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VOL. IV. REVELSTOKE, B. O, APRIL 8, 1893. No. 43. WANTED. AGENTS to soil our choice aud Imrdy Nursery Stock. We hnve ninny new special varieties, both in fruits and oraiimentalsj to offer, which are controlled only by us, We pay commission or salary. Write us at once for terms, aud eecnre choice of territory.���May BnOTHERSi Nurserymen, Rochester, N.Y. THE MADDEN HOUSE, HUGH MADDEN, Prop'r. Beautifully situated on tbe Lake (bore at the eulrauce to the best ami shortest rond to the Slocau minos aud New Denver, The best fibbing and hunting iu the district, with grant! boating uud sketchiug facilities for tourists anil artists. The Baii is butplikd with the Best brands of wiues.liquors and cigars. The accommodations of the Hotel are of the best, CENTRAL HOTEL. ABRAHAMSON BROS., Prop's. Charmingly situated ou the bank of the river, on the principal street, close to the post-office and Government buildings, and nearest to the Steamboat Wharf. First-class Table, good Beds, Telephone, FIRE-PROOF SAFE. -BTJS MEETS ALL TRAINS AND STEAMERS. 0. & H. LEWIS, BIKERS AND CONFECTIONER?. SUFFERS and BALLS Catered for. WEDDING CAKES A SPECIALTY. REVELSTOKE, B.C. Fresh Milk. I am now prepared to supply Families and Hotels with Milk at lowest prices. PARTIES DESIEING First Class DAIRY COWS will do well to address F. FRASER, Box 217, Revelstoke, B.C. W. J. LAW, Merchant Tailor, (Near O.P.R. Station) HEVELSTOKE, B.C. A NOBBY STOCK OF English Worsteds, Scotch and Irish Tweeds and Serges AT PRICES THAT WILL CATCH YOU. FIT AND MAKE-UP OUAHANTEEI). LETTER FROM MR. KELLIE Sir,���I am in receipt of a letter from the citizens of Eevelstoke iD referenoe to an appropriation of iC.OOO for Revelstoke division 0/ West Kooteuay. Iu reply would say that I am at ft loss as to how such au idea oould originate. Upon receipt of tbe cunimunicatiou I at once called upon Mr. Gore, Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Works, who laughed at such an idea and stated that the estimatos were hardly yet cold, and ou acoount of over-pri'ssure of business no opportunity as yet, had beeu possible to give the subject of a division of the estimates any consideration whatever, bnt that the citizous of Rovelstoko could rest assured that their particular part of the district would reoeivo that oareful consideration whioh its importance as a mining centre demands. As for the Big Bend trail I might state that ample funds will be forthcoming to keep it in passable condition, but that other parts of the distriot, where prospecting is being carried on with great vigor, should, and no doubt will, receive a greater sharo of the appropriations than the distriot of whioh Revelstoke is the recognized centre; however, dne care will be takeu that no injustice is done to any part of the distriot. Wherever roads aud trails are said to be necessary a competent and reliable roadmaster will be appointed by the Government, whose dnty it will be to first see if suoh road or trail is necessary, and, if fonnd so, he will be commissioned to find the most feasible route and attend to its proper construction ; in fact, will have full oharge of the work. By this means it is expected that the best possible results will be obtained for the money. The steady advance northward of prospectors and miners will, in my opinion, make it necessary in the near future to improve in some manner tbe present communication with the Big Bend oountry, but at the present time (when money is so badly needed in other and easier accessible parts of the distriot) I do not think the'people of Revelstoke should expect that a larger part of the appropriation than is necessary should be expended on that trail until suoh time as tlie development of that part of the country is in a more advanced condition, The genoral appropriation for West Kooteuay this year is $30,000, with a special grant of $5,000 for Kaslo wagon road and another of $5,000 availablefor immediate use,which together with $2,000 unexpended from last years grant, brings the total for roads, trails and bridges up to $12,000, whioh I think, if properly expended, will materially assist in the mining development, as well as the advancement and prosperity of tbe district; in faot, the whole Province will reap tbe benefit of suoh a liberal expenditure, providing the work is done in those parts of the distriot where it is most needed, and where development work will immediately succeed prospecting. The total appropriation for all purposes exoeeds $75,000, whioh I consider most liberal, and far in excess of any other district in the Province, I expect, as soon as tho snow is off the ground, work will commence ou the trails and bridges, more especially those in tbe Lardeau district, as I am informed tbat a great number of prospectors are anxious to get into that part of the country as early as possible, and no doubt the citizens of Revelstoke are fully alive to the commanding position of their town as a supply point fur tbat rich distriot. I might state that the petition re Nakusp k Slocau Railroad reoeived my immediate attention and hearty support, as anything that tends to the advancement of West Kootenay always will, ��� Yours faithfully, J. M. KELLIE. Viotoria, April 5th, 1893. ANADIAN 'PACIFIC REVELSTOKE TIME TABLE, Atlantio Express, arrives 10.10 daily. Paoifio " '< 16.52 " Cheapest, most reliable and safe route to Montreal, Toronto, St. Paul, Chioago, New York and Boston. Rates $5 to $10 lower than any other other route, Specially fitted Colonist Cars, in oharge of a Porter, for the accommodation of Passengers holding second class tiokets. Passengers booked to and from all European points at Lowest Rates, Low Freight Rates. Quiok despatch, Merchants will save money by having their freight routed via he C.P.R. Full and reliable information given by applying to (IEO. MoL. BROWN, Asst. Oon'l Freight Ag't, V'noouver, or to I. T. BREWSTER, Ag'tC. P. li. Depot, Revelstoke. LOCAL NEWS. Those baby carriages at H. N. Coursier's are beauties. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs, W. S. Phipps on Wednesday, If you are intending to grow flowers or gardeu plants this year go to H. N. Coursier's for your seeds. Mr, W, Mackie has disposed of bis Revelstoke herd to Mr, F, Fraser, but still has several head of cattle feeding at Hall's Lauding, Messrs. C. 13. Hume & Co, are abont to enlarge tbeir storo, whioh is by no means a small one, and will build a largo warehouse in the rear, The Righton Brewery is now completely fitted np, and as soon as the consignment of malt arrives work will be commenced on several large orders. Mr. Paton will oondnot service in the Presbyterian ohuroh to-morrow nt 7.30. Sabbath school at 2.30 p.m, in the churoh. Wednesday prayer meeting in Mr. Paton's house at 8 p.m. No more free rides to the station. A fare will hereafter be oharged on the 'buses. The proposed sidewalk will be needed very mnohly now, as the boys who are always broke will have to hoof it. The First Annual Ball of the Columbia Quadrille Club will be held in Peterson's Hall on Tuesday, April 18th. No individual invitations will be issued, but a general invitation to one and all is herewith extended. See advt. Bourne Bros. h��ve oommenoed building a large warehouse adjoining their store. This enterprising firm does a very large business, having branches at Nakusp and New Denver, tbeir Revelstoke store being the largest in the interior. Oeorge Irving was brought before Mr. Fraser, J.P., on Tuesday on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, and was fined $5 and oosts, with the alternative of ten days' imprisonment. George took tbe alternative, and went into retirement. Many new houses are being bnilt at tbe station, and that end of the town is fast potting on a progressive businesslike aspect. Robson's new flour and feed Btore is now open for business, and Mr. Longheed has just oompleted a bouse and store adjoining his dwelling- houso. ON TRIAL FOR 90 DAYS. The finest, completeat and lattwt line of EtofcJ trlcnl apollances In the world Tbey hare nevei failed to cure. We aro eo positive of It that we will back our belief and Bend you any Electrical Appliance now In the market and you oan try II for Three Months. Largett lilt of 'Mttinonlal* on earth. Send for book and journal Free. W. T. Baer Ic Co., Wind-Mar, Ont*,. , Ripans Tabules: for liver trouble Ripan*! Tabulos .* for bad tenipe- SALMON ARM JOTTINGS. [fkom Ol*R OWN correspondent] The Salmon Arm Athletic Association held their weekly meeting at the club rooms with a full list of members present. Several exhibitions of tbe "manly art" were given, under the able tutorship of Mr. J. S. Smith, the club instructor. It is to be hoped the Government will make some badly needed improvements on the roads here tbis season, as in several places they have become nearly impassable. A survey is also greatly required in Canoe Creek valley, several parties having already been in this spring looking for locations, bnt as the land in Salmon River Valley is all taken up, they have had to look elsewhere. A survey here would open up a largo section of fine arable land and bandy to the railroad. Mr. Charles McVicar and family have arrived from tbe west and taken up a seotion of land, where be intends to make his home. Miss Campbell, of Donald, has been the guest of Miss E. McGnire, Mr. J. Bolton, of Vancouver, arrived with his family and started to work on bis place iu tbe valley. The lake has now opened up in several places and large Hocks uf geese and ducks are coming back lo lheir favorite feeding grounds on tbe lake shore, affording good sport. .Mr. H. Cleniis expeots to bring his portable steam -aw mill in shortlj, having received good inducement! from the farmers, several of whom intend to build uew houses, outbuihiiDgs, eto. The last danoe of the season was held by the members of Revelstoke Quadrille Club in Bourne's Hall on Tuesday evening. There was a good attendance, and the event was a most enjoyable and happy one. Refreshments were served at twelve, and the meeting broke up about one o'clock, But for the bad state of tbe roads many more would have been present. Mr. Sbiel, taxidermist, has just oompleted two fine specimens for Morgan David. One is a hugs cariboo head and antlers, and is very nicely mounted; the other being a large wolf with magnificent fur and tail. Morgan has quite a collection of deer and oariboo heads, besides smaller animals enough to stock a museum. Mr. Shiel has a splendid lot of British Columbia birds on sale, all well mounted and natural in pose. A section foreman named Annala had bis leg broken near Clanwilliam on Sunday morning. Ee and five or six other men were riding on a handoar and got off and lifted the car from tbe track to let an engine and freight train go by, Annala, thinking the car was too close to the rails, went to lift one end further out, when the engine struck tho other end of the oar, which came against the man with great force, He was brought to RevelBtoke, where the brokon limb��� a compound fractura���was set by Dr. McLean, The sufferer waB taken to tho hospital at Donald. A paragraph in last wook's Star seemed to be a reflection on Officer Kirkup. It was stated that "a man named Olsen was wrested on Saturday night and released next morning on payment of $6," The man said be had been fined $6, but the truth of the matter was that, being Sunday, he was allowed ont on bail (Hju being the loweBt sum permissible), and told to appear at the polioe court Monday morning. He did not turn up, and of course his bail was forfeited. It is said the man does uot understand English very well, hence the mistake, and consequently the paragraph we published. Up to last Wednesday the weather was not very favorable to the early opening of navigation on the Columbia, but warmer weother has now set in, and hopeful prophete are fixing the date of the steamer Marion's first trip as somewhere about tbo 12th inst. The ice is breaking up fast, and the rivor is practically open from the big eddy to tho lower wharf. Tho bhow on the roach is nealy all gone, and sleighs aro gone into retirement till next winter, The roads are not in good condition, and repairs will have to be made in several places before they are. Oa the levol "tho beuutifnl" still lie�� 18 inches deop, but a hot sun will soon liquidate that. Mr. F, Fraser, J.P., left on Thursday for Vernon. Call and see the lovely Millinery at H. N, Coursier's. Mr. J. Serson, C.P.R, bridge inspector of Donald, stopped at the Viotoria Hotel a few days this week. The Nakusp k Slooan Railway Bill, introduced by Mr. Mara, passed the Commons at Ottawa last week. Coming events cast their sba 'ows beforo, and the elegant stock of Spring Goods previously advertised has arrived at H. N, Coursier's. C, B. Hume .V Co, are now opening up a very extensive range of Dry Goods, including new pattern prints, cballises, art muslins, ginghams, carpets, eto, Henriettes in various shades. Ladies should lose no time in making tbeir ohoice of Spring Goods from the lovely assortment of prints, oballises, delaines, muslin and spring dregs goods at H, N. Coursier's. The town is filling np with prospectors and others bound for tbe new el- dorado���Lardeau and Slooan, Many communications from various parts have been reoeived by residents here asking for information oonoerning the state of the river and when the steamers are likely to oommence running. To these inquirers we wonld say, "Come right along now; by the time you get here things will be beginning to hum and the boats getting up steam." At tbe half-yearly bnsinoss meeting of tho Revelstoke Quadrille Club held on Wednesday evening the report of the secretary-treasurer (Mr. I. T. Brewster) was read and the season's accounts were examined and approved. The aooounts showed a membership of 66, Total oash receipts for the season $301, expenditure $287.78, leaving a balance in hand of $16.27, whioh was carried forward to next season's aooounts. All oommittees were deolared discharged, and a vote of thanks was tendered the officers for the efficient manner in whioh tbey bad carried out tbeir several duties. Gob Lund has bonded bis quartz claims at McCullogh Creek, Big Bend, to a company formed in Seattle, of whioh Mr. C. F. Blackburn is a leading member. Tbe olaims are the Jenny Lind, with a rich vein six inches wide; the Ole Bull and Hamlin, each with a 12-inch vein. Quart*; from all three assayed from $150 to $5,000 per ton. The bond is for $5,000, but wonld have been for a much higher figure had tbe olaims been easy of acoess. Tbe state of the trail to Big Bend had to be taken into account in the transaction. Tbe company will send in men as soon as snow permits and oommenoe aotive operations, and in all probability Mr. Blaokburn himself will be one of tbe first to go up. The great difficulty will be the getting in of machinery for crushing the quartz, bnt no doubt the river oan be utilized as fur as Death Rapids. Mr. Lund will take up other claims which he has located in tbe vicinity. In all probability