"5f02b301-a57c-45e5-a365-fdf1838da5d6"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "[Courtenay Weekly News]"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2015-11-27"@en . "1894-05-30"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/cwn/items/1.0067834/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " 0. A. McBain & Co.\nReal Estate Brokers\nNanaimo, B. C.\n0$i if QUA\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJUt-i\n4 \'iW\n'/CTORI**, v'.'-\nG. A. McBain * Co.1 \"\nReal Estate Brokers\n**S* Nanaimo, B. C.\n\"noTi\nCOURTENAY, COMOX DISTRICT, B. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1894.\n$2.00 PER YEAR\nMcKim's Store.\nuasrioisr. 33* c-\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDIMPORTER ent for Union Brewery Company.\n**f7* Keg Beer sold for cash only. -*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*\"\nCourtenay B. C.\nLargest Stock of General Merchandise in the\nPBOYINOB\n>- ALSO -\nNew and Complete Stock of Household Furniture, Splendid line of Carpets, Window\nShades and Japanese Matting.\nWe Invite inspection of our stock of Spring\nand Summer Dress Goods, Hats, Laces,\nFlowers, etc., etc., etc.* etc., etc., etc., etc. etc\nGents Furnishings a specialty.\nMrs. Delahay, (Late of the Co-operative,\nstore, Nanaimo) is now in charge of our\nDressmaking Department.\nBest Styles and Satisfaction guaranteed,\nSimon Leiser, Prop./\nCOMOX, BO.\nImporters & Dealers in\nFlour A Feed Dry Goods\nFarm Produce Boots ft Shoe*\nFancy Groceries Hardware\nCrockery 4s Glassware Paint A Oils\nGents Furnishings\nPatent Medicinae\nStationery\nWallpaper\nSportsmens Supplies a Speciality\nUnion Mines\nFurniture Store.\nA Full Line of Everything,\nIncluding Granite and.\n.; -Hardware.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCO'3-TT-*?UVCTO-**tS.\n| AND\nI btj-ixj-d-bes.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDT UNDERTAKING IN ALL 11$ BRANCHES.\nGrant tfc McGregor, Props.\nRobert Sanderson.\nJoiner if Cartwriyht\nCourtenay. B. C.\nGet Suited.\nJ. Abrams, the clothier of Union has a\nne ol 1400 samples tn choose from for\nliitings, ranging from $22 p.:r suit upwards. Perfect fit guaranteed.\nA Snap.\n80 acres of fine land for sale or exchange\nfor property at Courtenay, Union or U-\nmon Wharf\nApply at this oflice.\nHome Made Boys Suits.\nSuits lor boys from two to ten years of\nage made to order, at reasonable rates.\nApply to\nMrs. Charles Hooper, Courtenay.\nO. H. Fechner.\nBARBER\nShop: Late Drug store.\nUnion, B. 0.\n.YARNING\nAll persons driving orer the wharf\nor bridges in Coniox distriot faster\nthan a walk, will be prosecuted accord\nng to law,\n8. Ornech-\nGot. Agent.\nJ. T. Grieve.\n% Butcher Sandwick.\nWill run butcher cart to Union Wednesdays, and Tuesdays around Comox\nSettlement, Bay and Courtenay! Saturdays around Courtenay and the Bay.\nWill supply vegetables, eggs, butter,\nand cream.\nNotice\nHaving sold out my Soda Water\nand Bottling business in Comox District\nto Mr.-David Jones of Courtenay I desire\nto settle up all outstanding accounts at\nonce and parties will confer a favor by\npaying the same- to him there, as he is\nfully authorised [6 collect for me and receipt forany moaeys paid him,\n> r. Louis Lawrence.\nNanaimo, B. f. April 11,1894.\nIIS\nQualification and Registration\nof Provincial Voters\nNOTICE is hereby given that in accordance with the provisions ot Section\n16 ofthe Legislative Electorates and E-\nlections Act, 1894,1 shall hold a Court\nof Revision at the Court House at 11\no, clock, a. m. oh the thirty-first day of\nMay, 1894, for the purpose of hearing the\nclaims of any persons who allege that\ntheir names have been improperly struck\noff or omitted from the List of Voters\nfor the*,Electoral District of Comox.\nW. B. Anderson\nComox, May Ist, 1894. Collector.\nCourtenay\nJ.S Wilson, Prop.\nWill leave the Riverside\nHotel, Courtenay, Daily at 6\np.m, for Union. Returning will\nleave Union Hotel and Cumberland Hotel at 9 p.m., for\nCourtenay.\nPare flach way 50 Gents,\nrHOftSE BREEDING.\nlathB mid til* Section of thn\nt*-ilun.\nThe Breeder'* Ouaatte says:\nTlinl ihtre hw l\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*en a marlco'l fnlHne off In\ntin-* -lt-'Diin-l for t-tallioiis of tho vuriom draft\nbret-riathirlutf tlie inst few )(i\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDr-> Is ilit tnati-\nniuiiy at all Km-linn: tmtwrterit nntl Un-aiiure.\nIni'mrtiUInns I'-iVu pnu-tic-ili** vcatu'd nnil n..lan\nnf tmni broil horsea\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDt**t*i>t for thoi-e of out-\nfsiandiliB iiu-rll\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Imv* titer, i-low ami at \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD nvi-\nturtn.1i)* lnw-tr rrvftt at valutm t)itui went our.\nrem \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD tow yi.-iirftosu,- Tli'itMrvii** roun mIk-iiIO\nliim* JiUii-u ion to** point M n it-Milt nf the\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'1-k'iHt-lrHni'inn of untlm liorM-M-uo'irt, li-ul\nftnd lti-ilff-*ri,nt--t-*'**ktii*i tin* -.airnnmi-i of\nrarmttrn. la not a muter for tmrpri-ie. tuul wllli\na vlvw inwai-il tleltM-mlnlrw *tmt k-nifi In tlm\n(lciinir.,l!*-iiiltni of rate*- liftd cxtentltttl antl lu\nOBtTrtr.ltiiilNilht* M'iierul ffelliifiln iv.kht.. Io\nlh'.-t-tyii*t.i*ln\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDr\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD;Hircit't Id renm-al alii-*- ar-v**,\nTlio (*i!will* pni \"in atthnrt ttrm-t-ltit-i) ai-iiur*.\ncitlculnied to l.rtri* mu thi- fiu*K\nHikecl tututvbu imaoto\nthe kind nf hinvty* pin*t ic-iu-mlly tmlroriwwl\nhv itwin-r-of fiinn ntiiriH tli!n m-ntum nnd to\nIinllc-Htu tb-> ranip- of mrvltv foea. lifei-le-M\nthat nervi.'-' fiu1**- litive fallen to a liguro where\nllitjt.lullioti keeper hai tlidfl Home -.-1'wtt flmtr*\nIllK l\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"pay nm.'* Thow' who have been na.\nilucutl Inio ['ii*. liijc* hi): price for a l\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMir home\nnro of rOUi>e In tin unitvlnUe poi-lilon. The\nman a ho luiyi. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD l'**ii* lljfuro tut a really tipiup\nlinnio nt tine tjuiilUy aiul clinlee brewlimt will\neomo intich nearer nm(tlnK a prntlt In tlie limn\nruu than tie who hrtn-t-i in n \"witar** aim|ily\nbeeauiru he could buy him cheap am) wtaml him\nat a unniiri'd f*'e<\nllht hon-o-i with Htylo and quality nre ittli\ncom in it i nl I mi reimtnoratlvu prtuoe, at are nino\nline driver***, trainoi| Madtllara and choice eoaeb\nand mt-rtiigv' itHftJk. ll in Ult \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDr\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDnl nuuMtif\nweedy (touk-unwiund, hlendnhed. iir-orly built\nand underHlwd tipjri-i-a, devoid of llnbdi and\niiunllly, Hlich n* rr-iult from piitMiilxinu clu-uy\nmom:i*i.*l ur uratlo alrc\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD-tbat art a drutt on lhe\nmarket.\nIf wc mar I** allowed to peri>eirate \"an IHfth\nbxtil.\" the kind uf bono mo*t In favor In many\nwcit-mal* the inula, Jnek-t havo tloiit a Ui-i\nwaMm'a work iniuany rountleH, and we iiiuM\ncoiifeiv that thoat- who have |iatronlretl tlv-in\nhave, no in-raj ly t-ipeiikln**. ahown more koiihi\nthan IhnMc who have lir\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDd ko-hI work lOMftw to\nicruhliy innnitrel or pniide-wrlpt ntvnl liorwx.\nThe J:irk in a purely bred sire al leant, and one\nfellow* Jtiiit al\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD>nl what in tn bo expected from\nhla ihtvUv, and ihu mule |i by no meniin the\nworst M-Mlm* animal nt lhe day. From the\nnumb ttnlllonn you ilo not know whal will\nCOtllO. At between |hom and Uiu aa-Uhe Jack\nlu Ui Im -.riroriiil every time.\nA Hunmmry of tbo rejiortu to Tho (Ja-\nEOtte would make tlie tttultiou fee In the\nHtaUia mimoil tiveni^e nliout $8. The\nprice rtingcti ull tho way from i?*' to jftO,\nThe ri'r-orta nlmw extreuieB of mixed\nbreedi!)-* thut are enough to drive one\ncru-.y. IlorHOH in eoute Ructionn have\nboon nearly iniuod by breodintf draft\nniuret* tn trnitora. Many couituon furui-\nen ure nttempi in\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD to cut fiwt trottura.\nNot oue in twenty auocoedn. mid a flood\nof horwrt no j-oml for imything U poured\nupon the tiiimimiilty. mmiliiiK tho price\nof them down ku low that It doet uot\njust ut preHont pity to breed \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD good\nhone in thoao localitici.\nIn tlie tui'lit of tho onnfnilon ft few\nfixed condttHionii can heurrived fit One\nin Unit pure bred, first cluei -draft horwia\nau\ enrriutfo borvoe ure alwuyi in demand, aud trnttore to a considerable extent. t*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDi, if oue can be euro they are ko\niug to be fiint. The Clydeadulee. Perch-\neroun, French conch boriH-H and trotters\nure tbo breeds most popular tn tbe states\nindicate*. 1. There are also some Shires\nund Belgian drafts, with a faint sprin\nItlin*: of tl 11 ironKhbred*. Tbe Hackney ts\npractically unknown. Little attempt Is\nluude to dorelop breeds of saddle horses.\nI'Irh Maeil Preeh Harth.\nThe pit-iKJU ought to bave a space oi\nfresh soil tliut has not been trampled\nover for several years for tbe pigs to root\nfn. Sncb aoil help*, to correct acidity of\nthe siomnt'li aiul keep the pig healthy\nBut where thu rooting is oror land (tiled\nwith duuompoetug \>k; muntire tbe pi\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDH\nure sure tu ;:*;t eomo diseaao, and thin le\ndoubt lens of leu tho means by which the\ndreaded trt-'hina is introduced. Tbe pig\nlikes to bu cleanly. His rooting In fresh\nFoil for routs and larva of insects does\nuot disprove his preference for olsanb-\nnsss.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAmencuu Cultivator\nUnion Flashes\nThe barque Louis Walsh is due.\nThe telegraph line on the French\nCreek section was dawn on Saturday.\nRichard III left with 1640 tons of coal\nfor Mare Island, San Francisco.\nThe Wellington arrived nn Sunday for\na load for Los Angetus.\nMr. Alex Sharpe of Wellington came\nup Wednesday, aud returned on Friday,\nStr. Mineola will be due on Friday to\nload for San Francisco.\nThe Glory of the Seas arrived on the\n24th and will take 3400 tons to San Fran\ncisco.\nThe married men's team waxed the\nsingle men's team at foot ball on the Union play grounds last Saturday evening.\nA Chinaman got crushed, out by the\nLake, last Wednesday. The accident\ndid not occur in the mines. He is getting betlet.\nCapt. Freeman of the Glory of the\nSeas and Capt. Randall of the Lome\ncalled on S, Leiser's meat market Wednesday at midnight for 500 pounds of\nmeat and were promptly supplied.\nThe excursion of the Joan to Nanaimo last Thursday was a success. Quite\na large number went from here, some\nfrom the settlement, nnd Denman Island.\nA good time was bad.\nIt was quite dusty the latter part of\nlast week and not a few found their way\nto the hotels to clear the cob-webs out of\ntheir throats.\nOn Saturday the roof of the new Lindsay Hotel was covered with living statuary. They appeared to have something\nto do with shingling tbe roof.\nThe boys expect to have a big time on\nJuly ist., but to commit an hibernictsm\nthey are uncertain whether the first will\nbe the day before or the day after. They\nwill find out in time and the public will\nbe duly notified.\nThe tuneful hammer and saw are making music everywhere, and the capacity\nof the saw mill is being exerted to its fullest extent. The artist's brush in the hands\nof ihe house painter has been moving\nrapidly of late. Mr. Delahay's fine cottage has been visited by it as also the of-\nhce ol the customs officer.\nSoda water, sarsaparalla, lemonade,\npine apple, etc., must be in great demand\nup here judging frum the trequent appearance of David Jones of the Puntiedge\nsoda works on our streets. It wouldn't\nseem that he could transport in one load\nmore than enough to last two days. No\nwonder as it is a capital summer drink.\nIt is hot here when it is hotl The peo\npie aie resorting to awnings, and Grant\n^McGregor are busy putting them up.\nSetting under one of these in a light suit\nof clothes gotten up at J. Abrams, with a\ncopy of the Weekly News in your hand,\ny\ju are pretty iViilf heeled, and' needn't\ncaie whether school keeps or not,\nI noticed the Union Magnet store of\nwhich Mr. K. P. Edwards is the efficient\nmanager, presented a lively appearance.\nIn front of the store was a large display\ncf all kinds of goods including all the\nway from a fine cooking stove to a baby\ncarriage. The building was receiving a\ncoat of paint, and even thc genial manager seemed to wear an extra smile. The\nplace is well named\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD a magnet. It is\nan attraction which a raws.\nGREAT FLOODS.\nThe Columbia and Fraser Rivers on\na Rampage - Trains Stopped by\nthe Wild Rush of Wftters-Oul-\nverts Destroyed, Bridges Threatened ftnd Lives Lost-Jack Mc-\nCabe Gone to His Reward-\nSchool and Oity Elections at\nNanaimo.\nNanaimo. May 28.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD J. A. Callaghan\nwas elacted by acclamation this afternoon\nto fill the vacancy in the Aldermanfc\nHoard caused by the death of Ralph\nCraig. Mr. Callaghan is the C. P. R.\ntelegraph operater here. He is an old\nresident and is well liked.\nThomas Bryant was elected school\ntrustee this afternoon. He is a storekeeper for the Vancouver Coal Company\nand is a thoroughly competent man for\nthe position.\nNe* Westminster, May 28.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJack Mc-\nCabe, convict, who with jack Meyer, a-\nlias lien. Kennedy attempted to escape\nfrom the Pennitentiary grounds on April\n2ird, last, died at 11 n'clock'on Saturday\nnight from the effect of bullet wounds received lhat day. The Coroner's jury in\nthe case ofthe officer who.shot McCabe\nreturned a verdict of justifiable homicide.\nVictoria, May 29.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDespatches which\nhave ncen received show that the losses\ncaused by the flood and freshets on the\nColumbia and Fraser Rivers have been\nof the most serious character. The\nCanadian Pacific and Great Northern\ntrains have been stopped by the rush of\nwaters which have carried away culverts\nand threatened a number of substantial\nbridges including the C. P, R. structures\nat Revelstoke and Mission City. The\nFraser and the Columbia overflowed\ntheir banks, several hundred feet beyond\ntheir accustomed channels, and several\nlives have been lost.