The Huron Signal, 1890-8-1, Page 21
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THE EARTH BUBBLE.
��s jy sygt� this cc ta•i poor utile Impales.
wbsh ter hod pay uoettIed.
Seers the sols work of • lifetime that awes
tate rest have trifled. -thaw' Rr.weusa
Owen Capons was a Isiewary sees who
emote for • beteg. The expression is
not redoodsut ; Kis merely •ostersts.
Du all literary teen white for a living 1
H•pWly not. And, on the other bead,
who rudd be so reek es to venture the
assertion that all who write fee a lirio�
ere maker 01 literature 1
With OwenC•pel1., liteestere wM at
Noes ea art sod • bueiasss. It was an
set bemuse he worked at it reverently,
so sisientiot/siy, with • considerately
degree of deet, and twist ed not 10 -
frequently by something very like in- • problem was to find something to
epte•awn. 11 was wan, s bemuse, for do, which be should ,.joy doing, and yet
the resew that by it he earned the sup- which should Dot be work ; au esay
port of himself, wife and family, barter- enough matter tur most mortals, but, se
.'dolt �•- '�•;" , ,� ,;
../m..
'" 4 THE HURON SIGNAL FRIDAY, AUG. 1, 1890.
NOM 1111011.
osIwm his W►» tits vial" hid d•p•rted. ~' taws OF THE OLD WORLD
a present of •oma," Mr Marfa* W sheets d paper. e.
esti weal ellstcut, Capella had net reviewed setons of "Tee Earth Babble ..ttl.d
you Aa he rode book from p
the depot, after se hi wrote, tad by the time he remelted Masina
ssif l. to sejoy the readies of h
is
putting Mrs die sad o liberal sus- the sed, mash of the hook hod bootees unitise work. Pressetly, shoo he hats BRITISH NAVAL OFFICERS' ACTION&
essisamat ut email Cavell., ea bused the hall efeiage le his. He now arranged turned over half-a-dosssi poise, he drop' IN NEWFOUNDLAND-
trsie the story -writer eaidle \imedf : the leaves hi their proper ceder, and pod tate ineuueoript into hie lap, and
"What that I do with it 1" bound them together 1mi a simile large leaning back bunt out with • had roar
His wits had warred hien to keep reuse*. of laughter.
away from his seedy, that be might not " 'The Lath Babble le published," "What a juke it would be," be en -
be tempted to de any whist, teatime im a said be, "lied it will straightway be claimed ; "aspp.w I had agreed to hie I
ties steps, however, led bow 1010 the eagerly devoured by a limited circle of plan, and bad sold him this thing at the
workshop. To a mstbodicelly ends,- realms, ooaeistiag of ose person." price be named. It a o.rt•ioly dtasreut
talou max it woe a little costume to be Thereupon Owen Copal', settled him- from my usual style --.blob is whet he
thus suddenly beast by lovers. self cosily in he large ,Mir, sed beg•m deweeded. He weldes it pobliabed-
Stretched out is se .say-obair, his to read over the tasnaseript. by °speeding a good sum of Paps
Ione* pipe tilled with freers' tubsoeo, He had wereely saseeed the first page, , Hicki • oath. Theo images the sneers
he reconnoitered the situ•too, dimming when tee home -wawa rapped at t
with himself, ase otter another, the door. He took the card which she
venous uses to ',huh the veoswio might brourbt him, and. es be reed the name,
be nut. • depreoatia frown settled upon hie fore -
ins hie masusoripts .ad other torsos
literary labor with a moderate amount of
shrewdness std after much the same
method se that by which the farmer
sells garden -truck ur the baker • batch
el doughnut&
It may Dot be uninterestiogto the read-
er to leern,sd it is certainly Deeeseary to
this narrative to explain just what Owen
Capella wrote. Several novas of his
fabrication has been given to the public
by that wall -known publishing house of
Vallum & Marble, and from tbs.. he
had •ltogetbea< se annual royalty of
about $1,000. Of abort stories he wrote
ten or twelve in the course of • year,
which brought returns according to
their quality sad length and •veeeged un-
der $100 apiece.. He alar "turned out"
sod
literary articles for a daily j
he received • small salary for assist-
ing in the editorial work of • children's
magazine. Industariou by nature,
end, after his marriage goaded on by
necessity, he worked hard nine boars •
day, with few holidays ; and his Income
was nearly as large M the salary of a
professional baseball player.
It meat not be supposed, however,
that Owen Capone Wail famous. He was
moderately well-known to a limited cir-
cle of readers. In his early years, ba
fore writing had become with him • oom-
mouptace of daily labor, he had espied
Fame strolling in the path • little way
ahead of him. It would be sty enough,
be thought, to overtake her, whenever
be had earned some of his own time to
devote to the effort The years were
paving now rather rapidly, for he was
of the middle period of life, yet he wM
so senna to her, and had almost ceased
to lift his eyes in her direction.
One day in tbe springtime, it happen-
ed that • conversation took place between
]fir Marble, of the publishing firm, and •
oertaan Great Author, of which Mr Ca-
polle and his affairs formed the subject.
