@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "af0b3f4b-12b6-4a1b-bfff-145461cc652d"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:alternative "[Courtenay Weekly News]"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2015-11-27"@en, "1895-11-26"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/cwn/items/1.0067803/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ 0f>WUM+ nt NO. 159. UNION, COMOX DISTRICT, B. C, TUESDAY, NOV. 26, 1895. $2.00 PER YEAR JAMES McKIM Has just received a large consignment of Staple Dry Goods, Imported Direct from Stewart & McDodald's, Glasgow. These goods are of the Lati'st Stylus and Pattern's, and being of the Bkst Manufacture, are Wakki:.\\ti:ii to give Satisfaction, The General Grocery business will be conducted as usual at ROCK BOTTOM figures and every effort will be made by the undersigned to cater to the requirements of his numerous customers. J\\MES McKIM. me~~~>* I I ' I ���'��� �����_���!������.���>���! .��� ��� f��� Li >mam. i 11. . i. ������������)_ i.. I itte-a-ee** **��� **���.���*��� L.J. ���.���.UL" ���I.I... ICE OIRj^JaAM. pablors Union, B.0, -*- Soda Water, Candies, Stationery and Books. FRUIT Ja. 8~���\\CXJa.7L,T~: TOBACCOS imported and Domestic Cigars Briar and Meerschaum Goods. Ike Aho** Store* Adjoin, Witera Everything of tba Beat in their Seepective linea will be found. A. W. Mclntyre Prop. Fall Neckwear in all thc Latest Styles Fall Shirts in Endless Variety Fall Suiting in all the Newest Styles LA WSON Sf CO., DUNNE BLOCK. Tailors and Gents Furnishers I have an unlimited supply of money for loans on the security of fanning property at low rates of interest. Loans put through expeditiously. Mortgages purchased. Insurance effected. MARCUS WOLFE Nanaimo. B. C P. O. Drawer 17 CUMBERLAND CLUB UNION, l), C. j. iiia'cr, pjtKs. W. S. DICKSON, Slx'y & TRI'.AS. CLUB HOUSE OWN FROM 6 A. M. TO 1 A. SI. KOK MEMBERS ONLY. -��.i*uji.j.i���u Miss B.B. Williams, Teacher of Music, Shorthand and Typewriting ifeenls cat) have free u.c of Typewriter ami riana for practice. C. H. TARBELL, COR. 2ND AND Dl'NSMDIR AVK. K*?KI*S A FULL LINK OF Gurnsey Tilden Stoves, everywhere famous, AND riOKS ALL KINDS OF Tin work Sheet-iron work Rooting Job work AI,D Repairing Lecture Thursday, Evening Nov. 28 AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ON THE DIGNITY of LABOR By the Rev. Up. Young Preceded with songs, duets and solos Hev. Mr. i^gan of Ctililiwaek will ooaupy tne ehatr. Admission Free Colleciion at the close. CUPID 8C0BED Ditr Mr, Klitorj��� Nothing can Im of greater interest tu the di.tr c thou .Iiu correspondence carried oa in your oulomui, under tho titlo of "Household atf.ira." la your issue < I Sect, I'.ltn, you give ua a loiter from Cu id, whioh ought cert.iuly to have beau entitled "a Aivritt orrin " Thn fiinilameiital bui. of hia Utter savors ol entire <: I'lDirv with the stupidity of interfering with a leminine correspondence He i. certainly out of plaee in saying anything at all Hih eunrnunieation smells io muoh ol turiiiNu. while for pecuniary reuoua he seeks to concern himielf with washing and cleaning. That ia the opinion of tome may entitle him to au opiuioa on thia qnestiou corro ponding te the motive thae lead* him to a life of tbi. kind. This woman of ours, I'lyec'tri'i*. is oue of the greatest emgniaa of nature It ia alwaya the nieu who write a riddle (Aat .tee people to Iw enigmas. They foolishly aiuuaie that t ere i��, or can be a persoi without euuie ii ixlnr. of character. Strange, it ia, tbat tuuh a uiixmra of the Mhiccuij.s wuh the srui'iu .hould oomplalu of the beautiful at a 1 Tne reason *��by woman leade tbe van uf civilizitiou and correct, the standard's of rectitude at oue tne and hot amothu, to the mind of Oupid. i. that ihe due, not do it at .11, hut only skumm to do so. So t.ya Cupid. Tae hutory uf worn tu i. an untnU- tah.able eviilenee nf a steady, uooh��nging progress towo-da higher womanhood; and if vie i.appeu to meet one unfortunate wo'iian, that ie no evidence agaiint tho law oi auoh pr,j>.reia, hut ae ihjie; tobi brought ui d��r ite inllueuca. But tnat tbe woman of today ia a butter type thau formerly it proven by the hind of home we have now compare,! to what we once had, end the existence ot inelitutioua direotly the outcome of fuiiuuitie intelligence. But I muat atop aasuojing that Cupid ia againat her, for ae I rend on I am aururit.-d te find him plaiting her in the mott beautiful oolor.��� a con- tiadiotiou to hit lirat statements, and not ev. n complaining that the Lord bad hi. paint atolcn and therefore bail to leave her iuiptrfoot. Tneu comes tbe riddle agaiu io the next >eatence that tbis seemingly good lieing Ult imperfect it) the firat place and fallen hack three eealaree into oarWisin, atill aparklca with beavbnly beauty and hu a gentle woman'a heart." ' -Aud now cornea the ata'emeat ' hat ana atftpailsK-j au. bb- inun IS chuatiov Tnatiauiy opinion, bnt how it can uoeaibly be Oopid't it Very difficult to ondertUue*. Uow a combination of coutiadictiont oau direct the beat Itt'tiee to niece* a may be plaiu to Cupid but not to ordinary murtala. But now we come to Cupid't reason evi> d"mly, for hi. opm.o a co .earning her bar- bariam; namely, that .he complaiaa of the aervility aud oppreaaion of ber eouaort, bemoan ng her dutiea a* houaehold slavery. Surely an ev deuce nlaupcrtority isseisitve- r,e.�� to bad treatment, aud the lirat to mane a successful alave it au igunraut, luriiaric nature*. The sense ot wroug dime, ia au evidence of a great nature and not of stupidity. It it iguoruio. and heartle anete Itias put. up with aurvility and oppreuiou and not intelligence; and tbia i. Whaie ahe ahow. her t,ad nature to uupi.t ��\\ hen you lind a conservatism iu favor of liberty, and 0)04.1 treatment, yos will lind progioi'i for a. a matter of faot, truth only oum ia to those who question the finality of preaent couilitiona, and if tho alave had never been taught tho right to freedom, progreti from alevtry to liberty, would never bave beeu brought ul>out. Theu again, aayt Cupid man ha. given her all. poaaible aaeittauce, aod everything that goea to make work easier ia tbe gift of man. Itut what ia the hiatory of the in. u that have invented theae thing., and unfolded the hidden truth to human ty 1 In every ou-e the goniue to do an .tauda ennneoted with a good wife or a good mother. Show ine the men who ever did auytnir.it to make life eaay and happy- whoae character eould not be traced to tha direot iulliience of a good woman. Look over the name, nf John Rutkiu and hia mother, Abraoi Lincoln and hit mother, John Wesley and bia mother, President Cleveland and hia mother, Geo. Stevenaon and hia mother, Lord Macaulay and hit mother, WKf.lad.toneand hit wif., Lird Aberdeen and bit wife, Sir Chan Dilkt and hi. wife, Sir W. Lawaon aod hia wife, and Lord Somerset ami hia wife. Who are the tnccestful men ? Mark <��uy Pearse, Hugh H. Hughes, Joseph Parker, Dr, Parkhnrat, and Mr. Spurgeon. In almoat every caao ynu have the suoeotifal man with a good wile. But we ueod ouly look at what would bn the kind of aociety derived fro.n Cupid's reasouing who by the way impresses ine as a ba.hulor whoae distant uiaaouliue feeling at exhibited iu hit letter would make aud leave society iuto a cold, hard, impenetrable and brutish cm'itinii aud would ultimately reault in making life insufferable, without the finer feeliug of feminine influence Eo modify matcnlina barbarism Now, Mr. K liter, what about the last paragraph aa to man being tbe inatruutor iu household alldra, dressmaking aud cooking, etc? The truth ie tm the other tide, The woman often makes the masculine dreaa, the uian the feminine dreaa, aeldom. Fi* ually comes an inainnation that the present women utterly useless for aay thing but novel reading aud gossiping and this to the mil- ery of his ami! Bat surely we don't want mschinea to a.sist novel reading and gossip* ing. If some of this brings disgust to him mor�� would brmg greater miters. Aud now in closing, let me say that thn latter rear nning it a fair sample of the wholt of Ou Goods ni half price At Leisci*! new Annex. Hcphee & Moore BEH1EAI. BBflElin AND BUTCHERS TJ2Q IOIsT 6c GOJJ~lrT~Zl-ArZ' Choicest Meats, Fresh Eggs and Vegetables A full line of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, etc., etc., etc* pid't communication, lie wishes to say totnething that he doea not know, and in trying to do it he gives ut a cosmopolitan mixture of expretsiont from which we can derive nothing, and leaves ua with an impression that at tome period he hot lieen disappointed by the fair sex, no doubt by putting iuto practical operation the mixed vieivt he aow holds ia theory. Yourt truly, 0. F., Union. A TBIP THBOUGH B 0 The aecond entertainment of the Concert Lscture Courae took place laat Thursday evening at Uraee Methnditt churoh. Aa at the tint one, (he letting capacity wu increased by the introduction of chain, and all were required. I'he entertainment opened with an anthem which waa admirably rendered. Foi. lowing thia waa a recitation by Mint Tarbell, a yonug girl of aboot a dozen summers. She had not been heard before here, aod her ren dition was a moot agreeable surprise, evincing muoh nathral talent and litelligent training. Another aurp'se wat in store when Mite Daniels appeared. She waa ao smalt the cull so-rcely be seen, but had inch sweetnest and compos, of voice, and eo well managed It, at to fill the audieuce with a thrill of delight. A male quartette finished this part of the programme, and the entertaining for the remainer nf the evening was entrusted to ltev. Mr Baer with hia dissolving views. It cooldu't have been in better hands. The instrument was a powerful one presenting a picture upon tha canvass of great size aud beauty. The ae lentirmt were well mode. S'urting at Kqnimalt the endienre wat taken arnnud to Viotori* whose scenic beauties were dis- elmwd with cb.-minii effect. Then a jump wa. taken to N inaimo, and from there to Port Simeon in the far north. In a twinkling the audience wero ta''en to Vancouver Tbe horrors of the great Frszer valley tlood were teen, and then a move made to Kant- Imps, and Ca-riboo and itt mining inictet w-re portrayed; and then down into the Kootenay section the lime lights flashed. The most gorgeous an-, Iwwilderiug seines were exhibited along the line of the C. P. K , the Selkirk and Kooky monnteiiis stand ing nut from the canvass in a'l their auhliiti ity and grandeur. The lecturer doirihed the varioua view* presented, in a hnmeroua wav. interfusin; his rennrVs with witty anecdotes, inimitably told, keeping the and ienoe in tho belt of humor, and at timet convnlsing them with laughter. But when the msj.etie Rockies were retched, the manner end langnage of the >eotarer choused, into unison with the sublimity of aud awfnl grandeur of tbe towering and frowning heithtt. Oooe past these, tbe ainooth- nest of hit language, and the mellow cadence of hia voice brought down tha aud- ienoe from its eca'aey nf excitement to the calmness and restfulnosa of the plains���tho great ocean of the prairies. Thit aat the olose of tbe entertainment proper, hut to please the boys, as he taid, for keepieg such good order, he presented on oanvtss the laughable ehose of Messrs Lone; and .Short by the Bengal tiger. It was intensely amusing. A SAMCB Mr. and Mrs, lUrrignr will give n dance in their ncw hotel, Willinms' Block, oa Monday, Nov. 2nd. Admission $1.50 a couple. batYlucWeI-" There will be a Lime Light presentation of the GREAT NAVAL axd LAND BATTLES - HKTWKEN - China and Japan AT CUMBERLAND HALL Thun day Evening, Nov. 28 By a .Japanese Lecturer trom Vancouvar. Admitsion 25 cents. THE BAND n t e r t a i n i n g 1 li e p c o p I c with delicious strains of nt ll- sic >>s vhal the I." nion brat* band did Sal- u r i'a y evening for the fir at tunc since they have been organized, ft is scarcely three months since Thk Nkws published its invitation for everyone who wonld like to join a band to send in his name and address. A few responded. The invitation was renewed and more names sent in and then a meeting was called. Hut lew attended. After two nr three more attempts a sufficient number became interested and committees were appointed to canvass for subscriptions. A sufficient amount was obtained to procure a few instruments, and the service, of Mr. August t.'rbain of Nanaimo, .inexperienced bandmaster were obtained as a leader- I'lie Colliery Co. assited in eV- ery way in its power, and the old Reading Kooin II,iii building was secured as a place for practice, through its liberality. Since then the band has made great progress. Last Saturday evening it gave ';' the people a-.ample of its musical abilities. It was an aureeable strrpi'ise. Marcliing tip Dunsmuir avenue from its ball, it halted in front of .Mr. K.I). Little's residence lon�� enough to play two or three pieces, and then proceeding to tht Wa- verlev Hotel from whose verandah it dis- coursed sweet music to the delight of a laitfe concourse of people who were quick ly attracted to the place. Then forming they marched down in front of THE NEWS v, hero tliey plaved for some minutes in su pcrb style, and tu numbers quite as large as had jjfeeitd them at the The Waverley. When the music ceased, Mr. Whitney, who was standing in the window of his ollice, addressed them as lolto.is: ''Gentlemen ofthe Union band: I thank you most heartily for the compliment of your visit, and for thc enjoyment you have anorded me in common with others by your excellent music. Vour appearance this evening ts an agreeable surprise and proves that yen have made goud use of your opportunities, i am proud of the progress you have made in so brief a time, and trust that you will continue to improve until your reputation be second to no band in the Province, I congratulate yon on what you have accomplished and the people of L'nion that at last they have a band of their own. I trust you may soon be able to give a concert for your own benefit, and can assure you that then and at all times you may depend on all the help which Thk NEWS is able to extend. Again I thank you." The band responded by playing an appropriate air, and tl.cn proceeded to the residence of Mi. Alex. (Irani, whom ii complimented wilh a few tunes. The band alsn paid a visit to the dwelling of Mr K. II. Smith. At every place at which lhey called thev were hospitably entertained and among the citizens generally their appearance created much enthusiasm, and their playing mosl favorable comment. UNION SHIPPING Nov. 12. The Rainbow left with ;��7 tons of coal for the C.I'.N. Victoria Thc Tepic left with 407 tons of big coal for the C.P.R., Vancouver, Nov. 23. The str. Danube left with 167 tons of coal for the C.I'.N. Vicioria. Nov. 23. The Thistle took 33 tons of coal for the vessels use. Nov.���. The Coquitlam left for Vancouver, with 28 tons of coal. The Minnrola arrived Monday and left Tuesday the 26th. with 3300 tons of. coal for San Francisco for orders. The San Mateo is dud to night. The Progressist is snppo-cd lo be ���st'tt in tbe dock for repass. m. l^U\\ \\v*-A\\Vn ^ v*. A GHASTLY EXRHtBR. :aMK&5gjfiM! ���"���M*'" ! myself ngain. Then I will do as you ask, and if thoro is any sensibility i aftor death you shall know it." M. Can the Head Think Alter it is *S��^?yq^abP^i^^a**^'1^tJ^*^i-S Severed BY THE GUILLOTINE'S KNIFE? Au F-lut'ittt-il Snlij-'t I I*roiiiit*��*. to A iih weru Question After tht* Fall of the Kulfe- The Attempt u Made��� Wm thit Move* nn ill of I III' I*.*, I'llil It I'llliM lilllh OtlO? A sensational .