@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "27a0ef73-2357-43fe-a2f4-aef49c2bdc3c"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:issued "2016-05-16"@en, "1892-08-06"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/kootstar/items/1.0310194/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ VOL. IV. REVELSTOKE, B. C. AUGUST 6. 1892. No. 8. G. H. Williams, RevIilstokK) CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST I A new and complete stuck of DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES, Toilet Artieles, ete., etc., At reasonable price*. Mail Orders promptly attended to, FIRST CLASS CIGARS. Raymond Sewing Machines in Stock Nakusp. This town, magnificently situated on the Upper Arrow Lake, is the shipping port for the Slocuu Mines, is connected with Sloean Lake and New Denver by a good, level trail 18 miles in length, and is bound to speedily become a place of considerable Wealth and importance. Townsite maps and all information ns to purchase of lots can be obtained from A. HOLMAN, Nakusp. TIME CARD No. 5. To take Effect June 80th, 1892. Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Co. Limited. IIEVELSTOKE, B.C. Arrow Lak s and Columbia River Route Steam rs. Steamer will leave Revelstoke at i n.ui. overy Monday'and 'Ihuusday for Robson, Trail Creek and Little Dulles, returning to Revelstoke on Wednesdays and S,vtuudays. Close connection made with Cana dian Pacific Railway at Iievelstoke, Columbia k. Kootenay Railway at ltobson for Kelson, und Spokane Falls ia- Wiln in Railway at Little Dalles tor Spokane Palls, Wash. KOOTEI-MY LAKE AND BONNER'S FJ-.RRY ROUTE. Str. Nelson connects with Columbia k Kooteuay Railway at Nelson, und calls at all points on Kootenay Luke, F. G. CHRISTIE, J. W. TROUPE, Seoretary. Manager. W. PELLEW HARVEY, Astjayer aud Analytical Chemist, Golden, B.C. Silvor, Gold or Lead, each.... ��1,50 do. combined 3.00 Silver and Lend 2.50 Silver nnd Gold 2.00 Silver and Copper 8.50 Silver, Gold and Copper 4,00 Silver, Gold, Lead and Copper 5.50 Other pricos on application, cash with samples. Certificates forwarded per return of mail. W. J. LAW, Merchant Tailor, (Near O.P.R. Station) REVELSTOKE, B.C. ERNP.ST FLETCHER, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. REVELSTOKE, 1J.C. PlanB and Specifications drawn up ior persons intending to build. Seasoned Lnmlier always on hand. Paney Work, Turned and Scroll Work executed neatly. A fine selection Hcturo Mouldings Furniture Made and ltenaired. Orders by mail promptly attended to. Stockholm House JOHN STONE, Phop. The Dining'room is furnished with the best the market uffords. The bar is supplied with a choice stock of wines, liquors and oigars, THE COLUMBIA HOUSk. REVELSTOKE, B.C. The largest and most central Hotel in the city ; good accommodation ; everything new i table well supplied ; bar and billiard room uttached ; tire proof safe, BROWN & CLARK, Proprietors, FREE 'BUS AT ALL TRAINS C. P. K. HOTEL REVELSTOKE. F. McCarthy - . . Prop. First-olass Temperance House. Board and LoDoiNf* ��5 Per Week, meals, 25c. 11EDS 25c. This hotel is situated convenient to the station, is comfortably furnished, and uffords first class accommodation. OCEAN STEAMSHIPS, Royal Mail Lines. CHEAPEST & QUICKEST ROUTE TO THE OLD COUNTRY. Proposed Sailings from Montreal. PARISIAN....Allan Line.. .July 80th CIRCASSIAN " Aug. Gth OREGON.. Domiuiou Line..Aug. 3rd SARNIA " Aug. 10th LABRADOR " Aug. I7tu LAKE WINNIPEG..Beaver..Julv 27th LAKE ONTARIO " Aug". 3rd From Hew York. MAJESTIC.. .White Star... .Julv 27th GERMANIC " Aug". 3rd TEUTONIC " Aug. 10th Cabin ��10, ��45, ��50, ��60, ��70, ��80 upwards. Intermediate. ��25 ; Steerage, ��20. Passengers ticketed through to all points in Great Britain and Ireland, and at specially low rates to all parts of the European continent. Prepaid passages arranged from all points. Apply to nearest steamship or railway agent; to I. T. Brewster, Agent, Revelstoke; or to Robert Kerr, General Passenger Agent, Winnipeg. HULL BROS REVELSTOKE. BUTCHERS AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN UEEF, i'OI'.K, ETC. A NOBBY STOCK OF Eiif-lisli Worsteds,Scotch and Iri.-li Tweeds anil Serges AT PRICES THAT WILL CATCH YOU. PIT AND MAKE-UP GUARANTEED. BOOTMAKER, MAIN BTREET, IIEVELSTOKE, Boots & Shoes made to order. Harness Leather Kept in Stock. J. E. WALSH cCo., FREIGHT k COMMISSION AGENTS. Clearing Chaiges paid on Freight for Sloean Lake. SADDLE HOkSES AND PACK TRAIN. Hav and Grain for sale AND General Commission Merchant-*.. Passougers billed through from REVELSTOKE iO NEW DENVER IN ONE DAY. Por Coupon Tickets apply to Mr. CONEY, C. &K.Nav, Co. Nakusp House, COWAN & MADDJiN, Props. Beautifully situated on the Lake shore at the entrance to the best nnd shortest road to the Sloean mines and New Denver, The best fishing and hunting in 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. G. TKRRYBKRRY, GENERAL BLACKSMITH REVELSTOKE, Wagons and all kinds of Vehicles Repaired. Shoeing aSpecialty. PRICES RIGHT. REPAIRING WHILE YOU WAIT. Kootenay Lake SAW MILL, Q. O. BUCHANAN, PROP. ���:o:��� LUMBER YARDS AT NELSON BALFOUR AINSWORTH KASLO Largo Stocks on huiid. Preparations aro beiug made for tho Groat Building Boom of 1802, CAUTION. EACH PLUG OP THE Myrtle Navy IS MARKED T. & B. In Bronze Letters. NONE OTHER IS GENUINE. LOUALNEWS. Servioe will be held by the Rev. T. Paton in the Presbyterian church at 1.60. to ni rrow evening. Ripans Tabules: for bad temper, Rev. Mr. Ladner will preach tomorrow in the Methodist Church, morning at 10.30, evening at 7.30, All are cordially invited. Ripans Tabulos: for sour stomach, Rev. C. Ladner will give the third of a series of lectures iu the Methodist Church on Monday evening at eight o'clock. Subjeot, "The Moon." Ripans Tabules: for torpid liver. Abe Hatton, lately waiter on the dining car running between Revelstoke aud Salmon Arm, has taken tbe position of head waiter at the Victoria Hotel, in place of Arthnr Walsh, who left last week for the old oountry, Ripans Tabules euro bad broatb. The Stockholm Honse has been newly painted, papered, and so artistically got up that it looks as if fresh from the builder's hands. Always noted for its cleanliness, inside and out, tbe thorough renovation it has undergone baa rendered it cleaner than ever. There is no hotel iu the mountains where one can feel more at home than at the Stockholm. Mr. Stone employs no Chinese cooks, and the table is always supplied with the beBt viands obtainable. Geo. Terryherry struck the baok of his left hand with a hammer lust Monday, canning a suiull wound. He did not pay any attention to it, but went on with his work. Next day the wound was inflamed and painful, but he negleoted it until the hand began to swell. Then poultices were applied, with no effeot. The swelling continued uutil the arm was affected, and on Thursday George went to Kamloops for medical advice. He thinks tbe wound was poisoned by flies. On the last day of this month, Wednesday, the 81st, there will be given in Bourne's Uall a first-oluss variety entertainment, consisting of songs, instrumental selections, step dances, and a musical treat by the Revelstoke Minstrol Troupe. After tbe entertainment the hall will be cleared for dauuing, and the best of musio will be supplied. Tho date is fixed on Wednesday so as to give our NakiiBp frionds an opportunity of attending en maase, and it is hoped tho steamboat company can be prevailed upon to issue excursion tickets for tho return trip. Next Thursday afternoon at three o'clock there will be an opon installation meotiug of the Juvenile Tom* plur lodge iu the Bchoo)hoiise, Mrs. Dickie being the installing officer. After ihe oeremony there is to be an eutertainmi'ut, at whioh a short programme will im gone thiough and cake and lemonade served, All are iuvited. Ripans Tubules euro constipation. Mr. A. J. Colquhoun, representative of llie (iulu and Silver Recovery Syndicate of Glasgow, Sell,mil, is at Gulden, where hu .vill mako a lost trial of ihe MoArlhur-Foirest proO( as of treating refractory ores and ascertain as to its suitability ior reducing B.C ores. Mr.Colquboun's plant is capable of treating a ton of ore at a time. Raymond's excursion special, consisting of five tourist cars, arrived at Revelstoke at 10.10 on Wednesday morning, a few minutes after the Atlantic Express had come in from tbe west. The excursion is from Boston, Mass., lo the Pacific Coast via Winnipeg and the Canadian Pacific, returning east by tbe Northern Paoific. Mr. J. H. Anderson, mining expert of Illecillewaet and Fish Creek, was in towu Tuesday and Wednesday. He speaks very highly of the pros- peots at tbe latter place, but has no new strikes to report. The Elizabeth, he says, is a splendid property, being nt present the finest mineral claim in the distriot. Mr. Anderson made himself quite popular during his stay, having formed a large cirole of acquaintances. Ten bead of cattle, belonging to Hull Bros., strayed from tbeir feed* ing ground last week, and after a long search it was found that they bad orossed the Illecillewaet River. Crossing the Illecillewaet is pretty much the same as crossing tbe Rubicon���there is no turning back. How to recover the animals is a problem. Sone of tbem will probably be transformed into bears' meat. Here's a chauce for Morgan and the nondescript. The Winnipeg "Western World" for July is a masterpiece. It contains no less than 56 engravings, showing the growth and prosperity of Winnipeg (Fort Gurry) since 18(10. It must have cost a very considerable amount of money to get out such a number, the cuts being excellent as works of art. Tbe price of the number, which is double the usual size, is 25c, but the regular annual subscription price is $1. As a souvenir of Winnipeg its equal was never yet published. Address Acton Burrows, Winnipeg. It is hot in Revelstoke���has been hot ull the week, the thermometer varying from 82 to 89 in the shade, bnt nobody appears to be very much affected thereby. Section men on the C. P, R. aud other outdoor employees have been laid otf during the hottest spells, but no prostrations are reported, although the degrees of heat registered are not very much lower than the maximum at New York and other eastern cities where so many deaths have taken place. Our pure mountain breezes temper the sun's rays here in the Selkirks. Steamers Kootenai and Columbia arrived np on Saturday within a few hours of each other. The former was on a special trip, and had on board Mr. Mara, M.P., Mrs. .Mara and a parly of friends. The Kootenai sailed in tbe evening for the Arrow Lakes with the same party on board. The Columbia brought up a lot of old Revelstokians, among them being Geo. Laforme, from Nakusp; Dave Ferguson, from Fish Crook; Bud Aeihart, from Nelson, and one or two others. They were merely " hankering after a Bight of tbe old place," but in two instances there was a lady in the oase. Dave Ferguson, we understand, came up for tbo sole purpose of gotting shaved, Down from Bi;*' Betid. Messrs. J. MacFarlaue and J. Mac* Aulay, who left here for Big Head last May, arrived down yesterday, .Mr. MacAulay has been sick during the whole of the time they were there, and finding he did not seen) to get any better his comrade accom* punied him here, so that he might have better attendance, Mr. Maoj Farlane did very little prospecting, the snow not disappearing till the middle of July. He has great faith lu the Bi�� lien,I country, and believes thui -.