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[The News] ; [The Cumberland News]
BC Historical Newspapers
The Cumberland News was published in Cumberland, in the Comox Valley region of Vancouver Island, and ran from April 1899 to July 1916. Published by Walter Birnie Anderson, the News served the communities of Cumberland, Courtenay, and Comox Valley, and was eventually absorbed by another Cumberland-based paper, the Islander.
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1% NO. 250. UNION CGIvIOX DISTRICT, B. C:, TUESDAY AUG', 31st, 1897. $2.00 PER ANNUM. gg?@g!3gg__2_s_@_s_@@23_gs������^ For the choicest meats we are head quarters. If you have not tried our noted sausages, boioena arid head cheese, you should do Fresh vegetables, eggs and so _>j at once. butter, salmon bellies, Mackerel, etc. ' SHIPPING SUPPLIES. |o|. SIMOB" 'IjIHISBR ������3__^&____Se���������������2?^ ?Z&s'&j?tetez&'7P.tt II $sm Iff& ft _Efi_ 017 .fctje Market #b5 ������^_^_^_^_^i^_^0:^ps Tfi& Undersigned having Purchased business here, beg to inform the public that they are prepared to supply-���������-������������������; ' '. ' 7 ;, ���������������������������=*- Pure Drugs & Druggist Sundries as cheaply as they can be procured from any house in British Columbia. A full line of ���������������������������in Patent Medicines always kept on hand. We are desirous, particularly, of calling your attention to our complete stock of Stationery ar(d School Books In this line we will sell as cheaply as any house in Union. PRESCRIPTIONS & FAMILY RECEIPTS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED.. .... A. H. PEACEY & CO. UNION. ^^P_#S^P^P^P^P_^_^_^^S.<^ , Anderson's, UNION. THE FOLLOWING PRICES WILL BULE, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Elgin main springs, 60 cents ^altham main springs 60 cts. Swiss main springs, 75 cts. English main springs, " " Jewels, all patterns, 60' Watch cleaning, 50 " All work guaranteed Special Prize. H pd3e of two collars will be givzn b_ /IDrs. _B>. Mbitnep for oresseo boll to be e_* bifciteD at tbe Gomoj Hai-icul* tural ant) 5Jtoii0trial Sbow at Courtenap, Oct. 7tb, bi? gtri not over 12 _ears of age. ICo be awaroeb to most neatl_ nia&e anb complete costume, irrespective Of quality of ma= terial. Ixatest ������>y W*^e Millions in Gold from, the Klondike' ���������Steamer and Sawmill for Tes' lin Lake. The Nanoimo , Boys Over th.e Summit, which means Union Boys, too���������Gold from the Treadv/oll Mines���������Gold' in the Wheat Rise. Mount St. Elias Successfully Ascended���������' Minor Ifcem3. Mount St. Elias Ascended. Nanaimo,-Aug. 26.���������The steamer' To- peka arrived this morning''wiih Duke of Abruzzi, Prince Louis of Savoy, Italy, and party aboard, who successfully climbed Mt. St; Elias. The party speak highly of the trip. Valuable scientific observations were made. The party is reticent, but full reports will be made to the Alpine Club, in the course of a few months, by the prince. The party reached the snmmit at noon, July 31st; , no accident occurred on the trip. Tons or Gold. " Archie Shelp, Mackey and Birch, from Klondike arrived at Juneau from Dawson, having left theie July 30th. They reached Dyea by the pass on the i8lh inst Shelp says'over".three and a half tons of gold, valued at $2,000,000,, were shipped on the steamer Portland. Bonanza Creek h all staked and paying .well.. Wages are $15 a da>\���������One claim on Eldorado yielding the owner $10,000, he has handed ever to,his friends, being well satisfied with what he already had.���������The Skagway trail- is blockaded. Packing is 40 cts. per pound. Thirteen Victorians are returning on the ��������� steamer Danube due next week.. Moke Going. The "steamer 'Coquillam left Hirst's wharf last nis.ht, loaded down lo .her -water line, wil'L k'CloiXhkei's and freight. Suspended. Seattle.���������As an out come of the inquiry into the wrecking of the steamer Mex ico, both captain Thomas and pii.jt Con nel! have been suspended. Death in Nanaimo. Nanaimo. Aug. 28.���������Barbara, wife of Walter T. Rowbottom, formerly of Union, died at 11:30 o'clock yesterday morning. Woods Hanged. Nelson, B.C., Aug. 30.���������Jas. Woods, the murderer of Paddy Woods, was hang' ed in the jail here early,.this morning. / Nanaimo Klondikers O.K. Nanaimo, Aug. 2S.���������-Letter received here states that the Nanaimo party* got over the summit all right. One of them swears if he were in Nanaimo now, he wouldn't leave it for $1000. .' Positively a Smelter. Vancouver, Aug. 27.���������J. H. Rothschild writes that his syndicate will positively build a smelter in Vancouver, costing ,������250,000, work to commence this coming winter, and to be.finished in June. ' Tread well Mines This ' Time. Nanaimo, Aug. .28.���������A shipment of gold bricks, valued at fully $100,000 were brought down from the Treadwell mine by the City of To'peka, which arrived yesterday. For Teslin Lake. The steamer Thistle passed Nanaimo on her way to Wrangel fiom Victoria, with materials for two sawmills and two steamers to be built on Teslin Lake. Caught in tt*e North. Port Townsend, Aug. 28.���������The steamer Porfland has on board a murderer who hai been chased by the detectives half way around the world. He is in irons and under constant, watch. His name is Wm. Smith, and is wanted for murder in the States. Golden Wheat. Woodstock, Ont.���������Mrs. C. Thomas, of this place, made $11,000 from an investment of $300 in the wheat market at Chicago. General Merchants and Butchers, UNION and COURTENAY, - - ' - B. C ^c_-Ainrt____uMg_y__A_<x-f_nvc __i^Trrr___Tn__rmaarwjuneiw:^Bac_K'iMC-ur-i_w_w-_M__m-B mi- PERHAPS NO social or entertainment was ever g<vten up in Union on so short notice as the Lawn Social by the ladies ' of Trinity Church last Tuesday evening. The weather had been���������as some declare���������intolerably hot, and when the idea' of an out-door ice cream social was breached, it was feared a "coolness" might soon begin���������in the weather'. So the ladies accepting the kind offer of Mr. J no. Roe, of the use of his handsome lawn and residency quickly-arranged for ��������� the cakes, the,art of making which is not new to them. An abundance of ice and cream were procured. Mrs. Ben Westwood gave the use of her piano. A short musical program' was prepared. Hanging lights and Chinese lanterns were obtained. Plow to get the ear of the public--and attendance was the puzzle. The News was issued earlier than usual, but could only give a few hours notice. It put the notices into rhyme to attract attention, and issued a'small supplement which it placed in1 tlie hands of Master George Watson for gratuitous circulation. Everything seemed < bwimming, but, lias ! the cierk of the weather had not been consulted. How the clever ladies in cli.irge, overlooked the Weather Prophet ib indeed a wonder ! Bui they did.' The clouds gathered-dunnsj the day, and' at oiiv"' time seat d<>\v!_,_oin:nous drops of i<i,n':^;'] he winds grew chilly. Tnen, as if 10 afford ground lor hopc-,'lhe .un came. The Comox Agricultural and Industrial Association, will hold its next EXHIBITION ��������� .���������o:_t��������� Thursday; Oct. 7.1], AT THEIR HALL, AT THE VI LLAG EOF COURTENAY' nut br.-ijuiy, and the,dark "omens riisap ���������. Uudeieired > lie ladies contin- sf_ firje Prize foist __F������ Entries must be , made, three clear days before the Show. A" About the School Closing. i.i'.-. 11 ued ch iii..n\ tions, but nut without iV like all earth M _par;. ������������������ Kings. \\ lie.' iiijjI.'C app'-oached- ly things���������it was not altogether j.ood; not whoiiy bad��������� a mixture; not raining nor purtici'iarly windy, but chilly and damp. One medical gentleman appear- which Mr. D. Kilpatrick has opened a blacksmith shop on the corner of Second St. and Dunsmuir Avenue, and has secured a first class mechanic to attend promptly to all business offered. The Lawn Social last week netted a- bout $30,00 over expenses. Any one wishing photographs should call at once. I leave September ioth. Kelly j'd on the -scene with an overcoat, smacked of comfort. The residence was .well lighted, and the front and lawn looked bright and. fairy like with gay colored lanterns. And as the music "rose and swelled" and floated put upon the air, a goodly-sized crowd gathered; and "there was hurrying to and fro'' smiling-faced ladies with ice cream and cake for ladies and gentlemen seated around little square tables. The cream was excellent and cakes ditto; and they went off much belter than could be expected under the circumstance. Said . one, "I enjoy this ice cream," putting a very unnecessary, emphasis upon the ice; "but I do wish I could trade it off for ��������� somef-hing hot." tie seemed in good humour, and so did everybody. Everything w?s nice, and the dear ladies exerted themselves so much to please ! After sitting awhile, and partaking of ice cream, the chill compelled a walk, and that prevented the chairs being occupied by the same persons long, and there was a chance for all to get at the tables. It broke up any little sets which are apt to be found at such places, and all joined in the promiscuous march " to and fro." Afier a while there was some' good singing on the front porch���������enjoyable solos from Mrs. Kenny, Mrs. Danger- field and Miss Bertram. Then the piano was moved into the hall, and in the rooms on either side the terpsichorean art. was beautifully illustrated, and it had many devotees. At an early hour the social and dance broke up, everyone feeling that barring the. weather, it was a most delightful entertainment, and financially, too, it prov ed "the correct thing;" quite a handsome sum being realized. The ladies of Trinity are to be congratulated, and especially is Mrs. Ed Mc- Kirn, who initiated the affair, upon having wrested success from the elements against it. With favorable weather, it would have been must, complete; and as it was, the memory of it will long linger as a pleasant dream from which we. would not wholly awake. Billy Blum Last week, under the title of "The Hot Wave" we referred to the school in Union, and'the .oppressive.-heat,'-,stating the trustees ".had. escaped ..responsibility;-' ( with icference to closing the school )"by. throwing it upon.. Mr. Bennett,;'.the very thing'they should .not have. done. " We find this language was misunderstood. We meant no reflection upon Mr. Bennett for whom we have the greatest respect. We believed that if he closed the school, no matter how hoi it was, some -parents would take offence, and that if he did not close the school, there were others who would criticise him. Upen the propriety ofclosmg the school there was a manifest difference of opinion, as shown by the fact that some kept their children at home while others continued to send theirs. As a teacher of some experience, we felt the burden of responsibility should not be thrown upun the principal, not that he- would not wisely use his discretion. The other view and upon which the .trustees not unnaturally acted, and beyond question with the best of intentions was this: The weather is changeable; to day very hot, to morrow cool. One of our members is at the beach, and the others cannot meet daily to consider this question. It is right for the school to be kept running, the weather permitting. The matter will he safe in the hands of the principal, and there we will place it.. ��������� No doubt Mr. Bennett has acted prudent !y, keeping the school together, so far as ihe children sent enabled 'him to do so, and closing the school during the hot sul- ry afternoons. The hot wave has now past; no harm has been done, and so far as we know ev- ' erybody is satisfied' Let us all take a dtink���������of pure Hamilton Creek water. Ki������fcesi: ktenzvs���������Wai'Ms Fair, Gc-ki !&:__-, Mid whiter Fair. A Pure Grape Cream oi Tartar Powder. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. ���������4f.HU.TM ������.__������_! ��������� Subscribe for THE $2.00 per annum. NEWS ;'���������> I <r ' - _n T" - ..���������-ttj".-^������ -l���������"l".; ,,-* "������- rr:*r~. vV*. ~.a^.w . n..h_- ' Subscribers who do not receive their lap* r res- olarLv will please notifv us at once. Apply at. the omce for advertising: rates. THE NEWS. UNION. -B.C. OVEK THE TEA URN. The Week's Commercial Summary. Minneapolis is showing enormous shipments of flour. The world's visible supply of wheat decreased about 3,000,000 bushels last week. The trade returns for nine months of the present fiscal year were $184,734,000, , nearly ten millions better than last year. Statistically, the wheat situation is very 6Crong. There is a decreased of about 750,000 bushels in the visible supply in United States and Canada, and a decrease of 1,440,000 bushels in the amount afloat to Europe. Taken together the total is 63,500,000 bushels, or about 32,000,000 bushels less than a year ago. Of the 382,300 square miles which form the area of the Paciflo Province, about 285,000 square miles of these are wood lands. In her timber wealth, British Columbia has almost as rich .an">asset;as in mineral resources. There are forty varieties of timber in the forests of British Columbia. The Douglas fir, has obtained the widest fame of the British Columbia woods. Dr. Nansen, whose vessel in the recent famous Arctic expedition, the> "Fram." was constructed of Douglas fir, gives to this wood the highest encomi- ums for strength and elasticity. , The red l' cedar, is another famous wood of the Paciflo coast and is used chiefly as an interior material.0 The.yellow cedar is also a staple product. Cypress is grown on Vancouver Island arid the North Coast. White 6pruce finds a use in wood-pulp manufactures, as well as in making packing cases, of which the salmon can- ners use, each year, an enormous supply. Among the many excellent cabinet woods in the province ase white pine, maple, alder and the arbutus. It is unfortunate that so much of the wood is sent from British Columbia���������and this applies al- ' most equally to other parts of H Canada��������� in a comparatively unmanufactured condition. Timber suited to the construction of buildings, public works and other similar uses,must?of necessity be exported in a rough condition. But there are many wood products which could be made advantageously in Canada if manufacturers could obtain the necessary information of the market's requirements. ���������-Monetary Times; The remarkable light which has been brought forward in Germany and known as the Durr light is declared to be equally capable of use'for interior illumination. It is originated by automatic evaporation and overheating of the vapors from ordinary lamp petroleum. The vapors, being converted into gas, when burned yield a light of from 8,500 to 14,000 candle power. The apparatus consists of a , tank containing the supply of petroleum, which is removed sufficiently from the burner to avoid all danger of fire from the flame. The oil is conducted by drops into a burner of special construction, after the latter has been heated for about five minutes by <means of oil which is burned In small heating pans furnished with the apparatus. Behind the burner from which the flame issues there is a second burner, which, after the heating of the pans has been removed, continually produces the vapors and heats them to a high temperature, at the'same time completely surrounding 'the first burner with a strong flame. This arrangement is said to make the extinction of the ��������� light an impossibility, even in the strongest wind. Fresh air is drawn in between the burner and the external cylinder by the force of the flame rushing out, and by using this air in the burner a smokeless flame results on account of the air supply being heated. The oil used is ordinary 100 proof coal oil, the consumption of which is about 1% pints per 1,000 candle power. ��������� He sat on the edge of his chair and stared at her miserably over the top of his teacup. " The popularity of the teakettle and the chafing dish in good society seems to me a graceful recognition by women of the charm that housewifely cares still have for them. The kitchen is so attractive that even the drawing room cannot dispense with its graces. A woman who is barred out of her kitchen by a French chef will still cling to the privilege of using her chafing dish, and in her case it is beautiful and significant that it should be so, but-���������" He hesitated a moment. "Well?" asked she politely.' "I don't see what, from that, point of view, you are doing with a" teakettle. You have injured all that it stands for. You have found something better than the domestic life." " . "That's nonsense, "responded the woman of genius crossly; for her work had not gone well that day. "Personally I adore domestic life. In general it adds the.element of grace to the life and of graciousness to the woman when she- takes up "that form of existence not/because it is the only form, but because it is the sweetest of all." "Those are very pretty views pretty,"he remarked gloomily, have not observed , that you practiced, them.���������'.���������''��������� It isn't of any particular avail with one's intellect to any orthodox doctrine'while one's actions are still heretic. You have refused the things that are the best of all." ; ^.\': Y "Who said I had refused them?" she demanded impatiently. "You wouldn't have me marry the wrong man just to show that my views upon the woman question ^vere conservative, would you?" "That is an easy thing to say, but you know you will nover - find the right one." She looked at him���������a curious, measured, wondering gaze. There was scorn in it, but was it all scorn? "No," she said slowly, "I am not emancipated enough for that. I intend to let him find me.even though weyplay at hide and'seek together all,our days." "Do you mean���������would you really listen? I���������" It was half an hour later before it occurred to him that all this was violating precedent. "Do you suppose you can be happy?" he implored, and then he brought up the subject of the books in which the married woman of genius had always been miserable. He refrained, however, from "if the goods are delivered. It is possible that happiness might be a very bad bargain, even though I paid for it with art." "Ah, darling"���������he began. But she went on: "But I shall not have to do it. I shall have my cake and eat it too.'' "You are," he said, with sudden illumination, "something more advanced than modern. You are she of whom we have heard���������the coming woman." "Ah, no!" she said softly. But he heard her. "Whether I succeed in combining love and art or not, it seems tc me I have arrived!"