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BC Historical Newspapers
The Nakusp Ledge was published in Nakusp, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, from October 1893 to December 1894. The paper was subsequently published as the Ledge both in New Denver, from December 1894 to December 1904, and in Fernie, from January to August 1905. The Ledge was published by Robert Thornton Lowery, a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919.
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Volume VII. No 29. NEW DENVER, B. C, APRIL 19, 1900. Price, $2.00 Year- m&mf&m&s m^m&m^mm��m$$$$ *^o ��S wheels of commerce in our town is one from a San Francisco firm, promising-, like all the others, a dollar's worth of goods for 99 cents. It seems ' impossible for the s.s. Slocan to cut herself loose from the freight barge these days, and if the present pressure of business .keeps up if i.s just possible that the C P. R. will get ��100 a head and build another station at the siding*. The right foreleg' of the old stove has been found and will be held in readiness so when the balance of the sole warmer is gathered together it can be put in place, thereby saving the corporation 10 cents. shoo an ariN.KKAr. Fi.e.vr. Camp Gossip Concentrated for the Benefit of the Paid-Up Subscriber. .ocai/ chit-chat. ) Jacob Dover has in Nelson the, filth largest jewelery store in Canada. A Fred Williamson left for Kettle River Kaslo man, wdio had been reading' Tin- last week �� Liouiii!*, stepped in the other day find A money order ollice has been opened bought SHOO worth of goods from Dover at Halcyon. Louise Brehany sang to a 170-dollar house Thursday night. The Mere building* on the water front is about ready for occupancy. Garden making' and fence building- have become epidemic in.town. Sei vices in the Methodist church next Sunday, morning and evening. Rev. A. E. Roberts, pastor. Rev. John G. Duncan, M. A., will preach.in the Presbyterian church next Sunday at tl a.m. All welcome. Contractor McLean is putting' the finishing touches on the Mclvenzie home, on the plateau overlooking' the town. There was a temperance lecture at the wharf in New Denver last week. The Slocan took on a car load of empty bottles. Assayer West met with a painful accident in his laboratory on Monday. As a result his hands and face were badly burned. , . Charlie Caldwell, of Kaslo, was married at Spokane on Monday to Alice Grace Sweet, of Vernon, Rev. -I. A Wood officiating. Several Sandonites spent Easter Sandfly and Monday in America's Lucerne. They thoroughly enjoyed the bright sunshine and clean, dry sidewalks. Two hundred and fifty dollars expended on the government block would add S.IOOO to the value of the property, but apparently the government is too poor to make the investment. It is just possible that there is a land this side of paradise more beautiful than New Denver on a bright, balmy spring* morning, but we haven't heard of it up to the time of going to press. Another good attraction will occupy the boards at the Bosun Friday night. The Webb-Hodsdon company will give one of their pleasing recitals, under the auspices of the Presbyterian church. Another fair admirer of New Denver is Miss Louise Brehany. She said in Sandon that in all her travels she had never seen a more beautiful spot than the Lucerne. Louise fell in love with the place. We reciprocate. The Paris exposition has [opened. After mature consideration The Ledge force has concluded to forego the pleasure of the trip this 3rear and will put itself in readiness to attend when the exposition is held at Rosebery or Silver- ton. Frank N. O'Neil arrived in New Denver from Napanee, Ont., Monday. He will size up the situation with a FLOAT I'ltOM SANDON. W. J. Armstrong- & Co. have opened a tailor shop. Quite a number of Sandon people attended church in New Denver on Sunday. W. If. Lilly has been appointed coroner. No inquest will be held on black jack stiff?. The female negro population of this burg is t lie largest in the Slocan. Superstition must prevail among* the sports of the silver city. Sandon's next mayor will probably be John Burkley. He has a mind of his instead of going to Spokane for t-licm. j mv|J ai|,, is not .lfl.ai(* to do w|mf|u. Live merchants catch the. trade of their i c,,nsj(|ei-< js rjo-'it own countrv. i .... ,. ". , II he eating- houses have 'formed a The Slocan must be considered thej ���,,,���,, .,,���, ,|iade thp niinimum pi.;ce for suckers paradise, judging from the 111(i.,js ������.-, cents number of catalogues sent into it L>v | slmuDl the big departmental stores of the east and west. The latest to obstruct the The local scab paper irow some of its heavy editorials ;it this arrangement, and have every man's name struck off the voters' list who eats at this price. The Paystreak has put in a paper cutter and has the office swept every week. T paper is diseased with OONCENTKATKS FROM ROSSCAND. J. C. Drewry has bonded for the Canadian Gold Fields syndicate, the Sunset mine, near Whitewater, forS30,000. He has gone to Montreal and on his return will start development. As to the mining situation the Ross- land Miner Bays: A force of men were set to work yesterday upon the Le Roi mine, and a start has thus been made. The management state that this will be done upon the War Eagle and Centre Star early in the week. The certainty is therefore that the trouble in the camp is now a thing of the past. A few after surges, taking the possible shape of a few hitches in the details of the settlement will possibly mark the passing away of the recent disagreement. The Record finds that whatever decrease the shipments may show on account of the stoppage of the supply from the War Eagle and Centre Star is likely to be made up from the other mines which will come forward into the ranks of the regular shippers. The Josie has an electric hoist with a capacity of 300 tons in ten hours at the present depth i S3 s Louise Brehany Capti vatedMusic Lovers A Gratis Grading Gang Goes Grading A MUSIC At, ITEM. GRATIS GRADING GANG. Arlington mines stock litis reached-io cents. The lower tunnel tit the Ivanlioe is in .1.100 feet. Since Jan. 1st 040 tons of ore. have been shipped Iroin Slocan City. Another strike of five feet of ore is reported from the Rainhler-Carriboo. The Camp Mansfield properties are still paying S'LoO for 'light hour shifts prosperity, and if the editor does not of the shaft, and a counter-part of this use extreme caution his .bank account : machine is being installed in the No. 1. will become swelled and difficult to : The levels in both these mines are being- suppress. He i.s also liable to make : extended and they will become shippers the rival editor turn green, although j as soon as tramways have been built to for years the old man with voters in 1 the railroad and ore bins put in. These bis hair has been strictly orange. ; improvements have been delayed by the Charley Ciiffe is a great man audi snow. The Nickel Plate will be ready would be elected for the' provincial ' to ship ore about the same time, for its wrangling assembly at Victoria without i SO horse-power douple drum hoist, with the least trouble if all the voters were ; two cages,will be in operation in about knocked off except his own family. ' 10 days and can hoist 250 tons in about Charles is not a dude, hut he can write! 10 hours from a depth of 800 feet,, editorials heavy enough to crush a bull ! Levels have been run as far down as frog As tin orator he is sublimely sub-I'200 feet and will be run every 100 feet lime: to hear him plead for the poor, ! as soon as the 000-foot level is reached, down-trodden mine owner i.s enough to touch even the heart of a'eigar sign, and it is almost incrwdibl" that a man with such eloquence, would, ever have been touched for seven dollars. Charles isgreat although some dav the maggots will fORT STEKLK NOTES. i The North Star is now shipping 100 | tons of ore daily. i There are several claims on Wild chew his whiskers'' The people, should ! Horse creek which will be developed run him for something. Even if they ! this summer, cannot run him for the legislature they I The mystery surrounding the dis- It is said that the. Chaploau will erect, I should find him an ollice. Such a noble ! appearance of VV. W.Barker has not yet To hear an act of opera in New Denver is like getting inoriey from a delinquent subscriber. Through the efforts of Messrs. Garrett and Delaney Louise Brehany and her coterie of artists came to town last Thursday, and Bosun Hall was filled with the lovers of music from ali parts of the camp. W. G. Sauvlett opened the proceedings by playing the piano with the fingers of an artist. He delighted the audience, and even Dead wood Bill could not refrain from speaking right out and saying it was "pretty work." Can* and Mints?, the male singers of the company, can make a noise,but nature never intended them to storm the heart of man by the music that is not in their souls. They would do better hitting* the drill. Alga Schmall can play the violin in a way that shows wonderful command of such a difficult instrument by such a young' player. As time goes on she ought to become one of the brightest stars in the violin firmament if matrimony and other matters do not interfere with her progress. Jessie Monroe has a voice that is pleasant to hear, but she will have to improve before the universe will throw