-old will be found there iu vast quantities when it is worked iu a thorough and practical manner. He says Hunker aud the men at the Consolation bad boen working hard ou account of tho recent cave-in, but they expected to have a good showing of the yellow metal tbis fall. Mr. MucFarlane leaves again to-day for Big Bend full of confidence as to ultimate success. Tbis morning four more men arrived down ffo'i* the Rend-John Shaw, John Sands. A. C. Aokerman and Geo. D. Olnfk- who have beon working at French Creek. Tho Consolation Gold Mine, owned by Andrew Hunker aud Geo, Laforme, is very unfortunate. In driving the tunnel and old slide has been met with which it will bo a difficult and costly undertaking to overcome. There is a great deal of gold behind the slide, Mr. Shaw Bays, but he does not know whether Messrs. Hunker and Laforme will make the outlay necessary to reaoh it. REVELSTOKE TIME TAIiLE, Atlantio Express, arrives 10.10 daily. Pacific " " 10.52 " Cheapest, most reliable aud safe 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 I'orter, for the aooommodation of Passengers holding second class tickets. Passengers booked to and from all European points nt Lowest Rates. Low Freight Rates. Quick despatch, Merchants will save money by having their freight routed via the C.P.R. Full and reliablo information given by applying to D. E. BROWN, Asst. (ien'l Freight Ag't.V'noouver. or to J. T. BREWSTER, Ag't C, P. R. Depot, Revelatoke. ILLECILLEWAET NEWS, |>BOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] IlalaEClLIaEWAET, AngUSt 4th. Things in town are qniet, Dave Woolsey has taken over the Merchants' Hotel, C. N. Nelles bad Woolsey's paok train. Senator Porier and his friend, H, L. Benedict, have been called east by urgent business. They intended staying here two manths or more. Prof, Ingall, of the Geological Survey Department, has arrrived, and will spend some considerable time in this part of tbe district, Mr, Drewry has arrived with his outfit, including 13 horses and men, He is making a photographic survey of the railway belt, aud will be eu- eaged all summer in this vicinity. Four new claims, located near tht) Lanark, were recorded this woek��� tlie Hamilton Herald and Strawberry Patch, by Mrs. Colqnhoun, of Hamilton, Ont,; Equal Rights, by Mr, Colquhoun, und Spectator, by Mr. F, Fitzgerald, of Hamilton. Auotber riob discovery has been made by McKinnon on tbe Maple Leaf. FISH CHEEK ITEMS. At Fish Creek development work is steadily going on. The Dunvagan is looking well, and is further advanced in development than the rest of the claims. It is owned by Messrs Fisbburne, Fowler, Boyd, McCrae and others. Some ore from this claim went through the Revelstoke smelter last summer with excellent results. The Elizabeth, belonging to Mr. Ryckman, M.P., and Walter Scott, is opening up beautifully, Solid chunks of galena from 3cwt. to 9cwt. are being taken out as tho ledge is uncovored. A tunnel is being driven to ii.terscot the lode about 150 feet from the surface. There is no doubt whatever that the Elizabeth will turn out a beauty. Mr. Ryokman is on the spot, and does not spare himself in the least. He employs 17 men at 81.50 per day, and he deserves the highest commendations for the manner in which he has invested both time and money in opening up Fish Creek claims. Thanks to his fore- Bight aud perseverance, a splendid result is assured. To bis partner, Walter Scott, nothing but praise can bo accorded for the way in whioh he stuck to tho olaim thiough good and through bad prospects. J. H. AniiKHioii has five claims on the big ledge���the Lynx, Virginia, Stockholm, Kathleen and Haven Port. Thero is a splendid showing on the Lynx, nearly equal, so it is aaid, to that of the Edinburgh, the Herring Baok, Elizabeth and Dunvagan, the very best, biggest, richest and tip-toppest claims in tbe whole Fish Creek distiiot. The King Solomon is looking well, and several other claims now being developed look as if they would take front rank shortly. There are nearly 80 men working at Fish Creek just now. Tbe bridge over tho creek recently erected by the Government has been muen admired both for its utility and appearance. There will bo no fear of it over being washed away. It crosses the stream far above high water mark. New feather pillows for sale, Tery obcap, at It. Howson's. Ripans Tabules cure dizziness. Ripans Tabules purify thc blood. I Ripan* Tabules: one gives relief. CHAPTER II. One day Jack made up his miud to pay a visit ti Russell Square and bog his uncle's forgiveness for bis past folly. After office hours ho turned his face towards Blooms- bury with a lighter heart than he had known for many a day. Bat when he reached the iamilia": house, a board stared him in the face on which was inscribed, "To Let." Jack's heart sunk liko leal. He was so utterly nonplussed by this unexpected rebuff, that he turned away without the idea occurring to him that it would be quite easy to go down to tho office of Tredinnick k Morgan and ascsrtain his uncle's present address, The sight of the deserted house had bewildered him. As he walkod down Oxford Street, as ill- luck would have it, lie met Hareourt, who greeted him with apparent heartiness, and invited him to dine with him at his club. Jack accepted the.invitation mechanically ; nnd the two friends jumped into a hansom, and wero driven off to the delectable resort known as "Tho Revellers." It is unnecessary to record how the evening was spent. It resulted for Jack next morning in a racking headache, a dull feeling of remorse, and empty pockets, Worse still, he had given Hareourt his note of hand for fifty pounds, in order to pay his lpsses at cards to sundry "Revellers" who demanded payment in cash. tno volume to its owner, who, with a bright smile and a hasty "Thank you,'' got out, and was soon lost in the crowd. Thc whole atTair had not occupied more than five minutes; but as the omnibus rumbled on down Fleet Street and o.p Lud- gate Hill, Jack's thoughts were turned into a new and delightful channel, and he blessed the happy chance which had caused him to enter that particular vehicle. " .Mirah Lester���what a pretty name I It suits the owner. Wonder who she is and whore tho season ticket carries her?" ho soliloquised menially. "I suppose she travels down from Waterloo every day. Wonder if i shall ever meet her again!" Several weeks passed, but Jack did not see the young lady with thc gray eyes, though he never failed to look out for her on his way dow'n to the City. Hu purposely traveled daily by omnibus in the hope of having her for a fellow-traveller. On one occasion he fancied he caught a glimpse of her at Oxford Circus; but the slight figure vanished before he could .('certain its identity. Had lie not been obliged to beat his office punctually at ten o'clock, it is possible that he might have hung about tho Waterloo terminus, and ascertained for what station on thc South- westerr line Mirah Lester was daily bound. He did oo after office hours ; but, his quest was vain. In nil probability she returned to town earlier or much later In tho alter- The difficulties he experienced only Then tho old dissipated life began again. Jack had the sense to keep his post at tho Three Kingdoms Assurance Office, and to do his work there in a satisfactory manner. But his evenings were spent with Hareourt, who seemed to have-regained all his former influence overliim, Sometimes Jack thought of seeking out his uncle and confessing everything j but he always put off doing so under one pretext or other. Every quarter he received a cheque for twelve pounds ton, enclosed without a letter, thoughthe envelope was always addressed in his uncle's small precise writing. And that was the only communication he had had from him for nearly two yeara. Jack was rapidly growing morose and discontented. Hareourt began to get tired* of his frequent fits of temper, and more than once showed him pretty plainly that he no longer cared for his Bociety. Jack Moore, a humble clerk in the Three Kingdoms Assurance Office, was not quite so desirable an acquaintance as Jack Mocro, the reputed heir of old Edward Tredinnick, the wealthy merchant. And so, without any compunctious visitings of conscience as to his own share in Jack's misfortunes, Hareourt gradually dropped his former ally and pupil, The process of being dropped is never a pleasant one, especially when the person undergoing it is conscious that, by rights, thctrrclative positions should be reversed. Jaok soon saw what Hareourt was at; and then he roalized tvhat a fool ho had been to quarrel with his kind old uncle for the sake of such a broken reed as his quondam Mentor. By tho oxotciso of a great deal of self ��� denial, ho contrived to pay Hareourt the monjey haowed him. But he shrank from makiilg any appeal forpocuniaryassistancc to his uncle, or from taking any BtepB to bring about amoro satisfactory state of things between them. He bittetiy resented the apparent harshness with whicli he had been treated, and tho callous indifference which had condemned him to complete banishment from his old home, Jack's character was undergoing a hardening process, which plight have had most unfortunate results, but for a leemingly trivial incident that brought a new interest into liis life. In fine weather he usually walked (lown to his office ; but on wet days he indulged in the lnxury of an omnibus. One cold nnd rainy morning In October, Jack started for the City iu a mood as dis- italas the weather; the omnibuses were' crowded, but after some difficulty ho secur-1 cdaseat. Hurrying,into lhe vehicle, he1 squeezed himself into one of the farther cor-1 ners; next to him waa a pretcrnaturally' stout woman, burdened with a big parcel, a j baby, and an umbrella that would not have ; disgraced Mrs. Gamp herself. Pacini*! Mm ! was a young girl, with a pale ova' ice, a I great deal of ruddy-brown hair, ana a pair I of the loveliest grey eyes he had ever seen. j unde,iuM wkat naa nsppened She was very neatly and simply dressed : her manner was characterized by a certain quiet self-relianco and self-possession, though she was apparently quite young, certainly not more than twenty. Somehow, the sight of the cjiri's gentle, serene countenance made .lack forget lbe jolting omnibus, the mudd thc soaking rain, and the uncomfortable propinquity of his neighbor's Brobdiugna- gian umbrella. It was impossible to I e ill tempered and discontented when this deli- categirl bore the,lisoomfortof hersurrouud- ings with such sweet serenity. added to the interest he felt in her j and the constant watching for a glimpse of thc sweet face that had so deeply impressed him with a certainty of the goodness and innocence of its owner, diverted his thoughts from brooding over his own grievances and wrongs. There was still, however, a latent smouldering of anger in his breast when ho thought of his uncle. Ho considered that he had been treated badly, and he was as determined as ever not to make any advances towards him. " Ho bade me leave his house. If he wishes to see me, he will send for me," he thought sullenly. One morning he found a letter on his breakfast tabic, at sight of which his smouldering wrath momentarily blazed up. ; The quarterly cheque sent withouta word -flung at me, like a bone to a dog I" he said, taking up the letter and scrutinizing the superscription. On looking at it more closely, he faucied the handwriting was less clear and district than formerly, Keeping tho letter still unopened in his hand, ho continued to scan the address with knitted brows. "The old fellow is as hard as flint," he muttered. "In two years he has not made a single attempt to see me or to make aDy effort to win me back. I wonder how he can reconcile it to his conscience to treat me with such contemptuous bidifference." Then he glanced moodily at the letter in his hand. " I have half a mind to throw this in the fire." he said aloud. " Wonder if lie would take any notice if the cheque was nevor presented for payment ? Wonder if ho