HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1890-9-19, Page 2,` NEE WILLIE WIN KIK
DT yiCsTais Melanie.
••Aa .twee sad •gent *man."
His tall name was Percival Wi18aa
Winker., but he picked up the other
ware la • curtsey -book, sod that was
the sod of the chruteued title. His
maker's *yah called him Willie -Bebe,
bet, as he never pad the faintest atm -
ties to anything that the syb mid, her
elegem drd not kelp matters.
His father wee colonel of the 196tb,and
as coos se Wes Willis Wields was old
enough to understand what military
dtecipliesmeant, Colonel Willies pat
him under it. Tose was no other way
of mam•git g the child. Whim be was
good for • week he drew ge 4-eooduct
pay; and when he wbad he was de
prayed as ed of his good-o,nduct stripe.
rieserelly he was had, for India offers so
satiny chances to Irate ea -year-olds of
going wrong.
Children resent familiarity from
strangers, and We. Willie Winkie was a
very Articular child. Croce he accepted
an acquaintance, he was graciously
Pleased to thaw. H. seeepted Breathe
• subaltern of the 195th, on sight.
Brandie was having toast the colonel's,
and Wes Willie Winkie seared, strong
is the possession of • good -conduct bade'
won for not chasing the hens round the
compound. He regarded Brandi' with
gravity for at lease ten minutes, and then
delivered himself of hes opinion.
"I like you,' said he slowly, getting
off bis chair and coming over to Brsn-
dis. "I like you. I shall call you
Coppy, became of your hair. Do you
mind being called Coppy? It is because
of v. hair, you know."
Here was one of the most emburas-
ing of Wee Willie Winkie'' peculiarities.
He would look at a stranger for some
time mod than, without warning or
explanation, would give him a tame.
And the name stuck. Nn regimental
penalties could break We. Willie Winkie
of this habit. lie loot his good -conduct
badge fur christening the Commissioner's
wife ''Poo•'; but nothing that the
colonel mold do made the Station forego
the nick -name, and Mrs Collin remained
Mn "Pubs" till the end of her stay.
8o Brandin was christened "Coppy,"
and rose, therefore, in the estimation of
the regiment
If Wee Willie Winkle took an inter-
est in say one, the fortunate mac was
*pried alike by tbe mess and the rank
and file. And in their envy lay no suspi
clog of self-interest. "The onion"'s
sou" was idolized on hie own merits en-
tirely. Yet Wee Willie Wiokie was sot
lovely. His face was permanently
freckled, as his legs were permanently
scratched, and in .pita of his mother's
almost tearful he had in-
sisted upon haring hie long yellow locks
cut short in the military fashion. "I
want my hair like Sergeant Tammil's,"
said We. Willie Winkie, and ha father
abetting, the sacrifice was acoomplub-
ed.
Three weeks after the bestowal of his
youthful affections on Lieutenant Bran-
dis--benceforth to be called "Coppy"
for the sake of brevity-- Wee Willie Win-
kie was destined to behold strange
things and far beyond his comprehen-
sion.
Coppy returned his litiog with inter-
est. t)cppy had let him wear for five
rapturous minutes his own big sword -
just as tall as W.. Willie Winkie. Coppy
had promised him a terrier poppy ; and
Coppy had permitted him to witness the
s lr colons operation of atavism. Nay,
te ire-Coppy had .aid that even he,
Wee Willie Winkle, would rue in time
to the ownership of • box of shiny
knives, a silver soap -box and $ silver -
handled "spotter -brush," as 11 ee Willie
Wiokie called it. Decidedly, there was
n 3 one except his father wk.) could give
or take away 'cod -mediate badges at
pleasure, half so wise, strong and valiant
at Coppy with the Afghan and Egyptiso
medals on his breast. Why, thee,
sbould Coppy be guilty of the unmanly
weakness of kinin; -vehemently kissing
-s "big girl," Mies Allardyce to wit ?
14 the course of a morning ride, Wee
Willie Winkie had seen Coppy so do-
ing, and, like the gentleman he was, had
Promptly wheeled round and cantered
back to his groom, feet the groom should
al os -a.
Under ordinary circumstances he
would have spoken to his father, but he
felt instinctively that this was • matter
on which Coppy ought first to b..on-
•ulted.
"Coppy," .hosted Wee Willis Winkie,
reining op outside that subaltern's bun-
galow early one morning -•'I want to
see you, Coppy'"
"Come is., young un." returned Cnppy,
who was at early breakfast in the midst
of kis dogeWhat mischief have you
Wee gating into now ?"