The Greet Author, who knew Capella
intimately, spoke with no little feeling of
his laborious, ill -rewarded cereer. He
declared his belief that the story -writer
would bare trade • splendid nem° for
himself but for the operation of the law
of supply and ,demand. The publisher
was surprised. He had been accustomed
to look upon Capella se exceptionally
He was, however, ow of
those men who make • principle of main-
taining • certain degree of sentiment in
their souls -something like pensiooed-
off poor relation, who, at rare intervals,
may come in for something handsome.
He straightway resolved to mate an ex-
ample of Mr Omen', to his imminence.
"We leve been publishing Cspelle's
stories for 'lovers! years," mid he, "and,"
he added frankly, "I don't hesitate to
my are making • good enough thing out
of them. I expect we ought t3 do some-
thing for him. What would you •l -
,i.. r nothiceness and gathered into definite
"The best thing in this world N" said l form before his mental vision. There
the Gust Author, "is cosh."
it bsppened, '•thee a perplexing we for
Owen Capella.
If he had put his thought tato words
and spoke° after this fashion :
"It wilt not do for me to take a run
out into the country, for 1 shell hod
myself instinctively picking op materiel
wberevsr I go. It would be work in dis-
guise.
ivguise. 1 might spend the time in some
particular lits of study. That is very
nisch like work, however. Or I might
do some scieutilc reeding -I am getting
sadly behind on these later discoveries,
and sums of them would come bandy
as elements in plot.-beh : there is
work wan."
"Or suppose," he continued, in • vain
endeavor to Luff to a different tack, "I
make ase of this blessed gift of days to
teed, solely with • view to my own plea-
sure and amusement. Books ere written
for the public, acd sin I nuts mw and a
brother 1 Or have I, by Tong study of
this public, of its tastes sod interests, at
haat fairly cot myself out of it, so that I
may not share its pleasures! Ass, when
I read, just as when I write, this spectre
of many heads looks over my shoulder,
offering its comment, deliberate end
without appeal, on the style of each een-
teace, on the thought of every page, and
on the 'moral of the whole work. Thus
raiding often becomes a source of dis-
tress
ivtrw as writing is often use of absolute
torture But if I might reed for myself
alone, forgetting the iireful public - r
if I might wnte for myself -ah• !'
He had struck it. One swift flab of
thought, and the problem was solved
Hs would write -a stray -a monologue
-s rhapsody -a something without a
class -for the public for once, should be
forgotten -or rather should pe embodied
io himself. No mortal eye save his own
should ;Tar behold what he wrote ; no
editor nor publisher should ponder over
its availability, no critic discourse upon
its shortcomings, no general reader be
afforded sn opportunity either to cow
demo or admire. It should be • work
by Owen Campelle to: Owen Capone.
His enjoyment was to bei)double : first
that cf the free, untrammelled writer,
and later, that of the appreciative read-
er.
He sprang hp out of the easy -chair,
thnlled with the thought of the pleasure
which this chance idea had mapped oat
before him. Co went the window. and
the warm 'tonne sir -the so'ak's °lixer
ot youth -entered deep into his longs,
as he breathed hard with the physical
joy of an enthuaiasm. For • moment
Capone stood looking out ; he listened
to the song of the birds, mingled with
the soft rustling of :res -branches ; he
scented the odors of the flowers ; every
faculty end every sense seemed sudden-
ly drawn to • quavering tension in the
ecstasy of freedom.
In that brief spice of time the thing
which he was to write rose out of dim
"Would he take a lift, do you think 1'
"You might try him."
"I could put it on the ground that we
had more than oar share out of his
books. I suspect we have as • matter of
fact ''
"Undoubtedly, 'mid the Great Aoth-
cr ; "you make us fellows who know bow
to write books pay ycu for your experi-
ments with those who don R"
The publisher, ignoring this remark,
continued ; "Suppose i gave a certain
sum and stipulated that be was to use it
to pee externem while he abstained from
work and enjoyed a vacation of a month
or two. How is that T '
"Prime."
"tie might take his wife and children
to the sea -shore, tor example.''
"Yee • or for a better example, he
was brat an idea, then • plot, then peo-
ple and • place. The people rapidly
donned charaoteratice and and grouped
themselves into situetions . A nebulous
train of incidents stretched along to a
climax that towered into cloudy heights.
It was like nothing that he had ever
written or thought before -it seemed,
indeed, like nothing that any human
mind had ever divined.
At first, he felt an almost frantic baste
to get to his desk and begin writing.
The whole thing seems to be of each
stuff se dreams are made on, an insub-
stantial pageant which might fade and
leave not • rack behind. Yet, though
the vision had oome soddenly, it showed
no deposition to depart, but lingered
and solidffied to an almost tangible re-
ality before his eyes, That it might not
might send his wife sod children there, e•e•Pe. he reviewed and analyzed each
and stay at home and enjoy life for • feature separately soul they were all he
beet span. ''owe mental property to be used as he
"His borne then i.t't-er-' waked.
The Great Author wagged his head As he turned away from the window
slowly from side to aide. "Whenever I toward the desk, two thoughts struck
feel the need of reLewiog my vows to him almost simultaneously.
bsebel')rbood," esid he "I go to visit Oso was : "This will Dever du for the
poor (.spells at his house that i may re- poblie."
