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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-11-29, Page 7ANNEX &TWIT, Some Bend Facts and Whores for noel° sane At the baequat of the 5:b, 6th, 7th and noh Patriots Dental S cletiee ot the State of New York, held in Syria:Ise recently, when 250, members from ati parts of the State at- tended, including many ladies, severeljedges and clergymen, Dm. Willmott, Crew, Re- berta and Seagrove, of Toronto, aud De. Beers, of Montreal, were present. lam able, through the courteey a M. R. L. Spearman, shorthand reporter, fo send 57°e• D. Beers' rePlY to the strangely worded toast, "Pro- feseional Annexetiee." Dr.. 'Seem evoke as follows; Mr. Chaiemen, Ledles and Gentle. inen,—I muse confese to A good deal of ezn. berrasennaut in replying to a too Weicle, a intended to betroth profess:Ong end politica, Inn I have been, specially asked to do no by the atairmau, and, if I should offend, anyone, as 1 Waist aay exactly what I thinn, I cae oily offer to settle on the epee by ieviting mem as the bzys say, to " come out it the alley fe I be naitho the preenteption nor tne tenity to imagine that I am able to do justio to the penouat arid professiouel courtesieawbiqb Doctor Jonathan hi always leeetowed open Ida Cenadian friends, as well as to the mag- nineent igneranee—eometimes illmatere— whicia Senater Jonetaan hes recently lowish - ed upou his Canadian tom Bat I can more yea ;bet not even the professional liare who supply the NOW York Herein with Canada:A news, or the vvily politicianit who eat forleed lightning far breakfast suad dynamite for dizzier; uot even the insane malice of men who hate Canada, as they may hate Cypras, bentuo it boa to laritaio ; nee even thie eau leesen the ediniration Canadians awe fear the may noble and geeeeoue trate of eharecto winch belong to their Ameriean eSiteLnS 1WA ore 1 speak, too, tor nln brethreo fora loyel Torente, when I say tbat we have UN) Olken been under deep pro. feselonan obligati:elm: to the kited oature of the comae we Kill, from cuatorn, cal "nrather," tot to know that, however we differ pelitieelly, yoo itegreee 01.111, NATIONAL OoNViorIoIii, as yon wiah your Own respected ; and time aou ehoom to hit at oat herd, yeti have enough of EOM fair play to teati A drub. Meg been, and to allow the pas:ability of Canadianloving and defending the fettle and good name of the Don, quite es much ea you love aael delead that of your Republie, No one mare thou loyal Atari. ;wee would dopiest the poltr000 who cereina petriotilen in Ma poeiree ; the dieloyelty of the pelitlial permit* win) would make patriotism a bailee el orda, anal dollarthe chief mid of a people ; intlienere who Wee out seceetion. or aemexetion wbon they fail to get their peliticel cameo or eeeenheta en - Arleen ; men evitese huoger for notoriety and power la a fever of their exietence, 1, am mire that yon could have nothing but onto:mil for auy free pope who immure their allegience purely by cemmercial atond. 'nein and who, foriog to fao the dial ;unto which meek every natiou, tura peddlexe in steed of protectors a their national birth- right Junas you had end have your:croak- era and cowards we have our, but, kfr. Chairmen, Canada is not for Sale! There have been prophets line Goldwia Smith eince the daya ef Eleseboth who have prediete4 England% deoliue with in their time, but all the colonial greatnese of Eugland has been developed Mace the time ot Eliztheth. We have, cie yoa leave, bitter pawns= in the prow and In politics 'he delight te foul their own neat, who revel in the rain that deetroys the crepe, and who sincerely believe they can ohmage the climate if they could obauge the (lov uneent.W have a few a then arise - eared of ecenety who aesume to possess a monopoly of foreeighte and who, like Cana Celigula, thiuk the world would hem: been better made could they beve been consulted. But these people no more ropreaent the con. vietions of Cenadians than 0. Dueovan Bona or your firweating politiciens and mars repreaent dome of true Amerions. I have no desire to hut t anybody'a feeling!: here, but I hope I may be allowed to em, smoothies to remove the infatuation too prevalent in the State that ownotte eovons eeosztoeton. St ere we to judge you as you judge ue—by the vaporing of the ormikere, what value could we put upon your union, and would we not feel like agreeing with Ina:titer Sohn son, who be his "Short History of the War of Swear:ion," jot published in Boston, thinks he sees in certain national °locuni. atances the threatening elements of a ascend civil war! For years before the lest civil war you had fire.eaters whose arrogance and vanity knew no hounals ; who were advis ed by the Canadian press to study the ele- ments of discord in the South instead of hankering or new onea lathe North. It e a juat the name when years: before that Georgia and Carolina appealed to arine and defied the general Government. Surely two threatened