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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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o yyv^^ cyfj ^yp^a^l'frfat^ s H> NO. 228. UNION C3MOX DISTRICT. B. C, TUESOaY MARCH. 30th, 1897. $2.00 PER ANNUM. *w For the choicest meats we are head quarters. If you have not tried our noted sausages, boiogna and head cheese, you should do so at once. Fresh vegetables,, eggs and butter, salmon bellies, Mackerel, etc. SHIPPING SUPPLIES: - O- SZIMIOJ-T _,_ __-__ EISEB -������&-'.^_-^_������ _jp������ilN^������^^ A successful merchanLand we will show you ML a man who keeps thoroughly posted* and y/(jj watches thes cost of every single artrcle he )tj) purcnases. _S) * . . W to K11I. Applies to Economical SausoSiespBrs.; .*8 "'-..���������.' ��������� ' ��������� \f/J .That's the reason the wpmen of Union use -^ ' our priy.es as a standard for what they should'- ((({ 1 pay for .goods elsewhere^ , .- ' y\y -, uh PRICES ON APPLICATION AT: \ -"'.y'm . *. ������ * ' ��������� * , ���������" , ' my - ��������� , IKSSa. ��������� ij ,.^^^������g#^?^inSS^^^^3^^s_^^ ^#s������?:T >t__=_- .FISHING ��������� ������ ��������� TACKLE ���������*. .���������o��������� A full line of Keels, Lines, Flics, Minnows; fe Spoons, Baskets, Fly- % books, Gut, Casts, W Hooks, etc , in stock. J|/ Write for anything W you need and get it by m return boat. J. SAMPSON, Nanaimo B.C The Peace cf Europe. They are {fathering round the isl'ind, They're besieging little Crete; They have tons of Kims and powder On the vessels of each fleet; They-could blow the isle to atoms��������� Yes, and smile, too, as they blew it��������� For they'll keep the peace of Europe If it takes a tij^ht to do it! They arc growling- at each other Like a lot of angry curs; Each -is jealous and suspicious If .mother bulldog stirs; Each would like to crush the others, Yet each knows that he would rue it And they'll keep the peace of Europe If it takes a fight to do ii ! ���������Selected. RANDOM TALK. MARCH WEATHER ! The month came in like a lamb and true to its nature goes out'like a lion, but if the weather truly represents these animals, then give me the lamb every time rind all tiie time. But after March, what? I hope a good deal of the lamb. 1 have had a stomach full of lion and won't require any more for a long time. \Ve are having our exodus. Mostly of young men, smitten with the gold fever. For this there is no specific but a journey, and a laige dose of that. . A solid half dozen of our young, men started for "where .rolls the Yukon and ___e?*rs no sound save his own 'dash.ngs" A jour- ���������-neyof900milesfri.nl ".he coast into lhe wilderness, "over mountains, through morasses into the heart el' isolation, where no''fish swim, the river, nor bird, flies in the air, nor wild beast roams the* desolate wilds; where'ice and snow reign .supreme; where starvation and death or a wealth of gold dust- awaits the daring intruder. -What enchantment there is in ���������danger, privation, 'distance,'coupled with the possible, realization of gold! And next week mote arc going to start from here; and this"'is" a. "sample of what is going on elsewhere. " *'..' - Well,' I .wonder why more don't sec golden sands nearer'home���������in the islands ���������of.-the gulf, or on , our own Vancouver Island with,its huge Jungainly vertebra f-l!ed with golden marrow, on the coast , of the -Mainland between Howe Sound ancl Alaska, whose secret wealih is lapp ed with the briny tongue of the sea. ��������� Giiii _K9"Dealer in Stoves aiid Tinware Plumbing and general Sheetiron work PROMPTLY DONE irney .STAgent for the Celebrated Gu'i Souvenir Stoves and ������������������Ranges - Manufacturer of tiie ew Air-tight heaters M_J-C. X __.A>������.1-������ _- . v*���������wua -*_������������������ . *���������.* **v?*ir*K*nijaimrT.m������*.Tjuuutr9 i-_33C__w_. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Directors of the. Uninn and Comox District Hospital.beg (through the med.- <am of THE News ) to tender their hearty thanks to Mr. Loms Howell, to Mrs. Pi- kit for the use of the hall, and to all those who in anywav assisted at the Benefit Concert in aid of the hospital. The net (proceeds after paying all expenses amoun sswSl to the haodsotne sum of $109,50. Ingenious _3S_ec_a_i*sm. We had the pleasure of seeing two or three days ago a toy metal steam launch, which was the work of little John Anderson, son of Mr. Anderson, the metal worker. The launch was made entirely of metal and was operated in a metal tank. A spirit, magazine furnished the power. The tin deck was pierced by a smokestack, and at th,. lower end of this was a small co:l of wire tubing, reaching two arms down into the water. The blaze from the magazine or lamp fell full upon the coil, heating it and producing steam, which found resistance in one direction m the water, and the launch furnishing the less resistance was propelled forward. It is certainly a remarkable pierce of work for one so young, and shows the little fellow is a chip of the old block. Notice The Annua! Meeting of the members of the Union and Comox District Hospital Co. will be held in the School House, Union* on Saturday next, April 3d, 1897, .commencing at 7. 30 oclock, p. m. James B. McLean, Secretaiy BIRTH. Bandezovn-ia���������At Union, M---rch 22nd, l-Srs. Baudelftvuia of a daughter. SUBSCRIBE TO The News $2.00 PER ANNUM. The loci! medical struggle has at last, .subsided���������very ' mi.c__.--as was expected. 1 It ended"in a secret cb.illot���������a fair, test���������- and there".'it should* be a!!p\\ed" to res!*, The n.ajority.���������of,those '-.dissinng [6- casta, vote who had'th'e, right���������by'1 more than two to one have decided ...it���������and it is- just to say that the majority in favor of Dr. Lawrence among the inhabitants of Cumberland, are gratified with the result. This is a goodly sized town, and without sewerage, and yet the death rate has been almost nix. Surely there must have been both,skill and p-itient attention or such a luminous .record would not have been left. Not. only as a family physician has he excelled but he has handled very many difficult surgical cases, with eminent success. I know there are two- or three crooked limbs in town pointed out as evidence cf want cf skill, but an investigation shows that the orders of the physician were disobeyed, and the limbs moved, even used when thev should have been left in splints. It has also been said he does not keeD up with the latest' discoveries, etc. Now any one visiting his office, if possessed in the least with the useful habit of observation, must have noticed well-thumbed on his desk a medical monthly published at Montreal, one published at Battle Creek, Mich., one at-St. Louis, and one at Portland, Ore.,>-i!-_~ reading of which must keep him in ' touch with the latest knowledge and best thought of the profession. It may indeed be true that he is given to pursuing safe paths, and relying on approved and tried medicines and methods, instead of experimenting. I think this habit commends him to the approval of most people. Din-rant* and those like him furnish the right kind of subjects for experimentation..- I don't want anv of it in mine. The organization of a Social Club with Rev. Mr. Logan as President, is a hopeful sign for the young men; but doesn't it. portend evil for the young women? Or are there so few of the latter that it was Hobson's choice with the young fellows? The. club surely is a much better place than'the streets or the saloons, is next to the home in fact, to.which in many cases I hope it will prove the vestibule. Billy Blum. Union Shipping. The Queen le't on the 2_d, with 811 tons of coal for San Francisco. The ship C. F. ivirgeant is loading for Alaska. The G'oryofthe Seas is loading for" San Francisco. The San Mateo will be due Friday. .ft- General Merchants and Butchers, UNION and COURTENAY, 2^-P-qiVersary B. C -r- * ���������i- THE SUPPER AND SOCIAL at the f f ' ���������> Methodist Church this (Tuesday) evening will doubtless be attended bv all friends of that -..Society as well as those who < y delight in a good wholesome 'ime The Methodist know how to make everyone feel at home. The Supper will tnke place from 6 to 8 o'clock, arid will be followed by a Social. There will be the loilowing PROGRAM. Instrumental selection Miv_ Bertram. ���������a Anthem, "St**.* tht-.y cr.m'e a gloriou. army. '..:.*.'hi.ir. Reading, Mr. Demon. Song, "The Pi'grim of Love.". '. Mr. S.arle. Recitation, "Selling the B-ihj" <. .Mia-. Lilly Weir, Song, " '.. ..Mits lia.h.l Daniel. Dialogue, Me_.r.--Diukii]_.������ & M.N.ughtcn Song, '. -.Mias Abrams. Rkcitation\ .' Mibs Amy Weir. Song, .*... . "Marguerite" Mis Parker Song, " -Thy Sentinel am I" Mr. d. H-cks. Reci'Cation; J*.-1*33 Laura Al-rains. Son., ''The Childreu's Honib",.Mr3 Lowe,. SongjV. . .".-.���������.. .*. '.'..,.: -.Ruth Deo ton. Song', //bHt.on'.he.Doep" Rev. W.m. Hick.a ; Card of Thanks. THE undersigned hereby tenders to the Employees of the Union Colliery Company here, his sincere thanks for their expression of confidence in him, as shown by last Saturday's ballot. R. LAwREnCE. Union, March 29th, 1897. 1 _. -. - FAMINE FUND. Star Ofkick. Montreal, March 10, 1897. Rkv. J. A. Logan, St. Gorge's 1'resbvter Church, Union. B. C. Rev. and Dear Sir: * The subscrip tions for the. Famine Fund have crowded in upon us so fast that more than a mere acknowledgement of individual subscript^ t;ons has been- impossible. The contribution of $106.45 received from the people v of your church was a most ��������� acceptable addition to the Fund, and in estimating its value, regard must be had for the effect of example upon others as well as the amount contiibuted. The churches particulary have done grand work, and have set the whole world talking of the practical Christianity and loyality manifested by Canadians in this hour.of the Empire's need. You will be, glad to hear the amount received at the Star office now exceeds $45,000, the largest food fund in the history cfihe Dominion. We have been uiged to republish the entire list of subscriptions received at the Star office in special form to make a record of historical value, to send to Her Majesty the Queen. Your church people will be entitled to a copy each of this publication. If you drop us a postal card, we "will-see they' are duly forwarded. Yours truly, Graham & Co. NOTE.���������Three dollars ($3 00) more has been sent to the Fund, making a total of $1,19.45 In replying ,to the above as requested, Rev. J. A. Logan stated that he had no doubt but the Union subscribers would be delighted to receive a copy of tne special list, as proposed by the enterpris- j ing Star publishers. - I Subscv 1 be for THE NEV.S ' $2.00 per annum. Wires Down. The te!egr..ph wires have been down -since last Wednesday, and hence we have no news of the outer world to present this week. *��������� _ *' Visit to the Hospital. HTHE present directory have made some very pleasant and. .useful in.pro\emetus'ai the h'csp'it'al larelv- The first thing we noticed'was the wide cork mattiti'' on the 'wide hall running through the building. It wasn't so much the looks, 'although the change in that was inaiked, but -he reedom bom noise which it gives. . This must be very grateful to tl.e patients, and much pleat-iiuer for the nurses \--ho have so much walking to do. A look up and one sees the clingy walls and ceilings have gi-en place ,to the brightness of new paint and tinted kalso- mimng. What a transformation! '.'So simple a thing, and yet such a change.' .' .The carpet on the stairs had'not yet, been laid, but was ready, and as soon- as. a little time can'be spared, will be put in "' phice. The same noiseless carpet "adorns the upper hall. A carpet has also been' provided for the nurses' room,- and for the f.mily sitting 100m. But the paint ��������� and kalsomming' had extended * every- ��������� where, brightening the wards and all ,the \ *��������� *���������*���������*. y . .rooms.-"Two or'three invalid ' chairs " were welcome- guests in -the-.''.ward_.,-,as'i.- -were half a dozen very neat chairs cf ordinary pattern.... *-*.- Theu there ia tbe librar}-. It is located in what is known aa che nurses' room���������a t'Oifc of re.e_.ri_i. ]<'._>., aud *.��������� here the invalids gisher when i,(...v������le,.ciiig. This room ha. ar-me ea_.y chairs, a large, table, ,but best of all a gi-cd sized bock case tilled with books. They have b.t-r_ \> ell selected, 'of plea* ing variety, and furiiit-h a healthy tonio to hours of iuvalidis-ui. Imj-rovemeu-s aie still needed in many directions which u.u_.l await the receipt of money. Nevertheless the ho-apital in its preseut condition u a credit to the place. The following is the directory : Jame3 Abrams, President, A. McKnight, Vice-Presi- ' dent. Dr. Lawrence, Treasurer, J. B. McLean, Secretary, Tnos. Russell, C. H. Tar- , bell, Wm. Mitchell, John Reid and John Thoinp=ou uuder whose intelligent direction the affairs of the hospital have been admirably managed. DEATHS LEVER.���������At Upper Cotnox Settlement, Wednesday Match 24th, Mr. Thos . Lever. ,.'.*..-���������( ���������f, .if - V )4t a Dr. Lawrence Sustained. ' ���������,.���������-. ������ * .,. ��������� - ��������� ��������� .'*���������''��������� A Secret ballot was taken' by the (white) miners FOR and AGAINST Dr.. Lawrence last Saturday. One hundred and ninety-three and a-half vo.es were polled, of which 59/4' .were against him and 134 lor. him���������more than 2 to r. in his favor; lt is to be .presumed the others didn't take enough iniere**:1. in the t* matter to cast a vote. Song Service. The Song Service at the Methodist.Church Sunday ev___iiig, drew an audience which tiiiul th. entire s.a-u.g _-ipaci*y. It was a part of the An/ij .fci'cary Celtbratiou*���������the third���������-and was euiinetuly successful. In fact the song services ofihis church furm a social and very attractive feature. Hev. Mr. Hicks is not only a fipe aioyer, but a splendid couductor, bringing out the best there is iu the choir. Sunday evening, the choir bad been strengthened for the occasion a uoiable addition being Mr G, Hicks, brother ������>f the pastor. It was in splendid form and i s work unusually good, and thoroughly <*-' j '}"-d. A lii-arci-l Btattment .-.howing a ri._ici __- cy ot.Sl-5. 35. Du.Ji--. the day ������62 45 were ar.lfi tli.*- .fcticieDcv, i.*_ui oi ftii������������ci-ibea u*s which '.ofctitluT witn 8(5.00 pitviowbly sub- ���������scrit.ed leave. $.0 90 to be met which it is hoped may be realized to-night, Ufe__. ,-*_%. 45o������K_AjaPf^i_t_^i ���������,-a-.*>-Ti^U*t-* s������_b sumj. l_a^*i������^_<--i_M**y**������^i'fti_t_-Mi'i r,it-^H*������J*tf--*������������*������- _������*������a(r*������i������(__*Sri���������^*^Mrol>* taB���������Hr-V"*���������J The Weekly News. M. WHITNEY, Publisher. UNION BRITISH COLUMBIA When voting by machine comes to be the rule, as it is bound to be in time, the counting of ballots will be automatic, aud mistakes and recounts will be things or' the past. This is one oi' the strongest arguments in favor of the 'early adoption of voting ina'chines everywhere. At an anise-seed hunt on Long Island, the other day, a real fox crossed the trail and off wont tho hounds in pursuit.