���������Exchange. They Never Fail.��������� Mr>. S. M. Bough- ner, Laiigton, writes: "For about two years I was troubled with Inward Piles, but by using Parnielee's Pills, I was completely cured, and , although four" years have elapsed .since.then they have not returned." Parinelee's Pills are anti- bilious and a. specific for the cure of Liver ,and Kidney Complaints, Dyspepsia, Cos- tiveness, Headache, Piles, etc.,, and will regulate the secretions and remove all bilious inatter. ', That Strance Sound. "Caoutchouc! Caoutchouc!" The sudden noise startled the Circassian girl, who was new to the museum. But she had no cause for alarm. It was only the india rubber man sneezing.���������New York Journal. THE KING OF Another Example. "I saw a man today who had do handi play the piano." "That's nothing! We've got a girl down in our flat who has no voice and who sings!"���������_bnkers Statesman. Brigrht's Disease of the Kidneys Baffled the World's Most Eminent JVIeclical Authorities until GOOD'S KIDNEY PILLS it Doctors Recommend SALADA jj Came to the ltr.seue and Delivery or Man- j kind Stopping Forever tho Deadly As NaultB of Life's iMost Insidious JKoe. -very "but! In Chicago. ������ First Preacher���������Doing much in the wedding trade now?" Second , Preacher���������Yes. Business is good. People getting married this year who never got married before.���������Truth. Understood Her. , She���������That little' fool, Johnnie Moore, has proposed to me. Her Dearest Friend���������When will the wedding take place?���������Brooklyn Life. There is danger in neglecting a cold. Many who have died of consumption dated their troubles from exposure, followed by a cold which settled on their lungs, and in a short time they were.beyond the skill of the best physician. Had the}' used Bickle's Anti-Consumptive Syrup, before it was too; late, their lives would have been spared. This medicine has no equal for curing coughs, colds and all affections of tlie throat and lungs. Police Cruelty. Aunt Hetty���������My! Some of them New York policemen are fearful brutal. Uncle Josh���������What have they been do- in' now? Aunt Hetty���������Here's an account of a poor, unfortunate man that says they pinched him.���������Puck. you not Human Oddities. Sir Joshua Reynolds needed but one sitting when intending to paint a portrait. Sometimes he would not take even that, but would casually glance at the sitter and proceed to paint the portrait. Galbara, an Arabian giant, who was brought to Rome by thc E;npei-or Claudius to serve in the.Imperial bodyguard, was 9 feet 9 inches high. Pliny says that he was the tallest man ever seen in Rome. John Elwes is the typical miser of English history- Although worth over $2,000,000 he denied himself the necessities of ' life for fear of spending too much money and finally died of want. He was probably insane. Maximin was the only giant among the Roman Emperors. He was S}4 feet in height and very heavily built even for that stature. He was a Thracian "barbarian," and rose to the Imperial dignity by military skill and ability. Totally Deaf.���������Mrs. S. E. Crandell. Port Perry, writes: "I contracted a severe cold last winter, which resulted in my becoming totally deaf in one ear and partially so in the other. After trying various remedies, and consulting several doctors, without obtaining any relief. I was advised to try Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil. I warmed tbe Oil and poured a little of it into m3r ear, and before one-half the bottle was used my hearing was completely restored. I have heard of other cases of deafness being cured by the use of this medicine." Chicago Federation of Labor endorsed, at the request of businessmen, the movement against department stores. He Knew. Teacher���������Now I have explained to you ;the. difference between good and evil, tell ; inn what sort of littlo boys go to heaven. Jjiily Snooks: (promptly)���������Dead 'uns. ���������Pk-k-^o-I.';.. spaaking of those households which had fallen under his observation in which the husband of the genius had been dissatisfied with the cooking of the beefsteak. "Oh, books," said she, with an infinite scorn. "Haven't you noticed that people write best about things cf which they know absolutely nothing? Do you really mean to say that you have been influenced in this by books?" He nodded silently. "And so thought I did not care, and would marry you, dear?" , ��������� "I thought so. Yes." An adorable smile bent her lips. "Don't you think you were rather hasty, not to say unkind, in adopting so completely the generalization that the artist rejects���������love and with it life?" "But if you had heard yourself talking of your work," he cried. "You seemed to think art the one thing in the world. Every word fell like a clod on a coffin.'' "Why should I not speak of art with fervor? I feel it all, and you had not offered me any career which I preferred." "Ah, but do you, will you always prefer it? It is not as if you were-merely talented, you know, to give up���������" "Give up? But I intend to give up nothing! I am afraid you are a little stupid." '' Would you mind explaining the situation to me?" he asked humbly. "That is very easy," she said composedly. "I simply don't intend to be unequal to the combination of love and art." The luminous brilliancy of this solution kept him silent, while she went on:��������� "Those women you read about, you know, were under the disadvantage of not being modern when they tried to do things. They were working against tremendous though perhaps invisible pressure. The world wasn't adjusted so as to help them and make the solution of their problems easy. They felt that horrible weight���������the pressure of the disapproval of the universe���������and could not stand out against it. One has a delicious- ly buoyant sensation���������the Lord is on our side feeling���������that is in itself a guarantee of success. Then, you know, we have better health and fewer nerves than women used to have, and that makes a difference." "But suppose," he persisted, "just suppose that you were to fail. What then?" "One is willing to pay a CLrtain price for the best things," she admitted slowly, MAN AND WIFE IN DISTRESS From Chronic Catarrh���������It lit Instantaneous lieliof Follows the First Application of Dr. Acnciv's Catarrhal I'owdrr- Don't Ncsrlect the Simplest Cold in the Head, it aiay Develop Zkito This Disgusting: MaladyAlmost IJefore You Can Kc-lize It. Revl Dr. Bochror, of Buffalo, says: ."My wife and I were both troubled with distressing catarrh, but we have enjoyed freedom from this aggravating malady since the day we first used Dr.������ Agnew's Catarrhal Powder. Its action was instantaneous, giving the most grateful relief within ten minutes after first application. We consider it a godsend to humanity, ^apd believe that no case can be so chronic or deeply seated that it will not immediately relieve and permanently cure." A Diplomatic Proposal. "What!" exclaimed the good housewife, angrily, "now that you have eaten your fillyou refuse to chop wood?" ' "I'll tell you what we'll do," said Weary' Willie, a born diplomat; "lets bury the hatchet."���������New York Journal. Men are dropping from the ranks everywhere. Cut down in the flower of youth or the fruitage of manhood by that ruthless destroyer���������3right's Disease of the Kidneys. Only a few days ago Sir Hercules Robinson, the doughty Governor of Cape Colony, was forced to resign that post because of encroaching Bright's Disease. Hardly had his successor been appointed when, the wires brought'tidings of the death' of William Pi St. John, a New York banker, and remembered by everyone as the treasurer of the -National Democratic party during the last national campaign. Brieht's Disease carried him off. It has killed many better men than most of'us. So has ������ Diabetes, its twin curse. Yet there is one cure (and only one), that never fails in cases of Diabetes and Bright's Disease. Let these testimonials bear witness:��������� Mr. Fred Carstens, Palmerston, Ont., says: "After many years suffering with Bright's Disease, I ani"a new man, cured by using three boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills." Mr. F. X. Groulx, Ottawa, Ont., says: "Dodd's Kidney Pills have been, a godsend to me as they have cured me of Bright's Disease of the Kidneys." S. G. Moore, King St., London, Ont., says: "After taking a few * boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills I am as well as ever in my life, despairing of recovery from Bright's Disease." Mr.- Chas. T. Bye, Garryowen, P.O., Ont., says: "For the past three years have suffered of Diabetes, but noticing cures published I have used Dodd's Kidney Pills which have perfectly cured me." DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS are for sale by druggists everywhere, and by the Dodd's Medicine Co., Toronto, Ont. Price 50 cents a box. CEYJ_ON TEA ; Lend Packets Only. 25c, 40c, 50c & 60c. 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TORONTO TYPE FOUNDRY, Ltd. 44 Bay Street, Toronto, OK TORONTO, At the top. It has more teachers, mora students, and asaists many more young men and ���������women into good positions than any other Canadian Business School. Get particulars. Enter any time. Write W H. SHAW. Principal. Yonge and Gerrard Streets, Toronto. T, N. U. 118 THING" a young man or w������man can d6 la to attend The Northern Business College for* term. V6 you want to know what you can learn? Thea write lot A-oouncement to C. A. Fleming, Owen Sound. Oat. it. r, '������ 'a'.I V .'I ������������������'i'l ! _ n VI /: V,,| i VI './I/' m "7}t\ A ' ��������� *'( :?'lj j <N MAKING TWO SPRINGS. In Dry Good Way to Save Water Flow Weatlier. The device in the illustration explains Itself. Often springs and brooks go Dearly dry in hot weather, with still enough water for thirsty cows if it oould all be collected. When pasture springs are near the surface and in open fields, the ground around them and the water itself be- wust be worked drier, as the Englishman objects to buying water at so much per pound mixed in with his butter. As to Tmnipg and Bye. Mr. T. J. Dillon, superintendent ,of dairying in Prince Edward Island, says he lost two valuable customers, who had been buying 2,000 or 3,000;pounds of cheese at a time, just because some of the patrons would persist in feeding turnips. The grazing of cows on rye was also condemned unless the cows were turned on when the rye was young and tender, and so kept well grazed down. VIEWS OF GREECE. ATHENS NOT LIKELY TO SUFFER FROM BOMBARDMENT. Present State of the Antiquities���������Priceless Monuments���������The^ Parthenon���������Temple of Theseus���������Notes by One Who Knpws the Country Well. WISE OBSERVATIONS. SAVING THE -WATER. oome foul and muddy through the trampling of the cows'feet. Cut a tight barrel'in two in the middle. Dig around the spring and sink one-half the barrel into the hole over it. Lead by a pipe the overflow from the spring into the other half of the barrel, placed in lower ground. This will make two springs where one was before and save the short supply of water, besides keeping it pure. Valuable Table. The Storrs experiment station in Connecticut has prepared the following list of successive soiling crops,' with time of ���������owing, quantity of seed, etc., in the latitude of New England: o ... . . ������o IB t-i , . _L e. S - " "S I , o 2 A H. h, >s 1-5 >-_ <) ���������< ������< CO CO O c ' _ c ������8 ������ , ������ ! <D_ *-"^ 5_i������rt sS 3 _������'*������'��������� _ & _ O 8 ������ ISept, ISept. July Apri Apri Apri June <4 octi oil f |e <������5i .���������i a _-~> O 1 _ 1 1 1 1 ������3 ' -a 5 ^S&S In 1 1 ������ 1 -������,-. 1 e* ������ ^ ^^g, , t ' O v ��������� ���������������������������. ��������������������������������������������� ���������*���������\ ��������� .......... .ro - *c . . . : : aj . ��������� ������������������..������������������.. .i-^. : * ���������_. : : : i : : i <*> i 1 w . : :S" .ii....'". :::���������::: :^. : :������ : ...P....CO..U. p ...������...._-.. u . ! :::";::: :S : ia : - 1 '��������� ,' " fM : : :3 : : : :2 : :S������: %-i ��������� ," " fci ". * ' "M " _<M O i ��������� o :| i^fgSS \% : :_& Q M |fi il-g-g-g���������g_������*as eti__'Sossa_^&g& >>���������. J5 (- d d d.-r^H n o P d >i .'��������� CS^O-OOOraocnOMffl Hoard's Dairyman comments as follows: This scheme entirely omits Indian torn, but that may well take the place ���������fsoja beans and cowpeas where these cannot be grown to advantage. Indeed a full scheme for soiling includes a summer silo that will furnish . tncculent food at any time it may be required. Every man, so far as we have Information, who has tried the summer ailo is enthusiastic in its praise. Butter Making. Rules. The instructor at Cornell Agricultural college, Ithaca, _T. Y., has sent out a list of rules about butter making and ripening cream.' He says: The practical part.of cream ripening 1b this: Keep your vessel so that it may ���������11 ripen evenly and thus avoid loss in churning. liaise the temperature to 62 or 68 degrees and keep it "as near that temperature as possible until ripe, and then cool before churning. Well ripened cream should be coagulated or thickened. It should run from a height in a smooth stream like oil. When a paddle Is dipped into it and held in the hand, It should stick all over in a thick, evenv coat, not running off in streaks and ihowing the surface of the paddle. When the last drops run off the paddle baok into the vat, they should leave little dents or depressions on the surface, whioh do not close up for an instant. Ihe cream should have a satin gloss or fresh surface. Churn until the granules ore the size of wheat kernels, then draw off the buttermilk and wash through two or three waters, whirling the churn a few times around. Use from a pint to a quart of water per pound of butter. Have the water, at a temperature of 40 to 45 degrees in hot weather and from 50 to 62 degrees in winter, always depending upon season, natural solidity of the butter, warmth of room and size of granules. If you do not care about Feeding the washings, I would put some ���������alt in my first wash water. It will help to float the granules better and perhaps dissolve out the casein to some extent I would generally salt the butter in the churn. Requirements for Export Sutter. The butter should be of a uniform, fine flavor (it need not be of such a high, One flavor as is required in the highest grades at home), packed solid in square boxes, the packages to he lined with heavy parchment paper. The butter ���������hould be of a lighter color and less salt j yet than is wanted in this country, and it Concerning: Calf Feeding-���������Creani Ripen, ing: and Butter Salting:. Calves fed' three times daily for the first month are less exposed to the dreaded trouble scours. New method oil cake is not so suitable for replacing the fat of milk for calf feeding. Flaxseed is better. Butter fat is worth more sold as butter than sold as veal. The cow "with her ��������� first calf that is milked but six to eight months has been ipoiled.' Some say that0 cows are simply machines. Possibly so, but they should not be housed during the winter in nature's shed nevertheless. If 150 pounds of butter annually is the dividing line between profit and loss, the cow that makes 200 pounds annually is worth twice as much as the one that makes 175 pounds, while the cow that makes up 155 pounds is worth but one-fifth of the latter and one-tenth of the former, provided' they all cost the same to feed. ��������� Many farmers own unprofitable cows and do not know it. Quantity pf milk is an unsafe guide, since quality and length of milking period are potent matters. Color of milk is not a safe guide whereby to judge of its content of fat. Yellow milk is not necessarily rich milk, neither is white milk necessarily poor milk.' If one cow returns $15 profit, two cows do not necessarily give $30. Many people build up herds, however, as if the opposite were the case. It is important that cows in milk should have all the salt they want whenever they want it. One sided rations do not produce as much butter as properly balanced rations,' neither do they produce butter of as fine quality. Trouble frequently arises in churning due to improper feeding. Other things being equal;' a varied diet results in more and better butter than a "narrow ration and is less likely to cause difficulties when churning the cream. We have tested buttermilk with as much as 6 per cent of fat in it when we knew that one cause was coarse pasture with many objectionable,weed growths in it. The summer feeding, a mixture of the cereals and the legumes, gives more satisfactory results than either separately, besides giving more produce per acre. Corn fodder in the stook loses much of its value when exposf d to autumn rains.- ,..���������.'"; While autumn rye, Tape, turuips and turnip tops may not be the most desirable foods for milk cows, they may of ten be sown advantageously to feed the other stock..''thus reserving the better foods for the milk producing part of the herd. .