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tings have much to neatly furnished 11 come home _ wili grow it would have be umiture was never th us. at least. if McGill street. rdmary surroundings in Fessor Ruskin and other hat progress has been ring a visit to the mag- Iturc house of Messrs. ll Industrial exhibitionil iections of anyone who lent and mfikes a tour of ‘ . 520?. gr:- 1‘; be found {mm 1 ‘ \'?‘:.?,1:;-L: 2.: fifteen hun- (‘h‘tney just receiv- 1‘. I::‘gz;:1f:. 13‘ an especial- Listezjis arid pretty C0175 re a: :21»; newest designs: ‘ . night? figures, can 3 Fifi-INC f< 13%: the price get. :2: 31213:“. figures, bUt 5'01: inrhid: ill necessi‘ extrenztg special induce‘ r: pr:Ce~‘. The entire 65' 1‘ pre‘yaiiirg‘ everywhere; ate the enormous stOCk :an select :11 their liberty: Przflz‘zflg Ofice, WILLIAM STREET, LINDSAY All kinds of Plain and Eancy Job Printing promptly attended to. . 3 well-known house is z the last thing aimed at, re to be found in the und there, from a twenty- '00m set, and prices to near the Market. 'e warerooms on Notre rnt display of .rlor suites. Odd piece ns, tete-aâ€"tctcs, piano and Iasks of all the newest :rc, card and work-tabla, ands and cascls. YOU furnish his house from and his junior clerk can ‘ticles at prices to suit (“I :ing, Easy and Reclining bratcd bent wood furni- zich the Messrs. McGal" t position on this floor. 59’ 5022. Bedstead for $2, or a. airs. Hall Furniture, e in Mat-trasses. .ookcases, Wardrobes, Combination Chairs of : only a great coveniencey umcrs to any of their 511 sortment of B CHEAPLY 6 Street. T 8500. I TUBE in fact One Price 011137- fore purchasing- At stock-taking time, whe der long and deeply over the 6 should understand What has cc crease or prosperity; if there able to stop the leak. ALL KINDS Ur" FltllVlJivu a # WATOHMAN, 50 GENTS PER. ANNUM tiens over the pas: seas-e have reason to be deeply t enjoyed and our gratitude As to our resolves for the next year enterea upon; Lucy are a so..- business secrets, and cannot be divulged. It will suffice our many patrons U know that no effort will be spared ,to give them better service, the highest gradt of goods, and whenever possible 'educe the price to the 10West living figure We invite families us a trial, satified that w year’s trading. MAGISTRATE BLANKS, 87,0. “it: have just finished the work L . -,A_,. KINDS OF PRINTING A 7‘ CITY PRICES- sver the past season 5 Dusme» mean to be deeply thanktul to our 9a., DEAL Over Neill’s Shoe Store. At Home zasu-m °° "" ROI Ill"- Lg time. whenever that may be, the merc y over the events of the business yearâ€"â€" what has contributed to that success in 1" ‘h are 117' «3 been losses, he 1:15.31 .‘7 . 5 who have not tried us for their we can do better than others by J OS. COOPER, THE is sincere. . CAMPBELL. See them be- next year entered upon : They of taking stock, and the result of our cogitaâ€" ss Wi'il bear fruit during the new year \Ve our many patrons tor the vety large trade u" 1"“ ’ - ulged. It Will suffice our many patrons to give them better service, the highest grade 'educe the price to the IOWCSt living figure. 1 ~â€" LMM «Qmoll m-nfitq and rapid turn- e,the merchant invariably pon- 1ess yearâ€"if fairly successful he success in order to gain an inâ€" Q ‘11-‘7315‘: t"f‘.fl- Limit -11“5€1 L0 be Proprietor. REAL ESTATE INSURANCE. FINANCIAL AGENTS. THE FIRE INSURANCE- The Aetna Fire Insurance Co , of Hart- ford, Conn., incorporated 1819, losses paid in 71 years about $65,000,000, assets over $10,000,000, abeolutely the strongest Ameri- can Co, in existence. The North British and Mercantile incor- porated 1800, paid up capital abt. $3,500,000 total assets $50,376,001. The N B 8:. M is the largest; and strongest Co, in existence. \Ve also represent other Fire Companies of lngh standing, and can glve safest sc- curxty for the .m 'cst; rates. LIFE INSURANCE- The Confederation Life Association, of Toronto, issues Policies Incontestableafter three years. 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Address, 3 15 to 20 per cent lower than ordin- ERIE MEDICAL 00.: BUFFALO, N.