HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-4-17, Page 2"LA. PASSION."
Great Theatrical Sensation in Parls–,Saratt
Bernhardt's Now Hole—A Disgraceful
Scene.
A yeaterdare Petrie oable says; "L
raesioe,"& mystic) poem in tax, parts, hy
gehnotet liaranoceart, wee read et tbe
Circle d'Hiner to -night by Serah Bertherdt,
l'hinippe Gamier toad Brernont. DI. La-
Moureaux'e oeohestra exam:teed selectione
by Beethoven end Wagner's prelude to
" the motive of which is from the
scene symbolizing the Savioural utterance,
"Eat this bread, it is my adesh ; drina this
Wine, it le nay blood." This WAS enthusi-
atitioally appliended. It was just before
this paelude that Mom. Bernhardt,
robe d in a whim flowering brooade,
lootteg exaotly like One Of Albert
Tenter e painting of the Virgins Mary,
entered the Salle, She was followed by
MN. Gamier and Brernont, attired in
evening dreee, to itaterpret the roles of
tellexiet and Judas Itigariot. The enormous
auditorium of the Cirque d'Hiver was
crowded to the utmost capacity, and about
4,000 persons must have been present. The
poem ie a sort of rayetio rapeeitentation of
'Ems Homo," The 'Virgo% is a Wehian
whose maternal initinote and love for her
son are in confliot with her religioue awe
and devotion to the Viceregent of God.
Barth Bernhardt read the lines exhorting
Christ to ily and wave himself from torture
and crucifixion with an impassioned, yet
mahatma force that caused profound emotion.
The audience stowed their appreciation by
alwate of "Bravo, bravo," and round after
round of applauee buret forth when M. Gar -
tier read the lines of Christ zee He drove the
publicans out of the temple and M. Bre-
moue pronounced the mocking retorts of
Clainleas, the high priest. Some youngsters
in the gallery made a scandalous demon -
titration in favor of the principles white:led
by the publicans, and two or three buteher
boys yelled, " Hurrah for the publicans,
they am better than our bookmakers at
Longob amps." As X. Garnier pro•
nounoed the words of the Saviour calling
little children to Him, and exhorting to
charity and repentenoe, two or three voices
shouted, " Assez de Christ," " Assez de
Christ." The audience rose to their feet
'with esoitement,ancl cheered and applauded
the actors. Men in the premiere seats of the
parquet,the f ashionable portion of the house,
shook their lista at the butcher boys and men
who had interrupted the performance and
demanded that the police should put them
out of the house. "A la porte, a la porte I"
resounded on all sides, and the e,xcitement
was tremendous. M. Garnier with diffi-
culty made himself heard as he shrieked
•out, "Ladies and gentlemen, do you wish
the reading of this poem to cortinue or not,
as if not, we will withdraw." " Oui,
oui, continuez," was beard from all perm
of the Salle, mingled with a few shoats of
"Non." Madame Bernhardt trembled
with emotion and pressed her dainty lace
handkerchief to her eyes and wept. There
was a ezerfeot pandemonium. Nothing
could be heard until M. Harcourt,
•the author, bounded down to the
platform where the actors were
seated and shook them all warmly
by the hand, and facing the tempestuous
audience, shouted with stentorian voice,
"The actors will pause a few mometts to
enable those persons who are disoontented
to retire." M. Haranootirt was cheered
londly with shouts of" Bravo, Harancourt,
bravo." Then by aid of the police some 30
•or 40 of the discontented, most of them
butcher boys out for a lark on Good Fri-
day, the one day of the year when the
butcher shops are closed, left the Cirque.
This lively and agitating scene had now
lasted half an hour. Sarah Bernhardt and
her fellow-aotore were pale and nervous,
but the audience, with the stormy element
.now eliminated, shouted " Continuez."
Then the reading commenced again and was
aerervedly applauded.
JONATHAN'S LIQUOR BILL_
A Bowe Committee Presents Reports on a
Big Subject.
A Washington dispatch of yesterday
says: Representative J. D. Taylor, from
the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Treffin
to -day reported to the House the bill agreed
upon by the committee providing for the
appointment of an alcoholic liquor traffics
commission. The committee's report eaya
that a /age portion of the people have for a
long time desired an honest, intelligent,
tor Laughlin, cf Bailee°. The de-
empartialand thorough investigation of the i
fence was that the paper in whioh
healer traffic. Inquiries by a similar cora- I
mission in England have had remarkable the advertisement was inserted was
results. Reports from domestic sources not allowed ect pass through the
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indicate the liquor traffio causes four-fifthe post office, and that Gregory was only
of all the crimes committed, wastes one-
half of taxation, causes the expenditure of
6300,000,000 a year in drink, incapacitates
mentally and physically half a million
people for labor and business, causes three-
forme/as of the pauperism of the country,
is responeible for the fearful increase 10
insaniey and imbecility, and does no good
to anybody. On the other hand these
statements are denied and pronounced to
be the hallucinations of a diseased brain.
