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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1887-12-07, Page 2The Yfiurbn New -Record Weanes(WY. December.7, 1S$T CURRENT TOPICS. BREECHES, IIALFOUa AND O'nRRIEN. A letter written by Mr. Balfour is published, in which he refers to the "grotesque episode" of Mr. O'Brien's clothes. He says that Mr. O'Brien is not treated in Tullamore prison with either leniently or goverltx- fie has succeeded in sheltering himself under the medical opinion that his lungs are delicate and his heart's action weak. Mr. Balfour also says if Mr. O'Brien refuses to wear the prison dress force will not be applied to compel him. There is no reason why he should.not fulfil his term in prison, but he cannot safely bo sub- jected to the usual discipline. IT 1S NOT WONDERFUL. The election record since Febru- ary now stands : • Bye elections held, 10. • Conservatives elected, 9. Liberals elected, 1. Seats gained by Conservatii'es, 2. Li it any wonder that Mr. Blake's health compels him. to run around Ireland, invoking God's curse on, the Tories? Is it any wonder that M. C. Cameron retires in disgust ? Is it any wonder that Haldintand goes back on its record ? SKATING RINKS Al)NTHE ARMY. Governor Luce, of the Adrian 31ich.,industriel school,gi tee it as his opinion, based on 11veatigntion, that a majority of the girls who have come under hie earn want to the bad by frequenting roller skating rinks and Salvation Army meetings. --Thr`5ICer sketting rink has gone to its reward ; but the Salvation Army still Lange its (limns and attracts the girls. 11 Go%-ruor Luce be correct the long felt want seetns to be :t society for the suppression of the Salvation Army. SHOULD BE ENFORCED Olt WIPED OUT. At the recent Oxford Assizes,Judge Rose in addressing the Grand Jury said : As to the Seat Act, he said it was openly violated • in every town of the right counties he hal} visited this full. He had not been in a place where the slightest at- tempt had been trade to conceal the sale of liquor. Ile hall not been in a place where any of the officials appointed had been able to enforce the law. It was 'certain the • A.:l. was not working well, and it should either be enforced or wiped off the statute book. A POLITICAL CRY, NOT A PRACTICAL -MEASURE. Every business lean. ,knows the insuperable objections that lie in the way, and that the consent of the 'United States Senate to measures looking -to reciprocal trade relations outside of annexation, will never bo granted while the composition of that body remains as it is at present. As a political war cry 'commercial union may prove a powerful woapou,•but. as a practical measure its day is yet far distant,and in the present tem- per of the American people may possibly never come.—Journel of Commerce. THE BAD, PAD GLOBE' When the :Forbilto Globe said that the i)ominion governtuent had gl anted the Indians, shortly before the Halt!iin tid,ele-etion, • $30,000 it satisfaction of an old claim, it told a deliberate falsehood But no apology will be made, amt people who resit Grit newspapers may expect to- see the Sane lie repeated in vedette forms and with a great variety Of st'aeouimg for along time yet. No green bay tree flourishes like a Grit lie. It is Tike Cleopatra : "Ago' ettonot wither it, nor cnhteur stale it3 infit:ite variety."--tS'races.• tor. IT DOE'S MEAN ANNEXATIO.v. The real truth of the matter i. that the a_itation over the tieltary matter in the Statee, with the offer of cowme relit union on one lintel ;lit threats of retaliation on the other, ere .:imply stat hitrigero nn the pact, ref our neighbors to try to hring about mowstthe:. Every day the aureole::: is '1iseustoel (i tr- adiane seat 11101'0 clearly this 14 the real incising of Ameeknn e4atcbete and thrt:;iteni0gs in favor of eon: menial union, and the chanee.r of its Y'Iet:l'YR ere becoming small by •legreos ;.awl bone tifnlly 1 est. -- (s'a't Rt beet. r',Grit. NOT A DAD SHOWING. If Canade iv ging to the Clogs she is lave!! ilg that way by a route diflettelt fro•' owe the: Globe, Al:til 4,441 tl a o.mtmereiai unireiste wnuhl select, Tit regent to in,nri• t;ratto't she is prngre,-in„ rather than retrogressing, ae journ11A atrivtt to make it appl'ar. a During the ten uroetth•e of this year 67,701 immigrants. settled in Can- ada, against 57,245 for !nett year. The Iat:eat fiscal returns nlso show an admirable cnn'litiou of things. For the moltt.hs of .fnly, August., September and October the I)otuin. 1011 revenue amounted to $11,702.