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THE Fe RIAU, A SKILLED LABORER.
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Of all the tie- count erittere
Qe the ferrite' irtua 'ronncl Imre,
There ain't nothin' half ser Beeline
Ez the little dairy steer.
Little dairy cows is business
ail teed them without no fear,
But the biggest no-'oount critter
Is the little dairy steer.
Livinon the fame and reoord
I3y his little sisters made,
Struttin"round to claim attention
When his board bill Il'an't been paid.
Sister's smart eruull to keep 'ern
Both agcin' ef ye lite,
But that abet the pint I'm =kin'
'Taint the gun I wanter spike.
• a want critters that kin shoW me
Pints of value fair and clear
•• Not the kind that pints tor sister
Like the little dairy, steer.
Ain't you seen men, though. jos' like 'om 2
•• • Lazio' round and crack& jokes,
Spendiu' lots o' time in as one
Living OA their wimnaM folks?
• Great fat fellers, stout an'•hearty,
Fit for work; each lazy lout
I;ettin' wimruill' folks ampere hen—
Bow I'd like ter roust Beall out,
•„ You Jest Sign my name urito it;
anaG it black es it appears;
Stout mom es will live on wimnain
Ain't ser good ez dairy steers,
PLOWING ONDIIIL
Try an experiment this year. Plow
under some of the clover or rye and plant
potatoes, using the same amount of ferti.
lizers that you do on bare ground. The
4 R. N. Y. will plow nnder some rye to try
' 'this. Many of us have yet to find that
much of oar work in cutting, curing and
feeding clover is wasted. We had better
plow it right under and use fertilizers
with it for potatoes, or put our stable
manure on it—the etalks chopped or
ornehed—and plant corn. Try it this
year. 'This is a tinie for looking up new
methods rather than for nailing ourselves
closer to old•tiene notious, in the hope that
by getting closer to them we oan squeeze
more ono of them. French 'soldiers breve
always worn red pantaloons. In the old
days when battle fields were oovered with
smoke, the red was not so conspicuous as
to make glaring targets. The other day
military men witnessed a trial of the new
smokelthe powder. Then it was plainly
seen that the red trousers only made -the
wearer.a conspicuous target for the °ppm-
ing riflemen. The red will have to go or
France will conduct her wars at a
advantage. Some of our ideas regarding
the use of clover are liable to be as rudely
shaken as the sentiment that clothes
French soldiers in red trousers.—New
Yorker.
THE ORNAMENUL MORTGAGE.
From ell over the country come zeports
of threetened foreclosures of mortgages on
farm property. In Pennsylvania many
eupposedly rich farmers have failed be-
cause ot the depreciation in farm values.
In Southern New Jersey several hundred
farms are being sold by the sheriff. As
our readers know, reports from many parts
of the West are no better. What is to be
done? This country cannot afford to have
its native-born fanciers driven from their
farms to be replaced by a tenant peasantry.
For a number of years past great mort-
gage and trust companies have gradually
secured a grasp on tlaousande of American
farm& When the present occupants of
these farms are driven away, who will be
scoured to 'fill their places? No true
American can view this state of affairs
without alarm. The present condition of
American agriculture demands the prompt
and careful attention of our statesmen and
bueinees men.—Rural New Yorker.
the lees the cost of handling it, Bulk
does not give quality, and this es eapeoielly
the caee With manure. Te haul and handle
great quantities of unrotted, octane, /mike'
inaterial costs the labor of both men and
teams, It ie claimed that a ton of ordinary
etable manure (mutat= only twenty-ftve
pounds of fertilizer in its concentrated
form, and it is as expensive to hanele thia
twentyeflve pounds as it is to handle
manure twice he valuable.
When the farmer churns his milk and
sells butter he deed not deprive hie; soil of
fertility, The buttermilk may be fed to
mine aid poultry with profit, but when
meat and eggs are sold the fertility of the
soil goer; also. Nothing robe the soil faster
than selling milk, and unless the farmer
procures feetilizers or buys a large propor.
tion of bran and linseed meal hie farm will
deteriorate in quality.
To get e fall orop of potatoes use plenty
of manure or fertilizer. If manure, let it
be fine feed well rotted and applied
liberally in the rows. If fertilizer be used
it should be applied in quattity to push the
plants vigorously and to enable the °rep to
produce as much aspossible. It does not
pay to be too economical in the use of
manure or fertilizer.
It is a pleasure with thoee who live on
the suburbs of towns and cities to keep a
few hen. A small flock will coat but little,
as the wraps !rota the table and any
waste material, will provide a. large share
of the food. It is olaimed that as many
eggs are produced in suburban sections as
on the forme.
