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VOL. IV. REVELSTOKE, B. C., APRIL 15, 1893. No. 44. WANTED. AGENTS to sell our choice nnd hardy Nursery Stock. We have nwuy new special varieties, both in fruits and ornamentals, to offer, which are controlled only by ns, We pay commission or salary. Write ns ut once for terms, nnd secure choice of territory.���May Brothers, Nurserymen, Rochester, NX THE MADDEN HOUSE, HUGH MADDEN, Prop'r. Beautifully situated on the Lake shore at tho entrance to the best and shortest road to the Slocau miues aud Now Denver. The best fishing nnd hunting iu the district, with grand boating and sketching facilities for tourists and artists. The Bar is supplied with the Best brands of wines.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 priuoipal street, close to the post-office and Government buildings, aud nearest to the Steamboat Wharf. First-class Table, good Beds, Telephone. FIRE-PROOF SAFE. 'BUS MEETS ALL TRAINS AND STEAMERS. 0. & H. LEWIS, BAKERS AND C0NFECTI0NER2. SUFFERS and BALLS Catered for. WEDDI NG CAKE A SPECIALTY. REVELSTOKE, B.C. Fresh Milk, I am now prepared to supply Families nnd Hotels with Milk at lowest prices. PARTIES DESIRING 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) REVELSTOKE, B.C. A NOBBa* STOCK OF English Worsteds, Scotch and Irish Tweeds and Serges AT PRICES THAT WILL CATCH YOU. FIT AND MAKE-UP GUARANTEED. A NAD IAN !-*. PACIFIC' REVELSTOKE TIME TABLE, Atlantic Express, arrives 10.10 daily. Pacific ������ " 16.52 " Cheapest, most reliable aud snfe route to Montreal, Toronto, St. Paul, Chicago, New York and Boston. Rates $5 to $10 lower than any other other route. Specially fitted Colonist Cars, in charge of a Porter, for the accommodation of Passengers holding second olass tickets. Passengers booked to and from all European poiuts at Lowest Ratos. Low Freight Hates. Quick despatch, Merchauts will save mouey by having their freight routed via heC. P, It. Pull and reliable Information given by applyiug to GEO.MoL. llliOVVN, Asst. (ien'l Freight Ag't, V'noouver, or to 1. T. BREWSTER, Ag't C. P. It. Depot, Revelstoke, LOCAL NEWS. Those baby carriages at H. N. Coursier's are beauties, Mr. A. F. Williamson has imported an Essex Centre plough, and expects to start work next week. Bonrne Bros, aro showing a very large range of Spring (roods, iu prints, muslins, dress goods, etc. Tbe material for the chemical fire engine has arrived, and Albert Stone, the engineer, is now in his glory, A meeting of Rovelstoke Fire Brigade will be held in the sample room, Coluui* bia House, next Friday at 8 p.m. W. Har wood accidentally out his foot with an axo while working at the mill on Thursday. Is progressing favorably. Miners and prosfipctors going into the Sloean can obtain all neccssnry supplies at Bourne Bros.' Nakusp and New Denver stores. Prospectors wishing to read the new Mining Act can do so by applying at this ollice. Our space is too limited to publish it. Thieves broke into McCarty's bntcher shop on Tuesday night and carried off the money in the till (85.30), but did not open the safe. The Rev. C. Ladner will preach tomorrow in the Methodist Church, morning at 10,30, evening at 7,30, All are cordially invited. Block di, two miles square, situated at the junction of Healey Creek and tbe Lardeau River, has been reserved from lease, sale or settlement. J. W, Haskins, who has issned a challenge to any resident of West Kootenay to row for $500 a side, was out for a practice on the Colnmbia yesterday. Bonrne Bros, have now added to their stock a complete assortment of buggy and heavy draft harness, riding saddles, etc, and can supply any separate parts required. The mill is now completed, and work will commence on Tuesday. The lofty smokestack was placed in position on Thursday, under the superintendence of Mr. C. H. Temple, Mr. D. A. Lamey, of Lardeau City, who has been under surgical treatment at Viotoria for a gunshot wound, returned here last Thursday aud went to Iileoillewaet on Saturday. Mr. T. Steed lost his watoh last Saturday ovening on Front Street. He did not wear a chain, and tbe lining of his watchpocket needed repairs; hence the Iobo. Finder will be rewarded. Messrs. Wm. Mackay, Alex. Maokay and John Patterson, all of Creemore, Out., arrived here last week. Tbe two former will go to Nelson, while Mr. Patterson will probably take up his residence in Revelstoke. Mr. S. Ballegard returned from Kamloops on Tuesday, bringing with him a team of horses and a brand new Chatham wagon purchased from E. G. Prior k Co. A set of new harness from Bourne Bros, completes a fine looking turnout. In the Provincial Legislature the new Mineral Bill and the Kaslo.Slo<-an Tramway Bill were reported complete with amendments ; the Kootenay Central Railway Bill was withdrawn ; and the following bills were read a third time and passed:���Nakusp & Slooan Railway, Nelson k Arrow Lake Railway, Kaslo Electric Light and Water Power. Ripans Tabulos I for liver trouble Ripans Tabules: for bad tempo ON TRIAL FOR 90 DAYS. The finest, eoinpleteat and Intent line ot EW Meal gpDll&ncesln the world. They have novel failed to cure. Wo &ro so positive of It that we vill back our belief aud Bend you auy Electrical Appliance now in the market and you can try It forThrce Month*. Largeit list cf totiuionlaU on earth. Send for book aid journal Free. tV. f ��� Bacr & Co.. Windsor, Onr. Wo have received a Ouoy of Begg & Lynch's Handbook and General Guide to British Columbia, which is brimful of information for travellers, anglers, sportsmen, miners, prospeotors,etc.,with facts, figures and things neeessary to know. It is oue of the best two bits' worth ever offered, its 108 pages beiDg full of interest to every resident in the province, A fire at Sicamous last Saturday destroyed Funk Satg's (Chinese) store. Starting in the opium room it spread so rapidly that nothing could be Baved. Funk had 8600 in bills in the inner room, and mado a da6h for it, but the flames and smoke drovo him back, and the money was consumed with the building, which in a very short time was a heap of smouldering ashes. The First Annual Ball of the Colnmbia Quadrille Clnh will be held iu Peterson's Hall on Tuesday next. Supper will be provided at the Victoria Hotel opposite, und the committee will do all in th ir power to mak. the event an enjoyable one. Being the last dance this season it iB expected there will be a large attendance. Tickets, including supper, 82.Ou. A 'bus will leave the station at 8 30, and everyone is cordially invited, The hall held at Rogers' Pass on Wednesday night waa quite a first class affair, ladies an I gentlemen attending from Golden, Donald and Revelstoke. The music ��as furnished by Messrs. W. B. Pool, Fraser and Kinoade, Dancing commenced at 8 o'olook, and continued till (i 30 next morning, with an hour for supper, Everything was dune to ang- mont tho enjoyment ot the visitors, and the event reflects great credit on the management, Those who went f.om Revelstoke speak very highly of tho I reoeption given thom, C. B. Hume k Co. havo just received a consignment of prospectors' teids, in various sizes. If you are intending to grow flowers or garden plants this year go to H. N. Coursier's for your seeds. The Rev, A. R. MaoDuff will conduct Church of England services in the schoolroom to-morrow. Morning at 11; eveuiug at 7.30. Holy Communion at morning service. Captain Troup, in answer to a letter of inquiry from a gentleman iu Spokane Falls, stated lhat he expected the first boat to arrive up at Revelstoke ou the 15th inst. (to-day). The swallows have arrived and the buds are bursting into leaf. Gentle Spring in here, but without her green mantle. The white robe of winter still covers the landscape. Mr. Patou will conduct service in tbe Presbyterian church to-morrow at 7.30. Sabbath school at 2.30 p.m. in the church. Wednesday prayer meeting in Mr. Paton's house at 8 p.m. O. H. Allen, Revelstoke Brewery, has this week received 4,000 lbs. of malt from the Veruou Malthouso. Mr. Allen believes iu patronising home industry, and is well pleased with the quality. SALMON ABM JOTTINGS. [from OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT J The Boxing Club had qnite a scientific exhibition last Saturday night, Messrs. Duffy and Lewis being tho contestants. The former is quiok, parries well, and is olever with his right, keeping his opponent well on the move. Instructor Smith and one of his pupils closed the exercises with a fine bit of sparring, and all present voted the evening a most enjoyable one. The spring is late this year, but signs are numerous of its advent at last. The snow iB gone from the roads and low lands, and mud is conspicuous everywhere. Ploughing has commenced, and potato plantingwill soon become general. Large consignments of fruit trees have been reoeived here during the past week or two, consisting of apples, pears, plums, aprioots, cherries, prunes and various small fruits, all from the Port Hammond Nurseries. In a year or two this district will be oovered with smiling orchards and fruit gardens. Ranches are being taken up all along the valley, one of the new ranchers being Fred. McGregor, late job printer nt the Sentinel Office, Kamloops. If tbo Government would give ub roads things wonld be muoh more pleasant for the farmer. There was a large and sudden increase to our population last week, when the valuable cocker spaniel bitoh belongiug to Jimmy Haynes had a litter of no less than eleven puppies, seven of whom survive. Everybody in the neighborhood wants oue, aod fabulous prices have been offered; but Jimmie thinks he cau do better by taking them to the World's Fair, and would spend a year in Europe on the proceeds of the sale. The excitement over Jimmie's rich strike is very great. WALL PAPERS. H. N. Conrsier has just reoeived a beautiful lot of Wall Paper and Borders which ho is selling very cheap. R. H. RAMSEY, House Painter, Paper- hanger and Grainer. REVELSTOKE, B.C. WORK DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH. PRICES MODERATE, O��0RO�� SHIEL, Taxidermist OLD POST OFFICE, REVELSTOKE, IJ.C. All kinds of specimens of Animals, Birds and Fishes carefully and naturally mounted. Several local Specimens on view and for salo. DKElt AX!) CARIBOO IIKAD8 A SPECIALTY BOATS FOR SALE. Several firat-clnss new Bonis for sale. Apply to MORGAN DAVID, Revelstoke, La*d night's heavy rain cleared off a lot of snow, Mr. and Mrs. T. Donelly were tbe recioients of a Mb. baby boy last week. Mr. C. N. Nelles, of the Victoria, who has been ill for nearly a month, is about again. On Friday, the 28th inst., there will bo a concert-social iu conneetiou with the Methodist church. This season's prints aud oliallies are of the most exquisite patterns. H. N. Coursier has just opeued up the very latest. Mr. Robt. Howson, who was sum mooed to Elkhom, Mau , by telegram on account of his wife's illness, writes that Mrs. Howson is still very low. Word was reoeived Thursday by Mr, T. Patou of his appointment to another field of mission work. Great regret is expressed by the members of the church ut his departure. Rev. McLeod Harvey will be his successor. Navigation ou tbe Columbia is open, several rowboats having left hore during the woek, carrying altogether about 20 men, Most of these are trappers, with a few prospectors bound for the mines. The Murion will probably sail on Monday, and the large steami rs may be expeoted any day next wiek. Two gentlemen representing mining syndicates are stopping at the Central Hotel-Mr. E. F, Cassel, of Everett, Wash., and M. C. A. Beok. of South Bend, Wash, Mr. Cassel cuine here with Mr. Blaokburn last fall and had a look at the Great Northeru. He seems to he sorry that tbat great mine has been bonded to another syndicate, as he waB after it himself. He is open to buy good claims in the Lardeau. [We have no knowledge as to whether the bond was signed by the ownors.j EDWARD LIPSJOT, Sail, Tent anil Awning Maker. HORSE & WAGON COVEUS, Baub, Hammocks, ko, WATERPROOF BLANKETS & COVERS TENTS FOII SALE & TO BENT. at ��� (��) WATER STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C, Towu Improvements. Several improvements are to be ma.le in tbe town aud vicinity as soon as snow permits. A large summer house is to be built on the bank of the river near the Victoria Hotel, and will be romfortably fitted up for the use of visitors to that favorite stopping plaoe. Several of the citizens will combine for the construction of a good oarriage way to the Dig Eddy, where a summer building will be put up and a oouple of pleasuro boats placed on tbe water. Tbis will make a delightful pionio ground. It is also in contemplation to continue the road about half a mile further to the point opposite where the Jordan Creek enters the Columbia, so that the long stretch of comparatively still water may be utilised for boating. Circular trips could be made if a landing plaoe were erected at the head of this reach of water at tbe point where the Big Bend trail touches the bauk, and the walk hack to town would be very enjoyable after tbe pull up river. Or the route could be reversed, aud the boat rowed dowu stream. These improvements, if they are to be done at all, should bo oompleted as early as possible, in order to meet the requirements of summer visitors. A sidewalk is to bo laid ali the way from the station to the bottom of Front street, which will be a boon to pedestraius during the muddy seasou. In all probability the wide avenue which (on the map) circles the townsite and runs parallel with the railway track���Victoria road- will be partly opened up this summer. We have good grounds for stating that the Provincial Government will do something for the town this year. It is also likely that thu C P. R. Co. would assist iu the construction of an archway through tbeir embankment at the head of Front Street, If this is ever to be done at all it should be done at once, us tho embankment will be doubled this summer by the making of an approaoh to the new bridge, whioh will be fifty feet south of the old one. This archway will certainly have to be made some day,aud why not now, before the new embankment iB made? There aro some delightfully picturesque aud picnicky spots on tbe other side of tho river, and it is to be hoped tbe C.P.R. will givo us a foot path ou the new bri.lge, either under or alongside tbe railway traok. It would uot be a bad idea to draw up a petition on tbo subject to Mr, Abboit or Mr. Van Home before tbo contraot for tho bridge is let. Ono much needed improvement has been overlooked ���the main street of the town should not bo allowed to remain in its present