* This seems to be ono of the incidents that justify somebody's remarks that the more he saw of men the belter he liked dogs. In���������other words, the hounds showed better sense than their owners. The Athens Archeological Society recently made excavations near Agya, in Northwestern Thossaly, which have broug-ht to light the foundations of ancient towns and citadels, the very names of, which are forgotten, with tombs of the Mycenian period, containing terra cotta vases, with inscriptions, arms and works of art. matches more richly deserves a monument than all the inventors of improved guns combined, j'he public recently did honor to the man who first applied anesthetics to relieve pain. He deserves a monument. Likewise does the man who invented 'matches deserve one. How many lives haA'e been saA-ed by rhe ability to produce light quickly will neA'cr be knoAvn. The Avorld will :il- AVJiys build memorials. That there avi'U yet be a fairer distribution of them than has appeared in former days may Avell be anticipated. England should erect a tall monument to John Walker after the pattern of a modern parldr match. A device in imitation of brimstone at the top Avould hardly be appro*, pi .ate, 'however. AMERICAN-BORN BEAUTIES. In a case in court a New York woman alleged as one of her complaints -against her husband that he could not be kept- from washing the dishes and doing the other work about the house contrary to her wishes. Her protests angered,him to such an extent that he ' assaulted her, ancl he Avas put under , bonds to keep the peace. From this it would appear that the New York man Avould make an ideal helpmeet for a woman Avho devotes her time to polir tics and the uplifting of the masses. Englishmen are argry over a message-given by Li Hung Chang to the Westminster,Gazette as the result of the experience of a few miles in an American special train in the most luxurious of 'private cars. The Viceroy says '"the Marquis of Tweeddale and the Duke of Devonshire and the directors of the Barrow-in-Furness railroad told him while in England that the English railroads Avere faster and more comfortable and safer than the American railroads, and the American trains were full of accidents'ancl many more people killed by them. The Viceroy understands that this is all kinds of lies." The London Chronicle's comment on this statement is: ''Whether the American car or the British carriage' is more comfortable is a matter of opinion, but that the British railroads are very much safer, that our percentage of accidents is very much less, and that, on th'e whole, our fast trains are faster than American ones, are facts." LADY NATLOK-LEYLAXD, nee Cnamberlain. Referring to the statement by the -Rev. Dr. Parkhurst that "a beer drinker is depraved," and the observation by the Buffalo Times that '"all Kentucky will agree with him," the Louisville Courier-Journal says: "This is hardly a fair statement.' Kentucky does not regard a beer drinker as necessarily depraved any more than she does a water drinker.' Both beer and water have .their uses. It is the man who habitually drinks beer in preference to anything else that Kentucky regards as depraved." When Sir John Sloane died years ago in England he left three sealed cupboards which were to be respectively opened in 1SU0,1SS6 and 1S9G. The first and second were found to contain valuable statuary and pictures for ihe Sloane museum, but tlie third, which was opened last week, proved to be a testamentary joke, for the cablegram says it had nothing in it but a lot of valueless papers. It muse have been a bit of grim humor on the part of the .testator to devise such a joke on the museum which he founded. It is more likely that the contents of the cupboard wore stolen years ago or that the papers are not so valueless as is supposed. IB____EC!__C5320^An9GBS4g��������� The X ray has taken a neAv hold upon public interest, and oue recent Saturday it appeared in various forms of news items. From New York came the information that Edison has demonstrated beyond a doubt that the blind can be made to see by means of the fluoro- scope. At Salem, Mass., the Roentgen discoA'ery is asserted to haA'e caused hair to groAV on a bald head. In Washington there is a man who claims to have been terribly injured by the ray while subjected to its influence during a search for a bullet in some part of his anatomy, and from far-off Butte, Mont., we learn that the district court has rejected the X ray as evidence in a suit for damages. Altogether it was a great day for the ray. A highly interesting decision has recently been made by the English court of appeal upon .the subject of strikes ancl picketing. The English law recognizes,, the trades unions, ancl * affords them large latitude in respect to dealings with employers, and when a strike is on protects them in the use of all equitable methods of action. It also admits of "picketing," and the question iioav decided is what'does "picketing" mean. The workmen in a certain business went on a strike, and afterward not only "picketed" the place of their employer, but also threatened another firm, Avith Avhom they had no dispute, that-if this firm continued to do business with the one against which they had struck their workmen would also .strike" and their place be "picketed." An injunctionJAvas applied for against the trades union, to Avhich the workmen belonged, to preA-ent them from ''picketing'' the first firm and from threatening the second. The court of last resort granted the injunction, holding that the striking workmen must not injure their former employer by their acts nor pro- vent his doing business with other firms. They could picket his premises, but picketers must not preA-ent other workmen from taking the employment they had left, and that the picketing must be confined to the giving and obtaining information. The court also held that "peaceful persuasion" could not be prevented on the part of the picketers tOAvard new employes. In View of such decisions by the courts the principle of arbitration by state boards on all questions betAveen employers and employes should be more and more encouraged. TIIE HON. MRS. CUHZON, nee Lei ter. T.ADY ARTHUR BUTXEB, . nee Stager. The tOAvn of Trilby, Fla., Avas named for the .heroine of Du Manner's novel before this became a fad, but it is only within the last few weeks that the town has been laid out and its streets and squares named for characters in the book. The lake near ���������by���������Lake Little Billee���������has been renamed Lake Du Maurier. At the suggestion of a friend of the manager of the railroad which runs through the tOAvn a letter apprising Mr. Du Maurier of the name given to the town and bearing the Trilby postmark on the em-elope Avas sent to the novelist last spring, and called forth from,him a charming note of appreciation on behalf of himself as godfather and of his heroine as godmother, for "an honor that does not usually fall to the likes of Trilby O'Ferrall." The proposal is being agitated in England of erecting.a memorial to John Walker, the inventor of lucif er matches. Walker sold his first box of matches in 1S27. The brass place on the door of his shop in Stockton still remains, but oth- erwise there is no existing memorial to mark his great seiwices to mankind. It is worth noting that Walker did not call his lucifers "matches," but referred to them as "friction lights." The development of matches to their present perfection is an interesting subject of inquiry. It suffices to say, speaking generally, that the man who invented FollOAviug horrifying picture is from a letter in the L-ondon Times: Dongola is in ruins: not a house in it remains Avhole; eA'ery building-has been gutted; where once Avere busy streets the palms noAv rise abOA'e the Avrecked habitations, and every thoroughfare is choked with a dense undergrowth of thorny bushes and tall, rank grass. The great bazar. AA'ith its covered arcades, one of the chief marts of Africa, is noAA- a heap of rubble. Of the public buildings and the handsome, well-furnished mansions of- the principal merchants the red brick Avails, with gracefully arched doors and windows, alone remain standing, while within them one can still see traces of columned corridors and delicate Eastern-ornamentation. Where once extended riverside' quays. swampy ground now slopes to the Nile. The broad avenue where the market used to be held has disappeared; the pleasant gardens of fruit trees and flowers haA'e been destroyed. For tweh*e years Dongola has been uninhabited; for the Baggara declared it to be���������as the city of the unbelieving Turks���������an accursed place, in. which no man should be permitted to dAvell. Those avIio knew the Dongola of old find it difficult noAv to find their way through the Avrecked streets, and can scarcely recognize the house in Avhich they formerly lived. It is a scene of Avanton destruction; the proverb says that "where the foot of the Turk has trod, the grass does not grow." So it is with the Baggara. He disdains to do any work; by profession he is a robber, and destruction is his pastime; he enslaves where he does not kill, and in the place of what he destroys he creates nothing. Civilization is abhorrent to him; after plundering ancl destroying the city he left the bodies of the massacred and mutilated inhabitants to Tot in the streets, aud went out into the desert content to hYe-the life of a saA-age in one of the squalid hovels of Avhich a Dervish deyrn, or permanent camp, is composed The city, of Santa Fe., N. M., was founded by the Spaniards iii 159S under .the name of Santa Fc, on the site of Tigeux or Tigua, one of the celebrated "Seven Cities" at the founding- of the Aztec Confederacy, in 1426. Its streets, museums, * and private collections of curios absolutely teem with relics and records of a stirring history, and include famous pictures of saint or shrine, painted on elk and puma skins, sabre thrusts. where they had been used as banners during tho march of Coronado in 1541, others with arrow holes from attacks by Indians on tne line of march up the valley of the Rio, Grande. There are quaint*, rnaps in Latin and French, shOAving three cities ot note on .the continent, and giving California as an island of the Pacific. . The palace has become the home of the choicest collection of Mexican aud Spanish pictures in the SouthAvest,'~andl in Its historicaj rooms are priceless/ ���������treasures of record or relic. Around it, too, lingers much of the romance of the city. For 300 years it has been the home of its rulers, seA-eiity-six Mexican and Spanish and seventeen American governors haA'ing held sway Avithin its Avails. In its early days it lay under the shadow of the dread inquisition, and Avithin its Avails, in later times, "Ben I-lur" first saw the tight under the pen of General LeAv Wallace. From its windows conic be heard the ring of steel ancl the din of warriors in ���������the plaza Avhen Onate set up his camp in 1GG2, and Avhen the Pueblo Indians conquered the city in 16S0. burning the arclm-es and sacred vessels, while tweh'o years later, in 1092, the same plaza witnessed the triumphal entry of Diego de Vargas, after his a*ow and the A'ictory Avhich folloAved it. which again placed the city under Spanish rule. Hero General Kearney, elevated the Stars and Stripes in 1S4G, and here, also, surrounded by living memories ancl fond regret's, amid beautiful foliage, is a monument to die soldiers Avho fell at duty's call at Valverde and Apache Canyon. In Santa Fe. are the military headquarters for NeAv Mexico."it. being also the oldest military establishment in America, created by the Spaniards in 1602. ancl in almost continuous occupation ever since. Here, too, is-, .the oldest house in the United States, in Avhich Coronado is said to have lodged in 1;*>40. and, perhaps, even more in ..testing, here is the oldest church, San Miguel, built about L">43, partially destroyed in 16S0, wholly restored in 1710, the restorers leaving intact all tnat was possible of the old roof, hewn by Indians tinder the guidance of the fathers. * **1���������-.__-.*"v_���������=_ entrance to the church. In the cathedral ancl other churches are remarkable reredoses, paintings and vestments, many.of them of considerable antiquity, all inviting the visitor to linger in this homo of the past. But .the city is also a city-of the present, ancl a very pleasant present it is. An equable climate,and' delightful sunshine hover over streets in which the houses haA'e enough of the sanctity, of age to infuse a restful spirit in the air., Fruitful orchards aud fertile lands lie round about the city, which is at once a monument to the spirit of the past BUILT CHICAGO'S FIRST HOUSE. It Was a Hotel mid the Kuilder Now ' Lives.in Texas. In the village of Rockport,'Tex., lives a man avIio s.iav Chicago 'ere Chicago AA-as, who fought Indians on the spot AAThero uoav stands its, palaces of industry and commerce, who built the first house ever inhabited by a white man in this western metropolis,-, and Avho has-lived Avhile a city of nearly LJ.O0O,- 000 inhabitants has risen *��������� on the swamps which, in his youth, he de-' sertcd.. That man is N. E. Phillips, Avho is noAv S7 j'ears of age: - N. E. PHILLIPS. and the activity, beauty aiirVprogress of the present day.���������New. York Herald. * Plagiarism. That was a neat defense which Marion Crawford interposed when he was accused of plagiarizing the elopement scene in "Casa Braccio" from an old magazine story. He simply admitted the fact and stated that the story'in question was written by his wife's aunt. Mrs. H.obson. who herself told him the story, which was founded on an actual occurrence, so that there was no plagiarism invblAred. Charles.Rea.de,' concerning one of his nutne ou p agiar- ���������������������������-Phillips* went'to the present site of Chicago in 1S32. It was a dismal place then, Avith nothing but the old structure 'known as Fort Dearborn and a feAv Avretched log hoyels Avhere the Indians'did'some trading. There Avas no habitation for a Avhite man except in the fort. Phillips almost immediately set to Avork building a house for Mark Beaubien, which Avhen completed was opened, as a hotel. It had only four liA'ing rooms, but Avas regarded as a .model. Long John Went worth \yas the first guest. Phillips fought in the .Black1' HaAvk Avar, but went to Texas about GO years ago and has since lived there. THE OLDEST HOUSE IN THE UNITED STATES. In this church is the great bell, almost solid, cast in 1356, and having an inscription in Spanish round it as a band, the letters and figures being still Avell raised in tlie solid casting. This bell was brought over from Spain and hung in the tOAver, but finally, being thought too heavy for the tower, It was removed to a substantial timber support in the isms, alleged that be had purchased the right to use the material from its author; but the plea was not alloAved, because the story was not true, but the invention of the other .nan, which an author had no right to pass off as his own.���������Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The rare visitor is a jolly companion. Improving. A celebrated German physician was once called upon to treat an aristocratic lady the sole cause of whose complaint was high living and. lack of exercise. But it would haA-e never done to tell her so; so his medical1 advice ran thus: "Arise at 5 o'clock, take a walk in the park for one hour, then drink a cup of tea. then walk another hour, and take a cup of chocolate. Take breakfast at S o'clock.". Her condition improved visibly, until one fine morning the carriage of the Baroness Ava.s seen to approach the physician's residence at lightning speed. The patient dashed up to the Doctor's house, and, on his appearing on the scene, she gasped out: "Oh, Doctor, I took the chocolate first." . "Then drive home as fast as you can," directed the astute disciple of Aesculapius, rapidly writing a prescription, "and take this emetic. The tea must be underneath." The grateful patient complied. She is still improA7ing. i t\ \i 4'1 I I A ������_ "*_ . I I Pausias, of Sicyon, was the inventoc of caustic painting, a method of burning colors into Avood.or ivory. *. I THE : FAIR : CANDIDATE. I 5 1 _, | THE "machine" of one of the political parties of, Butte County was at work. The Avheel-horses of the organization were in executiA-e session and the manufacture.of*a "slate" for the ratification of the county convention was in progress. Everything had been settled without friction up to a certain point, but here, the making of candidates- came to a full stop. Somo one must be selected to run for Superintendent of Schools, and some one else must be found.who was disinterested enough to stand for the place of County Surveyor, with the nominal emoluments pertaiuing thereto. This latter problem was settled, after a brief discussion, by the powers insisting that Al Wood, the incumbent, Avho was present, must stand for re-election, Avhether he liked it or not; but a duly qualified candidate for Superintendent of Schools was not so easily found. The man avIio had held thai position for two years past had the bad taste to give up his office and his grasp*on life at the same time, only two weeks before, thus leav- ing his party in a quandary for a candidate to succeed him. Of course, there were plenty'of asp rants for the nom- ���������Ination, but mos't of them were una Available for reasons political, and the candidate must be a person Avho was popular Avith the voters of tho county. ������������������ , "Jimmie" Van Wert, the handsome young assayer of������������������ the Spread Eagle Mill, tiad been sitting: in a dark corner, of the office in which the conference was being' held, smoking quietly ancl saying very little until now; but he finally put in his oar long enough to suggest that "Professor" Striker, the young principal of the local school, .would make a good man for the office. I "Ya-as," assented Judge Bullock, the ���������venerable Justice of the Peace, "but they don't Icuoav him out in th' kentry, an' we got t' have scmie feller th't c'n ketch th' aoutside vote.- Now, Jimmie, look yere.." What's th' matter with you runnin' f'r Super'ntend'nt y'rself ?" "Don't get me,mixed in on a deal like that!" ejaculated Van Wert, fervently. "I don't want any old office. I've got troubles enougli now." But Judge Bullock's suggestion met with unanimous approval on the part of all the others present, and, very much against his .-will, *Miv.Van, Wert ���������was slated for the nomination, and duly placed in nbmintion by the convention a few days later., It was two .weeks before lie found *out what sort of an opponent he Avas to have, and then, much to his ���������disgust, he learned that the other party had nominated a -irl- '.���������;'.". . '������������������ .- This was almost enough to' make him 'throw'up the canvass. The idea of the other fellows thinking that he could be beaten by a woman. Then he.consoled 'himself with the reflection that perhaps they knew they couldn't beat him, and -had merely put up this Miss Smith to act as a forlorn hope. Thenceforth he did "not put much activity into his canvass, but attended to business pretty much as usual, serene in the belief that the voters of Butte County, were not yet arrived tit the stage of progression when they Avould permit a woman to (hold office. And all this time, be it known, this heretofore unknown and mysterious Miss Smith was becoming known to the voters of the county, and, what was more, she Avas Avinning a good deal of support from sources upon which Van Wert confidently counted. It lacked only about ten days of election clay when Van Wert, Avith a sudden shqck, came to his senses. Two or three things had occurred to detract from his oA'erconfidence. Among these was the avowal, on the part of several personal and political friends of their intention to support Miss Smith, giving as their reasons that she had a good record as an educator and was without doubt well qualified for the office; that Ghe wanted the office, and was making a hard.fight for it; and that Van Wert didn't Avant it and didn't need it. On top of this he was informed that his opponent had been out in the "cow districts." and had the cowboy vote pretty well "cinched." This cheering announcement came from two or three of the "bosses" who called on him to see if he didn't think it worth while to get out and sa\re his political scalp by "rustling" like the rest of the candidates. "We'll have the committee fix some -dates, for you to speak, and you've got to fill 'em, Jimmie; if you don't you're a gone goose," said they. So, with the inward fear that he. might, after all, be defeated. Van Wert began in earnest the effort to save himself. . He did not care for the office, but he dreaded defeat at the' hands of a \yomanj being one of the kind of men who do not belieA-e the gentler sex has, any, business in politics. He pictured Miss Smith as'a big, gaunt, red-haired, self-assertive person,' with large red hands and a snappy way of speaking��������� and was quite surprised to learn that she Avas really a very ladylike young Avoman, tipping the beam at about 110 pounds.. It lacked but four days'of election day, and the A'arious candidates were putting in eArery hour possible in making speeches and seeing their constituents and other people. Van Wert had put in some very telling AA'ork in several places where it would do the most good, but in tAvo or three precincts it was found that a strong sentiment in favor of his opponent had developed, and must be overcome by some means if he hoped to win. Unfortunately, he was worried, and his actions shoAved'it; on one or'two occasions Avhile speaking he had given Avay to puerile bursts of temper that by no means enhanced his chances for success. Some of the older heads had warned him that by making slurring remarks about his opponent he would only hurt himself, to which he responded by the childlike remark: "Well, if a Avoman doesn't want to get herself talked about she'd better keep out" of politics." This he practically repeated to a mixed crowd at Conover's schoolhouse, in one^of the strong "cow districts," on Friday night before election, adding: "I cannot believe that parents interested in the future welfare of their children are willing to intrust their, early training to the hands and methods of one who so far forgets her womanhood as to stand as a candidate,., for .a'public office." Of course he regretted the remark almost as soon as it was uttered, and recognized that-the silence with which it was recei\red was the silence of a disapproval too strong to find expression in words. But it was too late for regrets, and he expressed none. The next afternoon came a brief but pointed note from Miss Smith, in which she gently reminded him that his youth had evidently led him astray so far as to forget the fact that she was ���������practically defenseless, and that in speaking of her as he had he had been both unmanly and ungentlemanly. This, coming as it did, at a time when he was mentally cursing himself for an ass ancl a brute, did not tend to soothe him, for he kneAV that every word the note contained .was true. So, instead of answering it as a man should, he wrote at the bottom of the sheet: "You have no business in politics if you don't AArant to stand the consequences," then signed it and remailed it to the original, sendet. An hour later he was sorry he had done so, and tried to get the letter out of the postoffice, but failed. Thus it was that the next evening, as he rode along the lonely trail leading to the "enemy's country," where he was to address a big meeting of cattlemen and make an effort to redeem himself by practically recanting all that he had said derogatory to the opposing candidate without losing too much of his already* shattered self-respect, he was so absorbed mentally in thinking over what he should say that he did not hear a sudden command to halt, and realized that he was in trouble only when a sinuous, swishing thing hurtled through the air, pinioned his arms to his sides, and jerked him from his saddle to the rough ground. "Good shot, ol' manl" said some one in cowboy costume, who came up and sat on the victim's chest "Ye got him right 'round th' elbows, fust throw o' the rope." "Let me up, you scoundrel!" fumed Van Wert. "You can take my money without taking my wind at the same time, can't you?" "Easy, m' son," chuckled the giant who was sitting astride him, as he held the candidate's wrists so that the other man, who now came up, could the more easily 'tie them. "We don't want y'r stuff. Do we, pardner?" "Nopey, Van," said the second man, in a voice that Van Wert tried in A'ain to recognize. "We jest want t' put ye where ye won't make no mo' fool r'marks 'bout th' lady th's' ag'n ye��������� not this evenin', anyways." "See here, boys," said Van Wert, more calmly, "this isn't a square deal. You know I've got to be at the meeting at Meeker at S o'clock? Well, it's almost that now, so let me go." "Oh, no, Jimmie!" laughed one of his captors heartlessly. "Not t'night. 'Squar' deal,' I b'lieve ye said? Was it a squar' deal f'r you't' git up an' make th' talk ye did 'bout th' little school- ma'am las' night? Not any. So stan' up, Jimmie, an' let th' gent tackle ye to th' tree.' We^ll let ye go 'fore ye git cold. Easy, lad. Ef ye git gay we won't do a thing but hawg-tie ye an' leave ye lay till mavvnin'." The next hour Avas as long a one as Jimmie Van Wert ever spent. The, night was a chilly^ one, and the ropes with which he was bound prevented the free circulation of blood, so that in a very short time his extremities were aching Avith cold. To add to his discomfort, .an owl took its station in the brush near by and hooted derisively Avhenever the prisoner shouted, and the cries of the owl were responded to by several wolves, whose voices sounded as though they were very close at hand. Several times Van Wert heard people go by, on horseback aud in wagons, and shouted to them at the top of his lungs, but the trail Avas some distance from the 'clump of brush, ancl they did not hear him. At last, hoAvever, when he had about given up all hope of escaping until his captors should come,and release him, he heard the sound of horses coming along the trail, their riders laughing and chatting, and he lifted up his A*-oice in a mighty effort to make himself heard. ' The' riders evidently heard him, and stopped. He shouted again, and presently heard them coming toward him. "Where are you?" called a feminine voice, in response to another bleat from Van Wert, and in a- moment there wa.s a crashing of underbrush, and the face and form of a young woman were outlined in the moonlight, followed a second later by the wondering, countenance of a lad of about 12 years. "Hoav did it happen?" queried the young woman,, after she and the boy nad released the candidate from his uncomfortable predicament, and he . was untying his horse from a neighboring 'tree. Van Wert explained in an injured tone, adding, with as much dignity as he could command: "I am the candidate for Superintendent of Schools, and I suppose this is a sample of the methods Miss Smith and her coAvboy friends have adopted to defeat me. They knew I was to speak at Meeker to-night, and thought that by preventing me from doing so they could gain a few votes. I'll show 'em when I get there." The young woman laughed merrily. "Politics is a funny business, isn't it?" she said. "The idea of 'resorting to such measures! But," she added soberly,' "you should not blarney. Miss Smith for Avhat her over-zealous friends have done. I���������Miss Smith; is -a* friend of mine, and I know she would not sanction such a thing. It���������it would be most unfair to accuse her of it, don't you i think, without being certain of your ground?" Van Wert .'admitted that it would. "Then as a favor to me," said his fair rescuer, "do not, please, say anything abbut.it, at least by way of connecting her -with the affair. I'm sure no one would regret it more than she; if siie knew about it." , After some hesitation Van Wert; promised, and presently his rescuer and her escort left him, branching off ou a trail that led toward a farmhouse that he could see in the distance. The candidate noted with a grim smile, on his return, the consternation his appearance created in a certain part of the room, and concluded that two or three men Avhom he kneAV to be friends of his looked rather sheepish, but he kept his own counsel and made no reference to his adventure.. In the course of the excellent speech he presently made he "took back" what he had said about his opponent in a manner so graceful as to win for him rounds of applause, and when he sat down it Avas with the consciousness that he had in part redeemed himself. As he started, along with some of the other candidates, to leave the hall, he noticed for the first time that the young woman who had rescued him from the "fix" in which the cowboys had left him had not gone home to stay when she left him, for there she was, just leaving the hall i_ company with an older woman in widow's weeds. "Who is that?" he asked of the candidate for Sheriff, who was at his side. "That girl?" queried the other. "Why, boy, that's your hated adversary, Miss Smith. Hadn't you seen her before?" But Van Wert did not hear the question. He hurried to eaten up with the opposing candidate, who started when he addressed her, but quickly recovered herself and smiled sweetly upon him. "Miss Smith," he burst out impetuously, "1 don't know what you must think o* me, after all the low-doavu things I've said about you, and the holy show I made of myself tbis' evening. But I hope you'll believe me when I say I'm sorry for the things I've said��������� and I honestly hope you'll be elected, after all. I shall vote for you, any way, and you can count on lots of my friends." But his boyish enthusiasm in behalf of his opponent came too late to be of service to her, for the returns showed that Van Wert Avas elected by a small majoritj-, for which he was indebted to the miners. On Thursday after election he went to Miss Smith. "I,regret this as much as you do," he said, earnestlj-. ';I*Avish I had met you ���������arlier in the campaign. But I have a proposition to make. What are you going to do now?" "I don't know," she -said, trying to conceal the sadness in her tones. "You "see, I had to give up my school, and there are no Aracancies noAv." "Well, Avhat I Avas going to propose is this: Will you take an appointment as my deputy? Remember, all the work will deA-oh-e upon 3'ou." Miss Smith gasped,* and her pretty face greAV a rosy red, then turned pale. She did not wish to be under obligations to this man���������and yet, there was the mother to be considered, and the invalid sister in Chicago, whose hospital bills Avere such a seyere tax on the family resources. "Yes," she said, finally, "and thank you,* very much', for 'offering me the place." You have lifted a great load from my mind." There was some comment on this arrangement by the voters of the county, but it Avas hardly adverse, and the deputy soon showed that she AA'as the right one in the right place. She Avorked' day and night, and denied herself necessary sleep that, her beloved schools,should not retrograde; in fact, in the coirrse of a few' weeks she succeeded in making herself almost ill, for the death of the former superintendent had-left the affairs of the office in rather chaotic condition, and although Van Wert ancl his deputy qualified at once after the meeting of the canvassing board, it was almost Christmas before they got matters straightened, out. And it was just at this time, when the little deputy, more than half ill from overwork, was spending a couple of days at home, that she got a*brief note from her superior, AAThich read.: "Miss Smith: For some time past i have been dissatisfied Avith you as Deputy Superintendent of Schools, and your resignation as "such* will be .accepted. I v. tti do myself the honor of calling upon you and explaining matters more fully to-morrow night. Very truly 37ours, ��������� "JAMES VAN WERT." Miss Smith burst into tears. "Just to think, mamma! After I have worked so hard! What shall we do?" "I suppose they want the job for some politician that doesn't need it," commented Mrs. Smith", grimly. "But to think he has the audacity to come here after that! I Avon't let him in, the treacherous thing!