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WM% Wfy*^ -v ���% * ��*^ ju wt-^ 4 VOL. IV. EEVELSTOKE, B. C, FEBRUARY 18, 1893. No. 36. NOTICE Is hereby given, thut application will bo mado to the Parliament of Canada, nt the next session thereof, for nn Act to incorporate a Company to construct, equip, maintain nnd operate a line uf railway in the Province of Uritish Oolumbia from a point at or nonr Nukusp, on Upper Arrov/ Lake, Kootenny District, to tho forks of Carpenter Creek, with power to extend to Boar Lake and to Cody Creole. GEMMILL k MAY, Solicitors for the Applicants, Ottawa, December 28th, 181)2. W. A. JOWETT, MINING AND REAL ESTATE BROKER, NELSON, B.C. Lardean and Sloean Prospects Wanted. WANTED. AGENTS to sell our .ihoice and hardy Nursery Stock. We have ninny new speoial varieties, both in fruits and ornamentals, to offer, which are controlled only by us, We pay commission or salary. Write us at once tor terms, and secure choice of territory.���May Brothers, Nurserymen, Rochester, N.Y. CENTRAL HOTEL. ABRAHAMSON BROS., Prop's. Charmingly situated ou the bank of the river, on the principal street, close to the post-office aud Government buildings, aud nearest to the Steamboat Wharf, First-clas.s Table, (rood Beds, Telephone. FIRE-PROOF SAFE. ���BUS MEETS ALL TRAINS AND STEAMERS. Fresh Milk. I am cow 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, Rovelstoke, B.C. 0. & H. LEWIS, BAKERS AND CONFECTIONERS- SUFFERS and BALLS Catered lor. WEDDING CAKES A SPECIALTY. REVELSTOKE, B.C. THE MADDEN HOUSE, HUGH MADDEN, Prop'r. Beautifully situated ou the Lake shore at tho entrance to tho best and shortest road to the Slocau miues nnd New Denver, The best fishing and hunting iu the district, with grand bontiug and sketching facilities for tourists and artists. The Bar is supplied with the Best brands of wines,liquors and cigars. Tho accommodations of the Hotel are of tlie best. REVELSTOKE TIME TABLE. Atlantic Express, arrives 10.10 daily. Pacific " " 16.52 " Cheapest, most reliable nud safe route to Montreal, Toronto, St. Paul, Chicago, Now York aud Boston. Rates $5 to $10 lower thau nny other oilier routo, Specially fitted Colonist Cnrs, in chargo of a Porter, for the aooommodation of Passengers holding second class tickets. Passengers booked to and from all European poiuts at Lowest Rates, Low Freight. Rates, Quick des< patch, Merohauts will savo money by having their freight routed via he 0. P. It, i''ull nnd reliable information given by applying in 1). E. HH0WN, Asst. Gon'l t'reighl Ag't, \ 'u i mer. or to I. T. IIREWSTEI?, A<i'i 0. P If Depot, Revelstoke, I,. , Ripans Tabules euro bnd breath, Itlpans Tabulos cure biliousness, A. H. HOLDICH, Assayer and Analytical Chemist, REVELSTOKE, B.C, Nearly eoven years assayer at Morfa Works, Swansea, nnd tor over seventeen years ohief analyst to Wigan Coal k Iron Co., Wigan. Assays nnd analyses of every deserip- tion undertaken ou the most reasorable terms. Special experience in coal, coke, iron, ferro-manganese, steel, silver, copper, lead and zinc. HULL BROS. REVELSTOKE. B U TC HERS AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN* BEEF, PORK, Etc. Stockholm House JOHN STONE, Prop. The Dining-room is furnished witu tbe best the market affordB, Tbe bar is supplied with a choice stock of wines, liquors and cigars, TIIE COLUMBIA HOUSE, REVELSTOKE B.C. Tbe largest and most central Hotel in the city ; good accommodation ; everything new ; table well supplied ; bar and billiard room attached ; lire proof safe, BROWN k CLARK, VrcmliU -. i * FREE 'BUS AT ALL TRAINS c. p. a. mim EEVELSTOKE P. McOabthy Prop. Eirst-class Temperance House. Board and Lodging tin Per Week, meals, 25c. ueds 25c, This hotel is situated convenient to the station, is comfortably furnished, aud affords first, class accommodation. OCEAfl STEAMSHIPS. Royal Mail Lines. CHEAPEST & QUICKEST ROUTE TO THE OLD COUNTRY. Proposed Sailings from Halifax. CARTHAGINIAN.. .Allan.... Feb. 18 MONGOLIAN " ....M'rohft NUMIDIAN " .... " 18 LAURENTIAN " .... April 1 PARISIAN " .... " 15 LABRADOR.Dominion Liue.. Feb. 25 VANCOUVER " ..M'chll SAHXIA " .. " 25 LABRADOR.. " ..April8 VANCOUVER " .. " 22 Cabin ��15, 850, S60, 570, 580 and upwards. Intermediate. 980 ; Steerage, 520. Passengers ticketed through to all points in Great Britain und Ireland, and nt specially low rates to all parts of the European continent,. Prepaid passages arranged from all points. Apply to nearest steamship or railway agont; to I, T. Brewster, Agent, Revelstoke ; or to ROBERT Kerr, General Passenger Agent, Winnipeg. LOCAL NEWS. Ice-cutting is about ovor, and a very large quantity has been stored. Tho Rev. 0, Ladner will preach tomorrow in the Methodist Church, morning at 10.30; evening at 7.30, All are cordially invited. Mr. and 'Mrs Edward ,T. Bourne, who have been residing in Sun Francisco for nearly a year, returned to Revelstoke this week, an I will remain. Kamloops Presbytery will meet in that town on Wednesday, March lst. The Presbyterian Synod meets in the city of Victoria ou the same date. Tbe Juvenile Templars will givo an entertainment in the schoolroom next Tnosday evening, when a first-class programme will bo presented. The price of admission is only 25 cents. The usual fortnightly dancn of the Revelstoke Quadrille i !lnb bad to bo postponed on aooount f the deep snow, aud on Thursday evening about sixteen of our yonng people got together and enjoyed an impromptu "hop" in Peter*-1 son's nnil. On account of the deep snow the Presbyterian services to-morrow will be conductod in Peterson's Hall at 2.30 p.m., and in Mr. Paton's bouse at 7.30 p.m.���subject: "India and its Missions, Medical and Educational." Sabbath School at Mr. Paton's honse at 5.30 p.m. [lipans Tabules cure constipation. Ripans Tabules euro colic. ON TRIAL FOR 90 DAYS. The finest, comfilotest and latest Hue of ElafJ trtcal ftiiutlancesln tho world They hart- never (ailed to euro. We are so positive of It that we will back our belief and send you any Electrical Appliance now in the market and you can try id tor Three Months, Largest list of testimonials on earth. Send for book ard journal Freo. IV, T, Bari- Ic Co., "Windsor, Ont.. Rev. Dr. Robertson, superintendent of Missions, who is coming west to arrange for the best interests and supply of the new districts opening up in West Kootenay, is expected to prench in th�� Presbyterian Church, Revelstoke, on Sunday, February 26th, when the Sao- rament of the Lord's Supper aud Baptism will be administered. The Chinese New Year was celebrated on Thursday with a good ileal of noise, the explosion of fire crackers being continuous throughout the evening. In spite of tbe deep snow a large party of Chinamen hired a sleigh, and, carrying numerous flags, visited thoir {'cousins" at the station, where 'or a time there was high jinks. In the evening Jim Hing gave a supper to a number of white people. In the Provincial Legislature Mr. J. M, Kellie has introduced a bill to incorporate the Lardeau k Kootenay Railway Co.; Mr, Croft, to build a railway in West Kootenay; Mr. Punch, for a railway along Kootenay River to Kootenay Lake. Petitions were received for a private bill to incorporate the Nukusp k Sloean Railway Co.; the Kootenay Central Railway Co.; a railway from Trail Creek to Sheep Creek; and from residents of Golden to oppose tho bill re water works ami railway at Golden, The nmils have been vory irregular during the week, more especially those from the west. The trouble has lieen caused by immense snowslides at Clun- william, and a strong force of O.P.R men have been kept busy there ever since Tuesday, With the present warm weather after such a heavy fall of snow, slides will be taking place along the lino right through the mountains, with consequent delays to trains, The mail from Vancouver and the west, due here Tuesday morning, did not arrive till Thursday afternoon, combined with Wednesday's. Yesterday morning's muil was delivered this morning, The eastern trains also havo been several honrn late every day. The most important topio of conversation during tlio week has beeu "Tho snow." For three whole days it came down unceasingly, til! on top of the .three or four feet already ou the ground 'it bad piled three foet more. Never before in the moraorj of lho " oldest inhabitant" lias such a quantity of "tbo beautiful" been known iu Revelstoko. Fences fivo feet high are out of sight, and in places whore tho old snow hud drifted in tho lato blizzard thore is a depth of ten or twelve feet. Roofs lmvo had to bo cleared twe or threo times, and the snow hanks aro so high along the sidewalks tlint if aoirciis procession was passing along the street, nothing of it oould bo seen except tho top of the lofty triumphal oar. Cruelty to cattlo hus boon very prevalent this winter, lliinoliors havo left the poor animals out. in thn open without fond or shelter, w:lh three or four feet of snow on the ground and tbo thermometer showing many degrees of cold below zero, Almg tho line of tho C.P.R., between Ducts and Kumloops, heaps of cuttle (dying anil dead) are to be seen in the open fields, and not a wisp of straw or food of any description in sight. As fnr shelter, tho ordinary rancher would laugh at tbo idea of putting np shelter for cuttle. The word humane is not in their vocabulary, At Aslii'i'iift, Kamloops and many other inland grazing districts numerous losses from the same cause are reported. At Grand Pruitio, where tho weather bus been wanner, cattlo are doing well. In Rovelstoko district nu losses uro reported. Down from Big* Bend. Last Saturday Gns Lund arrived down from McOullough Creek, Big Bond, whero bo has been prospecting during the past summer aud fall, Ho felt the recent cold, snap very much, and as ho thought it might continue for somo timo longer ho mudo up his mind to come down. He made the distance in two days, keeping to the ice on the river all tho way, thoro boing just a sprinkling of snow which mudo the footing firm. Ilo has locutod three good quartz veins, two of them ten inches wide and the othor six inches, Tho best samples of this quartz assayed as high as 55,0011 to the ton, while tho lowest went 5150. With stump mills on the spot this percentage of gold per ton would bo highly remunerative, and a bonanza uwuits the capitalist who will tuko tho venture in baud. Mr. Lund is unwilling to sell his claim right off, but will part with an interest to anyone wbo can holp him in tho matter of oroot- ing suitable machinery, He is al- roudy in oorrespondonoe with u gentleman in Spokane, with a likelihood of a deal boing consummated. He is vory enthusiastic over his prospects at the creek, and says Big Bend is the coming country. He says there are several quartz veins there which