a flower garden at her. Louise, Brehany sings soprano and her voice shows close education. She has been touched by the Goddess of melody and when her voice penetrates the atmosphere listeners are possessed with the idea that this world would he poorer without such sweet singers as Louise. The concert concluded by the company playing the second act from the opera Martha. Hall Minus to Resume This week a number of our energetic citizens got together and inaugurated a Gratis Grading Gang*. They were headed by Cashier Gibbs, of the Bank of Montreal, who persuaded the local teamsters to contribute three teams on Monday, and. others will be put on later. ft was the aim of Mr. Gibbs and those leading the Gang to fill in the culvert crossing the Govern liient block, and make of it good re-, creation grounds, for the use, of the football team and other outdoor athletes. Fifty men promised to put in Easter Monday doing the work, but only 15 or 20 appeared on the scene. However, this number did yoeman service. They tackled the culvert on Belleview Ave. first find by nightfall had that pretty well filled in. The work is still going on at intervals, but the force of graders is worked out and is greatly reduced. This work has so far been contributed free, and is an evidence of what a few men of energy and push can do when they have a mind to. Every citizen should be as ready to bear his share of the work. This is concerted action arising* from individual , effort. What would be the result if we could get combined action from concerted effort:-" Let's trv it. ANOTHER DEAL MADE. men are view to locating here. As he is an experienced bandsman his presence will be a valuable acquisition to the local band. James Wigginton had to quit the butcher business because the Pat Burns meat kings sold him wholesale and undersold him retail. When Jim quit Pat quit, and the meat-eating populace has to suffer for the want of a butcher shop with meat on the hooks. It isn't sensible for any man to dabble in rotten politics at the sacrifice of his business. Business is one thing,politics another. Politics should end where business begins. One is a side dish and the other the main thing. Business is what the country wants, and business men. We have had enough of politics l'and politicians. If there is a mining company with a '"jig bank roll looking for a snap and a j chance to open up a gold mine of magnificent dividend-paying proportions, it (should run a tunnel into the bowels of 1 Goat mountain and see what's there. The numerous stringers and ledges of f rich gold-silver ore that are being ex- 'posedon that hill have not come from [.the clouds, but must have their source from a great ore bodv below. a cyanide mill. Seventeen working ou the property. A fourth tunnel has been started at: the Heewtt. It will tap the ore a little over 400 feet from the surface. An option has been given on the Tail Holt and Alberta, two Lemon creek claims, and it is likely they will be floated in England. Wm. McMasters will have charge of the work to be put on the Frisco group under the new company, which takes charge on May 1st. The Minnesota Silver Co. will commence the erection of their concentrator at Sandon in a few days. It will have a capacity of 150 tons daily. Eighty tons of ore are being* run daily through the Wakefield concentrator, making* 10 tons of concentrates. The mill can handle 100 tons a day. Messrs. Young and Murchison are still at work on their Goat Mountain property. They have a good showing of ore and are highly encouraged. The Slocan Star mill commenced running last week. The force at the mine will soon be complete.. A new body of ore was found in the west drift last week. A crown grant has been issued, after years of legal fighting, on the. Legal Tender claim, adjoining the Noble Five and Madison, and work will be started on the property soon. It will be impossible, to ship any ore from the Enterprise for 15 days or more. A land slide carried away about 100 feet of the roadbed, and the same will have to be cribbed up before any hauling can be done. The second payment on the Silver Tip bond was made last week to H. Hess and Chas. Miller by S. Sch wander, acting for the Morris Syndicate. The final payment on the 845,000 bond will be made October 1st. A subscription paper was circulated last Wednesday night and money raised to get a survey made of a road to the Hartney mine from the New Denver- Three Forks wagon road. The Hartney Company is waiting for the government to do something in the matter before starting work. and generous man should not be left | been cleared up. and there is a strong out in the cold. He might get frozen I probability that it never will, to death, and then Sandon would re-I Reports from the Sullivan are to the effect that the property is improving ceive a shock from which it might not recover Do something. There is still hope while even a dozen names remain upon the knifed and bleeding voters' list. The first sub-contract on the Balfour extension from "Nelson will he com pleted this month. The whole section will be finshed bv Mav 15. every day. Large bodies of ore are being blocked out. Shipments will commence in a short time. Considerable ore will be shipped from the Swansea mine near Windermere this summer. It is said that 2,000 or 3,000 sacks were made ready during the winter and hauled to the landing. per NOWLEDGE isn't wisdom, but with- buildings and business blocks are commodious, out knowledge it would be difficult substantial, and built with a view to perman- to make a man wise. If we would ency There is nothing shoddy about them- act wisely in anything- we must first gain tho Like the men who built them, they are hereto knowledge to know how to act and then with stay. wisdom put our knowledge into practical use, It. is but natural that this feeling-of confidence When a man is casting about, looking for a in New Denver's stability should prevail. Aside location where he can make his home with the from the advantages that the town has as a resi- assuraucc that, if he "attends to las knitting'* elential centre, it is last becoming the head" and honestly strives to make the best of his on- quarters for sunn- of the strongest mining eom- portunities. his cllorts will be crowned with mic- panics operating in the Slocan. The Silver cess, ho wants to know tho merits and demerits mountain. Coat mountain und Fidelity-Bosun Word comes from London that at a meeting of the shareholders of the Hall Mines it was decided to reorganize the company on the basis of a fresh assessment of hve shillings per share. It is permissable to infer that the work of reorganization will proceed at once,and that soon the enterprises of the company, so valuable to Nelson, will once more be in full operation. What changes will be involved in the Nelson staff must of course be mere matter of conjecture. Cigar Makers on Strike. Two hundred cigar makers went on strike at Montreal last week. They were employed by two firms, J. Hirsch, Sons & Co., and I. O. Grothe & Co. The issue is purely one of the recognition of the International Cigar Makers' Union. The strike will probably spread, for the Canadian Manufacturers' Association are to bond the firms which have refuse ! to recognize the union and has promised to supply men to replace the striking operators. A Pyrithic Smeltor. Messrs. McMasters Take Ov�� Denver Property. a Never of the locality and the conditions ex i.s tin.!;, so as to act with wisdom It is because un-ii act without, wisdoi,. on vr-i-y little knowledge that so many make failures of life. They are led by impulse and llirt. with Dame Fortune like a giddy school girl. The resub is alway.-. the same. They fail; ami when they go down they take some, body with them, and the coi:\munity at large suffers in some measure with every failure. H is nol failures, but successes, that, go to build up a community. One strong, energetic, successful iii.-iu in a town, who has won through sheer '-stick-to-itiveness" and merit, is worth a clozen hangers-on. who, without wisdom or worth, attempt t" win by pot luck. It is the former class that are. wanted in this pari of British Columbia. If any such an-seek. ing-an opening, they can come this way. There are openings for every one. Success will be their's as sure as they work for it.. New Denver makes the first bid for this class of men. AN e have some herd but there is room for more The inducements offered are many. We will suite a few, as briefly as possible: New Denver's location on a plateau sloping- to minces, carrying big gold, silver and lead value arc- rapidly developing into heavy Their payrolls at present will not aggregate more than loo men, but this number will be more limn tripled in a short time. New Denver is tin: baukii centre, .