condition any longer. If each owner would only improve bis owu lot the town would wear a different appearanoe. But tho law which taxes improvements is a great drawback to anything being done. It pays far better for a mau tu bold bis laud in a wild state and reap the benefit of his i eigh- bor's improvemeuts without contributing auythiug towards the revenue, while tbe mau who improves his lot is assessed for it. There is no justice in a law like that, aud many towns would be benefited if it wero altered, Alter this week we must make a charge of 20 cents per line for ull announcements of entertainments,, etc., uuhss advertised in the Staii, iu whioh case we oivk a local item, These will be a Parliamentary election iu this Proviuco uext year, and all who are entitled to vote- should see that th. ir name is on the- voting list. Votes are valuable us levers for moving Governments and political parties to look kindly on our requests, or even demands. The vote means power, both to the individual and the community. Therefore get on the list, The qualifications necessary to holding a vote in this Province are:���Beiug a British subject of the full age of 21 years, one year's: residence in the Province and two mouths in the district. Apply to the Government Ageut for a registration form without delay. Two New Railways. The Frovinoial Government will guarantee 4 per cent, on the bonds of the Nakusp k Sloean Railway for 25 years upon a sum uot exceeding 8925,000. It is regarded as a certainty tbat the company will have the Dominion grant of $3,230 a mile. The Provinoinl Government's aid is conditional on the Domiuion subsidy beiug banded over to the Province. As tbe Revelstoke and Arrow Lake Railway depends on the construction of the Nakusp k Sloean there seems every reason to hope that both these lines will be commenced very soon. Of oourse, the C.P.R. wishes to see a certain amouut of traffio assured before building from bere to- Arrow Lake. The Nakusp k Sloena wonld bring the ore to tbe wharf at Nakusp all the year round, with a certainty of steadily increasing. Mr. A. F. Stewart, who has had chargo of the survey party on tbe new line- here, was called to Vanoouver by telegram on Tuesday night, and it ia generally believed that he will receive instructions to commence work at this end right away. But there is an ugly rumor tbat the men composing the survey party have been discharged. This may mean that the work of construction will go ahead without any fnrther survey (seeing tbat the ronte waB surveyed last, year), or it may mean nothing at all. WANTED, SALESMEN, local and travelling, to represent our well-known house. You need no capital to represent a firm that warrants nursery stock first- class aud true to name. Work all the. year; ��100 per month to the right man.���Apply quick, stating age, to L. L. Mat k Co., Nursery men, Florista and Seedsmen, St. Paul, Minn. This house is responsible. A. McNEIL, BARBER SHOP k BATHROOMS, Front Street, REVELSTOKE, B.C. THE Revelstoke Pharmacy IS NOW OPEN to the Public of Revelstoke nnd the surrounding district with a complete Stock of DRUGS, CHEMICALS, PATENT MEDICINES, TOILET k OTHER ARTICLES PERTAINING TO TIIK TRADE. MAIL CONTRACTS. S1 BALED TBNDBMS addressed to the P Rtm.i-ter ��� General will be received at Ottawa until noon on Friday, the 19th May, for the conveyance of the mails ou proposed contracts for four years in each ease, between ALKALI LAKE k CLINTON BLUE SPRINGS k VERNON aud COMOX k GRATHAM and, until noon on Friday, tho 2fith May, for the conveyance of tho mails between GOLDEN" & ST. EDGENE MISSION', all from lst duly next. Printed notices coutainiug further information as to conditions of proposed contracts may be seen, nnd blank forms of tender may lie obtained at tho post-offices mentioned, as well as nt the post-offices of Big Bar Creek, Dog Creek, White Valley, Galena, Windermere, Fort Steele and Fairmont Springs, and at ihis office. E, H. FLETCHER, Post office Inspector. Post-office Inspector's Ollice, Vio- . toria, B.C., 31st March, 1893. Advantages; of Box Stalls for Cows- I.. a. PIERCE, onto. Even with scrupulous daily cleaning out of the manure, anil bedding with straw, a majority of the cows kepi in stalls, come mrtto tlie spring with Hanks, legs and briskets, covered wiih manure balls, looking filmy in tlio extreme. What manure does tint adhere to the cows ia in too many cases thrown out under the eaves, to leach and waste. Where only one or two enws are kept, the remedy is a simple box-stall, doing away with all filth and all waste, and the saving in bedding is considerable. The writer keeps to cows in a stable, ten by twelve feet, the manger running across the narrow way, takes off two feet, makiug the floor area ten feet square. A single upright standard of two by four inch setntling, retaining the front of the manger it tbe middle and giving the cows an equal ciiauicc, at the fodder, is the only restraint of any kind upon the perfectly froe movements of the cows. Tins freedom of action is ihe secret of their cleanliness, there being, after a four months'stabling, not �� half pound of manure adhering to both <-ows. The manure is mostly dropped behind ill s eows as they stand at the manger, forming a slight ridge about midway of the stable. Oue cow lies along side the manger, and the ether at the rear of the stable, parallel with the manger. Both cows lie upon their right sides bringing their heads in op- pasito directions. The manure is leveled twice daily, and in the morning thc rem- iuc'.s of cit cornstall.s and other refuse found in the manger, aie scattered over it, mi it night they have a bed of straw. The intnnro is not taken out until spring, and picks hard and solid without a particle of ti asfco. La3t year I used the cow stable as .-i receptacle for the horse manure during the busy season of berry-picking, when wo kad bimo to dtaw it directly ou the land, rtniS the cows stood on this until about XiHiiksgivitig when we got it out and put >r- s mass of leaves to start anew, Two weeks later we put in the eows for the win- afcer, fastening the door so it could not he ���easily or carelessly opened. The cows were kept there nearly four months and came out sn thc spring fat-, happy, jolly and clean. 'l'he manure was like plug tobacco, brown aad solid, and worth at least double as mnoh, pound for pound, as manure thrown .out on a heap in the usual manner. ."i-'here the eows are strange or vicious, two could not lie kept together, and in large ettiries it might not he practicable for want j quarts of timothy and four of red clover or of. room, although two might be kept in one-halt the quantity ofalsike; or, when stalls 8Jxl2 foet, which would be but little-sown alone, one peck of large 01 medium i!:are space than would be allotted them if I clover, or five quarts of alsike. By far too kept tied in separate stalls. In villages and j many farmers aro not liberal enough with suburban homes, however, ihis is wort by of j the grass seed for the reason no doubt that trial, as there is no pile of manure outside j they are usually compelled to purchase it ture. They prooured Iiii tons of peas an acre, and of the two they cut ill tons whon sown together, while an acre of corn, green from the field give them 34 tons. Bog meadow grass is well known to have but a small percentage of nutritive properties, but cut early aud cured in the heap by sweating rather than in the sun, it has a value as coarse fodder, and when the ration is brought up to the right proportions, or "well balanced,'' as scientific men are fond of saying, by the use of wheat liran and cottonseed or linseed meal, it can't he made to serve a useful purpose. Sowing Timothy and Clover. When seeding after rye or wheat sow upon the last snow or when the trosl has hardened the ground. The advantage, of sowing upon snow is the more even distribution of the seed, as the foot-marks remain as a guide for the next strip sown. If possible use one of the wheelbarrow seeders. Should the ground be free from snow use three stakes as guides, one at each side thc other placed in the centre of thc field. You can then sow evenly without depending upon the dead furrows or drill marks as a guide. Should the sowing he delayed until the surface of the grouud is dry, then after sowing go over with a brush or slanting tooth harrow, A good brush harrow is mado by nailing brush of any tough wood on the lower side of a plank eight or ton inches wido and six or eight feet in length. One horso will readily drag this over the surface going the samo way the grain was drilled. It will not only cover up a large per cent, of the grass seed, but loosen up thc surface soil and in fact cultivates aud stimulates the grain plant to a morc vigorous growth and consequent greater production. In seeding after spring grain it may he sown hefore or after the drill if you hive one of the improved grain drills. If the seed is sown by hand it should follow the grain seeding soun as possible and ere rain falls to crust the surface; in either case the roller should be used for better securing the crops, but in pulverising the lumps and compressing the soil covers to a proper depth most of the grass seed. If the field be fertile and somewhat moist a little alsike clover should be added to the timothy or red clover seeding. It blooms earlier than either and often succeeds when both the others are partial failures. In seeding with timothy one peck per acre will give belter results than a less quantity, or six iiii no offensive smell, as the hard packing of tho manure prevents fermentation. An area of 12x7 feet, would he enough for one aiots-, it being essential that the stall be wide enough for thecowtolieerosswaysorparal and at a good round price. Remember that with a liberal seeding you obtain a good stiff sod quicker, a finer quality of hay, and, by occupying the whole ground crowd out weeds, fully shade the ground ; besides it lei -villi die manger, this being theseeretof' is vastly more important to you to gather a bet keeping clean, With two cows kepton | full heavy crop than apoor one. Often fifty i floor 10x10 feet or less, with plenty of j cents' worth additional seed por acre would (leu .ling, the manure will become two to I have increased the value of pasture or hay iiu\M feet thick in four months, aud it is! several dollars per acre, aud fuilhermore necessary after Iwo months, to put an extra j use extra precaution in obtaining only pure hoard on tho front of the manger, and a false ! clean seed, bottom, the bottom being simply a board cot \ i '..tt and nailed to the edges of some 2x8 feet setntling to raiso it from the real bottom, "he false bottom and front can be laid away for another vear when not in use. Sheep aud Swine- Che editors ot the American Wool and ���.ton Roporter, of Boston, have bought About Deep Ploughing- We heartily advocate deep plowing assured that the productive capacity of most, if not all, soils corresponds to the depth at which they are broken, provided the deepening process has been earned on in a gradual way, and fertilizers being added to aid atmospheric action upon the soil during the while, thus giving il proper productiveness, which subsoils alone do not have. fhe great benefit derived from deep plowing, ii to be- found in the increased ability of the soil to absorb and retain moisture ; also, pi int-food, and hold it in a more available condition, storing up in its enlarg I ipa .';.'��� th food and moisture to ��� of the abandoned farms in Maine and stocking them with sheep tn prove H ether New England farms may be mado itable and iho soil improved by stock ���-' iwing. How can we reduce the cost if pork! I st by i lui ing the tin to produce it, '. ��� irifty, _ iwing pig wl li will weigh 200 tidsgross, and wi ��������� meal well ;" drawn upon in unfavorable seasons. rkod.i ean,isdesir ["his iv .. il fh -i oi loubl is much, oi :. n . moist- ined at six months, and where a - ��� oishi I ��� .;.'. ';��� ... third of a er dairy is run in tvith pig ten-in i . in tin - of drouth as is fur- .-��� ing ... i reater weight is '��� nislied by the i imaining i pei ial two- (jibl . When ' ull vs : iwe t food f - ��� i,: ";: I .- |g ,;.| ������ . i , vill be given md as most loswillbarre i pas a id op originally, they ,: ng changed rought lo it in a gradual man- . _ . ,- .... ... pro] i , 01 ���.-.'. ial not iwth, ii v. .- upon the i ' ': i ild surface om ��� vord ba the mixing! . ted . .,. nplov or.*free tensil . . ��� ..... u*teria. The fetid (term life quick , ... P :. n pi ��� may call what; luci ,��� -.. ne general iti - le i n il - . ;,; . .. ,d ilk and butter qu ��� ption ... ploj igenl m ng vii in the bounds il i ion . i .