\nThe Cranberry Swamp.\nThe swamp on the road between Union and Courtenay is covered in the fall\nwith cranberries; hence its name. The\nIndians gathe- these and sell them at the\nMines. They are small but of the finest\nflavor. Sometime probably some one\nwill sand this swamp and then let the\nwater over it and convert it into a\npaying cranberry marsh. But just now\nthis place attracts by its beauty. It is\ncovered with the loveliest violets. They\ngrow in clusters of various sizes, and hues\nand abound in such profusion as to excite\nthe admiration of one who has the sligh-\nest sensitiveness to nature's charms. Oue\nneeds snow shoes or something of the\nkind to prathcr these wild flowers\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD children of beauty. They grow on a soft mos\nsy bed which protects them from spoliation. And yot there are so many of them\nthat it seems a pity that they should\nwaste their sweetness on a wild waste, if\nnot a desert, air ai least something akin.\nHere are hundreds of acres all lesselated\nwith these sweet faces of nature, flashing\nin radiant beauty as you behold them.\nThere is much of beauty at this season ot\nthe year in thc forest road between the\nvalley and the.Mines. There are trees\nhere and there covered with their white\nblossoms, and vines with their variegated\nhues, and the small bushes blazing in\ngold and purple, but this large flat acreage with its mossy coverlet, shining in\nblue and red forms a picture of ravishing\nloveliness.\nBrick Works.\nMr. Walter and family are stopping at\nthe Courtsnay House*' Mr. Walter is an\nold countryman and having been engaged\ntn lhe m-inufature of brick is looking a-\nbout with reference to starting brick works\nin this district. He finds very satisfac*\nlory clay hereabouts, both near Courtenay and in the neighborhood of Union.\nThere is plenty of need for brick here and\nthere can be no doubt the manufacture\nof brick would pay here, as at present\nthere is much requirement for bricks ?nd\nthis is a growing district. The cost of\ntransportation for brick from below is\nnecessarily heavy, aud, it follows that we\nare at present only using what we are\ncompelled to, but with reasonably cheap\nbrick, we may expect them to be used to\nsome extent for building purposes, especially riijfbt this to be the case in Union.\nThere ought also to be a good demand\nfor drain pipe among the farmers. The\ngreatest results would follow the drainage\nofthe lands in this valley, and with drain\npipes m.inu fact n red here, there should be\na large impetus given to that enterprise.\nLater*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSince lhe above was in type\nwe learn that Mr. Waller has bought a\nfew acres nf land from Mr. Joseph McPhee, on the Union road a little over a\nmile out from Courtenay, where he finds\ngood clay. He will put up a dwelling\nthere and establish a prick yard. Some\nof the lumber is already on the ground,\nand work will begin at once.\nQueen's Birthday Celebration.\nAll nature seemed jubilant. The day\nwas bright and warm. The green fields\nlooked their loveliest, The bird's sung\ntheir sweetest. The groves nodded n\nwelcome, and the people poured out in\nlarge numbers to join in the general jubilation. It was a patriotic tide. The Bay\nwas well represented and Union done\nnobly. Many took advantage of the excursion to visit Nanaimo. Nevertheless\nevery vehicle was pressed into service.\nBut little was done in the forenoon, beyond social greetings, and an abandonment to the charms of the day. Life\nseemed worth living in such an atmosphere. The afternoon was filled with the\nspons which were heartily enjoyed and,\nin the evening came the ball which was\nwell attended. The supper at the Court-\ncn.iy House at midnight was sat down to\nby about fifty couples and was highly satisfactorily.\nTHE SPORTS.\nSlow bicycle race\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFirst pri\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD, J. J.\nMcKim; 2nd, David Roy.\nLong bicycle race\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFirst priie, J. J.\nMcKim; 2nd, Jack Roe.\nOne hundred yard dash\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFrist prize,\nD. E. Wallace; 2nd, 0. Barber.\nGirls race under 12\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFrist prize, Lena\nHcllen; 2nd, Sarah Mathewson; 3rd,\nGeorgie Urquhart.\nBoys race under 12\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFirst prize, Roderick Lindsay; 2nd, James Creech, 3rd,\nHorace McPhee.\nRunning high jnmp--First and 2nd\nprizes a draw between A. Urquhart and\nW,J*)avidson.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDGirls race under 16\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFirst prize,\nGeorgie Urquhart; 2nd, Louise Carter.\nStanding high jump\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFirst prize, Murdock McLeod; 2nd, Billy Davidson.\nStanding broad iump\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFirst pri\",\nJack Roe; and, Ed. McKun.\nEgg race\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFirst prize, T. Hudson; 2nd\nRobert Gilmore.\nBoys race under 16\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFirst prize, Bert\nPiercy; 2nd, K. Lindsay.\nWalking match\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFirst prize,U. Barber;\n2nd jack Roe.\nRunning broad iump\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD First prize,\nJack Roe: 2nd M, McLeod.\nWrestling match\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwon by O. Barber.\nThree legged race\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD First prize, Jack\nRoe, and D. E. Williams; anu.A. Walker\nand R. Roberston.\nOue mile race- First prize, D.E. Wallace; 2nd A. Urquhart.\nHorse race\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD First prize, Ed Woods;\n2nd F. Haudson.\nFoot ball\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThis commenced a liltle be\nfore dark and ended with a draw.\nLocal Brevities\nFOR Sale.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDA Jersey bull, full pedigree. Apply to John Piket, Cumberland\nHotel, Union\nMr. J. B. Holmes'team was seen yes\nterday going past Courtenay, with, a-\nmong other things, a load of shingles.\nThe mail at Courtenay closes on Thurs\nday promptly at 6 p. m. and the money\norder department at 5 p. m. on same day\nThe Wellington brought for the mines\ntwenty likely looking mules. They were\ntaken up the trail to the Carter Piercy\nroad and round by way of Courtenay.\nThe clouds on Sunday afforded the relief which an umbrella does in a small\nway and came as a welcome relief after\nthe few very hot days.\nThe snow on the mountain tops has\nbeen mHting last of Ute, and the streams\nhave crowded their banks with the rushing waters.\nErnest N. Dunderdale, general agent\nfor Vancouver Island ofthe Confederate\nLife Association wilt visit this district\nthis or next weet* in the interest ol his\ncompany which is one ofthe best\nMr. Geo. Roe, the efficient customs officer, and his wife have settled down to\nhouse keeping in their new cottage by\nthe fast flowing river. They will make a\npleasant addition to Courtenay society.\nThe new hotel at Union has not yet\nbeen named. The subcommittee to\nwhom the mutter was referred evidently\nfind it a tough job. We suggest that the\ncommittee advertise in the News for a\nname, offering a reward to any person\nwho shall fist suggest the name which\nthe committee shall adopt.\nA visit to the dining room ofthe Courtenay House on the evening el the 241b\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDQueen's birih-day\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD enabled us to get\na view of the handsomest dining hall we\nhave seen far some time. The design of\nthe finish is very perfect and the room\nbarring a shade in the trimming colors,\nwhich slightly varies, is very pleasing in\nits eflect.\nThe Joan last Wednesday brought up/\nsome immense drums for the Union Colliery, and a large amount of freight generally. It had the following passenger\nlist: B. Palmer, Mr. Mclntyre, Douglas\nDick, W. H. Walter, Mrs. Waller, J.\nWalter and H. Pedison, Victoria; Mrs.\nCliffe from Duncans; I. Sargent, Meredith P. Dunn, J. Urquhart, H. Urquhart,\nW. R. Angers, I. D. Bennett, J. Pnuley,\nJ. Balchelor, Christ Jacobson, R, Math-\newBon, C. Dempster, Mr. Gewgesen, W,\nE. Hay, F. C. Buschke, G. F. Drabble,\nMrs. J. McPhee.\nMr. Begg ofthe Victoria Colonist was\nup here on the 24th and took in the\nsports. He appeared to appreciate the\nbeauties of this magnificent farming valley, and the utilitarian importance of the\nmines. It seems strange that the Victor\nia Press so little understands the importance of a section so richly endowed with\nnatural wealth as this and which is directly tributary to Victoria while it risks\nbreaking its neck in its frantic efforts to\ngather up rumors nf mining prospects\nhundreds of miles east where more silver\nand gold have been sunk than have ever\nbeen taken out. We hope Mr. Begj will\nenlighten them.\nUnion Cothing Store.\nGoods At Cost.\nFor the next thirty days you can purchase at the Union Clothing Store Cloth\ning, Hats, Boots, Shoes, White and Col-\nord Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, Gents under\nClothing, Socks, Overalls, Cardigan Jack\nets at cost. The above goods all new.\nPlease call and inspect goods. Suits\nmade to order at the lowest possible price\nProvincial Secretary's Office,\nHis honor the Lietuenant-Governor\nhas been pleased to make the following\nappointments:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\n16th April, 1894.\nTo be Justices ofthe Peace:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nWilliam May Halliday, of King-\ncombe Inlet, Esquire, within and for the\nComnx Electorial District, and William\nAdams, of Lightning Creek, Esquire, M.\nP.P., within and for the County of\nCariboo.\nNotice to Contractors.\nSealed Tenders will be received by\nthe undersigned up to noon of Thursday,\nJune 7th, 1894, for certain work to be\ndone on the Lower Prairie road; Tsolum\nRiver road; Black Creek road; Cross\nroad; Upper Prairie road and Little\nRivei road.\nFlans snd Specifications can be seen at\nthe office of the undersigned on and\nafter May 25th from 9 till 12 m., and\nfrom 1 till S p.m.\nTenders must be made upon the prin\nted form which will be supplied for that\npurpose.\nThe lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.\nS. Creech,\nGov't Agent.\nNotice.\nTo the readers ofthe \"Weekly News\":\nMr. A. Uptaker, the Jeweller, late of\nVnncourer, B. C. has opened up an establishment in McKclvey's house at Cour\ntcnay, B. C, witb a choice stock of\n\"Watches, jewellry, Musical Instruments,\nStationery, Tobaccos, Cigars, and smoker's articles as well ns notions, etc., etc,\nMr. Upiakcr otherwise known by his pot*\nular nickname as \"Barnev\" is well known\nin this locality and the Union Mines.\nWatch and Jewellry repairing promptly and neatly done.\nBoard Meeting.\nThe Directors of the Comnx Agricultural and Industrial Association met on\nthe 22nd inst at the residence of President McPhee.\nThe resignation of M. Whitney as officer in the Association received and accepted.\nJ. A. Halliday was appointed Secret.v\nry , J, Mundell a member of the Finance\nCommittee, and J. McPhee on Revision\nCommittee.\n300 copies nf the constitution nnd bylaws and prize list to be printed in pham-\nphlet form were ordered from thc News\nOffice, the price to be the same as charged for advertisiug last year.\nThc district was divided off into sub-\nsections for canvassing purposes as follows: From Finley estate north on Upper Prairie road, W. H. Grieve; from\nFinley estate south to Mathewson's, 1.\nMundell; from S. F. Crawford, north,\nlower road, S. Piercy; Comox School\ndistrict, John J. R. Miller; Courtenay,\nMines, and along tlie beach to Roys- j.\nMcPhee; Hornby, George Heatherbell;\nand Denman Island, A. McMillan.\nNotice to Tax-Payers.\nAssessed and Provincial Revenue\nTaxes will be received by the undersigned .it his office, in his residence,\nComox Buy, between lhe hours of 9 n.m.\nantl 5 p.m. No taxes ofany description\ntaken after tliut hour. Taxpayers are\nrespectfully requested not to offer any\nassessed taxes outside of oflice as it Is\nngainst regulations tn receive them thus.,\nand they cannot he accepted. Shouts] I\nundersigned be at any time away on\nother business a substitute will be at\noflice to receive taxes.\nW. B. Anderson.\nCollector,\nComox, May 23rd, 1894. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.\nWHAT A VETERAN DETECTIV E\nTHINKS OF IT.\n.tinny Convictions in Canada iu ths Pan\nTwenty Wears ami sfat a Btngle in*\nitnnee \"it'iier*- u Uiu Keen Ctalroeil\nTliut tin- Accused Was WronfffUllj\nCondemned,\nChief Government Detective John Murray has been engaged in more Important\nmurder ensea than any other single man In\nthis oountry, if not on this continent, and\nbfs opinion on evidence is therefore of the\nhighest valin. He wis Interviewed on tin\nMacW berrell oata the other day.\nVes, aaid Air. Murray, I ohservo all\nthose people who Inveigh against circum\nitantial evidence nre at it again. Tlm oase\n-.it MaoWherrell just uow naturally excite.*-\nlonifl sympathy, anil it is qiiitu easy to I'm 1\ninstances in which innocent men have suffered nn oiroutnstantlal evldonco, for nothing human is perfect; no, not even the courts\nand juries. More people havo sufl'ered\ninnocently hy edireot evidence, however,\nthan by circumstantial evidence\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDvery many\nmore. Uf this there is not a particle of\niloubt. Nothing iu legal annals is more\nclearly proved, and a little reflection will\nihow the reason. Circumstantial evidence\nts often nuicliHtrongei* thandirectevidence,\nbecause direct evidence cun bo manufactured by au ordinary intellect, while the fabrication of a great congeries of alleged\ncircumstances so that the separate allegations will agree wllli each oilier, and all\nknown foots, demands the very highest kind\nof talent. Kven then it fails iu a majority\nof eases.