Wee Willie Wipktc bed does nothing
". r had for three days, and so
Shed on s pinnacle of virtue.
"I've been doing nothing bed, said
he, curling himself into a long chair
with • studious affectation of the colonel's
lemma after • hot parade. He buried
his freckled noes in a teacup, and, with
eyes staring roundly swathe rim, asked:
"I my, Coppy, is it peeper to kw ,big
girls r'
By Jove ! You're beginning early.
Who do you want to kiss "
"No ole. My muvv.r's always hies
ing m. if I don't stop her. If it ise't
pwoper, bow was you kissing Mayor's Al-
ardye•'e big girl 1•et morning, by ve
canal r
Copps'' brow wrinkled. Ile and Mies
Allardyse had with great end. managed
to keep their t serif for •
fortnight. There ware argent sod im-
perative reams why Mayou Allardyes
ahosid not know how matters stn d Ger
at ked mother mouth, sad this small
h•' discovered • greet deal too
"I saw yen," rid Wes Willie Welkie
tit►lmly, "Bat ve poem dida't its I
esed4letpa.'"
,�yes that meek sense, roe
, I Rip ,' greased pnew Oeppy, half
e mend Aad half angry 'And how
many people may yoe have tele *boa
l'Oely sea myself . Yee dila'. tell
whim 1 bawd te wide w Wilde ma my
_/sy eras lase ; had 1 lesght ys.
wagldpl like,'
THE HURON SIGNAL' FRIDAY, SEI T. 19, 1890,
"Wields," said Uoppy -
ally, amines the .mall heed, "yss'n
Me best of good fellows. Look here,
yes can't understood all these Nit's
One of these days -hams it, how ego I
maks pie sae 1t I -I'm geiing le may
slim Alla dyes, god than she'll be Mrs
Coppy, as you .y, 11 sow yoga, mud
is so a es "dined at the iiia• of kiaaims
big girls, go and tell yne, hither."
'What will happen !' said Wee Willie
Winkle, who firmly believed that hie
lather wait omnipotent.
"I shall get tato trouble," seta Coppy.
playing his tromp card with au appeal-
ing look at the holder of the see.
"Vet I won't." .aid Wee Willie Wink -
ie bri-fly. "Bat my fever rye it's an-
o maly to be always kissing, and I dide't
dab aid du vat, Coppy."
"l;m trot alwey. kissing, old clap.
It's only mow sad then, awl where yo.'re
bigger you'll do it too. Your father
meant it's ma good for little boys."
"Alt!" said Wee Willie Wiuk.e, now
fully etlightened, "11's like ve sputter -
brush."
"Exactly," mid Coppy gravely.
"But I duet fink 111 ever waist to km
big girls, Dor no a., 'sept my in
And I must vat, you know."
Thee. ws a lung pause, Wu".by
Wee Willie Wilkie.
"Are yea food of vis big girl, Coppyl"
"Awfully!" said Coppy.
"Foodee van you are of Bell or vs
Betcba-or m.
"It's in a different way," mid Coppy.
"You see, one of these days Mia Allar-
dyce .111 beloeg to me, but you'll grow
op and command the regiment and -ell
sorts of things. It's quite different, you
see."
"Very well," said Wee Willie W'inki•,
timing. "It you're fund of vs girl, 1
won't tell soy one. I must go tow. •'
Coppy roes and escorted his small
glee to the door, adding :-"You're
the best of little fellows, Weskit'. I tell
you what. 1n thirty days from now you
can tell if you Like -tell any one you
like."
Thus the secret of the Brandis-Allar-
dyce was dependent on a
little child's word. Coppy, who knew
Wee Willie Winkie's idea of truth, was at
ease,for he felt that be would not break
promw.s. Wee Willie Winkle betrayed
• special and unusual laterad in Mw
Allardyce, and, slowly revcleing round
that d young lady, was used
to regard her gravely with utwinking
ye. He woe trying to discover why
Coppy should have kissed her. She was
not half so nice as his own mother. On
the other hand, she was C.oppy's proper-
ty,
roperty, and would it time belong to him.
Therefore it behooved him to treat her
with as much respect as Coppy's bit
sword or shiny pistol.
The idea that he shared a great secret
in common with Guppy kept Wee W dlie
Winkle unusually virtuous for three
weeks. Then the Old Adam broke out,
and he made what he called a "camp-
fire" at the bottom of the garden. How
could he have foreseen that the flying
masks would have lighted the Colonel's
little hay -rick and consumed a week's
store for the horses 1 Sudden and swift
was the punishment -deprivation of the
good -madam bodge and, most sorrowful
of all, two days confinement to barrack.
