"4d6d3d31-0aaf-4521-89b3-85cc7e77d320"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "[The Nanaimo Mail]"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2015-12-01"@en . "1896-12-22"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nanamail/items/1.0082562/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " f\emA*e^f*kV%*\u00E2\u0080\u009E**i****^ et*eP*e*eJ*,t*^*ASt^.*^*imS**\nI \"PateatJExceUent\"\nIf you see that on your sack of\nPastry Flour\nYou can be aure that ynu have the best,\nfor there can be no better.\nR. T. HEODLET CO., 6R0CERS.\natjmtmr\n,m*)**eim****mmki0i}e$k+kim\nDECK A JULIE\"\n'I'shzpur.*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 . ;,.'\n(Vm.es the heat Tea oiTeroS to dlacrimi-\nDating buycra in British Columbia.\nGarden Manager, f\nFojuitek Hi.ddi.i:. I Sola Agents B.C.\nVOL. II-NO. 48.\nNANAIMO. BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1896.\nWHOLE NQ. 107.\nOUR $5,000 STOCK OF BOOTS AND SHOES\nJs Going Rapidly_\nNothing astonishing in that, however. It\nis the extremely low prices we ure usking\nthat surprises\t\nWe are going out of the Shoe Business and\nmust get rid of the Stock\t\nLook ns np early if you want to Secure,\nBARGAINS.\n\u00C2\u00ABr\nOur Grocery Stock is up to date in every particular. We are showing the finest range of\nChristmas Fruits ever offered in this City.\nWe have ....\n*Te\\n7 Almonds\nNew Dates\n(i\nFilberts\n\" Prunes\n<(\nWalnuts\n\" Peurs\nu\nBrazil Nuts\n\" Peaches\nNew Figs in boxes of lib., 101b., 301b.\u00E2\u0080\u0094in bulk, 8c. lb.\n\" Currants, thoroughly cleaned, very choice.\n\" Sultana, \" \" \" \"\n\" Layer Raisins in boxes of 51b, 101b, 201b.\n\" Valencia Raisins only 10 cents per lb.\n\" Muscatelle Raisins, the best we ever handled.\n\" \" \" seeded, ready for use in 1 \"lb.\npackets, 6 for .$1. These are very choice.\nPeels, Keller's, the best made.\nOntario Apples, B.C. Apples,\nJapanese and California Oranges\nKippered Herring, Bloaters, Labrador Herring, etc.\nAnd a whole range of nice things for Christmas.\npie's Store,\nVictoria\nCrescent.\nChristmas Bargains-\nWe Arc Closing out Mi\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Balance of Onr_\nJackets and Mantles,\nTrimmed and Untrimmed Hats.\nFeathers and Trimmings.\nChildren's Millinery.\nFur Boas, Capes and Collars\nDress Goods\nMantle Cloths\nWrapper Flannels\nBoys' Suits and Reefer Jackets\nAt Immense Reductions for Cash ....\nfall Early nnd Secure Some of\nThese Bargains\n* CRESCENT STORE.\n1 l^**t^M*W-V%\nNanainio, B. C.\nThoy -it\nulitKilutely\n..... OKELL & MORRIS' PRESERVES\nme, ARE ALL RIGHT.\nTHE PUREST AND BEST.\nMade Irnm Select Kruit nn,I intii'Sueur. The frr.'ai.ut cure In exerolMd hiihel- nreiiara-\nHon muI exquialto iilcanliiicm observed. Wc only iiiulte one quality\u00E2\u0080\u0094the health* \"Mile aa supplied to the unler ul IIIh Kxcclluucy Lord Aberdeen.\nWIT BUY CHEAP tm ? BUY OKELL & MORRIS'. Thsy are the Purest and Best\n**+e**sr^^^et+^Ar\nIn a Blaze of Glory ^\nNo matter what other\ngifts take yonr fancy\nyou can do nothing\nwiser than come and\nlook ut what we have\nto show iu Slippers for\nChristmas uud New\nYeur's presents.\n... All Right Prices . ..\nORB & RENDELL'S\nWhat are You Going to Give Me for...\nCHRISTMAS ?\nThis is what many people are saying.\nIt is a very hard question* to answer; the\nonly thing to sav is: \"I don't know vet; I\nam going to the CASH BOOT \"AND\nSHOE STORE to see what they have and\nI will let you know.\"\nMen's, Ladies', Misses' Children's and Infants'\n, Footwear,\n/-\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Tn all Styles . \\nLadie^ \\Tafcerproof Over^atiers.\nMer/s Faixy Slippers.\nGasI) B\u00C2\u00B0ot aijd S*K>e Store\n17 aifd 19 Gonfn-tercial St^et\nE. E. G. Johnson, Mgr.\nWE HAVE COI\nBut it depends on your Patronage\nwhether we stay or not ....\nWe are prepared to sell goods at\n.Rio-ht Prices.\nSo give us a call when buying\nChristmas Toys and Crockery-ware.\n46 Victoria Crescent.\n\"Ring Out the Old\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'liiiiir in the New\"\nAuction Sale.\n-AT HE-\nCITY AUCTION ROOMS.\n-ON-\nXmas Eve., December 24th.\nAt 7:30 p.m., Sharp.\nOF JAPANESE CHIN AWARE,\nBRIC-A-BRAC, ETC.,\nAlao_\nAbout 12 Seta uf Standard Works (Complete)\n.ill to be sold Without the Slightest Reserve\nRoom for You All\nDon't mina thl* Sale aa a fine phmirc la given\nvnu lo get your Xmas l'reaeuta at your own\nprice.\nJ. H. GOOD\nAUCTIONEKK\nP. O. Box IOS.\nA MKB1IY CIiaiSTMAS TO YOU AI.Ij.\nFAIR OF THE SEASONS\nUnder the Miiiiiijrt'iiu\" n of (lu* I t'tlW** of Bt,\n05\nA\no\nrl\no\nfA*\nVEGETABLES\nFor Wholesome\nVegetables of all\nkinds that are in\nseason, get them at\n..DUGGAFS..\nwho will call on you\nonce every week.\nListen for hia bell.\nGood Potatoes,\nat moderate prices.\nOnions, 11 lbs., 25c.\n100 lbs. for $1.65.\nRcaerve your order until tie\ncalla.\nStore\u00E2\u0080\u0094Day's Old\nButcher Shop,\nNicol Streot.\nVEGETABLES\nNE W A I) VERTISICMENTS.\nh Tti Went to Borrow\nrepayalili- iniuillily In ft years, al (7.50\n. -tepayatile monthly In s yeara, at $15.IM\nI repayable monthly In \" yeara, at $80.0(1\nOtber amount* In proportion, Lniiim mnile\nonly ou Klrat Mnrtgage un Improved Town or\nCity tProperly. iKtiuiT.ni.i: mvhhi,, I.iun ami\nBl'll-IUNil An.i'ICIaTION, 11 l\.mill,, St., Toronto\n(iliil. I. BCIIKTKY, An,-ni.\nBoom No ll. Johnston Illnck.\nFish and\nGame Market\nBASTION 8TREET\nSlIIPPIMU SUrTl.ll/.ll\nO, MAJB8H. Prop.\nFOR AN ARTISTIC COT\n-AND-\nBEST WORKMANSHIP\nCALL OS.\nCALDWELL,\nThe MERCHANT TAILOR.\nCOUIUBCIAIiSTHKKI - ,\nOppsjUc Flatswy-i Drug Store.\n.1: ni riiiin 1\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0it\nSt. Alban's Mall,\n-ON-\nTnesday and Wednesday Next\nDec, 32nd and MM,\nOpening euch day tit 2 p. umm\nSpring, Hummer, Autumn nnd A'tnier, re*\nrepresented hy stiills et which iirth leHof all ->\nof his heurth and home.\n\"Sow, tliere are at least three\nmonths in tlie year when a goddess\nof the hearth must of necessity be\noff duty; she cannot he expected to\nsit vvith her feet on a fender while\n,,,, ..,. . ,. , . . - .the mercury is ranging around in\n*lhat( bust ..ur Urn- uud mivii.u, t...),'^ uine[Wl Co.n.iioii sense should\nhave prompted Robert Arnold tc\nChristmas Greeting.\n\n bumble home and palace hall,\nThe rich and pour hold festival,\nAud chiiillii,,, i u'eui'S a fairest guise,\nAud tender shines uli mothers eyes,\n'The aged one forgets tlieir years,\nThe Bad is cheated of their tears,\n\"The mirthful beiwi is doubly gay,\nFor Chi isi the Lord was horn today\nThat loves dear readers nieaud you,\n\"Then let us hail him with delight,\nAnd help ilie pour this Xmas night.\nTurn to God now one ami all,\nThen we will lurve u feslival.\nLlewellyn.\nbe-\npospone his marriage till the nipping atillirnn air supplied the necessary conditions for the fulfillment\nof his dreams; hut common sense\nand Robert Arnold had parted company during the days of liis courtship, and the poor follow had to\npay the penalty of his rashness,\nUnder the elatnor of romance he\nthought only of the bliss uf the long\nwinter evenings by llie glowing lire;\nil never occurred to him how they\nwould spend the intervening summer, and his veranda, though a\nveritable bower of roses, seemed n\npoor substitute for the fender of his\ndreams. In Ihe same way, he had\nnever in fi.ny associated Miss\nFielder's dainty feel wilh anything\nbut the gray slippers that had\nmarked her as his chofen one. li\nhau never seemed to dawn upon\nhim that a woman cannot tread all\nthe walks of life in slippers. He\nloved : experienced a kind of shook when,\non unpacking her things, he drew\nout stout walking-boots, canvas\ntennis-shoes, and a pair of that suspicious species of shoes known as\nball-bearing, and worn only by\ndevotees of the wheel. Was it pos-\ns.ble that one so sweet and lovable\nand altogether womanly could have\nathletic tendencies? lie abhorred\nathletic women! He never guessed\nthat her fresh complexion, berw-sll-\npoised body and graceful carriage\nthat he so admired could he connected ill the remotest way with her\nathletic tendencies.. He himself\nhad been a famous athlete in his\ncollege days, but when he had set\ni his face toward the goal of success\nAnd the same old sack laid across his ;he had put bis college sporls be-\nback\u00E2\u0080\u0094 hind him its \"childish tilings,\" He\nThe wonderful rick, overflowing pack- liul thought that while he had\nAnd the (winkling eyes, and lhe sweet , , r. , . ,, ,\nroumi face I *jet,n dreaming only of the cheer\nAnd tbe air of kindly love and grace. and comfort of winter evenings,\n' Jeanie was looking nt his pale face\nind stooping shoulders and devising all sorts of schemes for heguil-\niing him out into the summer sun-\nThe Spirit oi Christmas.\n\"Ha didn't believe in Santa Oluus.\nWhen he asked him why, ho replied\n\"Because!\"\n-And thut is lhe only reason why\nHe deemed the dear old Saint a lie.\nBut nevertheless on Christmas eye\nHe watched lor the thing he didn't\nlieve\nHe lay awake nearly half the night,\nAnd bis eyes grew big and round-and\nbright.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2As u rotund form caine through the\ndoor.\nAnd tiptoed softly amiss the floor \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nA man lcd-ebeeked, with long white\nhair,\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0An I of a twinkling eyes a remarkable\npair.