Therefore, says the report, let us have tin
investigation and let the world know the
truth or falsity ofthese assertions. Repre-
sentative Quinn, of New York, presented a
minority report against the bill.
reovm tteo Leone.
Jamett rani Gregory, "Love charmer,"
ParnialleS platertal for a Roaring Parte
in a Utica Court,
eV Borne, N, Y., deepatelt :
peoulisa and law bable Me has juet
ended in be ILaited Staten Court
now in , 'Anion it Utica, Pani
James Gregory wee on Meal, °kluged with
using the United t et es mail for fraudulent
purposes.
The trial begin Friday before jaage
Coate and throughout Friday and Saturday
judge, jury, witnesses, court officers and
the room full of epootatore were convulsed
with laughter tee certain letters and papers
were read. JudgeOce, wbo enjoye a good
laugh himself., /early Rhode in his seat ctt
times.
All the trouble oame from a little adver-
tisement that was inserted in a New York
peer some eighteen mouths ago. It read
as follows:
Infallible. Detection impoteible. Satiafaetion
and BLICOGES verse -toed. Win any inan's love.
You get it sure. Learo by mail. Only nine cent
etamps. postale answered, Seal well. Ad-
dress Bureau of Science, Buffalo, N.Y.
MOM TETI LOVE OHAIDIEB,
Paul James Gregory, ihe profeseor of
ilia scientific treatment, resided in Buffalo.
He has been termed by his many students
"The Love Charmer. He claimed to
have discovered a 'scheme whereby men
and women could wise the undying love
either of their friends or entire strangers.
From his office in Buffalo he has been
sending circulars, oedling attention to his
wonderful discovery, through the mails.
The beisinees, it is claimed, brought him a
revenue of 625 weekly.
One of the first letters read was sent by
Gregory to Francis A. Mortimer, of Potts-
ville, Ps., a lawyer, who corresponded with
biln under the name of Frank Hugh Smith.
The letter read as follows:
I teach love charms by mail. I guarantee any
one can master the system in three days. Now,
If you want to win the love, passions and desires
of any one of the opposite sex 1 can give you the
secretupon the payment of $5 in advance. It
works under all circumstances, in any place and
at anytime. By following nay instructions you
can gain a woman's love as readily in a church
or on the street as by long courtship. A certain
glance of the eye, a twitch of the hand or head
may, secure for you the love of the most beauti-
till of -women. If a person is your bitter enemy
you can operate my treatment with as equal
success as if she were your best friend and win
her undying love, Either !sex can follow out
with success my lessons. Over seven hundred
pupils of mine have won the love of the person
whom they wanted to win. What does a few
dollars amount to compared with the desires,
passions and love of the person whom you waut
to pass life with 2 My system is parfeetly in-
fallible and harmless. The system is not com-
mon property, therefore you will have to pay
$10 for seven lesson. s. Get the postmaster and
some minister of the gospel to guarantee than I
will receive my money. I am no fraud and will
do everything I say. .The greater part of your
success depends on your faith in the system.
Study my lessons prriectly and magnetism will
be rapidly developed in your system.
THEY WANTED TO BE LOVED. •
The Government presented a number ot
letters in evidence that were received by
Gregory in answer to his advertisement.
They were mostly from women all over tbe
country who wanted to be loved. The fol-
lowing are extracts from some of them:
A lady from Boston writes:
have longed to be loved for tweuty years, but
as yet cannot find the secret. I would give any-
thing if I could get a man to love me.
A young woman from New Orleans says:
I am 19 years old and am 'passionately in love
with Ge 'rge Francis Train. Tell me how I am to
win han.
Another letter reads :
am 77 years old, but do not give up hope of
being married before I die. Give me the secret
of true love and you will prove yourself a philan-
thropist.
From Dakota comes the ory
want some one,I don't care who heis, to love.
I amred haired. and live on a Dakotafarm. Send
the secret by telegraph, 0. 0. D.
WANTED A reGONIGAL.
The following WeB received from a Utica
woman: • .
I think that after many years of reflection that
I would like to gain the love of a nice clean old
man. I am 42 years old, a widow, awl have my
eyes on a wealthy old bachelor. The quicker
you send me the secret of Jove the better, for I
am burning with tbe desire to again enter the
marriage state. If your secret is successful you
will receive $1,000. If you fail, then I am lost.
Delay not, for I shall hourly expect your mes-
sage.
A young Vassar girl says:
lam a young student and do not know what
love is. 1. am anxious to mole it a study. Iwant
your aid and assistance.
Gregory was defended by State Sena -
A Conductor Murdered by Tramps.
A.Lima, 0., despatch of Sunday says:
As the third section of a freight train was
pulling into a long side track half a mile
west of here to -day, Conductor Tuckey
noticed six tramps getting into a box car bf
the train. He ordered them to leave, and
they returned insolent answers. Tuokey
grappled with one, when one of the tramps
discharged a gun inside the oar. The shot
missed, however, and Tucks*, grappled with
the gang, but was finally himself thrown
out of the oar. The tramps then jumped
nut of the door on the north aide of the oar.
