The Stanstead journal, 28 janvier 1897, jeudi 28 janvier 1897

[" rt VOL.LII.\u2014No.2.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1897.[he Stanstead Journal.WHOLE No.2688, MR.PITCHER'S IDEAS.Some Pertinent Points on Prohibition by Reverend J.Tallman Pitcher.If the audience that assembled in the Congregational Church on Sunday evening last to listen to the presentation of the question of prohibition is to be taken as an indication of the interest that is being awakened in the proposed plebescite, the temperance people and workers may take courage and go forward with well assured confidence that when the issue is put before the country at large the electors of Rock Island and Stanstead Plain will contribute their share to the undoubted majority that will be given in favor of prohibition.Judging from the close attention given to the speaker of the evening, the Rev.Talman Pitcher, the congregation had come with the purpose of learning something of this new phase of the temperance question, and not simply to be entertained for an hour and a half.The meeting was presided over by the pastor of the church, who conducted the opening exercises assisted by the | Rev.Herbert E.Benton.In a few appropriate remarks Mr.Read intro- ducen Mr, Pitcher as a speaker who was well qualified to give an able and eloquent exposition of the subject under consideration.Mr.Pitcher in rising said that he \u2018hoped in his address he would not be betrayed under stress of feeling into making any statements that would be unjust to those who differ from the advocates of prohibition.It was necessary that he should be careful, for his feelings had been much moved when reading the barbarities inflicted upon the Russian exiles in Siberia, as told by George Kennan in the Century, and the awful atrocities committed by the savage Turk upon the helpless Armenians.\u201d Similarly, his feeling had been exercised when considering the fearful ravages of the drink traffic.He had asked himself again and again why a professedly Christian people should allow this evil to exist and take no steps as far as law is able, to practically banish it from the land.He hoped to place the matter calmly, dispassionately before them and he trusted they would give his remarks their earnest consideration.In the consideration of this question it was well to remember that there was more than one class of persons interested.The temperanae people were not the only ones concerned.There were those who had large vested interests in the manufacture of alcoholic liquors, large brewers and distillers.A large percentage of the capital of the country was thus invested.Then there were those who worked in the breweries and distilleries and whose families were depending upon their TOWN TOPICS.Col.F.D.Butterfield returned last Saturday from a busines trip through Ontario.Mr.A.E.Fish of the firm of Fish & McNiel, merchants, Ayer\u2019s Flat, gave the JOURNAL a cali on Monday.The lowest temperature reached at Stanstead Plain this winter is 22° below zero.The reported temperature of 34* below was an error.Mr.L.W Hildreth of Barton Land- ling, Vu.has been in town to-day arranging for an entertainment to be given by the \u2018\u201cThespians,\u201d Febuary 10th.Prof.F.M.Bell-Smith entertained a good sized audience in the lecture room of the Methodist Church last Friday Evening.It was a refined entertainment, amusing and instructive.The lightying crayon sketches were the feature of the evening.The new bell for the Methodist Church arrived yesterday.It was cast at Van Deuzien \u201cBuckeye\u201d foundry, Cincinnati, Ohio, and weighs 2,- 440 Ibs., which is about the weight of the old one, but the tone of the new bell will be much finer.Erastus P.Ball, D.V.S., of Rock Island, and Miss Florence Caswell, only daughter of Mr.Henry H.Cas- well, of Stanstead, were married on the 27th inst.The JourNaL extends congratulations.The Fortnightly Club will meet next week on Tuesday evening as usual.The programme will be devoted to American music and art.The committee of arrangements, consisting of Misses Colby and Robinson, and Mr.A.C.Cowles have arrangements well in hand.Mr.E.X.Somers of, St.Johnsbury, Eastern agent for the McCormick harvesting Machinery, is in town, assisting A.L.Miller in opening up hie new business.In conversation with a JOURNAL man Mr.Somers said that his Derby Line agent was one of the best out of fifty under his jurisdiction.\u201cIn fact\u201d said he, \u201cI have no other agent whom I can leave upon his own resources as I can Mr.Miller.Mr.D.M.Lockhart haus severed his connection with the Rock Island Hardware Co, We regret his departure as our business relations with him have been most satisfactory, but it is gratifying to know that the business still remains in good hands, Mr.C.H.Rawson, for several years hook- keeper and salesman for the Company will have charge at the Rock Island store for the present.Messrs.True & Blanchard Co.are making some changes and improvements in the business at Rock Island with a view of serving the wants of the people to the best possible advantage.earnings for support.Again, there were the hotels and groceries where the liquor is retailed.All these were financially concerned in the abolition | of the traffic.From these the tem- | perance workers must expect strenu-! ous opposition for these men were in | the business not for the sake of the; business itself, but for what it would | bring them.They were looking for | large returns and now that their busi- | ness is threatened they were preparing to maintain their side of the cause at great expense.The temperance | people must be prepared to contribute largely to the expenses of the campaign for their army would need supplies.\u2018\u2018Sow the state knee-deep with temperance literature,\u201d was Neal, Dow\u2019s advice, and if the campaign was to be successful that advice must he carried out.Referring to the many attempts made to legislate for the traffic, the speaker mentioned high license, the Canadian Temperance Act, and local option as being ineffective, the latter two especially 80 because these measures were but partially prohibitive in their operation.One town under local option might have no licensed hotel \u201cut liquor was easily obtained in the next town; the Scott Act might be in force in one county, but the only thing necessary to get the liquor was to step over into the next.The temperance people had long recognized the inadequacy of these measures and were now demanding the total prohibition of the manufacture, importation, and sale of alcohol except for manufacturing and medicinal purposes, as the only method by which the evil cf strong drink will be effectually coped with.But to this many entered an objection.It is an interference with personal rights and liberty, they say.Every man should be free to engage in the traffic, if he so wished, or drink what he pleases.Prohibition is an infringement of certain inalienable rights possessed by Continued on page 5.Special efforts will be made in the future to care for every customer prompt ly and at the lowest prices consistent, with thorough workmanship and reliable material.The Fortnightly Club met on the evening of the 19th inst.in the vestry of the Congregational Church.Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather about fifty members and friends gathered to enjoy the programme of the evening.Doubtless their curiosity had been aroused by the issue of invitations by the committee of Entertainment, consisting of Mrs.Spalding, Miss Tinker and Mr.Read, to an extended tour, through the principal towns of the U.S., arriving at the Vestry the tourists checked their baggage at the office and when the time arrived for the start exchanged their coupons for I tickets on the Funville, Frolictown and TFeatherbrain Railway.Under the conductorship of Mr.Read and \u2018the assiduous attention of Parlor Car porter McDuffee, the company spent \u201ca pleasant half hour visiting places of iinterest in the great Republic.The most successful traveler was Mr.Fred Caswell who returned with an extra valise while Master Hubert Baxter became the possessor of a bottle labeled \u201cCatch-up.\u201d The second part of the programme consisted of able and instructive papers on \u2018The origin and Development of the Postal Service\u2019 by Misses M.B.Read and Enos and one, on Canadian Railways by Mr.James Telford.Miss Mansur contributed a piano solo, Mrs.Read sang, \u201cDown the Shadowed Lane She Goes,\u201d Miss McKelvie read \u201cGood bye old Stamp,\u2019 the Baxter Brothers gave one of their inimitable banjo duets, and Mr.Read recited \u201cIn the Signal Box.\u201d At the conclusion of the programme light refreshments wrre served.Special credit is due ta Mrs.Spalding and Miss Tinker, for the success of the evening, they having been most indefatigable in their efforts to promote the enjoyment of all present.William Gagnon, an old resident, died on Monday.Keep watch of Gilman & Company\u2019s advertisements.It will pay.Principal Flanders, D.D., was in Montreal on business the first of the week.The Belated Picnic which was to have taken place in the lecture hall of the Methodist Church this Friday evening, has been postponed for two weeks.Look for it on the 12th of February.The young people of the vicinity are making special offort to overcome the monotony of the winter season.Whist Clubs have been organized in the three villages and meetings are held regularly every week.Mr.J.W.Rathbone, traveling agent for the Globe Suspender Company, was in town the first of the week.While here he looked over the Foster boot and shde factory.He believes he can get Montreal Capital interested in the business.Messrs.Raimbach, A.N.Thompson, Geo.P.Butters, W.H.Butters, G.W.Clark, R.W.Moore, Alfred Thomas, and Ted McDougall, of Stanstead Plain Club, were guests of the Colum- bian Club, Derby Line, Monday evening.A gume of duplicate whist was indulged in, Derby Line winning by four points.Coroner Woodward held two inquests in Stanstead this week.One upon the body of Miss Heien Bachel- der, who died on the 23rd instant under very sad and peculiar circumstances.The other was upon the body of Mr.George Peck, who died suddenly on the same date without the attendance of a physician.As a result of the recent municipal election, some of the life-long license men of Rock Island are having a no- license by-law framed to be brought before the municipal council at its regular meeting next Monday evening.This scheme is being worked on the quiet, and is a strictly ¢private\u201d affair.No public announcement has been made, but that is not surprising As it is not the first time a bit of \u201clegislation\u201d has been \u201csprung\u2019\u2019 on the people.As none of the temperance workers have been consulted, the motives of the promoters are questionable.The suppgsition is that it has been gotten up partly to spite the hotel men and partly to embarrass the new councillor elect, who was supported by the hotel keepers as well as by the temperance people, because it was understood that he would oppose | the continuance of the railroad street shop license.It is very seldom that the different factions of the liquor business are antagonized and the present case is gratifying to prohibitionists.The promoters of the new prohibition scheme should possess the courage to introduce the by-law themselves and back it up with rea- | sonable arguments.There will be a division and a pretty even one too.| COLLEGE NOTES.\u2018The first public entertainment given by the College this year will be held next Monday evening, Feb.1st.Itis hoped that this may prove a welcome variation in the winter monotony, and that the many friends of the College will make an effort to show their appreciation by a generous turn-out.The entertainment will be held in the main room at the College, beginning promptly at eight o\u2019clock.Much of the programme will consist of music given by the pupils in Prof.Dorey\u2019s and Mr.Holmes\u2019 departments.Besides the piano and violin numbers there will be some vocal selections by Mr.Dorey\u2019s pupils.The programmne will be pleasantly varied by recitations by Miss Stott and some of her pupils.We are glad to hear that her class in Newport is to be represented by little Miss Bernice Webb, whose gift in recitation is already quite well known in her own town, Miss Stott\u2019s Greek poses will undoubtedly give much pleasure.After the programme has been enjoyed the College parlors will be thrown opén and every one is | cordially invited to remain for a social hour, in order to become acquainted with the teachers and pupils.The | small admission fee of 15 cents will be | charged in order to pay for the printing of the programmes, ete.GEORGEVILLE.The cold wave which struck us on Sunday caused a sudden drop in the temperature to 25 degrees below zero on Monday morning, and to add to the discomfort there was a strong northerly wind blowing and a real blizzard set in in the P.M.During the night the wind blew a gale from the west and the air was filled with snow.The snow which came on Thursday, the 21st, made very fair sleighing.About 6 inches came then and some three or four inches since, but this storm has blown it all about.The hills are swept bare and the roads are impasaable in many places from huge drifts.The Stanstead Junction stage did not arrive here\u2018 on Tuesday, but the Magog stage has not lost a trip.Those people who were worrying for fear that we should not get any winter are feeling more reconciled.Charles Jones who is clerking for W.J.Melrose, and who is the (3.& W.telegraph operator, is laid up with an attack of la grippe.Charles Achilles and family are suffering from la grippe.We learn that a petition asking for the appointment of W.J.Melrose as : Postmaster, has been circulated dur- the past week.It was not done by request of Mr.Melrose.Quite a number of the people are not pleased with ithe present management and want a | change.The lumbermen are smiling to see the snow.Miss Arthur, the assistant P.M,, has returned to her duties after a vacation some of a month pleasantly passed in visit- The meeting will be an interesting | ing her relatives and friends.+ .{ one, and it is probable that a good, Ed.White and wife are working in ent.1 THE INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION ' TREATY FOR PEACE\u2014\u201cThey shall beat their swords into plough shares and moved on the 17th by Dr.Tomkins of of the snow storm and cold.their spears into pruning-hooks: na-! tion shall not lift up sword against: nation, neither shall they learn war any more.\u201d This will be the subject for consideration next Sunday morning in the Methodist Church.CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.\u2014 Next Sunday morning the Pastor will preach on \u201cThe Church\u2019s Obligation to fulfill Christ\u2019s last Command.\u201d Topic for evening \u201cDon\u2019t Worry.\u201d The annual collection on behalf of Foreign Missions will be taken in the morning.School for Bible Study after the morn- | ing service.All cordially welcome.PE 1 The 37th Annual Festival of the Orleans County Musical Association will : be heid at Newport, Vt., February 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 1897, and every effort is being made to make the event the grandest in the history of the! Association.The direction of the whole affair will be with Henry G.Blaisdell of Concord, and artiste of renowed ability will agsist.Rehearsals will be held each day during the festival.The concerts are to be given afternoons and evenings.The Grand Promenade takes place on Wednesday evening at the Memphremagog House and will be a grand and elaborate affair.The hotels are to give reduced rates during the convention and the Boston and Muine Railroad has arranged for low rates to Newport from all stations.Inquire at station vicket-office for ing formation.leave of this town to-day.the municipal policy here is such as \u2018will not encourage any tradesman to many interested citizens will be pres- the township of Potton this winter.| STANSTEAD JUNCTION.B.F.Carr, who had an abscess re- Stanstead, is getting better, with every prospect of pulling through, Rev.Mr.Allen gave the people here .& very practical sermon on the 24th, and one well might be profited by it.Our village tailor takes his final He says stay.Nu mails for Georgeville and intermediate points on the 26th caused by blocked roads.Look out for the reefs on the lake which are very numerous.A party who had crossed the reef on the west | yr \"ofr 'side at Farrers Landing some six | times this winter, got in on the 23rd.\u2018 The soci However, he and his horse were equal to the occasion and came out all right without damage.Skating rink stock is running low this week.Rev.H.8.Kilborn preached an interesting discourse on the 24th, also sang a heautiful solo, assisted by Mrs.K., which was rendered impressively.FIRE AT MEGANTIC.Montague Paper Co's Saw Mil a Total Loss.The Dudley saw mill at Lake Me- gantic, owned and operated by the Montague Paper Co., was burned last Thursday.The cause of the fire is unknown.The mill was valued at between $50,000 and $60,000.It was one of the largest and most complete and largest saw mill in the country.It was insured for 820,000.DERBY.Mr.Ernest Wilcox most royally entertained a few of the students at his home on River St., last Friday evening from 8 to 12.Games and singing were the order of the evening and every one present scemed to havea very pleasant time.; .Ex Lieut.Gov.Mansur of Island Pond, was in town lust week on busi- Ness.Farmers are very busy ut the present time harvesting their ice, which is reported to be the best they have had for seme seasons, being 22 inches thick.Let every one bear in mind the musical convention held at Newport Feb.1st to Feb, 5th.The best talent has been secured, beth local and abroad.Remember the prayer meetings held at the \u201cHotel Rickard\u201d overy Thursday evening.Every one cordially invited.John ©.Hay, our popular hardware merchant, came to this town about five years ago and commenced business on a emall scale, He was informed that Derby was no place to enter into business, but he came here and with good courage, so he hus worked up a flourishing business and it.keeps increasing from year to year.John keeps two men busy and has an excellent line of stock.He claims that he has sold 69 stoves during the yenr of 96.The way Lo do in to make business when there is no business, and that is just what John is doing.Mr.and Mrs.H.M.Wilder have returned home from their wedding tour and will commence house keeping the first of Feb.over tho drug store.We wish them a peaceful and happy life.Mr.and Mrs.Reed, of Smiths Mills, P.Q., were guests of Mrs.Rickard one day last week.Louis Dailey, & son of Harrison Dai- ley, is an apprentice in John Hay\u2019s Hardware store.Homer Perkins spent Sunday at his home in Lowell, Vt.Remember when you want a first class hair cut you can get it by calling on I\u2019.J.Barnard.Preparations are being made for the closing exercises of the mid-winter term of the Academy.Look for the programme in next week\u2019s issue.COATICOOK.On Thursday last the wife of Mr.McKee died of pneumonia, leaving a husband and three small children to mourn their loss.Mr.McKee, his father and mother, and all three of the children had been sick for some | three weeks, and she had been able to \u2018tend them until they were all better, when she was taken down and lived but a few days after she became ill.The funeral services at the Methodist \u201cChurch.Another funeral was held on i Tuesday at the same place, that of , Mrs.Alice Astell who died on Sunday morning last, leaving a little babe | two weeks old.There was a | very large gathering at this funeral.i Much sympathy is felt for the young husband so soon called to part with | his beloved wife.Rev.A.L.Holmes ' officiated at both services, i Plebiscite meetings for Monday night had to be postponed on account 20 to 26 below zero with high wind has been \u201cthe record for the two or three days lof the storm.; i Programmes are out for the Annual Convention of the Provincial S.5.Union to be held in Granby.There is prospect of a large attendance and an interesting and profitable convention.\u2019 The delegates appointed from Stan- stend county should attend and other S.8.workers who can, should attend.i i AYER'S FLAT.A parlor social in the interest of the W.CT.U.was held in the home of | Hill, Vice President of the : Union, vn Friday evening, Jan.15th, al was a good one, both in | point of numbers and in the object | for which the people came together.| A very happy and pleasant time was | ispent by all.Cake and coffee were | served at ten o\u2019clock, the guests soon after departing for their homes.Be- | fore going however, they left a number of dollars in the hands of the Treasurer of the Union for temperance work.That which added to the pleasure of all was the surprise which the members of the Union and others gave to Mr.and Mrs.Hill by their sudden and unexpected arrival at their house, knocking for admittance, and in a quiet way taking possession, but the possession of all seemed to be that of peace and good will.Car corn on track Saturday and Monday, 34c.bush.A.G.Clough.Fish & McNiel are selling good yel- low corn at 34c bushel.NORTH HATLEY.The cold wave reached us on Sunday at 8 p, m., with a strong and bitterly cold wind blowing, flurries of snow and shivering in an atmosphere of 26 below zero.I tell you whta °t is boys we've had a good time.The Darktown Minstrels drew a full house from which was realised §45,00.Sixty couples of dancers and twenty couples of wall flowers assembled at the Old Folk\u2019s ball on the 21at inst.Mrs.Bond Little, jr,.died quite suddenly from n paralytie shock on Saturday evening last.She was loved by all who knew her.Many hearts ure saddened Ly this loss, We have received news of the death of Mr.George Peck of Stanstead, formerly of this place, also of the death of Mrs.Bramah Johnson of Bury, after a lingering illness.Bert, Beed is visiting Spring 11ill.Mr.ALC.Jackson has been quite siek duriitg the week past but is now Home better, Mr.John Hovey in on the slek list again.- Mr.Daniel Rafter of Portland is here, to attend the funeral of his six- tor, « Mrs.B, Little, 1 which takes place to day, «Tuesday, Rev, P, Pergan of Minton officiating.Mrs.S.Little has been a sufferer from la grippe of late, Mr.MeCoy of Ayers Flat is here putting the finishing touches to Dr.Edgar's new lodging house, which will be an ornament to the place.Much ice of fine quality is being stored away at present The marriage of Mr.H, Bunker and Miss Edith Knight took place nt the home of the bride Jan.14th.The next meeting of the W.C.T.U will be with Mrs, A.P.LeBaron Feb, 3rd.The person who removed the North British calender from the Office of the Valley House would confer a favor on several persons by returning the same.Can\u2019t obtain one to suft us au well every day.friends nt MASSAWIPPI.Your old correspondent has so far recovered from his severe sicknens as .to be able to sit at the desk for a short time, but his opportunity for obtaining news has been very limited.To be told that we have hand, and nre still having, weverely cold and windy weather will bo no news to the people in this part of the country, but there are many readers of the Journal residing in parts far away from the home of their nativity who take an interest iu al) such matters, Dame Lucy ©.Hitchcock, aged 82 years had Lhe misfortune to fall down stairs and break hoth bones of her arm, besides badly Iacerating the flesh and bruising other parts of her body.She is with her step-daughter, Mrs.Hovey, where she will be well cared for.Miss Louvin Bishop of Providence, R.I, Is a guest of Mr, and Mrs, H, H.LeBaron.I enclose, for publication in the Journal, a clipping from \u201cThe Clover- dale Reveille,\u201d re the marringe of Mr.Thomas Shurtleff, n former resident of Hatley, as were also his two former wives.Shurtleff-Stevens Nuptial.A very interesting matrimonial event occurred New Year's eve not known to but a few of our people.It was the nuptials of Mrs.M.EF.Stev- eng of this place and Mr.Thos.Shurt- leff of Nevada City, and wo quietly was the event kept that it was not generally known until last, Saturday.Rev.J.T.Shurtlef!, of tho Episcopal church, von of the groom, officiated, the ceremony taking place at the home of the bride.Mr.Shurtleff is a very pleasant gentleman and is engaged in the mercantile business at Nevada City, where, with his new bride, they will make their future home.Mrs.Stevens is well known in Cloverdale and in her new relationship she carries the best wishes of all for a happy and prosperous future.They departed on the Monday morning train.FITCH BAY.Cold and rough; thermometer 24 below and a high wind on Monday.The district school is closed for a time, owing to the teacher's having been galled home by the death of her mother, Mrs.Bond Little, of Capelton, who died very suddenly on Saturday of apoplexy.C.C.Bullock, of firanby, was in\u2019 town on Monday.0.K.Rider is still confined to his \u2018room and bed, attended by Dr.Keyes.N.A.Beach, of Stanstead was in town on Monday getting help to rebuild the Mountain House wharf, *.del In if, i En TS fz Ey Srey acer art VER, 07 AT Yo tm Sd A AT Poor Cuba.