but a stroke or two daily might well be borne, and the knowledge that as each day came, so the bastinado would fall upon the bruised and swollen limb, would surely suffice to give a j torture of tlie most exquisite kind. The bastinado is a ling and supple strip of bamboo or other wood, flattened to a j breadth of, say, two or three inches, and in I length possibly three yards. It is raised: above the shoulder, high in the air, and then rapidly descending, falls with full impetus upon the human flesh. Who can describe the devil's thoughts which blacken the victim's soul when that ������ awful weapon descends upon his flank'.' A single infliction of many strokes would indeed have been a terrible punishment, but! it would scarcely have formed a torture ; it' is in the repetition, or the expectation of! the repetition, that the greatest agony may j be found. So Norris was doomed to receive i a stroke or two daily from the bastinado, I and doomed to the hours which intervened between the strokes upon the one day and I those upon the following day, so long as his mind and body bore the strain. He mas awakened early one morning from ! [ a troubled sleep by the entry of a number I | of priests into the temple building where he 1 was confined. He foresaw, instantly, that j something terrible was in store for him ; : for cruelty was marked upon every one of1 ; the cold priestly faces that surrounded him j . as he lay. He immediately concluded that his time had come, aud that the molten I lead, feared for so long a time, was now at length to fall again, and, with strange | shivering, his strength entirely left him. O.io of the priests released Norris's foot i , from the chain whicli had held him to the ; floor ; and then, as he did not move���for he seemed too prostrated by fear lo have pow- | er to do so���several others took him by tlie arms and legs and lifted him on high and thus boie him from the building out into tiie iight of the morningsun, which was fill- , ing the courtyard with its golden glory. In the temple halls themselves no torture | must take place, save that of au indefinable 1 nature whioh should act only upon the mind; tor tho Englishman's shrieks must not use in their untidiness within the confines of that most sacred -pace. So he was borne into tlle open air; and there before lie had realized that there were uo preparations for tortures of the molten lead, and before he had observed the pres-1 ���ii .. >f an evil-visagld man who held up-1 ri^lil i long and narrow piece of wood i a :h, resting on the ground, reached with iue othcr end above Ilia head, he was placed face downwards upon a number of boards! whi"h had oeeii fixed together sons to torn: j tsubsl tut for a wooden tlour. To lieai lho blow ol the bastinado upon! itone oi thecourtyard minht truly i hii ��� nrovo.l on severe a strain ; for the1 teeth, in moments suoh as these, bite wild- ly, and will bury themselves anywhere, in i il madne is Hint desi ends; ami somo begii n to the ii tlm, lb.it hc may i n itterly destroy himseli. \ [uantity ol grata was placed hsneath ioe I .i he w ia now held firmly In such * pi,iaies iiavu 00,iuu sireeicaiti Electric roads have displaced .'10,0110 horses. Hawaii has $30,f00,000 of Amerioan money. The State flower of Washington is the rhododendron. Sixty-live million admission tickets will he ordered foi the World's Fair, One of the largest islands on the Australian coast disappeared recently. The streets of Home are shortly to be lighted throughout by electric tamps. Over a million pounds of twine arc used every year by the United States Post Office The largest diamond ever known was the Great Mogul, which weighed, in rough, I'.l'.'i Karats. The banana seeds only in one small spot on earth, the Andaman Islands. Everywhere else it must be raised from suckers. Both the Kurds and Cossacks believe lhat Ararat is guarded by an unearthly bcing.and that no man can ascend the peak and live. It is estimated tlint during thc last five years the turpentine gatherers of Georgia have destroyed 5200,000,000 worth of pine lumber. A scientific journal states that platinum can now Is- drawn into wire strands SO fine that twenty-seven twisted together can be inserted into the hollow of a hair. It is estimated that it would take an annual cnrg.'ation of 50,000 Jews from Russia merely to keep down the natural increase nf population, if calculated at only 1 percent, a year. Thc manufacture of aluminium by an electrolytic process is to be gone into quite extensively at Forges, France. Thc fails of the I'raz river, giving 2,000 horse-power, are to be utilized and a plant erected soon. A useful application of the electric motor is that of giving easily controlled power to the invalid tricycle chair. A storage battery under lhc seat supplies, it is claimed, force sufficient for fifty miles, withoui recharging, at a speed of eight miles an hour. Reports from the pencil-growing sections state that the trees are beginning to bloom. The indications, it is said, are for a large, crop of this delicious fruit. Hut we must not. anticipate tho plans of the honest farmer, who maybe hasn't yet got his second wind. The bootmaker to Don Carlos, the son of Philip IL, once took him a pair of noots which were too small to bo comfortable, and by order of the angry prince they were cut in pieces, boiled and forced down tho wretched fellow's throat, so that he was well nigh killed. An ingot of gold weighing 2,| ounces, and worth about Sob, is made ny the gold beaters into sheets so thin that it would take ���tS,0U0 to measure an inch in height. Hy the labor of beating the gold acquires a value of $100, making over 20,000 sheets of gold foil or gold leaf, as i I is usually called. In Denmark it is thelaw that all drunken persons shall be taken to their homes in carriages provided at the expense of the publican who sold them the last glass. The last of steamships whicli have used oil to calm unusually heavy seas is growing larger every month. TJm oil is toweil in stout bags, which exude it slowly and evon- ly as the vessel moves. A curious animal captured on the African coast in 1S5-I was called the "talking lish," though it was really a species of seal. Among other innumerable tricks it was taught to articulate the words," mamma,' "papa' and "John." Work is in progress on 27!' buildings, to be used as hotels, in tlie immediate neighborhood of the World's fairgrounds. These structures are of wood, brick or stone, and will contain a total of 113,045 rooms. They will cost nearly *51,000,('Cl>. With this abundance of aicoinmndatlous.il, is believed that hotel rates will not be excessive. An Extraordinary Experience- It may safely be asserted that not cue of his episcopal brethren has ever performed such a feat as formed au episode in tbe early life of tlie newly appointed Hisliop of Norwich. After serving a couple of years as curate under Dr, Hook at Leeds, says the Pall Mall Gazette, Mr. Sheepshanks went out to Uritish Columbia in 1851), when that co'ony was a far wdec: and more isolated country than now. He did eight years of rough work, and then determined to come home for a holiday, at, all events, electing to travel via Japan and China, in those days a by no means familial' route. For months he disappeared from mortal ken, and hia family began to entertain some serious misgivings as in his fate. One evening a young Cambridge man, afterwards headmaster of a well-known grammar school, but tutor for the nonce ton Russian Prince, was smoking a cigarette in his rooms in St Petersburg, when his servant announced that a mnujik wanted to sec him very ur gently. Thc unknown vislsitor was shown up and appeared in the wellworn garb from whicli Brian O'Lyun derived his simple but practical sartorial notions. To his Host's Utter bewilderment this uncouth lieinj, addressed him in refined English, and presently explained that he was a brother Can ��� tab desirous of securing his good offices. The man, in short, was the Kev, John Sheep shanks, who, having landed some six months before near the mouth of the Ainnor Kiver, had made his way alone and on foot through Tartary, Turkestan, and Siberia to lhe banks of thc Neva. .aft ��� On the Royal Sovereign there are 800 electric lights, cjnneclcd by ,'10 miles of wire. Sarasate lias had 112 watches given him at various times, several in the shape ot violins. Ths pressure of the atmosphere on the man of average stature is about 15 tons, yet it is not felt. li is the custom in Madrid to closs one of tho two outer doors of a house when a person dies, and keep it closed for nine days. 11 waB the vogue at one time in Venice to guild the rolls of bread and the oysters on the supper table. The ca.ulles were also coated with gold. The largest and heaviest, building stone ever quarried in England was taken from the Planklngtoii bed, near Norwich, it, !cbi narv, ISSI), It was lu one piece, with out crack or flaw, and weighed over .'