And the other was : ;'Bat 1t is only
gird him whits in the bosom of his fami-
ly. The right is for mvtslL" a perfect antidote to During the month that followed, Owen
matrimony. Capella wrote several hours • day, rapid-
pittedM
ae is happy, though," tog• lye with perfect eau and with the keen -
..1 .p Marble set of Assume it was • rest and • Ts-
' (resp him tot much rten believe it,' cation intensified by s complete diver-
aoswerad the Great Author. tion.
A few days later the an of s voon- Thus,an accident, Ca Its had
Hen was submitted to Owen Calielle doubled by the mislaid happiness of
He was very moch astonished. At brat •lifetime. pro.
be was inclined to refuse the gift. He •
As for the book which he created it
charknew very well that any respectuble would not be easy to name an °le. in
after tier in one d his i dries wools, iiterature to which it eoold to said to be -
otter a conflict of diversified emotions, hong It was • like what naturalists
ort abs ground that it n uy
have declined
y geni.m that comes not from regular da ntentt.ru of •seeding to Mr
self ha was ooenpelled to ibmk enf Mrs Heks's proportion seal t re was no
h' for
cwt of• mixture o canna conditions. teaan° why he should draw him out in
g
bead.
The card said : "Mr J. Coed Hicks."
"I feel a little guilty et date:bine
yo.," Yr Hicks was saying, a moaemt
later ; "for your brother-in-law, Mr
Tooker, with whoa I am quite well ac-
quainted, told me that yo. were very
much wrapped up in some new book that
700 bed recently undertaken ; but me
this L a matter of business, which may
prove sell." some profit to y00, I ventured
to
"I was art at ell buy," said Mr Ca-
pone,
r
pelle, in that peculiar tone of voice
which clearly proclaims the falsehood.
"Perhaps you do nut remember me,"
said Mr Hicks ; "your brother -in -lair
has introduced me to you quite a teen -
bet of times."
' Volts a number of times' a good,"
thought the writer. He said aloed : "I
remember you very welt"
"Now, to Dome to business," said the
visitor. "Io the first place, I must ask
you to regard this 000rereation as strict-
ly oon6dentiel, for if it should get oet,
it would make a {laughing -stock of me."
"I1 goals be se you wish," returned
Capella. He was beginning to feel much
wonder as to what this dandified young
man was about to propose. Curiosity
was in • fair way to overthrow a dispos-
ition to be bored. He waited in silence,
with "The Earth Bubble" still open up-
on hie knee, while Mr Hicks stretched
his gloves and nervously throat his enor-
mous ane abort, evidently preparing
himself to unfold a tale.
At last the visitor spoke :
"I went you to wnte a book for me -
that is, to be published in my name. I
will pay you more for it than any pub-
lisher will give -yon tau name your own
figure. I should like it to be • novel,
and, if possible. in rather different style
from that io which you usually write, so
that there would be lees chance of its
being recognized."
Here he stopped and looked at Ca-
pelle's free, which wore •n astonished
smile.
"It surprises Toe, I sea. Have you
never undertaken • job of that kind.-
"Never,"
ind. '
"Never," answered the writer ; "I .m
Dot sure either that I ever heard-- "
"Oh, I know it meet cftes be dam,"
cried the other. "Why not, pray t You
can sell a manuscript to me just as well
as to • publisher. I would have some
good publishing house bring it out over
mj name. 1 know that you are • man
of honor, and if you give me a solemn
promise that you would never let any
one now about the trenasctioo, I should
be perfectly wife. I have been talking
with your brother-in-law about your
books. He says they will bring you in
about a thousand or fifteen hundred
apiece. Suppose, as an outside figure,
we put the value of the manuscript at
two thousand dollars. Put the fame
and reputation at • similar sum -that
makes four thousand dollars. Very well,
I will give you that for a story under the
conditions that 1 name. 1. it • go 1"
He pained for • reply, which did not
some. Capone was attracted by the
novelty of the ides of market yootattous
can fame, and was busy wondering
whether the reputation from a moderate-
ly successful story could be rated u $2,-
000.
"Come," mid the visitor, "I will make
it a round tum --$5,000 ; what do you
my T.,
Capella bent out into a laugh. "Not
so fast," he said ; "I am rather curious
to know for .hat reason you make this
extraordinary proposition."
"It is simple enough, I should think,"'
answered Mr Hicks ; "I want the honor
and credit of having written the book
I have the money to pay for it, and I
propose to get it."
"Bot wby do you not write the book
.yourself II should think a man of your -
4w -originality would find it may ; and
since you have money to pay for its
publication that difficulty would be sur.
mounted.''
Hicks shook his heed.
"I 'snot do it,"he said ; let me tell
you how I am fixed. My father is • rich
men -of the firm of Hiok% & Calking,
wholesale groo.re He got it Into ba
head that I would be • literary man, and
sent me to college, and gave me money
to travel and take life easy. Now 1 am
pest thirty, and I have seeompligbed
nothinr : whet is more, I never shalt.
