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( Hsyo,��,f , Jfc*t&vs-/a Hi ..* BDOVE NELSON, >l *sC ^v* *# Watch Repairing a .Specialty. m mm imwumwiwniffi'i mtxxtmmmm t>t, If p. il 1 *1 t:-l #1 PI |l ffea m f !. O t Ay-w' JSM9 �� A ��� la1., sV 11 : -v ^ i ^OJvf^H^.V"......... it will be to yotir interest to inspect our stock of FISH IXC j TACKLE before selecting your outfit for the season* All our Goods imported direct from English, American and Canadian Manufacturers. 'SNeif'and Heavy ;Hardwacie. ilii ym UmA$01$AmmAAas*^'0-oAOrOA;'-'-~'''';'-'������������ * '��������� fe��iaa!AEoaAi, ys \\y?, "������ :���:��� l5%!o^$^aa%'^Aaa^y,::' -o: ^ llfepftt mm^yAAMAAyyyy :.-. Nelson, J��* - ^(y . ^UWH6WttntiWa"'��B' ;. **RliWi'WK��rr-tttS^TWti*rr. .M�� 1.1 -'-, - . . v.'' 1'.;:.-.[ -- *. _j-; 'S V .'!..-��� .^ .P^.L..' iv'V-.- ���'. U.^Ln.. t ^qtv.ivt ���i!^ilf.i . * *���*! iioii ;io ;?||'li|i:i|f*lai^'^ - a^},-aa -^^ ���yy.-y .._., ,_^.aPriccs,',6r. ���-..a':'..P^U'''ofl^lApn��' '. :4iA^.iia^ii��ifesa.^^ j�� ^.v JPila,^ ��S i 'ii(' \ ? mMtmmmMA ^^^^^^S^^^^^^^rl^^^^^ i*. "^"-^ ,;.(".;,.:. h.-y-a,.^ ' '')'��� .". r* SONECON VOL, III. NELSON, B. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2^1899 NO- 3 ���SU��M.WM>IMM;Wi>iKM.a n��amBJftj=>. proves that shrewd, far-seeing business men have taken'us at our own estimate of ourselves. , With a rapidly-increasing population the patronage of the tramway should be sufficient to make it,.a paying investment. It'certainly will be a great advertisement for Nelson. With all eyes turned towards Victoria at the present' time, one does not read or hear much of Mr. Hewitt Bostock. rtcis understood that Mr. Bostock is attending the sessionalt Ottawa, but he might as well be back in England, so far as doing anything lor the welfare of.his constituents is concerned. Tt would require a powerful magnifying glass to discover a monument of Mr. Bostock's services in Yale-Cariboo,,yet he will have the effrontery to- come back here at the next Dominion general election and solicit the votes of the people. We rather believe this gentleman's parliamentary career is about at irs end, that is, if an acceptable candidate is placed in the field to oppose him'. There are a great number of things Yale-Cariboo needs more than a representative of Mr. Bostock's ability. The Vancovuer Province may disagree with us on ,this point, but it is the prevailing opinion just the same. , The-Montreal ��W-says Hon. John Charlton should be ii Co :gress. The Ottawa Citizen believes the honorable member for the United States is of more service to his countiy where he is. The Tribune infers from a reference to "self- constituted leaders" in this paperdast.week, that some reflection was cast upon Messrs J. Roderick Robertson and W. A. McDonald. We have never heard that Mr. Robertson aspired to become apolitical dictator, and as for Mr. \V. A. McDonald, anyone who is acquainted with that gentleman knows his strong aversion to being regarded a political leader. And they said unto themselves, " Behold it is the Sabbath. Let us hie to the waters of Kootenay River, even while it is yet morning and fish." . And so they cast the line and did troll mightly, rowing the boat in divers places. And they did hook what they took to be one small bass���also a tenor and two sopranos. But the stories they told were prodigious, so that this generation, wiser in their day than the children of light, did wink openly and bite their thumbs, saying, "Lord, how this world is given to lying." In Siberia during winter the ground is generally frozen to a depth of fifty or sixty feet. This is why so much is heard about the convict's hard lot. Clara Morris, the actress, has written a charmingly poetic story, " The Princes Porcelain," which is published in the August Ladies'Llome Journal. It is Miss Morris' desire to become as well known as an authoress as she is an actress, and in the hope of such achievement she has entered the literary field. Two or three other stories from her pen have been published during recent years, and they,have been received with the highest approval. Thus far Miss Morris' literary efforts have met with great success, and-she'finds'a/place, for everything that comes from her pen. of civilization after two years of suffering and hardship on the Edmonton trail to the Klondike. The story of these men, who say scores have died on the terrible train, is a terrible indictment against the-offieers of transportation and other companies who misrepresented the Edmonton route for selfish purposes. If the Canadian Government does not make? a thorough investigation of this matter, it should be done by United States authorities, as scores of its citizens were lured to their death by these false representations." " '' , The Greenwood Miner, which by the way; has greatly in proved under Mr. Gosnell's management, has the following with regard to the political situation: "Thereis really