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The Clinton News-Record, 1909-12-16, Page 11liffaxbi.r 14* 11000. COON% News.Record •We, STORY OF 'THE 111111H IMMO- •GRANTS AT GROSSE 14,E, • ITen Thousand Prospective Irieh Seta Mere Were Buried en St. Lawrence talsiteantine Wand During the ?sirs tiff and (1141-30t Sail in "Coffin Shine' and Foil an Easy Prey to the Fever. . e rie the country's water gate in the hived St. Lawrence 'below Quebeo, where the liffhtst ef 'welcome along the shores tenni& at night from hundreds das of humble dwellings, says Fred. l�tOn in The Montreal Standard; where fthe sailors, weary with deep-sea. watches, eagerly peer iota the gloom or will-ontWeensp gleam* flickering *bO,e the water rows, there atan.da today ou the top of a rooky islet a tall granite; column in the shape of a Celtic Orem. In summer, when the seamen gets abeam of Grosse Isle on hie journey the river, he sees a prospect•mest romantic. The island is covered with vegetation and is f airly well wooded. *log along the channel skirting • rock-bound shores the spruce eitowe pleaaing against faint blue pencilinga of the ()oast berme'. Huge mountain otztlines make a magnific,ent back, d to the picture as the haze gen' tly enwraps them. And yet there ill mystery in every yard of the islet aa we drop along with the tide or steam slowly past. Like the Spy Glass On reasure Island, Telegraph Hill ie e highest elevation. And on its rocky heights, far above the swiftly. flowing river, is now perched a mighty anite cross which tells a story of urian suffering unequalled in the ale of the New World. Stand with me by this erose which • wers° aloft from its rocky bed. You e high above the sea level at ite massive base, and beyond in the St.• • wrence the ships sail out to sea. here is the little schooner -built craft she ripples down the tide on her way to harbor hamlets on the Gaspe, • sat. There is the deep -laden collier she sullenly plunges through the 'de, beating her way with throbbing crews; or, there is the big liner with decks crowded with immigrants full f hope for their future home in the new world. Far across the river are The neat white -washed dwellings and The carefully -cultivated gardens and nelds of the French-Canadian farmer. The potato crop had failed. There N'iras sorrow and suffering and death 'n Ireland; men, women and children in the years 1847 and 1848 struck out blindly for the New World in an at- empt to save their lives and fortunes. At home the people were dying of 'starvation; abroad, in .the new lands beyond the Western Ocean, they !would seek better conditions—would seek a home and enough to eat. In nags they started. In scores of wood. en ships—coffin-ships they were named e—they left their native land. • In niroves and herds they infested the ships. There was no ventilation; food and water were scarce; sanita- tion was unknown. Sick and dying . many of them started. There were ew doctors or nurses. The scenes at iparting from their native land are [harrowing. The travelers, weeping bitterly, kiss their relatives and friends as the hour of farewell draws near. The husband leaves his wife land children to the care of friends and goes forth, trusting soon to bring them to a better home beyondthe seas. A terrible wail of grief goes up as the hawsers are cast off and the lships roll forth into the Atlantic on ktheir long journey to America. At sea the horror deepens. The never spreads among the passengers. Wranaes weakened by hunger and pri- !Nations cannot resist disease: the !passengers die by thousands. In ten of the vessels that arrived at Montreal in July, four from Cork and six from Liverpool, out of 4,497 !passengers, 804 had died on the pas - nage, and 847 were sick on their ar- !rival. The "Larch," on August 12th, !reported from. Sligo, sailed with 440 • !passengers, of whom 108 died on the passage, IN were sick. The "Vir- ginius" sailed with 596; 158 died, on the passage, 186 were sick, and the remainder landed feeble and totter- ing; the captain, mate and crew were all sick. The Black Hole of Calcutta was a mercy compared to the holds •of these vessels. And so we see the ships, rolling i deep with their cargoes of death, en. i nering the St. Lawrence. At Grosse Isle the Quarantine Sta- tion, in the St. Lawrence, these car - !goes of dying immigrants were indis- criminately dumped. Week andsick, ithe passengers were set on shore. ,Some were scarce able to escape the :greedy tide, arid gasped out their ; miserable lives upon the rock-bound 'coast Upon this barren isle, says the had I Itorian, 10,000 of the Irish race were consigned to the grave -pit. Accord - ling to the death roll, there were !buried. between the 16th and -30th of ;June, 487 Irish immigrants "whose .• Inames could not be ascertained." In IJuly, H1 were thrown into nameless ;graves; and in August, 918 were enter. 