I have • good enough stook of brains,
bat they are of the kind that don't
declare dividends. My family and
friends have always expiated • great deal
of me, and I begin to think that if I do
not maks • strike of some kind pretty
soon, they will crams to regard me M s
banshee."
There was something in the toms of
these remarks that give Copal' a slight
feeling of disgust Tbe incident had
sensed to emus hint. 11e had not the
motel resembled °b•rlty. But for Fi.- are acentoeesd to rail • "sport' -en o r- sii heat i
g
Capella and the little Capella*. 11. was v.iopment• bot that *mese unexpectedly
aocnrstomed to LII her everyt tog-- f h d thls fashion. So h. Interruptd eke sissy
c.! End' i It was nota novelear • fairy eerynor
oho had • die•greeabte way
tag t • m, est it' el the nature of haw of his visitor's volubility, telling
cot jet the mute, if he did not. What D°e him that be had Menaces en work
world she my to his declining this ower each an •11. Its style was /atelier as
its lam, tsemrn with quaint fi nos and of that kind, and would rather be •xeus-
-Tee. and bow long would she keep on D • g q ed from oonsiderinr iL
a ell t the f an a'lesni
lows person, that i only his wife "v" the writer humid . Yet the work t publishers'," r
ieka
maim it 1 The thought of the
tali, .ys ' ns one, orae reg "Rnt my moneys est as good as
whomh loved • risen °f whop ecwld be felt perhaps by nose he gold M
• woman was motors!, for, like nater*. it was "Undoubtedly," answered the write, ;
threw him foto something very like • �-
took div•- sad 1 N ..
m
, i do not think it neesery to explain
It
And he aesapted. hove thismass am Th
cf "e &rib Bah- °1T reason for dedieing year otter.
lee," from the ettersnes of BawgSs P.A."O OU YeighP.A."reward tits. as ab -
The nm of money whit& Owe Ca- alio vaniahieg witehe.: nerd. but alta early also.
pwls mesio! wes rent , .5rr es, bet it Th. searsnt (er literary honors was
.es ample ssMeien! to on1 the T*Berth trth hvhhge as the waw has
'len. Mn ('+pall, end tb. ebildr.. were
jail them aro at Ibsen." not to he thee seedy pmt o 8e enn-
to i" to the w shore, end the oto Tl. this bed °nuts to him with the tiered i. s' 550t, and Mr O p.Il.
story- liras t t al the n, end it *nemsd lidsvled lo breed saleoe., entil an
wetter wens to ►ewrie in se day, or to bsT.'wrmfh.d ho weird whom" i.ri.0.1.0 wee aline.* net to the sweet
lanes! sbrhe-« he shores - lam
° that perhaps he wee not motioned with
s°Mh's seed laellary, paid is sewage, ie through Nary Part of the work- the summit efibeed, amid
hoped hti�pdmek
nely et. At the sod of the month the book .lie em°ee Thea he •ew•w .. fn p:
iL.eott ..eeenidi- that aw mist melting fieishsd -a bilky pis 01 fiwrlUse abrupt sad to � � w qs@
h
of abs critics sad the hoarse tntrieg of
the publics 1 believe if 1 ted any taste
foe practical jokes, 1 should feel tempted
W perpetrate this use."
Such tbosghte se these caused the
u nique elements of the book to stand out
more vividly to hie Dotioe as be read,
sad in nowise diminished the ptessurs
which it gave him. He dallied over the
reeding like an epicure over a rare dish,
sod it was several days before the novel-
ty of the enjoyment had worn t 1!.
And then Mrs Capella and the little
Capetian returned to the oily, and dull
every -day life began again. 'The Earth
Bubble" wee laid sway io an obscure
comer amid • beep of rejected M88.
(for it is well-known that sten esooe.e
ful waiters haus rejected 1453 ), and
Owen Covello went ploddingly to work
on a series of instructive childreaas
stories.
Now there is • certain cam of people
with whom decisions do not decide.
Owen C.pelle belonged to that class.
He has decided, of course, not to sell
"Tbe Earth Bubble," or any other man-
uecrtpt to 14r .1 Ce•il Hicks -but whet
had that to do with the reel outcome of
the matter 1 Mr Hicks had explained
to the brother in 1aw the result of the
interview, sod the latter, M Win as Mrs
Capone returned from the seashore,
talked it all over with bar.
"Five thousand dollars i. an awful lot
of money," said the worthy woman,
"and the Lord knows we need it bad
enough. Owes has just got to sell him
that boon ha has been wnting on whits
we were away."
Perhaps it is hardly fair to Capella to
nay that the change which presently took
place in his attitule toward Mr J Cecil
Hicks was s.otirely due to hie wife ; bet
the trituration of her incessant speech
had its effect, for he was a man who was
indolently food of being let alone
"Tbe Berth Babble" had given him •
quantum sof. of pleases in its oreatlno
sod in its subsequent reading ; but now
that the vacation was over, and the iia -
pulse which gave the work its life burned
out, the manuaeript could lay nc special
claim to veneration. Bookies, the tont
w hich Hicks offered. as his wife truly
said, was • good deal of money. If the
fellow were fool enough to Fay it for •
manuscript which Capolle's experience
convinced him no publisher would con-
sider. why not yield -and enjoy • quiet
life again 1
S3 Mr J Cecil Hicks took away "The
Earth Bubble," leaving a check in its
per.