\nTHK HIRCHAM, CASE.\nAny fool iu thc township of Blenheim\nut it you publish them all will not have\ninch space for other news.\nA F\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDW WOBDS IN CONCLU-ilOS.\nThe beauty of circumstantial evidence lies\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI the fact that the truth must always con-\nist with itself. The worst crimes as a rule\nui only be proved by circumstantial evi*\nAnd it certainly ought to comfort the\niritlci to know that where one innocent\nperson lua suffered from circumstantial\nviileiico the records will show at least 10,-\nmi) havo been acqulted. Nevertheless in*\nlooent men have suffered hy circumstantial\nividencc. Nothing liko as many as is gen*\nll ally supposed, but still too mar.y. Hut\n;\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD almost every caBe it will he found on\ninquiry that the character of the accused\n.ms against him.\nPRACTICAL FARMING\nBRITISH COMMERCIAL UNION.\nUr. Van SaiiMiit-r 1'iiU In n 1'len lor Closer \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD;.'lnlt.iiii,\nmight have sworn positively and witli\nair of solemn stneority that he saw Hirchall\nshoot Henwell iu the swamp of death, but\nft would havo puzzled all the detectives in\nthe country, or in any other country, to\narrange those circumstances\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe advertisements in the London newspapers for gentlemen's sons to do gentlemen farming in\nCanada, meeting 1'elly and Henwell at tbo\ni'rimroso Club in Loudon, the travel from\nLoudon to Liverpool on the train, the\nEaBsago ou tbe steamship Hritannica from\niverpool to New York, the trip from New\nYork to Buffalo, from Buffalo to tho Blenheim Hwuinp and back to Buffalo attain, the\ntelegrams to New York and Buffalo, the\nletter to Henwell'a father about, the type*\nwriting, the cigar holder caBe, otc.\nTHK MURDER OP 1>K. PARKSIAK-\nAny man iu Boston might have sworn\npositively that he saw Prof. John White,\nWebBter kill Dr. Parkm&n, but it would\nhave puzzled all the detootives in Boston\nto arrange those circumstances : The teeth\nin the furnaco, tho flesh in thc vault, the\nfragments of a body with hair bucIi aB\nDr. Farkman was known to have, the peculiar smoke aoen by a total Btraugor issuing from the chimney, etc\nSHOT DOWN HIS KMl'LOVEn.\nWilliam Smith was convicted of the\nmurder of Ralph Finlay in the Township ot\n.Sombra, Lambton County, in 1875. Smith\nhad bought poison in the village of St.\nLouis, Michigan, two years previous to the\nmurder, and gave Mrs. Finlay the poison\nto get rid of her husband. It waB proven at\nthe trial that Smith had improper intimacy\nwith Mrs. Finlay. At tht coroner's inquest\nshe swore positively that she knew nothing\nabout how her huBband came to his death ;\nthat she thou jtht when she saw him lying\ndead on the barn lloor that he had been\nkicked by one of tin* horses. Subsequently\nshe and' Smith were arrested, and at the\npreliminary examination before the magistrates, when ahe heard the chain of circumstantial evidence, she broke down and\nmade a statement of how sho and Smith\nconspired to murder her husband. At the\ntrial the defence objected to the statement\nmade by Mm. Finlay to be used as evidence\nagainst Smith. The judge allowed the\nstatement to bo read. Smith was convicted\nand sentenced to bo banged. Tho defence\napplied for a new trial, and the case waB,\nbrought betore tho Privy Council in Eng* I\nlaud and they concurred in the ruling of\nthe trial judge. However, Smith's sentence\nwas commuted to imprisonment for life, it\nwua a long, tedious trial.\nTHE CASK OK THE YOUNGS.\nJohn Young and William James Young\nfor the murder of Abel McDonald in the\ncounty of Haldimand in 1870* John Young\nwas exocuted lu Cayuga Sept. 'JO of the\nsame year. William James* sentenco was\ncommuted to imprisonment for life. Abel\nMcDonald, a farmer living in the Township\nof Walpote, drove trom his home to Caledonia with a load of wheat to sell. On his\nway homo he was robbed and murdered by\ntho Youngs. After the Youngs were convicted and sentenced to ha hanged they\nbroke jail in Cayuga, getaway and were\nsecreted in an old barn in the township of\nAncaster a few miles* from Hamilton, where\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD!, they wero subsequently captured. The\n' notorious two Barber girla from Caledonia,\nwho were witnesses for the Youngs at their\ntrial, brought provisions to their biding\nplace.\nBURNED HIS WIFE IS A STOVE,\nK. Ward, for the murder of his wife,\nMary Ward, township of Caledou, county\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD feel, in March, ltt/0. He was tried in\n. Brampton, convicted and sentenced lo be\nexecuted in .Tune the samo year. The\ntheory of the crown was that he murdered\nhit wife while in bed, cut her up iu pieces,\nburned her in the stovo, using tallow he\nhad in his cellar to make artificial heat,\nBet fire to his house and then went to his\nfather's home badly burnt aud told what a\nnarrow escapo ho had with his life,\nA MA N't TOL-LIN ISLAND THAUEDY,\nQeorge Amer and Reuben Amur, bis son,\nfor tho murder of Bryan and his son on\nManltoulin Island in June, 1877* were tried\nand convicted at Sault Ste, Marie and sentenced to be hanged; theso scutunccs were\ncommuted to imprisonment for life The\nAmers and Hryuns lived ou adjoining farms\nin a lonely place on thu Island. The near*\ni*nt. house to whoro they lived was about\nsix miles away. The Bryans and tho Amors\nwero not friendly towards each other,\nAtiier's hora-u got into Bryan's wheat Held,\nBryaiiH impounded Amers liorsen in their\nyard. When tho Amers came to take the\nuuimalif away the Bryans refused to let\nAmer have the horses until they would pay\nfor damages dono by thu horSQI iu a wheat\nfield. However, a fight started between\nboth parties. Bryan and his nou wero\ngetting ihe best of thc light, when old\nAmer told hia sun Reuben, who hud a revolver, to shoot. He shot and killed both\nof the Bryans, The tragedy occurred in a\nlonely place, and the only person who lived\nwith the Bryans waB an old woman, who\nwas idiotic, aud not caj>ablu of giving information or evidence.\nAmongst thc many evidences now crowding upon public attention of the de-tire for\ncloser union and better commercial relations\namong the British countries and communities settled around the world, whose highway of inter-communication Canada ia today, and will be more ao in future, we have\nuo hesitation in mentioning an illustrated\nhook by Mr. J, Van Sommer, jr. Mr. Van\nSommer has travelled muoh, and what he\ntell a us haa the backing of the practical\nexperience of an observing man with a\ncommercial training, Nothing could be\nbet-cr iiaid than the following remark in the\nauthor's introductory page, fully verified as\nit has been within the past week or two in\nthe utterances of the London press on Canadian affairs : \" The course of events is\nsurely tending towards a critical period of\nour Umpire. Nearly every past crisis has\nmrned on the action of aome commanding\nmind and now the people act collectively.\"\nThe Australian movement for union of the\nEmpire ; the expansion of Canadian trade\nwith Australia and the Mother Country, aa\nwell as the development of Africa, were\nnoted and pretty accurately estimated by\nthis Toronto business man bofore the conference, which will soon sit at Ottawa, advised\nand approved by tho exponents of the beat\npublic opinion in Kngland, had been arranged nr perhaps meditated.\nMr. Van Summer's opening chapters are\ntaken up with thc building of England's\nfleet; the discovery or settlement of the\ncolonies between 1(300 and 189.'); a sketch\nof Australia and of tho Australian ayatem,\nas well as tho federation movement; the\ncommercial development of Canada and our\nincreasing interest in the commerce of the\nworld ; the formation of the Colonial party\nin Westminster, and collated arguments in\nthe way of trade statistics and opinions, all\nof which are very interesting and valuable\non their own merits. It muat have taken\na great deal of time and industry to get\ntogether and arrange so intelligently and\nattractively thc niasa of figures here introduced for the purpose of promoting tho\nmain argument. Information that wilt be\nnew to most readers ia contained in the\nchapter concerning the recent history of\nthc Cape Colonies, and their hopes of settling upon a practical lusis of union or federation with the rest of tho Empire, added\nto which ia a brief accuunt of the Imperial\nFederation League, and the establishment\nof the Imperial Institute in London.\nA review of the growth, present extent\nand prestige of the Empire would be incom\nplete If attention had not been paid to the\ndemand made during the last year for Imperial defence and the supremacy of England's naval power for the protection of\nthe great commercial interests of the British nations of the world. Having logically\nargued the mutuality of these interests,\nMr. Van Summer faces this conclusion\nfairly: that commercial union of the British\nEmpire has now become a live question of\npolities, along with t'*e \"concentration of\ndefensive power for the protection and development of internal resources.\" He adds\nthat \"many different events in the hiBtory\nof the world aeem to combine in leading up\nto and preparing the way for the mutual\naccomplishment of this work by Britain\nand her people.\"\nAN ELECTRICAL OMNIBUS.\nA New Vehicle Soon to Be Placed on lhe\nHlreelj- or London.\nFor several .years electric omnibuses hav<-\nboen in aervice on London streets, but after\nmucii oxperimenting they have just reached\na type of perfection, and the one shown in\nthe cut will soon be running in London. The\nelectrical omnibuamade ita first trip through\nthe streets of London in ihe aummer o\n1S8S, and attracted considerable attention\nItems for Poultry Keepers.\nThere is no branch of rural industry that\nis so generally followed, yet ia so systematically neglected on the farm, aa poultry\nraising. There are few families in rural\nlocalities, or even in rural villages, who do\nnot keep a few hens ; but the fowls are so\ngenerally left to shift for themselves that\nthey do not prove as remunerative aa they\notherwise might.\n\"Hen's time\" haa become a aynonym\nfor time that is worthless ; that bas been\nutterly wanted-and ia profit less. Nevertheless, the hen makea good uae of her\ntime. Let one into the newly made\ngarden and aee If aho does not, Poultry\npay 4 much or little according to the time\nand attention beatowed upon it. Well\ncared for, there is no stock that can be\nkept on the farm that will bring so large a\nprofit.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSo much ia written on the subject of\npoultry that little which is new can be\nsaid ; but It ia only by repetition, -'line\nupon line, precept upon precept,\" that one\ncan reach a certain class of readers.\nThe following items may contain some\nthing which is new to aome who still keep\nthe common hena and hatch their chickens\nby what some one has denominated \" hen\npower,\" inatead of incubatora.\nThe hens ahould bo allowed to alt early,\nif they become broody ; early broods make\nprofitable market fowla for early autumn\nand early winter layers.\nTho neat in which the brood is to be\nhatched shuuld be clean, fresh and free\nfrom vermin. Sulphur or tobacco ahould\nbo sprinkled about it freely. The nest\nBhould not be in a barrel, keg or deep box.\nThe hen should be able to walk into it,\nnot jump down onto the eggs. If poasible,\nit ahould be in a quiet secluded place.\nA fresh sod Bhould form the bottom of\ntho neat. It ahould be placed grass aide\ndown, in auch manner that there will be a\nhollow iu the middle to form a neat large\nenough to hold the egga and keep them\nfrom rolling out. On the sod ahould be\nplaced soft nay or straw. The sod serves\na double purpose. It supplies needed mois\nture to the eggs, and helps to secure, aud\nkeep up, au even temperature.\nThe egga chosen should bo uniform size.\nIf cockerels are wanted, select the largest\nand longest egga; if pullets, the shorter\nones. The egga should not be more than\nthree or four aaya old. If kept longer than\nthia they are not likely to hatch well, The\nhatching proceaa often begina in hot weather, before the egga are placed under a hen,\nfor leaa heat is needed at that time than at\nany subsequent period of incubation. The\nprocess goes on slowly until more heat ia\nneeded, or the egga become cold enough to:\nkill the germ. Such an egg will not hatch\nafterward. If unchillcd egga of different\nagea are given to the hen, they will hatch\nat different times. But if those chosen be\nonly a few houra old, and aa nearly aa possible of tho aame age, they will hatch uniformly, and muoh trouble of the hen leaving her neat with but half the brood will\nbe avoided.\nThe Bhells of the egga ahould be smooth\nand not too thin. If ono should be broken\niu the nest the others should be removed\nand carefully washed in warm water, elae\nothers may be broken.\nTHE BRITISH ARMY.\nDiversified Farming.\nONE UK THE KlltST OMNIBUSES,\nOne of tho early runs was over a distance of\nnearly four miles, taklngthlrty-fivo minutes,\nand tho experience which waa gained in ita\nworking demonstrated that the knowledge\nnecessary for driving it could be picked up\nby an ordinary cab or omnibus driver in a\nfew days, no greater skill being required to\nhandlo auch a vehicle with pre-nsion and\nsafety thun was necessary in the caae of a\nhorao 'Ima or cab. Each car could easily\nmake six fourteen-mile trips per day, or a\ntotal ot 588 milea per week per car, giving\na total of 11,7 JU miles of service per week.\nThu now car ia a full-sized tweuty-six\npusBunger omnibus. It has two batteries of\naccumulators, ench weighing about seventeen hundredweight. These go under the\nseats.\ntin* rintKitiNi* -h-tra'ik.\nBurk and McPhcrson, for the murder of\nMrs. Bennett of the township of Pickering\ncounty Ontario, in 1878, were tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged, but\ntheir sentences were commuted to imprisonment for life. Mra. Bennett was the wife\nof a laboring farmer who lived in a lonely-\nplace wilh her three small children. Tin;\naccused broke into far house in the night\nand UHed ber in tho most bruUl manner.\nFrom the injuries ahe received aim died in a\nfew days.