would pay well to work, anil is confident that it would be a paying investment to ereot stamps thore, Moreover, the country has nevor been half explored, and ho beliovos from all appearances that there are vast quantities of gold yet undiscovered. About tho niiddlo of De- comber he visited tbe Consolation placer mine on French Creek, and the nine men employed thero were then taking out in coarse grains and nuggets 510 a day each, nnd the ground improving. Goo. Luforme arrived up all right, Mr. Lund will return as soon as tbo suow permits. As Others See Us. The Northwest Mining Review of Spokane, a lirst-class mining journal and one widely read by miners aud prospectors in tbe North-western States and British Columbia, has an excellent article on the splendid outlook ahead of Revelstoke. It treats of the mining districts tributary to tbo town���Lardean, Fish Crook, Big P> nd uud Illecillewaet���and says there is every reason for bolioving that manganese will be found near Revelstoke. The article is very complimentary to our town, as tho following sentence will show:���"It holds a position second to none in tbe distriot from the facility with which ore from all parts cau be brought there for smelting and refining and tbo finished products sent to tho best markets." Spoaking of the smelter it says: "It rests with the present owners of the Revelstoke smelter to either let their property fall iuto decay (und iuto tho river also) or by the exeroise of a little common sense start in nnw and reap the harvest that assuredly will reward tho first company that successfully runs smelting aud refining works in North Kootonay.1' Nakusp still " in it." The Now Denver correspondent nf the Nelson Tribuuo, in a recent issue of that papor, says :��� "Tbo steamer W. Hunter is to fetch the teams from Slocuu City, and tbey will lie hauling oro ovor the Nukusp sleigh road as soon as Hugh Mann arrives from Nelson with tho sleighs. It can thon bo demonstrated by actions itistoud of words wbieh is the cheaper routo (via Nakusp or Kaslo), and everyone in Now Denver appears to have tbo utmost confidence in tho result. On bis arrival here Mr, Maun found several letters from mino owners with resiioet to shipping ore over tbo Nukusp road. Your correspondent wus informed, on tho best authority, that one of the owners of the Idaho openly stated thut ho regretted having made tho contract to haul oro from thut claim by way of Kuslo, and on tbo termination of tbo contract the oro would go by way of Nukusp," This substantiates a statement we, mudo a low weeks ago, that when the Nakusp route was opined up the mine owners in western Slocau would send their ore out thai way Bololy on account of its being ohoaper, Hul whether tho ore is taken to Kaslo or Nukusp it will have to remain on ihe wharves till navigation opens, This stoppago will not occur uguin in tho case of Nukusp, us the construction of the railway from Revelstoke to the Arrow Lake thi* siiininer will give it eommuuicaiiuu ull tbo year lound, Tlio next dunce of tho Col umbia Quadrille Club will take place in Putt rson's Hull on Thursday evening at nine o'clock sharp. Free 'bin- leaves tho station at 8.30. Ripans Tubules purify thel lood, Ripans Tabulos: for sour stomach, Ripans Tabulos: standard romody. CORRESPONDENCE. [addbessed to tiie ewtob.J Tlie Editor cannot he responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. American Silver Dollars. Sir,���Seeing that all the chartered banks iu the province will only accept American silver dollars after March lst at 20 por cent, discount, would it not be advisable for all interior towns to tako like action for self-protection? Otherwise we shall bo flooded with silver tbut is not worth its face vuluo, Hotel men and merchants should lose no time in dealing with tbis matter,��� Jours truly, F. FRASER. Revelstoke, Feb. 10th, 1893, Taxes in Revelstoke. Sin,���I hare boon expecting to see a list of the taxpayers in tbis town published in the Stab. It is tbo custom to do so in tbe case of the particular paper I subscribe to iu the United States, and I see no reason why it should not be done here. Those who pay taxes ought to know bow their assessment compares with others, as well as the amouut taken from tho town by the Government. Would you kindly publish such a list, and oblige���Yours truly, TAXPAYER. Revelstoko, Fob, llth, 1893. [If the list of taxpayers in tho larger towns and cities were published in full tho paper publishing it would requiro to be enlarged for that issue. Owing to the fuct that real property iu Revelstoke is exempt from taxatiou (on account of tbe townsite dispute) the list is comparatively a small oue. Tbe total amouut of taxes collected in Revelstoke division last year, including $380 from mining interests at Illecillewaet, was 811,220.95. Tho estimated amouut of personal property tax in the town for the current year is about j-160. We do not see tbe need of our publishing tho list when the collector's books are open to tho inspection of auy citizen at any time at the Government office.���Ed.] Wonderful Kaslo. The fallowing extract from a letter written by a resident of Kuslo to a friend in Revelsloko illustrates tho phenomenal growth of the former town since last spriug :��� "There are lots of fellows wbo camo here a year ago broke, but are now worth thousands of dollars, Kaslo still continues to go ahead. It is surprising the number of people stiil coming in. Tnere are at present tea stores, seven hotels (two more in course of construction) thre" cigar stands, two pool aud billiard saloons, * * * and just thinks of it, nine months ago there was only ono house in Kuslo! I feel certain that there will bo lots of good chances in this district next summer." m^^^Kiyv.A.\ NOTICE. All Assessment uud Provincial Revenue Taxes for the year 1898 are now due and payable at my ollice, ns billows !��� If paid on or before 30th June, 1S93: Real Property Tux, half of one per cent. Wild Land Tax, two per ceut. of assessi d value, Personal Property Tax, one-third of one per ceut. Income Tax, one-half of one per cent, It paid after 30th June, 1898! Real Property Tax, two-thirds of one per cent, Wiltl Land Tax. two and a half per cent, of assessed value. Personal Property Tax, half of ono per cent, Income Tax, three-quarters i if one per cent, Provincial Revenue Tux, S3. III per capita, .1. KIRKUP, Assessor Bnd Collet 'tor. Revelstoke, .Fun. 28rd, 1898, Kooteuay Lake SAW MILL, Q. 0. BUCHANAN, PROP, LUMBER YARDS AT NELSuN BALFOUR AINSWORTH KASLO Largo Stocks on baud. Preparations ure being made for tho Grout Building Room of 1892. VI lUIIUU. n IIOlliu.1 ivumu vuviiiui imi\y A THRILLING STORY OF CHINESE TREACHERY. CHAPTER III.-fCoNTIhTBD At last, two of ins captors came ; ami, ���perhaps perceiving his condition, ono of them loosed all his bonds, head and feet and tands | but Norris simply lay still unable to move, and it was some hours before he recovered ao far as to be able to sit up and partake of food. During these hours ho fancied he was alone ; for the Chinaman who had placed a dish beside him, had sat himself down thereafter behind the Englishman so that Norris was not aware that he was watched. Gradually, as he recovered in the warmth of the day the use of his limbs, the aching thought failed him that escape was impossible, even though he were���as he believed himself to bc���alone. The power of his body was so weakened that he could scarcely move. When, at length, he succeeded in conveying the contents of the bowl to hia mouth, he felt somewhat thc better of the food; and, as the day wore on, recovered his strength, in so far that he was at length able to stand up, though reeling as he did so like a drunken man. The Chinaman was watching him curiously, well knowing that Noma's strength was for the time being as nothing; and that even putting that fact aside, escapo would have been an impossibility. Norris started when he perceived that he was not alone; the Chinaman was seated smoking, and, to all appearance, muoh interested in the movements of him whom he had evidently been set to watch. Very soon Norris became convinced that escape from the place where lie now found himself was an impossibility; to scale the wall, even given that be should at some time he left alone, appeared beyond the power of man; to. pass the buildings even more so ; and further, his temporary freedom from his bonds would, in all probability, be of the shortest duration. His feelings was a mixture of agony and despair. The hour." passed with leaden step. Toward afternoon the first clew as to the reason of hia imprisonment was given to him. Several Chinamen had oome into the place of his captivity. One of these, taking a paper from the purse whicli he wore under hia garments handed it to Norris, who, upon unfolding it, read with tho greatest surprise these words written clearly in English 1 " You write note, make pay any man ten Englishman's hundred pounds." Where had this paper been obtained? Clearly it had been written by a Chinaman knowing something of the English tongue, and kiowing it, too, not as a guide might know it, in the most childish form of pigeon-English. " You write note, make pay," it struck Morris* at once. Little us he knew of pigeon- English, it Hashed upon him that his guide, for instance, would rather have said something like, " Vou makey write some piecey note, belong can makey pay." .Such was his thought; and he continued to follow the train of conjecture instantly suggested to him when his eye had fallen upon the paper. " Ten Englishman's hundred pounds !"��� one thousand pounds i a largo ransom���more than these men who stood around would think of exacting. Ouo of tho Chinamen interrupted his thoughts, pointing with his linger to the writing, as though demanding an answer. But the paper which had been given to bin was not one which could ho replied off-hand, In the first place, what was required ! " Make pay any man,'-what was tho meaning of this ? He had no English hank-notes with him, and the writer of the paper must have been aware that everything of a valuable nature, watch, chain, pencil, knife, everything had been st den from his person. Ves, everything, save (for somehow Ins finger wandered idly down the inside of his coat), a couple of Knglish pins, which he hail idly placed there two days ago, to he used, perhaps, as substitutes for the buttons of his clothing, winch were constantly givingway, It was evident, therefore, that the only thing which lie could give, ami the only thing which could be referred to, was a note to, or a check upon, hia bankers. Did the writer kuow of the English form oi issuing checks'.' If so, who was he'���in what position '. These were points the considerations of which set .Vorns's brain on tire, The Chinaman pointed impatiently a second time to the paper, N irris hesitate no longer. A vague hopefulness filled him. He was, as he knew, in the remote interior nf the Temple of Confucius:, , , ' ���,,..