@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "d5a443b6-b290-4aab-ad11-6f054b7467ea"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2013-01-09"@en, "1902-01-25"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xindependen/items/1.0180480/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note " .-rS-gT^MWO.^ V I if '���' *��� . I. >. <-' m I. 1 F SiHSCMlPTlOilf $1.25 A YEAR Wage-earners should subscribe, because this paper ls published as their organ. 15. C. PERMKEST LOAS AM SAVLYOS CO. Authorized CnpitHl - JIO.OOO.OOO fciib_cri_icd Chih-.u! - - Vrni.buO A(..s('t>(i\\ur .... :'.L*o,i��cU Head Olllce S21 Camblu Street, Van- couver, B. C. VOL. 4. VANCOUVER, B. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1902. NO 18 THE CIVIC S0L0D1S. Oaioso present at Monday night's ^meeting of the City Council were: mayor .Neelnnds 'iind Aid. Ill own, Forc- man, Or. McGulgau, Wilson, McQueen, tVylle, Cook, Betlume. Aid-elect. Skene vas in the niidlenee. Anions .the long ll.st or letters read by Uie City Clerk w��s one from, W. U. ' Itoss, uoiuphilnlng of the way he was treated by the |>ollce und City Clerk. _tie only wanted his rights us a British .subject, and suggested meeting His *%V��i-.4iii.p or leave tlie matter-to arbitration before going to law. 'Bus clerk���I haven't sjioke to the ��nau ltor a year. Mr. Itoss���Your worship, may I be al- Sowed tt> apeak. He says,til_at lie didn't j^pealc to me for a year. Now TKie Mayor���Not at ln-esent \"Air. Itoss���All right. ���> Aid. Cook���Two nioutlis ago the City -Engineer wus asked to report on certain drains across ithe C. P. ,11. track ��m Carrall street? ��� ' Engineer Traeey���If I make a plan mT any particular street, the city solicitor will take it and make a test case. A plan wus now 'being made. Aid. Cook���1't was intended that the * ��-aty solicitor and oliy engineer int.*r- \"Vieiv the C. P. U. Aid. Wood said that attention had 3icon drawn ,to the bad condition of the railing on Westminster Avenue bridge. 31 ji-chdld happened to 10.ui against it Jt would fall in the water. City I-Jnglneer���tit's entered on the Shook s. resldc.it Judge. He thoi-ght \"Ha.it ihe counc'l hIhhiIiI not withhold nny assistance it might render In that direction. Aid. McQueen was not sure that the council could not wisely Interfere ln such a mutitcr. The .Mayor suggested Unit objeetlons niltfht bo got over by confining the recommendation to' the appointment of a residertt Judge. Aid. Wylie thought tihat the name should ibe left out. Solicitors.were always divided in their opinions, nnd he didn|t see why they (t!\\e ���ildenmoii) shouldn't be. Ahl. Brown���It might lay over. n Aid. McGulgiin���Tho city solicitor says It would be too late. Aid. Urown��� What does he know about tt? The motion canted, Aid. Wylie and McQueen voting against. south australian minimum wage law. A ballolt 'Was taken for representatives on the library board, oug-,ui, South and Gilchrist, the last live being reelected. Two ballots weie Uiiken. In Wie flrst one was spoiled. Aid. McQueen was electeill to re'pre sent the Council on the Board of Mini. agement of lihe Alexandra. Orphanage. Aid. McGulgiin _t*ked If any menus t-uiild he taken to remove the nuis'urjes ��T ihe shooting galleries, .moving picture shows, etc. They ure a very great nuisance.. He referred to those on the south side of'Cordova street. The din avsis almost unbearable. .Aid.- Brown���Ain't there ��i license fee Jor them? Iteterred lo the cily solictor. llltMe Aid. Wood complained abnut Ihe heal of the main and wanted the -windows onened. Everybody instantly i��'g.i.n either to reman o their coats or 'loosen their vests. Too much hol-air, evidently. Aid. Foreman gave notice to amend Uie Water Frontage by-law, exempting -Cram taxation all four-inch pipe and less. 3. Cronihaw, secretary of the Musicians' union, wrote asking 7 Unit the ���privilege of the Gei-nian band lo play tmthe stieels be cancelled, and reminding the council that there is a Dominion act against soliciting on the slrjets. Aid. Cook could not sue why tiie liaud should be interefered with. Unless there was a leal grievance it nhould be allowed to play on the artreets. Aid. Wiley thought the German band was a good thing. It would make coin- l��_til.on among the bands and the is- nilt would be better music. Aid. Wood s-ald the German band rwmi>etes. They play for $1 each a night. The local kind shlould be protected Irom tihis kind of competition. Aid. Foreman.agreed |��Ith Aid. Wood that our home bands should be protected. ��� Aid. McC^uigun didn't believe in this ���kind ot local competition. Hut so long sib the Gemnan band played on Ihe atreats lie jMioughlt Jt was ulll right. Aid. Bethune suggested thnt the inu- etatans meet tlie council and show Aid. Bethune gave notice of motion to amend clause 2_>4 of the city charier, to go Into eftecit in 1903, to eliminate tlie alderm'anic salary Ithere provided. Aid. McQueen tihought the adopting of .tills would require th'at the charter should he amended, and this business was very expensive. \"Aid. Urown���Aid. McQueen Hulks sense, und he (Urown) agreed with him. Tlie clerk should keep a book with tlie proposed amendments. Aid. McQueen���A good municipal act was needed. Just witness the land tax sale muddle. Aid. Cook���II* would be a good thing if the city solicitor gaie usrthe outside llgtiic -as to the prob.ilile cost of amending the chai ter. 'Aid.. McQueen said he had spent 13 day's'at Victoila at'the last revision. Tliey got some thiiigs ithey asked lor and some, they didn't. Members ofthe .Legislature liad expressed themselves is being fully sick of Vancouver running down theie so often. Aid. JjL-lhune said in tihsut case he was (|ulte willing to lei the matter .ay o^-er. Aid. Wood gave notice that he would move at the next meeting ilia l the council ask for a'transfer ol the False Creek flats. Aid. .MtQueen gave notice thait he would move tlwilt tlio city betoken from under tihe provisions of the land registry act. Aid. Brow n���Thmfs not an amendment to tliu charter? Aid. McQueen���No. Adjourned. cause before proceeding l'urtiher. Thoy might wait on.the Flriance coinmitte. Aid. McQueen���Yes. And (they can Xetuh along their Instruments mid give lis a tune. SPECIAL SESSION. A full council boaixl was present at Wednesday's special meeting to heai representatives of the Slave Lake Power Company. Tney weiv Mr. li. Abbott, Mr. J. IR. Ferguson and Sir Chiis. Hlbbert Tupper and others. This tom.puiiy requested that the time limit within which the deposit of $2.1,001) guarantee of bona tides be extended one year. This request .w\\_s> granted, Aid. Wood and Wylie voting against. Aid. Wood moved, seconded by Aid. McGulgan. that the request be granted of the License Commissioners that the Chief of Police reiKint to them each sntontli as well as tlie city council an lo tbe wtay tlie licensed houses observe the by-laws. All aldermen agreed to ��Ms. Ald.-elcct Skene's ivslgiia.llon loft In .Mio .Mayor's JniikIn. Aid. McGulgiin moved that the np- iwlnbmont of Mr. _���_. P. Davis, IC. C, as Chief Justice of. British Colunibla, fte respectfully reeommemled to the ���Honorable Minister of Justice. Aid. Mo&ulgun explained thnt this , resrilutloii luad been >plnred in his hands fjy representatives of the Bar ussocla- ,' tlon, und polinted oitl that tt had been represented to him tha't ln Mr. Davis' juppointment Vancouver would' haive a The Independent Lalbor party Is considering the political Situation serious- l,v_und_a_ca 11 fo_r_a_cpn ve n I Ion wil l_tie issued In the near future. This convention, which 'will iprobalbly be held _n Nelson, .will be Ibroader and more le- pi-esentatlve th'an any jnvvtous caucus of the Lalbor ipaity. iSociallsts as wM as trades unionists of all 'kinds will be ���asked to send delegates, and the Bonn uui'y na well aa Biust aii(l West Koo: enaiy Willi be reiirescniteil. The Inde liendent Lnbor paiHy 'luus been working (tiloiig (ruletly but effectlicly, registering voteis, nuturiillslug Aiinerlcan.s an 1 foreigners of ull kinds, and iifrl'cctliig ii political organization which, if this threatened election eventuuitvs, will prenent u united front nil ovcr ihe In- 'lurlor of the province and wil! probably load to the United Lalior party hi'. Hng a bnlnnce of power'In the next legislature.���.Sandon Paystreak. Following has been complied from the Now Zealand Labor Guzette: For some time past a royal commls- ���siloii, has boon sitting 1n Melbourne, Australia, emiulrlns Into the working of Uie shoi>s and factory law of that great country In 1S90. Some of the evidence given before It had been hostile to the la.w, ns might have been expected���all the same as the eight-hour law of the inetalifei-ous miners of this province. PiMiafriMiph.. hame aippeai-ed in moro thnn one well-known London newjipoiKir suggesting Wiat the act has caused, and is causing, friction, and has even led _n one case to a suspension of Industry. A set of Indignant musteis or employers have shut U|) .their woiks. Wiltihout denying that the liiiw bus been, audi Is being hotly criticized in Wie colony, and without suggesting that it has yet emerged from tlie stage ol experiment, it can b2 ^pointed out that Victorian umnuCaotur- ers have managed to thrive under il and to regain the place which they held in 1S0O, but lost so lamentably alter the banking panic and the collapse of whtilt is commonly known as the Mel- IxHirne land Ibooin. ln 1M0, wiien Vlotoria i\\as enjoying the inflated pi-os- liei-ity for ivhloh she afterwards hud to pay so dearly, tlie number of hands employed in the colony's factories was 17,813. In 1894, with commerce in.thf- trough of depression, this mini ber sank lo ;M,t!6S. In 190O it had idscn to OJ.S'.IS. Whatever, therefore, thu minimum wage law may have done during the foii'r yeais in which it has been applied, it has not been gcneiaily ruinous or terrifying. The Faotories ami t.hups ],-uws of 1SHG, under which legal minimimn .wages were for the first .time illxcd, was one of a semes of factory laws, the lln-t of whioh was little statute ixi��>ed In 1S73. This, the pioneer of its race in Austialia, laid dawn that no girl or woman should 'work for hire in.a factory for more than eight, hours daily. The.next step forward was taken by a second law, tihat of 1SS5. This was the outcome ��f the plain spoken .report of a royal eoni- miission which had sat in the year b3- fore lo inquire into alleged \"sweating.\" B.v the law of .ISSfi the numb . of poisons needed to form a-legal l-i.-- tory, which ihnd hitherto been ten. w s reduced to six, including apprentice1-, and employees weie ordered to keep a reuord of ou'Lwoiik. The ben puts o: the law of 1SS.1 were those enforcing cleanlHTCss, air spate, the requirements of decency, laud/the fencing of muchi.1- ery. Uncle t-thesc clauses much good vvoilk 'was done by the government inspectors. As Melbourne and the other towns grciv larger and weie licit m- ���built, hundreds i>t dilapidated old 'buildings were pulled down and replaced iby (better factories. Tlie Inspectors slaw to it that the arrangements in tihinii wfli-e good. How ainsatisfactoiy bhe condition of numbers of factory and sliup workeis! ireiruiined in many ather resiicc'ts, unxl how miserable was the lot of the sweated outworkeis (that is .people wiho tailce woik home to do) the reader may learn from olliciul i-e- 'ports and from the ���o-oluiiiiis of the Age and Ai-gus new-spaipers. For ten yoaiis there was little or no change in tihe luiw. Not until ISM ��\\is any real step taken forward. In that year the number of hand's necetsnry to constitute Sweutlng League, could have formed a .public opinion ready to accept hi sti-ange and novel an experiment. Venturesome und .full of new .features the measure Indeed was. Most students of labor pidbloms lmve by this time heard of one feature���uhe \"wages boards.\" But the Interest of the shoiis and factories aot of 1SS6 Ij by no means con fined.to theso. It (Introduced changes so many and so vital, and marks a striking departure ln the history or Australian Imlustiiul law. I make no apology for quoting here certain puns of the ofllclal summary of i Its Chief Clauses . c pit-paired by the Victorian factories de- partnlent. These all relate to factories. The ijortlon ofthe laiw relating to ehopj will riot be touched on In this article. Every place In which 'furniture is maiui'tac'Liired iwus made a factory or workroom. Every place-In which a Chinese pe-ison is engaged Jn laundry woi'k ivas made a factory or woi'-Crooni. Laundries, in which four'persons arc empla>-ed, ivere maiJe factories o- wortcrooms, excepblng only laundries carried on\" by charitable institutions. Power to extend the operations ot the factories portions of the net to eoun- THE BIRDERS' BALL. The members of the Bakers' union may .he strong on dougih, 'but when It comes to organising and running a ball they certainly are no \"dough- heads.\" Wednesday night in O'Brien's hall thla union held ilts lli-st niuuiiil ball, and it proved to ibe one of the nioit successful of the season. Nearly 300 persons'were ipiesent and judging from the expiesslon .upon their faces seoined to 'bo enjoying It to the utmost. Among the many present the following is a partial list, us near as oui hired man could get at it: Mr. and JIrs. D. S. Wllband. Mr. and atis. J. H. Watson and daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Isaacs, the Misses Jersle, Oeorgie and Ada Hansom, XV. 3. Cltrke, Miss Harland, .Mr. and Mrs. 0. H. Taylor, iMre. Dumpsey, Mr. amd Mis. XV. G. Taylor, A. XV. Talt, Miss QUIun. V.*. Sharp, A. Austin, Mrs. Miu-tln, T. Simpson, Miss E. Ai-aiftioilg, It. Garii- si>n, Miss Hughes, II. iM. Abbott. A. Madill, Miss Norgood, H. MuKis'-ock, Miss MaKIssock, the ' Misses War.l, ker, Wmi. Jordan and Mesdames Carlisle, Tidy, lloran, Gill, Clegg, 1. iii;.-r. Jordan. 01 r. Win. F. I'indlny Is nustei- of ceromonlcs and !���'. A. Lester Ls sos- retaiy. Ucynold's orehestia will tur- p.lsh music. Of couiie cvei-yone Juiou.t with this array cf support l'.ie alfair will be a grand one. A COltHECTION. In the icpoit or the piocedlngf of the la.it niiec-tiiig of the Tiades and Labor council, the state.nent nhould have read that the p.-lnteis hid trouble ,\\\\>lth eeitaln \"non-union men,��� ln.-,tead of \"shops. ' ON HiS HOUNDS. Miss Bonner, iMr. and Mrs. 'C. J. Sal- tieswus given to the governor-in-coun-1tei'. Mi-s. Walton, Mr. and Mi-s. Bartle, ell. Every person malking clothing or ���wearing apparel (including boots and shoes} for tirade or sale outPlde a factory or workroom was required to send his or her name and address to bhe chief inspector of factories. Provision was {mule for the appointment of special 'boaids to fix the lowest price or -wage to be paid for ma'kmg any mntlclq of clothing or wearing apparel ('including boots and shoes), furniture, and for bread-making cr baking. Excepting the furniture board, 11-111011 ���was to be appointed, by the govei-nor- ln-council. such boards were to he pleated by bhe employers and employees eng'aged In the manufacture of the iin-ticle.s, for malking 11111011 the board is to flx the price. In default of such an election the governor-in-coun-' til iwms to uippoint tlie meuibere ot the board. ' Each boaid was required lo elect a(clr.iii man (not a member) within fourteen days, and if this was not done the goVornor-in-councIl was to appoint a chairman. . (To be continued.) FOUll 'MILLIONS INCREASE. W. F. IloberUon, provincial mine,-- .��� legist, lui-i iprepaied an estimate of .' .o miiieial output of the province for liitfl. The figures aie most encouraging and1 carefully compiled, showing, ns they do. an estimated increase of over tA,000,000. The bulletin issued by -bhe mineralogist, which\" Is addressed to the minister or mines, says that this estimate is bahcd upon actual return- of a number ot the mines, and fiom those mines not making .returns, the returns (tie based upon then- approximate known tonnage. Mr. Itobertson is a painstaking o.IUer and his report may be rolled upon as being as neir light as it Is possible to make It. Every union imin knows his duty. (Patronize merchants who gjlve union men iproper t-onslderatioir. Closing at 6 o'iclook Is in order for retaill stores. It's up to the union imen to enforce It. Call for the union clerk's card nnd de- manfl union-made goods. A Legal Factory was ieduced fium fix to four; but by tihat blnie���thanks to the revelations brought about'by antl-sweatiing agitation���ipubHe leellng was thoi-oiigl.ly aroused; the principle of m fixed minimum wage, WHICH SHOULD III-: A LIVING WAGE, had been adoplc I, both iby a resolution of bhe lower hou.se ot parliament, dealing with go\\eminent workiieniple, and by the metropolitan board of'Worits for'Melbourne, and the mil of 1MII) was not accepted c\\en as a stop-gap. A fur (bolder and more thorough-going incisure was di lifted by Mr. Peacock, now prime mlnlstei of the colony, .and, 'after a sharp strangle Villi the legislative council, bicaine law on the 1st Octdlier, IMil). lu no other colony, at least nt that tlm.', coinld such ia. niea.^uro have become law, ami only the Melbourne newspapers' courugeous exposui-e of the \"inventing\" that had been going on year after year ln that' city and elsewhere In Victoria, coriiimied by the evidence given before a board of Inquiry in 18IKI, and backed by bhe agitation of the Vlctoriiin Anti- THE 11LACK CAT. Theie Is one 'publisher with whom name and fame of a writer count for absolutely 'nothing, iwith .whoin merit alone governs, .with whom tlie unknown has an equnl chance with the well- ���known���niul that is the publish?! of The Black Cat. who will pay over $10,- 000 In pilzes ranging fiom $100. to S.'.IOO for the best short stories submitted befoie,Feb. 26, 1002. No story will, however, be considered unless sent according to the conditions printed in The i51ack\"i;at~(>i-.mailed free\" by Tlie~ShonT story Publishing Company, Do-sion, Ma.ss. If you have n good story don't be ashamed to send it along. MOLDEItS lOLI'XT OFFICERS. At the last regulnr meeting of Iioi .Molders' union, No. 2S1, held Tuesday evening, Jan. _)lst, the following oflicers were elected for the ensuing temn; President, Clin lies. Itremihley: vice- president, .lames WeMi: reconllng-see- retary, XV. D. McLean; llnaiKial-tcjci-.'- tary, Andrew Wilson: coiTespondliig repi'esoiitatlve, illugli 'Orr; ticasurer. Uhi>til>o.i Miirsliind; Inductor, Dave Faulkes; dnoiikceper, Oliniics I'lle-ii- Innd; trustees. Hugh Orr, Uheuhi'ii Marsland nnd W. D. McLean; delegntis to Tradei and Labor Council, Hugh Oir, Chailes lireuchley. ���nen Baker, of Oswego, N. Y��� who for many years had .been prominent In laibor clivles, has ibeen elected nwi-yor of thnt city by a big majority. The demand for Mor throughout the ��tate of New York Is paiitloulai-ly good, especially in Hie printing line. F. Vincent, 'Miss U. Dodd1, XV. J.mes Miss Ireton, F. Haw, Mrs. Austin, XV. H. Lustier, .Miss L. Lutey, W. A. Scott. Mrs. Share,, C. D. Nunn, Miss J. Ma.*- tin, XV. Weiss, Miss C. Jonsc-n. Mr. IKId- yard. Mrs. Johnston, J. Murray, Ml..�� Morgan, F. XV. Kent, T and J. Barnwell, Mr. Ai-misha.w, and from New Westminster, 'Mr. Marks, Mi-s. Bakei, W. Baker, Jos. .Maitell and a nun_!;e:- of otheis. ���The 'first ipart of the programme was a concert. Mr. J. H. Watson imadc an eflicient chairman and tine followi.-g particicpated: Song. She Is tlo.id Enough iorlMe, G. A. 'Nelson: Highland dance, UIlss Belle Ireton; song, M> Money Never Gives Out, S. Johnston; club swinging, Jas. Spelling; sonj;. Mulligan Guaids, Bonner Bros.: Highland fling, the Misses Watson: ionn. While llie Dance Goes On. G. A. Nelson; song. When Mr. Shakespeare Comes to Town. Mr. Walsh: soag, Ain't That a Shame, Mr. Ttobi:.:!n a. m. and then the weet inuldens and their escorts stalled for home, the latter wondeiing if thej could make t!u- olilce or shop on tune. There were prizes for ncai ly eveiything. iini the best one of the lot���ihe Ui-sloiey cake���'hasn't been called for yet. The prize drawing resulted ns follows. 1st, No. 201, not claiineJ; 'J.id. No. S3, Mrs. Geo. Isaacs: :inl, No. 2\"i not claimed. .Prize wallz���lsi. Mr. and .Mi-s. W. (r. Taylor: 2nd. C. D. Nunn -and Miss .1. Martin; ;ti d, XV. J. Clai'i.e and -Miss Harland. Prize two-step���AV. A'bbotl and'Ml.s-s G. Austin. The judg.-s were Messrs. Wnlband, Dunn. MiK-ken- rot. Baker and Kent. Hatpin's o- che.stra supplied its u-*unl good dimi < music. The selection for the two-step- Coon-Can���.ivns -wi-itten-by-E.-Bei vlll.��� formeily ;i leader of New AA'estinliwe 'band, and dedicated to his friend, i: Uhance, of this city. The ilcor, o course, was ably handled by W. I\" l-iitidl.iy and his nmistnnt, IJ. S Jl-.r tin. The ciedlt for all the evening's e:i- lerinliimeiiL originally belongs to ihe very Industrious.. committee of the linkers, eom'poscd as follows: Win. H. Haines, chairman; S. Walker, mh-iv tiny; AV. Anderson, C. WHlband, c! .MacLiiicn, C. .1. Salter. J. iVasd de, .1 A. Nelson, F. Moyles, W. Wood nnd F Hurtle. Harrison HIver is one of the bi Igbtesl and busiest little towns in tills prav-, ince. I was pleased to meet Mr. My- eis, an old 'Vancouveiiie. He Is fore- m-in of the fnctoiy of the Hanifon Mills, TIm'bor an<] Trading l.'.mpaa,-, which is one of the largest eencuns In t'he Interior. .Voout 23 witiie men and 10 Japs are employed. This speak* well for the imanog&ment, who a.e willing at all times to employ none but white labor, which cannot readily lie obtained licie. The mien employed hy thin enlenprising flrmi, who aie all a fine let of fellows, seemingly happy and satisfied, spenile well or the 'place, and partieuUily o! Ihe .'irm. Han ison 'boasts of a .flrst-class hotel, besides a general store. i.Mr. D. Gal- biaith is- proprietor, and he keeps thing-s in good shape. He studies the interests of-his custcinei->, is miBi Obliging and ccuiteous in the tieatment of his many patrons. Acio��s the river there Js a Urge shingle mill m course cf conduction, the owners of which aie the Chilliwack Maiuifactuiing compamy. The dally output, will be about To.OOl) shingles. I had the pleasure of meeting .Mr. A. Duncan and Mr. F. Mclntee, toieman ot the section. They nad a good wci-a for The Independent, and are hlghly esteeured by their felluw workmen. Mr. .1 nines Word, the C. V. K. a^iu lie!..-, is a very popular and eflicient .-n vant or the company, b-ing at all times most obliging and' courteous to all with whom he h.;.-, bu*ine?.-<' dealings. Ta'klng.everythingr intu tunsaleiation llarii.-on has aibilglu future, ai.d no doubt will grirtv beyond the expectations of the moat sangu.no resident. PliUBAI'MN'S BALL. Invlintlons nre out for th\" I'oniili .lnninil ball and supper which will i e given iby the Vancouver Firemen's Benefit Association. The function will he held In the city hnll on Tluii-sday evening. February .1th. lihe honorary recoptilon committee Is Ills Worship i.Mnyor Neelunds audi the olvlivlli-e coiu- .nilttee. The reception c-ommitlee coin- prlsc. l>eskles Chief Carlisle, Thos. Tidy, Cn.pt. iMoran, A. GUI. A. Clegg. C. Bir- LMission City is quite a railway town. Business 'is good and ipiospt-c-t.-. en- cuui.igi.ig. Tiu-re aie a n-jinurr oi good stores, and the hotel accomn.o- daticii is nil rhat can le de.-iicd. T'ie lev.d'.ng ho.-tehy is the Uellevue ilous-;. This hotel lias all the latest and modern imp-u\\��.<.iucr.is to bo found in the laigest cliies. It has hot and cold water, electric lighting i-ml a regular water s-jstem all its own. the -Mijiply ol' water coming, us it does, liom up above tlie site of the hotel, is e.-p.al to bint sujipl.td in Vancmei, which is saying a. BOoJ deal. Mi. Windubaiik. an Australian, wlio has been in this countiy lor many y^a-s. is the pro- piictor. juid what he doe< not know- about ruiini.-.g hofl.? is not woitli knowing. The cieanieiy is another gicwlns industry ihat Is worthy ot meni'on. Besides butter-making on the latest Im��� 1'ioied .plan, canning of vanoiis Kinds ia canied on extensively. Among the numerous ti lends I have met may ie mentioned Mi. .bums McLaughlin, foreman ol the bi >dge eiew, who Is a veiy busy min. Iikewl e his ___!_e-W-_i��h(i_au^_i|l_lii-st-cla��s_viii-k-nicn.��� They are at piesent loeit d h re. I iilso met Mis. McLaughlin, a very .I'liii-.hle lady, and Miss M.-Liiiiuhlln. who is a promising young lady cr ihree suinmers. I'm sine there Is not -a belle in Vancouver so well thought ,>f. Foreman V. 3. Mcllioy amd his stalwart gang .ue Ward at woik on a long nestle a few miles below Mission. I also met our old friend. Mr. J. P.. Hunter, who l�� a highly esteemed gen- lle.inan in these parts. He Is pleasVI wilh The In.lependent, a.nd, iby the way, all the railroad boys, as well as milieus, speak eiicoui.iglngly of the Oliver. 'Mr.'Pliinniilge, the genial stoi-e-koeip- er of 'M'lsslon. 'keeps a general store, and his wares are the 'best llie market affords. He Is loud In his praises ot Mission. The C 'P. *R. employaes are very accommodating, and aire at all times most willing to Impart Informiatlon and help one out of his difficulties. HOHACE WILLIAMSON. Advertise In The Independent. \\ THE INDEPENDENT. SAmUKDAT CTANTJART 18, 19��2 nventory Shoe Sale \"Wo are going to take inventory on January 13th, and wc have too many shoos and for the next ten days wo will clear out all broken lines at one-third to one-half below their value. Don't miss this opportunity. W. ti* QRR, 420-422 Westminster Ave Know dell & Hodgson 512 Granville St., Vancouver. Dealers in StoH'S. Ranges, Throw, (.runiieww, Cutlery aud (IciicrallUmsdiivnisliiiigs Trices right. Call and wis for yourselves. MAIL ORDERS receive prompt attention. PeUrey, Watson, Morton, as well as others; [or their untiring services in 'the cause. I have been a member of ���tin.- old nationalist association which brought out Robt. .Macpherson and was successful In his election. The iLabov party should follow our example, mvl If 'tliey do 1 will become a. member and help on the good work. AVishlng Tho IiKliSpeijdfnt and Labor party every success. I ���remain. J. SIMPSON*. V.mci u\\cr, Jan. 1��'., I'.'Oi. SEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD LETTERS TO TIIE EDITOR. FiaHERMEN'S TROUBLES. To tlie Editor of Tin: Indei'K.sdk.nt: Sir,���The many readers oC.your up- 4-9-da'te ipaiper, .with perhaps one or two '; exceptions, ��� will eaj- no apology 13 taecessarj* lor agalsi tefeurlng Io S_fiuld, prostitute 'tih'eli-: official position \\\\> further the .'barbarous, schemes of iiajiltulfcls is;as light a punishiiient����s . ,��W : Injured public . can expect .of Us \"���ftowrai'ment. No matter how .miucii 'the * tnttlueni-e of interested caipitalists may be ���wHio'iivpnk hand in glove -with their willing stools 'an!d0sacik to keep tlieni in gtoveriiiiient .positions . for their own twrneiflt, irtien occasion flnds tihe posi- ���'���' timi useful..,.Perhaps.; I could bring ;7this cowardly outragewgiilnst Ciinii- \". dian wdiite'Wlx>i' home to your readers .better by '.'Illustration, .not changing *M.ts, however, bint .names only. Sup- _ S��oee our worthy M. P. P., Mr.