Big Bend will enter on a new era of prosperity this season, and tbe Government ought certainly to put the trail in a condition fit for use. & BOATS FOR SALE. Several first-class new Boats for sale. Apply to MORGAN DAVID, Revelstoke. EDWARD LIPSETT, Sail, Tent and Awning Maker. HORSE U WAGON COVERS, Baqs, Hammocks, ko. WATERPROOF BLANKETS & COVERS TENTS FOIi SALE k TO RENT, ���� WATER STREET, VANCOUVER B.C. R, H. RAMSEY, House Painter, Paper- hanger and Grainer. REVELSTOKE, B.C. ���--��� ��� ��� ��� ***���**������ n i.i i WORK DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH. PRICKS MODERATE, GEORGE SHIEL, Taxidermist OLD POST OFFICE, REVELSTOKE, B.C. All kinds of specimens of Animals, Birds nnd Fishes carefully and naturally mounted. Soveral local Specimens on view aud for sule. DEEK AND CAHIUOO HEADS A SPECIALTY. CANADIAN OUTLET F01C SLOGAN ORE. Petition for a Railway from Nakusp to the Mines, A large and influential meeting of citizens was held in Peterson's Hall on Saturday night to consider tbe advisability of petitioning theProviuuial Government to urge upon the C.P.R. the immediate neoessity for a raii way from Nokusp to Carpenter Creek. There were about 40 present, and the meeting was the first of a series to he held io tho town to agitate for steps boing taken to prevent all the West Kootenay mineral from being taken out of the Provinoe, as nt present, without benefit to tbe Province- at large, Mr. W. Brown was elected chairman and Mr. C. E Shaw secretary. Mr. J, W. Haskins explained the objeots of the meeting, aud spoke strongly against the apathy of the C.P.R. in the matter of building* a railway into the mining country. The Americans were not slow to perceive the advantages to be gained from connection with the Sloean, and worn pushing northward with tbe intention ot tapping that rich. distriot, tbe wealth of which would go to build up Spokane aDd other cities in the States. We must make an effort to get this changed. Most of tbe ore now goiug out to Kaslo should come to Nakusp, which was muoh nearer the mines aud a better road. Nakusp was the natural out let for New Denver aod tbe Sloean, and he proposed that a petition be forwarded to tbe Provincial Government to urge upon the C.P.R. the necessity of constructing a railway from Nakusp to Carpenter Creek, so. that the ores of Western Sloean may find un easier and cheaper outlet tliau at present. This railway would bring a great deal of the traffio this way, and prospectors and merchants could then reaoh New Denver at all times. without having to go in on suow-' shoes. (Applause.) Mr. T. L. Haio said the way to draw attention to the needs of the distriot was by agitating. Nelson bad always succeeded in gettiug its demands satisfied by continual kicking. We must do likewise. Regard" ing tbe Sloean ores, no doubt some of it would naturally go out to Kaslo, but the greater portion would go to Nakusp and oome northward. Our town had been treated with great negleot in the past, and it rested partly with ns whether such treatment should continue. Big Bend was coming to the front as a gold produoer, and it was necessary that the trail should be made passable. Now tbat we bave started to agitate we must keep it np until some notice is taken of our demands, Mr. Haig then quoted from the Stab's New Denver correspondent, who wrote that what tbe people of that town "most wish to see is an all the year route oonneoting with Revelstoke." He thonght they might send greeting to the people of New Denver and Bay that Revelstoke would do all in its power to attain tbat desirable end. (Applause,) The Chaibman proposed the formation of a committee to draw np the petitiou, and Messrs. J. W. Haskins, H. A. Brown, T. L. Haig and H. N. Conrsier were elected. Mr. Haskins said all baste wae needed, as the House would probably end its sittings next week. He es- plained that the proposed railway would bring tbe ore this way and create new industries in tbe Province, Mr. H,A, Bbown proposed drawing up a rough sketch for all present to sign. Mr, Robson said the reasons for constructing Birch railway should be set forth in the petition. The committee then retired, aod ou returning Mr. E. A. Bbown read the following :���- "To His Honour the Liententant- Governor of British Columbia in Council: " Tbe petition of the undersigned humbly sboweth ; "That whereaB there are at present no facilities for transporting the mineral from, and the supplies to, the mines of Siocan district; "And whereas at present such mineral and supplies are crossing the international boundary to the impoverishment of our Province; "And whe'eas tbe natural and easy outlet being by railroad from Carpenter Creek to Nukusp ; thence by boat to the head of Arrow Lake, and thenee by railroad to a smelter at Revelstoke, or east or wist: "Yonr petitioners would therefore pray: "That you do all possible to urge and eneonraKe the construction ol t>. railroad from Nukusp to the, f jrks oi Carpenter Creek, "And your petitioners will ever pray, etc." This petition was signed by 14ft residents aud forwarded to Victoria on Monday night, a copy bring nisi' sent to Mr. Kellie, [We are compelled to curtail ow report owing to presB of matter.] HOUSEHOLD. Oultivating Obedience In Children- Obedience is not a natural impulse which every child possesses us a mutter of course, as many seem to believe, but it is a trail oi character wholly dependent upon training : inid in order' thai perfect obedienoe shall become a habit, this traiuing must be systematic ami continuous, Wo must keep in iiuii.l tlie end to be attained, remembering that a trait of character becomes fixed only hy becoming a habit, and that the .lis oipline in this direction "must be unswerving, not enforced one day and permitted the next. i Ine of the most frequent causer of failure to secure good results in any training, is lack of continuity of discipline. One day the standard is set high, and every effort is made to keep it there; the next day it is lowered, because we are too nervous and hurried to make the offort to keep it high, so what was prohibited yesterday is permitted to-day. Suoh fitful, spasmodic attempts at training miry be curried on for years without accomplishing lhc desired object. To maintain this continuity of discipline requires a great effort on our pari, but it is the only way 1 know of to establish habits which shall become fixed and permanent traits of character. Whatever rules or requirements arc laid down for children should bc in force every dny alike; and hence it is particularly important that the very fewest possible requirements be made. A multitude of rules isccuftising to children, and they often disobey from forgetfulness, A few rules, thoroughly carried out, will accomplish more in the end than twice the number carelessly enforced, True obedience springs from love or respect, The person who expects to secure obedience from a child, must so deport himself at all times as to gain iheir respect and confidence, Children who would otherwise be tempted to rebel, will often obey readily if given an alternative ; as, if the child is doing some!!i ing lie enjoys, tell him he may resume it when lie has done what you wish. Have conflicts by alternatives when possible, hul never at Ihe sacrifice of right and principle. We should also try to avoid calling into action any undesirable trails of oharaotor, as stubbornness or self-will, by making no unnecessary demands, since all qualities, bad as well as good, are strengthened by exercise, With children who arc old enough to understand it, much can be done to cultivate obedience, by keeping before thcni high ideals of obedience, by relating to them incidents where obodieneo resulted in greati and lasting good, by reading to them the Bible story of Abraham when called to sacrifice Isaac, and other similar examples ol obedience, and by dwelling upon the blessedness and happiness it brings tons. Keep the virtues we wish them to imitate constantly before them, that their thoughts may be attracted to the good and true, rather than to thc evils they must avoid. This will aid in building up the positive rather than the negative side of their characters. Let us strive to check evil by putting good in its place. In training children to obedience thero is great nee 1 lhal we govern ourselves. The child must see thai what is required of lum is for his'own good. Obedience can be fostored iiy lhe maimer iu which the requirement is made. The request should alwavs be a courteous one, spoken in a firm, pleasant voice, not higher than the ordinary tone ; and generally it should be in the form of a request, not acorn- niand. A fretful, querulous, or undecided tone of voice should bo avoided. Children may he taught torespect the wishes of their parents and teachers so much lhat a simple statement of iheir wishes, as, 1 would prefer you to do this, or, Will you please do this . will he all BUllioient, Many a child can be led into obedience win :i llld never be driven into it, Il is nol a wise plan io threaten children : they will almost invariably be tempted to do ex- a ���..-.- the tiling they know they wi p .; ished for il iii g The threat cal th stl ution :- rcibly to th u one thing, ind : in. '. mes out of ten ihe child will . in spue of himself, if ,i child old enoug I think does �� nga !. forthe til ��� ,:-1 -��� ��� - il ii is wrong, and ... u I thai i e must no peat iI i��� ��� -��� I to idd, as wi ��� Ii you do ii again, 1 - ;. .' thus making the fen ol | ��� - ��� rime thoi ght in I'i il we wish the se it i I misl raei t, 01 irse, ��� e3 disobe; - -. ni "it to be pmiisl i at ne 'y to threatei i lie aei punishmen itand on :.. as tl e moil t h in g to ���: | .'.. - em I belii . ������ diool le eption. ictuating i re -. be ba ioi ipi n ���auoil p . : . on : lueh should h ... i irrequiren entit n ''��� - w ou ildn it v edient I iwof .- eing, md tl Obedien lav I-,. ns ol Iho Obedience in oue d I vill . in othei i. Tin ��� ��� Ingly and parents ai . ���: . wil he I ro willing and ��� I, "������ ������ E, E I" .'-.. VI, Domestic Responsibilition- de i h i' heen - dd md wril ��� .. -i dies ol unc I i harmony i responsibility nl tho wifo in i he ������ i ��� making the homo ploas&n! ; bill il ome in awhile thai one pi ik i up a paragraph that touches upon the duties ol thc husband in thia respoct, Whatovoi In cares, troubles or perplexities, tho wid is required to meol her husband wiih n unhand have everything in apple-pie order, il -ne would live up io tie- ideal ol tho right kind of a wifo, It would seem to thoughtful persona that a certain sharo ol tho responsibility rest! with the husband and too father, Firat of all, as faroa temporal needs go, ho must supply the family with the necessaries eomioits and luxuries of lifo, according to hia means, If his family move in certain circles, it rests with him as a sacred obligation to do iiis best to provide them with surroundings appropriate to this situation. If he is unable lo do this, the next best thing for him to do is to take them from tlicir environments to some less expensive locality and possibly iuto other associations. This, indeed, is a most excellent and proper thing for families whohave lived beyond their means and find retrenchment necessary. Economy should never begin by cutting oil' the things tbat make the inner home life pleasant, ll is often the ease that the comforts are out oil'and the show remains. No man should permit this under any circumstances. One of the common errors of do- meslic life is the lack nf confidence between husband and wife and also the lack of necessary appropriation to carry on household affairs. Men of wealth frequently insist on, year after year, paying all thc bills, and never put into the hands of the family sufficient money for even the most trilling expenditures. How a man can expect his children to grow up with any sound ideas of financial affairs if lie manages them in this way, passes comprehension. It is every man's duty to provide for the judicious training for Iiis boy and girl In money matters as much as he provides them with foodand clothing. Every child should understand the value of money, should ho called upon to use it and be held to a strict account for its expenditure. No matter what the wealth or poverty of the parents, this is an imperative rule. The boy and girl whose every bill is paid for them can never know the value of money or how to prudently provide themselves with the necessities of life. Some day when they are left fatherless and come into possession of their estate it goes to the winds. And what wonder'; The father from the very earliest childhood, haa taken the course of which this folly is the legitimate result, No one can know, without practical experience, what it costs lo live ; and no one, who has never beon taught the judicious handling of financial responsibilities, is able to comprehend how easy it is to make mistakes in this respect, Imprudent Marriages- Annabel,'1 writing in the Lady's Companion on a home-made trousseau, says: "I suppose girls are getting married and thinking about getting married every day in the year. If there were morc pondering and preparing for this important step, and less haste in taking it, there would, I opine, be fewer unhappy marriages. For what causes unbappiness as a rule ? Not incompatibility of temperament, not discovering after marriage that the affection each was supposed lo have was a delusion, but, more often than not, btcause.when poverty comes in at the door love Hies out of the window. Neither husband nor wife is fitted, from iheir previous lives for long self-denial, to cope with the daily, hourly strain of keeping their heads above water, and the consequence is recrimination begins: one tells the other what each lias lost in marrying, and, where both were equally to blame in rashly rushing into matrimony, each, with the innate selfish of human nature, throws lhc whole blame on the other. A man bus I no business to marry unless be is able to support a wile, but at the same time a girl i lias no business to marry him unless she or licr friends know for certainty that he cau ' so support her. It is all very grand and sentimental to talk of love, but will i any human love bear the strain of constant I poverty from the very out-set ? It may en- i dure nobly when, through some sudden un- lookod-for calamity, misfortune comes, but | to start in life with a burden of debt as so many do, to begin at once the struggle to make one shillniL' do the work of three, when there need have been no necessity ; for ii i- ..J. is to turn love to indifference and often to burning hate. It is really appalling the number of young people who in irry without a shilling! and not only that but incur a heavy debt to start life with. : th, . ��� irnishing on the pernicious ire s ��� ��������� ereas il they only waited a year or two. a snug little home of their own ! iave ��������� J' lined, and they might iddition la few pounds in the .. ti wl . ' - - irelul little wife ould , if il w r is ._���.