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VOL. V. REVELSTOKE. WEST KOOTENAY, B.C., AUGUST 5, 1893. No. 8. IUG BUND. On Tuesday Mr, Kellie, M.f\P., received n communication from the Chief Commissioner of Works Hint nu additional ��500 would be at once available for the Big Bend trail, Mr. Vernon is to bo complimented for his prompt action in lho mutter, ns ��500 now are bettor thun $5,000 next year, and Mr, Kellie is deserving of praise for applying in tho right quarter. Messrs. Williams und MeOrenry, of Everett, Wash., arrived down from Big Bend ou Tuesday, They spent threo weeks looking over the district and nre satisfied that it is one of the greatest gold countries in the Wesl. The) have purehnscd a hulf interest iu the Com, ilntion Cold Mino ou Frenoh Creek, of whioh Geo, Laforme find John Sweeney nre the other partners. They will return to work nt the mine for the remainder of tho Benson. Those who havo lately seen it say tho prospects wore uever so promising as uow. The prico paid for tho half interest reaches four figures and it is believed Messrs. Williams and ilcCreury havo made a splendid investment. It is said Mr. Mara has offered to run the Steamer Illecillewaet up as far as Downie Creek for ��200, or that amount in freightage. MessrB, John Boyd and Tom Bain came dowu Tuesday aud have found some excellent indications. Mr. Holdich yesterday assayed somo Big Mend quartz, which he says is exceedingly rich. BIRTH. Phaser.���July 17th, at Revelstoke, tho wife of Mr. P. Fraser, J.P., of a daughter. APPOINTMENTS. PROVINCIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE. HIS HONOUR the Lieutenant- Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments :��� 21st July, 1803. Tkbbexce H. CriFFiy, of the Town of Nelsou, Esquire, to be a Dietrict Registrar under the "Supreme Court Act." Wiuiam John Gokpel, of the Town of Nelson, Esquire, to be Mining Recorder of the Nelson Mining Division, vice T. H. Giffln, Esquire, resigned. OitVEB George Dnxxis,of the Town of Kuslo, Esquire, to be nu Assessor nud Collector for the purposes of the "Assessment ii.ct" within and for the Nelson Division of the West Kootenay District, vice T. H. Giffin, Esquire, resigned. HIRE'S ROOT BEER. FOR THOSE WHO ARE DRY. Said the owl to himself: If the moon I could get Whenever I'm dry, my throat I could wet. The moon is a quarter. With a quarter, I hoar, I can purchase fivo gnllons of Hire's Root Beer. A 25c. pilckage of Hire's Preparod Root Beer will make five gnllons of the most wholesomo, healthful and cooling temperance drink iu existence. Just the thing for this weather. FOR SAW! AT THB Revelstoke Pharmacy TR.0UT 1AKEJ1TY HOUSE BOURKE BROS, Prop's Best Accommodation in the City. BEATOFOlIiY SITUATED NKAB THE LAKH, Splendid Fishing, Boating, Hunting. First-class stock of Wines, Spirits aud Cigars. Trout Lake City is the nearest poiut to tho famous Lardeau Mines. All information given to prospeotors and buyers of mining claims. CENTRAL HOTEL. ABUA1-IAMSON BROS,, Prop's. First class Table, (rood Bods, Telephone, 'BUS MEETS ALL TRAINS AND STEAMERS, LOCAL NEWS. Cool, sparkling root beer at Revel- stoke Pharmacy, See advt. A hot spell is prevailing, 90 to 02 in the shade. No rain since the 25th ult, Twelve prospeotors will leave for Big Bond to-day in company with Georgo Lalorme's pack (miu. Capt. Gore, str Colnmbia, and family lmvo tukon Ernest Fletcher's largo houso till tho close of navigation. It is said that Mr. Robt. Robson, the Revelstoko merchant who left towu so suddenly lust week, is in Spokane, Owing to tlio pressuro on our spaoe by tho roport of Wednesday night's meeting several local and othor arlioles aro crowded out, O, k H. Lewis aro supplying ieo cream during this hot spell, The dishful wo sampled last Wednesday was delicious. Try it. Rev. C, A. Procunier will preach in the Methodist church to-morrow; morning at 10.30, evening at 7.30. Sunday-school in the church at 2.30. The Rev. F. Yollnnd will oouduct Ohuroh of England services iu lho schoolroom to-morrow. Morning at 11; evening at 7.30. Holy Communion at morning service. Tho B. C. Agricultural Association's animal exhibition commences on Tuesday next nt Victoria and will oontinue throughout the week. An /attractive programme of sports will be held on several days of the exhibition, and wo understand railway lickots will be issued nt excursion prices. New buildings are going up all over town. A dwelling-house is to be commenced shortly near the Chapman residence. The lumber is on the spot for the erection of a dwelling-house between the school and the Union Hotel, and the Catholic Churoh will be commenced in a woek or two on the Government town- site, One of our respected J.P.'s had a trying experience on an uninhabited island last eveuing. How he got there would occupy too muoh space to explain,but for three hours he had tough work fighting the mosquitoes which abound there. As he had left the wholo of his wearing apparel on the mainland his condition can be imagined. Crusoe was not in it with P d, He was resoued by a boat from this side of the river. Two carloads of prime cattle left here on str. Columbia Thursday morniug. One carload belonged to the B.C. Cattle Co. and was landed at Nakusp foi tlie contractors on tho Nukusp k Sloean Railway, the othor being sent by Hull Bros, for the N. k P. ti. Ry. Yesterday 15 head of cattle and 6 horses arrived from Hull Bros., Kamloops, Tho horses will be added to Geo. Laforme's pack train between here and Big Bend, Last Tuesday evening while Mr. H.N. Coursier's delivery wagon was standing outside Robson's store the horse started off full speed for home. Miss S. Graham was the only occupant of the vehicle at the time, and she, preferring terra firma to the novelty of an unknown destination, jumped, alighting on her feet and recoiving no injury beyond a severe shaking. The horse was caught near the Central Hotel by Mr. Bradshaw. Most of the men employed in No. 2 camp on the Revelstolte k Arrow Luke Railway have quit work. They com'- plain that the contractor has broken faith with them. They say he agreed to pay their fare here. Tho pay was $2.25 a day, and after working 17'% days the majority of the men had between three and four dollars paid them. The deductions were���Fare $15, hospital $1, board $1 a day. The last item is certainly an extortion, and the wonder is that meu can bo found willing to work undorsuch conditions, Harry Hebert, who was purser on the str. Ainsworth, was drowned at Lardo, Kooteney Lake, on Monday night or Tuesday morning of hist week. The vessel left Lardo ot -1 a.m. Tuesday, anil it was not until she was Hearing Argenta that Hebert was missed. His hut was fonnd on the uppor deck, but a thorough search disclosed tho fact that lie was not on board, The bout put buck to Lardo, but no tra>:e of the missing man could be found. Subsequently a party of Hebert's friends found tlie body umlor the wharf in about live feet of wator. llis ivnlcli bad stopped at seven minntos past two, Deoeased was buried at Nelson on Thursday, the ouffln beiug literally covered with llowers. Hurry wus a former resident of Revelstoke und less than two years ago owned property here, having been our landlord before wo moved from the old building now owned and occupied by jMr. Bickerton. He was about 28 years of age, of a happy disposition nnd gentlemanly appearance. The news ol his death caused a shock among his friends here. Early Inst .Saturday ui, ruing William Maokie, night watchman on the C.P.R. bridge, observed a fire in one of the old Chinese shacks at the west end of lho bridge, and ou going to investigate lie found a man in the shack asleep, Maokie prooeeded to wake him up with a piece of iron, and struck him several blows about the shoulders, Alarmed ut snch a rude awakening ihe man jumped up and in his fright Ml against the Iorb, cutting a misty gash in his cheek jnst below tho oyo. His name is William Jones, and is a quiet, iuoflensive man. Ho was walking from Ornigellnohle to Revelstoko, and being tired and the night somewhat chilly ha had lit a lire and gone to sleep in the shack. Mackio was brought hefore Magistrate Fraser on Saturday night for assault, but as the complainant did not wish to press the charge he was let off with the light fine of ��5 and costs. It is the general opinion that the penalty should havo been muoh heavier; but no doubt, Mackio, zealous for the safety of (ho bridge under his oharge, thought ho wus doing n meritorious thing by pounding a sleeping man with uu iron bar, It is to bo hoped ihe tine, small ns it was, will bo a lesson to him not to allow hiH zeal to outrun his discretion in futuro. Tin: MINI ST .OK ov INTEMOB Till On (lie Revelstoko Land Question.- Speeches by Hon. 'P. til, Duly, Mi*. Burgess, Mr. Mara, M.P., and Mr, Kellie, M.I.P. Hon. T, M. Duly, Minister of the Interior, who has spent a week in Lower Kootenay, returned to Rovelstoke on tho str. Columbia Wednesday afternoon. He was accompanied by his sou, a lad about Id, Mr. Burgees, permanent head of the interior .Department, Messrs. Barnard and Mara, M.P.'s, and two or three friends. Mr. Duly went direct to his private car, where a deputation from Revelstoke citizens���Messrs. T. L. Haig, G. C. Marsh and R. W. Northey���wus introduced to him by Mr. Mara. It was intended to present Mr. Duly with au address touching on some of our burning questions, bnt it was eventually arranged that Mr. Daly should attend a meeting of citizens in the schoolhouse at eight o'clock. Mr. Duly expressed the great pleasure he felt at being able to visit the famous Kootonay mining country, and promised to use his best endeavors to make its wonderful resources better known in the east, Between 40 and 50 citizens attended the evening meoting, at which Mr. J. A. Mara, M.P., presided. Mr. T. L. Haig read tho address, which was a lengthy one, touching on the erosion of the river bank, the townsite dispute, tho registration of titles, and the sale of lauds in tho railway belt. Mr, Daly took tho address with him for future reference. Hon, Mr. Dalt, in replying to the address, said he was desirous of seeing the townsito dispute settled and Revelatoke go ahead. There would be a good time for it iu tho near future. Although at the present moment Kuslo and Nelson wore showing signs of greator prosperity Revelstoke's position must eventually plaoe it in the front rank. The inroads made upon tho smeltor property by the Columbia River was a feature very noticeable to anyone coming to the town by way of the rivor. He would lay the maltor before the Public Works Department on his arrival iu Ottawa. In the mutter of a land office nt Revelstoke ho said he wished to be oaudid and state that there was no immediate prospect of such being established. The office at Kamloops was us near to Revelstoke ns the offices in other parts of the Domiuion were to more densely populated districts. As soon, liowover, as it oould bo shown that thoro wus au urgent necessity for it the Government wonld certainly be willing to meet Ihe wishes of tho people as fur as it wus consistent for them to act. The land question was the principal topio in the address, and with reference to it he would say that ns soon us Sir John Thompson returned from Frunco the Government would toko steps to come lo an understanding with the Provincial Government on lho matter. He (Mr Duly) when in Victoria had a conference with Hon. Mr. Davie, and ho (tlie speaker) would say that the people of Revelstoke wonld bo able to procure titles to their lots beforo they ute tlicir next Cliristmis dinners. Mr. HaIQ usked if a few questions mi.'lit be put by gentlemen prusont. An affirmative ri ply being given, Mr. 11. N. Oo'iRSMl* asked if it wore oori'ict lhal a resident settler had beeu asked to pay for his land a sum considerably in oxiiisi- of what another person, not u resident, hod paid for land in proximity to the loun, After Severn) questions by Mr, Daly and Mr. .Mara it transpired that Mr. F. Fraser had been ohoigcd 825an acre for three acres uour the railway bridge on the opposite side of the river, while Mr. Mara, M.P., had been granted 20 acres in tbe townsite at only .-nun acn . Mr. Maba rose and explained that ho and others had formed a navigation conipauy io open up Kootonay District by steamship cemmiini-uiioii. The company had six steameis pi)ing ou the river uud lakes, and by Ihis means they hud duno more tor lhe lown of Revel- ptoke than uny other venture, After the steamers were buill and ready for traffic lie (Mr, ,uru) applied for the puichnso of 2(1 acres of land. The price set uptrn it by tho Government una $5 per acre. This wus all the conipauy hud ever received from tho Dominion Government, namely, tlio privilege to buy the land at that price. Ilo would liko to nsk Mr, Prasei if he thoughl ho (Mr. Mara) hud done what hn could for him, Mr.,), M. Kunniii, "li.l'.r, here rose to speak, but was interrupted by Mr. Mara, who wished a reply from Mr, Fraser. Mr. Fbabeb said Mr, Mara had done a great deal for him in the settlement of his land trouble with the Government, and ho felt grateful in consequence. Mr. Kellie said he wished to bo set right on the quest.on, and if ho had done Mr. Mara tin injustice iu tho Provincial Lugisluture lust session he would liko to know it. When ut Kamloops ho had usked the gentleman in oharge of the laud office thero if uny Grown grunts ha I beon given for lauds in proximity to Revelslnki . Oo looking over the banks it was found thul Mr. Maria's name was placed thoro for the 20 acres spoken of, but. also for 100 aores in addition, Mr. Maba : Oh, that laud is below the smeller, and not, in Kt velstoke Mr, Cobbuibb reminded tbe lion, gentleman thai, the question wus if any laud had beon granted ''in proximity" to Revelstoke. Mr. Maba said it wns u very different thing to buy 100 acres of land as he had done, where there might bo bnd land, swamp and such like, to buying three acres in a, favored spot, such as Mr, Fraser hud applied for, Mr, Kellie snid it seemed that unless a man woro a high olliciul of tho Doniu- ion Government it would be impossible for him to gol laud for$5 an acre within 25 or 80 miles of the railway line. Ho wns glad of tho opportunity of stating in the presence of tho honourable the Minister of the interior that the railway bolt regulation was tlio greatest curse ever placed upon this western country. As it was, if a minor wanted to get a Crown grunt for a mineral claim within it ho had to pay $5 an acre to tho Dominion Government, in addition to the other expenses ho was subjected to, beforo ho knew whether he would get any return for his outlay, Mr. Maba offered to sell Mr. Kellie tho 100 acres in question for 85 an acre, with interest on tho amount from time of investment, but tbat gentleman declined the offer even at $l-per acre, saying it wns the principle ho was contending for. If Mr. Mara conld get his land for ��5 an ucro why could not Mr, Fraser get his ut the same prioe? How was it that the Goverunieiithad placed different values ou lauds which were apparently equal iu othor respects? ��� Mr. Btjboess, permanent head of the Department of the Interior, said tho land had been valued by the surveyor who was sent out by the Government. Tho