*uul gruesome story cornea Irom Laval, that Ilttlo town In Franco where tho guillotine has Just dispensed Ita latest stroke of justice ln decapitating Abbe Bruneau. Tho must interesting mystery thut has ever occupied thc thought-s of intelligent men. and that which alono has persistently caused speculation on the part of every thinker, has been tho uncertainty ns to whether a dissevered head retained its consciousness for even a single Instant after it had left the body. An effort to solve this problem, as probably the first well-arranged plan to that end, was made In the case of the execution of Bruneau, and tho details have just been given to tho public, details that aro startling, and hold the interest as none othor thau such a subject can hold it. Bruneau was an educated and intellectual man. That he was a murderer, proved in one Instance and suspected of several others, does not, unfortunately, affofrd any ground for suspecting the high standard of his intellect. He had studied many of tlie sciences, understood medicine so as to be quite proficient in its practice, was a student of languages, and generally possessed of more than tho average information. But in him there was a taint of , JEKYL AND HYDE, for he indulged in prayers while be was an inmate of a mojnastery, and at the same time he despoiled his associates of their loos2 jewelry and anything else of value that he could lay his hands on, terminating his career with the murder of Abba Tricot and throwing his bojily down a well. One evening about a month ago the governor of tlie prison at Laval was visited by M. Dominique, who presented an order signed by the President of tlfo Republic, calling upon thc governor to permit the advocate to go to the cell of Bruneau and converse with the condemned without witnesses. " Bruneau," said M. Dominique, " I have come to speak to you witli great frankness and upon a subject thut is painful to approach and terrible to discuss, but you are a man of more than ordinary intellect, and I know you possess unusual courage. My errand to yon is not to acquaint you with the unhappy termination of my labors in yokir interest, bnt to present to yob a matter that you mny Iks willing to entertain, and agree to an experiment that If (successful will be,onc of the MOST STARTLING INCIDENTS of the times. You are a scientific man by education; so am I, and we know ..that the problem of whether or not a gleam of feeling or sensation remains in the human brain ouo second after the head leaves the body, is one of tho most interesting that bus ever puzzled the minds of scientific men. This problem has never been solved for the ��� i reason, I believe, that those who have heretofore been guillotined, who were sufficiently intelligent to make such a compact as I am about suggesting to you, had no oae to make the compact with, and those from whom physicians attempted to learn were frightened before the knifo fcjl. In you Intelligence and courage are combined." "What do you want mo to do?" *'I want you to communicate with me after your execution. I want you by means 01 a prearranged signal to convey to me the information that your brain is capable of understanding what I Kiiy to it, that thore Is a continuity of thought In your mind, that tho BLOW OF TIIE KNIFE has not instantaucously paralyzed your will power, hap not ended your capacity to respond to a question If put to you a second after the blow. It is a terrible ordeal, an awful experience 1 am forcing upon you, but consider the Incomparable service it will be to science, the great satisfaction it will be lo the scientific world." Bruneau paced his cell excitedly ; even Ilia Iron nerve was severely tried by tlie terrors of his position, and tlie horrible proposition liis advocate made h'm. His lace was ashen, but h.s voice wats firm as he replied; 'Then you Wisli my���my head to speak '.'" "Not speak, but to give some sign of understanding. Tho rapid hemorrhage probably weakens the physical Bond tion ni tho head so quickly as to make speak.ng quite Impossible, but It may not be efficiently rapid tn prevent some muscuia^r movement in tiie face," "What is your plan?" "Jt is this: At lho instant of your docapltntlou I shall Btand beside M. in il.i.'i*. and before thu, knife falls I shall mut tor bo ,\\ fjii may hear me an admonition to remember our agreement! and at once, upon the knife having dono Its work, I shall raise your head close to mine and shall say, 'REPLY, REPLY I' If you aro conscious at the instant and realize the meaning'of my words you aro to signify it by lowering and raising tho lid of your oyo twice. By those two motions you will do moro for tho scientific world than any human beiug who has over lived. Will you do It?" Bruneau controlled his emotions to a marvellous extent. Ho ceased hla nervous walk and threw himaelf upon his cot. For a few momenta he was lost In thought, and made no response; then ho raised his head ami murmured : "It would bn impossible tomorrow. 1 am unnerved and I cannot master ray feelings. I must have nu-r-I'erier, explaining the situation and asking the delay, or requesting ; that the President grant hlin a personal audience. A few hours later the following reply was received: "Pont- Bur-Setne, August S7�����Tho President will receive M. Dominique, barrister, on tho day after to-morrow." M. Dominique attended lhe President as the despatch called for, but the crime of the abbe was so grave that the chief executive DECLINED TO INTERFERE. The advocate returned with all haste to Laval and the execution was fixed for tho morning of August 80th. At midnight tbe crowd began to assemble in the Place do Palais l tho i ommLssalre of Police, at the head of a strong detachment, cleared the centre of the open space, and defined the boundary of the crowd by means Of Chains stretched from tree to tree. At 1 o'clock the crowd had grown to sueh proportions that a detachment Of 600 reservea from the One Hundred nnd Twenty-Fourth Regiment was called out to aid tho police, and Colonel Perard, in command, was obliged to station his men eight rows deep inside the chains to keep the populace from breaking through. Large numliers of people came from the surrounding towns, and tho pup- ore the next day estimated that there were 10,000 people at the place of execution. At 10 minutes to 5 that morning all was ready and Bruneau was offered the customary glass of brandy to strengthen hlui In his last trial. But this ho refused. *' It Is needless,' said he. " I want nothing.' But they insisted, ami he finally consented to take a cup of coffee with a little rum. At thi'*! moment bis advocate stepped beside him and he whispered words that were not heard by tho others standing about. But Bruneau replied In a voice sufficiently loud to attract attention, " IT IS ALL RIGHT. I have practised aud will respond to your question,' M. Dei bier took possession of the condemned, signed the receipt to the Governor, and tlie cortege resumed Its way to the guillotine. Bruneau'**; hands were tied behind him, his feet were tied at the iuikles. it was ten minutes to five. As the great gate of the prison opened ths troops came to present arms; the crowd was hushed; everyone within tho enclosure removed his hat; Bruneau was self-possessed aud resolute ; tlie chaplain walked directly before the condemned man aud endeavored in that way to conceal tho guillotine from his view. But he saw it quickly, ami at a few steps from it he hesitated and stopped. Singularly enough, at this very moment the sun rose and its first ray foil upon tho glistening knife that was high In tho air. Bruneau saw it, but hie hesitancy was but for an instant; tho chaplain embraced him, and said some words of comfort and embraced him the second time; he kissed the crucifix that was held liefore him, and ten thousand people, as still as death, looked down upon him. At this moment the aids of M. Deibler SEIZED THE PRISONER by either shoulder and threw him over on thc bascule, and, quicker than it can be told, hla head rested directly beneath the grooves down which the knife slips in itsl errand of justice, The advocate stood directly beside the basket and opposite to M. Deibler, and, as tho knife was loosened, he leaned over and whispered) the prearranged words to Bruneau. The head had not touched tho sawdust in the basket when the advocate reached forth his hand, and seizing the hair of the Abbe, he lifted the head up to his face and appeared to whisper something in its ear. Tbe entire audience stood thunderstruck and speechless, the troops remained at present arms, until slowly, hesitatingly, and with disappointment marked In every feature, the ndvocatc gently returned the head to tlie basket and turned away. It was then Just five minutes to five. M. Dominique explains In his own language the teu seconds following the decapitation and during which he held the dissevered head: " When I lifted the head from tho basket, doing it so quickly that even the sawdust had no opportunity to attach itself to the bloody neck, the EYES WERE WIDE OPEN, and looking at me With every appearance of Intelligence and understanding, without losing a second l exclaimed, 'Reply, reply, quick!' As 1 uttered these words tho eyelid of the left eye drooped spasmodically and raised again. I hesitated a second and repeated my words, but there was no motion, and I exclaimed excitedly, 'For God's sake, reply again f There was a quivering in the cy lid and the lashes acemcl to waver as though stirred by the wind, but there was no motion ; the features became set. tlio lines of tho face more marked, and within six seconds from the fall of the knife tho head was unmistakably dead. My effort to solve the mystery of tho duration of the life after decapitation failed." RACE-COURSE DISSIPATIONS. Talmage Denounces tlie Gambling Accessories of the Turf. IRISH WIT. An Irish corporal, wlio now and then indulged in a noggin of right poteen, was thus accosted by his captain, whilst standing at ease: "Pat, what makes your nose so red V" "FInse yer honor," said Pat, "I always blushes when I spakes to an officer." A NEW 'ACQUAINTANCE. Mother���I don't like tho looka of that boy who has Just moved in next door. Small Son���Nuther do I. He's awful *vlry, and I'm afraid when it cornea to gettln' acquainted I'll be the one to get licked. Merry larks are ploughmen's clocks. -Shakespeare. No Sin tu Own ftnd Ride Behind �� Fast Horse���A Com fort lug Thooght fur ��u- lucky Plungers. Worm* Kuln ln HVtnnlug it Bet lluiii In Lot-luR It. In ids sermon in New York on Sunday, Rev. Dr. Talmage discusses a topic which for months past has been a familiar one In the dally press, viz.: "The Dissipations of the Race Course." His text was Job xxxlx., 19, 21, 26 : "Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed bis neck with thunder? He paweth In the valley and rejolceth; he go-eth on to meet the armed men. He salth among the trumpets, ha. ha! and he smcllcth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting." We have recently had long columns of Intelligence from the race course and multitudes flocked to the watering places to witness equine competition, and there is lively discussion In all households about the right and wrong of such exhibitions of mettle and speed, and when there is a heresy abroad that the cultivation of a horse's fleetness is an Iniquity instead of a commendable virtue���at such a time a sermon li demanded of every miniater who would like to defend public morals on the one hand and wbo ls not willing to see an unrlght-eous abridgement of Innooen't amusement on the other. In this discussion I shall follow no ser- monlc precedent, but will give independently what I consider the Christian and common sense view of this potent, all absorbing and agitating question of the turf. There needs to be a redistribution of coronets among the brute creation. For ages the lion has been called the king of beasts. 1 knock off its coronet and put the crown upon the horse, in every way nobler, whether in shape or spirit or sagacity or intelligence or affection or usefulness. He is semihuman, and knows how to reason on a small scale. The centaur of olden times, part horse and part man, seems to be a suggestion of the fact that the horse Is something more than a beast. Job ln my text sets forth his strength, his beauty, his majesty, the panting of his nostril, the pawing of his hoof, and his enthusiasm for the battle. What Hosa Bonheur did for the cattle and what Landseer did for the dog, Job with mightier pencil does for the horse. Eighty-eight times does the Bible speak of him. He comes Into every kingly procession and Into every great occasion and Into every triumph. It ls very evident that Job and David and Isaiah and Ezekiel and Jeremiah and John were fond of the horse. He comes Into mueh of their imagery. A red horse���that meant war. A black horse���that meant famine. A pale horse���that meant death. A white horse���that meant victory. Uood Mordecal mounts him while Hainan holds the bit. The church's advance in the Bible is compared to a company of horses of Pharoah's char- lot. Jeremiah cries out, "How canst thou contend with horses?" Isaiah says, "The hone's hoofs shall be counted as flint," Miriam claps her cymbals and sings, "The horse and the rider hath he thrown Into the sea." St. John, describing Christ as coming forth from conquest to conquest, represents him aa seated on a white horse. In the parade of heaven the Bible makes us hear the clicking of hoofs on the** golden pavement as it says, "The armies which were in heaven followed him on white horses." I should not wonder if the torse, so banged and bruised and beaten and outraged on earth, should have some other plaee where his wrongs shall ba righted. I 'do not assert it, but I say 1 should not be surprised if, after all. St. John's descriptions of the horses in heaven turned out not altogether to be figurative, but somewhat literal. As the Bible makes a favorite of the lorse, the patriarch, and the prophet, md the evangelist, and the apostle stroking his sleek hide and patting his rounded neck and tenderly lifting his exquisitely formed hoof and listening with a thrill to the champ of his bit, au all great natures in fall ages have spoken of him In encomiastic terms. Virgil In his Qeorgics almost seems to plagiarize from this description in the text, so much are the descriptions alike���the description of Virgil and the description of Job. The Duke of "Wellington would not allow anyone irreverently to touch hie old war horse Copenhagen, on whom he had ridden fifteen hours without dismounting at Waterloo, and when old Copenhagen died, Ids master ordered a military salute fired over hla grave. John Howard showed that he did not exhaust all his sympathies in pitying the human race, for when sick he writes home, "Has my old chaise horse become sick or spoiled V" There is hardly any passage of French literature mure pathetic, than the lamentation over the death of the war charger, Marchegay, Walter Sctftt has su much admiration for this divinely honored creature of God that in "St. Ronan's Well" he orders the girth slackened and the blanket thrown over the smoking Hanks, Edmund Burke, walking In the park at Beacons- field, musing over the past, throws his arms around the worn-out horse of his dead son Richard, and weeps upon the horse's neck, the horse seeming to Sympathize In the memories. Rowland Hill, the great English preacher, was caricatured because in his family prayers he supplicated for the recovery of a sick horse, but when the horse got welt, contrary to all the prouhecles of the farriers, the prayer did not seem nuite so much of an absurdity. But what shall 1 say of the maltreatment of this beautiful and wonderful creature of GodV If Thomas Chalmers In his day felt called upon to preach a sermon agains* cruelty to animals, how much more in this day is there a need of reprehensive discourse. All honor to the memory of Professor Bergh, the chief apostle for the brute creation, for the mercy he demanded and achieved for this king of beasts. A man who owned 4,000 horses, and some say, 40,000, wrote In the Bible, "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast." Sir Henry Lawrence's care of the horse was beautifully Christian. He says: "I expect we shall lose Conrad, though I have taken so much care nf him that he may come in cool. 1 always walk him the last four or five miles, and as I walk myself the first hour, it is only in the middle of the journey we get over the ground." The Ettrick Shepherd ln his matchless "Am broelal Nights" speaks of the maltreat ment of the horse as a practical blasphemy. 