- HOME FROM BRAZIL.Etoiy cf the De:uded Emigrants Who Left Comfortable Canadian Home: 10 Seek Their Fortunes in Brazil.Nothing could illustrate better the deplorable condition of affairs in Cuba than the uncertainty regarding the death of the insurgent leader, Maceo.The battle in which he is supposed to have been killed took place on December seventh, within fifteen miles of the city of Havana.Yet at the time we write, over one month after that battle, it is not definitely known ihe Brazilian League in Montreal re- that he is dead.: turned to the:r native land this week.The Spanish officers have produced | They left Montreal on the 5th Septem- nothing belonging to the dead general | per last and arrived at Santcs, Brazil, as evidence, and there is no commu- | early in the following month.Their nication, save of the most irregular homeward passage was provided by sort of the Cubans in arms.More- the British Consul at San Poulo, and over, no one who has followed the re- they sailed from Santos December ports from the contest believes that (99th.One of tne number told the fol- either Spaniards or Cubans tell the |jowing story: \u201cThe Montreal agents truth as to what is taking place unless | told us we could earn good wages, it suits their purposes to do so.| with free homes and free food for one Meantime the cultivation of the soil | vear on the coffee plantations.On has almost ceased, and the grinding of the way down we were used very well, cane, the chief crop of one of the and had nothing to complain of on the most fertile islands in the world, is} steamship.On arrival at Santos we forbidden and prevented by the gen- were put aboard a train and sent on erals on both sides.Except in Ha- our way to San Palo.It was not until vana, anarchy may be said to prevail ' our arrival at the latter place that we over the whole island.Life and pro- began to realize that we had been perty are safe nowhere, duped.There we were driven like It is no wonder that such a terrible | cattle into an immense barn-like struc- state of offairs, almost within cannon- Lure, the interior of which was our shot of American soil, should cause room.For eight days we were all great interest and indignation among penned in this place, men, women and our people.In a strict sense, the re- \u2018children.The climate was unbearable lations between Spain and her colv- : for people raised as we had been, and nists do not concern us; yet it is cred- | instead of wages, we could make at itable to American popular\u2019 sentiment | the most but 70 cents n day.Some of that the dreadful contest does stir our ; the party went on plantations, others feeling profoundly.When the ques- |remained at San Paulo and sought em- tion is pressed further, and it is asked ployment there.Those who went on «if the government ought not to inter- | the plantations remained but a week -xiene and put à stop to the destructive | or s0, the enervating heat and annoy- and wasteful struggle\u2014that is a dif- | ing insects making life unbearable.ferent matter.| Some tried to stick it out long enough Forcible intervention would almost {to earn money to get home, and sev- certainly lead to war with } Spain.| eral of our countrymen who reached Such a war, whichever nation was {Santos before we got there, died from victorious, and whatever the result fevers incident to the climate, con- might be to Cuba, would be a far |tracted while on the plantations.My greater evil to Spain, to the United | wife was sick constantly; my children States and to the world than is the could not get proper food, and after Cuban War.-Youth\u2019s Companion.| staying in the wretched place several TTT | weeks, we determined to apply for help to get home, our money having \u2018 ; .; been used for providing the necessi- | kite fly 3 Lieut.i The kite flying experience of Lieut.| es of life, which the agents at, Mon- H.D.Wise on Govenor\u2019s Island, says.treal said should be given us free.\u201d a recent New York \"despatch, has at | eal sald shou gl ce.Wages were so low and prices s0 last been successful, and the lieuten- |, .: ant is the first man in America to go high that many suffered.One family aloft on a kite string.He made an in itself excited a good deal of com- ascent when the wind was blowing 15 passion among the Ellis\u2019 Island em- miles an hour.Four kites were is- i ployés.It consisted of a father with sued forming two tandems.The lieu- | four boys, whose ages run from three tenant went up 40 feet, fearing to go i to nine years.The mother had died 9 ilv we higher, as he was not provided with a | on December 1st, and the family was ,; : \u2018further afflicted with an eye disease arachute to break his fall in event of : ) parachuie Lo bre = in event o | peculiar to the climate, which affected ident.Lieut.Wise is ing | his mot on his own res making | all four boys.A doctor\u2019s attendance p p for the afflicted cost the man ninieen ity.He believes that the kite can be \"., .sn .Milries, and he made but one hundred made of value for military reconnais- .; : ia month.The wife was ill three sance.| weeks, and every article they had was ! sold to get money that she might be | taken to Santos, which was considered \u2018a more healthy place.She only arrived to die.The man\u2019s name is SWEEPING OVER THIS CANADA | Michael Walsh.i Others in the party said that more OF OURS.| than 400 Canadians had been attracted to Brazil by the glowing description of easy life at excellent pay.Some of these, it is said, have gone to England ; and other to the Argentine Republic.Twenty or more have died in the re- \u2018gion of Santos within the last few | weeks, and others are sick with fever and bowel complaints.Over fifty Canadians who were induced to leave comfortable homes for the purpose of seeking profitable employment on Brazilian plantations by Flew on a Kite, A Tidal Wave Paine's Celery Compound Banishing Sickness and Desease.» .| x \u2014\u2014 Bestowing Health, Vigor, | Harper\u2019s Mugazine for February, and New Life.11897.\u2014The special features of Harper's .for February are the coronation of the Czar of Russia, with frontispiece and THE YOUNG AND THE OLD FEEL six illustrations, by Richard Harding | Davis.ITS WONDERFUL POWER.| Lincoln\u2019s Home life in Washington, 7 | by Leslie J.Perry.The \u2018Awakening of a Nation,\u201d part The Cured Never Cease to Sing first illustrated by the author's photo- Its Praises, | | graphs taken in Mexico, by Chas.F.| Lummis.; Hygeia in Manhantan, illustrated by Paine\u2019s | Richard Wheatly.The President of the Orange Free Like a mighty tidal wave, Celery Compound, with its marvellous | ¢ healing and curing virtues, is sweep- State, illustrated by Poultney Bigelow.ing over Canada on its mission of! \u201cComposers and Artists,\u201d by Rev.health restoring.To-day it is the H.B.Harves, M.À.only medicine that is banishing sick-| The other features of the number ness and disease; the only one that is | are the fifth part of George Du Mau- bestowing health, vigor, and new life.| rier\u2019s last novel, The Martian,\u201d and; Amongst all classes its wonderful four complete stories; \u2018A Passage al power is felt directly the first bottle is Arms\u201da story of an encounter between commenced.| a woman art student and an Indian Paine\u2019s Celery Compound, owing to bandit, by John A.Becket; \u201cThe its honesty and never-disappointing | Stout Miss Hopkin\u2019s Bicycle,\u201d by Oc- virtues, has become the \u201cpeople\u2019s\u201d | tave Thanet, illustrated by C.8.Rei - chosen medicine, and ite worthy prais- | hart; \u201cThe Assembly Ball,\u201d a Colonie1 es are sung everywhere by thousands romance by Sard Beanmont Kennedy, of cured people.Nothing else in the | illustrated by Howard Pyle, and Prin- world is so well adapted for the needs ' cess \u201c\u2018 1-Would-I-Wot-Not,'w modern of the sick and suffering.After one love story, by Thomas Hastings; \u2018The i trial it becomes a friend.| Editor's Study,\u201d discusses the celebra- A cured lady, Mrs.George Durant, | tion of the incorporation of Princeton of Eima, Ont., writes as follows: | as 1 University; \u201cThe Editor's draw- \u201cFor many years I have been a suf- er is {itroduc:à with \u2018Jane, n Domes- ferer from liver troubles, and have tie Episode\u201d by John Kendrick Brngr.doctored with several physicians, but |The number is promissirg tohe an ex- only found relief for a very short time, cellent one.My husband advised me to try your | Paine\u2019s Celery Compound.I did so, and found so much relief from the first botsle that I continued, and am now using the third bottle.Your Compound hae done more for me than any \u2018physician.For months before using Rev.Mr.Dewey, of Montreal, the recently elected president of the Dominion Evangelical Alliance, was formerly pastor of the Chalmer\u2019s Church, cis College in Dr.Graham,s time.Ran Into an Open Switch, Collided with | the Track.A way freight train on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway was derailed at Barray\u2019s Bay, 110 miles | north-west of Ottawa, last Thursday | night.Three men were killed; Chas.| brakeman; Wm.Russell, in charge of | store car.Wm.Taylor, engineer, was badly scalded about the face and hands.All the victims were badly | scalded by escaping steam from the engine.Hutchinson and Casselman died near the scene of the accident, | within a short time, and Russell died at Carp on a train which was bringing him to Ottawa.Russell\u2019s death was | caused by scalding.Cusselman and Hutchinson died from ohter injuries.| At the time of the accident the train was made up of eighteen cars.About | four miles above Barry\u2019s Bay there is a very short siding, that will hold no | more than half a dozen cars.A cou- | ple of fiat cars were standing on this.The train, which was running fast to! get up a grade ahead, encountered a | wrongly set switch, rushed on to the siding, and intq the flat cars.The engine jumped the track and turned over on its side, dropping down an embankment of three or four feet.The tender was thrown round behind it, and the freight cars were piled up in a wreck.To make matters worse a considerable portion of the piping in the engine was wrenched out and the steam escaped in blinding clouds.On the engine at the time were Engineer Taylor, Fireman Hutchinson, Jas.Casselman, brakeman; and Wm.Russell who was in charge of asupply car, and who went into the cab to warm himself.Conductor Jas.Aris and Second Brakeman Peter Tapp were in the van, but escaped injury.The very highest praise is given to the engineer, Wm, Taylor.He was so badly scalded that it was impossible for him to assist in recovering the bodies, which were buried under the wreck.In this state he seized a flag, and made his way along the track for a mile, where he stood waving it, untill he stoped an express train that otherwise would have colided with the wreck.The cause of the accident was an open switch, but there is some mystery as to how it happened to be left open.It is said that the wreck was caused by train robbers who had expected the pay car would be attached to the train.A Gross Fraud.Howto Avoid Deception and Loss Some dealers in Canada buy pack- | age dyes that are so poor and weak | that it requires fully three packages | to give the depth of color that is ob- | tained from one single package of | the Diamond Dyes.These weak dyes, | worth from four to five cents, are sold | to consumers at ten cents per package, same price as the full strength Dia-! mond Dyes.Any woman who is urged by a dealer to buy these adulterated and weak dyes, should refuse at once to be | swindled.Such dyes are only a source of profit to the merchant who happens to sell them; they are certainly snares and Edeceptions to the TRAIN DERAILED.! \u2018Scme Flat Cars and Jumped | Hutchinson, fireman; Jas.Caselman, | The Only One To Stand the Test.Rev, William Copp, whose father was a physician for over Dity years, in New Jersey, and who himself spent many years preparing for the practice of medicine, but subsequently entered the ministry of the M.E.Church, writes: *1 am glad to testify that L have had analyzed all the sarsaparilla prepara.\\ tions known in the trade, but AYER\u2019S vds\" mis Lhe only one of Ta 2 them that I could = }° recommend as a toe dblonel-paritier.fhave given awiy hundreds of nities of it, 2s 1 consider it the safest as well 5 the best to be had.\" \u2014Wx.Corp, ison, Blinn, 1 THE ONLY WORLD'S FA Sarsaparilla Whenin doubt, ask forAyer\u2019s Pills The American Tailoring Cois the place to get a stylish: fitting garment ?Why?Because we have: the best workmen; we pay higher prices for making up garments than any other firm in the county, and they are per- gonally supervised by J.A, Glass, whe is a thorough, practical cutter.He has cut in Detroit, Buffalo, and Oil City, Pa.; also in Canada, at Toronto Hamilton, London, Kingston, and: other cities.33 years\u2019 experience; understands the trade thoroughly.We have the best stock to select from: and the very best trimmings.If you want a first-class fitting suit come along and bring your friends.All are invited.Prices no higher than others charge: for inferior work.AMERICAN TAILORING CO.Rock ISLAND.For the Best Fruit and Confectionery, Nuts, Canned Goods, Tobacco and Cigars.Go to N EELANS\u2019 DERBY LINE.woman who buys them.Loss, troublé and fraud ean be avoided by asking for the Diamond Dyes.Examineeach package.And be sure you see the name \u2018\u2018 Diamond.\u201d Working with the \u201cDiamond,\u201d your are sure of good, fast, brilliant and lasting colors.Recorder Goff, of New York, has sentenced Howard Scott, colored, who was convicted of murder in the first degree for killing his wife in New York some time ago, to be electrocuted during the week ending Mar.15.Don't worry.Don\u2019t run indebt, Don'ttrife.with your henlth, Don\u2019t try experimonts with medicines.Don't waste time and money on worthless compounds.Don't be persuaded to take no substitute for Aver's Sarsaparilla, It is the best of hlood-purifiees, Mr.and Mrs.Harry Wilcocks have returned to their home in Richmond after a three months\u2019 stay in England.Nogleet of the hair oftent destroys its vitality nnd natural hu, and causes it to fall out, Before it is tho Inte, apply Hall's Hair Renewer, a wire remedy, Mrs.J.Hakey of Bedford, died of apoplexy on the 12th inst.Richmond, and a student at St.Fran- Tor Over Fifty Years.Mrs, Winslow's to\u201c thing Sytup has ben FUSCA TOP OVOP Ia by JEU 0 ab) sand or ite 0 jor their elie en wiiie teething, with perfect {stecess.lt siothes the ehildos frees the gums, alavws all y ain, enyes wind colic.ar dis the best remeds fr aimrhoœn, It whhrelleve the poor Vittie sufferer trmmedintesy.Sole by ei veututs in every pant of the world.Twenty-five cerfs Va hottle, Pose and ask for Mrs.Winslow's | Soothing Sven, \"aad fake no other kind, The death rate of Toronto Jast year was 13.56 per thousand of population.The only Canadian city with a lower death rate is London, Ont, CASTORIA the Compound I never had one night = = of sound sleep; but now I can go to \u201cbed and sleep soundly and naturally, \u201cand feel ike a new creature in the ;.; morning.\u201d Cg vn en VE The reason why Ayers Cherry Pectoral in #0 much more effective than other remedies for\u201d olds and \u20ac ughs is because it is tho most skeil.- fu combination of anvdynes and oxpectorants | For Infants and Children, simile is on gaature WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.Excelsior te F 2 MONTHS.[EE IT IS NO PICKLE.You \u2018simply treat the Eggs with PRESERVER, and lay them away in a basket or box.seseaseasennnca LAY DOWN A SUPPLY WHEN THEY ARE CHEAP.Oall for book giving full information, frse ol charge.Sold by C.H.Taylo , Stanstead.MILLINERY.MISS H.A.TINKER is home from MILLINERY and FANCY GOODS.A LARGE LINE OF H ATS ROTH TRIMMED 3 AND UNTRIMMED, and everything new in Millinery Novelties.The newest things in Fancy Work, Underwear, Gloves and handkerchiefs.Please call and examine.Foster Block, knowa to medienl neience, Itds in every res, pect a scientific medicine.| wes TLRs vin Derby Line, Vit.Boston with a choice assortment of NEW LINES.Men\u2019s, Ladies\u2019 and Children\u2019s, FLANNELS, DRESS GOODS, READY-MADE CLOTHING, Overcoats and Ulsters.LADIES\u2019 FUR CLOAKS, Jackets and Capes, MEN\u2019S FUR COATS, GROCERIES.HARDWARE, &c.Bargains in \u2019em all at .PIKE BROS\u2019 ROCK ISLAND.At Cost &-\u2014 We offer J Balance of our Ladies\u2019 cloth Jackets at cost.Ladies\u2019 Fur Coats, Capes at cost.- - - Ladies\u2019s $10 Jackets for - - [13 $8 fé .(44 _ _ - ff $6 £6 lt - \u2014 $5.00 4.00 3.00 Large Discounts of All Winter Goods Before Stock Taking, PARKER & KNIGHT.Hatley, Dec.Ist, 1896.The Hatley Man is \"Way Off .in his explanation of the \u201cGreat Ex- citement at Kathan\u2019s.The remarkably Low Prices offered this Fall would cause an excitement even in Hatley.Here is one of them: Good Clothes Wringer For $1.50.Full line of ALL-WOOL UNDERWEAR Received and coming daily.Too busy waiting on customers to write ads this week.Further Particulars Later.KATHAN'S, ROCK ISLAND.pre EE \u201cSaved My Life\u201d A VETERAN'S STORY.«Several years ago, while in Fort Snelling, Minn., 1 caught a severe cold, attended with a terribie cough, that allowed me no rest day or night.The doctors after exhausting their remedies, pronounced my 7309 case hopeless, saying theycould dono more for me, At this time a bottle of AYER\u2019S Cherry Pectoral wis Ÿ sent to me by a j friend who urged me to take it, which after I was greatly reli ved, andl in a short tine was completely enced.I have never had much cf a congh since that time, and 1 firmly believe Aver's Cherry Poetoral saved my life.\u201d \u2014W, H, Ward, 8 Quimby Av, Lowell, Mass, AVER'S Cherry [Pectoral Highest Awards at World's Fair, AYER'S PILLS cure Indigestion and Headache PLAIN AND FANCY (CROCKRY A New Line just received; none better in this part of the country.A SPECIALTY IN Dinner and Tea Sets.Take a look at these goods; then if you want to buy we will make an object for you to trade with us.Fine Groceries, .Fruit, Confectionery.WE LEAD IN TEAS.Cranberries always on hand.Oysters at Wholesale and retail.We keep Hovey Bros.\u2019 Pork and Lard, Pork Loins, Sausage and Hams.These goods are the best.A few Massey-Harris Plows left to close.All kinds Plow Repairs on hand.PARKER'S, ROCK ISLAND.THE MONTREAL BUSINESS COLLEGE.Corner of Victoria Square and Craig St.ESTABLISHED : 1864.This College is tho largest, best equipped and most thorough Commercial College in Canada.The permanent staff consists of nine expert teachers (two French nud seven English) who devote their time exclusively to the students of thig institution.We send free to all applicants a Souvenir Prospectus containing full information, new price list, and photographic views of the departments in which the Theoretical aud Practical Courses are taught.Studies will be resumed on September Ist.Address, J.D.DAVIS, Principal, Montrenl Business College.Montreal, Canada, Fall and Winter Time - Table.On and after Monday, October 5th, 1898, trains will run as follows: TRAINS LEAVE SHERBROOKE.EXPRESH\u2014 Leave Sherbrooke Arrive Dudswell Jet.8,00 a.m.000 a, m, St.Francis, 1,00 p.m.\u201c Levis.1,55 * $ Quebve (Ferry) 200 Pullman Painee Car from Springfield to Que- hoe connecting nt Sherbrooke with Pullman Palace Car from Boston by this train.ACCOMMODATION\u2014 Leave Sherbrooke, Arrive Dudswell Jet.\u201c Levis, 1130 p m.12,40 1, M.8, \u201c Quebec (Ferry) 815 * WAY FREIGHT\u2014 Leave Sherhrooke, 8.10 a.m.Arrive Dudswell Jot, 11.00 a.m.Beauce Jet, 5,45 p.m TRAINS ARRIVE SHIRBROOKE.EXPRESS\u2014 Leave Quebce (Ferry) 1.30 p.m.\u201c Levis (Q.U.R ) 2,00 p.m.2.50 p.m.8.85 p.m.1.50 p.m.\u2018 St, Francis, Arrive Dudsawell Jet, \u201c Sherbrooke, Pullman Palace Cur from Quebec to Springfield connecting nt Sherbrooke with Pullman Palace Car for Boston, ACCOMMODATION\u2014 Lenve Quebec (Ferry) 6.30 p.m, \u201c Leave Levis (Q.C.R.) 700 p.m.Arrive Dudswoll Jet.2,40 a, m.\u201c Sherbrooke.4.00 a.m.WAY FREIGHT\u2014 Lenve Benuce Jet, 0,30 a.m.Arrive Dudswell det.2,10 p.m.« Shertooke, 8,80 p.m.Connections made at Dudswell Junction with the Mnine Central R,R.Ho that passengers leaving Sherbrooke in the morning make quick connections for Cookshire, Sawyerville, ete, For tickets and further information apply to he Company's Agents.FRANK GRUNDY, J.H.WALSH, General Manager, Gen'1 Pass\u2019r Agent.New Sleighs Cheap.Just received from Kingston (Ont.) Vehicle Co., 1 car load of Sleighs.Call and get prices.eap.: Cheap, Ch s0w18 JOHN CLARKE, Griffin.[4 CUTTING UP A HOG.To Divide and Cure the Carcass to Best Advantage.This is to be done skillfully to make the best uses of the meat.depending on | the way it is to be used.First, the carcass is halved by splitting the backbone, If bacon is to be made, the side is sawed down so as to cut through the rib bones, Jeaving a long strip from each side, which may afterward be cut into pieces as may be desirable.The shoul ders and hams are cot out and trimmed, and the rib pieces are reserved for roasts or to be salted for boiling.The head and feet are well worth saving, being cleaned avd boiled and chopped into small pieces, then once more brought to a boiling beat apd then! poured out into molds to sect into a solid jelly, when it becomes what is commonly known as brawn, ono of the most agreeable kinds of foud to Le eaten cold, If some chickens are cut vp and cooked with the meat, it is much improved.The thin meat, shoulders and hams are much improved by smoking, The meat keeps better during the summer and a moderate smoking with corncobs or hickory turk with the small twigs add much to the flavor of it.For smoking the salting should be light and is best done by the simple rubbing of the meat, The meat, being cut into convenient pieces, is laid upon n banch with the skin down aud a mixture of seven pounds of fine salt, four ounces of sult- peter aud two pounds of sugar, of the guality known as coffee sugar, is well mixed, Sometimes spice of various kinds is added and on the wkole is desirable.To the quuntity of sult and sugar mentioned one ounce each of ground ginger, allspice and cinnamon may be added.These quantities are for 100 pounds of meat.The mixture is rubbed on tho ment on the flesh side, not all at once, but at intervals of a week, the meat being left to drain during the intervals, To prevent drying of the moat tho pieces are piled one upon the other and a weighted piece of board is laid on the top.Three weeks of this curing is suffi- sient, when the meat is hung in a smoke house for fina) caring by the smoke.The most important part of this proe- 388 is the coolness of the smoke and tho absence of the fire heat on the meat.The smokehonse should be tight, and to keep out flies it should be lined with fing wire gauze, The fire is best made outside of the house in a pit, having a stovepipe laid s0 #s to carry the smoke into the house through the floor.The smoke is thus cooled and gives a much more pleasant flavor to the meat.Half an hour's smoking twice a week for four weeks will be sufficient, and this is better than to smoke the meat every day.If the smokehouse is made im- preguable ta the meat flies and beetles, it will be the best place for keeping the meat until the warm weather is about to arrive in the spring.Then the meat should be wrapped in paper, or tied in the common paper bags and hung in a dry place, or if perfectly dry it may be packed in boxes or barrels in dry bran.If it is stored in a cool, dry place, it will keep in excellent condition without molding until the next season.\u2014Mont- real Herald.Warm Their Drinking Water, Where animals are turned out to drink icy water it chills them very quickly, and in the case of milk cows the shrinkage in the milk flow is noticeable at once.Last winter I put in a rank heater and find that it works very well.My, water tusk is in tho barnyard, and the source of supply is à spring.ln severely cold weather the water in this tank becomes frozen over unless some means of warming it is used.After sotting the heater in the tank and keeping the lamp burning it warms it so that no ice forms in the coldest weather except at the extreme ends, We have a cover which is hinged to the tank at one side, and this is kept closed except while watering the live stock.The earth is well banked up round the tank, so as to protect it as far as possible from frost.If care is taken in filling and lighting the Jump which supplies the heat, no odor, or at least very little, of kerosene js perceptible, but none must be spilled in the water, nor must the wick be so high as to cause the lamp to smoke.In regard to the desired temperstaro of the drinking water for milk cows in winter, Mr.B.B.Gurirr, an authority on duiry matters, says that according to his experience 80 degrees is noue too high.He tells of one incident in regard to this which occurred in his own barn, where the water vas warmed by the steam from the creamery building.The steam was injected into the water bofcre it passed through the stable.One cold morning when the young cattle were turned out to drink, Mr.Gurler happehed to be watching them.They went to the place where the warm water was dischurged from the pipe and put their nosts under the stream that was running into the tank.Mr.Gurler does not state just bow warm the water was, but says it was \u2018so warm it steamed right along.'