������������������;���������, Ripening cream and churning it at high temperatures results always in two evils. First, the churning is not thoroughly done, and some of the butter- often much of it���������remains in the buttermilk. It is not economical to feed 20 cents a pound butter fat to 5 cents a pound veal. Secondly, the butter which one does get is hot of as fine a quality. The texture, flavor and keeping quality are all injured very materially by the practice. Moral���������-Avoid high temperatures in butter making. Salting butter in the churn has much to recommend it, especially in warm weather. When the churning is finished and the buttermilk washed from the butter, the latter is drained for a time, then half the salt is sifted on to the granular butter in the churn, the churn tilted to turn the butter over, and the other half is put on. Then turn the churn partly over, back and forth, to sift the fine salt through the particles of butter. The cover is then put on and the ohurn given ten or a dozen complete turns, the butter allowed to stand a couple of hours and then worked. Two- thirds pf the usual working will be found sufficient. Try it. ���������Montreal Herald. Dairy and Creamery. Pack your butter in tubs made of seasoned lumber. Then the staves will not be always swelling and shrinking like the troubled sea. Do not store your empty butter tubs in a place that is too damp. If you do, mold will grow upon the outside of them and strike in, and it will be dead sure to give the butter a taste of the grave, so to speak. Did you never notice that taste upon nice looking butter? If by any mischance mold has gathered upon your butter tubs, they must be either thoroughly steamed or else boiled in soda before being used again. Nothing short of this will destroy the mold growth. It is a tiny vegetable growth with intensely penetrative roots and a more penetrative flavor, which is certain to strike through into the butter. | ^ads from the IHpylon to the marshes of King George of Greece is a fortunate man in oneway. Never had a monarch on the eve of a great war so little reason to be concerned about his capital. Athens belongs not only to Greece, but to Europe, to the civilized world. Not a hair of its head, to use a threadbare metaphor in an incorect way, is likely to be injured, and the city is of no great consequence as the seat of the national resources, for few of the Greeks who have any money live in Greece, except here and there a retired merchant who had made his fortune by snending his life among less quick-witted foreigners, and goes to Athens to spend the evening of his days in dreaming, not, of his own. prime, but of the prime of Greece, the dawn of civilization. One is quite safe in prophesying that not a shot will be fired to endanger one ancient olive tree on the banks of the Cephissus, one fragment of the ruined temple oi" Eleusis, much' less tho temple of Theseus, or the glorious pile of buildings preserved from the antique world on tho summit of the Acropolis, the pile ' which culminates in the Parthenon. The Emperor William does not love Greece, but the Germans above all nations have taken an interest in the scientific excavations of Greece from , the day when Dr. Schliemann made the giants' dwellings at Tiryns and. Mycene give up the treasury of prehistoric kings. France, except in Napoleon's curio-hunting days, has ever been enthusiastic, if rash, .about historic remains. Italy and England would not stand any Vandalism on the part of their commanders, and Russia, tne only one likely to turn Van- j dal, looks at Athens from the interested point of view of a residuary legatee. Besides, all the world has had . an awful lesson with regard to the antiquities of Athens. Two thousand years and more the Parthenon stood in all its matchless perfection; its present wutiliated glory dates only from ,1687, when Morosini, the Venetian, was laying seige to it. The Turkish defenders had stored their pow- M* in vfrv Parthenon 4u_ it axplodci, just as another powder' magazine had exploded in the Propylsea 81 years before. Tt is not known if the e^p&sigo VfQ# ansed by a Venetian bomb! I hope it was, because I have in my possession a bomb weighing three or four pounds, evidently, by the state of the iron, of great age, which I picked up when' they were excavating on the Acropolis in 1887, 200 years after that most disastrous of explosions. It is more the shape of a truncated pear than'round, and the hollow in it is hardly big enough to hold a penny bottle of ink. But it would be pleasant to think that', one possesed the fellow of that historic bomb. I picked it up myself; the guard did. not think that the fragments of shot���������of which there were a good many���������were of the least interest; and, in fact, pressed them on me. He was there to prevent people talcing sragments of antique art or architecture. He had no instructions about such comparatively modern matters as the wars of the Turks; indeed, his Government had only a little before taken down the tall mediaeval Turkish tower so long a landmark at the gates of the Acropolis. Athens is protected from the, assault of civilized nations by the fact that nearly all its glorious momurnents are on, or in the neighborhood of, the Acropolis, the fortress of Athens from prehistoric times, towering as it does 300 feet above the city. It is, of course, not fortified at pres-c ent; but, in their present excited condition, the very thing the Greeks might be most likely to do would be hurriedly to fortify it, and (at as small, a loss of life as possible). see the modern kingdom of the Helenes go down amid irreparable ruin to the monuments of the old Greek glory. The Greeks are so melodramatic The Acropolis has probably suffered almost as much from forticflatibn as from sieges. The beautiful little Temple of the Wingless Victory, made wingless that Victory might not be able to fly away, stands as a monument to this fact. Iv was rescued bit by bit from Turkish bastions, and only put together in our own day. Apropos of wingless Victory, I may \ mention that the Winged Victory (it was a winged Victory, that stood in the hand of the great" image of Athena which was the masterpiece of the world's greatest sculptor) was the prototype of the Christian angel. There are many representations of these winged Victories, hardly distinguishable from the angels of Christian art, long anterior to the Christian era. The angel was, of course, part of the Jewish creed as well as the Christian; but there could have been no representation of angels before the Christian era, because the Jews shared the Mahommedan objeotion to having any kind of image pictured or sculptured in their worship. There is a curious example of the Mahommedan objeotion to images in the great Mosaue of Santa Sophia at Constantinople, where the huge figures of angels whioh adorned the Greek Church of the Holy Wisdom have been altered to bunches of wings. It will, perhaps, be best to devote the remainder of this article to an enumeration of some of the priceless monuments of antiquity whose presence at Athens would prevent the indignant powers firing one shot against the holy city of literature. Above all rises the vast rock of the Acropolis, crowned by the Parthenon. But the Acropolis contains much that is worthy to stand beside the Parthenon, built, though the Parthenon was, at the instance of the greatest Athenian, Pericles, in the zenith of the glory of Athens, by her greatest architect, Ictinus, and adorned with sculptures by the sculptor who has never been equalled, though 2,000 years of time have passed since PhidiaB was carried to his grave, a grave that may yet, perhaps, be discovered in the streets of white marble tombs, which the Ceramicus. There is, for instance, the glorious Propylsea, the world's finest porch, guarding the entrance to the Acropolis, and the most revered shrine of the ancient city, the temple of Ahena Polias, the goddess of the city, part of the building popularly. known as the Erectheum. The so-called Erectheum consists really of three temples, and beside it has been laid bare a building of still greater interest to the arohjBoelogist pure and simple, the house of King Erectheus, built in so-called, Pelasgian times, Erectheus or Ericthonius being the Romulus of Athens. It was he who was judge in the competition between Athena (Minerva) and Peseidon (Neptune) for the patronage of Athens. Neptune struck the rock with his trident, and produced a horse, and incidentally a salt spring, which still exists to show that the story is true. Athena produced an olive tree, which was shown in the adjoining temple throughout classical times, and Erectheus gave the award in her favor, a judgment that would have appeared prejudiced in our eyes if he1' had not been handicapped by the fact that Athens was already, or was going to be, Athens, and that to have anybody but Athena as the patron of Athens (Athenai) would have been very, clumsy. I;i the Erectheum were' concentrated the most important memorials alike, of the religion and the history of the Athenian State. " Beside the quartette of world-famous buildings on the Acropolis there' is a museum containing treasures of sculpture, which are in no whit their inferiors,' for, in addition to the sculptures 'of Phidias removed from the Parthenon for preservation, there is a hoard of ancient statues, discovered between ten and fifteen years ago, which are of the very highest interest, whether viewed from the point of history or viewed from the point of art, for they were thrown down and buried under the ruins of the citadel in the day of Marathon or Salamis. There they' stand in the low, humble rooms of a museum* that is only a glorified shed, as crisp and clear in every1 feature as they, were in the days of Xerxes. Their very color is clinging to most of them, thanks to their having been buried for four-and-twenty centuries in the bosom of the tender earth (in that dry clh_ate never rotted with wet). Not one of them .can be newer than the fifth century before Christ, one is at least 100 years older. In two of the statues one can detect the very stars painted on the dress. - On the slopes of the Acropolis and in Mm f)t������_-i M)KMt> ar% ������ongregaee������ objects of equal, even' higher interest, and in one instance, at any rate, of equal artistic __U8._I r_f������Jj.of course,' to the Jeniple ADMIRAL CANAVARO. Commander of the Joint European Float in Cretan Waters. Admiral Napoleon Canavaro, the naval .officer in command of the joint European fleet engaged in the blockade of Crete, ia | one of the high / officials of the Italian ' navy and one of the most efficient com- :' manders afloat. Although a trusted 1 officer under the government of Italy, Ithe admiral is not a native of that country. His father is the owner of a large sugar plantation near Lima, Peru, and it was there that he was born. When he was a lad his father sent him to Italy for his education, and he entered the' navy as a youth. By hard work, attention to duty and innate capacity, Canavaro rose through all the grades in the ADMIRAL CANAVARO. vJto~I.r������f������_f. ������ or Theseus, alik serivce until he reached his present high position. He is just 59 years old, and it was owing to his seniority that he was chosen by the admirals in Cretan waters to command the combined fleets. Cana- ��������� varo has seen some good service in 10x9 Italian navy. He passed, with credit through the wars of 1S59, 1860-1 and 1886, and was in command of the Cris- toforo Colombo on that'ship's noted voyage of circumnavigation of the, globe. - T_# Canavaros are a distinguished South. American family. He has one brother who is the Peruvian minister to Italy. ! Another brother was ?eruvla_ Btloistv at Washington for three years , not long ago, and returned to become, vice-presl- . ��������� x.��������� 'dent, feut was stopped by a revOlUHO-t< ike the oldest"_u<f "m"dSt JGen-; Cafiavarp, father of the family, waff perfect of the temples of Athens, which lies at its northwestern foot; indeed, the only objects of. the ��������� highest importance in the way of classical art at any distance from the Acropolis are the vast but ruinous temple of the Olympian Zeus, and tbe street of exquisite tombs dating back to the sixth century before Christ, which runs past the marshes of Ceramicus���������and the railway station. 'As far as I remember, the discovery of this street, whioh was quite recent, was due to a railwafr cutting or something of the'kind. Right against the Acropolis lie three objects at least of superlative interest and importance���������the theater of Dionysos, the Pnyx and the Areopagus. The theater of Dionysos, repaired in Roman times, a hundred years or so after the birth of Christianity, is yet very much as it must have been when it was crowded by the j aesthetic citizens of Athens to see a play of -Escnylus founded on the lives of the heroes of the previous great struggle between the Greek and the Asiatic, whioh had raged round Troy instead of their own devastated city. The men <who saw the plays of Aeschylus were the men that had seen and fought the Persian invader, who is no doubt on this very day being made to furnish a parallel to the Turk by every newspaper in Athens. Right under the Acropolis are the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, a kind of ancient Greek Albert Hall, the preclnot of ���������Esculapius, and the Choric monument of Lysicartes, famous alike as being the earliest known . example of Corinthian architecture and as being a haunt of Byron���������the poor Greeks still know it as Byron's study. Whilst under the other side of the Acropolis is the exquisite little tower known as the Temple of the Winds, the model of the ancient Italian baptisteries. * I can only allude to the 'porticos of Hadrian and King Attalus, and the stadium where the games so dear to the Greeks were held.���������Douglas Sladen. ,, The Sufficiency of _ife. What business has the young vigor of 20 to demand that the fire shall be warm and the seat cushioned^and the road smooth? Let him not parade his incompetence for life by insisting that life is not worth living unless a man is rich��������� unless, that is, the abundance of life should be eked out with wealth, whioh is an accident of life, not of its essence. Let him not insult himself by behaving as if the sunshine or the shower made a difference to him. Let those poor slaveries wait until the heart is soured and the knees are weak. No, the young man's place is to scorn delights. Our gilded youth are not���������and they ought to know that they are not; they ought to be told that they are not���������choice young men when they study of their life is to spare themselves pain and surround themselves with creature comforts. It ia a sign that they have not got hold of the euffioienoy of life. They do not know what,pure gold is, and so they try fco eke it out with gilding.���������Phillips Brooks. mayor of Lima in 1891. When Prinoe Louis of Italy visited Peru he was ������pter> tained with a lavish feast at the Ofl varo plantation and. was greatly pi with Peruvian hospitality. The adtni U now commander-in-chief of the thf_| naval departments of Italy. A Question of Heads. A painful story comes from Lin Ohiog Chow, China, concerning the serious embarrassment of a public official in that district, and the result of his efforts to extricate himself will be awaited with great anxiety. A few months ago the village of Chien-Chuang, in the interior of China, was raided by brigands, who broke into several houses, oqnfiebated a large amount of property and did much other damage. The taotai of that distrlot commanded Lo Feng Tsi, a . looal man- darin, to use his best efforts to deteot. and capture the gang/which was done. The mandarin was then directed to execute the leader and bring his head to the taotai at Lin Ching Chow as a sort, of voucher that the work had been properly done. Lo Feng Tsi carried out his' 'Instructions and started for Lin Ohing Chow with the head of the bandit In charge of his yayi, or orderly, who wrapped it in cerements of cloth so that it might have the appearance of an ordinary bundle, such as the natives are ae- customed to carry. Arriving at a village about midway of his journey the mandarin stopped for rest and refreshments; likewise the yayi, who left his bundle in the room which had been assigned to him and started eat to call upon some friends. But, ales, when he returned he discovered, as may properly be remarked, that he had lost his head. That is a frequent misfortune in oriental countries, but it is unusual to lose a head that belongs to. another per- - son. The town was searched, every suspicious person was arrested, but the unhappy mandarin up to the last adrlees had not been able to recover the precious package. The taotai, like other Chinese . magistrates, lacks the sense of humor, and he does not see anything funny in these extraordinary circumstances. On the contrary, he believes, or pretends to believe, that the mandarin, Lo J7eng Tsi, has been guilty of gross negligence and lack of respect and should be punished with the severest sort of penalty. He has given him a certain length of time to recover the missing head, and if he fails to do so he will undoubtedly be compelled to offer his own to supply the vacancy.��������� Washington Post. Her One Fault. Pat���������Th'.ould mare is perflct but f'r wan ixception. Mike���������What's that? Pat���������Ef yez lick 'er f'r balkin er bitin, she'll kick loike a soon av a goon.��������� _exas Siftings. A. Necessity of State. Grump���������I don't see the use of keeping up our costly diplomatic service. Wiggins���������My dear fellow, the government needs it to contradict newspaper dispatches by cable.���������Truth. Demand For Graduates. "Your son is graduated this spring?" "Yes." " What position will he accept?" "He hasn't decided yet. The Brooklyns have made him an offer to play short and the Bostons want him at second."���������Ohio State Journal. Envy. ������ "White, the farce man, tells me that he Is on the lookout for dramatio material all the time," said the mutual friend. "You bet he is," said Black, the tragedian. "He never pic'ks up a paper without cutting out the jokes."���������Cincinnati Enquirer. City Experiences. "Aunt Jerusha didn't get a wink ef sleep last night." "POorsoulI What was the matter?" "She couldn't find out whether the folding bed was In the chiffonier, the bookcase ���������r the wardrob_ "���������Truth. fJV.���������t* __>>, ������������������..j . %*Jy**<���������������-������-���������"5-i-i.'"^* .Ejs-^&.'y-si*"f w:-. ���������e.-rv__Tar%_a.-������ fi1 LU'__r _*_ ��������� ���������,.������ ������������������__. -^y_,���������. _=.- * K1_*J������_;i_i>���������.-i?_S ���������_ I'M TflTP tf" $ H1- if* Y" N h5 yy S.! The frontier risinjf in India is not like" _.HJ_ ������Bi_J_.AJJl Ii-liilU ly to become geaeral, and is receiving ������������irTher-i is Nothing ssued Every Tuesday At Union, B. C. M. Whitney, Editor. TE&MS OF SUBSCRIPTION. - INT A-iVASTCE. One Year . ??00 Six Months .���������. _ 1 "5 Sinp.le Copy \ 0 05 RATES OF ADVERTISING: ���������One iisoJi per year .. month eighth col per year fourth .. week, ., lino Local notices,per line S 12.00 150 2500 ' 5000 10 :. 