-Kidd, ������' '\"' was ft\" Ifishyrman voitrthe Fraser ��� river ; at .the time of .the7strlke, and ihis son Snthe (militia. .��� 'We.' can easily fancy how Mr. Kidd would regard those in authority, .ivho 'sanctioned tlie .calling out of the militiawltih \"shoot to kill\" orders. Would it Ibe natural Tor a son to shoot his ifatlher or a father to tibkxrt ;.his son, or brother, to Shoot torattier, or friend, to .shoot 'friend? ,'������'.;- 'Would it not have' .been more likely wnd natural, if a \"scrip :.lrad occurred. .that Wie 'tyrants, ivlho were .responsible . ' for bniiiging men together under such 1-iciraumstanoes, would 'be tihe ifli-st to tarn up their toes on the Steveston ;������'.,.; eideivailks. In.view of ithe ibloodcurd- timg reports -sent from SteTeston to Vancouver by professional liars that murder and Woodshed was oit daily oc- '������������' omrence; that tine village was full, of ===== Siot>os--f rom^the^Ameri^ian^-Slde^t h it least calculation Olvinamen got flOty cents a 'case on 'the paelc, or the sum of four 'hundred and 'fifty thousand dollars ts iput Into.,tlhe pockets of Chl- naiiien. and practicably .put out of circulation, so far as -white lalbor is con- cerneVl,., and by virtue of a coivtraot and agreement ibstiveen Chinamen and caiierynfcn not one dollar can go to white lalbor, only by .paying second fiddle lo 'Chinamen. Jap (fishermen ipi-01.i_l.ly get as much more, so tihat the amount paid 'directly to 'white* labor is a mere Ibagatelle when you out out the 'princely salaries paid: to high scheming officials who; have, nothing more Important to do 'than Kign a cheque 'fpr tilieir own; sinlary, an'd see' that .tlie cannery 'Iswetl su-*,.:!!?*. 'V.'1.*.!'. Ohin__n.en, and a. disgustingly ..large proportion of Japs In ithe Ashing boats and general all-round wire-pullingwith politicians, and to hatch the. schemes that months of idleness will produce, and with .the same .result. As , we-\" see it .the wihole 'canning industry as con- duicte'd on Uhe Fraser river is a very menace -to tlho Ipeaoe of 'this- province. It has .eeaused two strikes already, and \"a,third is iii -sight. ' Canners w,ho .jvlll form themselves into niv.association, defy, all action :of the 'toiling, white masses if con'trary to_ their 'selfish interests, and we. are told bhe legislature as -well.. /While ive hear of many hard up*-white workingmen. we hear of out Chinese salmon packer contractor, ivho, last;year, cloared thirty, thousand Hollars, and is now 'in control of Frase'r river.canneries. ,aien: and Women, readers of. Tlheliidependont, 'how long will you .remain inactive, iwiiiile: your sons and.slaughters, 'brothers and sisters and friends are 'being crowded out of every in'il'ustr'y.: in. this fair . province,-.' and Asiatics fill their pofjltions in lijhls out Canada.. Mir:'Editor, I thought only to ���write'ot ithe strike and calling' out of the inilitla -when I began this letter, but as many associate 'evils keep staring., one in .the n'ace and ' cry; out;: is ^thei-e'; rib reiried'y? Are our legislators iliopelessly .under .the influence of capitalists 'Who gralb. all; they can hold, Wien.teil tlhe working .people to go ..to ���h���; such are some modern caipitalists. If, ..Mr. .Editor, you will 'let me quote a few lines from' a white fisherman syiiiipa,t,his_er, I -will! at least ibegln an'd end ithls letter ���with the subject first thought of: All respect to the men -who took part in the 'StrlKe. How noble .the cause .for wihlch they did 'tight! A fair price for salinon they souglht .to the life and. property of citizens w-ero tn danger, and all sorts of sensational ilea known to that class of people .to deceive, and did deceive, the millti.i- t one labor candidate ln for alderman. Steps are 'being taken to organize a co-operative society in, Winnipeg. 'The lalbor iparty of 'Kingston ivo'-a not successful in electing any of uh��lr candidates. ��� IF..Archibald and F,. Oiles halve been elected president and secretary of the Plumbers' union of Winnipeg. William Scott, president of the Winnipeg I>a'bor 'party Coi- four years, lias ���retired, illr. Scott 'has done yoeman service aim* is entitled to a well-earned rest. '. The Winnipeg 'branch of the Letter Carriers' association has .uiemoralizod ���tlhe 'postmaster-general on that little milliter of 20 par cent, increase,-the substance of which was promised last year. The Winnipeg Trades Council voted $2il towards tlie expense of attempting once more to .put the Union Label bill tlhrougih the 'house of commons and s-en- uto. Typographical Union, No. 01, of Toronto, also voted $10 toward the sam'e end on Saturday night last. The Toronto 'Bai'tendei's' .union is now an accoii.plls_.nad fact, a.nd the union, man will'he .known Iby the \"button, wihlch he may, by the ruiles of the union, 'wear In a prominent place. There are over 400 of the whlte-apronecf men iin Toronto.: Harry Finch has been chosen 'President, a.nd Arthur Hooney \"recording' secretary. .Last Sunday the .regular monthly meeting of Greenwood Typographical Union, 'No.\"858, .was ihekl a't Phoenix, lii'emlhers coining u|p ; the hill from Grand Forks and Greenwood to at- , tend. Tlhe .jurisdiction of ithe union Ls the 'entire-Boundary country. In coi- nectio'ii'W'itfhthe monthly business inicet- ing the Jfiret annual !ba.n,(iuet 'was'held at ithe. Dominion house. -President -Me- Intyre. ot the Grand Fonks News, -prs- si'ded, and 'the usual toasts weie 'proposed and responded to. .'Mine host Crillis \"Set OUt .1 WOst.attractive.menu, to which full justice/was done by the typographical experts. The AVinnipeg Labor..party has endorsed tiie . action ' of the : 'Rossland Trades and Labor 'council in urging kindred organizations and working m?n generally to'������ .refrain', from patronizing the various manufacturing a.nd llna.n- cial lstitu'tions controlle'd by the C-ood- eiinim 'syndicate���on atiqount of tholr oppressive treatment and antagonistic -attitude to union lalbor. The principal concerns indicated' are. .as (follows: Goodeiiha.nl & ��� Wonts, ��� (distillers) and \\helr iproducts, the illanufacturers' Life Insurance Company, -��� of Toronto, of ���whioh Mr. George GooJcrhnm is presi- Wonl, and t'he Bank of Toronto. The Cariboo .Freighters' Protective association have elected the 'following officers ifor the ensuing.year:,' President. H. P. Lewis; vice-president, W. II. Smith; secretary, Stuart Henderson; treasurer, D. IMunphy; 'committee, D. Spiutt, G. Couvrette, A. Switzer, J. Skinner, E. Dougherty and Al. Focault. The following motions were also car- ���riekl' .iby them: 1. If teams refuse '.o load iln their turn tihey must go Ibehlnd those already iln. unless there is sulli- \"cl0nt_reiu>on-givfii-to-the-satlsfaotion of the committee .for isuoh iretusal. 2. That freight shall not be hauled by union .freighter!, for anyone not a mem- ���ber of tihe union to 'help him out with slolgh loads. The executive of t'he Ttoaslanil 'Miners' union ihave (protested against his report as unfair to the minora of Brit Ish Colunilbla, iu.iDapu.ty .MlnlRter King by'his reliance upon 'the Information evidently furnished him fiy>iu Kou-n-eH ���unfriendly to the 'labor organizations has lieen led to unako statemonls absolutely 'Untrue in regard to the Htiike situation .In Ilosoland. The letter, wililoh Is addresed to 'Hon. Mr. 'Mulock, also says that Mr. Kin's ignores the (liicstlon of aliens entirely In his roport In the Laibor Gazette. He Is particular to exppewr every -minor detail of the Kituatlon given Mm iby the mine tna/n .altera, \"but neglects to state thnt the managers openly told him they could ifill the mines iwlth Americans and evade the alien labor act. Hnd the diepa/rtmeret fulfilled ,Mr. King's .promises and enforced this law 'the strike would Jiaire ended at onoe., W1HAT DO YOU THINK? ��� We hare received from Rev. Chas. Stelzle, of Markham' iMemorial Presbyterian church, St. Louis, -Mu., the letter and questions which appear b*>- low. They are iprintcd in full, so ithat our reailers who are Interested 0.111 forward replies to St. Louis if thoy wish: \"My 'Dear Sir,���About a year ago I sent letters to about 200 labor leaders, linking thein to.give me the benellt of their ((bsirvations concerning the relation of 'the 'woiiklngman toward the ohm-Hi. The unHivere received were published In tlhe form of nu composite letter, in an eastern magazine, and nerved as 'a ibasls of a series ot nd- ,' dresses, iwilik'h ii'tlracted svlde tit'.entlo'i throughout the country. \"The worklngman's attitude toward the church was made clearer, and, I am sure, Wie -'Whole matter created a moi-e sympathetic feeling toward 'the workiiigmaii among .'thinking people. As a former .machinist and a preacher with the Interests of the workingman ut'heart, this nesult was gratifying to the writer. \"It wiui stated almost unanimously by those who 'wrote to nie, that the church, as at present constituted, does not appeal te the'workingman. Lhaive ibeen prompted to send on t :the enclosed series of.questions, 'hoping to find out. if possible, just what kind of an .organisation .would appeal to tho best Instincts of the .overage wonklngman. \"I sincerely hope. ilihnt tihe iresponse to itih'ls letter 'Will 'be as cordial as that w.lvlOIi followed fihe one sent out last year. Will you kindly help me in this matter? Your replies .will 'be considered' confidential. , Fraternally yours, \"OHJART.ES 'STELZLK.\" ���1. Do you thin'k that a church managed exclusively by woilkingmen and ���for ' wurlc-lngmon .'.would' .attract ..this olass of tollers? If not. please stute it-he reason. ���2. Wlhiit ikind Of >a society,. In' your opinion, iwould aiccomplish the things for wihlch the t-lnirch is supposed to stand? , :i. Please outline n. croed or a system or bt-llef, for the guidance of sucm a society, covering, as nearly as possible, the l'ollo',vi-ig points: (a) Its relation 'toward God. Ob) The relation of Its inenvbers one toward anothc r. (c) The relation of the society to the ���world. ��� YOU'LL NEED MEAT 4 ��� Before long now. The best heaters made ^- j^ ���tho cheapest to buy and the m6st eco- ��� v iiomical to use are the j^' ��� iil^i^ll^l\" AIE-TIGHTS AND %. |6��rA^lWUa BASE BURNERS. % ��� made by the McClary Mfg. Co. ^' ��� Wm. RALPH, 126 Hastings St. | A SOLE AGENT A. McLennan, McFeely ���� Co* \"WiHOIiBSAIiEl AND RETAID DBAI^BRS IN MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE! PROMPT 'AJTOEJNTTION. Oiir Big\" January Ole'araince Sale of Suits and Overcoats must prove most Interesting to all. ' .( If( yoii 'have ibeen, contemuplating the purchase of a new Suit or Overcoat, you nre lucky Indeed to have iput it off until nOw. Even If you had not thought lt necessary���just yet���It will certainly ipay you to avail yourself of our.splendid offer. Suits that were $8.50 to $21.50, sate price $6.50 to $15.50 Overcoats that were $8.50 to $18.50, sate price $6.50 to $12.50 JOHNSTON, KERFOOT if* CO. 104 and 106 Cordova Street. Trunk Store 12? Hastings St., 0|>|>. Win. Ralph's KELLY, DOUGLAS in CO. WHOLESALE GROCERS, Cordova and Water Streets, - Vancouver, B. C. ��jgT Headquarters for Domestic and Imported Cigars and Smoking Sundries. ���7 AS. TO SOCIALISM.XXX \"yyi: , Your ''class conscious\" revolutionary babble means seotariani.���T,7irapotent,: personal jealousies of .'little.\\lealder_i, aiiiall me'etiiigs.:on street corners and.a great deal of ���hatred. Otherwise'lib.results. Oiir Bernstelnlsin and ouiv'-ipalli- atlves\" mean constant; mght'; in the unions, in the wards;' In -the1 imU'iilclpaj- ities, in the .legislatures, in ^iiort e'v'ery:- whei-e, and every, tl me..;, We do .not* expect the imlllenlum In (three months or In; tihree .j'eais, Ibut ive .are,-willing, to fight for socialism and socialistic meas- ures^'and liiiprove, the condition, of tihe inasses:i'at' all tintes,. no;-matter how long It -..tallies anldi howllttle'we accom- plish at'a single.tirhe. ffllany other socialist ipaipers- give a hearts' amen to these .ideas.. What is called by many l-'-'sclontlllc socialism\" is only on'eipha.se of the .great -world .moveiiient, \".which sooner or 'later will lift itihe ��� whole human race onto a higher level. Nor Is it .necessary 'that one.- should 'be class conscious 'In order to ibe a good worker in WUs gnaat mo\\ieinent wihlch lakes in memlbers from all classes, .welcomes all wiho will come and rejects none who are ready to ihelp.���Burley Co-operator. Flint's Dyspepsia Tablets are gnar- anued to restore falling appetite and oorreer. any kind of stomach trouble. 50 c. box. McDowell, Atkins, Watson Co. We are now in our new store 409 Hastings Street (next to Oben's) with a full line of CROCKERY, Ot,ASS\\VARE, GEANITEWAUE. TINWARE, .LAMPS, STOVES AND GENERAL HOUSB yFURNISHINllS. R. 0.-BUCB1ANAN&C��. CUOCKEltY AM) lltlllsK 1-,CIIN1SIIIN(.'(, Toleptioiio �� 1-5. 109 Hii-Hiiic- siieci. ��� ��������������������������� ������������������� _k The Mint. Is located at the corner of Carrall and Hastings streets. The bottled goods are all first-class and the prices right for everyone. Seattle Rainier beer, 5 cents. When you want to hire a flrst-ol&sa horse^and^buggyi . go to the Palace livery (tables. Telephone 126. Telephone 1���2���5 for a fine livery turn-out. J. J. Sparrow, Palace livery stables. t Wishing the Citizens of Vancouver a Prosperous New Year_^��- ���we again want, it known that we nro still doing business at the old stand mid invito you to make us a call. Get prices, note quality nml be happy for 11)02. FORD'S GROCERY Tel. 728. 25 Hastings St. C. t ��AVfW THEATRE McDoNEM. & Sisirsos- .'Proprietor!). . Ai.r. P. Jamk, Staue Mnuagcr. ' Week Commencing Monday, Next Artistic and Refined Vaudeville. EVERY ACT A FEATURE. Tbe Balmoral' . . MAIIK8 A SPRCIAWY OF . . o Deifs special Liqueur, Also ��� ��� o ustiei's Block iom Liqieurmffi). -LARGE STOCK OF- ' IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC ... Cigars. R. B. Mulligan & Co., Props.. Coinee Cordova and cahraix.\" ���������������������������������������;��� \" : GEO. HAY : % i Vancouver's Pioneer Clothes ^m\\��� ( Renovator, makes a suit new. J^ % Dyeing and Repairing. ^,. A 216 Cambie St., Vakcouvek. ^m , I Drink Red Cross Boor, the bepr. that's pure, 75�� pints, $1.50 doz. quarts. Uold Seal Liquor Co., 746 Pender street. Try a bottle of Kisen Port, the sun shine of California, SOcboille, at Gold Seal Liquor Co., 74U Ponder Btreet. C. Kllis, corner Cnlnbio and Cordova street9, is tho place you can get your huir cut in un iirtbtic manner. Ihe Mint Is the new saloon at the corner of Carrall and Hastings streets. .Case goods are the best, and the prices O. K. Seattle Rainier beer, 5 vents.' AdvertiBC in The Independent. Pioneer for alt.that te Stands for alt. is best in Laundry Work A trial will brove it. Pbone.346. PARIS GRBEJN. HBIjLEBORB AND WHALE OIL SOAP for tht ex- termination of the CUT WORM.and other lnfleota���for eale by the McDowell, Atkins, Wtutson Company, Tho Drutmtoto,' Vancouver. Steam Laundry PnoNR 346. 910 -1)14 Richards 8t Dow.ntown -Okkick,: No. 4 Ahcadk. WIIITt HILP UNIT. Pacific Bottling Imborter* and Bottlers GORE AVE. 'PHONE 783. SOLE AGENTS. For tha next SO-dnys you enn get a suit at*,:, your own'price at THE. ACME To introduce our new lyitera ot till��iltl a��- ' lore our Full StookMrlvea. KGcarfltliStx. -��.��� L Hstiewl. Cotter, f -\\ : scribe, because this paper ia published as their organ. B. C. PERHASEST IM A.\\I> SAVINGS CD; Authorized CnpilHl - flOOOv.POO Subscribed OupKul - - l,Si��..0CO AwUenver iiHi.imj Head Oil ill' H>1 Cuinblc Street, Vancouver, 11. c. VOL. 4. VANCOUVER, B. C, SATUKDAY, JANUARY 25, 1902. NO 18 THE CIVIC SOLONS. Tlioso present at Monday night's meeting ot the City Council were: Mayor Neelunds oiiul Aid. Ill own, Foie- man, Ur. McUulg.ui, Wilson. McQueen, Wylie, Coolc, Holhliue. Aid-elect Skene vus in tlie audience. .Among .tiho long list of let ton. read by the City Clerk was one l'l-oin W. 11. - Itoss, ooiuphiinlng of the wny he waa treated by the imllce and City Cleric. 3lo only wanted his tights aa a liritish .subject, anil suggested meeting His Wontidp or leave the matter to arbiti-u- tlon before going to law*. Ttuo clerk���I haven't spoke to the auuu for a year. Jill'. Hoss���Your vvoreMp, may I be nl- - Solved to speak. He says ltihat tie didn't *y>eak to ine for a year. Now , Tihe Mayor���Not at present . , J��r. Ross���All right Aid. Cook���Two niontlis ago the City _Kn��lneer v\\nb asked to report on certain drains across ithe C. P. li. track (dm Carrall street? - ' Engineer Tracey���IC I make a plan *>T any particular street, the city solicitor will take it and make a test case. A plan was now 'being irui.de. Aid. Cook���-It was Intended ithat the ' t-jly solicitor nnd city engineer interview the C. P. Ii. Aid. Wood Mild that attention had Jjeen drawn,to the bad condition of the railing on Westminster Avenue bridge. If __. olnild happened to loan against it IA would full in the \\uue'r. City Bnglneei���.It's enteied on the Srooks. resldc.it Judge. He thought ��la.it iho counr'l Hhould not ivlthhold any iisslst- ance lt might render In that direction. Aid. McQueen wus not sure U>ut Iho council could not wisely interfere In such a inaliter. Tne Mayor suggested Unit objections might be got over by conllning the recommendation to the appointment of a residenlt Judge. Aid. Wylie thought tihat the name should >be left out. Solicitors were always divided in their opinions, und he didn't see why 'they (the tiMerancn) shouldn't be. AW. Brown���It might lay aver. Aid. McGulgun���The ciity solicitor says it would be too lute. Aid. Brown���What does he know about It? The motion can led, Aid. Wylie and McQueen voting ng.iinsL �� SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MINIMUM WAGE LAW. A balldt -wils token for representatives on the library board, nnd the following were declared elected: Ex-Aid. G.vllugher, li. Spaii-llng, Dr. MeGuigan, and Messrs. lSveleigti, Dougan, South and Gilchrist, the last live being reelected. Two ballots weie toikcn. In tihe flrst one was spoiled. Aid. McQueen was oleotedl to repie- senit the Council on the Board of Management of the Alexandra, Orphanage, Aid. -McGulgun asked if any means could he taken to remove the nuis-iiijes ���at t'he shooting, gallories, tinoving pio- lur-p shows, etc. Thoy are a. very gieat nuisance.. He leferred to those on the w>uth side of'Cordova stredt. The din jr'-ts almost unbearable. Aid. Brown���Ain't there a license fee ���>'jor them? Refeired to the city soli-'i tor. HtM-e Aid. Wood complained abo.it She heat of the loom and wanted tliu -windows opened. 13\\ eryliody Instantly iM'g.ui either to leiiiane their coats or 3oxisen Lhelr vests. Too much hot-air, evidently. Aid. Foreman gave notice to tunjiid a_he Water Frontage by-law, exempting jtrom taxation all four-inch pipe and less. 3. Cram-haw, secretary of the ���Musicians' union, wrote asking thtat tlie ���privilege of the German bajid to play ��n the stieets be cancelled, and reminding the council that there ls a Dominion act against soliciting on the strjets. Aid. Cook could not see why the iKiud should be Interefeied with. Unless lliere was a leal grievance it ntiould be allowed Lo play on the attracts. Aid. Wiley thought the German band ���uus a good thing. It would make com- 3>etition among the bands lUid the result would be better music. Aid. Wood said the German band comiietes. They play tor $1 each a night. The local land should be protected from this kind of competition. Aid. Foreman agreed |With Aid. Wood that our home bauds should be protected. , Aid. McG,uigan didn't believe in this ���kind of local competition; Hut so long an the Geinnan bind played on (he streats lie jt'houshlt It wus all right. Aid. Hethune suggested tihuit the musicians meet tho council and show ___M_se~_Te[ofiiM>roccedlng~furiihcr. Thoy\" might wait on.the Fli.aiK.-e eoinmluo. Aid. McQueen���Yes. And (they can Jfctah along tilieir lnstrumemls arid give tis A tune. Aid. Retliune gave notice of motion to annelid clause i'ii of the city charter, togo Into efteot In 190J, to eliminate bhe alderniunic salaiy Ithere provided. Aid. McQueen thought the adopting of this would require thlat the charter should be amended, and this business was very expensive.i 'Aid. Lii-own���Aid. McQueen Uilks sense, arid he (Drown) agieed with hlni. The oierk should keep a book with the proposed amendments. Aid. McQueen���A good municipal act was needed. Just witness the land tax sale muddle. , Aid. Cook���It would be a good thing if the city solicitoi gave us the outside liguie as to the probable cost of amending'Uie chattel. ' t Aid. McQueen said lie h.ul spent 13 days at Victoila at the last revision. They got some things'ithcy asked loi and some, thoy didn't. Alembeis ofthe J-egislatuie lhad expiessod theniselycs as being fully sick of Vancouver i-un- nlng down there so often. Aid. Belhune said in thait date he was (lultc willing to let ithe'matter .ay aver. * Aid. Wood gave notice that he would move at \"the nexlt meeting that the council as-k for a transfer of the False Creek iloits. > Aid. Mi Queen gave notice th.ul lie would move th.iit the city betaken fiom ��� i under the provisions of the land registry act. Aid. Brown-^TliBit's not an amend ment to the charter? Aid. McQueen���No. Adjourned. SPECIAL SESSION. A full council board was piesent at Wednesday's special meeting to heai nepiesontatives of the Stave Luke Powei- Company. Tney were Mr. H. Abbott, IMr. J. IB. Ferguson and Sir Chas. Hlbbert Tupper ami others. This company re<|uested that the time limit within wihlch the deposit of $��i,000 guarantee of bona fides be extended one year. This request nv.is granted, Aid. Wood and Wylie voting against. The Independent Lullior party is considering the political Situation seriously and a call for a convention will be Aid. Wood moved, seconded by Aid. McGulgun, that the request bo grunted of the License Commissioners that the Chief at Police repont to thcni' well sntontli ns well us the city council n.s to tSie vrtiy tlio licensed houses observe tlie by-lawn. All aldermen agreed to ��hls. Ald.-eloct Skene's ivslgnallon loft In ildie Mayor's IkuhIh. Aid. McGulgun moved thnt the appointment of Mr. K. P. Davis, K. C as Chief Justice of British Columbia, tie respectfully recommended to the Honorable Minister of Justice. Aid. MoGuigian explained thnt this resolution had been placed In his hands fcjr representatives of- the Bar association, and poflnted out that it had been represented to bim that in Mr. Davis' .tfjpjwlntment Vancouver would have a issued in ithe neair flutuie. Tills convention, which will ipiobalbly be hold _n Nelson, .will be 'broader and more le- Iiivsentaitlve th'an any ]>i-e\\iou.s caucus of the Ixiibor ipnnty. iSocialists as wjll as trades unionists of all 'kinds will be ���asked to send delegates, and Hie boundary us well (us Bast and West Koot- onoij- wilM be repre'eniteil. The lnde- |ioii'de>nit Labor panty 'lnui been working nilong (tuletly but effcclhuly, registering voteiw, nnturii Using Amork'iui.s an I foreigners of ull kinds, and <|ierfecUiig a political organization w-.htcli, if this threatened election evemlunites, will present a united front all over t'he In- 'terlor of tlle province and wil! probably load to the United Labor party hi :ilng a balance of power 4n the netl le^I-slnluro.���'Sandon Paystreak. Following lias been compiled from the New Zealand Labor Gazette: For- some time p__st a royal commission has beeai sitting in Melbourne, Australia, oiuiuilrlng into the 'woi'klng of Uie Hhoiw and factory law of that great country In 1S96. Some of the evidence given before' It had been hostile to the la.w, as might have been expected���nil the same ns Uhe eight-hour law- of the nietalifoi-ous nvmers of this province. Paiiuigrjiphs haine iiippeared In inoiie than one well-taiown London nowspaiien- suggesting Wiat the act has caused, und is causing, fnotion, and has even led In one ease to a suspension of Industry. A set of Indignant nvasteis or employers huve stout up their woi'ks. Without denying that the law .has been, andi Is being hotly criticized 1n t'he colony, and without suggesting 'that It has yet emerged from tlie stage of experiment, tt can bi pointed out that Victorian manufacturers have managed to thrive under it, and to regain the place which they hold lu lS'JO, but lost so lamentably ntltr the baulking ipanic and the collapse of whult is commonly known as the Melbourne land Iboom. In 1MI0, when Victoila was enjoying the Inflated pro-j- peiity lor which she afterwards had to pay so dearly, the number of hands employed an the colony's factories was 17,SI3. In 18W, with commerce in the trough of depression, this number sank to 'M,iX&. In 1B0O it had I'iseu to Gi.S'.S. Whatever, therefore, the minimum wsLgp law may have done during the four yeais In vv hicli it has been applied, it litis not been geneially ruinous oi terrifying. Tlie Factories si'id shops lnivvfi of IS'.iC, under which legal minimumi wages-were for the first time illxed, was one of a -cities of factory laws, tlie first ot which was a little statute pai*ed in 1S73. This, the iploneer of its luce In Austiulia, laid down that no girl or woman should work far Mre In a factory for moie than eight, hours daitly. The next step forward was taken by a second law, that of 1SS5. This was the-outcome ot the plain spoken reipot'l of a royal (om- rnlssion Which had sat In tho year b3- foro to lnqaiirc into alleged \"sweating.\" By tho law of .1885 the numb - of persons needed to fonin a-legal f-J''- tory, which lhad ln'chcrto lieen ten, vv s reduced to six, including appientices, and employees weie ordered to keep a recond or outwoilk. The bei��t p'arts n; the law of 18S3 wero those enforcing cleanliness, air space, the requlionieiits of decency, and the fencing of macln.i- eiy. Unde rthese clauses much good ivoilk ivas done b.v t'he government inspectors. As Melbourne and the other towns grow larger and weie liettsi 'built, hundreds of dilapidated old 'bulMings were pulled down and replaced 'by belter factories. The Inspeitois slaiiv to lit that the arrangements In them ware good. How unsatisfactory the condition of numbers of fnctoiy and simp workers n-eirjk'|ined In many ather resiiedts, and how miserable was 'tlhe lot of the sweated oubworkeis (that is people wiho talke work home to do) tihe reader may leJarn from oilicial revolts a.nd from the columns of the Age aind Ai'gus new��pmpeis. For ten years theie was little or no change in tihe loiw. Not unitll lS'lj was- any real step token forward, ln that year tbe number of hand's necessity to constitute ~* = *A~Legal \"Factory Sweating League, could have formed a public opinion ready lo accept mi strange and novel an experiment. Venturesome and 'full of new features the measure Indeed was. Most studer.U of labor pr-dbloiiis h.ive by this time heard of one feature���the \"wages boards.