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0And laid ou bis back was a well filled\nBuck\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nA wonderful, rich, overflowing pack-\nFilled with the things the lud\nbest,\nAnd he knew\nguest.\nAnd ah! how be wept, that Christinas\neve,\nThat lie wus the buy who didn't believe!\nAnd ah! how he cried, that Christmas\nduy,\nAt whut Santa left when lie went away !\n\"Twas only a note tu the poor little lad\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n2No toys, not u book, to make him glad\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'If yuu don't believe I'm real und true,\nHow can I ever believe in you?\"\nThus the note run. The little boy\nv-ept\nAs buck lo the nursery room he crept;\nBut, to his surprise, not far from the\ndoor,\nStood the same old laws of the night\nbefore:\nsack\nin a minute hisgenial\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'Now do you believe?'\nClaus,\n'I do indeed,\ncause-\nasked Santa\nsaid the child, \"be-\nNevei g|,jne anj bringing back his lost\nwe'll\nThe Saint, with a smile, quoth\nmind,\" ,\nAnd vanished, but left his paek behind. yOUtri.\n\"Since you have no wheel\nAnd so I ask at this Christmas time I have t mal fl t ;s coun h\nWho can fail to believe who hears the ., , \u00E2\u0080\u009E , . , . , . ,\ncl,jmBi j on the lawn, she said to him a few\nWho sees the joy writ on every face j days after the wedding. \"Frank\nIn the generous Spirit of Love and < said you used to he a capital ten-\n j nis-player.\nGrace?\nFour Feet on a Feeder.\nA Christmas Story.\nBY ELIZBETH OVEKSTKEET CUPPY.\nand you must nave\nto counteract the effect\neight hours over your\nI somethin\nof sittin-j\ndesk.\"\n\"What! Me in tennis togs! Never!\"\nreturned Robert, with perhaps more\ndecision than the occasion required.\n\"My friends would think I'd gone\nI daft. You may have any amuse-\n _ | ment you like, but being with you,\n. \u00E2\u0080\u009E . , T, Joanie, is all the recreation I care\n(Concluded.) . for.''\n\"This fire is so very hot; let me i The next day Jeanie carried her\nget you a screen,\" and Miss Render racket to the attic, stored away her\npaused long enough to provide him j wheel in the basement, concealed\nwith a little transparent affair that her obnoxious \"spurting\" shoes in\nenabled him to hide his blushes ! the closet, and the subject was not\nand at the same time gaze to his ! referred to again. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nheart's content on her own fair face, j During the halcyon days of court-\nus she continued her story. ship their conversation had been\nEmboldened hy the protection of! mostly in the clouds; and because\nthe screen, he placed both feet on J up in the clouds they bad agreed in\nthc hearthstone, leaned back in his : 'heir ideas of music, poetry, religion\n,-chair, and gave himself up to the'and art, they naturally supposed\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Biijoyinent of a sensation far more they would agree on all things when\ndelightful than his most roseate they came down to earth.\ndreams had painted. Who can tell whether it was liv-\nThus he sat, \"fancy unto fancy i '\"g too long in the clouds, or coin-\nlinking,\" vaguely conscious of Miss ', ing down too suddenly to earth,\nFielder's saying \"And so the poor! that made the \"little rift in the J\nhero wanders through sixty chapt- lute?\" Neither spoke of it, yet\nits without knowing whether the | each was conscious of feeling how J\ngirl he loves is the girl he ought to: complete their happiness mit-ht be\nmarrv, and we leave biin there still! were it not there. \"It will pass\nundecided and without any way of away as soon as summer is over\nfinding out his own mind. The\nfairy tale is far more satisfactory to\nmy mind. Take the prince in\n'Cinderella,' for instance; he hasn't\nRobert hopefully assured himself'\nBut when summer was over and\nthey sat, as he had so often dreamed of sitting, before the glowing fire\nthe shadow of a doubt about the j \u00C2\u00B0n frosty nights, even then a bar-\nwoman of his choice, for there is i ricr seemed at times to rise between\nonly one woman in the world that Robert's arm-chair and Jeanie's\ncan wear that slipper. Don't vou!**-*!-\" nicker.\n\"I'm casting a shadow over her\nhave lived too much alone to be a\ntit companion for her,\" was Robert's bitter thought night after\nnight; while perhaps at thc s.une\nInstant Jeanie would bu thinking,\n\"He thinks nie too frivolous and\ngay. If I could only do something!\nto show him that I can enter into\nhis life and his work!\"\nIt may bo tint if these thoughts\nhad been spoken aloud the cloud\nlipper.\nthink, Mr. Arnold, that a slipper\nwould be uf great advantage in bright young life. I'm too old and\nguiding the men of to-day to tlieir\nchoice?\"\nRobert started, blushed, and\nagain drew his feet back under his\nchair.\n\"Well\u00E2\u0080\u0094er\u00E2\u0080\u0094Miss Fielder, you\nknow\u00E2\u0080\u0094\" and there is really no\ntelling what the poor fellow might\nhave said had not Frank Fielder\nontered the room just in time to\nsave him from himself.\nIt would never do to pour into! would have instantly vanished; but\nthe ears of the curious public the neither uttered a word to betray\nstory of the weeks that followed the the feeling. It was only in secret\nhappiest Christinas a bachelor ever that they indulged their grief,\nexperienced. For Robert Arnold,' \"The only manly thing for me to\nhaving once succumbed to his fate,: <-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 >s to go away,\" groaned Robert,\nrushed on to the inevitable with a as he bowed his head over his desk\nmad impetuosity that would even \u00C2\u00B0\"e day. \"I'd give my life to ma ;e\nyet make him the laughing-stock of ber nappy, when, Cod forgive me,\nall liis married friends, should they j I'm only making her miserable.\"\nhappen to hear of it. There were traces of tear\" in\n\"Don McGregor in his worst days! Jeanie,* eyes that night. \"I had a\nnever bad it as bad as this,\" he letter from father to-day, Rob,\" she\nchuckled; for with the strange in- said, as they sat in the firelight,\nconsistency of bachelorhood he 'Tie writes that mother is ill. He\nkTitiially gloried in the fact that he doesn't sny for me to come, but I\no-uild outdo in love-making a man j think I'd better go. Mother may\nten years his junior. j need me. And\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\u00E2\u0080\u0094I've heen i\nHowever, to make a long story [ thinking lately\u00E2\u0080\u0094ihat we aren't as\nshort, and,indeed,though it seemed happy as\u00E2\u0080\u0094as we had hoped\u00E2\u0080\u0094lo be!\nan eternity to Robert Arnold, the \\u00E2\u0080\u0094and I thought perhaps it Would\nperiod was exceedingly short for ! be better if I should go away for a|\nftach a proceeding, by the time tne little while-^iill we could decide\nJune roses were in bloom, he had ; what to do. Martha will come in\ntaki-n possession of the coziest little every day to look after the house\ncottage ho could find, and enshrined and your meals. I'll go in the\nmorning, Kob, and 1 don't know\nwhen I'll come back.\"\nRobert sat as if turned to stone.\n\"Do just as you think best, Jeanie,\"\nwus all that he could say, but the\nwords seemed to choke him.\nDuring the days that followed\nRobert Arnold drank the cup ol\nremorse to its lees. Looking baek\nover the brief period of tlieir married life, he could see hoW easily it\nmight all -have been averted.\n\"But it's too late now,\" he told\nhimself. \"I've turned her against\nme by my own brutal selfishness,\nand the only thing for me to do is\nto wind it]) my affairs and go abroad.\nMaybe she'll be happy when I'm\nout of the country.\nThe bouse, with its reminders of\nJeanie at every turn, prov*ed maddening. He closed it up, dismissed\nMartha, and took a room at the\nliotei.\n\" Two weeks, and not a word from\nher yet.\" Robert took up the\ncalendar to see if in truth the dark\nperiod hu had passed through was\nbut two weeks. As he did so he\nnoticed that it wus the twenty-\nfourth of December, To-morrow\nwould h/s Christmas! Only one\nlittle year, and how many things\nhad happened! Ah, well! be was\ndone with'th\u00C2\u00ABn all now\u00E2\u0080\u0094the bitter\nand the sweet. He would lock\n-them up in the past and think of\nthem no piore.S And yet\u00E2\u0080\u0094and yet\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094before he closed the door upon\nthem forever, might he not indulge\nHi one more dream? Inspired by\na sudden thought, he hastily left\nthe olliee and made his way through\na blinding snowstorm out to the\nforsaken cottage. Within a few\nminutes after he entered he had a\nroaring fire in the grate. He\nbrought out his slippers and placed\nthem before the fender. Then he\nstepped into a closet, and came out\nholding a wooden box in his arms.