trouble about Mr. Fraser's appli catiou was that he had first applied for a homestead aud afterwards for three acres in a different place. About Mr. Maokie's application he might stule that the difficulty arose through Mackio not being able to take the neeessury affidavit that he was the solo occupier of the land, as he had a partner who was away and with whom an agreement would have to be made. Mr. Daly, in closing the meeting, said ho was very glad to have been present and to hear, among other things, what Mr. Keliio had said with reference to the land question, but he thought there must bo somo mistake in whut he had said about minining claims in the railway belt, as it was his (the speaker's) opinion that all that was required was to conform to tho mining law, Mr. Kellie replied that he was quito right, but ��5 un aero had to be paid to tho Provincial Government for the land, and tbnt sum was turned over by them to the Dominion Government. Mr, Haig, on behalf of tho meeting, thanked the visiting gentlemen who had spoken on the subjects of so much importance to tho town. SLOGAN NUGGETS. [fkoM tiUll OWN COMiESPONDKHT. I New Denver, July 27th. Tho several parties interested in the McGillivray addition tu the Government townsite���Messrs. John Houston, W. F. Teetzel, II, Ashby���D. McGillivray nnd W. II, Smith���have all been hero during tlio week, and arranged a schedule of prices of tho different lots. Mr. J. Fred Hume 1ms also been here and has arranged to put up a building on Slooan Avo. at once, A street is to bo cut from tho south slmro of thu lake (where a wharf will be built) to tho further shoro, which street will open up that part of thu town, More locations have been mudo near llio riidi strike I mentioned last week as | having been discovered in granite form-' alien un Four Mile Creek, und several I outfits huvo gone there to prospect, I The uews of work being commenced i on the Nukusp ,V Sloean Railway lias | raised tho spirits of onr people con- j siderobly, The lact of a tlootor having | already arrived shows that a large force | of mon will be put on. 11, E Lemon will erect a large storo on the lot which ho purchased ut the Government sale lust year. It is snid the English company represented by Mr. Oliudliinirne will tako up tho bond on the Rend k Robinson group and pay ovor the money next week. LARDEAU NOTES. [ PIIO.M (in; OWN COBBESI'ONDEjNT | Tiiout Lake Oity, Aug. 2nd. Our pretty liltle town bus been very lively dnring the week. Tlm weather iH still delightful ami Hie gardens urn looking splendid, showing how suitable aro both soil and climate for the production of fruit, vegetables ond llowers, Owiug to tho keen competition be tween onr merchants juices of provision? nnd other commodities are lower than might he expected. All staples are sold in the stores at an advance of 2c, per lb, on Revelstoko prices, this being thc rate for packing from the North east Arm. Thus by purchasing on tbe spot the cost of freight from Revelstoke to the Arm is saved. The richest veins of galena yet dis�� covered in British Colnmbia lie in the Trout Lake district, and recent developments and discoveries poiut lo the Iwr- d an country as tbe future mining centre of the provinoe. Badly needed, indeed, are smelting works and the necessary capital to work iheni, The capital will bo here next spring, and it is probable that beforo the end of 1804 a smelter will be in active operation on tho shoro of Trout Luke. 1 have roceutlv received communion- tions from various purls asking for Information regarding the prospects for miner.- nnd others iu this districl, some of which nre loo vague to answer, I would say, however, lhat I will gladly furnish information to anyone who will state his riquiivments aud enclose ft- slumped addressed envelope for reply. All such communications must bo addressed " Gilbert W, A. Ranken, Trout Luke City, via Revelstoke. B.C." Two more pre-emptions huve been staked in tho valley, and there is room for several more si (tiers yet The soil is rich and comparatively little charing is necessary. The timber is scattered, and the undergrowth is chiefly elder/ Water is plentiful and good. As the soil overlays a stratum of clcau gravel the drainage is excellent. New potatoes were dug on Stauber's ranch ou the lst day of May. NAKUSP ITEMS. [FROM OUll OWN 0OBBE8PONDBNT. ] Nakusp, Aug. 2nd. Naknsp has now taken on a busy, bustling appearance, aud things nre* more lively than ever before in the town's history, The railway to the head of Slocau Lake is in course of construction, and work is plentiful. Subcontracts have beeu let as follows; The first five miles out of Nakusp to D. McBeath, the next five miles to J. T. Nault, and tho remainder to McDougal. A number of smaller contracts have also been let, so there will be litlle difficulty in having the first section of 21 miles in operation by the lst of December. Tho sub contracts are let at $25 and 830 an acre. The new wharf is progressing rapidly and a 60 by 30ft. warehouse has been completed. A new store has been commenced iu which the townsite company is interested. It is intended to make- Nakusp the wholesale centre for tho Sloean distriot, and this store will be tho nneleus of the largest wholesale establishment in West Kootenay. Witb daily trains to New Denver the company will be able to distribute goods at mnoir cheaper rates than have yet prevailed. Genelle Bros, of Tappen Siding are tilling a long-felt wnnt by the erection of a saw mill with a capacity of 30.00G feot a day. It will have all thu work it- cuu do, as a great number of new build,* ings aro already planned, and there ig no doubt that there would to-day be �� dozeu more houses in town had there* beon a saw mill here. The .Madden House is full to overflowing, and the proprietor has started a restaurant in premises adjoining. A contract has iieon made lo feed 200 men a day, and last Wednesday 75 sat dowu to dinner in tho hotel aud 40 in the annexe. Another addition is to be bnillv shortly, nud an addition to the Madden family is also expected. The Hotel Nakusp is undergoing a thorough renovation, being now in tho hands of the painter. The proprietor has decidod on building an addition larger than the present one, which will place it in the front rauk of hotels iu Ibe city, especially as its situation near the beach conld hardly be improved on. Tho late dull times iu hotel business have given place to "flush" times, nnd hotel men nre stepping high in consequence. More than 8100aday taken over the bar is not so dusty. Among the numerous arrivals I Dotioe m iny from Kuslo. ft seems the tide is- turning and the boom in the Kootonay Lake town is over, Nakusp does not want any boom. Its prosperity is already assured, and it is well aide to stand on its own merits, Willi tlie mil��� way bringing out Sloean ore we sbnll Bimedily have smi Iting works iu operation here, and thero urn ninny other conditions and circumstances so favorable to Nukusp lint ii would bo the height of folly to ullo'v lhe boomers tc take possesion of onr loan. With lhe- lessons of Nelson und Kaslo before ns1 (the hitter pretty much like a squeezed lemon) we must put down our foul und say we'll have no " boom." (lily lots aro selling rapidly, several thousand dollars having beeu paid for Sloean Ave. property this week. Among the visitor* from New Denver' this week nre Dr. Williamson (medical attendant to Ibe Nakusp fi Sloean Ry.),. Messrs, A. Hattrem, Schroder and John Gosson, The Hot Springs are as popular as- ever, and gn at numbers of people have' hem benefited by lining the water, Om Wednesday a party returned from u. week's stay at the rpringi, Everyone* of tho party felt 100 por cont. better. NOT WISELY, BUT TOO WELL, CHAPTER X.-(Cl)NTINl'ED). Th* Lady Etwynd l smiled sadly. "Vou do not quite unc'eritaud���it is merely a technical term for those outside the pale. Progress aud culture mean enlightenment ���we all need tn lie enlightened. Our individual tendencies are hampered by social restrictions. But the soul will find its wiiiifB nml soar above such paltry barriers. Women will tako their place in the ranks of the advanced, and the mockers at progress will have to recognise ils truth, and feel that it is a law powerful enough to sway the whole machinery of olvilization, and lift it upwards to a grander and loftier life." "llood Heavens! what a dreadful woman," thinks Mrs. Douglas. "How on earth can Lauraine get on with her1" "I���I have uot thought much of such thing!," sho says aloud. "I am not a clever woman, liko yourself, dear Lady Ktwyidc. 15ut I rosily think we are very happy as we are. What good can progress do?" " Ah !" sighs Lady Etwynde, " Tho old cry of the world���lho battle-cry of the human race, that is ever so obstinately opposed to its own good. When we coase to oppose, aud investigate instead���whon prejudice and obstluaoy give way to thoiigiitfuhiess and consideration, then somo proper basis will have heen obtained on which to establish the glories of Progress, and the sublimity of Culture." Mrs. Douglas feels too hopelessly bewildered after this Bpoeeh to pursue the subject. She gives a sigh, and resigns herself to incomprehensibility ; hut the entranoo of the gentlemen makes a slight disturbance, and the Lady Etwynde relapses into thought. Unknown to each other, both of them are watching the same man���the tall, well knit figure of Keith Athelstone. He stands a little apart from the group ; his face is very grave ami very pale. There aro dark shad, ows like a bruise undor his eyes, and the drooped lids hide tlieir expression. Perhaps it is as well. They aro eyes more given to reveal than to conceal.' The other meu draw nearer to the dazzling groups of silk and Balin and lace. Someone goes to the piano, and begins lo play. Through the open window a faint breeze steals, and weighted with periume, floats through the soft-lighted rooms. "He only looks at her," thinks Lady Etwynde, and sighs. "Why doesn't the silly boy go and talk to so-no of those women ?" Mrs. Douglas says ro herself angrily. "Does he really care for her still ? flow absurd I And how ill lie looks���as if he hadn't slept for weeks; bin perhaps thac'a dissipation, He's sure to have his full shoe ot it uow." Meanwhile Koith stands there absorbed an I grave. Ho has not spokou to Lauraine al the evening. He in wondering whether he mi it seek her now -whether her duties as hos sa will permit tier to give five minutes te nun. Be* e.'en is he thinks it, he lifts hi eyes.and meets a signal from the grace- fu ly waving fan oi .oe Lady Etwynde, Ho li, s no choice lint to cross the room and ta a the seat ny i'.ti side. ''He have been dismissingProgress,"she lava,with thai exquisite smils of hera iiglit. ins ner face like moon light as ahe looks at hrn. "1 waa saying v.nmon spoil them- ee'.vca by their dress nowadays. It is too e i''orate��� too overdone, Lauraine is one o' ho fow women w'eo can dress perfectly. But then sho 'ov.: lasw au l.artiatio feeling." " It is not everyone who could dire to cop; the Lady Etwynde," Keith saya, with an admiring glanco at ihe amber clouds thai seem to float round the graceful figure of In ������ companion " And to one wk - Iresse i as alu riocs, all other women must look only 'clolf.ed.'" "A distinction with a difference," aays Lady Etwynde, "You pay compl u-mu ven jraeefully. That is a rare thing now ad.i;a," " eu are vory good to 11 liter m swci Keith. " What I paid wa scarcely I coni| .iiuent. H"vr hands mo Lady Jean Salo ans looks to-night.'' " .'es" answers his companion, riving a rapid cianee from under her langui : lid: in the direction indicated, La: ��� Jean is Bitting on in tl om i a ai,,' of hoi, house blossoms as aback- ground for her brilliant beauty, and i i a dre'a of corn-colour id satii . wil: poppies gleaming here and tl rn S ��� ci* ii st in ling beside h ir, andl lingd with unmistakable i hnirati . at I ate l face and brilliani ��������� [dv I ' tartly K* th'a glai ' - hor -.0 Lauraim VTh it a Like ai;,'. r ��������� ��� - L I iy El ������ ��� ' ami ���vnprehondingit '��� i i, lis III ' . v " 1 , i- very ;...... - ������������;. sa-:i' man to ��' " - ��� Fr .noifl hi ' ���" yeara m ir i i. Ingly. " rime i noi ��� ��� p ,v ; ��� people besides ia own wife, will worn ii \\-|,. ., . ll m ,r- to the | hi- thick .i"1: ��� n it ill , - ed "1 16, i ,.;.���"',. , made in li I ��� . think " In a very d d I opi ion, Mr-. I IO"..; ��� ��� - . ; n ��� I "��� ��� ihe i .,'��� -1 ,i.l" in [Ceitl ithelitonc'a p '. when ���- ivadi " i ea," s.iv i La ly i.: w ode. " , h",' true, that much of tl life la :aui ��� i vol ..:��� irily he ... ��� el , own unwisdom. 01 o mr i, dts aro n ways unforeseen, Wc on ;r< e in tho dark. But, for rny :e" I ive 1 heaid of people acting for tli ' the best without dii mi ifortun illov ing." Keith's eyes seem to trwe I i rooms io where on i il rn i I i rol trail* in lie'-;. folds, His heart a teriy as he thii., oi what " ting J best":, u bro ' upon tw i lives' i have been an . , pj now. " Oh, the littlo more, and how m .!.'.., and ihe little leu and whal world iw . Ho ta'ka on with Lady Etwynde In do sultory fashion, Ho knows he >.- "I nol oxen himself lo i.i- enterl lining I S io llkoi a go id ll lt��n II -oik: who nan be Inter- Oited in horldi w md follow them, and with Keith Athslitono, as with Lauraine, ahe lays her art jargon aside, Yot in Ills hoarl he lon'js for one sound of Liuralne'a vol 'o ��� fflrjusi five minutei by bur si.lo. They have not mot since in the scene Lady Etwynde's garden, and tonight her greeting has beon of the coldest description, liut ho dares not go over to her now, aa ho would have done a few days ago. He sits there, contenting himself with an occasional glance, an 1 listening patiently, if a little wearily, to tho beautiful aisthote's discussion. Then Lauraine looks across at him and smiles. His heart seems to warm beneath that sign of remembrance���his whole face changes. Lady Etwynde notices it, and grows troubled. " He is in love, and he does not concea it��� poor boy," she thinks, compassionately " Ah, I always thought those fraternal ar rangements were a great Imposition, One or other is sure lo ask or desire that ' littlo more'which just makes all the difference, j Ah ! it is worlds enough away from these two. Does ahe know, I wonder'.' I think not. She could not act that serenity and Indifference. She is too transparent, Oh, I hope she docs not suspect. It would bo terrible indeed. She is so young and boauti- fill, but she is not happy, Anyone can see that; and her Imshind is always run- nini* after that brawn woman over there. Dear me, hotv aad life is. Full of contradictions���of pain. Mr. At hoi stone," alio add i aloud, " 1 want to apeak to that gentleman over there. He is a savant of the most, advanced school, Kindly give me yonr arm." Keith rises and obeys, and comes now within the radiance of lho floating white draperies that have been beforo his eyes the whole night long. CHAPTER XI. "AKO ILLjSTARBEI) BYES INTKUl'IWT Till! STRAIIIHT SUN." Lauraine is talking to an elderly man���a colonel in the Guards. She neither looks up, nor moves, but she is perfectly, painfully conscious that Keith ia standing by her side. She knows that he has crossed the room, and loft Lady Etwynde with her anvant, and all the.time she has not lifted . an eyelid, or stirred from that listening attitude. Keith stands there, patiently, He haa lhe happy knack of looking always graceful, and to-night he looks handsomer than ever, despite the pallor of his face, the dark shadows under his eyes. The colonel talks on, and Lauraine answers animatedly. Keith wonders if any memory is ut Work within her heart���if her light words and smiles are real or acted. There is a little stir at the other ond of tho room. Someone is going to recite���a French count, who is a friend of Sir Francis'. The elderly colonel ia a little deaf. He murmurs an apology, and moves down the long suite of rooms, Keith comes quietly forward, and drops j into the vacant chair. For tho first time j Liurainc looks at him. Wuh one rapid, j comprehensive glance, she takes in the! change in his face���the dark shadows un-1 dor those heavy lashes, the weariness upou thc brow, the stem sadness of the mouth. Pity, sympathy, grief���all well up iu her heart and speak in hor glance, but ber Hn3 are schooled to rigid silence. She dares not aeem to notice these signs of suffering. "If be u Id only leave me���if hc would only be wi���....