20 Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 50 cents each insertion. No Ad/ertisment inserted for less than 50 cents. Persons failing to get The News re- cfiil-irlv should notify the Office. TUESDAY, AUG. 31st, 1897, THE RO_" PtOAD There are portions of the road built 'from Union to Roy's which are fairly good; bin there are other parts which do not constitute a decent trail. The old corduroy forms stretches which are so narrow that, teams cannot pass, so rough that horses must be walked over, and of such rotten timber as to endanger the limbs of animals. THE T'RTJ_f3_ BO AD PBEMEEB ASKED TO VISIT US This end of the Nanaimo���������Comox trunk road is in some sections but little better than a cow trail. The building of the bridge over the Trent liver is just money thrown away, for the simple reason that there is only a trail leading to it, which is utterly unfit to drive a buggy o- ver. Union Bay, which is our outer- wharf, is closely connected with Union in business and is but nine miles distant. It has a hotel, two stores, *oo coke ovens, more building; has applied for a school; and is the shipping point of the' Union Colliery Co. We have a r;glu to a good wagon road to it. Such a road wwuld be largely used, but a trail is an abomina tion. And to make matters worse instead of improving the trail and mnki:5������ it into a road, tenders are c?!lcd to extend the trail. The opening of n good road to Nanaimo should and would be the means of greatly strengthening ihe present Provincial government in this district which is chafing on account of its isolated condition and want of adequate mail service; but owing to tbe miserable way this so- called road has been constructed, and other grievances, real or fancied, the peo pie have'become so irritated, that what was a safe district has become so doubtful that il will require these grievances to be quickly abated, and a little more consideration"'given to the wishes of the people, or it will be no use.Lo put a government candidate in the. field at the next election. This is the third year money has been placed m the estimates for the construc- t on of,the Nanaimo���������Comox trunk road y~t we are but very little better . off than when work was commenced. How not to do it appears to be what is striven after. Instead of commencing at this end and building a good road as far and as fast as practicable, work was begun at in - termediate points, so that no part has been available, and simply trails built! The government is respectfully asked to send up some competent person to examine this end of the trunk road, and report upon its condition. In the mean time Premier Turner would do well to make a visit to this district. He would be sure of a good reception, and would be able to learn much of the actual condition of things here of which we feel sure he must now be ignorant. Doubtless he desires to do whatever he reasonably can for the best interests of this district. He can best aid us and the government of which he is the head by a visit among ns. vigorous treatment. We are glad lo notice the papers are demanding a training school for teachers. We gladly join in thai demand. The legislature should provide for one next winter. If there are to be any sports in conec- tion with the Fair al Courtenay, a committee should'be appointed at once, and a program prepared. The gate receipts are an important item. The Comox Agricultural and Industrial Association will hold its Exhibition this year at Courtenay, Oct. 7lh. The prize list is out, but offers of any special prize' will be dulynoticcd m these columns We notice a farmer's dinner is to be given in connection with the Fair at Chil liwhack. An annual dinner would be an nppropnaie feature here.aflfoi-ding ���������n opportunity for social intercourse between members and visitors. It is leported the U. S. and Canalian governments will unite to . give a good maii service to the Klondike. At present if one wishes'lo send a paper it will be best to enclose it in a large envelope and pay letter postage. Those interesting people who condemn ed the E. & N. railway policy as lo miners and yet defend the Yukon regulations have queer notions of consistency.. If the latter are justifiable, the comtnny'.s policy in regard lo its private pYoperty appears liberal lo the verge of prodigality by comparison.���������Colonist. Another feature of the Chilliwack Show is 10 be a grand parade in which the school children of the Valley have been invited to take part. Children marching in parade will be admitted hec to the grounds, and presented with a bag of candy. A prize vv i 11 be given to the best drilled school. The officers of the Courtenay Exhibi- lion might take a hint from this. MIMICAL & ?1 RTCAL OFFICE OF p. "-'���������* J ^.v_?fT ^* This noted specialist, so long- established in Seattle, continues to tre^t withunequaled success pM IsTervous, Chronic and Private Diseases ox both sexes The worst, eases solicited, and perfect cures guaranteed. A new schedule covering the movements of the Canadian-Australian lines is to come into effect next month, providing for a third vessel on the line, and making Wellington, New Zealand, a regular port | DR.~I_&TCL:_FF_3���������713 First Avenue. C1' ca\\. i Seattle, VVaah, SUFFERING- W03_E_T���������Do not despair. 'A here is not only sympathy, but help for you. There is no '.earthly reason why you should longer- endure the miseries arising from Irregularities, Periodical Headaches, Falling or Diypiace- ment of the .Womb, Leucorrboca, ��������� iNer- vou ness, Hysteria and Iiko ailments whieh rob you of your strength, health and beauty, and make you wtmatureiy old. In sacred coniidenee tell everything to Dr. Ratcliffe, who is an expert on all Female Complaints. WEAK MKN���������Yourig. middle-aged and old, who nave violated the lav.s of nature : You are now reaping the resides of your former folly. Many of you have Evil Dreams, Exhausting-Drain*, Li.������po- iev.cy, Atrophy or the Wasting Away of the Organs; Lost Manhood; We?.k, Aching Back; Frequent Painful Urinit* tion aud Sediment in Urine; Pimples, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Basb.fuinesy, Despondency, Stupidity, Loss of Ambition or similar symptoms. In brief your body, brain and sexual organs have become weak. Dr. Katcliii'e can noot.-in. to you what vou have lost���������YOU it PRECIOUS -MANHOOD. He can lit you for ' pleasure, study, business and marriage, nad send you out into the world with Life anew. VAFvICOOEIiS���������Hydrocele, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Stricture and Syphilis comj/l.iteiy cured by Dr. Ratcliffe in the shortest possible time. KIDNEY���������Bladder, Urinary. Liver, Stomach, Heart aud Lung Dismasts; Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and B"fiiu Diseases; Blood and Skin Diseases, ami Piles, Fistula, Rheumatism, Rupture and Chronic Catarrh permanently cured by the lutesfc and beat methods k_o\\��������� to medical scieuc-3. KAIL. TREATMENT���������Always satisfactory. Therefore write if you cusinot call. Free Book on nervous and v.o:lv_>A diseases to ail t(eacribi_g their tr'.iubles. Office hours : 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. ; Suo- dav>. fi-'-'m 10 !���������<; 12 a. ni. oniy. A'.l'ire:-.-j If it is Weil Put Tuaetlier So here it \s<,: : Single Harness at $Io, $12, $1=5 per set , and up.���������Sweat Pads at 50 cents. Whips al 10, 25, 50 and a good Rawhide for 75 cents, and a Whale Bone , at $1 and up to $2. I have the largest Stock of WHIPS in town and aho the Bc-st Axle Gpease a rp BOsES ���������ForSTwenty���������Five!������C<?.nls. trunks at Prices to Suit the Times. &bjjal_i]]g j NEATLY DONE '��������� 'Wesley Willard , IF^OIFEiSSIOIlSr ______ Drs. Lawrence &. Westwood. Physicians and Surgeons. TJ_>TIOXnT B.C. We have appointed Sir. James Abrams out collector until rurtnor notice, to whom all overdue accounts way be paid. b*tn_j������aa. -u_������^ii.'_-iK*r.n*rKMKr_a-A������____RK_Mn^i^^ HARRISON P. MILLARD, FaiYSTClA>", SUKOEOST AND ACCOUCHED"���������. Office* : Wn.LAiiD Block, Ouml_kla>-:d Coujitknay House, Courtesay. H;>urs of Co;isulfaiion: CuMJSssr.LAND, 10 to 12 a, m. Tuesdays and Fridays. C'OUT.TENAY, 7 to 9 A. to. A3D r. to. *. .���������������.��������� t nAMutrrui!^ r*crt_������-_���������__��������� e 1&&Z&!3������, iVI_iiii.<__^ ifvV.S. DALBY;,D.D.3.&LD.5g. Dent-stt'j7' limn its Branches n 1 P'.a'e work, hUiiig a'-id fxiinctina: >> Offico. opposite W,ivf.Hv Huti-l, Union $ N . : ft ���������i'i Honri ��������� 9 ������������������>. hi. tu u o.m and from (^) "^ i) 0. in t" S'l..us. 0; ���������tr.")iuuMu>< _'^lM������'."rt*ilTi__'-������������VHf ,'.VI\SfJV������������.V^iv������'UliU<lr_llUIA_.<*������r*l.������t tit!-. i-\ .��������� 1. o ! _. v i O, SOLfCiTO^S. NO' T.T- firC. Onico Room C, Ulcl-'he.'.<>. ?.I'.>or-.' H''iiV ^nilai. NAN'Ai^O. Ii. C. p. o. iiij.-.v/iu: IS. l i, e\ , -k.3 I i ; ; x.) in O : i t ii-apristei? he So'k'iror'. N'o's 2 & ������������������-!��������� Commercial St:-_ec. jsr___T__r2uro, 33. L. P. ECKSTESN. BVRRtSTEK, SOUCITOR NOTARY PUBLIC Office:���������3Tirat Street. Union, E. O. ,M.*.iA(uvrtAi_nw!" ������i*it������ n(iA>n^iH/r-c^_.'^^������_.r���������������i������%'^AJu__vU-*J_t'-������ia t_A������_Av_t_._ua YARWOOD & YOUNG BAUBLVi'EKR and SOLICITORS ' Corner of 15j.t.iion and Oomn:ercial Streets,..Nanaimo, B..C. 3ra.xch Oi'TiCE, Third Street andDunsmuir /.���������'. -Avenue, B. O. Will be in Uiiiou the 3rd Wednesday of each month aud r������m:tin ten days. 3f ������IR SHXB ^ IV S������^ Esquimalt and Nanaimo Ry. Steamer Ciiv of Nanaimo OWENS MASTER Th.e Steamer CITY of ETANAIMO will cail as follows CALLING AT'WAY PORTS aa passengers nud freight may ofTer Leavo Victoria, Tuesday, 7 a. m. " Xaimimo for Comox, Wednesday, 7 a. m Leave Comox for Nanaimo, ��������� Fridays, 7 a.m. " Nanaimo for Victoria Saturdey, 7 a.m For freight or state rooms apply on borird, or at the Company's ticket office, Victoria Station, Store street. Society , Cards i, U. O. F. Union Lodge, No. ix. meets e cry Friday night at 8 o'clock. Visiting breth ren cordially invited to attend. F. A. An ley, R. S. F, & A. M9 B. C. R. 'Cumberland Lodge, A Union, Ii. C. 'Lodge meets first 1' riday in each 'month. Visiting brethren are cordially invited to attend. --,���������--���������-- l_ Mounce. Sec. Hiram Loc^e No 14 A.F .& A.M.,li.C.R Courtenay B. C. Lodge meets on every Saturday on or before the full of the moon Visiting Brothers cordially requested to attend. R. S. McGoiancll, Secretary. Cumberland ' Encampment. No. 6, I. O. O. F., Union. ��������� Meets1 every alternate Wednesdays of each month at S o'clock p. m. Visiting brethren cordially invited to attend. John Com he, Sen tit-. _r_L___*-MM_rr������Br_riuwrm _���������_t-___i_xtj*_*.-\*__������_**_^t__i_iiniu-tM***, rcu(������s������r4 Esquimast 8l Nana.mo R a i l v>/ a y O o jtx ;:> a n v. , _. 0 \_^������ ft. _V. \.J U-J ������ FOR SALE.���������My house and two lots in the village of Courtenay. K. Gkant, Union. TpOR SALE, RAKCH���������One mile and a *- hali ffum Union, contains 160 acrea and will be disposed of at a low figure. Enquire of James Abrams. For Sale.���������The dwelling house and lot on Mfry-port avenue belonging to Mr J. S. Kendall. The house is i������ storey, well built, good well of water and garden Lot is full size. Will be sold at a bargain. Apply to M. Whitney, MEWS OFFICE. TO PROSPECTORS, Miners, and ilohk-r-3 i>: ?\l>ni;:n! Ci.11n1.sun m-O'.cupi- cv'l land wit!:in tlie Esijiiiiuait ������S: Nan.nnui R.rdv.-ay C'Mnp.'niv's Lano' Giant ���������l-'OK ONE YEAR ONLY from the the date of" thi.i ncucc, ihe R.uiw iy Company will v,;li thou nghis to ali M inrr.d^, (^:.\cc-pt:r.,_! Ccai iiwCi huii) and the Suiiace rights ot Mineral Claims, at the price ������f S5 00 ptr acre. Such sales will oe subject to oil other reservations contained in conveyances from the Company prior 1.0 this date. One-half of the purchase money to be paid ten davs after recording the Claim with ihe government, and a duplicate of the record to be filed in the Company's Land Office; Victoria, on payment of the first instalment. The balance of the purchase money to /be paid in two equal instalments, at the expiration of six and twelve months, without interest. Present holders of Mineral Claims who have not previously made other arrangements with the Company for acquiring Surface and Mineral rights, are hereby notified to at once make the. first payment on their Claims, as otherwise they ' will be deemed and treated as trespassers. Leonard H. Solly, Victoria, B.C."] Land Commissioner J 2390 ������3TJ3ealer in Stoves and Tinware Plumbing and general Sheetiron work PROMPTLY DONE tf^Ag-ont for the Celebrated Gurney Souvenir Stoves and '... Ranges Manufacturer of the New Air-tight heaters BOM ' - MSYOUB.. - LOCAL PAPIE? It publishes all that is worthy of notice of THE LOCAL NEWS. it Gives thcxream of TELEGRAPHIC NEWS, it Supports GOOD ORDER, PUBLIC ENTERPRISES, THE CHURCHES, FRA TERNAL SOCIETIES, everything worthy of encouragement. It Publishes Occasionally, Bright Original Stories, Bright Original Poems, Bright Original "Chatter." And is the .ONLY WEEKLY COUNTRY PAPER in the " PROVINCE which has a TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE.' It 1^ the exponent of the district, nr.d oy it the dUmct vs ill be "ii:dy������-d byo the ���������-"inside public. IJ is ;���������<<������������������ Cri?.AP :is a pood iv per "can be pii'du.'.f-d in a i;:;ur.m disirii t. - ilV it v.'M'r '.:t"ru ::>us support ur-.c I here ini"' e;.-i-J in1.,! <��������� vars.r:i_> -M^u^.������^_^_i'<ifij������Cv_'������'_/<w\TH���������*t_*jf.-^j������i\r^*_v_r.**i*i*'%'v-.X^ it*1 'Hit* kiir.otu.JFi-) Vs.-I 1 t lenst, />,��������� tJ ������f. Vj .'��������������� i\\ p> ;:-:��������� .*��������� 'h, C ��������� : 1 Landscape G :-xrd en e r Seecls.J GPr.sjnftrilal Trees and Shrubs'Aaiways. Also bnlDs in variety, including Hyacinths, Harciacus, Fuchias, _ Tulips and J���������J.lies. - Union, - , - B. C. Cf. _a, __v_Cc_D_EI!OaD General Teaming., Pov/der Oil, Etc., LHau!ed. Wood in Blocks Furnished. SCAVENGER WORK DONE,' June 1, 1897. , ANTED���������A good canvas-ier. Ed quire ' at "News Ovfice, FOR RE NT-The boarding house late ly occupied by'Mr. A. Lindsay. App'y to H. P. Collis at the Union Department Store. W. H. JENKINSON. PRACTICAL W A T C Ii M A K B R AND JEWELER, UNiOl'T, I). 0. Jewelry made to order, and Pre:;i<iUH Stoney seb. Note Civir;es : Clean a Wntohau thoroughly for 75u. New M.iin Spriiii', 75c. Balance and Pallet S".aS"s $1.25. Guirar.tcoa aU work for 12 ujijnthd. Practical experience of over 25 years. T. D. McLEAN, WATCHMAKER AND STATIONER. THE LARGE Increase in our repairing- departmen t, under tne supervision of Mr. Ash., speaks for itself of th������ quality of work turned out. We guarantee every watch repaired by us to give perfect satisfaction. OUR PRICES Are the lowest consistent with | good. work. WE HAVE Just received a shipment of the latest novels in paper covers, which, are selling rapidly Al] orders hy mail or otherwise, will receive prompt attention T. B. MEAH. TJ__TIO__T IB. ,0 CUMBEBLAND SHOE SHOP. I have moved into my new shop on Dunsmuir Avenue, wherel am prepared to manufacture and repair all kinds ol men's, women's, and children's shoes. Give me a call. NELSON PARKS. SO YEARS" EXPERIENCE. TRADE SWARK3, DESIGNS, COPYRICHTS &o. Anyone sending a sfcetch and description may quickly ascertain, free, whether an invention ia probably patentable. Conimuntcations strictly confidential. Oldest aeency for securing patents to America. "VVe have a Washington office. Patents taken through JIunn & Co. receive special notice in the SCIENTIFIC AMfGAN, Deauttfully illustrated, largest circulation of any scientific journal, weekly, terras$3.(10 ayear; Sl.oOsix months. Specimen copies and RANB Book on Patents sent free. Address MUNN & CO., 361 Broadway, Now York. - ���������������j i__ ���������_pe:c_ww /e do all kinds of Job Printing, anything from a Dodger to the neatest Business Card or Circular. M a: ���������I 'I i 0 '^1 'it ' si , ti I 1 ".I v'tl v .1 '".:'i 1 1 iri\ y.-_ '��������� t' 1 ���������������������������SI 'il'l ���������p Two to Make It. There's a knowing little proverb From the aunny laud of Spain. But ia northland, as in southland, Is its meaning clear and plain. Lock it up within your heart, Neither lose nor lend it: Two it takes to make a quarrel, One can always end.it. Try it well in everyway, Still you'll find it wua. In a tight without a foe Pray whan could yon'do? If the wrath is yours alone, Soon yon will expend it. Two it takes to make, a quarrel. Otic can always end it. Let's suppose that both are wroth Aud thc strife hsyan. If one voice shall cry for peace, Soon it will be done. If but one shall span tho breach, ' Ho will quickly mend it. Two it takes to make a quarrel, Olio can always end it. ���������New Mood. To Make Lavender Water. Take one pint of rectified spirit, half an , ounce of the oil of lavender and four omices of roeewater. ''Mix and filter through filtering paper. This is very refreshing to use In warm weather.' SUNDAY SERVICES Trinity Church���������Services in the evening. Rev. J. X. Willemar, rector. Methodist Church��������� Services . at the usual hours morning and evening. Rev. W. Kicks, pastor. St, George's Presbyterian .Church��������� Rev. J. C. Forster. Services at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday Schoo ' _t.2:30. Y.P.S.CE. at close of evening service. _JM^| |MMMl IBM ��������� ��������� ��������� ���������-TlH -_-_-_--------------_---��������� DISTRICT DIRECTORY ��������� GOV'T AGENT Assessor and Collector.���������W. B. Andersox, Office, Union, residence, Comox. STIPENDIARY MASISTEATE and Coroner.--James Abrams, Union. JUSTICES of the Peace.���������Unio^, A. McKnight, W. B. Walker, and H. P. Co] lis.���������Comox, Gio. F. Drabble, and Thomas Cairna.���������Courtenay, J. W. McKenzie,���������Sandwick, John Muiidell. CONSTABLES.