"17f50108-90cf-42fa-8386-a05c4f037eec"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2011-09-29"@en . "1900-01-04"@en . "The Nakusp Ledge was published in Nakusp, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, from October 1893 to December 1894. The paper was subsequently published as the Ledge both in New Denver, from December 1894 to December 1904, and in Fernie, from January to August 1905. The Ledge was published by Robert Thornton Lowery, a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xnakledge/items/1.0182113/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " Volume VII. No 14. NEW DENVER, B. C, JANUARY 4, 1900. Price, $2 00 Year SLOGAN GA/nP NEWS LOCAL CHIT-CHAT. The Provincial Legislature meets at Victoria today. A social dance was given in the Bosun hall, Monday night. The Miners' Union ball at Sandon, Monday, was a huge success. The new year was ushered in with a perfect pandemonium of noises. Sandon curlers have chosen their rinks and got down to business. The Quadrille Club's dance, last Thursday, was a record breaker. Geo. McDonald and bride returned to Sandon on Saturday from their honeymoon. Mrs. Amos Thompson spent several days in Slocan City this week, visiting friends. E. Angrignon, J. Williams land F. Pyman were elected firewardens on Tuesday. Mrs. C. Wright, of Nelson, was visiting her numerous friends in town during the week. Brinsley M. Walton, of Sandon, has been married to Miss A. C. Raymo, of Wateiloo, Ont Rev. Mr. Duncan will conduct divine \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDservice at the Presbyterian church next Sunday morning. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'... Local sharpshooters were somewhat outclassed in the turkey contest at Silverton New Year's day. _ Constable Ackers, of Slocan City, has been stationed here, vice L. R. Forbes, who has gone to South Africa. Robert F. Green, M. P. P. for tin Slocan; left on Monday for Victoria to attend the opening of the House. Alex. McPherson has sold his interest in the dray business to Harry Ewar,and has gone to Cariboo .on business. Services will be held in Stephen's church next Sunday, both morning and evening. Rev. C. F. Yates, pastor. Miss Ethel Williamson left Friday on a visit to Toronto. Mrs. W. Anderson departed the same day for Manitoba points. After the return of the boat from Rose-' bery Monday morning, the band enlivened the day with its strains of harmony and hilarity. S. Hinchliffe, of Port Guichon, B. C, made a business trip through the camp during the week. He has property holdings on several creeks. Mrs. J. K. Clark is lying ill at Spokane, and her husband has gone to attend her. She was on her way to Mon' tana to spend t he holidays when stricken \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDdown. DO SOMETHING. The holiday season is over and the war in the Transvaal goes slowly on; also the war between miner and manager in the Slocan. Both are becoming mighty tiresome, and if something is not soon done to dispell this pouting inactivity steps should be taken to remove the cause. The interests of the district are more important than the interests of either the mine managers association or the minerB union, and one should not force issues that are detrimental to the district's interests any more than the other. The Ledge has all along favored the miners in the issue forced upon us by the managers in their effort to reduce wages. It favors them etill, and will ever do so, but, like all reasonable people, it fails to see the reason for this dilly-dallying business. A whole month has been wasted since the managers submitted their proposition. It should have been accepted or rejected three weeks ago. If the Union is not responsible for the delay, the public should be made aware of it by a statement to that effect. As it is, the Union appears to be playing into the hands of the managers. COMPARISONS ARE ODIOUS. Rossland's metal output for the past year was of flattering tonnage, but low returns. The output from the Slocan was of low tonnage but flattering returns. Rossland's total ore output was 183,058 tons, the average value of which was $18 per ton, or $3,305,044 in all. The output from the Slocan for the six months ending June 30th, '99, was 15,400 tons. Since June 30th, (the months during which the heavy shipments are usually made) the shut-down of all the big shippers cut the shipments down to 4,400 tons. Thus the total shipments of the year were reduced to 19,400. The value ot this ore is estimated at $1,700,000. In other words, with a tonnage of less than one-ninth as heavy as that of Ross- land the returns were more than half as great. HAKTNEY PAYMENT MADE. NO EJECTION THIS YEAR. \"All election agitation should cease, and not be resumed before the spring of 1901.\" This is the way Sir Wilfred Laurier tells the faithful readers of his Quebec organ that no appeal will be made to the people at present. Mr. Pacaud, after having, so it is stated, interviewed the Prime Minister, wrote an article for Le Soleil, headed, \"there will be no general election.\" The article continues, \"We have every reason to believe that the Federal Government has no intention of bringing on the general election just now. The term of the present Parliament will not expire till August, 1901, or 19 months hence, and there is no reason either of public or party import why a dissolution should take place before the legal expiration of the parliament term. Canada is not en- gaeed in any diplomatic or other conflict with the outside world that necessitates an appeal to the people. There is, of course, the question of sending a military contingent to South Africa, and of the unexpected expense which it entails, but public sentiment has manifested itself with so much unanimity and force that it would be foolish to question the will of the people. It will be necessary to call the House together to legalize the expenditure, but what party interest would be served by bringing on an election now?\" SLOCAN MINERAL FLOAT. working on the Noble Ten men are Five. Work is to be started up on the Hillside. The Ajax gave a new contract last week for 300 feet of tunneling. There are 14 men working on the Florida. Ore is being taken out for shipment. George W. Hughes is in Montreal on mining business. His bankroll will be heavier for the trip. Ei-nest Mansfield is going to New Zealand on behalf of European capital, to acquire several miles of dredging concessions. The estimated output from the Slocan mines for 1899 is valued at $1,700,000. It would have reached the $5,000,000 if the labor trouble had not been forced On Tuesday the first payment on the Hartney bond was made through the Bank of Montreal here. It consisted of five per cent, and amounted to a tidy sum. The next payment, of ten per cent., falls due on February 1. At the mine things are in good shape, there beihg a fair showing of ore in the main drift. In the lower tunnel the vein is just beginning to make its appearance, at a distance of 70 feet. Upwards of a carload of ore is lying on the dump, with eight tons or so sacked up for shipment. Ten men are at present em ployed. SETTLEMENT NOT EFFECTED. The labor situation in the Slocan still hangs lire, and it has not yet reached a definite solution. No meeting of the mine owners was held last week, owing to lack of a quorum, consequently nothing could be done to the miners' reply to the compromise offer. It is generally understood that the men have withdrawn certain restrictive provisos to their counter offer, and that the way is open for a speedy settlement. The majority of the men appear to be anxious to {ret to work. From the Veldt. Doomed Paul: \"Jouby, have you heard how the war is going in Nelson?