\u201d He says also that he hus noticed that cows always prefer warns water even in warm weather, Without doubt it is much better for all animals in winter to drink water which is at least GO degrees.I have often Doticed, years ago, before we kuew anything about tank heaters, that the horses would shiver after drinking a pailful of cold water in winter, and I do not see why we did not think of warming the water long ago.I believe it pays to do so, und feel well repaid for the expense of putting in a heater.In the case of milk cows, they will drink much more of the warm water than of that which is icy cold, and we want them to drink all they possibly can.\u2014W.O.Rockwood in Oountry Gentleman.HORSE TYPES.Here Are Handsome Épccimens of Four Noted Equine Tribes, Taken all together the four samples of horseflesh represented in tho illnatra- tions show the points of the different families as well us auy pictures we have seen, Two are draft, two are travelers.The first one is a magnificent Percheron, imported.He is the kind of horse that has been aptly named \u2018the farmer's trot.PERCHERON.ter.\u201d\u2019 Whore there is n market for large aud handsome drafts, the Percheron will be as good a \u2018\u2018trotter'\u2018\u2019 as the ordinary farmer can raise.There is always a demand for those splendid grays ju the cities, for express and beer wagons and fer wholesale groceries thut pride themselves on the Jooks of their teams.Grade Percherons, if large und haudsowe, also bring good prices.\u2018 The second illustration shows the heaviest typo of draft horse, tho bugs Share, The Shire is tho great draft horse of England, where things wost be heavy and strong, even when there is no need SHIDE of it.At the nnuual royal agricultural show in England some years over 500 Shires are entered in the various classes, A full grown Shire is sometimes 17 hands high und weighs considerably over n ton.The one in the picture is in height 16.2.He was sold in England for the great sum of $12,500.This shows the estimation in which the Shire is held at home.In America he is considered rather heavy and slow for everyday use, though for the heaviest trucks upon the docks and wharfs this horse would undoubtedly be in demand.Very different is the French coaching stallion here shown.He, too, is u foreign animal.The trimming of his mane seems peculiarly Frenchy.The beautiful French coachers present the largest type of car- FRENCH COACHER.riage animal, They are 16 hands high and sometimes more.The oross of the French coaching stallion upon good sized American trotting mares would apparently produce the ideal carriage horse.Last of all we offer yon herewith the picture of an American horse, as purely | American as any can be.Ethan Allen 1II is a stallion of the pure Vermont Morgan blood descended from Vermont Blackhawk.He is considered one of the finest living types of the royal Morgan blood.He is 15.2 in height and weighs 1,100 pounds.poised head shows the Morgan life and spirit.Imported animals are well ETHAN ALLEN LI.enough, but we will put this Yankee against any one of them in all the qualities that go to make a perfect horse.We cannot have too much Morgan in this country.Bred for size, these horses can be made to fill the bill for any kind of driving purposes.They make exceptionally fine saddlera too.They drop dead in the traces before they will give up, and they are the kindest and most intelligent creatures.The man who won the first prize for sheep shearing at the New York live stock show completed his task in 27 minutes and 2 gecouda.There were others who made better time, but this man did far the neatest job.Moral.\u2014It pays to do a thing well even if it does take A little more time.BARMAIDS IN LONDON SOME VERY RESPECTABLE GIRLS CHOOSE THIS VOCATION.One of Them, a Besutiful Irish Lass, Ex- | plains Why Many of Them Do S8o\u2014They j Are Looking Tor Good Matrlinonial | Catches\u2014 Titles Wanted Usually.i | Under the title \u2018Feminine Types In | London\u2019 Jesse Francis Sheppard gives lin Le Nouvelle Revue un accouut of | the London barmaids.| \u201cThey are reeruited,\u2019\u2019 he Enys, | \u201camong the bourgeoize as well ng among : the lower classes.Some of the most in- | teresting types can be found in the bars | or public houses of the west end, olose to the fashionable theaters.Among | them are very many perfectly respectable girls, who have chosen the career of a barmaid in crder to make p living | and, especially if they ore pretty, to get a chance to cuteh n rich husband.\u2018A public house, situated at the angle of one of the principal thoroughfares, is both a gilded palace and amino of gold.It excreises n strange fascination upon the poor country bumpkins who huve just enough to pay for a drink, but the dude coming out of n theater, the country greenhorn, the fashionable snob and the frequenter of the music halls are always to be found there.It is among these that tle burmnids hunt for a husband.If there is one elass of London : society more stupid than another, it is! that oue which includes the frequeuters of the public houses, With a pipe in his mouth and a glass of becr or whisky in front of hiw the young Lnglishman, dressed in fushionuble style, with n slight and elegant figore and regular fentures, remains standing for more than an hour paying pretty littlo compliments to one or several of these Indies, | \u201cThe barmuid judges ber customers by the cat of their clothes.If you want 1 to attract her attention, you must pro- sent yourself with a silk bat and n handsome cape in your hurd and à suit cut in the lateat fashion.The high hat is de rigueur, Without that thers is no possible chance of success, \u201cIt was not withont difficulty that I managed to get nn interview with one of these yonng ladies, whose intelligence was cqual to her beauty.At first I was astonished at finding so much intelli- genco in an English girl, but 1 learned | that she was Irish, and that expluined : the mystery.Her father was dead und - her mother was loft without resources.So she was determined to come to London and Jock for a husband by posing behind a bar in Piccadilly.\u201c* \u20181 was hardly more than three days here,\u2019 she suid with au amiable and: roguish air, \u2018when I understood why iv | was that so muny pretty English girls | don't get husbands.When they are! beautiful, they are generally stupid.When they aro intelligent, they are cold, masculine and wgly.Englishmen travel a great deal and meet in their ramblings through the world vory many sprightly women, and they do not care for pretty | girls who don't know hows to chat with them.\u2019 \u201c \u2018But in this mixture that comes here to drink and chat,\u2019 I said, \u2018how do you distinguish the men of the world from the others?\u2019 +] recognizo them by three things,\u2019 ghe said boldly, \u2018by their figure, by their clothes and by their complexion.For the most part they are tall and thin, | dressed in the latest fashion and have a complexion more or less bronzed.This last trait is the surest sign.\u2019 Seeing that { looked astonished, she added: \u2018Noth- | ing can be more simple.An English { gentleman, if he has a fortune, passes three-fourths of his time hunting and | in other cpen nir exercise.The chaps who remain always in London have a puler and more delicata complexion, and, moreover, the expression of their faces is quite different from that of the others.\u2019 .* Noticing with what attention I was listening to her, sho continued: \u2018The | gentlemen that I refer to have nothing | elegant ubout them except their clothes, for their conversation lacks novelty.How can a man who understunde noth- In: color ho is bay.His delicate, finely : ing but bunting and cricket interest an | intelligent woman?The conversation , that goos on here in the name of wit makes me tired, but these gentlemen are the easiest of all to deceive.Thuy are .great big children in everything except | sport and politics.\u2019 \u2018But you are always engaged,\u2019 I said, \u2018and it is difficult to get an oppor- © tunity to chat with you.You must al- \u201cready have had several offers of mar- \u201c riage?tI have been only one month here, and I have alieady had three.Two were from very rich sportsmen, but \"riches alone won't do for we, What 1 \u201cam after,\u2019 she added, laughing, \u2018ia a title.Yona know, I must have a title,\u2019 \u201cAt this moment the play in one of the neighboring theaters was over, and the public house wus invaded by a ! crowd of men, more or lessstylish.Tho beautiful Irish girl kept herself some- ; what aloof and only served customers _ that had the appearance of gentlemen.\u201cWell, I left London.A few months | afterward, on returning there, I wanted | to see once more my beautiful Irish bar- | maid.She was gone, Another lady was \"in her pluce, and she told me that Miss Clara bad left to marry the second son | of à prominent nobleman.\u2019\u2019 Addition to Yellowstone Park.Captain Anderson, snperintendent of the Yellowstone Nationai pork, says , that an effort is being made to secure legislation from congress which wouid add the Jackron\u2019s Hole country to the park, The area which it was proposed to take in is about 50 miles gquare and contains Jackson's lake and the Three Tuton mountain peaks.It is rich in natoral scenery and would, in the opin- jon of the captain, add materially to | the park's attractiveness, Senator Carter of Montana has drafted a biil for that purpose, which has the indorse- | ment of the senators from Montana and | 1daho, but the Wyoming senators have .not yet been wou over \u2014Omaha Bee.HUMOR OF THE HOUR.Abont a month ago a farmer near Ohicago decided to wove to tow, so he went to the city und hunted up a real estate ngeut and offered to trade his farms for city lots.Tho agent was all business and was iu for a trade af once, \u201cI want to show you,\u201d he suid, \u201c'a block of the finest lots anywhere in Chit cago.They're centrally located and cheap us sawdust, Get in my buggy, and l'Il take you out to see them.\u2018 They drove out und louked at the lots, and the agent expatiuted at great length on the advantages of their lovation and finally suid: \u201cNow, when can I have a.look at your farm?\u201d \u201cI'll show it to you presently,\u2019 anid the farmer.It's about ten mites back \u201con the road between here and town.\u2019\u2014 Detroit Free Press.A Proud Record.SWho was that Squire Huxtable that died last week?asked the euller at the newspaper office.\u201cHe was ua man,\" responded the editor of the Perkins Junction Palladium, \u2018who bad taken this paper 18 years, always paid for it in advance, never expected me to make a focal item about it when he put a new roof on his barn or sold his pork, when he came in to ask me a question never began by saying, \u2018An wilitor is supposed to know every thing.\u201d always sent n #2 bill with the wedding notice whenever any of his family got married and never had an idea he could run my paper Letter than I could,\u201d And the editor of The Palladium furtively tried to wipe away a tear with the office towel.\u2014Chicass Tribune, An Old Hand.\u201cI am very sorry, sir,\" said the poet, \u2018put lan obhiged to call your attention to the fuet (zut u line an one of my re- cont compositions was entirely perverted and the n eming pantully distorted by the compeositor.\u201cYoung man, * replied the editor, \u201cthat compusitor has gone through more pues than you ever wrate or even road.He has put in fos life gerting up poctry of all kinds, spring and fall styles and heavier goods for winter.He may have changed your poem, but when you say he harmed ir you pregume.When woman of his experience makes up his mind to change à pivce of poctry, à perron in your position should remember the respect thut is due fo superior knowledge and not attempt to criticiso.\u2019\u2014\\Wasgh- ington Star.Adulteration.\u201cOne of the grout objections to whisky,\u201d suid the man of abstomious habits, *\u2018is the fact that in this ern of adulters tion it contains 60 many foreign substances.\u2018Young man, * replied Colonel Still- well, \u201cyou have just given utteranco to one of the most impressive truths that 1 know of.Why, sub, lust night I saw n man pouring wutah into it ''\u2014Ex- change.Hardships of Talent.Bogge\u201d Old _Friend\u2014Great hoavens, man, do I find you reduced to playing a cornet on the street corner to make n living?.Bogge-l ain't doing this to make a: living.My wife won't lot me practice in tho house.\u2014Tit-Bits, Incomprehensible.Bildad\u2014What do you think of my wife?Ichabod\u2014I think she's a sir, a poens.Bildud\u2014Um! can\u2019t News.poom\u2014yes, A magazine poem! | understand her.\u2014 Manchester A Plausible Theory.Mickey\u2014Dem klk stockin kids doan\u2019 dare ride down hill on like wa do, do dey, Juke?Jake\u2014Aw.! duuno.Dey don't, but mebby it's \u2018cause appeudyscetis runs in deir fumblies, \"nit ain't safe.\u2014Trath.It Worried Her.Servant\u2014Shure, mum, Rover\u2019a just afther bitin the Jig oft av the butcher b\u2019y.Mistress\u2014 Doar, dear, how dreadfully annoying! 1 do hope he was a eles boy, Mury!\u2014T1t-Bits Insight.\u201cWhen two women quarrel, I can always tell which is to blame.\u201cHow do you do jt?\u201d \u201cf know that the one who seems most amiable has been the aggressor,\" \u2014Chi- cago Record.Wonders.\u201cWhat makes you so quiet, Ferry?Are you wondering what yon will Hay to your wife when you get home?\u201d \u201cNo, 1 was wonaeMng what she would say to me \"\u2019\u2014Civcinnati Enquirer.Looked That Way.Mrs.Brown\u2014Does Mra.Dorcas belong to the sewing circle?Brown\u2014I think ro, her husband fastens his suspenders with a string.\u2014New York Sunday Journal.The Old Time Fire.Talk ¢rhoudt yer Luillin's That's sll het up by «tem.Give me the old oak fire Whar the old folks useter dream.Tho rickety dogiruns, One sided ss could be: The aclies banked with taters, Roastin thar fer me! The dog on one side drowsin Or Larkin nigh the door.The kitten euttdn capers With wae knittin on the floor.Ar.me a little towhead By mammy's side at night, With both iny cheeks a-Lurnin From the red flames leapin bright! These st am het Lbuildin's make me Jest weary fer the Lluze That wuz heap more comfortable In childhood nights an days.An I'd give the finest heater In the buildin's het by steam Fer the ~1d time chimbly corner Whar the old folks uscter dream, \u2014Atlanta Constitution, der stummicks I've noticed that THE DOCTOR'S STORY.An Experience Tat Followed » Call at Night, Four or five physiciaus were talking up town the othr evening ut the hore of one, and the conti r#ation later turned ta shop, Oue of thew had regently moved lis office down town, and there Wang Roire discussion us fo the advisability of separntiug houss and office, \u201cWell,\"* enid the separatist, \u201cI can\u2019t ace auy difference so long ns I am at my office during «flice hours \u201d* \u201cLet me tell you n story, \u2018* remarked the oldest Man in the party.\u2018\u2018Thiety gears age, when I begun \u201cTictico, 1 livod in Virginia, und for a yo or twol slept in my office.Then I married, and my wife owned n nice houscg and I went to it to live.It sat back from the street about 50 feet, and wo decided that it would be much nicer it wo hall my office aut ou the street in tho far corner of tho lot.Only 50 feet away, you will observe, but still it was enough.In order to see such callers as came during the night I had a night bell and a speaking sube connecting the front door of the office with my bedroom.You see, 1 did\u2019 not want au patient to eseapo under any circumstances, \u201cWell, everything went nicely enough for three yenrs or ko, when ono night a ring came to my bell, It was then about 3 o'clock in the morning, and the ring was n het one.1 asked who it was, and the answer came from a frieml of mine to the effet that he was nn mighty sick man and wanted to geo me at once, 1 told him to come around to the house and I would mect hnn ag the door and take care of him.Then I got up, and, putting on my dressivg gown amd slip pers, I proceeded to the gront door, But there was no one there and no one in sight on the way between the gate and the hike.\u201cPhat was odd, and | went back and called through the tube to know what wad wrong, 1 received no answer, and, being quite unable to acconnt for it, 1 took my hinp\u2014it way à very dark and still night\u2014and started to go out and investigate.Just as 1 wad about to step \u2018uff the porch I lowersd my lamp to got a better fight on tho step, and thore at the foot of the pereh lay à body.] turned it over at once, and os the light fell on tho face I saw it was my friend who had only a minute before spoken to me, Heo wan quite dend.And when an examination wus made, it was discovered that he had died of heart disease, and fo near to me that 1 could almost have touched him.Possibly 1 could not have boen of any service to him if I had seen him when he first rang tho bell, but the possibility that 1 might so affected ms that from that day to this I have had my office ns near my bel ns Loould get it.\u2018 \u2014LExchange.HE LOST A FORTUNE.Or, \u201cThere Are Moments When One Wants to Be Alone.\u201d A middle sized man, with a gray mustache and u red tie hitched up on his collar, walked through the restaurant, nodding to nequaintances horo and there.As Le stopped at the cashier's desk 8 mnt who wus seated at n table noticed him, and, leaning neross to his vis-n-vin, suid, Captain 8\u2014\u2014, United States postal inspretor and grand officia) cuteher of green gocde men.\u201d Yes?\" with interest from across the table, \u201cBure.I have always regarded him with a peculinraffection, Me came very near making mo a rich man once\u2014in fact, alist mado a wealthy citizen of ime\u2014so well to do that I would never bave hud to work again.\" \u201cHow was that?\u201d with a ineredulity.\u201cThin way: About a year ago the captain supe rintended n grand haul of green goods men, The firm which he raided was the largest, perhaps, in the country and had unlimited capital.They hud packages of good money to catch auckers with, and this money, smounting to over $160,000, was eap- tured and plueed in n big satchel by the captain, I called on his for details of the story that afternoon.Ho wus alone in the office, There were three of us\u2014 the captain, myself and the satchel, Ho opened the ratehel and showed me wealth beyond my wildest dreams, I hated to leave the beautiful vision,\u201d And the narrator sighed deeply.\u201cWell, \u2018\u2019 said his friend, \u2018I don*t are i how that was auything like making yon | a rich man.\u201d ; \u201cYou dont?Well, let me toll you thig: If the captain had tarned his buck i for just wix seconds I would have been a rich man immediately.But he never turned, and I had to go awasy again as ; poor as when 1 eae,\u201d And with another bitter, heartronding sigh he watched the inspector stroll out into tho street, \u2014Chicago News.the man shade of The Plausible Lie, Ws resent calumny, hyporrisy and treachery because they barm us, not because they are untrue.Take the detraction and the mischief from the untruth, and we are little offended by it.Turn it into praise, nnd we may be pleased with it.And yet it is not calumny and treachery thut do the largest sum of mischief in the world, They are contin.nelly crushed snd aro felt only in being conquered.Bat it is the glistening and roftly spoken lie, the aminhle fallacy, the patriotic lie of the historian, the provident lie of the politiciun, the zealous lie of the partisan, the merciful lie of the friend and the careless lie of each wan to himself that cast that black mystery over humanity through which we thank any man who piercer, as we would thank one who dog a well in a desert.Happy that the thirst for troth remains with us, even when we have wilifuily left the fountainaof it \u2014Joba Roskin.\u2018 The Measure of the Man.When a man says he is satisfied with bis lot, you muy be sure of one of two things-\u2014either be is a very enterprising and cunning specimen of humanity or he is u liar.\u2014Up to Date.CREE.Ln STEER i ¥ ; | - \u2018 able that all such instances should be! 4 recorded, there need not be any fear | \u201cof desastrous consequences.\u201d A Se SR A The Stanstead Journal.PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE JOURNAL PRINTING CoO.| Rock ISLAND, QUE, One year (advance pryment) LE paid in six months, At the ¢nd of the year, ADVERTISING RATES.Transient advertising 10 cents a line for the first insertion and § ceats for each sabsiyuent Insertion, 12 lines to the inch.No advertise ment received for les than 50 cents.71.00 1:25 1.50 The Bostonians are playing in Montreal at the Academy of music to large audiences.It is réported that President Me- Kinley will call an extra session of Congress after his inauguration, for the purpose of deuling with the tariff.According to the reports from Ottawa, an expedition is to be sent to Hudson bay to find out three things\u2014 first, the date of the opening of the navigation there; second, the date of the closing of navigation; and third, the fishery resources.lb seems extraordinary that an expedition should be fitted out to get this information, when it is only necessary to turn to the sessional papers of 1887, No.15 of Vol.14, to read it all.A curious circumstance al.out the expedition is the fact that the Imperial Government has been asked to join in it, and has declined on the ground that it does not believe the route feasible, in which\u2019 opinion Mr.Dobell, a member of the Ottawa Government, has joined.Mr.| Dobell does not think the expedition of any use, but is spending the money of the people upon it.It ought to be added that a couple of by-elections are about to take place in Manitoba, and that the Government wants to convey the impression in the West that it is preparing to build a Hudson bay railway.The Government organ in Win- PLAGUE IN INDIA.Re\u2019'isf works in Punjab\u2014The Government Dcing Good Work, Advices from Calcutta state that the Government has ordered the stoppage on February 2 of all pilgrim traffic from Bombay and Karachi on account of the plague, There are now more than 1,750,000 persons on relief works, and about 170,000 are receiving gratuitous relief.The principal increase in the number of persons 'relieved is in Bengal and the northwest.The cost of the relief works is nearing two lukhs of rupees daily.The exodus from Karachi continues.There have been 543 cases of the plague i there and 498 deaths.At Bombay the plague mortality is estimated at 248 daily.AT THE RELIEF WORKS.The special correspondent of the | Ass\u2019 Press who is visiting the famine- stricken districts of India, accompa- :nying the official mission engaged in the same work, wired the following \u2018from Jhylum, Punjab, on the 22nd: An \u2018exhaustive inspection was made of \u2018the vast relief work known us the \u201cJhylum canal, about which no less than 40,000 coolies are congregated.Of this number 12,000 persons, either infirm, aged, or blind, are classed as | non-workers.As the correspondent arrived here i the coolies were just quitting work, jand the scene recalled the spectacle | of the great Oriental mela, The preponderance of women and children ! was noticeable.After visiting the tents, the officials of the mission traversed the bazaar market, a long double line of mat huts thatched with grass.The market was filled with grain dealers, and nipeg has just declared against a fast\u2019 heaps of wheat, barley, maize, and atlantic service, on the ground that the Hudson bay railway is more necessary.\u2014Montreal Gazette, The Quebec Legislature has closed millet were piled on the ground in | front of the huts.Prices, it was re- { marked, had fallen slightly since the | recent rains, which have caused a lit- \u201ctle change for the better in the strick- its session and its life, being the Sth en districts; but, in spite of this, the legislature of the Province since con- prices asked for grain were terribly federation established a Parliament | high, the cheapest kind being double for Canada comprising all the proyv- the nominal prices.The regular trad- inces and legislative powers to each |ers are furnished with huts free of province.The session has been noted charge, and from one hut tea, stewed for good work accomplished as well | goat\u2019s flesh, and other such luxuries as much talking t> the outside people, | were dispensed to the customers, such as is customary in the last session.