1 do not believe In the transmigration of souls, but I cannot very severely denounce the Idea, for when I see men who cut and bruise and whack and welt and strike and maul and outrage and Insult the horse, that beautiful servant of the human race, who carrleB our burdens and pulls our plows and turns our threshers and our mills and runs for our doctors���when 1 see men thus beating and abusing and outraging that creature. It seems to me tnat it would be only fair that the aou- trlne of transmigration of souls should prove true, and that for their punishment they should pass over into some poor miserable brute and be beaten and whacked and cruelly treated and frozen and heated and overdriven���Into an everlasting stage horse, an eternal traveler on a towpath, or tied to an eternal post, In an eternal winter,smitten with eternal epizootics! Oh, is it noi a shame that the brute oreatlon, which had the first possession of our world, should be so maltreated by the race that came ln last���the fowl and the lish created on the fifth day, the horse and the cattle created on the morning of the sixth day, and the human race not created until the evening or the sixth day? It ought to be that it auy man overdrives a horse, or feeda him when he Is hat, or recklessly drives a nail into the quick of his hoof, or rowels him to see him prance, or bo whors him that his fetlocks drop blood, or puts a oollar on a raw neck, or unnecessarily clutches his tongue with a twisted bit, or cuts off his hair until he has no defense against the cold, or unmercifully abbreviates the natural defense against Insectile annoyance���that such a man as that himself ought to be made to pull and let his horse ride! But not only do our humanity and our Christian principle and the dictates of God demand that we kindly treat the brute creation and especially the horse, but I go farther and say that whatever can be done for the development of his fleetness and his strength and his majesty ought to be done. We need to study his anatomy and his adaptations, I am glad that large books have been written to show how he can be best managed and how his ailments can be cured and what his usefulness Is and what his capacities are. It would be a shame If in this age of the world, when the florist.has turned the thin flower of the wood into a gorgeous rose and the pomologlat has changed the acrid and gnarled fruit of the ancients into the very poetry of pear and peach and plum and grape and apple and the snarling cur of the orient has become the great mastiff, and the miserable creature of the olden times harnyard has become the Devonshire, and the Alderney, and the Shorthorn, that the horse, grander than them all, should get no advantage from our science or our civilisation or our Christianity. Groomed to the last point of soft brilliance, his flowing mane a billow of beauty, his arched neck in utmost rhythm of curve, let him be har- nesBed in graceful trappings and then driven to the farthest goal of excellence and then fed at luxuriant oat bins and blanketed In comfortable stall. The long tried and faithful servant of the human race deserves all kindness, all cure, all reward, all succulent forage aiul soft litter and paradisaical pasture field. Those farms In Kentucky and ia different parts of the north, where the horse is trained to perfection in fleetness and in beauty and In majesty, nn* well set apart. There Is no more virtue fn driving slow than in driving fast, any more than a freight train going ten miles the hour Is better than an express train going fifty. There ia a delusion abroad in the world that a thing must be necessarily good and Christian if It is slow and dull and plodding. There are very few good people who seem to imagine It is humbly pious to drive a spavined, galled, glandered, spring halted, blind staggered jade. There ls lot so much virtue In a Roslnante as in a Bucephalus. We want swifter horses and swifter men and swifter enterprises, and the church of God needs to get off its jog trot. Quick tempests, quick lightnings, quick streams; why not quick horses? In the time of war the cavalry service does the most execution, and as the battles of the world are probably not all past, our Christian patriotism demands that we be Interested in equinal velocity. We might as well have poorer guns in our arsenals and clumsier ships In our navy yards than other nations, as to have under our cavalry saddles and before our parks of artillery slower horses. From the battle ot* Granlous, where the Persian horses drove the Macedonian infantry Into the river, clear down to the horses on which Philip Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson rode into the fray, this arm of the military service has been recognized. Hamllcar, Hannibal, Gustavus Adolph- us, Marshal Ney, were cavalrymen. In this arm of the service, Charles Martel, at the battle of Poitiers, beat bark the Arab invasion. The Carthaginian cavalry, with the loss of only 7U0 men, over the W the Roman army with the loss of 70,000. In the same wuy the Spanish cavalry drove bade the Moorish hordes. Tlie best way io keep peace In this country and in all countries Is to be prepared for war, and there ia no success In such a cuniest unless there be plenty of light-footed ohargers. Our Christian patriotism and our Instruction from the Word of Uod demand that first of all we kindly treat the horse, and then after that, that we develop liis fleetness, and his grandeur, and his majesty, and his strength. But whnt shall 1 say of the effort being math; In this day on a large scale to make this splendid creature of God, this divinely honored being, an Instrument of atrocious evil? I make no indiscriminate assault against the turf. I believe in the turf if it ean be conducted on right principles and with no betting. There Is no more harm In offering a prize for the swiftest racer than there is harm at an agricultural fair in offering a prize to the farmer who haa the best wheat, oi to the fruit grower who has the largest, pear, or to the machinist who presents the best corn thrasher, or in a school offering a prize of a copy of Shakespeare to the best reader, or in a household giving a lump of sugar to the best behaved youngster. Prizes by nil means, rewards by all means. That is the way God develops the race. Rewards for all kinds of well-doing. Heaven itself is called a prize, "The prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesua." So what Is right in one direction Is right In another direotion. And without the prizes the horse's iieetnesB and beauty and strength will never be fully developed. If It cost $1,000 or $5,000 or $10,000, and the result be achieved, it ls cheap. But the sin begins where the betting begins, for that Is gambling, or the effort to set that for whleh you give no equivalent, and gambling, whether on a large scale or a small scale, ought to be denounced of men ae it will be accursed of God. If you have won 60 cents or $5,000 aa a w.-ger, you had better get rid ot it. Get rid of it right away. GHve It te someone who lost ln a bet, or give It to some great reformatory institution, or If you do not like that, go down to the river and pitch It off the docks. You cannot afford to keep it. It will burn a hole ln your purse, It will burn a hole in your estatu and you will lose all that, perhaps 10,000 times more��� perhaps you will lose all. Gambling blasts a man or It blasts his children. Generally both and all. What a spectacle when at Saratoga, or at Long Branch, or at Brighton beach, or at Sheepshead bay, 'he horses start, nnd ln a flash $50,000 or $100 000 change hands! Multitudes ruined by losing the bet, othero worse ruined by gaining the htt, lor if a man lose ln a bet at a horso race he may be discouraged and quit, but If he win the bet he ls very apt to go straight on to belli An intimate friend, a journalist, who In the line of hia profession investigated this evil, tells me that there are three different kinds of betting at horse races, and they arc about equally leprous, by auction pools, by Frenoh mutuals, by what is ealled bookmak- ing���all gambling, all bad, all ro:tc*n with Iniquity. There la one wurd that needs to be written on the brow of every pool aeller as he sits deducting hla 3 or 5 per cent and slyly ringing up more tickets than were sold on the winning horse���a word to be written also on the brow of every bookkeeper who at extra inducements scratches a horse off of the race and on the brow of every Jockey who slackens pace that, according to agreement, another may win, and written over every judges' stand and written on every hoard of the surrounding fences. That word is "swindle!" Yet thousands bet. Lawyers bet. Judgea of courts bet. Members of the legislature bet. Members of congress bet. Professors of religion bet. Teachers and superintendents of Sunday schools, I am told, bet. Ladles bet, not directly, but through agents. Yesterday, and every day they bet, mey gain, they lose, and this summer, while the paranoia swing and the hands clap and the hunaas deafen, there will be a multitude of people cajoled and deceived and cheated, who will at the races go neck and neck, neck and neck to perdition. Cultivate the horse, by all means, drive him as faat aa you desire, provided you do not Injure him or endanger yourself or others, but be carefu! and d-o not harness the horse to the chariot of sin. Do not throw your jewels of morality under the flying hoof. Do not under the pretext erf improving the horse destroy a man. Do not have your name put down la the ever-Increasing catalogue of those who aie ruined for both worlds by the dissipation of the American race course. They say that an honest race course Is a straight track, and that a dishonest race course is a crooked track- that is the parlance abroad���but I tell you that every race track surrounded by betting men and betting worn****' and netting customs, is a stialgh! track���I mean straight down! Christ asked in one of his gospels, "Is not a man better than a sheep?" I say yes, and he is better than all the steeds that with lathered flanks ever Shot around the ring at a race course. That Is a very poor job by which a man in order to get a horse to oome out a full length ahead of some other racer an lames his own morals that he comes out a whole length behind in the race set before him. Do you not realize the fact that there Is a mighty effort on all sides to-day to get money without earning it? That is the curse of all the cities; it ls the curse of America���the effort to get money without earning It���and as other forms of stealing are not respoeta- ble, they go Into these gambling practices. I preach this sermon on square old-fashioned honesty. I have said nothing against the horse, l have said nothi.ng against the turf, I have said everything against their prostitution. Young men, you go into straightforward industries and you will have better livelihood, and you will have larger permanent success than you can ever get by a wager, but you get In with some of the whiskey, rum blotched crew which I see going down on the boulevards, though I never bet, I will risk this wager, $5,000,000 to nothing, you will be debauched and damned. Cultivate the horse, own him If you oan afford to own him, teat all the speed he has, If he have any speed in. him, but be careful which way you drive. You cannot alwaya tell what direction a man iB driving in by the way Ids horses head. In my boyhood, we rode three miles every Sabbath morning to the country church. ��W were drawn by two fine horses. My father drove. He knew them, anl they knew him. They were friends. Sometimes they loved to go rapidly, and he did not Interfere with their happiness. He had all of ua In the wagon with hhn. He drove to the country church. Ths fact ls, that for 82 years he drove in the same direction. The roan span that I spe-ak of was long ago unhitched, and the driver put Up his whip In the wagon hnumr- -jiever again to take it down, but in. those good ohl timea I learned something that I never forgot, that a man may admire a horae and love a horse .nd be proud of a horse and not always be willing to take the dust of the preceding vehicle, ami yet be a Chrls- tlan, an earnest Christian, a humble Christian, .a consecrated Christian, useful until the last, so that at his death tlie church of God cries out as Elisha exclaimed when Elijah went up witli galloping hmses-of (Ire, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horwmen thereof!" DON'T TALK TO THE BABY. Mothers should bo warned against the dangerous effects of consta ut prattle with their Infants, In the gradual unfolding aud growing development ot "these very sensitive creatures it would be wIho to avoid adding to the almost innumerable hindrances that beset the young. The observance of a few simple precautions in tho care or infants will, in all probability, protect them from many dangers to which thoy might otherwise be exposed, and result in permanent injury,���Annals of Hygiene. Ue ls the happiest, 'be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ���Goethe. ���I e* ��*��& Philip walked down the yard to where tlie master carpenter stood with his bands thrust Into his trouser pockets. "Do you waut your timber moved?" lie asked of him. "Yos, I do," replied the carpenter, wxa-thfully; "but workmen's so precious Independent nowadays that tht-y expect their governor to do all the rough Jobs." "I want a rough Job," said 1*1.11, his heart craving for some physical fatigue. "How much an hour do you want'.1" usked the carpenter, "You can pay mo what my work is worth. Show mo what is to he done." Ue wols so earnest that the carpenter gave him the Job at once. Philip set to work with a will* and succeeded in giving such satisfaction that at the end his employer said: "I>o yon think you could do a bit of saw-work if you tried ?" "I da-re say I can 11 you lend me a saw, and show me what ls to be done." It wus simple work, and Philip got through It sii.lis.actoriliy. At twelve he was told to tako his dinner hour aoul came back. He worked lruiu one till six. Altogether he had done such a tair day's work that the carpenter, thoroughly pleased with him, ungnged him to come the next day. Philip went home exultant, with blisters ou his hands, sawdust in his beard and ttie creases of his clothes, and a couple of rents In his Jacket; he looked something tike a workman. lie told Madge he was going in for carpentering, it was u blow for Madge, and her heart was full of misgivings when she found the blisters on ills hands. "Why, a day's rowing would do as much at first!" said l'hil. " My hands will get hard enough for the work alter a bit." "Dear hands!" murmured Madge, bending over them mournfully, and caressing them. 1 dare say she wondered If they would lose their whiteness and delicacy, and become In time like ordinary carpenter's hands. "It's capital work, Madge, my doar; and if you could only hear mo whistling |pver H, I'm! sure you'd bo Jealous to think I eould be so gay away from you." She would not discourage him, and seeing him so pleased, she looked at the employment in its best light. She conjured up a picture of Adam Ilede In her Imagination, and saw her Phil, making elegant cabinets and such things as are never seen in un ordinary carpenter's shop, still less tu a ladder builder's. She quite glorified the trade to which ho had devoted himself; and one aTteruoon she determined to go down the Kennington Road, with some idea that she should catch a gNmp-tfi P1 ber dear husband In it picturesque workshop, looking nobly intelligent as he . fitted mortices, or t-tmietbing of that kind. She did catch sight of him; he was carrying a sack of sawdust on his Uafck Irom the yard to a truck that i-tnori n the road. sm* turned quickly Up a side street, tbat he might not sea her, for her tins had been suddenly convulsed with -,iiin, and the tears were running -l��v. ii her cheeks. CHAPTER XIV. And now sorrow sprang from a new iource. Poor Cicely lost her sweetheart. This Innocent, simple little maid had not the solid parts, the forethought and prudence, of her sister .loan. Everything was sufficient fur the dav with her, aud she never troubled herself to look beyond It. If there was enjoyment to be had, she took it, and her ple-usure was never marred by anticipating results. A character of this kind Is not one to be held up ior admiration; on tho other hand, I boo, no reason to feel harshly towards any wluv have such a character. Everything bas Its place In nature ; the birds, who have nothing but gay plumage and sweet song to recommend them, equally with those of sober colors, wlio minister to the needs of mankind. There was this nt least to Iw snid for Cicely; she wan uncomplaining and patient when pleasures wero not to be had, ami when called upon to do her duties lu tho dull routine of life, she accepted ber lot without thinking herself particularly hardly dealt with. And so when the crash came, putting nu end to her scene of delight at Kensington, she took off her silk, put ou a plain stuff, and went back to Highgate, with only onc outburst of weeping, and thnt was rather for Madge's loss than her own. And what a change was that for her! It was as II a butterfly had gone back into Its chrysalis state. When it became evident that Pot ter's peculiar style of art had gone out of fashion as suddenly as It had come in, and that no onc could safely xlepeud upou him for support, it seemed to Joan and mc that now was the moment when Horace Clinton should mako Cicely his wife, nmi this I ventured to hint to him, I being now regarded, n�� an old friend of the family. Horace took mo Into his confidence nt once, nnd showed me why it woufld be Inadvisable for the marriage to take place at that time. He was au excellent young man, and I am euro that if it hnd depend ed only on his own Inclinations, he would long before have married Cicely. But he had uu Invalid mother and au idle sister, whom he had supported sinco his father's death, and these two ladies were particularly exacting and selfish. They spent all tho young man made, and not content with keeping him poor, they wished to keep him single as well. They had taken a great dislike to Cicely, exaggerated her faults, and did all tliey possibly could to pro- Judlce him against her, seeing that the cost of a wifo would necessarily diminish the amount of money at their disposal. As he could not turn his mother and sister out of the house, and had not the means to establish a separate home for himself, he must, if he married, tnke his wife to tive under the same roof with these envious and uncharitable ladies, whicli would bo anything but pleasant Tor Cicely. As he very truly said, " Her life would be extwemely misewable." There was, however, a hope that this state of things would not last many months, as a widower was paying attentions to Miss Clinton, and ehe had decided to be his wife as soon as he should ask her, in which happy event, Mrs. Clinton would go to live with her son-in-law, as soon ns he wns properly broken in by his wife. But of this I was to say nothing, lest it should come round to the widower, and frighten him off. I promised secrecy, and Horace and l drank to Ids sister's matrimonial success. So Cicely once more had to seek hor livelihood. She advertised In the Times for a situation in a gentleman's family, where a dalty governess waB required, giving her initials and address. On tho day this advertisement was published who should call upon the girls but MrB. Leclerc, the lady who had previously engaged Cicely through Mr. Motley's mediation. She was a very amiable and lively person, and after greeting Cicely ln the most friendly and affection- ate manner, she said��� " My dear child, hns any one snapped yoii up yet awhile ?" Cicely replied, laughingly, in the negative, whereupon Mrs. Leclerc Paid-- "Then I do. We have been thinking about you ever since Mr. Hnr- lowe's misfortune���and we pity him with all our heart, I assure you; and had 1 not felt It might hurt you, I should have asked you before now to come and teach my little one again���she will positively learn of no one else." Then It wns arranged that Cicely should go as before to teach Mrs. Leclerc's daughter. The impulsive lady would have had her reside ln the house, but Cicely objected because or Horace, and Joan thought It quite as well that sho should como home, as she needed advice and counsel, which she was not likely to get from such a flighty person as Mrs. Leclerc. And uow thoro was sunshine for Cicely. Nothing nould exceed the kindness and indulgence of Mrs. Leclerc and her husbaud. Cicely's naivete, her winsome prettlness drew heartrS to her. She was treated rather na a member of the family than a paid servant. Mrs. Leclerc petted her like a child giving her trluk?ts and finery, taking her about to concerts, inviting her to take part in home entertainments, sending her homo in a brougham when the weather was rough���in short, as wo feared, spoiling her for hard work. Those impulsive, enthusiastic persons are never to be trusted, for the cifyricc of a moment may change them from friends to enemies. All went well for a certain time; then Joan grew uneasy. Mrs. Leclerc had taken into her head that Cicely must mnrry some one better than an obscure artist, and encouraged her in flirtations which were, to say tho least of It, unnecessary ; for tho girl's simplicity and responsiveness led her sufficiently far that wuy. I am sure that sho loved Horace with all her heart, and had none to spare for any one elae; sho entered Into flirtation without knowing thnt she flirted, with no serious thought at all aliout it. " If people pay me attention. It pleases me, and I cannot pretend that it annoys,'* she said, ���* and If tliey nre anil a Mo I must be amiable too. No ouo is rude to\\ me, and that being so, I don't think I ought to Iw rude to any one.'