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BC Historical Newspapers
The Kootenay Mail was published in Revelstoke, in the Columbia-Shuswap region of southeastern British Columbia, and ran from April 1894 to December 1905. The Mail was published by the Revelstoke Printing and Publishing Company, and its longest-serving editor was J. Livingstone Haig. In 1906, the Mail merged with the Revelstoke Herald to form the Mail-Herald, a staunchly conservative paper that eventually folded due in part to competition from a more liberal competitor, the Revelstoke Review.
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FOR MEN��������� Finest Cashmere Socks '.. 0 GO Ext ra heavy wool do 0 50 ' Best quality Shetland wool Underwear, per suit i 25 Finest nat. wool " -1 00 Braces, per pair, 30c. and 10c. ��������� :o: The English Trading Co. ijywE ^k,a K v - A..UJSP? %<-jj lt>!vl<\ik, h^<A ' - ' FOR LADIES��������� Heavy wool Underekirta 1 00 JExtrah'vyCaslirnereStockiiigaO 75 Heavy nat. wool Undervesta.. 0 15 Tam o'Slianters, 50c. and "iOc Lined Kid Gloves, fur cuffc..'. 1 25 Unlined do., 75e;. and $1.00. -:o:- The English Trading Co. Vol. 2.���������No. 2. REVELSTOKE, WEST KOOTEKAY, B.C., APRIL 20, 1895. $2.00 a Year. i3tfet;e������ tjs youh. Goods bought right out; no oom mission cbarg-ed. ' Pair selection; immediate returns, fj Bbipping- tag-s furnished froe upon ��������� request. ' ������j There is SO DUTY on Purs.or any 4t otbor go"ddii"-w'e handle. .'��������� ' iraL-. ear-Write for Circular grivinff Ship- *$& piug-. Directions and 2AXEST, VULSL* KB2 PBICES. , Incorporated. Mfl'N HmiQF. / ' ,200-212 First Avenue, North, ' .- branches: , A HELENA, MONT..", CHICAGO, ILL. - VICTORIA, B.C.' * WINNIPEG, MAN. ior.Ce.���������U-.-l.ei���������aiiSt!,: 1SSHicb'gan St.. c , , ��������� SOLangleySt. ,. Kootenay Lodge %No.l5 A.F.&A.M. The regular meeting arc held in the 31as- oiiieTciiiple,]3oiinic'.s =kHall, on the third sMunday in each i month nt S p. in. Visiting brethren cordially welcomed. , F. CRAGE. Sdcketaky. REVELSTOKE LODGE, I. O. O. F. -Js^ni He.'Kulr.r nieutinus arc held PjJS&&t i" OJeKellows' Hall every -^^ T*niri>ilay <jiiglit nt eitd't ;o'clorlc. Vi-itiiiK brothers cnrdiiilly welcomed.> . NEW-MAX, N.G. A.' STONE, Skc. Zhe IRbotena^ HDail 173 I'riuccss St. u GASH IS STILL IN IT." .FOR���������PRICES. ON POTATOES AND HAV BY CARLOADS ��������� i OR OTHERWISE AND BE CONVINCED. BEYELSTOKE -PHARMACY. ri h (^all a-qd sec tl^e first installment of ttye ije\V library books. c& good Variety, treasonable terirjs. He Also Handles " ' ��������� GENERAL" GROCERIES* - MINERS SUPPLIES ^_Arid Other Articles too' Numerous to Mention^^ . i ' 'Address - Revelstoke - W. :COWA -; / ; WHOLESALE "DEALER' IN Just Received a. New Shiument cf Finest . SOAPS and PERFUMES. -. BEYELSTOKE PHABMACY. W. A. JOWETT,,,,. MINING AND REAL ESTATE BROKER, NELSON, B.C. Lardeau & Slocan Ppospects Wanted. ��������� FURN ITURE, ' Doors, .Sashes ���������& Blinds. r. howson, REVELSTOKE. ' , We apprehend there may be a measure of truth in the complaints which certain down-river hotel-keepers and other huyers of goods in Revelstoke, believe they have reason to make as to high freights on their recent purchases. These early shipments, however, were made before the summer schedules came into force; and winter* rates were necessarily, high because of the risks of winter navigation, anei the expense of hauling by team between the Wijj- vvnin and Bannock Point. But we can assure merchants and, all others who may find' it convenient to ge't their supplies or replenish their stocks at Revelstoke, that a freight schedule is about to be put into force better than last year, which will have a wider than mere local significance and application, and which we confidently predict will be satisfactory to all shippers into the'lower country. The details are being worked out, but the change is so radical and sc������ recently decided upon, that a little time 'is required to get everything into the right shape. .So far, however as low freights on the river- are concerned, they will be settled by the small steamers, which will be running from Revelstoke, before another joes by. ���������; - ,, 'o vveek 'COFFINS CARRIED IN STOCK. AOi:NT KOH SIN'GUlliSEWINtt MACTMXKS. WINES, .LIQUORS '"��������� AND CIGARS. A. McNEIL, " "; BARBER SHOP AND BATH ROOM, Front Street,- Revelstoke. ' ��������� -:o:- BEYELSTOKE E.G. A. H. HOLDIGH, OF SWANSEA AND WIG AN, Analytical Chemist and Assayer, Accurate assays made of all kinds of minerals, water, milk, etc. Stockholm House. JOHN STONE, PitopiKKTOR. The Dining Room is furnished with the best the . Market affords. THE BAR IS SUPPLIED WITH THE CHOICEST ���������WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. ** Haircut, 25c; Bath, 50c; Six Shaving^ Tickets for $1.00. , GUY BARBER, , WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER. ' Repairing Neatly & Promptly Executed. REVELSTOKE, B. C. OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. ������������������������ ROYAL MAIL LINES. CHEAPEST route to the OLD COUNTRY. Proposer! Sailings from Montreal, ALLAN LINK. ' NUMIDIAN* NOV. 3 P.vmsi.vN ; Nov. 10 Mongolian- '.Nov. 17 . DOMINION LINE. , Toronto Oct. 27 Vancouver Nov. 3 ' Onr.GON ;...'.... .Nov. 10 Cabin ?15, $J0, SCO, 370, $S0 and upwards. 0 Intermediate $30; Steerage ������20. Passengers ticketed through to all parts of Great Britain and Ireland, and at specially low- rates to all parts of the European continent. Apply to nearest steamship or rail-way agent.to I. T. BREWSTER, Agent, Rcvclstoko, or to Robkrt Kkkr, Gen. Passcngor'Agent Winnipeg. The rise of 2 to 3 cents per pound that has recently been mode by the retail butchers of- Chicago and other American cities, appears to have good grounds 'for it in the.' prices of beef cattle on tlie western ranges. In Montana^ cattle inen have bought for shipment east all the beef cattle they could find, and the price has advanced since Dec. 1st from 8-t0 to, SCO a head. At Denver, quotations advanced from $'3\ to ������-l������, and best grades bring 85.70, which is 82.00 more than they' were worth a year agej.' A similar state of things exists in other western states. A cattle buyer from' North Dakota crossed into Manitoba and bought 87 heii'l at 2| to 3i- cents for shipment to Chicago. A Boston syndicate has purchased a large number of Canadian cat- "tle at 5 cents for spring shipment. The advance is therefore" caused by a scarcity of, cattle, and not by a'speculative cheque of bis' butchers. ' I . L. ri A I NOTARY PUBLIC REVELSTOKE, B.C. Mining and Real Estate Broker and General Commission Agent. FIRE, LIFE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE. Representative of the Kootenay Smelting & Trading* Syndicate. ^-o: AGENT FOR TROUT LAKE CITY, EVANSPORT, KASLO <fe NAKUSP THE CENTRAL HOTEL ABRAFIAMSON BROS., Ruoi-uiE-rons. First-class Table. Good Beds. Telephone. 'BUS MEETS ALL T.RAINS AND STEAMBOATS. IFIKIE-IR'.-IRyG) OFy.SAEE THE BEST AND CHEAPESTROUTE ��������� ' TO AND FUOM All Eastern Points. Those members of the provincial press that have referred to the subject.,- of the Colville' fndi.m depredations in the Columbia River Valley, vvhich was discussed at length in the Mail, last week, will have the thanks'of every settler who is desirous of malum; a home in that valley. The settlement of the valley is being held back by the affair of last June,���������although the Indian who.was the aggressor lost his life���������and the knowledge of the antagonistic disposition of these Indians towards all white settlers., In several cases last summer, 'men who were seeking land on which to locate, turned away from the Columbia" because of these Indian troubles. There" are considerable areas of good land along the river, but as the tracts are not large, the settlers will be scattered and not situated so they can combine readily for defence.' West Kootenay would be self- supporting as regards milk and butter, root crops and fruit, as well as the sustenance of all necessary stock, if the good land along the Columbia should be cultivated. Moreover, the income received by the Government from taxes, would be much increased. As it now is, the West .Kootenay mining districts are treated <is the most desirable dumping grounds for the fruit and vegetables of the Okanagan and Thompson valleys, and the butter,'eggs, beef cattle, hogs and sheep of the Northwest and east. West Kootenay Through Kir-it Cla-w Sleeping Cars and Tourlsl, Sleeping Car*, to Si. Paul, Mont real and Toronto without change. . REVELSTOKE TIME TABLE. Atlantic Express arrives 9:1;"! daily. Pacific " '* 10:25 " Kor full information as to rates, time, etc., apply to I. T. Brewster, Agent, Revelstoke. GEO. MCL. BKOWN, District Peisscnger Agent, Vancouver, li. C CAN COPYRIGHTS. OBTAIN A PATENT? For a prompt answer and an honest opinion, write to MUhS <fc CO., who have bad nearly fifty yew*' experience In tho patent busmcss.rCommunleMi- tions strictly conBelcntinl. A Handbook of Information concerning 1'nlrntH and how to obtain them ������ent free. Also a catalogue* of mechanical and hCienllfic books sent free. Tatents tal.en through Munn & Co. receive special noticeinthe Scid-ntiflc American, and thus are brousht widely before the public without cost to the inventor. This splendid paper, liisucd weekly elceanf ly Illustrate,'), Las by fur l ho larpest circulation of any scientific work In tho world. S3 a year. Sample copies sent free. Buildinir Edition, monthly, *2.50a year. SihRlf copios, 45 cents. Every number contains beau, tlful plates, in colors, and pbotORrapbs of new houses, with plans, cnablinc builders to show the latest deslcns and secure contracts. Address - J1UNN & CO- Hevv YOUK, Utfl ".noi ,.,-,/:i; should be self-sustaining iu these respects, in addition Lo sending out annually millions of wealth from its mines. YALE AND KOOTENAY.; Our'corresponrlc*nl, "Kootenay" last week introduced a subject which seems to have been in the thoughts of the fjiidtjc, and which we hope may have other coincident expression in the press of Lhe district. " The division of Yale- Kootenay" is thus referred to by the Ledye : "The Ke>olen;iy disl.ricL she mid have a ui-.-iiihcr.-iL Ottawa to i-c'ii-csi-tiL it iu a proper' anei vigorous iii.-iiiiii'i-. We think the.* elisti-ie-L I't'pi-i-sciiLeil by Mr. Mara is Loe> lar-fi-e tor-one niiiii Lo handle preiper-ly, iinel vve are strongly in favor of having it divided ami seeing a can- tlid.'ite'in the-field vvliei'is solid for silver-, anil who vvill iiiLi-nduci- measures Lhat will benefit. Llie- mining industry, without ri-spcct to pin-Ly. This i.s one of the most important parts of Canada anei nothing i.s Loo good for ns in-tlit* way of politicians. Hy all means di- videj the eliste-ic-t .-uid give*, us the best man for- the purpose." The. district of Yale-Koeitonay is really the centre eif the Province as regards mining, cuttle i-iinchiugand fruiL auel grain raising, auel since Llie. aeleli- tiein of Lillooet iinel Cariboo, has a larger-population th.m any other district of et|ual ���������tejrrit.o'i-y. y ylti is .certainly- entitled to two representatives in Parliament when the line as regards territory and voting population is rightly drawn. ' We think the two Kootenays have now a suiiieieut number of registered voters to entitle them to a sepnrate representative, but if not East-Yale might be added. The interests of East- Yale are largely those of-mining and would harmonize with those of Kootenay. We hope the press of these districts will give prorrrpL expression to their views, and that some measure of united action vvill be -adopted. Surely, Yale-Kootenay, a district which is fully 500 miles square, containing a large proportion of the mineral, agricultural and stock-raising 'wealth, as well as population, of the interior of the province, should have more than" one representative in Parliament. <���������' ' THE MARCH OF IMPROVEMENT. WrLh Lire opening of spring and the ail vent of fine weather, a spirit'of improvement is shown by our- citizens. The.. Government, Agent., is having the river bank revetted with sod, and quite a heavy job of work it is���������100 feet long, anil between 20 and 'JO . feet high, covering the entire face from the matrasses put in by .Lhe 'government engineers to the top'of the bank. When theise sods take root and geL firmly in place, there will he no more washing of the r-iver-Wnnk as long as the matLrass- es withstand the floods. A new picket fence is being put up on the street front, anei owing to a considerable loss of ground hy the,flood last year, a re-ar- -ranereineut anei some re-construction of the minor government buildings has been found necessary. Postmaster Wfells has had the post office corner of his store enlarged and differently arranged., It is much more roomy and convenient, and has places fixed where fifteen ,rnail sacks can be hung and into vvhich papers and packages can be thrown ' for- any destined point; and^this arrangement is"quite necessary because closed pouches have to be made up for several office's down Lhe river. The,Revelstoke. post office is now quite in Lhe metropolitan style." Messrs: Abrahamson Bros are continuing their improvements begun last summer. They have made the cribbing on the river front several feet higher in places, anei are excaviiting a cellar iindi-i their- new building, ,12x24 feet, for Lhe storage of vegetables .