Tuckey olimbed over the train, and as he
alighted on the opposite side one of the
gang produced a revolver, which Tuckey
wrenched out of hie hand. Two others
then caught him, holding his arms so that
be was powerless, when another placed a
revolver at the conductors'left side and
tred, fatally wounding him. Four of the
tramps were arrested.
Robbed and Murdered by Sandbaggers.
A New York dovetail of last night says:
Robt. O'Sullivan, aged 27, a brother , of
Bev. Morris O'Sullivan, was found this
morning sitting me a doorstep. He was
covered with blood and bore tnarke of vice
lance on the face and head. He died this
afternoon from a fracture ef the base of the
skull. It is believed he wag robbed toed
murdered by sandbaggers. O'Salliveat
eaten from Ireland recently and lived in
Auburn tine' three weeks ago, when he
Caine here to bny a grooery. Several him-
dred dollars and a watch and Chain are
enissing,
The mest He could Do,
Mrs. Brown—What made you chalk
your tem° on my new table?
Little &1nnie-416nm I'd loot my jack-
knife.
A. Tease debating society recently had
for a enhjeot, "Is it proper to mend the r
dorg ?"—Siftings
teaching what soientests have practised for
years.
Postmaster Sackett, of Buffalo, testified
that the paper had been received in the
Francis A. Mortimer teetified that the
reason he corresponded with Gregory was
because he knew the scheme was a fraud
and that he wanted to see what there was
to it and bring Gregory to light.
The case was given to the jury. on Sat-
urday night. They were one all night and
Judge Coxe discharged them on Sunday
morning, as tbey were unable to agree.
GAMBLING IN sr/trams.
The Chicago Eig Wigs Trying tp Squeeze
Out the Little Fellows.
A Chictago despatch says: The Board
of Trade is drawing its Hoes closer and
closer in the matter of shutting off quota-
tions from unauthorized pareies. Detec-
tives were yesterday set to wattle the mes-
sengers employed by firms on the Board,
and, whenever • anything suspicious was
noticed in their actions their privileges of
amen to the floor were out off. A line of
cmotations was sent to Milwaukee, and
euspioion was aroused that the wire had
• Item tapped by bucket shops. A stop was
put to this. Many firms are now putting
their quotations into ciphet. It was die -
covered also that a telegraph operator was
furnishing information to the bucket shop
men, and this was also stopped. In orate
of all precautions, however, the bucket
shops managed to get quotations. If the
present vigilance is kept up by the Board
offieises there will not be a bucket shop in
Chicago doing bueinese enough at tbe end
of a week to pay expenses for rent.
In Albany's memory.
A Cannes cable of Sunday saga: The
unveiling of the monument presented by
tbe Qaeen in memory of the tete Duke of
Albany wag perforated this ntorning by the
Prince of Wales in the Albany memorial
chapel of St. George's, on California hill.
Seldom has such a ceremony been per.
formed before go thoroughly a syntpathetie
gathering or amid latch lovely surround,-
Inge for the church bad been by delioate
hearts and tender halide transformed into
a floral Mum. The church was well filled.
After the earviee the Prince of Weise, Pritee
Nicholas. and Chevalier Calquhonn Mapped
from the royal pew, and entering the mem-
orial Chapel am:severed the Maine. It is a
fall length figare in Highland costume. The
sculptor is Pellegrini.
A Philadelphia olergymat is ;Mid to have
married 14,000 couples during his
niiniateriat career. That minister bee much
to answer for.
UN OD ATEEVIC, Balm,
He Doeinet Xven 'Xbanic mte mese-Remand
Goes to Serve Gernuelay.
A Zanzibar cable sole ; Emin Potence, ia
a handbill, accuses the British °onset of
talsely ,detioribing bin e as the plaintiff in
• Teppoo Tile's owe the real plaintiff being
•Stealey. Emia apPeaes to be mistaken
et this, the real plaineiffs being the Emin
teUe Oorealittee, The general belief is
that politimane here are making a utspaw
of Emile,
The Tam' oterrespendent at Cairo re.
porta Stanley as senong " Ernin bad both
lenglieh anti German of:Boers, and he cannot
be blamed he thotight the German officers
preferable. The German 'There cif influ-
ence is clearly defined, Major Wisismarin
toed the enterpriging Germans are entirely
within their rights in availing themselves
of every assistance. Any trensgreesion by
either the English or the Germane is a
matter for cliploruaoy. Enein ie very sensi-
tive. Things beve gone unfortunately
awry since he returned. It is likely matters
were mierepresented to him during his ill.
Pen. He probablythileke his absence the
best plan. If he wins over the Amite he
will add to leis reputation and not hurt
Evglish interests. Still the Germans cannot
be too mations in their natural desire to
secure trade routes. I have heard of no
action either by the Germane or by Erain
that would chill my sympathies with them.
