p, 7)PV> ���������..���������''���������'���������! 3*1 / ���������CL NO. 253. UNION ^���������MOX _.*_>j DISTRICT, B. C, TUEDAY SEPT., 21st, 1897. $2.00 PER ANNUM. / For the choicest meats we are head quarters. If you have not tried our noted sausages, bologna and head cheese, you should do so at once. Fresh vegetables, eggs and butter, salmon bellies, Mackerel, etc. SHIPPING SUPPLIES. |o| sznsvdioisr, Xj_e_iise!_r _Sg8__-3__Sg^__S@__^3������__ge cBp V^W* -of New Goods, Suitable,tor the-���������1 Expected to mm. and will be opened a end of the weeke nd offered for sale by the _������wr__ia___SSS_SSib��������� Just received a shipment of Rubber Goods direct from the from the factory, composed of Water Bags, Ice Bags, Syringes, Atomizers, Tubing, etc. GOOD SUPPLY OF ALL THE POPULAR PATENT MEDICINES: Perfume and Toilet Articles,,Soaps, Brushes &.Combs. ������gs@s__s__s_sgs Family Recipes Accur- Prescription and ately Dispensed . HEAD' for Stationery TE S 8l School Books. P__acE!Lj & Co. Druggists, Union. ^^ Open on Sundays from 10 to .11 o'clock a. m. and from .3 to 6 o'clock p. m. Special Prize of Ten Dollars. The Vancouver Inland Flock Masters Association offer through Mr. George "Heatherbell of Hornby Island a special prize of $10.00 for the best PEDIGREED RAM at the Exhibition Oct. 7th, at Courtenay. ^ GORDON MURDOCK'S ... __*__5__rg*_gg-8���������-_-LI VERY. Single and Double Rigs to let ���������at��������� Reasonable Prices Near Blacksmith -Shop, 3rd St. UNION, B. C. SPECIAL PRIZE. H prtse of two collars will be given by ffots. /ID. Wbitn&s tor fcresseo ooll to be er* Mhiteb at the (Tomor. Hgricul* tural anO JnoiijStrial Sbow a Courtenay _>ct. 7tb, by Qivl not oper 12 years of age. TLo be awaroeo to most neatly maoe an& complete costume, Irrespective Of quality of ma* terial. ���������Finest line of Misses and Children's Shoes in town at McPhee & Moore's. FIRST PRIZE A RTICL E. THE following article, of which Miss Dora Crawford, of Sandwick, is the author, received the first prize in The News Literary Prize Contest, as the best historical and dis- criptive article submitted by those who had this year sue-' cessfully passed an examination for a high school. Miss Crawford is now in attendance at the High School in Victoris* Her portrait here given is considered a very good likeness. Wednesday's /Qom OUR DISTRICT. iMOX DISTRICT is situated on R, the east side of Vancouver Island ^ffib_���������^*<2> on tne Gulf of Georgia, and is about 240 square miles in area. 'It is bounded on the north by the 50th parallel, 011 tile sotirh" bv M"-lr,.-���������.'j District, on the east by the Gulf of Georgia, and on" the west oy tbe Buiurd R.iaye. The di-iiiict is Nanaimo, Range reached bv a steamer, from which runs once a week, binding at Comox wharf, whK:h the naval authorities have recently chosen ab a firing station for H.?vl.S. About one half of the district is open land, cr covered with light timber, and. well adapted for agricultural purposes; the soil-being, principally vegetable or "sandy loam, and the remainder is covered with a heavy growth of fir, spruce, and cedar, the cutting down and sending to market of which furnishes a great, number of men employment during the summer months. The valley is well watered by rivers, the Tsoium and Punt- ledge running the whole length of the valley. They also contain mountain and speckled trout, which furnish excellent sport for anglers. Living springs of thp. purest water can be found almost everywhere. The whole valley overlies a coal formation. The Colliery Company at Union, belonging to R. Dunsmuir & Sons are taking out from 700 to 1000 tons a day, and so furnish work for several hundred men. The climate of Comox District is very healthful; in winter the thermometer rarely reaches zero, and in summer the heat is tempered either by the ocean's breeze on the east, or Buford mountains on the west. The principal towns of the district are Union, Courtenay, Comox. The roads throughout the district are excellent, and cycling is a favorite pastime of many of the residents, and offi ers of H.M.S. The land> in the vicinity of Crmox Bay, was originally owned by a tribe of Indians called Puntledge. About fifty years ago the more powerful Comox tribe, whose lands were in the vicinity of what is now known as Campbell River, came down in large war canoes and attacked them, and after a fierce battle, in which a great number of the Puntledge Indians were killed, the survivors were driven up the river to what is known as the Potato Patches on the Puntledge river, the Comox Indians taking possession of their lands and settling down on them. The government has since laid off a reservation of several hundred acres on the same river for the use of the remnant- of the Puntledge tribe. About forty years ago a man named Peter Michel pre-empted the first land in the Comox District, his location being the farm now owned by Mr. William Mathewson. He was afterwards shot by I s_E_coj_nsi sieioiESM s_eee:o_ed'������> II! We have just received direct from the East 20 cases ������ Boots and shoes ot all the LATEST STYLEo to suit th e most fastidious. ChiIdrerts Shoes a Specialty. Call and see our Stock before purchasing elsewhere SAVE MONEY by purchasing your SHOES of . 2^e:E*_=3__:__ <__ :_*koO_3JEi. the Indians and died while being taken to Nanaimo foi treatment. The report that extensive prairie land had been discovered at Comox, brought several adventurous miners, who had returned from the gold diggings of Cariboo, to locate farms. Thereafter the settling of the open land proceeded rapidly. At first the only communication the settlers had was bv a small schooner, owned and commanded by Captain J. D. Warren, of Victoria. Occassionaly a small steamer named the Emily Harris brought up live stock and other freight the schooners could not carry. The first - steamer to make regular trips to the district was the Sir James Douglas, commanded by Captain W. R. Clarke. ��������� She run for tome time, .making at first one trip a month; afterwardsas the population became greater, she increased her service to bi-monthly trip;, landing her .passengers with -canoes; and as the water was shallow for some distance the Indians carried the passengers on their, backs, to high ground. In 1872 the presentwharf was built at Comox Bay, and a line of steamers was put on by, Mr. S. Pratt,-making weekly trips; after which the growth of the district was iTiore rapid. r About this time coal was discovered by Messrs. CiitTe, Dick, and ' others, and although little effoit was made at thai t :ne lo develop til'-* property, the knowledge that she , district contained valuable mineral wealth, encouraged the HEW ROAD, BUILDING. On the so-called Naaaimo--Comox Trunk road, south of the wharf, section 4���������If miles, has bean given to Wm.Baikie, as, . Most Of the stories about Kipling's de- . cideel linconveri'tionalities . are untrue, and the small remainder ought not to have been told, ? for -he '-conforms very carefully to conventional surroundings and lets out his high spirits and his taste for frank manners only among intimate friends and. in .his out-of-door-life. In short; he is a gentleman as woll as ah artist. Of course he is a good talker. Not that all, or many, literary artists are, but somehow one -knows that Kipling must be, with his intense, vital interest in everything^ and those clear-cut, ready sentences, not book words, but live, talking words, that we have learned to know him by. He can have a good time at social functions, too, but much of that sort of thing tires him. It is certainly worth while saying of such a "man's man" as Kipling in his literary character, that a charming and gentle and very ladV gave as one of her first impressions of him, "the wholesomenesB and sweetness of his atmosphere, which is" always almost affectionate."���������-From"A Sketch of Rud- yard Kipling," by Charles D. Lanier, in Review of Reviews. Bu- l)r. .Ijtucm's Cure for the Heart Gave " Kelief 'in 30 Minutes and Three liottles .EfP-ctefl a Cure Which Baffled,the liest of Physicians. ' , ������������������"', , This is what Mrs/ J., Cockburn, of Warkwoith, Ont., says: "For -fourteen years I have been a great, sufferer, from heart disease; troubled very much ..'with sharp, shooting pains constantly passing through my heart. "Very often the spasms were so severe that I would become, unconscious. -, My limbs would swell and become quite cold. For these fourteen years I doctored with best physicians without relief. Having seen Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart advertised, I determined to ,try'it, and before I had taken; half a' bottle I found great relief. I felt the beneficial effects inside of thirty minutes. ���������' I have taken threo bottles an'd it has done, me more good .tlian any medi- ��������� cinc or any,physician ever 'did. I can conscientiously recommend - it to sufferers from 1 eart trou ble." fcfc Doctors Blecommend W u----*il ;"������������������;'��������� ceylon? tea??: ;, Lead Packets Only, 25c, 40c, 50c og:. Yeast���������Do you give your ercise? Crimsonbeak���������Oh, yes; he tramp every day. dog any ex- goes for a you can earn a watch and chain by selling a few articles for us at 10c. each,- state your age, also your, father's occupation. Manufacturers' Agency Co., Toronto. OYS WANTED���������ENERGETIC MAN IN EVERY town to sell Radam's Microbe Killer and Blood Purifier. Exclusive territory given. 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Little -was thought of, thern at the time, and^the absence of 'romance in their connection,-, as well as the meager records which have., been'-.-:left of their achievement, have caused.: the.; Cabots to bei-forgotten by, all.; except .historians; Even nowhthe date^ipf "landing , is uncertain, .and .it has '^Geen claimed that the. first"' Cabot voyage took" place in 14Q4. "Very little is known of the. discoverer of North America,! John Cabot, the father of Sebastian and the leader, of the expedition. Not even his native country can be ascertained. His name is variously given; as John Cabot in English, Giovanni Caboto in Italian, ..and Zuari Cabot or Zuan Caboto in .Ithe.. Venetian dialect. His name. is flrsb mentioned ��������� in the archives of Venice,': when he was given the rights of an radopted citizen, on ' March 2S, 1476, after the legal residence? of fifteen years. This does not contain any mention of his birthplace. It is next known that in 1495 he, with his wife and three sons, lived in Bristol, but it is believed that he had been there for several years previously. Geographers and mariners had about that time become convinced that the earth was a sphere, the opinion having been confirmed, by the voyages of Columbus, and it.was believed that tho shortest way to reach the Indies would be to start west and cir-��������� cumnavigate the global especially since Columbus believed that the islands he had discovered were outlying bits of the Indies. Imbued with these ideas, John Cabot applied for and received a patent whioh authorized him and his three sons, either of them or their heirs, to search for islands, provinces or regions in the eastern, western and northern seas; and, as vassals of the .King of England, to occupy the territories found, with an exclusive right to their commerce on paying the king a fifth part of all the profits. Under this charter John Cabot sailed west some time in May, 1497, from Bristol, with his son, Sebastian. When he had sailed a distance, which he judged to be a distance of 700 leagues, he came to what he believed was a part of the dominions of the "Great Cham." In reality it was the-coast of Jjabrador. He planted the banner of England and Venice on the land and then sailed 300 leagues along the coast and landed at various times, but did not, 6ee anyj person, although he believed that the country was inhabited. Cabot and his son returned to Bristol in August. Bristol was then, next to Venice, the-most important commercial cehtei* in Europe, .. and. for years afterward it enjoyed a practical monopoly of' the commerce with the West Indies and the southern states. The discovery of the Cabots attracted much attention,: and on February 3, 1498, Henry yil granted John Cabot special authority to impress six English ships at no greater oharges than it was the custom to.pay for ships taken for the King's- service, enlist companies of volunteers and take them to the countries discovered by Cabot. The date of the discovery is generally; fixed at June 24, 1497, because of its being the date on the map of Sebastian Cabot, which is cited in Habluyt. But another copyr.of 'Sebastian Cabot's map exists,at Oxford, upon which the date is 1494, and another in Germany has the same date. Antiquarians dispute as to which is in error. John Cabot did not make"< a second voyage to the new world, but the work which he had begun was continued by. his son, Sebastian, who was'the discoverer of'the North American coast'line as far south as ��������� Chesapeake bay. There is nothing in existence to show, the time and place of Sebastian's birth, and whether he was born in Bristol or Venice is.in dispute. Sebastian accompanied his father on his first voyage, and ih' May, 1498, taking advantage .of the charter whioh had been granted by Henry VII, he sailed from Bristol, with two ships and a large number of volunteers, to discover the northwestern passage to China and Japan. His voyage was more northerly than that of the other navigators and he encountered many, icebergs: so he turned toward the south until he finally reached Newfoundland." From this point he cruised along the coast and made frequent landings, and saw Indians who wore the skins of beasts. His voyage was as far south as the latitude of Gib- ralter, and finally - in despair he abandoned the attempt to -find the western passage to India/Upon his .return little ^was thought of his discoveries, though he had found an immense continent with a temperate climate. But he -had not found the passage to India. ?His voyages were, therefore, dimmed by those of Vasco de Gama, who had sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and had reached India. As an instance of the little value which was attached to the discoveries of Cabot, it may be mentioned that' the family allowed the patent tjo be lost, which patent had given the family an exclusive right to trade with the new world. But the wholo object in life of Sebastian Cabot was to' discover a new passage to Asia, and at . the death of Henry VII, when he found it impossible to obtain funds for the purpose in England, he went to Spain and Ferdinand appointed