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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 V. No. 6 NEW DENVER, B. 0., NOVEMBER 11, 1897. Pbice, $2 00 Year OFFfctaTs' 'Twp to the Hon. Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior, accompanied by Hewitt Bos- tock, M. P., J. A.'J. McKenna, of the Dominion Lands Department, and A. G. Magurn, Ottawa Correspondent of the Toronto Globe, who has been with Sifton and party on their trip since leaving- Ottawa, paid Sandon a short visit on Monday. Arriving in Sandon on the regular train over the C. P. 11., the party, after a few moments spent in meeting friends at the station, took horses and proceeded up the hill, visiting the Ruth mine, where they had lunch, and afterward the Slocan Star concentrator. Although no one in the party claimed a knowledge of mining, all expressed themselves as interested in what thev had greatly seen and regretted that they had not more time to spend visiting some of the ��� other great mines of the Slocan. Mr. Magurn expressed regret that he had not been able to visit the Payne mine He had heard so much of the Payne since he had come west that he was very much interested, but as Mr. Sifton said: ''The country is so large, and, much as we would like to, we cannot well arrange to tarrv longer in Sandon." Upon their return from the imines, about three o'clock, a reception was held at the Goodenough house, where a number of the representative citizens of Sandon had an opportunity of meeting Mr. Sifton and Mr. Bostock and laying before them the requirements of the town, with a request that the gentlemen do what lay in their power to remedy as much as possible some of the. present deficiencies in the government services. While granting- that great improvement had been made in the mail service during the past year, better postal facilities were asked' for! The principal request of tlie residents of Sandon was that their town.be made a port of entry by the customs department. A petition to that effect had alreadv been framed and sent to Hewitt Bostock in Victoria with a request that he should do what he could in their interests at Ottawa. As yet, however, he had not received the petition, and the idea of making Sandon a customs port was altogether new to him ; but, he- said, one worthy of consideration and it would certainly have his careful attention. Although none of these questions came under Mr. Sifton's department, he expressed himself as much interested and promised to make careful note of them and submit them to their proper departments on his return to Ottawa. HON. oiJn*"*oi-.ij!sri"ro>", mimsi-er oy the INTERIOR. Clifford Sifton is a native of the Province of Ontario, but since an early age has been a. resident of Manitoba, where he. was called to the bar, practising as an attorney in Brandon. After serving in the local government as Attorney General, in which capacity he framed the notorious Manitoba School Act, he went into Federal politics. When the . Conservative'government stepped down and out, to be succeeded by Sir Wilfred Laurier's administration, Sifton was chosen as Minister of Interior on account of his close association aud familiar acquaintanceship with everything pertaining to the development of this great country west of the hikes, which is looked to by Mr. Sifton and all others acquainted with its resources as the mainstay of Canada's hope for future greatness. Although never a resident of British Columbia, the Minister of Interior is thoroughly posted on the re- assuming-and with becoming modesty .claimed no honor for his acliievments. As he puts it : "I don't see that there is much to tell. In the party was Major Walsh, who will have control of the Mounted Police force in the Yukon this winter, Judge MeG-uire aud Clerk of the Court Wade, one officer and ten men of the police force. We left Ottawa Sept. ���25th anil after a rapid trip west took the government steamer Quadra for the north. Arriving at the Lynn canal on Oct. 9th we spent a few days gathering information and then Major Walsh and T made a flying trip over the Chilkoot pass to the g-overnment post at Lake Pagish, returning by the Skagway trail: When we arrived at Skagway we found fifteen men of the police force with twelve'tons of supplies, who had been disoatched ahead of us, awaiting our arrival and almost hopeless of making the- trip over the pass. But 'can't1 was not the word. We came there to go over that pass. The packers refused to carry our goods, the weather was bad and they would not face it. The snow was deep on the. high altitudes and the mud was simply horrible. We had the whole outfit with twenty tons of supplies at the Dominion Government customs house, at Tagish Lake in ten days. The boys are in Dawson City now and Major' Walsh is busily engaged establishing posts 50 mile's apart all .along the different routes. There will be a postal service semimonthly to the" heart of the Yukon country before Christinas.- There are ���So policemen in the district and 1 tun confident, that they will be able to keep order. So far the'law has been well observed and there is no reason to believe that it will be otherwise;" "M'r: Sifton," the reporter asked, "are we to believe the stories that have gained credance everywhere that there will be a .great deal of privation and very likely starvation in the Yukon this winter*'" "No, I can pretty confidently state that there is little danger. Although there will be none to spare, 1 believe there will be a sufficiency in the centres of population, Dawson, Forty Mile and so forth. Communication in winter is almost a- practical impossibility and some, of the outlying camps may suffer." "What are vo'ur.sources of information ?" "Several. I had with me Mr. Wm. Ogilvie, who probably knows more about the Yukon country than any man in the country or out'of it. We met men coming out who had left Dawson as late as Sept. 12. We have statistics of the amount of supplies sent in and the number of people in the country. I don't think there is much danger of'starvation." "About the wealth of the country?'' '���"I will repeat for you Mr. Ogilv'ie's words : 'Tell them for me that 1 don't think the stories of the immense riches of the Yukon country have been ex- to meet the heavy slump in the market price of their shares by calling a meeting of the proprietors and putting the facts before them in all their naked truth, we are yet sorry that we cannot equally congratulate the shareholders on the position disclosed. Rumors of an adverse character to the company and all its works have been floating about the city for some weeks, and probably inside selling of Galenas at merely rubbish prices indicated that in some quarters it was realized that the Vancouver syndicate, as it is'known in the city, had'been the unintentional instrument for foisting a worthless silver- lead property upon the British public. But we do not think that the shareholders of either the Vancouver syndicate or the Galena Mines Ltd, had any idea that the real state of affairs was so lamentably disquieting. Mr. Corniskey might have been a little more particular and less general in his remarks, perhaps. For instance he passed over Mr Callahan's connection with the company by saying that Mr. Callahan "was supposed to be a first-class miner," and that is all he said about this gentlemen's connection with the Galena Company. To a shareholder who tried to draw him regarding- Mr. Callahan's management of the property he vouchsafed no clear explanation, but passed on to discuss the present position and outlook before the syndicate A great deal was made about Mr. Carlyle's reports. Mr. Car- lyle, however, simply drew up his reports for the guidance of the Government, and it behoved the Directors he- fore launching- this ill-fated concern to have very carefully checked the reports made about it = by' absolutely impartial experts before accepting thein, and making them the basis of an application to the British public for a large sum of money to exploit the property. Surely the presence of zinc should have been discovered by experts at the very outset, instead of having to be disclosed nearly twelve months after the forma-, tion of the company, as one of the rea-; sons of the failure of the property to realize the hopes of its founders. Of course we know that to a large extent blame is laid upon Mr. Callahan; but all the same, it ought to be pointed out that for some time advices from British Columbia about the Galena have been distinctly alarming-; and as this was one of the chief properties of the syndicate, was quite sufficient to account for the heavy fall While we do not for one moment impugn the bona, fides of, the directors of the Vancouver syndicate, we sincerely regret in the interests of the province that thev should have been connected any case of complaint, either by mail or by wire. The facts are that certain men came from the east whose fares had been advanced by the company and they were given to understand that they must, and agreed to, repay this fare. In fact, they signed contracts to this effect. A few endeavored to evade this payment and inconsequence of this there has been trouble. They also endeavored to create dissatisfaction, and you have seen the statements that have been published. In regard to the ether complaints, 1 do not see where they come in. The men have the best of board, and they receive J.Q0 cents on the dollar for their wages. Each man is charged 50 cents per month for medical fees, which is the least amount 1 ever heard of any company charging. We allow no time check scalpers on the line, and the men are paid the wages they were hired for before they left the east. They-were hired with the understanding that they were to do any class of work that the company wanted done. .1 am not hard on the men, and I always do as I agree to do. I have a long record on large works and I have employed a great many men in my time, and have always lived up to any agreement 1 have made. On the other hand I expect the men to carry out their part of an agreement or contract, and have always insisted upon it. There are now about 4,000 men employed on the line between Moyie lake and McLeod and we expect to have the track down to the head of the Kootenay lake by November of next year, which will be ahead of the contract time. The work is progressing satisfactorily and I look for no drawbacks of any kind." INHUMAN KRUT.K8. Sast Canaan J^gWs 4S**S**S*- rNov. 4 "3>^S> with such a frost Very little was said about the other properties and options of the syndicate, but -what was said was not, we are afraid, of a character to inspire much confidence in the breasts of the holders of either Vancouver syndicates or Galenas, or indicate any possibility of an early recovery in the market prices of these issues from the depths of depression into which they have been plunged by the series of unfortunate events which were punctuated by the admissions at Thursday's meeting by the chairman." A dispatch from Greenboro, N. C, states that Syd, the big elephant belonging to Robinson & Franklin Bros.' circus' became angered and soon worked itself into a rage. Keeper Smith went u'fVfa him to quiet him and: the; animal seized him with its trunk and hurled him 20 feet through the air. Master of Animals Jenks rushed up and. was siez- ed and throAvn to the ground, and had nod an attendant run in and dragged him away he would have been trampled to death. Keeper Smith was picked, up and placed in the shade of a tent, where three men held while he withered in agony. His lips were dyed with blood in its shares, that flowed from his niouth. Syd has has killed two men before, and has never been punished, and the master of animals decided that he must be conquered. Accompanied by another elephant, Spd was led into' a thicket of pines. Here his front feet were bound with heavy chains to two trees and his hind feet shackled. Then a block and tackle ctiri'ing a two-inch rope was fastened to his feet and to another rope and 30 men caught hold of the rope and began to pull. With a scream of rage and pain the elephant plunged forward and the rope was made fast, and again, as the men pulled on it, the animal plunged forward, snapping off the hook. All tlie time he was trumpeting fiercely. Finally he was securely fastened, and the men fell on him with spokes, pitchforks and clubs. The animal screamed The new issue of Canadian postage stamps will be on sale about* the 1st of December. Revival services are being held in Toronto this week by the Rev Dwight L. Moody, and are attended by immense crowds of people. Forest fires are raging on the southwest side of fhe Oxford Mountain, near Georgeville, Que., which is the highest mountain in Eastern Canada. The body of the girl, Ethel Potter, of King-sville", Out., who so mysteriously disappeared about two weeks ago, has been found in the Detroit River." A cheese factory at Paramount, near Lucknow, Ont., was burned clown last Friday night, and 81,000 worth of cheese was completely destroyed. The amount of insurance carried will not cover the entire loss. Rugbv ! Rugby! Nothing but rugby ! The Osgood'e Hall Rugby Team in a great g-ame at Toronto, "on Oct. 23, defeated the team from Queen's College,. Kingston, the score being lv to 2'in favor of the legalites. A spinster of oi years, Miss Ann Mary Howell, living at' Jerseyville, a short distance from Hamilton," was married this week to Richard Bennett, a young harnesss-inaker, aged 21 years. The bride has S7,000 in cash. Two freight traius on the C. P. R. collided near the big iron bridge which spans the Grand river at Gait, on the one was seri- aggerated. sources and requirements of this great province, and it was to more thorough ly acquaint himself with the existing and rapidly changing conditions in the"gold fields of the far north that Mr. Sifton made his now famous trip over the Dyea and Skagway trails. It is a shilling tribute to the thoroughness of the mail that he, filling the position he does as minister of the Crown, with scores of men at his command, should undertake this trip in the face of an approaching winter, over the hardest trail on earth, sleeping under the stars,eating' bannock and hardtack and packing fiis load on his shoulders alongside the Siwash half- breed or the hardiest trail blazers that ever set out for the Yukon. There will be more heard of Sifton in Canadian politics. That same force of character which carries the man to the wilds of the frozen north that he may acquaint himself with the conditions of the pros pector and pioneer, will find for him a place in Canadian history. We need more men like him, let their politics be what they may. Speaking of the trip and his personal experience, Mr. Sifton was very un- T1IK ST1KEEX ROUTE. A. G. Magurn of tins Toronto Globe, who was with the party throughout their trip, had a good deal-to say "about the Stikeen route, regarding which they gathered some information on there- turn trip. He says that light draft boats can navigate the river to Telegraph Creek at all times during the summer, a light railway could be built to Teslin Lake at a cost that would be in no way exorbitant and navigation is practicable on the Hootalinqua all the way to Dawson. There is gold on tlie river everywhere and Mr. Ogilvie is reported as having great faith in the possibilities of this region as a quartz mining country in the future. The country is .not hard to travel and this routc'wi'l no doubt be much used next year. Mr. J. A McKenna, who has been acting in the interests of the Dominion government in the matter of the Shon gees Indian land question, returns with the party'to Ottawa. He was averse to saying any thing on the subject until he made his report to the department. The party left Sandon by special train over the K. & S. at 5 p! m., and after paying a short visit to Kaslo will proceed to Rossiand and thence to Ottawa, stopping a few days in the principal towns of Manitoba. FORESTRY IN NJKW DENVER. The Forester's re-union in ;the Clever hall, on Friday evening- last, was a thoroughly enjoyable affair. Jas. Falconer, head of the Order in British Columbia, occupied the chair and gave a short and humorous address. The first part of the program consisted of a well-balanced array of vocal and instrumental music, in which Messrs. Millward, Melclrum, Gibbs and Smitheringale took part, assisted at the piano by Mrs. Millward. Dancing followed and was kept up to a late hour,-only interrupted at midnight, by a bountiful supply of refreshments. On Saturday afternoon Mr. Falconer re-organized the local court and initiated about a dozen new members. Officers were then elected as follows: C.D.S.CV R., A. Mclnnes; C.R., C. E. Smitheringale; P.C.R., J. Millward; V.C.R., W. Meldrum; Treas., E. Angrignon ; F. Sec, Jos. Irwin; R. iSec, "W. Gibbs; Chap., G. Sutherland; Supt. Jnr. Court, Rev. Mr. Booth; S.W., P. Lindquist; J'. W., A. McPherson : S.B., C. D. McCrae; J.B., D. McCuaig; Trustees, Messrs. Py- maii, Thompson, Knox, Powers, P. Angrignon, Van Dorn and Cooper. The Court has been resuscitated in strength j and starts out under favorable circuin-i stances. j IN THE CROW'S NEST Workmen arc Well Treated, Says Engineer M. .*. Hanoy, 'UK <"-AI.KN.-V COMPANY. A Met?ting Held (he CoiKlitii in I/Oinlon to n of the Prop, Kxjilain Hy. From the British Columbia Mining Review, the only B. O. journal published in London, Eng., we take the following: ': While extending oui congratulations to the Board of tlie Vancouver and British Columbia General Exploration Companv. Ltd, on their decision Sometime ago a statement was published which purported to come from a workman who had just returned from the Crow's Nest, in which the methods of the C.P.R. in .connection with the building of the road in the pass were exposed. In reply to the statement referred to M. J. lianey, manager ol" construction, is quoted as saving: "I am sorry to see the newspapers taking up the matter and printing such scurrilous articles. 1 am prepared at any j and all times to state the real facts iii j and lunged while the men beat and prodded him. The forks stuck into the tough hide, necessitating 7vo or three attempts to get them out: The blood was oozing- from a hundred wounds. Directly in front of the elephant was a 'tree a foot in diameter. Putting his forehead against this he swayed it back anel forth like a bush. Suddenly with one stroke of his trunk, he swept it clear of limbs as high as he could reach With one limb held in his trunk he struck fiercely rig-ht and left, and his tormentors scattered pell mell to get out of his reach. One man ventured too near, and with a single push the elephant threw hiin a dozen feet away, where he lay stunned. Two others were treated in the same manner. A fork thrust through one of the animal's ears was pulled out of the handle. The elephant caught the fork and drew it out himself and threw it away. He threw a stone 50yards. After the men had belabored until'they were cxausteel [ the elephant was still unconquered I Then they brought straw and piled it| under hii'n and fired it. As the flames j rose the suffering beast r.crenmed and ; struggled. He caught quanities of i dirt and threw it on his back in efforts ! to protect himself against the fire. Three times the straw was rearranged, and flames curled about his body. "But still he would not give up. Finally the tough hide began to loosen from the sides till it hung in. sheets thre"' feet square, exposing the .smooth white j flesh. Owing-to the struggles of the poor anima! the chains by which lioj was held had cut into the trees two or! three inches. Hundreds of townspeople i looked mi at the horrible spec-table.! And the elephant remained unconquered. and the attempt to subdue him had i to be abandoned. Then the master of j animals had a tent erected around him ; and gallons of vaseline, were applied to ; his scorched sides. It is said that hei will be killed if he ever attacks a man ! again. \ morning of Oct. 24. No ously injured, although most of the cars on one of the trains were damaged. Sir Wilfrid Laurier will most probably accompany Sir Louis Da vies, the Minister of Marine and Fishieries,when he goes to attend the meeting at Washing-ton, of experts to inquire into the preservation of seals in Behring Sea. The Verity Plow Works at Brantford were'destroyed by fire on Tuesday of this week. The fire was the result of a spontaneous combustion in the painting room. The loss is about 8100,000, with only ��50,000 of insurance. Over 200 me'nt were employed in the factory. The Ontario legislature will meet on Nov. HO for the despatch of important business. This annuncement created much surprise, as never since 1882 has the Ontario Government been called upon to meet until January. The settling- of the timber question is likely the reason for this early session. Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir Louis Davis were waited upon this week by a deputation of M.P's. and other interested parties from Western Ontario, asking for the curtailment of the exportation of natural gas from the Ontario gas fields. They claim that the American companies reap an enormous -liar- vest from our gas fields, which Canada ought to have. Here is a cure for the Klondike yellow fever given by an American lately returned from Alaska: "Pick out a. morning-next winter when the mercury is below zero, shoulder a pick and go into the woods before breakfast, dig a hole l!i fee1- deep; come back to the house at night and eat a small piece of stewed buffalo robe and sleep in the woodshed. Repeat the dose as often as necessary. Dr. Alexander Milton Ross, the eminent Canadian scientist, died in Detroit fin October 28th. His body was taken to Toronto for burial Dr. Ross was born at Belleville. Out . on Dec. lHth. !8;'2. Although he had to contend with Briclgewater, Out., were burned to death on Saturday, Oct ,23rd. Their aunt put them to bed on Friday night and then locked the house and went to attend a sick neighbor. About 2 o'clock the house was discovered to be on fire and although the aunt courageously braved the flames in an attempt to rescue the children, she could not reach, thein and they perished in the flames. An expedition under the direction of North-West Mining, Developing & Trading Company, -will leave Montreal for the Klondike" in a few weeks. The president of this company is Mr. John Walker, of Montreal. Dr. Mason, of Chicago, will accompany the expedition as medical attendant. 