"f3abeee8-1db3-4fab-8107-3ddb113e1d42"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2016-07-29"@en . "1897-11-06"@en . "The Miner was published in Nelson, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The Miner was established by John Houston, an outspoken journalist who would later embark on a successful political career, which included four terms as the mayor of Nelson and two terms in the provincial legislature. After leaving the Miner in the summer of 1892, Houston established the Tribune to compete with his former paper. The Miner was published by The Miner Printing and Publishing Company, and the paper's longest-serving editor was D. J. Beaton. The Miner was published under two variant titles, the Nelson Weekly Miner and the Weekly Miner. In 1902, the paper was sold to F. J. Deane, who changed the title to the Weekly News."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xminer/items/1.0183061/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " it fr\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDy.ynwy^T.Mw\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDy: V .;;*-' Whole Numbek 376. Nelson, British Columbia, Saturday, Nov. 6, 1897. Price Five Cents DIVIDED OTTO WARD STREET WILL MARK THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THEM- An Opinion From City Solicitor John Holt In Kelutlon to the \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDiualltl- catlous or.\oter\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD. Cl- A short meeting of tlie city council was held on Wednesday afternoon and a bylaw read which provides for dividing the city into two wards to be known as East \"Ward and West Ward respectively. The East ward will comprise all that district within the city limits east of the center line of Ward street. The bylaw also provides for the election of three aldermen from each ward. It will lie finally adopted at the next meeting. The following opinion from City Solicitor John Eliott, referring to the qualifications of voters was read and filed. \"In reply to your inquiry as to the qualifications of voters etc. and the persons entitled to vote at municipal elections I find asfollows: \"That any male or female British subject of the full age of 21 years may v vote in the ward in which he or she is a resident and a ratepayer and who has paid orfpv before the^flrst day of November, prior to the clay of nomination, all municipal rates, taxes, assessments and licence fees (except water rates) but the council have the power to pass a bylaw allowing such persons to vote although such payments have not been made, and who has been a resident of the municipality for at least one year prior to the date of the closing of the last \" municipal revised voters' list and \"a\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWho is the assessed owner of lauds or improvements or assessed occupier of land situate within the municipality. \"b\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDOr who carries on business and is tho holder of a trades license in the municipality, the annual fee of which is at least $5.\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD '\"'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDOn.who is a householder within the municipality. \"Tliat the voters'list shall close on the first Monday in December and be corrected, revised and certified by the Mayor on or before the third Monday in December. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'That the clerk immediately after such correction or revision shall pre- - pare an alphabetical list of voters, stating each voters' qualifications,\" . \"That the council shall by bylaw or resolution passed in the mbnth of December appoint the places for holding nomination, the returning officer aTfd~depiities~and_the-polling-places and shall prior to the day of nomination furnish the returning officer with a list of voters for each ward and arrange for the coming election. \"That the nomination shall be held on thc second Monday in January from 12 noon to 2 p. m. and the polling shall take place on the following Thursday from 8 a. m. to 4 p. in.\". Adjourned until Friday at 2 p. in.\" A NEW PASTOR. mine is lookiug flue aud the outlook is that it will become one of the heaviest shippers in the district. Mr. Tomlinson will start a camp at Lardeau next spring and would have done so this winter had transporation facilities been better. He is interested iu the Hope and Park Region two miles below the big jam on tbe Duncan river. There is a 60 foot tunnel on the Hope. The Ledge breaks over and the heighth of the tunnel is the width ot the vein. Assays give a result of 70 ounces in silver and 40 to SO per cent lead. It appears to be a .fine concentrating proposition, the pay streak being about 18 inches in width. Mr. Tomlinson is interesting himself in the question of transporation facilities and as soon as they are improved there will be many others besides himself who will be actively engaged in the work of development. Mr. G. O. Buchanan owns two claims in the Bame ledge and adjoining the Hope. MEN TREATED FAIRLY. M. J. HANEY OF,THE GROWS NEST ROAD MAKES A STATEMENT. GENERAL LOCAL EVENTS OF INTEREST IN AROUND NELSON. AND lie Says the Published Articles In Stnrrt lo Ibe Trouble Are 8eur- rllous. Be- HALL MINES SMELTER Brier Mention or Happenings In District During Hie Vast Seven* Days. the Will Probably Shut Down Tonight ror Repairs. It is expected that the Hall Mines smelter will shut down tonight so as to allow a new foundation to be built under the engines, the one now in uso being worn iind faulty. The shut down will give the company an opportunity to repair the blast furnace, should it be found that any repairs arc needed. The tramway is ahead of the mine and the stop will allow the latter to get a quantity of ore on hand. The quality of the ore com ing down lately has heen very fine and a correspondingly large amount of matte has M. J. Haney of Macleod, manager of construction of the Crow's Nest road was in Nelson last Thursday and left on Friday morning for'\"the head of Kootenay lake from which point he will go over thc line to Macleod. He has been visiting on the coast for the past month. In regard to the charges preferred against hiin of unfair treatment to the men employed on the road, Mr. Haney said: \"I am sorry to see., the papers taking up this matter and printing'scurrilous articles. I am prepared at any and all times to state the facts iii any case of complaint, wire.\" '\"' \"Will you state the facts in tho case for mc?\" was asked, \"The facts are,\" said Mr. Haney, \"that certain men came from the east whose fares had been advanced by.the company and they were given to understand they must and agreed to repay this fare. In fact they signed contracts to this effect. A few endeavored to evade this payment and consequently there has been trouble. j They endeavored to create.dissatisfac been produced A large amount of custom ore is on | tion and you have seen the statement^ hand, particularly from the War Eagle at Rossland. Last week a ship- ment^of about 30 tons was received from Evening Star No. 8 on Dayton creek but' this will probably be used when the blast furnace is blown in. The Athabasca on Toad mountain has just shipped about 100 tons, which will he used in the calcining furnance as soon as it starts up. The new roaster and reverberatory furnaces are progressing favorably and will probably be ready to blow in by Christmas.. < OPERA HOUSE AND GYMNASIUM. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJ. B. Ferguson of Kaslo was a visitor to Nelson this week. J; j W. Powell of Victoria is a guest at the Phair. Charles E. Tripp of Mission City is visiting in Nelson. \"VV. H. Armstrong, of Vancouver is in town. J. G. McGuigan of Kaslo was in Nelson during the week. J. A. Veatch of the Fern mine was in town during the week. -- G. O. Buchanan of Kaslo was a either by mail or j visitor to Nelson last Wednesday. Mr. W. A. Jowett left for the coast last Saturday. He expects to return next week. E. V. Bodwell, of Victoria, of the firm of Bodwell & Irvine, is at the Phair. . ,11. A. Barton of London, Eng., who is representing considerable English capital, is visiting iu Nelson. Evan Morgan of Loon Lake is at the Phair. Mr. Morgan is the proprietor of the Loon lake summer resort. The case of F. K. Hurry, charged with having adulterated milk in his possession for sale, will be heard before Judge Forin next Monday. C. G. Dixon, general agent of the Great Northern at Spokane is in Nelson on his regular business trips. Mrs. Andy Dolan has returned from a month's visit to Macleod where her husband is completing a contract on the Crow's.Nest road. C. E. Perry, of Slocan City, the C. P. was made last Monday night and although the celestials objected loudly and long, they ah paid when they found that the alternative was Lhe j'vil. A new ledge has been uncovered on the Athabasca. This makes the second during the last 30 days. The MorniDg mine on Toad Mountaiu has ten sacks of ore ready for shipment. It is to be sent as a sample to the smelter to see what can be done with it. The Julius Caesar, on Toad Mountain is in about '10 feet on the ledge and a force of men are still working on the tuunel. Assays from this property have run as high as $45 in gold. A cross cut has beeu run on the Cashier and Golden Gem on Anderson creek and it is claimed that the work has proved that the^ lead is the continuation of the Sunset lead. The principal values are said to be gold and copper. The Salvation Army has purchased lot 5, block 15 on Victoria street between Ward and Josephine streets and Mr. G. Dickson will erect a build- there to be used as a barracks. LET. GOV. HIS APPOINTMENT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED IN VANCOUVER. William Templeman I.s Appointed Senator Itanquct' lu Honor or Hon. V. Sifton. .The building will be a two story affair and the upper floor will bo used for living, rooms. Timbers are now on thc ground and the construction will be started at once. WONDERFUL LEDGES. that have been published. In regard to the otlier complaints I do not see where they come in. The men have the best of board and they receive 100 cents ou the dollar for their wages. Each man is charged 50 cents per month for medical fees which is the least amount I ever heard of any company charging. . We allow' no time check scalpers on tho line and tho men are paid the wages they were hired for before they' left the east. They were hired with the understand; ing that they were to do any class of Ik. enRineer who has had charge ot the It Is [Proposed to U\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDve Tliem It nil t This Winter. A project is on foot to construct an opera house in Nelson and the outlook is that it will be successful. The gentleman who has the matter in. hand does not wish to be known in connection with it at present but to a reporter for The Miner stated that if the matter could be arranged, construction would begin by or before December 1. The building is to be 40 feet wide and the theatre floor will be ou a level with the street. The main part of this floor Induction or Kev. Koltcrt Frew Took Place ; Inst Thursday. The induction of Hev. Robert Frew asl'astor of tho Presbyterian Church took place Thursday evening Nov, 1th at the church. Rev. Glastord, moderator of the Presbytery presided and Rev. T. McG. Gandier, of Rossland, preached and delivered the address to thc people. The moderator gave the right hand of fellowship to the pastor with words of welcome and the Rev. Morden of the Methodist Church made the induction prayer. A solo was sung by Mr. F. M. Chadbourn. After * the exercises closed refreshments were served by thc ladies of the congregation. The new pastor will preach next Sabbath morning and evening. will be level with movable seats so that\" it may he cleared for dancing. Iu the rear will be a tier ot raised seats. The plans provide for an elaborate balcony with raised seats and the stage will have all the appliances and room necessary for the production of first class performances. It is hoped to have everything complete during .the month of January. The location will be in the residence district. Not the least important part of the proposed building will be the basement which is to be fitted lip for a gymnasium. The present plan is to have a reading room in connection with the turning hall. Tbe latter will be 40x60 feet. Several of the athletic young men of Nelson have interested themselves in the matter and in making a canvass of the town secured promises from about 75 who agreed to go into it und put up the first year's dues in advance. The paraphenalia will cost but little, and there ore a number of ybuug men in town ;who are familiar with gymnasium work and. who will be glad to instruct. The movement is unquestionably a good one and should receive the support and hearty cooperation of all. A GRAND SUCCESS. work that the. company wanted them to do. I am not hard on the men and I always do as I agree to do. I have a long record on large works and 'have employed a great .many men iri my. time and I have always lived up to any agreement, Ihave made. On the other hand I expect the men to carry out their part of an agreement or contract and have always insisted upon it. There are now about 4000 men employed \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD on .the line between Moyie lake and Macleod and we expect tp have the tracks down to .the head of Kootenay lake by November of nexb year,jwhich will be ahead of the contract time. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD The work is progressing satisfactorily iind I look for no drawbacks of any kind.\" Mr. Haney is accompanied by Mr. R. Fellows, government\" engineer on the work. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD THE CITY COUNCIL.., constriction ot the Slocan river branch, is in the city. The Nelson & Fort Sheppard Railway has made application to take water from a small creek 100 feet south of Mountain siding. It will be taken through a 2 inch pipe. A force of men is employed on the Tennessee cross-cutting from the shaft to a second ledge about fifty feet away. A large quantity of ore is on tho dump. Judge Adolph Miinter of Spokane, who was recently a candidate on the jtraight_republican^ ticket for joint judge of thc superior court-, is a giiest\" He conies up on legal LAST CHANCE GROUP. Many Hundred Tons Will be ShtppdThl* Winter. E. H Tomlinson who with Dr. Hendryx, recently sold the Last Chance group to a syndicate represented by Scott McDonald, is a guest at the Phair. Mr. Tomlinson states that the Last Chance . Mining and Milling company has been disincorporated because the new syndicate, prefers that the interests should be held individually. He states that the Last Chance is now shipping from two to ten carloads of ore and the vein in No. 3 or the lower tunnel, when he saw it last Monday had shipping ore and carbonates from wall to wall, a width of\" about five feet. The shipments are just commencing and it is expected that dariog the rewinding season that several hundred tons per month will be shipped. The Cpunellincii Tested tbe New Water System ' '\"last Wednesday. On \"Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock the water pipes of the new system, as far down as the corner of Latimer and Stanley streets, were tested in the presence ot the'mayor and a number of the aldeimen. At the hour mentioned the gate at Anderson creek was opened about one inch and the pipes allowed to fill. The connection wa3 direct with the Hume line so that it was not necessary to fill the new reservoir. Near the corner of Latimer and Stanley streets a hose with a one inch nozzle was attached to the hydraat and a stream was thrown about 100 feet straight np into the air. The city officials were very enthusiastic and said that it was one of the finest water displays they had ever seen. No leaks of consequence were discovered at any point and the line was pronounced an emphatic success. Within a few. day?, the pipe line down Stanley istreet will be tested in a similar manner. Ucservoir und flume Contractors finished Their Work. At the meeting of the city couucil yesterday afternoon the members present were Mayor Houston, Aldermen Teetzel, Gilker ahd Malone. By-law No. 21 providing for the, division ot the'' city into - two wards was fiually adopted.