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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-5-8, Page 6BALFOUR'S LAND BILL Declared by Gladstone to Violate Oonstitn- tional Equality, A London cable of last night says ; Mr. Gladstcue reeumed the debate on the Land Purchase Bill in the House of Commons this evening. He said be opposed the bill under an overwhelming eonviotion that it was complicated without undertaking to solve the difficulty. He was disappointed when Mr. Balfour stated that the measure pledged the enuairy to the extent of L33,- 000,000, without mentioning the possibility of further amounts being asked. Mr. Par- nell'e plan was new in principle. Its gen. eral purpose was olear, but he was not certain that he comprehended the details, (Conservative laughter.) It was honorable —even chivalrous—in Mr. Parnell, oppos- ing the Government as he did, to propose an alternative, He strongly sympathized with one object of Mr. Parnell's plan, where. by the landlords would not be expatriated, but would be retained. It would be A SORROWFUL CONCLUSION of the life of the landlord class if when local government was established in Ireland they did not take part in adjusting affairs. Mr. J3alfour's bill presented a number of dubious points. Some of the proposals were so obviously objectionable as to justify their rejection. A bill of this kind should not enoourage landlorde to become buyers of land in order to take advantage of the enormous boons offered. (Hear, hear.) The provision respecting two years' arrears also required a justification which it would be difficult to find. (Cheers.) The method proposed for ascertaining the net rent of the land would enable the landlord to obtain compensation upon a Large mass of income that he had never received. (Hear, hear.) He also took the strongest objection to placing an embargo upon the local feuds of counties. (Hear, hear.) That proposal VIOLATED A PRINCIPLE which the House ought to hold sacred. The only really available and valuable guarantees provided in the measure were grants from the Imperial exchequer on account of probate duties and other public charges. The Government had already given England and Scotland similar grants, placing them wholly at the disposal of the local authorities. Was it possible the Gov- ernment Would tall the counties of Ireland t be thegrant to that counts mac that 9 g used for the benefit of persons contracting under the bill ? (Cheers.) It was a viola- tion of equality in governing the three king- doms, than which he never knew a more glaring instance. (Cheers.) Coming to the "constitutional" objections, any of which, he asserted, formed an absolute reason agsinst the second reading of the bill, Mr. Gladstone urged it was obvious that Ireland opposed the measure, 'as five -sixths of the Irish mem- bers deliberately and determinedly opposed it. (Cheers.) As the Government was going to make Ireland its debtor, it was important to consider the attitude of the persons about to be subjected to debt. Was it possible to imagine the Government imposing a similar meaeure upon Scotland in defiance of the protest of 60 cat of 70 Scotch members ? (Cheers.) He objected also to the use of English credit. In the last general election both the Conserva- tives and the Oppoeiticn were pledged against the use of the public credit. This Parliament could not in conformity with its honorable obligations pass a Bill insti- tuting a loan Land having an interminable operation. (Cheers.) Besides the .large pecuniary risk the Bill INVOLVED EVILS TENFOLD GREATER, threatening to produce conditions which would shock humanity, imperil order and make worse the relations between the two eonntries. State landlordism implied the use of soldiers against the tenant, the use of every weapon of the State to enforce an unpopular law. It was a sad disappoint- ment to,find under the namsof a voluntary arrangement between landlord and tenant a device for bringing an irresistible pres- sure upon the tenant, with a view to ex- torting for the landlord's benefit nearly the whole of the immense boon that Parlia- ment might confer. Mr. Gladstone said these objections covered only a part of this measure, which was probably the most complicated one he had ever seen. In oon- olusion he said : I feel it to be my absolute duty to protest against principles of so flagrant a character and so tending to embark the country in immense pecuniary risks, while making Iand purchase not an aim in the settlement of the general Irish problem, bat a means to farther plunge as into the deepest political embarrassments. (Cheers.) ROOF IN THE COUNTRY. The Trouble Caused Uncle Sam by the Chinese Invasion. A Washington despatch says,; Attorney. General Miller informed the Treasury Department, under date of April 19th, that there are nineteen Chinamen now in cue- tody of the United States Marshal of Washington, who were arrested and tried for coming into the United States in viola. tion of the Chinese