- 951, an exenas over the exp-mditure of $1,963,829. CONTROLLING) AN EVIL. At the last' session of the Min- nesota Legislature, the license fee for saloons w'as raised to $1,000 in cities with it population of 10,000 or more and to $500 iu smaller places. The result is that they number of saloons is greatly reduced. Where 1,650 saloons flourished under the old law there ttow is but 1,100. Iu Miuueapolis the number was redue• ed from 334 to 227, itt Duluth front 113 to 64, in Stillwater from 42 to 32. The su.b..tautial result is a reduction of Otte. third in the number of saloons, an increase of one third io the nt4uuut of revenue derived frotu the business and a general agreement that drunkenness has ditnioished. ANYTHINO TO DRAT CANADA. Among the leading organs of United States opinion which have declared that it must be "Annexa- tion or nothing" are the following: —The New york Sun, Buffalo 4Jourier and Express, Rochester Herald, Post•Express and Democrat and 'Chronicle Chicago Times, Philadelphia North American and .Record, YittsburgTiutes, Cleveland Leatler, and ,tlthers too numerous to dllerltioll. • "Annexation or nothing" is their response to the cry from this side for "anything to beat the N. P." A great many things have been tried to beat the N. P., but of all the false and futile cries that of C. U. is the falsest and will be more most disastrous to its au dices. MORE 11405 HERLISM. On the one hand—according to the Annexation press of Canada—a rich manufacturer is something very bad ; he crushes the poor consumer beneath his gilded chariot wheels and robs the poor man of his monoy,- and should be put down. On the other hand, he is a person in whoes interest the whole country should be made over to a foreign nation, that ho may become richer, grind more people under the wheels, and rob poor men of their moues. But it is not at all unlikely that this "Ontario manufacturer" is one of DIr, 1Vimau's inventions. He is probably the "Disgusted Conserve, tive" who writes Grit letters to the Toronto Globe when an election campaign is in progress.—Spectator. PARSOE VS. BIsIIOP. Rev. W. W. Carson, pastor of the DJtltilriorl Methodist Church, Ottawa, in the couttot•of a sermon Look occasion to condemn in un- measured terms• what he eharacteiz• eel as Bishop Cleary's recent attack, on the public s.I,00le system and the virtue of Canada women. He gave criminal stcttistice from blue books of ISS6. These, be claimed, showed that the Houtan Catholics itt Ontario, sitter than the Protes- tants, were the greatest law -breakers. •Of upwards of 9,000 convictions, the Roman 'Catholics had a record of 3,000. This, he claimed, was excessive, when the proportion of the I•totnan Catholic element to the e'lttire' population was taken into consideration.. AN 'EDITOR'S CHAIR PIT FOR AN ANGEL. If I was not a'preacher I would be an editor, that is, provided I had brains and money enough. There is 1.0 Netter throne --outside the pulpit—thau to editor's chair. It is a position that an angel might covet to fill. We who are not editors sometitnes think we could make a better paper than our dies tor does, just as some people think th:1t they could crake a better ser- mon than the preacher. On the sante principle old !mitts are quite confident that they would make 'better wire's than do the r'uost of those who are derated to those serene heights: - We sometimes think the editor is not religious enough, and that he gives too touch sp rce to the ba-eball brigade, the slugger etc. We forget that the p;tl:rer is a condensed history of every dtty'e tlnilt;;r a'il-nrust there. f ire record deaths as %toll as births and chronicle the deeds of demons as well as narrate the exploits of angels.—Rev. J. B. S!Lcox, Win- n ipeg. YAN K EE BLUFF. The report is again telegraplied from Wltsltitrgton that the United StatesS' ,atewill'le.greetonoproposi tion from the Fisheries Commission "unless it amounts to a full and complete reeoglrt i•en of the United States case agaitta. Canada or leads us to a final settlement through un- restricted trade." * * "No settlement based on reciprocity in natural prodetets with certain manu- factures, as in the I3rown•Fisli 'treaty, will be accepted by the Senate," '!.'hese words, if they voice the intent of the U. S. Senate may simply be' interpreted to mean "we must get all we want, and you must suffer the consequences, or we will accept nothing;." There is this to be said, •however, that in the States; ax in Canada, there are.jours nate arid eorrospondents whose every Hilo is to engender ill feeling as between the two peoples and whew, writings and reports are given to the public simply with that object. FREE THOUGHT. Here is a statement wade by Hou. Alex. Mackenzie in 1869 w,. the sul ject of reciprocity + Eich 18 equally trite at thio dey and otters a note of warning to many +silo are admirers of the bun. gentlemen : "There was a tuiuute-of•couneil