������' eek, I do ing men entirely, as so I .. v I im . ��� peri. ��� ten ��������������� ri e I and driven ��� ��� .... ���, rbaps oe. ��� .-'i::ig to business' own,' ind alia notl ��� : .1- ery i fata ��� ... Every-Day Cookery- ��� ��� ��� : he prep ��� I i - I ;: i Omelet :, Len Bi i I I ��� , ��� ��� it , ��� ��� i . n ,i - i > Chen pu . ��� | ! iwned ��� ��� but h nn eef has be lone, add about a ta of butter (ton pound ofbeel) to tiie pan ,,.' ., ���,;... i b OV n .'��� f . en tho fn irov .nl.I itahlepoonfulof flo u -1 thia haa oookcrl togothei ''-i'l ���'. (up of hot water i ,,,!��� i' i time. Now put He- mea ii,:. ._,. i-.. ,- a lance, covoi ll md let il I ind .lie i" it, will enok very slow for two houra and three will nol Injure ,' Just before serving add a few drops of onion juice using just enough to |i i ill ;h| ll r and cy'raeling il by pn- ing i nl on on on n. grater, Tough meat cooked in this way is of dolicioua llivor for some ol Ihe l.-st il i oi iii cookery are broughl. out by slow proi BI I es; ilo- meal is tender mid au appetizing gravy is also made. This is a good way lo warm over lough ends of broiled slenk or roast beef and one of the best methods of cooking veal whicli ought always to be well cooked. A general rule which it is well to remember in making a sauce or gravy is to allow one tablespoonful of fat to one of Hour and a cup of any kind of hot liquid: lhe combinations fiom tbis fundamental rule are wonderful when a cook has a litlle originality or takes care to learn. The omelet made was the simple plain one which, rightly made, is as light as air and is the foundation of a great variety of omelets deriving their names from whatever is folded into them as they arc served. BUEAD l'i'DOlxi:. ���Use the crumb of thc loaf only for this delicate dessert and reserve I he crust for a dark or spiced pudding. Put one quart of milk on to heal and rub a pint of bread into crumbs; put the bread into thc hot milk and let it get heated and cooked enough to Ire well mixed. Add one- half cup of sugar, the grated rind and juice of a lemon and eggs according to their coat. One egg would do but three are much better. In using three heat the yolks of two and one whole one and add to thc bread mixture reserving the other whites for a frosting or a sauce, bake the pudding in a moderate oven until linn like a custard : try it Iiy cutting a knife down through the centre ; if it comes out clean the custard or pudding is done, Beat lhe whites and a half cup of sugar together and frost tho pudding, orBerveas a sauce. Do not let the pudding brown when baking as it will spoil its delicocy. Ifskimed milk is used a tablespoonful of butter should bc added to make up the loss of fat. For a simple way of cooking apples that costs no more than ordinary apple sauce pare and core the apples. Then have in a sauce pan a cup of water and half cup of sugar cooking together; pu; the apples into this syrup two or three at a time taking care not to break them -, us fast as they are cooked I through remove witli a spoon to a shallow dish, Al the same time have the parings of the apples cooking in a liltle water and as the syrup boils iway add from this liquid. Tlie color of the parings is u great addition, lie sure you have the syrup boiling when the apple is out in. Alter all the apples are done put s piece of red apple jelly in tho top of each apple and pour the syrup around. Thc apples may also he served wiih a boiled omtard. For making lish bills use tho rule re- j quiring one oup of ran codfish to a pint of' potato cut in small pieces. Put the fish and oolato into a pan together and cover with boiling water ; cook about twenty-live minutes or until the potato is soft, then j drain, mash and beat until very light add- ! ing a teaspoonful of butter and a little pepper. When cooled a little add an egg if you have it, To fry the mixture shape it into small balls with a spoon and fry in deep hot fat; to make inlo hash cook it in a hoi spiiler in which a bit of butter has heen melted and then fold over and turn out like an omelet. THE GREY WOLF DYING OUT- Having Sin More I'liP/alms In Kat. the Savage iti-ule is IH.aiiitpearliig. Thc large wolf of North America is commonly known us thc timber or grey wolf. It was formerly generally distributed throughout North America, from the arctic regions to the tropics, but has of course disappeared from all settled portions of tlio country. Over the larger portion of Its range this wolf is grey in colour, but in arotio regions it is white, or nearly so, while in Florida and some of the 3ulf States and in British Columbia a black form exists. In Texas there are red or bay wolves. Except in its colour, the large wolf of North America (Canis occidentalis) is everywhere the same, but according to Forest and Stream I iu its habits there is morc or less difference, caused by the circumstances of its environment. Tlie wolves of the north feed to a considerable extent on reindeer and caribou, those of the east on deer, while those of the north prey on deer and on the wild hogs which run at large through the pine forests and swamps. A few years hl'O tlie centre of abundance of lhe grey wolf in America conesponded vory closely with the centre of abundance of the buffalo. Great bauds of these gaunt and ever-hungry animals accompanied the bull'alo herds, killing calves or old bulls and sometimes cutting out from the herds strong young heifers, whicli they had little difficulty in pulling down if they could once separate them from ��� he i ompanionship of iheir fellows. Notwithstanding the fact that ever since the settlement of America tlie wolf has been pursued with guns, traps, and poison it is certain that no blow was ever dealt Iiis race so severe us the extinction of the buffalo. Their natural prey gone, the wolves turned their attention to the herds of theatockm en, and for years now their depredations have resulted in very serious i raisers of h��rse8 and cattle on the nothern plains, Thoy do not attack the herds whon they are alarmed and closely bum bed together, bit prowl about their OUtlkirl , trying to mil, oil'the young stock which they can easily pulldown. Some- ind ol wolves will round lip a little bunc ol - ittlo whioh --'and in a close ��� heada ��utward, prepared for ! olroling ahout thorn for ma ... three ol lho wolves will i ,n n, and ii lin-;, .in BOattOI ��� ��� he work ol an inatant only iwn a yeai lin | oi lo kill two or hai in ' wo wolves ��� min ��� i with no fort tl Iter dog I ling a WHOLESALE MASSAOEE. The Story of Indian Hatchery Told hy the Bella Itellns.���Tribal Fend Leads to lhe Aiinihilaliuii of an Oiler llu ill ins Parly, If the story that a Bella Bella tyee told Stanley Smith, ot Vancouver, B, C, is true, tlie Indians have most ingeniously kept the facts of a sensational tribe massacre from their more civilized brethren, Two months ago a brief item in the Victoria Colonist announced that a large canoe load of Indians had beeu lost in a alorin off Sea Otter island. About the time this rumor reached Victoria, Stanley Smith arrived in the North by the Steamer Danube, and was sent for by a Bella Bella tyee with whom be was on good terms. Mr, Smith was asked by the Bella Bella chief to write a letter for him to a white friend. This was the substance of the letter: "It is a delate open (open secret) that the canoe load of otter hunters who were said to bave been lost in a storm off Sea Otter Island, were all killed by Kitkatlas. " In lhe canoe there were fourteen men three klootchmen, some Rivers Inlet, some Bella Coolas, and some Kanisquits. They started out for Sea Otter Island to hunt otter, but being overtaken by storm, landed ou Sorrow Island, oil Cape Calvert, near the entrance to Fitzhugh Sound, "They had but one tent and in this the. Tycos of the three tribes camped. Three days aflcr, nine canoe loads of Kitkatlas started for the aame island, and soon there were many Kitkatlas on Sorrow Island, but the Kamaquits, Rivers Inlet and Bella Coolas were all dead. "Many Kitkatlas won't speak through fear, but I have found out much about tho killing because they are not all wicked. " They landed on the island after hunting for the ' River Inlet' lliey were in search of for three days, and there found him otter hunting. Twenty guns were leveled at him without a word, and be was shot dead. A friend of the dead man who had picked up a gun aud threatened the Kitkatlas was the next victim. "The killers then, cither made mad Willi what lliey had done or for fear of tlie rest telling on them, killed all of them but three tyees of tbe three tribes mentioned, fearing at first to kill them because tbey had muoh power. The three wdiose lives they spared wcre suffered to go into their tent. Tho Kitkatlat; then retired and helda waw-waw. They soon returned, and opening the Haps of the tent shot the tyces dead where they sat. "Tbey then collected the bodies in a heap, i7 of tbem, and rolling aside a very big log, dug a bole in the sand and put them in, rolling back tlie log in its place. " I have been to Sorrow Island, and saw the tent lull of bullet boles, a felt hat with two bullet holes iu it, and two or three iktus (liltle baskets in this ease) ou the ground. I could not roll the big log away, but 1 saw enough to know thai the killed aro underneath, Stanley Smith visited all the Indians be knew in the vicinity and all confirmed the story. One said be bad told two white men, but they snid lie was dreaming, Mr. Smith told tlie Indians lo notify the agent at Alert Buy before the evidences of guilt, were removed on tlie island, whioh If the story is true, has been so aptly named, and told the whites he met there to help the Indians all they could. Mr. Stanley Smith is not a man given to romancing and when asked why he had uot made the story public long ago lie said: "I am not looking for notoriety. 1 cannot vouch for the truth of the story, though il was told to me by Indians I have confidence in ; and when I instructed them what to do and helped in any way 1 could I considered my duty done. If you had come to me two weeks ago I could have given you the facts then." HOME LIFE IN 0 AS ADA. The People are Healthy, and Have iteusaaa lf> lie Hnii'i.'. The New York Tribune says:��� With a Canadian, as witli an Englishman, "hie bouse is his castle," and he is never quite happy until he possesses one, Outside the five or six large cities, that portion of i lanada known us Ontario is made up of towns with populations of from ten to twenty thousand inhabitants, In any of these towns a largo and handsomely built brick or stone house, with all the best modern improvements, and suitable for families of ton or twelve people, may he bought for about $12,000 or rental lot ���S'KIU a year. Living, too, is extremely cheap. The best porterhouse roasts and steaks arc 15 cents a pound; mutton and poultry, 10to Io cents; the best Hour, $2,25 per hundred: potatoes Bnd apples, ,")0 cents a bushel, Butter seldom costs more than 14 cents a pound ; eggs, 10 cents a dozen ; coal, Sti.SO per ton, and tlie best beech and maple wood,!?.') a cord. New Yorkers will find it hard to believe that a thoroughly first-class cook never gets more than $211 a month, and best housemaids and nurses $10, These few items will show thc cost of living to be about onc��third what it is in and around New York. Almost all these delightful ('ana linn homes bave vegetable gardens attached, and quite picturesque many of thom are, with nicely kept pat lis bordered with Knglish daisies ana old-fashioned pinks dividing tlie beds of early vegetables and rows of small fruit trees and currant and gooseberry bushes. In the autumn tho mistress of the house will show you with great pride her well-filled preserve cellar with jams and jellies aud pickles enough so make a New England housewife jealous and ruin the digestion of any less robust people, Most Canadian women are good housekeepers; girls aro taught housekeeping as part of a refined education, and a mother who allowed her daughters to grow up without this knowledge and its practical and economic working would be considered remiss in her duty. The wealth or social standing ol thc family docs not influence this matter in the least. In large families the grown-up daughters take charge of the younger ones, overseeing their lessons and general deportment, In this way tho family lies aro kept very closely united ; the mother and the older girls havo so muoh united interest in lhc "children''and the littleoncs instinctively look to their oldor sister for example and encouragement. Canadians are a remarkably healthy people, probably owing to their good climate and love of outdoor life. The children arc robust nnd sturdy and make a pleasing picture in winter in tlicir brightly colored blanket coats and caps defying cold and snow. Occasionally ears and toes get frosted, but a vigorous rubbing with snow will soon restore the nipped members to life, and ou thoy go as merrily as ever with skates and sleds, deeply resenting a winter witli little snow and " no fun." An Obedient Uhild. laid a I ithcr lo his ��� i ihehad been to church, .... ... i io pn u in ��� , ihe timid roply. i lairned in a severe ��� -.. ....,, riembor, thonoxl limo yo me inmething of what ho lyi oi ive tob ��1 "'I II I ' hild Oamo leniie Willi hei ayns ill wild with excitement " I romomhei aomothlng to day, papa,' ���iod aagerly, I ,1,, eery glad ol It," and tllO father. il. did lie iv Hi ,,|.|, i \ collection Will now be made' Tho Ameor of Bokhara, it it reported.has in in.