\" Joubert: \"Well-1-1 we-e know ver' 1-e-e-ttle about it. Ze last deespatch ZINC MINING GOOD. The Province of Ontario has decided on a, new policy with relation to the nickel mines of Sudbury'and the adjacent region. Hereafter no grants of nickel-beariu\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD property will be made, except on the condition that the ores obtained shall be worked and the nickel converted into metallic form and refined in the province. Moreover, the Dominion Government has imposed the export duty on nickel ores and matte which was authorized by parliament last year, although the levying1 of the duty was left to the discretion of the government. This action has been urged for some time by parties who have always resented the fact that the Sudbury ores were simply reduced into matte at the mines, the refining being done in the United States or in England. The condition required applies, of conrse; only to future grants, and does not affect the mines already owned and worked by the two American companies aud the English refiners; but the export duty will probably make some change in their plans, and perhaps require the removal of their refining works to Canadian territory. There has b*en great activity lately in the Sudbury district, and nickel properties are in demand, while those readily accessible from the railroad are for the most part taken up. The principal buyer lately has been the Mond Syndicate, which ships the ores and matte from its mines to England for treatment and refining by the Mond process. The mines or claims near the railroad have been generally taken up, and those in the hands of prospectors or locators are held at high prices. Idaho's Mineral Production. VICTIM OF MISMANAGEMENT. Mismanagement has caused numerous wrecks among the British mining companies operating in this province. Particularly has this been the case during the past two years\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDyears that have witnessed some of the greatest blows yet experienced by the mining industry. No one part of the province has had a monopoly of these fizzles, but all sections have tasted of the bitter fruits of culpable negligence, ignorance and lack of experience. Hordes of officials, flunkeys, and general staff above ground have caused the needless expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars for unearned salaries and useless buildings. A small percentage of the money thus wasted, if expended on the development of the property, in many cases, would have obviated these failures. It is a striking commentary upon the gullibility of the British investing public. The most glaring of recent failures has been the Tangier mine at Albert Canyon, of which the Rovelstoke Herald remarked: \"The shut down of the Tangier mine, at AlbertCanyon, which has been working 25 or 30 men all summer, has been announced. Something has been learned about the methods employed in opening up the property, which, to say the least, appear to have been very ill-advised, and have in consequence produced results far from satisfactory. Less than a year ago shaft sinking was commenced on the property and a hole sunk below the creek level *^m&3&S?\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD&&38!88!8eiB&8i& ENTHUSIASTIC SEND.OFF. BILL'S LUCK. About the happiest man in ten hemis pheres was Lestock R. Forbes when he A Chicago hotel manager employed a received orders by wire on Saturday to handy man by the name of \"BiU\" to do report at Calgary for service in South his window washing. One morning Bill, Afriea with the Canadian mounted contingent. Mr. Forbes had done everything in his power for some weeks past to force his selection, and it is no doubt due to his persistency that he was chosen. He is well fitted for service, in physique, intellect and training, and will no doubt distinguish himself in action. The second Canadian contengent will be mounted, and will fill about the game capacity in South Africa as the Rough Riders did in the Spanish-American war. It will be nuade up entirely of men who have seen service in the North-West mounted police. The reception of the good news by Mr. Forbes was followed by the hearty congratulation of his host of New Denver friends. His first duty after receipt of the order was to send a cable to his mother telling of his good fortune. He then prepared to leave, getting away on Monday morning. Sunday a movement was quietly set on foot by his friends to raise a purse to give him on his departure, to show him in a substantial way that while they regretted his departure from the town, they nevertheless appre- about 60 or 65 feet. Enough timber to ciated the honor that had been paid him make 100 feet was built oh top of this (the timber part being filled around with waste) and the shaft called 100 feet underground. Levels to the extent of 800 or 900 feet were run in all directions from the bottom of this pit and 815,000 or \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD20,000 spent without any results. Gopher holing at the grass roots is hardly the way to make a mine, and intelligent miners who are familiar with the situation at the Tangier are at a loss to understand why a considerable portion of the large expenditure al. ready made was not spent in sinking instead of useless work, which leaves the company, as far as the mine is concerned, in practically the same position as when it commenced operations. The Tangier company, so its miners state, is a good outfit, and intend to do what is right, but it appears to be like so many other English mining companies, the victim of mismanagement in the practical work of development. However, it is to be hoped that the company will not be discouraged to the quitting point by the unsatisfactory showing of the past year's work, but will resume operations in the near future with some one at the head of affairs at the mine who can properly develop the property.\" and the community in his selection, and shared with him the happiness felt in his good fortune. In less than five hours something like $200 was raise. Of this about $75 was given by Silverton citizens who were equally anxious to show their good will and appreciation. At 8 o'clock Monday morning when the ss. Slocan arrived from down the lake, a crowd of 200 people had gathered at the wharf, and the band was out in full force. No \"warrior bold\" ever got a more hearty, spontaneous send off than was given Mr. Forbes. The band, together with a large proportion of the crowd, accompanied him as far as Rose- bery where, in the presence of his cheering friends the \"long green roll\" was given him with the compliments of the season and the earnest wishes of all for a safe voyage. She Used Glasses. During the recent Why They Wept. The total production of metals in Idaho for the year just closed is estimated at \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD13,623,448, divided as follows: Gold. $2,500,000; silver, $6,103,028; lead, $1,960,110; copper, $(50,000. The gold production increased from $1,895,566 in 1898. The production of silver and lead was seriously interfered with by the disturbances.in the Cajur d'Alenes in the early summer. The total of all metals for the year is practically the same as last year. KoRsland's Output. Dean Hole recently told a capital story of two Indians dining in England for the first time,when one of them took a spoonful of mustard, which brought tears to his eyes. The other said: \"Brother, why weepest thou?\" and he replied: \"I weep for my father who was slain in battle,\" and he passed the mustard. The other then took a spoonful, and he had a tear trickling down his cheek. Said the first Indian: \"Why wee.pest thou?\" and he then replied: \"I weep because thou wast not slain with thv father.