would think me dead ? Wonder if he would care ?" He moved a Step or two nearer tho fire, burning dully in tho narrow grate. Just then a German band in the street below struck up a merry Volkslkd. Jack paused to listen. Tlie gay, lilting air was surely very familiar to him. He began to seek in hi;; memory for the association connected with it And then there suddenly flashed ou his mmd a scene of bis early childhood ; his young motber.with a smile on her pretty, winsome face, bribing him with the promise of a song to be goo 1 and notcry whcirUnclc Tredinnick asked him to kiss him. The rong fhe had sung had been that very Volk- "died thc street band was then playing under his window. The sullen lcok died out of Jack's eyes. " Poor old hoy ! ho muttered, looking ot | | the uncpencd envelope. " I won't burn the , I cheque; perhaps he has written a line or two I this time." I As the music floated up through the j murky air, he at last tore open the envelope. I I II contained, a letter, but an cheque. The | 1 letter began "DeabJaCK;" but when he had i road it through, a look of perplexity came j into his face ; then the blood rushed to hia cheeks- an.l the hand holding the letter began to 'hake violently. He read it a second md a tiiird time, and then he thoroughly J Thc letter, ran as follows : The Bay Trms, Wimbledon, Nor, 17, IMS-. He rose from his chair, took two or three turns up and down thc room, gazed savagely out at the leaden clouds, through which a pale sun tried to force its way, mado an irritable snatch at the blind with a grumbling remark about the "glare,"and dragged it half-way down the sash. Then he glanced with disgust at tho fried bacon, the rolls and ooffee,his landlady had set on the tabic. The perusal of his uncle's letter had effectually destroyed his appetite. He threw himself again intohis chair with the open letter in his hand. The envelope had fallen to the ground ; he picked it np and read the address. " Put the letter into the wrong cover���he wouldn't have made such a mistake two years ago," he meditated. " Hiuts in his letter that he is breaking up. Shouldn't wonder if he is���and serve him right for treating me so badly." Tli 3ii Jack's face grew very pale-heclench- ed his teeth, and a sudden light came into his eyes. An evil thought had that moment darted into his brain. Why should he send on tho letter to old Pouncemore! If his uncle misdirected his envelopes, that was no business of his I Underlying this thought was another, embodying a most subtle temptation. His uncle was ill, so ill, perhaps, that by tho time it was discovered that the letter to Pouncemore had miscarried, he might be incapable ot giving instructions for drawing up a will, If ho died intestate, Jack, as his next of kin, would succeed to the whole of his uncle's fortune. And, argued the tempter, was not he tho only son of old Tronfnnick's only sister, and had he not thcrcfoi o a better right to his uncle's wealth than a set of unknown deserving young men of the working-class. Two red spots began to burn in Jack's pale cheeks, and his eyes shone feverishly as he thus dallied with tho specious temptation. Then he tiled to make terms with his bettor solf. If he dirt evil by suppressing the lettor, he would do good by bestowing certain gifts lo the charities enumerated by his undo. He would use his wealth worthily. Ho would turn his back forever on Hareourt and his dissipated friends. Ho would begin life over again. Then he pictured what sort of existence would he his if that unjust will were made and signed, and if his uncle died without revoking or destroying it. He would have the intercstof one thousand pounds, and the one ponnd a week he earned at the office of the Three Kingdoms Lifo Assurance to live on, with little prospect of bettering his position. What a life of sordid drudgery awaited hhn ! Surely it was not right that his undo should be so unforgiving as to carry his resentment beyond tho gravo I And, reasoned thc tempter, was it not by a direct interposition of Providence that tho letter had come into Iris hands? Why should he interfere with itsdocroes? He had only to remain passivo and things would right themsolves. But for a sentimental memory invoked bya gay strain of music, ha would have thown the letter unopened into tho fire, and there would have been an end of it. He wislrcd lie had, His conscience would not then have been troubled by nny tiresome doubts. He wished ho had destroyed the letter unread, Then he thought of his mother, of hor ���hatred of untruth, of the prayers she had taught him, of thc songs she had sung as lullabies .n winter firelights and summer gloamings. What would she have thought of this contemplated baseness of his? Aud yet���was he not her only son -was he not old Tredinnick's nephew 1 Who could have a belter right to his fortune I He looked at the letter and tlien at the firo. One movement of his hand, aud the letter would bo as if it had never been written. Juat then the dock on the mantol-pieco struck half-past nine. He would he late at his office; he must take an omnibus though the morning was fine. He smiled bitterly as he thought of the small economies and cheese-parings of 1)13 life. His uncle's fortune amounted to fully sixty thousand pounds. All that money might be his if he just omitted to send on a misdirected letter 1" (TO BE CONTINUED.) Deah Jack���Tha change cf residence, necessitated by iry weakened hsalth, has not had the beneficial result I antici- streets, 1 pated, I1 tring tne last few days I have had various unfavorable symptoms, winch makes me feel that my nine in this world will be short. I I lerefore tiiink it is my tcd by eight Professors of the Lon ont "All Fares," she pnt her hand in her packet, then searched hurriedly in her bag. Thc colour Hooded her cheeks, and her hands shook wrvously as she again turned over the contents of her bag, Then she looked up and met Jack's eyes. " l'ou have left your purse at home':" ho said with a smile "Ves���I am afraid so," Injtantlv (J-j !f5CCM4fy pence were handed by Jack to tho conductor, Waterloo Station was thc yonng lady',! (lostinal ion. " Fortunately, I always carry my leason ticket in my hag, or I should bn obligor] to go back home, and then f should miss my train," she said naively when she had thanked Jack for his courtesy In her hurried search for tier purse tho book sh��. had been readinghad slipped from hor lap and fall, ii faoe downwards on tho floor of tho omnibus-, .lack stooped to pick it up ; tlierc w��S an inscription oil the. flyleaf, nt which ho could nol refrain from gland ig quickly : "Mirah Lester;" then followed u date, -.vhich ho had not timo to nod ,|.,n tfnivi: I Kindly follow theso instructions, md bring the Will to my homo to-morrow afternoon, I am anxious toast itslgi rat li iy, -Yours sin EdwAjwTbedi n . John PonNCtMow*:, Ivq., Lincoln's Inn Fields. F-,r a' least five minutes .In-���', ial motionless, his hands Interlaced and rusting on lho letter, whioh he had spread inti knees; his oyes staring at tho lino sky visible above tho tops of the o houses. "So that >8 what it menu, ' he said at last under hih breath ; " I im lo be praotii ally disinherited Then l,e held out tlio shoot oi papor at arm i lengl i I rend itslowly through again fi im ������ ��� to end. "Higher Education of deserving Young Mono! thn Working-olassos Intlei I," ho exclaimed indignantly j " and I am out off with a paltry thousand I A nice way to Iroal your, sole surviving relation. Uncle Tredinnick, upo y word ' A tho ISM] i pounds: 1 ho old skinflint l Even Thrupp, A Man-Eatinj Leopard, The Calcutta Englishman contains a bloodcurdling account of the doings of a man-eating leopard lately shot in the Raj- sliahi District, in Bengal. The monster bad destroyed Iiii persons before he was cut down. Ilis appetite for flesh, his ferocity, his cunning, and his audacity wero unex- rmplod in lhe leopard tribe, and they would have lone credit to a tiger. He depopulated whole villages, for the mere terror of his name sent the inhabitants flying as soon as ho had seized a solitary vijtim in their midst. For miles around thc people never vontur- ed to leave their houses after nightlall until they heard he was dead. But this was no :"��� idrance to him. Ho would seize them from the verandas when they were smoking tho evening pipe, and sometimes ��� penetrated the vory houses in the dead of i he night and carried away children��� often without glviug the slightest alarm to tho other inms o*. \\t (rule lie Killed only ono person at a lime; bul omstimos ho killed two, and, on on- ocoaslon, throo In one day. Children and ol'l women wore his favorite food. Among his ti< time there were six mon. He Ibyasheerhankerlngforhuman for ho never touched the cattle. I hi village, bi n to think tho scourge was a demon incarnate, and it was Impossible to organize them for tho pursuit. At length somo twenty elephants wero brought ��� hi. I ii Iho o) peoltion, and a flying column of British planters set forth in lOSl of th( dl Itroyer, They searched for some time in vain, until an old man, whom i 'e li ,i been eaten, same to roporl that thoii quarry had taken rofugoin a tamarind rne, [| wai as ho had stated, only tho man- h id by this ii"" hidden himself m . |le at lhe fool nl the troo, and for lomonl oould nol bo found, Tho place , rounded, and tbo olophouts advano. , d In ' lose or lor te ti implo the fugitive out h llll ' pla< ��� . i'i 111 re-over S1IC- ��� [od after fn iionl i oni lh i hoaal .v is ll i'. "ii 0 it ol cover, I at once riddled with balls, IL- will bo une i legend in in- dlstrl it, and perhaps a deity. Tii" rose i rooi n Bulgaria and Franco havo hi o sovoroly damaged by hoar frosts and cold rains that thoro Is scarcely enough to supply tho demands of the pom- m!" ufaotiirers. Hr. Arthur Blocbe on Famous Pearls nnil Babies. An interesting question was asked the other day by a French lady. She wished to know " which are the largest turquoises, tlie largest pearls, and the finest chain of pearls. I should like to know their value and the names of their owners." An expert ���to wit, Mr. Arthur Bloche, tho valuer of the French crown diamonds���was able and willing to supply this information, and chatted of pearls and jewels as glibly as tho Arabian Nights stories. Tho most curious among famous pearls, it appears, is that which, three centuries ago, the French traveler Tavernicr sold to the Shah of Persia for ��135,000. It is still in the possession of the sovereigns of Persia. Another Eastern potentate owns a pearl of 124 earats, which is quite transparent. It is to be had for thc sum of ��40,000. Princess Youssonpoff has an Oriental pearl which is unique for the beauty of its color. In 1020 this pearl was sold by Georgibus of Calais to Philip IV. of Spain at the price of 80,000 ducals. To-day it is valued at ��45,000, Popo Leo XIII., again, owns a pearl, left to him by his predecessor on tlio throne of St. Peter, which is worth ��20,000, and tho chain of thirty-two pearls owned by the Empress Frederick is estimated at ��35,000. Two hundred thousand pounds is the price of the five chains of pearls forming the collier of tho Baroness (iustav de Rothschilds, and that of the Baroness Adcphedo Rothschilds is almost as valuable. Both these ladies are enthusiastic collectors of pearls, and their jewellers have instructions to buy for them any pearls of unusual size or beauty which thoy may happen to como across. Tho sister of .Mme. Thiers, Mile. Dome, is also owner of a very valuable chain of pearls, whioh she has collected during the last thirty years of her life. Ot so-called black pearls tbe Empress of Austria possesses the most valuable collection, A story is told of the actress Mile. Maria Magnior and her