- A communication was received stating that the presure valves would arrive in Nelson in about ten days. . ^ Bills to the amount of Sl.263.31 were audited nud. ordered paid. They included oue from Barrister Johu ^Elliott for $175 and two from F. \"Darling amounting to \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD978.35 . The mayor stated that Breckinridge & Lund'had informed him that they had completed the,work in the reservoir and flume line. ,. He ^bought the couucil would be safe in allowing them $1,000. The amount due them is figured at $1,045 due on the flume alone. It ,wa3 decided to allow them \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD900 on the flume aud $100 on the reservoir. The mayor stated that E. J. Roberts, chief engineer of the Nelsou & Fort Sheppard railway had put a force of men at work grading the road from Mountain station and had telgraphed to kuow when the city would start to:work ou the portion of the road lying within the city limits. It was decided to have the city engmcer establish grades ou Latimer street from Josephine street to the east boundary and to call for tenders for grading, the tenders to be in on November 10 at 2 p.m. \" The mayor was authorized to purchase needed furniture for the fire hall. The action was taken upon the recommendation of the'fire chief who asked that four beds and other furniture be pnt in for the accommodation of men who will join the volunteerdepartment Adjourned until Monday at 3 p.m. I\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDau at thc Phair business. Magistrate Crease on Monday heard a charge of assault and battery in whieh. three woineu known as Leslie Coleman, ^Hattie,\" and Edith Blair wero concerned. It was' an cast end, hair-pulling match and Mr. Crease deckled to dismiss the- case. The Provincial jail,building is rapidly nearing completion and paintets are now at work ou the roof. EDgiueer Hodgins has dispensed witli the clerk ot the works and is personally supervising everything. A free social will be given at the school house.by Lad'03 Aid of Baptist church ou Friday November 19. A musical programme will be the order of the evening: George McL. Brown of Vancouver, executive agent of the C.'P. R. is in (he city. \" ' .Commencing today the C. P. R. will make two trips daily to Rossland. Each train will at the same as at\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDpreseut. Magistrate Crease yesterday fined \"William Green (colored) $10 for assaulting \"William Herring. It appears thai the latter tried to take a basket and Green hit him with a piece of stove wood. John Parsons, of the Parsons' Produce Co., \"Winnipeg, Manitoba, was in Nelson this week, Mr. Parsons, in company with the representative of his firm here, Mr. P. \"J. Russell, has been travelling through the Kootenays. A. T. Salisbury-Jones of London, who represents some of the strongest miuiug i syndicates in England was in Nelson for j stroug a few hours last Monday. It is stated ' ' ' on good authority that he has closed a big deal in the Slocan but none particulars could be obtained. They urc Situated Twenty Five Miles Kast or Argenta. During the week some ore was brought into Nelson from the,East Kootenay district that established beyond all doubt the fact that there is some very high grade'J ore there. For divers reasons the name of the party making the discovery is withheld. It appears that the prospector made his way up the old government trail from Argenta for a distance of about 25 miles to the now famou3 Jumbo aud MLeral claims on Toby creek. Going a short distance northward he ran across surface showings that were greater thau anything he had ever \"seen before. The ledges cropped out fifty feet wide in places and laid on the ground iii great boulders weighing about two and three tons. He made three locations under the names. of Iron Horse, Elk Horn and Matterhorn.\" Going over the divide he again found enormous c/oppiugs aud located three more claims under the names of Kiug Solomon, Headlight and Silver Island. Assays on the samples, brought in ran as high as 78 ouuce3 in silver, 58 per ceut copper aud \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD10 in gold. The ore makes a handsome nppearauce and a'large portion of it looks like matte from the smelter. It also contains copper pyrites anil pcricock copper. Tlie vast extent of the ledges guarantee that they will be developed into mines before many seasons. It is uow toj late to get into the district as the ground is completely, covered with snow and stouns of fearful' violeucc areTliabfe\"tcTcome up at\" auy hour. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD The outlook is that there will be a\" rush iuto .that district next year. The now finds are about IG miles .due west ot Windermau lake. Vancouyek, B. C, Nov. 4th.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD(Special) \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Senator Mclunes is appointed Lieut.- Governor and \"William Templeman Senator. The appointments are considered very satisfactory. ' - ' A Liberal banquet iu honor of Hon. C. Sifton was held last night nnd was a great success. . Mayor Templeton presided and G. R. Maxwell, M. P., Auley Morrison, M. P., R. MacPherson, M. P. P., Major Geueral Lainchant, Col. Warren were among those present. Mr. Sifton made an excellent speech which was frequently cheered. lie said the record of the government for fifteen short months had exploded all charges and falsified all predictions.of the opponents with regard to tho Liberal party. The difficult task of revising the tariff . had been accomplished with fewer complaints than any previous revision and as a consequence a revived trade was being witnessed.' Ho declared that the government policy in the Yukon was compelling,every man to observe the laws. He said tliere should be provided an all- '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Cauadiau route so as to confine all the trade possible in Canadian channels and to seek to promote transportation facilities geuerally. ' There was au immense area of gold bearing territory in the Yukon and the mining regulations would be based ou the principle contained iu the Liberal platform that the resources of Canada should be preserved for the benefit.of the people. Over eighty per .cent ot the gold seekers would be aliens and should be made to pay the expenses of good government. He concluded amidst olciud cheers, strongly advocating Canada for Canadians. Mr. MacPherson said the parliament buildings at Victoria were a foolish expenditure. He referred to the grant to the Cassiar Central of 700,000 acres and half of the mineral found ou the same. He denounced Sifton for reserving claims for the Crown. J. C. McLigati replied to the toast, \"Our Industries\" aud strongly advocated the appointment ot a cabinet minister for this province. W. A. Jowett replied to thc toast, \"The Pre.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDs,\" and asked that another member should be given Yale-Kootenay eveu if it was found necessary to reduce the representation on Vancouver Island. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Mr. Sitton left today for Kamloops, thence .for Xelson and Kooteuay points. Hewitt Bostock will be with him.. They will probably ar- i'ivs- wlio have been employed to collect \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD iug gown, and one pair of slippers, also polltax have Wen very successful and j The Lawrence Hardware Co. for an im- find very few who are unwilling to j proved bedpan and Mrs.. McMorris for , pay. A round-up of the Chinamen old linen. UnlUiis Ki-iidy. I-'ur Winter. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD The Irene on Toad mountain is preparing winter quarters aud a force will be at work all wiuter. A boarding aud bunk house, shaft house, blacksmith shop aud ore house are being constructed and will soon be completed. Next week a force otmen will start thu work of sinking a 100 foot shaft. Tho present shaft is dowu CO ft-et in a three foot ledge, which- shows some free gold and a little iron pyritefe. There arc betweeu 30 and -ID tons of ore oii the dump. THE MINER NELSON, B.. C, SATURDAY. NOV. 6, iSpf. Wxt Jttiiwr. THE MIXER is printed on Saturdays, and \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' will be mailed to any address in Canada or the United States for one year on receipt of two dollars. Single copies live cents. CONTRACT ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at tho rate of 53 per column inch per month. TRANSIENT ADVERTISEMENTS inserted atthe rate of 15 cents per nonpareil line lirst insertion, and 10 cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements running for shorter period than three months arc classed transient. ' ALL COMMUNICATIONS to tlie Editor must be accompanied by the namo and address of thc writer, not necessarily for publication, but us evidence of yood faith. THE LABEL on your paper shows tho date on which your paid up subscription expires. If in arrears kindly remit and sec that the date i.s changed, which should be su/licicnt receipt. PRINTING turned out in first-rate style at tbo shortest notice. AODRKSS The Miner Printing & Publishing Co. NELSON. B. C. THE SEALING DISPUTE. ft LODGE MEETINGS. NELSON LODGE, No. 23. A. F. &A. M. meets second Wednesday in each month. Sojourning brcthcrn invited. W. B. Shaw, Secretary. I. O. Oj F. Kootenay Lodge, No. 16, meets every Monday nighti at their Hall, Kootenay street. Sojourning Odd Fellows cordially invited. WM. IIODSON, Secretary. SATURDAY, NOV. 6, 1897. WITHOUT SIN. ,No question of the present day occupies men's minds more than what is called the \"Social Evil.