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it "A I NELSON, B,C„ WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1901? NO. 17 life VOL. V. fell new combination, and stand by this declaration. THE NELSON ECONOMIST is ISSUED EVERY Instead of 22 the premier therefore has, for sake of WEDNESDAY. SUBSCRIPTION : $2.00 PER AN­ argument assuming his other calculations to be NUM-/IF PAID IN ADVANCE, $1.50. CORRESPOND­ correct, but 19 votes in a house of 38—or enough to tea ENCE' OF GENERAL INTEREST RESPECTFULLY produce a deadlock. And even at that it would be r SOLICITED. ONLY ARTICLES ,OF MERIT WILL BE possible for the Joe Martin fiction to control each m ADVERTISED . IN THESE COLUMNS, AND THE IN item of legislation by swinging its four or five votes TERESTS OF READERS WILL BE CAREFULLY as suited its own interest or its leader's—a possibiity GUARDED AGAINST IRRESPONSIBLE PERSONS AND 1 I; 5'. absolutely incompatible with honest government.' WORTHLESS ARTICLES. IT is announced that the English steel manu­ HE Dunsmuir Government, with the overwhelm­ facturers are arranging to enter into a large single T ing consciousness of its guilt bearing it down, company to meet the competiton of the United € hesitates before opening a constituency. As a result, States Steel Corporation. They have been handi­ there is one portfolio and one seat vacant. If Mr. capped by the expensive competition among them­ ! Dunsmuir and his colleagues had the courage of their selves for raw materials, and by an expensive system I:rl convictions they would bring on a contest in Victoria. of supervision and by the use of antiquated .If the Government is as strongly eotrenched in the machinery. The advantages of consolidation have good-will of the people as its papers would have us be­ been set before them so convincingly by John R. lieve Mr. Dunsmuir should not, by his hesitation, Bartlett, an American financier, that they propose confirm the people in the other portions of the Pro­ ? _/ to meet the rivalry of the big German and Ameri­ ft vince iu their belief that the Government is doomed can combinations by one of their own. it and fears a contest even where the field should favor it. The fact of the matter is the Government realizes AT the court of revision held Tuesday in. the court that it has alienated its support in the capital city house, 191 new voters were placed on the list. This and that the election there at the present time would looks as if considerable interest were being taken in add one more nail to the coffin it has shaped for it­ tt the forthcoming provincial campaign. self. As fur attempting to fill the vacant portfolio, the matter is simply out of the question at the pre­ THE residents of Ores ton will hail with pleasure sent time. We doubt very much if a Government the announcement that the mining recorder's office supporter, even backed by the prestige of a portfolio is to be moved from Kuskonook ^0 the former place. could be elected in any constituency in the Province. So that the Kuskonook will suffer no great incon­ Mr. Dunsmuir by consorting with his enemies, has venience it has been decided to authorize Mr. Samuel violated the obligations due his supporters, and from B. Wright to issue miner's licenses and take affidavits even the most favorable construction which can under the Mineral Act, at that place. .-,•• be-placed on hi?1, conduct is not to be trusted. The resourceful brains of his confederates may evolve THE number of morganatic marriages made by the ft attractive policies, but the voters will simply scoff at the men who have chosen to dwell in a fool's Royal Families of Europe increases every year. .paradise. Royalty is tired of hedging itself about with an un­ M real divinity, and marriages for purpoi-es of state IN this way the Vancouver World figures out Mr. convenience are at best but dreary things. As most Dunsmuir's alleged majority: " Premier Dunsmuir's people know, a " morgana tic marriage" was a com­ journalistic apologists are endeavoring to convince promise invented in feudal times, A person of royal their readers that there is some foundation for the blood could not publicly marry a commoner. When premier's claim that he has 22 supporters in the Royalty proved headstrong, however, the morgan tic House, and in their eagerness to help the premier marriage made the ceremony legal, while it denied have dared to publish the list of those whom they the wife and child the rank and title of the royal count upon as 'government.' Curiously enough the husband. Among them are the marriages of the J.J' list contains such names as Helmcken, Clifford, adventure-loving grand-aunts of the present King Kidd and Ellison. The member from Vernon is the of Spain, the Princesses Isabella and Josephine. only one of these who by any stretching Princess Josephine married a Cuban poet and news­ of pledges might be won over to the tot­ paper reporter, who had previously been infatuated tering government. Messrs, Helmcken, Clifford with the daughter of a rich Cuban planter. Ac­ and Kidd have declared themselves opposed to the cordingly he went to Madrid, where Princess Jo*e-