pearls, One day, as she was about te appear on the scene, somebody made the remark that her pearls wore really of an enormous size, "It is true,'' Bhe replied. "Tho lady who I represent on the stage no doubt wore smaller pearls in real life. But what can I do ? I have no small pearls. In France, pearls and rubies are, at the present time, far more fashionable than any other precious stone. Diamonds are chiefly worn sewn all over a velvet or silk ribbon, which is tied losely round the neck. Really beautiful turquoises are very rare. The Maharajah of Ulep Sing, former King of Lahore, owns one of the most famous, aud a son of Abd-el-Kader has in his possession the fetish turquoise on which are engraved tho legends dictated by Mohammed. Tho Mother's flour. In every real sense all hours are tho mother's own, from the timo of her child's babyhood to the twilight of his later life, No human lie is so close as the mystic band which unites a mother to her children. Their lives, onco identical with hers in every heart-beat and every thought, are never altogether dissovered while life lasts, and the man is indeed an ingrate who, under any provocation, speaks slightingly of tho mother who cradled him in her young arms, and who remains, through all chance aud change, all loss and gain, his friend, his champion, his defender. " This world never felt so cold before," said a mar, middle-aged, prosperous and self-reliant. " Mother died last week ; I realize that I must henceforth breast the storms alone." Yet there are hours and hours. Thc wise mother, appreciating her oppoitunity and the prcciousness of tho gift of God which enables her to take part in carrying forward the race, is chary of certain times and Beasons, whioh aro peculiarly hers for impression and for delight. Ono of these sea- eons comes toward tbe sunset, when it is time for the nursery supper, and tho frolic beforo tho children go to bed. Then, if she can, lho mother secures a blessed half hour wish her danings, talking over tho day and it problems, pitting, cuddling, receiving confidence, and sending the children to their nightly rest happy and tranquil. Tho mother is moro than mistaken���she is iruel ���if at this timo she witholds a carcass or speaks in reproofs or criticisms, except that which is most gentle and loving. No shadow should be suffered to fall on a littlo heart at bed time, however important the occasion may appear for discipline. Above all, if the mother prize her privileges aright sho will herself hear her children say thoir nightly prayers and hymns. Too sacred a duty to be loft even to the most trustworthy of nursos, at this rite tho mother officiates, associating her own presence and influence with tho devotional habit, whicli, if formed at all, must bo tormed early in a child's life. And after lho little ones havo grown to girlhood and boyhood, to a certain independence of care and tho development of their own individualities, who but the mother has still thc freedom of thoir rooms, and who else, excusing herself for a little whilo from the drawing-room and the society of friends, can glide softly in for a few moment's chat and a goodnight kiss upon tho iinfuirowod foreheads and the rounded checks so softly resting on the thornless pillows of youth and health? 1'ho ii'othor's hour is worth watching for, lost it eviulo her in the absorption of her intensely occupied day, ,,r under tho pressure of her social obligations, Groat .Expectations, Mothor���My daughter you should decide in favor of ono of your admirers, or you may lose both. Daughter���Mft. I can't mako up my mind winch to accept, Henry or (ieorge." " Thon I am lo understand that you lovo lh, in both';'1 " Yes I love them both most devotedly." " Which ofthem has the largest income?" " Henry has ��75 a month and (Jcorgc has two, ' Thon I don't sro why you hesitate. Ac- i opt Henry, of course, nnd toll George to go about his husinoss." "Ves, but George has great prospects," "Humbug I Proipects don't count, Everybody has groat prospeots, and f?'J5 a month is very handsome interest on such a capital as 'great prospects,' Next time OenrgO calls toll him lhat you can never be more than a sister to him, and get rial of him," But Ihe Values Are Sot Expre.SKl Entirely l>j Dollars and Cents. The State Capitol at Albany, N. Y., is tlie costliest building ot modern times. Nineteen million six hundred thousand dollars have been expended on it to date. The Capitol at Washington from 1763, when its corner stone was laid, to 1S78, had cost, including its expensive furniture, its almost annual alterations and repairs, less than $13,000,000. The most expensive municipal hall in the world and the largest in the United States is the City Building of Philadelphia. The largest clock in the world is te be in its tower. The most expensive Legislature in thc world is that of France, which costs annually $3,600,000. The Italian Parliament costs -5430,000 a year. Tlie next to the highest price ever paid for a horse in the world was $105,000, for which Axtcll, the trotter, was sold in Indiana at thc ago of three years. On Jan. 11, 1S02, Arion was sold by Senator Stanford to I. Malcolm Forbes of Boston for $150,000. That beats all prices. Charles Reed of tbo Fairvicw Farm, Tenti., gave $100,000 for the great stallion St. Blaise at a tale in New York in October, 1891. The costliest paintings ot modern times aro Moissonior's " 1814" and Millet's "The Angolas." M. Chauchard gave 850,000 francs (8170,000) for "I8H" and 750,000 francs (8150,000) for " The Angelus." Mr. Henry Hilton in 18S7 paid 806,000 for Meissonier's " Friedland, 1807," and presented it to tho Metropolitan Museum of Art. The most costly book in the world is declared to bo a Hebrew Bible now in the Vatican. In 1512 it is said that Pope Jules II. refused to sell tho Biblo for its weight in gold, which would amount te 8103,000. That is the greatest price ever offered for a book. In 1835 a tulip bulb was sold iu Holland ior $2,200. It weighed 200 grains. The costliest meal ever served, according to history, was a supper given hy aElius Verus, one of tho most lavish of all the Romans of the latter days, to a dozen guests. The cost was 6,000 sestertia, which would amount to ��48,500, or nearly a quarter of a million dollars. A celebrated feast given by Vitellius, a Roman Emperor of thoso days, to his brother Lucius, cost a little more than $200,000. Suetonius says that the banquet consisted of 2,000 different dishes of fish and 7,000 different fowls, besides other courses. The largest sum ever asked or offered for a single diamond is ��430,000, which the Nizam of Hyderabad agreed to give to Mr. Jacobs, the famous jeweller of Simla, for tho "Imperial" diamond, which is considered the finest stone in the world. The costliest toy on record was a broken- nosed wooden horse, whioh belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte and was sold a year or two ago for 1,000 francs, Thc costliost cigars over brought to this country were tho brand made for the Princo of Wales in Havana, tho manufacturer's prico for which was $1.87 apiece. Thc costliest mats in the world are owned by the Shah of Persia and the Sultan of Turkey, The Shah and the Sultan each possess a mat made of pearls and diamonds, valued at more than $2,500,000. The largest mat ever made is owned by the Carlton Club of London and is a work of art. The costliost crown in Europe, exports say, is that worn by the Czar of Russia on state occasions. It is surmounted by a cross formed of five magnificent diamonds, resting upon an immenso uncut, but polished, ruby. The ruby rests upon eleven large diamonds, which in turn are supported by a mat of pearls, The coronet of tho Empress, it is said, contains tho most beautiful mass of diamonds ever collected in one band. The most expensive royal regalias in the world are thoso of tho Maharajah of Baroda, India. First comes a gorgeous collar containing 500 diamonds, arranged in five rows, some as large as walnuts. Top and bottom rows of emeralds of equal size relieve the lustre nf tho diamonds. A pendant is a siugle brilliant called tho "Star of the Dec- can. " The Maharajah'especial carpet, 10x11 feet, made of pearls, with a big diamond in tho centre and at eaoh corner, cost $1,500,- 000. The mest valuable gold oro ever mined in the United States, and probably in the world, was a lot containing 200 pounds of quartz, carrying gold at the rate of $50,000 a ton, It was taken from the main shaft of the mine at Ishpeming, Mich. The greatest sum ever paid for telegraph toils in ono week by a newspaper was tho expenditure of the London Times for cable sorvico from Buenos Ayres during tho revolution in the Argentine Republic. The cost of cabling from Buenos Ayros to London was $1.75 a word, and the Times paid out 830,000 for one week's despatches. Dog-Smotlioriaf- in Paris. In Paris dog-smothering by gas fumes is boing still carried out cnorgetioully in tho "genoralponnd." Littlo mercy is shown to "puppies, mongrols, whalps, hounds, and ours of low degree" fouud wandering about the streets and higlrways unmuzzled? All aro soon inarched oil to prison, and only very few of the animals succeed in escaping from tho fate reserved for them by an inexorable polico decree. Considerable outcry has boon raised on tho subject, and recently the "dog question" was temporarily raised in the Chamber to tho dignity of n, public matter worthy of tho attention of Parliament, M. Laguerro, ox-Boulangist, asked the Minister of tho Interior if the dogs could not obtain twenty-four hours' graco hefore being killed, so as to give thoir ownors time to claim thom. At present tho animals woro sometimes asphyxiated five minutes after their arrival in tho "pound." M. Loubot closod tho question by replying that the decrees of the polico about dogs wero necessary owing lo tho number of rabid animals about, and that they wero put hite execution with all possible moderation. The bees of Guadeloupe, West Indies, are Btingless, and do not storo their honey in combs, but in bladders of vvax about thc size of i pigeon's egg. Prominence is dangerous, and Prince Bismarck, who was pelted with flowers by admiring young ladies at I'.issiiigln and had his eye injured, was almost as unfortunate as Mr. Gladstone, al whom a rabid old woman hurled* "chunk " ofgimjci-brcad. Ri. i, r>' Incidents in tile Career nrt.it* Marquis or Salisbury. I The most remarkable thing about Lord Salisbury is a personal one, though it lias a certain sort of political interest. Ha is the first Prime Minister of England since ; his ancestor, Robert Cecil, Earl of Bur- j leigh, Lord Keeper of lho Great Seal tin- i dor Queer. Elizabeth, who has worn a board. J The fashion of wearing beards wont out in ! England at the beginning of thescventecnth ; century, and has never quite come in again ' among that cl.133 of men from whom Prime '��� .Ministers are drawn. Even the mustache] was almost unknown in England, except j among the military, until after the Crimean ! war, when civilians took to wearing it, partly in imitation of tho soldiers audi partly from the influence of the French alliance. But as for the beard, it is stiil re-1 garded as an eccentricity or as the mark of some outlandish bringing up. The official class as a rule wear only sido whiskers. Mr. Gladstone, Lord Beaoonsfield, Lord 1 Russell, Lord Palmerston, Lord Derby, Lord Aberdeen, Sir Robert Pool, the! Duke of Wellington, Lord Melbourne, and all the other pi ime ministers of the nineteenth century wore only side whiskers, while before their time, for two centuries, the custom was to shave close. At the j present day beards arc more common in tho House of Lords than in the House of Com- j mona, because a good many elderly men wear