- I" sho thinks, with a sudden passionate dread. "1 could bear that, but to ip ou liko tiiisis madness." He speaks at last. '��� London grows uubearably hot, I sup- pose you will soon be leaving?" he says. "Y is,"answera Lauraine, unconcernedly. " S r Franc i taika of going yatching." "And you accompany him!" "I?Oh,no��� 1 iia'." tiie sea. I shall go to Falcon's Chase. 1 long for a little quiet ind est, I never oared muoh for fashionable i.i ���. you ku iw." "D is Sir Franoia nnko. up a large party "Ibeliovoso The Salomans, I know, i" going i an Mar Vandeleur, his great ii iend sand Bra, aad one or two i' ing men." mam . ��� ���- . ins Keith, a isurpris in his voice. " On, they ��� ���' W . \ Lauraine, looking at 1 - " Tr.ey are very fond of t���at least, La I* ��� '��� in is, ...... Mme waj ' ia . .��� woman in i. iooietj , ,-, in per- Lady lie know She evei i to ii , ������ ;- it, To , .��� worn-' ��� mini ��� i ' ��� witli 11 ,- i ��� ��� i ��� . I ' ' . .: rutn, 1 in i, ��� sr. She g ; ,| ������ I ��� , . , , f I ' , ��� ,' not the a voin .,.. ' ooii'ii ind be con ' : ., ,ry ,r nin n . u i ��� i. littlo hard im . i ansa I . ��� .;,.. ': V-, I il. . II ) i. ,ii, ,! ir i, and ii silent. M , , it the further i nd ���.' ths room, witl ici olio v iklrl i ai I b p ippi i inuning iu the lam] lig .!, m mil r 1 an il Van I an are tall > uonfid nlially to '"ther, " Why muat ii"' "'ii"''" nal. iSir Fn drawing his dark brown together In a hoavy frown. ' You OOtlld manage it if yotl wish Ki, " s| i age ii?" ro-eohoei Lady Joan, " t'.h'r ami, wii it can't, a woman manage wnen sue wisues: nur, 1 mun t. wish hi manage it, I don't care to be talked about aa we should be. Of course Jo would do anything 1 wished, but I know what's best, and mean to stick to my first resolution." Mr. Salomans rejoices in the name of " Joel," liut Iiis wife has long ago decreed that it shall not be used by her lips, and " Jo" he always is and always will be." "Vou wiil spoil all the pleasure of the trip for mo," murmurs Sir Francis. "Chut!" she saya, contemptuously; " don't be foolish. Von can grow sentimental on the waters of the Mediterranean while you think of your absent wife." " My wife," mutters Sir Francis, following the rapid gesture of the fan. "Oh, there's that young fool again, I see. I wonder ho iau't tired of hor ; she's insufferably stupid." " Most good women are," agrees Lady Jean; "but they havo one incomparable advantage���they aro so safe. You can always get amusement, you know, from other men's wives���it is a consolation to think the ' other' men can't get it from yours." Sir Francis feels a little twinge. Ho knows perfectly woll what she wishes to convey, but hc has an obstinate conviction that Keith's attentions to Ins wife aro nothing to her, that whatever tendrosse there is lies on tho side of tho young man. Lauraine is cold and calm and uninteresting���he has made up his mind to thisefacts, Lady Jean has not yet been able lo stimulate bis tired passion for bis wife into omitting one spark of jealous fire, He has tired of her, but he has great trust in her. Ho never fears that a broath of scandal will hover about her, and to all Lady Jean's hints he turns a deaf car���as yet. " 1 often wonder what made you marry," eaya Lady Jean, slowly and thoughtfully, under cover of the music that has followed the French recitation ; " and sho soema so unlike the sort of woman who would tempt you into such a tolly," " Vou are right; it was a folly," mutters Sir Francis, moodily. " But I was mad aboul her at the time, and, after all, one must marry some time or other ; it is a necessity when you have property and all that." " Mad about her !" sneers Lady Jean. 'How like a man I You could atop at nothing, of course, but the absolute possession of your fancied toy. And your craze has lasted two yeara I Admirable fidelity I" " It would never have been a craze at all," whispers Sir Francis low in her ear, " if you " " Hush I" she saya, softly; " I have forbidden you to speak of that. It would have been different if we had met���earlier. As it is " She onda the sentence with a sigh. It may mean anything, and ia poetic ; it sounds better than to say, " As you aro quite as rich as Joel Salomans, and are of better birth and family, 1 would have taken you instead." Sir Francis hears only the sigh, and meets a glance from the dark, brilliant eyes. " As it is you are cruel," he whispers, passionately. "Cruel to bo kind," she Bays, with a little mocking laugh. " Keep to your pearl of purity, mon cher. Ii you are not a jealous husband, you might surely be a faithful one." "Have I not told yon ahe bores me?" says Sir Francis, petulantly, " And I know she detests mo, and always did. I did not mind that���once. Now���well, one can't be always at a one-aided adoration, you know." " Fancy ' adoring' anyone I How odd I" laughs Lady Jean. " 1 thought it was only in novels men did that." " Have you never loved thon?" Lady Jean raises her arched eyebrows, and looks at him with admirable amusement. " I ?���most decidely not. Should I be without wrinkles at my age, if I had ? Non, merci. I never believed iu such folly, and never perpetrated it." " Perhaps only because the right teacher was not at hand to give yoa the lesson," says Sir Francis, audaciously. " Tiie right teacher," aays Lady Jean, with a little mocking laugh. " There is no such teacher for ine, my dear Sir Francis, lean defy fate." "I wish you would tell me how," aays Sir Francis. " The recipe might be useful," " You have had your attack of fever, so you are safe," she answers, laughingly. " No, mv recipe is loo valuablo to be parted with. Now, you have talked to me long enough to-night, (io away and entertain someone else." " I don't want to talk to anyone else," says Sir Franois, doggedly, " Why do you send me away ? Vou are not afraid of Mrs. Grundy, surely?" "Oh no. She and I are the beat of friends. Afraid?���well, I don't think I have any need to be afraid. EvoryOUO is talked about nowadays���either for what they do or what they don't do. And it is ao much easier to say a tiling than disprove it. It is just like E, lovely omplexion -everyone can say you paint, bul ev iry ine can't see you wash your face. Society never lelleves in the lovely wouldn't enter tho dressing room if il oould, for fear of finding tl "re was nothing bui soap and wator���after all!" "Bm - reason why I am to go on , i Sir Franois, sulkb iy tl 'i audi':''.' ': 1 don't four pretty wi i jealous, 1 n't want peopli ilk. I���1 don'l want ily oi in, i impiny, I isom i noogh, suroly." " , mr i j., ire t Imlr il all ex. e first, dni i i n 1 Vou oxp tho Vea .,��� of Milo to ��� f.. ilostal, and walk a mo lei i ndng-room," [i !'. .��� ,ii i ittr il Ive '' ��� 'v Lady Jo in, two i i, and you ha' i one mil '." tmoits, and come to ' ' plah igartiii iod rati. Tne i i(i is ��� wi ��� ne, thou |h, ery in mi who innrri'" oomsa rn. ha m i li n d d mil- r I i '���. as moodily, every woman, too," agrees Lady Jean, quickly, " '', ill, il i nol to ho won- ���.���'������ Differs ieo of I ������ 'i wl l" 1 ��� "'"I two i et; an I w hero d i you find two penp i likely to gel on to |otli : ��� i Ild time ��� I'.aii ll is !m] osalblo' '���. go I have talked to you quits 'i , ami iii" music i i over, I am joing lo oli'.', with Lady Fitwynde 3he aniusi i in ���, i'ii it, is rarely mivoii I loos that nowaday i," Sir Francis lakes himself off obediently, and tin oveniii; go i on as su ih sveningi usually do. There ia music and singing md conversation, aud the people who get next mc uauuit) iuuy nan, mo uuiiuoiiu vuwukm, and those who an wrongly paired are indescribably bored, and the beautiful hostosa moves like a slender white lily among tl.em all, and two blue eyes watch her with an intenser " yearning" than ever the Lady Etwynde or her friends have experienced for i lie subtle���the infinite���the sublime. Lauraine is growing very weary of this life she leads. There seems 115 possible escapo from it, and fashion, in its way, is jus', as fatiguing as tho work room, or tho factory, or the ofSco. There are times now when she longs to be away from tho roar of noisy streets, to breathe cool fresh air, to be alone with tho peace and loveliness of nature, to have just���rest. There is no such thing to be found here. Every day, almost every hour, has its occupations. The jargon, the laughter, the scandals and frivolities of Society are alike distasteful ; but she cannot evade tbem, be she ever bo weary. She stands in the ranks and must needs move onward in the hot and hurried march. She ia counting the days now before it will all be over���before she cau fly to quiet Falcon's Chase, ami in her child and her books find companionship more tober taste. Sho longs for those old dark forest lands, where the noise of the sou echoes always, ami everything is grand and noble, and rich with the tradition of past agoa. Sho does not dread aolilmle, but rather longs for il. -\tl this feverish unrest will be over then. She need have no house party till the autumn, but she is going tn take the Lady Ktwynde with her. There ia something harmonious and tranquil about her that will suit the dim old Chase, with ita great dusky chambers, and magnificent hall, and oak-panelled galleries. Moving to and fro among ber guests, and talking the pretty frothy nothings that Society demands, Lauraine thinks only of this. The longing is taking absolute possession of her, and Keith will not be able to follow her���there. She feels a dread���almost a disliko t him to-night. The memory of that scene a few daya ago fills her with a Bcnso of intol- eiablo shame, ond her mother's warning sounds like an added insult, A sense of irritation���of impatience���of disappointment is heavy at her heart. " He is not good, or honourable, or ho would not atay," she aaya to herself, ai, movo where she may, the sadness of thoso eyea, with their watchful entreaty, haunts her. " Why did I let him persuade me to utter that word?" Tho guests leave���the great rooms aro solitary. Sir Francis goes off to finish the evening somewhere olse. Lauraino seata herself wearily by one of the open windows, and looks out at the foliage of the Park- all dry, and sere, and dusty now, with tho long drought and heat of summer. She looks and looks, and great tears gather in her eyes and roll slowly down her checks. She has everything that tbo world counts worth having���she is young and beautiful and courted and flattered; bnt for all.that ber heart aches-achoa���aches. " It was impossible then���it is doubly impossible now," she saya, wearily. "Sin ���ahame���misory���whichever way i look at it, Oh, God help me���what am I to do ?" (TO BU CONTINUK.n.) A Genuine fiomano9-' A very romantic marriage will take place either in Montreal or Iberville on the Olb of next mouth, the contracting parties boing Madame de Pjellefeuille, the young widow of tlie late colonel of that name, who diod in Montreal two or three years ago, and a well-to-do merchant of the western states. Although these distiuguiahed people havo been engaged for sonic limo past and their wedding day fixed, they hj,ve as yet never spoken to or seen each other. This is romantic but quite true. When Mrs. de Bollefeuillo's late husband died she moved to Chicago, and thero while transacting some business had occasion to correspond witli the gentleman who will in a short time be her husband, The ooirc- spondenoe becamefrequent, photos wero exchanged, and in due time the western gentleman made an offer of marriage. Rev. Mr. Aubry, of St. Johns, P. Q,, then took hand in the negotiations in behalf of the lady, who accepted her unseen lovor upon the understanding that lie would embrace the Roman Catholic faith. Aa lie meant business there does not seem to bave been any impediment, aud certificates have been received from a western clergyman testifying to the desired change of religious belief. Madame de llellefeuille, who was 16 at the time of her first marriage, is now 35 and has a son and daughter. What Becomes of Gold and Silver- Between 1859 and 1880, thirty years, or less than half one lifetiine.India has absorbed ��117,000, 000 in gold and ��227,000,000 in silver, or ��.'111,000,(1011 in all. What has become of the silver we do not exactly know, though It is certain that a great proportion of it is hoarded as fixed and visible wealth, but about the destination of the gold thero ia no doubt whatever. The people have got the wholo of it in their hands, for it is not in circulation, and aro using it either in ornaments, kept, be It oh. served,to pawn in extremity, or as hoarded treasure in coin, such ns lies under almost every peasant's floor in the Punjab and East, era Deilgul, India i.s a treasure heme of gold, yet u man may livo fifty yoars In the British province and neversoesnounoe, The whole of thia wealth, nays Lord Roberts,with perfect justlccand especially the gold,which represents obviously and uecossarily part of tho pmiit on the foreign trade, is due to security, and soourity is due to the presence of that army ofSil.iXin while men, which is so ni'im represented as a burden on tholndian peasant. It is a burden and a heavy one, but then it is a burden the endiiradee of which produces all by which that aamc peasant gains.