\nAll the prisoners -wen: defended Iiy the\nmost eminent eouuset ot the day, the late\nMatthew CrookaCbrtmronor John Hillynrd\nCameron being retained in many uf thc\noasst, having worked up tho t-videnoo for\nthe crown in all tlie ulu-vo cases himself. I\nam naturally familiar with all the details.\nIn every instance the convictions were secured solely ou alrouimtantlal evidence. I\nhave yet Lo Hoar a Binj'le person outside ol\ntbe Immediate relative! of the accused who\nhavo expressed au opluion that they were\nunjustly convicted.\nI oould mention several other esses of a\nsimilar nature which i have worked up,\nTobacco Insanity,\nThe French Government, recognizing the\ndeteriorating influence of tobucco upon tho\nyoung, him prohibited ita use by students\nin thu pubbe schools, Swiss Government\nwill not tolerate that tobacco be sold to\njuniors. Buys found sm'oking in the streeta\narc now promptly arretted ami punished.\nPunishment is also muluil out to lliose who\nsell them tobacco. Dr. Bremei of St. Vincent's Institution for the Insane, at St.\nLouis, has called attention to the fact that\ntobacco-smoking by the young produces\nmoutal aud moral deterioration, while in\nolder peraoiiB it produces brain-disease and\ninsanity. He cites Kant's obscure style and\nCarlyle'a irascibility as effects produced by\ntobacco. In view of many facta which lately have boen brought up against tobacco, it\niB strange that the medical profession ia\nnot unanimous in ita opposition to the\nwcet\nHe Gave In.\nBarber: \"Poor Jim has been aent to an\ninsane asylum.\"\nVictim (in chair) : \" Who's Jim?\"\n\"Jim Is my twin brother, sir. Jim haa\nlong been brondin' over the hard times an'\nI suppose he finally got crazy.\"\n\" Hum 1 Not unlikely.\"\n\"Ves, he and me has worked side by aido\nfor years* and wo were ao alike wo couldn't\ntell each other apart. We both brooded a\ngood ileal too. No money in this business\naay more.\"\nWhat's the matter with it'*1''\nPrices too low. Unless a customer\ntal'es a shampoo or something, it doesn't\npay to ahave or hair-cut. Poor Jim I I\noaught him trying to out a customer's\nthroat bea. Neither had seen the other\nuntil within one hour of tho time fixed for\nthe ceremony, It was a caae of postal\ncourlahip, all the preliminaries having been\narranged by correspondence.\nA oloae watch was kept upon the cows of\na farmer at High Shoals, Go, In the morning, for weeks, they had ahown signs of\nhaving been mysteriously milked, The observer caught the thief in the net, and he\nproved to be a huge bullfrog, that waa\nhanging on to the cow's udder, and aeemei\nto be enjoying hia dinner.\nRetrospective.\nEdith\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\" I thought you and Mabel were\nfast friends.\"\nNellie\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"We uaed to be.\"\n\" And you are not now ?\"\n\"No.\"\n\"What was his name?\"\nA Determined Woman.\nrecently knocked down a burglar and held\nhimuntil the arrival of aaalatanoe. Dr.\nP'erce's Golden Medical Discovery iaa medi-\ncincth.itchocks the frightful inroadaof Scrofula, and if taken in time, arreita tbe march\nof Pulmonary Consumption. It curea indigestion and dyspepaia, chronic diarrhoea and\nsimilar ailments. Thia wonderful medioine\nhaa alao gained great celebrity in curing\nfever and ague, chills and fever, dumb ague,\nand like diseases.\nAsthma cured by newly discovered treatment, Addresa, for free pamphlet, testimonials and references, World'a Dispensary\nMedical Association, Buffalo, N. Y,\nLucky Adam.\nLittio Johnny\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"Solomon was the wisest\nman, but Adam waa the luckiest.\"\nLittle Ethel\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\" Why waa he.\"\nLittle Johnny\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD '\"Cauae when Adam was\na boy there wasn't a sohool-houae in the\nwhole world.\"\nDame Experience\nHas convinced many that to uae any of the\nsubstitutes offered for the only aure-pop\nand painless corn aure la attended with\ndanger. Get alwaya and uae none other\nthan Putnam'a Painless Corn Extractor, for\nsore producing substitutes are offered juat\naa good aa Putnam's Corn Extractor. Safe,\nsure, painless.\nJn the public schools of Germany the\ngirls are taught to sow.\nWide Awako people buy Wide Awake\nSoap because It Is the best and cheapest\nthoy can get. Try It.\nA circus in Arizona accepted farm produce and various other articles in payment\nof the admission fee. One man tendered a\nfat hen, aecured liis ticket, and received a\nchicken aa change.\nWash your linen with Wide Awake\nSoni) and see how beautifully white it\nwilt ba\nwrapper printed in red ink. Bear in mind\nthat Dr. Williama' Pink Pills are never\naold in any other style of package, and any\ndealer who offera substitutes is trying to\ndefraud you. Aak for Dr. Williams' Pink\nPilla for Pate People and refuse all imitations\naud substitutes.\nDr. Williams' Pink Pilla may be had of\nall druggists or direct by mail from Dr,\nWilliams' Medicine Company, Broekville\nOut., or Schenectady, N. V., at 50\ncents a box or six boxes for 92. SO,\nSome cigar*makers moisten the ends of\ncigars with aaliva, to make the wrapper\nadhere. It is aaaerted that disease ia thua\nspread, especially the germ of consumption.\nSchiller's Sarsaparilla Pilla act directly on\nthe kidneyaand by stimulating their action\nand purifying the blood they help the system to throw eff disease. A chemical analyse, after taking these pills, will show a\nmarked falling off of albumen in tbe urine\nof thoie euHering from kidney trouble.\nPrice 50 cents a box, six boxes for $-'.50\nby addreaaingH.K. Schiller & Co., 73 Ade-\naide St West, Toronto.\nThere are 23,000 species of fiahes, one-\ntenth of which inhabit freah water.\nWash your prints with Wide Awake\nSoap and notice how the colors are\nbrightened.\nIt is a cruel operation to rob the ostrich\nof ita feathera. Eaoh quill is ao tightly\nimbedded in the flesh that, when drawn out,\nit ia covered with blood.\nRecipe,\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFor Making a Delicious\nHealth Drink at Small Cost.\nAdams' Hoot Beer Extract ono bottle\nFleischmaan'a Yeast .\nowarm Water two gallons\nDirt-solve the sugar und \"roast in thc water\nadd the extract, and bottle; place Ina warm\nplace for twenty-four houra until It ferments,\nthen place on Ice, whon it will open aparkling\nand delicious.\nThe root beer can be obtained In all drug\nnnd grocer*' stores In IU and -Jj cent bottles to\nmako two and five gallons.\nPostal cards bave been in uae in the\nUnited Statea aince Ma> 1, 1873. In the\nfirat year 91,079,000 were Bold. Laat year\nthe sales exceeded 500,000,000.\nWide Awake Soap Is a solid bar of\nfiure soap that will not vanish like snow\na hot water. Try It.\nA. P. 709.\nMr* Jt Alctde Chaueef\nMontreal, P. Q.\nA Marvelous Medicine\nWhenever Given a Fair Trial\nHood's Proves Its Merit.\nThe following letter ts from Mr. J. Alclde\nChausse, architect and surveyor, No. 1G3 Shaw\nStreet, Montreal, Canada:\n\" G. I, Hood & Co,, Lowell, Mass.:\n'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDGentlemen:--! have heen taking Hood's\nSarsaparllla for aliout six mouths and am glad\nto say that it baa done me s great deal of good.\nLast May my weight was 162 pounds, hut since\nHOOD'S\nSarsaparilla\nCURES\nI began to take Hood's Sarsaparllla It has Increased to 103. 1 think Rood's Sarsaparllla la a\nmarvellous medicine and am very much pleased\nwith it,\" J. al<*h>kchauh3\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.\t\nHood's Pills cure liver Ills, constipation,\nbiliousness, ]auudlce,eli!li headache, Indigestion.\nCURE\n^tg THAT\nCough\nft, WITH\n* Shilohs\nCURE\n60cts, and\n81.00 Bottle. ,\nOneceutadoee.\nS PORTABLE\nAW MILL-i\nWILL OUT\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDc**-t*r-*--J For-a-rte Moat Eoonoiy-Ioally.\nMeet ProAt'tbl* lnv\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtm\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDnt for Small Moans,\n\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"\"WATEROUS. s-r**\nTIRE PROOF-\nROOFING\nILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE I'RLF.\nMETALLIC ROOFING C\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD MANUFACTURERS. 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TACT'S\nWhite Pino Syrup for Ooida,\nf0IN0ND WEAK PEOPLE\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nIf you read between tha\nTh* want tun uf Chianio Dyiptpiit did Luer Compltlnt\nlines you will find that your\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDi.cur..!l.y S.-I...!.,', .S\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDr..niill. Pill. It ja. ... IhrcM.nwl\ncase is not hopeless; that to\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDlth C.niunptloD, Tjrphoid, l'li..l.,. ur Diphth.rU ; 11 yon\nget well, koep,well, GROW\nh... H.l.ii., Ufripp., ill... riu.ll.,, UiJithM, bum.,\nFAT an(1 be happy. is a very\not Salt lth..im. ScbllUt'i larMparill. Pill. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDr\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD . .ur. nir.\nsimple thing if you only take\nTh*)' tin Li thi blood cli.inlullr putt to tht iftUm tut ml*\nSchiller's Sarsaparilla Pills.\ntt tliiun off *!! |tin li-iou.i D-.1.J- tr* dd-.-ni'-'ui.\nSold by Drugglata evcrywliero, In aquare,\nflat boxes, nt So cuiitn. Any n-*--xm*>tble drugglat\nwill get thein for you. Mailed ou recd-it of price.\nK. H. SCHILLER & CO.\n TORONTO _\nGRANBY RUBBERS\nThey give perfect satisfaction iu lit, style and finish, and it has become a hy\nword that\n\"('riuibj Kulilu'i-s\" wear like Iron.\nThe WILLIAMS\n- VISIBLE WRITING -\nTYPEWRITER\nNO GOING IT BIJVO.\nThe Inst letter, the last word,\nthe last lines In plain sight, adds\n100 per cent, to the pleasure or\nusing.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nNO LIFTING OF CARRIAGE, NO\nRIBBON, DIRECT INKING, STRONCEST\nMANIFOLDING, POSITIVE ALIGNMENT, UNEQUALLED SPEED, A\nSTANDARD AMERICAN MACHINE,\nTHE HICHEST GRADE IN EVERYTHING\nWE HAVE THE AGENCY\nADDRESS\nGREELMAN BROS,\nKNITTING MAOHINE MFQRS\nGEOBO-HTO-WN ONT.\nTHE NORTHEY MFG. CO. LTD\nDUPLEX\nSTEAM\npowkr PUjXIPS\ntoronto, ont.\nAND\nSINGLE\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*V*J****%/%\"**/\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDV%/%/*M''\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*>,*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD>\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD^^\nTHE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD..\nThat will burn\nROUGH WOOD and GOAL\n...Equally Well...\n..THE OXFORD*.\n[OIL GAS COOK STOVE,\nit Will do It: i\nHas the Largest Oven.\nIS A FARIIER'S STOVE\nI Everybody's\n^^^^^^^^ without\n'Makes and Burns Its Own Gas\nFrom Common Coal Oil.\n| NO DIRT, NO HEAT IN THE KITCHEN,\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Oooks a Family Dinner for\nThe mm FOUNDRY\n'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDe*l%r%l%reA+l*A+r%r*%r*V%r%rt>r%+l%r%rty THE DEAN AND HIS DAUGHTER.\n* CHAPTERIL\nTwo days later the great man himself\narrived somewhat late in the afternoon,\nand while the swallows were atill flying\nhigh.\nHe was the sole oooupintof a pair horsefly, the front seat of which was littered\nwith newspapers snd other light baggage.\nA second and humbler vehiole conveyed\nhis valet with a portmanteau, a fur overcoat, rugs and other necessaries of travel,\nall charmingly Btrappad together in the\nmoat delightful order.\nBefore the first fly had stopped the valet\nwas waiting at our porch to let down the\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtaps, open the door, and assist hia master\nout. It muat have been many yeara since\nour village had witnessed so imposing an\narrival.\nMy father received the old gentleman in\nhia moot courtly style with marked cordiality, but without effusion. Sir Henry, after\nshaking hands, looked round and pleasantly\nremarked that it waa a pretty plaoe, but\nthat tt would be, he ahould imagine, rather\ndull in winter. My father answered with a\nbit of Latin which I had heard him quote so\noften that 1 knew it by heart. It was 0\nfortunati nlmium, sua si bona norint, Agri-\neolie 1 and he wagged his head as muoh as\nto aay. \" A dean ahould alwaya be a learned man. Look how I have kept up my\nolassioe.\"\nSir Henry's answer waa vague but reaa\nauring, and evidently meant to be kindly.\nHe said : \" Exactly so. What I have always felt myself. Poor Peel used to .aay\nthat every man ahould know his Horace by\nheart; but I never really had the time,'\nAnd with this we all went indoors.\nWe had dinner at seven, and it went ofl\nbetter than might have been expected.\nThere were freshly caught trout with melt*\ned butter, a pair of broiled chickens with\nvegetables, an apple pie with dotted cream,\nand some cheese and salad.\nSir Henry had with forethought brought\ndown a supply of wine and liqueurs, partly,\nno doubt, out of kindness, and partly with\ndue regard for his own comfort. The valet,\nMr. Watson, waited upon us with a solemnity that almost chilled my veins.\nHe had an eye that aeemed to be\nperpetually occupied with estimates and\nmeasurements. I am sure before the dinner\nwaa over he had thoroughly satisfied himaolf that the carpot had been turned a\naecond time, and that it had not been orig\ninally planned for the room..\nDinner over, Mr. Watson produced fresh\nwines and the liqueurs, and somehow I found\nmyself drinking a glass of olaret. It was\nthe first time 1 had ever tasted claret in\nmy life, and 1 frankly confess lhat I did\nnot like it. He then with deliberation\nplaced on the table a large box of cigars and\na small silver spirit-lamp. I took this as a\nsignal for my departure, and after exchanging glances with my father and returning\nSir Henry's bow, acted upon it, I waa not\nsorry to get away, for Sir Henry, although\nhe did not stare at ino, eyed me, as it were,\nround the corner, and with auoh persistency\nas to make me extremely uncomfortable,\nMr. Watson with many apologies begged\nme to permit him to make the coffee himself\nas he knew exactly how Sir Henry liked it.