���������discharging you, after bing so friendly, and all that." "Yes, you will, mamma," interjected the girl, recovering herself. "We.must not forget ourselves in our own home." Just then the door bell rang, and the girl hastened away to hide the traces of her tears. When she returned to the little ; parlor Van Wert was standing there, big and handsome, in front of the. fireplace. He advanced to meet her as her mother vanished from the room. . "You got my note?" he.said. "I'll tell: you how it is," he Avent on aAykwardly. "I'm not satisfied with you as a. deputy because���������because I want you to take the office itself and me with it."' And that was the.way they arranged it,���������New York Daily Tribune. . d> The Dangers of a Scratch. ' Scarcely a day passes that many persons do not, in some way or other, get a scratch, a small cut, or a bruise that may break the skin. ��������� In most instances not the slightest attention is paid to this beyond the temporary annoyance of the pain and the possible irritation when the hands are put into Avater; or soine subsequent blow in the same spot brings an exclamation on account of the hurt. This, while a common practice, is by no means a \vise one. The air is full of floating disease germs, especially the air of cities and towns, and an injury of .this sort, be it ever so slight, might furnish excellent breeding ground for some deadly bacteria. It is a good plan alwa3*-s to keep a bottle of prepared carbolic acid and glycerine, and frequently touch all bruises or sore spots with it. This is one of the most convenient and effective germicides imaginable. It is believed that many cases of fever and other serious ailments can be contracted by a floating germ coming in contact with the abraded skin. Once snugly lodged in this most congenial dwelling-place, the germ multiplies with amazing rapidity, and soon overruns the entire system. Therefore, whenever there is a bruise or scratch, or any injury of this sort, germicidal applications should be at once- resorted to. Cremation Common in Italy. Cremation is more extensively practiced in Italy than in any country. The first crematorium was established in Milan in 1S76 and there are now fifty In operation in Italian territory. Sore dismayed was the Boston maid , . When fractured was her bicycle; ������ "* She heaA'ed a sigh and from her eye * There fell a limpid icicle. ���������- Indianapolis Journal. ' Carrie���������Jack thinks I'm fickle. Lena- ,���������That's probably the reason he doesn't propose a second time.���������Life. Reginald���������My darling, will you share my lot? Miss Uptodate���������Is it city or suburban ?���������Baltimore News. She���������The Misses Brown usually sing duets, do they not? He���������Yes; they di- , vide the responsibility.���������Puck. ,. The maid from Boston swept 'the street Avith her glance. It was noticeable that the asphalt was covered Avith' a glare of ice.���������Cincinnati Enquirer. "Men generally admire business sense in a woman, don't they?" "Yes; but they admire it only in other men's Avives and daughters."���������Chicago -' Record. ' First tramp���������The papers all say that work is'1 starting ,up everywhere. Second ditto���������I know; isn't it awful? You and I may- be draAvn into it yet.���������Boston Transcript Across the board she winked at me��������� Nay���������do not deem her conduct'free; That5wink was in its proper place, For then I knew she held the ace. ���������Chicago Record. First Artist���������Where did Scratchwell , get his artistic education? Second art- its (savagely)���������At some school for mechanical * drawing.���������Cincinnati Tribune. "Tell Elsie to hurry!. If she doesn't AA'e'll miss, the first act entirely!" "You're not going to get her there early to*-nigbt She's got a neAv hat."���������Chi-' cago Tribune. " . She���������Once you vowed that 1 Avas the sunshine of your life. Noav you stay .out night after night. He���������Er���������Avhy��������� I don't expect sunshine after dark.��������� Dublin Freeman. "How did I turn over a new leaf?" * he repeated dreamily. 'v^-i, Avith about four,fingers. Eh?" with a start, he recalled himself to his surroundings.-*- New York Press. Hoax���������What! You buying a bicycle? I thought you detested them. Joax��������� So I do, but I'Are been run over long enough. Now I'm going to haye my reA'enge:���������Spare Moments. ' A solemn pause ! At length he spoke; His words were full of strength. The congregation slept, nor woke For hours. He spoke at length. ���������Philadelphia Record. Chollie Chapington���������Plaw! I always say just Avhat I think, don't you knoAv! PlaAv! Grace Golightly���������What an easy time your vocal chords must have!-��������� Baltimore News. "Mrs. Riffraff had her husband arrested for cruelty." "What had he been doing?" "Tried to make her stop buying novels and read the encyclopedia."���������Chicago Record. "He seems to take after his father," said the visitor. V "I don't when they is apple dumplings," volunteered the, lit- ��������� tie boy., "He don't leave none to take." ���������Indianapolis Journal. ! She-^-It seems almost impossible that you should love me. He���������That's what mj' mother says. How nicely you and she will get along if you always agree like that���������Harlem Life. > George���������I just saw you coming from the conservatory with Miss, Goldie. Rather handsome.girl, but too reserved for me. ��������� Thomas���������Yes. I just reserved her for life.���������Cincinnati Enquirer, Soon will the man who owns a sleigh Declare there's money in it; He will not.rent it by the day; He's rent it by the minute. ���������Washington Star. "The papers say that after the fashionable wedding at St. Jehu's yesterday the entire bridal party Avent to the horse shoAV. Did you see them there?" "Well, I saw a number of grooms."��������� Harper's Bazar. Teacher���������Johnny, what is wind? Johnny���������Wind, sir, is air put in motion. Teacher���������Right. Next boy: What Is the cause of Avind? Next boy���������- Rivalry for the prize-ring championship.���������Boston Courier. Mother���������When the boy in the other house threw stones at you, why didn't you come and tell me? Bobby���������Because, mamma, I can throw them back better than you. He's more likely to get hit���������Hartford Times. Tom���������Where shall you stop���������at the Baldorf ? Harry���������I hope so. I'm afraid, hoAvever, that Parker will hear I'm in town, and insist upon my putting up with him. Tom���������Don't you like Parker? Harry���������Yes, very much: but he has . three daughters, and I don't knoAv if 1 can afford it���������Bazar. Guy���������Could you spare me a cigarette? Gontran���������My clear fellow, my doctor has strictly forbidden me to smoke. (A fortnight later Guy meets his friend puffing away at a splendid Havana.) Guy���������I thought you had to give up smoking? Gontran���������Oh, my doctor died M -arpi'i.- !i._n���������Le Figaro. G> _ J !>/_.*. .-lAjprn-JUr ^X^.*!S^af&3fSSS:S3lffSSS^!fir^iii rj=_������w_w_-(_*������i***-jfc^i���������<������L������ja_������ T11 \\ EKKLV NEWS MARCH. 30th. 1897. _a__im<_*.*Mr ���������w> .tir,._g_.: _]__ iKJS__.-_.i_Jf Hlw. Issued Every Tuesday At Union, B. C. M Whitney, Editor. TEAMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. , IN fijJVANCE. ���������One Yenr $200 Six Months- *..' 1 25 Single Copy 0 io y RATES OF ADVERTISING: One* ivoh per yeur . $1200 .. month 15(1 eighth col per year 25 00 f.-ui-.h 5000 week, .. lino ..: 10 l.ocal notices,per line 20 Notices of Births, . Marriages and eaths, 50 cents each insertion. No Advertisment inserted for less than 50 cents. 0 Persons failing to get The News regularly should notify the OFFICK. Tuesday, mMWf; Neither Corbett or Fitzsimmons is a hero, only a brutal slugger. The Dingley tariff bill has been introduced into Congress and will probably become, after amendments, a law by May ist. Mr. D. R. Young, the publisher of the Slocan News, very sensibly advises the American residents of the district to. become naturalized i.riii*.h subjects.* He has.taken tiie lead in takiny out his own naturalization papers. April ist is near at hand, but we hear nothing'about the promised twicc-a-week- maii service going into operation at thai time. As the' tender was only $4,600 according to Mr. Mclnncs, there seems. NO EXCUSE for non-action on the part of the government. STATISTICAL CIRCTJL _]&. The circular sent out by the provincial government for information from mer chants and business men should receive a careful but prompt answer. The returns will be confidential, and will be of the greatest benefit, by enabling a summary to be made showing the character and ' extent of the inter-provmcia! trade as between the Province of British Columbia and the Dominion of Canada. ISWS EMS WED, The Cretan embroglio remains -the question of the hour. The liberal press of Engl .in d is indignant and the late pamphlet of Rt. Hor.. William E. Gladstone fans the fl.imesof criticism. In the meantime the Greeks���������are still aiding their Cretan brothers, and the peace cf Europe may yet be broken. A good deal is being written both in Canada and England with reference to President McKiniey's tariff policy. - It however has developed nothing i-nexpect- ed, nor that rightly considered, which should be considered unncighborly. . It is too early to di*.. u.->s the provisions of the Dintjley bill; it is not yet a law. ��������� News ccoines that the French 'are making some headway with the Panama Can-il, and that Secretary Sherman favors the Nicaragnan Canal. We may yet be able to reach England by water. The burning of Ely, Walker & Co.'s fire proof block in St Louis at a lo**.s of Si ooo.ouo indicates that the art of erecting fire proof buildings has not reached* perfection. ' Several Danes are now on their way to Cape Sc.jtt, upper end of Vancouver Island They form .1 colony and are receiving some encouragement from the government;. The Cuban patriots have met with some success lately, and the attitude ��������� f Secretary Sherman- is 'much firniei towards.Spain than was that pf,0!n.y. The 'relations of the Transvaal with Great Briiain are becoming strained. The Ti.msv.ial is being armed, ammunition and war material placed at strategic points. RAILWAY MATTERS. The people of the Province are awaiting anxiously for the government to bring down a railway bili or bills. There has been but little accomplished so far of any general interest. A small amount of legislation well digested and of a wise and practical nature is all that is desirable. But everybody is looking for railway legislation". Something in this line is expected, and something is demanded by the best interest of the province. It is pretty evident, however unpalatable the idea may be, that the Canadian Pacific Railway will build the road from Lethbridge, through the Crow's Nest Pass into the . Kootenay country. This wili be a* feeder for the main line and turn the auriferous stream east instead of towards the south. In other words the East will be benefited, but how about the Coast? Neither the Dominion Government nor the C.P.R., can be depended on to look out for the Coast section. We must look to our Provincial government for that. Doubtless if sufficient assistance be rendered that the Dominion will help. There should be aid extended to a railroad to Cariboo. Ii might be sufficient if it started fiom the'head of Butte Inlet. This would bring the rich gold fields of that region within reach of the Coast, and steamers would furnish the necessary additional transportation facilities. With these railways in operation British Columbia would enter upon a career of unxampled prosperity. C111 we dep>_nd upon our m.rubers in the Dominion parliament to stand to^c-th er for British Columbia? or will they put party before th**0 province? Justice to "British Columbia should be tho piicc of P'ir'.y fealty Party G-overrtmsnt. One of the strangest phenomena of the nineteen.h century is this system of party government. A pecu'iaruy is that its votaries arc ashamed of:: and proud of it at one .-.nd the same time.*. This ma\ seem paradoxical, but it is true. What is the highest praise one cm bes mv upon a statesman? It is thai he is "above parly,-?' does not a!!o*.v party, influences to interfere with his pohfcal ennvjeti:,*;.-. On the other hand, ex.re-.ses of we'I.e.- men are excused on the gr.iuiid ���������>: ".,vi:r- z.-al for part v." Statesmen, we arc told, should bo "above li.e S'!ihb..ie'ir; n. pariy." We hear of p.-vr_ons being c.::!.-d upon 10 vote ''iron, a .'