• While the weather is dry the roots of
plants will quickly dry if exposed. It is
best to pour a little water around the
roots of plants that are transplanted, as
it will prevent many of them from wilting.
If the ground below the surface is quite
damp this precaution is not nethesary.
Do not plant corn on the same land that
yon grew a crop of corn upon teat year. A
rotation of orope is best. When the looa•
tion for corn is °hanged every year there is
less liability of attack from rust, and the
soil is no, oorapelled to perform the same
duty twice in succession.
Variation of the food promotes appetite.
All animals become disgusted with a same.
nese of food. When food is refused tempt
the animal with eomething else. In this
meaner sickness and loss of fleeh may be
avoided, while the cost need not be neces-
sarily increased.
A correspondent of the Mirror stateshow
to avoid rot and scab in potatoes "Roll
the land, and when the potatoes are four
inohes high sow on a mixture of fifteen
parts plaster, three parts slaked lime and
one part of fine salt.'
Dry soils should receive flat cultivation
and damp soils should be ridged. The ob-
ject, in the first place, is to save as much
as.possible, and, itt the second, to get rid of
the exerts&
• If you cannot keep the number of ani-
mals you have on your farm do not try to
get more land, but sell off a portion of the
i
stook. Overcrowding is as njurious as too
much room.
Do not work the 'horses too steadily at
first. A horse that has stood in the stable
all through the winter, doing but little
work, is in no condition for endnring a
heavy day's labor.
The value of any kind of fodder is not in
its quantity, but in the amount that is
• digestible. The quality largely depends on
the stage of growth when it is out and
cured.
Now thee the teams will be busy it is im-
portant that the harness fits the horse.
Galls and sores on the horss may be
avoided by giving some attention to the
harness.
BLANEET YOUR HORSE.
Ie is money in your pocket to keep .your
tome blanketed. The warmth must be
kept up, and if the horse is not blanketed
he roust eat thee much more tokeep warm,
and a Manket Will save more than its price
in feed. Your horse, if blanketed, will live
longer, work harder, and Ms smooth, glossy
cast will make him look $50 better than if
he was not blanketed. When buying
blankets it is cheaper to get good ones
which will wear. Many blankets are made
merely to sell, a,nd it is the pooreat kind of
economy to bay one of these poor blankets
because they are a few cents cheaper.
THE EARNER A SKILLED LABORER.
'Viewed from the lofty standpoint of the
New York Hod -carrier's Union, considered
from the hall of the Philadelphia Bill
Posters' Protective Athol:dation, the prairie
farmer is simply a clodhopper. He is a
man who decides to have corn, wheat and
potatoes, instead of wild grass, grow on a
certain piece of land, and plants the seed
that will produce them. In point of fe.ct,
more knowledge and skill are requisite for
prosecuting this craft than that of any
oity artisan. It requires more skill to
handle a plough than a trowel. It is more
difficult to handle a reaping machine than
a machine that turns out brick. Greater
knowledge to sow grain than to move
switches in a freight yard. Much more
information, experience and skill are needed
to raise tobaoco plants, to oultivate them
and properly mire the leaves than to make
them into cigars. Laying drain tile is
let more difficult art than laying brick.
Properly to remove a fleece from e sheep
demands as great dexterity as to shave a
beard from a face. The successful farrner
is necessarily a ekilled laborer. He if
master, not of one trade, but of many, and
a long time is required to learn eaoh of
them. He is also a merchant, and to be
prosperous be must be a judge of the
quality of many things, and know how to
buy and sell them to the best of advantage.
—.Rodney Welch in January Forum.
SALTLESS HOTTER.
The buttermupplied in summer to the
best familial; in Great Britain is absolutely
free fronatalt, and is considered a great
luxury. The taste for unsalted butter is
spreading in this country, and in Chicago
them is a firm which does a good leneiness
among the richer °lasses with unsalted
butter. Thoge who have tried this batter
report that it is peculiarly pleasant to the
taste, having nothing but the natural flavor
of the cream. In autumn, salt at the rate
of one quarter of an ounce to eteoh pound
Of butter may be used. In England this ia
called " powderea " butter to diatieguish
it fore the " freeh " (nnealted) arid ,, oath "
(winter) butter.
Interesting and useful.
It ie thought that in the agriodltnral
distriote botany should be a study in tbe
public schools, and that obe day in the week
should be given np to lectures on soile,
plents, breede of steels, °titivation, ferti-
lizers, eto. Such studies are not uninter-
esting to children who are accustomed to
the farm, end they would quickly con:tare.
tend the lecturer; from the eaid impartedby
every -day experience& No doubt such
Iltudiee would be of tench benefit to the
coming generation said lead to better
ieyrittene of farming.