\nHe performed that task to a marvel, and\nreturned from the dining room with the\nwelcome intimation that my father desired\nme to be told that I need not sit up. This was\nbut too pleasant news for me, and I hurried\noff to bed, Mr. W atson handing memycandle\nwith the most profound gravity, and asking\nme if a cigar in the servant's hall would be\nagainit the rules of what he called \" The\nRectory,\" 1 reassured him on this point,\nand iu a very few minutes was sound\nasleep.\nEarly next morning I was up and about.\nThe eittiug-rootn, where we had banqueted\nthe night before, had to be arranged and\ndecorated with fresh flowers. Of thuse I\nmanaged to get together a sufficient allowance. Mrs, Juggins had been very liberal,\nand so had the Thaokers. I also scalded a\nbowl of milk, and made some fresh clotted\ncream in the most approved Devonshire\nfashion.\nThe delicate sulphur-tinted primrose was\nthick on every hedge bank, aod I adorned\nthe table with its blossom, and with oome\nviolets which grew in a treasured nook of\ntny own.\nThis exhausted my own resources. From\nMrs. Juggins and Mra. Thaeker I procured\na few more flowers, and, what;was far more\nImportant, a young duckling and some\nearly potatoes nob much larger than big\nWalnuts, to the preparation of which\narttolos for the first dejeuner our Vicarage had ever witnessed, I at onco addressed\nmyself, only too glad to have anything to\nkeen my mind employed.\nMy father was later than usual. Ho was\ndressed with scrupulous care and had an indescribable air about him of one who was\nartistically accommodating himself to an\namusing situation, an air whioh might\nalmost nave.fitted the Grand Monarque at\nthe Petit Trianon. He looked radiant, and\npositively many years younger than his\nactual age.\nSir Henry, of course, was about three-\nquarters of an hour late, but waa also most\ncarefully arrayed. The same age as my\nfather, as nearly as might be, he looked\nabout f.fteen years younger. He was\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDlightly bald,but not a gray hair waa visible\nupon his head or in hia daintily trimmed\nwhiskers. His single*breasted morning-\ncoat fitted his well-preserved figure to\nperfection, and hia Parisian boots were as\nresplendent as if cut out of solid jet.\nI could not help in a kind of way admiring him. He was beyond doubt a fine and\nhandsome man, or at any rate had once\nbeen so, and he had that ease and charm ot\nmanner whiah means nothing in itself, but\ncan only be acquired at Courts.\nI I understood this secret aoon after, when\n. I found out that he had been successively\nat Eton, a Queen's page, a cornet iu the\nj Blues, and ultimately military attache, and\nafter that, Secretary of Legation at Vienna\n; \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDstill the most exclusive Court in Europe,\n. and the one where old traditions are the\ni most jealously preserved,\n* Breakfast over, Sir Henry declared him\nI aelf in favor of a walk. England, he obaerv-\n; ed, was the ouly oountry in which a walk\nj in the lanes was really possible, and even\npleasant. Resides, our English villages\nwere picturesque without being squalid or\nmalarious. He was a bit nf an antiquarian,\nhe added, and there would almost certainly\nI be some monuments, or possibly even\n! bronzes in our beautiful old church, which\n> would interest him. Would I kindly act\nas his guide ?\n\" When,\" said he,with with a smile that\ndidoredit to his dentist, *'I visit a country\nplace, I alwaya follow the example of our\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD>reatest living lawyer, Lord Selborne, I\nook into the local antiquities, and try in my\nemail way to fit them in with the county\nhistory. Now, I oame across a most curious\ninscription once in a parish church in Tor-\nbay, It waa ih memory of an Admiral who\nhad died In the Spanish main, and it commenced, \" Here lie the heart and brains of\n-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\" well, whoever it may have been. It\n\ waB strictly correct. The gallant old gen-.\ntleir.an had died in action and they had\nbrought homo his brain and his heart in a\nsmall keg of rum. With you, Miss .St.\nAubyo, to guide mo, I am sure we will unearth something of interest. Your father\nmust be too busiod with his parochial work\nto sparo ninny moments of his hardly-earned\neisure for arch Etiology.\"\nMy father frankly admitted that this was\nthe case, carefully adding, however, that\narchieology in all ita branches hnd always\nbeen hia favorite pursuit, und concluding\nWith some incoherent remarks about a\nrooking stone in the nearest parish.\nSo I picked up my hat and a light shawl,\nand away I went with the old gentleman.\nIt was impossible to be angry with him. It\nwas exasperating. He gave you uo loophole whatever. He was the very pink of\npoliteness, an Emperor of small-talk. Besides, his small-talk was really very clever,\nand wholly unlike anything I had ever\nheard, He wm far too satisfied with him-\nMARKED DECREASE IN CRIME\nSHOWN ON PRISON RECORDS.\nself and hia own poaition to be in any way\nvain.\nHow the time passed, I can hardly tell;\nI waa excited, and to tell the truth, a trifle\noverwrought. But everything went smoothly enough, for Sir Henry,somehow or other,\ngave me no trouble.\nLooking back at things now, I should\nsay he was endeavoring to impross me with\nthe idea that he would make a most admirable and indulgent husband.\n\"Devonshire, Miss St. Aubyn,\" he said,\nalmost reminds me of Nice and Mentone.\nThe climate aeema identical. Of course\nyou have seen the Mediterranean.\"\nI replied that I had not.\n*>\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Ah, indeed 1 I suppose your father has\nbeen too engrossed in his literary labors to\ntake you there T It ia the garden of Hea-\nperides, the land of the Pnumiciana. Oranges, and peaches, and lemons grow in the\nopen air, and the tideless sea is perpetually\naim and blue. You are too happy to think\nof anything, or even to do anything. And\nup above you are tbe Alps; pine forests at\ntheir 1mm, then gorse and heather, then\neternal anow. It aeema strange to ait in\nthe shade and to look upwarda at untrodden\nanow. Travellers will tell you of the\nglories of Rio, and of Jamaica, and of San\nFrancisco Harbor, but for my part 1 prefer\nthe bay of Villefranuhe and the Riviera\ngenerally co the rest of the world. To tell\nyou the truth, I have an idea of building\nmyself a villa there and never again return*\ning to this land of fog and mist.\"\nI answered, wholly without enthusiasm,\nthat it wm no doubt very beautiful, but\nthat I myself had never been out of Devonshire, and oould so but half realize his description.\nThe discovery thai I had never left my\nnative country made him angry. I ought\nat least to have been to Paris, to London in\nthe season, to Cowea during the Regatta\nweek, to Ascot, to the Highlands, and to a\nnumber of other places, with all of which\nhe was eminently familiar.\nFeeling bound to somehow atop thia flood\nof conversation, I quietly reminded him\nthat my father's stipend had put an annual\nContinental tour beyond hia reach.\nIn the most airy and graceful manner\npoasible Sir Henry assured me that money\nwast mere trifle, that my father's position\nwould soon be most materially improved,\nthat aome other clerical preferment was a\ncertainty for him, and that with a wider\nfield bistalentscouldnot possibly butassert\nthemselves.\n\"Vour father,\" he went on to say, \"has\nhidden himself too much, and haa not done\nhla own great abilities justice. Buthe iSBtill\nin the prime of life and fully able to make\nhis mark. And,\" he went on to add, \" I\nam now speaking to you, dear Misa St,\nAubyn, with your father's permission, and\nindeed at his express wish. He is most\nanxious to resume hia fitting position in\nthe world, a poaition distinctly due to hia\nbirth, hla connections, and his great natural\ngifts. Rut hia first and ons thought ia for\nyourself, and he wishes you to understand\nthat in every step he may take under my\nguidance, or with my assistance or otherwise, the one and only object nearest to his\nheart is your own welfare and happiness.\"\nHere he stopped, and I had to reply as\nbest I could, and without consideration.\nOf course I had sense enough to know what\nthe whole thing meant, hut what wm I to\ndo 7 I was ts helpless as the daughter of\nJairus or aa Iphlgenia herself.\nremember feebly saying that 1 loved my\nfather dearly, that I was aware his abilities\nhad never found a proper -field, and were\nquite thrown away atOssulston, and added\nthat I should be most delighted to see him\nin a position worthy of himself and of the\nfamily traditions.\n\"Then,\" gallantly replied Sir Henry,\nwe may. 1 tbink, consider the matter settled. The Deanery of Southwick iB vacant\nat this moment, and my personal influence\nwith the Premier, to aay nothing of His\nGrace the Archbishop, will make the matter a foregone conclusion, aa in fact it ought\nto be when we conaider what will be the\naverage calibre of the average candidates\nfor the post.\"\nBy thia time we had reached the Vicarage, wheremy fatherstoodawaiting ua under\nthe porch with a radiant smile,\n1 have been talking matters over, my\ndear St. Aubyn, with Miss Miriam,\" warbled the diplomatist. \"She ia entirely in\naccord with myself that I ought In your interests to at once proceed to London, and,\nif you will allow me, I will give orders to\nmy man this moment. In a matter of this\nkind every quarter of an hour is of im-\nfortance. I am sanguine as to thu result,\nn fact, I feel that my past services entitle\nmo to command it, and I have never yet,\nthat I can remember, asked for anything.\nWe will have, if you do uot mind, a pint of\nchampagne and a biscuit before I start, and\n1 think that while I am away you may let\nyour mind be perfectly at rest.\"\nlhe champagne and the biscuits were\nproduced from Sir Henry's stores. He had\nspoken of them carelessly, as if they were\nsomewhere in my father's cellar and storeroom. The lynx-eyed Mr. Watson, without\nthe least bustle, had avery arrangement,\ndown to the fly at the door, ready to the\nexact moment, and before I could fully\nrealize what was going on, Sir Henry had\nbowed his most courtly of bows, had wrapped himself in his cloak, and wm being\nquickly hurried away.\nAs the vehicle turned the corner and was\nlost to sight, my father, with hia sweetest\nsmile, gently laid hia hand upon my ahould-\ner and aaid : \"Miriam, my dear daughter,\nI very much want to apeak to you.\"\nI impatiently shook myself free, ran up\nto my own little room, threw myself down\non the bed, and burst into a passionate flood\nof tears.\nMy father, after an interval of some ten\nminutes, followed me up, and tapped at my\ndoor. Then he called out to me several\ntimes. Then I heard him go downstairs\nagain, and I soon afterward becamo aware,\nfrom the mixed aroma which forced its way\ninto my room, that he wm smoking ono of\nSir Henry's large olgara, and mo tening it\nwith rum and water.\nLater on in the evening I heard the voice\nof Mr. Thaeker, and noon afterwards there\nwas an increase iu the aroma of rum and\ntobacco amoke. Mr. Thaeker and my\nfather parted in the road. Their vioces\nwere thiok. My father evidently intended\nto be patronizing and reassuring. Thaeker\nwas cordial and familiar, slapping his\nVicar on the back.\n\" I told you it would turn up trumps,\nparson,\" ho said, \"and I'm very aeldom\nwrong, from a spring handicap down to a\nfield of oats. I wish you joy with all my\nheart, and may wo never amoke worse\ncigars than the onus old Cookolorum haa\nleft behind him. As for little missy, I\nwish her joy.\"\nBy little \" missy\" Mr. Thaeker evidently meant myself, and he was wishing me\njoy on my marriage to the \" old Cookolorum.\"\nAfter all, it is a meroy in this world that\nthere should always be a grotesque aide to\nf-our misery. Otherwise the burden of\n[fe would now and again become too great\nto bear.\n(TO UK CONTINUED.)\nIn the edition of tho City ol London Directory just issued ib la noted aa a marked\novidenco of the depressed aUto of trade\nthat the number of buildings and oflices\nlabelled \"Unoccupied\"and \"To Let,\" is\nexceptionally large.\nJapan continues to conform to Wcatcrn\nways, and the change is especially notable\nof late in the upbuilding ot the'War Departments, The Government has just decided to establish a naval school, in which\nartillery, torpedoes, and navigation will be\nthe subjects of study during an eighteen\nmonth's course. A special commission is\nalso soon to be sent to Europe to study\nrecent changes in the organization of European armies*\nTlie lowest Number ol' Prisoner* Inrarcer.\natctlDurlnxilu Fail Keren teen Vears-\ntUa luijieclor* Report,\nOntario Jail Inspector Chamberlain has\nbrought down the twenty-sixth annual report upon the common jails, prisons and reformatories in the province.\nThe system of employment is spreading\nto the county jails. The Inspector saya that\nthe work produces a beneficial effect upon\nthe prisoners,both physically, mentally and\nmorally. It has also had the effect of making a marked deorease in the number of\nhealthy tramps who formerly sought an\nasylum there for the winter.\nAGED fAUl-ERS.\n'* In some of the jails,\" aaid the Inspector,\n\" it is a common thing to find old people\nwho have been inmates of tbe jails for many\nyears aa vagrants. This state of thinga\nahould not exist longer.'* In the past years\n1,666 persons were committed m vagrants\nin the provinoe.\nTo the work of temperance organizations\nMr. Chamberlain attributes the falling\noff in the number of drunkards committed\nto jail. As compared with 1892 there wm\na decrease of 878 in 181)3.\nUESERAL DECREASE IH CRIME.\nThere has been a general deoreaie in com*\nmittals throughout the province, aud a\ncareful comparison of the statistics for past\nyears shows a still more favorable state of\naffairs, resultant, the Inspector thinks,\nfrom prison management in the province.\nThe commitments tothe common jails for\nthe year numbere.l 8,010 aa against 9,011 in\n1802; 10,423 in 1891; 11,810 in 1890; and\n12,531 in 1889.\nThe year 1893 shows the lowest number\nof oommittats during the past nineteen\nyeara.\nOf the total number committed 6,798a\nwore males, and 1,399 were females. As\ncompared with 1892 thia fa a decrease of\n379 in male prisoners and an excess of 64\nin female prisoners.\nCRIMES CHARGED ARE CLASSIFIED,\nDuring the year there were 34 committal\nfor murder in the province, and 9 for man*\nslaughter, and 71 prisoners charged with\nintent to kill. The total number committed\nfor orimes againat the person wm 051, the\nlowest number for seventeen yeara.