.e:.:.e of duty ai.e1 not for a mere pany advantage." Wc read that men sometimes, indeed one:., "stretch their consciences in give parts votes." Phrases like these could be piled lo a heap "huge as high Olympus." The great q.ies.ion ih it agitates a nation discover a similar sentiment. In the face of a great ensi:-, paly government not only breaks down, but it is. expected to break down. "In a crisis like this," it is often said, "we must sink party differences ancl support the Government;" or, "in face of a .common , .danger, we must unite���������we must rise above party and act as one nation." "The common welfare," we are assured "should be above the interests of any political party." There are questions thai are "too great for party," and so on. And that these are sincere expressions is shown by the fact that when a man is above party the true-hearted ones of all parties sympathize with him; whereas, "fidelity to partial the cost of principle" is never regarded as a virtue, though often as a quality which should be rewarded with a worldly reward. From this it follows "as the night the day" that the common welfare and party interests are not held to be identical, but distinct and opposite. All this is pitiable; because what does it iinpiy? For a man to be praised because he is superior lo party considera-* tions can only mean that the. considerations, of his party are something of which he oughi 10 be ashamed. We neverhear ofaman being above his political convictions. When a man holds certain COMOX BAKERY Supplies the valley with first class- bread, pies, cakes, etc. Bread delivered by Cart through Courtenay and District every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Wedding Cakes made and Parties catered for H. C LUCAS, Proprietor Eirorside Hotel Courtenay, EL C. Esquimait and Nai.aia.o- Ry. ' $iearner City-of Nanaimo OWENS MASTER The Steamer CITY of WAN AIMO wili ..ail as follows CALLING AT WAY POUTS as passenger-, und froivdil suay offer Lea. ��������������� c Victoria, Tut-aday, 7 a. m. " Xunuimo for Coniox, Wednesday, 7 a. m Leave'Comox for Naiiaimo, Fridays, 7a.m. Naiviiino for Victoria Sal.rd.y, 7 a.m For freight or state rooms apply on board, or at the''Company's, ticket office, Victoria Station', Store street. ���������pOR SALE.,---Seed potatoes (New York; J- erb No.:?); a newly calved co** aud calte -Iso half a dozmi whiie Plymouth Rock heub .ji.d r.oater. A haijjam. David Pick.i_._s De.nifian Island, B.C. 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 J ANTI3D���������A good canvasser. .Euquirc at "News Oyrtc}*;. Y7OR SAL!?, -RANCH���������One mile and a *��������� half from Union, containo J GO acrey ..-������**j _j_ru-tj. w.ii'JMiy-uauu. a nn. ANDERSON'S J.L.M2j 1 ._���������_- Id v v t^j_i'i _e_*_*o The follow;'g Lines are Represented Watches, clocks _ind jewellery NEATLY KEPAIKED = Tin, sheetiron, and copper work Bicycles Repaired Guns and rifles, repaired ' A Plumbing in .ill its"branches, .'.ad will he ri.-iposcri of at'a lowliyi.it*. t_*uiro of James Ar.i./.MS. *-* 'Eo FOR SALE���������Clrared corner lot on Pen- Penrith Avenue, sell cheap, terms ea.y. Siiquireat "_.-,'i-:ws Office." Drs Lawrence &. Westwood. Physicians ahci Supgeons. TJiTTO-T 23; C. t , V7e -aave appointed I_r. James Abrams our collector until runner,, notice, to whom all overdue accounts "-���������ay be paid. -OT*-J_BK-EXK_K___C2l__] tlUKinM OnrMlCOl- l-> r ..n.pi., sinks ana piping, Electric be.Is placed. ,1, -peaKnii^ rubes pi-ucea ti\>i air kirnaces, Folding bjith and improved Air-ciidiL" stoves, specialties , Office ar,d Works 'i'h!.:ast;;ov!. ncn* AJ.W.S OtiJCU, i���������iUliiiil uti-W ULliij ���������AN D��������� Sd-siiTiii ������fl Vi?y.v id* i'uui F A o t o ;r y :o :th-.o- f i Florist, Seedsman and Landscape Gardener Seeds. Qpnsmental Trees, 'and Shrubs a^ivays. A'so bulbs jn \'.*.**i_ty, i nelucli *.������_,��������� iieir.tas,- 2-.nrc.ssu., Ftic_ii. -.-it.3 Cfl-cl I..ii l; I !"> inn r> ���������*������*j_t._/j'.''-_L**i*'",������*-'V������.***."*Jf.*Jr>'V'-������'-*T^*' ���������-���������v:-''-avX-*> v -.���������*���������,* <���������-���������}'���������' Grant & lYsunighan, Props. ' Best of Liquors Finest of Cigars and Good Table Couiteous Attention Society Cards? I. O. , O. F. Unior. Lodge, No. ir, meets e ery Friday night, at 8 o'clock. Visiting breth Ten cordially invited to .mend. F. A. Anlkv, R. S,\ ' ' Cu.T.b:r.ar.d Lodge, A. F. & A. M9 B. C.R7 . Union, J_s. C. ' ��������� ���������* Lodge. meet-s first Friday in each month. Visiting brethren are cordially invited to attend-. L. Mounck. Sec. Hiram Looge'No 14 A.F .& A.M..B.C.R o Courtenay B. C. ��������� Lodge meets on every Saturday on- or beiorc the full of the moon Visi'.iny Brothers cordially requested to attend. ���������R. S. McConnell, Secretary. Climb..;...:id Encampment. No. ii, I. O. O. F., Union: Meets c-.ory altein ue Wednesdays,;/: each month at S o'clock p; in. Visinn^ brethren cordially ;:-.\-itcd to attend. John Co.mdk, Scribe. v ���������������* n__c < 11,- w*n 1-^-f.i-r^t ������rwi j. Jw*'rn-������i tr.i^|r<^t^������ivl< 'S. OF 1\ Union JJivisioii Mk. t, t t ,;tj - in o'.-is o: Fvt-'.': tensor,''i Hn!!, -'.;>' .&\ t_ujn_-'-a--_-.*���������" '-r.o- -.-yrd.-;_i:y inviteo t.o .er--.:K"e n-.c--. .;iii;in evi,'!-. _\*���������. Vi*-it'!V. :.'.'f.n: il tCTid. iucs. -).c;_in_;on\ r. s i^*������wrrir.w ������������������*��������� ���������%��������� si ��������������� i 5 *J K A Cori.rac-i- and Day \v'ca--< Wanted Address��������� M;:tfnk iwa. Japans.������ie Buarding. Iluuse', next Brick yard. V ���������_ c^rf-;^*-''-^*-'/*'"0V_^?'.'-i:_'-H^ 270TICH _ / ny person or persons destroying or ���������I'liiT'kiin iit kt-'-'S aivfl! ij.'nr.is (.1 the I J'I���������^->.^-?l^^*.-o_S���������_���������>_i���������.^__���������c^i���������'ic, OALBY, D.D S. & L D.Sts I Den.ti*3try in all its Branches _A. __������-_loi_ 4. (OFFICE���������MILL, STREET.) (P. 0. Drawer .36. T-ulephonc, Call, 1-9) NANAIMO, B. C. , '^^" A complete stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber always on band. Alsc Shingles, laths, Pickets, Doors, Win- ��������� dows and Blinds. Moulding, Scroll Sawing, Turning, and all kinds of wood finishing furnished. Cedar. White,-Pine.' Redwood. vi) Plate w.rk, tiMii.ig and ex.-rac.'.ir.i: ft S Otric*. opp'������sit������ Wavr-rlj Hotel, Union ,i|- '0 "���������~ . ��������� ').'' 0. Hours���������3 a m. t<> 5 p.m aud from (��������������� ������������������: .S ���������N :<;V' ���������_ * c/3-S.._v 6 p. m to ������ p.m. v/������?z ��������� :fn-__v.M___-#i__-M___. ^._.._M--^-_(-vt-nrn.i_-n-i_������: J"- .A. _vr������Xj__DO:E) Genera! Teaming. Powder Oil, Etc., Hauled. Wood in Blocks Furnished, SCAVENGER WORK DONE _ astv. - rsatt % r*y/-H*i _r__ji __i 'principles we oraise him for nicking to those principles, few fighting for them, for suffering for them. We do not laud him to the skies because he is superior to what he believes to be right, and just and proper. We do that only when he throws to the winds the party that is supposed to be working out his principles. So, too, in regard to great crises_ and important measures of State. If parly government be a good thing, why should it be necessary to thrust it aside? If a party be based on sound principles���������as its supporters hold it to be���������why, in times of of difficult;.-, should the p->rty be forsaken, its principles thrown overboard, and its members go over fay the occasion to "the partv thev oppose and with \vho--e avow ed principles they disagree? If this st-ite nfihinos signifies anything at all, it is that political parties are hollow sham*-, mere p!-iv_rro-.ind f.-r prattlers, to be c; s .'iside when s.-ii'*u*-- hir ir!���������>������������������-. begin-;. j ���������Canadian Magazink i Barber &hop Bathin;) EstabH&hment O. H. Fechner, ^:^I^o_=5I^I_LTo_=, Cu'i__EP.LAIJD SHOE SHOP. I have moved into iny-new shop on Dunsmuir Avenue, .whereI.ant prepared to. manufacture and repair* all kinds of men's, women's, and children's shoes. Give me a,call. NELSON BARKS. *^i.T.-Tl-r-*^������*-'Tn-r_-j-r^^ Do You Take Your Local Paper? It publishes all that is worthy oi notice' of THE LOCAL NEWS, it Gives the cream of TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. It Supports GOOD ORDER, PUBLIC ENTER PRISES, THE CHURCHES, FRATERNAL SOCIETIES, everything.wor- thv of encouragement. Union lire-.. ..ry Company Ltd of Nanaimo. wili be pro.rcuted. A hbeial reward ������������������ill b<* paid for i:__ot.nation leading to -urjviction. W. E. Nmris, See'y r.i. f'-l VERY- jL. 'W*&������������Z,. I s**rri prepsied i.c ��������� furnish 'stylish.Pigs arid do Teaming At reasons ble rates. D. Kiipar.ric-k, Union, B. C. EAM1NG- rzr,./-&zrsr;i SO YEARS* fSXPERlENCB. TRADE MARKSf DCSiCNS, ������OPYRtCHTS _o. Anyone sondlnpr a nkotch und description mnr quickly Jiaccrtain, free, whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. Oldest npency for securing patents, in AniHiica. We have a AVashinRton office. Pat.nts taken throu������li Munn & Co. receive opeciul iiotic. ia tli. oe il. U Tl oliald, Sonse and Sip Painter, Paper-Hanging, KaSsomining and Decorating. GRAINING A SPECIALTY. All Orders Promptly Attended to Union, B. C. 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 is the exponent of the district, and by it the district will he judged by the outside public. It is as CHEAP as a good paper can be produced in a country district. Give it your generous support and there will be increased improvements. SCIENTIFIC /.SVIERIOAN, beautifully Illustrated, largest circulation of any scientific lourna!, weekly, terms|3.00 a year: 51.50 six u_oi.__.s Specrrcnn copies and _l_Sli Book on Patents sontfree. AddroM^^ MUNN &. CO., 361 Broadway, New York, ^ CHOICE LOTS 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 Abrams. subscribe fo>r "the news."' $2 oo per amum, ��������� ti Q *-_ ry /w f'O *') THE WEE KLY ' aEWS M.. R C H. 30th, 1897. K_MC������W-__E_ ?7 KOOTENAY. __T I hers is Nothing We copy the following from . a _p.mm_. journal aa a brief and fair outline ot tne Ko _ tenay towns and tneir prospects : I have at last ended iny travel.* in British / yp Columbia and am settled ia Bran Ion. This This is a larger place than 'Slocan City afc present, and they are about a quarter of a mile apart. As Slocan City has the larger ���������������itef Ith'nk it will htve the larger boom. Tne place ia more talked of ..in Kootenay than any other. At present, however, it is very dull. I have been in Rdvel.toke, Nakusp, New Denver, Slocan, Kaalo, Nt-l.on, N.jrchp.jrt, Salmon Siding, Rowland and Trail, and found all thriving. 1.. vela coke'.has a great f a cure. Sandon is in the centre of more rich mme. than any town in the Dominion. No one will ever makesit their residence except for btiatne..- Io will he a tiiiniug camp, uoc a city. > New Denver is prosperous aud progressive It ia nut overdoue iu any line. Ic may become a city. The railway and boac. have sidetracked it ho fur. I doubt if thoy can continue to do������o. It is th. scat of Govern- meut officeu for .Slocan. Ka*.l_ cannot tail to he prosperous. Up the K.a*i_o aud Slucau Railway to San.iou, a large utring of rich oiiues look to it for aup- plic-i. The sLores aro much finer, nunieroua aud better supplied than tho.se of any other Slocan town. Morally ifc is a sink. Neloon is steadily prosperous. There does not seem to b. so much of the boom and gouge as elsewhere. G.ographically I eau- uot see why it Bhould be no important. But the-Governnieiit aud the Canadian Pacific Railway make it their Kootenay headquarters. The Ndaon aud Fort Sheppani. road made straight or It. No one dream*, of rh*_*. Crow's N������*>t road siuu-:rackiug it. Loau companion are willing go iut/ost iu it, whole* _a!e houses iOi:ata (.here, auH men who wish Nanaimo Cigar Factory [f it. is Wall Put Together So here it is : : Single .Harness at $lo, $12, $15 per set' and up.���������Sweat Pads at 50 cents. Whips at 10, 25, 50 and a good Rawhide for 75 rents, and.a Whale Bone at $1 and up to $2. 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 arti CLE toi the same money Puntle I,have the largest Stock of WHIPS in town and ^lso the Best Axle Greasejat o BOsES i___)ealor in ��������� FopTwenty-Five Cents- Trunks at Prires to Suit the Times. P_ioa_rTr.v and NEATLV DONE Repairing j " Wesley Willird "Stoves anil Tinware . * '��������� Plumbing".and general _������ _* Sheetiron work PROMPTLY DONE DAVID JONES, Proprietor, ��������� ��������� ���������r MANUFACTURER' OF ���������1 SODA WATER, LEMONADE, GINGER ALE, ' S-arsaparalla, Champagne Cider, Iron Phosphates and Syrups. Bottler of Different Brands of Lager Beer, Steam Beer ' and Forter Agent for tho Union Brewery C-xnpany. __::E.Gr _3_____^ so__zd _^o_<, c__s__: o_r__ _r ' COURTENAY, B. C. H. A. Simpson Bappistep ��������� Solicitor. No's 2 *& 4 Commercial Street*. _7__.__N-_.I_t_0, 3. C. _/���������-. ' J. .A. Carthew ARCHITECT and BUILDER, t_risr_C������7, _J_ C - S3T Agent for the Celebrated Gurney Souvenir Stoves and Ranges-���������- Manufacturer of the _^������_i_M_fe������i!^_ NOTICE a sure thi-uy iav-cat tiiere. W_iy ? Nuijier- otid Wilif r _iie._ v-vould .ecu* ���������.uoi. coi'veni.-.t. more aui.__!_le for juactioti. dad moro c. r- , t_.i_._y iu the hue uf'travel. SaIiuou Siding in booming. Rich prospect* ..re reported near, Lots are selling high. Tr.ut and llos.land pirtio. are ei-gii.* ������eri(ig the deala. At present only a few barn-looking shack, are atanding there. Ic may he all right. Trail ha*, a ������reat smelter, ff.ij.ze. the C. P*. R , aud otherH think it wili have mare. O.ie railway now taps it and the Columbia fl.M'8 past it. Other railways seem pr.fii- ���������hie. A. a smelting, commercial aud rail- , way town, I am inclined to place it high for the future. f "An Act to Prevent Certain "Animals from Running- at Large���������1896" St.>ck owners ire hereby notified to ke.p all Swine, S.allions of one year old ������������������ind,u|j\v,..ol������-, aud Bulls ov.r nine months old, under [rrnptr enclosure, as .ill aiii- m..i_- of ihe.-.e '!e-..:ripl.:.ns, found running it large y'iII be* r!i..*J_ with under the pro v") .ions of th. Act referred to. Comox-;- B. C. W. Ii. Anderson, June 7th, .896. .'GOV'T Af.ENT. 1 New Air-tight heaters ���������������������������M11 ii������������������������������������-w^���������Tram 1 ii���������imi iTnimw ������<��������� i-amuniiin'i L. P. ECKSTEIN. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public-. Office:���������First Street, Union, B. C, PJE_:SJ__1P! CHEAP!! CHEAP!!! WOVE! WISE FENCHG ' * T H E s E . 1! iii iru 1 i< ll _, AS WELL A3 Mc-Mullen's choice the owtario wire fencing co.. ltc. ��������� Steel-Wire Nettiricr for* scturod. WIRE F JPicton, Out.ario. Trellis, Poultry Yards, -Lawn Fencing,. etc., *������������������������_**���������__-. *, BARKER & POTTS, BARRISTERS, SOLJCITORb, ><5 NOTARIES, fi_e. Ortlco Room 2. Mel _oe & Moore __cV_j ������uiil at NANAIMO. 15. C\ p. o. dhawei: IS. are sold mucii lower before. They are the best. Merchant for them. tins year tnan ever Ask your Hardware yi O W. C. T. U. NOTES T_e Doings of rhe-DriDk in England. 