* Ono Sunday I found a gentleman at Sunnyslda whom I hnd not met before ; lie was Introduced to ras as Mr. 1'e.pclval Let-lore, and I found he was Mrs. Le-rlorc s brother-in-law. ���He was a handsome gentleman* about 86, with a grwit deal of sol1- aeeuronce, nn endless flow of conversation, and nn easy and graceful manner. When wo were alone, Joan and I settled that wo did not like him. His amiability was Of that boundless kind that excites a suspicion of Insincerity, lie had something flattering to sny to everybody���in a word ho was too pleasant by hair. Potter, who bad not received any praise for a long time, was enchanted with him. He could not see that Mr. LeclerC'S admiration of thoso wretched daubs was overdone; if he had been told that his painting was tlie finest that ever had "been put upon canvas he would have been fool enough to he-* lieve it. "Y'ou are of thc right school, Mr. Leclerc,' said he; "you are one of us���tho advanced lot���tho coming lot; and tho oftener you drop In to have a gossip about art the better pleased I shall Iw.'* It was no fault of Mr. Leclerc's if Potter was not woll pleased In this respect; ho dropped In with Increasing frequency, accommodating himself to Potter's free and easy ways. Sometimes he dropped in to talk painting, and sometimes to hear a little music���Joan playing Mendels- sohn'B Liede with great feeling���and sometimes without any excuse at all. But tt was noticeable that be never ; camo when Cicely was absent. We j could never find fault with him for that. A young man smitten with a young girl naturally seeks her so- ! ciety. Nor wns lie bound to keep ] away simply because Cicely was en- j gaged to Horace. A lover naturally believes that ho is a better man than ' his rival, and that justifies him in j the endeavor to defeat bis eoni-wti- i tor and win the prize. I'art what Joan and I disliked was his pretence of j good will towards Horace. No one could accuse Horace of such deceit*. He would uot meet Mr. Le- clerc's advances, he was reserved and cold In his company, aud ho took but | slight pains to conceal what be himself called his " extwn'dlunwy dislike" to him. It soon became obvious to us all��� the real object of Mr. Leclerc's visits to Sunnyslde; nnd when at 'length Potter discovered that he did not come for the sole purpose of listening to his conversation upon the coming school, be did not express tbat degree of contempt for him which might havo been expected. Ou the contrary, he seemed even more anxious that tbe new friend should "drop In" frequently. At the same time, he Iwgan to abuse poor Horace���behind liis back, of course; he was not an artist, ho could paint a " protty face," and tbat was all. Ho was a man without character or he would long ago bave struck out for the commercial line of art, free hlmseH from the bondage of those two women, bis mother nnd sister, turned tbem out of the house, and married Cioely. He was an ass to bear that burden, and a stupid asB���and so on and so on. The fact Is, Potter having tasted of the good things, was longing to sit down again beside the flesh-pots, and be was not above any meanness to gratify his desires. He thought thnt Cicely by marrying Mr. Leclerc might obtain a good posltlnii in socieity, and enable him once more to dawdle about a drawing-room ln a dress-coat. The f!rst thing was to make a rupture between Cicely and Horace, nnd with this purpose he said all that he could to make poor Horace ridiculous and contemptible in Cicely's opinion. That was a trying time for Horace, and unfortunately he did not come out well In the trial. He was of a Jealous disposition, and could not conceal his dislike for Mr. Leclerc, and tbe vexation he felt In seeing Cicely bright and amiable ln receiving that gentleman's attentions. It made him silent, and he knew that he seemed morose. And the more dull and heavy he was, the livelier and more entertaining Mr. Leclerc appeared by contrast. Even Joan could not'help smiling when he talked to her, and I admit tbat bis conversation to me was always inspiriting and pleasant. Then the evil was aggravated by I'otter, who, concealing his bitter feelings under a mask of pleasantry, would banter Horace upon bis "grum- plness." " Liver out of order again, old man?" he would ask, or, " Anything extwa'dlnawy in the box twade?" or, *** Has mamma been scolding hert Horace ?" and such liko ridiculous and subtly damaging questions. The very best ol men must suffer In general opinion by being constantly disparaged, and when, besides being thus disparaged, Horace lwcame dull and uninteresting by reason or his Jealousy, It was only natural that Cicely should love bim less than formerly. We saw that, Joan and I, and we knew that before long one of tbe rivals must disappear from tbo scene. Which was It to be? One evening Horace asked Cicely to go with hini the following night to a eonee��rt. Cicely heuitiit*'d a mo- j ment, with some confusion, it may \\ have seemed to his Jealous eye ; then she said��� "Any other night, Horace, I shall be most happy, but to-morrow I shall not be home until late; 1 shall not leave Mrs. Leclcre's nt all before 10 o'clock." " Oh, I suppose you are going out with the Leclercs, ouly you don't like to say so," said Horace. " I am not afraid to acknowledge anything 1 do I" cried Cicely, with spirit. " I am not going oat with the Leclercs." There wus to have been a musical evening at Mrs. Leclerc's on tbat eventful Friday, and Cicely bad beon asked to take part in it, but in tbe morning the family invited had sent begging for a postponement on account of tho ill-health of one of Its members. Then Mrs. Leclerc insisted that they should go to hear an ora- ! torlo at tbe Albert Hall. Cicely, never j dreaming of HI, readily accepted to be \\ ot tbe party, nud to the Albert Hall they went. After the performance they returned ' In tbe brougham, and at Sunnyslde Mr. l'erclval Leclerc took Cicely into the house, while Mr. and Mrs. Leclerc went on to their home, Meanwhile Horace, having repented bis ill-manners of the previous day, went a littio before 10 o'clock to tbe L-ecIercs' to fotch Cicely, and make his peace with her. Thero he was In- ] formed that Mias (ioddard had left early in the evening. Horace hung about the house for an hour, with the i Idea that Cicely might return there; theu, seized With another notion, ho walked to Sunnyslde, There was light iu the studio. He knocked. The girl who opened the door said that Cicely was upstnrs. Up he went. With his bands on the door, he heard her laughter, lie open- I ed thc door. Mr. Lec-orc was in the j middle of a very entertaining story, and Cicely, with the smile still on her bright face, was listening with eager Interest. Joan and I'otter were smiling and attentive also, but Horace took no notice of them. At tho sight of his face, ghastly white with a Jealousy tbat tortured bim to the point of madness, Cicely rose with alarm, and the smile and color .left her cheek. Doubtless Horace attributed this change of expression to the sense of being discovered. He bowed coldly, Imt shook hands with nobody. Mr. l'erclval finished bis story, and then, seeing that It would be best to go, he took his de parture with as much ease as if Horace with his terrible iooas had never eome. Potter and Joan accompanied him to the door, leaving Horace and Cicely together and alone. I heard afterwards what passed between them, hut 1 wish to forget it. People unner the Influence uf Jealousy do and say things which they would never bo guilty of in a sane condition of mind. Tliey are to be pitied and pardoned. All I will say is that iu this brief interview Horace behaved remarkably ill, and Cicely with a degree of forbearance and good sense hardly expected in one of such a thoughtless and light disposition. When lie left, Potter came from the sitting-room, opened tbe street door, nnd stepped outside with bim. "Look here, old man," said I'otter, in his semi-friendly, seml-bostlle tone, "I don't know what this row's been about, but I want, to tell you this: If you nre not In a position to marry Cicely I don't think you ought to stand between her and a better match." "I do not stand In her way," replied Horace ;: " our engagement Ls broken. We shall see oach other uo more." "And a good Job. too," Putter said to me. "Tliey have been engaged two years." But I did not think that it wns o good thing; for I knew they loved each other; nnd hearts are not like purses, fto be emptied of their old treasure and refilled with new. CHAPTER XV. After the dissolution of partnership, Mr. Motley compounded with his creditors, and continued business under the title of Motley and Motley, Three months later he paid up all that the creditors ibad lost by the composition. This act of liberality gave an Immense Impetus to business. No one could any longer entertain a doubt as to bis sterling methods. One heard his praises rung on every side. "Ah, what nn honest man!" "What admirable principle, and what remarkable business ability !" "A mau to be trusted, If any were I" and the like phrases reached my car. There were more customers ou the bank than ever there had been. And then the extension of the brewery gave fresh advantages for the develop- ment of business in that branch. The profit upon the heavy outlay began to roll in, and there was nothing more to pay out. All this was Motley's profit. He took all. I'liere was no partner to divide the receipts. And thus, without paying a farthing for it, the whole business had fallen Into Motley's hands���enriched even by Harlowe's sacrifice. "I told you how it would be, Holderness," Motley said to. me. "It has turned out Just as I prognosticated. If Phil, had only kept a cool head snd "trusted me, ho would have been richer at this moment thnn ever he was���hts scruples would all be satisfied, |xnd he would have been more honored than if, ho hjid never thrown away his wife's fortune. If I hadj my way, I would offer hlin a share in the .concern now, or at any rata make liim take back the money he pnld into It. Bnt I can't do that. I'm tied. It's Motley and Motley now, you know. Directly my -wife, heard of tho dissolution she offered to put ber money into tbo affair. That enabled me to begin again. But she was careful that her old enemy should bo kept out of It, and got a legal agreement that she should have a voico in the management of the bank in consideration of -the money handed over���in fact, made herself a partner. So you see how I nra stuck. Now, all that might havo been obviated but for poor Phil's hastiness and want of gumption. If be had only kept his wife's money where It wns. wo might have borrowed from that, and boen perfectly independent of Mrs. Motleys help." It was plausible enough, this explanation, but somehow I could not feel towards the man a* I bad felt; and I saw In his twinkling little gray eyea an expression of treachery and cunning which I had not before bus- pected. Philip must havo shared my suspicion, for lio avoided Motley, and was silent when we spoke of him. He would not spsak ill or well of a man whom he suspected, yet could not prove guilty of duplicity and fraud. So while one partner sank the other rose In tbe scab of prosperity. *s honesty the better policy?���does retribution -wait upon evil-doers ?���I was tempted to ask myself .when, seeing Mr. Motley, with hi** great, Jovial, red face, riding In 'a luxurious carriage, T met Philip returning Irom his work, fatigued and careworn. Well, wo shall gee these questions answered before I lay down my pen. ��� i * * ��� On the other side of tho road, Ju��t facing the liarlowos' lodgings, there lived on tho attic floor of a small house* a widow anil bor child* In whom Madgo and Philip took a great deal or interest. She was a pretty, pale, lady-like little body, the widow, not more than five-and-twenty I should say: her child was a sturdy little fellow, who Oould just walk, 'being held by* the hand. Wo thought she must bo a widow because of the child and thfi mourning In which thoy were cloth- <\\l. Every morning, except Sundays, sho wont out with her child at a littio after 8, walking to the end of the road, whoro she took a Kennington tram, and returned In the evening aliout 7. We concluded that she went out to work���minding a shop, per- h:ip-, where she could have her child with her. She always wore gloves and was neatly drowsed, her collars! and cuffs and her child's sucks were exceptionally white for residents in tlio Lambeth Koad; one would not have thought she wa.s poor, but for her living In the nttlc of that dlQtfy bouse. But even tben one could see the character of the lodger by the window curtains edged with cheap lace, and the pott of mignonette and pansies on the silt. Wo did not know her name nor anything about her, except Irom our own observation. She seemed to have no friends, and to avoid msiking acquaintance with her neighbors. It needed no one to tell us that she had gone -through trouble, but though ber face was marked with anxiety and care, It was not without a certain bright hopefulness. * She thinks about her boy, and the time Mien he will grow to be a fine man," said Madge. Indeed, sbe looked quite happy when Sunday happened to be fine, and sbo could go for a walk und give all her thought to tho child. Our Interest In her grew us time went on. Almost my first question when I went to see Madge waa, "Well, how Ls the Uttle widow?" Cut Madge was so infatuated with her and tho child, that Philip used to joke her in a kindly manner about It. We could see tdiut sbe was longing to mako friends with her neighbor and talk about tho little one. Madge adored children. But at this timo her Interest was heightened by another feeling. Madge was about to become a mother also. When I knew this, I understood why it WM that Philip sold his furniture and put the money asido for future needs. Mndge tried to make acquaintance witb tho young widow. She watched at the open window until her neighbor aji-ponrod. and their eyes met, and then she bowed. Tho widow bowed In return, but loft tho window at once. Soon afterwards, Madge artfully contrived to be near tbe end of tiie road when the widow stepped out <���*! the tram. Sbe stopped and spoke, and stooping down, drow the child to bur nnd kissed bim. But she saw thnt the mother was nervous, and reluctant to make friends, so sbe respected her feelings, and abstained from making further advances. The summer came to an end ; autumn was wot and wretched. Thoro were days when the Uttle widow did not leave her home, and others when she was forced to go out alone. We saw that sbe was muffled up closely even when tlie days were mild, and that sbo kept a handkerchief to her month In going out and coming home; her shoulders, too, went bent, as If her chest were contracted with pain. Por a whole week we Haw