'Mr. J. Bouret, who was Lord Landsdowne's chef during his trip down the McKenzie river, will go as cook. They will travel bv way of Fort Norman, Fort Simpson anel McKenzie river. John A. Grose, of Montreal, will also make one of the partv. The Ontario Bureau of Mines has just issued its report for 1S9G. It contains Dr. A. P. Coleman's third report on the Western Ontario gold districts; notes by John Hardman, of Montreal, on the milling of gold ores : an account of the explorations on the boundary between Nipissing and Algoma bv E. M. Bur- wash, B. A. of Victoria College; Mr. Archibald Blue's story of Silver Islet, and many other valuable papers anel illustrations, it also gives an account of the discovery of a Corondum deposit in the township of Carlow, in Hastings county, which is now being examined by W". G. Miller, of the Kingston School of Mining. The gunboat Yantic. of the United States, ran into the s.s. La Canadienne, near Queen City, on the morning of Oct. 29th, cutting :her open below the water line and ripping her side a distance of about HO feet. At the same time the fore-rigging of the vessel was carried away, "the foremost being entirely cut off'by the Yantic. The shock to La Canadienne was very violent, causing-the passengers to vacate their berths and quickly scramble on deck. Two sailors wcre"alinost killed. The Yantic was apparently uninjured and proceeded on its course without enquiring what damage she had done. A telegram was sent "to Montreal to haAre the Yantic arrested when she touches that port. The damages to La. Canadienne are very serious, and she will have to get into dock for repairs. S.- M. Soverein, of Simcoe, was recently visited by a slick confidence man calling himself Henry Fuller,of Arizona, who in a confiding manner let Soverein into the secret of a good thing, in which he had interests, namely a goldmine, and in which he generously offered Soverein a half interest. Fuller tried, to induce his would-be victim to go to St. Catherines with him to see an Indian chief, who was also interested, giving him Sot) for expenses as an evidence of his honesty. They went, but Soverein did not see the chief, although Fuller visited him and brought back some gold bricks. After that they went oil to Hamilton, where Soverein thought he could raise a few thousands to invest. While there he sent the gold brick to a jewelrv store to have it tested, whereupon-Fuller skipped out. minus a gold brick and So0. Soverein now says he knew he was a fake and .vas just lead- in ir him on. many adverse; circumstances in his early youth he overcame them all and made a name for himself as a man of science, which will long be. remembered. Sunday. Oct. 21. was an important day in the history of womankind. In many of the Toronto churches women occupied the pulpits and preached eloquent sermons. One old Presbyterian elder is reported to have said : "Women, women-���all women ! It's enough to make St. Paul turn iu his grave.'' The women preachers were delegates to the great convention o' the. W. C. T. I*., hold in Toronto the past week. Almost daily the accounts of deaths by ing. When will ercise caution in papers contain accidental shoot- people learn to e.x- handling- firearms ! It is said that two important bills will be introduced during the next session of the Dominion Parliament. Thev will be the. Franchise Bill and the Plebiscite Bill. The. other day iu Toronto two young boys were playing with a revolver in Prof. Clarke's house. Thev were not aware, that one chamber was loaded and in some unaccountable way the charge went off killing little George Lighti'oot instantly. The other boy. Colin Campbell, is distracted withgric;!'. Two little girls. Beatrice and Ethel Eager, who were visiting their aunt at Although the late Charles A. Dana was so eccentric and often cantankerous in his direction of the New York Sim, he was strongly domestic in his private tastes, lie had a beautiful summer home, which he called Dorosi.s, on Long Island, and took boundless delight in the farm life that the Long Island estate afforded. He was happy in his conservatories, took delight in his horses, his cattle, his pigs and his poultry. It was those hours of recreation that he sought alter the intense labors of the day that brought him his keenest joy and furnished him with the; source of his astonishing vitality. The companionship of children was avIimI. he most craveel for and enjoyed. In one of his letters he gives the following charming account of a day with his children. "I have been busy with my children, driving them about in old Bradley's one-horse wagon, rowing and sailing with them on the bay and Sound, gathering shells on the ! shore with them, picking cherries, lounging on the grass, gazing into the j sky with the whole; pack about me. There is no delight like that of a pack of children���of your own. Love is selfish; friendship is exacting, but this other affection gains all and asks nothing. The man who hasn't half a dozen young children about hiin must have a very mean conception of life. Besides, there ought to be a baby in every bouse. A house without a babv is inhuman." 2 THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., NOVEMBER 11, 1897. 'ifth Yeas THK RIVALS. Slie's :i'winsome wj'leeii! Whin I take me dudheen, Aiid tlm smoke wreaths arise, I can sen her bright eyes ���\Yhur a laugh lurkin'lies, And her white little chin Wid its dape diin;>li' in-- Oh, there never was seen such a winsome colleen As her through the smoke of me good o/s-ld dudheen! She's a poutin' colleen Whin she sees me dudheen ! Whin the smoke wreaths arise There's a snap in her eyes, Whur an imp lurkin' lies. A nd she tilts her white chin Wid its dape dimple in��� ' Oh. there never was seen such a poutin'colleen As her whin I take up me good owid tludeen ! What ails the colleen Whin I take tne dudheen V "It's nie rival," siz she, Wid a side glance at inc.. "And it's aisy to see Which howfds the Iirst place, And I say to your face It's plain to be seen that ye want no colleen Whm your lips arc glued fast to your darlin' dudheen !" Thin I drop me dudheen ��� .list to plaze the colleen, And to prove that wan sip From her swate poutin' lip Would on loosen me ('rip From me pipe or me life .' Darlin' Connie, me wile ! Oh, there niver was seen such a lovin' colleen As her���whin she coaxed me to drop ine buil- hecn ! Thin I eye me dudheen. And ] eye the colleen ; And she'll prisintly rise, Wid warm love in her eyes. While she laughin'ly tries To breathe back a light In me ])i|ie that's out (jiiile. Oh, there niver was sein such a witc.hin' colleen As her, whin pcrtindtn' to light me dudheen ;��� ���Annie 0. Culhertson. Creighton, the wife of the new Bishop of London. She is a women who has convictions and seldom goes with the crowd; she forms her own opinion and expresses it emphatically. Twice within the last few weeks she has urged the desirability of some check being put on the wholesale consumption of sweets (as candies are called over here) among girls and women, who, she thinks, go to great extravagance and ruin their health by the practice, especially when the bon-bons are of the cheap and common kind. Perhaps, however, Mrs. Creighton forgets that the craving for sweets is the natural outcome of water drinking, which is far more general in these days than it has ever been before in England, so, perhaps, it is a case of e-hoosing the least of two evils. I think this should form the basis of an American crusade as well, for really the amount of water, either iced or plain, consumed by transatlantic visitors over here is quite horrifying. The ice-water habit seems to me a form of almost disease that should be checked as quickly as possible. TAKE IT AS IT COMES. FIKK IN A COAL Ml INK. Water I'otirctl <����> Sufl'er I'Von for M.onfch8- 1 the Heat. -Miners is light- There are few people outside, and not .so many as one might suppose within the coal regions who! realize the dangers with which the miners have to contend in their arduous work, says the Wilkes-, barre, Pa., correspondent of the New YorkJPost. Chief of these, and the only one of which I will speak now ing the fire in a burning mine. It was niy good fortune to spend a few hours not long ago with the men who are battling- a stubborn fire in -one of the largest mines in north-eastern Pennsylvania, and it was an experience not readily forgotten. The situation was a serious one for the officials to face, and every effort that the experience and ingenuity of the experts could suggest was made to 'control the lire. The fight was a long and stubborn one, but after two months of hard labor the mine was saved. It was an extremely cohl day towards the end of winter when 1 reached the mine. The division superintendent in charge of the work laid out flannels, overalls, big rubber boots, and the regulation miner's cap, and clad in these we prepared to descend. Holding tight and obeying the timely injunction "Keep your lieads down,", we rattled��� or rather seemed to drop���down the six hundred feet to the lowest level. The air was peculiarly heavy and nauseating. "There is about six per cent, of tire damp in it," calmly remarked the .superintendent, and added with equal calmness, "Ten per cent, will kill.'' When a spelL-of chilly weather comes 'i.nd with us tarries long. And we reach the sad conclusion that the seasons have gone wrong; When we wonder if we'll ever dare to shed our overcoats, And the pioneers are swapping their old spring anecdotes. When wo go about exclaiming : "Holy Moses, ain't it cold!" And the chill-producing breeze.? make us worry, fret and scold; Row we long for warmer weather, and we really are afraid That the mercury will ne'er again reach ninety iii the shade. But at last the frost is banished and a gentle south wind blows, And the mercury climbs upward, for the weather warmer grows ; Then broad smiles appear'on faces, and the overcoats are shed, And the new straw hat is gleaming on the happy wearer's head. ,. But the mercury keeps climbing, and the smiles soon disappear, For complaints again are many, but much different tales we hear : ft is still the same old subject that is burden of all, thought. But we go about exclaiming: "Suffering Moses, ain't it hot!" breezes, and we really jrowlng till its ninety Then wo long for eoolin are afraid That the heat will keep on in the shade ; But once more our fears arc banished, and we're happiest of men Till we weary of the weather, then we kick and growl again. Be the weather bad or pleasant, dry or wet,or hot or cold, There is sure to be much grumbling, there are many who will scold ; But the man who's philosophic thus the situation sums��� Never growl about the weather : just accept it as comes. ���Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. I'UKBtO INDIAN'S WIXD SPORT. How Th ey .Enjoy the All its Bloody Chicken Details. Race in |1*\ THE G-AN'UWAY however, the air was purer, and we enjoyed the full force of the 'sweet current sent down from the surface liy the powerful fans. A turn to the left, and a small airway parallel with the slope was reached just in time to meet three miners who came staggering past us like drunken men. "They come from the 'face' of the fire," said the superintendent. (In mining parlance the -'face", means the front.) These men wore overalls, rubber boots, and flannel shirts open at the chest. They were half sick with the heat, and at the turn of the slope threw themselves breathless in a corner, where other men dashed cold water over them. At this point the temperature was 100 degrees Fahrenheit. There were 150 men in this part of the mine, divided into small gangs of fifteen or twenty, each gang working for ten minutes at a time, it being impossible to labour longer in the great heat. The place was like half a hundred Turkish baths combined in one. I plucked the superintendent's sleeve when I felt that for me to stay longer there meant death, and he led the way downward none too soon to please me, for I was pining for the freezing air of the mountain side some 500 feet above. At a delightfully cool spot where the thermometer marked 100 degrees, we sat on a bench to recover. TUB " HELli HOLE" was in the main slope at'the very heart of the fire, which at that place was in the shape of a great V, and the spot to which we were bound was the point of the V. There was fire on both sides and in front of us. At last we reached the. "face" of the fallen roof, and new props were being put in as the men gained on the fire. Here too the slope was blockedand inch by inch they removed the debris to make a passageway. This debris had been piled in heaps at the sides of the slope, and the passage thus contracted to a few feet in width. A four inch stream of water was playing on the blackened and steaming mass, while water from a point 200 feet above found its way through the fire and rushed past us. In this terrific heat the men were working steadily, remorselessly, like merciless machines directed by a.giant hand, toiling night and day," to overcome the fire and gaining on it inch by inch, slowly but surely. We staggered downward as we had seen the men stagger. From the 110 degrees spot we went downward to the 100 degrees���-for the superintendent s;iid we 'must cool off gradually and then to the main gangway, where it was about 90 degrees. Finally tip the slope, we went and made a dash from the head house to the office.���it was about twenty-five degrees outside���we stripped, had a bath and the trip was over, and 1 was glad it was. Cruaado Again*' Candy. A novel crusade is that which is being headed just now by Mrs. Mandell Whenever the Pueblo Indians wish to celebrate a day they arrange for various religious observances, athletic contests and dances, ahvays ending the day with a chicken race. Such a celebration occurred lately at the settlement of San Juan. This event, which was witnessed by perhaps 2,000 Americans and Mexicans, many of whom had travelled several miles in order to be present, combines cruelty and barbarity in a degree satisfying to the most bloodthirsty and an element of danger that makes it particulary attractive to the mind of an Indian. When all was ready a live rooster was buried in the ground". The head and a few inches of fowl were left protruding from the ground, which covered the body and effectually prevented the poor thing from moving. More than 100 Indians who were to take part in the race were seated on their horses about 100 yards away. When all was in readiness the word was given, and with a rush that raised a cloud of dust the braves dashed towards the poor imprisioned rooster. As they urged their ponies forward the Indians crowded close together in an effort to he first to reach the chicken. Two ponies were thrown and the rest of the riders rode over them and their former riders. How these two unfortunates escaped death was a seeming miracle, but it chanced that neither of them was seriously hurt and they soon mounted their ponies again and took part in the chase. The first Indian to reach the chicken leaned far over on the side of his pony and tried to grasp the chicken's head. He missed it, and a brave further behind dashed up, leaned over and jerked the fluttering; body from the ground. Away he dashed with his trophy high iu the air. Hardly had he gone a dozen rods, whirling the fowl above his head, when a comrade seized one of the chicken's legs and gave it a tremedious jerk. The first Indian held on tightly and the neck of the chicken was torn in two, and with a fierce yell the Indian who had secured the chicken urged his horse forward and became the pursued. He went perhaps a quarter of a mile before he was surrounded. Another comrade grabbed the other leg of the dead fowl. Then the carcass was torn in two, both men being splattered with the blood of their victim. Occasionally a pony would fall, and sometimes two or three would come together in collision, the shock of which would throw both riders to the ground. The wild race lasted for nearly an hour, during which time two men suffered broken arms and another had his thigh bone broken. The others paid no attention to the wounded men, but continued the awful sport, leaving the squaws and braves who had not taken part in the race to care for them. The race did not end until the chicken had been torn into shreds. Three horses eliecl from exhaustion, having been urged on by their riders as long as they could move. During the race the Indians seemed to be the victims of a sort of mania. They howled fiercely all the time and seemed to glory in smearing the blood of the, fowl on their bodies. ado River. Here they have lived for several centuries. As long ago as the sixteenth century they had a rude sort of civilization. When Vasque" de Cor- onado visited the region in 1510 he found the Pueblos living in houses three to four stories high, made of adobe, just as they are made today. These houses were entered only through holes in the top and offered a good means of defense against invaders. Surrounded, as they were, by various hostile and predatory tribes, the Pueblos were often forced to defend their homes. They managed to resist the Spaniards for several years, but finally came under Spanish rule and so remained until 1848, when this region was ceded to the United States. Previous to the coming of the Spanish the Indians had no domestic pets except a species of large turkey. The Spaniards introduced sheep, horses, goats, dogs and the gentle burro, which has since played an importat part in the domestic economy of the Indians. After railroads were introduced and the Un- iteei States troops insured the Pueblos against the attacks of the Apaches, the Comanches, Kiowas and Navajos, they began paying more attention to agriculture, and now they are a contented and prosperous people. They live in communities and labor in common. They do very little work and have numerous holidays given up to religious exercises and athletic sports. The number of such holidays is perhaps two hundred in the course of a year, and the Indians do not work too hard for their constitutions. They make pottery in some of their villages, while other tribes devote themselves to the manufacture of blanks from the skins of goats. These blankets are gaudily covered and are woven with rare skill. While they have lived in a sort of semi-civilization for several centuries, the Pueblo Indians care little for the work of dressmakers or tailors. No tribe has ever produced a Worth or a Felix. The clothing is usually, made of leather and is often trimmed with silver buckles and buttons. In cold weather a gaudy blanket is used to cover the upper 1'ialf of the body. Lether leggins are a necessity in this country, which abounds with poisonous snakes and thorny cactus of various species. The women, old and young, wear a sort of leather bloomers under their petticoats and refuse to discard them. Many of the younger women are quite beautiful. They have large, dark, expressive eyes and teeth regular and white. Their eyebrows are heavy and black and their hair, usually of inky blackness, is nearly always long and luxuriant. The women make ��-ood housekeepers and keep their adobe houses as neat as brush and water can make them. They are great, gossips and enjoy visiting among each other as well as elo women in other civilized re- "Don't keer ef yer ar," returned the old man, unlipping a gill of tobacco juice and looking up sharply in my face. "I'm lost," I continued. "Well, ef you know enny of the landmarks, ye go straight on this road till ye come to whar ole Bob Peters cut the gizzard outen ole Tobe Mason. Thar the road splits, an' you go to the left, about 200 yards, till ye reach the spot whar Ben Carpenter split ole John Cap- field's brain box open with er handspike. Go on then a little furder ter whar John Simpson let daylight into ole Mose Turner with a butcher knife, an' thar the road cracks open agin, an' you take to the right an' go on till ye cum to whar I sent a gourd full of buckshot into ole George Lemmos's lung- holder. Thar ye take to the left again, and keep goin' till ye reach a house whar an ole man an' woman are drunk in the front yard, cussin' an' fightin'. Ax if Colonel Baxter lives thar, an' he'll say: 'Yas, darn ye. Git down, take a short of moonshine, an' make yerself to home.' "���Chicago Tribune. Pants for "Lady Prisoners. The lady criminals of Kansas are alarmed at the threat of theauthorities to dress them in overalls and i put them to breaking stones. This is an example of feminine perverseness. Here are the i trousers���the aim of their lives���at last' within their reach. They have only to extend their hands and tlie coveted garments are theirs with no more effort than the theft of a loaf of bread. Not even the prospect !of breaking stoness you would think .could deter a really ardent woman's rightcr from assuming the male garment with the full sanction of the state. But no, all the women are in a panic. Indignation meetings have been called by the women's clubs and all the unfortunate lady convicts have had their fines paid. Tn Kansas the women vote. In business life they eom- pete with the men as keenly as iii other states. By all means let them have the overalls and then to the stone pile. Tf they are so anxious for the prerogatives of the trousers, let them not shirk the penalties. SKITTERS! Port of Nakusp. THOS. ABRIEL CUSTOnS BROKER, Real Estate, Mines & Insurance. Nakusp, B. C. J.R.& D. GaraeroR Formerly of Winnipeg. Furnish Clothing: ���: in the:��� ��� - Latest Style ���: of the : ��� Tailor's Rft. Sh��p* * THREE FORKS & SANDON. The Pueblos differ from all other tribes of Indians in not being addicted to drink. They have never been fond of liquor. There are no drunkards among them. Neither do they gamble, though gambling is usual as natural to an Indian as eating. Summer's cum all rig-bt���skitters' here again, Don't you hear 'em singiti'��� Above j'our head, right in a bunch ? Why, the air is ringin' ! I'd like to sweep 'em down :��� yet, no, I love the skitter; Vou see my wife was Flossy Brown; A n' onct,���one bit her. Two years ago Sunday, coming along the water, The skitters singin' ; I first met ole Brown's darter, Her hat a-swinging, Curly hair an' big black eyes, Pretty'? Well I guess ! Thought she'd make a mash on me In her Sunday best. How it happened?. Well���can't exactly mind But she was saucy, A-tipped her nose, an' blinked her eye : Then it bit Flossy- Right on her lips too���ruby red, Poor Flossy Brown ! It raised a lump, an' then then I said,���that I Could send it down. Contains all the famous liquors of the present day. The cigars are from reliable makers and give out, when in action, an aroma that scents the immediate atmosphere with an odor that is pleasing to the olfactories of man. In the billiard room of this hotel the ivory spheres can be set in motion whenever the public desires it. ANGUS McGILLIVRAY The DOXT DRTNK OR GAMI'M". religion. The Pueblos have a queer For many years they have been under the teaching of Catholic priests and they have, generally accepted that belief. But they still retain many of the customs and beliefs of their forefathers and their religious exercises are a mixture of Catholicism and their old tribal customs. Everything they do has a deep significance. Even their dances, from which they seem to get much enjoyment, have symbolical meanings. They believe that the dances are gratifying "to those above." They are always hemmed in and surrounded by these beliefs and customs. Even the chicken race partakes of a religious character. Their religious customs which are purely religious are carefully guarded from "profane eyes and no white man the exercises they con- churches on important sez I, "Oh, how ?" sez she, an ' a " wlsht, "A whisper, pretty Flossy :" So she bent her head, and she laughed so sweet, Oh, she was awful saucy ; But she puckered her lips, she shook them curl i,��� An'���er���what ? kiss her ? Well, say,���look here.