0:i a. recent; morui.g t!i������.ro lay etrefcehed ���������out the corpses of tvr-o man who had killed themaeires with driuk. on New Year'- Deiy. The younger one's last joiiru'ey was Lo go to the spirit shop to buy a half-crown boulo of driuk. A fe>v iniuuee. after nia rciuru lie dropped dead on the floor. The place waa Hits tne prophet's roll, "writsea ivi..i_iu ������od without with lain-'titation, aud mouru- ing and woe." As ihe.e man lay ia that -cheerless house ou that Sabbata rnoruuig, their upturned faces toward the opea _Uy- light that they oould not sec, they seemed ���������to charge someone else with their guih. Seo a ytuug man leaning agaiust a shop -window too intoxicated to. walk; beaide him stood his little girl, about three years ���������old; cryiutj bitterly, because he could not .come home. * JELe.was too besotted to be conscious of the sorrow of his child. Her tears -as they .pUahed on the cold,street aouuded .in the ears of God. Who is responsible for he tears that fall and the hearjs that break unseen ? The cry of sorrow is drowned iu the noise of sin. A workiagtnan who often came home the worse for drink, when warned by his wife, .said, "Oh, if God only gives me two or three days to repent on my death-bed, I .shall be all right." He came home one Friday night, went up stairs, reeled backward 4tt the top, fell to the bottom, and broke his neck. A pilot said, "You may lecture me as you like; it is no use unless you do away with the whole trade iu driuk. I know all you can tell me, and if they would agree to abolish the whole trade I would sign for it with both my hands. I can cuu.e h*i_!..i after having fasted for hours, and u.._. iu put off with my dinner, tho' I see it "ready before :me; but when tho thirst for drink comes I must have it���������nothing can stop me." The signs of depravity this Christmas neem to be without a parallel in the history ���������or Sunderland. It is enough to make the whole christian world ujourn. What are the ���������churches doing to oppose this enormous orsjan izatiou for the destruction of men ? If we d > not do all in our power to stem this acourge of our land, our prayers are but a mockery. No wonder that in many of our c lurches the heavens are as iron aud the earth is as brass. The Jews have a legend that Rachel is Btill weeping for her children. Who weeps for the children of the drunkard? At the judgment to many a parent to whom Gad entrusted children the question will bo a.*-k- ed : "Where is the Hock 1 gave thee���������.hy beautiful flock?"���������E. Binns, in London Christian. YARWOOD & YOUNG BARKiSTERR and SOLICITORS Corner of Bastion and Uouimeruial S'.reets, Nr.t1air.10, B. C. Branch ^Office, Third Street i-ndDunurauir , Aveuue, B. C. - tWill be in Uniou the 3rd Wednesday o each month alud rtimam ten.days. A rr.STE 'ST.JUK.i_- Clocks, watches, books and stationery. T. D.."-McLean _- -E "W" is x_,:i������re_ - \T7_T_0_T. _3. C Hii?**!-?.\- -t. V ;>-*y> 0. Notice to Taxpayers. Assessment Act and Provincial Sevenue Tax. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, in accordance wiih the Slatut.es, that Provincial Revenue Tax and Taxes levied under the Assessment Act are now due lor ihe year 1S97. All of the above named Taxes collectible within the Comox, Nelson. Newcastle, Den man and Hornby I-.lands Division of the District of Comox, are payable ai my office.' $ Assessed Taxes are collectible at the following rates, viz: ;. , ��������� If paid on or before June 30th, 1S07 --Provincial Revenue, $3.00 per capita. Three fifths of one per cent on Real Property. Two and one-half per cent on Wild Land. One-half of one per cent on Personal Properly. One. half of one per cent on Income. IF'PAID AFTER JUNE 30th, 1897��������� Four-fifths of one per cent on Real Property. Three'per cent on Wild Land. Three-fourths of one percent on Personal Property. Three-fourths of one per cent on Income. . . W. B. Anderson, Assessor and Collector. January 1897. Onmberland Mel. Union, B. C. The finest h'c-te.l building. Fixtures and Bar North of Victoria, pind the best kept house. ������1 WW W^J ft \ ^. jrjsj m4 < GO TO i. FOR J������_*.__. w ���������������1 I aa ^ *_! _')3 ���������:) #% nk n$ $$ %'J tea $.1 * i/ _?-*" -**l -*"li t\i Spacious Billiard Room and new Billiard and Pool Tables Best of Wines and Liquors, j Ladies Home Journal. -nv-fcT-LTT^rrf fTBraff-imiir - "������^-������ We do all kinds of Job Printing, anything from a Dodger to the neatest Business Card or Circular. ���������This isa journal which every Canadian lady should have. It is edited by Faith Fenton, and has a department in charge of the Countess of Aberdeen. It is worthy to be in every home in the Dominion. The price is $r.oo per annum. We have made such arrangements that we are enable to furnish it for 50 cents, per annum to everv subscriber to The .News not in arrears for his subscrip tion. The 50 cents must be paid in advance and will be sent with the name to the home office of the journal and the magazine will be mailed direct from Toronto to the subscriber. Remember it will be no use to ask us to take, your names without handing in at the time the cash. Where the husband subscribes for the News, the wife may have the Canadian Home Journal (which is a large magnificent monthly gotten up in-the best of style) sent her on the above terms. Dance Programmes Visiting Card Billheads *,.-* Envelopes ' Posters r Pamphle Circulars Letterheads GOOD PAPER GOOD INK^^^^^ .'.' l&SS^* Our Work Speaks _-_W_;.fl)ft.���������^__>MII.fV.UW.flfl^^ IV.ournmg Menues Card Statements Noteheads Our Worth ������!MS J__l$_--_!-f he Best Cougb Syrup.' ,stes Good. Use ia time. by Druggists. to get it. Undoubtedly it is the I presume we have used over one. hundred bottles of Piso's Cure 'fo_> Consumption in my am continually advising others 1i^]nn I ever used.���������W. C. Miltenberger, Clarion, Pa., Dec. 29, 1894.��������� 1 sell Piso's Cum for Consumption, and never have any complaints.���������E. Siiorey, Postmaster, Shorey, Kansas, Dec. 21st, 1894. >THIRTY-SEVENTH_YEAR. -������ "4- ?;-f > WORLD-WIDE CIRCULATION. ' T^esty Pages; Weekly; Illustrated, - Indispensable to Mining P.i.n. JAMES ABRAMS . T2R23 COLLARS F2_ YEAR. I'OSTPAi-. *> .������ CM-P'.y. ccp'.iis r;*,f.c. ) > KIHIttG A?!D SClESTiFIO PRE38, < i 220 ;vi*p.K_T St., San Francisco, Cal.? Notary Public. Agent for ihe Alliance Fire insurance Company of Lon don and the Phoenix o Hartford. Agent for the Provincial Building*: and Loan /"sso- eia.lon of Toron.'o. Union, B. C. &*-_^������i*������l������_ir_- **xx*azj. tti. b~_i*x.t ti *E3c������^____5_3i������-������ HOW THE PEOPLELI YE DROWSY EXISTENCE OF CITIZENS OF HAVANA. THE Military Display the Only Chance in the Conditions Surrounding the Place���������Coffee, Siesta, Promenades and Ball Fights Go On as Usual. never go out on the streets alone. Thej' are always accompanied "by a forbidding: relative with a machete a yard long. All the courting of Cuban sweethearts is done through perpendicular iron window bars three inches apart. This is pretty hard lines on anybody accustomed to the cielights of a solitary parlor, low gas jets and a rocking chair built wide enough for two. In fact, the Cuban youths have Few Indications of War. While Cuba, as a whole, has been terrifically and completely changed by the violent upheavals of war, its chief city still sits on the shores of the northern sea, sunlit and odorous. Llavana, too, has undergone changes, says the New York Herald, but the changes are not those of fire and sword and famine. It has become decidedly more military than a few years ��������� ago, but this is all. Its cafes, formerly haunted by well-dressed crowds of civil- - ian Cubans and Spaniards, now clank with spurs and sabers and ring with brimstone gossip of trochas, of battles-and red routs, where the men who formerly sat cheek by jowl in the restaurants have met in deadly conflict. Havana is full of marching soldiers that signify nothing but harmless dress parades, relief detachments add the like. The civil guards still form on the Prado and sweep down between the trees to the tune of a lively Spanish quickstep, with rides at all sorts of angles and their hip- py-hoppy hats cocked over their eyes in a style that would be considered aggressive in any other country. But the real life of the city moves on steadily and quietly, just as it will continue to move until the day of judgment, unless stricken by some mighty cataclysm. Across the blue waters of the bay the low white houses of Casa Blanca sleep under the shelter of the bushy hill. Farther away, beyond the tile-roofed sugar houses that are empty and deserted now, and on 1 the high mesa of the palm-dotted prairie hill, are the sleepy houses of Kegia, ancl farther still the village of Guanabocoa, where the insurgents have made things lively during the past month. But outside of the bodies of moving troops you could not discover a sign of war in Havana's front with a microscope. The lovely land conveys no hint of the savage and bloody exterior. The muleteers still perambulate tho lonely roads with their enormous pack saddles, crooning to their sun-dreaming animals, while hammering them townward with their ragged heels. "Venga, Moolah ! Arrica, Moolah!'' But Moolah, wise from experience, only lays his long ears back in dogged resentment, and plods on in sleepy comfort. In Havana' proper, while business is comparatively, stagnant, there is still enough to give the usual air of slow and easy life to the streets. The narrow thoroughfares are swarming with low- topped carriages, beasts of burden, jostling drivers and negro women with,.such huge panniers on their heads that the mind tries in vain to grasp the effect of such a burden on the Caucasian brain. Some of these panniers are filled with bread. Others contain fruit and vegetables. Visitors have seen an Havana negro woman walking along the streets with i basket upon her head the size of a bureau, and smoking a cigar which for general size and black suggestions of nicotine has never been equaled. They are physical wonders, these tropic negresses. The morning life of Havana is brisk. Then everything looks -dewy and fresh and bright, and whatever odors there may be have not yet risen. Odors are late risers in Havana, although it may be truthfully observed that many of th.m never go to sleep at all. In the morning come the peddlers, with their strange wares and shrill cries. Here and there half dozens of asses may be seen waddling along with full udders of milk. They are attended by a ragged owner, who milks into a measure whatever you may choose to buy. This is a decidedly comfortable way of running a milk route, and you are sure of getting the pure article. Said to Be Wholesome. This asses' milk is said to be very wholesome, too.. There is no tuberculosis about a jackass, except in his heels. On one occasion the writer saw one of these lowly and intelligent beasts kick a yellow dog over the counter of a "casa de cambio," or "money changer's." and knock down $1S7 in gold coins that were stacked in the rear. Onlv one stack was left standing, and it RELIGIOUS rRO-i'-SSIOlN IX HAVANA. a rather hard time of it. The writer has seen more than one of them come into the cafes with the red marks of the iron window bars along his face. But just now the boys are all away to the wars and the maids have no sweethearts. They Make Siesta. About noontime the average Cuban becomes too strong to work. He must have their mammas, while hooded in their mantillas, are dressed in the lightest and fluffiest of pink, blue,and white frocks. The bands play, the seats are filled with spectators, officers, mashers and plantation owners, and the scene is full of life and movement. Ten cents "plata" is the price for a seat on, one of these benches, and the" revenue is supposed to go to the municipal authorities. It is doubtful, however, if a tithe of it ever finds its way into the public coffers. There are three collectors, and they never overlook anything, that any man could discover. There are no tickets to punch, no cash registers or bells to.ring. ' It seemed to me to be one gigantic game of '"grab." Over in the Inglaterra aud the neighboring resorts the cafes are full of Spanish officers, laughing, drinking, talking and smoking their endless cigarettes. Whenever an American makes his appearance thoy scowl and make remarks that are very audible even if not understood. Every well regulated Cuban is afraid of the moon. There is no, kind of lunacy that is not attribuio.l, either directly or indirectly, to the effects of moonlight. Mothers''teach their children to avoid its rays as they would the smallpox. ' There is so much difference in the temperature of the Cuban sunlight and shadow that the sensitive constitutions of a rather delicate people feel tlie change dreadfully. In the first place the atmosphere is ever surcharged with moisture that boils and steams in the sun and grows cool in the shade, like the'air at the bottom of a well. Then up comes the moon, with hor attendant fogs, and gets all the glory of breeding rheumatism, colds, fevers and consumption. "Keep out of the moonlight," is a Cuban mother's' first maxim. Have Bull Fights Now. During the first year of the present wai% there were'no bull fights in Havana. The.; are being indulged in again, however, and are as thoroughly enjoyed as in ante-bellum days. There is one feature of these bull fights tha't is seldom dwelt .upon by chroniclers of .Spanish customs. . It is the "bull for the people." Aftei the matadors have properly slaughtered their bulls an animal is brought'in for the pastime of the spectators. Its horns ar. sawed off until their ends are about an inch and a half in diameter, enough to prevent it injuring anybody seriously. DUSKY BELLES IN BLOOMERS. Bicycle Costumes the Easre Among the New \\ omen of Africa. Who knows but the bicj^cle may yet be recognized as one of tlie foremost a ..rents' of civilization! Much stranger things have happened in the world's economy. It is recorded that the new woman has suddenly appeared among the native tribes of Africa, where the black belles have discarded earrings and breechloths and donned bicycle bloomers, much to the astonishment of the swarthy warriors. The negro women on the outskirts of the forest, where they come into close contact with European civilization, have gone crazy over, lhe bicycle. ��������� Hitherto it'has been a comparatively easy matter for the young black men to satisfy'the cravings of their sweethearts for articles-of personal adornment, as the styles never changed and the a mount of clothing the women were GREATER THAN NIAGARA. KATaL'S NEW WOMAN. C 8S*_i_ OBISPO, THE .-PRINCIPAL H AY ANA. A CAFE IX IIAVAXA. was generally regarded as a "spare." But the jackass didn't care much about it. He simply closed his eyes and kept on thinking long eaved thoughts. All Havana breakfasts on black coffee and oranges. Somehow Americans always found this poor fare for a matutinal Anglo-Saxon stomach. The oranges are "the best in the world, but the coffee has tbe strength of a porous plaster. After coffee at 9 o'clock comes a period of comparative activity for Cubans. They hustle about and attend to their marketing and other necessary duties. They go shopping in little peseta carriages, drawn by small and sturdy Cuban horses. But young and pretty Cuban girls do not go shopping unaccompanied. In fact, they his siesta, and the world may wag on as it will while he takes it. Each member of an establishment has his own particular spot in which to take a nap, and it is a very rude thing for another to pre-empt it." The writer always knew where.to find the barkeeper of one particular cafe when he wanted a "rabo de gallo" at siesta time. He would reach over the bar and prod vigorously around among the.empty bottles and buckets until he struck a protest. Then he had him. "Here, Chico! Get up and attend to business." "Si, hbmbre! Si! Que dice? Oh, dos mil cientos." ��������� Then he would fish out an old lottery ticket, of which he had been dreaming, lay his head on the counter and go to sleep again, leaving the cafe in charge of his 6- year-old daughter, who ran about the place in a state of unblushing and Evelike nudity. Siesta time lasts anywhere from noon to 3 o'clock. Then Havana yawns, stretches itself and resumes business where it left off a few. hours before. Even the beggars, who have also had their siesta, begin to show signs of almost human intelligence. They creep out from their various lairs and begin languidly to ply their trade. The blind girl, who put hor own eyes out in a fit of pique, starts on her sunlit journey in tow of her brother. The man with the horrible leprous foot, bare and terrifying, stretches himself out in the shade of a deserted building on the Prado like a huge and offensive spider. Many of these beggars are manufactured to order in Spain or the Canary islands, and they are certainly champions in their classes. There is one old fellow, ragged and with a yellow, withered face, like a boiled onion, gray whiskered, pursy and pop-eyed, who walks about the streets. And yet he used to be one of Havana's most wealthy and prominent merchants. He lost al. his money through drink and morphine, and at present has just sense enough to beg for more. He has a staring, strabismic eye, which he winks broadcast, and a dicebox laugh. He is a Havana landmark. In tlie Ivv nino.. In the evenings the church bells begin to ring. They do not ring with the slow, measured cadence heard in Northern climes, but whang away as if hit with a hammer. And such is really the case. Two men climb up into the belfries and pound away for dear life until the ethics of Cuban bell ringing are fulfilled. After nightfall begins the most attractive features of Havana life to a foreigner. Tin* parks are filled with a strolling, chattering crowd. 