Â¥. are in a sense is easily, quick- ly, permanently BRITiSH COLUMBIA AS SEEN BY IN- TELLIGENT AMERICAN EYES~ Vast Size of the Pacific Provinceâ€"A ex"s Paradiseâ€"The Gold Mining :1: â€"The Indians, With Some Curious British Columbia, is of immense size. It is as extensive as the combination of New England, the Middle States and Maryland, the Virginias, the Carolinas, and Georgia, leaving Delaware out. It is larger than Texas, Colorado, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire joined together. Yet it has been all but overlooked by man, and may . be said to be an empire with only one. wagon road, and that i; but a blind artery 1 halting in the middle of the country. But i whoever follows this necessarily incomplete ‘ survey of what man has found that region ‘ to be, and of what his yet puny hands ; , have drawn from it, will dismiss the pupu- ; lar and natural suspicion that it is a wil- T derness worthy of its present fate. Un- til the whole globe is banded with steel rails and yields to the plough, we will continue to regard whatever re- gion lies beyond our doors as waste- land, and to fancy that every line of lati- tude has its own unvarying climatic charac- teristics. There is an opulent civilization in what we once were taught was “ the Great American Desert,” and-far up at Ed- monton, on the Peace River, farming flour- ishes despite the fact- that it is where our school-books located a zone of perpetual snow. Farther along we shall study a. country crossed by the same parallel of lat- _ - i 1- . :_LA-n:‘nlnlA r.a.h¥‘fl.d0r. lations Regarding Their counbr)’ CI‘Uaauu U: Lnsv Hâ€"u-v y. . titude that dissect inhospitable Labrador, and we shall discover that as great a differ- ence exists between the two shores of the continent on that zone as that which dis- tinguishes California. and Massachusetts. Upon the coast of this neglected corner of the world we shall see that a. climate like that of England is produced, as England: is, by a warm current in the sea; in the southern half oi the interior we shall disâ€" cover valleys as inviting as those in our New England; and far north, at Port Simpson, just below the down-reaching claw of our Alaska, we shall find such a ‘ climate as Halifax enjoys. ' British Columbia has a length of eight hundred miles, and averages four hundred miles in width. To whoever crosses the country it seems the scene of a vast earth disturbance, over which mountains an scattered without system. In fact, how 1â€" «1......n Riviflol Climate as Llcuuous any.” _. British Columbia. has a. length of eight hundred miles, and averages four hundred miles in width. To whoever crosses the country it seems the scene of a. vast earth- disturbance, over which mountains are ‘ scattered without system. In fact, how- ever, the Cordillera belt is there divided into four ranges, the Rockies forming the eastern boundary, then the Gold Range, then the CURSE Range, and, last of all, that partially submerged chain whose upraised parts form Vancouver and the other moun- tainous islands near the mainland in the Pacific. A vast valley flanks the south- western side of the Rocky Mountains, ac- companying them from where they leave our Northwestern States in a wide straight furrow for a distance of seven hundred 7 . _--n lung-u... . nortl The shooting in the valleys of British 00- 1 son , lumbia is most alluring to those who aret betw fond of the sport. Caribou, deer, bear, . aver: prairie-chicken, and partridges abound ini year then. In all probability there is no similar ; per , extent of country that equals the valley of i v] the Columbia, from which, in the winter of i Y. 1888, between six and eight tons of deer? the skins were shipped by local traders, the re- l conc sult of legitimate hunting. But the forests E orig and mountains are as they were when the . to t white man first saw them, and though the l ese ‘ beaver and sea-otter, the marten, and those i “-36 ‘ foxes whose furs are coveted by the rich, 2 nor are not as abundant as they once were, the l was rest of the game is most plentiful. 0n the I wre Rockies and on the Coast» Range the moun- l jun? tain-goat, most difficult of beasts to hunt, this and still harder to get, is abundant yet. i said The “big-horn,” or mountain-sheep, is not ed: so common, but the hunting thereof isi cifi. tusually successful if good guides are ob-i reu tained. The cougar, the grizzly, and the'I and lynx are all plentiful, and black and brown L coa bears are very numerous. Elk are going the 'i tha way of the “l>ig-horn”â€"â€"are preceding that 1 less creature in fact. Pheasants (imported), on ‘grouse, quail, and water-fowl are amon , far the feathered game, and the river an 3g, lake fishing is such as is not approached wh in any other part of the Dominion. The go] province is a sportsman’s Eden, but the! ch: hunting of big game there is not a venture to f be lightly undertaken. It is not alone the ant distance or the cost that gives one pause, 3e, ' ' MMLMI a“. ...i A n assigns PABADISE. aismnce 01‘ L110 uuou a“..