���if you want ter know, Just ask that skitter. ���SI. Tisdale '^ NEW DENVER, B.C. Is a new house, with new furniture and everything comfortable for the taaveling public. The bar has the best goods in the market. ANGRIGNON BROS., Proprietors. has ever seen duct in their occasions. They have great respect for the priests, or padres, as they are called, but are lacking in any' regard for a church building as such. When the church is not in use as a place of worship it is frequently used as a sheep fold or a stable for the burros.���Sunday World. HB CAUGHT THK CASH HOY. Carl Kettler, the property man of one of the New/York theaters, is a novel character in more ways than one. He is an expert hair cutter, barber and manicure, as well as a clever maker of stage properties. He made a circuit of the bia department stores a few days ago, in quest of a few bargains in wearing apparel. He meandered into a Sixth avenue store when the rush was liV A PHinOS.QPJIKR. You can never teh - what a man will do in a horse trade by the length of his prayer on Sunday. Others see our faults as plainly as we see theirs. Only the man who looks away from himself has ideas. Put the wicked in office and the devil will rule the town.; Those who touch each other are sometimes farthest apart. Hats and Neckties | for gentlemen at Mrs. Merkley's. The Job- roem grabbed the off through WILD SI'OKT These HAS XO TEUltOKS FOR THEM. clucken races occur cally among the various tribes of Mexico periodi- Pueblo Indians that live in New Mexico and Arizona. Occasionally one or two Indians are killed outright or so badly injured that they die,but these fatalities do not seem to make the ghastly sport any less popular. The Pueblo Indians inhabit the region between the Rio Grande and the Color- on, and the bright blue color of tho tie he finally selected showed as much as anything else that he came from Milwaukee. He handed the tie and a crisp dollar note to the saleswoman, who laid both together on the edge of the counter and began (Irving: "Cash! Cash!'" Presently a small, bare-headed boy rushed up to the counter, tie anel the money anel ran the crowded aisle. "Hi stop thief!'' yelled Kettler, and away he started in hot pursuit. Up one aisle and down another the boy ran. followed by him, pushing the other shoppers aside with frantic haste. Finally the boy, unconscious of the uproar he had caused, was caught. "What do you mean, you young- thief:-'" panted the purchaser of the bright blue tie. "What's de matter wid you-'" said the bov, who was verv much scared. "What's the matter with me? Why. y-m stole my necktie anel money," said the other, grabbing the boy by the collar. H"Go'n, yer nutty." said the boy. "I'm the cash boy, an' I wuz juts gettin' yer change fer yer.'' The other shopper explained matters to the puzzled customer, and he walked shainefaceelly back to the counter.��� New York Tele"'ram. Travel in Kentucky. Silverton Drug Store ef Th6 Led ee Dru^s and Stationery, Toilet Articles, Sundries, Trail Blazer Cigars. Is the finest west ofthe Red River ...... The Ledge carries the largest stock of Printing Stationery in Kootenay, and can do finer work than any print shop west of Lake Superior There are offices that quote seemingly lower prices, but qual- considered, The Ledge ltV is o Proprietor, Silverton, B. C freight or 1 was trying to find my way to Colonel Ted Baxter's on George Creek, eastern Kentuck. and got lost. I met an old man with a gun on his shoulder and six hounds at his heels. "I'm trving' to get to Colonel Rax- tor's." said I as I drew rein. Brandon, B. C, Assay Price List Gold, Silver, or Lead.each Gold, Silver and Lead, combined Gold and Silver Silver and Lead Copper (by Electrolysis) Gold, Silver, Copper and Lead Gold and Copper. Silver and Copper Gold. Silver and Copper Platinum Mercury Iron or Mangane.se Lime, Magnesium, Barium, Silica, Sulphur, each Bismuth, Tin, Cobalt, Nickel, Antimony. Zinc, and Arsenic, each Coal (Fixed Carbon, Volatile Matter, Ash. and percentage of Coke, if Coking Coal) ". .". Terms: '.Cash With Sample. June 20th. 1805. $1.50 i 3 00 ; 2 00 I 2 00 2 00 | 4 00 2 SO 2 50 i 3 00 ft 00 2 00 2 00 2 00 4 00 4 0 lower than any. No Chinese or blacksmiths employed. Send orders by mail, express, pack train If you.are in the Slocan metropolis call in and see our plant, but do not touch our bull pup's pup, or allow the cyclone caused by our fast cylinder press to blow your plug hat out ot the rear tunnel. Come in folks when you have any job printing to do, or cash that is too heavy to carry, and we will give you a profitable solution of your trouble. Come, gentle pilgrims, come. FRANK DICK, Assayer and Amilvat FRED J. SQUIRE, Nelson. B. C. Merchant Tailor. Full Line of Suitings and Trouserings aJwavs on hand. LELAND HOUSE Makes it one of the Largest and most Comfortable Hotels in Kootenay. MRS. D. A. McDoug;ald. XTA.*ECXJS*F*, so Fifth Year. THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., NOVEMBER 11, 1897. THE AX COVKKEI) GKIXOSTONE. Though bright to my heart are some scenes in my lad time, Which fond recollections oresent to my view. One thing I remember that brought me no glad time, But lent to mv childhood an indigo hue. How awful when sneaking' away from my mother, / As down to the creek with my tackle I fled, To hear father's voice, "One good turn needs an other; Come turn at the. grindstone that hangs by the shed." The old crooked grindstone, The wobbling old grindstone, The old squeaking grindstone that hung by the shed. Ah. many's the hour I've turned it and grunted, For it was the millstone that burdened me down While nuts were to gather and squirrels to he hunted, ' There was always an ax or scythe to be ground, It never was oiled and was hard in turning; "Only grease of the elbows it needs," father said: And the handle would often slip off without ���warning And instantly tumble me heels over head. The old dented grindstone, The worn away grindstone. It gathered no moss as it hung by the shed. 'like earth, turns on who 'get religion' tell their experiences, which are often wild tales of imaginary adventures in heaven and hell, and some of the improbabilities in these tales would make a Baron Munchausen or a Joe Mulholland turn g'reen with envy. When worked up to the highest pitch of religious enthusiasm the Southern negroes are often frantic witli excitement, and continue in that state until they fall from sheer exhaustion. On awakening from a fainting fit,which is always given the importance of a trance, they relate wonderful tales of adventure* in supernatural worlds. Taken all in all, the religion of the cornfield darky in the Southern States is as strange a conipounel as one would wish to set;."���Buffalo Express. HARRIS' LOVE OF POKER. A DWARK IN BATTLE. Cr.sau Won Praise and Honor From tha Great Genghis Khan. From time to time Mrs, Mary Shears Roberts has contributed to St. Nicholas papers on "Historic Dwarfs." In one number she tells of Casan, a Tartar dwarf who took service under the great Mcnpod: ;n khan, his first Mrs. Eoberts appearance in Wouldn't Ouit tint Gjuims to Insure 'Hel urn to tli.�� XT. S. Semite-. His ���'The'best poker player Tennessee evon developed is dead," said Major A. L.'Preadway, of Memphis. "J refer to Senator Isham G. Harris, who elied at Washington. I knew the old statesman intiinatedy for more than forty years, "This stone," father said its axis, But coiniiurison fails on the matter of force." I said, '���Though the sjieed of the earth ne'er relaxes, , I am sure it would stop 'rioii'li those axes of yours." ' . The nicks thev were deep in the ax or flic hatchet, . And father bore on till sweat dropped from his | and I .never heard of his getting 111) head; If I'd pause to put water on, then I would catch it; "Walch the crank and keep on with the motion," ho said. Oh. flint old shaky grindstone, Thiil slow grinding grindstone, Thai hard running grindstone thai hung by ,1k'"s1iw1! | years when he didn't indulge his fond- Yot, dear to my heart arc some scenes of my child- neSH for tlie sport if it was at all possi- hood��� ble to make up a game. He never ^"'trees''"1'''1' "1C ��i(lei"' n,e .l"s'��h,",r*' "cnt'1' 'played for high stakes; '25 cents was The school'hours 1 pleasantly passed in the wild- usually the limit of his games, ami he wood, I M'as never known to go over C>0 cents. Anfl the honey I stole unbeknownst: to the bees. 7| I,, .1<nf] f-n ileel-ire V.lmf nokpr wiw But that circular horror, whose motion was i IU' lV=*. .. <lLC1'lf'C C". V01^-1 ^' . and I never heard of his g from a poker game a cent the He loved the great American g, much as he loved'politics.' Few loser, me as even ings slipped by during-the last forty motion was i rotary, To-day inakes my anger all fly to my head. And ]'in'willing to go and make oath to the notary That; I was ground dull hy that stone by the shed��� That, lopsided-grindstone. That old hated grindstone, That confounded grindstone that hun^by the slice. IT IS BADLY MIXED African Superstition and Christian Doctrine. THESE MAKE A NEW RELIGION " To place the fetich worship of a string ol tiger's teeth and the talismanic power of a rabbit's foot alongside; the Christian doctrine of various'atonement in determining the destiny of a huinansoul may essentially a gentleman's game, that when it was played for high stakes too severe a strain was put on gentility for tlie good of both players and the game. ��� "Senator Harris, you know, looked I more like a Chinese mandarin than a I Caucasian, and he seemed to be proud of it. It was probably his wonderfully immobile face that made him such ii successful poker player. I have watched liim by the hour "while playing, and I never once saw the least change of expression on his face. When he was hist elected to the Senate in" January, 1895, the opposition made a big demonstration to frighten him. He hurried from Washington to Nashville and assumed personal direction of his forces. The papers said so much that I became frightened, ejuit my business anel went up'to Nashville to help him out. When I arrived there I hurried to his room in the Maxwell House and found him playing poker. .1 tried to get hiin to quit the game long enough to tell me whatthesituation -was so I coulel proceed intelligently anel with some system. He dismissed me rather curtly with the assurance tuat he would see me in two hours, When the two hours were up I went hack to his room and he was open- ling jackpots with the same interest lie disolayod at first. I sat behind him and thus describes battle: Sow, it so happened that Genghis, in ordci' to subdue the deserters from bis father's tribes, had dethroned several priiices or khans. These petty .chiefs had been iu the habit of paying tribute to the great sovereign of the Kin empire in North China. This high and mighty potentate now demanded money from Genghis Khan, thereby rousing the ire oi onr Mongolian warrior, who an- iiouuccd that, rather than pay one cent for tribute he would fight the whole ChiiK.se kingdom. Preparations for war were at once begun, and Casan was de- I'rbled when he received orders to join lie army. At last his dream was real- iz:'.d. He was going to fight real battles, and he was in command Of a body of ur.ops. He lade adieu to his family and wilh a proud heart set out to meet his eovere]7;i:. As it i.ist step, Genghis Khan invaded Wfijv'friu jVci, captured several .strong-. hue's ai:it iciired in the summer to a j:i;:ce ci.ijtd Lung Ting, in oreler to escape the great heat of the plains oi suppes. While there news reached him, i hai. several'other khans were jareparing lf.r war. He thereupon descended from the heights, marched against,his foes and in a pitched battle on the river. Irtish he overthrew them comrjletel3r. I Casan' attracted a great deal of notice on this occasion. He was here, there and everywhere. On his mettlesome cl:<;:gf r he bounded into the thickest of the light, hurling his lance with unerring aim an .'I displaying great courage. After un: tvuy no was summoned tc appear before (he conqueror, who complimented the dwarf, saying: "Thy valor ami my courage have completely justified thy promises. From this day furtii thou shalt be a khan. Thou shalt have command of a large body of troops and shalt hereafter be my companion in arms." THE COWBOY'S PRAYER, as The following story, given in a recently published ; sermon, must be regardeel as a, somewhat lively form of pulpit illustration :��� Let me give you an instance of one who, though iiot a member of any church, is still a child of God. On the lone prairie a number of cowboys were called to perform the last rites for a comrade wlio had accidentally met with a sudden death ; the dead comrade hael been a great favorite with his churns, so their g-rief at parting with him, anel their anxiety for his future welfare, induced a strong desire on the part of each remaining one of his associates to hold a religious service. Not one of thein, however, coulel sing, or remember a sacred song that he had ever heard. Not one of them could think of a prayer, anel they found themselves in a fix. But at Jlast Ben, one ofthe lot, offered to put up a prayer, and in all sincerity he began : "0 Lord, I guess ���in your opinion i am pretty tough, but I ain't saying anything' for myself, it's for Briggs. He's 'dead now," but, 0 Lord, he's got something down in him as pure as steel, and, O Lord, he's got a heart in him as big as a mule. I'll tell you what lie done the other day ; lie gave a sick Mexican a pound, nursed him through a fever, and the fellow hadn't been 'well more than a week when he stole Brigg's saddel pockets. O Lord you must not go back on such a man as that, because they are scarce in these parts. 0 Lord if Briggs gets half a chance he'll make as good a record where he's gone as here." Linton Bros' book store. CALGARY and SLOCAN CITY. Ill Books, Stationery, Wall Paper, Sporting' Goods, Fishing- Tackle, Pipes, Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobaccoes, Mineral Glasses, Mining Laws & Maps. VIAE J����lnr��.��?.yapfajjTj In Massachusetts���Who is that rather plainly-dressed man with the iron-grey hair sitting in that box? That is Colonel Blank. He is an old campaigner who has won considerable celebrity as an Indian fighter. I have heard of him. Who is that fierce-looking man in the gorgeous uniform, with epaulets, .cocked hat, and gold braid}* That's Colonel Van Cleave. Whom has he ever fought? The gipsy moth. ��� J. A. McKinnon & Co., General Merchants Silverton, B. G. Ship goods to any part of the District. Their store is the largest in the Slocan country. COLLEGE FASHIONS. Baby carriages, fancy upholstery and furniture at Crowley's." ' f For four-bits you can purchase 100 ancient newspapers at this office. The IMZILX-i Opposite New Denver, is now in operation. Orders promptly filled. Address letters to New Denver. appear to he a strange mixture of superstition and theology, but that is the compound found among the cornfield "darkies" of theSouth, saiil a Kentucky man to a St. Louis Globe-Democrat reporter. "Now is the glorious time of the negro camp meeting in Kentucky a.nd other Southern States," said Mr. Dodd, --but i|to fathom a Southern negro's genuine religious belief is almost impossible, for he doesn't know what he believcjs himself.; in spitefif the constant intercourse of the negro with the white race, the former has never relincjuished the fetiehism that clings to his Christianity anel forms a strange compound of religion and superstition. What a negro does believe is hard to tell. No one ever knows, and he never clearly understands his belief himself. Signs and ; omens, mentations and superstitions j charpis peculiar to the African savage ! have been amalgamated into their re-' ligious observances to such an extent that their worship, while assuming the form of a Christian simplicity of faith, is really saturated with a reliance to the .fate that is supposed to be expressed /.n every unexpected accident. I have lived among Southern negroes all my life, and I know them. iVis impossible to drive the superstition out of them. The rabbit foot'is placed alongside the cross. Over the door of every negro's hut that stands in a cornfield or tobacco patch is seen a rust horseshoe suspended from a. nail, and you rarely meet a negro man who does not carry in his vest pocket the left hind foot of a rabbit as a kind of a mascott. For alien to crow is the sign of death in the family, and the ambitious fowl generally finds the way to the boiling pot. These oinens are innumerable. If a rooster stands with his head in the door and crows it is the sign of the coming of a sister; if his tail is first it means news of a death. A rabbit crossing, one's path entails misfortune unless the charm be broken by an imineeliate return home. Tf> leave a row of seed half planted is bad luck ; to pick up a pin ' or to put one's stockings on wrong side j out is good fortune. The appearance J of bubbles on the surface of a cup of [ coffee means a present of money. For j .-the palm of the hand to itch, 'if one i ���cratch it on wood,get something-good." I If the nose itches a visitor is coining ; if i 'in the right side, a lady ; if on the left, | a gentleman. j ''A most important personage among j ;he Southern negros is the reputed con- < urer, who occupies much the same, j lositioit as the medicine man among ; he Indians. The conjurer is generally i .n old woman, living alone in her : fjere is a definition of "������ambling furn- abni, sin-rounded by herbs that are ; iK]u;d bvl|,hc C|lit..lJf0 Nu'ws for the use, apposed to work powerful charms, i of its poli(.(> ('ei),.n.tVimmt; equallv valu- ndshe is held m great fear by her i;i|>lti, liowcvor, in nonilv nil c-itics .- l.spiayeii at lutein him of what appeared to me to be some dangerous inroads the opposition were making on him, and urged him with all .the" force at my command ' to get to work at once and checkmate his encmifis. "Finally he turned on me impatiently and said:' 'Treadway, these, fellows are the best poker players I have run up against since the war. and I would not quit this game while I am loser to be sent hack to tlie United States Senate.' ������How much are you loser?' I inquiml. The Senator counted his. chips carefully, and then said : I am 85 cents behind now and was only 20 cents behind when you came back. Vou have bothered me so much with your talk that I haven't been able to keep up with the game as I otio'ht to. The sooner you get out of here'the sooner I'll get even. Then I'll see what my enemies are doing'.' "The game went on all that "night without "interruption, and it was nearly breakfast time before the Senator got even. He showed up in the dining room, looking as fiT.sli and vigorous as if he iiad had' a good night's rest, and devoted the entire day to straightening 'out the Senatorial'tangle. At night he got the. same party in his room again, and they resumed their game with the eagerness of gamblers playing for high stakes, i learned afterward that during the entire series of games not as much as-So changed hands.'"���St Louis Republic. THK OLD 'FOGfiV I'liEA'CHBK, Hu talks to empty'iumvs, altlioujdi llu is ������). Icnniod ln.-oi. And strives in all his acts to do Tho vi;ry best lie can ; tic cheors'tlio. sick ami oft ho knocks Upon the widow's door; He feeds the, liuiiirry orphan frmn Mis own mea'Trc store. liui hi: has never pawed the air Wliile "wlorifyinfrG.'ifl :" And no one ever heard him swear Tlini Jonah -was a frad .' This man has never killed a cat Toi emphasize a point, Nor is hi; iiIh'ii.vs cryini? that Tlie times a ri: ont'of joint. lie only preaches Love and Faith And Hope, as best lie may ; He only seeks to follow Christ As lie lias shown the way ! What thontrh he reads his title clear Totnnnsinns jn the sky V 'I'he pimple do not flock to hear��� The.v say lie's dull and dry : ���S. K.lviser. in Cleveland Leader. When Judge Robert Gruut Was a Freshman at Harvard. With the beginning of the second term the freshmen were privileged tc wear tall hats and carry canes. They always celebrated their emancipation on the first Saturday of the new term by pomg in force to the theater in all the .splendor of their new possessions, am! they were apt to show themselves on I'eucon street, Boston, on the following tunttay. In regard to dress on weekdays 1 recall that among all the stu- tients a little round gray soft hat was .very popular. The times were rathei haul fium J870 to 1SS0, and many men \ve:it infer old clothes. Short pea jackets wore in common use. Some of the arbiK rs of college fashion chose to wear sill; hats with them when they wished to appear swell, thereby producing a somewhat mongrel effect. English clothes, or indeed a suit of new clothes, was so much an event that I recollect on the occasion when a member of the class of J S?4 imported a suit of lively checks, his friends hung it outside the window of one of the buildings on exhibition. The yard at that time, as very likely now, was often a lively center for amiable indolence. Besides tossing cents at a mark in front of Holworthy and dropping hot coppers out of the windows ior the Cambridge urchins to pick up, I recall the slogan of "Heads out!" which brought every one to his window and irom his books many times a week. No woman could cross the yard without hearing it, and events of much less import evoked it. Frequently we had the pleasure of listening to tlie Glee club, which was then a flourishing body whose repertoire included "Seeing Nellie Home" aud "Dearest maielen, dance ever with n e; cr.ir.st thou refuse, me; can'si tliou l t.t choose me?" yet pandered to less nolie emotions in "Shoo Fly" and the then popular Ha-hii-l::., you and mo, Little blown jr.;;, how I love thee! ���"Harvaru College In the Seventies," by clutike Robert Grant, in Scribuer's. Sawmill 'Having- placed some new machinery in our Mill, wo are prepared to fur nish all kinds of roujrli and dressed Lumber and Shingles at Seduced Prices PRICE LIST: Roiudi Lumber, narrow, SIO on " " wide, 311 00 to Vi .. Joist and Scaiitlinj, sized up to IS feet long-, ' 11 .'. 8'to 21 ' 12... 21 'tO.'O ' 13 .. Flooring-, T & G, G " 20 . " ���' 4 " 22 Vjc int Ceiling, <f 22 .. "Kustic, lf> .. Shiplap, 11 .. Surfaced Dressed, 13... A liberal discount on large orders for Cash, PETER GENELLE & Co Dealers in Hardware, Tin and Granite ware, Miners' Supplies, Paints, Oils, Glass and Putty, Doors & Windows. ASLO HOTEL Family & Commercial. arge And Comfortable s^ Rooms The northern connecting point of the C. P. R. on Slocan Lake. AVIIA'I IT !S. A Trumpeter's Coimijje. During ���'��� i"in:c h campaign in Africa many brave ikeeis were done, but none braver ],-.i;ia;).-i (ban Trumpeter Escof- (ier's re.-'i'iie of his captain. The Arabs were pressing the cavalry of Captain De Cott, and everything was in ecu fusion, when De Colt's horse Wits killed .under him and the capture of i lie f fiii-i . 'ami the whole company sc-e.-.iicd inevitable. At ihafnu'irent the trumpeter of the company''!