"I should like to know .het you pro-
pose so do with it," remarked Capelle,
as Hata carefully wrapped up the manu-
script in • large piece of newspaper.
"I shall copy every line of it, verba-
tim, writing and erasing corrections ot
words and phrases, so as tc have it look
as though it were my own work. Then I
shall destroy tbe ongioal. If Ve11um &
Marble will not take it on their own
risk, I will stand the expenses of publi-
cation. I shall have plenty of ilbuatra-
tioos made for it by the best artists, sod
the paper, binding, sod so forth. shall
be in the latest and most approved
style.
"Well, I hope it is • saccus," said the
writer, with a smile that was half ear -
▪ end hal[ regret.*
"At any rate," replied Mr Hicks, I
shell be credited with having writtse a
book."
Now this is the point where the story
of "The Earth Bubble" merges into the
history of recent contemporaneous litera-
ture. If it should be that the reader has
not perused this remarkable book, he
has at least heard of it as the reigning
sensation is lettere There are those
who claim for it • permanent place with
the few f•m es books of the oontury,•nd
predict for its gifted young author, )1r
J. Cecil Hicks. a splendid future. I be -
lave that he has, es yet, however, with-
stood all the blandishments of the pub-
lishers, and rests contented with his one
great success.
As for Owen C•pells, he still works
ploddingly elong,doing his beet to please
the public. -Charley Dwight Willard, in
The Argonaut
treasemptlea storey Cerus.
To TMT EDITOR .-Ple•ae inform your
readers that I have a positive remedy
for the above named disease. Ely its
timely use thousands of hopeless mem
have been permanently awed. I shall be
glad to send two bottles of my remedy
me to any of your readers who Wee
eooeemption if they .ill seed me their
Express and P.O. address.
Respectfully, DR T. A. Stone.,
ly 164 W. Adelaide et., Tomato, Oat
Ayer's Cathartic Pills are recommend-
ed by the beet physicians, become they
are free from calomel and ether rnjanoae
drugs, being composed of purely veget-
able ingredients. While thorough in
their action, they Simplot, and strength-
en the bowels and secretory organa.
There ie more fun in e sheet of sticky
by fly paper than in the wane negro
minstrel. Watch the kitten piaying with
it ne the mew carpet ; the latter a ruin-
ed for ever; the kittens goon into a fit and
all the women and childree rush out of
the hones is terror. if you want to rid
Nour hones of Sias, boy Wilson's Fly
olan Pada, and see as dir.eted. Noth-
ing sloe .ill clear them out thoroughly.
Sold at 10e by .l1 druggists. lm
Cleetseems hes had its anneal spell-
ingmatch. The first •late. as w • bosh
fespeller who insisted upon spelling
quaff with no. "1."
may • arise..
My sister std 1 mob tried • lintels of
Reseleek Rood Rttrers with reset •.e-
ase. 0. helloes hua4,rh.. We noes
mend it to anew • seemf.e for headache."
it Km Camera Se ewes, Hsden,(dst.
The Lewitt, .f the rreeeedtags to Se
Tet/ 1..0,511 .r Law -Tb. Hods lead
C.eet.a 1101 teases Its Third Roadies
to ate t•.... of C.111awe.
LONDON. July fit,- la the Hobe of Com-
mons Cooley Sar James Fergugson sold that
as tae legality of the scuoa, of the British
mud ottisers V Newteendirad will be Wed
by • court ul law, it wee not de ir•bts Ili
ease wider what imperial law of prsropNve
the Crown oaks aastructiom Nd been
homed.
Th. Heligoland bill paged the tW►d read-
ing is the House of Commune to -day.
The Musci. .ser &ratuse says Bavarian
Denisgw will meet Hones Banana at
YLmagin and will be placwd et hie diepoed
as V former years
Martial law has been proclaimed in the
Enna quartets Of Constantinople. which ls
patrolled Several arrest, have bees male
d..
A Terrible Railway C.ttelon.
• Hawes: se, July 8t3. -A fearful acci-
dent happened at 3iO this afternoon in the
asst Manchester whip cwt which will oath
heavy bas of life. Two working. u eraius,
through some 1 *tepidity of •
switchmen, collided Tee workmen womb" -
dandy killed and sixty others wounded, of
whom at Wet thirty will des.
According to later advices tees. New were
killed and time seriously hurt
Ti....'. O.s.ty Ceet•st.
1-tewaA, July 98 -The following direc-
tions
iretions bare been given for those ladle* who
wish to compete in the 1 .. J Beauty
Contest Item : All competitors mud send
pbotographs, with their addresses, to the
committee. Those who ars 'Admitted mast
atteod in evening dregs, or costumes repre-
sentative of the country from which they
area The committee state that stioukt the
dears it, traveling exegeses
sad the nod of hying here for Ove days will
be pod Ott of the funds at the disposal of
tie =imagers. Each lady w.o is in theoom-
petition will receive • souvenir of the occa-
sion. The total sent to be awarded to the
winner is 11S00.