disruptions and one terrible civil war in the history of the country should be erough. But last Foneth of July I watt near enough the "Reunion of the North and South" on the battlefield of Gettysburg, to see the ex -Confederates wearing the starred and barred badge, 'with the inscription upon it, 'That was the fin of treason and rebel- lion in 1861, and it is the fin of treason and and rebellion in 1888 " I read the protest of General Wagner, General Gobin and the QuartermaetenGeneial of the Grand army of the Republic egainat the gush nd glorification of rebel:3 because they had been rebels. I heard one cfficer boast het Southern privateers had destroyed $50a,000,000 of ,your propert add had driven a quarter of a million tons of your shipping to make trassfer to the British flag. I heard another gloat over the fact that they had nearly captured Philadelphia. I heard scores deolare that they had not been beaten but starved. Reflecting upon all this and hearing at this very hour the discordant echoes from that quarter; it strikes me that if Senators like Mr. Blaine are sincere in their effusive professions' of patriotism, they could find a good deal to monopolize their genius down there in Dixie without meddl- ing in the panics or the future of Canada. Canada winos its own bushman and does not worry itself over yours, though you have coddled and dry•nursed her enemies; and when be was at peace with you, al- lowed a horde of your cinema. to invade her. Frankly, I may say that while I believe Canada RAS IntRN A FAIR NRIGHBoR, too often she had not found her cousin one, If for once in the Treaty of Washington, re. membering Maine, Oregon and San uan, she did not let your diplomatista. get the better of her, she felt that she had green you at least a reasonable quid pro quo. During the civil war we allowed youn armed troops to cronefrom Detroit to Niagara on Canadian territory on the Great Western railway but during the Red River rebellion a 1869, your Government refused leave to one of our vessels to go up the Sault Ste, Marie canal, and arms and ammunition were transhippsd at coneiderehle delay. When the St. Albans: raiders, unknown to un entered your terri- tory kern Canada, your Government was asked for ita bill of damages and it was paid. When the Alabama claim was presented, It was paid so wen that, yore altar every possible plain wste Settled, your Gevern- raent rotates a large balance which, should have been reitunded to Jeritatn ' Whatebout the damages done to Canada in Canada by your oitiz ma during„the Fenian raid's, meat of tlutm wearing the uniform of brain:hes of your national. troops? Not a cent bait been paid. You expiated Canada to know that a few ,aoiet and atragglieg Seutherners in- tended to raid SO. Albans; you thought 014 England ehould have known that a. solitary eruieer intended leaving one of her porta to prey npen your commerce, But what n splendid display of reaprocal on- aistency, that' thew:snide of arm,ed men should, Openly moster and drill in your °Met eines for months before; openly occupy your border towns and villages, and attempt to invade us, and your Government oozeparativoly oblivious 1 In the fee': of tose facts, it is not easy to swellow the state. tante or believe it the honesty of nubile meet nem tar et the exactions and encroach- inenta of a people af 6,000,000 upon a people of 60,000.000. WADS, OANNoT BE nORIUSEA or foreed into union with such exec:mini of Politioel hypocrisy, There was a time, tweray neve ago, who:. we were diseontent- ed provinces; when Canada proper eon - tented, only 370,48S square miles ; when we had few railwaya ; vetien stagnetion seemed to mark us; when we bad no winter outlet of our own to the aea; wimie our great Nertinwest was 4 great noknowa. Eon then teroexetion was unpopular. There bad not maga& been accomplished then by Cenellan Oates:inn to mane their rivelnenvious, and yeor own StateaMeSQlid not elream that we coold buil4 a eilwan to eft:meet the Meet. time and the eld provinces, or that With a populatiOn ef Only 6.000.00O3, te would dare to epan the emitioent with auether, a work not itecomplithea by the States until they 1:ad .50,000,01X1. But eau you be deceived into the belief that eanfederated Canada uow to sale, When, enlee Cente3eranlnnt tweney years ago, our revenue of oneolidat- ed fond hes iroMensely loomed ; when oar shipping and ita tottage baa more than dotibled—_-young Canna etentling fifth ma the not of natione ; having more veettle than old /some, Settee, Italy, Russia ; when the asseta of our ohertered banks, the velue of our imports, the Wein of our exports tell a story of our marvellous progress ; whoa, in - steed of•aboat 2,000 miles of railwey in 1867 we have /low over 14 000, giving usa. greater length of Milner tban any other perof the Empire, exeeptog the Visited Kingdom and Wei; when the Cenadian lamina railway hes eeteblithed &nine eta:mare betveeiniVentea- vr and liong Keug and Jepen, etnlogrgroat