no Government to support or oppose. It was a house divided against itself and it has fallen. " As at present con stituted it cannot survive. A general election is imminent. If Martin goes Cotton will likely go with him. They are both more or Jess equally responsible for the deplorable condition of things, and with the exposure of Mr. , Cotton's own record which Martin is now'likely to make, the verdict of the people will be that both should go. If a government can be reconstructed out of the various political elements, which is strong enough to'deal with the affairs of the country as they should be dealt with at, this critical period, the Miner in its humble way will support ��� it, irrespective of personal considerations. Or, if, in the event of a general election, such an administration can be formed out of available material, new or old, it will have the generous support of the people as a whole. They are tired of political potlatching. We may never expect to get an incorruptible Government; but it is quite possible to have a good, business, common sense administration imbued with a proper sense of the needs and requirements of the countiy. Cotton's or Martin's personal quarrels or their ambitious aims are neither here nor there. It is high time to saw wood." Charles Lewis Shaw urrites as follows on the subject of Canadian Literature to Toronto Saturday Night: "James Whitcomb Riley told me a few years ago that Canada was bubbling over with brains of the literary kind, but that Canadians were timid about making themselves heard. He also said that Canada was a mine of unex- ploi ted literary wealth. Mr. Riley was, therefore, of the opinion that we lacked a literature.' But we have a literature. Not a great one, it may be^but still the only British colony that has a distinct, unique and national literature. To , the French-Canadian is due the greatest credit. His chansons and his memoirs are and ever will, be Canadian literature. His opportunities have been greater, his storied life more limited to the land of his adoption. Canada is more to a French-Canadian than to his Saxon brother. We have a Motherland but he .only has Canada. It may be that the prosaic task of clearing forests and tilling farms acted against the literary spirit, for Scotland only had one Burns, but much' of the work of Canadian literary men, with the possible exception of Roberts, could have been written by Englishmen writing of Canada. It is not essentially native. But we are a young country and have made a beginning." The Walter L. Main show which will exhibit at Nelson Monday August 7 has the only Horse Back Riding Pony in the world. This charming little spotted Shetland Pony has been trained to ride Two Horses at the same time and* is known by the name of Canadaigua; it is the most wonderful and artistic performance of the equestrian pony. You may never have another chance of seeing the Rarest of Novel Scenes, so brings the children to see the cute little pony; their pleasure will repay you. THETacoma Ledger has this to say: "Another party of misguided men, mostly Americans, nave got to the'limits A.J. Marks has sold lot 6, block 4, Baker street, to Henry Roy, Rossland, for $3,000 cash A &^*^^^^W��!^^^^ t^W^X'te'-JF. 6 THE ECONOMIST. ��� ��� ��� .The "���i Ne conomi 9 $2 Per Year to Any Address SEND B HERE AND THERE. The men-of-war of the ancient Romans had a crew of about 225 men, of which 174 were oarsmen working on three decks. The speed of these vessels was about six knots an hour iu fair wheather. The birth of a third daughter to the Czarina has resurrected the story that at the time of her marriage a gypsy woman prophesied that she^ would give birth to seven daughters before a sou and heir would come. The French match factories are now turning out friction matches which will ignite on any surface, but which are free from the objections raised against whitetsulphur. No smoke or odor is perceptible in the factories. The inflammable ingredients of the paste are sesquisulphide of phosphorus and chlorate of potash. A London capitalist has offered to construct at Southend a huge sea wall, at a cost of $3,000,000, and asks in return permission to use the tidal force for working a generat- ing plant to supply London with electricity. He guarantees there shall never be less than 3] feet of water on the ; beach ; in fact, it will be a huge marine lake. When one receives an invitation to a wedding in Cairo, Egypt, it is an important event, because, instead of,being asked for a-ten. minutes' church ceremony, or a brief evening reception, the invitation reads for three days. There is feasting during all this time, and the house and street are liberally decorated with flags and lanterns. The elephant shooting of Ceylon is the best in the world and is the easiest attainable. . The Ceylon elephants liave been carefully preserved'by the government, which regulates the shooting according to the number of