��� .��� ���.,._ ,..- earer the -am of one thousand but already a chance was given o him o -,<-,:. .: hallacknowledgo communicating with some one (wnn, at least, -.. -:- ,.'���;;.,--,, escape ; his bonds must have been merely to restrain him from violence; and clearly, also, it was judged that the paper borne away was that required���the equivalent of the demanded thousand pounds. As Norris thought of this, it struck him that if the men believed this note to be what was required, he should have been in justice at once sot free. Why, then, was he still a prisoner? These men had received, to their belief, what they desired, and still ho was not free. And he remem- cored the treachery and the greed of the nation, whilst an aching, hopeless pain gnawed at his heart. Suppose he should give this thousand pounds unconditionally, would the amount satisfy his captors ?��� would it not but increase their avarice 1 Would they be content with this, or would they not rather bleed him of his whole fortune, and then perhaps kill him by cruel tortures, in the endeavor to force more when there was nothing left ? The position in which he was placed seemed to increase in horror at each new move. One thing was evident, hemust not pay this thousand pounds, even with the promise of freedom ; it but opened paths whioh led to fresh danger and to new terrors in the end. For could he believo that the unknown writer of this paper could be trusted for a moment to fulfill a promise? His vory method of treating his prisoner (or the temple's prisonor) proved his cowardly longing for gain. Who was this man ?���who could he be ? At this point conjecture became vaguo, and, returning upon his thoughts, Norris decided that he should endeavour by craft to undermine his unknown enemy's intent; for craft was surely justifiable in such a case. If the answer came to his letter," "Yes, you will be instantly set free upon giving me a letter to your bank," then ho could give such a letter, but���sign it with a false name ! And if he were set tree���well, then he would consider how far he was bound in honor to pay this thousand pounds and to take up the false order upon his bank ; and if, as he was rather inclined to fear, the promise should prove as nothing, then at least he should not have given the first taste of blood to the wolves ;and who could say but that the false order might lead some day to his discovery and escape? This seemed the wisest, indeed the only course to pursue. Having come to this decision, Norris proceeded to examine the note which had heen sent to him, and which he still held in his hand. It was written upon paper of foreign make���English or German, not Chinese and this struck him as curious, in so fa that a Chinaman, unless of some high rank, would be unlikely to indulge in a luxury such as the using of paper other than Chinese. As he looked upon it, the thought came to him that, hy carefully preserving the paper, there was a dim chance of his tracing the man who had written the words. That he was not an Englishman was evident, alike from his diction and writing���even putting aside thc connection with his captors ���and from the fact that one thousand pounds would have been but a small demand from one of his own race ; so there was, indeed, tint a faint possibility of ever ascertaining who had penned the lines. Notwithstanding which, Norris determined to carefully preserve the sheet. The timo seemed to pass rapidly���so much was there to ponder upon ; and although the sun was setting, and, in reality, more than two hours had passed when the answer to his note arrived, it seemed to Norris that his captors had scarcely left him ere they returned. Vet his impatience as to the reply was none the less strong, in that he had been considering every point regarding the demand which had been made. In a second of time his eyes had perused the lines uow plaoed before him. And this was the answer to his note : " Write bank make pay; then you go free. Wrllopay any man." fhe reply was what Norris had anticipated. Ife should he free so soon as he gave the necessary letter to his bank���a letter whioh the recipent had apparently some means of disposing nf. Now the question onme to be, Was this promise to be relied upon, or not' A few hours more would test the ise. i\ riting materials were again placed be- fore him, He headed the sheet to his English Rankers, and, endeavoring to disguise is har :. he wrote : knew Iiis language) in the outside world, be be it only in Pekin. Rapidly he nude signs that he req write. The Chinaman understood atone. and one of them hurried id ������ leek what was required, Evidently they knew what Norm had been asked to 'lo. In a mom��nt or two the man ret i ne I with the materials' iwed by the Chinese in writing���a brush, i pot of ink, and paper. Norris was obliged to place t.nese upon the ground, calculating at, the time as to what ������ Jhouli write. Then betook the brush in his band ,ir..l dipped it in the ink. whilst the Chinamen i rushed round him in curiosity, chat'-" ia in ongue to one another. He drew every stroke with the utmost slowness, for eaoh itrol him the longer tune to think as to how he ti^ '.i :omplete his reply. This is what he wrote : " I am your prisoner. If [ pay one thousand pounds, am [free? Mv money barf been stolen. All I oan give is a letter to my bank to pay one thousand pounds. If I do this shall I b�� get free at onoo ?" ft was short, yet he thou-hi sufficiently orplicit. He bail learned, in bygone days, that it is well to cut a letter short, in oase of doubt, so to convey something of '.lies 1 own doubt, to the other side, if it he possible, by an atmosphere of brevity. He folded the sheet, and gave it to the man who had brought him the materials wherewith to write. Thc recipient s first proceeding was to re-open and scrutinize the sheet, notwithstanding that be had been carefully observing N'orris as he wrote; and this act wasof itself sufRoiotit to provo to Lbe Englishman that none of those present could mail Ins words. Then the man left bun, still apparently discussing what waH to them a strange and curious thing. One of them stayed a moment to lift the ink-pot and tho brush. And, at last, Norris was left alone���truly alone, for his guardian had accompanied the others through the doorway, which they had then olosed and barred. Clearly they had no fear of his signet "Albert H. Dyson." The Chinaman took the sheet from hi ban :, and once more N'orris was alone, CHAPTER IV. '. ie a i ��� ighl ol Norris's captivity had passed. During this night he hail been ire to walk ibout for his bonds wi re : ow .-��� move I Every hour that passed had been filled with anxious expectation, Though it sesmed iselcsa to hope. ������ ��� hoped, waiting thr mgh the long night honrs for that, liner'y which he had virtually bought, though upon the dismissal of his second note nothiug bad happened, save that a large howl of food hid been handed to him a short time thereafter. During the night hours Norris n li i - od to convince himself that liberty must surely come with 'he morning. His note had been dispatched too late the evening hefore, he argued; and thus ne hoped against hope. Once he wildly thought of endeavoring to escape. Alas' escape was impossible. Tin- tree, his only chance, stood many!.-' re moved from either wall or temple on every side. Nor did he sleep, worn though he was with long protracted fatigue and agony of inmd. When day came, hour af'er hour went by. Thn Chinaman resumed hia post of watch for a lengthy period, but thore wcre no signs of liberty after all anil it was with a sense of thankfulness that, N'orris recollect ild that, he had acted prudently and had not trustor! to the word of his unforsoen foe. tt was not rpiito apparent that ono thousand pounds would not purchase bis freedom from Hie Temple of Confucius in Pekin, It crossed his mind, that pirha man who had demanded tho note liatis I be J of baud J had beeu a fool, ferhaps, by his hate, he had lost the chance of liberty���a liberty which might have been his, had he refused, and waited to endure torture before yielding to the demand for a ransom so large. And now he faced the weary expectancy of an imprisonment which might never end, unless death, by what means to be finally gained God alone could know, should set him free, This was the position in which Norris now found himself to be placed ; for it is almost needless to say that hour followed hour.and day succeeded day, without the fulfillment of the promise made by the unknown receiver of the false order upon the English bank. Norris was allowed a degree of freedom j he was fed, and had moderate liberty in so far that he was no longer bound, snd that he had a large space to walk in. Further than this, it was impossible to escape from the tempio, though it was but seldom indeed that the Chinamen troubled them selves to set a watch upon his movements. Thus confined, Norris cast about in hii own mind as to how it might be possible for him to communicate with his fellows. He had valuable possessions���possessions whose worth ho had not till now realized, and these were comprised in the power or the possibility to write since he possessed the necessaries to do so. For some days he had been unaware that this was so ; but in his solitary captivity it was not very long ere his mind grasped a truth that was beautiful to bim when known. He the paper���the margin paper of both the letters which be had received from his unknown enemy: it was little, for him much���ay! very much, for by the scarcity of an article we learn to value what wo possess. For pen he had two pins���one would have sufficed���the only trifles which his captors had left upon his clothing. For ink, was there not his blood? But these possessions were little without the knowledge as to how he might apply them. A wild idea of casting over the wall small messages, tied to twigs with threads plucked from his clothes, suggested itself to him ; but of what use could this bo, as the dust without would cover them?