Emin's proclamation reveille his soreness
and was unnecessary."
The National Zeitung declares that the
intrigues of the British East Africa Com-
pany have been thwarted by Emixt's enter-
ing the German service.
Enain has written to neither Stanley nor
Parke since they left him. Stanley ex-
presses . regret and surprise that Brain did
not come to thank the Khedive. He sup.
Roses Emin is taieble to adapt himself to
civilized life
Tam Lamm ow THE CZAB.
A Country Where Education is Dangerous
and Thought a Crime.
A, St. Petersburg cable says: All the
universities have been closed by the Gov-
ernment. The students at the St. Peters-
burg 'University made an attack upon
LienteGen. Greaser, chief of the S.
Petersburg police, wko went to the univer-
sity to quell the disturbance, and treated
him in a very rough manner. He was
thrown to the floor, and while lying pros-
trate was kicked a number of times.
Ihe students abandoned the meeting
whioh they had proposed to hold yesterday,
the attendance being too email. A number
of the stndets who have been interviewed
pereisted in their deolaratione that the
agitation arises solely on account of
educational matters. In proof of Cele
deolaration the students assembled at the
univereity and the Technological Institute
and sang the anthem, "God Preserve the
Czar." The Czar is greatly incensed be-
cause of the distarbences, and has signa
fled his intention of closing all the higher
publio educational establishments for a
year. It is feared by the Russian officials,
however, that a year idleness will foster
the growth of disaffection among the Btu-
denthse.
T
police at Gatechina have discovered
explosives on the grounds of the Imperial
Palace. The Imperial family have in con-
sequence renounced the idea of going there
to finieh Lent.
The Czar for two days has suffered from
a relapse of influenza, whioh bas oompelled
him to postpone audiences. His condition
is not toxemia
Among the students arrested are Prince
Viazenisky and a son of Nabokoff, a former
Minister of Justice.
A PROTECTED NAVY.
•
Aliens Man the U.S. Navy—A "Protecting"
Measure Presented.
A Washington despatch says: The bill
to prevent employment of aliens in the
navy was reported to the House by Mr.
McAdoo, who says the committee has
direct evidence that the decadence of the
Ameriaan merchant marine has so reduced
the nuraber of American sailors that cliff],
catty is found in getting naturalized men to
man our war vessels. The ooramittee also
has evidence that preference has been given
to foreigners in manning the vessels of the
navy rather than to citizens by birth and
adoption. Outside of apprentice boys there
are 1,938 Amerioan-born men in a total
force of 7,946, and, counting the boys,
there are 3,668 American -born as against
4,278 foreign -born. The committee unard-
mouldy recommends that the bill pass.
Jesuits Off to Germany.
A Burlington, Ia., despatch eels The
resignation of Bismarck, and tbe anise.
quent change in ettitude towsrd the Order
of Jesuits in that country, is causing a
grand stampede of Jesuits from this part
of the country to Germany. Rev. Father
Joseph Kremeh, head of the Order inthis
city, is actively preparing, in. company
with his entire corps of workers, to return
to his native land. The father said to -day
that he and his class had alwaye retained a
strong regard for the. fatherland and its
Institutions, and by the resignation of leis -
muck, who was an enemy to the German
Church, they are now restored to their
prestige and preferment in Germany,
where their Order itevery wealthy and pow.
mint. "We have hailed with delight,"
•said be, "the change in government affairs
in Germany, and have resolved to return to
that country at once."
Too Hand• y With His Pistol.
A l'ittsbnrg, Pa., despatole says: A shoot-
ing affray occurred on 5th avenue last night
'resulting in the killing of John O'Hara,
aged 17, and the serious wounding of Martin
Fahey, a youth about the eame age. The
shooting was done by a negro named
Lightner, and the victims, who were white,
wee innocent by-standers. The Colored
Knighte Ternplars were having a parade,
and as they .passed a livery stable a white
woman was Jostled by the marchers. An
unknown man expostulated with the colored
men, whet a party of five young negroes
standing on the pavement took
up the quarrel. Lightner, who was one
of the party,.pulled his revolver and fired
three shots into the crowd. Lightner
Notepad.,
A Ghastly Consignment.
A Madrid cable says: A horrible story
comes from Morocco. A largebox wag
recently brought from the interior to the
port of Mazagazi foe shipment. When
opened a ghastly eight was revealed. In
the box, packed closely together, were the
bodies of sixteert young WOMOn, one man
and a negress. All the victims had been
deoepitated and their heads were redoing.
Their bodies were eitibalmed and bad
evidently been in tbe condition in which
they were fitted fee a long time. The
elatighter lied been to all appearencee the
week of some Pasha who waited vengeande
on his harem for unfaithfulnesto
Colonel Q. J. Murphy, an American,
prop°ties *o build a corn palace at the
Edinburgh iriterceleniel eaposition which
will be held thie oUmnio
—New stationery imiiates cork.
VAMP.