\" It is an evil that has existed since Lhe world began, and seems likely to last out its exis- ence. Rudyard Kipling in \"The House on the Wall\" calls it tho oldest profession in the world. The history of every nation that has left records, fabulous or true, is-wrapped up in it, while tho very gods (and goddesses) who ruled ancient Greece from the heights of Olympus made sport of it. In spite of its ancient establishment and far reaching popularity it is still the custom of western peoples and nations to regard it as the one unclean thing. In the East it isjrecognissed as a trade or occupation and carries no slur with it, but we do not live in the East. Among certain sects of our own people it is rightly looked upon with the utmost honor; it is unmentionable, and this article will no doubt be considered by them as most improper; it is too. bad to touch without defilement; but in spite of this there are some, actuated by the loftiest motives \"of Christain- ity, who are ready to go down into this sink of iniquity in the endeavor to' rescue some poor soul from thc everlasting hell. Of this noble band our city fathers seem to be the youngest recruits. The evil has hitherto withstood all efforts aimed Jat its repression. In English speaking countries it runs ^iot,jill_el|oij;s_to \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDay_e_its.victims from- the awful consequences of their folly being sternly forbidden by the power of certain sections of the people. In Franco alone (Godless country) is it kept within check, and under- the thumb of the.law,.But 've ought to be . thankful that.wc live in Nelson, the one spot iu all tho wide countries ruled over by the British Sovereign, where the chief magistrate, undeterred by any trumpery legal technicality, has determined tliat' vice, .must pay,its footing like other trades and that it is not ignoble for the treasure chest of the city to overflow with thc wages of sin.' \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD - , In an ancient Book, perhaps insufficiently studied in the far west, arc many interesting parables. These, in the manner of. the East, where the Bookjiad its origin,- contain, in the form of parables, precepts of the highest morality, These often combine the truest-wisdom in a worldly sense, with noblest ideas. In some the moral . is left to the intellect of the reader, in; \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD others it is set forth at length. As being apropos of the subject in hand . we would call our readers' attention to the eighth chapter of St. John. Here the narrative concludes with the Holemn warning: \"He that is without sin among-you let him cast the first stone.\" The wholo subject is distasteful and would not have been touched on but for the extraordinary conduct of the authorities which compelled notice. The matter has heen thrashed out in every town in the empire and a working compromise has been arrived nt WbiehPfcis practically recognized. It would-be useless for Nelson to reopen The negotiations between Great Britain and thc United States over the Sealing question have assumed a a stage which may almost be called acute. It will be remembered that a conference has beon proposed by the two interested nations to arrange how to carry out the award of the arbitration of Paris. Part of this award , by the way, was that thc sum of four hundred thousand dollars or so should be paid by the United States to certain Canadian sealers for tho damage unlawfully done by the ships of the United States Navy to the sealers' boats. It would seem to be a small thing for such a great nation as the United States to at once indemnify these poor fishermen for their loss, hut as yet the money is unpaid. Uncle Sam is not usually crcdited-with being stingy and his failure to ante up is probably owing to a littlo pique at being told to do it. No doubt if he is let alone tho money will presently be paid. But this has very little to do with the present situation. Thc conference at Washington is called to settle certain points between the two countries interested. At the last moment the United States, without consulting Great Britan, invites Russia and Japan to send their representatives also, To this Lord Salisbury on the part of England declines to agree. This puts Mr. Sherman the Secretary of State into a fix. He is like a man who has some big personage to dine with hiin and then asks some other guests to meet the distinguished guest, who hearing of it declines to meet them and stays away. The host cannot put off his unwelcome guests, nor can he compel the lion to attend the banquet. He therefore has to entertain tho friends without the lion. This is precisely what Mr. Sherman has had to do. After some;bluff, in which it was attempted to prove that certain words of Lord Salisbury's amounted to an agreement to the presence of Russia and Japan, - the conference has actually been held between the United States and the two powers on the western shores of the Pacific. The British Foreign Secretary declined to be drawn by Mr. Sherman's bluff and stood off. Now Mr. Sherman's climb down would have been satisfactorily accomplished, if thc conference had come to no important decision. Its existence would soon have been forgotten and then another could have been arranged between John Bull and Uncle Sam as originally intended, This would prob- ably have happened if the men who sat at the board had been diplomatists who thoroughly understand the value of letting a man down easily and giv- ing^iiiira^wayofnescape^froiiraTiIiffl-. cult position. But unfortunately these good men were experts', naturalists more intimately acquainted with the habits of seals than with the1 ways of diplomacy and they actually went and passed a resolution prohibiting pelagic scaling, entirely. By. pelagic sealing is meant hunting for seals in the open sea, more than three miles from land. Tho sea, outside the three mile limit, has always been held to be open to all nations, and Great Britian particularly is not likely to brook any curtailment of her rights thereon. Mr. Sherman is therefore in a most difficult position. His unlucky conference has come to a conclusion which he .will be called \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDiipon to enforce. To the lay mind it looks as if the only way out of the difficulty is war, but the people of the United States are not such fools as to allow themselves to be-dragged into a fight by the blundering diplomacy of a bully. The English people \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD eentainly are most averse to war and fortunately their foreign relations are in.the hands of a man able to pull them out ' of the trouble. ' n The proceedings of the next few days will be full of interest. setback which has been given to. the hopes of the bi-metallists by the emphatic denial that England proposes to countance any change in her currency. FKOFE8S10SAL CAM9\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD. NOBLE PIVE IN TKOUBLE. CD. J. CHRISTIE. INSURANCE, REAL . .Estate and Rental Agent.. Dii Canada Life Assuranco Company, loan. Mara block. Baker street. District Agent Money to 770 AH. HOLDICH, ASSAYER AND ANA \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD lytical Chemist, Hall street, Nelson. 