\" sav zat ze Miner make a sortie on Hous- upon this division_ by the managers of ton and lose some gas. Smooth Frank is well-1-1 forteefied wiz ze Scotch mines in other divisions. Rene Laudi, representative of the French syndicate operating at the head of Ten Mile,has purchased 38,000 shares in the Joker group, paying $76,000. It was practically a cash deal, and was put through by Ernest Mansfield.' Williams starts the new year with a choice stock of candy. Do not let it melt away before your eyes. Get in and buy a few pounds.' \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD in front and ze soda on ze flank. Ze big fight come off nex' week. Houston is sawing ze wood, while Frank is distributing ze soft soap.. He try to make ze peeople tink dat he got an ace in zehole. Ze peeople tint he got a deuce,- and dat when ze bal-lot spread out. ze hands Fletcher will have to show ze deuce, while ze other feller takes ze pot wiz ze biggest flush ever seen in ze only street car City of 'Kootenay.\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD:- Rossland did not have to contend with the difficulties resulting from the labor trouble, and as a result that camp made rapid advancement in 1899. The shipments from the camp for the year aggregate 183,058 tons, as against. 116,697 tons in 1898. Of this amount the Le Roi shipped 94,117 tons, the War Eaple 64,- 508, and the Centre Star 16,795v- The balance was made up of small shipments from ten other properties. Ghent, in Belgium, is built on 26 islands, which are connected by eighty bridges. ' INT 15RESTING CONCKNTKATK S. Night pays dew respect to day, Pay the printer and be honored. Make a resolution to buy fruit and confectionery from Nesbitt. There are more persons over 60 years of age in France than in any other of the countries of Europe. Ireland comes next. The winter is mild and so are some of the cigars that Williams sell. He has others that will suit the smoker who desires strength with a delicate aroma. The moBt costly piece of railway line in the world ! is probably that between tho Mansion House and . Aldgate sta- tions\", in London, which -required the expenditure of close upon $10,000,000 a. mile. war a certain Illinois regiment was camping on one of the small islands south of Key Wrest. The island was only about a mile in width. The colonel of the regiment, whose wife had insisted upon accompanying- him, had his tent pitched in the centre. On one side of the island were tali cliffs, and on the other a beach. One day, while the colonel was resting comfortably in a hammock, his wife came to him and said: \"John, you must issue orders to have those horrid men bathe on the other side of the island.\" \"But, my dear,\" said the colonel, \"they can't bathe over there. It is impossible because of the cliffs. Anyway, you cannot see them where they are, now, as it is fully half a mile or more away \" \"I know that,\" replied his wife, \"bin I can see them with a field class.\" A Matrimonial Advertiaemeiit. The following matrimonial advertisement hails from Dakota: \"Lovers, Take Notice\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDOn and after this date, I will present an elegant chronio, a parlor lamp, or a glass water set to all bridal couples married by me. All marrying done in the most artistic way, either in private or public. Runaway couples married at any hour of the day or night, and pursuers thrown off the scent. Reduced rates to those 1 have married before. A red lantern hangs in front of my door, on Prairie street, at night. No dog kept. Night bell directly under the lantern.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMoses D'odd, J.P.\" SITUATION WANTED. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD A thoroughly competent assayer seeks a position. Has a Government Certificate. Address, W. G. Watson, Vancouver, B. C. instead of doing his work, was amusing himself by reading the newspaper, and, as bad luck would have it, the manager looked in. \"What's this?\" he said. Bill was dumfounded. \"Pack up your things and go,\" said the manager. So poor Bill went to the office, drew the money that was owing to him, and then went upstairs and put on his good clothes. Coming down he went to say good-bye to some of the other servants, and there he happened to run across the manager, who did not recognize him in his black coat. \"Do you want a job?\" asked the manager. \"Yes, sir,\" said Bill. \"Can you clean windows?\" \"Yes, sir.\" \"You look a handy sort of a fellow. I only gave the; last I man $5, but I will give you.$7.\" \"Thank you, sir,\" said Bill; and in half an hour he was back in the same old room\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDcleaning the window this time and not reading the paper. Minerals in the Philippines. In a -report to the interior department on the g'eology of the Philippine islands George F. Becker, of the United States Geological Survey, gives some interesting information regarding the mineral resources of the group. Mr. Becker says that while gold exists in both Luzon and Mindinao, it is comparable rather to that of the Carolinas and Virginia than to the western gold fields of the United States, and a rush to the Philippine fields would, he predicts, result in disappointment. The report says \"the copper deposits of Lepanto seem rich and extensive, but very expensive roads will be needed to render them available. The high quality of some of the iron ores of Luzon is beyond question, but the lignite of the islands is not adapted to iron smelting. The so-called coal is a good lignite. Its heating effect is from two-thirds to three-quarters of that of the best steaming coal. There are great quantities of this fuel, and much of it will probably be delivered at a profit on vessels at $2.50 Mexican ton.\" SLOCAN ORE SHIPMENTS. Total shipped July 1 to Dec. 31, 1898, 17,994 Jan. 1, tons. 1900: January 1st, 1899, to Week Payne Last Chance Slocan Star Sapphire Coin Ajax Sovereign Reco Ivanhoe Treasure Vault Red Fox Trade Dollar Liberty Hill Madison Wonderful American Boy Noble Five Idaho Mines Queen Bess wild Goose Monitor Whitewater Jack.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDon Hillside Bell Wellington Antoine Rambler Native Silver Bell. Dardanelles Great Western Florida Busiiii Marion Cfipella Mollie Huurh.es Fidelity.- Vancouver Wakefield Emily Edith Comstock Noonday Enterprise Tamarnc Black Prince Chapleau Total 5,437 2,245 548 33 18 40 20 180 119 113 14 50 t 11 20 48 45 840 1,441 15 260 2,343 874 1 05 11 650 619 48 100 48 30 5S0 20 3 30 3 320 5S0 60 120 (510 710 2'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD 35 15 Total tons. 19,423 Subscribe for The Ledge before it is too late. The circulation is limited to a million, and when that point is reached our books will be closed. The Dominion go%rernment will spend $25,000 on a dredge and dredging of the Narrows near Burton City. The dredge will likely be built at Nakusp, and Pat Gallagher goes this week to superintend the commencement of the work. THE LEDOE, NEW DENVER, B.C., JANUARY 4, 1900. Seventh Year The Ledge. Published every Thursday. R. T. LOWERY, Editor and Financier. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Three months ....' \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD .75 Six \" 1.25 Twelve \" 2.00 Three yeaks 5.00 Transient Advertising, 25 cents per line first in sertion, 10 cents per line subsequent insertions nonpareil measurement. TO CONTRIBUTORS. Cjrrespondence from every partof the Kootenay District and communications upon live topics always acceptable. Write on both sides of the paper if you wish. Always send something good no matter how crude. Get your copy in while it is hot. and we will do the rest. A pencil cross in this square indicates that your subscription is due, and that the editor wishes once again 'to look at your collateral. THURSDAY, JANUARY 4. 