-is well as the residential town on the beautiful Slocan lake:. The business done by the Bank of Montreal is surprisingly large and ever increasing. All the local mines and those of Four Mile, Ten Mile and Springer and Lemon creeks pay through the local bank. Now Denver's school facilities are good; its churches are neal, well-constructed and well- attended. Its streets are: sidowalkcd in all directions. The town is not laid out with one street and a back yard, but covers fully a mile square, and i.s without doubt the prettiest spot for a home in the mining'section of British Columbia. New Denver's citizens are the pioneers of the Slogan. They have made money in the camp. and re-iiivested it. They own their homes and are continually improving them, confident that they will be amply repaid for the expenditure in ihe comfort and enjoyment of them There are openings in New Denver for several lines of business. New Denver's scenic beauty is imparalled in North America; its climate is temperate, and For Eastern Canadian mining investors, Andrew Laidlaw, of Spokane, has bonded the Moren claim, in the sourh- uppers.j eni extension of the Buckhorn mine, in | Deadwood Camp, for ���*f:-i0,i.'fin. Mr. i Laidlaw has been spending the past i and commercial! two weeks at Greenwood with a view! Another mining deal was made this week that means very much to New Denver. The McMasters brothers, representing extensive Colorado capital, have taken a short time bond on the Frisco group, situated on the northwest slope of Fidelity bluff and adjoining the Bosun- Fidelity Mines. The properties embraced in the group are known as the Frisco, Perseverance,Rub\- Fraction and Morning Glory. Work has been put on the Frisco for the past three months with very satisfactory results. A strong ledge, seven or eight feet in width, has been exposed, carrying stringers of carbonates. It is the intention of the purchasers to put a large force of men to work as soon as possible to open the ledge and make a mine out of it. That they will do this, and that the Frisco will soon be as favorably known as the Hartney, Marion and Bosun there is no doubt, for the Frisco will have the same thorough, practical mining men at the head of it as these other properties are favored with, and with such a good showing to start pa it should not be long until the property is made a shipper. Those interested in the deal are Andy Jacobson, vS. T. and H. M. Walker. The purchase price is #15,000, the bond maturing in six months. SI.OCAN* (IKE SHIPJIE.NTS. The total amount of ore shipped from the. Slocan -from Januarv I, 189(1, to ���June 'M, 180H, was 15,118 tons. From July 1, 181)0, to Dec. :'L IS'W, the shipments were 1,Bio tons. Following are Ihe shipments from January 1, L9U0, to April 11: to securing a site for a pyridine smelter He has a deal on to purchase the Bound ary Falls power, thrt-e utiles south 0 Greenwood. Fi-nneis A. Cook Dead. Francis A. Cook died at i I'aync- 1 America u M-i ; Last I'haiice. j Sunshine-... . : Qu'-en \ivfiii.. j Kainbler ! Swrpri-e . . ! Ruth ; Luckv .Jim . . . I Florida UNA the shore of Slocan lake, makes it an ideal spot for a residential centre-, which it is fast being North America; its climate is temperate, and Slocan citizens will give a grand COU- made. Its home* arc far a. hove the average found the. health of its citizens tnarvelously good���sick- j Cert OU the 27th ill aid of the Canadian in most mining camps. a:.d its public halls and ness from local causes is seldom experienced. ! Patriotic fund. us residence,, ,...^. New Denver. Wednesday morning atlH^un. lo o'clock, after a brief illness. He was taken sick with la grippe less than a week ago, and as he was a man 68 years of age he was not physically able to stand the severity of it. Deceased leaves a widow and two sons, residents of New Denver, who have the deep sympathy of the community in their bereavement. Week Total 20U a.Mos (U ���ii' ���toil ���20 345 m ���20 IS 73 88 PI Ilanne-y Capelln" Emily Kdith.. Vancouver... Enterprise. ��� ���. Arlington Black Prince ���20) ���2" 20 .'ii k I Hi i Total tons. About the first thing the next Provincial Government should do���if we are ever so unfortunate as to have such a thing���ig to provide for an additional school building in New I)ever and another teacher. mm&^EKs&ffimm&m&��gi88^ THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., APRIL 19, 1.900. Seventh Yeap. The Ledge. A SKXV MI.VINO I. AAV Published every. Thursday. R. T. LOWERY, Editor and Financier. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: Three months -? .7.V Six " l.af' Twelve " -'-<>0 Thkke yeaks 5.00 Transient Advertising, aft cents *>er line first in gertion, 10 cents i>er line subsequent insertions nonpareil measurement. The Ontario Government's mining- i'bill abolishes all royalties on miner- I'als. but provides that the Lieutenant- jGovernbr-in-Council may impose a mineral tax on the gross quantity of I undertaking's. TO CONTRIBUTORS. Correspondence from every part of the Kootenay District and communications upon live topics always acceptable. Write on both sides of the j reduced; nickel $10 per ton, Or 860 if the ore rained. The tax will be at the following- rates: Iron, 50 cents per ton; zinc, $5 per ton, or $io per ton of metal contents if partly treated or reduced; copper $2 per ton, or $25 if partly treated or The idea was conceived by these two men independently. Mr.Hanley who has been interested in many hold-your-wl eat schemes, is prominently associated with the Farmers' elevators and various co-operative He lias long believed ���V.JV.P..1-,,. Wi**J>.V.��^ ��^-iTfI^T^^|1|^1^|ff^r^^^1W^^^IC0^,,1MBo^Wa EUTTt ~^-~llrlhmn���^ntrTr���-Jm*-'���ma*~', oiritreal paper if you wish. Always send something good no matter how crude. Get your copy in while it is hot, and we will do the rest A pencil cross in this sqriarc indicates that your subscription is due, and that the editor wishes once a^ain to look at four collateral. f 5URSDAY, APRIL l'-i, 1900. -1��� : . ~ FROM THK KOITOK'S UPPKll STOPE. Dreyfus seems to have dropped out of the world's talk; snowed under by the African war and other topics. If partyism continues to grow in Canadian politics it will not be many j years before a revolution will teach j the people that most of them are fools, j partly treated or reduced; copper and nickel ore $7 per ton, or $20 and $50 respectively per ton of metal contents if partly treated or reduced; all other ores, such rates as may be imposed | by Order-in-Council, but not to exceed ! 5 per cent, of the selling* prices there- j of in a free market. A license, to j cost $10, shall be necessary to mine i any of the metals for which a license i is imposed. I It is provided, however, that where j such ores are smelted or treated in j the Dominion of Canada, in such a i way as to yield fine metals, or any ! form suitable for direct use in the arts without further treatment, the tax may be remitted. The tax will not apply to mines Icecream can be sold openly in | where the annual output of ore is less Toronto on Sunday. It is still neces- j than 500 tons. sary to have a password before you j A further provision in reference to can get a drink of whiskey in that j the tax is that by proclamation it city of quiet morality. | may be remitted, or a lower rate sub- . ~: ~~. " I stituted, in case of ore or minerals re- A Nelson paper states that a com-j find in the United-Kingdom, or any pany with .50 millions of dollars j Bvhif.h ml 0r dependency, capital will operate some claim, tribu- j Another clause ratlfles the 0rdei, tary to Kootenay lake Why did the j in.Counci, pl.0vidinff that all lands paper not say 300 millions instead of j patented or leased will contain the 30? It only takes another cipher I condition thafc che ore be refined in and sounds much better. ! p , A number of further clauses contain provisions which are intended to safeguard the miners in the use of explosives, the internal working of the mines, and a complete code of signals for hoisting and descending the shaft. All reservations of mines, ores and minerals contained in patents issued prior to July 1, 1897 are to be recind- ed that if the farmers would only come to an understanding as io , limiting production and agree io sell only when their price could be obtained the}7 could easily master the situation. As a professor of economics Prolessor Ruhland had come to the same conclusion. His study of the agrarian problems of different countries led him to believe that the only cure for the wide-spread troubles of farmers, which are much more severe in the old than in the new world, is to restrict production. Both were hard at work getting the idea into practice when they encountered each other's con espondence. Since then they have been working with a common idea, viz: To persuade the international congress to introduce the plan j and recommend it to the various na-i tional associations for application I next year. j JKstiil-'lishecl 1.S17. Capital (all paid up) $12,000,000.00 Reserved fund : : 6,000,000.00 Undivided profits : : 1,102,792.72 HKAD OFFICK, MOSTRKAI. Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona aod Modnt Kofal, G.C.M.G. President. Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice President, E. S. Clouston, General Manager, Branches in all parts of Canada,' Newfoundland, Great Britain, and the United States. New Denver branch E. PITT, Manager Smoke WIIOLKSALK l'KICI'S, It was 35 years ago last week since the American war closed and not a private who was then in the war can be found to-day to tell the tale. The deficiency is counterbalanced by the great number of officers who are still alive and doing fairly well. Hundreds of names on the voters' list in the Slocan riding have been objected to by some genius with more ability for making trouble than anything else. A genius of this kind is liable to be bitten by a louse some day and lose his earthly career. Bovine and equine creatures are great friends of man and much appreciated when they are strictly in place. When they become float and spread over the townsite until it resembles a healthy manure pile we protest and call upon the populace to intervene and save some of these animals from an early grave. Fresh chickens and turkeys, dressed all. ready for Sunday dinner, arrive every Saturday. < Irtlers received, up to /Wednesday.. Choice hams, bacon and eggs; Lake of.the Woods flour on hand; also five tubs choice butter left, in 50-11 > tubs, ���25c. Agent for Singer Sewing Machines ���three tine machines on hand; easy j payments, or discount for. cash. | J. F. DELANEV, ��� j "Wholesale Commission Merchant, j Established ISM. j B. M. Sandilands Sandon, B. C. iksxjes: Spring- and Summer Wear Fancy Negligee Shirts, Belts and Ties; the :st tilings out ease, comfort and good newest things out; best tilings made for- looks. In Spring and Summer Footwear we are showing the neatest styles, best makes, values for the money. anclgood A FARMERS' TRUST There are 120,000 barmaids in England. They make $2.50 a week and board. They work from 7 a.m. until 12.30 p.m , and generally die young from standing on their feet too much. We have heard it stated that they were not virtuous. This is a base slander upon the unfortunate slaves. No woman can work Hi hours a day and be vicious at the same time. England is a great coun try, but evidently not yet great enough to abolish white slavery. We think that eight hours is long enough for any girl to deal out drinks, and right here in far-off British Columbia we protest against such inhuman treatment of the female sex. To alio iv fair damsels to work 17 A hours daily in gin mills is something . that should not be tolerated in a pagan country, let alone such a civilized country as England where the beauty of Christ's teachings has been held up! to the people ever since religion be came a habit, and poverty a prevalent complaint. The old adage "to trust is to bust, to bust is hell," no longer holds good, This is the age of trusts. Not the antiquated kind of trust, 'tis true, but trusts, nevertheless. There are trusts formed to control the price and output of everything that man eats, wears and looks at. The only thing that has escaped the leaches of commerce, is the air we breathe, the sunshine we enjoy and the magnificent scenery that nature has so bountifully bestowed upon New Denver. The latest in the trust line is .he proposition to form all the farmers of the world in a sort of international trust to restrict the production of wheat and raise prices. It is hoped to carry into effect this plan at the international conference in Paris, July 9-16. It is proposed to ask the farmers of the world to reduce their wheat output by 20 per cent and not to sell a bushel for less than a dollar. J.C.Hanley of St. Paul, executive agent of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial union, the National Growers' association the Farmers' Federation of the Mississippi Valley and the National Grain Growers' Association, is the chief promoter in the agricultural trust in America. Professor G. Ruhland of the University of Freiburg, Switzerland, is the chief promoter of the plan in Europe. m Notary Public Insurance & Mining Broker j _ . SEND YOUR REPAIRING TO j Q. W. Grimmett j i eweler Optician asgow and Smoking The Ladies should inspect our line of Di ess Skirts Spring Jackets They are cut in the latest fashions and provided with all the latest attachments. %-^fe^/fc/fk/-* ���'%**&%/WW%>W%*W+l' Importer of Diamoneis, Watches. Silverware, Spectacles, ICtc. Eyes Tested Free WATCH REPAIRING A SPECIALTY Sandon, B. C. Mow time wings its way onwards j to eternity. Last Thursday it was! II years since the world and mother ! first looked at us and said, "What a i;ne child ?'' And yet it does not seem j over 10, so rapidly has one event- after another tangled us up in its- meshes. In our early days mother' used to look into our soft blue optics \ and say that we were the best boy in ; the world. After all these years she ������ has not changed her opinion. Not-! withstanding that for years we have I been addicted to the newspaper habit I we are still the same sweet boy to; mother that, we were in the days: when we robbed orchards and j thrasln d all the other boys in the neighborhood. Shehasneverchanged. She loved us when we first met and ] she loves U6 yet. Her love, and we j presume all mothers are alike, is the ; kind that lasts until the end of this life and is carried over to the next page. A mother's love rises supreme to all the passions that torment the soul, and we regret that so many sons in the "West so soon forget their best friend. Nelson School of usiness Short Hand and Typewriting Second Term now open Spring leaning mixture *j This is Planting Time, and we are prepared with a .complete stock of the BEST Garden and Flower Seeds on ihe market. �� Onion Sets. Etc. Get the Best while the stock is new. Fishing Tackle when bought of us is sure to be the latest and best that can be purchased of Croft it Sons, See our new stock of Hies. oronto. and you will ri'.vt* the, delight that comes from good Tobacco. BOURNE BROS., New Denver, B. C.\ I Just as the careful housekeeper regularly cleans the house in the Spring, so you should clean your blood. Fax's-Sarsap- arilla will do the trick, C. F. NELSON Hiiiik-Ui-epintr lev iiiiv kne iikI wn | TIIK iSLHUKT Si-STEM ol Business is unrivalled nie-thod of Ottice Practice. WE TEACH IT! 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CANADA CYCLE & MOTOR CO., u^e* ��� Head Office. Toronto. Canada. Seventh Year. THE LEDCiE, NEW DENVER, B.C., APRIL 3 9 1900. THE BEGINNING- In the lucent dawn of the May morning Beatrice Engledew awoke. She lay quiet while the light of the opening day strengthened and brightened.and flooded her chamber which faced the rising- sun. There passed in to her through the open casement the near twittering of birds, the farther flutter and rustle of moving leaves, and behind all the recurrent sound of sea waves breaking and dashing on a pebbly beach. In a while the golden refulgence of the sun poured in on her, and then she arose for the day of her wedding was come. She stood up in tha bare cleanness of the simple room, tall and fair and excellently well-formed, a young woman good to look on. With a composed deftness she. made ready. When she had arrayed herself in a bridal gown of an exquisitely line white linen she passed softly down the steep narrow stair, unlatched and drew open the house door and stepped out into the garden which lay like, a Paradise in the glory of the morning. Dazzling dew powdered the lawn, the scent of violets and lilac 'perfumed the air, and the bushes shone like green fire against; the sun. Beatrice looked past this vivid beauty to the stately fir wood; beyond. She paused at the wicket, holding it ajar, while her eyes searched the fragrant aisles. Between their living columns the. sea glimmered brightly bine For a space she waited,watching the wood empty of human lif.:. Then, on a sudden, her face glowed, her eyes shone, for out of the wood's dim recesses she saw her bridegroom, Prank Hope, coming swiftly towards her. Flinging the wicket wide, open she ran out to him, and they met in a kind of solemn gladness. lie, tall and comely and ruddy, like a young David, she, pure and strong and sweet���a -mated pair. In the freshness of the morning, in Nature's sanctuary, in the presence of the all-pervading unity of the Creative Love, they plighted their troth. The interior harmonious voices of the man and woman welled up and flowed out into a spontaneous form of sacramental words. ���'You to me���1 to thee while love lasts," they said each to the other, holding 'hands. It was the love espousal of virgins and the sacred wedding of souls. The bridal pair breakfasted in the garden. The table was set by a bush of dewy lilac. It was their first breaking of bread in common; a true love- feast.' They lingered in the charmed seclusion till afternoon. Then, in the low ebb of the day, Beatrice and Frank walked down to the little media-val church in the valley to go through that antiquated form of words known as the '���Solemnization of .Matrimony.'' They went out of earth's sunshine for a brief eclipsing period, into the dimmed perverted light of the chill Gothic edifice Mere they decorously submitted to the religious ceremony officially prescribed bv the State of which they were citizens. The words they uttered were inexpressive symbols of the truth as they realized it: the ceremony in which they played their allotted part were to their cleai seeing eyes the vain semblance of an impertinent piece of media-val mummery. It was as if a full grown man and woman of the present had condescended to a momentary' swathing of their untrammelled bodies in mouldy swaddling clothes, handed down by sacerdotal figures from bygone ages.