| as minor officials of the Government, The session will be remembered as a | etc., who were rich enough to indulge working one, with some important in them.legislation accomplished.The leader of the Government and his conferees | fo are entitled to much credit for putting through legislation that will help in clearing off the embarrassments and finance errors forced upon the country by former adverse legislation.The fight in the next election promises to be a hot one, and it is intimated that.the Liberal party will force a fight with the R.C.Church in this Province.It is a mistake to drag religion into politics, as has been often exemplified in Enropean history.Hospital tents have been erected ! for the care of the sick, but up to the ; present there has been no necessity to use them.The officials of the mission next made an inspection of the coolie quarters, consisting of loug rows of mat huts, thirty feet apart.They are ranged on both sides of a broad, sandy \u2018street, and are kept scrupulously clean.Each hut is built to accommodate fifty persons, who are constantly under the supervision of different officials.The canal works were then visited, \u2018and a marvellous scene was witnessed, INDIA FAMINE-STRICKEN.Canada to the Res ue.According to the report of an offi-' cial high in the service of the Indian Government, six millions of people in India are on the verge of starvation, About 28,000 men and women were busily at work, Some were digging, and others were carrying away the excavated dirt in baskets, upon their heads.The workers were a healthy, \u2018vigorous, cheerful lot of people, many and already the famine has claimed of them singing as they progressed thousands of victims.The desparate with the tasks alotted to\u2019 them, and state of the case is now accurately now and then glancing at their chil- known, and the whole civilized world, dren, who were playing about in the is aroused.Relief must be sent to In- vicinity, apparently quite as healthy dia, and that too, without delay.The and strong as their parents.people of Great Britain have already: At the Registering Department, the taken action, America is following, visiting officials had another interest- their example, and even Russians are ing exporience.Four clerks, seated contributing to the relief of British i on a high bamboo platform, were giv- subjects in the Indian Empire.The ing the new arrivals in search of relief relief movement in Canada has been: work the slip of paper qualifying Inaugurated in the Montreal Star, them for employment on the works.newspaper, whose publisher has head- On these slips were inscribed the ed the list with a subscription of five names, caste, description, and amount hundred dollars.That opens the re-|of wages to be paid to the workers lief fund in this country, and from all who were in turn told off to the dif- parts of the Dominion come words of, ferent sections of the canal.The approval and promises of co-opera- | greatest order and discipline prevailed tion.Premier Laurier has written to | ON all sides, and there was a cheerful- the Star stating his approval of the ness and regularity about the whole course\u2019taken by its publisher, and to' proceedings which reflected credit the Relief Fund he adds his cheque for | upon all concerned.a handsome amount.: Finally the mission officials visited The Protestant clergy of Montreal the huts set sapart for the helpless hase all joined in a memorial to the non-workers.There, again, there was Star supporting the cause of Canadian | evidence of good work on the part of assistance for India.The appeal is: the Government officials.The same being heard and responded to.| extreme cleanliness prevailed in and Subscriptions to the Relief Fund, about the huts, and every medical great or small, sent to the Montreal care possible was bestowed upon Star, will be publicly acknowledged.those needing attention.a mr Many babies have already been A case of pleuro-pneumonia has born at the canal works, and the been reported to the British Board of, mothers of these infants are main- Agriculture right under their very tained free of charge, receive extra noses\u2014in a cowshed in the East End pay while they are incapacitated from of London.This has made the old doing hard work, and are also allowed country people feel uncomfortable.: extra pay for the maintenance uf their The London Times tries hard to he re- babies.Deserted babies or babies assuring.Itsays: \u2018The case is ap-| whose mothers are unable to suckle parently one of the old standing which | them are fed from bottles on con- has lingered undetected amongst us, | densed milk, by the medical staff.and although it is exceedingly desir- | PLAGUE AT KAMARAN.A late despatch from St.Petersburg says two cases of the bubonic plegue One case of East London doe# not matter, but although Canada has had no case ed from Kamaran.Kamaran is an which is raging in Bombay are report- at al), but only afew caaes of illfound- ed suspicions in the course of years, her cattle must remain under a permanent embargo.Truly the officials of the British Board of Agriculture atl sare gueer people.\u2014Montrenl Gazette.island off the west coast of Arabia, in the Red Seca.It is a British possession and one of the landing stations near : the city of Mecca.A severe quaran- | tine has been established by the Rus- DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD.Dr.Joseph C.Greene, a distinguished Buffalo, N.Y., physician, ex- president of the Erie County Medical Society, who recently made a tour of the world, and incidentally inspected India very closely, is afraid the bu- bonie fever now devastating that country may spread to America.\u201cI would not be surprised to see itap- pear in this country, just as cholera and the grippe spread around the world.There are so many deaths from the fever in Bombay that the vultures are not able to dispose of the bodies, and a pestilence is feared on that account.\u201d \u201cWhat have vultures got to do with the disposal of dead bodies?\u201d asked the reporter.\u201cWhy, the Parsees, you know, give their dead to the vultures.The Parsees are the sleekest of the natives\u2014 they are the bankers and the merchants of Bombay; and they believe in the sacredness of the earth, fire, and water, so they do not throw their dead into the water, neither do they cremate nor bury the dead.They erect tall towers, place the dead at the top, and the vultures and crows do the rest.I witnessed a Parsee burial in Bombay.The tower was abcut thirty feet in height.When the corpse was being carried to the tower, I could see the vultures gathering from near and far.They appeared to know that a horrid feast was being prepared for them.The body was taken to the top of the tower, and was nude except for a sort of shroud-like garment placed over it very loosely.When the body was placed in the position designed for it, the vultures were only a few feet away, perched on the edge of the tower.When the bearers departed the great birds began their dreadful work, and within 16 minutes the bones were comparatively clean.Then waiting crows finished the scavenger work, the bones were dropped intoa pit beneath the tower, and the horrible affair was over.,\u2019 .NO FEAR FOR CANADA.Mr, John Lowe, late Deputy Minister of Agriculture, and now a consulting member of the departmental staff, expresses his opinion regarding the bubonic plague in India.The United States authorities are taking extraordinary precautions, but Mr.Lowe declares that so far as Canada is concerned there is \u201cnot the slightest cause for alarm.\u201d Mr.Lowe adds: \u2014 \u201cExperience has clearly demonstrated that the bubonic plague is restricted to the filthy districts of the cities attacked.This fact was most clearly noticeable when, in 1894-95, the disease broke\u2019 out in Hong Kong.,In that immense city the plague was entirely confined to its dirty slums and suburbs, leaving intact the cleanly districts.To prevent its further spread in Europe, the Governor of Hong Kong resorted to decisive and drastic measures.He ordered three of the uncleanly suburbs that were being ravaged by the epidemic to be burned down, and the polluted districts thoroughly cleansed.In consequence the disease almost immediately disappeared, and was thoroughly stamped out.It was at this time that British Columbia was menaced by an invasion of the plague, and in view of the serious alarm that was thus aroused in Canada, I accordingly made a special study of every feature of the disease.1 may mention that only one or two of the English nurses fell victims to the plague in Hong Kong, and in each case ib was owing to the very exceptional way in which they exposed themselves to infection.As in the case of the cholera epidemic 1 believe that medical science has thoroughly mastered the question of the bubonic plague treatment.Itis clearly a dirt disease, and something like the black plague of London, confined in its operations to the dirty slums of the centres of civilization, leaving the cleanly parts free from attack.This conclusion has been made clearly apparent even in those thronged cities and densely populated districts of India which are only being attacked in the filthy sections.\u201d 2,500 Arabs Killed by an Eartquhake.A despatch from Teheran, capital of Persia, says that 2,500 persons perished as a result of the earthquake which occured on Kisham Islnd, January 11.Kisham Island is the largest in the Persian Gulf and is situated about 15 miles from its entrance.Its population is estimated at 5,000, mostly Arabs.e THE LATE H.J.ABBOTT, Hawkins Judd Abbott, son of the late Augustus Abbott, died in Columbia, Ga., on the 11th of Dec., 1896.When a young man he went to Alabama, and when the civil war broke out he joined the Confederate army.After the war was over he returned to Carada, and remained a few years.He then went to Columbus, Ga., where he married and went into the mercantile business, which he successfuily conducted until his death.The deceased leaves a wife and two sons to mourn the loss of a kind husband and father, who have the sympathy of many friends in Magog, Hatley, and jsian authorities, Compton.Com.THE ARCTIC WAVE.The Artic wave which struck the country on Sanday last, extended over the continent, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, accompanied by high winds and snow, driving the mercury down to 28, 30, 36, 28, and 40 below zero in different localities.The roads are reported to be badly drifted in all directions.Railroads suffered and trains on most roads were delayed.It is reported from Chicago that Sunday was the coldest day in that city for tweuty-five years, accordimg to the records of the weather bureau.Fifty- three persons succumbed to the cold in that city, and were res- cured in 8 partly frozen condition.Two deaths occured which were due to the cold and several others will probably die as a result of frozen limbs and exposure.H.S.HUNTER UNDERTAKER and Undertakers\u2019 Supplies Hoarse furnished at moderate rates.Stanstead Plain, P.Q, Notice LL Persons indebted to the firm of T.&C.O'ROURKE aro requested to settle before January uth as the books will be placed in other hands, aftor that date, in order to settle the Estate of the late T.O'Rourke.Ruck (lund, 21st January, 1807, biw2 To the Public: We have opened a Branch Office in Tuck's Block, corner of Commercial and Factory Sts., in Sherbrooke, where information regarding existing policies or new insurance will be-cheerfully given.Tried to Eurn His Wife and Child.A despatch from St.John,N.B.,says: Alfred John Smith, a C.P.R.engine driver living in Charleton, has been arrested on a charge of setting fire about mid-night to the house of Mis father-in-law, in which his wife, from whom he had been separated, and his only child resided.Fortunately, the family discovered the fire before it had gained much headway.Footsteps in the snow were traced towards Smith\u2019s house, and about half of a newspaper satured with parafine was picked up outside of the parlor window where the fire was set.After the prisoner had been arraigned and remanded, Serg\u2019t.Ross and Capt.Jenkins, visited Smith\u2019s house ahd in his bedroom found the balance of the par- afine saturated newspaper, the torn edges fitting each other exactly.The discovery of the second piece of paper was not disclosed till late, and created a great sensation in Court.Smith's wife and child, her father and mother and a boarder, were all asleep in the upper story of the house when the fire was set.Smith is one of the best engineers of the New Brunswick division of the C.P.R., and is about thirty-one years of age.His wife\u2019s father is C.P.R.car inspector at Charleton.Write us for particulars of our plans and rates.We want reliable live men to represent us in Stanstead County.Manufacturers Life Insurance Co.Reserve and Surplus Funds over $1,000,000,00.W.E.FINDLAY, District Manager, .: SHERBROOKE, A.H.CUMMIMGS & SON Coaticook, : : Que.MANUFACTURERS OF Doors, Sash, Blinds and Frames, Window Mouldings, Blanchard Churns and all kinds of House Finish Hard-wood Floor Boards and Matched Ceiling manufactured from kiln-dried lumber.All orders promptly attended to.We are bound not to be undersold.SAMUEL E.ABBOTT, of STANSTEAD is OUF agent for that Township.Resolution of Condolence.Change of Firm At a regular meeting of Stanstead Branch 166 C.M.B.A., held at Rock Island, Que., January 25th.It was \u2014\u2014 FROM \u2014\u2014 moved by brother S.J.Frégeuu, seconded by brother Jas.A.Gilmore: that A E F I S H Whereas it has pleased Almighty = x God in His infinite wisdom tq call un- \u2014 19 \u2014 to Himself, Austin the beloved son of brother Joseph Woodgate our worthy 2nd Vice-President.Resolved that we the members of Branch 186 tender to brother Wood- gate and family oursincere sympathy in their sad affection and pray that God may enable them to bear their loss with Christian fortitude.Resolved that a copy of this resolution be sent to brother Woodgate, the STANSTEAD JOURNAL, And the Canadian.ish&McNie Thanking the Public for the large share of trade given me during the stating that the New Firm is in a position to sell CHEAPER than LL EVER.We find our stock much larg- Card of Thanks.er than expected and to reduce it Mr.and Mrs.W.H.Salls desire to | have decide to sell all winter goods, thank their friends for their kind as- such as Overcoats, including sistance at the burial of the late Mrs.Fur Coats, Ladies\u2019 Cloaks, S.Pinkham.Cloaking, Tweells,Blankets etc., at Cost.A lot of New Dress Goods bought at a bargain will be sold at less than \"WHOLESALE PRICE.Ladies\u2019 fine all-wool dress Tweed worth from 45 to 60c.per yard, for 25 and 28 cts.James Moore, a well-known Cleveland farmer, died suddenly of heart failure one day last week.DIED.PINKHAM\u2014At Peacham Vt, January 13th, 189%, Mrs.Samuel Pinkham née Mary Ball, formerly of Stanstead, in the 66th year of her age FLANDERS\u2014At Fiteh Bav, December 3lst, Mrs.Reuben Flanders, née Abbie E.Smith, After à long illness of Consumption, in the 43rd year of her age, BATCHELDER\u2014On January 23rd, Stanstead, Miss Helen Batehelder, aged 80 years.MARRIED LOOMIS-BRYAN\u2014On the 2st January 1807, at the residence of the bride's father, Barn- ston, by the Rev, A 7% Whatham, Mr.Wm, E.Loomis, of Sheet ooke, to Myrtie Veatrice only daughter of Mr, Edward Bryan.DUNTON-LHPATON\u2014On the lth January, At the home of the bride's parents, by Bev, Edward Smiley, Mr.Stephen Homer Dunton, of Annandale Minn., to Miss Alice Louisa, daughter of (1 O, LeBaron, NOTICE.Fr HEREBY Notify all who max beinter- ested that Mr,D,M, Lockhart has severod his connection with the Rock Island Hardware Co., of Rock Island, P.Q.nnd will no longer Faye authority to transact any business for the firm.\u201d TRUE & BLANCHARD tO,, Newport, Vt.Proprietors of the Rock Island Hardware Co.SHOEMAKING.rIY HI UNDERSIGNED Widhes to inform | is former patrons that he has returned to Fite's Bay and will open his 8hce Shop on Monday Februnry Ist, when he will be ready to do busi esd ns heretofore, Dress Meltons 52 inches wide 25c¢.yd.Ginghams: wholesale price 10 cents.We sell for 7 cents.Prints such as sold every where at 12 cents we sell for 8cents, Cashmere Print, cheap at ten and twelve c.a yard, only 7 cents.Best Flannelettes 32 in.wide 63; cents a yard etc.(rroceries Cheaper than Elsewhere The only place where you can buy 24 lbs.Redpath\u2019s Best Granulated Sugar for 81.00.West-India molasses 35 cents a gallon.We guarantee to sell the Best FLOUR, the best TEA, and from this date the best KEROSINE OIL (160 test) in the village and as low price as others do inferior quality.One car best yellow corn to arrive this week will be sold from the car at 87 cents per Bushel.Graham Flour and Fine Corn Meal kept On hand.VERY RESPECTFULLY Fish & McNiel, Jan.12,'07.FELIX IINNNE.Your Horse\u2019s Teeth Mny nevd attention now.Advice free, Services reasonable, E.AUDINWOOD, Rock Island, P.Q.nnd Derby Line, Vt.FOR SALE.The Farm known as the Akin farm, Brown's Hil, consisting of 180 nerves with good npple and sugar orchards, Far terms, &e,, apply to OLD TYPE J.BROWN, Rrawn'« Hill, or \u201d\" 3 1.B.LOVERIN, Linehora, For sale at the « Journal Office in \u2014 |large or small quantities, It makes OME Employment, for hole or xpiure \u20ac \u2018 THE BEST BABBIT Ayer\u2019s Flat, either ex: no ennvavsing whatever; iain writers preferred : six dollars to twelve dotlars weekly; book correspondence, copying nd.dresson: specimen coples last few months, I take pleasure in! Dancing, Deportment A.Roy Macdonald, Jr.FOSTER\u2019S HALL, DERBY LINE, Vr.EVENING CLASSES start Saturday and - day at 8 o'clock, y Mon JUVENILE CLASSES start Saturday, 2 0\u2019-cloek, and Monday at 4.80 o'clock.Private lesgons at any hour.fbw6 D.MACDONALD, Instructor, Bugbee Commercial College, A Practical business Course Commencing January 26, 1807, and extending through Twenty Woeks.\u201cLearn to Do by Doing.\u201d A thorough and Practical Business Education given ut this Commercial School comprising the following subjects: Book keeping.| Com, Arithmetic (Written and Mental).Commercial Law, Business Correspondence, Penmanship, Spelling, Bouk-keeplug taught from actual business transactions, When & student enters he is given à eush capital to begin with, and all hrough his course he buys and sells goods, making out his own Invoices, Cheques, Notes, Drafts, ete, and making the entries in his books from these prpers.In faet he is doing exactly the same work as is done in any well regulated business office, .Students ure not required to pass an entrance examination.A Commercial Diploma will be awarded all students who take the Course and are suecessful in passing the Pinal Exams, TERNS\u2014-+7,50 per term of 10 weeks, or $15.for the Course of 20 weeks, Books for the course $5.00 Lommercinl Diploma $8.00.For further information apply to Rev.Principal Flanders B.A, D.D., Stanstead Car of Best Yellow Corn To Arrive in a few days, At 34'» c.bushel from Car.Should Market decline before arrival you will get it for less or at market price when unloaded, should it advance same conditions.Also Car of ground Wheat and Oats.This is one of the best feeds for Cows and Horses, and the price oniy 811.75 per ton.Write or call for Sample.Best Crackers Ib.5c.Eddy\u2019s Matches 7c.Comfort Soap dc.+ Horse Whi 4c.Water Ladle 2c.Steel Ax 50c.Clearing Sale of Winter Goods Cheap.38 inch Winter Dress Goods 18 c.yd.38 Inch Winter Dress Flannel 4 shades 17 c.yd.89 inch Winter Serge 3 shades 20 c.yard.One pair Linen Towels given free to every Lady buying for cash, one dollars worth or more of any Woolen goods.I must have room for Spring goods, and Wolens you can have at your own price.(Cloughs, Ayer\u2019s Flat.Boston & Maine Railroad.Stanstead and Derby Line Branch.Trains leave Rock Island as follows: 5,85 n.m, for Montreal (OC.Po & GT.) Quebec \u201c5, & 9.Grand Sherbrooke, Boston and New York.12,00 m.for South.1.40 p.m.for Island Pond (G.T.} and Montreal (C.Pa 7,00 p.mm.for Montreal (GL Ty, Quebee, Lo.9.45 pom, for Boston and New York, Trains arrive at Rock Island: From South\u20146.20 a.m., and 2,10, 7.25 and 10.10 pu.From North\u20148.20 a.m.and 12,30 and 10.10 pan.Outward trains leave Stanstead Plain 5 minutes earlier than Rock Island time.Inward trains arrive at Stanstead Plain 5 minutes later than Rock Island time, (urs / HOLIDAY OFFERINGS \u2014\u2014 OF \u2014 Choice, Attractive and Useful Presents for Xmas.Consisting in part of: Miscellaneous and Juvenile Books, Photo.Albums, Serap Books, Autograph Albums, Fine Perfumes, Wallets, Pocket-Books, Fancy Box Stationery, Toys in Variety, Fancy Dressed Dolls, Booklets, Xmas.Cards, Calenders, Hand Mirrors Blocks, Games, Writing Desks and Lap Tablets, Pen and Pocket Knives, Scissors and Shears, Celluloid Comb and Brush Sets, Jewel and Hdkf Boxes.Glove, Fan and Necktie Boxes, Shaving and Manicure Sets, Toilet Articles and Nicknacks, Teacups and Saucers, Skates, Sleds and Hockey Sticks, \u2014\u2014 AT \u2014 rendy to go to Be Fm = nd can be bought at a low price.| Lerby Line aud Rock Island ceptéd: thoroughly genuine, Address, Warren Pub, Co, London, Ont., Can, bôyl Lay in à supply while you can get it.DRUG STORES. Business and Professional Cards, RALPH M.CANFIELD, M.D, L BR.C.P.(London) Etc.113 Shawmut Avenue, Boston, Office hours : 1to8 P.M.7to8P.M.DR.J.E.C.TOMKINS, (McGill) Physician and Surgeon, »fice ite Christ Church, Stanstead Plain.Office oppos Bell Telephone No.00, H.C.RUGG, M.D, C.M.Physician and Surgeon.\u201c site residence of Hon.M.F.Hackett.tend Plain, Que.Bell Telephone No.84.DR.T.D.WHITCHER, Beubu Plain, Vt, Telephone connections.C.R.JONES, M.D,,C.M,, Hatley, Que.JOHN W.MeDUFFEE, C.M., M.D., Physician end Surgeon, Stansteud Plain, Que.Post Office address, Derby Line, Vt.c.l.MOULTON, L.D.S., Dentist, Stanstead Plain, Que.DR.L.A.LAPALME, Physician and Surgeon, Stanstead Plain P.Q.Offiee and Residence at Dr.Conficld\u2019s old place, ERASTUS P.BALL, Veterinary Surgeon.Graduate of Montreal Veterinary College.Office at Lee Farm, Rock Island, Que.U.8.P.O.address Derby Line, Vermont.M.F.HACKETT, Advocate, Solicitor, &ec., Stanstead Plain, Que, | Will attend all courts in the District.Collections & specialty.H.M.HOVEY, Advocate, Rock Island, Que.U.8.P.O.address, Derby Line, Vt.W.C.HERBERT, Advocate, Office first door north of residence, Stanstead Plain, Que.Bell Telephone No.