-incl some kinds of their liquid supplies. Messrs. Abrahamson mean to keep the Central Hotel up with the times., Guy Barber, the Fr-ontstreet jeweler, has also caught the spirit of improvement. He has had the finest job of artistie- painting done in his store that -has ever lieen executed iu Revelstoke. Ramsay, the painter, vvas'the artist. -In additiein to the building near the wiiter tank to be occupiedas a restaurant by Jli-a. Rot-s, another" one is also being constructed,,near the-structure erected last year asan art studio, which is to be. used by Roma, the bejot and shoe outfitter. , fn addition t'o the above, which are deserving of especial notice, there maybe some inadvertently omitted. There is, however', a general bright- riir'ig up of houses and premises in all parts eif the town, showing a commendable* evidence of publie spirit and local pride among our citizens., " . > *'��������� Amateur Theatricals Next Week. The Dramatic Society's entertainment next Friday evening promises to be the success'of the local season. After t.vo months of rehearsing the performance ought tei run without a a single hitch, and no doubt it "will as the preparatory work has been most conscientiously performed by the members eif the cast. ' The stage manager says it will be the best staged show that has yet been given in town anei everything points to a finished amateur production when tho curtain rises on " Betsy Baker" and "A Race for ii Witlovv " on the evening of the 2Gth. The general admission nas been placed at 50 cenLs, no extra charge tii'ing made for reserved seats, which may be obtained, on arul after Monday, from F. G. Cotton, Pe>st Office, and C. Shavv, Station, at which places the plan may be seen. Tbe receipts of the entertainment vvill be devoted to tlie building fund of , the ' English Church. ' . Clanwilliam Heard From. PEACE CONCLUDED. Japan and China Call off the Dogs of War���������Terms of Settlement' . The London Times correspondent in Shanghai says : " Li -Piling Chang's son-in-law telegraphs that the stipulated terms of peace are : 1. Thejn- dependence of Corea; 2. Japan's retention of the conquereei places; 3. 'Japan's retention of territory east of the Lino River; 4. The cession of Formosa ; ' 5. An indemnity of $200,- 000,000; G. An offensive aiid.de.-" fensive alliance between China and Japan." *' '" .a * BIG BEND NEWS. Clanwilliam, April 10.���������Ilerent the summit ol" the Gold Range in Eagle Pass, the station where trains were elelave-el sei long at Lher Lime of Lhe June llooels last year- arrel from which that famous newspaper the CUtnwMiarn ] I miller was issued, the snow is still nearly a foot and a-hal������ deep, ft will bo genie in about ten days. " Ohas. M. Field and Mrs. Fie-ld, of Revelstoke;, spent the .Sunday here visiting Mr. anil Mrs. John Palmer, the parents of Mi*. Field. The ice still covers Summit anei Vic- Lor hikes, but is not strong. One of Mr. Palmer's cows, while trying to get wati'r through a elrirrking-hole in the ice, broke in, but was pulled out by a rope, a round her horns and the help of the section men. iMr. Palmer lias forty acres e-leare.el for crops and vvill plant ton acres te> potatoes. Camp Creek to be Prospected. W*:i. Haley, an old-timer in Big Bend, and long a settler in Revelstoke, has forme-el ;i company or- partnership wiLh .1. H. White and James Burns to prospect Camp Creek, a tributary of. Gold stream. In 18f>8 Mr. Haley spent, some* I ime on this creek but was cut off by Lhe> e-edel ive-al her froni carrying oirL his plans. AfLer- the lapse of 27 years \\\n. Haley A; Co., or the Camp Cre-ek Prospecting (Jo., will lake hold of the- e-i-e-elc again with the intention of sinking to bed-rock and thoroughly telling lhe* ground. Messrs. White. ,-i'i(l .'J'ii-.i-, have already gone up in a boat with .Sani JJeschiiuips, taking a. supply of, provisions. They' started lust Monday and Mr.-Haley will follow thiiiii on the;.-first boat.- The ' timber for * the Gold Stream bridge is all cut and hewed, the piles all out, and the pile-driver is made and is setting the piles in place. The water has risen some but not enough to interfere' with construction.' , >Six men are employed, and the < bridge will bo completed by the'lSth of May. ' J ' The owners of the Little Falls mine have stopped operations for the present and will work on the bridge until that is finished.. ' ' Beaton and Vandall are pushing .ahead on the Gold Hill, and' good returns are reported. The Consolation mine ia still produej* ,ing a'handsome amount of ,gold weekly. The clean-up has increased from about $300 per week to $450 last week, and the amount divided. - in four weeks after the wages of eight men nnd all expenses were paid was $1400. A $50 nugget was founei a few days ago. The total amount taken, out in the four weeks was $2500. Mr. Laformc brings down $1500���������in gold dust. Thomas Hennessey is contracting ��������� for a more powerful pump for- his Nugget claim on FrcnchjcreekJ as the water came in so fast as to compel the work to stop. Andy'Parks has sunk, 40 feet on his company's claim on Smith creek. THE MILLINERY OPENING. II. N. Coursier's Millinery Opening shows ii particularly fine selecLion'of the latest shapes in Ladie's, Misses' and Children's hats and bonnets;'flowers * irr all the man" original tints ; laces of silk texture iii ... ..- German and Italian designs ; ostrich plumes and tips, gros grain, pongee, surrah and Japanese , silks in many shades, ribbons in almost endless variety of colors, perfect fitting shirt blouses and chemisettes, latest sLyles in vailings; dress trimming novelties in silver, bronze and all the many- effects Lo combine with the newest rare shades in dress .fabrics; a spread in fashionable, dress .costumes which is quite up to larger-city displays'. It costs nothing to inspect'Mr. Coursier's goods and the exhibit is certainly interesting to the ladies. Mr. Coursier's establishment spares no pains to secure the newest and best goods, and its reputation in millinery and fancy goods is more than locaL ; The Good Templar's Social. On Tuesday evening, the I. O. G. T. ' gave their "old time taffy social" at the Oddfellows' Hall. A large crowd at- tendeel, and a very pleasant evening " was enjoyed. During the intermission in the programme, taffy and candy -, were distributed without limit, according to promise! Two choruses were rendered by the choir, and addresses by Rev. C. A. Procunier and Mr. Pack ; recitations by Misses Ruth and Lillie Valentine and Mr. A. Wilson ; reading by Mr. R. Howsem ; solos by Misses IL' Lee and Alice Northey, and Messrs. H. Smythe, W.- Lee'and Guy Barber; instrumental solos by F. Ahlin. who also played tho accompaniments. The choir consisted of Jlesdames Home and Wilson, Misses Chase, Northey, F. Valentine, Messrs. Barber, A. Wilson and Ii. Gordon. Big Movement of Ore. On the 15th hist. 8 cars of ore were shipped from .this station ; 7 cars on the 17th ; and 8 cars on the 18th. The whole number of cars was 23, and they contained 405 tons of ore. It all came from the Slocan, and was consigned to the smelter at Omaha. The* mines represented were���������the Slocan Star by 7 cai-s, Alamo 0, No. Five 2, Idaho 7, and the Alpha 1 cars. L. R HARRISON, REVELSTOKE, B.C. Barrister and Notary Public -f 1895 TIMB SCHEDULE 1895 THE OLD FAVOIUTK STEAM IS 11 ; ((.'.iiit. ltnbl. S.ui(lcr.-on) , j WII.I. UC.V HimvKKN REVELSTOKE and NAKUSP Stopping at Lakdkau, Thomson's Landing anei Halciyw. Hot Springs during the Seasiin of leSi'o. Leaving Rovclsiokc Wcilnc-elay.-, iind Siiiur- eluy*. at 7 run. Loa-Tiag Nakasp Monday* and 7'liurseliiys nt 77(1.111. ' ���������.,-..' ).':���������'.������������������' ���������'.������������������-.. The above dates uru subject to i-hautj-c vviib- outiiullue.- ��������� ���������;������������������ .-UUBKUT iSA.VOEfi.SOV.' ,2 THE KOOTENAY MAIL. T^zzrzzz&rrrrrnuv'. ������������������^���������j^^^^=ri,r1^m������BS^vstKi^^^^-SX1^^ ^ O WHAT. UIGLE SAM IS AT, ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. Ke.'gliboi'ly Hire-rest in III4 l-mliis-s���������Slat lers or Moment uisd Mlrtli Uathcrei! ' frm:i III*. itatty Record. Throats have "been made to burn St. James' Catholic Church in Haverhill, Mass. At Salineville, Ohio, every coal mine is in fall operation for tho first time in tea years. Paring lS9i the membership of the Catholic Churjh in the Uniteel States increased 17.vS3*2. J. Pierpont Morgan has given $20,0C0 to build ii HuiiiUrium for consumptives near Liberty, N. Y. " An eagle with seven feet spread of wings rv������i caught.in a wolf trail near Brady Island Web., recently. Conmdcrablo money was lost last year in attempts to introduce California gt'apes in the'British ir.arknt. ,. A man in Concorei, Mich., makes a living by raising English bparrows ' and Bulling their heads for thu bounty. A recent murder in Gorliam, Mo., was tha first that occurred there biuce it was incorporated, 15S yeais ago. Oflicora of S.m Franci'-co have captured u gang of pirates which has been operating "ii a large scale for months. , William Miller, a l.'l-year-old Indianapolis schoolboy, took anionic because he i had been whipped for disobedience. ���������> Students at Keloit College translated a Greek play and succes-ifuliy produced it before a very large uudieucei. , A Baltimore man swallowed his glass eye the other' night , by drinking a goblet of water in which it hael been placed. y William Walsh, an* aged man of St. Joseph, Mo., was terribly, tortured by robbers, wi;o thought he was hoarding money. W. J. Ferry, a gambler, or" Houston, ' , Texas, attempted to blab Joseph H. Stahl, a building contractor, andw.tn fatally shot. Four millions of acres of Indian reservation lands iu.Datcota, are now opened fur settlement by a purchase of 50 cents an acre.1 " , , The town of Merielcn, Ct. .'.'proposes to impose a .tax on all book agents; and canvassing men that follow that trade in that tovyn. ��������� Col. W. 0. P. Breckinridge lectured in Louisville, liy., to an audience composed dually of his relatives and the relatives of his wife. On sandy Martha's Vineyard1 the road commissioners are spreading cotton ciotli ' over hanei t.o prevent inacadamji-om sinking into the sand. The Chicago Civic Confederation declares th vt there are 60,000 victims of the opium habit in that city. They' keep 'alive 100, public smoking places. . e* , ������ A. butcher in Be.lfast, Me., ia training a hog to hi-.rneas, driving him behind a sled. - He lias also two lame skunks who act as tramp discouragers, Patrick Sullivan, a labourer of Full River, Mass., was strangled to eloiuh by some silver coins that he pub in his mouth when ho went to sleep. An Arizona farmer has a tame rattlesnake to guard his premises insteael of,a elog. The report does not say whether the snake sleeps in the farmei's boeils. ��������� Mrs. W.M. Ward of Bibb county,' Ga., who secured a divorce from ��������� her husband because of a quarrel, took pity ou him on the day the decree was granted aud was remarried to him. 'llie Fu-30 Baptist church of Cincinnati line sued tlio Cincinnati, Baptist Ministers' Conference* for "550,000 damages because the; conference questioned the church's title to its property. The sword that Byion used in his, brief campaign lor the independence of Greece, now hangs in a Chicago dining room. It was brought home from Greece by Col. Miller, of Montpelier, Vt. The Progressive Engineers' Association of Kc.vv York, a coloreei organization, is going to Bead one of us membeis out. to Liberia to see what, if any, inducements * that coiiutry oilers for colonization. The Fourth National Bank of New York is run ou civil service reform principles, and as a result of the restguitiou of i.u assistant casliier, a few days ngo, made 34 promo- <> tions ou the stall'of its employes. ��������� Jim Bouchittr, a Puyallup Indian medicine man,was killed by Jerry Dominick, an He was a great hand for tobacco, aud, it is to be feared, drank wine when he could get it. Until the very last he never had a sick day, and never enriched the medical pro- fession to the extent of a dollar. He died at Webster, Ma=s., last Friday, within a few weeks ot hid 100th birthday. .Captain Auld, of the Baltimore police, a son of Hugh Auld, who was the master of Frederick Douglas;* during his days of slavery;* possesses the orignal bill of sale for Douglass, given by Thomas Auld to Hug Auld. It is dated Oct. 28. 1S15, seven years after Douglass ran away, and the consideration was $500. Captain Auld says that this bill was. executed with the idea that the fugitive' could be recovered, although at that time he was in England. Harriet A. Eokins, who died at Lebanon, Pa., last week, vvas born on the eastern shore of Maryland in 17S3, 112 years n?o, anil was a elescendaiit of an African King. Her grandfather, whose name was Lego, wua King of .one of the tribes ou the coast of Guinea aud was one of the last of the native Kings oi Guinoa. Ho was deposed about tlio middle of the ladt century, captured by slavers, and was brought to Amoricii in a slave ship, with his son,. the father of Mrs. EskiiiH. The Armless Artist. Mr. Bartrnan Hilcs, of Bristol, is'at present showing a collection of his pictures and sketches in Piccadilly, London, Mr. Hile.-i had both arms amputated above the elbow, as a. result of a tramcar accident, when ho was eight years old. Only two ycai-H after his accident he hail so far mustejrod tho control of his pencil hold in his mouth, that ho was placed in tho first- cla*s division of tho second grade in freehand drawing of the National School at Bristol, and lie was only sixteen when he exhibited a work at rhe local academy of'pictures. For the next few years he studied THE FARM. Bad Taste and Odors Butter. in Winter i *&) *?, ?/ '^<2<%^ ^^<a^ i>o assiduously nnd successfully that in 1S00 ho carried away a schSl-irship open to the competition of the United Kingdom, of 1011 guineas, and .tenable for two years, offered hy the National Art Department of South Kensington. Sirica then he ha's ciined prizes for designs for a fan and fin- ger-phite. A water-jug and ewer, painted in five hoars, won a silver, medal last year at South Kensington, wliere his skill iu modelling clay .with his lips was rewarded by his bc-iug classed in the first division. A beautiful sunset at Venice was huug at the Gallery of the Society of British Artists. Mr. Bartram ia a cheer; ,' good-look- in.', anei intelligent man of twenty-eight. Ho seems to su'ler little inconvenience) on account of his misfortune. Ilia lips appear- lo serve nearly as efficiently as elo the hands of most people | RECENT NOVELTIES. A pair of tongs for handliug cuspidors when cleaning. A' pocket kniro with tho back provided with peiicil holder and eraser. A dust pan with pivoted fdotpiece for ho I'd in a edijo or p-.ii to the carpet. A support for trousers that does away vvith su.