< a;: il from his burse and gav" it to De Cult, saying: "Take him. Your life i;-' m eessaiy; mine is useless. You can. raliy the men. It does not matter abfnt- my neck. " HOTEL SILVERTON, B.C. Is a new three-story hotel situated near the wharf. The house is plastered and the rooms are furnished in a manner calculated to make travelers call again. Mining and Commercial men will appreciate the home comforts of this hotel. BRANDOfSs & BARRETT Fitted with every modern convenience. Special protection against fire. Rates 82.50 and ��3 per day. COCKLE & PAPWORTH, Proprietors. Kosebery rs and Claim Owners De C eig'hbors. She could teach the witches f Macbeth new tricks. She is suppos- tl to concoct .strange medicines, to be. ble to put anyone under a spoil, or in- uce a lingering elisease and death. SMtli these strange powers attributed o her, it is no wonder that she is helel u great fear and veneration. I am not peaking of the modern 'voodoo' eloctor, /ho is generally a man, who practices' '.'auel to make money; I am speaking f the old-style negro witch. One of er spells is given liy administering the ried head of a scorpion, which, fieing ���ikon unconsciously in food,is supposed ') generate a new species of living ���orpion in the body of the unhappy ictim. Some charms are supposed to ,iuse sleeplessness, others withering of limb, and other strange diseases not agnosed by the medical fraternity. "; During the summer days the negroes ock from miles around to some grove, ud hold their hallelujah camp meetings id shout and sing and 'get religion.' hey work themselves into a wonderful enzy and excitement. The preacher's ���ssionate harangue continues Those 'Gambling���A game, of hazard called | faro when played by five one-eyed men ] in a fifth-story room having a north exposure on any cloudy night in the full i of the moon. Some authorities maintain that the dealer must also be a. one- eyed man witli only three lingers on each hand in order to constitute gambling within the strict meaning of the word, but the police department accepts the broader and more liberal definition first given. The word is derived from two Greek roots : Gam, meaning hard to find, and lung, meaning air, and its original significance was an elusive, impalpable,' vaporous thing." At one of our police courts last week a woman was charged with driving without a lamp. She stated that she had a lamp, but had forgotten to put a candle in it "Ah !" said the magistrate, "you're like the foolish virgin who forgot the oil" ' ���To which the defendant replied : "I'm not a foolish virgin : I'm married, with four children." ������ ���! the horse, rallied eer.tinned the light. .���K.-.'i:' the co'i'pM'V ami I'rvnv-j.i :. i -.'seofrerwas (aken prisoner, but ii:;-Arabs. \vl:o a core courage, had witiji smcI the scriji- and, appreciating the nobility. <if tin- man, treated him with generosity. His trumpet was a source of greal euiertainment to his captors, who t.-erl often to make him give tlie sign-ds of the various military movement:-:. One il.iy Eseoftier gave the whole repertory v.uli great gusto, fin- f.-:)iii:g up by blowing the summons for a (ija .ve \s.ih an extended flourish. "V, r.nt was that:" asked the Arab chi-jf. "Ah," .���������aid Iv-'f^fVier, "you will hear that se;:n, 1 hoy.-1 That is the signal for u charge!"���Youth's Companion. A IJreczy Way. Soxey���That fellow Primpas is one of the nicest men .[ ever met. He baa such a iire(-y;y v\ay with him. ' Knozey���Yes, 1 have noted his bracing air, but it never touched me.��� F Msbur:.' >-'���" s Mining Properties of all kinds av an ted for English market. Semi full i/iiriiuul.-ii-.? to RICHAKD PLEWMAN Mining Hrnki-r. I.'. <). Hox T.Vi, Kossland, II. C. ��>0u-ll/ii*si Has the only safe harbor north of Slocan City. Eosebery *' It is at Eosebery where the beautiful Slocan steamer ties up over night and where the employees can bring their families. Eosebery Lots were put on the market June 28 and are selling fast. You cannot afford to wait if you want a lot. They are going up. f have received mv stock of_ SuIIm-SOI DR. A �� GllllC/�� MJLLOY. Room 17, Black's Hotel. Sandon. 2-/lll<0G/j|ll<se;/iiii9 i�� * and invite the people of tlie Slocan to call in and inspect them. M. A. WILSON, Tin.- rclinlile sjloe.-ui Tiu'Ior. Willium*,a I'lock. Xuw Dcnvi-r. B.C ys cen Eosebery Men are now grading and clearing the townsite, and several buildings are about to be erected. Eosebery Is destined to be the distributing centre for the Slocan. Eosebery Will.become the groat Concentrating City ofthe Slocan. having abundance of water and being easv of access to r"the Mining Centre. .Watch tin's. Terms, �� cash; balance three and six months. For full particulars apply-to A. M. BEATTII'], General Agent. I*E-r- r. r.'. e.: B ! Vou fan olitiiin a rcv-~\.]i 9 es Eeport on the Slocan. Do you want Ink ? Do you want Type���? Do you want Stereo Plates? Do you want to trade Presses ? Do you want to trade Paper Cutters ? Do'vou want Axvthixg in the way of Printing Material. Corn?: ^"ttToronto Type Foundry Co.,Ltd. J.C.CROWE, Affent, Clf] Cordova Street, ^u VANCOUVER, B.C. 4 THE LEDQE, NEW DENVER, B.C., NOVEMBER 11, 1897. Fifth Year The Ledge. Pnbli.-lieil every Tlmr.sdrt y. R. T. LOWERY, Editor and Financier. SUBSCKIPTIOX RATES: Thm- UMiitlt* Six ���' ,. ��� Twelv.- ' Thrkk ykahs i Transient Advertising, 2:> emits ner line Iirst in sertion. in cents [ler line subsequent insertions noniiare.il measurement. 1.2:. [ -MM) f .1.00 : TO CONTRIBUTORS. OjiTespondeiii-e from every part of the Kootenay District and communications uiM.ui.liv ." always nccentable. Write on both sides of the J dent Mclvillley S paper if you wish. Always send something good no matter how crude. Get your copy is hot. and we will do the res in while it THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11. 1897 THK NKW 11. S. Cl'RI'KNCY SCIIKHK Secretary Gage, ot the. States Treasury, lias been for several months hutching, a new scheme of issue and redemption which, he has just submitted to the cabinet of which the following- is the substance : Create a new division ot the treasury to be called the Issue and Redemption division and transfer to it $125,000,(XX) in gold, to be used only for redemption purposes; Also trans- er to it all the silver dollars now held in the treasury tor.the redemption of silver certificates, and all the silver coin and bullioD held under the Sherman act of 1890. Refund the outstanding interest bearing national debt in 2.V per cent, bonds, expressly payable, principle and interest in gold, and permit these bonds to be used by national banks as " security for circulation tip to their par value. Permit National banks to organise on a capital of $'25,000 and reduce the tax on their circulation to one- half of one per cent, per annum. Fund $200,000,000 ofthe outstanding greenbacks on the new 2\ per cent, gold bonds as fast as the banks will gather aud deposit them in tlie treasury and hold them for reissue against deposits of gold only. Permit the banks to issue, in addition to notes secured by bonds, other notes without security beyond the banks own assets to the extent of 25 per cent, of their capitals. The Government to guarantee payment of these notes and also that of the notes secured by bonds, protecting itself by levying a tax of two per cent, per annum on the unsecured notes, and by a first lien on the assets of the bank issuing them. No notes to be ot a less denomination than ten dollars. Our special interest in these proposals, from a silverite point of view, centres in the prominence given to emphasising the gold standard ; but viewed from a United States citizen's point-of view we should pronounce the scheme one to mitigate the pangs of impending national insolvency. What other situation could justify a proposal that the government should assume the liabilities of the banks with so small a capital as $25,000 upon no other security than their own assets? What other situation could be suggested in extenuation of the proprosal to increase the interest- bearing national debt by $200,000,- 000 and turn over that amount of national currency to the banks. Evidently United States finance under the single gold standard has advanced from bad to worse. That the very worst features of the situation are not yet realized must be evident from these latest proposals of Secretary Gage. face because ofthe defeat of the gold standard candidates. On the morning after th<V election (the gold standard papers of Loudon devoted much space to editorial criticism, which in every case was most bitter against the silver cause. The mildest of any was that of the Times, in the course i if which it said: j "The victory must be considered I in connection with the great reaction | of public opinion against McKinley- j ism. Disappointment at the n'on- topk-sj realization of the promises ofPresi- inaugural message, had a decided influence on the voting. Ihe Republican cause has met with an ominous disaster in every | quarter. It was permissible to hope ! a year ago that Bryanisir. was not only defeated, but also disabled. I Unfortunately it is impossible to feel j the same confidence now. It, can United j hardly be doubted that Bryan ism will raise its head again under its last champion or under another." The same criticism, though less sensible, is indulged in by the gold organs in the eastern states. They reiterate the hackneyed phrases of the last presidential campaign, but offer no word of argument to support the single standard. The lenders of the gold party have been unable to contain themselves. Even the genial Chauncy M. Depew does some rash talking. Said he: "The election issue in New York has no national significance, but with an alarming falling off of the Republican voce in the state, with heavy, losses in New Jersey, Ohio and other states, the Republican party is confronted with the incontrovertible truth that Bryan and bimetallism are not dead. It warns them that they must take steps at once and emphatically settle this currency question beyond any nope of reopening it.1' In these unreserved remarks much is to be gained by the bimetallic forces, for the leaders of the gold party in making them plainly show their hand. . In connection with Mr. Depew's remarks the speech of another gold monopolist would make good reading. W. Burke Cochran in a speech made on the eve of the New York election, said: "If either Van Wyck or Low is elected the delegates from the Empire state will go to the national convention supporting a readoption of the Chicago platform, every state in the union and every city and county in every state except Maryland, has adopted resolutions reaffirming the platform of Chicago and pledging once more allegiance with Bryan." In the face of this statement Mr. Cochran made a hard plea to his hearers to support the other candidate���a gold standard man, representing a financial policy that, according to his own words, has been condemned by every state in the union and every city and county in every state. From this it will, be seen that the gold manipulators are exerting every effort to fasten the accursed fetters of monometallism upon the people whether they will or no. It is no longer, "the peoplesha.il rule," but is now, "gold is king to whom all must bow." It is not because of any direct interest in the recent elections that we of Canada are called upon to consider these remarks, but the policy of the gold lords of England and America is so distinctly marked out that the plain people of Canada as well as other nations, are forced to consider them. What is true ofthe gold party in the United States is true of it in Canada. refusal of the government to take any stf*p to meet the proposals for bimetallism of America and France was used against Mr.-' Mitchell.. He avowed himself a thick-and-thin supporter of the government, and yet at the same time at all his meetings he expressed himself as strongly in favor of bimetallism, and advanced the opinion that the prevailing bad condition ofthe cotton trade is largely due to the depreciation' of silver, which, he said had handicapped the Lancashire trade to the extent of 30 per cent. g�����OWOBtt��ft>6<*<��CW# Sft�� t^otes of the week- BY COSMO. i The Monroe doctrine is in danger of further damage by a British financial invasion in San Domingo. It appears that the, erratic republic whiedi President Grant was once so anxious to annex to the United States, is now practically annexed to Great Britain. San Domingo has been, almost from her birth, given to internal faction-fighting and the passtime was so expensive that she had to go to the British pawnbroker and got $7,500,- 000 on the security of the customs revenue which will take at least one hundred years to redeem. The possession ofSamanaRay, which island- locked in all weather with 300 miles of anchorage, is to be ceded to the British government. Evidently Sec retary Sherman is real smart on the great seal question. Of course, the British possession of San Domingo, which he was not astute enough to see until it happened, won't ruffle him a little bit. Now for a second edition of the Venezulian howl, but the job is done. aok o out real Capital (all paid up) $12,000,000.00 Reserved fund : : 6,000,000.00 Undivided profits : ���. 859,098.40 Sir Donald A. Smith, G.C.M.G. President. Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice President, KS.Clouston, General Manager, A. Macnider, Chief Inspector & Supt. of Branches. A. B. Buchanan, Inspector of Branch returns. W. S. Clodston, Assistant Inspector. James Aird, Secretary. Branches ia all parts of Canada, Newfoundland, Great Britain, and the United States. New Denver branch A general banking business transacted. f i From Juneau, Alaska, we have details of the startling plan of two Americans named Jones, of Port Townsend, a former U. S. commissioner at St. Michaels, and J. J. Rut- ledge, the U. S. Deputy Marshal at Circle City, to make a raid, a la Dr. Jamison, into the Klondike and seize Dawson City in the name of the Already^ United States, and haying secured the support of an alleged 5,000 Americans now there to the iillibus- tering fun, overpower the Canadian mounted police, declare martial law at Dawson, and formally hoist the stars and stripes. The present mining regulations would be set aside, and as neither government would be able to send troops to interfere before May or June next, the fillibusters could work the choice locations reserved by the Crown and all hands would come out rich and get away scot free when trouble loomed up. The story was sufficiently circumstantial to be sent by the Juneau officials to Attorney-General McKenna on October 21 and was published in the Washington papers ten days later. More than one vigorous appeal been made by the Ledge for prompt action in the matter ot registration of voters throughout this district. There is strong probability that the Provincial Government will introduce a redistribution, bill and as it will be most assuredly based on the voter's lists as they will be next spring, it is time that we took such action as will ensure the registartion of everyone entitled to vote. Great is Tammany! Great is Van Wyck, the elected candidate of Tammany, who for four years will be next, to the President, the most absolute monarch in the United States. Where now shall we find the Rev. Mr. Parkhurst whose patriotic pursuit of the corrupt Tammany gang was beyond praise. Evidently corruption is too deeply enthroned in New York to be shamed into decency by moral suasion. Bl.MKTALLISM IX ENGLAND. ("KOWIX*" DIOIANI) I "OR Iii- IH'KTAtil.IS.M. If the result of the late state and municipal elections held throughout Uncle Samuel's domain is indicative of anything, it is that the sentiment of the people is rapidly developing in favor of bimetallism���independent if it cannot be had bv international agreement. Gold monometallists In spite of the fact that the gold leaders influenced the English government to refuse to take any step in the direction of securing bimetallism and also influenced the Bank of England to receed from the plan proposed to keep one-fifth of its reserve in silver, yet the movement for bimetallism is more alive than ever. At a parliamentry bye-election held last week in the Middleton division Southeast Lancashire to fill the va- concede this, **nd since the great vie tory for Democracy in Greater New j cancy caused by the recent death of York, and the great gains made in the state of Ohio, the home ofPresi dent McKinley, Senator Hanna and Secretary of State Sherman, the gold leaders have not endeavored to sup- Thos. Fieldon, conservative, who secured the. seat at the last general election by a majority of 805, the results of the polling was the victory of the liberals and radical candidate, Emperor Van Home is given to that kind of pleasantry which delights in treating the common herd with contempt. When talking over the proposed new terminal buildings in Vancouver with the city council on his late trip, one of the Aldermen inquired if it was intended to employ Chinese on the work, to which Van Home promptly replied, '' You bet your boots we will." Naturally this czarlike defiance of public opinion brought forth an emphatic counter expression from which the mighty Van might guess that the C. P. R does not own all Vancouver yet. Fortunately Mr. Geo. McL. Brown has explained the offensive words as a joke, but the people are in no mood for such jocularity. Vancouverites have not forgotten how hundreds of cheap mechanics aud workmen were brought from Montreal under a contract serfdom to work for the company in order to '' down " the labor unions on the coast, and their penchant for Asiatic labor is but too evident. Mount Morgan, the rich reefs off which furnished the too scant alluvial' I gold on the slopes of the Fitzroy. A residue of the gold hunters remained and founded the thriving township of Rockhampton on the banks of the Fitzroy, about twelve miles from Mount Morgan, which in 1872 had a population of 8,000. The chief merchants of the town were Stewart and Lucas, and Mr. Stewart was the only business man that in 1872 had sufficient confidence in Mount Morgan to keep two miners in the field to "hold the ground." Cosmo was associated in business with Mr. Stewart in 1872-4 and was often earnestly urged by him to join in the Mount Morgan holding. At that time Stewart was looked upon as a crank, but having proved it a mine that would go 150 dollars to the ton of free milling gold, he secured the ground and floated his property in London at a capital ot 1,000,000 pounds sterling. [-J0WARD WEST, Assoe. R S M, Ijonilon, Eng MINING ENGINEER, ANALYTICAL CHEMIST, & ASSAYER. on for S. RAKIIPALL. Notary I'uhlie. A. E. KAUQUIER. RASHDALL & FAUQUIER MINES & REAL ESTATE. NEW DENVER, B.C. CORRESPONDENCE MINING INTERESTS BOUGHT, SOLI.) and BONDED. INVITED Complete, lists of claims for sale. Abstracts of claims, conveyancing. H. T. BRAG DON, New Denver, B.C, Propei'tiei? examined and reportei tending inn'chaws. in Assay ollice and Chemical vuc ave. New Denver, BC. Laboratory, Belle- A. DRISCOLL.. C. E., I ominion & Provincial La d Surveyor. Slocan City, B.C D R. A.S. MARS"....-',. Dentist. Kaslo, B C Graduate of American Oollefc'eof Dental Surgery Chicago \V. S. Dkkwky Kaslo, B.C. H. T. Twigg Now Denver, B.C. DREWRY & TWIGG Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyors. Civil and Mining Engineers. ford, McNeil Code. QU. WOODWORTH, M.A., LL.B. NOTARY PUBLIC. CONVEYANCER, Etc., MINES and REAL ESTATE Slocan City, B.C. Heavy and Shelf Hardware, Mini; and Mill Supplies, Pipe and Fittings, Paints and Oils, Builders' and Contractors' Supplies, Stoves and Kitchen Ware, Agents for Canton Steel. 1 carry one. of the largest and best, assorted stocks of Hardware in West Kootenay, and shall lie pleased to quote prices upon anything required in my line. ���3S kfWMHxmMmsKssxss^stBBasxasxaosaamx ff��nw���ni hri; Pm tm ()f Elegant. Useful Furniture. Twenty styles of pretty Ladies' Chairs. Silk Brocatelle, Plush any Drawing Room- in Cane, Reed Work and Upholstered in French and Damask: ornaments for HOTEHS OF KOOTEfiflY SLOCAN HOTEL, New Denver, H. Stege ST. JAMES. New Denver, Angrignon Bros. WINDSOR RESTAURANT. New Denver, A. Jacobson & Co. press the bitter hatred for bimetallism! Alderman Duckworth, by a majority and the double standard leaders. And even the press ot England has taken occasion to reach across the Atlantic and slap bimetallism in the of 300 over the unionist and conservative candidate William Mitchell. The bimetallic question played a prominent purt in the contest. The The Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company of Queensland, Australia, affords a remarkable illustration of how a despised and neglected mining district may prove to be rich. In 1862 a report ot rich placer deposits at the headwaters of the Fitzroy river on the, northeast coast of Queensland, worked up the most exciting rush of the time. Like most of the alluvial gold deposits of that country, it was disappointing and thousands of miners were confronted with starvation and the hostility of fierce aboriginies, to which was added that other enemy the dread alligator of tropical swamps and rivers. The governments ot Victoria and New South Wales, realising the danger of the situation, sent supplies and steamships to convey the unfortunates back to civilization. The scene of that rush was the vicinitv of THE FILBERT. Sandon, HOTEL SANDON. Sandon, R. Cunning THE CLIFTON HOUSE, Sandon, John Buckley THE MINERS EXCHANGE. Three Forks, E. C. Weaver each. Handsome and acceptable presents in Ladies' Secretaries, Bookshelves, Fancy Polished Tables at $1.00 each. I have too much stock for the times, and am reducing prices to cost of freight and handling. Another large car has just arrived forme and is now unloading at Denver siding. Stock too heavy; Prices to Zero. Fifty dozen Al chairs at 60 cents each. Fifty patterns of silk and other covers with trimmings for sale by the yard D. fl. Crowley, Thirty years' practical Upholsterer. Near the Ledge office, New Denver. HOTEL WELLINGTON, Three Forks, J. S Reeder ASSAYE^S OF B. G. LEVI SMITH, Silverton. HOWARD WEST, New Denver. J. M. M. BENEDUM, Silverton. FRANK DICK, Slocan Citv. Newly opened in New Denver, is one of comfort, luxury and ease. The rooms are elegantly furnished, the building hard-finished, the dining- room warm, light and tastefully decorated, and the tables laden with all the viands fit to eat. It isn't neces- to talk about Henrv"Steve's bar. It is too well known. HENRY STEGE Prop'r THE SILVERTON MINER'S UNION A No. TI, *w. in. m:. Meets every Saturday niitht. C. Me.NU'HuLLS, l"resiilent CHAS. BRAND, Secretary. Ohas. A. Stoess, Assoc M. Inst. C. E. M. Can. Soc. C. E. CIVIL ENGINEER. Provincial Land Surveyor. Mining Surveying. Kailo. B. O. -ias Fifth Year. THE -LEDGE,- NEW DENVER, B.C., NOVEMBER 11, 1897. 