The Vett t.dposed.
Breus, July 311 -Prince BYmerck'e pro-
posed visit to England has been postpone&
He will go to Kfseingeo in the noddle of
August
P.bblag the Pe•od.
LONDON, July 8N. -A sene•tiao is reported
from Lsndatut, is lower Bever= over the
discovery that the cemetery keepers hats
been robbing the bodies of the r14 b deed dur-
ing
uiing the pad two years. Clothe., ornaments
and even hair have been stolen. while the
costly caskets have been replaced by plain
pin. momma General ezhurtetioes bare
neem ordered aol the ghouls have been ar-
rested
RetgaNs Killed.
('ANSA. Crete, July 2S.- A detachment of
gendarmes surprised a number of brigands
in • save on this island and killed and
wounded four of then_ floe gendarme dis-
covered large stores of ammunition and pro
viuone
MEN OF GREENWOOD.
Canadian rewriters Hoot Their Anginal
t/etseestratlea u Hanailt....
..r
000SANO ENO&
MretNasay IholOiean baa sees onetime.
&red sod Ivo .emmsn. sad mit ilia 13
the hottest the remembers. Rer hams
is was Imlay City, Michigan, sad she
bouts ,of being the oldest person y the
State. like wee torn In Dublin, his
pe.ulI u to her would h sa Wand mm
tally es ,vee. tilts hes a son se
two yeses old, who Dees in the
bor►ood, amid her dew/hoer-5-1•w ig
weeny.
Fort, reap=
When party politics Mem high bad feel.
ing sod bed blood ere often reused, by
ell parties sere. that whsu bad Wood
arises from ordts•ry ewes@ the only sat-
isfactory cure is burdock Blood Bitters,
raters s blood purifier. Reeommended
by the medical prof:Aeson. 2
A Washington attorney oder'ed to est
the editor of the Charlotte, Meeh., TM.
bonea pension. ;The editor was tea
years old when the war broke out.
HAMILTON, July dl. -About 2500 Foresters
frond Toronto. Brantford, Galt, Stratford.
Landon and other prints joined the local
body today in the celebration of the 145th
anniversary of the institution of the order
Tbe organization stands today second to no
otbhr of its kind On its . rods
there are inscribed tate names of upward of
750.000 members. In its treasury there ie
stored away 825,500,000, and all over the
civilised globs there are fount courts of the
order. On the . , . bid are found
the names of M peers, 14 eons of peers, 5
bishops, IS tweeds, s judges, 30 knights, and
no lees than 21 members of the British Par-
liament,
arliament, besides innumerable presents of rank
and title in the colonise and foreign
countries.
Tbe Toronto. Hamilton ami Buffalo men
were at work to -day filling up the gully and
leveling up the lire for the three tracks at
the entree.* to the Bay -street tunnel There
w111 he two tracks in the tunnel.
At the meeting of the City Council to-
night
onight Ad. Rycamam presented • scheme for
the annexation of part mf the Township of
Barton.
Three small boys named Malmo* Mandel,
John Harris and James Powell were convict-
ed at the Police Court this morning of tap-
ping John H. Kerr', till Sentence was re-
served
"Prof.- (cant preferred • charge against
John Meadows and his sox of using insulting
language. Defendants had called the "pnr
fea'r's" son a "nigger.- TO. Police Magis-
trate disnhsed the caste
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Lspledos .1 High winos -The Desolnts
Rifle Association JIus dog.
OTTAWA, July 811 -Fire too/ place in
Bate' grocery wholemi store tood•y. It
orcnrred through the explosion of high wines.
W. Rates, eon ret T. Rates of Rt Catharines.
one of the employes, was ., badly bursted in
endeavoring to extinguieb the dames that his
life was deepnited of. He was taken to the
Protestant Hospital more deed than alive.
A young man named William Petrie was
to -day mmmitted for attempting to displace
a switch is the Canadian Pacific Railway
ysvds here
The Dominion Rif* Awrn'iatien meeting
in September will lad four days this year.
instead of • week, es formerly. The number,
both of matches and competitors, w111 be as
large as meal, but the saving in time w111
be effected by the ::as of sdtlftiemal target,
and by baying the marksmen @helot in threw
iodead of pain as heretofore The number
of tartlets has been tacreaeed from at to tat.
Rad IN fee Newport.
HALITAI, July M. -it l now stated by
&N naval authorities here that the war ship
Thrush. h command of Prises George eft
wage, wipe not vie Newport. R.I. Ids. I.ft
Formed. this morning for Halifax direct
The flagship Rdl.rvnpioo, with Admtral
Wanes and Nir John Item on hoard, sailed
hose St John's yesterray for Newport, and
will be jnined ere rent* by the Canada and
Partridge, .barb left this morning. ft I.
said that Prise. George had no latesNeo of
gots( to Newport
The Itesehell neeru.