-pendcr buttons. ', A novfel design of label held-;-, which can be removably attached to any ti'eing boy. A battery cell, with the electrolyte cou- -isimr' of a,mixture nf lactic acid, a mineral acid ami an alk.'.i. An electric a-a itch or door piate formed We hear muchabout the "taint ofpreg: nancy," "bitter taste," "animal odors" and and "frosted feed" affecting milk and cream s and especially do these odors and taste show as soon as the cows come to the barn at the beginning of. winter. This winter, owing to the sudden and long continued cold of early winter anei consecjuout tight shutting up of barns and stables, these troubles of the butter maker aud dealer have been especially prominent. From nearly 20 year3 experience the writer is convinced' that nine-tenths of theso bael tastes and odors are tlio direct results of ignorance or careles.E"uess on, the part ol those who have tho care of tho cows, milk and cream. A cow in a normal stato of health will give milk free from bael taste or odor. But simt the cow up in a tight box of a stable where she is obliged lo take back'ropcatedly into her luugs tho elisoxy- geuiz'ed air she and her companions havo breathed 'and sweot pure milk cannot bo expected. ' ' . Tho office of tl-c lungs is twofold : to pass in to the blond, the life giving oxygen of the air aud pass out the carbonic acid gas, tho wast product of combustion that, has been abuoi bed by tho blood in its circulation through the body ; or, in other words, to swap the waste gasea or smoke for the life sustaining gases. Thus tho stableman who shuts up Ins animals in a tiglit,ill ventilated stable to keep them warm warms the out- sides of their bodies at the expense of tho inside. , Another common source of contaminated milk is insufficient- water. While once a di.y may be often enough for dry stock, I do not believe it is for cows iu full How of milk auel more especially when feeding heavy with cottonseed meal aud other rich grain foods., When the water comes from a barnyard well that really is a cesspool for the barnyard itself the water is badly contaminated. If sweet, pure milk is wanted a plentiful supply of pure water must be supplied to the cow to.euablfa her to properly dilute the blood mid juice of tho boely and thus wash away through tho kidueys the waste epro, duct ; otherwise, thoy are likely to go to the milk. , ' , 1 would no more think of keeping cows in a stable without a plentiful supply ot absorbents than of keeping them without sufficient food. One ot the best is the clieap- '2st .mil costs only the gathering and storing, namely, dried earth from tho field ; iu most cises the use of this.will save enough of the nitrogeju-of the'liianuro tint would otherwise waste to pay for the trouble and expense of gathering. There aro upwards of 40 different species of bacteria that live and propagate iu milk, soma of them injurious anei some beneficial, so that the dairyman who wishes to have a first-class produce needs to know something about these minute forms to enable'him to- steer clear of the injurious ones. DuriDg the past summer a poultrymm tried the experiment of shutting up his poultry house, compelling ��������� his fowls to roost on trees and elsewhere. The result, was to rid his henhouse entirely of vermin as they were starved out because of the vacation of the hens. Oats may be used as a portion of the ration for poultry the year around, and especially for the large Asiatic varieties. that are predisposed to put on an excess of' fat when fed in the oniinary way. 13ut ws would recommend that the oats be good and sound, and first-class in quality, otherwise thoy vvill not do as a constant food. , < Borrowing' Farm Tools. Wo have known men to walk two miles to grind an ax ou a neighbor's grindstone ���������felt to poor to, buy one of their own And yet we have seen these same fellows withe-tanks so full of firewater that locomotion was impossible. It is net always the poor who thus iitipos un'on others. The rich or well-to-do ar often the greatest offenders, for this is one of trie byroads to wealth. Wc know a rich man who lives iu town within a stone's throw of a handsome store, yet he makes an auuual practice of borrowing so simple a' thing as a garden.'rate from his poor neigh- of iranstuMni, material coated inside with Indian living on thr* ikickleshoeu re^erv-a-| :c���������' tion in the suae ol Washriiirtcn, because.- r.c i ������K had fuileel to cure three of Domm'ek'e cnil- ' dren. ' '. Mrs, Harriot Diitenc, it colored woman, is one of the most suoci-ssru, undertakers in Philadelphia. She; l.as ci'-ned or. the bii!>u,essfor twenty-five year.", cjhefur.n: has lie*ar.sos, uariiages, ai.d all thertf|ui-ites for funerals. The Rev. Thomas Dixon,jr.,ha,3 anaounc- od that when hu severe his connect ion with the Twenty-third strcer Btptist church ia New York b-i mien is te, preach in >.he hat city every S-i'n- m:noi;' paint. A beiiow- ir.-ect-powder duster, wt*n ur.rel one-ce tiiac. scauprs the death de.il- dosc tnrc'i-r.out .i wid<* space. de'.RCiis'i-.e r-j-f--'.-!r--= ho'fier, provided wiln- v eiia^r.n.V.ly rec-'^.-e-I clasp for holding eye-glasses at ������.ny ^"ele * A~i.wV-i p:r., '���������'���������' ������������������v.'ixn lhe pin portion is curvni o-irvvardly rMIi rear tnd bstwevrn tr,= p:n 1 ar and cotintcx.i,ig toil. A new form of bc.l g^trin? ms.<!<* o: rub- tier or otiier-'ibr:-���������r.h,<rf! i-air, so v--, :o rirm.y gi^-p the- it ac'imcy. A simple le,up ejf door holder, rn..>"e of j iwo p.eces ������������������: wirc'li.-'iit ro for in inclined, b.rs '(.n't po*ti, ,-.!ii!.'iev>r>e.d or't.b-' r forward , e-nd.-i to tor in oppe.-il'i'y ;'.v-ii;g vv ii^-v. I Let us make the inconsistency of this business more apparent. A invests 8500 iu farm machinery. Eight percent, interest on this is S-I0. B instead puts a like amount in voting cattle anil uses A's tools. The cattle grow in value ami at the end of tiu year per.iaps B lias made a hundred, per cent, on his investment. A'b tools are the worst: for "Wear and tear." B invests and reinvests h;s money in young stock till at the euel of ten years it ui.ty have increas-. ed at a low estimate tenfold, while A's tools with B's help are worn out aiid the original liives'meut, to pay nothing of minor expenses, is gone to the dogs. Would it be more unreasonable for A to ask B lor a share of the protiia then for B to belli wear out A's tools without any pecuniary j re-.'t'.rus V If there is anything fair or just in Mich a "lopsided" aliUir, we wish some on" wouid point it out. We always made it a point to make,what we coui,i, buy wh-it we could not, make, ,i!.,l if unable ,to do either, do without. W'-.. d-..i not triink theie w;ih any one in this world who wa������ under obligations to keep us wit; conrt-rcsiicd iu farmins tools. And now, my fnend, il you are in the h-i.br. of rhuq jtiipoaingon your more fres- bu<(rt������.-el neu'eibor, Ijelter c-i.ll ,i j,;ilt before \ ou becomes n. burden and a nuisance. A new me tho d o: ri'ianumiur ug varm.'n I Academy of Music in day morning. Charles Te:g.������, of Chicago, killed Icm-"!! ( wiiliou" th'.' uje-. of .iri<-r������, whe-cesby linswl because Mrs. Matilda .Stewart had *"*eure.i" j oil e,r ijiix-urt-s ("intninina M>,"n or re;-uii a verdict of *?.*i,0UU a_'air,.st. him for breach with ml and tin p'-iitiuo -ir- .'ejrmeel jn-o of prniRue oi marriage. Slie h,i.l ar;a-,(e:"el | ctnuifiinii i with 'va-e-r ,i -'l Hu'pimric *'.���������! i, his advcriiaeinent fcr a -a<:^, bur lie.* r������!t.ni.',l j ^nd an el'jftnei Curr-rii, p t������"'i'i thronjli tn,i to marry her. ; r,il<-.uro :.o 'ati.iti'e- t!i������ pro, ", is of o-o.l.-- Western W,i.ahiii(,ton lowger"* te;!i of an j tion. immc.uiif; log rece*nt;y ft, itmi. nown cue; "���������*- Sn.i.iualmie river, winch rivo oven i,-,.l I Resl5t5n?r Avctiit With DynamltO. diliiculiy in hauling. I' was a ,'ir log :.'- ieet in l-jii'.-lh and .S'.l mihes in tiiainiiter al he Urgojt e:iid. It has beien noticed tint, eg.'^s throughout Oeorgia, li.tv-ing been paeked in tiiH strong, rf-einous pine a.aw,liis'.!. of tlio rejgion, havo, wiic-i! eaton, n elcvieicel tKvor of tur- pentino, winch, though unpieip-irit, m vy not li-.* unwho'wome. Rev. Dr. ('. A. Bartol. of Boctem, the: friend of Wendell Phillips, Wilb.im Lloyd Garn-.einsnd ot!;cr piominei.t abolitionists, m still vigorous in b:.s H.'Jni year. Fie may be iccn any firie* day taking a "jonstrtutior*- al" on tho coiiirnon. The Chicago oewsepinoi-.s nre congratulret ing the city on the: fact thatthreo ex United rilat.es \liiii--:ers live there. Thoy are Robert T. Lincoln, whej wa-, Mmihler !o Kigland : Lambcr', Tr*-e:, wl'.o was ?<*nt to BmsHfiis and then 'o .St. T'err-r.'iburrj, and Gen. Win������t,on,wli<-j wis Minister to f'.T^ia. Mrs. Hannah Chard, of Vine'ai.d, N. J., will oolcbral'i her i07r.l������ blitiiday April 20. Five generations arc to bo reprr.Hcnt.-d at the celebration. Mr'. Charei, elnrnig 7/ years of married lifej, had twelve: e.inldrcn, but only three, of: thorn arc now living, at the: ages of b'f>, 73 arid 01 years respectively. Sho 13 still an active hfeiiRckeeperj.anel is an involcrae.e: pipe smokor. '��������� Peter Dov-tau v/:ni born in Montreal.''He follov'iv *.hr'flt-A for nearly half a century. Dairy Grannies. , HHvJns; fdunel a. gijxtl rr. in to .e'nip butter ! \i>, mip ail you ma/ : to him. Don't divide ' your slnptiitili*.e. Ir your butici- is not ju.id ��������� iif,'ii!, a--ic him to inform yo-i whais wrong I i, nu I* tri'i cow ie. lrnpi-ejv.) oh it. Be.ir in \ ii,tr, i lb ii oui. m'iJ, -preidti.;.- w.int othjr I i.i */','(��������� ������.,,. wiim.L' ui pr.y ^oij.i price'H for, i.t" i". llic.;.< e,r eiislikcs, A ileij.itejli rr.eru D.inkiik, N'.Y., '���������nv"! ��������� I KiUiei than sul iir.t ro ,iri,������i, a <le<p. i.i������������ Polt.'.naine'd Joseph S.'.him.'. i,'n.i.l-.nu'.-il to "j kill rii-iitiill' and t'eei e.i'i ;..-r vvhei e-im.- 'o capture him o>i \Vi-dni-H icy nigh:. S.'h'uMa i-n.il i{riv.-*n hue wife our, of eioori, an.'. 'v..,.,i, acting Ilk'' ������ mArnac, ^o tn.'-'. sbe feiire* I tn HO be'ic-c. Pig ^rcve W eltor-, lite- g\ ,nr of the Dunkirk police*, force, was (*::'. to Sennue'e'v'-e house lo arret, llien. H.s ha.,-!(! hii'l just 'onchp.l the door, wh<;ii tliere, ciutie* an evplr.s'on that blew hnn over the.'; fence twenty feet. away. Tho borne was internally wrcckod. Every windi.w was blown out, the well-i and tci- ings worn ihattcrod, the furuitur- ' w.n splintered, and out from th<* ' chaos of liif.o-e:lift and siivcrs crfiwiod Jofopu So'nr.iida, tli'jcilf of bis log torn off, ' ,,n'l the re. t or" lii.J bo'iy fiiied full of jpiin*- ' era lik" a pin-e!ii=nion. rl'- was taken to t caol, v/liore the* eloeitor worked for hoars nulling the pla������trr ami wood out of bis Ijleeilinr,' rich. His ic-g will hr,.ve to be arnputaicd. lirg.Stevo w..h not nuich hurt. Tho Polo had deliberately thrown a dynamite cartridge: on the floor in front'of thedoor, expecting i.b blow the policeman l',o eternity. He (iorifesaeel that this vjVas his murdsrous purpoao, anei snarls at his, captors like a ���������wo'nndeel wild-cat. Ho will be,examined as to his sanity. I-, n ii* -s '.I yonr ,'"' ])t, M"rric.,i\i : ''A'l .l.tif^ri.cii otiyiit to r< iri--rnr.e,-r that v*.e :i I i'.r of ������. cow ia an ������xrr( m.'y, a. b-ng wi.y f.i.m 'i.o centre of circri.Atj'in, and rc'jiur'in !w,r������ protection th.ii it^-"-s o.'diri erny.'' T tri'l'i, and yc*. its si/.. .it H a great bit importance) i-i iinportancii nro i, ir.i'iy MiOt.g it rf ij'i.i-. ny mai.y. We have tri cd r. j;r-At rrnrjy tas^rf or gTg'it. to the ���������,!.; dump ^round_ ���������tore von guwi much t.w. in lookiin; purchin-jr l.e Sliir trut your butter If you your rrie'rioeis until you ar������j ,-ure; that you1* bui.l'-i- i" go'jd <:n'ili/h to, bring top price*i Always rem "rr. bar twit -whin your biitt'sr goes into a !/irt'"r, rr;irk'-t it rno't nt.inel or Jail on its own merit! uid tnnt butter r.ot up to s'.i.-.elard vl) bnog j'ni, .������ iri'juri % price-, in your home iriark'*.t, if not m'-arier. !.i:t or the-j oow iy:n-^ on cor: or , has ni-.iacive me-rits alr.u', it. :.r<; in ilonhx, about fin improve iiiitil you ar������j .-un: that ROVING THE SEAS WHlSTUlNG. Travels or (lie:'VIiIriillKsIEiieby Tliat ltrolie Ailriri rroisi C'aiic I'anso. There are several whistling buoys now drifting about in eccentric fashion with the 'currents and storms of the North Atlantic. Two of triem are fatill whistling, according to the logs of steamships that arrived last month. Tho most notable of the lot was riginally auchored by a heavy chain cable at Cape Canuo, the extreme easterly point ot Nova Scotia. This buoy has two whistles which have been blowins since December, 1SU3, and have doubtless caused many mariners who have encountered the buoy on dark nights or toggy days to think that they wore out of their reckoning, and lo be fearful for a moment for thorr vessels. ��������� The Cape Canso buoy, was torn from its moorings by heavy ice that drifted down with tho Arctic current lu December ISO,'?. It followed the current for more than a month. It was first observed by a passing craft on Jan. 22, ISO i. It then took a southwesterly course, and drifted in tliat direction until Feb. 9 when it came within the influence of thu Gulf Stream aud northwesterly gales, and started oil' to tho 'southeast, crossing the steamship, tiack anil getting about ISO miles "south west of it. It then drifted in a northeasterly', direction and struck 'into the steamship line again lute in April. It followed the lane for more tlian 700 miles, and ou July 5, 1S9! it took a leg east-southeast. Currents anil storms sent it Hying northward on Aug. 10, ane^it went completely across the steamship track again.' It was seen on Nov. ,13 up in ial. 51������'more than 100 miles above the Euro-( pean, sielo of the steamship track ; thou it was driven diagonally across llio truck once more, presumably by strong northwesters,' and whs last sighted on Feb. 9 by the British steamship Mab, which was b.ouuel from a European port to Galvoslon. It is probably now with a cluster of derelicts, kuockiel out by the February hurricanes within 400 miles of the Irish coast. Tho Captain of the Mab reported that tho buoy was heavily freighted' with1 barnacles and very rusty, but, was hoarsely,blowing as well as when it drifted away from Cape Canso.' Tho sign on its side " Cape Canso " was not in tiie least affected by the weather.. ,. Tho track of this phenomenal drifter is longer, than that of some famous elereli'cts. It has been seen fourlecii times by ocean- crossing vessels. The probability ��������� is that this record might bo doubled if.all ciafta that had passed it had reported it. ���������ecu. PEARLS, OP .TRUTH. We enjoy thorough'y only the pleasure that wc give.