him one of . the council for New Spain. In 1526 he set sail and' attempted to find a southwestern passage. In this voyage he; reached Paraguay, which .he discovered,' but -he abandoned the attempt to pass around the continent by the south and returned to Spain. Meanwhile the navigator was ordered by Edward VI to return to England, and iri answer to "the summons he .returned in 1548. He was regarded as a.great navigator, and the King gave him a pension equal to $800 "in consideration of good and acceptable service done by..hirn.'' The Spanish wanted him back, ��������� and' on January 19, 1550, the .Emperor, Charles V, applied.for his return, but without resultt'.for his influence inspired much confidence in England, .where he was lboked'up to by all the mariners, and on that account he was given a ��������� special reward of ������200. Edward VI also granted Sebastian a copy of the patent which had been lost by the family, and in. 1553 Sebastian organized a company of merchants to go northwest to Norway arid then sail southerly to China. The' expedition was, of course, a failure, and the ships were frozen in the ice, all of the persons on board perishing with the cold. Another ship which was sent on the same errand discovered Archangel and opened commerce between England and Russia. Some years later Sebastian died, but the date of his death is not known, nor is the burial place. The most important result of the voyages of the Cabots was that upon them was based the claim of England to North America. Although the date of landing was uncertain, as well as the place of landing, the great- fact remained that in an official map published in Spain in 1500 the ��������� North Atlantic coast from Cape Hatteras north was starred with five English standards at different points and the words, ''Discovered by the English," were imprinted upon it. This admission by Spain, which the Spanish afterward greatly regretted, had the effect of conceding the northern continent to England. As a result'of the Cabot voyages no serious attempt--was made to dispute Great Britain's right to the northern continent, and Spain made no settlements north of,' Flprida. Historians are unanimous* in admitting that the voyages had the great consequence of pre-empting the northern .continent to the English-speaking people. WHITE.CLOTHES FOR HOT DAYS They Dispel the Heat and You Can Prove .'< It by Thermometers. "White clothes are the only safe things to wear during the hot summer season," 'says Weather?-..Observer, Dunn. -'Ever since I. came to this, town,to live I have been marvelling at the hot, stuffy, utterly absurd fashion in, .which New York men of all classes choose to array them-- selves during the dog-day period. This summer, however, I notice that the sensible white duck of the tropics is beginning to make its way. I rejoice? Let the good work go on." v "Is it then true that' the men of New York are so vain?" asked a Cuban gentleman, on a visit to New York the other day. "Black ' clothing in this furnace heat!-Why, if a man, during the hot season in Cuba, in Mexico, or in any of the countries of Central or South America, were to appear upon the streets in mid-day attired in a costume of that sor't he would be immediately taken in hand 'by his friends. They would question his sanity?'? , "I think I shall be doing an actual charity while I am here this summer by. endeavoring to make proselytes for the white duck suit. You notice the suit I have on. ' I had, it made in Havana for the equivalent of seven American dollars, Pretty fair fit, is.it not? Well, this suit is made -of fine, light, close-grained, strong linen duck, and, although lam told that this is the hottest day of the year thus far, I will venture to say that I am the coolest man in New York at the present momient. This is not due to the faot that I was reared in a tropical climate, for I have always felt the heat considerably more than my people ordinarily do, and the heat here just now is, I must admit, rather iri tense. It is due, however, to the fact that I am? dressed for the weather. Every child knows that anything white in the line of textures dispels heat; whether it be a white canvas tent or a white coat. On the contrary, black is a very magnet to attract heat, and when a piece of black cloth has'once absorbed heat, which it-.does very rapidly and in almost incredible quantities, it holds it for a remarkably longVtime;? The heat once absorbed by a piece of black cloth pasges away proportionately as slowly as the heat .from a piece of steel taken from the forge and allowed to cool by theaction of the air, without, being placed in'watei\ .This duck suit.a.ttracts only a minimum quantity of heat, and what little lt does absorb is quickly cast off." - In substantiating this statement, "Farmer" Dunn made a curious experiment. He took two perfectly registering thermometers and placed them ..side by' side in the sun in' one of the windows or portholes of his eyrie. In something over a minute both thermometers, from a temperature of 85 degrees, which tbey, registered in the comparative coolness ot Mr. Dunn's room before being placed In the rays of the sun, indicated a temperature of 96 degrees. Mr. Dunn then snipped from the black cover whioh he throws over his camera in foousing tbe lens, a small piece of cloth. He bound this over the bulb of one of the thermometers, and around? the bulb of tha other thermometer he tied a; piece at ordinary white cotton. Then he again placed both thermometers in the sun. In- side*of three minutes the thermometer, covered with the piece of black cloth-' showed a temperature of 107 degrees,* while the triermpmeter with the bit ol white cotton over its bulb remained' stationary at the temperature it had previously exhibited, 96 degrees. "This experiment'" continued Mr.. Dunn, "shows that black Is a vastly more effective absorber and retainer of heat than white or any other color. On extremely hot days an experiment such as I have just made will'show a difference between the black and white bound thermometers of from 20 to 40 degrees, and when both thermometers are placed' in the shade, the heat of the one covered' with black cloth will subside much less rapidly.than the heat of that covered by the white'cloth. The :thlokness of the cloth makes hardly any appreciable difference in the experiment, which any one may try and test to hia own satis* faction. Therefore, if you dress two men' in duck suits of exactly the same weight1 and texture, only one of them dyad black, the man in the black dyed suit will be from 20 to 40 degrees hotter under the rays of the sun than the. man dressed in the white duck suit." ADIER /"UTT"?- A Military Bandsman of 50 Years Standing and a You_������ Butcher Experience the Marvellous Curative Powers of Dodd's Kidney Piils. A NEWSPAPER INVESTIGATION. In the Case of Mr. Henry Pye Diabetes Had Brought on Paralysis���������Two Doctors Said Wm. Wade Was Dying of Blight's Disease. ey Cured Them. Each of them tells an interesting; story to a newspaper Reporter- Mr. Pye played in the Marine Band at the Duke of Wellington's funeral���������In the Royal Grenadier's Band for 20 years���������He had given up hope when Dodd's Kidney. Pills cured hini���������Wm. Wade, after being- sick for years with Bright's Disease and his life despaired of, tests the power of Dodd's Kidney Pills and is now in good health. A. Businesslike Girl. member of the firm pressed his ��������� Untimely. "Do you know what you are trying to say," asked the finical fault finder, "when you epeak of a man going to an untimely grave at the age of 80?" "I do," said the undaunted obituarist. "The old villain ought to have gone there 40 years ago."���������Cincinnati Enquirer. The hand to:his heart. "I love you madly!" he exclaimed. "I love but you ! I have never loved before!" The typewriter inclined her head. "Very well,", she.replied.. "More than one copy, sir?"���������Detroit Journal. Right vs. Micht. To the superficial reader of It may be that ether will make plants ��������� grow, as a Copenhagen scientific man. asserts, but/is not there danger that lt will make the hired riian even more drowsy than he is? A Chicago woman who has written a leries of elaborate articles for an eastern magazine on "How to Manage a Husband," never has found one to manage. "Theory evidently has a hlff_er literary ������_hie than experience. historical records there is no doubt that it would seem that might had almost invariably triumphed over right. Looking at the nlain facts, it would be impossible to deny the' truth of Napoleon's dictum that: "The Lord is always on "the side of the big battalions. "In other words-, the strongest always win. The story of all the great empires that the world has seen from the days of Alexander until now appear to prove this ' beyond the possibility of contradiction. But the more keenly seeing eye will discern beneath the suface of first appearances the deeper- lying fact that, taking the average of conquests throughout the period of known history, right has really triumphed in the guise of might. In other words, although many -apparent injustices, both national and individual may have been done, it would be found when the balance came to be struck, that tha fittest and the best had survived and attained to ascendency, while those less fitted to shape the future destinies of the race had succumbed. It was thus with the Greek, the Roman, the Moslem, the Frank, the Norseman, and the Anglo- Saxon, and there is no reason to believe that the logic of history will ever contradict itself. From Mail and Empire. The reputation which Dodd's Kidney Pills enjoy to-day must have been built upon a broad foundation of sure curative qualities. To verify this view, a Mail and Empire representative yesterday investigated two wonderful cures that have been much talked of in the East End of the city, and the results of the enquiry are worth recording. The.first man interviewed was Mr. Henry Pye, 115 Pape avenue. He is a genial, happy, prosperous-looking man of sixty-five years, and was very pleased to see anyone who wished to talk about Dodd's Kidney Pills. "Why shouldn't I talk, about Dodd's Kidney Pills?" asked Mr. Pye. "In i~ o ���������r*t place, they saved my life���������no doubc ..Lent that���������and in the second place, if it ha'."n't been for them, I couldn't have kept my rituation. A neighbor of mine, Mrs. Farreil, she's a great Methodist, was cured by them, and she calls them God's Kidney Pills. "But you want to hear my story. I'm a bandsman, you know. By trade I'm a shoemaker, but six years ago I laid away my last, and since then have given all my time to music. I've been a member of the Royal Grenadiers' band for twenty years. It's just fifty years ago last month since I joined the Marine Band in England. I played at the Duke of Wellington's funeral, in 1S52. ��������� "For thirty-five years I have lived in Toronto. "In the winter I play at- the rinks. Two years ago the first night was very cold,'and T got chilled through. That was the beginning of my sickness. Last summer, when the - Grenadiers went to Berlin, I could hardly get through the day. The next morning I got up feeling pretty well. But after breakfast I was taken with frightful pains in my back. I had to send for a doctor. He gave me morphine, and pronounced it a very bad case of diabetes. In a week I lost forty pounds of flesh. I would drink so much water that I would go out and- vomit it. But I would come in with just as great a thirst as ever. I must have drank gallons of it a day." "But could you still get round all right?" ���������'.5Weli, no.. My right leg began to be paralyzed, and at times my foot would swing about as if I had no control of it. I was living on Grant street then, but as I couldn't walk, I thought I might as well ride a bit farther and came out here to get the country air... "I have been accustomed to play in the band at the Exhibition, and last year, the Exhibition time drew near, I anxious to stick it out for that engagement, thinking it would be my last. I was beginning to feel the paralysis in ray fingers, so that I could scarcely work the keys. My friends, too, thought it was all up with me. "During the Exhibition I stayed with my daughter, who lives in Parkdale. I as was was getting worse every day. My son-in- law said he had heard of several "women in Parkdale who had been cured of kidney disease by using Dodd's Kidney Pills. So he got a box for me, and I started taking them. Before two days I began to feel better. I took that box and ten others. By that time I felt so well that I stopped taking them,' except occasionally. My health is now first-rate, but I still take the pills, off and on. "Last winter I played sixty nights at the rink without the least inconvenience. Yesterday I walked ten miles. Last summer I could no more have done that than fly. Really, I feel myself getting stronger every day. I can run up the four flights of stairs to the band praotice-room easier than I could crawl up them last summer. I'm just about my healthy weight, and fit as a fiddle. "I tell you Dodd's Kidney Pills are all right. I've started a dozen people taking them since I was cured. My daughter, who has been sick and doctoring for a long time, has begun to take the Tablets, and she says they help her as nothing else has done." William Wade, the nineteen-year-old son of Mr. Henry Wade, the well-known East End butcher, 940 Queen street east, was another who it was reported had been marvellously cured. When seen by a Mail and Empire representative, he was in the act of hoisting a hundred-and- forty pound quarter of beef to his shoulder and carrying it into the shop. ���������'Are you the boy that was thought to be dying of Bright's disease a year and a half ago, and had been given up by two doctors?" asked the newspaper man. "I am, and it was a pretty close shave I had." "Well, you don't look much of an Infant or invalid now." "You saw what I was doing. Well, I was as good as a corpse a year and a half ago. It'll just take a minute to tell you about it. "Six years ago I had. a bad attack of diphtheria. I was just over it when I went hunting, and got-a relapse. Kidney trouble set in. It would come baok every spring and fall for three or four weeks. Of course, the attacks became mora severe, and in the interval I was of little use to myself or anyone else. "A year ago last fall I got so bad that two doctors were attending me daily. It was Bright's disease, they said. They said, too, that if I got over that attack I would not be able te work for six years. Before long they gave me up altogether, and said my death was but a matter of a few weeks. It was then that some one brought me a box of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I took fifteen boxes, and was cured. "I continue to take the pills occasionally, especially after heavy lifting'. Now I can do a heavy day's work and feel first-rate after it. I recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills to everyone that I know has kidney trouble." :M cag^asgy.sfr'Vw'i^gar.