\" Rut tlio Inteiest of the shops and factories act ot li!)6 Is by no means confined to these. It introduced changes i>o many and so vital, and iiianks a striking departure ln the history of Australian industrial law. I make no upology for quoting 'here certain parts of the ofllclal summary of j Its Chief Clauses . piepnircd by the Victorian factories de- pnrtiileiit. These all relate to factories. The jiortion ofthe law relating to shop3 will riot be touched on in this article. Kveijf place in wihlch 'fumltui,e is manufactured was made a factory or workroom. Every iplaee In which a Chinese peison ls engaged in laundry work was mnde a factory or woi'kicojn Laundries, in which four prisons arc employed, were made factories 0: woitoooms, excepting only laundries curried on by charitable institutions. Power to extend tho operations ol the factories portions or the- act to coun- tieswas given to the governor-in-coun- cil. Every pel son malking clothing or wearing apparel (including boots nnd shoes' for tirade or sale outsilde a factory or workroom vvas required to send his or her name and iaddres_ to the chief Inspector of factories. Provision was jri'ade for the appointment of special iboards to flx the lowest price or wage ito be paid for malking any untitle of clothing or wearing apparel ('including 'boots and shoes), furniture, and for biead-maklng or baking. Et- ceptlng the furniture board, which was to be aipiiointed by the governoi- In-couhcil, such boards weie to be elected by the employers and employees engaged In the manufacture ol the iiirtlele.s, for- making which the boaid ls to fix the price. In default of such an election the governor-jn-coun- cll was to appoint the msmbei-s of the boaid. Eaeih boaid was required to elect a.clralrnniii (not a member) within tounteon days, and if Ihis was not done THE BIBBERS' BILL. the governor-in-couneil was to appol-it a Chairman. T' - (To be continued.) Kveiy union man knows lite duty. Patronize memhnnts who gilve union men iproper our in that city and elsewhere In Victoria. conSli-med by tJie evidence given Jiefore a board of inquiry In 1SH3. and backed by bhe agitation of the Victorian Autl- FOUH 'MILLIONS INCREASE. XV. P. Robeitson, provincial mirier- jlegist, has ,ipi-eiiai-ed an estimate ol -��� .0 mineral output of the province for 11.01. The figures are most encouraging and1 carefully compiled, showini;, as they do, an. estimated Increase of over $4,000,000. The bulletin issued bv .the mineralogist? vvhicl\" Is addies-i-d lo the minister'of mines, says that this estimate is based upon actual leturin oir a number of the mines, and from those mines not making .returns, the returns are based upon their approximate known tonnage. Mr. Robertson is a painstaking ofllcer and his repo't may be relied upon as. being ns neir right as it is possible to make It. THE BLACK CAT. There is one publisher with whom name and fame ot a writer count for absolutely 'nothing, with .whom merit alone governs, with whom the unknown has sm equal chance with the wall- 'known���nnd that is the publisher ot The Blaok 'Cat, who will pay over $10,- 000 in prizes ranging fiom $100. to $2,100 for the best .shoit stones submitted befoie ,Feb. Uli. 1002. No story will, however, 'be considered unless sent accoid- ing to the conditions printed in The Black Cnt-ornn.iiled'fiee by The Shnrc^ *toiy Publishing Compunv, llo.ion, Allies. If you have 11 good stciy don't be ashamed to wild It along. MOLD RI IS ELECT OFPICF3RS. At the hist regular meeting of I101 M',% not claimed. .Prize waltz���1st, Mr. and 'Mrs. W. G. Taylor; 2nd. C. D. Nunn \"and Miss J. Mattln. Sid. \\V. J. Clani,e and .Miss H.irland. Prize two-step���W. Albbott and'Miss G. Austin. The judg-s weie .Messrs. Wnlband, Dunn. Mackon- rot, Baker and Kent. 11,u pin's o - chestra supplied Its usual good d.inic muslv. The selection for the Ihvo-mup- i-'oon Cnu���was_'Wi-itten_by_Ji_ _Du\"VillL-. foriueily a leader of New Westinln.-t\" ker, W.ni. Jordan and 'Mesuun.cs Carlisle, Tidy. iMuran. Gill. Clegg, Uaikcr. Jordan. '.Mr. Wm. F. Findlay is master of cciennonlex ami F. A. Letter i.s set.- i-ctaiy. Ileynold's oiihe.stia will furnish mu\"lc. Of couise everyone l:no-,v.< with this anay cf suiiport tic altnlr will be a gnind oue. , A OOllRIJCTION. In the lepoit of the proc.eilIng�� of the last micetiiig of the Tiades and Labor council, the state.-.ient thouU have ro.ul that the palnteis hnd trou'lila with cei tain \"non-union men,��� liu-tead of \"shops.' ON HiS HOUNDS. Harrison River I-'one of the brightest end busiest little towns in this pion-i ince. I was pleased to meet Mr. My- eis, an old 'Vanoouverlte. He Is foreman of the factoiy of U13 liiiriison MIILs, Timber and Trading C.mpan/, which is one of the largest concerns in t'he interior. About 2.*i while men iind 40 Japs are employed. This speaks well for the .management, who a.e willing at all trmes to employ none but white labor, which cannot readily be obtained licie. Tho .men employed by thin entenprislng dim, wiho aie all a fine lot of fellows, seemingly h.nppy and satlafled. spea'k well ot\" the place, and p,-ii't.i;ul.iil.v- of the .'inn. Han ison'boosts of a .first-class hotel, besides a general store. iMr. D. Gal- biaith Is proprietor, and he keeps things in good phape. He studies the interests of-his cusi&mei--, is most obliging and couiteous in the treatment ot his many pat ions. Acio-'s the river there -Is a l_:r_ra shingle mill in course cl* conduction, the on nets of which are the C'hillnvaek M.iimf.ictiiiing company. The daily output will be about 75,000 iihingles. I had the pleasure of meeting .Mi. A. Duncan and Mi. F. Mclntee, foreman 01 the section. Tl.oy nail a good woi-a roi- The Independent, and are highly esteemed by'their felluvv workmen. Mr. Junes Word, the C. P. R. iig^in hei..'. is a very popule'r and eillclent b-iv.int ot the company, b-ing at all times most obliging and courteous lo all with whom he ha.-, bu��lner<>' dealings. ' Ta'king eveiything Into cor.salt-iation lloj'iiaon has a ibiight tutuie, and 110 doubt will gi-uw beyond the expectations of the most sanguine resident. I! Ben Baker, of Oswego, N. T., who for many years had been prominent In labor circles, lias 'been elected mayor of that city 'by a big majority. The demand for 1'aibor.throughout the -state or Now- York Is puiltioularly good, especially In tlie printing line. 'band, and dedicated to his mend. Chance, of this clt.v. The Iloor, o couise, was -ably handled by W. I-' Puulliiy and his a'slstiint, D. S M .1 tin. Tlie credit for all the evening's ei- tcrtalniiient originally belongs to I'.ie very Industrious committee of the llnkeis. composed as follows. Win. H. Ramos, chairman; S. Walker, mviv- lury; XV. Andoison, ('. WHlli.ind, 1 .MiicLinen, (.'. .1. Salter. .1. Te.isd lie. . A. Nelson, F. Moyles, W. Wood and !��� Hiutie. (.Mission city Is quite a railway town. Business'.Is good and ipiospct-ts en-- t'Oui'igiiig. iTnere are- a number oC good stoics, nnd the hotel nceomu.o- dation is all that can Le desired. The letucMig ho.-teh> is the Bellevue llous-;. This hotel has all tlio latest and modern nnp'uvv'iiier.is to be lound in the laigest dues. It ha.-< hot and cold water. eieLtiR lighting end a legulai water cittern all its own. the .'uppiy of water coming, as it does, fiom up above the site of the hotel. Is equal to I'h.u sujiplitd in Vancouver, which li saMiig a good' deal. .Mi. Windcbank, an Austialian. who has been in bhi-s country loi many yjn-s. is the pixi- prlctor, and when Jie dies not know- about i-unnii-.i; hot.-ls i^ not worth knowing. The citv..1101 y is- another giowing in- dusiiy that Is vvoithy 0; ment'on p.c- sjdes buttdge ciew, who is a vei> btis.v iii-in, likewi e his ciovv. who uie ill lirst-clai-s woi-kinen I I.-IRI.'.MION'y RA.LL. Invllntlcns are out for tho I'ouith '.rnnuiil ball nnd supper which will I p given iby the Vancouver Fireman's Benefit Association. The function will bo held In the city hail on Thursday evening, Febnunry ,\">th. The honorniy lecoptilon committee Is Ills Worship .Mayor Neelands and' the olvlodre com- .nilttee. The reception committee comprise, besides Chief Carlisle, Thos. Tidy. Ciiipt. illonin. A. GUI, A. Clegg, C. Bar- Thoy are al piesent loc it d li r also met Miv. McLaughlin, a very .cnlahle lad v. and Mis-., .Mcl..uieh|in, wlio Is 11 promising young ladv ul throe suinineis. I'm sine there is not a belle 111 Vancouver so well thought or. I'oie- innn P. J. Mcllioy mud his stalwart gang aio h'.nd at woik on a long nestle a few miles below M.s-slon. I 11 l.��o met our old friend. Mr. J. 13. Hunter, who Is a highly esteemed gentleman in those purls. He Is pleasVI Willi The InJoBendent. a.nd, by the wny, nil ihe railroad boys, as well as (Milieus, speak encouiagliigly ol the paper. '���' 'Sir. .Plunii-ldge. the genial ston-kecip- er or Mission, 'keeps a general store, and his wares nre the best the market affords. He Is loud in his praises ot Mission. The C. (P. R. ernployaes are very nccommodatii.g, and are at nil times most .willing to Impart Information an3 help one out of his, difficulties. HORACE WILLIAMSON.' Advertise in The Independent. O��\"_CC:-nC;C\\'.C-20COO0CCXK)O0C-OOO-*' t*> fj 0V^7t G! Drumbeats Liberty ...Ey M. QUAD. ( nwriRht. i'.Oi. by C. B. Lewis. ��> CODO3000O3C0000000CO0000O Thoy had brought him home one day. that loyal ami stout hearted patriot, Jacob Vim Urunt, with his vision gone forever, A llcssliiii's bullet hsul lilliulod lilm, niul a comrade walked hand In hand with lilm ami vvtirucil hlni of obstructions In the road. Ono night niontlis later, ns the blind mun slept, thero'was a gotitlo tapping nt lila window, and ns he opened the sash and linked who was there a patriot sergeant replied: \"lllst, .Incut.! 1 have been wllh oxon nml wagon for tims'.:ols, powder and lead. 1 have hail a long pull of it, and the oxen can go no further, and thoro Is u Hessian.picket on tlie road to iho south. Wc must hide the munitions iind come for thoin again.\" Ten minutes Inter the blind drummer nud his.three daughters were assisting tiie soldiers to unload Uie wagon anil hide its com ems In the dark mid empty cellar of the barn. 1 ti nil haste and yet wllh due camion'the work wus speedily finished uud the vehicle driven buck over the road, and by nnd by when a patrol of cavalry euiuc twilling ���that w-.iy ho man saw or heard anything unusual. And when the muskets had been oiled and the load cast into bullets which gleamed bright-ns silver there'\" vvas a drill on the hare Iloor of the old barn. . With drum al: his side, but the slicks boating softly, nnd with ltutli. Mary nud Esther in line before him. the bllud man whlspuringly (.���onunanclcd: \"Attention, company! Right face! Left face! Order arms! Shoulder linns! Heady���aim���recover! It-r-r-r! Rat-tat-lut!\" And thero en mo a. November day wlien -the snowllakes lliittcruil down now nnd then, and the skies weie dark with' winter's wnr.'.in;;, and the gale ��� .whipped tlio dying leaves off the. apple nnd pear trees and tossed their blanches about Hi wild disorder. The blind drummer wns'nodding in -sloop in his chair, and his -daughters wore in the field searching for potato hills wliich might have escaped the raiders. Of a sudden Iho mnn-roused'up and peered into .'vacancy vvith his sightless eyes and listened with beating:heart. Tlie daughters found him standing erect, with drum at his side nud sticks In bis hand, ns they en mo running in. \"Ayo, they are coming, the enemy,\" he said as the panting girls essayed to speak. \"Thoy hnvo .heard of the arms aud nro coming lo take tliem nway. . You, .Ituth .and Mnry, to the burn nnd bring as\"'many muskets as you can carry, and you, Esther, lead me to the lnno and stono wall. Forward��� Bter.dy���forward, march! \"AUeiitloii.eompaiiy!'' cried the drummer: ns ho ceased to rattle his sticks. \"Load each; and every; musket.- Let them como halfway up tho lane liefOro you lire. Tell me,' Esther,What do they ' do?\" '���Tliey have halted, father, and appear surprised and confused.\" \"It-r-r-r! Ilnt-n-lat! Ilat-tnt-tatl Tliey nro brave men nud will come on, but they are enemies of liberty. Aye, 1 hear their trump on the dying grass. Stonily; girls���steady! When they are ���'������\". even with the wild cherry tree, lire at them to kill. Tell mo. Esther, tell me\"��� Hang! bang! bans! roared the three muskets, and with pulses jumping the blind man 'grasped his sticks nnd made the drum rattle:.-till the half dozen .'horses down In llie road reared tip and plunged and whiiiiiicd nt the sounds. \"fresh muskets! Fire again! Toll roe, Esther, tell uie.If any of them are down!\" ��� \"Three, father!\" Bang! bang! bang! .'.-'-'\".���\"Five.'father���live: are down now. nnd one is leaning against the wall! We hnvo stopped thc>i! They halt���they waver���thoy give hack!\" ' The enemy fell back, milled and advanced for the third .'time. Now some of'the troops left.tho .narrow, lane and !advuuccd upon the linnks of thc.du- ���fonse.\" They crept along.\" the., stone walls or.skirmished, across the Holds, and the firing became brisk. \"R-r-r-r! Riit-n-tn.-int-tatl\"; rattled the drum, and the drummer shouted above the noise: \"You are using but two~_miskctsrno\\v!���What-bas-bceoiiie_ of RiithV\" \"Oh, father,\" replied Esther, \"Ruth- Ruth ls dead!\" \"Rat-a-tat-tnt-tat! Attention, company! Load���ready���aim-Ure���recovcrl Tell tne, Esther, enn vve hold themV\" \"No, father! They are In front���to ���the right���to the left! I(see them aiming at you,, father! Crouch down beside me or you will bo killed!\" \"I cannot see, I cannot shoot, but I :wlll stand to the last! il-r-r-r! Il-r-r-r! Rat-a-tat! Uat-n-tat-tnt! 'Tis the drum- 'bents that called the ralnutemen together at Lexington. You arc using but ���one musket uovv. What has become of ���Mary?\" \"Dead, fnther���dend ns she rested her gun barrel over the wnll!\" \"Attention, company 1 Only a blind man and a girl, but the muskets lu the barn belong to Washington and liberty, ond we must die for them! Aro you afraid. Esther''\" \"l-l am not afraid!\" ���\"Then light on!, 'Twas thus tbat tho drums rattled at Bunker IIIII���r-r-r-a-a- tat-tatiat-tat! And 'twas thus they stoutened our hearts ns we slowly fell back from Brooklyu Heights���r-r-r-rat- a-tat-tat-tat-tat-'tat! You have ceased firing. Tell me, Esther, Is the powder gotieV\" There was no answer. \"They are'dead.\" groaned the blind ���man���\"Ruth, Mary nnd; Esther���nil -dead! Aye, shout and cheer und lire. I ���wou hirelings! I face you-so! *\"<* hive Is the way the drums beat nt White Plains ns our rugged patriots came swinging Into action���r-r-r-r! Tat- tat-tat! liat-a-tat! Rat-a-tat! Rat-a- tat-tat-tnt-tat! And when we crossed the Delaware and broke the lliilisli center nl Trenton It wns���r-r-r-r-at- tnt\"��� The blind man swayed and tottered nnd sunk to earth, nnd there were cheers from tlio vvulls nud fences t.ud hillocks. \"And nt Princeton,\" lie whispered ns he clutched the drutnstli.k.s with lingers of death, \"tin. drumbeats wore��� tat���lat\"��� \"How did thoy know7 How could vve telly' asked mun ot mnn ns they stood leaning on thoir muskets nud looked down on the dead. They could not have told. Thoy could not comprehend the depths of patriotism. Ill the Suliis���Tho Moron. The Moro Is a ���rent talker, always returning to the same point. Practical- ly nothing of eoiisc<|iionce can ho obtained from hlni In conference, and the less of lilm the better. In his religion ho Is naturally n f.iintlc. lie Is a wiry, sinewy, athletic fellow, very different from tho Ylsaynii or Tngalo uud quite different from the Filipino generally. In physical appearance'he is a distinct type in the orient, lie has a bold and haughty bearing anil frcedoin\"of manners extending to an almost defiant carriage. Ho dresses In -.fantastic'garbs of bright and brilliant colors and Is as guy In manner ns gaudy In garb. A variegated, 'uniquely folded turban, a highly colored silk sash to hold his deadly, handsomely carved nnd adorned borong or krlse, a short -Jacket��� ornamented with bright metal clasps or \\ filigree work or buttons and very ' bright\" striped silk trousers that are tight in fit mnke him tliu most picturesque of barbarian people. He lives In simplicity. lie is brave to fearlessness, a born pirate'and essentially n.lighting mill), ever nt war with somebody in some part of the sultan- ate, never hupp?.' unless on a marauding expedition nnd stealing from his neighbors, friends and foes alike. Tlie chief wlio Is the most successful thief is the most respected and most powerful among chiefs.���Lieutenant Colonel Sweet, U. S. A., in Independent. EXTRAVAGANT IN COMPARISON. Tho travelor in China, who pays from I. to 3 cents a day to u number of coolies to tote him several hundred miles across tho desert, pa.Vs an extravagant price for the transit as compared with the man boards a limited train in Now York city for San Francisco, which.is operated by an engineer, lircnian, conductor and brakenicin, whosu salaries .rango from S75 to $100 per month. Youth is really the only thing worth having���and it is about all tho average voulh has. WEIGHT OF CORK. Cork weighs fifteen pounds per cubic foot, gold 1,155 pounds. \" Observation leads to the conclusion that a political job is not hard after you got it. Somo follows' only idea of a good timo is to have a headache the next morning. Her Father���Well, sir, what can I do for you ? Her Lover���I-cr-called to seo if you-cr-would givo assent to iny marriage to your daughter. Her Father���Not a cent, sir; not a cent. Good day ! No one over yet managed a lovo affair and anything else successfully at tlle samo time. v Some peoplu only know b.v hearsay that it is moro blcsscd'to give than to receive. Observation lends to tho conclusion that u political job is not hard aftor you got it. iCopyrlglit, 1901, by Villts B. Ilawklnfc] lier CltrlstniSB i* not like Ihe rest, Which last 11 single day Or po&sililv ti weuk at host And then ��rc put nwny'11 ��� To he forgot ton torn yrar, Until jjooii will lowai-i! mun ��� Comes round, an fashions reappear, And is In style a^ain. -All time Is sramlma's Christmas time, All seasons hers to hear Tho.echo o( a Yulotiilc chime .Of voicos ever dfar, Of voices hushed to all hut her As through a mist of tears SI'O sues child faces as they were.. ' In Ions departed years. ���������:.. ��� Decide For Yourself By a Simple Experiment if You Have Kidney Disease. Scores and lumdrods of people wlio aro complaining almost daily ot backache, pains In tho limbs, not unlike rheumatism, and stinging, scalding sensations when urinating, do not know that thoy are in reality suiTori'ng from kidney derangements. Gradually, th'oy becomo thinner nnd *woaker, experience woro or less puf- finoss under tho eyes and swelling of tho limbs, and feel chronic disease fixing Itself upon tho system. (l It is not necessary for you to undergo au oxpenslvo examination to find out it'tho kidneys are diseased. You cun mako tho examination tor yourself. Take a clean \"glass vessel and allow somo urlno to stand in it for twenty-four hours. .'It,,at tho end of that timo thero aro deposits lu tho bottom of the vessol you cun bo certain that the kidneys are not in healthy working order. Thla test, accompanied by. the symptoms referred to above, are indisputable evldenco of kidney disease. Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills There is no longer any. question about tho efficiency of Dr.: Chaso's Kidney-Liver Pills .as a prompt, through nnd lasting cure for every form of. kidney disease. Their combined action on the kidneys and liver enables them to curo chronic ^nd complicated diseases which cannot bo touched by ordinary kidney medicines. You can depend on Dr. Chaise's Kidney-Liver Pills every time. Ono pill a dose. 25 cents a box, at all dealers or Edmonson, Bates & Co., Toronto AlltN nn Mliu-r*,. Ants commonly nro'regarded as nuisances, yet. tliey have their uses, lt you dig up a nost of common brown nuts, you will iiollco by putting your face close to the hill a'pungent odor arising. This Is the vapor of formic iicid. the principle of nut poison. Now, formic acid has tho property of making plants grow ..as..hardly, anything else will. Theiefore tho mold of wlilch tho. nut nosts are composed makes a valuable dressing for the market garden when 'spread on while It is fresh. Another little known benefit to be derived from ants is the collection of tlieir eggs for fish food. In the late summer a good many peoplo malte a living by gathering ant eggs in tho pine woods of Surrey and Berkshire, England, and selling them to the London llsh dealers. :��� In the west ants are sometimes used us miners. There Is a large species of Rocky mountain'nut which builds Its nest ncitl'icr of wood nor earth, but of stone, and It prefers stones brilliant In color for this purpose. Miners are said to transport whole nests of these insects to places where garnets abound, and when the ants have built their new homes all the best crystals within a radius of many yards will be found in lt and appropriated by the garnet seekers. 1 A \"Square\" Aldermnn. \"I.happened to be out west,\" said a Pittsburg..architect, \"when a certain town decided to erect a city hall. Architects wore Invited to send In plans nud specifications, i'nml,\" though 1 hadn't fully decided to compete, I dropped in on a boss alderman one day to secure some -'information.'.:-1 had been told that he was at the head of a ring, and-It didn't take nie long to discover thut such Information was correct. We had scarcely passed a dozen .words when lie said: \"'Mr. Blank, thiu building is to cost ��800,000.' \" 'Yes.' \"'And there must be at least S200,- 000 to divide up among the pickings.' \" 'Yes.' \" 'Can you plan an ?SOO,000 buildlny which will yield $200,000 worth of pjekings?' 'r'I_never~havo doneso.' \"'Then don't begin here. You'd not only muddle your plans and specifications, but you'd tempt us to steal youi* whack of the stealings, and we want to get out of It with n little honor loft to tackle some other Job with. Try a railroad water Job or something easy, and good morning to you.' \" Goat Chops, \"Tho man who goes In for Angoras,\" says an authority, \"will find that It ls true they will Jump anything under 100 feet high and climb a sapling. They will get at the neighbor's wash us sure us It goes on the line, nnd there will be lingerie to pay for. Hut If you would be on the safe side and keep the billy there turn lilm up and cut nway the little creeper that you will find nt the bottom of the hoof. It will not hurt him to lose it. but lt ruins ills ambition ns n mountebank. It will save lots of trouble to have n chiropodist get nt the Angora with n null trimmer.\" Goat meat cannot bo distinguished from mutton ordinarily. In overy car of sheep that comes from New Mexico there nro, sure to bo from two to a do-/,- same block at the packers', ond the same block nt the puckers,' nnd the good wife who takes home gont chops for lamb chops Is never the wiser, nor Is the butcher. A gont ls only a goat when he has his pelt on. After thut he is a sheen. _ Aa6- COfi /diocAf bj J&x f / Now, dreaming o'er her. needle's flicht, ��� She croons a nong of joy ,r And weaves a thread of heaven's light ' Into some Christmas toy. . Now'softly up the attic stair . ::Alone she creeps away tr- And o'er the Christmas treasures there Lives in another, day. , Yet, 'though mid shadows of the past ���'.'- , ��� Fond ;iiU'iiiories may grope, ��� ', She stands in the effulgence cast; -���':.::~ i : By never dimming hope, ;������-; 4nd, peering through the gathering night, She views the narrow way .\"... \"<��� Thut bridges over to the bright .Eternal Christinas day.\" ���' '.';���., ��� Cures! without Brags, Piasters or Liniments NO CURE, NO There is no need to suffer torturing- pains and ruin your stomach with, drugs when you can be completely cured in from one day to a few weeks. Read the evidence :��� \" I was suffering: from rheumatism all ever mjrbady before I got your Bsl: and ln three months was entirely cured.\"-William Aldons, 214) Christla street. Toronto. \"I am glad to say that my rheumatic. pains aro xene and I have not had a lame Socle otnee I put the Belt on '��� x,_ Joseph UtUeJobn, Markdale, Ont \" The hest day's work I ever done was to como to Toronto see you, as lt was a now start ln life. I was nearly drawn double with pain, but thero ls not a traoe of It lef t.\"-S. Nlofc- erson, Niagara Falls South, Ont \" I am pleased to tell you that I am well, and that after giving: your Bet a fair trial I am completely cured of rheumatisms-Henry Hale, 205 Bay street N., Hamilton. . Or. 8��$&L&ugh��Sn's Eleotrlo B��lt Stops tho pain, frees the blood from uric acid an* gives strength te tho pain-worn muscles and nerves. It is tho only Belt thnt doesn't hum or blister. It alto cures Nervaus Diwpdors, Weak Back, Lumbago. Sciatica,1 Liver, Ividnov .ind Uowel Troubles, \" Came-and-Go \" Paini and that Tired Feeling aftor every other treatment bus failed. I guarantee a cure if I say it will curo. I don't ask any one to take chances on ���my invention. It doesn't cost you anything if It falls. CALL TO-DAY. Consultation free. FREE BOOK. All time I, grandma's Christmas time, All seasons hers to hear , Tlie thrilling of o chord mbltmo Of voices coming near, As In her simple faith the walta Tho cuminff of the mom When past the open pearly gate! Sbo'U greet the Lowly Born. testimonials from th* ��i;jted. Bent, , Consultation free. ���v:,i, \"t-ila of my method of treatment and If you can't c-Ul send for my ^����g�� book, wh'rfiWlsof my mom u h, trjwd. Sent, sealed, free. Address, eacleiin-j this ad, dr. m. b. Mclaughlin, 130 YOKGK STREET, TORONTO, Ollicc Hours���9 a: m. lo 3:30 p. m. ONT. No Longer a Bottle Baby. Santa Glaus (thrusting bis head through the door) ���Sorry for you, kid, but It's the only present 1 have left PIOUS FRAUDS. McniorialH oll.ei-maii Trailer* of the , Iliin.ii.Mit lu Lunnrue. Fncine tho lower harbor o�� Bergen, at the end of u long row of quaint old warehouses, stnnds n venerable building more ;lhau 700 years old, called the Finno- -\"(.'naideii,--oue-o_-the counting-houses_of_ the lencue; which has beeii preserved intact nnd is now a museum filled with interesting relies of thnt celebrated corporation. They show how its managers and employees lived nnd conducted business. Die league owned the harbor and a.considerable portion of the cits and. controlled not only its manufacturing)'* mercantile trade and foreign commerce, but also its fisheries, which havo always been its most valuable industry. Ilctgcn then, as now, was the greatest fish market in the world. The management of the business of the league was intrusted only to Germans, who were imported for that purpose, and were not allowed t�� marry lest their wives should learn its secrets. The managers and clerks werv housed in colonies of fourteen, each colony having control of certain Interests and keeping separate accounts of its transaetioiis. The men 'slept In cupboards built Into the walls in a curious manner. They did their own cooking. They had their own church, with priests imported from Germany. They were pious scoundrels, as the evidence Rhnn-s, tor. along with their cruei- li.