ft Ifci 4 THE NELSON ECONOMIST phine was liv ing at the royal palace with her sister- election pledges, but it is doubtful if any province in-law, Queen Isabella. Soon the young reporter won has ever been saddled with a ministry which had so a name as a poet. Several poems addressed to Jose­ cynically cast off every vestige of political honesty,, phine aroused her warm interest. So she carried out and which was so clearly hanging on to office in the her wish of making his acquaintance, they fell in love, teeth of a very manifest anxiety on the part of the eloped and were finally permitted to return to the people to be rid of it. And the irony of the situation Spanish Court with honour. The Cuban journalist's is that the people of the province never wanted Mr. three sons are now the most accomplished members of Dunsmuir as Premier. At the time of their last the Royal Family. An American actress, Elise general election their one desire was to free them­ Hensler, was the. heroine of a morganatic marriage selves from Joseph Martin, and they were ready to with Prince Ferdinand of Coburg, who was formerly vote for anyone who would help them in their praise­ the husband of Queen Maria of Portugal and one of worthy efforts. Had there been any idea that Mr. the handsomest men of his time. The Prince died a Dunsmuir would be elected to lead the somewhat few years since, but his American widow is still heterogeneous party which thus came into power, it is living. not probable that his own constituency would have One of the most remarkable romances of the cen­ sent him to the legislature. But having been tury is that of John Orth, whose name still frequently chosen to form the new government^ he was given the comes up in connection with his supposed discovery. opportunity of inaugurating in British Columbia a John Orth was the Archduke John Saivator of sound, stable, and independent administration. The Tuscany, a nephew ofthe present Emperor of people were tired of politicians, and Mr. Dunsmuir Australia. He fell in love with an actress and being known to be no politician, but rather a man of singer, Ludmilla Hubel. Family opposition to the business, it was hoped that his regime would be rrarriage was so great that the Archduke renounced marked by the ordinary business virtues of common hisrankand privileges, took the name of Orth, was sense, honesty, and adherence to pledges.." married to the actress, and shortly afterward sailed away with his wifein a ship which he renamed the WHEN the darkness was most intense in London Santa Margarita, and which has never been heard of last Monday, we can just imagine Hon. Mr. Turner since. remarking to his friends: u Yes, this a pretty dense Only recently Princess Elvira, daughter of Don kind of a fog ; but you ought to see the political Carlos, Duke of Madrid, eloped with a Roman artist, fogs we have out in British Columbia." Tolchi, to whom she was afterward married. The house of Hapsburg, however, is most remarkable for IT is estimated that the Manitoba wheat crop for its .list of morganatic marriages. , Early in this cen­ 1901 will amount to 53,000,000 bushels, 48,000,000 tury the proud Archduke John startled all his of which will be for export. The total amount of relatives by marrying Anna Pldchl, the daughter of grain already shipped this year, according to figures a peasant postmaster of a small Styrian village. The furnished by Chief Grain Inspector Horn Archduke stopped at the village oh his way to Vienna. is 10,300,000 bushels, a third of which has 'graded There was no postillion at hand, so the postmaster's No. 1 hard. daughter, in the dress of a postillion, drove the Arch­ duke to the next station. The youthful Prince dis­ JUST where the miner's union stands since the covered the identity of his coachman, fell in love with shake-up at the Le Roi no one appears to know. , It her and married her. She was afterwards made seems as if Mr. McDonald's policy was not fully en­ Coqntess of Meran. One morganatic marriage was dorsed by the directors, but whether or not the new frustrated by the timidity of the bridegroom. The management may feel disposed to concede anything; Grand Duchess Olga, the beautiful daughter of to the union is not manifest. Nicholas I. of Russia, was on the point of eloping with Lieut. Bariatinski, when the lieutenant's courage grew weak and he made a clean breast of the affair to THE following from the Vancouver Province very his sovereign. The cowardly young officer was re­ fully expresses the situation in regard to the matter warded with promotion,and the humiliated Princess with which it deals: " Some six or seven years ago> was immediately married to Prince Charles of the press of the United States was unanimous, almost Wurtemberg. . in expressing the conviction that a very few years indeed would see the Dominion of Canada annexed* to the republic. This feeling was especially strong HERB - is the light in which the Commonwealth in the states bordering on the eastern provinces, and- published at Ottawa, views the political situation of a certain amount of color was given to the assertions British Columbia: '• Politics in British Columbia of the Americans by the efforts of a few agitators in are in a state of chaos, and it is not very easy to see Ontario to effect such a consummation. One or two 1 IkM what the outcome will be. One point only appears men in Ontario obtained a little notoriety by organ­ to be clear that at the earliest possible moment the izing associations and holding meetings for the pu r- electors of British Columbia will repudiate Mr. Duns­ pose of working up the sentiment in favor of a union muir and all his works. We are becoming some­ with the American republic. These men have since what accustomed in, Canada to disregard of pre­ dropped back into the obscurity from which they

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came, and the movement has entirely disappeared vocation to rid herself of such an incubus should be in every part of the Dominion. It has disappeared considered as greatly palliating the offence. How­ so completely that the American press, always ever, in the case under consideration nothing seemed anxious to score a point in favor of their own country, plain except that the prisoner had sufficient cause have recently been pointing out that there is no pos­ to be intensely exasperated, the evidence hot connect­ sible hope of such a political fusion." ing her, except by inference, with the crime." .