Ceuadien line bee bezome elf finperiat un perteito ; when WO have developeet our Nem- boustible fisherice, thenke to your ettroge. non of the Reaproeity Trolly, so that we have 75,00 baray men eailleg our venal% and otherwint eugageel in the bizeinees, and for 1S87we nettle those fitheno at 000,000 I Can you wonder that eaters - time, as a serious subject, has received it% nomlend that in spite of the intoxion• lion of aeratorial meat on the one aide, and the croaking of enniconteota end politi- cal tramps on the other, Canada. le Joyal to the Mother Country, from whose Wait old loins both of us arrow ? Confederated Can - oda, respected Canada, loyal Canada., pro- greseive Canada le a personal and political loult to the sorehead parties who opposed Confederetion, and who would welcome ANNEXATION, To TRICKSY on =NM wore we noicribors, or rejoice even at anni- hilation rather than livo the agonizing life of eeeing their propoota and predictions de- strdycl. There were millions of your own cinema glad to do their worst to dismember your union; there were thousands who gave their lives to wreok the Republic that their own State interests migbt be promot. ed. Yet when b few obscure creaks: in Cenada deolare in fever of annexation, you think they apeak the sentiment of a sobei people who do not find it neceesary to in- dulge in the spectacular or the rhetorical th • u rimy see and hear the truth. You to ignore the treaeon of many a ro newspaper to -day as you did ty-five years ago, and you exalt as go. pal the partisans of the, Canadian press, who are incapable of telling the trutb. Personally and profeamonally, I am sure tiny dentist who vieita you forgets he is -not an American, and I am sure we try to make Arnerioane coming to Canida forget they aro not Canadians. You have big and hospitable hearts that were intended for hospitality and not for quarrel. Personally and even commercially we can find so many pante of common agreement that we should overlook the few where wo must agree to differ. Politically, I realiss I am a foreign. er here the moment 1 croas the line. I am at home when I land at Livorpose, at Glas- gow, at Dublin at Berniuda, Now nouth Wales, Victoria:Queensland, New Guinea, Jamaica, Berbedoes or Trinidad. Politoall y I Moro a share in, and am proud of, the *miens old flag veinal waves over New Zealand, Australia, Gibraltar, Malta, Hong Kong, West Africa, Ceylon, St. Helena, Natal, British Honduras, Dottie:ea, the Bahamas, Grenada, Barbadoes , India. England is an old and apt master in an- nexation. Since she lost the thirteen col- onies here she has annexed colonies, far greater in area and population, of far more vane to her than if they were joined to her three kingdoms, while Spain, Portu- gal, Holland and France have lost theirs, and there is little or nothing left for any other nation to annex. I need no other political passport to the rights of a British subject, and the eitizsn of a great realm, comprising 65 territories and islands, than my Canadian birthright. I do upt measure my national boundary from the Atlantic to the. Pacific, but from the Pacific to the Carilmban. Soa. uNDER THE RFIRIN O irtaToRIA3' no Canaan* need be athamed to belong to an Empire which embraces a fifth' of the habitable globe, and o know, theh hie own Dominion forme nearly a half of the whole ; an Empire five times as large as that which was under Darius; four ' tithes the dize of that under ancient, Rome ; sixteen; times greater than France; 40 timen 'greeter than United Germany;'three times larger than the United ntates, Australia alone nearly as big as the States ; India tiorle eel million and a quarter of square *eke ; Cenada, 600,000 square miles larger than the States, without Alaska and 18,000 rquare nines larger with it in Empire nearly„9,000,0.00 of square miles, svith'a, population of 310,- 000,000. Sharers in such a realm,; heirs to such vast and varied privileges, Canadians are not for sale. Political annexation meet then remain ti bug•a-boo for dieappointed politicians on our side to play with, and a bubble for certain Senatore on this side to blow to decoy their innocent aanatios st home. But there is an annexation we favor, that of brotherly friandshiel and political good -will. You have 54,000,000 the inert of us. Are you the Goliath afraid of Canada as a political ,payid ? Canada has been a good neighbor. When , Lip - coin and Garfield died, ethe Dominion was in mourning. 