���[Tha Speotntor, For thl'ty yoars the beard of a man named VVhorton, in WoTjstor County, W. Va, has Iwon entirely gray, Now it i.s turning black, itn original color, in his 80th yoar. An awful suicide took place at the Elm- ria blast furnaces, Hiinley, on Sunday. A man I mploycd in charging tho furnaces, nfter doing a couple of hours' work, opened tho boll at the top of the furnace and jumped into lho molten metal below. Death was Instantaneous, and no remains conld be found. It ii supposed that he oom- mined the terrible deed through the Illness of his wife, nnd also thiough a rupture for which ho had recently undergone an operation. xn-jQiio. He Had Had Pains- Have you ever taken any pains to collect this bill against old Meddcrgrass?"inquired the head of the firm. " Pains'!" exclaimed the bill collector, " Pains, did you say ? Great Scott! I have climbed a dozen barbed-wire fences, keen chased by a bulldog and piokod half a pint of bird shot out of my legs. Ky George, sir, I have taken pains !" Professional Dignity- He was ragged and waa evidently no friend of the barbers ; but in spite of it all there was a certain pride in his deportment as he stepped into the polico court-room. "Have you over been arrested beforeJm asked the judge without looking at him. " Havo I ? Aw corns off, judge | don't rub it in, Do I look liko an amateur?" He Worked It- Wife-" Why, my dear, I thought your doctor said you were to smoke ouly one cigar a alay?" "Well?" " Well, yon aro smoking throe���" "That's right." " What's right 1" " I have hired two moro family physicians, and cacti one allowa mo ono cigar�� day, Inviting an Invitation- A minister had travelled some distance to preach, and at the conclusion of tho morning service waited for someone to invite him to dine; but thc congregation disperaed without noticing him. When tbo bouse was nearly empty tho minister stepped up to a gentleman and said . " Brother, will you go homo to dinnor with mc to-day?" " Where do you live?" "About eighteen miles from here, air." "No, hut you must dine witli me," an- awered the brother, with a flushed face, which invitation the clergyman gravely accepted. He Couldn't- A clergyman and one of his elderly parishioners were walking home from church one day last winter, when the old gentleman slipped and fell on Ida back. Tiie minister, looking at him a moment and being assured that he was not hurt, said to him: "Sinners stand on slippery placea," The old gentleman looked up, as if to assure himaelf of the fact and aaid : "I see they do, but I can't." Nothin*? to Speak of- Indignant Mother���" Clara, I have told you repeatedly that I didn't wanl you to have anything to do with that young Han- kinson." Miss Clara���"Mamma, all I've had to do with him has been three soda-watcra and one chocolate ice-cream." A Labor-savins; Device- Baroness -" Clara, bring me those dozen pocket handkerchiefs in which I told you to mark my monogram." Lady's Maid���" Here they are, my lady," Baroness���"But how is this? you haven't marked all of them with my monogram ?" Lady's Maid���"Indeed, I have, my lady. I marked one with your monogram and I marked all the others with the word 'ditto.' " A Serious Injury. Not long ago, on board one of Her Ma- jesty'a ships, a bluejacket fell backwards as he was mounting the rigging, and falling over and over struck tiie gunwale, and pitched all of a heap on the deck. The byatanilers ran forward, thinking he muat be killed; but to their surprise he got up, and after shaking himself a bit, picked up his cap, and fumbling in it; folds for a moment produced the pieces of a dirty clay pipe, remarking disconsolately: "That's the third blooming pipe I've broke this week I" A Hrave Man' Countryman (to dentist on whom ho has called to inquire about the drawing of a tooth):���" What d'ye charge for takin' oot a tooth?" Dentist: "Half-a-crown, or with gas five shillings." Countryman: "I doan't want to pay nothin' extry for gas. Jest lug it out, if it doesn't hurt." Dentist: "You are plucky, sir; let me flee the tooth." Countryman: "Oh, it bcan't mc that's got the toothache; it'a my wife, she'll bo here in a minute," Old Stories Over Again. Doddington was very lethargic, Failing asleep one day, after dinner with Sir Richard Temple and Lord Cobham, the lnttor reproached Doddington with his drowsiness. Doddington denied that he had hem asleep, and Lo prove that he had not, offered to repeal all Lord Cobham had boen saying. Cobham challenged him to do so. Doddington repeated a story, and Lord Ci.bham owned he had b3en telling it. ' Well," .said Doddington, "and yotl did not hear a word of it ; but I wont to sleep because I knew that about that time of day you would toll that otory." A Continuous Journey. An old lady travelling on the Underground Railway in London, and finding that the train was approaching a station, addressed herself to a man sitting in the farther comer of the compartment, her only fellow passenger, and said : " Would you tell me, what is the next station?" " Bayswater, madam,'' waa the courteous reply. " Then would you miud, sir, when we arrive, opening the door and helping me to get out 1" " With pleasure," was the cordial assent. " Vou see," the old lady went on to explain, " 1 am well on in years and afflicted, and I have to get out slowly >.nd backwards; ami ivhen thc porter Bees rre getting out ne shouts, ' Look alive ma'am,' and gives mo a push from behind, and I've been round the circie twice already." Dilated Stomach. The causes of dilatation of the stomach are overeating, distension of tho atomach by gas, and the 'urination of acida in the stomach, which set up a chronic catarrh and causo weakness of the muscles of the stomach. Tight-lacing and wearing bolt* have the same ofi'eut. Blacksmiths usually tie their apron strings tightly around their bodies, throw off Iheir vesta and suspenders, so as to give freedom to their arma, and thus their clothing ia auapended by tlieir apron strings. One of these men whom I examined, had a badly dilated stomach. A military officer, who oarried a heavy oword to his belt, had a prolapsed stomach aud kidney. I have found the same thing in huntere who sustained their clothing by a belt ; also in farmers who wore belts. Onco in a whilo I have found a similar condition in women who have worn tight bands around the waist. Statistics rocently gathered -how that seventy-five percent of the invalid women who came under our care last year had prolapsed stomachs, and Thirty-three per cent, of them had movable kidneys, in consequence of restriction of the waiat. This is one of tho most mischievous infractions of the laws of health with which I am acquainted. The Teeth. In order for tho breath to bo kept sweet and tho stomach in a healthy condition, the teeth must be kept clean. They should be cleansed the first thing upon rising in the morning, and also just before and juat after every meal. It ia very important that the teeth be brushed thoroughly the firat thing in the morning, aa then the mouth is full of germa, which have accumulated over night, and unless they are removed from the mouth, they are sure to bo taken to tho stomach with tlio food at breakfast, and cause trouble in one way or another. Foul breath is always caused by germa, and the remedy is to keep the raohlh clean. Au excellent disinfectant for thia purpose is cinnamon water. flow not to Nourish Babies- The nourishment which babies should get.and the food which they actually receive, are two very different things. We were told the other day of a baby of five weeka old ���who waa rather " out of sorts." Naturally a question as to the diet was askcd.aicknesi being one ofthe symptoms. "Well.mum,*' said the mother, " he haven't had anything harmful. He seemed but poorly yesterday, and so his father walked eight'milea to A��� aud bought a nice piece o' plaice, and ho biled it and beat it up and gave it to the baby. That's all he's had. Laat week we gave him aome rabbits brains beat up fine, and be kept them down. He hasn't been quite the thing since, ao I thought a little fish might suit him better." " But why not keep the baby to milk J" " Bless ye, mum, babies like a change. I alius givo mine a bit o' all aorta." Poor baby, and unhappy mother I We rejoice whenever we hear of an intelligent nurse giving practical inatruction in the art of baby feeding.���[The Hospital. Massage For Sprains- This modern method of treatment haa now boon adopted in almost every malady and injury, and Dr. Rosonblith has recently added some very useaul modifications of the method of treatment of sprains which have heretofore been in vogue, and have been used with some excellent results. He demonstrates very clearly that effusions of blood are rapidly absorbed under the influence of massage instead of beiug left to burden the tissues and interfere with the normal process. His mothod is aa follows :��� The injured joint is first placod in hot water. The purpose of this is to dilate the superfi.'ial blood-vessels. Massage is administered, not to the injured part itself, but outside of it, especially to the tissues lying between it and the heart. The movement gradually approaches the injured joint, and finally a" gentle stroking is applied to this, which is gradually increased to quite vigorous friction. By this means the painful part becomes less sensitive, so that a more or less energetic kneading may be practised, but graduated to the sensibility of the patient. After the application ia made, a bandage of flannel is applied with seme firmness and placed about thc part, and the patient is allowed to walk a little if hc cau do so without great pain. This method of treating sprains is so entirely different from that ordinarily employed that it will doubtless be looked upon at first with suspicion; but from the experience we have had with this method to treating sprains, we feol confident that it is a therapeutic measure that haa come to stay, and that it will in time displaco the old method of plaster casts and other immovable bandages. Smoking Tobaoco for Relaxing Muscles- The uae of tobacco lo relax the muscles when n difficult operation is to bo perform: ed in quite important. It can generally be used upon those only who aie nausiutod by its use, for those who ire accustomed to it do not ahow any signs of sickness. In tbo case of sotting a bone of a child or woman tho muscles are ofton so sot that it is hard work to bring the bono back into its proper position. A dislocation can bo remedied often only by acvero straining on the part of the operator. The muscles are firmly set, and the patient has no power to relax them. By allowing the person to smoke a pipe or cigar until nausea is produced the muscles reiax Immediately, and the operator has a great advantage, The muscles become limp and almost lifeless, and before tho patient is awaro of it the injured limb ia set and bandaged. The hacillua ia contained everywhere in the aurface soil of the streets or fields, and every time wo run any foreign substance into the body we run the risk of getting lockjaw. The germs are all around us in the dirt of streets, and this is why nails that are run into the feet when walking aro apt to give the person lockjaw. The bacillus have congregated on the nail in great numbers, and when introduced into the syatcm they get up a violent poison, A curious powder haa now been obtained after a long series of experiments which will instantly kill the bacilli of lockjaw,and when patients arc suffering from the dreaded disease an inoculation ofthe substance will generally cure the disease. The discovery of the cure quickly followed the discovery of the bacilli, and its habitation and methods of growth. OLD JOHN SAjNHERSON'3 ROMAflUfi. Thia la Plain Truth, Vel Hun Conld Fiction bo stranger. " The newspapers have printed the news of the death of old John Sanderson, the pioneer farm settler of the British Columbia coast, but somehow none of them has referred to hia strange life romance," aaid William MaoLaughlin, along-time resident of Vancouver's Island. "Iknew Sanderson well, and have heard him tell the atory more than ouce, although there waa an incident in it of whicli he was ashamed, and he alwaya referred to it with regret. " .Sanderson was a native ofthe Scotch Hebrides. When he waa between 35 and 40 he fell in lovo with a young girl not yet IB. The girl's name waa Margaret Findlay She accepted Sanderson's attentions, and they bocame engaged, but a dashing young fellow, a sailor, named George Rothrock, came into the locality where they lived, and won the girl's heart away from the plodding farmer, Sanderson. It happened that the latter knew that Rothrock had at one time in hia life been engaged in amuggling. Smarting under the loss of bis intended bride, Sanderson laid information of Roth- rook's crime beforo the authorities of tbo island, Jn some way the young sailor received warning that he had been betrayed, and he escaped from the island Justin time. " He was extremely popular, and when it came out that. John Sanderson was the person who hart informed on him the people generally made it so unpleasant for Sanderson that he reeolved to emigrate to the Pacific coast, newa of the discovery of gold in California having reached that out-of-the- way corner of the earth. Before going Lookjaw. One of the most violent diseases that we have, lockjaw, has at last beer, found to be curable, and whore ninety-nine per cent; of those who contracted the disease were beforo sure to die we can rely upon nearly as large apercentago of cures. Thisdiseasehaa been a mystery until quite recently. Why one should contract lockjaw l.y runnings small tack, splinter or other substance into his body, and another escape all trouble, no ono could understand. It was supposed for a long time that certain poople had a predisposition to lhe disease, and the least wound Infllotod in this way would causo lookjaw. But mow that the bacillus for lockjaw has been discoverer we know differ- IniiHiial Sunshine And Drought in England lias ,4 linos I Kuined III Crops. The London Standard says:���It i.s so unusual for this country to suffe1' from too much sunshine that no one who has not travelled about and seen the crops can realize the harm done by the "glorious weather." One may travel for twenty miles in some parts of the south of England without seeing a single good crop of any kind, unless it be potatoes, and thoy, tlie growers say, have come to a standstill. It is feared that, when rain falls plentifully enough to soak into the land, the stunted and permatnrely- ripened tubers will sprout, and produce new onea, It ia pitiful to see the miserably dwarfed crops of barley and oats. Barley looks aa if the ears could "never gel out of their stockings,'' and oats are begiuning to send small heads out of steins only a foot or eighteen inches high. The wheats are not quite as bad, but they are generally very light, and it is difficult to find a crop in which every row oannot clearly be distinguished when driving past tho field. The ears, too, are small, as a rule���short, like the straw. In a limited sense it may be said that harvest has already begun, rye having been cut and stook��d in a few places. A fair plant of mangolds is a rarity, and awedea which have como up have been attacked by the Ily generally, re-aowing being in many caaes necessary. Peas looked well until rocently, but now show signs of dying off permatnrely, and beans are nearly a failure. Somo miserable little crops ot hay aro to bc socn here and there ; but most of the meadows have not produced anything worth cutting, and, feed being extremely ahort.stock have been turned into them. The chance of a fair second growth of grass or clover ia now a very poor one. As has been previously pointed out, prospects in the north of England, in parts of the Midlands, in Scotland, and even in Ireland, are much better than those just referred to ; but everywhere an abundant rainfall is now badly wanted, and even if it comes speedily, the hay crop, where it is best, muat be deficient. In Kent the outlook for a general fruit crop ia most disappointing, excellent as it waa earlier in the season, There is a fair show for apples generally, and a good ono in many places, pears also being pretty thick on the trees, Gooseberries aud red currants, again, are abundant, as arc also cherries, and plums in 8orae plantations, though a failure in others. But Jhe damson trees present a sorry appearance, being completely blighted by swarms of insects, while black currants are very short, and strawberries are failing for want of rain There is a good Bhow of raspberries; but however, he married out of pique, a woman I Srowers 8ay tllat showers are essential to who had alwaya been the especial aversion ���e P''��Per development of tho fruit, and of the Findlay girl, but, as the latter was Ithat ihe croP ia mfestod with maggots. almost heartbroken over the loss of her | t.ob nut8' wl"ch are falrly thicK- are be* young sailor love.