\nHe lifted the lid and tenderly, al\nmost reverently, took out a well-\nworn pair of gray slippers. Jeanie\nhad often wondered why he had\nbegged them from her so eagerly\nwhen she cast them aside, for not\neven to ber had he revealed the\nstory that made them priceless in\nhis sight. He stroked them softly\nfur a moment, then placed llieui\nopposite his own, and drew up his\nbig arm-chair and Jennie's little\nrocker. All things were now ready\nfor bis last sweet dream. He took\noff bis bat, and was removing his\novercoat, when he suddenly remembered that he had sent Jeanie\nno Christmas gift. \"No matter if\nI never see her again,\" be murmured, \"I can send ber something\nto tell her that I'm thinking of her\n--\u00E2\u0080\u00A2thinking of her every minute,\ncould she bul know it.\"\nHe found a tiny heart of pearls\nwith one little diamond gleaming\nin the centre; and when the jeweler\nhad assured him that it would be\nsent out on the evening express, he\nstepped out into the storm with a\nlighter heart than he had known\nfur many a day.\nOn reaching his door again, he\nwas surprised to find it unlocked.\nMad he, in his excitement, forgotten to lock it? He hastily threw\nit open, and peered within. Somebody was standing on the hearthstone in the red glow of the dying\nfire. Jeanie\u00E2\u0080\u0094no, Jeanie's ghost,\nfor never was Jeanie so white and\nthin. He could not speak; hecould\nonly hold oul the arms that had\nached for her every hour; and she\nnestled into them, sobbing, \"I've\ncome back, Rub. I couldn't stay\naway any longer. I wanted to\ncome ten days ago, hut I was afraid\nof making you unhappy again.\nRut we were so happy last Christmas, don't you remember, Rob?\nAnd I thought maybe we could\nlive it all over again. I trembled\nall over when I reached the door;\nbut when I found my slippers on\ntlie fender, just as if you were expecting me, you know, I wasn't\nafraid any more. And I've been\nthinking all these long, long days\nthat I haven't tried as hard as I\nshould to make you happy; but I'm\nsure I can, Rob, if you'll only let\nme try.\"\nAnd Robert\u00E2\u0080\u0094what did Robert\nsay? Well, t:> tell the truth, what\nRobert said was murmured so close\nto Jennie's ear that no outsider\ncould possibly have heard it. You\nmay rest assured, however, that il\nwas nothing exceedingly logical or\nprofound, but it brought the color\nback to Jeanie's cheek aud the\nsparkle to her eye.\n\"It all seems such a great ado\nabout nothing, now that it's all\nover,\" she murmured, a few minutes\nlater; \"but,\" she added, gravely,\n\"the nothings sometimes make the\ntragedies of life.\"\nNervous\nPeople often wonder why their nerves an*\nso weak; why they get tired so easily*\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 why they start at every slight bnt\nsudden sound; why they do not Bleep\nnaturally; why they have frequent\n-headaches, indigestion and nervous\nDyspepsia\nThe explanation ls simple. It is found in\nthat Impure blood which Is continually feeding the nerves upon refuse\ninstead of thc elements of strength and\nvigor. In such condition opiate and\nnerve compounds simply deaden and\ndo not cure. Hood's Sarsaparilla feeds\nthe nerv-CB pure, rich, red orbo*; gives\nnatural sleep, perfect digestion, is the\ntrue remedy for all nervous troubles.\nSarsaparilla\nIs tlm Onn True Blood I-uriflor. St; sl- for $5.\nPrepared only by C. I. hood & Co., Lowell. Mass.\n__ ., f^.,, euro l.lvi-r Ii'TS; easy to\nliOOCl S HHIS take, easy to operate, -ix.\nNews of the Dav.\nImperial Defence.\nLondon, Doc. 17.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Daily Graphic\npublishes un interview with Sir Charles\nTupper, tho late Canadian hi|jh commissioner, in which he says: \"Canada is\nquite prepared to take her part in the\nadmiralty scheme for Imperial defence,\noutlined by the Duke of Devonshire. In\nthe event of war between the United\nStules und Great Britain, Canada would\nlie invaded by land. That is why during\nthe recent difficulties, Canada voted a\nlarge sum to equip the militia, there is\nno fear thnt a hostile army could be\nlanded in Canada, by sea. The nuval\nMillions nf Halifax and Esquimau, are\nImpregnable, Canada's best defence is in\nthe maintenance of thc fast mail pus-\nBengeri vessels, copvertabla at a moment's\nnotice into armed cruisers, \"However,\nneither the present nor the next-ieneru-\ntion will see war batween the United\nStates and Great Britain. It is not to the\ninterest of the United rJlates.to fight uny\ngreat power,\"\nThe curfew law will take effect\nin Ottawa on January 1.\nA German banker named Hess-\nned was* murdered recently\nclose to the town gates at Tangiers,\nMorocco.\nTbe petition against Hon. Mr.\nPaterson's election was dismissed\nwith costs on Thursday. The\ncross petition was also dismissed.\nThe Canadian Pacific new line\nto Oitawa will be complete by the\nmiddle of next summer. Con-\ntruction has just ceased for the\nwinter.\nTwenty-seven more charges will\nbe laid against ex-City Treasurer\nHarvey, of Guelph, on his return\nfrom jail. County Attorney Peter-\nsun has been instructed by the\nattorney-general to proceeJ with\nthem.\nThe Daily Mail, London, publishes a dispatch from Constantinople saying that 90 arrests have\nbeen malle there of Turkish nobilities, including various government\nofficials and 45 Circassian ladies of\nthe Sultan's harem.\nLord Salisbury has asked Italy\nand Germany what their attitude\nwould hein case of armed intervention, on the part of England\nFrance and Russia, against Turkey. Italy has promised her adhesion, but Germany has not replied to the question.\nGaudaur has offered to accept\nthe challenge from Barry, the\nEnglish oarsman, provided he rows\nat Vancouver, B.C. On this condition he will allow him $500 expenses and will divide a purse,\nallowing 60 per cent to the winner\nand -10 per cent, to the loser,\nWhile Lord Aberdeen was in\nWinnipeg a sneak thief entered the\nprivate car and stole His Lordship's fur cap and other articles.\nHe was arrested to-day by the city\npolice and the cap found in his\npossession, The prisoner gave the\nname of P. Grant.\nHermann, the magician, died at\n11 o'clock on Thursday in bis private car on his way to Bradford,\nPa. Hermann had just completed\nan engagement at the Lyceum in\nRochester. Later he had been entertained at the Genesee Valley\nClub by a number of friends.\nHeart disease was the cause of\ndeath.\nHewitt Bostock, M.P. for Yale\nand Cariboo, B.C., and J. A. Mara,\nex-M. P. for the same constituency,\nare in Toronto. They unite in predicting that within two years British Columbia will be the banner\nprovince of the Dominion and the\ngreatest mineral-producing territory on earth.\nThe question of the mayoralty\nis still the subject of gossip iu Toronto. Mr. Fleming will run for\nre election, and Aid. McMurrich\nh is long been in the field but is not\nacceptsble to the conservative party. Barlow Cumberland and O. A.\nHolland are the last names suggested.\nJos. Dumar, who was arrested at\nChatham on Thursday confessed to\nthe detectives, that he shot the\nWidow Snooks in her lonely cottage by thc Lake shore. He said\nhe was desperate and wanted\nmoney and then he went to Ihe\ncottage, fired at the woman through\nthe window and as soon as rhe fell\ninsensible he forced the door open\nand stole $3, all he could find,\nthough there was more money in\nthe house. Mrs. Snooks slill lies\nin the general hospital in a very\nprecarious condition.\nConsiderable uncertainty prevails in Ottawa; regarding the\nmeeting of parliament. The sooner the better, the Ottawa people\nsay. The Free Press says: \"From\nwhat can be gathered in official\ncircles it is the intention of the\ngovernment to summon parliament\nto meet at the earlies possible moment, which will probably be the\nfirst week in March. It is also the\npurpose of the government to go\non next session with a new franchise bill, a civil service bill and\na new superannuation bill, in accordance with the promises made.\nSteps will also be taken to provide\nthe necessarry legislation for car*\nrying out the prohibition ple,bis--\ncite.\nThe Most Complete Stock\nGents'\nFurnishings\nIN THE GIT?, AT\nJas. McGregor's\nVictoria Crescent.\nswake up!\nTHE BEST \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nis the CHEAPEST\nThe Nanaimo Bakery Excels\nSMART & THORNE,\nThe Popular Bakers.\nc. c. Mckenzie,\nLand Agent and Conveyancer,\nAND .ACCOUNTANT.\nOWICE: FRONT STIIEET, NANAIHO.\nTown Lots anil Farina for Sule. Mono}- to Loan\non Mortgage at low rates.\nAgent Ior the I'niteil Fire Insurance Ompanj\nof Mane-neuter, KtiRltuiil.\nAFlfr)gtoi} JJotel\nMR. ,T. A. THOMPSON\nHaving completed the erection of the Arlington\nHotel at NANOOSE BAY, this handsome and\ncommodious hotel IB now prepared to receive\nand comfortably entertain travelers and others.\nTHE CUISINE\nIs presided over by Mrs. Thompson, and the\nTable il'IIntc constantly provided with all the\ndelicacies ol the season. Combined witli the\nelegant furntshod apartments, the visitor linds\nthc surroundings of the most pleasant descrtp-\nClothes Cleaned...\nRepaired and Altered\nfiy W. H. KENVON\n\u00C2\u00A3kV~ 112 BASTION STREET\nCtty- Next door to Westwnods' Blacksmith\nShop. P. O. Box 301\nOld Clothes made equal to new.\nTrespass Notice.\nWHEREAS, Curtain evil-disposed persons have IjL-i-ii killitin stork on Valdez\nIsland, Nillinium District, it is\nRESOLVED iu future thut all persons\nloiinii trespassing on the Wake Estate\nof 700 aires anil Indian Reserve of 1700\nadjoining will be prosecuted to the full\nextent of the taw.\n(Sinned) BALDWIN It. WAKE.\nSept. 15,1896. JOHN BASIL.\nNOTICE.\nAny person selling or otherwise disposing of KEGS, B TITLES, or TAPS belonging to\nthe Union Brewing Company\nwill be prosecuted.