-as if they had, for some fleeting seconds, permitted their unbroken limbs to be perfunctorily bound up in musty bandages, torn off cerements which borrowing men had rescued from Time's tomb They bore with this for the names' sake of their unborn children: they endured it considering the weak of the community; and it was their pious, formal acknowledgement of inexpressible divine unity. Written words marked the linish of these verbal concessions to man-made laws This parenthetic intrusion of the formal on the real, this u bound by the sacramental vows as we could not walk abreast in it. The slightly shorter of the two ladies led the way, .her iron-tipped heels smiting the asphalt with,ringing taps; thetalier, rather larger one, followed in her wake with less decisive steps. The path ended at the old, narrow, oak door of the vestry. Twisting back with both handsia massive wrought-iron ring-protruding from the rail-studded surface, the preceding lady pushed the door open and entered, her manner suggesting a vested interest in the place. She was the Vicar's wife. The.lady following, her sister and the wife of a local doctor They were confronted by cheerful gaslight, a substantial blazing fire and jumbled heaps of the season's greenery. The Vicar's wife promptly sorted the pliant vow and the inoffensive ivy into convenient, piles; the prickly mass of glistening holly she handled more gingerly. One by one she put the thick berried boughs over the thresh- hold, and shut the door on them. Meanwhile, the doctor's wife had seated herself in a plain deal chair at the end of a long table placed against the high, ancient screen of carved oak which cut the vestry off from the chancel's sacred precincts. With laborious care she began to paste a succession of cotton wool letters on to a band of scarlet cloth. She was finishing the half formed text "The Word was God." When the Vicar's wife had heaped coals on the lire, she placed herself in a black oak chair of ecclesiastical pattern, at the opposite end of the table. Armed with scissors she nipped brittle straw into letters, which she stuck with rapid precision on to crimson calico. The text ''The word was made flesh and dwelt among us,"' taking quick shape beneath her adroit fingers. A completed text in blue and red, "(mmanitel��� God with us," was stretched out on the floor; hard by it lay an opened packet of nails. Intermittent snatches of subdued sound came from a bevy of decorators on the church side of the screen; a decorous staccato of trebles and altos, backed by the cultivated drawl of a youthful baritone which unmistakably proclaimed the assisting curate. The sisters worked on steadily, maintaining a busy silence. At last the plodding doctor's wife broke it. '���Jane, are you really determined to drive the Engledew Hopes away from the neighborhood?" The Vicar's wife gave some final snips to a letter before answering-. 'Yes. Cuthbert and 1 have decided that they niust go. They are setting a most pernicious example." "If seems a pity. I like her so much She is a sweet, noble woman, and Philip thinks most highly of them both." Tho Vicar's wife eyed her sister keenly. "Indeed! Why, pray:-1 What does he know about them ? The doctor's wife hesitated a moment, fiddled with a cotton wool letter, then met her sister's eyes fully "Philip has been seeing them quite are, because she was married in this very church." '"he Vicar's wife resumed her letter snipping "As to her past-rI felt it my duty to make searching inquiry into that." "(") Jane, how could you? What had you to do with it? I am sure you discovered nothing wrong about it." The voice of the doctor's wife was anxiously remonstrant. The Vicar's wife snipped fast with an assured hand. "It was my duty to enquire and I found just what I expected. I have ascertained that she was born in Australia, and that her mother was a deceased wife's sister, therefore according to English law she is illegitimate. The church of course classes her with those born out of holy wedlock. Mrs. Engledew Hope is the offspring of incest, the child of deadly sin. She���" "Jane, Jane, you go too far. Philip knows about her mother. These marriages are legal in Australia. Mrs. Engledew Hope's family history i.s exceptionally good, and she is the child of a real love marriage. He calls her one of the well-born.'" The Vicar's wife flushed crimson. "To call her well-born is a wicked, materialistic, atheistic free thinking perversion of doctrinal truth You horrify me Emuieline! Now listen���I have ascertained that since she has been an orphan, that is for the last four years, she has lived r. wild, fast life in London, consorting with socialists and anarchists and free-thinkers, not to speak of actors and actresses and Bohemian artists and musicians and other ���immortal, evil-living" persons. She got hold of young Hope, and I know for a fact that she used to go constantly to his room alone and stay: with him for hours My firm belief is that they married because they had to." The doctor's wife stopped working. "Jane, your version cannot he the true one. She told us all about her London experiences. She was only seeing what life was really like. She thinks every educated woman of full age ought to see for herself, so that she may understand things as a man does, and so be able to help all sorts of people in the best, most adequate way. And her marriage seems to me an ideal marriage. He was twenty-seven and she twenty-live when they first met, and they had never been really in love before. Yes, 1 know it sounds incredible, but they told me so, and they are very truthful. For a whole year they were just loving comrades, and they married deliberately, with a full understanding of what was involved. And Jane," the doctor's wife leaned over the table, lowering her voice, "do you know, that as soon as they knew a baby was coming he simply lived Avich Beatrice as a brother, and considered her and their unborn child in every possible Avay. It is beautiful, I think, and so right. Philip says Prank Hope led a stainless life before marriage, and that i.s why he can live like this afterwards so much more easily and healthily than most men can. Being Lord Thurston's estate agent of course takes him out into the open air a great deal. He leads a Avholesome, restrained life He is splendid, I think.*' The speaker's plump face gloAved with enthusiasm. The Vicar's wife eved her sister with often of late. You knoAv .the baby is i contemptuous cynical eyes expected in April, though that i.s not the reason for his visif, because things have gone quite normally Avith her, she is so splendidly healthy and so sensible She has had the most modern education, and is Avoiulerfuily Avell up in medical and scientific subjects." "Exactly. Those advanced Avomen areibrimful of prurient curiosity. They pry into all sorts of disgusting subjects they should knoAv nothing about. They get hold of the Avildesf notions, they scoff at convention, they reject dogmatic religion' they deny God, and they spred their horrid ideas broadcast, and do incalculable mischief Mrs. FnglsdeAv Hope is one of them, and a dangerous Avoman. She must be suppressed." The small grey eyes of the Vicar's Avife gleamed. "Philip says she is the only Avoman in the neighborhood he can talk Avith on barely relevant incident of their wed-j anything like equal terms."' ding day, passed over and receded from j ".So she has got hold of Philip, has their serene joy like a cloud from before] she." said the Vicar".*; wife. Her thin the face of the sun. They left behind j lips curled. (hem the ecclesiastical building with I "Jane���I knoAv she is not that kind its' oppressive twilights, its chilling | of a woina n She is pure and innocent, shades, and in Ihe Avar in quickening brightness of the spring day they began to mount onelof Earth's hills together. words ���������oh.aiini-;. The year had drawn so near its close that it was the eve of Christmas. It Avas a sharply cold starlight night. A nipping gusty Avind from the north- "My good Emuieline, Avhat a mare's nest you liaA*e got hold of! Human nature is human nature all the Avorld. over You cannot make me believe that a young man and a young ivonian in love, seeing one another constantly, and holding their free-thinking vieAvs, Avould not gratify their unbridled passions to the utmost. They Avould see no sin in it. And as to Mr. Hope's alleged post-nuptial conduct, Avell, I.do not credit it for an instant. It is impossible, I knoAv men and women well enough to knoAv that." "Philip, savs it is rare as yet, but that it is quite possible, and that as men and women groAV healthier and Aviser, and freer, and more1 self-restrained, such marriages avi'11 increase, and that the offspring of such noble, restrained love marriages avi'11 be the avoIiI geboren, the Avell and nobly born of the earth. I believe PhiTp, for he knoAvs Avhat he i.s talking about "' The doctor's wife spoke Avith determined emphasis. The Vicar's AVifc smiled, shrugged her shoulders, and continued snipping. | The jarring interchange of spoken 1 clear-minded. Philip says she has! wordsceascd. Thcquicfudc was her scissors resolutely, the Vicar's Avife A\'a!ked forward and opened it. Gaslight glared out and imperfectly outlined the forms of-two women standing as near the threshold as the holy Avould permit. One. convulsed by gasping sobs, clung to the supporting arm of the other, and her face. AA'as hidden on it. "Mrs. EngledeAv Hope!". The fine-edged exclamation of the Vicar's Avife cut sharply across the throbbing sounds of human anguish: A clear contralto voice thrilled out in quick response. "Will A'ou let me bring her in for a feAv minutes? I am going to take her home with me, but she must rest a little first.. Oh, she is in such great trouble." Beatrice bent forward, and the light showed her grey eyes brimming with tears. The Vicar's Avife stiffened. "Pray what is the matter?" "It is Mary Thorn. Her father has turned her out