701 Not Enough' Shareholders at the Meeting Tor ii Quorum. At the meeting of the shareholders of thc Noble Five mine at Cody last Saturday afternoon nothing was done as there was not stock enough represented by 20,000 shares to amend the by-laws. The meeting adjourned to November 25th. In thc meantime the several actions which have begun will, if the stockholders do not devise some plan to save the property, bring about the appointment of a liquidator and later a sale. The purpose of the meeting was First, to vote upon an amendment to the bylaws of said company to lie known as article VIIT, empowering the company at any general or special meeting called for that purpose to authorize the borrowing of money, executing promissory notes, debenture bonds, and any other evidence, of indebtedness as the obligation of the company, and to pledge the property of the company by mortgage orbyany other form of security to pay for money borrowed. Second, to vote\" upon a motion authorizing the directors of this company to borrow $150,000, and to issue debenture bonds, or other evidence of indebtedness, as the obligation of the company therefor, and to pledge the property of the company by mortgage or otherwise, as security, for the payment of the money borrowed. It is believed that the stockholders will not consent to the plan and at the meeting last Saturday had it been put to a vote there were enough adverse stock present to successfully oppose it. The managers in the meantime are doing everything possible to save the property. The mine, tramway and concentrator has closed down, ^throwing 75 or 80 men out of employmont. The report comes from a source that is considered thoroughly reliable that on October 20 the Sandon branch of the Bank of British North America refused to honor any more pay checks of the company, and served a summons on the resident manager which resulted in the immediate suspension of work. The men have been promised that pay checks already issued \yill be cashed by the company on November 1. It is said that the debt to the bank is $35,000. L. R. HARRISON, BARRISTER, -Notary Public, Slocan City. 154 ML. GRIMMETT, LL. B., BARRISTER, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Solicitor,'Notary Public, Etc., Sandon B. C. (IM) GEO. A.B. HALL, PHYSICIAN AND 8UR- goqn. OlHce, Baker street, 3 doors west of postofiice, up stairs. (*71) EM. SANDILANDS, GENERAL AGENT \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Fire Insurance and' Mining Broker, Sandon, 11. C. 5\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD0 J71LETCHER S. ANDREWS, BARRISTER, J Solicitor, etc. Sole Agent for tho Cana - \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD - - \"heal Estate and dian Fire Insurance Co. Mining properties for sale. Slocan City, B.C. (Ml) NOTICE On the First of November, 1897, I Wl^ open a First Class Optical Room and Watch and Clock Repair Shop in the McKillop Block, Baker st., Nelson, B.-C. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded __\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD_ J- O. PATEIMAUPE. r^JUST OPENED^-* GORE. BURNET Si CO., PROVINCIAL and Dominion Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers, Nelson. 1). C. Room No. 1, over Thomson Sz Co.'s Book Store. 611 \"PEEVENTI0N Is Better than Cure.\" That Cold of Yours Can be Prevented from settling on your respiratory organs by using the following well known Cough Remedies: Syrup of Red Spruce Gum, Haggard's Pectoral Balsam, Scot's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil and many others. We have them all. Canada Drug and Book Co. KOOTENAY SUPPLY CO. WHOLESALE Groceries and Commission Merchants CARNEY BLOCK, BAKER STREET, 7\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD3 NELSON, B. C. COOL REFRESHING \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDl\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD *-^ ^-J *-* *\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD* -VNELSON SODA WATER FACTORY-^- All kinds of Carbonated Waters. Orders delivered promptly. tea \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDf. o. BOX 88\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD RUBBER QJ> OO -co LIMITED. K9k Jilpllus ob Canada. It is a great country; a country with a future. There is a fine,. bard, bracing climate, the climate that pats iron and grit into men's bones, and there are all good things to be got oat of the ground, if people will woik for them. What it wants ib more meu and more money. Why don't Englishmen think more of it as a field for English capital and enterprise? Surely there is an excellent opening both for the investing and emigrating Briton there. Things don't perhaps move quite so fast as in tbe : States, but they are safer, and yon,, are nnder__.the_ \"flogyou Snow, and among men of ihe. same stock and breed. Send your folks to Canada; and, if they can't go themselves,' let them send their money-plenty of it.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSt.-James' Gazette. ' KOOTENAY LAKE GENERAL HOSPITAL SOCIETY All persons contributing $1.00 per month.or $10.00 per year will be entitled to receive the full benefits ofthe Hospital; in addition the $10.00 subscribers will secure the privilege of voting. at the annua! election of directois. A. H. CLEMENTS, Treasurer Nelson B. C. August 14th 1896. M19> DEADWOOD MINERAL CLAIM. u B B E GOODS u B B E oo RUBBER 576 L^ldiCS Should know ^ ^^^ ^** \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ^^^\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD-* \" we have just received a superb lot of Fine Felt Lined Rubber Knee Boots FOR SLOPPY WEATHER* Situate in tiik Nelson Mining Division or West Kootknay District.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWirewt Located.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSituate THREE MILKS FROM Nelson on the Hall Mine Waggon Road and About One Mile South or Cottonwood Creek, Adjoining tiik \"Hillside\" Claim. 31AKE NOTICE tbatl. Francis Clarke Gam- L Me, acting as agont for Wm. Moore, Free Iner's Certificate No. 77542, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a.Crown Grant of thc above claim. And further take notice that action,- under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of Improvements. ~_ ~tt--^ \"-^ -FrCr O AMBLE.PrL.8.. Aftent for Wm. Moore. , Dated this 21th day of September, 18V7.. 765 Should see -OUR- - tiavc the lord a Chance. , \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Justice Hawkins still, continues to dispense justice from the English bench, though he is over y80. He is still rated by far tbe best ciimiual judge in the coimtry, but his rongh tongue' gives him a reputation for severity which his sentences do not warrant. When he was about' to pass sentence on a convicted felon the prisoner rosennd said: 'May the Almighty, strike me dead if I don't speak tbe truth. I am innocent of tbis crime.\" Judge Hawkins said nothing for about a minute, when, after glancing at the clock, he fulminated in bis most impressive tones: \"Since the Almighty has not thought fit to intervene I will now proceed to pass sentence.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBoston Herald. -sn RUBBER WINDOW \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD**- O, STCmE , J. A. GILKER 18 and 20 BAKER STREET. CO**IC\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD* MEM NOTICE. Notice is hereby given thnt a certain agreement made 17th day of October, 1886, between Hichard W. Willey. of Nelson. B. C. and Kufua H. Pope, of Cookshire, Que., whereby the said Wilier agreed to sell and convey to sold Pope the Florence, Aspen, Mollie Gibson and Achilles 200, mineral claims situate in Nelson mining division, is' now cancelled, tbe said Pope being in default according to the terms of said agreement and failing to comply with said terms pursuant to notice served upon him. Dated at Nelson, B. C\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD this 19th day of Oct.. 1897. . . . 780 T. C. GAMBLE J.P. FRANCIS J. OKEILLY. M. Imt. C.E. M.Can. Soc.C.E. Assoc. M. Inst. CE. M. Am. Soc. CE. KL.S. for B.C. I'.L.S. for U.C. (Late Res. E:ic. Dep. of Pub. Wk\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD. Rossland, U.C. of Canada in U.C.) .Nelson. B.C.\" ;'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD GAMBLE & O'REILLY CIVIL ENGINEERS, \" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD O O FitOVIVCIAIi LAND SURVEYORS. Accountants and General Agents. Agents Insurance Co. of North America. NELSON \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD (787) \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD - B. C. the experiment now, especially ehe employs illegitimate means, if tt is to be hoped that some arrangement will soon he arrived at between tlie Corporation and Mr. Joshua Davis by whicli the completion, of the new waterworks may speedily be effected. The old supply, situated as the reservoir is, with several dwellings and all manner of beasts fouling it, is\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa continual source of. danger aa long as it exists. It is satisfactory to note that silver maintains a fair price in spite of the Wallpapers ENORMOUS SALE! JOHN HIRSCH, Provincial Land Sunreyor. ._, Office: NELSON AND BOSSLAND, B. 0. 110 JUSTREOEIVPD!! Upwards of 600 boxes, A few Boxes of Choice Crabs. a Won't last long. MDes Brisay &Co. W. A. JOWETT, MINING & REAL ESTATE BROKER . 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VIOTORIA ST.. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD4 NELSON. B. a F.Ll. 0SLER and J. W. CARWIN Mining and ZSTELSOISr - Real Estate Agents. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD> B.O. <&i O. E. MALLETTE & CO. Wholesale aiid Botail Dealors in Hay, Graiu,Peed& Produce Rough and Dressed Lumber V Sash, Doors, etc. BAKER STREET NELSON, B.C. Premises lately Occupied hy. ,A. McDonald & Co. (707) FOR SALE, Remnants to be Cleared at HALF PRICE. See Our Bargains. Thomson Stationery Go. Ltd. j 362 VANCOUVER, E.|C. BAKER ST- Two Lota with Three Stores BAKER ST. One Lot with Two Stores. VERNON ST. Several Lota (Fifty foot frontage) #8 W. J. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD. MekM*. Baker St. G. D. CURTIS !!?^-3AROHITECTE=j^- m #TUI THfMWXr B#\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDK STtH. QUALITY Is the Guiding Star in my Business, LOOK^^ My Goods Over in CLOCKS \"*. BRONZES '*' STATUES .STERLING SILVEE NOVELTIES Prices lo SUil ttie Tiijies Pianos ai)\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD nsTBLSOisr I DOORS, SASHES and TURNED WORK, BRACKETS and OFFICE FITTINGS SATISFACTION GlMlJAI\lTEEp. PRICES REA SON A BLE. GRAY NELSON, B.C. *\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTEL MORGUE AND ITS^UESTS To Hotel Morgue the. guests cawne in With a \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtraiig\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD!ly silent alar,' * And however bole'trwis a man fcM-.be\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa H\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD makes no noise and he makes no din' W'hea once he enters there. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"'...-,. Ami however poor, he rides in state, Btretched at his .oas*,\" through, the tiatel gate. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD A bath and a gown arid cool, cool bed Are given to all who come, But nover a one is wined or fed, And never a word by one ia eaid, ? Por-tlie guests are always dumb. . And whatever is done, and however they fare, \" '.. They oti'ly lie and stare and stare. From Hotel Morgue the guests pass on Full oft at the break of day. . And they pay no bill as forth at dawn With staring eyes and -white lips drawn They silently rail away. \" Though clothed and sheltered and asked no price, To Hotel Morgue no guest comes twice. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDElla Wheeler Wilcox. X ghook my head doubtfully. \"You know tfhe man?\" I nodded. \"Is he quite\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDquite- M. R. SMITH $ CO. Biscuit Manufacturers. WIRITiEi FOB PRICE XjIST. VICTORIA - B.C. (*\") p. burns & co- Wholesale and Retail Meat Merchants HEAD OFFICE NELSON, B. C. Branch Markets in Rossland, Trail, Nelson, Kaslo, Sandon, Three Forks, New Denver and Slocan City. We are prepared to supply consumers with all kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats at reasonable prices. Orders by mail to any branch will have careful and prompt attention. 530 Joseph A. SaiJWard LUMBER! LUMBER!! All kinds of Bough and Dressed Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Mouldings, Sash and Doors. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD{ PROMPT DELIVERY TO ALL POINTS. WRITE FOR PRICES. PILOT BAY, B.C. Armstrong & Morrison MANUFACTURERS. OF RIVETEDSTEEL PIPE, AU. SIZES. GATES, MONITORS, ELEVATORS, ORG CARS, Etc. Complete Water Works n,ltfit \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD^_ ESTIMATES ON APPLICATION $ 715i^J!]iY .VANCOUVER,B.C. A SLIGHT MISTAKE. \"Marriage is the saving of a young man,\" said my Aunt Tabitha sehteh- tiously. ^ N I assented, for I And it pays to. give a ready acquiescence to abstract propositions. \"You must marry,\" continued my aunt. I hesitated, for to assent to the, .concrete Is more dangerous. \"I am still very young,\" I said, meekly. My aunt turned to my mother. \"Whom shall Alfred marry V\" My mother shook her head., \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"Somebody nice,\" she volunteered.. \"What dp you say to Letitia Brown- tow ?\" asked my aunt ... \"I would prefer to say nothing to Letitia Browhlow,\" I Interposed, hastily. \"O;.- Amelia Stnfforth?\". , '.'\" _' . ,\" \"Is slie not rather\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDmy mother waved one hand\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"and Alfred, is so Blllll.\" \"I think she has a very line figure,-' responded my aunt. \"Or thero is Gertrude Williams; she will have.a fortune If she outlives her sisters.\" There-are-only flveof them,'' I said hopefully. \"Or Mabel Gordon n. \"She has taken a course of cooking lessons,\" observed my mothor. \"No, none of these!\" I cried, decisively. -- \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD My aunt looked offended. \"Very, well, then, choose for yourself,\" she said, tartly. \"Perhaps that would help,\" I remarked, thoughtfully.' \"You will choose somebody nice, won't you, Alfred?\" said my mother. ' \"With money,\" observed my aunt. \"Well .'..cpnnoeH\"i.a- r^\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*eu\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDmjr \"hiothcrr-\" - ' ,. 1 \"Not too young,\" added my aunt. . \"And religious,\" begged my mother. \"There is no objection to her being good looking?\" I asked, a trifle timidly. \"No, I think not,\" said my annt, \"provided she fully understands beauty Is but skin deep.\" ' \"I will tell her,\" I murmured. --. \"Well,\" said my aunt, Impatiently, after a short pause, '^whoin do you suggest?\", I thought for a moment \"What, do you say to Winifred Fraser?\", . \"Tliat minx!\" cried my aunt \"Oh, Alfred!\" echoed my mother. \"Why not?\" I asked. . - - \"Such, a dreadful family,\" said my mother Rubber. ., -r ,. 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New leather shoe\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwet-proof, snow-proof, stylish, warm. Made by the famous Goodyear Welt process, which gives elastU city to the sole, and durability to the shoe. $5.50 per pair Atkforthe. ....\". ' Y \"Slater Rubberless Shoe.\" UIIKF.BI* ~ EIXS, Sole Ajtcnln tor Kelso*. 631 GHEES BKOS., Agents at Kaslo. Headquarters for ELECTRIC LIGHT SUPPLIES. cr^os WATB%%HeEh\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD!e ' - \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ' -, MOTORS FIRE riO&c , ENGINES WATER SUPPLIES BOILERS CHANDLIERS Estimates given and contracts entered into for the entire systems. . -. . Call on or write Wi T. STEWARD, Box 3p 470 ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, Nelson, B. C. INCORPORATED 1S70. THE 1/ li Hudson's Bay Company, FORT GARRY MILLS, WINNIPEG. Many people,, claim to sell the \"best Flour. We do not make claims, \"but only ask tlie favor of a trial. Our Hungarian is acknowledged by all unprejudiced 1 people to be the best value in Canada. THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY NELSON, B. O BAKERxSTREET 605 \"So fast!\" interjected my aunt. '. \"But have you never noticed the sun onher hnlr?\".l asked, Innocently. My aunt drew herself up. . , ' \";We have not noticed the sun onher hair,\" she said, with much dignity; \"nor do we wish to observe the sun on her hair.\" ' ; -- . I was Justly annoyed. \"I really think It must bo Winifred Fraser,\" I said. \"She Is vory fond pf me-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\" , \"How can .you be so cruel to \"mc!\" cried my mother. ' \"Have you noticed how gray my hair is getting? You will not have me long.\" She drew out her handkerchief. \"You will come to a bad end,\" said my aunt. \"I always thought you were depraved. If yo\i marry that painted hussy you must not expect my countenance.\" ' ' \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD '\" \"Under the circumstances I wl/1 not jnarry Winifred Fraser,\" I said, with great\" magnanimity, for I did not particularly want my aunt's counteruvnee. lily aunt sniffed. \"You had hotter not.\" \"I merely joked,\" I said, soothltgly, remembering she had not made her will. - . \"Indeed!\" ' \"The truth is\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI dropped my vofco-- \"I am in love'-'with some one else.'- \"And you never told1 me!\", said my . mother, reproachfully. \"The girl I love is not free.\" \"Married!\" cried my aunt. \"Not married\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDbut engaged.\" \"Who is it?\" asked my mother, gently. .... I was silent for a moment, and then I sighed. \"It is Constance Burleigh.\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"It would have been a most suitable match,\" murmured my mother. \"Very suitable,\" replied my aunt. There was a momentary silence, broken by my aunt. \"I did not know Constance was engaged.\" \"It Is a secret; you must not repeat what I have told you.