The better the qtality 01 the inertere
'REIsiaetla.A.PIEEIC Stalld•MAItY.
Since April aet 55 strikes have been
treiten be Atistria.
The Atietrian strikers are demanding
advancer', of frona 50 to 100 per. cent.
wages.
Subscriptions ter the relief of 'destitute
Balaolava heroes in Englanii BO fEI! MINIM
to $120.
The National Zeituny says that the Labor
bill fixes the maximum ef women's work at
eleven lemma a day.
There have been thirteen deethe alto,
getherBasimalar,ciesatialtliofa.
hte anti-Seinitio riot-
ing
inThe deeth is announced at Belleville of
Mr. John Franoio, County Surveyor, at the
ripe old age of 72 years.
M. Spitzer, the well-known collector, died
in Paris on Friday. His collection of
OUP100 is -valued at 14 000 000f.
The bill providing for the closing of
saloonsin Ireland on Sunday has paned its
second reading in the Common&
A Zanzibar deepen% says the Germans
have built a fortified station at Mount
Xenia, formally annexing to that district.
Tbe non.union carpenters of Chicago are
appealing to Secretary Blaine for protem
ti on against the intimidation of the union.
IstEiGiovanni Sliced, Who on March lath
began a 40 -days' fast et the Royal Aquar-
ium, Paris, successfully completed /nis task
yesterday,
The Pittsburg Commission Company, the
largest bucket shop concern in Pennsyl-
vania, 13 as suspended with liabilitiesmeti.
mated at 150,000.
A Cameroons Woman's Toilet.
So long as they are young and handsome
the Cameroons women pay great attention
to their toilet. The petticoat, whioh
reaches down from the hips to the anklee,
must be thoroughly smooth and clean, and
the apron, which is worn under it, is as
spotless as the underclothing of a European
lady. Their hair is woven by professional
hair -dressers into braids of various shapes,
without grease end usually is
orna-
ments, although a woman s occasionally
found, who wears a string of beads around
her head. The dressing usually lasts for
a week, and is bound up at night in a cloth
for protection. It is also a part of the
hair -dresser's business, which is oarried on
in the street, to pull out the lady's eye.
lashee. A string of pearls or some other
ornament of European origin is worn
around the neck. The shoulders, breast
and belly are covered with ornamental
tatooing in red and blue, apparently center.
ing at she navel. Elaborate ruffle's of
ivory or metallic) rings are worn upon the
wriets and ankles.—From "Life at the
Cameroons,” by Robert Muller, M. D., in the
Popular Science Monthly.
The Newfoundlanders are enforcing the
bait regulations rigoronely against all Yee -
eels, °barging a license fee of $1 per ten at
each time of taking bait.
A London, Eng., grave digger has been
sentenced to one month's imprisonment in
Berlin for cutting the hair from the heads
of corpses and selling the OMB to dealers.
The Pope announces that at the coming
oonsistory, in aceiordanoe with the agree-
ment with Gen. Simmons, he will raise the
Bishop of Malta to the rank of an Arch-
bishop.
The Brazilian Miniater to Italy bas been
recalled because he failed to present to the
Italian Government the decree of his Gov-
ernment forbidding Italians to enter
Brazil.
It is stated that Emperor William is pre-
paring to submit to President Carnot pro-
posals for a rapprochement which would
have been impossible whilePrince Bismarck
was in power.
A despatch from the Indian reservation
at Gleichen,N.W.T.,announces the death of
Crowfoot, the brave and intelligent chief of
the Blackfeet tribe. He die S of inflamma-
tion of the lungs.
The Novoe Vrernya says the Russian
Government refused to grant the request
of the Ameer of Bokhnra that foreign goods
for Bokhara be allowed to pan through
Russia free of duty.
As tlie moment for Emperor William's
journey to Bremen approached, the em-
ployees of the railway on which he was to
travel struck for higher wages. Men from
other lines had to work the trains.
To Remove Spots From Books.
Grease spots if old may be removed by
applying a solution of varying strength of
caustic potseh upon the back of the leaf.
The printing, which leeks somewhat
faded after the* removal of the spot, may be
freshened up by the application of a
mixture of one part of =natio acid and
25 parts of water. In the case of fresh
grease spots carbonate of potash, one part
to thirty parts of water, chloroform, ether
or benzine renders good service Wax
disappears if after saturating with benzine
or tnrpentine it is. covered with folded
blotting paper and a hot flat iron put upon
it. Paraffine is removed by boiling water
or hot spirits. Ink spots or rust yields to
oxalic =id in combination with hot
water; chloride of gold or silver spots to a
weak solution of corrosive sublimate or
cyanide of potassium. Sealing WOX is dia•
solved by hot spirits and then rubbed off
with oasis sepia ; indis ink is slightly
brushed over with oil and after twelve hours,
saponified sal-ammoniao ; any particles of
color still remaining must be reatioved with
rubber.—American Bookmaker.