5 BeWtTCHEB. Twas a dismal day and a doure looking lot That crowded tie car when a dear little dot Of a woman came in and laughed, And, presto, the dark was with sunshine shot, For she was a witch, though she knew it notr- Each face told a tale of her craft. Her rippling laughter that ran in quest Of victims found never a one to contest Its contagion. The whole crowd fell. E'en the erossost and coldest and crabbedest, By responsive smiles to the Witch, confessed . That they'd yielded to her spell. Tlie cynic, who'd sworn his heart bankrupt quite��� Not a sign of a sentiment left���on sight, E'er he knew it, honored a draft. Like the rest, his face fairly beamed in spite Of himself. They were all bewitched *Dy that mit�� Of a body who came in and laughed. ���Mary Norton Bradford in Boston Glob*. THE LlOr SLAYER. He is a young doctor and a surgeon on board one of the small gunboats placed on a great African lake���fresh colored still, though slightly tanned by exposure to the lake winds,with merry Irish eyes of blue gray, j square cut jaw and obstinate chin, a Ion*.' upper lip, a little whisker at the temples and short wiry black brown hair. Like many men of his class, he is a potential Darwin, and, having no other means to travel and study natural history, has entered the navy as a surgeon. Ho has lauded on the shores of the lake for a day's shooting, hoping to get, an elephant at least, but meantime content to study sunbirds. Let us in imagination enter his mind, see through his eyes what he saw and lay bare his thoughts. Grass, a forest of grass, with stout knotted stems six to eight feet high, aud abundant leaves starting from every joint. Each stem ends in a drooping plume of ripened seeds. As the doctor forces his way through the tangled herbage and canelike stalks the seeds. shower down upon him, each one steadied in its descent by its long, feathery stipule. The seeds are sharp pointed and barbed at the ends, so they pierce their way through his khaki clothing easily ami scratch the perspiring flesh beneath. This raises to exasperation the discomfort already felt to be well nigh unbearable, for the doctor's face is now the color of raw beef from the stifling heat and the frightful exertion of forcing his way through such a thicket of grass and his hands are scratched and cut by contact with the razor edged leaves. His terai hat is constantly being dragged off his head, and it is all he can do to carry his gun aud elbow his way through the obstructing herbage, protecting his face as well as possible with the left hand. So he is in an ill temper and cannot stop to notice the small weaver birds of flame color and black, the extraordinary stick insects, exactly simulating stalks of grass, aud the green, leaflike mantises which throng the dense brake on either side. He is after bigger game. The most experienced of his boys pioneers him through the stifling grass jungle. Another boy with a second rifle follows behind. The' idea is "elephants," elephants having been report- ed hereabout the previous aay, when suddenly (they have reached a space where the grass is a little drier, a little Jess dense) the pioneer boy comes uoubliug back on his master with every gesture expressive of "Hush!" The doctor stops, mops his boiling face (thankful for the momentary halt) and asks inquiringly, "Elephants?" ''Mo," says the negro in a panting whisper; "lion. There, there! No, not there. You see that ant hill? Well, climb on to its sick', aud j'ou will see the lion lying in a clear space just beyond. A male lion, truly. Its body ia nearly white, and its mane is black." With express rifle at full cock, the doctor advances gingerly through the interlaced grass, bont nearly double, keeping the muzzle of the gun directed straight before him and shielding its sensitive trigger from the intrusive grass stems. The ant hill is reached. He clambers on to its sloping side. "Good God, the boy's right! What a beauty, and asleep top!" But something in the doctor's coming lias aroused the lion, not ten yards away���aroused him partially, for there is no sudden movement. He raises the great head set in a collar of yellow, brown, black mane. Slowly tho dim nictitating membrane passes over the yellow eyes, but as they are focusing to meet his own gaze the doctor fires���fires' precipitately (his position on the sloping ant hill is insecure), wounds the lion somewhere, somehow, but does not kill him. The beast gives a sharp, explosive roar, seems to jump into the air with all four feet and then iu three bounds has rrashed off into the grass jungle. Silence. "Well, I'm a muff!" thinks the doc- <-ur. "He wasn't, ten yards away, and I didn't kill him dead. 1 don't know '.���uite where I hit him���in the chest, I : hink. But he can't be far away, and I must finish him off. " He descends from the ant hill into fhe clear trampled space where the lion had been lying. At, the spot where the beast had made its first bound into the dense grass hedge there is a great squirt of blood over the tangled greenery���the dark crimson * liquid still drips from leaf blade to leaf blade. "Ah; thought so! He must be pretty badly hit." Two black faces, with starting eyes ���nd anxious grins, now cautiously peer around the ant hill. The doctor, raising his head, recognizes his boys and beckons them down. The three converse iu whispers. The situation is explained��� how the lion was wounded, the direction in which he bounded away. The boys urge caution. ' 'Lion plenty fierce. Mkango mkali nditu. Master must take care; better climb tree and look all around���not go into grass." But there is no tree anywhere near. A boy hoists himself to the slender summit of the ant hill and reports that he sre-- tu<~- <*-,������>����! i>ioviii" r>< vhe direc- gray haunch. Ha fires and descends from the ant hill to reload. A rash cornea through the grass, a deafening roar; some great yellow object in the air above him���momentarily���dark against the sky���yellow eyes���(insensibility). "Click, clock, click clock, click clock. I wonder what that funny sound is. Am I in a train? No, it is the engines of the steamer���or is it the pulse beating in my temples? Then I hare keen asleep, and in broad daylight, with the blue sky above me and in tha broiling sun. How foolish! But no���it must be something more. I know there has something happened. Let me think ���the lion, of course���a lion jumped at me. Then I must be wounded. Let's see" (raises himself painfully on his right arm). ''My God! A pool of my own blood! My left arm has no feeling. Chewed by the lion, hand almost detached, rest of arm a mass of blood, muscle, bone and khaki. Oh, God, I'm going to die��� can't live���he has torn open my stomach! That must be the pancreas. I'm like a butcher's shop." (Whimpers. A blubbering sound attracts his attention.) 'Hello! You here, .Tunia? Plucky chap. a ijlack boy? S'pose I'm dying primarily from the shock���know I'm dying somehow-���can't raise my head to look��� mother, mother! "What rot to go on like that, as if it could do any good!. See here, Juma, more water���so. Now listen. Inendirini amai, ndi mlougo. Iwe��� Oh, God, how can I tell him? It's all slipping away from me. For the blood is the life. Where have I beard that? The blood is the life���slipping away���slipping away. I must be in a boat, it is so soothing��� up and down, up and down���so restful. "���, (Sighs gently. Dies.)������Sir H. H. Johnston in Saturday Keview. "What's the matter?" said the wayfarer who was approached by a mendicant, "Something on your mind?" "No, sir," was the reply. "Wot -worries me ain't somethin7 on nie mind. It's nothin' on me stomach." | Go to I kinaws. T. H. Hoben's for good Cottage for Rent. Mac T FIRST WHITE HOUSE BATH. A new six-room cottage, lathed and plastered throughott, for rent. Apply to Thompson, mitchkll & Co., Com. Agts., New Denver. tiaa whither fav�� Hob had withdrawn��� moving as though a stationary animal were shaking it with eonvulsive throes fall of wbick is explained mora by gestures than bywords). The doctor, clambering up beside the boy, thinks he can even descry (as the grass stems bend and droop betcru some writhing object) the lion's waving tail aud a yellow Thought you'd have cut and run. Where's Saicii? Eh? Sneak louder. I'm deu". Oh, gone to gunboat. Quite right. "Whar���the lion?" (Turns his head slightly.) "Tfci-iv, still living; looks pretty sick too." (The lion is lying four 'yards away, partly on his side, one crippled fore paw turned back, the other outstretched, and the great head resting on it, eying the men with solemn yellow eyes, no longer fierce, the pupil shrunk to a pin point. ) With each conclusive shudder of the lion's-body the blood round him widens slightly. "By heaven, if I've got to die, I'll die like a man, and he shall go first. Who can tell? He might recover and hurt the boy. See here, Juma" (to Juma, who is supporting his back), "be very gentle, take a cartridge out of my belt, put it in the rifle���so. Now���uh, ah! Mind my arm. Nov*7 give me the rifle in my right hand and come between my legs���so. Stoop very low down, like that, "Now, I'm going to rest the rifle on your shoulder and take aim. Keep very still, I won't, hurt you. Keep still. I'll aim just between the brute's eyes." (A minute's pause. Bang! Doctor falls back fainting. Lion stretches out his head three times with spasmodic upward movement, the tail and limbs���all but the crippled one.���stiffen, the claws stand out from their sheaths and the beast dies.) "Juma, is that you? Water; bow delicious! More���and on my forehead���so. What a brick you are! Upon my word, I'd like to leave you something, Juma. You must tell them that "I said so, you know, for sticking by me. God bless youl Is the lion dead':" (The sobbing boy nods "Yes. ") "Well, then, I must die, too. I'm enough of a doctor to know that. Don't, cry. Tell them I bore it like a man. But it's beastly hard. Who'd have thought my day's shooting would have ended like this?" (Whimpers.) "Beastly hard. I'm so young, and I've done so well up to now���and there's mother. Who will break it to her? She'll never per orn-it���and Lily���and, damn it all, I can't even send Vm mes- Van Buren Was Criticised For Introducing the Tub Into the Mansion. In an article on "The Domestio Side of the White House," in The Ladies' Home Journal, ex-President Harrison gives this interesting view of the home portion of the executive mansion: "Properly speaking," he says, "there are five bedrooms in the executive mansion, though by the use of two dressing rooms and of the end of a short hall that formerly opened to a large north window, but has now been closed .up to make a small bedroom, the number may be increased to eight. There are no suitable servants' quarters. Those provided are in the basement, and only those opening to the south are habitable. The north rooms open upon a damp brick arena and are unhealthy. One of the basement rooms, having a southern exposure, is fitted up as a billiard room, but very plainly. .< "It is said that provision for a library for the White House was first made during Mr. Fillmore's term. Neat cases are arranged about the room, and most of them are filled with books���old editions of historical and classical works. There is no catalogue, and the library has not been kept up. "President Adams introduced billiards into the White House, purchasing the first table, balls and cues at a cost of ��01, paying for them out of his own pocket. President Van Buren was charged by a political adversary and scathing critic as being the first of our presidents to discover that the pleasures of the warm or tepid bath are the proper accompaniments of a palace life. For it appears that our former presidents were content with the application, when necessary, of the simple shower bath. Mr. VauBuren's critic then refers with high approval to the salutary side of Mr. Adams' heroic habit of bathing in the Potomac 'between daybreak and snn- A full Hoben's. line of rubbers and socks at Go to Hoben's for mackinaws. j^.E. PALMER, C.E. PROVINCIAL LAND and MINE SURVEYOR. P.O. Box 214. Sandon, B.C GWILLIM & JOHNSON. (MoGill)., Mining Engineers & Analy-Chemists. Slocan City, - - - ... B C L IFE INSURANCE. The Ontario Mutual of Watreloo, Ont oilers a popular policy at moderate rates. Protection for your family. Provision for your own old age And a profitable.investment. The Ontario Mutual Life���:27th year. <-. Assets ��8,401,908. Pull information hy application to W. D. MITCHELL, Agent, New Denver, B.C F. G. FAUQUIER. NOTARY PUBLIC. Nakusp, B.C. SAT,E OF MINEBAI CliAIMS BY TENDER, Slocan Hospital NEW DENVER, B.C. Carry only the best lines of Watches, Clocks, and Cutlery in the Market. AMOS THOMPSON, W". D. MITCHELL Manager. Secretary. r. b. Thompson, Notary Public. OEALEDTENDERS sages! hovr run oi:<; roll such c'rinjr.s to marked on the envelope Tender for Mineral Claims," and addressed to the undersigned, will be received till noon on Friday, December 17th next; for the purchase of the interest of the late Francisco di Michele, in tho whole of the Buchera. and the Tona, and an undivided one-quarter of the Allcorn, mineral -��� claims, situate in the Slocan City Milling- Di- i vision of the District of East Kootenay. | Terms cash or ten days after the acceptance of l the tender. A deposit of ten dollars must ac- ; company each tender as a guarantee of good j faith. The highest, or any tender not necessarily accepted. j' Particulars as to title can be obtained from I R. B. Kerr, New Denver, solicitor for the ad- i ministrator. Dated tho fit'i dny of November. 1807. J. I". ARMSTRONG-. Official Administrator. i Fort Steele. B. C. An office of the Slocan Hospital has been opened at Sandon under the medical superintendence of DR. P. H. POWERS. Subscribers on presentation of their orders or tickets at the Sandon office will receive medical or surgical treatment and the necessary medicines tree of charge. All serious cases will be admitted to. the Hospital for treatment. Miners in regular employ, subscribing through their payroll, can secure all the privileges of theabove. For further information apply to��� J. E. Brous.e, M.D.", New Denyer, B.C. NEW DENVER, B.C. "Mines and Mining Properties for sale. Abstracts, &c. Correspondence solicited. Agents for Phoenix Insurance Co. of London, Eng. F. W. GROVES, CIVIL and MINING ENGINEER, Provincial X,an<l Surveyor. Underground Surveys. Surface ana Aerial Tramways. Mineral claims surveyed and reported upon. Kaslo, B.C A new stock of Gents' Furnishings. Special lines in Inilbregsan, Carpets. Mats. Floor and Table Oilcloth and Linoleum. Also the latest styles in Dress Goods and Trimmings: in silks and velvets and buttons; Sheeting and Pillow Cotton. Other articles too* numerous to mention. Millinery the latest style always on hand. MRS. W W..MERKLY. T"URNISHED ROOMS By Day Airs. A. J. Murphy. Bad I ��� or Week. SIXTH STREET Situated ii] ll?e HeevFt of tl^e hxzrqoi^ ��peek Gold Mir^es. 19 Black Prince, Cold Blow, Alpine, Cameroiiian, Alexandra, Scenic, Plenty of Good Timber. Ttuo beautiful lakes nea^ the Shores of Ltemon Creek A beautifully situated "townsite, surrounded by Gold Mines. Perfect Title to all property. Price of Lots from $50 to $150 each. ;�� Lucky George, Maple Leaf, Crusader, Howard Fraction, Sundown Fraction and many others. SL>O0,7\N 0ITY, B. 0. GENERAL* HGBNTS. THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., NOVEMBER 11, 1897. Fifth Year It was in a corner of the conservatory behind the palms during one of the most fashionable functions of the sea- eon. This seems a favorite situation with fate while weaving the web oi human destiny. Frod Trevor, tall, dark, self contained, with power apparent in every look, movement and feature, stood ���with hands crossed behind him before the magnificent woman he had just seated. "You know, Miss Alden," as he leaned toward her, "that my knowledge of the social tenets is not profound." "You have only to follow your instincts, Mr. Trevor." "And you arc the gentle mentor who warned r..e against the sin of flattery?'1 "Jf I have paid an undeserved compliment, it is to society in assuming that it bus attained to your standard." ''You're incorrigible, but I'll accept tbe verdict and cany out the thought ] had in bringing you here." She made lo answer, save to withdraw her eyes from his and gather in the folds of her dress to make room foi him to sit down. "I want to tell you something of my life and then ask your advice. 1 am not ���assuming that the story has any special interest for you, but I have a selfish,desire for your opinion after I have told it." "But don't you know, as a general truth' that, with the average woman, the man who is rich, famous and honored glorifies his antecedents, no mattex what they may be?" "If you were the average woman, J would never have sought this opportunity. When I first faced the world alone, I was a little, ill fed, sallow, ragged and half dressed boy in the Cumberland mountains. I did not know that there was such a thing as a railroad, a steamboat, a book, a hereafter, music, culture or anything different from the detestable surroundings from which 1 longed to escape. My father had been killed in defending an illicit still, and mother just seemed to go with the mountain flowers which I had gathered for her till they ceased to bloom that fall. During the winter I was kept alive despite kicks and bruises by a family that had me as their sole reliance in 'toting' water and gathering wood. "In the spring I went away; made up a little bundle and stole off in the night. Till the evening of the next day I hurried over the red clay roads and paths, terror of being caught and taken back crowding out every other thought and feeling. But hunger and exhaustion are not to be denied,* and at last I went stealthily to a little cabin where a girl of my own age was 'keepin' house in a hoIio\v stump, just outside. She put her i'rouzied head over the wall of hei primitive abode to conduct an examination. 'Who is you uns, boy?' 'Whar'g you' par?' 'Whar's you'mar?' 'Whai mout you be a-goin?' were questions that I answered as well as I could. Then she said wisely, 'I 'lows thet you is ruuned away,' "This would have put me to flight, but she sprang out, told me to take hei place, and while I sat in the cramped quarters she brought me all that I could eat and a paper of food to carry with me. After assuring me that she would have her 'par' shoot any one who might be trying to recapture me, she pointed the nearest way to a town, walked a way with me and said as we parted, 'I reckon you uns 'ill hev ter kirn back Eome time an marry me fur all them wittles an fur tellin folks we uns haven't Bawen you when they comes s'archin.' ] promised her, of course. " ' 'But you never told us that you wer* engaged," laughed his brilliant listener. "Where can we find your mountain daisy?" "I wish I could tell you. The incident was one of tlie events of my life. For the iirst time I knew the sweetness of sympathy. I have grown to almost detest the people from whom I sprang because of their ignorance and lack of ambition, but the little girl of the hollow stump has always had a warm place in my memory. You know most of my experience in the far west. Before I had been there six months I found the old man known as Hermit Ben lying unconscious and apparently dying in one of the mountain gorges. I brought the aid that carried him to hie shanty, procured a doctor and was his nurse tili he recovered. He felt toward mo as I did toward the ignorant little girl back in Tennessee. I had been good to him without any selfish motive, and he no sooner was wreil than he announced that 1 was his boy Jim. This was my protection, for, despite theiiact that he was a recluse, Ben was known as a bad-man. when interfered with and i commanded a respect that was heightened by Ciie mystery witli which he aur- I I rounded himself. Something had made ; him at enmity with the world. For years be told me nothing, though from j the first he showed me all the affection j of a mother and care of a father. j "It was soon a matter of common re- j port that Ben's new boy was to be a j gentleman. The hermit himself took j charge of my primary education. He ; was delighted with my lack of knowl- j edge and my endless list of simple ques- j tions, for it showed him that he waft i working on virgin soil. He molded me ; in accordance with his own conception \ of manhood, forever impressing upoD ; me that, ingratitude was the cardinal Bin. When I could comprehend, he told me that I would be rich, that I must spend money generously and that some time he would let me into the secret which would place at my command all the immeasurable power of gold. He Capture-el Santa Anns, L. R. Bostiok of San Saba, Tex., who captured General Santa Anna 01 years ago, is now in his seventy-eighth year. He went to Texas in 1828 and settled in Austin county. In 1835 he enlisted in the Texas army and the following year joined General Houston's army. After a battle, in company with two other young men, he was scouting over the country about eight miles from can p when he saw a Mexican standing in ilio high grass. He attempted to hide ;.m they took him prisoner, and he pre'.-..-:? tc be Santa Anna. Cruelty to Goldfish. It may not be generally known that : re i-- cruelty in the keeping of gohl- '-.:. ilaif of such captives die from : '.-v want of rest. As fish have eyes so ;.:ial that they cannot endure the .hi. in a glass vessel they are in c.i ; irely wrong place, as is evident fro;a e way in which they dash about a:;;; around and round until fairly won; "When it came time forme to go easl to college, I suggested that I should gc back to the old place in the mountains and see if I could do anything for the girl who had been kind to me. No act of mine ever pleased him more, and when I left him it was with unlimited credit authorized by one of tbe greatest banking institutions of the west. I did nor find the girl, but learned that she had first been employed and then adopted by a widow whose husband had fallen in the war. I left money with a lawyer, telling him to find the girl and have hei educated. A year later this money was returned to me with notice that he could do nothing for me. I wrote for furthei information, but could get no reply. "Before my benefactor died he told me of the rich gold find he had worked without sharing his secret with any one. You know how it proved a veritable mine of wealth, built up a thriving city and won me the title of a bonanza king. He also told me how a heartless woman had wrecked his life and asked me to never abandon the search for the little mountain girl until I knew what had become of her and whether it was within my power to help her. You have no idea how man and boy, thrown together as we were, could build a romance .upon a foundation so slender. " "1 think I understand. And you have found no trace?" ."Kone that I could follow. Aftei that fight when the strikers tried to destroy the machinery at the mine, my wounds tlnew me into a fever, and through all the delirium I talked in the dia.'ect of my boyhood with the little maid I had never seen but once. That shows you the hold she had upon me, and even yet I have an ideal that must either be shattered or confirmed before I can be content. Now for your advice. Should I marry before I have seen this girl?" "Not with my approval, Mr. Trevor. Go to the end of your foolish dream, oi it might haunt, you and 6ome woman might suffer." "I had hoped for a different answe* from you. " And his eyes told the old, old story. "But I'm your friend and can give no other. This is our waltz. " Within a month Trevor received a letter in a yellow, blotted envelope. The scrawl only said: "I reckon you nns hev furgetted me. I'm back here again, an I hev hearn you uns was rich." Trevor shuddered. His romance had died a cruel death. But gratitude was his stroug point. .Reluctantly he went. When at length he rode to the front oi the old cabin there was a woman iu a linsey dress, her back to him, while she threw food to the noisy chickens. Just as he reached her side she turned with, "Well, you uns did kim back, heyr" "Miss Alden," gasped Trevor, as he crushed the "mountain daisy" against his breast. And the promise of the babyhood was made good.