'Whenever any ot, your memonwar come lot° our porta, the citizen rejoice' and give their men the hoepitali- ties ofthb Mina There are constant re- ciprocity treaties being made every elay In the years between us en the altar elf Hymen. At many of our banquets the toot of the President follows that; to the Queen, .at most of our public gatherings your flag en- twines ours. From moat of oar pulpits proyera are offered for your ruler as well as for ours. That is the sort of alliance we do more than yea do to promote. We want, too, fair commercial reaprocity, but we shell not take commercial union for it, or beta our newts or our knee. for either. Whatever betides, we can both be loyal to our own political countries:; we can both be fair, even, to our Own national and noterat prejudieste, and while Canadtana may neigh - berm pray God blese the Republic," may you not in an friendly a awn reciprocate with "God save the Queen.' Mastery Over Pear, It would be latsresting to 141114W how many emerageous people are really apprehensive and cowardly at heart, Many a recklessly brave soldier hes confessed that he went to battle quaking with a Leer puhaps as over- whelmlog AS that which prompted the deserter to flight. The great: difference be. tween them was that of moral fibre. The one was of stuff stern enough to ensure his fidelity ; the other was craven, body and /tool, Nigro hardihood of feeling is simply an affair of the nerves. A Romeo may be en- dowed with it, or he may not, and 000se- queenly Ma only remensibility liea in nobil- ity of sectisto, A lady Woo lied preserved an sibeaute calmneass of deniesoor during eoight of greet danger at eea, wee eiterwarda vomplintented en her courage, "Did 1 reeny behave well 1" she asked, in Some allIproe, 4' Like a herolue. When those hysterieel women screamed, son didn't cpen yoga rips, conforteale." "I am glad," she replied, with 4 Sigh of relief. I wee so benne myeell with fear, that you weelelet sterpriee me if you said I screamed, too. 1 aotually looked in the Om the first thing tome mooing, ta see if my hair had turned white," "Bat how did you manage to conger:, your fear ?" 44 Oh, 1 kept aaying to myself, Remem- ber, you are net to make a fuss.' I set my laud ea that," "What sort of a, man makes tbe breveet soldier'," Weed some otie of an old officer whe bad often boo tried by danger and wee never found wenting. "Wad," he responded, after Woe tbougbt, "1 ellould say it ie the man wbo the steadiest grip on himself." Very few people, indeed, have a. suffielent ly high estimate of the power of mind ver meter, in momenta of danger. A young woman—one of the modexee young womea who do not heaitate to expresa an °pink:a—does not think that boys aro, by metre, more courageous theta girls. For ehe earl: "It is a reognixed tradition that men are to be brave, and so, when they aro afraid, they say nothing about it, Women may aeroan without forfeiting her good name; therefore she allowe herself that privilege." Thie youngenhiloophern logio iney be de. fiettive, but it points to the very evident feet then while anyoao may be conscious of tore it is only the oveard who allows ie to obtain the anatory of hie adieus. An luelmad. Winter, By- November the 'winter had begun with all its rigor, and taro storms :swept over land and over the sea, wletch lost its bine and became dull and dark. One by one the ships loft the harbor of Reykeavik ; then the last mail.aleip 'wale i, and Iceland was oh off until spring from a:ammonia:Oen wit!: the outtide world. Although the climate of -Smith Icelaud is cold, the winter is ecerooly what one would be led te expeot from the tnorthern situation. There is not much adow. A few inches usually lay upon the ground, crap and hard, bue not the piled up drifts of a Now Engle:ad winter. „Aceordingly it wee possible to make home back excan alone to the farms round about, and to see the whiter life of the peopie in the country. This eeason for the Icelander is a time of comparative rest. As teething can be done abroad he staya of necoosity at home, aut his life is no mere hibernation. He sleeve a great deal, for.his house is insufficiently lighted and the nights are tong, bub by day- light he has oceupetions enough. He has boats to build and oars to tempi; saddles and harnees to make and to mend; or be sorts thi wool which the weaned apin into yarn and then knit into stockings, or weave into coarse home -spun or elute', like" wad mal" A busy sound of whirring wheeis often greeta the ear when you enter the farmhouse, and you find the women al at work tit one -end • pf the long room. Another Outy devolves on the heads of the household at isoltiten farms. There are good elementary 'schools in many places throughout the island, but in remote dis tricts the children must be taught at home. In summer the time is oceupied with out of -door work, nut in the comparatively ide days of winter the father, or not ininequent ly the mothee, tochenthe children of either sex ,the common branches. Iceland is per haps the best educated community on the Mee of the earth; throughout the length and breadth of the land there is tobody who cannot read and write, and the genera knowledge ot some of these obscure fisher man -farmers is sometimes well nigh ap palling. — [William H. Carpenter in the A FEW ODD HUTS. .