\nW. E. NORMS, Sec.\nNov. 13. 1800.\nAi\numinum..\nTHE\nNEW METAL\nHakes the\nMost Permanent\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2na Artistic\nSign Letter\n\n existence\nMRS. H. KNIGHT\nNANOOSE\nSole Agent for British Columbia\nLocal Agent, JAS. HIRST\nNANAIHO\nMrs. Coleman Drey ton, tlie eldest daughter of Mrs William Astor,\nwho imrne time ago obtained a divorce from her husband, on tlie\nground of desertion and non-support, was married at one o'clock on\nThursday, by special license, at St.\nColumbia church, London Em*., to\nGeorge Haig, of the firm of Haig &\nHaig, of that city. Rev. Donald\nMacleod, D,D., pastor of St Columbia, officiated. Mr. Haig, who was\nin an interview asked to explain\nwhy, on December 3, he had stated\nthat there was no truth in the\nstaiement that he was engaged to\nMrs Drayton, said: \"When a fortnight ngo, I statPfl that the wedding wns off, ii was perfectly true.\nBut it Was not a matter of settle\nment. I am not a rich man and\nam not a pour man. My wife and\nI understand each other perfectly.\nOur engagement came to a head\nonly last week, and then I wired\nmy wife's , lawyer in New York,\nand she wired to her mother who\ncabled her congratulations imrne*\ndeately. I understood that she\nfully approved of our unioni\nWake up!*\nWake up to the fact that if ydu\ninvest NOW in Shares ot\ngood reliable\nGold Mining Companies\nYou stand to make Big Profits,\nAndl-^^aw\nTHOMAS KITCHIN,\n[YOUR FELLOW -TOWNSMAN]\nWill sell to you on terms no other\nBroker in British Columbia\nCAN or WILL.\nYou have to Pay\nTHEM ALL THE CASH DOWN\nI divide it up into\n-Small monthly Instalments-\nSo that everyone can have an interest in Mining and secure part\nofthe Profits that most assuredly\nWILL be made.\nThe Stamp Mill at Aibern*\nIs now in operation. When re-\nsuits are known, up go the Shares\nof all Alberni Companies.\nWAKE UP!\nWAKE UP!\nWAKE UPi\nAnd make money while you have\na chance BEFORE the rise takes\nplace. _^ ^\nThos. Kit-chin,\nMINING BROKER\nme^frW^ The \"Trodm.\"\nin Whdillg aueounts of thc atrujigle in\n'Cuba one frequently incutu witii tlie\nword '-trocha.\" This word to very\nmany is a stumhltng-block; they cannot\nfind out what it uieuiia, and they get no\nhelp from even the buBt dictionaries.\nThe word means a eioBB-road, or a path\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2cross the main road'; but in tlie accounts of the movements of the hostile\nforces in Cuba it means a line of forli-\nik-stioiis across the Island fratn nortii to\nsouth. The trocha divideB the Island\ninto two parts, and it is intended to\nkeep the insuruentB of the East from co-\n'operating with thoBe of the.West. It\n*for the most part cons ists of \"a bashed\nwire fence three feet nix inches high,\n'about forty yards back of which is a\ntrench three feet wide - Snd four\n'deep, witli a breast-work of -palmetto\nlogs, and fifty yards further back are log\nhuts, in which the Spanish troops ure\n'quartered.\"\n\"General Weyler,\" we are told, \"contents himself with guarding this line,\nupon which he has long permitted himself to be beseiged, virtually, by the insurgent forces. And it has always lieen\nmaintained that the insurgents could\n'cross it when tiiey chose, and at various\nplaces have actually crossed it.\"\nThiB appears to he a very weak barrier\n'to keep out an enterprising and courage-\n'ous enemy.\nThe number of the insurgents is not\n'known, but it is seen that 'hey are\nnumerous enough to keep at bay un\narmy of some 2110,000 men. The armieB\nof Spain have been vainly endeavoring\nlor nearly t\u00C2\u00BBo years to subline what lias\nbeen frequently described as a mere\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2handful uf rebels, badly disciplined, ill*\n'equipped, and insufficiently supplied\n-with the munitions of war. Although\nthe country is unhealthy aud a large\n'part of the Spanish army is ut all times\nIn hospital it aeeniB wonderful how so\nt' ;reat a force aa that which the Spau-\nards huve iu Cuba doeB not make better\nheadway than it does ugainst the rugged\n'rebel army.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Colonist,\nFederation of Labor.\nCincinnati, Dei. i7,- Vl hen President\n'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0jioiiipt-is called ilie American Fetletation\n'of Lalmr to order for the '1'iVori.li day's\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Session, the roll call showed a full at-\n'tendance The election of officers takes\nplace tomorrow ufternoon. Opinion is\nthat ail the geueral officers will be re-\n'elected except Secretary McUretli, who\nis opposed by Frank Mo in-on, of Chic-\nago, representative of the Internutiunul\nTypographical Union.\nAfter uridreBScs hy delegates Bennett,\n(jarluud uud others, the amendment of\n'of Mr. U'Sullivan to refer the application of the stationary engineers to the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0executive council with instructions to\n-open local unions uud organize a national Union, was curried unanimously.\nLetters from Canadian unions were\nread and referred to appropriate com-\nmitteeB.\nDelegate Mnher, of fri*; Street Railway\nUnion, created a Heiisiuinii ut noon hy\nrising to a privilege ami stating thut\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0grave rumors were being circulated\n-against the general officers, and moving\nthat a committee of five he appointed to\nInvestigate these charges,. Mr. Mnher\nwould not name the charges, ami .none\n'would mention them) hut the rumors\nwere generally coni-eded to hein connection with the agitation looking for\nthe annual election to-morrow afternoon.\nIn the course of an address to the\ntnemhers of the Fe leration, John Mai-\nliiiHon, president of tlie British Tradis\nCongress of Edinbiirg, speaking of the\nVenezuela ugiiuiinti said: \"When\nPresident Clevelund sent iiis message to\nCongress regarding Venezuela, the work-\ningmen of our country were horrified al\nlis tone. Many spoke to nie anxious lo\nkuow If such a terrible thing as u war\nwith tlie United Stales were possible. I\nlooked upon such a possibility myself\n**s a most deplorable one nlnl we workmen alf wondered if in this advanced\nuge we were to be plunged into such a\nterrible position. We could not hear\nthe thought thut the two* great countries\nthut speak the sume tongue and have so\nmany interests in comtnon could he\nbrought to war aguinst each other forsu\nlight a cause. Such a war will never do\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ml I am sure the workingman of both\ncountries want u peaceful solution of all\n'questions and the international visits of\nWorkmen will do more to promote mutual understandings uud friendship than\n-anything else.\"\n \u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u0094-\nMrs. Chapman's Death.\nThe Calgary Herald contains the following particulars of the death of Mrs.\nChapman of Belleville who wns on her\nway to attend her father's funeral in\nVictoria:\nA very distressing accident occurred\n-on Saturday at Medicine Hut. The\ntrain from tiie cast arrived there within\n.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2few minutes of schedule time und\nafter running up to the station commenced the usual routine of shinning\nthe dining cur to the siding nud backing\nto the yard to receive the care and attention generally bestowed at divisional\npoints,\nThe train waB backed rather sharply\nfor say 100 feet, and then the air brakes\n-applied. This checker) the progress, of\nine rain wilh the exception of the din-\nlev car, which, being previously un-\ncoupled, ran \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 n lo its Biding. The Main\nfollowing more slowly gave tlie switch\nwan ime to close the switch thus enabling the train to proceed to the yard\nfor supervision.\nAmongst other passengers travelling\nwestward were two ladies in the first-\nClass coach. Oue of these, a young married lady on her way from Belleville to\nVictoria, although cautioned by the\nnews agent, went out on the rear platform ofthe first-class coach ahout the\n.time the train started backwards.\nExactly what happened is uot known\nbut it is surmised ihut she was standing\nbn the bottom step and when the jar\noccured occasioned by the \"air\" she\nswung around ami fell between the cars\nher head striking the rail and stunning\nher. The train waa moving slowlv hut\nsurely. She was caught by the wheels I it\nhead crushed ton jelly uud the p,,i.r\nwoman instantly killed.\nIt does i ot appear thut blame attaches\nto anybody, but it would perhaps be\nwell that passengers ought to be care-\nf\ fully informed that the train always\ni. backs into the yard and then returns to\n\" the platform before starting out, and\nthat in view of their being engines constantly moving, passengers should dn no\naccount particularly after nightfall, Step\noff train iu the yard. The train crew*\nchange at Medicine Hat, and it appears\ni the incoming crew leaves the train us\n' soon us it arrive at the platform, and the\nnew crew-is kept hnriy examining brakes\netc., while the train is in the yard.\nMINISTER OP RAILWAYS.\nHon, A. G. Blair, and Col. Domville, M. P.,\nVisits the City,\nDelegation from the Nauaimo-Albemi Railway Direetots\n--Liberal Association Address.