-the house and veranda -complied with
the withdrawal of the light of his father'.
eonntetance.
He took the sentence like the man he
strove to be, drew himself op with a
quivering ntder-lip, saluted, and. mai
clear of the room, ran to weep bitterly
in bit nursery -called be him "my quer-
, ten." Coppy came In the afternoon and
attempted to console the culprit.
"I'm under .worse," mid Wee Wi!lie
Winkie mournfully, "and I didn't ought
to speak to you."
Very early the next morning he climb-
ed to the roof of the hoose -that was not
forbidden- -and beheld Mies Allardycs
going for a ride.
"Where are you going f' cried Wes
Willie Winkie.
"Across the river,' she answered,
and trotted forward.
Now the cantonment in which the
195th lay was bounded co the north by
a river -dry in winter. From his earli-
est years, Wee Willie Vtnkie bad been
forbidden to go acro.. the river,
and had noted that even Coppy-the
almc.t almighty Coppy-had never est
foot beyond tt. %Vee Willie Winkie
had once been read to. oat of a big
blue book. the history of the Princes
and the Goblins -a meet wonierfol tale
of a land where the Got:lins were always
warring with the children of men until
they were defeated by ooe Catch*. Ever
since that date it seemed to his that the
bare, black and purple hills across the
river were inhabited by Goblins, and, in
troth,every one had .aid that there lived
the Bad Men. Even in his own hoose the
lower halves of the windows werecovered
with green paper on account of the Bed
Men who mrgbt,if allowed clear riew,6re
into peaoe(ul drawing-rowse aod comfor-
table bed -roams. Certainly, beyond the
river, which was the end 0t all the Earth,
laved the Bad Men. And here was
Major Allardyce's big girl, Coppy's prop-
erty, preparing to venture into their
borders ! W hat would Coppy my if any-
thing Mppe.ed to her ? If the Gob-
lins nn off with her as they did with
Curdee's Primmer' 1 She mud at all
hoards be turned beck.
The house was still. Wee Willie 71ink-
is reflected for a moment on the very
terrible wrath 4 bis father : and thee -
broke his anent ! It was a oxime un-
speakable. The low sun threw his
shadow, very large and very black, on
the trim garden -path., oe he went down
to the trim garden -paths, as he went
down to the stables and ordered hie
pony It .eeaed to him in the hush 4
the dawn that all the big world had
been bidden to stand stip and look at
Wee Willie Winkie guilty of 'eerier.
The draws os handed lira his
mount, and, ,,.eines the one great sin
wade all uthen in.igot?cent, Wes Willie
Winkie said that he was going to ride
over to Coppy Sahib, aid went not at a
Piot-pars, capping ore the soft mould td
the lower -border&
The devastating creek of the piny's
feet was the last misdeed neat eat him
of from all sympathy of h.saanity. He
turned into the road, leaned forward,
end rode se fast as the pity meld pet
font so the groom' in the direction of
the river.
Ret the Neeliest 4 team -two ponies
can do little saint the iMO cgggst d s
- a
Weisel Mies ALmtdye• was far ahead'
had psmd through tie maps, beyuod
the palm -post, when all the guards were
aad int sweat was scattering
*1*.ittelmipldes of the river bed as Wee
Wilkie Winkle left the ehaemmeat and
British Iedi. babied bks. Stewed for-
ward and still flogm.g, Wee Willie Wie-
ld* .AMM laic Afghan territory, and
could jest its Mim Allardye. a Nock
.peek, beim* across the stosy plats.
The saw's of her weaderi.g was ample
enough. Coppy, 1s. • tone e( too h•atly-
smamd authority, had told her over
might that she must not ride out by the
river. hied she had goo* to prove her
owe spiert and teeth Coppy • Pesos.
Almcet at the foot of the inhospitable
hills Wes WUIh. Winkie mw the Wale,
bleeder and come down heavily. Mw
Allardyes struggled dear, bet her ankle
bad hese severely twisted, and she
could mot stand. Having thus dogma -
strafed her .pint, she wept oopio.dy,
and was surprised by the •pparitius of •
white, wide-eyed child in khaki, we a
n early spent pony.
"Are ou had!,badly banal"
shouted Wee Willie itkie, as soon as
'he was within range. "You didi't
ought to be here."