them, and thc Lords are much older than the Commons. But in either house a hoard makes a man decidedly noticeable. Lord Spencer, formerly Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, wears a big rough beard, and Lord Lathorn, the present Lord Chamberlain, wears a huge 1 od beard, coming almost down to his waist. But Lord Salisbury is tho only Prime Minister who has worn a beard for just 300 years. And suoh a board as it is 1 If it were not for his great, bulbous forehead and long, aggressive nose his beard would reeni to cover the whole face of the man and constitute his whole individuality. With its sturdy bushiness and total disregard of conventional ideas, it is, indeed, very characteristic of liim. The Duke of Devonshire, who always wears a beard, is said to have more " you bo damned- ness'about him than any ether nobleman in England. But Lord Salisbury runs him close. He is the very type of the strong- minded, bull-headed, good tempered English aristocrat ; and ho shows it in his appearance as much as in his words and acts. Tho origin of Lord Salisbury's beard, however, is to bo found in an incident of his career which is not generally known, or, rather, which is generally forgotten, but which has had a good deal to do with tho formation of his character. Ho was a younger son of the socond Marquis of Salisbury, and though his father was the lord of many acres, and married to a gieat heiress, the present head of the houso started in lifo with little but a historic name aud a splendid education. Lord Robert Arthur Talbot Oascoigne Cecil was not the man to live on his father or to idle away the bos', of his years among dogs and horses. He determined to be independent and, having an Oxford fellowship to support him, he set out for Australia and New Zealand with the serious intention of becoming a colonist and building up his own fortune hy enterprise and hard work. That was sdien he grew his beard, for 111 thoso days a razor was almost an unknown article in the colonies, and having got into tho habit of it, ho litis worn it ever since. Lord Robert's plans of life wero entirely changed by the death of his elder brother, Lord Cranbourne, to whose courtesy, title, and magnificent prospects he succeeded. Ho had already made agre.it name for himself in the Houso of Commons, and been a me inber of Lord Derby's Cabinet, when, five years later, the death of his father made him Marquis of Salisbury and one of thc great landed magnates of England. He was then jusl thirty-eight and in the prime of his powers, and his accession to tho House of Lords proved a most fortunate thing for the Conservative party. Lord Derby���tlie great Lord Derby, as ho is commonly called��� was a tory of thc old school and a most unfortunate politician in every way. He was a man of splendid presence aud most chivalrous character, and his princely munificence and ardent love of sport made him personally popular. But he was never in touch with tlio English people or in harmony with tho spirit of the ago. Ho seemed to bo a feudal nobleman of tho middle ages dropped accidentally into tho nineteenth century. Under his leadership tho Conservatives really had no prospects at all. They never got into power except through some temporary crisis, and they never held it for more than a few months. All idea of a Conservative administration as a permanent thing seemed to have passed away. Just a year after Lord Salisbury's accession to the family honors, Lord Derby died. .Mr. Disraeli as he thou wis, succeeded to the leadership of the party, and Lord Salisbury took chargo of their interests in the House ot Lords. He was Immediately elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford in succession to Lord Derby���a very high honor for so young a man���and was marked out for the future Primo Minister. Two moro different men than Disraeli and Lord Salisbury could not woll bo imagined. Disraeli was all his life au actor, a mystery, a dreamer, an adventurer. Ho possessed nothing and ho did not. want 10 possess anything. Ho never really owned an aero of land in his lifo, and if he had just enough monoy for current, expenses ho was thankful not to bo troubled with more. Ho had no children, and his wife was more liko a friend than anything else. Ho wos un-English in all his ideas as ho was in appearance. Lord Salisbury is exactly the opposite. Ho is, perhaps, the most English Englishman in England, He is a wealthy landowner, and tho Inheritor of titles and estates 300 years old ; essentially a family man, and tho very pink of social grandeur and high stylo. \\ ct the two men got on excellently together, because they both had brains, Lord Salisbury was wise enough to discern that Disraeli, with all his flitaMinessand all his charlatanism, had really big ideas and a big enough heart to carry thorn out. He was bold enough, too, to trust Disraeli; and nobody who ever trmted him found him false. Disraeli had thai, iilrango insight into men's characters which -jiii-lilcd him to find out sooner than anybody else, nol excepting themselves, what tllOV were best lit for. Lord Salisbury had devoted himself mainly to homo affairs and especially to ohurcfi questionr,; but Disraeli discerned in lm,, a jrsat foreign minister, By way of him to the conference of the powers at Constantinople, without any previous training, as minister plenipotentiary at an extremely critical period. He acquitted himself so well that he acquired al one stroke almost equal rank with Disraeli as a master of foreign politics���a position .vhiclihe Ins neve, forfeited sinco. From that time until Lis- Mel's death in 1SSI, the tvvo statesmen were as David and Jonathan; and when the author of the polioy of "peaco with honor" was laid to hie rest under the pyramid of primroses at Hughendeu, Lord Salisbury was unanimously acclaimed his successor in the leadership cf tlie Conservative party. How well lie has succeeded in that position is attested by the fact that out of the eleven years elapsed siuce Disraeli's death, lho Conservatives have been in ollice seven; they have never been defeated on a government question in the House of Commons, nor on any question in the House of Lords ; and they have lost fewer scats than either party ever lost befce in 1111 equal length of time. The contrast between their condition today and their condition under Lord Derby- is one of the most remarkable things in the modern h'story of English polilijs. Undoubtedly, Disraeli had a great deal to do with that. It was ho who galvanized the prestige of the Conservative party into ,1 brilliant semblance of renewed vitality, liut it is Lorn Salisbury v/ho really inspired it with fresh lifo, am! maintained it over a long period of eventful year- in ever increasing vigor, A British Foreign Minister needs io he much more than a mere diplomatist. The ablest and most prominent dipl0ma.ti.1ts iu the Queen's service aro, iu iact, but instruments in his hands, If only liio British Isle were to be considered, his post would be comparatively a sinecure,. But what bo has to understand and bear constantly in mind are the several and collective interests of all the diverse and widely scattered parts of the empire. Often, when he is conducting some tedious negotiation with a continental power upon an apparently trivial question, tha 0 t-ject which he really has in view is connected with the future safety or welfare of somo distant dependency. Practically, ho controls all thc outside affairs of theompire, and the Minister of War, tho Secretary of State for the Colonics, and even the First Lord of the Admiralty, are but coadjutors of his. That is why Lord Salisbury has always contended that the ollice 0; .Minister for Foreign Affairs ought to be held by the head of the government. Before his timo it was customary for the Premier to bo First Lord of the Treasury, on the theory that he ought to hold the purse strings. But Lord Salisbury lias always taken lhe ground that the. most, important otfioe in the Cabinet, in the modern position in the British Empire is that of Foreign Minister; and that he is quite as veil able to control the purse strings through a trusted colleague as he would bo if he himself administered tho treasury. History affords abundant evidence of the correctness of this view. All tho recent trouble between Great Britain and France about the North American fisheries���and a very serious trouble it is���arose from gross ignorance of colonial affairs on the part of a Foreign Minister moro than 100 years ago. In one of his best known essays, Macaulay makes great fun of the Duke of Newcastle, not knowing that Cape Breton was an island. But at a much later period Java, the gem of the Indian Ocean, was lost to Great Britain by a similar blunder on the part of a Foreign Minister, who, in concluding a treaty of peace, said he supposed "one island wa3 pretty much the same as another !" We need not go so far back as that, indeed, to seo the results of the system of divided counsels in imperial affairs, ugainst which Lord Salisbury has steadfastly set hia face. AU through Mr. Gladstone's long administration, tlio empire was involved in costly and disastrous little wais, and in angry altercations with the colonies, simply because the premier gave all his attention to the treasury, while the Foreign Minister, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Secretary for the Colonies, each pulled his own way. There has boen nothing of that kind during tlie la3l seven years, and it is safe to say there never will be as long as Lord Salisbury remains where he iB. The rule of his foreign policy is, to use his owu words, "to treat all other powers as a gentleman would treat his neighbors, that is to say, like gentlemen," and in every ca9e, if possible, to come to a friendly settlement, beneficial to all concerned; and the under- lyine principle of it all is to keep good faith, promising nothing which he does not fulfill, and threatening nothing which he does not mean to inflict. Bismarck, who is an uncqualed judge ot such matters, used to Bay it was impossible to cultivate the friendship of Great Britain under Gladstone, because it was impossible to depend on British policy from week to week ; whereas, under Lord Salisbury's regime, Germany Ins become warmly attached toi? rcat Britain without offending French susceptibilities. At home, while Lord Salisbury's great merits as a foreign minister are very generally ocknowlegou he has never gained popularity in the ordinary sense. The aristocracy swear by him, and lhc great mass of of the working men have a genuine admiration of him. But the lowor middle class, small tradesmen, and the mere mob do not like him at all. As for him, ho despises them too heartily to havo nny resentment against them, and lie is fur too proud to make any effort to conciliate them, He never shrinks from expressing his contempt for them and their views of public life, and he is at any time ready to retire rather than to be indebted to them for a tingle vote. He is not at all an eloquent speaker, bnt he is so bold and clear, and iu dealing with his opponents he has such a cutting wit that his speeches arc always eagerly listened to and read. Ho is not uncommonly charged with bad taste in bin cpigroms, as for instance when he said, apropos of William O'Brien and Dillon's flight from bail and Pamell's catastrophe i "It is a curious thing about Irish national lenders that tbey aro always escaping. Sometimes they escape hy water and sometimes by the lire escape.' But ho cares mthing for such accusations. He Bavs whatever he pleases and if his foes don't like it so much the worse for them. In private life Lord Salisbury is a primely noble in all respects, a magnificent host, nnd excellent landlord, and a film and cordial friend, He has entertained Queen Victoria at Hatlield House, his splendid seat at Hertfordshire, as Ills ancestors entertained Quern Elizabeth under the same roof; and last year he entertained the German Euipctor lucre, But to see him at ��,��,.Hmwwi. .,. ua ��i> on1' ui om " home " pai ties when he surrounds himself with his neighbors and friends from all perls of the country, and comes out strong iu his true character of " a line, old English geniIonian, one of the olden time." Ho loves good eating and drinking, puts away a bottle of old port after dinner in defiance of his hereditary gout, aud is not at all ashamed of a few generous old English vices. Bul noblesse oblige in his rule of life and he never departs from it. For years past his health has compelled him no live in thc south of France in winter, and lhe Villa Cecil is becoming almost as well known in connection with his name as Hatfield. It speaks volumes for his honhommie that lie is, next to tho Princo of Wales, tlio most popular Englishman in France. Edward Wakefield How "Tliero is a Happy Land" Was Writ- ton, A short time ago, in the courso of my work as a reporter, I found myself in a low saloon waiting for tho proprietor. I had noticed as I came in three men and a boy playing cards in a corner. Dirty and unkempt, coarse and loud voiced, their hands came down on tho table with a bang each time a card was played, while through tho game a running fire 0! profanity was kept up, punctuated by the sound ofIhe tobacco juice as, it scattered on the dirty floor. 