Exclusion Act He recommended, in accordance with a seg• gestion from the Secretary of State, that notwithstanding the presumption that theea Chinamen entered the United States across the British border, they be returned to China at the Government expense, for the reason that the men could not be returned to British territory without pay- ment of a head tax of $50 each, and even then they might probably again evade the vigilance of the United States officers and return to this country. Secretary Windom has adopted the recommendation, and has instructed the Collector of Customs at Port Townsend to see that the men are returned to China in the most economical way by sailing or other vessel bound direct for that country without touching et any American port en route. What's in a Name ? A Washington despatch says: The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has deoidod to urge upon Oongrese the advisability of placing our Ministers to the great powers of Europe on an equal footing in reepeot of rank with representatives of other natione. Senator Sherman to -day reported from the committee an amend- ment to the Diplomatic Appropriation Bill. giving the title of ambassador to our Min- inters to Great Britain, Prance, Germany and Russia, the salary to be as neve, $17,500 per annum. Other amendments proposed by the committee to the bill provide that the salary of the Minister to `.f'urkey shall bo 110,000, an increase of 12,500 ; to Denmark, $7,500, an increase of $2,500 ; and to Greece, Roumania. and Beryls, $7,500, an increase of $1,000. A Bridgeport newspaper recently printed the following advertisement. " Chn Potig Would likes smelly nice 1tTelican lady. She no have to work, as Chu Fong got big lot of money. Chu Emig will do the washee and the 000kee; wife site can drew) up every day. Prize, $10 for best girl. Chn Fong." SCHOOL OLOSIl;U Br A DOG. " Nep" is Creating liege E+'xei,temut In Camden County, Q Philadelphia despatch says : School Teacher Flora Meashall'e dog, which has so divided the residents of Waterford, Camden county, by biting Mies Abbie Rioo, a popular young P onion of the town, sev. oral days ago, is forward again as a candi- date for public attention. Four men with guns followed Miss Marshall in an effort to get a shot at her big shaggy friend " Nep," Whittle the was taking aareas the border of Winslow township to get him out of harm. Mise Marshall closed her sohool, at Bates' Mill, yesterday and came up to Camden, where the held a consultation with Lawyer Martin V. Bergen. " No one has a right to shoot your dog," said Mr. Bergen. " Get a pistol, and if hey attempt it, shoot them." Miss Mar- shall has secured the weapon, it ie said, and will defend her dogand herself. Since the alleged biting of Miss Rice over a week ago, the town of Waterford has been rent asunder, and the question of the life or death of the dog has entered into every phase of social and business life there. Mies Rice insisted that as she was passing Mies Marshall's honee the dog flew upon and bit her in the hand. She and her friends declare the big brute must die, bet Miss Marshall defendedher d 1, ae brave, and that he was tender, gentle r that she would as soon part with her own blood as see that of her noble "Nep" shed. She was sure that he had not bitten Mise Rice, but may have jumped upon her in play and caused her a great fright. The trouble was discussed in all its phaees, and Mies Rice's male friends made every effort to get a shot at the dog, but eo far they have been nneuoceesful. At last Capt. H. M. Jewett, Chairman of the Township Committee, was appealed to, and after hearing all the facts he issued a decree of death upon the dog. Mise Mar- shall, however, headed off any attempt to execute the decree of death by taking the dog out of the township. The four men who followed her found it impossible to shoot, as the plucky young schoolmarm kept so close to the dog that her own body might have received the charge intended for the dog. The closing of the village school on account of a dog has added fuel to the fire among the brute's enemies, and there is no telling where the controversy will end. A WINNIPEG ELOPEMENT In Which a Toronto Traveller Plays >. Leading Part A Winnipeg deepateh says : A private letter from Toronto making enquiries as to the cause of the continued absence and silence of a husband and father gives a clue to a sensation. The man is a commercial traveller, well-known in the East and in Winnipeg. During his frequent visits to this province he made the acquaintance of a woman here. The woman in question. formed the central figure of an interesting incident in this city three or four years ago. She is the mother of two children, but ie divorced from her husband, who is in the hardware business in Port Arthur. The acquaintance between the two became very intimate. In fact their attachment for each other decided them in abandoning their children and wife, home, situation, and all, and seeking seclusion and