of his house. She is homeless." The gusty Avind buffeted the tAvo womanly forms and drove their garments clingingly about them. The fitful blast and the flaring light made visible the fact that thev were, great with child. The thin, narroAv-hipped figure of the Vicar's Avife confronted them. "J shall certainly not admit Mary Thorn here I knoAv her disgraceful story. Of course, I cannot prevent you taking her home-with you, but that you should contemplate such a step sIioavs me that your sense of what is right and fitting must be strangely perverted. If you extend shelter and -protection to ) that degraded, fallen woman, you Avi'11 simply encourage immorality and put.a premium on \'ice. The proper place for. such a person is the Workhouse; Infirmary. She shall not enter here. ('ood evening." Beatrice did not utter one Avord. She bent to caress her sister Avoman, Avhose frame was shaken aneAv with heartrending sobs. The Vicar's Avife shut the door. The doctor's Avife Avas standing with her back to the fire. "Jane, you have been cruelly hard," she said; there Avas a neAv stern note in her voice. -'I pity Mary. Do you not knoAv that the father of her unborn child was droAvned only yesterday ? The poor felloAV was an honest, hard-working, steady young man. and he Avas devoted to her. He would IniA-e legally married her, but he could not get a divorce, though his Avife is hopelessly insane; she Avent raving mad six years ago, after her baby was born; before that she used to drink���she was really a dipsomaniac���she led her husband a terrible life. That poor drowned man AAras Mary's husband in all but name, and she- " "Emuieline, not another word, please. I decline to discuss the subject. This last outrage on morality clinches the matter. The Engledew Hopes shall go. Cuthbert shall speak to his cousin, Lord Thurston, at once. That pernicious couple are contaminating the place I will drive them out. Such people should he exterminated." The doctor's Avife did not speak; she resumed her text making in silence. The Vicar's Avife picked up some stray holly. i\-y and yew, and cast them on the fire. The decorative foliage; curled and spluttered and hissed in the shrivel ling flames: rheir burning was a leafv auto-da-fe. That done she returned to her snipping. AVOHbs i-Korc'irr forth. The fiat of banishment against the EngledeAv Hopes Avent forth from the vicarage. Lord Thurston, the land OAvner, strenuously imposed it: Frank Hope AA'as his invaluable agent and right-hand man: but Lord Thurston, the Vicar's cousin and a staunch supporter of the Established Church, the Tory magistrate and the unflinching upholder of conventional morality complied: he conformed in the spirit of an ancient Roman. The spirit in which their neighbors ostracised them AA'as the ancient Athenian. So these Avedded mates .were banned and scouted; the}' were numbered among the shameless transgressors. Mary Thorn accompanied them, a AvidoAved Avoman consoled by the son she had brought forth; he was one of the Avell-born of the earth. Like the Eve of the HebreAV Bible, Beatrice brought forth her first-born in the wilderness of an alien Avorld, yet Paradise AA'as about her and her mate, for thev bore it within them. Love radiated from them and formed the illuminating atmosphere of home. The child Avasj the outward expression ol" their divine! unity, a true love-child, most nobly born.���Aphra Wilson, in the Humanitarian. The 8-houf Law Has been on shift for some time in the Slocan, but DICK OK AX DO has been longer. He is ahvays at the Ivanhoein Sandon ready to deal out boozerino that is melloAv Avith age, and goes down the throat with a soft gentle touch that is delicious to the taete. Drinks are not in ten upied by slides ill C. M. NESBITT, (Bosun Block) Dealer in 'OHie Fruit, Cigars Tobacco and Confectionery NEW DEXYEK, B. C." ...n\ The opportunities are offering for investment ��� ��� ��� New Denver Town and Mining Property J. E. Angrignon The Leading Leland House, Nakusp. Is ;t (.-onifiii't.-ilile liorel for travellers te.i .Stop ;it. Mrs. McDou-gald." II. D. CURTIS, Notary Public. Minks; Real Estate; Insurance; accountant. Abstracts of Title Furnished; SLOCAN CITY, B. 0. NOTICE. VJOTICE is hereliy yiveii nli-it an application JA will be made to tlie Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia at its next session for''in Act to incorporate a Company with power to construct, cquiji, maintain, aiirt operate telephone anil telegraph lines within and through out all the cities, towns, municipalities and districts of the Mainland of the Province of British Columbia; and to construct., erect, and maintain such and so many poles and other works and devices as the Company deem necessary for mak- ii)fr, comple.tinj.*. sup'-oriiii'r. using, working, operating- and maintaining-the syrteni of oom- ���riunioation by telephone and telegraph; and to open or break up any part or parts of the said highways or street*- is often as the said Company, its agents, officers or workmen think proper; and for the purpose.of the undertaking'to purchase, acquire, lease, expropriate, hold and sell and dispose of lands, buildings, or tenements within the limits aforesaid: and to purchase or lease, for any term of years, aiiy telephone or teleirraph line established, or to beestablished.in British Columbia eonnec.ted.or to be- connected,with the line which the Company may construefc: and to amalgamate with or lease its line m- lines, m- any portion or portions thereof, runny company possessing as proprietor any line of teli-phom- or telegraph i-oiiimunioatiou connecting-' or to be connected with the said Company's line or lines; and to borrow mou y for the |'urposes of the Company, and o pledge or mortgage an v of the Company's assets for that, purpose; and to receive bonuses or privileges from any person or body corporate; and with all other usual, necessary or incidental rights, powers or privileges as may be necessary or incidental to the attainment of the above oli- je-et.s. or an v ol them. Dated this 1st day of March, 1!)iki. DALY & HAMILTON, Solicitors for the Applicants LAND LEASE. Bosun Block, New Denver, B.C. I V ��� ��� L TORONTO New Silks & Samples se t to any address in Canada Ollt-of-to/ni Customers interested in getting Ihe very newest are- i-i<<|iicMcd to write- our Mail C)rdcr Department for samples of Silks and Dress Stud's. Iinpiirtaiioiis .-in* complete now and a very tempting: collection is ready for your eii..sidei\-itioii. Send name and address for Catalogue. Handsome Silks ��� .-,,���.. -,-,,.. ,,���,, -.,.-, 1 ..'> . _'.oo and up to ."i.ihi the yard. \TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that we. Walter A A. Smith and Alexander Sinclair, thirty days afterdate, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner r:f Lai ds ami W'orks for a twenty-one years' le-itsc of twenty acres of land situate about one and one-half' miles north of Rosebery on the cm.-tern shore of Slocan lake-. Kootenay county. B. (.'.. commencing ar a post marked S. W. corner of AV. A .S. and A. S. hand. ���WALTER A. SMITH, ALEXANDER SINCLAIR. D.-it d. A;.rii 2 :ii. Ili" '. I Dress Suitings ^f\ti!oow^r^\ ��� up m -������"''> the- yard j ADDRESS MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT. < W. A. MURRAY & CO., Limited j 17 to 27 Kinsi* St. East, 10 to 16 Colborne St.. Toronto. j AND SCO LINE. Between ATLANTIC &��� PACIFIC The direct-route from Kootenay Country to all points East and West. First-Class Sleepers on all trains from Revel stoke and Kootenay Ldg. east Avas Avhirling' the thin line siioav into small shifting- heaps on the hard ground, driving" it into miniature drifts, am a line intellect and a large heart " ���'Really! What do von knoAv of her past:-'" ':I know they are gentlefolk. He comes of very g'ood people., and he has been to Eton and to Oxford. She has lived abroad a great'deal: all her near relations are dead. They both have private means. She told me sheAvas an Economic Independent. She thinks scattering it and re-forming'it, making" every married woman should be, be- bitter play Avith the eddying- 'crystalline! cause if she is not she cannot be really powder. < Hit of the darkness there Avas born*' fit.-ully the ceaseless noise of a ,! restless sea. beating" on a stony beach. Tom out tlic same, quarter as the wind "'came iavo women of apparently the [ordinary height and make. They Avere (closely Avrapped in furs and they Avalked /-it a brisk pace in .the direction of the slittleGothic church Skirting'the north fside of the edifice they turned up a ^churchyard path so narrow that a couple -eiise. Mrs. Engledew Hope is as much tree. The Vicar's wife stood upright with suspended scissors. '"Free! FIoav can a married Avoman, however rich, be free Avhen she has voAved a;sacraniental voAvat God's holy alter that she Avill love, hon'oraud obey her husband all her life long? fie is her head, and she. is in duty bound to submit to him and study his wishes, ���Jeally Emuieline you should knoAv iii-tier than echo such pestilent non- nroken by other sounds: the snipping* of scissors through brittle straw, the cracking- of, burning" coals, the sibilant staccato of j youthful voices beyond the screen, and | from Avithout. the Avhistling' cry of the! gusty wind. Then sounds fraught Avith ; a human significance wcie borne in out i of the nig'ht. The sisters heard distinctly the Ioav. faltering- steps of a Avoman striking- uncertainly on the hard road beneath tin; vestry avjikIoav. Then deep-drawn sobs and a quivering'moan. The doctor's Avife started up: "Oh. it is some poor thing in pain or in great trouble, !" The Vicar's Avife Avent on snipping": "A drunken woman most probably." Her sister stood by the avi'ikIoav listening. A gust of wind whistled by, burdened tvitli a Avoman's sobs: it passed away, and then out of the silence came the sound of voices and approaching footsteps. Roth sisters listened. There came a knocking'at the door. Grasping'. NEW DENVER, H. C. Provides ample and pleasant accommodation for the traveling public. Telegrams for rooms promptly attended to. HENRY STEGE, - - - . - ' - Proprietor. i Tourist <,'ttrs pass .Medicine Hat daily ; for St, Paul; Sundays and Wod- ; nesdnys for Toronto; Fridays for Montreal and Poston. Same cars pass Revelstoke mie day ! earlier. j |-<iXNKC'I'Iii.