���������Dumas. The men who.make history have not time to write it.���������Metternich. I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.���������liuskin. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.���������Shakspeare. Genius hears one individual and then comprehends,ten.���������Japanese. He that will notapply new remedies must expect new evils. ��������� Bacon. . Hell is truth seen too late���������duty neglect- eel in its season.���������Try on Eel wards. Conscience warns us as a friend beforo it punishes as a judge.���������-Stanislaus. Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.���������Froudo. The inconvenience or the beauty of the blush, which is the greater ?���������Mme. Nevlcur. We .step not over the threshold of childhood till we are led by. love.���������L. E. Lh.il- don. * , , Idleness is the stupidity of tho body, ami stupidity is the idleness of the mind,��������� Seume. A true knight is fuller of bravery iu the mulsr, than in the beginiiig'of danger���������Sir P. Sidney. If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness and fiud'rit uot Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor. ��������� Lowell. " There is as,much greatness of mind in acknowledging ucgooel turn, as in doing it.���������Seneca, Conceit not so high nn opinion of any one as to be bishful and impotent in'their pics- ence. ���������Fuller. No man cm be provident of his timo who is not prudent in the choice of his company.���������Jeremy Taylor , finppinejss'consists in the attainment of our desires, and in our having only right desires,���������Augustine. An accomplished ceirpiotlo excites tlis pas.sion of othe:rs, in pioportion as she feelo uo.-io herself.���������Htwiitt, 1 am always content with what happen!'-, for 1 know that what God chooses is better than what J gIicjohc.���������Epictctuq. ONCE IN A CENTURA. An Ingenious Time TeUSi-;; I'lece or .-ileclinni-.at lu France, A thing to rival the seven wonderB of the world, if not in size and elaborateness, at least in ingenuity and variety, is a clock that requites . winding only once in 100 years. Nor is it a modern piece of mechanism. Such a horological curiosity is,actually in existence and is now in the possession of M. Pottin, who live3 in Ivey-sur-Seine, France. Nearly a decade ago lie bought it THE WO.S-DKlil.'UI, CLOCK. ' of a fanner, who had inherited it from his father. Neitherrthe' latter nor his sou cotilil tell how it came to be an heirloom in the peasant family. Expert clock makers claim that it is tho work of some iiivontive geuius of tho period of Henry II. For some mysterious reason all imitations thus far attempted have boon failures. The original is a sort or" water clock, not, howover, altogether such in the accepted scn^e" of the term. As is Known by the picture it is made in tlio shapo of a narrow^ upright cheat. In its front slits a cylinder is suspended on stout cords. The cylinder turns, on irs axis as it moves'up, and down and indicates the timo on the two faco boards���������on the one the hours and on the other the half and cjuarter hours. When the cycliuder is on ton then''all tbe cord is twined arouiid.it and in proportion to the rapidity of its descent, tlio cord is unwound. Il cakes the cylinder just tinrty- six hours to make the round trip, eighteen hours each way, tin? movement maintaining a perfect regularity. It is thus that, the points of the axis are made to serve us correct time indicators. What puzzles the investigator moat is how it is made possible for the , unwound cylinder when it has arrived ut the bottom to.agaiu wind the cord around itself and ba drawn up to,the top. , .It is vested with this power'of regular movements by a very complicated system of small water- filled reservoirs, with which it is connected and which serve as a propelling power. The inccisant moving up aud down of the cylinder keeps up acoiistiuit'changeof thoceutre of gravity. The receiving tubes aro so constituted that only a measured quantity of water is admitted into trie reservoir* ami the same precaution is taken at the outlets. It has been calculated that the cords wear out in a litllo more than a hundred years and that enough rust collects in the buckets to require cleaning or replacement after the same length of timo Dishes for tho Rich Wan. The* Muii.-rr.j.'ili of Kuch Bchar, who was prcoe'iitat lho Queen's jubilee service, has immense wealth. For instance, a dessert service of eighteen pieces of solid nilver is in process of manufacture for linn by a Bir- IV. r\ 'A' fiS ��������� ��������� ���������������������������}& The Poultry Yard. When fowls ares enolosaeJ,' wi-.h no exer ciae, thoy are liable to b'l'iow: ovor fat The proper method is to fe.e;e] only twice a .day. In tho morning give; 'iboui, a quart of grain to'15 bens, Kcattire-el in litter, %nel compel thorn to scratch and work for it ������..,'<v*.\-'���������-,: ".fr ������������������:���������'���������" --/*: l4J' r'iV ���������*!'* tl'!'-' A?/Av������hn'- r A</-1 '*^?*iy irr AAA). mingbarn (I-"ng'>in.l) limine, which will coat mor������ thuri C.'{,0f)0. Tho Miilmrajah him commiiisioiicd this fine work to comtneinor- atecfjver-il raei'.'ri he hftB won. His Uighnejss has beion ve;iy generous in his appreciation of English art on oihe-r occimions. Ho is ?,'.i ye-ars of age-, iinduiicciecleel his father in IS'!". Tlifi slate over which he rules contains l,.100 Hipuiro miles,find the population is over 00,000, Belgium Grows More Drunken. ��������� . There has been an extraordinary increase of late in tlie consumption of alcoholic licpiors in Belgium. This fact was brought out veiy clearly in a discussion on the subject which occurred rocenliy in the chambers. M. Lejune, former minister of justico, declared that the nation was reverting to a new form of barbarism which could only be described by the ' term alcoholic barbarism. From statistics furnished by him, it appears .that tho revenue from the excise, which amounted to 4,000,- 000 francs in 1851, has now reached the total of 311,000,000 ; that during Ihe same period the number of public houses has increased from 53,000 to 175,000 and that the annual consumption of spirits is at,'the rate of 12 litres per, adult. His figures show also that from 1801 to 18SS criminality increased at' the r.Up of 200 per cent., aiid insanity at the rate of loS per cent., and that of every 100 "deaths among the male portion of the community eighty can be traced to alcoholic causes. M. Lejuno 'alii-ibulos this disastrous-state of things to two cau.-es. The first is the insufficiency of the fooel procurable by- the woi king classes, ami tbe second the poisonous quality of the spirits purchased by them. ���������Tortured by Fiends. About 1:30 o'clock on, Wednesday morning two burgiiu-3 forced themselves into tho reside.neo of Mrs. Mary Borger of Springfield, HI., who, notwithstanding sho is 8G years ot age, lives alone, and after binding the old woman with a rope and thrusting a handkerchief in her mouth soarcheel elio house for !?2,000, which thoy said they had been informed she had." Failing in their search, tlicy took Mrc Borger from the bed on which tliev had thrown her and placed her oil the 'floor. Then they procured a quantity of straw, saturated it with coal oil aud set it on fire for the purpose of compelling her to tell wliere the money vvas. They also leveled revolvers at her, but she had no such amount in the house, and did the best she could to convince the fiends of this fact by shaking her head. Not being convinced, however, the robbers chloroformed her and made 1*. further search, but without finding tin; money. They then left the house,and ."ome time afterward Mrs. Berger managed lo free hcr.aelf from her bonrfs.aiid wlien'inoriiiiitf; came reported to noighbors 'what had happeuod. She vvas not seriously injured. All That Was Left of Him. Buggius���������-How is your brother? MuggiiiH���������Oh,he's only my half-brother. Buggms��������� Your half-brother? ' Muggins���������Yes ; you see he had an mm and a leg tuken oil last week iu a railroad wreck. An Advantage, After All. She���������Men think thoy know everything Ha���������Well, if it wasn't for tliatthe wo enen couldn't fool them. THE FIRST TIME. Is there a man among you all who does not remember the important era in tis lif> when he went home with a girl for thi.* first time? Ah 1 you recall it distinctly. Just how you stood on the broken doorsteps of that old red country school-house, after singiug-school broke up, and waited for Ann Eliza- to put on her hood and jacket, anei finish up her gay gossip with the other.girls. How long you though she was iu getting through." You could have put on forty hoods and jackets in the time. How strango it seemed to you that girls should have so much to talk about. How you stood first ou cue foot, aud then on the other, and tried to make'yourself believo.it was the cold which put you in such a tremor all over, , , Anei you pleased yourself with fancying how surpriseel sho -would be when you otTereel. your escort, never dreaming that the coquettish little judo knew just ns well what was going to happen au you did. How eliel she finel out? Ah, don't ask us��������� wo'know iiotliiiig about it; but you trust the girls for always finding out that, sort of thing. The intuition comes to them as readily iv swimming comos to a gosling. By and,by, after an ago of laughing and t-.lkiiig, and muffling up 111 lurs and scarfs, the,girls pour forth; a dozer or more, anei your Aon Eliza mixed up with two or three other girls, and looking -so straight ahead, and ho profoundly ignorant of your presence, that your courage begins to ooze out, and it i.s only Ciy a desperate oll'ort that you'-' leave the other boys and approach her,with your little sot speech 011 your lips. All, the other boys laugh, and all the other girls giggle. *.' But you aro desperate, mid hurry up to' h'sr with your elbow stuck out ut an acute angle, and say : ' " Miss Brown, may I see you homo tonight?" How ishe does start, and how astonished she looks���������quite as much so as if she had thought you at the antipodes all along ; and you would never mistrust from her appear- . anco that she had endured'tlio torture of curl papers all day with especial reference 10 your taste���������and washed hcrface in lemon juico and oatmeal, because she had heard, you sivy you detested freckles. Shots "tickled half to death", at your protorence, for sho hates those Smith girls,' and sho Iiiiovvh thoy have been ,mi'king a , "elead net" at you, but sho is as cool us a cucumber at your proposal. , Ami 'why 1 That is 11 conundrum we give up.'- Wo know nothing about the whys and wherefores which control a woman's heart, especially the heart of a young aud pretty one. Anei wh'on she has kept you waiting till there is a lump iu your throat which, threatens to suffocate you, and your knees knock together, and yo'u feci as if you. wished you were home in your little bed, ,. sho puts out two lingers and fastens them, to your coat sleeve and you sot forth. J You are elevated to the highest pinnacle of felicity, but you arc fiw.cn as dumb as a festive . treo-toael in the middle of January. , v You .wonder what you shall say,1 and almost wish , the earth would open and swallow you up and save you from tha necessity of "ii.aUinp talk." By ami',by she bicaks tho silence with the original remark: -" Very line evening !" . ' And you start as il a bomb-sholl had exploded at your'feet, and blurt outi "Yes I guess it, is." After you get safely home, and up stairs in the dark, with your boots iu your hand, lor fear oi rousing the old folks, .you will think it all ovor again, and woueler' how ' you ever had the courage., Ah, well, it is all over now, busy man of of the world; Aun Eliza has silver threads in her hair, anil grandchildren at her knee, or maybe she i.s sleeping quietly iu some green vrlley under tho (lieisies; but you remember that first walk alone with her as it it were but yesterday. IT'S VERY ENGLISH. IEow the Wcnttliy aiul IVIsb ItrKoits I.lve lu Slimmer. , ��������� One of the featuies of lite iu Englan 1 is tho houso boat as a summer residence. Instead of wearing himself out and exhausting his purse by going to a watering place, your wealthy Englishman hires a ugboat to tow his floating homo up the Thame's and rests liim content, angling for fish that never bite and smoking. Tho in- 'tTfw;fnsKPatnii.wj(,iT������. A' ^InjrrjvriTrtTTiv 'KvAtf-zi FQ \ Htai"������'.!pp������' senii Kr.r.vATios of iiuu.sk hoat. veiitor of the hoiuse boats is' unknown. Encyclopaedias aie discicetly silent on the subject,' and a careful research of long established English journals fails to find, any mention ot the term previous to JSS-1. In some inscrutable way, though,it has become Known that a ' certain merchant, a , perfumer, in Bond street, London, maele use of the fir.st house boat in English waters an long ago as the year lSfio. Ho udopi,"d ,. the idea of having a movable summer cottage on the waves,and he lodged his family in that unique fashion for several seasons without attracting any particular attention from hid neighbors.' Since that time douse c boats have bscomc popular in Enc'aud,and tlie Thames just above the capital is full of them,- anchored all along the shore, yome- times so near together that the inmates walk across from ono boat to the other by a conveniently arranged passage-way. Handicapped. Tram per���������Don't go in that house. Rags���������Why not ? Won't they give yoc feed ?' Tramper���������Plenty of it, and good, bui they handicap it. Rags���������How ? Trimper���������They mako you wash before meals. She Hadn't. Darley���������Did you go through my trousers pocket last night ? Mrs. Darley (indignantly)���������No, sir I Darley���������Well, tbore's a hole ir. ifc THE KOOTENAY MAIL. MB**. ������-irv Be Patient. Thoy a.70 such tiny feet! ' They have gone such a Ilttlo way to meet Tbe years which arc required to break Then- -tteps to evenness, and ir.ako Them f,ro More sure and slow. Thoy m-etuch little hands! ��������� Bo klnil-Hiinsrs are e-o now. and life but =tands A step beyond the doorway. All around New day has found Such tempting things to shine upon; ana so The bunds, are tempted oft, you know. They nro such fond,'clear eyes, q That widen to surpriso At every turn * They are so often held To sun or showers���������showers soon dispelled Uy looking in'our face; Love askh for t-uch, much grace. Thoy arc such fair, frail gifts! Uncertain as the ritts Of light that liu along the sky��������� They may not be hero by-and-by. Give Ilium not love but more���������abovo ������jitl harder���������patienco wilh the love. Wall Pictures. A room with pictures and a room without pictures differ 'nearly as much as a room with windows aud a room withou windows ; for pictures are a loophole of CBcapo to the soul, leading it , to other scones and 'spheres, whore the fancy for a moment may revel, refreshed and dolighted. Pictures are consolers-'of loneliness and a elief to the jaded mind, aud windows to he imprisoned thought ; they are books, histories, and sermons, which we can road without, the trouble of turning over the leaves. ,' _ . By hauging pictures, low you increase the apparent height of the room. Colored pioturcB should not be hung iu hallways or ou staircases unless there is plenty of light for them. In such places strong photo, graphs, engravings, aud drawings, in black aud white go best. , ��������� A picture should not be hung from ono nail ; the diagonal lines formed by the cord havo a very discordant orl'ect. Tiyo nails 'and two vertical cords, or, what is far more aafo, pieces of wire cordage, should be used instead of tho single cord. -Pfccure cords phould be as near the color of the wail upon ��������� which they are put as possible so that they .nay be but little seen.. fWhcn one picture, is hung beneath another . the bottom ono should be infng from,the one above, and not from the top ; thus wo avoid multiplying the corde, which is always objoction- i able. '- - , 'A good hue for walls whero prints or photographs are to be hung is a rich yellow brown,, or a leather cb'or. Luster to the black of the print or tho tone of the photo- grauh is thus impartod. The wall paper st-ouki have no strongly defined pattern, ami should bo of.cue uniform color, such as . reel inclining to crimson or tea greou. The centre of the picture, as a rule, should not be much above the leyel of the eye. Ten Ways of Cooking an Egg. Merely popping ao egg into boiling water aud letting it bubble until the hand of the , clock has market! three or five minutes, as the taste may dictate, is a common mistake. 'An'egg will be more evenly cooked as well as more delicate, if it does uot boil at all." Therefore,' either put it on in'cold water and heat gradually, or else in boiling water and remove from the fire allowing" it to ' stand on the hearth or back of the stove, for 10 or more minutes. , Buttered cegs, as prepared in the east, , are said to be very delicious. . A heavy pottery dish is set over a clear, hot fire aud thoroughly warmed through. Then into this butter, salt and pepper are placed and when tho butter is melteel the eggs are dropped iu, cooked slowly, with little stirring and served very hot. .> Egg balls are formed by stirring .boiling water���������that has been* well salted until it ' whirls rapidly. Then drop iu the eeg, which has already been broken in a cup, and stir the water round until it is cooked. . Do but one at a time*. Eggs iu Newport Style.���������Soak one pint of bread crumbs in one pint of milk, whip eight eggs very light and mix with tho soaked' crumbs, beating for five minutes. Have ready a saucepan in which , aro 2 tablespo.-mfuls of butter meltotl and hot, but uot scorching.' Pour in the mixture, season with pepper aud salt and scramble with the peiint of a knife for 3 minutes or ' until well cooked. Serve on a warm platter, heaped on slices of buttered toast. Egg kromeskys aro eggs first poached then dipped in a flour and milk batter and fried for a moment in deep fat.' Egg 'fritters are poached eggs iticloseel in a^crust of mashed potato and fried in a little grease. Shirred or baked eggs are brokeninto cups, small dishes or muffin rings that have been well buttered, care being taken not to break tho y������.lks. They are then sprinkled with saltand pepper and put in the oven just long enough to,sot the whites. Egg Nests.���������Beat the whites of eggs very stiff" and pile on squaras of toast. Then drop tho yolks vvhich have been" left in the shell in a hollow in each and bake in a quick oven. Nuremburg Eggs.��������� Boil the eggs for 20 minutes, shell them,d:p them in batter anil fry brown in hot lard. Dip' them and fry again aii'.l so on until thoy become goodly sized halls. Serve with a white sauce inadu by thickening milk with a little Hour and butter well mixed together. ' Hard-boiled eggs are the foundation of many dainty dishes,one of the most popular being Stuffed Eggs.���������The boiled eggs are cutin halves and the yolks tcooped out. The yellow is then ruboed to a paste anei mixed with mustard, vinegar and a very little olive oil. The whites are re-filled with this mixture, which iB heaped quite high, and are sot on a platter garnished with lottuco leaves or parsley. Potted ham and tongue that comes put.up in small tins, also make - a very nice forcemeat for stuffing eggs. After tho eggs ore filled some roll them in crumbs and fiy a light brown, but this is not necessary. These are nice for picnics. Oniolet souffle is a delicious luncheon or 3iippor dish.' Its ingredients are 6 whites and 3 yolks of eggs, 3 lablespoonfula of powdered sugar and a flavoring of vanilla or lemon. Beat tho yolks and sugar to a light cream aud adel a few drops of flavoring. Then whip the whites to tho stiffest possible froth, as on this chiefly depends the success of the souffle'. Have tho yolks in a deep,bowl, turn tho whites over them and with a spoon give it a rotary motion, .mixing all carefully togother.. Turn the*, mixture on to a baking dish, eithor of earthenware or tin, with sidos two or thre-o indie high and slightly buttered. Smooth over >--ki '-vi'i sprinkle with sugar aud put it into a moderate oven. If it has to be turned or moved while baking elo it as gently as possible. When it has risen well arid is of a fine yeliow color it is ready to be seived, which should be at once else it will fall. ��������� This is the American mode, but a French chef who is famous for hi3 omelets and souffles gives this recipe : For one portion use the whites of six eggs; beat them well, ;<.''d 1 tablespoonful marmalade or little pieces of fresh peaches and mix with powdered sugar. Bake it on a dish rubbed ���������with butter, in a rather quick oven. A FUTURE-POSSIBILITY. An Easy .".latter to Vat Egypt In a Starving Condition;. In a lecturo on the Nile, delivered in England a few weeks ago, Sir Colin Scott- Moncrieif expressed tho view that it would bo a perfectly easy matter for a hostile power to cut off the water ia the Soudan and put Egypt in a starving condition. Thero is nothing now in this opinion, and excellent authorities bclicvo it is worthy of grave attention. The idea even occurred to the barbarous people of the Soudan for long before tho Egyptian subjugation of the upper Nile region the inhabitants of Seminar boasted that they had it in their power,to turn Lower'Egypt into a desert. Tho late Gou. Gordon and the late Sir Samuel W. Baker shared the view expressed by Sir Colin. - Ton years ago Baker declared that the security of Egypt depended upon her command of the upper Nile. It is*well known that the rich sediment from the Atbara tributary, coming from the Abyssinian highland created the Delta of the Nile' and made the fertile belt along the lower river. Gordon and , 'Baker declared that an,enemy, without any engineering knowledge, might deflect the waters of the Atbara, by a dam thrown across its bed during the dry season, when' it is devoid of water, about 250 miles from its junction with the Nile. The Atbara flows through a perfectly flat desert for that distance, and the otfect ot a dam, would be the dispersion of its \vatei sen-era vast area of thirsty sands, which would absorb 'the greater portion and prevent the' uecessary inundation iu Lower Egypt. 'Two or three years a,������o an unusual flood in tho lower Kile destroyed much property in Egypt. , A little later an oxplorer returned from Victoria Nyanza with tho news that.about four months before Egypt- was 'unexpectedly deluged; the waterB of tbo lake reached tho highest stage ever known by the white men who live there! He added that if Egypt had been connected by telegraph with the lake, she would have been wamed of . the approaching inundation in time to prepare for it.', Engineers say tint regulating--sluices at the outlet of tho lake would control that great sea., It is plaiu that the interests of Egypt elemaiid that tho outlet of Victoria Nyuuza be in her own hands or in. those of a frieudly power. One reason why these f.ic",s arc very'interesting is because they vividly illustrate the important part that physical geography may play in political history. Egypt can never consider herself safe unless she controls the upper Nile. ' THE MOST FATAL DISEASE. The IJeil Sui-rnundl-iss Offer' No llur lo ' I������li>)ulici-la's Development. Of all the diseases that afflict humanity diphtheria has long beeu considered one of the most fatal. No place is secure from its ravages. It may break out in any locality, uuder every condition, attacks rioh and poor alike,' though most of its victims are children. Its virulence may bo iucroased by nuhealthful surroundings, but the most healthful offer no bar'to its development. . It is a contagious elisoase, aud epidemio, though solitary cases occur. Though the disease has been known for centuries uo satisfactory treatment has ever beeu discovered by the medical faculty until within a short time. In the Forum for March Dr. L. Emmot Holt explains the nature of the now antitoxin treatment for this fell disease, and feels confident that at last this great scourge of humanity hs.s beeu met aud conquered by medical science. The experiments of tho German pathologists, Klebs aud Loefller, made between the years 18S3 and 13S9,successfully proved that diphtheria is a germ disease, caused by a bacillus, to which has , been given the name, of Klebs-Lotfflor bacillus. Other investigatoiB also demonstrated that this bacillus has its priucipal seat in the throat ai.d upper air passages, but produces in its growth a poison which is known as diphtheria toxin, which affects the heart aud nerveB, ami is of incredible virulence. It is said to, be 700 times as poisonous as morphine. The next experiments were directed to discoversome method of counteracting the poisonous products of these bacteria. These products, or toxiu, wero separated from the germs that produced thom, and injected in small quantities into animals. The dose was then increased from time to time, until tho animal could resist a great quantity of it, or, iu other words, could not be infected by diphtheria. The next experiments showed that if tome of the blood of an animal which in this way had been made iusiiseoptible to diphtheria whs nijoolud into another animal, the latter likewise beoimo insusceptible lo a certain eiogree. This is,in faot.thc crowning discovery, and it has been successfully shown that antitoxin, thus produced from animals, when injected into the human system, vvill not only preserve from diphtheria, but will also greatly reduce its fatality when the disease has made progross. It is not an absolute cure for the disease, aR no troatmeut can bo for any disease, but it has produced the best results of any method of treatment over discovered. Dr. Holt explains the method of producing antitoxin, and points out the safeguards that should bo established iu its manufacture so a3 to keep an impure article from the market. A law for the protection of the piiblicshould be passed by which the production of antitoxin should be controlled by competent persons. ' It is certainly a most beneficent discovery, a now gift from modern science to mankind. Don't Rub It. When a speck of dust or metal gets into the eye the best plan is to shut it and keep it shut for over a minute. Nature wil then come to tho relief and there will b enough tear-like moisture to get rid o the obstruction, whiah will be found in ou of tho corners when the eye is fin aliv open od. EIISIAS ILL ABOUT HDL THE EUROPEAN RESIDENT IN INDIA ALWAYS A STRANGER. <Jii<-cr,Tral������<'ort:ie Rabooi���������Utter tacit of n !