ô5.ALONZO D.BATES, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Derby Line, Vt.Office opposite Derby Line Hotel.THOS.KIRK, Civil Engineer and Provincial Land Surveyor.office at Stanstead Hotel, Stanstead, Que.A.LEOFRED, (Graduate of Laval and McGill) Mining Engineer, Head Office, : uchec.Branch Offices: Sherbrooke; Montreal, 17 Place d'Armes Hill, for all matters relating to mines, CHAS.M.THOMAS, Notary Public, Commissioner Superior Court.Office at the Court House, Stanstead Plain.L.H, RAND, Undertaker, \"Pitch Bay.Que.A complete assortment of Fine Funeral Fur nishings always kept in stock, FRANK CORMIER, Practical Blacksmith, Libby Shop, Rock Island, P.Q.Particular attention given to horse shoving, All work warranted.The $12.50 ones at $7.98.are selling too.JACKETS Advertised last Week at $4.98 are Selling.THE BETTER JACKETS AT 89.98 Some of them the price was more than double, Don\u2019t wait, the stock decreases and you have less to seek from.The special prices on Dress Goods and silks are moving them.If you enjoy a bargain you can be happy trading here now.Monday Next We Begin Our Annual February Sale \u2014\u2014 OF \u2014 HOUSEKEEPING GOODS.Hundreds of housekeepers take advantage of this Sale every year.Its a saving-money-opportunity.Have you attended one of these sales, the one last year, then you are sure to be on hand this year.You can expect the largest stock ever shown and at the lowest prices.Just the goods you\u2019ll need if you don\u2019t buy now, you will later at more- price.SHEETS and SHEETINGS.Pillow Cotton, Pillow Tubing, and Pillow Cases.Bed Spreads, Blankets.Comforters, and Turkey Red Damasks, Cream and Black Damasks with napkins to match the better grades.Lace Curtains, Portières, and such goods are included in this sale.Make a list of such goods as you must buy this geason and you can save dollars if you buy here at February prices.Write us for price l'st which will be ready soon.Better than that, come and see the Goods A\" (ILHAN & COMPANY'S, Newport, Vt.err MR.PITCHER'S IDEAS.Continued from page 1 all.But when his objection is examined it immediately falls to the ground, for we are even now under a system of prohibitory law.Our present license act is a measure of prohibition.Some present might doubt that, but they could practically illustrate the fact for themselves if they chose.Let us suppose there are a thousand people in Rock Island\u2014this is only a supposition to serve as a basis for the illustration.There are four men licensed to sell alcoholic lig- uors and nine hundred and ninety-six, are prohibited from doing so, Has every man the right to engage in this busines?The law says, No.No one has an inalienable right to do so; the right is obtainable only under permission of properly constituted authority.If any individual should engage in the business without this permission, the law would soon interfere.Now, the temperance people are asking that the law should go further and prohibit the remaining four individuals\u2014in other words, enact total prohibition.Again, the law forbids the sale of spirituous liquors to Indians and their squaws.Is not the white man as good as the red man, and the white woman as good as the squaw?The temperance people now demand that the law shall throw its strong arm around men and women of whatsoever nationality within our borders and give them all the same protection.A saloon keeper is also prohlbited from selling to a minor; but is not the young man of twenty-two, twenty-three, or more, of the same value to the state and as dear to his mother\u2019s heart?Protect him, too, says the prohibitionist; give him the same chance as has his younger brother.In many other ways too the present law is granted with certain prohibitory clauses, and this has been done by the framer of law in view of the appalling enormity of the evil that grows out of the traffic.Another objection is used by the hotel keeper, viz.that it is impossible to make a hotel pay without having the adjunct of a bar.If, said the speaker, that is true, it is a disgrace to the travelling public.Sometimes he found it necessary to go to a hotel and he expacted to pay for his accommodations at a fair price.He did not want to eat his way through life by the help of a man who stepped up to the bar and took a drink to enable the hotel keeper to supply Lim with his needs under cost.Dealing with the difficulties of enforcing the present law and preventing men obtaining a license the speaker said they were well nigh insuperable.A majority of names against the granting of ali- cense in any electoral district was all that was required to warrant the licensing board refusing an application and yet by the employment of a clever lawyer who raised all sorts of legal technicalities and quibbles, the tem perance people were wearied and by the opposition they had to contend with.He would have those present notice that a majority of votes could prevent the granting of any license did they petition the council to refuse such application.Education as an important factor in hastening prohibition was emphasized.The man stands behind the bar because there is one in front to purchase liquor.Let the one in front disappear altogether aud the man behind will soon get tired of standing there and put up his shutters.In conclusion Mr.Pitcher raferred to the fact that provincial plebiscites held in Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia aud Prince Edward Island had declared emphatically in favor of prohibition.Victory would come all along the line if the Christian Church proved itself true to its trust, and the land would then be rid of the death dealing curse of drink.Rev.G.E.Read thanked the speaker for his able exposition of the subject and said that the campaign had but opened, there was a great work to be done and it must be done by individual as well as organized effort.The singing of the hymn \u2018Stand up, stand up for Jesus\u201d and the benediction, ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORS.Alex Stewart, a Richmond Jeweler, has failed.A Woodward, cheese inspector for Stanstead County is rusticating in Sutton his native town.The dwelling house and butter fuc- tory of Wilkins & Co., were burned on the night of the 19th inst.Mis May Cutting, eldest daughter of A.H.Cutting of Coaticook, was married to Mr.\u2014 O'Hara of New York on the 18th inst.John N.Jenks, lately of H.M.Customs, Coaticook, was banquetted by his many friends in Coaticook the other night.Miss Alice Fraser, of Richmond, daughter of Mr.Fraser, M, P., is going to Leipzig, Germany, to complete her education.A \u201cmisionary box\u2019 in one of the churches at Coaticook was recently robbed of £8.Probably the robber believed in home missions.The Cowansville water-works bylaw has been annulled upon technical errors.A new by-law will be passed by the Council.It is reported that the Coaticook Electric Light and Power Co.willsoon take over the business of the present light company in that town.The name of Mr.Leon I.Dyer of Sutton has been mentioned as a pos: sible Conservative Candidate for the County of Brome in the coming Provincial election.Rev.Wm.Hall, formerly pastor of the Congregational Church at Point St.Charles, near Montreal, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Melbourne Congregational Church.IL.Buck an East Farnham merchant died suddenly on the 19th inst.He was found lying on his store floor in an unconscious condition.Deceased was one of the pioneer cheese makers of the Townships having established the first factory in Brome County.The anual meeting of the St.Francis Bridge Co.was held at Richmond \u2018on the 12th inst, The two vacancies on the directorate were filled by the election of Messrs.F.C.Cleveland and Fred Johnson.The dividend declared for the half year is 2%; per cent.The combined ages of four members of the Waldron family of East Clifton aggregate 335 years.There are three brothers and one sister, their respective ages being 87, 85, 83, and 80 years.This beats the Magog quartette as well as the Lebourveau brothers of Eaton by two years.The new Post office-building at Richmond is nearly completed so far ag the exterior is concerned.The building, which is being built by the Dominion Government, is a large and handsome structure.Besides the Post-office it will contain the Customs and inland revenue offices.WEDDING BELLS.Very pleasant and interesting was the gathering at the residence of Mr, and Mrs.Edward Bryan, Barnston, on the evening of the 21st inst., on the occasion of the marriage of their only daughter Myrtie Veatrice, to Mr.Wm.E.Loomis, of the firm of D.G.Loomis & Son, of Sherbrooke.A special train brought a large number of guests from Sherbrooke, who with those from this vicinity filled the home to overflowing.The ceremony took place at 5 o'clock and was performed by the Rev.A.E.Whatham of Way\u2019s Mills.The bridesmaids were Miss Ruby Loomis, of Sherbrooke, and Miss Annie Webster of Coaticook, the groom was attended by Mr.Arthur Short, of Sherbrooke, assisted by Dr.A.L.Short of Lennoxville; the wedding march was played by Miss Gertie Ackhurst of Coaticook; the hride was dressed in white silk and looked most charming.After the ceremony was over a short reception was held when the happy pair received the congratulations of their many friends, refreshments were served to over one hundred guests, and the wedding presents were very fine, among others we no- for £1000, one from D.G.Loomis & brought to a close what was felt to | Son for 8350, and one from the Cle- have been a most profitable and helpful meeting.LINEBORO.Mrs.J.Longeway returned to her home in Newport Saturday after spending a few days at the home of her son, Geo.Longeway.Mrs.A.McLeod and Arthur spent Saturday and Sunday at Bolton, with her sister, Mrs.Ezra Austin.We see by the St.Johns News that Dr.Ransford Young, formally of Clarenceville, who Is well known by many readers of this paper, died at Portinnd, Oregon, on the 18th inst, nged 46.: Mrs.C.Merrill of Brown's Hill, is spending a few days with her granddaughter, Mrs.À.McLeod.David Snlls arrived Tuesday noon from Sherbrooke where he has been at work.; Our Canada thaw has turned into a blizzard.Mark Twain, the well known Amer- jean writer and humorist, having lost all his fortune made by his writings, ig busy writing new works to regain his prosperity.pounds, while the tables were loaded with Silver, Crystal and China besides | four handsome clocks, and many other \u2018articles.The happy couple took their | departure at 8 o\u2019clock for Coaticook, where they took the train for New York.They will occupy their handsome new residence on Queen Street, Sherbrooke, after Feb.15th.PLEBISCITE PUBLIC MEETING, on Sat- \u2018urday night in the old Union Church, Beohe Plain.{Tallman Pitcher.Every body welcome.| Late news from Cairo indicates the i early stating of another expedition to | Khartoum.The preliminaries are being expedited.Sir Redvers Buller, iv.(., the adjutant general of the \u201cforces is expected to be the commander of 10,000 British troops (who are | going to stiffen the Egyptain army) starts for Khartoum, he will find hut \u2018little to impede a rapid advance this 'side of Berber.Gen.Bulleris a veteran nccustomed to the wars of the East., tice a cheque from the bride\u2019s father | land brothers in Ireland for twenty Address by Rev.J., ONE OF NELSON'S CAPTAINS.| A Now Yorker Commanded » British Ship In the Battle of the Nile.The fifth ship was the Theseus, Cap- tain-Ralph Willett Miller.This gentle.map, whom after bis premuture death | Nelson styled \u2018the only truly virtoous | man 1 ever knew,\u2019 war by birth « New | Yorker, whose family had been loyalists during the American Revolution, A let- | ter from him to his wife gives an no-! count of the fight which is at once! among the most vivid and from the professional standpoint the most sntis- | factory of those which have been transmitted to us, Of the Theseus\u2019 entrance © into the battle he says: \u201cIn running along the enemy's line in the wuke of the Zealous and Goliath, | I observed their shot swecp just over us, And knowing well that at such a mo- | ment Frenchwen would not have cool.! ness enough to chunge their elevation, | I olosed them suddenly, and, running | under the arch of their shot, reserved | my fire, every gun being londed with two and some with three round shot, | until I had the Guerrier\u2019's musts in a line and her jibboom ubont six foet clear | of our rigging.We then opened with | such effect that » second breath could | not be drawn before her main und miz- | zen masts were nlso gone.This was pre- | cisely at sunset, or 44 minutes past 6.Then passing between her nnd the 5 ous and us close ns possible round the off side of the Goliath, we anchored by the stern exuctly in a line with her and abreast the Spartiate.We had not boen many minutes in action with the Spartiate when we observed one of our ships {and soon after knew her to be the Van- | guard, place herself so directly opposite | to us on tho outside of her that I deaist- ed firing on her, thut I might not du\" mischief to our friends, and directed ov | ery gun before the mainmast on\u2019 the! Aquilon (fourth French) aud all abnft | it on the Conquerant, giving up my proper bird to tbe admiral,\"*\u2014\u2018\u201c Nelson In the Battle of tho Nile,\u2019\u2019 by Ouptuin ! Mabun, in Century.THE CRA.IE DANCE.Where the Foubrettes Got Thelr ldea For x Specialty.There is un dunce called tho crane dance, which is popular at the vaudeville houses.At Lincoln park there is a real crane which does a crane dance, and those who bave seen its Raltatorial fents say the bird does it much better than do the featherless, two legged uni- mals.No purely imitative dancing could fail to gain by being an exact copy of the performance of the loug necked, spindle logged sand bill orano.Its stops are not only grotesque, but they are of a kind to make the gravest onlooker lose his dignity and laugh like a delighted boy ut the circus.This Lincoln purk bird at the outset of his dance is the personification of dignity.When in the days of his freedom he tripped it on hia native sand hills for the sole benefit of his mate, be did so only in the springtime, but.npow, in his lowly captive state, he dances in and out of season if i the keeper.who feeds him will but wave i his arms and take an awkward step or two to give him encouragement.| The crane begins its dance by shoving one long leg, with its claw attachment, | straight out in front of his body.Then i he lowers it and draws it buck slowly , until it is within an inch or two of the ground.Then there js lightninglike , double shuffle, and the other leg ie pointed to the front.Then the dance | begine in carnest The wings aro | stretched and beat the air in perfect | time to the movement of the feet, be | they going fast or slow.There is tho | semblunce of a clog; then the sinuous i foot und body movement of the nautch | girl, and in a moment the whirl of the ; däneing dervish, to be succeeded ag a finale by a sort of wild \u201c\u2018all hands round,\u2019\u2019 in which every feather of the bird is alive, as it enters into the joy of | the dunce with sn utter abandon.Tho \"net of stopping is like the \u2018\u201chalt\u2019\u2019 of the i German soldier\u2014sudden, stiff and in- | stant.Then the crane marches away to a corner with a still stately tread, but { with an oye which appears to reveal em- | barrassment.\u2014Chicago Times-Herald.English Administration of Jamaica.The English administration of Ja- | maica is a thing to be thankful for, There are law and order, excellent roads, comfortable houses, adequate police, lawn tennis and cricket, plenty of manly, companionable English army and navy officers and a goveriior who is strong, able and genial.At the same time it would be folly to maintain that the island is producing a tenth part of the wenlth that is latent in soil and atmosphere, or that most of the wealth that is beginning to make its appearance is due to anything no much as to the American enterprise and cap- | ital which are opening up railways and cultivating fruits, Another serious i fact, though not necessarily an unwel- \u201ccome one, is that the island\u2019s 4,000 square miles contain a population of | 600,000 persons, 25,000 of whom are | white.\u2014Julian Hawthorne in Centory, | Youthful Interrogator.! \u2018Mother,\u2019 said a thoughtfal Boston Child to bis maternul relative, \u201cWhat is it, Waldo?\u2019 ! | *\u2018Igs Philadelphia older than Boston, mother?\" \u201cOf course not, my son.The first set.| tlement wag made in Charlestown in I 1630, while Willium Penn did not ar- \u201crive on the site of Philadelphia until 52 years later,\u201d \u201cThat was always my impression, | mother, but how is it that Philadelphia | ia mentioned in the Bible, while Boston lis not?\u2019 \u2014 Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele- graph.The ved carnation is regarded in Spain as sb emblem of despair.There | is a tradition in Andalusia that the | flower sprang from the blood of the Virgin Mary.Tae distance between Cape Town, South Africa, and Washington is 6,684 miles, | dlesex counties.among such English names as Worm- | amendment, IT CANNOT BE.The dying lips of a dear friend + At parting spoke to me, \u201cFRANKED FOR THEM.Baying: *Wheresue'er your path may trend A SOLDIER'S STORY OF PRESIDENT There ever 1 shall bo.#Go walk where over Egypt's sand The burning aimooms blow, Or in Alashia's sunless land, Your wake my wing shall know.\u201cWhen winter's nights are long and dark, I'l] lead you by the hand, And when tha waves beat on your bark Will beacon you to land.\" Ho died.! watched his spirit go Across death's durkening ana.Be came not back, and gow I know Of things that cannut be, ~\u2014Cy Warman in New York Bun.PLACE NAMES.Some Odd and Curlous Nemes of Places ! In Massachusetts.In the Middlesex fells some good old colonia) numes are preserved, like Jin- glejerry hill and Shillyshally brook.Spot pond was named by Governor Winthrop, who discovered it in tho win.ter, because of the many rocks that | showed through the ice and spotted the surface.Powderhorn hill in Chelsea is said to have been bought from the In- diavs for à hornful of powder.The fact of misfurtune to divers unknown perrons\u2014whether trivial or great does not appear\u2014finds a record in Bud Luck brook and swamp in Rehoboth, Bad Luck mountain in Granville and Bad Luck pond in PB: \u2018as There muy be some associntion b.iween Burncont brook and pond in Loeester and Spencer and Burnshirt river, hkowise in Worcester county.Drinkwater river is a felicitous name for a stream of good water, 1t is in Hanover, and possibly there may have | been a family of that namo in the neighborhood.Strong Water brook in Towks- bury has quite different associntions.Sought For pond, in Westford, suggests LINCOLN AND BOYS IN BLUE, An Envelope That 1s More Valuable Than the Best Stamp In Any Collection\u2014The Boldier Who Wouldn't Tell Lincoln a Lio.**Let thin go.A.LINCOLN.\" Unless it has been destroyed there in m a home in Fond du Line county, Wis., * 4 goldier letter in nu envelopa bearing | in high feather, à long and baffled quest for the spot through qe wilderness in tho olden, days.One of the least enphonious of nawes is Skog river in Essoex and Mid- 1t ix worthy a place wood Scrubs, a park in London, Tho legend about tho names of the group of islands on the south coust pro- sents an instance of how fanciod res.m- blances give rise to stories.It is related that these islands once belonged tu a man with rour daughters.To Nanev, the oldest, the father gave the first choice, and the fact that \u2018\u201cNun tools 11 is recorded in the name of Nantucket, the island Ble selected.Nantucket, of course, ig in reality an Indian naw Martha's Vineyard and the Flizal oo.islands went to Martha and Jélizalson respectively, while for the fourth donb ter, whose niune has been lost to ni: ory, there was nothing left but the mest remote and undesirable of the group, which wis ealled No Man's Land, be- caure its owner was a woman.The Elizabeth islands, in fact, were named for Queen Elizabeth by Bartholomew Gosnold, their discoverer, Whosa name has been given to the town that comprises them.\u2014 Boston Franseript, Mailing Candy Abroad, A young man who apparently knows a girl in London exmne into tho offfeo the other day and asked whether candy could bee kent abroad through the mails, So he was taken over to the postoffiee and the state of affairs was laid before an ofitein], who instilested an Suvostign- tion, After a long time he returned and reported an follows: \u201cI am very glad,\" said he, \u201cthat you asked that question, Its answer shows a carious state of affairs.In this country you can send candy up to 4 pounds as merchaænlise for 1 cent for each ounce, If you want to send candy abroad you only have to puy 1 cent for every 2 outices, but you can only send 12 ounces in each package, If 16 weighs mora than 12 ounces you have to pay Jetter rates, or 10 cents un ounce for the whole thing.\u201cThat 18 to say, you run send 10 oûnces to London for 5 cents, but it would rest you 16 cents to send it to Brooklyn.So if you are thinking of sending a pound it will cost you &1.60.The stamp depurtmient is right over there.\u201d \u201cThank you very much,\u2019 said tho young man.\u2018I just happen to remember that the doctor has forbidden the girl to eat candy.\u2019\u2014New York Muil and Express.Foiled, Senator Wilson of Washington and his brother, Harry Wilson, lank very much alike, Oue day in Spokane, where the two brothers live, Senator Wilson, who had just retarned from his legislative duties, Was stopped on the street by a man who had known him for years.\u201c\u201cHarry,'' said the man, \u201cwhen will your brother John he here?\u201d \u201cIn a day or two,\u2019 suid John without à smile, \u201cTel) him i want to see him on an important matter.\u2019 Certainly,\u2019 said John.\u201cAnd you will not forget it?\u201d \u201cPH try not,\u2019 promised John, and : thus snother office seoker Was foiled.\u2014 Washington Post, Mrs.Hearst's Motive.Mrs.Phebe Hearst of California has given $200,000 to found a mining school in connection with the state university at Berkeley us ou memorial to her husband, She gives largely to the free kindergartens, supports several college set- tleinents and contributed $1,000 ta the recent campaign for the woman suffrage She has also given $200,- 000 to establish a fine @ymnasium for girls at the state university.she said te Miss Anthony, \u2018I am doing all this to make girls fit to vote.\u201d Tho present hend of the Swiss confederation is President Joseph Zemp, whose term began Dec.15, 1804, The Swirs confederstion of Aug, J, 1291, is regarded as the foundation of the Swiss republic.In Rome crowns of the leaves of various trees were given ta the actors in the circus and theater in various sports.the above words, signed by tho great war president, Frank King was a Lamartine boy, fresh from the farm, nud a character our whole compnay took to kindly from the first, When the army was cawped in Vir- ginin, pear Washington, the winter of 1861-2, 1t wae 0 common practice with the soldiers, when they got a pass to visit tho city to buy a package of wn velopes and call at the cagatol, rend in for their senator ur representative aud got him to frank them, One of our hoys came back to camp He had two packages of envelopes-\u2014ene frunked by Senator James KR.Deohittle, now à Chiongo lawyer, the other by the late Senator T.O.Howe, who succeeded Captain James an postmaster general in President Arthur's abivet, Por 20 venrs senators and mem.bors have been giving n good deal of thgir time to helping the soldiers with their pension claims, If they bave done it as willingly and pleasantly as thoy used to frank envelopes for tho boys, they must be pretty nearly angola.\u201cYou fellows, there, are making a big blust over getting & couple of sont tors to frank your envelopes, * said Frank King.\u2018Just you wait till you seo me come back from Washington with tho president'A name où somo letter cov- ors,\u201d Within a few days Frank King and Hurry Dunn, who for yenrs after the war was nn Chicago buginess man, went to the city.They called at the White House.It was vasier to see the president then than it is now.At certnin hours of the day a soldier could rouch the obief executive with fuily ns much caso as a senator ean in these Intor years, King wan the ringleader.Appronch- ing the guard, ho suid: \u201cWe wang te gee Mr.Lancoin.Please stand aside and lot ts paws, \u201cWho are you, and what is your business?\u2019 \u201cYou tell old Abs wo have charge ot a regiment over on Arlington Heights and want to seo lim on an important matter.Hell lot us in.\"* \u201cWhere are your shoulder straps?\u2019 \u201cWe came over in our cverydsy olothes.Come, we are in a hurry, Let us go in and see Mr.Lincoln,\u201d The puricy had attracted the attention of the president.The door swung open and the good natured chief of the nation st lad upon the cheeky young fellows al: bade them step right in, * What ean Ido for you, my men?\u201d © Ar.Lincoln, I want you to frank the envelopes, wid King.\u2018Letter get your congressman to do that.\u201d \u201cI'd much rather havo you do it, Mr, Lincoln, The falks at home would like to Kea your name on my letters,\u201d CI fix che of them.Take tho rest to your congressiman, Who is her!\u201d \u201cdon't kuow,\" \u201cWhere in your home?\u201d \u201cLamartine, Fond du Lac county, Win.\" \u201cThat is my friend Scott Sloun\u2019s# dix- trict.You go tao Mr.Sloan.He will fix the rest of them.\u201d The president shook hands with the two privates, asked them to be brave soldiers and wished them a sufeo return to their western homes, Frank couldn't make his tentmatos believe that the president had written : \u201c\u201cLut thisgo.A.Lincoln.\u2019 But tho next day he wrote a letter to his father.The nama of Lincoln was personally exam: ined by all of the neighbors, In January, 1864, our regiment was in Washington on the way home, having re-entisted\u2014\"\u2018veteranized, as they called it, In company with two others I went to the White House.The president shook hands with us, thankod us for swearing in for threo years nore and expressed the hope that we would have à nice vigit on our veteran furlough.\u201cMr.President,\" said Jonos\u2014Ed Jones\u2014\"\u2018you franked n letter for one of the boys in our company, Frank King.I wish you would frunk one for me.\u201d \u201cOdd us it may seem, you aro the second soldier to make rach à request, So both are of the same company?Very well\u201d On Jones' envelope he wrote \u201cA, Lincoln, President,\u2019\u2019 and as he banded it back he asked what had become of that other man who had usked him to pass a letter.\u201cHe was killed at Gettysburg.\u201d I shall never forget the look of aad- ness in thy president's face when the anawer wad given, #.nd it had not disappeared when we lefv the room, \u201cJones, what did you tell him about King for?Did you see how it pained bim\u201d\u201d \u2018What did he asie about him for?Da you suppose D wus going to lie to à man 1 would die for?! was Jones\u2019 indignant reply.\u2014Chicago Times.Herald, The Court's Decision.\u201cYon remember Howforth, who married thé womnun who kept house for him 80 long?\" \u201cYep, rr \u201cWell, the conrt granted her a divorce last week.\u201d \u201cAlimony?\u201d \u201cNot in cash, The derision was that ghe could keep the house.