which I saw when 1 was iuvitod to join the Government, which propos ed a system of recipe ocal legislative. If that had been carried into opera. tion it would have been the most disaeettQUA pulley ever aubInted ; lull willing as I aur that every proper concession should be tl:atle to the United States in making a treaty, Itoould a thousand tinges rather do without cc treats/ than change out' taw in every year as dictated by the United States." IT HAD A PLACE Speaking of the Haldimancl election the Oraugville Advertiser, Grit, says:"Commercial union dill not have a place in the mutest." Didn't eh ? That statement, may do about Orangeville, where it is necessary to use dynanute to arouse the people to an understanding of what its going on ; but it won't do elsewhere. Candidate Colter de- clared himself in f trot' of c ntnter- cial union, and preached it from the stump. John Charlton confined his attention almost altogether to the advocacy of commercial union ; every one of the gang of Grit orators declared i.t favus of commer- dial union, with t'to exception of Mr. Laurier—that gentleman, as the leader of the opposition, squinting violently in the direction of Wash- ington, but at the same time bolding back that he aright get sotno new light on the subject before committ- ing himself entirely to the fad. He got the new light in the election returns. In addition, the riding was flooded with annexation !iter- atmre lit ilamilton and Halditnaml papers all for the benefit of Mr. Colter. Commercial union had Moro of a place it:. 1•lablitunnd than ahything else, andithe result was so serious a blow at the fad that it probably will be unable to recover from its damaging effects. Correct information about Ilaldiutand does not come by way of the Orangeville Grit newspaper office.—Spectator. THE REMEDY FOR SOCIAL ILLS. The tldvocates of the new theory of property, in their revision of the Bible, would give 08 an improved version of the parable of the Good Samaritan. They tell us that when the proud Le•vite and the selfish priest Ball paesei1 by the wounded men, a kind of communist caste Clown that way, and began to whist penin the sufferer's ear: "DIy friend, you have been much it: error. You were:a thief yourself whore you were atrtltsi11:g your private wealth; and theme gentleman who have just re- lieved you of it with needless violenc•r have only begun in a hasty and un justifiable manlier what Mutt soon be done i11 a large and calor way for the lenie It of the whole, tout. wunity." Whereupon, we are to suppose, the man was'uruch euligIt tened and comforted, and became a useful member of society. But Christ says that it was tt Sanity ken, a man of property, riding 011 his own beast, and carrying a tittle spare capital in his pocket, who lift. ed tip the stranger and gave him oil and wine,'and brought him Into a place of security, and paid for iris support. And , to every ono that reads the parable he says : "Go thou and do ' likewise" Hero is the open secret of the regeneration of society in the form Of n picture, And if we want it in the form of a philosophy we may get it from St. Paul in five' words : "Let hint that stole steal no more (reformat- ion), but rather let hint labor (in- ditatry), working with his hands that, wlrie:11 is good (honesty), diet he niay have (propert y) to give to him that needed) (charity) "—Th.:' Rev, Dr. Van 1)4I. e, in the Forum for Nov.. Sensible Advice, The National \"i'001011'14 Christian Temperance Umine of the United States adopted 10:0104 i0nx protesting against the immoral exhibitions of the f:ti•trs and forme of women as 'trade marks awl a lverti:temenas:ay a degradation to womanhood; against obscenity as exhibit«tl 00 cigarette 1roxes , against the demoralizing re• ports of prize fights, etc.. in the pub he prints, and carne• ly apo-atit,_e 14. young WOnm111 to ref: gill fa um t'. ear ing decollete dress as iunitotlest and fraught with tlanterous and immoral infietencos. If was re:4,:10,11 that the Prohibition Party lee milted to declare itself in favor of the fiible in the Public Schools and of enforc- ing the Saltbatll•latvs. A rrso'ut1011 was pulsed deprecating the cruel slaughter of birds to ornament the head drosses of ladies, amt ple iging those present not to bus heart dresses so ornament. A HINT TO HOUSEKEEPERS Mrs. Robert Williamson,of felenila, Parry Sound, Ont., says, "I could not keep house without Ilagyarrl's Yellow Oil at hand. I have used it in my family for croup, sore throat, and a cut foot and can highly receomend it to everybody." 