\nThe city carriers of the Mam, have to\n-get a hustle on these ituvs, o i account nf\nthe increased, and still increasing, cir-\nbulat'on of (he leople's pi nor. Now\nthat ihe elec ion is drawing near- wc expect to havu numerous new sm.s. riders,\n'andean promise them that the Mail\nwill be able to. keep them posted on all\nmatters municipal. Send in your name\nIf yon are not already a subscriber*\nHon. A. Gb* Blair, Minister of Railways, Col. Domville, M.P.,\nSenator Mclnnes, and Mr. Currie, private secretary lo the minister, arrived in the city oh Saturday afternoon by the ordinary\ntrain from Victoria, and were met at the station by Geo. F. Cane\nand other mem hers of tlie Liberal fmHy. At the Hotel Wilson\nthe Hon. Minister was introduced to the many prominent''citizens, and at 6:30 about 30 gentlemen sat down with the party\nto dinner, after which--'a deputation of the Nanaimo-Alberni\nrailway directors, consisting of Messrs A. Haslam W. K. Leighton\nand E. M. Yarwood, waited upon the minister and laid before him\nthe necessity ofthe railway as proposed. As the meeting was\nprivate we are unable to give the reply of Mr. Blair, except in\nthe reference to the matter ini his address to the Liberal Association.\nThe Liberal Association afterwards presented the following\naddress-, which was read by Mayor Davison:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nThe Liberal Association of the City of Nanaimo take this\ntheir earliest opportunity of welcoming and congratulating you\nas a member of tlie present Administration in Canada, headed\nby one of Canada's most gifted sons, the Hon. Wilfred Laurier.\nWe have had the pleasure within the last few Weeks of welcoming the Hon. Mr. Tarte-, Minister of Public Works, and Hon.\nL. H. Davies, Minister of Marine and Fisheries, and we are proud\nof the interest and anxiety they exhibited to gain information of\nthe neglected state and actual requirements of this district.\nWe can assure you, Sir, on behalf of the Liberals of the District of Vancouver, that the early effort made by a number of the\nmembers ofthe Government, in which you hold so important a\nportfolio, to make themselves acquainted with the resources of\nthis Province, and tlie requirements necessary to develop these\nresources, is a pleasure to us, and, we believe, meets with the\nhearty endorsation ofthe Independent aud Opposition press of the\nProvince.\nWe are proud to say we have the greatest money-distributing\ndistrict in the Dominion of Canada, there being at least $250,000\nper month paid out for labor throughout this our Electoral District in the eonl mining industry alone, and we are pleased to say\nthat recent discoveries and experiments inthe mining of precious\nmetals, have shown that within our district, in the region of\nAlberni, Texada Island and Nanaimo Lakes, we are strong competitors in honor with the Kootenay District, which has gained\nsufli great renown in the past few months, and to which you\nhave shown so much well-deserved attention.\nWe Leg lo call your attention to the fact that our export\ntrade to the United States, especially in tlie products of cor Coal\nMines, which forms so large a part of the industry of this important District, is very considerably hampered by-a duty of\nforty (40) cents per ton, imposed by the United States, and if a\nfair reciprocal arrangement could be made with that nation\nwhereby this duty could lie reduced, the benefits accruing to this\nDistrict would be incalculable.\nWe trust that iu Parliament and in the Council of your\nGovernment wo shall have your assistance and approval in an\nenterprise already undertaken by our people here to obtain connection with the Alberni mining centre by means of a railway\nfrom this the nearest important city on the Island, the proposed\nroute of which would also open up the mining district at the\nhead of Nanaimo Lakes.\nWe also beg to submit to you that the interests of the Coast\nportion of our Province require that equal assistance be accorded\nthe building of a railway from the Coast to Kootenay\u00E2\u0080\u0094to that\nwhieh may be given to the Crow's Nest Pass Railway\u00E2\u0080\u0094and that\nthe construction of the Coastline be made at least simultaneous\nwith that of nny Eastern line into that district.\nWn beg to call your attention, Sir, to the Wholesale manner\nin whieh Chinese Coolie labor is dumped into this Province to\ncome into competition with the white settlers who have selected\nthis Province for their home, and are ably assisting in building\nup this portion of the great Dominion of Canada, and trust that\nwe shall have your able assistance and favorable consideration of\nthe petition to be presented to Parliament at its next session,asking for a higher tariff to bo -placed upon further importations of\nthis class of immigrants.\nWe trust, Sir, that you will exert your influence to have a\nclause inserted in all bills, charters and contracts, with respect to\nall railways receiving aid from the Dominion Govern ment, and\nwith respect to all other public works under the control of your\nGovernment, \"that no Chinese labor shall be employed in any\ncapacity whatever.\"\nWe congratulate the Government, of which we hail yoti as a\nleading representative, in so early a settlement of the Manitoba\nSchool question, which has so long unnecessarily occupied the\ntime, of tlie Federal Government to the exclusion of other and\nmore important questions.\nWe beg in conclusion to call your attention to the fact that\nthe Province of British Columbia is fast coming to the front in\nimportance in Canada and should no longer be refused representation in the Councils of our country, and strongly urge that\nsteps at once bo taken to grant us a voice in the Cabinet of the\nDominion.\nDR. McKECHNIE,\nPresident.\nJ. MERCER,\nSecretary,\nConcluded on page l\.\nOffice Tel. 30. P. O. Box 16. Residence Tel. 101.\nM. J. HILBERT & SON\nFuneral Directors\n^ Embalmers.\nThe case of Rri-'house v.Bri-'house, in\nwhi.ih Mm. Hritihoue sued for judicial\nseparation und alimony has buen dismissed by Mr. Justice Drake in .the\nSupreme court.\nThree marriages were solemnised\nThursday at Vuncouver: Mr Georne\nnioomiield und Miss Jennie Tesky j Mr.\nHerbert Parker and Miss Jennie Jess;\nand Mr, C.H.Morrow and Miss Mii^-ie\nWill-ami.\nThe Searchlight of Juneau pointed out in its last issue something of\ninterest in the liquor traffic of the\nterritory and urges as a remedy\nhigh license, r It says that it has\nlearned Uponleliable authority that\nthe importatfins of liquor* through\nPort Simps* this season would\namount to 21,000 millon.*, valued at\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A652,000. None of this liquor pays\nany internal revenue tax, because\nit is smuggled in, and the loss of\nihe item for this season will be $21,-\n000. It is suid that all classes of\nAlaska residents nre' eager for a\nSolution of the question and believe\nit can most easily be accomplished\nthrough high license.\nAdvertise in the Mail, the best\nadvertising medium tn the district:\nImmigration to Canada.\nOttawa, Dec. 17.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Department of\nthe Interior has prepared an official\nstatement of immigration arriving in\nCanada for the past season. There were\nin all 21,241 compared with 11,333 for\nthe yeur previouB. The number of those\nwho settled In the Dominion1 or an-\nnoiinccil their liilSntlon of remaining\nwas 1*1,127, and lust year 1(1,017.\nThose en route to the IXnited States\nnumbered 7,124, and last year 5,321'.\nThe number of those who announced\ntlieir destination to be Manitoba and\nthe Territories or British Columbia,\nwere 6,120 against 4,003 last season.\n <\u00E2\u0096\u00A0(*\u00C2\u00BB\t\nU.K. Maxwell, M.P.hss left for Ottawa\nThe McCiill Graduates Society will\nhold their annual meeting here in January, which will be supplemented by a\nhuniiuet.\nAmong the East bound passengers nn\nThursday wus E-H.KIetcher,post office\ninspector; Mr.Fletcher goes to Ottawa\non ollicial business.\nMessrs. liiichie and Atkins' stores on\nHustings street Vancouver were on fire\nThursday ni|>ht, hut were promptly put\nout by the fire brigade.\nA telegram was received at Vuncouver\non Wcilnesdry stilting that A. W. Black,\nsuperintendent of the C.P.R. stores, who\nwent East for his health, is much wore*\nthan when he left Vancouver;\n%-%'*jSy*%*'%^'*'--%'%<'%'%'%^^\n(3-OAIi MINING\nm JAND GO.\n.Limited.\nTiie New Vancouver Coal\nCompany mine at their , '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*fif ,\nCollieries at and near\nNanaimo the following\nc\u00C2\u00B0\u00C2\u00BBls: NANAIMO COAL.\nSOUfHFIELD GOAL,\nNEW WELLINGTON W,\nPROTECTION ISLAND COAL.\nThe above are supplied in ,\nthe foilowfng Grades, viz: Double Screened, Screened,\nRun of the Mine,\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u00A2s-sfg-i\u00E2\u0080\u0094- Washed Nuts and\nWashed Screenings.\nSAMUEL M. ROBINS,\nSuperintendent\nPrompt Delivery at the Compiii*T'\u00C2\u00AB\nWharves at Nmiuiinu and Protection Island.\n>v-v^^%%%-v%%^\u00C2\u00AB^%\u00C2\u00ABr%%%%%%%%\u00C2\u00AB%\u00C2\u00AB%>%%%%\u00C2\u00AB%%^\nPeople who Appreciate \u00C2\u00BB\nPUKE DKUGS\nH\u00C2\u00ABve their prescriptions dispensed at\nPIMBURY'S DRUG STORE.\nTheir Prices are Weill. Telephone 8.\nNANAIMO MEAT MARKET.\nD. H. BECKLEY & CO.