���Detroit Free Press. Chinese Hotels. The hotels are usually grouped within a square or two of one another. Each one seeks to attract guests by high sounding titles. For example, in Canton are hotels which flaunt the signs ot The Fortunate Star, The Golden Prdfits (an unusually frank confession for a landlord lo make), The Rank Confer- ' ring and The Happiness. The food is not so bad, but the traveler who goes to one oi these houses to sleep will wish that he had gone to another. The bedrooms are small, thin walled boxes in which you may hear the breathing of your next neighbor or be kept awake half the night by the conversation of people at tlie other end of the hall, or, worse still, be almost stifled by the smoke from an opium pipe which is being indulged in by the man across the passageway. The tea saloons furnish employment to singers and ventriloquists or elocutionists, who are hired by the proprietor to entertain the men who gather there to drink tea and gossip. Upon small tables are placed trays holding a variety of cakes and preserves, which are served with each cup of delicious, freshly made tea. The house of entertainment peculiar to China is the dog and cat meat restaurant. This does not mean that household pets are there brought to be fed, but that Tabby and Fido are served up in stews. According to prices charged for other food, these stews are rather expensive, especially if the cat or dog chance to be black, and therefore more nutritious, according to popular notion. ���Lippincott's Magazine. n 6-nr) pi}. Alone in his little bare room, zcll wr.s ph ;i: gsr.it.'y, 1ei7'.:g the >ver to' hims;-'3f for the hundredth Hart- stox-y time. it seemed aimer too gcrd to, be true, aud he could scarcely realize that his opportunity had come at last, and that that which he had longed for alibis life had happened in his old age. It was really only a trifling incident, the indisposition of the great soloist and the substitution of Hartzell, but to the broken down little man it seemed the entering wedge of future fame, and the melody he was playing that afternoon, thrilled with triumphant promise. His life had been almost pathetic in its uneventfulness, marked by only one distinguishing characteristic, his love for music. Ever since the first remembered days, when he stood shivering on ihe street corners and played uncompre- hendingly to an uncomprehending audience, his violin had been his only real friend, listening to him, speaking to him, in sympathy with him always. Among men he had been a failure, his abstraction of mind, together with an extreme diffidence, rendering him unfit both to follow and to lead. Within himself he might lay plans for vigorous action, for forcing the world to recognize the genius which he knew was his, but when the time for action came he always shrank and waited until it was too late. And so the dreams of his young days had nevermafeririized, and he was still almost where he'had begun, an unideu- lifiable part of that great whole, the grand orchestra of tlie Hyperion. Never at ease in the company of others, ho had drawn further .and further away from his fellow men,���finding his only comradeship and the clearest expression ci' his thoughts in the clinging ������weep of the bow upon the strings. He loll into ihe habit of putting all his .ioubfs and .hopes into the music which he played to himself, and it seemed as though tho violin understood and answered him. It came to pass that he rarely spoke ;n any other way, but went through his work silently, unheeding the presence t' others, unanswering their words. His .'.cllows in the orchestra called him cra- ,:y and made him the butt for many Pleasantries of a perEomd nature. The r:\duetor alone recognized the absolute crtainty cf time and strength and purity of tone which the little old man evoked, and when some one must be found to take the solo part in the great mvhestration Hartrxil was chosen. "We'll give you a chance, " the famous musician had said. "Remember your time and don't hurry, and I am sure you will get through all right," and Hartzell had dumbly bowed his thanks and gone home in a condition of dreamy exaltation to tell the glad news over and over again to the only friend whose sympathy he cared for. The distant peal of the tower clock roused him at last, and he hastened through his simple toilet and went out into the. cold, drizzling rain of the autumn night. The streets were crowded with people on their way to the various places of amusement, and he was jostled ���this way and that like a frail skiff among larger craft, buthonoticed nothing, for in the glory of hope he was as one marching iu tlio procession of his own triumph. In the dim orchestra room under the stage Hartzell received his final instructions from the leader, and then, mounting tho dusty stairway, found a quiet corner in tho wings and sat down to wait his turn, hugging the violin to his breast. From the auditorium came the faint burr of many voices, mingled with a subdued rustling as the late arrivals settled themselves in comfortable anticipation. Suddenly there was a hush, and the melody cf the grand overture burst forth in all its swinging, swaying rhythm. Hartzell listened intently. He bad never before been upon the stage during a performance, and the music mounded strangely in his ears. He started apprehensively at the rattle of applause whit h followed hard upon the closing strains of the overture, and a wave of nervousness swept over him as he realized that he must face so many people. Pie was conscious of a wish that his trial came later in the programme ������.'.stead of being the third number. The prima donna stepped forth from one of the brightly lighted dressing rooms and nodded smilingly to Hartzell as she passed. He envied her the confidence which she showed so plainly. A few moments later her glorious voice rang out as steady and clear as the chiming of a bell, but to him it was only as the running of the sand in an hour glass, for when it erased he must take his stand on the brilliantly illuminated stage, before the gaze of 1,000 eyes. His heart began to beat wildly against his breast, and lie found himself tremblingly shrinking from the moment to which he had looked forward so confidently. Vague thoughts of possible flight flashed through his brain, but he realized that it was too late, and vainly fried to steady his nerves for I lie ordeal. Again and again the applause rose and fell as the last notes of the wonderful contralto died away, and the soloist had to bow hor acknowledgment repeatedly; then there came a pause, which to Hartzeil seem< d to last tor hours. At length the orchestra played out. the introduction to "nis number, and ha starred to his feet convulsively and stepped out into the glare of the footlights. The audience saw an undersized, gray haired man, whose clean shaven face was almost childish in expression as he stood there, nervously waiting. Hartzell saw a shimmering, changing blur, from which half indistinguishable forms started out for a moment, and tin ii faded away like phantoms in a gJtamii'g mist; only to reappear again in different shape. A noise like the pher.t'ng of an angry mob sounded in 17s ears, and he reeled and took a step l::-'kv. :;rd, raising his hand to his fore- 1-cao iuvoluntarily. At last he caught the eye of the conductor, who nodded *-:}���'< (.uragement, and he raised his violin tmchanicaiiy and made ready to play. The smoothly flowing accompaniment Irgrii;, but Hartzell stood at first mo- tlouh s.-:. his heart held in the grasp of a uci.thlike fear. He could recall no note cf the air which he knew so well. His memory, confused by fright, was at R s';.i.H..still and would not respond to his desperate entreaty.., Like one in a trance, he saw the conductor give the signal which was fatal to him and his hev.'s. The accompaniment stopped abruptly, ana he felt the Yionderiug hush which came; over the great audience. , In his disappointment and hopelessness he could have cried aloud. This wj;s the' moment for which he had waited so many cruel, long years. This was his triumph!' The tears crept down his withered cheeks and his lips moved tremulously. He made no attempt to leave (he stage, but stood with bowed head, while the hopes and dreams of hi.- wasted life passed in review before him and onim'oled avay in the. light of the consciousness that he had been found wanting. But all this while, unbeknown to himself, he had been drawing the bow across the strings instinctively, unbendingly, in unwitting disregard, of his surroundim.-. Tlie gconsiomed, caressing (ouch of -the" violin seemed to answer his v.Vgue longing for expression. After .awhile he noticed dimly that the members of the orchestra were bending toward him with curious iutentness, and that there was a breathless stillness throughout the house. He did not know or care what was the reason, for he was lost in the distant land of memory, draping (he brightness of every recollection with the black of present hopelessness; marking the vainness of every hope and the futility of every sacrifice. The thoughts which were flashing through his mind found an added bitterness in the consciousness that all might have been so different if his courage had not failed him; if he could have shown to the world what he knew to be his real power. Was there yet time? If he could only h.ive another trial���one little opportunity���per hups he; could redeem this mistake.'-Ho was sure that he lute���altogether too ��L/*V'**-^/%4-'y'**-*^b/'fc'%/*l^^ The Windsor Restaurant Is one of the Best and Aged Cafes of the Silvery Slocan. '<%/%/%^9t' IN NEW* DENVER, ���It.was in operation when Was turned against the country, and, now thatjthe jrloom ofthe Argonaut days has disappeared, it looms up hri'giiler lhan ever as . . . . A place where any .-..'. ... appetite can be. satiated. COME EARLY AND AVOID THE RUSH. Jacobson & Co, L-fe ��b/^/%/Qj/%/^x*/l*/1v^W^^^W l*bT9 could.' Ii Iti! Was it too ? JViight 7-oc��� lie came to him:- looked about him asking i orgivet; ess some unknown source, tli bliug turned 10 leave the tingling tossing sea of :7f with ii start and appcaiingly, mutely and sympathy from n half stum- ���iage. A murmur followed lim. fast growing into a roar. The horse seemed to tremble and rock, again and again in v. hurricane of cheering. He heard his name called by many voices and faced about in utter bewilderment,' his veins strangely. He saw a wildly faces. The audience had risen to its feet and was crying out to b'ini���to him! Tho orchestra, too, was applauding madly, forgetful of discipline, and the conductor was smiling at him with shining eyes. What did it all mean? For a moment he sfood dazed and uncomprehending, then suddenly he knew the truth. Unconsciously he had been playii.g the thoughts which were in his Kind, and the; sobbing, vi- :. rating note s ef the; violin h.aei told his ;-.. .;.- io (v.; :y human heart in the vast theater.���Leianel Im-i i.-e.il in Looker On. The Clifton House, Has ample accommodations for a large number of people and airy, and the Dining Room is provided with cvcryMiin Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers. Sandon. Tlie rooms are large in the market. John Buekle3% Prop. OTEL SANDON, ?i ^ ^ ?i ?i 7n Sandon, B.C. Grant nn a Tlrinker. ���TPHIS NEW HOUSE, with the old name, is well equipped to accommodate a large number of Guests. The building is plastered and the rooms are unsurpassed for comfort in the'Slocan,'while in the Dining Room can be found the best food in the market. Robert Cun ring;, Proprietor. In The says: "Campaigning With Grant," in Century, (-'rocral Horace Porter It was an interesting study in hu man nature to watch the general's actions in camp. He would sit for hours in front of his tent, cr just inside of it looking out, smoking u cigar very slowly, seldom with a paper or a map in his hands, and looking like; the laziest man in camp. But at such periods his mind was working more actively than that of any one in tlie army. He talked less and thought more than any one in the service. Pie studiously avoided performing any duty which some one else could do as well or better than he, and in this respect dcmonstrateel his rare powers of administration and executive methods. He was one of the few men holding high position who did not waste valuable hours by giving his personal attention to petty details. He never consumed his time in reading over court martial proceedings or figuring up the items of supplies on hand or writing unnecessary letters or communications. He held subordinates to a strict accountability in the performance of snob, duties and kept his own time for thought, it was this quiet but intense thinking and the well matured ideas which resulted from it that led to tlie prompt and vigorous action which was constantly witnessed during (his year, so pregnant with events. rliReteR Hotel ^s^teDsaB^^^In Sloean Gity Is an ideal home for the weary traveler. It is conducted in a manner befitting the approach of the 20th century, which is the latest way of saying up-to-date. Gething 8t flendepsoti. y ^- ^ '%' -^- -%. -q^, 1 y. -^. ���%, ^, ���%. ��tfc- -%. <& 4& ���" %��� *%��� ^ ^ <^, -^, -%, -^. 4 mm 9 -^ ^ ���%- ^Sk- ���������^ -^ ^>- ^ ���o, ���%> ���%��� -^. ^&* ^*W -% -^. ^ ^- -^^> -^v- -^v- '^v' *fe- -^ ���*&- *5*S>- -^ ^- ^&" "^ -q^, -^- ^ -^. -^. 5&. Ifyou take a vou. journev seekers. are going to the Klondike copy of THE LEDGE with It will cheer you on the to that mecca of gold The assessment is $2 in dust, Nuggets, or anything of Commercial value. Professor lirummoiid'K Last Days. The last days of Professor Drummond seem to have heen extremely pathetic. He was quite heipless anel had to be wheeled about in a bath chair. Only when visited by intimate friends and old colleagues did he manifest any of his buoyant spirit and sparkling wit. His old friends, Professor G. A. Smith and Dr. Stalker, were very attentive to him. When the latter w:as leaving him on the occasion of his last visit, Drum- mend gave the doctor a portrait of himself seated in the bath chair, under which he had written "The Descent of Man." Thepatiiosof these worosaffected the doctor deeply.���Christian Common wean J j. I-o.-l Astray. "Sad al-e-ir that burglar. He told me bow his e;;r> i r as a haiooncu criminal began. '* "How was it?" "His wile used to send things in her top bnreau Chicago Tribune. him to hunt drawer."��� i ssssssesssa SILVERTON, B. C. Is the leading hotel of the city, and headquarters for Mining and Commercial men. The house is new, the rooms all plastered," and the furniture in use is of the latest ^S^3^S^S3 anc*most serviceable patterns The service in the Dining room is the best that can be : rovided. The bar is replete with the best wines, liquors and Cigars. JAMES BOWES. nBMgLBimitwnmmhtj assBSsara SSSit Fifth Year. THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., NOVEMBER 11, 1897. CRUSHED. Once e poet wrote a sonnet All about a prettv bonnet, And a critic; sat upon it. On the- sonnet, Not the bonnet, Nothing' loath, And, as if it were higrh treason. Said: "Neither rhyme nor reasoa Has it. And it's out of season." Which? The sonnet Or the bonnet? M.-iybe both. , "Tis a feeble imitation X Of a worthier creation. An aesthetic innovation Of a sonnet Or a bonnet. This was hard. Both were put together neatly, Harmonizing very sweetly, But the critic crushed completely Not the bor.net Or the sonnet. But the bard. ���Spare Momen.n. STUDIED IN PAEIS. There are several places in Paris Which adveriise that the persons who go there will he surrounded with all the salutary restraints and influences of homo life and that there will be whole- eome discipline to safeguard the young women from all the allurements and entanglements of the French capital. One of these homes was selected by JMrs. Jones for her daughter, partly because of the prospectus and partly because Mrs. Jones' friend, Mrs. Smith, had sent her daughter to the home and was loud in her praises of the advantages Miss Smith had derived. So Miss Jones went to this home on the Bue de la Pompe and prepared for a long course of study which was to fit ber for a career on the grand opera stage. The work went on satisfactorily at the start. But Miss Jones is an American girl, with all the vivacity and attractiveness which are popularly supposed to he attributes of these girls. The life in the home had not been particularly pleasing to her in prospect, but she soon found that the reality was a great deal different from what had been advertised. She discovered first that apparently the greatest delicacy the French managers of the institution thought of was mutton���principally aged mutton. The result of this was that the girls were in the habit of going short of meals at the home and finding better ones for themselves in nearby restaurants. The knowledge that they could go out to these restaurants for their meals without restraint and without comment from the managers of the home led very quickly to a series of practical deceptions. If it was easy to go to a restaurant for a meal, it was just as easy to go somewhere else for something else. Everybody who is studying any art in Paris quickly becomes acquainted with a lot of other people who are studying the same art or another. Every singing master gives his musicales, every master of drawing, painting and sculpture gives his little receptions. The pupils meet, and it is impossible to prevent the young American women from meeting and becoming more or less well acquainted with various young and attractive men of artistic temperament who are* also studying under Paris masters. That thing happened very quickly in the case of Miss Jones. She found that her friend, Miss Smith, had already formed some pleasing acquaintances, and, as Miss Smith's intimate chirm, she almost immediately met the young man whose acquaintance finally sent her back to New York. Miss Jones was particularly attractive. There was one young man among those to whom Miss Smith introduced her who, Miss Jones noticed, was particularly attractive to Miss Smith. Now this young man was the best of the lot, and his name was near enough to Arbuthnot to let it go at that. Miss Jones fancied Mr. Arbuthnot herself. Mr. Arbuthnot was very well acquainted with all the things in Paris which are worth seeing and with some things to which women who have gone from a home where they are surrounded "with all the restraints and safeguards of home life" were not supposed to be introduced. Mr. Arbuthnot also had a friend, Mr. Williams, who was very well versed in the ways of Paris, and between them they contrived to make the winter very entertaining, if a little hectic, for Miss Smith and her attractive friend, Miss Jones. The conquest of Mr. Arbuthnot by Miss Jones proceeded gradually but very steadily, until early in the new year it produced almost an open rupture between Miss Jones and Miss Smith. The quarrel interrupted rather seriously the gay course which the four had been pursuing, but it did not put a stop to it entirely. It was easy enough for each of the girh to associate with herself other young women who were living at the institution on the Bue de la Pompe and so to make no serious break in their round of gayeties. By the middle of February the annexation oi Mr. Arbuthnot to Miss Jones was so complete that the warfare was conducted in the open. The whole institution on the Bue de la Pompe knew about it, and the girls wagered gloves and candy on the outcome. As long as the warfare was conducted in the open Miss Jones maintained her ascendancy rather easily, largely because of her superior attractiveness. So , the wily Miss Smith resorted to subterfuge and strategy. One morning in March Mrs. Jones in New York received B cable message from Paris. It said: Amelia ill. Doctor thinks better come. Babe. "Babe" was the nickname of Miss Jones' once intimate friend, Miss Smith. Mrs. Jones was shocked almost into nervous prostration. Mrs. Jones sent word posthaste to her daughter's guardian, who is a physician. The doctor told Mrs. Jones to cable at once for the symptoms of Amelia's illness and to prepare to start for Paris the next day. Mrs. Jones cabled as the doctor had directed and received this reply: Symptoms impossible. Doctor says come aa once. Better take steamer tomorrow. Babb. This cablegram frightened Mrs. Jonea more than ever. The doctor guardian was inclined to regard the message in the same light. But ne still insisted on knowing the symptoms. So they cableu again a peremptory demand for symptoms and meanwhile pusheJ preparations for Mrs. Jones' departure. Just as Mrs. Jones was leaving her house the nest morning to go to the steamer the reply to her second cable was handed to her. It said: Advanced stage tuberculosis. Both lungs Hopelessly affected. Condition serious. Com* at. once. Babb. On reading this message Mrs. Jones nearly collapsed. The doctor ejaculated a large, vehement exclamation and declared that the Paris doctor who had made the diagnosis was an eternal and everlasting and utterly blanked blanked idiot. He had seen Miss Jones himself and had exaimned her thoroughly before she sailed, and there was not the slightest symptom of affection of the hangs at that time,,and it was absolutely impossible for tuberculosis to reach an advanced stage in the time in which she had been abroad. He was half inclined to suspect that there was something wrong in the cablegram, but there was no time then to go behind the returns, and the only thing to do was for Mrs. Jones to go on. Mrs. Jones said that she never in her life had such a voyage as that trip was. The weather was just as rough as March could make it, but Mrs. Jones did not suffer a minute from seasickness. If she could only have been thoroughly seasick, she said, it might have relieved her a little from the agony and suspense which she endured. She got into Southampton nearly a day late. The first thing Mrs. Jones heard when the ship reached her dock. was her own name bawled lustily by a man who had just come on deck. It was another,telegram, and it took all the strength and grit she had to open it. She confidently expected to read that her daughter was dead, but instead she read: Amelia much better. Will meet you at the station with a red ribbon in my left buttonhole. Williams. "Now, who," said Mrs. Jones to herself, "is Williams?" Williams had never appeared in the proceedings before. She had never heard of him in any letters from her daughter, but she supposed, of course, that he was some attache of the institution where her daughter was living. She hurried across to Paris and got there late in the evening. Williams met her all right and assured her that her daughter was really quite comfortable. They drove out to the home en the Bue de la Pompe as fast as the cabman could go and g��t there just in time to meet Miss Jones coming home from the opera with Mr. Arbuthnot. There was a row���a good, fair, square, ablebodied American row���and (he managers of that institution heard for once what a plain spoken American woman wrapped up in her daughter thought about that way of conducting things. Of course the whole thing came out. Miss Jones had had a cold and had been in bed for a couple of days with it. Miss Smith had taken advantage of the opportunity to scare Mrs. Jones nearly to dcaih, having decided to brave the inevitable exposure because* she was sure of the n.'