SPEAKING to a reporter of the Vancouver World THE great Pan-American Exposition has %iosed upon the burning topic of filling up cabinets, Mr. after losing two or three million dollars .for the pro­ Joseph Martin said: u I think the position taken by moters. the Colonist is absurd in the extreme. It cannot be right in both of its contentions. If it was wrong for A GRAND FORKS paper with pardonable pride refers me to have kept the vacancies in my cabinet open, to the fact that ihere are twenty-four residence build­ then it was more wrong-for Mr. Dunsmuir for he is ings and three business blocks, in process of construc­ guilty of the greater trespass. If I am to be criticized, tion in that city at the present time. then the. Premier should be criticized more. I do not think.it was a wrong-thing in not filling up the THE Ashcroft Journal is agitating for a Board of cabinet all at one time, for this has been done by Trade. If the Ashcroft people value their own greater men at different times, nor do I think that at r. peace of mind they will leave boards of trade severely the present time the country is suffering for the want alone. We have such an organization in Nelson. of a Minister of Mines. " In regar \ to the time when I was sworn in, that THERE is scarcely time to do anything in the way occurred on the evening of the day Mr. Semlin was of an elaborate celebration, buteer;ainly.pome kind of ^ dismissed. ' The dismissal took place in the morn­ observance of His Majesty's birthday should take ing, and I and Mr. Curtis and Mr. Yates were sworn .place next Saturday. in at Government House in the evening."

MICHAEL DAVITT has returned to Ireland and will THE " By-law in regard to purchasing certain not accompany the Irish envoys on their speech- powers from the West Kootenay Power and Light making tour of the United States. Company" will come before the taxpayers on Tuesday, November 19th, for their approval or rejection. ,The DURING the absence of Hon. Mr. Wells in the East, question has been thoroughly threshed out in the Mr. Dunsmuir will act as Chief Commissioner of press and on the streets for the past two weeks, and LandB and Works. This is probably tbe first step it is likely that by this time the majority of our. in the direction of the new policy we read to much citizens have some definite idea as to the merits of about in the Colonist. the proposal. A bare majority in favor of the by­ law, however, will not carry it, as it requires three- IT is strange the people of New Zealand do not dis­ fifths, of those voting to make it effective. The credit their arbitration methods quite as much as whole question is now in the hands of the taxpayers some individuals wholive in British Columbia. and it remains with them to say whether or not they aresatisfied with the proposed bargain. A. MCKEON will succeed Bernard McDonald as Ael THERE seems little doubt that Senator Templeman hi Uv manager of the Le Roi mine at Rossland, and Jules will be chosen as the next member of the Dominion n LaBarthe becomes superintendent of the Northport n| Cabinet. Adequate Cabinet reprepentation of the hi smelter. *l West has long been ' desired, and we know of no 1*1 Liberal better qualified to fulfill the aspirations of THE Toronto Saturday Night says: " Mrs. White, the people then the gentleman whose name we have tried at Brahtford for poisoning her husband, was just mentioned. acquitted by the jury, but if the trial was properly reported in the newspapers I cannot see why they THE Buffalo Commercial quotes a letter from a took four hours to decide that phe was not guilty. ranchman of Medora, S. Dak., who says that Theo- Those who are opposed to the establishment of a dose Roosevelt has never been kiTeddy" with the divorcecourtin Canada have made it impossible for men on the ranges. That is another appellation for ft (t poor people to find relief from worthless marital which the east is responsible. He is always spoken 1* partners, and if I had been on the jury which tried of on the ranges and by the mon with whom he as­ Mrs. White, it would have, taken a vast amount of sociated in the West as 'Mr. Roosevelt.' And the •evidence to convince uie that even if she had given same rough men of the West, for years before he be­ 1 her husband strychnine she had been guilty of a came a political star of the first magnitude, have pre­ crime sufficiently heinous to merit hanging though dicted that some day he would be president of tho deserving of punishment. If a woman's happiness, United States. They knew the stuff he was made of, and practically her life, has been destroyed by a and they felt sure it would tell in tho long run. Tho drunken, worthless husband whom she had supported, West, too, feels that to it he owes the training that though he continually suspected her virtue, the pro­ has helped him." 6 THE NELSON ECONOMIST