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Servant glia, Poleons * Whole leamlly
With e Wash -on -Mate,"
Clbioago despatch of Sunday Says
George E, Noonade a Citizen of bleglewood,
reahuad htbieeirw4ifeeudgihetdereetoddrowly, etehrilteu,neeleyrinuineg,
t
tile MUM place trona the effeote of poison
that it is thought was edminietered to them
last evening. A servant girl, Emma
Steels, who ht e since disappeared, le SUS.
POOted of the crime. Miss Noonan may
reoover. beaervant girl, it has been dis-
covered, left this morning for La 'Porte,
Ind. The police there have been telegraphed
to arrese hereIt hap also been learned
thee a girl resehibling the servant bought
"rough on rate" at a drug store near the
scene of the poisouing yesterday afternoon.
Frank Noonan, a grown up gola vats aleo
poisoned, and althongla made very eiok, it
is not thought that leis life is in danger.
The maid servant had been in the service
of the family only one day, and no CaUSS
can be assigned for her conerniesion of the
crime, if she, in tent committed it. Yes-
terdey afternoon she complained that she
was suffering with a toothache, and the
daughter, Miss Grace, aged 16 years, gave
her money to buy medicine to relieve it.
The supposition ie that she bought rough
on rats, which she administered to the
family at supper in some canned corn. Mr.
Noonan was a well-known citizen, a retired
real estate dealer, and lived in an elegant
house in Englewood.
THE GREAT MINE FIRE.
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A Prospecting Party Narrowly Escapes
Death by a Second Explosion.
A Wilkesbarre despatch of Sunday says:
It was thought that the water had de-
creased in the fatal South Wilkesbarre
shaft, where eight men lost their lives three
weeks ago, sufficiently to make an exami.
nation of the inside workings. At 2 o'clock
yesterday morning a large number of neen,
were sent into the workings of the Balti-
more vein of No. 5 shaft to clear ail the
debris. They had not proceeded far when
a most violent . explosion of gas occurred.
Fortunately none of the men were injured.
It is believed the explosion was due to a
fire still burning in one of the higlealeva-
tors of the' shaft where water could not
reach it owing to compressed air. The
flames made great headway alter the ex-
plosion took plaoe, and two more heavy
explosions ocourred during the day. It is
now impossible for any one to enter the
burning pit. The officials are on the
ground superintending the flooding of the
mine. It will take a week to flood the
workings.
Congress to Regulate Canadian Railways.
A yesterdey's Washington despatch
says: Senator Cullom submitted to the
Interstate Commerce Committee to -day his
report upon the investigation whioh that
committee has been making during the
summer into the competition of Canadian
railways with the transcontinental railways
of the United States. The report at present
will not be given out for publication, the
statement having been made in the
committee that until all the member could
give it careful consideration it was inex-
pedient to publish it. A member of the
committee, who read it, however, says that
it is an exceedingly strong doonment. It
recommends that the Canadian Pacific
and Grand Trunk railways shall be
placed under the provisions of the Inter-
state Commerce law so far as it will be
practicable to do that as to the business
transacted in the United States. The
report in short recommends that exactly
the thing shall be done which the managers
of thou roads would not do. The
committee will not meet again until next
Wednesday. At that time the expectation
is that the commitbee will adopt this report
as its own, and that it will then be rnade
public.
Trouble Over a Divorce.
On March 19th a Boston despatch was
published detailing the manner in which a
young English girl, Miss Harriet Phillips,
was induced by Chas. W. Adams'a retired
wealthy man and friend of her father, to
live with him as his wife. 'When a child
was born he obtained a divorce in Cali-
fornia from his living insane wife and mar-
ried her, thus legitimizing the ahda and
making it heir to e50,000, which was about
what the estate divided among his lawful
children by his two wives would amount
to. The heir of the first wife declared the
divorce invalid, although granted by the
Superior Bench of California after mature
consideration. The case came up before
the Supreme Court, yeeterday. Judge
Charles Allen decided that the California
court had erred, and declared the divorce
invalid and Bliss Phillips child illigitimate.
The poor girl is in great distress, and the
aeoision exoites much discontent and criti-
oism among British -Americans there.
Experimenting %lath Dynamite.,
A 'Utica, N.Y., despatch says: It has
been decided to give a public test to Prof.
Justin's new dynamite shell in a ravine
near Perryville falls, about seventy miles
from Canastota. Several officials from the
Arbey and Navy Department will be
present, and it is thought Secretary Tracey
will be among the number. The test will
be given some tome during the month of
May. It will be remembered that recent
preliminary tests were highly eatisfaotory
and that large quantities of dynamite were
hurled against the ledge of rocks half a mile
distant without exploding till the shel
struck the rock.
A Determined Suicide.
A Chicago despatch says: Marcus C.
Stearns, one of Chicsago's oldest and
wealthiest residents, 'attempted suicide at
his handsome Michigan avenue residence)
on Saturday. He fired four bullets into
hie bead, producing wounds from which
recovery is impossible. One shot fired into
his mouth almost split the tongue in twer.