^ ?*^���������_Bf������g*H-*���������������WW TP IlIKLI IIIS ssued Every Tuesday At Union, B. C. M. Whitney, Editor. TEAMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. IN ADVANCE. Ono-Year'.' ..,."....."...'..:..I..?..;.;?. $200 Six Months ./.... ..... 1 25 Single Copy -���������. .......... 0 05 $12.00 , 150 ? 25 00 .50 00 10 20 and RATES OF ADVERTISING One lyi.h per year .. monch ?..;.?.... eighth col per'year ..'. fourth .. week,?., lino Local notices,per lino ..:... Notices of Births, Marriages Deaths, 50 cents each insertion. No Advertisment inserted for less than 50 cents. '- . ���������''.'." Persons failing 10 get The News re- -gularly should notify the.Office. Persons having any business with TIE News will please call at the office or write. should be able to decide rightfully all questions, and to it the v.orkingrhen as well as others may with confidence appeal. Wages cannot be settled with force no.more than morals or religion. TUESDAY, SEPT. 21st, 1897. We hear nothing further about Secretary Sherman's failing mind. We may not always like what he does or says, but it is cowardly to speak of his ability as The number of railroad accidents on. the "other side of the line" compared with such events in, Canada or England speaks volumes in favor of our? railway management. If the news that the Cuban insurgents have captured Victoria De Lastunas, Cuba, prove true it will be .another step in Spain's humiliation. If that unhappv country had'inore sense and less pride, she would withdraw her troops, and end the fruitless struggle. The letter of Mr. Robert Grant published in'THE News last week shows it ' is sheer madness .to attempt to get into the Klondike by way of Skayway this season; and there is abundance of evidence elsewhere that it is utter folly to go into that country by any route, before spring. It is doubtful if the government be not required to send relief. A famine is already feared. POWER OS1 ATTORNEY. This is to certify that I bavd this day made Frank Parks my Power of Attorney to'transact all of my business while I am absent from Union. Nelson Parks.' Witness W.B.Wal__iV������J. P- Union, Aug. 26th, 1897. The September Canadian. The September Canadian Magazine is devoted mainly to sport and ��������� travel. W. Orton, the young Canadian mile runner, who has beaten every other college man in America, writes on "University Athletics" in a charming manner, and his article is profusely illustrated? .There are also,two pa^es of critical notes on "National Sport" which are worth read- ing. Winnifred Wilton contributes her third article on the beauties and charac- teristics of Norway, while A. P. McKish- nie writes charmingly of Rondeau Bay, nnd the Ontario Government Park at that point; both }hese articles are well illustrated. Donald B.C.: Montgomery vvrites'of: "The Premiers of Manitoba," giving a valuable political history, of the Prairie Province. R. M. Bucke, M.D.', the well-known Canadian litterateur, contributes a ��������� lengthy article on the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy. There are? also a number of shott stories, by Ella S. Atkinson, Thomas Swift, Fergus Hume, and Ancon Reth'al. There are six pages: of book review, and two in French, the latter representing perhaps the first literary attempt in Canada to interest both'English aud French readers in one publication. The whole number shows undoubted strength. __rTher2 is Nothing ? British Columbia Directory. The Williams guaranteed to be the only complete Directory of British Colum bia that will be published this year. As soon as issued from the press.it will be delivered throughout Comox District., Fake no other and see you get The Williams' R..Ti.Williams, Publisher 28 B.ro.id St., Victoria, B.C. M'i:;BlC/_L'-&',CT.T-''r} c \L 1FFICSS 0 I: THE GREAT STRUGIGLE. \i\ E do not agree with the Victorh Times'in its view, of the labor strike in the United States. From the meagre reports the deputy-marshals were reckless in their attack upon the marching line ol miners. If criminally so, they will be punished. Lawlessness will be put down, no matter whether commuted by marshals or laborers. But it is only inciting to riot to write and publish a lot of rot about being "taxed to death by the'monstrous exactions of the Dingley tariff." The people there have only got by the legislation creating that measure, just what)a majority of them wanted. They have had a high tariff long enough to know something about it, and having had restored their favorite doctrine, what reason have they to complain? And' wh.it right have we to call it monstrous? No doubt the struggle between opposing policies will go on there, but it will doubtless be settled by the arbitrament of the ballot. Good times are fast approaching. .Wages m manylines are being voluntarily advanced. The gold fever is drawing thousands away from the farms, shops, mine?, and factories. Their places will have to be filled by others. With the better times will come content. Undoubt- edlv a few, born in the throes of old-world tyrannies, have inherited a spirit which nothing will satisfy; but the average workm m if fairly treated, will do what is rijjht. From such as he spring the merchants, manufacturers, and professions. He require? the protection of the law, as much as any. Doubtless at times he will be led astray, but are those on the top roll of the ladder always right? What is needed are words of cfdmness, counsels of forbearance. Any language calculated to excite passions may properly be deemed criminal. The use of force by either side is yrcatly to be regretted. The law must be maintained, but with no undue harshness, or brutality. In a country where the ballot is almost universal il Dr. RATCLIFFE This noted specialist, so long established in Seattle, continues to treat with unequaled success &U, Nervous, Chronic and Private Disea*j������ of both sexes. .The worst cases solicited, and perfect cures guaranteed. SUFFERING WOMEN"���������Do not despair. There is not only sympathy, but help for you. There is no earthly reason why you should longer endure the miseries arising from Irregularities, Pe riodical Headaches, Falling or Displacement of the Womb, Leucorrhoea, Ner- von ness, Hysteria and like ailments whieh rob you of your strength, health and beauty, and make you prematurely old. In sacred confidence tell everything to Dr. Ratcliffe, who is an expert on all Female Complaints. WEAK MEN���������Young, middle-aged and , old, who have violated the laws of nature : You are now reaping the results of your former folly. Many of you havu Evil Dreams, Exhausting Drains, Impo- tency, Atrophy or the Wasting Away of the Organs; Loet Manhood; Weak, Aching Back; Frequent, Paiuful Urina tion and Sediment in Urine; Pimples, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, BasMulness, Despondency, Stupidity, Loss of Ambition or similar symptoms. In brief your body, brain and sexual organs have become weak. Dr. R-itcliffe cau restnrt to vou what you have lost���������YOUR PRECIOUS MANHOOD. He cau lit you for pleasure, study, business and marriage, nad send you out into the world with life anew. VARICOCELE���������Hydrocele, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Stiictnre and Syphilis completeiy cured by Dr. Ratcliffe in the shortest possible time. KIDNEY���������Bladder, Urinary, Liver, Stomach, Heart aud Lung Diseases; Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Brain Diseases; Biood and Skin Diseases, and Piles, Fistula, Rheumatism, Rupture and Chronic Catarrh permanently cured by the latest and best methods kuowu to medical science. MAIL TREATMENT-Always satisfactory. Therefore write if you cannot call. Free Book on nervous and sexual fli-eases to all describing their troubles. Office hours : 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. ; Sundays from 10 to 12 a. m. only. Address DR. RATCLIFFE���������713 First Avenue, Seattle, Wash. LIKE If it is Well Put Together So here it is ??: : Single Harness at $lo, $12, $i ���������; per set and up.���������Sweat Pads at 50 cents. Whips at 10, 25, 50 and a good Rawhide for 75 cents, and a Whale Bone at $1 and up to $2; I have the largest Stock of WHIPS in town and also the Best Axle Grease a O EQsi'SS. Fop Tweh ty-Fi ve. Cents ��������� Trunks at Prices to Suit the Times. Promptly and "NEATLY DONE Repairing { Wesley Willard PROFBSSlO$TAL, Drs Lawrence & Westwood. , Physicians and Surgeons. - "crisrioiT _3.o. We have appointed Mr. James Ab- rams out collector until xurtaer notice, to whom all overdue sc< ���������mats may be paid. HARRISON P. MILLARD, Phystcian, Surgeon and Accoucheur. Offices : Willard Block,^Cumberland Courtenay House, Courtenay. Hours of Consultation: Cumberland, 10 to 12 a. m. Tuesdays and Fridays. Courtenay, 7? to 9 A. M. AND P. M.-* :33������ ������__������������_*__.^^g@g_^_Sei2&2S__>g������) W. S DALBY. DOS. & L D.S$ ^ Dentistry In all Its Branches &' ^ Plate work, rilling aud rxtr&cfcine ra*i >i Office opposite Waverly Hotel, Union '^ !*J i ��������� ������)'��������� .1 Hours���������9 a.m. to 5'n.in. and from jQ ^' (5 [t. 111 to 8 p.m. j?.' BARKER & POTTS, BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, NOTARIES. &e. Office Room 2. McPhee & M'x>re B'ld'g and at NAN'AIMO. I). C. P. O. DH.UVEK 18. 1 1 wmiuaii wi 11 > 1 mi 1 mini ��������� ��������� mi inaiiniw 1������������������ H. A. Simpsdn sarrlste? & soii_ttor, No-s 2 & 4- Commercial Street. :fcT___-7_LZ_������0, E. C. L. P. ECKSTEIN. Barrister, Solicitor Notary Public Office:���������First Street. Union, B C. YARWOOD & YOUNG BARRISTERS and,SOLICITORS Corner of Bastion and Commercial Streets, Nanaimo, B. C. Branch Office, Third Street ������nd Dunsmuir Avenue, B. C. Will be in Uuion the 3rd Wednesday of each month and remain ten days. ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������.���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������,��������������������������� f ������ IR - s a X B FOR SALE.���������My house and two lota in ���������he village of Courtenay. K. Grant, Union. "pOR SALE, RANCH-One mile and a -*- half from Union, contains 160 acres and will be disposed of at a low figure. En* quire of James Abrams. For Sale.���������The dwelling house and lot on Maryport avenue belonging to Mr J. S. Kendall. The house is i������ storey, well built, good well of water and garden Lot is full size. Will be sold at a bargain. Apply to M. Whitney, News Office. WANTED���������A good canvasser. Enquire at ^'News Office. FOR RENT - The boarding house late ly occupied by Mr. A. Lindsay. App'y to H. P. Collis at the Union Department Store. If our readers have any local news of in terest, we will be pleased to insert same in the local column, if brought to the office. Visiting cards printed at the N--WS Office in neat script. Esquimalt and Nanaimo Ry. Steamer City of Naiiaimo OWENS MASTER The Steamer CITY of NANAIMO will sail as follows CALLING AT WAY, PORTS as passengers and freiffht may offer Lea *o Victoria, Tuesday.7 a.m. " Nanaimo for Comox,- Wednesday, 7 a. in Leave Comox for Nanaimo, Fridays, 7.i.in. " Nanaimo for Victoria Saturdcy, 7���������ii'.ni For freight or state rooms apply on board, or at the Company's ticket office, Victoria Station, Store street. Society Cards I. O. O. F. Union Lodge, No. n, meets eery Friday night at 8 o'clock. Visiting breth ren cordially invited to attend. F. A. Anley, R. S. Cumberland Lodge, A. F &A. M, B. C, R. Union, B. C. ' Lodge meets first Friday in each month. Visiting brethren are cordially invited to attend. L. Mounce. Sec. Hiram Looge No 14 A.F .& A.M.,B:C.R Courtenay B.C. Lodge meets on every Saturday on or before the full of the moon Visiting Brothers cordially requested to attend. R. S. McGonnell, Secretary. Cumberland Encampment. No. 6, I. O. Oi F., Union. Meets every alternate Wednesdays ol each month at 8 o'clock p. rh. Visiting brethren cordially invited to attend. . ���������John'Comrk,'. Scribe. Esquimalt & Nana mo Rai I way Company. NOTICE. ������������������ TO PROSPECTORS, Miners,- 'and Holders Of Mineral Claims on unoccupied land within ihe Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Company's Land Grant���������FOR ONE YEAR ONLY from the the date of this notice, the Railway Company will sell their rights to all Minerals, (excepting Coal and Iron) and the Surface rights ot Mineral Claims, at the price ������f $5.00 per acre. Such sales will oe subject to all other reservations contained in conveyances from the Company prior to-this date. One-half of the purchase money to be paid ten davs after recording the Claim with the government, and a duplicate of the record to be filed in the Company's Land Office, Victoria, on payment of the first instalment. The balance of the purchase meney to be paid in two equal instalments, at the expiration of six and twelve months, without interest. Present holders of Mineral Claims who have not previously made other arrangements with the Company for acquiring Surface and Mineral rights, are hereby I notified to at once make the first pay- I ment on their Claims, as otherwise they will be deemed and treated as trespassers. Leonard H. Solly, Victoria, BC.| Land Commissioner June 1, 1897. J 2390 T. D. McLEAN, WATCHMAKER AND STATIONER. THE LARGE Increase ia our repairing department, under the supervision of Mr. Ash, speaks for itself of the quality of work turned out. We guarantee every watch repaired by us to give perfect satisfaction. OUR PRICES Are the lowest consistent with good work. WE HAVE Just received a shipment of the latest novels in paper covers, which are selling rapidly. All orders by mail or otherwise, will receive prompt attention. T. D. McLEAN, UINTO-T B. C. C, HJARBELL JtSTDealer in Stoves and Tinro Plumbing and general Sheetiron work PROMPTLY DONE *3"Age_t for the ,'",'. ? Celebrated Gurney Souvenir Stoves and '��������� ������������������Ranges-������������������ Manufacturer of the New Air-tight, heaters DO YOU ������������������TAB TOUR LOOM. PARE? It publishes all that is worthy of notice of THE LOCAL NEWS. It Gives the cream of TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. It Supports GOOD ORDER, PUBLIC ENTERPRISES, THE CHURCHES, FRATERNAL SOCIETIES, everything worthy of encouragement, t It Publishes Occasionally, Bright Original Stories, Bright Original Poems, Bright Original ' 'Chatter." And is the ONLY WEEKLY COUNTRY PAPER in the PROVINCE which has a TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE. It is the exponent of the district, and by it the district will be judged by tbe outside public. ��������� ?'It'is'as CHEAP as a good paper can be produced in a country distrift. Give it your genm-us support and there .will be incrc.'i**-'t-d inij>rt:v<-ii-ier.ts. *ay**ms*f*m 1 m j*.