-d lo surrender Ins dominions in the Czar of Russia-wlin-ii nxoroiaei a protoo- im ito over thom -for $2,500,000 and a pen non of $50,000 i ycir -Ameer trifle. AOOfiEAMEMALE BANDIT- she Slashes ��Ith a s�� mil u Traveler Who Makes love In Hei1, The native papers of Shanghai print very full reports of the exploits of a female bandit in ('orea who his spread tlie terror of ber name all around Seoul, the capital, and whose nerve is said to be equaled by her beauty. There have been rumors of her predatory exploits for months, but the first definite news was brought to Seoul by a trader from a northern province of Corea, wdio was journeying to the capital lo buy goods and to sell a stock of lurs and other tilings. When about twenty miles from tlie capital the trader had to nana through a heavy forest. Suddenly from behind a tree appeared a woman, and lhe procession of coolie purlers and guards was stopped by her imperative demand for toll. Tlie coolies warned their master that he had better pay, as the woman bore a bad reputation and had been known to kill travelers who resisted. The trader, seeing tlie bandit was young and good looking, tried to make love to her, but his advances were met in a way that made Iiis hair curl. Instead of responding by words to Ilis biglillown compliments on her beauty the woman drew a keen-edged sword and cut him over the shoulder, The sight of blood flowing from Iiis wound so alarmed both the guard and the coolie pollers ihal thoy look to tbeir heels. The trader was thus left at the mercy of the fair bandit, who ordered bim to depart at once for Seoul under pain of Instant death. Time was no choice for him, so, leaving all hii goods in the WOI inn's bands, he set out for I he capital, where lie arrived in a wretched condition. He swears lhe bandit is as tin a; a houri, is not over,'10 years old, ond i ci n of ul as a gazelle, .aaw "Can't you give me employment, mum?" asked tho tramp, "Certainly," said lhc kind woman. "Co chase yourself off lhe pi ioi Tho kingdom of Ood comoth not witli I, en at ion. Neither shall they say, lo here! oi lo I here! for behold, the kingdom of (iod is within you. Mrs, Cleverly--" Ves, but I could never understand of what use a club was to a married man." Cleverly ���" Merely to kill time wiih, my dear," Harry ���" And, deareit, do you think of me ill iinylong'.'" Dearest- " 1 did, Harry; but the days are gelling longer now and of course���well,you know that thai mint make some difference." Novel le' us fear robbera or murderers. These are external and small dangers ; let us fear ourselves ; prejudices are the real robbers, vices thc true murderers. The great danger! are within ourselver. ���[Victor Hugo, Prices ot Turkish Slaves- The slave trade is llie chief source nf recruits for the harem, AU assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, it still flourishes in the city of the Sultan. The trade is conducted almost exclusively by a tribe of Tchorkesses, known as Tes- sircbis. Families generally work together. One brother, for example, stops at home and minds the shop, while ibe oilier goes abroad am! purchases and forwards the raw material of tho commerce, Negotiations with purchasers aro conducted through the intermediary of Arab brokers, who call regularly on their patrons to inquire if they are wanting anything in black eunuchs or white girls���just as Manchester commission agents drum for orders among merchants and shippers, and like them they are remunerated by percentage on sales. A white boy in good health, from S to 14 years old, costs SS to 810. if hc has any acquirements, such, for instance, as a knowledge of cookery or (ithcr housework, he will command twice as much. A girl under HI years old may be had for ��1, while a maiden betwoon 1- and Ki, especially if she can read and write and strum n little on tho zither, is worth S'0110. A female slave of exceptional beauty, young, white and a virgin���the style most in vogue are blondes witli black eyes -fetches from $5000 to $7600. For a choice specimen, with a smattering of French and able to play a few airs on the piano, a rich amateur has beeu known to pay as much as $13,500. But, as may be supposed, the demand for articles of this description lias greatly fallen off since tlie halcyon time of perpetual loans and profuse expenditures. A strong black slave sells for about $100 ; a black maiden, $7ft to $110. Tho Turks themselves see no more wrong in slavery than in polygamy. It is permitted by their religion, and enjoys the sanction of ancient custom*. It ia inseparably associated with their social habits, and, in spite of all protests of lhe Christian powers, will endure as long as llie Osmanli rule in Stauiboul, Japxa in Nasi of fis-Ja**in*iin��*a Ic seems lhal the Japanese are growing aweary of barbarians and their barbarous ways, For'.'.'ill years no European save an Knglish sailor and a tiny Dutch colony on an island desecrated their shores. Then came Commodore Perry unloading models of railways and other civili/cd appliances at Yokohama, with the notice that he would return in six months to see how they liked thcni, and that if they were unappreoiativo lie would blow Japan out of lhc water, And then lor thirty years the Japanese denationalized themselves with a vengeance, even to tlio'point of top-hats und a House of Commons, But now, because a native pilot has brought an English stoamor Into collision with a Japanese cruiser, tbe Mikado is petitioned to expel every Englishman from the country. We should not bc sorry if the Mikado did so and included other Europeans in the ox- pulsion. The Japanese need a rest to gel themselves rejapanncd. The country and its people form, as it were, one of the national treasures of tlie world and should lie carefully preserved and '' restored. ' Sir John Lubbock and bis Ancient Monuments Society should Internationalize themselves and tee to it.���| I'all Mall Gazette. Enforced companionship without congeniality is one of the miseries of life, and by no means one of the least common miseries either. A Remarkable Oriental Experience. A Thrilling Story of Chisese Treachery. CHAPTER XII. And now at length we passed across tbe great plain that circles the massive and imposing Wall, and I forgot that my garb was Chinese, and that I felt strange in lr.y Chinese cap, and that my eyes now suffered from tlie sun since my glasses had been laid aside, in tlie recurrence of the old tourist feeling which lighted upon me aa I nearod the mighty wall. What pigmies we seemed to be, as 've toiled through the dust, whilst the barren waste of ground stretched around us, and thc walls of Pekin towered above us ! I asked Chin-chin-wa how this wall compared with the other wall���the Great Wall of China���and his answer was tbis : " The wall of Pekin owes its grandeur to its height and to its breadth more than to ita length. Its uniform breadth is about sixteen paces, as you may measure for yourself some day : but tlie (ireat Wall is a more wonderful thing on account of ils vast length. In breadth this wall that you look upon is nearly its treble. The heights I can not compare : tbis is much tlie greater. The (h-eat Wall may not impress you, if you ever sec it ; this must." I have not delayed tlie narrative of my diary by a detailed description of the country and of the villages through which we passed on our journey to Pekin. Perhaps I have erred upon the side of brevity ; but, indeed, what is there tangible and worthy of description in the hours spent upon the road ? A wide, fiat country, where the eye looked upou only barley or millet or rice-fields on every side ; tlie occasional passing of a native farmer, or of his servants, male and female, the hitler witli their crushed feet half limping us they went; and the sluggish Peiho ever and anon approaching us, witli its lazy water and the painted junks upon its surface. Above us the scorching sun ; beneath and around the dust. Tims it had been during the hours of daypght : and by night tlie same, save that the moon cast a silence upon all around, and tlie country slept. And when we cam,, lo a village.eueh was littic different from the last. Beggers and lepers and creatures wilb twisted limb? beset us until we either passed on or reached tlie refuge of the native inn. Of Pekin I shall equally say but little, for, writing as 1 now am, my impressions come confused owing to tlie lapse of time : and 1 shall confine my feeble description to a few words, lest I mingle later thoughts with those of ray first acquaintance with the ireat City of the Chinese. l-'roir the first entry I was impressed with a sense of utter greatness and vast, un- graspable size: not that I looked upon a mass of crowded streets, but rather perhaps that the wall fitly framed the vast desolation .vhicb cast a shade upon the wide spaces whioh near the walls, separated bouse from bouse���spaces whicli even in the main streets seemed to hold ther own in the great width of the triple roadway. For tlie roads of Pekin are for tlie most part divided into three portions the centre division being raised, and those on cither side broader but decreased in width by drinking and fruit stalls, and by a myriad of tents and booths which form a species of lengthy and gigantic fair. Such was the impression I formed of tlie great city of dust and crowded life���a life yet lost in tiie vastness around���33 I rode silently by the side of Chin-chin-wa through the streets of Pekin. After a lengthy journey, we came at length to a door in the side of a wall in one of the quietest streets ; and upon knocking, we were admitted to the court inside. We were now upon foot, having dismissed ponies and guide some little way from tlie house where we had now arrived. We were welcomed by a very old Chinaman, who, I shortly discovered, spoke no wor.l of English, and was therefore unable to enter into conversation witli me. This he made up for by pouring forth all the vehemence ot his Chinese tongue upon Chin-ohin-wa, for they had not seen one another till the previous day for fully seventeen years. Wc were, I found, in quartersas comfortable as I could have honed for. True, I should have to do without an English bed, and I should be obliged to live in Chinese fashion ; but this I was prepared for, and I felt assured that Chin-ohin-wa would soften the lilies of necessity as far as Uy within Iiis power. Our future residence consisted of several buildings, the occupant being, so far as I could judge, a wealthy man now, whatever he may have been in the old time when first Chin-cliin-wa had conic to lodge with him, One of these buildings, which consisted severally of but one story, was the curio- store : and there I found much to interest me, for the aged dealer hail collected a very large assortment of antique and valuable relics such as are to be found in few cities save I'ekin, and thero only to be amassed after diligent and lengthy research. It is useless to dwell on the days that succeeded, ��� days in which onr quest loomed tn be doomed in that we did not advance a single step toward our goal. Chin-chin-wa once said to me : " This at least is saved : we do not now tind it well to spend our time in a vain seaich for the carter, for wc have found a substitute, or il may be the real man, who has been of ibis value to us, that he has turned our energies into other channels, and shown us plainly that our first intentions would have resulted in waste of time alone." So we rode about Pekin���Chin-ohin-wa and 1���upon the ponies, whicli we had found it well, at tbe last to purchase from the dismissed guide ; but we learned nothing likely to lead us toward success, for in tlie city of I'ekin it seemed as though we were in reality as much separated from \\ illiam Norris as we would have been had a grave stood between us und him. Is il wonderful that, after livo days' sojourn in I'ekin, all hope left nie'.' Of what use had been my assumption of tlio Chinese dress and tlio attempt to fall in with customs which belonged to their race'I Of what Use had been my journey of mouths from Europe ? Of what use the swallow's message, now IhatChin-ehin-waaiid I were within the city walls, as men realizing our utter powerlcsBiiess to act, and facing inevitable failure at every turn? Mow, then, was suoh a search to bo under. taken! Chin-chin-wa alone could assist me now, and Iiis inquires resulted���as how else could they���in absolutely nothing at all. But I learned something of the Chinese dining these days, and 1 saw much of the great city ; and the more I saw, the more did I perceive how numerous were tlie spots where Norris might be concealed, if, indeed, as I began to doubt, hc was still a living man. Is itnecessary to detail every particular; to dwell upon every futile attempt ? We ransajked I'ekin : we entered prisons, where the men herded like wild beasts -, and went intostrangeplaces, where vice and filth and wickedness alone seemed to dwell; and if there was a closed door, we opened it with a silver key. These days are past and gone ; they are like a hidoous dream to me. Yes, William Norris, we sought you in strange places and in dens of vice, but wc did not find you there ! Upon the fifth evening, we were returning to the curio-store, walking silently side by side, for we bad heen in places where ponies would have been little use, when of a sudden Chin-chin-wa spoke. " You aro hopeless, are you not ? " he said looking at me as he spok.e. " Quito" was my reply. " Thon shall you abandon the search '!' " I shall wait and live in I'ekin," was my immediate and firm reply ; for the bare insinuation eut me, "until I either discover that Norris is a dead man, or until I find him alive and save him from his ioes.'' " Is that your settled determination ':" "Itis." " Then I shall tell you miue, I have never mot a difficulty which I have not over- conic. I shall overcome this. As surely as I walk by your side now, I shall find William Norrts, come what may, alive or dead. To-morrow I go to Ihe Imperial City. If I gain nothing by this visit then you must act. But I seem to feel that it is I who am now pitted against fate, and that it is I, Chin-ohin-wa, who will ke the indirect means of finding the man we seek. ' A momentary Hash of jealousy crossed i my mind. He to ke successful, not I, -it I was hard, after all that had been. 1 did I not speak, but kept crushing back this ! feeling until slowly I overpowered it whilst Chin-ohin-wa was still continuing : " Yes, I shall see Shan-min-yuen, the man of whom we have heard, and if by doing so, and by entering the Imperial grounds, where it must surely be that Norris is confined, 1 learn nothing, Isha.ll still gain this, that I shall be able to tell you what kind of mau it is with whom you have to deal, and how far, according to my idea (whicli you must look upon as that of a Chinese countryman, and therefore worthy of consideration),ynu may trust him with the secret of your search. ' " As you know," I answered " it has been my impression, from thc Iirst, that we should not hive wasted time in this search amongst the slums and curious-places in Pekin. When I showed to you the paper brought me by the swallow, you, too, agreed that we should fill iu the word, 'palace, ; we should have acted upon tiiat if we placed any faith in our own interpretation." " So you blame me," was his reply, "that I have taken you to other places first. You are right, it may be ; but this you will admit, that in so vast a city we have always gained a littlo in knowing where the man is not. If we tind that he is not in the Imperial City, the past is not all lost, because we know that there is a j great area where we have already sought, and it reduces tlie work to be done. Perhaps, indeed, as you now say, wc should at once have acted upon that interpretation of the message. Only this: our minds were then unconsciously influenced by the only thought whicli occurred to us���the sacred Imperial grounds���and for that reason, namely, because we so readily came to this conclusion, I feel and know that itis not rigid, that it is too simple, and that Norris 13 not a prisoner in tlie Imperial grounds." " But still you go now to the Imperial City: what use can it be, if you are confident that Norris is elsewhere ? I, for my part, think that much time has been lost, for we have done nothing, and who knows what every hour may mean to Norris!" "True," was Chin-chin-wa's answer. "I now go to the Imperial City, but I go more with the intention of prospecting, and, indeed, chiefly to see this man, Shan-min- yuen, in order that I may be able to say to you either' Oo to him and tell him all,"' or 