For some time Stearns hadbeen in de-
pressed spirits. It is surmind that this
depression was dne to the recent death
of his favorite danghter, the wife of ex.
Mayor Carter H. Harrison, Mr. Stearns
was one of the leading members of the
Board of Trade, and has an estate worth
61,500,000.
Cheating Uncle Sam's Revenue.
A Fort Wayne, Ind., deepstoh says :
United States Consoll R. W. Diedrioh
writes from Leipeio to former associate* of
the Faulty of Conoorclea College that he
has unreathed a gigantic system of frauds
on the pert of German exporters, whereby
many thousands of dollars of import duties
are annually lost to the United States. He
does not particularize on what articles
these frauds have been practiced, bet will
shortly forward to Washington d detailed
report of his discovery.
A fine mohair of oredm color, delicately
lloWered, is art admirable fabric for making
beby a creeper.
Williazn Liddle, the Dunbar centenarian,
Wake entertained to banquet on March lfeth
by the Dubber Clothe Ledge. FremasOns
were petulant front ellpatte of Sootiend arid
England. Mr. 'mak *at presented bathe
name Of the craft with a silver enuff•boi.
OLORIQUO WAR.
Reaoons WJa Uglishma4 Dtoided
Not 0 Right
The toalowiug extraote fora a epee*,
delivered many years ago la the Tome
Hall, Hull, England, by * 'vetorleingnean'
named teoboley, and reported in the Obrie.
tiatt Arbitrator, meat be found useful' to
isomebody selected to reply at a pulolicedin-
per to the tout of the Army, Nevy and
Volunteera ;
" I feel inclined to give ray opinion on
the subjeet of peace, and, as a member of
the workingdolasses, I wish to say, I eban't
'fight. If all workingmen were of my °pin.
ion there would soon be an end of war.
But, however that natty be, 1 ahen't fight,
and any man who does fight, who has
nothing to fight for, in my opinion is a fool.
have nothing in the world to protect
except my share in the national debt, and
I dou't oaretif :the French come and run
away with that. 1, like' my worthy friend
opposite, lived at the time of the lest war.
It's true workingmen get better wages thin
than theyoat get now, but hesn't the
present misery arisen from it 2 I reoollect
the pewee of 1801, and I reoolleot the re-
joioings we had at that time, when the
country was one continual bristling of
bayonets. You couldn't hove a walk with.
put seeing them in all directions. •Yottrig
men couldn't walk out with their sweet-
heart. They couldn't go where somebody
with a bayonet wet:tidal disturb them. It
was impossible at that time. Then as for
the Sabbath—the day of rest and oomfort
which the ,peor may enjoy along with
the rich—you 'couldn't enter Eh village but
before you were in sight of it, if
you stood for a minate, you would
hear — right -- left — right -- left —eyes
right—dress—and so on. This wine the
occupation of the village at that time, and
it wasn't a great village either. It had no
matter. of population, but it Way a beautiful
little village, and a stiller, quieter;and more
peaceable village you could scarcely find.
Well, every man in it was force& to become
a volunteer. Strange a thing as it appeare,
so it was. It's a fact incontrovertible, that
a man woulcl have been oneted out of society
if he hadtet become it volunteer. No religi-
ons scruple was allowed to interfere with a
man, teeming the discipline en a ,Sunday.
" 'eeSo the wilr Went Me, and it's true
that a flourishing time it was. You couldn't
go to a town where you wouldn't find ban-
ners flying and anima beating, and trum-
pets sounding, and all the inhabitants,from
youngest to oldest, up in arms. A rare time
for our trade it was then. But what was
the consequence? Is not our present misery,
our present wretchedness,the consequence?
And the people in the country were de.
moralized; for the army wasn't a school
from which yciung men came back better
than they went. If a young man went and
joined the army, and stopped but a very
short time, he very likely oame beak with
a wooden leg, and only wanted one shoe;
but besides this, and worse than this, he
had learned to swear a round hand.
They had learned to make use of expres-
sions which made the people of the village
shudder to hear them. Many of these ex-
pressions are now common, mush as
"bloody" this and "bloody" that, and many
other expressione wbioh I shouldn't like to
mention, but which we are constantly in
the habib of hearing. But they wasn't
known in that peaceful district before the
war. These things, however, constituted the
principal part of the soldier at that time.
I was quite young and nearly all my
playmates—all who were boys at the
same time I was a boy myself—nearly all
went to be soldiers, and, as I said before,
came beck with a wooden leg, and some
had lost their heads, and stopped to bear
them company. Be it as it would, they
almost all went, and frequently I have
known fine young men of 15 and 16, aye,
and some of 12 and 13, for they would take
them as low as that then. I have known
that, three or four months after they had
enlisted, we had a letter, perhaps from
Spain, that they were shot; and then
what work there WOO with mothers and
sisters weeping:. There was all this trouble
then; but paying parts in our time. Now,
I object to paying. I won't pay if I oan
help, because, I eay, there is no wisdom in
men going to fight to protect what they
have not. Let them fight if they like, but
nob' such as me who have nothing to fight
for. I should be very sorry to put myself
in slush a ridiculous position to be shot at.