'ed in the register under the eompre., .hensive deecription "unknown."Them were interred from the 16th of Julie ito the closing of the quarantine foe that year 2,905 of a Christian people .whose names could not be diseovered ,arnichil the confusion and carnage of that fatal summer. In the following :year, IMO additional victims were eentemed in the same register without , name or trade of any kind to tell who „ they were or whence they had come. b's "wnThus 5,000 out of the total number of victims were simply described as "unknown." i I His Boycott. "These Turks are barbarous peo- ple," remarked the housewife as she got out a rhubarb pie. "Yes, mum," responded Sandy Pikes, with a low bow. "To show my antipathy for dem I have forthed a boycott." "A boycott, my peer man?" "Yes, mum. I have promised me, self never to use a Turkish towel or take a Turkish bath.", 11 TEAM 'CALAMITY STORY OF THE IRISH MIMI. SMARTS AT MOUE ISLE. TOO Theltieseni Prospective Irish Set - Beni Wee° Buried on SU Lawrence Quarantine island During the Year* IIKT and 114$—.Set Sail in "Coffin Ships" and Fell an Easy Prey to the Fever. In the ottimtryht water gate in the bread St. Lawrence below Quebec, 'where the lights of welcome along the /there* twinkle at night from hundreds of humble dwellinga. says Fred Yor- kton in The Montreal Standard; where the sailors, weary with deep-sea watches, eagerly. peer into the gloom for will -o' gleruns flickering above the water rows, there stands to -day s on the top of a rocky islet a tall granite column in the shape of a Celtic Cross, In simmer, when the sewnan gets abeam of Grosse Isle on his journey ti•P the river, he sees a prospect most romantic. The island is covered. with 'vegetation and is fairly well wooded. Retnmg along the channel skirting its rockound shore* the spruce shows phoning against faint blue pencilings of the coast beyond. Huge mountain outlines make a raagnificent back- ground to the picture as the haze gen- tin enwraps them. And yet there is myetery in every yard of the islet as we deep along with the tide or steam slowly past. Like the Spy Glass on Treasure Wand, Telegraph Hill is the highest elevation. And on its rocky heighta, far above the swiftly - flowing riven is now perched a mighty granite cross which tells a story of human mitering unequalled in the annals of the New World. Stand with me by this cross which towers aloft from its rocky bed. You are high above the sea level at ita massive base, and beyond in the St. Lawrence the ships sail out to sea. There is the little schooner -built craft as she ripples down the tide on her way to harbor hamlets on the Gaspe coast. There is the deep -laden collier as she sullenly plunges through the tide, beating her way with throbbing screws; or, there is the big liner with decks crowded with immigrants full of hope for their future home in the new world. Far across the river are the neat white -washed dwellings and the carefully -cultivated gardens and fields of the French-Canadian farmer, The potato crop had failed. There was sorrow and suffering and death in Ireland; men, women and children in the years 1847 and 1848 struck out blindly for the New World in an at- tempt to save their lives end fortunes. At home the people were dying of starvation; abroad, in the new lands beyond the Western Ocean, they would seek better conditions—would seek a home and enough to eat. In rags they started. In scores of wood- en ships—coffin-ships they were named —they left their native land. In droves and herds they infested the *hips. There was. no veptilatione food and water Were Scarce; sanita- tion. was unknown: Sick and dying tinny of them Started. Therewere few doctorsor nurses. The scenes at parting. from their ' native land are harrowing. The travelers, weeping bitterly, kiss their relatives and friends' as the hoer' of farewell draws near. eThe husbahd leaves his wife and children to the care of friends and goes forth, trusting soon to bring them to 'a better •honie beyond the seas. A terrible wail of grief goes up as the hawsers are cast off and the ships roll forth into the Atlantic eti their long journey to America. At sea the horror deepens. The fever spreads among the passengers. Frames weakened by hunger and pri- vations cannot resist disease: :the passengers die by thousands. In tele of the vessels that arrived at Montreal in July; four from Cork and sin from Liverpool, out of 4,497 passengers, 804 had died On the pas- sage, and 847 were sick on their at - rival. The. "tattle" on August 12th; reported. from Sligo, sailed with 440 passengers, of whom 108 died on the passage, e50 were sick. The "Vit. ginius" sailed with 596; 158 died 'on the passage, 186 were sick, and the remainder landed feeble ahd• totter- ing; the captain, mate and crew were all sick. The Black Hole of Calcutta was a mercy compared to the holds of these vessels. , And so we see, the ships, rolling