!." '.0113, William l. i.itiiiii iiruun' Himself In Lake Hlrlilgau. Driven to despair by the gibes snd sneers of hi.s fellow workmen, William A. Gilbert drowns himself iu the waters of Lake Michigan. Seldom has any death, peaceful ur tragic, surrounded itself with such a pathos as that, revealed by llu: coroner 3 jury yesterday. Gilbert was employed as timekeeper at the Pullman, III., car shops. He waa possessed of intellectual gifts and an education that fitted him for a much higher position, bul he had one fault���he waa addicted to drink. All bis prospects in life were marred by this fault. Through the good offices, of friends he was not long ago persuaded to go to t.he Washingtoniau home. He bad just left the institution and had gone back to his old position at Pullman. " Boys," he sail, as he entered theshop, " I'm a new man, and you'll never see William Gilbert wallowing in the gutters again.'' "Oh, what a bluff Gilbert's giving ua now," said one of his former companions, " Vou can't work us for a drink with that kind of stuff,'' said another, " liut I mean it," replied Gilbert, " and I'm going to do better than I have been ���loing. I intend to le* drink alone forever, and I want you to help me." A loud laugh at what they all considered a good joke followed this second protest from Gilbert that he intended to ..nit his bad habits. He again protested that he had been cured, but to no avail. During the hour he remained tit theshop he became thc subject of rv.de jests until tie could endure it uo longer, and picking up his clothes he started for the door with the remark ; " Vou won't see me alive again." They never did. DEI I -Ill's HE WANT-. T"; OIK. He went at once toward the lake where he met John Harlem, a cook, to whom he spoke tearfully of llis treatment by his companions in the works. "1 might as well be dead, .John,'' he said. " Nobody :s willing to help me when 1 try to do better and to make a mau of myself. I am only laughed at. I can't stand it any longer. My life has been a failure, and it may as well be ended now as anytime.'' Harlem paid but little attei: tion to the apparently heartbroken who soon left him, and that was th seen of Gilbert alive. The uext heard of him was when his body was found floating in the lake. It told the story of a man broken with a great sorrow, wrecked by the very means employed to forget it, and at last stiiiiu to death by the taunts and ieera of his iiufeelitighhop mates. STROCICLES WITH Ills FAULT. For a dozen years Gilbert had been known about Pullman. To those who knew only of his abilities and his liberal education it wis ever a wonder that he labored in the humble sphere he did. But those who knew of his oue great fault knew why he did cot rise, Gilbert liinuelf struggled with heroic courage against his natural enemy, but it was always of no avail. The man was always conquered. The demon always won. Few knew the real sorrow that early brought its blight to the life of William A. Gilbert. Far away in Mississippi, so the story runs, Gilbert loved a dark-eyed maiden and liis love was returned. He was then a prosperous business man. A day had been aet for tlie wedding. But ere thc nuptial hour arrived death snatched the brhie away and Gilbert's day dreams vanished. From that time he was a changed man. Hc neglected his business and began to drown his sorrows in the bowl, as many have done before him. He soon became a finiiii ��� cial wreck, and seeking to forget his past he left the Mississippi and went to Chicago. There he continued the life he had begun. Though a man of superb mental equipment, no dependence could be placed in him and his services were only required in tlie more humble departments of the works. "The l.lil 1 loll Behind He, la urirl-li Origin, But 11- liiilinr I- 1 nl.iHiiin. The fame of the song "The ����irl I Left Behind Me" la world wide. No British man-of-war leaves harbour, no Biitish regi- ment leaves its station for foreign service, without the plaintive air beini; heard by the men who are leaving, and the girls���their mothers, sisters, wives, aud sweethearts��� who are being left behind. This song, like many another that has stirred the Uritish heart at home and abroad, that has given j dotted lines tu Exciting Canoe Trip in an Alaskan (nnyon. Seventy-five miles to lhe eastward of i'akutat, on the south coast of Alaska, writes E. J. (.lave, the explorer, a deep, swift stream, known to the natives as the Alseck empties into the Pacific Ocean. The country through which tills river Hows was entirely unknown to white men. On the map its mouth alone was charted and the possible direction of its course merely suggested by valour in the light and brought thesott rec- j ollections of tho Mother Land amid the horrors of the battlefield, is anonymous. Its author lives on his words, more lasting than a monument of brass. Some time since an enquiry was addressed to the Flaneur department of The Mail asking for the name of the author of this song, and believing that the highest authority on this continent was tlie firm of Harper Brothers, New i'ork, we asked them for Information ummer of 1S90 my companion, Jack Dalton, and I were commissioned to explore this laud. We ascended, in Cannes, in Cllilcat Kiver on tin southeast corner ot Alaska, crossed on suowshoes lhe monster ice field beyond, and at length reached the valley of the far interior. We then struck west and commenced cur search for the unknown river. Good fortune favored ns, foi by the month of June we had discovered the birthplace of A reply was received by telegraph regret- j the Alseck when it trickled out from Lake ting that they could not supply the required ' Klook shoo in a tiny rivulet; and we had facts but that our letter had been forw iriled j traced its course 200 miles when we arrived to the editor of the Franklin Square col- at a big Indian fishing camp, where some lection of songs, Mr. J. P. McCaskey. That; two hundred of the Goonennar tribe were gentleman promptly forwarded thc follow-1 busily engaged in catching and drying Baling information, whioh will be of great in- ; mon for their winter supplies. terest not only to the enquirer in the Flan-1 Thus far our southern journey had been our but to the general reader: ���" The Girl'. overland through a country almost tropical I Left Behind Mc' is no doubt of Irish origin, bul no one can tell who wrote either! the words or the music. It has been found j in a manuscript dated about ITT". 'The air wasalso taken down,'says limiting * from ��� A. O'N'eil, harper, A.D. 1st n, author and ! date unknown. The air was written for a 1 much, and tlie English version of the words, called ' Brighton Camp,' differs eon-1 slderably from these.' Chappell, while he1 put in an English claim to the air, admits] that it may ue Irish. Hc thinks it was probably written in 1758, when there were encampments ahmg the coast���at Brighton among the rest-where many tunes of this. it( immmerabl. sort originated. \\ herever 1: was hrst I played, it is now almost a century since it' became the soldier's and sailor's loathe-to- leave, and it lias so long been played on every man-of-war as she weighed anchor, and for every regiment as it quitted a town where it had been stationed, that an omission would be thought a slight upon the man, | ladies.'' last 11, its luxurious verdure ; everywhere rich timber forests clothed the mountain slopes, on the foot-hills nourished a prolific growth of wild truits, and beneath the cranberry, wild currant, and gooseberry was spread a delicate carpet of mosses and dwart herbs, and the valleys beneath nourished to perfection crops of various grasses. TAKING A HAZARDOUS ROUTE. The most hazardous part of our journey was now before us ; travel by land was no A Treacheiois Spot. up torrent of the canon on the waters of Dry Ocean. aid floated in safety ay on the Pacific E. J. lii.Avit. sorbs half longer possible, we must continue our way by canoe on the waters of the Alseck. This stream, uow enlarged to a rapid torrent by affluents, hissed and rambled as it swept past our camp with a nine-knot current. The Indians dreaded its treacherous Hood, and all claimed to have had relatives who lied perished while attempting to cross its angry waves. We were warned of the perils of our adventure by the natives, who begged us to return north and not foolishly risk our lives. However, we ourselves felt confident of reaching the coast in safety in spits of their discouraging reports, though it was n- 'cssary A thrilling story of a rescue from a terri- j that wc should have assistance, blc death is related by a Wyoming corre- ( It was several days before wc could per- spoudent. He says that lie anil a coinpan- , suade two Indians to supply a canoe and iou who assisted him in herding