273.1t —Um Utes' Dublin Unionists. The great Unionist meeting, for the purpose of addressing which Lord Hartington and Mr. Goschen visited that city, was hold in Lei- cester hall, Dublin, Monday of last week. So many persous were desirous of attending that au over- flow meeting was held in another hall. ' Both halls were crowded. The audience gave prolonged cheers for the Queen. Mr. Wigham, Secretary of the Chamber of Com- merce, presided over the meeting in Leicester hall. Hundreds of lead- ing citizens, several Bishops and many members of the clergy were present on the platform. Lord Hartington and Mr. Goschen wore accorded au onthaiastic greetiug. The chairman handed to Lord Hartiugtou an address approving his policy and signed by thirteen hundred members of the Chamber of Commerce. LORD HARTINOTON'S SPEECH. Lord Harlington, who was loud- ly cheered, said that never before had he addressed such a large, en- thusisatic and infiuentil assembly. The vast gathering clearly proved that the professional and commer- cial classes of Ireland worn opposed to separatiou. (Cheers.) rHe nide- -"The importance of this Meeting in the heart of Dublin cannot toy exaggerated. Tho power of per- sistent, unblushing, reiterated is so great and it lois beeu so fully exer- cised in order to influenco English- men and Scotchmen to_bolievo that Ireland detests the Union and burns to substitute another foam of gov- ernment, that unless contradicted by ocular and tangible proof it is al- most impossible that in the course of time these assertions will not ex- ercise some influence on the nriuds of Unionists." (Hear, hear.) He paid a tribute to DIr: Chamberlain's services in Ulstot• and said that the promoters of to -night's mooting had• dung no less a service in bringing be- fore the people of Great Britain in a manner which could not bo ig- nored tho disputed fact that there was perhaps a minority, but a large, itliportant and influeutal minority, which altogether repudiated the as- sertion that Ireland as a nation was doteriniued to abolish the Union. Ho urged the importance of having all the facts, not merely asuperficial view, before them iu docidiug the vital question. Ile wished especi- ally to look upon the Irish view o% the question as atfectiug the pros- perity of the country, apart from the English Imperial view as affecting the future of the Empire. Adntitt- ino that a majority of Irishmen were infavor of horse -rule, ho. refused Loadutit that the majority was ne- cessarily as large .t ' appeared from the representation in Parliament, because under the present electoral system it mus possible that tho- t nionist minority, though uumor- ically.approaching -the Separatist majority, might not be represouted: The GIAlstouians had distinctly stated that they would refuse to grant separation, even if demanded by a majority. Yet they had never shown that Ireland would bo satis- fied with the limited Homo Itule they, offered. On the contrary, there was every indication that she would not bo satisfied except with entire separation. The struggle was more for. POSSESSION OF"TILE LAND. than for reform of the _government, and the Gladstonians admitted that 'the land„. difficultymust 'not and, could not be left to an Irish Parlia- ment to settle. .In fact, there was no economic grievauco in' Ireland that the English Parliament was not equally as ready an,d capable to deal with as alt Irish Parliament. He ooulet uudel:ttand Irishmen aslc-: ing independence or au agrarian revolution; :els.) that there might be distinguished and able politic- ians who were hopeful that a change of Government would open A ro•ttl to place null powrer: but he was unable to understand a, nation being entlntiactic 1'or a simple modi- fleet ion qt 1:uyernntent. The only jesti ficitiuu Iur conceding the de- mands of taus .1GRICULTEi{ AL CLASS ALONE. iu Ireland would' be that Ireland had balite purely agricultural, and therefore a weak and insignificant country.. Nu patriotic Irishman would be satisfied with this pros- pect. If, on the other !land, they wished to d 10.10p her indeetries :u:d trade and sue Ireland take her proper place in the competition of the world, they must allow the minority, which included those. classes upon witiclt the future .pros• perity of Ireland mainly depended, to have a voice iu the great ques- tion. Ile concluded with a repudi- ation of the charge that 11e had changed his opinions with regard to the question of local government in Ireland and had ignored the nation- al sentiments of the country. A MATTER OF ECONOMY As a matter of economy B. B. 13. is the cheapest medicine in use for it takes testi to cure chronic diseases of the stomach, liver,kidney, and blood, than of any other known remedy. B. B.13. is only One Dollar a bottle. 