���������J. W. Hutchinson, and P. S. Scuarschmidt, Union. A Green Denim Carpet. A young housekeeper with more taste tbau means at her command recently fur- [ rushed an apartment according to her own videa and after no hard and fast rules. "What'a unique carpet !" exclaim her friends ou entering. ������ "Is it a carpet ?" they , inquire alter inspecting it longer. "I never U saw one.'so pretty!" "It't not very costly," explains the hostess. "It's.denim." "Denim 1 This lovely green ! The tone [ is so good ! Did you have it made to order?" "It is ordinary plain denim toat can be bought for 25 cents a yard at niostf of the dry,goods stores., The breadtha.are sewed together evenly and it is put down over a car- pot lining." v The conversation veers to other topics, but the unobtrusive green expanse uuder- [. foot ia'regarded narrowly, and now aud again some quoafciou i������ put as to what made the hoat03s drat think of using it. "Dues it wear well?" and so on.���������������New York aim. COURTENAY. B.C. COUIiT_-N_._. is a pleasant vilJage situated on both sides of the Coim'enay River, and on the road uj the Settlement, three, miles from Comox Bay. The road to Union also passes through it. has a contral position. Here are two hotcls,.onc first cluss store, a saw mill, soda-water works, post office, shops, etc. It is a favorite placo for fishermen and hunters. UN DEM and by virtus: ������.���������������' the po.vcrs 'contai'u-d in a .c.'.n.:iin induj:.ure ot morcK.iifc, TENDERS . in writing are invited up to noon of Thursday the '^d, day of Sf.p.teinher ii>97 addressed to thc undersigned, for the purchase of the East one-half of Lot 9 Iihx:k in, To>vn of Cumberland, Map 522.1, subject to the reservations of the Esquimalt aud Nanaimo Railway Comp.my. There is a good one-story cottage upon the premises, which may be inspected upon application to the undersigned. The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. The title deeds can be inspected at my office. First Street L. P. Eckstein, Union, B.C. Solicitor for the ��������� Mortgagees. If our readers have any local news of in terest. we will be pleased to insert seme in the local column, if brought to the office. Visiting cards printed at the News Office in neat script. British Columbia Directory. The Williams guaranteed to be the only complete Directory of British Columbia" that will be published this year. As soon as issued from the press it ������vilf be delivered throughout Comox District. Take no other and see you get The Williams' . R. T. Williams, Publisher 28 Broad St., Victoria, B.C. NOTICE. Cumberland and "Onion Water-works Company, Dd. The above company will pi ������������������������;?" the line of aervice from the mains to the line of the street at each house when the trenches are open, but after completion of the water system the charge will be ������7.50 for tapping the CO ue'te nay Directory. COTJHTESTAY HOUSE, ��������� A. H. Mc- Caiium, Proprietor. RIVERSIDE HOTEL, J., J. Grant, 1 Proprietor. GEORGE B. LSIGHTOST, Black- smith, and Carriage 2_aker. COMO X.. COMOX is jTvilliigo bc!au;:fr.lly.L.ca;erl,,on,tho bay df the- cinrnv nev.10. in Comox JJi-mot. -V I'iv���������!.i':c I:..j-..:j. I'-'if-w U\i\tM ji:d Whar/. have ( :(i-.<'3."':������ -������������������.' ���������' !'.'.���������'���������''". ���������()>��������� I I'll ih ' l-'iij.cl V:\iil \vlii::h iii:;.:j J.-.'. >.:iy.~'> ���������.���������''. \r; ���������-'��������� ��������� -i.vv.-al aufioritioj, ."\r.r. !,...,*.,i. vji's-.1 u..o <���������' i-:w ?;I:,..i<."i.y's> snips _ tc- b-j .'ouV,,i '.w*i'\.-Ar*n '>a I'J.'U t;-ir.o. 'sferv i-. a io.it. 1 oi'iiuj, f.v <> /i"L':.������. t w a ���������(.-Oi.'tj.v.Icory, '������><.. Ti.o so'.'ii'.'ry jrnii.d, Ki..-i ifnosi I.urn !'..,: i.c^r. Ti.u Lily *.i N.ui'i.:!iii) IVi."i \'.oiorn\ o.i-������������'hum on W'ediiosdy:���������-���������-. u"d doparts ri-i--ny j::o:nm_je. .��������� ^ ccaios :__:_ _ct__ly. H. 0. LT7JA3, rropriilor. COMOX BAKEitY, Cot;ic_, B. C. main. 238o P. B. Smith, Sec'y. NOTICE Any person or persons destroying or withholding the kegs and barrels of the Union Brewery Company Ltd of Nanaimo, will be prosecuted. A liberal reward will be paid for information leading to conviction. TV. E. Norns, Sec'y NOTICE. Having purchased the livery outfit of Mr. Ed Woods' I am prepared to accommodate the public with good rigs at reasonable prices. July 28th, Gordon Murdoch:. U BJ I O W. THIS TOWN, the eastern pirt of which is called Cii;nb;:rland, is finely situated on the foot hi Is, of the Buford Mountians, about 500 feet above the waters of the Georgian Straits, and 6o miles north of Nanaimo. his connected with Bayr.c Sound, by a line of railway 13 miles m length. Its principal industry is coal mining. It turns out from 700 tons to 1,000 tons of coal per dav of the best steam coal. This is transfcred over the railway to Union wharf (Bayne Sound) to the ships and steamers and tugs with scows awaiting to receive it. The fine coal is manufactured here into a good article of coke which bids fair to grow into an immense industry of itself. Extensive bunkers' are being constructed at the Wharf,, in connection with the coal industry. - Union is the market place .for the Comox farming settlement, and contains 3,000 population. it has one large Departmental Store besides ' two general stores, four large hotels, two sawmills, two merchant tailoring establishments, various shops, such as dry goods, tin and hardware, metal, harness and saddlery, livery, jewlery, stationery, bakeries, and baiber shops, photograph gallery, brass band, a graded school, four churches, and1 a newspaper. It is reached by steamer from Victoria and Nanaimo. _____(_m____t Nanaimo Cigar Factory Phillip Gable and Co., Prop's Bastion Street ��������� Nanaimo B. C, Manufactures the finest cigars and employes none but white labor. Why purchase inferior foreign cigars when you can obtain a SUPERIOR ARTICLE lo; the same money J, A; Carthew ARCHITECT and BUILDER, ���������_-_3_0_-T,������_3_. C. IVER* / I am prepared to furnish Stylish Rigs and do Teaming At reasonable rates. D. Kilpatriek, Union, B.C, EAMING- ?V_^fe^S@ ft *Att v S* n mm v*������ *' __r-w<��������������� Gurnlierlaml Hotel. Union, B. C.,1 The finest hotel building Fixtures and Bar North of Victoria, , (\.nd the best'kept house. Spacious Billiard Room and new' Billiard and Pool Tables Best of Wines and Liquors. IL J; Theobald, House and Sign Painter, Paper-Hanging, Kalsomining and Decorating. GRAINING A SPECIALTY-, All urdeps Promptly Attended, to \Tr.ion, B. C. ___5_������������_M/MJt___a _������um.i____ii=i.vin_r_v_i___*. B^rk.er ft how ': * - AT<D . . -Bathing Ks:mL^m-mi O. H. Fecliiier, x. -L C^J~: -J. ~������ --- a. --- -.��������� OHOtOfc" 1 fyrc} L~.'s.J : ���������* For sale on Dunsmuir ave: consisting of lots 4 and 5 in block 15, lots 7 and 8 in block 16, lots 3, 4 and 5 in block 10, and other lots in Cumberland Townsite. Bargains, James Af.rams. - [I __���������_������______*������ ttVKWWWB JAMES ABRAMS Notary Public. Agent for the Alliance Fire Insurance Company of Lon don and the Phoenix 0������ Hartford. ������������������"-������������������;-:-������������������������������������������������������������������������- Agent for the Provincial Building and Loan Association of Toronto. ��������������������������������������������������������������� Union, BlC. > TH IRTY-SEVE NTjjYg-^1- ��������� ^ *l \+ > W0RLD^[D������C|RCj:M:ATJ^ \ Twenty Pages; Weekly; Illustrated. > i iNDISPENSADLEJ^M^Nj^JWEN. < ?T_30EB_ioilAKr?ER ^SAR. POSTPAID, i S SAMPLE COPiES'FRZS.' J \ WWM m SCISMTIFIG PRESS, \ < 220 M/.P.KET ST., Ran FRANCISCO, CALJ ',xX'l.'-'..c������o������^������'���������'--������������������ "������������������ -���������-\ ^/���������-''vV1 NOTICE.���������All subscriptions in aid of the Fire Brigade and its applia_ct������s, should b aid to Mr. Frr.nk Da by. "Do you kuow that we can'print you just as neat a business card oa you can get in any other priutiug officio in tbe Province, and just a3 cheap too? Bear in mind, we print meal tickets also ? Iu fact we can do anything in the line of job printing. Give, ua a trial. edge Bottlin. V DAVID JONES, Proprietor, ��������� MANUFACTURER OF SODA WATER, LEMONADE, G NGER ALE, Sersaparalla, Champagne Cider, Iron Phosphates and Syrups. Bottler of Different Brands of Lager Besr, Steam Beer and Porter. '' Agent for the TJnion Brewery Company. __:_E30- _3_3_3_^ sox-ijd foe o_=_s_h: oisrizk. _r COURTENAY, B.C. o:k:h]____:_?! csbapi! cheap!! THESE , "AS WELL AS McMullen's choice Steel Wire Netting for Trellis, Poultry,Yards, Lawn Fencng, ftc, are sold much Lower this year, than ever before. ��������� ��������� v They are the best. Ask your Hardware Merchant for them. _Sa? _Ca_v_actured and Sold by THS ONTARIO Vv'IRE FENCING CO., LT22. ficton. Ontario. GO TO v,:ai FOR T������ ii r l_l \\i ,\H ��������� -���������t| l-MH -f. - AT- l������*Vi* W A^ ftfi m q III'������ ��������� 0 .������.������.��������������� b������iTOrjwK������?_i_CTg_3a___S���������1ss._oaMTT^inwjii^__m_B_iai_ fTS&ru^nJS���������g I presume we have used over ?so:d b7 Druggists. _J8! one hunted bottles of ^ Piso's Cure for Consumption in my family, and I am continually to get it. Undoubtedly it is the advising others I ever u .Dec. 29, 1894.- W. G. Miltbnbbrger, Clarion, ��������� 1 sell Piso's Cure for Consump tion, and never have any complaints.���������E. Shorey, Postmaster, Shorey, Kansas, Dec. 21st, 1894. 1' ���������������..#T���������__S ,h.~-j^a-Tv*������������V ������������������-��������� w rH-gty-yaa-5 ta^-^v^j���������^;; ;_./jz-_?-i'_i__'l.,'J_:r__if~- p_r_I?f���������-V������tJ*������.T',W****9l'l,6i *-���������������"'*^" The Sign of the Four. ,y A. CONAN DOYUS. (CONTINUED.) Uur course now ran down JN'ine Ji'lms until we came to Broderick and Nelson's large timber yard, just past the "White Eagle tavern. Here the dog, frantic with excitement, turned down through the ��������� side gate into the inclos- ure, where the sawyers were already at work. On the dog raced through sawdust and shavings, down an alley, round a passage, between two woodpiles, and finally, with a triumphant 3relp, sprang noon a large barrel, which ,' still stood upon the hand-trolley on which it had' been brought. With lolling tongue and blinking eyes, Toby stood upon the caBk, looking from one to the other of us for some sign of ap- ," preciation. The staves of the barrel and the wheels of the trolley were smeared with a dark liquid,- and the whole air was heavy with the smell of ��������� creosote. Sherlock Holmes and I looked bla'nkly at each other, and then burst simultaneously into an uncontrollable fit of laughter. CHAPTER VIII. THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS. "What now?" I asked. ' "Toby has lost his'character for infallibility." "He acted according to his lights." said Holmes, lifting him down from the barrel and walking him out of the timber yard: "If you consider how - much,creosote is carried about London in one day, it is no great wonder that our trail should have been crossed. It is much used now, especially for the seasoning of wood. Poor Toby is not to blame." "We must get on the main scent again; I suppose." ', "Yes. ' And," fortunately, we have no distance, to go. Evidently what puzzled the dog at the corner of Knight's Place was that there were two different ���������trails running in opposite directions. We took the wrong one. It only re- _iftins to follow the other." There was no difficulty about this. On leading Toby to the place where he had committed his fault, he cast about in a wide circle, and finally dashed off In a fresh direction. "We'must take care that he does not now bring us to the place where the oreosote barrel came from," I observed. "I had thought of tha.t. But you v������ notice that he1 keeps'on the pavement, whereas the barrel' passed down the iToadway. No, we are on the true scent now." It tended down toward the riverside, running through Belmont Place and .Prince's street. At the end of Broad street it ran down to the water's edge, where there was a small wooden wharf. Toby led us to the very edge of this, and there stood whining, looking out on the dark current beyond. "We are out of luck," said Holmes. "They have taken, to a boat here." Several small punts and ,'skiffs ���������'were 'lying about in the water and on the. edge of, the wharf. We took Toby round to each in turn, but, though he rsniifed earnestly, he made no sign. Close to the rude landing-stage was .a small .brick house, with a wooden -placard slung out through., the second window. "Mordecai Smith" was print- -ed across it in large letters, and, underneath, "Boats to hire, by the hour or day." A second inscription above the ��������� door informed us that a steam launch was kept���������a statement which was confirmed by a,great pile of coke upon the ..jetty. (Sherlock Holmes looked slowly ���������round, and his face assumed an'ominous suppression. . "This looks bad," said he. "These fellows are sharper than I expected.' ' They seem to have covered their tracks, There has, I fear, been preconcerted management here." He was. approaching the door of the house, when it opened,' and a little, -curly-headed lad of six came running out, followed by a stoutish, red-faced woman, with a large sponge in her hand. "You come back and be washed, Jack." she shouted. "Come back, you young imp ; for if- your father comes home and finds you like that, he'll let us hear of it." "Dear little chap!" said Holmes', strategically. "What a rosy-cheeked young rascal ! Now. .Tack, is there anything you would like ?" The youth pondered for a moment. "I'd like a .shillin'," said he. "Nothing vou would like hotter?" "I'd like "two .shillin' hotter," the prodigy answered, after some thought. "Here you are then! Catch!���������A fine child, Mrs. Smith." "Lor'bless you. sir, he is that, and forward. He gets a/most too much for mo to manage, 'specially when my man is away days at. a, t hue-" "Away, is lie?" said Holmes, in a disappointed voice. "I am sorry for that, for I wanted to sneak to Mr. Smith." "He's been away since yesterday momin', sir, and truth to tell, I am beginning to feel frightened about him- But if it was about; a boat, sir. maybe I could serve as well." "1 wanted to hire his steam launch." "Why. bless you. sir, it is in the steam launch that he has gone- That's what puzzles me; for I know there ain't more coals in her than would take her to about Woolwich and back- If he'd been away in the barge I'd ha' thought nothin'; for many a time a job has taken him as far as Gravesend, and then if there was much doin' there ho might ha' stayed over. But what good is a steam launch without coals?" "He might have bought some at a wharf down the river." "fie might, sir, but it weren't his way. Many a time I've heard him call out at the prices they charge for a few odd bags. Besides, I don't like that wooden-legged man, wi' his ugly face and outlandish talk. What did he want always knockin' about here for ?" "A wooden-legged man ?" said Holmes, with bland surprise. "Yes, sir; a brown, monkey-faced chap that's called more'n once for ray old man. It was him that roused him up yesternight, and. what's more, my man knew he was comin', for he had steam up in _ the launch. I tell you straight, sir, I don't feel easy m my mind about it." "But. my dear Mrs. Smith," said Holmes, shrugging his shoulders, "you are frightening yourself about nothing. How could you possibly tell that it was the wooden-legged man who came in the night ? I don't quite understand how'you can be so sure." ' "His voice, sir. I knew his voice, which is kind o' thick and foggy. :J He tapped at the winder���������about three it would be. 'Show a' leg, matey,' says he; 'time to turn out guard.' My old man woke up Jim���������that's my eldest��������� and away they went, without so much as a word to me. I could hear the wooden leg clackin' on the stones." "And was this wooden-legged man alone ?" "Couldn't say, I am sure, sir. I didn't hear no one else." "I am sorry, Mrs. Smith, for I wanted a steam launch, and I have heard good reports of the���������Let me see, what is her name ?" "The Aurora, sir," "Ah! She's not that old green launch with a yellow line, very broad in tlie beam?" "No. indeed. She's as trim a little thing as any on tho river- She's been fresh painted, black with two red streaks." "Thanks. I hope that you will hear soon from Mr. Smith. I am going down the river : and if I should see anything of flie Aurora I shall let him know that you are uneasy. A black funnel, you say " 9������ "No, sir.' Black with a white band." "Ah, of course. It was the sides which were black. Good morning, Mrs. Smith. There is a boatman here with a wherry, Watson. We shall take it and cross the river." "The main thing with people of thai sort," said Holmes, as we sat in the sheets of the wherry, "is never to let them think that their information can be of the slightest importance to,,, you. If you do, they will instantly shut up like an oyster. If you ��������� listen to them imder protest, as it were, you are very likely to get what you want." "Our course now seems pretty clear," said I. '' ��������� "What would youdo then ?" " "I would en'gago a launch and go down the track of the Aurora." "My dear fellow, it would be a colossal task. She may have touched at any wharf on either side. of the stream between here and Greenwich. Below the bridge there is a perfect labyrinth of landing-places for miles. It would take you clays and days to exhaust them, if you set about it alone." "Employ the police, then." "No. I shall probably call Athelney Jones in at the last moment. He is not a bad fellow, and I should not like to do anything which would injure him professionally. But I have a fancy for working it out myself, now that we have gone so.far.c". ; "Could we advertise, then, asking for,; information from wharfingers ?" "Worse and worse ! Our men would know that the , chase was hot at .their heels, and they would be ,off out of the country. As it ".is, they are' likely enough to leave, but so long as they think they are perfectly safe they will be in no hurry. Jones' energy will be of use to us there, for his view of the case is sure to push itself into the daily press, and the runaways will/think that everyone is off on tho wrong scent." ���������.���������-.