'Beware.' But it seems to me that in some way we shall finally be led lo find the prison and that deliberate search will never bring us to him, but that some chance will; for I have the feeling strong upon ine, in a strange manner contradicting all sense of despair, that if we wait we ahall find him in the end." On the following day, before noon, Chin- jhin-wu was dressed in silks of magnificent embroidery, such as I had nerersecn. " It Ii hard," he said to me, as I stood b��side him, feeling in my more ordinary Chinese garb as the beggar may feel when he looks upon lhe king,���"it is hard that I, who have toiled through a youth few could sustain, should now, when tlie de cline of my life is coming near, be as I wa- then, nothing to China or thc Chinese; is 13 hard that, to approach the court of my people, I luue no garb of rank, that I am not what I should have been -one of the highest in the land.'' His bitterness touched me. It was the first trace of emotion in regard to his individual life which I had observed, and, coming from suoh a man, it struck mc tlie more. In a little timo a closed palanquin, borno by four Chinamen, stood at the door; and us Chin-chin-wa tcok his seat, and was borne away, I noticed that Ids face was marked as with a deep and bitter sorrow, the sadness of n disappointed life, 1 did not stir from my Pekin home during his absence, for although I know something of Pekin by now, '] still feared lo stray, and could have profited nothing by an idle stroll along lhc dusty streets. My thoughts dwelt more upon Chin-chin- wa thau upon our useless search, for it had been as a revelation lo ine to read I he secret of hi! heart as I had done to-day. How many men arc there whoitruggle and struggle With the world and against fate, not perhaps so powerfully as had Chin-chin-wa, but still in a measure as strongly according to their human strength ! It was late in the day when Cliin-chin-wa returned. Those who know the great distances to be traversed in I'ekin can understand tbat his journey was a long one, as he had been detained in the Imperial City until audience was granted to him wiio held the pardon of the Supreme Power. Chin-chin-wa was still in lhe same mood as that in whicli he had left us in the morning. His visit to the Imperial City seemed but to have added to his sorrow. Hu was singularly reticent as to what had occurred so much lis to lead me to believe that he did not wish to bc questioned upon ihesubjeet. I could only conjecture that it must have been an ordeal trying 111 the extreme, for a man of his nobility und pride of nature to how his head to a government and its representatives as one who offered thanks to those recognizing him indeed as a Chinaman and as tlie pardoned exile, but as nothing more. I could understand that bitterness had seared his heart���he who had to bend the head to those who by right, had all been well in the old time, would have cringed before him now as tlie greater man ! So as this concerned my search not at all and as delicacy forbade my trespassing upon ground where I had nn right, I beard liut little of what had passed. Bul this I did hear���that Chin-chin-wa had seen the man Shan-min-yuen, that he had spoken to him, and that he had conceived an intense loathing and hatred for him from the first moment of meeting. Later lie spoke to me more fully, describing lionsel's friend thus: " He is a tall man, nearly as tall as I am, but older and not so broad. He struck rue I at once as of that type of Chinaman which I chielly detest and despise, and you have done well to trust him in nothing up till now. To Mr. Bonsel I can understand he is everything that is good ; hut why'.' Because his cold, calculating love of gain makes him so. "The German no doubt acts as agent for him in tlie requirements of tlicgovernment. Such a thing is by no means improbable. You told me that theirs had been a friendship founded upon business relations at the outset; these relations are probably not at au end now ; only it is llie Chinaman who makes the most, since his govornment rely upon him and trust lo him to act. " I knew, immediately I saw him, something of tlie true nature of the man. I read the Chinese character rapidly, for I have studied to doso from early youth. And with Shan-min-yuen, ihe chief characteristics are these,���avarice and greed above all ; cold, bloodless cruelty inherent in his thoughts and the firmness of an unbending and evil will," "And you learned absolutely nothing concerning or in any way bearing upon the fate of William Norris ? 1 asked anxious- "Nothing. I learned much regarding Shan-min-yuen ; for when my audience was at an end, one of his oldest servants was by chance deputed to conduit me to the gate, and bim I bribed so that 1 might, if possible have something more definite to put before you than my own casual opinion of his master, but I gained nothing as to your search." "And what did the servant tell you ?" I inquired. "Perhaps little in your estimation, but sullicient at least, to e'ear up the relations between Bonsel and Shan-min-yuen, which are, so far as I could ascertain, such as I have already conjectured. You must understand that iny statement may nol bc accurate, as I have pieced together what I heard with mj own conjectures, and this is the result; " I will tell you a little of the past of Shan-min-yuen. In the first place, he quarreled with his father a number of years ago j Iiis father was then a wealthy man, but old, and he shortly died, leaving his fortune not to Shan-min-yuen, his disinherited son, but as charity to tlie priests of the Temple of Confucius. " Instead of endeavoring to save his fortune, to do which would have been impossible, Shan-min-yuen was wise enough to realize his powerlessness, and, casting his lot in with poverty, lie treated with a good grace the magnificent offering of Iiis parent to the temple. By this means, hc succeeded in himself taking the place, as it were, of donor. A very natural result, as you can not but see. " On thia account, that is, because of the donation of his father, to which (being unable to act otherwise) he agreed, he was gifted with sone holy attribute by the priests ; and his position in the city of Pekin is now a powerful one, for the double reason of his influence at court in the place lie half inherited and half gained by Iiis own efforts, and the power invested in him by the holy men. They revere him in a measure as benefaclor and as fat her of a temple upon the aid of whose priests be may call at any hour, became of his father's gift." " But," I interrupted, "tiis is so strange and interesting a story Unit I can not understand how such Information reached you through the bribery of a servant." He smiled and then replied. "You forget tbat the mandarin1! servants are not of the common herd of men. Uu you tliink one of thc lower class could find admittance into the Imperial City" Scarcely ! Tins servant whom I bribed is a nun of rare intelligence. 1 bribed him ; ke lohl me all he knew. Itis known by the Powers that Siiiiiiinin-yueii is the father of tlio Confucian priests, and from this he has gained rank and, 1 conjecture, wealth." "But what has this to do with Bonsel ?" I asked. " 1 am coming to that, before the death of his father, and immediately succeeding the quarrel, Shan-min-yuen went, so I believe, to Tientsin. Here he made the Ccr- inan'sacquaintancc. "On Iiis return 'o court, upon Ids father's death, he was thus in a position lo transaot business with his German friend, He being a holy man, you unilersland, is for thai rcasun (and tho other, that he ratified bis father's gilt to all appearance, thus sacrificing everything for his religion) looked upon as the last who would work for gain. Tims itis that many things arc entrusted toliim, and his avarice is gratified not a little by the accumulation of a fortune which, I suspect, will already have surpassed all that he lost by reason of Iiis father's gift." " Why did not Bonsel toll us of this '!" " Because," answered Chin-chin-wa, " he has probably not heard what is tho true position of bis business fiien 1. lie receives iiis orders ; is not that suli.ciont'; Further, i you must remember that 1 am Chinese 1 otherwise there would bave been much unexplained. " 1 took this servant with me to an eating-house, and there wc sat for morc than an hour ; I questioning bim upon many points, and lie answering. It was thus that the whole is made up ; not so easily gathered, I can assure you, as related by me. " For instance this much is conjecture upon my part. I read the man's character as avaricious, 1 know of Bonsel's business relations with him, I know that this trade arises from the fact that the man blessed as the benefactor and father of the priesthood is trusted to work without profit, as his servant believes bim to do. But I do not know that he gains wealth from the trust reposed in him, though I believe that ho foresaw upon his father's death how he was to make a gain frhm what seemed to be a | loss. I "The keenly calculating nature of the man saw the patli clearly laid out before him. Making religion as a stepping-stone, and accepting the inevitable poverty for a little time, he so worked as to gain mucli more. I ask you now, taking this nature as a typo of the higher Chinese, is there not morc diplomacy in Chineso life than you could have imagined, had I not brought the true example clearly beneath your eye ?" I was indeed amazed. The tale, interesting an :1 clearly put as it had been, struck 1110 as being the truth. It was too strange to be otherwise; and I wondered at tlie clear-seeing mind of Chin-chin-wa, which hud gone back to fathom a Chinese motive, and lo clear up what waB doubtful until the whole lay patent. For my part, I should have passed on without going beneath the ground to discover avarice there as the commencement of all, not tracing its growth, as Chin-chin- wa had done, from the seed to the fullblown flower; for I might not have penetrated motives so deep as those influencing a man's life, though Chin-chin-wa, with true knowledge of tlie Chinese, had attributed such to Shan-min-yiicu's earlier life. Chin-chin-wa shortly continued 1 " You seo that I speak true do you not ?" " Yes," was my reply. " And you understand now that this is nol the mail to trust with lhe accret of your mission ?" " I believe," J replied, " that though in some small particulars you may be wrong in judging Shan-min-yuen, still your conception of his motives and life is right as a whole ; for, as yon put it to ine, I can understand that the subtlety that you bring before nie is consistent in every way with Chinese thought and life." (TO HE COXTINfUll.) THE MISSING LINK- I'ruf. VlrcliowSays tliat ll ���> 11s Kcintilc from OlBcovcry as Ever. We know that man existed in .tlie Quaternary epoch, that lie lived through long ages miserable and depressed, while stone, wood, horn and bone constituted the material of his arms and of bis only instruments; wc arc convinced that a long interval separ- ated the age of stone from the age of metals, and that only in particular places was the use of stone immediately replaced by that of metals. These arc the data which now make part of the general knowledge acquired by the civilized nations since tlie foundation 0! tlie Congress. But further studies respecting the origin and the regions whence thc different branches of civilization have sprung have advanced relatively but very little. We seek in vain for the " missing link" connecting man with the monkey or any other animal species. Thore exists a definite barrier separating man from the animal which lias not yet been effaced���heredity, which transmits to children the faculties of their parents. Wo have never seen a monkey bring a man into the world, nor a man produce a monkey. All men having a simian appearance are simply pathological variants. It was generally believed a few years ago tbat there yet existed a few human races which still remained in lhc primitive inferior condition of their organization. Dili all these races have been objects of minute investigation, and wc know that they have an organization like ours, often, indeed, superior to that of supposed higher races; thus, the Eskimo head and and the head of the Tierra del Fuegians belong to thc perfected types. Sonic races have the same skulls very small, ol about tliesaiiicvolumeastlicmicrocephalounskulls; for example, the inhabitants of the Andaman Islands and tho Vcddahs of Ceylon have been regarded as microcephalic, A more exact study has, however, shown a difference between them and the real microcephalic races. The bead of an Andaman Islander or of a Yeddah is vory rcgnlai, only all its parts arc a little smaller than among men of the ordinary rucos. Nanicepli- alio heads (dwarf), as 1 call them, have none of those characteristic anomalies that distinguish really microcephalic heads, A single race, that of the Orang-Siinaiugs and the Orang-Cekiii uf lhe peninsula of Malacca, still remains unstudied, The single traveller who bus penetrated into thc mountainous countries Inhabited by thom, the bold Russian, Miklukho Maklai, has as- ceil.lined that certain isolated individuals aim ng Simaings are small, and have curled hair. A new expedition has been sent into thai country to study tho anthropology of the Omng-Cckai, from which 1 ha\c recently received a skull and a few locks of hair; the slock is really a black race wiih curly hair, the brachyecpluilous head of which is distinguished by very moderate interior volume, bill il does not oiler the most Hi- fling sign of bestial development. Thus we are repulsed at, evory line of tlio assault upon the human question. All the researches undertaken with tho aim of finding continuity in progressive development have beon without result. There exists 110 promt- thropos, no man-monkey, and llie "connecting link " remains 11 phantom, CANADA'S PEA TH RATE. Many Deaths From Epidemic DUcasM��� lancer in Canada- Twenty-Three len- lenarlim. in the 111 a Hi List. Census Bulletin No. 15 deals with the causes of death. Sixty-seven thousand six hundred and eighty-eight deaths were recorded by the census enumerators as haviu" occurred in Canada during the census year 1891, but A. percent of the deaths have no cause assigned. In the zymotic class Canada has a higher death rate than England or the two Australian colonies ; a lesser death in the constitutional class than England or Victoria, but not so low as New South Wales; lower in " local" and in violent deaths than either of tiie three. Tlie deaths in each class were equal to 144.80 deaths of males per 10,000 living males, and 1.35.70 deaths of females per 10,000, living females. In England tlie death rate in 1800 was of males, 208 per 10,00(1 living males, and of females IS," per 10,000 living females. The number of deaths of males from zymotic, local, violent and ill-defined diseases are greater than of lemales from these classes of disease, and constitutional and developmental diseases carry off more females than males. Of equal numbers living there were 1,164 deaths of males to 1,000 female deaths. In England there were 1,130 deaths of males tol,000 deaths of females, upon whicli fact the registrar-general says, "The conditions of life iu recent years appear to have become increasingly unfavorable to males as compared with females, for while out of equal numbers living the male deaths in no year before 18b'.'l reached 1,100 to l.txiu dea':hs of females, since that year they have never once failed to exceed that proportion." There were 047 deaths from violent causes in the year bill. Of thc deaths per thousand 4(i percent wcre under five years of age. The mortality under one year was equal to 154 deaths for every one thousand and totalled 1S,.')IIS, DEATHS FROM 1 AXCKK. Tlie deaths from cancer recorded for tho census year nuinbw 1,187, of which 558 were of males and 029 of females. Eight of the deaths from this cause were of children under live years and nine of children between five and fifteen years, Thc remaining 1,170 cases are arranged according to age periods in the following table : Deaths from Cancer. 