-��� i, na vate it h leak The in li itions aro thai the dairymen ��� ing towar I the plan of soiling the m - nonths, and, so far as possible, keep the out up to their full olds 'A h it this larg ir, toiling crop shall be is no', ettlotl. the winter. ��� ��� - jiving l food v 'ood pork i, so thai * ;���'" " v ��� ��� . od we I ��� ,. -. .. t few days. The is . . . ,i Some smile a e ol i flow to Grow Onions. wlngo loi ifrom thesi i co ns i d i is be - M irket gardenoi - oi by some pi.'11 in the hot suminorI them 'on ii .1 when i lOtii o size of peas, or a tli pulled, dried and ��� : ������������ i Sometime i poi ito ��� leading idea is that nothingcanbo better seed onions are grown bj ker, bat ,- iheaper than an extra pit of silage, put nino-tonths of the onloi ion the up the fall boforo, md carried over for this markol if'"'' maturing ireprobab - pe .1 purpose, The duly outting of from I icksood,so�� - ipring special soiling crops from day to day is a mdn itured tha lames i hlnk n long, never-ending job, and the unccrtaititj largo proportion ol the onions produoetl ... of the crops coming In soason, owing to tho family kitchen gardon are tlso \ ��� Ironth and tho like, makes the problom ol Irom the olaok socd. To grow largo soiling mo of perplexity, The Iowa station to full maturity ii f ni ��� ''-un interesting report on thlsqttcs' tion, They found that a cow wculd oat nol fal from 7-i pounds of green food i day, M d where this soiling ration was ip "i" up ii -���. irly. As foi the kind of soil, wo h ivo soon largo ' rope, 500 lo 000 bushels pei icre, grown on a light sandy soil, and wo have pect to grow maximum crops on a strong, friable loam, with a considerable admixture of clay in its composition, but such a soil, in ordinary seasons, would not be dry enough to work as early in spring as it is desirable to sow the seed, hence we would prefer a light, sandy loam, which we would endeavor to fill as full as possible, artificially, with plant-food. And this brings up the question of manure. Vou do not want to put coarse, raw, unfermented stable manure upon an onion patch. It will be in the way all the season and, moreover, it will probably be lull oi weed seed that will greatly increase the labor, consequently r.ost, of cultivating it. Cow manure, free from litter, hog manure, well digested, hen manure, wood ashes and honest conirncicial fertilizers are good manures. The best unions we ever raised were fertilized with the scraping ofa large hog yard, where hogs had boen fattened for several successive years. If we choose a light, sandy loam, we would commence its cultivation jus' as soon as the frost would permit, having no fear of its baking if worked when wet. Wc would not work it very deep���six or seven inches is deep enough ; but we would work it very line. Tho Disk cultivator or the Acme harrow are good macldnos for comminuatlng the soil, Of course, after doing all possible towards fining the soil with cultivator, harrow and perhaps, roller, we would use the steel rake vigorously and thoroughly, raking out every stone or clod as large as a good -sized marble. Then we would make haste to sow the seed. If you have well tested the seed and know that 90 per cent, will grow, four or five pounds of seed will sutlioc tor an acre. As for varieties, perhaps for general markets you will be sale to sow Danvers Yellow and Wetherslield Red, but it might be well to experiment a little with Southport White Globe, Spanish King (or Prize Taker) and Silver King. If you are planting much of a patch it will pay to use a garden drill. Planet Junior probably gives as general satisfaction as any. Drills may be from 11 to 1-1 inches apart, and should be made very straight, as that will facilitate working them, and straight rows look incomparably better, anyway. Onion seed do not vant to be sowed deep : half au inch is deep enough, and then you need not be afraid of packing the surface too much. As heavy an iron hand roller as two men can draw will not hurt anything. There seems to be a great amount of potential energy wrapped up in an onion seed, and it really seems to delight in applying it in forcing its radicle downwards and its plumule upwards through the most compact of soils. Then, rnlessthe soil is well picked around tho seeds, the air enters and expels the moisture and the seeds are a long time germinating. Just as soon as you can sec to follow the rows you want to commence cultivation. Vou do not want to cultivate deep, but you want to keep the surface stirred and you want lo destroy the weeds before they are fairly rooted. Onco fairly rooted, it takes double the labor to eradicate them than it does when they are just started and very feeble. It is easy enough to cut up thc weeds between the rows with hoe, seulllo- hoe or hand cultivator, but when you get down to pull the weeds in the rows, then comes tho " pull and tug of war." There is no evading the issuc,those weeds must come out, or no onions, An old stub of a knife will facilitate weeding hy enabling you to dig up the weeds between the plants. There i.s no necessity for thinning the onions, for they will grow well, half a dozen In the same spot. Sprms; Oare of Stock, Spring is generally a more critical time for stock than winter, During the low temperature of the winter months stock have a ravenous appetite and will eat almost anything,the product of the vegetable kingdom, that is placed hefore them���badly cured hay, moldy stalks���or they w ill even get their living from the straw stack. So great is the demand of the system for fuel to sustain the vital temperature that almost anything oontaining sugar and starch, or even woody fibre, will De consumed to enable them to withstand the tigers of winter. The best, brightest, most palatable, most nutritious hay and cornstalks should bs larefully stored for this emergency. Too often the best fodder in thoughtlessly fed I first, and lhat which stood long before cut-1 ting or was exposed to rains until weather-1 beaten is left on hand as the only dependence during the vernal months, Cows led upon suoh fo Ider will ho sure to shrink iu | milk and flesh, to grow weak and perhaps! e disease I, If thej are dry and ex- ed to calve soon thoy are in poor oondi- i tion to pass through that trying ordeal. Horses, kepton maintenance rations through tho winter, perhaps allowed1 orun n barnyard and under sheds and obtain n considerable portion of their susten- .ui e from the straw ataok, need now to ho p i ired for the severe labor of spring, plow- ng md preparing the gro.in-l for spring id assisting in Bowing and planting I lie* ihould have the best ol la grain ration, small at first but intly increasing until they reach a full work it mdard, 'ims aro a hotter spring '������in. They uontainmore prot- ucle-building and less ot the beat- forn lei anl). But oats and corn . i igotlu r, equal parts by weights, i to ine ''I i om hy measure, make ll horse feed for liio spring work. .u1 to I.e ime of the cheapest i ��� wheat is lho lowest in price i oi reals at present, No mistaki .���I.- if equal parts, by measure, ol' rn and oat! provender and wheat! r fed, Stii ha,ration would beimprov- rowing in a handful or two of cot- ��� i meal w lini I meal to Bverj feed ing ��� - pnsod i ',"-., il care during tho ro- ' g we ithi i of spring, If thoy havo nol id dn through tin ��� ntor, as all sheep ��� io ' rl, ii in will be groal dangorol loosen. i wool, ifgraii Ing ho i om m ������ I in .. lining ��l ' hi: ie i ion ia very oa .��� ,'i d for liii-'o us, from tho thlokno sol ������ , in- vory ii ible to languor md loss of appolll mild days, Abovo ..il, hoop need grim ior strength- anl i them through tho lambing soason and to furnish an abundanoe ol milk . lambs will oi lu ring the stronglli mothori. fihoop are ospooially in lined to turn ivray from poor hay inapring and moro so if they have beon permitted to He I i istoofgraae, Thsy should bo o.uofnlly yardod at thia time, even though allowed to ply will be a damage to them and they should be rigidly excluded from it. After they have dropped their lambs and are nursing them a little succulent food of some kind is very beneficial. Few farmers have roots, but more and more every year are coming to have ensilage, Small rations, daily, of well preserved, sweet ensilage will help the sheep out amazingly at this critical period of motherhood. Even swine require more attention to their feed iu the spring than in the winter time. Hogtribh as they proverbially are, we have seen them turn from their ordinary rations on mild spring days with apparent disgust. When they do this their feed should be changed until they fully recover theirappetites and their powers of digestion. They would be glad of a little ensilage, or loots or, perhaps, clover hay at such times. Skim milk, slightly soured, with some meal or bran stirred in, will generally be appreciated by swine, when surfeited with their ordinary feed. POOR OUTLOOK FOR WHEAT. Report*. I'i i (he Wesl ami Norlh-WciK Are nisro-iraj-liii;. From all the information that can be scoured regarding the new wheat crop iu the Western States, it can be said that it is far from encouraging. In Illinois the early-sown wheat is in fairly good condition, but late-sown has been injured considerably by the severe Winter. In North and South Dakota and Minnesota the Winter has been long and severe. The roads arc rendered impassable by enormous snowdrifts, and it is impossible to give a reasonable estimate. From Indiana the rcpo, ts indicate a falling off in the condition of Winter wheat. In the northern and southern part of the State heavy rains that prevailed in the latter part of February left the roots exposed to the frost that followed, and it is estimated that, with the most favorable conditions from now on, not more than a half crop will be harvested. The most favorable estimates for the entire State place the yield at from one-half to two-thirds of a crop. The eastern part of Kansas reports the plant in a generally fair condition, but in the western portion a great many fields were not sown until January, and some as late aa February. In many places there has not been any moisture to cause the grain to Br rout, and it lies in the ground unsprouted. With the conditions favorable from now on the eastern part of the State will produce a good crop. Tho outloook in Missouri for wheat has greatly improved within thc lost two weeks. Indications arc pr omisiiig, and the most reliable estimates plaoe the yield at 7"> per cent. m mam m florticnltara, A well kept hedge nukes a useful, ornamental and economical fence, but when left to run riot it soon becomes a nuisance. Small plants and vinc3, planted in a garden, should have a stako set close to them, to mark their whereabouts, so tlieymay not be stepped upon nor injured in hoeing or cultivating, The cultivator dootroyo mum of those sin ill plants and vines I han perhaps uny other one thing. There is one word I should like to write in large lei ters over every garden in the country, and that is the word "mulch." It expresses very much to the experienced planter. A mulch about a newly transplanted tree or over a bed of roses or other llowers, consisting of a slight application of partly decayed manure, will do more to keep the ground moist and loose and in condition to encourage growth than any other method, more than could bo accomplished if a man should stand over them continually with a water pot. This is tho best method known, Many good seeds fail to produce good plants. This is generally , *,ng to the poor surroundings, a bad season or uncongenial soil; but, nevertheless, the percentage of good ones will bc such us to ensure a fairly successful crop, but seed that is poor in possibilities should not bo naeil, for in the most favorable circumstances it ean only produce an inferior plant. Transplanting is oirtaiuly a shock to any plant or tree or vine It requires time to recover from this shock, and favorable conditions. The cold weather of curly spring is not favorable for the immediate recovery of plants from this shock, but the warm weather of the latter part of May and ull through June is very favorable for tho recovery of full vigor; then the soil is in the host condition 'for renewing the growth of the transplanted oretit'on, Strange as it may appear, the growth of a peach tree seems to have much to do with its longevity, Early maturity means early (loony, Too much growth in one year is always liable to prove injurious to longevity, sooner or later. In order to he productve and profitable, the newly-formed liber must be matured und ripened by autumn rather than by the zero days of winter. If the soil has not beon previously exhausted by cropping, no fertilizer is necessary until the trees begin to bear. Thorough cultivation will produce growth enough unless the soil is very poor. THE DEADLY TROLLEY. i liny Killed III Tiirouto by nn Electric Cur. The trolley claimed another victim in Toronto thc othcr day. The accident occurred about half past twelve o'clock near the intersection of (^iicoii and Vanauley streets, Two sons of Mr, Ocorge Cloodridge, whoso home is at ,'t0 Bulwor street, aged ten and , four years respectively, had gone on a nies- Bags from their homo to a Queen street dairy. On their roturn journey tho younger hoy attempted to cross thu lino in front of i ,111 cist bound trolley, but was struck and! carried along for nearly IIX) feet before the car could bo stopped, The poor littlo fellow, torrlblj mangled, was borno Into tho! undertaking establishment of Mr. W. K. Murphy, and Drs. Cowan andOgden were at once called in. The lad was afterwards conveyed to tho Uomiepathio hospital on Colloge street, whero death nut an oud to his pain in about two hours after his arrival. Mis injuries were frightful. His skull had heen crushed in and the scalp badly lorn. Ull left log broken in two places, and the right was nearly crushed oil. Those who were present a^rcc that the ear was not moving very fast. Hom-IH, anil Candles. Sol., like foalt or Electricity,once a plaything, then a scientific study, is now a commercial product. Twenty years ago electrical energy was generated in the laboratory for experimental purpose by a few physicians as a medicine of somewhat questionable repute, and in weak currents by those who applied it to use in the arts. From the cylinder of glass or mastic, excited by friction to set cork mannkins of pitch balls a-dauciug to the dynamo that runs from one to a dozen powerful engines is a long step, but ono that has been taken within tho memory of men who still call themselves young. Electricity aa a commercial product is to those that deal in it as commonplace an affair as eggs or butter. The conditions and cost of its production are positively known, and the product may be measured almost as the clerk with his yardstick measures dry goods. You may buy your electricity by specific quantities, and, if you have tlie convenienccs.muy carry it homo with you as you would carry any other purchase. It can be sent to you by express or delivered by messenger, or it may be served out over a wire in measured quantity, as gas and water arc served through pipes. All this seems mysterious to those not technically educated, because the electricity shops do not count their product by dozens Or measure it by yards und gallons, but uso outlandish denominations and a puzzling scientific nomenclature. Nevertheless the shopkeepers aie at home with the mysterious limber thing in which they deal, and they never stop to think about its mystery, although just beyond the small field which their knowledge covers there lies an unknown urea of conjecture. Electricity as a commercial product and a handy tool, applicable to anything that mechanical power can accomplish, is a thing approximately of only the last ten years, Before that time its costs made it mostly a matter of splendid practical possibilities. Now, with conditions given, a skilled electrician can estimate to a hair the cost of producing the amount of electricity necessary to yield u specified power. It is chiefly a question oi the cost of coal, The existence of two simple laws makes electricity a practical power for doing the world's work. One is that whon an armature is caused to rotate within the magnetic field a current of electricity is excited in the armature and may bc taken up carried out over a wire and returned to the place of beginning. That is what electricians call the law of the dynamo. The other law is that when a current of electricty is passed through an armature enclosed within the. magnetic field thc armature is caused to rotate. That is what electricians call the law of the motor. By the first law a current of olectrieity is set up und by the second that current is enabled to establish mechanical motion, When these two laws become known the problem of applying electricity to the world's work mainly needed for solution only a cheapening of processes, such us should make it possible to produce a curren', at commercial rates. Every dynamo, whatever its form, as regards the communication of electrical energy is essentially an eleetrn-inngnct wiih a core of soft iron, tho armature enclosed within the magnetic field, whicli is the space between the two poles of the elcetro-magiiet. Every motor, whatever its form, is essentially the same tiling, with the core revolving under the influence of a current from the dynamo in accordance with the law of the motor. The core of lho dynamo, revolving under the inlluonce of the magnetic Held, is'u shaft, thc current generated is the belt communicating power to another shaft, the core of the motor. It is this transference of power by thc invisible bell from the dynamo to the motor that makes the trolley cars run, the electrical engine revolve, or auyother mechanism perforin its work under the in- lliience of electricity thus generated. 