������������������ "What are we to do then ?" I asked, as we landed inear Millbank Penitentiary. ��������� . ' "Take this hansom, drive home, have some breakfast, and get ah hour's sleep. It is quite on the cards that we may be afoot to-night again. Stop at the telegraph office, cabby! : We will ��������� keep Toby, for, he may be of use to us yet. . We pulled up at the Great tPeter street postoffice, and Holmes dispatched his wire. "Whom do you think that is to ?" he asked, as we resumed our journey. "I am sure I don't know." "You remember the Baker street division of the detective police.force whom I employed in the Jefferson Hope I found the breakfast laid and Holmes pouring out the coifee. "Here it is," said he, laughing, and pointing to an open newspaper. "The energetic Jones and the ubiquitous reporter have fixed it up between them. But you have had enough of the case. Better have your ham and eggs first." I took the paper from him and read the short notice, which was headed "M3rsterious Business at Upper Norwood." "About twelve o'clock last night," said the Standard, "Mr. Bartholomew Sholto, of Pondiche'rry Lodge, Upper Norwood, was found dead in his room under circumstances which point to foul play. As far as we can leai_, no traces of violence were found upon Mr. Sholto's person, but a valuable collection of Indian gems, which the deceased gentleman had inherited from his father has been carried off. The discovery was first made by Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who had called at the house with Mr. Thaddeus Sholto, brother of the deceased. By a singular piece of good fortune, Mr. Athelney Jones, the well-known member of the detective police force, happened to be at the Norwood police station, and was on the ground within half an hour of the first alarm. His trained and experienced faculties were at once directed toward the detection of the criminals, with the gratifying result that the brother, Thaddeus Sholto, has already been arrested, together with tho housekeeper, Mrs. Bern stone, an Indian butler named Lai Rao, and a porter, or gatekeeper, named McMurdo. It is quite certain that the thief or thieves were well acquainted wioh the house, for Mr. Jones' well- known technical knowledge and his powers of minute observation have enabled him to prove conclusively that the miscreants could not have entered by.th'e door or by the'window, but must have made their way across the roof of the building, and so through a trapdoor into a room which communicated with that in which the body was found. This fact, which has been very clearly made out, proves conclusively that it was no mere haphazard burglary. The prompt and energetic action of the officers of the law shows the great advantage of the presence on such occasions of a single vigorous and masterful mind.' We cannot but think that it supplies a_ argument to those wh* would wish to see our detectives more decentralized, az_j_l so brought i_������e ������loser and more effective touch with naked feet, stoxie-neaaea wooden mace, great agility, small poisoned darts. What do you make of all this ?" 'A savage!" I exclaimed. ���������Per haps one of those Indians who were the associates of Jonathan Small." "Hardly that," -said he. "When first I saw signs of strange weapons I was inclined to think so, but the remarkable character of the footmarks caused me to reconsider, my views. Some of the inhabitants of the Indian Peninsula are small men, but none could have left such marks as that. Tlie Hindoo proper has long and thin feet. The sandal-wearing Mohammedan has the great toe well separated from the others, because the thong is commonly |Dassed between. These little darts, too, could only bo shot in one way. They are from .a blow-pipe. Now, then, where are we to find our savage ?" "South American." I hazarded, lie stretched his hand up, and took down a bulky volume from the shelf. "This is the first volume; of ��������� gazetteer which is now-being published. ' It may be looked upon as, tho very latest- authority. What havc.wo,here? .'Andaman Islands, situated three hundred and forty miles to the north of Sumatra in the Bay of Bengal.' Hum! hum.! What's all this? Moist climate, coral reefs, sharks, Port Blair, convict barracks, Rutland Island*, cottonwoods��������� SUMMER STYLES. Dainty Fluffy Capes Elaborately Trimmed and Very Short Jackets. Jet embroidery of various sorts is aeen on fashionable capes, cither covering them or placed around tbe top, in front or at the shoulders. Large bows close the cape, smaller ones being placed as epaulets. A combination of the bolero and cape is seen injtwhich the latter is represented by very ample sleeves composed of many plaifcinga of mousseline de soie or one wide one gathered under a shoulder knot. Capes are seen in all colors and are often made to match gowns. Many pretty ones will be seen this summer trimmed . with white mousseline de soie and .lace, with bows of green, straw, rose and blue. Although the cape was not fashionablo in the eighteenth century, tho Louis Quinze, effect is given to it, since that is seen iu ; everything. These light, bright, fluffy capes, matching the costume, are tho fanoy of the season. Black, of course, will be much used, whether in satin or silk, more or less embroidered, for it accompanies all gowns equally well and-is serviceable. Summer jackets aro exceedingly short, reaching very littlo bolow the waist, and are often much trimmed, although plain ones aro also fashionable. Fancy revers and collars of white or light cloth, embroidered or braided, form, with large and here we 'are. 'The aborigines ot the cases which it- is their duty to investigate." '' "Isn't it gorgeous !" said Holmes, Srinning over, his coffee cup. "What o you think of it ?" "I think that we have had a close shave ourselves of being arrested for' the crime." "So do I. I wouldn't answer for our safety now, if he should happen to have another of his attacks of energy." At this moment there was a loud ring at the bell, and I could hear Mrs. Hudson, our landlady, raising her voice in ��������� a wail of expostulation and disma3r. "By heaven, Holmes," I said, half- rising, "I believe they are really after us." "No, it's not quite so bad as that. It is the unofficial force���������the Baker street irregulars." As he spoke, there came a swift pattering of naked feet upon the stairs, a clatter of high voices, and in rushed a dozen dirty and ragged little street Arabs. There was some show of, discipline among them, despite their tumultuous entry, for they instantly drew up in line and stood facing us with expectant faces. One of their number, taller and older than the others, stood forward with an air of lounging superiority which was very funny in such a disreputable little scarecrow. 'v "G-ot your message, sir," said he, "and brought 'em on sharp. Three bob and a tanner for tickets " ah the Andaman Islands may pernaps ^claim the distinction of being thesmallest raceupon this earth, though some anthropologists prefer tho Bushmen of Africa, thedJigger Indians of America, and the Terra del Fucgiaiis. The average height is rather below four feet, although many full-grown adults may be found who are very much smaller than this. They are a fierce, morose and intractable people, though capable of forming most devoted friendships when their confidence has been once gained.' Mark that, Watson. Now, then, listen to this. 'They are naturally hideous, having large, misshapen hoads, small, fierce eyes, and distorted features. Their feet and hands, however, are remarkably small. So, intractable and fierce are they that all the efforts of the British officials have failed to win them over in any degree. They have ahvaj^s been a terror to shipwrecked crows, braining the survivors with their stone- headed .clubs, or shooting them with their poisoned arrows. These massacres are invariably concluded by a cannibal feast.' Nice, amiable people, Watson ! ' If 'this fellow had been left to his own unaided devices this affair might have taken an oven more ghastly turn. I fancy that, even as it is, Jonathan Small would give a good deal not to have employed him.." TO BK CONTINUED.) case V))> "Well," said I, laughing. "This is just the case where they might be invaluable. If they fail, I have other resources ; but I shall try them first. That wire was to my dirty little lieutenant, Wiggins, and I expect that he and his gang will be with us before we have finished our breakfast." It was between eight and nine o'clock now, and I was conscious of a strong reaction after the successive excitements of the night. I was limp and weary, befogged in mind $nd fatigued in body. I had not the professional enthusiasm which-carried my companion on, nor could I look at the matter as a mere abstract intellectual problem. As far as the death of Bartholomew Sholto went, I had heard little good of him, and could feel no intense anti- Eathy to his murderers. The treasure, owever, was a different matter. That, or part of it, belonged rightfully to Miss Morstan. While there was a chance of recovering it, I was ready to devote my life to the one object. True, if I found it, it would probably put her forever beyond my reach. Yet it would be a petty and selfish love which would be influenced by such a thought as that. If Holmes could work to find the criminals, I had a tenfold stronger reason to urge me on to find the treasure. A bath at Baker street and a complete change freshened me up wonderfully. When I came down to our room "Here you are," said Holmes, producing some silver. "In future they can report to you, Wiggins, and you to me. I cannot have the house invaded in this way. However, it is just as well that you should' all hear the instructions. I want to find the whereabouts of a steam launch called the Aurora, owner, Mordecai Smith, black with two red - streaks, funnel black with a white band. She is down the river somewhere. I want one boy to be at Mordecai Smith's landing stage, opposite Millbank, to'see if the boat comes back. You must divide it out amog yourselves, and do both banks thoroughly. Let me know the moment you have news. Is that all clear?" "Yes. guv'nor," said Wiggins. "The old scale of pay, and a guinea to the boy who finds the boat. Here's a day in advance- Now off you go !" He handed them a shilling each, and away they buzzed down the stairs, and I saw them a moment later streaming down the street. "If the launch is above water they will find her," said Holmes, as he rose from the table and lit his pipe. "They can go everywhere, see everything, overhear everyone. I expect to hear before evening that they have spotted her. In the meanwhile, we can do nothing but await results. We cannot pick up the broken trail until we find either the Aurora or Mr- Mordecai Smith." "Toby could eat these scraps, I dare say. Are j^ou ������omS t0 Ded\ Holmes?" "No; I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. I am going to smoke and to think over this queer business to which my fair client has introduced us. If ever man had an easy task this of ours ought to be. Wooden-legged men are not so common, but the other man must, I should think, be absolutely unique." "That other man again I" . "I have no wish to make a mystery of him���������to you, anyway. But you must have formed your own opinion. Now, to consider the data. Diminutive footmarks, toes never fettered, by boots, Dr. Hale's Twin Brother. Dr. Henry M. Field of The Evangelist and Dr. Edward Everett Hale are the same age to a day. Both were born on April 3, 1822. It pleases them that their years are equal, and the fact that they havo but one birthday between them has formed one of many ties that have helped to maintain a lone continued intimacy. Dr. Field sends " Tho Weekly the last birthday letter ho received from Dr. Hale. It is dated at Washington and begins, "My dear young friend." In the course of it Dr. Hale says :-��������� "Frankly I ought to say that lam hardly conscious that I am an old man. I sometimes think it would, be better if. I looked in the glass more often. I am, wj>3n I think of it, quite, aware that I db not see myself as others see me. "I think I enjoy life more than ~I did 60 years ago. I am sure that some things which I cannot manage-fret me'less than they did then. And I am quite sure that I see better how man, the child, can be a fellow worker with God, the Father, than I did then. Such a coworker has, of course, infinite power���������so far forth��������� and he who has that is apt to be cheerful. I try to learn to let younger men and tho women of their ago do.the hard work of the world. I try to confine myself to giving them advice and encouragement, but do not always Bucceed." Judging from Dr. Hale's mood and philosophy, it is a remunerative experience;, to be 75 years old, provided the preliminary steps are well taken. The letter winds up with Dr. Hale's expression of regard for. his "dear twin brother.'V "So he calls me his twin brother," says Dr. Field. "I am very proud of my twin brother, and he, to judge from his letter, seems well satisfied with his." Long life to these brethren and many cheerful returns of their joint birthday 1��������� Harper's Weekly. Depcw's Physicians. Chauncey M. Depew is to take his vacation earlier than usual this year. Ha will sail for Europe the second week in May, to be gone seven weeka. "My doctor tells me that I need a rest," Dr. Depow said yesterday. "I have been doing my full share of work lately, and am still doing it, in fact. But he thinks that a rest will do me lots of good. Mr. Webb has been ill for six months. He came back to work Monday, apparently restored to health. Mr. C. C. Clarke, the first vice-president of the Central, is now on his way back from California, and will be at his desk on Monday. Their absence has kept me busy, but with them back and things running easily, it won't be difficult for me to get away." "Who is your physician?" Dr. Depew was asked. "Don't ask me. I'd rather not say," he said, with a deprecating wave of his hand. "I have several, and I call upon them according to what seems to be the matter with me. To mention any parMo- ular one might create jealousy, and I do&'t oare to do that." Hr. Depew's large staff of medical attendants is something ef a standing joke atnonK prominent Now York dootors. One <3 them said yesterday that probably oner&lrd of the best kndtcra physicians in the city had been called in at v_rlo_������ times by Dj\ Depew, aooordtag to his own diaynoaio oi the oataplai-t he -wanted to be treated for.���������_Fe*r York B������ral_. ��������� ' MATINEE. small buttons, tho chief decorations. The buttons should bo small when they are used for a vest effect, which is scon on somo' of the new jacket medals. The particularly novel fancy in- jackets is that ot having them made in bright colors���������deep violet, cornflower blue, scarlet and clear green. This idea is a very pretty and pleasing one, whether the jacket is plain or decorated. But no ornamentation is really **e- ( quired, tho color alone being sufficient adornment. " > ' A picture is given of a matinee of straw surah. It is close fitting at tho back, but loose in front, the full vest being adorned by a horizontal trimming of lace and narrow, pale blue ribbon. Thc large revers, forming coquilles, are similarly trimmed, as is the collar. There is a capuchoh of surah trimming, wilh lace. Tho sleeves are gathered up the outside and are finished at tho wrist by frills of laco. .TUDIC CHOLLET. White Nut Cake. The whites of 6 eggs, 2 cupfuls of sugar, 1 cupful of butter, 1 of milk, 8 of flour and ���������'��������� 2 . teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Flavor with almond and add a half pound of English walnuts, broken not too fine. , The Decoration of Doors. The decoration of doors as screens ia, according to The Puritan, becoming usual in many places where a hanging was formerly used. The tapestry or bro- TAPESTRT DECORATIOHS. . ' ' cade fastened to the door makes a pleasant break for the eye in the scheme of wall treatment and is not only decorative but durable. The authority quoted illustrates the effect of tapestry decorations not only on the doors but walls of a dining room. Things Women Want to Know. Handkerchief bags are small and flat and are worn at the side. The white silk and satin bodice is a pretty feature of the new cloth gowns. The princess dress is very popular in Paris, and many handsome gowns of velvet and silk for weddings and other dressy occasions are cut in this style. The sleeve of the moment certainly has length to recommend it almost in proportion to the size it has lost, and the pretty fall of lace at the wrist is very becoming to any but the short, stout arm. Hats of taffeta silk are novelties in millinery. The walking stick for women is said to be coming in again. It is the fashion just now to appear very metaphysical and philosophical, and it is said in this connection that gray hairs are fashionable. A good oook ia one who can make stewed prunes taste as if she had washed them before oookiog them. ��������� ) *>_ '������ ; il \' 'fl 4 m J A AN APPEAL FOR INDIA REV. DR. TALMAGE IN BEHALF OF, . A FAMINE STRICKEN PEOPLE. "Blessed is He That Considereth the Poor) the Lord Will Deliver Him in Time of . Trouble"���������A Thrilling: Story or a Proi- , j trate People. Chicago, May 2.���������Dr. Talmage is on a mission of bread for the famine sufferers of India. He .'.'��������� is speaking every day to vast audiences in Iowa and Illinois, helping to fill the ships provided by the United States government for carrying corn to India. Text, Esther i, 1, "This is Ahasuerus which reigned from India ���������ven unto Ethiopia." Among the 773,693 words which make up the Bible only once occurs ,the word "India." In this part of the Scriptures, which the rabbis call "Megillah Esther," or the volume of Esther, a book some times complained against because the word, "God"' is not even once mentioned in it, although one rightly , disposed can Bee God in it from the first chapter to the last, we have it set forth that Xerxes, or Ahasuerus, who invaded Greece with 8,000,000 men, but returned in a poor fisher's boat, had a vast dominion, among other regions, India. In my text' India takes its place in Bible geography, and the interest in that land has continued to increase until with more and more enthusiasm all around the world Bishop Heber's hymn about "India's coral strand" is being 6iing. Never will I forget the thrill of anticipation that went through ray body and mind and soul when after two week's tossing on the seas around Ceylon and India���������for the winds did not, according to the old hymn "blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle'.'