- b. -_^c;l.:eo:d General Teaming. Powd- r Oil, Etc., Hauled Wc< d ��������� ���������' . in Blocky Furnished. SCAVENGER WORK DONE CTJMBEHLAND SHOE SHOP. I have moved into my new shop on Dunsmuir Avenue, wherel am prepared to .manufacture and repair all kinds of men's, women's, and children's shoes. Give me a call. NELSON PARKS. OO V-ARS* ���������XPERICNOS. MARKS* DCSION8, OOPVRIONTS Jko. Anyone Bending ft Bkeieh and deseriptto- m*��������� qnleklr Mcortaln, free, whether an invention (m probably patentable. Communications strictly confldentloL Oldest agency for ������ecurlnroTxa___. NOTICE is hereby given that application will be made to the Legislative Assembly of the Province ot British Columbia, at its next Session, for an Act to incorporate a Company with power to construct, equip, operate and maintain a railway, either standard or narrow gauge, for the purpose of conveying passengers, freight, and ore from'a point on Douglas Channel, at or near the head of navigation on Khamat Inlet, along the Kitamat Valley to Lakelse Like; thence to a point on the Skeena River to a point at or near the mouth of the Zymoetz River; thence following the valley of the Skeena River; thence either by way of Kitsum Kalem or Kitwancool Valleys, or by Kispyox and the old trail to the Stickeen River to a point at or near Telegraph Creek; . thence by the most direct and feasible route to Teslin Lake, with power to con struct, equip, operate and maintain a branch line from Telegraph Creek to Glenora; and with power to construct, equip, operate and maintain branch lines and all necessary roads, bridges ways, ferries, wharves, docks and coal bunkers; and with power to build, own, equip, operate a������nd maintain steam and other vessels and boats; and with power to build, equip, operate and maintain telegraph and telephone lines in connection with the said mlway and branches, and to generate electricity for the supply of light, heat anil power; and with power io expropriate lands for the purposes of the Company, and to acquire lands, bonuses, privileges or other aids from any Government or persons or bodies corporate, and to make traffic or. other arrangements with railways, steamboat or other com-1 panies; and with power io tuild waggon roads to be used in the construction'of ���������of such railways, and in advance of ihe same, and to levy and collect tolls from all parties using, and on all freight passing over, any of such roads built by the Company, whether built before or after the pKssage of the Act hereby applied for, and with all other usual, necessary or incidental rights, powers or privileges, as may be necessary or incidental or conductive to the attainment of the above cbjects, or any of them. BODWELL, IRVING & DUFF, Solicitors for the Applicants. Victoria, _th September, 1897. 2530 NOTICE. Cumberland and Union Water-works Company, Ld. The above company will place the line of. service from the mains to the line of the street at each house when the trenches are open, but after completion of the water system the charge will be $7.50 for tapping the main. 238o F. B. Smith, Sec'y. A Strung* Craft. "What is it ?" That is what people ask as they, view the curious looking craft near the road at Sandwick, the work of the constructive'genius of all old gentle- nun by the na-uo of Thompson. The affair is about 20 feet long, 2 feet high, two and a quarter feet wide���������a double eader. It is nude of inch boards, rough, both sides, nailed ou to split bent blanches, which surv; r_e purpose of ribs It looks for all the wjrld like a coffin m ide for soiue I'tngfellow (no relation of the poet) but so slim as to be lll-uropor- tioued. If a pair of oxeu were hitched to at, and pulled it dowu to the Show building for exhibition, it would attract '���������more, attention than .1 baby elephant;.but it could never be safely floated down the river? Mr. Thompson says ifs a boat, but it's .certainly of a S|*ecies never before seen in dsese parts. Probably Mr. Thompson i������ a joker. NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that application will be made to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia at its next aewion for an Act to incorporate a company with power to construct, equip, unaiotain aad operate a line of railway, commencing at a point at or near the head of navigation on the Stickeen River, in the Dis trust of Cassiar* Province of British Columbia; thenoe by the most feasible route to a point at or near the south end of Teslin Lake, in the District aforesaid; thence along the said Teslin Lake, hj the side thereof which shall be lound most feasible for the purposes of the company, in a northerly direction to a point at or near the northern boundary of the said Province of British Columbia. And with the further power to extend , the said line of railway in a southerly direction by the most feasible route to a point on or uear the head of Portland Cfinal, or some other convenient port ou the west coast of British Columbia. t And with further power to build, coi*- atruct, equip, maintain and operate tcl.-- grap and telephone lines to be usvd in connection with the undertaking of the company and to transmit messages thereon for the public, and to levy aud collect tolls therefor; and with further-jo-ver to build, equip, maintain and operate steamship.* and other vessels to bo used in connection with the said railway, whether on the Stikeen River or elsewhere, and with further powder to expropriate lands for the purposes of the company, and to acquire lauds, uonuseH, privileges, or other aid or concessions, from any government municipality, persons or iiodies corporate, and to make traffic and other arrangements with railway, steamboat or other companies; and for all ooher nsaal necessary or incidental rights, powers and privileges as may be necessary. Dated 13th day of September, A. D. 1897 McPHILLIPS, WOOTTEN & BARNARD, Solicitors for the Applicants. 2-5 3 NOTICE All persons are forbidden to deposit nigh soil or garbage upon or near tbe hospital grounds, under penalty of the law. STTNX*AY SERVICES Trinity 'Church���������Services in the ave- ning. Rev. J. X. Willemar, rector. Methodist Church��������� Services at the UBual hours morning and evening. Rev. W. Hicks, pastor. .-St.-George's Presbyterian Church��������� Rev. ���������--���������������������������-���������������������������" , Services at 11 a. iii. and 7 p. m. Sunday Schoo ^t2:30. Y.P.S.C E. at close of evening service. DISTRICT DIRECTORY GOV'T AGENT Assessor and Collector. ~VV. B. Anderson, Office, Union, residence, Comox. STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE and Coroner.,-���������James Abrams, Union. JUSTICES of the Peace.���������Union, A. McKuight, W. B. Walker, and H. P. Collu.���������Comox, Gee. F. Drabble, and Thomas Cairns.-���������Courtenay, J. W. McKenzie.���������Sandwick, John Mundell. CONSTABLES.���������J. W. Hutchinson, and P. S. Scharschmidt, Union. COURTENAY. B.C. COURTENAY is a pleasant village situated on both sides of tho Courconay River, and on the road u j the Settlement^ three miles f rum Comox kiay. The road to Union .also passes through it. It has a central position. Hare are two hotels, one first class store, a saw mill, soda-water works, post office, shops, etc. It is T^.*_r COURTENAY, B. C. ifl Best of Wines and Liquors. c Barber, Shop - AND ; ; Bathing Establishmen t O. H. Fechner, JAMES ABRAMS Notary Public. Agent for ihe Alliance Fire Insurance Company of Lon don and the . Phoenix 61 Hartford. * r .-J Agenr for the Provincial Building .and Loan Association of Toronto. THIRTY-SEVENTHYEAR ������������������������ ��������� WORLD-WIDE CIRCULATION ! Twenty Pages; Weekly; Illustrated. \ Indispensable to Mining Men. < , J ) THREE DOLLARS PER YEAR. POSTPAID. { f SAMPLE COPIES PP.EE. j \ MIRING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS, \ <220 Market St., San Francisco, Gal.\ Do you know that'we can print you just as neat a business card a-s yon can get in any other printing office in the Province, and just as cheap too ? Bear in mind, we print meal tickets also? In fact we can do anything in the line of job printing. Give us a trial. Nanaimo Cigar Factory Phillip Gable and Co., Prop's Bastion Street ��������� Nanaimo B. C^ Manufactures the finest cigars and employes none but white labor. Why purchase inferior foreign cigars when you can obtain a SUPERIOR ARTICLE toi the same money ������N_���������*������������������������������������_���������������������������^_������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������_���������_���������������������������������������������������������������M���������-���������������������������������������������_������������������ NOTICE Any person or persons destroying or withholding the kegs and barrels ef the Union Brewery Company Ltd of Nanaimo, will be prosecuted. A liberal reward will be paid for information leading to conviction. 'V. E. Norris, Sec'y 11���������Un_MMM���������MapB_BI_������_MH^__*__������������__^__MM___B_B__WW__B���������������!_��������������������������������������������������� J. A. Carthew ARCHITECT and BUILDEE, ���������tTJSTIO^T, B. c. ��������� NOTICE.���������All subscriptions in aid of the Fire Brigade and its appliances, should be aid to Mr. Frank Dalby. o_______p! o:__:e3.a._? i i _*__ WOYB* WIRE FENCING "WIRE ROPE SELVAGB. ���������EST 6TEEL WIRE E������3_A__Pti THESE AS WELL AS . Mc Mullen's choice ��������� Ontario wire f^ncinVco., uo. Steel Wire Netting for Pictoa. Ontario. ������ Trellis, are sold before. T? Poultry Yards, Lawn t encng, etc., much Lower this year, than ever They are.the best. Merchant for them. Ask your Hardware GO TO FOR AT- rices. any- a ��������� e # LY CONSUMPTION I presume we have used over one hundred bottles of Piso's _ Cure for Consumption in my family, and I am continually advising other. to get it. Undoubtedly it is the I ever used.���������"W. C. Miltenbbrgbr, Clarion, Pa., Dec. 29, 1894. 1 sell Piso's Cure for Consumption, and never have any com- ���������* plaints.���������E. Shorey, Postmaster, Shorey, Kansas, Dec. 21st, 1894. '^?^fg:i]S?P;S5iCiJ'lR���������i IF OJB? Tbe Best Cough Syrup. 1 Tastes Good. Use in tirae.| Sold by Druggists, ^M-lC'o?t V^JTteJ^ft^faWTO4iH?arfJffgli<^afl^_^ ai nr-W r inWniir^fliii The ign of the Four. BY A. CON AN DOYLtE? * (CONTINUED.) .-.'.' ^ .���������'".'.' "Well. I was never iri v luck's', way' long. Suddenly.���������'. withotit a- note of warning, the great mutiny broke upon us. One month India- lay as still and peaceful, to all appearance, as Surrey or. Kent; the next there were two hundred thousand black devils let loose, and the country was a perfect hell. Of course, you know .all about?it, gentlemen, a deal more tlian I do, very like, since reading is not in my line. : I only know, what I saw with my own eyes. - Our plantation was at a place called Muttra, near the border of the Northwest Provinces. Night after - night the whole sky' was alight with the burning bungalows, and; day after , day we had small companies of Europeans passing through our estate, with their wives and children, on their way o to Agra, where������������������ where, the nearest troops. Mr. Abelwhite was an obstinate man. He had it in his head that the affair had been exaggerated, and that it would blowtoyer as suddenly as it had sprung up. , ?There he sat on his ' veranda, drinking ."whisky pegs and ��������� smoking cheroots, while the country was in a' blaze about him. Of course we stuck by him, I and Dawson, who,; with his wife, used to do the bookwork and managing. Well, one fine day- the crash came. , I had been away on a distant plantation, and was riding slowly home in the.evening, when niy eye fell upon something all huddled to- f ether at the bottom 'of a.steep nullah..' rode down to see what it was, and the ���������cold struck through my heart when I found, it was Dawson's wife, all cut , into ribbons, and half eaten with jackals and native dogs. A little farther up the road Dawson himself was lying on his face, quite dead, with an empty revolver in his hand, and four Sepoys lying across each other in front of him. I reined up my horse, wondering which way I should turn, but at that moment I saw thick' smoke curling up from Abelwhite's bungalow- and the flameB beginning to burst through the roof. I knew then that I could dp my employer no good, but would only throw my own life away if I meddled in the matter. Prom where I stood I could'see hundreds of the black fiends, with their red coats still on their backs, dancing and howling -round the burning house. Some, of them pointed at nie, and a couple of bullets sang past my head ; so I broke away across the paddy fields, and found myself' late at night safe within the walls of Agra. "As it proved,vhowever, there was no great safety there, either. The whole country was ,up like a swarm of bees. ' Wherever the English could collect in little bands they held just the ground .