\" \"I don't like these secret engagements,\" said my aunt brusquely. \"Who told you?\". \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"She told me herself.\" \"Who is the man?\" \"I do not think I should repeat his name.\" \" \"I hope Constance is not throwing feerself away.\" Again I shook my head doubtfully. \"What have you heard?\" my aunt \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDeked, eagerly. \"I don't think I ought to repeat these things.\" \"You can surely trust your mother,\" murmured my mother. \"And my discretion,\" said my aunt. t.'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWell,\" I said, \"I have been told he la cruel to his mother.\" \"Really!\" cried the two ladles In a breath. \"His mother told me so herself.\" \"How sad!\" said my mother. \"And what else?\" asked my aunt. \"Another relation of his told me he was depraved. , \"Poor, poor Constance!\" whispered njy mother. \"> \"And would probably end badly. . \"I expect he drinks,\" said my aunt, g.rimly. \"Does Constance know this?\" asked my mother.. \"I den't think so.\" \"You did not tell her?\" .^ . \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"Of course not'' . \"I consider lt your duty to.\" \"I really cannot.\" \"Then I will,\" said my aunt, resolutely.' v> \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"What I have said has been in confidence.\" \"I do not care.\" \"I beg you not to do so.\" \"It is my duty. I am too fond of 'Constance to allow her to throw herself away on this worthless man.\" I shrugged my shoulders. \"Do as you pteose, but don't mention my name. By the way, Constance said she would probably call this afternoon.\" At that moment the bell rang. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThat may be she,\" said my, aunt, flying to the window. \"It is.\" : I got up slowly and sauntered into the conservatory, which adjoins the diawing-rooin. From behind a friendly palm I,could see Without being seen. I saw my aunt look toward my mother. \"If we open her eyes,\" I heard her whisper, \"it mny pave the way for Alfred.\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD My mother said nothing, but I saw the same hope shine from her eyes. The door opened and the servant announced Constance.\" She came forward with a little eager rush; tihen s:opped short, embarrassed by. the want of reciprocity. \" \"We arc glad to see. you,\" said my mother, ond kissed her. , . My aunt came forward. \"We were fvtfi speaking of you,\" she said, solemnly. \"Sit down.'! \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD e. ' ^Constance looked a little crushed. \"I though* Alfred would havo told you,\" she murmured. \"We have heard\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\" began my aunt \"Hush,\" interposed my mother, 4 .. '.'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD -, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD -\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*mv\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD--\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDvu \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD you^take off your hat?\" .Constance came and sat by herslde. \"I Avas anxious to come and teN^ou that\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthat \" \"If you are alluding to your engagement,\" said my aunt, somewhat severely, \"we have already (heard of it.\" \"You have heard!\" cried Constance. . \"With the deepest sorrow.\"' Constance drew herself up. \"You do not approve?\" 6he asked, proudly. \"We love you too much,\" said my mother, gently. Constance looked bewildered. \"You are too good for the wretch!\" cried my aunt \"What! Oh, what do you mean?\"'exclaimed Constance. '- \"if you marry this man,\" continued my aunt,:'vigorously, \"you will regret it \" '--\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD--\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ; \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWho over is it?\" said Aunt TabMfca; whispering. \"Finid out\" \"Where did you meet him,.dearest?\" whispered my mother. \"Meet him? Why, here, of course,\" said Constance, with opening eyes. \"Yes, yes, of course,\" said my mother mystified.. ,. \"I thought you would be pleased, and I hurried across to tell you.\" \"Can Alfred have~made a mistake?\" muttered my aunt, hoarsely. , The two elder ladies stood still in the utmost embarrassment. . \"I shall never be happy again,\" said Constance, mournfully. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"Don't say that,\" Implored my mother. \"Perhaps there is a mistake.\" . \"How can there be a mistake?\" asked Constancc,0ralsing her head. v \"There can,be no mistake,\" said my aunt hastily. \"How could lhe be cruel to you?\" cried Constance, kissing'my mother. \ \"Cruel to me?\" cried my mother. \"You soiid he was cruel to you.\" \"Of whom are-you speaking?\" cried both ladies. \"Of Alfred, of course.\" The two elder ladies sat down suddenly. ,, , \"You are not engaged.to Alfred?\" they gasped simultaneously. \"To whom else?\" said,Constance, In amazement. \"There is some misunderstanding,\" I observed, smoothly, coming in at tho momenta < : . The three fell upon me together. It took at least an hour to explain. Yet I had said nothing wihleh was not strictly true. \"You will not allow these practical jokes when you are maTried, will you, Conny?\" said my mother, fondly. \"I will not,\" replied Constance, tight, cning her lips. \"Marriage is the saving of a young man,\" repeated my aunt, grimly.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Chambers' Journal. My mother took her hand., \"My sister should not tell you this so suddenly.\" ~\" '\" \" . - -' \"It is my duty-to speak, and I will,'\" cried my aunt. \"I will not let Constance unite herself to this man .with her eyes closed.\" \"What have you against him?\" demanded Constance, a red spot beginning to.burn in each cheek. \"He drinks,\" answered my aunt, almost truimphnntly. Constance sank back In tho cushions. \"I don't believe It,\" she said, faintly. \"He ill-treats his mother\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDheats her, I believe,\" continued my aunt. \"This cannot be true,\" cried Constance. \"Mrs. Granville, tell me.\" My mother nodded sadly. \"Alas! I cannot deny it.\" : Constance arose. \"This Is awful!\" she said, holding on to the back of the sofa. \"I-could nover have believed it\" She put her hand to her forehead. u \"It is like a bad dream.\" - , \"My poor, dear Constance,\" murmured my mcther, rising and putting her arms round her. My aunt brougi* up her artillery, \"lie Is thoroughly dapraved, and will come to a bad end. His'relations are as one on this point.\" Constance buried her. faes in my mother's bosom. \"Oh, dear! oh, dear! and I loved him so!\" she sobbed.^ In tlie adjoining room I-was becoming\" uncomfortable. \"We thought it right to tell yon,\" said myaunt, moved by her tears, \"though Alfred begged and implored us not to.\" -- \"I could:never, never have bettered it,\" sobbed Constance. \"Poor, poor Mrs. Granville!\" . My mother soothed her. \"How difficult you must bave felt It to tell me this,\" exclaimed Constance, dryitffc her tears. \"It was so good of you. I will .not give him another thought. To treat his mother so cruelly! Oh, Mrs. Granville, I am a> sorry for you!\" \"It Is I who am sorry for/you,\" said) my mother, doubtfully. \"And no one would have breamed it- We always thought you irore so fond of him and spoiled him utterly. Andfc all.the time you were hiding your sorrow. How noble of yxm!\" My mother looked at Aunt Tabitha, Who refurned her stanv - -v ENOUGH CHALK FOR ALL TIME. Great Block tliat Was Once aa Large as the Continent of Europe. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe small piece of .chalk which is in constant use In the schoolroom, thc lecture-room, the billiard-room and tho workshop has a.strange history, the unraveling of which through nil its complexities Is one of the most difficult problems with which the science of the present day is called upon to deal. This piece is In reality a chip of an Immense block of chalk that once filled an area tho size of the conw tlnent of Europe, and of which even yet several gigantic fragments remain, each hundreds of square miles in extent These patches are scattered over the region lying between Ireland on thc west and China on tho east, and extending in the otlier direction from Sweden in the north, tp_Portugal.in-thn.. \"\"fn the British isles the chalk is found in greatest perfection and continuity in tbe east and southeast of England. A sheet of chalk more than 1,000 feet in thickness underlies all that portion \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD England which Is situated to tlie southeast of a line crossing the island diagonally from the North Sea- at Flamborough Head to th\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD coast on the English channel in Dorset. This enor- mous sheet of chalk is tEted up slight- ly on the west, and Its dcpMgsed east- era portions that dip towar^e waters of the North Sea are usOJfly burled from sight by means of overlying sands and clays. Where the edges of the chalk floor come upon the sea tho cliff scenery is strikingly grand and beautiful. Anyone who has once seen the magnificent rocks of Flamborough and Beechy Head, the jagged stacks of thc -Needlea-or-the-dizzy-mass-of-Shak-- speare's cliff, near Dover, can under- stand why \"the white cliffs of Albion\" has grown into a sto\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDk phrase, This massive sheet of chalk appears again In France, in many other parts o'f'-Europe as far east as tho Crimea, and even in Central Asia,-beyond the Sea of Aral. How far it stretched westward Into what Is now the Atlan. tic may, never be known, but.chalk cliffs of at least .200 feet in thickness \"are seen at Antrim, In Ireland and less conspicuous formations are found in Scotland, In Argyle and Aberdeen. There can be little question that all these now Isolated patches were once connected in a continuous sheet, which must, therefore, havo occupied a superficial arca.about 3,000 miles long by nearly 1,000 broad, aa extent larger than that of tho present continent of Europe.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPittsburg Dispatch. - FRIENDS OF ACCUSED PASTORS. Many People Clinjt to Derelict Preach era After Their Guilt la Proven. \"There's one thing I. can't under- stand,\" said a mau of the world. \"That is the fierceness of church fights and -. the ability of every man who is a preacher to rally to his support score* of good people, no matter what bis conduct may have been. Once a man geti attached to a church, though he may get into trouble the next week and the nature of his trouble may tend to discredit religion, he has the support of these good people. I recall three case* right now. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD : ' \"A minister was called'to a church and he had hardly more than accepted the charge when his wife sued him for divorce. She charged cruelty and all that. The members of the congregation knew absolutely nothing about ths merits of the case. He was a stranger to them, but they rallied around him, pitied him, seut flowers to him, and, figuratively speaking, cursed and reviled the woman whom he had promised to love, cherish and protect, though lt was proved he hadn't done anything of the kind. The papers printed columns of the stuff, and every line of'lt was a damage to the cause of religion and a particular damage to the church. But these good people stood by him and are standing byjiim yet. If, the wifo gets a divorce tliey will continue- to stand by him and will condemn the woman. ' \"Another recent case that has figured In the newspapers is of a man who has clearly outlived his usefulness in the church he is in. The church is in debt. Not enough money is raised to pay ruu< ning expenses. The organization has run down. .It has been getting worse and worse ever since this man' took hold. This fact is notorious, yet enough people cling to him to keep him in the church and to make it mighty unpleasant for anybody who \"says a word against him. \"A third case that has also figured largely in the papers is that of a man whose character is well known and who has - bamboozled everybody who ever had any financial transactions with him. Yet he is able to hang on, and Is surrounded In all his troubles by a crowd of women and men who call him 'dear' and pity him and denounce tho men who are trying to have him deposed as a gang of persecutors. These three cases simply come to my\" mind now. If I sat down and thought I could recall a bookful. Now, unquestionably, this is all wrong. It isu't business, and it hurts religion. It keeps men in the ministry who \"are wholly unfit to ba thore and arc continually bringing discredit upon tlie church. The most peculiar thing about it all is that in almost every row there_wlll_beJouud-joa- hV6'U'wli6\"woul'd\"no\"more think of .running their business in tlie way tha church is run than thoy wcmld think of flying. If, anybody suggested theii keeping a malcontent they would say that the man who suggested it must think they were crazy.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNew York Sun. Every Day English, SWoulcl Follow tlie Cows. Justin Sackett, who_recently dicdMn Springfield, Mass., at the ago of.83 years, was a noted landscape gardener, And \"laid out Forest Park In Springfield. \" Ho had a most remarkably true eye/always making sufficient \"offset\" or allowance to avoid stiffness In his work. With it all he exercised his shrewd Yankee wit and Inventiveness, as this story shows: One day ho was driving with a friend, who asked him out ofocuriosity how ho would plan a road to the top of a certain hill that they passed. \"Well,\" said Mr. Sackett, with a twinkle in his eye, \"I should turn in some cows awhile and watch how they got up.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNew York Tribune. A Good Excuse. ' \"Have I done anything to offend you, darling?\" he asked, brokenly. \"To-day you passed me without bowing and now Vou stt there with such an air of hauteur and pride that \" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"George,\" interrupted tlie girl, with an unbending air, but in her voice a cadence sweeter than music at night, \"I have a stiff neck.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBoston Globe. So Comfortable. \"I always like to see that Senator get up to make a speech,\" said the drowsy- looking man. . \"He Isn't very interesting.\" \"No. When be is on his feet I'm always sure that my nap will not be disturbed by any outburst of applause.\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTOMblngton Star. I! \"I don't gwite yet verstchen goot clot kin* of talk I hoar - \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Mit deso \"United StAtes npoudt, it sounis _ to me riglul gweer, ^ Veil I vail mit der schtrect car off, una - dot gondnctor grumble, - Und say: 'Dese newly landed ducks, dey- never take'a tumble;' But I did! . \"Von dime I chased a man nvay vot tried mine dog to schtole; I ran riglult gwick und den I veil riglid in a pig mud hole; Dot man he slitoppcd'und looked aroundt, mid laughed at me a minute; Und den he said: 'Say, Dutchy, looks to me like you aiud't in it,' But 1 vns! \"I mcVa vcllcr on der slitrcet von nU'ht veu I'vos oudt; - He savs: 'You vant to dalcc up nil der - valk, old sauerkraut?' I. dold him I vould bull his nose of oudt he did not mind! He snid: 'I vill not do a ting to you, mein Dcuteher freund,' But he did!\" - \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDetroit Free Press. ^_ - Victim of SlanK.\"' Mr. Skcmcr\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMrs. Sapmiud, I am go- ing to bring a visitor around this even- ing to Introduce to your daughter. I think he will be a good-catch for her. Mrs. Sapmind\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWhat sort of person Is he, Mr. Skcmer? Mr. Skemer\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHe is a wealthy planter. Mrs. Sapmind\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI .don't care how wealthy he is, I'll never let my daughter marry an undertaker.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBoston Courier. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD - -~ Dreadful. Housewife\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDIt is dreadful to think what whisky will bring a man to. Tramp\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThat's so, mum. Afore I took f de road, I neves thought I would hev t' eat sich thiugs ez are bein' handed out t' me every day.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJudge.. Jlcan of Father. \"I *ay, Matilda!\" shouted the fathei from tlie head of the stairs. \"Tell tha( young man when he goes out to tell the milkman to.leave two quarts, instead of one. as usual!\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDYonker* Statesman. THE MINER NELSGK. Bi C, SSOTSBAX. mV.,% *\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD. 1\" A RAY OF SUNSHINt. Five, little baby, fingers, Outstretched in eag