pleasure amongst the people of the Paoifio coast. The woman to cover her steps announced to her friends that she was going on a brief visit to Chicago on Tuesday, and placed her two children in charge of her neighbors. She, however, only went as far south as Pembina. Re- tnrning yesterday, she at once proceeded to the Canadian Pacific Railway depot and boarded the express for the west. The commercial traveller was also on aboard, and the two alighted at Portage la Prairie and spent the night there at one of the hotels, continuing their journey to the coast on Friday. Portuguese Inhumanity. A London cable says : The Drew of the British barque Oseeo, from Savannah for Newcastle, before reported abandoned,were resoned by the British ship Highmoor. Some of the rescued men were placed on another vessel off Lisbon. Five of the Osseo's crew refused to proceed on the Highmoor and started in a boat for St. Vincent, 60 miles distant. They reached the island in a starving condition, but the Portuguese authorities would give them no euccor and refused to allow them to land. The British consul gave the men a distress order addressed to the captain of the British steamer Baffon directing him to carry them to England. Statements in regard to the matter have been received by the British Government. San Franscisco Shalecn. A San Franosoieco despatch of last night says : One of the most severe shocks of earthquake experienced here for a long time was felt in this city and neigh- bouring localities a little after 3.30 o'clock this morning. The buildings were shaken perceptibly and persons aroused from their sleep. Plastering fell from the walls in places, but no serious damage has been reported. The earthquake shock at Mayfield was very severe. The railroad bridge was ren- dered impassable, as the piers, 60 feet high, settled a few inches, and the rails spread apart about a foot. The ground in places settled six to twelve inches. Railway travel' will be delayed. Emin Charged With Treachery. A Cairo cable eays : A Coptic clerk, who was an employee of Emin Pasha while Emin was at Wadelai, has made a sworn deposition before Mason :3ey to the effect that the revolt of Emin's forces was solely due to 'the discovery of Emin's plans to surrender his Province to the Mandi. Emin, according to the clerk's statement, sent three messengersto the Mandi offer- ing to surrender, but they were seized and stopped by Emin's officers. The revolt followed this discovery. Mason Bey considers the statement credible. Next Summer. Wife (awakening her husband) ---Oh, George, there's a burglar in the house Husband (sleepily)—Huh 1 " Yes, and he's at my jewelry box 1" " Huh l" " No ; I declare, he's in the ice cheat room I" Is that so ? (dive me my revolver quick !" 'Unconscious. Sgneers—You're not looking well this morning, old man. What's the matter ? Niokleby--No wonder ! I was uneon- eoigns ten hours lest night. Sgneers—By Jove 1 And np this morn• ing l Why, man, you onght to be under the dootor's care. What was the matter ? Niokleby—1 was asleep t The city of Austin, Tex., will oreot the greatest dam in the United Staters. It will cost $1,500,000. A movement is on foot to effect improve - menta in Glasgow Cathedral ata Dost of between' £800 and £900, TIE EEMMLER RESEZTE,. New York Papers Discuss Luo Case ifs Various Bearings, A New York despatch says: In comment- ing on the Kemn}ler ease, the Sun says : Tbe. Provisional' Government of the New Republio, of Brazil, hoe just promulgated a decree whose practical effect is to destoy the freedom of the press in that country. Government action of this kind has been by no means .uncommon in the South American Republica, and whenever we read such decrees we are apt to congratu- late ourselves upon the fact that no snoh restriotione would be tolerated in the United States. The truth is however, that we have taken the: first step in the same direction here in New York by meeting a . law which assumes to prohibit the publication of the details of any electrical execution in the newspapers. If the Legislature has the power under the constitution to forbid newspapers from telling the people how their laws for • the infliction of the death penalty are enforced, why may not the Legislature also command the press to be silent in reeved to any other prooeeding in the administration of the Government, whether executive, judicial or legislative. Freedom to comment on the conduct of pnblio affairs amounts to nothing if you cannot state how publio affairs are actually conducted. So far as capital pun. ishment is concerned, it is undoubtedly competent under the constitution for the Legislature to limit the number of persons who shall be present at an execution, and if these persons are unwilling to disclose what they observe, nobody can compel them to do eo ; but this is a very different thing from saying that no newspaper shall publish a true narrative of the execution in case it has obtained such a description from one of the witnesses. Tho