1TI.0 storage battery is simply an isolated reservoir of electrical energy, for the time being independent of the generating source, us if a user of water should prefer to fill a tank in the top of his house once a week rather than to draw from fauoots directly connected with the main source of supply. A Chinese Barbirity, Year byyearhundreds'ofthouaandsof little girls through the wide Empire of China are subjected to a ruthless process which crushes the bones und wrenches thesinowi. of their tender feet, until at last u revolting deformity isproduoed, and the hot, crumbled into a shocking monstrosity, beoomes almost valueless as a means of locomotion. The wretched girl emerges from her period of feverish torture a mutilated cripple, condemned to hobble through lifo on feet which preserve no semblance of nulute's beautiful mechanism, having become as hideous as they arc useless. Some people say that, though the foot is ultimately deformed, though the woman is indeed condemned to be little better than a cripple, yet the process is not so very painful after all, The bones are soft, they say, in early youth ; the sinews supple. Twisting, crushing, and wrenching are operations that may be performed without much suffering on baby feet, whereas adults would be maddened by the torture. This fiendish barbarity is being practised daily and hourly throughout the length und breadth of u land oontaining 300,a 000,000 inhabitants, Snow Avalancltej in the West. One of the greatest and in some respects most-appalling dangers that threaten miners and mining camps in the mountain of the West and Northwest at this season and on into the spring is from tho tremendous avalanches of snow that sweep down the mountain side, carrying away and burying everything in their path. The odgo of n, terrific snow slidenear Kaslo, Wash., laU week, swept over the entrance to a mine,carried away all the buildings, blacksmith- shops, sheds, storehouse* and 40(1 to ,100 tons of ore,and two miners,who ran out from thc mine opening to see what was the cause t the great roaring sound. The men were buried under l.'iO feet of snow, and their bodicH will not be recovered until late in thc spring. Warmer Climate?. Patient���" What do you think of a warmer climate for me, doctor';" Doctor��� " My dear man, that's jusl what I'm trying t) save you from." A THRILLING STORY OF CHINESE TREACHERV. CHAPTER XIV'.-'Continu-i..) " I must tell you," he commenced," what led to this discovery, in order that you may fully understand the means whioh I propose to follow, in order to rescue Norris betore noon to-morrow. I said nothing to you in the early morning, because my ideas were of that kind which seem to be obviously wrong, because they offer a certain temptation to the mind. After the departure of the three lesser mandarins who brought the sentence of my banishment, I set myself immediately to fathom motives; for a Chinaman seldom acts without a motive, and seldom without one whioh is, if it be evil, obscure and deep, That Shan-min-yuen bad only yesterday resolved upon this act on seeing us together was obvious. Now what could it matter to him that you and I should consort together; aud why did he watch you so narrowly in the eating-house': Plainly, to my miud, he [ " It was an Englishman's cry���the voic8 of William Norris I "From this I knew that all hope of communication, from outside, or of saving him in that way, was taken away : for, from the cry, hc was then, so I judged, under torture and therefore his liberty within the walls is a thing of the past. "I thrust back the feeliugs that rushed upon ne when I heard the shriek, for now out of all my life had cometh.tt moment when my Chinese nature must be called upon, when for another's sake my feelings must be mastered ; for in moments of the most intense excitement the heart must be stilled, if circumstance is to be overcome. "It was clear to mc that haste must be avoided, even at the risk of Norris's life," He paused for a moment. "And what then?" I cried "You did not leave him at their mercy ?" "He is still in the Temple of Confucius. I did, indeed, strive to reach him ; but a suspected something. \*. hat was tins some- j ponion of the teninle-so they told me, and thing ? That we were spies! W hat would , m . luV(, e,:p,ctCl*_wa3 sicred ground, and that mutter to him ? Anl supposing that, thu, k < a b&rr))(- door_n;vyi mMV tor he did take such interest as this in hia Gov-; m ht { kll0w-between me and him, ernment my banishment would not meet the ;th protected their right to retain emergency. Our treatment would have | Wi(llam Kon.i3 in the holv groHml, been different had we been regarded as I Ag j stiU ke to ,hem *I|0t men. spies. Then what else could he suspect,- tiom- that , ha(1 ,,eartl a cry or the truth ? The actual oase that you sought knew htof thcir capti,ityi ��� continued for a man lost in I'ekin'-how could he to question within myself what means I dream of such a thing, when no one knew might employ to enter wha thev called the of the Bwallows' message save you and II My thought stopped there. I dropped that point, after pondering upon it for some time. Then 1 started afresh. Where was William Norris confined, allowing the aus. moro sacred grounl, and I remembered that Siian-miii-yuen's name would have an influence, and I was about to speak that name, when suddenly it occurred to me that I had a greater thing���my pardon piciou to stand that Shan-min-yuen was j ������ & h him ami b the g** * e power. alike our enemy _and his'; And there 11and I drew this forth. But caution wills- stopped, for I could go no further. " With these strange ideas, which I was drawn to in one way und yet repelled from by common sense in the other, 1 fell asleep last night, There wa3 temptation to me to fiud in Shan-min-yuen the enemy we had to face; and this temptation I perceived was influencing my thoughts, and banishing all hopes of a clear and.unprejudiced view, it was this perhaps that made me moody and austere i for I could not reconcile the two- justice of what I ought to think, and the temptation of what was forcing itself upon me. " During the night I had a strange dream ���a dream that took me back in thought to the old time���back to the time before my exile to Ihe day when I met Fa-to-man in mortal combat eighteen years ago. I have told you of that evening when I crushed down the serpent-man, who would have stabbed me from behind because I stood his successful rival in the State examination; and I have told you how I cut my name in the flesh of his brow as he lay beneath me in the dust. I do not know if 1 told you where it was that this occurred. "There is an old stone of considerable size standing half upright in the road which passes by the Temple of Confucius. It was there���within two feet from this stone ���that I left Fa-to-man lying in the dust. " My dream���and, strange as it may seem, I have never, during the eighteen years gone by. seen this vision in my sleep��� touK mo back to that hour, aud I thought I saw Fa-to-man again, as he lay there with the blood of his brow mingling with the dust, wheu suddenly I perceived that 1 was alone���that it seemed to be years afterward ; since I recollected the past, and 1 commenced to wontler why I had come lo stand upou this spot long after as I had done, and why I stood waiting there now ; and the tpiestion troubled me, so that I lost sight of the well-remembered scene, aud suddenly 1 awoke. "Although 1 slept afterward, the impression cf the dream remained with me ; and in the early dawn, whilst I lay awake pondering upon its meaning, a connection flashed across me as a half-born thought: " Shan-min-yuen is the benefactor of the temple���the father of the priesthood ! " I am relating to you as clearly as I can tiie working of my mind, for I put down the action of the dream to the freak of u brain that was still endeavoring to work out its own plot, and by no means at all attributable lo chance or miracle. A dream is closely connected with the waking thoughl. There is nothing mystic or wonderful in this dream of mine. pered to me at the last moment, ' Wait, and return with your English friend; you will need his aid, and you can not desert him.' "I left the temple,and returned hither at a rapid pace, You were still absent. " Here is my pardon, It reads thus, as I have told you: "l Permit and Give Hosoe To ClIIN-CllIX-WA.' " And it is signed by the father of the Confucian priesthood, by Shan- min-yuen���by the man, that is to say, whose interest it is to confine William Norris in the Templo of Confucius, with its priests for guardians. "Thu3 reads my pardon���to the outside world as relating only to my freedom from exile -. but, if presented to the priests, whose world ia their temple, it will bear another meaning. "And the possession of this name attached to these words, 'Permit and give honor to,' will, to my belief, give ine entry and freedom to act as Shan-min-yuen himself might act in the most sacred precincts of the Confucian temple, "To use this pardon iu the way iu which I intend to do will result in thia���I shall bring William Norris free out of the temple but immediately thereafter instant flight is our only chance. "Do this thing before your return I could not, though they were hours of bitterness you caused me topass. " To have secured Norris would have been to leave you, for I did not know what had become of you ; ao I waited, and to-day it is so late, but to-morrow there is still time." I was silent for a long time when he ceased to apeak. "Is all clear to you':'' lie asked at length. " You see now, do you not, that there is still hope'!" " Yes," was my reply; "only a few things I must ask you." "Proceed," was the laconic reply. "Are you certain there is no mistake; sure that Norris is confined in this temple': We have this paper, The words tit exactly but are you certain that the man is still alive ?" "I am sure of this���that he was within the temple, and that I heard his cry but a few hours ago. But, even whilst we speak, he may be expiring under the torture to which, his cry tells me, he was then subjected." "Is there nothing to bc done to-night I asked despairingly. "Nothing," he replied solemnly; then "These thoughts though in a measure i in a little, he continued, " Out he has lived half-born only, iu that I still denied them | all these days that are passed���for nearly a year now, we shall say; have hope still that we are yet in time. This speaks for him, does it not ? I am banished. Why should I be banished, if to kill William Norris eflects the object in view; there is some reason, some cause, why he should uot die, else why should he have lived till now?" I did not answer, for in my heart of hearts there was nothing but despair: ay belief, yet troubled me greatly, and led me to ask you for this paper. You had scarcely given it me when I perceived that I must believe, for 1 had found the truth. "The Templo of Confucius I���ii filled the space exactly, " 1 did not hasten lo pul my discovery before you as soon at made, because I wished to work out every detail before 1 gave you the fads. Thus it waa that, whilst I ... aat dreaming in solitude of scenes which! ''-oiP��ir and a wild longing that the past I caused to pass before my mental inlgu' <*��mc again���that those hours, whon eye, yon wont out alone, and when U had strayed as lost through the dust-laden I sought you but half an hour i streets, might he given back to me,-and liter 1 sought you in vain. I waited \ '��� was now but vain to conceive the desire, sometime for your return ; and you can i Night had fallen upon us and drawn forth imagine that impatience was but natural, > J manlie silvery with stars, and I stood beam! that as you did not come within an fore Chin-chjn-wa In tho courtyard wiih hour, it was at le-st excusable that I could bear thesnspense no longer. William N'orris was a prisoner iu the Temple of Confucius. I was certain of it, and 1 determined at once to aet out. " It is along journey from here to the temple, I went on foot, and I reached it at length, " Aud now that I had done so I recognized my powerlessncss, for I had, as yet, no plan of action, and knew no means by which I could reach the prisoner. In this frame of miud I walked round the templo, examining tho building, and endeavoring to hit upon some means of communication ; for it was certain that the priests would on no account allow to mo, a stranger, un entry into that part��of the temple where their prisonor was confined. " ll was ovidcnt to me that Norris must have boon permitted in the old time. lowed head, ieeling that 1 alone was answerable for what Ind been. CHAPTER \V, During that night neither of us slept; and in the long hours Ciiin-ehin-wa gave me more clearly the story which he had pieced together, little by little. The intricacies of the pu/zle had, to his mind, cleared away. Why Shan-min-yuen had so suddenly decided upon hia banishment he was ac a loss to say ; for a few days more or less could scarcely have been of account, unless, indeed, he had aome cause for immediate alarm, Che meeting in the eating-house was clearly insufficient cause to determine bis taking such immediate and summary action. Only one suggestion occurred to us: bad Bonsel iii any way spoken of our visit when he caught the swallow which brought