"c493a758-aa61-4d67-9394-a69ac7129e3d"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2015-12-09"@en . "1886-08-14"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/westho/items/1.0083918/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " \ Vv\nWESTWARD HO !\nSATURDAY, AUGUST 14TH, 18S6.\nA professional man should not always sell his services\u00E2\u0080\u0094in other words,\nit is a duty every professional man\nowes the profession he belongs to not\nto do anything thai shall lower that profession in the eyes of the public. Thus,\nwhen a physician prostitutes his calling\nby reporting to a kind of practice that\nis akin to criminal he inflicts upon the\nprofession at large an injury hat is\nirrqurablo. With the legal profession\nthe s.ime argument holds good, as it\ndoes with all the others, even the\neditorial. One of the excuses offered\nfor departing from the recognized path\nin practice is that < om petition forces\nmen to do what they would rather not\ndo. The real fact is that the professions are over-crowded by a class not\nnaturally adapted to them. When men\nof superior attainments and judgirknt\nappear they force the weak and uncertain class out of legitimate practice and\ninto the downward current. Perhaps\nthe wisest course for a man to pursue\nwhen he finds himself pushed thus to\nthe wall would be to drop the profession and try hard work. There is\nplenty of land in the world. The\nwisest thing for parents to do is not to\ncrowd all their progeny into the professional ranks. The professions have\nceased to be respected, as in the olden\ntimes. Farming is the fashion nowadays, and there is many a lad who is\nnow wrestling with the intricacies of\nthe law in some barrister's office who if\nhe persists is destined to be a failure,\nbut who would find farming congenial,\nprofitable and honorable. But what is\nto be done with the failures who are too\nold to swap careers? The pettifoggers,\nthe editors who wiite editorials and insert them as anonymous correspondence; who are ready to advocate anything that anyone will pay for at so\nmuch per column; who have grown sour\nand avaricious and unscrupulous; who\nseem to take a fiendish delight in mortifying the aimntr propre of 1he profession at large. Probably the best plan\nwould be to grade them like wheat or\nbutter. Thus:\n9\nu\nLawyers. g\nDalton McCarthy 1\nW. Pooley '\nM. W. T. Drake\t\nEditors. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB' . \u00C2\u00AB\n5 a .a\nU fe Q\nMontreal Gazette;........ 1\nMontreal Witness 1\nVictoria Times 1\nBritish Columbian...... 1\nColonist 1\nNanaimo Free Press..... 1\nUnder such an arrangement the more\nrespectable portions of the community\ncould guard themselves against imposition, and the more respectable representatives of the professions could protect themselves from the reflections cast\nupon them daily by the inferior grades.\nIt is a very curious fact that, in respect\nto physical laws, there can be no positive influence exerted without a concomitant negative. The wonderful reverse current of electricity that has\nbeen utilized in \"Ruhmkorff's coil\"\nhas its analogue wherever physical force\nis exerted, and the same law applies\nin the mental and moral domains as\nwell as in the physical. There can\nbe no mighty mental effort without its\nreverse current. There can be no expansion of education and upward movement of the masses without a downward\ncurrent... This shadow-movement\u00E2\u0080\u0094this\nmocking echo is exasperating in the extreme; but it is inevitable. It is constantly upsetting our preconceived notions. The men who are at top are\nconstantly gravitating to lower strata,\nthe lowermost being as incessantly\nprojected to the surface. Every great\nmoral reformation discloses a counter\ncurrent of degradation and crime. Life\nwould not be worth living\u00E2\u0080\u0094exertion\nwould be useless were it not also true\nthat the reverse current, however strong,\nis always weaker than the positive. It is\nthis that encourages men and women\nto persist in doing right, to live accord\ning to principle, to bear with all the\nfury of the returning and resisting tide,\nbecause in the end right is sure to gain,\nperhaps not all that is aimed at, but\nadvantages that denote permanent progress.