deep' with their cargoes of death, en- tering the St. Lawrence. • At Grease: Isle the Quarantine Sta- tion, hi the nt. Lawrence,' these car- goes of dying -immigrants were indis- criminately dumped. Weak and sick, the passenger% were 'set on shore. Some were scarce able to escape the greedy tide, and gasped .out their miserable lives upon •the rock-bound coast. • Upon this barren isle, says the his- torian,' 10,000 of the Irish race were consigned n to the grave -pit. Accord- ing to the des.th roll, there were buried, between the 16th and 30th of June, 487 Irish itzurtigrants "whose names could not be ascertained.' In July, 941 were thrown into nameless graem; and in August, 918 were enter- ed izi the register under the compre- hensive description "unknown." There were interred from the 16th of June to the closing of the quarantine for that year 2,905 of a Christian people, *hose mimes could not be discovered amidst the confusion and carnage of that fatale summer. In the following year, 2,000 additional victims were enteved in the same register without name or trade of any kind to tell who they were or whenee they had come. Thus 5,000 out of .the total number of Victims were eirnply described as "unknown." His noycott. "These Turks are barbarous pan ple," remarked the housewife as She got out a rhubarb pie. "Yes, mum," responded Sandy Pikes, with a low lawn "To allow .my antipathy fet. dem 1 have formed a boycott." "A boycott, my poor marl?" "Yes, nium. I have promised me - eel! never to ine Turkish towel or take a Turkish bath." A SCUAP To *o tioom it Most Be Arrangest With System. The Eton hook habit, provided it is not corned to cation is involuehte. For reference nothing tekets at piece. toll it had an advantage over °the, conipilatious of inforinatiou tint it is esuelly formed along Hunt that pecul- iarly appeal to the owner. A scrap hook to be useful must be arranged with eysteree A hodgepodge of iniorniation tieleate the purpoee oi the book. It ie well to have snealler books than are usually usea both be- cause a scrap lam* is more valuable , if it treats of but one clees of subjects. ' Be careful in selectieune scree book that it opene out fiat and is well bound, It IS s Mistake tO get one with a flimsy cover or poor paper that crinkles with pasting. Many books ready mucilages'can now be bought, but these are more expensive than ordinary kinds and !sometimes nine to stick. A good photographer'e paste is the best mediuirt; mucilage is sticky and not Inning and !Sour paste pours. Have a broad brush to 4PPIY the peate and put it on thinly enough not to get lumpy, ' There will be lest danger of Panel sticking together if, after a diPllinif is pained in, a thick paper or piece ot muslin is put over it and pressed with a •moderately hot iron. This Make* the pages look neater and flatter. Even where a book is deeoted to one clang of 'subjects the clippirlin should be grouped in ettbdienions, and an index should be plinoxl in the front of the book. If the scrap book is not alphabeted and paged, it should be done by hand. The alphabeting may be omitted, but the paging never. It saves much. time in making 4 scrap book if each clippies is care- fully trimmed in it is cut out. It should be pasted at once; to let it lie around for some convenient time means to lose, it possiblyor to have the edges curl so that it is doubly hard to paste. There should be a censorship of clippings though it • is self imposed. It is not worth while to cumber the book with inforrnation which has ne definite value or is of only passing in- terest. To cut dut everything one reads that attracts for the, moment is to cumber oneself ' with clippings valueless by their number, . Ante That Fight Spiders. Few more wonderful adaptations are seen ii the whole round of pa- tine than the webs spiders spin to entrap the wary ant. They are not nigh hung, lacy affairs, caressing every breeze, but low set silken tubes stretched in the grass, the crevices of rock or about tree roots. Ants of every size creep' heedlessly into them. The spiders eat them with relish, aut occasionally a very little spider and a very big ant engage in a duel to the death If the spider can bite,. the ant can sting and does it with a . right geed will The spider does not try to get rid of such an ant as he does of a wasp or been too strong to . be safely attacked. Such an insect, which threatens destruction to the web, is often cut out of it by the web builders. The entangling cables are not loosed. but the web rays neatly snipped in two. first those underneath. and at the very last the highest fila- ment. Often the letting go of such a captive means destruction to half the nest.. But some spiders are wiser than some people. They know not merely when they have ehough, but when they have•too much. . Moonlight and Clear Skies. • • It is well established that: the mOon's aerial envelope must