and given thc first shadow of suspicion to its message lo you, a certain degree of lib-j the Chinaman's mind? The thought cut erty within its walls; and, il still alive, his keenly; but we could not answer it either position in this respect might be unaltered, "yes" or "no." and flight by means of ropes thrown from , For the rest, all was clear; and, indeed, outside he possible, wcre. we able to com- the old saying, that truth is strangest of all Humiliate with him and learn if Ihis were so. . struck me forcibly, as I looked back upon I was cogitating thus, when suddenly I the working of fate and upon the tissue beard aahriok from Within -a shriek asofa | which had been apparently undone. man in tori ure ; and 1 knew instantly that il was a European and not a Chinese voice, [or tho Chinese oan not cry In their pain loudly, nor as u European cries, Was it nol, indeed, a chance hy which we learned lhat Shan-min-yuen waa the father of the Confucian priesthood? Was if not a coincidence that this strange tale should be but a prejudiced one, in that Shan j uiin-yuen was his foe? Shan-min-yuen was at the rout ot all, It I was he, as the father of the temple, who had placed Norris his captive there ; and there, whether in hope of a ransom or that ! he was afraid to kill lhe Englishman, he kept him in captivity���a prison safer than 1 which there was none. Chin-ohin-wa alone possessed a key to I unlock its most sacred recess: for it was clear that, it" Norris was alive, we might save him still, because of the reading of the exile's pardon, which said, " Permit and give honor," aud these words in another ', senso the temple would obey. But danger 1 was on all sides; for Chin-chin-wa became I a doomed man after noon on the morrow, and the distance from our dwelling to the temple, and again from the temple to the Tungehow date, would take hours to traverse. Chin-chin-wa had ordered palanquins to convey us in state to the Confucian temple, in order to give the air of reality and of high degree to the visit, which we had agreed upon for the earliest hour on the morrow at which it would be advisable to approach the priests. All our plans were laid. Our host, the old keeper of the curio store, was to befriend miu the hour of need. He was to meet us outside the gate, so Chin- chin-wa arranged, with our ponies ready for the road. And the great question now was this -. giving that all went well -giving that William Norris still lived and that wo could save him���was it possible to reach the gate thereafter beforo the noonday hour ? To go to the priests at daybreak would have created suspicion. Chin-ohin-wa knew something of the temple rites, and the hour fixed upon was in accordance with these. For my part I pondered much upon what Chin-ohin-wa had said. That Bonsel should have pressed me to go to Shan-min- yuen, knowing what we now knew, seemed incredible. The only possibility was that Bousel had been unaware, aa Chin- chin-wa surmised, even of the connection between his friend Shan-min-yuen and the Temple of Confucius. Still I could not but feel that in this case he had had small ground for urging upon me that I should trust his Chinese friend, It was true���at least I could not bring myself to suppoac otherwise, or to tliink badly in any way of my late host���that Bonael put his trust in the Chinaman ; but hia connection could not have been of so close a character, to my thinking, as to warrant his endeavors to induce me to become the guest of his friend. I could only think that Bonsel had been a dupe; and that, whilst his business relations might be satisfactory, those of his friend ship had been throughout rotten at the heart, though to him it may have seemed otherwise. It was fortunate indeed that the Discoy had sent me the assistance of Chin-chin-wa, for by his means and his insight into the character of the man, whom strangely enough we were now brought into close contact with, we had cleared the mystery. Had not Chin-chin-wa heard the cry from the temple, I should have been inclined to argue against all that now seemed ao clearly to be the truth ; but I knew well that Chin- chin-wa waa not one to be led aatray by his thoughts, and his very reticence upon the matter until the timo when lie had thoroughly convinced his own mind that this thing was true, was of itself a proof sufficent that he had not spoken of thoughts which could have led him far astray. I fell a-musing upon the awful fate of William Norris, and to wondering in what way he had given to theswallow the message which had reached mc months before, and a certain terror descended upon mc as I conjectured wildly the tortures whicli he might even now be undergoing whilst we, who hud found him and were longing to rescue him, wereobligedtowaitforthetardy approach of day. My thoughts were of too numerous a character to be decisive in any way. If I thought of Bonsel, and of his relations to the traitor, my ideas wandered away to the temple where Norris lay, ami buck to the agony of remorse for the wasted hours gone by���an agony that I could not banish, strive as I might. And thus in a strange jumble of thought ���for indeed it is little wonder that I should have been so at this time���I waited with Chin-ohln-wa (seldom speaking as the hours Went by), merely longing with a great unquenchable desire for the day to come. I marvelled much too at the unraveling, simple now as it seemed lobe, of what had been indeed a tangled web. Chance had in the end befriended us���alas! perhaps too late, since only a few hours were now left us during which Chin-chin-wa might act with me, It wus true lhat upon me the. sontenceof banishment had not fallen -.but it was by Chin-ohln-wu's pardon alone, so fur as my mind could perceive, that Norris might be saved. Thus thinking, an idea occurred to me. Supposing that Chin-cliin-wa was ablo to effect nothing, ho might still assist me by reason of his pass. I could do it if Chin-chin-wa could not��� that is to say, I might, by placing him in u position of danger, of winch I realized the full extent, from tlie recollection of the near approach of a terrible end upon the losing ol thc pardon on our way from Tientsin, succeeded in gaining admittance to the temple by impersonating Chin-chin-wa. Chin-chin-wa's plan, should Ihe morrow- fail to terminate the affair, wus that he should at cnee return to Tientsin, leaving mc here, whilst be fetched Bonsel to Pekin j for neither ho nor I could bolicvo in the possibility of complicity between Shan-min- yuen and his German friend. And having placed hefore Bonsel fully I the true state of the case, it was his intention to challenge the friendship of whicli Bonael had boasted, and of which we had nearly becomo the victims, and to say to him, " It lies with you lo prove to us your good faith. The detention of William Norris now seriously iillbcts your honor, and you must bring about hia escape. How will you do this ? Will you go Rteulthily to your Chinese friend, ami pit your cunning against his, whilst we assist you from afar off, as wc can ; or will you prove your reliance upon your Chinese friendship and your belief in Shan-min-yuen, und go to him to demand thc release of his priaoner, with the certainty that hc will not refuse'!" 1 had objected to this plan beoause, ua 1 had said, Bonsel would from the first have refiiBcd to believe in that which waa only substantiated by a weak chain of evidence ; for, aa yet, we hail truly no proof, " How then," I said, " will you succeed in moving lionsel from Tientsin, and, having uoeoiii- arma! What did you aay to him ?" *��� l sua hold on !' Mrs. Bix���"J wonder why parrots learn to swear so easily I" Mr. Bix--" I gueai because they have auch awful bills before them," There is not much difference between! young man's Iirst love affair and the way he feela when he first sits in a barber's chair. IJrown���" The facial features plainly indicate character and disposition. In selecting your wife were you governed by her chini'' .(ones-"No, but I have been ever since i married." Mandy���" Well, Silas, I reckon you found Laura's bouse awful fine?" Silaa��� "Them that likes it can call it fine. But she has a piany in every room and not a berlatii.t in the house.'' Firat Landed Proprietor���" Oo you have good police protection out your way1" Second Landed Proprietor���"Do we ."Well, [should say ao. We have the prettiest hired girl in the city." A stamp orator wauled the wings of a bird to Ily to every village and hamlet in the broad hind ; bit ho collapsed when a man in the crowd sang out: " You'd get shot for a> goose before you flew a mile.' .lako���"Here's an advertisement iu the paper for that dog you found. The man who owns him oilers a reward." .Tim��� "How d'ye know it's a man ?" Jake��� "The paper says, ' No questions asked.'" "The demon Rum," said thc temperance orator; " the demon Rum is a���is���a���er��� (sotto voce to prompter) Pat I give me the word, quick 1 (Aloud) The demon is a��� "Daisy '." shouted the prompter. There's no need of your sitting up ao late waiting for me to come home," suggested young Mr, Fitts to his wife's mother. "It's a habit I got into when waiting ioi* you to go home," ahe explained, "and I can't get over it." Mrs. Flynn-"0iIhearyer Jaugtitct Roaie doboafoine dancer, Mr. Mulligan?" Mrs. Mulligan���" Indade, Mrs. Flynn, yez heard tho truth. Shure the neighbors oome from miles around to sec mo Uosie do the turpentine dance." Hiltner���"It ia wonderful how much some people can endure. Here is a case of a man living two months with a ball in his head without complaining." Gillespie��� "That's nothing. Before Lent my wife hadn't anything but balls in her head and she never complained," Mrs. Binks���" You always thought well ol Mr. Jinks. Why do you speak disparagingly of him now?" Mr. Binks���"Ialways had tho greatest confidence in Jinks until the other night, when he held four aces three times in one game of poker." Hcggy Western!���" How do things stand between you and that little Chatfield girl!" Dicky Doubtful���" I'm in awogulah dilem- revolt on the part of large bodies of traders, I mah ! If she wefuses me I'll want her aw- which has evolved the Manchester Ship fully bad ; and if alie accepts me I know I'll Canal, and whioh has now for many years wish I was out of it I" pastthrealenedtheevolutionofothercanals " You never sit and talk to me as yu designee, to provide transport between the : did before we were married,'' sighed the Midlands and the sea, as well as the revival young wife. ''No," replied the husband, of the whole canal system of the country, who was a draper's assistant. "The guv'- in active competition with railway lines, nor always told ine to stop praising the The railways again plead the high efficiency goods as soon as the bargain wa- struck." ot the service they render, and for this, no j' In hcr advertisement the lady principal doubt, they are entitled to all praise, but, of & school mentloned her |ady assistant And Chin-chin-wa had answered me ; I shall prevail upon him to leave Tientsin. I shall then disclose the truth. And," he added, with a dark look, " it haa come to this���that I shall forfeit Bonsel's life sooner than loss William Norris. In part he has brought it upon himself and I shall tell him to his face that, whatevercouise he may elect to follow, I, Chin-chin-wa, hold his life as guarantee for the freedom of that of Norris, and that so surely as Norris dies he too will die by my hand." liut to me these measures appeared unjustifiable, since we had both agreed that the German was innocent of the merest suspicion of tho actions of his Chinese friend. Thia was the design that occurred to mc. Upon leaving Pekin on the morrow, Chin- chin-wa should give nie hia pardon, thus facing, himself, the danger of death if the exile's murk was known of or seen. I should then go to the temple with the pardon, and use its power us though I myself were Chin- chin-wa. The danger was as great for each ; I knew that he would be willing to face it more readily, if possible, than I, To him it might mean an exile's death. I seemed to see, in my own mind, his strength beaten down by that of a hundred fiends, and the man dying with the unoonqucrcd light still undinnned upon his face. Another form of death might await motile death consequent upon the discovery of treachery���deuth at the hands of the priests or ut the command of Shan min- yuen ; or, indeed, it might be that 1 too should he immured side by side with Norris within the temple grounds. I laid my suggestions before Cliiu-chin-wa. He was not ready to coincido with me because of this���it was our intention already to go to the temple before noon on the morrow ; and it was his firm determination to use his pardon himself, for if danger was to be faced he would face it, (to he cosmi'ED.) Enrrlish Bail road Rates. There is sufficient evidence to show that English railway rates, if thoy have not beon so high as to interfere with the natural development of a trade that has in past years enjoyed redundant prosperity, have at any rate been notably higher than the average rates charged on foreign railwaya, And not only ao, but while the rates on other systems have been more or lesa reduced of late yeara, Kngliah railway rates have remained comparatively unaltered. Reductions have, no doubt, been made here and there, and in some cuaes over a conaiderablc area, but the railway com- paniea adhere to their established principle of charging as much as the trallic will bear, whicli means in u good many instances fully as much as they can get computibly with keeping the traffic alive. It is this admitted practice which hus led to a species of to mc an aphorism of the late Lord Beacons- field, you are not likely to allay the pangs of hunger by regaling your guest with a bottle of Maraschino. and the " reputation for teaching which she bears," but the printer left out the " which," so the lady's advertisement went ,., , , ,, ,,. ., forth commending the lady's " reputation Of what use are these unique facih ies ,1, fop tcachi hc ,*ar3., the traders cannot afford to pay for I hem? ,,.,.,. . , The margin 'available for railroad freight,.' D'cn t you say six months ago that if and for profits is a constantly diminishing Miss Pomtt wouldut marry you you one in all industries alike, and in many | *<-��!