1 turned my back on them and wa3 thinking of other tilings, when I was brought back to my surroundings by the strains of a hymn, the first 1 over learned so long ago in such a different place. Tho boy was softly singing to himself: There is a happy land, Far, far away, Whero saints in trior-- stand, Bright, bright as day, Oh, how they sweetly sin:, Worthy is our Saviour King, Loud let His praises ring, Praise, praise for aye. My mind flew back to the night when I heard these same words sung by a little band of Jamaicans in tho swamps of Aspinwall, and further hack still to the time when in Edinburgh I heard them in their author's class-room. The music coming from the cradle of tbo race, the words telling of tho far-away goal, this hymn seems peculiarly filled for tho world-wide fame it has won. Of the millions who havo sung it thero aro perhaps few who know how it camo to be written. I have tho story from the author, whose Bible class I attended. hi lp.'lB or 43, the dato I am not Biire of, Andrew Vouug was a young man���a teacher in St. Andrews, Scotland���and much interested in Sunday school work. It happened that, spending an evening with a family recently from India, he heard one of the ladies play something whicli struck htm very much. "What is that?" ho said. "Why," sho answered. "That 'is a Hindustani air called 'The Happy land.' The water carriers sing it." Ho asked her to play it again, which she did, and again, five or six timos. The idea had occurred to him that the air would be suitable tor a Sunday school Hymn. The next day he wrcto "The Happy Land." His scholars took to it at once, visitors heard it, and it spread aud was translated into many languages and sung in every clime, and thus out of the eater has como forth meat and out oi the strong sweetness, and the water carrier's song has brought many to the ever-living streams. -[Wm. C. Thackwell. A Russian Bath. The bath was a Btnall log house, situated a short distance from the manor. It was divided into ante-room, dressing-room, and tho bath proper, When we were ready, Alexandra, a famous bath-woman, took boiling water from the tank in the corner oven, which had been heating for hours, made a strong lather, and scrubbed us soundly with a wad of linen bast shredded into fibers. Her wad was of the choicest sort, not that which is sold in the popular markets, but that which is procured by stripping into rather coarse filaments the strands of au old inatsack, such as is used for everything in Russia, from wrappers for sheet-iron, to bags for carrying a pound of cherries. After a final doucho with boiling water, we mounted the high shelf with its wooden pillow, and the artistic part of tho operation began. As we lay there in the suffocating steam, Alexandra whipped us thoroughly with a small besom of birch twigs, rendered pliable and secure of their tender leaves by a preliminary plunge in boiling water. When we gasped for breath, she interpreted it as a symptom of speechful delight, and flow te the oven and dashed a bucket of cold water on the rod hot stones placed there for the purpose. Tho steam poured forth in intolerable clouds ; but we submitted, powerloss to protest. Alexandra, with all tier clothes on, scorned not to feel the heat. She administered a merciless yet gentlo maBsage to every limb with hor birch rods ���what would it have been liko if she had used nottlcs, the peasants' delight!-and rescued us from utter collapse just in timo by a doucho of ice-cold water. Wo huddled on all tho warm clothing we owned, woro driven home, plied with boiling tea, and put to bed for two hours. At tho end of lhat timo we felt made ovor, physically, and ready to beg for another birching. But wc wore warned not tn expose oursolvcs to tho cold for at least twenty-four hours, although we had often seen peasants, fresh from their bath, birch besom in hand, in tho wintry streets of the two capitals.��� [Isabel F. Hapgood, in Atlantic Monthly. Tho man who works for God always gets his pay in advance. There is always room for a man of forco, and be makes room for many.���[Emorson. In a fight in Paddy Moron's saloon, on Canal street, Buffalo, on Monday night, Frederick Logron, a professional strong man, formerly of Hamilton, Ont., with his fist, killed Ellas Scverfoii, a Norwegian sailor from Chicago. The qitarrol aroso over a disreputable woman, A telegram from Botliune reports that a tragedy has taken placo there. A miner named Delimscho, who had recently been dismissed by liiscmployers, was proparlngto Icavo for Belgium. The woman with whom he lived refused to accompany him, whereupon he became jealous, and, throwing hor down, placed a dynamite cartridge upon her chest, and at once discharged it with fatal results. A horrible spectacle presented itself to tbo neighbors who entered tho room, The two bodies were so mutilated as to bo tit icily unrecognizable. ���jad-jiib uj-iDiJii 1'rLti mutiu- Thc Kirorls to Cnuipletc lite Telcj-ral-'iic Circuit or the Earth. The pri;���ct of a telegraphic cable under the Pacitic Ocean to connect this continent with Asia and Australia and provide a short direct, quick and cheap route to the farEast in place of the present costly andcomparat ive- ly long route, which circles backward three- fourths of thc way around the globe, seems to have been advanced very materially toward accomplishment by thc results attained by the United States cruiser Thetis in tlie second survey of the proposed route. The Thetis left San Francisco on April IS last to take soundings and make a general survey of the ocean bed over the proposed route from California to the Sandwich Islands, the first section of a proposed route- to Japan. She returned to San Francisco last week. Six months ago the Albatross made similar survey, but the results attained in that survey wero uot considered of a nature very favorable to the project. The Albatross surveyed a route running from a point on .Monterey Bay, near tho town of aVfonteroy, direct to Honolulu. Her soundings showed that the bottom of thc sea was very irregular over thc greater part of THE ROI'TE SURVEYEO. The depths of the water were vory great, and a great many lofty and perpendicular coral roofs were discovered along thc track, indicating great danger of frequent and serious troubles to the cable through abrasion, and also of total loss, from tho great depths and the swing between the reefs. The Thetis met with far greater success in her sitr ey. The theoretical route was the same from San Francisco to Honolulu, but, as in the case of the cables from New York to Europe, the actual route of the deep sea cable was located to begin at a point some considerable distance from San Francisco. The Atlantic deep-sea cableB begin, or end, at Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, or in that immediate vicinity. The Thetis started from Point Conception, 220 miles south of San Francisco, and 38 miles wost of the town of Santa Barbara, at tho head of tho Santa Barbara channel. The place was considered by the electrical- engineers to bo favorable for a deep-sea cable landing. Tho ground at that point is high, and the water shoals off on a mud bottom. The Thetis took a course nearly due southwest, and by way of the Great Circle. I In the beginning of the survey soundings ] were made overy two miles until a depth of !)00 fathoms was registered. Five miles out from Point Conception sea bottom was found I at eighty-seven fathoms, and at thirteen 1 miles, 281 fathoms were rogistered. From that point on toward the Hawaiian Islands the depth of water increased gradually to 3,000 fathoms, or moro than threo and a half miles. That great depth was the average for many miles. When the bottom was level soundings were taken every ten miles, ' and where it was irregular, undulating, or ' where reefs were discovered, soundings wero taken at short intervals down to two in a mile THE GREATEST DEtTtI sounded ou the route was 3,228 fathoms, at a point about three hundred miles from Hilo, on the island of Hawaii, where it is proposed to land tho cablo. The water shoaled to one thousand fathoms thirty-five miles from Hilo, and shoaled gradually from that on to the landing place, near which the dopth is twenty fathoms. A short cable will have to be laid to connect tho island of Hawaii with Honolulu, but it is probable that the direct cable to Japan would be laid from Hilo to avoid transmissions and for reasons of favorable landing. For the ioute surveyed by lho Thetis the cable to the Sandwich Islands would be 2,- 060 miles in length. Tho route surveyed by the Albatross is about fifty miles longer. The Albatross had heavy weather during a great part of her trip, hut the Thetis experienced favorable weather during most of the time. The Thetis survey is considered to be the most accurate and best determined of any yet made for a Pacific cable; The interests are partly commercial and partly political. Direct and quick communication with British ports and colonies and the far east generally is wanted for the sake of Canada's commercial interests in that direction ; but, and perhaps mainly, an alternative telegraphic route to the East is wanted for Government purposes���a route that shall be entirely through British possessions and not subject to interference or steppage by any foreign power. It is considered te be an essential move of prudential strategy in line with recont experiments of shipping British troops from England to India and the East over the Canadian Pacific Railway. These considerations havo led to the map- pingout of threecompetitive routes. Atpres- cnt all telegrams from New York for China, Japan, or Australia must go under tlie Atlantic to London. Thence are threo routes to India, two through to China and Japan, and one continuation from either one of the three on to Auslraliaand Now Zealand. The northern route is from Loudon to Denmark, through Russia aud ACKOSS THE SIDKRIAM STEITES, by the great Northern Telegraph Company to Vladivostok, theoastern seaboard, whoro connections with China and Japan are made. The Indo-Eurcpoau route is a land line across Germany, Russia, and Persia to the Persian Gulf, and thenco to Bombay. The