\nCrime against property was the cause of\nattainder in 2,197 cases, and 1,329 of these\nwere thieves of the petty order. Housebreakers to the number of 215 oame to grief,\nand 220 trespassers tarried for a while in\nthe jails. Fate in the shape of justice\nsought and found 62 burglars, 27 incendiar-\niata, 29 \"tencea\"and 31 forgers.\nCrimes against public morals and decency\nwere brought home to 374 dissolute persons.\nOffences againat public order and peace\nwere the cause ot detention for 4,838 persona, of whom 2,652 were drunk and disorderly.\nContempt of her Majesty's courts caused\nthe incarceration of 119 people ; 36debtors\nfound refuge from collectors in the jails ;\n19 persons boarded at the jails because the\ncrown wanted them as witnesses ; and 36\nobstreperous persona who could not find\nsureties to keep the peace were kept smashing stones and Bnwing wood.\nSHORT TERMS FOR THESE.\nThat popular motto of Toronto's Police\nMagistrate, \"dollar and costs or thirty\ndays,\" coat 1,207 persons, who could not\nfind the dollar, some thirty days in the\nDon Baatile. This is one year. The cost\nof their daily rations to the oity wm 7 cents\nper day each.\nOf the 8,619 prisoners arrested and committed to jail pending trial, 5,408 were\nfound guilty and sentenced, of whom 4,404\naerved ahort time in the common jaila, and\nthose oonvioted of grave offenses were distributed amongst the other penal institutions.\nl'KRIODS OP SENTENCE.\nThere wan one prisoner sentenced to be\nhanged; nine received corporal punishment\nand imprisonment; 63 are serving terms of\nover three yeara in the penitentiary, and\n45 got over two yeara.\nUnmarried persona to the number of\n5,400 got into trouble with the law, and\n3,219 married people were at the beck of\nieo. And 5,854 of the lot were very\nIntemperate in their habits, while 1,704\ncould neither read nor write.\nWhile the clook atruok twelve, midnight\nof September 30th, 1803, there were 1,572\npersons reposing under Government quilts\nin the various ouatodial institutions of the\nprovinoe.\nAnd the maintenance of all theu county\njails, and lock-upa.not including the prisons\nand reformatories, coat Ontario Just\n$137,485. There are 56 ot them.\nFive prisoners escaped during the year\nand were never recaptured. Two got away\nand were caught, whilst aix unfortunates\ndied in jail whilst awaiting trial.\nThe greatest number of prisoners registered at Toronto jail in one day during 1393\nwm 174, and the lowest number wm 107.\nMERCER REFORMATORY.\nDuring the yoar 196 females were committed to the Mercer, and 01 were sent to\nthe Refuge wing of the Reformatory. The\naverage number of inmates shows an increase over the previous year. All the\nlaundry work lor the Central Prison ia done\nat the Reformatory and the inmates earned\nconsiderable revenue from outside sources,\nREFORMATORY FOR UOVS.\nThere were committed to tho Penetangul-\naheue institution during the year 62 boy**,\na slight decrease under the previous year.\nThere are 230 boys now in residence,\nTHE CENTRAL I'llISON.\nInspector James Noxon is of the opinion\nthat he oan make this institution aelf*\nsustaining, and in his introduction he explains that tho results of the industrial\nwork m yet are not a fair indication of\nwhat ahould be accomplished. The net\ncoat of maintenance atill averages 34. 35c\nfor each prisoner per day over and above\nwhat they earned in the factories. In tbe\nindustrial enterprises of tho prison there\nwas a deficit of gl9,K90.l4 for thc year,\nwhich considerably increases tbo cost of\nmaintenance, A better year is promised\nfor 1894.\nWarden Massle's tables show 630 prisoners committed during the year, and ,103 re*\nmaincd in custody at the end of the year.\nThere are nine industrial enterprises being carried on in the prison, viz., a broom\nshop, woodenware shop, brickyard, tailor\nshop* shoe shop, carpenter shop, tinsmith\nand engineers' ahop,south shop and cordage\nfactory,\nHALF A MILLION VISITORS\nLast Year Looked nt Niagara Falls from lhe\nCanadian Park.\nSuperintendent Wilaon, of the Queen\nVictoria Niagara Falls Park, reports that\n543,924 people visited the park in 1393,\nwhich is an increase of more than double\nthe number of visitors in the previous year,\nThi receipts at the park from visitors and\nrentals of privileges for the year amounted\nto $18,965,82.\nThe expendituro for maintenance for the\npark amount to $10,116,34.\nTho Niagara Falls Park and Kiver Railway Company pays an annual rental of\n$10,000, and the elevator, refreahment\nbooth, photographic and other privileges\nthat produce the income are held on a leaae\nfor ten years at 88,200 a year.\nOver 150,000 visitors camo to tlio Park\nover tho electric railway, and out of tho\nfares collected therefrom the company paid\ntho rental.\nThe Commissioners of the Park think\nthat tho number of visitors will increase\nthia year, and adviae the necessity of providing greater facilities for their convenience\nand accommodation. They are elated, aiul\nexpress the belief that all charges for interest on capital account and maintenance may\nsoon be mot trom the revonues of the park\nHOUSEHOLD.\nBroad and Cake-\nThere are rules of etiquette that apply as\nexclusively to eaoh of theso articles as do\nthose governing the use of the napkin,\nknife, fork, etc. Bread etiquette can\nbe divided into rules, as follows:\n1. Bread, biscuits, rolls, buns, etc.,\nshould be removed from the plate, also\neaten with the fingers and never with a\nfork. The proper place to lay either is on\nthe bread-and-butter plate ; or, when these\nare not a part of the table service, on the\nrim to the regular plate, or leaning againat\nits edge. If warm bread or biscuits are\nserved they should never be allowed to\nrest, even in part, on the table-cloth, aa\nthe steam from either will soil it. Thu is\nsomething everyone, whether guests or\nmembers of the family, should carefully\navoid doing, particularly in houses where\nlittle or no help is kept. Every housewife\niB desirous of seeing her table arrayed in\nspotless linen; but this iB possible in but\nfew homes, unless through the carefulness\nof thon at the table,\n2. Bread, biscuits, etc., should bo broken, not cut, into small pieces before spreading. This should be done with the bread,\netc, resting on the rim of the regular plate,\nand not on the table-cloth or palm of one's\nhand. Children, and some grown people,\nahould be carefully drilled in each part of\nthis rule, as it is one they are prone to disregard. Few things ahow greater ignorance\nof the common rules of table etiquette than\ncarrying the entire piece of bread, a wholo\nbiscuit, or any large piece of food, to the\nlipa for each mouthful; while holding bread\nin the hand to spread shows, to say the\nleast, lack of culture. At many tables\nlittle individual butter knives are provided\nfor apreading bread. But when they are\nnot, the ordinary knife ia used.\n3. Small piecea of bread should never\nbe uaed for a mop to wipe up tho last particle of gravy, or food from the plate. They\nare, however, correctly used to assist the\nfork in lifting fooda, like salads, etc., that\nrecede from its tines. In this country, a\nsmall piece of bread is also used to assist\nthe fork in breaking fish into bits suitable\nfor eating.\nA pretty custom, observed at some fashionable tables, at informal dinners and teas,\nand when the family dine alone, is the serving of bread from a handsome, highly-\npolished bread-board, whioh is placed on\nthe table within easy reach of the hoatesa'a\nor host'a right hand. Beside the bread,\nwhich iaya on the board, and should be a\nsmall, uncut loaf, Is a fancy bread-knife\nand long-handled fork. At the proper time\nthe hostess cuts the bread, passing a slice\nwith the fork, to each person at the table.\nAt the majority of well-regulated tables\nbread is served in the customary manner,\nslices piled one upon the other on a doily-\ncovered bread-plate or tray, which is placed\non a side-table or the table proper. These\nmust be out very, very thin, be evenly\npiled, if long, be out in two, crossways.\nBiscuits, rolls, etc., are served likewise,\nonly they are piled promiscuously on the\nP****' \t\nTable Talk.\nPlates for hot courses ahould always bo\nheated.\nServe pistachio nuts, French walnuts snd\nsalted almonds between courses.\nThe aoup plate ahould bo left, at least,\nhalf an inch unfilled.\nA guest tor a single meal needs not to\nfold the napkin. It cannot be used again.\nCut cold meata and bread in the thinnest\nslices. In making sandwiches, butter the\nbread beforo cutting.\nNo butter ia served at dinner. For breakfast a small pat ia served to each person,\nwith a small pleoe of ice, if the weather, or\nroom, is warm enough to make it needful.\nThe correct way tor serving bread aside\nfrom the individual plate is to put a doily\nupon a plate, pile the thinly siloed bread\nupon this and cover with another doily that\nall moisture may be retained.\nSouvenir spoons are still desirable. The\ndesigns taken from caravels, gondolas, etc.,\nat the World's Fair make charming models.\nMany prize these spoons long after those\nwho buy them are forgotten.\nThe Maryland cook makes coflee without\na filtered coffee pot better than some make\nwith it. She puts the coffee into the pot,\nsets it over the fire and shakes it until well\nheated and pours boiling water over it. The\naroma of the coffee ia delicious.\nPieplant.\nSauce,\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDChoose the crisp, tender atalks,\nwipe clean, but do not peel them, out them\ninto small pieces and place in a granite-ware\nor porcelain stew-pan ; add a very little\nwater, and cook them until tender. When\nit is well cooked, add sugar to taste, and\nflavor with grated lemon peel, or lemon extract. Serve cold.\nPie.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLine the plate with a nice crust,fil\nit with pieplant out into small piecea ; mix\none tablespoon of flour with one cup of augar,\nturn it over tho pieplant and atrew amall\nbits of butter over the top (one-half a\nteaspoon of butter to a pie), shake the\nsugar through the pieces and add the upper\ncrust, pinching it well at the edge to retain\nthe juice. The natural flavor of the pieplant\nIs sufficient.\nShortcake.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTo ono quart of flour add\none-half a teaspoon of salt, and ono scant\nteaspoon of soda; sift flour three times,\naud then rub into it two tablespoons of\nlard*or nice drippings; add sour milk or\nbuttermilk until it is like biscuit dough.\nDivide it into portions, roll them a little\nthinner than biscuits, aud placo one above\nthe other on a tin, lightly apreading the\nlower one with buttor, so they will separate easily. When baked, separate the\nlayers, and between them and on top,\nspread hot pieplant sauce.\nKeeping Pieplant\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWhen pieplant ia\nold, or if it has made aa low growth, it\nbecomes tough and stringy, and if then\nused, peel it before it is cooked. When\nyoung and tender, the thin skin will cook\naa well aa the rest, and tho delicate color\nthat it adds to the sauce improves the\nlooks, and does not alter tho tan to. When\nyou have moro than you need for immediate use, cut it into suitable lengths pack\nclosely into Mason cans, lill up with cold\nwator, and seal. For use, turn off the\nwater and prepare as though it was fresh.\nThe trash juice of pieplant, with tho addition of augar, a few drops of lemon\nextract, and cold water, makes a refreshing\ndrink for a warm day.\nA Good Variety.\nA Baked Soup.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPut a pound of any\nkind of meat, cut in slieea, two onions, two\ncarrots, two ounces of rice, a pint of peas\npreviously soaked, popper and salt into a\npan, and one gallon of water. Covtr it very\nclosely and bake.\nBeef Soup.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDGet a shank of beef (hind\nleg) costing about twenty-livo cents. Have\nthe butcher break tho bone in two. Put\none-half into a kettle with five quarts of\nwater, one ounce of pearl barley; chop\nfinely one carrot, nne turnip, nn onion, and\na quarter of a medium-sized oabbage; add\nSapper and salt. Cook slowly for three\nouis and you will havo a vory wholesome\nand nourishing soup at small expense,\nHash for Tea.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTho meat left over from\ntho soup dinner m&ko into hash, add au\nonion, a bit of butter, a teaspoon of flour\nrubbod smooth in half a teacup of water,\npepper and Bait. Simmer slowly. To boil\nhashes or minces make them hard.\nOatmeal Pudding. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPour a ciuart of\nbolting \"milk over a pint of oattheal | let it\nsoak all night; next day add a beaten egg,\nwith a little salt; butler a basin that will\njust hold it ; cover it tight with a llouoted\ncloth, and boil it an hour and a half. Kal\nit with butter or augar. When cold, slice\nand toast it, and eat it as oat-cake buttered,\nRice Pudding.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWmIi a ctfhccup of\nrice, tie it in a cloth, leaving plenty of\nroom for it to swell. When dona eat it\nwith butter and sugar or milk.\nPlain J-anoakea.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Make a batter of flour\nand buttermilk, add a little salt and soda.\nThey are vary good eaten with butter and\nsugar or maple syrup.\nBookings.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMix a pint of buckwheat,\nwith a teacup of warm milk, and two\ntablespoons of yeast; let it rise about two\nhours; add two eggs, welt beaten, and as\nmuch milk as will make the batter the\nusual thickness for paucakea, and fry them.\nTo Dresa Pig's Foet. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI 'lean carefully.aud\naoak four hours; boil them tender; tnke\nthem out; boil Bome vinegar and a little\nsalt with some of the water, and when cold\npour It over them. When they are to be\nused, dry them, and cut them in two, fry,\nand serve with butter, mustard and vinegar.\nJelly of Pig's Feet.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDClean and prepare\naa above, then boil in avery small quantity\nof Water till every bone cau be taken out;\nthrow in a little chopped sage and parsley,\nand mixed pepper, salt and mace, in flue\npowder ; simmer fifteen minutes, then pour\nthc whole iuto a melon form.