nothing of her. One day ln November I found Madge talking with the landlady of her house*. "Oh, Mr. Holderness 1" she exclaimed, "our little friend ls ln troublo. I must go and see her. You wilt wait here, und tell Philip when be conies In." Sbo put on a waterproof and crossed the road. The street door of the dingy house wus open; a truck stood by tho kerb. "The party Is ill. sir," tbe landlady explained to me; '* she can't pay her rent, and old Hobeon���that's the landlord, sir, a mean, heartless wretch��� ho told her sbo must go and send for the broker." I sat in tbe sitting-room and kept my eyes on the house. Presently a dirty-looking fellow came out of the houso; I saw hhn try a piece of money between his teeth. Tncn be nodded to tbo boy wbo waa whistling by the truck, and thoy both went away. I believe Madge had discharged the little widow's debt out of her own slender means. About a quarter of an hour afterwards Madge came In, and began to cry. Philip and 1 snt silent and let her cry without interruption. " Poor little soul!" she said, with a sob, as sbe wiped ber eyes; "I am afraid, {Philip, dear, We shall never see her���walking with her child again. I think she is dying." "Has she a doctor?" nsked Philip. "No; she is an out-pntient at the hospital. But she's too weak to go there." Philip put on hi-* bat and went out. We knew he had gone to find a doctor. It being half-past twelve, nnd Philip's dinner-time, the servant brought up the beefsteak pudding which Madge made whenever I was coming to dine with tbem. She cut a portion, picking out'some tender raor-, I sols, and put it between .two hot- plates at the bottom of a basket;*" I theu she went to hor store cupboard, ; and added whatever she eould find j that might tempt a delicate person to eat; these sbe took across the road, after begging me not to wait I for ber, but to dine with Philip. Little : enough we two men ate, though we I both had a weakness for steak-pud- ' ding���especially such as Madge mado. i The doctor confirmed Madge's fore- j tradings. " She is In a rapid decline," I he suid to her, after leaving the room. j "She cannot live through the winter; sbe may not bo here when the new . year comes." "Is there no hope?" asked Madge. "There Is always the hope in these I cases that the doctor may be in error. I But it ls necessary to tell you my I opinion for the Bako of the child, who ; must bo provided for." I "Still you tbink that perhaps If i these terrible fogs went away, and n ' little spell of wa,rm sunshine came, i and If all your orders were carried out carefully, and tbe patient bad proper food and attention " "Ah," said the doctor, smiling at : her earnest pleading. "Ii the conditions are made more favorable " . "They shall bo favorable," said Madge, with emphasis. "And now tell me again what T am to do that I may forget nothing." The OOOtOr repeated Ids Instructions, and Madge, cheating herself with hopes of her owrt creating, re- turned to tbe patient's bedside with n lace that carried comfort and gladness, (To Bo Continued.) I*(> NOT Nit* t-KK wiih K<-ii-��v Cumpltlni���Yon Una l*�� Re- il-et young in years, -���hotting out all opportunity for social enjoyment and mental improvement. ��� UNION BRICK YARD B. C. W. WALTER &. SON. Manufacturers of Handmade Sand Stock Rricks. Spcrinl I'mtcrns Nnw On Hand For Chimney Heads, Cornices Kir CUAKAKTKKl. TO BE I ROST PROOF The malady of the sick man nf Europe is likely soon to prove fatal. Thc Sultan cannot control his people, nor enforce the reforms demanded in the the name of humanity by the Christian nations. Their fleets cover his waters and their troops will soon d.-irken kis lands. Turkey will doubtless be divided between the leading European powers, and the 30,000 slaughtered Armenians will not have died in vain. Why should not the stores unite in closing their places ol business except on Saturday at 8 p.m. ? We are sure the public would be just as well served as nuw; and if ail would join in such a movement, none of them would lose any trade by reason of the change. It would surely be a great relief to the salesmen whose hours are altogether too long. We endorse every word ulttreJ by Weary. We have received a coimminiciition from one of our leading citizens, entitled. Revival of the curf*.v, which is timely, and we hope will attract the attention of parents. Small boys should no: be permitted away from home, except When accomp.-mied by their parents, af'.ei S o'clock in the evening. Left to themselves lhey quickly become vicious especially in a place where lhey run with other boys of ,1 bad charac let, W��. tnist all goud ciiuens will eviijt to abate this growing evil. The crate to reach the north pole has raged for manv years, and the repented failure! have only added to the desire to solve 'he mystery of ihtt so far Im- penetrable region. The south pole is at Ian to receive some attention. The premier of New South Wales has sent *mh an invitation for the other Australian colonies to co-operate. For some reasons the- Antarctic regions have been sanpoied to be more inaccessible than the arctic regions. If the expedition shall be fitted out it will attract world wide attention. spring; medicines top cleansing thn system and blood nt Plmbury's drug bi ore. BEVIVAL OF THK CURFEW To the Editor, Week!.' News- Sir: I have been reading in some papers of recent issue, ol a revival of the curfew, in a new form, as is well known the curlew was instituted by William the Conqueror to protect his subjects from midnight conflagrations and from marauders in ihe unlighted streets. A simitar ordinance is being enacted in manv -.it the smaller towns of Minnesot-t Wisconsin and oilier North Western Slates, where the. fire bell is rung at 1) o'clock every r.ix'H as a signal lor parents 10 keep their children, who are tmuer sixteen years Of age, in doors after that hour, unless they are under ad'iU escort. 1 take the opportunity of bringing this matter before llie public, and Vouici suggest to our luture municipal law-makers, when this town is incorporated (whicli 1 tru.-t will be soon) the advisability of con sidering this, to iny mind, important step. To teach children orderly and regular habits, and 10 keep ihem away from llie bad associations of tlie streets, is surely worthy of the attention of our citizens, There can be no doubt thai tliis town is sorely in need of sonic such regulation for it is fast becoming a scandal that some of our rising generation are allowed to roam the streets at niglii, bent on mischief, and are rapidly developing into a very "tough" clement, as I well know, not only from the fiequent complaints I have heard made, but also from my own person al experience, nnd the sooner this growing evil is dealt with, the better it will be for our children and thc more credkahlc for ourselves. There may be some who will Ihiok such an ordinance opposed to the generally accepted ideas ol civilization ���ind freedom. To such I would say, so is llie intolerable nuisance of a night prowling band of mischievous ant! disorderly youths. I am therefore, sanguine enough to believe, sir, thai there .ire many like yourself who will huve the courage to lend their aid in helping to mend an unmitigated evil. I am, sir, Yours laithfully uniui. Established 1877. CAPITAL, $500,000. -SHIP US YOUR- Incorporated 1893. (Joe-eld bou phi riylit tail; tiu <*uin- IliaKBltlll Cll'ai't*U(i, I l''��,r -selection *im*> ' uiiHli-ita returns. Milfjilr**; tugf** fiir- iii**tinl Iree upun t-f-qumta -IhersfH KOttTTTY un Kurt or any olher (goods vt* handle. Writo for Cirrnlnr ci v j ii ts siiippis-i** 7>i ro I'tlnnrt ������.**������*��� , LITEftT UARKhT I I'KICKfi. Jas. WIcRHIiian & Co. INCORPORATED MAIN HOUSE: 200-212 First Ave. North, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Hn.VNCHESl HELENA, MONT. | CHICAGO, ILL. I VICTORIA, B. C. I WINNIPEG, MAN. CookeS:Boicrnim''t.. I I 55 Wharf St. I 2:!4KiiiRSt. Riverside Hotels Courtenay, B. C. Geo. Dunbar, Prop Uli I (7.1 vf Best of Liquors Finest of Cigars Good Table and Courteous Attention The Famous DOMINION PANTSCO :��l K mi st. Jumtia st. lUlN'I'llKAl.. Drs Lawrence & Westwood. Physicians and Surgeons. "iricjsr *bc. We bave a-rtointed Mr. James Abrams our collector until further notice, to whom all overdue accounts ���������ay be paid. 7 Nox 1893. Society Cards I. O. O. F., No .it Umor. I/Jtlge, I. O. O. F., meets every Friday night at 8 o'clock. Visiiing brethren cordially invited to attend. Wm. Anthony, R. S. Hiram t.ot.gc ***** 14 A.F .& A.M.,11.C.R Courtenay It. C, Lodge meets'on every Saturday oh or belore the full ofthe moon Visiiing llrdthei's cordially requested to attend. R. S. McConnell, Secretary. j- H-rC$*$3**a 1 -i Esquimalt and Nanaimo Ry. Steamer Joun l. p, i/h;ki*;, master. On and after Mar. 22nd, 1S93 The Btcamer JOAN will sail as follows SUITS To order PANTS : tc: St-H-l for Simples. Prompt iMm-ry. Tot ; ii i'l rti ituuruiitfi it. Union Saw Mill. LUMBER All cALUNf* at way ports as piis��oiiKor�� j Dressed nmi froiKhl nvy offer T.en ro Victoria, Tue.ilny, 7 a. m, " Niolaini'i I'oi'l'euu'S. tVoili .'-tiny. 7 ��i. ni ' Leave C'oiuoxforNana mo, Fridays.7i.it. ! I " Nnp-timu for Victor-Ill Kltllll'lU')'. 7n.lr. I For freight or state rooms apply on j j board, or at the Company's ticket office. I I Victoria Station, Store street. Kinds of Rough and 'umber always on hard and delivered at short no tice. MOULDINGS. Loval Sunbeam Lodge No. 100. C. O. O. !���".. meet in iheil lodge room over Mcl'hei 's store, Courlena'-, every second Saturday at 8 p. m. Visiiing brethren cordiallv invited to attend. I. t\\\\. Fulton, Sec. Esquimalt t\\ Nanaimo R'y i ^���. ���*���) **in**s of ��� and _ I split shingles ahd dressed pine i and cedar. Time Table No. 25, To tak ��� ellVct nt 8 itm en tfomtlt*-, October 28 Isllj. Trail s mn on I'ncifit: umlnril limy ( GOING NORTH ; 1 mil), so My. Cumberland Encampment. No. '.,, I. O. O. F., L'nion. Meets first anrl third Wednesdays of each month at 8 o'clock p. in. Visiting llrethrcn cordiallv invited to attend. Win. Anthony, Scribe. l.v. Vietorla tor Nnlt-.iioo and I A. M. i I'. St. �� elliiiKlon i d.tlll I 3'JO I )r Nmialm i u.'O I 0 38 : Ar. .WillinKlon ! Ill no ' 0.35 GOING SOUTH J** Union, B.C. 18 November, 1895. Nelson Camp No, 44 of the Canadian Order of the Woodmen of the World meets every olher Monday even ing at 8 p.m. Visiting neighbours cordially invited to attend. Geo. Hull, Secretary. NOTICE Wc the undersigned hereby authorize John Bruce to collect all accounts due thc j estate of Robert Graham. R. Grant*] H, Hamburger \\ Trustees. 1 NOTICE. All accounts owing to Robert Graham's estate must be paid to the undersigned bv Nov. 30 or legai proceedings *iil be taken. Julio T.'iii'.cc. Nanaimo Saw 111. -AND- Sash and Boor FACTO R Y I AM I'M ! Dully. I SfttMy. Lv, lVflHngttm foi* VIHorla I *.% ! ...30 Lv. Kami mu for Vlctorln... i a-ii) I 3.46 Ar, Vtoturln I itVXl I 7.U0 Fnr rut i's and informal Ion apply at Coin* piniy'** ofllou-t. \\. DUNSMUIK, JOSEPH HUNTER PrufiriVp*. Gen'l bayi 11 K.imiOR, ftnu. Kreittlit mid I'ftMWBor Aitu | "OllCC. STUMPING. Stumping done at reasonable rates by our Giant Stumper. WOOD. Coal, brick and lime on hand and delivered at short CUMBERLAND MEAT MARKET R.Grant & L. Mounce, 1'roprs, ���o.*-:o:o-o~ A. HASLAM, Prop (OFFICE-MILL STREET.) (If. O. Drawer !��. Telephone Call, 1-W NANAIMO, 15. C. KiP* A complete stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber always on hand. Also Shingles, laths, Pickets, Doors, Windows and Blinds. Moulding, Scroll Sawing, Turning, and all kinds of wood finishing furnished. Cedar. White Pine. Redwood. CHOICEST ���~~j~)~J~ MEJjSlTS & ���'Ja.^im: PBODUCB Lowest CASH Price A. G. FULTON. New novels, plain ancl foney stationery ot pitnbupy'a. IVERY.-z^��� I mti prepared to furnish Stylish Rigs and do Teaming At reasonable rates. D. Kilpatrick, Union, B. C. EAMING-ie P J _H_t WEEKLY NEWS, NOV, 26, iS95. LOCALS McPhee & Moore's stock of Family Groceries is no.v complete. Mr. McNicol, the insurance agent came up the last steamer. T.L. Davis and wife returned to Nanai 1110 Friday. Lawyer Varwood was in town Wednes day nnd Thursday. Mrs. W. Cheney of Denman Island is in town. HARMS SHOP I have opened a Harness Shop in building corner 3rd st and Dui'Smuir Ave, Union, opposite to the The Nkws, where 1 will keep in stock and make to order all kinds of harnesses and everything in my The auction saie of Smith & McKen-1 line at reasonable prices. Al- zie last Thursday was well attended and s0 wj]| |leat*y anc| promptlv do quite successful. . . ��� , ' . ' ��� . ,., ., ��� r ,. ... , ci repairing, and carriage trnn- The sidewalk frnm McKim's lo *nmon r . 6 �� Leiser's is completed. nilllg. The contract for the erection of the J 'I'he patronage of the public l'nion Brewery Co's. building is said io \\ js respectfully Solicited, Wesley Willard have been lei to D.C. McDonald. Orders for powder left for me at Dave Anthony's will receive prompt .mention. I*. Curran, For Runt��� Three nice,w,irm rooms. Enquire of R. P. Edwards L.H. Solly Lind Commissioner of the E. tSt N. Railway w is in town Wednesday i and Thursday of last week. j Mr. Frmk Charlton, of the Dve Works j Nanaimo, reiurned Hridav. lie is con-| teoiplating ihe establishment ofa branch ; office here. Dr. Lawrence. A. Mcknight, Ons. Rabson, and J. Mateer left tor Nanaimo Friday to attend as witnesses the Fuu quier case. WANTED*-��� A strong farm horse, at a moderate price. Proposals marked '���Horse" may be lef. at THI! NEWS ollice. 2- l-S Bedroom suites, bedsteads, inattrasscs crockery, *v.c &c. at half price at Cheney's aoction rooms. All kinds of furniture bought or sold on commission. For Sale.--House and lot on Penrith ave, being isi house east of Coition road. Will be sold at a bargain. Appij to Mrs. Emma Richards on the premises 4-M7 For Sam:.��� 8 acres cheap at Comox Terms to suit. Ownei going to England. R. I.. Leigh Spencer P. O. Box 370, Nanaimo, or .it f";tni!>' r- land C'ltib.,yninii. We liave'juu received new price lis!- from las. McMillan S ���'"., Inc., 20.-. 312 First "Ave North, Minneapolis, Minn., tlie largest hide and fnr dealers in the Northwest, and they can be obtained at this office at any time. Their advertisement appears regularly in THE News. Dave Anthony's Cigar and Fruit Store Sad and Dunsmuir Ave, UNION', 1). C. NUTS, CANDIES, NOTIONS, MINERS SUPPLIES. JAMES ABRAMS Notary Public. Agent, for the Alliance Fire Insurance* Company of Lon don and the Phoenix of HarEIorcl. Agent for the Provincial Building and Loan Association of Toronto Union, B C. BPWOKTH LEAGUE The meeting of the Eoworih League Friday evening at Grace Methodist church was well attended and brightly intere ting. The debate which followed the reading of the essay was bright and entertaining, antl elicited al limes applause. Titers was some good inusn and singing, ln .1 fortnight there i> to be a Shakespearean evening. i ) ! ! ' Mr. M. Kellvof Tacoma and W. C Pierce of the Elite Studio, Nanaimo, will stop at Union with a I'hotn lent lor a short time. All parties wishing Photo's taken should cdl early, as we shall not stop over, onc month. ' Cloudy days preferred for sittings. KEI.LV* & PIERCE. BARKER I POTTS, BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, NOFAItlES. &C. 0'Hcu It ni. Mcl'hoeSc Moure B'ld'n nntl nt NANAIMO. B. C. 1' O. 0H.4WK.lt 18. . . et. . ... 11 a e^^/yj.y-yyyyy^yyy^>y'ryyy^yyyyy s t F. Outran BIRKBECK Investment security Savings Co. Of TORONTO Advances money for Building. H.n.ger for Nanaimo, Wellington and Cumberland. R L LEIGH-SPENCER Head office, Cnmmerria! Street N-��- naimo, II. C. Miss Leiyh-Spencer visits Union from llus dute oneverv boat succy-edin^ pay* day, for collecting dues, and advancing lhe Cunipany's business. I'-irties call ai Cumberland Club Directors Meeting following Thursday evening at 7,50. Fire, Life, Accident Insurance, Rer-il Eatate. ft ��� Union Mines Furniture Store A Full Line of Everything Including Curtains, Carpets ancl Rugs, and our Celebrated woven wire In reparole W. CHENEY & CO. ���YUCTIONEKR AND COMMISSION MKKC1IANT UNION, 11. C. Will handle all kinds ofg:cds, inr uding Farmers Produce Give us a ci 11 einM Hand Furniture UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT. Weconduct every branch of tht: Undertaking Business including ��*������*" *���) ''' *���*������*������*'��� �� ������it*.-.,.'. ������ PRACTICAL ARCHITECT -AND- BRIOGE &. WHARF BUiLDER. triTICiT, E c. '-"���'^f^^-^t'?^.*^'ii>=5t*-.(':3';' I. J, Theobald, I'l SCAVENGER I House and Sip Painter, ���fcp UNION, B C. ry yty.y.yyy. yy.'.y.y/yyy.. V w~yt> Waverly Paper-Hanging, Kalsomining and Decorating. GRAINING A SPECIALTY. UNION, All Orders Promptly Attended to B.C. I Union, B. C. W.H.Davidson, Lessee BABLIEB CLOSING NOW READY FOR TIIK RECEPTION OF liUliSTS, KlI'ST CLASS ACCOMMODATION VOU THK TRAVELLING PUIILIC. RATES REDUCED TO KEt.iUI.AR HOARDERS By the month, $25. By the week, $6. Single meals, 50 cts. To the Editor- Sir: It seems to ine rather a piece of follv r-wr-DV n^Ml/CMlCM^r of the storekeepers in this town keeping I fcVfcnT UUIN V EINI fclNOfc such Ion),'hours from 8 in the inorninu i FOR MINERS until 9 and to o'clock at ni^ht. In these j ���tsvs when "eight hours a day" for l.tlwr j is the cry, why should unfortunate store- I keepers and their clerks be expected !