- 0-. _, . for, after the province is reached, the mountain-climbing is a task that no amount oi ‘wealth will lighten. And these are gen- uine mountains, by-the-way, Wearing eternal caps of snow, and equally eternal deceit as to their distances, their heights, and as to all else concerning which a rarefied atmos- phere can hocus-pocus a. stranger. There is one animal, king of all the beasts, which the most unaspiring hunter may chance upon as well as the bravest, and that ani- mal carries a perpetual chip upon, its shoulder, and seldom turns from an mwmm- ter. It is the grizzly-bear. It is his presence that gives you either zest or pause, an you may decide, in hunting all the others that roam the mountains. Yet, in that hunter’s dreamland it is the grizzly that attracts many sportsmen every year. From the headquarters of the Hudson Bay Company .in Vic’oria I obtained the | list of animals in whose skins that company I l WFriom‘ the headquarters of the nuason Bay Company in Vic'oria I obtained the 1 l 1 list of animals in whose skins that company ‘ trades at that station. It makes a. formid- ' able catalogue of zoological products, and is as follows: Bears (brown, black, grizzly), beaver, badger, foxes (silver, cross, and red), fishers, martens, minks, lynxes, musk-rat, otter (sea. or land), panther, rac- coon, wolves (black, gray, and coyote), bléck-tailed deer, stags (a. true stag, grow- ing, to the size of.) an ox, and found on the . hills of "Vancouver Island), caribou or rein- ) ideer, hares, mountain-goat, big-horn (or mountain-sheep), moose (near the Rockies), wood-buffalo (found in the north, not great- ly different from the bison, but larger), geese, swans, and duck, GOLD MINING. It may almost- be said that the history of gold-mining there is the history of British Columbia. Victoria, the capital, was '11. Hudson Bay post established in 1843, and 'Vancouver, Queen Charlotte‘s, and the other islands, as well as, the mainland, were of interest to only a few white memas parts ‘ of a great fur-trading field with a small l Indian. population. The-first nugget of old ‘ wasfound at what is now called Gold 211'- bor,,on the west coast cf the Queen Char- lotte Islands, by an indian woman, in 1851. A part of it, weighing. four or five ounces, was taken by the Indians to Fort Simpson and sold. The ,I‘Ludson Bay Company, which has done a'littlerin every line of ' business in'its day..‘sentia»brigantine-toet -- t. in the searin the nterior we shall disâ€" ,ing as those in out far north, at. Port the down-reaching ye shall find such a. Origin. _. FEBRUARY 18, 18,2. :â€"A. Hunt- :ndustry Specu- spot, and found a quartz vein traceame eighty feet, and yielding a. high percentage of gold. BlaSting was begun, and the ves- sel was loaded with ore; but she was lost on the return voyage. An Ameipcan vessel. ashore at Esquimault, near V :tm‘ia, was ‘ purchased, re-named the Recovery, and sent, to Gold Harbor with thirty lzniners, who worked the vein until the vessel Was loaded and sent to England. News of the mine travelled, and in another year a small fleet of vessels came up from Sun Franc-ism; but, the we 1y was seen to be very limited, and after $20,000 in all had been taken our. the field was abandoned. ' In 1855 gold was found by a. Hudson Bay Company’s employe at Fort Colville. now in Washington Stale, near the boundary. Some Thompson River (B.C.) Indians who went to \Valla. Vanla spread a report there that gold, like that. discovered at. (Jolville, m... m be fmmd in the vallev of the Thomp- J‘ALLCL vuuuu nnnnn v every year, and the miners worked gradually ', mg] northward until, about 1874, they had ; nom travelled through the province, in at one l '1‘] end and out at the other, and were working ‘ whi< the tributaries of the Yukon River in the in tl north, beyond the 60th parallel. M r. Daw- stan son estimates that the total yield of gold ‘ one between 1858 and 1888 was $54,108,804; the whc average number of miners employed each ‘ end. year was 2,775, and the average earnings} per man per year were $622. THE Ixnnxs or BRITISH COLFMBIA. . 