eastern route, direct to Chinaand Australia, is by way of Franco, tho Mediterranean, Egypt, tho Rod Sea, Arabia, India, Pcnang, and Singaporo, and thenco by way of Java and Sumatra to PortDawin, on the northern coast. Tho routes aro long. Of tho threo projected Pacific routes two start from British Columbia, one for Japan and Australia, the other for Australiadiroct, by tho way of the Fiji Islands, Tho northern routo is projected from a point near Victoria B. 0., to Uiiimak, in the Aleutian Islands, thenco te Attn Island, and from thero to Japan. A supplementary cablo would bo run from Japan via Manila und New Guinea to the northern Australian cost. It is known as tho Canadian route. The central, or United Stales route, which has heen surveyed to the .Sandwich Islands by tho Thetis, would run ovor tho routo surveyed to Hawaii, thenco to Johnston Island, about seven hundred miles west, thence to Wake Island, 1,300 miles west and midway belwconHa-vnii and Japan, from there to Marcus Island, and from Martin Island to a landing in Japan, Japan and Australia are in communication now, Either of the Pacific cables would complete the telegraphic circuil of tbe globe, Tho third proposed route is from a point near Victoria, B.C., teflahu, ���Sandwich Islands, thence dueBonth l,0UO miles to Fannin;; Island, thence to one of the Fiji Island., l,600miles, and from there another loop of about equal distance to Brisbane, Australia. That, however, would not afford good facilities for roachiiij* China and Japan. The approximate distances of each route are : Northern, British Columbia io Japan, 3,(100 miles; central, Sau Francisco to Japan 5,900 miles; southern, British Columbia to Australia, 0,750 miles. The extension of the first cable route from Japan to Australia, projected mainly for Government purposes, probably, by the route indicated, would be an added distanco of 3,000 miies. The estimates of the probable cost of a cablo by each of the three routes vary ono estimate placing it at about four, six, aud seven million dollars respectively for eaih main route, aud an added three millions for an additonal cable from Japan to Australia; but that is ouly approximate, THE CANADIANS, Australians, and the British Government are naturally chiefly interested in the northern and southern routes, and statistics are quoted to show that either of these routes is better than thecentral. Electricians, encode an advantage for the northern roult in the shorter distances between Intermediate points, which would, of course, increase the speed of transmission. That would have an appreciable affect on the tariff for telegrams. Over the short stretches on the northern route the highest rate of speed could be attained probably, but it is not improbable that under possible aud favoring circumstances the same results could be obtained over thc longer cables by thecentral routo from San Francisco. It is said, also, that the sea bottom 011 the northern routo is very much more favorable, and that there would be less risk of interruptions. A British gunboat completed receutly a series of surveys along the proposed northern route. It is probable that ot present two cables, by diffetent routes, to China and Australia, would not pay, and that rivalry would cause loss to both. It has been suggested tbat tbe Uuited States should join with the British Government in favor of the northern route, makinc ita terminus at a place in tlie State of Washington instead of in British Columbia. How far the successful survey of the central route by tho Thetis may effect tbe question remains to be seen. That a transpacific cable is needed is conceded, .ml that it will be constructed very soon by some route is accepted by electricians as a settled fact. What the Baby Wanted- Dr. Guster contributes to a German paper the following brief but pathetic journal ot a baby who, after thirteen days iu this world, departed, leaving theso reflections for our instruction : First day���Wonderful, heavenly ! At last [ am in this beautiful world 1 Who would have thought it, that oue could breathe freely breathe, and cry out . what oue thinks? I rejoice particularly in the sui- light and blue sky, in the fresh, pure air with its coolness. If I could ouly sec and feel all this splendor 1 Second Day���Oh, this horrible heat 11 have been deceived. This air, this wator, this light how entirely different have I imagined it would be. But patience, all will oome right by and by. The old woman who cares for me docs not seem to understand me. Fifth day���Still no solution. If it goes on this way I cannot hold out long. The whole livelong day must I lie buried in feather cushions so that Iacan scarcely gasp down a bit of air. Two Hum and one nan- ne) binders, a little shirt, a flannel slip, a long cushion filled with feathers, in which I am wrapped from head to foot, over this 0 coverlet filled with feathers, the curtains of my crib drawn to, iho room darkened with double curtains, the windows closed, so must I, poor worm, lie from morning till evening, My burning skin is worse off than the hot stove near me, which tan at least, as I feel, give off its heat. Ob, that I did know what I shall do. If I cry it brings the old woman with her milk, which increases my misery ; my hands are cold while my brain and skin are burning, sho brings a tew more wraps. I turn my half closed eyes from side to side seeking help, and my tomentor says " the baby siuvers," aud really heats thc horrible things at the stove. Will no one come to my relief ? Tenth Day���Again a fearful night ! I cry, but I am not understood. I must drink, drink, and again drink until the stomach overflows. A half hour later they give me something with a horrible taste from a teaspoon. Air, air, pure, cool air, light, water ! Shall I then have no hdp from this world ! Twelfth Day���Yesterday there was a groat councilof my aunts and cousins. Each one advised a different remedy for my sickness, but all agree that its cause is a cold Warmth was urgently recommended, md I received a new kind of infant food just discovered aud some strengthening wine, which heated my brain a little mure, so that I was deathly still. My liody is wrapped 10 tightly with the roller thai my stomach overflows evory time a teaspoonful of anything is givon. My feetare forcibly extended and enveloped so I cannot bring them up I'i relieve the pain, but my fecliug it gradually going. Would that all were soon over. Thirteenth Day.���Farewell, thou beautiful world. Thy light und thine air huvo liecn denied me, but thither where 1 go there are no fetters. Why British Emu-rants to Brazil Have failed. The British Consul at .Santos, iu Brazil, in his last report gives a number of reasons for tho failure and mistortunos of recent British emigrants to Brazil:��� (1.) The Brazilian agents sent to recruit labour in Europe extended their operations to Great Britain, though instructed li confine them to Latin races. (2.) Though Instructed to recruit agricultural labor only, and receiving a commission lor each emigrant engaged, thoy eventually register*--! any individual who said he was an agriculturist. (3.) Thc bulk oftho British enu'grants engaged were conscquintly mill hands and people of no occupation from tho manufacturing towns, who would have failed anywhere as agriculturists, even in a British colony. (4.) The emigrants were deceived aud deceived themselves ai to tho nature of the Work required of tbem, thc food they ware to receive, aud the value of money in Brazil. (6) Their habits were totally unsulted te a tropical climate, so that many telt sick at the outoct. (6.) They could uot "peak or understand a word of the .a*,ta��(|*. .|).(1,.��a.,ja,,.a^a^.,>..���.,..>^,.,...,^^^��^^c.,..-a>--aia.^~-a !�����������.. ��������� (Lije kootenay Star H.l. Ontchi-oii. Proprietor R. W. Northey, Edit i SATURDAY, AUG. li, 1802. An obnoxious stench greets lbe nostrils of the pedestrian ou tbe rond between tbe Methodist Ohuroh und tbe top of Toboggan Hill. It is very bad in the evening when there is no breeze, the nir boing strongly impregnated with the effluviu of pig styes, nnil lho perfume appears to bo most aggressive ut the point where the rotuls cross. With cholera, smallpox nnd yellow fever at various places on tbe continent this state of tilings Booms to bo almost inviting an attack from one ot those dread diseases. Fortunately there aro no dwelling houses near, otherwise fever or smallpox might oven now bo prevalent in the town. We suppose uo one has any particular interest or business m looking into tbe matter, but if a little extra work will obviate any fear of au epidemic those who are responsible for tbe nuisance should uot hesitate to undertake it. " The Queen vs. Farwell." All who have ever read Dickens's "Bleak House" will readily recognize an analogous case to tho above in "Jnrn- dyeo vs. Jarnclyco." The blighting effects of that interminable lawsuit marked tbe lives of all the parties to the oase, So it is with Iievelstoke, While other towns in West Kooteuay aro puebiug ahead with all their young might, busy, bustling, thriving; having no incubus in tbe shape of a lawsuit, Revelstoke ���the oldest town in West Kootenay and the best situated for trade and commerce in the distriot; at the bead of river navigation aud a divisional point on the Canadian Pacific Railway; with a magnificent climate and a soil that will grow auy thing���does not progress at all. The real estato man has very little to do, as lots do not change hands as in other communities, Outsiders do not care to come iu and build, uor can any new industries be started under tbe existing state of things ; tbe town has not grown any for six years. Why is this thus ? Because for six years the blight and mildew of our ancient lawsuit has Bcttled upon it; because tbo Law's lingering delays have well-nigh eaten the heart out of everybody wbo has interests at stake. Because for six years tbore have been two claiiiiuuts to the townsite, and until the case is Settled in tbe Court of Final Appeal this stagnation must continue, as no one cares to buy townsite lots that cannot be registered. Lots have boon ���purchased from both parties to tbo Biiil, nnd it may turn out that personB Who bought from John Doe will have to re-buy tbe same from Richard Roe, nud those who bought from Riohnrrl Boe may find to their sorrow that tbey should have paid their money to John Doe. A rumor has been circulated during the past few days that the suit was ended--that Farwell hud accepted an equivalent in land elsewhere, Had tbis proved to be true, then would " the winter of our discontent" have been at end! The iueubus removed, Iievelstoke would have made a grand effort to overtake tlie ambitious 3-year-old and the two or three yearling towns in tbe district which have beaten ber. But tbe rumor is only a rumor���nothing more. Mr. Furwell lias been in town this week, aud be himself informs us. m li manner that leaves no room for the shadow of a dunbt, that "he will make no compromise with tbe Durn- Inion Government, but will contest the suit tn tin- bitter end." 80 our cit izi-ns may just as well sit down and fold their arms fur six years longer or get up and "kick.'" It will be vain to look for any help in the sell lenient of our trouble from Mr. Farwell. Good Templar Installation. A mooting of Kev.-Utoko Lodge I.O.ii T. wu.-- hold 00 Tuesdii, evening, whon tho following wero la stalled an officers for tho onsuing term :��� Urn. (' Ladner C. T. Hilt M. Lewis V. T, Bro, 0 li. If 11 un*... tit..:. SSiat. M. Williamson .. 