I recoiled that asses spoke in ancient times,
and they had a deal more sense than many
mennow •
Now, you remember the ase in the fable.
His master flogged and said, "Look sharp
on, the enemy are near behind, and we shall
certainly be M'en prisoners." Then epake
tbe ass and Said, "Shall I have two pan-
niers to bear then instead of one ?" "No,"
said the neuter. "Well, then, thou
relayed shift for thyself; what Matter does
it make to me who's my matter, so long
se I have no panniers to bear." This was
sense, and we see that a sense of justice
even emanated frOm an ass. Well, Balaam's
ass spoke too, and very sensible was that
ass also. "Am. I not thine ase; have I
not carried thee ever since I was thine ass?
What have I done unto thee that thou hest
smitten me these'three times?" He was
emitten only three times, and yet he re-
sented it.
We sane, have &Mays carried the aria–
tooraoy on o,ur backs to the battle, and yet
we have to be smitten manytimes a day.
If we raise a meta, we have to be smitten
in our tea, in our sugar, in our coffee, and
indeed in almost everything we have ; and
though smitten in this way, though smit-
ten fez' worse and more often than
Balatim's ass, we take all quietly. But
we'll not ,fight. Now this is the long and
short of it. Give us summat to fightfor,
and then maybe we may. But it's Rebm-
ann matter to convince me that anyone has
a right to kill his fellow men. I, for one,
have no desire; for its friend Tate says,
" It does, I should think, produce a die.
agreeable eeneation to have the thin end of
a bayonet Mack into you." 7 WOO at the
Blanchester massacre, and I wasn't a mile
off those that were killed, either ; the man
I stood next to had a sword sent into him,
which went in at his abonlder and came out
at his breast. And it was the aristocracy
that were at the bottom of that ; the
arietooraoy, taking them as a class, and not
including individual men, for there are
some very good men among them, when
they descend to be men. However, it's no
matter; I'll not fight, If all workingmen
would oomo forward and say they wouldn't
fight, there would soon be an end of fight-
ing altogether.
• It is a nioe thitg enough to be an officer;
you never hear tell of an officer deserting;
the consequence is there's no occasion to
flog an officer, because he doetin't desert
But I have seen sights awful enough I'll
assure you, In the beautiful little town of
Doncaster I have Oen fifteen men flayed
elive in one morning. I have heard their
gamma while they got 500 lashes eaoh, till
I tamed eick and didn't know where I'd
been, I learnt then to be peaceable, and
ever since lettee had a partionlat dieposi-
tion to be peaceable, Med am determitied
that I'll have nothing to do with fighting.
I'll pay nothing, it I oan help it, but I
can't help pay maybe; however, I'll not do
anything that I can bap doing to enable
war to be carried ou, 1 say that it 401;00r-
alizea the PoPuletion. The morelity ot the
people et the last ceatury, notwithettending
all eur eaueatton and all our aauff, was.
better than it it tit12/. The people were
moral, but we shell walk Want to the earn°
,entfaittegtein
if leee only keep the peace. Ig
,war had untieued (AdtireSting the obair.
-men you, sir, would waver have prepided
at railway alumni, There never would
'ave beta!) a railway. There would have
;been no joint ensue oottou mills. There
was nothing elee to be done eut soldier-
ing. teen bops thonebt of nothing
else When I wee a boy we used
to pley at moldiere, and never at
anything else; anti villagers and people
in towns, whereyer you 'Ner,1J, were all seek-
ing to be soleitire. 1 hey(' no objection to•
the French cosnix,g over, earl 'if they lean
find aught in our home that they think
workla their while their Weroonue to it.
They'll not find a deal in poor people's
housewho stand tothe melte position as
me, read I stand lo the SP.n1q, position as
theeprinciped paet brthe **king °lassie.
Whet need we care?
The ass was right; it doesn't matter who
drives tie if we hem no mere panniers to
carry. The prinoipal ware have always
been carried oat by the ariatooraoy,because
they are afraid the people should leave time
to think, and that, like the Wools pendulum
that goes swinging backwards and forwards
tiok, twat, tioknaek, there should be nothing
but work, work, work, for them, They have
aeoured all the hued of the country, and
they have secured eneny things beside, and
what they haven't secured the Qeeen has.
Everything' belonge to her, It is" the
Queen's army," "the Queetae nevy," "tbe
Qneen's revenue," and •• the peeple's debt."
We have nothing elite that's national to.
divide smong ne, and to it will be until
mesh time as workingalen are of my opinion,
that they 'won't fight, and then there'll be
an end of war.
A Forgetful nuaband's Fate.