\nWholesale and Retail Butchers\nVICTORIA CRESCENT,\nTelephone 7-9. Nanaimo; C. C.\nMeats delivered free of charge to all\nparts of the city.\nOrailimti-s of the Orient-**!, the Eiirek*,\nthe New York and Clark's\nSellouts of Kiiibuliuill''.\n1, 3 and 5 Bastion St., Nanaimo\n(Commercial Hotel.\nCorner Commercial and Bastion Sts.\nThiB long-established Hotel is comfortably\nUtteil up with superior accommodations for travelers and others.\n'1\ O'CONNKI,, Prop.\nUnion Steamship Co.\nOf British Columbia, Limited\nHead Office and Wharf\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vancouver\nNORTHERN SETTLEMENTS\nSS. Comox sails from Co's wharf every\nTuesday at 9 a. m. for Bojren Island,\nHowe sound, Sechelt. Jems Inlet,\nFroei-k,Teiada Island. Lund, Hernando\nIsland, Cbrtez Island, Read Island Valdez Island. Shoal Bay, Phillip Arm,\nFrederic Arm, Thurlow Island. Loughborough Inlet, Salmon River, Port Neville, and sails every Friday at Hi. m.\nfor way ports and Shoal Bay calling at\nBute Inlet every six weeks.\nMOODYVILLE AND NORTH VANCOUVER FERRY.\nLeaves Mnoilvrille\u00E2\u0080\u00948, 9:15, 10:45, 12\nnoon 2:4 and 5:45 p, in.\nLeaves Vancouver-8:85; 10, 11:20,\n1:15, p.m, 3:15, 5:15, and ti:20.\nCalling at North Vancouver each\nway, excepting the noon trip.\nTugs and acuwB always available for\ntowing and freighting business. Large\nstorage accommodation on Co's wharf,\n//. II. DARLING, Manager.\nTelephone M P. 6. Ho.t 771\nALWAYS IN STOCK-\nGROCERIES,\nMINERS' CAPS,\nUNDERWEAR,\nLAMPS, Etc. etc.\nTAXIDERMIST DEPARTMENT \u00E2\u0080\u009E\nBibd8 and Animals set up in a thorough workmanship manner.\nOn Hand\u00E2\u0080\u0094Four tine Deers' Heads,\nwhich will be sold for price of setting\ntliem up. Also a tine case of Birds.\nmill MACHINE NEEDLES OF ML RINDS.\nD. S. MCDONALD;\n69 Haliburton Street, Nanaimo.\nLodge Notices.\nInkerman Lodge, No. SfB, Sons of St.\nGeorge.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Regular weekly meeting is held\nin Hilhert's Hall, Wharf street, on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. Visiting\nbrethren cordially invited to attend.\nFhed. Wagstakp, Sec.\nFARTIK8 HAVIKd\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094j\nEmpty Bottles of any Description,\nOld Copper, Brass, Zinc or Lea*,\nCan dispose of 11111,10 by iiililren\u00C2\u00ABiii-*R postal to\n\u00E2\u0080\u009E B. AAR0NSON,,Bo.r 173, Nanaimo;\nWh6 will cull promptly \u00C2\u00ABt any (ddro-i lu City\n,t subutti*;\nArrival and Departure of Halls\nNANAIMO POSTOFFICE.\nE. & N. RAILWAY. CLOSE. DUE.\nDally ex. Sun,\nWellington, Northfield and a.m a.m.\nEast Wellington 11.25 8.50\nVictoria,Southern States and\nplaces along line of E. & N. Daily ex.Sun.\nRailway 8.26 11.60\nBY STEAMER;\nVANCOUVER B'OUTB.\nBritish and foreign, Eastern\nProvinces, Eastern States, Dally ex.8un.\nVancouverand other places p.m. p.m.\non Mainland of B.C 6.30 5.00\nCOMOX ROUTB. '\nComor, UniBn; Union Bay,\nSandwock,Courtenay,Gran-Tue*. Frl.\nthani, Qualicum, Hornby p.m. p.m.\nIsland and Denman Island 8.20 3.00\nVICTORIA ROUTB.\nSalt Spring Island, Burgoyne ttl. Tu\u00C2\u00AB-\nBay, Fulford Harbor,Nortn\nSalt Springlsland and Gab- p.m. p.m.\nriola Island 8.20 3,30\nBY STAGE. $1?- Thur\nAlberni, Parksville, French p.m. p.m.\nCreek and Erringfon 12.30 6.00\nFri. Thur.\nNanoose Bay 12.30 6.00\nr. v. a. v.\nDeparture Bay, dailvex. Sun 12.45 10.30\nCedar (South), Saturday. .. 2.00 11 00\nJ. H. 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DRAWER 44 TELEPHONE fi\n\"**.. .-V-\"\n*SS*B\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2JfeeltenaimoilfoaU\nTWEaDAV AND >'RHU>AY\nBY THE\nMAIL POWjWttiSO COWAN Y\nED. V. CH.vMr :lis. Editor aui* Mauauec,\nfjttari* Crescent. Nanaimo, U..C.\n\ SimSUUIPTION BA-flSS.\nm, mall\u00E2\u0080\u0094One year i.eo\n\" Six months TO\n\" Three months BQ\nJMlvered bv earner Vio<--. ncr niouiii\nto possible abuse of privileges hands of th* Provincial Govern-\n, , , . , , , , i merit and out it in the hands of the\nshould be zealously guarded. j pe()ple of *fanaimo_where it right-\nApropos to school matters we ly belongs,\nhave been requested to publish the \ This must be one of the issues at\nstatement that a certain ladyj the next provincial election. The\ni \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 t ... . \u00E2\u0080\u009Euii ,.\u00E2\u0080\u009Ev,.\u00E2\u0080\u009E,iu member who Hues from this city\nteacher in one of our public schools , , . . ?. . . -\nf . should be pledged to this reform,\nspends a great deal of her time*- A8 long aBsComttisBiuner Simpson\nduring school hours*\u00E2\u0080\u0094in the delight**jhoUis his present position he will\nful pastime of novel reading. Our bo a stumbling block to all reform\ninformation is apparently reliable, ] which the Police, and License 0 im-\nThe Place to Get\nWheat, Corn, Chop, Oats, Bran, Seconds, Potatoes,\nOnions, Flour, Rolled Oats, Oatmeal. Farina,\nBuckwheat Flour, Rice Flour, Hominy, also a\nFull Line of Choice Groceries, is ut\nmissioners have anything to do\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2TDSESOA-y - - DECEMBER '22, 18U0.\nSchool Matters.\nIn our lust issue we published\na communication on School\njnatters. Sinco which several\nmembers of the School Board\n.called upon us to say that the\n,case was not fairly put so\" far as\n.the Board was concerned. The\nMail has no desire to be unfair\non any question, nor do wo believe that our correspondent\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Fair-play\" bad any intention of\n,/ .casting undue reflection on the\nSchool Board, either individually or collectively. \"We gave\npublicity to tho opinions of\n. -\"Fairplay\" and will cheerfully\n-accord to the members of the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0School Board tho same privilege. The salient features ofthe\ncase under discussion\u00E2\u0080\u0094as we\nunderstand it\u00E2\u0080\u0094is this. Mr.\nJames Gajloway. assistant principal teacher of tho Central\nPublic School had the misfortune, some time ago, to meet\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2with an accident, in which he\nfcroke his leg, he employed Mr.\nArthur Morgan, a young man\nfresh from high school who had\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0successfully passed examination\n- *nd secured the same grade\nteachers certificate as that held\nby Mr. Galloway, to be his substitute during disability. Tho\nselection met with the unanimous approval of the School\nBoard. Mr, Galloway paid Mr.\nMorgan $2 per day for his\nservices, for the days actually\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2teaching. Tho regular salary\n. /or the position being $80 per\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 month. It appears that Mr.\nMorgan was at first satisfied\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0with the arraugraent, but afterwards considered that he was\nunfairly treated inthe matter of\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2pay and sent a written complaint to the School Board. This\nis the case as it came before the\n, School Board and under the law\naud practice governing teachers\nin selecting their substitute we\n/ail to see what tho Board could\nilo in the matter beyond bringing about an amicable settlement of the dispute between Mr.\n.Galloway and Mr. Morgan\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwhich they evidently attempted\nto do. We have no fault to find\nwith the action of the School\nBoard in this matter, but with\n-the law permitting a teacher to\nbe his substitute's paymaster wo\nhave a decided objection. With\na careless School Board it is\nopen to the grossest kind of\nabuse, in fact, we are reliably\ninformed that a certain teacher\nin the District actually did\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthrough a manipulation of the\nsubstitute privilege\u00E2\u0080\u0094drew over\n$50 per month whilo on a pleasure trip to the Old Country.\nTeachers are simply employees\nof the School Baard, on behalf\nof the people, and as such are\n/entitled to no further privileges\nthan that accorded to ordinary\nmortals.\nNo commercial or industrial\nconcern would think of allowing\nan employee the privilege of\nappointing a substitute during\nabsence\u00E2\u0080\u0094from any cause\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nretain 40 or 50 per cent of the\nsalary at the same time. It is,\nmoreover, a short-sighted policy\non the part of teachers to take\nsuch an advantage of the privilege, for if substitutes, satisfactory to the school trustees, can be\nfound for so much less salary,\nwhat valid argument can be advanced against a reduction in\n(he salary of the regular staff.\nWe are fully convinced that\n(he only means of maintaining\nthe efficiency of the teachers in\npur puplic schools is by paying\nhfg)) wlaries, but overy avenue\napparently\nbut we are not in a position person-, . . . , ,\n' \" f i with, It is to be sincerely hoped\nally to say that the charge is posi-|th.u Miivur Davison will receive\ntively true. That no injustice may j the hearty support which his cour-\nbe done the teacher complained of j age and perseverance entitles him\nwe refrain from publishing the name:1\", \u00E2\u0080\u00A2***d tliat, a board of aldermen\n... l i- \" .i .\".i ..