flagrantly violate toe strict rules set down by her set for their guidance, but though the gossips may wag their tongues, the press, which is supposed to be a terror to evil doers, "must tell it not in Oath," nor publish it " in the streets of Askelon." In short, the very things that go to make a paper interesting, a T may be laid down as an incontrovertible pro­ paper dare not print.' Yet the people wonder why I position that pride in the institutions of a city itis we have not a free pre=p, a pre=s that will elevate never extends to pride in a ci.y's newspapers. Yet the morals of the community in which it is published without newspapers modern cities would be some­ by exposing wickedness and terrorizing the evil doer thing like the play of Hamlet with the character of to plod along the narrow road and avoid the wider the melancholy Dane eliminated. Nearly every path of primrose dalliance. If half the wickedness citizen of Nelson can tell you that the papers daily occurring in the city of Nelson were exposed, , published in the eastern cities more nearly approach one-half of the citizens would not believe it and the their idea of journalistic perfection than the papers other half, would sympathize with the trespassers. printed and published in their own town. That is The paper which would attempt to enlighten the why so many merchants.send east for their job public as to what is going on right at its own doors printing. 7 They do not want to encourage such would be subjected to a boycott, under which it wouldl miserable rags as are printed every morning in eventually have to succumb. , So long as the editor Nelson. From my^ own point of view, I regard the confines his news columns to the publication of church two daily newspapers of Nelson equal if not superior socials and printing nice things concerning amateur to any newspaper published in a city of the same concerts, he can secure enough credit to continue population in either Canada or the United States. business at the old stand, but once let him go beyond Yet how many citizens of Nelson will admit this to that, and it would be better for him that a mill-stone be a fact ? But it is not only in Nelson that this were tied around his neck and he be cast into the un­ exasperating habit of crying' down thei local publican explored depths of Kootenay Lake. -In the mean- tion prevails. Victorians will tell you that Seattle time, the good citizens of Nelson may swell themselves papers are superior to their own ;" Vancouverites with-civic pride, but many of them must hot over­ are intensely amazed that the papers of the Terminal look the circumstance that they do not deceive the city fall so far short of the Victoria papers and the ubiquitous newsgatherer, who, in the innermost citizens of Nelson rarely, if ever, have a" kind word recesses of his heart, likens them to'Vwhited sepulchres, to say of their own papers/ ^The citizens of San which indeed appear beautiful outward, hut are with­ Francisco long for the time when they will have in full of dead men's bones." such fearless exponents .of public opinion as are to be found in Chicago and New York, and, in the words of the preacher, soon to the end ofthe chapter. "After a miner had handled dynamite for eight or Therefore, as before suggested, it must not be sup­ ten years without a serious mishap it is a good idea posed that this disposition to give the local publica­ to put him to doing something else about the works," tions the worst of it.is confined to Nelson. The fact said a gentleman who has had a great deal of ex­ of the matter is no paper can ever be really great in perience with high explosives. %i The chances are a its own constituency. In the first place, the citizens hundred to one that his long immunity from accident are more or less acquainted with what is going on has given him such a contempt for danger that he is in their own place, and when an item appears in the an unconscious menace to everybody on the premises. papers the next morning it is not news, to the He will do things that not only imperil his own life,, majority of the citizens. Moreover, no paper can but the lives of all his own comrades. To give you afford to be really independent these days. Every an illustration, once I had an old Cornishmanat work item of news must be carefully weighed by the editor at a mine in which I was interested and had entrusted: before it appears, for fear something will creep in him with a general supervision of all the blasting. that may give offenBe to some friend of his paper. He had been handling dynamite for twenty years or Every clay something transpires which might be more and was justly regarded as an expert. During used " to point a moral or adorn a tale," and in- that entire period he had never had an accident worth cidentallyadd interest to the general news columns speaking of, an i by degrees the care and vigilance of the paper, yet,the editor or reporter who would that were responsible for his excellent record had give free rein to the gossip which reaches him every worn away until he was beginning to entertain the day would be compelled to go out of business at once. delusion, common to old hands, that the danger of For instance, a man of good family transgresses the the stuff was very much exaggerated. One day I ethics of society by some act committed under the was passing through a cut where some blasting had influence of liquor. Dare any paper tell the truth been going on and noticed the old Cornishman ham­ and publiflh to the whole world this man's trans­ mering a drill into what seemed to be a boring in the gressions ? Not for an instant. Society may rock. I asked him what he was doing, and he told not condone the offence of the trans­ me cooly there was a cartridge in the hole that had gressor, yet it would never forgive exposure on tho failed to explode and he was 'just knockin' out the part of the newspaper. Again, a woman may tampin' to reprime it.' I was horrified, for at every