be ex- tremely thin, if it -exists at all, and consequently theheat received by the lunar surface froni the sun must • escape into the (Mtn!' space almost' as tepidly at it is neeeived, It follows:, therefore, that at the, end of the long linen night the temperatureof its darkened surface must fail 200 de- gnsiee Or more below zero, while its surface' when illenninated by the sun moat be ice cold. Our meet delicate thermometers si.posed to the redia - non of a full moor) fail to show any appreciable rise •cf temperature.. Nevertheless there is reason to infer thee the radiant heat from our satel- lite is eufficient to dissipate to some degree the higher endthinner eloud forms of the.eerth, so that.scientists that there is some confirmation pf the -popular belief that moonlight clears the skies, Queer. pointing. • All the courting is dope by the wo- men of :Ukraine, Bennie. •When a giri'falls in love with. a man she goes le his house and tells him the state. et her feelings. If her affections are reciprocated. a marriage is arranged. 71, however, Barkis is not wilhin she remains in the house, hoping . to coax him int') regarditig.her suit -with favor. The poor fellow cannot treat her with diseourtesy or turn her out, for her frienas would be sure to avenge the insult: If he is really determined that he, Won't .have • her his best' plan is to leave his home and stay away as long as she remains in it. Thus 9 man may be turned out of house and home. • A Weeder. A baseball player had two fingers of his right hand pretty badly bunged up in practice, and on his way home from the 'grounds he dropped into a doctor's office to have them attended "Doctor," he asked an/dowdy as he was leavihg, "when this pa* of mine helsis will 1 be able to play the piano?" "Certainly you will," the denten as- sured hirce • "Well, then, you're a wonder, doe, I never could before." .m.6* A Mean Tritic. Mr, Ei.—Toddler is a mean men; that's what Toddler is. • Mrs S.—Why, whetever bee he done to yout• Mr. S.-13et me $25 that I could not hit a barn door with ti revolver at five paeee teunted me into bet- ting hitn, got me to put up the money, measured off the live !ewes in the prekeoce of a lot of witnesses, gave me g revolver Jowled and then set up the daer edgewise. -000 1144, Ear*/ 0,00" Writer Doecribee Greering Daltrey. Though there hae been a Myriad ol English correepondente within out bordere during the past ten years en gaged in the businves ef "writing up' Canada, it inuet not be thought tha they are in any sense pioneers in th businees. Aa early aa 11344 there ws published by A. St C. Black of Win burgh, a volume entitled "Views o -- ' THE TAK ON SALT.— so' of the Thins That Sterne' the French Revolutioa. Before ihe Frencii revolatkm tile government eetabliehed warehouses at nide* the lubsintaats were. rounielied • . to purchase their entree of salt, 'rinse ! i werthouttee were aumerotat la wane e provisane and Inv to otberin Wt, i wbetber sufficient or insuftielent for , the needs of the population, they were I often altuatell -at a vonsiderubie ens- tate* from the towns mid villages. whoae hthabitanta had to trudge tulles • along lead roade to Int, their Halt. But this was not all. - It was pre- • written by law thin the head of every family must lay in his stock of salt not at sucb times an ;night sult hiti own tronveolence. but on one stated day la the year. Should be fail In tbis ob. servance he Was fined, and be was also Mini If ne purchased a smeller quan. dty than the law prescribed. • Ms bardshiris did not stop even there, On Making his annuai purebase be bad to state the different 'purpoom • fer which he Intended to Ilutli the salt during the ensuing year, and in the event ot Ws being discovered salting hie elottp Instead of hie pork according to his statement or his pork intiteed of his soup on the day be bad named he wan also liable to 4 line. Ills kiteben was never secure from the Intrusion of the Inspecting officer, and woe to the housewife who was deteeted bit auy petty infraction cif this law. • Canada and the Colonists, by a Four Years' Resident," whieh resembles in ite accounts et Western Ontario towns the vivatioue accounte reeentln given of the centres springing up in the great Northwest which appear core sternly ther 4, The author was anony. Mous, but it was subsequently reveal. ed that his name was Brown, and Chamber's journal vouched for the fact that he wee e reaped,. able person, free from. all connection which could produce a bias in • hit mind in favor of the colony generallY, or any of its particular districts." That sounds bully nowadays doeen't it. It muot be remembered that "Canade" in the slays when this book was written, comprised wleat are now known as the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, the Maritimes were seperate and distinct territories, some of the °Meet inhabitants of whieh have not yet