1900. SCKAPs FROM THE EDITOR'S I)KSK. Canada Deeds a mint, and it should be built at New Denver. John L. Sullivan quit drinking- six months ago, and now he is broke. Whiskey is $5 a pint in Ladysmith, which proves that though beseiged the people still keep their spirits up. Four banks in Europe control the monetary market. Any one of them can make or break a nation in ten words. They are controlled by Jews, and it is to them no doubt that silver money owes its degeneration. The St. Petersburg Sviet sees in the. recent disasters to the British arms manifestations of the Almighty. When the British turn the tables on the Boers later on, the Sviet will probably see in this manifestations of the devil. nation bows its head in grief, he harvests the crop. As he counts his millions he must often laugh at how willingly the British soldier goes up against the worst of it, principally for his benefit. Brave Tommy Atkins! Your name is legion, but you are selfish. Why do you not give the men with the gold a chance to pump lead into the enemy wl-ile you stay at home with your family and drink extra dry ? Do not monopolize the fighting. Give the men who profit by it a chance. There is nothing like generosity. FENIANS, STAY AWAY The bubonic plague has arrived at the Sandwich Islands. If it gets into Canada the growing will be changed to planting time. It is more to be feared than war, and any Chinaman is liable to introduce it to British Columbia people. We have often thought that Kaslo's paper was an eighteenth century publication, and our suspicion has been confirmed by the following paragraph it contained last week. It says: \"With this, the last issue of the eighteenth century, the Kootenaian wishes its readers prosperity and long life.\" The antics of the Sandon Review are very funny. It is trying to prove its friendship for the workingmen of the Slocan by explaining that what it has said it didn't mean to say, and what it meant to say months ago its going to say some time in the future\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD if the earth hangs together long enough. The surest way for the mine managers to prevent the possibility of any legislation being enacted looking to the repeal or even modification of the 8-hour law, would be for them to continue their past folly. They will be in no position to ask for any legislation if they do not give the law a fair trial. War breeds war much the same as one jag will beget others in the same camp. We have just heard that the Japs will fight Russia to a red finale, in the spring. We do not think much of this report as we are so accustomed to booms that are to to come in the spring. It is also whispered along the thin green line that runs through the United States that the Fenians will again attempt to take Canada. They must think we are easy, or else their knowledge of this glorious country ot ours\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand the C. P. 11\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD is exceedingly limited. We warn the Fenians to keep their crazy souls out of this Dominion if they have any regard for their health. Do not be misled by foolish agitators into making a raid upon our fair land. If you do you will run up against a storm of lead that will whiten your whiskey-tinted faces, and make you all of the same name, \"Dinnis.\" And thus does the war talk go on and no one knows where it will end. We would not be surprised at any time to learn that the Salvation Army was fighting the devil in Sandon, or that the green-eyed brigands of Silverton had swooped down upon New Denver and put everything to sleep in the only Lucerne of North America. agreement, three known experts must report that there is twice the value of ore in sight of the price asked for the property.\" Mr. Mackintosh was ever flush with promises, and could always make things look well on paper, but when he promises to sell a mine for one- half what it is worth he makes himself funny. As is stated by the Mining Record, \"To buy a mine for half the value of the ore in sight is in North America an impossibility; to sell it for the value of half the ore in sight would be the rankest folly. Besides which, the clause in the agreement rendering it necessary to secure the unanimity of three well- known experts on any given subject, let alone ore in sight, is imprimis a bar upon this syndicate's doing any business at all. No three experts have ever been known to agree on anything, and the better known they are the more their opinions seem to differ.\" *** **\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD *** *-J*-*1i^iiTlhi*h'Hffit-\"h^ii,iT'|llW11I|- nHhTHhifcJ^a oae ootr Established 1817. Capital (all paid up) $12,000,000.00 Reserved fund : : 6,000,000.00 Undivided profits : : 1,102,792,72 HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL. Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona a.id Mount Rofal, G.QM.G. President. Hon. G. A. Drummono, Vice President, E. S. Clouston, General Manager, all parts of Canada, Newfoundland, Great Britain, and Branches ia the United States. Denver branch E. PITT, Manager :::??!Z^!IE!!^^ naarw PAST OltDINAUY UNDKUS'J'AN DIN'CJ. SEASON OF RESOLUTIONS. This is a week of suffering. It is the week in which thousands of people make an effort, by making resolutions, to burst the chains of habit that bind them to various forms.of evil. The pike that leads to hell is littered with all kinds of good resolutions, hence it is better not to resolute, The majority of people who attempt to reform by swearing off bad habits seldom keep their oaths a month, and when they return to their evil habits they sink deeper in the mire of vice than ever before. For this reason it is not advisable to make any vows as to your future career. If you wish to quit an evil habit, quit, but do not resolve. By following this course you can look back at the end of the year and not exclaim as the actor in the play of the Silver King, \"Oh, God; turn back thy universe, and give me yesterday.\" We have some wonderful laws in the silvery west. Their workings puzzle fc'-e plebian mind. For instance a man can work underground in a railroad tunnel as lon\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD as he wishes without being fined, but if he labors longer than eight hours in a mine tunnel he is subject to a fine. All other labor in the province is free as to time limit, and yet people exclaim, \"consistency, thou art a diamond!\" A man in search of an easy living can run i draw poker game with a rake-off, and the law will never put the lights out, If the man deals faro, stud poker or roulette he never knows the hour when the noble police of B. C. will break in and make his life miserable by fines or imprisonment. No wonder the people exclaim, \"consistency, thou art a peach !\" If a woman, whose sexual attractions are above price, rents a house, puts up curtains of a modest color and retails boozerino at a bit a drink, without a license, she is immediately brought before the Beak, fined and driven out of business. Tnus does virtue get its reward. If a woman fits up a ma nsion or a shask in a gaudy manner, flaunts the red curtain and announces to the camp that she has easy virtue at the standard price, she can sell all the liquor.she wants to without a license at two-bits a drink, and the police will pass her by; as \".hough she were not in existence. ;Thus does vice reign rm- preme to justice, and we do not wonder at the crowd shouting, \"consistency, thou art a lulu!\" The Nelson Miner has refused to accept (what it claims to be, at least,) certain conditions laid down by the Miner's Union in its acceptance of the compromise submitted by the managers. Fortunately the Slocan labor trouble is not going to be settled by the Nelson Miner. When the Slocan mine managers get ready to consider the Union's counter proposition they will do so without asking the Nelson pap.-.r to .hear the case. As it is, the managers have not yet met to give their answer to the.Union; when they do, the Union will not, we are informed, insist upon any trouble- breeding provisions. A great deal has been said abiut.'the Union proposition, but the loud-mouthed agitation has no foundation, for the provisions of the proposition have not been made public, and no one is in a position to say what they are. O'Rafferty\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTvras a sad blow thot l>2- fell Cassidy. Did ye not hear? McGiiniis\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSorra th' word av tit. \"Sure, he's dead. Sthruck be liglit- nin', lie was.