__ that their guns commanded. Everywhere else they were helpless fugitives. It was a-fight of the millions against the hundreds ; and the cruelest part of it was that these men that we fought against, foot, horse and gunners, were our own picked troops, whom we had taught and trained, handling our Own weapons, and blowing our own bugle ���������calls. At Agra there were the Third ?Bengal Fusiliers, some Sikhs, two troops of horse, and a battery of artillery. A volunteer corps of clerks and merchants had been formed, and this I joined, wooden leg and all. We went out to meet the rebels at Shahgunge early in July, and we beat them back for a time, but our powder gaye_put, and we had to fall back upon the city. Nothing but the worst news came to us from every side���������which is not to be wondered at, for if- you look at the map you will see that we were right "in the heart of it. Lucknow is rather better than a hundred miles to the east, and -Cawnpore' about as far to the south. From every point on the compass there was nothing but torture, and murder, and outrage. "The City of Agra is a great place, swarming with fanatics and fierce devil-worshipers of all sorts. Our handful of men were lost among the narrow, winding streets. Our leader moved across the river, therefore, and took up his position in the old fort of Agra. I don't . know if any of you gentlehien have ever read-or heard anything of that old fort. It is a verv queer place���������the queerest that ever 1 was in, and I have been in some rum corners, too. First of all. it is enormous in size. I should think that the inclosure must be acres and acres- There is a modern part, which took all our garrison, women, children,- stores and everything else, with." plenty of room over. But the modern part is nothing like the size of the old quarter, where nobody goes, and which is given over to the scorpions and the centi- Eedes. It is all full of great deserted alls and winding passages, and long corridors twisting i*i and out, so that it is easy enough for folks to get lost in it. For this reason it was seldom that any one went into it, though now and again a party with torches might go exploring. "The river washes along the front of the old fort, and so protects it. btit on the sides and behind there are many doors, and these had to be guarded, of course, in the old. quarter a* well as in that which was actually held by our troops. We were short-handed, with hardly men enough toman tlie angles of the building and to serve tlie guns. It was impossible for us. therefor;.-, to etation a strong guard at ever\- ono of the innumerable gates. What we did was to organize a central guard-house in. tlie middle of the fort, and to leave each gate under the charge of one white man and two or three natives. I was selected to take charge during certain hours of the night of a small isolated door upon the southwest side of the building. Two Sikh troopers were placed under my command, and 1 was' instructed'if anything, 'went wrong to fire my mtisket, when v I might?.rely upon help coming at once from the central guard. As the,, guard? was a good two hundred, paces away, however:-arid as the space between -was cut tip into a .labyrinth' of passages and corridors, ,I had great doubts ' as ��������� to ���������whether they could arrive in time to be of any use in case of an actual attack, "Well, I was pretty proud at having this small command given me, since I was a raw recruit, and a game-legged one'at, that. For two nights. 1 kept watch, .with my Punjaubees. They were tall,' fierce-looking chaps, Mahomet Singh and Abdullah Khan byname, both old fighting men who had borne arms against -us at Chilianwal- lah. They could talk 'English pretty well, but' I could giet little out of "them. They preferred to stand, together and jabber all night in their queer Sikh lingo. - For myself, I used to stand outside'the gatewajT, looking down on the broad, winding river and on the twinkling lights of, the great city. The beating of drums, the rattles of tomtoms and the yells, and howls of the rebels, drunk with 'opium and with bang, were enough to remind us''all' night of our dangerous, neighbors across the stream. Every two hours the Officers of the night, used, to come round to all the posts,-.to',-make- sure that all was well, x he third night of my watch was dark and dirty, with a small, driving rain. , It was dreary work standing in the gateway hour after hour' iri such weather. , I tried again and again-to: .make .my Sikhs talk, but without much success. 'At?,.two, in the morning the rounds passed, and broke for a moment ,the w eariness of the night. Finding that my companions would not be'led into conversation, I took out my pipe,' and laid down my. musket to strike a match..' In an instant the two Sikhs were upon me. One of them snatched my fire-lock up and levelled it at niy head? -while the other held a great knife to my throat and, swore between his teeth that he would plunge it into ihe if I moved a step. .-. ��������� ,',-.."���������' ' .'"My ".first thought was that these fellows were in league with the rebels,? and that; this was the beginning of an assault. If our door were in the hands of the Sepoys the place must fall, and the women and children be treated as they were in Cawnpore. ' Maybe you gentlemen think that I am just making out a case for myself, but I give you niy word that when I thought of that, though I felt the point,of the knife at my throat, I opened, my mouth with the intention of giving a scream, if it was my last one, which might alarm the main guard. The man who held ' me seemed to?know my thoughts ; for, even as I braced myself to it, he whispered, 'Don't make a noise? .The fort is safe enough. There are no rebel dogs on this side of the river.' There was the ring of truth, in. what he said, and I knew that if I raised my voice I was a dead man.; I could read it in the fellow 's brown eyes. I waited, therefore, in silence, to see what it was that they wanted from me? ���������" 'Listen to me, Sahib,' said the taller and fiercer of the pair, the one whom they called Abdullah Khan. 'You must either be with us now or you must be silenced forever. The thing is too great a one for us to hesitate. Either you are heart and soul with us on your oath on the cross of the Christians, or your body this night shall be thrown into the ditch and we shall pass over to our brothers in the rebel army. There is no middle way. Which is "it to be, death or life? We can only give you three minutes to decide, for the time is passing, and all must be done before the rounds come again.' , ( "'How can I decide? said I.- 'You have not told me what you ..want of me. But I tell you now, that if? it is anything against the safety of the fort hear of ndthing but of their death and of their overthrow. Yet,' being a careful man, he made such plans that, come what,might, half at least of his treasure I'should be left toliim.v That which was in gold, and silver he kept bs* him in the vaults? of the, ,palace;?' but the most precious stones and the choicest pearls; that, he had he put in an iron-box; and sent it by a trusty servant who, under the guiseof a merchant, should take it to the fort at Agra, there to lie until the land is. at peace. Thus, if the rebels' won he would havehis riioney, but if the Company conquer his, jeAvels -wouldhe saved to him.- Having thus divided his hoard? he threw himself into the cause of the Sepoys, since they were strong "upon,'his,, borders.. By his doing this, mark you, Sahib, his property becoihes the duo of those who have been true to their salt.' '.'.'This."' pretended merchant, who travels under the name of Achmet, is now in the cits'- of Agra, and desires to gain his.-way into the fort. He has with him, as travelling companion, my foster brother, Dost Akbar, who knows his secret. Dost Akbar has promised this night, to lead him to a side postern of the fort, and has chosen this one, for his purpose. : He', will come presently, and here he will find Mahomet Singh and .myself awaiting him. The place is;lonely, and none shall know of his coming. The world shall know of the merchant Achmet ,no more, ��������������������������� but tlie. great treasure of the rajah shall be divided -among us. What say you to it, -Sahib ?���������'"���������",.,.���������.��������� ' , ? ; ���������-, "In Worcestershire the life of a man seems a great and sacred thing ; but it is very different when there is fire and blood all round you and you have been, used?'to meeting death at everjr turn. Whether Achmet the merchant lived or diedwas a thing a's light'.. as air to me, but at the, talk about the treasure my heart turned to it, and I thought of what I might do in the old country with it* and how my, folk would stare when they saw their ne'er-do-weel coming back with his pockets full of gold moidores. I had, therefore, already made up my mind. .Abdullah Khan, however, thinking that I hesitated, pressed the matter more closely. " 'Consider,.Sahib,' said he, 'that if this man is taken by the commandant he will be hung or shot, and his jewels taken, by the Government, so that no man will be a rupee the better for them. Now, since we do the taking, of him, why. should we hot; do the rest as well? The jewels will be as well with us as in the Company's coffers.; There will be enough to make every one of us rich men and grea'tchiefs. No one can know ,about the inatter, for here we are cut off from.all men. What could be better for the purpose ? Say again,' then, Sahib, whether you are with' us, or if we must .look upon you as ah enemy:' ���������"X am with you, heart and soul,!. "I could not trust myself to speak longer with the man. The more I looked at his fat, frightened face, the harder did it seem that we should slay him in cold blood. It was best to get it over. ?." 'Take him to the main guard,' said I. The two Sikhs closed in upon him on each side, and the giant walked behind, while they marched in through the dark gatewaj^. Never was a man so compassed round with death. I remained at the gateway with the lantern, ' "I could hear the measured tramp of ��������� their footsteps sounding through the lonely corridors. Suddenly it ceased, and I heard voices, and a scuffle, with the sound of blows. A moment later there .came, to- my horror, a rush of -footsteps coming "in, my direction, with the loud breathing of a running man. I turned my lantern down the long, straight passage, and' there was the fat man, running like the wind, with a smear of' blood across his face, and. close at his heels, bounding like a tiger, the great black-bearded Sikh, with a knife flashing in his' hand, I have never seen a man run so fast as that little merchant. He ' was gaining on the, Sikh, arid I could see that if he once passed me and got to the ooen air, he would save himself yet. My heart softened to him, but again the thought of his treasure turned me hard and bitter. I cast my firelock between his legs as he raced past, and he rolled twice over like a shot rabbit. Ere he could stagger to his feet the Sikh was upon him, and buried his knife twice in his side. The man never uttered moan nor moved muscle, but lay where he had fallen. I think, myself, that he imay have broken his neck with the fall.' You see, gentlemen, that lam keeping my promise. I am telling you every word of this business just exactly as it happened, whether it is in my favor or not." HOG CHOLERA. to be continued.) TIME FOR ACTION. The with it: so you knife and wel- I will have no truck can drive home your come.'. " "It is nothing against the fort,' said he. 'We only ask you to do that*which your countrymen come to this land for. We ask you'to be rich. If you will be one of us this night, we will swear to you unon the naked knife, and by the three-fold oath' which no Sikh was ever known to break, that you shall have your fair share of the loot. A quarter of the treasure shall be yours. We can say no fairer.' "'But what-is the treasure, then?" I asked. 'I am as ready to be rich as you can be, if you will but show me how it can be done.' " 'You swear, then,' said he, 'by the bones of your father, by the honor of your mother, by the cross of your faith, to raise no hand and speak no word against us, either now or afterward?' ���������_" 'I will swear it.' I answered, 'provided that the fort is not endangered.' " 'Then my comrade and I will swear that you shall have a quarter of the treasure, which shall be equalhy divided among the four of us,' " "There are but three,' said I. "'No; Dost Akbar must have his share. We can tell the tale to you while we await them. Do you stand at the gate, Mahomet Singh, and give notice of their coming. Tlie thing stands thus, Sahib, and I tell it to you because I know that an oath is binding upon a Feringhee, and that we may trust you. Had j^ou been a lying Hindoo, though you had sworn by all the gods in then- false temples, your blood would have been upon the knife and your body in the water. But the Sikh knows the Englishman, and the Englishman knows the Sikh. Hearken, then, to what I have to say. " 'There is a rajah in the northern provinces who has much wealth, though his lands are small. Much has come to him from his father, and more still he has set bjr himself, for he is of a low nature and hoards his gold rather than spend it. When the troubles broke out he would be friends both with the lion and the tiger ���������with the Sepoy and with the Company's Haj. Soon, however, it seemed to him that the white men's day was come, for through all the land he could said I. "'It'is well,' he ;answered, handing me bach my firelock. ������������������ You see; that we trust you, for your word, like ours, is not to, be broken. We have .how only to wait ,for my brother and the merchant.' " 'Does your brother know, then, of what you will do ?' I asked. " 'The plan is his. He, has devised it. We will, go to the gate and share the watch with Mahomet Singh.' ' "The rain, was still falling steadily, for it was just the beginning of the wet season. Brown, heavy clouds were drifting across the sky, and it was hard to see more than a stone-cast. A deep moat lay in front of our door, but the water was in places nearly dried up, and it could easily be crossed. It was strange tp me to be standing there with those two wild Punjaubees waiting for the man who was coming to his death. . "Suddenly my eye' caught the.glint of-a shaded lantern at the other side of the moat. It vanished among: the mound heaps, and then appeared again coming slowly in our direction. " 'Here they are !' I exclaimed. " 'You will challenge him, Sahib, as usual,' whispered Abdullah. 