-, this marriage of her old '. ��mm,1S t0 drop off in consequence of thc lover was far from having the effect on her \ tl,'0UKllt- 0ne large fruit grower expects that Sanderson had intended. to loBe ��:!>000 tl113 year> mi many 9ma" " Tbis was early in 1861, Sanderson and | g''��wers declare lhat there is no chance of his bride reached San Francisco after a voyage of eight months. The outlook there did not suit Sanderson, and, hearing tbat there were rich agricultural lands on British territory further northward along the coast, he thither. They eettled in the fertilo valley a few miles south of Fort Langly, and by j year lnBP11te of repeated washings, the bine the time the gold excitement had broken profit. In the market gardens, Brussels sprouts and broooli, recently planted out, are perishing for lank of rain. As for hops they are suffering from the worst attack of the "fly" ever known as early in the season A Dnngrrout Tactical Course, Kven Though .4d��|iied Only ns a Subterfuge, A general in command may orde' a retreat to secure a stronger line, or because he fears disaster, or for several other reasons which might be termed good policy by a court of enquiry, but thero is peril in any backward movement. So long as tho lines are Standing firm so long will men die bravely. Even if a wing ia being beaten and the fact is known in the center, men will still die with their faces to the foe. And army corps ia au anomaly. It will charge into the face of death time and again. Every man will obey like a machine. No man knows what fear is. That is because it is at least holding its ground if not gaining something. Let the order run down the lines of a retrogade. movement, and there is a panicky feeling observed at once. Have other corps been defeated! Has tho enemy pierced thc centre! Has the battle been lost? Men ask these questions of each other in cowardly whispers, and within ten minutes four-fifths of the command aie ready for flight. All veterans experienced this sensation more than once but no man can explain it. Each ono was there to die. To stay was to bo killed, He could fear death only in running away. It wasn't that lie was running away to save hia life, but from aomo menaco which he could feel nnd yet not understand. Au army of 40, 000 men bravely pushing ahead and feeling victory in thc air will leave its dead at overy wall, and fence, and creek, and on every slope, nnd cheer and cheer aa itpushes on. The same army, if withdrawn for any reaaon, will be ao worked up inside of half an hour that tho bursting of a shell will break the formation of a whole brigade . It is the rear guard a general looks to with dee pest concern whencompellcd to withdraw in the face of the foe. It is the post of honor for some one seeking death. It ia the place of all the oldest veterans. A victorious army is jubilant and aggressive. A defeated one is nervous and fearful. The nuiumn miuniiiiiriiniJunDi. Description of the Ships. Hoih Among die Hlghtietl Fighter* iu ibe lirlllah Xavy. Although iu some respects old-fashioned compared with the Royal Sovereign, iht Hood, and tbe other recently constructed ships, both the Victoria and the Camper- .lown were believed to have few equals and scarcely a superior among line-of-baltle ships, The Victoria was so large th. t when she waa launched on the Tyne the river had to be dredged before she could be taken to Chatham dock yard. She was.'ilo feet long, 7d feet broad, and of 25 feet 11 inches mean draught. She was of 10,490 tons di8phace- ment and 11,000 horse power. She was protected by armor IS inches thick, end her armament consisted of two 1 In-ion guns,one ,'10-ton, twelve ."i-ton.twelve 6-pounaer quick firing guns, nine 3-nounders and several machine guns of smaller calibre. She in ac'a dition had a powerful ram and eight torpedo tubes, She could travel a', the rate of 111.7.') knots. When ahe waa launched Sir William Armstrong compared her with the Victory, Nelson's famous flagship, as follows i "Thearmament ofthe Victory as she fought at Trafalgar consisted of thirty thirty-two-poundors, thi:ty twooty-four- poundcrs, forty twelve-poundera, and two sixty-eight-pounder c-arronades, making in all 102 guns. The heaviest of these guns was under three tons, while ibe heaviest ou board the Victoria will be 110 tons. Tlie largest charge of powder used ou the Victory was 8 pounds, whilo the largest charge to be used on the Victoria will be 903 pounds. The heaviest shot used on the Victory was 6S pounds, while or. the Victoria it will be 1.S00 pounds. The weight of metal discharged from the broadside of the Victory was 1,150 pounds, against 4,7-)*J from that ofthe Victoria. Bnt the power of the broadside discharge of each ship is better indicated by the quantity of powdei expended than rearguard steps in between the wolf and , bv 'lle welgll,; oi metal discharged ; and its prey. It must retreat, but it must j wllllc ��� broadside tire from the Victory fight as it falls baok. Tlierc will be dead j consumed only 32S pounds, that from the men, but they will not even be moved aside j ��lc-011�� will consume 3,000 pounds. In to escape the wheels. The wounded may; Pomt f range, accuracy, penetrating pow- be placed in the fence comers or dropped cr,and shell power, the difference is so great into the ditches, but there will be no time iln y\��\ of ihe Victoria that a comparison for gentleness. j wo" J ,b.e ridiculous." Here we swing into the main road, upl the Victoria was rather low in the water, which the last hurrying, struggling comp-1 hiving eleven feet freeboard, aud the for- any has disappeared. There are a swamp, "'ard deck being cleared to give sweep to and a long causeway between ua and thc i ����� grcat turret guns, she had something of enemy's advance. Up the road they are [ the appearance of a monitor forward. Aft * . * , ... ! rtf la.iaa i.aa^a.l.L aL�� --������ _* _ J l_f _ trying to aave the wagon train. \\ e muat c and his wife continued tlieir journey as the fir8t half of Junc- As a rule' dry and hither. They settled in the fertilo valley 8Um,y weather checks the vermin ; but this I year in spite of repea cannot be kept clean. out in British Columbia in 1856 Sanderson liftd a splendid form. He stuoh to his farm through all the gold fever and by supplying mining camps and emigrant trains with produce had made a large fortune when his wife died in lfjlil, leaving bim Beveral children. Ho remained a widower for ten years, adding to hia wealth, and then he made up his mind to have anotiier wife, and that he would like her to como from his old island home off the barren coast of Scotland. " He bad a sister there, and ho wrote to her asking her to look about and try and' get him a suitable person for a wife. Margaret Findlay still lived at Sanderson's old home, very poor, and still unmarried. She had never heard of her lover Rothrcck since he tied the islands twenty years before. Sanderson's sister went to her, told her the word she had received from her brother, and gave her the first chance for his oiler. WAI LOADEJ) WITH EXPLOSIVES. An Apparently Abandoned Rout Which Surprised a (nllean Crew. Toward the close of the teoent war between Chile and Peru, the Peruvians found themselves quite shut in from the outside world by th�� Chilean blockading fleet that lay off the harbor of Callao. With two exceptions, the Peruvian navy had all been captured or destroyed by the enemy, and these two remaining ships, vessels of low speed and little power, were moored behind the breakwater, absolutely useless for purposes of war. With all their power of opposing the enemy gone, the Peruvians turned their attention toward destroying some of the hostile ships that lay a few miles otf, a constant menace to the city of a, - , :,���-,., ; Callao. Frequent futile attempts were Margaret, weary of a life of toil, consented , made t0 blow* up the chilean cru[,er8 with to become her old lovers second wife if he tot does but &��� Chil3aM were too alert ao wished. Sandersons sister sent that I aIld* 8Ucceeded in avoidi or dc3lroying Zlu h Iolhel' o",1.'16 other Bide of the deadly missiles. One forenoon, aays the world, and it pleased h.m. He replied , Har ... youn(, Peop,ei the icket 'yeJu It V i '��� TTy , m KIT I ��f th�� Chilean ��<-<-���'��� a smaI18'eal" gunboat, garo Findlay ��� paaaage to his home on the j was orulli lnshore t0 take , near��look a{ tar racinc coast. , the town and fortifications. While steam- ll,.fcllflB-o win a��.1������������w ing slowly along a boat was diacovered t iflil ' fc , 1�� w��itn8thereJfo*' drifting down with the current. A near h ��."h',C She WaS 'Tf ^ ','P inspection proved it to be a fine new whale he oast, he heard her name called. Look- bo& ffith 'oar8 and 8ai,3 ftnd ,eto oul. oSJ, n, ^ ' S-7 aBd reco2m*T*' fit. The commander of the Chileai steamed - 8p!.t.!?Lt.h00,1!?'n��_08 ?,��Arnt7 y6*1;8' h?r I close unto the boat and ordered tackles rigged for hoisting the prize on board. The deck give thom half an hour. First comrs tho enemy's cavalry. Our two guns are planted to sweep the narrow road, and never a man lives to get within pistol shot. Then hc pushes forward a column of infantry. We fill the road and overflow into the swamp, where oo7.e and water arc hip deep. We shell them���we change to grape and canister���we fill the black waters of the swamp with dead men. But there are "y 000 men forming that living, moving wall��� 1,000 of ua. They push forward their artillery. Their infantry creep forward from tree to tree and from bush to bush, and we are driven. It ia either retreat or annihilation. We leave our dead and fall back. The enemy cheers again as he advances, and we turn and fire and push on again, Here are wounded men sitting by the roadside or lying at full length on the graiss, of her turret she carried a plain surer- structure, heavily protected bj compound armor, in which was plaeed the secondary battery, and on the top and rear of thia superstructure was the ten-inch gun in its barbette. The Camperdown has a displacement of 10,000 tons, an indicated horse power of 11,500, and aspeed of 16.75 knots. She has four b'7-ton guns and six 5-ton, besides smaller armament. She was conspicuous In the naval manoeuvres of 18!) I in Vice- Admiral Oulme-Seymour'a fleet. Her crew consists of GOO men. Neither the Victoria nor the Camperdown had been iu commission ten years. fugitive lover, (ieorge Rothrock." The old Ir/ln,"1 \7X dead,'- bU,'n0d aT ,?" I tackles'were hooked, and the men on the instant, and the meeting waB mutually happy. Rothrock had been leading the life of a miner in California and had accumulated considerable money, and was even then making arrangements to return to Scot- walked away to the pipe of the boatswain's whistle. Suddenly, as tho boat left the water, a terrific explosion took place, tearing the boat to atoms, and crushing in the gunboat's side at the water line, eo that aho ��� . , , . filled and sank, wile at once, but she rep bed that her dutv , r ��� .i a, . < .l i _j IULJ , struggling in tho water. Most of them wcre rescued by boats from the fore ign men-of- war lying near, but somo were novor seen again, The boat was a cunning ly devise" land, lie wanted Margaret to become hia'En i i i < . i i " l filled and sans, leaving her startled crew would not permit her to do so. Sh given her promise to .John Sanderson, was expecting le r. She would go to had He Dim. u .ia.. .i i i. in- (i 1 again, ine ooat was a cunning y noviseii It, after she bad tol J him of her unexneoted , i ,, i ,. ,������ i -.i. ' ,. ,, ,,���,, , ,' T,1-" : weapon, having a double bottoui i ed with meet iff With Kothrock and the revival of .��� i , ��� .i / i , . , I �� a li , *;' ul a powerful DXploBivn, with a fuse and delo- her love for lum, he waa maanan moua _/... f.j .. .V. -..u. , m. .,.- or mm, ne waa magnanimous enough to release her fiom her promise to beoome his wife, she would return and marry her lover. If Sanderson insisted, however, on her keeping her promise, she would trample her love under her feet and marry Sanderson. All her lover could say would not move her, and she sailed on the steamer, Rothrock promising to wait a month at San Francisco to hear bis fnte, "In less than that time Margaret was back. The sturdy .Scotch farmer iiad been magnanimous. Margaret married her lover, and they Bailed back to the home of their childhood, and no doubt are living there happily yet, Old John Sanderson never- married again, and he died one ofthe rich est men on the British Pacific coast." niitor oonneoted to the bolls to which the tackles hooked. When the strain came on th; bolts, as the boat, rose from tbe water, the mac was Ignltod and the explosion followed. A Seasonable Expectation. Buyer���" You sent a bill around to my house with that watch I ordered yesterday You didn't expect me to pay cash for it, did you J" ilewt'ler���" Certainly. Why shouldn't I'" Buyer--" For the simple reason that when a man buys a watch he naturally expects time." The enure empire of Persia vessel .as but oue A Misunderstanding- "Confound it!" exclaimed Jackson. " What a stupid fellow that jeweler is ?" " How so?" inquired his friend. " Why, I told him the other day that I wanted engraved in the engagement ring the letters ' From A to 'A '���trom Arthur to Zenobia, yon know -and tho idiot went to work and put in tlie whole alphabet," A million pounds' worth of fresh-coined silver pieces of Britisli money weighs over 151 tons lOcwt. At a medical students' ball in Chicago, tho dances woro named after medicines, as the quassia quadrille, the nux vomica value, the podophyllinc lancers, ote. A French journalist, M. Lardeaux, proposes to walk from Paris to Chicago, by way of Siberia. It is his intention to cross the Behring Straits on the ioo, The most northern town in thc world is Hammerfest, Norway, Here the sun remains above the horizon for two months in the year. From this fact Norway is called " the land of the midnight sun," The Amerioan and the Englishman Travelling- When an Amorioan gcoa tn ae,i, ho reads books, or he calculates the number of tons Some rise up and hobble painfully along I of coal it is taking to run the vessel at that