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blow he was liable to explode0 the dynamite, and-- ing, along with" most of the students, the progress of I ordered him sternly to stop and never repeat such the experiment. There was a dead silence, which a performance. The proper "method would have was suddenly and rudely broken by the sound of a been to have drilled a new hole near by and ex­ marble, which an inattentive student had purposely plode the first charge with a second blast. He dropped, and which continued to roll and drop, obeyed sullenly, grumbling to himself, and less than drop, drop down all the tiers of benches till it reached a month afterward was blown.up while doing exactly the ground floor. Meanwhile Lord Kelvin had the same thing. ITe lost his left arm at the shoulder, Quickly turned round and observed where the marble his left eye and part of his left ear. He also lost his emerged on to the floor. He counted back the contempt for dynamite, and when he finally emerged number of times.he had heard it drop, and requested from the hospitall gave him back his former job. I Mr. X——of the seventh tier to see him after the never had a more scrupulously careful employee lecture. The Professor had '•" spotted" the culprit. than he was from that time on. It seems a brutal thing to say, but there is nothing that does an old The thoroughness with which Tolstoi carries out dynamite hand as much good as to get blown up orice his theory of non-resistance is illustrated by this or twice." anecdote : Some time ago he was the subject of an interview at the,hands of an American journalist, An amusing incident occurred during the stay of whom the Count asked to his country home, and the Duke and Duchess of York at Poplar Point which who put him under prolonged and ruthless, examina­ ovidently escaped the notice of the correspondents tion. At last the visit came to an end, and tbe accompany iu» ihe party; • \Vlien ihe Duke returned gentle sufferer saw his questioner into the carriage. to the raiwav stati >ii from theiake he was met bv the As the partinglgreetings were being, exchanged the Duchess, who embraced her royal'spouse affectionate­ guest hintedthat after all he had not learned every­ thing he wanted to know. "QThen you must come > ly. The greeting was scarcely over when a buxom woman, who was among the country folk assembled into the house.again and stay another day with us," •to see the party depart, bounced up to theDuke caught was the Count's reply, and he would take no denial. him in her arms and planked a smacking kiss on his ch^ek. The Duchess laughed heartily and the Duke Victorians now resident in Nelson will read with likewise seemed to enjoy the experience immensely interest the following from the Vancouver World. after he recovered from bio amaz ;ment. The good The Martin J. Egan referred to is a brother of Col. 1 dy explained that.she just wished to. have the dis­ Egan, editor of the Nelson Miner : " Victoria's tinction of having kissed the future King of England. amateur minstrels—the old company of about eight years ago revived—will shortly grace toe boards in the capital and in this city. There are some It is when she has passed the fourth depada that changes in the ranks of course. Martin J. Egan, a woman is now said to be most dangerous to the sus­ having become a great war correspondent and right ceptible of the other sex. Her face may have lines hand man of-the Associated Press, of course no that "sweet and ^0" regards with dismay, her figure longer fills the middle chairv Poor Will Higgins may be fuller than "sweet 17" deems graceful; it may has gone to where the singing is an eternal choru s even be that art has to stepin where nature fails in James Pilling has become a professional star, and the matter of hair and complexion, bat it is manner i3 singing with Tennessee/s Partner. But many of which tells. In carriage, in interests, in thought, the the old brigade are left, and they are determined to woman of 40 at the present day is as young as her give as good a show as that of old. Frank Higgins, daughter less than half her years, but her mind is it is understood, will be the middleman." -better balanced, her judgments are clearer., Passengers for the Old Country desiring to travel Scipio Nasica, goin i to call on the Roman poet via the direct and comfortable St. Lawrence route 'Ennius, was told by the maid servant he was not at should note the following sailings for the Allan and' home. He perceived, ho A ever, by the girl's manner Elder Dempster lines, which are the last for the season that Ennius was at home, but had ordered her to 1901 from Montreal to Liverpool. S, S. Tunisian, deny him, A few days after Ennius catne to call on Nov. 7th; Lake Simcoe Nov. 8th; Lake Manitoba, Scipio, who, hearing his voice at the door, called out to Nov. 15lh; Corinthian, Nov, Kith j Luke Ontario, him from within, " I'm not at home." li How can Nov. 22nd. The Tunisian, Corinthian, I/ikes Sim­ that be?" asked Ennius, " when I hear you speak­ coe and Manitoba are new .1.0,000 ton steamers and ing?" " You must be a most unreasonable man," re­ rank equal to the crack liners from New York, Early plied Scipio j " when I called on you I took your application should be made to nearest C, P. 1.1. Agent servant's word—and will you refuse to take, not my to,insure accommodation via these popular ships. servant's but my own ?" Under Two Flags will be seen at the Nelson opera Lord Kelvin once surprised his class by the quick House shortly. Quo Vadis Decern her G. and amusing manner in which he solved a problem on " sound." In the midst of an experiment Lprd T h e O ra n geme n ce 1 eb r a t cd G u y Fa w k es d a y with Kelvin had ceased lecturing, and was silently watch­ a successful banquet at the Victoria Hotel. P, G. 8 Chiquita.

