{"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.14288\/1.0182499":{"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/terms#identifierAIP":[{"value":"c849c240-633f-4acf-b6be-eacb66462f7a","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/schemas\/edm\/dataProvider":[{"value":"CONTENTdm","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/isPartOf":[{"value":"BC Historical Newspapers","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/issued":[{"value":"2016-07-29","type":"literal","lang":"en"},{"value":"1891-12-26","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/description":[{"value":"The Miner was published in Nelson, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The Miner was established by John Houston, an outspoken journalist who would later embark on a successful political career, which included four terms as the mayor of Nelson and two terms in the provincial legislature. After leaving the Miner in the summer of 1892, Houston established the Tribune to compete with his former paper. The Miner was published by The Miner Printing and Publishing Company, and the paper's longest-serving editor was D. J. Beaton. The Miner was published under two variant titles, the Nelson Weekly Miner and the Weekly Miner. In 1902, the paper was sold to F. J. 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NUMBEE 79.  NELSON,   BEHTSH   COLUMBIA,   SATUEDAY,   DECEMBEE   26,  1891.  $_A YEAE.  HAVE    FAITH    IN    SLOCAN    DISTRICT.  The snows of winter have no terrors for those  who   have faith in Slocan  district.     Men are  strung along the trail between Nelson and the  lower end of Slocari lake\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdspine hauling boats,  some pulling toboggans, some driving, pack animals, some  with  their all  on their  backs\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdall  buoyed up, wit h the hope that the hidden wealth  of  the liew-found Eldorado  is alone for those  who smilingly endure hardships and surmount  obstacles.    The snow is over a foot, deep oh .the  railway between Nelson and'Slocan  river, but  not so deep up the river to the lake.    There is  little snow at the mouth of Carpenter creek,-, but  ,fr0om there to the mines it varies in depth from  3 inches to 6 feet.  A number of men are camped  at the mouth of Carpenter creek, among others  Jack Evans, Jack Buchanan, George Long, Jap  King, W. R. Will, 0. M. Gething, and George  Henderson.    They are engaged in various occupations\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdsome nursing swelled hands and sore  lingers, some  figuring  out  their expectations,  some preparing to build cabins, some whipsaw-  ing lumber, some hunting game\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdall expiecting to  \"get there\" in the spring.    At the lower end of  the lake Arthur Dick and Hairy Ward have a  townsite partly surveyed, and between  selling  town lots and baling hay expect to make a \"killing.\"    Jack Madden and his brother Anthony  are tobogganing supplies from Nelson, intending  to  build  a: stopping place' on   the  Dick-Ward\"  townsite. Gorman West, after putt ing in 35 days  on the trail, cooking for the boys who built it,  will spend the small for trine he received in-wages'  in building a \"Travelers' Home\" at the forks of  Slocan river.    Martin Fry, who. has taken up a  fine piece of land between the big creek and the  lower end of the lake, is slaughtering game so  fast that he is barely able.to.care for the skins  and pelts,   to say nothing of cooking \"square\",  \"meals for the in-goers and out-comers.    Angus  Mclntyre is up night and day endeavoring to  get through Hunter &. McKinnon's freight.   His  pack train has been making 2 round trips a week,  between the railroad and the end of the trail\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd  , going  up  in 2 days  and  coming back  in  one.  Angus stands the punishment better than his  animals; but, then, he gets 2 meals a day and  they get but one.  .Among those who returned this week from  the \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdmouth of Carpenter  creek and   the   lower  end of the lake were Wilson and Alfred Hill,  A. G. Hodgins, Jim Delaney, Bill Schwerdfeger,  Tom Mulvey, Mike Malloy, Dan Shoemaker, and  Georg*e Bigelow.    Messrs. Mulvey, Shoemaker,  and Bigelow came direct from the mines, making the  through  trip in  5  days,  counting the  night they w^ere shipwrecked  on the west side  of the lake.    They brought back samples from  2   or   3   of   the   claims   on   the  headwaters of  Carpenter    creek,    and    boast    of  'making,    a  fine location near the mouth of the creek, on the  center  stake  of  which   they  inscribed   \"Wide  West.\"   They also experted several other claims  at the mouth of the creek; but, like all first-class  mining experts, are as close-mouthed as clams  when asked pointed questions.    There is already  a nucleus for a \"city\" at the mouth of Carpenter  creek, and by spring it will probably be named.  John  R. Cook is on his way in,   having left  Nelson on. Wednesday.    He gOfjs  to make  arrangements  for building a   steamboat,   and   if  successful will order the machinery immediately  on his return.    Arthur Dick and Harry Ward  will cut. a trail from the big creek to the lake, a  distance of 3 or 4 miles, and Bill Hunter intends  to cut one from his store, at the mouth of Carpenter creek, to the mines.  Wilson Hill, who put in over a month in  building the trail, reports it in very good condition and not over 25 miles long. He says the  soft places will need corduroying in the spring,  and that a 40-foot bridge .will have to be built  across the big creek. He also says 2 men should  easily complete the trail from the big creek to  the lake in 2 wreeks, as the timber is open and  free from brush.  Hugh McRae and party started 3 weeks ago  to go in by way of Kaslo creek; but after getting nearly to the lakes at the sumtnit had to  give it up,owing to the depth of snow.  Small parties are coining in almost claily from  the outside; but it is not advisable for anyone,  except those wishing to jpass a winter breathing  the p u res t of ai r an d e nj oyih\"g freeclo m \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'.fro m the  \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd:restrain ts of civi 1 ization, to yen ture in 16 Slocan  district before the middle of March.  TWO    SOLID. .BANKS   COMING.  Two of the solidest banks in Canada give  notice to the people of the\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd lake-country, through  this week's Miner, that banking facilities will  be furnished them in the early spring. Tlie  Bank of Montreal, purely a Canadian institution, has the largest capital of any bank in  America, and is noted for its enterprise and the  liberal way in which it treats customers.    The\"  Bank of British Columbia, while hot a distinctively provincial bank as its name implies, has  done business on the Pacific, coast for over a  quarter of a century and now ranks as one of  the solidest institutions in either Great Britain  or the United States. The coming of these 2 institutions has more than a passing significance,  for it means that the shrewd men at their head  know that mining is sure to become an industry in this section of the province. Both banks  will be located at Nelson.  The Ridlest Man. in Ains worth.      ,,   .  Last summer, when doing contract work on  the Kootenay Chief, a claim adjoining the famed  Blue Bell opposite 'Ainsworth,  Alex McLeod,  Tom McGovern, and 3 others found that there  was about 50 feet of vacant ground between the  Kootenay Chief and the Blue Bell.   ;They staked  the ground, calling the claim the \"Contractor.\"  The owners of the Kootenay Chief, through A.  D. Wheeler, purchased the interests of 2 or 3 of  the boys, and dr. Hendryx the interests of the  others, Tom McGovern being, the. last to sell.  The price Tom realized in cash was at the  rate of $46,875 for a full-sized claim. If Tom  could only get hold of the money he has tied up  in Hussey's bank at Spokane and cash for the  drafts given as the purchase price of the \"Great  Western,\" he would be easily the richest man in  Ainsworth.  The Railroad Company .Gets'- tine   Picls.  The map of the Nelson townsite, issued by the  chief commissioner of lands and works, shows  one thing very clearly, that is, that the railroad  company gets  the pick   of the  unsold  blocks.  The government, evidently, followed the directions of the individual who hopes to be Nelson's  \"boss,\" as well as \"boss\" of the Canadian Pacific's landed interests in this section. Even the  4 lots so generously granted the lire company,  recently, are railroad lots, and will now have to  be purchased by the province. It becomes more  plain daily that J3ritish Columbia, like the Dominion of Canada, is held well in hand by the  men who meanly manage a soulless corporation.  Chi'i.st-.Ba.s-Day.  All the time-honored customs were observed  at Nelson on Christmas-eve and Christmas-day.  The children had a tree at the school-house on  Christmas-eve, and the next day were happy in  the possession of their presents. The grown  people with homes, content in knowing that they  were residents of a promised land, practiced  Christian hospitality by inviting their friends  without homes to epicurean dinners. The guests  at all the hotels were treated to surprises in the  way of eatables and drinkables; the dinner at  the Nelson house, especially, being sumptuous.  The evening was spent in tobogganing.  MINES    ARE    MADE    NOT    FOL'ND.  There is a tendency among capitalists to overlook mining as a source of wealth and field for  investments, simply because they are unacquainted with mining matters and mining as a  business. They,look upon mining as a question  of luck  only, being  ignorant of the  fact  that  \"mines are made,\"in ninety-nine cases out of a  hundred.,.and not found.    The greatest field for  the employment, of capital in British Columbia  today is in  her in ines, yet men  of means will  hardly credit the statement that anyone mine  ever produced a million dollars, let aione 10 millions, and would almost as soon believe in an  assertion  that  the  silver they jingle  in  their  pocket \/grew    on     trees,    like    apples.     They  ..are' incredulous,   and  their  ideas  about  mines  and     mining   are     very    vague     and     misty.  Still capitalists can  secure today good  investments in any of  the  mining districts  in   this  province.    But claims require capital to make  ..\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdmines of them.    It is estimated that it costs $20  a foot to sink a shaft or drive a tunnel.    A poor  prospector has a claim that has splendid indications, but he is stuck\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthe $20 to sink the one  foot is lacking, let alone the means to sink 200  to  where treasures  await   his   enterprise   and  . pluck.    It is rarely that he can secure help, for  c capital is afraid of the mining business; and yet  an investment in good properties is sine to yield  enormous returns.    The best  mining men are  practical  miners.     They   know  a   good  thing  when they see it, and as a general thing they  keep their successes to .themselves, and quietly  buy up all promising prospects, while the ordinary business  man  hears but little of mining  matters, unless it be about some salted mine or a  clever brick  swindle.    There' is   big  money in  mining, and the day is not far distant when the  mining industry will occupy a more prominent  position in the business transactions of the moneyed men of Canada.  Abounds  in  Big Surface Showings.  William Moore and William Lewis are hard at  work on  the Peterborough, a claim located to  the north of the railway and about 10 miles west  of Nelson.    The Peterborough   is  in a section  -  abounding  in   big  surface   shoAvings,   but   the  dozen or  more  claims  which have  had   work  done on'them still remain of doubtful value.  As Deep  as  at  any Time  Last Winter.  G. H. Andrews, who is working a claim near  where'the old Hall mine trail crosses Giveout  creek, reports 3A feet of snowrat his cabin. This,  he says, is as much snow as wras on the ground  at the same place at any t ime last winter. There  is said to be 6 feet at the Silver King, about 3  miles farther up the mountain.  Driving' a Tunnel  obi the  Lizzie C.  Three men are at work driving a tunnel on the  Lizzie  G,  a claim 2-h miles below Nelson.    