\nLow Prices.\nThere are changes every day in the price\nof articles used for the world's food or\nmanufacture. These changes arise Immediately from circumstances of temporary supply and demand. Tlie farmers around a\noity, for instance, bring one day into market an unusually large amount of eggs or\napples. The price of eggs and apples goes\nlower at once. If only lialf tho expected\nsupply cornea in, the price will rise.\nhe same rule governs a year's average\npricos. The wheat farmers have a bad\nseason ; thoir crop is much smaller than tho\naverage. But the same number of poople,\napproximately, need the wheat for bread.\nThe supply being less, the price rises. If\nthe crop was larger than usual, tho price\nwill fall; unless, as happened in 1391, the\ncrops in other countries have been very\nsmall.\nIn a series of years, still ojher causes are\nat work in changing priceaT If tho rent of\na farmer's land is high, the prioe of his\nwheat, too, must be high in order to give\nhim a profit. If the labor employed to\nmake a piece of goods costs a dollar, thc\nprice of the goods must be more than a\ndollar.\nBut if new and cheap land is thrown\nopen to the farmer, and if newly invented\nmachinery will Bave half the expense of\nmaking a piece of gooda, the wheat and\nthe merchandise oan ne sold for much lower prices.\nThe tendency, therefore, naturally ia toward a continuous fall in prices, and the\nfall haB in faot taken place during this\nnineteenth century, and especially during\nthe last twenty-five years.\nIt is one of the most interesting among\nsuoh facts that the smallest fall in price\nduring the laat quarter-century has been\nin articles suoh as butter, cheese and eggs,\nwhich are affected leas than most commodities by the opening of new lands and\nthe invention of labor-laving machinery.\nYet there are other causes still which\nwork on prices, and which furnish a topic\nof greatest controversy among political\neconomists. Thia year's low price of wheat\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe lowest in modern yeara, and barely\nhalf what it was in 18S0-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDis yet by no\nmeans the lowest in history.\nFive centuries ago, the English record\ntells us, wheat sold at less than one-third of\nthis year's prioe. In that same century\nprices ao curious to us prevailed, as half a\nfienny for beef, twelvepence for a \" fat\namb,\" fourpence for a pig, and twopence\nfor* hen.\nThe times when these remarkable prices\nruled were not times of distress and suffering. So far as the ruder civilization of the\ncentury allowed, tliey were times of contentment and plenty. All the authorities\nagree that the reason for such low prices\nwaa that actual money, for purposes of exchange, was scare. Hence prices were low.\nIn this century not only has the supply\nand distribution of coined money vastly increased over those of earlier centuries, but\nthe use of bank checks haa made it possible\nfor the aame amount of money to do far\nmora extensive work in trade exchanges.\nVet it is carious, even nowadaya.to see how\nunnatural conditiona may reproduce, in a\ndifferent scale, the aame changes in money\nsupply and prices.\nThe question how far changes in price'\nduring recent years have been due to per*\nmanent changes in tho money aupply, the\ncoinage and the currency of the world'a\nvariouB nations, is too complicated a subject\nto discuBS here. Many divergent views of\nthe question are entertained, and political\neconomists of high repute have differed\nwidely.\nMerely to understand the discussion requires familiarity with the principles of\nmoney and a vast maan of statistics. There\nis probably no study of so wide interest and\nimportance suggested by the eventa of the\npreaent day.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD***\" ' ' .\nHORRIBLE BARBARITY.\nHome or Ihe Bevelling Orgies Practised by\nIndians lo British Columbln,\nA despatch from Victoria B, C, Bays :\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nThe attention of the Department of Indian\nAffairs has been called to the barbarous\npractices of Indians along the west coast of\nnorthern British Columbia, who it appeara,\nare atill indulging in cannibalistic feasts,\nsupposed to h-ive been long ago given up.\nH, .1. Simpson, trader, wlio has spent 2\".\nyears in the vicinity of Fort Rupert, has\njust arrived here and states that the\nIndians carry on their dance \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD with all\nthe old-time forocity, tho only difference\nbeing that now they are careful to have\ntheir wildest orgies only in the depth of\nwinter, when the inclemency of the season\nhas practically put a stop to trading and\nhunting, and has driven all the white men,\nincluding missionaries, to more comfortable\nquarters. So soon as they have the field to\nthemselves, preparations are started for the\nmost disgusting orgies. Simpson, who,\nhaving married a full-bloodod \"Klootoh*\nman,\" is what is known as a \"squaw-\niiittii,\" has been specially favored or trusted, by boing permitted to witness some of\nthose rites, aud ha gives some terrible descriptions of what Is known to the Indians\nas a \"maneator danco,\" which he witnessed\na fow months ago. In this dancu the\n\"mauiata,\" or chief character, horrifies the\nspectators hy appenring with a \" mummy \"\nor thc shrivelled remains of a back number\nnative, taken from an eminenco upon which\nit was exposed to dry after death, aud\ntearing the shrivelled Uesh from the bonus\nas he dances about a huge log tire, ull the\ntime uttering tho most frightful sounds in\ntho Indian vocabulary of lamentation.\nSimpaon also lately saw horrible tortures of\na inii.1 en,in connection with another dance,\nin whioh, to provo herself worthy to be tlio\nbride of a brave chieftain,Bhe allowed great\nbarbed hookB to bo driven through the\nflesh of her back, and danced almost naked,\nwhile the chief hold tho reins attached to\nthe hooks, and, by a seriea of wrenches,\neventually tore the flesh and released them.\nMissionaries havo taken great credit\nthroughout the civilized world for having\nconverted these savages, and the Government have been led to believe that the\ndances now carried on nro only imitations\nof former barbarities, but .Simpson, who is\na reliable man, asserts that they arc no\nmockery at all, but a most revolting and\ncruel mockery.\nCREAM GATHERING CREAMERIES.\nEXPLORATIONS IN EGYPT.\nAn Bbony Statue nud Itetnftlni otn Hup.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtuie-l Hint: I 'omul nt DllshftUr,\nProf. Morgan, who has been excavatiiig\nin Kgypt for some time past, 1ms made a\nfresh and important discovery. A fow\nweeks ago tlio profeaaor discovered tho remains of a supposed king of Egypt and now,\nitis announced, his explorations at the\nfoot ot the brick pyramid of Doshour have\nled to diicovery of tho fourth dynasty king,\nMortis Katouab. In addition tho exoava\ntor found an ebony attune, some gold plates,\netc. The explorations will be continued.\nIn order to attain a good reputation for\nour butter made in cream gathering cream-\nthe pationa who supply the cream\nshould take a lively* Interest in supplying it\nsweet, clean and of pure llavor. To do thia\ncleanliness must be the watchword. AU\npailB and other utensils sliould be thoroughly washed and then acalded, after which\nthey should be placed outside in a pure atmosphere to become well aired. Never use\na cloth for drying any of the tinware after\nicalding them.\nThe milk room should he kept cool, clean\nand with uo bad odors.\nStrain and set the milk immediately\nafter milking, in water at a temperature of not more than 45 degreea in the\nsummer and 3S to 40 degrees in the fall\nand winter for at least twelve hours in\nsummer and 24 in winter. Every farmer\nwho handles milk should ubo a thermometer, so that he may know that the\nmilk has been cooled to thu temperatures\nnamed above, as the loss of cream or butter-\nfat Ib very great wheu the milk has\nbeen cooled to but 50 degrees.\nTo have profitable returns from the\nhandling of milk for a creamery\nthe patrons should provide plenty of ice nud\nhavo it Btorcd in a convenient pluce near\nthe milk room. Tho water in the tank\nshould be changed frequently, aud care\nshould ba taken to prevent any milk getting\nwith it and allowing it to become tainted\nfrom this or any other cause. If care and\ngood judgment is exercised much unnecessary trouble and labor can he avoided. It is\nnot necessary to change the water moro than\nonoeevery secondday where good clean ice ia\nUBed. Where the skim milk is not drawn\noff from the can at the bottom a skimmer\nmade 41 inches in diameter at tbe top.with*\nout any wire around the edge and tapering\nto a point 7 inches deep, witli a handle 10\nto 12 inches long,, will he found very convenient for skimming tho cream from the\ntop of the can. If the skim milk in drawn\nfrom the bottom of the can, a strip of glass\nahould be soldered from the bottom upwards, so that the cream can be seen\nwhen it reaches the bottom. Tip\ntho can a little so as to allow all\nthe skim milk to run out without taking\nany of the cream. We would suggest having\na bottom with three inches slant to carry\noff all sediment that may be at the bottom\nalong with the first skim milk. But for\n?;eneral use wo would recommend skimming\nrom the (top, aB thore will be less sediment\nin the cream. Where the cream haB been\nforced up in 12 hours thoro will bo more\ninohea of cream than if the samo milk wm\nallowed to aet for 24 hours, but the yield of\nbutter will be about the same per hundred\npounda of milk. Where the temperature\nof the milk cannot be lowered to 45 degreea\nwe would recommend setting the milk for\n24 houra. The per oent. of butter-fat in\nthe cream depends on the amount of akim\nmilk in the cream. The depth of cream on\nthe top of the can depends on the per cent\nof fat in the milk and the temperature to\nwhich the milk has been cooled. There\nwill be more cream or milk containing 4\nrir cent, butter-fat than on milk containing\nper cent. There will be more on milk\ncooled to 42 degreea than on the same milk\ncooled to 50 degrees.\nAs an educator for dairy farmers we\nknow of nothing equal to tbe Babcock milk\ntester; which is simple and easy to operate,\nand would strongly recommend all dairy\nfarmers to have, in some way, their Individual cow's milk tested (also the skim milk),\nas we know there are a Urge'number of\nunprofitable cows fed and kept whichshould\nbe disposed of, Each cow should givo\nat least 6,000 Ih. milk, which should make\nabout 250 lb. butter per year. The akim\nmilk should be testea that the farmer may\nknow whether he is getting all the cream\nout of the milk. We havo frequently tested\nskim milk from farmers, showing from 1 to\nover H per cent, of butter-fat,whioh means\na loss of about 25 per cent, of all the butter-\nfat in the milk, or in other words a loss\nof from 20 to 2b cants per hundred\npounda of milk. No expensive creamer\nis necessary to get ail the cream out\nof the milk, so long M you can\nmaintain the proper temperature, as it\nis the temperature of the water about the\nmilk which does the work und not the\ncreamer into which the cans or pails of milk\nare placed. Any ordinary box or barrel\nwhich is clean and will hold water, will do\ntlie work aB efficiently aa the most expensive creamer made.\nWhere shallow pan cream is taken to a\ncreamery the milk should be set in a clean\ncool room at a temperature of 00 degrees\nand lower, for 24 hours, but do longer, as\nall the cream will be up in that time and of\na better quality than if allowed to remain\nlonger, aa the cream being exposed to the\nair in warm weather becomes thick and\ntough and will not run through the strainer\nat the creamery, whioh means a loss to the\nother patrons who supply good cream. Such\ncream should be rejected, as it is better to\nloose one patron than ruin the reputation\nof the creamery, as it is difficult to make\ngood flavored butter from shallow pan cro mi\nbecause there are very few milk rooms\nthroughout the country which are\ntit to iet. milk in. Good flavor\nis the most important point about butter.\nBuyers look for flavorfirst If tho flavor is\nhad, down goes the price. We would recommend for creameries that all milk should\nlie submerged in the water to protect it\nfrom auy foul odors that may be about tho\ndairy.\n(Some of our beat creameries refuse to\ntake shallow pan cream at all. This, no\ndoubt is tbe safest plan.)\nWhere cold water or ice cannot be got\nwo would recommend for a herd of from 15\nto 20 cows a cream separator. These sep.\naratorB usually leave about one- tenth of ooa\nper cent, of butter-fat iu the akim milk,\nwhile milk from the deep setting whan cooled\nto only 50 degrees usually has about one per\ncent. Hut If the same milk had been cooled\nto 42 degrees or 45 degrees the loss of fat\nwould ba but from oue to three-tenths of\none per cent.\nOARE OPCRBAM,\nAfter the milk has been carefully skimmed the cream should bo submerged in\nwater in a can specially made for the purpose, keeping lh\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD temperature somewhat\nbelow 50 degrees, stirring well each time\nfresh cream is added. If tho cream is eared\nfor in this way there will bo no complaints\nabout sour ereim and tlio patron will have\ndone his duly Misapplying the butter-muker\nwith tho raw material in prima con dition\nto mako guilt edgo butter. Cream ahould\nnot be sot in open crocks or pails in cellars,\npantries or any othor placo where tho air\nia not perfectly pure, nor where tho temperature ia above (W dogrco?, ns it is aure\nto sour and may Im in churning condition\nbefore takon to the creamery. Wheu the\ncream vessel is emptied, it should bo well\nwashed and scalded, and placed where it\nwill get plenty of fresh air. All cream\nvessels alould have un air-tight cover und\nwo would recommend having the seams in\null milk vessels well filled with solder,\nwlncti it not tilled, nn accumulation of dirt\nhaving a yellow color which will taint the\nmilk will be seen.\t\nLooking1 Into Vesuvius.