World says ; In trying to substitute a clever for a clumsy mode of execution this State has managed apparently to meke murder a safe occupation for the next few years. The Tribune says the re -arraignment in the Federal Courts of the technical quer• tions decided by the Court of Appeals will not serve any useful purpose. The clauses relating to cruel and unusual punishment and dentinal almost are a in the State i e Federal constitutions. Everything that can be said on the abstract question in- volved in the interpretation oftheeeclansee bas been said. There is not the remotest probability that the United States Supreme Court will differ from the Court of Appeals in its judgment. If the habeas corpus proceedings open the way for a final decision on the bearing of the clause of the United States constitution, the course of justice will be blocked without adequate pause and without ad- vantage to any public interest. Judge Wallace assumed a grave responsibility when he intervened with his writ almost at the last moment and interrupted the exe- cution of a law which the highest conrt in this State has pronounced constitutional. The responsibility is not lessened by the notorious foot that she proceesesof criminal law have been interrupted, not in the interests of the brutal wretch condemned to death, but otthe dynamo makers. The Herald says : The extraordinary move in the Kemmler case can be nothing less than a shameful attempt to use the administration of justice and the courts for improper ends. What its purpose '•Cs, whether to further the sohemes of en electric light concern, the notoriety of an attorney or some other design is not ap- parent. This habeas corpus business will not save Kemmler nor upset the law ; but it is a piece of trickery that may serve to burlesque justice and suspend the law of capital punishment in this State. THE CRONIN CASE. Kunz° and Woodruff Liberated—Threats of New Revelations. A yesterday's Chicago despatch says : State Attorney Longenecker has had the case against John H. Kanze stricken from Judge Hawes' docket. Knnze has been out on bail ever since Judge McConnell granted the young Cronin suspect a new trial. The State's Attorney believed that it would be useless to prosecute the German. Frank J. Black, alias Frank Woodruff, the lone Cronin suspect, who has occupied a cell in the county jail almost a year, was discharged on the charge cf murder by Judge Hawes. Attorneys Browne and Porter, for Woodruff, claimed that their client bad been under indictment for mur- der more than nine months and had not been given a trial. According to the law, they said, he should be given a trial or dis. charged. ' The fact is," the State's prosecutor admitted, " I cannot try him for murder, but he ought to be kept in jail as long as possible on general principles. Saoh a liar as Woodruff is better off in the cage than out. AB to the murder charge I can't do anything with him, but he'll go up for horse stealing." State Attorney Longenecker said he knew who took Cronin's body away from the Carlson cottage, and it was learned to -night that this man was none other than J. B Simonds, who has been eo eagerly wanted, It is said Simonds died suddenly and she. pioionely not long ago in an eastern city, while it is also said Patrick Cooney died suddenly and unnaturally in a Wisconsin village. These facts have mime out in conse- quence, it is claimed, of the misdirection of funds raised for the defence of the Cronin murderers. The relatives of Sul- livan, the iceman, and Dan Conghlin have been compelled to mortgage their property to raise the necessary funds to pay legal and other expenses, and they now threaten to tell what they know...Shonld they do this, it is confidently anticipated those of the conspirators now out of,jail will soon find themselves in a bad box A Daring Leap for Liberty. A Columbia, S. C., despatch says : A remarkable leap from a moving train was made Sunday by Vince Story, an escaped convict, who had been recaptured in Georgia, and having been extradited, was being taken to the penitentiary. They were on a fast passenger train and the hands of the conviot were tied with rope. When passing through Edgefield county, the home of Story, the guard left his side a moment to get a drink of water. The window by the convict had been left open to admit the air, and the guard had hardly turned his bank when Story, with his hands tied behind him and the train making over forty miles an hour, sprang head first through the window. The train was stopped and backed up, but nothing conld be found of the daring convict. Tho guard remained behind to continue the aearoh. How music spreads among the masses can be imagined from the estimate that in Sheffield there aro about 600 artisans who play the violin. HOW SH$ IIIT BISiIAROl1, Empress Frederik% Aided by England in Her Fend. A Berlin cable says : The true history of the rupture between Prince Bismarck and the Emperor is just coming out, though ae yet it is only