\u201d \u2014Cincinnati Enquirer.A hornets\u2019 nest neually contains from 800 to 400 perfect wales und females \u201cand an ipdefiuite namber of workers.Thea carliest usc of weights is attrib- \"ated to Phuidon, king of Argos, 985 B.C.RSR LE STE = Te TER y ; # Ed PEL.me A el i 1 Ï ! i + at cel VA RA rl EENN T É OS YOUTHS\u2019 DEPARTMENT.The Little Lamb ond the Lamb's Skin.Ships of the Descrt\u2014Thoe Ostrich's Song\u2014The Presidents.\u201cBana, baa, bas, ban!\u201d which meant, of course, in lamb Innguage: \u201cOh, what shall I do?Please, mamma, come buck to your little lamb.\u201d The old mother sheep was dead, and the poor little lamb was feeling dreadfully swt and Jonely without its kind mother, especially when it eaw all the other littlo Junibs in the field playing with thoir.mothers so happily.What was to be done?\u201cBna, baa, baa, baa!\u2019 which meant, of course, in checp language: \u2018\u201cOh, what shall I do?Please, little lamb, come back to your mother.\u201d In this case a mother had Inst ber little lamb.It was dead, and its poor moth r was feeling sud and lonely, especially when sho saw all the other mother sheep playing with their lambs so happily.What was to be done?By and by the kiud shepherd came along to look at the flock.Ho felt so sorry when he fouud the mother sheep so sad without her lnmb, and a little farther on the little lnmb sosnd without its mother.At Sast ho thought of this plan: \u201cOld mother &btep,\u201d* ho snid, \u2018just you come along and toto cure of this little lamb, as your own is dead.\u201d And when ho came to the lumb he suid: \u201cPoor little fellow! Your own mother is gone, Ben goud little Jumb to this poor sheep, Which is very lonely.\u201d But, although the little lnmb seemed willing, the lil sheep would have nothing to say to the little stranger, It still called and culled for itsown little lamb, The shepherd did not know what to do at first, but ho soon thought of a remedy.What do you think it was?He went away und fetched the cont of the hittle dead lamb ane came back with it and put it on the lirtle live lamb, and then be shut the sad mother «heep up with the sud little lamb dressed in the dead lamb's coat.The old mother sheep was not Jong before she began to #uell her own lumb\u2019s cont.She seemed to know it.Yes, it was the coat of her own little lamb.That was enough for her.What did it matter about the rest?If it was not her Jamb's head ond tail avd legs, it waa her lamb\u2019s coat, and she did not worry about the rest.The old mother sheep and the little motherless lamb were svon the best of friends, and the last time I saw them they were living together very happily.+ Arne story.Ships of the Desert.The Arabs very often move from one place to another, and in going from their old pasture to a frosh owe they have usually to cross some part of the desert, Now, the desert is a terrible place to cross for those who are not supplied with camels, food and water, and unless the caravan is a large one robbers will often swoop down upon it and carry off everything.For this reason, when the night comes, the camels are formed into a ring, and all the women and the baggage are put inside, while the men take it in turns to watch.Oamels are called the ships of the desert.Their large, soft feet donot sink into the sand.They can carry great loads and go for 10 or 12 days without either food or water, for they have a curious sort of bag inside them, called a fifth stomuch, in which they cau keep a pice store of water.The man who possesses several camels is considered very rich.Some of the camels gre trained to be s0 fleet that they can go 100 miles a day for several days over the burning desert.The Ostrich's Song.\u201cBromming'' is » term applied in some sections to tbe unearthly sound that the ostrich imagives to be song.Here is what a writer in Bow Bells has to say about \u2018\u2018bromming:\u2019\u2019 When I first beard it, I actually mistook it for the trumpeting of a distant fog horn.In the desert it might well be a fit answer to the roar of the lion.So peculiar is the sound that I took pains to ascertain exactly how it was produced.The process, after all, is simple.The bird inflates his long neck till it looks like a big bag.He then lets the air out again in tbree installments.He blows thrice thus in succession, making pine roars in all.The performance is then over for the time being.Brom- ming is occasionally beard by day, but more usually breaks the silence by night and is probably meant as a challenge.Two of the herd are always on guard while their companionasleep.They take turns in this duty.The Twenty-four Presidents.Washington first of the presidents stands; Next placid John Adams attention commands.Tom Jefferson's third on the glorious score, And square Jimmy Madison counts number four.Fifth on the record is plain James Monroe, And John Quincy Adams ig sixth, don't ye know?Next Ja kson and Martin Van Buren, true lue, And Harrison ninth, known as Tippecanoe.Next Tyler, the first of the vices to rise, Then Folk and then Taylor, the second Who fes; Next Fillmore, a vice, takes the president's place, And small Franklin Pierce is fourteenth in the race.Fifteenth is Buchanan, and following him The groat name of Lincoln makes all others m.Next to Johnson comes Grant, with the laurel and bays, And next after Grant comes Rutherford B.Hayes.Next Garfleld, then Arthur, then Cleveland, ) the fat; Next Harrison, wearing his grandfather's hat\u2014 Adroit little Ben, twenty-third in tho train\u2014 And lust in the list, behold Gleveland again.; \u2018am's Horn.Baked Sweetbreads.\u201c Lard and parboil 2 heart aweetbreads.stock.Bake slowly, Place them in a baking dish.Baste wall with butter, Add a half oopful of Baste almost constantly for a half Hour, When covered with a rich glass, dish and serve with THE HOUSEHOLD.Wy Furniture Crows Shabby, Warps and Cracks- A Taking Luncheon Scheme-Daskots For Salad.The fortnightly polishing of the fur.pitare figured as sa prominent item on the old fashioned programme of housework, whon furniture was valued, perhaps, more fur its lasting qualities than for decorative effect, The very indif- foreut treatment which is given at pues- ent to almost all articles of this kind, especially when they are left altogether to the tender mercies of servants, leads | to the following comments by Standard Designer: A half hearted dusting, with now and then uo wiping with oa damp cloth, is the extent of the efforts of most domes- ties, und when scratches, stains and breaks occur the article marred is relegated to the storehouse or auction rool, or else left to grow wore and more unsightly and shabby until it becomes utterly useless.Furnuce und steam heat are to a large degree responsible for the cracking and warping of the lighter kinds of furniture, especially bamboo.And to counteract tho ill effects of the samo they should be rubbed regularly with equal parts of linseed oil and turpeutine, applied with à flannel aud then\u2019 rubbed in with n soft cloth, Bamboo ig ulso improved Ly ub occasional wash with cold water, but should be thoroughly dried afterward, Mahogany.rosewood or black walnut should be rubbed with Jingewd oil or crude petroleum, a very little boing put où nt à time and rubbed iu thoroughly until the surface shines like a mirror.If the rubbing is done once every two weeks, it is not at all diffieult to get a good shine in a short time, but the first application way require longer.Any of thu natural woods thut are not varnished ean bo polished inshe same way, but varnished surfaces should bo washed with water in which ten leaves have been steeped for half an hour.This will wake them much brighter than if washed with soap and water, and, uvlike the latter, it will not remove the gloss.When the varnished furniture becomes scratched, the spots \u2018should be gone over with a camel's hair brush and shellac varnish until they disappear.Nothing should be allowed to touch the places until the application is thorough- iy dry.1f u small splinter of wood is knocked off of a bureau or chair, glue it on again with a little liquid glue, and if the edges show white color them with paint to match the rest of the wood.When this is dry, varnish, an the break will hardly be perceptible.If the broken piece is Inrge and where it is likley to be hit and knocked off again, in addition to the glue secure it in position with small brads, Leather trimmings, which buve soch | a persistent way of separating thexns- selves from wood, way be securely refastened by means of a paste wade of melted india rubber mized with shellac varnish.The leather itself can be made to look almost Jike new by being washed with warm milk, This is especially good for leather seats or lounge coverings.A Hall Seat.A hall seat reems to be what is needed in many halls, but every housekeeper caunot afford an old oak or mahogany settee Or even have one built of pine and stained to match the woodwork in the room.An exchange suggests that a plain wooden bench, such us is to be found in every house furnishing store, stained to imitate cherry or oak, makes a nice looking settee.Make a box cushion for the top, covering it with sumptuously colored cretonne, corduroy or some inexpensive material, tofting it by tacking down with covered buttons.Puta 12 inch flounce upon the cushion, box plaiting it on, and you will have a very comfortable and pretty hall seat.A Taking Luncheon Scheme.Picture u luncheon table with a hand- gomo service in which blue and red predominate.See the center of white linen, in which the same colors are found among others which compose a delightful harmony, the design being floral.A narrow silk fringe borders the edge.Then note the white satin flags, each bearing tho name of the dish it surmounts embroidered in blue silk, with a bold dash, a3 it were, of the pen be- peath, done in the rich red silk.With a vase of yellow and white roses or other rich flowers, we could surely count this us one of the moss taking luncheon schemes likely to be found in a day's march.Salad Baskets.Housekeepers may be interested to know that a labor saving device has been introduced in the form of a large, round, shallow basket, with handles, called a salud basket, These baskets arc made of strong willow, widely woven.The fresh, green salad lenves are placed in this basket for washing.The basket is then dipped up and down in a large pan of water until the leaves are quite clean.Then, with its contents, it is piaced in n cool spot to drain.Popular Styles In Bric-a-brac.Jeweled effects and colored enameling are conspicuous features of the bric- a-bruc in gold and in silver introduced under the head of holiday goods.Semiprecious stones are to the fore.The fittings of dressing tables are bejeweled with them to the last degree.Entirely new, and therefore of espe- oial interest at this time, are candle shades in china, with gilt decorations.Cabinet tables in mahogany and in gilt attract desired attention.Novelties introduced for tne holiday season in delft, Dresden and other popular wares are too numerous to mention in detail.Recent productions in china and glass- wars show rococo, Louis XVI and empire styles of decoration, \u2014~Jewelers\u2019 Ofronlar.PEOPLE OF THE DAY.The man who has the center of the stage and all the limelight in the inter- nationul negotiations with the sultan of Turkey is M.de Nelidoff, the Russian embasrador to that country, This skilled diplomatist is acting as spokesman for i the concert of European powers in their | i M.DE NELIDOFF, \u201cdealings with the sultan and the porte.| He has been in Constantinople as an \u2018embassador for a number of years and ' haa proved himself most skillful in di- | plomacy by putting Russia und Turkey ion a very friendly basis.His present | task is a delicato one and brings him .into great prominence.| A New Governor's New Wife.It is safe to say that the bride who is 'most talked about in this country just now \u2018is Mrs, John R.Tunner, the wifo lof the new governor of Illinois The wedding, coming us it did just before | Governor Tanuer's inauguration, at- | tracted n great deal of attention, and the people of Illinois have been shower- (ing tbem wi:h evidences of kindly feeling.Mrs.Tanner\u2019s maiden nome was | Cora Edith English, and for several sea- | sons she hns been a social leader at ; Springfield.She is a beautiful, talented | and highly educated young woman and MIS.JOHN R.TANNER.comes from oue of the oldest and most distinguished families in the country.She has traveled much abroad and is well fitted to grace the executive man- rion of the state of Illinois.Governor Tunner and his bride had been close friends for eight years, and there is a pretty little romance connected with their ®oortship, in which love and politics were somewhat closely connected.Governor Tanner is about 52 years old and has two married children, having been a widower for a number of years previous to his recent marriage.A Lucky Poet.; Thomas Bailey Aidrich, who was recently bequeathed $400,000 by a Boston millionaire, has always been one of the most fortunate of American poets in regard to financial affairs.He began his literary career at the age of 20 and has been prominent as a writer for almost 40 years, but during this long period he has done but comparatively little work, THOMAS B., ALDRICH, although living a life of luxury.His good fortune is almost entirely due to the gonerosity of tbe late Ilenry L Pierce, from whom came tho recent legacy.Mr.Pierce carly bccmmo his patron and gave him a $50,000 residence in Boston ns well as other property.Mr.Aldrich has traveled much and written us little as he pleased, but that which he has given to the public has been extromely graceful and of bis best quality.A Pretty Story of Carlyle.The grim old Chelsea hermit when he waa a child saved, in a broken teacap, a little fortune of three hright halfpence.Que day, however, a poor old beggar came to the door with æ# bad arm, and Carlyle, touched with pity, at once gave him all his treasure.Ib after life, in referring to the incident, he used to say: \u2018\u2018The feeling of happiness was most intense, I would give £100 now to have that sensation for one moment back again.\u2018 | alone.A PITIABLE PEOPLE.French Laborers Spend Nearly Afl Their Wages For Alcohol.A'good deal vf superficial claptrap ig repented year after year by writgra about the remarkuble sobriety of the Latin races generally and of the Frenoh people in particular.The Italians certainly seew to be as abstemious as they are hard \u2018working, but as for the French they are declared by their own most eminent medical authorities to be undergoing a rapid process of degeneration, brought on by the reckless consumption of brain paralyzing, blood poisoning liquors.Dr.Brunon, the well known director of tho medical school at Rouen, and & student of his, M.Tourdaot, have just published the results of their studies on the subject, and these are eminently calcujuted to \u2018alarm Freuch patriots.Tho latter gentleman dressed himself up as n waiter and obtained a placo in a tavern in Rouen frequented by the lowost class of workmen, many of whom sleep there for a penny a night.The guests of this and similar places wore the principal objects of M.Tour- dot\u2019s investigations, and he says that these pitialle people, who earn about fourpeuce an hour, came regularly, drank their hour's wages in à few minutes, went back to carn more by the most Jaborivns work, and then took to driuking the proreeds of it in like manner till day wore ou into nigbt and consciousness was dimmed to intoxication.Sometimes ho saw 150 glusses of the most pernicious alcobol served out in | the short space of tou minutes, | Dr.Brunon bitterly complains of the | enormous number of little taverns of | this type and mentions one street in Rouen containing 150 hcuses, of which 75 are licensed to sell poisonous beverages \u2014Chicago Chronicle.THE ADDER\u2019S STING.Solomou Spoke Truth When He Admon- | ished Against Wine.Solomon wus uo wise man and wrote à greut muny wiso thoughts, but he never wrote n clearer or more forcible truth than is found in the book of Proverbs xx, 1, \u2018\u2018Wino is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is pot wise.\u2019 And yet, in the hight of this wisdom, we see much of foolishness and deception.I admit that there is a period in the drink habit when conviviality seews to hold sway, when companiouship is sought, and tbe individual is praised for his generosity and independence of restraint.He is regarded as a man in whose veins there is no puritanic blood, one who believes in having a good time But Solomon wrote another thing about strong drink that I would bayo you ponder\u2014viz, \u2018\u2018At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like au adder;\u2019 hence the admonition, *\u2018Look not upon the wine when it is red.\u201d Persons are often deceived into believing tbat they can drink or let it There is u time when this may be true; but, consenting to drink and not let it ulone, there comes a time when a man can no more let it alone than he ean resist the current of a | mighty river\u2014a time when tlie endearments of home, the entreaty of loved ones, the attractions of wealth and hon- | or, are powerless to resist the progress : of à vitiated appetite or turn him back from the untold horrors of a drunkard\u2019s life, a drunkard\u2019s death and a drunk ard's hopeless eternity.\u2014Rev.K.E.Smith, D.D.DRINKS COME HIGH.London\u2019s Expenditare For Alcoholic Lig- vors This Year Is, About #100,000,000, The most recent temperance statistics published in London'show that the annual consumption of liquor in the capital is largely on the increase, lt is estimated that the sum of £20,000,000, or $100,000,000, will be spent this year in acoholic drinks by the dwellers in the metropolis.This sum, it is computed, would nearly eight times pay for the school board maintenance, added to the cost of necessary new school buildings.The appropriations for the relief of the poor in London are about $18, 000,- 000, which is only one-eighth of the total drink bill, The London debt of about | $96,000,000 could be paid in one year by the amount spent on liquor and a bal- anco of nearly $4,000,000 left over.When it i4 taken into consideration that liquor is much cheaper in London | than here, the enormous guantity con- | sumed is largely in excess cf what it at I first appears ro be.\u2018 | re | 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heap, and began to curry off various articles, Our hope that Johnson might bave been one of the trio seized by the sharks was soon dissipated, as he wus the fourth or fifth man to appear.Without so much as a look at the ship he began shouting orders, and for an hour was coustautly in gight.At the end of that time everything had been carricd out of sight among the bushes, When ready to go, Johnson turved to face us, drew himself up, and, fastening his gnze on Captain Clark, he said: \u201cCaptain, I was playing you soft yesterday when I told you that we'd be content with the provisions, We want the bark, and we'll keep trying for her as long as there\u2019s a man left alive, You've shown us no mercy and need expect none from us.\" \u2018i Well, what's your point?\u2019 asked the captain as the fellow paused.\u201cIt's just this: Give us the bark, and we'll go away in her and leave.yon in comfortable shupe nn tie island.Refuse us, and we'll find a way to destroy ship and all of you, even if we perish at tho same time.Itshouldn\u2019t rest with you and your bloody mates to say uo to this, for the men with wives and children ought to bavo a word.Look here, Saunders, Smith, Williams, you women who want to see home again, are you going to''=\u2014 Captain \u2018Clark had a rifle in his hands.Ho raised it to his shoulder and covered the convict and said to him: \u201cI'll count five and then drop you dead in your tracks!\u201d Ho counted owe, two, three, and then Johnson turned and walked away.It It was not a bluff on tho captain\u2019s part.His finger was pressing the trigger, and ho would surely havo sent o bullet into tho fellow's head.Io would have been justified in doing it, but thus far we had shed blood cnly in defense.Some of tho people were dispesed fo believe that if tho mutineers meditated any further movo Johnson would have been too pclitic to utter threats, but two or three of us took a different view of the matter.Ho was not a diplomat.He was a man utterly without fear, and when there was à chance for a fight he never thought cf using strategy to se- curo an advaniage.Defent häd worked him up to that pitch whero ho must free his mind, and he would need watching none the less for aunouncing his determination.If tho wind had not shifted directly into the south, making it an utterly impossible thing tosail tho bark out of the bay, no matter how Lirgo a crew she might have had abourd, I think our cup- tain would bave carried her ont and made shift to at least reach another anchorage.Tho nervous strain bad begun to tell on us and scme of the women wero right down ill, and the knowledge that we wero still in peril and might have to fight for our lives at any minute had no consolation in it.\u201cI don\u2019t know what plans they have,\" said Captain Clark ag we counseled together, \u201c\u2018but wo must be wide awake for them day aud night.If they had one ringlo musket und 50 rounds of ammunition wo might have to make terms with them.they haven't! They'll ccok up some devilish scheme, however, and, as Isaid, wo must bo watchful.Lect them once get 1bssossion and they'd show mercy to neither mun, woman nor child.\u201d What I secretly dreaded was that they would firo tho forest, which was just then very dry.Tho thought camo to them, no doubt, but the llindu would have also Leen consumed, and their plan was to possess her.However, by ncen of the day I havo been speaking about it came on to rain in grand style, and the storm continued until noxt morning without break, Everything being thoroughly drenched, with a certainty of more rain at brief intervals, thero wus no longer the fear that the forest might be fired by accident or design.All the men, the single women and Mary Willinms wero counted off and divided into threo watchos.Awnings wero placed fore and aft to protect the watch on deck from the weather, and during the duy, unless tco wet, one mu in tho watch s.a8 to bo stationed in the crosstrees vith oo gluse and a rifle.As 1 came on «uty 6: the second morning, having M:ry 220 Liaskell in my watch, I was the ian to taka a trick alott.IJeftan ; vie crosstrees and went upus.:.!l « ce xaurview of tho island overt o.{ juuged it to bo about two 1°; mac, and it was thickly covered v.20 1 {cs end bushes except in occasional ¢, uta, Tho mutineers had made u cai.p about half smile due north cf t.> ship, The sail bad been stretched on st:\u2026c5, sud two or three fres were fmc:deriug, but it was 9 o'clock before I got siglit of any of the men.Then they came crawling out, cno by one, and Icon hud proof that all had not gone meny with them, With the glass I could Leng each mab so clese sr Thank tho Lord that | that it seemed as if I could luy a bund on his shoulder.There seemed to bo & dispato about who should act as cook, and from words the gang soon came to blows, There were half a dozen fights going on at ounce.d +4 8) ORY Ca Fer IF AUD 3 , OÙ LAND AMD SAS | Y CAPT, [RALPH THAIS) 3 COPYRMIONT lA$6 By THE AUTHOR.and I saw Ban Johnson using hands, feet When the fighting ceused, ten of the men seized a part of the provisions and went off through the forest toward the western shore.They defied Johnson and had se- and a club to restore order.lected a new leader.Whether the move would turn out good or ill for us was to be determined, The more they fought among themselves the less likely they were to attuck us, and yet we should now have two different gaugs, each working independently of the other, to look out for, The day and the night passed away without an alarm, but at an early hour ou the following morning the entire force of the smaller party appeared on the beach and hailed the bark.They were pretty evenly divided between convicts and sailors, and they put forward as their speechmaker the sailor who had served as bos'n of the bark, As everybody came on deck in response to the alarm, the party on the beach ur- covered their heads in a respectful way, and the bos\u2019n began : \u201c\u2018Cnptain Clark and good friends all, this is the truth, and may the whole gang of us perish on the spot if it isn't.We were dragged into this business.We bad to join \u2019em to save our lives.Every one of us here would have fought for the ship if we could have got aft mmong you.but they watched us too Mates, I calls upon you, one and all, to tell the captain if I'm speaking tlose.the truth or no.\u2018*Aye, he is that!\u2019* shouted three or four in chorus.\u201cAnd what do you want to get at?\u201d asked the captain in reply.