\nIn this community the negative influences have been very strong. Those\nwho should have encouraged men struggling to do right, perhaps at great personal sacrifice, have been ever read;' to\ntake the thirty pieces of silver and betray those whose cause should have\nbeen held sacred. But when we consider how different are the appeals to\nthe human heart of poverty and affluence, we cannot be surprised that men\nwho have always had an obtuse sense of\nright \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 and wrong should succumb to\ntemptation and sink to the lowest\ndepths. We pity them, but as a journalist it is our duty to warn the public to\nshun them. Degradation is contagious,\ntherefore avoid them. Aim high. Live\nif necessary in an artificial atmosphere,\nso long as it be pure, for then you will\nswim in the ascending current. Mingle\nwith the impure, adopt mercenary\nvjews and low ideas of morality, and\nimperceptibly you begin to sink, and in\na short time the undertow will be irresistible\u00E2\u0080\u0094you will cease to respect yourself; your tastes will become vitiated;\nyou will seek low company and read\nthe Nanaimo Fress Press.\nTo a person who has followed Sir John\nMacdonald's career for the past.20\nyears, and who has always been ready\nto place the best interpretations upon\nhis actions, who had~grOwn to'feel an\naffection'for him that Was more than\nloyalty, though less than' idolatry, this\nvisit to Nanaimo is full of bitterness,\nfull of disappointment. As the guest\nof a man who is universally detested by\nall who are not in receipt of his bounty,\nand one who has made himself specially! obnoxious to the people of N&nai-\nmo by his deceit and greediness, Sir\nJohn will appear to be an ally instead\nof a guest.\nIt is not out of place here to observe\ntbat the railway belt comprises one-\nthird of the Island, and; all the coal of\nBritish Columbia that has any practical\nvalue; that a railway is not now, and\nnever was, needed to tie Nanaimo to\nVictoria; that every aero of the Railway Reserve comes out of the Vancouver District, and not an acre out of\nthe Saanich peninsula; that all that was\ncontended for by the people of Nanimo,\nat the time the Railway Act was before\nthe Houss, was that a specific price\nshould be placed upon coal and mineral\nlands, of which the Railway Company\nshould be obliged to sell to tenderers,\nand that a limit should be placed upon\nthe period of exemption from taxation.\nThese mild and reasonable safeguards\nwere rejected, because the intent of the\nRailway Company is to keepout capital, not to invite it. .\nUnder the very comprehensive grant\nmade to the Company all \"coal, coal-\noil, ores, stones, clay, marble, slate,\nmines, minerals, and \u00E2\u0096\u00A0substances whatsoever upon in or under the land\" are reserved for the Railway Company, and\neven those who squatted upon lands in\nexpectation of the alternate block system being adopted by Government are\nthus, after twelve or thirteen years in a\nposition merely to rest their foot, so to\nspeak, upon surface.\nWe are quite aware that this iniquity\nhas been perpetrated by the Proyincial^j\nGovernment, notwithstanding that nearly every member of that House three\nyears ago charged;the Government of,'\nSia John Macdonald \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 with having I\nbeen the principal culprits. Neverthe-,\nless, surrounded by a set of parasites\nand mercenaries, as all Dominion officers are when they visit this country,\ntreated to the cut and dried Punch and\nJudy performances.that form part of\nthe regular programme here on all-occasions, it is just possible for the idea to\nbe implanted in Sir John's mind that\ntheii is universal satisfaction with Dunsmuir and the enormous land grab he\nhas made in conjunction with American\ncapitalists. Should he remain in our\nmidst long enough, .and disentangle\nhimself from Victoria influences, he is\nclever enough, and we think unprejudiced enough to perceive the gravity\nof the evils thai will flow from the present arrangement. If he cannot prevail upon the principals in this matter\nto modify the terms of their patent, he\nshoifld'-at least take every opportunity\nof 'disavowing his own participancy in\nthe Iniquitous partition of Vancouver\nIsland. We have led people to believe\nthat he was above all money influences!\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094that he desired nothing but the pit IT-\nlie good; but coming to &s under* the\npresent auspices the people who do not\nwear silk hats and drink champagne,\nwho seldom take part in public demonstrations, who read and ruminate in the!\nseclusion of their own homes, but who\nspeak with a voice there is no mistaking\non polling days, will form their own,\nand we believe an adverse, opinion of\nSir John. As for ourselves it is only\none more idol smashed; but it was such\na time-honored one that we shall grieve\na long time over it.\nCanada's Position.