cattle in j accompany us down the Alseck, but at last Wyoming wero sent out by thesuperintond. an offer of $120 prompted them to run eut to look for thirty cattle which had j risks which they themselves had so graphi- strayed or been stolen. Tbey had started cally portrayed. at daybreak, and had ridden about forty J The bargain having been made, we select- miles when they came to an " alkali spot " 1 ed a small cottonwool! canoe twenty feet in on the prairie, several acres in extent, length and three feet beam, and put it in They had often seen such places before, but j thorough repair; and then after spending none so large. They marked the place ; a few days at the fishing camp we decided where alkali had exuded from the soil, j to continue our journey. The whole settle- giving it the appearance of having been 1 ment turned out to wish U3 good-by, and sprinkled with lime. As they started to j gave us as much dried salmon as we could cross it, the correspondent heard aery Iron i cany. his companion, who was a hundred yards'. Our little craft being loaded in good to his right and a little ahead of htm. j trim, we embarked and pushed out into Looking in the direction of the cry. he saw \ the stream, and were whirled, a'ong in the the man trying to get Ids horse on firm, raging torrent. Shank, an Indian charm ground. Riding toward him, he felt the��� doctor, ably steered the dugout as she ground quiver beneath his horse's feet, and 1 plunged over the disordered waters, foresaw that with a few more steps he | The Alseck is the wildest stream I have would be in as much need of rescue as Ids : ever seen, shattered by rocky points mens- companion. Halting instantly he called to | ter bowlders, and stranded timber blocking the man to get his feet free of tlie stirrups: its way, its whole course is a succcasiou of and clasp his hands behind his head. Then j encircling eddies and choppy rapids. Its lie threw his lariat, and watched with sick : lower reaches flow through a land weird ening suspense to see if his aim had been j and desolated, its bed is chiseled out true. To his great joy he saw the lariat; amidst ice fields and rockyjwastcs. Glaciers, coil around his chest, and then turning crumbling before them whole mountains around, he literally dragged him fiom the j which barred their way, have moved from horse's back to solid ground and safety. As | their inland circles and now line the river they skirted the alkali spot they realized , in icy walls 200 Ieet in height and several how narrow the escape had been, for the i miles in length. In many places these ice horse had been engulfed before they were ��� fields have pushed themselves right out into out of sight of him, and, a little farther on, 1 the stream, and huge blocks are constantly the tips of several pairs of horns protruding , breaking off and toppling over, creating a from the aoil, explained what had become j wild confusion of waters. SMALL ANIMAL PARADOXES. glUDUl l��i**->. Active trail. 1.9111 a- Hliali-s ami la/} tiers. III New Zealand a species of pariot ia found that, finding its food entirely on the ground, has lo3t its power of flight, says Sport* Afield. It differs from tlie rest of its family only in this particular, anil in being almost voiceless. Among recent breeds of pigeons is the parlor tumbler, which has not only lost its power ol flight, but has very nearly lost that of walking as well. Its queer motions when it attempts to walk have given it its name, the tumbler. " As thick as the hair on a dog's back," expresses nothing in Mexico, for the Mexican dog is entirely devoid of hair on his back or anywhere else. The hot climate having rendered it superflous, Mother Nature kindly divested him of it. Nor docs " the little busy bee improve each shining hour" iiean anything in that country. On the contrary, it, soon learns that, as there is no Wintei there, there is no necessity for laying in a store of honey, and degenerates into a thoroughbred loafer. " As big as a whale " might be rather small, as there is a species of the cetacean genua hardly Ihroa feet. long. " As cunning as a fox " would have sounded idiotic to the discoverers of iv.aint- chatka. They found foxes in large numbers, but so stupid -because they had never before seen an onetny���that they could be killed with clubs. " As awkward as a crab " does not apply nn some nf the South sea islands, for a crab is found there that not only runs as fast as an average man, but climbs trees with the ease of a schoolboy. *a- The Murderer's Paradise- In 1891 the number of persona meeting ���violent deaths in the United States at the hands of their fellow-creatures was .'ill (,��� An increase of Kill! over that of 1S1I0; in IS92 the number was 0791���a further increase of 8N5. Taking lho census for 1890, wh ch gives the population of the Ureal Re- public as 02,fl'.'2,2501 those figures mean that in every 0280 persons one was killed hy his or her [ello'v-ercaturu ; and even allowing tha' in thu IS months claiming betwi eu the taking ol lhc census In ISIHI ami the begin- niiig of \H')2 ihe population grew lo 83,5000 (lull, they still menu ibat in every !'.'',">, pei smis one suffered a diiiilai fate, In 1891 ine-11'lMim 111 every 10,000 died in tho same way. At times the stream is divided into several channels, then again it moves along in one deep, dark, bewildering torrent. Everywhere we saw tracks of big bears, many of them very old, as their footprints showed that they had no claws. BACIXC THROUGH THE KAl'IDS, Our steersman Shauk proved an expert of the lost cattle. It is evident that the man would have died a horrible death if his rescuer had not had the presence of mind and the skill necessary to save him. Organs Lost by Disusa. It is a suggestive fact not always sufficiently considered thai''as soon as any organ or facultv falls into disuse it degener-, ,,,,., ates and is finally lost altogether." Through I paddler, his knowledge of river navigation all the ages that'man has had the power oi I 'va,s invaluable, and he possessed excellent speech this power lias not been fixed in us j lament. In approaching rapids he could in any degree whatever by heredity. It is tel'at a glance the best course to take and regarded as definitely proved that if a child ! under hl8 V>wetla\ guidance our frail dug- of civilized parents were brought un in a i out escape from every whirlpool which desert place and allowed no communication I struggled to ingult us. whatever with man, it would never make I For font ma we raced along threading any attempt of speech. L'p to the last cen-1 our way m between sand banks, among Utry it was not uncommon to find persons Iroc?! a",(1 ���a!'en trees, dashing through living in a wild state in the woods and for-! tapida, tattling with eddies, and skirting ests of England, France,Germany and Rns- THE MERCANTILE WOULD. Tie- world is producing over 1,000,000 pounds of silk a yeai. It is estimated that the standing pine in Ashland County, Wiacousin, will measure 10,000,000,000 feet, The coinage of the world now all two-thirds of the gold and more than of the total stocks of silver annually. Another substitute for nutta percha has been discovered in South America, being in the form of a fluid of solidifying properties. It is insoluble in water, and haidens and softens with cold anil heat. It will retain any moulded shape, can be cut into very thin sheets, and will take the minutest impression upon its surface. It is derived from a plant growing wild in the Coticau district. The construction of the world's longest railroad i.s progressing rapidly along the river valleys and across tlie steppes of Siberia. The western extremity of the road is the mining town of Miash, on the eastern side of the Ural range, and its eastern terminus is at Vladivostok, on the Sea nf Japan, making a total length of 1,785 miles, which is nearly twice the length of the Canadian Pacific. Thc standard coins of the continent arc ; ���Iu France, the franc ; in Spain,the pesla in Italy, the lira ; in Holland and Austria, lhe florin; in Germany, the mark ; in Russia, the ruble, lielgium and Switzerland, use the French name for the piece of 20 sous. Each of these pieces is, like our own dollar, divided into 100 parts, called hopecr in Russia, planning in Germany, kreutzer in Austria, cent, in Holland and in Italy, France and Spain by the word meaning hundredth, According to the New i'ork Sun. complete statistics show that the production of beet sugar in tlie United States has mure than doubled during the past year, although there has been no increase in the number of factories. The total production of the six factories was 27 083,822 pounds, against a total of 12,004,838 pounds last year. Experiments in growing sugar beets have been tried in a number of the western States, aud thc success has been sr. greit that the number