<���throw y��.ur8el{)?to Lhe deepest part cases traders can hardly afford a half-1 penny ton-mile rate, where twice that amount would havo been little felt a few years ago. The exploitation of manufac- j turing capital und technical knowledge is receiving a smaller return, while that of the means of distribution appears to stiller no, diminution, It is not unnatural under these condi-: gensatioual tions, that the traders should have become dissatisfied, and should have insisted, aa they did, upon Parliament seriously grappling with thc whole question of railway powers and charges, with a view to making rough placi straight. oi the sea? Now, Miss Porritt married some one else three months ago and yet you haven't������" "Oh, it's easy to talk, but let me tell you it is not such an easy matter to find the deepest part oi the sea." KffiDflESS REMEMBERED. (.rullliiile In l,.v So Hi aa I neoiiiiuon, j It appears that an elderly gentleman ; from the Midland counties traveled up to ! London in tho Spring of 1SS8 for the purpose plain und crooked paths of watching the dobutantes on their way i tor presentation at thc rJuokingham Palace. I Being seized in the course of the afternoon ��� " "��� I with sudden faintuoss he was charitably j assisted by a lady who happened to bc I standing by him at thu time, He has now , ilied'and bequeathed $150,000 to the strange*" j who came to his rescue in this momentary ! illness, I Sensational gratitude is by no means un- j common a3 most of us fancy. Many years ! ago a well-known tradesman stalled busi- i ness in a very humble way in thc west end, His first customer was a doctor, and while showing the doctor some delicate ware, in the nervouanoss of the moment he lot it drop, when it was shattered instantly into a thousand pieces. Very good naturedly the doctor took the blame upon himseli, paid for the broken article and made one or two trifling purchases besides. In due courso the tradesman accumulated a large fortune, when, calling upon his first custom- i.r, he reminded him of the incident, and iu recognition oi bis generosity, settled a thousand a year upon him for life. Strangely enough there lives only a short, distanco higher up in the same street a-io'.hcr wealthy tradeuoan who owes tho origin of his success to ;. similar accident. This man commenced life .is an errand boy, a'nl while driving down Holborn in an omuibuB one pouring wet day he surrendered his seat to an old lady who would otherwise not have found accommodation. In recognition of this acl of courtesy she presently set him up in business on hia own account, and al her deatli bequeathed W him the whole of her very consi lerable fortune, A Village Tragedy. The condition of affairs which thc Deacon ixeliot Acl Commission set itself to inquire into ia grimly illustrated by snme recent events in a Mahrattft village In the Igutpuri district, India. Throe Mahriittus, brothers, and their cousin, a police paid, found themselves, iu common with almost all their fellow-villagers, In the usurious grip of a local Marwarce. The money lender became exigent in his demands, and on a recent day, finding tho corn in his creditors' fields almost all threshed, announced his intention of coining on the following day to take possession of the whole quantity In temporary satisfaction of his claims, The cultivutois ippeiiled lo him to allow them to sell il in the market, where they could get a better price for it than tho Marwarce would credit them with in his books, and by which they would be enabled to pay him an Instalment of lho debt, and have something left over for family use. They appealed in vain ; and next day, true to his word, the Marwarce came to carry out his threat, und carry away the corn. He did not do il, however, for, goaded to desperation, the four men bore him away to a field and strangled him. Hc was on his way to the field when they met him, threw lum down, and hammered him wilb their lists. He cried for mercy, and is said to have offered not only to cancel their debt if they spared his life, but to givo them a sum of monoy in addition. Hia assailants told him his offer came too lato ; that they had begged moiey of him time and again, and he had been deaf to them ; now, therefore, they were deaf to lum. The Marwaree had with him aome twine, which ho was taking with him to sew the bags of grain ho nunc to seize, and they wound his own twine around the Marwaree's neck and tightened it till he was dead. Then they throw the body iu u cactus hedge und returned to their work, All four huve since beon committed for trial on the capital charge. The way of tho transgressor is hard, yet good people toll us it is the easiest thing in the world to follow it. Conclusift" Pi oof. Waiter (mysteriously)-"Send for a detective, quick I" Head Waiter���" What's up?" "Sec that woman over there 1 site a a man in disguise." " Phew ! How d'ye know!" "She ordered a reg'lar square meal, an' gave me a tip." There will bo no continuance of ill-will between two gentlemen who recently fought a duel at Catlettsburg, Ky. Both were excellent mark-Miter, and both dropped dead alter the first exchange of shots, wafv ^is/i'ii iiui| _/iui SATURDAY, AP11IL 15, 1893. Mb. Kelly's letter last wook states that West Kootenay is to have ar; appropriation of $75,000, But on examining those figures we find tbat only $30,000 is to be divided betwoon the two divisions of liovelfiloke and Ndson. How mnob of this will he spent in Eevelstoke division remains to bo seen; but it is certain the $45,000 nnd the linn's share of the ��30,000 will be spent in tbe Nelson division, tlm Kuslo wagon road alone getting $10,000. .If the Government understood the geography of this district it would see that the oro taken out to Kuslo goes across tho boundary to build up cities in the neighboring Stole of Washington, and that tbe actual benefit derived by this Province from each ton of oro so taken away does not exceed fifty cents; yet tbo Government will spond $10,0011 of tbe taxpayers' monpy for the purpose of getting tho ore out of the country by tbo shortest poasiblo mute, defrauding tbe Province of its birthright, and taking the whole business across tlio border, It is (i pity the mineral does not Ho on tho south side of tbe boundary liue; then our patriotic legislators wonld have been saved the trouble of voting bonuses for building ronds to take it there. While this mountain rond from the mines to Kaslo, Bonner's Kerry, etc., is to recoivo $10,000, the rond from the mines to Nakusp (with only n 2 per cent, grndo and less than half the distance), Kevelstoke, Kamloops, Vancouver and the whole of the Province, is not mentioned. Ensiui sold ins birthright for a mess of pottage. What equivalent does our Government expect for facilitating tho shipment of raw ore to a foreign country which imposes a duty of $21 per ton on the lend contained in it��� a nice little plum for the U.S. revenue��� whil9 our smelters nt Revelstoko and G ilden are idle from the want of ore? But ogain we ask-��� Whut is Vancouver doing? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Wrapped up in its big railway bonus project it sees nothing of the rich interior whioh could be made tributary to it. Vancouver's voice would carry some weight, but Revelstoko, as yet, is too insignificant to be noticed. We do not claim to be s prophet, but the day will come whon the evil wo complain of will becomo too palpable to tho people of the Province (outside of Lower Kooteuuy) to be any longer permitted. 11. IV \J JJ D V7 1> HAS RECEIVED A SUPPLY OP FIRST-GLAr From the Western Milling Co. cf Regina. 11iis company at presenl find themselves compelled to nonu.i-: tiik size of their mill, the demand for their Hour having so largely increased. The wheat reaped on the Regina plains Inst harvest wns pronounced the rest BETWEEN Winnipeg and tiie Mountains, special Samples beiug secured for the World's Fair nt Chicago. Flour mado from tbis quality of wheat is the article Mr. Robson is now offering to the inhabitants of Revelatoke and district, Patent Hungarian. StroDg Baker's, Oats, Short3, Bran, Chopped Feed, Rolled Oats, Granulated Oatmeal, Wheat, Hay, &c. new spring liooas. We aro showing a completo range of Meu'3, Ladies', Misses' and Children's; Boots and Shoes, and our rints have arrived. Also n largo stork nf Cottons, Muslins, Press Goods, Laces and Trimmings;, Art Muslins, Chambrays, Carpets, Matting and Art Squares. OUR winery Always see Robson's prices before buying elsewhere. LOWEST POSSIBLE FOIt CAS.ll. Thoy will bo tho c. T. L. HAIG, NOTARY PUBLIC : REVELSTOKE, B. Mining and Real Estate Broker and General Commission Agent. FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE. This Spring is the best and most varied stock over shown here, and our' pricos the lowest over offered. H. N. COURSIER, CONVEYANCING: RENTS & ACCOUNTS COLLECTED. MINING CLAIMS Bought and Sold. REPRESENTATIVE OP THE KOOTENAY SMELTING AND TRADING SYNDICATE. GENERAL MERCHANTS, Revelstoke, New Denver and Nakusp. agent for TROUT UU CITY, K4SL0 CiTY, BAKU .P & other TOWNS1TES. The FIRST ANNUAL MALL of the Columbia Quadrille Club will be hold in Peterson's Hull ou Tuesday, April 18th. Tickets, inoluding supper at the Victoria Hotel, $2.00. Mav he ob- 'turned of F. B. Wells, I, T. Brewster, Jas. Lyttle, or at the hull. I LARDEAU ��� i TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Don't order yonr Gakden Plants i'yet. Wait and see Williamson. LOST, On Saturday evening Inst, between the Columbia House and the Central Hotel, a SILVER WATCH. Finder will he rewarded by returning snme to H. N. Couisier, NOTICE. WE, the undersigned 'Bus-owners ���of Iievelstoke, will, ou and after MONDAY, April Uth, positively not carry uny party or person (except guests arriving or departing from hotels) ( signe without 'i charge being made therefor. (Signed) W. COWAN, ABRAHAMSON PROS, BROWN k CLARK. Eevelstoke. April titb, 1893. 'Is situated nt the head of the North-East Arm of Upper Arrow Lake. It is the easiest point from which to enter tlie remarkably rich mines of the Lardean and Fish Creek Districts. It will have the advantage of both rail and steani_ boat lines. The C.P.R. will begin the building of a line from Iievelstoke to theN.E. Arm of Arrow Lake as soon as the weather will permit. LARDEAU is at the head of navigation on this Arm, and will bc the terminus of steamers and that of the Lardean & Kootenay Railway. There is no question that the Rich Miuing 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. Kuslo, 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. DEALERS IN J)DV ill GOODS, PROVISIONS, w ��� m Miners' Supplies, Iron and Steel. For further particulars, prices and terms, apply to any of tho under- CHAILENGE. Mr. Law being desirous of linking a match with the winner of the Hamm- | Haskins race, and as this raoe is now i declared nil'. I will acoepl Mr Law's challenge, and will also handicap my- , self as follows:���IJ miles straight i will allow bim 100 vardsstart; Smiles; with a turn, 200 yards; B miles with i a turn, quarter mile, The raoe to be rowed nt Nakusp or Nelson (ns it is folly to Httempt a race on tbo Colnm- bin in July i. in regulation 20ft, l.ip streak, sliding-seat, outrigged ���ikitTs, Stnki s, $500 a side. I also ehnllenge any resident in West Koo ou-iv to a race i'ii the same terms, with the ex- (���option of the handicap, ,!. W. 11 A.-'KIN'S. Bevulstoke, April llth, 1898. ROBERT Hi VINO, Trustee, Broad Street. Victoria. HENRY CROFT, Colonist Building, Government Street, Victoria. DOUGLAS & CO., 189 Cordova Street, Vancouver. GREEN, RICHARDSON <V CO., 57 Jameson Building, Spokane, il. II. LEE, P.L.8., KAMLOOPS. ���aOHBHBM C. rERRYBERRY, GENERAL BLACKSMITH REVELSTOKE. Wagons a^d all kinds of Vf-hiol^s Repaired. Shoeing a Specialty. FLOUR, OATS, SHORTS AND ALL KINDS OF FEED. Stoves, Tinware, Crockery, Glassware, Carpets. GENTS' FURNISHINGS. Doors, Windows, Builders' Hardware, Paints, Oils, Varnishes* SPORTSMEN'S SUPPLIES. WINDOW BLINDS, WALL PAPER, STATIONERY, Etc. Giant Powder kept in stock at New Denver and Nakusp. Messrs. C. B. Hume & Co., Revektcke Station. GROCERIES PROVISIONS HOOTS & SHOES FLOUR FEED & OATS AMMUNITION HARDWARE CLOTHING MINERS' TOOLS Consignment of Butter and Eggs received every week. MINERS' AND HUNTERS' SUPPLIES. ALL KINDS OF FURS BOUGHT AND SOLD NOTICE A SIITINO OF TIIK COUNTY COUK'I will ho holden nt Kevelstoke on Tuesday, the 28rd dny ot Mav, 1898, J, KIRKUP, Hegietror. fortlatoke, April llih, 18U3. CAVEATS, TRADE fa*IARK*8, DESIGN PATEhTS, COPYRIGHTS, etc, For InfnmuiHnT* nn*! free Handbook wrltMo MIJNN * CO., UM Hh.jAI.WAV, N��w Voiik. OldrsHt t.nronu for w-eiitinti jwlimt.a In America, Kvtiry paten*, laknn out l.y Ort Ih l.rotiKlit, bflfora thO pUtlllO Iiy ft nut..:. I'VifH Tl 0I| OI OhftfgO lO thO JMeniific $reta r.nrKftfltf.lrciiliiH'n of nny Knli'iiMnopnppr io (ho world, ni.i.n.'i.'i./ iNni.lrul.oil. No IniohiKoot, mun should lio wllliout, It,, Wonkly, **;-,fj() i ynnri flJOlIX pontlia Address MIINN * CO., ri; iiuiiiiiii.-i, 3*. 1 iiioiulmi t, Now York City. Do yon Write for tbe Papers? If you do, yon should lmvo THE LADDER OF JOURNALISM, a Text Book for Correspondents, Re> porters, Editors and General Writers, PRICE, 50 CENTS. 