���������our ship nailed up one of the mouths, of the Ganges past James and Mary island so named because a royal ship of that name was wrecked there, and I stepped ashore at Calcutta, amid the shrines and tern- pies, and sculptures of that City of Palaces, the strange physiognomies of the living and the cremations of the dead. I had never expected to be there, because the sea and I long ago had a serious falling out, but the facilities of travel are so increasing that ' you or your children will probably visit that land of boundless fascination. Its configuration is such as no ono but God could have architected, and it seems as if a man who had no religion going there would be obliged to acknowledge a God, as did the cowboy in Colorado. His companion, an atheist, had about persuaded' the cowboy that there was no , God, but coming amid some of that tremendous scenery of high rooks and awful chasms, and depths, dug under depths, and mountains piled .on mountains, the' cowboy, said to his atheistic companion,' "Jack, if there is no God, I guess from the looks of things around here there must have been a God gome time." No ono but the Omniscient could have planned India, and no one but the .Omnipotent could have" built it. It is a'great triangle, its baso thc Himalayas, a word meaning "the. dwelling place of snows," those mountains pouring out of their crystal cup . tho Indus, the Brahmaputra and the Ganges to slake the thirst of the vast populations of India. That country is thc home of 240,000.000 souls. Whatever be one's taste, going there his taste in gratified. Some go as hunters of great game, and there is no end to their entertainment. Mighty fauna ���������bison, buffalo, rhinoceros, .elephant, panther, lion, tiger, this last to be the perpetual game for Americans and Europeans because he comes up from tho malarial swamps where no human being dare enter, the deer:, and antelope his accustomed food, but once having obtained the taste of human blood he wants nothing else and is. called ''the man eater.'' You cannot see the tiger' s natural ferocity after he has been humiliated by a voyage across the sea. You need to hear his growl as he presses his iron paw against the cage in Calcutta. Thirteen towns have been abandoned as residence because of the work of'this cruel invader. In India, in the year 1S77, 819 people were slain by the tiger and 10,000 cattle destroyed. From the back of the elephant or from galleries built among the trees 1,500 tigers went down and $18,000 of government reward was paid the sportsmen. I advise all those* who in America and other lands find amuseinent in shooting singing birds, coining home at night with empty powder flask and a_ whole choir of heaven slung over their shoulder I to absent themselves for awhile and attack the justifiable game of India. Or if you go as botanists, oh, what opulence of flora! With no distinct flora of its own, it is the chorus of all the flora of Persia and Siberia and China and Arabia and Egypt. ��������� Two Groat Passions. The Baptist missionary Carey, who did infinite good to India, had two 'great passions���������first, a passion for souls, and, miles, yet gets louder and more agonizing as the days go by. But why have any interest in people so far away that it is evening there when it is morning here, their complexion darker, their language to us a jargon, their attire unlike that found in any American wardrobe, their memory and their ambition'" unlike anything that we recall or hope for? With more emphasis than you put into the interrogatory "Why?" I answer, first, because our Christ was an Asiatic. Egypt gave to us its monuments, Eome gave to us its law, Germany gave to us its philosophy, but Asia gave to us its Christ. His mother an ��������� Asiatic; the mountains that looked down upon him, Asiatic; the lakes on whose pebbly banks he rested and on whose chopped waves he walked, Asiatic;-- the apostles whom he first commissioned, .Asiatic; the audiences" he whelmed with his illustrations drawn from blooming lilies and salt crystals and great rainfalls and bellowing tempests and hypocrits' long faces and croaking ravens���������all those audiences Asiatic. Christ during his earthly stay was never outside of Asia. When he had 16 or 1������ years to spare from his active work, instead of spending that time in Europe, I think he goes farther toward the heart of Asia���������namely, India.- The Bible, says nothing of Christ from 12 years of age until 30, but there are records in India and traditions in India which represent a, strange, wonderful, most excellent and supernatural' being as staying in India about that time. I think Christ was. there much of the time between, his twelfth and his .thirtieth year, but however that may be, Christ was born in Asia, suffered in Asia, died in Asia and ascended from Asia, and all that makes me turn my ear more attentively toward that continent as I hear its cry of distress. 1 Noble Missionaries. Besides that, I remember that some of the most splendid achievements for the cause of that Asiatic Christ have been made in India. How the heart of every intelligent Christian beats with admiration at tho mere'mention of the name of Henry Martyn! Having read the life of our American Davidf_Brainerd, who gave his life Ho evangelizing our American savages, Henry Martyn goes forward to give his life for the. salvcition of India, dying from exhaustion of service at 31 years of age. Lord Macaulay, writing of him, says:��������� Here Martyn' lies. In manhood's early bloom The Christian hero found a pagan tomb. Religion, sorrowing o'er her favorite son, Points to the glorious trophies which he won. Immortal trophies! Not with slaughter red, Nor stained with tears by friendless orphans shed, But trophies of the cross. In that dear name, Through every scene of danger, toil and shame, Onward he journeyed to that happy shore, Where danger, toil and shame are known no more. Is there in all history, secular or religious, a more wondrous character than William Carey, the converted shoemaker of England, daring all things for God in India, translating the Bible into many dialects, building chapels and opening mission' houses and laying foundations for the redemption of the country,; and although Sydney Smith, who sometimes laughed at things he ought not to have satirized, had in" .the learned Edinburgh Review scoffed at the idea of what he called "lowborn, lowbred mechanics" like Carey1 attempting to convert the Brahmans, Carey stopped not until he had started influences that eternity, no more than. time, shall have power to arrest, 213,000 Bibles going forth from his printing presses at Serampore. .His siib- lime humility showing itself in the epitaph he ordered from the old gospel hymn':���������!i���������-���������' ������������������->.' .' ������������������;"��������� A.wretched, poor and helpless worm, On thy kind arms I fall. next, a passion for flowers���������and he adorned his Asiatic home and the American homes of his friends and museums on either side the sea with the results of his floral expeditions in India. To prepare himself for morning prayers he was accustomed to walk amid the flowers and trees. It is the heaven of tho magnolia and abelmosk and palm tree. The ethnologist going there will find endless entertainment in the study of the races now living there and the races of whose blood they are a commingling. The historian going there will find his theory of Warren Hastings' government in India the reverse from that which Edmund Burke gave him in the most, famous address ever made in a courtroom, its two characteristics matchless eloquence and onesidedness of statement. The archaeologist will be thrown into a frenzy of delght as he visits Delhi of India and digs down and finds seven dead cities underneath the now living city. All success to the hunters,and the botanists, and the ethnolgists, and the historians, and the archaeologists, who visit India, each.one on his or her errand. But we to-day visit India as Christian women and men to hear the full meaning of a groan of hunger that has travelled 14,000 Need I tell you of Alphonse Lacroix, the Swiss missionary in India, or of William Butler, the glorious American Methodist missionary in India, or of the royal family of the Scudders, of the Reformed Church of America, my dear mother church to whom I give a kiss of love in passing, or of Dr. Alexander Duff, the Scotch missionary whose visit to this country some, of us will remember, forever? \Vhen he'stood in the old Broadway tabernacle, New, York, and pleaded for India until there was no other depth of religious emotion for him to stir and no loftier height of Christian eloquence for him to scale, and closed in a whirlwind of halleluiahs, I coiild easily believe that which was said of him, that while pleading the cause of India in one of the churches in Scotland he got so overwrought that he fell in the pulpit in a swoon and was carried into the vestry to be resuscitated, and when restored to his senses and preparation was being made to carry him out to some dwelling where he could be put to bed, he compelled his. friends to take him back to the pulpit to complete his plea for tho salvation of India, no sooner getting on his feet than he began where he loft off, but with more gigantic power than before ho fainted. But just as noble as any I have mentioned are the men and women who are there now for Christ's sake and the redemption of that people. Far away from their native land, famine on one side and black plague on the other side, swamps breathing on them malaria, and jungles howling on them with wild beasts or hissing with cobras; tho names of those missionaries of all denominations to be wiitten so high on the roll of martyrs that no names of the last 1,S00 years shall be written above them. Yon need to see them at their work in schools and churches and lazarettos to appreciate them. All honor upon them and their households, while I smite the lying lips of their slanderers! Their Kelisrion. Most interesting are the people of India. At Calcutta, I said to one of their leaders, who spoke English well:��������� "Have these idols which I see any power of themselves to help or destroy?" He said: "No; they only represent God. There is but one God." "When people die, where do they go to?" 1' That depends upon what they have been doing; if they have - been doing good, to heaven, and if they have been doing evil, to hell." "But do you not believe in the transmigration of souls, and that after death we go into birds or .animals of some sort?" "Yes; the last creature a man is thinking of while dying is the one into which he will go. If he is thinking of a bird, he will go into a bird; if he,is thinking of a beast, he will go into a, beast." , "I thought you said that at death the soul goes to heaven or hell?' "He goes there by a gradual process. It may take him years and years." "Can any one become a Hindoo? Could I become a Hindoo?' "Yes, you could." "How could T become a Hindoo?" "By doing as the Hindoos do." , From the walls of one of their museums at Jaipur I had translated for me these beautiful sentiments:��������� The wise make failure equal to success. Like threads, of silver seen through crystal beads, let love through good deeds 6how. Do not to others that which if done to .thee would cause thee pain. And this is the sum of duty., A man obtains a proper rule of action by looking on his neighbor as himself. An Eloquent Appeal. From that continent of interesting folk, from that continent that gave the Christ, from that, continent whioh has been endeared by so many missionary heroics, there comes a groan of , 80,000,- 000 people in hunger. More people are in danger of starving to death in India today than the entire population of the United States' In the famine in India in the year 1877 about 6,000,000 people starved to death. That is 'more than all the people of Washington, of New York, of Philadelphia, of Chicago put together. But that famine was not a tenth part as awful as the one there now raging. Twenty thousand are dying there of famine every day. -Whole villages and towns have died���������every man, woman and child; none left to bury the dead. The vultures and the jackals are the only pall-bearers. Though some help has been sent, before full relief can roach them I suppose there will be at least 10,000,000 dead. Starvation, even for one person, is an awful process. No food, ' the vitals gnaw upon themselves, and faintness and languor and pangs from head to foot, and horror and despair and insanity take full possession. One handful of wheal or corn or rice per day would keep life going but they cannot get a handful. The crops failed and the millions are dying. Oh, it is hard to be hungry in a world where there are enough'Ggrain and fruit and meat t'o fill all the hungry mouths on the planet! But, alas, that the sufferer and the supply cannot be brought, together. There stands India today. Look at her. Her face'dusky from the hot suns of many centuries. Under her turban such achings of brow as only a dying nation feels; her eyes hollow with unutterable woe; the tears'rolling down her sunken cheek; her back bent with more agonies than she knows how to carry; her ovens containing nothing but ashes. Gaunt, ghastly, wasted, the dew of, death upon her forehead and a pallor such as the last hour brings, she stretches forth her trembling hand toward us and with hoarse whisper she says: "I am dying! Give 'me bread! That is what I want! Bread! Give it to me quick. Give it to me now. Bread, bread, bread!" , . America has heard the cry. Many thousands of dollars have already been contributed. One ship laden with bread- stuffs has sailed from San Francisco for India. Our senate and������ house of representatives in a bill signed by our sympathetic president have authorized the secretary of the navy to charter a' vessel to carry food/, to the famine sufferers, and you may. help fill that ship. We want to send at least 600,000 bushels of corn. That will save the lives of at least 600,- 000 people. Many will respond in oontri- butions Of money, and the barns and corncribs of. the entire United States will pour forth their treasures of food. When that ship is laden till it can carry no more, Ave will ask him who holds the winds in'his fist and plants his triumphant foot oh stormy waves to let nothing but good happen to the ship till'it anchors in Bengal or Arabian waters. They who help by contributions of money or bread s'fcuffs. toward filling that relief ship will flavor their own food for their lifetime with appetizing qualities and insure their own welfare through the promise of him who said, "Blessed is ha that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble." grandly up amid the masts and ratlines. Having had the joy of seeing that ship thus consecrated we had the additional joy of standing on the docks at. St. Petersburg when the planks of the relief ship were thrown out and the representatives of the municipalities and of royalty went aboard her, the* long freight train at the same time rolling down to take the food to the starving, and on alternate cars of that train .American and Russian flags floating. But now the hunger in India is mightier than any that Ireland or Russia ever suffered. Quicker ought to be the response and on' so vast a scale that the one ship would become a whole flotilla���������New York sending one, Boston another, Philadelphia another, Charleston another, New Orleans another. Then let them all meet in some ,harbor of India. What a peroration of mercy for the nineteenth century! I would like to stand on the, wharf at Calcutta or Bombay and see such a fleet come in. With what joy it would be welcomed! The emaciated would lift their heads on shriveled hands and elbows and with thin lips ask. "Is it coming���������something.,, to, eat?." And whole villages and towns, too weak to walk, would crawl out on hands and knees to get the first grain of corn .they could reach and put it to their famished lips. , May I cry out for you and for others to those sufferers: " Wait a little longer, bear Up a little more, O dying men of.India! Relief is on the way, and more relief will, soon be coming. We send if in the name of the Asiatic Christ, who said, 'I was hungry and ye fed me; inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these,1 my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' " Christian ' people of America! I call your attention to the fact that we may now, as never before, by one magnificent 6troke open the widest door for the evan gelization of Asia. A stupendous obstacle in the way of Christianizing Asia has been the difference of language, but all those people understand the gospel of bread. Another obstacle has been tne law of caste', but in what better 'way can we teaoh them the brotherhood of man? Another huge difficulty . in the way of Christianizing Asia has been that those people thought the religion . we would have them take was no better than their Hindooism or Mohammedanism, but they will now see by this crusade for the relief of people 14,000 miles away that the Christian religion is of a higher, better and grander type than any other religion, for when did the followers of Brahma, or "Vishnu, or Buddha, or Confucius, or Mohammed ever demonstrate like interest in people on the opposite side of the world? Having taken the bread of this life from our hands, they will be more apt to take from us the bread of eternal life. The missionaries ot different denominations in -India at 46 stations are already distributing relief sent through The Christian Herald. > Is it not plain that those missionaries, after feeaing the hunger of the "body, will be at better advantage to feed the hunger of the soul? When Christ, before preaching 'to the 5,000 in the wilderness broke for them the miraculous loaves, he indicated that the best way to prepare the world for spiritual and eternal consideratiops is first to look after their temporal interests, bh, church of God in America and Europe! This is your opportunity. We have on occasions of Christian patriotism cried, "America for God!" Now let us add the battle shout, "Asia for God!" In this movement to give food to starv- I ing India I hear the rustling of the j wings of the Apocalyptic angel, ready to fly through the midst of heaven proclaiming to all the kingdoms and people and tongues the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ. ������ which