���and if, indeed, by any chance one should reach a human hand, that hand would be Chinese. Then a still wilder idea of capturing the swallows that ever an anon crossed the court came to him, and then despair that his chances were so few cast its shadow upon him for many days. Whilst he was still buried in despondency, it so chanced that two of the birds upon whose aid he had calculated with a wild madness for a moment or two, some days since, met in conflict in the air above him, and, whilst he watched them, both dropped toward the ground,fin- ally falling in tho court. The feelings that filled him���wild hope, intense longing, terrible excitement���few can understand. To secure one of these swallows ! His heart burst within him in wild prayer. Ha approached the birds. One flew off j the other was so wounded and torn as to be unable to riso upon its wing, though it fluttered wildly and struggled vainly to rise froih the ground. Norris could have counted his heart-beats. Hastily taking oil his coat, he threw it twice over the bird whioh now fluttered along the ground. Each time in his terrible excitement he missed it. \'et again he threw the coat. Indescribable joy filled him as he perceived tint tlie swallow was beneath ; then .carefully he secured it in his hand and set bout examining the wound. The bird was but little hurt. Considerably less than half an hour later a small piece of paper lay before him, with snme words upon it written in his blood. The swallow was securely wrapped in his coat. t His thread he had procured from the rough edge of his clothes. All that now remained was to fasten the paper to the swallow's neck, or, better still, he thought, round its leg and then to throw thc bird over the wall, in the hope that it might hy some chance bear his message beyond tho seas. lie folded the small paper carefully, and as carefuliy replaced tho pin in the inside of his coal. The only traces that remained of his experiment at this juncture were the presence ofa thread upon the ground, a small folded paper, which for the moment he held between his teeth, and the swallow wrapped inside bis coat. He reached out and took the bird gently in his hand. At the same instant the doorof the temple facing him opened, and two of his Chinese captors appeared. One of these instantaneously perceived the bird. The utmost danger faced the Englishman. His lips had closed over the fragment of paper held in his teeth. The bird was the auspicious point. If ho hesitated, ihe bird would be taken from him, and these men would begin to question how an I why it had come to bo in his possession, and to ask what he had intended to do. Ho knew that, ono of tbe Chinamon saw the swallow. To conceal it, or attempt to oonoeal It, was ruin. Never did .N'orris experience such a moment'if intense agony of rapid mental conception as now. The Ckinaman spoke to his companion ith had now seen tbe bird ; and Ncrris, acting like a cold, dead thing that scarcely .knew whit it wasdolng, look the struggling (swallow n both his hands and tore wing iroin wiiij;, and thrust the living flesh and the warm feathers in a hideous pretense be- tween his moving teeth. Hn hurt, stood stone-still; but the 1 name! saw him eat the living bird, and by that he wm saved 1 a a a . [l had become fully evident to Norris that his freedom was not likely to bo given to him, and that captivity and death only were, before bim. That his life would bo sparod for Some tune, to come be could woll understand,sinoe l>y killing him all prospoot of further monetary extortion would disappear. So that it seemed probable tli it so soon M the order upon his bankers was returned unpaid and asa false creation upon his part, his captors would bo so much enraged as to proceed to extremes immediately, since thus they hooame awaro of tho deceit practiced. In tho mean lime, if lie went pror.ned for further sums, he decided lhat hn should, after holding out as long us possible, give as many further orders us might bo necessary, signed with the false name. m-jfaj _J ed, and as the news that it had been refused payment would take equally long of transit, Norris calculated that even supposing it had been sent by camel-post overland to St. Petersburg, a means frequently employed by those living in Pekin, he might look upon it as a certainty thatthe reply regarding the order would not reach Pekin for probably lour months to come. At the expiry of that time he forsaw certain death���a death of the most horrible nature, unless his escape should be effected meantime. Some days had passed ere he had been able so far to forget the horror of the moment when, with the two men in front of him observing his every act, he had been torced to destroy, whilst he acted a hideous part, the only living tie between himself and those beyond the walls; and many, many hours had sped ere he could touch the food placed at regular intervals before him. A couple of rough skins had been thrown upon the ground at the foot of the tree by one of his Chinese cantors, on the day following that on which he had signed tho letter required���an indication, Norris took it, that although ho remained a prisoner, he wsb not to he ill-treated, Thus was his life���by day, pacing to and fro in his place of confinement, living upon Chinese food, and pondering vaguely upon the dim chances of escape���by night sleeping, or gazing toward the stars when he could not sleep, as he lay upon the skins. A week went by uneventfully, and Norris still remained captive, as far removed from liberty, so it seemed, as on the first day of his confinement. He rarely saw his captors; their curiosity regarding him was long ago satisfied, and seldom did any of them enter his open-air prison save to give him food. Several ideas suggestive of escapo had occured to Norris���one that he should scale the wall by the arduous fabrication of holes in its surface, whereby he might, with difficulty, mount to the top. But there were reasons to bar this gate of hope : tho holes in tho wall would at once catch the eye of the man who brought him his food; and again, he might, indeed, succeed in making stooping-places to a certain height, but befond that, beyond his reach whilst standing on the ground, how was he to do so ? And this, like many another idea, had to bo abandoned ; for Norris well knew that once his captors perceived any possibility of his escaping, ho would immediately be transfened to another place, or possibly chained, either to the wall or to some huge stone, as he had seen the Chinese prisoners chained. Then, indeed, the last ray of hope would have gone! And so, urged by extreme caution not to hazard a failure, he waited, eagerly examining the while every loophole of escape. And at leugth he was in part rewarded, for he perceived that the man who brought his food was growing moro caroless, end would at times leave the door behind him half open when he entered from the temple. Upon this Norris determined to act, Tho Chinaman must be overpowered silently and quickly, Norris had no woapon. His hands alone were not sufficient to do tho deed at once with absolute silence and rapidity; so he set about carefully twisting a species of rough cord, or thongh, which ho mado from strips bitten or torn with his teeth from tho skins furnished him to sleep upon���a tedious process indeed. Thoso he twined and knotted tightly together. This he did chielly hy night; and on the second day following his resolution to overpower tho Chinaman, he was in readiness to seize his opportunity. Ho had a noose, which it was bis intention to cast over the man's head thus to strangle him hy drawing it tight from behind, whilst his knee should be placod against the Chinaman's back. Such was his crude idea; hut tho opportunity was not given him for a number of days, for by somo chance the man camo accompanied by another from this time forth. To Norris, in bis despair, it sesmed as though every possibility of escape were but flaunted in irony before him to vanish thereafter into nothinr/ness. In his bitterness ho recalled thc incident of the swallow. Strangely enough, ho had looked upon it as conclusivo at the time ; now ho began to think differently. Tho Chinamen had seen him oat the living bird; why should he not trade upon that fact ? There wero many nests along the caves of the temple. Could he but reach theso to capture tho birds, ho might still succeed in the carrying out of the old design. And if he were caught in the attempt; what matter? Was it not as food that he sought to secure the birds! During the night-time ho broke from the tree, climbing it with cat-like caution in order to do so without noiso, several branches, which, being pieced together and tied with pieces of cloth torn from various parts of bis clothing proved, although slender, sufficiently Ion;} to roach to the swallows'nests. ' At first it was his plan to disturb thc birds, and to strike them with his slender rod, as thoy issuod from their nests; but putting aside the difficulty of such a proceeding, there remained the probability of so injuring them, that thoy must prove uso- less; whilst on tho other hand, his weapon might snap in tho air, from its unwieldy length, at every attempt he made. Abandoning this idea, he determined to endeavor to form of his coat a species of net, and, rough and crude as tho plan may seem, it wasiby this means that ho ultimately succeeded In capturing, at long intervals it ia true and in tbo face of continued and frequent disappointment, several of the swallows as they issued from tho caves of tho temple. Iiy day he was tho possessor ofa number of short sticks, whicli with dilliculty he concealed from the sharp oyos of tbo Chinaman who brought his meals. At night ho pieced those together���an arduous piocess nightly to bo undergone, and then with bis light coat simply extended by means o( transverse slick al lho top, somewhat M it niglit havo hung on tbe baok of a chair, he mado his round of tho swallows' nests, covering each with tho ooat whilst he endeavor od to disturb the birds, when, with drawing it a moment that thoy might issue from their nests, he would rapidly endeavor to bring iliem in collision with the ooat on the chance of their falling thus entangled to the ground. Many a weary and helpless hour did he spend in this pursuit. It seemed beyond bis power to catch the swallows. Such as sl.uck against the coat immediately there- bers, as though frightened by him liom their homes. Accordingly he devoted himself entirely to one Bide of the court, lest he should frighten the whole of the birds before he should become sufficiently practiced t�� secure them. As the human mind will overcome all difficulties through time, so Norris overcame that which had at first seemed insuperable, and one morning in the early dawn hi caught his first bird. From this time forth it became easier: many escaped, and disarpointment followed disappointment j but notwithstanding he secured an occasional bird, and these he liberated with the brief message and cry for aid written in blood and bound to ths leg, in the hope that some one of his English fellows would hear. In this manner he caught and liberated ten swallows as the days