\nAt last, after such a weary and horrid,\nyot charmed ascent, one must walk ihe\nawful plateau, 3,000 feot above tbo Hashing\ngretin surface of lhat lovoly sea below,\nwhich,however, may any moment bo hidden\nfrom view by clouds girdling the mountain\nlower down its sides. Standing now beside\ntho tremendous central pit, one's oars must\nhear tho O6MeIeS0 thiitulerings that growl\nand snarl in tbe cavities below.\n(ine mustexpeMonco that heart-stabbing\nstart at the sudden discharges, like a thou-\nBand I'JO* ton guns let ofl\" ul once, and re*.\nourrlng, liko mlonte guhl, at regular intervals in a ceaseless repetition. Ono must\nsue, at overy discharge, 1,000 oart-loude\nof broken rocks tly thousand* ot feet up iu\nto thc murky air, spread themselves like\nthe remnant!* of a jyolopcan rocket, and\nfall back into the abyaa, only at the next\ndischarge to be shot up again and again\nwithout eud.\nNUGQETS_0F NEWS.\nSeventy million people iu Europe wear\nwooden shoea.\nA uniform Htandard of time has been\ndecreed for Oermany.\nA religious uot in Russia holds that\nwearing hair is ainful.\nA perfectly proportionate man weighs \"J**\nlbs. for every foot of his height.\nChinese gardeners are reputed to be lho\nmoat expert growers in the world.\nStatistics show that the Chinese live\nlonger than the people of any other nation.\nIn England the average weight cf men is\n1551b. ; that of women ii 1221b.\nThe occupants of a balloon a mile high\ncommand a radius of ninety-six milea.\nThe Chinese have an Academy of Manners that preacribea etiquette for the whole\nempire.\nIn the daya of Columbus only soven\nmetals were known to exist. Now there\nare fifty-one in uae,\nThe Mohawk Indians will not allow so\nmuoh as a blade of gruss to grow upon tho\ngraves of their companions.\nThe gems in the diadem or tlio Russian\nEmpress are worth iSO.OOO, They comprise\n2,530 diamonds acd a massive ruby.\nMourning paper is going out of fashion.\nInstead a little triangle is printed iu the\ncorner of the envelope and the uotepaper.\nMore women than men go blind iu Sweden, Norway and Iceland -. moro men than\nwomen in thc reat of Europe and the United\nStates.\nIt is so hot iu the.neighborhood of the\nDead Sea that, according to estimates, tha\naea loaea a million tona of water a day by\nevaporation.\nHungary leads the world In the production of glass jewels, auch as aro used witb\nstained glass. The work is done almost\nentirely by peasants.\nThe King of Dahomey waa educated in\nFrance, and speaks French fluently. He\nbecame a barbarian because he could not\nmarry a Parlsienne, with whom he fell in\nlove.\n1 ho accordion is said to have been invented in Germany ; but there ia no doubt that\nprevious to the introduction of this instrument in Europeit was known tothe Chinese,\nIt ia possible, by a recent invention, ta\ntake five different photographic views of a\nperson at ono sitting. The apparently\ndifferent attitudes are produced by the aid\nof mirrors.\nA new thing in the gentlemen's furnishing\ngooda line iB coming to the front. It is a\nshirt that need not be drawnover thc head.\nIt is put on like a coat, and buttons at the\nbreasD.\nAn eighty \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD three - year \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD old husband\nMilwaukee is suing for a\nfor a divorce. He compl-ips that his wife\nhides hla spectacles, puts cinders in Ida\nshoes,does not give him enough bed-cloth- .\ning and otherwise illtreats him.\nThere were in England and Wales last\nyear 218,251 marriages, 014,180 births, and\n560,028 deaths. The estimated population\nof the two countries to the middle of tha\nyear was 20.731,100.\nThe idea that chess was invented by tho\nancient Indians or'by the Chinese is shaken '\nby the discovery at Sakkara, in Egypt, of\nwall painting, showing two chess players\nbelonging to the government of King Teta,\nof the sixth dynasty. Professor llrugsch\nputs Teta at 3.100 ii. a, or 5,200 years ago.\nThe Shah ot Persia is greatly addicted\nto snuff-taking. Liko .Napoleon he likes his\nsnuff strong, and like Napoleon alno he has I\na fondness for placing it under the noses of\nother people.\nIt ia the custom for a Japanese bride,\nwhen she is about to be married, to shriek\nas if she were Buffering from the toothache,\nand otherwise pretend that ahe goea to tho\nsacrifice unwillingly.\nA bottomless hole has baen discovered\nin Yellowstone Park, Now York. It is supposed to be a dry geyser. A weighted line\nwaB Ut down into it threo thousand feet\nwithout touching the bottom.\nThe \"Mountains ofthe Moon,\" in Africa,\nwhich were discovered by Stanley, are alleged to be inhabited by tho demon Mgur-\nma, an evil spirit. All the African savages\nare afraid of ills power, and an attempt to\nexpose him lately ended in panic and disaster.\nA pneumatic tube is in use between the\nParis and Merlin Post Ufficea, and thirty-five\nminutes after a letter is posted in one city\nit is delivored in the other.\nImperial writers are quoted with saying\nthat the gold contained in tho medals, vessels, chains, and other objects preserved in\nthe Vatican would* make more gold coins\nthan the whole ot the present European\ncirculation.\nTheclosiugofthelato Dominion Parliament\nwithout passing the usual address to the\nGovernor-General, in view of his early retirement from that position, is taken as a\nstriking proof of Lord Stanley's unpopularity iu the Dominion.\nAccording to an advertisement contained\nin the Danish Government \"Gazette\" published in Copenhagen, two big volcanoes\nare for sale. They arc situated in Iceland,\nand are the principal attractions of the\nisland. The owner aass for them the sum\nof CM apiece.\nHere is an instance ofa lire that has been\nburning for centuries. According to the testimony of tho Duchess of Cleveland, the great\nhearth-fire in tho hall of Raby Caatlo liaa\nnover been suffered to expire. This caatlo\nia, perhaps, the noblest and most porfect\nBpeclmeii of feudal architecture in England\nThose who believe that 13 ia an unlucky\nnumber ahould fight ahy of the Amorican\n25 oonb piece. It has 13 star-*, 13 letters in\nthe scroll hold in the eagle's beak, V.l marginal feathers on eaoh wing, Ki tail feathers, 13 parallel lines in the shield, 13 horizontal ban, and 13 arrow*heads.\nKvery spring the Kmperor of China goes\nto \" tho omperors's field,\" ploughs a portion\nof it, sows it with several kinds of scedss\nand superintends the ceremony, while the\npi in- cs and nine courtiers perform tho sami-\naet, in honour uf the g\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDd of agriculture\nThu empress, at lho samo time, gives he\nladies a lesson in silk culture.\nAdvcnluresoino gold miuers of Washing\nton are in a great statu over a discovery\nwhich, it is belicvod, they will bo unable\nto Utilise, It ia the custom to raft logs\nthrough Snoquaimie Kails. During tho\nshooting of some logs, recently, it was\nfound that ouo log which shot the falls had\nimbedded in its end a piece of i-nart/. rock\n.cry rich in gold. It ia now believed that\nthe rocks under the cataract ure rich in the\nprecious metal, but the point is how to get\nat thein.\nThe opinion of an eminent London physician is not very reassuring to men who\nare plunginL! into thc whirl of business ol\ntho day. Ho Bays that the intirmities of\nold age arc gradually taking possession of\ntlio system somo years earlier than they\nwere wont to do in former generations.\nThere has been a decrease in tho doath-ralo\niu Croat Britain since 18(8 at all ages\nunder 55, whilo between lho years of 01\nand 75 there has been an increase. This ia\nbelieved to bo due in tho one case to tin-\nbetter caro taken of children, and iu\ntho other to tho wear and tear of modern\nlife,\nTha most gruesome relic in tlio United\nStates, if not in tho whole wido world, is In\nthe possession of \"Old Lo Pier,\" a Spanish\nIndian living on the Wonachoe River at the\nCoint of its junction wilh the Upper Colum-\nio. Old Le Pier's odd souvenir ia nothing\nmorn ur lea-* than a Ihsro, in- lariat, compos**\ned wholly of human hair, It is over 60 feet\nin length, aad as *. .iriogatud iu color an was\nthe uoat of \"Joseph of old.\" Tho priests\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD none but the mission clergy arc ever\nallowed lo even got sight of it\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDsay that\nnot less than fifty women nnd girls muat\nhavo been scalped to furnish material\nfur this horrid ropo, tho black, brown,\nyellow, red, and gray hair being curiously\nand Intricately woven into a rope that is\nstrong \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDjmiuji\"' \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD<-. hold nn ox, horso, or buffalo.\nwn\nfrom th-* top story to render, titntolicfted\nand unreoompeiieed, each aasistnncu as\nshe may. Other elderly female--, hearing\nof the new birth, are brought thither hy\nsympathy with the event, and are eager to\nproffer their aaaietanoe. 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PRIOR.\nCOURTENAY HUM\nPopular Store\nOOVBTE2TJl.Tr, B.O.\nnike leading hotel in Comox diatrici.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNew and handsomely furnished,\nexcellent hunting; and fishing- close\nto town. Tourists can depand on\nfirst-class accommodation. Reasonable rates. Bar tupnlied with ths\nchoicest liquors and cigars\nR. Graham, Propr.\nO. H. Beevor-Potts\nSolicitor, Notary Public. Conveyancing\nin all its branches. Office Comcr-\ncial St, Nanaimo,\nYar-wood & Young,\nBarristers, So'icitort, &c. Office Cor.\nBaston and Commercial St., Nanaimo, B. C.\nNotice.\nAll moneys due the late firm of Anley &\nSmith MUST BE paid to F. A. Anley or\nTom Ucckensll.- F. A. Anley\nHILBERT&SON\nFuneral Directors and Emrai.mers\n(Iraduatee of the Oriental. Eureka,\nand United 8Ut*e College* of Km*\nbelrali-g \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD -v\n* Nanaimo, U. C.\nThe Nanaimo Pharmacy\nNanaimo B. O.\nW. E. Mc Carmey Chemist,\nManager.\nPunt Drafts Cheiniuals and Ptatant\nMfrdiciiif-s.\nPhyaioani Preeelption* and al) order* HIM\nwith ear* and dlepatoh. P. O. box IS\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDeft\nMcKenzie\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nMcDonald\nCourtenay, B. C.\nGeneral Blacksmithing\nand Horse Shoeing.\nLoggers' Work a Specialty.\nUNION Bakery\nUNION, B.C.\nBest of Bread, Cakes and\nPies always on hand.\nThe Bread Cart will be at\nCourtenay and Comox Tuesday- and Fridays.\nAdderton & Rowbotham, Prop\nNanaimo Saw Mill\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD and^\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nSash and Door Factory\nA Haslam, Prop. Mill St., PO Boa J5, Tel. II\nNanaimo B. C.\nA complete stock nf Rough and Dressed\nLumber always on hand; also Shingles,\nLaths, Pickets, Doors, Windows and\nBlinds, Moulding, Scroll sawing, Turning\nand all kinds of wood finishing furnished\nCeHar, White Pine, Redwoed.\nAll orders accompanied withCASH prompt\nly and carefully attended to.\nSteamer Bstell\nHarbor and outside towing done at reason\nable rates.\nCumberland Meat Market\nAll Kinds of\nFres h eat, H ams and Bacon\nand\nAll Kinds of Vegetables and\nFarmers Produce,\nOrders from surrounding coun\ntry promptly Ailed.\nA. C. Fulton, Prop.\nThe ersat Hody.a Is ths Boat woader-ol\ndlMoTeryo'llMiae. Iodon\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDlby-ol-aU*emea\nifluropsandAaarloa. Madia*.pnrtlyTeis.\n-- table. Stops ^__.\n-^^^ Prs*r*tiir\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'n\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDB \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\neftiudlsobarse\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD sk \Jg hUOdiji.oiiKS )t s ;\n,Constipation,\nUlninMS,\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWl-\nIliiKBenMHcmfl;\n|\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDrengtl>f,ns,tii-\nTignriiea and\nbifori tonnftitj entire tyitem. irria\nHudrin cons Debility, Msmnmea, ImMone,\nind dertlopM and mums weak organs. Flint.\nla the tack, loua by day o. nlfbtan Mopped\nquickly. Orer 3,000 prtfite endocNininu.\nPremitarenffa means ImpoUmtry la tbe flrot\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtue. ItoanbeitoppedlaMdirSbytlieoMot\nliudjau.\nTh\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD nr* dlseonry wsamads by tbe Bpedil-\nlsl.ertl.lold fim,\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Hooi.n Mldlo.1 Ia.ll-\nlata, lllitheitronio* TltaUHr made. III.\ntou uotsla U.nv. , .\nill m-ie will taitntle yon free rf,lUckem.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDsad Ibe elmulars and lenlmanlala, address\nOur stock ol Spring and Summer Goods is now Complete.\nWe have this season surpassed all previous efforts The good\nare simply \"elegant\".\nThe prices you will find full 20% less than past y*>ar on\naverage.\nTKs millinery this spring is the prettiest that has been shown\nfor several years. An immense variety of Dress Goods and\nTrimmings, also those nice Challies so much in demand. New\nCapes, Jackets, and Mantles about half last season'sprices.\n49 Commercial St. Sloan & Scott Nanaimo, B. C.\nJob Printing.\nIe are now Prepared to take Orders\n\"FOR\nAll kinds of Jon Pkintinc in all its Various Branches.\nPosters, Dodgers, Cards, Bill-Heads, Letter-\nHeads, otices, Circulars, Pamphlets,\nociety \-Laws, Badges and\nBall Programmes, etc.\nOrders by mail promptly attended to. Call and get prices.\nLook at This\naynes' Sound Harbour-!\nbest north ol Nanaimo.\nCyOpposite Garvius Ranch\nthe largest vessels can float.\nThe Marriage of Iron and Coal will here result in\nBXTB1TSIVB I&OUT WOBZ3\nThe great Kings highway between Nanaimo and Courtenay\nwill pass throughihere and also the extension of the Esquimalt\nand Nanaimo Railway.\nLots will NOW be sold on Easy Terms ^* Title perfect\nQ. F. Drabble, sole agent,\nComox B C.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDj. ^b:r-a:m:s .\nUnion Clothing Store\nUnion, B. C.\nHave Just received a fine Assortment of English Worsteds for\nuitings. Also Keep Ready Made Clothing, Hats, Shoes and\nGENTS FURNISHINGS.\nt&, The Tailoring Department is in charge of D. McLeod,\nwhich is a guarantee of perfectly fitting garments and the best\nof workmanship,\n1s&OQ,TJTTjTjA.T "Newspapers"@en . "Courtenay (B.C.)"@en . "Courtenay"@en . "Weekly_News_1894-05-30"@en . "10.14288/1.0067834"@en . "English"@en . 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