\\es and prayer bunks and pictures of the saints are iccords showing that they kept two sets of scales���one for buying and one for. selling���nud the attendant will show, you a parchment book in which the -manager notes for the edification of his employers thnt he cheated a fisherman out of 200 vogs of fish���a yog being thirty-six poim.ds���and invokes \"tho blessinj of God upon this small.profit.\" The inscription ovcr the door of the counting house rends, \"Without God's blessing all is vain.\" The money wns kept In an immense ironbotind chest, divided into compartments ot various sizes, some of them holding a bushel, in which were deposited the various kinds of eoih until the collector came to make his periodical settlement. At the bottom aud in the sides of tlie chest are secret compartments for ,conccajing;Contnict3 and other papers pf value. A DAY OF SCRUBBING. Tbe Real Thins; In Iloniseeleanlna; In ' Dntch Ilomeis, It was understood generally, says Mary A. Teixotto,' writing In' Scribncr's on' household whys In Holland, that our models would not pose on Saturday, thnt day being devoted exclusively to houseclean- ing within and without. Early in the morning every stick of furniture is rubbed and wiped, carefully and taken out of the bouse. 'Then the women, with their skirts tucked up, entirely Hood the rooms with I'- bucket, ��� after bueket . of wutcr brought up from the cnnnl by inenns of the shoulder yoke, With broom ' and brush they souse and scrub the red tiled floor nnd finally pull up a plug In ono corner to let the water How out, let us hope, Into the canal. While the floor Is drying a Brent polishing goes on In the street. Qunlnt old brass lamps and candlesticks, tobacco boxes nnd ash trays, huge milk cans���all are burnished until, like golden mirrors, they reflect the red chocked, whito capped faces bent over them. The lacquer mnn Ib busy on Saturday. He. goes from house,to house painting the bread trays and honey cake boxes with designs of gnudy birds and wondrous leaves iind flowers. The street is*in a: turmoil .until/noon, when order is partially restored and the scant midday meal partaken of. In the afternoon:washing is resumed. The exteriors of the cottnges arc scrubbed from \\ root to, pavement nna every ���-trace* of mold removed, for in this low, wet air the green moss gathers quickly. Then, the brick pavements arc drenched and carefully dried, and I have even seen the women slip off thcir sabots and tiptoe to their doorways in their woolen chaussonB so as not to soil the immaculate sidewalk. Lastly toward evening the entire village socs-to-the_canal,.niid_nll_the_saliot��_ are washed and whitened with pumice stone,-spotless for the morrow. ��� On Saturday evening all the pickets of the low black fences are decorated with rows of dripping footgear carefully graduated in size from the,big wooden shoes of the.father down to the tiny sabots of the youngest born. ��� .Ireland sends annually 44,000 tons' ot x-.-.X. Mime I! 10,000,000 lu round numbers, ti' ICngluJid uloue. > . XiUHt .Vcaselfl. Nearly n thousand vessels are lost ^very yenr. Nearly one half ' are .wrecked. ' The Time For Planting Dnll>��.�� There Is no definite \"rule to be InlU down as to the length of time In which bulbs BhouUl be; left lu cold storage. As ii general thing, top growth will not begin until root growth Is, completed. This nearly always takes from six .weeks'to .two.'months. It Is therefore generally, safe to begin bringing October planted bulbs to the living room In December. Those desired for 'later flowering \"can ho loft iu cold storage, whore they will reuialu dormant as to top growth. By bringing bulbs to light nud. warmth at intervals of a week or ten days wo secure a succession ot bloom Which makes It possible tor us to brighten; our windows with; their beautiful flowers during tho greater part of w.lntcr. ill * .. ;. ** IN THS ; ��� FIRST PLIGHT . I m 1 ' �����* ,*�� vSf. .;>;(. ** >l 9 ���� ��N�� copviuaiiT, 1800, nr iluitha U'CULLOCH WH.IJAM8. \"Thirty-nine dawgs and a fyce! I'd a heap rather run with just the pack,\" Billy Bacon said discontentedly as the hunt streamed out Into the old field. \"My hcabenly marster! What does anybody wnnt with more'n 20 dawgs when them 20 are the old Gynrllncr black and tans, that can outscent, outcry und outrun any other dawgs ever was made!\" \"Shut up, Billy! You're an ass and hopelessly prejudiced!\" Major Walton said. His eye lingered in loving pride upon the big fellows, deep chested, crook, kneed, with loug pendulous enis, strong hacks, thin flanks and tremendous length betwixt shoulder and quarter, mussed nbout his horse's feet, whlmpciing im- putience, but haidly moving n muscle uu- til his hand should be lifted. They were all black above and tawny tan underneath. Here or there a pert white sliiit frill showed on a massy breast. They stood heads up, tails down, eyes intently fixed upon their master. When he looked down at them, Sounder, the bend hound, whimpered a little louder. Major Walton looked at his watch, saying: \"I'll wait three minutes longer. Nothing on earth can ever make Overton Blount more than that much late.\" \"He's coming! Henr Damsel!\" �� man in the edge of tho mounted crowd shouted. Billy Bacon gave n hushed hurrah and said to his flapping hat brim: \"Mind what I tell you! There's fun ahead���big fun! -Bound to be, with Sounder and Damsel leading the hunt after the sliest old dog fox that ever run a double!\" Every rider gathered up his reins and sat less slouching in the saddle. Somehow they drew apart, leaving a clear lane np to Major Walton. He turned Brown Bess' head into it and pretended to frown at tho rider who dashed through It. \"You lost your breakfast and your egg- nog by this caper, Overton,\" he said. \"We should have gone on without you, only you know we couldn't without Damsel.\" \"Though she is a blue mottle, eh?\" Overton Blount said, laughing and stooping to pat the little bitch who leaped to his saddle skirts as she caught his eye. Like others ofNthe assembled hunters, he had come with a couple of hounds at heel. Some few had brought even two couple. They were mostly the men who affected progress and white and liver spotted packs. Foxes and fox hunting both flout ish exceedingly in the. grass country ot Tennessee. <} Major Walton, who was a rich man anywhere and exceedingly lich judged by the standards of his neighbors, hunted foxes for the sport of it all but one day of the season. Then���it was New \"Year's day���the hunting became a duty��� almost a rite. Hi3 great-grandfather had set up the first pack in the county and had led tho New Year hunts as long as he could ride. His son and his grandson had followed In his footsteps. Naturally his great-grandson, who was in all things a keeper to the old ways, held religiously to the practice. Indeed, the hunt had' come to be regarded as a county institution. It was an article of faith with the hunters that Providence approved the sport, else how should it happen, and indubitably it bad happened, that only three times in the whole hundred years had the frost been too hard for scenting and riding or that when the day fell on Sunday, though that might be cold and bleak, the weather al- -ways softened enough for thefMonday's hunt? Everybody came to lt���everybody, that is, with a drop of hunting blood. Folk who preferred to hug the chimney cor- t ncrs of course did not come. , For the ;rest, rich and poor, old and young, gntb- 'ercd at daybreak, ate. drank and were merry���merriest of all when they streamed through the lawn gates outward, behind the pack and its master. \"Damsel, do you hear that?\" young Blount said to the bitch. \"This hunt��� this New Year hunt���waited for us. Wc arc somebody, it appears, yet we should never have known it If Murray Phelps hadn't made*us late.\" .\"Say,'Is he coming here?\" Billy Bacon's'tono was ono of deep disgust. Blount laughed quietly and nodded. \"Yes, coming on with Margaret,\" he said. \"You should have heard him, though, when I made him get up. He swore In four languages���said only brutes or heretics would think of starting to do anything save cutting their thronts before daylight' Then needs must bo rummage out his pink coat. That Is really why I left him behind���I wanted to beg you boys not to guy him���though Solomon in all his glory Is hardly In It with Mur. ray in hunting togs.\" \"No friend of mine will take notice of them,\" Major Wnlton said. \"What does ��� he rldo today, Overton?\" \"Musket, of course. He's here looking for hunters, not to name overlooking our yearlings,\" Blount said, laughing. \"Yearlings!'Huntcra! Oh, my hat! Tlm fellow is dead after,,Margaret Blount!\" Billy Bacon said under breath. \"But he shan't have her, uot If I have to sheer him out of' the7 country. Nobody\" shall have her but the major, though why he wants her so bad 'puzzles me clean and clear.\" .,.-.- \"Margaret? What does. she;'ride?\" the major again,asked. Blount looked awny. f , ,,.'-, - (,.��, ,<���' .\".Margaret has'a' mind of herown,\" lie said. \"Otherwise she\" would 'riot be here at all. Certainly not'on'Derringer, luil her mind was made up to it a month bin k.\" \"She Is safe enough,\" the major said. \"Margaret can manage anything. Still Derringer would kill uny other woman and almost any other man who might tiy lo back him.\" ' \"Yonder they come! Lucky it ain't springtime. All the cattle in the country would bo chasing us with that ied coat nlong,\" Billy Bacon broke in. Everybody nt once peeled down the big road which bounded the old field they were to draw for their liibt fox. So looking. 50 good men nud tuie, haid rid- eis and eager spoitsmeu. round themselves bound by the obligation of hospitality and respect for their host to strangle a guffaw ovcr. what seemed to them a figure of fun truly astounding. It was only Murray Phelps, Esq., turned out in pink coat, colds and tops after the correctest English fashion. He had the stock ot a silver mounted crop in his hand. The lash, coiled negligently, wus thrust into his pocket, with one end ti ailing out ovcr the hip. He rode with stirrup leathers shortened until his knees came nlmost level with the pommel. Thnt, however, was ns nothing compared with his hat���a high bilk hat, the exact pattern of headpiece thereabout accepted ns the bign of a minister, a governor or at the very least a judge. Beyond all, the hat was strapped nattily ou. \"We shall have some bush riding, I faw'ney,\" Phelps had said to Blount. \"It would be blarsted awkwaid, don't you know, cither to stop and lose my place in the run or to have to go on hare- headed.\" Altogether be looked very like a gay maccaw as he came in among the other horsemen. To a man they wore thoir easiest scuffed clothes, slouch hats and were shod in many fashions. There wns not n pair of riding boots among them nor a glove visible on any band. Major Walton's' budge of authority was the horn���a two foot cow horn, slung over one shoulder by inshings of stout twine. He would never have grudged the cost of the silveriest hunting bugle, but no bugle note could hnve been so welcome, so full of heait and spirit, as the mellow windings of the long horn which had called to pack and hunters through the full hundred years. Other women might ride with tho hunt later. Mnrgaret Blount alone ever came to the throwing off. If only Margaret had had no mother, all agreed. Overton would have mastered her aud brought her up a mighty line woman. But since she had a mother who could not see n fault in her she had grown up headstrong and just a bit daring. Major Walton hnd been courting her since sho was 16. She was 20 now: he rising 30. Everybody said it was high timo he married. M.iigaret agreed with them, but when he begged her to marry him she smiled provokiugly and shook her head. Margaret would have been cut to pieces rather than acknowledge it, but she was in love���in lovo with love and liberty and a maiden ideal. Major Walton did not in any way realize it. He was tall and square built, a trifle weather beaten and as he grew older would infallibly be fat. He'\"knew how to ride, to shoot and to tell the truth.\" Margaret's ideal gentleman knew very much more. He knew��� that shadowy entity���all about poetry and pictures and the world. He had seen the best part of it ond lived in its rushing i i.rrcnt. His own life was a book full ot turprlses, crowded, too, with the very loftiest sentiments expressed in nction. Of course he was heroic. Equally of course be was haudsomo and high bred and given to wearing his fine sentiments on bis sleeve. Margaret herself did not realize all this. If it had been put before her in set phrase, she would perhaps have been saved from herself by her own sense of bumor. But she had been brought up entirely at home, with only her mother's company. She had icad much and dreamed orer her reading there In a land where It was held out of taste to talk books. Thus she could not help feeling herself unlike nil the rest. She yearned to get away���out into the big. live world. Souie- _how_thought_of_a fuUire_at_\\Valton_HaIl._ with the major always opposite, made her choke and stifle. Murrny Phelps was different. He was younger, handsomer. He had seen and dono almost everything. Then 'it was like a romance���his first casual coming, his finding her alone at Blountfca. their long talk together before the others cmne and then these later visits. At the very first, he ' had said audaciously, \"I love you.\" Overton would have been furious ovcr that. She herself bad been, angry or very nearly so. Her eyes hnd showed Phelps his mistake. In spite of the glamour she hnd not failed to note his steadily deepening difference nt each succeeding visit. Upon this, the fifth, he hnd asked her outright tn marry him. It was ns they stood watching the old year out. nc had tried to tnke her baud, but she had slipped away from him, to mi.v nt the door, half over her shoulder, \"When the new year comes, I shall tell you���maybe yes or maybe no,\" Phelps had been too full alike of li Unbelt nnd his discomforts for sentiment upon tlieir early morning ride. Ho liud hunted in England, riding by great luck with both the Pytchley pack nnd the Quorn. He wns going to lound out his,\" experiences by this Tennessee hunt. It! would of course be something of a bore- it must be���beginning nt such a beastly hour. He might, however, have a fairish gallop with Mnrgaret. He knew enough \"of the'horseflesh roundabout to be sure the.huut would be well mounted. As the two came,full upon the hunt Major Walton shouted, a greeting, then put his.'hoin to his, lips and blew- two shrill blasts. The dogs leaped and fawned aiound him, his own black nnd tans standing jealouslv close. TT' ���' .�� Billy Bacon and young Blount, v*ho at onee rode out a little way either bide. Then with the pack at his heels he cnu- teied a bundled yards down thu old field. It was thick with tall broom sedge, which at ouce swullowed up the dogs. ,, \"In there, Sounder! Hunt him! Hunt hard!\" the major suid, waving his hand. There was a stir as though a swift wind hnd struck the tawny sedge. Heie or theie on a knoll a sleek, black body be- cumc momently visible or n spotted white coat flashed back the fitful sun. It was just well above the horizon, peeping through soft, giny, flying wrack. The wiud sat south and was flawy, now bending the bare tree tops in the woods, now barely milling the feathery tips of the sedge. The air was mild, moie like May than January. It had nu electiic thrill In it, ns though the new year wero so full of life It hnd spilled vitality into the winds. The hoiscs were wild even before the dogs broke out. Half of them nt least foamed nnd champed on the bit through the minutes of waiting. One or two sour and ill conditioned beasts bit or kicked at their neighbors. Mnrgaret took pains to keep Derringer well.in hand nnd clear of all the rest. Derringer stood 1(3 hnnds, although he was seven-eighths' thorough- bicd. He had the speed of the wind, the stay of the rock, the temper of the flume. Either nt getting away or at,making trouble he was as quick as lightning; hence his name. Margaiet rode him in safety because she bad no fear of him, and he kucw it. A rider who had been afraid he would have thrown and then deliberately trampled. Musket, Derringer's blood brother, had the same black coat, the same fine con- loimatlon, the same stay and very neaily the same speed, with a temper simply perfect. Both were Blountleu bled and coming G years old. Ovei ton had thought of selling tliem the fall befoie, but Major Walton bad bidden him wait. \"You want to get the aaine of sending out top notch- eis.\" he had said. \"Let those fellows have another season's hunting nnd, take my woid for it, they'll give it to you.\" l'helps sat the hoise perfectly, according to his own ide.is.' Ue complained thai the beast had not been taught the proper tint under saddle. Mnrgaret smiled. \"What a shame to have a good fox trotter wasted on yon,\" she said. \"1 like a single foot, but hush! There is Sounder. The fox was there, just as Billy said.\" A single bell note bad rung through the field, then fallen silent. Instantly there wns a fuller, shriller challenge that set Margaiet quivering with joy and eying: \"Damsel! Damsel!\" NeM bieath the wliijle pack gnve tongue iu sboit. sharp relpiug bniks as they ran after the leaders. The bioom sedge extended for quite could never go away from Brown Bess. Besides, there wei t Mui' et and Musket's lider, though, Overton added giiinly in bis own mind, he would be upter to need Muigaret's help than to l��'tp her, if help weie needed. bull he could not deny that Phelps iode well, as well as a man could lide with such a notion of sunup leathers. He was not afruid, either. lie bud not bulked at the nastiest jump. Muie thuu that, be lode us though he liked it, bhout- iug with thu lest, va.ing bis hand aud dialling hunt neighbors iu unexpectedly human fashion, lie wus not, of couise, lo be named iu the same bieath with the major, but if that unaccountable Meg could fancy him���Overton broke off there uud gave his attention to tho mutter iu baud. \"I don't believe your Pytchley was a patch on this!\" Margaret culled over her tshculdcr to l'helps as bhe took a ditch and stone wall just ahead of him. Major Walton lode ou the other bide, one ear on the pae.- the other set to catch the sound of Deri ii/gcr's hoofs. Derringer galloped with nose in air, cars tightly batted, eyeballs flaring. Major Walton knew the run was a meie breather; that the beast was wild to go twice as far, twice as fast, and that nerves and temper weie on edge. He would bolt in the twinkling of au eye. Margaiet had some sense of it all, but no nppiehension. He might run his best. She could nnd would stay with him and in the end tame him. Once there cume a quiver of expectation. She felt him tear a little and surge against the bit. as though trying the strength of nil thut bound him. If her hand hud shaken the least bit, he would have been off. She held him light, but hard, and flicked him gently with her whip. lie answered the flick with n sniiit, but settled again iuto his long, sweeping stride. If tlie chase held straight tor another five miles, it might tnke the devil out of him. If there t-.ime :i cheek, she must bo more than ever on tho alert. \"The eij..g is nil well enough, but the jumps���they aie so scattered,\" Phelps called bm'V to her as they raced down a stiet.-.. \"f clover. \"Your fences here must take in half n county. Really. I didn't know the fields were so big until I came to cross them.\" Befoie Maigaret could answer barks, yelps, long whining cries, broke out in furious jangle nmnng the pack three fields off. Instantly Major Walton pulled up, crying: \"Cheek! They've lost blm���on a double It is likely. I was certain he would make for the slough ut last.\" Then he blew thiee blasts, long nnd keen and mellow, hallooed loudly, tinned westerly at n light angle to the couise nnd galloped across Uie field. Woodland, dark and In keeping Derringer going, she would not tell him so, not for her right hand. \"But we aie not out of the woods yet,\" she went on. \"Watt until we are beXoie you prophesy. Bier Fox doubles more than ouce���ufter he begins. * h, ha! Look theie! Sounder heuds \\<��.4l again, with his bristles up at that!\" The new turn thiew the major upon them, lie blew half a blast, hallooed twice, then settled himself in the saddle, smiliug satisfaction. The puce hud told jn thu puck no less than the lideis. liouud utter hound hud tailed and slunk home, yet but oue blinker had been u black and tan. The Walton puck, indeed, kepi up tho chu.se, w ith only Damsel uud another blue mottle for company. The hue Iher and white und white uud orange spotted fellows hud found themselves too boft uud beaut of bteulh for u mighty haul tun upon a mighty soft and hreiithless day. \"How���long ��� will ��� this ��� keep on?\" Phelps shouted ucioss to the major. \"Oh, pietty well all day���say until 4 o'clock���hut of course we shall lest between whiles!\" ihe major answered. \"It is raie, iu fact, for a fox to carry us tho gait this fellow has doue for muie than a mile or two. We may lose him altogether. We nre almost certain to do it if be gets around the big slough. But there aro other foxes. Wc shull certainly kill before we break up. Your fust run with us must not be blank.\" \"Thanks, awfully! You're quite too kind,\" Phelps said. The dogs went at full speed. In ii little while they would he out of sight, nnd they were too breathless for much dying. Uo wondered to see Major Walton tide so curefully, meas- ming the giound with his eye for each btiide of Brown Bess. They were going steadily down. The vistas began to drop more sharply, jet the going seemed linu. The hoofs buried, but did not crush through the fallen leaves and dead tw igs on top. \"Hide up, Miss Margaret, or the pack will lose us,\" Phelps said, flicking Musket with his crop.' Murg.uet shook her head. \"We must follow tbe major,\" Bhe said. \"He knows these woods���where they are bate and wliere they arc crawfishy and quicks:uidy.\" \"Quicksand?\" Phelps broke Into a laugh. \"Do you really believe timber such as this grows above quicksand?\" he asked. \"It may not be true quicksand. I don't know about thnt.\" Margaret said. \"But I do know that when the big slough has mneh water in it, ns it has had all this winter, these woods, which run down all around it, get full of places where a man ou hoiseback can all ut'oneo sink down over his head.\" \"That I do not doubt. It is common ll MARGARET WAS LEADING ER0WN BESS STEADILY, CAREFULLY. 800 yards. At the fnither edge of it theie was a low post and rail fence nud beyond a long sweep of glass land, sear on top, but vivid green nt the louts. The trail ran straight to the fence. Sounder and Damsel topped it together, the pack tumbling upon their heels. A few uupn- tient hotheads had staited after them, Major Walton had waved them back. Ai the long, many blotched black liae writhed across the low bauier he rose in hiu stirrups and'gave the hunting halloo. The horses knew it as well as their riders. They came of hunting stock, o. en the sorriest. Ears' went Hut against the neck, teeth set hard on the bit, snorting, dancing sidewise, fighting for their heads, the beasts tore ovcr tbe sedge field, took the low fence flying nnd went pounding ,down_tho_grassod___nile__ abend Everyman hallooed his best. Ahead was the pack, uow in hell mouthed full cry. They bad struck a hot trail jubt inside the fence. The quarry could not well bu more than five fields-ahead. No doubt he had scented the eailiest comers and run. E\\ cry body prayed that he had run straight for the holes in the red bluff ten miles nwny. That would mean n ringing tun indeed. It was grass or woods pasture all the way, not an acre of fallow or youug wheat to bo crossed, If only he led them such a chase, nobody would grudge him hi�� Ufa And he would be safe In the bluffs. The; were like n big honeycomb of sinkn anil crannies nnd spoutin); springs whose wu ters ran on to waste themsehes In the sluggish desolation of the big slough. The fox did run straight for live miles, The pack followed him too fast for full ciying. Only'a short, lince jelpin;: came back, down wind, when ouce the; were fairly settled on the trail. Uul thai wns enough to set men und horses w Ud, even without the subtle intuxlentiun of the stealing south wind full lu the face. The inn was acioss hi,: fields divided by low Mono walls or moderate post and rail fences. Cautious heavj weights hunted gates nnd f.nin yunils; incautious joungsters took everything flying nud theiebv iu the end enme to giief. The, liist flight thinned rapidly befoie the third mile ended.' Billy Bacon even, who weighed 200. < was foiced then to drop back to tho hotly of the hunt 200 ,iards behind. . . '. ,'.x ' Ovei ron kept lilm ,company. lie rode' ' ii- raw. ynumr lienW'that needs must be I cased and spaied. He knew his sister, was ���ife. Del ringer, try us he might, somber, bounded it. Tne fence was snake rail, btnke and lidercd. Major Walton flung the top mil and popped Brown Bess over it light as a feather. The dogB weie coming to him full lilt. He blew au- I other keen blast, hallooed again and set ' off straight down the woods. |. The muss of the hunt stood still, turning its hoises' nose to the wind. A few extra caieful souls got down and slacked girths a tiifle. Phelps looked back at them nlmost enviously ns he lode after Margaret in the major's wake. It would be ever so much pleasanter, ever so much moie sportsmanlike, he thought, to bieathe the horses until tbey saw how the run headed. It would be better still to btriko for home. They had had the best of it, and a lain squall had come up. It _!nsted_but_a_minute._Ilc_could_8ee_the_ fnnge of big drops dancing on to those otheis at ease behind, with long watery sunbeams glinting thiough. He pined to follow the squall along the homeward track Ue had to get awny from Blountleu iu the morning, aud really there was much that must he said aud settled before the going. The woods oppicased him; the trees were so thick and dark, the wind so eerie in its hiu ping on their bare houghs. There was no undergrowth. He could see long vistas of tree bolls sloping genii} to an indistinguishable blackish smother. He glimpsed the major tiding hard and encouraging the dogs. Tliey run out In leaping circles either side, snitling engeil} and silent, all hut the \"very youngest, who gave little whliiipeiing challenges that the veterans did not heed. Maigaiet was close at the major's heels. Dei ringer had been quicker nt the fence, or was it Musket's lidei had nlmost balked al the jump, near liw feet to be tnkeu almost standing'. Still he wus within hailing distance��� near enough to thrill when Damsel challenged, sin ill nnd fierce, and this time alone; near enough, too, to note the flash of Margaret's eye as the major turned to her and lifted his hat as he ciied the pack on. They ran, still ln the woods, 'straight back towaul the others. The turn brought Phelps to Margaret's elbow. \"You see they are finding luck in leisure���those others,\" he said. \"If thoy know anything of their business, ihey will cut in ahead of us and leave us no chance for the brush.