whispered in dark corners, Bismarcka confidential friends who have visited him at Friedriohsruhe say the ex. Chancellor is fully aware that his dis- missal was directly dee to the hatred of Empress Frederika, and that he is watch- ing bis opportunity for revenge. When he etrikes he will strike bard. Biemarok's dismissal was the last shot fired in a bitter duel which has been waging for years between the Empresa and Biemarok. The Empress is one of the cleverest women in Europe. Through. cut the whole of her married life her ascendency over her husband was absolute. From the moment of her arrival in Germany Bismarck recognized her ability and saw that her influence over the Crown Prince, coupled with her strong English leanings, would make her a powerfnl op. ponent. Bismarck's praotioe in life has been to crush his opponents. Ho could not destroy the Crown Princess. Hie dislike of her, therefore, became a hatred, which the Princess returned. Of late years this mutual aversion had developed into a rancorous feud. Bismarck's influence over the present Emperor had caused a oomplete estrange- ment between the young Prince and hie parents. The Princess, on the other hand - did all in her power to undermine the Chancellor's authority, and succeeded in frustrating many of his plane. To be an enemy of Bismarck was a sure passport to her favor. At one time the Chancellor, de terminad to stop her intrigues, intercepted her private correspondence, a fact of which she complained bitterly, and warned her family that the climax was Dapped when Bismarck sent Prince William to San Remo to force hie dying father to sign a deed of abdication in his favor. • But in this scheme the Chancellor was defeated by the Princess. The royal emissary returned empty handed. On Frederick's accession to the throne the Empreee' first aot was to secure the removal of the Minister of the interior, Herr Von Puttkamer, the Chancellor's chief ally. Soon after Frederick's death the Empresa, by the publication of her husband's diary, aimed the severest blow at Bismarck's reputation that be had ever received. Meanwhile a complete rapprochement was brought about between the Emperor and his mother, who, aided by the sym- pathy and support of her family in England, was still further able to under. mine the Chancellor's position and estrange him from the young Emperor. Bismarck can now clearly trace the hand of England's Queen and the Prince of Wales in the forces which worked to his downfall. The strikes in Westphalia furnished the ever -watchful Empress a chance for a fresh blow at her arch enemy. It was at her instance that her personal friend, Hinz - peter, was made Chief of the Private Bureau of Investigation, whose reports were diametrically opposed to Bismarck's. But in latter days the Empress' opposition, though manifest in more trivial things, was none the less bitter or sure. Through her royal English relatives she has gradually gained almost as complete control over her son as she bad over her husband, and suc- ceeded in swamping Bismarck with petti- coat government. No one knows better than Bismarck that he has been defeated by a smart woman, and he galls under it ; but be will strike back, and possibly very soon. VIENNA. ALARMED. Threats of Incendiarism and Attempts to Wreck Trains Tilade. A Vienna cable says : A great sensation has been caused here by an apparently official note in the Abendpost, stating that the troops called out to repress the dis- orders at Biala did not, as previouely be. lieved, use blank cartridges on first firing on the rioters, but used ball cartridges at the first volley. This note, taken with the circular from the Minister of the Interior giving the provincial Governors instructions with reference to the proclamation of martial law, is regarded as indioating the determination of the Government to act with extreme energy in the case of dis- order. At Biala matters remain calm, although at a workmen's meeting held last night threats to set fire to houses of the rich were uttered. The middle and upper (theses are greatly alarmed, and many wealthy residents have left Biala for Cra- cow and Lemberg. The garrison has been strongly reinforced in view of farther rioting. An attempt at rioting is signaled from Soybnsch, the authorities of which place asked the military Governor of Cra- cow to send a battalion of infantry to their aid. It is announced that attempts have bean made to wreck a train near Rasdorf, by placing large stones on the track. Happily the obstruotion was discovered in time. Men also have been seen hanging suspiciously around Siebenbrnm station. Fears are entertained that the labor trou- bles in South Austria will be attended with some disastrous results, as the men are now worked np to a white heat of exasperation. Millions of Methodists. A St. Louis despatch says : One of the greatest religious bodies in the world will meet in this city, May 10th. The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South meets