"I don't know," said Miss AUardyee
ruefully, ignoring the reproof. "Good
gracious, child, what are you dung
hewer
"Yee said yea was going maces ve
w aver,' pained Wee Willie Winkie,
throwing himself off hie posy. "And
nobody -nut even Coppy-must go
acwom ve sever, and I came after you
ever so herd, out you wouldn't crop and
n ow you've burled yourself, and Guppy
will be aspwy wiv me, and -I've betoken
my sweat! 1'vt bwoket my sweat!"
The tutu.* Colonel 4 the 195tb nit
down and sobbed. In spite of the pain
io bar ankle the girl was moved.
"Have you ridden all the way from
the cantonments, little man? What
for r.
"You belonged to Cnppy. Coppy
told me so!" wailed Wes Willa Winkle
disonnsolately. "I saw him kissing you,
and he said he was fonder rf you van
Bell or ve Butch* or me. And so 1
came. You must get op and come back.
You didn't ought to be here. Vu is a
bed place, and i'vebwokeo my awweet."
"I can't more, Winkle," said Miss
Alla:dyer, with a groan. "I've herr my
foot. What .hall I dor'
She showed • readiness to weep afresh,
which readied Wee Willie Winkle, who
had been brought op to bolters that
ten were the depth of unmanliness.
Still,.h.o one is as great • sipper as Wee
Willie Winkle, even a mat may be per-
mitted to break down.
"Winne," paid Miss Allardyce, "when
you're rested • little. ride back and tell
them to .end out smoothing to carry
in. back in. li hurts fearfully."
The child sat still for • little time and
Mus Allardyce clotted her eyes ; the
pain was Dearly making her faint. She
was roused by Wee Willie Wiokie tying
up the reins 0t hitt pony's neck and set-
ting it free with • vicious cut of his
whip that made it whicker. The little
animal headed toward the cantonments.
"Oh, Winkle ' What aro you do-
ing P'
"Hash "' said Wee Willie Wiokie.
"Vert s a man coming -ore of ve Bak
Men. I must stay wiv you. My favor
says a roan must always look after a girl.
Jack will go home, and yen vey'll come
and look for its. Vat's why I let him
Re-"
Not one man but two or three had ap-
peared from behind the rooks of the
hills, and the bear of Wee Willie Wiok-
ie uok within him, for just in this
money were the Goblins wont to steal
out and vex Cattle's soul. Thus had
they played it Cerlie'.$garden, he had
seen the picture, and thus had they
frightened the Princess's nurse. He
beard them talking to each other, ani
recognized with joy the bastard Pashto
that he had picked up fr>m ono 4 his
father's grooms lately dismissed. Peo-
ple who spoke that tongue could sot be
the Bad Men. They were only natives,
after all.
They came up to the bowld.rs on
which Miss Allardyoe'a hors had blun-
dered.
Then row from the rock Wee Willie
Winkle, child of the Dorain•et Race,
aged six and three-quarter., sod said
briefly and emphatically "Jac !" The
pony had crossed the river -bed. .
The men laughed, and laughter from
natives was the one thing Wes Wil-
lie Winkle could not tclerste. He asked
them .tut they wanted, and why they
did not depart. Other men with moat
evil fans and crooked -stocked guns
erept out of the shadows of the hills, till,
soon, Wes Willie Winkie was fees to
Gee with an audience mane twenty
strong, Mies Allerdyce screamed.
"Who aro your" said one of the men.
"I am the Colonel Sahib's son, and
my order is that you go at once, Yoe
black men are frightening the Miss
Sahib. One a you must run into ear,-
loseeta and take the news that the Miss
Sahib has hurt herself, and that the col-
osel's Dm is here with her."
"Put our feet into the trap r' was the •
laughing reply. "Hear this bn'...
speech !"•
"Say that I seat yoe-1, the onlomel's
son. They will give yo0 motley."
"What is the use of this talk 1 Take
od the child and the girl and we eau at
lest sek for the ransom. Oars are the
villages on the heights," mid a vette in
the background.
These were the Bed Mee -worse than
Gobiiam-.ad it needed all Wee Willie
Winkie'' training to prevent him
from bunting late tear. Bat he felt
that to cry before • native, exeeptiee
only bre mother's 'yah, would be as in-
famy greater than any soli■y. More-
over, be, a fatties Colossi 4 the 196th,
had that grim regiment at his hark.
"Are yo. going to tarry as away?"
said Wee Willie Wiallis, very bleached
and nneomfortabis
"Yea, my little Sahib Balnd.r," said
the tallest of the mem, "modest you after-
ward..•
"That is ebild's talk," said We.