with us; others beg for water aud fall to rate of speed ; and he determines that rate weeping. We cannot be burdened. We of speed by counting the rise and fall of the cannot even be merciful. Wo are the rear i piston-rod, with his watch in his hind : and guard���not here to save a hundred but j when this ceases to amuse him lie plays thousands. At the foot of the hill are two | cards in the smoking-room or holds pools on broken wagons, an ambulance with a wheel J the run and on the pilot's number. The off, a heap of knapsacksand muskets thrown1 Englishman joins in theso latter amuse- away by weary and fearful men; half way J ments, because nothing better oii'ers, But up the hill more abandoned wagons and two { when bis fool is on his native heath or on or three dying horses; at its crest a caiBSon i the deck of one of his own vessels, he de- and more spoils for the enemy, " Halt! Here we check them again I" The guna are planted and the infantry positioned and we can see that the high monstrates his preference for that sort of entertainment which requires exercise and little thought. If it is at a country bouse he plays games which entail considerable way clear back to the swamp is a mass of j running about, und at picnics be enjoys moving men. Thirty to one perhaps, but j " throw the handkerchief," and on board we must fight. It is only when they overflow into the forest and field and are on our Hanks that the guns are limbered up and we fall back. We have given them an- ship he plays cricket and other games dear to the heart of the American at lhe age of five. This is partly because he always exercises and likes moving about, as Americans othor heap of dead to bury, more wounded j do not, aud because the reading of looks to care for; but, alas, we dare not stop to count our own loss I Across a plain for half a mile, past a farm-house and its barns and orchard, and the highway turns to the left and enters the forest. Wo halt at the turn. There is just time to draw a long breath when the head of the wild beast acentiug our bloody footprints cornea into view. Our sholla Bcream down the dusty highway and mingle blood with dust. They rend and tear and maim and kill, but the living wall is not checked. Then grape and canister whir and whistle and scream, and the muskets of our infantry blaze and crackle, (except suoh books as Mr. Potter ot Texas, which, 1 firmly believe, every Englishman I ever met has read, and upon whicli they have bestowed the most unqualified approv nl as the truest picture of American life ait character they have ever found) enterta^ him for but a very short period at a time. So a netting Is placed aboul the upper deck for him, and he plays cricket: notonlf he, bul his wife and his sister and his niottp er and the unattached young ladies undr* the captain's care, wiio are going out to India, presumably to be met at the wharf by prospective husbands. There is something most charming- iu the absolute equality but wc cannot stem the tide. Even as we j which this sport entails, and the lerlo'usnesi are ready to fall hack ono of our guns is; with which the English legard it. We lisinountcd, and wo must help the horses j could not in America expect a wbite-haireV raw away the othor. There are more dead and wounded���only a skeleton command to Stagger back and look for another position. I Hare the highway leaves tho woods and ascends a strong hill. Tho afternoon has lady with spectacles l,< bowl overhand, cf to sec that it i.s considered quite w> a matte of course lha*. she should do it by the mem ber of the last Oxford eleven, nor wouh our young women be able lo bold a hot ball waned and the sun is disappearing. Half j or to take it with the bauds crossed or onlj way up the bill tho laat horse falls in his partly open, ami no- pain; to palm and wub tracks, and wc drag Ibe cannon audits cais-;,apart. An American, as u rule, walks in son up hy baud. It is our last stand, The! order that ho may reach a certain point, army in safe and can nsl; no more of us. As [but the EnglishmJli walks for the sake 9 we bind up each other's hurts wc can hear! walking. And be plays games, also, appar the foe cheering down the road. Five min- ently lor the exercise there ia in them I ules later the last shell is tired, l'horo is no gamei in winch people sit in a circle anr, moro grape, no more canister. Oun and ; discuss whether love or reason should guide caisson are overturned into the ditch. We] tbem in going into matrimony, do not uphold tho hill for ten minutes wuh a liro of peal so strongly as do " oranges and lem- musketry which loans up against thoevoning j ons," or " where are you Jacob f" which is sky likcagreat bonfire, aud then there comes | a very line game, in which an early training a sudden silence. iVc bave thc order to re-1 in sliding to bases gives you a certain ad- treat, Leaving tbe wounded to cur.-e and vantage, It is certainly instructive to hear groan and pray, leaving the dead to grow | a captain who got his" company throngh cold as the red sunset fades away and the I storming Fort Xilt last year in tiie Pamir, stars come out, we glide away like shadows into the night and like shadows are swallowed np and lost, to view. We were fighting for night to come. It is here. The pursuit is ended. Nearly -1,000,000 'ons of ieo have been harvested on the II jusoii River this season. Tho largest herd oi buffaloes iu the world is owned by Charles Allsrd, of Missoula, Montana, It comprises one hundred head. A pair of ill-fitting shoes bo enraged a woman in Midville, Oa., that she shot and killed the peddler of whom she bad bought them. inquire anxiously : " Oranges or Yes, I know. But irhi It should I chap ': I'm a little rus'y in the game know,"���[Harper'* Weekly. onions 1 iay, old vou London has forty restaurants in which only vegetable food is served, An oil well in Venango County, l'a., doeS its Spouting ouly on Sundays. A bounty of three cents a bead is paid for every sparrow killed in a village, township, or city of Michigan. A process of eliminating smoko from the combustion of coal baa been discover* J by an ingenious Gorman. tEfyc ftootencuj Star SATURDAY, AUG. 5, 1898. The people of Tront l,ake City have fur a long time been expecting llie Post-offloe authorities would look with favor on tbeir petition for a post- ollioe in that hipidly-growing town. Although all hope of such a branoh beiug established this year is not quite (lend, resident's in the Liifdenu are beginning to feel disgusted at the apathy displayed, but whether the blame rests with the Ottawa offloials or our Provincial P.O. Inspector is uot known, It is generally conceded, however, that the latter is a "moss- back." There i6 a population now iu tlio Laideau of between 500 and 600, which number is daily being adtled to. Not only should thero be uu pffifje nt Trout Lake City, but also at the head of tho N ,E, Arm���either at Lardoau City (for Fish Creek j or at Thomson's Landing. Hall's Landing khould be provided with n letter-box nt the landing- plaoe, to bo cleared by lho mail carrier between Revelstoke and the N:E. Arm. The str. Marion leaves Kevelstoke twice a week for the head of the Arm nnd could be utilised for the already heavy mail service to the poiuts mentioneiji which will ih i\ mon tli or bo have 1,000 population. That so many people should be obliged lo trust to tho kindness of friends, acquaintances and strangers for receiving tbeir mails at irregular intervals is a disgrace to the Post-office authorities, both Dominion and Provincial, It is to be hoped P.O. Inspector Fletcher will endeavor to "grasp tho situation. We are in receipt of a souvenir number of the Lardo Reporter. It is also its hist appearanoe, This enterprising little journal started .just, eight weeks ago in a townsite (the town was to follow) nt the northern end of Kootenay Lake. Under more favorable conditions it would have beon a success. Its fate should ba a warning to townsite owners who endeavor to build up a city in five minutes and hold out glowiug promises to newspaper men who will start a papor to boom the town, 'l'he following extract from 'the Reporter's last issue, printed on brown paoking paper and turned column rales, tells the whole'story:���"Had the agent of tho townsite company carried out his ' agreement witb the Reporter tbis step would not have beeu necessary, but inasmuch as he has broken his verbal coutract no other alternative is left. The publication of a newspaper in a (town containing four houses and two tents is obviously uot a remunerative one unless assistance is rendered by those whose interests are benefited thereby, and when they show such a lack of appreciation of the advantages due to the publication of u luonl paper as to refuse to extend it auy support whatever it is pretty nearly time to quit." There is no newspaper iu Lardo now, ami the souvenir number is preserved ou our file as a .curiosity. Mh. IUua made a mistake on Wednesday night iu fencing the .question put by .Mr. Conrsier ns to the purchase of 100 acres of laud by the former gentleman ''in proximity k> the town." Mr. Mara snid his jBOffiipany had done a great deal for Revelstoke by establishing a line of steumboats, aud the ouly privilege that bad been granted them was the fight to purchase 2(1 acres of the townsite from the Dominion authorities at So an acre. Now tbis was not a particularly valuable privilege, and pobody kicked. But, Mr. Kellie upset the whole arrangement when he snid that tbe boons iu the Dominion Land .Office at K imloope showed Mr. Mara as Joeing credited nut only with the 26 acres mentioned, but also with 100 pore, in addition. "Oh," returned '.Mr liars, "that land is below the (���nielici'. and not in the townaite al all," ^hereupon Mr Conrsier gently pen jnded bim that his question bad peen regarding land "in proximity" in Kevelstoke, Now the question is pei ig asked Wonld Mr. More bave I'kepl dark" concerning Ins pnrohaue I i"11 aores of land jnst outside tbe ,o osite fur $6 an aore if Mr. Kellie had not "let lhe oat out of the bag?" in fiewof the toot that the Dominion authorities were charging another man (not an Ml'., $26 an aore for ��� ii"l outside the townBita, and far morn inaccessible than Mr. Mara's 100. aor.es, there is every probability that be would, lie Ibis as it. may, we have a precedent us to the price ��� f bunt "in proximity" to Revelstoke, ���and if the Dominion Government do not wish to have the oharge of hood- ling brongbt against it it will be very '.���iii'ofiil not to cbarge ordinary com mon oitizens more per acre than it ("barges a Dominion M.I'. 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Sklppoft from this Slain CorrPcportif witli aud Con* B!ga to MlnuuiipuliB Mouse. T. L. HAIG, NOTARY PUBLIC : REVELSTOKE, B. C. Mining and Real Estate Broker and General Commission Agent. FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE. REPRESENTATIVE OF THE KOOTENAY SMELTING AND TRADIKW SYNDICATE. agent FOR TROUT LAKE CITY, KASLO CITY, NAKUSP & other TOWNSITES. V LARDEAU V Is situated at the head of thc North-East Arm of Upper Arrow Lake. It is the easiest poiut from whicli to enter tho remarkably rich mines of the Lardeau and Fish Creek Districts. It will have the advantage of both rail and steamboat liues. The C.P.R. will begin the bnildiug of a line from Kevelstoke to the N.E. Arm of Arrow Lake as soon as the weather will permit. LARDEAU is at the head of navigation on this Arm, aud will be the terminus of steamers and that of thc Lardeau & Kootenay Railway. There is no question that the Rich Miuiug Districts which are tributary to LARDEAU will attract thousands of Prospectors and Capitalists during the present season, and that a large town will grow up at that point. The history of Kuslo will be repeated at LARDEAU this year, and investors in Kootenay property should study the situation. Kaslo, in many instances, has already repaid from 500 to 1,000 per ceut. to investors. ^ The wisdom of an investment in LARDEAU is without question. For further particulars, prices und terras, apply to any of the undersigned ROBERT IRVING, Trustee, Broad Street, Victoria. HENRY CROFT, Colonist Building, Government Street, Victoria. DOUGLAS aV CO,, 189 Cordova Street, Vancouver, GREEK, RICHARDSON* & CO., 57 Jameson Building, Spokane. K. 11. LEE, P.L.S., KAMLOOPS. DAVID I'. DOUGLAS, Resident Agent, Lardeau. 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COURSIER'S- BOURNE BROS, GENERAL MERCHANTS, Revelstoke, New Denver and Nakusp. DEALERS I St DRY GOODS, PROVISIONS, MINERS' SUPPLIES,. Harness, BOOTS UB 8HOE3.. FLOUR,OATS, SHORTS AND ALL RINDS OF FEED. DOOBS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES,. WALL PAPER, lai*. Giant Powder kept in stock at New Denver and Nakusp. Messrs. C. B. Hume & Co,, Kevelstoke Station, GROCERIES PROVISIONS BOOTS & SHOES FLOUR HARDWARE'' FEED & OATS CLOTHING AMMUNITION MINERS' TOOLS Consignment of Butter and Eggs received every week. Our store at Trout Lake City is stocked with Everything required by Miners and Prospectors. Furniture & Undertaking, Ft, HOWSON, Has a largo Stock of Household Furniture, Coffins, Caskets, Shrouds, &c. REVELSTOKE, B.C Tha Bath- To be cleanly, ia a just homage to Hini who requires purity in all things, whether of the soul or lioily. It is a iluty we owe to ourselves from a sanitary stand-point, and a in u'al obligation to those with whom we came in contact. To preserve such endowments in the way of Ijeauty as Nature has seen tit to bestow upon us, is also a laudable desire, and the bath properly taken, is not only a matter of purification but a beautilibr as well. The skin includes three distinct divisions. The outer one or surface of fhe body is called the epidermis, cuticle, or scarf skin. It is extremely thin. The corium, or true skin, is si mated just underneath, and next to the cuticle or epidermis, and is a strong tough membrane, tilled with nerves and blood vessels. The third division lies directly under the true skin, and is generally very fatty. Occupying the latter, and the true skin, are the sweat glands, which are coiled and twisted tubes, each ending upon the epidermis, in a minute opening called a pore. !f, through lack of cleanliness, the openings to this immense system of drainage become clogged or closed, the result if apparent to any reasoner. Perspiration is the method adapted by nature to throw od superfluous matter, but this cannot he effectually carried out, unassisted by bathing. When nature has forced to tlie surface what she discard*, all traces of tho refuse should be removed. This done the oil glands gently soften the skin, and it becomes tine and transparent, and through it the blood shows a clear healthy tint, A tresli rosy, complexion is a desideratum of every woman, and nothing will go so far toward producing this, providing the health is good, as regular bath, ing, Frequently eruptions on the face are the result of uncleanliness, and when one thinks of tiie refreshing, delightful, preventive, the bath, whose benefits are often so little understood and appreciated, possibly because wilhin the reach of every one, it should seem that a crop of pimples on tho face would be a fitting punishment for neglect of this department of hygiene. Regarding the proper time for a bath, u simple general rule may bc given : Take cold baths on arising in the morning, and warm ones just before retiring, in taking Turkish ot llinsiaii baths, the hour need not lie ;onsidered, except as in all baths none of which should lie taken under au hour or so before or after meals. If cleanliness is the main object of a bath, soap must not be sparingly mod. In bathing establishments, patronized by refined people, one rarely sees other thau the ohl- fashionod pure Castile, which is extremely softening and cleansing in effect. Where it is possible, use fresh, clear rain water for the bath. This is the nearest approach t" distilled water, whioh is too expensive tor general use. Soft water is next to rain water, and a little borax or ammonia in hard water will soften it. I '.risk rubbing should always follow a bath : then tlie b.itii will do all that is claimed for it, in the way of renovating tiie person, invigorating the system, increasin' the fineness and softness of the skin, vu unHing the person look and feel younger. ,��� iii.iiu.v. UIW.j U...III, l<;tulll to the kettle and add one-half ounce of sweet butter, and one tablespoonful of the liquor in which it was boiled. Lst stand six minutes over a slow tire, and serve. Strawberry Cream Cake.