The*  tunnel is in 60 feet, and when in 200 will tap the.  ledge at a depth of 150 feet. The owners of the  claim\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdTom Collins, dr. LaBau, and others\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd  think they will have a mine when the ground is  properly opened.  A  Report that  is-.Generally  Believed.  The report that the Silver King mine has been  sold to a Scotch company is now generally believed. It is not known what price was paid for  the property, but it is supposed the Hall  interests (one-half) receive $500,000. The capital of the purchasing company is stated to be  $2,500,000.   TraeMlaying- to Bonner's Ferry*  A spur has been put. in from the main line of  the Northern Pacific at Sand Point, Idaho, to  the Great Northern's grade, and tracklaying  to Bonner's Ferry will be commenced early in  January.  ^B\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdS3il-all-iiiM3ia^^  IUMtKlf!IL3--WUJU THE MINEE: NELSON* B. 0., SATUEDAY, DECEMBEE 26, 1891.  HER   FIKST    APPEARANCE.  It was at the end of the.first act of ^he first  night of The Sultana, andevery ..member of the  Lester Comic Opera Company,-.from Lester himself down to the wardrobe woman's soniy who  wrould have had to work if his mother lost her  ; place, was sick with anxiety.  There is perhaps only one other place .'as-fever-'  ish as it is behind the scenes on the first night  of a comic opera, and that is probably a newspaper office on the last night of a presidential  campaign, when the returns '.are. being flashed  on the canvas outside, and the mob is howling,  and the editor-in-chief is expecting to go to the  court of St. James if the election comes his  Way, and the office-boy is betting his wages  that it won't.    Such nights as these try men's  souls, but Van Bibber passed the stage-door  man with as calmly polite a nod as though the  piece had been running a hundred nights, and  the manager was thinking up souvenirs for the  one hundred and fiftieth,* and the prima donna  had as usual begun to hint for a new set of costumes. The stage-door keeper hesitated and  was lost, and Van Bibber stepped into the un-  suppressed excitement of the place with a  pleased sniff at the familiar smell of paint and  burning gas, and the dusty odor that came from  the scene lofts above.  For a moment he hesitated in  and confusion about him, and failed to  nize in their new costumes his old acquaintances  of the company, but he saw Kripps, the stage-  manager, in the center of the stage, perspiring  and in his shirt-sleeves as always, wildly waving  an arm to some one in the flies  with the other to the  trance.     The  the cross-lights  recog-  stage  , and beckoning  gas-man in the front en-  hands   were   striking the  scene.for the first act, and fighting with the set  for the second, and dragging but a canvas floor  of tessellated marble, and running a throne and  a practical pair of steps over it, and aiming the  high quaking Walls of a palace and abuse at  whoever came in their way.  \"Now then, Van Bibber,\" shouted Kripps,  with a wild glance of recognition, as the white  and black figure came toward him, \"you know  you're the only man in New York who gets behind here tonight. But you can't stay. Lower  it, lower it, can't you?\" This to the man in the  flies. \"Any other night goes, but not this night.  I can't have it. I\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \"Where is the backing for  the center entrance?  Didn't I tell you men\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"  Van Bibber dodged 2 stage hands who were  steering a scene at him, stepped over the carpet  as it unrolled, and brushed through a group of  anxious, whispering chorus people into the quiet  of the star's dressing-room.  The star saw him in the long mirror before  which he sat, while his dresser tugged at his  boots, and threw up his hands desperately.  '.-\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\"Well,\" he cried, in mock resignation, \"are  we in it or are we not? Are they in their seats  still or have they fled ?\"  \"How are you, John?\" said Van Bibber to the  dresser. Then he dropped into a big arm-chair  in the corner, and got up again with a protesting  sigh to light his cigar between the wires around  the gas-burner.. \"Oh, it's going very Well. I  wouldn't have come around if it wasn't. If the  rest of it is as good as the first act you needn't  worry.\"  Van Bibber's unchallenged freedom behind  the scenes had been a source of much comment  and perplexity to the members of the Lester  Comic Opera Company. He had made his first  appearance there during one hot night of the  long run of the previous summer, and had continued to be an almost nightly visitor for several  weeks. At first it was supposed that he was  backing the piece, that he was the \"Angel,\" as  those weak and wealthy individuals are called  who allow themselves to be led into supplying  the finances for theatrical experiments. But as  he never peeped through the curtain hole to  count the house, or made frequent trips to the  front of it to look at the box sheet, but wras, on  the contrary, just as undisturbed on a rainy  night as on those when the \"standing room  only\" sign blocked the front entrance, this supposition was discarded, as untenable. Nor did  he show the least interest in the prima donna,  or any of the other pretty women of the company;  he did not know them, nor did he make any  effort to know them, and it was not until they   |  inquired concerning him outside of the theatre  that they learnt vvhat a figure in the social life  of the city he really was.    He spent most of his  time in Lester!sdressing:room smoking, and in  encouraging Lester's dresser to reminisce when  Lester was on the stage, and this seclusion and  his clerical attire of evening dress led the second  comedian to call him Lester's father confessor,  and to suggest that he came to the theatre only  to take the star to task for his sins.    And in this  the second comedian was unknowingly not so  very far  wrong.    Lester the comedian and Van  Bibber had known each other at the university.  Lester's voice and gift of mimicry had made him  the leader in the college theatricals, and later,  when he had gone upon the stage, and had been  cut off by his family even after he had become  famous,   or  on  account of it, Van Bibber had  gone to visit him, and had found him as simple  arid sincere and boyish as he had been  in  the  days of his Hasty Pudding successes.    And Lester, for his part, had found Van Bibber as likable  as didy every one else, and welcomed his quiet  voice and youthful knowledge of the world as a  grateful relief to the boisterous camaraderie of  his professional acquaintances.    And lie allowed  Van Bibber to scold him, and to remind him of  what he  owed to himself, and to touch, even  whether  it hurt or not, upon his better side.  And in time he admitted to finding his friend's  occasional comments on stage matters of value  as coming from the point of viewbf those who  look on at the game; and even Kripps, the veteran, regarded him with respect after he had told  \" him that he cou_deturn' a set of purple cost umes  black by throwing a red light on them;    To the  company, after he came to know them, he was  gravely polite, and, to those who knew him if  they had overheard, amusingly commonplace in  his conversation.    He understood them better  than they did themselves, and made no mistakes.  The women smiled on him. but the men were'  suspicious and shy of him until they saw that he  was quite as shy of the women, and then they  made him  a confidant, and told him all their  woes and troubles, and exhibited all their little  jealousies arid ambitions, in the innocent hope  that he would repeat what they said to Lester.  .They were simple, unconventional, light-hearted  folk, and Van Bibber found them vastly more  entertaining and preferable to the silence of the  deserted club, where the matting was down, and  from whence the regular habitues had departed  to the other side or to Newport.    He liked the  swing of the light bright music as it came to him  through  the  open  door  of the dressing-room,  and the  glimpse  he  got of the chorus people  crowding and pushing  for a quick change up  the iron stairway, and the feverish smell of oxygen in   the air, and the picuresque disorder of  Lester's   wardrobe,   and  the  wigs and swords,  and   the   mysterious   articles  of  make-up,   all  mixed   together   on  a tray  with half-finished  cigars   and   autograph   books   and  newspaper  \"notices.\"   And he often wished he was clever  enough  to be an artist with  talent enough to  paint the unconsciously graceful groups in the  sharply divided light and shadow of the wings  as  he saw them.    The brilliantly colored, fantastically clothed girls leaning against, the bare  brick wall of the theatre, or whispering together  in   circles,   with  their   arms   close   about  one  another, or reading apart and solitary, or working at some piece of fancy-work as soberly as  though  they  were  in a rocking-chair in their  own flat, and not leaning against a scene brace,  with the glare of the stage and the applause of  the house just behind them.    He liked to watch  them coquetting with the big fireman detailed  from the precinct engine-house and clinging desperately to the curtain wire, or with one of the  chorus men on the stairs, or leasing the phlegmatic scene-shifters  as  they  tried to  catch  a  minute's  sleep  on a pile of canvas.    He    even  forgave the prima donna's smiling at him from  the stage, as he stood watching her from  the  wings, and smiled back at her with polite cynicism, as though he did not know and she did not  know that her smiles were not for him, but to  disturb some more interested one in the front  row.    And so  in time, the coming  became so  well accustomed to him that he moved in and  about as unnoticed as the stage-manager himself,  who prowled around hissing \"hush\" on principle  even though he was the only person who could  fairly be said to be making a'noise.  The second act was on, and Lester came off  the stage and ran to the dressing-room and  beckoned violently. \"Come here,\" he said;  \"you ought to see this; the children are doing  their turn.    You want to hear them.    They're  great.     \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'.;', \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd    .\/y* yy \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd    y \"\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd;, \"\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd ;. \\-\\-~. ^ .;.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd..  Van Bibber put his cigar into a tumbler and  stepped out into the wings.    They were crowded  on both sides of the stage with members of the  company;  the girls were tiptoeing, with their  hands on the shoulders of the men, and making  futile little leapsinto the air to get a better view  and others were resting on one knee that those  behind might see over their shoulders.    There  were over adozen --children before the f oot-ligh ts,  with the p rim a donna in the centre.    She was  singing the  verses  of a song,   and they  were  following her  movements,   and joining in the  chorus with high piping voices.    They seemed  entirely too much at home and too self-conscious  to please Van Bibber; but there was one excep- \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd  tion.    The  one  exception  was  the smallest of  theni, a very,  very little girl, with long auburn  hair and black eyes.    Such a very little girl that  every one in the house looked at her first, and  then looked at no one else.    She was apparently  as   unconcerned   to   all   about   her,   excepting  the pretty prima donna, as though she were by  a piano  at home practising a singing lesson.  She seemed to think it was some new sort of a  game.    When the prima donna raised her arms,  the  child  raised  hers;  when the prima donna  courtesied, she stumbled into one, and straight-  ened herself just in time to get the curls out of  her eyes, and to see that the prima donna was  laughing at her, and to smile cheerfully back- as  if to  say,    \"We are  doing  our  best  anyway, c  aren't we ?\"    She had big gentle eyes and, two  wonderful dimples, and in the excitement of the  dancing and the singing her eyes laughed and  flashed,   and   the   dimples deepened and. disappeared and reappeared again.    She was as happy  and innocent looking as though it were nine in  the  morning  and she was playing school at a  kindergarten.    From all over the house the wo-  men were murmuring their delight, and the men  were laughing and pulling their mustaches and  nudging each other to \"look at the littlest one.