.siJJi. bhe was not at all disappointed. Mrs. Jones declared that her daughter and she had had enough of Paris and Parisian methods, and if Amelia wanted to study music any longer, she could come straight homeland do it.���New York Sun. Certificate of the Registration of an Kxtra-Provincial Company. ��� * Companies Act, 1897." '* Native Silver Bell Mining Company." Chicago Mineral Claim. Registered the 7th day of September, 1897. T HEREBY CERTIFY that I have this day I registered the " Native Silver Bell Mining Comt>anv"as an extra-Provincial Company, under the "Comnanies Act, 1897." The head office of the said Company is situate in the City of Spokane, State of Washington. The amount of the capital of the Company is >'l.ooo,OOu, divided into 1,000,000 shares of "a each. The head office of the Company in this Province is situate in the City of Rossiand, and dive Pringle, whose; address is Rossiand, is attorney for tlie Company. The time of the existence of the Company is fifty years. The objects for which tlie Company has been established are: ��� To locate, purchase, contract fot. or acquire by anv lawful means, mines, mining- claims, water rights, tlmlier and timber lands, mill-sites, ditches flumes, tramways, railways, water and electric power hud power plants, or to acquire by purchase, contract or otherwise, milliner stocks, bonds or debentures; also to buy. sell, acquire and deal in real estate of all kinds, other than mining property; to work, operate, buy, sell, l��a.��e. mortgage, own, acquire, hold and eleal in mines, metals "and mineral claims of every kind and description, or any of the. property above named: to acquire by purchase or otherwise, stock in any other corporation organised for the purpose of owning, operating or working mines or mining claims, or other real estate; to hold, vote, represent, transfer, sell or purchase such stock at such times and in such quantities and manner, and under such circumstances as shall be determined upon by the trustees of this Corporation: to carry on and conduct a general smelting, milling and reduction business; to purchase, acquire. Hold, erect, operate, electric light and power plants for the purpose of mining and treating ores, or for the purpose of furnishing lights and creatinglpower for use or sale; to bond, buy,lease, locate and hold anel operate, ditches, flumes, or water rights; to construct, lease, buy, sell, build, operate and conduct railroads, ferries, tramways or other means of transportation for transporting ore, mining and other material: and finally to do even-thing consistent, proper and requisite for the earning out of the purposes and objects aforesaid in their full and broadest sense. Given under mv hand aud seal of office at Victoria, Province of British Columbia, this 7th day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.' [l. s.] HENRY S. MASON. Acting Registrar of Joint Stock Com names. Situate in the Slocan Mi.iing Division of "West Kootenay District. Where located: On top of divide between Sandon and Cody creeks anel about one mile from mouth of Cody creek. TAKE NOTICE, That I.A.R. Heyland. acting as 1 agent for Alonzo D. Coplen. free miner's certincate No. 77,224. intend, (jO days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder, for a certincate of "improvements for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under Sec. 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certincate of improvements. Dated this 28th day of September, 1897. Keiio Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. T*AKE NOTICE, that I, S. P. Tuck, free 1 miner's certificate No. 97,382, acting as agent for W. P. Rus&ell, free miner's certincate No. 762'Hi, intend sixty days from date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certincate of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under Section 37 must be commenced before the isstiance of such' certificate of inrprovements. Dated this 2Gth day of August, 1897. War Eagle Mineral Claim. Situated in the Arrow Lake Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On Mineral Creek, a tributary of Cariboo Creek. "TAKE NuTICE that I, Geo. Alexander, free 1 miner's certincate No. 74000, and as agent iorH. B. Alexander, free miner's certincate No. 77602, S. E. Manual, free miner's certincate No. 78270, and P. G. Fauquier, free miner's certificate i No. 78379, intend sixty days from the I date hereof, to apply to the Mining j Recorder for a certificate of improvements i for the purpose of obtaining; a Crown Grant of j the above claim. And further take notice that action under Section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 10th day of September, 1897. Cube Xode Mineral Claim. PASSENGER EACH DAY. TRAINS EACH DAY ��� Between ��� Gold Ring Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenav District. Where located: About one mile'from the Forks of Cariboo Creek and joining the Millie Mack mineral claim. TAKE NOTICE that I. J. A. Kirk, acting as agent for H. C. Pollock, free miner's certificate No. 07,8(13, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37. must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 21st day of July, 1897 J. A. KIRK. [L. 1847, G. l.J Snowflake Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On top of divide l>etween Sandon and Cody creeks and about one mile from mouth of Cody creek, -TAKE NOTICE,That I, A.R.Heyland, acting as I agent for Alonzo D. Coplen, free miner's certificate No. 77,224, intend, GO days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. ' And further take notice that action uneler Sec. 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 28th day of September, 1897. L.18f>5, Gr. l.' Derby Mineral Claim. Trail and Rossiand On the- Golnmbian Hfestern BY Run Made in one Hour. NOTICE Sixty ��>ft) days after date I intend to apply to the Cliief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase the following described land: Commencing nt S. Walker's northwest corner post, running north forty (10) chains, following the Columbia river, thence east eighty (80) chains, thence south forty (40) chains, thence west eighty (80) chains, and containing three hundred and twenty (320) acres of land, more or less. ELLEN McDOUGALD. CERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS American Girl 31'neral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: About two miles easterly of the town of Cody and adjoining the Greenhorn mineral claim. TAKE NOTICE that I, Edward H. Apnle- whaite. free miners' certificate, No. 120G A, intend, sixty days after date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for certificates of improvements for the purpose of obtaining Crown grants of the above claims. And further take notice that action as under Section 37 must he commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 1st day of September, 1897. EDWARD H APPLEWHAITE. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located:��� On Carpenter Creek about half a mile above the town of Cody and adjoining'the Chambers mineral claim. "PAKE NOTICE that I, John Hirseh, as agent 1 for A. H. Buchanan, free: miner's certificate No. 83,513. intend, sixtv days from the elate hereof, to apply to the mining recorder for a certificate of ��� improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under Sec. 37, must he commenced before ithe issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this lGth day of October, 1897. ' JOHN HIRSCH. L. Duned in 18.13, Gr. l. Mineral Claim. m; Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. AVhere located: 'Ydioin- ing the Queen Bess claim on the east about two miles south of Three Forks. AKE NOTICE That I, Robert E. Palmer, acting as agent for Wm. Glynn, P. M.C. No. 852").-., and James H. Moran. F. M. C. No. 83040, intend sixty elays from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate or improvements for the purpose e>f obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under section 37 must be commenced before the Issuance of seich certificate of improvements. Dated this llth day of November, 1897 " R. E. PALMER, P. L. S. Great Eastern Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District, c Where located: Adjoining the Madison and about V> miles southeast of Town of Sandon. TAKE NOTICE that I, Robert E. Palmer of Sandon. acting as agent for Price Eaton Co.. free miners' certificate No. 97435 intend GO days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under Section 37 must be commenced before the is- sttance of such certificate of improvements- R. E. PALMER, P.L.S. Dated this 16th day of September, 1897. selG Situated in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On Reco Hill and aeljoiuing the Ruecan and Bine Bird Mineral Claims. TAKE NOTICE that I, John Hirseh, as agent for James Marshall, *?. M. C. 88S78, Thomas Brown, F.M.C. 83151, and Duncan S. Forbes, F. M. C. G917G. intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements Dated this 15th day of October, 1897. JOHN HIRSCH. L. 1856, Gr. 1. Italia Rook Mineral Claim. Pennsylvania Surnames. The United States offers peculiar interest in this lield, owing to the changes undergone by foreign names in their new environment. Of course New- England names, being merely the transplanting of English originals, offer only the interest of ordinary orthographical and orthoepical variations, but even here there are many phenomena which .wouid well repay investigation. The richest field, however, of this sort is offered by Dutch and German surnames, the former being found mainly in New York and the latter in Pennsylvania. It is with the latter that this paper has to do. During the eighteenth century between 50,000 and 100,000 Germans and Swiss settled in the southern counties of Pennsylvania. Their descendants today number hundreds of thousands. What has been the fate of their names? We may assume, on a priori grounds, that scarcely 1 in 100 has remained unchanged. When, how, on what principle, were these changes made? These questions suggest exceedingly interesting problems to the investigator. At the beginning of the last century the law itself of Pennsylvania interfered, and all Germans who received a grant of public lands were required to anglicize their names. But of course the most potent influence at work was the natural objection to the inconvenience arising from having names which others could with difficulty spell or pro- jounce.���Lippincott'n Magazine. first Kxtension Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan .Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: Lying south of the Young Dominion claim on Howson Creek about two miles south oi" the Idaho Concentrator. TAKE NOTICE That I. Robert E. Palmer. I acting as agent for Wm. Glynn, free miner's certilieate No. 85255. iinend sixty days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of 'improvements for" the purnose of ubt.-iiiiinga Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under section 37 must lie commenced before tbe issuance of such certilieate of improvements. Dated this llth day of November. 1897. R. E. PALMER. P.L.S Midnight; Fractional Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On Mt. Adams, adjoining the Adams and Britomarte two miles southwest of Sandon. 'PAKE NOTICE that I, RobertE. Palmer, act- I ing as agent for the Adams British Columbia Co. Ltd, free miner's certilieate No. 1*335 A, intend sixty days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this llth day of November, 1897. ~tm R. E. PALMER, P.L.S. Concord Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West ..i",Kootenay District. Wliereloeated: Adjoining the Young Dominion on the north, about Vi miles south of the Ielaho concentrator. TAKENOTICE that I. Robert E. Palmer acting as agent for Jas. H. Moran, F. M. C No. 83010. John A. Finch, F. M. C. No. 79534. Wm. Glynn, F. M. C. 85255, and Peter Larsen. F. M. C. No. 83717, intend sixty days from the elate hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a crown gran' of the above claim. And further take notice that action tinder section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this llth day of Novemlier, 1897. R E. PALMER, P.L.S. Wolf Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On Blue Grouse "mountain, one half mile north of Cariboo Creek. rpAKE NOTICE that I. J. A. Kirk, acting as JL agent for H. C. Sharp, free miner's certificate No. 83,892 and C. C. Woodhouse, jr., free miner's certificate No. 3103 A, intend 60 days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 19th day of July, 1897. T. A. KIRK. Independence Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenav District. Wliereloeated: On Blue Grouse mountain, about one mile from the forks of Cariboo Creek. UKE NOTICE that I, J. A. Kirk, acting as agent for C. C. Woodhouse, jr., free miner's certificate No. 3103 A, intend, sixty days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for the peirpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action under Section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 21st day of Julv. 1897. J. A KIRK. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: Adjoining the Carbonate King mineral claim on Payne Mountain. TAKE NOTICE that I, John Hirseh, as agent for Edward Mali on, free miner's certificate No. 94537, intend 60 days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And, further take notice, that action under Section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of said certificate of improvements. Dated this, 25th day of October, 1897. JOHN HIRSCH. No. 6 Leaves Rosslaud at 7 a.m.; Connects in the morning with Steamer at Trail. No. 3 Leaves Trail at 8:15 a.m.; Connects at Rossiand with Red Mountain train for Spokane. No. 2 Leaves Rossiand at 11:00 a.m. No. 1 Leaves Trail at 12:30 p.m.; Connects with C.P.R. main line Steames from the north at Trail. No. 4 Leaves Rossiand at 3:00 p.m.: Connects with C.P.R. main line Steamers for the north ot Trail. No. 5 Leaves Trail at 5:45 p.m.; Connects with Steamer Lytton at Trail. F. P. GUTELIUS. Gen'ISupt. Trail, B.C., June 4,1897. CANADIAN PACIFIC _RAILWAY.. The Quickest and Cheapest Route East or West.. Steamer leaves Nakusp every morning-, making close connection at Revelstoke with train** 'or all points East or TV est. NOTICE. T "VTOTICE is hereby given that Iintend, 60 days. lv after date to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase 160 acres of land, (more or less) situated on Glacier creek, on the opposite side of Slocan lake from New Denver, and commencing at a post marked -'Henry Siege's s. e. corner, thence 40 chains west, thence, 40 chains north, thence 10 chains east, thence 40 chains south along the lake shore to place of commencement. Located Aug. 23, 1897, New Denver, Aug. 23, Before you travel get information from C.P.R. Agents as to time and rates. It will save you money Apply to nearest Railway Agent or to H. DOUGLAS, Agent. H. M. MacGregor, Trav. Pass Agt, Nelson, or to E. J. Coyle, Dist. 'Pass. Agt, Vancouver, B. C. HENRY STEGE. 1897. NOTICE. O. K. Mineral Claim. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Wliereloeated: North Pork Carpenter Creek, about six miles above Three Forks. rpAKE NOTICE that I,Thomas Sinclair Gore, A agent for Edwin Smith; Graham and A. Hellmers, free miner's certificates Nos. 80480 and 81330, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 30th dav of September, ia97. T. S. GORE. NOTICE is hereby given that CO days after date I intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase the following described lands situated in the Slocan Mining Division, West Kootenay District, on Fennel creek, (a Branch of Four Mile creek) and about seven and one-half miles from the town of Silverton: Commencing at a post on the east side of Fennell creek marked "R. H. H. Alexander's northeast corner," and running west 30 chains, thence south 53 chains, thenee east 30 chains, thence north 53 chains, to point of com. mencement and containing 1(10 acres, more or less. Dated 20th Aeigust, 1897. R. H. H. ALEXANDER. k Nelson & Ft. Sheppard Red Mountain RAILWAYS NOTICE. "VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that we will not V\ be responsible for any debts contracted by anyone other than ourselves. C W. AYLWIN & CO. New Denver, B. C.,Nov. 1.1897. The only all rail route without change fears between Nelson and Rossiand nd Spokane and Rossiand. Only Route to Trail Creek and Mineral District ofthe Colville Eeservation, Nelson, Kaslo, Kootenay Lake and Slocan Points. Daily, Except Sunday. Lkave. Arrive. 9:20 a.m. NELSON 5:35 p. m 12:00 " ROSSLAND 2:50 " 8:00 a.m. SPOKANE 6:40 p.m. Close connection with Steamers for Kaslo and all Kootenay lake points. Passengers for Kettle River and Boundary Creek connect at Marcus with stage daily. Inverness Mineral Claim. Carpets, floor cloth, rugs, mats, curtains. Bedroom sets in ash anel oak. Largest stock in Slocan-Kootenay. CROWLEY, above Ledge Office, XeV Denver. Freight paid to all Lake Points and Sandon. Situate in the Slocan Mining: Division, West Kootenav District. Where located: On Red Mountain about two miles northwest from and about nine-, miles from the mouth of the North Fork of Carpenter Creek. TAKE NOTICE, that I, Robert E. Palmer, of Sandon, acting as agent for John Brown, of Sandon. free miner's certilieate No. 70W8 intend, sixty days from date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements tor the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37. must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements Dated this 1th dav of November. 1897. R. E. PALMER, P. L. S. m Provincial Secretary's Office. HONOUR the Lieutenant-Governor, has been pleased to make the following appointment:��� . Alexander Si'KoA'r, of the town of New Denver. Esquire. Mining Recorder, to be a Deputy of tlie District Registrar under the " Births; Deaths and Marriages Act," for the Nelson Division ofthe West Kootenay District. October loth, 1807. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. .Sapphire and from Miineral Claims. Situate iu the Slccan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: Adjoining tho Lalla Rook and Minneapolis mineral claims on Payne. Mountain. TAKE NOTICE that I. John Hirseh. as agent for the Ramsdell Mining and Milling Co., free miner's certificate No. 721*8 A, intend, sixty days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtain ing Crown gran! of above claims. And furtlier take notice that action, under Section 37. must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this :25th clay of October. 1897. JOHN HIRSCH. Noonday, Grey Kagle, and Fourth of July Mineral Claims. 31illie Mack Mineral Claim. Situated in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On Blue Grouse mountain, on the south slope near the summit. rpAKE NOTICE that I. J. A. Kirk, acting as JL agent for The Kamloops Mining and Development Company, limited liability, free miner's certificate No. 97,8(10, intend sixty days from the elate hereof to apnly to theMining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice, that action under section 37, must be commenced lieforc the issuance of such certificate of improvements. 1KB Dated this 21st dav- of July, 1897. * jLA> KIRK- Pay Rock Mineral Claiin. Situated in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: North Fork of Carpenter Creek, about six miles above Three Forks, r-nAKE NOTICE that I. Thomas Sinclair Gore, JL agent for Edwin Smith Graham and A. Hellmers, free miners certificates Nos. 80-180 and 81330. intend. 00 days from date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for tlie purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And, further take notice, that action under section 37. must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of Improvements. Dated this 3uth day of Sept. 1S97. T. S. GORE. Halton Chief Mineral Claim. Situate in'the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Wliereloeated: North Fork of CiU'iientcr Creek about six miles above Three Forks. 'PAKE NOTICE that I, Thomas Sinclair Gore, JL agent for EdwinS'Smith Graham, free miner's certincate No. 80.480, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply, to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the peirpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of Improvements. Dated this 30th day of Sept., 18<i7. T. S. GORE. Fidelity Mineral Claim. INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION & TRADINGS., LTD. Strs International anfl Allierta On Kootenay Lake and R'ver. Time Card in Effect Oct. 1st, 1897. Daily Except Sunday. Subject to Change without notice Close connection at Five Mile Point with all passengei trains of theN. & F.S.R.R. to and from Northport, Rossiand and Spokane. Through tickets sold at Lowest Rates and Baggage checked to all United States Points. Lv. Kaslo for Nelson and way points. 5:45 a.m Ar. Northport 12:15 p.m.: Rossiand 8:40 p m.: Spokane. 0 p.m. Lv. Nelson for Kaslo and way points, 4.45 p.m. Lv. Spokane 8 a.m.; Rossiand. 10:20 a.m.; Northport, 1:50 a.m. T THE Partnership heretofore existing lietween I Robert Sanderson and Nathan E. Lay. is I herebv dissolved bv mutual consent I 'ROBERT SANDER "ON*. ; NATHAN K. LAV. i Trail. Sept. 13. 18!i7. ', Situate in the Si'fan Mining Division of "West Kootenay District. Where located: On the east slope of the valley of Cody creek, about three miles f run Cody. "AKE NOTICE. That I, .1. H. Gray, acting as agent for Byron N. White, free miner's certificate No. 74,200, intend, GO elays from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for Certincate of Improvements, for the purjjose of obtaining Crown Grant of above chums. And further take notice that notion under Sec. 37 must lx- commenced before issuance of such Certlliciirn of improvements. Dated Ihissth day of September ls.'i.; Situated in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: About two mites southeast of New Denver. li. C. rpAKE NOTICE that I, Alfred Driscoll, as agent 1 forF. L Byron, free, miner's certificate No. SlitTH, L. F. Holtz, free miner's certificate No. 7-.'��>8fi, and A. S. Williamson, free miner'.'