15to20yeara 4 20 to 25 years 6 25 to 35 years 41) 35 to 45 years 125 4." too.") years 201 55 to 05 years 29G 05 to 75 years . 202 75 and over 75 years Whether cancer has increased in Canada as in other countries cannot be definitely determined, inasmuch as the cause of death in the census of 1SII1 were so defectively recorded that ovor 20 per cent, wcre not stated. Compared with England and Wales, the ravages of cancer in Canada are small since in Canada tlie deaths from this disease are but 240 per million of living persons against Gdli per million in England and Wales. Our returns show, as do those of England and Wales, that females are more subject to cancer than males, the deaths of females in Ihis country numbering 130 against llli males out of each 240. The liability to cancer increases with age. The returns show that 4,,'110 persons died of old old age, or were very old when they succumbed to the ravages of disease. Cwenty-tliree had reached or overtopped the century mark. To live long it is necessary to live slowly An indescribable something in tone, manner and spirit will cause the most uncultured mind to sec who is tlie true gentleman und wdio is tlie mere prolender. If sorrow has come to you, and you have dwelt upon self ai d your pain to the exclusion of others, ynu have turned all the honey uf grief inlo gall, Riiskin says that the diffcicnco between great and mean art lies * " ' wholly in the nobleness of thi ind to which tho effort of the painter is addressed, A Grim Story of the Sea- Capt, Cuthbcrt, K. N. 11., of ihe steamer Fifeshire, which arrived at Melbourne on January 7 from London, has brought tidings of a strange ocean tragedy. When the steamer was skirting the Bay oi Biscay, that still tumbled sullenly after a gale had subsided, a vessel on tire was reported about ten miles off, and lhc life-hires course was promptly altered in order that a closer inspection might lie made. The burning vessel was a derelict, and the empty devils, with the tackles still hanging from them, showed that the crew had taken to tbe boats. The foremast, charred and still smouldering, had fallen, and lay across tlie rail, while the othcr spars, gaunt aud black with cordage gone, stood up nakedly against tho grey sky. All the woodwork visiblo was charred, but the name Pretoria on the bow showed plainly still. The Fifeshire steamed round and round the derelict lest, by any chance some living soul might lie left upon her crumbling decks, but no sign of life was visible; and the Australian bound vessel was brought to her course again, she hauled off from the Pretoria, whicli plunged aimlessly and heavily in the sea, sending up clouds of steam as each fresh wave rolled in upon her red-hot plates. Afterwards the captain of the Fifeshire ascertained lhat tiie burning steamer was bound to a Spanish port, when a lamp in lho lamp room upset and started flames that could not be quenched. So swifi was tlie fire in its progress that the chief ollite: was BuOooated as he lay in his bunk, and th" captain and crow with difficulty reached the boats. After thoy bad loft the vessel two steamers attracted by the gliro in the night, bore down upon her and tried iu vain to low her into port. Of tho two Wis one was picked up by the Bust liieboat, and lhe other drifted ashore at I'-haul. Tiie Pretoria herself, Willi masts and rig- ginc gone, the lire stiil seething in the hold, and the dead man lying alone in his cabin, lurched through storm and darkness towards llie laud and foundered al la-t on the rocks of l.'sliant. He who allows a single day lo pass and cannot say at niglit, "I have done one good deed," to him that day i. lost forever. That is, tlio possibilities of the day are lost, no! the day, for, when be reaches the dark, mystic line, those wasted days wiil pass before his vision like grim spectres. Then he will say, "Oh, that I could live my life over again :''��� | Fibre and Fabric. A Chicago detective caught a cold the other day, ami the whole city is elated over the fact that one of thc force caught something. Manager (hearing a noise)���" What are you kicking over now':" Coryphee���" Over six feet!" Manager���"OoodI I'll raise your salary:'' Every new acquaintance we make has lhc power to '.ell us something we didu't know about ourselvei. ��� [Ram'i Horn, (Die kootenay Star SATURDAY, APKIL 8, 1893. We are sorry to find Mr. Kellie has antagonised a great number of his constituents by his vote on the Parliament Buildings Bill. People here think���and rightly, too���that the Government could have waited two or three years uutil our miuiug industry bnd been given a fair start. But now, in the face of this vote to borrow ��600,000, it seems very unlikely that uny holp cuu be obtained towards the construction of urgently needed roads and trails iu tbis district from a Government with nn empty exchequer and all its borrowing powers exhausted. Mr. Kellie knows as well us uuybody that outside money will not come in to develop our mines until ronds fit for the transportation of nuiehiuory and ore are constructed into tho district nt least, if uot to ouch group of mines. This absence of trunk ronds iu West Kooteuuy is ouo of the greatest obstacles to tho ndveut of British syndicates with unlimited capital. They will not look ut mines that nre iunc- cessible. Since this article was put in type we bave received a letter from Mr. Kellie, which we publish in another column, and from which it would appear that the Government is at last beginning to recognise the necessity of opening up the treasure chest of the Provinoe, We have been wondering whether the determination to agitate evinced at our meeting last Saturday night had uuything to do with this sudden generosity on the part of the Government. $75,000,for West Kooteuuy is even beyond our expectations, but before we tender an apology for our criticism it will be well to wait and see how much of this $75,000 is to be spent in Eevelstoke Division. Mr. Kellie nsks how the rumor of $30,000 originated. If it was only a rumor it wns a pretty strong one, as every paper in tbe district published it as a fact. But our information came from a more reliable Bource thau a contemporary's columns. Therefore we did not hesitate to publish it. R. ROBSON HAS RECEIVED A SUPPLY OF FIRST-CLASo ru, From the Western Milling Co. of Regina u This company nt present find themselves compelled to uin.iiu: the size of TiiEiu mill, the demand for their Hour haviug so largely inoreiisod. The wheat reaped on the Region plains last harvest wns pronounced the best between Winnipeg AND the Muuntains, speuiul Samples being secured for the World's Fair at Ohioago. Flour mnde from this quality of wheat is the article Mr. Robson is now offering to the inhnbitauts of Revelstoke nud district. New Spring Goods. Wp are showing n completo range of Men's, Ladies', Misses' nnd Children's- Boots and .Sliiics, uud our lints have arrived. Also n large stock of Cottons, Muslins, Dress Goods, Laces and Trimmings., Art Muslins, Chainbrays, Carpets, Matting and Art Squares. Patent Hungarian. Strong Baker's, Oats, Shorts, Bran, Chopped Feed, Rolled Oats, Granulated Oatmeal, Wheat, Hay, &c. Always seeRobson's prices before buying elsewhere, LOWEST POS8IDLE FOli CASH. Tliey will bo tho I I LARDEAU ����� OUR Millinery This Spring is the best uud most varied stock ever shown here, and our ��� irioes the lowest over offered. II. N. COURSIER. BOURNE BROS. Revelstoke Station Post Office. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Don't order your Gabden Plants yet. Wait and see Williamson. The FIRST ANNUAL BALL of the Columbia Quadrille Club will be held in Peterson's Hull on Tuesday, April 18th. Tiekots, including supper at the Victoria Hotel, 82.00. May be obtained of F. B. Wells, I. T. Brewster, Jas. Lyttle, or nt the hull. CHALLENGE. I will make a match with tbo winner of the Haskiiis-Haman race, one mile down stream, north of C.P.lt. Bridge, on Dominion Day, in 10 ft. skiffs, for a sum of 8100 or $500. As a forfeit I have deposited $25 with Mr. Allen, brewer. W, J. LAW. Revelstoke, April ith, 1893. NOTICE. Is situated at the Lead of the North-East Arm of Upper Arrow Lake. It i.s the easiest point from wliicli to enter the remarkably rich mines of the Lardeau and Pish Creek Districts. It will have the advantage of hotli rail and steamboat lines. The C.P.R. will begin the building of a line irom Revelstoke to theN.E. Arm of Arrow Lake as soon as the weather will permit. LARDEAU is at the head of navigation on this Ann, and will be thc terminus of steamers and that of the Lardeau & Kootenay Railway. There is no question that the Rich Mining Districts which are tributary to LARDEAU will attract thousands of Prospectors and Capitalists during the present season, and that a large town will grow up at that point. The history of Kaslo will be repeated at LARDEAU this year, and investors in Kootenay property should study the situation. Kaslo, in many instances, has already repaid from 500 to 1,000 per cent, to investors. The wisdom of an investment in LARDEAU is without question. For further particulars, prices and terms, apply to any of the undersigned. ROBERT IRVING, Trustee, Broad Street, Victoria. HENRY CROFT, Colonist Building, Government Street, Victoria. DOUGLAS & CO., 139 Cordova Street, Vancouver. GREEN, RICHARDSON & CO., 57 Jameson Building, Spokane. R. H. LEE, P.L.S., KAMLOOPS. DRY GOODS, GROCERIES*, UfflBaUU WE, the undersigned 'Bus-owners of Revelstoke. will, on and after MONDAY, April 9th, positively not earrv any party or person (except guests T)PTJG*S arriving or departing from hotels) | without h charge being made there-1 PATENT fpr. (Sigued) W. COWAN, ABRAHAMSON BROS, BROWN k CLARK. Bevelstoke, April 6th, 1893. THE Revelstoke Pharmacy IS NOW OPEN to tbe Public of Revelstoke and tbe surrounding district with a complete Stock of CHEMICALS. MEDICINES, TOILET 4 OTHER ARTICLES PEP.TAI.V.Xfl TO THE TBADE. MAIL CONTRACTS. S1 I BALED TENDERS addressed to tho Postmaster- General wiil be received Bl Ottawa until noon on Friday, the 19th May, [or the oonveyance of the mails on proposed jjOBtraots for four years in "uch case, between ALKALI LAKE & CLINTON BLUE SPRINGS k VERNON and COMOX k GRATHAM and, until noon on Friday, the 26th May. for the conveyance of the mails between GOLDEN k ST, EDGENE MISSION', all from 1st duly next. Printed notices containing further Information nn to conditions of proposed contracts rimy be seen, and blank forms of tender run) be oli- taiin.'d at the post-offices mentioned, as woll us at tbe post-offloea of Big Bur Crwk, Dog Creek, White Valley, Galena, Windermere, Fort Steele and Fairmont Springs, nnd at this office. E. H. FLETCHER, Poal oflico inspector. Pom office Inspector's Oflico, Vio- twia, RO., Blat March, 1808, A. MCNEIL, BARBER SHOP k BATHROOMS, Front Street, Pa E VELSTOKE, B.C. NOTICE Is hereby given, that nil persona are prohibited from cutting wood or' i ber Berths Nob, 112 and 118, situated on the went side of tbe 111, obis River, commencing at tbe margin of the mil way belt, aboul twenty miles sonth of Kevelstoke, and frr.nt.ing on the said river six miles earth by one mile in depth. Any person cutting or taking timber from these berths after thm date will be prosecuted. DANL ROBINSON, Revelstoke, March Hih. 1898, Ft. TAPPING Is prepared to supply GARDEN PLANTS in great variety, such ns Cabbage, Cauliflower, Tomatoes, etc., all guaranteed to bo lirst-class stock. Orders may be left at once, nnd purchasers will be notified by lettor when the plants are ready for removal. G. TERRYBERRY, GENERAL BLACKSMITH REVELSTOKE. Wagons and all kinds of Vehicles Repaired. Shoeing a Specialty. PRICES RIGHT. Kootenay Lake SAW MILL, G O BUCHANAN. PROP. LUMBER NELSON AINSWORTH SfARDS AT BALFOUR KASLO Largo Stocks on hand. 