of factories will bc increased. The most expensive fur is the skin of the black fox of Kamschatka, These animals are scarce and very hard to kill, and a single skin sells for about ��1,000. The attitude of the cheese market, is disappointing to those who have large stocks. It is hard to get within lc. a pound of regular prices some time ago, and prospects of advance are not apparent. Sheep rearing is said to be declining greatly in New South Wales. The number of sheep in the colony on January 1 this year was 58,610,01(1, a decrease of 3,211 .SHO compared with ths year previous. From figures recently published in the Engineering and Mining Journal, it "is evident that in no country do English mining investments appear to such advantage as in the Wiiwatersrand, South Africa. The twenty ��� four principal companies, having an issue capital of ��",243,672, paid dividends in 1892 amounting to ��791,048 or at the rate of 10.9 per cent, upon issued capital. According to the market quotations of the stocks of these companies on January 1, 1893, the propsrties were wortbJ ��12,980,000, which would reduce thedivi*] dend rate to 0.09 per cent., a very good showing, considering the fact that eight of the twenty-four named comnanies, representing au issued capital of ��2,047,000 and an actual quoted value ��3,470,(100 paid no dividends at all. Consequently the dividends paid by the others were at the rate of 17.2 per cent on the issued capital and 8.3 per cent on their quoted value. Many years ago an artist was travelling alone in Switzerland. He had gone a long way without seeing a single chalet or hut of any kind. Finding that a storm was threatening, he dragged himself along, hoping against hope that he would tind some shelter before night. At last he saw a liny glimmer through the trees, that looked almost like a star, so small was it. Upon approaching nearer, he discovered that the light came from a rude 1 ut���the only one iu lhat mountain pass. Great drops of rain were coming down in torrents, and In the time he reached this forbidding looking shelter lhe traveller was drenched to the skin. It was with great trepidation that he knocked on the window, whence gleamed the light. There was no answer, and he ventured to peep in. He saw a large room roughly finished and scantily furnished with a table and a few three-legged stools, two of which were occupied by men of �� most forbidding type, who sat before a log fire. The artist hesitated, wondering whether he should go on in the storm and take his chance of finding an inn, or ask sheltei ami food here of these awful-looking men. A i'reat flash of lightning and a roar of thunder, followed by sheets of rain, decided him at once. He knocked boldly at the door, which was instantly opened by the fiercer looking of the men. The artist, almost blown into tiie room by the force of the storm, looked at his host, and said timidly : " Will you, sir, an'ord me food aud shelter for to-night .' I am sure 1 have lost my way in your mountains," " Well, 1 am willing enough,'' replied the man, " what say you, Fran.!.'" turning to the immovable pi. a of humanity before the fire. *' it's all rish', I suppose; call the old woman. She'll give him supper." " Thanks, many thanks," exclaimed the artist, joyfully. "I will pay you tight well for your hospitality," drawing out his wallet and putting a gold piece, of which, alas, he possessed but few, upon the table. " We don't want your gold. Vou're welcome, ao don't say any more about it ; just get before the fire here, and dry yourself." .An oh! woman appeared presently with a pitcher ot goat's milk and a loaf 0: bread, which she set upon the tab1?. The artist, half-starved, for he had not eaten since early morning, feasted upon this sitttple repast. The others talked together and in a tongue he could not understand, and in low voices that made him nervous au 1 apprehensive. He began to wonder what manner of people these were, who were apparently hospitable, and yet decidedly mysterious. At last the old woman opened a door that he had not noticed before, and slowly ascended a creaky staircase. In a few moments she returned, and the man who had acted as boat throughout arose, and,taking up a candle said to Ids guest, " Come with me and I'll show you where you may sleep." The artist followed reluctantly, but noticing how noisy the stairs were, concluded that no one could ascend them to do him harm without him being forwarned. The room above was roughly furnished with a cot, a table, and a stool similar to those below. How cheerless it all looked, and how nervous and anxious it made him feel. After the man had left him he examined the door to find a lock ; there was nothing but a latch, and there was no way of securing himself. He took of his shoe- and his coat and decided to undress no further. Then he lay down and pulledthe bed-clothes almost up to his chin. Beneath the blanket^ he firmly held in his right hand his pistol, which he never failed to carry in travelling. He determined that if he were in a den of murderers he would tight for liis life. Ha reflected upon his own stupidity in exhibiting his wallet with the few gold-pieces; then he began to think of escape, but gave that up as impossible, knowing that those three dreadful people below, who seemed never to get through talking, could hear any movement he made, Suddenly he thought he heard a step on the stairs. He listened. Ves there it was again ! He telt the perspiration gather upon his forehead ; still they came slowly on. "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness' I remember Paul du Chaillu, on his re- I turn from his long tour through Sweden, j Norway, and Northern Finland, surpris- j ing me with an account of the primitive I - r ��� .-> - bathing customs of the Swedes and Nor-! w**s opened cautiously, and in peered the wegians. Each village had its bath-house, j 9haIW leal> ot his host, llreathlessly he * * th was somethina in the direction 1 watched, with his fingers tightly fastened who were utterly incapable of speech, though they could make sounds in imitation of the ct ies of wild animals. Certain parasitic insects have so completely degenerated that they possess neither eyes, legs, heads, mouths, jtomashl nor intestines. Animals that burrow and live under ground lose the power of sight or have eyes that are merely thc walls of ice, ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Our canoe was constantly half-filled with water, necessitating a continual bailing out. Several times our dug-out was struck by large stones, which were being carried along at the bottom of I he atream by the rapid current, while the water was filled with fine gravel which heat against our rudimentary. Slave ants and working ants j craft with a sound like hail-stones rattling have lost then wings through being' kept on a window pane. entirely to a lite on the ground. The mast- Thegrating of the rolling rocks, the roar era in some colonies of ants in which slave? | of the angry to-rent, the thundering of an are kept have become sn hopelessly depend j avalanche, and the sullen creaking of the ent on their slaves that they not only will internal workings of the in-field combined not seek food, out are incapable of feeding ! in a c instant ominous growl, themselves.anii will starve with food before I We were now approaching the moat dan lem unless a slave is present to place it in 1 heir jaw.- ! gerest point of our journey, for just ahead of us was the dreaded oanon, The stream was now gradually closing together, the towering walls lining each side of the stream wcre approaching nearer and nearer; smaller and smaller became the gorge in which the Alseck was shut. On our left an immense wall of ice rose out of the water, on our right a heap of broken granite strewed the steep slope of the mountain. The fallini* blocks of ice throw out waves in all directions and churned the waters into a hissing, seething mass. On the opposite shoro bowlders, dislodged and carried along by the racing flood, added to the general chaos. Our little craft rushed bravely on and we dashed into the narrow gorge amidst a bewildering uproar from the tumbling rocks, ^_^���^^_ the roar of the surging atream, and tho among the Pondoa just now, and expreBses 1 Bp*Mhing of the ice Weeks, little surprise that the natives near-the | Shank's orders, screamed at the top of hia voice, could lie but faintly heard in tlie Death Sentences fo: Witc'i-Hmtiar, Natal advices describe the termination of a celebrated case in which seven natives were charged with "smelling out" and killing an alleged witch. It appeared from the evidence that the victim waa accused of causing the death of a chief, the idea being prevalent that no chief can die from natural causes. Three of the prisoners were convicted, and one of these, on being asked if he had