>i;n<������ i,T Mismor���������Cn������te AiTccU-d by s-lrccl ItuiUiays���������Sttiinui of Knsley> Servants. " "Nothing,in Indian life," said the return ad East Indian, " impresses the European resident more than the fact that he never come3 to be anything but a stranger to those about him. Be never fathoms the Indian mind, and never knows more oi his servants than appears on the surface His boy, for example, is an enigma , to the European; Perhaps the master learns incidentally that tho boy has a'wife and family and makes shift to maintain some sort of family life while seemingly giving ell his timo to his employer. , "The boy and many of the other'servants visit the bazaar, aud th������ bazaar of the East is tho great exchange of gossip���������' gup,' as the Hindustani word , is. Every piece of news, native or foreign, is in the gup of the bnziar. Your boy brings homo all sorts of, news, which is to bo had merely for tlio asking. Ho knows who among your fiiends aro ill, in love, in debt. The bHzaur often has early news of European disturbances ; and these mysterious people who surround you, and of whom you are curiously ignorant, talk familiarly iu the'bazaar of your private affairs. "It is in business life as in family life ; you know nothing . of the natives with whom you come in contact. The native studies English only to got a place where he may earn a living, and. once possessed of a clerkship he is content to plod on, working with peculiar care and precision," but with the utmost slowness, malingering whenever he dare, upon any excuse, and constantly, as it seems, , CONCEALING HIS RE.VI, SELF. 's I' ��������� ' ** "Baboo is the name given iu Bengal to the graduate of an Iiido-English Bohool, and such men -constitute), a small-clerical class,' some of whom rise to places of importance uuder the Government. ��������� Baboo EugliBh is a stock subject of jest among Indd-Europeans. It is often curiously absurd. The memoir of Onocool Cnunder Mocrkerjoe, a Judge of the highest Indian tribunal,, published at Calcutta ten or twelve years ago, was received with a burst of laughter by the' English press. Half a dozen books since published in English hy more or less distinguished natives .have ��������� been~nnire-r_as-.ridiculous. Native newspapers'punted in English nro the funniest things in life. They are made worse by the tricks playod upon them by English residents. Newspapers in the nativo dialects are usually bitter assailants of the Government, but they have little or no circulation "and "are usually shortlivesd, though no steps are taken to suppress or to exercise a censorship over them. "The native delights in strong English words of Latin derivation, and often uses them with arneaning just a shado off their common acceptance. Along with these) ambitious wordB ' the native uses slang and conventional phrases by way of giving his style an air, of unstudied ease. 'The selection of Justice Moorkerjec,' says'.his biographer, 'wa3 most, jueliciouo aud*tip top?' A Beeming utter o , ABSEXCE OF HUMOR marks the attempt'of the native at English composition. A native applying to me for a place as clerk closed his letter thus : 'Hearing that you are fond of figures I append a few : 1, 2,3,4, 5, 0.' A'cierk being absent sent me a letter of excuse, in which he explained that, he was kept away by a boil 'as per margiu.' On the margin of the sheet he'had'drawn a rude outline of the part affeoted by the boil' with an exegger- ated representation of the latter. 1 am entirely clear that neither had any humorous intent. ' "Some ot the baboos adopt the profession of writers, which means that they undertake tho correspondence of persons not so happy in their eduoation. These baboo letters are marked with an exaggeration ot tho absurdities that belong to ��������� native English. Every native on applying for a place in an English house brings letters of recommendation'., They are occasionally, perhaps frequently, forged by the baboo writer (employed for the purpose. The writer dous not hesitate to append the name of * any Anglo-Indian, no .natter _ how distinguished.. I doubt not that Warren Hasting's name has appeared in a hundred such. These forgeries are so clumsy as to be ridiculous, for the recommendations are fulsome arid florid to the last degree. " One must consitler caste in all dealings with tbe natives,-yet I own my ignorance of the subject. A prince is not necessarily a man of high caste, aud his prime minister may in this matter be his superior. An English corporation has done a great deal to Bhake the power of caste, at least in some particulars, 'at Bombay. When street railways wero introduced into that city by this company it was prophesiod that the enterprise would be a failure, that men of different castos would not mingle in the street carB. But exactly the reverse is rrue. You see men of all castes sitting side by sido in the street cars, and theEamo is tiuo of the steam railways. "It is a mistake to suppose that tlio European imposes upon the individual native, whatever you may think of the British occupation of Indiu. The native is extremely litigious. If the. European strikes his boyj'rhe latter is quickly off to have the master hauled before a* Justice and , TRIED FeiB THi: Ot'FLXCE, and all natives in contact with the European population are well acquainted with their rights under the law. The people of all classes, however, are polite to the verge of obsequiousness. You meet this politeness on every hand. I saw it oven amoag the bargemen at Bombay, a singular class of men whose habits I found peculiarly interesting. " The European resident in India gradually becomes indifferent to the swarm of dusky figures forever surrouneling him. One ceases to be couscioi\������ of the servants, with their gliding, silent steps and inscrutable faces. The houses are without doora, so that servants can pass freely and noiselessly from room to room. The man that shaves you steps at daybreak into your apartment and performs his duty while you are yet half asleep. You submit to be dressed like a child by your boy. Even women become unconscious of the man servant gliding about their dressing rooms, aud the employer has no secret from his servants. The t Topean feels himself a drop in the ocean of native humanity. He knows that these mysterious people, whose lips are to him as sealed books, are aquaint- ed with all histioings, and while outwardly subservient, privately hold him aud his civilization in contempt." DICTATOR RHODES ' ' Mmie Even Brill-.fi Koyally Come to His , ._ , ' Terms. Sir Hercules Robinson,, who at the advanced age of 71 now returns to the Cape of Good Hope as Governor-General of British South Africa, is a very well preserved and cheery old gentleman, who looks nearly a score of years younger than his age, and is exceedingly popular alike at home and in the colonies. He was formerly in the army, but resigned his commission as Lieutenaut in the Eighty-seventh Royal Fusiliers on eloping, when barely 22 years of age,'1 with L'oid Valentia's sister, the Hon. Nea Annesley, her parents having opposed the-match. The runaway couple, however, were forgiven in due course, but inasmuch as neither was well provided with cash a continuance of life in the army, was out of lhe question, so the late Lord Valentin,made use of his influence with the Cabinet to procure for his soldier son-in-law a lucrative colonial appointment. Since then Sir Hercules and Lady Robinson have been jointly representing their sovereign in.variousBritish colonies, finally winding up with the Cape of Good Kupe, which,they quitted a few .years ogo. Sir Hercules hoped to be able to sponel the lemainderof his days in peace, all the more as Mr. Cecil Rhodes,' who unites in his huge psrson the Premiership of the Cape colony aud the control of all these numerous schemes that have been" started by the South African Company.-had put, him into a lot of' " good things," with large! pecuniary results! Sir Hercules thought the time hael come to enjoy,tho fruit of his labors, anei accordingly settled down in London, where he was in gioat social demand.. lie counted, however, without his host,'for Mr. R'uodc=, finding himself in perpetual conflict wilh Mr, Ht-rcules's successor a3 Governor-General��������� namely, Sir Henry Loch,a man who deemed it to be his duty to prevent the interests o! tho ompiro at large from being sacrificed aud being subordinated to those of Mr. Rhodes's .South African Company���������came 'over to England from the Cape and secured from the Government a solemn promise to recall the obnoxious Governor, and to replace him with" a man more, amenable, to what he considered' good sense���������preferably Sir Hercules Robinson. ' Ho,end of pressure was exerted by Mr, Rhodo3 during his recent visit to England to bring about this appoiutment,atid it is no secret that the influence of the Prince of Waies and of other, membei-3 of the royal family wa3 invoked' for the purpose,though the Piince would certainly never have done 'such a thing had he not beeu under deep, obligations to Mr. Rhodes. c '��������� O Sir Heroulos now goes back to the Cape in the guise of a mere tool and instrument in the hands'of the man to whom he is indebted for the greater part of'hh wealth, and it is difficult to understand'how one eo largely interested in the manifold enterprises of Mr. Rhodes will ever be able to find tho independence neceE3ary to defend the position, of the English Government against the' encroachments of tho very companies of which he himself is a Director and shareholder. Curiously enough, Sir Hercules Has a brother who also married a daughter of the late'Lor'd Vaientia, is too, a ColoDial Gov- ernor,and has received the honor of knighthood in,the same manner as Sir Hercules. MURDEROUS SUPERSTITION. ��������� (i ' An Unfortunate Woman Tortured In Ire land as u ff Itch���������Her Husband I'otircd I'd rn nine Over IKcr Kody mid' Hunted Her to ileal!). ' Waterford, March 26.���������A most extraordinary case of murder, arising from superstition, is .being inquired into by the special court of Cionmel, 25 miles from Waterford, Ireland. Ten persons wero arraigned before the court, charged with murdering a woman named Cleary, because they supposed her to bo a witch. The prisoners iuciuded tho murdered worian's husband and father. The evidence showed that Mrs. Cleary vvas suffering from nervousness and bronchitis, and her husband, believing her to be bewitched, and in order to exorcise the evil spirit, obtained a coricoc- tiou from a herbalist of the neighborhood. Then, while the other prisoners held the unfortunate womai in bed, her husband forced the obnoxious concoction of herbs down her throat After this the suffering woman was Held over a firo and dreadfully seared, until she declared in the name of God that she was not deary's wife. This torture was repeated on the following day, but the woman refused to conform to her husband's requests, whereupon he knocked her dovvn, stripped off her clothing, poured paraffine over her body, then lighted it, anei the woman burned to eloath iu the presence of six male aud tw'o fomale relatives. Clo ������ry declared he was riot burtiiug hie wife, but he was burniug a witch, and she would disappear up the chimney. When the woman was dead her husband collected liar cbarrod remains iu a sheet and buried them in a dyke beneath tho inud, where thoy wore found a week later. The prisoners, who wero remanded, narrowly oscapeel lynching at tho hands of the excited crowd in and about tho court-room, and had to bo removed to gaol uuder the escort of a strong force of constabulary. Fate of a Cowardly Father, j A Russian correspondent writeu to the London Chronicle as follows: "A peasant with his wife and child were driving in a sledgo drawn by one horse Irom tho Nes- hinsk market to Bobrovi'.z. Soon thcro met tho travolcis' oyo3 a pack of hungry wolve.8. Tiie bravo horse still galloped forward, while the poasant, seeing that escape waB impossible, proposeil to throw the child to trie wolves, but, the mother would not consont. noroupon .a short struggle took place in the sledgo, which ended in both wife and child being thrown out. to tho ravenous creatures that were running after the slodgo on both sides of tho road. The wolves, giving all thoir attentiou to tho horse, did not oven notice tho mother aud child loft to their fate on the roadside. Those eventually reached a neighboring village iii safety, while tho cowardly and unnatural peasant foil a victim to his hungry pursuers. IVORY IN AFRICA. What lia* Hecoiue or the Millions of Dollar*, Worth ot Head Ivory. Nothing that comes out of Africa.oxcept diamonds and gold, is so much sought for as ivory. Nothing in tropical Africa has incited so much enterprise and inelustry among white menj Arabs,-, anei blacks as the collection anil exportation of this article, t-'ome interesting questions that perhaps have never occurred to many people have recently - been asked by an English writer. The Englishman says, what is undoubtedly true, that for many centurie hundreds of thousands of elephants- have been wandering through the forests of Africa He' mentions the well-known lact that elephants are a favorite prey ot lions, and, of course, when their flqah is devoured their tusks and skeletons are left on the ground. Ho says that for ages the natives have undoubtedly killed elephanlB for food as they do to-day, and lhat the ivory, having no value to th������ni, was left whore the animals fell. 