! certificate No. 79237, intend sixty elays from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grunt of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under -section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of .such oertificate of improvements. Dated this 20th day of Sept.. 1897.. BONNER'S FERRY and KOOTENAY RIVER SERVICE. The Alberta awaits the arrival of the International before leaving for Bonner's Ferry. Lv. Kaslo, Sat..4.00 p. m; Ar. Boundary, Sun. midnight; Aj. Bonner's Ferry. Sun., 10.30 a.m. Lv Bonner's Ferry, Sun.. 1p.m.; Ar. Boundary. Sun., 5 p.m.: Ar. Kaslo, Seen.. 10 p.m. Close c.onneofcon at Bonner's Ferry with trains East bound, leaving Spokane 7.40 a.m.. and West bound, arriving Spokane 7 p.m. The lost trip this season on the Bonner's Ferry route will be on the 0th and 7th November after which date, the Bonner's Ferry service will be discontinued. GEORGE ALEXANDER, Gen'l Mgr Head Office at Kaslo, B.C. Kaslo. B.C., Oct. 1,1897 THE STEAMER W.HUNTER From Montreal California, Allan Line Parisian, " Oct. 2 Carthaginian " Labrador,Dominion Line Oot 9 Vancouver, " From New York Umbria.Cunard Line Etruria ", Campania, " Majestic, White Star Line Teutonic <; ~���- St. Paul. American Line St. Louis. " ��� State of Nebraska. Allan State Line Southwark, Red Star Line Sept 29 Noordland, " Cabin *45, S50, S60, 70 *80 and upwards. Intermediate ��30 and upwards. Steerage $25.50 and upwards. Passengers Ticketed through to all points in Great Britain or Ireland, and at Specially low rates to all parts of the European Continent. Prepaid Passages arranged from all points. Apply to A. O. MCARTHUR, C.P.R. Agent Sandon, or WILLIAM STITT, General Agent, C. P. R. Offices, Winnipeg Kaslo&Slogan Ry TIME CARD Subject to change without notice Trains run on Pacific Standard Time. Leave 8 00 " 8 30 " ft 30 " 9 51 '��� 10 03 " 10 18 " 10 38 Arr. 10 50 Arrive. 3 50 P.M 3 15 " a.m Will leave NEW DENVER, afternoon upon arrival of from Sandon. every train FOR SILVERTON, SLOCAN CITY aud ALL INTERMEDIATE POINTS. Will leave SLOGAN CITY at 7 a.m. every morning except Sunday Powder carried only on Fridays. Time Table subject to change without notice S. T.N. CO.. Ltd.. June 1. ltf)7. G. L. ESTABROOK. Master. Leave 11.00 " 11.25 For cheap and from all Sandon, B.D KOBT. IRVING, Traffic Mngr GEO. A.M. Kaslo South Fork " Sproule's ''��� 2 15 " " Whitewater i: 2 00 " Bear Lake " 1 48 ����� McGuigan " 1 33 " " Codv Junction " 1 12 " " Sandon Leave 1 00 " CODY LINE. Sandon Arrive 11.55 a.m. " Cody " 11.20 ������ . railroad and steamship tickets to points, apply to S. CAMPBELL, F. COPELAND, Superintendent Hotel Vevey Dining Room and Bar. First- class in every respect. Rooms well furnished. Trail open to Ten and Twelve Mile creek- Pack and Saddle Animals to hire. ALLEN & CORY, Proprietors. Vevev, Slocan Lake, B.C. THE LEDG-E, NEW DENVER, B.C., NOVEMBER 11, 1897. Fifth Year MINING RECORDS Showing the Rapid Development of the Slocan. LOCATIONS OF THE WEEK ^���inniiiiiiiniiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffliiiiiiiiiiiiniiiimiini"^ | NEWS IN PLACE j !llllllllllilllllllllllllillllll# Assessment Work Done on Claims and Transfers of Mining Properties. The following is a complete list of the mining transactions recorded curing the week in the several mining divisions of the Slocan. Those of New Derive-'* were as follows:��� LOCATIONS. Nov 2���Beachvilte, near Rosebery, Wm E Cropp and W F Cook. Nov 3���Legal Fraction, Noble Five Mountain, C A Freeman; Severn, Fayjie Mt, Jno Ewes, Nov 4���Last Link, Carpenter,D McCuaig; Crab, same, E McCuaig. Nov o���Silver Creek. Four Mite, W II Branuon. Nov 8���Trogan, head Slocan Lake, Thos Ast- bury, Jas McDonald, \Vm Haley, John Craig. ASSKSSMKNTS. ' Nov 3��� Far Away. Nov .-.-High Rock. Nov o���Mollie. Nov.8��� Burn.siete, Kentucky Girl, Hope. TKANSFKItS. OCT 30���Vunia Fraction, R W Gordon to Geo Alexander, Get 11. Aurora Fraction���H B Alexander to The Ruth Mines. Oct 14, Yuma. Aurora No 2, Suburban Fraction, EM Sandilands to same, Oct 20. Nov 1���Water Right., D 11 Macpherson to Scottish Colonial Gold Fields, Ltd, all right, title anel interest to 1,000 inches water out of Carpenter creek, Sept 20. " Slocan Milling Co, Ltd, to H H MaePlierson, concentrator site anel buildings, water rights, etc, $50,000. ' Lake View i. Sam Kleiuberg lo Joseph Levin- son, Oct 28. ��� . Return ', John Sheridan to P M Hayes, Jan 30, sl.000. ��� Nov 2���Silver Cord, Blue Jay, Starlight Fraction, Blizzard and Little Widow Fraction ��, Tlie Last Chance M and M Co to Wilbur A Hendryx, Oct 19. Same, same to Edwin H Tomlinson. same. Nov 3���Major Fraction i, Chas Moore to same, same. Emily Edith \, Emily Edith Fraction, Iron- clael, Eagle and Eagle Fraction l/.i, Patrick Day to Mary E Rammelmeyor, Nov 3, s-^,500. Emily Eelithi, Silver Stanekrel J, Giant ", W H R \, James Bowes to same, same, $2,500. Nov 5���Fairheven, Laurier and Klondike J> Win R Smith to Russell Ormsby, Aug 13. Novo���Great Eastern, The Price-Eaton Co to Joseph C Eaton, Oct 28. Wyoming 2/fl, Wm H McVay and Daniel E McVay to The Ruth Mines, Oct 27. Wyoming jj, H W Foster to same, Oct 22, .-ooo Nov 8���Sun Down .',, Pat Barton to Jack Law- son, Ctet 20. SLOCAN CITY DIVISION. LOCATIONS. Oct 28���Silver City, OE Tornfeldt- Oakdale, H N McNatighton and R A Cameron. Oct so���Florence, C M Gething. Nov 1���Surprise, Jas Farrell; Never Sweat, Andrew Ratowski and Jas Kowalski. Nov 3���Bonanza, Dan Tennis; Olive, R C Graham and Jno McLaughlin. Nov 5���Lisgar, J G Millar. Nov G���Cape Fractional, A C Allen. ASSESSMENTS. Oct 28���Susan G, Susan S, Park, Wm Harris. Oct 20���Missing Link, John E Skinner. Oct 30���Conundrum Noll.Felix Hughes; Conundrum No 2, Wm H Thomlliiison. Nov 3���Chapleau, Minerva, Mars, Frank Dick. Nov 5���Evening Star, Erin Fraction. Nov ('���Transfer. Nov 8���Lucky Diamond, THANSKKKS." Oct 28-Creole ���", D E Rafuse to Beaumont Boggs. Nov 1���Frederick }, Steven Powers to Michael Powers. Copper Clift J, same to same. Nov 2���Mohawk \, Frank Schabot to J <"��� Miller Cossette 1/lfi, Albert Cossette to A Finnigan Same, same to Michael Primeaux. Chilkatl/O. B E Sharpeto Harry Williams Delphian I/O, Chas Culver to same. AINSWORTH DIVISION. Tom Lanigan and Jim Ward are doing some work on the Early Bird claim near Sandon. Jas. Moran has returned to New Denver after a few week's holidays spent in Seattle. Where is that guy that wrote about the 'beautiful snow ?" We would like to meat him. E. J. Field, of the Wonderful, returned from the Company's meeting in Spokane on Monday. He is at.present in Sandon but has no information to impart. Divine service will be held in the Presbyterian church next Sunday at 11 a.m. Subject: -'Gideon's Three Hundred." Service conducted by W. J. Booth. The school concert that was to have been given Tuesday evening was postponed owing to the unclemency of the weather until this, Thursday, evening. Among tlie comfortable economical well-appointed private hotels of Kaslo, the Victoria House on Avenue A, built, owned and conducted by W. J. Hall is prominent. J. A. McDonald, electrician, has taken the contract of installing the electrical appliances on the new C.P.R. steamer Rosslanel, and will commence work at Nakusp next week. Negotiations are on by parties contemplating the re-opening of the Newmarket for the furniture, the property of Mr. Stege. There is a probability oi the hotel being opened in a few weeks. A good shave and haircut at the Slocan barber shop, near the St. James hotel. The London Times just to hand contains a two column epitomized account of B. C's. mineral wealth and mining towns. New Denver and its magnificient townsite received proper recoguition in this great journal. R. K. Neil, of Spokane, has been appointed lTianag'er of the Enterprise mine, and active operations are to be started on the property as soon as the Slocan crossing- road is completed and is in running order. The ore from the property will be shipped via that road. A rich strike was lately made on the Bolandei* claim, situated near Sandon, and some very fine ore has been taken out. The same lead was also discovered on the Chicag'o, an adjoining' property, and the same character of ore is bein^ taken out. The Bolander property was taken up early in the spring- by a strong' company of "Findlay, Ohio. Some "work Avas done on the claim at that time, but the discovery was not made then, and further work was delayed until the property was crown- granted. The 'crown grant has now been secured, and it is expected work will be prosecuted without delay since the late find has been made. THE CATBIRD'S PLIGHT. GRANT AS A WRITER. Foriy Birds to. the Rescue���How It Wa�� Finally Set Free. "Going through the woods one day," si" id a lover of birds, "I saw a catbird with one of its wings caught on a brier bush. There was a clump of briers here, with a narrow opening at one place between two of the bushes. The catbird had tried to fly through that opening and had made a miscalculation and'got one of its wings impalee*} on a thorn. The other wing was free, and it was flapping that and trying to get clear of the bush. "Around this bush there must have been at least 40 other birds, of one kind or another, catbirds and brown thrashers and wrens and grass chippies, and ao on, that had been attracted by the unfortunate catbird's cries and its efforts to escape, and that appeared to have gathered there to help it. They fluttered about close to tbe hush, flying around at a great rate and making a lot "if noise, but not really doing anything. Some of the smaller birds would fly around very close to the bush or even fly under it, and I imagine some of the bigger birds saying to some of these venturesome little fellows, 'Here, you brown thrasher, you, why don't you get under him there and push on his wing?' But the brown thrasher would only go about so close. He wasn't going to get caught. What the birds would have done finally I don't know. I think they would have helped the catbird in some way, but I undertook to help it myself. "Of course. I couldn't go right up to it, for that would have frightened it, and may be made it hurt itself even worse. I had with me a sawed off broom stick that I carried for a walking stick, aud I undertook to free the catbird with that. I thrust the stick thror-'h the brier bush, all the other 40 bird., ieiok- ing on, and brought the end of it gently against the catbird's wing and pushed the wing off the thorn. But in starting away the catbird got the wing caught again on another thorn. That was bad, and I stood off a minute deliberating about what to do next, the whole flock of birds still fluttering round and the imprisoned catbird now pretty nearly exhausted. It was a time to drop all ceremony, and I simply walked up to the bush and took the catbird off the thorn with my hands. "Just beyond the brier bushes there was a smooth grassy spot in the woods and I laid the catbird down there, the whole lot of birds that had been hovering about the brier bush following along, more or less near, and hanging around there. Pretty soon the catbird got up and flew to a little tree nearby. It wasn't strong, but it could fly and its wings were all right. When it flew up into the tree, all the other birds flew away. From the tree the catbird sang its thanks to me, and there I left it. "���'��� New York Sun. CLEVER'S HALL FRIDAY EVE, Nov. 19 |THE"F0UR LEAF COMEDY CO J Cg^=-***^*��*:=*.=g &9�� ^~S~SS��=5=S�� In the great THREE ACT COMEDY Under the management of MeCALL & HAND. DIRECT FROM THli Behind the Screen Introducing i ALL THE ! LATEST! EASTERN' SUCCESSES FUNNY SITUATIONS I BY A COMPANY OF ARTISTS EAST. MERiCAN Mining & Milling Co. New York's Election'resulted in|J a victory for the if T a m many hosts, j} This victory, to-jj gether with the big|'J De mocratic gains in j \ the state elections, i--] \tf.B.��*B> indicative of the 15 tact th at the free sil - j 3 ver sentiment is fast \> growing, and that the day is close at; hand when silver must be recognized. Rand & Wallbridge, Mining and Stock Brokers, Sole Agents for Sale of Treasury Stock. ���> JZatK&JBBSSjbfcvSs ~X&t��SS2i^<J3iaLjBB&h-3��l^'75teJXa^Z.X^, BXjLiLJ Has often been electrified by the wonderful bargains offered from time to time by people with something to sell, but it remains for .... . . . . . Slocan's Future depends on silver legislation. If free coinage were to W.B.^B.^e adopted the silver mines of this rich belt would produce millions of wealth. Th LOCATIONS. Oc-i'30���Ottawa, D C McDonald, John Henelrix, J, Cosg-rove: Expected Fraction, S J Henderson. Nov 1���Jeimho, W R Ramselell. Nov 2���Brittiiunie, J S. Hicks; Erebus, A R Maedonald: Maganetuwan, J S Hicks: Muck-a- Muck, A K McDonald; Sunrise. H M Vincent: Great Northern, Paul Fuller; Sunlight, A BBuek- worth. Nov 5���The Fall, Alex Linnett as agent for A T Garland. ASSESSMENTS. Ocr 30���You Bet, Jack Pot, Eagle Bird, Mars- den, Grovcll, Vulcan. Nov 2���Plow Boy, Little Dextei\ Nov 3���Hector, Wm L Hawser. TKANSKKHS. Oct 3e>-Carbonet No 2, Sennet, Clearwater Congress, C E Egbert. C A Hanee to F J Donaldson and J H Byriis, bond sioei. J Y, Chas Benson to J E McCall, trustee for Granite Mining and Smeltiner Company of Spokane. Sandon, i, J M Harris to D J Weir. Sandon ', same to Peter Liuelquist. same i, same to John Gable. Nov 1���Dolight- ier to J IT Ross. Silver Glance, Wm Franklin to Jno S Baker 510,000. Nov a���Troy f, Peter Lindeuiist to J M Harris Troy .', same to D J Weir. Same J, same to Jno Gable. Bear's Paw Fraction Jj, \V Hanson to Uno Olson anel Dolph Johnson. Granite Iron agreement between. J E McCall. trustee for Granite M & S Co to Chas Benton. J Y, Obas Benton to Granite M & S Co. Nov 1���Bob Iiigersoll, C Quanstroin to H \V Pollock. Colorado, \V Meadows to II Hulhurt. , Nov.",������jilveir-y Queen ", John Bough to A I Anderson. Silver Queen. A p.Anderson to'Tim O'Learv ' Butterfly -Geo L Poet and Allen Boureh- Ed Ded.ilph tei \V F Whellains. Business Chance for Hotel 3Isin. The Newmarket, of New Denver, is now open for lease���S Large: Rooms, 28 Bedrooms, Kitchen anel Laundry. Most popular hotel in tlie most prosperous town in the Slocan. Apply to Thompson-, Mitch ku,& Co., Com. Agts., New Denver. See Hoben's corduroy and tweed suits and ulsters. Business StJinel to rent with two rooms up stairs, on Sloca.n avenue, New Denver. Also Restaurant business and outfit for sale. Applv to Thompson, Mitchell & Co. The Latest novelties in Ladies Capes. ���Jackets, Dress Goods and Millinery, at Mrs. Merklev. See Hoben's corduroy anel tweed suits and ulsters. j His Style Was Vigorous and Terie, With Little Ornament. General Horace Porter in "Campaign, ing With Grant1' in The Century expresses the following opinion of Grant as a writer: His powers of concentration of thought were often shown by the circumsiauces under which he v.rote. Norhing that went on around him, upon the field or in his quarters, could distract his attention or interrupt him. Sometimes, when his tent was filled with officers talking and laughing at the top of their voices, he would turn to his table and write the most important communications. There would then be an immediate "Hush!" and abundant excuses offered by the company, but he ahvays insisted upon the conversation going on, and after, awhile his officers came to understand his wishes in this respect, to learn that ���aoise was apparently a stimulus rather than a check to his flow of ideas, and to realize that nothing short of a general attack along the whole line could ���divert his thoughts from the subject upon which his mind was concentrated. In writing his style was vigorous and terse, with little of ornament. Its most conspicuous characteristic was perspicuity. General Meade's chief of staff once said, "There is one striking feature about Grant's orders���no matter how hurriedly he may write them on the field, no one ever has the slightest doubt as to their meaning or ever has to read them over a second time to understand them."' The general used Anglo-Saxon words much more frequently .than those derived from the Greek and Latin tongues. He had studied French at West Point and picked up some knowledge of ir. punish during the Mexican war, but he could not hold a con- versatiem in either language, and rarely employed a foreign word in any of his writings. His adjectives were few and well chosen. No document which ever came from his hands was in the least degree pretentious. He never laid claim to any knowledge he did not possess and seemed to feel, with Addison, that "pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy in religion���a form of knowledge without the power of it. " He rarely indulged in metaphor, but when lie oid emp'oy a figure of speech it was always expressive and graphic, as when he spoke of the commander at LVnmuia Hundred being "in a bottle strongly corked" or referred to our armies at one: time as moving "like horses in a balky team, no two ever pulling together. " His style inclined to the epigrammatic without his being aware of it. There w;is scarcely a document written by him from which brief sentences cemld not be selected fit to be set in moitos or placed upon transparencies. As examples may be mentioned: "I propose tei move immediately upon your works," "I shall take, no backward steps," the famous "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all aum- me>r," and, later in his career, "Let us have peace," "The best means of secur- ORIENTAL EYES. *""heir Much Lauded Beauty Due to False Diodes of laving. An esteemed correspondent of The Woman's Arena writes, "May not the much lauded largeness and luster of the oriental eye be due to false modes of living and to a low grade of civilization?" In the first place these charms are never found among the working classes or among the tillers of the soil. They belong to the harem and to the harem civilization. I have examined the women's quarters in Constantinople and Cairo, in Aden and Bombay, in Calcutta and Ja- hore, and even in Hongkong and Canton, and in nearly every instance the women's rooms were small and dark. Where there were windows these were mere slits in the wall, which did not allow any direct light to enter. The doorway was small and the door was solid and nearly always closed. The lamp was usually a taper ,and sometimes a candle. The room or rooms looked out upon a long hall or corridor, which was also dark and gloomy, and this in turn upon an arched and roofed veranda. In nearly all of these places a woman's daily life was conducted in shadow and shade, and after sundown she had less light than fell to the lot of the pilgrim fathers 250 years ago. Under these conditions the human eye develops like that of the cat and dog. It becomes larger and seemingly more lustrous in order to allow the owner to move about in safety and comfort. Transfer this unfortunate woman to the open street, the field or the deck of a steamer, and her eyes are in a torture from the sunlight. Her forehead is contracted by a.terrible frown, her eyelids are screwed together and her eyes seem to be just, the opposite of what they are described in poetry and romance. It may be I am all wrong, but of all poetic humbugs, I think that the ga- fcellelike orb of tho orient is the biggest. We all want and in order to get it WE are keeping busy in our furniture and upholstery business. Have you inspecte'el our stock ?. Others have. Anel they wen-, pleased���so were we. They enjoyed buy iner���weenjoveel sell- ina. Our first liioitth's'lmsiiiess was better than we anticipated, hut we're g-oinir to beat it this month���watch us elo it. WALKER BROS. & BAKER, jS'ew Denver' X. B.���AYehave the only practical Undertaker and Embalmer doint; business in the Sloe-an. "Furniture Dealers and VKcpttirers s Undertakers and Kmbalnu'is. to exceed all such propositions. For the sum of $5.00 ���any kind of a five that will be recognized'. in monetary circles���we will send The Ledge to any address in America for one year and a box of 50 Trail Blazer Cigars. Ponder Over this, gentle and refined reader, and send the $5 before this magnificent chance fades into the oblivion of past opportunities.. . R. T. LOWERY \ i/"yqt."*tam'<sa"'tBtf' - "i*1 39nareswar<4Qruv&**iWBF'�� ' ffWffffff^ffffWfffffffffffffffff Parson's Produce Company Winnipeg, Manitoba. Wholesale dealers in Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Apples, Poultry anel Cured Meats. The-largest handlers of these goods in Western Canada. All warehouses under pen-feet system, of cold storage. Full stock carried at Nelson, B. C. For prices write or wire T. J. "RUSSET.,-**,: Manager of Nelson Branch Parson's Produce Company WHOLESALE GROCERS Agents for B. C. Sugar Refinery and Royal City Planing Mills." 'd&-3^&&> GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS & SHOES, BUILDERS' SUPPLIES, STOVES, ENAMEL axd TINWARE, PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, POWDER, FUSE, CAPS, JESSOP & BLACK DIAMOND STEEL CHATHAM WAGONS, ETC., AT LOWEST PRICES. New Denver, B. C C.O.D! Goods called for & Delivered AUNDRY x^xxMxxM. iiip: tlie repeal of im obnoxious law is its vki(,'<.-;:< enforcement, " "I shall have i.:o r;c'i<y to enforce against the will of ihe ]:r-e;ple" and "Lot no guilty man e.-Ccipc. " As It Looked.to Him. People -who have seen cottonwood lumber warp when it came from the (���aw can appreciate a story Gene Ware tells about the first sawmill erected at Fort Scott. After tho first day's sawing the owner of the mil] came down from town, where he had been celebrating the "opening" with the boys. He looked over the croaked boards scattered about the yard for a moment and then inquired with drunken gravity: "Boysh (hie), has that lumber been measured yet?" "It lias not," replied the foreman of the. mill " Well, when-it gets still, take a (hie) corkscrew and measure it. "���Kansas City Journal. The word "fie" or its equivalent in sound exists in all languages, and in every one is expressive of disgust. In the Icelandic the word "pful" means putridity. The entire trade of this country with Samoa iu 1894 was less than $750,000. R. ST RAT HERN. Je-VT-eler KASLO CITY. - - . p.O J The only Practical Watchmaker in the Koote- I nay District. Orders by mail -eceivc pronip I attention. ALL WORK GUARANTEED 1 beg', to E.Parris'& Co., Crater lake, in Oregon, is the dei-pcat body of fm;l) water in America. Sandon, B. C, Oct. 21, 1897. To all whom it may Concern', This is to certify that as I am removing' from Town, G. W. GRIM- METT, Watchmaker and Jeweler, of Sandon has purchased my business, thank my numerous customers for their patronage in the j SLOCAN CITY and past and I hereby respectfully re- quest that they will give their patronage in the future to MR. GRIMMETT. W. HAULER, Watchmaker and Jeweler. We are now in a position to give thoroughly sat- is factory service and solicit vour patronage. We make a specialty of the liner lines of Cambrics and Linens, etc. All business cash on delivery. Work Done on Short Notice. C. M. NIvSIMTT, Prop. -?.'<''' Kates t'uniislu'd Hotels, Steamboat Companies, etc, on application. \rA Doraela Ave. 108 Bishopsgate St. [wiiliin] The British.L0ND0N'ENG- TEN MILE. A full line of Prospectors' and Miners Supplies at TenMile Store. *%$r%$r%& First-class brick on hand and shipped to any part of the country. GOETTSCHE & MAGrNUS0N,Pl'Ops Snlif o u ���riplion . :'���_'.:50 iiei-annuiii To Brokers, Minins; Engineers, owners of Jfiiiinjj; claims, Min- KP \T1 P XU i"'" Engineers, Assay ers, ���L- V iV V V Journalists '"lA others:��� Advertise in tho li. V. Review, Tlie only rcprusciitativu B. C. Journal in .Knr��,p.,. A Good investment 5 New Denver. TOBACCONIST. NEWSDEALER, and STATIONER, Imported and Domestic Cigars, To- baccoes, Fruits and Confectionery.
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