quadrennially. Such has been the growth of the church during the past decade that it now etands second among the great Protestant religious assemblies of the world. The General Conference of the Methodist Church alone excels it in the number of communicants represented and the value of property owned by Protestant Chnroh ant eorities. The Methodists in this country, white and black, and of all kinds, number more than five millions (actual oommnnioants). The Methodist Episcopal Church has nearly three million and the Methodist Episcopal Church South has about one million eight hundred thonsand. Intensely Superstitions. Do yon think that as a rule theatrical people are superstitions ?" asked a travel- ling man of a manager. " Do I think go ? I know it. I've seen twenty people sit for boars waiting for the ghost to walk." Why Schoolmarms A.re Old Maids. " Flow does it happen that there aro so many old maids among the school teachers?" a teacher was asked, according to a con. temporary. " Because school teachers are as a rule women of sense, and none of them will give up a$50 position for a $10 muni' was the reply. Rattled. Nurse (to young husband) --A beautiful ten pound baby, sir. 'Young Husband (getting things mixed in his excitement)—Glorious 1 Am I a father or a mother ? Buatloiss gowns have buckles. GULF-SrBEAH DIYbCEDIEti, An Old Sailor Gives the Results. of His Ex- periences and Iuvestig4tions. A correspondent of the Boston ,roue nal, writing about the gulf stream Bays : From what source or cause is its origin ? What are its peculiarities ? What course does it follow ? What is its depth, width, tem- perature, velocity, etc. ? Let me give you. an old seaman'e experiences, inveetigations and opinions ; but first a very brief de. soription of the wonder and the generally accepted opinions in relation to its origin. Its source was supposed to be from the pent-up water which from several sources accumulated in the gulf of Mexico, and made its exit into the Atlantic oeeon be- tween the Florida reefs and the Bahama banks. This is undoubtedly true in a great measure, but investigators have long bo- lieved that other yet unexplained osueea exist. It reaches the Atlantic ocean, flow- ing in a due north direction at about 27 degrees latitude, thence following the gen- eral coast -line to Cape Hatteras, where it is deflected very much to the east by the rooks and shoals which extend some ten or twelve miles east from the nape, say in latitude 35 degrees. That the stream has in the long ages of its existence gradually worn away the outlying banks of Cape Hatteras to their present lim- its, and that the attrition is still con- tinuing, there can scarcely be a doubt ; and what will be the result of this gradual approaoh of the stream to our im- mediate coastline we may conjecture, and we may also quite reasonably attribute our milder growing winters to the change already affeotod at Cape Hatteras. At Cape Hatteras the gulf stream meets the arctic current, which strikes its western edge and paeses beneath the warm waters of the gulf, and probably mingles, and is, in a great measure, lost in that great stream, which here is 160 miles wide and about 600 feet deep, flowing with a variable velocity from one to three miles per hour with a temperature averaging 76 degrees Here the golf stream loses much of it peculiar blue color, while its peculiar elec. tricot waters produce wonderful develop- ments in the atmosphere, and the almost incessant storms continue in its coarse up to and beyond the betake of Newfoundland, A ship in striking the current from the west often plunges her bow into a thunder- storm, while her stern is in clear sunshine, and at the eamo time a thermometer sus- eended from the ship'a bow will register 70 degrees, while another hanging et the stern shows bat 40 de res e. g The gulf stream, as it passes cat between the Florida reefs and the Bahama banks, is some 3,000 feet in depth and 40 miles wide, with a velocity varying from two to five miles an hour and the temperature from 77 to 83 degrees. It has some very pecu- liar attributes and differs in many respects, aside from its temperature and electric elements, from the waters of the Atlantic, through which it plows its way for thou- sands of miles before its effect or identity is Iced. These singular characteristics have led seamen to believe that from some subterraneansources a vast stream of heated water, strange and peculiar in its elements, issued from some orifice near the Gulf of Mexice, and, mingling with the outruehing waters of the gulf, accelerated its rapid °aurae into the Atlantic. The United States coast survey has devoted much study to this theory ; and its inveati- gatione have added much weight to the above explanation. The supposed orifice may be comparatively small ; may be over- lapped in such a manner that the deep-sea lead may never find it in 3,000 perpendi- cular feet of water ; but that it exists is becoming a very marked belief and a very interesting