\"  The girls in the wings were rapturous in their  enthusiasm, and were, calling her absurdly extravagant titles of endearment, and making so  much noise that Kripps stopped grinning at her  from   the entrance,   and  looked back over his  shoulder as he looked when he threatened fines  and  calls for  early rehearsal;    And when she  had  finished finally, and the prima donna and  the children ran orf together, there was a roar  from the house that went to Lester's head like  wine, and seemed to leap clear across the footlights and drag the children back again.  \"That settles it!\" cried Lester, in a suppressed  roar of triumph. \"I knew that child would  catch them.\"  There were four encores, and then the children  and Elise Brought en, the pretty prima donna,  came off jubilant and happy, with the littlest  girl's arms full of flowers, which the management had with kindly forethought prepared for  the prima donna but which that delightful young  person and the delighted leader of the orchestra  had passed over to the little girl.  \"Well,\" gasped miss Broughten, as she came ;  up to Van Bibber laughing, and with One hand  on her side and breathing very quickly, \"will  you kindly tell me who is the leading woman  now? Am I the prima donna, or am I not? I  \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd wasn't in it, was I?\"  \"You were not,\" said Van Bibber.  He turned from the pretty prima donna and  hunted up the wardrobe woman, and told her he  wanted to meet the littlest girl. And the wardrobe woman, who was fluttering wildly about,  and as deligheed as though they were all her  own children, told him to come into the property-room, where the children were, and which  had been changed into a dressing-room that  they might be by themselves. The six little  girls were in six different states of dishabille,  but they were too little to mind that, and Van  Bibber was too polite to observe it.  \"This is the little girl, sir,\" said the wardrobe  woman, excitedly, proud at being the means of  bringing together two such prominent people.  \"Her name is Madeline, Speak to the gentleman, Madeline; he wants to tell yOu what a  great big hit youse made.\"  The little girl was seated on one of the cushions of double throne so high from the ground  that the young woman who was pulling off the  child's silk stockings and putting woolen ones  on in their place did so without stooping. The  young woman looked at Van Bibber and nodded  somewhat doubtfully and ungraciously, and  Van Bibber turned to the little girl in prefer-  Wks\"  S3BC  If:-:  Pliplpli^^  aCTTa\"*^^ THE   MINEE:    NELSON,   B.   0.,   SATUEDAY,  DECEMBEE  26,   1891.  ence. The young woman's face was one of a  type that was too familiar to be pleasant.  He took the littlest girl's small hand in his  and shook it solemnly and said: \"I am very  glad to know you. Can I sit up here beside you.  or do you rule alone?\"  \"Yes, ma'am-\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdyes, sir,\" answered the little  \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd   girl. : \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd?\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.'  Van Bibber put; his hands on the arms of the  throne and vaulted up beside the girl, and pulled  out the flower in his button-hole and gave it to  '\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdher.- .'\".;;. .\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd;'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd... ' .,'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"''- \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd,''\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'  \"Now,\" prompted the wardrobe woman,  \"what do you say to,the gentleman?\"  \"Thank you, sir,\" stammered the little girl.  \"She is not much used to gentlemen's society,\"  explained the woman who was pulling on the  stockings.  \"I see,\" said Van Bibber. He did not know  exactly what to say next. Arid yet he wanted  to talk to the child very much, so much more  than he generally wanted to talk to niost young  women, who showed no hesitation in talking to  him. With them he had no difficulty whatsoever. There was a doll lying on the top of a  chest near them, and he picked this up,and surveyed;- it critically. ' \"Is this your doll?\" he  asked. '\"\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd   . ; ;.;..'\".  \"No,\" said Madeline, pointing to one of the  children, who .was- much, taller than herself; ' 'it's  'at 'ittle durl's;    My doll he's dead,\"  \"Dear me!\" said Van Bibber. He made a  mental note to get a live one in the morning,  arid then he said: \"That's very sad; Was it  the heir-apparent?\"  The little girl looked up at him, and surveyed  him intently and critically, and then smiled,  with the dimples showing, as much as to say that  she understood him arid approved of him entirely. Van Bibber answTered this sign language  by taking Madeline's.hand in his and asking her  how she liked being a great actress, and how  soon would she begin to storm because that  photographer hadn't sent the proofs. The young  woman understood this, and deigned to smile at  it, but Madeline yawned a very polite and  sleepy yawn, .and closed, her eyes. Van Bibber-  moved up closer, and she leaned over until her  bare shoulder touched his arm, and while the  woman buttoned on her absurdly small shoes,  she let her curly head fall on his elbow and rest  there. Any number of people had shown confidence in Van Bibber\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdnot in that form exactly,  but in the same spirit\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand though he wras used  to being trusted, he felt a sharp thrill of pleasure  at the touch of the child's head on his arm, and  in the warm clasp of her fingers around his. And  he was conscious of a keen sense of pity and sorrow for her rising in him, which he crushed by  thinking that it was entirely wasted, and that  the child was probably perfectly and' ignorant ly'\"  happy.  \"Look at that, now,\" said the wardrobe  woman, catching signs of the child's closed eyelids; \"just look at the rest of the little dears, all  that excited they can't, stand still to get their  hats on, and she just as unconcerned as you  please,   and after making the hit of the piece  \"too:\";'-.  \"She's not used to if, you see.\" said the.young\"!  woman,  knowingly; \"she  don't know what it  meant.    It's just that much play to her.\"  The last was said with a questioning glance at  Van Bibber, in whom she feared to find the disguised agent of a children's aid society. Van  Bibber only nodded in reply, and did not answer  her, because he found he could not very well,  for he was looking a long way ahead at what the  future was to bring to the confiding little being  at his side, and of the evil knowledge and temptations that would mar the beauty of her  quaintly sweet face, and its strange mark of  gentleness and refinement. Outside he could  hear his friend Lester shouting the refrain of his  new topical song, and the laughter and hand-  clapping came in through the wings and open  door, broken but tumultuous.  \"Does she come from professional people?\"  Van Bibber asked, dropping into the vernacular.  He spoke softly, not so much that he might not  disturb the child, but that she might not understand what he said.  \"Yes,\" the woman answered, shortly, and bent  her head to smooth out the child's stage dress  across her knees.  Van Bibber touched the little girl's head with  his hand and found that she was asleep, and so  let his hand rest there, with the curls between  his fingers. \"Are\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdare you her mother?\" he  asked, with a slight inclination of his head.   He  felt quite confident she was  not;   at least,  he  hoped not.  The woman shook her head.    \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'No,\" she'said.  \"Who is her mother?\"  The woman looked at the sleeping child and ,  then up at him almost defiantly.   \"Ida Clare was  her mother,\" she said.  Van Bibber's protecting hand left the child as  suddenly as though something had burnt it, and  he drew back so quickly that her head slipped  from his arm, and she awoke and raised her  eyes and looked up at hiin questioningly. He  looked back at her with a glance of the strangest  concern and of the deepest pity. Then he drew  her toward him very tenderly, put her head back  in the corner of his arm, and wyatched her in  silence while she smiled drowsily and wrent to  sleep again. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'.,.  \"And who takes care of her now?\" he asked.  The woman straightened herself and seemed  relieved. She saw that the stranger had recognized the child's; pedigree and knew her story,  and that he was not going to comment on it. \"I  do,\" she said. After the divorce Ida came to me,\"  said she, speaking more freely. \"I used to be hi  her company when she was doing Aladdin, and  then when I left the stage and started to keep  an actors' boarding-house, she came to me. She  lived on with us a year, until she died, and she  made me the guardian of her child. I train  children for the stage, you know, me and my  sister, Ada Dyer; you've heard of her, I guess.  The courts pay us for her keep, but it isn't much  and I'm expecting to get what I spent on her  from what she makes on the stage. Two of them  other children are my pupils; but they can't  touch Madie. She is a better dancer an' singer  than any of them. If it hadn't been for the  society keeping her back, she would have been  on the stage two years ago. She's great, she is.  She'll be just as good as her mother was.\" .  Van Bibber gave a little start, and winced  visibly, but t urned it off into a cpugh. \"And  her father,\" he said, hesitatingly\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"does he\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"  \"Her father\/' said the woman, tossing back  her head\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"lie looks after himself, he does. We  don't ask no favors of him. She'll get along  without him or his folks, thank you. Call him  a gentleman? Nice gentleman he is!\" Then  she stopped abruptly. \"I guess, though, you  know him,\" she added. \"Perhaps he's a friend  of youi'n ?\"  \"I just know him,\" said Van Bibber, wearily.  He sat with the child asleep beside him while  the. woman turned to the others and dressed  them for the third act. She explained that  Madie would not appear in the last act, only the  two larger girls, so she let her sleep, with the  cape of Van Bibber's cloak around her.  Van Bibber sat there for several long minutes  thinking, and then looked up quickly, and dropped his eyes again as quickly, and said, with an  effort to speak quietly and nn concernedly: \"If  the little girl is not on in this act would you  mind if I took her home? I have a cab at the  stage-door, and she's so sleepy it seems a pity to  keep her up. The sister you spoke of or some  one could put her to bed.\"  \"Yes,\" the woman said, doubtfully, \"Ada's  home. Yes, you can take her around, if you  want to.\"  . She gave him the address, and he sprang  down to the floor, and gathered the child up in  his arms and stepped out on the stage. The  prima donna had the center of it to herself at  that moment, and all the rest of the company  were waiting to go on, but when they saw the  little girl in Van Bibber's arms they made a  rush at her, and the girls leaned over and kissed  her with a great show of rapture and with  many gasps of delight.  \"Don't,\" said Van Bibber, he could not tell  just why.    \"Don't.\"  \"Why not?\" asked one of the girls, looking  up at him sharply.  \"She was* asleep;. you've wakened her,\" he  said, gently.  But he knew that was not the. reason. He  stepped into the cab at the stage entrance, and  put the child carefully down in one corner.  Then he looked back over his shoulder to see  that there was no one near enough to hear him,  and said to the driver, \"To Berkeley Flats, on  Fifth Avenue.\" He picked the child up gently  in his arms as the carriage started, and sat looking out thoughtfully and auxiously as they  flashed past the lighted shop windows on Broadway. He was far from certain of this errand,  and nervous with doubt, but he reassured himself that he was acting on impulse, and that his  impulses w^ere so often good. The hall-boy at  the Berkeley said, yes, mr. Caruthers was in,  and Van Bibber gave a quick sigh of relief. He  took this as an omen that his impulse was a  good one. The young English servant who  opened the hall door to mr.Caruthers's apart-  riient suppressed his surprise with an effort, and  watched Van Bibber with alarrri as he laid the  child on the divan in the hall, and pulled a covert  coat from the rack to throw Over her.  \"Just say mr. Van Bibber would like to see  him,\" he said, \"and you need riot speak of the  little gi rl having come with me.\"  She was still sleeping, and Van Bibber turned  down the light in the hall, and stood looking  down at her gravely while the servant went to  speak to his master. '  \" Will you come thiig -way0,: please, sir ?\" he said.  \"You had better stay out'.here,.\" said Van Bibber, \"and come arid tell me if she wakes.\"  Mr. Caruthers was standing by the mantle  over the empty fireplace',1' wrapped in a long,  loose dressing-gown which he was tying around  him as Van Bibber entered. .0-^e^wa^^^ly\"-riTF-~~  dressed, and had been just oh t he point of getting into bed. Mr. Caruthers was a tall, handsome man, with dark reddish hair turning below  the temples into gray,his mustache was quite  white, and his eyes and face showed tlie signs  of either dissipation or of great trouble, or of  both. But even in the dressing-gown he had  the look and confident bearing of a gentleman,  or, at least, of the mail of the world. The room  was very rich looking, and wras filled with the  medley of a man's choice of good paintings and  fine china, and papered with irregular rows of  original drawings and signed etchings. The  windows were open and the lights were turned  very low, so that Van Bibber could see the many  gaslamps and the dark roofs of Broad way and  the Avenue where they crossed a few blocks off,  and the bunches of light on the Madison Square  Garden, and to the lights of the boats on the  East river. From below in the streets came the  rattle of hurrying omnibuses and the rush of  the hansom cabs. If inr. Caruthers was surprised at this late visit he hid it, afTd came forward to receive his caller as if his presence was  expected.  \"Excuse my costume, will you?\" he said. \"I  turned in rather earlv tonight, it was so hot.\"  He pointed to a decanter and some soda bottles  on the table and a bowl of ice, and asked, \"Will  you have some of that?\" And while he opened  one of the bottles, he\" watched Van Bibber's  face as though he were curious to have him explain the object of his visit.  \"No, I think not, thank you,\" said the younger  man. He touched his forehead with\"his handkerchief nervously.    \"Yes, it is hot,\" he said.  Mr.. Caruthers filled a glass with ice and soda  and brandy, and walked back to his place by  the 'mantle, on which he rested his arm* while  he clinked the ice in the glass and looked down  into it.  \"I was at the first night of The Sultana this  evening,\" said Van Bibber, slowly and uncertainly. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd  \"Oh yes,\" assented the elder man, politely,  and tasting his drink. \"Lester's new piece.  Was it any good?\"  \"I don't know,\" said Van Bibber. \"Yes, I  gues it was. 1 didn't see it from the front.  There was a lot of children in it\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdlittle ones;  they danced and sang, and made a great hit.  One of them had never been On the stage before.    It was her first appearance.\"  He was turning one of the glasses around between his fingers as he spoke. He stopped and  pored out some of the soda, and drank it down  in a gulp, and then continued turning the empty  glass between the tips of his fingers.  \"It seems to me,\" he said, \"that it is a. great  pity.\" He looked up interrogatively at the  other man, but mr. Caruthers met. his glance  without any returning show of interest. \"1  say,\" repeated Van Bi bber\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'' I say it seems a  pity that a child like that should be allowed to  go on in that business. A grown woman can go  into it with her eyes open, or a girl who has had  decent training can too. But it's different with  a child. She has no choice in the matter; they  don't ask her permission; and she isn't old  enough to know what it means; and she gets  used to it and fond of it before she grows to  know what the danger is. And then it's too  late. It seemed to me that if there was any  one who had a right to stop it, it would be a  very good thing to let that person know about  her\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdabout  this  child,   I  mean; the   one   who  ssrasafflHWM-S-iffl^^ 4  THE   MINEE:    NELSON,   B.   0.,   SATUEDAY,  DECEMBEE 26,   1891.  made the hifc--before it was too late. It seems  to ,me a responsibility I wouldn't care to take  myself. I wouldn't care to think that I had  had a chance to stop if, and had let they chance  go by. ,; You know what the life is, and what  the temptation a woman\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\" Van Bibber stopped with a gasp of concern, arid added, hurriedly, \"I mean weallk.now\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdevery manknows.\"  Mr. Caruthers was look ing, at him with his  lips nressed closely together, and his eyebrows  d raw ri in to the shape of the letter V. He leaned  forward, and looked at Van Bibber intently.  \"What  is  all   this  about?\"   he asked.   '\"Did  you come here, mr. Van Bibber, simply to tell  me this?    What have you to do.vvith it?    What  have I to -do 'with' it?    Why did you come?\"  \"Because of the child?\" \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'.-\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd  \"What child?\"  \"Your child,\" said Van Bibber.  Young Van Bibber was quite prepared for an  outbreak of some sort, and mentally braced hiih-  self to receive it. He rapidly assured himself  that this man had every reason to be angry, and  that he, if he meant to accomplish anything,  had every reason to be. considerate and patient.  So he faced mr. Caruthers with shoulders squar-  red, as though it were a physical shock he had  to stand against, and in consequence he was  quite unprepared for what followed. For mr.  Caruthers raised his face without a trace of feeling in it, and with his eyes still fixed on the glass  in his hand, set it carefully down''\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"on' the man tie  beside him, and girded himself about with the  rope of his robe. When he spoke it was in a  a tone of: quiet politeness.  \"Mr. Van Bibber,\"he began, \"you are a. very  brave young man. You have dared to say to,  me what those who are niy best friends\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwhat  even iny own family would not care to say.  They are afraid it might hurt me, I suppose.  They have some absurd regard for my feelings;  they hesitate to touch upon a subject which in  no way concerns them and which they know  must be very painful to nie. But you have the  courage of; your convictions; you have no compunctions - about tearing open old wounds; and  you come.here uriasked and .un invited' to let ine  know what you think of my conduct, to let me  know that it does not agree with your own ideas  of what I ought to do, and to tell me how I,  who am old enough to be your father, should  behave. You have rushed in 'where angels fear  to tread, mr. Van Bibber, to show ine the error  of my ways. I suppose I ought to thank you  for it; but I have always said that it is not the  Continued on,Fifth Faye.  The Miner is printed ,on Saturdays, , and will be  mailed to subscribers at the following cash-in-aclvance  rates: Three months. $1.50, six months $2.50, one year $i.  Contract Advertisements will be inserted at the  rate of $3 an inch (down the column) per month. A  special rate for advertisements of over 2 inches.  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Address all Letters:  The Miner, Nelson, B. C.  HCB&BTOa.B AL    ISE_HKA.l_K.iH>.  Although discovered less than 3 months ago,  Slocan district is now as accessible to the towns  on   Kootenav  lake  as the towns on Kootenay  lake  are to   the  outside.    This does not speak  well   for  the   enterprise   of  the -transportation  companies   seeking to control the trade of this  section of British Columbia.    The northern terminus of the Spokane Falls & -Northern railway  is  distant   but  55 miles  from  the western terminus  of the  Columbia  & Kootenay\" railway,  with a navigable river connecting them, yet for  4 months in the year the only means of communication   for  miles along both railways and  for the entire distance along the river is by pack  animals.  NOTARY PUBLIC.  F, Teetzel  Lo  GOSMVEYANCSNG,  Town lots, lands, and mining claims handled on commission.    Conveyancing documents drawn up. .<   ,  Correspondence solicited.  Office:   No. 13 East Baker Street, NELSON, B. 0.  John Houston.  Charles H. Ink.  Houston & Ink,  dealers in  chemicals;  :     v  ;  PATENT MEDICINES,  TOILET ARTICLES, ETC.  BUY AND SELL  Town Lots and.  Mineral  Claims,  . .-'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd:'. '\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'   .'ON. .COMMISSION.-\"    \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd:'  Have,now for sale 2 of the best hotels in Nelson; choice  Baker street corner and Vernon street inside lots; lots in  Ainsworth; and mineral claims in Toad Mountain district.  Office in Miner Building, Nelson,B..\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.,,  \"WHOLESALE.'.' IJEALERS     IN     Cl'fiARS. '--.-'-RAYMOND'  SEWSNCJ    MACHINES   IJ.   STOCK;  ''?'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd,  Oor; East Baker and Ward Streets,  LL  (NOTARY\" PUBLIC)  Eeal Estate; Mining Broker,  \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd   . -\"AND  Insurance Agent,  WEST  BAKER,STREET,, .  \"\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd*-  Representin^  CITIZENS (Fire.)  QUEBEC  CITY OF LONDON '\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"  EQUITABLE ;..     (Life.)  ...........:.. NELSON, J5.. C.  REAL\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd ESTATE and MINING INTERESTS in the  district handled to the  best advantage.  Correspondence solicited.  ,    NELSON, B.C.  -are now settled in their new store, No. 2 Houston & Ink  \"\\ building, and have on display a full range of  Plain and Fancy \"Worsted Suitings and Scotch arid  Irish Tweeds and_ Serges.  PBICES TO  SUIT TZEEEIE] TIMES  No. 6 Houston & Ink Building, Nelson, B. C.  GENERAL' AGENCY  London & Lancashire Life Insurance Company,  AGENCIES Sir Donald A. Smith, chairman.  Accident Insurance Company of North America,  The celebrated Taylor safes (3 on hand for sale).'1  DEALERS IN, :  Groceries, Provisions, and  General Merchandise.  A' STOCK OF  English Clothing, Men's  Pnmishings, Dry Goods,  .East Baker Street,  Nelson,  Is one of the best hotels in Toad Mountain district,  and is the headquarters for prospectors and  working miners.  The Table is not Surpassed by that of any Hotel  in the Kootenay Lake country.  At the Bar is Dispensed Pine Liquors and Cigars,  and the bed-rooms are newly furnished.  MALONE   \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd   TUVAiILL3JS................ Pl.OFI.1 ETOltS  BOOTS,   ETC.  imported direct from the manufacturers, always on hand.  Postoffice and Telephone in Store.  Postoffice Store*  Nelson,  B. C.  Pianos!  AND GENTS' PURUISHING GOODS.  ALSO,   FULL LINES OF  Toilet Articles and Stationery.  Jas. McDonald & Co.  Nelson and Revelstoke,  carry full lines of all kinds of furniture for residences,  hotels, and offices.   Mattresses made to order, and  ~\" at prices lower than eastern and coast.  They are also agents for  Evans Pianos and Doherty Organs,  NELSON   STORE :  No. 4-Houston \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd& Bnk Building:, Josephine Street.  Will contract for the erection of stores, hotels, dwellings,  bridges, etc., and guarantee work finished on time.  SEASOISTED   X_,TJ3yE_B_E_R  always on hand for store fittings, desks, tables, etc.  Undertaking attended to.  Shop: Oor. Baker and Josephine Sts,  SlWKHft  \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd  3TO THE   MINEE,:    NELSON.   B.   0..   SATUEDAY.  DECEMBEE  26,   1891.  wicked-' people who are to be feared in this world,  or who do the most harm. We know them, we  can prepare for them, and checkmate them. It  is the well-meaning fool who makes all the  trouble. For no one knows him until he discloses himself, and the mischief is done before  he can be stopped. I think, if you will allow  me to say so, that you have demonstrated my  theory pretty thoroughly,-and have done about  as much needless harm for one evening as vou  can possibly wish. And so, if you will excuse  me,\" he continued, sternly, and moving from  his place, \"I will ask to say good-night, and will  request of you that you grow older and wiser  and much more considerate before you come to  see me again.