91 ' r OS KECEEPT OF I'RICB, BY ALLAN FORMAN, 117 Nassau Street, New York, n. Y. fi na where yoa mj thia and yon will ���- oei'/e a handsome lithograph for framing, Kootenay Lake AW Mil.Llr Railway Men's Requisites. GOODS LOADED ON CAU AND STEAMBOAT FREE OF CHARGE. Q. O. BUCHANAN, PKOP. LUMPER VAl:l> AT NFLSON AIN'aWuRrH HALF OUR KASLO Large. Slocks (iii hand. Preparation*) are being mnde fur llio uroat Bnildiug Boom oi l8!Jlj. Furniture & Undertaking. R. HOWSON, Has a largo Stock of Household Furniture, Coffins, Caskets Shrouds, &c. REVELSTOKE, B.C, SWAMPY. A T;ilc <>r the " Mack Cypress." BY KIRK Ml SHOE. From a dense thicket; nf jupon, over which a yellow jasmine had clambered so luxuriantly, and hung such a wreath uf sweet- scented flower bells as to form a screen almost impervious to light, a crouching figure peered eagerly out. The form was that, of a boy perhaps Hi years of age, but with a face so thin and shrewd that it. might have belonged to a man of (10. It was tanned, freckled, and weather beaten ; and was shadowed by a thatch of sun-bleached hair, that the boy every now and then pushed back from his eyes with an impatient gesture. The gray eyes had a stealthy iiini hunted look like those of a wild animal, He was bare-footed and bare-headed,while his only garments were a blue cotton shirt and a pair of coarse trousers much too large for him and turned up at the bottoms. They were supported by a leather belt, still showing patches of lawny hair and into this was'thrust a knife. This boy was known far and wide as " Swampy," and if be had ever borne anj other name he, as well as others, had fur- gotten it. He was the outcast of that thinly sett!.11 Southern neighborhood ; his hand was against all men and to him was credited all the mischief and thieving of the community. He was rarely seeu by daylight, but at night he prowled about the countryside, and shadowy glimpses of him were always followed by the discovery of looted chicken roosts, spring houses, or melon patches. Many a fruitless trap was set for him,and he had eluded many a hot chase. Hc laughed to scorn all elforts to bring bim to justice, and defied his pursuter from the trackless fastnesses of the great swamp, in which he always found a secure retreat. It was generally known that somewhere within its black depths, amid whose tangled cane brakes panthers, bears, ami wild cats roamed unmolested, where water moccasins and alligators abounded, aud where tempt to himseli he called her "humming-bird." Or. this particular afternoon -Mrs. Addis had Bought the shade of a giant live-oak, beneath which she sat absorbed in a book. while Mildred played near her,and Swampy from the thicket in which, crouched like a wild animal, he had long waited for their appearance, watched her with a swelling heart and a strange longing to be in some way different from what he was, and more like the people whom this child could know and love. At times the child came so close to gather the yellow flowers that hungabout hii:: lhat he could have touched her.but he crouched low and she did not discover his presence. Suddenly on one of these occasions a half- grown Newfoundlandpup appearedfrom behind a clump oi shrubbery, and with awkward gambolings and loud barkings made straight for the little girl. With a frightened cry she ran toward her mother. An instant later Swampy, fancying that the child was in danger, and natunally hating dogs because they were always set onto him, had spruug from his concealment, seized the animal's throat in his sinewy young hands, and would have choked it to death had he not in turn lieen grasped from behind and forced to loose his hold. Mr. Addis and the owner of an adiacent plantation, who had been but a few steps behind the dog, and who misunderstood tbe cause of Swampy's attack on him, had sprung tu his rescue. " Who are you ? Von young villain ! What are you doing here ! A.nd what do you mean by this outrage !" demanded Mr. Addis, sternly, as he tightened his clutch on the lad's arm, and slightly shook hin To these questions Swampy, angry and sullen, made no reply. " It's that young cub of old Jake Minder's !" exclaimed the other gentleman, with a keen look at the boy's face, ,; The most audacious young scoundrel in all these parts, and one who ought to have been sent to the chain gang long ago. Swampy, they call him, and " "Swampy!" interrupted Mr. Addis, " why, that is the name of the thief who has been robbing me right and left for 3ome years past. I was going to ask you to help 'dm, Well this is a the helpless little one wandering, terrified and alone, amid the horrors from which they had just emerged, ber tender flesh torn by thorns, and her uncertain footsteps dogged by prowling beasts. Tearful concerning her fate.dismayed and helpless as they were, the} were also prompt to ait and, as quickly as torches could be brought, they plunged again into the weird darkness of the vast swamp. Within an hour and less than a mile away they found the child sitting between two buttresses oi a great, moss-hung cypress and sobbing as though her little heart would break, Her dainty dress was torn, mud- stained, and thickly splattered with blood, although she herself was as safe and unharmed as when last held in her mother's arms. Directly in front of her, and hairing the recess formed by the projecting buttresses of the tree, ay a confused mass, which, as the torches were held lower for a closer inspection, resolved itself into two dead bodies. One was that of a huge panther, bleediug from a dozen wounds and with tlie knife that had dealt them driven*deep into his' heart. The other body, frightfully torn and mangled, but with a hand still clutching the death-dealing knife, was thut of a mere lad. As one of the meu turned it over and revealed the white, set face, he started back with an oath. "By , men, it's Swampy ! and we've heen hunting bim while he's been here fighting to the death to save the child I" They laid Swampy away next day in t he family burying ground of Cypress Knoll. The place from which he had been driven was proud to receive him. From those who had scorned him he had won the homage due only such as are willing to lay down their lives for their fellows, All this happened many years ago. But to thia day no stranger is allowed to pass through that section of the far South without listening to the story of Swampy, the young outcast, of the Black Cypress Knoll, , ." ( , i i i u nie organize a hunt for I n f* beds ot greenest moss concealed deadlv ', ��� , ,, , ., ���., , c- .... .... . ���, i bit of luck, Aha, you young vn an So vou bits of shiny ooze, old Jake Minders had for years maintained a moonshine still, though no living man had ever visited or seen it: and that here his son, the boy only known as "Swampy," had remained alone ever since the disappearance of the old man who, either dead ur a fugitive from justice, ha.l now been missing for many months. How Swampy lived none knew nor cared. His neighbors only swore whenever they spoke of him. and wished he would cease to live at all or would follow his father to parts unknown. Kven Swampy wondered why he stayed where he did. The only reason he could give to himself was that hc knew and loved the Black Cypress, with a knowledge and love belonging only to those wdio have passed their lives iu a single house. Amid its gloomy shadows hc had dwelt ever since he could remember, and for aught be knew he had beeu born iu the swamp. His life was as cheerless and lonely as can .veil lie conceived ; but although he never worked and knew not the meaning of the word " study," it was a fairly busy one. Hc had a living to get as well as any one else, and he got it by hunting, trapping, fishing, and stealing, all of which were to him perfectly legitimat" occupations. He | had never been taught that stealing was wrong, though he had received from bis father many lessons of a nature that he was not likely to forget on the enormity aud disgrace uf being caught at it, Thus when thc boy was thrown upon his own resources he stole whatever he considered necessary to his comfort as naturally as he breathed ur slept, and was morc than proud of the knowledge that hc had never been caught at it. The principal scene of Swampy's depredations was Cypress Knoll, a plantation that bordered ou tiie swamp in which he made bis home, It was noar by, abounded in the very things he most needed, and was less carefully guarded than other places whose owners lived on them. Its owner, whose name was Addis, was compelled by business to spend most of his time in a distant city ; but the plantation, left in oharge of an overseer, was kept up after a fashion, principally, so Swampy was pleased to fancy, for his special benefit. Although there was much thieving ou this plantation of whicli Swampy was both innocent and ignorant, it was all credited to him in the reports mado to its proprietor. About a week before the time with whioh this story opens, Mr. Addis, accompanied by his wife and their only child, a little 5- year-old daughter, arrived unexpectedly at Cypress Knoll, on a visit of inspection. The proprietor soon discovered that lie had been systematically robbed on al! ��idcs, but, so far as ho could find out, every one was honest and innocent save " Dat tievin' young (lebbil of a Swampy. Tell yo', sail. him'oo keen ferslealiii'd.it he steal de toof outen yo' head, an' neblier get cotch if yo' ain't look oul. Ves, sail, pears like him lottin' for to car olf der whole plantasbun 'fore him dun gol troo !'' So against Swampy was lhe proprietor's wrath directed, and vowing tu bring the young rascal to justice before he left thc neighborhood ho laid many plans for the lad's capture. H^~^~ Ol all this lho boy remained iu such ignor- ancc that ho found no reason for ceasing his stealthy visits to Cypress Knoll whenever his hunger or other necessities seemed to demand them. He even began to visit the place by daylight and more frequently than ever, for he had learned that it possessed a new attraction for him, and one so fascinating that he could nol resist it. Dainty little Mildred Addis, with her happy laughter and bewitching ways, was a revelation to the young outoaBt of thc swamp, and to lie hidden iu aome tangled thicket from which he could watch her became his great pleasure. Ho soon discovered the. favorite haunts to which Mrs. Addis always accompanied by Mildred, took her work oi book on warm, drowsy afternoons. Near one of these he would wait for hours, and when they up- THE SCMIPKA PASS. pcarnd would watch with almost breath! delight tho butter-fly movements of the Chilli, Swampy hud novor heard of angels, hut ho waB intimately acquainted with bird-, and to his untutored mind the little one, with her brightness, daintiness, and inces- thought you'd kill my dog, did you, lor fear he'd interfere with your thieving His services won't be needed now, though, for to-morrow I'll put you in a place where you won't have a chance to steal anything more for some years to come. In the meantime I guess tlie smoke-house will be a good enough place for you to spend the night in." So the unhappy lad, still doggedly silent, and feeling humiliated as never betore in his life, was led away and thrust into the darkness of the stout log smoke-house, the heavy door of which was securely padlocked behind him. For the rest of the afternoon he remained there, and lato at night the negro who carried him a supper of corn bread and a jug of water reported that he was still safe. In thc morning when they came to take him to the county jail he had disappeared. A hole burrowed as though bv a fox through thc solidly packed earth underneath one of the walla showed how he had escaped. Not only had he departed, butevcryham and side of bacon that hart hung in the smoke-house had gone with him. When this was repotted to Mr. Addis that gentleman's chagrin knew no bounds, and he vowed he would not rest until Swampy was again a prisoner. By noon messengers sent far and wide had summoned to Cypress Knoll half a dozen neighbouring land owners, as many servants, and a score of dogs, With this assistance, Mr. Addis proposed to draw tlie swamp covets and hoped to speedily run this human fox to earth. After lunch as the hunt was about to- start the shouting men, neighing horses, loud-tongued dogs, created a merry confusion on the broad lawn that sloped down from the house to the very edgeof thc great swamp. " Remember,'' called Mr, Addis, " the thief must surely be taken this time. Hc is the curse of tbis community, and deserves uo more mercy at our hands than the beasts with which he shares his hiding- place." " Aye, aye I We'il have the young catamount before night, never fear I was shouted in reply as the noisy cavalcade dashed away. Their leader was the last to mount', and as he did so, little Mildred, joyously excited by the confusion which had no meaning to her beyond that of a frolic, darted from her mother's side and begged her papa to take her with him, Laughing at the child's request, and in apite of her mother's protesting exclamation, the indulcent father swung his darling up on to the saddle In front of him, put spurs to his horso, aod was off liko a shot. At the bottom of the lawn he set the lit- j ltc one gently down and bidding her run back to her mother plunged into the gloomy shadows oi the swamp, amid which his companions had already disappeared. The sounds oi merry horns, baying hounds, shouts and barkings grew fainter, until finally they wcre lost in the forest's depths, and the peace of silence onco more brooded over the borders of I he .link swamp, and the sun-bathed plantation beyond. It was dusk ere the weary hunters, angered by failure, began to struggle back from tho glades among which their unsuccessful quest had been made. Men, horses and dogs were alike covered with the note and slime of the swamp. All were scratched and torn by the thorns of briars and ty- ty hushes, wait-a-bits and wild rattan. " Mr. Addis was among the first to emerge into the open, and as he did ao he was met by a group of frightened women, one of them sprang forward crying shrilly, " Mildred, my baby ! where is she' Give her to mc at once I Oh, it was cruel'. cruel 1 to take her into that awful place I" The hunters reined shortly up, and gazed at one another with blanched faces. " What do you mean ?" demanded iheir leader huskily. "The child has not been w:'h in. 1 Bent her back from this very s, .n, hours rgo." ��� He had hardly spoken, and bad no time to spring to her aid, ere his wife fell sense- less to tbe ground. Quickly, and far, the dread news spread. Mildred Addis was lost! She had nol returned to thc house after dashing away in that mad gallop with her father, and must li'chliwlil Forbes' ���.llrrins: Defend*. Picture el This moment of confusion and wavering was well chosen by the Turks for an advance in great force from the western flanking spur toward the high road in rear of the Russian position, while another column from the eastern spur moved down simultaneously to jcin hands with it. Well might Captain Greene, the American military attach with the Russians, whose admirable work is the authentic record of the war-well might he write that "the moment was the most critical of the campaign." The moment was dramatic, with an intensity to which the lameness of civilian life can furnish few parallels. The Russian general, expecting momentarily to be environed, had sent ont from between the fast-closing tentacles of thc great octopus which was embracing him, a last telegram to the Czar, defining the inevitable issue, telling how his brave men had striven to avert it, and pledging them and hhnselt to hold, out, with the help of Cod, to the bitter end and the last drop of their blood. As the afternoon shadows wero falling, Darozhinski and Stolietofl' stood in the Turkish fire on the peak of St. Nicholas. Along the bare ridge below them lay the grimed, sun-blistered men, beaten out with heat, fatigue, hunger, and thirst; reckles iu their despondency, that every foot ofj ground was swept hy the Turkish, rifle fire- Others still doggedly fought on down among tbe rocks, forced to give ground, but doing so with sullen reluctance. The cliffs and valley echoed with triumphant shouts of "Allah il Allah !" Stolietofl cries aloud in sudden excess of excitement, grasps Darozhinski