'Give him no cause for fear. Send us in with him, and we shall do the rest while you stay here on guard. Have the lantern ready to uncover that we may he sure thatjis indeed the man.' "The light.had flickered onward, now stopping and now advancing, until I could see two figures on the other side of the moat, I let them scramble down the sloping bank, splash through the mire, and climb half-was7- up to the gate before I challenged them. " 'Who goes there?' said I, in a subdued voice. . " 'Friends,' came the answer.' "I uncovered 1113- lantern and threw a flood of light upon them. The first was an enormous Sikh, with a black beard which swept nearly down to his cummerbund. Outside of a show I have never seen so tall a man. The other was a little, fat, round fellow, with a great yellow turban, and a bundle in his hand, done up in a shawl. He seemed to lie all in a quiver with- fear, for his hands twitched as if he had the ague, and his head kept turning to left and right with two bright little twinkling eyes, like a mouse when he ventures out from his hole. It gave me the chills to think of killing him, but I thought of the treasure, and my heart was as hard as a flint within me. When he saw my white face he gave a little chirrup of joy and came running up towards me. "'Your protection, Sahib,'he panted ; 'your protection for the unhappy merchant Achmet. I have traveled across Hajpootna that I might seek the shelter of the fort at Agra. I have been robbed, and beaten, and abused because I have been the friend of the company. It is a blessed night this when I am once more in safety���������I and my poor possessions.' " 'What have you in the bundle ?' I asked. " 'An iron box,' he answered, 'which contains one or two little family matters which are of no value to others, but which I should be sorry to lose. Yet I am not a beggar ; and I shall reward 3*ou, young Sahib, and your governor also, if he will give ine the shelter I ask.' Colored Deacon Drew the JClne at - This Sort of Buttons. , ' Ther������ was an expression of great sternness in the old colored man's.face as he stepped into the house of one of his neighbors. "I has come." he said slowly, "ter exercise ma inquisitiveness on a subject which am li'ble ter affeck yoh interests an ostentatiousness ia dis community wif great consternation." "Wh-whu's been goin on?" stammered the man to whom he had thus delivered himself. "Yoh is li'ble ter lose yoh- standin 'mongst yoh fellow man, an I come hyuh ter wiihri yoh in time. Does yoh reco'nize dis here?" he went on, holding up a but- lonibet-ween his thumb and forefinger. ' ,''_ow's I gwinter reco'nize dat? , Dah'a millions an dozens ob dem made ov'ry week.* I kaint keep count ob all dat gits tu'ned out, kin I? "Disher ain't no common button. Ef yoh'11 look clus, yoh'11 see dat do place wah do thread goes though is done broke clah out. Foh, practical purposes, dat button ain' no mo' good dan a las' ya'h's almanac. "Looky yere, man* Whut make yoh eome roun tellin me bout yoh troubles?" . "Lemme tell yoh de history er de case. Bein a pusson ob experience an '6p6n8ibil-: ity in sech matters, I wah intrusted las' Sunday wif de honorable an impohtant privilege o' passin de collection plate." "Yassuh." "As is my: practice; I _ep' notice bb eb'ryt'ing dat drapped, an hit am a sig-,' nificant fack dat jes' befo' I come ter yoh, dah warn't no button in de plate, an jes' ��������� aftub I lef' disher wah discuvuhed to my; contemplacious gaze." ? "Well, I reckon it's done pas' and gone,: "ain't-it?" ' ! "Yassuh. But de incident am not closed." "Whut does yoh want me ter do?" "I doesn't kyah whut yoh does. I'ze hyuh ter let yoh take yoh choice. Bz de case now stan's, disher button ain't no good ter nobody. Hit am -'uss dan a counterfeit 10 cent piece, case dar ain't no chance ob accidentally passin it an so hab- bin it re'lize de 'riginal intention. Yoh kin eithnh take baok yoh damaged goods' an supply an efficacious substitute, or yoh kin look fohwuhd wif confidence ter immediate an fohmal puhceedin'sfoh yoh dis-; memberment f'um our organization. We; has been bery liberal in our dealin's wif de; congregation, an, as a result, hab colleot-! ed two tin cupfuls o' clipped an battered! coins. But when it comes ter ringin in; er mutilated button, it am time ter take ; puhsonal recognizance ob de habit an nip: It in de bud."���������Washington Star. , The Usual Course. "Here is another story in the paper about a small boy who tied his father up; in an argument so that the old man hadn't > a word to say. I wonder why none of \ these stories is ever finishedf" "What is lacking?" "Why, they never tell how the mortified, parent gave his logical child a swat along- ��������� side the ear. That is the way my father' did under the circumstances."���������Cincin-i nati Enquirer. To Prevent Infection In Railway Cars and Stockyards. The writer knows of frequent instances where farmers or feeders liavd' gone to Cincinnati or East Liberty, Pa., and bought stock hogs for home feeding. He does not know of any instance where disease did not break out within three weeks after such stock had landed on the buyer's ��������� farm. He had some expensive experience himself in 1S73 with hogs brought info the township from a distance by rail. Since that date and ��������� his investigations of like results from purchases in stockyards he has limited his feeding to his own raising. This he' considered the only safe rule. Experience and scientific study of the disease show that the disease is infectious, is easily transported iu filth, or by carrion,-or fowls, or'feet of men and beasts. The highest authorities agree that it is a germ disease, and any means that can bring tho pig in contact with these germs, that multiply in filthy cars, yards or pens, will be effective in spreading the disease at any season and most effectually when the weather is oppressive and the water supply is poor or the feed is defective so as to reduce the vigor of tho animals. , When such conditions prevail, the disease readily becomes epidemic, yet it is not believed that these conditions of a herd will cause a spontaneous outbreak. The conditions simply favor the ready and rapid devel-< opment of germs, and tbe increase of. bacilli in the system is soon manifest in some form of this plague. The farmer's,hope is in keeping his herd under good sanitary conditions, and so far as possible preventing the transportation of disease germs to his herd or introducing among -his stock animals that have been exposed to it in transit or in ' infected yards or pens. -. That bogs can be carried in cars and not infected we believe, if proper care is taken to have the cars thoroughly cleaned and disinfected before loading and-' they are not loaded on public shoot's from long used pens or yards. In the. last report of the bureau of animal industry we find a valuable suggestion from J. B. Mathews of Iowa. Mr. Mathews suggests that the gen-- eral government should regulate the shipping and, handling of stock hogs at least., His observations of shipment of hogs for feeding for the last five years into western Iowa from Illinois, Missouri or Nebraska shows that these hogs have "invariably been affected with disease, and the parties shipping them claim they were in' good health at the time they were shipped." He holds that the hogs contract disease in the cars or pens in transit. To prove that hogs can be safely shipped under proper conditions he cites the case of , Mr. Evans,' who shipped from Illinois to his farms in western Iowa 200 stock hogs. Before loading .them he cleaned the cars, used disinfectants and would not allow the hogs to be unloaded at, any stockyards. On arrival at his town���������Carson���������he would not even allow them to pass through the shoot commonly used, but let them out of the cars some distance from the stockyards and drove home. These hogs kept healthy. They passed through a part of the state of Iowa, be it noted, where the disease was prevailing, and yet by selecting-healthy hogs and shipping them so as to avoid infected cars and stockyards they escaped dis- ��������� ease. . :.���������- . , ���������;���������''��������� :- ���������. .-. -.,-. True, stockyards and cars are not the only pregnant sources of this disease, but they are so surely plague centers that it is unsafe to buy stock.hogs from stockyards or ship them in uncleaned cars. We believe the interests of swine growers, pork packers and consumers of pork and pork products demand that the general government should at least put railways and stockyards under such sanitary regulations that we can ship hogs, sheep and cattle without risk oi contracting some infectious and deadly disease.���������L. N. Bonham in Breeder's/. Gazette. Unjustifiable Affront. "This is an insult," declared the prisoner in the police court. "What do you mean, sir?" roared the judge. "I'm a professional rider, your honor, and here I'm charged with scorching at the rate of eight miles an hour."���������Detroit Free 1-ress. Artistic you dare to "And do you dare to call you_>���������* a; man?" said the masculine lady, looking! down from the vantage of the back stoop, j "Nome, not izzackly," responded Mr. | Perry Patettic humbly. "I ain't more'n an outline, so to speak. I need a lot oi flllin in.''���������Cincinnati Enquirer. Appropriate Nomenclature. "And this beautiful hybrid," continued the enthusiastic floriculturist, "I have named 'The Candidate's Pledge.' " "Why so?" "Because it fades so quickly."���������Detroit News. _ive Stock^Points.,, It is natural, we fiinow, to name a fine, high bred animal -for- some great potentate. We do not object at all when a royal Hereford or Shorthorn is christened Czar or Prince of Wales, but we lately saw in a live stock journal the picture of a likely looking female swine labeled with the name .Queen Victoria. Now we are as loyal an American citizen as ever breathed, but when it comes to naming a female hog for tho queen of England we confess ,it sort of gives us a startle. Bots do not often kill horses. That is a delusion of old times without foundation in fact. The hot worms fasten upon the lining of a horse's stomach, but they do not eat through the stomach, as is popularly supposed. Lice upon live stock appear to be particularly pestiferous this spring. We have never found anything better than the old fashioned way of painting along the animal's backbone with mercurial ointment, but a mixture of lard and kerosene rubbed into the hair will also kill the lice. Insect powder, if it is fresh and 'strong, will do the business effectually, and it is cleaner and less objectionable than the other stuffs. Just rub the powder thoroughly into the hair and let it stay there. "Don't ycu like the sawdust circle?" "Are you talking about the circus 01 ������ocoanut pie?"���������Chicago .Record. WINDS THAT HINDEK REV. DR. TALMAGE TO THE WEARY AND DISCOURAGED: '! drops of a pre- in a half glass man has by a He Gives Words of Comfort to All Who Iiabor Under Adverse Circumstances, Both Physical and Mental���������The Overburdened and Over-���������orked. Washington, May 30.���������Dr. Talmage's sermon this week is one of good cheer. -It will give encouragement to many struggling souls. Tho subject is'"Contrary Winds,",and the text Matthew xiv, 24. "The wind was contrary." As I well know by experience on Lake Galilee, one hour1 all may be calm and the next lour the winds and waves will be so boisterous that you are in doubt as to whether you will land on the shore or on the boitbm of tho deep. The disciples in jhe text were caught in such a stress of weather and the sails bent and the ship plunged, for "rhe wind was contrary." There is in one of the European straits a jflaco, where, whichever way you sail, the winds are opposing. There ore pcoplc-who all their life seem sailing In the'teeth of the' wind. All things seem against thcni. ,It may bo said of their condition <;s of that of the disciples in my text, "the wind was contrary." A Divine Physician. A great multibudo of people are under seeming disadvantage, and I will to-day, in the swarthiest Anglo-Saxon that I can manage, treat their cases; not as a nurse counts out eight or ten scription and stirs, them of water, but as when a mistake taken a large amount of sbrych- , nine or paris green or belladonna, and the patient is walked rapidly round the room and shaken up until he gets wide awake. Many of you have taken a large draft of tha poison of discouragement, and I coma out by the order of the divine Physician to rouse you out of that lethargy. ' First, many people aro under the disadvantage of an unfortunate name given them by parents who thought they were doing a good thing. Sometimes at the baptism of children while I have held up one hand in prayer I have held up tlie other hand in amazement that parents should have weighted the babe with such a dissonant and repulsive nomenclature. I have not so much wondered that some children should cry out at the chris tening font as that 'others with such " smiling .face should take a titlo that will I be the burden, of th'eir lifetime. It is outrageous to afflict children with an undesirable name because it happened to be ' possessed by a parent or a rich uncle from whom favors are expected or some prominent man of the day who may end his life in disgrace. It is no excuse, because, they aro Scripture names, to call a child Jehoiakim- or Tiglath-Pileser. I baptized one by tho name Bathshcba! Why, under, all the oircumabient heaven, any parent should'-.want, to give to a child the name Of that loose creature of Scripture times I cannot imagine. I have often felt at the,baptismal altar, .when names were announced to me, like saying, as did the RevJ.'JDr. Richards of 'Morrisbown, N. J., when a child was handed him for baptism and the name given, 'Hadn't you better call it something else?" Impose not upon that babe a name suggestive . ot.''flippancy or meanness. There is no excuse for such assault and battery on the cradle when our language is opulent with names musical and suggestive in meaning, such as John, mean- ing "the' gracious gift of God," or Henry, meaning "the chief of a household," or Alfred, meaning "good counselor," or Joshua, -meaning "God, our salvation," or Ambrose, meaning "immortal," or Andrew, meaning "manly," or Esther,meaning "star," or Abigail, meaning "my father's joy," or Anna, meaning "grace," or Victoria, meaning "victory," or Rosalie, meaning "beautiful as a rose, "'or Margaret/ meaning "a pearl, "or Ida, Clara, meaning meaning "busy, meaning "godlike," or 'illustrious." or Amelia, ' or Bertha, meaning "beautiful," and hundreds of other names just as good that are a help rather than a. hindrance., ' ���������- -The Family Name. But sometimes the great hindrance in life is: not in the given name, but in the family name. While legislatures aro willing to lift, such incubuses, there are families that keep a name which mortgages air the generations with a great disadvantage. Yo.u say, "I wonder if he is any relation to So-and-so," meaning some family celebrated for crime or deception. It is'a wonder to nie that in all such families some spirited young man does not rise, saying to his brother and sisters, "If you want to keep this nuisance or scandaliation of a name, I will keep it no longer than until by quickest course- of law I can slough off this gangrene." The city directory has hundreds of names the mere pronunciation of which has been a lifo long obstacle. If you have started life under a name which, either through ridiculous orthography or vicious suggestion, has been an incumbrance, resolve that the next generation shall not be so weighted. lb is not demeaning to change a name. Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle Hadassah, "the myrtle," became Esther, "the star." We have in America, and I suppose it is so in all countries, names which ought to be abolished, and.... can be and will be abolished?for the reason that they are a libel and a slander. Bub if for any reason you are submerged either by a. given name or by a family name that you must bear, God will help you to overcome the outrage by a life consecrated to the good and useful. You may erase the curse from the name. If it once stood for meanness, you can make it stand for generosity. If once it stood for pride, you can make it stand for humility. If it once stood for fraud, you can make it stand for honesty. If once it stood for wicked- cess you can make it stand for purity. There have been multitudes of Instances where men and women have magnificently conquered the disasters of the names inflicted upon them. Again, many people labor under the misfortune of incomplete physical equipment. We are by our Creator so economi cally "6_IItr?tnafc we ca"nn6*J? afford the obliteration of any physical faculty. We want our two eyes, our two ears, our two hands, our two feet, our. eight fingers and two thumbs. Yet what multitudes of people have but one eye, or but one foot! Me ordinary casualties, of life have been, quadrupled; quintupled,, sex- tupled, aye, centrupled, in our time by the civil war, and at the north and south a great multitude are fighting ������������������ the battle of life with half, or less than half, the needed-.physical, armaments'^ " T do not wonder at the pathos of a soldier- during the''.war, who, when told that he must have his hand amputated, said, "Doctor, czin't you save it?" and when told that it was impossible, said,��������� with tears rolling down his cheeks: "Weil; then, goodby, old hand. I hate to part with you, You have done me a good service' for many years, bub it'seems you must go. Goodby." '. ���������';..?. A celebrated .surgeon told me of a scene in the clinical department of one of the New York hospitals, when, a poor man with a wounded leg was brought in before the students to be operated oh. The surgeon.'-was pointing out this and that to,the students and handling the wounded leg, and was about to proceed to amputation when the poor man leaped from the table and hobbled to the door, and said, "Gentlemen, I am sorry to disappoint you, but by the help of God I will die with my. leg on." What a terrific loss is-the loss of our physical faculties! The way the battle of Crecy was decided against the French was /by the Welshmen killing the French 'horses, and that brought their riders to the ground. And'when you cripple this body, which is merely the animal on which the soul rides, you may sometimes defeat the soul. .-.:' ?'.'.??;' ..? .Physical Ills.?.'? ' Yet how many suffer from this physical taking off! iGood cheer, my brother! God will make it up to you somehow. The grace, the^ sympathy of God will be more to you than anythingyouhave lost! If God.allows part of your resources to be cut off in one pla������e, he will add it on somewhere else. As Augustus, the emperor, took off a day from February, making it the shortest month in the year, and added it to August the month named after himself, so advantages taken from one part of your nature will be added on to another. But it is amazing how much of the world's work has been done by men of subtracted physical organization. S. S. Preston, the great orator of the southwest, went limping all his life, but there was no foot: pub down upon any platform of his day that resounded so far ashis club foot. .Beethoven was so deaf that he could not hear 'the crash of the orchestra rendering his oraborios. Thomas Carlyle, the 'dyspeptic martyr, was given the commission to drive cant out of the world's literature. The Rev. Thomas Stockton, of Philadelphia,' with one lung raised his audience nearer heaven- than most ministers can? raise them with two lungs. In the banks, the insurance companies, the commercial establishments, the reformatory associations, the churches, there .are tens of thousands of men and women to-day doubled up with rheumatism, or. subject to the neuralgias, or with .only-'-frag-' inents of limbs, the rest of which they left ab Chattanooga, or South Mountain, or the Wilderness, and they are worth 'more to ? the "world arid mojg to the' church and more to God than those of- us who have never so much as had a finger joint stiffened by a felon. Put to full use all the faculties that remain and charge on all opposing circumstances with the determination of John of Bohemia, who was totally blind and yet at a battle cried out, "I pray and beseech you to lead me so far into the fight that I may strike one good blow with this sword of mine." Dp not think so much of what faculties you have lost as of, what faculties remain. You have enough left to make yourself felt in three worlds, while you help the earth and balk hell and win heaven. Arise from your discouragements, O men and women of depleted or ' crippled. physical faculties, and see what, by the, special help of God, you can accomplish! The skilled horsemen stood around Bucephalus, unable to mount or manage him, so wild was the steed. But Alexander noticed that tho sight of his own shadow seemed to disturb the horse. So Alexander, clutched him by the bridle and turned his head away from the shadow and toward the sun, and the horse's agitation was gone, and Alexander mounted him and rode off, to the astonish uient of all who stood by. And what you people need is to have your . sight turned away from the shadows of your earthly lot, over which you have so long pondered, and your'head turned toward the sun���������the glorious sun of gospel consolation, and Christian hope and spiritual triumph. > A New Outlit. And then remember that all physical disadvantages will after awhile vanish. Let those who have been rheumabismed out of a foob, or cabaructed out of an eye, or by the perpetual roar of our cities thundered oub of an ear, look forward to the day when this old beuemonb house of flesh will come down and a better ono shall be builded. Tho resurrection morning will provide you with a bebter outfit. Either tho unstrung, wornout, blunted and crippled organs will be so reconstructed thab you will nob know them, or an entire new seb of eyes and ears and feeb will be given you. Just what it means by corruption putting on incor- ruption we do not know, save that it will be glory ineffable No limping in heaven, no straining of the eyesight to see things a little way off, not putting of the hand behind the ear to double the capacity of the tympanum, but faculties perfect, all the keys of the instrument attuned for the sweep of the fingers of ecstacy. But until that day of resumption comes let us bear each other's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. Another form of disadvantage under which many labor is lack of early education. There will be no excuse for ignorance in the next generation. Free schools and illimitable opportunity of education will make ignorance a crime. I believe in compulsory education, and those parents who neclect to put their children under educational advantages have but one right left, and that is the peniten tiary. But there are multitudes of m?" and women in midlife who have had \ opportunity. Free schools had not y been established, and vast multitude ������������������had: little or no sohoolat all. They fee" it when as Christian men they come to speak or pray in religious assemblies, or public occasions, patriotic, or political, or educational. They are-silent because?they, do no5 feel���������'competent. They owe nothing to English grammar, ' or geography, or belles lettres. They would, not know a ^participle from a pronoun if they met it. many;times a day. Many -of the men in high political places' cannot write an accurate letter on any theme. They are?, completely dependent upon , clerks and .deputies and stenographers to , make things right. I knew a literary man who in other years in this city made his for tune by writing speeches for congressmen or fixing them up for The :' Congression Record after they were delivered. The millionaire illiteracy of this country is beyond measurement. ������. Now, suppose a man finds himself in. midlife without .education, what is he to do? Do the best he can. The- most effective layman in a former pastoral, charge that I ever heard speak on religious .themes could within five minutes of exhortation break all the laws of English grammar, and if he left any law unfracbured he would complete the work of ligua'l devastation in the prayer with which he followed it. But I would rather have him pray for me if X were sick or in trouble than any Christian man I know of, and in thab church all the people preferred him in ; exhortation and prayer to all others.; Why? Because he was so thoroughly pious and had such power with God he was irresistible, and as he went, oh in his ��������� prayer sinners re- ? pen ted and saints shouted for joy, and the bereaved seemed to get back their dead in celestial companionship. And when he had stopped praying i',ria as soon as I could wipe out of my eyes enough tears to see the closing hymn I ended the meeting, 'fearful that some long winded prayer meeting bore would pull us down from..,the seventh heaven. Opportunity. Not a word have I to say against accuracy of speech or fine elocution or high mental culture. Get all these you can. But I do say to those who were brought up in the day of poor school- houses and ignorant schoolmasters and no opportunity: You may have so much of good in your soul and so much of good in your soul and so much of heaven in your everyday life that you will be mightier for good than any who went through the curriculum of Harvard or Yale or Oxford, yet never graduated in the school of Christ. When you get up to the gate of heaven, no one will ask you where you can parse the first - chapter of Genesis, bub whether you have learned the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom, nor whether you know how to square the circle, but whether you have lived a square life in a round world. Mount Zion is higher than Mount Parnassus..:. -';' ^But' what other multitudes there are under other' disadvantages. Here: is a ��������� Christian woman whose husband thinks, religion a sham and while the wife prays the children one way the husband swears them another. Or here is a Christian man who is trying to do his best for God and the.church, and his wife holds him back and says on the way home from ���������prayer meeting, where he gave testimony for Christ: "What a fool you made of yourself! I hope hereafter' you will keep still." And when he would be benevolent and give $50 she criticizes him for not giving 50 cents. I must do justice and publicly thank God thab I never proposed at home to give anything for any cause of humanity or religion, but the other partner in the domestic firm approved it. And when it seemed bey nd my ability, and faibh in God was necessary, she had three-fourths the faith. But I know men who when they contribute to charitable objects are afraid that the wife shall find it out. What a withering curse such a woman must be to a good man! Then there are others under the great disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to get things cheapest? You say those who have little means. But they pay more. You buy coal by the ton; they buy it by the bucket. You buy flour by the barrel; they buy it by the pound. You get apparel cheap, because you pay cash; they pay dear, because they have to get trusted. And the Bible was right when it said, '' The destruction of the poor is their poverty." Then there are those who made a mistake in early life, and that overshadows all their clays. "Do you nob know thab that man was once in prison?" is whispered. Or, "Do you know that that man once attempted suicide?" Or "Do you know that that man once absconded?" Or, "Do you know that . bhab man was once dscharged for dishonesty?" Perhaps there was only one wrong deed in the man's life, and that one act haunts the subsequent half cenbury of his existence. Others have unfortunate predominance of some mental faculty, and their rashness throws them into wild enterprises, or their trepidation makes them decline great opportunity, or there is a vein of melancholy in this disposition that defeats them, or thev have an endowment of overmirbh that causes bhe impression of insinceriby. Other Hindrances. Others have a mighty obstacle in their personal appearance, for which they are not responsible. They forget that God fashioned their features and their complexion and their sbature, the size of their nose, and mouth, and hands, and feet, and gave them their gait and their general appearance, and they forget that much of the world's best work and the church's best work has been done by homely people, and that Paul the Apostle is said to havo been humpbacked and his eyesight weakened by opthalmia, while many of the finest in appearance have passed their time before flattering looking glasses, or in studying killing attitudes, and, in displaying the richness of wardrobes���������not one ribbon, or vest, or sack, or glove, or button, or shoestring of which they have had brains to earn for themselves. Others had wrong proclivities from the start. They were born wrong, and that i.j!:.':ie>s 'rrvt.r UV21- Wit.; th M.n.'V i. sticks to one even ait.-i; . They have a natiir.J or. 275 years old. ��������� it c.nie uvsr wid.. tn.M- great grandfathers fi-ozo Wales, or France. It- w-i.s born ?on..the. banks .of the Thames, or thu a i>h..j, .r.-. the Tiber,'or"the-Rhine,, and has.'sjrvivfc-j i.'Ll the plagues ana'', i-.pkiemi'.-s oi ma^y' '.Cnnerationsj- and is-.livi-'ig..-'tod.,v '������������������on ti.-.t' . na'r.ks oi the Pot6nui(V. or the? Hudson?-' or the Androscoggin,oi-. tha-S.i'vaxiK ih, r.;-: ihe La Plata.' And ''w.-.eriPiiJn m t?-i/.-; r.<, ��������� f-'t-ip.-chin evil ������in3e?5Cr.-tl'". pro'ch'/iey'. .ha i- 1. : -��������� u him on ;i. roCK in xh.- rapLis ol: ":s\\ '.:;iju; hoi I'm j, ,o a wi-'-v a. zxi-t^ from w.-..vj a ihe >��������� wift, ���������c'urriiti'i'.s are trying to s\v������;-.: lu..i .i_co the abyss beyond.