\u201cWell, sir, it\u2019s just this way, sir.Those of us you seo here have broke away from the others, We have no heart We wants to come We don\u2019t ask to be trusted, but are willing to be put in irons We in it, you sce.aboard, sir.and carried to Australia for trial.may be hung for what we've done, sir, but we shall certainly be murdered if you don't take us aboard.\u201d The sympathies of the women, and of some of the men as well, were at once aroused, and they entreated the captain He silenced them with a gesture and said to the mutineers: \u2018\u2018Harkee, Dick Taylor and the rest of \u2018 you! Your words are fair, but your I know your game, und I say to you that if there's a man of you left in sight when the minute is up I'll put a bullet through his to grant the request, hearts are black enough.head.\u2019 Away went the rascals, helter skel- ter, and they were only well ctnecaled in tho bushes when they sent up a great hissing and groaning and shouting, and they indulged in threats to make the blood run cold.They well knew that the iron cages had been destroyed and that we hadn't a pair of shackles cr handeuffs aboard.No mat- if foolish enough to take them aboard, some ope of them would have found a way to liberate himsclf and all others, and then it I do not\u2019 think hero svas collusion between the; two parties, and therefore mention it as a singular coincidence that directly aft- | er nodn the other and larger party came down and stood on the identical spot - and made the same identical offer.The spokesman in this ciso was also one of, the sailors, and he stated that they had \"driven Ben Johnson out of the camp! and would have no more to do with *him.Captain Clark retarned about the game answer, and the words and actions of the mutineers left no room for deubt when thut censed ter how wo secured them, would bave been slaughter.that they had planned our destruction, The next event of importance sad- | Mrs.Sannders was not a robu-t women, and with the first dened all hearts.signs of trouble aboard had been thrown into a nervous fever, \u201cFour words are fair, but your hearts are black enough.\u201d ed.The cxcitement cf the situntion kept her fever going, und we had been anchored in the bay just a week, when one night sho breathed her last almost without warning.It Was à #heck to ail of us and a hard blew to busband and children.We made her a coffin out of the best material at hand, and while two of us stood guard on the shore with our rifles tho others boried her ina grave just above high water mark.\u2019 The almost immediate result of this rad event was n written communication from all the passengers, which was a , protest and an appeal combined, They wanted the captain to abandon the bark, take to the boats and sok to reach Ade- The women had given ker the Lest core they could under | the circumstances, hut even tue skill of | a good physician might not have svail- laide.Hc auswered it by calling us al} together in the cabin and puinting out, first, that owing to the bad weather the voyage wonld be one of such exposure and peril that he would not undertake it except ns a last resout; second, to abandon the bark as she stood simply meant to turn her over to the mutineers, who would pursne and destroy us; third, if she was scuttled or set on fire, he and I lost every dollar we had in the world, and, under the circumstances, it was doubtful if insurance or charter would hold good.Itcould not bo shown we were iu sufficicut peril to justify such proceedings, and he should respectfully but firmly decline to accede to the wishes of the pussengers.There was bitter disappointment and some strong talk, but in the course of 24 hours a Lotter feeling prevailed.In talking it over among themselves they had come to get a clearer view of the ins and outs of the situation.It would have been n very bad move to abandon the craft and take to the boats, not only a8 to what the government and insurance companies and owners of the lump of cargo in the lower hold might say, but there would not have been one chance in five cf bringing the bouts safe into harbor.There wus a steady westerly gale, with showers at intervals, and a sinfle day of exposure would bave done for the women and children, The miutincors kept wonderfully quiet after playing their cards as described .| above.The fact of the matter, ns youn can plainly see, was that they had no show whatever to get possession of the burk.Except for about half an bour at low tide, the sharks patrolled the bay ag if they had an understanding with us, and we took care to encourage them in this by feeding thom at intervals.No one could swim off to us, and, as for building n raft, the mutinecrs would have had to lubor right under the wuz.zles of our guns.They had no weapons to fire ou us; noue of us ever went ashore.And ro \u2018#but could they do?We did not relex our vigilance, however.Knowing that we had a desperate lot to deal with, we took no chances.Every hour of the day, rain or shine, a man was aloft with a glass to survey the island,and iu this way we kept quite fairly posted as to the movements of the mu- tincers.Two or three days after the Heuth of Mrs.Saunders it was discovered that the two parties had reunited under the leadership of Ben Johnson, and tha} they had given more attention to the comforts of their camp.It was further discovered that they had erceted a tall and were flying a flag from it.Their hope was to entice some craft which might have strayed into these waters to sending a boat ashore in answer to that signal.If they could get possession of a 4 boat, they would try hard to get possession of the ship which sent it ashore.That we might checkmate them in this we watched the sea as well as the land.If help came to us, it would be from the south, while their hope lay in the arrival of some whaler or coaster making a course along the coast, CHAPTER XVI.A CHAPTER OF ADVENTURES, It was the winter season in those lat- jtudes, you will understand, and before we had been in the bay a week we were sawing up some of the planks from between decks to keep our fires going, The day we buried poor Mrs.Saunders we shore, but there was little to be had without going into the brush farther than we cared to venture.On the sixteenth dey of our stay, as pear as I can come at it, and while it was my watch aloft, Captain Clark neers wero in sight, 1 could make out three or four of them on a bare hill a mile or ço away, but none nearer, and I 80 reported.The captain then ordered a quarter boat down, and he and Haskell and Roberts went ashore after a supply of fuel.We were that pinched on board that we had already resorted to barrels and boxes which properly belonged to the cargo.The plan was for the captain to stand guard while the cther fwo used the axes and carried tke fuel to the boat, and those of us left abourd were armed and vigilant, The two men had worked for an hour, when Captain Clurk changed off with Roberts.I kept my glass on the woods around them, but I did not once get sight of a mutincer.Winter though it was, the dead !-uves and branches and vines were so thick that 1 only caught occasional glimpses of ourown men.By and by the boat was well loffled, and Haskell and Roberts came down to her and stood wuiting for the captain.The sounds of his ax could be heard at that moment, and when they ceased we expected to see him appear in sight within half a minute, About five minutes slipped by, and then I called down to the see what had happened.They advanced and were out of sight when I got a fleeting gli.pse of Ben Johnson and au- other couvict hurrying the captain across an open fpace.The pair had crept up through the bushes and surprised and overpowered him, I called to the men and ordered them i aboard at once, and when it pad become | known that the men all were depending on fo much wad a prisoner to our desperate enemies I had all I could do to prevent the people from taking tothe boats and pulling away out to sca.It was a worl to make them vuderstand that the signal staff on the west side of the island | procured a small supply of fuel from the called out to know if any of the muti- | two men to go back into the bush and regular punic for a time, and I had hard bark hud net yet pone out of our pes- The capture occurred at about 10 o'clock in the morning, and from that hour on to 4 weather was pretty fair.of the tin:e aloft with the glass.o\u2018cleck the entire gang of niutinecrs ss- seml led fcr a council.was in front of their tents, and, though the afternoon the 1 sp nt most The meeting \u201cI could uot sce the captain, I had no doubt that Le wus a prircner in out of the tents or buts, The council lasted for two hours, ard, judgivg from the ges.turcs of the men, there was much excitement.: Mest of evr people believed that Cap- tain Clark would be put to death that day, but I Aattered myself I understood the plaus of the conviots better than that.He would be a powerful weapon in their hands, and they would use him for all be was worth before taking his life.1 predicted that we would hear from thew before night and was not as: | al) surprised when Ben Johneon appear- j ed just at dusk and hailed tho ship.I : knew what ho wes after and had also ; made up my mind as to the course to be ; pursued.| \u201c*Ahoy, therel'\u2019 called Johnson ns he | stepped cleur cf the trecs and stood in | an attitude expressive of defiance.| \u201cWell, what is it?\u201d I usked.*\u201cYcu know, of course, we've got the captain.\u2019 \u2018Yes, s: | \u201cWell, what do you propose to do about it?\" | \u201cWhat can we do?\u2019 I \u201cYou can save his life and all others if you have got prcper sense.Come ashore, bring whntever you want, and {we'll give you up the captain and go | away in the bark.We've talked it over I with the eaptain, and the word he sends ! by me is for you to doit.\" | \u201cAnd if we refuse?\u2019 I asked.| \u201cThen yuu'll find his head lying right where my feet stand when daylight \"eomes tomorrow.\u2019 | I told him that the proposition had \u201ccome so suddenly that we were not prepared to give an offhand auswer; that, | while we were willing to make a great \"sacrifice to save the captain's life, I could not speak for the passengers.I talked very civilly, ns you ay guess, \"and the point 1 gained was the one I had in sight from the first, Johnron | agreed to wait until the next morning | for our decision and gave mo bis word of \u201chonor that the captain should be j well treated in thy meantime, As to jour giving up tbe bark und going \u201cashore, the matter could not be considered for,a moment.Hud a knife been held at Captain Clark's throat he would ! have advised ngainst it.Not one of us : would have berm permitted to live to i tell the story.[nce we were out of the | way the fellows would have had little | to fear from pursuit.I had a plan, to work under cover of darkness, which I hoped might turn out i successfully, but for obvious rousons I ; kept it secret us long us possible.I had been nloft ro often that 1 believed I could find my way to the mutineers\u2019 ; camp on the darkest night, and I pro- | posed going there ulone and making an attempt to frre the captain and bring bim back with me.I bad as yet told no one, when Mary Williams came to me and said: \u2018Ralph, I know what you have planned to do, but you must not go alone, | You believe you can find your way through the forest without help, but you cannot.You must get the bearings by compass, awd tonight yon must have a compuss with you.Tho captain is likely to have been hurt and may need help to get along if rescued.I shall go with youl\" When I heard the good girl speaking after that fushion, I was speechless with surprise, but after a bit I pulled myself together and answered her that we could sparo no men, and, as fer taking a womun on such a perilous jaunt, it was uot to be thought of.\u201cDut shall go with yon!\u2019 she stoutly persisted.\u201cI will take ene of the re- ; Volvers and _u Kmmall compass, and you \u201ccan arm yourself with the fow ling piece | and another revolver.worst, I believe the two of us will be a mateh for the whole gang, us they have po firearms, Jt is needless for you to raise objections, for if you go 1 got\u201d \u201cBut your clothes?\u2019 1 persisted, \u201cWhy, Mary, the dress would Le torn | off your back before we had crept bulf i a cables length.\u201d i \u201cJ shall arrange about that, sir; so | 0 abcud and n.ake your plans!\u201d There wag a girl of sense and courage for you \u2014a real Linglish girl\u2014who might cry out ut the sight of a mouse in her own chamber, but who could bo a real beroine when the occasion detvanded.1 I pretended to yield, bag at 8 o'elock that night, when I had one of the bouts softly | dropped into the water und [Taskell was ! ready to pull me ashore, Mary came aft and whispered to me: \u201cDon\u2019t forget the compasses and rome | matches, Ralph, and have a lust look ut | the firrarms.You see, IT am ull ready to | 80 with you?\" I looked ut ber in amazement, Idon\u2019t say that she had on a full suit of her | father\u2019s clothes, but it was pretty near | it I realized that she must feel embar- | rassed, and that only her love for mo had brought it about, und so I louked + in apy other direction as 1 replied: \u2018See here, girl, but do you realize tho peril of this expedition?Ben John- sou would like nothing better than to capture us both at once.1 think he'd almost give up all ideas of possessing the Hindu if he had us in his hands!\u201d \u201cYes, Ralph, I know the danger,\u2019 she quietly replied.\u201cIt will be greater to you alone than with me, und so I shall go.Take along a revolver for the captain, and it would be well if Haskell remained in the boat after we have landed, as we wuy come buck in great haste.*\u2019 To tell you the truth, I was glad to have company.I should rather have had one of the men, of course, could one have been spared, und it made me | tremble to think we might be playing i into Johneon's hands, With the three of us prisoners the pecple left aboard the i bark could not hold out against him a day.Wusn\u2019t it Lruve of my sweetheart to volunteer to urcompany me\u2014aye, to insist cu it in spite of my objections?I wunt you to praise her a bit for that, If you had stood on that lovely beach with us and\u2019 looked into the dark forest and realized the peril as we did, 1 know you | would call her u heroine.For all we \"knew, a dozen of thé mutinecrs might be lying concealed in the bushes not 30 ; fect away.I was not nearly soconfident j of success after landing and standing | face to face with tbe difficulties, Sailor | though I was, and ever using the com- | pass for my goiding star, } should have | overlooked it on this occasion und been 1f worst comes to: lost in the bush betore we had gono 300 feet but for Mary.After u few whispered words to Has- kell, who was to remain in the boat until we returued or daylight came, I took the lead, und we pushed into the woods.It rained a little, und the wind was gusty, and once under the trees it was so dark that we had to feel our way.I flattered myself that we were keeping a true course, but at the end of a quarter of un hour Mary suggested that we tako a look ut the compass.We got down close to the ground und struck a matoh, and, to my surprise, we were bearing northwest instead of due north.After a half making our way to the cleuring.We were within 50 feet of the tents before we got sight of the fires, which the rain bad almost extinguished.Wo crept closer and listened, but not n sound ! came from the mutineers, Putting hor | mouth close to my our, Mary whispered: | \u201cNow, Ralph, you made out four tents or shelters here.The captain is certainly in one cf them.1f any one : was on guard over him, there would be la better fire.Wo shall find him fast | bound in one of the rear shelters, Let me take the lead from this out, and re- wember, if we are surprised, we must open firo on them and try and cut the captain\u2019s bonds snd put a pistol in his hands,\u201d Would you believe that I, who had planned the expedition and intended to go alone and had taken the lead thus far, should give way to a girl at the most critical point and take second place?And yet that is tho very thing 1 did.It seemed to be a matter of course.I won't admit that 1 was frightened, but my nerves were strung up and my heart thumping away like a trip hammer, und l'in sure 1 was the more flustrated of the two.Mary moved to \u201cthe right, passed within ten feet of tho Dargo tent, in which we heard the | deeperr snoring and sighing, and presently stopped before a smaller one.The sides were mado of brush, and tho roof was a tarpaulin, Certain smells judicnt- od that it wasthe cookhouse, When sat- isflod on this point, we passed along to the third structure.This was also a rude affair, but there wero men asleep inside, 1t was so dark that when wa stood in the door and peered around we could not make out a thing.There might bo half a dozen men in there, und Captain Clark might ko one of them, but how were we to ascertain?down hiko a lump of lead as [ realized the difficulties, and I whispered to Mary: \u201cWe have made tho trip for nothing.How are we to find the captain in the darkness?\"\u201d \u201cWe must take somo risks'\u2019 she whispered in reply.\u20181 un going to striko n matoh and bave a look, If w raise an alarm, the first idea of tho men He wus wide aavake ond vaised his hedo to look al us.will be to rush ont.We must fire on them and drive them into the woods, trusting they will lcuvo the captain be hind.\u201d That was the proper way to do it, but I should never have thought of it.No: Hud I been alone L should have turned back at this point, feeling that the difficulties were too great for me to nur mount.I handed Mary a couple of matches, made ready to open fire, and she moved inside and struck a light, As she held the blazing match up I counted eight men lying on heaps of brush and lenves they hud guthered for beds, and i right in the center of them, hound hand | and foot, was Captain Clark.Jie was i wide awake and raised his bead to look at us.I tell you, and I felt it to my shame, i though I stood guard and had the i guns to carry, Mary stepped right over those sleeping men, cut the prisoner's | bonda with a knife I gave her, and then : belped him up snd held him on his feet until the blood circulated und he could use his limits.They came out hand in - hand, the captain took the rifle I handed him, and we made our way back to the beach without a word having heen spoken on the way.The captain did not even know who we were, Jt wae not until we were safely ahoard that he knew, aud not until we were back that it wus generally known Mary and I had been absent.It Van a joyful reunion, | you muy be sure.Captsin Clark had guffered no injury or privation, but he » bad Leen made to renlize the desperate wood the men vers in, and that many of them were for killing him offhand, no matter shout tho ship, Only half an hour before our urrival one of the men was awake and car~ing him.Truly, but luck wus on our since in that expedition! CHAPTER XVIL THE BI:GINNING OF THE END.It was broad daxheht before we heard from the matincers.Then the whole crowd of them swarmed out of the forest and down on the beach, and in thei madness and desperation they were no longer men.Their cursing was something awful to hear, and but for the six or eight great sharks cruising around in the bay they would certainly have tried to board the bark in the face of our fire- - arms.They showered us with pebbles, and rome of them even picked up hand- : fuls of sand and flung them in our di- that we consulted the compass every ' few minutes, but were a good hour and : My heart went: 40 rection.lt was a long quarter of an hour before they cooled down, and then Ben Johnson stepped to the front and said: \u2018\u2019Aye, Captain Clark, you gave us the slip Just night, but we count ourselves no worse off.Within a week we'll have the Hindu and the life of every man, womau and child aboard!\" Having oxhaasted their rage, they retired to the shelter of the forest and their camp.It was raining that morning, and 1 cannot tell yoa how thankful I wan, Those men had boen worked up to that pitch that they would have fired the bushes without an hour's delay in hopes to encompass the death of all aboard the burk.They would ten times rather have destroyed her than to see us ani} away.The lust threat of Johuson's could not muke us uny wore vigilant, for there wan never a minute we were off our guard.Even the children were put on watch during the day.So fur as [ could observe from aloft, the mutineers stuck pretty closely to their ommp, while the quarrels among thom were frequent and violent, ln one of tbe altorentions ono of the sailors was killed, and through the glass I could plainly rco them dig a shallow grave and roll him into it as if his body had been the carcass of à dog.On the morning of the twenty-second day of our anchorage in the bay the aun came up in un cloudless sky.The bad weather was not yet over, but this was a lull or brenk in it.I came on duty at 7 o'clock that morning, nid as soon as reaching my accustomed perch aloft I made out a brig, with ber sails aback and only about a milo away to tho west, The signal fing which tho matineers had kept flying had evidently attruoted at- toution.From the number vf boats on tho davits I believed the brig to be a whaler; but, if so, she must have blown inshore or had rome business I could not well reason out.She showed no colors, but I teok her to be « German or Dane., [turned my glans on the cump of the mutinecrs and saw them all ranning down to the west shore in great haste, I hailed the deck and told Captain Clark what was going on, aid he at onco camo up to me, bringing tho British ensign and a rifle, Just us he got up n small boat with four men in her pulled awny from the brig toward the shore.At tho same moment wo kaw such of the mu- tincers an wore the unifornt of qonvicta aecrotn themselves in tho thicket, while the sailors were pushed to the front, \u201cRalph, wo must block that gamo,\"\u201d guid the captain after w look through the gluss.\u2018\u201cIf they tako off thoso men, tho brig will bo peized, her crow murdered, and the mutineers will mako off, I'll wet tho onsign flying, and do you Joad and fire tho riflo ns fast ns you can.\u2019 Theo hont'& crew had got within half a oabla's length of the beach before our gignals were seen and heard, They could ; sce our flag over the tree tops, and the re arts of the riflo must have been very à net.The boat was held steady for t.«or four minutes, und then the brag 61, aled for her revurn, I raw on man ; go.tuloft with n gluss and was Hotis- ; fieu that ho could sce me and would | make such n report ns would stop tho bout.Sho pulled back to the brig, and then came pulling along the west shore until sho opened the bay and got sight of us, Woe signaled for thin to come in, but they were evidently afraid of a trap, aid wien we Jowered nu bout to pull cut to them they nt onco took ta their ones und rowed for the brig.Wao hoped her captain might investigate, but he evidently became alarmoed at their report soul swung lus yards and mada sail.ad ho como in tous, ho might have lant ug a few men to navigate the Hindu down tho coast, Lut in driving him off we had ut Jeust balked tho plans of the mutineers, From the lookout aloft 1 anw them return to their camp.They were wrangling and quarrehing, sand many of them stopped to sin ko their fists in the diroo- tion of the bark.We expeoted another visit from them en masse, but they did not appear.About midafternoon the weather shut down again, accompanied by rain, nud nbourd ship wo gottlod down into the oll routine, We were daily looking for the appearance of a man-of-war, and I think every man of us felt wore hopeless and discouragod that night than at any time sinoo wo had bren embayed, You ean therefor imagine our joyful surprise when, an hour after midnight, we heard the boom of guns on the open ocean to tho south, That eignified that tho long expected ro- lief xhip had arrived, T'rom the moment we got the report of her first gun up to daylighit we wers up and down and on the watch, We céoald make out her lights aud knew thot she was lying to for the day to break.It reemed to ud ad if daylight would never come, but when it finally did it cain glad wight which met our oyes, There wus the old Lndeavor lying out there, carrying forty old guns and a crew of over 200 zen, and we had only mado her out when no Loat left her side and came pulling into the bay.Captain Clark was taken oft in her to make a report cf our case, and soon after bis arrival on board the Hinda her captain sent ui off four sailors and six marines, The latter wers to relieve us of our guard duty and the former to help us to got things shipshape preparatory to ran- ping ont of the Lay.Just Lefore noon Captain Clark returned in company with the first Lieutenant of the man-of- war, whose name way Robson, He had beurd the particulars of our story, and after introoucing himeelf he rubbed his bands in anticipation and said : \u201cBut it's all right now.Of course you'll get help to take the bark (o her port of destination, and of course we'll soon be after these fellows who have caused ali this trouble, They must know of cur arrival, and I'm looking for them to come down und offer to surrender and take their punishment.