\S i Rcvrl-itoki.- ;inil main liin- |i"inl.<. j s:;i.rik Dlv:lv - De-iivi-r 0. Sidini*- -~;ir: Daih ��� l.^SOK S.-l.M; ex." Sun: lv V Denver I.dy: jir t-.x. Siiii.l.V.-IOk I HDSSI.ANI'. Nl-I.SOX CHOW'S .ST.SI 1'liA.M'H AXI) , lioI'XIiAI-Y CeifXTl.-Y. i !>..'���'11�� i'\. Sun: lv N.Di-nvt-r Ldf!: nr ex.Sun I".3"k j 'I'll AXI> l-'KUM PA XI ION j t."...''"U illy lv Di'iiver 0. Sdn iir illy s..r.."ik | I.'! .'ink i-x Sun lv.. N Di-nvcr Liitr.nr <-x Sun **..">��ik j AsiTrt-ih) i-.-ut-s .-old full iiiforiDiitimi ley ;eei- dn-ssiii-r ni-nrcM Im-al .-iircnt or~- j 0. B. (,ARRE'1"T, Atrriit N��--.v De-nv.-r. ! AV. i*\ AndiTsiiii. Trav. I'nss. Airt.. Nflsmi. I E. ���). (jiylf. A. O. I'. A-rt.. A'aiK-fiiivt-r. (ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP TICKETS. New Denver, B.C. T ., 1 o and from Europc-iii points via (...-iiiiidiiui | and American lines. Apply fm- siiiliii-r elate,. ' rates, tickets and full information t" any (.'. A. JACOBSON& CO., Props ' Ry ��ffentor��� ! G. B. l.ARRETT, Best meals in the city���Comfortable rooms���Bar replete Avithgtlm best of; c. r r a-i-hi New Denver Lii-juors and Cigars���Best service throughout.. [ w. v. k. c��mmiuK'*. 3.'.-T s. '���.!... winnipea THE LEDGE, NEW DEA VEK. J3.U.. APRIL 19. 1900. Seventh Year oni)��:i��Ki> to mi-: kuont.' Y<. note. afire sou to Kngland ! Once again mil riii battle cry of old. No lust of conquest taints huckster's greed of gold. It springs Fn-ir; free men's souls from gallant hearts a-heat. That wave of cheers that breaks to adoAvn the stirring street. Out-ringing, irresistible, up-thrillin her Throne, The voice of England for the Right and mindful of her oavu, From capital to coast it finds its echo near and far, To light the land and A\'aru the world that Avhat Ave Avere, we are ! It A\*as no host of holiday; no passing show, I ween, That chivalry that Iavo years gone Avith love engirt our Queen. See them to-day���no gold, no gaud���in fighting khaki clad, Commander, captain, subaltern and simple soldier lad, Gone forth with "Duty" on each lip and "Duty" at each heart, As went their Fathers, and AA-e knoAv���to bear their Fathers' part! These are the Builders that have set our house upon the rock, And hold it against foes Avho fight���and foes who dare but mock. How rait their scoff?���"Fine soldiers, these !���a pampered nation's toys, A motley rabble hired with gold���half- blackguards and half-boys." Back from the battle-field to-day there comes the proud reply, "We may be boys, we're not too young to sIioav men how to die ! They've told us Ave're for ornament, they'll find that Ave're for use, To fire as straight as does the foe���though not on flags of truce. Blackguards Ave are not���witness bear both countryside and tOAvn, Ask heathered hill and turfy bog and English dale and doAvn, Ask hearths that miss and long for us; the homes where we were born, The mothers proud of us that pray 'God bless them' night and morn." "God bless them one and all!" say we, "our Tommies and our Tars," Whose four point seA-en marks the track of England's shooting stars. Indomitable English hearts! as cool as on parade, That face disaster's brief defeat undaunted, undismayed. Disaster dear to those who seek to find Achilles' heel! Who glory in the hoped-for harm they lack the pluck to deal. Laugh, little folk! for joy to think that England's sun has set, But Fame laughs louder than ye all���and Freedom louder yet. Take back your spite-engendered sneer, your conscript-nurtured scorn, Hark! to the cry that comes from Blast out-heralding the Morn, And WestA\*ard of the sunset���from the Race ye so revile, From continent to continent it sounds��� from isle to isle ! From by the broad St. Lawrence���.from beneath the .Southern Cross, "We���Ave are England's! Count with us before you count her loss !" Longer than ocean's leagues it comes and louder than its foam, "The Motherland is calling us���we're Avanted, boys, at Home ! To fight the Empire's battles and to wear the English rose," And clarion-like and clearer still it gathers and it grows ! | the third sick in camp, lie went down ] to a spring it; the. ravine and when tc- '-ur | turning' slipped and fell, lie c-iug'ht a small mountain bush as he went doAvn, no : , ... , : and as begot up Ins eyes Avere attractee ' by the falling stones, and gravei. The ; little piece, of quartz he picked un led to "! that .spot becoming" a mining- camp ' Avhen the'find'leaked out.' My neighbor the grocer, Avho bad gTub-staked the trio, was made allluent by his one- quarter interest, secured by a few hundred dollars' Avorth of supplies from his store." I'ItEHI Kit M.-VRTIX'S PI,ATFOK.M. "Take us !" their manhood cries as one, "we heed not limb nor life !'' "Take them ! they're yours ! Ave grudge them not!" cry mother, sister, *��vife, "Ten thousand men to fight for you of British blood and breed, Ay, fAvice ten times ten thousand shall be with vou if you need. We are as staunch as brave Natal that bears the battle's brunt, In gear and gold, and side by side lights Avith you at the front!" What rule the world has ever seen, what yoke of blood and iron ' Has e'er compelled such service as our England doth environ? Rule���rule Britannia ! since your rule makes ever for the Right, Ring the round Avorld, and with the world roll onward into light. True country and tried colonies, God keep you safe, serene, With one voice 'neath the Union Jack to sing 'God Save the Queen !' ���London Daily Telegraph. The Giub-Stak<*. "Theeastern man," said J.C.CraAvford a Colorado mining expert,"has an indistinct definition of the word 'g'rub-stake,' because it is English after a fashion. A case of an enormously wealthy senator, now occupying public attention, calls tt to mind. "Much of his wealth is s^id to be th�� result of shrewd and judicious grub-staking of prospectors, by which he received aninterest,usually one-half, in whatever mines were found by the prospector to whom he had furnished the supplies with to prospect. "A miner av'iII go prospecting on fopt or Avith a burro with several months' supplies of bacon, (lour, etc., and a frying pan. He may in fact be grub-staked several times by the same partner. Then be will get another and another. maybe years elapse before be 'strikes it rich,' perhaps never. lint, be searches on over the traid;less desert and through > the uiounta.iiifastness.es with that his- j Tlll'llCM tabling* confidence and hope of some' day finding pay colors that is so characteristic of}tiiii. ' Thus a partnership is formed in Avhicb ! one party furnishes the money ami tin*l other the legs, eyes and time in hunting; out paying claims. Hundreds of men j in my state owe all their wealth to this source. The late Senator George ! learst: Avas always ready to grub-stake a '_-o0'l : man. flu* moneyed partner also fur ': nislies the capital with wbich to operate | the mine. The richest man in my town ��� is a grocer who grub-staked a prospector i whose good luck it was. to find one of the ' most famous of the Cripple Creek gold producers. "The story of the finding of this mine is as remarkable as it is true. Many ol" the great 'finds' of Colorado have been by accident. In this case two mining partners were off prospecting, leaving In appealing to the electors'of the Province-, Joseph Martin, as Premier, presents the platform of tho new Government, as follows:��� 1. The abolition of the S2<m deposit for candidates for the Legislature. i. The bringing into force, as soon as arrangements can be completed, of the Torrens Registry system. 3. The redistribution of the constituencies on the basts of population, allowing too sparsely populated districts a proportionately larger representation than too populous districts and cities. 1, The enactment of an accurate system of Government scaling of logs, and irs rigid enforcement. :'). The re-enactment of the. disallowed Labor Regulation Act, 1808, ami also all the statutes of 18fl!i, containing unti-Motigolian clauses if disallowed as proposed by the Dominion Government. ii. To take a lirm stand in every other possible way with a view of discouraging the spread of Oriental cheap labor in this Province. 7. To provide for official inspection of aU 'buildings, machinery and works, with a view to compelling the adoption of proper safeguards to life and health. 