'I You will find that seven in ten among : ries the more intelligent British Columbians wes conclude these Indians to be of Japanese . city origin. The Japanese current is neighborly ' con 2 to the province, and it has drifted Japan- ‘ gro '1 ese junks to these shores. When the first the } traders visited the neighborhood of the cor ': mouth of the Columbia, they found bees- ed, 3 wax in the sand near the vestiges of a the ‘1 wreck, and it is said that one wreck of a the a junk was met with, and 12,000 pounds of ‘ this wax was found on her. \Vhalers are ev: l said to have frequently encountered wreck- wi ; ed and drifting junks in the Eastern Pa- ' acl ‘ cific, and a local legend has it that in 1834 th remnants of a junk with three Japanese 1e: and acargo of pottery were found on the al‘ coast south of Cape Flattery. Nothing less th than all this should excuse even a rudder- th 1 less ethnologist for so cruel a reflection up- de l on the Japanese, for these Indians are so m, -, far from pretty that all who see them in agree with Captain Butler, the traveller, ce who wrote that “if they are of the Mon- p( = golian type, the sooner the Mongolians to i 2 change their type the better.” . h1 ’ The coast Indians are splendid sailors, cl and their dugouts do not always come off , second best in racing with the boats of 3 white men. With a primitive yet in- b, gemously made tool, like an adze, in the - construction of which a blade is tied fast to 1 a bent handle of bone, these natives labor 5 o IFDQ was!!! iously pick out the heart of a great cedar log, and shape its outer sides into the form 11 1- of a boat. \Vhen the log is properly hoi- s lowed, thev fill it with water, and then drop h in stones which they have heated in a fire. e Thus they steam the boat so that they may i- spread the sides and fit in the cross- ;s bars which keep it strong and preserve its ‘ 1- shape. These dugouts are sometimes sixty :0 feet long, and are used for whaling and u long voyages in rough seas. They are Lt capable of carrying tons of the salmon or ‘s oolachan or herring, of which these people, ts who live as their Iathers did, catch suffi- cient in a few days for their maintenance m throughout a whole year. One gets an . 1e idea of the swarms of fish that infest those ' 1y waters by the knowledge that before nets d- were used the herring and the oolachan, or is candle-fish, were swept into these boats bv r), an implement formed by studding a ten- 1d foot pole with spikes or nails. This was , as, swept among the fish in the water, and the I tc- boats were sneedilv filled with the creatnrm e), that were impaled upon the spikes. Sal- w- mon, sea-otter, otter, beaver, marten, hear, he and deer (or caribou or moose) were and in- l still are the chief resources of most of the :or ' Lndians. Unce they sold the hsn and Ink :s), peitry to the Hudson Bay Company, and at- ate what parts or surplus they did not sell. :r), Now they work in the canneries or fish for them in summer, and hunt, trap, or loaf the rest of the time. However, while they still fish and sell furs. and while some are ’_°f yet as their fathers were, nearly all the “.11 coast Indians are semi-civilized. They ' a. have at least the white man’s clothes and :9 menace . Aun-H.A md hymns and vices. They have churches; ”he they live in houses: they work in canneries. ere What little there was that was picturesque ““3 about them has vanished only a few “11 degrees faster than their own extinction 501d as a. pure race, and they are now a lot of [ar- long-shoremen. What Mr. Duncan did for ‘9'" them in Metlakahtlaâ€"especially in housing 35" the families separatelyâ€"has not been ar- e”! rived at even in the reservation at Vic- ’Wn‘ toria, where one may still see one of the ”Yr. huge low shed-like houses they prefer, or- ;fi’: namented with totem poles, and arranged for eight families, and consequently for a quartz v'em traceable as the plans; 3:; and Whiskc; “'1 mentally u. ' cane bowls and T Words Heard Across a Rocky mountam Valley Twelve Miles “'ide, A marvelous tale comes from Dakota of a discovery which has been accidentally made in the mountains northwest of Rapid City. It is stated that there is a. natural telephone line between two mountains in the Black Hills range. On each side of a valley tWelve miles in width stand two high peaks, which tower above the other moun- tains, and have long been known as land- marks. These mountains are several thou- : sand feet high, and only on rate occasions have they been scaled, so hut little is known of their topography. â€" ‘ '.n,_ J- KUUWH vs vuuu uvrv°-_-r_~ , Some weeks ago a party of tourists de- cided to make the ascent. They divided into two parties, one for each peak, taking with them heliographs for the purpose of signaling to each other across the valley. The ascent was made, and, so the story goes, while the members of one party were preparing to signal to those of the other, one of the party on the north mountain was surprised to hear voices which apparently came out of the air. He moved his position and the sound was no longer heard. By changing his position several times he dis- covered that at a certain spot of the moun- tain he could hear the voices, and it was not long