Another Sweetheart Now.
Young man—I vial to get this engage-
ment ring enlarged.
Jeweller—Enlarged? Why, you told me
a while ago it wag a perfect fit.
Young man—Oh yea, that was all right
for her.
A Backward Season.
Reporter—Well, sir, it look e en if spring
had about come.
Editor—Oh, no. Not for some time yet.
Reporter—What makes you think that?
Editor—Scarcely any poetry has been
eent in ao far. I can alweys tell by that.
In a Chicago Court.
JaIdge—On what grounds, madam, do
you claim s divorce from yonr htisbend ?
"The dootor told me to aboard every.
thing that disagreed with Mei and my
hus-----''
'‘ Granted. Next I"
So There Was.
'0b4 ,Tames, come quickly, Freddy heal
awalloWedhis mouth -organ."
that to / Then their' Music in the
heir,"
refused to ;tome his accomplices and died
yesterday.
President °area has received a letter
from the Eing of Dahomey, in yebiele the
latter complains that the lerelegle ettealeed
him without warning and wiebout deolteeing
veer ageinst him. Ho further nye that
when his tether died Patentee alone emitted
to sena him a letter of eyeopetby. The
King declarer; the French merchantow
in hie power will be kept as hostages until
the end of the war.
The flows feast or oombat of Atmore
bean yesterday afternoon in the City of
Mexico, One hundred thousand people
were on the promenade of La Riforraa and
the Avinido Juaree, In additioe to nearly
500 unadorned carriages, conteinieg sight-
seers, there were over 40 carriages adorned
with flowers and ribbon a and fully 1,000
horsemen- The quantity of flowers was
enormone, four carloads coming from
Jalapa alone. The oelebratioe was brought
to a hurley oonolturion by rain.
The agitation among the workingmen of
Hungary is resuming colossal proportion&
Queen Victoria left Darmstadt yesterday
on her return to England. She will receive
Mr. Stanley May 6th,
It is proposed that an abattoir should be
emoted in Toronto and that the corpora-
tion should manage it.
The Governor•General is in Montreal, and
Will take part at the MoGill College con-
vocation this afternoon.
The ante of siege in Crete has been
raised and martial law has been aboliebed.
The Christians are jubilant.
The Oregon and Sardinian arrived at
Father Point yeeterday, the first ooean
steamere of the season.
The kintreal City Council yesterday de-
cided to extend an invitation to the Duke of
Connaught to visit the city.
The railway from Delagoa Bay to the
frontier ot the Transvaal has been com-
pleted and opened to traffic.
Col. Rhodes, Minister of Agriculture in
the Quebec Cabinet, has resigned his port-
folio and will retire from political life.
Williaxn Artburs, who was terribly
burned in the Belleville fire by vehicle his
• wife lost her life, died on Monday after.
noon.
Albani has been subpoenaed in the suit
brought for damages from alleged breach
of contract by Mr. J. F. Thomson, of To.
ronto.
The North Renfrew Reform Convention
yesterday nominated Mr. Thomas Murray
to contest the riding for the Ontario Legis-
lature.
The Toronto Liquor License Commis-
sioners yesterday issued 150 tavern and 50
shop licenses, several of the former being
conditional.
The Reform Convention for North Mid-
dlesex yesterday nominated Mr. John
Waters to contest the constituency in the
corning local eleotione.
Mr. H. P. O'Connor, the late member for
East Bruce in the Ontario Assembly, was
yesterday nominated to contest the riding
in the approaching elections.
It is rumored in Quebec and Montreal
that Mr. Chaplean will give up his seat in
the Dominion Cabinet and assume the
leadership of the Quebec Opposition.
Daring the past week persons in eight or
ten Tottenville, S. I., families were made
serionaly ill by eating canned corned beef
which the °annexe had cooked in a copper
kettle. The sick people are recovering.
In a special cablegram from Berlin it is
stated that Dr. Windthorst, the leader of
the German Clerical party, intends sup-
porting the Emperor's Socialist policy, but
he expects in return the repeal of the May
laws.
A oattle disease of extraordinary viru-
lence has made its appearance; with fatal
effect in the vicinity of Seedwarzen-Enpen,
Pruesia. Traffio in • cattle has been
strictly prohibited with the infected dia.
Wets.
The burgomaster of Stookerau, Austria,
whose house contains a synagogue, has re-
ceived a letter yearning him his hones will
be burned and not a Jew will escape alive.