went by. Once he recaught one of his birds with the paper tied to its leg���a disappointment of the severest kiud, for if the birds were to linger in the Temple of Confucius for ever all had been done in vaiu. The eleventh bird was in some way slightly hurt in capture, besides being evidently young, and to Norris's dismay it proved unable to fly freely, settling upon the rocf of the temple near the edge. The sun was already advancing in the heavens, and he knew that shortly ht might oxpect his first installment of food for the day to arrive. He had spent a long time, on the morning in question, beforo finally succeeding in. capturing one of the birds, and the disappointment on finding that it could with difficulty fly was indeed severe. In his present state of mind it seemed to him lhat the presence of the swallow upon the roof was most dangerous, and, late in thc morning though it was, he hastened to re-piece the stick (he had somo time since taken it to pieces), in ordor to reach tho bird and bring it to earth a second time, thereafter to be thrown beyond the high wall. Ho captured it without much difficulty; and so intent waB he upon tho subsequent action of undoing the knots which secure- ed the sticks that he did not for a moment or two realize that time had passed more quickly than he had dreamod of, and that the Chinaman, with his food had entered from behind, and now stood watching him, with curiosity expressed upon overy line of his sallow features. The swallow was struggling feebly beneath tho coat. Norris was intent upon his work. Suddenly he looked up. Some consciousness came upon him that he wal not alone. A band of iron seemed to draw his heart-strings togetbor. The door of the temple behind was half open, He was discovered ; but tho man who had discovored him was alone, and as yet had made no sound. With apparent callousness ho undid the leathern thong which he had bitten from tho skins upon whioh be sat, and whicli he now wore around his waist. This he made rapidly, and yot quietly, into the form of a nooso, as formerly. The Chinaman was observing his every act, curious as to what was lhe moaning of all that he saw. Norris stood up; the stick in his one hand, tho nooso in tho other, us though the two had some connection. Making some pretense to bind tho throng around the stick, he suddenly fixed his eyes firmly ami abruptly apparently upon some object behind tho man who stood noar him. The Chinaman obeyed lho natural instinct; ho half turned in the same direction. Instantly tho noose was around his neck, enclosing throat and pigtail with a terrible strength; whilst tbo Englishman, with knee and left hand, held the man from him, whilst his right, without mercy, expended its desperato force upon tho thong. Thero was no cry ; suspension of breath had been instantaneous. Tho man moved his hands wildly for a moment or two; then their motionB grew feeble, and his face blackened; and still Norris held thc cord and forced the man's body from him with all his strength. A wild, exultant hope leaped through him���he was freo! for the Chinaman was killed as surely as ho would havo been had ho dropped some feet with a ropo around his neck. When ho knew that the man was dead, Norris lost no time, but dropping the body, hastened to the door and gained the inside of the Tomple. The door on the other side stood open ; beyond that lay a space, then another temple, through which he must pass; anil what lay beyond that again Norris could not Bay, only his heart sank us he perceived in the instant that ho was as yet far from free. Rapidity of action was his only chanco. For a moment or two he stood in thc temple; then, with an inward prayer, ho leaped into the open space and dashed across it to the building beyond. As he did so, he became awaro that he was seen. Two ot his foes wcre after him. Fear lent him speed; but tho loud cry from his pursuers had gone beforo bim, and as he spoil through tho second temple, and reached its exit, another foo mot him face to face. With the impetuosity with which ho sped ho dashed the man over, so that he fell before him like a reed; but, as he fell, the Chinaman clutched vaguely, and caught the fugitive's ankle in his hand, so that he was precipitated forward upon his faco with terrible force, and instantaneously stunned (TO DE OOHTINUED.) A Gone Oase. I the first woman you ever She���Am loved ? He���I think you arc the first woman I ever truly loved. I have been attracted moro or less by other women, but in each instanco, before I fell in love with you, there could be found somo rational excuse or it. Mistress���"I'd just like to know what was thc meaning of all that loud and angry talking down stairs last night." Domestic���" That was just mo and my husband, mum," " Your husband ! You told me when you came that you were not married." " I wasn't then, mum: but you complained about havln' so muoh love mak in' in th' kitchen, so I married one of 'em." Men are not in this world rewarded according to what they know, but according to what they can make others think they know. The Dairy Commissioner Talk) Abont Canada. "The Food Producing Resources of Canada" is the subject upon which Pro- lessor Robertson, Dairy Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada, addressed a large assembly interested in the provision trade at the Home and Foreign Produce Exchange London, England, recently. The lecturer dealt with ths work of the Dominion experimental dairy farms, found ed with a view to increasing the output of bacon, and improving the quality of butter cheese, etc., also with packages, shipping and other matters. Mr. J. D. Copeman, chairman of the Exchange, presided. Mr. Robertson was warmly received. His mis eion to England, he said, was perhaps more to learn than to teach; still, he was willing and desirous to communicate to them in formation concerning the vast resources ot Canada, and to show how they could be developed to furnish food for the millions of their industrial centres. Tho object of all farming was to create wealth in food and clothing. Wheat, cheese, bacon, butter, fruits, tea, cotton, wool, and even silk, were all products c iome farmer's toil and skill. If these could be multiplied in quant ity ami increased in value, every handler of the same, every business man, would have a better chance to enlarge bis transactions and to increase his profits. Cauada was large, andit bad vast areasof arable and pasture land, which were not yet, occ.ipied. By-and-by, when England sent more of her good men to them, thoy will fill up tho great expanse of fertile soil, and send food over in vastly greater quantities, receiving cloth- ingand other goods in return. He spoko of the experimental farms. The primary objoctof these farms was to investigate the varieties of grain which were best adapted to different toils, climatic conditions, and methods of cultivation. When information had been obtained from these experiments, bulletins and exports were distributed widely for the guidance of the individual tarmers in their own practice. The work of these experimental farms was also intended to stimulate farmers to a more careful study of the principles which underlie successful management of their own business. In brief, their object was to help in the education of grown men and women who lived on farms and upon whom all the cares and responsibilities ot mature life had come. Last year over 15.000 sample bags of new and promising varieties of gi'uinwjrc distributed free. From the sowing of the contents of these sample bags upon well-prepared soil, many farmers were able to obtain from tbe first crop as much as two ' ashels of a new and valuablo variety of grain, at no cost to themselves. An immediate result of this experimental work was to induce the farmers to bo much more economical, Then the different varieties of fruits and vegetables where tested and reported upon. Besides the worl: on the experimental farms proper, experimental dairy stations had been established in each of the provinces which lie east of Manitoba. These wero becoming centres of exact and authoritative information on the best meth ods of manufacturing cheese and butter. The products from them wcre shipped to these markets, mainly through Liverpool, to gain information from closo market contact how to meet the preferences and prejudices of British merchants and consumers. Through these they were trying to help farmers by showing them how to seek the market, how to suit it, and how to keep it for their own goods. The British farmers had least cause to fear the competition of Canadian food products. A fancy Canadian cheese, which, pound for pound, was equal to the finest English Cheddar, tended to create a more general and active demand for good cheese. It was the inferior qualities of perishable food products which tended to glut and depress the market, as well as to bring prices loa ruinously low point. Canada was the natural home of cattle. With its fertile soil and bracing clinn.^e it gave vigorous health to domestic animals and freedom from all serious diseases of an infectious or contagious nature. British oonsumsrs might depondupcti the healthful, wholesome and nutritious character ot all food products which wero sent from Canada. Of the �� 13,000,00u worth of cattle and beef which were imported into England from outside countries, Canada expeoted to send a much larger share in coining years; and when consumers acquired the habit of asking for Canadian bee. an 1 seeing that they got it, trade might be more profitable to producers, importers and butchers alike. He spoke of their experiment in feeding swine, and how they could obtain a quality of lean and nutritious flesh, much superior to the lardy bacons which como from those foreign countries where Indian corn was the staple and almost only food. On the experimental farm at Ottawa thiy had au extensive poultry department. Their trade with England in the exportation of eggs and poultry was a growing one, und it should be capable of groat extension, as he found that they imported these two items to the value of ��3,962,501 last yoac. In conclus- ion, Professor Robertson dwolt in detail upon the food-producing resources of Canada by provinces, and resumed his seat amidst prolonged cheers. Professor Robertson also delivered an address on tho same subject before the mom- bors of tho Liverpool Produce Exchange. At the close of the leoturo. In proposing a vote of thanks, Mr. S. G. Sinclair, one of the members, said tho professor Bemed to think that the rich mcrchan of Liverpool had been makinga tremendous profit oue of the poor Canadian farmer. Tbey had in reality been working hard to make tho Canadian farmer, and in some years had rot nothing for themseves in doing it, He hoped that in the future they would be able to do better both for the Canadian farmer and for themselves than they had done in the past. Mr, W. Markles in supporting the resolution remarked that the Canadian cheese did not very much commend itself in tho districts that Liverpool immediately supplied. Although they did a large trade now in Canadian cheese, they might do more if Canada would adopt a class soft cheese morc suitable to thoir requi.cmeut, He also made suggestions in regard to the packing of Canadian butler imported into England. Mr B. Oranahan remarked that if the Canadian Government would only allow English manufactured articles to go iuio Canada free, then they might, us English- men, guarantee lo form u league to sell nothing but Canadian produce. Professor Robertson, iu reply, snid that he thought that they in Canada would be porters in the kind of cheese they wanted. They would also try to meet their views in tho way of packing butter. 