\" \"Oh, my! Oh, my! But I'm not surprised. Faith, he had a sickly look the lasht toime I seen*him.-- interest one remarked \"Can't I \"This room is very close,' the guest to the head waiter, have a little fresh air ?\" \"One air!'' veiled the obliging waiter \"Fresh.\" At this time of the year wj ureall more or less on the look out for the best place to purchase our winter wear. Some are more fanciful than others and want the very best qualities. For our part we always advocate that the best' is the cheapest in the end\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDespecially so with Underwear\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDbut be this as it may, we can suit the most fastidious. Ladies' fine Woollen Underwear, per suit $1.60 Gents' line Woollen Underwear, Ribbed and plain, all sizes. . \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD But now from snow-swept Canada,from i India's torrid plains, \u00EF\u00BF\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 i From lone Australian outposts hither led; Obeying their commando, as they heard j \" the bugle's strains, 1 The men in brown have joined the men in red. |They come to find the colors at Majuba left and Most; They come to pay us back the debt they owed: (And I hear new voices lifted, and I see strange colors tossed, 'Mid the \"rooi-baatje singing on the road. ItfThe old, old faiths must falter; the old, old creeds must fall\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD I hear it in the distant murmur low\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD 'The old, old order changes, and 'tis vain for us to rail; The great world does not want us\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD i j we must go. {And veldt, and spruit, and kopje to the stranger will belong. No more the trek before him we shall lead; [Too well, too well I know it, for I hear it in the song Of the rooi-baatje singing on the road. the most searching criticism. If true, it can stand the test, and justify itself in the eyes of all. If false, it deserves to perish; and no man should mourn its downfall. That the marriage system of today is a conspicuous failure, few careful investigators are prepared to deny. It has not proved to be a successful solution of the sex question. It is merely one of many experiments in s.;x relationship which have been made in the course of centuries by both savage and civilized peoples. Anthropological research among the more primitive races reveals the widest divergence of marriage customs and ideas. Monogamy in its strictest aspect is found in various tribes. Practical promiscuity is occasionally noted. Some tribes are rigidly endogamous, others are rigidly exoga- mous. In some cases, a great deal of sexual freedom is allowed before marriage, after, whicli absolute constancy is rigidly enforced. Elsewhere, strict chastity is demanded up to the point of marriage, and the widest license tolerated afterwards. In some countries, incest is regarded as a highly normal form of sex relationship; in others, it is ranked among the grosser forms of sexual perversion. These instanc\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDs,which might be almost indefinitely multiplied,' simply prove that in sex, as in every Other department'of .life, no single and unvarying standard has been able to maintain a lasting supremacy over all others. Here, as elsewhere, the evolutionary principle is constantly, at work modifying Social customs- in obedience to economic necessity and to increasing corn prehension of.lthc.laws of nature. Many,of bur errors in social philosophy arises from a failure to comprehend the-principle^ of relativity. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Each individual must think and learii for,-himself;'' and many of his lessons must be gained through personal .experience. In like manner each generation has its own lessons to learn, not by, a blind adhesion to the'forms.:of the past, but, by using the knowledge already attained as a stepping stone to further attainments. An institution,, evolving of necessity from antecedent conditions, meets a real necessity, and represents the best possible expression of a given stage of human development War, slavery, church, state, feudalism, capitalist industry, and marriage, are all examples of the same principle. The error, from which countless miseries have arisen, lies in holding up those imperfect ex. pei'iments as permanent factors in human life. When an institution has come to rest on authority rather than on an appeal to reason, it is already outgrown; and its doom, though delayed, is certain. The form may remain, even for centuries; but the life has gone. The marriage system of today is condemned already in the forum of reason. The joint product of temporary economic conditions and blind experimenting1 in days of darkness and mental ignorance, it has been invested with an artificial sanctity by the self-seeking devices of priestcraft, and crystalized into an authoritarian institution by the invasive decrees of government. Around it an ibsurd code of morals has gradually clustered. Jealousy, the manifestation of the spirit of ownership and possession, is considered almost a virtue, instead of what it really is\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDan unconscious recognition of one's own inferiority, and a vice of the most contemptible nature. Prostitution, so closely allied to marriage as to have been called its twin sister, and all other forms of sexual vice are among the commonest features of latter-day civilization. 'Hie prevalent unhappiness in the marriage relation is ascribed to every source except the true one\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe inherent defect in the institution itself. The failure is admitted; but its cause is recognized only by the few who dare investigate with an unbiased mind'. Marriage is a failure, because it tends to substitute contract for love, as a ba- .sis of sex relationship; because it rests on authority, rather than on reason; because it ignores all natural laws of development, and attempts to force all individuals into the same mould; because it establishes arbitrary and artificial standards of morality; because it is the stronghold of an unhealthy asceticism-, born of superstition and priestly domination; because it is the fruitful source of discord and misery; because it tends to narrow the range of interests and sympathies; because it constitutes a denial of individuality, ignoring the fact that, man or woman is first of all a human being, and only secondary a related being; and because it is merely a crude survival of the past, and out of harmony with advancing human needs. The remedy? While that is not now our special theme, I am bound to express my conviction that the only sure cure lies in the establishment of full liberty. As the evil has come through authority, it must be met by the establishment of the opposite principle. Free men and women\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD will find their truest happiness in creating such ideals of love and parentage and the home, as will lead to happiness undreamed of in our half baked civilization of today. Whether variety or monogamy shall be the prevailing practice under free conditions, will be determined by the free choice of individuals, based on the common experience. No true idea has anything to lose by submitting to comparison with opposing views. The forcible invasion of the right of free speech, so often witnessed today is evidence that the advocates of marriage dare not leave their institution to the test of its intrinsic merit. They confess defeat in open discussion, and attempt to stay the march of progress by invasive violence. These common\" tactics qfbigots and despots never avail in the long run. The race is outgrowing marriage, as it has outgrown chattel slavery, and will one day outgrow the economic slavery of today. All around us, there are free and brave in en and women, who dare assert their right to themselves, even under the somewhat discouraging conditions of our present life. Their number, is constantly-increasing; and the day is at hand when the marriage fetich will be relegated to the lumber yard of dead institutions. GOOD-BYE- GOD BLESS YOU. Hill Bros. Manufacturers'of and Shingles Orders shipped to all parts of the Country. Mill at headrj of - - \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSlocan Lake.