������> be at the service of the public so long ? Are we such a money grabbing lot, so avaricious to make a dollar that we can not do as in other towns and close earlier, and give ourselves and our clerks a little time for recreation and rest ? Surely 7 or H o'clock ought to be the latest hour for the storekeepers to keep open their stores. In this matter the pub lie have a duty to perform and that is to refrain from late shopping. I trust Mr. Editor, you will have ,| word to say in fa vor of earlier doting On S nurd ty there might be an exception made. Weary. Tickets for 21 meals. $500 Cumberland Hotel, Union, B. C. Thu finest hotel building Fixtures and Bar North of Victoria, And the best kept house. A FiNE stock of Clocks, Watches, Booka and Stationery. T. D. McLean ���:JBWELBB:- ���tJNTOlT, 33. C. CUMBBBLAND SHOE SHOP. 1 have moved into my new shop on First St. next to the Customs ofi'.ce, where I am prepared to manufacture and repair all kinds of men's, women's, and children's shoes. Give tne a call. Nelson Parks. Spacious Milliard Room and new Billiard and Pool Tables MILLINKET Fall and Winter Goods will be sold for the next 30 days at a reduction of 10 per cent. 1 have received by last steamer a lot of New Hats and Ilonnets for Children which I will sell very cheap. Mrs. J. S, Kendall. Best of Wines and Liquors. J. l'iket, I'rop. 0 ).��.j "�� I PUMPS Manufactured ���-J and ]> ��� Wood Turning WAENIKG. All persons driving over the wharf or oridges in Comox district lastsr than a walk, will be prosecuted according to law. S. Creech, Guv. Agent. R*I'P*A*N*S The modern standard Family Medicine : Cures thc common evcry-day ills of humanity. by Bennett Sf Grant: Union, B.C. i I o I o I o i o j o I o I o I R. B. ANDERSON. Watchmaker and Jeweler General worker in Metals Jobbing ot all kinds Office and Works J-^/JJ"**,' ****** ���o-iirxo-aT s. c. Embalming, and keep all necessa \\JflJ ffW^t^ ry supplies --^Iz&^'iJS'... cO***TT**SACTO"RS ^a.ZT2D :DT7**lXOE"RS Grant <����� McGregor Puntiedge Bottling Works, DAVID JONES, Proprietor, MANUKA ITUltKIt OF SDOA WATER, LEMONADE, GINGER ALE, Borsaparnllo., Chnmparjne Cider, Irou Fhospliatbs end Syrup*. Bottler of "Different Brands of Lager Bear, Steam Be6r aud Porter Agent for thJ Union Brewery Company. "ESr BEES, SOXjIP FOR CASH G,"E~ COURTt'NAY, B. C. Stage and Livery cojj~,t~~tja~; b. c. Fine Rigs at Reasonable Rrtes Always on Hand, ,'. Teaming Promptly Bone, .', 3^cQ,UIIJLAIe; i by the well-known Baptist Rev. (L Anderson ; by prominent members of the Methodist Church, and by the Rev. Father Hlnehey, aud mauy of hie parishioners. They all tell the one story of the great good this one medicine has done them. The same story has come from the most prominent in Toronto and elsewhere. It is unlike any other catarrhal remedy, simple, easy nnd pleasant to take, and quick in a cure. It will give relief within ten minutes In Hay Fever. Sold by all druggists. Sample Bottle and Blower sent on receipt of two Jl-eent stamps. S. t Sure Precursor of Apoplexy, nud Hi*. Afcuew's Cure for (In* 11t-art Ht Ouce to be Tnken. No one enji road the dally papers without being seriously impressed with the fact that a largo number of people in thc present age havo within their system tlie evidence of apoplexy. This Is seen and felt often in a trembling and uncertainty of the limbs, and frequently In an unpleasant dizziness and lightness of the head. Ho is I , fh^ySSa-Textt?' tZTlft i IM* ��>SL-����only.oHero.1 I promptly tnko measures to lmve them *-yv*-i��h(feff-***' ���' Walked in n stooped position.' stooped over position, with one hand on his kuee. Mr. Metcalta says: " For about two years I was not able to do any work. Local physicians railed to Uo mo nny food, and I went to Toronto for treatment, with equalO unsatisfactory results. I also t��eu electrical appliances without avail, i returned home from Toronto discouraged, and said that I would take no moru medicine, that it seemed as U 1 had to die anyway. My system was very much ruu down and the pains at times woro excruciating. t ao- hered for several months to my "c;or* mluatlon to take no moro medicine, Imt finally consented to a trial oi ur. Williams rink Pills, strongly r'?cp,*,: mendod bv a friend. Ilelore I nao. taken them very long r felt a great deal hotter, my appetite retnrnou, aud tho pains diminished, Alter using tho pills for some tlmo longer I was able to stand nnd walk erect and resume my work, ln the full enjoyment of health and strength. People who knew me marvelled at tho chano1-, and on my personal recommendation manv have used I'luk I'ills. This �� the first time, however, that I,^" given the facts for publication.' On being asked Ii the sciatica had ever returned, Mr. Metcalfe stated that once or twice, us tlio result oi unusual exposure, he had experience", slight attacks, but he always kept ! some of the pills at hand fur use on ! such occasions, and tliey never lalleu I to fix him up all right. Mr. Metcalfe, ; wlio is 52 years of age, is In the flour ! and provision business, and, as prom i of his ability to do as good a day s work tm he ever did iu his life, we may state tliat the most ol tlio work connected with the erection of liis six miles of telephone lino was performtu by himself. Mr. Matcalfe also mentioned several other Instances in which tho users of I'ink I'ills Derived great benefit, among them being that of a lady resident of Horning s Mills. The Economist knows of a number ol instances in tSholbuxno where great good has followed the use of this well- known remedy. . Tho public are cautioned against Imitations and sulistitutes, snid to be No, Muudc, dear, when people speak ' of the Ilols do Boulogne they do not j refer to the youths who sell saus- 1 ages In l'arls. Chollie���l'ojiah daughtah has consented to muwy me, and���ei^i'd like to know If there is any insanity lu : youah family, old Gentleman��� Ceui- ; plmtieally)���There must be I " I recently performed four niar- : rlose ceremonies iu twenty minutes.'' i remarked the Rev. Mr. Thirdly. " That was at the rate of ��� twelve knots an hour," added Miss Plypp. Probably the most thoughtful daughter in the world liveH in Atchi- sun. Though t!5 years of age, she still wears her hair down lier back to koep her mother looking young. *' Yes," said tho young physician of aristocratic Uncage, " truv family has a motto, but 1 prefer not to use it. it is a Ilttlo too suggestive in my profcsBlon." " What is It V" " Faithful unto death." *' Cheer up, old man A wojn.in*s 'no' olten means yes, yoa know." " But she didn't say no. Whoa 1 asked hor if she would marry me, she said, ' I will, I don't think.' I didn't even get treated with respect." Bobble���They raise a tree from a peach pit, can't they, pop'.' Pop���Yes, my boy. " Well, what ean they raise from a rifle pit?" " A disturbance, my boy." Beatrice Beads us some verses entitled, " Why Do I l'vo''" We cannot use your contribution, Boatrlce, but we ean answer your conundrum. You live simply because you send your verses Instead ot bringing them. " Whon I was a young man," said I Candidate Campbell to ono of his Ohio i audiences the other night, " I wus a Republican, but I married a Democratic girl, and you seo the result.*' " Yes, baldheuded," said the small boy in tho gallery. Blarnoy.���His Reverence���I can't tako your cat*, Pat. I see your horse has been on his knees. Put���Arrah, yer riverence, bo alsy about that. The lust placo ho hail was wid apraste, and, faith, lio had to keep np a slm- bianco of religion���Sydney Bulletin. " l don't like you, Aunt Jennie," said Wilbur, after his aunt had interfered with somo cheriBhcd Idea he had In mind; " an* if you don't let mo alone I'll save up my pottet-monoy an' buy a tapir." " A what 1" naked his aunt. " A tapir," Bald Wilbur; " an tapirs they cats nuts I" A Family gufferH for Want ot a Mother'. Attention. Mr. Noil Morrison, St. John, N, B.: " My daughter, Mrs. Gregory, has had rheumatism so bad during tho last year that she was unable to help her children or attend to her household duties. Everything imaginable wns j tried, but to no purpose. I wns at j last recommended to got South Am- erlcan Rhoumntic Cure. One bottle i curod my daughter within four days, ' and I tako mucli pleasure la giving this recommendation." ISSUE NO. 45 1895. NOTE) In replying to any ot theae advertise! ments, please mention this paper. Physicians prescribe Scott's Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil and Hypophos- phitcs because they find their patients can tolerate it for a long time, as it does not upset the stomach nor derange the digestion like the plain oil. Scott's Emulsion is as much easier to digest than the plain oil as milk is easier to digest than butter. Besides, the fish- fat taste is taken out of the oil, and it is almost palatable. The way sickly children, emaciated, anaemic and consumptive adults, gain flesh on Scott's Emulsion js very remarkable. Pon'' be persuaded lo accept a substitute! Scott & Bowm, Belleville. SCc. anl $1, TUCKETT'S T&B MAHOGANY is the cleanest snd best. ASK YOUR DEALER FOR IT. Manufactured by the (Ieo. E. TucScett & Son Company, l.'t'd. Hamilton, Ontario. Tho average size of families In Eu- ropo is as follows: France, 3.0a members ; Denmark, 8.61; Hungary, 3.70; Switzerland, 8.94; Austria and Belgium, 4.05 ; Englajid, 4.08; Germany, 4.10; Sweden, 4.12; Holland, 4.22; Scotland, 4.40; Italy, 4.58; Spain, 4.05 ; Russia, 4.83; Ireland, 5.20. ���DON'T FORGET That to remove corns, warts, bun- | ions ln a few days, all that is required j Is to apply the old and wecl-tesUHl i corn cure���Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor. Sure, safe painless, Putnam a Corn Extractor makes no sore spots hard to hcnl, acts quickly and painlessly on hard and soft corns. FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS DUNNS BAKING POWDER THECOOK'SBEST FRIEND Largest Sale in Canada. a <;ki;at WORK mion to his ihsiikd. " Smimnt tut tu Kurope-" ������*��� ���loHlnti j-uieii't* Wif*-, Will lie published early in NoveuiUer, and will be Bold only hy suksenption through our spocUmy appointed agents. Sixty thouaand copies of "Sainantha" at the World'n Fair were sold In twelve months. Oue hundred thousand of thin new work will be wold in tho same lcrtgth of time. Write at onoe for particulars. Applications for territory treated in order received. FUNK & WAGNALL. No. 11 Richmond street, Toronto. removed. We know of no remedy that has l>een so remarkably successful in this particular as Dr. Agnew's Cure [or tlie Heart. Primarily It Is a heart run1, but it is equally effective in what is to sof this reminrUnMe EASILY FOUND. Tourist (wild-eyed nnd It' tliere, guard ! I've lost by some unscrupulous dealers because thero is a larger profit for them lu the imitation. There Is no other remedy that can sucee-ssfully take the place of Dr. Williams' Pink I'ills, aud those who are In need of a medicine ���should insist upon getting tho genuine, whicli n-ro always put up in boxea bearing tlio words "Dr. Williams' I'ink I'ills for Talc I'eople." If I you cajuiot obtain them from your dealer* they will bo seat post-paid on u-eced't oi 50 cents a box, or $12.50 tor six boxes, by addressing tho Dr. Williama' Medicine Co., Umekvillo, i Out., or Schenectady, N, V. FREE to any ouo. bend us your name and address aad we will send you our catalogue ot silverware, miscellaneous goods and novelties. We can supply anything. The Queen Silverware Company, Monti'oal, Q. DONT COUGJH YOUR 'LUNGS AWAY, USE EBY'S (EKMAN Breast BALSAM Anil l,o mroil of tlio Cough, lti'l'un. Ciinmiitipllna sets let. SOLID UY DBUOGISTS AT 83 .1X11 ull CKSIS. FARMS FOR SALK. FOR SALB-The most protttable trait (uul (arm lands lu the world, $-1 i>tr acre up, cosy payments. Mercury Bel- dom roaches tke freezing point or as high as 90 degrees. Send tor maim and farm tacts describing the Garden Spot ol the Union. Cash and Luckel. Houston or Galveston, Texas, U. 3. A. SOUTHERN MAMTOUA FARM.- 820 acres���for sale, cheap; fivo dollars an aero and no cash required 11 security given; near Carmen and Miami ; ivrlte quickly If you wnnt It, to tho Etna Life Office, Toronto. FARMS, MILLS, MERCHANDISE, HOTELS, ETC., For sale and exchange. Joseph Pollard, Jun., Washington. Iowa. lii'.'L'..i; Cmvil't Mad It Oftli i il- ��� pair y An.v I li ill*V0 ���ni:: i'A entncky p ie I'll a ii' im't ymi li, into tli': '"���London aside tr angel, l would g to ilea von with 1 hoped tn moet lio preacher must lie iNS WIFE. ���hor who deserted Informing lior thnt her temper slio was an won tiio nngel Gabriel raw il slio took hor temper it. Nevertheless, ho ��� in Paradise. That ntter Gabriel's job. V "���//& RICH FLORIDA LANDS-ABOOT forty-six hours from Toronto; in healthiest part of State ; yielding two or tliroo crops yearly ; low prices; I easy terms. For particulars, apply I to W. ,1. FENTON, 808 Church street | Toronto. Toronto,) Ontarlo,| CANADA'S LARGEST, RKST AND MOST POPULAR Commercial Ekthoof, Enjoys eoo linontai reputation for superior work. Stu dents may niter at. nnv time. OataloKue froe SHAW & ELLIOTT, Prlnotptda, 10,000 ACRLS Of thu boat lnnd�� in Mit*liiK;.n, ��l from t'i m M uoracru. BlLiiuU-rJ In tour counties, on And noai " T HAVE HAD utnatism Un- years, and Nerviline he only remedy that has dono me ^^^^ writes Thomas M'- Glnshhn, North Pelham, and his testl- uinny i*-** supported by thousands of others who -have experienced the wonderfully ���penetrntinfr nnd pnln Bolidulng pow.-r of Nerviline���tlio gr sat nerve pnln cure. ���Failures this week nre L'.'.l In thn United States ng-ilnst 2'A\\ in-^t yonr, nnd Jib in Canada against G2 inst \\TIt. pare During 18!) I imt 2D.S0*! patents wpre j granted in the United States, betas a littlf more than halt tlie number no- ' piled for. TOBACCO STINKING BRE Not "pleasant to always carry a round, Imt it don't Compare with the n��r\\e-d-;ticiylng power that tobaeco keeps at work night and day to make you weak and Impotent. Dull eyes, loss of Interest ia sweet words and looks tell the story. Brace up���quit. No-To-Bac la a sure, quick cure. Guaranteed by Drugjxifit**** evory where. Hook, tilled "Don't Tobneeo Spit or Pmoko Vour Life Away,'* (ree. Ad. ^torlintr Bemedy Company, Net. 874 St. Paul Street, Mnntrenl. H Is the genera.l opinion in Paris political circles that the next ( al>- Inot will he strongly Radical. $150 For an Old Canadian Stamp, ItheMichiganoentrM. notrofu AiPom> a- r ! Lake Hallways. Kvory Canadian Stamp URed l*Gtw��cn 185* I and 181)3 la valuable aivi worth from l\\)<\\ la Sir." cucli. t buy anyquantity.on the originalnover-- prefnrrpil: nl-o all other kinda ot ktamps* oartioularly i.lio*-e'*nlli*.:i"fl ?s yc-ns -v^n. Hnnd ��� for prioe list to O. A. NHEDRAM, 654 Main | Street KaRt, Hamilton. Ont, 1-OOtl KABY THRM8 AND BEST TITLEB. Now is tho timo to buy. AddrcH*. U. M. Pierce, Wofli) Bay City. Mlcb tor J. W. Curtis. Whittemore Mioh. OLD CANADIAN POSTAGE STAMPS, PARTIES HAVING OLD LETTERS ln orifdnal envelopes of tbo dntc-* 1831 to 1870 wiih poHtago stamps thereon will Kct good prioen for tho Btatnpa by applying to Hox IL'5, Hamilton, Ontario, l^***V*kf)jk*ij*A&t* 1 MRS. WIHSLOW'S 0*imm0*0B SOOTM1N*' SYHU? FOR CHILDftBR TECTHIM u^.*'1:l*Ffjtt'.-vts��*JAte, wcw,tii^>,v, , tow*)1 STAMMERS Permanently curod. No tee until ��� cured. Strictly educational. Church's Auto-Voco School, established L80G, Alexander street, Toronto. UtIBtS -iVhuilfc A��:L tut 1��iU. Bosi CougUjJy? ��P ;���;-; ::.';:*- ** ^ _%imM2rx?$ I n FOR UTILE PEOPLE. '. W'Jtt'��.'C: ,'*���'"�� i I ltt*ac m^ai.m:*; ]��.*:..�� a' j|i:.��:ii*i SCHOOL NOTES. " No endeavor Is ln vain. Its reward la in tho doing; And tho rapture ot pursuing Ib the prise the vanquished gain." ������Longfellow, A LITTLE PROBLEM. 