\u00E2\u0080\u009E i \u00E2\u0080\u009Ei,i I will he elected who possess not only\nbut believe that the matter should \. . ,.... , * , \u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E.,\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E:\u00E2\u0080\u009E, \u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E\n,! business ability, but a conscience\nbe investigated by the bchool Board ; and the oourage tJ stiUHj i,y jt.\nami for such purpose will furnish j Let it also lie remembered that\ntbe name to the Chairman on ap*| the one thing,absolutely necessary\nto tho proper enforcement of law is\npublic ipinion. Let the civic conscience be fully arrayed on the side\noi good government and it will be\na powerful factor Tor a Mayor to\nlean upon. lf he knows that the\nsentiments of lho people are with\nhim be will be prepared to do and\ndare mure on their behalf.\nMoreover, this election will test\nthe moral sentiments of Nanaimo.\nThey will have an opportunity of\nexpressing their favor or disf'ivor\nwith the efforts made by our mayor\nduring the past year.\nBy the Spectator.\nplication at this olKce.\nThe Mayoralty.\nBY ROUNDER.\nNow that Mayor Davison is\nbeing brought out by his many\nfriends to stand for re-election it\nmight be well to discuss his record\nduring the past twelve months. In\nthe matter of public works much\nhas been done. The Council have\nacted to the best of its judgment on\nall matters pertaining to the spending of public money. But notwithstanding this satisfactory side\nof the question, much of the work\nwhich Mr. Davison had mapped\nout at the beginning of the year is\nstill undone. But why? Because\nof the intense opposition which he\nhas met from the very beginning.\nIt would be unfair to judge our\nMayor conclusively by this year's\nwork. He has not had an opportunity to show what he is capable\nThe leading article in the Wellington Enterprise on the question\nof a hospital in that town does\ncredit to the editor of that journal.\nHe deals with the question on a\nbroad principle, and in a very\nstra ght way. We agree with him j\nin placing such high importance on !\nthe establishment of such a htimani- j\ntarian institution, and I confess, I\nam more than surprised that a\nRUTS, tho Wallace-street Grocer\nOur Tea, Coffee, anil Butter are the lies* in the market.\nKen,ember, our motto is\u00E2\u0080\u0094Square Dealing am! Close Prii-es\nEditorial Notes.\nour\nand there nas moreto dothen thnn\nii w. i hen, again, why do we\nwant morn than \"iie puhc-uian. As\nit is ynu cannot see them on in*-\nstreets after 12 o'clock at night.\nThe only officer who can be found\nis Nightwatchman Trounce, and he\nof doing, true he had a working . , , ,.\n..... ., . , , . journal has to nut itself into the\nmajority at the council board, bul ' . . , ,. .\n. ' position of dictating to a comm-un-\nthat is not sufficient. He was\nhandicapped in other directions\nHis work in managing and rearranging the different city departments shows that he has a\nclear head and a well defined purpose. Unnecessary expenses would\nhave been reduced to a minimum\nif he had had his way, while deserving enterprise would have received added assistance, if the for-\nposition oi dictating\nity the necessity of such a worthy I\ninstitution. The ground that he\ntakes for thc building of this hospital in Wellington is very reasonable and'humane. First the long!\ndistance that patients have to be\nconveyed, anil, again, the already j\ncrowded condition of our hospital,\nnecessary to meet the needs of Na-j\nnniino, There is certainly great\nThe following we clip from\ncontemporay, the Province:\n'\"As a result of the discussion ii\nthe Victoria City Council on Mon\nday, it might be as well for those cannot get any assistance when he\nin charge of the \u00E2\u0096\u00A0Protestant Or- wants it. We do not want to\nphans'Home'to consider if it would spend the rale-payer's money to\nnot be as well for them to drop the dress up men to walk about the\nword 'Protestant' out of the name streets in the day-time. Why not\nof this worthy institution. There get a cocked hat for the police\nis something aggressive in the name magistrate. Il would make him a\nof this public institution, which little taller, but not in his own esti-\neuggestg sectarianism and denomi- matimi, as he is quite big already,\nnationalism. Why not cull n 'The Then there might be u little more\nOrphans' Home' simply? That economy in our schools. Ourteach-\nwould appeal to everyone alike, ers are getting for tlieir services\nBut probably the poor orphans from 50 cents to $1 10 per hour fur\nhave so little that it would In- al their actual labor, and some of\nmost cruel to rob them of a legacy them are not even satislied with\nof sect and creed.\" I that. One of the teachers is secre-\nWe fully concur in the senti- tary of -he Nanaimo Building So-\nments expressed, and in this con- ! ?iety. a.nd. >.* - \u00E2\u0080\u00A2*\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \"ghtly informed,\n, , , , . , is also keening books Ior some of\nnection would sav that this worthy \u00E2\u0080\u009Eur ni(j,.challtfli alld ttt U)e 8ttme\ninstiiution has sj far received but i time men with families are walking\nmeagre support from the people of; about and cannot got anything to\nNanaimo. This is not as it should 'd\", though able to do that kind of\niv, ,... ,,.\u00E2\u0080\u009E \u00C2\u00BB,.\u00C2\u00BB i work. Why do we send our children\nmere are se-emi , . \u00E2\u0096\u00A0j , . , . . .,\n. | to school to learn book-keeping if\n, \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 , , 0,-yt'at_l*reRen*.our teachers are to monopolise all\ncared fur in the home, Ibe peo-, the W1)|.,. ^.^ an(J mak\"j ft f()r.\npie of Nanaimo are noted for their j tune in a few years, and others al-\nliberaliiy when any appeal is made j most starving amongst us. I as-\nto them \"for a deserving cause, and'Bureyou there is something rotten\nwe fed confident that lhe \"Orphans' in tb* fitlUe \"f D*-*\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB-'**k ,or there\n.,.,,, . , would be a stop put to this kind of\nII...,.e will be no exception to the j \u00E2\u0080\u009E,\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 First of all cut, down your\nsalary and show the ratepayers you\ncan do as other cities have done,\nand instead of soft snaps for a few\nbe, especially as\nchildren from, this\nrule when the matter is once\nbrought t.o their attention. We\ntake the liberty of recommending\nthe question to the consideration of\nthe W*. C. Ti U.\n,,, , i- , i i Bain to an injured or sick person in\nmer could have been accomplished, r , , , . , ...\n... , . ,, .. . I being placid in such an institution,\nWe have in Mr. Davison a i*\"\" \"\nbut there is no doubt that 4he con*\n... ,, I veyance of patients such a distance\nprogress and development. He i. : ,\ninjures them to a greater extent\nwho is in strong sympathy with\nprogress and development. He\nfavors city ownership of water,\nand makes the labors of the institution less li-ii>le of success. A\nsense of pride, mixed with a degree i\nlight and gas. He would like to\nsee a better sewerage system, and!\nin many other ways has the ma* \"\n. > i ,, t ' -., ,i , n[ human feeling, ought to be suf-\ntenal welfare ofourc:lv at heart.' ' .. .\nLiko every man who holds stroria -\"-lent to give rise to an efiort in\nconvictions and has the courage to , favor of this cause, and considering\nexpress them and dares to put! the great advantage and good posi-\nthein into practice Mayor Davison | tinn of ,he ownors ftnd authorities\nhas met with much opposition and i . ., ,., ,,. , ., . . . ., .\nmade many enemies. Every effort of the Wellington district it is a\nhas been made to have him dis* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB.'\u00C2\u00AB surprising that their simple\ncounted, and even some of those sense of pride has not over-balanc-\nwho profess to hein sympathy | ed their avaricious tendencies in\nwith the reforms which has endea- favor (){ their own collieries and\nvored to forward, shrink from , ,, ., , .\ndoing so on the pretext that they ! I*0!''0- However, tl.e people of\nmistrust his motives. Take an ex- Wellington may rest assured that\nample: A few (only a few) tem-! until they agitate for a matter of\nperance people who are honest and I this kind it is not unreasonable,\nwell-meaning, say they cannot fol-ieven {ur the company to keep silent,\nlow Davison because he is the; , T , .. ; .! '. ,\nowner of an hotel. It does not Iand l hoPe that the exceptional\nseem to occur to them that Mr. Way that the people of Wellington\nDavison may own a hotel and still \ have been treated, at so small a\nhein favor of hotel-keepers com- j cost to themselves, is not the cause\nplying with the law and conditions |of iukewarmness towards a similar\nupon which they get their license. . ... .. .... T L \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nA man may own a hotel and still institution of their own. I believe\nnot be an outlaw. I do not profess to know the Mayor's ideas on\nthe temperance quettion, but I do\nknow he has acted more courage- ciaimb 0f their paper is a proper\nously on behalf of law and order\nthan many do who make higher\nprofessions, hut fail to put them into practice. As an evidence of the\nchange which has taken place it is a\nnoticeable fact that many of our\nstrongest temperance leaders, who\ntwelve months ago opposed the\nthe authorities of Nanaimo are ever\nwilling to help the sick and infirm\ncf Wellington and district; yet the\nTbe Simpsonlte party have at\nlast found a candidate lo accept\nthe very doubtful honor of being\ntheir standard-hearer in the coming\nmunicipal contest for the mayoralty. Alderman Westwood is the\nman, or, more properly spea ting,\nthe victim. Mr. Westwood in his\npublished announcement, says: \"I\nshall endeavor, during the time at\nmy disposal, to meet as many of\nthe electors as possible and explain\nmy position upon the many questions affecting our city.