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Postoffice address, Rosebery. Prospectors, T Young1 men, become your own assayers. Three months will teach yon assaying for gold, silver and copper. Live and learn how, cheaper than you now live Columbia College, Board and Instruction in assaying .. . all for.. .. ONLY $26.00 PER MONTH Write to the principal\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD REV. W. J. SIPPRELL, B.A.B.D., New Westminster. All classes of learning may bo hart in this the only college of its kind in the west. ASLO HOTEL Family & Commercial. L arge And Comfortable Rooms Fitted with every modern convenience. Special protection against fire. Rates $2.50 and $3 per day. COCKLE & PAP WORTH, Proprietor*. I love the words\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDperhaps, because When I was leaving mother, Standing at last in solemn pause, We looked **.t one another, And I\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI saw in mother's eyes The love she could not tell me\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD A love eternal as the skies Whatever fate befell me. She put her arms about my neck And soothed the pain of leaving, And though her heart was like to break, She spoke no word of grieving, She let no tear bedim her eye For fear they might distress me, But, kissing me, she said good-bye, And asked our God to bless me. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDEugene Field. Williams has received a consignment of pop corn for the express purpose of giving the Slocan juveniles an oppor- tunitv to have a good time. CERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS Summit-Mineral. Claim Lot 4374. Or never so poor, that it could not be made better by NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING in a judicious, pains-taking way, and the circulation of neatly printed, attractive BUSINESS STATIONERY in -the ordinary channels of trade and correspondence. If it's an increase of business you are after you can get it. The quickest way about it is to advertise through the columns of The Ledse\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe most widely-read paper in the mining region. It goes into everv home in Slocan New Deiriver : Samdomi Whitewater Slocami City SMvertoirn All Minting Camps, In this advanced age it is out of business gear to attempt to carry on any business without suitable printed stationery. You should be supplied with good quality Letter Heads BIM Heads Statements Note Heads. Heinra\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Heads Clrcmlars \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Envelopes'' \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD AmytlhSinig Wanted Call or address\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD THE LEDGE, U. T. LOWEUV, Editor and Financier. WHY MARKIAGE \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDS A FAILURE, THE GATEWAY CITY AND DISTRIBUTING POINT FOR THE BOUNDARY COUNTRY. Grand opportunity for investments in Real Estate, Fruit and Vegetable Farms, etc. For information address\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD J. A. SMITH. l!rhis All Absorbing Topic Reviewed by James F. Morton, Jr. hd Every social institution must be test- by its actual results in promoting mman welfare and human happiness. Neither its antiquity nor the univer- ality of its acceptance? is a very safe riterion. ' '\u00EF\u00BF\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 No idea is too safe to be subjected to HOTEL New Denver, B.C. ;-...-.- A JACOBSON& CO., Props Bestimeafe in the city\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDComfortable rooms\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBar replete with the best of Liquors and Cigars\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBest service throughout. CERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS Sundown Fraction Mineral Claim. Situated in the Slociin City Alining Division of West Kootenay .District. Where located: On the north side of Lemon Creek, opposite I lie mouth of Summit ereek. 'PAKE NOTICE that I. Dan Hanlon, fu-timrus I nn inrent for .J. D. Wallace. F M. C. No. 22503 A; W. B. YVillcox. F. M. C. No. Bi'lJtiiiS; H. J. Robertson, F. M.C.No. Bl-IL'iM; William Colp- man. F. M. C. No. -2?,-JnUA; John Roland Stitt. F. M. C. No. B8098,and Herbert Hunting. F M. C. No. B'ii'ii-l. intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to applv to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Grown Grant- of the above claim. And further take notice that action under section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this lfith day of December. 18!i!>. DAN HANLON. United Umpire Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan City Mining Division of West- Kootenay District. Where located: On the north side of Ten Mile Creek about- seven miles from Slocan lake HPAKE NOTICE That I, R. \V. Gordoi. F. M. 1 C. No. 3!*>S2A. acting for myself and as agent for H. W. Kent, F.M.C. No. S9280. Thomas Dunn, F. M. C. No. 2016i;, J. H. Ward. F. M. C, No W137A. and Geo. Williamson. F. M. C. No. 14929H. 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 the ibove claim. And further take notice that action under Section 37 must he commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 29th dav of October, IMS. 12-28 \" R. W. G0RIX)N. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: About half mile southeast of Sandon, adjoining the Richmond and Hidden Treasure mineral claims. rfAKE NOTICE That I. Robert E. Palmer, as I agent for Eleanor Truax O'Neil, V. M. C. No. 5H274; George Gooderham, F. ,M. C. No. B1279I. and the WarEajJeCon. Mining & Development- Co. Ltd, F. M. C. No. B133S7. intend, sixtv davs from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Re corder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of Improvements. Dated this 10th dav of November. lMifi. 11-10 ' R. E. PALMER A'ictor mineral Claim. Igp^lMp ANDSOO LINE. Between J The direct route from Kootenay Country to all points East and West. . Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On the South Fork of Carpenter creek, about, a mile from Sandon. opposite mouth o1 Noble Five Gulch, a relocation of the St. Paul No. 2. ''PAKE NOTICE That I. James Marshall, free 1 miner's cc-rtilieate Nc. WGiMA, intend, sixty days from the date hereof to apply to th'e Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for the purjiose of obtaining a Crown grant, of the above claim. And further take notice that action under section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 7th day of December. Wi'.\ JAMES MARSHALL. 12-11 First-Class Sleepers on all trains rrom Revelstoke and Kootenay Ldg. Tourist Cars pass Medicine Hat daily for St, Paul; Sundays and Wednesdays for Toronto; Fridays for Montreal and Boston. Same cars pass Revelstoke one day earlier. I'roiiiestora Minora! Claim. Situate in the Arrow Lake. Mining Division of West Koote.iay District. Where located: On Mineral Creole, 3.V miles from Cariboo Creek. HPAKE NOTICE, That I, N. F. Townscnd. act- \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*- ing asagent, for John H. McDowell, F. M. O. 12.18518: Fat Cumingham. F.M.C. 84*07A.. James Brady, F. M. C. iiGlST Nelson Deiners, F. M. C. 10707 A, and Frank H. Bourne. F. M. C. l(]82oA. intend, sixty davs from the date hereof. to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 87, must be. commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 2.5th day of August, A. D. 1899. so-ii n: f. townsend. Consolidated Vorgiriia, Klk and Speculator Mineral Claims. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On the South Fork of Carpenter Creek. 'PAKE NOTICE that I, Arthur S. Farwell as L agent for Harold Selous. F. M G. No. 98142, intend 00 days from thedn te hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 9th day of September, 1899. 2-11-09 A. S. FARWELL. Adirondack Mineral Claim, Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: South of St. John, Idaho Basin. . rpAKE NOTICE, That I Herbert T. Twigg. 1 agent for William Hunter, F. M. C. No.' 3298-1 A; Harry Lowe. F. M. C. No. 13997: Walter Murray, F. M. C. 13988. and Robert Slnan, F. M. C. No. 13989, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, lor the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 23d day of November. 1899. HERBERT T. TWIGG. COXNKCTIONS Revelstoke and main line points. S:5fik Dly: lv \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD DenverC. Siding\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDar: Daily lfi:30X M:lTik ex. Sun: lv N.Denver Ldg: arex.Suh;15:40k ltossr.AND, xki.so'n chow's nest .munch and noUNDAKV COUNTRY. 9.50k ex. Sun: lv N.Denvor Ldg: arex.Sun 13.30k TO AND KltOM SANDON lo.ank dly lv Denver C. Sdg ar tily 8,55k 13 3ok ex Sun lv. .N Denver Ldg.ar ex Sun 9.50k Ascertain rates and full information by ad\" , dressing nearest local agent or\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD G. B. GARRETT, Agent New Denver. W. F. Anderson, Trav. Pass. Agt., Nelson. E. J. Coyle, A. G. P. Agt., Vancouver. Sliaie Falls & Mm SYSTEM, NELSON & FORT SHEPPARD CO. RED MOUNTAIN BAT CO. The all rail and direct route between the Kootenay ..District and.. All British Columbia Fonts Pacific Coast Points Pnget .Sound Points Eastern Canada and che United States. 'Legal Tender No. 3 Mineral Claim. Situated in the Slocan City Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: About four miles south of Slocan City on the Government trail. 1a and Opatunka Mineral Claims. Situate in the Slocan Mining'Division of West Kootenay district. Whe e located: Adjoining the Democrat, Twin Lakes Basin. HiAKE NOTICE, That I, Herbert T Twigg, 1 agent for John 6. Steel, free miner's certificate No. 704, intend, GO days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for Certificates of Improvements for the purpose of obtaining^ Crown Grant of ea-h of the above claims. _ And f- rtlu-r take notice that action, under sec- ti6n 37.must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificates oi Improvements. Dated this 23d day of November, IS'iiy HERBERT T. TWIGG. J''gyi>t Mineral Claim. Situate in the SI .can Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: East of Mountain Chief Carpenter Cieek. ' TAKE NOTICE That I. George H. Aylard. agent lor John A. Finch, Free Miners'Certificate No. L'l7iii A, 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 the above claim. A nd further tu-'tn notice that act:on under sec.37 must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this .101 h day of November, 1899. 30-11 G. H. AYLARD. Ileber Fraction Mineral Claim. Situate in rhe Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. ' Where located: South of and joining the \"Rabbit Paw'' Mineral Claim, near Sandon. rpAKE NOTICE, That I. A. S. Farwell, acting -*- asagent for the Star Mining and Milling Co.. Ltd Liah'ty, Free Miner's Certificate. No. lWils I>. intend, sixty davs from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of (tie above claim. And further t.ils'e notice that action, under section 37, must be eonimenced before the issuance of such Oerlifii ate of Ininrovement.s. Dated this^'d dav of November. 1WI 3.'l'l-!i!i ' A. S FARWELL. St. Clair Mhu'val Claim. Situate in (he Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: Mowieh Slide. Carpenter creek. 'PAKE NOTICE That i, Herbert. T. Twigg, 1 agent for Jas. II. Moran. Free Miner's Certificate No. 13!C.1, and Charles W. Greenlee. F. M. O. No. 13972. intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to anply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under Sec. 37 must lie commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 21\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD day of December, isno. HERBERT T. TWIGG. J.K.CLARK, MINES and MINING Reports, Examinations and Management. NEW DENVER B.C. KASLO & SLOCAN RAILWAY. Schedule of Time. Pacific Standard \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTime- Passenger train for Sandon and way stations leaves Kaslo at 8:00 a. m. daily, returning, leaves Sandon at 1:15 p. in., arriving at aslo ab 3:55 p. in, INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION & TRADING CO., operating on Kootenay Lake and River. S. S. INTERNATIONAL. Leaves Kaslo for Nelson at 6:00 a. m., daily except Sunday. Returning leaves Nelson at 4:30 p. m., calling at Balfour, Pilot Bay, Ainsworth and all way points. Connections with S. F, & N. train to and from Spokane at Five Mile Point; also with str. Alberta to and from Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. S. S. ALBERTA. Leaves Nelson for Bonner's Ferry Tuesday and Saturdays at 7 a. m., meeting steamer International from Kaslo at Pilot Bay. Returning, leaves Bonner's Perry at 8 a. m, Wednesdays and Sunday's. LARDO DUNCAN DIVISION. Steamer International leaves Kaslo for Lardo and Argenta at 8:45 p. m. Wednesdays and Fridays. Steamer Alberta leaves Kaslo fur Lardo and Argenta at 8 p.m. Sundays. Steamers call at principal landings in both directions, and at other points when signalled. Tickets isol-i to all points i i Ca. ada and the United Statas. To ascertain rates and full information, address\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Robert Irving, Manager. S. Uamfhell, Kaslo. B. C. Freight and Ticket Agt., Sandon. ATLANTIC .STEAMSHIP TICKETS. To and from European points via Canadian and American lines. Apply for sailing dates rates, tickets and full information to any C. Ry agent or\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD G. B. GARRETT, C. P. R. Agent. New Denver. W. P. F. Cummings, &. S. S. Agt., Winnipe Fellow Pilgrims If you receive a copy of Tut-: Ledce without being a subscriber, do not be alarmed. It will not cost you anything. After as ay ing it. if you care to dig up. you can give no offense by sending in your collateral. The annual assessment is S2, but if you are financially in the sump send in $1 and for six months you will have all the blessLaga that this paper can bestow 'upon you. The circulation is limited to one million, so do not dally too long with procrastination. R. T. LOWKRY. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDIM\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDlMtUUM\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMMIlMtMI\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDiai\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMI\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMBm\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDH^^ smmmmmrmmmEimmm. THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., JANUARY 4, 1900. Seventh Yeah THE DEPARTING PAKSOX. (Reproduced by request.) To my friend, Rev. W.M. Mac|veracher. Some feller dropped the word last night, Down at \"Poker Bill's,\" \"The parson's goin' ter pull up stakes And quit these bloomm' hills.\" The boys all looked up sudden t-like. At the feller where he sot And Tommy Roadley dropped his hand An' fergot to take the pot. \"Yas,\" says the feller, kinder s'prised At the way we took the news, ''Year's up, and he's goin' ter shake This dust from off his shoes. He's a-goin' away back east,\" says he\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"Boys,\" chipped in old George Foss, \"Let's all cash in.\" And then we fell To reckonin' up the loss. \"Pop\" Lowery 'lowed he'd bet a stack That the camp \1 never see A squarer parson pull his coat Er throw a packer's \"T.\" \" 'Scribed for the 'Claim' when.he fust come, Planked down the good hard dough, And, ding it, boys, I kinder hate Ter see the feller go.