ED HERRIES, or, as his card read, " Edward leastways I've sorter tackled to you sence I seen the N T. Herries, C."E.," stood in the doorway of the way you whupped that 'ere cowboy chump en belted Rough Diamond and looked gloomily forth him with his own gun. Some tenderfoots ain't got at the rain as it feiL aslant the cactus growth and no sand, but you have, en I'll not see you double chapparel on the red soil of the mesa. teamed on ef I kin help it, sho's I'm fum Texas, From the saloon within came the rattle of dice, which I'm known as Black Waxy Jim." the chink of glass, the rattle of coin and the mur­ ""Why, what's the matter?" broke in Herries on mur of deep, hoarse male voices. The Rough Dia­ Black Waxy's harrangue as he turned and regarded mond was a most lucrative and flourishing institu­ closely the tall, athletic figure of the man beside tion in the little railroad, town of Picture Canyon, him. . • • on the Union Pacific. The Texan jerked his thumb over his shoulder It was one of those places which at that time in the direction of the barroom. "In thar," he sprang up in a night and are deserted in a day said in a low tone, "I heern somethin— about— along the line of the great road. Indeed, they about you—en—en"— followed the track and wherever track laying ended f<.Chiquita?" temporarily there a town was certain to spring up " That's it, pard. You've called the deal. It's almost as if by magic. jest about that '_ere little greaser gal, en you ain't Herries was attached to the engineer corps of the the fuBt, nor you won't be the larst, I reckon, that's road and had been for some time stationed at got his hide bored 'long of her." Picture Canyon, a city of some 5,000 inhabitants, ,. " What's up, then?" mostly males, and which was nearly a month old ; " Keep your eye skinned en don't go nigh old so antique indeed that an election for mayor and Ramon's shack. I've warned you. So long,, common council was being agitated by the more en­ pard." terprising members of the community. And Black Waxy lounged away into the gathering: Harvard bred, delicately nurtured, accustomed to gloum and mist. all the refinements of life which wealth guided by "Hold on!" cried Herries, rushing after him.. correct taste may give in an old and settled com­ " Tell me at least who my enemy is." munity, the rude surroundings of his present life had Black Waxy turned and scanned the young at first disheartened Herries; but, being at bottom a engineer closely in the twilight. man of good sense and pluck and possessing a " Pete—from Denver !" he jerked out and strode splendid constitution, magnificent biceps, standing rapidly off. six feet and over in his boots, the man who had Herries was a brave man, hut his blood chilled at been Yale's especial terror at right tackle and who the mention of that name. It was the synonym of had filled the seat-in the varsity eight would hardly all that was most fierce, bloodthirsty and wicked* flinch at hardships which other men bore without, even in that wicked and bloodthirsty little com­ complaint, even if at times his soul grew weary of munity. oaths and liquor, maddened men and brawls and "Denver Pete!" he mused. "So he is going to do bacon and muddy coffee and hardtack. Indeed, he me up because I'm trying to win that poor child grew at last to like the wild freedom of his life, as from her horrible life and save her forsomething bet­ all men will do in time|and he was fast taking on ter. I fear me, Elward, you're in no end of a bad the exterior of a •genuine'frontiersman-when he— scrape. When he met Chiquital •"-I'll not be bullied," he added and frowned and) Chiquita was a sprite. She was the true daughter shut close his mouth and clinched his handB. of rocky canyon and desert mesa—a genuine child Herries stalked back to the brilliantly lighted bar­ of Sierras and a woman withal. Pier reputed father room. Among those present was the gambler was an evil eyed old Mexican named Ramon, againBt whom Herries had been warned—a hand­ ostensibly a herder of other men's sheep, really a some, pale faced, tall, slender man, dressed with gatherer of other men's coins. Chiquita kept house great neatness in black and without a single orna­ for him in a tumbled together shack on the out­ ment visible—noteven the belt, which" nearly every skirts of the town and here entertained her father's man wore. He had a small, keen, hungry looking, guests. She was brilliantly pretty, with the rich gray eye, and as he looked at Herries he met the •rose red flushing her olive cheeks, her while teeth hitter's gloomy glance, smiled and turned to his flashing between ripe, dewy, crimson lips, with friends with the remark : glorious brown eyes under heavy arching brows and "The kid seems worried about something. I wonder shaded by such long, curling lashes'as would make if by any chance he has overheard us." one's heart acht, especially the heart of a frontiers­ "Guess not; he jest come in a minute ago." man, in whose life female beauty is a rich and rare "Perhaps, perhaps," muttered Pete; "but we will event, soon know." Many a dollar had Chiquita's eyes and lips Events moved quickly in frontier towns. As brought to old Ramon's sheepskin pouch, and still Herries went out Pete arose from his seat. he was athirst for more gold... His friends also sprang up, but he made a gesture It was of this Herries was thinking, for he- knew of dissent, Chiquita, and it was this which, tbinldngof it, drove :'No, boys. Leave this to me. If I pan't deal with1 him out of tbe warm and cozy barroom (the only one tenderfoot, I certainly won't call in aid." place where he could possibly stay, save iu his cold ".But he might get the drap on ye," persisted one. and cheerless tent) and forced him to cool his Pete shrugged his shoulders and deigned no reply. heated brow in the cool, wet wind 'which blew from He opened the door and was lost in the darkness of the mouth of Picture canyon. the night. He was aroused by a voice, a deep, slow, plains­ * man's voice, addressing him: * % " Pardner, you are a good one for a tenderfoot; About two hours later the inmates of the Rough Dia- X^^&^^i'ffiaijBaa^ *. jjvii'j; *.-.rf.w«.v •