\nThe New York Sun a few days ago\nh->d an article in which the time \"When\nCanada comes to be annexed\" was very\nflippantly referred to. This called forth\na spicy and high spirited rejoinder from\na correspondent, in which it is said:\n\"Canada must be allowed to demure to\nthis lofty way of talking about Canada\ncoming to be annexed. It smacks too\nmuch of the lordly style in which some\nreconstructed Englishman might talk of\nIrishmen. There is in it also much of\nMr* Moneybag's self complacent estimate of his irresistible fascinations\namong the ladies. Canada is not coming to be annexed. She must be wooed\nand not unsought be won, if won at all.\nThe settlement will require much more\ndiscussion than seems to have occurred\nto you. Canadians have to be educated\nup or down to elective judges, to a political and changing civil service, to a\npartisan first magistrate, and to a sepe-\nration of the legislative and executive\nfunctions of government. They have\ntb be educated up or down to dog fights,\ntoobscene illustrated newspapers, to the\nfree use of the revolver, to easy and\nabounding divorce-, and consecutive\npologamy. Perhaps Canadians may\nprefer to continue a parliamentary form\nof government, rendering it practicable\nat any time to relegate any great question ro the sovereign people for discussion, instead of piecemeal and periodical electious months ahead of the time\nwhen officials and legislators enter on\ntheir duties. But granting all this, it\nstill remains the fact that Miss Canada\nmust make some arrangements, amicable or otherwise with \"papa\" before she\ncomes suing to be annexed. Imperial\nmoney is being spent to make Halifax\none of the greatest naval ports in the\nworld. Imperial and Canadian money\nis being spent, or will be spent, making\nnaval ports on Canada's Pacific coast.\nThe Canadian Pacific Railway is coming to be regarded in England as a\ngreat commercial route to China and\nthe East, and as a great military route\nto enable] England to hold its Indian\nempire. An Imperial subsidy is expected for a line of steamers between\nVancouver and Hongkong. Lord Salisbury left a memorandum recommending it. The Canadian \"codfish\" navy\nis looming up, and with about the\nfinest sea-faring population behind it.\nThe Nova Scotian difficulty will be\nsettled by concession, and probably rearrangement of the tariff. Nova Scotia\nhas as much Home Rule as Ireland\nwould gladly accept, and more freedom\nto talk secession than would be allowed\nherasone of the United States. If you\nwant Canada you must trump high.\"\nAn Awful Experience.\nSouth Norwalk.CL, July 26.\u00E2\u0080\u0094On\nSaturday Wilbur Ayres, provision dealer, went into his large patent meat refrigerator, and in some way the door\nslammed behind. He was locked in\nwith the temperature at zero. Mr.\nAyers weighs two hundred pounds, but\nsoon began to feel sleepy, and realized\nhe was freezing to death. He threw\nhis body violently against the door\nmany times and succeeded in widening\na crack in thi inside plank, tore out a\nlayer of \"harcoal between, and after\nrepeated trials broke an outside plank,\ncrawled out and fell in a heap en the\nfloor, where he was found by his customers. The muscles on the right side\nwere severed Dy the ribs, and his arms\nare paralyzed, while his whole body\" was\none mass of bruises.\nJ^LIVlEe HARVEY,\nFlaziaimo and Wellington,\nImporter of English, Enstem and American\nICEAHDIS2.\nft'ri$\u00C2\u00AB rrfi.^\nClnboira.\nIMMENSE STOCK, PBIME GROCERIES, FRESH CffllSIOE\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 fgr n '\" ,.; rwsgrh war \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\n%J \"Up\n?sr.\u00C2\u00AB^rLeLirQ.o\n<\u00C2\u00A3s\n\u00C2\u00AB7\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.\u00C2\u00A3\u00E2\u0080\u00A2!. htU'Jlb Ci uUlvisl.sQOiUi l?i 1.1.01]AH ID,\nImporters and Dealers in Groceries, Provisions, Grain, Feed,j\nIiay and General Farm Produce, invite inspection of thelp\nlarge and carefullv selected stock of the above line of goods\n\u00C2\u00A3ow on view at their new store, Bastion Street, under tne\nKoresters' Hall, Nanaimo. Agents for P. 0. S. Company's\nline of San Francisco and Portland steamers, P. N. Company b\nEast Coast steamers, B. C. Express Company, and Saanitth\nLime. In stock, Kurtz's CigarSi The trade sup-,\nplied with the above celebrated Cigars at Victoria prices. - ,i\nTHE CELEBRATED EASTERN LIGHT OIL\nIn stock, the quality of which we guarantee. Also Pish Oil,\nShingles (sawn and split), Nails in any size and quantity.\nOrders solicited and goods delivered free of charge to any\npart of the city or vicinity. We make a Specialty in Tea\nAnd Coffee, the latter we roast and grind daily.\nrif\nNANAIMO DRUG STORE.\nE PIMBURY & CO,\n DISPENSING\t\nChemists and Druggists\nCommercial St., Nanaimo, B. O.