before he discovered that they pro- ceeded from the party on the other moun- “Ill. He called the attention of the others to the phenomenon, and when the attention of the opposite party had been attracted it. was found that an ordinary conversation in an ordinary tone of voice was plainly heard from one mountain top to the other. There was only one place on the mountain where it. could be heard, and this appeared to form a. natural telephone. No shouting was nec- ~ -_£-A‘1- 33-- GI unuunu; vvnvru'u'- _ essary, and the words were perfectly dis- tinct. Assuming this story to be true, an explanation may be sought in the form of the mountains, which might serve as ellip- tical reflectors of sound, (the speakers plac- inn themselves in the foci at each endiof the uULucuuu "an, vw v The Mormon Temple at Salt Lake City, which is of enormous dimensions, is built in the form of a. true ellipse, and a. person 1 standing in the focus at one end can carry i on a. conversation in a. whisper with another 1 who places himself in the focus at the other 1 endâ€"Electricity. mosphere a: the altstude at. nomenon was obsgrved. ’ An Odd Knife‘s Long Trip. To cleanse one of the long pipes that car- ries crude petroleum from the wells of western Pennsylvania to the refineries in this city, an odd appearing instrument has just concluded its long journey hither under- ground, says the Philadelphia Record. A: the oil flows through these underground conduits the paraffine in thefluid is separat- ed, and this residuum incrusts the sides of the pipes and proves a serious hindrance to r ‘1. _ “Hum-‘9 NF nil but: Pipe: run. :1“, . v- ,t , . the free passage of the current of Oil. The device that is uSed to remedy this evil is a knife about two feet in length, with a sharp edge that is constructed ex- actly like the thread of a screw. Indeed, the knife itself resembles a huge head- less screw more than anything else; it is the .pipe it passes through. When the‘ thickness of the crust or parafine ren- ders a cleansing necessary this instru- ment is inserted in the first link of the huge iron chain far off in the oil fields. It re- ceives its motive power from the stream of petroleum, which it accompanies all the way to Philadelphia, revolving rapidly as it .hurries along, and scraping the channel: clean from every particle of parafiine~ 7 4â€" :- d-L:- UAW“ .Avâ€"â€" . V V, It turns and twists and cleanses in this manner throughout its whole long journey, finally drooping from the pipes in the midst of the vast stream of petroleum that empties continuously into the receiving tanks at Philadelphia. Its edges, to be sure. are duller than when it set out upon its expedition, but otherwise its condition is perfect. It is immediately shipped back to the fields, when it is sharpened again and laid away until future parafiine ac- cumulations require once more its valuable services. Kidnaped by a Bear. A little three-year-old, named Fleming, whose parents live in northern Michigan,be- ing missed one afternoon, her parents track- ed her to some bushes, in the field about forty rods from the house, at which point the child’s tracks disappeared and those of a. large bear were found leading into the woods. The horrified father, aided by neighbors, followed up the bear, which had carried off the child, as fast as possible; but night set in, and they were oblig ed to wait till morning, when the pursuit was re- commenced. In a short time, as the pursuers were passing a swampy spot, they heard the child’s voice crying aloud. They rushed forward, heard a splash in the water and soon saw the child standing on a lo stretching over a pond. The bear, the chi] said, was carrying her across the log and had just jumped into the water and swum away. The bear had not hurt the child in the least, but had been caressing in its man- ner and had lain down at night with its arms around the little one as if to shield her from harm. The bear had just lost her cub and seemed to wish to adopt the , child in its place. Ruskin on R’aflromls. Mr. Ruskin mourns in his characteristic fashion over what the world is coming to. “We shall put it,” he says, “into a ' armor of railroad, and then everybody will go everywhere every day ; and then, when they are tired of changing stations and po- lice, they will congregate in knots in great cities, which will consist of club houses, cofi'ee houses and newspaper ofiiees; the churches will be turned into assembly rooms; and people will eat, sleep gamble to their graves.”-â€"London 11in} News. - men were heard the sey rushed water and on a. lo ,the chi] 10 log and and swam 1e child in