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?mond were startled by hearing shots, cries, oaths, the by Dr. Samuel Johnson and also by the poet heavy thundering of horse's hoofs on the rocky soil Southey. IV of the mesa and then a long, loud "Hurra-a-h!" Carlyle declined the title as being out of keeping Then all was silent. with the tenor of his" poor existence," and the pen­ As one man they all sprang to their feet and rushed sion because he was not in needy circumstances; but for the door, but ere the foremost man among them the fact of the offer and the generous language in •could reach it it was burst violently open, and old which it was conveyed startled and subdued him. Ramon rushed in, followed by Pete from Denver, who, He wrote frankly to Disraeli : swaying and staggering like a drunken man, called " Allow me to say that the letter, both in purpose for brandy and then came to the floor with a crash and expression, is worthy to be called magnanimous that shook the windows. and noble ; that it is without example in my own poor history, and I think it is unexampled, too, in the A babel of voices preventedan explanation for a history of governing persons toward men of letters at • long time, and when Pete had somewhat revived he. the present or at any time ; and that I will carefully told them what had happened. preserve it as one of the things precious to memory "Where's Chiquita?" some one asked. and heart." A spasm of wrath convulsed the features of the dy­ Subsequently he wrote to his friend, the Countess eing man. of Derby : "Gone," he gasped; "gone with that cursed tender­ *•' Mr. Disraeli's letter is really what! 'caTied.it, foot.^ ;' .. •';•,•. magnanimous and noble on his part. It reveals to "How did it all happen, Pete?" me, after ail the hard things I have said of him, a "He wa?s there when I got there." new and unexpected stratum of genial dignity and Chiquita was all dressed and ready to go off with him manliness of character which I had by no means —womanlike3 curse her! He saw me coming. His given him credit for. It is, as my penitent horse was there; He waited for me. Oh, the fellow heart admonishes me, a kind of 'heaping coals of fire was game enough. I said nothing, but opened on hkn. on my head, and I do truly repent and promise' to The girl being there must have made .me nervous, for amend." h.l I missed my man for the first time." One needs no better evidence of the real greatness r "And then?" of Carlyle than the promptness with which he re­ '1 ."" Why, he pumped me full of lead before I could cognized this magnanimity, and the manliness with .pull trigger. Hit me five times. Then he mounted which he acknowledged it. •9' and swung the girl up in front of him. Old Ramon came up and opened on him. I got up and followed suit. He got back at us once—his last cartridge— SHORT STORIES and caught Ramon, for I heard him groan. Then ^the tenderfoot >elled and rode off. Boys give me The youngest son of President Roosevelt slipped a big drink. I'm done for." on a banana peel o'n his wav to school the other And when they brought the drink a fast chilling day. The New York Journal has sent an artist to corpse was all that was left of Pete from Denver to get a picture of it. •drinkit. And Chiquita? Some people areincapable of magnanimity. After Chiquita went to a convent in St. Louis, and left Sir H>nry Irving's name had become a household there four "years later a cultured and magificent word, he one day, while coming out of his theater, beautiful woman. chanced to spy a former manager of his, Charles She will be pleased to receive any of Mr. Herries' Dillon, the actor, who, by the way, was envious of friends at her lovely home, and if you succeed in Irving's success. Irving, delighted at seeing his for­ , pleasing her she will tell you of that awful night at mer employer again, spok© to him. Dillon turned Picture Canyon when a tenderfoot showed how and carefully sized him up, presently remarking, tenderfeet can fight when a sweetheart is at stake. "You have the advantage of me, sir. Who are you?" And old Ramon? Irving quietly reminded him of the time when he had When they looked for him, he was gone. Nor supported him, but the old actor sternly professed was he or Edward Herries ever seen again in Picture entire ignorance of the knight-player. After some •Canyon. time, however, the name seemed to dawn upon him, and he murmured, "Irving? Oh, yes, of course! I do seem to recollect that name. And what are you Carlyle and Disraeli. doing now, Irving?" Magnanimity superior to his own could shame even the dogmatic Carlyle. The man whose ar­ When President Roosevelt was a police commiss­ rogance of opinion never permitted him to take any­ ioner of New York, in 1895, Dr. Ahlwardt, the anti- thing back once had to confess that a Jew had dis­ Semitic agitator from Berlin, visited the metropolis. armed his bigotry and changed his insulting pre­ Not a few of the New York anti-Semites came to judice into gratitude and respect. Roosevelt in alarm lest the Jews should rise and mob I Disraeli, whom he had often reviled in speech and the orator on the night of his first address, The tf! in print, had every reason to know how bitterly commissioner's response was to select from the whole Carlyle despised him and his race ; and after he had police force a squad of Hebrews whose physiognomy become the most powerful man in England he took his bespoke their race most conspicuously; these officer * revenge. It was the vengeance inflicted by a great he placed in charge of the hall where Ahlwardt waB man who could forget his personal antipothiee upon to appear, with a reminder that in this country of a great man who could not. free speech they could show their good citizenship in Recognizing the commanding intellect of the surly no more striking manner than by protecting the very philosopher and the lustre it conferred upon his coun­ man who had come to hurl contempt and abuse at try, the Prime Minister offered him the knighthood of their people, The effect of this bit of corndey was to the Grand Cross of the Order ofthe Bath, and the make Ahlwardt ridiculous, and cause his whole cru­ " good fellowship" pension once accepted and enjoyed sade to fall pitifully flat. rnnimMtimmmtmtw nam •mmm