Willie Winkie. "Mee do pot eat ossa"
♦ ysU of Weider iaterrept.d him,
bis he west en firmly, -"And if yes do
earry se away. i tell you that all my
regimes. will tem@ we is • da] and kill
you all without imams see. Who will
take h se.aniga be the Oland Weiler'
Ws Wil kl. • ailigtw •week.
Passe with thaw -ea wt' to the bol TORONTO TOPICA.
.►o could not yet matti.m
•ge his "." end The Di.ies.wtla Cleat
s te.aWwt As..eet
..N.' aright.. teibee r-ItaMl- ti...tpt..
A.ot►er maw joined the
crying : "0 foolish men ! Wba1 this
babe says is tree. He la the heart's
Wart of these white troupe, For the
sake 4 pees let them go both, for if `t
be take., the regimes' will break lease
at
sod gthe valley. Oer 'Wises are is
the valley, and we east mot enemaThat regiment are devils. They broke
Kited. Yer'a bread -hone with highs
w hen he tried to take the riles ; an' if
we touch ibis child toy will Ore Aad
rate aidpleader for a month, till lath-
ing remains. Better to seed a men beak
to take tbe mese... and get a reward.
ir God, my that this child is theod, sad
spas that they will sp. nose of ••, mot usr
w omen, dwe harm him."
It wM
as Dia Illation
sinal, the dismissed
g rooms ant the Camel, who made the
diversion, and as angry awl Lasted
es
diecua,n followed. We. Willie
Wink*,Agendumover MiesAllardyos,
waited the upshot. Surely his "rap -
meat," hie own "wegiment," would no.
desert him if they knew uI his extremity.
• s • e s s
The riderless pony brought the tame
to lir 195th, though there had been 000-
* tarlattos in the Colonel's household
for an hoar before. The little beast
Dame in through the parade -ground ie
front 4 the main barracks, where the
mea were gettlisg down to play Spoil -
five till the of ern000. Devlin, the Dolor
sergeant 4 B Company, glanced at the
empty while and tumbled through the
barrack-ruom.,kiekmg op each room sur-
ra1 as he passed. ' Up, ye beggars '
Thesis enmeshing happeeed to the
Colonel's sos, ' be shouted.
"He couldn't fall off ! Wrap me, 'e
couldn't fall off," 'blubbered •
drummer boy. "Go an' hunt &cruet the
river. He's over there if bis anywhere,
an' mate them Pathan. have gut 'is.
For the love o' Gawd don't look for 'im
in the nulla to ! Let's go over the riv-
.r.'
"There's cense in Mott yet," said
Devlin. "E Company, double out to
the river -.hasp !"
So E Company, in its shirt 'leers
mainly, doubled for dear life, and in the
rear toiled the perspiring sergeant, ad-
juring it to double yet faster. The ear-
tonmett was alive with the then of the
195th hunting for Wee Willie Winkie,
and the Colonel finally overtook E Com-
pany, far too exhausted to swear, strug-
gling in the pebbles of the river -bed.
Up the hill under which Wee Willie
Winker'• Bad Men were disceasing the
wisdom of carrying off the child and the
girl, • lookout fired two shots.
"What have 1 said 1" shouted Din Ma -
hennaed. 'There is the warning' The
paltois are out already and are coming
across the plain ! Get away ! Let us
not be Been with the ray !"
The men waited for an instant, and
then, as another shot was fired, withdrew
into the hills, Meetly as they had ap-
Nwegiment is coming, mid Wee
Willie Winkie confidently to Mia Aliso
dyes, "and it's all Wight. Don't cwy !"
He needed the advice himself, for ten
minutes later, when his father came op.
he was weeping bitterly with his head in
Miss Allardyce's lap.
And the men 4 the 195th carried him
home with shouts and rejoiciap ; and
wbo bad ridden • horse into •
fat ser, met him, and, to his intens dis-
gust, kissed bin openly in the presence
of the men.
But there was halm for his dignity.
His father assured hire that not only
would the breaking of arrest be condoned,
bot that the good conduct badge would
be restored as conn as big mother could
sew it on his 1 . . Alia Al-
lardyce had told the Colonel a story
that made him woad rat his erre.
'She belonged to you, Coppy," aid
Wee Willie Winkie, indicating Mia Al-
lardyoe with a grimy forefinger '•I
knew abet didn't ought to go MVO's ve
elver, and I knew ve wegiment would
mere to me if I art Jack home.