\"  Van Bibber had flushed at mr. Oaruthers's  first words, and had then grown somewhat pale,  and straightened himself visibly. He did not  move when the eider man had finished, but  ccleared his throat, and then spoke with some  little difficulty.  \"It is very easy to call a man a fool,\" he said,0  slowly, \"but it is much harder to be called a  fool and not to throw the other man out of the  window. But that, you see, would not do any  good, and I have something to say to you first.  I am quite clear in my .'own mind as to my position, and I am not going to allow anything you  have said or can say to annoy me much until I  am through. There will be time enough to re-  seht it then. I am quite well aware that I did  an unconventional thing in coming here\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffda bold  thing, or a foolish thing, as you choose\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdbut the  situation is pretty had, and I did as I would  have wished to be done by if I had had a child  going to the devil and didn't know it. I would  have been glad to le^rn of it even from a  stranger. However,\" he said, smiling grimly,  and pulling liis cape about him, \"there are  other kindly disposed people in the world bedsides fathers. There is an aunt, perhaps, or an  uncle or two; and sometimes, even today, there  is the chance Samaritan.\"  Van Bibber picked up his high hat from the  table, looked into it critically, and settled it on  his head. ''Good-night, sir,\" he said, and  walked slowly toward the door. He had his.  hand on the knob when mr. Caruthers raised  his head.  \"Wait just, one minute, please, mr. Van Bibber?\" asked mr. Caruthers.  Van Bibber stopped with a prompt obedience  which would have led one to conclude that he  might have put on his hat only to precipitate  things.  \"Before you go,\" said mr. Caruthers grudgingly, \"I want to say\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdI want you to understand  my position.\"  \"Oh, that's all right,\"said Van Bibber, lightly,  opening the door.  \"No, it is not all right. One moment please. I do  not intend that you shall go away from here with  the idea that you have tried to do measervice, and  that I have been unable to appreciate it, and that  you are a much-abused and much-misunderstood  young man. Since you have done me the honor  to make my affairs your business, I woulclprefer  that you should understand them fully. I do  not care to have you discuss my conduct at clubs  and afternoon teas with young women until  you\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"    . \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd  Van Bibber drew his breath sharply, with a  peculiar whistling sound, and opened and shut  his hands. \"Oh, I wouldn't say that if I were  you,\" he said, simply.  \"I beg your pardon,\" the older man said,  quickly. \"That was a mistake. I was wrong.  I beg your pardon. But you have tried me very  sorely. You have intruded upon a private  trouble that you ought to know must be very  painful to me. But I believe you meant well. I  know you to be a gentleman, and I am willing  to think you acted on impulse, and that you  will see tomorrow what a mistake you have  made. It is not a thing to talk about; J do not  speak of it to my friends, and they are far too  considerate to speak of it. to me. But you have  put me. on the-defensive. . You have,made me  out more or less of a brute, and I don't in! end to  be so far misunderstood. There are two sides to  every story, and there is something to be said  about this, even for me.\"  He walked back to his place beside the mantel,  and put his shoulders against it, and faced Van  Bibber, with his fingers twisted in the cord  around his waist.  \"When I married,\" said mr. Caruthers, \"I did  so against the wishes of my people and the advice of all my friends.    You know all about that.  never  never  died.  God help us! who doesn't?\" he added, bitterly.  \"It was very rich, rare reading for you and for  every one else who saw the daily papers, and we  gave them all they wanted of it. I took her out  of that life and married her because I believed  she was as good a, woman as any of those who  never had to work for their living, and I was  bound that my friends and your friends should  recognize her and respect her as my wife had a  right to be respected; and I took her a broad that  I might give all you sensitive fine people a  chance to get used to the idea of being polite to  a woman who had once been a burlesque actress.  It began over there in Paris. What I went  through then no one knows; but when I came  back\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand I -would never have come back if she  had not, made me\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdit was my friends I had to  consider, and not her. It was in the blood; it  was in the life she had led, and in the life-men'  like you and me had taught her to live. And it  had to come out.\" f  The muscles of mr. Caruthers's face were  moving, and beyond his control; but Van Bibber did not see this, for he was looking intently  out of the window, oyer the roofs of the city.  \"She had every cha-nce when she married me  that a woman ever had,\" continued the older  man. \"It only depended upon herself. I. didn't  try to make a housewife of her-or a drudge.  She had all the healthy excitement and all the  '.money she wanted, and she had a home here  ready for her whenever she was tired of traveling about and wished to settle down. And I  was\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand a husband that loved her as\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdshe had  everything. Everything that a man's whole  thought and love and money could bring to her.  And you know what shedid.\"  He looked at Van Bibber, but Van Bibber's  eyes were still turned tow^ard the open window  and the night.  \"And after the divorce\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand she was free to  go where she pleased, and to live as she pleased  and  with   whom   she   pleased, without  bringing   disgrace   on   a   husband    who    honestly  loved  her\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdI swore to my  God that I  would  see   her   or   her   child   again.     And   I  saw    her   again,   not   even   when    she  I loved the mother, and she deceived me  and disgraced me and broke my heart,  and I  only wish she had killed me; and I was beginning to love her child, and I vowed she should  not live to trick me too.    I had suffered as no  man I know had suffered; in a way a boy like  you cannot understand, and that no one can understand  w7ho has not gone to  hell  and  been  forced to live after it.    And was I to go through  that again?   Was  I to love and care for and  worship this child, and have her grow up with  all her mother's vanity and animal nature, and  have her turn on me some day and show me  that what is bred in the bone must tell, and that  I was a fool again\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffda pitiful fond fool?    I could  not trust her.    I can never trust anvWoman or  child again, and least of all that woman's child.  She is as dead to me as though she was buried  with her mother, and it is nothing to me what  she is or wThat her life is.    I know in time what  it will be.    She has begun earlier than   I bad  supposed, that is all, but she is nothing to me.\"  The man stopped and turned his back to Van  Bibber, and hid his head in his hands, with his  elbows on the mantel-piece.    \"I care too much,\"  he said :    \"I cannot let it mean anything to me;  when  I do care, it means so much more tome  than to other men.    They may pretend to laugh  and forget and to outgrow it, but it is  not so  with me.    It means too much,\"  He took a quick  stride towards one of the large arm chairs, and  threw himself into it.    \"Why, man,\" he cried,  \"I loved that child's mother to the day of her  death.    I loved that woman then, and, God help  me! I love that woman still.\"  He covered his face with his hands, and sat  leaning forward and breathimr heavily as he  rocked himself to and fro. Van Bibber still  stood looking gravely out at the lights that  picketed the black surface of the city. He was  to all appearances as unmoved by the outburst  of feeling into which the older man had been  surprised as though it had been something in a  play. There was an unbroken silence for a moment, and then it was Van Bibber who was the  first to speak.  \"I came here, as you say, on impulse,\" he said;  \"but I am glad I came, for I have your decisive answer now about the little girl. I have  been thinking,\"he continued, slowly, \"since you  have been speaking, and before, when I first-  saw her dancing in front of the foot-lights, when  I did not know who she was, that I could give  up a horse Or two, if necessary, and support this  child   instead.    Children are  worth more .'than  horses, and a man who saves a soul, as it says\"  \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdhe flushed slightly, and looked up with a hesitating, deprecatory smile\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd''somewhere; wipes  out a multitude of sins.    And it may be I'd like  to try and get rid of some of mine.    I know just  where to send her; I know the very place.   It's  .down; in Evergreen Bay, on Long Island.    They  are tenants of mine there, and very nice farm  sort  of people,   who will be very good to her.  They wouldn't know anything about her, and  she'd forget what little she knows of this present  life  very soon,   and grow   up with   the   other  children to be one of them; and then, when she  gets older and becomes a young lady, she could -  go  to some school\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdbut that's a bit too far ahead  to plan for the present;   but that's what I am  going to do, though,\" said the young man, confidently, as though speaking to himself.    \"That  theatrical      boarding-house   person    could   be  bought off easily enough,\" he went on quickly,  \"and Lester:a won't mind lett ing her go if I ask  it, and\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand that's what I'll do.    As you say, it's  a good deal of an experiment, but I think I'll  run the\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdrisk.\"  He walked quickly to the door and disappeared  in the hail, and then came back, kicking the  door open as he returned, and holding the child  in his arms.  \"This is she,\" he said quietly. He did not look  at or notice the father, but stood, with the child  asleep in the bend of his left arm, gazing down  at her.    \"This is she,\" he repeated ; \"this is vour  '\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdchild.\"'-\"-'. .     \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd)\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd< .;..\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd..\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd=\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd:\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.. \\  The re'was something cold and satisfied in Van  Bibber's tone and manner, as though he were  congratulating himself upon the engaging of a.  new groom; something that placed the father  entirely out side of it. He might have been a  disinterested looker-on.  \"She will need to be fed a bit,\" Van Bibber ran  on  cheerfully.    \"They did not  treat her very  well, I fancy.    She is thin and peaked and tired-  looking.\"   He. drew up the loose sleeve of her  jacket,   and showed  the   bare forearm  to the  light.    He put his thumb and little finger about  it, and closed on them'gently.    \"It is very thin,\"  he said.    \"And under the eyes, if it were not for  the paint,\" he went on, mercilessly, \"you could  see how deep the lines are.    This red spot on  her cheek,\" he said, gravely, is where Ida Bare  kissed   her tonight, and   this   is   where  Alma  Stantley  kissed  her,   and  that  Lee girl.    You  have heard of them, perhaps.    They will never  kiss her again.    She is going to grow up a sweet,  fine, beautiful woman\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdare you  not?\" he said,  gently   drawing   the   child   higher  up  on,--liis  shoulder, until  her face touched  his, and  still  keeping his eyes from the face of the older man.  \"She does not look like her mother,\" he said;  \"she lias her father's auburn  hair and straight  fine cut lips  and  chin.     She looks very much  like her father.    It seems a pity,\" he added, abruptly.    \"She will grow up,\" he went on, \"without knowing him, or who he is\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdor was,  if he  should die.    She will never speak.with him, or  see him, or take his hand.    She may pass him  some day on the street and will not know him,  and he will not know her, but she will grow to  be very fond  and  to  be very  grateful  to the  simple, kind-hearted old people who will,  have  cared for her when she was a little girl.\"  The child in his arms stirred,-shivered slightly  and awoke. The two men watched her breathlessly, with silent intentness. She raised her  head and stared around the unfamiliar room  doubtfully, then turned to where her father  stood, looked at him a moment, and passed .him.  by, and then, looking up into Van Bibber's face,  recognized him, and gave a gentle, sleepy smile,  and with a sigh of content and confidence, drew  her arm up closer around his neck, and let her  head fell back upon his breast.  The father sprang to his feet with a quick,  jealous gasp of pain. \"Give her to me!\" lie  said, fiercely, under his breath, snatching her  out of Van Bibber's arms. \"She is mine; give  her to me!\"  Van Bibber closed the door gently behind him,,  and went jumping down the winding stairs of  the Berkeley 3 steps at a time.  And an hour later, when the English servant  came to his master's door, he found him still  awake and sitting in the window, holding something in his arms and looking out over the sleeping city.  \"James,\" he said, \"you can make up a place  forme here on the lounge. Miss Caruthers, my  daughter, will sleep in my room tonight.\"  r^  is 6  #.  THE  MINEE:    NELSQN,  B.   0.,   SATURDAY,  DECEMBEE  26,   1891.  :v  LAND   NOTICES.  Notice is hereby given that 90 days after we intend to apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works, British  Columbia, for permission to purchase the following de-  , scribed tract of land, situate in West Kootenay district:  Commencing at a stake marked E. V. Bodwell, H. Shear-  an, and W. Gesner Allan's southwest corner post, about I  of a mile west of Grohman creek on the north bank of the  KoOtenay river about 2 miles west of the town of Nelson,  thence north 40 chains, thence east 40 chains, thence south  40 chains more or less to shore-line of Kootenay river,  thence west 40 chains more or less following the sinuosities  of the shore-line of the Kootenay river in a westerly direction to initial stake; containing 160 acres more or less.  E. V. BODWELL,  ,;:'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'\" ,'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"-   HENRY SHEAR AN,      \"  \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd''   \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd-.      '    W. GESNER ALLAN.  Nelson, B.C, November 28th, 1891. '  Notice is hereby given that SO daj'S after date I intend:to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land, situate in West Kootenay district: Commencing at  a post marded R. B's S. W. corner post, about 9 miles east  of the town of Nelson, British Columbia, on the north bank  of the Kootenay river, above high water mark, thence  north 40 chains, thence east 40 chains, thence south 40  chains-more or less to bank of Kootenay river, thence west  following shore line of river to place of commencement;  containing 160 acres more or less.  Nelson, December 5th, 1891.   RICHARD BLUNDELL.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase a tract of land situated in West  \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdKootenay district and described as foliows: Commencing  at a post marked A. M. Wilson's N. W. corner, placed on  the east shore of Slocan lake, about 200 yards north Of a  large creek which flows into the lake about 3 miles north  of what is known as Carpenter creek, tlience east 40 chains,  thence south to the lake shore, thence following the -mean-.'  dbrings of the lake shore in a westerly and northerly direction to the point of commencement; containing 160 acres  more or less. A.M.WILSON.  Ainsworth, November 2nd, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 90 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief .commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land, situate in West Kootenay district: Commencing at  a stake on the east bank of the Slocan river, about 9 miles  from Slocan lake, and marked A. A's'S. E. corner post,,  thence running north 40 chains, thence west 40 chains,  thence south 40 chains more or less to the river, thence following the meanderings of the river to point of commencement; containing 160 acres more or less.        A. ADAMS.  Nelson, December 8th, 1891. \"  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land:c Commencing at a post marked G. B. W., S. W.  corner post, situate\" about 20 chains north of the southeast  corner of Angus McGillivray's land, about one-half mile  east of Slocan lake and about. 10 chains south of Carpenter  creek, thence east 40 chains, thence north. 40 chains, thence  west 40 chains, thence south 40 chains to the place of commencement; containing 160 acres more or less.  Ainsworth, October 31st, 1891. G.B.WRIGHT.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following, described tract of  land: Commencing at a post placed upon the east shore of  Slocan lake, near Carpenter creek, marked A. H., S. W.  corner, thence running north 80 chains, thence east 20  chains, thence south 80 chains more or less to lake shore,  thence west following meanderings of the shore to point of  commencement; containing 160 acres more or less.  Nelson, October :30th, 1891. WILSON HILL.  Notice is hereby given that 60 daj^s after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land: Commencing at a stake placed near the outlet of  Slocan lake, marked H. & A., S. W. corner, tlience running  east 40 chains, thence south 40 chains, thence east 20 chains,  thence north 80.chains, thence west 60 chains more or less  to shore of lake, thence south following the meanderings of  shore to point of commencement; containing 320 acres  more or less. ALFRED HILL.  Nelson, October 2Sth, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land : Commencing at a stake marked A. L. McLean's N.  W. post, situate on the Slocan river about 2 miles from the  Slocan lake, thence running south SO chains, thence east 40  chains, tlience north SO chains,.thence west 40 chains to  point of commencement; containing 320 acres more or less.  Nelson, November 1st, 1891. A. L. McLEAN.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase tho following described tract of  .land: Commencing at a stake marked James Dawson's N.  W. post, situate on the Slocan river about one mile from  the Slocan lake, thence running south SO.chains, thence  east 40 chains, thence north SO chains, thence west 40  chains to point of commencement; containing 320 acres  more or less.     . JAMES DAWSON.  Nelson, October 24th, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief enmmissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following tract of land: Commencing at a stake marked A. McG. S. W. about half  a mile south of Carpenter creek on Slocan lake, thence  80 chains, north following the meanderings of the lake,  thence 40 chains east, thence SO chains south, thence  40 chains west to point of commencement; containing 320  acres more or less. ANGUS McGILLIVRAY.  Ainsworth, B. C, October 17th, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date we intend  to apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land: Commencing at a post marked James Delaney and  Thomas M. Ward's S.W. post, about one-half mile from  Slocan lake, running east 40 chains, thence north 40 chains  more or less to the shore of the lake, thence in a westerly  direction following the lake shore to the source of the  Slocan river, thence following the bank of the river in a  southerly direction to the. point of commencement; containing 160 acres more or less. JAMES DELANEY,  Nelson, October 24th, 1891. THOMAS M. WARD.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date we intend  to apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described, land in  West Kootenay district: Commencing at a post at the  southeast corner of lot 209, group 1, West Kootenay, thence  west 60 chains, thence south 80 chains, thence east 60 chains,  \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'more, or \"less, to. shore of Kootenay lake, thence following  high-watermark in a northernly direction to initial post;  containing 480 acres, more or less. ,  KASLO^KOOTENAY LAND CO.  Kaslo City, November 5th, 1891.   Per G. T. Kane.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date we, intend  to appljr to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land: Situate at the junction of Sandon and Carpenter  creeks (the latter a-tributary of Seaton creek, which flows  into the east side Of Slocan lake). Commencing at a post  near the right bank of Sandon creek, tlience west 4Qchains,  thence north 40 chains, (crossing Carpenter creek) thence  east 40 chains, thence south 40 chains to point of commencement; containing 160 acres more or less.  BRUCE WHITE,  Nelson, November 9th, 1891. JOHN SANDOxV.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract?of  land: Commencing at a post placed upon the shore at the  head of Slocan lake, marked H. A., S. E. corner, thence  running north 20 chains, thence west 40 chains, thence  south 40 chains, thence east to shore of lake and following  meanderings of shore to point of commencement; contain-:  ing 160 acres more or less, o E.C.ARTHUR.  Nelson, October 31st, 1891. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date we intend  to apply; to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land: Commencing at a post marked \"SL S.W,\" being on  the eastern boundary of J. W. Cockle's preemption and  situate on the northern shore of Crawford bay, Kootenay  lake, thence east along lake shore 20 chains, thence north  SO chains, thence west 20 chains, thence south 80 chains to  place of commencement; containing 160 acres more or less.  \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\" W. P. SLOAN, >  Balfour, B. C, October 13th, 1891.      GEORGE LAIRD.  Notice is hereby given that ,60 days after date we intend  to apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described land, situate  on Seaton creek, about 10 miles east from Slocan lake:  Commencing at a post oh the right bank of said creek  at the mouth of Carbonate gulch, thence north 40 chains,  thence east 80 chains, thence south 40 chains, thence west  following down the bank of said creek to place of commencement; containing 320 acres.  w. f. Mcculloch,  THOMAS McGOVERN,  Slocan, October 6th, 1891.       CHARLES CHAMBERS.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend  to apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land: Commencing at a post marked A. J. W., S. E. corner, on the north shore Kaslo bay, Kootenay lake, B.C, .  thence running west 40 chains, thence north 40 chains,  thence east 60 chains more Or less to lake shore, thence  following lake shore to initial post; containing 200 acres  more or less. _ A. J. WHALEN.  Ainsworth, B. C, November 5th, 1891. ,  Notice is.hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land: Commencing at a stake on west, bank of Slocan  river, about 2 miles from Slocan lake and marked F. & 0.,  N. E. corner, thence running west 40 chains, thence south  80 chains, thence east 40 chains more or less to the river,  thence following the meanderings of the river to point of  commencement; containing 320 acres more or less.  Nelson, October 24th, 1891. y M. M. FRY.  Notice is hereby given that 60 clays after date I intend to  apply to the chief commisioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land: Commencing at a stake on west bank of SlOcan  river, about 3 miles from Slocan lake and marked F. & C,  N. E. corner, thence running, west 40 chains, thence sbuth  80 chains, thence east 40 chains more or less to the river,  thence following the meanderings of river to the point of  commencement; containing 320 acres more or less.  Nelson, October 24th, 1891. A. D. COPLEN.  Notice is hereby given that we intend to apply to the  chief commissioner of lands and works to purchase 320  acres, more or less, of land in the district of Wesst Kootenay,  commencing at a post placed on the east shore of Slocan  lake about 40 cliains south from the mouth of Seaton creek;  thence west along the lake shore 40 chains; tlience north  along the lake shore 80 chains; thence east 40 chains, more  or less, to a point 80 chains due north from the point of commencement. J.FLETCHER,  Nelson, October 21st, 1891. A. S. FAR WELL.