10 THE NELSON ECONOMIST o The Slocan Drill reports: The The sooner there is more light 1 ; Arlington has things its own way thrown upon this inflicted indus­ this week in shipping circles, no try, the better for future mining. KOOTENAY other property figuring. It The mining business is all right sent out its regular quota of 240 and perfectly legitimate in every COFFEE CO tons, making a total of 4388 tons particular. It is on the square for the year to date. The Enter­ when soconducted. But the many prise is holding back preparatory opportunites presented to promoters Coffee Roasters

to the starting of the concentrator. for easy money from the ever Dealers in Unavoidable delays have"occurred gullible investing public is almost Tea and Coffee at the mill, preventing .the com­ appalling. Even the simplest of mencement of operations, but the business methods and precaution We are offering at lowest prices the best | management expect to have things are scarcely ever exercised by stock grades of Cej'lon, India, China and Japan j running regularly before the end buyers. Experience comes high, Teas. ! of the month. They expect to and apparently the only way to ac­ Our Best Mocha and Java -Coffee per | pound. \.$ ^0 make heavy shipments. It has quire it is to buy it.—Lardeau Mocha and Java BJend,'8 pounds."...-. 1 00 Choice Blend Coffee, 4 pounds. 1.00 shipped 540 tons this year. Eagle. Special Blend Coffee, 6 pounds...... :. I 00 Rio Blend Coffee, 6 pounds '1 '00 t Last year the exports from this di­ There is more activity on Wild Special.Blend Ceylon rea, per p-nmd. 30 I vision amounted to 2847 tons, made Horse creek this season than for up from 10 properties. Following several years past. The placer A TRIAL ORDER SOLICITED. is a list of the shipments this year mines are in active operation and '«v to date: a large output of yellow metal is KOOTENAY COFFEE CO. Arlington...... 4388 expected. Quartz mining , has Telephone 177. Enterprise...... 540 been extensively carried on and the P. O. Box 182. Two Friends 40 present year has witnessed great WEST BAKER STREET, NELSON XJ l 0\j IX JL 11 LI \j\Zr •.•••• • •••••• *•«•••••» 155 changes in the mining situation. Bondholder 26 Work has been resumed on the \j i X

: and blacksmith's ouifit are being n ;' '-"'-.'.;\,/; •••-'-'••• .5243 taken up to the mine, and when .-•/.1 Have you any money to invest? (he blacksmith's shop is in readi­ With Comfort if you ha ve there a re splend id op­ ness and the track hdd work will portunities in the mining world, go ahead rapidly. It is estimated and this district is possessed of that there is $36,0.00 worth of ore FOR YOTJK many of those opportunities. But blocked Out. —Sandon Mining the dubious methods of old are Review. - growing stale and people are awak­ The Republic mine, at Republic, ening to the fact' that mining is a is to resume operations in the near dangerous gamble only because un­ future. ii VIA scrupulous promoters make it so, Two electric drills have been in­ If you are going to go into the bank­ stalled in the Payne mine. ing business tomorrow would you Jhe most satisfactory reports are hire a sailor to manage it for you? received from iheLardo. Of course not. Well when you The ore shipments over the Kaslo are offered a mining investment or i mining stocks doe3 it ever occur to & Slocan continue very good. With \ (1 you how silly you really are to pare only a few of the mines shipping the Whitewater and Slocan Star with your money before you know EFFECTIVE I3TH OCTOBER <.'! anything of the proposition, or the arestill holding their own. capabilities of the management, it The McDonald mines, in East Will operate, in add I lion to takes mining men to mine success­ Kootenav, hope to ship between usual equipment, fully, not green-whiskered farmers, 2,000 and 3,000 tons of ore this or bankers—men who issue drafts winter. on'eternity.' It is quite true that It is understood on excelled Tourist Sleeping Cars all men had to learn the art of rain­ authority that the deal for sale of ing but they begun at the beginning. the Standard smelter at Boundary ON ii; The average stock company mining Falls to eastern parties has fallen man around here is at the beginning thiough for the present, of his end, They may learn some Crow's Nest Section n -\ x day, but how about the innocent Thanksgiving Day Excursion i h stock buyer in the meantime, who Rates. LEAVING KOOTEINAY LANDING: probably mortgaged his home or For thanksgiving Day all C. P. VS ToB( If*4"" rk. gave up his years of earnings in the im.nuY ' i " PfOilvhiHoo Jjlno, R. Agents will sell return tickets to FRIDAY j To Toronto, Montreal, BOM I on false hope of acquiring sudden and from all points in local terri­ ONLV j and IntornuHllnto points, wealth? Were these men or com­ tory at fare and one third. Tickets For Berths, Tlekots, Time TaMos and full panies to hire practical mining men will be sold on-Nov. 26th 27th 28th Information apply to loon I agents, and mine underground, well and good to return til Nov. 30th, ,), R.OA.RTEK, K, ,T. COVLK, J.) I Hi., Pass, Atft,, A, CI, T, A. good, but how often is this the case? J,S, Carter, I). P A, Nelson. Nolson. Vnut'ouv.'r