\nAll possible care is taken to avoid low priced drugs and \"'\nchemicals, it being of the first importance to the sick that\npreparations used in compounding medicin&i Mould be of\nthe required official strength. Physicians and others can de\u00C2\u00AB\npend upon having their prescriptions faithfully compounded,\nA set of chemical apparatus is kept for the purpose of testing\nthe purity of drugs. The largest assortment in the city of\nPatent IMediotries, Perfumery, Sponges, ~>\nHair Brushes, Combs, Tooth Brushes\nToilet. Soaps, Pure Drugs,\nIn fact all articles usually found in first-class drug stores\nA. L^K.O-E STOCK OF\nBOOKS AND STATIONERY\nALWAYS OIST HLAJSTIfc\nNANAIMO\nEstablished 1875.\nBOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS\nA Full Stock of Goods in our Line\nAMERICAN S CANADIAN PERIODICALS\nTo order at Publisher's rates with Premiums, etc.\nRaperp Raper\n<&, CO.,\nVSGTORIA GSiESOEHT, NANAIMO, B. 0.\nG. BEVILOOKWAY.\nr\nOrescent Stoi*e,\nDealer in nil closes of\nGROCERIES AND DRY GOODS\nHighest Gash Price Pnid for\nFURS. SSSXSTS and. HIDES\n0}\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2;\u00E2\u0080\u00A2:. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094y. .\u00E2\u0080\u0094-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nWESTWARD HO!\nSATURDAY, AUGUST 14m, 1886.\nA Chinese Theatre in Gan Francisco.\nFrom the opium cellar we were taken\nto the theatre. Lite as it was, the\nhouse was still packed, and the play\nwas in full progress. A dirty curtain\nbeing pushed aside, we were ushered\ninto a large hall packed to suffocation\nwith Chinamen. The stage was without scenery or drop curtain, and was\noccupied by a half-dozen musicians and\ntwo painted actors, who were reciting\nparts in 1 high, shrill key. The orchestra played almost incessantly, and\ncreated a din that was exasperating to\nus who could not discover the slightest\nharmony in the sounds produced. A\nplay often lasts a week in a Chinese\ntheatre, and is performed from early in\nthe evening until an hour long past\nmidnight. The players are all men,\nwomen characters being taken by such\nas have soft voices and gentle features.\nAmong the audience were many women,\nbut they occupied a gallery by themselves. The men sat on long benches,\nand many of them were squatted on the\nstage itself. Leaving the auditorium,\nwe passed across the stage, without exciting the, least surprise apparently, and\nwent \"behind the scenes.\" In the first\nroom we entered were stored the \"properties\" of the theatre\u00E2\u0080\u0094the collection\ncomprising a sadly soiled lot of clothe*,\nwigs, helmets and swords. Seated about\nthe room were several actors waiting for\ntheir \"call\" and indulging, meanwhile,\nIn a quiet smoke. From where they\nsat, dressed in all their finery, we went\ninto another room and out of it down a\nflight of stairs to a passage way upon\nwhich opened the rooms of the various\nactors, \"They all live here,\" said\nOfficer John, \"and the place is like A\nbig hotel. Some of the best aetors are\npaid $5000 and $10,000 a year,\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094Cor,\nNew York Post.\nA New Kind of Dog,\nA wild-looking man, who resembled one\nwho had wrestled with misfortune in a catch-\nas-catch-can hold, and been thrown in the\ncontest, went into a Woodward Avenue\nbird store, the other day, and approached the\naffable proprietor.\n\"Look here,\" he said, \"may I take you\napart for a moment?''.\n\"Certainly,\" replied the man of animals,\n\"if you can,put nie together again.\"\n\"Well, here's a letter from my wife\u00E2\u0080\u0094say,\ncome out and have something.\"\nThey went and had something; when they\ncame back the wild looking man resumed the\nletter.\n'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2She writes me,\" he continued, \"together\na white canvas-back dog in cross\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"\n\"Now you go,\" said the man severely.\n\"Business is business, \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 nnd\" I've no time to\nfool away.\"\nHe sat down on the curb stone to rest. He\nwas still reading the letter when a sympathetic lady stopped to. look at him.\n\"Poor manVare you ill ?\" she asked, kindly.\n\"Heaven bless you, madam, read that letter. If you can and will I am a saved man.\"\nThe lady took the letter as if she were\nhumoring the whim of a lunatic, and ran it\nover.\n\"It is easy enough to read,\" she said,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 'Your wife, who seems to be an excellent\nwoman, wishes you to buy her a white dog in\ncross-stitch, stamped on a canvas splasher,\nwith crewels to finish it and send by express\nat once. I'm sure there's nothing about it\nthat isn't plain enough.\" ,.\n\"Thank you ma'am; I'll never forget your\nkindness. Where did you say the cross-\nstitched dog on canvas could be found ?\"\n\"At any art embroidery store,\" and the lady\nwalked away, remarked, sotto voice:\n\"Of all the stupids, men are the stupidest.