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REPRESENTATIVE OF THE KOOTENAY SMELTING AND-TRADING: agent FOB TROUT LAKE CITY, KASLO CITY, HAKUSP ani> other TOW.H8IT1IB. '���';; AV'ArC^& v- ��� ��� v<*v ,VrT -ht Vw V/ AL.iW..f.rrw ��� ���- ;>��W if>L hy;���<���., l>al��j5aaaVaR*j-; jj %niture & Undertaking. R. HOWSON, Has a large Stock oi' Household Furniture, Coffin*. Casketn,, Shrouds. &e. REVELSTOKE, B.C PERE LEMONNIER'S GUN. in tho midst of fruitful valea and wooded lulls a little Norman village lay. Eaoh generation had brought its wars and strife and revolutions, but their hot breath had passed over the face of the land, leaving thia green spot in peace, until the " terrible year" of the German invasion, when the enemy had oome there, killing, burning, and pillaging all before them, and leaving in their wake a memory of terror and desolation. Il was all so very terrible to these quiet, thrifty peasant proprietors, who dwelt in their thatched cottages and farmhouses down youder in the valley, where the parish church, with its slated roof, green and moss-grown through age, used to peal forth the call to vespers of a summer evening with a sweet, deep tone that seemed the vory soul of old-world rest aud peace. A poet, it was said, had once hymned those venerable oak trees, which had seen many centuries come and go ; but now alas ! they had been cut dowu in order that men might the bettor see to slay cacli other. Old I'ere Lomonuior sat in the kitchen i"' his farmhouse, whicli was situated in a sequestered spot, ami hitherto been respected by the foe. Hc was over eighty now and had fought in the great Napoleon's wars, but ever sinco that time hc had tilled those lands which were his very own���albeit a small holding ���and, living a healthy, frugal country life, he had come to this ripe old age a hard, honest man���the very soul of uncompromising honour. Iiis only son, An'.oiue, was away with hia regiment, and no news had beet! heard of him for a long time past so Pere Lcmonnier was quite alone now, save ior his niece Melanic, who kept house for him. He could neither read nor wiite. What good would it it do him" he would say ; he could earn his living from the soil without these accomplishments. He, thorefore, could not read the newspapers; but even had he been able to do so he would only haveswallowed a mass of official lies in whicli tho French journals of 1870 mainly dealt. But the news that passed from mouth to mouth���the news he heard when he went with his cattle to the market-town���had, alas! more truth in it; and he could hardly believe or understand the fearful disaster to his glorious patrie which came on every hand; they seemed to crush him, and to break down his proud old spirit. Now they were forced to realise all the shame and tlie horrors that were brought upon them by a corrupt and decaying dynasty. The hated Prussians were even now in their very midst, and Pere Lemonnier knew not at what moment he might be driven from that home which had been his father's before him in the dead and gone days when the seigneur ruled over tho land. "Ah, well," he sighed now, as he looked up at his ancient rifle which he kept loaded, hanging from a black oak beam above the ample chimney-piece : "thou hast seen good service, my stout companion, but I am too old to raise thee now for my country. That is Antoine'a duty, and please the good Ood he may do it bravely I But still, who knows'; Perhaps I may yet have to tike thee down to defend my life, or my hou- our I" He raised his eyes towards the window, and there out iu the basae-cour, by the fading evening light, hc could just decry Melanic in apparently earnest converse with a man in the uniform of a French linesman. The old man called to his niece, whereupon Melanic hastily ran into the house, and the soldier disappeared. "Who was that thou wort speaking to?" Lemonnier asked, "i thought all our men had been driven away from these parts ?" '���It iaapoor fellow who fled from Buohy, where there has been a terrible battle.'' " A thousand thunders!" cried the farmer, striking the table with his list. Why didst thou not make him como in':" "I���I did not like to do that," the girl answered hesitatingly. "Why not? lam hard enough, Go:! knows���perhaps a miser, as they say���but my door shall never be closed against those brave lads who havo been facing the cursed Prussians in defence of their couutry. Go ! hid him come in and rest himself, and have a glass of cider." "I cannot, my uncle," Melanie replied, seeming strangely embarrassed. "He���he would not come in, 1 am sure. He is afraid ���1 mean he has already gone away." "Well, go; call him baok if thou canst still tind him." Lemonniei's niece left the room, as though glad to bs released from further questions; but she did not return, ami tlie old farmer, sitting sad and lonely by the side of the great open hearth, forgot all about the matter again. Old age, having no future, lives iu the past, and oftentimos tho events of the present come and go, making no more impression on the mind than so many fleeting dreams. Tho hours passed slowly on. Darkness began t fall around, and the lire east huge shadows on the aueienl, oarved-oak cupboards, blank with age, which give that quaint, old-world air to Norman farmhouses, Then l'ere Lemonnier, who had been lighting the battle of Jonaovjr again in imagination, and wishing those limes under the Little Corporal might come back, returning to everyday affairs,bethought lum it was nearly time for his evonlii*" gousse, unJ begin to wonder where that good-for- nothing Molanie could have got to. Ho rose up and lit the litlle lamp ol colza oil, which he set upon the table, muttering something about the flightiness of youth, Then lie determined to go out and look for her, when he was suddenly arrested by the sound of voices speaking in an unknown tongue, and the regular military tramp oi many feet, which halted right outaidi his door. There was a loud knock, and he called out : " Who ii thoro ?" The Intruders dni net trouble them- selves lo answer, but foreod tli - dooi and the next moment tli-- !..; en wai full of German soldiers, " What, do you wanl crli '; bo ol i m in, with wonderfulcourago for his years, "I am past the ago l'"i fightiti you sec, ll it were nut sn il would I"' the WOr 0 f<>r Boino of you. Ah ii i i, go, and leave ine in peace I" '��� We will do thai, ' replied I'i I : i ;it commanding the part) in excellent French ���their linguist ie accomplishment was one of ilie weapons with which his oountrymeu fought and won���" wo wiil leave you in peace if you will givi up our prisoner whom you are hiding. " What pn loner.' asked emonnler, in utter surprise. "I do uot know what you mean. I am hiding no one; but if I were and he wore the uniform of the French army, you may rest assured that you might never take him by my consent." "That is as jjood as to confess that you are hiding our prisoner." "No, itia uot. I know nothing about him. I would not sully my honour by lying to such dogs as you I" "'lhat is idle taik. if we were beaten, you would be the dogs, with us, Vou had better take care what you do and say. Some of your people have had their homes bui ut down for less. Hut there is no good in beating about the bush, Itis your son you arc hiding, and we mean to have him." These last words so greatly astonished tho old farmer, lhat he made no resistance when two of the Prussian soldier.��� held him forcibly down in his chair, whilst the rest tiled oul of the room to search the house. " My son is not here, I tell you, He is far away, lighting with the army of die Loire, i wish he were close at hand. He would never allow this indignity to be put upon us while a single dropoi blood remained iu his body. My sou would retreat and fly, if ordered by his officers : but I tell you he would never hide from his enemy !" "Nevertheless," the sergeant answered brutally, " you shall presently sec him shot dowu before your very eye.-, as a fugb .ive prisoner of war," " That ishali never seo I" Lonnnnier exclaimed, possessed by a sullen rage, Now he could hear the soldiers tramping about upstairs, searching and turning over all hia secret and sacred hiding-places ; breaking, pillaging everything before them, Ah, of course ! He had heard these dogs of Prussians were nothing but thieves. This, then, was only an exeuse for robbery. Oh, why had he not the strength of forty years ago, or why was not Antoine here t o prevent tins Insult being put upon him '; The sergeant crossed the room, am. . touted upstairs iu German : " Make hasu ! If you cannot find him, we must go on. We have other work to do," But they answered back : " We have him, sergeant, He was hiding under a bed 1" and then there was a noise of 3cut!ling aud a strange scream. " It is Melanic 1" cried the old farmer, struggling lo be free. " Ah the brigands I They make war on women now 1" But it war a French soldier who waa being dragged, pale ond trembling, down the gloomy staircase. " Do. imnnUer, you fools I" swore the sergeant, as the prisoner was brought forward intr the lamplight: " who have you got here! This is a girl!" " Melanie !" exclaimed Lomonnier, this timo wrenching himseli free; indeed his captors were too much astonished to detain him. " What is the meaning of this senseless masquerading?" "Oh, forgive me, my uncle* I did it to save Antoine I" "To save Antoine! The words came like a dagger-thrust. At this moment the outer door was dung open, and two moro rmans mtered tie kitchen with a man of about five-and thirty, attired in the cap and blouse of a Norman peasant, who walked sullenly between them.1' " Wo have gi our mau, sergeant," said one of the new comers. "Vou ha\ebeen playod a tine trick, it seems. He was trying to escap - from ns in disguise; but I knew his ugly mug directly I set eyes upon it, for I had marked it myself with the butt-end of my gun when he tried to give us the slip before." Tlie look of shame and agony whicli was imprinted on tlie aged farmer's pale features was indeed piteous *.o behold, as he recognized here before him his owu son, Antoiio "What'" he moaned, bitterly, " You'.. I.s it you who disgrace our honor by casting oil' your uniform at the bidding of a girl, and stic-ik and hideaway from your enemy, instead of lacing 'hem like a man���and worse tli ni all, let a woman meet danger I.i your sake I liut-. lay, thou shalt escape those eivsed Prussians yet, where they can not touch thee I" An.! aa i.e spoke t heae words, before they knew what he was about, or could stir a- step to p.'went him, old Lemonnier bad snatched dov n his gun and fired it for the first tint* siice the day of Waterloo. There was a tremendous -eport which echoed through the room, a cloud of smoke rolled up to the black oak beams, and his son Antoine lay i lead upon the floor ' Even the hard German sergeant's heart was to' "hed w.th pity as he looked upon tragic ��� ne���the old man sunk upon his kuecs, I.i whito head bowed down : the girl in her strange garb sobbing out a breaking he.n ovor her lover's corpse. "Forward!" he said very softly to his- men | " we can do no good here. One pris oner has t. oape.l us after all I" Gibraltar and Spain- The Gibraltar of to-day can only be \A- dialed bj the good-will of .Spain. If we were, mil appily, at war with Spain and desired to victual lhe place, we should first have to silence the Spanish batteries round the bay, nn 1 il thoie were construoted as modern science enables thenito he constrict- ed, wc certainly could not silence them unless we Lm.led, ind, by slow and laborious method.-, captured them. This would practical!) involve an invasion of Spain on a oomparativelv ' ..-. scale, for until wo had mil) offe '.ed ou. ijjCiit, Gibraltar wouid have to ra Ip unrelieved, in'.he last century reli i from seaward could only be ] *e- vented by way of the sea ; in the present. it. .'an also be prevented by way of tlie land. Thus have the modem developments of gun- nery alt red the situation to our prejudice, It may, perhaps, be objected that although Gibraltar might I s - :ci ���.: to us as against Spain, it would still, in v.ar lime, ��� ���<��� ii.--fi;l :������ -< as i._-,,ii,-t any other power, it certainly might be useful to a very modi- fled extent, It is. nevertheless, a matter ni riety tl in Spain ardently desires to re- >.:���! j. >"es: oi the fortress, and it is ivable that, unless wo wore actually tl;' i ig tor the proti , m of Span ish Interest , Spa n ������������ . a rigidly neutral whilo anothei p iwi r n is attempting to expel i-.. from die Rock, in ordei to secure tin more or leas i tive o-operation - 3] iii. the p iwei would - relj I. ivo to :.."��� Bonn ��� il ,< Ige that, having once 1] Qibl ll ir, -':��� w mid handi i i ..'.i-In it ..ge, to n^ ancient bwnors, Fran te, there Is no do ibt, wonld, '���;; things si inding as thej do il pn sent, bo very ���:. . I I see Spall '. A' i ir place there, .ml, though It ily might not liko it, iho would ne spend a single centesimo to prevent It, . [fie Fortnightly Rcviow. HE OOULD MAKE MONEY ANY! WHEBE. I'raiimi Un Host Brilliant Dusluess Man in the Congo Valley. The career of Camillo Deloommiine, who died on the Upper Congo in December last, illustrates the tact that some white men are able to make splendid opportunities for themselves even in tropical Africa. Ten yeara ago he went to the Congo at a small salary to be the agent of a trading company at one of their stations, Nine years later he was the director of tlie Society of the Upper Congo, had more than forty trading stations under his direction, and, from a commercial point of view, was tlie most important white man on the river. Fourteen steamboats are engaged exclusively in the transportation service of this company, whose stations are seatterd along the Congo and its tributaries for thousands of miles. Delcommune established all oi il-.ese stations on the upper river. Delcommune went to the Cougo when hc Was 22 years old on a salary ni :mly about $700 and his rations. He died when he was only 88 years old, and the salary he then commanded would be considered as representing brilliant success in any commercial oentreof the world, One reason for his success was his unbounded enthusiasm and his faith in tho future of thc much-decried t.'ongooounlry. In one of his letters he wrote: " The trade that can be developed in lhe I'pper Congo Valley is almost incalculable." In another letter he said : " Any degree of success may be attained here by men of enterprising character and of dauntless determination to achieve their purposes," Delcommune was that sort of a man. Had he lived he would have become wealthy. He had already won a fair competency when he died. Men like him cannot be suppressed. Put them iu the desert of Sahara and they would find some way to make money. He was the first European to buy ivory on the Upper Congo. Somehow or other, not even physical obstacles could defeat him. Explorers had tried in vain to take their steamers through the Zongo rapids of the Mohangi River. He was thelirst to make the passage when he planted his stations on the Mobangi in 1891, The missionaries say no other man of such activity, push,and vigilance has ever been seen on the Congo. He had great tact in dealing with the nathes, and they all liked him. He was a strict disciplinarian, and held his white subordinates to a rigid accountability. They had to make money for thc company or get out, He launched most of the fleet of steamers that he controlled. He did not hesitate, however, to push inland, away from tho rivers, when he believed there was a good prospect of opening a profitable ivory and rubber trade. Iu two months, a while ago, he travelled 000 miles along tortuous and narrow native paths, studying the prospects of commercial development, at a distance from the rivers, During his ten years' service be visited Europe only once, and was away from bis field of work but a few mouths. His vigor and energy never became impaired, and he knew how to keep well in a trying climate, and yot his death seems to have been due to an indiscretion. While standing bj the grave of one of his subordinates, he removed his hat to make a few remarks. He received a sunstroke, fever followed, and he died in a few days, lamented by all the white men on the Congo as the most brilliant man of business whose talents had been developed in that region, His brother Alexander is a well-known Congo explorer. NEARLY 300 PEEISHED- Biisaiiin (on vlcli on (lie Way lo Siberia Ovrrlnkeii by n Snowstorm. Details have been received at St. Petersburg of a sad loss of life among a band of convicts bound for the prisons of Siberia, The band numbered in all three hundred and seventy-four persons, including a large number of persons sentenced lo exile for political crimes. In accordance with the custom the convicts were marching to their various destinations. They had spent the niglit iu Tomsk, Western Siberia, and continued Iheir journey early in tlie morning. A snowstorm was prevailing, and whon six hours' march from Tomsk the storm had become eo severe that all the roads were obliterated, Chained together, the convicts struggled on until gradually the weaker ones ff i in the deep snow, dragging the stronger ones down with them. Despite the efforts of the Cossack guards tlio exhausted people could make no attempt In save themselves and they were abandoned to,freeze to death, while the others were driven forward, those in charge of them hoping to gel them in shelter. The storm continued to increase in violence, and the travelling became worse and worse. Now and then prisoners would drop by the wayside, whero they would icon be covered by the rapidly falling and drifting snow. When the guards managed to get what few remained of their charges to a place of safety they found that of the ,'t"4 pfraona they had started with ouly 111 survive.. Sixty two of ihosc who had perished wcre political prisoners. Among those lost were Madame La/amv, six other women, and four children, Bridget's Rebuff. A lad) had been ill and under lrcdicnl treatment for a long time. As she grew no better all the while, she became distrustful of he.