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works, for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land, situate in West Kootenay district: Commencing at  a post marked Ross Mahon's S. E. corner, situate on west  bank Slocan river, about % mile about forks, thenee running 40 chains north, thence 80 chains west, thence 40  chains south, thence 80 chains east to place of commencement; containing 320 acres more or less.  Nelson, November 21st, 1891. ROSS MAHON.  Notice is hereby given that 90 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land, situate in West Kootenay district: Commencing at  a stake marked B. H. L's S. W. corner post, cabout high-  water mark on north bank of Kootenay river, about 6  miles east of the town of Nelson, British Columbia, thence  north 80 chains, thence;east 80 chains, thence south to bank  of KOotenay river, thence following the sinuosities, of the  Kootenay river to the point of commencement, comprising  450 acres more or less. BENJAMIN HENRY LEE.  Nelson, B.C, 30th November, 189L  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following tract of land situate  in West Kootenay district: Commencing at a pOst marked  \"J E S\" and\"SE\" about one mile north from the head of  Crawford Bay and one-half mile east of the large creek  that empties into said bay, thence north 80 chains, thence  west 40 chains, thence south 80 chains, thence east 40 chains  to initial post; containing 320 acres more or less.  Balfour, B. C, October 13th, 1891. J.E.STARK.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  make application to the chief commissioner of lands and  works for permission to purchase the following described  tract of land, situate in West Kootenay district and described as follows: Commencing at a post marked J. K's  N; E. corner, 20 Chains north of the center of the forks of  Kaslo creek, thence west 40. chains, thence south 40 chains,  thence, east 40 chains, thence north to the point of com  meiicement; containing 160 acres more or less.  -.':\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd': JOHN KEEN.-.  Kaslo City, Kootenay Lake, B.C., October 1st, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to,;  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for1  perniission to purchase the following described tract of  land, situatO in \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'West- Kootenay district: Commencing at  ay post marked \"W. C. McLean's southwest corner\" (said  post being located on Slocan river about 4 miles south of  Slocan lake), running thence north(following meanderings  of river) 80 chains, thence east 40 chains, thence south 80  chains, thence west 40 chains to initial post; containing320  acres moie or less. W. C. McLEAN.  Slocan River, October 27th, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land: Commencing at a stake marked A. C. Dick N. W.  post, on Slocan river, about one-half mile from Slocan la.ke,  running east 40 chains, thence south 40 chains, thence west  40 chains, more or less, to river bank, thence following  river bank to point of commencement, containing 160 acres  more or less. ARTHUR C. DICK.  Nelson, October 24th, 1891. -  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following tract of land: Commencing at a stake marked T. J. Roadley's S. W. pOst, on  Slocan riv< rj about three miles from its source, running  east 40 chains, thence north 40 chains, thence west 40  chains, more or less to river bank, thenpe following river  bank to point of commencement; containing 160 acres  more or less. T. J. ROADLEY.  Nelson, October 23rd, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land in West Kootenay district: Commencing on the west  shore of Kootenay lake, at H. Anderson's northeast corner,  thence west 40 chains, thence north 40 chains, thence east to  the lake shore, thence following said lake shore southerly  to initial point; containing 160 acres more or less.  JOSHUA DAVIES.  Kootenay Lake, B. C., October 5th, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands:and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land in West Kootenay district: Commencing at the \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd  northeast corner of Joshua Davies's purchase on. the west  shore of Kootenay lake, near the mouth of Fletcher creek,  thence west 40 chains, thence north 40 cliains, thence east  to 1 he lake shore, tlience following said shore southerly to  initial point; containing 160 acres more or less.  WILBUR A. HENDRYX.  Kootenay Lake, B. C, October 5th, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land: Commencing at a stake marked H. H. Ward's N.  W. post, about 3 miles from Slocan lake, on Slocan river,  running east 40 chains, thence south 80 chains, thence west  to the river bank, thence following river bank to point of  commencement, containing 320 acres more or less.  HARRY  H.  WARD.  Nelson, October 23rd, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land: Commencing at a post on east bank of Slocan river,  about 3 miles from Slocan lake, marked R. E. L., S. W.  post, thence north SO chains along the shore of Slocan river,  thence east 40 chains, thence south 80 chains, thence west  40 chains to point of commencement; containing 320 acres  more or less. R. E. LEMON.  Nelson, October 24th, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land, situate in West Kootenay district: Commencing at  a post marked \"John A. Watson's southeast corner\" (said  post being near the junction of Carpenter and Seaton  creeks and about 6 miles east of Slocan lake), thence running north 40 chains, thence west 80 chains, tlience south 40  chains, thence east 80 chains to initial post; containing 320  acres more or less. JOHN A. WATSON.  Dated, October 26th, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land, situate in West Kootenay district: Commencing at  a post marked G. M. L., S. E. corner, about 2 miles from  SttS&SBtsrmsBamssii&xsBa&m  I THE  MINEE:    NELSON,   B.   C,   SATUEDAY,  DECEMBEE  26,   1891.  \/    A Jlne line of Xmas  Goods  just   to   haitd,  consistifig of Ladies   Toilet Sets in ft lies h aitd silver,  Manicure Sets,  Ladies   Work  and Jezvel Boxes,  Glove and Haiutkerchief Cases.    Also, XMAS CARDS,   Gents  Smoking and Shaving Sets, Fancy Goods of all kinds.    Prices reasonable.    Insftection  iivvited.  Tel^koney^6^  Chemists and Druggists, Nelson, B. C.  Kootenay lake on Kaslo creek, thence running north, 40  chains,   thence west  40   chains,  thence south 40 chains,  tlience east 4Q chains to place of commencement; containing 160 acres more or less. G.M.LINDSAY.  Nelson, November 14th, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land, situate in West Kootenay district: Commencing at  a post marked \"John G. McGuigari's southwest corner\"  (said post being located about 3 miles north of Carpenter  creek and 10 east of Slocan lake), running thence north 40  , chains, thence, east 40 chains, thence south 40 chains, thence*  west 40 chains to initial post; containing 160 acres more or  less. j   * JOHN G. McGUIGAN.  Nelson, November 23r'd, 1891. '  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land in West Kootenay district: Commencing at a post  on the west shore of Kootenay lake, about one-half mile  south of Fletcher creek, thence west 40 chains more or less,  thence south 40 chains, thence east to the lake shore, thence  following the lake shore to the initial point; containing 160  acres more or less. c H.ANDERSON.  Kootenay Lake, B.C., October 5th, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land, situate in West Kootenay district: Commencing at  a post marked C. C. Sproue's N. E. corner post, placed on  the Slocan trail about 4 miles from the forks of the Slocan  river, thence south 40 chains, thence west 80 chains following the meanderings of the river, thence north 40 chains,  tlience east 80 chains to the place of commencement; containing 320 acres more or less. C. C. SPROULE.  Nelson, December 14th, 1891. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date we intend to  apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land, situate in West Kootenay district: Commencing at  a post, marked \"Hunter & Hume's southeast corner,\"  planted 3Q0 yards south of a creek about 2 miles south of  the stream known as Carpenter creek, thence north 80  chains, thence west 20 chains to the shore of Slocan lake,  thence south 80 chains following the lake shore, thence  east 20 chains, following the lake shore to initial post;  containing 160 acres more or less.  WILLIAM HUNTER,  Nelson, December 9th, 1891. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd*.    J. FRED HUME.  Notice is hereby given that 60 days after date I intend to  apply I'toFthe chief commissioner of lands and works for  permission to purchase the following described tract of  land, situate in West Kootenay district: Commencing at  a posteomthe extreme north end of Slocan lake, marked E.  A. Bielenberg's S. W. corner post, thence running north 40  chains, [thence east 40 chains, thence south 40 chains, thence  following the shore of the lake to initial'post.  E. A. BIELENBERG.  Ainsworth, December 10th, 1891.  PRIVATE   BILL   NOTICES.  Notice is hereby given that application will be made to  the legislative assembly of the province of British Columbia, at ifs next session, for an act to incorporate a company for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and  equipping a railway from some point on the Columbia  river, ator near the southern boundary of the province, to  Kootenay lake at or near the town of Nelson, via Salmon  river and Cottonwood Smith creek, with power to construct and maintain branch lines; and also to construct  and operate telegraph and telephone lines in connection  with the said railwav.  WILSON, WOOTTON &. BARNARD.  Solicitors for applicants.  Dated 25th day of November, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that at the next session of the legislature of British Columbia application will be made for the  passage of a private bill authorizing the applicants to construct, operate, and maintain tramways, for the purpose of  conveying passengers, freight, and ores from some convenient point, near Nelson to any point or points within a radius  of 25. miles from Nelson, also to take and use from the  Kootenay river, in the vicinity of the falls of the said river,  so much-of the waters as may be necessary to obtain therefrom 5000 horse power, for the purposes of generating electricity to --be used either as a motive power for the said  tramways^or other works of the applicants, or to be supplied by the applicants to consumers as a motive power  for hauling, pumping, lighting, smelting, drilling, or for  .any other purposes for which it may be applied or be required; with power to the applicants to construct and  maintain buildings, erections, raceways, or other works, in  connection therewith for improving and increasing the  water privilege; and also to enter upon and expropriate  lands for a; site for power houses, and for dams, raceways,  or such other works as shall be necessary; also to erect,'lay,\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd''  construct, and maintain all necessary'works, buildings,  pipes, pOles, wires, appliances, or conveniences necessary or  proper for the generating and transmitting of electricity or  power within the area above described.  BODWELL & IRVING, Solicitors for applicants.  November 12th 1891. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd;,-\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd - ..*''  ^Notice is hereby given that at the next session of the  legislative assembly application will be made for a private  bill authorizing the applicants to construct, operate and  maintain a system of electric lighting in and about the  present townof Nelson and its vicinity, and for that purpose to take so much of the waters of Cottonwood Smith  -creek as may be necessary for generating electricity for the  supply of the said system; with power also to erect, lay  and string such poles, pipes and wires through, along, over  and; under the streets and highways of the said town and  its vicinity as may be,necessary.  y   : BODWELL & IRVING,  Solicitors for the applicants.  Dated 18th November,l891.  Notice is hereby given that application will be made  to the legislative assembly of the province of British Columbia, at its next session, for an act for the purpose of  constructing, maintaining, equipping, and operating water  works at the town of Nelson, in the Kootenay district, in  said province, and for the purposes thereof granting to the  company the privilege of taking water from the Cottonwood Smith creek, the Ward creek and other suitable  points, with power to the company to build flumes and  acqueducts, lay pipes, erect dams, acquire lands, and do  all things necessary for the purposes aforesaid. <  BODWTELL & IRVING,  Solicitors for the applicants.  