animals. The idea is to keep a constant herd of 2,000, and when there is not an excess of this number the shooting is forbidden absolutely. In pre-revoluntary days there was a woman public executioner in Virginia. At that time death sentences were respited on condition that a criminal should perform this office. " Lady Betty," as she was afterwards called, was sentenced to death for murder. She offered to become public executioner and held this office for many years. It is saidcthat on the scaffold she officiated without a mask. The wives of several members of the English Episcopate, including both the Archbishops, are nearly connected' with the peerage. Mrs. Temple, the wife of the Primate is a first cousin of the Duke of Devonshire; the wife of the Archbishop of York is a daughter of sixth Lord Barring- ton; Lady Mary Carr-Glyn, the wife of the Bishop of Peterborough, is a daughter of the Duie of Argyll; and the wife of the Bishop of Southwell is a daughter of the late Earl of Selborne. On the Selection of Bridesmaids. " In selecting bridesmaids," said a youno: woman who has recently accomplished that difficult task for her coming wedding, " it is not beauty that counts so much as style and carriage. Most brides take a great deal of pride in their bridesmaids' costumes and want them to show to the best advantage. It is very important that a bridesmaid should walk weil. . The wedding marches are more suited to grand opera si ages than church aisles, and while Elsa's or Lucia's attendants can walk in gracefully to such music, the ni)-st graceful girl is apt t:> sway and fal ter trying to keep time and step with the same strains. The beauty, of a faultless frock and the stateliness of a ���pic'ture-h'at:vanish when the wearer is awkward and obviously ill at ease. The bride herself is helped by her long train, her dropping head, and the on her father's arm before and on her husband's after the ceremony, but the bridesmaid wears a short gown, carries her head erect, walks up and down beside another girl, and so has her own grace alone to depend upon. - a girl who walks well, whose head is well poised on her shoulders, and whose hair arranges well, makes a good appearance as a bridesmaid." . The announcement that John Houston will attempt to ride the trick mule with Walter L. Main's circus next week should, attract a large crowd. LMiMmiuaiKiMraMWS THE ECONOMIST. I i\m informed that'the wife-beater is carrying on operations in Nelson. I hope some long-suffering wife will introduce her brutal husband to Police Magistrate Crease. His Honor would probably give the offender six months imprisonment for resorting to physical force' to maintain his position as head of the household. But there is a class of creatures who, although more dangerous to a community, cannot be reached as easily as the wife beater. I refer to slanderers. The slanderer appears every were and in many guises. No matter how he dresses or how he uses his weapons, he is a slanderer, and is known as*suoh by all who come in contact with , him. Let it' be understood here that I do not use the pronoun he for the sake of convenience,, but because I refer especially to the male slanderer, or " male gossip," as he is better known. The ladies, " God bless 'em," usually confine their delicate sarcasm to eacli other, and are satis- fied-if they can pick other ladies' bonnets to pieces, or tell how careless Mrs. Noname is in the care of her children. ft < They cause a good many little hea>*t pangs, but seldom work irreparable injury. I spent last evening with a couple of gentlemen friends, part of whose early education was to speak reverently of the female sex, aud the conversation drifted to the male gossip. They agreed with me, that the slanderer is not always satisfied with gossiping for the sake of gossip, but is really inspired with the desire to speak ill of all who are unfortunate enough to be acquainted with him. No importance should be attached to his gossip, inasmuch as everybody knows he is both unreliable aud vindictive, and yet, although he often docs great harm, he escapes punishment. This paragraph is writen with special reference to a young man in this city."'' Q'tt r? In the same category with the wife beater and tlie- slanderer should he classed the man who.refuses to support his wife. A case of the latter character came under my observation during the week, the details of which are enough to make any honest man blush for his sex. Briefly stated, the circumstances of the case are' that a married woman, who was all that a faithful wife should be, discovered that the resources of her husband were being squandered iii riotous and licentious living. She remonstrated with her lord and master, but he refused to give her any satisfaction. As a result she has returned to the home of her parents, and the husband in name only is now diligently circulating lying reports concerning the wife. Surely such ajjman should