• Gold was first opined in Christendom in 1320. , The oldest and largest tree in the world is a chesnut near the foot' of Mount Etna. The circumference ofenew main, trunk is 212 feet. An English historical Manual says Presi- dent Lincoln was,shot la a theatre in Bs - ton. A' 'Chester policeman etio undertook to confiscate a flock of geese which he found running at large, was fiercely attacked by one of the number—a gander—and finc,Ily lied, leaving the pugnacious bird and its companions to roam at will. The are only three ealamanders in this country, but even three have been a large enough number to prove the falsity of the ole belief that salamanders live in the fire. Their diet consists pf worms and jellyfish. A8 OWtrallg:"D StrorF40M4DdsonsneitP ill1:Yrlow ell's Murder. Extraordinary iot.erest has been aroused I Montreal by the develepmeuts in th Powell murder triel. The story, as outline by the detectives, sounds like the plot of romance In . 1June set the community of Denville litgrfiellio(Tienthal' null -pond aedt tohneet pallostronei:rigtbh dead Maly of Min: Lilly Powell, the hand Lame clanoleter of the law. Dr, Powell, Congregational minister residing at Sher broke. An investigation was held and tie testimony Showed thet the girt bee userneng e•dnliYeboregoenamn-drFacrreet &Ilene and a woman to whom the latter was paying Attentions, had been nrilrieletod wit'l Lilly nnwell, and the night before the latter's' body was found tbe four had attended, a Sadvation Army cote bonen just outside of D Toe Allem and the women. left Linea about 10 o'clock P.irmailaLa wheontitrhaofmtee;w4t.d8, ou Murphy, driving post an old mill, hsard a smothered cry arid soniething that sounded like 4 struggle in the bonen:. He celled out, ask- ing if anything was wrong and 'vita was the matter. Receiving no reply he went on to his hese, about 1,000 feet further on. Another villager mimed O'Brien also heard the mine and saw A Also resembling Fred Allen on the mill road at 11 p, in., walking towards izia hottse, next day Lilly's body was found in tb.e mill -pond, lyieg face downward in 'WO feet of water, near the shore. Tne Intshert near the pond had Kan trampled down, and there was a well -defied trail, from the road to the pond that morn:iced tne police that the uefenteeete girl had bon ohoked on the edge ef the bushea ead then dragged, to the pond where elm in:abaci under water until dead, There were men's fooeprinta in the ground near the body of the girl, and they wore peculiarly like ehe goloe of the. boots worn by George Allen An Impending Danger, •It is right and proper for the American editor to impart to the general such o items of news as may be conducive to its e haPPleesa, " d The reader should be tad when he may a change his fiennebs without iocurriag the danger of having to (Ion a subsequent ampliague. He should be warneo in Vino not to inhale the loaded cucumber, which o goeth about like a roaring lion seeking by , weono, it may be devoured. a It is to the newspaper that the public , ahead look for odvice for whom not to vote, and how often , le the provinoe of tine newspaper to give the publio rellenle inforneetioo at what drug !store to procure the proper antidote, if he a arafferiog frora a digrified liver. A dignifien liver le one that has boome high- toned, and refuse* to work. a•word, while there le no kind. of use- ful inform:01q that should be 'withheld from the puddle, yet we do not think that the editor Should tamper with the planetary The Panne were arretted and a prelimin- ary hearing ba 1, at shall Itred Allele and tne woman provel indisputably that they were riot near the scone A5 the time Murphy heard the erns. Gsorge Allen proved an alibi by the teatimony et the murdered girla father, Dr. Pool!, who *midfield that he was convening with George at the time the noise of the struggle was heard by 0 l3rien, All the prisoners were diaeharged mid the Meyers of Denville and Sherbrooke each offered $1,000 reward for the neurderern ap. preheassion. Deteetivea from Montreal were put upon the cage and the result was that two woke ago George Allen and the WOulan ware ro-ar. rested aud, oz, the evidence prodeced before the Goma Jary, were indicted for the murder of Lilly Powell, A Orate wetek woe:also see over the father of the murdered girL The trial began ou Thursday, but no eva dance directly coneeetiug the Allenwith the ease wee adduced until Seturclay mom- ing, when Mrs. Schenevin, a neighbor of the Powella at Sherbrooke,. was put upon the atanel, She was asked If Gorge Allen hael gad anything to her about Lilly before the latter was murdered, " Yes," oho anawered, 4* two days before oho was foutunin the mill -pond, George: toil me that Dr, Pinvell had given 4 men $300 to take care of Lilly. 