phenomenon. Death -Bed Utterances. Rabelais calmly remarked : " Drop the curtain, the farce is played out." The last words attributed to "Buckshot" Forster were : " No home rule." The unhappy Charles I. expired with the word " Remember" on his lips. " We shall soon meet again," were the last words of Louis XIV. to Mme. de Main. tenon. Walcot, the poet's, last words were, when asked by his friend Taylor if he could do anything for him on earth : " Give me back my youth." " God be praised," exclaimed Wolfe, the hero of Qaebec,on learning that the French were giving way in every direction, " I die happy." The last words of Lord Tenderdon, the famons English judge, were: " And now, gentlemen of the jury, you will consider your verdict." " I heard say the executioner was very good and I have a little neck," said Anne Boleyn, putting her hands about it and laughing heartily. " I pray thee, nee me safe np, but for my coming down I can shift for myself," re- marked Sir Thomas More, observing the weakness of the scaffold. Boileau, the poet, in the same breath hailed a friend and bade him farewell, saying, " Good day and adieu ; it will be a very long adieu," and instantly ex- pired. Montcalm mortally wounded and endeav- oring to rally his men, replied, when told that hie end was approaching, " bo ranch the better ; I shall not live to see the sur- render of Quebec." Edmund Kean made his final exit in the middle of the greatest scene of his greatest play. " Get me off, CharIes," he gasped, " I'm dying I" His son led him off, and all was over, " Come and lie down," entreated Dickens' sister-in-law, when it became evident that a fit was upon him. " Yes,on the ground," he said very distinctly, as he slid from her arm and fell on the floor. Phelps, who had a superstitions horror of the` word " farewell," while acting Wolsey and actually uttering the ominous words "Farewell ! a long farewell to all my greatness I" broke down and the curtain slowly dropped upon him for the last time. Mozart wrote his requiem nnder the eon; viotion that the monument he was erecting to his genius would prove a monument to hie own remains. When life was ebbing fast he called for the score,and as he mused over it he said : "Did I not tell you truly that it was for myself that I composed this death chant ?—Once a Weelc. It's a Way They Have. The knaok Scotohmen have of becoming the rising men in nearly every community on the face of the earth is a caution. If there is money to be got out of a country the Macs are generally the firet to find it cut and profit thereby. Seattle, itia said, is another example of Sootohmen's pluck and industry ; and one of its latest divisions, Abderfeldy, is as scotch in name and population as a haggis or an oatmeal Boone. --Chicago Canadian.American. Tramp—It is needless to ask yon the question, madam. Yon know what I want. Lady—Yee, 1 know what you want badly, bot I've only one bar of soap in the honee, and the servant is tieing it. Come again ome other time. gIiE GAME OP ]F.a,PI-I'ANe AnAlluring Chinese Amusementvvhleh1i Enveloped in Great mystery. Of all Chinese amusements the alluring game of fan -tan is enveloped in the greateelf mystery, says the Baltimore Sun. The white people in Baltimore µho understand it, police and all, can bo counted on the lingers of one hand, with some to *pare. All the deep ingenuity of whioh the Mon- golian mind is capable has been used in. keeping the methods of the gime a profound. sooret from the outside world. When there is danger lurking about, the chips are exchanged temporarily for peanuts, so that the crowd of gambters can break up, and pretend to be enjoying a social feast instead of bucking against toe tiger. The game, which is commonly palled tan, is a banking game, and can be,played by any number of persons. Itis generally played on a large square table covered with common Chinese matting. The dealer Bits behind the table, on a raised platform. At his left, at the end of the table, is the position of the gamekeeper, whose duties are to sec that all beta are properly placed and properly paid. In the centre of the table is a square, measuring eight inches each way. Sometimes it is marked on the matting with blank ink, and sometimes a piece of sheet -lead of the required size is used, and often four tacks are so placed as to form the required square. The aides of the square are numbered, that next to the dealer being No. 1, to the right No. 2, the next No. 3, and the last No. 4. The num- bers are not marked down, that part of the arrangements being understood by the players, who stand in exciting groups around the edges of the table. The dealer has at hie right hand a pile of small objects to be used as counters. Chinese cash is commonly used for this purpose, but often the counters are common white buttons, shelled almonds, peanuts or large white beans. The dealer opens the proceedings. by taking a large handful of counters and planing them in front of himself, near the centro of the table. He