Dated 18th November, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that application will be made to  the legislative assembly of the province of British Columbia, at its next session, for an act to incorporate the  Nelson Electric Light Company, Limited Liability, the object of said company is to construct, man tain, equip, and  operate electric light works at the town of Nelson, in West  Kootenay district, and for the purposes thereof, granting  to the company the privilege of taking water from Cottonwood Smith creek for motive power to operate the works  of the company, with power to the company to erect poles  and string wires in the streets of Nelson, purchase works  already in operation, and do all things necessary for the ,  purposes aforesaid. ;  ,. C.D.MASON,  November 16th, 1891. v     Solicitor for applicants.  Notice, is hereby given that application will be made at  the next session of the legislative assembly of the province  of British Columbia for an act to incorporate a company  to construct, equip, maintain, and operate a line of railway  from some point on Kootenay lake by way of Kaslo or other  pass up the North Fork of Kaslo creek to somepoint at or  near the summit between Kootenay and Slocan lakes, or  the vicinity of the recently discovered mines in that section,  with powers of extending said railway in any direction as  may hereafter be deemed requisite for the transportation of  ores and other products, with powers of building and operating branch lines from said railway to such mines as may  now be or hereafter be discovered in the vicinity of said  railway. WILSON. WOOTTON. & BARNARD,  Victoria, October 20th, 1891.     Solicitors for applicants.  Notice is hereby given that application will be made to  the legislative assembly of the province of British Columbia, at its next session, for an act to incorporate the  Consumer's Waterworks Company, Limited Liability. The  object of said company is to construct, maintain, equip,  and operate waterworks at the town of Nelson, in West  Kootenay district, and for the purposes thereof granting to  the company the privilege of taking water from the East  Fork of Cottonwood Smith creek, Cottonwood Smith crock,  Ward creek, or either of their forks, with power to the  company to build flumes and acqueducts, lay pipes, erect  dams, acquire lands, purchase waterworks already in operation, and do all things necessary for the purposes aforesaid. C.D.MASON,  November 16th, 1891. Solicitor for applicants.  TIMBER   LEASE   NOTICES.  Notice is hereby given that I have applied to the chief  commissioner of lands and works for a special license to  cut timber on 800 acres, or thereabouts, of crOwn lands,  . situate and bounded as follows: From my S. W. post, at  ,'.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd the N. W. post of Dennis Cain's timber claim, on the eastern shore of Kootenay lake, north to Campbell creek,  about 1 mile, tlience east 2; miles following the meanderings of said creek, thence south n- mile, thence west 1 mile,  tlience south' about \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd of a mile to D. Cain's N. E. corner,  tlience west T mile to starting point. J. F. HALEY.  Nelson, November 19th, 1S9L  Notice is hereby, given that I have applied the chief commissioner for a special license to cut timber on 610 acres of  croWn lands, situate and bounded as follows :> From my  N. W. post near the eastern shore of Kboteiiay lake, about  a mile south of Campbell creek (which creek is about 12  miles north.of Hendryx camp) south 80 cliains; thence cast  SO chains; tlience north SO cliains; tlience west SO chains to  starting point. DENNIS CAIN.  Nelson, B.C, 12th November, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that 30 days after date we intend  to make application to the chief commissioner of lands and  works for permission to lease for lumberiugpurposes for a  term of 25 years the following tract of land situated in  West Kootenay district and described as follows: Commencing at, the southwest corner of M. S. Davys's limit,  thence south 100 chains, tlience east 100 chains, thence  north 100 chains, thence west 100 chains to point of commencement; containing 1000 acres more or less.  NELSON SAWMILL COMPANY,  Per W. J. Goepel, Manager.  Nelson, B. C, November 30th, 1891.  APPLICATIONS   FOR  CROWN   GRANTS.  Notice is hereby given that J. L. Retallack, as agent for  George C. Howe, has filed the necessary papers and made  application for a. crown grant in favor of the mineral claim  known as the \"Fourth,\" situate in Hot Springs camp, West  Kootenay district. Adverse claimants, if any, will forward  their objections within 60 days from date of publication.  N. FITZSTUBBS, gold commissioner.  Nelson, December 14th, 1891.  Notice is hereby given that Scott McDonald, as agent for  A. W. McCune, has filed the necessary papers and made  application for for a crown grant in favor of the mineral  claim known as the \"Libby,\" situate in Hot Springs camp,  West Kootenay district. Adverse claimants, if any, will  forward their objections within 60 days from (late of publication. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd VN. FITZSTUBBS, gold commissioner.  Nelson, November 23rd, 1891.  .-.\" NOTICE.  A lis pendens has been recorded by the undersigned,  upon a suit in the county court, to have it declared that he  is entitled to one-third undivided interest in each of the  \"Mountain Chief,\" \"Maude E,\" \"Noble 5,\" and 'Uvnoxvillc\"  mineral claims, and two-fifths undivided interest in each  of the 'Northern Belle\" and \"Blue Jay\" mineral claims;  all situate in the Slocan country.       CHARLES OLSON.  Ainsworth, November 21st, 1891.  NOTICE.  A lis .pendens has been recorded against the mineral  claims \"Chambers,\" \"Monarch,\" and \"Mattie B,\" in the  Slocan country, upon a suit in the county court, by tlie undersigned, to have it declared that Charlie Chambers has  only one-fourth undivided interest in these claims.  THOMAS SHEARER,  EDWARD BECVKEI-,  Nelson, November 5th, 1891.        CHARLES I<\\ KKNT.  A   WARNING.  I have a few baits out in my garden for a Chinaman, and  if a white man should get one of them, he  will have the  consolation of knowing that begot it.cheap; that it did not  cost him anything.   Some people like cheap things.  AMBROSE MORGAN.  Nelson, December 18th, 1891.  DISSOLUTION   OF   COPARTNERSHIP  The partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, under the firm name of Ward & Corning, has this  day been dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts  against the firm will be settled by Thomas M. Ward, to  whom all debts due the firm are payable.  THOMAS M. WARD,  E. CORNING.  Nelson, B. C, December 7th, 1891. 8  THE  MINEE:    NELSON,   B.   0.,   SATUEDAY,  DECEMBEE  26,   1891.  Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Provisions, Canned Goods, Hardware, Etc.   Miners' Supplies a Specialty;  The stock is Ml and complete in every Department, and the public will find it to their advantage to call and inspect G-oods  and compare Prices. 1  Main Street, EEYELSTOKE.  9 and 11 East Vernon Street, KEL  ^\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\\y  SMAJLL   NITCi GISTS    OF   SEWS.  Before leaving Nelson, mr. Dorman, assistant  postoffice inspector, awarded the contract for  carrying the mails between Nelson and Ainsworth to Wilson & Perdue, $20 a round trip  being the compensation. This firm also has the  contract betweet Nelson and Colville, and are  prepared to forward express and light freight  from the latter place to either Nelson, Balfour,  Pilot Bay, or Ainsworth. They will run a  sleigh between Colville and Little Dalles.  The toboggan slide on Stanley street is a sort  of Mecca, attractive alike to the saint and :the  sinner. * .'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'. y .'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd;;\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \" y-'; , \"  The school trustees have incurred expenditures  in connection with fitting up the school-house  (for stove, seats, desks, black-boards, maps,  wood, janitor, etc.), which will amount to $120,  toward the payment of w^hich the provincial  government will made a special grant of $10.  A party of ladies and gentlemen have kindly  volunteered to give a concert and entertainment,  on New-year's-eve, the proceeds of which will  be turned over to the trustees for the liquidation of the indebtedness..  The snow is nearly a foot deep at Nelson and  Ainsworth, and reported to be 6 feet deep at the  Silver King mine. The thermometer  from the freezing point to 20 degrees of frost.  Concert and Entertainment!  A concert and entertainment will be given on New-year's-  eve, 1891; in Lemon's hall, by a rare combination of local  talent. Tickets 50 cents. Proceeds to be donated to the  school fund.  ranges  STO\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"E  The Cheapest cFlace to Buy Stoves, Tinware, etc.,  and to go for any kind of copper, tin, y  and sheet-iron work is  W. KIEKUP'S, Houston-Ink Block,  _EsTElIl.SOIsr:,   _B_ O. .  (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1862.)  $:*, 000,000  1,100,000  CAPITAL (paid lap), \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd00,000  (With power to increase.)  I___S_.__.VI_ FUNl),   <\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd35>O,O0O     .  __3_R^_._rsro.\"_53:_ES =  Victoria, B. C, San Francisco, California,  Vancouver, B. C, Portland, Oregon,  NewW..stminster,B.C.,   Seattle, Washington,     ...\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd-  Nanaimo, B. C, Tacoma, Washington.  Kamloops, B. C.  HEAD OFFICE: 60 Lombard street, LONDON, England.  AGENTS AND 00REESP0NDENTS:  CANADA\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdBank of Montreal arid branches;  Canadian Bank of Commerce and branches;  Imperial Bank of Canada and branches;  Commercial Bank of Manitoba ; and  Bank of Nova Scotia\/  UNITED STATES\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdAgents Bank of Montreal, New York;  Bank of Montreal, Chicago.c  \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdA Krane-i of this SSa.ialv will toe .established in the  .Kooftenay liaise S&tstrict (aft NB^I-S^N, B5. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.) as soon as  the season opens in'-the spring of 1892, and will undertake  collections, remittances (to and from all points), and a general banking business. WM. C. WARD,  \"Victoria, B. C, December 10th, 1891. Manager.  Barrister at   Law,   Solicitor,   Notary  Public, Etc.  Office, Victoria street, Kamloops, B. C.  \\3  (A. M. Can. Soc. C. E.)  CIYIL ENG-INEEE AND ABCHITECT,  TOI.SON   Kiirff_LI>lftT\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd..  .NELSON, B..-CJ.  er ue  can be obtained for small amounts, loaned on short time  and well secured. Apply to HOUSTON & INK, real  estate and mine brokers, Miner building, Nelson.  CAPITA-, (all-paid-up), $12,000,000  REST,        .        ..:.''..   ..-\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd . ,0,000,000  Sir DONALD A. SMITH,.........., ..;.\/; President  Hon.  GEO. A. DRUMMOND,...;......... .Vice-President  E. S. CLOUSTON, .... .Y: General Manager  Branches in London (England), New York and Chicago,  and in the principal cities in Canada;  Buy and sell sterling exchange and cable tranfers;  Grant commercial arid travelers' credits, available in any  part of the world;  , Drafts issued; Collections made; Etc.  C  Rate of interest at present four per cent.  Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur,  Office:   Stanley Street.  3  Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London1;  Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.  Corner Silica and Ward Streets, Nelson.  Telephone 40.  LAND   NOTICE.  Notice is hereby given that we intend to apply within 60  days to the chief commissioner of lands and works for permission to purchase the following described tract of land,  which is situate in West Kootenay district: Commencing  at a post (marked M. Malloy and G. A. Bigelow, northwest  corner) planted on the shore of Slocan lake at a point about  100 chains north of Carpenter creek, running thence 80  chains east, thence 40 chains south, or to the north line of  the land applied for by Angus McGillivray and by J.  Fletcher and A. S. Farwell, thence 80 chains west, or to shore  of lake, thence north, following shore of lake, to initial  post, M. MALLOY,  Dated, December 16th, 1891. G. A. 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