be made to suffer for his outrageous conduct. I met a rather peculiar character the other day. He is a late arrival in the city, but already he knows the private history of every man here. He is a person who inspires contempt at the first meeting, and I can think of no better '���name to call him at this moment than an "insinuating" scoundrel. His methods areais inscrutable as numerous. He never utters a word of condemnation. Indeed, he rather creates the impression that he is anxious to say something good about every one, but so adroitly doesiie frame his sentences that his warmest praise is his strongest slander. He possesses the faculty of makinjg his listener think evil of the person of whom he is speaking, and yet if called to repeat his language, there could be found nothing in it to criticize. He does not possess intellect of a high older, but lie is bright enough to get along in a mediocre way nd keen enough, when it comes to following the peculiar trend of his nature to carry his point in the majority of instances. He is suspected by every one, but cannot be committed of falsehood. Of all the persons referred to in this connection, I dislike him the most. The slanderer may have redeeming features, the wife beater in moments or reason may be kind enough, the wife-deserter you can locate, but the in- sinuator goes on forever with reasonable assurance that he cannot be convicted of any crime.' P. G. JENNIE BAXTER, JOURNALIST. At last the day of the Canadian novelist has arrived. A , few weeks a ago, " The Span of Life'I was placed on the market, followed by " Black Rock," and now comes "Jennie Baxter, Journalist," by R >bert Barr, a gentleman, who, although a resident of the United States for many years, still cherished imperishable memories of his Canadian home. For several years past Mr! Barr has resided in London, England, where he no'doubt picked up much of the material he has used in,his story. , It is a very improbable narrative, but it holds the interest of the reader throughout its many pages. The author gives us an insight into the life of a female journalist in his story. , He first introduces her while, she is on a visit to the managing editor of one of the London ��� daily papers, where she is anxious to obtain a position as reporter. The editor is very difficult of access, but she finally finds herself in a room adjoining his private office, the door between being partly open, and there overhears a conversation between the editor and one of his staff, from which she learns of a story they are working on in regard to some discrepancy in the accounts of the Board of Public Construction, of which knowledge they fool so confident that they are the sole possessors, that they have decided to await further developments for a' few days before publishing it.^ Thinking she should not be found waiting there, under the circumstances, she quietly goes into the general waiting room and awaits her turn to talk with the editor. She finds him a very abrupt man, and he immediately tells her his staff is complete-and satisfactory" and he has no room on it for a lady n-p >rter. She asks him, if on some other newspaper she should give evidence of being a good newspaper reporter, she may call and secure the coveted situation, and states that she expects to do something that will make him and the whole staff of his paper feel very doleful. She immediately goes to work on this story, tlie particulars of which she learned from the conversation which she overheard, and gives it to a rivalc paper. The following day she again called on the editor and is promptly admitted and given a position on the paper, and is detailed to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of the Princess von Steinheimer's diamonds. She goes to Austria to the Princess under the guise of stenographer and typewriter, and in the course of time discovers amongst the Princess' papers an order on the bank at Vienna for the diamonds written by the Princess herself, which she had evidently forgotton about, thinking that the order had been sent and the diamonds delivered. Upon telegraphing to the bank the diamonds were found to have been in safety there all the time. So Jennie has the satisfaction, of finding out what had baffled detectives and others. While iu Austria Jennie receives a letter from her managing editor, saying that the Duchess .of Chiselhurst is about to give a great ball in London, from which all reporters are to be carefully excluded, and asks her to find some way in which they can get a description 'of,the affair from an eye witness.. The Princess receives an invitation to the ball, which sheftellsJennieto decline for her. Jennie immediately conceives the idea of writing an acceptance instead and impersonating the Princess, which she does quite successfully, although having a few narrow escapes. This established her reputation to the complete satisfaction of the hard-headed editor. Indeed