\nNot to know what cross-slitch is!''\nA Good, Kind Sister.\nSmall Brother: Where did you get that\ncake, Annie?\nSmall Sister: Mother gave It to me,\nSmall Brother: Ah, she always glvei you\nmore than me.\nSmall Sister: Never mlndj she's going to\nput mustard plasters on us when we go to\nbed to-night, and I'll ask her to lei you have\nthe biggest.\t\nSaid a four-year older, on being told the\nstory of LittieRed Riding Hood: \"J don't\nsee what the wolf warted to eat up the little\ngirl. I should think the grandmother would\nhave been enough for it. She would if she\nwere as large! as mine.\"\nThe New Orleans Picayune says: \"One of\n(he most exciting contests at the Vicksburg\ndrill was the brass bund contest. Ample notice had been given citizms who wished to\nleave town. Only one band entered and that\none took the prize.\"\nW. A. HQi^E,\nGeneral Blacksmith and Wagon Makex.\nBASTION STVEET; SEAR THE 01.15 BASTION. N \NA!M0.\nU :.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2; jir....-iir;J the services ol'a first-class II01fre-\u00C2\u00BBho*f, I am now prepared to fill ail\nOrders \"it'r Promptitude and dispatch.\nLC ?K OUT\n-IN NEXT ISSUE FDR\nDONALD SMITH,\nNotary Public. Conveyancer, Accnuniant, and Peal Estate Agent,\nkSjVTS AND DEBTS COLLECTED.\nAGENT AT NANAIMO FOR\nPh.'erii* Fire Insurance Company or' London. Established 1872, Losses paid ove\n^H,ooc,coo pi-^r'ip.jr.\nCommercial Union Insurance Company of London, Capital, $12,500,000.\nBSKN AfCEPTKD AT CVkRKKT HATES OF yitEMII'.lf,\nOFFICE\u00E2\u0080\u0094Corner oi- Commbrciai. amd WHARF Stkebts, ?\nNanaimo. 0, C.\nTH^ ADVERTISEMENT OF\nCarthew's Hotel,\nJohn Carthew, Proptr.\nCOMOX, li. C.\nIDENTICAL HOTEL,\nNORMAN SMITH',\nPROPIETOR.\nVICTORIA CRESCENT, VANA1M0. \u00C2\u00A3 \" \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nC. C. McKENZIE,\nLand Agent, Custom's House Brrt er, Conveyancer * cccuntant\nOFFICE\u00E2\u0080\u0094VICTORIA CRESCENT.\nMay be found la the Office at other Hours, but always between 11 a. m. and I p. r\u00C2\u00BB,\nTown Lots and Farms or Sale.\nMonty to Loan on Mortgage at Low Rates.\nK.R.HOSIE.\nPainter, Grainer, Gilder, Glazier,\nPaper-Hanger, Sign-Writer and Musician,\nCor, Wallace and Campbell Sts. Nanaimo.\nNANAIMO\" BREWERY.\nMILL STREET, NANAIMOi' '*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nJOHN MAHRER,\nPROPRIETOR, \u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2T. D, JONES & CO.\n(DIAMOND DRILL PROSPECTING COMPANY.)\nAre open to receive applications for Boring? fjr Coal Oil, Coal\nand other Minerals-BY CONTRACT.\nADDRESS\nT. D. JONES & CO., NANAIMO.\nNEWCASTLE HOTEL,\nCOMOX ROAD, NANAlalO.\nH. P. SMITH, Proprietor.\nThe bent qualitlao of WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS dispensed\nnt the Hnr.\nOLD FLAG INN.\nNear the Mechanics' Institute, and only three minutes walk from Steamboat Landing.\nNANAIMO, V.I.\nJ. E. JENKINS, Froprietor.\nSUPERIOR ACCOMMODATION FOR TRAVELLERS..\nV \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 _^r._^ \" ' Ip^P\nThe Bar is well Minniied with the best of\nDfiW DROP HOTEL,\nHALIBURTON STRKET \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 - - NANAIMO.\nWporire linker, Proprietor.\nKirst class accosamodatlon'fop regular Hoarders and Lodgers, and the Travelling Public\nMEALS:\nBreakfast, 6:30 to 8, Dinner, r\u00C2\u00AB to 2: Supper, 5130 to 6130,\nNONE BUT THE BEST BRANDS\nOF\nUfoers. Winn. Alee, Porter and Cigars Dispensed it the Bar.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ~~ .. 1 . . 1 ..-,,\nThe Lansdowne Brewery.\nH. Rosewall, Proprietor.\nComox Road.\nALE and PORTER.\nTsTfcW BTJTCHER SHOP,\nCOSMOPOLITAN MARKET,\nCMMirclal Strict, next door to the Mlnert' Exchange Hotel, Nasalae,\nE. QUENNELL,\nHaving opened as above, will keep constantly on hand an assortment of '\nMEATS AMD VEGETABLES.\nAad hapei to receive a continuance of the patronage so liberally bestowed d 'Wag tht'ras\nten years.\nMeats' tic, delivered to all parts of the City free of chart r\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 vn i\n. u\nWINES, LIQUORS. AND CIGARS.\nROYAL HOTEL AND RESTAURANT.\nThe Largest and Best Hotel in\nthe City.\nMEALS AT ALL HOURS.\n. Oysters, etc., Supplied at any Time.\nA First Class FRENCH COOK has charge of tht Cuime\nR. WATKINS,\nPROPRIETOR,\nTHE NNIMO PHARMACY.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 . -\nG. H. BLAKEWAY,\nDispensing Chemist and Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer.\nVICTORIA CRESCENT, NANAIMO, B. C.\nChristmas and New Year's Cards at Blakeway's Drug; aod Stationery\nStore.\ntyPRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.\nEDWARD HUGHES,\nLong Bridge, Nanaimo.