8. With regard to the eight-hour law the Government will continue to enforce the law as it stands. An immediate enquiry will be made by the Minister of Mines into all grievances put forward in connection with its operation, with a view of bringing about an amicable settlement., if no settlemeni is reached the principle of the referendum will be applied and a vote la ken at the general election as to whether the law shall be re'iealcd. If the law is sustained by the vote it will be retained upon the, statute book with its penalty clause. If inodilieatioris can be made removing any of the friction brought about, | without, impairing the principle of the law. they i will be adopted. If the vote-'is against it the | law will be repealed. j U. To re-establish the London Agency of British ! Columbia, anil to take every effective means of I bringing be-fore the- British people the; advantages of this Province, as a place, for the prolitalile investment of capital. in. The retaining eif the resources of the Province as an asset for the- benefit of the people, and tailing effective measures tu prevent the alienation of the public domain, except to actual settlers or for actual lima fide business, or indtis. trial purposes, putting an end to tne practice of speculating in connection with the same. 11. The taking of active measures for the sys- temtitic exploration of the Province. 12. The borrowing of money for tho purpose of providing roads, trails and bridges,, provided that in every case the money necessary to pay the interest and sinking fund in connection with the loan shall be provided by additional taxation so as not to impair the credit of the Province. 13.. fn connection with the construction of Government roads and trails, to provide by the employment of competent civil engineers and otherwise that the Government money is expended upon some system which will be advantageous to the genera! public, so that the obi system of pt'oA'iding roads as a special favor to supporters of the. Government may be entirely discontinued. M. To keep the ordinary annual expendiliirc within the ordinary annual revenue, in order to pre-orve intact the credit e-,f the Province, which is its best as.-,el. In. To adopt a system of Government construction and operation of railways, and innne-liately to proceed with the construction eif a railway on the south side of the l-'rase-r river connecting the-coast with the Kootenay district, with the; understanding that unless the other railways now constructed in the Province give fair freight and passenger arrangements, the Province wil| continue this line to the eastern houiulary of the L'rovineo. Proper couueetiiju with such Kootenay railway to be given to the Island of V.-ui- eouver, With respiy.t to other parts of the Pro vince, to proceed to give to every portion of it railway connection at as early a. date as possible, the railway when constructed to be. operated by the Government through ii Commission. Hi A railway bridge to be constructed in connection with the Kootenay railway across the Fraser river, at or near New Westminster, and running powers given over it to any railway company applying for the same, under proper conditions. 17. In ease it is thought at any tune advisable to give a bonus to any railway company, the ��a inc. lo In- in eash. and no* by way of a huni ; grant: and no such bonus to be granted excepi upon Ihe .condition thai a fair auioiinl of lie- : bond- or shares of the eoninaiiy be- transferred1 lo ihe Pi-eivinec, and e-f/eclive- menus taken to. givo the proviiK-i-. control oi tin- fivjght and passenger rates, and provision made against such railway ha vim;- any liabilities airainst il t-vcept ��� actual cost. Is. .To take away from tbe-Lie-iilenaut-Govern-. ] or ni-Couneil any power to make substantive ; changes in the law, coutiningi the jurisdiction i entirely to matters of detail in working out the ' laws.enacted bj the Legislature. i in. The establishment of an institution within > the Province for the education of the deaf and i dumb. 2C. To repeal the Alien Exclusion Act. as the reasons justifying its enactment no longer obtain. 21. An amicable settlement of the dispute with the Dominion Government as to Deadmau's Island, Stanley Park and other lands, and an arrangement Avith Mr. Ludgate, by which, if possible, a sawmill industry may be established and carried on on Deadman's Island, under satis, factory conditions, protecting the interests of the public. 22. Proper means of giving technical instruction to miners and prospectors. Wanted.���A nurse can Hospital. girl.1 Apply, Slo- MAINLAND and BRITISH LION Are the best known Cigars in B. C. Thev ARE UNION MADE and sold by all first-class dealers. WM.TIETJEN, Manufacturer. Vancouver. JOHN WILLIAMS Dealer in IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AN5TOBACOOES, PIPES, &.C. i Van Camp Lunch Goods, Confectionery and Fruit. Established in Nelson 1890. I am now on deck to tell my friends'"! am still alive y Stock is Up-to-Date My Prices are Right I Guarantee Quality I demand the Lakukst ant- Latkst stock in B. C, which I want you to know, and don't for-j get the place. Headquarters for Watches, Jewelery and Diamonds The Famous KARN Pianos SEWING MACHINES Raymond Cabinets for. Wheeler & Wilson for Domestic for White for. ...;.'.. Standard for As we only employ the most expert watchmakers and jewelers, all work guaranteed. All orders by mail receive our prompt attention, at��� $45-00 Jaco 84f Roger Bros' Knives, Forks and Spoons, always on hand. Don't forget the place, at��� The Jeweler, NELSON,B. 0. Get your Cigars at the Cabinet Cigar Store in Nelson. - QUEEN'S HOTEL MATTHEW. ASLO MOTEL Family e& Commercial. arge And Comfortable ^k Rooms Heated with Hot Air and Lighted by Electricity Large, comfortable bedrooms and first-class dining room. Sample rooms for commercial men RATES $2 PER DAY MRS. E. C. CLARKE. Prop., Late of the Royal Hotel Calgary. Baker St., Nelson, B. C, BATHS IN CONNECTION. Newmarket Block. New Denver J. K. CLARK, NES ANDMiNING Reports, Examinations and Management. Fitted with every modern convenience. Special protection against five. Rates $2.50 and ��3 per day. COCKLE & PAP WORTH, i Proprietors. FEED J. SQUIRE Nelson, B. C. Merchant Tailor. NELSON Carry a complete stock of JEF' TJT 3F2L ZEST I T7 \_j and solicit orders from any part of the province. Write for prices j�����^l :x HEWER & CROFT, NEW DENVER, B. C Full Line of Suitino's and Trouserings ?Jwavs on hand. RFLIABLE ASSAYS Cre'lil -* ..'io I Gold iiiid Silver. .�� .7f> Lie-ul. fill I G-old.silv'r, copp'r l./io 1 Samples by m.-iil receive, prompt attention. Rich Ores and Bullion Bought. PHOTOGRAPHERS # VANCOUVER and NELSON, B.C. # Hauling and Packing to Mines, and general local business. WOOD AND COAL FOR SALE New Ocnver, It. C. DR. MILLOY, DENT California Wine Co., ������NELSON, B.C. Wholesale ers in Choice Wines and Fragrant igars ROSSLAND. Write for Prices. Our Stock is the Largest in Kootenav 1-120 'Kith St., Denver C. G. BAKER To Builders: If you want Dimension Lumber, Rough and Dressed Lumber, Coast and Kootenay Ceiling and Flooring, Double and Dressed Coast Cedar Rustic. Shiplap, Stepping. Door Jambs, Pine and Cedar Casings. Window Stiles. Work. Brackets. Newel Posts. Hand-sawing. Turned Veranda Posts, Store Fronts. Doors. Windows or Glass, write to��� Nelson Saw & Planing Hills, Limited | Nelson, B. C. | Fruit and Ornamental "VVb CE i Khoilei'li-iiilrr'nis, I'iusos, Kiuie.v J^ g\ IL f y | Kveri-ri-e:ns, .Alii^iKiliii.s,Bulbs, i new crop tested seeds, for sj-rinjr planti'iitr. I Largest mill most complete- stock in Western | Cunudti. Call and in:ikc. your selections or send for cat.'ilouMie. Address lit the nursery grounds I :uiel n-reenhoiisi*. M. J. HENRY, .-iiHii; Westminster Road. A'aneouver, B. C AND NEW DENVER, B. C Hill Bros. Manufacturers of Orders shipped to all parts of the j Country. Mill at head of | ���Slocan Lake. ��� ! OliK CORSET DEPARTMENT IS l.T-TO-DATE IN ALL STYLES AND PRICES. g |i Fred. Irvine & Co-, NELSON, B. C. MILLINERY���ALL THE LATEST STYLES AT LOWEST PRICES. �����*l>&$��Q<��flflQ0(il>@*y��<&O��'a> Why send East for your Dry Goods when yoa can purchase from us and have them by next day's mail, at prices AS LOW, IF NOT LOWER, than the Departmental Stores of the East? We have one of the largest stocks in all departments in the West���Buttons, Sheetings, Linens, Dress Goods, Silks, White- wear, Corsets, Gloves, Ready-made Shirts, Costumes, Carpets, Floor Oilcloths, Linoleums, Curtains, Window Shades, Etc. Write for Samples and Our Prices. ^1 Fred. Irvine & Co., H and Shingles SOLE AGENTS Ff BUTTERICK PATERNS, THE ONLY RELIABLE NELSON, B. C. MEN'S FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY. Postof'iice address, Rosebery. New Denver Transportation ���& Light Co. PALMA ANGRIGisON, PROPRIETOR. General Draying: Mining Supplies and Heavy Transportation a Specialty. Saddle Horses and Pack Animals. Feed Stables at New Denver. 3VIoCa,ll\im <&. Co SLOGAN CITY, Ii C. Heavy and Shelf Hardware. Jessop's and Canton Drill Stoves, Tin and Granite Ware. W& are handlino; all kinds of SLOGAN CITY Furnishes accommodations to the traveling public equal to any on Sloc-.m Lake. Comfortable beds i and tasty meals. The best i brands of liquors and I cigars on the market. Blasting, Mining and Sporting Powders. Also Blacksmith's Coal. Lumber, Sash and Doors. i TH0S. LAKE, Prop. Brewers of Fine Laser Beer and Porter���the best in the land. Correspond- solicited. Address��� R. REISTERER & CO., Nelson, B.C.
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