that mighty person was so well pleased with his lady reporter as to contemplate a proposal of marriage, which Jennie, with the tact of all good female reporters, warded off. There are many other incidents that combine to make " Jennie Baxter, Journalist" an intensely interesting story. Of course, like all good fairy tales, the heroine eventually marries, and lives happy ever after. Copp, Clark Co., Limited, Toronto^ are the publishers. For sale by Canada Drug and Book Co. sW 8 THE ECONOMIST. -.1 1,^ ���$ TO A SOUBRETTE. 'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; , ,, And pet���ah, yet, how swift and tender My thoughts go back in time's dull track To you, sweet pink of female gender! I shall not say���though others may��� That time all human joy enhances ; But the same old thrill comes to me still With memories of your songs and dances. Soubrettish ways these latter days Invite my praise, but never get it; " I still am true to yours and you��� ��� My record's made, I'll not upset it! The pranks they play, the things they, say��� I'd blush to put the like on. paper, , , And I'll avow they don't know how ��� To dance, so awkwardly they caper ! 1 used to sit down in the pit ' And s--ee you fiitflike elf or fairy Across the stage, and I'll engage No moonbeam sprite were half so airy ; Lo, everywhere about me there , Were rivals reeking with pomatum, And if, perchance,they caught your glance In song or dance, how did I hate 'em! At half-past ten came rapture���then Of all those men was I most happy, For bottled beer and royal cheer And tete-a-tetes were on the tapis. Do you forget, my fair soubrette, Those suppers at the Cafe Rector,��� The cosey nook where we par Look >< Of sweeter cheer than fabled nectar? Oh, happy days, when youth's wild ways " Knew every phase of harmless folly! Oh, blessful nights, whose fierce delights , Defined gaunt-featured Melancholy ! Gone are they all beyond recall, And I���a shade, a mere reflection��� Am forced to feed my spirit's greed Upon the husks of retrospection ! And lo ! to-night, the phantom light, ' That, as a sprite, flits on the fender. Reveals a face whose girlish grace Brings back the feeling, warm and tender ; ' And, all the while, the old-time smile Plays on my visage, grim and wrinkled,��� As though, soubrette, your footfalls yet ' Upon my rusty heart-strings tinkled ! ���Eugene Field WIDOWS OF BRIGHAM YOUNG. Six of the twenty-six wives of Brighani Young celebrated his birthday at Salt Lake City June 1. Ten of the widows are still living, but four were kept away from the celebration by illness or distance. An immense banpuet was one featureh of the festival OD|the ninety-eight anniversary of Brigham Young's birth. Over three hundred descenf dants of the Mormoi i leader sat at the table, says the Denver Times. AS many more are living doing mission work in every country on the globe. At the head of the banqueters present was Apostle Brigham Young, a favorite son of the first Brigham Young, and fourth in line for the presidency of tlie Mormon church. Brigham Young, Jr., has four wives. . / Interest centered, however, in the six old women, widows of the man who made plural marriage a vital principle of the Mormon religion. They are from 60 to 80 years old and all occupy exalted positions in Mormonism to-day. Some of these women expect to be summoned from the grave on resurection morning, not by Brigham j Young, I but by Joseph Smith. These were sealed to Young for "time" only and previous to that had been sealed to their prophet, Joseph Smith, for " time aiid eternity.", ��� . ' - Zina D. Young is the most conspicuous of the widows for','time." When she,was 15 years old one of Joseph Smith's missionaries in New York made her a convert. She followed the new prophet through all his' stormy career, leaving a husband and two children. She was finally sealed to him in celestial marriage. She claims ( at one time to have had a vision and to have been endowed with " the gift of tongues "and interpretation." After the death of Smith his, wife turned to Brigham Young for care, and was "sealed" to him for time only. She crossed the plains in his cavalcade, driving oxen, cooking, washing and enduring many hardships. She is now rewarded, being made president of the mighty system of "relief" societies maintained by the Mormon church. ��� Emily D. Partridge Young is a second J4 time" wife. She and her sister were made wives of Prophet Smith at Nauvdo, 111. After Smith died1 the sister, Emily, became one of Brigham Young's wives. A third widow, Naajiiah Kendel Jenkins Charter Twiss Young, expects to be claimed at the last day by John S. Twiss, to whom she was married first by Brigham Young himself. A fourth Margaret Pierce Young, has been sealed for eternity to Morris Whitesides. Brigham Young's favorite and his youngest wife, was exalted over aJl the old wives in .the last days of the old Mormon leader's life. ,She was one of