'Irons. Urn. A, Williamson 1'. S. Bro. 0. IVrryliurry .. C lire. I'.. Pioard .. M Sist. lv Ladner A.M. Bro. T. Lewis ,..Oh Bro, C. Lindmark , Bant, Bm. A. E. Bunoiaon , I'CT. Bro. W. ,1. Dickie L. Dep, Sist. E, Ladner Orf-amst, At the wonl ly meeting nu Tuesday evmiing a most entertaining debate is anticipated, tlie subject for dis- cimsiou being "Aro the mental capacities ol man uml woman equal? Tbe affirmative will be presonterl in a paper read by Mistt E Ladner, and the negative In Mr. T. Lewis, 4aa> Messrs. 0. II. Allen, 0, B Hnme, Guy Burlier and II. I>. FInmo 0 ft for Griffin Luke by llm '0 o'olook express on Thursday, Tbey ure aftor flub, beam, M-uii'iuls, or any kind of i gumotliBt turns Up, L. II. Lnugloy, i the Griffin Lake Nimrod, will act us | pilot. P.S.���The boys relumed thin I ���jiwuiug with about bo trout, I lOiUihaM(hu;,iV li, f ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOB, I FO Tbo Editor oannot bo responsible for the 1 opinions expressed by correspondents, A Growl from Illecillewaet. Stn,���The minors bero cannot 1111- I (lerstiind why the Government agont I (Mr. Kirkup) is so dilatory iu having I much needed trails constructed iu this enmp. There is no trail between the bridge above Mr. Callaway's and the Fish Crook trail. Pack trains have lo travel along tbe railway trunk, going through two rock cuttings, "ulloe samey as a tie pass." This is im! as ii should be. Why this " happy-go-lucky," "dovil mny- oare " policy should be pursued is beyond comprehension. If a train should oome ulong while the puck train was iu the cutting (about threo quarters nf a mile) either tho pack train would bo wiped ont or the cars would be ditched���probably both, and a terrible loss of life would result. Mr. Kirkup's attontiou has been repeatedly called to this important matter, but he does ucit make the least effort to have tbe grievance remedied. Again, when the miners were employed on the Fish Creek trail (at reduced wages from last year) Mr. Kirkup was so small that he made tbe men pay for packing in provisions, notwithstanding tbat tbey were employed building a bridge some twelve miles from the railway. Has tbe British Columbia Government desoended so low tbat it cannot afford lo pay for packing, or does Mr. J. Kirkup think be will got a feather in bis bat or another stripe for pursuing such a cheese-paring policy ? Laborers should be treated fairly and good wages should be paid. Tbe revenue from West Kootenay this year will amount to $75,000 or #100,- 000. There aro several trails badly needed in this camp, and if tbe present Government agent cannot look after these matters a man should be appointed who would be able to grasp the situation. Another matter of pressing importance is tbe completion of tbe Fish Creek trail as soon as possible, so that communication may be bad with the rich district of tbe Lardeau. There is no earthly reason why that trail should not bo finished in a very short time; no need of waiting uutil tbe snow flies. If it is to be of any use this year no more time should be wasted. By putting on a good force of men it can be completed in three or four weeks. Mon have to rustle hard iu these mountains developing their claims, and the Government agont should be ready and willing lo assist them in every way. Iu conclusion lot me say that if there is not a change for tho better very soon there will bo some tall scribbling from others beaides yours truly, WATCHMAN. Illecillewaet, August 2ud. I In future we cannot publish auy SALE good FAMILY. I'n a-1:1:'s well- Three or four COWS, from F selected herd. Box 217, Revelstoke, B.I communication ooutaiui charges against a public ollicial uuiess over the writer's own signature. Our present correspondent (whom we linow to be a fair-minded man on tho whole) will, we think, see ttiat it is hardly fair to make a charge against a man, whether be deserves it or not, under the shelter of a nom de plume, But we desire the tit.n: to retail!*, its recently-acquired reputation for impartiality \\a most difficult thing to do), therefore we publish " Watchman's " letter in its entirety. If Mr. Kirkup is guilty of the charges made against him, we shall not be backward in exposing his dereliction of official duties, but having reoeived independent testimony ifrom Ille- cille-vaet itself j that "the trail from Illecillewaet to Fish Creek is one of tbe best in the district," that " there is no necessity for tbe trail to Flat Creek to cross and re cross the river, as thu road parallel with the Btn im i.s a better and shorter one,1' that there is no necessity for the washed- out bridges to be replaced,' tbat on request "the Government agent at once put men to work on the G Id Hill trail," and that "tbo trad to tbe Lardeau is bein-.- pushed as rapidly as possible," we cannot reconi ih b different statements - both ci in. j* from responsible and trustworthy sources. There must be a mi itaki somewhere, arid under the oiroutn- stances we do not see bow we can not more impartially than by plaoing both statements before the public, Had the bitter not been anonym',us, there would have been re, need of our doing this,- Ed, Stab, | NAKUSP ITEMS. I rnOM "< i: VS ' HT. I Naki jp, August 3rd, Mr. Mara and putty, wbo irrived last Wednesday, left In str, Kootenai on Friday afternoon for Bevelstoke, The party on board inoluded Mr, ami Mrs. Mara and family, Captain ami Mrs. Troupe and family, Mr. and .Mrs. Kerr and Mr antl M Graham, V. idle the geutl imi n mad,, a trip over the new trail to tbe 81, can, the lames enjoyed thel dulling and boating on our beautiful bay. Mr. Mara and tbe otbors an opinion tbat thefllo iiigly rich mineral oountry, uud no 1 thai it has developed io noli an extent, a wagon rond between '��� and the head of M"cim Laki absolute necessity. Wo nope, llioro-. fore, that there will be no delay in getting the work commenced, 1 hoar ou goon authority that the C.P.R. are prepared to bmr one-tbird of the expense -a very fair idler when one considers that it is to tho interest of tbe Government to establish a good road to the valuable property they still owe, at New Denver. Stewart's survey party arrived on Monday's boat, and are now camped about six miles from hero. A recent addition to the town is a cattle corral and slaughter - bouse, whicli Messrs. Mayger and Oarscad- den havo erected. Tin- firm intend carrying on busiucss al Nakusp and New Denver for the sale of nv ate, vegetables and general produce. Tho storo here is in course of erection ami will be completed this week. The cattle arrived on Monday and wore successfully corralled, with tho exception of one steer, which took to the woods and has not since been beard of. This is rather a bad start for tho yonng firm, but, tboj will very soon make up their loss by the large business they will eventually do. The old saying, "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good," is applicable in this case, as there is littlo doubt that some prospector or hunter will strike a bonanza in fresh beef shortly. Eevelstoke market gardenera will realize high prices if thev send thoir greenstuff down here. Tbe machinery for Messrs. Hill Bros.' sawmill at, New Denvor was landed here last week, aud is uow awaiting tbo completion of the wagon road to bo taken in to itsdostiuation, The town has beeu very gay lately, two dauces having taken place, one at the Leland House and tho other at the Hotol Nakusp. Both were entirely successful, being oxtremely well attended, whilo Tom Duffy's music was a treat. There has also been a great deal of excitement prevailing owing to the dogs about town beiug unable to elect a boss, and oonstant lighting has been tbe consequence. I am sorry to say the quarreling has not beon confined to tho dogs, Some, lively scraps havo occurred rocently among tbe superior animals. It is to be hoped this warlike spirit will not continue, as it will tond to destroy the harmony of our beautiful city, whioh has hitherto been unbroken. It would be much better if such trivial disputes wero settled by tbe mode whicli has been customary here in the past, "Dutch flips." They have been given and takon with great gusto, either iu the parlor, the sidewalk, or any other place where the unhappy viotim happened to be standing. There will probably bo some matrimonial intelligence to oommunioate sh, iti;,, One of our principal oon- I Lactors bus beeu showing a great 1 partiality lately for " the city below the lull. Whether lhe attraction is the beauty of the lako shore or some lair lady's cbarins ib not yet decided, but ever) evening as "cat-light" approaches a whisper goes round that " Tummy's gut his gun," and is waiting to givo his rival a warm reception, A meeting was held last night iu Dau .McGillivray's now dwelling to , consider the question of haviug a school at Nakusp, There was a largo attendance. Dau McGillivray was appoiuted as chairman aud Frank liouruo secretary. It was decided that a school was a necossity, and the chairman and secretary were appointed a committee to draw up a petition urging the need of a teaober at once und in timo a schoolhouse for Nakusp, and forward tbo samo to the educational authorities. The hotels are still kept vory busy, and a new one is to bo comineucod next woek. The walls of tho Nakusp House ure now oomploto with their embellishments, the work being dono in a iirst-eluss manner. Nakusp is certainly in luck to havo Buob an experienced paperhanger as Mr. Tout Abriel. Uo is well known in Portland and other cities for bis frloienoj as a house decorator. i ��� ��� 1.1 tbi week on duck Walsh's nnw residence, ana it is lo bo hoped tha! hisstaj in Nakusp will lie long enough to beautify the interior of t, if not all, of tho buildings .;. tbi ! '��� D \\\\ 1 nave been ���! ited this weok hy a swarm ol tn 1 q litoes, '.vhich pro* bably eame down by steamer from il,������, [stoke I bis is our Iirst ex- perieooe of tbi pe ts, and we are all praying thai il tnaj be our last. They are bloodthirsty little wretches, ��. No man evei -moked Myrtle Navy tobacco for a fortnight sod then took to ,.uy brand in preference to il, It bears Its own testimony of its quali- : ties, and II ; l testimony which is always convm nng, Tlio smoker who ages it ia never Biiuoyed hy getting it sometimes ol good quality, some times of bnd 1 b 1 0 rang, ments of tbe mat r km ping its quality liquid are fory el ,1, irato anl uomplete, an I in !, rt mil oi many if I pel 1106 and Close ob I i vation. ; ,��� olii Hi pa 1'iihiil I ml I ��� 1 1 I, Kipmis Pnhiil cu I noss, I , 1 ��� Ullll'lli Ilii tele'. H. is. C0TJRSIEK IS OPENING UF WITH AN ENTIRELY NEW STOCK OF GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, iwm, mm, Hardware, Clothing, BOOTS, SHOES, MB MINERS' SUPPLIES ALL BOUGHT IN THE BEST AND CHEAPEST MARKETS. ) MILLINERY AND DRESSMAKING A SPECIALTY, MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY AND CAREFULLY ATTENDED TO. BOURNE BROS. Revelstoke Station Post Office. DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, u 1 mm w 1 hip BOOTS & SHOES, GENTS' FURNISHINGS. FLOUR, OATS, SHORTS AND ALL KINDS 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 k CO.'S BISCUITS AND CONFECTIONERY. Bakery in connection with Store. Messrs. 0. B. Hume & Co, Revelstoke Station, GENERAL MERCHANTS. GROCERIES PROVISIONS j.OO'i." & SHOES FLOUR FS'lED & OATS AMMUNITION HARDWARE CLOTHING MINERS' TOOLS Consignment of Butter and Eggs received every week. MINERS' AND HUNTERS' SUPPLIES. ALL K11DS OF FURS BOUGHT AND SOLD. Railway Men'a Requisites. GOODS LOADED ON OAR AND STEAMBOAT FREE OF CHARGE^ Furniture & Undertaking. R. HOWSON, Has a large Stock of Household Furniture, Coffins, Caskets, Shrouds. &c. REVELSTOKE, B.C. BARBER ���the- Jeweler AAA, AND W AA'A'"". ���*-*'W '^k%fLW Optician. yBf AU ordersbyrauilor express promptly attended to. REPUULNU A SPECIALTY. All descriptions of gold aud silver. T. L. 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