1 he Cuban girls and Then a gold piece is fastened to the end of one of its horns" arid tli. public is given an opportunity to take it off. And how the spectators rush ,,to the fray! The writer saw a dozen sailors jump into the ring arid fairly hack the bull to death before it had time to find out where it was. It was slashed with machetes until its hide would not have held pumpkins. It fought as well as it - knew how, and on one occasion caught its most daring persecutor and tossed him a beautiful somersault over the ring fence. Not until -the bull had fallen did the sailors get the gold piece. Altogether, however, Havana cannot be called a beautiful place. It looms above the sea like a gaunt, white coral reef ridged about a blue pool of a bay, which it clutches in its rocky arms like a sapphire.' The houses, small and plain and white, stand in long, rows like the tombs of the dead, and it takes an Anglo-Saxon some time to get rid of this graveyard feeling. ������������������ ��������� ��������� ��������� Carpets are unknown in Havana hotels. The writer came across one once and was tempted to throw it into the street; it looked so stuffy and out of place. The smooth marble stones, which are universal, arc very cool and grateful to the feet in this hot climate. With stone floors and broad windows without glass, the Cuban sleeping apartments are well adapted to the climate. And the sunsets are dreams of loveliness. The western sky at times is one vast rose-colored ocean, flecked with small crimson cloudships that sail placidly along, fading gradually from orange to saffron ancl from saffron to purple and from purple to black. The writer has stood on the punta and watched the sun go down behind the western gulf.' Twenty minutes later it was night and the lamps were glimmering along the Prado. iu the 'habit of wearing was extremely limited.' Now, however, the latter not. only want a complete bicycle outfit, including bloomers, hat and stockings, but an up-to-date machine as well, with' cyclometer, lamp, kit of, tools and all the other attachments. At first the native swains of Natal bought for their sweethearts the old, high-wheeled bicycles which were discarded by the European market. These for a. time satisfied the aspirations of t'ti'e native African belles. They quick-, ly learned, however, that wheels of- this pattern were out of date, and that, the safety with inflated tires was the proper thing. Since that time no black girl making any pretensions to stylo in'Natal will be satisfied with, anything less than a wheel of the '95 or '9G pattern. One of those ladies of color in Natal recently posed for a photograph against a background of gum trees and buffalo grass, with a native kraal in the distance. She wore a checked suit, consisting of a Norfolk jacket, with a belt and bloomers that fitted close about the hips. On her head an Alpine hat was jauntily set.: So up to date was this African maid that she disdained bicycle stockings,. and wore trie short socks coming half way to-the knee that are the latest thing among the fair bicyclers of Paris. Venezuelan Cataract More than T_rec Handled Feet High. Dr. L. O. Dart, who is a member ol the American expedition on. the Orinoc. River, sends us the following highly entertaining letter describing a magnifl cent cataract which he has just diecov* ered. We take great pleasure in pub liahing the letter: ' '��������� "The people of the West Ind.es wit no doubt be interested to learn that S A. Thompson and'myself, while explor ing in the Imataca Mountains, koiqi fifty miles south by east from Cata' lena, discovered - a waterfall whicl promises, when the whole truth is dell nitely known, to rival some of the grear waterfalls of the world. "It was three days after first hearln| the roar of falling water before w< reached the river, so difficult, were th������ mountains to climb and the forest to penetrate. But the sight that greeted us when we reached the river well repaid us for our hard work. Before our eyes was a great white wall of water , 200 feet wide and more than,800 feet in.height. Above this the fall curved behind a cliff and precluded farther view from below. By the aid of lianaa hanging from or over the rocks above, and bushes growing in the crevices of the cliff, we ascended near the brink of the fall till our barometer registered a height of 350 feet above our first point iof view, and far up and around the vertical mountain the falling water again disappeared,, because of the curve In * the river. ' The river���������what river we ' know not for a certainty���������appeared to flow from the west, and, leaping the cliff, strikes against a concave wall of rock on the southeast and Is deflected from its course till the fall faces th������ north. Above the point where our.bar- . ometer registered the 350 feet of sheer fall we could not ascend, as we stood at the base of a perpendicular, wall of granite. And by this time the hour was late and we were forced to return to our-jcamp���������a camp that consisted only of our hammocks and a huge fire to dispel the dampness of the dark forest., As our provisions were low���������In fact, for some days we had been living on wild game���������we thought It wise to return to Catalena. This we did!. Further knowledge of this grand waterfall we hope to gain in the near future, and on our second trip we shall not be surprised if we find there exists in the Imatacas one of the great waterfalls of the world.' "Asserting the rights of discoverers, * we have given to this grand .scene the name of the Falls of Manoah. - This ��������� name seems .especially fit because* of Its association with the legends of the peo- ��������� pie concerning the Imatacas."���������Caracas (Venezuela) Herald. VIBRATING IN TUNEFUL ACCORD, TO TURN GLOBE TROTTER. to A Young: Woman Barber Who Is Make a Tour of the World. Miss I. A. Grey, who is at present employed in a weir known barber shop in- Savannah,' Ga., has almost completed arrangements for making a tour of the world and practicing her profession. , Miss Grey is 22 years old, medium height and a decided brunette. She was born near Chicago, and learned her trade in that city eight .years ago. She' will start alone and without a cent, .earning her way with her trade, bringing back a specified amount of cash, thus, identifying herself as the greatest and most novel ."tourist" the world has ever known. She is bound to succeed, for beside being of an energetic, ambitious and attractive nature, she has the proper amount of deter- Like the strings of a musical instrument, tlie nervous system in health harmonizes pleasantly with" the other parts of the system. But ��������� weakened or overwrought, it jangles mostin- harmoniously. Quiet and invigorate it;with', the great tranquilizer and tonic, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which promotes digestion, bilious secretion and a regular action of the bowels, and prevents malarial, rheumatic and kidney complaints. :'-,.'.��������� Dropping or striking a steel magnet, or causing it to vibrate': by any other means, diminishes its magnetism. <.. HOME PRODUCTS AND PURE FOOD., Blouse Bodices. A blouse bodice of black velvet, covered back and front with a lattice trimming of gold cord, and turquoise beads set in at intervals, so that there is a bead at each crossing, is very effective with a wide corselet belt of black satin, a black satin collar, and plain sleeves of velvet with a small puff at tbe top. "No," said Higgles, "few railroads in this country are conducted on the square," "I'd like to know why not." "Oh, because most of them maintain round houses."���������Philadelphia North American. All Eastern Syrup, so-called, usually, very light colored and of heavybody, is made from glucose. "Tea Garden Drips" is made from Sugar Cane and is strictly pure. It is for*sale* by first-class grocers, in cans only. Manufactured by the Pacific Coast-Syrup Co. All genuine "Tea Garden Drips" have, the manufacturer's name lithographed on every can. In Germany asparagus is peeled before it is canned by the aid of-a special machine. > "Whi,te. quartz with a great, deal of free gold has been struck near Hill City, in the.Black Hills. .'."'. ,' Glycerine is derived, from the lye left after making soap, which for ages was considered of no use. A Pennsylvania court has decided that, to call a man a Mugwump is not a. libel, but a compliment. At Salem, Mass., the Roentgen ray discovery; is . asserted to have caused hair to grow on a bald head. MISS I. A. GKBY. mination to succeed at anything she may undertake. She also has worked up some very clever schemes that she expects will net her no small amount when turned into cash. She is said to be very clever with both razor and shears. "Next." Embarrassing.. "Here, take my seat, lady," said the little boy on the car, as he sprang from his father's knee and doffed his hat. The lady looked like a blush rose, the women giggled, the father signaled the conductor to stop, and half a dozen men stood up while urging the lady to ������it dow_.���������Detroit Free Press. line and imprisonment, which fine, when collected, shall go into the common school fund of the county. . The Transvaal is tlie thirty-ninth power to welcome the Bed Cross. Society. ' .. F. Ii. Suizer, of "West Bergen, owns a Bible printed in London 297 years ago. . ' ���������- The camel has the most complicated j system of digestive organs. There are said to be pelicans with a wing spread as far as fifteen feet. We can afford to have you try all five flavors���������one after another���������of Schillings . _* Best tea, and get your money back if you don't like any. Your tea-trade for the next ten years is worth having. A Schilling & Company San Francisco 411 J. fi -.'.I'M ,i.t '���������'. il ���������j 1 i . __| A <��������� If % ���������1. !__. r4. ��������� 'I**. A. i.O-IU BASIS. Gold is a solid basis of financial transac tion, and for business that's the best thing for us. It is so in the physical conditions. If by some carelessness or exposure to sudden cold the muscles of the back are contracted and stiffened, we have at once lumbago, or lame back, sometimes called "crick in the 'back," which is disabling and unfits all all who have it for any. activity. Now, to get back to a solid basis of health and strength, St. Jacobs Oil should at once be used to relax the.*twisted muscles and restore'to their natural condition. It takes ��������� but a short time to perform the cure and the cure is certain. The back is then on a solid basis for strength and work, and noth-. ing will bring about the change like this great remedy for pain. Fossil animals, bearing a close resemblance to our horses, have been found in many parts of the world.- I never used so quick a cure as Piso's Cure for Consumption. ��������� J. B. Palmer, Box 1171, Seattle, Wash., Nov.' 25,'1895. Gladness Comes With a better understanding- of the transient nature of the many physical ills, which vanish before proper ef- ��������� forts���������gentle efforts���������pleasantefforts���������,, rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any' actual disease, but simply to a constipated condition of the system, whiiih the pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Figs.prompt- ��������� ly removes. That is why. it is the only . remedy with millions of: families, and is, everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. '.'-Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, .that it Is the one remedy which promotes internaj cleanliness without. debilitating the ��������� organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to get its beneficial effects, to note when you purchaser that.you liave the genuine article, which is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by all reputable druggists. If .in the enjoyment of good health, and the'system is regular, laxatives or other remedies are then not needed. If - afflicted with, any'actual disease, one ,may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need o'f-^ilaxative, one should have the best, and with tlie well-informed every where, ;<:Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely ^teed and gives most general satisfaction.. 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BEST IN THE WORLD. ^^ _C __ _f_ ^ E Its wearing qualities are unsurpassed, actually outlasting two boxes of any other brand. Free from Animal Oils. GKX THE GENUINE. FOR SALE BY OREGON AND ^gr-WASHIiS-GTON MKBCHANT8-tiK__ and Dealers generally. ' FOR pioPLETHAT ARE SICK or. "Just Don't Feel Well," fSS^v^LIVER PILLS ore tbe One Thing to use. Only One for a Dose. Sold by DruKgistB at 2Sc. ������ box Samples mailed free. Address Dr.- Bosanko Med. Co. P_Ua. Pa. His works and name sliall ever live Till ctiaqs rules ttie eart_; .- . - * Let everyv'patrfibt Xtiail ttie day ' ��������� T_.at celebrates _is birtti. "IMease. Dan'pn, will 'oo tell me," asked a small but thoughtful youth, '���������Why is a little hatchet called a symbol of the truth?" "Why. don't you know?" said grandpa. Lit- ">le Bobbv shook his bead. "I tooly don't," he answered. "Then you ought to," grandpa said. "AIL ready," he continued, taking Bobby on his knee, "It's going to be a story, and you re wide awake, I see. Once on a time a little boy of just about vour lift Received a littlo hatchet from his father for a gift " "Oh, what a funny present," thoughtful Bobby cried. "Suppose That boy hnd chopped his Angers off and bloodied all his clothes; I dess bis foolish papa then would cry a lot. I say! \Vhv didn't tbat boy's mamma take the hatchet right-away?" ,;,.