anything to say, declared that they had consulted a witchdoctor in the matter and only did what they were told. All three were sentenced to death. The Natal Mercury, referring to this case, say9 that spelling out and witch-mur ler are rife I'niidolaiiii bonier are lieing infected. The writer says that it is just an necessary to pm down witchcraft as witch hunting, for natives often seek to "bewitch" the victims of their hate ami jealousy and to kill them bj poiaon nr other subtle agency. deafening tumult. ^^^^__^_^_ Our chances ot escape seemed hopeless ; ice-Hoes, rocking and rolling, threatened to crush us as we wero tossed about amongst the hissing waves whicli tuse with foaming and the bath was something in the direction of the Russian. The house has uo windows or any aperture except a single one in the roof to lctoiit the smoke. It is paved, and in the centre, among loose stones or boulders, a fire is kept burning until the atones and pavement are very hot. A large vessel filled with water is placed handy for use, and a number of twigs are prepared for the bathers to flagellate each other with. The place is filled with steam by pouring water upon the hot stones. The villagers ���men and women, old and young���baths together. Scantily dressed���some of them naked, and with the thermometer .'ill helow freezing���they will leave their houses and rush for the steam-bath. When the heat is unbearable they throw water over each other : and after a time {almost boiled) they leave the bath as they came and go home. "As I einciged," aays Pu Chaillu in , his book, " the sensation waa delightful, I IuKIkm' : tlltM1 hisoiher foot was placet the breathing of the cold air imparting fresh I ""' "t""1* II ,Mmi-d t0 "i�� artist tl life and invigorating my spirits, I rolled myself in the snow, as did some others,' "P and afterwards ran as fast as 1 could 10 the upon his pistol. The man cair.e slowly into tlie room, holding in one hand a lighted candle, in the other a long slnniug knife. He came to where his guest lay, apparently sleeping and peered into hia lace. Thea he walked back very quietly to the door, which he closed gently. Picking up tho three-legged stool, the man placed it beside the cot. "Ureat Heavens," thought the art iat, "he means to sit down and carve ine at bis leisure. Rut the man did not sit down. He put one foot upon the stool and raised Ida arm with the shining blade high above hm head. "He means to strike a sweeping blow," thought the artist; his heart almost still from fright. The agony of those momenta of suspense was supreme, The mau did not lower his arm ; he raised it higher and I upon ^^_^_^^__^_^^_ I I man must he mad -that he meant to fall mu him, He knew not whal to do, Wing nnmt farmhouse." Hero the family ami several friends assembled for a siesta, none of them, men or women, embarrassed in tlie least, any more than the natives of an African village; a scene as primitive as uuything llu Chaillu had ever witnessed and from custom not in the slightest way imliicive to what we call impropriety of conduct. Tin- custom of promiscuous bathing is a very ancient one in Europe, and Da Chaillu quotes Cicsar's com.iieutaries commending the chasity and parity of the German people of this time, who only wore light coverings of skiua and bathed in the river without distinction of sex. The Swedes are certainly in advance of oar own civilization in establishing the weekly hath in evory village, whore tho body is washed thoroughly every Saturday, and tho soul is all the better prepared for rest and worship on the Sabbath. " These northern people, says tbe traveller, "are tho only peasantry in Europe that tako a bath overy week, and they are very healthy," So far as I reiroin- half dead from fear. Slowly he uf the knife removod Ida glance from his victim andralsi d Ins eye toward lhc shining blade. He then raised his left hand, anil, with a quick motion, grasped - -a side of liacou lhat was hanging from the ratters, and with the huge knife cut off four great slices- for the morning's breakfast. ber,' the pitmen of the North and Midland I pfessed, and when this was counties invariably have their tub on Sat- j material was found to be as ban unlay nights, before thoy tako their Walks taken from the quarry. But abroad, or, aa It is too often the case, go to j "l)fm thousands of dollars were spent in spend lhc eveuing ai the public-house. j experiments before the result was reachej. The Lead Pencil- Few people are aware of the dilHcuities that were surmounted in the manufacture of thc common lead pencil. In the first place the graphite of which it ia made is rarely found sufficiently homogeneous to allow pencil lead to be out from it, so it ia always ground lo powder and then pressed Into blocks. The great difficulty ns to press thc blocks until the graphite was hard enough to use, and (or many years every effort in this direction waa defeated by the crumbly nature of thc material. Finally a device was employed that exhausted the air, after which the blocks were agair- done tha 1 as when thousands NOTICE. A Court of Asam, Nisi Print", Oyer and Terminer and Goneral (Jnol Delivery will be h'kl at the Town of Kaslo, in the Connty nf Kootenny, on Fridat, the 2nd dny ol June, 1893. By Command, A. CAMPBELL REDTHE, Deputy Provincial Seoretnry, Provincial Secrntarv's Office, 28th April, 1893. NOTICE. A Court of Assize, Nisi FriiiR, Oyer snd Terminer nnd General Gaol Delivery will be held at the Town of Nelson, in the County of Kootenny, on Tuesday, the 30th day of May, 1893. By Command, A. CAMPBELL BEDDTE, Deputy Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, 28th April, 1893. NOTICE Is hereby given, that I intent? to apply at the next sitting ot tbe Licensing Court to be held nt Bevel- stoke for a license to sell beer, wine nnd spirituous and fermented Kqnors by retail at the premises known ae "The Senate Hotel," eitaated m the town of Kevelstoke, JOHN BOUEKE. Eevelstoke, May 15th, 1893. NOTHJE. I hereby give notice to the Licencing Board tbat nt its next sitting I intend to apply for- a license to sell ���wines, spirits, beer and other fermented and intoxicating liquors on the premises known as tlie "Lake View Hotel," Trout Lake City, in Revelstoke Division, Kootenay District. W. S. PHIPPS. Beveistoke, May 10th, 1893. NOTICE Is hereby given, that at tne Bert sitting ol the- Licetwing Board for the Bevebtoke Division! of West Kootenay I intend to apply for a Keense to sell by the glass, or retail, ale, beer, porter, whhso and epirttons liquors in the * Lardean Hotel," at Thomson's LuwTing, at the head of tbe Northeast Arm of Upper Arrow Lake. MALCOLM BEATON. TfeiwsonVLiinding, May 6th, 1893. NOTICE Is toeby grven> that at tie next sitting of the- Licensing Court to be held 8* Kevelstoke w�� intend to apply for ai license to sell wises, beer ami otberftrtnarotiedorintosicntiiis liquors. by retail at the "Miners' Hotel," at LiwileaB. West Kootenay. A. MeliAE, J. B1CHAKDSON. Berefctofte, May 10th, 1893. NOTICE Is Jereby given, that I artcat? to ���apply, at '.L* next sitting ot tbe Li- I eensfflg Ccmrt to be held at Revel- ; stcjke, for a fensf lk> sell winen. h&et i or o*i5��5 fermented oi intoTrttiaf; | lujaoro W retail ti lbe "-Trent Lflka { House," 'Dront Ltk��' Cfily, ini Went; Xw*ennT District BEOS-SB KHJREGL f Jhtrktoke.. Mav Oh, 1H93L MAIL CONTRACTS. S��A LED I BN D HUS tOrmei ��� , Ut iba? BiMBuater- (jwteral w,3 >���� nnfad ti Ottra mA 8 inum m Ftw'hv, *����������� 5511b Marf, lr." mdb Rl jwi'^yiH!'.! TtiKt.OjM* 3i* h'it jmvii /erii etiw. Urtroajta mk\u umkwssim KUJE8PKEN6S * -JfiKHON awl BUCK * GRA-mAS jr*?. tanS woo ou Wetfav,. 0s�� ifttih Mav, k*f Ito murpa matte ttt Ite immht intone*6CH��)%$ ** iff.EI^SESJB JIJRKJJIS, aO htm At -I'M seal. IVit-BXl Dtfitiw levtn'r.Tusr farfJoN Mtmw.sn un W ���'����*��� tu-en ill jm*- mwK\ tattmtB WKJ '>*.' awn. sh**! htoti lUvnm i< Sw.'H tut} It**- th- tiitwtl nt ihr jit-ti^'Oif-** ic.w.tiitwri, sr. tmS w ��l, tin* ���(ami-tiftt-H. t* Si*; Bar Uml-.. Drf M, WMte Tut .ley. Galena, IX nitionTiOT**. Furl. EatM-to kwS jfaxamt Spring*, ��nA ul litis ���fflM*. i: H. HaiaySHEi, Psaftrijiffiea Iv-ftf-rtfr!*. Pt*i-rfSw .)i>hji��:vo,'i- Craw*, Tin- ItirB.,.H.C,aw ftaflfclWI. Ifijjjr.iAVm u/.ta.-'iortii**' MusauA. ' SijMUlf TiJ-lfllflt- BUtO IV/H'/all.F-l 11*71 i lLg��W*iTaai��ll'-;,'ip!Ul'j ll.'t'rll"t.l JAS.McMILLAN&GO. MAIN HOUSE, 200 to 212 FIRST AVE. NORTH, MINNEAPOLIS, WINN, y'pAtLLm Ho.Vw.~&\U4 'L/AAiyAA'-W \k^,'AA'r:A v,.^A..f niaiiRS ino ixpoBTsns, COUNTRY AND PACKER PROPRIETORS OP THO BRANOH33: MinneapoSis Gre5!) g ,w H!I)E��� Sheepskin mmm^ mmM Calfskins, Dry Hides, cxpertmof Tannery. HELENA. MONT Pelts, Furs, Wool FINE NORTHERN FOBS. L_ REFEI.ENCITS BY PERMISSIOU. SlOOMTV Sank or MiNN.,MiNNPAt*>oua, Minn. Ft. Dearbohn Nat.Bank, Cmioaqo, III, Montana National Bank, HrLiN.t, Wont. First National Bank, Ghrat Falls, Mont. First flATTONAl Bank, SpOKANiP'LBiWaih. Nat. Bank oi' CoryiM'-nc-j.y .