01 course mathematical problems have a fascination for tho school children. Here ls ono Irom real lite: A purchased a dog tor $2.50. Sho took It out (or a walk and lost it. Sho paid $1 reward for Ite return when the dog was brought back last Saturday. On tliat da; sho bought a six-pound rib roast for Sunday's dinner at 20 centa a pound. Tho dog ran off with the rib roast and added to his own weight nearly .half the wolght of the rib roast. Tlie other half was unfit lor ne. Since then she has tried three times to lose the doe, but he alwaya came back. Finally she paid a man 60c. to rid her of tho hated canine's presence. She never got the 50 cents back, bat sho did get the dog. He strolled Into tlio house yesterday. Now how much was the dog worth, allowing $1.23 lor wear and tear on the housekeeper's nerves ? A LITTLE GIRL'S RIDDLES. Is like a ll��*>r ui��cu����ed From > Litem?, able experience. BEATS THE KEELEY CURE. Q. What part ol London lame man ? i A. (Jrlpplogate (cripple gait). . Q. Why are good resolutions like ladles tainting? A. Because they want carrying out. Q. Why do you always make a ml* take when you put your slipper o*n> A. Because you put your foot ln i\\ Q. Whore can even the miserable always find sympathy? A. Iu tho dictionary. Q. Why should a bird with awing and another without always disagree? A. BecniiHo there is a difference ot a pinion (opinion) between them. Q. Why is a beehive like a spectator? ��� A. Because It is a bee-holder (beholder). Q. Why ls an egg liko a colt? A. Because it is ol little use until it ls broken. TIIE MIRAGE EXPLAINED. In the course of his second lecture on " Light" at thc Royal Institution, Lord Ruylclgh spoke ot the cause of mirage, which, It appears, is not clearly explained ln works on optics. Ganot says it Is a phenomenon o! retraction which results trom the unequal density of tho different layers ol tho air when they arc expanded by contact with the heated soli. Lord Rayleigh is reported as saying that the appearance of water on brood and hot sandy places was duo to the tact that close upon the ground there lay a ��tratmn of rarclled nir. A ray of light fell very obliquely on to it, nnd, being totally reflected, reached the eye of an observer much us If the reflection took placo from water. The phenomenon wus, strictly speaking, ono of refraction, although the effect was the same as If they were complete reflection on one surface. He mentioned that because he did not think It was to bo found ln nnv of the books on optics, and because Irom a theoretical point ot view It was of great Importance. Just as a glass lens formed an linage on tho screen, so the crystalline lenB ol the eyo formed an Image of external objects upon the retina (the sensitive surface nt the back ot the eyes), and so the Image on the retina was Inverted. Much unnecessary speculation had been made ln that connection, for people supposed that, because of this Inversion, it waR a mystery that we did not see everything upside duwn. The lace was we did not see the Image on the retina at all���we only Ielt it; but It we could seo the linage on sofincbody olse'B retina, then we should see It Inverted. SAVED BY A LASSO. Death In terrible form stared 13- year-old Charlie ltouser in the lace tor a tlmo yesterday atteruuon, but he was rescued Just as his companions had given up all hopo in a manner as thrilling as it was unique. The lad was swimming In Juniper Lake, at Cynwd, on tho North Penn railroad, and had as companions Charlie Groenwood, Jerome McGarvcy and Goorgo Kennedy, Iio.vb of about his own ago. Willie paddling aliout near tho shore hu stumbled into what seemed liko a patch ol quicksand, con- coaled under thu suit, sticky mud, says tho Philadelphia Record. Despite his efforts to extricate himself, young Homier was unable to on- capo from thu treacherous soil, nnd became alarmed when he found him- soil slowly sinking, lie called to hla companions fur ni-lp, but when tliey realized his predicament they loat thoir bends, and Instead ol tr.ting to assist hlin not up lusty shouts In the hope of bringing sunn.' mon tu the rescue, Tholr shouts weru liunril Iiy (.'apt. Sohofleld, on whose property the lake Is situated, and he hurried tn tho shoro. When ho reached the scene tho 1 Ilttlo fellow was engulfed In the mud up to his armpits, and was slowly but surely sinking, Capt. Sohofleld took a rail from tho fence at tho roadside and pushed It out to the now thoroughly frightened hoy, who clung to tt with all his rapidly waning strength. At tho moment Mounted Policeman Byrne, who had also been attracted by the cries for help, camo galloping up. Realizing tho gravity of thn situation, tho ollicer quickly procured a ropo, and, making It into a loop, throw it out to young llouser, nt the same time Instructing him to slip the noose around his body under the arms. The boy obeyed and held on to the ropo frantically. Fastening the other end around bis waist Byrne remounted his horse, and, putting spurs to his animal, literally dragged the boy out of the clutches of death, which a few minutes previously had seemed Inevitable, When dry land was reached the boy Thomas Hubbard's Suggestion s Published 100 Years Ago HIB TREATISE ON "JAGS." Don't imagine the temperance question is a modern Issue I Tho wisdom and propriety of drink wore matters of discussion one hundred years ago. An old New York resident, whilo curiously ransacking a time* stained ancestral trunk last week, exhumed a queer Uttle book which boro tho publication date ot 1795. Authorship was credited to Thomas Hubbard, and tho contents were devoted to "valuable secrets and approved directions trom the best artists relative to wine." It was with a chuckle that he observed that tbo book was carefully concealed under several theological volumes, Ior he remembered that tradition recited that his veaerable ancestor, although a man ol religious convictions, was not averse to accumulating that which ln later days became to be known as a "Jag." He dusted the book and carried It to his club, where Its "secrets" were revealed to lei low-members. It ls related that copious memoranda were made, with a view to future, utilization. Here are a few ol the book's suggestions, ln the hope that they may provo ol value to the descendants of those wbo tuok advantage of them In tho dayB when "reform" police commissioners were unknown: REMEDIES FOR INTEMPERANCE. "To euro those who are too much addicted to drink .vine, put In a sufficient quantity of wine three or four eels, which leavo there till quite dead, Givo that wine to drink to the person you want to rotorm, and ho or sho will be bo much disgusted ot wine that, though they formerly made use ot It, they will now nave aa aversion to it. "Another method, no less certain: Cut In the spring a branch of vine, in the time when tbe sap ascends most strongly, and receive in a cup the liquor which runs from that branch. If you mix some of that liquor with wine aaid give it to a man already drunk, lie will never relish wine afterward. "To prevent one from getting intoxicated with drinking, tako white cabbages' and four pomegranates' Juices ���two ounces ot each with one ol vinegar. Boil all together lor some time, to the consistence o( a syrup. Take one ounce of this belore you are going to drink and drink afterward as much ajid as long as you please. "Another way: Eat five or six bitter almonds, lasting. This will have the same effect. "Another way; It is affirmed that If you eat mutton or goat's lungs roasted, cabbage or wormwood, It will absolutely prevent the bad effects which result Irom the excess ot drinking. "A method ol making people drunk, without endangering their health :��� Infuse eome aloewood ln a glass ol wine and give it to drink. The per- son who drinks it will soon give signs of Intoxication. "Another way: Boll In water some mandrake bark to a perfect redness of the water Jn which It Is boiling. Ot that liquor, it you put ln the wine, whoever drinks It will soon be drunk. "To recover a person from lntoxloa- tiqn: Moke such a person drink a glass of vinegar, or some cabbage juice, otherwise give him some honey. You mny likewise meet with euccesB by giving tlie patient a glass of wine quite wann to drink, or a dish ot strong coffee, without milk or sugar, adding to it a large teaspoonful ol salt. "To prevent the breath from smell- tog of wine: Chew a root ot Iris trog- lotida, and no one ean discover by your breath whether you have been drinking wine or not." FADS AND FASHIONS. Immense aigrettes, ln height and circumference, of white, black, nnd of blitck and white osprey. Band trimmings of heavy cream guipure ln,ce, having a medallion o,' plain bn.t'ste at intervals. Shut chenille lor braiding In with felt, satin and velvet, tn he used fur hat brims and trimmings. Children's silk a.ud clotli coats having a. deep lace capo un which are trom three tu five rows of fur. Bands ot silk and gauze ribbon with printed designs, enriched by spangles forming scrolls or edges. Crowns and band trimmings ot velvet ur elienillo embroidered lu pearls, Rhinestones, steel, Iridescent ami jet rapttpgles. Tiny j 't bonnots widened by ostrich tips, orna>monts ami bows ot pioco velvet ur ribbon, showing frun, two tn live colors in one nindel. Travelling and Shopping hats uf the Alpine shape in su.t ielt, with a draped veil ni heavy white lace, quills and crown baud ol gros grain. Large colored Rhinestone buttons set iii a. rim Ot the regular strops. The colors representing rubles, sapphires, emeralds and black nmi pink pearls. Lung, narrow buckles fur the front of lints, many having an erect wing un either end. Yokes and band trimmings tn match uf gilt, jet, mother-of-pearl and Iridescent spangles.���Dry Goods Economist, THE REAL ADVANTAGE. "So you're running a trolley car!" exclaimed the unlucky man's friend. "Yes. I was persuaded tn take tlie job." "But you surely can't regard the salary as much of an object." " No, tho salary wasn't much of an Inducement. Ynu Bee, It was pointed out to me that If I was on hoard tho car, running It, I couldn't lie the follow who gets run over." Scientific aiul Callnary Point of View, John Gilmer Speed, Dr. Cyrus EdBoa (ex-President of the New York Board of Health) and Mra. 8. T. Rorer learnedly discuss '* Tlie Potato us a Dally Diet,'* in November Ladles' Home Journal,'- and pretty conclusively prove that the humble but popular tuber is not a healthful article or food. Mr. Speed asserts that the potato as a fond is not uearly sn valuable as we have very generally es- toempil it to lie. It is quite deficient in nitrogen, and as a solo diet is therefore unsuitable. It is hard tu digest and- therefore shuuld lie partaken nf very sparingly by all, save those who live activo lives out-of- duors. ��� ��� ��� The potato provokes our great national aliment, dyspepsia, and the sooner the consumption of tiie mealy tubers begins the sooner will tin; drca,d fangs nt the dyspepsia appear. Dr. 1'dson 8iua rejoinder tn Mr. Speed writes : " 1 must quite agree witli Mr. Speed in his condemnation of the potato. I tuu sorry tu have to say anything against tlio humble tuber, but the truth, especially when it is scientific, and more especially moilico- sclentlftc, must Is; tuld. It Is certain; no one can at all timos oat the potato with tho assurance thnt It will do him no harm. * * * The Jiractice of feeding potatoes to infants and young children cannot lie too severely condemned, A potato diet may not kill them outright at once, but it is certain to Injure their digestive organs permanently and effectually, so as to make their lives a burden to themselves and those who are brought ln contact with them. Dr. Edson also contends that the potato Is very'deficient in nutritive qualities, and has less value as an article of fond than must nther vegetables and cereals. Mrs. lturer writes : " I am not a potato prohibitionist, hut I tlrmly believe that potatoes shuuld lie served only with strongly-concentrated nitrogenous food, such ns roasted beef, or, for the vegetarian, with beans, peas nr lentils. TU I OSVEKT INOKHMII.L. Queer Methods or Crank. With the (ireat Skeptic. An aged woman has appeared iu front ot Colonel Ingersoll's residence, No. 400 Fifth avenue, almost nightly during the last week, and spends an hour distributing tracts. Her surplus stock she lays neatly on Colonel Ingersoll's porch stops when Bhe takes her departure. Religious tracts are now scattered all over Colonel Ingersoll s basement entrance, and the old lady brings a new stylo tract each evening. Nobody appears to molest her. Colouol Ingersoll's family ts still away lu tho country, und the houso is only tenanted by bcrvuuts. Before taking her leave she kueels nnd prays on the pavement, presumably iu tho interests of the champion of unbelief. The Salvation Army and the Meth ���STANllAKl: MM HI-. -l lie Luteal Vlfura Davlaeu l.jr the Terpal-' i-lMiriHii 1'ror. union. A new dance called the "Standard Lancers" was adopted by the American Society of Professors of Dunclng at Surutugn. Heretofore almost every largo city has had ita own style uf lancers, and it is expected thut thu adoption uf the figures herewith given will bring about a uniform system throughout the country. First tigure���Salute partners and corners. First tour lorward and hack, with aide couples un thu right (that is, across corners), Forward again tu same couples and turn oppo- Bito with both hands and reilru to places. Cross uvi r, giving right hands ill passing, ('nis, mick, giving lett hands. Balance tn corners���that is, four stops forward���passing hy the corner person uu 'the right, (our steps back tu place. Turn comers with ., , , ,,...-,. . ��� uut'' I'hnds tu place. This entire fig- odists havo tried thtir best converting | ure naB ^.o,, danced acruss corners to thu right ot the first couples; it is CONCENTRATED EXTRACT. A strong decoction of quassia is said to be an excellent remedy against fleas. Bread mny be the staff uf lite, but a saddle of mutton makes the Journey (easier. Health Is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which lade and are tasteless without It���Temple. "The first thing that phrenologist exclaimed when he sa w me was: 'What II head!"' *'Where were you the night before?' Several Egyptian harps have been recovered from tombs. In some the strings are Intact, and give forth distinct sounds after a silence of 3,000 years. Tho hygienic congress at Buda-Pesth brought out the fact that there arc four times as many men who stammer as there are women who are so afflicted. Tliere are fifty-five cities in England which cremate their garbage, and as they are not run by politicians they do really cremate something besides the taxes. In some parte of Japan, at a wedding, the bride, ns a sign oi her subjection, kneels nnd washes the feet of tho bridegroom after he has trodden upon raw eggs. Our idea of a smart woman is one who can spread newspapers on her pantry shelves without stopping to read every poem and story in them. ���Atchison Globe. The production ol aluminum lias Increased trom 100 pounds in 18S4 to 389,629 pounds last yoar. During this time the price has dropped trom $9 a pound to about TO cents. It ls estimated that 293 hairs on the head, 39 on tho chin, 23 on the forearm n.nd 19 ou tho back of thc hand are respectively contained ln an area of a quarter of an inch. Over 100 negro students live in the Paris Qunrticr Latin. They come chiefly from Hayti and the French colonies ol Guadeloupe and Guyane. The Haytians are well off and dress well, us their Government pays them $'90 o1 mouth wlillo abroad. They hiave a newspaper of their own, La Fraternlte. Perhaps the most wonderful specimen of cutler's craft In the world Is the knife to bo seen In the showrooms of Joseph Rodgers & Sons, Sheffield, England. This extraordinary knife Is provided with one blade for every year since the commencement of the Christian ern, the number ol blades, of course, nnw being l,89ij. Blades aro inserted five at a time at the lapse ol every fivo years.���Hardware. A NOVEL SALUTATION. When Monslgnor Cnpel visited tiio Dnited States somo years ago a Washington woman whu was entertaining iii,i at dialler asked her distinguished guest what had Impressed liim most la tliis country. "Tho extraurdlnary precocity of your children, madam,' was the reply, .uul upon being naked the reason) Monslgnor' told tiie following experience: " When In Baltimore a few days since I wont with the archbishop to call upon Mrs. W. Inning nur visit her beautiful little hoy nf four .vears ru.n into tlie drawing-rnnm, aim, after presenting hini to me, Mis. W. said: " ' Carroll, go and say good uiurn- Ing tu tin.' archbishop.' Fancy my amazement when tlie child turned, and, with an Indescribable air nl bonhomie, said with a friendly nnd : Tlow nru you, arch?- Truly American children are remarkable/'���Washington Times. HER EYE FOR. A BARGAIN. " My wlio found a poker chip in my pneket the other morning,'- snid tho man about town. '��� Was sbo angry ?'' " Very. Sho asked me how much it cost. I told her, *50 ccntB, and alio snid that a man always gets cheated; that tho thing was nothing but celluloid." ideas ou Colonel Ingersoll. The Rev. Dr. McCube, of the Board of Home Missions ot the Methodist Episcopal Church, Is the must persistent ex- horter ol them all. He writes a letter and leaflet every month, ln which he points out to the great unbeliever that there Is yot time lor him to join the Methodist Church. His latest letter, written a short time ugo, is lu part as follows: " Since you began to lecture against tho Bible thirty years ago the Methodist Church lias increased greatly, while other denominations have grown also, We now have 2,81.0,000 .communicants, ft gala ot 1,800,000. Our Church property lias increased in valuo from *>2O,U00,O00 to moro than $100,000,000, a gain of $12,0110 dally for thirty years. In the meantime you have not beon able tu overthrow a tingle church altar. " Colonel, we have beaten you I Colonel, you had better join the Methodist Church I Saul of Tarsus persecuted the Church, nnd he came lu. You hud better como in.' A noar-Bighted friend of Colonel In- gersuil sends him each week tlie Bible lessons trom her copy uf a country paper. She corresponds regularly, and she is one of the few religious enthusiasts Colonel ingersoll ever answered. The letters aud tracts are dumped unccremoulouBly into the waste basket without readiug. But this particular old lady got a letter that almost brought her to New York. Sho intended to come Irom her native town, but lack of finances may have caused her putting off the trip. In cutting out tho Biblo lessons to send Colonel IngerHoll uno week, ahe pasted tho clippings on a sheet of note paper. Inadvertently Bhe reversed one of the clippings, and when Colonel Ingerfloll got his letter the Biblo leeson read like this: God so loved the wnrld that He gnve His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth In Him should not perish, but have everlasting llie. -John 111. 