the most beautiful of the young Mormon women at Salt Lake, and still retains a charm. Her name is Harriet Amelia Folsom Young, aud she is said to be a near relative of ex-President Cleveland's wife. The Folsoms came out to Utah from O'nio. At 25 Harriet Folsom was the most courted woman in Mormondom. Two young suitors, one of whom it was supposed she intended to marry, were suddenly sent away by Brigham Young on foreign n. issionary ��� tours. Meantime Harriet Amelia Folsom became the favorite wife of the church's head. For her he built the "palace" which stands to-day opposite the plainer abodes he had built for his other wives. Harriet Folsom was the only woman who could sway the bold Mormon leader. Her word was law in the household. Harriet Bareny, Eliza Burgess, Harriet Cook and Lucy . Bigelow are other surviving widows. One alone of the widows is anathematized by the church. Ann Aliza Young found polygamous marriage not pleasant and applied for a divorce from the prophet. She aftenvard married again and is living now in Michigan. For those wives who remained faithful to the leader of the Mormon church has been provided much notable work in high positions. One of these labors is the tracing out of progenitors of the young families. According to Mormon doctrines, no one obtains the highest salvation unless they are baptized on earth by someone who has received authority. Joseph Smith, in order to prevent the condemnation of millions of innocent persons, declared "that living people might be baptised for the dead ones under the names of the deceased. 'Napoleon, QueeirElizabeth, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and others have thus been snatched as brands from the burning. The entire Young celebration showed how strong a hold the dead leader still has upon the church. Mormons hail him again as an infallible leader and look back with regret to the days when he ruled like a king in mountain fastnesses.; Flags have been flying and bands phiying in honor of the hero who declared that j he would "cram,, polygamy down the throats of. congress." Brigham Young, Jr., referred to the "empire of Utah," created by his father. Governor Wells declared that when Brigham Young died," the world lost one of its greatest ornaments,'' and Senator Rawlins spoke of the time when his statue* would be placed beside those of other great national characters in the statuary hall of congress. BgMMBmiaMlMMtTOMraBWB^^ -THE ECONOMIST. THE HARDEST WORKER IN EUROPE. '��� If the Prince of Wales were not resolute, unflinchingly energetic, and the essence of punctually he could not possibly get through all he does .every day of his life. He is an early riser, though he goes to bed very late, aud ...^ even should daylight find him still busy with his arrears of CM) private correspondence he will be ready to get up when called at eight o'clock. ( . ' Practically the only time his Royal Highness has to himself is before .the simple breakfast, of which he partakes alone about nine o'clock, and the short time he has to snatch from public affairs after that meal. A breath of fresh morning air in the pretty grounds of Marlborough House braces him to face the enormous piles of letters that await his attention after his first meal. Eminently a business man, the Priuce'never lets his mail wait. Every single letter'addressed to him by his acquaintances , he actually opens with, his own hands, and peruses himself. Then he sorts his correspondence, setting aside those epistles that concern his own private affairs' for his own answering, and those that require consideration, for future consultation with specialist counsellors on the subjects > they touch. Letters that his secretaries can reply to for him he leaves to them; but on even those he advises what from the answer is to take^ The Princess of Wales does not usually get up so early as her husband, so his Royal Highness has leisure (such as it is) in which,to see his private^ secretary, Sir Francis Knollys,'and his equerry, and with them arrange the details of the -day's programme, and what carriages and horses will be required, before he goes for a little second breakfast, and domestic communion with his wife and daughter, any guests who may be staying at Marlborough House. , Should he have time, it is his pleasure next to walk across to York House to see the Duke and Duchess of York, and for a little while to play with his grandchildren, unless Prince Eddie and his little brother and sister have been brought iu perambulators by their nurses and a plain clothes police officer to Marlborough House, ;as they often are in the early morning. The racket of the day then begins. Perhaps a deputation will have to be received by the Prince, and he may also have to preside at a business meeting of which he holds an official post as governor. Usually these affairs take place about eleven in the Indian room, the apartment ' that contains the priceless