accepted the name "Canadian." Mr. Drown was generally favorable to Canada. He spoke of the comfort of the farming elates, their own free tants, light *nen and plenty of beef, bread, and wool. He was particularly enamoured of the London district, where he said that out of a popula- tion of 30,000. there were only ten perverts subsisting on alms. Ile con- trasted this with tonditions in Eng - lend, where he alleged that pauper- ism had reached the alarming Ogures of nearly ten per cent. of the popula- tion. He spoke particularly of the worn of Mr. Talbot, the Irishman, who first planned the scheme of colonizing the London district in the early twenties, and a memorial to whom exists io the prosperous little city of St. Thomas. He states that scarcely a nian of those who accompanied Tal- bot to Upper Canada ina1822, was pose sessed of more than one hundred pounds, and fhat every man of them twenty years later owned a fine farm, plenty of stock, and was "in enjoy- ment of all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life." .That is going some when one eon - siders the old-time election talk of poor over -taxed and over-worked •farmers who have hardly enough time to expectorate. Speaking of the town of London, he said that it had fine streets, a very respectable look- ing Court House in castellated style, and a two-storey district school. He was particularly impressed with the Mechanics' Institute, which was in classic style, and was going to have a portico and pediment finished with eoluinns when it ,was completed. "London, in the ..spirit with • which this institutioe is supported is," he declared an example to the whole province, I Am not aware of another instance in Canada—not even in the comparatively polished and most • English -like town, Toronto—where a building has been erected for a popu- lar institute." • •' In the London district they certain. ly took their pleasured seriously in those days. During the winter even- ings, the writer Stated, the inhabitants were "enlivened by lectures on soien- tific subjects." One that he had lis- tened to was by John Wilson, Warden of the county, and a barrister of talent and eminence, who chose for his sub- ject the enlivening theme of "Optics." She Let Out the Secret. Dissembling is not a vice of child- hood, and sometimes parents find to their cost that even the most inno- cent kind of assembling does not do when the very young are about. Not long ago a certain young Toronto wife -planned to surprise her husband with a nice home-made birthday gift. The surprise was to come with the nature,' not the mere fact of the present—nor birthday gifts are an established cus- tom in the fkrnily. The truth is that the wife in quesfion was making for the heed of the house something out of the ordinary in pyjamas. She had apprised her five-year-old daughter of • the feet' but had cautioned her not to divulge it. The work was pretty nearly completed, but she had forgot - tee the 'exact date' of the husband's birthday; so as the three sat enjoying the circus which visited the city re- cently, the wife leaned over and said casually: • "Oh, by the way, Jack, what date does your birthday come on—the 20th "It's the 20th," .answerecl Jack; I`but doint you go spending a lot of time melting something foe men' • • "No, no; I'm not going to mike you ahything, but 1 just wanted to know." • ' • "Now, isn't that too bad," piped up the five-year-old tO her, father. "Why, daddy, muver was going to give you two lovely pairs of pyjama.' Mr. Tudhope After the Fire. It was two hours before the big fen in Online destroyed the Tudhope Car- riage Co.'s works, that Mr. j. 11. Tudhope, M.P., president of the corn - party, stood in good-humored convex. - 'ninon with a newspaper Correspon- dent. He was telling about his re- colleetions of early days on the farm, "Folks in. my district were content with Very little," observed MT. .Tud- hope; "they began with a log cabin, then boarded it over, then bricked it: That made them permanently happy." "But you Seem to have written your life /story in big capital letters," re- plied the correspondent, Mr. Tudhope smiled at the compliment. Two hours later his factories lay in ash heaps. It Wee the newspaper man's duty to again meet the downhearted president, and the irony of their pre - vines conversation made them both smi e, • "Well, what do you think of your bondly on suceess?" the president Was asked. Mr. Tudhope looked his questioner square in the nye. "I am afraid nay Capitals are all niece" ne ariewered. • WONDERFUL ROCK GARDEN. Eniliehman Has a Three Aors Repro- duction of the Matterhorn. The largest emit garden in Ragland 18 that of air Frank Crime at !friar Park, Henley. It is a faithful repro- duction of the Matterhorn on a scale of about three acres. Seven thousand tons of limestone were brought from Yorkshire to make It. The snow eapPed peak Is represent- ed