\" \"I had rather have the ride,\" Margaret said evenly. If he was not horseman enough to sec that'ber safety lay enough around marshes,\" Pbelps said confidently. \"A man hardly deserves anything better who is foolhaidy enough to venture there. But here, my dear Miss Blount, pray accept me for your guide. Hear the dogs. They must be almost on that poor pug. Can you bear not to be in at the death?\" The dogs were crying madly and by the sound heading nwny from the slougb. By cutting across the riders could come up with them. Phelps wheeled Musket bharply jubt as Major W7alton shouted a warning. \"Thanks, major!\" he cried, waving bis hand. \"The music is quite too tantalizing. I nm hound to have that brush for Miss Blount. More than you dream of may depend on it.\" \"Margaiet. ston! You shall not fol- low thnt madman!\" Major Wnlton cried as he saw Derringer also wheel. Margaret turned to him, a face ns white as chalk. He understood. Derringer had the bit iu his teeth. Wherever Musket went there he would follow. He was a mad horse, full of breath and running. lie had chafed nt the slow pace. Now he had lire and stay to enrry Mnrgaret to her denth. Biown Bess was his mnteh when he was In ordinary temper. Could she catch him when his devil thus lent blm wings V she could nt least try. He pressed his knees lightly into her sides, slacked the leiu nnd whistled softly. The mare tussed ber head, stretched herself and went nw-uy like the wind. She was no faster than the horses ahead, but better used to timber lunnlng, swerving in and out betwixt the big trunks without ever checking herself, while they wheeled, half halting and losing ground. Derringer had got the lead, lie ran a doren yards wide of Musket, Major Walton went after him. Margaret was his care. That foolhaidy stranger must look out for himself. \"Change horses with me! You must!\" he said as be cniue up with her, leaned nnd clutched the reins just below the bit. Derringer reared nnd plunged, but could not break the grip of tbnt iron wrist. He opened his mouth to bite. The major forced home the bit. Mnrgaret drew the horse nlmost upon his haunches. \"This is bettor than changing.\" she snid. \"He would, kill cither, of us If we dared to set ourselves,afoot.\" \"I believe you are right, but don't try to go on. 'Stiike for the grassland,\" Major Walton implored. \"I will send Phelps after you and come myself as' soon u I can call off the dogs. AH the hunting In the woild is not worth the nsk you run, riding here when you didn't know the ground.\" Margaiet did not auswer. She was too busy wheeling Deriingei in rupid circles with his foil-reel iu the uir. Ue hud reared, and she meant to gi\\e him bis till ot it. As he cume down on ult bis leet sho hcaid l'helps 00 yuids ubeud gi\\e nu exultant ciy. Ue hud loigotteu her uppio- hcubion, eveothing, iu the supieuie delight of showing the wu}. The dogs were btill running, still gi.iug luuguv, though bcuntlj. In ibice ui mules he would be up with ibc-tu uud win the houois of the hunt. In the woods' fur edge the others rode, whooping lustily. The sound Luiue thin and hue, shiveied aguitist thu lice tiunks. A great horned owl, distuibed upon his law perch, flapped diowsily higher, booting disumlly ns lie flow. Sud- deu sun ruys sifted thiough tbe netted ' boughs overhead, to be quenched iu quick clouds almost by the time they bad flecked the euitb. A mist drove in, dimming all the vibtus. As it diove Margaret heard a dull noibe, as ot a heavy mats crushing through something viscid. Under it there was a sharp cry, touched with astonishment nnd fear and bi en king as though btitled before it waB well uttered. Major Walton looked away from' her to bay imperatively: \"Go! Hide youi best aud bend men on tbo run with ropea nnd plank!\" She went. There was that in bis face which forbade appeal or parley. Major Walton did not even look after her. He rode with rapid euution towaid whence he bad caught tbe bouud. In half a minute he came on what he sought���a big quaking blur on the face of the earth, with Musket fast in the middle of it. But he was all unprepared for that which met bis eye. Musket, indeed, was fast. The creeping grayish ooze was already half up his withers. He had ceased to struggle, hut turned his head and whinnied piteous appeals as Brown Bess came up. His rider was invisible. Only a hand upthrust three feet from the horse told of human presence. Major Wnlton understood. Thelps had recklessly leaped from the horse when be found the earth give way beneath his feet and tried to struggle out. The action perhaps had been involuntary. He had fallen, of course. His bend was under. In ten minutes he would be a dead man. Help to be worth the name must be instant. Tbe quicksand was in tbe middle of a little open glade. There was no tree or shrub in saving nearness to it. Major Walton measured with his eye the distance between firm ground and the twitching hand. It was sinking steadily. There was no time for thought or calculation. A man was dying less than threo yards nway. Another man witb every will to save him knew it was nlmost certain death to even attempt rescue. But he would attempt it. In a twinkling be had taken the girths from his saddle, fastened one colhu-wise on Brown Bess* neck nnd belted himself stoutly with the other. Then from the double bridle reins he contrived u longish line, running from one -girth to the other. \"It will be a devilish hard pull, old woman.\" hesaid to Brown Bess as he mnde all fast. \"But you'll help me. Vou never did go back on me. It's too late now to begin.\" He stripped to his tiousers. spiead tho heavy garments carefully on the surface of the quicksand and tried to spring from one to nnnther as though they were hummocks. They wrnt out of sight in a minute. Still they helped in a \"measure to give him fiecdoui of motion. At the second step he was up to his middle, nt tha third his shoulders, almost indeed to his chin. He would go above his chin if he staid there two miuutes. And he could barely reach the finger tips now Fr-eud flaccid on the ooze. ���* Holding his life line high above his head with one hand, he edged forward nnd gripped the wrist. His teeth set as he tugged on it, he flung the line quickly over his shoulder, reached out with the- other bond and pulled with all his might. Something gave. He felt a sluggish surgo- of the ooze. He tugged again, reached,, caught a fresh grip and brought the* whole limp body within grasp. He lock* ed one arm about it nnd drew it against his breost. \"Now, Brown Bess!\" he shouted. \"Now pull for life!\" Brown Bess stood stock still, tossing her head a little. Clearly she thought this a wholly unwarranted interlude in the day's sport. Again her master shouted, this time bis voice touched with a keen agony of fear. The mare made two steps forward, but stopped as she felt the strain on the line. Major Walton groaned. Ho was lost beyond hope. He would be deud, as dead as that poor Phelps be- foro belp could come. The ooze came over his shoulders now. Musket began to squeal. In spite of his own evil case the shrill despuiring note awoke the major's pity. \"Poor old Musket! If I bad a pistol, you should nt least die quick, and so would I.\" he thought, and then he thought no more. Somebody ���Mnrgaret was leading Brown Bess, Bteadily, carefully, so her whole weight might tell, Mpigarct was crying to him, \"Oh, thank (JBd, 1 sent ono of the others and came back myself!\" When _lhe_lnipriboned_men _were_half_. way to the blink, the line gavo signs of parting. Mnrgaret scrambled out on Derringer's neck, unbuckled her reins, knotted them aud cast the end to Major Walton. She had left herself only a check rein to hold the wickedest horse In tbe coQnty. But she did not even think ot thnt, when urging the two hoises steadily, together, she made them draw their burden safe to land. Help was coming fnst. The whole hunt wns iu sight, riding as it hnd never ridden before. Mnrgaret looked down at Major Walton, nil slimy nnd shivering, then covered her ejes and begnu to sob: \"How could you? ' Oh, how could you doit?\" a \"Because it wns my life for his, Margaret,\" the major said. \"I knew thnt well, but I wanted to snve lilm ror you.\" The scales fell from Margaret's eyes. She wanted a hero for her romance, and here she hnd flouted and slighted the truest hero in the world. She leaned far down from the snddle and said almost under her brcnth: \"I nm glnd you did save him, though you nre nil wrong. I do not care to have anybody in the world ���unless I may havo you.\" Murray Phelps, Esq., in tho end came around with no other .material damage than that to his fine coat and his feel-. Ings. With Infinite pains nnd labor'poor Musket was also rescued: 'but he was never the horse he had been. Phelps tried hard to buy him. 'hut Overton Blount would not sell. So to mark his sense of obligation Mr. Phelps sent thn very handsomest wedding present' Margaret Blount received when in the early summer she m-reied Mai\" Wnlton. ' -������v i ���A TITE INDEPENDENT. SAm-RDAY JANUARY SS, 1SBC THE INDEPENDENT. PUB1.1SIII3D ��� WEEKLY IN THE IN- THIU-JSTS OF THE CtfASSES TIIE INDEPENDENT 1'RINTIXG COM i'ANY. BASEMENT OF .1*UCK UI.OCK .1 TASTINGS STRICET, VAN-. COL'VEIt, 11. C. SfllSt-'RU'TIOXS IN ADVANCE. -Vweult. \"1 cents', niontli,\"13 cents; llu-ee months; S5 cents; six months, 1;; cents; one vear, >1._5. \"���',:��� ENDORSES HY TUB TI'tAiDES AND __.'.BOU COUNCIL, THE VANCC-IL' Villi l.AUOK l'AHTY AND THE V BUILDING TILDES COUNCIL. isa'iu:rday..........iani;ai:i* :; WATER rn3NTA0E TAX. The proposed amendment 'by Aid. Foreman to the'Witter Frontage Tax 'By-law. wbidli will c-cwne up for consideration in Monday night's meeting ol the cily ���'council is extremely Important.. U provides than all pipe of four inches or lees in ��� cK-amcter shall be exempt- ci tlie tus. Figures jdiow- in�� the exact leii��ih uC wnter pl_ie in use iln this city ure not at present, avtuirt-i-le. lie.'., we believe tbntthere ��i'o'��lbuut 00 .miles-or pipe laid in Vancouver, over a third of.winch is four-- ���inch id lie. That .would nuilce over 10:>.- 000 ffet, wiiioh.^ii.Uie tprosont rate of tnsntlo'n of 3 .cent's a Coot, .would mean a reduction in the -water'fronta-se tax .of SS.S'iO.' This is an injustice to.consume ns who '''must'.'.pay. taxes on ��� the \" la.i-gei- ,pii.ie. 'There-is r.o 'gainsaying, the y fact bill .\"hat the 'present tax i.-\" just. The 'better way.would ;be to tux. nil .pipe at the u-Kual Title, and, it\" any ye- . -duetiou must ibis .made, to lower'��� the ���Svatfii- rates to users. All would, -tlwn - be tilled proportionately .equal, und 1tl10.se paying: .-for,water ..would reap the advantage accruing from: the tniiunleip- ul-owived \"vyni.er works system. THE LABOR .PASTY.'\"-' Tho Vancouver \"Labor .party >a,ti Its ��� : last regular meeting ..'appointed acom. 7':'inittee to arrange I'or tt mass meeting ��� lltioibelibeid, in the near \".'\"future. The -party intends to ihroaden Its. sphere so aa to allow all those not in sympathy ���with the principles o;l*: the present op- ' position- and '.'government .-.'ipartles to 7join forces with tlie independents. Tiie \" i/.iiboi' party: is not cunifined to mem-' bore of tir.ions, as some suppose, but v. everyone is .w::.coaie to fall 'in line, and .it is for ���'these.'.'���reasons ..thai a���'public .',- meeting will be.\" called. 7\" 7 '���7The Lardeau. Easle in its last Isstie .; enys: that \"efforts-ai'o\"'being made to ./call .-'a'\"-.provincial:.'convention., for the ;',_>uiipose of forming, ���a. permanent or- . ganizatidn. to talke independent polit- \";.Scail action in * this province. ' T.he ob- ', dectof the'nieeiiiig 'W'lll >bs to formu- \"_ate, ��. iparty in ,which tihe ���socialists, '.���\".���tradefuii'loni'Sts, ��� amd old independent '..���;'lalbor .party nieimibers c.-in meet on com- ; airon- ground to devise ways and means :7'<*f securing with the ballot some: of l.h> .vitililngs w-ihieh will remove the cause of ...' .Uhe present airilation, stagnation and rlnlactiyity on the'part of the people's .representatives.. AV.Ith the next elec- .;-: tion nun .oil party lines the new con- X .solidiaUon will have no ditliouliy in se- 7 curing control of the country's affairs. Tlhe ���pl.itfoiim drafted or ad-opted at 'V-'tfhla convention should 'be., represented by men.who aie known to ��� have the =cause^of=pi,og!-ession=at=heai:t=_A_.jii._in who hns to be pledged to anything is not tbe man the electors can trust .(JTor this rdason many new men are likely to be presented for election. 'And a ill tie new..blood 'will certainly have a more vigorous effect than heretofore. With a., fair redistribution measure passed giving Just reprcsenta- tlon to the mainland. enoughlllve and progressive men will he sent to Victoria to wwnken the old fogies over tiherc to .11 sense of tlielr duty. The tiiidps-unlon.s cl 13i'HMi Coliiinlilii. Imvi; decided to go Into .ihjIIIIch. For Mils reason iwe ihnivc n good right lo hope for radical changes from the leglsl-i- tlon meted out nt prewnt by a few In- cnpuible& who seem to be on top Jinit new. liy all means lei. the dlscon- it.ccted faotlons get >tui\"--ther, settle ��� lhelr petty grievances and differences rimong themselves, and then Join tholr forces for the .purpose or really accom- ipllsihlng something tangible. It eun.be the \"gang\"1 at VlrUirln lilcik.-r when cvu' It Is necessary for Ihem to amend tin- city < htti ter? Wimldn't that jar you? They mu.-t have 'a nasty iiuioi down 1 hi-re. The protest of the Halifax litbi'i* or- gMiilzatlons against using the v-oldlers In loading hay otLVht to be ntH'cessful. for no doubt, the soldiers are aulle wil: ling 10 throw up the job.���Ex. Aid. .McQueen should halve requested the lluslclans' union to .bi'lhsr along liBKi!pe.�� when they 'attend the Finance /committee. \".Instruments\" mi. not tha proper word. .. If U i.s true that an expedition, compose:! entirely' of .Scotsmen, is sol is In search .of the.'south ipcde, It/is all u:;> with it. It itilght ais well conic out of- hiding forthwith and give itself UP- : 1 : ' ��� : Tho' alderini'.'ulc.. salary*\" clause will stand for I'.KV-,\" anyhow. Tills ..fito: should cause a.'sigh of relier. The reason is thal.it costs too. nuuoh. money tn amend the city charter���t'hat,v.\"on- dei'ful ..old document.,. the trade of Canada foi\" six months of'this year is R.l-S.OOO.OOOi. This is ?.->,- ���OIO.OOO more llm.'.t the whole trade of the 'year 1SK). The exports for the six mouths are just'about .equal' to-those of the whole, year 1S3j. The city, council might 'engage the Genmau 'baud to liwn up the Jlonday night lehearstils. The crowd outside .(he railing would enjoy it, 'and, according to.aldernianlc.oWquetlc, it .would be nillowablo for Tosn .���ifcGulgiui to ,pa��s the hat round. ' ��� A eeiisiw. report shows,-.that- in I'M iho iiuinufactured/articles was $1,200,- SS-isriB. for/which the .395.110 laborers received $lfll.510,'.i82, or -t,little over ir. per cent, or ail'���:.average ..of _ $ISS par ���wother. This i�� a.;(*iecrease/of: ?25 per worker .from, the figures of 1S00. : :-Ti*uel oil from, the .wells of Texas will jirobably be used: under. ;lhe boilers of the big ipc-wer plant, of,the Louisiana Piirdiase Espo'sltioii to beiiheld in. St Louis in -11108. The director of :works of. Hie exposition is looking 'into .the feasibility of tisingTexas oil Instead of tihe soft coal. -,-. . -y.'X .'./'''\"���������....' It ii';/ostiiita.ied that'\"Aniiericsui''-Imii- 1 lon'n i i-e-s giave d urimg' 1901 * to oha'rl table and. educational institutions the siiiiii<>r STii.cbo.ttOO.': In.'.nine yea.!-S' i'l is.estl- mated: that \"'A-inei'lcnJiB. have given .for tlie!'berio11t.'.'of charita'ble or educational purposes the sum of SSSS.OOO.OOO.. Tliis is a good text for our. present day econ- otnists.' \" One thing very noticeable in .boastful ���union .men is that they 'never.have,tiny- thing good to say for anyhody; and as a rule you .never hear a good word s'aild about them: either. K just tired it were 'fully given to those who work long and faithful in the cause of labor for their .services -by . their associates, more: would be '.accomplished. by.. cro.a I- lug this good feeling so ..essential in the welfare of your umlon than hy any other.method.: : \"... : The returning iprospenlty of the. -Wmd 1s shown t>y the returns of the gold output for December. This amounted CURRENT OPINION-ALL SORTS. His Manly Policy. Dunsmulr.' is going to urge on the _D__mln'lon .government^to-relleve^Brit- ish Colunnbia .from the Chinese ln'\\-u- al-m. \"Dear Willie: This poor liltle proylnce of 13. C. doesn't like those ntisly Chinese and please Mir. T_��iurlar won't you tell them not to come,\" or words to tilniit effect. Of course that is the ll:i-st ihaixl woric I>:iurler will do. He will Just oonie right out ami tell lihose cannery people like John H. Turner, (igont-gonernl for the province of 1.1. C. In London, to quit employing Chinese. Thon he will tell the steamship ami 111 il wny conipHiiles and ull kuc'i ptKiple like Van Home and ShttiiKlinesi'y and all thoee kind of chiujis who furnish the .boodle at Dominion electloriH, not to fetch a.ny miore of the sliinl-eyed 'huiitlie'nH iln on lhelr'bo.ita and trains mtiil things.' Then he will tell .Hon. .IiiiineK Dunsmulr, premier of B. C, not to encourage Chinese Imnilgratloin by iw mixing whlsJcy with their (prohibition.��� MACHINISTS' 1XSTALUVTION. 0O11 saiuixh.y night, the inaehlnl.u.s of lllevelstolte iclibiatcd the ln-.tn.llii Hon of the nllloers for the cun em yea by giving n. .\"Jinokiiig concert, to whlcli lhelr fellow employees ul Hie C. 1*. It and friends 'turned out In large numbers. The lodge 100111 was opened at SI.*., when President UoualdMiii welcomed the vlsiiin-s on behalf of .\\o. _!\">N, I. A. of li.. and' called Chill;man fi. Down le of the committee to the chair. The iprogrncmne opened by a to.ist to the king, ifcllo.ved by one to the ptesl- dent or the United States, after which songs, .music and fun flowed, to say nothing of the variety of .slimulati'ig Hquld refie.shmeiils. colfeo, sandwiches, and ic.bac.co. \"l'oliceiiten\" Tciguo, Saxton. Dunne and Urgent prescmed order titid ipromptly arrested anyo te distttVhing .Ihe p.'ace or whom th;y t'hougiht iii'lght di--iut-b it. These were hauled ibef01 e the \"beak,\" who dispeus- eil justice liberally, and the line? collected from the culprits albout paid the expenses of the evening.' The chairman proved a veritable czar, and tlie way 'he 'dispensed \"justice\" was nto-t barefaced, .nearly everyone present having tohe Ifmed,which weie p.tid most willingly. All voted the evening a grand success and hopes ate oMuethcd for another xoon lo follow. ; LKTiTJOK-CAHiItlKltS' IM0TIT1OX. . iTho letter-carriers ot\" Canada lu ���'\" -sent the following petition to Ottawa: \"To the Hon. Williiiin Mulock, II. M. id'osliiiaKter-rieiier.il: \"We, the letter-carriers of the Do- ariinlci.il of C'lnadn, le.speetfnlly b3g leave to request that the present scale of salaries now bei.'iir paid us, be considered and .revised ;,s promised the disputation on lliaioli .\"ith, VJ01. XX'e consider tliat the facts laid before tlie Honorable 'the Postmaster-General by the meiKbers cr the deputation were so convincing .''thut your me,uoriall..ls anticipate with eon'lldenco that their request .will be acceded to. The same conditioins obtain to-day as did 111 the time of .presenting tlie inenioiial. There Was. been a steady Increase In the price of rents and commodities necessary for living, and this in itself should appeal to your honor in fulfilling- your 'promise.,\"', Wo think thai our cuau is a Etrorig one and one worthy 01 your honor's : consideration, and iwe nppo.il 'to,you as our chief, that you will kind- ly. .Interest-younsell\" on our 'behalf, and .use your.'..niower and linlluence in an endeavor \"to obtain for your nieiuorhil- -Jsts; the -20 .per cent. Increase In their .pay for which they have ruDccd. Therefore .your (petitioners pray that yo.i may'be pleased to Mce early steps towards the granting of this our reasoi- alble. request.\" i ������������:. B. OF 1-. F. FraiVk W. Airiiold, grand secretary; reasurer of t he .Hi 0 therliood of Locomotive Flreim-n, ha-\", just now completed his report for tho last year, which ikes some roni.irkable showings in reference to the order. According to the figures^ the 'firemen are the strongest, in proportion to the number of ���men employed .In the United Slates and Canada, of any of the railroad otgani- zntions. The .firemen to-day have a total iiiemibershlp of 40,720. There Is .1 dou'bllng of tihe membership since 1S1M, when the order moved to Peonia, tit which time It had fewer than 21M1 memibers. The gain for 'Uhe last year was 3419. The Insurance In force is ?r��->.fc*.500.' AN AT HO .MR. Court iMoaintain View, No. '-VV.I, Canadian' Order of Foresters, will hold it* illrst (iiimnl \"at. home\" In the Sulllvjn hull on Wednesday evening, January until, nt 8 o'clock. No intlns are being Hpared by the cominlttee, who ciunprlMC Aid. 0. F. Foreman nnd Jas. McKec nnd XV. C. Tcijip, to unlike the event onto lie remembered In the history of thii entiMiprlHlng lodge. Ibe Mlat Is thu new saloon ut thu corner of Carrall and Hustings streets. Case goods aro tho licst, and thu prices 0. K. Seattle Kninier beer, 5 cents. If you want a really good rye whisky at a low price, our 50c rye is it. Gold Seal Liquor Company, 74(1 Fender street. Blue Ribbon Tea is packed in Vancouver by white men���are you drinking it? ��� Gold Seal Canadian Rye is Seagram's Grand Old Rye. Only, SOc bottle. Gold Seal Liquor Company.' A rich nnd beautiful showing of the latest Dress Fabrics for Fall, 1901. Uvcry wan table kind of material ls Included In this showing of ours. AVe devoted considerable time to the picking of these goods, which fashion hns decreed as correct. The result Is seen In the unapproachable assortment, from whJch we mention .1 few of the weaves we have In the latest designs nnd shades. ZBL10LINE. VENETIANS, HOMDSPUNS, CHEVIOTS, SUIT1NOS, BTIOADCLOTHS, FBBNCH FLANNELS, Etc., Etc. We ash you to call and see them. We know the price will do the rest. ij. -fs7U #ftiii/ Cc^7tifQia/* 3-La> -/S^UmQ -/faMo-tv cfuof 170 Cordova, Cor. Cambie. We reach wherever the malls reach. NOT1CB IS C-IVre.V that application will be mado to tho parliament of Canada, at its next sittings, fur leave to iucor- poiato a company called the. \"Const Vmkon Kaihvay.\" 10 construct, equip, and operate a. railway fiom a point, at or iicni Kinmunt. lti'lel, Douglas Channel; theiico to a. polm on the Yukon river, 1 hence by the mo.-t feasible route to Ilawson. WITH rOWEK to coif-lnict and own boats, dock* and wharves; telegraph and telephone lines; anil to generate electric power for heatJug. llglitliig' and motive power: and for leave to collect tolls, nnd to make traffic airattsenieiits lneiilent.il lu the said railway. Dated at V.inco-iver, li. C, this 21st day ol January. IwC. U. G. llACIIOXiKUl-. Solicitor for Applicants. S.MMU. \"Yiv, she ha_? a passion for animals. ���Dogs or iliubbajids?\" He���1 don't think I 'would like to marry any girl unless 1 'knew she was s6_f-sa<:Pillclnjj. She���But wouldn't that prove if. Mrs. Newlywvd (residing)���Do you know 'how lohsteis are caught. John? Mr. Ne.wly.wed���Come, <;onie. Ma.ry! Don'1! rub It in. Helle (upstairs)���Is ipaipa smoking Maud (downstairs)���Yes. Helle���All nighit. 1 thought something might be burning In 'the kitchen. Jay���Yes, plr, wihen I was in Seattle a, sharper robbed .me or 3r.O. Hay���Why didn't you call a policeman? Jay- Well, 1 thought $i0 w-ti.s enough to lose \"What did Freddy say 'wtlien yiti c-aiught 'him coming out or the pantry with his hands stained red?\" \"He told me 'the truth by saying thnt he had Jaitned ihis fingers.\" lie (ait midnight)���Funny custom tlie Chinese have. The hostess is expected to notiry (the caller .when it lis time to go. She (with a sigh)���13ut -we are in British, Columbia, you iknow. Mothei^-Yos, Rupert, the baiby is a Christmas present fn)m. the angels. Rupert (aged four)���Well, maniba, if we lay him away carefully .and don't use him, we can give him to womeboly else next Christmas. Wife���I 'aim going down .town this morning 'to try and niatoh a piece of silk. Husband���VeT-y well, myliinr; I'll tell 'the cook to saivc some dinner for you, and I'll put the olvlldren to bed myself. Customer���Gimme a cup o' chocolate, with lots1 o' whipped crenm. Seattle Wniti-ess (shouting back to the kitchen)���Chocolate solitaire In a plen- litudiiiMis setting of chasti.sed hictcal fluid. Lady (to deaf butcher)���Well. Mr. BiiKill-'lxines, how do you Uml yourseir ���to-duy? SjiinlHiones���Well, I'm prutly well used up, mum, iKvory rth'H gone, they've almost torn ine to 'pieces for my shoulder*, unci I novel- hnd such a nun on my legs. M.r. Tlghtllst���I'im iilwnys willing to help a deserving unfoittiunsite. Here Is tw�� cents; now, don'.t Hjiend It for drlrtk. Ti'amtp-<:ciiUiIn'ly not. If I don't buy mi tloket ito California, I'll surely purchase a set of winter flannels. The Mint. Is located at the corner of Carrall and Hastings streets. The bottled goods are all first-class and the prices right for every one. Seattle Rainier beer,6cents. n day���a month, Is the common excuse. It waa what the captain of a vessel said���on returning from the ivoyage lie would Insure. But he never cnnie back. The vessel wns wreoWed; lie wus 'lost; his family was stranded, too, financially, by bis, procrastination. No other time Is equal to the i>reisent moment for Life Insurance In coit iind opportunity, and no policies surpass those of the Union Mutual In privileges and values. Details -sent free. -, 9 PORTLAND, MAINE. Incortokatbd 1848'. i Call or write for particulars and plans 9 Hk.