1 Bald to him: 444 You don't meen by that that the money was given to the man to kill Lilly?' "He anewered : 'Of course I do. Whet do you suppose it would be for '1'" Sehenevin teetifien that she tried to ate Lilly and toll her, but the girl had gone to Danville. Two days ,afterwards body wan found in the mill.ponci. The triaa was here adjourned and George Allele was remanded. The police were else thstruoted to keep the Rev. D. Powell from leaving Sherbrooke, and an nanstigation wee begun. Dr. Powell. it was learned, came to this country from Ragland twenty years ago, with e pretty wife, two small children and a, re- putation for great eloquence in the pulpit. fle beceme pater of an elpiscopal church at Shirbrooke and won grew famous for hie fine sermons. His sou Caarlie gam up, and his daughter, biller modest way, was the admired of all the male perishioners. Foal years after hie arrival here Dr. Poweirs wife died and left her fortune of $60,0e0 to her eon and daughter, to be held in trust until they became of age. rhe father was made the trustee. Everything went on smoothly, apparently, in the Powell family except for a few months flve years ago when some local exeitement was cenaerl by the fact that Dr. Powell experienced a change of faith and becune a Congregationalist, and partly paid for a new church structure, in which he preached the new doctrine. In Angina 1883, Charley's twenty-first birthday was to have occurred. On Dominion Day, July 1, 1883, the Rev. Dr. Powell and Charley want out on the river St. Fradeis for a row. Do 'Powell returned at dusk, appar- ently half crazy and unable to tell the muse of his excitement until the next morning, when he explained that Charley, in attemp. ting to pass from one end of the boat to tha other, had lost his balance, fallen overlioard, and before his father could give him any help had drowned. Charley's body was found the next day, an inquest was held, a verdict of accidental death rendered and a large funeral had, the young mains father himself preach- ing the funeral eernion;breaking down sever- al times and giving other evidences of emo- tion, O Lilly Powell would have been twenty-one years of age on the 2.1 of Septemben last. She then would have come into possession of property thae ought to have been worth $35,- 000 allowing Inc the accumulation of fifteen years. Two weeks befcre she went to the Salvation Armymeeting, in which work she was very ethusiastic, the Rev. Dr, Powell called upon the Aliens and engaged board Inc his daughter during july and August. The footprints in the gravel bottom of the millpond have been compared with a pair ef George Allen's boots, and the latter were found to fit the impressions exactly. The detectives declare that they on prove Allen and the woman to have been accomplices in the murder of Lilly. A week before Allen was taken into cus- tody this last time there was a rumor that he was to be arrested. Discussing it, he made the remark : "11 I am ea -rested for doing away with Lilly and anything serious comes of it, I will have something to say that will upset a good many high-toned people in this part of the country." Efforts are now being made to induce Allen to explain this remelt, but he remains Obdurate in hii: denial of any knowledge of the murder. ' Powell has said nothing to anybody. He ositively refuses to be interviewed, remain - ng secluded in his house. His servants say e is writing all the time and has his meals brought to his room. _.—nesseneeenevenase.-----. Peaception of Character—This is indicat- ed bk, a long, high nose at the lower end or lip. Tins faculty is very useful, if not in- dispensable, to a judge in the exeroiees of the functions of his office. Trained fleas are exhibited from time to P time. A healthy flea will cover 200 times i its own length at one jump. They are very b plucky fighters, and will stand on their hind legs and strike at one another till they lose legseantennve andlifee A sin* flee, halt been known to draw a hitter eannen twenty-four times its own weight, and to sheer no fear ab the discharge of gunpowder from the cannon. , system and prealut that the earth wilt be treated like an offensive partisan. For instance, articles: hare been going the routels of the prase to the effect that the earth is gradually beoomino cooler, and that in a alert time all the lower brute creation —inoludiug, of course the human rage,— would be destroyed by tbe cpId. Tease predictions have often brooght on the hotteat kind of 4 mutineer, and, the people have euffezed from prickly heat and tlisap- pointosent in consequeno. Oa other occasioas, the proaa has warmed the publio that the picose was gettitig hotter, and sane predictions lmye usually been followed by meld waves that made the reedere howl with We ache, aud ruined the trade in auntiner clothing, Thie Ore of thing rieetrona tbe aSafileaea WIlloh the people repoito in the press, and le Oaloulated to leseeu its influence for pod. People amply say that an editor is little' better than 4 Ilan 441St now, for instance, there is an en troaomicel article going the roande of the press to the effeet that the nubile abould be reedy te dodge, as a aster known to the police by the neater of Arettirue, is 4 bed, feline and is heeding that way, seen unleo 110 a captered by gig U. /5T #0011,3 and Put Wok oo the