Renews'-Pwtaaarg t. fire Tett 4; Chichmeti
1. stases e. (amigo it, p--'---- 4. (lees
!send tt tln..kly. t
Astaawru-AtadMlse tl Toledo 7: Rseha.br t
aeries it; tats'' 1. at /.wale 1[; *'.noire
t ehmaee
Purses miudhie It rtineuerat. 0; Penh's
I. Pew iamb Meese , *sash!/. e: ('lore.
sad 4Delos ►
C. C. Rieaasim & Co.
Gents, -I have used your MINARD'S
LIN IMEN F in my fatly for some yeas
std believe at the best medicine in the
market se it does alh it is reoom.e°ded
to do. DANIgi Kttturrg*a.
Canaan Forks, N. B,
John Mader, Mahone Bay, informs se
that be was cured of • very severe shriek
11 rheumatism by wing MINARD'S
LINIMENT. Ise
Rev J W Arney, of &ranee, Mich., is
• rushing expoueot of Metbodsm. He
can preach and sing ; his family mase a
good siring band that plays Sunday
nights In the church ; he owns two fast
horses, One worth $500 and the other
worth $400, and has secured • rase track
on which he will conduct some lively
speeding July 2G. His congregation
.ill have hint stay with them aootber
year.
A Child laved.
My little boy was takbn very bad with
darrbtes; he was very delicate end cot
so low we had no hope of lite life, but a
Lala friend . led Dr Fowler's
Extract of Wild Strawberry, and al-
though be could only beer • few drop
at • time he got well It sued my
child.
Mee We STteenn,
2 Campbell.ille, Ont.
iliersid's names., ease. m•sdret.
A midwife of Odessa sued • certain
Mr Viltcher for her fee, as she had wast-
ed be wife at the delivery of • child.
Being questioned by the judge wby be
refitted to pry his bill, Mr Viltcher said
that he did not feel se though he owed
he midwife anything because the baby
was a girl. --
mums". ny rases rad..
One of these pads will kill more flies
every day for • month than can be caught
opon • large sheet of sticky paper. A
1Oc packet of Wilson's Fly Poises Pads
will last a whole season. Sold by all
druggists. 1m
The Le Grange, Ga, GrepAie says :-
"There is a negro in Perry by the nam*
of Alfred Swift who wag struck by
lightning recently. The bolt struck him
at the elbow on the right arm, ran up
bis arm, round his body, down both
lees, tearing both his shoes to pieties.
The marks of the lightning are as plain
as on • pine tree."
■Wert' of 11 Veers.
For fifteen years we have need Dr
Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry M
• family medicine for summer complaints
and disrrhtes, and - we never had say -
thing to equal it. We highly rooms -
mend it, SAMCEL Wren,
2 Corbett, Opt.
A twelve -year-old girl living at Cros-
well, Mich.. fell into • batter crook in
which there was four inches of water and
was drown before help reached her.
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Buffalo sauna • populismo. of 960IW
A 'evolution ►.e broke• cwt In 811.1111
AP" -The ohekuiaker's strike 1. New York nus
hese arttbel
The bark ride tris Welt tiSi d
atm 'mels w.ri411 haw hews ordered
to (taotrel America
Tee geld esparto from New York but week
.m osted to $l,ybt,u0O.
=are an !care of • potato famine In Ire-
land,
ryland, ow.ug W the blight
Tke Merkel cattle plague le ravaging the
Provtmce of Itiaaa5 In Kued&
Tho Karl of Jersey has hers appointed
Governor of New Sloth Walla
Aa lonrodlary Ore at Spokane Fads de-
stroyed property vatted at $1e0,000.
Kumasi bas increased the tariff dues os
starch, gta.rware, wax and wild ver oil.
Appearsucre lodkete that Lord H•niolpl
C'hun:hill will again be la the military.
Inowraut talus have dune en morrow
amount of damage to crops in Frsne.
Rev. Ur. *alum has Neu elected d Pres
deet el the lttitb9 W'wleyaa ('oufrsace.
Fitters hundred journeymen hak.rs of Ch
cngo have etre k fur two hours ler murk u
idsturdays.
A fes etch trent Spokane Falls states tbn
the town of Wallace. Idaho, is bttruing dowi
No particular.
Niemen' pervona were killed std ma
property destroyed by • cyclone in the toe
of Moshe auris.
The Gime-ester, Masa, •cbooner Willis
'teased bit crew of sixteen were kat eke
on a voyage to Indeed
John L. Fiske, • lawyer arid opera bot
manager, was .bot and killed by Jua.ph
otillman et Fresno, ca!
The Uruguayan parliament has peek
bill compepi0R the playmate of orae -halt
he custom duties in gold.
Work on the 80 Clair tunnel prngi. s
very satisfactorily. A meting of the div
tars was beJd at Point Edward. -
Paris is ela:uaed over the discovery t
it Dian .1lk with cholera has beeu fa on
the hop.ital" there senor July 15.
President Utas says Mexico has sent
troops to the Guatemalan frontier, and
maintain the drutest neutrality.
The New York striking chunk -makers
bre'nttng turbulent and resorting W act
violence to enforce their demands.