covers them up with a brass utensil resembling a small, inverted saucer. Occasionally a Chinese teacup is used for the purpose. After he has hidden his counters the dealer sings out in choice Chinese : " Make your game." The players tben plane their money for betting purposes upon any of the four sides of the table. When everybody who is anxious to come in has staked his money, the dealer removes the covers from the counters, and e tt to the needs pettle e 1 t e fate of the OeE1L in a peculiar way.He t p y counts them down four at a time, using a stick' about fourteen inches long, with a crook at one end, to draw them. If, at the end of the count, one of the counters should remain, then the players who have bet on the No. 1 eide of the square have been successful, and are paid three times the amount staked. Those who have tempted fortune on the other• three aides got nothing but disappointments If two counters remain at the end of the, count, then the players who have bet on No. 2 side win, and all others lose. The• outcome of the game, it will be seen, de- pends entirely upon the number of counters remaining at the end of a count. A system of betting on the corners of tbo equares is also used. For instance, if a player planes his money on the corner of No 2 and No. 3, or any two corners of the square, and at the end of the count either of his numbers has been successful, he would win, but would be paid only doable his money. As soon as all debts are paid the dealer takes an- other handful of counters and goes through his performance again. There he no limit to the amount of bets, and a great deal of money may change hands iu a short time. - THE LAUREATE'S SALARY. A Hundred Pounds a Hear About• the Amount Tennyson Receives: There has been considerable discission in some of our journals recently ae to who will be Lord Tennyson s successor as poet laureate. As the laureate ie at present in good health and spirits, the discussion seems not only premature, but somewhat • discourteous, says a writer in the Book Buyer. It is to be hoped it will be a long while before it will be necessary to appoint any successor, for there appears to be no one fit to step into the shoes of Tennyson._ Of course, every one has his favorite poet,. and every one thinks his favorite the only one to wear the laurel crown. There is, after all, bat little honor connected witin. the post. It is en ancient office. Con- siderably over 600 years ago, in the reign of Henry III, the " Ring's Versifier" was paid 100 shillings annually, and I do not suppose this officer occupied a higher posi- tion than the King's Fool did in those days. James the First paid his laureate 100' marks a year, and Charles I increased the salary to £100, with one tierce of Canary Spanish wine, " to be taken out of the king's store of wine yearly." The re- mnneration of the laureate has remained the same ever einoo, but I am not clear whether Lord Tennyson still draws a tierce of wine annually from the cellars at. Windsor Castle. I should think in all probability he received the money value - for it. The laureate is scarcely expected to sing to order in the present day. If he were bis salary is terribly iesnfCicient. It must be borne in mind that £lu0 a year in the days of Charles I was a very different thing to £100 a year. in 1890. Why, an in- dustrious versifier could easily make that sum by contributing to the journals and magazines of the day. However, it is an age for the abolishment of ancient offices, old customs and venerable institutions, and I should not bs at all sarprised if, when Lord Tennyson has doneowith the post, it should be abolished. Praying for a Sense of humor. The Seotchmen, the joke and tbo enrol - cal operation are sufficiently familiar. Mr. Max O'Rell's experiences in Ohio are, however, of, a distinctly novel character. He was called upon to deliver one of his lectures tothe students of the Ohio Col- lege. Before he began, the president of the institution rose in a very earnest manner and offered up a prayer that the Lord would so prepare their minds that they could appreciate Mr. O'Rell's subtle witti. Mama." Query : Who was the real wit in this instance ? The scholastic president or the Frenchman? Evil ofthe Pull. I believe there is nothing that takes the heart out of young men more than this, modern talk about a pnll. If one gives over to it he begins to neglect his work in his effort to get a pull, or he becomes dis- heartened because he bas no pull, and so gives over trying to do hie hest. I hear so much of this talk that I wish my voice could reach these tempted young men. They are being paralyzed by the pull craze. They think the modern business world is a looked door to any fellow without a pull,— .Harker in New York Weekly. The deepest well in the world is soon to be dug in the environs of Loddon. It will be nearly 1,300 feet deep, bo furnished with stairs and be illumined. Its object is 10 enable students to observe the various geological strata.