reservation be will make it lively for everything that wore hair when he atrikea the white settlements, This is sthat Framer evictor opt ; "The result at the observatiou o thole doings, rootlet, made at, the Greeewleh obeervetoree, numbering 400 and exteudieg over a period of See MOnthe, ie the elver eetabliehmene of theater's move, ment toward, the tenth head on at the ratei of something more then 50 miles 4 szeond, 3.005 ratio a minute, 180.010 miles an hour, and 4,320,040 miles a Ae we have already intimated, we daprc- euro aeuaetionaiero. Prof. Praetor and 1 the other star inspectors may under- stand their basinese, bob the public baa been fooled so often that embody se going to pay pew rent and lead an upright life on such encouragement as le eeetained 13 ehe above quoted paragraph. May not Areturus' high rate of speed be accounted for by the suppositien that he being puraued by a hornet, or A deputy sheriff, or Mo. Arcturus ? May he not be some celestial beat gambler who having heard about Canada, is anxious to join the American colony at Taranto We have casually examined Antares through a quart telescope with the stopper out, and eau see no cause for alarm. We believe that as soon as Arcturus sees that wo aro aloe going to aware worth a eente he will discover thee his motion is orbital. For a time be will appear stationary, and then reeedo with. his tail ()oiled up between his hind legs. At any rate, we will not lee Arcturus get the drop on the reading public:. We attall continue our ebservatione from time to time, with a teleactope of increased magni. tude, and if Nye ups the but of a pistol pro. truding from beneath the honzontaa coat tail of the heavenly visitor, we shall neaue an exto in time for regular aubacribere to load their shotguns, Going ROMs From the Leann. Young Thoologiae—" Miss Buxom, aro you not oppreased with a sense of your owt insignia -ono witen you rtazo up into the blue vault above us, and thiuk of the rayriede of whirling worlds that enompass this: little globe of ours? And when you dwell ou tne conaiderationa of eternity,. and m the infinity of apace, do you not ,expeence an unaceountable yearning for more know- ledge, greater capseity of intellect, and a clearer compreheneion of those sublime me:an:ries in the spiritual and material uni- verse, which all our moat earnest mental efforts so miserably fail to penetrate ?" Mies Re—" Well, no, Mr, Surplice. I have not been oppressed. with a sense of my own insignificanee since I was weighed at Uncle Fred's store last month; and I never experience unconquerable yearnings' ex- cept when dinner is late." As Bad as a Phonograph. "Matilda," fervently exclaimed the levee torn youth, "I cam no longer endure this suspense and uncertainty. I must know my fate this night. For months I have carried your image in my heart. Yon have been first in my waking thoughts, last in the rev- eries that have filled my midnight vigils, and your lovely lane has been ever present in my restless dresans when sleep has kindly sought to ease the burden that oppressed me, You have been the—the--"" The lode star 61 your existence and the Ultinza Thule of all your hopes, Mr. Clug- stone," suggested Matilda, observing that the young man hesitated. "Why how did you know what I was going to say he demanded in astonishment, "I got it from Lulu Bilderback andMary Jane Wheelhouee,' replied Matilda; it's the same thing you eaid to them. I can repeat the.whole speech, Mr. Clugstone." Using Beery Precaution. "Your honor," said an angry -looking °Mem as he maie his way into the private office of the police magistrate, "1 went to ax yez wan question." • What is that d" "If I woz to go down an' hit Idicky Dam on the head wid a shiUalee how much would it cost me?" . "Nob less that twenty dollars, you may be sure." " Well, there's wpm thing more I'd loike to know." " What is it ?" "11 Ord throw in an extra tin dollars would yez mind 'sending a pleecerhan along wid me to tind to the matter himself? As long as Oi'm payin' for. thenob Ord loike to her it dote right."—Pderehant Traveler. Lenguage—This faculty is exhibited in many parts of the face, particularly by a large mouth, end large, fell eyes, opened wide. gfiRsqvALs, The Prince of Wales la 47 yore old. The King ofS,stin can now stand withou support, but has not yet learned to walk.. General Harrison snook heode with from 70,000 to 100,00 people darben the recent cerapagn. Count' Von leloltlens favorite Anna' 10 e'sa rove, and he has at Eteisen one of ehe anso Nee gardens in the world. Rev. C, H dpurgeou says that he is at ways preparing his sernione, reading an thinking, but tee speaide preperation tteglen ot 6 0'i** OA Saturday evenzog, Ws groat diM)aleY le lo awl a tont, he having proof -in' ed so many serums io the concise el bia life, Th,onlea:A Elkton, still works as hard and as 'industriously as theuga lie wo just 1* - ginning hia moor, and any dseehe mey be found at his bete:Oat hie shop m Grange, heal