271.21- "Alttqusied." -The New York Tribune euthusias- tically embraces a correspondent who does not "Waste words over the antiquated convention of 1818. He slates that the American fleet's operations are conducted from twelve to four hundred miles from shore and that the only thing that is ask- ed for by the fishermen is the reci- procity of commercial rights guar- anteed to them by international agreement in 1830. - American ves- sels are now prohibited front buy- ing supplies and exercising commer- cial rights iu Canadian ports. Ceti - adieu vessels have these priveleges iu Ainerican ports. They ;should not bo allowed to enjoy priveleges which are refused to American fish• ermen in Canadian ports. Retal- iation was the proper remedy for these grievances." The "antiquated Convention of 1818" is good. Does the Tribune number among those of its pro- visions which should bo considered obsolete that part of article 1 by which Americans secured forever the, liberty to take "in common with the subjects of her Britannic Dlajesty,V fish of every kind front Cape Rray to the Bauman Islands, from Cape Ray to the Quirpou Is- lands and elsewhere?. Those valuable liberties must surely be "autiqua- ated" if the renunciation by which they were secured be antiquated. But what use to argue with a journ- nal capable of disgraciug itself by advising its countrymen to disgrace themselves by ignoring a solemn. treaty on the gro.uud that it has ex- isted for nearly sevov.ty ,years? —Globe. Hopeful Character of the Can- adians. 1Vestminteter Review. Iu Canada, probably more than in other countries, unless in British colonies generally, there is a large amount of hope. Everyone aspires to something beyond tho actual business of life, and no ono is sat- isfied to remain in his station. This is all very well when the aspiraut hes anything in him, but too often it is the result of jealoaey. The lower social orders aro steeped in this, even to the lowest depth, so it is better for. a man never to attempt climbing to greatness than to com- mence and stick half way. Nothing but ascendency answers ascendency that is maintained, and because this is rarely acquired, thorn is no ac- knowledged tone. Ouo weakness of young demotiracies is evident id this for where the possibilities of life lie equally in the paths of all, the failure to attain a share is also to bo seen of all- Equality is; therefore, no more a reality in col- onial democratic communities than in monarchial J urope. Tho peo- ple of the latter are in a way better off, for superiority,is acknowledged, sand genius of every description can leo rewarded with distiuctious which no wealth may buy, like the Ger- man order of merit that was accept- ed by Carlyle ; brit whcu success rests for •recompense on a money test, the bitterness of not obtaining it accentuates the disappointment to the world. There is great com- pensation, however, in Canada, for the predominants of jealousy, as the moral sense of the community rests on a high idea of right. A wide license of intercourse exists between Man and woman, which is never overstepped, for a spirit -of chivalry extsts that is native to the land. Does Barley Hurt The Land ? When a Commercial Unionist is forced into a corner and asked to speoify inewhat article of produce the Milner of Canada would bo specially benefittcd,ho is apt to say, "barley." -And it 'is true that a great ileal of barley is sold to the Anlericaus for malting purposes. But they have to get it anyway, Commercial Union or not. They buy from us because they do not Aliso enough for their own use. But is it wise to go on raising barley for export ? Is it the best crop that the land is ' 'apable of, and the most profitable 1 rho -Whitby CArotciele hi published in the centre of the best barley -growing region of Cana- da. It is from there that the L'hit- eel States derives its chief supplies-. Yet our contemporary asks the ques- tion seriously. ' It says the growth of barley has not been • a suc- cess in Canada. It has "always been attended with poor results," and that stuck breeding dairy products and fruits growing have given better rewards to the iu• dustry and skill of the farmer. "Barley," says our contemporary, "grows up a thin spiltclloy crop, and brings all the strength in the laud up with it. The grain is sold, the straw amounts to nothing, so there is nothing to go back to the land from batty in the shape of a manure. It is the death of the land, and this is the ono fact we wish to particular- ly impress upon farmers." The ad- vice given that as barley has ruined the farmer, ho cannot leave it off too quickly. Is this the real experi- ence of our farmersor does the Chronicle not read aright the true interest of the farmers of the barley .growing regions? This subject ought to be well ventilated. • POR