\" \"Doc\" Rogers chipped a bean and said: \"The proper thing ter do, Afore the parson packs his quilts And strikes fer prospecks new, Ib ter give the cuss a good send-off.\" \"I'm in on that, says Pete, We'll 'pint Dave King the poet, An' th' hull durn gang '11 treat.\" Well, Sunday night we gathered in, At the old Hotel Slocan, Fer er reg'lar old-time blow-out. We trotted out our man And made him lisun to the truck Our poet said he'd writ, Which, if my memory serves me right, Was 'bout like this, to-wit: \"We've watched you purty close, young man, Since you dropped yer pack down here, And stated in a sermont That you'd come to stay a year, But we felt a mite suspicious-like, A8 folks is apt t' feel, When a ' 'varsity chap' from way down east, Sets in to take the deal. \"Them days the gang didn't take much stock In missionary chaps, And we sort 'er steered eround you\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD There's where we lost, perhapB\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Fer we couldn't see how a beardless kid, That had just got out 'er school, Could preach and live in a mining camp And stick to the Lord's eighth rule. \"We've heerd tell since, that when you 1 \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD sot in The game was a-running low; The church debt loomed up mighty high And the spirit didn't flow; The Sunday night collections, them days, Was 'bout as slim As the Sunday mornin' attendance, Which was almighty slim. \"But it wa'nt long 'til it got eround That yer preachin' wa'nt bad; That them that didn't hear ye Might some day wish, they had; That you struck out from th' shoulder And layed down the good old facks, That every man's religion Is recorded in his acts. \"That the man who has a ready hand To help his feller man, Has struck the paystreak of God's love An' can save it in a pan. You didn't seem ter give a\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDer\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD That is, you didn't care, How rough an' tough a man might look If his heart beat on the square. peated five or six times in succession in order to completely saturate the paper. It is afterward calcined, and it will be observed that the ash, when gold is present, offers a purple color. This color should disappear quickly if the ash is moistened with bromine water. The test may be modified in the following manner: A quantity oi the powder, 120 grammes, is covered with bromine water, and after agitating during the course ot an hour, the solution is filtered. Upon adding protochloride of tin to the solution, it :akes a purple color, in the presence of gold, giving the reaction known as \"Purple of Cassius.\" In the case ot sulphides the ore should be previously roasted, and when the mineral contains a considerable proportion of carbonate ot lime, it should be calcined in the presence of ammonium carbonate. BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. If you have a gray-haired mother In the old home far away, Sit down and write the letter You put off day by day. Don't wait until tier tired steps Reach heaven's pearly gate- But show her that you think of her Before it is too late. If vou've a tender message Or a loving word to say. Don't wait till you forget it But whisper it today. Who knows what bitter memories May haunt you it you wait?\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD So make your loved ones happy Before it is too late. We live but in the present, The future is unknown\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is all our own. The chance that fortune lends to us May vanish while we wait, So spend your life's rich treasure Before ft is too late. The tender words unspoken, The letter never sent, The long-forgotten messages The wealth of love unspent. For these some hearts are breaking, For these some loved ones wait\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD So show them that you care for them Before it is too late. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDIda Goldsmith Morris. Women'* Names. A speaker addressing some clubwomen recently on the subject of a woman's name voiced her belief that the time would come when a woman would' not give up her name when she married, some compromise being effected which would preserve her premarital identity. This is, of course, often done now where the won^an has become well known during her celibacy. An author or physician almost invariably haa her name hyphened to that of the man she marries. The same speaker thinks, too, that the title of \"Mrs.\" will be one of maturity, just as \"Mr.\" is, and that \"Miss\" will be retained merely as a designation if girlhood, as \"Master\" is now. Neither of these statements is radical or beyond easy belief in its fulfillment. The present is nothing if not an age of iconoclasm, and because a thing has been is one of the le- t influential arguments that it shall continue to be.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDChicago Times-Herald. Sanitary Kneading; Boards. Wooden kneading boards are declared insanitary. In their place in the modern kitchen are found heavy marble or giass trays, which are more easily kept clean. The molding board Is now declined to be on\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD of the places where close inspection is needed by housewives who appreciate the ubiquitousnessof germs and microbes. Indeed some housewives who have made domestic science their hobby will not allow dough bo b\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD kneaded at all by hand, but insist that the same process, or very nearly, bo accomplished by a large spoon. Just watch your domestic- scrape the dough off bar handi after she has been kneading it, and you will never want any more bread kneaded by her hand, says one of these up to date housekeepers. Doubtless even with the marble tray the beating with the spoon would be more satisfactory and the bread \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDqually light.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDExchange. Parson's j Wholesale BUTTER EGGS CHEESE GREEN FRUITS CURED MEATS VEGETABLES -%^^/^Vfc^ ft o my Patrons in the Slocan 1<%&W&%> Supply The Pretty- Matinee. It is a wise plan for a woman to allow herself a generous change of dainty, inexpensive cotton dressing sacks, little affairs whose only beauty is their freshness. Much better to have such and to make sure that the jacket you wear is perfectly fresh, says a fashion writer, than to invest In an elaborate silken affair and then be obliged to wear it when its first sweet cleanness is gone. Remember the first command that must be respected in the matter of the negligee is sweetness and cleanness. If you oan afford a change of dainty Bilk and lace negligees, well and good, nothing is prettier, but you will look very nice in something less expensive if only it is just as spotlessly clean. Of course, if the sack is fine of material and elaborate of construction, you'll call it a matinee and rather look down upon the cotton srnrments. Shippers of the Early Breakfast Brand of Bacon. Full stocks -Nelson and carried at Rossland. Mail orders solicited. California Wine Co., Wholesale Dealers Boys, my Over= coatings will just suit you. Prices low I have opened my Tailoring establishment in1 i Nelson and am prepared1 1 to fill all orders with neat- ( 1 ness and dispatch. Most i e stylish Suitings and work- [ manship guaranteed. When in Nelson call and i > inspect stock, or write me' j and I will call on you with( implex of goods in my( i trip through the Slocan i i which I contemplate mak- 1 ing in a short time. Hoping to be favored i 1 with your orders, I am- Yours truly, \"E. J.Robie! \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe Tailor. Nelson, B.C. ^^/$/^>%/ts^ l/*WWWW*,< NELSON, B.C. | f*X WffWffWfWfWff "Preceding Title: The Nakusp Ledge

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