by quartz. Below it are thousande upon thousands of alpine flowers grow - Ing in Donets between the rocks and tilling every chink in the trails that ascent', the mountain. There must be 200 different speeles In bloom at once. At the base of the mountain, says Country Life In America, Is a mitika nun Swiss chalet, where one may Mt and enjoy the Beene, comparing all the main features with a little bronze mod - 01' the fdatternhorn whictt 1r Frank bad made for the entertainment of his guests. A brook courses down the mountain side, and just before It reaches the chalet it foram a pretty easeade and then spreads out at your feet into a miniature lake decorated with pygmy • water 1111est and richly tnargined with pinks, primroses, gen- thins and other alpine Solvers. ' A Good Laugh Is Good For the Health. Look at the laugh in whatsoever light' you will. Whether ,you see it as . the deliverer from the bondage to out- • grown notions: a schooltnaster with the sharp switetfot ridieule.to teach us manners; an apostle of dentOcracy, pro- - claiming that we are all of 'the same clay, made 01 it and to return to it. bet every lump of it holdine Bente sparkle ot the divine tire, and woe be- tide the • man that tries to make us • think that he is of different stun": Look at the laugh. I say. in pny light you ehpose. apd you will see that It is not SO much the doWntall and contusion of . the laughed at that makes us happy, that joggles our waistbands andsends the ha-ha spouting out. 'that pumps the blood along the aluggish veins, • teas:gaging the interior works and re- placing tbe shopworn sleek of air with te -DPW cOlialgittnent,as it is the eud- aen, •sharte intense realization elf our personal well being.—Itaigene Wood. la Suceess Mama:tie, . STRINGER AS A TALKEK . • His Listener Was Not interested. But The, CanlAa'dlii.ean.W•°puoledt,SeMr. 'Arthur .Stringer, was recently asked to deliver an address before the Canadian Club of London, Ont., one of the most flour. ishing of those luncheon organize - none which have sprung up through- out the length and breadth of Canada during the past six or seven years. Mr. Stringer chose foi his subject a theme not commonly discussedin such organizations, which are made • up, as a rule, of hard-headed young business men with a penchant for practical themes. The title of his ad- dress was "The Making of a Poet," and the choice of his subject was a • happy ale in the ease of Mr. String- er, for he is a poet in the minor key, and a very good one at that. It was a much happier choice, for instance, than his paper before the Internation- al Council of Women, when his theme was "The 'Making of a Newspaper," or something like that. • Mr. Stringer . has worked at both callings, but he knows is great deal More about poetry than he does abut newspaper work. His succees in deal- ing with the creative forces of the man born a child of the Muses was correspondingly greater, and the members of the London Canadian Club were highly pleased. in itself the choice of such a theme was flat- tering. It was is dear intimation that Mr. Stringer regarded his old friends in London as capableof cherishing some ideals beyond those of business and politics of the pig's -feet and beer 'variety. His remarks were listened to with wrapt attention and something a.pproaehieg reverence. When he ton - eluded, there was it ringing salvo of applause, and as the assemblage broke up the members vied viith each other in corning forward to shake hands with him. One of the cote- :huiltd: tee men was especially effusive. Gripping Mr. Stringer by the hand, he "I want to thank you very thuth for your addrests. Of course, t didn't un- derstand everything you said, but von know my, wife takes an interest in that sort of rot," EARTHQUAKES, aro* ebiloke Alined Always Fellinead hY •After Shocks,. Altbougb seknuelogiate have not Oil linweeden lo dialing out gay meat* Of delleitele predictiug the Oeetirrenee ot ile earthquske. thee are very hopeful - of fluafly arriving at tble desired goat, and lare41d7 CheY Nth dieeera (Magee by the pulsations waich are alwaye gently agitating the enslave ot Elm nine, n sudden remotion et those heart beats be a danger signals extreme saline/0 invariable preceding an earth. • (make, whereas constant tremors are 4 geed elm A great earthquake Is 0Imost • followed be weaker (men mid when It is violent end destructive the number OR minor aboeks lolloWing it Ma/ aniouet to hundreds or even thoneands and continue tor several months or yearn. The oecurrenee of after rihoclor quite naturaland necessary for the set - Wag down lute stable emzilibrittm of the disturbed tract at the origin of die- turtuanee. each ot these shocks remov- ing an unetable or weak point under- neath. Further, as a very great shock weiri remove a eonnepondingly great under- gintind instability it Is probable that .such a shock would not /or a long time be followed by another of a Mgr. ;Snide comparable to its olva in the same or a neighboring dietrict,' When, however, the inittal shock is • not very great It may be followed by another like It, but even In this ease • the position 01 the origin of the second 'shock would usually be quite distinct from that of the ling.