- physioian'a skill and did not wish to se' him, and yet was not hold enough to tell him so, She communicated her state of li. . t ��� her maid. ' I. .vn 'im to ire-, mil:!., lave 'im to me?" said lhc girl. Uy and by the doctor c;imo to the door and Bridgol opened it about an inch. " Sorry, sir," said bIic, "but yo can't come in ihe day, doclhor I" "Can't come in': llov. s tlmt ." " The misthresa do be too ill for to see ye tl . day, sir!" The Science of it- "Ai h, thin. Pal, do yez rally think the wor-i-i 1.1 is as round as t;..t!" " Av coorsc I do." ���' Thin phwat 1 cant get though my shkull is, pliwhy the folks on the unther snide don't fall InloahpaccI" " Ve.- make me toired 1' " Well, but phwhy is it, I ax yez';" "God has given llieiu common sense, man aloivi., uu' they simply howld ou I" THE LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD. A Tale OfBriliall Valor III (lie fare offer tain I'liilli. In a letter to the Weekly Scotsman of March I Mr. James Mure Forbes, of Cape Town, gives some interesting quotations from Howler's "Kaffir Wars' and British Settlers in South Africa" and Thomson's "Comprehensive History of England," which describe the spot and tell the story of the disaster. Bowler says: "Cape Point the dreadful 'Cape of Slorms,' is a scene of wild and desolate grandeur. The African continent property terminates in a low, sandy beach known as the'Cape Flats,' which have during long ages boen thrown up by the two contrary prevailing winds and tides, and stretch out into the sea, connecting what was evidently once an island with the mainland, Thi? island is nothing more than a long, narrow strip of mountainous coast, stretching right across and beyond the Flats, in form not unlike a huge pickaxe, tho one arm of which consisting of the Devil's Peak, Table Mountain, and the Lion's Rump, incloses Table Bay, while the other arm, stretching far out into the sea, and terminating in the bold, precipitous promontory of Capo Point, forms the one side of tlie wide inviting, but dangerous.False Bay, Cape Point though not the mo3t southerly is generally regarded as the extreme end of the continent. On thc summit of the outermost crag, overhanging the sea, a very fine lighthouse, with very powerful revolving reflectors, has beeu erected. " Leaning out of one of the windows of the lantern, the awed spectator gazes straight down into an abyss of dark rocks and tumbling waters, and sees the flash of tho wings and hoars the screams of the sea fowl, wheeling in the horrid gloom a thousand foet below. During a Btrong southeaster the surf breaks and boils and roars for a mile out to sea, aa it dashes with mad fury over the Bellows and other remarkable rocks. "The Birkenhead, freighted with 500 soldiers on their way to the Kaffir war, steamed past Cape Point in a few hours before she struck on Point Danger. The memory of the fearful ship-wreck, on the 20th of February, 1852,is still fresh in the minds of all who treasure deeds of daring, courage, and devotion. It is afitting tribute to the gallantry of the British Army to picture hero the scene of a brave a battle as was ever fought, against a worse enemy than man." Thomson says: "This vessel was convoying detachments from several of our regiments to the seat of war under Lieut. Col. Alexander Seton, Seventy-fourth Highlanders, (who had succeeded to the command on the death of Col. Fordyce), and had proceeded on her voyage from Simon's Bay, when she suddenly struck upon a sunken rock near tbe shore, off Point Danger. The shoik was so tremendous that the iron plates of the ship's bottom gave way, the cabin was quickly filled with water, and it was evident that in a few minutes more the ship would be engulfed among the bnakers. " It was yet only 2 o'clock iu the morning, with no light but that of thc stars; but in an instant the deck was crowded with the alarmed passengers, and while death was imminent, ouly two of the ship's boats were available for service. To rush into the boats, at the risk of swamping them, would have been the impulse of the selfish ; to fling themselves into tbe sea in the hope of reaching the shore, but only to sink each other by their overcrowding and perish in the breakers and by the sharks that were on the alert, would havo been the headlong attempt even of the bravest, " But nothing of the kind in cither way was done, and never was the power of military disipline, or the worth of fearless, unflinching courage, or the moral grandeur of self-sacrificing devotedness moro conspicuously displayed than in the moment of terrible trial, " At the word of Col. Seton thc soldiers drew up upon thcreelingand looseningdeck. as if they had been on parade; they obeyed hia orders as if thoy had beeu executing the usual movements of the drill. The brave, humane heart of the Colonel was first directed to the safety of those who could least help themselves���and whoso fate would otherwise have been certain���to tlio women, the children, and the sick on board, and they were carefully conveyed into the boats, which, in tbe first instance, wore given up for thslr special benefit ; and by this arrangement all the helpless woro saved with out a single exception, And now only were the s'.rong and vigorous tu look to their own safety, after they had so nobly discharged their duty to others, and while several betook themselves to swimming, or committed themselves to a piece of floating timber, the vessel parted amidships and went down with lho greater part of the officers and soldiers, with whom self-prcseivation had been only the latest subject of anxiety. "In this fatal catastrophe 357 ollbers and soldiers and (JO seamen perished, while nearly 200 lives were saved, and this, too, in a crisis where.but for these arrangements and the fidelity with which they wero executed, nearly all might have been lost, 'lhesc soldiers also, bo it observed, were uot veterans, but for the most part young recruits who had never been under lire, and yet they calmly stood in a breaoll moro dismaying than liudajnz or San Si bastian and saw the boats, their last,hope of safely, depart from them without a murmur," A mural tablet was erected by Government al Chelsea Hospital hearing the following Inscription i " This monument is erected by command of her Majesty Queen Victoria to record the heroic constancy und unbroken discipline shown by Lieut. Col, Solon, Seventy-fourth Highlanders, and the troops embarked under his command on hoard the Birkonhoad, when thai vessel was wrecked oil' tho Capo of Good Hope en the-'(lib February, 1S52, and to preaorve the memory of the olliccrs, non-con ed officers, and men who porished on that occasion." TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS IN A SKIFF. A Human One ofllie SunVrera of n 'lonl'i ef Hardship on ihe I'acilic, Capt. Peterson of the bark Lady Limpson, his wife, and live seamen arrived in Honolulu recently in an emaciated condition. They came in an open boat only eighteen feet long, and reported that they had beeu twenty-eight days tossing about on the Pacific. While the occupants of the frail craft were not entirely without provisions during their long battle with the elements, the effects of short commons and lack of sleep and shelter were palpably apparent, Mrs. Peterson, who was clad in a thin black gown, was worn nearly to a shadow, and her strength tailed her completely as she was lifted trom the boat and taken to an hotel. Thc men were sunburned, leaden eyed, and listless, Their heads drooped, ami it, was with difficulty thai they would be got to speak, but Capt. Peterson told in a few words that the Lady Lampson had been wrecked al night on a reef near Taimyr* Island when forty-four days out from Sydney, and the crew were compelled to take to the boats, Ho was very weak, and spoke in a whisper, al the same limo begging that his wife be taken where she could get nourishment and a lit.le rest. Tho Kanakas len! willing hands to help the waifs nt ihe ocean into hacks and car- rlagea,andthey woroquickly driven to whore they could command attention. The little boat in which they had journeyed over 1,000 miles became an object of interest for hundreds of people. It was partly decked with oanvas,and strips of the same materia! had been stretched above the gunwale on either side to prevent her being swamped. In the boat were a couple of nearly empty water kegs and a small quantity of biscuit and canned goods. "I haven't had my clothes off for twenty- eight days," said Capt. Peterson when seen at the hotel. He was hollow-cheeked and. unshaven and looked indeed as if he had suffered both mentally and physically. "The Lady Lampson," he said, " was from Sydney, and we were bound to this port with 000 tons of coal for Wilder & Co. We left Sydney last November and were forty- four days out when the vessel struck. We had had bad weather near Fiji, having been in a hurricane for twenty-four hours, but after that we had fine north-east winds until we got near Palmyra Island, when the weather became dirty. It was D:30 o'clock on the morning of Jan. 10 when we struck, I had not had an observation for two days. The night had been dark and stormy, but the water was smooth then. I knew I was to the east of the island, and that there was a sunken reef somewhere around. I was on deck myself, aud had two men on the lookout aloft. There is a strong westerly current there, and I guess we were going about live knots an hour with all sail set. " Five minutes after she struck she began to break up,aud I ordered the boatsout We lowered the two boats. I took charge of ono and First Mate Hairy Miller took the other. In my boat there were, besides my wife and myself, Second Mate C. Brown and Seaman W. Carloon (both Swedes), Cabin Boy W. Hayden of Liverpool, F. Veller the cook, who is a German, and E. Everson, a Norwegian sailor. The mate's boat contained a German sailor named Snyder, Oscar Magnersen, a Swede: J. Jorgeu- sen, a German, and a seaman named Martin. " We started from Palmyra Island in company about 7 in the morning, having only i fivo gallons of water for the two boats. The I island is only forty miles from thc reef, but I the current and tide were so strong that we were trying for nine days to make headway I against them, but couldn't. We drifted to I the westward, so I resolved to put back to ' the bark. We suffered greatly through j want of water, and we had barely enough to moisteu our tongues, which were swollen . un 1 dry, " We found the bark settling down and the water washing over her, ao we got aboard quickly and put some canned goods, biscait, and water into the boats. We rigged the boats with canvas and then started again for Palmyra Island, We tried for two days to make headway, but the heavy swell am! wind baffled us. Thinking 1 would lose sigh! of the mate's boat, I told him to steer ior Honolulu, and I steered for here myself. We lost sight of lhe other boat and hive had heavy gales ever since. I have only had an hour's sleep at a time during the day. and have never lain down. At night the spray came over, wetting us ail to ihe skin, and in tiie day we dried our clothes iu the sun, if there was any. The men have been quiet and uncomplaining, even though on short allowance of food and water, and, think goodness! we lost nobody from our boat. It was a terrible experience, though, the worst 1 have met with during fourteen years ol seafaring. " After we passed the island of Maui we struck a storm and the boat half filled with water. We thought then it was all over after passim.' through so many other dangers, but we managed to bail her out and keep her right The first vessel we saw since we struck, twenty-eight days ago, was a steam schooner off Diamond Head this morning. I hope thc mate's boat ii safe, ami line steered to the eaatward 1 tliink they an- all right." Electric Weaving. A story is going the roundsofa wondorful elccliic loom which will weave the coarsest carpet or finest linen. Il makes no noiscin operating, as each shuttle and moving part works Independently. The present power looms run 110 to 180 picks per minute, but thlscontrlvance easily picks 250 toDOO a minute, Altogether it is very wonderful, but no details of its construction or data of practical tests of its workings have yet been made public. (MEL BUTCnERY. iDrnnkcn Jllner Hunter* tlla Wife and Sinter In-law, anil < uii a Babe, A ih s-patch from All i, ia,, says:���A ih .- j* ti iged* i i- - :-��� ! st Site- man, i mining town near this placo, William i"i izior was a drunki n miner living with l,i iv i( nd babcatt A fow i.e. ag | on account ol zici di inken- ness, his wife, t iking In I m u i nen' to Elil man to stay with her si ter, Mrs, St ,,; I - Mond y ��� ���..... 1 - lioi e-ii-.i i to this place and yes rdaj morning he weni !i im ... ii In Smith house and with ml i �� - I plungi d a knife into In- v. fi heart, I imost instantly. '>li;. Smith, ; earing the d - turbam e in thc i nn the kitchen, win n Frazier, wi i the i ry of a 1. mon, pi ing ipon I - knifo to thi liill inl - lied in a few minute-. Frazier I rly aevered one leg from tin body ol . id ;. II in other plai es, Frazii i waa capt ired two miles fruiii here and lynched bya moboi miners. Madge���"I'-' you prefer blonde ment" Beatrice���" No: 1 prefer o'd gold���very old and plenty oi gold I" TRO ��� I��� t\ T\ rnrnt m CITY WEST KOOTENAY, B.O. The above town site is now on the market, and lots are being rapidly bought up by local parties. It is situated at the north end of Trout Lake, in the famous LARDEAU COUNTRY which is going to be one of the RICHEST MINING REGIONS in America. NUMEROUS RICH CLAIMS have been found close to this town site, which will make it the DISTRIBUTING POINT for an IMMENSE TRACT OP COUNTRY. It is the only level land at the north end of the lake. The owners intend to expend money on streets and other improvements in the Spring. The trail from Lardeau City, on Arrow Lake, to Kootenay Lake, runs through the town site. For the NEXT THIRTY DAYS corners will be sold at $150 and insides $100. For further particulars apply to C. E PERRY & CO., at the Head Office, Nelson, B.C., or to Local Agent, 5 REVELSTOKE, B.C.
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