-. l.ni-ia. Mo. Tallow, Crease, Deerskins, QlNSENQ & Sr;iVF*CA Root. Liberal Advances Mfrte on Shipments Againsi Original Bill of Lading. Shipments Solicited. Write for Circulars. Slilppew from Hits Btuto Cormipond with nud Consign tU Milllll',l|)ll.i** Hu'ilM'. 'Af-: ��� 'i'All '"*������- .. I ,���': " ''��� 'V -ft ''' -' ' ' ' T. L. HAIG, NOTARY PUBLIC : REVELSTOKE, B. C. Mining and Eeal Estate Broker and General Commission Agent, FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE. EEPRESE'NTATIVE OF THE KOOTENAY SMELTING AND TRADING SYNDICATE. agent for TROUT UU CUT, KASLO C>TY, NAKUSP & other TOWNSIIE8. V LARDEAU V Is situated at tbe bead of the North-East Arm of Upper Arrow Lake. It is the easiest poiut front which to enter the remarkably rich mines of the Lardean and Fish Creek Districts. It will have the advantage of both rail and steamboat lines. The C.P.R. will hegin the bnildiug of a line from Revelstohe to theN.E. Arm of Arrow Lake <*is soon as the weather will permit. LARDEAU is at the head of navigation on this Arm, and will be tbe terminus of steamers and that of the Lardean & Kootenay Railway. There is no question that th--.Kich Mining Districts which are tributary to LARDEAU will attract thousands of Prospectors aud Capitalists during the present season, and that a large town will grow up at that point. The history of Kaslo will be repeated at LARDEAU this year,and investors in Kootenay property should study the situation. Kuslo, in many instances, has already repaid from 500 to 1,000 per ceut, to investors. The wisdom of an investment in LARaDEATT is without question. For Jtetier parcit-ulars, pric��. and terms, apply to any of tlie under- signed. ROBERT IK\1XG, Trasteev Srcmu1 Stmt. YMoris.. HENRY CROFT, Colonist BnO'din-*-, Government; Street, vTcioriav DOUGLAS & CO., 139 Cordova Street, Vancourer, GREEN�� RICHARDSON & CO., 57 Jameson Building, Spokam R��� II. LEE, P.L.S., KAMLOOPS. DAVID F. DOUGLAS, ResttSent Agent, Lstrtleiiu. ijni.,.:j.^a AiSactir F^r[arr*ss, enivefl TO. 10 Jaiijr. Prafrt - "��� 16.62 "' Oiavrp**, itvrf, ii-iinMn mi safe note '/��� Montreal,Ti ft��tov St Paul, \\iii.ctt. Swv Y'.rk and lionUm. Ratw ��.". to tldTownr Cftan any other esi&xvr nttte, ���"IihiiiI1!- H led ' ��1 n fet Oatt, n iiAu?f'it * !'' tter, fur the act* antkacd f'iv*��',��i ������) v-.| \-.t\ ��� thmtkk/& ":,..-Hi)i'..i.. booked lo ar.AU tut BWurmtl pawiu m Ainu ra, i,.-.-Ty patent tAk^n out [^ da iH brown) Heforo tu i.-uijiic bjAnotloogiTiQafreftOl otuirgelQtho: GROCERIES PROVISIONS BOOTS & SHOES FLOUR FEED & OATS AMMUNITION hardware: clothing miners' tools* ConsIs?iimeiit of Butter and Eggs received every week, MINERS' AND HUNTERS' SUPPLIES. UL CUDS OF nn bought AND foil Eailwav Men's .Requisites, gtitUtiiti &Wtim Loam wAim mauBmXD bte.mhoat mm or mm. 0. & H. LEWIS, mm m mwMM. &UIPERS arwi BALLS (ntrnvm '"�������� es G neat e r-...-.. ��� in of*nj to ADtHTopnpflrtti tbo trorld. S (>l��� i! I inli Haul. A,o iiitellteint sta ��*i'":,'i In ��iM' iut it, ffesltly, **:t.un a rwrq|UtlKt] monthit, .ailitrwl Jlr.v i a (,j��� I': .llii'i'in, Mil linmi����y,tfewVotitl.'iiy. Do yoa Write fur tire PaparsV [f JOQ in, ymi fhe.ud 6��TO TTIfl LAflDBR OP JOURNALISM. ., ',>t* Book for Correnptodratii Re- poiOitiiij,Editors nnd General Wrben, PRICE, CO CENTS. m '"f os ser/Brn; ob pbtot, di ALLAN r-'ORMAN, . New Ygh^, (fi V. ""JaW If] .���,' / cuu ihl'Mftifyo'l fliiFW" eartnt 11 MriMnn Hthwrrtvpft f��f (r��mlnst "* 1 "' rRRRYBBHRY. eMEHAI BLAC K&MITH REVIIL8TOKE. r'T'*,','- PO U* i*-,.*!1'-, f'.r Furniture & Undertaking, R. HOWSON, ffaa a large Stock of HoiweMd Furniture, C'o2ins, CaekotBi, Shrottdft &c. REVELSTOKE, B,C n HOUSEHOLD. Love ia tha Home- Like the words of a song without music, Like tho sky without minllgh! above, Liko a harp with the strings all broken. Is the home that's devoid of lovo. Like a concert hull that's deserted, laikc a hoarl I hat hus turned to atom*. Like ,\ kingdom bereft of u ruler, Like a king beret! of a throne; Is tlio home that haa not the sunshla Of love to Illumine ntght, To oast through Hie deepest shadows Its wonderful beacon light. -I'i I., and F. Boyco Appearances at Home- Don't sav that it doesn't matter how you look around the house, for it does matter a great deal. It matters for the. general credit of the establishment, of which the feminine head is the creditable or questionable representative; it natters in its example to the children and to the help ; it matters to the husband and father, who usually, if he is half a man, feels a sense of pride In the appearanoe of his family. It is poor encouragement to him to find confusion and carelessness iu dress, aud waste acd destruction running riot about his dwelling. It it one of the important duties of every woman to keep herself and her house in a condition as presentable as possible, considering her circumstances. Teacuimx Daughter** Hocsekeeping- A question dilficult of solution fo: most mothers is how to send a daughter to school and at the same time give her a practical education in housework. There is suoh little time out of school houra that even to perform a few tasks about the house seema impracticable, and among the well-to-do it is often entirely feasible to defer the latter training till the former is completed. While there are some objections to the plan of permitting a girl to be entirely ignorant of the details of housework till she is grown, there is, on the other hand, the advantage of allowing her to bring to her new study a mind well-trained and able to grasp the subject as a whole at the same time that the practical details are being mastered, But when the busy mother needs the help of the children, and it ia a foregone conclusion that immediately upon leaving school the daughter must make her own living, or at least prepare to make it, the question presents itself in a more serious light. In such a case it is evideut that whatever knowledge of housework a girl obtains must be gained during her years of schooling. But there appears so little time for systematic training that in many families the daughter never has the responsibility for any part of the housework, aud learns ouly what she may happen to pick up helping mother. While mother sweeps, Jcssieshakes the rugs and runs for the dust pan. I hen stands restlessly on one foot waiting for the uext order or for ohe opportunity to run away to play. On baking day Jessie is called to stone the raisins, to get the tlour sifter and the cake pan. V, hen mother cooks Jessie must be around " handy" to pare the potatoes, to grind the coffee, to run down cellar,���in short, to wait on mother while mother does the work. The same method���or lack of method���is continue,' til! the gill is si. tceu or eighteen, when the mother begins to wonder why her daughter knows ao little and cares so little about housework. If left to keep house by herself for a week, the resulting chaos would hardly lead you to suppose that the girl had helped about the house every day from her childhood up, A little consideration would show the lack of knowledge und interest to be simply the natural result of having the girl help a little here and a litlle there, never learning to do uny one branch of housework by herself. Mothers too seldom realize the fact that the children trained to orderly methods of work in school naturally find it unpleasant never to know juat what i3 expected of them at home, The older ones would like to have certain definite tasks assigned to them, that they might know when their work was done, and feel free to plan the remaining time for extra reading or study. Housework is a complex study, and to teach successfully all branches of it at the same time would require as many hours a day as to teach the several branches of learning they are required in the public schools. Ho, as the time each day is very limited, the best results will be obtained by teaching net more than one or two things at a time. The little girl should begin, of course, with some very simple task. She might tir.it learn to wipe the dishes, or to do certain dusting, of to do both : but she should understand lhat the task is he,' own particular part of the housework, aud that ahe must apply her mind to it and learn to do it well, Just as she would study arithmetic or geography. When she has learnod how to perform one piece of work so well that there is uo danger of fu rgetting it soon, others may be laken up in the order which is most convenient, Where there are several daughters, the simple tasks can bo ban led down to the younger children when the older ones are ready to begin more difficult work. The dishwashing, sweeping, and bedroom work could be apportioned among theyoungergirls, while the daughter nearly grown learns