\\�� Oh'i-icE : 419 Hastings St. W., Vancouver, B.C. 9 J. E..EVANS, Provincial Manager. ,, % ������������������� ��������-�����<���<>\"��*��\"��*��� ������������������� �������������������������<�����' CO�� The ^laestiow of Fat e*o Never needs to keep men from wearing our Glothini;. They must fit or yon musn't take them���just so as to hlyle, cloth and appearand!. \"We buy tho best materials mado in Kuropo or America, selected hy experts of long experience and trained observers of fashion's changes. Our largely increased and increasing business show's that they nro right. Why not avail yourself of this opportunity to dress well and save 'money. Prices �� 10.00, $12.00 and $13.00 and upward per suit. -CLUBB & - STEWASIT, ' Tkliji'Jionk 702. 160 Cordova Street. ABSOLUTELY TREE. DO YOU \"WANT TO BARN A BUA bv tiAing only a fe>v moments ot your and we olTer a BEAUTIFUL ONE AJ3 Miracle lJllls. Hoys or girls can eamn nieivt* of their time after school. Bend we will send you one dozen boxes of vortised so much. Sell these at 50c. a mull and we will send you PRISR the Everybody who has received ono lias ciose anxl tully guaranteed for one year, for Dyspepsia, Heart Trouble, Const! Blood Diseases, etc. \"They are easily name at once and we will send you the Uie beautiful watch. WHITE TO-DA3T YOU It NEIGHBORHOOD TO BEGIN To 1'hose wishing to get the watoh order for JS.C0, being a reduction of tho watch. WRITE PLAINLY. ,-, UTIJ*IJL WATCH (for men or ladies) spare time? Everyone wants a -watcli SOLUTELY FREE for introduolng our Lheso walclies by sparing a few moils at onoc your name and address and our Miracle Pills, whioh we 'have ad- box and send us ?G.C0 by registered wateh which we 'know will please you. been delighted. The watch* Is fillod Our pills are the .best remedy known jjatlon, Nervous Diseases, Indigestion, sold.\"./ Do not delay, but send 'your Miracle Pills and full description of SO AS,TO BI? THI**, FIRST ONE INT WORKING FOR US. witli the pills, If they .send -us a money $1.00 we will send both tlhe pills and K. COTE & CIE, ;; EMc, Rimouski Coiwtq, Quebec. > 9PEC1AL OFFER���Should you desire to see a sample box.of our ipills\" we will send a full 50c box to everybody sending i us 10c . In stamps. Mention, this paper. ' The\" ��� Having tbo Only Up-to-Date Grill ltoom In 11. C. which ln ltbeli'iu a guarantee of aFIret-Claitf: Hotel and llebtaumnt, Seymour Streeet, PATRONIZE UNION CLERKS. All Bcabcri ol tbe R. C, I. P. A. can iho* IbU card. Aik hr II whea oukloi jotr paKkuci. KHDOII��KD BV THK M t. OF U ONC-TMIflD ACTUAL *IIK, COLOR 18 CHANGED EACH QUARTER. Good only dorin�� moatlte nnmed on right hand corner and whan properly _l.rnivd and BTAurcn with the ninnber of the LocaL \" UNION BAKKRTEB. W. D. Mulr, Mount Pleasant. - ,W. Murray, Prior street. Montreal Bakery, Westminster avenue. if. Adams, Scotch Bakery-, Hastings street. XV. D. Kent, 56 Cordova atreet J. Oben, Hastings street. Wlnchen Co., Granville atreet. Barnwell Bros., Granville street. Largen & Tupper, Granville str����', THERE-IS of Fire- or Injury to Health when you use the The price is now . . such that almost everybody can afford it. Once . used, always used. Apply at Office of l li. tli It! LTD. Cor. Carrall and Hastings Streets. The Independent wants a report ot each union meeting and news concerning (the members of every organisation. Stfcfti reports and news will, do much to sustain and create Intereot wer, a mural Idea and a moral influence? Why permit the non-ethical'to dominate over'the ethical? Why -should the Inhuman, the barbarous heathen take the plnce of a. god of ;love, of Justice and of'light? Wby? '.Such changes have taken place before. Jinny.nations and 'jieoplesliave thrown utwny false gods; and with them, false .Metis, false opinions, nnid false systems. Surely; we have ithe moral cour- ��Be to do what others have1 done.. If what this Istar retpiesents produces suoh miseries, and such Injustices, surely there Is nothing left for. us, but to 'hurl It from its throne, and set up what Is Just, honest end true. To me it la a 'monstrous 'Idea to set roducc. If our goods are '-Inferior to those of our competitors, .they will prefer others to our own. There are two reasons'only why ours should be .'���'preferred���llrst,' tih.nt they Is time, eternally true that low wages prolong nnd Intensify the struggle. Isn't It then an tiitin__Iiig thing, that the men upon wJioin tlie whole In'du&trlnl fabric rests, thnt the men \\vho labor for nil i;iid*supiK>rt all, that the cure roi- this struggle is snld to be, reduction of their wages. There is something rotten In cm- Denmark, ,77 \"! �� . Soniethlng iRadlcally Wrong, , when those who are the foundations of om- inuiiiclpal v\"and .national life are compelled to get, .and are advised to get. the- meanest, shu'Mdest: and' liborest ���living; of. all. V Huxley '.next advances to deal withsocial stability. By KO-'ial stability iie means,:.- .that, 'society .is stable, .when the wants of its 'members obtain as hiiich'...',satisfaction, as life, common seivie,'.. and 'experience shou' may. be- reasonably exipe'eted. . It .re- quires no,argument, however, to prove Uiat when the price of labor sinks below; a certain''point, theworkei-: falls iiito, that; condition .which ithe French call la.niisere.:7-;It is a.,-.condition iii ���which the. food, '''warmth, clothing -which are necessary foi- tha mere .maintenance pf.:'the .tfunfctions o-l the body7in. their normal state cajinot .bemain tallied; in which men, - .women . ains a'ccuniul-ite witli uc-iii- POUud: interest .'.In,'the. shape of stai-va-. tion,, disea.se,-.-sturit'ed-, dihysicar:'.:deyel-' osmvant,: and.' aiioral r^degredatioiv; in which the prospect of even .'steady work and .honest linduslry is d.life qf..v.iisiic;-. cessfurjba'btl'ing -withy'hunger, souhdod by-a 'pauper's grave.';_He;recognises all the'seV things,. Ohat.7 there .: Js a. :sbci.il sw^m-p; iii',wihlch.ithbu'^hnds'-'arb.'strug-. gling,'arid .into wiliich:. tiioiisaiitls are sii'd'iiig. ail the Avblle,- a nd-: then .��� he -ion-. eludes aiiy full and .periiianent deyel- opmient of ithe prodiic.tive powera of;'an' inclusitrial populatlon-'in'tist-b'e.coinpat- itble'.i.wltli-. and;, indeed'���( fbased .upon :a social organization\" which AVill'secure a fair amount\" bf physical and ntcral: wel- raire to'the population; which*, w'ill in tike fbi'\"good'ancl riot-eyil.'': But.how.is this, to 'be brouglvtaiboutv.; One thing Is'.evi- .dten t.',. this social 'organization; of which he speaks is not now iiv.exlsteiice. Can \\ye;i|ioipe that'the present,sys.teiii: whicli ls;*ased onstruggle���stsoigg-Ie from' the beginning-Ito the:end\"pf;:llfeV;wili bring . this, to pass 1. .IVou'.- see J that.Huxley:: re cognizes .the heeds::-!6fi-.-irihrii-- ami. that ir inian'.is';to be;kept in; his ipra;Ve'i-place and'pqsition,; these, needs ;i'iiust ,be supplied, ,'but how ?.;��� Does he aippeai-to 'the *eapItailst:tq-ci'o7tliis?. iThe.'.faot.or.tiie great socinl yswaiup,*; the ;-picture7.of whlcli he:;ha^ 'so.;. powerftilly 7:d!-a\\vn would; seeuii.\"'lo*p;rqv& that 7 7;777'7; Xyiiy .^!s;PhllanthropIc ,:Idea77-7 ,;;,,' was 'none 'of, 'tlieii-7bu'siiiess7.:7To ��� such- '���ine'ri.'jtih'e.;chief, consideration is'how-:to get; cheap : laibor,;: biif -whether, the.' l^a^-. wai'd gi'Vieri to aabdivis siiinc-ien'i to 'iceap, a man.out. of-the.,swamp--thal [is a ���point ;wh|ch does:not-'seem.;to.ooncei'n themO \"Does h'e. -mean: to compel them? Is that; thel.directloriv; In- whlcli-;his; thoughts;aa-e.runnlhg? Then,you.strike a. ipoiwerf ill blow'at .Uiat'monstrbus 'idol1 called..Indivlclualiism.'/Does, he:appeal to tlhe govei-hihent? .We all iknow tha.t gbverriimehts 'light shy of such: a ciues- tion.'.;. They all with' one consent beg to 'be excused.; But does' he h'int. that it oug'ht ito;be, and must, be .-their business. ,'He ,shudders', ait,��� the thought of the All-powerful, to tis who> /believe that the Son of God Is the Son of aian, to lus iwho believe that man Is the? diHd of God, and that He ever is on the-' side of finaii, we have faith, we have hope, ���we have love. We have a faith tha-t the purposes of the Divine include Uie* well Ibeing of .man here and now, a hope thnt out of the wrangling, the thinking and the wills of the times will come forth a brighter era, JusUr laws, and better conditions for all, a'll a love strong und full enough to woitk and stirrer ror the brotherhood of nia.ii. until in ihe hinds or their fathers ull sihuil -work for the good of eaoh aiid each for the good of all, and iwhen out of the laud of their lathers they shall receive enough and to spare for every need of body, mind and soul. NATT ONlAb ; AN'D INTBRiNATIOXA L. The Brick aiid TeniiJ Cotta Workers haive .now 65 unions, and a membership of 4.5C0. . ' .7 '���',.' ;;- ���.- .7 -. Tlie Naition'al Gas, Worlkens haven.IS local' -. unlions wliUi ii7 ineinbei-__li.lip ot l.SOO.- Unions have 'beeii.formed at New Yonk, 'Ohio and Michigan., . 'Steam Englneei'sihave 7o ,uiiions.0T,!ie membership;Is ovei-,0,0tlO. 7 7 'The Hatters report trade good. Tliey have' 25 unions'.and; albout, S,000 .ihehi- ibers. ���: - -���: yX:. ���'���'���- ��� : 'X.\\- illusicians have 171 local���'���unlohs.-V;Tlli'o Pi-ompter-s- of .Hartford,;.Conn./h'aveap- p'lled- for a chaiiter, which'can- no-w, be granted under the A. P. of -M. ��� ,'Seci-eitary Paitltei*on,;wf the .Paving Cutters' union, siriates they 'have io.lo- cal\"; untlpn's, '..with aliout 200imembev3. Traders good. ;;;:-; ��� ������'������7'''.'-.. ���'., iT'li(>s.,0'Don'hell, of the Spinners, re- poiits': that nearly/nil t'he .nieiiUbers are working full itlme.. T.hey, have.22-local unions,' with a nt'smhership of 2,700. 7.: The .'Stave ;���'Mounters'*' have 4:1 ioctiis aind iyMO^nembers'.-',.:,;-;-:'.'. -i-ii ������,������'\".':-.s7 ,; Secretary B.-Bray, of the Sheet:Metal ;Wd.rl-ei's, says that iooi \\yas*--the banner year for ihis union. They added 57 'hew; locals and the;., membership'.. .was'.-.'-'in-;' creased '50 iter Cent; Local uliioiis,' 17ti; members,- 5,000..; ���.;���.-'���;���.\" 7 * ��� * ;��� ���7:777 v '. The aiveinbe'rshi'p of'tiie,Tai'lors':uiii6ii is;i(',ooo77;.7:';V:'':'F'::'',;r'7r7'7;-;;:7:7;7-\"':- The '.-Watch-case, Engravers htiye; nine loceil unions and- 467,-menibers'. .:Duntng the year one de^th, benefit cosit:theiit1 JJI39.25::7Th!irty::'U.n'eini'pIdyed received $130.80.:;; indications; point;; to ; a* good siprtng;:tmdo.-,������;'.-', ���. '���;���:' \"liXioixiy'lyyiiy XVe are offering great b.irgnlns In oak goods, carving sets and smnll sterling goods that arrived too late to open -Xinfls. Call and examine them. DAVBDS��N BROS. THE JCWELLfRS. P.O.BOX29C. ��� .PH0K1!1���. W. Jo- MIcMilLLAN & Co., Wholesale Agents koii TUCKET CIGAR CO. UNION LABEL CIGARS Brands: MO-N'OGRAM, .MARGUERITA, BOUQUET OUR SPECIAL, EL JUSTILLO, EL COXBOR, SARAKTIZADOS, SCHILLER .;.,;: .socxalists7.mbetinG.,:,:;-:7? : Last;, Sunday ���.'.'evening Mr.; B.-Bu'rhs lectured; St., Socialist,diall,.; 132Jpow'eli' street. VTlie;1;subject^- wast .''Socialist View of Vice;and Crime.;',* The;leeturer .contended;-that!7th'e.-'two ;great factors of. heredlty;and;.environment 'wei-e..responsible 'foivcrinie and sin, :and;k was 'and'It. was only by.bringingsociail and eeoiionilc. cbnditionsi'favorable\"to.moi;-. ality that:.cr|mo;:and S'ice;Couid.be;era- dicatedi,7Next:Sunday.,.eyening;;Mi'..lJ. .Boult. Will lecture,; his .subject;being, ���'iSoeialisni:and_:\\\\'ar.'7:: 7;77*;7^-: ���'.;'Bvei'yohe.'is:;inyited:to attend these ine'etings.;*:';7\".'.7-*7'7:7'--7 ':X.;X iyiXy-.i; i-y,i Corner Alexander Street and Columbia Avenue, Vnncouvcr, B. C.\" * Union Directory. THE ..'������ VA'NCOUVER'���:'���'TRADES7: AiND ������'LaJior. Council meets first and ��������� third Thursday in: each; 'mouth, - at:7:30 p. ,m. President; XV:'J. liintrlek: vice-president. P.'J.' Russell: secretnry, T* H. Cro^;; Bn-' aneia.l secretary;: J. *T; Lllley;,���treasurer,- C. Crowder;, sergeant-at-arms, C. . J. Salter; statistician,;J. 'li:������'Browne.:-' ������;��� ���,'���:.' JOURlN'iliY.MiBN ' BARBliHS' ' INTBfiiNA-, :: TlOSMf .UNION; :No. 120���President,. G. W. Isaacs;���'vice-president:'Fred.' Ham: eorrespondlng'-'financial' secretitry, J. ���'. A. Stewari;;5t Cordova St;! recorder, C.:D. -^torgnn; treasurer.' B.. '\"Morgan; -��� guide, i-,. A. -Bradley; guardian, ��� P.::'J:.. Bennett: deleg-ates to T.-t'L.; Council: G.-W; Isaacs atidPreil.- Hume. Meets.first and: third Wednesdays ���: of.\" each , month, in Union Hnll. V';' ,���\" :��� -���;������-.-���;���:���,;:..y:yiy. -.,';��� TKI3 RETAIL CLERKS' INTERNA- TIONAIi PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION meets In','O'Brien's Ilall, the firsti andF third Tuesdays of each month. T. A. rhilllp. president: XV. 3. I_amrlqk, secretary, :_MS Princess street. TEXAIja illNERS' UNIOX, No. 113, W. P. M., meets every Saturday at 7.30p.jn. In Foresters' hall, Van Anda. President, K. Altken; vice-president,' C: A. Melvllte; secretarv, A. Raper. Van Anda,'B. C; treasurer, ?I. V. Price; conductor, P. Burt:'warden.\"'John ���T.lnklriter. ��� Ont;; CANADIAN. The Stoniemasons of Preston have organized a union. The,tailors of Berlin, Out., aind Findlay, Ont., liave organized .unions. For stomach trouble of any kind take Flint's Dyspepsia Tablets. They cure or you get your money back, :50c box. McDowell,: Atkins, Watson Co. C'*C1KS, \\VAlTliRS AND \\VArTRESSES' Union. Local No. 2S. President, Chas. Over; vlce-pri>sident, W. W. Nelson; recording secretary. Jns. H. Perkins; financial 'secretarv, R. J. Loundes; treasurer, Wm. Ellendor. Meeting every Friday at R.30 p. m. In Union Hall, corner Homer and Dunsmulr streets. V-A'NCOU''R TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION\", ���No. 23C! meets the last Sunday, in-each month1 at Union Hail. President, ���: C. S. Campbell; vice-president A.: J. :McKay; secretary, * S.:; J. .:.Gothtu-d. P.: O.-.: box . Ul; treasurer,; AV.BraiHl;-;sergeant-at-tu-ms,, R..:A.Stoney;. executive committee.-P.' AV.-;Fowler, E.;��� U'������Woodruff, XV. Brand., Robt;, Todd; delegates, to Trades and liibbr: Council, W.' Brand, Robt.\"������Todd, J. H. Browne.:::;;;;.: :���::;-. '';!������������'���\"'���.;���',���' STREET RAILWAY MUX'S UNION- Meets second and fourthAVednesday of each : month, in Sutherland: Hall, corner Westminster Avenue and Hastings Streot at S, p. m. President. G. Dickie: vice-president, John Frlzzell; ��� secretar)-;; A. G. Perry: treasurer, H. Vnnderwalker: conductor, Ed. Manning; warden. D. Smith; sentinel, T.1 Dubberley; , delegates;���.:. to Trades and Labor Council: John Pearey, Jas. Barton, Geo. Lenfesty, G. Diokio and H. A. McDonald. UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS, and Joiners-Meets every second and fourth Thursday In Union Hal], room No., 3. President, G. Dobbin; vice-president, J. 51. Slnclnlr; recording secretary, XV. T. MaeMullen; financial secretary, H. S. Falconer; treasurer, ,T. Ferguson: conductor. R.MncKenzie;. warden, J. MeCDcod;; delegates to T. and L. council, Robt. Macpherson, G. Dobbin, J. M. Sinclair. INTHKNATIOiVAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS-Beavcr Lodge, No. 183��� Meets.second and fourth .Wednesday: to each month in Union Hall. President, XVm. Beer: corresponding secretary. H. Thr.mlns, 72S Hamilton street; financial secretary, J. H. MoVety, ml Seymour street. \"VANCOUVER l^ISHERMaiiN-S UmOfC No. 2. Meets in Labor Hall, Homer street the last Saturday in each month at S p. m. Ernest Rnrns, president; Cba_t Durham, secretary, SIT Hams street. JOURNEYMEN BAKERS' AND CON^ FISCTIONEKS' International Union of Anicrieti. I_oeaI No. 40, Vancouver, B. C. President. James Webster; vice-president. J. \\V. Wilkinson; recording secretary. Murdo JlaeLean, ^it Westminster Avenue; financial secretary, H. McMuHln, Toronto. Candy Co.: treasurer. XV. A.: Woods. SB Ninth Ave., Mt. JMeasant; corresponding sooretary, F. Rawllngs, Barnwell Bros., Gr.-tnvlllc street; mas- to T. & L. Council: o. W. Isaacs. Meets first and third Wednesdays of each month,in Union1 Hall. \" ' ClGARiMAKERS' UNION ,NK>. 3Bf��� Meets the;tirst.Tuesday in each montlt in Union Hall. President. A. Koehdt vice-president, P. Crowder;;, secretary. G.' Thomas, Jr.. US Cordova street wests ti easurer, S. ��� .W. Johnson; sergeant-at- arms. J. W;, Brat; delegates to Trades and Labor Council, J. Crow, C. Crowder, C. Nelson. ���> BROTMBRHOOD -Of\" PA INTERS AWO DECORATORS, Local Union No. l.U Meets every ..-Thursday.<��� In,.-Laibor..Hall. President, vW.; Pavler: vice-president, \"W: Halliday; reeonllng secretary, E. Crush. 221 Georgia street; financial secretary, A. Gothard,. ��__: Howe street: u-e.-isurcr, H. MeSorley.^ JOURNEYMEN\" TAILORS' UNION OF AMERICA, No. ITS���'Meets alternate- Mondays in rciom 1, Union Hnll. President,' F., Williams, vice-presidont. Mlsu Graham; recording, secretary, H. O. Burrltt; financial secretary, Walfredt Larson; treasurer, C. E. Nellson; sergeant-at-arms, A. J. Kennedy. ��� \"this worldTgoing back to chaos again, and hates,the thought of beginning tlie brute struggle over again���but we are drlfiting these ways. Or Is he thinking of it new system thait iwlll work out these changes. He hates socialism, lie calls tt [fiddle fuddling/ How then Is ���his panacea to'be carried out V To me It Is evident thut Huxley, while lie gives no answer.. >to our i]iie.5tinn,. while he leaves us In the dai'k. Is yet on the side of those who demand that these neeUH shall bo supplied, who s,iy itlnnly once mid forever you. cannot'turn back civilization, the brute struggle Is over for ewer, nnd who will rompel the govcrnnient by the reason uud power of 'the ipeople to Inaugurate a new system that will save man, and by saving mnn Save All ThSit Is Best, ���purest and noblest in life. When we have said adl that can tbe'.snild. Huxley ,falls ito.grasp'the situation, there Is H lack of confidence so iar. as the outlook of humanity is concerned. Why? Because he lacks both faith and hope. When he lost his grip of G��d he lost his grip of man. Still iwe thartk him' for wthait he has said, aidd for what h'e hais done. To us who helleve Ini the irelgn of the All-Juat, -the All-good and When you want to hire a first-class horse and buggy, go to the Palace livery stables.--Telepliose-iJS. : Telephone 1���2���5 for a* fine livery turn-out. J. J. Sparrow,' Palace livery stables. . Drink Red Cross Beer, tho beer that's pure, 76c pints, tfl.50 doz. quarts. Gold Soul Liquor Co., 74l> Pender street. Try a bottle of KiBon Port, tlio suii- fliino of California, SOc boi.Uo, at Gold Heal Liquor Co., 7-l(i Pender Btreet. C. Ellis, corner Cumbio nnd Cordova streets, is thu pluco you cun-Ret your buir cut in an artistic maiinor. Kllnt's Dyspepsia Tablet* are guaranteed tQ restore falling appetite and correct, any kind of stomach trouble. 60 c. box. McDowell, AOcins, Watson Co. Pay up your subsorlptton to the Independent, tit Soes not cost you much and.you ehouldnot hesitate about giving your support readily to a labor pa7 per. Convalescents need Eisen Port���\"the bmlder up of the weak\"���50c bottlo. Gold Seal Liquor Co., 746 Pender streot. I IW VW��i. im Mini (inf|(!(i uuu in ilmy u luiiII ul) Sujifily From Their Nnnnimo,bouthBeldand Protection lslnm) 'Collieries, Steam, Qas and House Coal Of the Following (1 miles: Double Screened X-ump, Run of tlie Mine, Waehed Nutand tBcramaaiiotw*- SAMUEL M. ROHIN8, Siiperlntendent, EVANS, OOLKMAN A KVAN8, Agouti, Vancouver City. B. (J. :C��:NMdiiBN?l.7;7; -and- DELICIOUS WINE Mads Exci.i��ivei.v khom e. C. Fruit. FKESH CUT FLOWERS. UNION-MADE DOMESTIC CIGARS. When making a trip around tho Park call on W. f��. Jonea BT.^ avitsaua. Aorangl , Jan 1* Moana.:.....................*,.,...;,,,...;..Feb. �� Miowera .....y.............I....:.;....XI.Varl and every font weeks thereafter. For fmther partloulars as to time ratea et apply to E. Jf.COYLE, JAMES 8CIATB A. O. P. A. Ticket Agent, . Vancouver, B. C, 428 Hasting! Bit, Vanooavor, B. B, '\"!| f.\"I ,1 WASTE-HEAT ENGINE PROF. JOSSE'S DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPORTANT INVENTION. Kudenvur to ttccov��-r All or Part uf tlie do Decreet* of Heat 'Milch I�� Ji Demi l.n.% In Chilly tlie I'l'i^eHt Mjle itt liuitltio��� Ammonia uml .sulphur Dioxiile' Aru Uftvd���Ciuittl Wiii-kiiiuiiKlitp I m punitive. Trot, E. Josso, of the Uoyal Technical High School in CIliuiTotlon- burg, Geiiiiiin.v, liits been ior several years oxperiiiieniini; with nn iiii.v- iliary itiulor designed to Increase tho odicieiicy of Mai.niii.uy .steam engines by utilizing the beta which goes to wttsi.o in tin; c.\\Iniu.st steam of ii high-pressure, or in tho cir- culdiing wnter ot' a low-pressure, or condensing', sluum engine. It wus in thu ituuiniu of IS''!! Hint the first, public -trials were tho new motor, und, a: of these trials'' wns to an .economy of from cent, iu Uie a company ing I\"'. ���M> lt is work- per nro iind ure tlie the Both Hindu of the ., result ilc-iiionslriite to -10 per ���ciieriilliin of power, wax organized for the purpose of working out the new system, und preparations were liiiule to continue the experiments liy l'rof. Josse on a much larger scale, under conditions which would permit of absolutely complete nml exact measurements, at every stage of the process, and give a' conclusive verdict as to the cost, practicability, . and economic value of the invention. It is'well known Umt a-largo proportion of the tliurninl energy livered to a steam engine from boiler is lost in the unused which exhausts into the air noncondensing engine or sorbed by tlie colli water of tho condenser in n low-pressure machine. Compound engines of .modern improved types economize tliis waste power to nn important degree by using the steam' successively, in a second, third, ami. even fourth cylinder, but even then there remains a dead loss of nbout (50 degrees of heat, 'namely, llie difference ��� between tlie temperature of the condenser (1-10 degrees K.) and that of the circulating water, which average about CO clegr idea of tlie present, itiv,- ilc- its steam of a s ab- gularly employed at the technical high school for electric-lighting and cxperiniciiliil purposes. The engine is of an'improved modern type, tho high and. intermediate pressure 'cylinders being placed tandem' and horizontal, while the low-pressure cylinder is vertical, and ull threo not upon the same crank and driving shaft. The cold-vapor, cylinder is made of cast iron co\\crcd. not witli a. Iient- jucliel, but with a siiuplu sheel- ti c'uMitg packed witli fell, portioned for a maximum ing pressure ... of -lf> pounds square inch. Thu vaporizer and condense of iron, cylindrical in form, about ten feet in length.' They bet in n steel frame, one above other, and the pump -which injects tiie lliplid dioxide coming from condenser up into Hie vaporizer iinderiicalli the condenser, contain a .system of tubes very carefully made and lilted, so ns lo pro- vent the leakage of Water or dioxide. Tlio vaporizer, which fulfills the ot n cold-steam boiler, a-IJ inches internal and has about Toil square foci of .heating surl'tioii which tlie exhaust steam of the gine acts upon the liciuicl dioxide and converts it. into vapor. It then passes through the cold-vapor cylin2 der and return's to the condenser, which has an internal diameter of -ll inches and nbout T20 square feet ot cooling surface. Valves arc set. iu both pipe systems, so Hint, sections can be cut out for examination und repair without withdrawal of the dioxide. The feed pump is worked by an eccentric on the main shall, and requires only three-fourths of on�� per cent, of Hie developed \"power of, the engine. ..Tho above arrangement of the different parts course merely arbitrary adopted to secure tne ut.most omy of space, but the SIMPLE RAIN GAUGE THE TYPE MOST COMMONLY IN USE IS HERE DESCRIBED. function i.s of diameter, by cu lt la Not Self-Kecoriliiiir. Hut Require* the L'��t) of ii Mi'UkUi'llic Mirk��� Uovrlt Should lie Mutlr.-'lhe Collector Miollltl lie Larger lluin tliu Hulilcr. umt I'm- vision Muilc for nvtaritov\\. There arc several types of ruin gauge iu Use. Some oi . mm are self-recording. Tlie most 'common typo is thai here described, however, uml ihis calls for the use of a measuring slick in addition lo the gaugo proper. The instrument is composed of three, purls: An uiljustildu top1, or collector,- indicated .ut. A in the drawing; a tube, or holder,.-I!;-, und au '��� overflow nltncluiic-ul, C. The top is made wide ami During., so as lo cnteh us much Water as possible-, and is provided Willi u short, tubular projection at tho bottom lo lit into the tube. The lube is deep and slender, accurate measurement being promoted by this moans. Thu diameter of tlie top is eight inches, and that of thu lube. or holder, __,Oil.' Consequently tho one has- an area leu times larger than the other, and ten inches of,-.water in tlm tube menus, ilint one' inch has fallen in the collector. Ono inch in the tube indicates a ir.inlall of tt ��� tenth of an ���inch. After a rainstorm, Ihe; iiK'iisuremeiil is u.aili; with a slender Ilnl. stick .graduated nd u-nths. not. eighths. \"JOHN INGLESANT.' Sketch of JoReph Henry Short*inuie,Whai* hlugln Novel 11km one of the Mokt Re- nmrkuUle l.iui* on llroord, Joseph Henry Sliorthotiso, whose serious illness is announced, is* preeminently the mnn of a single book. His novel, \"John liiglcsanl,\" has had one of the most remarkable tuns ot popularity on neonl. Thu author, a niiiiiiifac'l'.rcr of sulphuric acid, is, wilb Mr. i. ...I'lHber'-iiin and Sir K. e>. tit\" gift of the Alidland ;i--im:In-i:i l.o the rest ot I'.nriu' t.'ity \"LADY OF DUMFRIES\" NORMA MUNRO AFTER THE TITLE AND THE RICH ESTATES. is and it is will The to a �� isn III VI .oU1 1 VI.1 I .1,1 .1 utilize this wasted ' heat for evapoi- atmg a liquid which boils and therefore volatizes, at a much. Towel temperature llinn water. Two of such liquids���ammonia and siilpiuu dioxide���hnvo been successfully used in the refrigerating industry. Foi the reasons that sulphur dioxide has a viscous consistency and docs not attack, but, on the contrary, lubn- tates, non, and because tho piessuie of its vapors nt the tempciauuc of waste steam is .readily controlled, it has been used fiom the Inst as the bost matci inl foi this puippsc At 140 degrees F., wliich is the temperature of steam in a maximum or 80 per cent, vacuum, sulphur dioxide vapor'has a pressure of 15GJ pounds per square inch, while at ijO degrees F., the mean'temperature of . the cooling water in the condenser,, the pressure is ..about 41 pounds per square inch. Theie is, theiefore, ft range of 80 degrees P., throughout ���which the exhaust steam from a steam engine will evaporate sul- , phur'dioxide with such energy that its vapor will exert a ready and potent expansive force. The conservation of this expansive force as a mechanical motive power is the function of the. \"wnsle-hcul,\" or, as it is otherwise culled, the \"cold- stenm,\" engine. For this purpose, an additional or auxiliary single- cylinder engine is placed adjacent to the steam engine and genicd either to the same driving shaft or, run independently with its own driving shaft and fly wheel. The sulphur dioxide is evaporated by the exhaust steam heat in a special typo of boiler called the \"atomizer.