\nSTRONG BOOTS AND SHOES FOR WINTER WEAR\nMEN'S, WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S\nCHEP FOR CASH,\nPROVINCIAL HOTEL,\nVICTORIA CRESCENT.\notel has been re-fitted and re-painted\nfiords\nTravellers and the General Public,\nwith the best of\nAND CHUBS.\nTHE PREMISES.\nN, Proprietor.\n.TOHKHOOFEB,\nVICTORIA CRISCINT.\nSADDLEfR AND HARNESS MAKER.\nDress Making is carried on in connection with tht abou businttt\nSaacial attention is Invited to a select assortment of Hanoi Painted Velvet\nsuitable for brackets, etc.\nJ. T. O'BRIEN,\nAlbert Street Nanaimo, B. C.\nTeaming and Draying Done on Short Notice.\nvvnod. and Coal Promptly Delivered to any part of the Citjr.\nHOTEL,\nictoria Crescent.\nA EASSON, Proprietor.\nDm Bar, wall* hai been recently beautified, will always be found wtll Hoclied with Ike\nbest brands of\nWISES, I.IQIORS, AKD CIUARS.\nA well supplied RESTAURANT in connection with the above.\nG. MONTGOMERY,\nCorner Albert and Commercial Streets.\nDEALER IN\nGroceries, Fruits, Vegetables, Cigars, Tobacco\nCandies, etc.\nFREQUENT CONSIGNMENTS OF FRESH FRUIT. WESTWARD HO !\nSATURDAY, AUGUST i4tk, 1886.\nHome ]M\"ews.\nCity, Island, And Province.\nVeritable Queen's weather for a reception.\nRobert Brown and Wm. Saunders\nhave gone to the Nanaimo lakes.\nWm. Wetherell was burned by a shot\nin the East Wellington Colliery on\nThursday.\nChief Constable Stewart was on hand\nwith his artillery and fired a salute at\nthe reception.\nOur reporter saw \"Cumtux,\" \"Ga-\nbriola\"and \"Enquirer\" puttine; on considerable frills at the reception,\nOwing to a mistake we did not publish the fact that Robert Hall and Thos.\nWall had returned from England. They\nlook well after their long trip.\nStill another death at the Hospital. John\nMacdonald succumbed to his injuries received\non the Queen of tde Pacific, on Wednesday.\nAllison, Varle and Coffee (the three remaining\nof the injured) were doing well at laat accounts.\nThe last spike was driven on the E. and\nN. Railway at a point Iwo miles south of\nShawnigan Lake by Sir John Macdonald.\nIt wai to all outward appearances a silver\nspike and silver hammer. Wonder how long\nthe silver spike will stay in the tie? It may\nhave }o be drawn to help to pay the expences\nof thc railroad.\nSir John, Lady and party then pro*\nceeded with Mr. S. M. Robins, *uper-\ntendent of the V. C. Co., to the No.\n1 Esplanade shaft. They went into\nthe engine house and saw the engines.\nThey are the largest pair of colliery\nengines west of the Rocky Mountains.\nMr. Frederick Meakin, the efficient\nengineer, was in charge. Soon after,\nin company with Mr. Robins and Mr.\nW. cGregor, the manager, the party\nproceeded to the shaft's mouth. The\ncage being up Sir John and party, with\nthe above-mentioned gentlemen, got\ninto the cage, and were lowered into\nthe largest and deepest shaft in the\nProvince. The shaft is 18 feet in diameter and 640 feet deep.\nIf Sir John should goto the Wellington Colliery he will be struck by the\ngreat difference in the magnitude of\nmining operations carried on by the\nVancouver Coal and Land Company\nin comparison with Dunsmur and Son's\ncolleries.\nSir John and Lady Macdonald left\nby the Alexand.-r for New Westminster\nyesterday afternoon. \"\"\"\"\nin ' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n* Very Wicked Trick.\nNot long ago a young gentleman employed\nin the office of the County Clerk at Geneva,\n111., received at the hands of a friend a small\nsample cup of oleomargarine made by a Chicago firm. With a view to determine how\nmuch the dairy farmers around Geneva knew\nabout butter he showed the sample to them\nas they came at odd times into the office,\ntelling them it was a sample of Elgin hutter.\nEvery man of them smacked his lips and declared it to be as good butter as he had ever\nFIRE!\ntasted.\nAn immense racket was heard in the vicin- j \"Isn't it a burning shame,\" said the wicked\nity of the High School yesterday evening, young man to one innocent dairyman, \"that\nUpon rushing out to investigate it was dis. Congress doesn't hurry up and pass a bill\ncovered to be the avant courier of three stage prohibiting the manufacture of that miserable,\nloads of Chinese on pleasure bent. The Chi-! greasy, tasteless stuff, oleomargarine ?\"\nneie band was there, also Old Joss, together i \"Yes, it is,\" remarked tht honest yeoman;\nwithieveral other minor gods. It is said that | \"but, then, let 'em make all the olemargarine\na pic-nic will be given to-day, and that a Joss ! they want to, there will always be a market\nhouse is to be established. Who says that j and good prices for such butter as that.\"\nIf you wish to insure your property\nyou cannot do better than cn'l upon\nMr. W. K. Leighton, agent for thc\nLiverpool and London and Globe and\nthe /Etna Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn. Risks are accepted at\ncurrent rates. *\nWholesale and Retai\nDAPC\nrv\nt %\n!