Anti -Jewish rioting is reported in Kolornes,
Galicia.
Mr. McMillan, the Manitoba Government
agent, speaking near Elora on Friday
night, mid that fewer Ontario farmers are
now leaving for the 'Western States while
the number going to Manitoba is largely
inoreaaing.
Major Serpa Pinto, who was the
pritnery cause of the trouble between
England and Portugal has been appointed
aide-de-oamp to the King of Portugal, and
a sword of honor has been presented to
him in Lisbon.
The strike of railway men at cork is
causing considerable anxiety at Liverpool,
owing to the fear that its prolongation may
bring such pressure of public opinion to
bear on the postmffith authorities as will
cause them to adopt a fresh mail route.
Henry H. Stanley arrived in London on
Saturday evening after his long absence in
• the Dark Continent. He was given an
immense ovation. Lady Btardett•Cloutte
was in waiting, slid drove him off in her
carriage. Stanley goes to Sandringham as
the guest of the Prince of Wales.
In spite of the numerous conferences to
be held there is but little prospect that
the Chicago carpenters' strike will be
settled. The Carpenters and Builders'
Association refuses to reeognize the union
in any way, and the strikers insist they
will agree to no terms until this, hi done.
The British and United States Govern-
ments have made an imperative demand
that the Delagoa railway question should be
settled by arbitration. The British and
United States Ministers had a long inter.
view yesterday with the Foreign Minister,
who bee the affair under careful considera-
tion.
• An onainons feature of the Berlin shoe.
makers' strike has been the issue of
violent manifesto, in which the existing
social order is denounced. The Emperor's
resoripts are attacked as useless. The
workmen, est= dominant force, the math
feato says, ought to return and renovate
[IcH3itrY.
Te 'wee a destructive wind and rein
etre= in Woodruff Connie', Ark., early
yesterday morning. The village of York-
ville was almost entirely blown away and
the disaster is very great. Houses, barns,
fences, and etrnoturee af allkinds were
taken np by the wind and carried some
diahce'
Jahen.Hamilton, John T. Owen, and
Jamee Owens Intros, convicted ot stealing
a hone from a farmer at Clrozekeye, were
pilloried for one hour and whipped with
twenty lashes each at Georgetown,
Delaware, Saturday. There being no tail yard
the whipping took plebe oh the village
green, in a space roped off to keep tack the
300 spectators.
On Thursday evening burglars etterapted
to otter Pretter ea Co's, store at IrOnwood,
Mich. A derk fired a Shot gun in the face
of the forerdost Man and the burglars fled.
On Friday night the burglar, whose name
is found to be Sohn Richards, turned up at
the hermits' with hie face nearly gone. He
of Juane° Patterson, of the Supreme Court.
be cererneny was performed by Rev. W.
T, Herridge of $t. Andrews Church, air,
Fred Hodder; was best man and NiSS
Blearier Hai:anew), Toronto, bridesmaid.
Tile bridal party left for Weedsor to -day,
where the home ref the young people
will be.
Navigatime has opened on the Lake of the
Woods,
Workmen in two St. John establishments
went out on Strike yeeterday,
Three slight earthquake shooks were felt
at Saratoga, N. Y. on Sunday night.
According to the electoral lists the total
number of voters in Montreal is 41,980, of
whom 23,731 are French and 18,258 are
Englieh.
Nine groups of Anarohists are making
arrangements for a demonstratima inRaffle
on May day. Both the police and the
garrison have been reinforced.
O'Donovan Rona has been cetvicted of
criminally libelling Patrick tierefield
Cassidy, a New Yorn journalist. A moan.
mendation to mercy accompanied the
verdlet.
The body of Herbert G. Prowse, WhO was
drowned in Murakoka Lake when evening
the the on the 27th Deoember, has been
recovered and interred at Point Kaye
Church.
The Brazilian Provisional Government
has isseed a decree proclaiming as an reot
of conspireem againt the Government the
publication of " falee news and alarming
rumors."
It is estimated 200,000 persons, princi-
pally miners, will take part in the organ.
iged demonstrationon May day at
Brussels, Mons, Leige, and Charleroi. No
disorder is Expected.
A reacting of Renew, conatiotore was
held in Kansas City Monday at which the
• grievance of being constantly watched by
spotters was discussed. It is not impro-
bable a strike may result.
At Orangeville there is in course of trial
a oivil suit for damages arising out of the
death of James Soott, who is alleged to
have been killed in a quarrel with one
Atkinson over fiehing fees.
The price of beef in Halifax market has
risen lately to as high as $9 per hundred
weight, and has been scarce at that. To
meet the demand quantities have been im-
ported from the United States.