are burning-, out rapidly toward the crust may have reached the surface by that time and the Bible prophecy be ! - fulfilled, which declares that the earth '���������' and all things that are therein shall be burned up. The ransomed human race at that time oh earth will start unhurt in those chariots pf fire for the- great me- , tropolis of the universe, the heaven, ' where the redeemed of the Lord shall talk over the famines, and the plagues, and the wars which .this earth suffered and against Avhich we struggled1 and prayed as long as there was any breath in us. Glorious consummation! } 13 / CHRISTIANITY OWES MUCH TO HIS ZEAL AND ENDURANCE. His _ife Daring the Early B_ys of Methodism Jh Canada Wan Often One of Great Hardship���������The Story of One NowKnJoy- inr a Ripe Old Are. i From the Simcbe Reformer. ' A Divine Circle. Somethinsr to Eat. Oh, what a relief ship that will be! It shall not turn a screw nor hoist a sail until we have had something to do with its cargo. Just 17 years ago from these Easter times a ship on similar errand went out from New York harbor���������the old war frigate Constellation. It had once carried guns of, death, but there was famine in Ireland, and. the Constellation was loaded with 500 tons of food. That ship, once covered with smoke of battle, then covered with Easter hosannas! That ship, constructed to battle England, going forth over the waters to carry relief to some of her starving subjects. Better than sword into plowshare, better than spear into pruning hook, was that old ��������� war frigate turned into a white winged angel of resurrection to roll away the stone from the mouth of Ireland's sepul- cher. . On like errand five years ago the ship Leo put out with many tons of food for famine struck Russia. One Saturday afternoon, on tho. deck of that steamer as she lay at Brooklyn wharf, a wondrous scene took place. A committee of the King's Daughters had decorated the ship with streamers and bunting. American and Russian flags intertwining. Thousands of people on the wharfs and on the decks joined us in invoking God's blessing on the cargo, and the long meter Doxology in "Old Hundred" sounded And now I bethink myself of something I never thought of before. I had noticed that the circle is God's favorite figure, and upon thatsubiect I addressed you some time ago, but it did not occur to me until now thatthe gospel seems to be moving in a circle.' It started in Asia, Bethlehem, an Asiatic village; Jordan, an Asiatic .river;-' Calvary, an Asiatic mountain. Then this gospel moved on to Europe; < witness the chapels and churches and cathedrals and Christian universities of that continent. Then it crossed to America. ' It has prayed and preached and sung its way across our continent. It has crossed to Asia, taking, the Sandwich Islands in its way, and now in all the great cities on the coast of China people are singing "Rock of Ages" and "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood," for you must know that riot only have the Scriptures been, translated into those Asiatic tongues, but also the evangelical hymns. My missionary brother John translated some of them into Chinese, and Mr. Gladstone gave me a copy of the hymn, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," which he had himself translated into Greek. The Christ who it seems spent 16 or 18 years of his life in India is there now in spirit, converting and saving the people by the hundreds of thousands, and the gospel will move right on through Asia until the story of the Saviour's birth will anew be made.known in Bethlehem, and the story of a Saviour's sacrifice be told anew on and around Mount Calvary, and the story of a Saviour's ascension be told anew on the shoulder of Mount . Olivet. And then do you not see the circle will be complete? The glorious circle, the circle of the earth. This old planet, gashed with earthquake and scorched with conflagration and torn with revolutions, will be girdled with churches, with schools, with universities, with millennial festivities. How cheering and how inspiring the thought that we are, whether giving temporal or spiritual relief, working on the segment of such a circle, and that the Christly mission which started in Asia will keep on its way until it goes clear around to the place where it started. Then the earth will have demonstrated, that for which it was created, and as soon as a world has completed its mission it dies. Part of the heavens is a cemetery of dead worlds. Our world, built to demonstrate to the worlds which have been loyal to God the awful results of disloyalty, so that none of them may ever attempt it���������I say our world, having finished its mission, may then go out of existence. The central fires of the world In the early days of Methodism in Canada the gospel was spread abroad in the land by the active exertions of the circuit rider. It required a man of no ordinary health and strength; an iron oonetitu- tion' and unflagging determination to fulfil the arduous' duties incumbent on one who undertook to preach salvation to his fellowmen. It was no easy task that these men set themselves to, but they were strong,in the faith and hope of ultimate reward. Many fell by the wayside, while others struggled oh and prospered, and & few are to-day enjoying a ripe old age, happy in the knowledge that a lasting reward will soon be theirs. Most of these old .timers are not now engaged in active church work, ' but have been placed on the superannuated list, and are now living a quiet life in town or on a farm, free from the cares of the world, they await the call to come up higher. Rev. David Williams, who lives two miles southwest of Nixon,'Ont., in the, township of Windham, Norfolk County, was one of these early days circuit riders. He was a man of vigorous health and although without many advantages in th* way of early education he succeeded by dint of hard and constant study in being admitted to the ministry. He was the first born in the first house built in Glen Williams, near Georgetown, ' Mr. Geo." Kennedy, the founder of Georgetown, being a brother of his mother. To-day he is 70 years old and for the past 26 years has lived in this county. For many years he had been a sufferer from kidney and kindred diseases. He tried all kinds of remedies, and although sometimes temporarily relieved, lie gradually grew worse until in October, 1895, he was stricken with, paralysis. From this he partially recovered .'and recovered his powers, of speech, but his mind was badly wrecked and his memory was so poor that he could not remember the name of the per- son^o whom he wished to 6peak without thinking intently for several minutes. One day driving to church he wished to speak of a neighbor who lived next to him for twenty years, but he could not recall the name for an hour or more. In addition to his mental trouble, he had intense bodily suffering; pains In the head, across the forehead, in the temples and behind the ears, across the lower part of the skull and in the joint of. the neck. He had great weakness and pains in the back, hips and legs. In fact, so much did he suffer that sleep was almost an impossibility, and he fell away in weight until, he weighed only 146 pounds. By this time, Dec, 1895, he became despondent and felt that if he did not soon obtain relief, he would soon bid adieii to the things of this world. On the 20th of December he read ot a cure .in The Reformer by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and being seized with a sudden Inspiration at once wrote to Br������ckville f������r a supply of that marvellous remedy. Immediate good results followed their use and he has improved wonderfully during the past year. He has recovered his bodily health and strength, is comparatively free from pain and his memory is nearly as good as it ever was; and as the improvements continues "the prospects are very bright for complete recovery. He has gained 20 pounds in weight 6ince beginning the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Mr. Williams says: "I can heartily endorse the many good things said of these pills in the papers, and strongly recommend them to any one suffering as I was." Dr: Williams' Pink Pills are a hlood builder and nerve restorer. They supply the blood with its life and health-giving properties, thus driving disease from the system. There are numerous pink colored imitations, against which the public is warned The genuine Pink Pills can be had only in boxes the wrapper around wheh bears the full trade mark, "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People." Refuse all others. -S3. State of Ohio. Ctty of Toledo, \������ Lucas County, /" Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is tho senior partner of tlie firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS tot eacli and every case of Catarrh that cannol be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Oukk. FKANK J. 0HE.N 12Y. Sworn to before me and subscribed in mv presence, this 6th day oi December, A. D., 1886. | SEAL > A. W.GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally and acts directly on the blood Rnd mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. ������_^Sold by druggist*. 7.1c. The VTretch. The Brooklyn school principal whose suit for reinstatement is being tricid before a jury in Brooklyn admits having said, "Let any one of you gentleman t;y the experience of being an uiih:;htiimL man thrown daily among 4b old in;;ids find see what will come, of "it." Away with him !���������Boston Globe. jwnuitrj j =___��������������� .-_j-r_j j>_������e._5~rJiS*i:; '" ^__?"____1-*9 J5CS___^2:**;l"1__E .=> s-iwrdi^wj,^. r^a^gtay^y^^^M^zw^^-i.^^ * ji--y>M3������-*M*r--������ THE WEEKLY NEWS AUG., 31st, 1S97. 85': fe PERSONALS. Mrs. Kenny aud Mrs. Hauck are at Camp Bouita. Rev. Mr. Forater ������nd wife returned to Vic toria last week. M:s3 L. M. Powell, formerly teacher here, is now teaching in Clinton. Miss Edith Dal by of Victoria came up last week aud is staying at Bayue Sound. Mms. Sarah Lewis left Friday to attend another term of St Ann's school, Victoria. Mr. Reifel,' Manager of the Union Brewery of Nanaunn, waa up last week. Mrs. J. J. Wier returned on Wednesday from a visit to her mother in Victoria. Mr. Abram'a family broke up camp on the beach to-day, to enable the children to atteud school.' , Mensers. Dowell & Edwarda of Hornby Ljiaud are among the northern wayfarers iu search for gold. Mr. S. J. Piercy, the best housed, and ono of Comox' most prosperous farmers, was in ton _ last week. Mrs. J. A. Halliday and Miss Barnes left on Friday* morning for Victoria a3 delegates to tho VV. C. T. U. convention. Mr. Richard Creech was up for a week from Victoria to lend his brother, Harry Creech of,the Bailey farm a helping hand. Mr. T. H. Piercy of Den man Maud was over here,last week. The Klondike fever is slowly working its way and in the spring ���������" well, may be. " Mr. John Ford of .Hornby Island returned Friday. His Dulse shows a normal beat ' and thc Yukon has no charms to win him from his "sea-givt isle." ' ' ,- Mr. B. C. Randall, once well known here for his work among the Chinese and as a temperance advocate, was mirried at Canton on the 5th of July ult. Mr. John Urquhart and Mr. Stafford Mc Kelvey rode into town Thursqay. Mr. Urquhart;, when asked the usual question a- bout Klondike vaguely hinted that the flow- era bloomed after tlie winter is past. . Mrs. Richard Mounce and Miss Dimmick, who had heen visiting Mrs. L. Mounce for some weeks'; took the'steamer City of' Na- Daimo, last Friday for their home in New Westminster Dr. Robert Lawrence lefc Frida37 on.a business trip Eist. He will be absent a- boufc a month. Tiiis is his first outing since' he cime to Union. Dr. Weatwood, hio associate-, will of course, uutil Dr. Lawrence returns, attend to all colliery patients as well as ail other pro essional o&lla. LOCALS Help out tbe Courtenay Exhibition by special prises. There waa a dance at, Piket's hall on Friday night. Monday night of last week a panther swooped up five sheep belonging to Mr.Bridges of the Settlement. The tracks indicated there were two eub3���������just to break , them in. Great fire hi Chicago was started by Mrs. Q'Fiarity's cow kicking over a lantern. The small fire in No, 4 slope last week was started by a Mr. Somebody's lantern. Hap pily it was soon pat out. It is to be hoped Mr. Charles Evans will direct his well-recognized inventive talent to the production o fa fire proof lantern. A meeting of the employees of the U. C. ' Co. will be-held this (Tuesday) evening, in the band hall, at 8 o'clock, for the election of three members for the Sick Fund, appoint ment of two members of Sick Fund by the U. C. Co., hearing of statement of accounts of Sick Fund, and for suggestions for benefit of employees. NOTICE All persons are forbidden to deposit night soil or garbage npon or near the hospital grouuds, under penalty of the law. BIRTHS. BOAVADA.���������At Union, Aug. 26th, to the wife of Mr. Scavada, a son. UNION SHIPPING. Aug. 23. -Str. Maude took 135 tons of coal for the C.P.N.Co. Aug. 23.���������The Tepic took 318 tons of coke for Trail. Aug. 24.���������Rapid Transit took 21 tons of coal for fuel. Aug. 26.���������The Topic took 21S tons of coal for the C.P.R., and 196 tons of coke for Trail. Aug. 26.���������The Thistle took 65 tons of coal and 255 tons of clay for Victoria. Aug. 27. ���������Tug Czar left with 343 tons of coal for Chemical Works, Victoria. Aug. 2S.���������The Geo. E. Star came in for 6J tons of fuel. Aug. 28.���������Str. Tees took 42 tons of fuel. Tne Bristol reached here from Dyea on Sunday afternoon. The Sau Mateo will be due this week. REV. D. __cIN___tE HEARD FRO_I. the following from "The D. ac- in be We clip North and West" relative to Rev Mclntyre, who filled Tor a year very ceptably, the Presbyterian pulpit Union. His manv friends here will glad to hear that he is well settled : "Rolla, North Dakota.���������Rev. D. Mclntyre, who has so ably filled the pulpit here for the last three Sabbaths, has received a very hearty call to the pastorate, and has accepted. The people know a good thing when they see it, and are to be congratulated on the choice they have made" TEXADA SIATTERS. While all the talk is about the Klondike, a good deal of work is being done nearer home. The outlook at Texada is daily growing brighter. As the work is carried down values increase. Some ore is being shipped. < Wages are $75 per month. The new hotel is about finished. The lime works are to be started, again soon. Passenger List. By the s. s. City of Nanaimo, Aug. 55: Miss Dally, E. Gartley, Mr! Bloomingdale, W. Bell, J. M. Stokes, R. Prouso, H. Thorn son, W. Crossen, G. R. Ella. R. Craig, E. .Roberts,'E. Bray, M. MarlHou, E. Lauson, A. AUenson, Miss Harney, Mr. Hardie, Mrs. McRenzie, E. Livestone, Wias Cobarn, J. Fork, Mrs. Heatherbell, T. Piercy, Mr. Millett, Mrs. McKelvie, Mr. T. Marshall. Gordon Murdock,' Third St. Union, B. C BlacksrQitljiqg in all its branches, and Wagons neatly Repaired- Subscribe for The News $2.oc per annum . - M. J. HENRY, N ursEpy man and ITLOBIST VANCOUVER, B. C. Greenhouse. Nursery. Apiary and Post- offic Address, 6o4 Westminster. Road. Large stock of flowering bulbs, for fall planting at eaaterh prices or less. Finest stock of transplanted three and four years old fruit trees' 1 ever offered, An extra choice assortment of small fruit plants and bushes, roses, ornamentals, etc. at lowest cash prices. NO AGENTS! Send for catalogue'before placing your order; it will pay you. Why send away for your printing -when you,can get it done equally as well at the News ? Our prices are reasonable, and we are now prepared to turn, out everything in the line of Job Printing. ...FOR SALE.��������� Consisting of Cows, Heifers, Calves, Bulls, all a No. 1 stock of the best Strains, and registered in A. J. C. C: also Berkshire Swine from ' Imported Stock. and Italian Bees, prices low. Address: J. S. SMITH .. Cloverwork Farm ... CHiLLIWACK, B.ci Espimalt & Maimo Ey.. Time Table No. 28, To take effect at 8 a.m. on Monday Mar 29th 1897. Trains run on Pacific Standard time. - GOING NORTH���������Read down. ' " Sat. & 1 Daily. | Sund'y Lv. Victoria for Nanaimo and | A. M. I r. M. Wellington | 8.00 I 4.00 ������ .4r. Nanaimo | 11.48 1 7.25 Ar. \Volli_j?ton | 12.15 1 7.45 GOING SOUTH���������Read up; ������������������ ��������� __________ I Daily. [ Sat. & Sund'y. GORDON MURDOCK'S Single and Double Rigs to let ' ' ": ���������at��������� Seasonable Prices Near Blacksmith Shop, 3rd St. UNION, B. C. Ar. Victoria... Lv. Nanaimo for Victoria. .. Lv, 'Wellington for Victoria 12.30 8.40 8.15 8 00 4.33 4.15 NOTICE. Having purchased the livery outfit of Mr. Ed Woods' I am prepared to accommodate the public with j^ood rigs-at reasonable prices., July 2&lv ' Gordon Murdock. J For rates and information apply at Com- pnxiy s offices. A. DUNSM UIR, JOSEPH HUNTER. President. Gen'l Supt ILK. PRIOR, Gen. Freight and Passenger Ast, ���������GO TO��������� SID C, HOOVER'S The only First Class Tonsorial Artist ia the City. When you may wiah an easy shave As }j(K)i5 ;m barbers ever gave, ' Just call at my shaving parlor At morn, eve or busy noon. I cut'and dress tha hair with grace To suit' the contour of the face. The room is neat and towel* clean, , Scissors sharp and razors keen, , And everything I think you'll find , To suit tlie tasto and please the mind; And all my art and nkill can do, It you just call I'll do for you. c SID C. HOOVER Union, B. C. Oppooite Yendoine Hotel. f&ll pan ish e beat e every e and fin are first class* SLATER S���������It is needless to tell you anything about this make. You already know that theirs are the leaders for men. We have just received all the latest styles for the fall. The Bull-dog, with heavy rubber soles, the Broad-foot, the Piccadilly and the Coin, are some of the new ones. You will be well repaid by having a look at these before buying. We have them to fit all feet, long or short, broad or narrow. AMES HOLDEN and CO, ^e have as usual, a fullline of this popular firm's in ladies', misses, child's, men's and boys', in prices to suit every one Ladies' and misses Oxford shoes must be cleared out. $1.25. See the lines at 75c. $1.00 and %i n.M v '1 A -i\\ } ,' il 1 W Ml 4,4 m {[ M< s i (���������> i :)| v I i I-
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