26,000 I WANS In Oiitarie and Unebee-An Interesting Paper Bead by J. C. Hamilton. "The Algonquins of the Georgian Bay, Assikinack, a Warrior of the Odahwas," is the title of a most interesting paper read the other night before the Canadian Institute, Toronto, by Mr. J. C. Hamilton, C. C. B. Mr. Hamilton showed from statistics furnished by the Indian Department tbat the number of Indians in Ontario and Quebec was in 1891 about 26,000, and that they have increased by 25 per cent, in the preceding 25 years. The Aborigines of the Georgian Bay district are of Algonquin tribes, Ojibewas, Ottawas, Messissagas and Pottawatamies. The population of the northern Ontario superintended was in 1846 3,343. They held 3,120 acres under cultivation. Their crops were 4,269 bushels of grain and 1,300 tons of hay. The fish taken by them were valued at {18,500 and furs at $5,205, and their rovenue from other sources was .?o,830. The charter under which the Canadian Indians claim their rightB is the royal proclamation of King George III. in 1843, after tho treaty of PariB. Their lands were only to be alienated at public meetings presided over by the governor or bis deputy. Caro and control over them is exercised by the Dominion Government. The Algonquins of the Huron and Georgian bay are divided into 15 bands, settled on as many reserves on the shore of lake and bay. Most of them are now Christians, but a remnant of the old superstition is often found among them. They meet yearly on a chosen place tc dance aud soot Matei Manito the evil spirit. T11EY LIVE IN TRIBES, the regulation of their affairs being in the hands of councils chosen by themselves; the oldest system of government on the continent is in operation in their council houses. Their code of rules, when adopted and approved hy the Governor General, forms an excellent quasi-municipal system, including the management of roads, fences, schools and pounds. They exhibit laudable interest in education and have many public schools, and also send many of the children to the Roman Catholic schools and convent at Wikmemikorg, 11 Manitoulin Island, and to the Protestant Shingwald and Wa- monash Homes at the Sault tile Marie. Mr, Hamilton then gave an interesting account of several famous Indians of this region; of Chingalacose, the Small Pine, the noted Chippewa chief who aided Capt. Roberts in taking Fort Macinac in 1812, and was afterwards for many years a leader of the tribe in their wars with the Sioux, but was converted to Christianity under the ministration of Rev. Dr. McMurray when missionary at Sault Ste Marie. His son, Augustine Suugwauk, gave his name and aid to the home thero established for the education of Indian Children. Agikinale was a noted Ottawa chief, and uuder the name of "Black Bird," 'igured at the taking of Fort Dearborn in 1812 and in the defence of Macinac from American attack in 1814. His son Francis waB, in 1840, when a lad, brought to Upper Canada College, where he developed good scholarly powers, and attained high places in his classes. He became Indian interpreter to the department, and in 1858 ond 1S5!) read several learned papers before the Canadian Institute as to Indian history and costumes.. He unfortunately died in 1S63. The essayist then discussed the " Manaboyh's " legends and showed that these, as found in various forms among our Algonquins, are the substance of the "Song of Hiawatha," which latter name i3 the Onondaga or Iroquois name for tho same demigod or national herd. Several places along our north shore still retain the name of ilanaboyho or Nuviboybee, among these an island iu Nichipicoten bay, which is his FABLEO HURIAI; TLACE, Mr. Longfellow lays the plot of his song on the south shore of lake Superior, when the Chippewas, Ottawas and manyothers of the nations named, and the customs and laws ascribed relate quite as much to the Algonquins ofour north shore. The essayist concluded by giving abstracts of a few interesting myths, or legends, related by young Assikinack when in Toronto, and which he had learned from his father and other learned men of his nation on the Great Manitoulin island, where the brave old warrior and his talented son lie now sido by side in their last resting place at Wickmemikong. The Beatitude of tha Unsuccessful. There may be no Bible beatitude saying expressly, " Blessed are the unsuccessful", but there are beatitudes which are equivalent to tbis. We take from our Lord's own lips, "BleSBed are they that mourn", "Blessed bc ye poor", "Blessed are they which are persecuted", " Blessed aie ye when men shall revile you", " Blessed are ye when men shall hate you." Then many other Scripture passages have like teaching. Evidently not all blessings lie in tbe sunshine ; many of them hide in the shadows. Wc do not read far in the Bible, especially in the New Testament, without finding thatcaithly prosperity is not thc highest good that God has for men. Our Lord speaks very plainly about the perils of worldly success. The Bib'e is indeed a book for the unsuccessful. Its sweetest messages are to those who have fallen. It is a ho k of love and sympathy. It is like a mother's bosom to lay one's head upon in time of distress or pain. Its pages teem with cheer for those who are discouraged. It sets its lamps of hope to s.iire in t'aikened chambers. It reaches out t9 hands of help to the fainting and to those who have fallen. It is full of comfort foi those who are in sorrow, It has its special promises for the needy, the poor, the bereft. It is a book for those who have failed, for the disappointed, the defeated, the discouraged. It is this quality in the Bible that makes it so dear to the heart of humanity. If it were a book only for the strong, the successful, the victorious, thc unfallen, those who have no sorrow, who never fail���the whole, the happy���it would not tlnd such a welcome wherever it goes in this world. So long as there are tears and sorrows and broken hearts, and crushed hopes and human failures, and lives burdened and bowed down ami spiritssad an 1 despairing, so long will tho Biblo lie a book believed in ns of (Iod���an inspired book, and full of inspiration, light, help and strength for earth's weary ones. -[J, R, Miller, D. D, A London despatch says;���After a summer and autumn abnormally healthy, the death rate in London has suddenly almost doubled. The mortality is now above thirty per 1000, the increase being almost entirely confined to diseases with respiratory organs. The cause is ascribed by nearly every one to the low temperature of the past three weeks. It never seems to occur to Londoners that the lack of oxygen and the presence of poisonous gases in the atmosphere of the metropolis at this season constitute a positive danger to health. The so-called foggy days of the past few weeks have brought, perhaps, greater discomfort than ever before. The air has been surcharged with fumes of sulphur, carbonic acid gas and smoke, There hu been very little real fog. On days when it has been as dark as midnight at noonday the humidity has heen as low ss with clear skies in summer. People went about with smarting eyos, coughing and almost gasping, and complaining hopelessly of what they called the fog. A London fog can at any time be banished by law, just as the same sort of fog has been suppressed in Pittsburg and other American cities. The same statute which dissipates the London fog will bring another great boon to the metropolis. It will give it comfortably heated homes in winter. The million or two grate fires of bituminous coal make the London fog, and nothing else, Occasionally a newspaper timidly suggests that the use ot anthracite coal in stoves and furnaces would banish the nuisance, but an apology and an admission of the impract ihili- ty of the suggestion always goes with it, Experts have recently reported that there is sufficient anthracite coal in Wales to supply all Britain for several generations, but the death rate in London will have to go away above epidemic point before the Englishman will give up his soft-coal fires. Influenza of a mild type is again reported from various parts of thc country, but the Lancet, the chief medical organ, today gives the comforting assurance that there is nothing at all approaching tho visitation of past years, nor is the disease likely to become so severe and extensive again for a generation. On the other hand smallpox has broken out in an alarming manner in many large towns and typhoid hasassum ed almost an epidemic form in London. Its chief victims so far have been among tho upper classes, who, in this metropolis at any rate, live amidst hygienic conditions which may be said to be almost ideal. But for all that the Earl of Londensborough, Lord Stalbridge and several other peers have been prostrated by the dreadful disease, and there is reason to believe that typhoid rages in a large number of West End houses unknown to the general public. Various causes have been assigned tor this state of things, but the explanation most popular among the masses, who can not afford pheasants and grouse and that sort of thing, is that aristocrats catch typhoid fever through eating putrid game. A Margin oi Silence. The city man who goes to the country seeks a certain remoteness from villagers and people; he wants a margin of repose and silence about him. He is eager to get away from the unconscious but very real pressure of dense populations; to escape the noise and tumult and constant presence ot mobs and crowds. There is a deep instinct in his soul which prompts him to seek auiet and solitude in order that he may recruit his depleted spiritual force. He has a sense of being submerged and lost; he craves the opportunity of returning to himself and recovering his