"You're a hem, Wiokie," said Cop-
py-"a pukka hero r
"I don't know what vat mean., gid
Wee Willie Winkie, "bat you museu't
call me Wiokie any no more. I'm Per-
cival Will'am Will'am.."
And in this wanner Wee Willie Win.
kie entered into his manbhod.
i laards Liniment fans iiphtberea.
Lain de I)esodo, • Rio de Janeiro
jeweller, has b,ugt:t from Dom Pedro,
for 260,000, the jewels of the deceased
Empress.
Mamas C. C. Militate' & Co.
(rata -I have used your MINARD'S
LINIMENT successfully in • serious
ease of cram to my family. In fact I
oonstder it a remedy no home sboeld be
without. J. F. Crean ranan.
Cape Island.
fin SA r Au. -That MINARD'S LiN-
IMENT is the standard liniment ,4 the
day, as it does just what It is repressed -
ed to do. 1m
Victor Hugo's granddaughter, Jeanne,
is • stylish and pretty blonde who was
the ideal of the great novelist en his d•
alining years,
Wore's este" theory.
For nearly twenty years this valuable
medicine has been largely teed fcr the
care of Coughs, Colds, Bronebitia,Croup,
Whoopee Cough, Ion of Voles, lend
Longa. Those who keen its value al-
ways i it to their 'resale,
knowing that Wileos'a Wild Cherry Dev-
er cheappoiata. The amain* is acid by
all druggists in white wrappers may. 1s
Momares's wife is expect with the
needle sad is ramous as • cook. Kbit is
glen r.ntarkabb for bar simple piety .end
for her chanties.
tesawti era—t ear ■
Cardinal Newman end to Mae seen. -
Wished performer ns the violin, mush be
the seandal of anise of hie mors melees
associates, who did not believe ie "Ad-
dling.' M Mee years, however, s weak-
ness in kis e.gw kept INm fa. wig
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Prince Edward Gland: Dr. Taylor, Charier**
lows; MortbweesTerritoris: Dr. L Yameedy,
Fere Mcleod. The reucistioe "coded to
mews neat year at Montreal
The Dusemiou millers' oomveslbs bald •
salt.' yesterday moodsg, TM Do-
E dam
o•taros Government will be asked to
change the law so tint the dour st.ad-
ards w111 be selected twice • year, the
board selecting tar to include teres
representatives for the aaoebtioe. 'This
officers for the manias year are: Presidia'.
J. C. Hay, Ltitowol, reelected: vice -prod -
dent. W. H. Meidram; secretary. David
Plewa., Brantford, reeket.ted; treasurer,
William Galbraith, Targets, re -elected -
The second day's receipts at the sxhibitioa
were $1174, •same $1010 co the eotr..p ed -
tag day last year. For the ant two days the
receipts are (41x1 more thea they were last
year.
Mr. Colin Macdougall, Q.C., of 8t nomas,
one of the cleverest criminal lawyers In th e
proviso, and • well-known crown prosecutor,
has bees retained by the Attorney -(lesser
as associate ousaes& with Mr. B, B. Osler,
(J.C., la the , . of Rex Birched.
charged wits the murder of Beewell
Mr. Macdougall was rinse! for the de-
fence
esfuse• in the celebrated Long Point mystery
whim Havelock /eolith was twice placed oe
fatal for the murder of Merrell Piggott,
whom dead body tied with ropes was washed
ashore •t Lome Foist Tbe of
this case cost the Ooverameot $r1M10, tbe
total expeus of the two trials, at both of
/which the jay disagreed, being over $Y6,000.
A novel forded os this awn will shortly be
homed. Mr. Macdougall was also award for
Albert Thomas, Ransom Turbo sot Maria
tltillwell, darted with the murder of the lat-
ter's busbaad, Louie Napoleue titiltw.il, wbo
was shot died is the womb neer Acacia an
New Year's Day, nen
The chip" of Loretto Abbey, Wellington -
place, was the scene yesterday morning of a
moat solemn eer'emooy. Eight young ladies,
e x of whom are Canadians, one as Amen -
can and the eighth • n•tiv. of Germany,
passed through the ceremony which is the
initiatory step towards .. , tbeir
entire lives to the service of the church sed
'docent's. The mew of the novices were:
lila. tong, (*,wood, In religion Mutat Mary
Inve.
hies Huhn, Cbieago, MAD. Mary Agro.
Miss Barry. Ottawa. titer Dorothea
Xis* Riordan. Guelph. Motor nary Paulette
nig Lacy. is•.nwe, teeter Nita Ota•
MNs Guarptr.it. Germany, skeeter nary Oar-
triode.
artriode.