���Two cupfuls of sugar, four eggs, one cupful of sweet milk, six tablespoonfuls cf melted butter, three cupfuls of tlour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Hake in layers. For the cream take one cupful of thick sweet cream and beat or whip until stiff, add four tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar (the granulated sugar, g.es firmness, but must be fine grained), and one pint of strawberries; well sweetened, spread on the layers ot cake, when perfectly cool. Strawberry and Tapioca Pudding.���Soak one cupful of tapioca over night in cold water. Place on the fire with one pint of boiling water. After it is cooked and nearly cool, stir in one quart of strawberries, and sweeten to taste. Serve cold with cream and sugar. In winter, canned or preserved strawberries or cherries are a nice substitute. Strawberry Cream.���Take one quart of fresh strawberries, crush slightly and cover with a cupful of powdered sugar. Let stand three or four hours, then rub through a fine sieve. Place in the dish in which it will be served ; then take one pint of rich cream which has been previously chilled on ice, and whip it, skimming off the stiff froth as it rises, aad laying on a sieve to drain, returning the cream which drips to be whipped again. Place on the ice to harden, after lhe jury had retired for consultation prior to bringing in a verdict of "Guilty" which was expected of them. Retiring at all seemed little more than a farce, for from the beginning to the end of the case the evidence had gone so steadily against the defendant that by the time the last. I witness had been called there was no man-' ner of doubt in the publi ��� mind that Robert : bv I y tier. set such store "He made himself so pleasant much at home that they begged him to stay all night, an' long about twelve o'clock he was, or pretended to be took awful sick, lhey worked with him till he got better, and wouldn't hear of liis tryin' to go away next tnornin'; ao he stayed ou, aettin' on adding sugar to sweeten. I ^^^^ serve with the strawberry pulp, or pour over it ' Sullivan had deliberately and in cold blood murdered Jack Wilder, and it needed not the vigorous speecn of the prosecuting attorney to convince anyone to that effect. The evidence being briefly summed up, ran as follows: Robert, or, as he is more familiarly called, Bob Sullivan, while in a state of intoxication, quarrelled with and lost his last cent to Jack Wilder, a professional sharper. Awaking the morning after his debauch to find himself beggared', he had sworn in the presence of several witnesses to get his money back or kill the man who had outwitted him. Accordingly he had set out to meet Wilder on his return from a neighboring town, and next day the body of the latter was found in a lonely stretch of the road with a knife sticking in his heart. Sullivan had been obliged to admit that he had met his enemy near this spot, aud that they had a stormy interview, but maintained that they had parted without blows, as Wilder promised him to restore his money. There was no tittle of circumstantial evidence wanting to confirm the appearance of Sullivan's gui't, and even I the big rookin1 chair with a pillow behi ^^^ the attorney for the defence waa privately n half an hour,1 convinced ofthe falsity and absurdity of Macaroon Ice Cream.���Pulverize four ounces of macaroons; heat one pint each of milk and cream to the boiling point; then remove trom the lire, and stir in one-half pound of granulated sugar until dissolved. When cold, freeze and when quite slitfstir in the pulverized macaroons. Let stand two hours before serving. Frozen Pudding.���Take one quart of cream, the yolks of lour eggs and beat together. Take one pound rf granulated sugar and one pint of water; heat, and when quite hot add one-fourth pound of pounded almonds (previously blanched], one ounce of citron, finely chopped, one ounce grated cocoanut, two ounces of raisins, one orange and lemon each., peel and juice. Freeze one hour before required, aud let harden after freezing, pli Timely fuddings- Rice Pudding ���One and one- " best rice washed and placed e boiler with three pints of boilinj About the Hair. Beautiful hair requires constant care and a!l hair is beautiful when well cared for. Brushes uaed should have long, soft bristles that go through the hair, taking with them , . ... -��� , ��� , , ���a -rr-- every particle of dust, and should be very r"'.6' f1��� ** lliyeFof ��PPl����on the top pros ���'ean. The comb should be coarse but if the |se',* aMZ ^ether mt0 tlie rlcc w"h ��ki" Lemon half cu in doul. ^^^^^^^^ water anil a scant teaspoonful of salt Cover closely and cook for one hour. Pour into shallow molds or s.uicers. Make, and spread with tlie following : One cupful of suirar, juice and grated rind of one lemon, one cupful of boiling water, iuto which stir one egg and yolk of another, well beaten, and three tablespoonfuls of cornstarch dissolved in cold water. Let it boil two minutes. After spreading over the rice, frost each oue with the white of one egg and a little sugar: set in the oven to give a pale golden brown, and cool on ice. Apple Rice Pudding.���One quartjof boiled rice cooked as above, three pints of quartered apples, washed and cored without peeling, one-half cupful of augar, one cupful of boiling water. Place in an earthen pudding dish, alternating apples and hair is well brushed it ia rarely needed. Taking the hair down and braiding it gently at night saves and rests it, besides keeping it in a better condition. Coarse hairpins, that are sharp-pointed or rough, rum the most beautiful hair. Small pins of tortoise shell or amber are the best to uae, Avoid stiff, rough or wiry pins. Good ' the hair and the tall slender woman, with classical features does not adopt the same mode of arrangement, as the piquant beauty with short face and fluffy, golden curls. She knows that her black, glossy hair looka best when braided and carefully pinned to show the shape of her head, while her golden-haired sister twists her curls in a loose, careless knot at the back of her head. Much beautiful hair is ruined by carelessness in crimping. With care, it may be crimped without injuring its beauty. The curling-irou must not be very hot and must be clean. For crimping the back hair, uae the large, flat iron made especially for the purpose. Smooth crimps are best suited to dark 1 air. Where the hair is light, and the face will bear it, cut the front bang ao that when curled it will look slightly pointed; the center curl should come iu the middlo of the forehead ; crimp the remainder of the front hair on a large iron, draw back loosely and turn the ends up in long, aoft knots. A graceful coiffure for a large head shows a short, loosely-curled bang that lies close j to the heid, with the front hair drawn back I iu a puffy manner and fastened hy lace hairpins, forming a solid foundation for the puff above it. A young girl muy comb the back hair up high, braid, and tie it with a black ribbon, and bang the front .slightly, tn frame the face ; the hair beyond is drawn up pompadour fashion and the ends are curled and fastened on top with luce pins; or, she may cut the hail around the face short, curl it loosely, the bang uot extending very far back, crimp the side hair and that oil top, drawback and fasten in looso curls. The hair must have a loose effect; still, though firmly fastened, with r.o hairpins visible. side up. Bake an hour. Apples with Cream.���Wash, quarter, aud core, without peeling, some nice apples; aid a little water and su?ar, and cook in a closely-covered granite kettle. The juice should be rich and jelly-like; eat cold with cream, If one dislikes the skins, or they are tough and distasteful, press through a taste leads in the'arrangement of Uieve and remove them while hot, and when ���- ' cool you will find tlie sifted apple delicious with the cream. Cherry Pudding.���Heat one quart of juicy cherries canned or fresh, to the boiling point, and stir in smoothly four tablespoonfuls ot cornstarch whicli has been wet in cold water, and cook five minutes. Place it in molds, cool, set on ice, and serve with sugar and cream. If the cherries are fresh or unsweetened, one cupful of sugar should be added when placed on the stove to heat. Apple Tapioca.���Soak one cupful of tapioca, or sago, over night in cold water enough to make a qui rt. Peel, core and quarter tart apples, and place them in the bottom of an earthen pudding dish, adding salt and one cupful of sugar; pour over ail the tapioca and bake one hour. If convex ient, use one cupful of jelly and no sugar, Eat cold with cream. For Summer rays- Summer Saluda.-Take two heads of nice Clisp lettuce, one pint of green beam. ��� . ���'.. ed lender, one n odium-sized encumber, sliced ��li in, two medium-sized ti n uoi I, : ied, two hnrd-boilod eggs, sliced, one young onion, Cover with \.. ... 0 ant| add i dn li ol cayoniio [ ppor, After pi, . ing ' i iii" salad bowl garn ill will ��� i lie I finely, A I'Vuii Salad Dessert, 'One pirn ��� . grand, Iwn large oranges, cut y, ��� ml, ifl nod, Mix well, ai I iveeton in I ��� to, Lol stoml nu i ��� r or two I serving, Then add Iwo ban thinly, and servo, M^^^^^^ l-jilt-Inditi Mn lool f.'n iking l;: -..,,; in cold w iii r (iftei ii n Inules i dram, 11 Inches deep wi h Loili i n , , uefoio This, That, and The Other- Salt and lemon juice will cure corns, remove freckles from the face, andiron rust from clothing, A faded hit-and-miss rag carpet can be brightened beyond recognition, by painting it in stripei with a strong solution of any good dye. Apply with a small aoft cloth or tooth-brush, after the carpet is well cleaned and tacked to the lloor. stirring the dye frequently to keep the color uniform. Tlie finest liquid bronze is prepared by a mixture of threo part, best varnish, one part turpentine, aid sufficient bronze- powder to give the whole thc consistency of paint. If applied with a camel'.s-hair brush, the results are satisfactory and lasting. The dry goods box, that under some circumstances becomes a necessary nllliction for tlie sale keeping of extra bedding and blankets, can be made pretty, I y collecting rcmants of wall-paper of handsome style and ] soo.l quality, and covering it with panels1 of crazy design, Ceiling paper for the lid mav be deoorated with cut-out roses, and trailing sprays of fli were, :-.-��� m i irec advertising ind gift cards, and alged v. lh a gill boi i'i'. ���Soiled white - II i ���. Ik ihieli in Imulll- nabomlnati mdthe beni oly ������ ��� d bj ip|; g an Is - a plentj '��� ' lofl M del ���:: . li It I".'. '.' :':' I,.:: : soap, Rn :; lear so'l wall lemperatiirc, fold si tl ly, v whili n , :, , ; thn ugh " wring ". Then Btrel I tl ncn even, phi ihem ��� ' irgi i Iry cloth ml ol tin in ii fivo minutes when a model id ly ' i mav be used en t immmm* ini fr�� his client's plea of "Not Guilty." Toe judge, a large pompous man, having instructed the jury in his most severe and autocratic manner, busied himself with some papers, and did not deign a glance io the assembly below. It was, as could readily be observed, a gathering of small tradespeople and farmers. Here and there the ke;n face of a lawyer or that of a stranger from the neighboring city stood oul boldly from the sea of honest vacuity which surrounded it. The prisoner sat with his face buried in his hands, which had lost their former tan, and were pale and trembling. Near him was his wife, hugging a sickly babe to her breast, and showing in her wild eyes, twitching mouth, and every line of her meagre, stooping ligure, the terror which held her in ita grasp. A breathless silence was upon that audience in the shabby country court-room: even the baby had ceased its fretful wailing, and the buzz of a blue-bottle Ily entanged in a spider's web in the window was the sound that broke the stillness. Five minutes passed, ten, twenty, and still the jury had not come. A murmur of impatience began to be beard, and presently the judge beckoned the sheriff to him and whispered a few words in bis ear, s*w him depart through tbe same door which apparently swallowed up the jurors. The sheriff made his way through several gloomy passages into a large, light room, where he inquired of the foreman if they were not yet agreed. "No, we ain't!" gruffly responded that functionary. "There's eleven of us for Iiangin, but Conway there won't hear to it. He wants to clear tbe feller out an' says he'll stay with us till Kingdom come before he'll budge an inch." Giles Conway, the man whose obstinacy waa causing such unnecessary delay, was seated rather apart from the rest, and wore the brown jeans and aoft hat which marked him a farmer. Kven had not the absence of any attempt at foppishness proclaimed his caste, there was something about bim which insensibly connected itself in the observer's mind with the free winds and untrammelled sunshine of the country. He was much the same colour from hia head to his feet, for eyes, skin, hair, and heard were a'iko brown, and only the deep lines on his firm, squarely-cut face showed that ho was no longer young. Just at present he seemed in no wise disconcerted hy the wrathful impatience of his associates, but pushing his felt hat further back on his head, aud settling himself more comfortably in his wooden chair, said slowly: " No, Iriends, you won't ever get me to hand over a man to the gallows on such evidence as that, an' there aiu't no speeiul use of cussin' about it, for it won't do a bit of good." "Oh, but Ijhat's such foolishness I" broke in one of the group. " Here's ull this evidence that no man in his senses could doubt, agoin' to prove that Bob Snlli van killed Jack Wilder, and here you sit like a bump on a log, and won't listen to none of it." " That's just it," replied Conway. " You all think that evidence liko that orter hang a man, but if you'd seen as much of that sort ot thing as I have you'd