individuality. Such a margin of silence and repose is the constant necessity of every thoughtful mind and every fruitful career. An active creative man must be in the world, but can never be of it he must keep it at a distance, and resist its approach as if it were a deadly enemy. To draw one's inspiration from those deep springs which feed the soul in silence and hidden places and then to give thia inspiration to men through all the powers of activity and self-expression, is to live a whole sound life; to attempt to draw one's strength from the world is to run dry, and become a dusty, arid channel instead of a living stream. Many active, earnest men and women, in their eagerness to serve and achieve, violate this f uudemental law of deep living, and surrender to the world that which is not theirs to givo. A margin of silence, repose, and solitude must protect every lifo that steadfastly grows and expands; to live without it is to violate one of the sanctities of our nature. Out of the rush and tumult of thc world one must often retire into the silence where God speaks with that still, small voice never heard amid the uproar of mobs and cities. An hour of quiet, silence, and solitude every day would save many a man from intellectual bankruptcy, and many a woman from nervous wreck. The physical need of reposo is as great as the intellectual and spiritual need. The body craves its quiet hour no less than the mind and soul; if the senses aro always on the alert and the tension is never broken the nerves succumb, and the harmony of a noble instrument is turned into a discord full of misery. The greater one's work and power the deeper one s need of privacy, Man Eating Shark. A small shark was lately caught at a well-known watering placo off tho south coast, and was exhibited in a small tent, outside which was a placard with a rough sketch of the marine monater, inscribed, "Man eating shark. Admission 2d." Two yokels paid their money, and stood gazing at the mass of decaying fish. Crowds came and went, but still the yokels stood and waited patiently. Presently they went up to the exhibitor and said, " When will the man begin?" "Whatman? Bogie what?" queriod the ancient mariner. " Why, when will the man begin to eat the shark ?" said one yokel. "No man ain't going to oat any shark. They ain't fit to eat," replied the old sailor. " Well, I'm Mowed 1 Then what do you mean by patting up a notice that you show A man eating shark!' Como on, Bill; I thought it was a blooming swindle." Sorrows are visitors that como without invitation; but complaining minds send a wagon to bring their troubles homo in. A bridegroom at Hammond, Intl., thought it prudent to begin married lifo economically. He gave filty cents to tho clergyman who performed the ceremony, and then had the audacity to demand a receipt, Soldiers That loii-jl.t Without Firearms. ���Their Cnrlons Equipment. The Greek pike was 24 feet long. Tho mediaeval lance was 18 feet. The standard Roman iword was 22 inches. The helmet of Richard I. weighed 25 pounds. The rabbis Bay Cain killed Abel with a club. C. of David slew Goliath with a sling-stone, B. 1063. Tho cross-bow came into use in the twelfth century. The pully-drawn cross-bow had a range ! forty rods. Projecting engines were first invented by the Greeks. Mixed chain and plate armor was used from 1300 to 1410. Gustavus Adolphis abolished all armor but a light cuirass. The French infantry were armed with the pike until 1640. Damascus blades were famous all over the world B.C. 500. The quarrels thrown by cross-bows often weighed six pounds. Shields were not used in England after tho reign of Henry VII. Thc cross-bowa of thc fourteenth century weighed fifteen pounds. Swords equal to tho host ever made aro Btill produced in Toledo. Greek helmets covered thc head, back of neck, ears, and nose. Tbe battles of Crecy, Poitiers and Agin- court were won by tho archers. The bow appears among the earliest sculptures of Egypt, B. C. 4000. In the seventeenth century German swords were most highly esteemed. Ancient battering rams were manned by 100 or 150 men, generally captives. The double-handed swords of mediteval times often weighed 30 pounds. In naval warfare the ancient grap pling-hooks and boarding bridges. Many suits of armor worn in the u teenth century weighed 175 pounds ea Pliny ascribes the invention of the sling to the Phcenecians, about B.C. 2000. In 1216 heavy cavalry wereoovered,horse and man, with scale or chain armor. Stone arrow-points and hatchets havo been found in every country in the world. Long-bow strings were of plaited silk, and worth five times their weight in gold. At the siege of Jerusalem the Romans had 400 large, and nearly two hundred small catapults. The saber is an oriental weapon, It was introduced into the French calvary in 1710. The catapult was invented in Syracuse 406 B.C. in the reign of Dionysius tho Elder. The great two-handed sword was, when not in action, carried on the back like a guitar. Tho aword of Henry the Pious, Duke of Silesia, was six feet long and weighed 30 pounds. The sling was made of woolen stuff, and the slingers always stood behind tho infan try. Egyptian bronze swords made B.C. 3200 were from 2 to 3 feet long, with doubl edge. The Mexican flint knives were made so sharp that they could be used for trimming hair. The shield of Hector, when slung at his back in walking, covered the body from neck to heel. Cross-bowmen were always attended by shield-bearers, who protected them in action. Tho largest catapults threw beams 6 feet long, weighing sixty pounds, over a quarter of a mile. The legion was formed by Romulus B. C. 720. It originally consisted of 3,000 foot and 300 horse. Somo of the wooden towers erected to attack a besieged city were ten stories high, about one hundrod feet. Toledo and Damascus blades were very popular in the Middle Ages and sold for thoir weight in gold. When Cortoz invaded Mexico for the second time he had eighty musketeers aud eighty cross-bow men. Tho value of infantry was not fully recognized by modiii'val commanders until the fifteenth century. Tho armor of the fourteenth century was so heavy that a fallen knight could not rise without assistance. Tbo long bow was brought into Western Europo in tho eighth century; bows wero (i foot long, arrows 3. Knightly lances wero from 12 to 20 feet long, the heads 4 to 8 inches broad, and from 12 to 20 inches long. Thu Amazon Indians uso a blowpipe with which they throw an arrow 200 yards with wonderful precision. Tho misericords was a small daggor with thin blade made to reach the vitals of an antagonist botweon the joints of tho arm- Sunset. Aftoradayoftcmpost,, A battle of wind anil rain, JUBt when tho gloom was thickest, Tho sun shono forth again; Lit with a blaze of glory Tho track of tho soothing wavos; Foil liko nn angel's blessing On tho desolate churchyard graves; Gavo heart, of hopo to tho fisher Wearily faring homo; Brlghtonod tho brow of tho good wife Watching llll he should como. And tho words of the Holy Scripture Woro borne to my soul again As r thought of tho wonderful gladness Of sunshine utter rain; And thought that ovor tho Mastor, As onco in Onliloo, Is ready to calm tlio tumult Of storm on land or sea. And yot when lho gloom is thlckost, And tbo day Is almost dono, Ho sonds us choor nnd courngo In lho gleam of the sotting sun. -[Uarpor's Bazar, A colony of about 1,000 Japanese is to be established in Sinaloa, Mexico, Intere-ting S'athtira or the World-. Great est City from Kece t Bttnrni. The total population of the county of Lon don on the 6lh of April, 1891, was 4,231,. 431 the increase in ten years being 397,2.17, or 10.36 per cent. The number of inhabited houses was 557,134, an increase on 19SI of 68,249, or 13.96 per cent. The total expenditure on the local government of London in the year 18S9-90 wu ��10,726,000, or as much as an Australian colony. This was equal to ��2 10s. 8d. per head of population. Tho rates were levied upon a ratable value of ��31,586,000, ����� that the amount per ��1 was Cs. (Id., bu11ho ratepayer only paid 4s, lOd. of this amount The central rates fall equally upon all the parishes, but the rates for o-arish purposes are vory unequal, ranging from 3s, 9|d. down to ls.OJd. For imperial and local purposes combined London pays in taxation approximately ��17,000,000. The Inland Revenue returns show that the total incomes earned in London amount to ��123,513,000, so that the burden of taxation amounts to 14 per cent. The balance of the loans outstanding at the end of 1891 was ��48,032,- 000. On Jan. 1, 1891, the paupers numbered 112,547 and the cost of pauperism was in 1889-90 ��2,340,000, the cost of each pauper being ��21 16s. Id. Tho number of persons committed for trial during 1889-90 was2,906, while 100,748 were convicted summarily. The habitual offenders known to tho police not committed during the year numbered 2,362. The total represents a percentage of 2.7 to the whole population. The cost of the police was ��1,799- 000, or ��15,12s,9d, per head of the incriminated class. Industrial schools coBt ��20,652. In the schools of the metropolis the pupils numbered in 1890-91 652,354; the total cost of the Board schools was ��1,960- 000, of which ��1,272,000 was thrown OB local rates, Tho death rate in London in 1891 was 21.4 per 1,000 of the population, which compares favorably with other large towns, Liverpool rising as high as 27 per 1,000. The open spaces in London, without reckoning the issued burial grounds, extend to 5,449 acres. Besides there are open spaces on its borders which bring up the total of parks accessible to Londoners to 22,000 acres. The fires in the metropolis in 1891 num- berod 2,892, of which 193 were serious. The lives lost numbered 61, 31 of these having been taken out alive. The total cost of the Brigade was ��120,723, or 6|d. per head of the population. The fire insurance companies contributed ��27,196. Property was insured for no less a sum thau ��806,000,000. SAINED FIRE OH THEM- Spectators of a Railroad Accident Burnt* to Death. Alton Junction, twenty-three miles north of St. Louis, was the scene of a series of accidents, begun in a railroad collision, and as a result eight persons are dead, twelve mortally injured, and as many more seriously hurt. The first accident befell the Southwestern Limited express train, which runs between New York and St. Louis. The train is operated by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. The train left St. Louis at 8:05 o'clock Saturday morning and arrived at the edge of the junction yards at 8:50 o'clock. Just outside of the yard is a curve. After rounding this curve, and within a hundred yards of a siding, the engineer noticed that a switch was turned; Thc train