-. n" ? ��������� . Oi;, '!,;;.s world is an overburdened, world, -s.i,:i.overworked world! It is, an awfully tired world. It is a dreadfully unfortunate world. Scientists are trying to find out the cause of, these earthquakes in all lands, cisatlantic and transatlantic. Some say this and some say that;' I have taken the diagnosis of what is the matter with the earth. It has- so many burdens on it and so many fires within it,, it has a fit? Tt cannot stand such a circumference.and such a diameter. Some,, new Cotopaxi or Stromboli or .Vesuvius will open, and then allwill be at peace for the natural world. But what aboub the moral woes of ''the,world that have racked all- nations, and for 6,000 years science proposes nothing but knowledge, and many people who know the most are the most tmcomforted? A Cheering-Voice. In,the way of practical relief for all disadvantages and ail woes, ���������the only voice that is worth 'listening to on this subject is the voice of Christianity,' which is the voice of Almighty God. Whether I have mentioned the particular disadvantage under which you labor or not, I distinctly declare, in the name of my God, that there is a way out and a way up for all of you. You cannot be any worse off than that Christian young woman who was in the Pemberton mills when they fell some years ago, and from under the fallen timbers she was heard singing, "I am going home to die no more." Take good,courage from that Bible, all of whose prom ises are for those in bad predicament. There are better days for you, either on earth or in heaven. I put my hand under your chin and lift your face into the light of the coming dawn. Have God on your side, and then you have for reserve troops ail the armies of heaven, the 'smallest, company of which is SO, 000 chariots and the smallest brigade 144,000, the lightnings of heaven their drawn sword. An ancient warrior saw an overpowering host come down upon his small company of armed men, and, mounting his horse, he threw a handful of sand in the air, crying, "Let their faces be covered with confusion!" And both armies heard his voice, and history says it seemed as though the dust thrown in the air had become so many angels of supernatural deliverance, and the weak overcame the mighty, and the immense.host fell back, and the small number marched on. Have faith in God, andthough all the allied forces of discouragement seem.? to come against you in battle? array, and their laugh of defiance and contempt resounds through all the valleys and mountains, you might by faith in God and importunate prayer pick .up a handful of the very dust of your humiliation and throw it into the air, and it shall become angels of victory over all the armies of earth and hell. The voices of your adversaries, human and satanic, shall be covered with confusion, while you shall be not only conqueror, but more than conqueror, through that grace which has so often made the fallen helmet of an overthrown antagonist the footstool of a Christian victory. 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I would be feeling very well when I would suddenly have a sensation of partial blindness, and everything before me would sparklo. Then my hand and arm on one side would become numb, and after about ten minutes this sensation would pass to my lower limbs, then my tongue would become affected, as would also my hearing. Voices, no matter how close to me, would seem dim and far away. These symptoms would last for about forty minutes. I would have a violent pain over the eyes, whioh would continue for twelve hours or more. Notwithstanding all that was done for me, these spells were coming more frequently, and at last I would sometimes have two attacks a day. I was also troubled with bronchitis, whioh added to my misery. I could not sew or knit, or do any work that required close attention to it. All this trouble had never left me for years, and at the age of 48 I consulted another dootor. The medicine he gave me, however, made me worse instead of better. 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We will post free to any address this music as published at the following subscription rates, paid in advance:��������� One piece a week for 52 weeks #2.60 One piece a week for 26 weeks 1.50 One piece a week for 13 weeks 1.00 Address all money and corresponds.ce- j EMPIRE MUSIC CO'Y, j 44Bay St., Toronto, j i I rcw=*i_!*������i_>*3^j^������a^ rsctste^ter^ THE WEEKLY NEWS SEPT., 21st, ,1897. PERSONALS. Dr. Westwood, left Friday morning for Victoria for a few days. No?5 two shifts, Mr. Dave Roy returned from Vancouver last Thursday. Mrs. (Dr.) Westwood i3 stopping at Union Bay at present. Tho new Fredbyterian Hymnals have ar������ rived at T. D, McLean's. '��������� ' .. ; <'������������������'��������� SOCIAL and entertainment at Presbyterian Church to-right, Tuesday. Mm. C. S. Ryder and her mother, Mrs. Wile;������, -.oft Friday on a visit to Nanaimo. Dr. Betta of Big Qualicum paid the town a business visit Wednesday, and Thursday laBt. -'��������������������������� w Mr. R. H. Robertson was laid up last week some days, from a,; nail wound on his foot. .-'"������������������ ���������.,'���������'.' Mr. Robert Elliot, who was fornsarly in the livery business here, is now living in Vancouver. W. B. Mclnnes M. P. ia expected to pay this section a visit on the 6th aud ', 7th of October. '��������������������������� c ' Mr. T. W. Holland, agent of the Dominion Building <& Loan Association, was in town last week. Mr. Alex. McMillan of Denman Island was in town last vreek looking so much younger, that he was hardly recognized. Rev.Mr. Willemar preached on Sunday, < Sept. 12th, at Comox Bay, there being over 100 in attendance, mostly from H. M, S. Amphion. - ������������������ Kev.Mr.Crosby is expected to hold services at tbe Methodist Church, next Sunday, bat in case he does not arrive, there will be a Sony Service in the eveniug. T.Sullivan is an artist in his way. One has only to visit his cottage on Windermere avenue to be convinced of this. During over-hours he has papered several rooms, and the harmony between payer border, ceiling and centre piece is perfect and i-hows, the artist. The Lincruater Walton paper which takes the piaco of wainscotting in the dining room is a.s useful as ornamental. ���������OUR stock of Men's Shoes is complete and can guarantee a fit to all kinds of feet, at McPhee & Moore's. .;??;?:.?;;,: LOCALS Coal is being dug at No. 2 slope and No, 5 shaft, at present. ���������Twenty cases of Boots and Shoes just receiver at ?v!cPhee& Moore's. Mr. John King, living on tbe Courteno.y road, was sent to the hospital last week. Another of the panther family lost his life on the Ceurfconay river the other day. ���������Wedding presents. See the stock (new)'of silverware at Leiser's. The forest miscreant which stole Bridge's sheep is still at large to commit further depredations. We are pleased to team that Road Overseer Berkeley has pub the road between , Union and Courtenay in good repair. ���������The choir under the leadership of Mrs. E. McKim who acted as organist on Sunday at Trinity Church was strengthened and very good. FOR SALE.���������ANew Home sewing machine, and bedroom suite, almost new. Enquire at News Office. lb is said the Eli Rowland���������Clara B. mining and Kelly Photographic Company left , Union Bay on the Maude last Monday for wealth'and adventure on Texada Island. Another Phize.���������-A. first prize of &L00, 2d, of 50 cents offered for best comb honey at the Courtenay Exhibition, Oct.7th. This was ommitted by-mistake by Revising Committee. AST Will give lessons on piano, mandolin, banjo, guitar; also in painting, point lace, drawn work and embroidery. MRS. BARRETT. Contradicted.���������The rumor that Mr. R. B. Lamb, who left Nanaimo, April 10th, of this year, was dead in California is denied. He is in San Francisco, and his wife, who left here a week ago Friday, is understood to be now in Nanaimo. Our thanks to Mrs. Halliday for a superb bouquet of asters; there was such a variety, and so large as to be taken for chrysanthemums. We doubt if any professional florist can show a more varied or beautiful collection of this flower. ���������SECOND hand "bike" at Anderson's will sell cheap. Come, .LOOKEE ! A baker's dozen of Australians, including a few Red Jackets belonging to the Salvation army, arrived on Wednesday. They will remain in Union, as the most attractive place on the Coa3t until spring, and join the crowd of gold seekers for the "frozen north." Notice.���������Mr. John Mundell writes us that he has received a reply from H, K. Prior, Assistant Manager of E. & N. Railway, "that return tiekets for a single fare from Nanaimo and points north will he given to people attending the Comox Exhibition at Courteuay, Oct. 7th, good to return the same trip." ��������� Call and examine the Stock of Ladies Fancy Slippers and Oxford Ties, at McPhee & Moore's. The ladies of the Presbyterian Churdh will give a Social and -Entertainment on Tuesday evening, Sept. 21. ..'Adrrisskuv 25 cents. Refreshments will be served. D^oors open at 7:30. fVfOTICE is hereby given that in and -^ by virture of'a Commission, under the Great Seal cf Canada, issued .under the 'the.provisions of Chapter 114��������� R.'.S.C. and ��������� tome directed authorizing me to, investigate, he?.r, and report upon all material, facts relating to the alleged rights of certain settlers, or any person claiming from anyof such seltlers, to the under rights as well as the surface rignts of certain , lands in Vancouver bland, granted by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, as represented 'by-.; the Dominion of. Canada, by.' letters-patent bearing date the 21st April, 1887, to the Esquimalt'and. Nanaimo Railway Company, I shall open the said : Commission at the Court blouse in the City of Nanaimo, on' Monday the 20th of September,'.ihst., at n o'clock a. m., and thereafter from day to day, as such session may be by me adjourned, either at . the said Court House in the said City of Nanaimo, or at such other place as I may name and appoint, shall attend for the purpose of enquiring into all matters specified or referred to in the said Commission, concerning the said lands; and all persons who are interested in the said enquiry in any way, or who desire to give or submit evidence relating thereto, and who appear before me:, as above appointed, shall be heard. ���������Dated at Victoria, this nth day of September, A.D. 1897. T. G. ROTH WELL, Commissioner. ��������� N. 15. Unauthorized publication of this notice will not be paid for. T. G. R. GOOD OATS. .'Editor News : The .["other -day?'-you' referred (in , your interprising paper to myself among others, as having their oats damaged by rain. My oats are bright as a dollar and plump as a partridge, weight 115 to 120 lbs. to a sack, and you will have to go a long way to find any better. H. Creech, Bniley Farm. NOTE.-���������-We have seen a specimen of Mr. Creech's oats and they are all lie claims for them. We- hope the other, farmers whose oats,were wet after being cut, were "finally saved" in as good condition.���������Ed. '���������:.-',".'���������������������������'. ���������We learn that Mr.- Bish is giving good satisfaction as a violinist for dancing'. He also furnishes music for surprise parlies, etc.- Give him a trial and you will be pleased. _oj_u_aa__���������_���������1 Gordon' Miirdock, Third St. Union, B.C. ,-glaeksn|itl]ii]g n alPit's branches, and Wagons neatly RepaiVed-���������������������*BES8__. W. H. JENKINSON. PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, UNION, B. C. Jewelry made to order, and Precious Scones sot. None prices : Cleans Watches thoroughly for 75c. New Main Spring, 75c. Balance aud Pallet Staffs, $1.25. Guarantees all work for 12 months. Practical experience of uvcr 25 years. FROM OTHERS ON THE TRAIL. A letter was received by Mrs. Sam Davis last Wednesday from her nephew, young Marsh. Sam's crowd as they are fam'iliary called consists of Marsh Whitehead, Merryman, and Dunstan. Marsh writes they are all well and in good,spirits. They expect to be at Lake Bennett September 15, and its understood, Merryman and one other went ahead to the lake to build the boats, so as to save delay there. There are also with "Sam's crowd" another: 13 ram burg, two Carlsons and John Asp, eight in all. : They, had combined together to get over the summit. Tneir outfit was a year and a half's supplies. They had three horses and a mule. Marsh's Idler was written from over the summit. The party intend toget through if there is any such thing as getting in at all. They send their respects to the boys. A+ u������ _, ersons 3 UNION. THE FOLLOWING PRICE3 "WILL RULE, UNTIL FURTHER, NOTICE: Elgin main springs, 60 cents ^altham main springs 60 cts. Swiss main springs, 75 cts. English main springs, "< " Jewels, all patterns, 60 'j Watch cleaning, 50 " AN woi>kguaranteed Ispimalt _ lanainio Ey. Time Table No. 28, To take effect at 8 a.m. on Monday Mar 29th 1897. Trains run on Pacific Standard time. GOING N ORTH���������Read down. Sat& I Daily. | Sund'y Lv. Victoria for Nanaimo and |_ m. 1 r. m. Wellington ... At. Nanaimo Ar. Wellington ...... j -8.00 | 4.00 1 11.48 I 7.25 GOING SOUTH- | 12.15 | -Read up. 7.45 Ar. Victoria Lv. Nanaimo for Victoria. .. Lv, Wellington for Victoria I A M' | P M Daily. | Sat. & Sund'y. 12.30 8.40 8.15 8.00 4.33 4.15 For rates and information apply at Company's oflices, ' A. D UNSM U.IR, JOSEPH HUNTER. President. Gen'l Snpt ��������� H.K. PRIOR, Gen. Freight and Passenger Agt, ���������GO TO��������� SID C, HOOVER'S The only First Class Tensorial Ap. tist in the City. When you may wish an easy shave As good as barbers ever gave, Just call at my shaving parlor At morn, eve or busy noon. '��������� I cut and dress tho hair with grace To suit the contour of the face. The room is neat and towels clean, Scissors sharp and razors keen, And everything I fchiuk you'll find To suit the taste and please the mind; And all my art and-skill can do, If you juac call I'll do for you. SID C. HOOVER Unioa, B. C. Opposite Vendome Hotel. 1 *Tb> Kvij������! iSiiffi ifeuri! rauiT i^'lali ;* *53?' Mm '.wJ-Mp isigp {ja rrmrjmrMi ij^-iyxiM^_wm_j_������i_iirw������ai irM-'B__u-_agi.!i- t'jr *mwcy������3_���������_uwa> &������������_ w. ri!86!-������ 65 i.-.i SLATER'S���������It is needless to tell you anything about this make. You already know that theirs are the leaders for men. We have just received all the latest styles for the fall. The Bull-dog, with heavy rubber soles, the Broad-foot, the Piccadilly and the Coin, are some of the new ones. You will be well repaid by having a look at these before buying. We have them to fit all feet, long or short, broad or narrow. AMES HOLDEN and CO.���������We have as usual, a full line of this popular firm's in ladies', misses, child's, men's and boys', in prices to suit every one adies' and misses Oxford shoes must be cleared out. $1.25. See the lines at 75c. $1.00 and i y V V in