Mrs. B. Fe Mellory, who resides in &little
town in Beath Cerelina, wee blesse'd'with a
husband who was really no better nor no.
wore than the everage. than. His moral
character was unexceptiotable. He would,
it is true, when he went to the theatre.
with his wife, go out between the mots on
the preteat of havieg to " me a man " ; brit
as dramatic entertainments were name in
the town and the whole oeountrY side at-
tended them whenever the epportutity was
-
presented, Mrs. Mallory was not inclined
to look too severely upon this weakness.
Whet did irritate her, however, and cause
her often to brood over the haMehms of her
wedded life, was ledrealtalory'astrangelapse
of memory on particular occaeions. Had
this forgetfuluees been noticeable under.
all oironmstanou she might, probably,
have looked upon it as being constitutional,
and have borne with it patiently; but it was
evident that Mr. Military did not need the
aid of any eystem of mnemonics to remem-
ber'certain things. For example, when she
asked him for two dollars toward house-
hold expenses, he could glibly rattle off all
the venous eenounts of money whioh he
had given her for two months paat, and the
number of buehele of potatoes and pounds
of sugar which he•had ordered during that
time at the grocery store. And yet, sing-
ularly enoneh, if she gave him a letter to
post the chances were ten to one that he
would carry it around in his pocket for two
weeks, and that she would only dimmer it
when mending a hole in the lining of his.
coat.
A more impulsive womad than Mrs -Mal-
lory would have made life unbearable for
this forgetful man; bat all that she di,d on
Bach occasions was to give him e reproach-
ful look, the efftct of which was evidently
oompletely lost upon him. She also gave
him every opportunity of showing how
sorry he was, and of proving in a practical
way that he really was to be depended
upon, after all. One day, when parting
with him at the front gate, and just as the
street car was ooming up, she asked him to
call at tbe dry goods store on his way home
in the evening arid get her a skein of black
silk, a paper of hairpins, a package of
needles (No. 6), a crochat.hook, a cake of
toilet soap, a spool of threed to 'match a
piece of mauve -colored cloth which she
gave him, two shoe lame a package of
envelopes, a glove-buttouer, and two yards
of torohon lace (inch wiae, large open work,
and with scalloped edges). It may pos-
sibly not be credited, but when Mr. Mal-
lory reached home it was without the
hairpins—and he had only the trifling
excuse that be had 'forgotten all about
them I
No wonder that Mrs. Mallory's patienoe
became exhausted, and that she deter-
mined on redressing her wrongs! The
long suffering and patience so characteris-
tic of women were, however, possessed by
her in a mickea degree; teed she felt that
she really ought to give her erring husband
one more chance to reform. So, after a
week of unusual forgetfulness on his part,
she asked him to do something so simple
that there could hot be the' shadow of an
excuse for the slightest error bo his part.
This was nothing more than t bring
her honie, on approval; a pair of ithoes,
No. 44, last "0," French kid, patent.
leather tips, not too high in the instep,
hand -sewed, silk lined, roomy at the toes,
moderately low hials, no; ridges around
the ankle, and buttone with patent
fasteners, with a button.hook thrown in.
And yet Mr. Mallory brought home a pair
of shoes of No. 8 size, with narrow toile and
high heels, and with a general Chioago air
about thein that would have exasperated
the most patient woman in South Carolina.
Mrs. Mallory's cup -was full. She , went
into an tiajeining room, and, procuring a
pistol, reheated and levelled ,it at Mr.
Mallory andlanded a career of deception and
forgetfulness
Since that time no husband in the neigh,.
borhood passes -the post office without
emptying his podkets ; and the clerks in the•
dry goods stores are amazed at the patience.
with which their male customers match -
colors, and at the diffieulty now experienced,
in plaraing off on them a black spool of
thread, NO. 40, for a brown Rawl, No. 50..
And the married men of Smith Carolina
are rapidly disposing of their pistole at any.
priae.—Ploiladelphict
A Judge's Fatal Fall..
A Moncton, N. B. despatch of Sunday,
says : Judge Botsford fell through a second
story window in the Moncton Club last
evening and Amok the 'sidewalk 16 feet be-
low oti his back. He was putting on hie -
coat, and is supposed to have fainted. He.
was picked up anoonecione. He regained
emulousness during the night, but could
net say how the accident °unmet]. He.
grew eteadily wore° till noon today, when.
be expired. Deceseed was 7rt years old,
1tnVange)iat'B Great Scheme. ,
A. Kokomo, Ihd., 'd-eSpatali says: A traw
elling evangelist reomitly 'held a seriee of,
revival meetings at Hamilton, 'Madison
county, and made many eoeyerts, male of
them being prorainetit ()WeenieThe•
preacher required the new iaenibere
relate their eine Pnblielea *Ad 'OeYeral dide•
bands made aiattellithing dieclosiirea. Their.
Wives, have (isolated their intention oft
eptilYing'fiee,diVorete.•• • •••
We diet repent of what we have Beide
but olivorpt that WhIch we have not ',midi,