\" The vapor thus generated passes through the cylinder,-and, its effective work being done, it escapes into the sul- ��� phur���dioxidc _co��densei. wliere it is of was ccon- condenser and evaporizer may lie placed in\" any desired position 'Coincident to the engine and best adapted to local conditions. Thus constituted and arranged, the wnste-hont.engiiuj.nl the technical high school lias been run almost continually since tlie end of September, 1000, without accident or any serious eliuiculty. During ��� the-hours when the storage batteries are being charged, it Tins boon run tip l.o a speed of 108 revolutions per minute. The load has been a direct-connected continuous-current dynamo a niLed output, at 150 of 400 amperes and 240 volts, which, as the otiicial report slates, was sometimes overloaded as high ns 40 per cent, as a mean's of- testing tlio increased capacity obtained by the addition of the waste-heat cylinder, -esult.uin'respect to both steam ind electrical ; output, lias been measured by tbo highly perfected .standardized 'instruments and methods . with . which . the; technical high school'is fully equipped. ���������Tlio report' of Prof. Josso, from which the foregoing results are derived, goes extensively-into the ques- of comparative, casts of installa- Condensed to thoir most con- his conclusions ��� Willi revolutions, The re consumption SMUGGLING A DOG. A VPeman'�� Extraordinary Hut Uu��uce��i* fui Attempt to t.et u Fox 1'cifler Into Kncltcml M ii'hout a l.lecnie. An amusing charge arising out of a. lady's attempt to smuggle a dog Into England on thu Ostond-Dover mailboat wus hoard 'by\"'the ��� Dover magistrates recently and a line ol six guineas and costs was indicted, says Tho London Daily Telegraph. Mr. Max Jluller, of 6S Charlotto street, Fitzroy square, London, had acknowledged the ownership of the clog, and the summons wus issued itgnlnst him. The lady had given nn address in Leicester square,which proved to be wrong. Walter John Haines, examining officer of His llnjosty's customs,: stationed nt Dover, said that curly on tlio morning of August 31st he. was present at-the landing of the passengers at the Admiralty pier,: Dover, from the Belgian mail .packet Princess Hcnriotle. Ho noticed a lady and gcntlemnn land, and challenged the gentleman as to whether he had any ..baggage to be searched ,.,,_, ,, i.i and he replied: \"No.\" As tlio inn, Scotland, t.eorge, the last, lndy passed the witness sho stumbled .ord lluiiie, died intestate, and cltir- I nnd ho at once enmc to the conclusion The Latter la J-litimatetl to Its Worth ��.200,000,000,mid Mill Mnnre.Tlirouull Her Lute Fnlher, the New York Tub- lisher, Thluk�� slio litis a Good Clulm ��� A 'luleiiU'd lit-lreM*. ' . Norma Munro, a young Now York girl who. inherited un immense fortune and a lucrative business by the sudden death not long ago of lier father, Norman L. Munro, tho publisher, has recently been waging a legal buttle in Kngluiid, by wlilch, if she wins, slie will become the Lauy of Dumfries, and also come into the possession of nn estate whose value has been placed as high as $200,- 000,000. At the time of his dcuth Air.Munro was pushing a eluim to a share of the estate of the'.ancient family of Ilunie. ,The property lies in the County of Dumfries on Sohvay UK the first, fi Iho tho i oi lug OIIS lion tiom cisc compass, ...., .... __ are that.,, tt combined steam-vvnstc-heat plant of 1,(500 horse-power, including compound .steam engines of 1,200 in- ilicatecl horse-power aiid a cold-vapor plant of 400 indicated horse-power, complete in every detail, would cost iik.,_.Geriiiany\\ 21.2.000 marks (S50,- 456)7.while1 a.- triple-expansion steam engine of 1,(100 horse-power', without vapor engine, would, cost. 20(1,000 marks ($49,028), a diflerencc bf only $1,4247 which, with steam coal at $4.15 per* ton. as at Berlin, ; would be saved in a short time by the cold- vapor; auxiliary. '���. ������'\".'.������'\". ������' .7 GEN. GRANT'S WIDOW.;* Former MiSLreuft of the \"White House Ro- o c.overln^ From Serious Illness Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, who is just recovering from a rather serious illness following upon lier last sojourn nt her summer home in Cobourg, Ontario, is now in hor seventy-fifth year and has enjoyed excellent health and spirits almost all the yenrs of her life. The widow of the great soldier and President was born at St. Louis, tlie daughter of \" ' crick and Ellen Dent. It was iiMi'Li: tt.vi.- O.'.Pl.i:. . The stick is thrust down-in lubo porpeiidiculiiiTy. zero end and then' quickl\" withdrawn. A glance will show how,, far . ii] scale has becii \\vet by imniorsion. Jf there is 2:3 inches of water in liibe, 7llie rainfall has been O.li un.- inch. ������'.'��� ; . V 7 The tube coinnionly used by ,7 thu Government weather bureau nt its stations is,20 incites deep, and is capable of measuring a rainfall���;. of two full inches,Wliich is a great amount. ���However,! to. provide for a still greateru precipitation, it is cus- lomnry to have un ovoi'llovy attach- niont, shown at C. Tliis is simply a. circular can 'eight inches in'diameter, into wliich tho Water Hows when .the .lubo B is full. In ncuinl ser- ; vice. the', tube is set inside the '���������\"can, aiid- then the -laring'.top is.adjustocl to the lube. When more than .two inches liave fallen',! Uie tube can\" be emptied, iind. then the surplus from; The can poured'in,' lo be.measured as the. first .installmentWas. The gauge may. be made of tin or sheet copper. -. It is important: that the diiii/ioters bo strictly according to: rule,, in order to preserve���,' tlio proper proportion's between the area of the-lop and tho cross suction of the tube. It is also importniit tbat the ..-instrument., 'ni soul oiilovel ground,-or in tho centre of a ;lai-ge flat roof, witli no . fence' railing or other partial .obstruction to -wind '.within' ten or'. fifteen foot building should be nearer than leel.;:,,- Anything whicli will produce eddies will cause-more, rain, or: less, to fall in ihe __a.'ige ihah Ttc'is elsewhere. Consequently, great pains ''must be taken\" In exposing tliis apparatus, or the. rosuUs ���\" leading. r;t is not two gauges placed, only a few apart to give very different lions.��� ;7! ���'���'.'������.'\".':':������' !!_. *. ' ��� '���' josKi-ii i:k:..._ . ��� ���- . -.t-.-.s-.-.. TCnglnnd. .\"Twenty yours, ago,\", snys Tlie London Hail recently, recounting'tho .'-story of-tin; man and his book, \"Mr. ShoiThoiisu was unknown t'.vct'i'l ns it imiiuifacturcr of chemicals, a,business in which he had taki'ii an active interest for many years. Then a. story took form in hisMirain,: and ho produced 'John osnnt,' llut- like niitiiy other faui- books, it. did\" not Jump, into favor at once.. It.y.'ii.slirst published in l.irniinghain, -tlio edition being exactly one hundred copies. Of theso fifty, or sixty wx-rc given avvay by the nittlior himself, and what became\" of the ..remainder, history docs not slate. People-who had secured the free Copies said thai the book ought lo bo published liy some big London house, but the publishers of the metropolis soenied to .think differently. .'dr. James Payn, who was for one firm, rejected it, publisher followed suit. Messrs. Mncmillaii��� liud the the quarrel whicli followed among heirs most of .ilium died before a i 11 lenient was lonchcd. The llrit- s!i (Jrowit tookpossonsion of the es- 'i.te pending an agreement among ;'iiu. heirs. Mr. Munro discovered that a;- a grunilnophew of the last Lord 1.1 time ho was one of the heirs, ant! in time there wus left only ono other heir, a Scotsman living in Edinburgh. These two men were on the roiid to nn agreement', when both died, within a short spaco of time. \"The Kdinburgh ninn left no descendants, and Miss Muiiro's lawyers insist, that she is the only heir to the vast estate. The ladies of tho houso of-.Hume have always borno Iho title of -Lndy of Dumfries, but the title is ono of local use, and not found in the peerage. Kven without this dazzling future Miss Munro has hnd ii picturesque career, and sho is a young woman of reader and another Then the .... -. courage of their convictions, and printed a i small edition. And now a strange tiling happened. A photographer had succeeded' in. persuading tlie lato Mr. (\"Hailstone to sit before his camera, and the famous statesman took his place���} before -tlie;instrument! of., torture with a book under his.arm. The volume bore tho title of 'John In- glesant,' printed in gold Tetters in the usual way, and the light happened to glint upon those two words mado them show clearly in-the photograph. The portrait of the Premier wus ono of the most pleasing ever taken, nnd wns published broadcast over the land, ouch copy clearly .showing the title of the book, and the result .was a sudden clamorous demand for the work of Hie new novelist. Mr. (Hailstone\"himself is reported to have said that it wns ono of tlie few works of fiction that ever succeeded in keeping him out of bed all night.\" ii that she had something concealed under her dress. . Witness directed them to proceed to thu. siniill'shelter-house on the ploiv und requested her to produce Whatever she., had concealed or he would send for tho female .searcher. The lady and gentleman woro left in Hie sheltor-houso with the door secured on the outside, and a reasonable time ������������. was given, them to produce the concealed article. ! On entering the shelter ogain the witness..wus surprised ! to find n fair-sized fox terrier running about gasping. ���,.'-., Apparently ..the dog had been tied from tho lady's waist, and evidently a cloth hnd been placed'.oyer' the animal's mouth to prevent'-'it. from; barking or biting. Witness asked the couple why they had hot applied for a license, and the gentleman replied that they did not want tho dog placed in quarantine.''. He was of tho opinion that the dog belonged to the lady, who gave the name of \"llretzenger.\" Ho sent tho dog back to Ostend. The animal did not seem as if it had enjoyed the trip. Tho lady and ' gentlemen'-' were both foreigners. The dog must have been placed under tho lady's clothes before sho went on the boat at Ostend.1 The bench, in inflicting the pcnaltj'.com- ' mended the customs officer for his smartness. HAPPY COMBINATION. Inventor nnsjiist Designed a Bnby Couch Combined With a Jllojrcle. From Arizona comes the up-to-date machine shown' in the picture below, tlio'-in'vohtor being '\"Fred , Gonzlingcr, of Phoenix. Of course, it will not prevent the policeman and nurse from holding their usual conversations in the park, but otherwise it is nn improvement over the old style of baby carriage. Tbe propelling part of the peraiuhulntor is similar to a bicycle, while the conch proper is pivoted at the forward end of the frame in such a, manner that it can Uxi, girls bufoio Thi; the No 100 Fred soon will b itnus. mil 1111S- for rods indic.i- yotir style '������������ Ian- condensed to liquid form and pumped back into the vaporizer, thus fromlng a cycle and being used over and over tignin indefinitely, its hits been fully described in a previous report, which described the expen- lnents down to the close of I.S'.)') We como now to the subsequent 'operations.,- Although the process is technically direct and siiuplu, it was found to t'lvolvu In practice several new iu\"*iiaiilciil ditlii'.tillio'i As sulphui dio\\ldi' gas is ileloloi ions to the lungs, a was in ivi-s.iiy to make nil joints nnd packing���pui- , tlculiirly thnt of the valve 'nnd piston rods���so perfect thai, Iiovvovi.i great tho pressure, nono of tin; dlov- ide gus or liquid should escape In the piosoiue of nu oi wntei. the neutral dioxide rapidly oxidizes inio sulphuric acid, which alt.ticli.s iron and other motnls. It Is therefore necessuiy that the whole uppat ul us shall be nir nnd wnter tight, aiid this, to lcslst un iutci mil piissuit of 150 pounds per-square inch, qunes good miiteiinls, ..-workmanship, and intelligent supoi- vlsion. whon in operation. T'hosiu- fnce condensoi, winch is lcqulied to transmit, groat quantities of bent cncio\". with a minimum loss of lein- pei.ituic, also loquiicd sonic special adaptation to . the treatment, of sulphur dioxide \\apor All those difficulties, ns lovo.vlorl by the etpeii- . ments in 3S'\"J, weie cuiefully pro vided for in t'to now plant This wns a cold-vapor cylinder of \\ lOJ-Inch boie and \"lOJ-inch stiokc, which whs attached to n I50 horsc- re- Insl-rl.iss MItS. JUI.IA PliXT 01IAST. after her graduation from a boarding sijlmol '.hat Hie clinrming .Miss Dent Jitet nnd enpturod the heart, of the .then Lieut. (Si'tinl, who Was slatlon- ed nl .St. Louis. The innrringc took place on Aug. 22, 1818. When On. ('I'liitt. loft the Wliilc House his Wife accompanied him ou his trip around ihu world and shared In all thu lion oi's bestowed on Hie hero of tin- civil war. Afler tin; general's denllr Con- gross passed a bill giving his widow a pension of ��5,000 u yeur, upon which she has cliielly subsisted since thai time. po; r'l tiiplo-oxpuii-sion ���t iticli efficiency, Gorlitz en which is re- 1 l'liot'iirraph l*r��meH. .The' latest photograph, frame is novel: as well as pretty. It is in the form of a tiny screen in two sections. The specimens' now, on ;viow are but.three or four inches, high. They arc mounted in regulation screen fashion, and' tho frames, nre of mahogany or forest onlc. Only a. small portrait-can-be .inserted, ' nut these screen frames lire a pleasing contrast to -the-glitleririg'-gilt- '��� and silver photo holders that we have always with us. * Fual Matin Out of Wuntn One problem which municipal authorities of all countries have been seeking to solve is how lo best dispose of /The city's garbage. A process has been discovered in France, by which garbage is converted into briquettes. It consists of mincing the refuge straw, paper, nnd the like and adding tnr and niipthulcnc. The whole muss is then mixed in a kneading apparatus, dried and press- -ed-iuto -britpiet lcs_.^JTje_��breclqr_o^ the Paris municipal laboratory says that these briquettes havo a slight odor of gas, burn brightly, and engender heat slowly. Willi a moro highly perfected method of inanu- facfuic Ihey will engender less tt.sh, and the- bent-producing.qualities will be about the same us those ol common coal. 'lh- JliiuiUiMo .Ueltiorji.l. The gigantic memorial, illustrative of the niasstici'o by the Mutaliolc in 18'.)!! of .Major Alun Wilson anil his i 11-f a tod patrol, upon which Mr. John Tweed of Chelsea, lias been engaged .'for the past live years, has Ju.sl been completed.' The memorial, whicli i.s being executed at the request of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, will bo pliiceil ou iho sides of a lingo natural boulder niiild the ruins of Zimbabwe, the supposed silo of ihe town of tho pru-historlc gold-workers of Hoiith Africa, and close lo the spot near Iho Shnngani Ilivor where ihu nitijor and his tiny band were shot, down by the wurriors of Lobcngiilti, while in the act of singing \"C_o.il Suvo the Queen.\" The inscription 'on the momoriul will be simply the throe words'. \"To brave\" men;\" theso having been carved originally on the bark .of a tree close to where the bodies were found. \"A J'ull Mull.'! ;'. . A trans-Atlantic steamer, currying 'what is called \"a full mail,\" usually tukes 200,000 letters and, 300 sucks of newspapers for London,'to say nothing of tho 500 und odd sucks -for other places. . How to Write to thu 1'opc. When you write to tliu Pope letter must bo in Latin. The need nol bo classical, but. the gunge is obligatory. Sonic sort of Latin must bo employed. The letter must bo addressed to \"His Holiness Pope Leo XI1L, the happily reigning (Pontiff.)\" it iiiusl begin with \"Bea- tissime Pater,\" Most Blessed Father, and must end with the same expression of regard. When it reaches the Vn!ticun it has liitle chance of arriving nt its destination unless somo special precautious have been taken,' for the daily budget numbers 20,000 documents. An excellent, way of gelling a teller into the Pope's bunds is to mnke use of two envelopes, the outer one directed as. above described, nnd X ���the inner!one addressed to. \"His Holiness the Pope, the Head of tho Universal Holy ''Roman-Inquisition.\" A minor official wlio opened an envelope thus addressed would incur the penalty ol excommunication.' Such communications nre handed to the Pope, who opens tlicin and pusses them on unread to Cardinal Itnmpolla. MISS NOKMA MUXItO. many accomplishments,: ������ Few have done so intiiiy things rounding out twenty-two years, ludy who designs to bo (he future j Lady of Dumfries has been ndmiliol to the bar, and was a classmate ot Miss Helen Gould in the law school. She bus been tho guiding spirit of hor father's grout publishing business since his death, yiiehas written a, play that; has found favor with the critics. Site lias made a hit in amateur theatricals, tihe i- an excellent musician., fjhu is an expert yachtswoman, and can hnndli cither a steam or suiting vessel. SIip I excels purlieuIr.rly as a whip, loves ' to train her own horses, und is a conspicuous figure nt tho Lon;4 Branch horse show;*, When but 20. sho started a magazine, Tlie Impressionist, on money; saved from her allowance as a minor, and: ran it for a*, yeur. She has written considerable for publication,;and is planning unother mnguzine. Her country home is a 200-acre estate near West End, N.J.; But. in spito of all these be 1IIOYUI.K IUIIV (lAKItlAU.K. easily turned by the steering VC'lreloHB Teletimph for St. ,Tohtt*s. Above : i.s a,sketch'of St. John's, the : chief -., port of Newfoundland, where the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy is about to be tested thoroughly. .St. John's is only CO miles from. Cape Race, the dangerous promontory of Newfoundland, upon whicli the l.ritish Admiralty instal- wheel and chain attached to '.the han- dlo-b.ir. To relieve the main wheels , of a portion of the weight there is I a small trailer nt the rear of the coach, and this wheel also serves as a rest when the carriage is detached from the frame of the wheel for a doing to be heart whole and fancy froo, breezy, sensible girl, bent on \"dr things.\" Important ArehmolotjieHl Flntl A valuable archaeological find t hns | ust been-reported by;the School of j is a' elating Archaeology at Athens, lt bronze fragment or plate, _ \"from-tho-.scventh century-B.-C,-con have the usual adjustments, and it should bo a pleusuro to the *;nurso to take the baby! riding'in' this speedy machine, while it goes without saying that the child oncetaking a ride -in this carriage will prefer it to all .others; lleautlfylnc ItriWleiicn Street*. attractions Miss Munro is reporlcd j wa]king. The scut and handle-bar ) ..��� , . Every\"citizen_should-aim-to���en- Utining a decree of law cmnnatin., ��� , ���0 in tho r0Sidence district tho from somo high ollicial source, king or council, which Was intended for the people of Argos. It was recently uneurthed a few feet below tlie .surface, near the old Temple Herne- uin, at Argos, on one of whoso pillars it wns tacked. Tho inscription is a sort of com- pnet*between the City of Argos and .ST. JOHN'S, NKWHIIIXDI.ASU' led the Marconi system,'in order tb\" comiminiciitQ wilh the liritish royal yuclil, (ipliirV bearing tlin.Dulte and Duchess of Cornwall nnd York, whon she approached the Newfoundland const In October. The idea was to prevent die possibility of an acci- u|cnt to the Ophir in waters where fso ninny steamers have been wrecked during the present season. , AMAT/;K4 A L.&unArymn!i'H Dlifcov-ry. AiTuundryinan o( Paris hasidlscov-. crcd la, method; of cleaning fine linen and other fragile textures without using soap or otlier chemicals. Instead ��� of 'these ho uses boiled potatoes, which ho rubs into the goods and . then, rinses them out. It is said that' this method will make soiled linen, silk'or\"cotton,\" much whiter and purer than washing in the ordinary way. , J..1l3jr1llil 1 pZ>0| pi HOL..:(1lTlO _ ,1AmiAM:.'l-AIBoiFOEI hogoqA'-IWYB-oTi-tf, fcbTio-u * i; M::EFrW' ,_,f��.tfll>^ planting, cutting and proper care ��� of lawns audi the cultivation of shade trees nnd shrubbery in front of house lawns. Trees should be placed in all parts '��� ol tho town 1 where they will grow, for no ono I thing adds more to,a town or city's i beauty and comfort.\"���'! The planting of porenninl and spring flowering shrubs between1 theso trees will add both variety' and beauty to tlio streot perspectives. Gambler* timl Wreitler*. Next to gambling, the Ksquimo men like to wrestle Tho usual'-way of doing this is a tost rather of strength than skill. Tho wrestlers sit clown on tho Iloor, or In miy convenient place, side by side, and facing In opposite dii'eclions, sny with right elbows touching. Then they lock arms, nnd each strives to , Bti'uighton out tbo other's nrm. , oring towns. Tt ulna contains j Tho painting of buildings when ��� innnce rclnting to personal necessary should bo. done with the 4 whteh de cribed the penalty idea of harmony, but not .���ccessari y ^e'for those who sought to un-; Iho sunicnoss of the euLii'c streot.a.d re iui mu-\". = . . ���,.,������,,,. ns to call SKVKKTII CEX'rUI'.V'll.O. II1ION/.K neighboring towns. Tt ulso contains an violence in store mil Its provisions. Tho fragment, is especially noteworthy/as it vividly portrays tho 'form of' 'the alphabet at this early stage of timo, and is also ono of the oldest, known specimens of Ar- glvo writings in existence. As a forcible' typo of'criminal code rnimini: -t Mnl,iIIiib��. painting of buildings' it aot in such a manner ns to immediate attention tor''its'olf. Terra' Jotta and tile faced buildings should lot be painted, but washed. ., Henry Hutu VntJ.1i> lle.iilueili.i. A London medical journal assorts ! that much of'the'-'hcadnclio -* irom duo to the', worthy of comparison with our mod- tvhich women suffer.is em methods ami i i...���.!'-*���.. ��oavy ht.ls they wear. ���L. ���^ cm ir'_n*\"nr-; w��a*CT-��~^w-^.afrrtadaS^��ltfi^^ ��� ' I ���v. tit 1 I f M THE INDEPENDENT VANCOUVER. B. c. Eyetcla����e��. The deposition of moisture on eye. glasses upon entering a warm room is very annoying. This can be prevented . by rubblug tbo glasses every morning with soft potash soap. Tbe glasses may then be polished, but un Invisible film, sufficient to prevent tbe deposit, will remain, tic Got the I'ln. Something glittered iu the mud in the city's crowded street. It was i\\ pin. \"{jeo * phi nnd pick it up. nnd nil dtiy Inns 'II have good luck,\" muttered .I'.pliMin ��� he started out to get the pin. lie liud leiiniid thnt old saying when quite a child. As lie bent down to reneh the pin Ills hat fell off and rolled under a cub ���wheel. His eyeglasses also fell and liruke on the bard road. A bus caught Lim on one side and a baker's ran on the other, the two nearly squeezing the life out nf him. In making a din-h for the pnvemeut he upset n cyclist who nt thnt moment was wheeling round the fnr side of n cur. Alto^'i titer it wns a great adventure, but he hnd gut the pin.���Loudoi Answers. if'a mnn could mako a single rose, vve should givo him un empire, yet roses and flowers no less beautiful aro scattered in profusion ovcr the ���world, und no one regards them.��� Luther. If You Could Look into the future and see the condition to ���which your cough, if neglected, will Bring; you, you would seek relief at once���and that naturally would be through Shiloh's Consumption Cure SHILOH cures Consumption, Bronchitis, Asthma, and all Lung Troubles. ' Cures Coughs and Colds in' a day. 25 cents. Guarantied. ..... Write to S. C. \\VliM,s & Co., Toronto, Can., for free trial bottle. Karl's Clover Root Tea purities ihe Blood Minard's Liniment Cares Garget te Cows. There aie fifty-five dogs in tlie United Kingdom to every thousand inhabitants. I S0Z8BQNTfortheTEETH25c Thirteen Briti'.'h life assurance ofllces decline proposals from unvac-- cinated persons. Sovoro colds tiro onsSly cured by tlio. uso of BicMo't, Auti-Cousunipl i\\o Syi un, n medicino of extraordinary pcueluilini; r.nd ho.ilnw properties, lt is ncl-uo-AIndued by those who limo used it tis bobi.; tho best modicino sold fur cousin, cold-,, iiiflfi!.imniinti of tlio Junes, uud nil nlfections of tlio thro'it anil chest. Its nKrceub ene.s to tlto hiito nii.lcos it a favorite with ladies uud children. Let us'have faith that right mokes might, und in tills faith let us, to the ond, dare to do our duty, ns we understand it.���Abraham Lincoln. C The British working-class family spends on an average Sl.4.0 a week on liquor. \" EXCURSION TO ONTARIO QUEBEC AND VIA M07U.rt holds tho rccoid uniong composci s of having \"written -'__1 compositions. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh Tliat Contain Mercury, ns morcury v. til i urcly destroy tlio sonsoof emell and eontfilcti-ly deran^o tho whole system when outcruif. tt through tlio mucous surfaces. Such articles should noior ho used except on prescriptions from repntablo physicians as tho dum.igo thsy ./ill do is t-cni'olu to tlio rood you can pos- iblydori\\ofrom tliem. H.iil's Catarrh Curo. manufactured by F. J. Clioiioy & Co.,Tolcao, O, contain i uo morciiry, and is tulcon intonmlly, acting directly upon tho hlcod nnd mucous surfaces of tlio ij stem, lu bit) ins-Hull's Cutanh Curo boSitiro jotife-ettliOKonuiiio. lt is taken internally, and mado in Toledo, Ohio, by 1'. J, Choppy .'