ISM Farrelly. L ieds•y, Sister nary ILkbia►
Piss Pham, Waterton Maar retirees.
THE HISTORY OF A BEQUEST.
Swatch Mown Left for Ake Ld•eatle. .f
S+t.veo-ct.tmad by Georgia.
ATLANTA, 3s., klept 10. -TM state school
eonimisioosr and . 1 were in
consultation yesterday is regard to securing,
for purposes of negro edseaeon ia tole state,
a gum of mosey that bas leis is the Bank d
Iteglsed for many years is is • legacy. the
history of wbtcli is very singular. Atebi-
b.ld Melon, • Seotehmaa, was a pro -
perces planter in (Aathani early is the
present seater'. His sneer was known
se Gowrie, and on it be had • large
number . of sl•vea Ibis family m
Idootiand was stro.gly opposed to slavery.
Atter kb death and the death of his we and
heir, a certain utterer in the state weot to
his brother, Jobs McLean. John Mclean
died at Glasgow os July te, 1t196, leaving a will
that directed the apptecatioo of belt his inter-
est in his de eased brother's Georgia orate to
UM education of aggro slaves thereon or of
their offspring, ea soon as the laws of Georgia
should permit the docatfoe of the slave
population. Four promisees 8avameeh'mer-
chants were named as trustees under the
will, but declined the true or the ground
that the laws of Georgia prohibited the edo-
catioa d slava and the leque et was there-
fore void. The sum 'evolved was • little
over A: W,.
The heirs, in view of the legal condition of
the legacy w Georgia, attemped to secure
the mosey. but this mart. decided against
them. Accordingly the money Pus been in
charge of the Beak of England, and Wil-
liam Lloyd Garrison was melded of the
faces to the end that when . .
might Atlee under which the money wld
be applied according to the terms of the
will steppe could be takes for securing
poneenioe of it. After the etuan-
dpati m of all slaves la this country, a
son at (terrine, who bad found
among his father's papas a .
the matter, called this attention of the Geor-
gia authorities to the legacy. While the
Bank of England is anxious to pay over the
money to whoever Y legally entitled to
receive it, a letter to that effect having just
been received by tie school . of
Georgia, the difficulty is that the aegroes
of the Werke plentaHca have been scattered
by the war, and there le no way of finding
Chir heir Now the question is whether the
bequest, which bebeie bearbtf Interest ranee
ltltit, ca be 'cured and devoted to the gen-
eral education of ner.roea
A. nzpediu.0 to Ms lrarttk.
Qrassr, Sept. 10.-m• . 1s
sending out a party, composed chiefly d
Indians, and under the costed of Mr
Chador, to explore the nevoid timber
limits os the Upper Ottawa. The party d
explorers wtU go north to the waters at the
h ied et Modem Bea', ad it is expected that
mew and rich flails at timber will be der
covered. The , . .. will take about
three soothe
A 1107e,011e PNees as new York
New Tom, lap& 10. -The large fumy
goods store of M. Ktrnaky, Bros a Co., ex -
trading through the bl ork from 1:Bib to
1Mtheinet, West Third -avenue, wee gutted
by fire early thleevening. The los 1 room.
Is is believed the watchman employed in the
Mere wee horsed to death.
wan bra.. Dr. Talmage, $tu,ese.
Barn,g LT e, Rept. 10. -Rumen flap has
agreed to loan $I15,OOu for one year to OF
age Dr. Talmage to enemata, W sir
hbern•eM. Mr. Sage is soared by • game
antes company. Dr. Talmage has teshred
his life for 1ius,0o0, the pulley to be a partied
mem ity for the baa.
The (moll a.or tit
Cassnwoaq nevi M This loft rays
iiihry mateb here bodge was wog by
Srtrgemns Freak fereare et the ISM ng!
.rest
0005 AND ENDS.
Teemygoo wash Gwen Meredith to be
his seceesnu. —_
Temayese is randy seen without
pipe between his teeth.
T edeessMs aro rs oIMog
over the feet that Blase is we a tela]
abstainer.
The Marquis of ihdisbury, the premier
of Greet Brttai•, owes 20,1100 sans of
Mad is England.
Ttr. Sesdtaw.1'«peat..
The cobra destroys 1w life in the ag
peseta than the various forte of chole-
ra, cholera mottos., cholera iafaututn,
diarrhoea, dysentery, cramps, oohs, etc,
Mortality in Carads from thea .suss is
light, owing to the emend mea of Dr
Fowler's tetrad of Wild Strawberry,
w hisk is an uofsiling specific fur all bow-
el eusplaiuts. 2
Mia Alice Longfellow, daughter e1
the poet. is mid to be the best &zanier
photographer in Ansonia.