think different, I ain't much of a talker, but maybe you wouldn't mind listenin' to a case of this kind I happened to know about, an' maybe thc time I'm done���an' it won't take me ongto tell it���you'll see why 1 don't want to hang a young fellow I've known nearly al I my life for something that very likely ho didn't do. " Vou all know how when I wasn't in,ich over twenty I went Wcat an' put all the money I could rake and scrape into a ranch an'cattle. Well, the place next to mine was owned by a young follow���we'll call him Jim Saundnrs, although that isn't his name���who'd onme out like me to make his fortune, Wo took to each other from the first, an' pretty soon we woro more like brotheis than a good many of the real article I've seen since. Afler a while Jim told me he was goin' to get married, an' a few weeks later, he brongbt home the prettiest little thing you'd see in a day's ride. She had lots of yellow hair thai wus always tuinbliii' down over her shoulders, an' big blue eye', an' a voice lik" a wild bird, un' Jim���Well, he thought there wasn't nobody like Milly in all the country. " She seemed fond of hii: Inn it wasn't long before I it was a _r , ���v..ind him an' talkin' to Milly while Jim was off at work, He didn't seem in no particular hurry about goin', but Jim never 'spicioned for a minute that anything was wrong, for he liked the fellow first-rate, an' wouldn't no more have thought of doubtin' Milly than he would the Lord that made him. " Oue evenin' he came in late, tired an hungry, an' found that bis wife���hi3 wile | that he loved���had left him and gone away ' with that devil that he thought was his friend ! He went wild for a while, It seemed to him like everything was black around him, an' there was great splotches of blood before his eyes, an' he could hear voices that kept alaughin' at him and call- in'him a fool, an'the only thing he held fast to was that he must follow 'em to the world's end and kill the man that had took away all he had. So he traded em, now here, now there, hut always they doubled on him, till at las', when his money waa gone, he lost'em altogether. " Then he came to himself a little, an'sold his ranch, an' went hack to liis old home to wait���for he knowed somehow that one day, sooner or later the Lord would give him his revenge. He worked while be waited, an' made money an' got well off', an'nobody knew nothin' 'bout his ever bein' married, 30 he had somethin' like peace. But he never forgot, an' after awhile it seemed like be didn't feel so hard towards Milly, fir lie remembered how young she was, an' how foolish, an' what a devil she had to deal with ; an' sometimes he could see her with the pretty colour all gone from her checks, an' the laugh from her voice, heartbroken an' deserted. "At laat, twenty years afterward, when he was gettin' on in life, his time came. He was ridm' along not thinkiu' about anything iu particular, when he happened to look up, an' there, coiniu' towards him Toun' a bend in the road an' ri lin' on a big black horse, was the man he'd waited for all these years. They knowed each other the minute their eyes met, an' the fellow got white as chalk an' pulled his horse clean back on his haunches tryin' to turn roun' an' make a run for it, but it wasn't no good, for Jim was off his horse in a minute an'had him by the throat, an' in less lime than it takes to tell it he had pulled him down, cursin' an' outtin' at him, to the ground. Then, holdin' him there, with hhrknee on his breast an' his knife at his throat, he sajs: " ' Where's Mill)' ? Tell me, or I'll cut your devilish heart out I' " The fellow glared buck at him like a rat in a trap, an' seein' death in his eyes, an' knowing 'twas ina use to lie, says : " ' She's dead ; she got 3ick when we got to New Vork, an' I left her, ati' she died in a week.' " ' I'd orter kill you like a snake, but I've alwayi lived square, an' bhe Lord helpin' me I'll die that way, so I'll give you an even chance. Get out your knife and fight, an' remember that one of us has got to die right here.' " Then he let him up, and they went at it. They was pretty evenly matched to look at 'em, but Jim thought of Milly dyin' all alone, an' fought like a tiger, au' pretty soon he left the man that had come betweeu 'em stiff an' stark with a knife in his heart, an' a white face a-glarin' up at the sky. "Then comes in the part of the story that I want you all to take for a warnin', before you'll be so quick to find any man guilty on nothin' but circumstantial evidence. When the body was found nobody ever thought of 'spicionin' Jim, but everything pointed to another man as the one who had done the killin'. He'd sworn to kill the dead mau j he was on the hunt for him when last, seen, an'he couldn't prove no alibi, So they arrestul him, an' the first Jim heard of it he was summonsed on the jury that was to try him. Jim hadn't never thought of giving himself upfor a murderer, for he knowed he'd fought and kilied his enemy fair an' square, an' he was glad he done it. He didn't see that it was any business of the law's to iuterfere between 'em, and he didn't like to drag Milly's name before the judge an'jury an' all the people who wouldn't remember, like he did, when sho was young an' innocent. Even when he was summonsed he didn't bave any notion but he would be cleared when they'd looked into things some, an' he made up his mind not to say nothin' if he could help it. "But when begot there everything went so |dcad against the prisoner that if he hadn't knowed he'd done the killin' himself, he'd a-thought sure he was guilty, He got kind of dazed at last, an' didn't seem to know nothin'till he found himself ins room with the rest of tho jury,'an all eleven of 'cm wanting to hang tho mau that he know-. penueney, and will liecome more and more ed was innocent. Then ho came to Ilii completely dominated ' .., ...1 .,- - she Declares a Protectorate anil Knliai Emtn's oiil Soudanese Soldiers. It wa3 reported a few days ago that on April ] the East Africa Company hauled down its flag in Uganda, aud Sir Herald Portal, as representative of the British Government, hoisted the union jack and proclaimed an imperial protectorate over the country, she could not afford to damage her prestige as a colonizing power by retreating from this country. Moreover, it is not to her interest in a material sense to abandon Uganda, for, though the country may long continue to be a drain upon the treasury, it has great elements of growth, and all white men who have been there say that after the completion of the railroad from lhe coast it may be made a profitable colony. Capt. Maodonald has been appointed British Resident of Kampala, on the north coast of Victoria N'yanza, n��ar the capital of King Mwanga. Portal did not find it necessary to enter into negotiations with the ruler ol Uganda, as the British Government has succeeded to the rights which were obtained by treaty from the King and his councillors by tha British East Africa Company. Treaty making in Ugauda i�� quite different from treaty making with most African chiefs. Uganda is not quite a savage land, bu*. has long enjoyed an infant civilization. The King and chiefs thoroughly understand the nature of a written contract, and they consider nothing definitely binding till it is written down. Most of them are able to write. When they made their treaty with the British Eist Africa Company every clause was discussed in all its bearings, words were altered, and the white men were astonished at the keenness displayed by the natives in forecasting the bearing which every stipulation would have upon their country aud itj people. The rights which the whites bave acquired, therefore, in Uganda, are a matter of record, attested by the King's mark, for the young potentate cannot write, and by the signatures of his principal chiefs. One important question whicli confronted Sir Gerald Portal when he hoisted the union jack was what would be done with the many hundreds of Sou lanese troops, the vestiges of Etnin's force, who had been brought into Uganda by Capt. Lugard, acting in behalf of the British Fast Afrioa Company. They were un element of danger unless tbey could be made tne employees of the British Government. Two years ago Capt. Lugard found theseSoudanese near the south of Albert Nyanza. He Induced them to travel almost due south to Torn, where he built five forts between Albert LakeandLake Albert Edward, The army he installed in these five forts numbered, with their women and children, over 8,000 souls. He built the forts iu order to protect the northwestern border of Uganda from the inroads of hostile Kaharega, the powerful ruler of Unyoto, ami while guarding this border he would also prevent the subjects of Kaharega from raiding along the shores of Albert Edward, where they had beeu many hundreds of slaves. In these forts Portal found the Soudanese stiil forming 11 bulwark against tlie hostile natives to the northeast. He decided ta abandon the two most northern forts and increase the garrisons of the other strongholds, So he has taken all the Soudanese into the service of the British Government, and they will continue to form the protection of a part of the Uganda frontier. Large detachments of the Soudanese have been transferred to Kampala, where they will be subject to the orders of the British Resident, lhey are strong enough to intimidate the King and his councillors should they meditate any resistance to the British. The establishment of British r.ile in Uganda wili doubtless prove a blessing to the country. The natives are divided into Catholic, Protestant and heathen parties, whose fanaticism has been so wrought upon by their religious teachers thut they are al- mostat sword points. Itwouidrequireonly the removal of the superior power now con- 'rolling them to plunge the country into the worst phases of civil war and anarchy. But the proud kingdom of Uganda has reached its end. The King wili remain on his throne only ii he consents to be a willing tool iu the hands of the British. The dynasty that has ruled the country since the days cf Queen Elizabeth has been deprived of its power, and Mwanga, the last of the royal line, is now a king in little more than name. It. is little wonder that he and his advisers a few years ago undertook with fire and sword to root out the Kuropean influences that wcre getting a foothold in their country. Thev asserted then that the missionaries and other whites were merely the opening wedge, and that the days of Uganda's independence were numbered unless the whites were turned out. Circumstances were too much for them, and, iu spite of tho terrible persecutions tbat raged against the Europeans and their native converts, the powor of the intruders has constantly increased, and now Uganda is a mere dependency, and will capturing souses and voted against 'em, an' wheu they asked bim for hia reasons he told 'cm the story I've been tollin' you." Giles Conway stopped aud gazed steadily into the eyes ol his audience, who Ind gathered around him till lhey hemmed him in on every side. "An' what did they ilo with him '.'" asked thu foreman ut last. " I don't know," ho answered slowly. " It ain't decided yet, for Jack Wilder was the man thai run oil' with Molly, an'it was mo that killed him," efi j ��� owedthc , lwi" " : ' '��� ild 111 , ��� too, at first, ^^^^^ could see that clear case of misfit all ro I. There was lots of exouso for hn', for of course it was a hard life, an' she loved finory an' pretty things, nn' Jim didn't nav,- Lho monoy to give 'cm lo her, ihotigli he worked oarly anr late, on' did his love] '"'''- tn mi In : imi thin' more than a Ilvin', " ������'������^���i' il would hi re turned out ali "gnt''��timo Ifii liarhi', '(iooii thai ono day "im wenl to the nearei town lo buy some farmln implements, an fell in there with 11 follow be used 1., know bul; East, and notliin'would do him hul ho musl go home with Jim ii how he wis fixed w,,u he come, a.,' ii w.is a ldaoW*>f for Jim roil! when I" ;"i ' I on hin 1 , Ishold, for fr A Weather TI1307. Professor Wiggins bolloves that telegraph wires cause drouth, that the atmosphore cannot absorb moisture unless il is charged with olootricity, and that upon ,.,��� oblala spheroid like the earth the olectricity will inevitably collect al tho equator, "If, however," he says, " thero bo olevalod spols on a spore, electricity will collect mi thom, -should these spots or continents he connect' ed by wires it might n mmtilal , eaol alternately. This has happened ihis year, and America has all ihe oloctrlo energy, in I Europe has Imi ii : go ihal " rcontin- iii! is flooded and Etiropi 1- burned up with drouth." His conclusion if.:: all th tin; olectrlu wires should bo bttriet bv fo reigners. (1 la la Cannibalism Among Escaped Oonvicta- The Vladivostok, published in the Russian Pacific settlement of that nsmc, k'ivea a terrible account of tie treatment of Russian convicts ou the island of Onora. The investigation recently mule into the charge ot gross ami barbarous cruelty preferred against a certain Kbanoff, chief labor overseer of the penal island, has resulted in that official's suspension and arrest, This K.'ianoir, who was himself originally sent out as a deported convict, perpetrated such intolerable tortures upon the unfortunate convicts undor his chargo that twenty of them mutilated themselves iu a dreadful manner. In order to tree themselves from the labor yoke of this offi i il mil ireont. A mu ih larger number made iheir escape into the Taiga, whe ������ the) iflcred iudi! ribable misery from hunger and sickness. A recaptured refugee Irom the 1 lign ;, 11 in his 1 ��� ������ I'm 01110 ph - 11 ol human :! ib, and Ins confession 111 U 'i,' esi ipi 1 prisoners murdi re! an I ito the physi ill) \i ikor of 'hir oonipani 11 - has, it is stated, confirmed b) tu it discove been the minute i -" taw Milly he hadii'l eyes for e Spots of grease in genei ill) clisap- .ir if covered with magnesia or genth nn ! '. ��� ' re .a i', between N'nrem ur; ind ope I in Ooceml , I - ml:"- with water a-1 wl I -. - ' ��� ��� nny Is that , wl, a Wis !��,.���..v.. ,��� i/uvemuer, nn'i���ti :i years after ' passongi - trail 1 ini h gun on the -' iok- Ion mid Darlii ���: ��������� ' no, [I li w irked very '" onoml illy, tn i 1 lyi a hit) Is ime divi- 11 ��� LAKE CITY WEST KOOTENAY, B.C. The above town site is now on the market, and lots are being rapidly bought up by local parties. It is situated at the north end of Trout Lake, in the famous LARDEAU COUNTRY which is going- to be one of the RICHEST MINING REGIONS in America. NUMEROUS RICH CLAIMS have been found close to this town site, which will make it the DISTRIBUTING POINT for an IMMENSE TRACT OF COUNTRY. It is the only level land at the north end of the lake. The owners intend to expend money on streets and other improvements in the Spring. The trail from Lardeau City, on Arrow Lake, to Kootenay Lake, runs through the town site. Por the NEXT THIRTY DAYS corners will be sold at $150 and insides $100. *������ For further particulars apply to c. e. perry & CO, at the Head Office, Nelson, B.C., or to HAIG, Local Agent, REVELSTOKE, B.C.
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