Advices 1 cora Kotonau say the King of
Dahomey wrote to Col. Terrillon on the
20th, threatening to attar* Porto Novo on
the 27t1*, and Captain Fournier, of the
French naval forces, threatened to retaliate
• by bombarding Whydah.
Advices from Samoa state that Malietoa,
King of Samoa, signed the treaty for the
settlement of the Samoan troubles in the
presence of the various consuls ab Alpia
and a large number of Samoans Tamasese
and his party have accepted the new regime.
The representatives of ten of the seven-
teen nations participating in the Interna-
tional American Conference yesterday
signed the agreement drawn up by the
Conference for the settleraent by arbitra-
tion of differenoes and disputes between
them.
The Shah of Persia has cancelled the
concession obtained by a Russian com-
pany for the construction of a railwayfrom
Reeled to Enzellee, the seaport of the
former place.
The C. P. R. having paid no attention
tp Toronto's protest against the erection of
dribbing along the city front, the Aldermen
suggest that it should be blown out of
Toronto Bay with dynamite.
Louis A. Cornellier, the Ottawa oivil
servant clumped with forgery, yesterday
pleaded guilty. After being. lectured by
Judge Rose, he was allowed to go under
suspended judgment of the court.
An inquest was held yesterday in Shel-
burne on the three Morrison children, and
a verdict was returned to the effect that
they were drowned by their father while
he was laboring under a fit of insanity.
The East Kent Reform Convention yes-
terde.y afternoon, held in Ferguson's Opera
House, Thamesville, to chooth a oandidate
for East Kent in the coming Provincial
eleotione, nominated Mr. Robert Ferguson,
the former member.
It is reported MM. Nagnet, De Roulade
and LaGuerre, the noted Boulangists, are
now on the Island of Jersey making ar-
rangements for Gen. Boulanger to return
to France; May lst, and take part in the
labor demonstration.
• The steamer H. B. Plant, of the St.
John's River Line, was burned early yes-
terday morning at Beresford Landing, 108
miles Borth of Jacksonville Fla. Several
lives were lost. Full particulars not yet at
hand.
Yesterday afternoon a girl named Bette
Bailey, of Herkimer, N. Y., took a tea-
spoonful of rat poison. The physinian who
was summoned was unable to them her and
she died this morning. She was 18 years
of age, and no reason is knowo why sbe
should take her life.
The case of the county of Essex vs.
County Treasurer Wright came on for
trial yesterday • morning before anage
Street at the Sandwich Assizes. The
action was for certain alleged deficiencies,
and the result was a judgment against the
defendant for an amount to be ascertained
by a referee.
A St. Thomas despatch says : A well-
known railway engineer, as next of km,
has entered an action on behalf of his
unmarried sisteninnewl olaiminf $2,000
damages for slander against a we 1 -known
M.C.R. baggageman, for giving circulation
to a false statement, impunging the chastity
of the young woman.
Whilst Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Sauram, of
London West, were atthnding divine service
on Sunday evening some sneak thieves
entered the home by taking out a pate of
glass and stole two valuable watches and
about e60 in money. No clue leas been
obtained of the robbers, although it is sup.
pond they were well acquainted with the
PfeAmbiona.
stcontaining four men was °amazed
on the lake Monday night, at Newport, Vt.,
and Ed. Foss, olerk at the Memphremagog
Howie, Ned Green, an emplayee of the
house, and Joe Robitaille were drowned.
Arthur Moore, the fourth occupant, BRO.
ceeded in swimming sphere. The bodies
breve not been recovered. The boat wad
capsized in the attempt of two of the men
to change positions.
A child named Plate° was she* a, to neer
Yorkton, Man, last week, A. 12•year•old
brother of the victim had returned to the
house trona a shooting expedition, and,
being Called to the farm by his parents, he
lef t the loaded gun on the floor. The victim,
child 5 years Md, being alone in the
hone& caught the gun by the muzzle and
drew it towards himself. The mother,
hearing the report, hastened to the house
ana found the child dead.
Mr. George S. Efoagins, son a Dr.
Hedging, late Deputy Minister of Educe.
tion, was married at Ottawa yeeterdity to
Mira Serala Fetterman youngest daughter
THE 131•11,LOW:::000:00, G ZR144S1•110r
The English paper's are almest nnar im•
otis in their condemnation of Horne Semen
tarp Matthews for allowing Richard De,viee
to be lammed. The young man and his
brother were found guilty of killing their
father, who Was maltreating tbeir mother.