treasures presented to his Royal Highness during his tour in India in 1874, by the native princes and chiefs. A list of the functions our busiest Prince presides over in a morning would fill a column. Besides doing his duty as president of this and governor of that institution, the Prince has a vast amount of business that requires and receives his personal attention in connection with the Duchy of-Cornwall. When he enters No. 1, Buckingham- gate, he is Duke of Cornwall rather than Prince of Wales, and more or less in consequence a private landowner instead of a future King. There are many functions attended by his Royal Highness that never get chronicled in the papers, because of the Prince's known desire to keep them private. Such are the visits he pays to the hospital, quite unexpectedly or with only a brief intimation sent half an hour before of his intention. 1 The subject of the sick poor and the amelioration of their sufferings is near the Prince's innermost heart. He frequently sandwiches a visit to a hospital in between a military review and a levee, both of which functions entail an amount of dressing that, reduced as such items of the day's programme are to a science, necessarily take a ^.A considerable slice of time out of the eighteen hours de- -, ���-; voted by his Royal Highness to hard labour every day <|^ during the season. In his field-marshal's uniform (a most elaberate dress), , wearing the full insignia of his various orders���if it be [ whatfis known as a " collar day'?���the spick-and-span appearance of the Prince of Wales represents hours of close work on the part of his valets. ' ' , Then, again, as Grand Master of the Freemasons���the highest office possible in the craft���there is an elaborate toilet'to be made, including the arrangement of jewels of special significance and the most sumptuous beauty , and value. Trusted officials - are employed to lay out the Prince's orders andjewels, and sometimes to convey them from place to place, to meet his Royal Highness, who, not unfrequently is so pressed for time that he is obliged to, make quick changes in his costume", wherever he may happen to be holding a ceremony. * The Prince's love of sport aud everything military and -naval would take him to exhibitions, races, and regattas, as'wellasall national displays, if he were a private gentleman1. The fact that his position is what it is makes such affairs a necessary duty, but his Royal Highness never shirks any function, and never grumbles. ��� In fact, it is a well-known truism that he enjoys all he idoes. He has never known a blase moment, but is as fresh now as when he was a lad of twelve." He is interested so keenly and so quietly in everything that it is a -. pleasure to him to go about���just as great a pleasure as it is to his mother the Queen's subjects to see him. Sometimes there is a little leisure in the afternoon before dinner for a game of billiards, but not often in June and'July. Dinner is a movable feast, , arranged, when partaken of at home, to suit the engagements of the even ing. Both the Prince and Princess enjoy music, aud patronize the opera, after which his Royal Highness often looks in at a smoking concert, finishing up the day at his club, and later still at home; often latest of all abscorbed once more over his letters and business affairs for the next day. This enumeration of an average day spent by our future King shows at once that his Royal Highness leads as busy a life as any .man living. In fact, there are few men who could do as hard a day's work as the Prince, and do it with that unfailing courtesy and cheerfulness which he displays in the exercise of his multi-various duties. A Genius Out of Sing Sing. Much has been said of that musical ^nd mechanical genius, a convict in Sing Sing prison, who built two pipe organs,.one for use in the Protestant and the other in the Roman Catholic chapel in the prison. The builder was John Howard, who had been sentenced to the penitentiary for 12 years. Pic worked for two years on the organs, and in building them was supposed to have saved the state $5,000. For this the warden recommended that his term be cut down by ten years, and a grateful state administration commuted his sentence by that length of time. Howard was released about two weeks ago, and quietly disappeared. He said he would be back at the opening of the new chapels last Sunday, so that he might hear his pets discourse sweet music for the prisoners, and incidentally got the honor of having built two such splendid instruments. But Howard didn't appear at the opening of the chapels, and it is a good thing for him he didn't, as the organs are utterly useless, with no more music-producing capacity than a mute at an Eisteddfod. Everything was ready for the opening services, and expert organists had been engaged, and almost 2,000 convicts sat with open mouths and expectants ears, ready to be thrilled by the tones of the great instruments. Instead of music they heard nothing but groans, howls and discordant noises from the tortured organs. The stops wouldn't work, and when they did they couldn't be stopped. The bellows stuck; and when the wind did get into the pipes they only whined and wheezed. i��>4��^J.4��^,m'��� '.'