by the elbow, and points down tlie Pass. The head of a long black column is plainly visible against the reddish-brown bed of the rock. The troops about them spring to Hair feet. Tho Turkish war-cries wero drowned in the wild clamor of cheering which the wind carried from the sore-pressed defenders of the Schipka, in glad welcome to lhe comrades hurrying to help them,���[Arohi bald Forbes,in the April Soribner, he Floating lu Mill-ocean. Unless the latest news of the drifting island in thc Atlantic iias failed to reach us, nothing has been heard of the remarkable mass of earth, loots, and verdure since it was sighted on September 19 last. At that time this bit of the New World seemed destined to add a trifle to the area of the Old. It was far uorth and east, and, considering its limited experience in navigation, was making good pi ogress toward Europe. It is probable, however, that the October storms tore it to pieces and scattered its fragments over the ocean lloor. Several months ago some information about this remarkable sailor was given. Reports as to its size, printed soon after its discovery, seem to have been exaggerated. The mass was said to bave an area of about two acres. We have no reason, to believe, however, that it was seen before July 28, when it appeared to be nearly square in outline, with a. length of about a hundred and ten feet on each side, which would give it an area of less than a third of an acre, At that time it was nearly in the longitude of the Bermudas and the latitude of Wilmington, Del. It was in the centre of the (lull stream, a mass of earth thickly covered with tropical grass and bushes, whose roots apparently held it together. The mass was elevated above the general level, in one part, until the bushes that crowned it were thirty feet above the sea. It was in plain view al a distance of seven miles. Nearly a month later the floating island was seen again. It was August Ki, and the (lull Stream bad carried it a little north of the latitude ot Boston. It was south of Newfoundland, was approaching the (.rand Banks, and was in the track of transatlantic travel. More than two weeks later, on September lo and H, two vessels came across the wanderer. There was a heavy sea, and the traveller from the tropics was having a hard time of it, The floating mass was not, however, demolished by the violence of the waves, for it was seen again on September 19, It was then in the latitude of Cape Breton Island, was northwest of thc Azores, and almost in mid-ocean, It has not been reported since, and probably failed to reach Europe, From tho first to the last reports, this waif from tropical America certainly travelled 1,075 miles, and its total jou'-ney may hava been at least twice that distance. Floating islands are not a novelty. Parts of large river bank3, particularly within the tropics, are sometimes torn away, carrying not only a great mass of vegetation, but also insects and reptiles, hundreds of miles down stream. Theso floating masses are a verycommon occurrence in the river Plate of South America. Floating islands aro also observed at sea now and then, but we arc not aware that they have ever before been reported at so great a distance from land, or that they have been found hitherto in the northern track of translantio commerce. The island whoso progress over the I ocean has just been traced for a remarkable distanco, suggests an idea that is of great interest to geographers and geologists. The fact that many close or complete resemblances were found to exist between the fossil and living flora and fauna of parts of the earth that are separated by great, oceans, has long been regarded as evidence that these widely severed regions were once connected by a land bridge which, iu the course of time, sank beneath thc sea. It is well known that seeds enclosed in shells not easily penetrable may float in ocean currents lor many hundreds of miles and produce their kind on the foreign shores they reach: but scientific men nave uot been able to see how land animals and many varieties ot plants, most of them now known only as fossils, could be identically the same or vary closely allied in regions severed by wide seas unless these regions wero once connected by a land bridge. We have now undoubted proof that a little speck of land, torn from some coast nr river bank. Clowned with vegetable if not animal life, has drifted half way across tne ocean. It seems reasonable to suppose that floating islands, some of then: many times larger than the island wo have described, may have played an important part in the distribution ol species with which they have not generally been credited. Lower Animals. A cat carried 100 miles in a basket, a dog taken, perhaps, 500 miles by rail, in a few days may have found their way back to thu starting point. So we have'often been told, says a writer in the London Spectator, and no doubt the thing haa happened. We have heen astonished at the wonderful intelligence displayed. Magic, I should call it. Last week I heard ofa captain who sailed from Aberdeen to Arbroath. He left behind him a dog which according to the story had never been in Arbroath, but when be arrived there the, dog was waiting on the quay. I expected to believe that the dog had known his master's destination, and been able to inquire the way overland to Arbroath. Truly marvelous! But really, it is time to inquire more carefully as to wdiat these stories do mean ; we must cease to ascribe our intelligence to animals, and learn that it is we that often possess their instinct. A cat on a farm will wander many miles in search of prey and will, therefore, be well acquainted with the country for miles round. It is taken fifty miles away. Again It wanders and cornea across a bit of country it knew before. What more natural than that it should go to its old home'.' Carrier pigeons arc taught "homing" betaking them gradually longer flights from home, so that they may learn the look of thc country. We cannot al.vays discover that a dog actually wasacquaintedwith the route by which it wanders home, but it is quite absurd to imagine, as most people at once do, that it was a perfect stranger to thc lay of the land. To find our way a second time over ground we have once trod is scarcely intelligence; we can only call it instinct, though the word does not in the least explain ihe process. Two years ago 1 first visited Douglas in the Isle of Man. I reached the station at 11 p. m. I was guided to a house a mile through the towu. I scarcely paid any attention to the route, yet next morning I found my way by the same route to the station, walking with my head bent, deeply thinking all the time about other things than the way. I have the instinct of the locality. Most people going into a dark room that they know are by muscular sense guided exactly to the very spot they wish: so people who have thc instinct of localityinay wander over a moor exactly to the place they wish to reach, without thinking of where they go. There may be no mental exercise connected with this, I have known a lady of creat intelligence who would lose her way within half a mile of the house she had lived in forty years. This feeling about place belongs to that part of us that we have in common with the lower creatures. Wc need, not postulate that the animals ever show signs of possessing our intelligence; thoy possess iu common with us what is no*, intelligence, but instinct. The Fionaer. Just a hundred years ago (in 1792) an inventive English nobleman declared that it was possible to make a ship move by the aid of "steam," without " masts or sails," and, having spent as much as he was prepared to aflord on repeated costly plans, craved some assistance from the States. Of course the department iboing a wet blanket) stringently tied up its loan, but, having become persuaded by the result of his experiments that he had hope of success, it undertook to build a small vessel for the would- be-inventor, to bc navigated "by the steam engine " on the condition that if it failed " all the expense shoulil bc mudo good by him." This generous enterprise of Loid Stanhope was highly lauded at the Unit, tht popular verdict being thus expressed : " If it answer, the advantage to the public, particularly in inland navigation, Mil! bo immense," in this case the recognition of a pioneer's possible " usefulness" was exception- ably favorable, if the Inquisition had then hold power in England Iiis ignoring ol the mystic wind's influence might have got him into mischief. But tli" courage of the true discoverer seldom fails. When Galileo was compelled to recant his heresy about the motion of the earth he whispered to a friend, as he rose from Iiis knees, " It moves for all that." So, too, at last does the cautious world when someone audaciously pro- posts to find his way over a stream or gulf which has never been crossed, or about even thc existence of which none havo ever troubled themselves at all, The Most Careless Creatures that ever Lived. He camo home some nights ago a bit tired from a busy day's work, and his wife waited until ho had got off his overcoat and sat down, Did you get that piece of silk I asked you to bring?" she inquired, seeing that lie had not laid it before her, "Yes dear ; I left it out there in the hall." "Did you get the pins?" "Yes dear." "And the ribbon?" "Ves." "And Bobbie's shoes?" "Ves." "And a hearth broom?" "Ves." "And a wick for the kitchen lamp?" "Ves." "And some matches?" "Ves, they are with the other bundles." "And did you see the man about the coal?" "Ves, it will be up on Monday." "And the man to lix the grate in the dining-room';" "Yes, lie's coming as sum as he can." "And did you go and pay the gas rate':" "Ves dear." "And���and���oh, yes, did you order a now shovel fur the kitchen?" "N���n���no,"he hesitated, I forgot it." "Good gracious ?" alio ixclaimcd. What lid you do that for ? Ym know wc needed that shovel, and I told you about it the very first thing when pu went Iu town this morning. I do thin] you men are the most forgetful and carclus creatures that over lived," And sho was cross foi the restof thc evoning. He Was Sorry. Housekeeper���"This is the twentieth time to-day that I've bad to come to thc door to to toll peddlers that I did not want anything." Peddler���" Very sorry, mum !" H^ Housekeeper���"It's somo comtort to know that you are sorry, anyhow.-' Thc Chinese detective ores is a secret body, and the best organisd in the world. They have an eye upon OVty man, woman, and child, foreign or nativ, in China, and in addition watch over eac. othcr. The Old Cemetery of Barelona i., in truth a " city of the dead," Strets upon streets ol walls, with fivo or six series of niches, Into Whioh the coffins are paced, give one indeed the Idea of a desered city. This AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, Mo Wreckage In (he Deepest nrtiir Ocean's Depths. An extraordinary circumstance that has been noticed with interest and. that always creates surprise when learned, is the entire absence oi foreign matter in the deeper part of the ocean's floor. Of all the vessels lost in mid- ocean, of all the human beings that have been drowned, of all the marine animals that have perished, of all the clay, sand and gravel let fall by dissolving icebergs, of all the various substances drifted from every shore by shifting currents���not a trace remains, but in their place water from 1,000 to 2,500 fathoms in depth covers thc uniform d posit of thick, bluish, tenacious slime called globigerina ooze. A bit of this under a powerful lens is a, revelation of beauty not readily forgotten. The ooze is composed almost entirely of the daintiest, most delicately beautiful shells imaginable. At depths greater than 2,500 fathoms tho bottom of the sea consists mainly of products arising from exposure, for almost incalculable periods, to the chemical action of sea water, of pumice and other volcanic matters, This Anally results in the formation of the red clay deposits that are considered characteristic of the pro- foundest depths of the ocean, Carbonate of lime, which, in the form of the shell of foraminifera, make up so large a pari of ^he globigerina coze, is here almost entirely absent. Sea water is very nearly a universal solvent, and before any shell, large or small reaches the bottom of these tremendous abysms it is chemically eaten up, literally dissolved���a result which the enormous pressure of the water inns' materially hasten, At 1,000 fathoms the weight of the water pressing mi all sides of an object immersed to that depth is very nearly one ton to the square inch,, or more than one hundred times that sustained at the sea level, and at the great' st depths the pressure is so increased that it would seem nothing could withstand It -in facl, heavy metal cylinders let down wiii the sounding apparatus are sometimes, on being drawn up again tu the surface, found bent and collapsed ; strongly made glass vessels which lhe metal inclosed arc shattered into fragments. Timely Appearance. " May I ask you, madam," inquired the gentlemanly caller at the front door, removing bis hat, " if there hai been a large, and successful cooking school in this neigh. borhood for some weeks ?" " There has," replied the lady. " Snme member of your family has been in attendance, perhaps." he ventured. " Ves, Two of my daughters attend, it." '' A.h I" rejoined the caller, pleasantly. " A good cooking school is one ol the adjuncts of an advanced civilization. I am always interested to notice the advance of a community in the knowledge of the gentle arts and sciences that go to make up tho sum of human happiness. But I have allowed myself to forget the business upon which I have ventured to call," he continued, briskly opening a small valise. " I am introducing a small but comprehensive work, entitled ' The Horrible Curse of Dyspepsia and Indigestion ; How Cured and How Removed.' The price is only seventy-live cents and I can assure you, madam��� Thanks, flood morning !" Idler���" Ves, mum, I'm very sorry you jjjjjjjjjjji obtains all over Span and' in some don't want anything, mum," nMt8 o( lttt|j., The line of railway which was first constructed cost ��37,568 per mile, about GO per cent, above the estimate. ��� "pas BBSsaHiauiBaiis'mBim^ iiiMiaaaa, mnaamammMammmammaBmmmammmmm 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 LARDEA 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. Por further particulars apply to C. E PERRY & CO., at the Head Office, Nelson, B.C., or to I I Lmi I IrTllVJ. Local Agent, REVELSTOKE, B.C.
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