OUR TORO r lEADXRS A. Mile a Minute. "I have mado a mile a minute on horseback, fu the saddle." Asa grizzled stranger with a quart- zite pin made this remark, a silence fell upon the little group of turf - men who sat in the corridor of the Windsor hotel, at Denver the other evening. The man who had just told of driving au unrecorded. mile in 2.11 arose deliberately, brushed the ashes off his cigar, buttoned hie coat and walked away. "•I aur a liar, myself," somebody began. "Hold on," said the stranger, "th is isn't a lie. It's a cold, clammy truth, and I'll back it with money." "Have you the papers for it 1" "No, nor the judge's affidavits, in fact, nobody saw it but myself, but if you permit me to tell the cir- cumstances, I'll leave it to your- self whether it isn't a fact." "Blaze away." Tho group drew oloser. Even the man who "had walked off sus- pended his conversation with the hotel clerk and listened on ' the quiet.. The grizzled -stranger re- moved a section of tobacco from his mouth and began: "This happened five years ago last fall, I was living at Loadville at the time, but had mining iuterests that took me frequently into the outlying districts, fur a 'radius of perhaps a dozen guiles. These trips I nearly always made on horse -back, 4e, _it tough .littlo broncho, toughs mouthed, trained to mountain roads, and capable of keeping up a jog trot, at a pinch, for twenty hours on a stretch. On tho occasion in ques- tion I started very early ono clear, cold morning for a claim I owned on the other side of the divide, on the slope of what is called Goll Mountain—you can find it by leak- ing on any map. To ,reach it I had first to cross Tennessee Park and then to wind over a very crooked, tortuous trail that gradually ascend- ed to a pass somewhere above Tim- ber Pine. 1t was not more than two miles as the crow flips, but nine by the road, owing to the fre- quent -zigzagging or tacking made necessary by the steepness of the rano. I took things easy, and it was about 11001 %v1:e11 I reached the claim. I had a couple of 1110n at work there, ate dinner at the. cabin, and then wont over to look at the shaft. Ouo has no idea how rapid- ly time !gasses underground, where everything is dark, and when I came up 1 was surprised to find it was nearly four o'clock, and tho shadows of elle pines a hundred cards oil' had crawled up to the windlass. I was annoyed, too, for there was a suggestion • of snow in the air, and the ride across Ten- nessee Park iu a storm is—well, the less said about it the better. So I lost no time in getting into the saddle, and pushed rapidly ahead toward the pass. I had to go' quite a little distance before I reached it, and all tiro time the sky grew gray- er, and grayer and presently a few flakes began to fall. I urged the broncho, and natty began the de- scent. • "The road beyond the pass. led down a long, straight incline for about a quarter of a utile. This 'took it to the fringes of timber pine, and then it made a detour of nearly two miles to get round a spur of the range. At that point I paused. The idea occurred to me that I could snake a short cut by going directly over the spur and striking `tire trail ou the outer side.. The range 'was not particularly steep at this point, but rather a succession of rough eminences, and the under a taking did not seem to be accom- panied by danger: A sudduu, law wind decided me. I turned the broncho off the road and started. "Tho plau appeared more feas- ible its I edti'auced. What looked like steep asocuts at a distance, proved to bo gentle ones, and I Was anon pretty nearly across. Tho spud' Was well wooded with old pine trees, some of which had rotted as they lay, and ou the far lido the declivity extended down on au even slope clear to the valley, where lig rucks and bowlders look- ed like grains of blasting powder, and the road like a tiny streak. I remember yet, how between the tree tops I caught the glimpse of the park with the Arkansas river winding through it, rind tlio whole thing looked like some map in my old geography. That Was the last thing that impressed itself on my mind, before my horse staggered, stumbled, plunged a little, and then cattle down with a crash, first on Lis front legs, and then flat on his belly, his head down 1ii11. I can't really describe it, but he foll in such a way that my right leg, with- out being crushed or even much bruised, was twisted in the stirrup strap and caught fast. "Right hero let me stop to ex- plain a circumstance that will enable you to uuderstrnd the situa- tion. Down in the valley at the foot of Gold Mountain, was a saw- miIl owned by George Lacy, of Loadville, and extending up from its yard, almost to timber line, was rt