cooking, baking, canning, preserving, laundry work, one thing at a lime. In cooking it is an excellent plan lo teach the girl how to cook one artiole of food, and allow her to prepare that on every occasion till she feels confident of her ability to cook that particular dish any time, at a moment's notice, aud with no assistance. In pursuing this p'an of teaching one thing at a time, it will be surprising to see how rapidly a girl wiil become proficient iu the various branches of housework. The understanding that each day when her allotted portion is properly performed, she is at liberty to devote some time to her own plant and pleasures, docs much toward stimulating her interest in the work. System iu teaching housekeeping is as much required and will pi'odu io us good results as system in touching anything else. Monday Wisdom- "To soak or not to soak," i( a question Important In any consideration nl laundry methods, Whilu did Is utiquostloiiablj ron oved with Iobs of wear and tear after it is freely sol'toned, anv long lying many alkillno sjlutiou is not merely mjuri us to fiber and fabric, but has a tendency to fix dirt through chemical reaction. This is all the more likely to be the case it washing fluids or powders are iu use. The fluids almost invariably contain ammonia or chloride nf litre, with a proportion of borax. With powders it ia much the same. They are for the most part formed of soap, too hard to dissolve readily, that has been sliced, dried, crushed and mixed with powdered bora:: or potash. All the vegetable oil3 so largely used by soap makers throw down, by standing, a fatty solid known to tiie trade as "foots." It is this solid, soparified with the very strongest alkalies, which supply the ��oap for grinding into powders, Naturally, when free alkali :�� added to the powder, the strength of it is dangerously increased. Still these washing powders and fluids can be used with safety if proper care is taken, Where the wash water is hard, a tablespoonful of either powder or fluid may be stirred with edvantage through each tiibful before putting in the clothes. It softens the water and saves the disagreeable, gritty feeling of hands aud wrists. liut never, by any means, add either while garments are 111 the water. To do so is to invite the premeditated poverty of patches. It is likely to rest on the cloth instead of dissolving or blending with th? water. Invariably, then, t'.ie strong alkali will eat holes, ureal or small, sometimes a line powdering all over, a., tiiough the garment liad been peppered with shot, sometimes taking out jagged spots the bigness of your palm. Black mammies down South, iu the days when they were past mistresses of laundry work, held "soaking over night in abhorrence. Their practice was to wet soiled clothes thoroughly with water barely lukewarm, let them lie fo: perhaps ten minutes, " to soften the dirt,'' then soap and rub ami boil and rinse. An I certainly their clothes were of a cleaner white than the traditional driven snow, and sweet smelling as new-cut grassland. Half a teacupful of kerosene added to a boiler of clothes help3to whiten them without injury to the texture. The main objection to over-night soaking is that it does too much. First, the soap, or alkali, combines with the dirt, reade.ing it soluble. But by standing for twelve hour3 or so, new compounds are formed, not so evident, it may be, as the original soilure, but really not less unclean, and much harder to remove. That is why clothes come so often from the tub ind ironing board full of a dead, heavy smell. The weight of authority seems to indicate this pattern of wash day. Rise early, breakfast moderately late, Before the meal put your clothes to soak, first wetting them thoroughly in clean water. Sand for Housekeepers- Good, clean sifted sand haa many uses. It one can not obtain tbat whicli is perfectly clean, ordinary sand that has been washed down by the roadside may be used. Throw a panful of this into a tub and pour in water, stiring the sand vigorously until al! of the muddy look i.s washed out. When tiie water shows perfectly clear after being stirred up the sand is clean. It may then be dried and put away in a bag or box for future use. Very few people are aware that lowers cau be kept very much longer by setting the stems into a dish of sand. Put the flowers into the. vaae as usual, then carefully sift in sufficient sand to fill the vase nearly to the top, then add water until it stands a very little above the top of the sand. This is useful in more ways than one. Very light, fine vaaes are thus made sufficiently heavy to be out of danger of upsetting. One may also draw upon the sand bug for filling dishes in which cuttings are put to root, Very few cuttings would spoil if thrust info wet sand and kept there until the roots are well grown. Everybody can have an abundance of rooted cuttings simply by tying a string atouod an ordinary fruit jar, filling it with sand and putting lhe cuttings into it. Hang this near the window and keep sufficient water in the vessel to make the sand wet all of the time. In small houses, where there is lack of light, half a dozen jars hung around iu various windows where the sun shines, will occupy but little space will insure plenty of material for putting ou: as soon as frost is out of the grcund.\ If one has a number of sieves, a little sand can be sifted out, retaining only the finest. A dish of sand kep: on the kitchen shelf is invaluable for scouring tables and benches that are not painted. Some pier- sous use very fine sand in a dish on the desk to clean pens with. This may do for steel pens, but is ruinous to gold oues. Indeed, the greatest care should be taken never to allow the point of a pen to come in coot iet with any hard substance, SttYSttfjAM.���One-half cupful of butter, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, oue-haif a cuptul at milk, two and a quarter cupfuls of flour, two even teaspoonfuls of baking- powder, whites of five eggs. Parsnip ',*-'d Poan Stew,���Cut up a pound of fresh, uncooked pork, or half the amount of salt pork. Put it on to boil in two quirts of cold water. After it has cocked an hour skim off the fat. Scrape three or four good-sized parsnips, cut in inch slices and add to the stew, also an onion sliced and halt an hour before dinner peal and cut up half a Jo*en potatoes, parboil a few minutes and add to the stew. When dote take up meat and vegetables, thicker, the gravy and season to taste, then pour over meat, etc A : \ 1 OMELET.���is a dainty dish which is easily and quickly prepared. Make the omelet precisely as you would ar. ordinary omelet for breakfast. Tor oue of four eggs warm two tablespoonfuls of Jan., lay them iu the omelet just before it is ready to fold and then fold it over, completely enclosing the jam and serve it at once. Cream Pdpps,���One cupful of water, one- half cupful of butter, one and a half cupfuls of flour, five eggs. Put the water and nutter on to boll ; when it boils put in the dry Hour all at once, stir ever the tire about five minutes or until it has become a smooth, well-'tookctl paste. Remove from the tire and add the eggs one at a time, and beat in each one veil before adding the uext. Beat all together thoroughly. Drop by the tablespoonful ou grease:', pans, ami j bai.e in a moderate oven about twenty-five minutes. BOLD 6BEEN GOODS MEN Approach a Canadian Oibitu, Minister and Prominent Ontario Easiness Men- For The Cooks- To make rust beef brown on tbe outside and rare ami juicy within put the beef into a very hot oven at first, keeping the temperature as high as three hnudred and fifty- degrees or more for half an hour, then reducing the heat to about two hundred snd fifty degrees for the remainder of the time of 'cooking. The meat must be basted as often as every fifteen minutes. The great heat at first hardens as well as browns the surface of the piece of meat. This keeps in the juices. But if the high temperature be continued, the hardening pro- cess goes beyond the surface and the result will be a hard, dry acd stringy piece of meat. Butterscotch.��� Boil together until the syrup will snap when tested in cold water oue cupful each of sugar and New Orleans molasses, half a cupful of butter, two tabie- spoonfulajof vinegar ana one-third ot a teaspoonful of soda. Pour into a buttered tin when nearly cold, rut into squares with a sharp knife and wrap each in parafline paper when cold. Cream Sponge Cake.