10. And whosoever was nut found writ- ton In the Book uf Life was cast into the lako ot tire. Drink -'s brand nf Rock and Rye, warranted pure; only 50 cents a pint. Colonel Ingersoll wroto the old lady a strong lotter ol condemnation for attempting to convert him to drink. Sho was horrified to learn what sho had done, and every letter she* writes now���thoy still arrive each week���she apologizes for her mistake ol reversing tho Bible lesson copying and sending the rock and ryo advertisement. Sho haB stopped taking that country papor, because, she aaya, It led her Into such "grievous error."���New York Herald. me uiu rii.viK. What a llor.1 of Sail Sweet Memories Muster H.,iln,I It. There ls a little chair standing in an odd corner at horae���a plain little chulr with its dark rockers and Its well-worn arms. And It stands In the shadowy recesses just below the shell whero the old clock ticks away, telling ol the long, long minutes that nro gathering Inst between us and tlie deep-memorled pnst. But the little forms which were once held in the wooden arms and rucked to and tro have long since fled, nnd tho baby chair Ls forgotten. Ono whom the Uttle rocker held lovingly slipped away through the shadows and is waiting beyond the dusky valley. Many a time the old chair held her against its narrow Ikibocu anil rucked yawn. With stretching away her baby troubles. A tiny pres- ~___f___ sure sets It vibrating. Rock, ruck. It J'vent .ting I ie luru. -ing was so that vnu .swung to and tro, keeping time to a childish lullaby cruuned low and sweet over the passive lace, nf a china dull. Backward and forward, forward and back, ymi measured nn the moments ul happiness lung ago, Ruck, rook ; steady and slow. Sn it wa.s that ymi held the children in your strung uid arms nnd soothed away the childish grief, The subs and sighs kept time with your rucking, the little troul les were smithed away In the depths of your kind old bOSOtm, Bulk, ruck. First quick nuw repeated across the uthur curner ur with sldu couples on the left, Dance fuur times, alternating direction ol dnncing. Second tigure���All lorward and back. Ladles to the centre (do not salute). Gentlemen promenade around the Indies to the Ielt. Upon reaching places the gentlemen take ladles' hands and a large circle is formed. All promenade ln circle to the left. Dance four times the second and fourth time ot dancing the gentlemen take places ln the centre. Third figure���All furward and hack. Forward and salute. Four ladles chain. Dance lour tlmcB, tho seennd and luurth times the gentlemen otter right arm to ladies in place ot ladles' chain and all promenade. Fourth tigure���Salute partners. Grand right and left half around set (do not salute). Turn partner witt right hand and continue. Grand right and left In the reverse direction to placo aud when In place salute partners. First couple promenade nnd face out: side couples form ln. Chassoz to left���that Is, four glides to left. Balance forward with left foot and back with right. Chassez to right. Balanco forward with right loot and back with lett. Countermarch to opposite lines. All forward nnd back. Turn partners with both hands to places. Dance four times. YAWNING AND ITS USES. A Doctor Heconiwemls It as a Muscular I'MTCIS... It Is unnecessary to describe In what consists the act of yawning, an every one Is familiar with the slow and deep inspiration, accompanied by separation of the Jaw boties, and followed by equally deep and prolonged expiratiun, which Is also more or less sonorous. The last is attended as well by stretching of the limbs, with the body and head well thrown back. It is a modlilcntlon ol the respiratory act, or, In other words, it is breathing with a spasmodic or convulsive eond'.tlon of Its two periods, for yawning Is, like all spasmodic nets, quito involuntary. During the net ot yawalng thc air is taken in nlmost exclusively by tho mouth, which ls widely open, tho posterior orifices of the nasal fossae being partly closed by the soft palate, which contracts spasmodically and is drawn up toward the top part of the pharynx. This contraction of the soft palate lasts during the whole act of yawning, and only ceases when the mouth closes. Yawning nlso causes more or Icsb complete, but momentary, obliteration of the passage loading to the middle ear and called the Eustachian tube. Yawning Ib Involuntary, and yet it is possible up to a cortaln point to hide by will power a certain portion of it, to shorten It by suddenly closing the mouth by an energetic reaction and by preventing the sonorous expiration with which it usually ends. The most elementary rules of good breeding forbid yawning in tlie presence nf other people, but a Belgian physician, M. Naegoli, has taken up the cudgels against those mice, basing hla opinion on tho physiological phenomena of yawning, which he recommends na an excellent method of respiratory gymnastics, According to his ideas, yawning brings into action all the rcspiratury muscles nf the'chest and neck, nud slinuid, on that account, bo considered as the most natural form uf rcspiratury exercise; im thinks that evory person shuuld have a good with stretching ni the limbs, Ior tlie purpose and tnnli'ying the muscles of rospirallun. IE -LOADED t ol NTIUiiS. Tiio Ilvo states uf Central Amotion have nu area nf 170,1110 square miles, a population nf B.Offo.OOD and a llobt of f*fk,BOO,000. The debt nl Honduras Is a marvel.-.-'i'.II.OOII DOIl ur 181 ti in i r p. up e. Fi deration with that sort nt obligation is anything inu. tempting. MbxIco has a popu n Hon nf 11 U82,021 and n debt ul Ull I (Mill Wll). ' The latest estimate nf tlie population ol Cuba Is 1,(182.000, Imt but growing Blower and slower as tho I thoro is ���,, estimate ol tlm debt. pearly lids drooped lower and lower nver the drowsy eyes, and sn yuu rucked the babies nway to tlio sleepy land of nod. And still you stnnd in the odd old curner, and hold wide your arms, waiting and wishing to nnce again hold tho noisy children that long ago grew too large Ior your narrow grusp. But a tiny Squeak cunies from its dark old rockers like a rustv sigh, and perhaps when no nne Is noar tho littio uid chair mny sleep nnd dream of the dainty ono it hold sn lovingly, whu pnsBcd through the dim shadows and waits lor us In tho " somewhere" far beyond. Mrs. Portly Pompons���Oh, Bridget, yon hnve broken that magnificent Japanese vase. Bridget���Snre, mum. Isn't it lucky that there was nothing In It. A thoughtful observer remarks that there are two classes ot people whom Theso American neighbors to the state's are very much outdone by Canada, whose population nf 4,888,289 must bear a debt nf 8800,000,000, greater In prnpnrtlun than that nf anv other country, excepting France anil Italy���Philadelphia Times. (iOLDEN RULE PltOVMUIIS. Seek self, find Satan. Christians In concord J devils in dismay. Men's praises arc not always God's rewards. Tho Christian who trifles with sic laughs nt Christ. He will never speak with effect who speaks for effect. No time tor righteousness; too much time lor remorse. The light that shines not on Mon- dav will attract no rouIb on Sunda}'. The hand that fashions tlie crown it Is hnrd to convlnco against their ot lite also fashions the yoke of ser- will���women and men- | vice. G. A. McDiiio il C*>., Real Estate Brokers, Nanaimo, B.C. LATE LOCALS. Call at Mel'hee & Moore's and purchase a package of their splendid brand of "Simla1' ten. They are sole agent*, for ihe Province, Mr. and Mr;. P.M. Hunter haw taken rooms at the Misv-s Orchard's for the winter. Mr. nmi Mrs, Harrigan have moved ititii tin r.rw Williain-.' Murk. Commercially there lire nn iliies I'pin those men Mho advertise. D.M. Hunter has sold his new house nu the corner of Penrith ave. and Fifth street tn Mr. I). Kilpatrick, Mrs. Win, O'lHl is prepared m give organ anil pianoforte lessons, hotli vocal ���ind instrumental, io elementary and ad- vanced pupils. A grind supper and hall will be given under the auspices of Benevolence linage No. U K. of P. lit I'ikei's hall nn New Year's night for which a first cUss orrhes tra has been engaged. Mr. John Urqutiart's liltle boy was hnd ly scalded nn both feet Satiudav by the escape of thc steam from the boiler at the Mill, Courtenay. McPhee A Mnore are now opening up their Fall and Winter stock of Blankets, Quilts, Mens' underwear, Sox, Gloves; Oil clothing, and rubber goods. There is altogether too much crowding and noise in the lobby of the post-office Last Wednesday ladies were kept wait- ing for two hours hy the rudeness of mon who pressed in front ofthe wicket. A passenger couch is expected up shortly and will be placed nn the line he* iween Union and the wharf and run in connection uitfi the Joan. Through tick ets will be issued direct to l'nion, and passengers leaving l'nion will have to purchase their tickets here ami nm al the wharf. DONATIONS The following gentlemen kindly dona, led the sums opposite i heir names lo the Coniox Agricultural Society for ihe purpose of helping to pay uli'the delu ou thc Agricultural Hull. Alex. Ui'qtthart, $25; Duncan llros. *��ioi \\VR. Robb. $10.75; ���**���'��� I'iercy. S10.25; J A. Halliday, Ito; Thus. Cairr.s, $10; Jos. Mel'hee, $10; John MuntlcH, Sto; Win. 11. Grieve, $1); Samuel Creech. $6.50; George Heatherbell, $*.; Chalmers Bros, Sy, Alex. McMillan, j.*; Grunt & McGregor, $*; John Williams, $*; Alex. Salmond, $2.50; liyron Crawford, J2.50; John Masson, $2; David Jones, $1.50; Father Durand, $1.50; Chas. Bridges, $1.50; W.li. Anderson, $1.50; William Ahderton, $1; Wesley Willard. $lj Mc <*jut!l,'in & Gilmore, $1; Alex. Ledingliaiii, }octs.; Henry McQuillan, 50 cts.j Money to Loan DENMAN ISLAND NOTES at low rate ancl easy terms. Lots for sale in any part of town Fine acre lots adjoining Cumberland Townsite. 164 acres on water front, near thc Trent River; easy terms. D. McD. Hunter. LOCATION OF OFFICIALS Editor New*.; We notico in your Insi issue .1 com nut nievtt ion wiih ivferenc**; to the (i*sirahility of iheassH-isnr and collect orat Coniox removing h-s office tnii more convenient place in ihe village tor the accornmo.'lrttion of tho public. I think when ,h<*te is any '"lunge it should lie tu Union. In fact all the district officers should be located in the chief business p' ice ofthe district, and this will doubiless takr place during the coming year. Nine ipmhs nf the population is in Union. Whv then should the-*e all go to the May when-te:*.-*. than ro> people reside? There ar- fully i,o;x) Inhabitants Jie-v. Let Ihe office he removed to the chief inwn where the ure.t body of the people will be best accoimuodated. Moses. Union, Nov. '��2. JOINT SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT ��� . The joint school entertainment at Coutt enay Thursday, drew, as was expected, a crowded hnuse. The programme as pub li-heil last week, was well rendered, the children doing creditably. Tnesc annual school entertainments are a splendid thins to bring nut tbe parents. It is real ly a school exhibition and shows the advance of the scholars in a general way. Tlie teachers of both schools are to be congratulated. A THIEF Saturday night Mr. Hullork placed a lantern on the street where a drain was dill'to lei off the water accumulated in the cellar nndcr I Inline, store. This was stolen, and another lantern put nut which was fastened to some timber, and this was wrenched nlT and taken away, leaving uo light to warn the public against danger. There will lie a suitable -eward paid in anyone giving inform tlion leading to the arrest and conviction of the thief. NELSON-HOUSE UNION HAY. II. C. Having taken ihis house, except the bar, 1 shall be pleased lo receive the patronage nf ihe 'public. Hoard per week, ��� $5. Single meals tr 25 cei-ts. T.J. I'ierry. NOTICE. Persons using the mules and horses of the Union Colliery Co. without permission will bu prosecuted according 10 law. F.D. Litlle, Sunt. RANCH FOB SALE One mile and a half from Un>on: con. tains ino acres nnil will be disposed of at a low figure. Enquire of James Abrams. NOTICE Anv person or persons destroying or withholding the kegs anrl barrels of the Union Kre.very Company Ltd nf Nanaimo, will be pr.isecilted. A liberal reward will be paid for information leading to conviction. W. E. Norris, Sec'y PARTNERSHIP NOTICE The partnership*,\\��hich has heretofore existed between A.I). Williams and D.M Hunter under the firm name and style nf Williams ii- Hunter is dissolved. Union, Nov. 1 1805. All claims against the late firm should he presented to Mr. Hunter and ull bills due it paid to him. - A'. I). Williams. ' -'UM. Hunier. F08T OFFICE REGULATION The money order department closes nt 7 p.m. Thursdays. Letters may be registered up to 7.30 p.m.on Thursdays, Apply fnr hojies t,, arrive nerd month before thev are all taken. ��� CHUEOH SERVICES (".race Methodist church -��� Services nexi Sabbath bv the pastor. Morning subject--tind our sun and shield, Kven inu���A Sunday's hunting and the game killed. Presbyterian church,���The Rev. Mr. Logan will preach morning and evening Trinity Episcopal church.���First Sunday in Advent, service as usual at 7 o'clock, p.m. Organ reciial al close of service wilh special hymns and solos by ihe clioir. NOTICE The monthly meeting of lhe W.C.T.U. will be held in ihe hoose of Mr. Rolib, at Hay, 01, llie evening of Thursday 28th inst, a' 1 p.m. 11 will be a social meeting', and every member is requested to bring a friend, Mrs. W. Duncan, REVISION AND APPEAL COURT Notice is hereby given tbat a Court of Revision and Appeal, under the "Assess- ment Act" for the District of Comnx, including Nelson, Newcastle, Denman and Hornby Islands, and a sitiing of the Cnunty Cnurt nt Nanaimo will be held in the Court House, Comox, ou Thursday, the 5th day nf December next, at lhe hour of eleven a.m. I Hv order) W.*U. Anderson Assessor. Comox B.C. Nov. 20th. 1895. DANCE Thete will be n social dance at the Riv ersnle Hotel, Courtenay on Wednesday evening, Nov 27th, New novels, plain and fancy stationery ac Plmbury's [Nov. 19] The American sloop, 1'int.i, of Fairha- ven which sometime ago wns sewed by customs officer Roe for not having clear- ance papers, nnd not being properly documented, will be released under condiiion that her owners change her into a liritish craft and lhe dtttx be paid nn valuation There will be an entertainment given by the Mutual Improvement Assnciatnn at the school house, nn Christmas eve, consisting of songs, dialogues, instrument al music, etc. The admission charge will he only 25 cent?, including supper; pro. creds will go to the benefit of the associa tion. The largest sloop. Cahriola, which hai been anchored at lhe Cove some time, fishing, left for Heaver Point. The schooner Filing Fish slill here lieitg chartered by the Covrrninent fur carrv. ing the pile driving appliance under A. Rumor's supervision. The repairing on the ivhaif will soon he finished, nearly all the old piles will be replaced by new ones. Mr. A. Raynes knows his business. The steamer Ksiella arrived here itt in northern pons, wiih several men engaged to work on tbe government wh nf. Society circles have again been stirrer), A lively hop aid general good time was hud at the residence of Mr. Kobbins. the esteemed Denman teacher, last Friday. Quito a number ol the fair sen attended. It was kept up uutil lhe smull hours uf morning. The Mutual Improvement association, ��hich was lately organized, has for its officers- President, T. Chalmers; Vice President, J, Ford,' Sccrelarv, Win. Ford; Treasurer, John Scett. The meetings ire held in the school hnuse cverv Satur- day evening. Its chief objects are intellectual, moral, ami social improvement. The last meeting was very interesting. F. Sutton gave a song, and was encored. The humorous advice on courtship by Wm. Fonl was highly applauded. Violin solo, by J. Ford followed, lohn Scott wa.s ca'led upon to gr e a lecture on geology, which was t|ttiie interesting. How Rubinstein played A humorous reading by j. Ford caused a good ileal of laugh ter. 'I'he members of the Association intend to thoroughly investigate the science of phrenology, and will bring il up for debate at ils next meeting. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP Notice is hereby given that thc partner ship heretofore subsisting between J.CJ. Cameron and R. Elliott under Ihe lirm name of Cameron Jt Elliott as I.iverv sta ble keepers at the town of Cumberliud, has this day heen dissolved by mutual cnttseai. All debts due the said partnership are to be paid to Ruben Elliot who will pay all liabilities against the linn, Cumberland, November 21, 11:95. J.ti. Cameron, R. Ellioii. Don't fail to take advantage of the rare BARGAINS we offering in onr NEW STORE. Clothing at less than half priee. Men's Furnishings at less than half priee. 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