The 18•year.old sort was hanged and his
16-yeano14 acoomplioe war' erenteoced to
oee yearat imprisonment. Tbe Daily NewS
eaye " Tbs decision of Mr. Mathews
will, besides shocking the good eenee and
good feeling of the country, destroy what
little confidence was still reposed in his.
dieoretion, eta() a blow at publio belief in
the humanity of the hew, and indefinitely
iticrease the difficulty of proouring °envie.
tions for murder when oiroumstenthe of
real or even imaginary extenuation exist.
It woeld not be eatty to find a case in the.
annals of oritninol jaatice where the Home
Office had set iteelf so doggedly against
public opinion, and neat not merely of
humanitarians and eentirnentalists, but of
the most hard-headed and unemotional
people." The Daily Chronicle says Secre-
tary Matthews stands convicted of judicial
murder by the jury of public opinion,
and adds ; "1* is terrible to think that the
fortes of life and death shonld be in the
hands of a man who, with airy and jaunty
gallantry, pardons Mrs. Maybriok for
poisoning e husband of whom ehe ttred,
and retuses to, save from the hangman's
noose& lad who, provoked by the hideons
torture which bis father inflicted on his
mother, slew him as one days a beast of
prey—or any other oreeture whom we
deem hostis humani. The defeat in our
judicial system is, in truth, rendered all
the relies conspicuous because the HOMO
Seoretary entered politioal life as the par.
Bean of Irish incendiaries. The American
system of giving the jury the right of not
merely casting the verdict, but of fixing the
punishment, should without delay be in-
troduced into our Englieh administration
of the criminal law; otherwise English
juries, so long se Mr. Matthews in in office,
have but one alternative. It is to refuse to
return any verdict that oan by any ohanoe
or mischance carry a greater punishment
than the one they deem just and necessary.
We quite admit that in doing this the jury-
man will be warned that it is a serione
thing to break his juror's oath. His retort
through life haunted night and day that
isthatit is a still more serious thing to go -
one has been an accessory with the Home
Seciretery of the period to a judicial mur-
der."
:hThe St. James Gazette, after pointing out
that the younger boy, according to the
evidence, had more to do with the murder
than the older, surmises that the distinc-
tion was made in favor of the younger
because "Mr. Matthews wanted to be
austere, and also did not want to make
himself too unpopular. Between these two
influences he decided on a compromise. He
resolved to leave the elder brother to his
fate as an example, but to let the younger
escape the rope, not because he is leas
deserving of ii—Mr. Matthews may be
weak and injudicious, but he is not silly—
but because there are a great many people
who would be shocked at the hanging of a
boy of sixteen. These persons Mr. Mat-
thews probably despises, but they have
votes—therefore they were considered."
The Pall Mall Gazette has a, somewhat dif-
ferent theory. It says "the prevalent view
amongst the political friends of Mr. Mab -
thews is that he has acted in this case out
of sheer cowardice and indecision. He has
wanted, say the many papers,to stand well
with both sides; with the 'humane' people,
whom he has consulted in letting one cul-
prit off; and with the severe people whom
he bas consulted in hanging the other. For
onr part, we are tempted to adopt what is
possibly a more charitable theory; or if
not to adopt it, at any rate to throw it out
for consideration. alaynot Mr. Matthews' '
illogioal decision have been the outcome of
a deep design to sap the institution of osp-
ital punishment, and to rid. the office
of Home Secretary for the future
of its least enviable duty ?" The Star says:
" The whole practice of capital punishment
is being broken up by the fact that no
sooner has the judge doffed the black cap
and gone down from the judgment seat,
than the whole British nation, begins, if
ite interest is sufficiently awakened, to re-
try the case. Not twelve men—but thirty
millions—constitute themselves into a jury,
and argue and ms. argue the matter from
the columns of the daily papers. The
Crewe case has followed hard on the May
brick case. If Mr& alaybriok had been
hung, we might have had an agitation
which weuld have brought the Salisbury
Government to the ground far quicker than
its Irish policy will do. Richard Davies'
doom will almost certainly be Mr. Mat.
thews' electoral deathawarrant. The fact
is that the death penalty is hideously out
of date. Science is playing hay= with old
institntionv, and with none more freely
than with the penal oode. We punish now
for safety, not for vengeance; and in our
punishment we are beginning to take ao.
count not simply of the offender's crime,
but of his parentage, his surroundings, hie
temperament, and generally hie chance in
life. Science has pitohed away the raok,
tbe thumbscrew, and practically the °anon
nine tails. Sooner or later it will pull
down the scaffold."
The Meaning of "Whoa."