\H\nt \"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-.\u00C2\u00BB' t\n1M0\n\"Jl\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB*\u00C2\u00BB, \j; .yt '.\ni . * U 1\ntt. CRAIG,\nBlacksmith.\nHerses Shod with Scientific Accuracy by a SMITH\nof many years' experience..\nWaggons of all Kinds Made to Order.\nREPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE AT LOW RATES.\nGENERAL BLACKSMITHING DONE WITH\nEXPEDITION AND ACCURACY.\nBASTION STREET, NANAIMO, B. C.\nNotice.\nA. K. JOHNSTON ct CO.,\n> ppointed Agents for the\nhave been\nBRITISH COLUMBIA FHtK INSURANCE\nCOMPANY,\nto act for Nanaimo and vicinity, and\nare now ready to accept risks.\nM. H. Cowan,\nSecretary and Treasurer,\nVirroria, Mav list. i8J\"v\n'is-\nSMkJSj&U^%mP^ua>&^.\ t\n..-,\nwr m \u00C2\u00ABt fi TtWSITk\ngrades sold\nSUGARS\"-^\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 large importation of finest\nin barrels or smaller quantities at Lowest Possible Prices.\nIsland & Portland Flour\nHAMS AND BACON,\nTeas sand Canned. Goods.\nFull assortment direct from paokers.\nBUTTER, CHEESE,\nAND VEGETABLES.\nA large and varied stock of Clothing sold cheap for cash.\nLadies' Fashionable Bazaar.\nNanaimo is retrograding ?\nThe first term of Prof. Hanshaw's\nwriting school at Institute Hall is now\nabout completed, and from the general\nimprovement in the penmanship of the\npupils we believe it has been a decided\nsuccess. As there seems to be a general opinion that the lessons should continue, the Prof, has decided to give a\nsecond term which will, after a few\ndays vacation, commence on Monday,\nAugust 23, at 4 o'clock, p. m., and\nthere will also be evening lessons as\nformerly. *\nSome time bacjc Sir John Macdonald told\nthe foilowing clever-trick: \"Thc funniest\ncase of smuggling I ever heard of,\" said Sir\nJohn 'was the business venture\u00E2\u0080\u0094and a successful one' for a time\u00E2\u0080\u0094of a remarkably bright\nand comely young woman. Her method was\n\"Ye*, but think of the poor people who\ncan't pay high prices for butter. And then,\ntoo, think of the ignorant folks who don't\nknow good butter like this from nasty bull-\ngrease,\"\n\"Well, all I've got tosay,\" replied the dear\nold granger, \"is that-any man who can't tell\nthat kind of butter from olemargarine ought\nto be pizened with the bogus stufl'.\"\nIf that farmer's eye should happen to fall\non this story that wicked young man.will probably get something like his just deserts.\nDidn't Blame Thtm.\nMrs. J. C. McGregor,\nVICTORIA CRESCENT.\nTHE PRINCIPAL DRESS-MAK-\nI ing and Millinery Establishment in the\nCity. Carries a large assortment of\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nHATS, BONNETS,\nFT.OWERS, LACES,\nSILKS, FANCY GOODS,\nand\nLADIES' APPAREL.\nEmploys the Largest Force of Skilled Assistants of auy Dry House in town.\nAgent for the \"WHITE\"' Sewing Machine\nPALACE RESTAURANT\nCHOP\nAND\nHOUSE.\nThe new baby had proved itself the possessor of extraordinary vocal powers, and had\nexerted them much to Johnny's annoyance.\nOne day he said to his mother:\n\"Ma, my little brother came from heaven,\ndidn't he ?\"\n\"Yes, dear.\"\nJohnny was silent for some time, and then\nto load a lot of valuable, compact goods under\nthe robes and seat of a sleigh in which she I he went on:\nand a man would seat themselves in thc guise J \"Say, ma.\"\nof mere pleasure riders, and then the disguised j \"What is it, Johnny ?\"\nload would run right through a town where a \"I drtn't blame the ang\u00C2\u00BBl\u00C2\u00BB for bouncing him,\ncustoms officer was stvitioncd. He would stop do you.\"\nthe sleigh for the usual examination. The\ncouple, hiding their anxiety under a merry,\ncareless manner, would object good-humoredly\nto the delay on the score of the cold weather.\n'Do you think I am a smugler ?' the girl would\nlaughingly exclaim. Then, with a shiver of\nher form, a chatter of her white teeth, and a\npretty leaning of herself snugly against her\ncompanion, she would add : 'A smugler,\nindeed ! In this weather I'd rather be a snug-\nler.' The joke and the joker carried a cargo\nsafely along unexamined a dozen times at as\nmany points, for who could disturb the pretty\ncreature; but at length she undertook to go\nover the same route twice and got caught.\"\nARRIVAL OF THE PREMIER.\nRECEPTION OF SIR JOHN AND LADY\nDONALD.\nMAC-\nSome idea of the' lavish expenditure of\nAustralia, New Zealand and India at the\nColonial Exhibition may be obtained from the\nfact that the show cases for some of the New\nZealand exhibits were made in London, Eng.,\nat a cost of .