���' 000 '�����.'.'���,-: AyAA .:: a-,-(���",s'',: \ vP:-1-'"--'^ --^.VolO ree-'Ririg:;Gi.rcus��a n g {0$ df N a t i o n s :Jon.s��er;;��Weri^ :So��iety^H^ y;y ;.��.:..,;���. ���,,,, >!., IS lift I ����� ^ k< if' Kv I 11 WtMMtMatafc*kl��JBU'*XRH-U J '. '& s fe ft' fe ft* fej; $\ -SI o A 12 THE ECONOMIST. "1 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL eat Merchants HEAD OFFICE: Nelson, B. C. ��. ��� . BRANCHES AT . /ROSSLAND TRAIL ' ��� NELSON ' KASLO SANDON THREE FORKS SLOCAN CITY ^k^i I West Kootenay Butcher Co I 'n , WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN | FRESH AND SALT MEATS. | T 1 Camps supplied on shortest notice and lowest prices. | �� Mail orders receive careful attention 7rv -I' $ Nothing but fresh and wholesome meats and supplies * JJOHN Mc LATCH IE Dominion and Provincial ^gj^*^ Land Surveyor, Opp. Custom House, Nelson B.C CLUB HOTEL Corner Stanley and Silica Streets RATES; $i per day and up. Schooner Beer, io cents E. J. Curran, Proprietor. Philistine���01'what, use is the editor, of a paper? Young Keporter���-To make a long story short. If the apple crop had failed that year When Eye took one so free, Instead of the failure of the pair, How different'all might be. . % kept iii stock fl ^��8���^ 5 lanaqer. Si?ifc7cC^7^fC*{%^^7l\^i\yi\?l\7i* /fvTYvVi-* *i>. .-jS. ������������ ^~i*7rw> 'i-> -T* ��-i\ *p. /4s /?% 'r�� "V�� 'i* ��T�� T�� *r�� 'f* *T�� *T�� 'P> 'O 'i** ^ ^i-vvi1* 'i" M�� *,-�� *t\ *?\ '|WT"'I�� ^ ^-aitjaragavufxg u��w"'^jr^'iS'L3a=3Ea caLTauaisr:jsm.^aais,xaaa��W��a,AiEJSisy. eras MX��aKX3XM��i*=��-"CX-��3 'irrxxw-jcx&Mzrwi I *-t:j ITr^^A^-^^ffMSEXV^^ICVV^'l^,^^ ��^**V_L��.ltl"��*T��T1H'TkJ*ar*K*^U-aH^A^LJi,liSrS^^l**J*^"*W"** o �� on revs lA. &/ "And you always allow your girl's father to kick you?" ����� I do. But how can a fellow help what's done behind his back?," e o Next to Nelson Hotel, Baker Ha reel, Telephone No. 93. AND Agents for VlCTUJM A C- Mountain. Take notice Unit I, John McLMtchio, of the city ofNO'lson, acting as agent for Angus .Hnrfltartfr*ja*aiy��f fS^JUSSSHOAii^'^^ii m '��� ft :$ ife I4& : ilSii wit St' ^^ a 'ft* I- v. so ��o V * la Rt ;��' ' <% 44' THE ECONOMIST. " Dre.-ulful! Th:ity<��u-.i;* iin-i =oid "ii-> wiut -Aii.) denied .so iuuc'i in low- have [.���ceil ii.rre.-.te'here located.: On cast side of Eagle i.i. a [tnno uica uiaoi.o.i, V>" ' creelo about two and a-half miles southeast of r st?e. They were taken up with e;'��(;h : Poorman Mineral Claim. ���.,,..,, ' ��� , Take nofice that I, John McLatciiie, Free ���Aier. ' Miner's Certificate No. B 11,326. acting as agent | for J. P. Swedberg, Free Miner's'Certificate T. ,-,-r. ,,.,.., . . : N'o. ii. 11,243 and .7. W. Johnson. Free Miner's J in^so���\v ivil (li-i the iliOiistor Kay ; Certificate So. 21,78-5 A, intend sixty days from when the nhite came up? the date hereof, to apply to the Mining- Re- I corder lor a Certificate of Tmprovements, for HinL'so���-Ho said lie wouldn't mind"! tha pu-'o"1 "e of obtaining a Crown Grant ot the ' above r'-\ m so rnuc!! if the- ImUons wore ail :dike. NOTICE. In themattcrof the estate of William Cil- nioro Spencer, late of the City of Nelson, in the County ofKoofrmay. d'-^^n^cd., Notice is hereby given, nursuant to the tte- viscd Statutes of British Columbi'i. 1W. Chapter 187, that all creditors and others having claims ag-iinst trie estate of the said Willinni Gilmorc Spencer.'who died on or about the 21 n o7, must be commenced - before the is- i--'1. '.nee oi such Cortificaie of Improvements. Dated this twelfth dav of June', 1899. John JicLA/rcinjB. ! Josephine Street Tinsrnithing Plumbin S .AND Heating NOTICE. Nelson. Notice is hereby given that 1, W. G. Robin- swn, intend to apply u> the Board of Licensing Commissioners of tlie City of Nelson at their next sitting thirty days after date for a transfer from me to Solomon Johns, Nelson, B. C, of the license held by niefor the sale of liquors by n-tail at the Royal Hotel, situated on iots S and -1. Block29, Nelson, 13. C. Dated thisDth day of June, 185)9. W. G. ItOKINSON. STARTLERS �� ; IK PRICES OF a -AT��� Thomson's Book Store, fiusa xpress and Draying a-flavin.g purchased the express and drayiu bu^ine^s'oi' J. W. Cowan, we are prepared to .l.i!-.��! kin.cuiof work in this line, and solicit the pa> t. Nelson. ^ T \ \ HEN you buy OKELL & MORRIS' Preserves��) ^orriS'"TrUll rr6S6TV6S o< you get what are jiiire BritiOi Columbia* Are absolutely the c/ fruit and sugar, and your money is left at PUREST AND BEST. Winnipeg:.. Manitoba. 'Jl'^o* crgj-CTf-���r-^^n -Hf- utter, Eggs? Cheese, 1 lad* ItttV* ��� �� ��� # �� ��� Nelson, Victoria and Vancouver, ^^^^^MMMBMM^a^M^