A horse -breaker has given me a lesson in
the proper nee of words. This, in its way,
ie quite as remarkable as would be a literal
fitding of sermons in stones. This expert
was instructing his audience, ae he pro-
ceeded to subdue a balky horse, in the
right use of the word "whoa." " Balky
drivers," as he phrased it, make balky
horses. Therm unskilful drivers., for exam-
ple will say whoa" to a horse repeatedly,
as in going round a corner, when they
really mean only " steady." "Don't say
whoa unless you mean stop," was Ma
terse injunction. In other words, do not
• use a superlative word when a positive.
word serves the purpose. Better for the
horse and better for the driver. Emerson.
championed the positive degree in speech,
and this home -trainer likewise, inferen-
tially, preanhed against exaggeration in
talking—to one's borse.--Spectator in the -
Christian Union.
Mr. Balfour and Mr. Gosoben held a
conference yesterday with the Irish Land
Commission, in regard to the expediency of
the adoption by the Home of Commons of
a part of the proposals made by Mr.
Parnell relative to the purchase of land in
Ireland.
The delegates from Newfoundland to
Great Britain and Canada arrived in
Halifax yeaterday. They say their mission
is hot confined to the modus vivendi, but
they hope to secure the co-operation of the
Dominion in their dispute regarding coast
fishing privileges with France.
Yesterday Judge Mathieu, in the Practice
Court, Montreal, gave judgment in the pre-
liminary issues in the case of the Jesuits
vs. the Mail. The deoision is to the effect
that the plaintiffs are legally incorporated
and have therefore a right to sue, and the
exoeptions to the form of procedure are
therefore overruled.
A meeting of Anarchists was held at
Lyon, Franca, yesterday, at which
speeches were made favoring violence by
the workingmen on the occasion of the
labor demonstration on May lat. Eleven of
the participants In the meeting who were
the most adios in favoring incendiary
action were arrested.
The funeral of Chief Crowfoot took place
at Gleioben, N,W.T., Sunday. The body
laid in state on the buriel ground from
Saturday morning till 4 o'olock p.m., the
hour the funeral took place. All the medals
and presents received during his visit east
were on view. About eight hundred
Indians and most of the Indian Depart-
ment employees were present.
The prospect of a general strike in
Chicago on May 1 is having an unfavorable
influence upon business. It is causing a
restricted demand for local securities in.
the Chicago Stock exchangesand the fear
of a stook yard Bertha has put a blight on
the provision trade, making every trader
anxious to even up and get out. This tends
to weaken prioes.
A New Catchword.
Mr. Balfonr threatens to give tut a new
Parliamentary catohword. A hundred
times he must have said on Tuesday night,
"Very well, sir." He marked his divisions
of subjects by it, Ms sub -divisions, and the
progress of his oratorical paragraphs. "1
hope I have made it clear to the House.
Very well, sir," was said over and over
again. Sir Charles Russell's catohword is
" Let that pass " ; Sir Wm. Harcourt's
4, Atilt la. Mr. Goschen olearr; his throat.
Mr. Gladstone takes a drink. But Mr.
Balfour produces his pocket handkerolaief
and exclaims, "Very well, eir."—Pall Mall
Gazette.
Harshness with Children.
I wonder if parents really know how
much they are standing in their own light
When they are so strict and severe with
their children, forbidding them to play
cards, dance and go to the opera and
theatre. Let there reason with them and
advise there not to go if they are opposed
to such places of amueement, and give
them amusement at home, but forbidding
them will oftentimes make the children lie
in order to accomplish their end.—Farmer's
Voice.
Me. Howells is at work upon a juvenile
eerie,' to be called "A. Boy'e Town,,telling
of a boy's doings and dreemings in a little
Ohio town On the Groat Miami, Where
" every day War fail of wonderful wenn
renoth and thrilling excitement' to the
boy who figures as the hero. It is an open
secret that the story is largely antobi.
grapleical.
It is a very avektvard thing for me
that your wife should have read nay lest
letter to yea. Didn't you tell me &toe
that she never read your letters ?" " AA &
rule, she never does ; but pen were teak
enough to mark that lest ono ' Private' I "
The ex -Queen Of Naples has stahltie it
the Champs /Ilya° and at Chantilly, std
runs homed tinder an allettmed narde.
Beside Her
Robinson—Well, Thomas, I suppose you
were beside yourself with joy when Miss.
Martha accepted you?
Thomas—Not exaotly, but I was beside
her for some time afterward.
At the Dime musettne.
"How do you feel ? asked the Living
Skeleton of the Fat toy, as the reorning
performance began.
" linmente," was the reply.
Tough Case,
Mrs. Yotrigwife—Did you ever try any'
of my biscuits, Judge?
andge—No, I never did; but I dare ger
they deserve it.
—A milliner says tiers on a a onnet or hat.
make yon leek aounger.
halaitiont coating 180,00a areto
made to the Edinburgh General Post.
office.