\" Horror!\nA cold chill passed up our spinal\ncolumn when reading the above.\nWe fear that when the contest is\nover many of our worthy citizens\nwill he found minus an arm if subjected to the ordeal of listening to\nthemultiloqaous Westwood explain\nhis position upon the many questions affecting the city. We can\nstand Aid. Westwood's public orations or printed statements, but a\nperson il canvas. No! Ye Gods.\nNo! Forbear! Aid. Westwood. Por\npity's sake, forbear!!!\nCOMMUNICATIONS.\nmake them work for a reasonable\nwage according to thc times. Why\nwe have to be satistied with from\n$20 to $60 a nionih, and work eight\nhours to their five hours, and not\nh\",lf the risk to run that we have.\nAnd some of us have to bring up\nlarge families and pay taxes to keep\na few spongers that do not pay any\nproperty taxes at all. It is time\nthat this screaming farce in police\nbusiness, waste of public money,\netc., was at .in end. More later on,\nperhaps.\nTj\x Payer.\nRoom to Let.\npOMFORTABbY furninlieil Room, in\n*-/ private home, to let, with lire.\nRates moderate. For partiiiil'iiB apply\nat the Mail office.\none and there ought to be sufficient\nenterprise to assist a hospital from\nwhich they have received suclj a\nlarge amount of assistance. Nanaimo has ever a disposition to help\nWellington, and nothing ought lo\nelection of Mr. Davison, are now j \"a\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 t**ul?ht th\u00C2\u00AB men of Wellington\namong his strongest supporters and the true feeling of Nanaimo towards\nare working hard lor his re-eleotion. | them more than this one single\nThey have been convinced that Mr.' kindness. Tlm disposition expres*\nDavison has made au honest effort! , . . . u.._. \u00C2\u00AB.._j i\n, . , . ., , ., Bed in favor of an accident fund is\nto enforce our laws and that lt was\nnot his fault that he did not stio-1 a 8ood one. only \u00E2\u0080\u00A2he absence of such\nceed. I a thing iB 50 years behind the time.\nMr. Davison is entitled to the | Some supervision over the money\ngratitude of every ratepayer in this ] llmt tl)ey \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 aireildy ought to\ncitv, who loves progress, for the!. . \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 . , ,i,\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E,,\u00E2\u0080\u009Ei\nwa\"y in which he took up the fi^.ti bring some assistance to the cstah-\nagainst 'a ring who held this city | \"shnient of an accident fund, and\nin its grasp for the last twenty-1 is, as the Enterprise says, a matter\nthree years. Few men in this city | for the miners themselves. Why\nhad the courage to take the stand | |g Wellington so far behind in these\nhedid, and, be it said to his credit, , ,, \u00E2\u0080\u009E , ., .,\nhe has fought and won. Again, he i m!ltters' Surel** lhe \"\"\"f th\"e\nnot only fought and won, but he | \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ve an average amount of \"'nielli*\nhas shown that he has persistency j gence and ought to bo able to look\nand perseverance enough to hold to , after themseivos in matters of this\nhis course despite the bitterest <'0-1 kind_ The mlme thing oxigtB at\nposition anv mayor of this city .. . ,, ... ,, ,, ' ,\u00E2\u0080\u009E\never encountered. 'Union. Men pay their dollar to*\nThe peopleof Nanaimowill never \ wards the doctor, and have neither\nknow what Mayor Davison is [ benefit nor voice in the control of\ncapable of doing in the wayofen-ijt. No one is to blame but them-\nforcit.g the laws against evil-doers;,,,,,,,^ We only hope that the\nuntil--twey remove one of the great-1 ... , \u00E2\u0080\u009E ui\u00C2\u00BB \u00E2\u0080\u009Ei\u00E2\u0080\u009E:\u00E2\u0080\u009E,\u00E2\u0080\u009E\nest stumhling blocks to reform out | *,od ttdvlce ftnd rellf,01 ttb,e cla,tI'8\nof tho way, viz., Commissioner i\u00C2\u00B0- tbe Enterprise will he answered\nSimpson. The only course open; by a manly independence and\nfor the accomplishment of this iB to j resoluteness worthy of the men of\ntake the appointment out of the Wellington,\nTViiii column is open to the public and we\nheartily invite the citizens to make\nuse of it for discussing public gnes-1 TjjrT> g J/r\nHon,. '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2**\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ***\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nWe are not responsible for tlie opinions of\nour correspondents.\nEkitou Maim\u00E2\u0080\u0094I see your columns are open for the people to\ndiscuss public affairs, so, with your\npermission, I will offer a few remarks. First\u00E2\u0080\u0094Our city finances\nare exhausted, and it has taken at\nthe lowest estimate $5,000 to run\nour police department, that is, taking $1,000 for police magistrate,\nover $8,000 for police officers and\nthe balance for clothing and sundry\nexpenses and accommodations for\nthe above officials. The result is\nthat the receipts which have come\ninto the city treasury do not exceed\nover $600, That makes a clear\nloss to the city of ahout $4,500. In\ntbo iiiinie of common sense why\ndoes Ibis city want to pay $1,000\nfor police magistrate. If we have\nto be burdened with an officer of\nthat kind $500 is quite enough to\npay. Until Ihe last few years the\nwork has been done just as well\nand did not cost the city anything,\nIf You Are\nIn Need\nOF\nChoice Groceries\nSeasonable Duy Goods\nFashionable and\nDurable Footwear\nand Hit the popular\nPatent Medicines\nat pniBont ou thu market, at\nPrices That Will Defy\nCompetition\nCALL ON\t\nA. ROWE\nAT THE\nExcelsior Market\n COR. HALI3URT0N and HEEDH'H STREETS\noodBdulivered freo to any part of the city.\nA Big Fire\nAwarded\nHighest Honors\u00E2\u0080\u0094World's Fair.\nIn the stove will not koep\nyour feet warm while on\nthe. street. You need\nshoes suitable for Winter.\nIf the need is tliere it-is\na crying one and of the\nnature that needs prompt\nattention. We have prepared for tho need in the\nmost encouraging form.\nOur new Crack Proof,\nWater Proof Laco Bal for\nmen's wear will suit any\nordinary man. Price,\n$3.00, $4.00, $5.00.\nWE\nMl) in\n^Ti*m(\nWE KEEP THE BEST-\nAmei-ican, French and Canadian Makes.\nChild's Waist, at 35 cents, any size.\nMisses' Corset, at 65 cents, any size.\nStevenson & Co., Black Corset, at $1\u00E2\u0080\u0094a loader.\nD. & A., in Black und Gray, $1.25, $1.50, $2.25\u00E2\u0080\u0094special\nvalue.\nP. & N. C, $1 25, $1.50, $2.00\u00E2\u0080\u0094Gray and Black.\nGet your Guesses in on the\nPumpkin. We have added\nthree Special Prizes to the\nnearest to the Winners of\nthe Steel Range. . . .\nSTEVENSON & CO.\nGREAT CASH DRY GOODS AND\nMEN'S FURNISHINGS HOUSE\nCommercial St., Nanaimo, B. C.\n\"DON'T DEMY^tw\nORDERING YOUR WINTER SUIT ANY LONGER.\nYou will need it for the Xmas Holidays.\nMORGAN the Tailor has just what you\nwant for a Good Warm Suit in ....'.\nEnglish, Irish and Scotch Tweeds\nand Heavy Serges.\nostomy\nCft^ i IS THE PRICE.\nIn Make and Fit I guarantee to please you.\nMOBGAN THE TAILOR,\n$ Commercial Street.\n^^t/;v%'\u00C2\u00BB.*,'V%^.t^%*v%.*\"'. <*w%>. 8., (irecn Block. First |\n* elaaa work guaranteed.\nDRUGGISTS.\n/pltKSCKNT PHARMACY. TlALL* STEAI-MA'**.\n'- proprietor*. Victoria Crescent. Dispeiialnul\nand family rocipea a apecialty. M\nODOWBIjIj, ATKINS, WATSON CO.. LtmlteAI\nMedical Hall, comer,.ommercial and Bitti]\ntion streets. Teleptiono 1*5,\nDYE WOUKS.\nN\nANMMO DYK WORKS.-Dyeing, Cleaiiln.\nand Repairing 14 Nicol street.\nC. chah'tiin, Manager. 1\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A21MI MARKET.\nGMAl'MI, VMiolenulo Healer in Flab an\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Uame, llamlim street, Nanaimo.\nREAL ESTATE\u00E2\u0080\u0094INSURANCE.\nTelephone I\nAI S*UH>KA1U aiTIS\nli'OKKMAN * IIMIDY, Boal E*t\"ie Broker.']\n* Hni.IlMi. \"iri'ct ^'J,\nWATCH MAKE II.\nTON. M. BROWN. Watehmakef. _, Watekt,'\nu and clocks carefully cleaned and- iwBJwil\nCorner Cbu-tatUdCheptlMmti; \u00E2\u0080\u00A2',\nmWLmmt^--^mm--- \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*-*'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'"@en . "Titled \"The Nanaimo Mail\" from 1896-02-15 to 1896-05-09

Titled \"The Nanaimo Semi-Weekly Mail\" from 1896-05-16 to 1896-12-29."@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Nanaimo (B.C.)"@en . "Nanaimo"@en . "The_Nanaimo_Mail_1896-12-22"@en . "10.14288/1.0082562"@en . "English"@en . "49.1638890"@en . "-123.9380560"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Nanaimo, B.C. : Mail Publishing Company"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/"@en . "Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives."@en . "The Nanaimo Semi-Weekly Mail"@en . "Text"@en . ""@en .