at work in his shirt eleeees, makbng with ilia own halide models he cookie:re ton delicate to trust to another. CsreetDougles, oae of the favorites of the, Erep,eror Wtifiem, is a Pemba Oneonta - nye noblemen, ize were three more geoerar gone of his 'Predecessors, and represeota one of the inertial and, oepthie Seotole &lone turars who helped to Innal up the Peuteheee Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century ma were rewarded for their Moine Tae marriage of Miss Elizebeth Stuart Phelps to Dr. Won. sem in the Bet, DA Ward of 'the indepeedect, wax 4 genuine 10Fa Mateh. Mies Plaine a matey years theaentor of tier husband, who le a receat graduate ot the Andover Theological Seminary, and be not settled over a choral as yet. Toe dispar- ity in years, while not as marked as in ids* env of Osoigo Biteb and Me Coo, is never - helot" fleetly ea great. She te getleratclon nes' then her huolowerl, who, it le orAl, Isaa enerla prowoutedide settler her bettel far te rig time. Tao conple will ontioue toresitle rh4 home of elm, Ward Ann meal the young ream lass e call, when ehe will emu= Usa role of a pastor's wife. Bialem llebern famone unseloneen h *F G yam, rem remilend e Icy lefoontnine, which he wrote in 1824 who ree Caylcon 6ret reethed Arnerlea, a lady in Charleston Was mach, imprenied teeth the beeety Of le, and WaS perticalarly auxieue to Asa A torke Mae - eel to it, She reneacked her mole be Van* and then obencing to remember that in a bank down the etreet ws 4 yeAng clerk who had consider:able repetition as a musionl genate, she sent her Wm Wiellethe hymn to the clerk with "ate request that lie write a tune to fie ie. 1n juee half an hour the hey came bulk with the bran, and tile Melo4y thus (lathed off in bet bote is toelea *mg all over the world, And is ineeperethly ASn. oveted with the hyaw, Tee young Tomele clerk was Lawelt UaStIn. Woran's Strike. Clans apart an eVoninkt dreary, A% I posedered sad and weary, :sr the beeket with the mendieg evesh tile day before; As I thought of couraleseetatakee Jo be pawed, re lirtle breeoho, Rose my heart rebtilloeil in me, as it ott hal doue before, At the fete that didcondom/3 me when my daily task wee o'er, To that beeket evermore. John, with not o sign of motion, Sat and read tha Yankee Nation, With no thought of the commotion Which within me rankled aore. "Eo," thought .1„ "when day hi (tidal, Has no stockings to be mended, Sas no babies to be tended. He can it and read an entire; He caa sit and read and rest him ; Must I work thee evermore?" And my haunt rebellious answered, " Neverrnore ; no, nevermore." For though 1 am but a WOM3m, Every nerve whine is human, Aching, throbbing, overworked, alind and body sick and sore. 1 will strike, When day is ended, Though the stookiege are not miniel Though my course can't be defended, Safe behind the eloaet door Goo the Whet with the /nettling, and ra haunted be no more. ro the daylight win be crowded all the work thee,/ will do; When the evening hemps are lighted I will read the papere. ton An Anatomical Expert. teaoher in the High street wheel, dur- ing the progrese of a lesson in physiology the other day, used herself as a sribjeob in illustrating the different parts of the body-. No diffinuty was experienced ne eliciting correct answers as to the position of tb.e head, arms and limbs. When, however, the teaoher described something that was beats- ible the scholars were mystified. She asked about the location of the backbone, and, in- dicating its position in her own body, she asked what it was. Nobody could answer at first. Saddenly a bright thought occurred to an obeerving youngster. His eyes sparkled and he raised his hand to attract the teacher's attention. "Well, John," she said, "what do you cal ?" Yer bustle," answered the lad promptly. The information was too much for the school, and the laughter that followed indi- cated that the innocent mistake was per- ceived by the other pupils. Businesa is Business. Son-in-law Silverstine—" Mister Schaum- burg, nvants you to dake back your daughter Repecca." Father-in-law Schaumburg—" I takes not dot Repecce, pack. Ven a man comes to my house, plates out himself apiece of goats, and dot goote vas received by him in goo order, I would pe a fool to dake pack dot n'oots. No, sir, you sktoost keep dot Repeeca. The Woman on Top. Jings—" What's the matter over in the alley ?" Jangs—" A fight." Jings (eynically)--" I'll bet there's a wo- man at the bottom of it." • Jings—" Well, you'd loan When 1 lefe the woman was on the top, and looked as if she was going to stay there." , 'Twas Hard Work. Little Inw, nearly 5 years of age, set out to visit school the other day, as gay as a lark, but returned after the session with rather a careworn expression of ceunten- anoe. When asked how she liked school, she said ; "I did not like it." Why not ?" . "Oh, 1 had to work awful hard." "What did you have to do?" "1 had to keep still like everything."— N, Y. World. •