*��������������������������� "Perhaps she didn't, know It,"' grandpa laughed; "at any rate Next morning bright and early rose that little boy elate. To' try his little hatchet; in his father's gar- ��������� den he ; Displayed his skill by cutting down a favorite cherry tree." "A cherry tree?" cried Bobby. "Weren't any woods around? ��������� Why, cherries are the goodest things to eat I ever found; I dess that little fellow wasn't smart a bit, like me��������� Say, Dan'pa! Do you fink I'd kill a lovely cherry tree?". "Of course you wouldn't, Bobby; you're too fond of things to eat; < But, just for fun, suppose you did, and then had chanced to meet Your father hi the garden, and he sternly asked you who Cut down his favorite cherry tree. Now, tell me what you'd do." "Well, Dan'pa! let me fink. If I cut down his cherry tree And papa.came and caught me with the ���������hatchet, wouldn't he Know certain sure I did it? If I told a-story, ��������� . why He'd whip me twice as hard, you know, for telling him a lie. "But If I looked real sorry and I didn't skip, and said, 'Dear pop! forgive poor Bobby, who cut down your tree;' Instead Of getting any whipping wouldn't papa say, 'My son! Because you didn't tell a He, no whipping will be done?' " "Ahem!" said Grandpa, startled by the wisdom of the tot, "That's jusfthe thing that happened In the story. Now you trot Away to bed, and say your prayers before you close y'our eyes, And dream about the whippings bad boys get for telling lies." ���������Detroit Free P_ess. Washington's Greatest Glory. The transcendent glory of Washington as a soldier is that when the war was ended he surrendered his victorious and stain-, less sword to the civil authority. ' For eight 'long .years he hod carried that ���������great trust 'without' salary or" pecuniary compensation of any kind, iiever but once seeing his beloved Mount Vernon. A pliant army, smarting under 'grievances, .would have made him king- or dictator. He crushed the very suggestion with indignant rebuke. Cromwell and Napoleon, after successful revolutions, had held on to power. There is hardly another case in history whore, under like circumstances, power' has been voluntarily surrendered. Washington set for all successful generals, in all ages after him. a noble and immortal example, when he sought out tbat weak ancl migratory congress at Annapolis and in such dignified and manly-words as these closed his impressive speech of resignation: "Having now finished the work assigned me. I retire from the great theater of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted. I here offer my commission and tako my leave of all the employments of public life." WASHINGTON'S COACH. It Is Now a Eoost for Chickens in an Old Barn in New York. Washington's coach, iu which the father of his-'couutry rode to his inauguration and- which should be treasured as a precious relic, is now rusting away in an old stable in New York, serving as a roost for chickens and a catch-all for discarded things usually thrown into garrets. A few years ago this coach was purchased for $6,500, but to-day it is virtually neglected. With what delight, says the New York Press in commenting on this, would the French take this graceful relic and array WASHINGTON'S MISUSED COACH. it in the Musee de Cluny beside the Napoleon carriages guarded so reverently! None would esteem it better as a public possession than the Swiss or Tyroleans, who have his portrait and that of Abraham Lincoln in honored places on the walls of their homes. His appeal is as strong as that of the other who "made way for liberty"���������brave Arnold Winkel- ried. . And wouldn't the Italians like to wheel it into the great armory at Turin! It would look interesting beside the stuffed skin of the horse that carried the hero of Marengo, and the picturesque accoutrements of Garibaldi. Here in New York it is falling away with neglect. If all men knew what they say of one another, there would not be four friends in the world. This appears by the quarrels which are sometimes caused by indiscreet reports. ti Get this Package When You CaSI for it, ,'.- And Don't Be Defrauded by arty Substitute That Some Dealers Try to Sell You for the Sake of the Larger Profit! ".Thero has never been * time ���������hf n growers should guard ugainst failure with moro cure. There has never been a timo when Terry's Seeds were moro essential. They are i always the best. For sale by leading dealers everywhere. Insist on having them. is full of information for gardeners and planters. There will never be a better timo .than now to send fortho 1897 edition. Free. D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich. Sent Free! To any person interested in humane matters, or who loves animals, we will send free, upon application, a copv of the "ALLIANCE," the organ of this Society. In addition to its intensely interesting reading, it contains a list of the valuable and unusual premiums given by the paper. 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T_AT_n -For trncinsr and locating Gold or Silvey KM! IS ore,lost or hidden treasures. M. D.3TOW- lll/l/U u_ [if Box 337 Soutbington, Conn. M^DMKENNESS S'SStSCure-d II. 10 to 30 I'n-r������. No Pay till Cured. DR. J.L. STEP HENS, LEKANON.OUIO, *^Ia5__,-_- ��������� , ^CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS- Beet Cough Sjrup. Tastes Good, in timo. Bold by dJ____<>'.__. N.P.N.U. No. 689.���������S.F.N.U. No. 760 ' ������������������; r-^p-n^Tg^^awpq?^, &>_. ^grg^^js^sfc-fia a__" ������_r ���������_��������������������������������� a i -g- Le .fesaaa _yjy������Miii������,--.--Mi G. A. IVfcB'a.n &:Co.. Real Estate . Broicers, Nanaimo, B.C! c .���������������.-_������.,-- .-,^,.._^1, ,M ���������fc LOCALS Mr. Jan.*- ( ^unsmnir, President of the* Union Colliiry (.o , reached here last Wednesday on the Cit3' of Nanaimo, accompanied by the Misses Dunsmuir. Mr. Simon Leiser was up last week. Mr. Eckstein and wife have returned from Vancouver. Buy yonr sugar at Leiser's 85.00 per cwt Mi-.*. Mathew Mitchell returned from Nan aimo V. cdutsday, much improved. Mr. G. Hioka, brother of Rev. W. Hicks, ���������-rived lufat Wednesday. \, Bargains'in white and co.orei Shirts . at Leiser's Mr. S. Langdon, agent of theEirbcck was in town last week. Mr. Reifel, manager oF the Union Brewery Co., L'.d., i-aid Union a visit last week. Men's new styles' in Hard and Soft H.us at Lcisei's. * Mr. Harry Hamburger left for Victoria Friday. ' Mr. Oanonica has left, and his fruit store iu Union will know him no more forever. Received at Willards, a tine line of buggy whips* raEging from 15- to 25 cents. Seven trees were cut out of the road-, between Courtenay and Union the lat.1 o������' the week. An Italian has opened ������ fruit stand in tho Kigg-.' block, next to Tarbfell's tin and titove store. ���������The lowest prices you see advertised are the prices you pay at Hamburger's. About h.'Uf a dozen young men left Union Friday morning for the Yukon country, and it _3 said a few more will leave for the same place this week, provided they can get passage. Mr. K Barrett, formerly of Chemainus, has opened afc Holmes' Old Stand, a cauh s-'ore. Hi-*3 family is expected up in about a fortnight. ���������For Vegetable and Flower Seeds, go to-the UNION STORE. Mr. Mau'tjeMcAryle of Comox has.- gone ���������not expected back. His fa-nily h.u. not gone at last accounts, but wili probably be sent for. Mr. Wilson, Inspector of Schools, has been in tiie district some days, aud will conduct exaii.ina-t.ions for entrance to a High ' School'be!... he returns- .*. Coal-Oil S3.00 per ease at Leiser'e.. Mr. T, W. Holland-cf Vancouver, genor- at agent for British Columbia, of the Dominion Building and Loan Association,, is in town looking after the interests of tbe As- ] sociation. Saturday was a very windy and stormy day. The gulf waters faialy raged in their fury: The Glory of the Seas at Union wharf put out both of her anchors. ���������Slater Bros' noted shoes for gents at. Leiser's. Messrs Geo. Barrett, G. Fletcher aud Mr. langdon, were the euo_>ts of Mr. Uuaworth at the Waverly Hotel, after the arrival of * the train on Wednesday last. FOR SALE.���������Centre board boat fifteen fe6t reel, mast and sails complete. Cost ������75.00 last year. Wili be sold for S30.00 cash. Apply to II. Kirby, Kingcoms Inlet, 05 to Duncan Bros., Comox. The naval mess house at the Sand Spit is practically completed. The floating wharf at the Sand Suit is being constructed by Messrs Hawkins and Millett, and will be tic- ished in about a week. It is expected a warship wili visit the Bay within- a fortnight. ���������Wedding presents. See the stock new) of silverware at Leiser's. Navigation has been so rough that it has delayed shipping. The City of Nanaimo which put out of here Friday morning was compelled owii.g to the roughness on the water to put in for awhile at Dctimau Island befoie resuming her journey. James Lewis fractured the small bone of the ri_;ht leg Saturday, in No. 4 slope owing to the fall ot a stringer he was trying to put __ , xn position. He was taken to tho hospital. Ladies, have you seen those fine shoes in N. Parks' window ? Massey's for March reached here rather latr, last Wednesday. It is a fairly good number* but! not exceptionally brilliant. *fc\Vi.h Parkman through Canada" maintains its interest, and "Winnipeg Field Battery" is well illustrated, besides a few short stories and poena of no great merit "The Literary Kingdom" is pleasant read, ing, reviving memory of old association* of great authors. Those who have pianos to tune should not forget that Mr. G. Hicks, who is an expert in ihis Hiip, is in town. He is expected to leave on Friday morning. If our readers have any local news of interest, we will be pleas.d to insert srimo in She local column, if brought to the office. Subscribe for THE News $2.oc aou'-Kn. The series of mining maps oi Brit___ Columbia issued by the Province Publishing Co are well executed,, and meet a pressing want. Anyone interested in the mines of the Province should have a copy. The leading mines are named and located, alao the min in_������ towns, smelters, and. railways. There has been so muck development lately, especially in Kootenay, that it has been difficult to keep*, track of railways, locations- etc. If the book store does not have them, write to the Province Pub.., Co., Victoria. Visi'tmgf cards, printed at the* News Office in neat script. We regret if the* publication of the irem respecting the school trouble at the- landing should have led anyone to take an unfair view of the case. The fact that thib young lady referred to, has held her present position for over ,thrce-years, is in itself proof that her manauetneat of the school, has on the whole be<n acceptable to the trustees.' In judging of fcuoh cases the nervous strain of teaching and the provocation given should not be overlooked. Why send away for your- printing when you can #et it done equally as well at the News? Our prices are reasonable, and we are no'������v prepared to turn out everything in theline of Joe Pmntihg. , <-. ��������� r Mr Portray, an. old man boarding with Dave Anthony, was badly bruised by a falling roek yesterday afternoon. Ic occurred in No. ���������*.' Slope,. The examination ef pupils for a High School will commence at Courtenay,,. Wednesday, March 31* at 9-a. m. * The prediction that tbe handsome Htt.ie cottage on Maryport avenue, with Lhe u- nique roof and beautifukly windowed entrance-hall, would' not long remain with out an occupant, appears to be. fulfilled But how long this londliness? Da You -1 TakeYour Local Paper? tt publishes all that is worthy of notice ofTHE LOCAL NEWS. _ It. Gives th* cream.of TELEGRAPHIC. NEWS.- It Supports GOOD ORDER* PUBLIC ENTER- PRISES, THE CHURCHES, FRA-, TERNAL SOCIETIES, everything worthy, of encouragement. It Publishes Occasionally, Bright Original Stories, Bright Original Poems, Bright Original "Chatter." And is the ONL.Y* WEEKLY COUNTRY PAPER in the PROVINCE which has a TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE. ' It is the exponent of the district, and 'by it the district will be judged by* the outside public. ��������� ' ' ��������� It is as CHEAP as a good paper can be produced in a country'district. Give it your generous support and there will be ir.creasedo'_!..j*reven._nts. I-Pimalt & lanainio By*. Time Table No. 27, To take effect at 8 a.m. on Monday Nov. 2nd. 189o. , Trains run on Pacific Standard time. GOING NORTH 1-i'aily. | SiitAly I_v. "Victoria for-Nanaimo andj. a. m. | r. m. Wellington ....; t'S.OO | - 3.20 Ar. Nanaimo | JIAO | 0 38 Ar. Wellington.- | 12.00 | G.5f> GO.NG SOUTH I A M i P M I-Daily. | S.it.^iy. Lv, Wel'ington for Virtor | 8.20 I 3.30 L������v. NTanaimo for Victoria. .. | 8 -JO ' j 3.15 Ar.,Victoria j J2.20 j ," .0 For rates and information apply at Com- p.*Mjy's offices: A. IMJNSM UII_, JOSEPH HUNTER. President. - Gon'l Supt I.. IC. PRIOR, , Oen. Fi-eisrht and Passenger Aart,* SUNDAY SERVICES St. Gkokgk's Pkks-Jyte.uan Church������������������ Rev. J. A Logan, pa.tor. Sfrv.ces at 11 a. m. and 7 p. in. Sunday -School , at 2:30.. Y P S C E. at close of evening _*ervi_:e. Methodist Church���������- Services at the usual hours morning and evening.. ��������� Rev. W. Hicks, pastor. . 'Tiunwy Church���������Services in the evening. Rev. J'.' X. Willeinar, rector. , M. JEENRY* NURSERYMAN - AND POST OFFICE ADDRESS 604 , _\ ESTM1NSTER ROAD, VANCOUVER, B. C\ Do you know that we-ean print you just as heat a business card as yon con get in any other printing office in the Province, aud j uot as cheap too? T_>:ar in mind, we print naeal tickets also * In fact wo can do .anything iu- the line of job printing. Give us.a*trial;. Send for new 60 page Catalogue before- placing your orders foi Spring - Planting,, M" \ou are im crested in saving money for- ynursclf _md getting good stock of firsthand'*. Most complete stock of'Fiuif and;. Ornamental Trees, Si rubs, Roses, Etc.,.. in the Province. Thousands of small Fruit Plants.and* Vines of leading varieties, suitable- for- , this Climate. Fertilizers, ' Agricultural Implements,.. .Spray Pumps, Etc., best to be had. No Agents. List tells you.all about it.. Eastern Prices or Less. ��������� g r_enh������use. n urser vand. apiary" 604 West-minster Road. We do alt kinds o������ Job Printing, anything from a Dodger to the neatest. Pusiness Card or Circular. 1F% IF^T' fe_%# IN*- i'-frisu <c+xiMiiai*\iur^nu \* **jgmn***umRt*ramunmv;imtmuow 111 _p-ri-_n ninwi nm~ rnr-r*! ~~*~ " -knn-ii_M_-ii_i n'ihii 1 i_������iinrfbl' Bovs' scree, tweed ..suits, two pieces, strong tweedifsuits, plain and fancy tweeds, two pieces,. liorht and dark all wool suits,. ���������o *: . all wool Scotch tweed suits, all wool Cheviot suits, <. <������ a a a $"1.00 $1.25;- $���������1.25;. and $1.50 $,!-.. 50 -T. $ 1.75 and $2.oo:? $2.50 and $3,00 u sailor suits, two pieces, gold braided, $1.25, f.4.0, 1.50 and 1.75 J A Big lot be Cieare e@_if HI������0 ������. at 2*5 cents eae Youths' coats and vests, sizes 32, 33* 34 and 35'> to be sold [at $2.50 each, to make room for our SPRING GOODS. Our men's pants will be sold at prices REGARDLESS OF COST. per 1 V.'i a] V-l ^ 1 (M H M 'A 1 _ .'i ��������� fi *'���������*, ������_ M 4 ���������S*. Vl' if %
Print Run: 1897-1915 Frequency: Weekly. Titled "The Weekly News" from 1897-01-05 to 1898-08-09 and on 1899-04-01 "The News" from 1899-08-13 to 1899-03-21 "The Cumberland News" from 1899-04-08 until end of publication.
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