—Wide World idagazitte. • A CAMEL STORY., Foiled In Its Revenge, the Animal Committed Suicide. Some years ago it chanced that a rateable esinel working In an old 01111 in Africa was serently beaten by :its •"driver, who. perceiving that (he camel had treasured up the injury anti was only waiting a tavorable opportnuity for revenge.'.kept a • strict watch upon the animal. Time passed away. The camel,' perceiving that it *as watched, Was quiet idol obedient, and the driver -began to think that tbe beatiug was forgotten. • One night atteg-a lapse of several wombs the man. who' Merit on is rats. ed platform in the mili, while, as Is ellatOulary, the intim! 'Was stalled Ina corner,. happening* to retea in aWake; observed by. the bright' inooulight that when all was quiet the animal looked cautiously around, rosesoftly aud, steeling over toward a spot • where a bundle of, clothes. and a burnoose,. thrown carelessly an the grouud. re- sembled is sleepingtieuren east . itself with -vhiletthe Imo!) them. rolling with all its weight' and tearing 'them tuost vicionsly with its teeth.. • • • Satisfied .that Sta revenge .Was. eonee plete the eating was returning .to its' . corner when the driven sat.. up and spoke. At the sound of his voice:and. perceiving the !Warlike it had made the animal was go Mortified at. the fail- ure and diseovery of.its sehetne that it dashed Its head against the vall atid died:on tbe Spht„--7Sliettield Telegraph.' • • Lavender. • • '• Ofite many ortooke who. delighten the 'Nor of -fresb street bus ender ever. think how the plant eattie by its seoth7 hig name? Baca .ne must go In Ifitag- Marion eo the .clean old Romans ad their cult orate beth. Lave/Hier found high tenor with them to perfutne their baths. Had it was they wao called it lataudolue the neeot tite,naine. being the tone lavarento wasn, Inolden days, loo, lavender leaves v,verneu im- portant ingredient in:. the . makingof precious spikenard eititnieuts Aithougn • we t•egard lavender asso peculiarly : English a plant owing :te.ita',ekletisive. euitivatieu ,in the bottle Counties and its associations with our English tiontee and gardens. 14 was not. as a matter of hien; inerothwed to this eountry until the sixteenthventtlry. when it imam from Frata•e with • the linguenot set- • tlers. 'I' be noun us notappareinly Ormg -it to as whin they:gave us our fine roads.— Westiniuster qaaette. • "An Old Sheep." ABengini clerk who had been trans. ferret', at his -own .routleat from tey °thee'. to atiot her gee ern meet office . in Celeutta. wits mixings to retarn and wriste.to Inc persontely ijnthe subject Although not a Christian tilthself, he was, evidently aenttainted..with the fa- • airier lines of lititutranymn: - • I tree5 wondering gheep, . • • 1 010 not love the foal. . .This is hew' ntiplien them to his caSe'..7•14 .1strite 1 nave 'wiiedered :from the fOld—filat is. the directar'. geiteral'a office—but 1 trust. that your 'honor will 'be • natrelful and reeelve back an. old Sheep." -"St ra y. Stories name hullo," by Sir Arthur VanshaWe, et Bieck wood's Magaziue. , • A Frank Woman. • • A women mere another women her photograph. and .t he reelpient,. instead of allying. "I 'will treasnre it always." retneed to iteeept 11. "It. means sint' 11110 more thing to be Misted." she said. "it I have it out on the table It he- • roines tt. Mils:Mee, and if I put it out of Right you will be offended, More - err, every day that missesit will b* eorne a little mere old fashioned mid a lane more of n earleature. ' I. won't 'have it." --Atchison Globe, Much Rather. seys ehe'd rather welt?, than eat.° • "Weil, ehe'll dud reeky of men who woilid rather sign a danee pregratti than a dinner eheek."—Hzehatige. t'otttentment elves rt emelt where fortune bath denied it....Pool, pailiomemommompoiosipimmoio irromt OF maw WHIM 1.10111 Peritelen Ittived Wealthy Carets dian an Irripertant Lew**. There is ia Toronto an Old civil en. iihneen a Canadian who has returned to his native country after **alining Many lends, and Who woe a friead of the late Braetue Wineen in hit Painta days. The career of Wanen, the Teronto newebey who rose to he a great Aniericau cepttaliet, and later came to an ignominious fall, is one, that some, day shoillel tea -eine an ar.