'There ere still a few tribes in the ' '' Congo basin who are utterly iguoraut of the" fact that elephants' tusks'liavo any commercial value. They hunt the. animal with their poisoned arrows unci spears, bu seek nothing but its flesh. Some of th**se hunters fashion small tusl.s into war trumpets, but most of tlit-m leave the ivory with the bones." Only oi few years ago not one Upper Congo elephant hunter in a hundred attached any value whatever to the tusks, and most of the dwarfs, who are the best native hunters, have no idea that ivory in worth lifting'from the ground. Then, of course, many of the animals die a natural death, their flesh is devoured by wild beasts, anei their bones and tusks lie where rhe elephant breathed his last. . a , Tie Englishman wishes to know what has become of all these 'millions of dollars worth of dead ivory. " Has any considerable part of it been recoveied and taken to the European markets, or eloes it deteriorate aud disappear on the ground whore it is left ? He recalls the fact that seimo of the Mammoth ivory, buried for many centuries in the' tundras of Siberia, has been found in good condition, and he wonders if the'countless tusks that'have dropped to the earth in Africa have been iost to commerce. It is not difficult to answer these questions, for scores of explorers havo giveu them some attention. Comparatively little of this dead ivory ever has .been taken to market or ever ,wili be. A great many of.the elephants that meet their death naturally or are, the prey of wild beaats, or of natives who' ewe nothing for the tusks, leave their bones and ivory iu that wide, tropical belt of prolific vegetation where the .grass grows from four to" six feet'high. Every year in May aud June this tall grass becomes dry auel yellow, and in,the two suoceer'tui!; months the natives kindle those great fires that bla/o all over tropical Africa. It is easy, with intense heat, to destroy every quality that gives value to ivory.', Ono such fire half calcines the thickest tusk, and the next year's blaze completes the work <-of destruction. , * . Ofteu the animal falls into a. region which iu the rainy season is turned into a swamp. '-The heavier part of the tusks, detached from'the skull, .sinks into, the mud and,is completely embedded in the soil, leaving a foot or two of tho ends in the air. These are 'destroyed by the succeeding fires, and on. many occasions the underground portions have been dug up in fairly good condition. They have been' brought to light by the hoes of the native women while preparing fresh ground for their gardens. The sagacious lion often waits for his prey at places on the banks of streams where elephants resort for water ; and after wild boasts have pickekl the bones clean, the head aud tusks sometimes slip elown ill to the stream and are lost to view. This, at least," is the only explanation" that has beeu offered for the fact that in regions where ivory has had no commercial value, the" skeletons ' of elephants without the heads and tusks have been found on river banks. Thousands of elephants wander, also, in damp and gloomy forests wliere grass fires never penetrate, and the soil is spongy with moisture and decaying vegetation. When the animal meets his fate in these hot and steaming regions, falling leaves soon spread a thick cover over his bones and hasten its decay. There is no doubt that tbe tusks aro long preserved in good condition, but t'ney are beyond the It u of the most eager ivory hunter. When Congo steamers begau to ply on aouv) of the upper tributaries,and whito traders held out hamifuls of tempting beads and brass wire to oxohange for ivory, a na- tive hunter would sometimes say to them, "Why, I killed an elephaut out in the wooels a long time ago. I'll go out there and get the tusks." The now source of pro- fit was a windfall, and the woods were scoured for dead ivory. ' In some villages, aito, a lucky trader would sometimes find a considerable quantity5 of ivory that had been accumulating for years, it is believed, however, that the ivory that has been lost to commerce in the last fifty years far exceeds the amount brought to the markets. ���������Forty Murder Indictments. - A despatch from Mew Orleans Bays : ��������� The Grand Jury on Tuesday brought in forty indictincnia for murder against men implicated in lhe riots of March 12. Tho urv also presented a report oi\ the'subject f tho riots, which it has been investigating for nearly two wooks. Tho blame for tho riots anil' tbe lo-.s of life i3 placcel on tho authorities. Tlie trouble has been brewing for months, and energetic action on ihe part of tho authorities would have prevent- oel the outbreak. The police are also denounced for iheir cowardice, anei attention is called to the tact that they did not make a single arre*st, anei fired only one shot, and thiil at one of the negros who was attempting to oseiape from the rioters.* The Grand Jury declares then the attack on the negro laborers was thoroughly organized and arranged in advance, auel the foice of the rioters, armed with shotguns anei rifles, began marching on tho loveo as early us o o'clock in the morning. A Narrow Escape. Mother���������Oh, doctor, I'm so glad you havo come. Wo havo jiiHt had such a scaro 1 Wo thought at first Johnny had swallowod a sovereign. Doctor���������And you found out that he hadn't? Mother���������Yes; it was only a shilling. God writes tho Gospel not in tbo Bibl, alone, but on troeB aud flowers, and clouds I and star*. | SEW SHIPS FOE. BUJAYT GREAT BRITAIN WILL SPEND THIS YEAR $93,500,000 ON WARSHIPS. Tills Clns nn lele.n or the Kesources or lho British Umpire���������Fiily Xcw shins in Two Vcars-V.ivii! Appropriation*, hy the t-caelfii^ .Vulieiu-i for the Cm-rcul Vear��������� Eiigliind .Slill SI an els in tbe i'ront U-iuk. i The British budget for the coming year bears upon its front the very large item of ?93,500,000 for naval expenses. This not only gives us an idea of British, resources, but it shows that England ia well under way with the five-year shipbuilding programme laid down about a year ago in continuation of the work accomplished under tha Naval Defence Act of ISS9, which has added 70 modern vessels to the British navy. While inhumation is lacking as to tho exact amount of this estimate that is applicable to the construction of uew-rhips, the increase of $'J0,0< 1,000 over the estimates for the current year is doubtless due to the latgor number of vehsels co be laid down - during the coming year. Tlio naval activity ilispl..ye*el by neighboring powers' during the past few years, has hail a marked in-" fluonce ou England's naval policy. A,very comprehensive plau has been outlined for new construction during ,tho next few years. ' ��������� > Tin: J'11.0(1 HAM Ml". as marked out for JS'Jj-00 provides for the building of 50 new ships of ��������� various kinds. One or the significant items is afforded'by ' tho four first-class, cruisers, which arc an improvement on the Blenheim type, 'The Americans say���������without much ground ��������� that iu thess ships tbe British Government are '.' making uii attempt to equal or'exceed the performances of tho Columbia and Minneapolis of tho United Stated navy." There.is also a rumor , that they are- to match two ," corsairs" vvhich France pro-' poses to build. > However that muy bo the new British cruisoi-H will bo very remark- power. The proposed '. will be 2S feet longer, and will have 1,000 hor3e-power additional. The four second- class aud two third-class -cruisers, the twenty torpedo boats, and the twenty torpedo , boat destroyers included in Live estimates will b-3 modifications of .tyi.es already repieseutetl in'tlie British navy. Under the Spencer five-year programme,ol vvhich this work ,is . a pari, there ��������� art already under construction eight 15,-- 000-tou battleships , of the Magnificent type, oue 12,500-ton battleship, two 14,000-ton cruisers, nine 5,600 -ton cruisers, and four sloop3. In' .the past five yours 102 vessr-ls of *all sizes and types, exclusive of torpedo boats, have beo^i added to the .British navy, 27 of them having been completed during 1S94.' It is interesting in studying, the naval question to comparo the appropriations for this purpose by the loading nations of tho. world for the current year. The following' figurcB show ' . ' ,. Tin: totaIj aiu'ropbiations for now construction.' England appropriates this year'i?3*2.04,"),.'110 ; .France, 1-316,359,860; United States, SO.994,725; Russia, .^B,3S4,llil ; Germany, ^2,745,4(51 ; and Itaiy, ������4,825,000. The activity of tho French in naval matters has no doubt awakened a good deal of ouorgy in England. Only a few weeks ago the London Times "counselled those who seriously concern themselves with the Btrongth of the niivy, and with the uatioual interests involved iu its sufficiency, to' watch with oalona and even suspicious vigilance the provisoes made in tho forthcoming estimates." The work laid out by the French Ministry of Mariuo for liS')5 includes the construction of a battleship of 11,'232 tons displacement, two first-class cruisers of S,000 t*nd 8,5C0 tons, one second-class 4,000-ton cruiser, "two third-class cruisers, two soa-going tor- , pedo boats, five first-class torpedo boats, five 14-ton aluminium torpedo boats,.and a despatch boat for foreign service Three years ago France prepared a^ scheme of naval construction that providoei for the building of S2 vessels within a period ofteu years ; but changes in the Ministry ' of Marine have somewhat curtailed this plan. , According to the latest available figures, which are but a few months old, of the naval standing of the leading nations with regard to the number of their vessels, England still stands pre-eminently in^the front rank. She has 73 armored ships, while the United Slates has 47, France 4.1, Russia ���������10, Germany 32, and Italy l**. In unar- morcel warships iEngland again lakes the lead with 238 vessels, France has 11-7, Italy 72, Russia 52fGermany 39, and the United States 12. ? " . A GREAT LOSS. Ah Inventor's sclcnflllc In volition Burucev c _i||s Secret Cime with the ItnUillii-. A fire which burned down a factory in New York city has probably destroyed au important scientific invention for the improvement of the . electric light. The inventor is alive, but it is feared that his secret is gone with tho .building that 001111111101! it in its almost completed mechanical embodiment. The genius had so iven himself up to the heir of his invention that he is now worn oui in body and mind. The blow which thu destruction of his apparatus now inflicts ou him may mako tho recoinm neoment of, his work impossible. Few have the cairn iortitude of Sir Isaac Newton and Thomas Carlyle, who set about and 'rewrote tho great works that wero destroyed by lirei.in one case throu'jh the fault of a little dog.in the other through the carelessness of a friend. The world cannot ui'ord to lose any important elihcov- eries or inventions which vvoubl promote our control over olectricity, and increase tho utility of lhat great force of nature. We have made great progress in our subjugation of this force, but it may be that we have not more than begun. In its application to lighting purposes alouo thtre is room tor vast development, a development that' may very materially aller the conditions of life in some respects. If Tesla's workshop had not been burned possibly tho invention he was engaged on micht have proved a great advanco on ail other lamps in point of efficiency and economy. It is to be hoped on his own account ��������� and on that of science the Iobs of his apparatus may not crush tho inverW, An odd palindromic sentence���������one which roads the same backward as forward���������is "Draw pupil's lip upwarel." *PAOE 4. THE KOOTENAY MAIL. LOCAL ITEMS. . _._��� (> Xo hool�� nnd shoos like* Slatei'--. A hir-41* co:i-i-<;:i!i:e!it n>I" ll iLtt-r, Bae-oii iind Hii.n.s iit.J. 1.1. Sihhnld's. Vi'in. Vii-ki-r*,, worn, elown the rivei last .Hoiiil.iy, having some official hu-i- ik-ks in the* Liii-dcMii iinel Trout Lake disti'ic-ts. Charlie Noi-li'ins. Andy ll'itikci and Harry Ellis came* elown in a houl, from Gold" Stream, arrivin<j Tuesday even- i��S- Thennns Lewie ha*' hi*e'n hoar-el from ntl2eiine.nfi.il. lie- spunks we'll of the* , 'country, iind is, very liopurul eif hi<- prnspect.-. in Ice-ritiiiLV then.*. , , ' Slater's hoots nnd slini's- in men's, woman's, mi-so-,'. aiul chilili en's al ' Coursior-'s. Spe-e-iiil sci-vie-c*. Wf'fc he-Id hy all t he* ��� c-hm-e-h (���on';j"i-(*:c.il ion-- of llo vol-loki- on Eii-t-i-Simibiy -iliiV.Mi��ihe,di-l. Pi-0-.hy- te-r-iiin. <"'!iui'-!i ol' Hn^l.-nnl and H<jiiiaii Caflioiie-. 'Air. in i'd M.i-s. l.'ohort Hayrriond loft la**l Jloiiel.'iy eivcniiit; for Trail Crook, where Idr, Itayiiiniiei experl-* to locate' in ho.-.hie.--:*. ' Wo wish him tho host, of ' SlK'l'C*,**. o V.V lo.ir'n that liov. P. V- Liin^ili. , whei le-fl N'oi'i'.oii I'd- lho. oast several wc-erk.s affo. h.-iM-e-civ eel a fall from the Fen-L Kiie* Pr-oshytor-i.-rn -i-liui-eh, in Onlario. - ."Mis. Kirkup arrive-elJVom V.uiconvoi- Thin **il;iy ineii-niner, ami, took the ste'iiiiil'r Llie*-.iiiii- evening; to join hoj; liii'-hmid. .1.'. Kiikup, liovcmme-i-l Atront, at Kossliuiii. , -Serv ices' will'ho hold in flieMeihoelitfl church noxt' Sunday at KKM.a.ni. and 7-30 p.iu. hy Rt-v-..'0. A. l.Yeecnijioi-. Sunday School at 2*o0. Stranger-, al-, ways welcome. ' , diaries UuU.t'ii '.-niel Tom 'Downs wum: up froni Biiinroi-k Point to'lay in a, stork eif Mipplie-, and i-ctiiriioel Fri- elay morning, in a row houl, Sum Hill t;ii*:ing' p.-Ks.s.-iyi' with them. Tno g;old lodges ol' Carihoo Crook are' attrae-t'iig iiolie-o. thi;* spring amou^ the inini'i-s ,-uiil capitalists of Trail Crook. Game's Crook nnd J3'iK Bond will ore long receive there attention. " , 1j. 11. Harrison, a harribtorniiel notary pn'olic-, originally from New Brunswick, who has spout ionr yoai's in the pro- vin.-jo, and ono ye'.-ir- at Nelson, has. decided to' lo'c.iU-. at lievolstoke nnd hits opened an office hero. We have l oe-eivoel from Jas. McMillan efc Co., Minneapolis, Minn., their pi-ii-i? list eif April -I, ,-, lid it can he referred to at .this office? hy any one interested irr fur-s. ��� Their- "aelve-rtisetnent appears regularly in the Mail. The black dog, Carlo, always scon ������about the-, front ol* Hull's butcher shop, ,\vas poisoned, by someone* yesterday niorning. He- had tho peculiar trait of always carrying a chunk of ico in lib; mouth. The person who laid the poison has not reported. , A car load of prime beef cattle arrived from Lord Aheidoon's Coldstream ranch near Vernon on Srrridity, .and wntiiowii the. river to Trnvos & Farley, of Nelson, a el.iy or two later. Mr. Ki*lle*.y, eif his Lordship's rane-h, went, along" to see. them safely to their- destination. Tom Lister wont down the' river last vveek tei look al'tet his.mining claims -In the Slocan. He vvil! he i-e-ineinhorod iis a resident, ot" Revelstoke live- years while the snicK.ei- was under con- Four c.