\u00C2\u00A31,200. Some Canadians who\nmay have thought an expense of ^20 for show\ncases too liberal, will thus see what the Dominion has to compete with.\nOYSTERS, CHICKENS, GAME,\nand every Delicacy in Season.\nServed at all hours and in the best style.\nFIRE!\nLiverpool and London and Globe\nInsurance.\niETNA INSURANCE CO.\nOF HARTFORD, CONN.\nRISKS ACCEPTED AT CURRENT RATES.\nW. K. LEIGHTON,\nAgent.\nSir John and Lady Macdonald and\nparty arrived by the E. and N. R. R.\nat 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon.\nMayor Bate read a civic address to Sir\nJohn: but it was read in an a'most inaudible voice. Sir John then replied\nbriefly, stating that he had come over\nthe E. and N. Railroad, and that it\nwas very well built, but more work\nwould have to be done to make it complete. He said that his visit was one\nof unalloyed pleasure, and praised the\nscenery and climate, and said he might\nrevisit Nanaimo, when he would stay\nlonger.\nThe school children then sang \"God\nSave the Queen,\" after which the band\nstruck up \"Our Jack's Come Home\nTo-day.\"\n. .TENDERS\nARE INVITED UP TO NOON.\non the 21st inst., for EXTENDING\nand REPAIRING the MASONIC BUILDING, according to specifications, to be seen\nat my office,\nC. C. MoKENZIE,\nSec. Ashlar Lodge,\nNo. 3 A. F. and A, M.\nNOTICE.\nOWING AC\nEstate of JOHN\nWHITFIELD are hereby notified to pay\nthe same to the undersigned.\nC C. McKENZIE,\nVictoria Crescent,\nJILL PERSONS\nH, COUNTS to the\nHIRST BRO'S,\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094:o:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nCOMMERCIAL ST., NANAIMO.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094:o: \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nThe above Firm carry a Full Stock\nof Dry Goodi, Groceries, Hardware,\nAgricultural Implements, Jewelry, Cutlery and Fancy Goods, &c,\nIMPORTED DIRECT.\nWalter wilson,\nIMPORTER OF\nStoves, Grates, Ra. ges, Pumps,\nLead Pipe, Zinc, Etc.\nAND MAHUtACTURF.il OF\nTIN, COPPER, ZINC AND SHEET IRON WARE.\nAi_SO METAL ROOFEF,\nKKPAIHIJfU IIOMR Ai' SHOUT NOTIt'K.\nCOMMERCIAL STREET, NANAIMO.\nThe Fnrmera' Store. Comox.\nThe Crescent Store, Nanaimo.\nARTHUR BULLOCK,\nDRY GOODS AND MIIUNERY\nGo to Arthur Bullock's, the leading and fashionable dry\ngoods house of Nanaimo, where the public will find a large\nand complete stock of Dry Goods, Millinery and Men's Fur*\nlushing Goods. Being a direct importer from the European\nand Eastern markets, I am enabled to offer Goods at most\nreasonable rates. My stock of Millinery is now most com\u00C2\u00AB\nplete, and I can show a more fashionable and stylish class of\ngoods than any other house in British Columbia. Some\nelegant styles in\nADIES' CMKSiDOLMANS\nGREAT BARGAINS IN FLANNELS AND BUCKETS.\nP\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094ISM\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094MB\u00E2\u0080\u0094 WW\nTerms Cash. ARTHUR BULLOCK, Crescent Store.\nACEUT HORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY.\nJas. Abrams. D. J. MoLban.\nVANCOUVER CLOTHING. HOUSE,\nJsls. -AJtoreiiEis <& Co.\nLuge and complete stock of Men's, Youths', Boys' and Children's\nOVERCOATS\nULSTERS.\n101' c'\nQUANTITY, QUALITY AND CHEAPNESS NEVER BEFORE EQUALLED IN\n.NINAXHO.; \u00E2\u0080\u00A2'.\nShirts, Collars, Gloves, Gents' Furnishings, Mitts, Ties, anu\nBraces are Specialties. A direct importation of a large\nlot of Underclothing, also a large parcel of French\nHAND-MADE SHOES AND GERMAN SLIPPERS\nNever before introduced into this Market.\nNO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS.\nFarmer's Market.\nE. HODGSON, Proprietor.\nCOMMERCIAL STREET,\nNANAIMO.\nHaving purchased the above POPULAR MARKET from Mr. David\nHoggan, I will keep constantly on\nhand a full assortment of '\nMEATS AND VEGETABLES\nOrders for Hotels,. Families and\nShipping supplied at short notice, and\ndelivered free of charge.\nDealer in Horses, Cattle, etc. \"^^\nDISCOUNT FOR\nCASH.\nWe have lately received a large\u00E2\u0080\u0094in\nfact the largest, cheapest, and best line\nof\nENGLISH MERINO\nUNDERCLOTHING,\nfrom $1.50 a suit upwards.\nA large and well selected stock of\nEnglish clothing from $15 to $22 per\nsuit. We have the largest stock of\nwhite and colored shirts, hats, caps,\nand ties, boots and shoes in Nanaimo.\nIjgTThe above goods will be sold\nat five per cent, discount for cash.\nCOME ONE ! COME ALL I\nJAMES ABRAMS & CO."@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Nanaimo (B.C.)"@en . "Nanaimo"@en . "Westward_Ho!_1886_08_14"@en . "10.14288/1.0083918"@en . "English"@en . "49.1638890"@en . "-123.9380560"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Nanaimo, B.C. : W.B Macdougall"@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 . "Westward Ho!"@en . "Text"@en . ""@en .