\u201d [TO BE CONTINUED.) Twenty-six days are required for the journey between New York and Sierra , Leone.JES TAT.CT Fd 6 WR ES SAN FRANCISCO'S BEER, Her Saloons, Placed Side by Side, Would Extend Sixteen Miles, The yearly consumption of beer in San Francisco, according to the calculation of the federal gaugers, is 14,215,161 gallons.This is equal te 2,848,082 1-5 five gallon kegs, It would require a single cask 2223 feet high and 161 feet in Aiameter to hold this liquor.The battleship Oregon cc@d easily float in this cask, The beam of the Oregon is only 70 fret nud her extreme height, including her military must, is 120 feet.It would require five ships as large as the Oregon to curry this beer us a cargo after all the machinery and armament had been removed and allowing nothing for the hull displacement, The displacement of the Oregon is 10,000 tons, the weight of the beer is 50, 860 tous.Notwithstunding the fuct that San Francisco has but 300,000 people, there are 8,260 licensed saloons in the city.The Examiner of that city recently compiled a statement of tho extent of San Francisco's rum business, and this article hus been drawn upon {or many of the fuets herein given.There figures tuko vo account of the numberless burrel houses\u2014% can joints\u201d in the expressive vernacular of the po- lice\u2014for the barrel houses aro not rc- quired to pay the municipal license of §21 a quarter, and consequently aro not enumerated in the books.Eliminating, therefore, the houses and allowing tocach of the more than 3,000 licensed saloons a frontage of 25 feet\u2014eertainly a moderate allow- ance\u2014the astounding fact is made to appear that the San Francisco saloons, if placed side by side in a straight line, would extend ncurly 16 miles\u2014one aun- broken,* bibulous, beery boulevard.\u2014 New York Voice.THE MODERN CAIN.Childhood, Youth and Manhood All Perish Before the Slayer.The saloou\u2014this modern Cain\u2014is the depository of the runkest poisons.'He who stands behind ita bur denls in death.It is a murderer of babyhood.No one who but casunlly glances over the record of crime issuing from the saloon can doubt that it is disastrous to child life.The saloon is a murderer of manhood.It has wrecked the bodies and sent to eternal doom the souls of thousands of | the flower of our country.It is the destroyer of the home, that ancient institution of God, that little heaven on earth, that one thing dear to a woman's heart next to her God.The saloon bas been the cause of thousands of homes being turned juto hells on earth, Here is modern Cain with this difference, that, whereas in the olden time Cain was reckuned an outlaw and went slinkivg away when confronted with bis crime, this modern Cuin is n legalized murderer and carries on its work under sauction of law.I am profoundly impressed with the conviction that in the annals of time thisshall be reckoned the \u2018\u2018crime of the ages.\u2019 May the voice of the eternal God startle us tonight with the question, \u2018\u2018What hast thon done?\u2019 Two hundred thousand homes are under the shadow: 100,000 hearts are broken; the cry of 500,000 wretched, ragged ohildren pierces the air; the tramp, tramp, tramp of 109,000 drunkards yearly marching to their doom makes the earth tremble, while crimes unmentionable are being perpetrated upon thousands of innocent victima by the votaries of the saloon.\u2014Rev.J.Knox Montgomery.LIQUOR AND BUSINESS.People of a Town Don\u2019t Fave to Guzzle Beer to Be Prosperous.One of the highest salaried traveling men making Kansas was talking with a Wichita reporter the other day of the prohibition law of Kansas and said: \u201cI make all the towns in eastern Kansas and western Missouri, and I want to say that all this talk of prohibition | 1 rell | burting business is all a farce.more goods and a better quality in Kan- 8as towns than [ do in Missouri, and my patrons are better pay.**Thuy need not tell me that the people of a town have to guzzle beer in order to have prosperous business.When the people of u town spend their money for beer, they don\u2019t have so much to spend in my line.I don\u2019t mind a glass of beer occasionally, but I prefer to sell Boods to a man who doesn't use it.I find he is a great dea) more apt to have the money when pay day comes.''\u2014 Kansas City Star.Profits of Saloons.According to the sworn statement of saloon keepers before the supreme court of the United States, the average daily income of a saloon is $15.There are in Cincinnati 1,770 auloons.Assuming that each reccives 815 a day, the aggregate is $2,600,000 à year.How much of this is profit?A gallon of beer sells at wholesale for 25 cents.The saloon keeper receives for it 80 cents, a profit of 220 per cent.The profits on whisky pre even greater.Surely the people of this city must be prosperous when they tan pay such profits to 1,770 saloon keepers, while they support but 1,101 grocers, nearly one-fourh of whom sell liquor besides, \u2014Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.Sunday Closing In Scotland.Here are rome figures tbat witness to the advantages of Sunday closing of ea- loons: In Scotland the consumption of spirits in 18562 and 1853 was 6,858,881 gallons for a population of 2,914,744.In 1892 and 1898 the consumption was 8,891,758 gallons, the population being 4,083,461.Compare the decrease in sumption of spirits with increased ulation.No Good Templars In Russias.Joseph Mailing, grand chief Templar st England, recently made an attempt fo locate lodges of his order in Russia, \u201clat the government forhade any move.ut the.kind, and the enterprise was aban.oo ae _ \" barrel : RUM FILLS THE JAILS.Drunkenness Is the Main Cause of the Commoner Crimes, cially quulified to render authoritative : opinions regarding the effect of the i liquor business, \u2018There is probably no mun who ever won u higher place in the judicial circles of any country than the Jate Lord Chiet Justice Coleridge of Euglund.After yours of service at the head of the highest court of Britain, Lord Coleridge died two years ago and | was succeeded by Lord Charles Russell, | ths present chief justice.Lord Coleridge was profoundly impressed with the evils of the rum business from his experiences on the bench, and frequent- | ly spoke his opinions in the plainost language.At Durham in 1877, refor- (ring to the drink business, he said: \u201cTho crimes of violence, which in a [large proportion fill the calendar, without nv single exception have begun in i public houses und are due to drunken- Îness.I think it is in the cours of my duty to suy that, within my experience as à judge, snd having lived some con- - siderable timo in the world among other Judges und judges of much larger experience than myself, it is certainly the \"ease that if we could mako England so- | ber wo might shut up nine-tenths of the \u201cjuils.> .The next year, at Bristol, ho express- \"ed himself thus: \u201cI suppose it is because the fact is so plain thut nobody pays the slightest at- i tention to it-\u2014viz, that droukenness is a vice which fills the jails of England, cand that if we conld wake England soi ber we could do away with nine-tenths of the prisons, \" At Manchester, in 1881, he made this remarkable statement: \u201cAN the cuses thut have come before me, with one exception, have had their beginning or ending in drink.\u201d Ten years later, in a speech at Bir.mingham, he gavo it as his opinion: | \u201cDrunkenness is muinly the cause of i the commoner sorts of crime, and if \u201cEngland could be mude sober, three- I fourths of her jails might be closed,\u2019 Two years beforo his death, at Liver.! pool, he made this public declaration : \u2018At n moderate estimate something | like nineteen-twentieths of the crime | that bas to be tried in courts is due to { drink.Tbis is®he cold opinion of oue of the greatest judicial minds that Great Britain ever produced.' On another occasion Lord Chief Justice Coleridge said; \u201cI can kcop vo terms with a vice that fills our juils; that destroys the comfort of homes and the peace of families, and debases and brutalizes the people of these ic.ands.\u201d PROGRESS OF TEMPERANCE.The Habitual Drinker Is No Longer Tolerated In Business, After all, however, the thing of main importance is the story of the progress of temperance during nearly a quarter of a century that the Union has been in existence, In the course of this comparatively short period a remarkable change has taken place in public sentiment and in private conduct with regard to the sale and use of intoxicating liquors.the public man who gets drunk, por is it possible any more for a man to maintain a first class standing in private life if he is known to be given to intoxication.It is exceedingly difficult for the fession or to secure a situation in any brauch of business.Most of the corporations make sobriety one of tho tests of fitness for employment, and society shuts jta door in the faces of those who cannot or do not control their appetites.This gain for temperance has brought with it a general elevation of the standards of morulity and propriety.\u2014st, Louis Globe-Democrat.Whisky's Yearly Work.In the Cuban army are some 50,000 men.Should it come to pass that General Weyler seizes and butchers all of these men, what u righteous protest would go up from the American continent! Civilization would turn livid with grief and rage.And yet the rum power of the United States is guilty of the massacre of this vast number of bu- mau beings, and thousands wore, every year.\u2014Exchunge.Mark It Poison.There is a good deal of talk about passing a law fixing the standard of beer.As the stoff is poison the law ought to make that standurd declara- the regulation cross bones and skull, and then let it take its chances as a beverage with the other death dealers.\u2014 Voice.Rum Kills One-tenth, Dr, Benjumin Ward Richardson, the famous English authority, from a lifetime of stndy estimates that one-tenth of the total deaths of England are attributable to the use of alcohol.Applying this ratio to the United States, the fcaths due to drink would amount to from 70,000 to 80,000 per year.The Old, Old Story.Bo was ono of the fellows That could drink or leave it alone, With a fine, high «corn for common men Who were born with no back bone.\u201cAnd why,\" said he, *\u2018should a man of strength Deny to himself the use Of the pleasant gift of the warm, red wine Because of its weak nLuse?\u201d L Ho could quote at a banquet, With a manner half divine, Full fifty things tho poets say About the rosy wine, And he could sing a spirited song About the lips of a lass Anddrink a toast to hor fair, young worth In the sparkling, generous glass, And, since this lordly fellow ! Could driik or leave it alone, He chose to drink at his own wild will Till his will was overthrown, And the lips of the lass are cold with grief, And the children shiver and shrink, For the man who once could leave it alone Is a pitiful slave to drink, \u2014 British Temperance Advocate, The courts of any country nre espo- There is no longer any indulgence for | habitual drinker to .prosper in any pro- tion, have the commodity marked with | Gulleless Loie Fuller, Loie Fuller has never worn a corset in oll her life.Her figure is round, beautiful, firm, Her gowns are fashioned in the empire style, her hats aro immense and beplumed, and her manners are gracious and altogether delightful, Her modesty is possibly her greatest churm.Sho told the writer recently : \u2018L reo posters about the street, and I think Loie Fuller must be some one else.I can\u2019t get used to the fume part lof my career.In Puris, where I becamo i known, I wus driven to the theater and | home again without knowing how I | was being talked about.One day I required some pocket handkerchiefs, and \u2018my mother and I walked into a shop.\u2018See, mamma,\u2019 I cried, \u2018there are Loie Fuller handkerchiefs, and there are silks {named afrer that person too, I wonder | who can have my mune,\u2019 It turned ont ; that 1 was the numesako of all manner 1 of wearable articles of feminivity.\u201d\u201d\u2014 | New Orleans Times-Democrat.The Child of a Village, All the sr-nes and atmosphsre of one\u2019s native villuge\u2014if ono is fortunate ; enough to have Leen born in such a loo cality\u2014lie around the memory like the ; horizon line, unreachable, impassable, i Even a socalled cosmopolitan man has , Lever seemed to mo a very happy being, rand a cosmopolitan child is above all ; things to be pitied, To be identified ia early memories with some limited and \u201ctherefore characteristic region\u2014thut is , happiness, No child is old enough to be ; a citizen of tho world.What denationalized Americans hasten to stamp as | provincial is, for children at least, og suv- ing grace.You do not call à nest pro- | vincial.All this is particularly true of ! thoso marked out by temperament for a ; literary curcer.Literature needs for its material only men, nature und books, | und of these tho first two are every- | where and the lust aro ecusily transport.i able, since you can pile the fow supremo | authors of the world in a liftle corner cof the smallest log cabin, The Cambridge of my boyhood afforded me all that human heart could ask for its elementary training.Those who doubt ic | night perchance havo been tho gainers if they had shared it.\u2018He despises me,\" said Ban Jonson, \u2018because I live in an alley.Tell him his soul lives in an alley.\u201d\u2019\u2014Colonel T.W.Higginson iu | Atlantic.| Killed by an Envelope.Miss Helen Musgrave, a pretty young woman of Cameron Township says a recent despatch from Shamokin, Pa, is dead as a result of blood poisoning caused by moistening an enval- ope with her tongue in sealing a letter intended to end a lover's quarrel.The letter was meant for her former lover, Herman Shultz, of Pittsburg, in the hope of bringing about a reconciliation.While sealing it she cut her tongue.But little attention was paid to the cut, and it apparently healed up.In afew days, however, it, began to swell, and it became rapidly worse until her death.Meanwhile the letter had reached its destination, and Shultz arrived at i her bedside in time to be reconciled to her before she died.South Riverside Cal., Jan, 14th, 97.Editor Stanstead Journal: DEAR Sir: I suppose that my subscription for the Journal has expired, I will be 83 years old the 26th of Jan.I have been taking the JOURNAL for | more than 50 years, and while most of my old friends have passed away so that their names are not seen any more in your columns, yet I still enjoy the JOURNAL, especially since you have a correspondent at \u2018\u2018Currier\u2019s,\u201d where I resided for more than 50 years.I enclose money order for 81,00 to have it continued another year.We just read in the \u2018Currier Items\u2019 that the ice on the lake was about a foot thick, what a contrast.Here everything is as green and beautiful as it is there in May or June, the orange groves are laden with golden fruit which we are just beginning to pick; the lemon trees are blossoming and the fruit ripening nearly every month in the j year, wheat and barley are up and | growing nicely, and there are thous- | ands of acres sown here this year.Yesterday my son Ezra trimed their rose hedge, which extends about 200ft.in front of their home, there were a great many still in bloom, but in a few weeks it will be a sight worth seeing.Surely this is a land of sunshine and flowers.Yours gery truly, NATHANIEL CURRIER.Canada has won much credit for rhe assistance to the starving people of India both at home and abroad.ACCIDENT ON THE 1.C.R.Dorchester Station, N.B., Jan.26.\u2014 \u2018Train No.25 from Halifax this morning is in Palmer\u2019s Pond, excepting the engine which remained on the track.The place where the accident occurred was on a high embankment, on the down grade.So far only one body has been brought from the scene of the accident, which is one mile away.it is that of a woman and it is said that she is the only one killed outright.It is also reported that Dr.Borden is badly injured.LOCAL READING NOTIOES of nn adver tising charactor are charged for at the rate of two cents a word for the first insertion, and one cent a word for each subsegnent insertion.Notices of church entertainments, ete, aro subject to the same charge.Advertising renders coming from outside towns will inserted under the heading of + the town from which they came at the same rate.Cashshould accompany ordor, perished.During a theatrical per- INDIAN FAMINE.The speech of Lord Elgin, the Viceroy,before the Calcutta meeting called to promote means to relieve the distress due to the famine in India, will help the outside world to understand, not only the extent of the evil, but the tremeudous efforts that are being made to reduce it.India is a country of poor people.Of the two hundred and eighty-seven millions who live in the states under British rule or British protection, the vast majority have nothing whatever beyond the narrow limit that serves to carry them from one harvest to another.Their land, too, is peculiarly subject to famine.It is never known when, in some district or other, the harvest will be short, and short harvest means death to hundreds of thousands of people, and perhaps, even to millions, unless the Government interferes.It is one of the most serious duties of the administrators of the Empire to prepare for a famine.Months before the natives of the district know that serious evils threatens them the Council at \u2018Calcutta, watching the reports of rain- | fall and vain condifgons, have laid their plans.How complete these are, and how effective they are worked out,may be inferred in Lord Elgin\u2019s statement that one and a quarter million people, increased within a week to one and three-quarter million, depend for life on public relief works, carried out by and at the Government\u2019s expense.A population greater than that of the Province of Quebec is being fed.The number may increase in a short time two or three- Skipped Out! Who?EVERY FARMER, gone to the Rock Island Hardware Co.\u2019s Store to buy Sugar Tools\u2019 for which we are Headquarters for all kinds, namely : The Monarch Arch & Evaporator One of which we have on our floor; life-size, all complete to use.We make all sizes of Steel Arches for boiling and sugar off purposes, Corrugated and Flat bottom Evaporators, Pans, Heaters, Buckets made out of the best IX Tin, Syrup Cans, Strainers, Sap Spouts and Nails, Rubber Tubing, Rubber Hose, Sugar Thermometers, Tapping Bitts, Storage Tanks.fold.In the Allahabad district, in! one week, the number relieved leaped ' from forty thonsand to ninety-eight ! thousand.selves of the energy of the organiza- | tion.No other Government in any other country has ever achieved such results.But, great as is the public | work do, Lord Elgin\u2019s Speech showed that there is room all alongside for, the operations of private charity.\u2019 There are places open to the citizen | that are not discoverable by the offi- | cial, and in these there is opportunity | for the broadest and most bouhteous charity to show itself.The people of | Great Britain, appreciating the duty | laid upon them, have in a fortnight i raised a fund of £500,000, and it is stil] : growing.The People of Canada have been given the opportunity of joining | in a work that has both humane and patriotic reasons for claiming support.\u2014Montreal Gazette.BOYNTON.À social is to be held at A.W.Brown's, of this place, on Friday even- | ing, January 20, for the purpose of | purchasing an organ for the church.| All are cordially invited.| | i FINEST FASHIONS OF EUROPE.| The Boston Sunday Journal Will Inau- | gurate a Wonderful Novelty.| There is not a woman in the land.who does not have a yearning for the lates fashions of Europe, but the difference in time between the opening i of the seasons there and here makes it impossible for the receipt of the styles until after they have been worn by the leaders of the fashionable world on the other side of the Atlantic.To be sure, all the great dictators of fashions make up their styles six months in advance, but so jealously have they guarded their secrets that no inkling of them can be obtained by the outside world until after they have been worn.At great expense arrangements have been completed with Felix of Paris, Drecoll of Vienna and twelve others of the most famous court costumers by which a weekly photograph will be published by the Boston Sunday Journal, accompanied by a signed description by the famous designer himself.No other paper in Boston can be within four months of the styles of these famous designers, and the readers of the Boston Journal will be able to obtain styles the same day that the beautiful dresses are being exhibited to the public for the first.time.To the Editor of the Stanstead Journal: | Sir, Since your Lineboro correspondent said, in the JOURNAL of last\u2019 December 31st, that T spent Xmas : week at Graniteville, my master has been asked repeatedly who Peggy ; d\u2019Etchegoyen was, so please allow me i a little space in your valuable paper, just to say I am a bitch\u2014a Scotch Colley bitch.Moreover I am well bred and mind my own business.With respectful thanks, Mr.Editor, | for your kind consideration.| PEGay.Jan, 26th, 97, Explanation\u2014On the 31st December the dog \u201cPeggy\u201d was referred to as Peggy d\u2019Etchegoyen.\u2014Ed, AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE.News comes Via San Francisco, 25th instant of a terrible panic in a temple at Kowtang, China, in which three hundred men, women and children formance a lamp was broken which s8t the temple on fire.The main entrance was closed and two smaller aisles were also choked.Of the forty actors in the performance, four only escaped.In fact everything.to rig out a first-class sugar orchard.We are here to sell if prices will do it.The facts speak for them- | .Come one, come all, both short and tall, And be convinced we beat them all.Yours for Business, ROCK ISLAND HARDWARE C0, ROCK ISLAND, Que.Closing Out Sale .OF .Winter Clothing.Fur Coats, Ulsters, \u2018and Winter Suits, Robes and Blankets, Caps, Gloves and : Mittens, Underwear, &c.All at Reduced Prices To make Room for Spring Goods.GILMORES, Derby Line.P.A.BISSONNET°S GREAT REDUCTION! BIG SACRIFICÉS! To Clear Winter Goods before Stock Taking.10 to 50 per cent.Discount on All Goods.Gray Cottons, former price § 0.08 now $0.00, Dress Goods, former price su now U4) \u201c D 0.29 a \u201d\u201c \u201c 5.00 + Flannel 0.10 Ladies\" Jackets i 30 Flannelette 7 ss = 0.10 0.08 \u201c \u201c \u201c hd 6.00 4.00 or 15 yards for Low + \u201c s « \u2018 10,00 « 6.5 Dress Goods, he \u201c 0.2 4 0.10 \u201c a 6 soso \"+ boul me \u201c «000 + O1 4 Cnpeu 6 \u201c100 + GA 25 per cent.discount on all furs.A few Gent's Coon aud Wombat Coats.Also Grey Jap Robes worth 89.00 at 6.50.Black Jap Robes 811.at 7.50.The balance of my Tweed to clear out at just half price.Clothing! Clothing! Clothing! A Good Boy's Suit for $1.50 Boys\" Ulntors former price 7.00 * 4.50 do man's du 3.15 Men's + \u201c « 0 BU Boys\u2019 Ulsturs, former price # 5,00 now 8,00 \u201c \u201c \u201c + 10,00 \u2018T0 À lot of Overcoats at 50 cents on the Dollar.The Fact is, MONEY is WANTED, and if you want MORE than your money's worth, come in and see what I am doing.LEGAL NOTICE FROM EMERY & CO.To the Merchants and Manufacturers: We command you to appear before Emer & Co., and show cause why you have hundreds, yeu thousands, of dollars charged to profit and loss, when there is money iu nearly all your so- called worthless necounts, if properly handled.Emery & Co., Mercantile and Collection Agency, guarantee to collect your bad debts, ind they further agree to bring nil suits and obtain judg: ments at thelr expense, Our representative will be in your town this week and will probably callon you, Give him an audience as he is in a position to give you some valuable information in relation to collecting old accounts hitherto unknown to you.We do not claim to he magie- fans but we do elim to know our business, Gentlemen, you can\u2019t run your business and à collecting agency at the samo time.They are two separate and distinot lines.Should you devote the time necessary to the collection 0 your old accounts, your business would probably suffer from nugloet.There are parties owin you to-day, whom you have not seen for months, We claim that you do not know thelr stan ng.Mout of your debtors are able 80 if properly handled.Givo ua a trinl.\u20ac will got your money for you.EMERY & CO., Mercantile and Collection Agency.Eastern Office, 28 School St, Boston, Mass.Special Correspondence to all the Principal Cities of the United States, Canada, and Europe.to pay.and would do "]