-i:loads of pofatoe-s oxpee-t.'el ;il .1. J J Sihh.il.Vs.. A. Hamilton, a ii-.ippei-.-nid pnrtne.r of Me-IU-.in. is in fiom Iiuwiiie-pi-eok. , Roe Cour.Me-r'.- dis-play of SlatiTs hoots ami shoes. "vV. I-toiel w(-iit west, lo his ranch at Salmon Arm, on Tue<-day evening's ti'.-n'n. ��� W.Thomlinson pd��(,iii,tsloraii(l manager for Ijoiirne' llio. nt New Deuvoi is in (.own. Murdoch Mi-nne and Wild Bill got in ye.slerd.ay fro:,i their trapping oxciu-s- iim up the r-ivoi-. " The price of bar silver-in New York on Ti'r.usd.iy April ISth i.s ijirofetr at 07 ci'iit.s pi-r- ounce '��� Hugh Ho.--, lias gone down to his i-am-li ab the.; tlioi'.t.h of the i-iver, and will put, in some garden stulf.' ."Mike. Gi-ady lolurnoel this nioi'iiiug from his wir.iei- st.-e'vin California, .-uitl is in line health anei spirits*. Tom Taylor <>l"Ti-o'-,t Lake' City, hu�� boon appointeel milling l-i'cojdoi- I'oi-- th.-itdixLi-it-t. A gooel apiioiuliheiit. nge i wtrnction. His father, who is now in- speetoi- ol sewei-s at Winnipeg, superintended the .building of the smelter. Capt. Robert Sanderson brought the steamer Marion lo llie upper landing on Thursday ai'tei-noon at throe o'eloek ���the* first airivitl at I'o\ elstoke feu- ihe* soiisein. She had no tnuihle inputting through. The stoainei- Arrow, .which stai-te'el last .Afonday, got onto thenar at Gioen Slide ,-uid "is s;ill hanging there. �� , The annual vesii-y nieoting of t,h,j udhei-enUs to the linghsli Ciuuvh,'Wit- lielel on Tuesday evening, hut ll vvas deemed he>t to ad jotu n lo Wi-dnowl.iy f-voning, April 2*>t'u, at 7%*10 o'clock, when iti'v. Mi.' Yeillanil Is ovnee-rod to 'j'lio family of h*. Adirii- have dooi<li'd to I'eiii.'iiii iii fovvii for lb,- pi-eseni, .-uiel perhaps Tor 1 he .suiniiier, Dai! Allon'r^'hi'ielg'* g.-ing .-tl'le'i' work- itt-ounil Iti'vel'-toke all witife'r left on .Meiiie'i.'iy for ('l-.iigoll.-ie'-hie. . f[. l.ougheviel has turned his house ,-ii'ormd, so that its front, will fronton ,,the stivet. and still sl.-tnil on ins I-i'. R. 'J'. Lower-y'of the Ne-w' Deuyer Lciyv, r.-tini* in- l'roni llu- we*.-*l Tuesd.iy liiorning and left for hoine- e>,i Tliiu-.s.iay ov'euing. ' Tho Columbia -fc Kootenay Railway anil Navigation G'oiujiiiny will hole! its annual share-In.drier's, meeiing at,V.-in- coiiver on May 1st. ���Andy Park's. Dan Ciillospic, Bill Bryant and Hoi-t Lynn, geil iii froni Smith Greek Tuesday oetvoiiing in.rt boil I,,- bejiiig she>rl of ])i-ovihioiis.. I.). A. iMcDongaltl. pi-opi'ieioi' eif the Lelanil lfote'l, Nakusp. ji.-isseel through Revelstoke ou, ThuiVelay, reliir-iiing from Honolulu, whore he hat ^pent the winter foi-his'herdiii. The Y. P. S. O. I-:. will hold their- meeting ,-it 7:f5() next Monday the :22nel inst. Suli.jeict: On Giiai-ei - Ove'i What? A tenipei-ance liioeting, Nvh. IV", li to 2S. All aie reouo&teYl to .ittetid. Hor-rii-e D. Ilnme. who acquireel a reputation as a caterer- i:i tln.'et!. P. It. dining c-ixi-sevvii-e, took the li-aiii Mon- elay'ejvening, anil wiil visit Nelsei-.i nnd the mining e-atiip-s of Seiuth ICoolenay. It is reported that C'.-il. Pi-yton has sc*ciu-e*er a benui em the Iriine-an 'anei. Lfti'do,, two chiinis iu rlit-> Wagnei- group in the Laidt^in or Tiout, Lake disti-ii-l. The aruount of, the bonel is $15,000. The stevimer Kootenai is niakiiig el.iily Irijis hel)wee��u Nakusp .-uiel the, Wigwam cai-i-yirrg ore. The Lytfem has Vi'Siuni'd ser-vieo hetvye-on Hohson and Northport stopping at Trail and coirnecting with the "Nelson & l-'ort Sheppnrd iit Waneta. Ge*o. Lafotmo. Frank Vandall and Tom Heirnesey'.-iia-ive-il from Frenedi Greek Friday afternoon. Lafoi me geit oil" the hoiit above the canyou. and walked in, because he eliel' not want to i-isk the huge, amount 'of golel dust he was bringing by rieliug through the dangerous canyon. Slater's boots and slmes are the rrrost comsoi table, elui-ablo and, neatest foot- ,wear in America. The iuiiiual.iiii-e'tiiigol' the ICamleiops distrii't of the Methodist church will be holel at Itevelstoki* e-eim'ineiieing May lst at 0:130 a.in. All the minisUM-s and many of the leading l.iymen of the district are exi-octoel to bo present. The' people of Roveisroke shnulel -how their hospiiality on thi-* eiccasiou. At an ox.<miiratioii held by lnspee-tor- Bin-lib dtu-inir his visit of*; inspection to the Kevelsloke publie- School, Miss Until Valentine obtained the* pe-n:eut.igtj re- quii-e'd for adiiii-*?ioii to a high school. Mis=. Vjilerdmc i.s io ho t-oiigratuhned o.i lie,*i -ilives*. ;i- -ho is lhe first pupil | oi the school to try Hie-examination. ! 13i".ico I'l-.nldock. of Ui- Halcyon Hot ' Spring-- hot-'!. Arrow lako.-.-pent **ev- , i er.-ildavs in io-vvn. ,r.id w-ijI south again ' i'J [^S OF THE DISTRICT. Tin" Ppmsinck mine's have consumed, nearlv ?'K), 000 acres of forest for timbering, having a value of .$55,000,000. The Pilot Bay smelter had shipped out .300 tons of bullion two weeks ago, ,-nifl at20 tons a day since the quantity must now exceed SIX) tons. D. G. Gorbiii says about the Red Mountain Railway: " Work is going on along the proposed line of the road into Trail Greek. The right-of-way is being cleared across the line, and we expect semie day'to see' the dirt Ilyibg in all directions." - A large party is being equipped at Spokane to prospect on the Simiika- moeti 'rivet- and its tributaries in British Columbia. One' prospee-tor claims to have discovere-d'an extremely rich vein of gold ore last summer and he is one of I he party. ' The wagon ro.-iel hetvvejen Rosslaud .and Northport is in very had condition. A siv-hoise te.-iin with 1.S00 pounds of freight vvas stue-lc ,-niel spent the night on the leiael. The r-o.ul tei Trail Landing e-.in still be used, -and the eir-e is lutwtly coining out that way. A portion of the plant of the Nelson Fle'ctric Light, Company will he shipped lo Rosslnnd as soon as navigation emeus down the ColumbiaTtiverand .installed hero. \V. N. Rolfe; of the- Nelson Sivvniill Company is the prime mover irr the undertaking���RosHland Miner. ' Col. Bilker has'"'gone to Toronto, whore he,will deliver an address before the Dominion Educational-Association. 'After the sessions of the* Association are concluded he will proceed to Ottawa to confer with the Dominion Govevn- nn'iil, em several important matters, especially on the subject of immigrate ur. ,, c , Ore of .a similar cluu-ac-tei lo that eif tho Trail Greek mines is known to exist on the'headwaters eif Champion Creek whii'h ' falls into the Columbia River ahouf, five miles above Trail Lauding. This ore was first discovered in 1S01 ami several locations were made on it anei e>ue yew's .assessment done; the e-liiims were al'te*rvv.ai'ils .abandoned. They were situated eight or nine miles from the Columbia River through a mountainous couiitry'. Hon. Col. Bilker, Provincial Secretary, met the peeiple eif Golden Inst week in a public meeting to discuss matters* of great importance to the town. A County Court for Geilden is particularly desired. Other matters discussed were ,that the C. P. R. had notified the school trustees to move the school house as it was on their land, and the complaints made of $2.50 charged for inspecting fruit trees. TABLE Showing the Dales and Places of Courts of Assize, Nisi Prius,' Oyer ajid Terminer,'and Genera! Gaol Delivery for the year 1895. .v-"' SrRiNG Assizes. Nanaimo Tuesday.. 7lh May New Westminster. Tuesday . .14th May Vancouver Tuesday . .21st, May Clinton...: 'Monelav . .27th May Victoria Tuesday .'.28th May Kamloops Monday .. .'Irel June Vernon Monday . 10th .1 une *1 hmaid- Friday,.. .14th .1 une *NeIs(ui : .Wednesday, ,10th June "Special Assize. PROVINCIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE. bo prerfont. it especially d.-sirer] that nil who are intore.-ted in chinch m.r!- [ Tjiiu-elny evening. Mr, fYaddue-ic rr t'-rs will make it eor.wMrient j.o lit.-I p<Vr-l-that ihiM-i--is .\n iue-.vii.-iiiir nurn present. ��� , be*r of p'-op'u* vs-ifii.-c lu*. li'-.dlii ;m. H 'The executive of the Provincial U'li.m eif Clii'i.-lii.f, Mnde.-tvor hold a meeting at Viotenia, Api-il 12," and made lhe final iirraugemeritn for the plen-ute r^'.-oi* lai-s."- '-iiir.iiit-i a-.i. at im t. ti. annual convention which vvil! be held ' wll*,J .I.e-.e, -pii-i^- kr.'i" :i. .anei :.o .-x>-��� i u- u> do a u->:i,o.--u-i tno-fine he.'t/'l il.'.ik,' ���- e-f tho VV.itOi-.s ���o bocoi.iini: well ;i.m\i Rev. Di. Cl.uk. of principal spo.ikoe-.. ; ,| theie M.ey 11-1(5. Do.-ton. vvill be tlu- ;,,,,n,|..., -t anil leadiiogcloigym.'ti and l.iyineir ki tiiko i he oilier p.u-t.-. The ,iti ondKiioo- jii-eunisos to ho largo. .A par ty of live prt-tspci-roi-s loll I!.*\ o!- ste.i!%<; la.-i Sunel.iv rnoruirrg in <���. re-w boat for ;i long pro-p-". ti'iir |i-i]i. Tiiv\ will -.top fir-tat C.-itnc'- Cic'k. Thoy vv>'i'o U (i-r-y W.ilkoi. Jen* S';i)i,"y. Jn.. Me>ia*. .Alt', l-'oui'iiier find Roht, '���!"- Diaimid. So.ti" of the uiimbor .u .- piM-i'-nced men. anil tlu-y will -_rrv* .v g.eoi! aes-eelllli t if i l> O 111-. -1 V" * ! I ���'' 'I ��� ��� I h ��� .- :s.-'ii) i-oV"i-. Wnlkt;- Ii is .niuoei on ,f ii ��� Yukon iu Al.i-ka. Mi, A. S. Farwoll ,et ri v ,'il tr ,'.i V'o- r.-i-ii!.i i .Aleind iv murniiig mid li rr I',.;- Nol ion I In-- iuk-oveniiii;. ; I--e eeiilh ������,,* til.' |e'pe>l-| th.ll 111'- iorills i.i' .i.|.-).. licit 1-,'t vi'.-'-n 1 In- Doiiiiiii-iji .no! I'lio-n, i.il y .-so. , :.i r'.-'i ' ! in*,T * e>7, last ovoijin;-. .ill<>_ eiirhe Tr.^ "-lit :���-. v. De-ng.-ni 2A-.-V. i.-h-^i'i Land).-, l.'ii at,,! 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Hi,- iiih.-r IS HONOUR the Lieutenant- Go vornor has been pleased to j make the following appointment:��� J ' , 1st March, 1S0-5. t .Liiiy Dew Graham:, Esquire, to be | Cover,-!mc-iit Agent at Jtevedstoke, ; A.--i-tant tlommissioner of Lands and , \^ror'n.�� fur the Revelstoke Division of j tho We-st Kootenay District; Assessor ! auel Ceillec-tor undf-r the Assessment , a'lei Re'veriuo Titx Acts, anei (Villector (>\~ iJevr-nne: Alining Recorder under tlie- ''Mineral Act'"'and the -'Placer Mining Ae-t." for the Rovelsteike* Jfin- i'l-j- Divi-ioti of the West KooUnray District: R'-gistr,ar of the County ("oui i of Kootenay heilelon at Ilevei- si,,kf-: Cl.-ik of lhe. Peace for the e'outity Court e>f Keieitonay; District - R-gi-fi.ti- ol P.h'fhs. Deaths and Mar- i ,.���'_'<���*-!. iindor the- '��� Births, Deaths and , "el.i"! i.igo-e Act:" Provincial Police t e,is .t eb!e-. ,'uid to poi-fonm the-eliilies , .ill'.ile-il t<i Stipi-ndi.ir'y Magisti-.-ite-s iili'le'i- ten' "Bib*, of Sale Act.." vice* .lob I Kll-ivlip land. K*-epiii-o, ti-iuisferred t^o : no I.i.i.i ��� -I-- -el f iiiii! lie. ( il ,K eiliv ,'i , ,1 I i'i 'Mill OI, briel:.'!' .<, ie-1 v e-i! oi 0, .-,,-, l, I un - IO "I I i ll,' v\ iI i I -Ki ll IV ������! ,iill"fll -. e Dili 1 ,-.lhl.t.* bolt, have b i ;, ul (ll ,1 I !io p.ll lie-nlic- k 10 .VV ll VV il iilli .1 -iioi I mij.-or ({'-iito'-. [ii i h.ip -. i>ilju-i,i-d. Mr. II. .1. C.P.I.. ,il,\' V e--l \\'(-(lli M i Kihi.il i iok. I bo iii-ulge- *.n "III, (>t 1 hi- eliv islem. g;iM- ill" i.i,I ,,,,- In idgo ai-i-eis-, I he- f'e>! i nu li:,i .��� ' io ,i' ,i: ,<-|, !������<.! ltllli.il ioll. 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I I I'c \\-OI \ ��� 1!, : . .'., t il 1 .-e-i 1*. ,t .jn')' i -i ��� v " It',. ,' '. ." li VV ll 'in1 ',. II 'A ill 11 1! uial' ,- a,, ^mM, 5Ii';Ii"-t I a ho.'it's u-lel jui; ...i I)- ie,re l-'iiii m oflie-^'i-: Hon. pi osie!'-:il. Ite-v. ( i'roi-llllior ; v ioe--pi,.-i(ii.|il ui '. li i* Kuril-floor Do, .111 iio-uf, Mi-.'I. .lu vii o-pi-csidi'iii ol Soe-.'.ii No, a ���in JMi-.- A. ,'*,o; 1 no* : iic.t i,-(i, Millie- I'e-.rlii-us : soe-j-e-i.-iry. '.!. Nortliov;. ,M. e! in.; a 'iiolelo-, ci-y Woi'lnos- day ovoning iii M u'cioi-R. -All iioi-dinily wclcoiii'.'.' . A. r ],, n ���\>'. MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape, Cream'of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant; 40 YEARS THE STANDARD \"tiT!( rl r.S IJKRKBV GIVEN, that _N a * it ring of th*- County Comt will ui- no'(!i**ri .*t Jl^v-oSfoko, J'i.C, or, Fri- i;-v. tie- !7th day uf May, A .1). MK>, ,:t Ju o*e ho k in r he-fen e-i.o(,n. ' J. KIRK I'P, I'* gi*t'*ar <"our,ty fJourt. Re'i.'l-tok- Ajo-il .V.h. 1VI5. ^������HALYCDfi SPRIMOS HOTEL ��� Ai*row Liiko, r- Vi., -.- '.|imi ,it 1 lu iy C'slcbraSed Hot ' Springs Nt Mie nr.ujiiiiiio'l.iri'iri of i;i,< -IM. "RT-f.fi-31,.',0 to ^2.50 a elfi.y. If.thu 2." tuntii 6".(.ll O-flvra for 9t. :-jji(-< 1.1! .'.ili-l 0, fliidiMlM o'-,',', il,' iii'iiiII, , net In .in.niK'ei. fiiWieon, Crruldock te Co. ^OJR SALE. .ee* i/i-'l Kit l-'li|.- - \l.l-. nn-lle.lcl .did (omI'iiIh, le>'cled ,il -,,,i|(i iii,| ,,r AooM l.nkc ,-nil- 1 ..tlli'il jlj: Eilb PLAGE TO. BUY iner HARDWARE, AND STOVES EOCENE IN BARRELS AND CASES. PRATT'S ASTRAL OIL IN CASE! IIjIKIIEIR ��Sc EjXjUiS. POST-OFFIGE STORE. Gents' Furnishings, e V Patent Medicines And TOILET ARTICLES of every description. Specialty If you want to reach the People in the North Riding of West Kootenay YOU SHOULD ���4 & ertise i 000000000000000 IF VOU WANT You can get it done at the " Mail" Office If i-- w ,vp]���v THK. WIGWAM HOUSE!, FOR. $800. 1.11(1 i:< :l Ifljtiel ���.-((.il 1 id fur I ni(lo. i!l l,���.-.(ll.etel' In ^l Ml Dine '" 1,1'.', V, ' l,l pi,)|il 11 |, ,\i ,.,.l; 011 Him ���( I vv EQUAL. IN STYLE-AND N ANY OFFICE G ei (1 ei (> o ei ei o <i o o o o o n o ei ei o o 0 e) o o e> o'o o O O O O O O O O O ���RE\ ELSTOKE, WEST KOOTENAY, B.C. *" iM^^tfita'SJi
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