Tolstoi bas Dies children, the eldest of
whom, a pretty girl e( .ughtest. is a de-
noted disuiple of her father.
Herr Krupp, the great gun maoolso-
twee has • clan for contacting Use city
of Vienna with the Danube by canal.
A. old Mia mi-nii River pilot e.ys
that " Mark Twai. ' wee the Moat
white mac be ever mw in a pilot house.
• severe attack.
1 never felt better in my life than "see
L need Burdock Blood Bitters. I bed •
seven bilious attack, I meld sot set for
days and was unable to work. One bot-
tle cured me. For bilious ills see
it. B. B. Josie M. Rugal let, Tan,
Opt. fl
John Dillon, the fumes Irish agitator,
bas a brother who is an obscure lawyer
no • little country town near Denver.
General Lew W'sllaoe, the author of
"Bea Har," writes a eat, and neat
hand 'Muth is as clear and legible as
copper -plate.
ss m Pers!.
Lives of children are often endangered
by sudden and violent attacks of cholera,
cholera moats.. durrb,ra, dysentery,
and bowel oomplaimts. A reasonable and
serrata precaution is to keep Dr Fowler's
Eztraet of Wild Strawberry •!away at
bead. 2
Mrs John A. Logan is oat* as adept
with carpenters' tools, and can pat op •
shelf or build a cupboard almost as skil-
fully as if she had learned the trade.
c mosey tarso.,
To THE ODITOs .- Please inform your
reeders that I lave • positive remedy
for the above nested drama. By it'
timely use thoaesmde of hopeless res.
have hese ly cured. I shall
glad tc seed two bottles of my remedy
rats to any of your readers who have
ennsomptian if they will seed me their
Express ■rd P.O. address..
Reep.rtfully, Da T. A. Stocrit,
ly 164 W. Adelaide st., Teresto, Oat.
If by any misebases Queen Victoria
should loss her royal rank Abe wield
.imply be Mrs Wettit, that being the
family Mame of her royal sponse.
Faso. .M renes.
Thousands of people here been cored
and thousands will he cored by the rase
of Bsrdork Blood Bitters, the bee reme-
dy for Whiteness. dyspepsia, mastica-
tion, bed blood, het appetite, etc. Mil-
lions of bottles have been sold and all
have given satisfaction. y
Genrge M. Pullman, the millionaire
palace car manufacturer, is said to work
ten hours each day looking after its
enormous business interests.
To avoid arching cold, many plans
have been suggested. Probably if one
never went anywhere or did anything
not o1 the amid routine of WO, they
would be free from matey of the ailments
that fleck is heir to, bat this is not •
satisfactory solution of .he question.
Feople west have recreation and enjoy•
meat, and frequently catch cold in the
pursuit of them. Wilson's Wild Cherry
will care • Cough or Cold in the .hott-
est tearable time, and by ite tonic effects,
strengthen and invigorate the .y.tem et
the sen time. Sold by all druggiels
in .bite 'nippers.
lm
Mr Balfour, the chief secretary fort
Ireleed, is as radar of
American newspaper., and recently said:
"I Has the snap of the American wtit-
Threes U.lm.n. Otis.e reals. etc
The P of Spokane recent-
ly sold their church to a ors who at once
started a minnn in the basement, and
row therelis seen •,bear sign on the corn er
of • fine *truelove with a tall steeple
0e it.
Felicia Holt, a magazine writer,q.oftle
a little girl as waking bee mother '•if she
might take off her drew and play in her
nederelabes like ethos ladies did on
the .Week." Mia Holt is opposed to
bathing.
Teat Rama. Mee•evara 5. W.T.
Writing from this fertile diarist, Mr
0 F Clark say • "I bad • seven attack
of diarrhoea, bot wt' goiekly eared W
going Dr Powle,'s Rat, et d Wild
Strawberry. 2
Is him private etude Lewd Randolph
Ohureheil has on the • Sae
portrait '4 his dearest .-lir Glad -
storm. iedy Randolph told s trisect that
he pet it chare out of "pan w..edassa."
limare's it/tlieeoe M ata. nest
Marion Harland bee me•sered • lase'
with lhimbsb Russet Phelps ns the low
w eek eer It mea�tins Before IM battle
bed /skated that all the greed as
lana. of Ws pesetas will he y