* Oo. Testimonials freo. pold liy \"Di .ipf-icti. pnuo 73c. per bottlo. Hull's Fuuuly Pills aro tlio boot. Of the 1.900,328 ���domestic servants in the United Kingdom only 180,~:j:i ure men. ii HinariTs Liniment Cures DipMlieria. At the Stroz/.i Palace, in Home, there is a. book mnde of marble, the leaves being of marvellous thinness. Vftf $40.00 TORONTO MONTREAL AND POINTS WEST THEREOF Tickets on Sale Dec-2 to 31 Good 3 Months For particulars call on nearest tiRpnt Ciiii.-idl.iii .Northern or Great Northern Kys., or address DAVID BROWN, Jr., Travelling I'usseugcr Ai;pnt, l*. O. Box laSU. Wluuliiec Man. CANADIAN EXCURSION -TO- EASTERN CANADA I.owosfc Hound Trip Rates to points in uin ONTARIO, QUEBEC NEW BRUNSWICK NOVA SCOTIA From Dauphin, Grand View, Portage la Prairie, Brandon, Hartney, b'mcr- soo, Man; Rainy River, -Out^.-and-internicdlatc points, (0 points In Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, Montreal and West. EXCURSION The rate this year for the trip to the old home In Eastern Canada aad return will be, $40.22 The hest route, for many reasons, in via Minneapolis, St. I'aul and Chicago, when you go, usl; the ticket agent to tend you that way, nud be suro that your ticket reads via the BURUNQT9N No extra charge for scats In liecllulng Chair Cars. Ask your home ticket agent for particulars, or write to A. L. fifDE- M1LLKK, T.P.A.. care lliueii- dou hotel, Winnipeg, Mnn., or Hotel Dacotah, GiMud lforks, N. D. Ceo. P. Lyman, A. G. P. A., St. Paul, Aiiar. LIFE A BURDEN. THE CONDITION OF MR. ��AKD- INIiR, SMITH'S FALLS. Ho Spent Miserable Days and Sleepless Nights���Hands, Feet nnd Limbs Still and Swollen. From tho Uccord, Smith's Falls, Ont. \"There is n. wonderful talk about Dr. Williams' Pink Tills, why don't you try them '.\" These words wero addressed lo Mr. Androw Gardiner, o Smith's Falls. by a friend when ho was in the di'pihs of di spondency rcgiufling his phy_u.MiI condition. For three years ho had suffered so much that llfo had bwoino a but den to him, and oftentimes he sa.vn be almost wished that ho might die. Then he spent miserable d.iys and sleepless nights, now he is enjoying life. Then his foot, hands ur.d limbs were still nnd swollen and he wns tormejilcd with a constant slinging, cruipy sensation in his body which gave him no rest duy or night* now he is us supplo as ovcr ho was, with the'stintless, tho swelling niul the creepy sensation all gone. lie attributes it nil to tlio use of Dr. Williams' I'lnk Pills. Mr. Cm-diner is a man of about 05 yiars, nn old and highly respected resident of Smith's Fulls. Having heard a good deal of talk about tne improvement effected in his health by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, the Kecord sent arc-porter to ascertain the exact truth and Mr. Gardiner told him substantially what is related above. He said that lie tried a number of doctors���as good doctors as tlicre wero in the country���but got no relief. He was given' to undei stand that the trouble wus caused by bad <'iidilation of the blood, but nothing did him any good. He coultl not wear boots, lus feet were so swollen; nnd when be u-ipd to walk his legs fe-lt like sticks. Finally he was induced to give Ur. Williams' Pink Pills a trial. He took six boxes, he said, but did not see that he wv,s much better. lie determined to quit taking them, but wus persuaded to continue them for a little while longer. Wlien lie had taken ten boxes he was greatly improved, and whon he had taken twelve boxes ho was so well that he did not need any more. It is several months since he has taken them nnd lie lias hnd no return of the trouble, When tho reporter saw him he was wearing his ordinary boots and ho sard lie could get into and out of a buggy as well us any man of his years in the country. Dr. Williams' plni< Pii|s are the friend o the weak and ailing. They surpass ��n cither medicines in their tonic, strengthening qualities, and make weak and despondent people blight, nclive and healthy. ��� These pills uie sold by dealers in medicine, or can be hud postpaid, at .\"iO cents per box, or six boxes for S2.30. by addressing the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. INDIAN PRAlRiEDOG HUNTS Ihe Little Animals Are Dremed a Dainty Dtuli ���>>- tbe Knvajoe'. The Navajo Indian, while he cannot be prevailed upon to eat a rabbit, is greedily fond of fat prairie dogs. Largo communities of these small animals abound on the western plains, aud ��bo Navajo bus resorted to many ingenious methods for trapping his coveted daln- ' ty. One of them Is by the aid of a bit of mirror placed nt the entrance to a ��� burrow. 'When the aulnial ventures from bis bedroom, deep tinder ground, he sees a familiar Image mocking hlni at the front door, and he hurries out to confront the Impudent Intruder, when lie Is pinned to the ground with ou arrow. Hut the most ofTeetive method Is whnt the Indians call the ruin hunt. As soon as the steady downpour of summer rains begin every Navajo who can walk repairs to the prairie dog village with hoes, sharp slicks or nny digging Implement. With these they hollow out trenches that will lead the storm water into ns many burrows ns possible. Soon a little stream Is pouring down each small borne, and the Inmate, much disturbed, pops out to see what tho matter can be. Many of the animals remain under ground until they aro drowned, and their bodies float to the surface. After such n hunt, In which many Pounds of prairie dogs nre generally secured, there is a feast for niaiiv days In the Navajo lints. Williams' Pianos add lots to Christmas jollity, and fow gifts nro moro acceptable. Yon say yon can't afford ono? Pardon tu for saying you don't know until wo tell you our tray of securing a good instrument, on our easy payment plan���well worth your con- oidetalion. Santa Clans may yet visit your home. WILLIAMS' PIANOS are used exclusively at tho great Hudson's Bay Company'snlanorecitals overy afternoon and evening. Hear them under tho touch of an artist . nnd then como to ns for prices and terms. We havo somo Bllghtly used, good instruments in block, for etilo cheap. Forrester & Hatcher, y. K. C. A. 13LCCK, WINNIPEG. HI'.!: Id.'o \"IJ\" Sowing Machines. ��� tl*ttll��t������i��lll��99*��l<)��l. For Sale Everywhere Try our Parlor Matches. They produce a quick LIGHT without any objectionable fumes. ::���.���.���.: LIMITED - HULL, CANADA. ' ��� osoo0��oeo����c*ee����e��oscoosHiou of Tarmoleo's fills. In Italy there are moro theatres proportion to iho population than in any otlier counll-y. CANADA AT PARIS. AX ECHO OF TIIE CURAT EXPOSITION OF 1000. Mr. .1. Cl. .Tardinc, Canada's Commissioner,, Tolls an Interesting Story of the Splendid Hcsults Obtained lly (lie Use of a Canadian Remedy. First Clara in every respect. Choice of Routes StoiMVore allowed. Tickets Good for Three Months Smnll chargo mado for further extension of timo. Lowost Ocoun Steamship Rates to Old Country For furthor information apply to any* agent Canadian Xorthorn Railway. ' l GEO. E. SHAW, Trafilo Manager. Knowledge is nob power * In tho case of a man who knows that.ho has been whipped. The driver of the first railway engine, \"The Rocket,\" died in .18SJ5, at the age of 84. No way has been found for making heroism easy, even for the scliolui. Labor, iron labor, i.s for him. Tlio world wns created ns an audience for him, tlie atoms of which it is mado are opportunities.���Emerson. Excursions to Eastern Canada Tickets will be on sale at annual excursUn rate of $40.00 commencing Dec. 2nd. When purchasing ask for ticket via��� THE NORTH-WESTERN LINE From Minneapolis and. St. Paul to Chicago. Four Trains Dally to Chicago ' Badger State Expron leaving St. Paul every mornliif., 8.30 (after arrival of Northern Paclllc and Orcut Northern trains) and arriving Chicago 9.45 p. m., in ample time to nm ice through connections for the east. For those desiring to stop ovcr In' Minneapolis or St. Paul the evening trains arc available, as follows:��� - Tho Fast Mail, arriving Chicago, 7 a. m. - The North-WeBtern Limited arriving Chicago 9.30 a. m. , The Atlantic Express arriving at Chicago 12.25 noon. Free reclining Chair Cars. For any,further Information ns to rates,' connections, etc., apply ��� to your home agent or address Chas. J. Gray. P. O. Box 1315. Winnipeg, Man.,'or A. M. Fenton, Dacotah Hotel, Grand Forks, N. D., Travelling Agents, -in- tll Dec. 24th. T. VV. TEASDALE. I General Passenger Ag-ent. VIA THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LOWEST fg��� RATES TO AI_L ONTARIO POINTS AND MARITIME PROVINCES Good Q For O Months STOP-OVER PRIVILEGES east oi FORT WILLIAM. DAILY TOURIST and First Class SLEEPERS Theso Tickets are First Class and FIRST CLASS SLEEPERS May 60 enjoyed at a reasonablo chargo:'' For full information apply to C. _P. I.'Agent, or to 0. E. McPHERSOK, 'General Passenger Agcnt._ Toronto, Dec. 9.���(Special)���Tho fiTCit World's exposition held in Paris luht yeur saw very many visitors from nil parts of the plobe assembled inutile (fay French capital. Canada was well represented, both a.s an exhibitor among the nations and as a visitor, many of our best people having attended. The interests of the Dominion were looked after by a very capable and intelligent company of patriotic Canadians, among whom one of Uie moat conspicuous was Mr. J. Cl. .lnrdinc, of 303 Crawford street, this city. Mr. Jurdine's duties as Commissioner entailed a vast amount of hard work which made great demands on his physical health and strength. ITo is authority for the statement that he found Dodd's Kidney Tills, that best known of Canadian medicines, invaluable as a tonic during (hose trying times. He says : \"Tliey relieve backache instantly and tone up the system generally as nothing else seems to do.\" While in Pai is Mr. Jardino introduced Dodd's Kidney Pills to Mr. Pupuis, Uie esteemed nnd popular Secretary lo the Canadian Commission who, was feeling under the weather, with the very happiest results to that gentlemnn. lly healing and stimulating the kid- Dodd's Kidney Pills prove absolutely the vcrybest tonic known to medical science today, and both Mr. .larch 110_nnd Mr._ Dup_u_is__ivere_greu_tl.v_ pleased to find thnt their own fair country, so distinguished in many other ways, was through this gicnt ionic remedy raining in Europe a glorious reputation In medical lines. Veiy few Canadians nre aware of tho world wide reputation of Dodd's Kidney Piduey 1'IIIf, and many who have Ix-cn abroad .seem surprised al being able to purchase their favorite mctlicine almost anywhere in the civ- ll/od world. ���What mother docs not look forward Willi dread to the timo when baby shnll be teething ? At that time baby is restless, feverish and irriuililc. ami frecfuenlly there is some disorder of tlie bowels and stomach. The poor little sufferer is lighting one of his first battles in tliis old world of pain, and if not aided iu his light may be overcome. Every wise mother helps the little sufferer as much as she can, and the mothers who have been most successful in this respect have found that Baby's Own Tablets give just such ns-nslauco as the little one needs. Mrs. W. .1. Wright, Brockville, says: \"I have used Baby's Own Tablets quite requciitly, and am much pleased with them. I find them especially satisfactory during baby's first, year. I have used them in tecUiing, ' in vomiting, in colic, in indigestion, and in the disoideis of the stomach and bowels usually accompanied by restlcssne.-s and fever. The action of the Tablets has alwajs been all that could be desired.\" Baby's Own Tablets are a, sweet, pleasant little lozenge that all children will take readily. They can be crushed or dissolved in-water an'd administered witli safety- to oven the youngest infant. Guaranteed to contain no opiate or any of the poisonous studs that make the so-called soothing medicines dangerous to little ones. If you do not find Baby's Own Tablets at your druggist's, send 23 cents to the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont., and a box will be sent you by mail postpaid. If there is a post office*in your neighborhood and you have a jewelry want of any kind, wc can supply it almost as well as if you visited us personally. Write for our catalogue and thus have, practically, the finest stock of jewelry in Canada to ciiiHise from. Besiilt-s, our syitciu of one price hi plain figure.* and our guarantee as to q'lality me undei-stimd tiuil tlie threatened!' strike of the carpenters, tar' men and machine men in the em- ���jiloy of the Canadian Paclllc l'uihvay the other day, wan- brought on by the ���uncalled for discharge of Mr. .Thomas Mitchell by Mr. 'Urown, the cur fore- jnau,- who was lately sent from Monti ... trail, ,and who is not neouainted with western ways and usages. Mr.'Mitchell 'was .nn old nnd faithful employee of the company, and the Carmen's .Union, ��>f which he is a member, naturally regents such harsh treatment. \"Which of lis, will .be decapitated next?\" was the nuestion on the lips of all. And not a lew believed thai the thin edge of tho ivedse was being driven with* a yen- ireance. ' '.-^- ' ... \\ An appeal was consequently made to -.<,'��� the general foreman to have Mr. Mlt- _ ��.-hell .re-instated, pending' inquiry by ��� .the llasler Mechanic, ibut this'suggestion was not 'accepted. Tlie men then, to the number of about 120, after giving due . notice,went oil strike. The ..'-'.7 general foreman telegraphed the facts -to the Master Mechanic at Revelstoke,, ... who replied; to re-instate Miv Mitchell; ���7' rending lnc'inlry;\".uut\" tills telegram was ,' i.bl read* or shown ' to the committee. .���:... ;;_311*-' Hall, however,I on '���. his arrival, in ���:.!, ���..Vancouver, met the'committee in a most ! fail-; and conciliatory spirit, and, read \\ yx... to ..tliem ii! copy of the message, which 7 --.lie; had sent. 1-Ie... ordered that Mr. -':[:[ 'JAit,chell lie re-iiiijtaied forthwith: This i'! Hieing all. tiirtt was desired the commil- : ' tee retired. On ���:-.aturiiay''e\\'enlng the ' 7; * Carmen's Union held a meetnlg in the 777;U\"ioii hall, which vvas largely attend-. 7ed. Delegates, were 'present! from the ���-.' . Blasckcniiths and Machinists Unions, V Short addresses were given,,after which 7 -.'���������.H w.iis resolved to^.resunie! work on! the ,i,xi[. follow ing Monday.-as ;'!lhe Canadian . J'aoifio Railway-Company, had conceded to the very., reasonable demand made . ��� '������ .l>y'the*unipn.',.717,.;77'77' 7'77y* ' '' \"& ,It is .stra'nge.tliat seme of our daily '������.���- papers never. ha!ve a word to say on be-' ...,;-... lialC of trades unionism, and if a strike ���were to occur they would minimise the /facts so that the ipublic might believe V ������' that there.was .np strike and less cause. !_V>r instance., it /was repoi ted_ in the :.. .//Vancouver-, Province .of Friday last 4 7 tlint '.fifteen men- in the employment of '7;'/-.the\"'C. P. It., struck, owing to friction lietween Mr. Brown, car foreman, and one of the men. Well, when ths trouble is made known ive learn that every member of the Carmen's Union, considerably over 100 members, had gone out, and that the other unions whose calling places them In contact with the =^===-Carmen-fl-Union,=hiid=glre^i)ledgesji�� taught a dear lesson that he shall not soon forget. Years Wgo, when trades unionism 'was in Its 'infancy, such men could use their ltyra.nn'ical gifts with an open liiind. tout now there is a new order of tilings. Trades unionism, tlie .siiiviition of the .wdnliingman, lias coine ���to stay, and its ibeiielicial effeots are felt all around. An irresponsible person having charge of men������id in this case we do not refer to Mr.. Brown��� may say 'that 'certain ...fnuts aivust be suppressed, and itliat he will place the power of his 'position ihesivHly u'pon tlie shoulders of those who .shall question ���l-.is.wiil,'but it is well to let.thos'c robust 'fellows know that unionism is the gist of r.Van'hood, which sh'all not sub- unit to inflated nonsense. The necessity of a pa'per like The. Independent is greatly .felt when there Is a dispute ���between capital aiup labor, arid .'nny union' man'who does not support a union 'paper or .purcha-se. a union ar- 'ticle 'lirsit; 'l'asi 'and all fire lime, is not of much account in the lalbor.move- in:flnt..x ;, 7 ��0 .,,, , -ri'i-l,. :.-y 6cCASIOlV*VU.;CO^TTniByTOR7, General and Comparative Statement. ;. 1_TA_B1\"UT1E3. ; ,7 ���I\\> tin; Public: a��t.Deccjnljer, 1S00. Notes; ot the Bank In circulation........;.*1.^.��13.M Duposits payalble on donKHid...J3,7*i,3Hi.6.l Dei>oslts payaible'iifter notice. S.MO.OW.fe Interest accrued on deposits.. i:S,414.�� . 12.015.710.77 Balances duo to other Banks .in Canada.. 99,540.11 Slst December, 1901. $ 1,S17,152.02 -a,_��6,ioo.s. t>,9_3,37a It _;f7,746.Sl ' (E,56i..S7 balances due to Agencios of the.Ba.nlt and orhur Hanks lu foreign' countries Balances due to Asents In Great Britain ., Sll.014.ia.7' To the Shareholder*: Capital Hiald up ? 2.000,000 00 Reserve Fund ;.....; 1,700.000,00 Dividends Nos. ffi! o.nd W, latter qxijtilble 1st February, 1902 70.000.00 Foi-nier dividends unclaimed 01.50 Balunco of profits carried forward ........ 50,S12.{iO S17.S!i,03S 24 ' ASSY'S. Gold and silver coin '......_.$ SS.J3S.14 l,10C,'Jo0 _5 003,'02_lS TSfiti.�� 2;i5,l'0j jl 13,SM,1!MC3 4i,45: 150,273.11 10O.7D3.OO YCHJ'LL NEEi�� HEAT # 66 Before long now. The best heaters mado ���the cheapest to buy and the most economical to use are the W AIR-TIGHTS AND BASE BURNERS. made by the McClary Mfg. Co. v Wm. RALPH, 126 Hastings St. % SOLE AGENT A. McLennan, Mcf ecly & Co* ���WHOLESALE AND REHAIL DBAIJ3RS IN MmftHT liardware MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE PROMPT ATOBNTION, ' . J1S, 511,800.28 $2,000,000.00 ,.l,700,CO0.0O SIS ,37Ca7.37 NEWS OF THE LABOll WORLD ���'������ ���'\":.���'���:��� ���';��� 'AiMHKICA)N..''\":!7 . .Laibor, conditions ilit Fresno,' Cal., .are fair'to roiddlins. ^77 7 '7. : 'Liaibor :coiulition.s of Fioi-ida are.sood; The .same also 'applies to Illinois. ilincrs, Ciffarina'ki.*.rs and Brickm'a.k- 'ar's of 'Kewa.nce, 111., observet'he \"ilsht- hour'day.- '������: ���������..\"i-���..-���;.���. ���Some.uity ordinances 'haive been passed by the..Tacoma! council favorable Jto ��� laboi-,; ;\"',..���\"'\"'. .:���'.������������ ���..'���..������: '',.:'������'' ���������'���.'���!'������\"' The.iiiiner.s at Henderson, Ky., ���have been on strike I'or 22; .months '.'because apei-a'tors 'would- net ���',recosni/.e ' the union. ' ��� . ,: .''! ':. ;.!' .,!���',!.... JI. Jlunsou ��nd J.. A. Heglen liave been elected prpsidenlt 'and' swretary respectively of the Seattle Upholsterers' ���union. ' At .Tainesv.ille. Wis., tire .union label is on.all! city .prlii'tiin;.: i :'l*lie carpente>-s have .secured itihe nvne-liour day. .Prospects.; fair ifor the. spring. '.' .Metal ipolishers and buffers at Minneapolis, are on sirike for tlie! eiglit- liour tlay.; The'plumbers', dilliculty has been isettled by ai'bitr.iltiori. There aire about 500 ildle men at Great Falls,Mont. Prospects for work, liowr lever, are Rood. The bulldinff trades ���'nnd iprlnitei-K rilia.��' 'elglit hours. All others work nine .hours. . ������ X' Through .tlie Influence .o��-the', union m?n of Des.Moines, la., tlio non-union Dominion Government note* ..i Notes of and cheques on'other, banks'.... Balances due front othor banks in Canada Ba'anoes due from agonls In G.��at Britain ��� Balances due Irom agencies of the Bank and oilier banks In.foreign countries.... Dominion and Provincial Government socurltlos ............ .......7. Railway and other bonds, debentures and stocks .,...........'.........'....,,...,......... Call and short loans on stooks and bonds l,2U,UiM,S!i Deposit with Dominion Govenmicnt for . ' security of note circulation . .........! 90.CO0.0O;: :���:'yX-i-y i $ 6,*oi,102.C5 Loans to' Provincial Governments ........ 201.280.07 Current,Joans and discoiinfs.flO.OlO.OOS.'S, . . .^ ���;' Less rebate of;interest on.un- ���;.���������:��� .\" I matured bills;:......1.......... \"V 60.000.00 ' 6_3.SU.58 ���W),6.ViM 1.SM.J7I..0.. 'G-oodpsu'bsta.nti'al, iworthy goods���latest styles���best iriatei'Iii'Is��� Iiut 'thoy are\"odd sizes, and ive are selling' them RilCIHT to demand give us more room. . . . An extra pair of trouseis just now -will go -ai long- wny towards lteapins your suit loolclng-nice for tlie 'balance of the ^winter,��� ���\\v.hy not come and see them anywayV Lots of-tlieni��� to obodse l'l-oin���$1.00 to Sl.iiO. JOHNSTON, KERFOOT $* CO. 104- and 106 Cordova Street. jj Trunk Store 127 Hastings St., 0|>t>. Wm. Ralph's. -' ':'$_ti,9_7,ffl5.207' :..������������ 60,000.00, Overdue deibts (loss iprovlded for) Real estate (other than Bank'prem.ses... Mortgages on real estate sold by the Bank Ba.n'!_ -premises Sales and office furniture S10,_52,G83.73 ,���'.'..'. 13.1S1.14 . , l.SOO.OO i.ooo.oo! 60,000.00 . 10,000.00. ;,0S7,063.G2 3,*��ll.!_07.K ' 96,000.00 510,S:>7.W5.M 11,3.12 9S 1,767.01 3,080.18 60,000.00 10,000.00 K��LLr, i>@DCsLAS ^ CO. WHOLESALE OiKOCEKS, Cordova and Wafer Streets, - Vancouver, B. C. ygg=' Headqnartor? for UomcsttC ami Dm- J)orted Cigars and dmoking Sundries. ;i7.sn,oa.,:tf S19.376,717.3i .&$ EDSON L. PHASD, i ^ G��nera,l [MJnmiger. VANCOUVER OFFICES: Hastings Street West and Westminster Avenue. SAVSNGS BANK. '^ye'll :Gi^e'^6ti7aii7! :AirtigHt':Heiate^;7;!7!;7;. ���for 2.90-n'rid'; up������We .liave 15;;ot ���tihem left���-IiV'three different: sizes--��� UVey are.'fine iiiew': stock and will '.give yoil\"splendid faWsfa!ctlon.::ri!;!.* ���iX'-y XlWei offer! thenniat! the little price.: to !eleai,:'and','iivake\"!rc>oin.:.,;; yy: ;���\";'; ���:;., ?!b:;7': You probiilbly:'kr.<),w;,wliat\"a;.very':'sn^- tlsfa!ctoi:y!inivcst'ment an airtight .heat-, ei- is lii \"'this country and also wihe t you usually 'Pay for oner���-conseciiien'tly we have; them all ire-idy-; for;;:J'injmedlate shipment, \"v.;- ;';!*��� -'��, ��� 77'7 ���? iix X.yli'-. ':��� i'l .'������':��� '���.7'7..;-.'c_iooK'iti.Y!.AS��.iiii&K;Vi:ii.Kiy TeleplftnuO-t.5; .7777;lyAW. H^Jni'isirnej ��AV��1 THEATRE McDoNELL A SlMi'fON I'loprictors-- AI.F. P. J_i3i_a,..' St��i;e _uinluployci and employed. Al New Orh'aliM the I'oopiri wer�� liuiti.illy Mii-ci-ssfiil In their strike and the Ta'ilors .won nlnters 25 cents a dav nnd nine hours: machinists 10 per cent.-, reed and rattan wonkers 15 per cent. Many other unions secured advances. Brickhvyei-s were advanced 5 cents iper houi; .^tuiitTii'i'--ons 10 1.1-nts per hour. Work plentiful. The farmers of Pel-dido. Ala., have organized a.'union and 'want to gel lo- ��.'al option in itasatlon. Taxes on livi- proveiaeiUs aie too high. On land, however, It lis too low. ljin-ge areas aie owned iby speouliulors. : The niachinists.* iboilenmakeiv- and helivers at Oelewein, la., oirthe C S. W. It. It., .who were on strike for lour weeks ugainsit objectionable, foremen, halve been granted !thei r. demands. 'lV.ie foiv.nien 'and 'his .non-.un'lon men have gone .to,pastures new. A 'petition containing 100 nunnss un- re'd the statutes of the Coniinoiiwealth ol Mas-wauhusetts has'been presented to the city clerks of Waltham and W,i- leiltown, to have placed upon the bullous torn! referendum voile the granting of-an eight-hour d��y-to eiiy-andjtown employees. At Columi'ola. S. C labor is at u standstill. Many men are Idle. All labor should keep away ifrom Coluia'bi.i, been una many men who have been working at the ('harleston exposition have 'been dropped. The trndes unions of Dallas, .Teww. are gaining In meiiibuiiihlp as a result of deiniindlng union label goods. Tho .lUU-hers have organized with .'>U ineiii- iIicih. \" At Han Antonio the elghi-lunii- day Is the rule. Thwe arc about t0,(��0 iinorguiilZ''d woilkiueii at Newark, N. J., and vicinity. New .Jersey, llu* some sph-ndld laws for ihe woiikHiiginen, >liut. they ini! only carried out In places where the unions are Inleuihly sg-ong. Tin' flgur- iiiuikers ihave fanned a 'blue lab;-l league. Wages lire low In factories at Cor- unda, Mich; Men receive from $1 to Jl.iiO; iw-uinen 40 to 00 cents; boys, fil) to \".\"> cents a dny. There lis iiiiikIi child labor (there. Prices of food mini eloih- Ing rise faster than \\��iges. So reports Organizer Samuel Hacke'tt. 77.7v;.u7ifs.';.sociagists.'.7.7 7.7'' 7* .;. The Consolidaited! 'Socialist���������party, in the United 'Slates .is.'working .very successfully. ;''From a recent .bulletin t'he following lecture features .were. noted: H!'c'uyloi-d.Wilshlre lectured at Rhilai delplila on- th'e 22iui,, Wiisliiiigton' oh the 2Srd 'and ���'Baltimore on-the 21th. The.naitionalcoiumiittee! ihas .received word.froni Ooihride George D. Herron, who Is now . in; iSwitzerland, itihtoiiti. he will re til rn to tih'is cou n try albou t.' April 1st.' Comrade! Ben. Tillat spoke !atMil- ���wau'kee'on January 22nd,;:Chicago. on January 23i'd! and iitlf, 'audi! St. Louis on January 25th. A grand bazaar and .fair .will * be ..held iin7 M^llwaukee .covering .the ,,\\veek! ending;! Febru'ary;. and eominent-ing .'March,-for!;the I'oeneiHt.of ithe lalbor .press.������ The socialist clubs set the thing agoing, which; has \"now developed. Into a very large undertaking.' 'PheiSoSlaI=Dorrioc;isrlic=Heraldsiis-pub^ lished in Milwau'kee. !;-,; '���: t Wishing'the Citizens of Vancouver a Prosperous New Year ��> -we again want it known that k we are still cloinpNbusiness at the 4 old stand nml invite you to make ��� us a cull. I Get prices, note quality awl l�� I lmppy (or 11)02. ��� FORD'S GROCERY Tel. 728. 25 Hastings St. C. f ^.^ �������������������� �������������������� .* m'Kciii.TV or O O 7,usners Bippk; LGbemqueurwmsk!^' -LARGE STOOKOF- IMPORTBD AND'DOMES'I'IO , Cigars R. B. Mulligan & Co., Props. Cosnkb Cordova ano'Cahiuu. THE ]jA1K)II PARTV IN NANAIMO. The La'bor party'parsed a motion on Saturday afternoon, restricting' otllce.'s to ��traight Labor men, but leaving the ran'ks open to Liberals and Conservatives iw.lli'iig to support the Lalbor candidate. Dr. MtlKechnle consequently ret'lred from the ipresldoney.'! -Mr. Geo. Johnson, .president of the miners' ���union, was elected. .Mr. Ralph Smith denounced 'Mr. HuiwthOrnthwalte'.s proposed iineotlng In t'he openi house as ni. action disloyal lo the party. Theie Is u well-deillned split In'the ran'ks. ���Tlio Smith men. arc in a big majority., Jt was -ii\" hot uneetliig. The opera house wiin paoked woild. Mr. llu,wthorn- tlnnilte attacked Mr. Smith iind Dr. McdCeelmle severely. Dr. ..MoICechnle was not 'present. Mr. .Sinlth iniule a strong reply. The feeling Is very divided, which .fact I., to be regretted. | V GEO; HAY : |- ��� Vancouver's Pioneer Clothes afy- Konovator, makes a suit now. ��� A
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