was rurning at the rate of fiity miles an hour, and it waa impossible to stop. Webb Ross, the engineer, Btuck to tho engine, and was applying the air brakes when it struck a string oi twenty loaded oil cars. The second oil car from the engine exploded, and 7,000 gallons of oil were sent flying in all directions. It spread out over the tracks in fire. Engineer Boss was unhurt up to that time, and he jumped from the engino to escape. No man could cross through the flames that surrounded the engine. Before he had gone ten feet ho fell and was burned to death. The flames spread to thc other oil cars, and soven of thom wero soon hissing and roaring and sending up volumes of smoke. Hundreds of people Hocked to the scene and persisted in standing in close to the wreck aud burning cars of oil. When the crash came the passengers were thrown about the cars, but most of them escaped injury. The crowd ot onlookers had been increasing steadily. It was 11:32 o'clock when one of tho tanks exploded, followed instantly by four more. Fully 35,000 gallons of boiling and burning oil were tossed into the the air. Tho roar aud vibration could l>e heard for miles. The instant tho explosions came somo of the spectators tried to run. The oil seemed to bo carried by tho air over the great crowd, and far out in the village. It seemed to fall in streams and pools. For those within tho circle of 100 yards* thero was no escape. Their clothing waa burned, and literally fell from thoir bodies, n a moment those who could began running hither ami thither, waving their hands and screaming ior help. Some went to the nearest water and others ran into tho fields, and are missing yet. Panic reigned for a short time, until the uninjured recovered their presence of mind to care for the afflicted. Two barrels of linseed oil were taken from a grocery store and applied to tho woundi by several physicians who happened Vo be on tho ground. Every house in the littlo village was turned into a temporary hospital, and every doctor in Alton and its vicinity was summoned. As soon as possible a train was mado up, and twenty of tho sufferers wero brought here to St. Joseph's Hospital. a* ��� A Cheap Substitute- Wife���Well, what do you think Johnny wants now! Husband���I've no idea. Wife���Ho wants mo to lease you int�� buying him a bicycle. Husband (wki has triod bicycling him. self)���Nonsense, he can't have ono. Tell him to go up into tho attic and fall down two flights of Btairs. It will be just about tho same thing, and save me a hundrod dollars. Women aro invariably clothes observer* to their sex. SATURDAY, FEB. 18, 1893. HAS EECEIYED A SUPPLY OF From the account given by Mr. Lut.d of tbe prospects for quart!; miuing in liig lleuil an effort should be made to bring these facts to the notice of mining capitalists. Gold is a scarce artiole in the market to-day, Bcurcer, perhaps, tlnui ever before in tbe world's history, when we take into consideration its necessity to the vast commerce of the present sign. ��� Silver and silver mines we have in plenty, but gold still remains "tbo precious metal." There are known to be large quantities of this precious metal lying dormant in the llig Bend country on tlie Columbia lliver. In the gravelly beds of ancient watercourses, iu the tributary crocks, iu the sand of the river itself, yellow nuggets, grains, flakes aud dust huve been, nnd are still beiug, taken out by the plucer minors. But quartz Tniuiug is more difficult, more expensive, and u poor mau enn do little more limn chip off fragments here and there, Il requires capital to work a quartz mine, nnd capital is whut the ordinary prospector does not possess. Ik-ro, then, is gold in abundance. Should this moot the eye of any gentleman desirous of investing in remunerative mining properties wo would advise him, before placing his monoy elsewhere, to pay a visit to Big Bond. om !C1 FLOUR From the Western Milling Co. of Regina. 'Ibis company nt present tied themselves compelled to double the size of their miu., tho demand for thoir tlour having so largely increased. Thn wheat reaped on the Regina plains last harvest was pronounced the BEST between WiNSli'EG and tiik Mountaiks, special Samples being secured for tbo World's Fair at Chicngo. Flour .made from this quality of wheat is the article Mr. Bobson is new offering to tbe inhabitants of Revelstoke tiud district. Patent Hungarian, Strong Baker's, Oats, Shorts, Bran, Chopped Feed, Rolled Oats. Granulated Oatmeal, Wheat, Hay, &c. Always see Bobson's prices before buying elsewhere. They will bo the LOWEST POSSIBLE FOB. CASH. This space is reserved Bif The groat drawback to Big Bend ns a hold for mining operations is thc difficulty of transport, The trail is in bud condition for the first 30 milos, but from Death Bapids to French Creek it is in an excellent state of preservation, being the road constructed by the old-timers iu 1865, when there were two or three thousand placer minors operating there. Ill thoso days, wheu other goldfields offored rich inducements, a miner would not waste his time on a olaim that did not pan out $10 a day at the Very least, as that would barely keep him in grub. But $10 a day is uot so dusty uow. It costs a man about S2 a day to live nt the Bend, more than one-half of this boing taken up by the packing iu of provisions. With better transport facilities than can be afforded by a pnok train the cost of living might be greatly reduced. In 1866 the American steamer Forty- Nino look a cargo of supplies up as far ns Death Rapids, whence it was packed to tbo mines. This could be done now. It would not bo a very expensive undertaking to build 'a staunch littic boat with machinery powerful enough lo steam against the current, which at one placo runs 10 miles an hour. From llie rapids to the mines the rond is good, It will be useless to ask lhe Government to spend money on the trail under present oirciiinstnucee. Hut wo believe the time is not fur distant when Big Bend will 1-e a place of too much importance to be oul off from its source of supply, as it, is now, H. N. COURSIER. BOURNE BROS. Eevelstoke Station Post Office. Tnr, heavy snowfall this winter will probably mean an unprecedentedly high river when old sol gets in his work. This in turn will mean the further erosion of the river bank. There is every probability thi I the water will rise several thau las' year (which i; snid tu have boen :he highest for years, and 20 feet of the bank was bwi the snow lies two feet dei per thai I any time last winter. ��������� nothing em. be done I destruction Acres of good Itu up, as well as thi Bpi the Btuelti r, It see of pub , the bank ; The abovo Townsite will be placed on the market shortly. It is situated at the North End of Trout Lake, in the Famous LARDEAU COUNTRY, whicli will certainly prove to he tho Richest Mining Region IN AMERICA! Numerous rich claims have been found close to this Townsite, which will make it the distributing point for an immense tract of country. It is the ONLY LEVEL LAND on the North End of tho Lake. The Owners intend to expend money on streets and other improvements in the Spring*. The trail from Lardeau City, on Upper Arrow Lake, lo Kootenny Luke runs through the Townsite. DRY no wOODS, GROCERIES, KEi CLOTHUGi BOOTS & SHOES, GENTS' FURNISHINGS. FLOUR, OATS, SHORTS AND ALL RINDS OF FEED. Stoves, Tinware, Crockery, Glassware. Carpets. Doors, Windows, Builders' Hardware, Paints, Oils, Varnishes. MINERS' AND SPORTSMEN'S SUPPLIES. WALL PAPER,, STATIONERY, Etc. CHRISTIE, BROWN & CO.'O BISCUITS AND CONFECTIONERY. Bakery in connection with Store. Messrs. C. B. Hume & Co., Eevelstoke Station- GROCERIES PROVISIONS ROOTS & SHOES FLOUR FEED .t OATS AMMUNITION HARDWARE CLOTHING MINERS' TOOLS The first hundred lots will be sold for $200 FOR CORNERS i $150 FOR INSIDES. For further particulars apply to C. E. PERRY & CO., at the Head Ollice, Nelson, R.C.; or to Consignment of Butter and Eggs received every week. MINERS' AND HUNTERS' SUPPLIES. ALL KINDS CF FURS BOUGHT AND SOLD I. I Xi A HI 6 Local Agent, REVELSTOKE, B.C. ��� ��� . - I Seiv i ��� over I ir I lie . ivi <! to .... . - ,Ve !. ive I Bear ���v"1'- 'beforestati [Mh.lt likely to | permitted to be- v e of water ees tLe Govern ��������� ��� ��� on thev i Lb for lhe Lardean mines ��� bend below the Dnncan is not in the Lardean prevent the ,e record oil placed ild j the L 1 ��� i Irawn than tbat it ia a "job." i ��� of course rich money to carry on lowei lown will oul ' i 1 [liOL Lh ind TrrE Nelson nail iii. tl '.:. win, have a "pull h ei' If 'li" Go c I Fish Creel ild to em ngh to accerln ' jserved from Ui i-;," City B i these ohemei '<������ i hfear Uum nl Estal hing or through '������������ thn of ... Ihi" district alioiild ] nncerte a ��� ��� parlies witl . , further nso for it, ai [t wonld 1��' the hi (t ||, ���> \i \ \> \ |> to ostablinh a raeord offi ie al ei I Duncan or Bear Lake on tho gro of convenience for H iners and prospectors, The most convenient poinl for Bttcli nn office will oortainly to wboro tho mines are, Thore ia no lace in the Blocitn lhat offers half NOTICE Is hereby given, that application will be made to the Legislative As sembly of the Province of British Columbia, at its next session, for au Acl tu ii rporate a Company with power in construct, equip, maintain nud operate n Railway from a poiut near the townsite of Oascnde oyoos Division of Yale Dis- ���iet, ce northerly along the east ii i istina Lnke, thenoe north- Ij to llm right hank of the Columbia River; thenoe along said o Trail Creek; with power to : lines in n point on the il the Kootenay and Nel- on r ��� o ar Robson, and mine or mines adjacent to the line nf Uml .iny; to build wharves and ��� . maintain nml oporato nd teli phono lines, Dated tl is 8rd day of January, 1893, M COLL, WILSON Railway Men's Requisites. GOODS LOADED ON CAR AND STEAMBOAT I'REE OF CHARGE. T. L. HAIG, NOTAflY PUBLIC : : REVELSTOKE, B. C. Mining and Real Estate Rroker and General Commission Agent. FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE. CONVEYANCING: BENTS AND ACCOUNTS COLLECTED. MINING CLAIMS Bought and Sold. EPRESENTATIVE OF THE KOOTENAY SYNDICATE. SMELTING AND TRADING agent for TROUT LAKE CITY, KASLO CITY, NAKUSP and other TOWN8ITES. i AMI'JII i L VV. ���). LAW, Merchant Tailor, (Near f I'ii. Station) 12 \ I LHTO K ll, G. IMRYW ' ii GENERAL BI.n'KKMiTH REVELSTOKE, Wagons and all kinds of Vehicles Repaired. !!.( A : i III! .I',' K nl' I'lnffllHli VVori.tc.ifl, ''rutrli ami |rlnh Twoi'tlH mnl Sur^nn AT PRICES THAT WlLLCATl II VOU, KIT AND MARE UP OUAHASTEKDp Furniture & Undertaking. R. HOWSON, Has u large Stock of Household Furniture, Coffins, Caskets, Shrouds, &c. REVELSTOKE, B.C.
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