���One cupful of i sugar, one-half cupful of cream, thrceeggs, ono cupful of'.lour, one even teaspoonfulol baking powder. Beat very light and bake in a slow oven. Their Iraiidulrnl Operation* Again t.x pond for the Sake or Proapecllvi' l)iipea- razor. Tramps rarely visit Edmore, Mich., more than once. When they are caught in that town, the marshal puts them in the jail reception-room, builds a roaring fire for theircomtort, and theu sprinkles pepper oa the stove. Several people in Eastman, Ga., who are ambitious lo achieve fame as noted liars, have combined as the "Society oi the Amalgamated Prevaricators." The chief liar wears the belt until some other mem- be" outdoes him with a more absurd falsehood. . A burglar entered a dwelling in Indianapolis and waa pioceeding noiselessly to poVtmaVters'ln Canada" to" stop aTl letters I p>lher s'"'-* valuables, when he was para addressed to such person and forward them' 'vze" ' to Ottawa. Thus it happens that iu a short time Major Sherwood receives more of Taylor's mail from Canada than Taylor himself. These operations are constantly going on and Ciias. E, Taylor, of Hoboken, N.J.,'' will probably be " Hy. G. Voung, of New York," as soon as he knows that the post office authorities are "on to him." S051K OF ME VICTIMS, Some of the letters received to-day by the Commissioner would be pathetic if the authors of them had not richly deserved their punishment. One woman living back of Toronto actually mortgaged her land to raise $.100, which is the lowest 9um the dealer in green goods will consent to receive. In return, he promises to give $3,000* these men never sell counterfeit money at all. It would be too dangerous, so that the victim Strenuous efforts are be'ng put forth by the United Stated Government to prevent their silver being discounted universally ; but the best authorities think that thia with a premium on gold is Inevitable. If so it will have a very depressing effect upon American securities. The Chignecto Ship Railway, now in course of construction, will obviate the dangerous and circuitous route round the peninsula of Nova Scotia, and connect the Gulf of St. Lawrence with thc Day of Fundy. The commercial advantages of. this enterprise can be readily perceived by its bearing on the coasting trade uf Nova Scotia, whicl repreaents a total of more than 12,000,000 tons a year. The number of vessels leaving ports iu the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Prince Edward Island and the Bay nf Fundy, in the year ending June 1890, wus placed ut 70,000, a total ot commeroial interests oi more than ordinary magnitude. The World'n Breweries. A Frenchman states that there are .>1,000 breweries in the world. Germany easily leads with 26,240, which produce 1,740 million litres of beer yearly, a litre being equal to about IJ pints. England comes next wih 1J.S74 breweries and au output of 2,- 000 million litre ; then the United States with 2,300 breweries ami 3,500 million litres; Austria with 1,912 brewerlesand 1,300 million litres; Belgium wiih 1,270 breweriosand 1,000 million litres ; and France, with 1,014 breweries and 800 million litres. In Ravatia ihe annual allowance of beer per head of the population is 221 litres; in Berlin, 191 tat'io woman in question has since beeu writing letters to the address given her I calling down all the curses of heaven because she had not been enabled to swindle her j neighbors by receiving counterfeit money, One man in Western Ontario writes, "l| am handling your goods now." This Is, of course, a falsehood, but he tells it in or ler to show the dealer that he is up to snuff | and may be trusted. One poor fellow in Ontario,who had vlsil ��� j ed New York and brought away a valise! which be imagined was tilled with counter-1 feit money writes: -" Thc money you got | from me I was saving for my motherless children, my poor orphans,'' and winds up with a child-like faith by saying "I believe i you could help me to make money," Another Ontario man received copies of confederate currency which was not even counterfeit because it waa uot a copy of any token of value. Another man residing in a prosperous I town not far from Toronto writea that he [ had no money to invest, but he had a friend who had $500 whicli he waa willing to pay for $2(1,000 of the stuff. He wanted to drive a hard bargain because tho price of $10,000 is set down as $600. In reading the letters sent by scores of simpletons to the swindlers who are fast growing rich on Ihe credulity and avarice of their victims one cannot help exclaiming " What fools these mortals be." lyzed by a sudden burst of profanity. It came from a parrot, and its noisy ejaculations awoke its master, just as the burglar fled, without any booty. The Japanese have many curious customs. They begin a book at what we call the last page, and the end is where we have the title-page. Horaes, when in their stalls, face the door of the stable; men, and not women, do the sewini, and puah the needles in and out from them instead of toward them. A Boston lady earns lur living by "breaking in " boots for stylish patrons. She wears them a few days, until they become easy to their owners. Filty cents a pair is the charge. Iu three days they are usually " broken in," and she only wears a pair two hours of each day. Sometimes she wears six different pairs in oue day. Aerial Navigation Practicable- There are few problems in engineering physic i that have been the subject of more serious effort or which have exercised the minds of ahi^herclaasof.jngineeringphysi- cists than that of flight by mechanical means. Intrinsically, there is nothing whatever irrational in the nature of the problem. The air is a fluid comparatively light, it is true, but yet of considerable density, and the amount of its buoyant effort is a matter of limited volume only 1 in thesame manner. Its su| porting p iwer is a question ot measurable relative velocity between itself and the supported body. It is well recognized at the present time that all efforts towards mechanical flight must be in the direction ol the utilization of this support- ing power, and not 111 the employment of a larje and cutnbcisonic buoyant volume. Some very recent reports of the results of expe: iments with aeroplanes show that very remarkable and encouraging results have beeu obtained, not only with models, but with full-sized machines weighing several tons iu some cases. It is not to be supposed that these tests have yet shown the existence 0! surplus energy irom the mechanism employed sullicient for the transportation of much freight, nor has a reliable degree of control or illegibility under all atmospheric circumstances yet been attained. Enough has been done, however, to show- that mechanical flight is not impracticable for at least limited distances, even at the present time.���^Engineering Record. Gold CaK8.��� One-half upful of flutter, j'" Be'.^um, Kij ; j��� England, 14,'); in Swit one and three-fourths cupfuli of powdered sugar, yolks of five __- in '. wl ites ol on>, om half 1 ' milk, two ao 1 one-half I'upiu's o; ll 1:. ��� a , :. ' ��� > ��� : haking-p ��� nilli 1 . liik in h rate oven. zerland, .'ll : In Domfjrk* .'i.'j; in the Unit States, 31 ; In Sweden, 11, and In Russia, 5. '' I :. 11 oflcredastemperancestatlstios, because beei is not 1 principal drink In -" countries. The Russians are notabeer- Thro wine* a Woman Throu-rh a Window. A man named Pierre Raune was tried at the Seine AsBiz.ea last Saturday for the murder of his wife. The prisoner, who had systematically and barbarously maltreated hia victim for eight years, deliberately throw her out of the window on November 4 last. Madame Raune died an hour or two afterwards, whilst the 1 lurderer was quietly drinking a bottle of wine In an adjoining drinking peo] le, :.���. ire they an especially ! room, Tlio prisoner was condemned to '20 ' :���: ������''' "���'������>-��� years'penal servitude, A New Breed. " As a fri'nd of vours, I would advise yoa to get riil of that dog before somebody does something desperate. He comes into my yard turns over the ash barrel, tips my wife 3 flower-pots and roots ali over tbe lawn." " I couldn't think of parting with the dog; on any consideration. Why his breed is so ihoice he has takeu first prize at every dog show to which I have laken him." " What value It there in that ugly brute?" " He is the only thoroughbred up-setter in this country." LAKE CITY WEST KOOTENAY, B.C. The above town site is now on the market, and lots are being rapidly bought up by local parties. It is situated at the north end of Trout Lake, in the famous LARDEAU COUNTRY which is going- to be one of the RICHEST MINING REGIONS in America. NUMEROUS RICH CLAIMS have been found close to this town site, which will make it the DISTRIBUTING* POINT for an IMMENSE TRACT OF COUNTRY. It is the only level land at the north end of the lake. The owners intend to expend money on streets and other improvements in the Spring. The trail from Lardeau City, on Arrow Lake, to Kootenay Lake, runs through the town site. For the NEXT THIRTY DAYS corners will be sold at $150 and insides $100, For further part lars apply to ���M t CO. 5 at the Head Office, Nelson, B.C., or to HAIG, Local Agent, REVELSTOKE, B.C.