In a yacht race at Duluth, Mite., s n o b
were struck by • squall.' One we..t W
L,(*tom. Two men were druwee&L
Thirty- two Arabs, who arrived at PI
detpbia, 1's., on the steamer "P.ansylve
from Liverpool, will have to return.
The Chicago City council peeled en a
Noce granting the mm of the lake trot
part of the elm for the World's Fair.
Smallpix ie ravaging the villages
tween Mansrw$h and Sagaxlg, Ki
The populati.,n is being alum al,Ie' iwa 'l
A Richmaoud despatch says the Myo.,
scheme as a possible form of metaliatio
the Force 11.11 is out geer'•lly favored i
South.
M. Beebe. the French Minister of
mere,„ will distribute copies '1 the M
bey Bili among the Freach Chambers of
Derew.-
Mr. Bober, tt. Wesleyan mWomry
as Premier of Togs, hod to leave
nude.- threats of being killed b
.es.
liter n papers are busily advice
Itua,-French alliance, which, in vaew ,:
1 er r 1piliiiou s coming visit. is regar
agnificant.
In lows tbero will be a total failure
1. *ley crop thb year. There is nu ho
t1..wers and the clover and buckwhes
tacos tar yield"! nothing.
The Parnell -0 Shea cue has been
postponed, and it is now generally b
the matter will never come rep it Cu*
wii be adjuled privately.
Dr t' -ten is W receive an app*intil
to.l•-rial service io East Africa.
p,•obol.;c be eutrnued with the sums
an exiled tion into tete interior.
A ,tesiatch (nom Santini says a ha
swept over that piece recently. Th
deentlshed the chimneys of the is at
dewier. oausiug a great scarcity awe
At St. Joseph Mo., the saber nigh
JobsO'Mesrs, echo weighs t.ii Iia
upon her twin daughter✓ while ask
kilted them both. The babe* weir
mouths old.
Largo cargoes ot Canadian cattle
riving in Scotland, and *still greats
is expected next month, chart.tn
been taken for the bringing of avec
seed. during August.
Frederick Doughes, Minister to Ha
has just arrived in New York, a
were no fndicstiou of another n
when be left Hayti sad the govern,
peered to be well s tabtishet
The Stevedores' Union in Lotdou
cared a boycott against the destine
Allan line, paying to Montreal, and
re. and Hall and London end Boston
York, for employing non-union met
The manufacturing corporation'
Itiver. M.m., have agreed W form
Datum with the other cotton mills
Mand and curtail the print clod
•Zprint abs bast two weeks at A
mlba'ostl eadof Lockport'. N. Y.
woo.' Yago heat Ponrm•d*r le
,ev••:-..'f wfth n shovel and an
•f,:titz died i:, the evening. 11
iie1.
The town of Hsmmerfeed, No
bean shwa totally destroyed by
inbal.itauu are bonteleesi and lin
end. condi Lion_ Pros -Inoue as
here been amt from Tromso• t
f.v'ers. .
Itis thaw has presented • use
the library of the Toronto t
Aimee the boots are thirty vole
bistnry of Windsor ( Lath and aunt
tribal the Great
mark d boner.
is an amceptiouiw
Two Navy freight trans on tt
toe. Lake Phew and Wasters n
laded wesrTfgertown. Wis., Fir
and Buckley. Brakemen Rlynwnur
knows brakeman were instantly 1
engines and nearly all of the oar
wreck.
The trial of ties action for divot
M Visenant Desoto, son of tae F
tarty. wane hie wife, who. pre
floorage, area known IN London
es Nile Blithe t s I Wen
opened le Li
r"i
wealthy dealer is Irk -e -brae.
Is en abenIwa desire of tea sharp
T1s.ttee at I.e11ta.
Mt, W H Brown of Melita, Man.,
states that two of her children end two
others belonging to a neighbor, were
cured of the worst form of summer wee -
plaint by one bottle of Dr Fowler's Ex-
tract of Wild Strawberry, nature's spe-
cike for all gummier oompl•inta. 2
Dallas, Oregon, claims to handle more
wool direct from the prcdoosr tban soy
other city in the United States. Urge
w aggonloads come to town every dey,wd
5,000,000 pounds will be handled this
season.
■ loud, Liniment the eels
Rens-seeser-
There he is again, first on my nose,
thee in my ser, and 1 dare not open my
mouth for fear he should fly down my
throat. Hello, John, just ran over 10
the drag store and boy • peeks! of Wd-
son'e Fly Poison Pada, I can't stand this
any toners. Pries IOc. RoId by all
druggists. lm
The following is •gond definition, or
perhaps more accurately upeskiag, a fend
de•eription of whet a tabs fowl should
be : 'The deaden. in • good market-
able tabs fowl are soon reckoned up, i,
r , a Iarg., solid -bodied bird, deep ked
5 breast, bred ohe•t, and narrow stern
-a thoreerhly plump, wall fifkd-up
frees, round and compact, flesh of • Iles
grain or teztors, and of • clear .hire
wino" Ws should odd with • nice
holden akin and rich yellow shanks,
nothing would be wanting.
Freesia'. Worm Powders .: sod
remove worn whhomt Jujuy to' adult
or latent. Ile
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