•• tiele all by itself. This tate has sole - to do with an incident in hie ea - ever when he wae * Magnate int New York and was engage4 in making great modern improvemente on Staten Wand, where he had very heavy term*. One of these unprovementte involved 4 tunnel under 4 highway. Something went wrong with It, as at - ten happena with contracts of the and rival capitalists% who were auxiouts to aeize the fruite of his enters prise at once promoted litigatIon with a view to tying upthe work until the involved should expire tin- der the time Hunt fixed. These are the sweet, kindly inatinerit of capitate jets toward each other. The ntatter was fought through the °canto, the technical point involved being whether the work which Mr. Wham had emoted ot was a tunnel or an excavation. It was carrion through several courts and one after. noon Mr. Wiraan's old Canadian en- gineering friend whom he had net seen for years celled on him and found him in a state of deep dejec- tion. The court% lead decided eget:Ian hires; hie work was not a tunnel but Merely an excavatien. The money he had spent was lost and he was hit few heavy mats as well. He out- lined the case to his friend, a ease in which the beat lawyers he coast employ had been neaten. "Well." said his friend, "didn't yen know that there le no legal tenable - lofty geverning works of engineering?"' "What do you mean?" asked Mr. Wiman, "Simply that there is no such thing in law as an excavation. An excava- tion is what it ultimately becomes." "Explain yourself," said the capi- talist. "Well, if you dig a hole in the •ground in a vaennt lot, it's an ex- cavation, isn't it?" ' "Of conrse!" said Mr. Wiman. "But when you put a house on top of it it's a cellar, is it not? Your ex- cavation if completed Would have •been a tunnel?" "By Jove, that's true," said Wi- man. "We'll reopen the case." • His lawyers were sent for. An ap- peal was granted and the case was ewon on this paradox, which was af- ter all a very cornmonsense paradox. • WANTED IT ALL • ----- No Rots Bible Would Content This• . Orange Orator.• • Men yet young will remember the • controversy -which took place in On- tario over What was known as the Ross Bible, but some of the genera- tion which has since grown up may be puzzled to know what it was ail about. The celebrated volume took its name from Hon, G. W. Ross, who was at the time Minister of Educa- tion. • It was a series of excerpts front the Xing James version of the Holy Writ which the present Senator had collated for reading in the public, • schools. The Minister was of opinion that certain passages of the eomplete. volume were unsuitable for reading • by the young, but when the scheme was promulgated a large section ot the community tbotight the "hand ot Rome" was manifest. The Orange or- der, one of whose tenets is the 'open • Bible," made a strong aghte and •at - ,most defeated the Mowat administra- tion, which was forced to back down on the issue, One of the funniest incidents of the campaign was a speech by the late Ktng William" Bell, at that time a prominent figure in local' politics . and a high functionary in the Orange order. One night he was speaking at a meeting in West Toronto, and he became very much excited. • "We don't want any. Ross Bible," he cried e "we don't want any mangled version •of the Holy Scriptures; we • want the whole damned book." • , The audience fairly roared at this sally and the speaker, recovering him- self, •apologized and withdrew the ad, jective. Anyone who wanted to make • him "sore" after that had • only to allude to the episode.. • • Long Search For Father. The New York World of a low chiya ago says: August Linder, cashier for the Athens Hotel, has found his father after a search that lasted years and extended half wan around the world. The father was a merchant in the Russian Government of Volynst, pos- sessed of property, a wife, a little laoy 'and girl. One day the father disap- peared, when. August was two yeara old. Year after year the nsother searched Europe tor • traces ot her missieg husband. When August was ten, he was sent out. In Austria, he went from town to tome asking every postmaster and every official of the Elder Line. Then he went through. Germany., from place to place. Ilia mother, in the meantime, with her little girl, sought a new home in New York. • August searched Scotland in vain, and then sailed to New York to, join his mother. He sold papers in the streets of New York and spent what' he made in buying postage stamps to write to every postmaster of every tapital city in the union, Last Octo- ber he learned that his father was at Dorchester, Ont. In 1897 the mother had died. August said that he found his father a men. of fifty with another wife and family' of two. His father besought him to star and share in his business, but he refused. August Linder, as he is known there, has been the hotel business. at Dorchester since the spring of last yea-. A Saving In Light. It liftS been estimated that, ghouls." the Daylight Saving Bill become nor in England, the saving in the met of artificial light would amount • to $11,588,000. A Subscription to The News -Record would be an appreciated Xmas Girt to the boy in the it.